//------------------------------// // Introduction - Not even that random // Story: My Little Poney // by dyshviccer //------------------------------// It was a stormy night in the Crystal Kingdom. Shining Armor stood on the balcony of his room and looked up in the sky, as his mane waved in the wind. Clouds covered the moon and only a few stars were visible. He thought of Princess Cadence once again. Five days ago she had left to visit Princess Twilight in Canterlot and she has not sent a letter yet. "I hope she is alright", Shining Armor said while he walked back into his room, "I should have gone with her" He closed the door of the balcony and trotted to his bed. Suddenly the door to his room flung open and a guard with blue mane ran in: it was Flash Sentry. "Sir! SIR!", he shouted, exhausted. "What is going on?", Shining Armor asked, confused. "We have received a letter from Princess Cadence." Shining Armor smiled, "Give it to me! Quickly!" Flash pulled out the letter and handed it over to Shining Armor. He was excited, hopefully his wife was okay. He opened the letter with his magic and quickly read through it.The letter was not from Princess Cadence, somepony was trying to fool him. Dear...uhm...Shining Armor, correct? You may not know me, but I know you... No wait, that's too cliché. Just think of a cool introduction yourself, okay? Awesome! Now, let me tell you something: My name is Casus Fors, I am a unicorn from another world, far from Equestria. That world is a cruel place, but let’s not focus on that, let me get to the point. Your princess is not here anymore. She’s not dead or anything; I could not hurt a fly. She is now in my world. But don’t worry! She’s not alone: She is there together with these two princesses. You know, the ones with sun and moon on their butts? Anyway, I guess you know who I am talking about. You want them back? Come see me in Canterlot! I am kind of bad with writing letters. Hugs and love, Casus PS: Oh, your sister is there too. Shining Armor dropped the letter as tears came up in his eyes. “Flash?” “Yes, Sir?” “Get me to Canterlot as fast as you can!” Shining Armor woke up with a headache. Standing up groggily, he found that he was in the throne room of the Canterlot castle. “How did I get here?”, he said to himself Somepony behind him giggled. He turned around and saw a ridiculous looking unicorn. His mane and his beard were green, pink and messed up. His coat was violet and his tail had a weird brownish colour with bright violet lines in it. His cutie-mark was some kind of strange looking dog-face. “So you are the pony who “kidnapped” Cadence?”, Shining Armor raised an eyebrow, “Are you serious?” Casus Fors smiled, “Yes that would be me and I am totally serious. If I were you, I would be a little more careful about what you say though. I mean, I just teleported you here” “That was you?” “Yes, indeed” “How did you do that? Your magic can’t be that powerful” “Oh, so you want to hear my life story?” “No, to be honest…I just want to…” Casus put a leg over Shining Armor’s shoulder. Shining tried to use his magic to get it off but his headache distracted him too much. “I’m going to tell it to you anyway. I started out as…uhm…”, he put his hoof on his chin, “Actually, let’s not tell you my life story.” A green light covered Shining Armor. “What are you doing?”, he asked while he hovered above the ground. Casus Fors laughed. “I’m bringing you to the place where I brought the others. Have fun there” After a few seconds, Shining Armor disappeared. Casus walked towards the throne, smiling and talking to himself, “Seems like we finally did it, old friend. After trying so hard in so many different universes we finally achieved something. We are getting close to rule this land. The most powerful ponies are gone, now I just need to sit back, relax and use my powers.” He sat down on the throne and stretched; he smiled again. “You know what?” he talked to himself again, “Maybe I should have told him a bit more about myself.”, he put on a thoughtful face, “Actually, I have already annoyed Twilight, Luna, Celestia and Cadence with my monologue. Monologues are cliché anyway. Ugh…I don’t like clichés.”, he gasps, “Wait a minute, I'm having a monologue right now! Damnit!” “Who is this pony?”, Shining Armor stood in front of Twilight, Cadence, Luna and Celestia. They were all standing in a big, dark room. “He annoyed me with a monologue so I basically know everything about him”, Cadence said. “Me too”, Twilight nodded her head. “And me too”, Celestia replied. “I was not listening to him.”, Luna said with a smile, “Monologues are not something special, trust me, I know what I am talking about” Shining Armor looked at Cadence, “Well then, who is he?” Cadence cleared her throat, “He told us about something called “The Seventh Element”. Apparently he possesses it.” “What is this element? Does it have something to do with the Elements of Harmony?” “No”, Twilight shook her head, “It is a separate element. I have never read about it. It is called: Randomness” “Dun dun duuuun”, Luna shouted with an overly dramatic face. Twilight, Cadence and Shining looked at her, confused. Celestia smiled, embarrassed. “Sorry”, Luna said, “The situation compelled me to do that. Almost as if something forced my hoof” “Could that be Casus Fors’ element?”, Cadence asked. “No”, Celestia replied, “It is something else. Do not worry about it” “She is right, you do not have to worry about it”, Luna said with a grin, “What we should worry about is the fact that we are apparently trapped in here” It was a sunny day in Ponyville. Fluttershy took care of some chickens who wanted to cross the road, Rarity made fancy saddles for her friends, Rainbow Dash slept on a cloud high up in the sky, Applejack talked to Applebloom about the different types of apples and Pinkie Pie did Pinkie Pie stuff. “Oh, what is that?”, she said excitedly as she spotted a an odd imprint on the ground, resembling a dog's face. She went closer and touched it. Immediately she got teleported to Canterlot Castle’s Throne room. “Hey, that was fun!”, she shouted, then she spotted Casus Fors; she started laughing, “Hehe, you look silly” “You are Pinkie Pie, correct?” “Yes, I am!” “You are known for breaking the fourth wall, is that correct?” “Hmm... I don't know what that means, but maybe these guys do!" she said, pointing at you. Casus stared blankly at the portion of air Pinkie had indicated before chuckling, "Alright, close enough. You also like Randomness, is that correct?" “Yes, I love it! My friends are telling me so often that I’m random so I guess I love it. I do not know, am I random right now? If I am random does that mean I like randomness?” “Uh…Yeah, I guess” “Then I like randomness” Casus smiled, “Good, very good.”, he patted her head, “You and me, we will change this world” “Really? How?” “Let me rephrase that”, a green flash from Casus’ horn hit Pinkie, “I will change this world and you will help me indirectly”