Ch.84

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

“So this is Equestria. It is so much brighter and cleaner than Tamriel or Akavir.” Neethsi observed and I nodded in melancholy at the sight. The lands below were as vibrant and beautiful as I remember from my previous world. It also reminded me of my dead friends.

“Yes, it is.” I replied with sadness in my tone. It hurt to see, but it also brought so many good memories. Unlike my old world, at least this one is free of the Undead Curse and all the other bullshit that caused constant suffering beneath the thin veil of goodness on the surface. I guided Neethsi to fly us to the fuck-off giant crystal tree-like palace next to the quaint little town.

“Think she’s compensating for something?” Neethsi joked and I snorted at the Shrek reference.

“Blame my tree daughter.” I snorted just before a pink mare with wings and a horn flew into us. The mare had been paying more attention to a white stallion with a similar colored filly below. Or at least the omniscient narrator says so. “Ow! My brain! I think I just had a psychic moment!”

“No, you’re starting to CHIM, be careful.” Neethsi commented casually and I looked at my goddess lover in wonder. Was every waking moment for her like that? Where she just knows the causality happening around her?

“Kim?” The pink alicorn mare asked from where she had been pasted to the side of my flying serpent sex machine. “Oh, isn’t that a means of achieving divinity from overseas?”

“Yes, why are you hawking over the baby and the stallion?” I asked, since the post-cognition I had of why she smacked into Neethsi’s side didn’t get much further before my head suddenly snapped back into the present.

“Because he’s my husband, we’re visiting on vacation and it’s the first time I’ve let Shiny take Flurry without me. I’m just being a paranoid new mom.” The mare sighed and sat next to me on Neethsi’s sinuous undulating body as she drifted in the sky, enjoying the wonderful air up here. “Running into you up here and making me lose sight of them might be for the best.”

“Oh, I wish I had that luxury and not the life of adventure that it is today.” I said with a strained smile. “I’d love to just be there for my kids, to live a simple life crafting things and going home at the end of the day, but I’m afraid that’s just not in the stars.”

“Aw, but your Love is real, that will make the effort of keeping it all together worth it. Stay strong.” The mare declared with a knowing smile. “I’m Princess Mi Amore Cadenza-.”

“Your name is literally ‘My Love Cadence’?” Neethsi asked in bemusement as she began to glide down towards the palace in a lazy spiral.

“My parents were suckers for romance, so am I, it turns out.” Cadence said and I squealed before I hugged her! “Ah! Um...wow. Your Love is really thick, like you know me as a sibling.”

“I knew you in another life, another world. I was a bit worried when in this one, you didn’t seem to exist. Not when Mara exists.” I told the mare, who I was disturbed to realize I hadn’t recognized before she gave her name. I know it’s been so long, even if not that long ago, but to forget Cadence at all felt like a betrayal to her memory.

“Oh! Mara’s such a wonderful woman. We have tea on Sundas. We’re great friends, especially since I’m her most potent avatar on Nirn. I’m a Living Goddess of Love, so I synergize with Mara perfectly.” Cadence informed me before Neethsi slid on her smooth underside to a stop on the grass behind the crystal palace and we got off of her. “So, why are you visiting Twily?”

“Because I’m trying to-eep!” I squeaked when a white blur slammed into me, only to bounce off with a yelp and ‘oof’ upon landing on the grass. I turned and looked down in relief at Rarity, who was rubbing her tailbone. “Sorry! I wasn’t-!”

“Prepared, I’m aware, darling. Oo~.” Rarity held up a hand and I used one arm to lift her up.

“Wow...you three Love each other so much…” Cadence said with awe after Neethsi transformed into her base form and wrapped her arms around Rarity and I’s shoulders.

“Ugh. Where is Eris?” Donga groaned when she wandered out of the castle.

“No clue.” Everyone replied without care while everyone in the palace spilled out onto the back lawn, including the Argentine Alliance folks and Twilight, who was looking ready to pop out maybe 8 foals. She still has the Navel Pearl, so she’s willing that belly to be bared.

“You and Hermais were with her last, now you’re asking us?” Brennie retorted sassily.

“She’s Time. She can be anywhen unlike us.” Hermais sighed while rubbing her temples.

“Well, so long as we’re all together, she can stuff a sock in it.” Applejack’s voice declared as she approached from the north end of the field, Fluttershy doing the same. “This time, my family ain’t forced to resort to milkin’ my hyper-busty sis to make end’s meet.”

“Instead you just do it because she loves it and it helps give you some extra funds.” Pinkie pointed out and AJ stuck her tongue out playfully before Fluttershy took in a deep breath and her friends all plugged their ears. Uh, but she’s so quiet-.

“Discord! Rainbow Dash! Get your plots over here!” Fluttershy shrilly shrieked as her wings became bat-like, her eyes sharply slitted and her teeth formed fangs. Moments later, the chaos entity and Rainbow appeared in front of the buttery pegasus while practically quaking. “You two. I love you both, cut it out. We’ll work this out later.”

“Uh, what the fuck?” I asked before a portal opened and what looked like a ram shoved Dar-Jah and some female argonian through it. The next weirdest thing to happen was Brennie clutching her stomach in pain, before puking up what looked like glowing turquoise slime as it formed into a busty gray and white vixen who matched us bodacious babes at our most sexy.

“Ugh! Urta? Since when?!” Brennie asked as she gasped for air.

“Sorry, sweetie. I had to hide inside your body when I felt a disturbance.” Urta explained as she hugged her dracowolf transformer. Hey, wait, what is her Alt then?

“Hey, random question, out of nowhere, but what is your Alt? I can’t believe I didn’t ask when you first explained you were a Transformer.” I asked the war goddess who was getting squeezed by the gray and white vixen.

“I don’t know, I’ve never bothered with it. Nora keeps asking about it and I refuse to do so.” Brennie answered with a sigh of annoyance.

“Well, you’re a triple changer and we all know you have a Beast Alt.” Urta mentioned, but that didn’t help my mounting curiosity! “Anyway, babe. I got a note from a member of the Time Squad-.”

“I knew they’d survive somehow. What did they write?” Brennie seemed more relieved about the distraction.

“That I needed to be near you when some temporal chicanery seriously stirred the froot loops and jumped the shark. I know, as obtuse as ever.” Urta answered and everyone from their universes seemed equally confused, besides Hermais who moaned in annoyance.

“The Dragon Break, Sheogorath being almost sane compared to normal and we hopped an ocean. So something is about to-.” Hermais was cut off by the world seeming to drop away. There was nothing besides Darkness and I was about to hyperventilate before a bright turquoise light banished the void and revealed that Urta was the source.

“It’s here! It’s here~!” I screamed in almost irrational terror, my sister clutching onto me for similar support and my children forming a box around us before golden radiance formed a protective diamond barrier around us.

“This...feels familiar.” Brennie shuddered in fear as Urta clutched to her tightly. “Didn’t this happen before?”

“The Abyss! The Dark itself is what swallowed mama’s world! It tormented and devoured all save those who submitted to it!” My quadruplet children voiced in unison. “It’s come to do the same here! It wanted mama to save the world so that there would still be one to devour!”

“Not if I can bring it LIGHT!” Urta howled and grew utterly, preposterously gigantic! We’re no longer standing in a void! Instead, we’re on top of her left breast! There’s no end to the surface of her glowing turquoise goo turned to solid crystal beneath us and her smooth featured head was above us! “I cannot move further without harming you! Find the source! There’s always a source! It will come because I threaten it!” Urta’s voice echoed in our minds.

“There!” Hunter roared and pointed in a general direction. “Neethsi, Pillar and Vinnie, help me reel it in!”

Neethsi attempted to reach out, but she gasped and waved her hands. “I-I can’t! There’s nothing! My power!” Neethsi wailed in terror, something that horrified me. Neethsi was always so strong! That power is cemented in her world, which has been suddenly consumed by the Dark! Until this is banished, she has no power!

“Dammit! We should’ve brought in our Empyreals!” Hunter cursed, but it didn’t stop him or his siblings from reaching out into the Dark with their powers. With their combined effort, they brought in the very Entity responsible for all of this.

Urta squealed in girlish terror at the impossibly gigantic bug that emerged from the Dark! “Come to us. Become one with us. Feast, eternally, with us.” The field of chittering maws across its surface called and clouds erupted from it that closed in to reveal a seemingly unending swarm of White-Faced Locusts flying through the murky void to land on Urta and clamber towards us! “Let the Feast, Begin!”

A blast of magic slammed into the swarm and I suddenly heard Nords screaming at the top of their lungs accompanied by war horns. Arrows, lances and spears started to impact the horrors as ships of light floated around it. Doors to what looked like the afterlives of every deity attached to Mundus opened around the creature. Races of all who called Nirn home along with Daedra rushed into battle by the millions.

“For Sovngarde!” “For the Lord of Change!” “The Great Hunt Begins!” Many, many, many other warcries bellowed from the hordes of allies as they surrounded us to keep the swarm back.

“I knew this day would come!” A towering human declared as he smashed several locusts away with a hammer made of whalebone. “We will hold them off! Fight the Beast, Devourer of Worlds! Save our realms! The Next World is in your hands!” I think that’s Shor! Or whoever the Nord Chief God is!

“Look, more reinforcements!” Collateral shouted as a ship of theirs made of pure silver came into view. “Those are our Empyreals!” Launching from the underbelly, pods impacted the surface and scattered the Swarm. Coming out of them were more of their Night Sentinels, from all five of the factions, but their color scheme was also pure silver with runes engraved on them.

“Graah!” Yelled a four armed mountain of a red skinned daedric man as he swung several weapons into the void making some cry out in pain. “It has more than one head!” That’s Mehrunes Dagon! Well, it’d make sense he doesn’t want the universe to end.

“What’s going on?!” Shade asked, extremely confused as more Daedric Princes joined the battle.

“All of this universe is coming together the best it can to prevent its root: Mundus, from being absorbed, followed by them!” Twilight declared as she continued to shield the rest of us with her powerful Magic. As the Living Goddess of Magic, she isn’t reliant on Magnus for her power, but she was sweating from keeping the fighting from closing in further on us. “We can’t stay here!”

“Where do we go?” I asked in despair, completely at a loss for what to do.

“Into its heart!” Hermais declared before linking hands with Dongoruas and then turning into larger noodles, biting each other’s tails and forming a portal between them that summoned forth a giant wolf, who looked upon the battle with ancient, weary blue eyes. “Sif! It’s the Dark! You know this place better than most! Point us towards Manus! The Father of the Abyss!”

“He is obviously within that bloated monstrosity.” Sif declared in a powerful husky feminine voice with a look at the planetoid of an invertebrate. “It is where the Source lies, like I’ve assumed you’ve figured. However, the path in, I can point it out if we’re closer.”

“We’ll join the fight as well. Our Empyreal brothers and sisters will open up space. Make the abomination suffer.” Brennie’s general said before rallying the Legion and charging into the fray.

“RIP AND TEAR!” They roared and joined the battle, fighting side-by-side with friend and former foe alike.

“Alright then, since none of the normal fliers can do this the usual way…” Vinnie huffed and cracked her neck. “I’m gonna have to pull a Nexus here.” *Whirr-Woo-Che-Chir-Chit!* The sexy golden bunny-wolf cybertronian Transformed from an average height busty babe into a huge golden spaceship! Well, huge from this up close! I don’t know how spaceships work! “Get in! Don’t make me honk!”

“Just do it, we all know you want to.” Brennie huffed in frustrated amusement before a hatch opened near us and a horn blasted while from inside, music played as we all rushed aboard the Vinnie. No, sorry, the A.A.S Runner according to the plaque next to the entrance that we ran past. “Oh! Do I get to fly you~?!”

“Yes, you do!” Vinnie replied through the ship’s comm system while she continued playing the music over her comm system.

“Everyone, strap yourselves in quickly! Vinnie, make sure you’re blasting this for all to hear!” Brennie stated as she rushed towards the bridge with excitement. We followed her and found the cockpit only had space for about five people, but there was plenty of seating for all of us to strap into behind the cockpit. Runner is a passenger ship? Oh!

The seats deployed turret controls! These are all manual turrets! How many turrets does Runner have?! “I can autotarget a lot, but I’m more accurate when people take some processing power off of me! Help me keep these bugs away!” Runner directed us and while the less mechanically capable natives fumbled for a moment, the rest of us outworlders jumped in with ease.

I started spraying my turret’s turquoise blasts into the incoming cloud of locusts as we took off. Brennie must already be piloting Runner through the cloud of enemies and towards the ever-devouring maw of the Dark! There was turbulence as the sexy ship punched through said cloud of chitin and Runner screamed in pain! Thankfully it was brief and we flew towards the gnashing ‘head’ of mouths, eyes and reaching mandibles.

I only briefly wondered how Sif fit into Runner since I was too busy hurrying to wonder where the giant wolf went. My answer came from the gray wolf anthro in a sort of black bodysuit stumbling back from the cockpit during another wave of turbulence before she rushed back in.

“G-going in hard! Hold on!” Runner warned us all and I watched with growing anxiety as the continent or larger mass of chitin rapidly came closer. Soon, we flew into a gaping maw that was large enough for Runner’s ship form to squeeze in. She bumped against the fleshy walls now and then, each time hissing and cursing in pain. “Fly better, Brennie!”

“You try flying through a fucking Death Star Run!” Brennie shot back.

“Brace!” Shortly, I don’t know who shouted the warning, we came to a hard stop. Whatever incredible design Runner is, we didn’t get splattered against our own seats or the walls and floors. She didn’t even seem too bad since she just groaned in pain as she came to a full stop.

“B-bottom floor. Inky blackness, spooky bug monsters and masses of Darkness.” Runner quipped as her turrets shot at things emerging from the Dark.

“Okay, what now?” I groaned as I looked around.

“We fight our way to the source.” Hunter grunted as he got up from his seat. “C’mon! They won’t give us the chance to-shit!”

“Ow! Hey-ouch! Stop it!” Runner yelped in pain as she was attacked by the swarm, hearing them scratching and biting at her outer hull, which rocked the ship around. “A little help here!”

Pillar acted quickly as he placed a hand on a wall and everything shimmered green. It looks like he used his barrier ability throughout the entire ship since Runner sighed in relief. However, he clenched his other hand into a fist and we heard the swarm get crushed. “We must disembark! Collateral, take point!”

“On it!” Collateral stormed his way past us and out of the ship, the rest of us following behind him. Pillar was the last one to get off before Runner transformed back to her normal sexy self. “Hunter, Sif, which way are we going?”

“This way!” Sif shouted over the howling dark and Collateral fired a barrage of explosive blasts from his hands in a hurry, clearing the monstrosities so that we could follow behind his charge. “I know that monster’s essence anywhere! This whole infested place reeks of him, but he stinks so much worse!”

“Sorry to mention that some of us aren’t warriors!” Dar-Jah shouted as he held his girlfriend and Pinkie close. Shit! Things just went so crazy we all forgot several of us aren’t used to combat!

“Oh, right! Pillar, protect the non-combatants! Everyone else, clear a path!” Brennie ordered, but her sister stopped her.

“Brennie, I know you don’t think like our wives, but you or I could totally give them someplace out of the way and as safe as can be without them being liabilities.” Runner implied with a wary look around us. “Especially since with all this bullshit possibly preventing the noodles from making another portal with how oppressive the Dark is in here.” Said sisters nodded.

“You’re right. Get in our bosoms!” Brennie and Runner flashed everyone their glorious tits and then said breasts rapidly grew until they were a few feet each and made suitable cleavage for something the size of a person, like a person, to enter.

“Uh, not that I’m not fresh on the ide-ah!” Applejack was shoved into Brennie’s cleavage by Twilight and then the rest of her friends, Cadence, Dar-Jah and his girlfriend all dove into the nearest path to safety.

“You too, Twi!” Brennie huffed and Twilight looked about to protest, then touched her stomach and obeyed, going into her lover’s Inventory before the two sisters shrunk back down and armored back up.

“Babies, why didn’t you go?” I mewled to my kids, who all huffed and emitted bright flashes of Light that made the Dark screech and recoil. Right. I forget who their fama is. “Right, just stay back from the fighting and keep the hoard at bay, please.”

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