-TERRARIA, THE UNDERWORLD-

“Run, run, hit me with your best! For here comes the Wall of Flesh!”

Some of the displaced ponies from Equus, Braelor, Sai Sahan, Tanner the Doll, Pound Cake, Linn, and Arche are currently traversing throughout the hellish realm via a particular form of transportation. They sat upon the back of a large serpentine entity, a wyvern. However, this wyvern was very different compared to any other for one simple reason: it was, in fact, Echo Silhouette’s transformed state.

Flying alongside the transformed changeling is the forms of Rainbow Dash, Shadow Thunder, and Twilight Sparkle.

“Keep going!” Twilight exclaims, flying next to the ‘wyvern’s’ head. “It’s coming for us!”

“There ain’t no way it could catch up to us, is there?!” Applejack inquires. Sitting at the forefront of Echo’s back while looking over her right shoulder. Rarity positioned just behind the cowmare.

“I’ll keep my summons at the ready, darlings,” Rarity states. Floating various staves all around her in a magical grasp, along with her Book of Skulls spell tome.

“Don’t let its appearance fool you!” Braelor shouts. Sitting just behind Rarity, but before Pound Cake. “I’ve seen how fast this beast can move, and let’s just say it earns the title of ‘Crawling Chaos!’”

“Keep your weapons at the ready,” The Doll comments, held within Pound Cake’s grasp with Pinkie Pie located just behind the remaining Cake Family member. “It’s gaining on us!”

Starlight Glimmer fires up her horn as she sits at the very end of those mounted upon Echo’s back, “That thing sure is relentless, I’ll give it that.”

As this goes on, the cavernous deeps of The Underworld began to shake violently as a large mass was drawing ever closer from behind the cast. Then, everyone looks over their shoulders as they spot the monstrosity who pursues them, tentacles of flesh wrangling various sections of the hellish caverns. The group’s eyes widen in foreboding as the landscape becomes covered in The Wall’s flesh, even shattering various obsidian structures in the process. Like a freight train going right through a train station.

“Your souls and flesh are mine, mortals!” The Wall exclaims, its legion of voices speaking in tandem. Accompanied by a series of roars that echoes throughout The Underworld.

In a horrific display, a large number of flying flesh entities break off from The Wall’s tentacle appendages. These newly formed enemies rush forth with ravenous hunger, The Wall not far behind them. In addition, the many eyes of The Wall itself began to glow with a lavender aura.

A series of gunshots and magical blasts are let loose as the offensive actions of the group hone in on the flying enemies. However, there was one projectile among them that was rather unique: a purple-colored duo of energy blades that spun together in a circular motion. In addition, this attack cuts through the enemies like a hot knife through butter.

……….

Seeing the purple book that was held within Arche’s grasp, said pony sitting just behind Pinkie Pie but before Linn and Sai Sahan, Twilight questions:

“How’d you get that?!”

“Oh, uh, I should probably thank you guys for this thing!” Arche responds.

“Take this, motherbucker!” Rainbow Dash roars out nearby, unleashing the relentless assault of her Minishark. All while Shadow Thunder conjures forth a series of pony heads made of darkness, said darkness imitating their shapes. With a thrust of his forehoof, the pony head imitations unleash lightning bolts from their mouths.

All the while, Pinkie Pie could be heard comforting Pound Cake who continues to cower from the monstrosity that gave chase, and if The Doll within the Cake’s grasp didn’t know any better, The Wall was getting closer.

“Thank us for what?!” Twilight responds with a sideglance, firing off her Space Gun towards the Wall of Flesh as its green projectiles crash into The Wall’s form, not to mention the small flesh abominations.

“I’ll give you the short- shit, one second!” Arche cuts himself off as he dodges a small flesh entity by laying down further, those sitting both in front and behind him doing the same. He rises back up and fires another slicing; spinning, lavender projectile in response, cleaving the flesh entity in the process.

“As I was saying - before the crawling orgy’s flunky interrupted us - you guys are the reason I have this. Or a reason. It’s called a Demon Scythe spell tome!”

“Huh?!” Twilight responds in momentary shock. “I don’t recall any of us meeting you before, let alone giving you anything!”

“Ok, short version: Greed Gluttonia’s ‘worms’ yoinked some of the loot that your friends should’ve gotten from their battle with the Voodoo Demon. Sweetie Gluttonia gave me this not long after! The end!”

“WHAT?!” Twilight, Rarity, and Applejack exclaim in unison.

Suddenly, a barrier surrounds Echo Silhouette’s serpentine form as Linn, Starlight Glimmer, and Braelor conjures forth the protective shell. A series of explosions roars out as purple laser-like projectiles are let loose from The Wall’s eyes.

“That pathetic barrier will not save you for long!” The Wall shouts. “By the way, before you start celebrating this little prolonging of the inevitable, you might want to look forward…”

Echo Silhouette lets loose a roar as his current form suddenly dive-bombs, causing everyone who was mounted upon him to grab onto his form in a hurry. Twilight, Shadow Thunder, and Rainbow Dash diving alongside him as they evade a large stalactite made of obsidian.

Unfortunately, they are now presented with a barricade that prevented them from going any further. A wall made of ashen dirt and obsidian with waterfalls of lava falling down the obstacle. Or as it was now appropriately named: a dead end.

“We can’t get around it!” Sai Sahan exclaims.

“Can we try to dig through it?!” Rarity inquires in absolute concern.

“We definitely could…” The Doll comments from within Pound Cake’s grasp. “But it’s catching up too quickly…”

A loud series of laughter is let loose from the mass of flesh behind them, causing Echo’s transformed state to turn around as he growls in defiance. In tandem, everyone else who sat on his back braced their weapons as Rarity even calls forth her summons, via their appropriate staves. In addition to Rainbow Dash, Shadow Thunder, and Twilight preparing themselves for battle, floating next to the ‘wyvern’.

“Now that is a pity,” The Wall of Flesh comments condescendingly, halting its pursuit as it takes in the trapped state of the abomination’s prey, “What will you do now, lowest filth?” The Wall’s eyes focus and dilate towards Rarity, “And don’t even think about using your little Ice Mirror. In fact, teleportation spells are hereby null and void… sorry, not sorry.”

Twilight fires off her horn as if to call The Wall out on its claim, only for the alicorn’s eyes to widen in horror, “It… it can’t be!”

“Hmmm, having performance issues, are we?” The Wall mocks, followed by a chuckle, “Perhaps you can go visit the second Circle of Hell: Lust. I hear they recommend a little blue pill for your current predicament.”

“Stop playing games with us! What did you do?!” Linn roars out.

The Wall seemingly grunts in disgust, “Shining Armor’s disgusting descendant… devouring you will be all the sweeter for me. But if you must know, even in my current state, my grasp over reality itself isn’t completely obsolete. That includes preventing you lot from warping between dimensions.”

Pound Cake buries his face into Pinkie Pie’s chest before looking up at her, “I-is… is the monster going to… w-win?”

The party pony’s blue orbs stare back into Pound Cake’s very own. She wraps her forehooves around him, bringing the child into a loving embrace.

“Of course not, Poundy. Your aunty Pinkie Pie won’t let anything bad happen to you,” She pats him on the back with her eyes closed. However, when she opens them once more, a flash of rainbow-colored energy consumes her eyes.

“Before anything else!” Shadow Thunder exclaims. “There’s something I’ve been wanting to ask you!”

The eyes of The Wall focuses on the dark pegasus, “Well, you’re all going to die anyway, and I won’t skip the chance to shatter any semblance of hope. What is it?”

The pegasus’s features narrows, “Yharim once told me to ‘ask the Wall of Flesh’, during our battle with Skeletron. What exactly did you do to everyone?! Where is the Hallow?!”

Echoing laughter leaves The Wall’s many mouths as it spreads throughout the hellish landscape. This causes Shadow Thunder to grit his teeth in anger before shouting:

“WHAT DID YOU DO TO EVERYONE?! MY FRIENDS, MY PARENTS, LADY HARMONY, WHERE ARE THEY?!”

The Wall’s laughter slowly dies down as the large multitudes of eyes etched onto its form looked down upon the pegasus in condescension.

“They’re all inside of me, they empower me, and very soon… all of Terraria will share their fate.”

A sudden shake violently makes itself known as it seemingly comes from the surface world. Everyone looks upward in response as Twilight questions:

“W-what’s happening?!”

Linn suddenly grabs onto her head as if she were coming down with a migraine, grunting painfully as she comments:

“N-no! Why would they remove, E-Excalibur?!”

“Wait, what?!” The Doll shouts. “No! That wasn’t part of the plan!”

“Of your plan,” The Wall responds. “Neighsay told you, himself. The Voodoo Demon wasn’t alone, and now the demon hordes are running rampant all across Terraria! But that’s not all that’s happened up there... The runes have been activated! The worlds are becoming one!”

“What are you talking about?!” Sai Sahan shouts.

The Wall chuckles, “You’ll see that for yourself, soon enough. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have a new surface world to claim! Feel free to treat this as you being ‘saved by the bell.’”

In one swift motion, the Wall of Flesh rushes upward as its large mass of flesh elongates itself into the ceiling. Large chunks of obsidian deposits begin to fall as the fallen Outer God literally forces its way into the upper levels of the underground. Causing multiple caverns to collapse onto themselves as the monstrosity continues to progress further and further towards the surface.

Finally, and after a large earthquake that could be felt throughout the entire continent, a large mass of flesh erupts from the earth; just before Camelot. Wrangling tentacles begin to slam against the landscape as the many mouths of the Wall of Flesh roars out into Terraria’s skies, turning them crimson red in mere moments. It now looked as if the Crimson Biome itself had taken over as, from an orbited view of the planet, the entire world of Terraria became consumed by red.

Not only that, but one could also see demonic runes etched onto the world’s surface.

-TERRARIA-

Zalgo gazes at his host, who is currently shut down. He seems to have a sad expression as he gently brushes the protogen’s fur with a tentacle.

“My dear Sunset… You are getting a bit rusty. Perhaps we should fix that, yes?” He asks quietly, tentacle laying on her breastplate, completely still.

Seeing the state his poor protogen host was in reminded Zalgo of just how long it had been since he started this mission of his. A tentacle curls into a kind of fist as he again swears vengeance on Azathoth, before turning to the materials he had brought for her cleaning.

Picking up a bottle of oil, he carefully lays the protogen down onto the ground, his tentacles dancing over the joints and cracks that he had practically memorized by now, applying oil to each and every spot.

“Good, good… You’re already starting to look better, my love...” Zalgo pauses in his actions, thinking about how this one mortal had caught his heart. He knew Terra was fine with it - after all, even she had lovers other than himself - but it still amazed him. Mortals truly are special.

Zalgo places down the oil, taking some metal cleaner and a rag, before going after the rust. It would be much easier for him to simply flick a tentacle and make the rust disappear, but he preferred this more… intimate approach. It truly showed what the protogen meant to him.

Zalgo looks down, as a paw seems to have grabbed his tentacle. A weak glow emanates from the protogen’s screen as she stares at him with a look of curiosity.

“You’re still here…” She says in a feminine voice, a soft Brazilian accent pulsing through. “Then… You haven’t succeeded yet, have you, amor...”

Zalgo sighs, unsurprised by the fact the protogen was speaking to him. After all, she was letting him use her form to protect himself.

“No… Azathoth still hides from my gaze.”

“Meu querido Zalgatoth… We will find him. Together. This, I promise you.” She says, smiling.

Sunset’s paw gently squeezes Zalgo’s tentacle, though she does not get up.

“The eldritch sickness… I... You are not being affected too harshly, I hope. Your reboot time… It took five seconds longer than last time.” Zalgo says, a worried tone to his voice.

Sunset waves a paw softly, her smile never leaving her visor.

“Pare de se preocupar. It is a necessary sacrifice, Zalgo. I will be fine.” She lilts.

Zalgo swallows drily, before nodding and continuing to clean the rust off her breastplate.

“You seem particularly worried this time, amor da minha vida. What has gotten your wires all tied?” Asks the protogen, her expression one of sympathy and understanding, two qualities Zalgo had always admired her for.

“Things have changed… I try to keep a facade of total control to my servants, but… I was not expecting the history of the world to differ so vastly this time.” Zalgo says, rubbing at a rust mark.

“Oh? The great Zalgo finally realized he couldn’t control the Fates entirely?” She teases, much to the embarrassment of the eldritch entity.

“I always knew that… There are infinite multiverses in the omniverse. Even the slightest flap of a butterfly’s wings could change fate itself. That, I was aware of…” He replies, moving on to the rust on the fronts of her thighs.

“But?” The protogen prods gently.

“But for this change, I do not have any contingency plans… And for once, I am scared of what could happen.” Zalgo murmurs.

“Scared? Docinho, it is okay to be scared sometimes. When I first touched that book, I was scared of you as well. But it turned out for the better, afirmativa?

“...I suppose.” Zalgo quietly says.

“Zalgatoth.” The protogen stops his tentacle again, leaning her back against another. “I am here for you, no matter what. You are my marido, my mate. I will not let you get hurt.”

Zalgo looks deep into the eyes of the protogen, before a brief smile appears.

“I love you, my dear…”

“And I, you.” The protogen says softly, before pulling Zalgo close and kissing him.

A sudden disturbance interrupts the embrace as Zalgo gently breaks away, looking off towards another direction. Then, he takes notice of the skies turning blood red.

“So, Nyarlathotep is finally making their move. I suppose my words have inspired him to actually think for once. Then again... The Crawling Chaos is only ensuring their own destruction,” One of Zalgo’s tentacles crashes into a nearby forest, causing it to fade away in a series of particles. As it turns out, there were also demons lurking there, waiting to pounce onto the eldritch and his lover. Of which the entities were erased before they knew what hit them.

“There won’t BE a ‘revival’ for you when this is all said and done, Nyarlathotep. My sons will see to that,” He looks skyward, “The Doll is in position, and if all goes according to our plans... I look forward to seeing you again, Yog-sothoth... my old friend.”

I know what you might be thinking: "Wait, what happened on the surface while we were down here?! The worlds merged?!"

Let's go take a look, eh?

Character inventory/equipment:

Fluttershy: Statigel Armor(pony, equipped), Overloaded Blaster, Eviscerator, Crimslime Staff, Corroslime Staff, Slime Staff, Finch Staff, Snow Flinx Staff, Hornet Staff, Blood Clot Staff, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Healing Potion, Honey Comb(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Slime Mount, Staff Of Necrosteocytes, Purified Jam.

Rainbow Dash: Necro Armor(pony, equipped), Star Cannon, Minishark, Eviscerator, Aquatic Discharge, Bloody Rupture, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Healing Potion, Aero Stone(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Victory Shard, Slime Mount.

Zecora: Crimson Armor(zebra, equipped), Dune Hopper, Sausage Maker, Beenade, Tooth Ball, Aorta, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Various Potions, Rocket Boots(equipped), Honey Comb(equipped), Sand Cloak(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Bloodstained Gloves(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Skeletron Hand.

Starlight Glimmer: Meteor Armor(pony, equipped), Space Gun, Starfury, Vein Burster, Purple Phaseblade, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Mana Potion, Healing Potion, Victory Shard, Rocket Boots(equipped), Aero Stone(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Slime Mount, Book Of Skulls, Skeletron Hand.

Rarity: Meteor Armor(pony, equipped), Space Gun, Hornet Staff, Snow Flinx Staff, Ice Mirror, Blood Clot Staff, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Mana Potion, Angel Wings(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Slime Mount, Book Of Skulls, Skeletron Hand, Staff Of Necrosteocytes.

Applejack: Crimson Armor(pony, equipped), Vein Burster, Orange Phaseblade, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Rope, Metal Detector, Healing Potion, Angel Wings(equipped), Honey Comb(equipped), Flurry Boots(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Slime Mount, Bone Glove, Skeletron Hand.

Twilight Sparkle: Meteorite Armor(pony, equipped), Space Gun, Book Of Skulls, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Mana Potion, Ichor, Victory Shards, Aero Stone(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Slime Mount.

Pinkie Pie: Crimson Armor(pony, equipped), Vein Burster, Blue Phaseblade, Bloody Rupture x2, Aorta, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Metal Detector, Angel Wings(equipped), Honey Comb(equipped), Flurry Boots(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Slime Mount, The Blood Butcherer, Skeletron Hand.