White Lightning and Steel Resolve: Origins

by TheGreatEater

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Sex, DJ P0N-3, Alternate Universe, Gore, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Octavia, Comedy
Length: 10623

An AU where Kungfu Ninja Princess Celestia banished Nightmare Kaiju to a volcano on the moon 995 yrs ago. Set 5 yrs. Pre-FimVerse S1. Vinyl Scratch and Octavia are by the Everfree Forest testing Vinyl's newest invention when the unexpected happ

An AU where Kungfu Ninja Princess Celestia banished Nightmare Kaiju to a volcano on the moon 995 yrs ago. Set 5 yrs. Pre-FimVerse S1. Vinyl Scratch and Octavia are by the Everfree Forest testing Vinyl's newest invention when lightning strikes it creating the Meta-Rift event, while simultaneously creating the Speed Force. From this event, a chain of events gets started that changes the world as they know it forever.

This is an origin fic that was created by a series of dreams and daydreams that created the super heroes White Lightning [A Speedster Vinyl Scratch] and Steel Resolve [a Magi-tech, symbiotic power armor wearing Octavia]. Each introduction of a major character will either have a stat page. Or small pic of the pony in the A/N.

Temporary Cover Art: Mine.

Note: The Intro chapter has all the differences between this AU and ManeVerse. Somethings are different than there are on the show. Also this story shifts from comedy, to dramedy. Some scenes are non-comedic in nature but emphasis the adventure elements of the fic. Also sex and gore are alluded to, but not shown.

Contains scenes of Fantasy Violence, death, and body horrors.

Inspirations will be listed in the chapters were key characters come up. As well as pertinent links

Published 2014-10-12 14:50:06 UTC
Last updated 2014-10-15 20:54:15 UTC

Intro

Here are the few things you need to know about this AU to understand what's going on:

3,000 yrs ago: Celestia when she was younger was trained by a Kungfu Ninja Master in the arcane arts of Martial Arts and Ninja Magic. She centuries before the defeat of Discord finished her training and was from then on called Kungfu Ninja Princess Celestia, or KNP Celestia. Her sister on the other hoof could not learn the legendary Kungfu Ninja arts. For when she was younger a giant radioactive space rock filled with the rare magical radiation of a dead planet struck her. Infusing her with the planets power.

After the infusion she gained the ability to transform into a Kaiju 50 times her normal size that was able to breathe plasma, shoot lighting bolts, and gather the power of the planet [for those who willingly offered her power] for special attacks. But that power was tied to her emotions as much as anything thus making the legendary arts unteachable to her. But as a side effect every time she used her power the magical radiation of the dead planet seeped into the ground. This in turn created Metas. Or Beings that had super powers. Although none of the sisters know that LunaZilla was the cause of such events.

2,500 yrs ago:Shortly before the fall of the Black Empire [a union of the Fallen Dark God, Tirek and King Sombra [who in this AU is the demon son of Tirek and a crystal pony]. Star Swirl before his disappearance created an order of Battle Mages, who invented many powerful magical artifacts for fighting the Dark Wars. The most powerful of these were called RESOLVE units. Standing for REsonant Spirit of Operations and Logistics VEssel units. A symbiotic artificial soul merged into a magi-tech armor that would grant special powers to the wearers. Including some basic ones. The RESOLVEs were named; Steel, Crystal, Sapphire, Garnet, Bronze, and Mercury [Mercurial]. After it's fall. The RESOLVE units faded into obscurity even more so than the Knightly Order of Battle Mages.

995 yrs ago:LunaZilla angry and jealous that her sister was loved, while she caused ponies to run screaming in terror yelling, "LunaZilla! LunaZilla!" was overcame by her darker emotions. And one of Tirek's creations, whose name was "The Nightmare", a corruption and reprogramming of "Paladin('s) RESOLVE" [an experimental RESOLVE that was turned before it could be finished], who merged with LunaZilla making Nightmare Kaiju. Even with all of her Kungfu Ninja powers, KNP Celestia couldn't defeat her sister empowered by The Nightmare. So she used the Elements of Harmony upon her, unfortunately they were never meant to be wielded by one pony, much less those not in harmony with the element they are working with.

So her sister was bound to a Volcano in the moon. Soon after that Celestia got a prophetic dream. After 1,000 yrs into the future, The Planets will align and explode the volcano releasing her sister back upon the world. And if she were to save her she must gather those new ponies in tuned to the EoH so that her sister may be saved.

989 yrs ago: The new EoH are born. They share many similarities to what you are familiar with, Key differences:

Celestia's school is "Celestia's School for Gifted Mages and Ninjas." It doesn't discriminate against any race as long as they are interested in any aspect of Magic or Ninjjutsu, and can pass the test.

Twilight Sparkle fails at martial arts. She would be the Wimp Lo of Kung Pow fame, in terms of skill, but she's at least attempted to be taught correctly. But she can't seem to get it at this point of the timeline. Doesn't help she doesn't have friends to help her out.

Twilight's nickname is the Sparkle Fairy, since her signature spell is the "Wing Spell", reinforcing it to prevent it's instant destruction. She's also a mad scientist. Who has a hard on for science and sufficiently analyzed magic [Even more so than on the show]. She can usually be found with a lab coat on, "Just in case something 'pops up'".

Metas pre-Meta-Rift made up 10% of the worlds populace. With many of them having power equal to a high level unicorn, or whose Meta-Powers were confused with normal Magic. Thus not many Metas hit the P Rank.

And that's it as of now. If anyone's interested in looking at the current draft of Power Rankings, and Skill explanations that pop up in those who get a Character Sheet. Here they are.

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[Power Ranks]

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[Skills]

Author's Note

The Power Ranks and Skills were made because I wanted to do Character Sheets for characters that I eventually did them for. It ended up with a 1 - 9 with two left over which became P for Paragon and D for Deity. I find it interesting that I was originally inspired by both Caster Levels, Naruto Ninja Ranks [mostly the RPG forum based games], and Yu Yu Hakusho Demon / Spiritualist Ranks.

This origin story funnily enough wasn't the first to come about. Rather it was the fourth story. The first one was when the Rogue Gallery finally gets together to form their giant Organization. My personal favorite villain so far, and the one I first made was Doctor Arachnid, whom we'll get to in Chapter 2 that introduces the Rogue Gallery, and when they were effected by the Meta-Rift Event.

I hope y'all enjoy the show as it were. There are no Editors or Pre-readers yet for this fic. So if you see any errors, let me know, and as always any comments or critiques are appreciated.

Origin 2: The Rogue Gallery Intro

Doctor Arachnid sat at his desk looking at his latest creation. It was an eight limbed mechanical device that resembled a spiders body. After he learned how to fix the control mechanism he would be able to walk again. Even better than ever. It was hard after he lost his wife and fellow scientist in the lab accident that stole his lower body.

“Soon, all of my work will be worth it,” He said looking at the magically preserved brain in a jar connected to a computer. As soon as he worked out the bugs in the transferring process he would be able to resurrect his wife as a robot. Bringing her back so she could see the fruits of their labor. Since the machine they were building was originally going to be a way for wounded soldiers in battle to not only walk again but continue fighting in battles better than ever.

The Department of the Guard that gave contracts for various warfare and security contracts showed interest in it, but the deadline was only a few days away. If he could just find the work the INC [Integrated Neural Circuit ™]. Looking in the mirror he attached sensors to his INC and started the diagnostics when a blast of magic blasted through the lab. His mind screamed in blinding pain as the chip altered itself and fused into his brain as the computer exploded from the blast of neural energy he was giving off. As he passed out he didn’t see as the SPIDER’s mechanical form come to life and attach itself to his body.

Fowl Fate, a young earth pony stallion, was trotting through the Everfree Forest. He always thought it was funny how ponies thought their name determined their destiny. Ever since he could remember he laughed at the thought that his fate would lay with birds. When amphibia and reptiles were his calling.

Speaking of calling, he heard that there was a lone cragodile that lived in the Everfree Forest. While crocodiles weren’t unheard of, finding and studying a cragodile, some of which were as big as several ponies in length and a pony size in height. Were extremely rare. It took him the better part of the day, but he saw the rumor was true. A lone cragodile sat over the evidence of what looked to be its latest meal. Carefully he took out his camera and with his natural clumsiness stumbled right into the cragodile. As he looked at it his life flashed before his eyes and in what he thought was going to be his final days thought to himself, Wow … my life’s been really boring.

Just as the raging tank of murder and rage could tear into him a brilliant white light blasted into them both. With a pain unlike anything imaginable pony and cragodile merged into one body. A perfect merger of hot blooded prey, and reptilian predator. As their bodies and minds merged, Fowl Fate was over swept with a feeling of hunger and predatory need. The strength and hunger of his reptilian half flooding him with needs and desires that he was unprepared for, and unfortunately for him, or as he would soon be called Crag-O-Dile, it was just the beginning.

Splicer Gene, a brilliant shade of magenta that bridged the delicate border between pink and purple, with gorgeous locks of vivid twilight purple, was not your average unicorn filly. She came from an aristocratic family of geneticists and bioengineers. fifteen generations in fact. Sat alone in front of a microscope, examining her latest experiments with making chimera cells, the fusion of multiple creatures into one coherent being. Merging the DNA via a technique that gained her, her cutie mark. Splicing.

She was getting slightly annoyed that all of her hard work after she gained her cutie mark had turned up empty. It seemed that alterations could barely handle two completely separate organisms, never mind the four she was trying to merge. But merge she had too, it seemed that all of her life, only when she succeeded in her ventures did her parents acknowledge her existence. She knew that they loved her, but unless she was living up to their standards, it seemed that their lives and research took precedence over her own.

In a way she knew she was being unfair. They always made sure the help kept her fed, and on holidays took a good two hours they could’ve been using on research to spend time with her. Well usually they had somepony stand in as their proxy, but it was the thought that mattered. At least to Splicer it was the thought that mattered. But in the back of her mind, she always felt that if she made a big enough name for herself, if she made big enough waves, they’d spend more time with her. Or let her into their labs to help them.

“All I have to do is get this too work. I invented Splicing, and although mommy and daddy took the credit for it, they said if I can get at least four cells together they’d let me work with them. Although I wonder why they didn’t allow me to put my name on the paper? I know I’m not the bestest at writing papers at the moment, but I could’ve used the money they got too get a better lab so that I could do this faster … they’re probably testing me. Seeing if I can work under hard conditions like they do sometimes.

“Now little geneies, I need you to show me what’s wrong so I can get my parents to love me more,” Splicer huffed in her reedy voice, that was constantly cracking as her body went through that annoying thing called puberty.

As she turned up the power of her Electron Microscope, a blast of magic slammed into her. She felt as if her entire body was dipped in acid, as she felt her body start to randomly shape shift, and alter it’s constitution between solid, liquid, and raw magical plasma. Her very genetic material ripping apart and reforming in a chaotic mass as her Meta powers switched on for the very first time, as a blood curling scream ripped through her throat turning it raw almost instantly from the force of air ripping from her lungs.

In that moment she felt something click in her mind with an almost physical force as her magic, special talent, and meta gene came into alignment. And in that moment of clarity her mind opened up to the mysteries of the genome. All life around her flooded her mind’s eye and she knew their biology like an open book. Along with that burst of enlightenment came an even scarier thought, If I wanted to I could be a goddess. I could alter and control all life I could lay my horn to. There’s literally nothing stopping me from being unstoppable. Then my parents will have to acknowledge my existence!

Mind Key, was many things, Professor of Mind Magic, at Celestia’s School for Gifted Mages and Ninajs; a respected psychologist whose mind magics were well respected for curing many an ailment; And to a smaller circle of others he was known as the worlds most feared Kingpin. A Mob Boss for the Ki family, originally it was a Stalliongrad maffia for several hundred years. But when Mind Key became boss he merged with the Ki Triade.

There was no greater fun than living the life of a beloved and respected member of society in one hoof, and single hoovedly control a majority of Equestria’s crime. In part the same thing that made him so respected, made him perfect for crime. The ability to manipulate minds, and do magics to play ponies and other sentient creatures like Octavia, his most favorite musician, played a Double Bass.

In a way he was sad that crime was so easy. There were no heroes to test his mettle, no threat to his reign, no real challenge. He had even gone so far as to start purposefully being sloppy when taunting the Royal Guard. Just so that he could bait someone capable of showing him some fun. Something that would force him to push his brain to the limits and maybe bring a thrill back into the game. At least until he had them assassinated when they stopped being fun like he did the rest who stopped making the game interesting, but if a toy is broke the best thing to do is trash it.

He was pondering between expanding his crime empire even further via shadowy consquest, or sending another mind controlled puppet to go to Kungfu Ninja Princess Celestia to taunt her that, “The Brain” had yet again stolen a train supply of medicine and cupcakes to orphans in Ponyville. When all of the sudden a magical blast ripped through the building and at first he felt, alive beyond his wildest years. A frantic energy that would make his favorite test subject / sleeper agent Pinkie Pie look tame. When the energy turned into raw pain, as if his brain had become raw fire. He fell to his foreleg’s knees in pain as clumps of his hair fell out by the hooffulls.

His head felt as if it was being weighted down with bricks and when he felt his head he knew why. His skull, and his brain were growing exponentially. Then with as if his brain was being ravaged by a rabid wolverine he passed out. In that mental void he felt his mind reach out into the void and touch every mind in the world. Sensing the awakening of numerous Meta’s such as himself, But it was a mind that was near his abode that caught his eye. For some reason it wasn’t clear who it was, but he could sense that it was in Ponyville somewhere that was the center of the blast. Where true power lay.

All of the sudden two minds stood out to him, one he recognized as Will o Wisps, and the other seemed as if it not only knew him, but was was waiting patiently for him to make the first move. First Will o Wisps, then this strange mind who’s so eager to speak to me. As he made up his mind a smile spread across his face from the unspoken promise of challenges to come.

Will o Wisps was not your ordinary pegasus mare. And those are the only two things most entities who she hadn’t killed knew for certain. Her race and her gender. Everything else Will o Wisps made sure to keep a mystery. From her true name, the color of her body, her age, everything. And funnily enough she was a long line of ponies who carried the moniker Will o Wisps.

Wisps was a professional assassin. The best in the business, even unicorns that were prepared for their extermination were no match for her superior skills. But what truly set her above and beyond most assassins was that she would do her hobby for free if the contract was interesting or challenging enough. Mostly she fought for shadow governments that sought to eliminate others who had uncanny or powerful abilities that had lost their usefulness to the organization.

But recently she had hit a dead end. So it was her greatest surprise when her most financial backer called her not via phone, but inside her mind. Mr. M, you better have a good reason for entering my brain, she thought. It wasn’t angry, or malicious, rather a cold warning that promised unspeakable horrors if the answer wasn’t good enough.

Sorry W. But you felt that blast of strange magic not to long ago correct? An excited voice rang in her skull.

[i[Yes.

Well it gave me super powers, I think that it was a meta-gene activating blast. I need to hire you to collect me Supers who manifest and bring them to me for study. I’ll pay you five times the normal asking price per capture.

*sigh* And yes Mr. M. that was meant to be verbalized, I guess if you’re paying that much I can help you. But for future reference, give me a heads up before you enter my mind again. Or I’ll do unspeakable things to you.

Of course. I’m holed up in PonyVille at the moment, I think I’ll gain dominion over the librarian so that I can have a nice little lab for research. I’ll see you later.

Sure. Will o Wisp said as she slipped on her outfit with a soft grin. Even though she had no problems neutralizing Mr. M. if it came down to it, she really did like his enthusiasm for things almost as much as she enjoyed working as a hitmare for the Black Empire.

Psilock was a mysterious entity. Noone knew Psilock’s gender, age, race, name, nothing. And Psilock prefered to keep it that way. Even in private Psilock changed his gender and voice constantly through magic. Always keeping everything on their various extremities unless they get too complacent. Although those who knew Psilock knew that Psilock had a purpose to everything. Even if it wasn’t apparent.

When the blast of magic exploded through Horcrux, Psilocks meta-amplifier and mind boosting chair. Psilock knew that something had come up that Psilock had waited for all of Psilock’s life. Choosing a Mare form, she scanned and waited for the right time to introduce herself. Soon the empire she descended from, The Black Empire, would rule the world. But first she needed to gather the world’s new metas who were potential villains and manipulate them into serving her whims. Shifting into a stallion when he felt a powerful telepath belonging to a stallion touching his mind. He grinned. He was well versed with The Brain’s mind. After all it was Psilock who gave “The Brain” the idea of taking over the Ki Triade over a silly similarity.

He got a lot of profit from that battle, and the subsequent merger. But the Brain dreamed of a challenge. He would supply that challenge. After all Psilock had lifetimes to prepare for the upcoming storm. And he wasn’t about to stop now that the great reckoning was at hoof, or at hand. Whichever.

Author's Note

Doctor Arachnid

[Heavily inspired by Doc Oc. and Royal Pain [Sky High] Doctor Arachnid is a Technopath that is armed with a mechanized Spider contraption that he's bonded to and controls.]

Crag-O-Dile

[Not much to say really. Think, Killer Croc mixed with The Lizard.]

Splicer

[I don't recall what inspired this little terror. But she's grown on me. Her eyes give her Bio-Kinesis like vision seeing the genetic makeup of anything she sees, as well as living objects [even if hidden]. Her Meta Power is a super / buffed version of her Special Talent [Manipulation and augmentation of genetic material]. And OMC are some of the dreams I had about this filly a total mind screw.. Also linked pic is her Battle form. Tentacles for grappling and constriction and stinger holds any medicinal or combative chemical she needs at the time [although it does take time for glow her magic around it and tinker around].

The Brain

[The two characters who inspired him the most I bet everyone can guess by reading him and the picture alone. I want to see what you readers come up with.]

Will O Wisps

[The things over her mouth act as second wings attached to her cloak that act as second wings, as well as help her use Pegasi Magic / control wind currents for her assassination techniques. Like Splicer she just popped up like a Ninja. I can think of a few things that helped my subconscious make her, but for the most part she's just epic. Although I think I have to give some kudos to Edward [Anita BlakeVerse], and The Fay [a fic in one of the greatest series in Fimfic.].
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So that is all for the Rogue Gallery. Yes I purposefully skipped Psilock. There's a reason for that, and mostly is because he's shadowy, mysterious, and for most of the earlier fics / series [if I make a series out of this] he's like a puppet master, working behind the scenes, moving each known player to move towards his end goal, and when he gets revealed he's just as chaotic and mind screwy as he is before he officially gets shown. Well either (s)he(it). Since Psilock at any moment can be a he, she, androgynous, or mixed gendered, or even non-gendered. That's not even counting the other things Psilock can do. Or his powerbase [will say he's a Paragon Ranked Meta, almost a Deity Rank].

Getting a Grip 1: Learning the Ropes

It was the morning after her entire life had in a single instant been flipped upside down and even though Vinyl Scratch helped ease her anxiety the night before after a few shots of bourbon to calm the nerves. Which ‘thanks to Steel’, was purified and the intoxication cleared up in moments which really put a damper on the few benefits of a nice stiff drink. Octavia giving a sedated sigh plopped onto the seat at the breakfast table to wake up a little before getting the morning coffee ready.

Of the many things she loved about Vinyl Scratch, was the fact that Vinyl introduced her to french pressed coffee, and spent the bits buying a French Press. Although Vinyl’s strange brewing system made it that most days if Ocatavia wanted the worlds best coffee she’d wait for Vinyl to wake up. But after her marefriend almost devoured the entire refrigerator before going to sleep she doubted that poor mare was going to wake up anytime soon.

Good morning, Octavia, if you’d like I could run you through some tutorials to help you with your plans for making coffee, Steel offered.

Gah! you’re reading my mind again, and how would you know where everything is? Are you using some ancient unicorn witchcraft or something? Octavia asked. Usually she didn’t buy into the Earth Pony superstition of witches. But then again, being thoroughly freaked out, and not awake was a sure fire way to ask dumb questions.

Sorry, but as we share a mind, I hear anything that isn’t designated as private. Same thing as with your other sense. It’s why you still have the HUD up, Steel replied.

So last night? Octavia asked. Praying to Celestia, and any other deities that he didn’t see anything.

When you went to bed, other than a proximity scan to ensure you wouldn’t be attacked in the middle of the night, I made sure that I shut of all access to all sense and modes of communication, Steel replied with a curt professionalism that Octavia could get behind.

So when did you know it was safe to re-open things, Octavia asked placing her head on the table and closing her eyes.

Simple, my internal diagnostic wards showed that you were asleep. Thus it was seen as an appropriate time to reestablish auxiliary primary functions.

You know .... this would be such a more pleasant conversation if I could see you.

That is a fair request, Steel replied. Octavia felt a small drain on her magic, and the air shift. Standing beside her was a ghost like illusion of a unicorn stallion. The first thing that came to her mind was that other than yellow horseshoes and a green corduroy vest. He was the bluest pony she ever saw, and she knew Noteworthy. His coat was a rich sky blue, with dark blue mane and a dignified mustache.

“So much blue,” Octavia slurrily blurted.

“Yes, it’s quite the fetching color,” Steel replied. His telepathic voice giving the illusion that he was talking out loud.

“Why are you called Steel, if you are Blue? Wouldn’t Sapphire be a better name?”

“Well …,” Steel started, and looked down morosely at the ground, “there was already once a Sapphire. She was quite the soul.”

He took a simulation of a deep breath, not needing to actually breathe and all, and finished up by saying, “We were each given our names, by our creators the Knightly Order of Battle Mages. We were either named after a stone that represented our core powers, or from a personality trait that we possessed. Sometimes even both, myself for instance.

“Steel is a strong, hard metal, but is also malleable under the right conditions. But it also means to make ones mind, body, or soul like steel, as well as to fill one with determination and resolution. That’s why I’m named Steel Resolve. Part of the reason I merged with you was because I sensed that steel inside you as well,” Steel exclaimed.

“So where are the others of your kind? And why haven’t I heard of that Order before?”

“I know you are full of questions. But exposition later, right now would be the perfect time to learn some of your more basic features,” Steel replied. Both deflecting and blocking Octavia’s stalling tactics.

“I guess since we’re going to be together for a while I might as well learn what I’m doing,” Octavia replied.

“Perfect, now lets show you how to cast a basic levitation spell,” Steel said almost merrily as he faded back into Octavia’s body.

Vinyl Scratch woke with a start. On one hoof she was annoyed that she wasn’t able to get a good nights sleep last night. What with her waking up every fifteen minutes as if she had been downing nothing but coffee all day. But on the other, it was nice not feeling like death warmed over when it was time to get up.

The most annoying thing about her powers was the fact that she had no idea how to control them. Sure she could get help from the Sparkle Fairy, from what her friend Lyra Heartstrings told her the Sparkle Fairy was some sort of super mad scientist. That and it wasn’t like she didn’t know Twilight Sparkle, it was just that it would mean admitting that she may or may not have started a series of events that had a potential for almost destroying entire parts of the multiverse. And even though a part of her wanted to hang onto that “almost” part. She didn’t want to be the one responsible for whatever bad things would happen. That and she needed to control this power.

As she blazed down to the bathroom almost at teleport speeds, she blared past the morning ritual of making sure her breath smelled sexy and Minuet wouldn’t have Tavs yell at her to floss and brush everyday. Although she decided to try a different way to take a shower when she ran out of patience trying to wait for the water to fall onto her. Grabbing the soap bottle to put into her saddle bag in the room, the vibrations caused the shampoo to explode. Running out of the bathroom, she made a mention to apologize to Tavi over the horrible mess that was surely to be there waiting for her.

She nearly teleported to the kitchen. Almost laughing from how short things seemed when you were moving at speeds that made almost made light move slow. A part of her wondered what it meant that now she was out of the Speed Force, that her max speed was slowing down to what could be considered teleport speeds. Technically it could be considered faster since there was a lag depending on how far one traveled and how much power one could throw into the spell. Never mind the time needed to cast it, but it was the only speed she knew that could compare.

She stopped and forced that pleasant buzzing deep down, watching time slow down to normal. And as it did, she could feel the force leaking out, just getting ready to pounce. And if she was going to go Super Speeds, she needed to get an outfit, and thankfully she knew a in Ponyville who did clothes. She just needed to find the right bribe to ensure she didn’t gossip. After all Vinyl Scratch read enough comics books to learn what happens when a secret identity get’s blown.

Vinyl Scratch sat down at the table watching Tavi, and her jaw almost dropped, as a plum funnel stretched out of her head like a tiny, ghost horn. With a similar plum aura grabbing the Teapot hissing with steam. Octavia’s adorable eyes squinting like a filly’s first time lifting with magic brought a d’aww from Vinyl’s lips. The pot set down shakily at the table and Vinyl pounced Octavia.

As she held on for dear life, coincidentally hugging the life out of Octavia, Vinyl squee’d, “That was awesome! How did you do that?!”

Octavia’s body suddenly turned into that same weird metal suit she was in last night, “Sorry love, this just happened since I needed to breathe. But as I was going to say, Steel here was teaching me some of the features of my armor, and he decided the first step was levitation, or as he called it ‘basic spell casting’.”

“Well that is the basics. I mean once you learn levitation it’s basically taking that to build a spell. Anyways, the armor’s weird, but the magic thing and what you did was so hot!” Vinyl gushed over her marefriend's body.

“Thank you Vinyl, so what are your plans?”

“Well you might need to clean the bathroom. I accidentally grabbed the soap bottle and it exploded, and I don’t want to blow up anything else. So I’m just going to go to Rarity’s get super hero outfit to disguise myself. Then go see Princesses Celestia, hopefully she doesn’t use her Kungfu Ninja powers to punt me off the mountain like she did that one reporter who said that her ‘overeating of cake’ was a blight on Equestria’s economy.”

“Love, he was a pegasi, he could fly after he was booted from the mountain, and I’m sure she’ll forgive you. Just as long as you don’t look like one of the ninja’s she trains against, or attack her for her cake recipes, and as long as you don’t insult her eating habits. It’ll be fine. Now go, I’ll probably find some feature in this contraption that could be handy.”

“You know Tavs, you’re taking this a whole lot better than I thought, thanks for not hating me,” Vinyl sniffled. Still pretty beaten up over almost blowing up Octavia, and doing who knows what level of damage to reality.

“I already told you I forgive you. Yes I might bring it up in the future, but honestly, I’m just glad that we’re both alive. And while inconvenient, and life changing. The things we gained could help ponies. So … I’m just trying to look at the blessings. That and I love you with all my heart, and the thought of losing you is more than can bare. So …smiles?”

Vinyl Scratch wiped her nose with a foreleg and gave a half-hearted smile, “like a Pinkie Pie.”

Giving a chuckle Octavia’s metal body returned to normal, “close enough to one. Now be off, I’ll see you when you get back.”

As Vinyl waited in line to speak to everyponies favorite KNP, Vinyl Scratch sighed. It had taken five hours to get her costume made. Most of that time finding a fabric that was comfortable in moving at high speeds in. Although she did find out that running into sharp pointy objects didn’t affect her as long as she was running. Just another thing she had to ask about. But even though she was promised by the most holiest of oaths, Rarity could have done without the screams of terror when Vinyl Scratch tried cooking a hot pocket by vibrating it. Sure the chargrilled bits stung, and even now she had some in her coat. But that wasn’t bad enough to send a pony into hysterics, fainting, and a trip the bathroom while being wracked with shoulder shaking sobs of despair.

Vinyl … no “White Lightning”, a name her and Rarity cooked up while getting a good uniform, moved at a snails crawl after what seemed like all of Equestria was lined up at the doors. Slowly moving, one short infinity at a time. But eventually Vinyl Scratch made it into the chambers.

Kungfu Ninja Princess Celestia looked everybit the Kungfu Ninja Princess. A perfectly virgin white Kung fu gi. With a white sheathed ninja sword was attached to her waste, and ninja wing claws attached to her primaries. A small white mouth guard covered her mouth and in its center was the symbol of her cutie mark. And upon her head lay a ninja head band covering a Yellow and Gold Mandarin hat. Princess Celestia looked regally upon her, her eyes lifting up slightly as if her eyes were grinning at her.

Vinyl Scratch kneeled down, and when KNP Celestia gave her permission to rise Vinyl asked, “Heya Princess. I’ve been still for hours, mind if I burn up some excess energy before I talk?”

“Of course my little pony, I’m right here when you’re ready.”

Vinyl gave a happy shout and bolted. She ran at such speeds that she was literally running up the walls, and across the ceilings, and around KNP Celestia. Eventually after what took too long in her opinion she saw Celestia’s magic flowing slower than molasses towards her, and for giggles seemingly effortlessly took all of her throwing stars and placed them in her field before running into the kitchen, grabbing a cake and placing it in the field as well just incase Best Princess was in a ‘kicking a fool’ mood.

Finally feeling as if she burnt her energy reserves up enough she sat down and saw the a first that nopony in over five hundred years had seen. Princess Celestia’s jaw drop, as her mouth guard fell like a leaf in the wind to the floor. Then she saw soemthing no pony but Celestia’s sister Lunazilla had ever seen in Celestia’s long life. Celestia dropped the cake, and made no moves to save it.

Author's Note

No pics for Kungfu Ninja Princess Celestia. Also the mouth guard, and the Mandarin Hat are parts of her "formal" attire. But still something that nopony can see her losing [that isn't close to her and with her on official business]. More is coming y'alls way. Also we're getting to the part where we can get the heroes squared away and move onto the villains.

Getting a Grip 2: Time and Tutorials

Vinyl Scratch sat in Kungfu Ninja Princess Celestia’s Private chambers. The ornate room was almost spartan in appearance, which included a ponyquin wearing Spartan Armor. As Vinyl walked around the room. Looking at the few bits of furniture was disturbed by an angry buzzing sound, looking up she saw a rather angry Sparkle Fairy. Twilight’s Sparkle’s majestic, glowing wings, buzzing with a barely contained fury as it created a trail of sparkles in her wake.

Landing sharply in front of her Twilight asked, “Are you the one who made that magical explosion last night!?” Her lab coat fluttering in a non-existent breeze as her landing knocked her mad scientist goggles askewed from her harsh landing.

“Possibly?” Vinyl replied, almost ready to bolt from the terrifying image of an angry fairy of sciencey doom.

“Argh! I can’t believe you! Do you know what you did?”” Sparkle asked in an angry huff. Flying upwards with her forelegs crossed, and started pacing in the sky. Filling the room with hundreds of angry, glittery, sparkles.

White Lighting laughed, “It’s hard to be scared of you when you’re making the room look like a 6 yr old fillies fantasy room. It’s like being threatened by pudding.”

Twilight slowly turned to her, and a creepy slasher smile slid upon her lips, “You know … you’re right, let’s find out how threatening pudding can be.”

That was Vinyl’s cue to bolt. Just as she entered hypertime she saw the beginnings of a massive confectionary explosion. Not wanting to accidentally hurt the poor, mentally deranged pony, she ran. It was almost funny how fast the explosion was moving. If she wasn’t moving at many times faster than sound she would’ve been buried in pudding. Trotting up to it she touched her foot to it and although it felt hot wasn’t as bad as it could be, giving it a taste she mused that it tasted like the color purple before outrunning it.

It took her reaching out side the castle before the puddingsplosion stopped, and she quickly went back to about were she started from so it would look like she wasn’t touched at all. Although it took her a while longer before she was able to stop the buzzing sensation to re-enter normal time.

Twilight who had her wings wrapped around her to protect her from the puddingsplosion looked at sexy costumed Vinyl Scratch before her and screamed in impotent fury. Before she could unleash another blast of puddingy doom, a bright flash filled the room giving rise to a sunburnt, pudding caked, very irate Celestia.

“Twilight ‘Sparkle Fairy’ Sparkle! Explain yourself this instant?!” Celestia commanded.

Twilight fell to the ground in a heavy thump, and went temporarily catatonic. Celestia shook her head, globs of pudding flopping everywhere, “So. Pony of unknown origins. What happened?”

“Well she burst in her all angry like. And I might’ve said that it was hard to be threatened by her, and that pudding was more threatening than a room full of sparkles. Then she might’ve gone insane,” Vinyl replied.

“That explains it,” Celestia said as Twilight suddenly exploded, revealing that she was a robot all along, “And that explains the mental instability. I’ve told Twilight not to send her Twibots to do talking for her until she fixed that glitch. At least she listened and stopped using an antimatter core for the battery.”

“Antimatter?”

“Oh yes, but don’t worry, she’s accidentally destroyed the world ten times and I managed to fix it before. I just need to …” Celestia said and summoned an unconscious Twilight who was drooling adorably, her sparkly wings fluttering in blissful ignorance as she dreamt.

Coughing into her hoof, Celestia grinned evily, before using the Royal Canterlot Voice, ”You’re Tardy!”

Twilight’s eyes went open and she started flying chaotically around the room, repeatedly crashing into walls and the ceiling before doing a flying faceplant before Kungfu Ninja Princess Celestia who laughed at the prank.

“Princess Celestia! I’m so sorry! I must’ve dozed off last night when I sugar crashed! What did I … miss?” Twilight said looking around at the damage, “Twibot?”

“Hmmmhmmm.”

“Mentally unstable again?”

“Hmmmhmmm.”

“Destroyed the world an eleventh time?”

“Surprisingly no. Although a Puddingpocalypse would be a first since one of my old enemy decided to flood the world in it. But you would’ve been the first in over three thousand years.”

“Oh! Good … so … since I didn’t destroy the world you aren’t going to ground me to go outside?” Twilight asked hopefully.

“No, but I am cutting you off from cake and coffee for the next week.” Celestia said with a grin.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Twilight said falling to her haunches, forelegs reaching to the heavens that she disparagingly cried out to.

“Sorry, but it’s only fair. Now it’s time for you to meet our guest … Ms.?” Celestia asked.

“White Lightning! Its my Super Hero name,” White Lightning replied striking a pose that made the mares swoon.

“W-well! It’s almost nice to meet you. If it wasn’t for the loss of cake and coffee. So what brings you here?” Twilight asked.

“First off, can you two promise not to tell anypony about me? I’ve read enough comics to know if somepony learns your secret identity, then those close to you get hurt the most,” White Lightning asked shyly.

When they both agreed, White Lightning Took off her shades and hood to reveal herself as Vinyl Scratch, “Well first off, Princess I don’t need those forms completed. I kind of blew up the device. Which brings me to my next thing. I kind of maybe, might’ve went faster than time, talked to a future me who said that I released something called the Meta-Rift event. And although someday it’ll get fixed before it does to much damage in some timelines in others it doesn’t get fixed before bad stuff happens.

“apologiseI might need to apologize for that, and I also developed superpowers that I have no idea how to control so I thought I’d ask for your help,” Vinyl asked.

“So it was you!” Twilight yelled, “Do you have any idea the chaos you created? one hundred and fifty years of scientific knowledge down the drain and worst of all you overturned the thesis I’ve been working on for four years on it’s head. No wonder Twibot was mad at you!” Twilight ranted, before saying, “Sorry Vinyl, I know it was an accident. I’m just frustrated.”

Vinyl knew how much it sucked to have one’s hard work fall flat. And seeing the dejected look on Sparkle Fairy’s adorable face, not anywhere near as adorable as Octavia’s of course, Vinyl was compelled to give her a hug. Which turned awkward when Twilight ended up bawling onto her. “Hey Sparks … it’s not that bad, at least since I told you about this you can just do a different thesis on the rift right? I know where the boom started, don’t know if it’s a traveling, hyperspatial rift, or anchored. But other than that we can work together to fix this. So you don’t need to cry alright?”

Twilight sniffled and nodded onto Vinyl’s super awesome suit. Pulling back Twilight said, “I’ll need to experiment on you since you were at ground zero when it happened and I’ll need to know everything see if I can’t replicate the event in a lab. But I’ll help you. Just no more tossing physics or metaphysics on it’s head anymore.”

“I’ll try.”

Princess Celestia threw her two bits into the conversation, “You can be our guest while doing your tests, and if worst comes to worst. I’ve been trying to get Twilight prepared for a certain thing that she and I have been discussing that might harmonize the event. Well I have to get this mess cleaned up before I have to repaint the walls Spartan Style with the blue goodness of an aristocratic clone. Which reminds me Twilight, after your test get me more ‘things’ for the clones.”

Octavia rested on a stool while holding her Double Bass, closing her eyes, she worked her way through Bach’s Cello suite number 1. As she finished the prelude felt a presence watching her intently, Even with her eyes closed she knew that presence like the contours of her frog, “hello Vinyl dear, I suppose things went well?” Octavia asked as she opened her eyes.

“Ha! Yeah kinda, listen. The Princess needs me in Canterlot and I wanted to let you know so you didn’t worry,” Vinyl replied as Octavia rested her instrument in its case.

Trotting over to her Octavia gave her a hug, “Well be safe love. There’s been something strange going on around here since the explosion. I don’t want you to get caught up in anymore trouble than usual.”

Returning the hug Vinyl whispered into Octavia’s coat, “I promise. And who knows after I can control this power I might be able to turn Nookie Night into something better than Bob the Buzzer.”

Octavia blushed, profusely, “Well … I look forward to your attempt at beating Bob, but be warned, he has a cousin that I ordered for us a few weeks ago. It’s supposed to be even bobbier than bob’s buzzing beats.”

Vinyl sat on her haunches with her mouth hung open, “Tavs? Did you just purposefully do alliteration on a sex toy?”

“Yes, yes I did. Now off with you, I’ll be sure to keep your spot warm for you, for when you return,” Octavia said with a mischievous grin.

“Best marefriend ever! Well I better be off before they look for me,” and with that Vinyl disappeared as if she were never there to begin with.

Octavia sat down and sighed, “Celestia I love that mare, now I have to work on working with this RESOLVE unit.”

Steel are you there?

I am, how may I help you?

Well I want to learn all the various functions of this suit. And what exactly you do to help.

Of course. Shall we get started?

Octavia gave a nod, and that was good enough for Steel, Octavia felt a weird wet sensation along her coat before her body was covered in a living metal that outlined her body perfectly. Almost as if she became metal herself. If it wasn’t for the Atheric, teal mane, and channels of ether that flowed along her body. Rolling her shoulders she mentally prepared herself for a long but interesting day.

*CRASH*

“I’m so sorry!”

*BAZAM*

“Forgive me!”

*Explsoions*

“EEEEEEEE!”

Octavia going at 21 wingpower slammed into the side of a mountain after accidentally causing massive collateral damage to Ponyville. Of course with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie living there, as well as living next to the Everfree. Their quaint little village was used to random acts of mass destruction, so hopefully the insurance agents would be able to pay for it.

As she shook herself Octavia huffed annoyedly, Flying is so much harder than pegasi make it look. Steel why didn’t you tell me flying was so hard?

But I did. I said it was like riding a bike, hard to start but easy when you learned what you were doing. Steel said mirthfully.

It’s not funny, and how did I blow up that cart of pillows?

Simply put flying via suit for non-pegasi, is done by using the energy blasters to provide lift and thrust. You accidentally shot out a rather stronger than needed beam for thrust and hit it. Although I must say that you made more progress than my last owner. Steel said consolingly.

Okay, so next time I’ll pay more attention to the tutorials I guess.

It’s alright. I understand that there are some terms that I might need to re-word, but you did wonderfully on creating shields, and you did quite well with the levitation spell after a few attempts. Who knows in a few weeks you should have the primary abilities grasped, and ready to level up.

I was wondering about that. What does leveling up entail?

I simply enhance your physical body, as well as unlock new content or pathways for development for using this bit of armor. The closer we bond as partners, or as wielder and wieldie, the more powerful you become and the more things I can do for you.

Octavia looked at Canterlot Castle and prayed that Vinyl was having a better time with her training than she was.

Origin 1: White Lightning and Steel Resolve

The night was cool and the moon shone eerily through the clouds coming from the Everfree Forest. In a clearing far from Ponyvile, legally mandated by Ivory Scrolls for all experiments of dangerous levels after Vinyl accidentally exploded Town Hall with her and Pinkie Pie’s experimental Party Cannon Mark II. Stood Vinyl Scratch and her marefriend Octavia. The latter of the two looking as if she’d rather be anywhere else than the with Vinyl and the rather ominous looking contraption before her.

Sure she knew that Vinyl Scratch along with a Doctor of Music Degree for Composition had a Masters in Engineering, and a Bachelors in Thaumaturgic Composition. But that didn’t stop Octavia from feeling as if she should back away slowly from whatever blast radius the blasphemy against logic was more than likely produce, “Are you sure this is safe?” Octavia asked eyeing the device suspiciously.

“Of course Tavs, we’ve been over this before when you helped lug over everything. Everything is perfectly safe … as long as you don’t drink the fluids, or breath in any fumes it gives off, or look directly into the central crystal matrice,” Vinly responded, “want me to go over everything so that you’ll won’t feel the need to summon Nightmare Kaiju on me or something?”

“That’s not funny! Everyone knows that Nightmare Kaiju’s a myth. There’s no way Kungfu Ninja Princess Celestia would never just seal something that dangerous in a volcano on the moon. But yes, telling me what this infernal device is would be nice of you, and for the last time my name is Octavia,” she huffed which drew a good natured laugh from Vinyl.

“Tavs, Tavi, Octy, love of mine, you know I love you right?” Vinyl said giving puppy dog eyes that were blocked by her shades.

“You know the eye thing doesn’t work if I can’t see your eyes right? And I do know you love me and I also know you’re stalling,” Octavia replied while giving Vinyl Scratch a cautious nuzzle, “now what’s all of this?”

“Okay, I’ll tell you, but first promise not to freak out,” Vinyl responded with a guilty smile which caused Octavia to facehoove.

“No promises. Now I really don’t think I should be this close to this thing … second thought I should probably go now and get the ambulance on stand by,” Octavia replied backing away further.

“Don’t!” Vinyl yelled, “see, I made containment runes, and it’s inside a triple sphered circle of protection. Nothing short of a one in a bazillion chance fluke could mess it up … even then it’d be localized.”

Octavia sat down and sighed, “We started this conversation to make me feel safer. Now you’re making me feel like I’ll need to bail you out of jail again and call in another favor to give you an alibi again. Just tell me you didn’t do anything illegal.”

“Nothing illegal.”

Giving a sigh Octavia was about to respond when Vinyl continued, “I totally got the forms to own half of this stuff, and the others are local so I don’t need to worry about customs as long as it doesn’t leave Equestria. Or enter Canterlot. Or most major cities until I get my reply from the Princess.

“Anyways, let’s see here. I have a Gamma Core battery, charged with the Everfree’s magical energy, attached to several loaned crystals from under Canterlot. Those charge up several potions to the point they become raw energy which goes to several spell foci I got from totally legitimate sources, which in turn goes to these two thingies that looked rather cool, and are blasted through this weird box thingie outside the circle of protections.

“What it should do is create magical tachyons that blast sound through time and space. While sending a spell via sound to give syntha-somethingorother,” Vinyl finished with a grin.

Octavia was less than amused, “So you have a nuclear unstable core, magically charged with an uncontrollable and unstable Wild Zone’s energy, going through things that you don’t know parts of. And are going to generate something that moves faster than time and space … just to have a new set of speakers?” She almost yelled in panic.

“When you say it like that, it does sound irresponsible,” Vinyl replied, “But it’s totally safe. Pinkie Pie helped me engineer it. Here let me show you how safe it is. After all what can go wrong.”

As she flipped the switch. She was shown just how wrong things could go. Just as the menacing green light filled the crystal matrice wrapped in Vinyl’s aura. A lightning bolt from one of the stray clouds hit the Gamma Core and all Tartarus broke lose in a burst of white.

Vinyl Scratch wasn’t sure how to define what happened. One moment she was turning on her Psychedelic Super Speaker ™ when all of the sudden an explosion happened. But when it happened time slowed down as a burning buzz blasted through her body, just as it hit the peak where she thought her body would explode the burn into nothingness the pain stopped.

As the spells that powered the speakers exploded the displacement of time and space created a nova that blasted the magical wave that filled the world with its light and the center formed a singularity that sucked her into it. Oh buck me! I’m going to die and I never told Octavia how much I love her … or at least not anymore. Sorry Tavs, I bucked up bad this time didn’t I?

As she was sucked into the Singularity the world beneath her stretched out as time moved backwards infinitely fast, the sky above her stretched as time moved forwards at the same time, and inbetween time was a chaotic rush of a wind that moved faster than time could travel. For a moment in time she could see all of time before time began to the end of the multiverse.

Just as her mind was about to shatter from the mind screw of seeing all of time. A part of the winds vibrated and swirled forming a replica of herself wearing a strange suit, it looked at her with a nostalgic smile, “Hey sexy! I remember this day. So I guess it’s time for the speech, huh?”

“What? Are you the Grim Princess of Death?” Vinyl asked her clone.

“No you silly filly. I’m you from the future, and I know what I meant when I was in your spot and I told me that I really do look adorable when I look confounded. Anyways that’s not important but these words of warning are.

“First of all, that blast and the singularity you made created the Speed Force, which where we’re at, but it also created a rift in the mulitverse that generates a wave of particles that create meta-ponies while slowly unraveling the multi-verse. And before you ask, it get’s fixed eventually, although some universes come close to collapsing entirely. So not cool, but it’s called the Meta-Rift becareful of it.

“Second, this speed is something you won’t get close to reaching unassisted for a long time. It’s literally so fast that it moves faster than time itself. but when going at your top speed. Never teleport unless you have no other choice. Doing so will attract the rift to your location and force open the rift further. Further destabilizing the multiverse.

“Lastly, I’m going to help you go back to your timeline. We’ll meet again when it’s time. See ya’ me.” Vinyl 2.0 said.

Vinyl watched as her future self ran around Vinyl so fast that the winds formed a vortex that slowed her enough that it reversed her vibrational polarity and ejected her into real time. As she did a strange armored pony in an oaken steel like material with strange channels and runes circulating it. The weird pony was looking around confessedly when she looked at Vinyl it asked in Octavia’s voice, “Vinyl Scratch is that you?”

“Tavs? You’re alive?”

“Good it’s you! I thought you blew up, and I lost you forever,” the armored Octavia said as it pounced Vinyl.

As she jumped, she slowed down, and as Vinyl moved she felt the air around her moving as if it was a giant swimming pool of force. Walking to Octavia she was there so fast she thought she teleported. She circled her suspended marefriend and in something between a squee and a gasp, “Holy spaceballs! We’re superheroes! But how do I slow down? I started moving this fast when I moved, so what now?”

Vinyl sat on Octavia’s back as she thought about her situation. As she sat she noticed that rays of light were slowly moving like tiny rivery balls of light, as it touched things the object would give off a small burst of light that was really trippy, “No! Come on Viny, you’re moving so fast that light looks slow. And what’s that weird … never mind that blasty, swirly, green thing must be the Meta-Rift. Anyways, what do I do?”

As sat she noticed a strange tingly field around her that wasn’t there before, “I wonder if this does anything?”

When Vinyl Scratch turned on her machine Octavia knew that it was going to be trouble. But when the lightning struck out of nowhere. Octavia’s world was blasted into white. The pain was unexplainable, but just as it came, it was gone replaced with a sense of peace. So this is what being dead feels like, if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m going to have to slap Vinyl to Tartarus and back for something this foolish, I’d hug her. But I don’t know how to feel being dead.

She heard a voice in her head that sounded like a Brayton butler, merged with a hint of that mechanical auto-tune thing that Rapscallion invented, Hello Octavia, you aren’t dead. Simply being healed as we merge.

Merge! Who are you?! What are you doing?! And how are talking inside my head?! Octavia mentally screamed at the strange, yet dapper voice.

Sorry, I should explain, the voice started to say.

I’d say, Octavia huffed.

As I was saying, I’m Steel, your RESOLVE unit.

Steel Resolve?

Yes. We were artifical soul, magi-tech armor that was made thousands of years ago when a great darkness threatened to destroy the world by an order of Battle Mage Knights headed by Star Swirl the Bearded before he disappeared. We were called, REsonant Spirit of Operations and Logistics VEssel, or RESOLVE, there were six of us made each with our own name. With each of us granted magical powers that we could instill upon our Knights.

But I’m not a Knight.

You meet the qualifications. And when I found you grievously injured as that explosion rocketed me at you, So since I was partially responsible for your injury, I merged with you to heal you. As for the telepathy. I speak and work by speaking directly to your mind. As well as magically augmenting your reality with what our order called a HUD, or a Heads Up Display.

Well this is strange, Can others see or hear these things?

Of course not. That wouldn’t be a very strategic system. Although I promise not to do anything that you don’t approve of. Now that you know about the basics about myself. How about I teach you about the functions that you have access to at the moment?

Sure it couldn’t hurt. After all if we’re going to be together for awhile I might as well learn how to use you.

Octavia spent several having her mind flooded with knowledge of various spells and functions that came standard with the RESOLVE system with such speed that it left her mind reeling. While a part of her was worried that Vinyl might be dead. The shock of everything threatening to overwhelm her as everything was happening to fast for her brain to process all the emotions flooding her body. Just as her mind got used to the flood of knowledge a hazy flash appeared and Vinyl appeared. While she looked singed and a little ruffled up, but she was alive. In shock she asked, “Vinyl Scratch is that you?”

“Tavs? You’re alive?” Vinyl replied in a scared voice. In that moment all the fear that was building up burst from its dam and she felt her living metal body leak a transparent river of tears.

“Good it’s you! I thought you blew up, and I lost you forever,” Octavia said as she pounced Vinyl Scratch. But in a blink of an eye a flash of color flashed in a small mini map that was in the upper left corner of her vision. Looking behind her she saw a sweating Vinyl Scratch.

“Wow, this power is going to be a pain in the flank isn’t it?” Vinyl panted.

“As long as I have you, and we have each other it’ll work out in the end,” Octavia said pulling Vinyl into a hug.

Author's Note

Steel Resolve one of my favorite writers on the site is what started this whole thing off. His name sounds like a Super Hero name, and I thought who'd be the best one. Cue the dreams and it turns out it would be Octavia. Now Steel Resolve the RESOLVE has that author's Avatar is what it's body looks like. And the voice is a mixture of Burrough's [SMT IV] computerized, yet smooth tone, the british accent of JARVIS from Iron Man, and is all awesomeness.

Character Sheet: Steel Resolve

[A better picture of what she looks like].

Steel Resolve the character [not just the AI] was inspired by Steel Resolve the writer; Iron Man [both the Robert Downey Jr. Movies and parts of the Ozzy Osborne song]; and Steel [Justice League Unlimited].

Vinyl Scratch on the other hand. I drempt up of being the one to create the Speed Force, just like an MLP Flash. But sexier and much more awesome. White Lightning is her Super Name and is inspired by the Wonderbolts [her uniform]; The Flash [Barry Allen]; and the fics where Rainbow Dash does a Rainboom powerful enough to rip holes in Time Space / to other dimensions / universes.](http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/283/d/0/steel_resolve_by_thegreateater-d82cdbh.png)[Character Sheet](http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/283/c/3/super_stats__white_lightning__by_thegreateater-d82cs14.png)

Better look at the body

Note: I'm just getting started back up into drawing. So it's not IJAB level awesomeness yet. But at least all my pics are recognizable as ponies. Although my bro says that Doctor Arachnid is my best one yet XD. No editors for this Chapter. Feel free to leave any comments or critiques.