Ch.83

[Morndas, 5th Frost Fall, 4E: 221]

I woke up breathing water. It was so clean and refreshing I took a few gulps and then opened my eyes to find myself sleeping upon the coiled body of my lover and the Goddess of the Sea and Sky; Neethsi Nagnaresh. We were in a massive chamber that was entirely submerged and was filled with a hoard of treasures that lined the walls while a bed of kelp covered the floor.

I swam up a bit and realized I was in my beast form, which of course, for some reason, has huge honking hooters the size of beach balls instead of losing sexual traits. Perks of being a Lycan instead of just some mere lycanthrope. “My love.” I perked happily at the projected thought and turned to hug the snout of my sea dragoness fiance. “You have no clue what your presence means to me.”

I tried to speak, but water. I pouted and patted my sternum between my giant gazongas. It’s a good thing I’m somewhere between 8 and 10 feet tall and scaled-up, heh, so these big badonkers aren’t any bigger to me than usual. Anyway, I gestured up and before I could really notice how, I was standing on a rocky shore with Neethsi towering over me from the water.

“There, now you can speak. Sorry for just ravishing you without giving you a chance to speak yesterday, but I was so lonely.” Neethsi apologized and lowered her snout to nuzzle my cleavage, which I smished together with my wrists and pressed into her snoot.

“Grr~, I enjoyed it too, but I need your help. If you remember me, then you know this world isn’t right.” I said through my growling voice. Talking like this is tough, but still doable.

“Just tell me what we’re doing next. I want all of you back, no, I need all of you back.” Neethsi implored and pressed insistently against my chest. “All the worshipers and gifts the world over are hollow and empty compared to what I have with you and the others. Tell me what to do.”

“First, Rarity is now in Equestria…”

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“Oh, thank fuck! I’m free!” Brennie cheered as she lifted up Runner and spun her around.

“Wee~!” Runner waved her arms in the air happily like a bird.

“Oh, are ye now? Careful, that one tends to bite.” Sheogorath commented with amusement, which annoyed Brennie, at least until Runner fucking bit her shoulder! “You’d think ya would remember yer sibling’s reaction to someone being an idiot that she can’t really hurt.”

“Uh, Sheo?” Brennie pointed out that Runner was biting into his shoulder!

“Ah-hah~! The ol switcheroo! I like your spunk!” Sheo was suddenly a statue of cheese and Runner spat out the chunk she tore out.

“Yeah, don’t try me Sheo. As fun as that might be to get to know you.” Runner said as she mused it over.

“I already did, you taste like those sweets Pokemon trainers feed their blood-sport pets. Poffins I think they’re called. No! Wait! I mean you taste like that yellow lightning one everyone loves for some reason. Very zingy.” Sheo commented and Runner blushed while Brennie snorted.

“You haven’t lived until you’ve had some wine made from fermented Cherubi flesh. Those things shed like snakes and it just tastes so sinfully good.” Sanguine commented from where he was still entertaining the kids, this time he was doing a Muppets skit with Kermit and Beaker dolls.

“Hm, Sheo, quick question; what happens if I were to, say, interweave the two Timelines? What would be the outcome of that?” Runner’s inquiry was met with silence as both Sheogorath and Sanguine looked at her as if she was more insane than the two combined! “What? I’ve seen how much better life is in this Timeline compared to the one we know of, but the things we’ve done in the previous one had progress, progress which would benefit things here even more.”

“That is the most crazy thing anyone has ever said to me! How would you like my staff? I’m a bit tired of the office.” Sheo winced when a bald and bland man sitting at the desk behind him cleared his throat very loudly. “Argh, fine. I know, I know. You don’t need to bring it up, Haskill. As for what happens? Who knows? Other than the complete annihilation of Time Itself!”

“Yeah, what Sheo said. It’s best if you just leave this world as it is now and help gather the people who were helping the old world together so they don’t just slink away into obscurity.” Sanguine said with the Kermit speaking in the perfect voice.

“Meep! Meep, meep, meep!” The Beaker doll said and the kids were laughing.

“You said it, Beaker.” Kermit nodded in support.

“I don’t know, the Dwemer have proven invaluable and deserve a second chance. Can we bring some of them back with us?” Runner asked and her siblings and their people thought it over as well.

“Wow, you lot are dense. I mean, you asked us a question, we gave an answer, then you completely ignored us to go your own way anyway. Ha-rumph! So rude! Well, you’re stable now thanks to Runner figuring out how to make you real without becoming whatever the Dream would force on you. Now, run along. TTFN: Ta-Ta For Now!”

Then everything was snakes. Sanguine ran along with the sisters towards the shuttle that was on Nirn while carrying a couple of the kids. “Damn it Sheo! Ow! Ow! Quit biting! I told you not to do that damn Beetlejuice reference ever again!”

“Ugh! Fucking idiot thought he could control my actions.” Runner scoffed at the sheer audacity of what Sheogorath pulled moments before they went through the portal from the Shivering Isles to Insanity Islet in the middle of Niben Bay east of Bravil.

“I knew it wasn’t true, otherwise I would’ve pulled out your internal organs and made you play fetch with them.” Brennie huffed in annoyance.

“I figured as much. You think we may have acted too rash with his offer?” Vinnie asked her sister.

“That’s because it was too good to be true and he was asking us to submit to his Will in order for us to obtain that sort of power. A hundred years of servitude, in order to be granted true freedom of power.” Brennie reminded her of the price they had to pay, which didn’t sit well with them at the time.

“Wait, so, what you were talking about before was completely different to what we thought? Why didn’t you say so?!” Sanguine felt offended at being led astray so easily and by someone who was too brutally honest to lie about anything!

“Because it was too good of an opportunity to pass up. Also, it was your own damn fault for assuming from the start.” Brennie remarked on his and Sheo’s assumption.

“Wow, no wonder most of us Princes love and hate you. You’re more Daedric than Divine. By the way, his offer was genuine. Sheo’s been looking for a successor for a while now. He was originally mortal and is kinda sick of being Sheogorath, but you’re too sane, Haskill wouldn’t have had any of it. Anyway, you kiddos be good, alright? Your mama still has some adventure to do before she can relax.” Sanguine tousled their heads and then patted Shade’s shoulder.

“...Okay, why have you been treating me like a kid?” Shade asked huffily and Sanguine smiled.

“Because, even if this is your second time being an adult, you’re still a little rascal at heart under those sexy little nibbles you’ve currently got on your chest. Don’t forget to keep merry, your sister is too damn serious for her own good.” Sanguine did ‘finger guns’ and vanished.

“Hey~...they’re just this small because it’s convenient…” Shade grumbled with her hands on her sports-bra clad A-cup chest. “Anyway, get us out of here. I think it’s better if we leave Mundus as it is, so long as we can find everyone important to us and make sure they’re in a good place.”

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“Wee~!” I cheered while surfing on Neethsi~! “This is so cool!”

“I’ll only be skimming the surface near shore, once we’re away from airship lanes, I’ll take us to the skies!” Neethsi told me and I decided to enjoy the high-speed water travel while it lasted.

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Twilight rubbed her deceptively flat stomach forlornly. The memories and the sudden hyperpregnancy came unbidden, without any warning or preparation. Thankfully the magic Navel Pearl came with it or she’d be an immobile purple belly bursting through the walls of her crystal palace. “Twilight? Are you okay?” Came the painfully familiar yet new voice of her adopted son, Spike the Equestrian Dragon.

“I’m fine, Spike. Just fine…” Twilight said with her gaze going out the window.

“Twi, I know you. What’s wrong?” The young teen, wise beyond his years, asked as he ascended the stairs to sit on the stool next to his adopted mother.

“...Spike, do you remember the Mirror, how we went to another world both similar yet entirely different from this one?” Spike nodded. Going to the other world where ponies, dragons or any species not human didn’t exist was weird. How could he not remember? “Well...what if our world, not even a day ago, was not the world we thought it was?”

“Uh...are you talking metaphorically or do I need to send a letter to Celestia about a possible Time Paradox?” Spike asked worriedly and Twilight sighed wistfully.

“The latter, but don’t bother. I have a feeling that, if I’m right, the solution might just-.” The doors of her throne room burst open. After they crashed to the floor, in swaggered the sexiest woman on Nirn. “Unf, just come through those doors~!” Twilight teleported and began smooching Brennie’s face desperately. “My gosh! Thank Cadence my memories aren’t a lie! You’re here! You’re real~! *Mwah*!”

“Mm~! Oh, Twilight, thank fuck! Where’s Discord?” Brennie asked as they held onto each other.

“Um, oh, he’s married to Fluttershy in this timeline. He’s really mellowed out compared to before.” Twilight replied moments before Discord appeared, looking almost equine with his unsettlingly normal body proportions, enhanced by his dapper zoot suit and broad-brimmed hat. “There you are, right on time.” Twilight said with a wry grin.

“A gentleman appears neither early, nor late, he arrives exactly when he intends to. No, wait...that’s a wizard.” Discord reached into his pocket and held up the script to Lord of the Rings. “Ah, got it mixed up. No matter. How may I help you? I much prefer this variation of existence, so if you wanted my help screwing with time, I’m afraid I’ll have to decline. Besides, Nirn is stable and the Chaos is at a healthy level for once.”

Brennie let go of Twilight as she walked up to Discord, grabbed him by the goatee and punched his face in. “Wake the fuck up you idiot! Now is not the time to be complacent!” Brennie snarled, only for his face to suddenly retract like a projector roller, like Genie from Aladdin.

“Oh, right, the whole ‘work with Akatosh to turn you into the Goddess of Fertility’ thing. Right, sorry, my lower head was in control then and I lacked the stability someone like Fluttershy gives me. Also, I’m awake, aware and not willing to change things back. In case you haven’t noticed, that would be Chaotic Evil and I’m very Chaotic Good these days.” Discord huffed and held up two images.

“Now, before you continue. In my left hand is the world before, in my right the world now. Snapshots of an exact point in time just a week ago. You’ll notice the old world is full of death, violence and suffering. The new world is full of life, peace and happiness. Just that one divergence, of Kagrenac failing, has resulted in a much more wonderful world.” Discord then tossed the two images into the air, where they turned into fancy diorama plates.

“Wait, if Kagrenac failed, then that means his tools are gone! The person who did this altered Time so that the tools would have no value and be destroyed!” Twilight declared and Discord sighed with a confirming nod. “Then...the person who did this doesn’t have the tools anymore, Time cannot be altered again…”

“Says who?” Runner spoke up in defiance of the facts laid out before them.

“Twilight! There’s an evil cult or something that’s worshiping someone like Discord who is raving about Time being screwy, does this have to do with these different memories I’ve got?!” Rainbow fretted when she flew inside, but her concern turned to wrath when she looked at Discord. “You mare-stealing bastard! Give me back Fluttershy!”

“You’ll have to take her from my cold, dead hands!” Discord snarled, slipping through Brennie’s clutches like he was all soapy and he slithered away at speed with Rainbow chasing him out into the hallways.

“Uh, why don’t they just harem up? That has worked with us so far.” Twilight questioned while rubbing her stomach with a sheepish smile. “I mean, without you around I haven’t been able to get her out of me. I still have Pandora in my womb. Then there’s Felsa in your womb.”

“Well, it doesn’t work for everyone, Twily. Also, Felsa is not in yet, she just kept flirting and then suddenly climbed into me to avoid being killed.” Brennie huffed, but still leaned down to rub Twilight’s falsely flat front. “How are you doing?”

“Absolutely wonderful, which is why I...I don’t want us to go back to the previous timeline. My friends, we’re all so much happier here, at least before-.” The door burst in and Pinkie Pie, with her hair straight and lifeless, walked in with Rarity weeping against her side. “So Rainbow wasn’t an outlier, we all remember.”

“I’m super happy that life for us now is way better than before, but...Dar-Jah. He was my boyfriend. I was feeling a happiness I hadn’t felt before. Sure, my life is much happier now on the whole, but I don’t have that special somepony or rather someone that I had before.” Pinkie squeezed Rarity a bit closer. “But Rarity, even without her family being Cursed this time…”

“Meen-Rei, Shade, Neethsi. I’d rather die than live without them, curse or no curse!” Rarity wailed, revealing her face was a mascara-running snotty wreck.

“Well then, just turn around.” Runner gestured for Rarity to do so and she blinked before turning and gasping at the sight of Shade with the angel-fox quadruplets around her. Rarity sprinted at Shade and glomped her, but she bounced off with an ‘oof’ when Shade failed to catch her. “Oo...wow. Shade is fucking built.” Runner commented with her eyebrow quirked at Brennie, who pouted grumpily. “You can’t hoard all of the waifus, Brennie.”

“S-sorry Rarity! I wasn’t prepared…” Shade apologized and helped Rarity up with one hand.

“N-no problem, dear. I forgot in my relief that my fiances are all super-powerful reptiles.” Rarity rubbed her butt and looked at the children. “Although, where are the others?”

“They’re coming. Mama’s on her way and our new brother and his mama are already here, they’ve just gotta come to Ponyville.” Samatha said while her similar green siblings nodded.

“Oh, right. The Kamal are still dead, but much sooner. The other races of Akavir still had a mass exodus due to another disaster that struck the continent, so they came here since Equestria is just slightly closer than Tamriel.” Twilight informed everyone and then grunted with a thrust of her stomach forward. “Oh, alright! Sheesh, please rub me Brennie, Pandora’s being mean.” Twilight let a bit of her belly reveal itself, ripping her dress wide open and making her blush.

“Sure thing, sweetie. Hey Pandora, how are you doing?” Brennie rubbed her pregnant future wife’s purple womb that looked ready to burst with octuplets to get the other hyper-pregnant woman inside of said womb to calm down.

“My brain is not handling this.” Spike said looking on in confusion.

“Eugh, I’m going to throw up. I hate you, Dongo.” Hermais gagged when her tiny noodly body landed on Rarity’s head. The bird chimera looked ill while her ursine sibling flopped into the fountain on the west side of the throne room from thin air as well.

“Me too. I hate altered worlds when it’s not our doing.” Dongo said before vomiting a rainbow into the fountain, which began absorbing instead of refracting light.

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Zaeza was extremely unsettled. “What is wrong, ZZ?” Her best friend asked and the golden snake-woman looked at Periwinkle Pizzazz.

“I’m sorry, I just...where was Princess Sparkle located?” Zaeza questioned, remembering from her briefings in the other lifetime, one of suffering, that she was the highest authority to turn to. At least in Lilmoth, but that was another life, a life that had such promise after so much had gone wrong before. This life had gone much better. Her family were naturalized Equestrians since her grandparents immigrated here.

“Um, Ponyville. Why?” Peri asked his bestie and she looked towards the Dodge Junction train station.

“I’m not where I belong. My family may have lived here for generations, but...this is not the place I should call home.” Zaeza declared and Peri’s ears wilted.

“Is it because of Zavej being fatherless?” Peri asked softly and Zaeza shook her head. Her friend, he offered to help her, even become her mate if it meant helping Zavej grow up happy and with a father figure, but she couldn’t do that to Peri when he had Jubilee pining after him. She was, sadly, happy that she didn’t or she’d be torn and heartbroken.

“No, I simply have someplace else where my heart resides.” Zaeza nuzzled Peri and he gently squeezed her hands. “I’ll return if I can, but I cannot live here anymore.”

“So long as we stay friends, regardless of distance, I’m happy for you if you can find your happiness.” Peri smooched her cheek and she smiled sadly before standing from her chair on the saloon’s porch. “Send me letters, y’hear? I’ll haunt you after I pass if you don’t!”

“You’re only 22!” Zaeza called back playfully and walked the dusty roads to her home. When she entered, she found Zavej, who was nameless because of something as ass-backwards as tradition in that other life. She would kiss whoever changed Time for that, but only if her future love was not ruined by this. “Zavej, pack your things. We’re leaving.”

“Hm? Where to, mum?” Zavej questioned worriedly like any child being taken from their home.

“Ponyville, to seek Princess Sparkle. She may have answers to important questions.” Zaeza answered, because she believed hiding things from children only hurt them more later.

“Like where Sammy and the others are?” Zavej’s question struck Zaeza like a brick. “I remember them, but mostly Sammy. She was cute…”

“You know she was to be your step-sister, yes?” Zaeza asked and Zavej nodded. Alright then, so long as he knew that ahead of time.

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