Friendship is Failure #13: DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS
Chapter 8: Act 8: Strange New Worlds
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In the Feudal Era, Inuyasha was growing impatient as he and the others waiting by the well. “What is taking her so long?”
Everyone else sighed, “Apparently his patience, not-withstand, are or less non-existent.” said Miroku.
“That is a perfect understatement.” agreed Sango. Kirara and Shippo sighed.
Suddenly, there was a loud crash inside the well, followed by many voices arguing and grumbling with one another. One of them was Kagome’s
“Hey! What’s going on?!” she groaned as she felt herself being smooshed by several strange creatures that mysteriously appeared inside the well with her.
“Watch it!” groaned one voice.
“Get your foot out of my face!” growled another.
“Help…! Help me! I’m being crushed!” squealed a third voice.
Inuyasha and friends were confused by the racket coming from down in the well. “What the hell is going on down there?” Inuyasha wondered and he moved in closer, “Kagome…?”
Then suddenly, POW!! A huge wave of shadowy magic burst from the well, knocking him back!
“What’s that?!” cried Shippo.
“Is it some kind of demon?” asked Sango. “I cannot be sure.” said Miroku “Stand close to me, Sango.” Sango did so, only to suddenly feel him rubbing her butt, “Why you…!” WHAPP!! She slapped him good.
“Ah well… we had a chance.” groaned Miroku.
Inuyasha looked up at the swirling shadowy energy, but it didn’t feel like some demonic aura, he’d be able to smell a demon.
POOF!! The dark smog slammed on the ground and revealed four pony-like creatures, much to the amazement of the others.
Kagome finally pulled herself up from the well, “What is going on around here?!” she asked, but then she saw the ponies “Whoa!”
Cadance began to panic, “Flurry Heart… Shining Armor! What happened to them?”
“I think that’s the least of our worries right now.” said Rainbow Dash.
Inuyasha then helped her out of the well, but the two sides continued to gawk at one another with strange expressions. The ponies were all looking particularly at Inuyasha, “Hey you got a problem?” he asked.
“Yes… I do.” Said Rarity “Firstly: Where are we? This certainly isn’t Equestria.”
Shippo was amazed “Wow! They can talk!”
Rarity cleared her throat, not liking to be interrupted, “and Second of all: Where did you all get those ghastly outfits.”
“Ghastly?!” snapped Sango. Miroku felt annoyed too “Though they may not be demons they seem to excel at demonic mannerisms.”
Rainbow zoomed right up to him and sneered in his face, “You wanna try saying that again, pal?!”
“Forgive me, I meant nothing by it.”
Cadance used her magic to haul Rainbow back over to the group, and that’s when Princess Luna approached the other gang, “We mean you no harm, and we merely wish to establish what has happened.”
Kagome, though still finding it hard to believe what was happening, ultimately decided “Well the best way to start is introductions.” she held out her hand “My name is Kagome.”
Inuyasha stepped in front of her, “I don’t think we should be getting friendly with these creatures until we figure out who they really are.”
Kagome growled at his rudeness, even Rarity shared her thoughts, “How horribly impolite.” she scoffed, “But fine, if it’ll help us get answers faster…” she cleared her throat and politely introduced herself, “ My name is Rarity.”
Rainbow fluttered upwards, “I’m Rainbow Dash… fastest thing on wings, you can believe.” And she showed off by flying in really fast circles and zigzags, and creating rainbow colored glows as she went, much to everyone’s astonishment… until Rarity used her magic to halt her down, “Really, Rainbow Dash.”
Inuyasha and friends were astonished, and the introductions continued.
Cadance bowed deeply, “Princess Mi Amore Cadanzea. Please… just call me “Cadance.”
Then Luna stepped forth, “And I am Princess Luna, guardian of the night, and co-ruler of the kingdom of Equestria.”
Shippo approached the ponies nervously, and the ponies gawked down at the strange little creature, but realizing how harmless he seemed, Cadance smiled down at him and offered him her hoof and spoke sweetly to him, “It’s okay… we won’t hurt you.”
Ever so slowly, Shippo reached up and softly touched Cadance’s hoof. “Wow…” he said under his breath.
The rest of the team approached, even Inuyasha.
“This is so cool…” said Kagome “Real unicorns.”
“Actually, only I am unicorn.” said Rarity “The Princesses are Alicorns, and Rainbow is a mere pegasus.”
“What do you mean “mere?” Rainbow growled.
Suddenly, there was a loud roar as a huge centipede like demon slithered its way up the lands. Rarity screamed in fright.
“Wha… what is that?!” cried Rainbow.
“It’s a demon!” replied Sango “It will horribly slaughter nay creature that comes its way.”
“Ha!” scoffed Inuyasha “More like I’ll slaughter it if it comes my way!” and he leapt off, drawing the tetsusaiga, and slicing the evil creature down the middle in a vertical slash, splashing its blood all over.
Much to Rarity’s horror, even the Princesses were in livid shock, while Rainbow was practically stoked, “Whoa…!” she muttered.
“Huh!” scoffed Inuyasha as he stood over the demon’s corpse “That was too easy.”
“You… you just up and slaughtered that creature!” cried Luna.
“It was either him or us.” protested Inuyasha.
Despite his well-made point, the ponies still couldn’t bear the sight of bloody corpse. “Allow me then.” said Miroku, and he pulled the beads off his right hand, “WIND TUNNEL!” and he sucked the remains of the corpse into his hand and sealed the darkness off again, which only shocked and astonished the ponies even more. Rarity even fainted from being overwhelmed.
“Is she alright?” asked Shippo. The other ponies were too much in shock and curiosity to respond.
“Come on…” said Kagome “Let’s take them to Kaede’s village, maybe we can get to know each other better there.”
Feeling that was a better option, the ponies agreed and decided to go with them all.
Princess Luna suddenly stopped when something caught the corner of her eye. It was Nobunaga’s Dark Angel, only several months dead rather than centuries due to the time warp. He just soared across the sky, and was gone almost instantly.
“Aunt Luna?” said Cadance “Is something wrong?”
Luna shook herself back into reality “I am well. Let us be off.”
As for Nobunaga, he was glowing with a dark aura he had been absorbing, and it was getting time to head back to the Dark Zone, but he was hesitating, so much that a fellow Dark Angel, an expressionless and fully dark one, appeared before him confronting on his lateness.
Together they spoke to each other in their eerie language; with the subtitles translating…
“You have done your duty. Why do you hesitate to return?”
Nobunaga clenched his fists and looked off in the vast distance towards the palace of Lord Kimo and Princess Tsuyu, and then responded, “Though it is seemingly pointless, I still find myself drawn to observe the princess, and my former pet, Hiyoshimaru.”
The Darker Angel shrugged and said, “I realize and respect your feelings. I myself was the same thousands of years ago when I began. Nevertheless, you must remember your place. There will come a time when you will no longer be able to observe those you feel close to.”
Nobunaga realized this, and it hurt him deeply, “I merely wish to endure what time I have, or rather the princess has.”
His colleague understood and left him, vanishing into thin air, and leaving him to fly off towards the palace.
Tsuyu and Lord Kimo were having tea in the royal garden. Hiyohismaru was up in one of the tress.
“Feeling well today, you are, my princess?”
“Yes, my lord. I feel wonderful.”
Tsuyu sipped her tea, and rolled her eyes to look up over her cup at the sky, and she dropped her cup in shock.
“Princess…!” cried her husband “What is it?”
His wife pointed up at the sky, “Nobunaga, I know I see him!”
Her husband looked up to where she was pointing, but couldn’t see anything in the sky except clouds, and now he was extremely worried. “My dear, you have claimed to have seen him for months, and I see no one.”
“But… but I…” Tsuyu couldn’t understand. She could see him far above, though Nobunaga could not see or hear her as he was too high up. Then he just disappeared through a portal, back to the Dark Zone.
“No! Nobunaga…!” Tsuyu called, but he was already gone. She bowed her head towards the floor as tears began to fall from her eyes. “He has gone… again!” she sobbed “Why is it that only I am able to see him?”
Her husband could only hold her softly and embrace her. “Oh, Princess…” he cried. He really didn’t know what to do with her. He loved her so much that he didn’t wish her to be treated for seeing things, for fear of her being harmed.
“I am sorry you go through this, my dear.” he said softly to her, to which she placed her hand lovingly over his, and continued to weep.
In the Digi-Destined world, Kari and TK were still in the streets as the solar eclipse took place. Many people could see it though they did not look directly at it.
Many of the people thought it a beautiful sight, and that’s when the covered sun began to glow mysteriously, just as it did when the Digital Portal first opened many years ago.
TK felt many memories returning to him…
…But suddenly, four bright flashes of light shot out from the eclipse and flew straight at the streets, making a huge flare of light upon impact, and everyone covered their eyes.
After the light had faded, the eclipse just ended instantly and everything was all bright again. “You okay, Kari?” TK asked. “Look!” cried Kari as she pointed at the middle of the road where everyone could see four unusual creatures laying in the street; four multi-colored horse-like creatures slowly got to their feet.
“Twily… you okay?” said Shining Armor. Twilight got up rubbing her head, “I think so.”
Fluttershy and starlight got up, but then noticed the many people looking at them with shock, and some with fear. “Um… are these humans?” Starlight asked.
“I think so…” replied Twilight “But they don’t look a thing like the humans I know from Canterlot High. We must be in another world entirely!”
Fluttershy felt nervous and whimpered at the sight of all the strange people looking at her, “I don’t think I like it here!” she ducked down, and hid her face in her mane.
Twilight felt a bit awkward herself, especially considering she herself hadn’t turned into a human after passing through the portal.
Many of the people began to run away in fright of the sight of the ponies, but TK and Kari were among the few that actually stayed.
“Are they Digimon?” TK wondered.
“I… don’t know.” replied Kari “If only we had our D3s, we could scan them.”
Suddenly the sound of police sirens were heard as many cruisers and vans came rushing in from around the corners.
“What’s going on?!” cried Shining Armor, but before he knew it, he and the others were surrounded by cops pointing their guns at them. “Hold it! Stay where you are!” the captain shouted.
The ponies all huddled together.
“No, wait…!” Kari cried as she broke away from TK and dashed up to the officers, but one of them softly pushed her back, “Please stay out of this.”
“Kari!” TK cried as he rushed up to her.
“No, wait… they haven’t done anything!” Kari shouted at the cops, but the cops wouldn’t listen and the captain called to the ponies, “Put your hands… or whatever over your heads.”
Fluttershy was quivering like crazy, “What do we do now!” she cried.
“I got this…” said Twilight and she teleported herself and her friends away in a cloud of smoke.
“Where’d the go?!” snapped the captain.
“They disappeared!” said TK and Kari.
POOF! The ponies reappeared a little ways up the street. “Sorry…” said Twilight, “I don’t know my way around this world.”
“Let’s run!” cried Starlight. The other all agreed and galloped up the road and around a corner, with the cops chasing after them.
“Wait…!” Kari cried, and she ran off herself. “Kari…!” TK called as he ran after her.
The police and their cars zoomed round the corner and further up the street and were gone…
That’s when Twilight and the others appeared out of thin air for Twilight had used an invisibility spell.
“That was close.” said Starlight.
“Good move, Twiliy…” added Shining Armor, and his sister nodded in agreement. Since they knew nothing about the world they were in, they hadn’t really any place to run to, “I figured it was our best chance.”
“I don’t understand.” said Fluttershy “Why were those humans treating us like that? We didn’t do anything wrong.”
“We’ll worry about that later.” said Starlight “We should try to figure out what world this is and how to get back to Equestria, if that’s even possible.”
“I’m all for that.” said Shining Armor “We still don’t even know what happened to all the others.” He was secretly deeply concerned for Cadance and Flurry Heart and wondering why they had not appeared in this world either.
“Come on, let’s go this way.” said Twilight leading them all back round the corner from which they came… when suddenly…!
WHAMM!! Kari came rushing from around the corner and crashed right into her. They two lay on the ground twitching with stars flying around their heads.
TK came round and saw them, “Ooh… I bet that hurt.” he muttered softly.
Starlight’s features hardened, “What do you people want with us?” she sneered.
“Wait…!” shouted TK “We don’t want to hurt you. We just want to talk.”
Shining Armor helped Twilight up and TK helped up Kari.
“How do we know we can trust you?” Shining Armor asked. “You can…” said Kari “Believe me; we don’t want to hurt you.”
Fluttershy could sense the sense of deep kindness and sincerity in her voice. “I think we can trust her.” she said.
Twilight was skeptical, but realized perhaps these two humans really didn’t mean them any harm or they would have done something to them by now.
TK whispered to Kari “These are the strangest kinds of Digimon I’ve ever seen.” But Starlight heard him, “Di-gi-mon? What’s that?”
Kari blinked once, “You mean… you four aren’t Digimon?”
Twilight rubbed her face with her hoof, “Ooookay… this is getting a little confusing. Maybe we should start this over.” and she bowed gracefully, “Hello… I am Princess Twilight Sparkle, from the world of Equestria.
This is my big brother, Shining Armor, and this is Starlight Glimmer, and Fluttershy.”
Much as the two humans hardly understood, they politely introduced themselves. “I’m TK Takashi.”
“I’m Kari Kaymiya.”
Twilight nodded respectfully believing things were going much better, except for the fact that more people were watching from across the street.
“Mommy, what are those?”
“Is it Halloween already?”
“Talk about a horse of a different color.”
The ponies felt embarrassed, “Um, maybe we should go someplace else to sort ourselves out?” suggested Starlight.
Kari agreed and noticed Twilight and Fluttershy had wings, “Why don’t you lift us up onto the roof of this building?”
“Oh, I can do better than that.” said Twilight, and she used her magic to levitate the two humans closer to them, much to their surprise. “How did you do that?” asked TK.
Twilight just smiled, and teleported the gang all the way up to the roof of the high-rise. Kari and TK were both shaking and panting in a small state of shock.
“Uh… I think you overdid it a bit.” said Shining Armor. Twilight felt awkward, forgetting that these humans had never seen or felt pony magic before.
“Oh, you poor things…” Fluttershy said soothingly as she fluttered up to the two and softly rubbed their backs with her hoofs, which only made them a little more shivery.
Suddenly, Kari’s cellphone rang, to the Digimon theme, which frightened Fluttershy, “What’s that?!” she cried. Kari snapped out of her trance and pulled out her phone, which Twilight assured her “It’s okay, it’s just a cellphone. I’ve seen them before.”
Kari answered her phone; it was Tai telling her he and the others made it back safely. “Tai, you are never going to believe this, but come to Fifth Avenue, building number seven, and you’ll see.”
Kari then smiled warmly at Twilight, and the ponies all felt rather anxious to meet new people and learn more about this world.
In the Titans’ World, it was night, and the jewelry shop was closed, and the display window was covered in big metal shutters to avoid break-ins.
The sun crystal in the window was flashing like crazy, and four blasts of light shout out from it making Celestia, Applejack, Pinkie and Flurry heart all appear over top of each other on the floor of the dark and empty store.
The three mares all groaned, while Flurry cooed and giggled at the top of the pile.
“Is every pony alright?” asked Celestia.
“Define “alright.” groaned Applejack as she pulled out her hat, which was flattened like a pancake, but she flapped it outright.
Pinkie’s mane was all puffed out, larger than ever, and looked rather messy, “I’m all for fun and wacky things, but that ride was just way too much.”
As she straightened herself out and walked off the shock from the warp traveling, she walked right through a set of invisible laser beams that triggered a silent alarm connected to the police station!
Celestia levitated Baby Flurry into her arms and rocked her grand-niece softly.
“Where in tarnation are we anyways?” asked Applejack. “And where are Twilight and the others?” added Pinkie.
As Celestia rocked the baby she thought it over deeply, and she looked back at the crystal in the window display, and how t matched her cutie-mark. “I don’t believe it… the Sun Crystal. I was certain that it was lost forever.”
Pinke and Applejack were most curious about it, and even more curious about where they were, but before Celestia could explain a thing… police sirens were heard and someone called out to them, “You, in the store, you are completely surrounded! Come out with your hands up!”
“MOMMY…!!!” Pinkie cried.
There were many police cars parked outside the shop, and many civilians whom were passing by out late at night were being held back by crowd control officers, and soon the Titans arrived, that is to say Raven, Cyborg and Starfire arrived. Robin offered to stay at the tower to look after Terra.
“What’s goin’ on?” Cyborg asked the police captain, to which the man answered, “Silent alarm was triggered inside, but, strangely, the door’s locked tight, and there’s no indication of any break in points.”
This was most confusing to the trio.
“We’ll check it out.” said Cyborg “Raven, you’re up.”
Raven agreed and hovered her way towards the building and used her powers to make the walls intangible so she and the others could sneak in quietly.
“Shh….” Cyborg said to the girls, and the girls agreed as they all crept about. Then they could hear voices…
“Can’t you just teleport us outta here?” Applejack asked to Celestia. “I could, but where would we go? We don’t know what it’s like outside.”
Pinkie shuddered, “What if those are big ugly aliens out there? Or creatures that are half robot… or even… even--”she gasped loudly “Half-demons with terrible dark powers and pale skins?!!”
Applejack grabbed her and shook her vigorously, “Snap out of it, Pinkie!”
Suddenly, a small but bright light shone on them, “Freeze!” shouted Cyborg.
The ponies all looked up and saw three creatures exactly how Pinkie just described. Even Applejack was nervous, “Uh… second thought, forget it.” she whimpered.
Starfire couldn’t believe her eyes, “These are our intruders?”
Cyborg blinked as he gawked at each pony, “Either I’m seein’ things, or you’re all enormous talking horses.”
Raven pulled off her hood, looking at the Princess with near astonishment, “You… I know you.”
Celestia blinked softly, and Raven slowly approached, “You’re Princess Celestia, from Equestria!”
Applejack and Pinkie’s eyes widened, and Cyborg and Starfire were way confused and curious.
“How do you know all this?” asked Celestia. Before Raven could answer, the police were growing a little impatient. “You in the store!” the captain called “This is your last chance! Surrender or we’re coming in.”
The Titans realized the ponies were obviously not criminals, but they couldn’t just take them outside where the people could see them, that would cause most unwanted scrutiny on them, and of course the police would have to take them in.
“How are we supposed to get out of here?” asked Pinkie.
Celestia noticed the large brooch on Raven’s cloak, “I have an idea…” and with that, her horn glowed as she cast a glowing light over herself and the other ponies, turning them into small forms of light and sealing them within the brooch.
“Whoa…!” said Cyborg “That was sick.”
“We can still hear you.” Celestia called from inside, “Can you take us someplace safe?”
Raven looked up at the others, and Starfire and Cyborg agreed to take them back to the tower. All three of already came up with an excuse for the police that it was a false alarm, and it was probably just a fly that triggered the alarms.
Their fib worked. The police actually believed them, and they were grateful that nothing was stolen or even touched.
The store keeper who was there admitted, “I have wanted to get that alarm system changed.”
With all said and done, the cops went away, the crowds parted and the trio were able to head home to the tower.
Robin and Terra were up having cocoa when the trio returned. “How’d it go?” Robin asked, but his friends all hesitated and acted rather strange or nervous.
“What’s going on?” asked Terra, and that’s when Raven’s brooch began to glow softly, and in a bright flash of light, the ponies all appeared. “Whoo-wee, it was tight in there.” said Applejack.
Pinkie Pie felt pretty flat, and so she took in a huge breath, placed her hoof in her mouth and blew hard, actually inflating herself back to normal. “There, that’s better.”
Flurry Heart just cooed and giggled.
Robin and Terra just stood where they were, with their eyes-- Robin’s mask in his case-- bulging wide open. “Robin…” Terra whimpered “Am I really seeing talking horses or is this just my pregnancy tricking me again?”
“No, I see them too.” said Robin.
Celestia and the others felt a bit awkward and felt they really needed to explain themselves.
“You gonna finish that cocoa?” asked Pinkie.
“Um… I can fix you some.” said Robin.
Applejack saw a fruit bowl on the table, “Mind if I take a nibble? I haven’t had a bite for a while yet.”
“Um… sure…” said Robin.
Soon, everyone was seated down with fresh cups of cocoa, and a platter of cookies, and Robin explained to the ponies about the Titans first; but he didn’t tell them about their issues with Beast Boy. That was personal and private.
“I see… so you’re superheroes.” said Celestia “It feels nice to know that this world is not without heroism, or those who believe in trust and friendship.”
“Thanks… I guess.” said Cyborg.
Starfire was a bit distracted, holding Flurry Heart in her arms and cooing at her “Oh, you are simply the sweetest creature I have ever seen. Yes you are! Yes you are!” to which the baby giggled and reached up with her little hoofs.
“So, who are all of you again?” asked Terra.
“Their My Little Ponies, from Equestria.” replied Raven “It’s a magical kingdom that exists in another dimension.”
Everyone, even the ponies gawked at her in astonishment.
“How do you know all that?” asked Applejack.
“Yeah… I didn’t think we were that well known.” added Pinkie.
Raven explained, she learned this while growing up in Azarath…
“The monks that raised me and educated me told me of a story…
Hundreds of years ago, a strange vortex opened in the skies, and a pony wizard appeared. He explained that he was from another world, Equestria, and that he had discovered a method of traversing through other worlds and dimensions.
During his stay in Azarath, he explained about his world and all the magical ponies, and even of Princess Celestia, the grand monarch; a pony capable of raising and setting the sun.
Eventuanlly, with the help of the monks, the wizard returned home, but the legacy of his story was passed down in ancient scrolls, yet no Azarathian ever found a way to travel to Equestria, not knowing where it was in the vast void of worlds.”
Celestia was most astonished, “I believe I know this wizard; he was responsible for creating the mirror gateway that brought us here. Obviously, these stories were proven true; he really did discover more than just one world linked to Equestria.”
“Is that how and why you ended up here?” asked Starfire.
“It would seem to be…” replied Celestia, and she used her magic to show a holo-sparkling image of the Sun Crystal. “This crystal was infused with magical energies that intensified in the light of the sun, which the wizard used to create the crystal mirror and infuse its powers.
The nearest I can think of is, during a travel experiment, the crystal was lost, and wound up here in this dimension. It was eventually discovered by humans and placed on display, but not a single person seems to have any clue of its immense powers.”
The rest was pretty much all said for; when the sun shone on the crystal its powers were activated, which was how the ponies ended up in the jewelry store.
“So that crystal got you here, and that’s how we send you back?” asked Cyborg. “It would seem so.”
“Well, what are we waiting for?!” snapped Pinkie “Let’s go get it, and we can go back to Equestria.”
She was about to head off when Applejack grabbed her by the tail, “Hold your horses there, Sugar Cube. We just came from that there shop, and we nearly got in huge trouble for it.”
“Besides, that’s not the least of it.” Robin said as he typed up the jewelry store on the computer, which the ponies found interesting having never seen such sophisticated equipment before.
According to the readout, the Sun Crystal was on a world tour, and would be staying in Jump City for a month. “…It’s not for sale.” Robin said “And even if it was, experts estimate it’ll cost no less than Fifty-million Dollars!”
Cyborg nearly choked on his own air “Shit… that’s a lot of dough!”
“Um…” Celestia cut in “I understand your shock, but kindly refrain from such language, especially for the baby.”
Flurry just yawned without a care in the world and drifted off to sleep in Starfire’s arms.
Terra let out a huge yawn as well and stroked her stomach.
“Look, it’s really late.” said Robin “Maybe we should all just turn in and then figure this out in the morning.”
The ponies, all feeling tired as well couldn’t argue with that.
Starfire gladly gave her room to Celestia to herself and was planning to bunk in Robin’s room… in a sleeping bag of course.
“Really, Starfire… you don’t have to.” Celestia insisted. “But I wish to.” replied Starfire “Though we have only known each other for a short time, I feel perhaps we are friends, and friends share with friends.”
Celestia couldn’t help but smile lovingly at such friendship she was being given, and there was more where that came from…
Cyborg brought in a baby cradle he had built in the workshop, “We were savin’ this for when Terra has her baby, but I suppose Flurry can use it.”
Flurry fluttered softly into the cradle and she liked how cushy it felt. “Aww… you like it, don’t ya.” Cyborg cooed as he tickled the baby’s tummy.
Celestia smiled warmly, but she was very worried; wondering where the other ponies had all landed and whether or not it would be possible to find them.
As for Pinkie Pie and Applejack, they would share Beast Boy’s old room, which the Titans had cleaned and kept well for the many months.
Pinkie Pie leapt up to the top bunk, “Wow, this is so neat. It’s like the sleepovers I used to have as a filly.”
Applejack didn’t mind the bottom bunk, “I used to share a bunk with Big Mac all the time.”
Terra stood outside the room. Just looking inside it brought back much shame, guilt and sadness. Robin came and helped her guide her to her own room “Come on, Terra… you need your rest.”
Terra wiped a tear from her eye, and agreed, but as she walked off, Applejack and Pinkie both noticed her sad expression. “Is she alright?” asked Pinkie.
Raven knew what Terra was thinking and she looked casually out the window… looking for Beast Boy’s Dark Angel, but she couldn’t see it anywhere.
“What are you lookin’ for?” asked Applejack “Is there somethin’ you ain’t tellin’ us.”
Raven clenched her fists in regret, “I’d really rather not say.”
Then she hovered off to adjourn to her own room and to bed, leaving Pinkie and Applejack feeling concerned. “If Twilight was here, she’d think there’s some kind of problem goin’ on.” said Applejack.
There was no answer.
“Pinkie Pie…?” but as Applejack looked up, Pinkie was fast asleep in the upper bunk. “Aw, Pinkie…” Applejack sighed, and then she yawn and snuggled into the lower bunk, tipping her hat over her eyes and fell asleep too.
Back in the Feudal Era, Inuyasha and friends were sitting around the fire. It was already well late at night. Shippo and Kiara had fallen asleep, and Cadance used her magic to cover them both in a furry blanket.
The ponies had already told of them of their story, “You were yanked out of your world by accident?” asked Inuyasha.
“Do not be surprised, Inuyasha.” said Kaede “These are mysterious times we exist in, and anything that is anything seems possible.”
“She’s right. How else could they end up here?” agreed Kagome.
Miroku contemplated the situation, “The only logical answer would be that somehow your dimensional warp gate cross-intersected with the time-travel powers of the magic well, which brought you all here.”
Rainbow sighed, “Yeah, we get all that now, but does anyone have any idea of how we can get back to Equestria?”
“Indeed, we must get back!” cried Rarity “Why I have so many clients ordering fancy gowns, and now I’ve seen so many of your fashions I could start a whole new line!”
Sango was confused, “But I thought you had said our outfits were tacky.”
Rarity flicked her mane “Poor choice of words on my part. I can quickly change my mind.”
Suddenly, she felt something biting at her rump. “Huh?!” she looked round and saw a little flea--Myoga-- sucking her blood. Rarity couldn’t help but yelp and swat the flea off with her tail.
Moyga went sailing to the wall and skidded down on the floor, “Not the worst… way… I’ve been… thrown.” he groaned.
“Oohhh..!” groaned Rarity and she rubbed her bottom “I shall never feel the same again!”
“Really, Myoga… have you no shame, groping a female like that.” scolded Miroku. Naturally, the others all glared at him for that.
Meanwhile, Princess Luna was outside and looking up at the full moon. She tried to use her magic to shift it, but it wouldn’t budge an inch. “Odd…” she said to herself “It would appear that this world’s moon is different that of Equestria’s.”
She then began to think of her sister, Celestia, and all the rest of the gang, wondering if they were okay wherever they were.
“Princess Luna…” Kagome called “We’re all turning in, are you okay?”
“Quite fine… I am used to staying up late where I am from.”
Rainbow Dash flew up alongside Kagome “Yeah, but… this isn’t Equestria. You really don’t need to stay up all night this time.”
Luna realized she was right, and the more she thought it over, “Perhaps it would be nice to get some extra sleep, and then stay out in the daytime.”
So she and Kagome headed inside and saw most of the others were already asleep, but Cadance was the only one still awake. Shippo and Kirara were sleeping right beside, like children to their mother, which really made her fraught with worry and sadness worrying where Flurry Heart was, and Shining Armor, Twilight…
“I’m worried about all our friends.” said whispered “We’ve just got to find a way back to Equestria.”
“And we shall…” said Luna. She honestly didn’t know how, but she had to have faith and be brave for her neice.
Kagome assured them both, “We’ll do everything we can to help you, but let’s get some sleep first.”
Agreeing to this, soon everyone was sound asleep in the quiet village.
While in the Digi Destineds world, it was almost evening. The entire gang had regrouped, and introductions and explanations were given about Equestria and The Digital World and Digimon, all that stuff.
The gang was all in the city park, where the ponies could interact with everyone, and play with the Digimon.
Fluttershy found them all to be so cute, “I’ve never heard of cute monsters before.” she said.
“That’s nothing…” said Augmon “Watch this… PEPPER BREATH” he fired several small fire balls into the air and juggled them in his claws.
“Now try this…” said Gabumon “BLUE BLASTER” he created beautiful streams of blue flames that Tentomon, Biyomon and Hawkmon fluttered around. “TA-DA!!” they all shouted.
Starlight and Twilight were amazed. “It’s almost like watching a magic show.” said Starlight.
“Hey, Twily…” said Shining Armor, and he winked at her, and she winked back at her. They stood together to form special magic tricks they used to do while growing up.
“What are they doing?” wondered Tai.
Everyone watched as Shining Armor levitated his sister up onto his back, and then he bucked hard launching her up high like a catapult. Twilight flipped and twirled up high like a skilled gymnast. “That’s amazing for a pony.” said Kari.
Cody agreed, “I wonder if their good at martial arts too.”
Twilight then dove straight down to her brother, without opening her wings as she used to do this trick without them.
“She’s going to crash right on him!” cried Ken.
“Oh, I can’t look!” cried Yolei.
Twilight then crashed into her brother hard, and POOF… a huge cloud of pink smoke, and when the smoke cleared, Twilight was on the ground, posing like a ballet dancer, and holding her brother up with just one hoof… without any means of magic or levitation.
“Okay, that is amazing!” said Gomamon, followed by applause from everyone else, even Fluttershy and Starlight.
Kari and TK applauded, but Fluttershy approached them, “Wait… I thought you were all a team? Don’t you two have any Digi-Mates?”
“That’s Digi-MON…” corrected Izzy, “And…” before he could go on, TK and Kari silently motioned to him not to say it, out of fear of their shame and the already sadness of their guilt.
“Um… they couldn’t be here today. They had lots to do in the Digital World.”
Twilight caught a sense of deceit in his voice, but before she could question anyone she let out a huge yawn, and the other ponies yawned.
“Are you all okay?” asked Wormon. “We’re just a little sleepy, that’s all.” said Shining Armor.
The ponies had quite forgotten it was the middle of the night when they were all transported to this world. Day time in Japan meant it was nighttime to them, and instead of being at home and in bed, they ponies had been wide awake with the Digi Destined.
“Where are we supposed to stay though?” asked Starlight “The people around here may not be afraid of us, but we don’t have a place to go.”
The Digi Destined and their Digimon all began to think it over.
“I always wanted a pony when I was little.” said Mimi “But I still don’t think my folks would approve of even one of you.”
“No problem…” said Twilight “I studied into a spell that should work for us all.” and she huddled in close to her pony friends, and with a magical glow she transfigured herself and the other three into four cute little pillows, all the same color as the ponies coats, with their respective cutie marks, and the ponies could still talk.
“Unbelievable!” said TK.
“That makes two of us.” agreed Shining Armor “I can’t believe you did this, Twily.”
“Oh, it’s believable.” said Starlight “I’ve seen this spell too, it’ll work for us all, but in the meantime some of you will have to carry us. We can’t move in this form.”
The humans and Digimon all looked back and forth and debated over who would bring the pony-pillows home.
“I have to study for a test, I can’t take them.” said Joe.
“I’m rerouting my computer. So that’s me out.” said Izzy. Tentomon sighed “That’s all he ever does, is reroute his computer.”
Everyone had some excuse…
Yolei and Ken had a date. Cody’s grandfather would be training Kendo with him late that night. Sora and Mimi had homework to do, and Matt’s band was going to rehearse and he wouldn’t be home, which left only TK, and Kari and Tai.
“I think you and Tai should take them, Kari.” said TK “My mom always makes a fuss when I bring home things without telling her and… no offense but these pillows look kind of girly.”
The ponies felt insulted, especially Shining Armor, but Kari actually agreed, “I guess I could use a little more color on my bed.”
Tai picked up Shining Armor “And you can bunk in with me.”
Shining Armor didn’t answer; he had grown so tired that he just drifted off to sleep. The others ponies had fallen asleep as well, which everyone else thought were adorable.
Kari picked up the other three pillows, and everyone parted ways. TK walked home with Kari and Tai, as his home was just a few blocks up the street from their building.
Agumon couldn’t help but ask softly, “What if they find out about your little… problem?”
Kari and TK felt worried about that, “I don’t think we should tell them.” whispered Kari “It’s not their problem.”
“Kari…” Tai protested “You heard what Twilight said; she’s an expert on friendship and maybe she can help you overcome your problem.”
TK agreed with Tai, “You need help, and you may want to consider it before your mom…” he stopped when Tai glared at him and shook his head softly.
“What? Before my mom what?” asked Kari.
“Look, just think about it, okay…?” said TK and he pecked her cheek and crossed the street on his way home.
“What was he talking about, Tai?” Kari asked, but her brother wouldn’t explain, not wanting to frighten her with the thought that their mother was planning to send her to a psychiatric hospital if she couldn’t get over this darkness and upset about what happened with Davis and everything else.
…Little did he or Kari know that Fluttershy was still a little bit awake, and heard everything they had talked about, and she felt concerned.
When Kari and Tai got home, their mother greeted them. “Hi, kids…”
“Shhh…” Tai went, not wanting her to wake up the pony pillows.
“Beg your pardon?” mom asked, “And where did you get those weird pillows?”
Neither Tai nor Kari was willing to tell her yet about the ponies, not knowing how she’d react. “They’re stress pillows.” Agumon fibbed. “We borrowed them from Sora, to help Kari rest better.”
Mom seemed confused.
“It’s, uh… soft and plushy for comfort.” said Tai “And it helps for relaxation which helps calm the sleeper.”
Mom blinked twice, “Ooookaayyy… if it’ll help. Maybe I should try them. I haven’t been sleeping well myself.”
With their mother fooled, Kari and Tai went into Kari’s room and Kari placed all three of the sleeping girl pony pillows on the end of her bed. All three of them were still sleeping softly.
Tai patted his sister on the shoulder, and then went to place Shining Armor down on his own bed. “There’s so much we can learn from these guys.” said Tai.
“I’ll say…” agreed Agumon “But just the same, I wonder how they’re ever going to be able to get back to their own world.”
Tai wondered this too. “They also said they had other friends they were separated from. I wonder what happened to them.”
In the Dark Zone, ever since the dimensional disruption was sensed, no Dark Angel had gone out on their duties, and those that were out had been called back immediately.
It wasn’t until The Lord was satisfied that he allowed his angels to proceed again. “Go with caution, Dark Angels.” he called all through the Dark Zone “Go, return, and remember our ways.”
Many of the dark angels bowed, as if The Lord could see them anywhere they were in the entire realm, and then they all vanished off through portals.
Nobunaga, Davis, Beast Boy and Spike were among countless of angels that stayed behind, having had more than their fill for the day.
Davis and Beast Boy were both still feeling a bit worried.
“Kari could see me.” said Davis “I know she did, but I don’t know how.”
“I got hit by Raven’s power.” said Beast Boy “I didn’t pass through me, I almost actually absorbed it, but it knocked me out of the sky.”
Nobunaga and Spike felt concerned.
“Perhaps The Lord should know of this.” suggested Nobunaga.
“I am already aware…” The Lord replied, not needing to show himself. The dark skies stirred about the quartet. “As I have told you all before: Anything is possible.
Now, perhaps it true that there a few who are able to lay on us; the prisoners of the dark.”
“So, what does this mean for us?” asked Spike.
“It means we have to be more careful when we go out there.” said Davis “I know Kari can see me, which means I have to be careful when she’s near.”
Beast Boy clenched his fists together, “It also means we have to watch out for creatures that can use dark magic, because it can affect us.”
Spike was twiddling his thumbs nervously about something he had been thinking of.
“Something disturbs you, Spike?” The Lord asked.
Spike finally asked, “I know that we’re all restricted to only go about our own respective dimensions, but…” he hesitated “It seems to be causing us a lot of emotional grief, looking at all our old friends.”
His comrades couldn’t disagree with that.
“Maybe sometime we could all go about other dimensions as such? Like trade places awhile? You said yourself that anything is possible.”
The Lord sighed softly, “Many before have proposed to me this, and to which I answer the same: It is not advisable.
We all came from many different realms and dimensions, each one of us was once different to one-another. It best to remain bound to the respective world’s form whence you came because of the knowledge and experiences we retain.
Sending stranger to a different real may prove dangerous.”
The quartet understood this, and promised to refrain from questioning the lord again. The Lord said no more and his voice faded off, leaving the quartet to slip quietly into meditation.
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