Chapter 30 - My SI Stash #30 - Hope Bearer by shadenight123 (Multiverse Cross) (1/2)
-This is the SEQUEL to Bond Breaker by shadenight123. You won't understand shit if you've never read Bond Breaker. 3rd fic of Shade in my stash, probably the last one (ง •_•)ง
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Chapter 1
”Yui,” I said softly, opening my eyes to the bright, pastel-like sky above my head. ”Uh?” I blinked, and looked around, my neck all stiff and my body hurting all over. I laid on the back of a grassy plain, with trees stretching high towards the sky, as far as I could see.
I blinked again, and then tried to stand up, only for my hooves to fail me and send me tumbling downwards in a comical way. I rolled down the hill, and growled softly as I landed in a heap near a river of water.
”Yui,” I snarled with a bit of an angrier tone, gazing flatly at my reflection in the water.
I received no reply.
Of course. Why would I?
I exhaled loudly, and shook my head as my mane fluttered in the breeze.
I was lacking a light saber.
This felt like the start of a second season of pokémon, where Ash Ketchum forgets about having super-pokémon and drops them at Oak to get new ones.
”If I end up with the powers of friendship and love,” I remarked dryly, ”I will burn the universe down.”
I looked up at the pastel-colored sky. ”If you can hear me, Yui, know that I will make you pay for this.”
I received no reply.
I wobbled back on my feet and sighed, giving a last look-over at my form. Traveling through dimensions wasn't really all that difficult. Finding a way back home, on the other hand, was. There were just 'so' many dimensions, you know? But by that same logic, out of infinite dimensions, the one where 'I' was missing had to be out there.
However to find it, there was a bit of a complicated process involved, even for a highly intelligent Artificial Intelligence powered by Black Holes like Yui was, 'Higher Being' and all that included, she still needed time, a time that stretched towards infinity.
So, in the meantime, I had time to spend idly by. The 'Limbo' dimension wasn't that bad, mind you, but it just didn't have what I-
”You're just running away from Elsa's feelings, Shade,” Yui beeped from the air around me.
”So you are listening in on my thoughts,” I snarled back.
”Don't you Tee-Hee-Hee me,” I snapped. ”Well? You're not coming?”
”It's going to take me a long time to find out your specific 'home' dimension, Shade. Just go and have fun while I look through it. Think of it as rediscovering your roots.”
I began to trot by the river's side. ”And you couldn't give me my lightsaber back?”
”How am I going to find out where the hell you come from if you [Annul] everything? But don't worry, you aren't really powerless. I just toned your power down a bit. As the God-Author would say, 'This is just to keep things interesting'.”
”Yeah, he'd say that, wouldn't he?” I snapped dryly. ”Can you tell him to go die in a molten lava pit?”
”He probably heard that,” Yui said. ”But think of the readers' feelings, Shade.”
”I am,” I replied softly. ”That's why I'm keeping the insults clean.”
Objective Found.
My hooves, damn it, I wanted legs and feet and arms and hands, took me across a nice stretch of land before I finally grumbled out, ”Why am I not in human form?”
”Ponies,” I grumbled. ”Why ponies?”
”Why not?” Yui said. ”Friendship, Love, Happiness, Cheerful Hugs and everything nice. I say you needed a vacation, and what better way than spend it in a place where you cannot absolutely f_u_c_k things up?”
”Woah. Such Trust. Much Faith. So Happy.”
”Stop being Doge-Like, Shade. It doesn't suit you.”
I rolled my eyes.
”I'm not even an Unicorn,” I said dryly. ”Or a Pegasus.”
”You'd zap things, or conjure clouds to zap things,” Yui replied. ”This way, the worst you can do is...kick things.”
I sighed. ”I'll let you know I wouldn't zap things.”
”You're the one who went lightsaber-ish murderous the last time.”
”Fluff, happiness and everything nice, Shade. Can you do this, for me, this one time?” Yui pleaded through my...let's call it 'earphone' even though there wasn't actually one.
”Fine,” I said. ”Happiness and everything nice.”
”By the way, you're going in the wrong direction,” Yui said.
I emitted a half-strangled curse to the heavens and turned around.
”No, you need to cross the river to reach Ponyville.”
”Yui,” I said calmly, gazing at the river. ”You're not seriously telling me-”
”Come on, the river's not even very deep.”
”Yui.”
”Shade.”
”Shade.”
”Yui!”
”I can always bring Elsa over-”
”I'm going,” I said quickly, trotting back to take a running start and then rushing ahead, the entire thing instinctive -at least I had to thank Yui for that- before sailing through the air and landing on the other side.
”What should I say when she comes over? 'Sorry, but in order to avoid answering your feelings, he went on a journey across the Multiverse again?'”
I took a deep breath as I squared my shoulders -horse or pony shoulders- and kept trudging forward, on the cobblestone road in front of me.
”Tell her I'm busy fixing the causality around the universes, that should work.”
I heard Yui sigh. ”So, jargon-talk some nonsense to tell her it's a very important thing? Basically, ignore the issue and hope it goes away, Shade?”
”Indeed!” I said with a light nod of the head.
I bristled. ”I changed a lot, I'll let you know. For one thing, I'm no longer scared.”
”Course you aren't. I'm here to keep an eye on you, there's no way you'd be scared with my tremendous powers at your disposal.”
”And secondly, this is My Little Pony,” I quipped. ”The worst that can happen here is solved the next episode with a hug...I think.”
”Your favorite place to be then!”
”Yui, sarcasm doesn't suit you.”
”I am just another form of you, Shade. So yes, it does suit me.”
Apply Logic.
I g_r_o_a_n_e_d. ”Why are you making me remember that!? Can't we talk about something else?”
Yui hummed. ”I think I'll go back to crunching out thousands of billions of numbers. You need a hand, just cry out my name like 'By the Power of Yui! Heed my call, supreme and beautiful being of knowledge and power!'.”
”IF you think-”
”Sorry, you haven't used the proper invocation, Yui-Chan is currently unavailable for comment.”
I grumbled. You give power to an AI, and this is what happens after giving them the internet. Never give an Ai access to the internet, or it will turn them rotten.
I remained quiet as I finally saw the start of the 'Pony' village. It was at the end of the road, and everything looked cartoony enough to make the bile in the back of my throat start to rise, if slightly.
I wasn't different from the majority of ponies, actually. The mane was a dark shade of grey, my eyes were brown, and looked haggard by the side as if I suffered from sleep-loss, and I apparently had a...'cutie' mark. It was a crimson lightsaber, but it looked more like a 'baton' the kind of which you find in the hands of traffic aides or the type used by people who have to guide airplanes in the airport.
Redefine Causality.
Well, I had to give it to Yui. Ponyville seemed pretty normal, all things considered, and since I wanted a vacation with happiness, fluff and everything nice tucked away in a corner, this wasn't all that bad. There was nothing wrong going on, and there were no screams, suffering, elder gods, or anything else. It was nice.
Sort of.
I was vaguely aware of the 'Hammer-Space' as it is called in nerd-jargon that seemed to be placed somewhere by my side that contained 'money' and 'stuff'. Yet, no lightsaber, because Yui didn't trust me with the blade of [Annulment] capable of removing reality and everything on its path.
Seriously Yui, you're no fun when you get pushy like a nagging mother.
A sudden shower sprayed on my entire body from above, and as I blew the wet mane off my eyes, I looked up and growled as a pony had apparently been pouring water on a few vases, and had aptly forgotten of people passing by below him.
Of course, that was Yui at work with her probability changes from the Limbo dimension.