The Hunted

Chapters

Chapter 1: Pilot
Chapter 3: Megalith
Chapter 4: Birthday Suit Beatdown
Chapter 5: Hunters
Chapter 6: Escape
Chapter 7: A Terrible Start
Chapter 8: Daring Maybe
Chapter 2: Death of a Man

Chapter 1: Pilot

The Hunted

“UGGGHHHH” Whined Twilight, “Why isn’t this portal WORKING!”

Twilight was furious and frustrated.

Every spell she used typically came from a book and normally produced predictable results. Creating one of the first two way portals in Equestria from scratch however, not so easy.

“Chill out Twilight” Rainbow said cooly while lazily watching from a couch, “I know you will get it working eventually”.

Twilight just sighed and sat on her haunches in defeat. “Princess Celestia wants to create a portal linking Everfree castle to Canterlot. After the fight with the humans she wants us to be able to gather the other princesses and the guard quickly, in case another one comes to Equestria and tries to destroy us… again.” she responded gloomily, “The Canterlot castle and the Crystal Empire portals are already up and I can’t even get mine to work! And I DESIGNED THEM!”

Twilight was running out of ideas.

Since becoming an Alicorn she no longer knew her magical strength, the main cause being that her power was growing constantly. Each day her reservoir grew, and with each growth came the difficult task of compensating raw energy into accuracy over quantity. One could compare trying to force the entirety of a constantly swelling pond through a straw.

So when it came time to give the crystals the precise magical jump that the portal needed to work, she had a hard time siphoning the proper amount. Either too much or too little, it was a constant war with her magic and her mind; a battle of willpower.

She just didn’t have the control and stability that mature Alicorns had though, and it grated on her nerves ever so roughly. So when glaring rather angrily at the portals structural frame didn’t work, Twilight resorted to pouting and hoped that taking a break would clear her mind and give a solution to the little problem presenting itself to her.

While Rainbow Dash was used to Twilight moping about when her spells weren’t working, she knew this extra mope was totally different. Ever since that villainous human destroyed parts of Equestria and terrorized the pony population Twilight hadn’t been herself anymore. She seemed more like a pony with post-traumatic stress disorder, which was understandable considering how much she had fought against the human villains alongside the other princesses.

Rainbow Dash sighed, hopped off the couch and trotted over to her friend. She then laid down, covering her ever so agitated friend with one of her wings and thinking of what to say to help her out. Then it hit her; compliments and support make everything better!

“You know Twilight; you’re the smartest pony I know! And while I know that things have been kind of tough on you lately, you need to snap out of your funk and kick this things flank! I know you can do it! Just believe in yourself, Twilight! Like you did before all this human stuff happened!” She paused before adding a few more words to her statement, “And if you can’t do it alone, me and the girls will always be here to help you figure things out!”

As if on cue, the rest of Twilight’s friends came walking into the old castle’s library through its heavy, iron decorated, oak doors, where they hoped to see the new functioning portal to Canterlot.

“I see the portal isn’t up yet…” Rarity muttered, speaking mostly to herself, but unintentionally keeping her voice just loud enough to be heard by the others.

“I’m sure Twi’ll have it up here in a jiffy!” Applejack stated proudly in repsonse, beaming with respect for their magically gifted friend as she pushed past Rarity, into the spacious book filled room.

Next came Pinkie pie, who flew from the door and tackled Twilight, knocking the air out of the purple Alicorn. “HI TWILIGHT!” the pink pony yelled happily, “I brought a cake for the portal to Canterlot PARTY!!!”

Twilight just coughed, trying to catch her breath under the weight of the pink earth pony. “*WHEEZE* That’s *CAUGH CAUGH* great *GASP* Pinkie”

“I KNOW!” Pinkie gleamed, her happy mood almost physically brightening the room, “Isn’t today the best day EVER!!!!”

Twilight groaned as she got up, only just managing to form coherent words for the group in front of her. “The portal isn’t up yet though… and I can’t seem to sustain the right amount of magic to start the chain reaction…”

Rarity glamorously trotted up to Twilight, swaying herself from side to side in a stage like walk. “Need an additional horn, dear? I may not be as magically gifted as you, but I can offer whatever magic I can!”

Twilight thought about it for a second and smiled. “Thanks Rarity! I think that would help a lot.” Rainbow stood up, bringing the wing that had rested on her friend back up to her side and then flapping both of them, making her way back to the couch she was on previously, noting with dull curiosity that Twilight and Rarity were now going over the basics of the spells formula.

The rest of the girls followed Rainbow’s example and began to mill about the library until the two were ready to give a go at it, it being the portal. After creating a plan on how to balance their magic to the specifications of the portal, the two magical ponies were ready for action.

Both turned to the circular machine which oddly looked like the “Star Gate” portal and began to channel as much magic as they could muster. Both ponies simultaneously began launching a beam of raw magic into the middle of the portal machine. The machine’s magic crystals began to glow and the circular opening began to emit a blue glow. It expanded from the center to the edge of the machine as it created a blue liquid like surface across it.

“IT’S WORKING! IT’S WOOORRRKKIIIINNGGG!!!” Twilight exclaimed. The blue liquid surface began to show a room with a white door which she hoped was the spot where her mentor kept her portal in Canterlot. But her joy quickly turned to horror... as the door opened, what she saw wasn’t a pony; it was a human.

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His name was Cade Adams a simple college student going for electrical engineering. Though a lot of things in life didn’t go his way, he really had no reason to complain; he loved his life and was at peace with himself. Most of his old problems stemmed from his own mistakes, so in the past he just looked at them like an opportunity to improve himself. The real trick to his success was his father’s passing.

Most people expected him to crumble and lose himself in the loss of his old man, but in some weird way he took it as a sign to improve himself further. He felt his life is no longer just his own and he strove to become a man that his Aerospace father would be proud of. He felt like he would have succeeded… but…

He paced in his apartment thinking about high and low frequency filters with his IPod one hand and a beer in the other -Drunken Science!- like he normally did for difficult problems. He had “Throw It All Away” from the old Sonic Adventure 2 OST blaring in his ears -which he did mostly as a joke to lift his spirits when he was stressed.

He calmly walked back and forth in his apartment, completely zoning out, tuning out the world as he focused. He decided it was time to continue working on the problem and started to headed back to his room, he approached his door and turned the knob, swinging it open expecting his room but what he saw stunned him. A large circular supernatural rift was right in the path way of the door; he panicked as he realized he was heading right for it. The sight of this crazy anomaly made his body lock up at the sight of the weird bluish portal.

As he was falling forward he looked down and noticed that only half of his body would fall in the portal and remembering how in some movies if you didn’t make it all the way through you might get cut in half -damn star gate-, he instantly commanded his legs to push forward to hopefully make it all the way inside just in case.

As he jumped and managed to tumble through to portal, he landed on what he believed to be hard stone, lucky with his wrestling background he smacked his arms down before his body hit the ground, which he was taught to help reduce the impact of the short fall (I’m no physician but oddly it works or at least it feels like it does). He slowly began to get up and saw six horrified ponies which he recognized… but the thing was, they weren’t cartoons, they were real. “HA fuck you bro” Cade thought mentally as he tried to stand. “Umm…. Hello how’s it goi-“is all the human could get out before being surrounded by a pink aura.

“AAAHHHHHHHH” Twilight screamed grabbing the human in her telekinesis quickly slamming him into the wall. She pinned him to the wall with such force that it was hard for him breath. Cade just yelled in pain and tried his best to not to pass out. He noticed the portal that he just fell through dissipated, apparently it wasn’t very stable.

At that moment he heard the ponies start to panic.

“Not another human!” Twilight said as she started to tear up. “Equestria’s finally at peace again and now there is another human here!”

“Let’s beat him back to wherever he came from before he can do anypony harm!” Rainbow shouted

“WAIT!” Fluttershy demanded. “What if he’s not like the last ones! What if he’s good?”

She was ignored of course as the other five continued.

“We need to throw him back in the portal!” Rarity exclaimed, prancing about frantically.

“Why did the portal bring a human here!?!” Applejack said hoping for an answer in the choas.

“IM GOOD AT YELLING TOO!” Pinkie of course was completely ignoring the situation in favor of entertainment.

Cade could only listen as the six began to bicker back and forth with what to do with him.

“What the hell just happened? This isn’t like the show! Twilight would never do something like this!” He tried to breath but was pinned so hard against the wall he could only get short gasps. “Last ones? There were more humans here? What the hell happened here? What caused them to be so hostile towards Humans?”

The ponies kept yelling going in circles that the human was a threat and needed to be thrown back into the portal only to keep looping that train of thought over and over until.

“SSSSTTTOOOOPPPP!!!!” Fluttershy yelled, freezing the other five. They knew if Fluttershy started to yell you “STFU”.

“Why don’t you see if he’s friendly or not?!” Fluttershy exclaimed as she started to tear up, “He just got here and you’re already treating him like an enemy! WHAT IF HES GOOD?!” That’s when she started bawling, causing the rest of the ponies and the human’s heart to sink.

The five sat there quietly and gathered their thoughts. Luckily for Cade that’s when Twilight’s telekinesis started to lighten up, allowing him to breathe easily enough again. His mind finally straightened out and allowed him to analyze his surroundings as oxygen filled his lungs. “An old building with Shelves and Shelves of books, but it looks well kept… maybe this the old castle of the princesses… hmm perhaps, maybe in their timeline this is around season 4 of MLP?” Cade began to look at the 6 ponies in detail, he noticed the horn and wings on the purple pony that he recognized as Twilight Sparkle.

“Yup season 4 without a doubt. Too bad the season wasn’t over...” The human quickly changed his train of thought and focused on analyzing the main six’s conversation they were having while he was pinned. “I know they were saying there was one or several humans that was here at some point… but they seemed hostile saying that they were a threat to them… maybe I should play passive and ignorant of the background knowledge I have of them and try to gain their trust… and while I’m at it I’ll try to ignore the fact that TWILIGHT THREW ME INTO A WALL!” The human sighed at that last thought, trying to let go of his anger.

Rainbow Dash looked at the human, and saw his expression change from thoughtful to anger then back to thoughtful in rapid succession. In her experience with humans that meant one thing, and one thing only.

“What are you planning!” she demanded as she rushed in front of him, throwing her face only inches from his own. “You better tell us what you’re thinking or ELSE you’re gunna get it, pal!”

The human glanced at the cyan pony and looked into her large expressive threatening rosy eyes. He couldn’t help but joke with himself “AWWWW SHES SO CUTE!!! I WANT IT!!!” And he smiled as she glared back wondering why he changed his current expression.

“I mean no harm” Cade stated “If you’re wondering what I’m thinking, I am only wondering why I’m being treated so unfairly when I just got here! I’m no threat to you ponies, I already know I can’t stand up to you! You have me pinned to a wall by what I assume is some sort of magic, and last time I checked I don’t have any.” Cade said wryly.

“I assume from your conversation earlier that there was another or several humans that were here that left you girls with a terrible impression of our entire species, but in our defense, none of us are the same, there are terrible ones and good ones, just like any sapient beings. I hope you are willing to give me a chance to prove that the majority of humans are good beings…” His body twitching lightly as he lay against the wall he was pinned too, hoping and trying to continue his train of thought but unfortunately running out of ideas. So instead he resorted to the depressing card. “If not, all I ask is that you make my death quick, I assure you I mean no harm.”

The ponies just stared at the human. Compared to the other ones he seemed like a saint, as the other humans usually started with a bad impression in Equestria and then everything usually went downhill from there. This human however seemed kind, and willing to cooperate from the start.

Rainbow Dash backed off a bit “Ok I believe you, a little, but one wrong step I’ll make sure you regret it!” She lifted and shook a foreleg threateningly to warn him that she meant business. Cade tried his best not to laugh as the adorable display. “Rainbow always had that macho personality”, he thought quietly to himself.

The ponies looked at each other, and it seemed like they telepathically reached a conclusion on what to do with this new human. With a small nod of understanding they began to approach him, stopping only by Rainbow Dash who was only a few feet away from him, each giving him different look, ranging from anger and suspicion to concern and one of them even had an expression of not really giving a fuck -Pinkie Pie.

“Alright” Twilight started. “I understand you accidentally fell into my portal, what are your plans now that you’re here?”

Cade thought for a second and simply replied “To survive”… he quietly thought for another few moments. “Maybe if you girls can provide me a portal back home I’ll take it, but if that takes any longer than a few days, then there is no excuse I can make back on my home world without raising suspicion from my government. If it takes too long, I’ll be considered dead there, and if I try to go back, there is no way to explain my absence without sounding crazy. No one will believe that I landed in another dimension that had sapient magical talking ponies with wings.” Cade gave a little smirk “So in few days I hope we can work out a way for me to live here if it comes to that.” I hope it doesn’t though, he thought sadly to himself.

Twilight sat and thought quietly. She knew that, now that the portal activated and failed to stabilize, the crystals will have used up all the magic charge that they contained, and that it would take at least a day for them to charge and get within an acceptable level. She turned to her friends curious about what they thought and saw they were looking at her expectantly, probably waiting for her to decide what to do.

She really wanted to just blast him just in case, but that wouldn’t be the right thing to do… she really didn’t need this right now, after just dealing with the human attacks, then right after their defeat Celestia gave her the difficult project of creating one of the first ever two way portals from her castle to another, and finally she still had her new duties as a princess, she knew having to deal with another human was just too much.

“Alright this is what we will do, it will take a day for the magic crystals to recharge, so tomorrow Rarity and I will try to recreate the portal to your home... So until then, I will provide you with a room here.” She then turned to her friends. “Does anypony mind watching him tonight? I have to make some recalculations for the portal and write a letter to Princess Celestia about all this.”

Cade’s realized that he has a 4/5 chance of having a relaxing and possibly fun night. Please don’t be Pinkie, Please don’t be Pinkie Please don’t be Pinkie. Fluttershy quickly spoke up “I’ll watch him, umm that is if that’s ok with everypony.”

Internally the human celebrated, YYYYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!! BEST DAY EVER!!!

Cade then spoke up hoping to interrupt any naysayers “Well then now that, that’s all sorted out, you mind introducing yourselves?” He said with a half grin as he scratched the back of his head.

Chapter 3: Megalith

Cade opened his eyes and saw only darkness and black fog. “Where the hell am I?” He casually looked around and saw… nothing, just darkness and more fog. He sighed and tried to think of what just happened to him. He knew he felt a sharp pain in his back when Chrysalis threw him. But he remembered a dark voice… was something else there with them? Or was that the devil calling him…

“So what type of creature are you?” a Dark voice came from behind Cade, interrupting his thought. He immediately spun around and looked at what cade assumed was a pony cloaked in darkness. “Well?”

Cade figured he would play along for now, hoping he would get a few answers. “A Human, and before you ask, let’s just say I’m from another Dimension”

The dark figure raised a hoof to his chin and sat in thought for a few seconds and responded “I see, you’re the first being I’ve encounter of your species.”

“That’s not surprising only a few humans have ended up on this world I think. But apparently they have been captured or killed by the princesses of this land.”

“Princesses?” The dark figure was quiet a moment “By chance is that Celestia princess still alive?”

“Hmm I think I overheard that she is, but I don’t quite remember. I actually just came to this world an hour ago…” Cade sat down and tried to take in the whole situation “So am I dead?”

“Hmm so the white witch still lives.”

“Well that depends on you. I have searched your soul and found that you never desired my power, so let’s just say I’m a little interested in you human.”

Cade looked dark figure curiously “What do you mean? Who are you? ”

“You may call me Megalith and I want to offer you a deal.”

Cade slouched back and braced himself for what this dark pony had in mind “Alright I’m listening, go on?”

“Well the deal is quite simple, I will grant you a second chance at life and the power and knowledge to wield me, also you will be able to live your life as you see fit, but when you use my power I will try to corrupt you. If you ever lose yourself to the darkness in your heart, or try to use my power for the sole purpose of glory and fame or try to use power to rule over others, I will destroy you.”

Cade knew it couldn’t be that easy “That sounds too good to be true, what’s in it for you?”

"Well I’ll be able to see the outside world again through your eyes. It’s been over millennia since I last saw it, and I’m very curious to see if you are able to control this power. All the ponies that used this power were all corrupted and forced to fight against the ones they love, or simply were destroyed. It depended on my mood at the time. So let’s just say this will be an experiment”

Cade shuddered at the thought of fighting the ones he loved … maybe he would be forced to fight all his WAIFUS! but right now, he didn’t have any other option. “Alright I know I have no choice but to accept, so if I obtain this power how would I use it.”

“First, you have to imagine a villain of your choosing, and their power shall be yours, but be warned. The villain’s personality that you choose will begin to blend with yours. The more their morals and values differ from your own, the faster the corruption will be, and if you truly lose yourself to the darkness then you will die. It’s as simple as that.”

“HA that’s actually kind of cool, alright challenge accepted.” Cade quickly ran through the list of villains in his head, thinking of powerful villains whose personality would fit well with his. “I should avoid those who are murderous and those who are ambitious; I imagine those would corrupt me pretty quick… so I wonder if I can use an anti-hero… I doubt they would corrupt me as fast since they never are truly evil… hmm maybe Vegeta? Nah too powerful and headstrong, he’s too determined to fight which is something I’m going to actively avoid… so in that case maybe Virgil? Devil powers may come in handy. Nah his lust for power and his willingness to kill for it would truly be the end of me. I need someone who is a strong fighter that actively avoids unnecessary loss of life and has no self-interes- … Ah”

Cade smiled “alright I know whose power I want to use for now. Let’s get this over with.”

Chrysalis observed what she assumed was the corpse of the human. As soon as Cade hit the wall, she heard Megalith pierce his body with the horrible sounds of spitting skin and the cracking of bones. She felt a tang of pity for the human but it wasn’t enough to stop her from removing the crystal stone from his corpse. As she approached him, she saw the body twitch a bit and saw a black aura begin to emanate from the crystal. Her expression turned to absolute horror as the crystal began to release massive amounts of pure magic from the body. A dark bubble formed around him as his corpse came back to life.

As Cade slowly regained consciousness he started to feel an insane amount of pain. He's broken bones and dislocated parts of his body before, but what was happening to his body now was a whole new level of pain. He felt all his organs dissolve and begin to reform to better suit the new crystal power source. His bones reformed to be more solid and sturdy and his skin toughened. Every part of his body was remade to suit using a massive power that wouldn’t be possible for the human anatomy to host. His spine was replaced by megalith as well as his heart. The veins in his body now carried a mix of magic and blood. His brain and Megalith were linked as the crystalstone began to change shape and formed itself to replace the muscles in his back to become just as flexible as his former muscle and skin. Because of this transformation Megalith now became the most important organ in his body alongside his brain.

Cade felt the pain lessen as the transformation came to an end. His mind began to clear from the pain as he felt a new sensation: Magical power and a ton of it. He smiled wickedly from the new sensation of magic flowing through him. He brought his arms up and clenched his fist as he felt the difference from his original body. Stronger grip and more muscle control, check. He looked up his right arm and saw the newly toned but not overly built muscle, check. He noticed something wrong… shirt? ... He slowly looked down and saw all his clothes were gone. He sighed and began to focus on his hammer… Wait a second

“Jesus megalith did you have to remake everything! ... Though Mandingo be damned!” Cade was too busy checking himself out, praising the work of the crystal to pay attention to Chrysalis. Though once he was done he slowly looked up at her and saw her completely stunned. “I can’t believe she actually sat there all this time… man I love story book villains. Why do they sit there and watch their enemies power up.”

Now that Cade finished transforming, Chrysalis finally snapped back to reality and glared at the human. “I don’t know what just happened, but you should have stayed down if you knew what’s good for you.” Cade smiled as he was completely unimpressed by her threat “You know what Chrysalis? You’re lucky I ended up with Megalith, if you tried to use its power it would have killed you, so if YOU know what’s good for you, you would just turn around and walk out of here while I permit it.”

Chrysalis responded with an evil laugh “You can’t fool me human! Only the powerful and strong willed can wield Megalith.” She lowered her stance and prepared for battle “Now you leave me no choice but to take it from your body, now be a good little boy and die for me”

Cade just stood there, sat there with a smirk on his face and waited for the changeling queen to attack. “Good I’ve been wanting to try out this power, I hope you make this interesting” “Focus Cade”

He flinched slightly with the new voice in his head “What? Who’s there?”

“You know who I am, you wished to use my power” the voice said calmly

“Ah I see, that’s kinda cool, I figured your personality would blend with me, not have a separate voice in my head”

“Enough, focus on your enemy, don’t underestimate her”

Cade focused back to reality just as she was charging a beam, his eye’s immediately became crimson as she launched the attack. She watched as the beam pierce his chest and smiled wickedly at her victory, but her victory was cut short as his body dissipated into crows. The crows scattered around and flew around blocking her immediate vision, her eyes widened as she had never seen this type of power. She quickly looked around herself and saw him nowhere in sight. Her feeling of panic doubled as he heard his voice come from above her. “That was kinda scary, almost didn’t dodge that in time.” She looked up and saw his standing on the ceiling, looking smugly at her with his arms crossed. She turned to face him she noticed something different, his new crimson eye’s with three tomoe next to the pupil. “How did you dodge that!” she demanded. Cade smiled and waved a finger at her “I’m not the kind of guy who explains his tricks.”

She growled in frustration, and began to charge another beam, Cade leaped down right next to her and prepared to land a heavy punch to her face, but in a flash black light she vanished from his side. In that instant Cade was thrown completely out of his element. “Impossible she didn’t have teleportation magic in the show!” he quickly spun around and saw her facing him charging another beam. He quickly analyzed the path of the attack and took one step to the side as she launched the beam, dodging it by inches. Cade responded by bringing his hands together and let his instincts create the hand signs needed for his attack “Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu”. He raised his right hand to his mouth and fire erupted from it, blasting toward on the changeling queen. She threw up a barrier spell and blocked his attack as it exploded against the shield which covered the area in smoke. As she predicted Cade came rushing through the smoke and once again tried to land a heavy blow to her, which she responded with another teleport. Cade landed and slid across the floor, one of his hands on the ground spinning him and slowing him down. She laughed triumphantly “Is that all you got human? You’re so predictable. Do you honestly think this is the first time I fought your kind? Please, I’m just getting warmed up; you stand no chance against me.”

“Huh that just happened.” Cade stood up to face her “ I figured she would have fought like she did vs Celestia on the crystal empire episodes…I mean all she did last time was try to magically muscle through her opponent and stood still hoping she would win… just how different is this world? And how the hell can she predict my moves, she doesn’t even know what I’m capable of!”

“You’re telegraphing your attacks, and your chains are sloppy, let me fight her, my way is more efficient than yours.”

“Wait don’t you know the deal I made with Megalith? If I let you take over, then we will probably die by him or be forced to fight the ones I love. let me handle this Itachi, if I can’t beat the children storybook villain then we are totally fucked, especially if we have to fight anything tougher.”

“I see…Fine you will remain in control, but know this, just because you have my abilities, doesn’t mean you know how to use them. If you want to win then I hope you will heed to my advice when it comes to fighting…”

Cade smiled a half grin, obviously enjoying his first fight “Hell yeah man. Lead the way”

Chapter 4: Birthday Suit Beatdown

Chrysalis quietly observed Cade. He seemed a little distracted, his facial expressions changing like he was in a conversation. He went from irritated to excited in a matter of seconds, she had no clue what he was up to, but she knew it she had to act fast in order to catch him off guard. So instead of blasting him with another beam of magic, she figured she would grab him in her telekinesis and smash him into the walls till he died, so she began to focus her magic and looked into his eyes.

Her Telekinesis easily grabbed him and as she began her attack, slamming the human left into the wall then into the right one. He became a human ping pong ball with the walls as the paddle. She repeated the process for a solid minute, and then released the body hoping that would be enough, and to her horror again, his body dissipated into crows. She looked around frantically trying to find him, but he was nowhere in sight again. However this time a few crows flew at her face at high speed. She covered her eyes with a hoof, but felt several sharp objects hit her horn. She screamed in pain as she realized what hit her. “ROCKS?!?” she looked around and saw a few small rocks bounce on the ground. She looked up to see a very smug look on the humans face, as he tossed several small rocks upward, catching it in his hands mockingly.

“HAHA I didn't know your horns were that sensitive, but man, for someone who claims they're so powerful, you sure did scream like a little bitch.” “Real mature” “Save it Itachi, let me have some fun with this”

Chrysalis was not pleased with his insults “How are you getting out of my attacks! ANSWER ME!” Cade sighed and shook his head “I’m sorry but where I’m from, we don’t share our secrets. Especially not to someone that is trying to kill them. But I am curious, where did you learn to fight like this? It doesn't seem your style. It’s a little too brutal even for you…”

She stared at him curiously “Don’t act like you know me, you have no idea what I’ve been through to get here and why should I answer your questions when you won’t answer mine” Cade nodded “fair enough I’ll give you a hint, My eyes are my greatest weapon right now, the second you looked into them, you've lost. Now then your turn”

She glared back at him but now tried to avoid eye contact. “Don’t get so cocky boy I haven’t shown you anything yet, and now here my hint, I have been training to take down all the princesses and conquer Equestria. What you have seen here is the minimum requirement for it.

Cade thought for a moment “I can see that, I mean the princesses weren't the best in a fight. They just resorted to overpowering their opponents like Chrysalis … but that doesn't make sense she should have already fought with Celestia and won the first round… and if she fought like this, there is no way Twilight or Cadence should have been able to win…”

“Quit over thinking this” Itachi interrupted. “Figure out what going on after we are done fighting her. Now I recommend you focus on copying her abilities and start to use them against her.”

“Wait what? You sure I can copy pony or changeling magic? I thought I had chakra…”

“You made that up yourself, Megalith is giving you power and it has the power to be used for any type of magic here, including all chakra based jutsus and apparently the type of magic that she uses. Now I want you to focus on her horn, and copy her teleportation spell and anything else she is capable of using.”

Cade acknowledged mentally and focused again on the fight before him. Again she was preparing another attack with her horn, but this time her magic aura wasn’t the same as when she used her previous abilities, it looked like the green magic was forming small balls around her and let them float at her side. Cade let his eyes analyze the spell and used his right index finger as his “horn” to replicate the attack. She watched as her spell was quickly replicated as dark red balls formed around him. “How… are you doing that…” she squeaked, completely at a loss for words as one of her secret spells was being replicated. She lowered her stance and casted her magic, at the same time Cade did the same. The balls of magic flew toward their respective target, Cade's seemed to have his on the collision course with Chrysalis’s so she tried to control the flight path of the magic balls to dodge the magic collision, but Cade replicated the movement like a mirror, causing all but one of the balls to collide. A line of several small explosions happened between the two casters which frustrated Chrysalis. She watched as one of her magic balls survived and homed in on the human, and saw in the corner of her eye one of his was coming right at her, so she had no choice but to focus on his attack and threw up her magic barrier. His last magic ball collided with her barrier and exploded harmlessly on it, she smiled in satisfaction as she heard her magic ball explode on what she hoped would be his new dead corpse. As she focused on him she noticed he now had a red magical barrier that protected him from her attack.

She couldn’t believe what just happened. How did he know her attack? And how did he now have a barrier? She wanted answers bad. “How are you using my spells? Tell me now!” Cade shook his head in disappointment. “Chrysalis why on earth would I tell you how I did that…” he again used the fireball attack and forced Chrysalis to put up the barrier spell again, but instead of trying to rush her, he instead used her Magical Ball attack as a follow up and hoped that would break her barrier. It failed of though, as her defensive abilities were much stronger than her offensive. This time her horn channeled her green magic in a weird way. His sharingan focused on the spell sending the details of the spell to his brain. Cade eye’s widened as he felt the urge to dodge this one at any cost.

He casted the sharingan’s basic genjutsu creating the illusion that he ran to the left from the spot he was standing causing Chrysalis to shoot at the fake Cade as it dodged the attacks easily. Though once she turned enough Cade lost eye contact with her and the spell ended causing the illusion to burst into crows. At that time he used his quicken movement to get behind her while she looked around her for the real Cade. “What’s wrong human? Don’t want me to suck the Love out of you?” Cade couldn’t help but be a smart ass back. “Only if you use this on me” he said teasingly, as his hands smacked both of her flanks. She quickly turned her head and tried to grab him in a telekinesis, but again, it was a fake as she growled in frustration.

At that time Cade started to feel a little calmer about the fight, which he took as a bad sign that Itachi’s personality is really starting to take root in his own. He needed to end this fast. “Hey Itachi, how do I use the body flicker technique? I need to end this now”

“... Alright let me show you, create a shadow clone and I will try to take it over quickly, so have it not resist, then I will use The Body Flicker to try and grab Chrysalis and force her to teleport, then you use it or copy her teleport and catch her.”

Cade let his hands form the sign for the shadow clone and let his energy flow to his hand. In a small poof of smoke another Cade stood there naked and ready to go. He focused on his clone as he noticed the facial expression turned from his normal look, to a bored and calm one. In a blink of an eye his body moved from his side to Chrysalis’s. Her eye’s widened in surprise as the Itachi clones hand moved to choke the Queen. Cade was able to turn his head quick enough to see the queen’s Teleportation spell as she disappeared in a black flash. She teleported across the room and threw up a barrier spell to stall for some time, but it was already over for her. Cade used the teleportation spell to get inside her barrier and grabbed her horn. Finally the fight was over.

He squeezed her horn with his left hand and flooded it with his power, silencing her magic capabilities. “It’s over ya bitch, but I have to admit I am glad you made my first fight fun.” Cade looked up as Itachi’s clone as it stood there. He couldn’t help but chuckle at his new naked form. “DAMN I’m sexy!”

Itachi didn’t react to Cade’s behavior instead focused on the task at hand. “So are you going to kill her now? It sounds like she’s a danger to this world.” Cade looked down and saw the look of fear in her eyes. Her eyes shifted from the clone to Cade, as she began to tremble. “Please don’t kill me… Please, please have mercy on me. I will do anything so please!”

Cade sat and thought about the whole situation, there is no doubt in his mind that this world would be better off if she died… but he knew at the bottom of his heart he would regret killing her if he did. On top of that, that would be more Itachi’s way, then his own. In order to survive in this world with Megalith, he would have to stay with his way, and never falter from his beliefs.

He stared into her green eyes where tears of fear were forming, so he let out a heavy sigh. “Don’t worry, I won’t kill you, but I will turn you over to the legal system here. So your fate will be whatever the princesses decide” Cade looked up to Itachi. “And before you say anything, I know it’s a risk letting her live, but if I kill her now then there is no guarantee that Megalith won’t destroy us. That and I don’t kill ladies.” Cade smiled with that as Chrysalis physically relaxed. “Well I guess it’s time to go back” Cade raised a fist and sucker punched her right in the face, knocking her unconsciousness.

Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Rarity were all back to back in the corner of the main hall way, still fighting the changelings. Chrysalis apparently brought her whole army, coming at the struggling ponies in waves. While the main hall way was filling up with piles of beaten changelings, the 5 ponies were starting to run on fumes, they needed reinforcements fast. Twilight was using small beams of magic to strike changeling after changeling while Rainbow and Apple Jack and Pinkie resorted to bucking any changelings that got close, and rarity would grab and toss any changeling’s that managed to get close enough to harm her friends, though her magic was starting to run dangerously low.

Rainbow bucked a changeling in the face for the 100th time. Forcing her body to fight through her exhaustion “Ugh, is the Royal Guard here yet!” Twilight was breathing too heavily to answer at first as she blasted a few changelings that tried to make a break for the hallways of the castle, determined to keep the fight there. “They *Gasp* should be” Twilight choked out. She was a little worried for Spike and Fluttershy since a few changing made it in, but she was sure that they were ok and figured they could handle themselves.

Several changelings surrounded Spike as the proceeded to strike his little body. He hid himself in the library which was behind the battle. Unfortunately a few slipped by and found the little dragon, then proceeded to beat the living shit out of him.

“GAH HELP ME TWILIGHT” Spike managed to get out between his cries of pain. The changelings were happy they actually managed to beat up something, since they failed at it normally. Each one of them were happily swinging away at the baby dragon.

Cade carried the knocked out Changeling queen up the final spiral staircase while he bitched from exhaustion. “This was supposed to be my one day in Equestria, one great night with Fluttershy, but nooooo. You got me out here carrying your heavy ass up several sets of stairs with your damn cheese legs dragging the whole way. You had to come down here with an attitude, acting all big and bad…AND WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SMELL!!!” Cade dropped Chrysalis turned to take some frustration out on the queen but heard an adorable little scream in the distance. “SHIT FLUTTERSHY” he quickly turned to go pursue the sound of the yelling, determined to save one of his adorable waifu’s. “Cade what about the Queen” “Fuck the queen” he yelled out loud while he proceeded at a Megalith enhanced sprint.

Fluttershy was in dodge mode, flying around in circles as five changelings chased her. She was surprisingly skillful when it came to dodging enemies. None of the changelings even got close to her, but they knew as soon as she tired out, then they would be able to take down the element of kindness with little trouble. It was unfortunate for them that she now had a guardian, one extremely pissed and powerful flutterfag. Cade blasted the bedroom door open that Fluttershy was in, sending shrapnel from the wooden door everywhere. Cade had his sharingan up so when he smashed the door, he was able to see Fluttershy’s location and did a body flicker to get to her side then casted a barrier to protect her from the debris. The changelings however were unable to avoid Cade’s explosive entry as they were peppered with several wooden chunks and slivers. Three of the five changelings were neutralized by the attack and fell to ground groaning. The other two, which were still in pretty rough shape. They growled at the human and prepared to attack him, but Cade had no mercy for those who would attack one of favorite ponies. He released the barrier and charged head on at the two able changelings. He delivered a hard punch to the first one’s face. The second one tried to jump him and bite his throat, but Cade used his right hand to summon up a small ball of magic and struck the changeling in the chest with it. Blasting into the bookcase on the other side of the room.

The engagement lasted less than 10 seconds as all 5 changelings laid on the ground groaning from their injuries. Cade examined the downed changelings and he figured they wouldn’t be getting up anytime soon, so he turned his attention to Fluttershy. “Hey Fluttershy, you ok?” Before he had time to react she was already in his arms “OOH THANK YOU!” she quietly yelled hugging him tight. If there was a moment in his life he wished he could make the “Me Gusta” meme face, it was then. Instead he just smiled and returned the hug, happy knowing that at least she was safe.

Fluttershy quickly felt like something was wrong though, something soft was somewhat getting harder pushing somewhat into the lower half of her body. She looked at him, and saw his chest was bare. “Umm Cade? Where’s your shirt?” her eyes trailed further down didn’t see any pants. “CADE WHERE’S YOUR PANTS!” then she finally pushed Cade away a little and focused on his mega hammer. Cade couldn't help but laugh as she brought both of her front hooves to her mouth as she muttered “ooh… my” with a slight blush.

Cade figured he should play this off like a badass and act like it was no big deal, so he focused on the task at hand. “Before you ask, I ran into Chrysalis the changeling queen when I went to go see Twilight. So I followed her to a secret chamber where I prevented her from getting a magical artifact… And it turns out I lost my clothes in the process.” Cade thought for the moment while he stared at Fluttershy, who was still focused on his Mega Hammer. He couldn't help but chuckle a bit and waited to finish his train of thought once she stopped staring. She finally shook her head for a second and looked up to his eyes and quietly spoke. “Umm… I’m sorry, what did you say?” Cade smiled a little but focused on the situation. “Fluttershy this place is under attack. You need to take me to your friends. I can help fight the changelings off.”

It was about that time that his adrenaline wore off and his body began to hurt. Even though he now has the power to use Megalith, his body wasn't quite used to it. It still needed time to heal after it was redeveloped. Cade clenched his teeth and turned around so she wouldn't see his pain, though that caused a different problem instead. “WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR BACK!” she screamed.

Cade wondered what she was talking about for a second and painfully walked to a mirror that was in the room, and when he turned his back to it he saw everything covered in crimson crystal. He figured something like this happened when Megalith fused with his body but to see it for himself was weird. He couldn't see his internal organs or anything, which was comforting. He moved his back muscles and saw the crystal like texture flex like normal skin.

“Damn that’s SICK!” Cade said amused. “Focus Cade, There are still enemies inside the castle” Cade sighed, “Fine I’m going. You’re so needy!” Itachi didn't feel a need to respond to that as Cade turned to gather Fluttershy and saw she was trying to help the wounded changelings. Cade looked at their bad condition that they were in and figured he should help them too. “I need a healing spell” Cade asked in his mind. Itachi didn't respond but somehow his hands glowed a green mist like aura. He slowly walked over to the changeling that Fluttershy was helping and put the glowing hand over its wound. It was completely knocked out, which was probably the best thing that could have happened to it. The chunks of wood came straight out of it and the wound sealed up magically, although Cade had to admit it looked really painful. Once he figured all the major wounds were healed up on that changeling he moved on to the next one. The changelings who were awake screamed in pain when the chunks of wood were being removed but once the wounds closed up then all laid there silently.

Cade stood up after healing the last one and started to head for the door when one of the changelings spoke up “Why did you heal us?” Cade stopped and turned around. “Why do I need a reason to help you? You’re not a threat to me, though I should make one thing clear. If any of you try to harm that mare again then I’ll make you will wish I left those chunks of wood in you...” Cade said darkly as he turned back to the door with Fluttershy beside him.

She had a few questions for him but she waited until they started to walk down the hallway where he left the queen. Fluttershy trotted up to his side and saw the pain in his face. “Hey Cade? Are you ok?” Cade smiled and tried his best to play it off. “I’m doing fine, I can still keep going”. His body disagreed. He had to use the walls as support just to keep himself up. His whole body hurt from overusing the new power he was given.

He slowly walked with Fluttershy until he found the spot where he left Chrysalis. Unfortunately it seemed that she escaped during the time Cade when to help Fluttershy. “Fuck… I knew it” “If you knew it then you should have grabbed her and brought her with us. That pony would have been fine” “She’s not just some pony, she’s Fluttershy and she’s super adorable” “… I must say you have some weird tastes…” “Whatever man, I don’t want to hear it, we just need to fight off the rest of their army and then we will go from there.” That’s when Fluttershy spoke up. “Umm, if you don’t mind, why are we here?”

“Sorry Fluttershy this is where I left the changeling queen when I went to come help you… and apparently she escaped... Man I can’t believe I made that mistake…” Cade said disappointingly. “Oh… well can we go find my friends now. I bet they need our help” said the adorable pony. Cade smiled and nodded “Sure lead the way. I’ll keep ya safe.” She smiled a little and faced back the way they came. Then with a quiet “Follow me” she preceded down the hallway. Cade started to follow, limping his toward the hallway but was stopped by Itachi “Cade, There is no way your combat capable. We need a plan if there are more changelings”

The changelings were relentless, charging the 5 ponies from every angle. The ponies were pretty much beaten. Rarity ran out of magic and is trying her best to help physically fight, though she wasn’t very effective. Rainbow, Applejack, and Pinkie were completely gassed, taking turns striking the closest enemy, though their strikes were getting weaker and changelings were getting up much faster after being struck. Twilight was desperate and tried to channel enough magic for her stasis spell. Hoping it would give her friends enough time to escape from the changeling swarm. That’s when familiar angry voice echoed through the entrance “HOW DARE YOU”.

The yellow Pegasus flew right next to her friends angry as balls. The changelings hesitated a little, but then recognized her as the non-threatening pony as they began to charge again. Fluttershy was about to unleash her fury on the unsuspecting army but was interrupted by a familiar human suddenly appeared by her side. The changelings jumped at the seven beings but in a blink of an eye the human was in the air doing a whirlwind style kick, hitting all the airborne changelings and knocked them into their comrades on the ground. Then he landed and quickly dashed into the middle of the army and began the one sided ass kicking.

The main six watched with their jaws dropped as the human nimbly and swiftly beat down the remaining changelings. With long sweeping kicks and quick crushing blows with his arms, all the changelings fell to his graceful skill. The changelings would try to attack from all sides, but the human seemed to have eyes on the back of his head as he countered every attack and made them pay for attacking him. As they watched him, he seemed like a grand master physical fighter, unlike the humans that landed in Equestria before him.

It only took him a matter of minutes to wrap up the rest of the changeling force. the majory of the changelings that were able to move simply fled knowing that there was no chance for them to beat the human, leaving the rest to whatever their fate would be. The human stood in the middle of defeated army, scanning the room for anymore enemy combatants. Once he was satisfied that it was safe he turned to the main six and softly smiled. “Are all you ok? It seems you all went through quite the battle.”

For some reason the ponies got a little suspicious of their human ally, something seemed off about him. Then they got distracted as they lowered their eyes from his head to his crotch. “WHERE ARE YOUR CLOTHES” yelled Rainbow Dash. “THE HORROR” Rarity dramatically exclaimed. “Umm… well he-“Fluttershy quietly said trying to answer Rainbow Dash. “Huh, that’s pretty interesting, he doesn’t have a sheath” Twilight interrupted, analyzing the human with a hoof to her mouth. “Well Cade is human so it completely nor-“Fluttershy tried to answer Twilight before she was again interrupted, this time by Pinkie. ”OOH is it time to play the cuddle game?” “NO!!! I won’t let you hurt Cade like you did that other human!” Fluttershy yelled at her pink friend causing her mane to deflate a little. “Yah I agree with Fluttershy, He just saved our flanks” said Applejack. Apparently she was the only pony to not care that he was naked.

He stood there smiling, amused at the conversation before him. Then a loud voice boomed into the room. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” all the ponies turned to the entrance of the castle to see the familiar rainbow beam of light, shoot towards the human, encasing him in stone. The ponies stood in shock as their savior was now a stone statue in the middle of the room. To add to their confusion Celestia and Luna walked in, the elements floating around them…

Chapter 5: Hunters

In front of Everfree Castle Celestia and Luna arrived at the front of the castle with a large white flash. Both immediately took in their surroundings, scanning for battle. The area was empty, so they both approached the castle entrance with haste, but something stopped Celestia dead in her tracks. The old princess saw the form of a human, bare and completely exposed. That didn’t bother her though. On his back was Megalith. An old artifact that had caused her so much pain in the past.

She instinctively grabbed the elements of harmony out of her bag and began to charge their power. Luna wondered for a second what caused Celestia to act so hastily, but then she saw the crystal stone too. She hopped next to her sister and allowed the power to flow through them both and with a loud hum and a flash of rainbowed color light realised by it. At that moment Celestia lost her cool and let her emotions cloud her judgment, causing her to yell out angrily. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” In a bright flash of light the show was over. Megalith has been stopped once more.

They both approached the captured human slowly, to their surprise Twilight Sparkle and her good friends were at the top of the stairs of the entrance. All of them were completely stunned and her friend Fluttershy was on the verge of tears. Twilight was the first one to come too, and walked down the stairs to her mentor, the rest follow suit, except for Fluttershy and Rarity. Fluttershy was crying in the fetal position on the floor and Rarity was trying her best to comfort one of her best friends.

Twilight finally stood before the two princesses next to the newly formed human statue and bowed. “Princess Celestia, Princess Luna…” Celestia looked at her student softly but wondered why she was hesitant to speak; it wasn’t like her to not speak her mind. “No need for that now Princess Twilight. I’m very glad to see your all safe.” Twilight looked up to her mentor but was still hesitant to speak. She bit her lip and looked at the human. She didn’t know how to ask why the elements of harmony were used on him. Celestia caught on to Twilight’s body language and decided to answer her question before it was asked. “I got your report that a human landed in Equestria. I assume this being here is him?”

Twilight nodded slowly, taking caution in her movements. “Yes princess. He saved me and my friends from the changelings.” Celestia and Luna looked around them at the piles and piles of hurt changelings. “All of these?” Luna asked in a rather surprised manner.

Twilight shook her head from side to side. “No he defeated about fifty of them if I had to guess. The rest were beaten by Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie and Myself.”

Luna nodded before flying up to Fluttershy and Rarity to help calm Fluttershy down as Twilight continued to explain. “Fluttershy was with the human, Cade, or so we thought.” She sat back on her haunches from exhaustion and continued the story. “Chrysalis showed up with her army, and said she was looking for something… An artifact that birthed the Alicorn Amulet… Do you know what she was talking about Princess?”

Celestia thought for a second, wondering how much she should reveal to them, but eventually figured that since Twilight spoke so highly about the human, and the fact that he saved them from attack meant she should explain why he was now imprisoned in stone. “Yes, what this human here now possesses is what she sought. Megalith, it’s a magical artifact that grants the user incredible magical power, but at the cost of driving them mad. Just like the Alicorn Amulet, it corrupts the user and changes their personality.” Celestia lowered her head slightly and closed her eyes for this next part. “Many of the greatest heroes Equestria has ever had have tried to use its power for good, but all of them were corrupted, my sister and I forced to slay them”

Twilight spoke up to question her mentor. “But Celestia, he just saved us. He didn’t show any signs of corruption! I know he’s a human and all but still, he was a good being!” Celestia nodded. “I’m sure he was Twilight, which is why we imprisoned him in stone.” This is when Applejack spoke up. “What is that supposed to mean? If he’s good then shouldn’t he be free?” Celestia slightly chuckled and shook her head. “Sorry I should have clarified. Since he was still good when he was frozen, the corruption can’t take place. The corruption happens after the first battle Megalith is used. So he would have been corrupted where he stood and attacked you all, but now that he is frozen he can be taken back to the castle and Luna and I will try our best to remove Megalith from his body.”

That’s when Fluttershy stopped crying and perked up. “Really! He will be set free!” Celestia nodded. “Yes, since you all seemed so fond of him we will try our best to save him. No matter how long it takes.” Fluttershy flew in the air and did some little twirls of happiness “Yay…” Luna stood there silently not saying a word.

In a black flash eleven cloaked figures were behind Luna. Luna turned to face the cloaked figures and stood there majestically. “Report” Luna stated simply as she stared at the figures. The closest pony removed the hood of her cloak, pulling it up and showing herself to Luna. It was a mare bat pony with the standard grey look of a regular bat pony guard but with a dull yellow mane as well as a sword on her back with a green aura emitting from it. “Hunters reporting for duty” She said in a calming tone bowing to the princess. 10 other larger figures bowed as well, each removing their hood in the process. Some of them had masks or unique helmets as well as having their own weapons ranging from staffs and swords to one black futuristic rifle. Luna looked upon them and nodded. “Good, the human is a non-threat as you can see, but I want you to work with the Sun Guard in capturing the rest of the changelings as well as their queen.”

The mare nodded and turned to Celestia who was down the stairs “Princess Celestia, since this is a Joint operation, who would you like in command?” Celestia slowly turned to the mare bat pony. “Since Captain Shining Armor won’t be here, you will be in command, Head Huntress Lighting Strike” The mare nodded and turned to a stallion bat pony which was equipped with the rifle. “Go alert all the Officers of the Royal Guard, Queen Chrysalis will not be engaged until at least two hunters or myself are with them. They should use Pegasus scouts to scan the forest for her as well as her lesser changelings.” The young stallion nodded to her before speaking up. “Ma’am what would you like them to do for regular changings?” The mare quietly thought for a second. “Tell them to use their best judgment and to set up checkpoints around the Everfree forest with changeling ward spells casted by unicorns.” The stallion nodded again and disappeared with a black flash. Then the mare turned back to Princess Luna. “Anything else Princess?” Luna shook her head “No, happy hunting” In a flash the 10 bat ponies were gone.

The main six wondered what the hell just happened as they turned back to Celestia. She smiled at them softly as they gathered around her. “Elements of harmony don’t worry about the changelings as our guards have the situation under control, and as for the human. Luna and I will try our best to save him. I don’t know how long it will take but I do know it will be dangerous. So you won’t be allowed to visit him during this period.” Fluttershy nodded sadly as Celestia continued. “Now, Luna and I will take this human back to Canterlot to start the process of trying to free him.”

At that time a few royal guards arrived and bowed next to Celestia. “Princess Celestia what is your command?” Celestia looked over at them. “Please transport this human to Canterlot and put him in Princess Luna’s Quarters. Then come back here and report to Huntress Lightning Strike” The stallion saluted and worked with his unicorn guards to begin transporting the statue. Celestia turned back to address the elements of harmony. “Thank you girls for protecting this castle from the changelings, I’m sure it took great courage to face their army alone. On behalf of all my little ponies I would like to thank you all for your service in keeping Equestria safe” The girls smiled warmly and stood there proud as Celestia turned and walked out of the castle with Luna in tow

Once Princess Luna and Princess Celestia left the castle and began their journey home on a chariot, Twilight turned to her friends and saw they were all just as exhausted as she was. She smiled weakly and spoke breaking the silence that had hung in the air sense the princesses and guard left. “Well I think it’s safe to turn in for the night. You girls are welcome to use my spare bedrooms so you don’t have to go through the Everfree Forest at night as well as to avoid the Equestrian military…”

The girls nodded in unison as Twilight started to lead the way to the living quarters where her friends would stay in for the remainder of the night, leaving a tired Fluttershy behind. Once Fluttershy realized the others had left she began heading back to the room where she would have taken care of Cade for the night, her face sad yet showing signs of deep thought. She spotted something weird though. A strange puddle was halfway down the hallway. She looked up for a leak and didn’t see a hole in the ceiling, scratching her head she decided she was too tired to care, and turned to her door, ignoring the strange puddle.

She opened up the door to her room and walked in, leaving the confines of the empty hallway behind her; she looked around and saw the changelings that had been in her room were gone. The room was still a mess but that didn’t matter, the bed was still in good condition and that’s where she was heading. She trotted up to the bed and laid down, turning and shifting, trying her best to find a comfortable position. Eventually she was staring right at the nightstand where she had put the human’s device, an IPod as he called it, and sighed silently. A few moments later she grabbed it and held it to her chest, taking comfort in the thought that one day soon, she would be able to return the item to him. The thought comforting her as she fell asleep.

Celestia was completely quiet during the trip home. She stared forward in her majestic stance lost in thought, not muttering a single word. Luna though was very curious about her actions back at the old castle. She finally asked her big sister what was on her mind. “Sister… why did you lie to the Elements of Harmony?” Celestia didn't flinch at the question and kept her gaze forward, unmoving as it had been the entire time. “You know why Luna, they wouldn’t fully understand what we have to do with the human. They are young and don’t fully understand that not everything can be saved.” She finally turned to gaze at the chariot flying next to them where the human statue was. “It’s a shame the first human willing to cooperate with us ended up fused with Megalith, the one artifact that he can’t be saved from.” Luna nodded and agreed. It was most likely that the Elements of Harmony would never hear of the fate of the human…

The chariots pulled up to Canterlot Castle as they hovered near Luna’s balcony, waiting as Celestia grabbed the human and brought him into her sisters room. Luna dismissed her guards and walked behind her sister into her room as Celestia set the human statue down and looked back to her. “Ready, Luna?” Luna nodded and approached the human, a solemn and sad look coursing over her face. “I know this is unfair for you, but we can’t risk a user of Megalith running around Equestria… our only choice is to kill you. I promise you I’ll make it quick and painless… farewell.”

Luna stepped back before lowering her stance as her horn glowed, Celestia’s horn glowing as well as the stone spell was removed from the body. As soon as his head was exposed Luna casted her magic beam, its light was very thin but had a high density of pure magic, allowing it to shoot clean through the human’s skull. Both princesses watched as the life left the humans eyes with a sad expression. They knew it had to be done but it was still saddening for them to execute an innocent being...

But their eyes grew wide as the body dispersed into water. Both of the princesses jaws dropped as the water hit the ground, quickly forming into a small puddle. Celestia quickly ran up to it and scanned it with her magic, looking for signs of the human. Luna casted a large sensory spell and scanned for dark magic throughout the entire castle. “How?… When?… Were we deceived?” Celestia couldn’t sense a trace of him. “Luna have you found him?” The dark blue princess shook her head. “No Tia… I don’t sense him anywhere around the castle.” She turned her head to the recently created puddle. “What do you think that was?”

Celestia was visibly livid “I don’t know what that was, but I do know that he needs to be found immediately “She turned and stomped out the door “Curse you Megalith. I swear I will find you” Luna couldn’t help but smile, it’s been a long time since she saw her sister that angry. She turned to the puddle of water with an amused grin “Another human that needs to be hunted… I hope he makes this fun”

An arm stretched out of the puddle next to Fluttershy’s door at the old castle. Cade had hid himself in the puddle so that his main body would have time to heal, and, to Itachi’s recommendation he created a clone that Itachi himself would control. Itachi could fight through the pain his body was going through, Cade couldn’t, so Itachi went to fight off the changelings and Cade stayed back to heal in a safe location. He pulled the rest of his body out of the tiny puddle as the information came in from the ‘killed’ clone… “So… The princesses want me dead”

“So it seems…” Was Itachi’s response.

Cade moved over to the door and sat down, putting an ear to the door to see if Fluttershy was okay. With his improved hearing he could hear the quiet snoring that came from the yellow Pegasus, which brought a smile to his face. “So what do you plan on doing now? You can’t say here, it’s certain death…”

Cade sat quietly and tried to think to himself, what was there for him in this world? He had nothing. No clothes, no home, no real friends, no family… He looked up to the ceiling as he came to terms with the situation he was in. Celestia wanted him dead. If that’s true then the entire pony population would be after him in short notice. Who were those Bat Ponies? Why did Celestia have the Elements of Harmony still? And most importantly to Cade, why was Luna not using the royal WE?

Cade felt exhausted and wanted to just go in the room behind him, cuddle that cute, sleeping mare, go to sleep and just face death in the morning… But he knew he needed to get going… He stood up and searched for a way to escape and saw a window at the end of the hallway. “Well Itachi. I guess it’s time to run for our lives” He crouched down and took off in a dead sprint towards freedom.

Chapter 6: Escape

Cade leapt through the window at max speed into the darkness of the night, landing in the forest surrounding the castle. He looked back at the castle to see several Pegasus Sun Guards protecting the perimeter and not one saw him leave. “It’s good to see Celestia’s guards are as terrible as ever”. He turned and ran away from the castle heading towards the sounds of changeling’s screams and the sound of battle.

“Cade when you approach the battles make sure you keep your distance. You don’t want them to catch on that you escaped the princesses” Cade nodded and slowed his progress to a slight run. Concentrating on lowering the noise he created as he went on.

With his improved eye’s from megalith he could somewhat see into the darkness. He could mostly spot silhouettes of pony shapes scattered throughout the forest around him, some fighting and some being bounded. Cade ran up to a spot near a spot where changelings were being chained by Celestia’s knights. A type of metal collar were put around their necks that had special crystals attached to them, which he figured was to prevent them from casting their magic.

As Cade Proceeded he dodged several rounds of guards sweeping the area, He used several transformation jutsu’s to hide from the prying eyes of Equestria’s scouts. As he crept along he picked up a curious conversation from an earth pony squad carrying collars and chains for changeling capture. “So when was the last time you saw the Hunters?” A smaller white sun guard asked.

“Hmm… maybe the last time was when that human was accidentally summoned by Celestia and Luna.”

The smaller Colt nodded .“Ah yes I remember that. I cant seem to remember what he went by… Something that started with C?”

The other earth pony nodded. “I can’t remember myself, but he was a fool to summon those eel creatures to attack the princesses. Its too bad for him the Hunters main base is in Canterlot HAHAHA.”

Cade slowed down and thought to himself “What are they talking about?”

“It sounds like those hunters might be more dangerous than we thought, We should avoid them at all cost” Cade agreed mentally and continued to sneak his way through the battlefield.

As he proceeded he found more one sided fights, one changeling or two vs a squad of sun guards. He felt a little pity for the changelings. They were getting pretty roughed up by Celestia’s Sun guard... He wondered what they were even going to do with these changelings? Slavery? No probably not, it’s not the ponies style. Work them into society? That sounds something that Celestia would do, but that’s really optimistic. Cade was so caught up in thought he almost ran into a battle. He stopped and hid near a tree to see who was fighting. To his surprise it was that yellow mained bat pony and Chrysalis. He could vaguely hear the voices coming from the battle.

“Curse you Lightning Strike, Getting in my way AGAIN?” Cade chuckled silently “Lightning Strike? Man what a shitty OC name” Cade examined the bat pony, her colors weren’t too out of the normal for Equestria standards. So she didn’t see like some kid made her up with over saturated colors. She stood there not even in a battle stance in front of the Changeling queen and softly spoke

“Surrender Chrysalis, you know you can’t beat me. Stop this madness and maybe Celestia will show mercy to you and your changelings”.

Chrysalis growled in anger “Just because you stopped me at the wedding doesn’t mean you can do it again. Besides I’ve learned a few tricks since then.” She lowered her stance and trembled slightly as Cade watched curiously. Was she shaking in fear? He now had to see what these bat ponies were made of.

The yellow bat pony shook her head as she levitated the green sword she had earlier in front of her and quickly dashed forward. Chrysalis teleported to the side and quickly created those green balls of magic and launched them at the bat pony. Lightning unsheathed her blade and sliced through everything that was launched at her causing them to dissipate into thin air. During all that she was still closing the distance between herself and the queen. The queen again teleported out of the way of her attacker and tried to strike her with a magic beam as she began to charge her attack.

This time the bat pony held out her left hoof and a yellow glow came from under her cloak. In that instant Chrysalis stopped casting with a look of fear came over her face. Again the pony charged with incredible speed as she was about to cut down her foe. Chrysalis began to run away from her attacker making sounds of fear and panic. The bat pony lowered her sword and instead struck chrysalis in the face with her hoof which caused her to slide across the ground. Chrysalis looked back weakly in fear and slowly tried to scoot away on her rump. Chrysalis casted her barrier spell as the bat pony was right in front of her and with a single swing of the bat ponies sword, the barrier shattered leaving an exposed chrysalis cowering in fear.

“I… I yield. Please forgive me. I will go with you. Please just spare me” The yellow bat pony stared down at her with cold eyes and reached for something that was in her cloak which made Chrysalis wince in anticipation. She brought out a unique Choker with several different colored crystals around it that was attached to a leather leash. She put it on chrysalis and pulled on the chain to bring her up. She added a muzzle to her captive and dragged her along to the nearest checkpoint for extraction.

As the muzzle was slipped over Chrysalis snout she sent a hateful glare at her captor, growling as it was snapped in place. Lightning just put on a little smirk.

Cade sat and watched with an amused smile. “So… if I landed in a clopfic version of Equestria... then some hot shit is about to go down.”

“Cade that pony just beat Chrysalis. Someone you struggled to defeat and she did it that easily. Shouldn’t you be more concerned that she will find you and do the same to you?” Cade hid himself behind a tree and prepared to move out.

“First off… a batpony beat her not a pony.”

“What is the difference between a batpony and a normal pony.”

“… Ears, fangs, eyes and wings?”

“… I still don’t understand why she is not a pony.”

“Ah stop complaining and let me focus on getting out of here.” Then Cade lowered his stance and sprinted away into the darkness.

He continued to run in a random direction, staying low to try and hiding from Pegasus recon sweeps as they flew overhead. Hours passed as he continued to run. As he went on he ran into fewer and fewer spots where changelings were being taken captive. Finally the sun started to peak as Cade was running on fumes. He hadn’t eaten or drank anything since he was teleported to Equestria. He took a break under a tree and looked up into the beautiful morning sky.

“That was some night huh Itachi?” Itachi stayed quiet and didn’t respond. Cade looked around for maybe a source of food or water, he saw some mushrooms but why risk them being poisonous or even worse some sort of hallucinogenic when the guards are still flying around all over the place. He sighed and took a break, focusing on the sounds around him then he heard a feminine voice coming from far away. Cade was curious since it didn’t sound like a battle or one of the guards. He approached slowly and came to a road in the forest where he could see a small wooden caravan. He could hear complaining from a very familiar voice

“UGH, this is why Trixie doesn’t trust wheels.” Cade looked and saw the light blue pony removing a broken wheel from her caravan.

”Ha how about that, another pony I would cum inside.” He moved over to a spot where he can observe her and watched as she tried to fix her vehicle. She took the replacement wheel and tried to muscle it in without jacking up the caravan which pretty much made it impossible to get it in. He chuckled as she struggled to fix her ride as a sound of growls came from the forest. Out of nowhere a pack of Timberwolves leapt at Trixie which made her squeak cutely. Cade sat up quickly and instinctively Teleported to her side which startled the beasts.

Cade focused his power and released an intimidating wave of pure energy directed at the beast in hopes of startling them… they actually cowered and ran away with their legs between their tales. Cade smiled as he spared the cannon fodder of Equestria and turned to the cowering unicorn. He kneeled down next to her and leveled his head with hers.

“Hey you ok?” he asked in a calming tone.

Trixie scooted backwards on her rump towards her home with a look of fear. “STAY AWAY HUMAN! THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE KNOWS POWERFUL MAGIC.”

Cade stood up and backed away with his hands raised “Alright Trixie, I’m not here to hurt you. I only want to help.”

She looked at him now with fear and curiosity “HOW DO YOU KNOW TRIXIE’S NAME.”

Cade gave her a level headed look “You’re saying it in third person…”

Trixie looked away in embarrassment and blushed which caused Cade to smile warmly. He grabbed her spare wheel that lay on the ground and lifted her caravan slightly and slid in the spare wheel. Trixie looked at him with surprise as the human helped her “Why are you helping Trixie?”

Cade turned to look at her. “Why not? I don’t need a reason to help someone in need.”

Trixie nodded and smiled “Well thank you …” then she noticed the human didn’t look well “Are you ok?” Cade was about to blow off her question, but his body finally gave out. Apparently running all night with no food or water took its toll. That last magical release and lifting a caravan took him over the edge. He collapsed on the ground in pain. Causing Trixie to run up and check up on him. He turned to look in her beautiful worried purple eyes and smiled warmly as he passed out. She stared at him for a few moments wondering what to do with one of the most hated beings in Equestria. she looked around a few times to see if anyone was looking, then grabbed him in her telekinesis and threw him into her caravan.

Luna sat on her throne waiting for her subordinates report, In a black flash Lightning strike stood before the night princess with the captured changeling queen in tow.”I present to you the queen of the changelings, your majesty.” Lightning said with a bow, forcing the captured royal to follow suit as she pulled on the leash. Luna stood up majestically to view her captive.

“Excellent work Headhuntress Lightning Strike… send her to the dungeons… I must speak to you of a private matter.” In that moment a few of Celestia’s sun guards came through a door and grabbed the leash and lead her to the dungeons. Chrysalis eyes grew wide as she heard her fate, and as the sun guard began to lead her away, she tugged at her leash with all her might, but to no avail. her fate was all but sealed as the royal guard lead her away to the cells below the castle.

Cade awoke within a warmth of a blanket. something he didnt expect to happen considering he didn't have a home or a bed. He looked around, he was on the floor on top of a shitty carpet, he noticed a small bed against the wall that was too short for humans, in the room had a counter that had a small sink that was full of dishes, a small table in the middle with no chairs, a coat rack with Trixie's blue and purple cloak used in her magic shows, as well as her black cloak from season 3.

He sat up and smiled at the fact that he was in Trixies home safe and sound. He heard a little startled noise and Cade turned around with great speed to find the source of the noise, but as he turned he ran into a bowl covered in a pink aura causing the continents to spill all over himself. “FUCK THATS HOT! WHAT THE HELL!” screamed the unsuspecting naked human.

He quickly heard the annoyance of the show pony who worked hard to make his meal.

“Trixie was feeling benevolent enough to make you food and this is what you do with it!” Cade finished rolled over and tried to clean up the spilled contents with a nearby napkin and looked up to the light blue unicorn.

“Oh uhh… Sorry Trixie I didn't know it was there.” she made a small sound of irritation and picked up the bowl and took it to her sink and dumped what little was left in it. “Now if you don't mind eating your food this time instead of spilling it. Trixie is struggling to make ends meet as it is without somepon… human spilling her food!” She said grumpily. Cade nodded just to please his host and took a bite of his pure vegetarian soup.

“If there is one thing i'm going to miss, its Mom’s home cooking…” While Trixies meal wasn't terrible, it wasn't really all that good either. Cade quietly ate his food and stared at the light blue unicorn silently nerdgasming at the fact hes sitting down and eating with the real Trixie. She looked at him quizzically wondering what was making the exhausted human so giddy.

“So… How did you get to Equestria?” she asked trying to start a conversation. Cade stopped eating so he could respond easily to the barrage of questions that she is bound to ask.

“Well… a pony named Twilight Sparkle accidentally summoned me here.” The look on her face when Cade said Twilight Sparkle was priceless.

“TWILIGHT SUMMONED YOU!” She shrieked causing Cade to smirk.

“Yeah do you know her?” he asked just to see Trixie's response.

“Yes,” she said with a small smile “shes a … friend.”

“Heh so she is post season 3 reformed Trixie eeh?” Cade thought.

Trixie Looked over to him to see him lost in thought “So…” she interrupted “What were you doing way out here and not at Ponyville.”

“Well about that… Lets just say … I got lost in the everfree…” “There is no way that shes going to fall for that”

Trixie looked at him curiously “you got lost?” she asked

“Yeah… i rather not get too into it...” Cade said trying to deflect the question “By the way” he moved over to where Trixie was sitting.

She shifted uncomfortably wondering what he was planning “Uhh… what is it?

Cade wrapped his arms around her and brought her into a tight hug “Thanks for the food and a place to get a little rest! It means so much to me!” he pretty much squealed as he rubbed his face in her mane.

That caused Trixie to squeak loudly and somewhat struggled to get out of his grasp, which also made her rump rub an exposed one eye monster.

“NOPROBLEMLETTRIXIEGONOWPLEASE” she Squeaked as Cade finally let her go with a shit grin on his face...

“Was that really necessary?” Judged itachi

“No… BUT IT WAS AWESOME!”

“You pretty much molested that nice little pony.”

“She’s a Unicorn, not exactly a pony…”

“That doesn't matter, she fed you and that's how you thank her kindness?”

Cade realized what he did was kind of a dick move… that he didn't regret. “Sorry trixie. I thought I was going to die of starvation out there. You saved my life. thank you.”

She smiled softly and nodded “No problem… Umm … It seems you never properly introduced yourself.”

Cade smiled apologetically “Sorry about that, Names Cade Adam’s, Please call me Cade”

A few hours later Trixie rested on her bed as she made small talk with the friendly human. “So i have to ask… What is that red crystal on your back?” Trixie finally asked.

“Oh umm… Lets just say its a magical crystal that birthed the Alicorn Amulet that was fused with my body when i got here” Cade replied knowing it would get a large response out of the unicorn.

“... The Alicorn Amulet!” she yelled. she got up off the bed and walked behind him to stare at the crystal. she sat on her haunches and put a hoof on his back which made Cade smile slyly. “Well what do you think?” he asked somewhat connivingly

She ran her forehoof down his crystal back which made Cade shiver slightly until her hoof found a small missing chunk from his lower back. “This hole… It really would fit the small gem that was part of the amulet.” she got up and moved to sit in front of him. “How are you this sane? That small chunk that's missing from your back drove me mad…Let alone something of that size!”

Cade threw on a half grin and cocked his head back trying to look as cool as possible. “Well if that's true. maybe my name should be “Greatest and Most Powerful Cade””. Needless to say Trixie wasn't amused.

“Cade, Trixie is being serious. You need to get that removed as soon as possible”

Cade shook his head. “Well lets say I may have had a meeting with Princess Celestia… and well she doesn't think its possible to remove.” the response made Trixie looked at him curiously.

“You met Princess Celestia?” Trixie asked hoping for a reply.

“Yes… Lets just say she thinks this is permanent… I rather not get into the details.” Cade deflected hoping she wouldn't ask any more about the meeting.

“Fair enough, Trixie won't ask anymore questions on the subject.” she responded with a confident tone.

“Hey Trixie I got a question. It sounds like you had the Alicorn Amulet... well if you did have it as some point, did you hear a voice?”

Trixie looked at him with a curious look. “A voice? sorry Trixie didn't hear a voice… i only knew afterwards that my personality changed rapidly.”

Cade nodded but was still slightly confused… “So megalith didn't speak to her, but that would explain why she wasn't destroyed by the stone either… what does that mean?”

“Cade we should probably get going, we don't want to endanger this po-... Unicorn. She has done enough for us, lets go before we get her in trouble with the local military.” Cade acknowledged mentally and looked back at the adorable light blue pony who was staring curiously at him.

“Well Trixie I think its about time i head off. thank you for the meal… and while i have no currency to pay you with. As soon as I get some I promise to pay back for all the kindness you provided me.”

“Wait! your going out like that?” she asked with concerned tone. “You need something to cover yourself up. here give me a second.” She stood up and walked over to her coat rack with Cade watching her rear the whole way. She grabbed her black cloak and tossed it to the bare human. “Please take this with you”

Cade smiled and nodded. “Thank you Trixie, you have done so much for me.” He put on the cloak and walked up to the unicorn and brought her into another hug. “I swear I will repay your kindness somehow.” He headed to the door with his brand new cloak which went down to his knees. “WELL! I’m off… hopefully we can meet again someday.” and with that he leapt from her Caravan and ran in some random direction.

Chapter 7: A Terrible Start

Celestia waited patiently for her highest military officers to join her in the war room in the Canterlot Castle. In the past the room had little real use since there was very few wars in Equestria, but as of late because of the human arrivals the room seemed to be used more and more.

The topic for the meeting will be a sensitive one for her, a human escaped both her and Luna’s grasp. While a human landing in Equestria might not normally be a huge deal, The crystal Megalith that the human obtained was too dangerous not to alert the entire military force of Equestria. New Reports of what transpired the night before were copied for every individual who would be present at the meeting.

Finally the door slowly opened and several individuals slowly made their way into the war room. Shining armor and Lightning Strike lead the way, with a few Sun Guard officials and one Hunter followed suit. as they approached Celestia’s chair in the center they bowed and presented themselves formally. “Captain Shining Armor of the Sun guard and Prince of the Crystal Empire… Reporting for duty.”

“Princess Luna’s Personal Unit, Head Huntress Lighting Strike reporting for duty”

Celestia nodded at Equestria’s military leaders and asked them to take a seat around the war room table. Celestia waited till all the officers were comfortable in their seats to drop the dire news to them.

“Thank you all for coming to this meeting with such short notice. I normally would not ask this of you unless it was of great importance… As some of you may know another human came to Equestria last night in the Everfree Castle. Where he was met by Princess Twilight Sparkle”

Upon hearing that his sister may be in trouble Captain Shining Armor quickly stood up catching the attention of everyone at the meeting. “Princess! Is my sister alright?” He asked Celestia fearing the worst.

Celestia nodded and smiled slightly “Do not fear Captain. She is alright as well as the rest of the Elements of Harmony. In Twilights report he came to this world due to an accident with her Castle Teleporter. The human “Cade” was initially harmless and was friendly to them.”

Shining Armor physically relaxed back into his chair in relief. “Thank you princess, that is good news.”

Celestia let her tone darken as she continued Twilights report “That wasn't all though, on the same day the human appeared the changelings attacked the castle with the Elements of Harmony all present. They held off the army at the Castle entrance but the Changeling Queen Chrysalis escaped into the castle to look for her objective.

At that moment an old Unicorn Sun guard stood up “Princess I may assume considering these new reports on the human, that her objective was the crystal Megalith?”

Celestia Nodded and continued “Yes, The crystal stone both me and my sister thought was long forgotten. Not only did she know that it existed, but knew exactly how to break the magical defenses that lead into the chamber where Megalith hid. Though somehow the human was able to follow her into the chamber and acquire the crystal himself.”

This time a Sun Guard Pegasus spoke out “How did this human follow her? I would expect a human would be under constant supervision due to the fact how dangerous their species is.

Celestia sighed and continued “Well he was under the supervision of the Element of Kindness, but he was able to trick her into letting him leave her side with the excuse “He went to talk to Twilight” for a reason Fluttershy doesn't remember, But that isn't important. The reason I invited you all here is to develop a plan to deal with this new human before he comes a threat.”

Shining Armor stood up gaining the attention of his peers. “Isn’t the Hunters responsible for combating the human threat? That is the reason they were created isn't it?”

Lighting Strike slowly rose and stared at the Sun Guard Captain “As of right now the Hunters are searching an area that spans from Everfree forest to Canterlot looking for traces of the human. Since we don't know where and how he escaped from Princess Luna and Princess Celestia, its hard to pinpoint a precise location on where he could be. The hunters don't have the pony power to cover such a vast area. The Hunters need support from the Sun Guards, for us to catch this human we will need several squadrons of Pegasus scouts as well as company of Unicorn troops trained in sensory magic.”

Shining Armor shook his head “I’m sorry, that won't be possible. My forces are stretched thin trying to defeat the military power of the changelings once and for all. Our Pegasus scouts are scouring the mountains and the forests trying to find what is left of the changeling force that escaped our grasp, and our unicorn sensory division is being deployed to our borders to prevent them from escaping…”

Captain Shining Armor looked over at Celestia who seemed dissatisfied. He slowly turned back and sighed heavily in defeat “... But we will report anything we find to you, Lightning Strike. I will inform our scouts to start looking for human tracks as well as changelings…”

Celestia nodded at her Sun Guard Captain and the meeting continued as they went into details on how to deal with the new human.

Cade unconsciously ran north, his only real sense of direction was Canterlot Castle in the distance which stood on a mountain visible from any point in the land if you were high enough. So naturally the instinct was to run away from that direction. During the short time he traveled with Trixie she took him into the area of White Tail Woods, as she traveled to Los Pegasus for her next Event.

Cade ran north for days through a woodlands region with small mountains that appeared sporadically in the region, As he continued he ran into one little problem. The food and water that Trixie gave him was running out and it was getting to the point where he was going to have to fend off the land again to get his nutrition.

He jogged north while looking at his bag, one last piece of bread that Trixie gave him several days ago. Cade sighed as he grabbed his last piece of guaranteed food and began to eat. Carbs from the bread wasn’t very filling or long lasting. Cade knew he had to get another source of food soon or he would be in trouble.

“Yo Itachi, Got any Idea’s of what we should eat” Cade asked his mind hoping for a response. To Cades surprise Itachi actually responded “If you actually listen to the area surrounding you, you would be able to hear a vast amount of wildlife that could be used as a nutritional source.” Cade stopped his movement and listened to what was going on around him. Yeah he could hear bunnies, deer, bears, and other wildlife creatures around him. “Well besides the wildlife, Fluttershy would get upset if I killed them.” Itachi stayed completely quiet for a moment. This being that he is forced to be attached to, refused to kill the animals around him… because it would upset a pony… A pony that could be hunting him considering how the princesses of the land are probably now searching for him. The logic was beyond him.

“Cade you can't be serious. You need food or you will die. Surely you can't avoid the wildlife just because one pony would get upset at you if you harmed them” Cade sat and thought about it for a second. It was truly stupid to not eat the surrounding creatures because it would upset Fluttershy. Though when he focused several hundred feet away and spotted a few bunnies playing and enjoying themselves, noticing that they are far more intelligent than the ones on earth, he knew he was making the right decision.

“Sorry Itachi I can't bring myself to kill them. I’ve never been a hunter. I don't kill for sport or in this case for food. Lets try and find another source of food, with your skill I'm sure you can make it happen.” Itachi was then quiet for a moment. Even in this desperate situation this human he was attached to stuck to his ways. Not willing to adapt and kill for the sake of self survival. Cade couldn't see inside his consciousness but in there stood Itachi Uchiha, Smiling at his host. Somewhat amused by his determination not to fall from his beliefs.

“Very well then, create a clone and il go look for a source of food that doesn't require killing the wildlife around here.” Cade smiled and quickly made the hand sign for a shadow clone and let the magic inside him take care of the rest. In an instant another Cade clone appeared before him and his expression switched to the one of Itachi’s. “I'll be right back, i'll go search around for something to eat” the Itachi clone said simply as he quickly disappeared into the forest. Cade figured he might as well stay put and relaxed under a tree waiting for a meal that would probably be coming. He looked up at the sky and saw several Sun guard Pegasus scouts looking at the ground below. Cade couldn't help but smile as several waves few above him. unbeknownst to them that the most wanted enemy of Equestria was directly below them.

Rainbow Dash sat impatiently at Ponyville waiting for her escort guard to arrive. She volunteered to help search for the human Cade and since she is close to the level of a wonderbolt in flying skills it was hard to turn her down.

“Are they here yet?” Rainbow whined to Twilight. Twilight shifted nervously, Obviously scared for her friend to go look for the human. “I dont think so Rainbow, They are coming from Canterlot and left this morning. They should be arriving soon.”

“Well they better hurry up or i'm going to leave without them.” Dash said coolly as she hovered above the ground, doing spins in the air to keep her busy as she waited for her escorts. Twilight shook her head and felt this was a terrible idea. If Celestia hadn't called her to a meeting in Canterlot she would have gone with her friend. “Rainbow are you sure about this? He might be very dangerous. You could get hurt!” Twilight pleaded to her friend, which to Dash ignored as always.

“Nah i’ll be fine. I can take him if it comes to it. Don't worry so much Twilight. I’ve always come through havent I?” Twilight was going to keep protesting but a small group of Sunguard pegasi landed and bowed to Princess Twilight. One of the guards stepped forward and announced the group to the Princess “23rd Pegasus Aerial Recon Team. Reporting for Duty” Twilight nodded and motioned the guards to relax. “At ease, This pony here is Rainbow Dash. I requested you all to escort her as she searches for the human, Cade Adams.”

The Ponies nodded, having already been briefed on protecting the Element of Loyalty. Rainbow finally seeing the escort that Twilight provided her had finally arrived was Itching to go. She flew in front of the Colts and caught their attention “Alright lets not waste anymore time! The humans not going to catch himself ya know!” and with that she quickly flew off in a random direction before her guards even got off the ground.

Twilight lowered her head and sighed as the guard scrambled and slowly took to the air and flew towards the direction of the light blue Pegasus. “I knew this was a bad idea.” Twilight looked up and saw the group of guards disappear into the horizon. “Please be ok Rainbow…”

A few hours Later Itachi finally returned with some various sorts of fruit and veggies… He probably stole them from small pony food carts that traveled the roads that were scattered throughout the forest, but how can Cade judge? It filled his belly.

Itachi Also brought back a newspaper which had a Discouraging Cover Story and told Cade to read it since it was important, then disbursed himself as his knowledge of his trip confirmed that he did indeed steal from pony food carts without them knowing.

The newspaper headline read as such “New Human Threat in Equestria” Cade sat on a rock and read the article curious to see what they had to say about him. To sum it up, Cade was played out to be as much of a villain as much as Chrysalis was. Apparently the equestrian media were not fans of mankind. most of the things in the article were false, that he antagonized the princesses into attacking him and he used cheap tricks to escape them to make fools of the princesses. That he made Fluttershy cry. Cade couldn't help but chuckle at their pathetic attempt to get under his skin, but quickly he realized the damage that the article does to his reputation. He will be seen as guilty by the population of Equestria. Maybe the main six and Trixie might believe him. since they have had the chance to talk to him. For Everyone else though, Hes screwed.

Cade rubbed his head in frustration knowing there is little hope for him in this world. he continued to scan down the page and saw something curious on the bottom of the page, just a small article that stated that the next Daring Do book was delayed by two more months. Cade quickly remembered the season 4 episode of Daring Dont and smiled knowing how cute Rainbow Dash was in that episode.

As if on que a rainbow streak came down from the sky and Rainbow Dash quickly flew into the human. Sending them both tumbling backwards and she attempted to wrestle him into submission. They cartoonishly rolled back several feet until she gained control and pinned Cade under her. Her hooves pinned his shoulders back, and her rump on his hips. She glared down at him and scowled. “You going to come quietly? or do we have to do this the hard way?”

Cade finally got his bearings and looked up at the threatening rosy eyes of Rainbow Dash and tried his best not to smile. “Oh hey Dash, I was just thinking about you.” Cade said trying to play off the situation. He looked down and saw how they were situated and and couldnt help but giggle. “Oh I like where this is going.”

Dash looked at him curiously and looked down to see that his front part of his body was exposed and she was sitting on his lower end. “AAAHHHH” She screamed as she hopped off him shivering in disgust. “You pervert!” she shouted as she landed a few feet away and got into an aggressive stance.

Cade slowly got up and dusted himself off with a shit grin on his face. “What? your the one who tackled me into such an embarrassing position. I didn't even knew what hit me.”

Dash glared at him, not believing a word he says. “Shut up, you are coming with me back to Canterlot so the princesses can help you. Otherwise I will forced to be a little rough on you.” she finish that last sentence trying to sound as threatening as possible.

Cade looked at her curiously “Help me?” he asked honestly confused considering their goal was to kill him. Quickly in his mind Itachi spoke up “Cade Don't. She won't believe the truth even if you tell her.” Cade bit his lip and stared at his favorite light blue Pegasus. He wanted to tell her the whole truth, but Itachi was correct, there was no way that she was going to believe him over Celestia. Cade sighed and instead decided to word it like a question. “What if the only way to help me… Is to kill me… Dash, would you still take me in knowing I would die?”

Rainbow Dash recoiled his response. “What? No! I doubt Celestia would do that to you! If you come back now you can still be saved from that crystal! You have to get it removed before it takes you over!”

Cade smiled wryly and stared into her eyes knowing there is only one way to prove it to her its too late for that work. He took off his cloak and turned around and pointed at the large Gem wedged into his back. “Come here and look at it Dash… Do you think that this could be simply removed. That Crystal has fused into my body. Knowing how big it is, I know my Spine and other valuable organs are gone. This thing is keeping me alive.”

Rainbow looked at his back, and hesitantly walked up to him. Cade sat down so it would be easier for her to look into it. As she got closer she noticed how the crystal flexed just like his skin, she curiously put a hoof on it and felt the crystal texture give just like any organic tissue. Dash thought about what he said and realized that it could be true. Maybe there is no way for it to get removed. She started to doubt that bringing him in would save the human. Maybe Celestia does want him dead… Maybe

Cade slowly turned around and saw Rainbow Dash looking depressed and conflicted. He smiled slowly and put an arm on her shoulder “Hey its ok… How about a deal then?” he said trying to be as soothing as possible.

She looked up at him with pity and waited to see what he said. Cade resisted the urge to bring her into a hug as he now had some control of the situation. He got up and grabbed the newspaper that Itachi brought him and brought it over to her and pointed at the bottom column. She curiously read it and sighed. “More bad news, Today is a bad day.” she said somewhat depressingly as she rubbed a hoof on her temple. Cade smiled and ruffled her mane.

“Well heres what im thinking. I’ll prove to you that I can handle the Crystal. So if you follow me north of here we might run into… a little trouble that the writer of daring do is having.” Dash looked at him curiously “What is that supposed to mean” she asked.

Cade smiled wide knowing that he will get to see her firsthand her adorable fangasming. “Well heres the deal. If you follow me and we fix the problem that the writer is having, you let me go. If nothing is wrong or I dont prove to you that I can handle this power… Then i'll go back to Celestia and face whatever is coming to me. Deal?”

Dash looked at him curiously, wondering how he would know anything about this worlds current events, but at the same time it had to do with daring do, and she was REALLY curious about what he might be implying. She finally lowered her head and exhaled and nodded in agreement “Fine… Its a deal… But if you're lying to me. Im going to make you regret it!”

Cade grinned and nodded. “Its a deal… Now which way is north?”

Chapter 8: Daring Maybe

“So, you’re sure about doing this? Interacting with ponies will get you caught.” Itachi asked his host, leaving his concern out of his voice. Cade thought quietly as he climbed a mountain wall as Rainbow Dash flew above him, with a look of annoyance apparent on her face.

“Yeah I’m sure, I want to try to return this world to the timeline without the humans. So Rainbow Dash needs to help daring do, and I'll fill the role of her friends.”

“Hmm… very well then. I have no choice but to follow you, but just know interacting with them will just get you killed.”

They had slowly been moving towards the Frozen North, avoiding every sign of civilization they saw. Cade was somewhat exhausted from the ordeal of constantly moving; his body may have been stronger, but trying to keep the ponies off his tail was harder than it looked. Rainbow Dash however was getting tired of him dragging his feet.

“Can’t you move any faster? We’ll never get to… Wherever we’re going, if you keep moving at a snails pace like that.” Dash said in an annoyed tone as she flew circles around the human.

Cade looked back at the cyan Pegasus somewhat losing his patience for her constant complaining. “I'm sorry, I just climbed over a mountain range, and unfortunately I can’t just fly over them like you can.” Cade said trying to sound far more calm than he was feeling. He watched the Pegasus shoot quickly into the sky for a few seconds and then quickly fly back to ground level next to Cade.

“It looks like we’re pretty close to Unicorn Range… is that where we are going?” Dash asked hopefully, only to be disappointed when Cade shook his head. “Sorry we are going north of that…” Cade said letting his voice trail off as he came to an open space with a small river just a few feet in front of him. Cade walked to the river and took a drink from it, thinking of all the wildlife that probably pissed in it upstream.

Rainbow, growing tired of all his secrets, landed in front of him with her wings flared in annoyance. “Cade… how far are we talking about?” She said trying to sound far less annoyed than she was feeling. Cade sat down in return and leaned back, thinking of where exactly the cabin would be. “Uhh… I think its in a wooded area North of here…” That caused Dash to momentarily freak out. “WHAT! That would take you days to get to!”

Cade smiled wryly trying to figure out how he could speed up his pace so that they could make it in time to help Daring Do, but Dash however preempted his thoughts with one of her own. “... How about I give you a ride on my back and we’ll fly there together?” She said somewhat uneasily, as she considered the fact that she would be carrying the most hated species in Equestria.

Cade’s mouth morphed into a huge shit-eating grin, hearing one of his favorite ponies offering to give him a ride. He of course tried to play it off like it was no big deal, despite his obvious grin. “Are you sure Dash? Wouldn't you get in trouble for helping me like that?” She sat down, almost as if she was going to think about it for a bit, but the chance to meet Daring Do override any negative thoughts on the matter.

“Yeah I’m sure, now shut up and hop on my back so we can get going.” She spoke out loudly, turning her body to the human to allow him access to her back. Cade tried his best to not squeal like a fangirl as he mounted one of his waifu’s, in a non-sexual way of course. “Ready?” Dash said spreading her wings preparing for liftoff.

“Hell YEAH!” Cade said excitedly as she took to the skies.

A group of sun guards Pegasi scanned the ground for the element of loyalty. Unfortunately for them, they were far too slow to keep up with the Pegasus and lost track of her at the start of their journey. One of the younger guards looked at their captain with a worried expression. “Should we report back to Celestia and tell her we lost the Element of Loyalty…” The Captain turned back to his subordinate and nodded. “That would be probably for the best, check in at Ponyville and make sure shes not there first. Then ask Princess Twilight what to do after that.” the captain said in a commanding tone. The soldier saluted and banked right to fall out of formation and headed back to Ponyville.

Rainbow Dash and Cade flew over the area that Cade thought Daring Do lived, both of them scanned the ground for a small wooden cabin out in the middle of nowhere. “You sure its here?” She yelled back at Cade as they flew through the air. Cade had activated the Sharringan to increase his attention to detail, looking for tracks that could lead them to their destination. “I’m pretty sure… Lets turn back towards the direction of the city, if someone lived out here they would need a way to get supplies.”

Dash banked slowly so as to not throw off her human passenger as she changed direction. As she scanned the forest floor she saw something out of the corner of her eye. Looking closer she saw four ponies run from a small house, shortly followed by a brownish yellow mare who happened to be limping.

“SHES THERE!” Dash yelled excitedly as she quickly turned and dove towards the mare. Cade hugged Rainbows neck as he held on for dear life; Rainbow Dash was too excited to see the mare she had idolized for so long to care about Cade. She flew low to the ground and pretty much stopped on a dime in front of the mare sending Cade flying into a nearby tree. “A...K… Yearling?” Dash asked pushing her cheeks together causing her to squee.

Daring Do ignored her and instead focused on the injured human rolling on the floor. “A Human is here too?” She quickly took to the air and stuck her leg out, aiming to kick the man. Cade looked up in time to see the incoming pony and quickly rolled out of the path of his attacker. “Woh there Daring Do, I’m not an enemy!”

Hearing her name only made her more suspicious of him. “How do you know my name?” The Pegasus asked as she took a combative stance towards the human. Cade however wasn't able to think of an answer fast enough, as Daring Do leapt at him again; this time Cade was ready for her, he grabbed her injured front hoof and spun her around mid-air forcing her body to land hard on her back. Rainbow Dash, seeing her hero get flipped, prepared to get involved before Cade’s hand started to glow green as he held it to Daring Do’s injured foreleg, “What are you doing?” Daring Do said as she struggled against the human. Cade pinned her other front foreleg under his knee as he finally locked her under his body. “I’m trying to heal you if you would stop struggling!” He said finally getting a good grip on the injured leg. The adventure pony seeing she was completely at his mercy finally stopped and lamented. “Daring Do doesn't need help.” She said weakly under the human.

Rainbow Dash quickly flew in front of the two entangled beings, “Wait, your DARING DO!” Dash exclaimed, completely beside herself. The adventure pony just sighed as she knew she was in for a long day.

Celestia and Luna sat in the throne room and went about the usual routine. Dealing with whiny nobles and mayors. Just as the last meeting was adjourned a soldier sprinted into the room and approached Celestia. “Your highness, I have dire news.” Celestia looked down at the soldier with a patient look and nodded. “Proceed”.

The soldier cringed from the words that were about to come from his mouth. “Princess Celestia… It seems that the Pegasi squad that was guarding the element of loyalty… has lost track of her…”

Celestia nodded and lowered her head slightly as she heard Luna giggle quietly beside her. “Sister, I told you they couldn't keep up with her.” Luna said with a grin. Celestia turned to her younger sister and nodded. “It appears you were right… but were the hunters able to keep up with her?”

Luna looked up at a dark corner in the ceiling where a shadowy figure rested. “I haven't received a report yet… either way… we will just have to wait and see.”

Two fucking hours, Rainbow nerdgasmed nonstop about the adventures of Daring Do. As they walked, Cade kept his distance behind the two mares to drown out Dash’s voice hoping for some relief. “She never stops talking does she?” Itachi asked, his patience with the whole situation running thin.

“Apparently she doesn't… I mean it was kind of cute at first, but this is ridiculous.” Cade thought as he rubbed his temple. “I have to admit, that other pony seems to have completely tuned her out… that's pretty impressive.”

Cade looked over at Daring Do who had a blank expression on her face. Her ears twitched slightly whenever Rainbow made a loud high pitch sound, its obvious her and Cade were done with Rainbow Dashes behavior so Cade decided to speak up.

“Ohdoyourememberthatonetimeinthetemplewhenyou-”

“DASH!” Cade yelled interrupting her constant geek out, causing both of the ponies to turn towards him. “Can you shut-up for 5 minutes? I'm sure someone who both wrote the books and experienced it first hand. Remembers her own damn adventures.”

Rainbow recoiled a bit and landed with her head down. “Oh… was I being annoying?” Cade walked up to dash and looked down at her pouting form. “Yeah. Seriously Dash, its cool to be excited and all but she's a pony too, flesh and blood same as you. Wouldn't you rather stand beside her as an Element of Harmony with your head up high, than be ‘that fan’ who doesn't know when to stop talking?”

Rainbow bit her lower lip and turned away from Cade. “I’m sorry… Shes my hero… I guess I got lost in the moment…” Cade stuck his hand out and flicked her forehead causing her to whine a little. “You know, back home I had the opportunity to work with a few celebrities. They respect you more if you treat them normally, rather than putting them up on a pedestal.”

Dash lowered her head and nodded. “Alright, I get it. I’ll stop talking now.” Cade turned away, feeling more than a little guilty about raising his voice at Rainbow. As he turned he noticed a small smile on the adventurer pony they were following, as she quickly turned back to tracking those who stole the golden ring.

Half an hour later the sun began to set, just as Daring Do had finally tracked down the four stallions who ran off. She held up a hoof to her mouth signaling for both of her followers to be quiet. Daring Do pulled open a bush revealing them eating a hay dinner at a campsite. “Looks like they decided to have an early dinner before making their way back down the hill to the market place in town.” Dash said as she turned to see what Daring Do was planning. The brownish colored pegasus’ eyebrows furrowed and she turned to a nearby mud hole, in which she stuck her hooves and then began applying some to her face.

Rainbow Dash watched curiously until her eyes opened wide in realization. “Oh, I see. You're gonna ambush them like in book four at the Haravian Caves! Or maybe, that neat trick you did in book three, where you swoop in and knock three guys down with one swing! Or maybe-”

“HEY ASSHOLES!” Both of the ponies heads quickly turned as they watched Cade walk from their hiding place over to the stallions. “You like picking on mares four-v-one?”

The stallions heads whipped around and their faces paled when the human came into their view. They all quickly got up and began running in separate directions, running for their lives. Cade eyes glowed red as he disappeared from view. He appeared in front of a white stallion with shades and smashed his fist into the unsuspecting stallions face, knocking the him out in one blow. Cades body disappeared in a black flash and appeared in front of the light brown stallion with a hat that tried to stop, before running into the human. Cade hopped into the air and spun landing a round house kick to the stallions head before teleporting again in front of a blackish stallion with orangish hair. While still in the air he turned his body and landed a hail mary punch to the stallions jaw and within five seconds, three of the stallions thugs were all knocked unconsciousness. Cade teleported in front of Dr. Caballeron and smiled as the pony stopped with the golden ring in his mouth.

Cade walked slowly up to the stallion with a shit eating grin. “So… Still think this was a good idea?” The good doctor quickly shook his head in fear slowly backing up from the human. “I see… you should've thought about the consequences…” Caballeron quickly turned and dropped the ring as he ran as fast as he could. Too bad for him Cade can teleport. In a black flash Cade appeared next to him and kicked his stomach, causing all the air to leave his lunges. Then as Caballeron tried to catch his breath, Cade bitch slapped the stallion with enough force to knock him out.

Cade walked back to where the gold ring laid and picked it up, examining it to see if it had any damages or cool markings like the “One Ring” did in the Lord of the Rings. To his disappointment though, it just seemed like an ordinary gold ring. Cade looked up to see two very stunned mares. Before he could come up with some badass line, he heard rustling in the trees behind him. Cade knew who it was and slowly turned to face him

Cade could see through the trees a monkey like creature with a hand on its tail smash through a few trees before appearing before him and his comrades. “Caballeron!” He roared before noticing that a human stood before him, with the ring in his hand. “Give me the ring human!”

Thats when Cade thought of the stupidest plan of all time… he chuckled under his breath and tossed the ring to him. “Yeah sure, here ya go.” Cade said in a nonchalantly voice. Needless to say Ahuizotl was stunned. Daring Do however was not. She quickly leapt into the air and kicked at Cade trying to catch him off guard. Cade however knew the attack would come and side stepped to the left and pinned Daring Do on the ground by her neck with his right hand. Rainbow Dash’s eyes widened at his betrayal and she charged him with a look of pure hatred on her face. “CCCAADDDEEE!!!” she screamed as he teleported to the side along with Daring Do, and pinned her down the same way, only this time with his left hand.

Both ponies struggled under Cades grip as he focused on keeping them pinned without actually hurting them. Cade looked up with his Sharringan activated at Ahuizotl. The villain looked down at his nemesis and smiled widely. “Well… This is truly unexpected,” he said in an amused tone. “I’m assuming you will want some sort of payment for giving me both the ring as well as Daring Do?” He asked cautiously. Cade nodded and kept a stern face, ignoring the insults and the whining of the captured mares.

“In the matter of fact yes, but it will be a lot cheaper than the deal you had originally planned.” Cade said in a matter of fact tone. Ahuizotl stroked his chin for a minute, then he asked. “So what do you want in return for both of these … Gifts…”. Cade smiled evilly and had the Sharringan spin for dramatic effect. “I only want Camping gear, which includes tents, a winter cloak, and cooking utensils. As well as some food and water.”

Ahuizotl looked at him in shock. “That can’t be all? This is such a one sided deal! The ring and Daring Do are worth much more than that.” Cade kept his grin and nodded. “I have to live on the move, no reason to carry anything more than I need to.” Ahuizotl nodded in understanding. “Very well… I don’t have such items on me, but I do at my fortress, do you mind following me?” Cade shook his head. “Not at all. You wouldn't happen to have a way to tie these two up do you? I doubt they are going to come willingly.”

Ahuizotl snapped his fingers and a bunch of different types of cats popped out from behind him. They quickly ran over to Cade and tied up the two ponies. Cade couldn't help but be a little stunned, how the hell did cats tie a knot?

The world may never know...

“So why are you bringing that other pony? She is no use to me.” Ahuizotl said in a matter of fact tone as his kitty minions took away Daring Do. Cade looked up and smiled, before spanking Rainbow Dashes flank, causing her to whimper. “Well… Shes my type of mare...” He said in as creepy tone as he could think of. Ahuizotl recoiled a little at the humans response. “Very twisted my friend… but very well… Come! We head to my fortress!”

Cade picked up Rainbow Dash in both arms as she looked at him with both a look of disgust and fear. “Please don't do this Cade…” She said in a quiet pleading tone which made Cades heart sink. Cade activated a genjutsu on Rainbow Dash. In the vision his eyes returned to his normal color, and he smiled apologetically towards her. he raised a finger finger over his lips signaling her to be quiet and whispered to her. “I got a plan. Follow my lead”. She looked at him curiously and nodded as the vision ended. Revealing his red eyes and his cocky grin.

Cade followed Ahuizotl with a very quiet Rainbow Dash in tow, wondering if this human was actually going to hurt her, or not.

A few hours later they finally arrived at the Fortress of Talicon. Ahuizotl excused himself as he went to put daring do in the overly elaborate execution chamber. A random stallion guard showed Cade to a bedroom which contained the supplies he asked for and a bed. Ahuizotl obviously knows how to be a good host.

Cade walked up to the bed and gently tossed Rainbow Dash on it. She looked up at him with the saddest eyes Cade has ever seen. “So Cade… You’re going to let me go right?” She asked pleadingly as her body trembled in fear. “Aww she just looks so cute and pitiful!” Cade joked in his mind as he crawled on the bed slowly, enjoying teasing the Pegasus.

She shifted nervously backwards trying to put a little distance between Cade and herself. “Comon Cade. This isn't funny!” She said in angry but worried tone. “Oh I know.” Cade said as he finally got close to reach behind her. “But I finally got you back for tackling me, and throwing me off you when we were flying.”

Dash felt the ropes around her loosen and fell to the side of her as Cade looked at her with a smug look. She quickly hopped up and hit Cade in the face with a hoof. “JERK! That's what you get for spanking my flank!”

Cade hopped off the bed where Rainbow stood, her wings flared in irritation. “Ow… I guess I deserved that one.” Cade said dryly as he rubbed his cheek. He looked back in time to see the fur hoof coming at his face again in time to counter. “This is for teasing mmEEEEE!” Dash squealed as Cade grabbed her foreleg and flipped her back onto the bed.

Dash looked up and saw a hand head towards her belly, she tried to move but a hand was pinning her by her chest. She looked at his face and saw an evil grin “Time for a little pay back.” That's when Cade began his ultimate tickle attack on Rainbows Belly.

A few minutes later, Dash laid exhausted on the bed with tears in her eyes from laughing so much. “So are you going to behave from now on?” Cade asked in an amused tone. “Yeah… Yeah I’ll be good… just no more tickling…” She panted as she slowly got up. “Ok good… now go save Daring Do. shes probably somewhere below in some overly complicated death trap.”

Rainbow nodded and started to trot over to the door. Just as she was about to open it she weakly turned back to him. “What are you going to do?” She asked cautiously. Cade smiled and grabbed his new camping gear. “You’ll see”

Ahuizotl stood in the main chamber where a golden square rod stood in an elevated platform. Two stallions prepared the last ring as Ahuizotl wiggled his fingers under the sun for some reason, Cade entered the room and all eyes quickly turned to him. “Ah, just in time my friend. Come to see the start of 800 years of UNRELENTING HEAT!?!”

Cade looked up at him trying to best to conceal his amusement “... You're talking about mares in heat right?” That drew blank looks from everyone in the room. Ahuizotl didn't even know how to respond to that as he looked at the human dumbstruck. Cade however took the opportunity to catch them all off guard. He used the body flicker to go across the room in a flash next to the two stallions carrying the ring. With two swift punches he knocked them both out sliding across the room. Ahuizotl was stunned in place as he looked down on the human in shock, but Cade wasn't going to give him time to react. Cade grabbed the falling ring before it fell into place and used it to smash Ahuizotls skull.

Then Ahuizotl legs buckled as his vision filled with stars, he quickly recovered, realizing the human was a threat and started swinging his great fists at him. Cade though decided to save him for last and did a couple backflips back to the center of the room, the golden ring still in hand. Eight stallions stared at him, spears ready as the human landed for the final time, extending both hands out and taunting both sides to attack at once.

They charged simultaneously as Cade began dodging speers like a mad man. At the same time Rainbow Dash and Daring Do walked into the room and their jaws quickly dropped as they watched the man do crazy flips and moves as he dodged spears like a champion. Daring do turned quickly to Rainbow Dash and spoke with urgency. “We need to go get those rings off, if we do then the fortress will collapse!” And with that the two ponies flew over to the elevated platform and began lifting the golden rings while watching the human dance around the eight stallions plus Ahuizotl himself.

“Are you going to fight back?” Itachi asked while Cade ducked as a spear flew over his head. “Just a little bit longer...” Cade thought as he hopped over two spears that came from the left and right of him. “I still don’t understand the purpose of your “Plan”, you could have easily taken all of them down by now, and destroyed this place with your bare hands.” Cade arched his back backwards as he dodged a fist from ahuizotl by millimeters. “Oh I know, but that would have been too easy, this makes it a much better story.” Cade flipped backwards as four ponies charged him simultaneously forcing him to run on the wall and standing there as they watched dumbstruck as this human stood on a wall and seemed to defy gravity. “Better story?...” Itachi asked as Cade looked at the progress of the two mares and smiled as the started to lift the last ring. “Yeah, Daring Do story, Anyway time to counterattack.”

The fortress started to rumble which caused Ahuizotl and his stallion crew to look around for the source, Ahuizotl quickly spotted the two ponies lifting the last of the golden rings and quickly commanded his troops. “STOP HER!!!” As the stallions turned to attack they were met by a speeding human quickly landing between all of them. All they had time to do was look at the human as he landed on his hands and quickly turned his body, his legs split to the side as he began a whirlwind kick, hitting every stallion in the vicinity. Ahuizotl lifted both of his hands and tried to smash both of his fists down on the human, Cade teleported in a black flash directly above Ahuizotl his legs still in the air as he came down head first on the primate creature, smashing his fist to Ahuizotls face in the process. Much to Ahuizotl’s credit, he didn't fall, instead he stumbled back a couple steps back before roaring in anger as Daring Do and Rainbow Dash just lifted the last ring above the pillar. “Cade run! This place is going down!” Dash yelled as they exited through the opening in the ceiling.

Cade and Ahuizotl put distance between each other as they stared each other down. Cade checked his bag and made sure everything was still in order, once Cade was satisfied he turned back to Ahuizotl who had no words for the human traitor. Cade threw on a cocky grin as the roof started to come down on the both of them. “Well… its been fun. Later Owie-zotl.” Then in a black flash he disappeared from the fortress.

As the fortress crumbled two Pegasi flew over the wreckage. “Do you think he made it out?” Rainbow Dash asked with a worried tone. “I’m sure he did.” Daring Do said with confidence. Rainbow Dash looked at her with raised eyebrows. “How are you so sure?”

Daring smirked a little. “ I knew he had a plan this entire time. That's why he captured us in the first place.” Rainbow Dash recoiled a little. “Wait you knew about that?!?” Daring Do nodded and smiled. “Yeah, I was trying to figure out a way into the fortress myself, but I guess he beat me to the punch.” Rainbow looked back at the rubble and flew around it trying to find traces of her human friend.

Daring watched her fellow Pegasi fly around the collapsed fortress, a small smile on her lips. “Eh, hes probably already gone.” Rainbow hesitantly flew back to Daring Do. “If you say so… I hope hes ok.” Daring Do smiled and caught Rainbow Dashes attention. “Hey, I could never have done this without you, Rainbow Dash. Now then, I’ve got a book to finish!” Daring do said as she flew away.

“Hey Anvie, Still got eyes on the human?”

A batpony with a little browner coat then Fluttershy quickly snapped her head in annoyance. “Of course SIR, hes running along the trench of the fortress as we speak.”

“Good, I’ll go report to princess Luna, Follow him and don't engage until given the order.”

The mare batpony saluted as a stallion batpony with a black rifle and futuristic pink crystal rifle, as he disappeared in a black flash.

Chapter 2: Death of a Man

“So who wants to go first” Cade started, Pinkie of course was the first to go. “HI I’m Pinkie Pie. I can’t wait to throw you a PARTY!!!” she said, being way too happy and loud as usual. “Please stay away from me” Cade thought. Twilight spoke up next “Hi, I’m Princess Twilight Sparkle, thank you for cooperating with us.” Cade groaned mentally “yeah you would proudly say you’re a princess.” Then the two of the others spoke up “My name is Rarity…” “Applejack…”

“Well they seemed real excited to meet me” Cade joked with himself, as rainbow dash got right in front of his face, way in his personal space.

“I’m Rainbow Dash and YOU better behave yourself!” Cade just smiled and tried his best not to respond to her in baby talk like you would for your pet. “I didn’t plan on causing a scene, come on Dash I just got here. Don’t hate me because I’m human.”

“Don’t call me Dash! And I don’t hate you but I don’t plan on letting my guard down either, you have no idea what your kind did to us!”

Cade nodded sadly, he forgot that someone must have done terrible things to this world. If a human landed in this children’s story with powers, then they would easily be able to take advantage of the naïve population and leaders. Right when Cade started to feel a little depressed about the whole situation, a sweet little voice spoke up.

“Umm … I’m Fluttershy… and il be taking care of you this evening.” That brought Cade out of his funk and made him smile. He gave himself a little challenge for the evening … to get CUDDLES!

“I’m Happy to meet you all. My name is Cade Adams, thank you for taking care of me for the time being.”

Cade sat up and realized that his IPod and his headphones were still with him though his beer is MIA, despite the loss of his booze, still having his IPod gave him a little hope. If it took a little longer than expected, or if the worst case scenario occurred and he was stuck here, then he would still have the music he loved with him with him for a while. He quickly checked to see if the player still worked and was happy to hear the words of Disturbed.

“This is the way I pray

Living just isn't hard enough

Burn me alive, inside

Living my life's not hard enough

Take everything away”

Cade only found the lyrics ironic considering if Twilight couldn’t open a portal back home. He would be left with nothing but clothes on his back and his IPod. So he quickly shut off the music player to save the battery.

“What is that thing?” Twilight asked somewhat cautiously.

“It’s called an IPod” Cade responded “It’s a machine that has music from my world saved on it… i'm not really sure if you have anything like it so I’m not really sure how to explain It.” he lied knowing that they have turn table.

“That’s so cool! CAN I LISTEN TO IT!” screamed Pinkie

“Well it doesn’t last forever Pinkie. And if I can’t get back home whatever juice it has left is all the music I would get from my old world. So I would like to save its battery life if that’s ok, maybe I’ll show you later if I’m stuck here.” Cade said, feeling a little more talkative than usual.

Pinkie just nodded. “O.K. I will hold you to it”

“Haha ok I promise” Cade said merrily, he looked out the window seeing nightfall starting to come “I see it’s getting dark. Mind showing me where I’ll be staying tonight?”

Fluttershy smiled and quickly whispered to Twilight probably asking for directions, and then turned back to the human “please if you would follow me.”

Cade resisted the urge to jizz in his pants and followed her out the door, waving good bye to the rest of the ponies. Fluttershy remained relatively quiet as they traveled through a few different hallways, Cade didn’t mind though since he took the chance to do what any Flutterfag would do in this situation, eye fuck the shit out of her! “Man I wish this was a humanoid version of Equestria or at least anthro, so she would have boobies.” He internally was a little disappointed but then again, he was more of a personality guy anyway so he didn’t really care what they looked like, so still if he was stuck here and had no other options… maybe he would fuck a pony, hell who knows.

Fluttershy finally spoke up as they reached a lone wooden door, “we are here.” She opened the door and led Cade into the room. The bedroom was actually pretty nice, well if it was just for ponies. There was just one large bed that really wasn’t long enough for a full grown human to sleep on. Even if you laid perpendicular to the head rest, but the couch was pretty long, it would be enough to support his mere 5’9’’ height, along the walls there was a small library which really didn’t interest Cade in the slightest, and a small table in the middle of the room which had chairs that seemed to be at an adult sitting level. As Cade surveyed the room, Fluttershy trotted up to the couch and sat down.

“Please make yourself at home. Would you like anything to eat or drink?”

Cade smiled at the thought of the yellow mare taking care of him for the night.

“Maybe a glass of water for when I go to bed, I already had dinner before I fell into the portal, so I should be ok for tonight. Oh if you really are taking care of me tonight I insist you take the bed. It’s way too short for me and I will be completely fine with the couch.”

Fluttershy hesitated a bit, hearing that she could have the bed, “Well I guess I’ll take the bed if you’re sure that is ok, and I will go grab you some water. Please make yourself at home while I’m gone.” Then she proceeded to walk out the door leaving Cade all on his own, he sighed a bit, secretly wishing he would have more time on this world. It seemed like a good place just like the show My Little Pony depicted. He walked up to a window and looked out enjoyed a warm breeze that came through. “It must be summer” he thought and looked out on the beautiful trees and the mountains that resided next to the forest… but something caught his attention. He saw several small shadows move in the corner of his eye. He quickly turned to see several dark pony like shapes moving around the old castle, some flying with wings. “What the hell?” he quickly turned to run to the door just as Fluttershy walked in.

“I brought your water just like you asked!” she said happily only to see the human charge her with a serious expression. “Umm… what’s going on?”

“Damn that was quick” “Oh sorry Fluttershy, I just thought of something that I forgot to ask Twilight. Hey if you don’t mind, do you mind holding on to my IPod for a bit? I will be right back.”

Fluttershy just looked at the human suspiciously “umm why?”

“Why? Uhh I just have a question on how the portal is going to work, and I didn’t want my ipod around that portal machine just in case it messes with the internal electronics… “eeh at least it seems legit.”

Fluttershy stared at him for a moment but she had no reason not to believe him. She nodded and stepped aside so he could get out. He handed his IPod over to her (which she somehow held in her hooves, it was kind of weird) and casually walked out the door with a sly grin on his face.

“Holy shit that was easier than I thought! Now that she’s safe in the room and I’m free to go see what those shadowy figures were that was approaching the castle. And if I had to bet money on it, I would bet it was those damn changelings... man I’m not even here an hour and things are already getting crazy”

Twilight was walking her friends to the entrance of the castle. They were all very hesitant to leave considering the next big mega villain might be sleeping in the same room with one of their best friends (HUEHUEHUE). Twilight was getting really tired of hearing all their complaints. “Girls I promise you he is harmless. I sensed no magic in him, and I’m sure you remember, humans without magic are pretty much harmless to us (if only they knew), and on top of that Fluttershy is good with beasts and animals, much better than the rest of us. I’m sure she will be careful with him.”

“Careful with what” a villainous voice interrupted. Twilight quickly turned towards the entrance to see an old foe with a small army by her side. “Chrysalis!!!” Twilight Roared. “What are you doing here?!?”

“I’m here to get an old artifact I learned about after the human attacks, a power that birthed the Alicorn Amulet.” Chrysalis smiled at the thought of something so powerful in her possession, she will never have to find a good source of love again for her people, and on top of that she could take over Equestria with relative ease. “I thought these ruins were abandoned, but here you are Twilight trying to make this old castle your own it seems. Now stand aside before my changelings have to teach you a lesson”

The main six minus Fluttershy quickly braced for combat, each turning their attention to the changeling queen. “We won’t let that happen Chrysalis! Your reign end’s today!” Twilight exclaimed heroically.

Chrysalis merely laughed “good luck with that…” in that instant her small army charged the 5 ponies. Twilight started with a mass stasis aura spell which trapped the first wave of changelings in a magical spell holding them still. At that moment Rainbow Dash and Applejack just attacked every changeling they saw trying to cause as much damage to them as possible in one strike, before they turned to the next changeling. Rarity used her magic to grab a changeling and throw it into another, probably hoping that was enough. Pinkie, after the human attacks learned her high speed movement can cause massive amount of damage by just by running into things. So she was like a pink pinball running into changeling after changeling, bouncing off each one, only to be directed to another, each time sending the victim flying. The 5 brave ponies that did battle with the changeling army seemed to have the upper hand, until the second wave came in flying at them without Twilights stasis spell on them.

At the same time Chrysalis seemed to slip through the action and ran off into a hallway outside of the battle and began to laugh maniacally as she proceeded. Twilight looked in horror as the changeling queen ran from the battle that she was now trapped in. She tried to fight her way to the hallway that Chrysalis was in, but her progress was halted by dozens of lesser changelings determined to let their queen pass.

So Cade was lost, he normally had a good sense of direction, but this castle had him completely turned around. His old school Super Metroid exploration sense was failing him, and he had no clue how to get to the front of the building. “I wish that damn portal sent me to the front of the castle not to the damn library. Fucking Twilight why did she have to be such a nerd and build the portal there.” His thoughts were interrupted as he heard an evil laughter approaching him. He hid behind a pillar, slightly recognizing the voice. “… Shit that’s Queen Chrysalis… I knew I was right but then again, it’s either her, Discord or Sombra, unless princess waifu goes all Nightmare Moon again.”

He stayed hidden behind the pillar and waited for the sound of hooves or whatever the hell changelings called their feet, past him. He ran out from behind the pillar and started chasing her. “Whatever she’s after its not fucking good… I’m sure the princesses left valuable artifacts here that would give most RPG enthusiasts a boner…” and with that he shut off his mind and started to focus, determined to stay behind his target and make sure she didn’t find or hear him.

After a short run down a spiral staircase Chrysalis began to slow down. She entered several hidden doors, some with magical seals which she passed through easily. She must of had the keys or tools to open the magically sealed doors, or the princesses did a really shitty job protecting their magical items. Cade figured it was probably a little bit of both. He continued to sneak behind her, sometimes having to get too close to her for comfort, if the hidden doors began to close. She finally began to walk arrogantly assuming that no one was following her, and then she began her evil predictable monologue “Finally I will obtain Megalith, the crystal stone that corrupted the greatest heroes who tried to use its power, and destroyed the darkest villains who were too weak to control it.” She smiled evilly “The power to use any villainous abilities the user can imagine… OOHHH the possibilities are endless, my powers combined with Nightmare Moon, or Kings Sombra, or go with one of the more ancient villains. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA”

Cade tried to stop himself from laughing. “Wow that stupid bitch explained not only the thing she was after but what it actually does, pretty much teaching anyone in earshot range on how to use it for themselves. GOD I LOVE EVIL MONOLOGIUING, but I seriously need to stop her from getting it… Megalith… whatever…” He lost his train of thought and just focused on following her in a way that would make Sam Fisher or Solid Snake proud. After several more minutes of sneaking, Chrysalis came to a room with a rather large object hovering over a waist high pillar, and with that she began to laugh evilly and continued her monologue “Now Megalith shall be mine and all of Equestria will bow down to me!!!”

Cade looked in the room and saw a … Stone? Chrystal thing a tad smaller than the human torso… It was red crystal on the outside and had a Black Core that was almost like a black stone like ball in the middle but at the same time it was almost like a black liquid that continuously shifted. The crystal shape looked like a rhombus in the 2nd dimension (X,Y axis) and but in the 3rd (Z axis) the crystal was fairly short in length and flat, though it seemed to have a sharp point that went down the middle. There also was missing a small chunk out of one of its long tips which he assumed the crystal chunk that was taken to create the Alicorn amulet.

As he looked he was kind of mesmerized by the cool red and black crystal stone object but quickly came back to his senses. He knew this would probably be his once change to ambush the changeling queen while her guard was down and hopefully beat her before she got super overpowered by this crystal. So he sprinted from his hiding place and jumped on her back and began swinging his fists at her face hoping to land a lucky punch and knock her out. Needless to say she was pretty pissed.

“AAAHHHH HOW DARE YOU” She screamed as she grabbed Cade in a telekinesis Spell. She brought him in front of her so she could look at his form. “A HUMAN!!! HOW DARE YOU ATTACK ME!!! NOW DIE!”

That’s when she made the biggest mistake of her life. Not attacking the Crystal Empire. Not, not finishing the three princesses when she had the upper hand, her defining failure was when she threw Cade Forward which happened to be in the same direction that Megalith was floating, when she could have easily thrown him another direction and obtained the power she desired easily. She quickly realized her mistake and looked in horror as the human spun in midair and quickly slammed into the Megalith. His body aligned with the crystal so his torso perfectly matched the long ways of the crystal. A true one in a million shot, his body slammed into the wall, causing the crystal to pierce him, the flat short end split his skin and destroyed his spine as it entered, Cade’s vision quickly turned black as he hit the wall.

As the world faded and his life flashed before his eyes, he heard a dark voice enter his mind. “So what do we have here…”