Blacklight Retribution: Stranger on a Stranger World

“How the fuck did you get here the same time we did?!” Ondra asked Stranger and the rest of the element bearers with wide eyes.

“How should I know?” Stranger shrugged, “Maybe their transit system is completely more advanced than ours tenfold?”

Ondra looked at the steam engine, lifted his hoof in protest and, “Fuck it, where to?”

“I know the way to Princess Celestia’s palace, follow me,” Twilight motioned for the entire group to follow.

“So what happened between you and Skittles?” Freddie asked with a toothy grin of anticipation.

“She beat me up,” he replied flatly, making Freddie pause to let in what he just heard sink into his head... And burst into maniacal laughter, “Yeah, yeah, laugh it up and get up, we’re supposed to meet the Princess.”

“I’ll catch up, mate,” he wheezed, which made Ondra roll his eyes, “I think I’m going to die because you’re so bad with women... AHHHHAAAAAHAHHAAHAHH!”

Ondra had enough of his shit, so he decided to lift him with telekinesis, “Let’s go everypony.”

“You even use ‘everypony’ holy shit,” Ondra then developed enough force from his anger to punch a knockout hoof to Freddie’s head, which knocked him out unconscious as expected.

Twilight rolled her eyes, “Is that necessary?”

“You got cold water at the palace?” Ondra asked, Twilight took the hint of what he was asking for.

“I guess that settled, let’s go,” she motioned again for the entire group to move.

***

Royal Palace

***

Luna was fidgeting with her hooves with an uncomfortable face, which made Celestia giggle to herself.

“Sister, you’ll be fine,” she said reassuringly, “He will remember you, he won’t hate you for not visiting him in Ponyville.”

“That’s just it!” she snapped in apprehension, “I couldn’t make enough space in my schedule to visit him! I couldn’t do the easiest thing after he saved my life! After he saved the Crystal Empire! After I-”

She trailed off, Celestia decided to finish for her, “Kissed him?”

Luna hung her head in shame and nodded to the ground, making Celestia sigh.

“I’m sure you will be forgiven, besides you gave him his blade,”

“How,” she hesitated, “How do you know about that?”

“I told you that you should keep that away from him, it’s an extremely lethal weapon,”

“I know, but,” Luna pouted, “Considering what he had gone through, I figured those items were all he had left, all he was able to retrieve from his world, where he used to call home.”

“I do not know how to send things to other DIMENSIONS, unfortunately,” Celestia thought to herself.

The doors were creaking open which caught both the princesses’ attention.

But muffled yelling could be heard.

***

5 Minutes Ago

***

“Yo, is that who I think it is?” Ondra pointed a hoof to an aryan pony, for a lack of a better term.

Rarity advanced a little, “What? Blueblood? That sad excuse for a stallion?”

“You’ve met him?” Ondra asked with a tilted head.

“Why yes, in a very important event actually,” Rarity put up a nostalgic smile, “three months ago.”

“That’s not even long,” Ondra thought to himself disappointedly.

“I thought he would be the stallion that every mare should have shared a life with,” Rarity turned her head away from the aryan pony in disgust, “I was horribly mistaken.”

“I can tell,” Ondra chuckled.

“Why, you’ve met him too?”

“Our encounter was a little bit more physical than yours I can imagine,” Ondra replied flexing his wings to blades as he was inspecting the particular ability.

“Physical?”

“You’ll see,” Ondra dismissed with a hoof, retracting his wings, “It’s probably the reason why I’m here.”

They started their way to the door, walking on false hope that Blueblood wouldn’t notice them with him standing in front of the door and a group of five and more ponies walking towards it.

“I see the beast has returned,” Blueblood narrowed his eyes to Freddie, “With another beast to match him.”

The group paused but Ondra continued walking towards the door.

“Do you not take a hint?” he sneered, “You are not worthy of being in the Princesses’ presence!”

Ondra put Freddie down and slowly morphed his wings, “Well that’s certainly why they have you standing right in their front door right? We’re standing on the same ground.”

“Very clever response, but you do not know what is going on here,” the white shit placed a pride hoof on his chest, “The Princesses are going to bestow a very important roll for me.”

“Which is standing in front of their door,” Ondra dead panned.

“No-”

“How long have you been fucking standing there?” Ondra bolted to a position just feet away from blueblood with bladed wings.

Blueblood leaned his head back and scoffed, “You don’t need to know.”

“Then you don’t need to know about why I am here,” he retracted his wings, “You got that?”

“I am not letting you through,” Blueblood stated, which made Ondra slowly walk to Freddie then did the unspeakable.

Ondra continually paced on Freddie’s unconscious body.

Freddie was painfully gaining conscious, and finally muttered, “I’m awake motherfucker! Get the fuck off me!”

He was stumbling to get up, and groaned in either pain or restlessness, “Oh my fucking head. Ondra I know it was you!”

The group looked at Midnight Flame, “Just call me Midnight, please,” Ondra mused sheepishly.

“Why the hell were you stepping on me?” Freddie continued to groan in pain.

“Because we’re here, and you wouldn’t want me to deal with an aristocrat by myself, right?” he said pointing a hoof at Blueblood who was glaring at the two.

Freddie narrowed his eyes, then they widened like he’d seen him before, “HEY! You’re that faggot with ripped clothing! Did you really buy a new suit instead of repairing it?”

Blueblood just glared, his anger being obvious.

“Uh,” Freddie trailed off, “What’s his deal, he looks like he’s going to take a shit on that door.”

The redness on his face now slowly becoming more obvious.

“What do you think he’s going to die of first, dude,” Ondra asked Freddie “Loneliness, or a heart failure?”

He really looked like he was closely examining the dying stallion, “Heart failure?”

“ENOUGH!” he bellowed, “I am going to have to take care of this problem myself!”

The two paused, glanced, and nodded at each other.

“WITH PLEASURE!” they roared in unison, both charging at the raging aristocrat.

They came crashing through the door the instant the three made contact, the two guards were caught in surprise as they saw the three in some sort of fighting bunch. There was no safe way to break up this fight in front of the Princesses.

“GET OFF!” Blueblood screamed in protest, as he was probably the first to realise that they crashed through the door of royalty. Princess Celestia was the first to take action.

“STOP THIS FIGHT AT ONCE,” she bellowed in the royal canterlot voice.

Luna looked at her in astonishment, “I haven’t heard you use that in ages!”

Celestia rolled her eyes, “Yes, you haven’t.”

The three were stumbling on each other to get off each other, which tempted Celestia to bellow again.

“Princess Celestia,” Blueblood huffed, “Under Equestrian rule, I demand the arrest of these two beasts!”

The empty threat, made the two roll their eyes which made Celestia laugh... This basically made her day.

Luna giggled at Celestia’s antics, “Blueblood you are dismissed.”

The Prince’s jaw dropped to the ground, he couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

“But-!”

“GO!” Luna yelled with HER canterlot voice, which was more frightening, considering she WAS the princess of the night.

After Blueblood left, the element bearers entering, and Luna clearing her throat, she couldn’t handle her excitement that her hero was here.

“MIDNIGHT!” she cheered as she was running towards Ondra.

After she placed him under embrace, “I am awfully sorry I couldn’t visit you in Ponyville, there was a lot going on and I coudn’t do anything!”

“It’s alright,” he wheezed.

Luna broke the embrace and chuckled in spite of herself.

She hummed peacefully, “I’m glad you’re here.”

Ondra was catching his breath, about to respond to that until Luna reached for the back of his head with a hoof and kissed him. This took everyone, EVERYONE by surprise.

Rainbow Dash felt like she was betrayed.

Twilight only stared in disbelief at what she was seeing... She offers him a room and this is how he repays her?!

Rarity fainted...

Fluttershy looked with utmost attention... Probably to learn about how to handle that situation.

Princess Celestia was starting to be envious of this happening a second time for someone who recently got free from the moon. Why doesn’t she get to do that?

And then there’s Freddie, just wide eyed that his best friend scored a Princess.

Ondra was lost in his own thoughts so that he ended up falling on his chin after Luna broke the kiss, which made both princesses giggle at the little fall.

Ondra stumbled to his hooves as fast as he could, “Uh, I’m sorry. What are we here for again?”

He tried to look professional with blatant blushes on his cheeks, the mane six and Freddie still speechless to what transpired.

A lengthy pause with silence, Ondra could only look into Luna’s eyes in wonder. Kissing surely was a new thing, considering that was his second time... In his entire life.

His sister did pester him about not having a love life.

Luna smiled and silently giggled at her ability to restrain a hero of Equestria.

“Wake up,” she said softly, snapping Ondra out of his trance.

“Oh! Uh,” he trailed off, suddenly sliding a hoof flatly along the marble floor was the most interesting activity for the next five minutes, “What did you want to speak to me about?”

“What happened at the Crystal Empire, Midnight Flame?” Celestia asked with a hint of worry.

“I have to say, you look... Strange,” Luna mused, “Your friend seems to have the same changes. Anything we should know about?”

“Do you have cold water?” Ondra asked.

Luna tilted her head in curiousity, “Pardon?”

“Cold water, do you have any in your disposal?” he repeated.

Celestia closed her eyes and charged her horn. At the end of this, she smiled, “It will arrive momentarily.”

The next moments were going to be painfully awkward unless somepony had something to say, and the only ones able to say anything were the Princesses and Ondra who was slowly losing his will to even talk.

“What is that?” he pointed to Philomena.

“This is a phoenix,” Celestia proudly gestured a hoof over it’s cage, “My pet: Philomena.”

She unhooked the gate, which made Ondra tense.

“Is that wise?”

“Do not worry,” Celestia reassured, “It will not hurt you.”

The phoenix started flying around until it landed back into it’s cage, checking out Ondra.

“Is it,” he gulped, “Is she supposed to look at me like that?”

Celestia raised a brow and started turning her head towards said firebird [A/N sorry for bad terminology] but before she could lay still eyes on it, it was already flying towards Ondra.

He froze in fear of what would happen if he made a wrong move... Which was any move.

When it went near his wings, they involuntarily flared out which placed him on the verge of freaking out.

“What is she doing?” he asked nervously.

Both princesses tilted their heads, then Celestia finally spoke, “I do not know.”

The phoenix seemed to be tampering with the wings. Then in anticipation, Ondra’s wings went on fire.

“Oh FUCK!” he was shaking, “GET THAT WATER!”

“Wait!” Celestia called out, making Ondra at least shake in place, “I think she’s trying to tell you something.”

The phoenix began making noises any other feathery friend would make but it was starting to make sense for Ondra first.

***

Ondra

***

“Can you hear me?” a distorted British voice called out... Wheatley?

I paused to see if I could hear that voice actor again.

“Ah bollocks, he’s deaf,” I frowned.

“No no, shut up,” a female voice responded... Linda? “I need to talk to him, not you.”

“Linda?” I asked out loud.

“Oh look, he’s intelligent,”

“Shut the fuck up before I place a virus on you,” Linda threatened.

“Alright, alright,”

“What is this?” I finally cut in, “You’re the phoenix?”

“For a time, yes,” Linda said, “You need to learn to control your wings.”

“What? The flame attribute?” I asked the flamed feathery friend.

“Yeah, do you think you can clear your mind?”

“Oh for fuck’s sake,” I groaned.

“Those flames will not hurt you, stop being a pussy and just listen to me,”

“A flamin’ bird,” I put up an amused face of mockery.

“You want this bird to be your main problem?”

I dismissed with with a hoof and chuckled at Linda, “Alright, alright. I will listen.”

“Good. Now first you need to clear your mind,”

“Yes,” I complied.

A long pause then a disappointed sigh from Linda.

“Look, I know it’s your second kiss of your entire lifetime, but you need to focus. Focus on the wings if you can’t clear your damned mind,”

“Why are you helping me do this anyway?”

“Because it’s something you have to master,”

“Bossy today,” I rolled my eyes, then the phoenix landed in front of my ground and screeched like an eagle, “ok, focus on the wings... Focus on the wings.”

“Notice how you can now feel the flame?”

Now that I think about it, all those times where my wings DID go on fire I didn’t feel anything but panicked about me being on fire.

“Yeah, I think I can feel it,”

“It will have to do. You know how you retract your morphed wings?”

“You sure know more about this shit than I do,” I chuckled, “would’ve been better if you survived and I died.”

A pause, “Too soon?”

“You know how you retract your morphed wings?”

“Sorry,” I hung my head in shame.

“YOU KNOW HOW YOU RETRACT YOUR MORPHED WINGS?”

“YES!”

“Do the same damned thing with the fire,” she huffed.

I frowned in confusion, “First answer this question.”

A pause probably hinting that I ask now, “How do I start the fire?”

“It’s based on emotion,” since your transformation, “You have more direct control of it but your emotions still have more control.”

“Cool,” Ondra huffed.

The phoenix seemed to look at him with distasteful look.

“You’d better take this seriously,”

“Why do I get the feeling you wanted me to give up on Earth, on everything that was with me before coming here?”

“I don’t,” she replied firmly, “I’m here to help you with what shit you have to deal with NOW.”

Ondra took a deep breath and hung his head in defeat, “Understood.”

“Hey, chin up,” Linda said reassuringly, “I’m not supposed to tell you this, but you’ll be finding Raven and Tanny soon.”

He shot his head up with surprise gleaming in his eyes, “What?! Where?!”

Silence as the phoenix was only talking in his head. It fell over.

“What?” Ondra frowned at the little fiasco it was doing, “Linda? You there?”

The phoenix opened her eyes and darted her head around it’s environment and stood up.

“Linda?” Ondra asked again with a hint of uncertainty.

The phoenix ignored his call and started flying to Celestia.

The two Princesses were looking at him in curiosity.

“What was she saying to you?” Celestia started, “You were the only one able to hear her.”

“I,” Ondra trailed off.

A door slammed, so Ondra whipped his head around to see who was missing: Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle.

Ondra tilted his head, “What happened?”

“While you were talkin’ to Poet,” Freddie elaborated, “they were basically lunging for the door after they saw you get kissed by the Princess.”

Freddie was poking at his side with a suggestive look, “How the fuck did you score that?”

Ondra ignored that comment, “The phoenix was teaching me how to control my wings.”

“You were calling her Linda,” Celestia raised a brow, “Her name is Philomena.”

“Maybe something took it over, maybe that’s why it fell over, but I vaguely learned how to control it,”

“Better than no progress,” Luna asked.

“Better than no progress,” Ondra repeated.

“I will trust to leave that information with you, right now we are to debrief you and introduce you to your new team,” Celestia said.

Ondra had a confused face for at least three seconds, then his eyes lit up.

“Oh yeah, you told me I would be leader of it,” he finally said feeling uncomfortable, Freddie took notice of this.

“Hey,” Freddie placed a hoof on him, “You said it yourself, this world allows a new beginning, you’ll do fine here.”

Ondra took a deep breath, “I guess you’re right.”

“That’s the spirit!” Freddie looked to Celestia, “Say, can I be part of the team?”

Both Princesses glanced at each other.

“Your handler requested that I scan you,” Celestia said.

“What? Ditto? Sure,” Freddie shrugged, “Where’s ‘Midnight Flame’s new teammates?”

“Guard,” Luna called out.

A said guard approached the throne and bent down, “Yes your majesty.”

“Fetch the new combat force please,”

“At once, your majesty,”

“New force?”

“Yes,”

Applejack approached the group and chuckled nervously, “Heh, sorry about the reactions with Twilight and Rainbow. They did not take it well.”

“I could tell,” Ondra deadpanned.

“Ah hold nothin’ against ya, Ah promise,” Applejack smiled at Ondra, “Ah should get to’em.”

“You should,” Ondra replied, “and what about Rarity?”

“Fluttershy is doing her best with her, Ah might have to help her get’er out ‘o here,” Applejack rolled her eyes.

“Sure thing,” Ondra waved goodbye with a hoof as Applejack became more frantic in running in aid for Fluttershy.

“What are ya scannin’ for anyway?” Freddie asked the Solar Princess.

“Ditto became suspicious that you are able to digest food that a normal changeling could not,” Celestia replied with an intrigued look on her face.

“Is this going to hurt?”

“It’s a magic scan,” Celestia deadpanned.

“How long will it take?”

“You’re body is an exoskeleton, and you are foreign to this world, so I’m sure it will take some time,”

“How much more time?”

“About twenty percent more,”

“That’s a lot of time,” Freddie whistled sarcastically.

“Indeed it is,” Celestia chuckled, “Midnight Flame, the team should arrive shortly be ready.”

“Yeah,” Ondra complied then looked to Luna, “Was that necessary?”

“Wh-What?” Luna was hoping he was not asking what she thought she was asking.

Ondra rolled his eyes, “Come on, you know what.”

“I haven’t seen you in so long and the thought of losing you after a short amount of time spent together does not cope well with me!” she confessed hanging her head in childish shame.

Ondra looked to Celestia.

“I tried to take care of her. She had work to do, I knew you could handle it,” Celestia raised a brow continuing her scan.

“Thanks for the confidence,” he rolled his eyes.

“I’m sorry,” Luna cut in with a soft voice.

“It’s alright,” Ondra reassured her with a hoof on the shoulder, which was somewhat difficult, “I just don’t enjoy hurting others by being kissed in the lips out of nowhere.”

Luna laughed nervously, “Yes, of course. I apologize again for that.”

“It’s fine,

“So what did you find so far?” Freddie asked expectantly.

Celestia ignored that for a second, “You do have a digestive system.”

She trailed off, the her eyes widened, “You have metal in your body.”

“Uh, is that bad?”

“You’re not feeling anything bad? Sharp pains?”

“I would know if I felt pain,” Freddie began to feel uncomfortable, “WHERE IS THAT METAL?!”

“It makes up your nervous system,” she tried to calm the situation with the calm tone.

“So what? I’m an AI?!”

“You’re a pretty stupid one if ya are one,” Ondra rolled his eyes.

“An AI can be stupid, asshole,” Freddie frowned at his friend, “The difference is how resourceful they are.”

“Whatever man,” Ondra chuckled, “So what if you can fully access your memory at eight gigabytes of RAM?”

“Very funny,” Freddie huffed, “At least I’m more resourceful than you.”

“You probably filled your head with a lot of junk from the internet,”

“Trust me when I say I used the internet for useful purposes,” Freddie smiled, “What else is different about me? What about the lines on our bodies?”

“They have foreign magic signatures and they seem dormant,”

“Are they friendly?” the two best friends asked in unison.

“It was the magic that brought Midnight Flame here back to life,” Celestia said focusing on the lines on both heroes, “I’m sure it is nothing to worry about.”

“If you say so,” Freddie mused, “Is that it?”

“Some of your organs are not,” Celestia paused, “Organic.”

“So I’m a terminator,” Freddie deadpanned.

“Terminator?”

“It’s some funny fiction that I read,” he dismissed with a hoof.

“The movie was better,” Ondra stated flatly.

“Okay,” Freddie shrugged. Ondra really expected that to offend him like most other with an opinion about some fiction that was a book then implemented into a movie.

“Oh yeah,” Ondra spoke, “Thanks for repairing my machete, it helped.”

“Oh,” Luna stuttered, “Well, you’re welcome.”

“His blade,” Celestia asked Luna with slight irritation, “I thought I told you to leave that in the forest.”

“But,” Luna started with an apprehended look on her face, but interrupted with Celestia’s hoof.

“It’s alright, sister,” Celestia then looked to Ondra expectantly, “I’m sure I can trust you with it?”

Ondra unsheathed the machete to inspect it thoroughly, then placed it back with a satisfied smile, “You have my word.”

“Good to see that you took care of my machete there,” Freddie chuckled, then Ondra whistled innocently rolling his eyes to the windows. This made Freddie raised his brow, “You broke it didn’t you?”

“What?” Ondra had a dramatic face, shot his hooves up and pushed them forward, “Get outta here!”

Freddie sighed in disappointment, “Whatever, mate. Looks in better condition than when I first gave it to ya.”

“Why don’t you have it?”

This took Freddie by surprise, “What?”

“I already have these,” Ondra was demonstrating his wing blade ability, also morphing them into shields, “I can’t have my best friend unarmed, right?”

Ondra unhooked the harness with the machete sheathed into it and floated it over to start attaching it to Freddie.

“You sure?”

“I’m HIV positive,” Ondra deadpanned.

Freddie closed his eyes and chuckled lightly at his antics, “Thanks, mate.”

“I’ll teach ya how to use telekinesis with magic later,” Ondra smiled, “Can’t be harder than how I learned right?”

“How did you learn it?”

“I imagine myself holding the damn thing with hands when I was less aware that I was an equine,” he responded with a straight look.

Freddie laughed heartily at this, “Right.”

“So what are we having for new teammates?” Ondra asked.

And at that moment the doors opened, which took the nest words right out of his mouth.