My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Discordian Troubles

Chapter 10

Lifeless World

5 minutes after the gang was sucked into a Black Hole and killed, and in another location, Eris and Discord were still celebrating. “we did it! We did it! Oh yeah yeah yeah.” Eris laughed.

“good-bye Elements, good-bye Celestia’s last line of defense.” Discord laughed.

Babs, who had ‘joined’ their ranks, couldn’t believe it. She definitely didn’t see that coming, neither did everyone else in Manehatten.

Scootaloo was hit the hardest. She was Dash’s daughter for 3 hours and her new mother was already dead. She was hit with so much depression, she turned grey. Literally.

The sky above shimmered and sparkled as billions of stars and multiple nebulas littered it. The person looking at it blinked and groaned. “what… happened…?” she said. She rolled over, found herself face first in a pile of sand, and coughed up a mix of sand and blood. “*hacking cough* oh, Faust.” she gulped and shook her head, trying to clear it up. “what the hell happened to us?”

Dash hacked up some more blood and sand, cleared her throat, and got up. “where are we?” she asked with a sore throat. She looked around…

Begin Song:

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Dust to Dust - Final Fantasy XIII OST

… and in every direction, there was nothing but sand, sand, sand. It seemed to go on forever. There were no landmarks to follow, nothing to find shelter in, just endless sand in a sunless yet bright world.

“how did we get here?” she coughed again. “I remember we were sucked into that Black Hole then… nothing.”

“people always wonder what’s on the other side of a Black Hole.” Req said as she walked to her. “never knew it was a endless desert with a weird sky.”

“Req.” Dash said with a mix of confusion and relief. “you survived too?”

“yeah. And I’m sure the others did, too. But…” she looked up to the sky. “where are we?”

“I don’t know. That’s the scary part. Are we dead or are we just in another realm?”

Req scoffed. “I saw what the Afterlife looks like with my own eyes. Trust me; this ain’t it.”

“so it is probably another realm.”

Muffled screaming got their attention. “GET OFF OF ME!” someone yelled from beneath Dash. Dash yelped, quickly got off, and helped who she was sitting on up. Unfortunately, it was the prick who’s been trying to take Scoots away.

“Manni? Ugh. I forgot you were on the ship.”

Manni spit up sand and brushed it off her fur. “why am I not surprised? I was bounced all over that thing you call a cargo hold.”

“but if you survived as well, then maybe everyone else has… wherever they are.” Req said. She turned and started walking.

“where you going?” Dash asked.

“this way.” she simply replied. “remember that I’m a goddess. As such, I can sense things and I sense that if we go this way, we’ll find our friends.”

“you sure?” Manni asked, not wanting to question her abilities.

“never steered me wrong before.” she said before walking over a sand dune. Dash and Manni looked at each other for a moment then ran after Req. they weren’t keen on being all alone in a endless desert, especially with each other.

“well, this is just great.” Jax angrily grumbled as she, Gilda, Zel, Trixie, and Applejack hung off a dead oak tree. “now where are we?”

“Could be anywhere.” Zel said as he struggled to get his cape off the branches it was entangled it.

“well, I don’t like this place.” Gilda said with a disturbed look. “it’s so… lifeless.”

“same.” A.J. and Trixie said.

Jax grabbed one of her chakrams and cut the branch her skirt was caught on. She fell to another branch, which she landed with grace, then jumped down that to the sand. “well, we won’t find answers just hanging around.” she tossed her chakram. It cut though the branches the others were hanging off of, allowing them to fall.

“which way do we even go?” Zel asked. “there’s nothing but sand in every direction.”

Zel had a point. There was no telling where they were or even if there’s anyone else here.

“Solodum forer derum.” a ball of light shot out of Trixie’s horn and up into the moonless and sunless sky. “Luna taught me that. It supposed to help you find people important to you. In this case…”

“our friends.” the other 4 finished.

The ball shone brightly and shot to what they’re going to refer to as west. “quick. After it.” Gilda said as she took to the sky. The ponies and humans nodded and ran after her and the ball.

“Hello!” Derpy called out as she flew though the air. “Hello!” she had been doing that ever since she woke up 10 minutes ago and she was starting to give up hope; believing that she was the only one who survived. She whined in fear. “I don’t want to be all alone. I don’t want to leave Dinky all alone.” a single tear fell. “I never even got to say good-bye to eTu`nes.”

A sudden and quick bright flash caught her attention. She looked to her left and saw a pristine and magnificent palace rising out of the sand. At the very least, it was shelter. And hopefully, her friends were there. She flew towards it, eager to get away from the endless sand below her and the endless star & nebula filled sky above.

No clouds. No shelter. No water. No food. This place is the definition of true hell. At least, that’s what Halo and Twilight are believing. As soon as they woke up, they started walking, hoping to find anything. Better said then done.

Twilight’s movements slowed, getting the attention of Halo. “You okay?”

Twilight looked up at him and smiled. “Y-yeah. Just thinking about what Discord said back on that mesa. Could Celestia; could any Alicorn, have really done all those things? Wiped out the Draconequus’ and put the world under their rule?”

Halo glanced away for a moment. “well… it’s possible.” Twi looked at him with such shock, it was like he turned into a ghost. “think about it; has Discord ever lied to you all before?”

Twi thought back to both his escapes. “except for a annoying riddle that sent us down a wrong path, no. he never did. Which means… it must’ve been true.” Twi whined and sat down in despair. “did Celestia lie to me?”

“no. she didn’t either.”

“huh?”

“Celestia said that she and her sister have been ruling Equestria for 1500 years, right? It’s possible they were born long after the war ended and didn’t know about them. And didn’t they said they knew Discord before he went all cuckoo with the chaos stuff? They may have found out about the war some way or another and that ended up being their rivalry.”

Twi had to admit, that made sense. But she doesn’t remember Celestia telling her any of that. So where did Halo hear all that?

A unconscious Satoshi was slumped over the wheel of a beaten up Orion. It’s wings were gone but, other then that, it was mostly intact.

Ropes appeared from out of nowhere, wrapped around the ship, and pulled it. Satoshi fell back to the floor, still out cold. He didn’t know where he was being pulled, or how he’ll react when he finds himself there wherever it was going.

End song.

5 hours. That’s how long Req, Dash, and Manni were walking. 5 long hours and not a sign of anyone else or anything else; no tree, no mesa, no town. No nothing. Dash flew as high as she could and could find nothing around. They were all alone.

“this is it.” Manni worriedly said, feeling that this is where they will meet their end. “I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.”

“we’re not going to die.” Req said. “I haven’t felt hungry ever since we got here.”

“same here.” Dash said as she landed. “wait. THAT’S IT! We’re in the Lifeless World.”

“the what now?” Req asked in confusion.

“it’s a old legend from when the world was made. Supposedly, when Zax and Jeria created the world, they also inadvertadly created a alternate world where the rules of life and time have no say. It was said to be endless desert with a clear sky filled with stars and beautiful colors.”

All 3 looked up. There were stars and colors. “so, you think this is the Lifeless Realm? Cause it looks a lot like Purgatory.”

“Purgatory?” Dash and Manni asked.

“a place where the dead wait before going to heaven or hell. I only caught a glimpse but it did look like this.” she looked up to the sky. “Catalyst was right after all.” she muttered to herself. “all the worlds are connected at the afterworld.”

Manni snarled and threw sand at Dash. “This is all your fault!” she yelled at the Pegasus.

“My fault!?!”

“if you had just let that STUPID Draconequus go, we wouldn’t be in this situation!”

“What!?! If you didn’t try to kidnap Eris and Scootaloo in the first place, then Discord wouldn’t have been released to where we would be here!”

“It was your fault, you cyan bitch!”

“WHAT!?!”

“if you had just let them go, we would’ve avoided this!”

“If I let them go, I would’ve killed myself! And why are you SO obsessed with taking Scootaloo away from me!?!”

“Because she’s my--” Manni stopped right there and looked away.

Req looked between the two, feeling a bit awkward to be caught in the middle. “Oooooookay. Um…. How about we keep going? Hopefully, we’ll find everyone.”

“Fine!” Dash exclaimed with great anger.

“Fine!” Manni said in the same tone.

“Good.” Req cheerfully said. Dash turned to leave when she suddenly felt light-headed. “Dash?” her chest started to hurt horribly and her vision began to blur. She felt bile float up from her stomach. It burst out in a violent torrent with blood.

“DASH!”

Rainbow Dash’s vision blacked out and she keeled over to the side. Req ran to her side as Manni watched in fear.

Rainbow’s decease is starting to take it’s toll.