I hate Mondaysby Malaggar00ChaptersArrivalDuel For ControlAfter that rapid recoveryThe action begins (somewhat)Arrival"This is so bullshit!" Shouted a young man as he sprinted through a forest pursued closely by a large man in a torn cloak, as fast as he could muster the young man sprinted into a clearing and spotted a massive tree. Without hesitation he ran for it, dodging low branches and leaping over logs. As he reached the tree he glanced back over his shoulder at the creature following him. It was large, sharply dressed, humanoid but not human, it had arms that ended just a few inches above the ground, which trailed massive razor sharp claws. It was the Revier, the trans dimensional beast from the void between universes. Immediately he started scaling the tree adrenaline pumping through his veins, 10 feet. 15 feet. 20 feet. 25 feet. as he reached thirty feet, he looked down, to see the Reiver also scaling the tree, he quickened his pace, he reached the hundred foot mark. A brainwave hit him like a sledge hammer. He looked down as he tore out a branch and stared at the Reiver as he raised the branch the Reiver looked up. Starting to emit short bursts of white noise, which seemed to be laughter. The young man felt a grin pull at his mouth, as he brought the branch around like a sword smashing the branches in its wake, broken twigs and leaves showered down, Reiver evaded them still laughing, the young mans grin spread a cross his face as Reiver looked up, and instantly stopped laughing at what he saw. The young man had shattered all the other branches around him, except for a few which he started shattering, after a few minutes where Reiver was highly astonished he started up again, but the youth had gotten out of his reach, and had removed the last of the branches for a five meter space, Revier snarled in anger as he tried to scale the space. -meanwhile 70 or so meters up the tree- Back up in the higher parts of the tree, the youth kept climbing until he could find an area to rest, after a while he found an area where two thick branches collided to form a massive fork. As he sat the young man reflected on what had happened over the past few minutes. He was Sasha Nicholls, a 16 year old boy who had recently passed his exams, and had gone camping with his friends to celebrate. While he was away from the camp, Reiver had ambushed him, trapping him in another dimension, tearing a hole in the universe. Now he was stuck here until ether he died, the Reiver caught him or the dimension he is stuck in implodes. Seeing as Reiver will send him to the void if he was caught, and the dimension is maintained as long as Reiver lives he came to one conclusion, it was risky but it might work, he continued climbing, when he reached an altitude of 12000 meters and he waited, after a few minutes. Reiver was almost at him. Then Reiver saw the human peek over the ledge and smile a smile that sent shivers down slender’s spine “Sup Reiver.” said the human as he leaned over the edge, “think fast!” He yelled as Sasha, diving over side feet first and landed on Reiver's head, grabbing his flailing arms and pulling them up avoiding the claws as they flailed, they fell, it was hard to keep balanced on a point like a head while holding onto an inter dimensional horror, but he steadied on firm, he looked down to see the ground rushing up to meet them, just as they hit the ground, they shattered a dimensional weak point and pelted into the void. As they plunged into the void Sasha brought Reiver's arm up and touched them to his left shoulders before the void tore him apart. -meaner while in Equestria- What's that in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a-(alright enough of this reference). Rainbow Dash was trying to teach Fluttershy to be a better flyer, so Rainbow decided to try flying over the ever free forest. It wasn't going that well. Fluttershy had barely used her wings in the past few years. Rainbow’s hands and face were really getting sore from all the face-palms, when suddenly Fluttershy let out a shrill shriek, that almost made Rainbow topple out of the sky. After Rainbow’s ears stopped ringing, she looked around searching for the cause when her eyes saw a stallion, lying face down in a spreading pool of blood. She sped to the ground as fast as her wings could carry her. As she landed, she sprinted towards the fallen figure, to suddenly realize that he wasn't a pony. She pushed that out of her mind. As she reached the prone figure, she looked around to see Fluttershy behind a tree, sobbing quietly. But she ignored that too as she flipped him over. Okay he was definitely not a pony. He appeared to have fur on his face around his chin and mouth. And a short mane cut. As she examined his face, she saw his eyes open, just a fraction and his body started shaking as if in laughter. “just great.” Whispered the figure, so quietly that she could barely hear. He pulled himself to his knees, and started crawling towards the tree that Fluttershy was behind. He leaned over and appeared to be calming her down. As soon as he stood, Flutteshy rose to. As he started his way back to Rainbow, he collapsed against a tree. falling to his knee clutching his left side where there was a massive gash from his shoulder to his knee. As Rainbow approached he raised his head. As she reached him he looked into her eyes, they were... Well a word has to be made to describe them. They were conflicted, fighting themselves to find out what color they were. Green. Blue. Red. Purple. They kept shifting until they finally rested, at a sort of pinkish color that match Rainbow’s eyes. They just stared at each other eye to eye. Oblivious to the world around them. And in that moment she saw all the pain, the anger, the sadness and the longing to belong and for peace. But it was short lived, as a wave of pain flashed across his body. Causing spasms of pain which shot all over him. His head suddenly shot up. A burst of light that almost blinded, them burst from his head. After a few seconds the light dissipated, and he fell forwards collapsing onto the ground. As quick as a flash Rainbow sprinted to Fluttershy who had returned to her behind brethren and pulled her to her feet. “Come on Fluttershy we need to take him to the hospital.” “Umm is he okay?” “Not if we don’t take him to the hospital.” Getting Rainbow’s point Fluttershy got up and ran to the prone figure, followed closely by Rainbow, who reached him first. Grunting slightly, Rainbow lifted him up and heaved him onto her shoulder. Fluttershy took hold of his left side, causing him to clutch it in pain. His head shot up and he gritted his teeth in a grimace of agony. “Can we get going.”Said the stallion gritting his teeth “Yea lets get going.” Said Rainbow -five hours later- “Okay we’re going absolutely no where.” Said the stallion with a defeated look on his face. He looked over at Rainbow and a his eyes lit up. “One sec.” He said and concentrated. At that moment a flash of golden light blazed for a second behind him. When it disappeared it reveled a pair of enormous, pure white, feathery wings. “What?” said Rainbow gawking at his wings “What?” He said looking back at her. “How did you grow wings?” “Oh that. Simple really.” He replied with a small grin. “Seeing as I fell through the void, it pumped tonnes of void energy into my body. Causing me to be able to morph my body and matter around me. Allowing me to create or change the properties of matter around me.” “Wat.” “...” “...” “I screwed Darwin over” “Oh. Darwhiney.” “Sorry what?” “Darwhiney? You know the pony that found manticores, dragons and Cerberus in the gallopigus islands.” (Crapy horse puns away!) “Gallopigus? Really?” “...” Sasha faceplamed. “... Anyways.” He said and sent a psychic probe into Rainbows head, filling her head with his memories and knowledge. don’t worry i’m just constructing a neural link between you and me. You’ll see my memories and i’ll see yours. “Let's take off.” Said the stallion known as Sasha. As he raised his wings, Rainbow felt her wings doing the same. “Allons y!” He yelled as he flapped his new wings. “To the hospital!” Yelled Rainbow taking off after him. “Omigoodnes omigoodnes omigoodnes omigoodnes.” Said Fluttershy following them. -Meanwhile thousands of meters away- A wormhole opened in the middle of the forest and a squad of marines fell out. They wore green jungle camo with matching bulletproof vests. They were human soldiers. A commando team that were snatched out of time from the Vietnam war. Driven mad by what they saw while whirling through time and space. Seeing and knowing the whole of the space-time continuum. Watching everything burn and die for what felt like eternity. When they arrived they were batshit crazy. Believing that they were high on the battle field and that all other life was the Vietcong forces. “Move out men!” Yelled the Sargent “Sir,yes sir!” Yelled the hallucinating marines raising their weapons and took aim searching the area. A bird squawked, and at once, automatic fire danced around the bird who just sat there passively. When the marines ran out of bullets, the bird squawked again. To have a following chorus of swear words from the soldiers below. Author's Note Inform me on what you think of this chapter. Note that this is the beginning of a massive story and that this is the first chapter I've ever done. I was inspired to start writing by Razor the aptly named Awesome. If you don't know him then... You don't know what you're missing out. Check his story "wake up. See this. What do?" Anyways I hope you like this chapter and what occurs throughout the rest of the story. Duel For ControlAs they flew towards the hospital, Rainbow noticed something odd about the “human”. He was flying on the same course with his head down. Then something hit her on the shoulder. It was blood. Warm, sticky blood was trailing behind him. Then Rainbow connected the dots. His head was down, flying straight, and blood flying behind him. She caught up to him and her fears were true. He was unconscious from blood loss. “Hey! Wake up!” Yelled Rainbow “Wake up!” She repeated. He remained unconscious. She grabbed his head and yelled in his ear. He remained unconscious. She cursed looking ahead to see the hospital in front of them. “Okay just got to direct an unconscious Pegasus... Human... Thing. Into the hospital before he bleeds to death. No pressure.” Which would have been fine, if he didn’t start to increase his angle of descent. “Celestia damnit!” She swore. She increased her speed and tried to get under him to stop his descent. But it was already to late. He plummeted speeding directly at the hospital. Rainbow had no other choice. She calculated the distance and the chance of her plan working. It wasn’t very high. She sped up and broke the sound barrier. The resulting blast shattered windows and almost deafened every one in the near vicinity. At this Sasha woke up. He looked up to see the foyer heading towards him quickly. He spread his wings which did almost nothing. 'Alright then didn’t want to do this but, Okay’ he altered his angle and flight pattern slightly and hit the ground at a run. He bent his knees and pushed off just enough to send him into a roll. He rolled over and over before finally coming to a halt. In the middle of the lobby where he lay face down, blood forming a puddle around him. The nurses and doctors didn’t hesitate. They sprinted to the prone human. They lifted him up and put him on a stretcher and wheeled towards an operating room. Rainbow had to swerve sharply to avoid hitting any pony. Flying through and open window. Almost crashing into the flower garden on the front lawn of the hospital. But she remembered what she Learnt at flight school. And rolled over once before getting to her feet in a single movement. She wheeled around and sprinted towards the hospital. As she reached the doors she practically kicked the door in, and sprinted towards the reception desk. “What happened to the Pegasus that crashed here?” She inquired. “Most likely they have taken him to an operating room, for him to be sewn up.” “How severe are his wounds?” “If you didn’t bring him here he would’ve most likely died.” -meanwhile in the O.R.- where am I? Who’s there? Sasha was standing in an empty white expanse. ’wake up, you Piece of shit.’ Sasha whirled around to see someone looking exactly like him sitting on a box. ’who are you? ’i’m you, more accurately your better half.'The other Sasha stood up and the box disappeared. ’you didn’t exist before I fell.’ ’you thought you arrived mentally unscathed.’ ’well now I can see that i’m wrong. So what do you want?’ The other Sasha walked up to the original and looked at each other eye to eye. ’personally I want to destroy this world and remake it in my image.’ Sasha rolled his eyes and let out an exasperated sigh. ’tell me something.’ ’shoot.’ ’how are you a spawn of my mind?’ Said Sasha his right hand splayed across his right temple and forehead. ’simple, I am the side of you that wants everything dead. And is willing to spill blood myself if necessary.’ ’you sound less like me by the minute.’ ’look at it this way chuckle fuck. We have to share this mind and body. And so far you did nothing but make a massive fuck up. Almost killing us both. So i’m taking over here.’ Explained the counter part turning away. ’like hell you will!’ He stopped and turned around with a grin on his face. ’oh really? You can’t even move the body and you don’t want me in control. Think of it this way. I can control the void energy better than you. I have no remorse and i’ll kill anyone in my way.’ He said getting right in Sasha’s face. ’well there's only one way to decide this.’ ’that would be?’ ’to settle it like gentlemen.’ ’pfftt with words?’ Said the counter part turning around and walking away. ’nope, dueling swords.’ Said Sasha. The counter part turned around and smiled the evilest mother fucking smile ever. ’now you’re speaking my language.’ Sasha pulled out two rapiers and tossed one to the counter part. They raised the rapiers to their faces and bowed. ’best of 5.’ ’sounds reasonable.’Replied the counter part. The counter part charged thrusting his rapier forward. Sasha deflected the blow and thrusted, catching the counterpart on the side. ’to make this more fun, lets have any damage afflicted to us is also felt to our body. And no wings.’ ’agreed.’ ’round one me.’ ’round two.’ ’start!’ Again the counter part charged and again Sasha dodged. But the double’s sword passed through his thigh. ’round two double ’please just call me Alex to not make things confusing.’ ’agreed. Ahem. Round two Alex.’ ’round three. Begin!’ They charged at each other blades flashing towards the other’s throats. Sasha deflected Alex’s blade before it struck home, and countered. Spinning down and around, kicking Alex’s feet from below him, meeting him with his sword thrusting it through the right bicep. ’round three me.’ ’round four begin!’ With that Sasha charged, swinging his sword at high speed. It was all Alex could do was block. Then he saw an opening and took it. The blade stabbed Sasha in the left leg. ’round four me.’ Said Alex twirling his sword as Sasha fell to his knees. Alex leveled the sword at Sasha’s throat. ’round five begin.’ He said pulling his blade back. But Sasha wasn’t there. ’round five, tiebreaker, me.’ Said Sasha sheathing his sword behind Alex. ’wha-.’ He clutched his chest as blood sprayed out. ’how? Did you?’ ’you let your overconfidence get the better of you, allowing me to get out of the way while scoring one final attack.’ He explained. ’fine you win.’ Said Alex head hung low, a defeated look on his face. ’finish me.’ ’no.’ ’what? but you won.’ ’you are of some use to me.’ ’what use could I be to you?’ ’you fought well and almost beat me. And i need your knowledge on the control of the energy.’ ’what’s to tell?’ ’everything.’ ’why? I tried to kill you earlier.’ ’I’m cutting you a deal: ether die now or teach me how to control these abilities and you just hibernate until I need you.’ ’why would you need me?’ ’i need you willingness to fight, to win no matter the cost.’ ’so that’s it.’ ’now choose. To live or to die.’ At this Alex looked up. And grinned. ’isn’t it obvious?’ ’i thought so.’ Sasha offered a hand and Alex took it. They shook. ’time to wake up. And goodnight.’ Said Alex sitting down. He disappeared. ’well.’ Sasha thought to himself. ’time to wake up and smell the coffee.’ -In reality- Sasha jolted awake, looking around at the startled doctors and nurses around him. “Good news every pony. You kept me alive and thanks to you I will be able to repay you.” “Umm.” “What?” “You were on the verge of death when you arrived.” “Indeed and now as I see it I need plasma in me so I can recover the blood I lost. And a needle and thread so I can stitch myself up.” “Can’t we do that?” “You don’t understand the human biology.” “We’re just sewing up some poultry wounds.” “... Fair point.” A moment of silence passed then Sasha doubled over clutching his chest. “What’s going on?” “I’m still biologically unstable. The energy is forcing my body to evolve in such a way that should allow me to live with the energy.” “What's happening to you though?” “My body is mutating in order to survive.” “How?” “It appears to trying to create another heart.” His head shot up and yelled in pain. “How would another heart help you?” “The other heart would-” he cried in pain, sentence abruptly cut short. He started thrashing in agony, glowing a bright gold which was steadily growing brighter. “Get out of here!” Yelled one of the doctors. Panic obvious in his voice. As the assorted doctors and nurses ran from the room, Rainbow ran towards it. She made it half way down the Corridor, when a doctor stopped her. “What are you doing!?” Yelled the doctor. “What’s going on!?” “We have no idea! He woke up then was alright then out of no where he starts glowing and convulsing!” At this point a message flashed across her mind ’they don’t know what’s going on. But I have a faint idea of what's happening. Get to my room. I’ll give you further instructions from there.’ She paused a confused expression on her face. “Let me past.” She said panic in her voice. “Well it’s your funeral.” Said the doctor running down the corridor. She ran towards his room. It wasn’t to hard to find. The doorway was filled with a blinding light. As she sped through the doorway, she saw Sasha’s form covered in a blinding aura of golden light. “Alright what now?” ’i need you to grab my arm.’ “Why?” ’my body is not of this dimension. And this world knows it and is trying to eliminate the intruder. In order to fool it, I need to be in contact with something that was born here in order to anchor me.’ “Ok so I just grab anywher-” ’yes now hurry. This hurts like a bi-’ “Yes yes alright.” She said grabbing the arm with both hands. Almost instantly the glow subsided and he fell still. ’ah that's better.’ He sighed mentally before the link terminated. “Sasha?” Said Rainbow, confused. “Is it over?” Said a nurse leaning around the doorway her fingers in her ears. A slightly terrified look on her face. “Yea it's fine nurse red heart.” Said a doctor walking in. Looking abnormally calm. “Obviously he is something dangerous and new.” Said the doctor. “We must report him to Celestia and dissect him as soon as possible.” Said another doctor as he walked in. “Like hell you’ll dissect him!” Yelled the doctor, nurse and Rainbow at once. The accused doctor raised his hands in a defensive gesture. “Hey hey hey I was kidding. But not about the reporting to Celestia.” “Oh that’s okay.” “Indeed it is. And it will be good for me to meet her for the first time.” Responded Sasha, he was sitting up. Practically everyone jumped. Sasha looked around in polite confusion. “What?” “What was that light about?” “This dimension believed that I was an intruder and was trying to remove the threat. Had to use some energy to try to camoflage my self. But it didn’t work and so I needed an anchor to synchronize with. Hence the minor glow from her.” He said, gesturing at Rainbow. As she looked down she saw her hands were faintly glowing. About a second later the glow disappeared. “What was that?” “Low level void energy. It should only exist for a short time. Before leaving a permanent mark on the person you recently touched.” He turned around noticing a faint golden light coming his back. “Ah talk of the devil. Now I guess this will hurt like a bi-” He doubled over, grabbing his back. After a while the pain subsided. “Yea I was right.” He said a pained expression on his face. He turned around and removed his shirt. They looked to see, an inverted Ω symbol with a line through it, on his back. “Can someone describe it to me? Or get me a mirror?” “It looks like an inverted Ω with a line through it.” “So not that bad?” “It actually looks pretty cool.” Responded Rainbow nodding. “But here’s a good question.” “Yea.” “You had wings when we arrived, now you’re like a normal earth pony.” “Those wings were temporary. Getting the feel of them. Seeing if I would need a pair later.” “Oh.” Said Rainbow. Then she looked at him with disbelief. “’getting the feel of them?’ Why are you treating wings like something you would where at a shop?” “To be fair they were never designed to be long term. And would have painfully separated from my back, taking my spine and skull with it.” “Oh... Lets leave it at that.” “Agreed.” Author's Note Readers it's been a pleasure entertaining you. I'm sorry it took so long. I've been had a bad few weeks. So expect a chapter every few weeks. But to those that think that this isn't very exciting. Just wait till next chapter. Cause that's when excrement hits the jet turbine. After that rapid recovery-in the forest- “We’re fucking doomed!” Yelled one of the commandos in the middle of the forest. The other commandos looked at him then looked to their commanding officer. He sighed and walked towards the soldier who snapped. And pimp slapped him across the face. “Shut the fuck up Jenkins!” Yelled the captain as Jenkins was sent reeling back colliding with a tree. “What the fuck was that for!?” “For giving away our position and alerting any wildlife around here. So stay quiet and sane.” Said the captain with a low, deadly voice. “How the fuck could I stay sane here?!” Yelled Jenkins in his captain’s face. “I mean you saw what happened to jones! You saw how he died!” Yelled the traumatised soldier. The captain flinched as the memory flashed through his head of how his second in command died, half in, half out of a chimera’s mouth then without warning the other heads tore him apart blood and intestines flying every where. His blood splashing across the captain’s face. He shook his head and raised his hand to his forehead where the blood of jones still there. Their last link to the squad member who treated them like family and brought the squad together. The member who rejected a promotion so he could stay with his squad. “And let's not make his death be in vain.” Said the captain grabbing the soldiers arm and pulling him up. “Sir incoming!” Yelled a squad member sprinting towards them. “John I thought I told you to be defending the perimeter.” “You did, but there's no one there left alive.” “What do you mean no one left?” “The perimeter has be wiped out!” “What the hell?! By what?!” “It's so ridiculous-” “Tell me soldier!” “A cockatrise sir!” At that moment a cockatrise flew into the clearing, only to meet a barrage of bullets practically shredding it. Flying straight and almost colliding with Conner who ducked to avoid its fatal gaze. “Fucking hell!” Yelled Conner getting up. “It's not over yet!” “What?” Yelled most of the remaining squad. The captain looked pointedly towards johns, the rest of the squad followed suit. Johns sighed heavily and said “There was about ten sir”. “TEN?!!” Yelled the squad simultaneously looking horrified. “Might I make a suggestion?” Asked Conner. Who had recovered first. “What?” Said the captain still looking at Johns horrified. “If we don’t want to die... FUCKING RUN!!!!” “All in favour.” “AYE!” Yelled the entire squad. “Well it's settled then. FUCKING RUN!!!” Yelled the captain as nine cockatirse burst in to the clearing making for the adrenaline, fear, and urine powered soldiers. As they ran, the soldiers took potshots with their pistols over their shoulder. As the squad ran a member broke off and stopped turning around raising a shotgun. “What the hell are you doing Charles?!” Yelled the captain not breaking stride. “I’ll hold them off!” Yelled Charles firing. A cockatrise was reduced to a cloud of blood in an instant. Like a nightmare the others came flying at full pelt through their atomised comrade. But they weren’t flying at head height but at neck height. Charles realised what's going to happen before it did. He was going to die by these nightmare creatures. They were going to kill him slowly and painfully. ’but.’ He thought. ’if I am going to die i’ll die fighting.’ He pulled the trigger just as they flew close together and most of the remaining cockatrise fell to the ground. He was going to fire another shot but it was to late. As the first one reached him its teeth met his throat tearing a section of his neck out. As he reeled around another one sliced out most of the other side of his neck. He was now facing the way his squad went and saw the two cockatrise fly after the marines. He weakly raised his shotgun and was about to fire when two thoughts sliced though his mind. ’those things had tails like arrowheads.’ And ’oh shit there were three survivors.’ He realised this last one when a cockatrise tail punched through his neck cutting his head off. As his head reached the ground a single thought remained. ’I’m so sorry captain but I delayed them. Don’t let me die in vain.’ Meanwhile with the poor sod about to meet pinkie. As they walked towards the town square Sasha suddenly stopped. “Oh shit.” “What?” “Pinkie p-” “Hi!!” Yelled pinkie pie coming from a nearby vender booth where there was a mare with a Stetson on her head with three apples on her collarbone. Sasha nodded to the mare and Rainbow called. “Hey applejack. How’s business?” “Same old. Same old.” While they were exchanging pleasantries pinkie turned her gaze on Sasha who nodded and offered his hand. “Hello pinkie pie, it’s nice to meet you. However if you are still planing that party then good. I really need some relaxation... Of some sort.” Pinkie took his hand and shook it violently. “Hi i’m Pinkie pie official party planner and master of ceremonies for pony vile and-” “Element of laughter and happiness and a maker of baked awesomeness?” Suggested Sasha an amused look on his face. “Basically. But I didn’t catch your name i’ll need it for the welcome banner.” “It’s Sasha. Sasha Nicholls.” “That’s an odd name around here.” “Same in my world but it really has another meaning. Sasha is actually Russian for Alex. It also happens to be the name of an ancient conquer in Ancient Rome. His name was-” “Alexander the great?” Said Pinkie a massive smile on her face which was threatening to actually come off her face. “Yes. But how did you-. You know what? Never mind.” “Anyways the party will be at 6:30 in the evening.” “Ok but that’s in.” Sasha glanced at the clock tower and saw it was 2:45. “About three hours, forty four minutes and twenty one seconds.” Said Sasha offering his hand again. She took it and shook it normally. “Well I have to go to Rarity’s.” “For what?” Asked Rainbow walking towards them. “I have no formal clothes, and I couldn’t call myself a gentleman if I don’t arrive in style. Plus it’d be best to get it out if the way early.” “Okay i’ll show you there.” “See ya pinkie.” “Bye.” “See you at the party!” Yelled Pinkie as they turned and walked away Later at Rarity’s boutique. There was a knock at the door. As Rarity walked towards the door she felt something powerful. Unicorns could just feel that kind of power. As she turned to the door she saw Rainbow walk in, escorting a Pegasus stallion in. “Hey Rarity.” “Why hello Rainbow. And hello ehh.” “Sasha. Sasha Nicholls.” “So how can I help you today?” “Rarity, I apologise if we interrupted you while you’re busy. But I need some clothes while i’m here. And you are the best mare for the job.” “Well okay. But first i’ll require your measurements. First your chest and torso. Now strip.” “What?!” Said Rainbow horrified. “Fine.” Said Sasha reluctantly, removing his shirt exposing his chest and torso. Rarity conjured a measuring tape out of thin air and picked up a clipboard and pen started work. After ten minutes of this. “Alright, done!” Said Rarity laying down the clipboard, pen and measuring tape. “Finally.” Said Sasha retrieving his shirt and pants, slipping behind a set of changing blinds. After a second he shuffled out and into another. Mouthing the words “Rainbow” as he went. “Um can you turn around?” Asked Sasha Watching Rarity turn he started getting dressed. “Hey Rarity how long till you can finish the clothes?” “They’ll be done at around four o’clock.” “Good.” Said Sasha sounding relived. “Bye.” Called Rainbow over her shoulder as they left. “So one problem if i’m going to live here.” “What?” “I’ll need a source of money.” He said turning his head. “Do you know of any jobs that would be seeking my talents?” “Weather control, physicist, game hunter, inventor, sniper.” “What was that last one!?” “Inventor.” “Nononononono not that. Did you say game hunter?” “Yep.” “Why? I thought equestrians were vegetarians.” “Oh no. We’re omnivores it’s just we eat plants and fish.” “Um... Ok.” “So the job you’d pick would be?” “Weather manager and hunter.” “That all?” “And i’ll toss in the physicist to.” “Okay.” “So what do you do?” “I'm a weather manager, karate teacher, and athletics coach.” “Okay. So when do I start?” “First show me what you can do.” Said Rainbow leaping into the air. “Alright then.” Said Sasha taking to the sky. “Alright so what do you know about weather control?” “Not really all that much.” Said Sasha putting his hands in his pockets, looking up. “What. They didn't have weather control where you come from?” “Nope.” He said cheerfully shaking his head smiling. “You saw my memories. and you should know quite well that in my world the weather is extremely unpredictable. and the closest thing to controlling weather is using logic and math to prepare for it. So no.” “So where you came from there was no way to control the weather?” “None at all.” Said Sasha cheerfully. “Also there's something that’s been bugging me since you met pinkie.” “The fact that I know her, you, Fluttershy and the rest of your friends without meeting them before hand?” “Yes.” “Oh that's easy, where I come from we have a show called ’my little pony’ and you and your friends are the main cast. Not to mention the fact that the show was at first made for younger girls, it has now attracted a large male following. In this context we’re now referring to ourselves as ’bronies’. And the more judgmental insists on calling the female following ’pegasisters’ which I believe is fair but kind of annoying.” Explained Sasha without pausing. “So your a brony?” “Absolutely.” “Okay now back to our original topic. To disperse a cloud you need speed and precision.” “Like this?” Said Sasha flattening his and and charging at a cloud. Slicing it cleanly in half. “Basically.” Said Rainbow nodding. “Let me try something.” Said Sasha raising his hand. He concentrated. Imagining a ball of particles in his hand. He glowed with a golden aura as the ball grew in his hand. He opened his eyes to see the ball the size of a basket ball in his hand. He stopped focusing on the enlargement. He aimed it at a cloud and fired. Ball of particles impacted on the cloud and detonated obliterating it. Rainbows jaw dropped. Sasha turned around, eyebrow cocked. “Too much?” He asked. She looked at him and nodded. After Rainbow recovered from the shock she looked at him and inquired. “How the hell did you do that?” “I concentrated void particles into a ball and added a particle of antimatter into the mix.” “But if you can do that then you might be able to do more.” Sasha nodded. “This prospect requires more testing.” He said studding his hand. “I wonder.” He said and levelled his palm and thought of a single item. It appeared in his hand. It was a seven foot long sword. He grabbed hold and swung it around experimentally. He dispelled it just as a thought slammed into his head. He could use this newfound power to create whatever he needed. “Well.” Said Sasha recreating his blade. “Let's clear these skies.” He said charging at the clouds blade swinging. Author's Note Sorry that this chapter took so long. I've been feeling very depressed lately. But to compensate I'll post the next chapter within the weekend. But anyways thanks for being so patient. The action begins (somewhat)After a few seconds of pure cloud obliteration “So what's my possibility of getting hired?” “I’d say around 100%.” “Huh.” “What?” “Something was bugging me since we got out of the boutique.” “What.” “In my world the thought of ponies were as equines. But you are homo sapien in appearance.” There was a brief moment of silence where this statement hung in the air. “What?” “You look human.” Sasha said. “Except for the wings, cutie mark on your collar bone and.” He said peering around Rainbow before adding. “Tail.” “Well that’s how we ponies look and we can't change that. Except probably for unicorns.” “That’s another thing that confuses me.” “What?” “The whole lack of a horn thing.” “What? Unicorns don’t have horns.” “Then how do they perform magic?” “They have a mark on their dominant fore arm.” “Okaayyyyy.” Said Sasha slowly turning away. Spotting a cloud that hadn’t been scourged. Calmly creating a gun and fired it, dispelling the cloud. “So what time is it?” Said Sasha looking at his watch. Which seemed to be working normally. Rainbow looked to the clock tower. “It's about 3:11.” Said Rainbow, looking over Sasha’s shoulder at his watch. “That’s odd my watch says its 7:00.” Said Sasha an eyebrow raised. He raised his arm so he could see his watch and the clock tower. “Oh shit.” Said Sasha in a low, terrified voice. “What?” Asked Rainbow. “I’m not in sync with the flow of time.” “Meaning?” “Time is moving at a different pace for me than it is for you and all the other inhabitants of Equestria.” Said Sasha turning to reveal an expression of concern. “I’ll be dead in around 45 years equestrian time. Or 90 years to me.” “Is there anyway to stop that?” “It might take a while for my cells to sync with the rate that time flows in this dimension. Or it’ll take a day Equestrian time of me being awake straight. It might be something like what we call in my world ’jet lag’ kinda sorta not. Hopefully Pinkie’s party will last till morning. Failing that I’ll need to speed up my perception of time, via adrenaline rush. So anyways.” Said Sasha his look of concern becoming a sly grin. “As they say ’time flies when you’re having fun.’” He sprinted towards the edge of the town. Towards the cliff that stood by the north overlooking the settlement. ’this can’t end well.’ Rainbow thought before following with a concerned expression on her face. Meanwhile in the bushes not even five feet away. “Sir i’ve spotted two locals.” Said Charles into his radio. “Did they spot you?” Inquired the captain. “Negative. But sir.” “Yes?” “They’re not quite human.” “What do you mean?” “They had wings and one has unnatural hair and a marking on her collarbone. The other one looked almost exactly human except for the wings.” “Where are they now?” “Headed for the overwatch.” “Rodger. Repositioning.” Replied the captain. At the overwatch. “Heading towards the overwatch.” “Rodger repositioning.” Said the captain, deactivating the radio. Signalling to the rest of the squad to pack up and move to another site. They got up and sprinted toward to the path leading up a nearby mountain. Just as they were almost at the path Jenkins tripped. His rifle butt slamming into the side of his head. Which would’ve been fine... If he hadn’t reflexively clenched his fists to stop himself from yelling out. Accidentally firing a shot from his rifle. Which flew and hit the large, cracked cliff wall. Which shattered into stones and small boulders. Which came thundering down towards them. “Oh shit.” Whispered Jenkins, watching as an avalanche of rocks came hurtling towards him. Thankfully his end came quickly. The first boulder came smashing into his temple. Killing him instantly. “NO JENKINS!!” Yelled the captain. His voice drowned out by the hurricane of rocks thundering past them. Meanwhile at the cliff edge. Sasha suddenly turned from the edge of the cliff as he heard a sound that rattled through him. “Oh shit.” Said Sasha. “What?” “Tell me this isn’t an avalanche zone?” Asked Sasha turning towards the mountain. “Yea.” Said Rainbow. Following his gaze. “Oh my Celestia.” Said Rainbow. “Thought so.” Said Sasha. Grabbing her bodily and leapt off the cliff. They only just made it as the avalanche rolled off the cliff at high enough speed to send them hurtling into the air. After the adrenaline fuelled Pegasus and human. As they flew Sasha positioned himself in such a way as to protect Rainbow. Just as a particularly large boulder came hurtling towards them. “Oh shit.” Said Sasha. “HEAD DOWN!!” Yelled Sasha moving his head. ’no not yet.’ He thought. ’I won’t die now. I can’t let myself die or her die.’ He was about to flip when a slight boulder shaped intrusion occurred. Just as they were about to hit the ground Sasha concentrated generating a semicircle shaped shield around them just before they hit the ground. It was dark. That’s all he could tell. He looked around left and right but there was nothing. He was just floating in limbo. When he saw something. It was a small light that was growing bigger, and bigger, and bigger. To the point that it was the size of a man. Then suddenly it split apart into another form which also split. Until there were five people in front of him. His expression changed into a look of surprise and delight. “Mother. Father. Josh. Alex. Danielle.” He said relived. “What are you doing here?” He asked. Suddenly he heard a voice from what seemed to be miles away. “Wake up! Wake up Sasha!” He barely reacted. “Wake up!” This time it was louder and clearer. “Wake up!” Suddenly he felt a hard slap across his face followed by pressure on his mouth followed by pressure on his chest. He woke up coughing up dust. “Are you okay?” “Was someone kissing me?” He asked wildly. As his eyes became accustomed to the current light level he noticed Rainbow’s face was bright red. Almost enough to see by. Rainbow promptly slapped him across the face. Hard. Meanwhile outside the impact zone. A large group of ponies were gathered around the area where the large boulder landed. “What happened?” Asked Twilight pushing to the head of the group. “Twi!” Yelled applejack pushing herself to her friends side. “What?!” Asked Twilight exasperated. “Ah saw Rainbow and the new guy head this way.” Said Applejack. “Oh Celestia.” Said Twi. The bolder creaked then split into quarters. Then crumbled. Dust flying up. Obscuring Twi’s field of vision. “Good thing that was sand stone or we would’ve been dead.” Came a voice from the impact site. A figure rose from the dust cloud. It was tall, slim, short haired, had wings, but had no visible tail. Then another figure rose up. This one was also tall, muscular, with a tail, wings and some bust. Suddenly there was a gust as one figure flapped their wings. Revealing the spectacle. Rainbow stood beside a stallion. He was a head taller and had appeared to have not shaved for a week. “Wha- how-. I mean who are you?” Asked Twilight. Stammering. *What the hell, might as well see how far the truth gets me.* Thought Sasha. “My name is Sasha Nicholls and i’m a human.” And there was dead silence. Author's Note I apologise for the major lateness of this chapter. I let you guys down and I hope to regain your viewing interest, however I will continue to do my usual method of writing drafts before publishing but with more careful editing and better pacing, seeing as this story so far has a similar pace as trying to boil the Pacific Ocean with a kilogram of napalm and a single match. Hopefully this chapter will be the last crap one that I write. Should anyone have any comments or advice for this project I will accept and try to incorporate it should it seem appropriate to this story or something I find interesting. I will give credit in the author's notes or the beginning of the chapter/section where the ideas/advice is given.
Arrival"This is so bullshit!" Shouted a young man as he sprinted through a forest pursued closely by a large man in a torn cloak, as fast as he could muster the young man sprinted into a clearing and spotted a massive tree. Without hesitation he ran for it, dodging low branches and leaping over logs. As he reached the tree he glanced back over his shoulder at the creature following him. It was large, sharply dressed, humanoid but not human, it had arms that ended just a few inches above the ground, which trailed massive razor sharp claws. It was the Revier, the trans dimensional beast from the void between universes. Immediately he started scaling the tree adrenaline pumping through his veins, 10 feet. 15 feet. 20 feet. 25 feet. as he reached thirty feet, he looked down, to see the Reiver also scaling the tree, he quickened his pace, he reached the hundred foot mark. A brainwave hit him like a sledge hammer. He looked down as he tore out a branch and stared at the Reiver as he raised the branch the Reiver looked up. Starting to emit short bursts of white noise, which seemed to be laughter. The young man felt a grin pull at his mouth, as he brought the branch around like a sword smashing the branches in its wake, broken twigs and leaves showered down, Reiver evaded them still laughing, the young mans grin spread a cross his face as Reiver looked up, and instantly stopped laughing at what he saw. The young man had shattered all the other branches around him, except for a few which he started shattering, after a few minutes where Reiver was highly astonished he started up again, but the youth had gotten out of his reach, and had removed the last of the branches for a five meter space, Revier snarled in anger as he tried to scale the space. -meanwhile 70 or so meters up the tree- Back up in the higher parts of the tree, the youth kept climbing until he could find an area to rest, after a while he found an area where two thick branches collided to form a massive fork. As he sat the young man reflected on what had happened over the past few minutes. He was Sasha Nicholls, a 16 year old boy who had recently passed his exams, and had gone camping with his friends to celebrate. While he was away from the camp, Reiver had ambushed him, trapping him in another dimension, tearing a hole in the universe. Now he was stuck here until ether he died, the Reiver caught him or the dimension he is stuck in implodes. Seeing as Reiver will send him to the void if he was caught, and the dimension is maintained as long as Reiver lives he came to one conclusion, it was risky but it might work, he continued climbing, when he reached an altitude of 12000 meters and he waited, after a few minutes. Reiver was almost at him. Then Reiver saw the human peek over the ledge and smile a smile that sent shivers down slender’s spine “Sup Reiver.” said the human as he leaned over the edge, “think fast!” He yelled as Sasha, diving over side feet first and landed on Reiver's head, grabbing his flailing arms and pulling them up avoiding the claws as they flailed, they fell, it was hard to keep balanced on a point like a head while holding onto an inter dimensional horror, but he steadied on firm, he looked down to see the ground rushing up to meet them, just as they hit the ground, they shattered a dimensional weak point and pelted into the void. As they plunged into the void Sasha brought Reiver's arm up and touched them to his left shoulders before the void tore him apart. -meaner while in Equestria- What's that in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a-(alright enough of this reference). Rainbow Dash was trying to teach Fluttershy to be a better flyer, so Rainbow decided to try flying over the ever free forest. It wasn't going that well. Fluttershy had barely used her wings in the past few years. Rainbow’s hands and face were really getting sore from all the face-palms, when suddenly Fluttershy let out a shrill shriek, that almost made Rainbow topple out of the sky. After Rainbow’s ears stopped ringing, she looked around searching for the cause when her eyes saw a stallion, lying face down in a spreading pool of blood. She sped to the ground as fast as her wings could carry her. As she landed, she sprinted towards the fallen figure, to suddenly realize that he wasn't a pony. She pushed that out of her mind. As she reached the prone figure, she looked around to see Fluttershy behind a tree, sobbing quietly. But she ignored that too as she flipped him over. Okay he was definitely not a pony. He appeared to have fur on his face around his chin and mouth. And a short mane cut. As she examined his face, she saw his eyes open, just a fraction and his body started shaking as if in laughter. “just great.” Whispered the figure, so quietly that she could barely hear. He pulled himself to his knees, and started crawling towards the tree that Fluttershy was behind. He leaned over and appeared to be calming her down. As soon as he stood, Flutteshy rose to. As he started his way back to Rainbow, he collapsed against a tree. falling to his knee clutching his left side where there was a massive gash from his shoulder to his knee. As Rainbow approached he raised his head. As she reached him he looked into her eyes, they were... Well a word has to be made to describe them. They were conflicted, fighting themselves to find out what color they were. Green. Blue. Red. Purple. They kept shifting until they finally rested, at a sort of pinkish color that match Rainbow’s eyes. They just stared at each other eye to eye. Oblivious to the world around them. And in that moment she saw all the pain, the anger, the sadness and the longing to belong and for peace. But it was short lived, as a wave of pain flashed across his body. Causing spasms of pain which shot all over him. His head suddenly shot up. A burst of light that almost blinded, them burst from his head. After a few seconds the light dissipated, and he fell forwards collapsing onto the ground. As quick as a flash Rainbow sprinted to Fluttershy who had returned to her behind brethren and pulled her to her feet. “Come on Fluttershy we need to take him to the hospital.” “Umm is he okay?” “Not if we don’t take him to the hospital.” Getting Rainbow’s point Fluttershy got up and ran to the prone figure, followed closely by Rainbow, who reached him first. Grunting slightly, Rainbow lifted him up and heaved him onto her shoulder. Fluttershy took hold of his left side, causing him to clutch it in pain. His head shot up and he gritted his teeth in a grimace of agony. “Can we get going.”Said the stallion gritting his teeth “Yea lets get going.” Said Rainbow -five hours later- “Okay we’re going absolutely no where.” Said the stallion with a defeated look on his face. He looked over at Rainbow and a his eyes lit up. “One sec.” He said and concentrated. At that moment a flash of golden light blazed for a second behind him. When it disappeared it reveled a pair of enormous, pure white, feathery wings. “What?” said Rainbow gawking at his wings “What?” He said looking back at her. “How did you grow wings?” “Oh that. Simple really.” He replied with a small grin. “Seeing as I fell through the void, it pumped tonnes of void energy into my body. Causing me to be able to morph my body and matter around me. Allowing me to create or change the properties of matter around me.” “Wat.” “...” “...” “I screwed Darwin over” “Oh. Darwhiney.” “Sorry what?” “Darwhiney? You know the pony that found manticores, dragons and Cerberus in the gallopigus islands.” (Crapy horse puns away!) “Gallopigus? Really?” “...” Sasha faceplamed. “... Anyways.” He said and sent a psychic probe into Rainbows head, filling her head with his memories and knowledge. don’t worry i’m just constructing a neural link between you and me. You’ll see my memories and i’ll see yours. “Let's take off.” Said the stallion known as Sasha. As he raised his wings, Rainbow felt her wings doing the same. “Allons y!” He yelled as he flapped his new wings. “To the hospital!” Yelled Rainbow taking off after him. “Omigoodnes omigoodnes omigoodnes omigoodnes.” Said Fluttershy following them. -Meanwhile thousands of meters away- A wormhole opened in the middle of the forest and a squad of marines fell out. They wore green jungle camo with matching bulletproof vests. They were human soldiers. A commando team that were snatched out of time from the Vietnam war. Driven mad by what they saw while whirling through time and space. Seeing and knowing the whole of the space-time continuum. Watching everything burn and die for what felt like eternity. When they arrived they were batshit crazy. Believing that they were high on the battle field and that all other life was the Vietcong forces. “Move out men!” Yelled the Sargent “Sir,yes sir!” Yelled the hallucinating marines raising their weapons and took aim searching the area. A bird squawked, and at once, automatic fire danced around the bird who just sat there passively. When the marines ran out of bullets, the bird squawked again. To have a following chorus of swear words from the soldiers below. Author's Note Inform me on what you think of this chapter. Note that this is the beginning of a massive story and that this is the first chapter I've ever done. I was inspired to start writing by Razor the aptly named Awesome. If you don't know him then... You don't know what you're missing out. Check his story "wake up. See this. What do?" Anyways I hope you like this chapter and what occurs throughout the rest of the story.
Duel For ControlAs they flew towards the hospital, Rainbow noticed something odd about the “human”. He was flying on the same course with his head down. Then something hit her on the shoulder. It was blood. Warm, sticky blood was trailing behind him. Then Rainbow connected the dots. His head was down, flying straight, and blood flying behind him. She caught up to him and her fears were true. He was unconscious from blood loss. “Hey! Wake up!” Yelled Rainbow “Wake up!” She repeated. He remained unconscious. She grabbed his head and yelled in his ear. He remained unconscious. She cursed looking ahead to see the hospital in front of them. “Okay just got to direct an unconscious Pegasus... Human... Thing. Into the hospital before he bleeds to death. No pressure.” Which would have been fine, if he didn’t start to increase his angle of descent. “Celestia damnit!” She swore. She increased her speed and tried to get under him to stop his descent. But it was already to late. He plummeted speeding directly at the hospital. Rainbow had no other choice. She calculated the distance and the chance of her plan working. It wasn’t very high. She sped up and broke the sound barrier. The resulting blast shattered windows and almost deafened every one in the near vicinity. At this Sasha woke up. He looked up to see the foyer heading towards him quickly. He spread his wings which did almost nothing. 'Alright then didn’t want to do this but, Okay’ he altered his angle and flight pattern slightly and hit the ground at a run. He bent his knees and pushed off just enough to send him into a roll. He rolled over and over before finally coming to a halt. In the middle of the lobby where he lay face down, blood forming a puddle around him. The nurses and doctors didn’t hesitate. They sprinted to the prone human. They lifted him up and put him on a stretcher and wheeled towards an operating room. Rainbow had to swerve sharply to avoid hitting any pony. Flying through and open window. Almost crashing into the flower garden on the front lawn of the hospital. But she remembered what she Learnt at flight school. And rolled over once before getting to her feet in a single movement. She wheeled around and sprinted towards the hospital. As she reached the doors she practically kicked the door in, and sprinted towards the reception desk. “What happened to the Pegasus that crashed here?” She inquired. “Most likely they have taken him to an operating room, for him to be sewn up.” “How severe are his wounds?” “If you didn’t bring him here he would’ve most likely died.” -meanwhile in the O.R.- where am I? Who’s there? Sasha was standing in an empty white expanse. ’wake up, you Piece of shit.’ Sasha whirled around to see someone looking exactly like him sitting on a box. ’who are you? ’i’m you, more accurately your better half.'The other Sasha stood up and the box disappeared. ’you didn’t exist before I fell.’ ’you thought you arrived mentally unscathed.’ ’well now I can see that i’m wrong. So what do you want?’ The other Sasha walked up to the original and looked at each other eye to eye. ’personally I want to destroy this world and remake it in my image.’ Sasha rolled his eyes and let out an exasperated sigh. ’tell me something.’ ’shoot.’ ’how are you a spawn of my mind?’ Said Sasha his right hand splayed across his right temple and forehead. ’simple, I am the side of you that wants everything dead. And is willing to spill blood myself if necessary.’ ’you sound less like me by the minute.’ ’look at it this way chuckle fuck. We have to share this mind and body. And so far you did nothing but make a massive fuck up. Almost killing us both. So i’m taking over here.’ Explained the counter part turning away. ’like hell you will!’ He stopped and turned around with a grin on his face. ’oh really? You can’t even move the body and you don’t want me in control. Think of it this way. I can control the void energy better than you. I have no remorse and i’ll kill anyone in my way.’ He said getting right in Sasha’s face. ’well there's only one way to decide this.’ ’that would be?’ ’to settle it like gentlemen.’ ’pfftt with words?’ Said the counter part turning around and walking away. ’nope, dueling swords.’ Said Sasha. The counter part turned around and smiled the evilest mother fucking smile ever. ’now you’re speaking my language.’ Sasha pulled out two rapiers and tossed one to the counter part. They raised the rapiers to their faces and bowed. ’best of 5.’ ’sounds reasonable.’Replied the counter part. The counter part charged thrusting his rapier forward. Sasha deflected the blow and thrusted, catching the counterpart on the side. ’to make this more fun, lets have any damage afflicted to us is also felt to our body. And no wings.’ ’agreed.’ ’round one me.’ ’round two.’ ’start!’ Again the counter part charged and again Sasha dodged. But the double’s sword passed through his thigh. ’round two double ’please just call me Alex to not make things confusing.’ ’agreed. Ahem. Round two Alex.’ ’round three. Begin!’ They charged at each other blades flashing towards the other’s throats. Sasha deflected Alex’s blade before it struck home, and countered. Spinning down and around, kicking Alex’s feet from below him, meeting him with his sword thrusting it through the right bicep. ’round three me.’ ’round four begin!’ With that Sasha charged, swinging his sword at high speed. It was all Alex could do was block. Then he saw an opening and took it. The blade stabbed Sasha in the left leg. ’round four me.’ Said Alex twirling his sword as Sasha fell to his knees. Alex leveled the sword at Sasha’s throat. ’round five begin.’ He said pulling his blade back. But Sasha wasn’t there. ’round five, tiebreaker, me.’ Said Sasha sheathing his sword behind Alex. ’wha-.’ He clutched his chest as blood sprayed out. ’how? Did you?’ ’you let your overconfidence get the better of you, allowing me to get out of the way while scoring one final attack.’ He explained. ’fine you win.’ Said Alex head hung low, a defeated look on his face. ’finish me.’ ’no.’ ’what? but you won.’ ’you are of some use to me.’ ’what use could I be to you?’ ’you fought well and almost beat me. And i need your knowledge on the control of the energy.’ ’what’s to tell?’ ’everything.’ ’why? I tried to kill you earlier.’ ’I’m cutting you a deal: ether die now or teach me how to control these abilities and you just hibernate until I need you.’ ’why would you need me?’ ’i need you willingness to fight, to win no matter the cost.’ ’so that’s it.’ ’now choose. To live or to die.’ At this Alex looked up. And grinned. ’isn’t it obvious?’ ’i thought so.’ Sasha offered a hand and Alex took it. They shook. ’time to wake up. And goodnight.’ Said Alex sitting down. He disappeared. ’well.’ Sasha thought to himself. ’time to wake up and smell the coffee.’ -In reality- Sasha jolted awake, looking around at the startled doctors and nurses around him. “Good news every pony. You kept me alive and thanks to you I will be able to repay you.” “Umm.” “What?” “You were on the verge of death when you arrived.” “Indeed and now as I see it I need plasma in me so I can recover the blood I lost. And a needle and thread so I can stitch myself up.” “Can’t we do that?” “You don’t understand the human biology.” “We’re just sewing up some poultry wounds.” “... Fair point.” A moment of silence passed then Sasha doubled over clutching his chest. “What’s going on?” “I’m still biologically unstable. The energy is forcing my body to evolve in such a way that should allow me to live with the energy.” “What's happening to you though?” “My body is mutating in order to survive.” “How?” “It appears to trying to create another heart.” His head shot up and yelled in pain. “How would another heart help you?” “The other heart would-” he cried in pain, sentence abruptly cut short. He started thrashing in agony, glowing a bright gold which was steadily growing brighter. “Get out of here!” Yelled one of the doctors. Panic obvious in his voice. As the assorted doctors and nurses ran from the room, Rainbow ran towards it. She made it half way down the Corridor, when a doctor stopped her. “What are you doing!?” Yelled the doctor. “What’s going on!?” “We have no idea! He woke up then was alright then out of no where he starts glowing and convulsing!” At this point a message flashed across her mind ’they don’t know what’s going on. But I have a faint idea of what's happening. Get to my room. I’ll give you further instructions from there.’ She paused a confused expression on her face. “Let me past.” She said panic in her voice. “Well it’s your funeral.” Said the doctor running down the corridor. She ran towards his room. It wasn’t to hard to find. The doorway was filled with a blinding light. As she sped through the doorway, she saw Sasha’s form covered in a blinding aura of golden light. “Alright what now?” ’i need you to grab my arm.’ “Why?” ’my body is not of this dimension. And this world knows it and is trying to eliminate the intruder. In order to fool it, I need to be in contact with something that was born here in order to anchor me.’ “Ok so I just grab anywher-” ’yes now hurry. This hurts like a bi-’ “Yes yes alright.” She said grabbing the arm with both hands. Almost instantly the glow subsided and he fell still. ’ah that's better.’ He sighed mentally before the link terminated. “Sasha?” Said Rainbow, confused. “Is it over?” Said a nurse leaning around the doorway her fingers in her ears. A slightly terrified look on her face. “Yea it's fine nurse red heart.” Said a doctor walking in. Looking abnormally calm. “Obviously he is something dangerous and new.” Said the doctor. “We must report him to Celestia and dissect him as soon as possible.” Said another doctor as he walked in. “Like hell you’ll dissect him!” Yelled the doctor, nurse and Rainbow at once. The accused doctor raised his hands in a defensive gesture. “Hey hey hey I was kidding. But not about the reporting to Celestia.” “Oh that’s okay.” “Indeed it is. And it will be good for me to meet her for the first time.” Responded Sasha, he was sitting up. Practically everyone jumped. Sasha looked around in polite confusion. “What?” “What was that light about?” “This dimension believed that I was an intruder and was trying to remove the threat. Had to use some energy to try to camoflage my self. But it didn’t work and so I needed an anchor to synchronize with. Hence the minor glow from her.” He said, gesturing at Rainbow. As she looked down she saw her hands were faintly glowing. About a second later the glow disappeared. “What was that?” “Low level void energy. It should only exist for a short time. Before leaving a permanent mark on the person you recently touched.” He turned around noticing a faint golden light coming his back. “Ah talk of the devil. Now I guess this will hurt like a bi-” He doubled over, grabbing his back. After a while the pain subsided. “Yea I was right.” He said a pained expression on his face. He turned around and removed his shirt. They looked to see, an inverted Ω symbol with a line through it, on his back. “Can someone describe it to me? Or get me a mirror?” “It looks like an inverted Ω with a line through it.” “So not that bad?” “It actually looks pretty cool.” Responded Rainbow nodding. “But here’s a good question.” “Yea.” “You had wings when we arrived, now you’re like a normal earth pony.” “Those wings were temporary. Getting the feel of them. Seeing if I would need a pair later.” “Oh.” Said Rainbow. Then she looked at him with disbelief. “’getting the feel of them?’ Why are you treating wings like something you would where at a shop?” “To be fair they were never designed to be long term. And would have painfully separated from my back, taking my spine and skull with it.” “Oh... Lets leave it at that.” “Agreed.” Author's Note Readers it's been a pleasure entertaining you. I'm sorry it took so long. I've been had a bad few weeks. So expect a chapter every few weeks. But to those that think that this isn't very exciting. Just wait till next chapter. Cause that's when excrement hits the jet turbine.
After that rapid recovery-in the forest- “We’re fucking doomed!” Yelled one of the commandos in the middle of the forest. The other commandos looked at him then looked to their commanding officer. He sighed and walked towards the soldier who snapped. And pimp slapped him across the face. “Shut the fuck up Jenkins!” Yelled the captain as Jenkins was sent reeling back colliding with a tree. “What the fuck was that for!?” “For giving away our position and alerting any wildlife around here. So stay quiet and sane.” Said the captain with a low, deadly voice. “How the fuck could I stay sane here?!” Yelled Jenkins in his captain’s face. “I mean you saw what happened to jones! You saw how he died!” Yelled the traumatised soldier. The captain flinched as the memory flashed through his head of how his second in command died, half in, half out of a chimera’s mouth then without warning the other heads tore him apart blood and intestines flying every where. His blood splashing across the captain’s face. He shook his head and raised his hand to his forehead where the blood of jones still there. Their last link to the squad member who treated them like family and brought the squad together. The member who rejected a promotion so he could stay with his squad. “And let's not make his death be in vain.” Said the captain grabbing the soldiers arm and pulling him up. “Sir incoming!” Yelled a squad member sprinting towards them. “John I thought I told you to be defending the perimeter.” “You did, but there's no one there left alive.” “What do you mean no one left?” “The perimeter has be wiped out!” “What the hell?! By what?!” “It's so ridiculous-” “Tell me soldier!” “A cockatrise sir!” At that moment a cockatrise flew into the clearing, only to meet a barrage of bullets practically shredding it. Flying straight and almost colliding with Conner who ducked to avoid its fatal gaze. “Fucking hell!” Yelled Conner getting up. “It's not over yet!” “What?” Yelled most of the remaining squad. The captain looked pointedly towards johns, the rest of the squad followed suit. Johns sighed heavily and said “There was about ten sir”. “TEN?!!” Yelled the squad simultaneously looking horrified. “Might I make a suggestion?” Asked Conner. Who had recovered first. “What?” Said the captain still looking at Johns horrified. “If we don’t want to die... FUCKING RUN!!!!” “All in favour.” “AYE!” Yelled the entire squad. “Well it's settled then. FUCKING RUN!!!” Yelled the captain as nine cockatirse burst in to the clearing making for the adrenaline, fear, and urine powered soldiers. As they ran, the soldiers took potshots with their pistols over their shoulder. As the squad ran a member broke off and stopped turning around raising a shotgun. “What the hell are you doing Charles?!” Yelled the captain not breaking stride. “I’ll hold them off!” Yelled Charles firing. A cockatrise was reduced to a cloud of blood in an instant. Like a nightmare the others came flying at full pelt through their atomised comrade. But they weren’t flying at head height but at neck height. Charles realised what's going to happen before it did. He was going to die by these nightmare creatures. They were going to kill him slowly and painfully. ’but.’ He thought. ’if I am going to die i’ll die fighting.’ He pulled the trigger just as they flew close together and most of the remaining cockatrise fell to the ground. He was going to fire another shot but it was to late. As the first one reached him its teeth met his throat tearing a section of his neck out. As he reeled around another one sliced out most of the other side of his neck. He was now facing the way his squad went and saw the two cockatrise fly after the marines. He weakly raised his shotgun and was about to fire when two thoughts sliced though his mind. ’those things had tails like arrowheads.’ And ’oh shit there were three survivors.’ He realised this last one when a cockatrise tail punched through his neck cutting his head off. As his head reached the ground a single thought remained. ’I’m so sorry captain but I delayed them. Don’t let me die in vain.’ Meanwhile with the poor sod about to meet pinkie. As they walked towards the town square Sasha suddenly stopped. “Oh shit.” “What?” “Pinkie p-” “Hi!!” Yelled pinkie pie coming from a nearby vender booth where there was a mare with a Stetson on her head with three apples on her collarbone. Sasha nodded to the mare and Rainbow called. “Hey applejack. How’s business?” “Same old. Same old.” While they were exchanging pleasantries pinkie turned her gaze on Sasha who nodded and offered his hand. “Hello pinkie pie, it’s nice to meet you. However if you are still planing that party then good. I really need some relaxation... Of some sort.” Pinkie took his hand and shook it violently. “Hi i’m Pinkie pie official party planner and master of ceremonies for pony vile and-” “Element of laughter and happiness and a maker of baked awesomeness?” Suggested Sasha an amused look on his face. “Basically. But I didn’t catch your name i’ll need it for the welcome banner.” “It’s Sasha. Sasha Nicholls.” “That’s an odd name around here.” “Same in my world but it really has another meaning. Sasha is actually Russian for Alex. It also happens to be the name of an ancient conquer in Ancient Rome. His name was-” “Alexander the great?” Said Pinkie a massive smile on her face which was threatening to actually come off her face. “Yes. But how did you-. You know what? Never mind.” “Anyways the party will be at 6:30 in the evening.” “Ok but that’s in.” Sasha glanced at the clock tower and saw it was 2:45. “About three hours, forty four minutes and twenty one seconds.” Said Sasha offering his hand again. She took it and shook it normally. “Well I have to go to Rarity’s.” “For what?” Asked Rainbow walking towards them. “I have no formal clothes, and I couldn’t call myself a gentleman if I don’t arrive in style. Plus it’d be best to get it out if the way early.” “Okay i’ll show you there.” “See ya pinkie.” “Bye.” “See you at the party!” Yelled Pinkie as they turned and walked away Later at Rarity’s boutique. There was a knock at the door. As Rarity walked towards the door she felt something powerful. Unicorns could just feel that kind of power. As she turned to the door she saw Rainbow walk in, escorting a Pegasus stallion in. “Hey Rarity.” “Why hello Rainbow. And hello ehh.” “Sasha. Sasha Nicholls.” “So how can I help you today?” “Rarity, I apologise if we interrupted you while you’re busy. But I need some clothes while i’m here. And you are the best mare for the job.” “Well okay. But first i’ll require your measurements. First your chest and torso. Now strip.” “What?!” Said Rainbow horrified. “Fine.” Said Sasha reluctantly, removing his shirt exposing his chest and torso. Rarity conjured a measuring tape out of thin air and picked up a clipboard and pen started work. After ten minutes of this. “Alright, done!” Said Rarity laying down the clipboard, pen and measuring tape. “Finally.” Said Sasha retrieving his shirt and pants, slipping behind a set of changing blinds. After a second he shuffled out and into another. Mouthing the words “Rainbow” as he went. “Um can you turn around?” Asked Sasha Watching Rarity turn he started getting dressed. “Hey Rarity how long till you can finish the clothes?” “They’ll be done at around four o’clock.” “Good.” Said Sasha sounding relived. “Bye.” Called Rainbow over her shoulder as they left. “So one problem if i’m going to live here.” “What?” “I’ll need a source of money.” He said turning his head. “Do you know of any jobs that would be seeking my talents?” “Weather control, physicist, game hunter, inventor, sniper.” “What was that last one!?” “Inventor.” “Nononononono not that. Did you say game hunter?” “Yep.” “Why? I thought equestrians were vegetarians.” “Oh no. We’re omnivores it’s just we eat plants and fish.” “Um... Ok.” “So the job you’d pick would be?” “Weather manager and hunter.” “That all?” “And i’ll toss in the physicist to.” “Okay.” “So what do you do?” “I'm a weather manager, karate teacher, and athletics coach.” “Okay. So when do I start?” “First show me what you can do.” Said Rainbow leaping into the air. “Alright then.” Said Sasha taking to the sky. “Alright so what do you know about weather control?” “Not really all that much.” Said Sasha putting his hands in his pockets, looking up. “What. They didn't have weather control where you come from?” “Nope.” He said cheerfully shaking his head smiling. “You saw my memories. and you should know quite well that in my world the weather is extremely unpredictable. and the closest thing to controlling weather is using logic and math to prepare for it. So no.” “So where you came from there was no way to control the weather?” “None at all.” Said Sasha cheerfully. “Also there's something that’s been bugging me since you met pinkie.” “The fact that I know her, you, Fluttershy and the rest of your friends without meeting them before hand?” “Yes.” “Oh that's easy, where I come from we have a show called ’my little pony’ and you and your friends are the main cast. Not to mention the fact that the show was at first made for younger girls, it has now attracted a large male following. In this context we’re now referring to ourselves as ’bronies’. And the more judgmental insists on calling the female following ’pegasisters’ which I believe is fair but kind of annoying.” Explained Sasha without pausing. “So your a brony?” “Absolutely.” “Okay now back to our original topic. To disperse a cloud you need speed and precision.” “Like this?” Said Sasha flattening his and and charging at a cloud. Slicing it cleanly in half. “Basically.” Said Rainbow nodding. “Let me try something.” Said Sasha raising his hand. He concentrated. Imagining a ball of particles in his hand. He glowed with a golden aura as the ball grew in his hand. He opened his eyes to see the ball the size of a basket ball in his hand. He stopped focusing on the enlargement. He aimed it at a cloud and fired. Ball of particles impacted on the cloud and detonated obliterating it. Rainbows jaw dropped. Sasha turned around, eyebrow cocked. “Too much?” He asked. She looked at him and nodded. After Rainbow recovered from the shock she looked at him and inquired. “How the hell did you do that?” “I concentrated void particles into a ball and added a particle of antimatter into the mix.” “But if you can do that then you might be able to do more.” Sasha nodded. “This prospect requires more testing.” He said studding his hand. “I wonder.” He said and levelled his palm and thought of a single item. It appeared in his hand. It was a seven foot long sword. He grabbed hold and swung it around experimentally. He dispelled it just as a thought slammed into his head. He could use this newfound power to create whatever he needed. “Well.” Said Sasha recreating his blade. “Let's clear these skies.” He said charging at the clouds blade swinging. Author's Note Sorry that this chapter took so long. I've been feeling very depressed lately. But to compensate I'll post the next chapter within the weekend. But anyways thanks for being so patient.
The action begins (somewhat)After a few seconds of pure cloud obliteration “So what's my possibility of getting hired?” “I’d say around 100%.” “Huh.” “What?” “Something was bugging me since we got out of the boutique.” “What.” “In my world the thought of ponies were as equines. But you are homo sapien in appearance.” There was a brief moment of silence where this statement hung in the air. “What?” “You look human.” Sasha said. “Except for the wings, cutie mark on your collar bone and.” He said peering around Rainbow before adding. “Tail.” “Well that’s how we ponies look and we can't change that. Except probably for unicorns.” “That’s another thing that confuses me.” “What?” “The whole lack of a horn thing.” “What? Unicorns don’t have horns.” “Then how do they perform magic?” “They have a mark on their dominant fore arm.” “Okaayyyyy.” Said Sasha slowly turning away. Spotting a cloud that hadn’t been scourged. Calmly creating a gun and fired it, dispelling the cloud. “So what time is it?” Said Sasha looking at his watch. Which seemed to be working normally. Rainbow looked to the clock tower. “It's about 3:11.” Said Rainbow, looking over Sasha’s shoulder at his watch. “That’s odd my watch says its 7:00.” Said Sasha an eyebrow raised. He raised his arm so he could see his watch and the clock tower. “Oh shit.” Said Sasha in a low, terrified voice. “What?” Asked Rainbow. “I’m not in sync with the flow of time.” “Meaning?” “Time is moving at a different pace for me than it is for you and all the other inhabitants of Equestria.” Said Sasha turning to reveal an expression of concern. “I’ll be dead in around 45 years equestrian time. Or 90 years to me.” “Is there anyway to stop that?” “It might take a while for my cells to sync with the rate that time flows in this dimension. Or it’ll take a day Equestrian time of me being awake straight. It might be something like what we call in my world ’jet lag’ kinda sorta not. Hopefully Pinkie’s party will last till morning. Failing that I’ll need to speed up my perception of time, via adrenaline rush. So anyways.” Said Sasha his look of concern becoming a sly grin. “As they say ’time flies when you’re having fun.’” He sprinted towards the edge of the town. Towards the cliff that stood by the north overlooking the settlement. ’this can’t end well.’ Rainbow thought before following with a concerned expression on her face. Meanwhile in the bushes not even five feet away. “Sir i’ve spotted two locals.” Said Charles into his radio. “Did they spot you?” Inquired the captain. “Negative. But sir.” “Yes?” “They’re not quite human.” “What do you mean?” “They had wings and one has unnatural hair and a marking on her collarbone. The other one looked almost exactly human except for the wings.” “Where are they now?” “Headed for the overwatch.” “Rodger. Repositioning.” Replied the captain. At the overwatch. “Heading towards the overwatch.” “Rodger repositioning.” Said the captain, deactivating the radio. Signalling to the rest of the squad to pack up and move to another site. They got up and sprinted toward to the path leading up a nearby mountain. Just as they were almost at the path Jenkins tripped. His rifle butt slamming into the side of his head. Which would’ve been fine... If he hadn’t reflexively clenched his fists to stop himself from yelling out. Accidentally firing a shot from his rifle. Which flew and hit the large, cracked cliff wall. Which shattered into stones and small boulders. Which came thundering down towards them. “Oh shit.” Whispered Jenkins, watching as an avalanche of rocks came hurtling towards him. Thankfully his end came quickly. The first boulder came smashing into his temple. Killing him instantly. “NO JENKINS!!” Yelled the captain. His voice drowned out by the hurricane of rocks thundering past them. Meanwhile at the cliff edge. Sasha suddenly turned from the edge of the cliff as he heard a sound that rattled through him. “Oh shit.” Said Sasha. “What?” “Tell me this isn’t an avalanche zone?” Asked Sasha turning towards the mountain. “Yea.” Said Rainbow. Following his gaze. “Oh my Celestia.” Said Rainbow. “Thought so.” Said Sasha. Grabbing her bodily and leapt off the cliff. They only just made it as the avalanche rolled off the cliff at high enough speed to send them hurtling into the air. After the adrenaline fuelled Pegasus and human. As they flew Sasha positioned himself in such a way as to protect Rainbow. Just as a particularly large boulder came hurtling towards them. “Oh shit.” Said Sasha. “HEAD DOWN!!” Yelled Sasha moving his head. ’no not yet.’ He thought. ’I won’t die now. I can’t let myself die or her die.’ He was about to flip when a slight boulder shaped intrusion occurred. Just as they were about to hit the ground Sasha concentrated generating a semicircle shaped shield around them just before they hit the ground. It was dark. That’s all he could tell. He looked around left and right but there was nothing. He was just floating in limbo. When he saw something. It was a small light that was growing bigger, and bigger, and bigger. To the point that it was the size of a man. Then suddenly it split apart into another form which also split. Until there were five people in front of him. His expression changed into a look of surprise and delight. “Mother. Father. Josh. Alex. Danielle.” He said relived. “What are you doing here?” He asked. Suddenly he heard a voice from what seemed to be miles away. “Wake up! Wake up Sasha!” He barely reacted. “Wake up!” This time it was louder and clearer. “Wake up!” Suddenly he felt a hard slap across his face followed by pressure on his mouth followed by pressure on his chest. He woke up coughing up dust. “Are you okay?” “Was someone kissing me?” He asked wildly. As his eyes became accustomed to the current light level he noticed Rainbow’s face was bright red. Almost enough to see by. Rainbow promptly slapped him across the face. Hard. Meanwhile outside the impact zone. A large group of ponies were gathered around the area where the large boulder landed. “What happened?” Asked Twilight pushing to the head of the group. “Twi!” Yelled applejack pushing herself to her friends side. “What?!” Asked Twilight exasperated. “Ah saw Rainbow and the new guy head this way.” Said Applejack. “Oh Celestia.” Said Twi. The bolder creaked then split into quarters. Then crumbled. Dust flying up. Obscuring Twi’s field of vision. “Good thing that was sand stone or we would’ve been dead.” Came a voice from the impact site. A figure rose from the dust cloud. It was tall, slim, short haired, had wings, but had no visible tail. Then another figure rose up. This one was also tall, muscular, with a tail, wings and some bust. Suddenly there was a gust as one figure flapped their wings. Revealing the spectacle. Rainbow stood beside a stallion. He was a head taller and had appeared to have not shaved for a week. “Wha- how-. I mean who are you?” Asked Twilight. Stammering. *What the hell, might as well see how far the truth gets me.* Thought Sasha. “My name is Sasha Nicholls and i’m a human.” And there was dead silence. Author's Note I apologise for the major lateness of this chapter. I let you guys down and I hope to regain your viewing interest, however I will continue to do my usual method of writing drafts before publishing but with more careful editing and better pacing, seeing as this story so far has a similar pace as trying to boil the Pacific Ocean with a kilogram of napalm and a single match. Hopefully this chapter will be the last crap one that I write. Should anyone have any comments or advice for this project I will accept and try to incorporate it should it seem appropriate to this story or something I find interesting. I will give credit in the author's notes or the beginning of the chapter/section where the ideas/advice is given.
