Dr. Sauce's Equestrian adventures

"I am good, ja, good... I have nuzing to hide!"

Sauce had confessed his loyalty, but it wasn't very convincing to say the least. Celestia looked at him with a raised eyebrow, sceptical to his claims. Nonetheless, she lowered it and smiled, sauce lightly moved toward her, then lightly removed one of his gloves, placing his hand upon Celestia's forehead.

"I am not an enemy, I'd just prefer not to tell you my history. If you need convincing, I will be as helpful as I can be, OK?" said Sauce, politely kissing her upon the hoof with a crouched embrace. Celestia smiled softly, taking a small personal affection to Sauce, mainly fuelled by curiosity, Sauce stood up. Smiling politely, he looked at the ponies around him, "So, there's a dragon... a pegasus und..."

He looked at Twilight, then to Celestia, Luna, "Unisus? Pegacorn?" lightly making a ring of smoke emit from his pipe. "Alicorn, actually," said Twilight, looking at Sauce with a great sense of curiosity, "But how would you know what Spike and Rainbow Dash are without knowing what we are?"

He turned to face her, smiling, he said "Well, in my universe, we believed in many mythical creatures. Many of them were stories told to fill the dreams of children with pure wonderment and imagination. But now, I can see with my own eyes, in another universe, that a few of these creatures exist so far, who knows, many more from the book of mythical creatures could exist."

"There's a book on different creatures you believed to be alive in your universe then?" Twilight asked. Sauce nodded in response, once again reaching into his bag and producing a thick, leather-bound tome from which the cover had golden writing embedded into it. Showing the front of the book to Twilight, it was titled "Mythical, magical, imaginary and extinct; Species thought to have existed."

He offered her the book "You can read it, if you're able to translate from written Human language that is. In fact, if you want, you could keep it, I no longer need the book, but I know with you it will be in good hooves." finishing the sentence, he blinked "Good hooves..." he said silently to himself, chuckling slightly at how ridiculous that sounded.

Twilight took the book and begun reading it feverishly, Spike looked up at the doctor and said "Great, now she'll be reading that book like it's the single most important thing in all of her life. No doubt she'll lose herself in it and be reading it for at least a month to get every detail."

Sauce smiled in return, making a quote "Great knowledge in great hands is a tool that is indestructible, for knowledge is key to survival. However, great knowledge in the hands of a great evil is insurmountable, for the consequences as a result prove to be too great of a mishap for the knowledge lost."

"In other words, it is best to know than not to know, so your enemies can't get the advantage over you, you have the advantage of that extra knowledge, whilst they do not." simplifying the sentence down for Spike so that he would understand. He frowned at Sauce "Yeah, I get it, gee you sound like Twilight."

Sauce shrugged, then looked to Rainbow Dash, "So what about you then, a pegasus pony with a rainbow mane?..."
"The name's Rainbow Dash, but that's not important, how did you do it bub?!" she asked rather forcefully.
"Ech, do what?" he asked, she then snapped "The triple sonic rainboom, how did you get fast enough to do it?!"

Sauce looked rather confused "Triple sonic what now?" he asked, pure curiosity in his voice. "Oh, if you mean how I got here, I used a machine to travel at twice the speed of light. I guess when I began to enter this realm you must have seen my residual energies, meaning that I must have made your so called 'Triple sonic rainboom' when I was becoming me again."

Twilight smiled, Rainbow Dash and Spike looked confused, Celestia shared a concerned look with Luna whilst Sauce casually puffed out a ring of smoke from his pipe. He then simply said "I knew what I was doing, but I don't know if I could do it again."

Celestia said "What power do you possess... to be able to rip through universes carelessly? I'm not quite sure I understand," a look of concern deeply engraved upon her face. "Me? Powerful?! HAH! Powerful my finely shaped bottom, I'm about as powerful as the people around me allow me to be, which in hindsight, is not that powerful," he responded. "Plus, if I really had all that power, I'd have probably gone to another universe, or back to my home universe!"

Celestia sighed, "At least you're not like every new creature that roams into this realm, for some strange reason, most of them bend the very will of the world around them to avoid the tiniest bit of bad luck." This made Sauce chuckle, "Trust me, it would take more than one hit to kill me, but assuming this re-spawn chip doesn't work in this universe, then my lives are limited to one. With the possibility of an Ubercharge, every now and then, that is."

"Uber what?" Asked Twilight, piping up from curiosity. "Ubercharge," said Sauce in response "It grants an eight second invulnerability to all forms of damage, but I get it by tapping into the residual energies that emit from my healing target, then trapping the energies inside my backpack, to be released when I heal the patient."

"To put it into your terms, imagine I gave you a crystal," explained Dr. Sauce, "Every day, I would ask you to put all your magical energy into the crystal as storage, so you could use it all in an emergency one day. That's basically what this device allows you to do, except it works using healing energies."

Twilight took note rather quickly, Sauce reached into his backpack and removed his Medigun, clearly Dell had reversed his 'experiment', for Sauce's best interests most likely. Upon pulling back the lever, he heard the satisfying hum of the beam as it dispersed its energy into the air.

"There is one problem though," he said with a grim look, "Anything that I heal, regardless of what it is, will have its heart explode if it doesn't have an Uber device attached to it. But to put an Uber device on a heart, I would need to operate, I can build as many as necessary, but only willing patients can have invulnerability." He took a breath, "I will also need to replace your heart with one more capable of dealing with the Ubercharge effects, so you will most likely get a larger heart."

At this message, all faces became somewhat afraid, except for his own. Sauce then changed the subject, "It also appears that my clothing is torn rather severely, do you by any chance have a tailor in this town to whom I may seek repairs for my clothing?"

He looked down to his bare and lightly toned chest, visible through a large hole in his woollen jumper as he said "Fighting all my life has lead me to become an inhuman monster and a healing machine, I must learn to control my urge to kill, even if my blood lust has been formed over a many masochist's moon."

Apprehensively, Twilight carefully trotted toward him, casually placing a hoof in his hand. Looking toward her, she said "But if you heal, then you must heal for a good reason, surely there is a way to overcome it if you just treat it as keeping us all healthy and safe. Right?"

He nodded and smiled in agreement, no words needed. "Oh and by the way, if you're looking to get your clothes looked at, go to Rarity, I'm sure she'd be interested in you and your style. I thought she was the only one to like rich gems, but clearly you're almost coated in gold." said Rainbow Dash, half sarcastic, half serious.

"So, how do I get to 'Rarity' then?" he asked in reply, looking at Dash curiously. "Well, I'm sure that Twi and Spike can show you there. Meanwhile, I'm going to try to do something to top your triple sonic rainboom, I hate losing to anypony, plus if word spreads around that something was faster than me, my entire reputation would be ruined! I would be known as the second fastest, I can't let that happen!" she said with vigour and a small sense of ego preservation

Sauce rolled his eyes casually at Dash's response, "OK then, Rainbow, if you say so," he said in a sarcastic tone. "Oh and by the way, Rarity doesn't do things for free, not unless you're famous or good looking," said Dash. "Well, I guess I had better have money, because when it comes to me, good luck is a rarity," he replied.

"So now, off to Rarity's place?" he asked Twilight, paying little attention to Dash as she flew out of the open window. "Yeah, we can get your clothes fixed there, wait downstairs for me whilst I talk to Celestia and Luna please." He obeyed, exiting the room past them.

Once out of earshot, Celestia said "Keep an eye on him, my faithful student. He could be a bigger problem than we had initially imagined." "I fully intended to," Twi responded, looking at Luna, "What do you think, Luna?"
Luna simply said "It would seem my sister is right, he was a danger in his world, but only to his enemies by what I heard, befriend him and make sure not to offend him, we know not of his temperament yet."

It was time for them to set off to Carousel Boutique, the home of the revered Ponyvillian tailor Rarity. Twilight knew where to go and how to keep a close eye on the doctor. But as he said "When it comes to me, good luck is a rarity."

"Rarity..."

Twilight smiled slightly, making her way downstairs to Sauce, preparing herself for the shock and awe of him facing the Equestrian society. How would Rarity react to him?...

[Find out in chapter 4!]