The entire world is now in conflict as every corner of the globe is being invaded by the forces of The Underworld. In addition, the large demonic pentagrams that became etched onto the world’s surface seemingly grew as hellfire spreads across the planet. All accompanied by crimson skies.

Not to mention the sudden appearances of various entities who rained down via pillars of red energy, akin to a meteor shower.

-TERRARIA, THE UNDERWORLD-

The group stares up shockingly at the now present breach in the cavernous ceiling. Albeit Linn, in particular, was on her knees in what was seemingly a surge of pain present in her mind. The breach was almost reminiscent of the numerous Hellevators that now granted access to the surface world.

“That did NOT just happen!” Rainbow Dash exclaims, recovering from her shock. “Please tell me we didn’t just see that jerk dig his way up to the surface…!”

“Ah’ thought that no good critter was supposed to be stuck down here?!” Applejack inquires.

Linn is still in the process of recovery as she has her left hand placed onto her forehead; as if trying to alleviate a headache.

“I-it’s, Excalibur…” She comments through gritted teeth. “It kept that monstrosity trapped within The Underworld,” The pink-haired terrarian gets back onto her feet with the aid of Braelor, “Whoever removed the blade is a damned fool!”

During this time, Pinkie Pie was comforting Pound Cake by patting the child’s back. In addition, Twilight, Starlight, Rarity, Applejack, and now Rainbow Dash began to feel something familiar on the surface world. All while The Doll remained in Pound Cake’s grasp.

“So what now?” Shadow Thunder inquires.

“We go up there and fight that thing, of course!” Arche responds.

The dark pegasus stares at the black earth pony with a deadpan expression, “I meant that we should make a plan and not go running up there blindly…”

Echo Silhouette - now in his original form - was about to comment, but something felt all too familiar to the humanoid changeling as his eyes widened in response.

“This aura… could it be…?” Echo mutters. “Chryssi… s-sister…” The changeling surrounds himself in a series of green flames before vanishing seconds after. This garners the attention of both Shadow Thunder and Arche who look at each other quizzically.

“We’re in the dark here,” Sai Sahan comments. “We need to-”

Suddenly, Sai’s words are cut off by a green anomaly with floating tree leaves that danced as they fell, which formed in front of the group. A familiar dryad exits the breach, but the individuals who accompanied her causes the ponies from Equus to take on shocked expressions; letting loose a series of gasps.

Celebes turns sideways and gestures towards the beings behind her, “Sorry I’m late, everyone, but I brought some familiar faces.” She finishes with a wink.

The ponies from Equus stared on with their ever-present shocked expressions as three alicorns, a unicorn, a utopian, and an earth pony/utopian hybrid mare exits the breach. In addition to a final entity, one who hails from The Void itself:

Twilight steps forth in absolute disbelief, “P-Princess Luna… Cadence…” Her eyes widened even further as she spots a certain white alicorn, “C-Celestia…? You’re alive…?”

The sun alicorn smiles brightly and nods, “My sweet ponies, it warms my heart to see you all safe.”

“T-Twilight…” Cadence comments with tears starting to form in her eyes.

“Tis good to see thou again, heroes of Equus,” Luna said with a respectful bow.

As a moment of stunned silence takes place, the entity from The Void breaks it.

“Sup, fuckers.”

“Venomous Sting!” Celebes shouts, narrowing her features before crossing her arms, “Now isn’t the time for that…”

Venomous rolls his eyes, “You’re not married to my old man yet, ‘mom’, so I don’t have to listen to your tree-hugging ass.”

Celebes facepalms, “You, your father, and I need to seriously sit down together…”

Venomous scoffs, “Wouldn’t really change how I talk to you. So if you’re gonna be with my father, Silence, then you’d best accept the two-for-one package, ‘mom.’ Well, three, if you count that edgelord that lives inside of him.”

The dryad sighs in defeat, “Terra help me…”

……….

A series of hooves digging into the ashen landscape erupts as the lavender form of Twilight crashes into Celestia; hugging the sun princess by wrapping her forehooves around the larger alicorn’s chest region.

“I’m so glad you’re back!” Twilight shouts with tears.

Celestia pats the lavender mare’s back with a forehoof, “It’s good to be back, my faithful student.”

“T-Twily, I-I…” Cadence stuttered before running towards the duo, joining the hug which resulted in Twilight being sandwiched, “We were so worried about you all! I missed you so much!”

As the loving reunion takes place, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Starlight, and Pinkie Pie - Pound Cake alongside her with The Doll in the child’s grasp - is approached by Princess Luna. Along with three of the individuals that arrived via Celebes’s anomaly.

“We wish not to impede upon our sister’s reunion with Twilight Sparkle,” Luna comments. “Not to mention our dear niece.”

“It’s great to see you again, yer’ highness,” Applejack said, holding her hat against her chest region.

“Indeed! I am- wait a second…” Rarity comments as her gaze focused on one of the three individuals who stood alongside Princess Luna, “Tempest? Is that truly you, darling? You look a little different, and taller… but I can still recognize you.”

The pony-turned-utopian chuckles, “A lot happened back home, or at least what used to be home. I’ve got a new body that looks almost the same as my old one, but it’s still me. It’s nice to see you guys again.”

Rainbow Dash looks over the form of the earth pony mare that stood alongside Tempest, “You’re pretty tall, even for an earth pony…”

“Name’s Tzana,” The mare responds. “Yeah, being taller than the average pony was something that confused me, too. Turns out, I’m more on the utopian side rather than-”

“Oi, Jojo!” Pinkie Pie interjects in a random fashion. “You’re Jojo!”

Everyone else present turns towards the pink mare with confused gazes, but Tzana blinks twice as she comments internally:

-Wait… did she just use my initials and create some type of silly nickname?-

“Indeedily, yokilly!” Pinkie responds.

-She just read my mind…-

“Your-name-is-Journey-Joy-so-I-thought-‘oh-wow-her-nickname-can-be-Jojo!” The party pony responds rapidly. “See? Take the ‘Jo’ out of Journey, and the other ‘Jo’ out of Joy, and you get Jojo!”

Tzana, or Jojo, simply stared on in stupefaction as she slowly turns her gaze towards the other Element Bearers and Starlight Glimmer.

“It’s just Pinkie,” They all respond in unison.

“Wow… I can’t believe I’m actually meeting THE Element Bearers!” The third individual comments, standing at the right side of Princess Luna. “Oh, uhm, forgive me. I haven’t introduced myself properly.”

This individual is a fiery red unicorn stallion with a series of flames as his cutie mark, along with stripes of orange that adorned his tail and mane. All complete with brown pupils.

The red unicorn clears his throat, “My name is Flame Heart; I grew up in Neighagra Falls with my aunt,” He scratches the back of his neck, “As the others said, a lot’s happened back home. But I’m an ally from the fight against The Corruption… and The Divide.”

“The Divide?” Rainbow Dash questions.

“I thought it was just The Corruption that threatened Equus?” Starlight Glimmer inquires. “Are you saying there were TWO infections?”

“It’s a little complicated,” Tempest responds. “The Corruption did indeed cause all sorts of trouble for Equus, however…”

“The Divide was born from a desperate attempt made by Harmony, herself,” Tzana finishes. “Ocram, the leader of The Corruption, was more powerful than we could imagine. Harmony grew desperate… so she fused some of The Corruption with other forces, The Hallow being among the mixture, and used the former host of The Primordials… Ambient.”

“Ambient dares to call herself, ‘innocent,’” Luna comments scornfully before bearing her teeth in anger, “She lost the right to call herself that when she decided to take innocent lives who had NOTHING to do with her transformation. Thy foul cretin is a hypocritical monstrosity throwing a tantrum!”

“My word… d-darlings, just, what in the wide world happened while we were away?” Rarity inquires with a sense of shock.

“None of that matters as of this moment,” The Doll finally breaks its silence from within Pound Cake’s grasp. “We can deal with what happened on Equus at a later time. We have a far greater threat present at the moment. Everyone, listen up!”

This garners the attention of everyone present along with Celestia, Cadence, Twilight, Venomous Sting, Braelor, Sai Sahan, Arche, Linn, and Shadow Thunder.

“Forgive me for being silent these last few moments, I was speaking with Terra, herself,” The Doll comments. “The time has come, friends… we need to help everyone on the surface by unleashing them.”

This causes some among the observers to take on confused expressions.

“Them?” Arche questions. “Weren’t we going to only let loose, Daedalus?”

“There’s someone else that’s connected to your death?” Shadow Thunder inquires.

“Indeed… it’s what I just spoke to Terra about via our own mind-link,” Tanner the Doll responds.

“W-who are they?” Celebes inquires.

The Doll takes a deep breath, despite its form, before responding:

“There are beings far beyond our comprehension that exist, those who operate on a higher plane compared to us all. Not even demons, ancients, gods, grimdarks, or many other entities could ever hope to compare to them. Even Yharim doesn’t compare to these outer forces. Celebes?”

“Yes?” The dryad responds while various individuals are shocked by The Doll’s words.

“Your fellow dryads, peace be upon them all, sacrificed themselves in order to defeat Cthuhlu, as I’m sure you know. Forgive me for stating the obvious… Linn?”

The pink-haired terrarian comes to attention, “Yes, Tanner?”

“As you know, Nyarlathotep is arguably a reason as to why Cthuhlu came to our world.”

Linn nods in response, “From what the archives told us, Nyarlathotep sent out a sort of call for help after he fell. However, when Cthuhlu arrived, he wasn’t here to aid the Crawling Chaos. Cthulhu betrayed them, and tried to claim Terraria for itself, taking advantage of everyone’s weakened state after the fight with Nyarlathotep.”

“Not to sound rude or anything,” Rainbow Dash starts. “But what does any of that have to do with what we’re currently dealing with?”

“The point I’m trying to make is that Terraria, itself… is a trap.”

Everyone reacts in their own forms of shock, albeit Venomous Sting comments:

“And that means what to me? I’ve got enough issues with the GrimDark as it is, why the fuck should I care about this pointless history lesson?”

“Don’t be a fool, Venomous,” The Doll responds. “Even you GrimDarks would be wise as to never draw the attention of an Outer God. Abaddon, Rainbow.EXE, Pinkamena, and numerous other beings from those realms, you’d all get wiped out by a single Outer God.”

Venomous laughs, “If that wall is what an Outer God is, well, he’s lacking in the ‘all powerful’ department. I’ve seen GrimDarks who are much stronger and can eat that thing alive. Like my grandmother, Rainbow.EXE.”

“He’s severely weakened, Venomous,” Celebes responds. “The Wall of Flesh is a much weaker version of Nyarlathotep,” She turns to everyone else present, “Before my parents and all of the others died, they used to tell me stories of the sheer horror Nyar could instill upon not just our universe, but the multiverse as well.”

Venomous Sting lets loose an annoyed grunt, “Greeeeaaat, more history lessons… can we go kill some stuff now? Not to call out the obvious, but, uh, there’s a fucking demon invasion on the surface. Not to mention the shit that’s going down at Anububus’ pyramid.”

“Gotta say, I like his attitude,” Tzana comments.

“I’ll second that,” Arche responds.

“Fucking, finally! Ponies who see shit as I do,” Venomous responds. “There might just be hope for your weak; pathetic race.”

“HEY!” Every other pony in attendance shouts in unison.

“That’s rich coming from the dude who almost looks just like us!” Rainbow Dash roars out.

“Keywords: ‘almost looks just like you,’” Venomous responds. “I’m NOT one of you, gay pride parade.”

Tzana shrugs, “Well, I’m utopian, so that doesn’t include me I assume.”

Various ponies turn towards her with a stern expression, although Tempest chuckles, “What?” Tzana responds. “Some of you didn’t have the stomach to see or do half of the stuff I had to deal with BEFORE the Corruption showed up. He’s not exactly wrong.”

Celestia, having been listening intently along with her fellow princesses, takes a few steps forward, “If we could get back on track, please.”

“And who the hell are- damn you got a big ass!” Venomous Sting exclaims. “Why the hell did Nightmare Moon not just hover you in front of the sun? Eternal night could’ve occurred had she just used those ‘Solar Eclipses’ to block the damn thing.”

The jaws of some of Equus’s ponies dropped in response, although Arche was on the floor laughing while Shadow Thunder facehooves. Incidentally, Pinkie Pie was also laughing, but a narrowed expression from her friends caused her to stop instantly before saying:

“S-sorry.”

Luna’s left eyebrow twitched in response as pure annoyance began to fill her entire being, “We hate thou...”

“So does everyone else I ever pissed off, you’re not special.”

“Thou try our patience, knave!”

“Thou can suck a cock!”

“Bring us thou’s, we’ll happily bite it off!”

“Joke’s on you, I can regenerate it!”

“Knock it off, both of you!” Celebes exclaims. The situation looking as if a mother was scolding her two children.

“She started it!”
“He started it!”

The duo shouts in unison, pointing a forehoof towards each other.

Despite Venomous’s harsh words, Celestia giggled in response to the GrimDark and her sister’s bickering.

“Putting aside that enjoyable affair,” The sun alicorn starts. “Tanner the Guide is your name, correct?” She questions The Doll, still being held within Pound Cake’s grasp.

“Of course, daughter of Daybringer and Nightcrawler.”

“You said Terraria is a trap, and considering how you brought up these Outer God entities, can I assume that this trap is meant for them?” Celestia inquires which once again prompts the attention of everyone else present, although both Luna and Venomous Sting glared at each other while Cadence held back the angered dark alicorn, and Celebes held back Venomous.

“Your assessment is correct, Celestia,” Tanner the Doll responds. “Terraria has a way of weakening Outer Gods who enter it, but it does so in a fashion that’s nearly undetectable to those entities. It's why Nyarlathotep's powers deteriorated while he tried to stake his claim to our reality all those years ago.”

Celebes’s eyes widened in shock, “H-how did Terra manage to do such a thing…?”

“It has a lot to do with the knowledge she gained from the second being who’s connected to my death; a powerful ally to the great all-mother. He goes by many names in many different cultures. The Watcher to the Celtics, or elves. Hermeus Mora to the Norse folk, the Knower of the Unknown to the Lihzhards. He is the Outer God of Knowledge, and the being Terra has fashioned the station of The Guide after..."

"Yog.”

-TERRARIA, NEXUS-

A Hellevator has recently ripped itself open in the center of an underground town as a near-endless number of demons flood through the breach, clashing against the forces of Nexus. Werebeast, terrarians, and even a few other sentient races who hailed from far beyond Camelot’s borders could be observed clashing with the demons. Such as dwarves, lamias, and even an assortment of elves.

Among this conflict, a female werebeast who is a combination of a leopard and wolf humanoid is in the process of battling a trio of demons; within a forest of the large hollowed underground chamber. With a raise of her right hand, spires of crystals erupt from the ground, piercing her demonic foes, as she says:

“My name isn’t Crystal just for the hell of it, abominations,” She flicks her right hand’s wrist, “You will not destroy NEXUS!”

The spires of crystal break apart, freeing the demons who simply try to regenerate their impalement. However, the werebeast turns the shattered remains of the crystalline objects into bullet-like projectiles, floating them all around her.

“By the law of NEXUS, I hereby sentence you to death by firing squad!” She gestures her left hand’s fingers to imitate a gun, aiming it towards the demons, “Bang.”

A relentless barrage of crystal projectiles make mincemeat out of the demons as what remains of them falls to the ground, and before they could regenerate themselves even from mere specs of flesh, Crystal conjures forth a very particular type of water bottle.

“This holy water was given to me by properly ordained priests from the churches. Begone, and answer for your crimes, hellspawn!”

Upon cracking the bottle and raining its contents onto the demonic gore, a series of sizzling sounds emit; followed by the flesh being reduced to ash.

Crystal wipes her hands together as if she had just taken out the trash, but before she could comment on her victory, she sniffs the air with closed eyes before turning her gaze sideways.

“Come on out, I know you’re there!” She calls out but doesn’t get a response. The werebeast lifts her right finger as what remained of the crystalline remains begin to float all around her.

“I won’t ask you again, get out he-”

“Ok, ok, p-please!” A child-like voice responds. “D-don’t hurt us!”

Crystal could hear the sounds of the now rummaging bushes drawing closer, and her eyes widen when she sees the source of the voice: an orange pegasus pony with a pair of underdeveloped wings.

“W-we were running away from those things and tried to hide. Before you came and beat them...”

“I thought I saw them chasing something. Wait, ‘we’?” Crystal repeats, but then sniffs the air once more, “There’s three more of you, isn’t there?”

The orange pony nods in response, albeit amazed at how the werebeast was able to get such information from just a smell alone, as the young pony looks over its right shoulder and nods nervously. There was no point in trying to hide her allies as they’ve literally been sniffed out.

The same bushes that the orange pony exited from began to rustle and rummage as three more young members of ponies, all females, exits the dense covers and goes out into the clearing. These consisted of a yellow earth pony, a white unicorn, and the group’s youngest member who was currently being held by the unicorn’s magical grasp: A baby alicorn.

Now having a clear view of the newly arrived entities, Crystal takes in their forms and sniffs a few more times.

“Well, I can’t smell demon on you guys… but I’ll have to be sure,” She conjures forth another glass bottle that was filled with the same holy liquid, “Hold still.”

The werebeast uncaps the bottle and splashes its contents onto the group of youngsters, causing them to flinch in response. Although the baby alicorn giggles in response.

“You guys check out,” Crystal comments, letting the shattered crystals that floated all around her fall to the ground, “Who are you guys? And you chose one hell of a time to go exploring, kiddos.”

The earth pony swallows a lump nervously, “Ah’-ah’m Apple Bloom.”

“Sweetie B-Belle,” The unicorn responds. “And this here is Princess Flurry Heart.”

“Princess?” Crystal responds, causing Flurry’s ears to fold against her head. She then looks towards the orange pegasus, “And you?”

“I-i’m Scootaloo, m-ma’am.”

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.