TheFinite
Shiny Bug
(Proly best you guys play this out for now, not really going to have anything to post until there’s a jump in time.)
Jaspis: “We’ll secure the tree from further threats, your highness”
Twilight nods to her and lights her horn up, a glowing outline of a circle appearing on the floor before forming a dome around them.“a bit slower than blinking, but so much safer too. next stop, my castle in ponyville.”
Jaspis: “I want stronger wards placed across this area as soon as possible and then for a standard patrol until the next morning. Onyx Star, set one by the entrance there. Scarlet Fire, set one by the walls. Swift Bolt, set one over by that bush over there”
Onyx Star, Scarlet Fire & Swift Bolt: “Yes ma’am!”
Jaspis: “You seem worried, Crimson. What’s the matter?”
Crimson: “Sorry ma’am, this whole multiverse debacle is giving me the shivers”
Jaspis: “I know how you feel. When it first started, I thought it’d just be lost travelers from other worlds who would need help to find solitude here, much like how you were remember?”
Crimson: “Heh, I do. I was just a soldier of another dimension before coming here. Now I feel like I have a purpose, compared to my original home…but then there was that Delta Squad group. Can you believe it? A group of commandos all identical to one another yet with different styles to their approach. They could’ve come join us in our division, be the best escorts for Princess Twilight ever. Instead they opted to be defenders of that Ponyville town”
Jaspis: “Are you envious of them?”
Crimson: “…permission to say something freely?”
Jaspis: “Granted”
Crimson: “Why wouldn’t I be? They get to be badasses saving the day…yet here I am with the glorified cleanup crew”
Jaspis: “I feel like that sometimes”
Crimson: “You…you do, ma’am?”
Jaspis: “Sometimes, I wonder if I could be doing more to help this world, to help the newcomers and ponies of Equestria…sometimes I have thoughts…dark thoughts; wanting to take drastic chances to help make a more shining future, one where we can feel true peace in our time”
Crimson: “…true peace?”
Crimson: “Jaspis, what are you doing!? Let me go!”
Jaspis: “Did you not wonder why I called you over until now? I was sparing your life”
Crimson: “…what?”
Jaspis: “You were meant to have been silenced after your tasks had been complete…but I didn’t want you to die along with them”
Crimson: “Wha…why?”
Jaspis: “…cause, minus the solider part, you remind me of myself…”
Crimson: “…what?”
Jaspis: “I want you to be part of the side that wants to bring peace to Equestria, Crimson. You said yourself you wanted to do something more. I had those same feelings, something the Princess and that inept Whistler never understood about me”
Crimson: “But…I don’t understand. You’re the finest magician in Equestria, you had your own guard to lead as part of Princess Twilight’s escort. Surely, that’s everything you wanted, right?”
Jaspis: “Wanted? WANTED!? Did you not hear my previous thoughts, Crimson?! I wanted to be part of something grander, something that could help Equestria achieve the peace that we truly wanted! But the Princess and Whistler wouldn’t allow that, they would say that peace and harmony is already here…but they’re a bunch of fools. Do they really consider otherworldly entities invading OUR WORLD AND RUINING OUR LIVES THE ‘PEACE’ THAT WE WANTED!?”
Crimson: “Jaspis…please. It’s not their fault. They can’t control the multiverse, they can’t control what comes into Equestria. All they can do is help those that have ended up here and defend this world with the help of those who are willing to protect all that is living right now”
Jaspis: “Is that what those inept fools, Whistler and Twilight, told you…like they told me? They don’t understand me like he does”
Crimson: “Who?”
Jaspis: “The great messiah…the one who understood my desire for something grander and one who was willing to give me that chance!”
Crimson: “What messiah!? Who are you talking about?”
Jaspis: “That’s for you to find out…when you meet-”
Crimson: “I’ve got to use this, I need to inform them of the betrayal!”
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