Chapter 7

The Alchemist. And His New Apprentice?

Four hours... FOUR GODDAMN HOURS! That's not how long Trixie's been talking, that's how long ago the rain ended. Three hours after Trixie started talking about herself and the BS Allyn knew she was faking. If he heard one more Great and Powerful from her, he was going to Great and Powerfully stab himself with his quartz Bowie knife.

He was doing more acting than Leonardo DiCaprio in a silent movie, and more ass-kissing than a Republican Presidential Candidate in a Blue state. And it almost wasn't worth it, almost being the fact of the E-cups in the push-up D-cup onesie similar to the Playboy Bunny suit that nearly completely showed off her plump, firm, lightly toasted ass.

"But Trixie was wondering," Trixie continued, finally returning Allyn to reality, "What was that strange magic you were doing out on the road to save Trixie?"

Allyn took a sip of his coffee and leaned back in the chair.

"It's an ancient and rare magic called 'Alchemy' or 'Transmutation Magic,'" Allyn said as he tried to remember his OC's back story, "I learned it from my adoptive father, a short unicorn but if you called him short he would flip out. He learned it from his father, and he from his father before that, dating all the way back to just after Nightmare Moon was banished."

"Why has Trixie never heard of this magic," Trixie asked but Allyn had that answer covered.

"Because my father's ancestors have lived in the Everfree forest near what today is Phillydelphia," Allyn said, "Where my dad found me. He was buying some fruit and he heard some commotion coming from the orphanage where I was left as a small colt. It was the first time my magic kicked in and I was just short of destroying the orphanage when my dad ran in and used his Alchemy to get close enough to calm me down. He saw the potential I had and adopted me on the spot. After that, I spent the next seventeen years growing up learning everything he knew before he died."

"So you had to bury your father too," Trixie said quietly holding her cup of coffee. She quickly realized what she said and tried to stutter out an excuse. Allyn held his hand up and she quickly stopped.

"May I ask you a question," Allyn said, "Who exactly is the Great and Powerful Trixie?"

Trixie sighed and put her cup down, "If you have to ask that, then you obviously don't know The Great and Powerful Trixie." Allyn thought for a second before asking a second question.

"Well then," he tried again, "What or who made the Great and Powerful Trixie who she is today. And I'll make more interesting for Trixie; if Trixie's honest, then I'll teach Trixie my rare magic to do with whatever she wants." He didn't like the idea of telling Trixie Alchemy in case she tried to use it against Twilight, but he figured it would be the only way he could get the truth from her.

"Well the Great and Powerful Trixie became the way she is today with natural talent," Trixie said holding one of her light blue, fingerless gloves to her horn, then paused for a moment after Allyn cocked an eyebrow, "But, perhaps Trixie can tell you a story." She took a sigh. "About a small filly named Trix. Trix was born in the big city of Manehattan, the only daughter of a small shop owner mother and an alcoholic father who would come home from construction and on most occasions beat his family.

"Trix's mother and her mother's friends tried going to the guard, but they never found any evidence when they checked. One day, Trix went with her mother to see a magician who called herself The Clever and Wonderful Cardtrick. Now Trix enjoyed seeing the unicorn do simple tricks like pulling rabbits out of a hat and levitate an audience member thru a hoop.

"After the show was over, Trix and her mother went up to The Clever and Wonderful Cardtrick. She gave Trixie a deck of cards and asked her to try a trick. Now Trixie was nervous at first as she had never tried to do magic and when she tried shuffling the deck of cards, all they did was fall to the ground. I-I mean she-felt terrible, like she wanted to run and cry. But the stage pony just smiled, put a pink, stared magicians hat on her head and asked for her name." Trixie let a single tear out as she smiled at the memory.

"Do you need a moment," Allyn asked as his chest felt like it was being crushed by a boulder. Trixie just wiped the tear away and continued.

"No," she said, now sounding more like a normal pony instead of an attention hog, "No Trixie's fine. Like I was saying, the magician asked for Trix's name. Cardtrick said she thought it was a pretty name for a young filly, but said if she was going to be a good magician someday that she'd need a name that would make everypony want to flock to see her show. She called her The Great and Powerful Trixie Lulamoon. So Trixie practiced and practiced her magic tricks, often showing them off to the fellow schoolfouls. But as hard as she tried, even after she received her cutie mark, her father still couldn't have cared less about her.

"One day, after years of abuse, her mother threatened to leave and take Trixie far away from her father. He reacted by bashing an empty cider bottle against her head. Trixie tried to run and hide but all that got was a lit candle thrown at her back, leaving it with a permanent scar. A few years later, he walked into traffic drunk. At the age of 14, Trixie had to bury her own father. I didn't even feel sad about what happened to him."

Allyn gently wiped the multiple tears running down her face. She looked at him in shock, her lavender, puppy dog eyes telling him that what she was saying was true. He told her that she didn't need to tell him more if she didn't want to and that he would gladly take her under his wing to be his student.

"Since we're being honest," Allyn said, "I believe there is something I should tell you." He lightly placed his glowing horn on hers and focused on his memories from his world.

"You," Trixie tried to speak after he shared his memories with her, "You're not."

"Pony," he answered, "No. I am what my world calls 'human.' Where I'm from, this is a fantasy world. I came to this world about four months ago and I was told that there is no chance of me ever returning to my home. I have taken this opportunity to see this world for what it has. Now I shall soon be traveling back to Ponyville, and you may come with me if you would like. If you need time to understand this information, or if you wish to hit me, I will understand both. I'll be staying in Las Pegasus for the night if you want to join me."

He stood up from the chair and began to walk out of the trailer when Trixie grabbed onto his arm.

"One question," she said, refusing to look at him, "Why did you save me earlier."

"Because it's one of my principles," he said without hesitation, "If I see a man hurting a woman, it doesn't matter what she's done to others in her past, I don't standby and watch it happen. I fight that man until he remembers to treat women with respect."

She smirked and chuckled, "You're a strange stallion, but a gentlecolt none the less." She released her hand and Allyn walked out the trailer door.

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Allyn sat in a club a day later, drinking a White Russian and listening to the DJ playing a song that kind of sounded similar to Invincible. While that would have been interesting to find out that of all the music on Earth, ponies are huge fans of DeStorm, Allyn merely took it as convenient.

"Hey baby," a female unicorn said as she walked up to Allyn, "Care for a dance?"

She was a relatively attractive mare; long, interchanging light blue and pink hair, wearing a green tank top that fell just low enough to hid the bottom of her B-Cups and a short, green skirt. Her light skin almost reflecting the lights that constantly changed in the club. Eh, what the hell. Allyn felt like dancing, but not to this.

"Sure," he said, "But one thing first; I gotta talk to the DJ for a sec."

He walked over to the DJ booth, mean while pulling out his Ipod and heading to a playlist he had named "Vinyl Scratch," and asked if he could check out the system for a second. The DJ stepped over after Allyn held up two hundred bits. Allyn had damn near no idea how to work the setup, but he easily figured out where the USB port was and plugged his Ipod in and switched it to the perfect "Night Club" song.

Everypony in the club turned to look at the sudden change in the music but then started to dance to the new groove. Allyn teleported back to where he was siting earlier, and took the mare's hand. They walked out to the dance floor and started to move to the beat. The mare started off just sashaying her hips, but shortly moved to having her hands in the air doing a form of two-step. Allyn merely just started the only dance moves that he knew and actually used outside of his room; a series of shoulder pops, turns, and hip swings. Before he had control, he was Moon-walking, switch stepping, doing hand- and head-stands, and at one point even doing Disco Dancing which kind of fit with the music.

When Nikki Minaj's song eventually ended and seamlessly transitioned into Do What U Want. Allyn, most likely driven by alcohol, sang R Kelly's part when it came up. Only unlike when he managed to play Through The Fire and Flames, it didn't sound complete crap. Somehow he managed to get the entire dance floor singing Lady Gaga's chorus after his part.

Eventually, he said goodbye to the unicorn he was dancing with when her friends pulled her away and went to retrieve his Ipod from the DJ booth. He walked out of the club and onto the Las Pegasus strip, which was basically the same as its Las Vegas original. He walked down the sidewalk and on occasion looked up at the full moon in the night sky with a smirk on his face.

Suddenly, as if like a cut scene in a video game, he felt a hand reach into his back pocket and pull out his wallet. He turned to face the Sneak Thief, but the pickpocket saw Allyn turn and began running. Allyn ran after the thief and thru the crowd on the street until he saw the man in the long white coat with Allyn's wallet juke left and run across the busy street, jumping over carts as they drove pass and diving into a ponyfied form of Margaritaville.

"God dammit," Allyn said teleporting across the street, not wanting to deal with traffic. Allyn ran into the bar and looked around. He almost missed the man who stole his wallet until the man ran into a group and jump onto the stage. Allyn pulled out The Genies Hilt, changed it into the Angel form of Ophion from DmC, and launched himself onto the stage. He dropped onto the stage as the door closed to the backstage area of the bar.

Allyn continued to chase the man until the chase somehow managed to windup on top of one of the casinos lining the strip. Allyn took a second to catch his breath as the man looked over the edge towards the street.

"Okay," Allyn said, "There are no more roofs to jump onto, no more walls to scale, no more crowds to hide in. Just give me my wallet back and we can both walk away from this."

The stallion looked at Allyn with maroon eyes under his black hair, a white bandanna covering the lower part of his face. The stallion put Allyn's wallet in his back pocket and turned to Allyn, throwing three shuriken at him. Allyn reacted quickly by switching the chain into Capt's Shield, blocking the shuriken but not allowing him to notice when the stranger was running to drop kick the shield and Allyn off the roof.

Acting quickly, Allyn swapped the shield for the chain again and pulled himself back on the roof. The stranger tried throwing more shuriken at Allyn, who this time used his magic to grab the throwing stars in the air.

"My turn bitch," Allyn said throwing his arm forward, sending the shuriken back. the stranger acted as quickly as Allyn had when he was falling and pulled out a kunai and blocked the shuriken. Allyn swapped out The Genies Hilt for his Quartz knife and ran towards the masked assailant.

The stranger ran towards Allyn, his kunai behind him, and the two men's blades struck each other, sending out small sparks. Allyn turned with a left hook but was blocked as the other man parried and attempted a back knuckle to Allyn's face. Allyn countered by leaning back slightly and sweeping his attackers leg out from under him.

The stranger landed on his back, but quickly rolled backwards and got back on his feet. He round house kicked at Allyn's head, missing by centimeters, then tried a straight side kick in the stomach. Allyn recovered from the gut kick and his Gatling Punch, an attack that wasn't very effective in any actual match he had been but he figured it would distract his opponent long enough for an actual attack.

Allyn waited for the right time then sliced at the man's chest, cutting the man's white coat and the bottom of his bandanna. The man stumbled backwards before trying to strike Allyn back. Allyn blocked the next kunai attack with his Bowie Knife, then parried the knife away and elbowed the man in the face.

"Enough of this," Allyn said, clapping his hands together and slamming them to the ground. His eyes and horn began to glow bright white as a simple Transmutation Circle started glowing around him and trapping the man in white in a sphere of roofing tar. Allyn sat on the edge of the roof afterwards and took a few deep breaths before the door to the roof flew open as a woman in a light blue tank top, dark blue mini skirt, and matching stared, pink hat and cape covering her ice blue hair to go with her ice blue lip stick.

"If you're here to agree to becoming my apprentice," Allyn said, "You just missed one hell of a demonstration of Alchemy. As your first assignment, help me get this asshole in the tar sphere to the local guard station."

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The morning after he was thrown in prison, and to be honest how was he suppose to have known that unicorn was a Major in the Royal Guard, Swiftstrike was bored out of his mind. The only thought on his mind was how well that unicorn fought when they were on the casino roof, his techniques almost seeming more than what Majors in the Royal Guard would know.

Suddenly, the door to his cell opened up as the head of the station said he was free to go. He almost didn't believe the guard until he held up a letter with the royal seal. After being pardoned of all crimes, collecting everything but his weapons, and leaving the station, he opened the letter he was given.

Dear sir, whose name I did not collect,

My name is Allyn Flynt, I am the Major who arrested you after you stole my wallet. I must admin, I'm not proud to say this but you are quite an admirable opponent to fight. You're one of the few ponies outside of the Royal Guard who I've seen be able to lead an elaborate chase through a major metropolitan city and still have the ebullience to fight somepony afterwards. I would enjoy the chance to fight you again, pending the reason isn't because you stole my wallet again, and wouldn't mind buying you a drink in either Las Pegasus or in the town I shall be moving to. It is for those reasons I have used my privileges as a Major appointed personally by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna to the Royal Guard to relieve your crimes against me, but do it again and I shall not be as lenient to you. If you wish to find me, I stay relatively near Ponyville.

Sincerely,

Maj. Allyn Flynt, Equestrian Royal Guard

A good old fashioned sparring match between fighters? Yeah, he would enjoy that, too. Swift looked to the Northwest, towards Ponyville. Until we meet again, he thought to himself, Allyn Flynt.

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Luna sat in her chambers and prepared to raise her moon in an hour, every once in a while looking over at the crescent moon statue Allyn transmuted for her out of marble. She visited him in his dream world of "Sky-Rim" many times in the past four months, but she missed his adorably idiotic ways in the real world. She picked up the statue and ran her finger over the smooth piece of stone, a few minuscule nicks here and there from Allyn's alchemy.

Her concentration was broken when a loud crashing sound came from the hall outside following a mare's voice calling to her. She placed the statue on her dresser gently and dawned her black choker with her moon in the center and headed outside. She poked her head out of the doorway and looked right and left until she saw one of her few friends, the Royal Mail Mare.

"Hello Luna," Derpy said, her hair covered in a mixture of broken vase, water, and dirt from the flowers she ran into somehow, "You have a letter."

"Thank you Derpy," Luna said after helping Derpy to her feet and repairing the vase with her magic, opening the letter with her hands simultaneously.

Dear Luna,

I have finished seeing what parts of Equestria I had wondered about and shall be returning to Ponyville for a more permanent stay within the month. It would be sooner but my new Alchemy apprentice has decided that she won't leave her trailer behind, so instead we will be taking the long route through the Everfree Forest from Las Pegasus. I can't wait any longer to see your beautiful face in person. How are you enjoying the statue I made for you before I left?

I was wondering if I could obtain a small amount of land on the edge of or slightly into the Everfree Forest near Ponyvile so as to build a home on. I'm not asking for a hundred acres that I will never see the end of, I am merely asking if I may acquire say ten acres for a good sized house, a small open area to practice my spellcraft on without harming anypony in doing so, and maybe a small tool shed for grounds keeping equipment.

Yours loyally,

Allyn.

Allyn was on his way back to Ponyville, excellent. She couldn't contain her excitement to see the discernible simpleton, acting rather uncouth compared to her regal Princess way. She soon remembered that one of her few friends, Derpy, was watching her and quickly returned to her proper stature.

"Ah-hm," she said, clearing her throat, "Thank you thank you for the letter, Derpy. Please try to break as few vases as possible went you make your leave."

She calmly walked into her room and closed the door, falling against it and giggling like a little school filly with the letter held tightly against her chest. She jumped when she heard another loud crash come from outside her room followed by the inevitable "I'm okay" from the blonde, cross-eyed pegasus.

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Shortly after Allyn freed the stranger from prison, he and Trixie were on their way to Ponyville with the trailer she refused to leave behind. They were about two days walk into the Everfree forest, and another month walk until they made their way to Ponyville. Allyn tried to teach Trixie a lesson on Alchemy, which she took to like a cat to ice cold water.

"You could help the Tired and Annoyed Trixie you know," she said as she pulled her trailer as he sat on top of the trailer and watched.

"Then how will learn your lesson," He said resting his head on his fist, "This is part of your first lesson of Alchemy."

"AND JUST WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THAT DAMN MAGIC YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT," Trixie shouted back at Allyn, causing several flocks of birds to fly away in terror.

Allyn looked at her for a few seconds before answering, "You don't have to yell you know, this has everything to do with Alchemy if you look at it close enough. Some where I'm from would find it so simple, they'd understand it just after looking at this situation and even overlook it. And while we're on this sentence, what did I say about referring to yourself in the third person?"

Trixie merely grunted as she turned back towards the road and muttered something under her breath. After a while they switched and Allyn pulled the trailer for a while before eventually night fell and they stopped for the night. Allyn cooked up a light rice dinner with some Transmuted bread. After their meal, Trixie went inside her trailer while Allyn stayed on top of the trailer and looked up at the stars.

I wonder what's been happening back home, Allyn thought to himself again. Has it been four months like it's been here, or has it been longer? Or has it only been a short time since he entered Equestria? Has time even moved on Earth? Right as depression started to kick in, Allyn heard a strange sound come from deep in the forest. Allyn sat up from looking at the stars and listened to the sounds of the forest, trying to hear the same thing again to make sure he wasn't going nuts.

"Sound Sight," he said, activating an old trick he's created with his bat-like sense of hearing. By using his natural ability to activate and deactivate of one sense to heighten another, he's created three different natural superpowers; 1) Sound Sight, the ability to create a 360 degree map of his location using only the sound around him and hear even tiptoeing over a rock concert. 2) Wolf Sight, the ability to smell anything, even blood, up to 100 yards. And 3) Hawkeye, the ability to see a pin drop half a mile away.

He kept his ears open, waiting for the sound he heard seconds ago. When his ear twitched in the same direction, he knew what was out there. He slammed his fist on the top of the trailer and yelled to Trixie before jumping off the top and running towards the source of the noise he heard.

Trixie opened the door and before she could yell at Allyn for smacking her trailer, she noticed he was running into the thick of the Everfree forest and ran after him. Allyn pulled out The Genies Hilt, quickly turned it into Osiris, The Angel Scythe, and began slicing thru the dense forest until he made his way to his target.

"Just where are you running to," Trixie asked.

"HELP ME!" a young female voice called out from in front of Allyn.

"Hang on," Allyn yelled back, "We're on our way! You wanna know the basics of Alchemy; All is one, one is all."

Before Allyn could explain further, the duo came to a clearing made by four fallen trees on top of a young dragon's legs. She struggled as much as she could to try and free herself from the trees. Allyn spun the end of Osiris in the dirt and drew put a transmutation circle as fast as he could.

"Sir, why are you working so quickly," Trixie said almost confused by Allyn's speed. Suddenly, a low roar came from the edge of the forest immediately answering Trixie's question. Allyn pulled out his golden lighter and flipped it open, aiming it towards the roar of a Timberwolf pack.

"Think back to earlier today, Trixie," Allyn said, not taking his eye off the edge of the forest, "About how I refused to aid you and make traveling easier."

"What a second," the young girl said, "Just who are you ponies anyway?"

"My name," Trixie said taking a pose in the middle of this chaos, "Is The Great a-"

"NOW'S NOT THE TIME FOR THAT SHIT," Allyn yelled as one of the furious monsters charged the two ponies and trapped dragon.

Allyn changed Osiris into Zangetsu and ran towards the Timberwolf as it showed itself from out of the forest. Allyn charged the Timberwolf without fear, yelling like his viking ancestors as he swung the large sword through the beast. Allyn turned to the chunks of wood on the ground and clicked his lighter, sending a spark over each piece and lighting them ablaze.

Before Allyn could block the next wolf, a large, wooden paw slammed Allyn's back into a tree near Trixie and the dragon girl. Zangetsu vaporized back to The Genies Hilt as it hit the ground with him. Trixie tried to wake Allyn up before the Timberwolves came any closer to them.

She began to panic, she felt like running away in fear but something in her didn't want to run away without Allyn. She looked around for anything to fight the monsters back, her attention drawing to the transmutation circle Allyn managed to draw in the dirt. She could use it if she knew how to use Alchemy, but all Allyn taught her was that "All is one, One is all" line.

Think back to earlier today, Trixie, about how I refused to aid you and make traveling easier.

That's it; he was the one, and without him they weren't all that they could be. Without the one, they were nothing. And together, they were one. Trixie picked up the lighter and focused on the Timberwolves, now less than ten feet away from them. Allyn opened his eyes slightly and saw Trixie holding the lighter in her hand.

"Focus," he grunted out with the pain in his back from slamming against a tree, "Use the circle, gah, to condense the oxygen. Ah, and strike the match."

Trixie felt a strong surge of magic travel through her body as her horn and the circle on the lighter began to glow so bright that the surrounding forest was bright enough to see the the ridges of the bark on the Timberwolves' backs. She could see the oxygen atoms and used her magic to cluster the atoms to form a line of pure oxygen between the Timberwolves.

One click and the Timberwolves were reduced to nothing more than ash and embers. Thought she felt completely drained of magic energy, Trixie was proud of herself that she figured out the secret of Alchemy. Allyn placed one hand on her back while his other was on his, smiling at his student.

"Excellent work my apprentice," Allyn said, "Now to help this young dragon."

Allyn picked up Genies Hilt, turning it into a cane so he can walk, and began to levitate the trees off the young girl. He was only able to lift the trees far enough for the girl to crawl out herself. The girl ran over to Allyn, jumped onto him, and embrace him in a hug that in combination with the pain of being thrown into a tree cause him to yell loud enough to be heard in the Crystal Empire.

"Ohmygosh," the young dragon said, holding her hands to her mouth, "I'm sooo sorry. Please let me introduce myself." She gave a form of salute to Allyn and Trixie, with a goofy smile to add. "My name is Alois. And by my Honor Code as a dragon, I am your new assistant for life Mr."

The girl looked at Allyn and Trixie for a moment in confusion. The young girl wore a light pink sweater with a yellow little dress, a light pink tail swishing back-and-forth like a happy puppy ready to play with a ball. Her cyan eyes gave off a sweet innocence look to her pulled-back, orange hair. If Spike looked around fifteen or so, Alois looked around eight or nine.

"My name's Allyn," he said rubbing his spine with the back of his hand, "And this is my apprentice, The Great and Powerful Trixie. We would be honored to have you as our assistant Madam Alois."

Author's Note

for the record; the part about Trixie and her non-caring father is a head canon that I heard about from a story called Trixie's Little Problem that I can see being realistic, I just felt like making it a little more tragic for effect.

secondary note; if you have already read this chapter and it seems like I put it out twice, somehow it deleted more than half of itself from the point before Swiftstrike throws the throwing stars at Allyn and on. Not sure what happened but I rewrote the last third with the fight scene.