Five Nights of Redemption

Hey guys, so the last few chapters have been quite emotional right... well for me they have been, so how about in this chapter we chill a bit and have a Pinkie Pie party, this gives us chance to relax before the true final climax and a chance to have more character interactions, so let's have at it

Chapter 24: brother: reunited

The Dreemurr family where spending as much time in a hug as possible, it has been 12 years since they've been together as one big happy family, and now they are even bigger, the monsters are now closer friends, the anthros have a bond with Toriel that also moved onto Asgore, Asriel and now Torigore, the ponies having that high value of friendship made friends with them all as well and Moonlight, Sunset and Starlight have learnt a lot about friendship and making friends with creatures from different universes.

They all slowly moved in on the family and one by one, finding a place to join the hug, started to add to the group hug, it was a precious moment so much so that even the stray monsters started to hug them, monsters like Doggo, Bratty and Catty, Temmie and somehow Derpy, everyone/everypony wondered how she had got here and so Celestia asked.

Celestia: "oh... Derpy my dear, how did you get here?"

Derpy: "you love opened portal, love is power that break reality and let through"

Celestia: "I'm sorry I didn't quite catch that"

Rainbow Dash: "she says that our love for each other has broken a piece of reality and it let her through"

Celestia: "is that bad?"

Marionette: "not at all, the portals should only appear if we all hug and only for a bit, don't you worry my princess we are safe from any universal destruction"

Derpy: "so is anything I miss"

Pinkie Pie: "well actually since we just got back Asriel we were about to have a party to celebrate, want to join?"

Derpy: "who Asriel?"

Asriel: "I'm Asriel, Howdy"

Derpy: "oh, me Ditzy, but Derpy ok"

Asriel: "nice to meet you"

Pinkie Pie: "so... party?"

Everyone/everypony: "yeah, it's party time"

Pinkie Pie: "yes!"

So everyone/everypony went back to Toriel's house to have the party, along with the cinnamon pie Asgore has taken, the ponies set up a table full of food, Chica, Toy Chica and Sarah made pizza and burgers, Twilight made sure there was plenty of daffodil sandwiches and lavender Dogs, Sans bought hot Dogs and hot Cats, of course Vinyl and Octavia brought the music along with Oscar and Bonnie, and Pinkie had her party cannons, Mike and Chip had brought the TV and movies starting with Zootopia and the Fantastic 4 reboot.

The party was going well, Torigore and Asriel were astonished by the efforts that the ponies and anthros had gone to just to have a good time and relax with all the different things to do/watch/eat, it was like they were restarting Asriel's life the best way possible, almost like it was a birthday party, a rebirthday party, they looked at each other, smiled and went straight in for the hot Cats, at one point Sans couldn't take it anymore, he has been good, for the most part not to crack any puns, but now it was time to let them lose.

He went up to Vinyl's turn table and started to do some one liners and the only one that laughed without cringing was Derpy, she was pure of heart and didn't know any better, she was also very naive but that's why everypony loved her... well as long as she isn't in the clouds spending the day with Rainbow Dash, though after that day she's the only pony that can fully understand Derpy's way of talking.

After a while of Sans' bad puns, Papyrus had got tired of him and tried to get him off the turn table so Octavia could have her moment in the light and play on her prised cello, but Sans was on a roll and tried to say more one liners so the two fought as they do at times, Foxy then kicked them both aside and he remembered doing something like this before, he swore in another life he was the DJ himself and played a song called Turn Down For What, he found it in one of the draws, gave Vinyl a smirk and put the CD in the tray, while it was playing Octavia tried to play a more orchestral version of it, turns out it wasn't too bad, but then Freddy got out the phone that Toriel had lying around and played the MLG version of it and the whole thing was ruined.

While that was going on Moonlight and Derpy where talking to each other, they had never met and wanted to know about each other.

Moonlight: "so where do you come from?"

Derpy: "I from Clouds Dale, but I live Pony Ville with my friends, where from?"

Moonlight: "umm... I'm from Canterlot, I always tried my best to be better then Twilight but after all the training I did I could never beat the amount of magic she had, even Sunburst past me"

Derpy: "wow, I hears he now wizard, so why you Alicorn?"

Moonlight: "I er... well I may have taken the magic of other ponies to attain a power high enough to confront Twilight, Celestia and Luna, but it didn't work, now though I'm Twilight's student and she's teaching me about forgiveness"

Derpy: "cool, why go so evil?"

Moonlight: "well, I noticed that celestial balance was off and the weather was all over the place so I tried to put it right again"

Derpy: "oh, woopies"

Moonlight: "what, what's up?"

Derpy: "that my fault, I more than mail mare, I weather patrol too"

Moonlight: "well that explains the weather, now all the pieces are in place I now know I can fix celestial balance... with the help of Twilight of course"

Derpy: "I sorry, you no mad are you?"

Moonlight: "no, I'm not mad, I can see you have some issues flying, besides how can I be mad at such a cute mare like you?"

Derpy: "oh... er, thanks"

Moonlight: "come on, I want to know more about Asriel and Torigore"

So after Moonlight hit on Derpy they went to the living room, they wanted to know exactly what things were like between Asriel and Torigore, Moonlight was the most curious as he had a sister, Sunshine Grace, she was a pure Unicorn with the elegance and grace of Celestia but also the attitude of Luna, always doing things her way, she was never scared of anything even when they went to the Everfree forest and faced a Hydra, she did her best to defeat while Moonlight hid in a bush but it was too much for her and she was crushed, the memory of that day still scars him.

Now though with Asriel's return Moonlight let Sunshine rest, he felt that as long as one sibling was back it was enough to give him peace and another reason to forgive himself.

Moonlight: "so Torigore, how does it feel to have your brother back?"

Torigore: "oh it's great, I never would have thought I could get him back, I never thought I'd have the Determination to come back, but now I am back I'm not sure if we even should break the barrier"

Asriel: "well of course we should but let's enjoy the party first then worry about after we've gotten some rest"

Derpy: "Asriel, you so cute, how you no control Flowey?"

Asriel: "sorry, what?"

Rainbow Dash: "I'll take this one, she says you are cute and pure, how come you couldn't control yourself as Flowey, why did you kill everyone, right?"

Derpy: "right"

Asriel: "have you ever been soulless, have you ever felt as if you could never feel love anymore, could you deal with that?"

Derpy: "no... I's felt lost before, one day I go Everfree with mummy, she give bubbles, I play and then mummy gone, I get cutie mark, they's bubbles, they say I insecure, I feel lost, left behind, all I want is mummy, she no come, I cry for her and I walk to Pony Ville, bump into Mayor Mare, she say I can stay, she give job as Mail mare, I do good and feel love, I find friend, nothing bad no more"

Asriel: "well you got lucky, I died"

Moonlight: "well I think I've learnt something, live is hard in everyone's/everypony's shoes/horse shoes, the best we can do is live for the now and when the time comes go with dignity"

Rainbow Dash: "wait but you and Twilight are immortal now, the only why for you to die is to get hurt badly, if not you will last forever"

Moonlight: "oh don't worry Dashie, I don't intend on staying for that long, only for as long as I feel comfortable with what I do in life"

Asriel: "well I'm glad that I have a new life, in fact I want to thank Torigore in a special way, does Vinyl mind if I use her turn table"

Rainbow Dash: "no, go right ahead"

Asriel then went to Vinyl's turn table and asked her to play a specific song, it was a song that sounded like it was thanking someone for letting them see through the dark and letting in the light again.

(Now play The Ever by RED)

Asriel: "I didn't know the things that I could do,

I didn't know how much I could lose,

Why did I forget so easily?

Why couldn't I see I had everything?

But you saw more, you saw my deepest part,

With the light of a thousand stars,

You saw them awake in me,

And through your eyes you showed me everything,

You woke me up inside, brought back to life,

I lost myself, but now I breathe again,

Like a poet without pain,

Like a beauty without rage,

Like an innocence without a life to save,

Like a hope without a slave,

Like your eyes without a face,

Like an instinct with no other life to save,

It's beauty and rage,

It's beauty and rage,

It's beauty and rage,

But you saw more, you saw my deepest part,

With the light of a thousand stars,

You saw them awake in me,

And through your eyes you showed me everything,

You woke me up inside, brought back to life,

I lost myself, but now I breathe again"

After the song Torigore felt a bit humbled to have his bro sing such a beautiful song to him thanking him for letting him see the light through the darkness, after which the party ramped up, Octavia did her best to defy expectation and upped her tempo on her cello, with Foxy and Vinyl being the DJs the party had become a rave and for some a masquerade, and one thing no one/no pony would ever expect in a million years, Fluttershy watching the part in Purge Anarchy where the characters get kidnapped and are featured in this year's purge party, and she didn't even cower under the sofa.

Twilight had found a Grand piano and started to play some old pony songs on there, one that was something she came up with after seeing Luna when she had come back from her time on the moon and while she was adjusting to life back in Canterlot, then Rainbow Dash jumped in and played a piano version of 20% Cooler.

Pinkie was getting hungry, despite eating almost all the food after having multiple eating competitions with Chica, Toy Chica, Toy Freddy, Mangle, Foxy, Sans, Papyrus, Asgore, Undyne, Vinyl, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pete, Sarah, Lenny, Oscar, Tina, Pip, Finn and even Mettaton, she still wanted more, she wanted something a bit more specific, she wanted some cake, a gorgeous Victoria sponge cake, made with 3 layers, 3 different icing colours and lots of sprinkles.

The idea sounded so nice that when she asked Toriel if she would help she just couldn't resist and the two of them got to work, first they started on the dough, they got out a bunch of flour and mixed it with eggs and water in a bowl, Pinkie was a good mixer but it seemed Toriel wanted to prove she was better, she mixed faster yet kept from spilling any flour on the wooden floor, Pinkie was having trouble mixing any faster since she didn't have any fingers and she wasn't about to cheat by using her 4th wall powers like one of the other pond Pinkies did way back when...

They poured the mix into 3 different sized moulds each, it would take a few minutes to bake the cake so while they waited Toriel wanted to sing a little prank on Asgore, something about falling in love with someone but knowing it wouldn't last so they'd eventually have to go their separate ways.

(Here's something different for you, now play Wildest Dreams... or is it Dreems lol, by Taylor Swift)

Toriel: "he said let's get out of this town,

Drive out the city, away from the crowds,

I though heaven can't help me now,

Nothing lasts forever, but this is going to take me down,

He's so tall and handsome as hell,

He's so bad but he does it so well,

I can see the end as it begins, my one condition is,

Say you'll remember me, standing in a nice dress,

Starring at the sunset babe, red lips and rosy cheeks,

Say you'll see me again even if it's just in your,

Wildest dreams, oh ah,

Wildest dreams, oh ah,

I said no one has to know what we do,

His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room,

And his voice is a familiar sound, nothing lasts forever,

But this is getting good now,

He's so tall and handsome as hell,

He's so bad but he does it so well,

And when we've had our very last kiss,

My last request is,

Say you'll remember me, standing in a nice dress,

Starring at the sunset babe, red lips and rosy cheeks,

Say you'll see my again even if it's just in your,

Wildest dreams, oh ah,

Wildest dreams, oh ah"

After the song Asgore thought that Toriel was serious and his face said it all, Toriel put her hand to her mouth, she didn't want to hurt him she was just living up the party so she stepped off the turn table and hugged him, Mangle also loved the song, she thought of it as her song, she has so many lovers that she would perhaps use the chorus of the song as her love ballet to them when they die their final death, at that point Pinkie may have gone Pinkamina but then the oven pinged, the cake was ready for icing.

Toriel would have jumped at the chance to beat Pinkie at her own game but she did just hurt Asgore's feelings so she stayed with him to assure him she was still with him, Pinkie decided to finish both cakes instead, she lavished the layers of cake with white, pink and blue icing respective from top to bottom then came the sprinkles, Pinkie made it rain with sprinkles making sure every part of the cakes was covered, now that the cakes were done Twilight used her magic to pick them up and place them on the table.

Before everyone/everypony went for the cakes they all played and rivalled each other, Sans and Bonnie where throwing each other around to see who had the better telekinesis, Mike and Chip were using their light and dark auras like light sabres after watching EP. 7... again, Moonlight was having a beam struggle Dragon Ball Z style with Twilight, Foxy was having a rocking battle of the bands, with Vinyl, Vinyl had an electric guitar hidden in her turn table while Foxy was borrowing Bonnie's, but what was worse is that Oscar joined in and whipped the floor with them creating amazing rifts.

Stuart knew Rainbow was the fastest flyer out of all of them but could she go faster in the air over Stuart on the ground, first they tried running from one side of the house to the other but it wasn't long enough, then they tried the Ruins, still not long enough, they tried Snowdin, Waterfall, Hotlands, the True Lab, Judgement hall and Asgore's Castle nothing was long enough to see how fast they were, all they could see is that they were equal, so to chill out they came back to the house and ate the cakes, they were delicious.

While everyone/everypony ate the cakes Bonnie wanted his turn to sing a song, but first he had to explain where this one had come from, it was a song he wrote himself while he was in disrepair and the Toys had only just been put into service.

Bonnie: "ok guys I'm going to play a song I wrote some years ago, just to warn you it's a bit edgy, I wrote it when we got decommissioned and we had ourselves and the Original Toys, some of it is inspired by Opal"

Opal: "that shows that he loves me"

Ashe: "that's fine, I'd rather be a pirate"

(Now play Faceless by RED, fitting for Bonnie right?)

Bonnie: "a voice screaming from within,

Begging just to fell again,

Can't find out who I am without you near me,

I'd give anything to live, without you I don't exist,

You're the only one who saves me from myself,

I abandoned this love and laid it to rest,

And now I'm one of the forgotten,

I'm not, I'm not myself,

Feel like I'm someone else,

Fallen and faceless, so hollow, hollow inside,

A part of me is dead, need you to live again,

Can you replace this?

I'm hollow, hollow and faceless,

Shadows growing in my mind,

Ones I just can't leave behind,

I'm not strong enough to pay this ransom,

One more monster crawled inside,

But I swear I saw it die,

Can you save me from the nothing I've become?

I abandoned this love and laid it to rest,

And now I'm one of the forgotten,

I'm not, I'm not myself,

Feel like I'm someone else,

Fallen and faceless, so hollow, hollow inside,

A part of me is dead, need you to live again,

Can you replace this?

I'm hollow, hollow and faceless,

I'm faceless, I'm hollow and faceless"

After the song the Anthros were a bit shocked, to know that Bonnie felt like that during that time they could have done something to help, but then again they were in comparable shape, what could they have done, well as they say the past is in the past and that's where it should stay, after that the party was coming to a close, they could all feel the night closing in and the strain of fighting and emotions finally effect their bodies and the tiredness of each muscle coursing them to hurt.

They quickly raped up any food that was left out and packed up any equipment that was used for the party, any mess left behind was thrown away and anything used for making the cakes were washed, now that all the dirty work was done it was time for bed, of course Celestia and Luna got the royal beds but this time in thanks for their help in bringing Asriel back to life they got the royal deluxe Dreemurr king size, Asriel himself got his old bed room back and Torigore had a new room to accommodate his height, everyone/everypony else got the rooms they had last time.

Asriel and Torigore were happy to finally have a night in bed at home after so long, it had been far too long since they had a night of peaceful sleep, but while they slept soundly something was brewing back at the barrier, two sprites thought to be dead came together and were hatching a plan to use the barrier as a source of power as it was in itself just magic casted into a wall, with it they could use it to be god like and for fill their dreams and destroy humanity.

So that was chapter 24, now I know it was shorter then my other chapters but this one was just for relaxing purposes and to try more character interaction, plus what do you think to Derpy's late entry, too late, too stupid, yeah I know I should have put her in already but then I have like 50 other characters I have or should have put in, anyway hope you liked it and that you'll come back for more till next time

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