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Dimension: My Little Pony

Planet: Equestria Earth

Specific Location: Twilight's library

Time: 14 hours after the arrival of Doxia

Twilight and Flaming Star just sat on the bed together, thinking about what had occurred with them and Doxia's message to the Brothers in Arms corps.

"We are SO totally cuter than Fluttershy and Sunset," muttered Flaming Star.

Twilight just burst out laughing as Flaming Star glanced indignantly at her. "I mean it!" he exclaimed, "We ARE!"

Twilight kissed Flaming Star on the cheek. "You're so funny," she sighed. She then flopped back onto the bed. Flaming Star joined her.

"So," he said, "What do you want to do today?"

"I have an appointment with Rarity to go over the color schemes of the wedding," sighed Twilight, picking up a pillow and slapping it over her face, muffling her voice.

Flaming Star chuckled. "Ah yes, and I have an appointment with Rarity to go over the finalized version of my suit."

"That pony… sometimes I think…" muttered Twilight.

"Rarity is AWESOME. And you know it!" exclaimed Spike as he walked by them, sweeping the floor, "You two looked soooo cute sleeping together, by the way."

Twilight blushed profusely and exclaimed, "Spike!"

Spike was about to say something else but stopped. He double over and belched out a letter from Princess Celestia. Twilight forgot her momentary embarrassment as she used her magic to levitate the letter over to where she lay. She then opened it and scanned its contents. She levitated it over to Flaming Star as she said, "Princess Celestia wants us to talk to Pinkie Pie. Apparently Princess Celestia wants her to go cheer some crystal pony up somewhere in the Crystal Empire. Interesting."

"It seems to be of some importance, though," mused Flaming Star as he read the letter through himself, "We should get it on it right away."

"You mean I will get on it right away," corrected Twilight as she levitated over a checklist, "I've made your schedule for today, and I want you to stick to it. Don't forget to look over your secondary checklist, and your backup-backup checklist."

Flaming Star groaned audibly, and Twilight laughed. "If you're going to marry me, you're going to have to learn to organized," she said.

"Yes ma'am," sighed Flaming Star as he unfurled a packet of long strips of paper, "Are these notarized? How about signature-gridlocked?"

Twilight poked him in the stomach as she got up, "Very funny, mister. You get started on double-checking your backup list; I'll go to Pinkie Pie's."

Twilight then trotted out of her library and went straight to Sugar Cube Corner.

"Hello Mr. Cake!" she exclaimed cheerfully as she entered the building.

"Why hello Princess Twilight!" replied Mr. Cake, "What can I do for you today?"

"I was wondering where Pinkie Pie might be," Twilight said, giving him a huge smile.

Mr. Cake nodded, "She's in her room."

Twilight nodded and trotted upstairs to the second story. She then knocked on Pinkie's door. After a pause, the door swung open to reveal a rather disheveled Pinkie Pie, whose hair was still deflated.

"Pinkie!" exclaimed Twilight, "What's wrong?"

"I wasn't able to get the green pony to be my friend," sighed Pinkie, a little downcast, "And now I can't find him!"

Twilight cocked her head to one side, "Say what?"

"Oh, never mind," replied Pinkie, "Would you like to come in?"

Twilight nodded, and trotted it. She then sat down on the floor and handed Pinkie the letter from Celestia.

"Princess Celestia has a mission for you," Twilight explained, "She needs you to cheer up some important pony in the Crystal Empire. However, if you're not up to it…"

Suddenly Pinkie's hair "re-inflated" with a pop and she exclaimed, "AM I EVER?! This will be wonderful! A pony to cheer up!"

Twilight sighed in relief; Pinkie's attitude had had her worried for a moment. "That's wonderful, Pinkie Pie," she said, "is there anything I can do to help you?"

"Nope!" exclaimed Pinkie happily, "I just need to grab my party cannon, Gummy, Boneless, and a few other things and then I'll be off!"

Twilight nodded and was about to leave when Pinkie said, "Wait! There IS something you can do! Avengers Assemble!"

Twilight blinked. "W-what?"

"I need my team! I need Rarity and Discord!" explained Pinkie Pie dramatically.

Twilight's mouth dropped. "You… you need Rarity and Discord?"

Pinkie Pie nodded her head vigorously. "Oh yes," she said, "I need Rarity and Discord! They're my team! We went to that crazy party in Bray! Wasn't that fun?!"

"Pinkie," said Twilight with a roll of her eyes, "That 'party' was an ambush."

"Huh, I didn't see that many bushes around when we were having THAT party. Never mind! I need them! Can you help me get them? Plllleeaaasssseee?!"

Twilight took a deep breath, then she said, "Okay. Let's go. First we'll go to Rarity's, then we will go to Flaming Star, I'm sure he will be able to contact Discord. I am SURE they will both be more than happy to go with you to the Crystal Empire."

Pinkie leapt into the air, tossing confetti from nowhere as she exclaimed, "Absaballyloutly wonderful! Let's go!"

Pinkie began to bounce downstairs and out the door, and Twilight followed her. They went directly to Rarity's house and Pinkie pounded on the door.

"Open up Rarity!" exclaimed Pinkie gleefully, "We have some teamwork to do!"

Rarity opened up the door and blinked at Pinkie Pie. "Er, beg pardon?" Then she noticed Twilight. "Twilight! You're early! That's wonderful! We can start looking at some color schemes now! I have this particularly dashing beige color that I want you to have a look like. But no… beige doesn't go very well with purple, does it? Oh! Maybe we could use orange!"

Twilight resisted blanching and took a step back. She then said, "Oh, no, I'm fine right now, Rarity. It's Pinkie Pie who wants to talk to you right now."

Rarity sighed. "Very well… Pinkie? What is it that you want to say?"

Pinkie bounced up and down as she exclaimed, "It's teamwork time Rarity! Remember when we went to Bray? Well, Celestia wants me to go and cheer some pony up, so I figured, 'hey, they went with me last time when I traveled; they should come with me again!'"

Rarity sighed. "Oh Pinkie, I really do apologize, but I just cannot leave. I have all this work I need to complete! I can't just go off to attempt to cheer up some pony I don't even know! That's more of your category, really. And there would be Discord!"

Pinkie nodded. "Uh huh! But still! Discord can create stuff out of thin air, and you can make really pretty dresses! I am SURE that crystal ponies LOVE pretty dresses! And sequins!"

Rarity cocked her head to one side as she asked, "Crystal ponies? What?"

"Yep!" exclaimed Pinkie, "I need to go to the Crystal Empire! A crystal pony needs cheering up! Like I said!"

Rarity blinked. Then she exclaimed, "The Crystal Empire?! Well why didn't you say so darling?! How posh! I'll pack my bags right away. Oh no… I have an appointment with Twilight and Flaming Star though…"

Twilight smiled at Rarity. "We'll still be here when you get back, Rarity," she said kindly, "And we haven't even decided on a wedding date anyway!"

Rarity smiled dreamily. "Oh thank you Twilight! The Crystal Empire… it has been AGES since I last went there. All those rubies and diamonds and quartz…"

Pinkie bounced up and down excitedly. "Great!" she exclaimed, "Now all we need is Discord!"

Rarity blanched, but then recovered. She sighed dramatically, "Oh yes… well… I suppose."

Twilight turned around and beckoned to Pinkie. "Let's go find Flaming Star," she said, "He should be able to contact Discord."

The two cantered off as Rarity quickly reentered her house saying, "Sweetie Bell? We're going to call our parents! I need them to look out for you while I'm going to the Crystal Empire for a spell!"

Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie and Twilight reached Twilight's Library, where Spike and Flaming Star sat on the porch, playing Scrabble.

Spike had Flaming Star's traveler database open, and was searching for a word to match the letters he had.

"Are you SURE it can't be a proper noun?" grumbled Spike, "I found Quietsem! It's a type of plant in the Star Trek dimension! That would score me, like, a billion points!"

"Nope. Sorry," chuckled Flaming Star, "Thanks for letting me know what all your letters are, though!"

Twilight trotted up to them and kissed Flaming Star on the cheek. "Hello every pony!" she exclaimed cheerfully.

Flaming Star smiled up at her and then looked back at the board. "Don't make me start timing you, Spike," said Flaming Star.

Spike just waved a claw off in a randomly picked direction. "Yeah, yeah. It has already been about 45 minutes since your last turn anyway. I'm sure you can wait 45 minutes more."

Flaming Star rolled his eyes dramatically and turned to look at Twilight. "Can I help you, Twilight?" he asked.

Twilight nodded in the affirmative. "Pinkie has something to ask of you," she replied.

"Yeppers!" exclaimed Pinkie, "I need you to get Discord for me!"

Flaming Star blinked. "You WANT me to get Discord for you?"

Pinkie nodded. "Yeah! I need to go on a vveerrrryyyy important mission for Celestia in the Crystal Empire! However, last time I did anything important, it was with my ever-so-awesome team backing me up! Thus, I decided it was only fair that I get the team back together!"

Flaming Star returned the nod slowly. "Okay… I can see what you're getting at," he replied. He then turned his head to look at Spike, who was still looking at the traveler's database frantically. "Sorry, Spike, but you're going to have to grab a dictionary, I have to go now. Oh, by the way, did I ever tell you that you're technically cheating?"

Spike rolled his eyes. "About a million times. But it's only fair! I'm a baby dragon! You're an eight-thousand-something-year-old!"

Flaming Star chuckled again. "Yes, I suppose you're right. Well, I'm off. Twilight, make sure he doesn't try to switch out my word for his. In fact, why don't you take me place? I'm sure you can score higher than I ever could."

"I doubt that," giggled Twilight as she took Flaming Star's place at the Scrabble board. Flaming Star smiled, patted Twilight's hoof, and then turned around. He then quickly opened a portal to Canterlot castle and trotted through.

The moment he entered, he was surrounded by guards. However, they recognized him immediately and stood down. At this moment, Celestia herself entered.

"Greetings Celestia!" said Flaming Star cheerfully, "I see that our portal-defense security measures are working just fine! Do you, perchance, know where Discord is?"

Celestia sighed. "I can't say that I have seen him recently."

Flaming Star cocked his head to one side and said, "Celestia? Is something troubling you? You seem a little bit flustered."

Celestia shook her head as she replied, "Oh no, I'm fine. I just have a lot to think about at the moment."

Flaming Star nodded his head, but didn't immediately drop the conversation. "Okay. Where's Luna?"

Celestia shook her head again. "I am unsure," she said, "She left earlier this morning, saying that she was going to meet somepony."

Flaming Star thought about that statement for a moment. Unusual. Then he smiled. "Very well. Is there anything I can do for you? I still think you look a little weighed-down."

Celestia sighed. "I am fine, Flaming Star, as I said. You should check Canterlot's royal gardens, that is usually where Discord is to be found."

The regal alicorn then turned around and trotted out the same way she entered. Flaming Star blinked after her in bemusement for a moment, and then went off to the gardens. When he entered, it seemed deserted, but Flaming Star called out, "Discord! I know you're here! Come out please!"

Discord suddenly flashed into existence, dressed in a sniper-grade camouflage vest. "Oh! There you are Flaming Star," he drawled, "I suppose you're here to help me fortify my little hidey-hole?"

The yellow alicorn shook his head. "Um… no. What do you mean?"

Discord threw up his hand in the air in mock horror. "The tragedy! I understand that we are not to trust the traveler's database anymore, but a pony would think that you would at lease check the updates once and a while!"

Flaming Star narrowed his eyes at Discord. "What do you mean?"

Discord opened his own traveler's database and projected it in front of his face. "Take a look at the updates, my friend."

Flaming Star did so, and he just stared dumbly at the interdimensional announcement. He, Sunset, and the Brothers in Arms corps were being branded as six-star wanted criminals. The reward for their capture (or, preferably, death) was four vials of Revetahw.

"I would turn myself in for four vials of that elixir," commented Discord dryly as Flaming Star read over the update's contents over and over again.

"Brilliant," breathed Flaming Star. The Paradox had effectively boxed them in the My Little Pony dimension.

"Brilliant indeed," snorted Discord, "I suppose we're going to have to get ready for invading marauders soon."

"I suppose," Flaming Star replied as he closed his database, "Nevertheless, that is not why I am here. Pinkie Pie wants you."

Discord fell out of the air in surprise. He quickly scrambled up, dusted himself off, and pulled a face. "What do you mean she WANTS me? I am not going into a Pinkiecord thing, there are other timelines for that."

Flaming Star rolled his eyes. "Heck no, Discord. She wants you because she wants to reassemble the Bray team. Remember? You, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity?"

Discord grinned as he recalled those specific events of the past. "Ah, yes, an enjoyable vacation if there ever was one."

Flaming Star chuckled, "I am sure Rarity would disagree to that statement vehemently. Anyway, Pinkie Pie was tasked by Celestia to 'cheer up' a pony in the Crystal Empire. Pinkie said she would do it, if you and Rarity choose to tag along. I believe Rarity has already agreed, but there is still you."

Discord stroked his chin slowly for a full minute. Then he flashed out of existence and then flashed back in again, now dressed in a suit and tie. He waved his golden swagger stick in the air as he declared, "I suppose my hidey-hole of epic proportions can wait a spell. Let us go and bother Rarity! Er… I mean… Let us go and cheer up a pony!"

Flaming Star rolled his eyes once more before opening the portal back to Twilight's Library in Ponyville. The two moved quickly through it. Twilight, who was still waiting for Spike to finish his turn, looked up at the sound of the portal opening and closing and trotted up to meet Flaming Star and Discord.

"That's right! You two are ENGAGED!" exclaimed Discord gleefully, "Oh my, all the little ponies are growing up. How quaint."

"I believe the term is 'cute,' Discord," replied Flaming Star good-humoredly.

Twilight, however, blushed, and this enticed Discord to continue. "Ah yes, I did mean cute. You two are the perfect match! However, you two are going to have to try really hard to look cuter than Fluttershy and Sunset. My, my, now those two have it going."

"Why does everyone think they're cuter than us?" snorted Flaming Star. Then he straightened up and said, "Look, Discord, this isn't the issue, and last time I checked, I was marrying one of the most wonderful ponies in Equestria, not you, so get over it."

Discord sighed dramatically, "Very well. Your wish is my command, firstborn. Right, where is Rarity, and team leader Pinkie Pie?"

Pinkie Pie and Rarity appeared just around a corner at that moment. Discord quickly teleported over there and bowed to them both. "Discord, at your service madams!"

Pinkie gave him a huge smile, but Rarity just looked away, muttering, "A visit to the Crystal Empire better balance this out…"

Discord ignored her jab and conjured up a safari outfit. He then popped out a map from a vest pocket and unfolded it.

"It appears that we will be traveling north… interesting," chortled Discord as he pretended to scrutinize the map while holding it upside-down.

"I packed my things," interjected Rarity, "I suggest we leave as soon as possible, before Discord gets too excited about being annoying. Spike! Would you be a dear and help me carry my luggage? Pretty please?"

Spike nodded vigorously and leapt up. "Flaming Star! Take my place!"

Flaming Star sat down and looked over Spikes Scrabble letters for a moment and then said, "Oh! Mesquits! That's 392 points for me, Twily."

Spike nearly tripped over himself. He was about to turn around to complain when Rarity grabbed him.

"Let us hurry darling! We don't have much time to lose! We have train tickets to the Crystal Empire set for this afternoon!"

As Pinkie Pie, Discord, Rarity, and Spike left for the train station, Twilight stared blankly at the Scrabble board and her letters. After a moment, she said, "Can I resign?"

Flaming Star winked at her. "Sure you can, sweetie."


Dimension: Looking For Group

Planet: Earth

Specific Location: The forest of Nestorep

Time: A year after Cale'Anon meets Richard

Wild beckoned Daniel and Franklin over to stand by him. "I was lucky when I stumbled upon your hideout," he said as they moved to stand next to him, "But that doesn't mean other travelers cannot find you. In fact, no matter where we go, there is a fair chance that we could be noticed and attacked. We're going to have to be careful."

Daniel nodded his head sagely, "I agree. So, where are we going?"

Wild cut his voracious grin for a moment to grimace. "We have to go to the Star Wars dimension. 21 years before the battle of Yavin."

Franklin nodded, "Cool, so we get to shoot stuff more often then. Why the hell is Funsch there?"

"Funsch is actually right now hunting down another traveler, who he suspects has been helping the Paradox formalize the false information in our databases."

"Coolio," replied Franklin briskly, "Let's get the hell there already so we can get this over with."

Wild nodded and then began to search for the dimension in his mind so that he could open up a portal.

As this was happening, Daniel glanced over at Franklin with worry in his eyes. "Franklin," he said quietly, "What are you going to do when this is all over?"

"Assuming we're not both dead?" snorted Franklin, "Well, I don't know. I fully expect to be killed while doing this, so I'm not really worried."

"What do you mean?" asked Daniel gently.

Franklin sighed derisively, "My family is dead. My sister is dead. Night Shade left. I really don't have much going for me other than fighting and dying now. But… I suppose… I suppose if I do survive, I will spend out the rest of my days as a bartender for the Snuggly Duckling Inn in the Tangled dimension."

The moment after this statement left Franklin's lips and drifted into the air, a portal crackled opened and Wild turned around, grinning.

"We have a portal, let's move," he said. The three quickly moved through it, and the portal closed behind them with a small "pop." They found themselves in a dense jungle. Giant temples of stone framed the sky in the distance to the west. A deathly silence echoed throughout the whole landscape.

"We have to be careful," said Wild warily, "There could be sensors anywhere on this planet."

"Where are we?" breathed Daniel, staring suspiciously around.

"This is Tython. This is the homeworld of the Jedi. Be careful, it is not a safe haven. The creatures that inhabit this planet now are slaves to the Sith, the mortal enemies of the Jedi," said Wild.

"Yeah, yeah, we know. I didn't spend my whole life in the Star Trek dimension, you know," snapped Franklin, "I don't think there's anything wrong with this place…"

Suddenly a hail of bolts of explosive energy tore through the area that Daniel, Wild, and Franklin were standing on. Quickly Daniel recovered and threw up an energy shield. Another hail of bolts struck the shield and the shield shattered into shards of pure energy.

"Run for cover!" roared Wild as yet another hail of energy bolts decimated the land.

Suddenly heavily armored humans leapt from the surrounding trees, hurling beams of power from their fists.

Wild swiftly responded by blasting several of the attackers with bolts of shadow. Then he leapt upon the nearest enemy, tearing into the man with his teeth. Daniel took a deep breath and released a massive onslaught of fire. The blast of pure heat vaporized the entire clearing, and blew away a group of the armored humans. Franklin quickly pulled out his sniper rifle, and began to no-scope the enemies nearest to him.

"I just HAD to open my big mouth!" yelled Franklin in frustration as one of the armored men grabbed his sniper rifle. Franklin flipped the weapon around and began to strangle the unfortunate person. Franklin then hoisted him in the air and dove backwards, rapidly firing his rifle sideways simultaneously, as he used the strangled man as a meat shield.

A dark mist of pure shadow energy was trailing from Wild as he zoomed around, tearing out the throats of his enemies while using his control of shadow energy to keep those behind him at bay. Meanwhile Daniel was still swathing the battlefield in fire as he slammed his great claws into the ground, sending up massive blasts of seismic power, knocking back those who dared to get too close to him.

Despite the ferocity of the battle, it soon petered out, and Daniel, Wild, and Franklin stood around, breathing heavily.

"Were these travelers?" said Daniel, still breathing hard.

"No, they didn't taste like one," said Wild. Both Daniel and Franklin glanced at him and started to sidle away. "I'm not joking!" snapped Wild, "However, they are armed with traveler-grade weaponry. I think a mercenary is equipping them with the weapons, hoping that they can weaken us."

"Well, where would this 'mysterious' mercenary be, then?" snorted Franklin, "Heaven forbid he ran away when he saw you having lunch."

Suddenly a massive blast of kinetic energy sent the group spiraling away into a grove of trees that hadn't been burned down. Wild swiftly scrambled to his feet and cast up a massive wall of pure shadow every. The wall then shattered from a second impact into a enormous amount of black mist that swirled around Wild, Daniel, and Franklin, obscuring their attacker from their view.


Note: The suspense! Anyway, I am going to have to call this the end of the week. Sorry, but I have lots of other stuff that needs doing, and I need to restock my doc manager as well as prepare for a new story (that may or may not involve dimensional travelers directly). See you guys next week! And don't forget to REVIEW!