Chapter 18: This one's self aware

"ok. Let's try that again."

Pinkie pie and shadow were in a meadow. Shadow was teaching pinkie how to use an chaos emerald's energy. This was just one step in the process, however. She wanted to learn all of shadow's abilities. But first, she needed practice with an emerald. Pinkie held the green emerald close to her chest.

"Put all your focus into the emerald." Shadow was standing adjacent from pinkie. She didn't need to close her eyes, she got that step down. Now she had to do it with her eyes open. She pushed herself upwards,Standing on her back hooves, and aimed at the Target with one hoof. Her hoof started to glow yellow. "Chaos... Blast!" She lunged her hoof forward, sending a yellow arrow to strike the target. A perfect bullseye. She remained standing until she slightly tripped back, but luckily was caught by shadow. "Good shot! at this rate, I think you'll be using chaos powers all by yourself very soon." He helped her up and pinkie landed on all fours. "Mabye, but I'll still have you to help me always." She bounced towards the target. Shadow picked up the emerald. "Yep." He replied. Pinkie bounced back to his side. "You want to do the honors?" He motioned his hand to her hoof. "Gladly." She replied, taking his hand. "Chaos control!"

The two were suddenly teleported into Pinkie's room. " Another day, another training session." Shadow walked out to the balcony while pinkie flopped onto her bed. The two were silent for a bit. "I'm hungry." Pinkie spoke. Shadow smirked at this. "You're always hungry." He turned back to her.

"You wanna see something cool?" Pinkie sat up as he walked over to her. "Yeah." "Well," shadow sat beside her, " sometimes I got hungry on the job, but with no time stop, I couldn't really indulge." Pinkie nodded. "So, I figured out a trick to use." "What?" Pinkie questioned. Shadow raised his left hand, and held out his right. "Chaos..Swiss roll." A Swiss roll appeared in his hand, making pinkie burst out with laughter. "I know, it's stupid right?" Shadow laughed. "Oh, thats good.." pinkie giggled. "You know, I can kinda that too." Shadow raised a brow. " no really, look at this doughnut!" "I don't see any dough-" pinkie pulled a doughnut out of nowhere. "Whoa! Where'd you get that?" Shadow expressed surprise. "Nowhere. It just appeared." She smiled. Shadow smiled back and the two exchanged snacks. Both talked as they ate.

"I have many other things I do that no one can explain." Pinkie pie said in-between bites. "Like what?" Shadow asked with his mouth full. Pinkie swallowed the last piece of the Swiss roll and continued. "Well I have the ability to, quote on quote, break the fourth wall." Shadow swallowed. "What's that?" Pinkie stood up. "Well, it's like a barrier between a universe and it's observer/ Observers." "An observer? What do mean by that?" Shadow stood alongside her.

"well look," (she is now pointing at you, and looking at you.) "They are right there." Shadow was confused. "Uh pinkie, that's just the wall." No, no, don't look at the wall directly, look through it." Shadow squinted his eyes. (He can now see you.) His eyes widened. "They're... Looking at us. And... We're looking at them."

(only dialogue now shown to you. Because of this word breaking moment or whatever. Use your imagination.)

P: "Well, technically, they're reading us, and we're looking at them, but that's not the point! It's still cool right?"

S:"Yeah. So if we wave at them, they can see us?"

P: "They're watching and listening to us right now! Hi everybody!"

*waves*

S:"what the.. where did those asterisks come from?!"

P:"it's shows them what we're doing!"

S:"oh. so, if I do this,"

*kisses pinkie on the cheek*

S:"they'll notice?"

*pinkie blushes*

P:"yep. They follow us wherever we go."

S:"really?"

Pinkie pie and shadow made their way down the stairs, into the bakery, and outside.

S:"holy cow! You're right!"

S:"hmm...So this is how you do all those impossible stunts."

P:"yeah. I just hang on the edges. oh! And I can also interact with other universes."

S:"what does that mean?"

*grabs shadow's hand*

P:"You'll see."

Meanwhile in another cartoon...

A blue tank engine was puffing along his Branch line. "What a perfect day..."

Shadow and pinkie appeared in the upper corner. Pinkie pie plew a party favor and threw confetti at the engine. "Watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic today! Join the herd!" And just like that, they were gone. The engine had now stopped completely, with a confused look on his face. "What the?..."

Back in this dimension now!~

S:"what..."

P:"Don't think about it too hard. That was the dimension,known to Observers, as Thomas and Friends. "

S:"..."

P:"one of the many, many dimensions I frequent. Most of time though, it's completely random where you end up."

S:"..."

P:"shadow?"

S:"... *Smiles wide* Let's do that again."

P:"that's what I like to hear!"

Well, looked like they have found out. Oh well, I'll-

P:"bye everyone!"

S:"And remember, I am the coolest!"

Uh, Write you later! Gotta go before they break this site!

S:"Oh, and by the way, LoveandEdify, good work on your fanfiction!"