The Hunted

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…