Universe
Arc 1: Situational Gravity
Episode 2: WreckingBall, PhD

[Yesterday]

“Scalpel”, Wrecking Ball requested as a Nurse wiped the sweat off of his brow. Another Nurse hoofed him the requested tool and he got to work on opening an artery.

Despite his Name and Cutie-Mark, Wrecking Ball was a very gifted surgeon. He was a orangey-brown coloured Pegasus with golden orange mane, cut into a Faux-Hawk. His Cutie-Mark was that of a Wrecking Ball, smashing a building.

Wrecking Ball was known as an Anti-Marker. He didn’t believe in destiny. Which makes his tale all the more inspiring. Despite his Cutie-Mark for smashing things, he dreamt of being a surgeon. To save ponies. To repair, not break. He worked so much harder than any other medical pony. Because he had no natural talent, he was forced to work twice as hard for twice as long to be just as good. So he worked three times as hard for three times as long, to be even better. Unfortunately, nopony really believed he could be a doctor back then, so he had to take several jobs in order to put himself through school.

Even today, despite being a doctor, nopony truly believed he could choose what he could be.

Wrecking Ball made another incision, and opened up the artery. A blood Clot had appeared and put the young filly on the table into cardiac arrest. The hospital admins would’ve liked to put somepony with a medical cutie-mark on the job, but they were busy, so they were forced to put Wrecking Ball into the operating room.

“Tweezers.” Wrecking Ball requested, putting out his hoof.

“Are you sure?” The nurse asked.

“Nurse, this is no time for “are you sures”, now give me the Tweezers!” Wrecking Ball grunted. The nurse placed the tweezers in his hoof, and Wrecking Ball, with expert precision that only came from years of practice, plucked the clot from the vein.

“Surgical Thread.” He said. The nurse looked at him with utter mistrust. She couldn’t help looking at his Cutie-Mark. And he noticed.

“Nurse, I am more than equipped to save this filly, but I need your trust because if you cannot remember that I earned my doctorate fair and square, and give me the thread, then this filly is going to die." Wrecking Ball said quietly, with nothing but a look of duty and repressed anger in his eyes.

The Nurse handed him the thread, and with expert skill, Wrecking Ball quickly closed the artery. Having corrected the blood clot, he proceeded to sew up the filly's chest. Then, without looking at the nurse, he grabbed a lighter off of the tray and began to cauterize the cut.

Wrecking Ball looked at the heart monitor. With a mix of relief and satisfaction, it began to stabilize. He had saved her.

"Saved her." He said. He turned to the nurse. "Go and tell the parents. I'll wait for the staff to come and move her."

After the surgery, Wrecking Ball was called in to the admins office.

"Wrecking Ball, I'm sorry to inform you that the parents are outraged that we allowed you to operate on their daughter." The main admin said as he looked sternly at Wrecking Ball.

Wrecking Ball raised an eyebrow. "They're outraged that I saved their daughter?"

The second admin cleared her throat. "He means that they're threatening to sue the hospital for letting an unqualified..."

"I am qualified!" Wrecking Ball argued, getting defensive.

"Look, Wrecking Ball, you're a brilliant surgeon, one of the best. If this was a different job, we'd be more lenient. But we're a hospital. We need to be a 100% that our doctors won't fail. And you can't give us that 100%..."

"Why not?" Wrecking Ball demanded.

"You smash things." Said the third admin. "It's what you were built for. It's the complete opposite of what you're doing. I'm sorry, but we have to let you go. You'll get your redundancy package in the mail."

"But this isn't fair! I'm the only doctor who's never lost a patient! I give 110% percent, constantly." Wrecking Ball said, trying harder and harder to bottle his rage.

"I'm sorry Wrecking Ball. I guess it's just destinies choice." the first admin said.

*SNAP*

"RAAAAAAHHH!" Wrecking Ball screamed, flipping the desk over the admin's heads and sending it smashing into the ceiling. All the anger and rage he kept suppressed over the years had been let loose. He ran into the 2nd admin, then ran into the wall, crushing her between his durable body and the wall. Her ribs went crunch, and Wrecking Ball threw her into the other two, the three ponies unable to compete with his own maniacal might. The Orange Pegasus stopped his hooves on the ground, causing the ground to shudder.

"YOU WANT ME TO SMASH!" Wrecking Ball snarled in pure, primal rage. "FINE! I'LL START WITH YOU!"

He rammed into the first admin, the sheer impact breaking his front leg. Grabbing the admin with his forehoof, Wrecking Ball swung him over his head, and smashed him into the floor, breaking his shoulder.

Once Wrecking Ball was satisfied with the damage, he picked up the 2nd admin by the scruff of her neck.

"I'm not going to kill you, for two reasons." He growled. "A) I took an oath to preserve life when I became a doctor. B) And this is very important. DEAD PONIES DON'T LEARN THEIR LESSONS!"

And with that he tossed all three ponies into a pile and ran through the wall, leaving a pony shaped hole in the wall.

[Today]

Sundown at Sugarcube Corner was always when they made the most money. Since the foals were all in bed after dark, Mr. Cake thought it best to sell "More Adult Beverages". Since then, Sugarcube Corner has made more money after dark than during the day.

"Can I get you something?" Mr. Cake asked the pony at the counter. It was a mare with a light brown coat and a blonde mane. More interestingly, however, was her cutie mark, depicting a hammer and a lightning bolt.

Mr. Cake looked at her. "I'm sorry, I don't think I've seen you around this parts. Miss...?"

"Hammer Strike." She answered with a small. "Anyway, I'll take a flagon of your strongest beverage."

"Flagon?" Mr. Cake asked. "Is the renaissance fair coming to town?"

"Well, whatever you normally serve drinks in will be fine." Hammer Strike said, with a grin. "Just make sure it's strong. I plan to get absolutely kershnickered!"

Mr. Cake shrugged, and served her the drink. She paid with four bits and downed it. She then smashed the glass into the floor.

"ANOTHER!" She shouted boisterously. This shocked Mr. Cake quite a bit.
"Okay, but please don't do that again." Mr. Cake said, as he fetched Hammer Strike a new glass. She downed it instantly.

"RAAAAAAAGGGGGHHH!"

Hammer Strike snapped her head towards the window. With sight a normal pony shouldn't have, she saw out of the window and saw an Orange Pegasus, smashing up ponyville.

'Finally.' She thought to herself. 'A decent fight!'

Hammer Strike galloped outside with a look of pure glee. Running down the broken boulevard, she eventually caught up with Wrecking Ball.

"NOPONY TRUSTED ME! NOPONY BELIVED IN ME! I'LL SHOW THEM! I'LL SHOW THEM ALL!" Wrecking Ball shouted. Stamping his hoof, his unnatural strength cracked the pavement tile.

"YOU!" Shouted Hammer Strike, getting his attention. Wrecking Ball looked at her with rage in his eyes.

"RUN YOU STUPID FOAL! I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A RAMPAGE!"

But Hammer Strike did not run. She looked at Wrecking Ball, a glint in her eyes saying one thing.

'Come at me!'

Wrecking Ball snarled and ran at Hammer Strike with incredible speed. He attempted to smash his hooves into her, but Hammer Strike blocked him with her own hooves, resulting in a huge shockwave and a blinding light. Wrecking Ball was launched away while Hammer Strike was suspended in the air.

NAME: HAMMER STRIKE! SPECIES: UNKNOWN! YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO BE THE ELEMENT OF ENERGY!

The light faded, and Hammer Strike fell to the ground. Crackling with energy, she cricked her neck.

"Whapow!" She said, slamming her hooves into the ground. A giant thunderbolt crashed down from the sky, engulfing Hammer Strike. A magical transformation occurred, turning to Hammer Strike back into her true form. A male, golden alicorn in blue, silver and red armour. His/her cutie-mark was glowing golden, and floating by his/her head, was a hammer, like the one Hammer Strike's cutie-mark depicted. In addition, he had bright orange eyes, and golden armour going up his right leg, with an orange gem of his cutie mark in his shoulder.

Wrecking Ball pulled himself out of the rubble, cracking his joints and grunting. He looked at Hammer Strike.

"I don't know who you are or how you did that! BUT I'M GONNA SMASH YOU!" He roared, barrelling towards Hammer Strike. The Alicorn telekinetically swung his hammer into Wrecking Ball's path, swatting him away into a building.

"I KNOW NOT HOW I UNLOCKED MY TRUE FORM, KNAVE!" Hammer Strike shouted, keeping the same boisterous speech pattern. "But as for who I am..."

Hammer Strike took to the sky, and lit up with an orange glow. Channelling his newfound energy powers on instinct alone, Hammer Strike generated a lightning bolt from his horn, and sending it towards Wrecking Ball.

Wrecking Ball tried to dodge, but lightning will always strike the highest object, which in this instance, was Wrecking Ball. Wrecking Ball screamed in agony, but his natural toughness keeping him protected from any real damage. His wings gave out, and Wrecking Ball flopped to the floor. Hammer Strike flew down and landed beside him.

"Submit, Knave. The battle is mine," Hammer Strike said, changing back to his/her mortal mare form.

This proved to be a very stupid move, because Hammer Strike soon felt Wrecking Ball punch her in the face with all his might. The force of the punch not only created a small shockwave, but sent Hammer Strike flying through several walls.

"Let's agree to disagree on that one." Wrecking Ball said. dusting himself off, Wrecking Ball punched a building, ripping it from its foundation and sending it flying. Wrecking Ball then spotted three ponies. He knew one of them, Rainbow Dash was a pony who was strongly opposed to his belief that he could choose his destiny. He didn't recognise the other two.

“PONYVILLE! YOU DID THIS TO ME! NOW YOU ALL SHALL SUFFER THE DESTRUCTION BROUGHT BY THE WRECKING BALL!” He shouted.

"He's coming right for us!" Time Turner shouted. Wrecking Ball was running towards the three at break-neck speed.

"Oh no he's not!" Rainbow Dash shouted as she zoomed at him with incredible speed. With greater speed, Wrecking Ball punched Rainbow Dash in the face, breaking her nose and creating a tiny shockwave. Rainbow Dash fell to the floor, temporarily stunned.

Wrecking Ball picked up Rainbow Dash by the hindleg and swung her around like a dervish. He let go, launching Rainbow Dash into nearby rubble. The impact on jagged ground grazed her skin, but the impact alone rendered her unconscious.

"Vinyl we need to run, NOW!" Time-Turner shouted, grabbing Vinyl's hoof and pulling her away. The two ran quickly, but Wrecking Ball bucked a building, sending it flying towards us.

"WATCH OUT!" Time-Turner shouted. Pulling Vinyl close, his eyes lit up with a brilliant green light. His gem did the same, and Vinyl looked up.

The building was frozen in mid-air. She looked around, and so was everything else.

"T-T, what's happening?" Vinyl asked. Time-Turner's eyes were still glowing, and he looked around. Birds were frozen in the sky, Wrecking Ball was frozen on the spot, heck, even smoke was frozen in place.

"T-T, I think you've stopped time?" Vinyl said, in utter astonishment. This should've been impossible, nopony had this kind of magic, and even if it was magic, Time-Turner was an Earth Pony, not a Unicorn.

"How is this possible?" Time-Turner asked in confusion, and a little bit of panic.

'YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO BE THE ELEMENT OF TIME'

Vinyl remembered the voice that had rung in their heads after the flash of green-purple light. The Element of Time? What did that mean? And The Element of Mechanics? Did that mean she had superpowers like Time-Turner. And if so, what could she do?

T-T nudged Vinyl, getting her attention. "Vinyl, we need to run, I'm not sure how long I can..."

T-T was interrupted by the sound of a building crashing behind them. This could only mean one thing.

Wrecking Ball was coming right for them.

Author's Note

Alright, second Chapter. I hope everybody likes this one, it was a nightmare to write.

Next Chapter: Vinyl

Feel free to comment, please.

Oh, and btw, Hammer Strike is my name for this pony http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-behnfzX81mo/TyTWB-6HU_I/AAAAAAAACgU/VZlwPB_Jlco/s1600/Female+Thor+Pony.png