Hello, there, readers! So, you decided to see just what this little Displaced story was all about, didja? Of course you did, why else would you give this story a click? Huh? How do I know this is just a fanfiction, rather than an account of actual happenings in a parallel world separated by time and space?

Oh, I know lots of things… LOTS OF THINGS...

Now, I’m sure you’re wondering just who the Hell I am. Well, my name used to be Jason Edwards, and I used to be a mere mortal man, barely clinging to life on his deathbed. Not anymore, boys and girls! Name’s Bill Cipher, master of the mind and wielder of unimaginable god-like power! Oh, but I’m not just your garden variety Triangle Guy Bill Cipher who’s stuck in the dreamscape. Oh, no, I have a physical, HUMAN, form.

Now, I’m sure you’re wondering how exactly I ended up becoming an all-powerful dream demon/god-like entity? Well then pull up a chair, grab your favourite snack and get ready for a tale you'll remember for like a few days then will come back to since it's been in the back of your head for the past few days and it's starting to annoy you as you can't remember where you heard a quote from then you go home and google it only to find it was your first guess to begin with and you wasted five minutes searching it up when you could have been looking at cat gifs or pictures of cute jumping spiders wearing water droplets as tiny hats… Yeah this just got way out of hand.

That's another thing. Now that I have old Billy boy's body and mind I start talking about random things, not that I'm complaining.

Now, where to start… I guess the beginning is always the best place right?

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Jason Edwards was going to die, and he and his wife knew it.

It all started three years ago. Jason had gone to get some routine blood work done, only to learn that he had contracted a terminal illness called Mercer’s Syndrome, which would attack his nerves and cause his brain’s pain center to overreact, until finally, he would be in so much pain that his heart would stop completely. And now, it seemed that day had finally come as Jason lay in his hospital bed, screaming his lungs out. Already his throat was starting to bleed from all of his screaming in agony.

Fortunately, his wife Jacqueline, or Jackie for short, has by his side the whole time, holding her husband’s hand for comfort as his heart monitor began beeping all the faster.

Finally, Jason’s heart had reached the point where it was about to give out, and with one last scream, he would die.

But, as his final scream reached his voice box, time itself froze, and with it, Jason’s pain.

“Wh-what’s going on?” Jackie asked in confusion.

“I’m what’s going on, Mrs. Edwards.”

Jason and Jackie looked in the direction of the door, and found that a very strange looking figure stood there. He had green hair styled in a fashion similar to Vegeta's from the Dragonball anime, and wore a green hoodie with a metal sash, light green jeans and boots, and a green scarf that concealed his mouth from view.

“Wh-who are you?” Jason asked in his scratchy, dried-up voice.

“My name is Roden,” said Roden, his calm and collected demeanor keeping the husband and wife calm as well. “And I have come with an offer for you, Jason, and one for you, Jacqueline, if you will allow me to explain.”

“What offer?” asked Jackie, mildly interested.

Roden walked over to Jason’s bedside and picked up his doctor’s chart. “Mercer’s Syndrome… probably one of the most painful ways for someone to die, in my opinion,” he said.

“And your point is…?” asked Jason.

“Right, since you want to get right down the details, I’ll get straight to it. You know, of course, that you cannot be saved by any means, correct?”

Jason nodded in response, wondering what this man in green was going on about.

“However, there is in fact a way for you to cheat death and live on with a far more powerful and efficient body. If you are willing to accept my offer, then I promise you that I will use my power to transfer you into this new body that I have in mind for you, and you can live in a world far from the troubles that have besieged you in this one.”

Jason thought about this for a moment. A new lease on life in a new body… how could he say no to that? Provided this guy was actually telling the honest truth, that is. Truth be told, something inside him felt like he could trust this man in green with his life, which was what he pretty much would be doing if he agreed.

“What about Jackie? Do I have to leave her behind if I accept this offer of yours?” asked Jason.

“Of course not. I’m perfectly willing to do the same thing for your wife and give her a new, more powerful body as well,” replied Roden.

Jackie smiled and looked over at Jason. This response was all the dying man needed to make his final decision.

“We’re in.”

Roden reached into his pocket and pulled out two necklaces, one gold, the other silver. Roden then handed the gold necklace to Jason and the silver one to Jackie. Jason looked down at the pendant on the necklace. It was shaped like a triangle with one eye and stick-like arms and legs wearing a bow-tie and a top hat.

Jason recognized this figure immediately. “Is this-”

Before he could finish his sentence, there was a bright flash of light from the necklace, and then everything went dark.

…

“Come on, girls! We’re almost at the temple!” said an anthro purple alicorn mare with a dark blue mane and tail, both of which had a magenta stripe in it, who was clad in a full explorer’s outfit, complete with a miner’s hat and equipment belt. This was Princess Twilight Sparkle of Friendship.

Panting right behind her were five similarly dressed mares and a teenage purple and green dragon with medium-sized wings, who was holding the map. Two of the mares were pegasi, two were Earth Ponies, and the fifth was a unicorn. One of the pegasi was blue and had a rainbow-patterned mane and tail. This was Rainbow Dash. The second pegasus was a buttery yellow and had a soft pink mane and tail. This was Fluttershy.

One of the Earth Ponies was orange in color and had a blonde mane and tail, and wore a brown Stetson hat upon her head. This was Applejack. The second Earth Pony was completely pink, right down to her bushy mane and tail. This was Pinkie Pie.

The unicorn had a purple mane and tail and a white coat, and looked like she’d rather be anywhere but here in the Everfree Forest. This was Rarity.

“Twilight, ya mind tellin us why we're tryin ta find some temple in the Everfree Forest?” asked Applejack while using her stetson to shield her eyes from the harsh rays of sunlight that pierced through the thorn infested grayish blue leaves above them.

“Zecora said that this temple contains a very special ingredient to one of her medical brews, it's also said to hold a strange artifact placed there by a spiritual entity.” Twilight explained with obvious excitement.

“Somethin' tells me that yer not really goin' there ta help Zecora, ya seem pretty excited about this here relic, just promise me that ya won't get sidetracked.” The farm pony said in deadpan.

“Don't worry Applejack, helping my friends is my top priority.”

Spike, the young dragon, looked down at his map. “The temple should be just up ahead here, girls,” he informed his friends.

And, sure enough, just as the six ponies and dragon moved aside some foliage, there it was; a vast, imposing stone temple, dominated by what looked like a triangle with one eye at the top. The glaring look of the triangle’s eye made everypony’s spines shiver with fear.

“Let’s just get those herbs and get out of here while we still can,” said Rainbow Dash, a hint of fear in her voice.

And so, the intrepid explorers made their way into the temple. It wasn’t long, however, before they got themselves lost.

“Now which way do we go?” asked Spike, fear evident in his voice.

Twilight used her magic to light up her horn, giving light to the dim temple. Looking around, the alicorn princess was able to find an open doorway.

“Come on, girls, this way!” she said.

Following Twilight’s lead, the ponies and dragons swiftly made their way into the room beyond the door that Twilight had found. Looking around, they discovered that the room was overrun with herbs. A few holes in the domed ceiling lit the room, rays of sunlight spread out around the chamber.

“Well, I may have ruined my roughing it outfit, but at least we found those herbs Zecora so desperately needed,” said Rarity.

“Hey, girls, look over there!” said Twilight, pointing to an area just over on the far side of the room that was lit by a large ray of light.

The others followed her finger to find that there was a small golden triangle on a pedestal on that side of the room.

“Is that... the artifact?” Fluttershy asked as she inspected it.

Twilight pulled out a book from the bag she had been carrying and began flipping through the pages until she came across a page with a black symbol of a triangle with an eye. “Yes, this is it.” Twilight began reading through the paragraphs of the page. “It says that whatever we do we mustn't touch it with our bare hands.”

“What?” Rainbow Dash said as she poked the triangle with her index finger.

“Rainbow!” Everyone in the room shouted. The small artifact began to glow, causing all of the mares and Spike to shield their eyes and back away. It shook violently and floated into the air before exploding. The yellow flames of the blast froze before converging on one spot to create a humanoid figure, which floated in midair.

As the ponies approached the figure, they noticed that the figure didn’t seem to have any fur, save for a patch of bubbly yellow fur on top of his head. He also had jet black, razor-sharp claws. He wore a yellow tailcoat with a strange, brick-like pattern on the tails and cuffs, a black vest with a what looked like a golden pocket watch in its pocket, a white dress shirt, black dress pants, black dress shoes, a black bow tie, and a black top hat with a yellow stripe. Over his right eye was a black eyepatch with a design similar to that of the artifact on it.

“What in the wide, wide world of Equestria is that thing? And who taught him his fashion sense? It’s just so… bizarre!” said Rarity.

The figure opened its eye and continued floating in the air. “AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Ohhhhh, free at last! I don't know how much longer I could have spent in there without going insane! Oh wait, I already am!” The figure’s voice was echoed and slightly high pitched. Looking around the room he spotted the mares and their dragon assistant. “So you guys are the ones that freed me eh? Well thank you kindly ladies and dragonmen, you have no idea how much this means to me! Here, have some ice creams in the shapes of your heads.” He snapped his fingers and ice cream cones with ice cream that matched the groups colors with the shape of their faces appeared in their hands. “Well, now that I've awarded you guys I guess I can go now, Jackie, let's go!”

The figure looked around the room in slight confusion.

“Jackie? C'mon we haven't got all day, well actually we do but you get the point!” He still got no response. Floating around the room he searched for something with great concentration. “Jackie?” Finding nothing he summoned a black cane and twirled it in thought. “Hmm, that's strange, I could have sworn that we were both in that relic.”

Twilight and the others, save for Pinkie Pie, who was happily licking her ice cream double, weren't exactly sure what to make out about all of this. “Umm… excuse me?” she asked the floating figure. “Who or what are you exactly?”

“Huh? Oh, name’s Bill Cipher!” said Bill, tipping his top hat to the girls, and as a result, causing gravity itself to tilt with it, knocking everyone except Bill off their feet. “And you seven are Princess Twilight Sparkle, Rarity Elise Belle, Rainbow ‘Danger’ Dash, Pinkamena Diane “Pinkie” Pie, Applejack Apple, Fluttershy, and Spike the Dragon, Twilight’s assistant and/or slave.”

As Bill named off each pony, that pony’s jaw dropped like a sack of bricks as they were strongly reminded of Discord. “H-how do you know our names?!” asked Twilight in shock.

“Oh, I know lots of things, Miss Sparkle,” replied Bill, before his eye turned from its normal white and yellow to black and red and his voice got deeper. “LOTS OF THINGS…” As his eye and voice returned to normal. “Well, since my lovely wife isn’t here, I guess I’m stuck with you lovely ladies! So, what are we waiting for, Hearth’s Warming? Come on, let’s blow this popsicle stand!”

And with that, Bill floated out of the room, with the stares of the Mane 6 and Spike following right behind him.

“Well, Mr. Cipher certainly seems… eccentric,” said Fluttershy.

“Anyone wanna tell Discord we found his long-lost cousin?” asked Rainbow, looking between her friends.

“Well, in any case, we should probably grab the herbs and get out of here. Besides, somepony needs to have a word with him about his fashion sense,” said Rarity. The group all nodded before picking up a few bunches of the glowing cyan plants. Having their hands full they followed Bill out of the temple.

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