The Commander, The Keyblade Master, and the Psycho

Selene’s POV:

“SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!” I yelled as I ran at full speed through the forest as the barking and howling of three Timberwolves grew louder and louder behind me. I was running as fast as I could in my new armor that made moving around feel unnatural, which didn’t help. I quickly reached for one of the two grenades I had left and threw it behind me. “Why don’t you things just die already?!!” I screamed as the grenade went off and two of the three Timberwolves blew up with it, sticks and lumber scattering across the ground with slight singe marks and cracks in them. The remaining wolf stopped in the midst of our chase and at the center of the mess my grenade had made, but I didn’t care, I just kept running.

I kept on running and running as fast as I could until I was sure I was far enough away from those things. I finally came to a stop under a rather large tree, breathing heavily as my legs gave out under me, bring me to my knees. I leaned against the tree for support as tried to catch my breath and collect my thoughts now that I wasn’t running for my life. "What the hell was going on here?" Was the first thing that came to my mind. I was being chased by Timberwolves from mlp in some type of forest while dressed in the N7 armor from Mass Effect 3, helmet and all. My initial thoughts were to question everything going on, but I realized that this wasn’t exactly the best place to do that. If those things chasing me really were Timberwolves from the show, then that meant I was in the everfree forest right now.

After finally catching my breath and regaining the feeling in my legs I slowly brought myself to stand. I needed to get out of this forest before I could really consider trying to find answers to what was going on. As I started to walk again the ground started to shake beneath me as I could hear the faint crunching of logs, leaves, and other things coming from the distance, all followed by a VERY loud roar of a massive timberwolf.

“You’ve got to be kidding me…” I mumbled under my breath as the sound of snapping wood and the massive thud of its paws started getting louder and louder as the ground shook even more below me. I turned and ran at full speed again, hopefully now that it was bigger it would have a harder time to maneuver around through the trees, meaning I would be able to out run it this time. But my prayers were denied as the thumping and ground shaking of the beast following me only got faster as I did and not slowing down in the least. The loud cracking of trees became very loud as I looked back to the massive timberwolf just simply run through the trees in front of him like they were nothing.

I noticed that the thing was starting to sway in its chasing, heading slightly in different direction which made me run a different way. The thing was leading me through the chase. It was forcing me to run certain directions, but why? As I kept running through the trees I soon found that there was break in the tree line and I made a mad dash for it, hoping it was the exit of the forest. If the shows logic played here then the thing wouldn’t follow me outside of the forest, right? I jumped over a bush and out of the denseness of the trees only to find that I was now in corner with a drop off that was about ten feet tall.

“Well played wolf…well played…” I said as turned around to see the massive timberwolf come out of the tree line and was now towering over me. I was cornered by the beast with no way out that would be quick enough to not get eaten or severely hurt at best. “…But I haven’t lost just yet…” I said as I reached for my last grenade and pulled it out as the wolf gave another loud roar. I was about to frag the huge thing but before I could arm the grenade I heard a loud shout coming from over the drop off above me.

“I HAVE THE SHINIEST MEAT BICYCLE!!!”

From on top of the drop off, someone jumped straight off and towards the massive timberwolf with what looked like an axe. Bring the axe down he wedged it right in between the things eyes, the beast giving off a loud roar of pain as it flung it’s head back and forth. The man held onto his axe that was buried deep enough into the wooden face of the wolf that it wouldn’t come out as he was flung around with him hanging onto it. After a bit of flailing around from the wolf’s thrashing about the man pulled his axe out and jumped off the beast. I got more than enough of a good look at him to tell who it was, but I didn’t want to believe it.

“Krieg…?” I mumbled before he charged at the timberwolf screaming and howling like the psycho he was known to be in the game. His buzz axe was now spinning in its hilt as Krieg wasted no time chopping right through one of the timberwolf’s legs, leaving a deep cut in the wood. The timberwolf howled in pain as it brought its leg up, only to have another leg cut by Krieg’s axe. Krieg kept on repeating this process over and over again, moving too quickly for the timberwolf to fight him back. After about a minute Krieg gave one final swing of his axe at the first legs he cut, and chopped it off. The timberwolf gave a final howl of pain before collapsing on the ground next to Krieg who was breathing heavily as his buzz axe slowly came to a stop. After a few second of staring at the timberwolf’s body he quickly spun around to look at me and screamed.

“I LOOKED INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS AND I ATE IT ALL!!!!”

Krieg/Joel’s POV:

“Lovely Krieg, way to give off a good first impression…”

“NIPPLE SALADS!”

“I’ll take that as a 'I don’t care' then.” I thought out loud in our mind as Krieg put his buzz axe away and looked back over to the person in armor. “Alright Krieg, a deals a deal, I’m in control again. There’s no one left for you to fight.” I thought aloud again as Krieg began to whine and complain in our head as I began to take control of our body. I could feel the tiredness of our shared body from all the work Krieg had done taking down that massive timberwolf. My arms ached in pain as I held my head in slight pain from Krieg still complaining in the back of our mind, giving me a head ache like whenever he talked in our head.

“Um, Krieg?” I voice that sounded very similar to me called out to us, silencing Krieg in my head and bringing my attention back to the person in armor. “Are you okay?” She asked through her helmet, her voice was slightly muffled because of her helmet, but I could at least make out what she was saying.

“Sorry Miss, but my name’s Joel. Me and Krieg share this body and…”

“Joel?!! Is that really you?!” The girl nearly shouted at me as she took a step closer and looked me over.

“Um, do I know you?” I asked and she tilted her head at me like I was crazy before she straightened up.

“Oh right, the helmet…” She said before she began to fiddle around with her helmet before pulling it off. “Recognize me now?” She said with a slight smirk as I instantly recognized her.

“Selene?!! What are you doing here?!!” I shouted in surprise as I got a good look at her. Selene was a thin white girl who stood just a few inches shorter than me back home, but now that I was Krieg she was almost a full foot shorter. She had chestnut brown colored hair and unmistakable blue eyes that seemed to put the blueness of the sky to shame.

“I could ask you the same thing. Also, why do you look like your psycho from borderlands?” She said as she put her helmet back on.

“Your guess is as good as mine, I only woke up here a little while ago. I’m guessing you’ve figured out by now where we are based off this thing right?” I said as I looked over the timberwolf’s body before back to her.

“Yeah, we’re in the mlp universe I think, but I’m not sure.” She said before a voice called to us from on the top of the drop off.

“Joel?! Are you okay down there? You just took off running while screaming, and who is that?!” Twilight yelled down at us from on top of the drop off.

“I’m fine Twilight, this is my friend Selene she’s from my world! And for the record that was Krieg who took off running, not me!” I yelled back up to her as I looked at Selene who had a look of disbelief. “Yeah, I kind of had the same reaction too.”

“Okay, the moment we get out of here you have a lot of explaining to do.” Selene said as she started to look for a climbing path up the drop off.

“What did I do?” I said as I started to helper her start climbing up the ten foot wall by letting her stand on my hands and then lifting her up to my shoulders. I looked up to see Twilight eying the body of the timberwolf Krieg took down, but then her eyes grew wide with horror.

“GUYS GET OUT OF THERE QUICK! THAT THINGS NOT DEAD YET!” She screamed at us as I gave her a look of confusion before I heard the clunking of wood behind me. I suddenly remembered the timberwolf episode from the show, when the timberwolf choked to death on the rock he collapsed and broke into a bunch of pieces. This guy was still whole when he fell.

I nearly threw Selene up the wall and Twilight grabbed her with both her hooves and magic before I spun around to face the timberwolf again, getting ready to let Krieg take over. But instead I was greeted with one of its wooden paws pinning me to the stone wall of the drop off, pinning me down and keeping me from running away, my health bar dropping quite a bit as well, but still not half way down. The beast roared in my face and I was thankful I had on Krieg’s so I couldn’t smell it’s said to be horrible breath. It had me pinned with my arms at my side so I couldn’t pull out the buzz axe and try to cut off its paw to get free. It seemed to enjoy watching me struggle in its hold as it lowered its head so that we were looking eye to eye. The deep cut Krieg had made earlier was dripping with tree sap and its leg that Krieg cut off was slowly starting to grow back using any and all loose wood and sticks around us, but the cut in its forehead didn’t heal.

I kept trying to break free as Twilight and Selene started screaming for me to get out of there or trying to find something to throw at the thing to get its attention. Twilight blasted it with her magic but it only pushed the timberwolf’s head back for a second and charred the outer bark of its face, but it was still fixed on me. It opened its mouth to bite my upper half off and I closed my eyes as I began to struggle relentlessly to get free. Suddenly there was a loud crunch of wood and a roar of pain from the beast as my eyes shot back open.

On top of the timberwolf’s head now stood someone driving some type of sword into the deep gash Krieg had left. Cracks quickly formed before a final snap rang out and the timberwolf’s head split in two, right down the middle. The wooden paw that had me pinned crumbled into pieces along with the rest of the timberwolf’s body as I fell down to one knee. Looking up I saw my friend Jack dressed in an outfit that looked exactly like Riku from dream drop distance with the ‘Way to the Dawn’ keyblade in his hand. Jack was about three inches taller than Selene with red hair and freckles on his face with dark brown eyes. He smirked as he rested the keyblade on his shoulder and walked over to me.

“You started a party without me? I’m hurt.” He said with a chuckle as he held out his hand for me to take. After the disbelief of who was standing in front of me passed I couldn’t help but chuckle.

“Still a cocky show off as always, huh Jack?” I said with a chuckle as I took his hand and he helped me up. “Thanks.”