The Commander, The Keyblade Master, and the Psycho

Selene’s POV:

After leaving Fluttershy’s cottage with Applejack we made our way down a small dirt road towards Sweet apple Acers where I’d be getting to spend the night for now. Applejack stayed quiet most of the way there aside from the occasional question about my armor or weapons. I answered everything she asked of me honestly since I knew better then to lie around he, on top of which why should I lie? I didn’t see any harm in explaining what I had on my person so long as she understood I had no intentions of misusing any of it. As we got to the front gate I took off my helmet and took in a deep breath.

“The air is so clean here.” I said with a sigh as the smell of fresh air with a hint of some of the apples flooded my nose.

“Well ah guess I’ll take that as a compliment. Is the air not so clean where ya’ll come from?” She asked me and I chuckled a bit.

“No, on earth the air isn’t exactly the cleanest. We have machines called cars that use gasoline to get us from one place to another and they pollute the air.” I explained to her.

“That sounds rather nasty, no offense.” She said as she gave slight look of disgust.

“None taken. But it’s only really bad in big city areas where there are a lot of people who use cars. I live outside of the city so it’s not as bad, but still it’s nowhere near as clean as it is her.” I said smiling as I took another deep breath as we made our way up to the barn and AJ stopped me.

“Wait here for just a minute, ah gotta tell the family what’s goin’ on here. Don’t want ya give poor old granny smith a heart attack from seeing an alien.” She said and I gave her nod and waited outside while she went in and called her family out for an ‘important apple family meeting’ if I heard her correctly from inside. I held my helmet at my side and leaned my back next to the door as I tried not to eavesdrop on the conversation going on inside. After about five minutes AJ came back out with her two siblings and granny smith, all three of them were staring at me wide eyed and mouths hanging open.

“Um, hi?” I said nervously as I gave a small wave.

“She’s huge!!!!” Applebloom nearly yelled as excitement spread across her face and I fought back an urge to giggle. It was true that the ponies only seemed to come up to my waist, Big Mac coming up to about my neck while Applebloom came to my knee. “She’s taller than Big Mac even!”

“Eeyup…” Big Mac said a bit surprised but not overly shocked before granny smith walked up to me and studied me carefully which made me kind of nervous.

“Yer not one of them aliens that has been ruining our crop fields and leavin’ them weird patterns in them are ya?” She asked as she continued to study me over.

“Um, no…” I answered honestly as I tried to avert eye contact with here until she finally stepped back and gave me one last look over from head to toe before smiling.

“Well then welcome to Sweet Apple Acers Miss…”

“Selene.”

“Ms. Selene, please make yer self at home and if there’s anything ya need don’t hesitate to ask.” Granny Smith said smiling before Applebloom came up to me and looked me over herself.

“This is so cool! I get to meet an alien, I bet I can get my cutie mark at being an alien observer!” She cheered happily before Mac pulled her back.

“Alright now let’s not get not get too excited now Applebloom, I’m sure if everything Applejack said happen did happen she must be very tired.” He said smiling as Applebloom gave a disappointed ‘aww…’ in response.

“Well I’m gonna show our guest her room then before hitting the hay.” AJ said as she motioned me to follow her inside. For the most part everything looked like the TV show with exception of what was never shown. AJ showed me my room which was a simple guest bedroom with a bedside table with a lamp on it and a bed that looked like it would just fit me.

“Thanks again for letting me stay here Applejack, it’s really nice of you.” I said smiling as I sat down on the bed and sank into the covers a bit.

“Aw think nothin of it and you can just call me AJ for short.” She said smiling as she walked over to the bed. “Besides Fluttershy would have over worked herself if she tried to take care of all three of you at once.” She said smiling before her smile turned into a look that told me she was thinking something. “You mind if ah ask ya a question Selene?”

“Nah, go right ahead.”

“Well it’s bout yer friend Joel and well, Krieg…”

“You’re worried about him losing control over Krieg aren’t you?” I asked and she put on a little bit of a forced smile.

“Is it that easy to tell?” She asked rubbing the back of her head with her hoof and I smiled at her.

“Well I’m not overly worried about it, more like simply concerned. The way Joel explained how they work to me on the way out of the everfree is that it’s like a dial with two ends and an arrow. On one end is Joel, the other is Krieg, so he says it’s like turning the dial in his head, the closer the arrow is to Krieg the more control Krieg has.”

“Kinda like them fancy light dials that somepony’s use to dim the lights without turning them off all the way.”

“Exactly, from how Joel explained it he says Krieg can’t turn the dial in his head without Joel’s permission so I’m not too concerned.” I said smiling at AJ as she hopped up on the bed next to me.

“Well that put my mind at ease a little bit more at least. So you, Joel, and this Jack fellow were all friends back in your world right? Did ya’ll have any other friends aside from each other?” She asked and I nodded smiling.

“Well there was also our other two friends Dave and Ricky but other than that we didn’t have many other friends that we kept in touch with outside of school.”

“So there was five of ya?” She asked as she looked like she was puzzled over something.

“Yeah why?” I asked and she looked back at me.

“Well ya know how ya’ll came here like meteors from the night sky?” I nodded. “Well there was five meteors in total, but only you three showed up.” She said and my mind made the connection.

“You think our friends Dave and Ricky…”

“Ah can’t say for sure but I do think there is some kind of connection.” She said as she hopped off the bed. “Well there isn’t much for us to go on yet so let’s try not to let our heads run away without us. Let’s talk after a goodnights rest, alright?” She suggested and I smiled before nodding.

“Sounds like a plan. Goodnight then.” I said as AJ walked out and closed the door behind her and I started to take of my armor. After setting all of my stuff aside I climbed into the bed and quickly covered up before finding the most comfortable position I could. My mind was wondering about so many different things but my body was too tired to let my thoughts go far before I passed out as the world of dreams took me.

Jack’s POV:

“Why me…” I muttered to myself as I was being dragged off by a pink pony who was spouting off nonsense that I couldn’t make out. We hadn’t even been gone from the small cottage for less than a minute and I was already regretting my decision to leave.

“Because you and I have so much in common! We both like parties!” The pink pony said as she pulled me through what looked like a small town.

“That’s only one thing.”

“One thing in common is all you need to become the best of friends.” She shot right back at me which made me groan a little.

“Well I guess but still it’s not THAT much in common.”

“Well then you clearly don’t know me like your other two friends do. I’m Pinkie Pie the super-duper party pony of Ponyville! If there’s any type or form of party here in town you can be sure I’m the one throwing it!” She said as she finally stopped dragging me and was now bouncing up and down as we came to a stop in front of a house made of gingerbread, which normally I would have questioned. But since I was currently talking to a pink pony while dressed as Riku from kingdom hearts with his keyblade in hand, it was kind of the least important thing to question really.

“So you’re in charge of throwing parties as a job?”

“Of course not, I throw parties because they’re fun and make other ponies smile! It wouldn’t be right for me to charge other ponies for me to make them happy!” She said which made me pause for a second and brought up an obvious question.

“Then how do you make money?”

“Easy, I work here with Mr. and Mrs. Cake, this is the bakery Sugar Cube Corner.” She said as she opened the door and a bell above the door rang as we walked in.

“Welcome back Pinkie, I see you brought a new friend with you.” A male voice said as a yellowish pony walked out from a counter that had a bunch of baked goods in a display case.

“Sure did Mr. Cake, he’s new to town so I offered him a place to stay if that’s okay.” Pinkie said smiling happily and Mr. Cake smiled right back.

“Sure thing Pinkie, any friend of yours is welcome to stay. What’s your name?” He asked as he looked at me with a smile and I was honestly surprised he wasn’t freaked out.

“Uh, Jack. Forgive me for asking but, aren’t you a bit freaked out by me?” I asked since from what I could tell, humans didn’t exist here.

“When you live with Pinkie Pie long enough you learn not to question too many things. Thinking about it or trying to question it will only lead to headaches.” He said with a laugh and Pinkie only gave off a smile like she took that as a compliment.

“Well I’m going to show him to his room then Mr. Cake.” Pinkie said as I now found myself being pulled up some stairs behind the counter.

“Alright, just be quiet please, Pumpkin and Pound are sleeping.” He said and Pinkie gave a nod before she continued to pull me along. Pinkie brought me into what I guess was guest bedroom, which had a simple bed, a side table with a lamp, a closet and a window on the other side of the wall with the curtains drawn.

“This’ll be your room from now on so make yourself at home.” Pinkie said as she ushered me in. “I’ll let you get as much sleep as possible because tomorrow we will start your ‘welcome to equastria’ party planning.” She said before closing the door without another word and I was left to myself and the bed. I gave off a long sigh as I set my keyblade against the side table before climbing into the bed and turning off the light. The bed was soft, which was a welcomed change from the cave floor I slept on the night before when I was waiting for the sun to come up. Closing my eyes I took in slow deep breaths before I allowed myself to slip off to sleep.

Joel/Krieg’s POV:

My eyes slowly flicked open as I let out a yawn and I slowly sat up and rubbed my eyes. As my eyes slowly focused on my surroundings I found that I wasn’t in Twilights library anymore. I was now laying down on what appeared to be nothingness in a vast plane of stars and space. I instantly jumped to my feet as I looked around more to find that I really was drifting out in pace as shooting stars passed me by.

“Joel?” A female voice called out to me that I instantly recognized as Selene come from behind me. Turning around I saw here in here N7 armor also standing on nothing, looking just as confused as me.

“Somebody care to explain things to me?” Jacks voice called to us from my right, turning I saw him like I had before Pinkie dragged him away with his keyblade in hand. “Is this normal for when people go to sleep in this world?”

“Not unless we wish for it to be so.” A female voice called to us from my left. I quickly turned my head to see Princess Luna slowly fading into sight before us. “I am Princess Luna, Equastria’s Princess of the night. Apologize for disturbing your slumber and bringing you all here during your time of dreaming.” She said with a bit of concern on her face. “But we are afraid we have questions that you all need to answer for us.”

“Wait, this is some kind of dream?” Selene asked and Luna nodded.

“Indeed it is. We would have liked to speak with you all in person but our duties as the princess of the night are currently more important than questioning you right now.” She said as she walked towards me and looked me over.

“So what? You want us to answer your questions and then we can go back to sleep or…?” I asked curiously and she smirked.

“Not needed. Now that you are all asleep your minds have become unconscious and I can pull information from your minds with a simple spell. However I must first get your consent to do so here or else your minds will reject the spell.”

“So you can like read minds? Cool.” Jack said and I chuckled at him and Luna gave him a bit of a smile.

“In a way yes it is like a mind reading spell. But I’m not reading your thoughts with this spell, I’m pulling out the information I need from your mind instead.” She said before she looked at me. “My sister already spoke to me of you. You are both Joel and Krieg are you not?”

“Yes…HEHEHE, RIDE THE PONY...” My hand shot up to my masked covered mouth while Jack and Selene fought against the urge to burst into laughter while Luna’s face turned a bit red. “Sorry, he does that sometimes.”

“I see, well yes as I was saying; Do I have your permission to use this spell so me and my sister may know what it is that we need to know."

“Okay but I have one question to ask you before you do if I may.” I said and she pondered the request for a second before nodding her head.

“Very well, what is it you wish to know?” She asked and I looked her right in the eyes when I asked her.

“How did you know there was three of us here? Celestia only knew that I was here and no one has sent her a letter explaining that I found my two other friends. So how did you know they were here?” I asked and I saw her eyes widen a bit before closing and she let out a sigh.

“You are very perceptive Joel, perhaps a bit more perceptive then I would like but no matter.” She said as she opened her eyes and look at my other two friends before looking back at me, locking eye contact. “Yes, I knew from the moment you fell from the sky there were three of you. I know this because my scheduled meteor shower the previous night, may not have been exactly scheduled at all.” She said as I heard Selene explain to Jack that in the show natural events were actually planned out here unlike back home.

“But that still doesn’t exactly explain how you knew there was three of us.” I said and she sighed again.

“No, it doesn’t does it? When the three of you came to this world you were all unconscious thus your minds were open to me as I did my patrols of our subjects’ dreams. However since you were all not technically asleep I could not bring any of you here. Though I do not know how or why you three are here I do know that whatever the reason is, it must be of great importance.” She said with a frown on her face.

“I see. Thank you for answering honestly Princess.” I said giving a bit of a bow to her and she smiled.

“Thou may call us Luna, none of you are our subjects technically so you do not need to worry about addressing us as your ruler.” She said as she walked up to me as I brought myself up from my bow. “Well if you do not have any more questions may we begin?” She asked as her horn light up and I nodded before closing my eyes and allowed her to cast this info gathering spell. I saw a wave of images flash before my eyes in less than a second and I caught glimpse of some images like Krieg on fire, an explosion, Krieg changing into a super badass mutant psyhco among many other things.

“My, such a violent world you come from.” Luna said with a bit of shock in her voice, my guess was she was expecting something bad, but not THAT bad. “As long as you keep your temper in check you should not worry about Krieg running wild with no way of controlling him. Also, when the voices echo in your head remember that it will always be your voice that will reign supreme above them all.” She said before turning and going over to Jack and cast the spell on him. From the outside it didn’t look like anything was happening but I knew what was going on in Jacks head more or less.

“Such a kind heart and soul, set out to protect others from the darkness they fear. I noble quest indeed, but do not let your pride get away from you or it will cost you dearly.” She said before finally moving on to Selene.

“To fight against such a foe as the one you face takes no lack of courage and wisdom. To have to weigh choices on who to help must not be such an easy task. Do not fear to ask those close to you for help and advice or for a shoulder to cry on if the time ever comes.” She said before backing away from the three of us with a smile on her face as she looked us over. We all had a puzzled look as she spoke to us individually as she seemed to read out a weird fortune to us.

“Have faith my new friends, I believe with all of my heart that you shall all find the way back to your home world.” She said smiling as her wings spread out behind her. “So until we may see each other face to face, I bid you all farewell and pleasant dreams.” She said smiling before the area around me faded out to black and I was once again brought into the planes of my own dreams.