A Change Of Pace

Sweet Apple Acres: 2:25 pm

Frank's POV:

As i kept thinking about what i had thought about back in the hedge maze, I failed to see what had just happened, but I know it would have been funny as hell if I saw it. There Jamir was on the ground panting holding his chest as if he had run from a wolf. I went over phased back in his body and asked: ''What in the sam hill happened to you while I was gone?'' I asked, somewhat amused at how this was playing out. ''Well I decided to give applebucking a try. ''And?'' I pressed with a little smile on my face. ''Turns out i'm pretty good at it, takes some getting used to but it's ok work'' he said after regaining his breath. ''Yea, and somehow that does not explain why you're down on the ground like a limp noodle.'' i said with a little chuckle. ''I was getting to that'' he said. so I had just done my last tree when... FLASHBACK: right after Frank  left Jamir's POV: Damn. there were a whole bunch of apple trees as far as I could see. At that point, I just had to ask: '' so you and your brother Big Macintosh applebuck all of these trees?'' I said just a little unconvinced. ''Sure do, sugarcube, it is hard work and all but somepony's got to do it.'' Applejack said. ''Huh'' I said. hard work, indeed, so you're gonna teach me to do it too?'' i asked. '' Yep, come on, let's get started.'' she said.  ''ok'' i said rolling up my sleeves. ''Well since ya'll don't have any hooves, i figure i can tell you how to do it and you could make it work in your way.'' she said. she lined herself in front of the tree, leaned foward, and kicked. HARD. The tree shook and out fell all the apples. ''Geez applejack, would not want to make you mad'' i said with a fake chuckle. ''Well, why don't you give a try now?'' she suggested. I took in a deep breath and took the tree to her left. I sized it up and thought for a minute: ''If she used her two back hooves for power, I suppose i could go for a jumping roundhouse kick to the tree's soft spot'' i thought. which I pegged for the space underneath the branches as kicking the tree's base would do nothing but give me pain. So went on a limb and hoped that i was right by some degree. I stood my ground a good foot away and took one last before i broke off in a sprint, when i got within arm's length, I did a little hop, jump, and twisted in one fluid motion while using my arms for momentum I clocked the tree and landed on my feet, when I looked up, saw no apples.''nice'' i thought.

''Yee Haw!'' Applejack shouted. ''nice one there partner, y'all seem to have the hang of this, so let's get to it!''

Time Skip: 10 minutes later:

Jamir's Pov:

'' Hey Applejack, gonna take a break mind if I use your bathroom really quick?'' I asked, having the need to pee. ''sure thing sugarcube, you go upstairs and it's the second door on the left.

''Thanks'' I said. well that was fun I mused to myself, took a little getting used to but nonetheless  not as bad as i would peg it to be. Right now I need to find the bathroom so I can-there it is! I rushed inside and let loose the stream. After I finished that I continued downstairs but on my way down I tripped on a step and fell down, being and also not to faceplant with the floor I leaned fowards to have my hands do the work. pretty simple to do I just vaulted off my hands in the hope I would land on my feet and I did for about 3 seconds until I fell. again but this time I felt something tough, like rubber then after i felt myself get flung out the barn and landed on my back.

''ok, but you're still not telling me how you got flung out and landed here.'' Frank deadpanned. ''I know but I'm going to tell you now.'': I accidentally touched Big Mac's flank and got flung across the dirt.

''You know, I want to laugh so bad, but I won't you did nothing so that merits no laughter.'' he said, understanding. ''he said sorry.'' i added.

''So where did the rest of the girls go''? Frank questioned.

''Pinkie said that she needed them to help her with something, what that is, she has yet to tell me, but i can take a guess.'' I said getting up and dusting myself off.

''A party?'' Frank pegged?

''A Party.'' My reply came.

''So what time is it supposed to start?'' Frank inquired.

''Around 10-11 why?'' I peered.

''Because.. we need to talk about something serious.'' Frank said being dead serious. He's only ever used this tone when something has pissed off, oh great what could it be this time? ''What is it?'' I asked. ''That disturbance we felt before, well i tracked it and found it was Discord.'' Frank said. ''Wait, how he's stone what could he have done?'' I asked. ''I don't really know about that, but what I do is followed that unusual vibe and when I got in front of the statue, it was if that feeling was concentrated only on him.'' Frank summarized.

''So Discord, huh? well let's go over there and give him a piece of our minds.'' I said cracking my knuckles for emphasis.

''No, that won't work, the only way we get even one shot would be to let things take the course and wait until the girls and elements get to discord first, then we can strike.'' Frank calculated.

''Right" I said. but how do we take him on when the time comes?'' I ask the obvious question.

''Simple.'' he said. ''We need weapons.'' he said. now was talking my language and i just happened to have blueprints for a few weapons on my phone,see it does help to be semi prepared.

''Now do you see why i kept those blueprints?'' I  asked

''Yes, now we to find somepony in town who can help forge our weapons, but first let's see what blueprints you have.'' Frank said.

Good, now we are getting somewhere, if only i had chosen i few more weapons, but I'm confident that i can deal more than enough damage with these.

( comprises of a double bladed great sword which has two framed handling grips where they extend towards the tip of the blade which form a gun cylinder, the ends can also connect to make a bladed gun staff),(a pair of pistol/shotgun bladed tonfas which also connect at opposing ends and form one very long tonfa which uses the back tonfa's recoil to drive it forward, creating a makeshift ram.) ( shuriken lanchers like the one off of Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando.) (also, more or less take Ruby's scythe from RWBY, but give it 2nd blade and taser launcher underneath the gun barrel.) (and lastly, a bladed bow that collapses and form two knives.)

''very nice selection, though you should have gotten the blueprint for a grenade launcher, but this can work.'' Frank said, impressed.

''Well let's go looking for somepony to who can forge and make the  J.A.A.D.E. H.O.L.O  Arsenal.'' I said.''

''J.A.A.D.E. H.O.L.O.?  what does that stand for?'' Frank asked.  '' The Justification,Arsenal and Absolute, Decimation, Excubant, Human, Operated, LuniSolar, Operations arsenal.'' I said wondering how the hell I could figure out a decent word for every letter.

well now that has been taken care of, we can start to look for anypony here who could provide me with the  means to craft my weapons,so we set off in the hope we could find a someone.

Time Skip: 7 hours later:

Ponyville town hall:

9:50 pm

Jamir's pov:

After all the searching around and asking random ponies what they thought about someone who was a weapon smith, we found him. The guy's name is

Iron Hammer, if you guessed it, that's his cutie mark. Anyway he agreed to create my weapons and some armor free of charge, but as he said: ''I don't want your money, these seem like unique weapons I get to make, I only ask that  you owe me big time, no matter what, no matter where deal?'' Iron Hammer asked. and of course my response went like this: ''You got yourself a deal there, so when do we start?'' i asked very enthusiastic. well not some much as an hour ago i got all my weapons and armor, except the scythe, due it's compact form, he needed a little longer to work on it, but i'll be fine without for the time being, besides it's friday and i can get it on monday, so three days shouldn't be too hard to bear. I gotta say i look pretty cool right now, right now i'm wearing the clothes that rarity made for me, along with:(the assassin's creed, but with no hood, the lower part is removed, making look as if i'm wearing short shirt reachs up to the middle of my back, kinda like a small cape. i have a special set of chameleon  dragonscale armor that is blended with my clothes, which covers all around my body, but instead of a hood, I have a fanged dragon mask with a kickass visor that I don't know how he got to fit in here. also the whole thing? fire and magic resistant, turns out he used the properties of unicorn magical prevention barriers and weaved it into my clothing so it would take a very pissed Twilight to be do something that actually might hurt. but the best part is all of the armor is compact, so with the press of a certain scale, it all retreats back into one black colored scale.

''So where did pinkie say where she was having the party?''Frank asked.

''Over at the library.'' I said ''come on, we should get on before we miss anything.'' I said. ''Alright, let's get going'' he said.

So as we were walking to library, I finally had to think about all that happened so quickly. I went from hating the world for always screwing me over, but  somehow it got turned around I end up here, not that I'm complaining, it's so sudden, but nonetheless, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else besides here.

while I've been here only a few hours, they have been the best so far, but something tells me that this is only the start of something I hope I can be ready to face.

So here we are in front of the library and the lights are off? I thought Pinkie was going have a party for me, well I guess i could see if Twilight knows what's up with this. In hindsight I SHOULD have seen this coming, but I it appears that I would not have wanted a jump scare, courtesy of Pinkie Pie.

''SURPRISE!'' everypony yelled.

To be honest, I've never had a surprise party, but it was nice to know that everypony took the time to welcome me to ponyville after all that happened, I think I deserve a little party to relax. The music was blaring, ponies were dancing, and it has a good atmosphere. but I was looking for the girls and spike when...

''Jamir! over here!'' Pinkie yelled over the music. I went over to them and took a seat and said: ''Pinkie, this party is crazy, thanks for this.'' I spoke with a small smile.

''Anything for a friend, besides when Pinkie Pie hosts a party, SHE hosts a party!'' Pinkie said bouncing up and down.

''So where ya been while we was setting up the party?'' Applejack asked

''I went around town to explore, I talked to some ponies, and made a deal with someone.'' I said.

''With who?'' Rainbow asked.

''That's a surprise, you'll just have to wait to find out, but something tells me you girls and spike may like it.'' I said with a small smirk on my face.

Afterwards, I hit the dance floor and danced with all the girls, ate some good cake, and met some more ponies and played a few games and had a lot of fun. it was a nice party, but there was one issue i forgot to look into: sleeping arrangements. ''Girls, I don't know if i mentioned this, but where am i going to stay?'' I asked.

''Twilight decided that you would each spend a week at all of our houses, then you could decide where you would want to stay.''Rainbow said.

''seems fair enough.'' I said. at least i'll have a variety of  choices and I get spend time with all of the girls, a win-win. ''So who's house do I stay at first?'' I asked. ''Mine!'' Twilight said happily. ''With you staying here first, I could gets load of information and data from you, oh!  I know the princesses would love hear about this!'' she said.

''Princesses?'' I asked, surprised she failed to mention it early on, even though I already knew about it. Here comes the lecture... ''Princess Celestia and Princess Luna... and there it is. are the rulers of the land.''she said. ''Princess Celestia raises and lowers the sun, while Princess Luna raises and lowers the moon, when they're not doing that, they have the day and night court.'' she stated once again. ''the separate courts handles issues with the various ponies and their problems such as debt, foreclosure, complaints, or more times than most official royal business with the other kingdoms.'' she said.

Well thank you for that information, but I wonder how'll the princesses will think of me?  ''My guess is as good as yours.'' Frank said.

''you're right about that, but I highly doubt it will take a turn for the worst.'' I said.

''well, this was a fun party and all, but I'm kinda tired, so I think I'm gonna go on home and hit the sack.'' Rainbow said while pulling a cute little yawn.

Everypony else left too, leaving just me, Twilight, and spike. ''well that was fun and all, but I'd have to agree with Rainbow, so where am i sleeping?'' I said trying to hold a yawn back, to no avail.

''you can use the spare room, it's  upstairs on the far left.'' she said.

''Are you coming to bed?'' I asked.

''I will, but first I have to send a letter to the princess to let her about what happened today, so you can go on to bed.'' she said

''ok, good night Twilight, night spike.'' I called.

''Night.'' they called back to me.

I went upstairs to my room, and found it was pretty spacious with a few bookshelves and had a window that showed the magnificent view of canterlot in the distance.

''wow.'' I said. ''we're really here.'' I said in awe. ''Yes, not so much as a day ago you were asking to come here, and it appears some divine force brought us here for some reason, but what it could be I have yet to find out about. Frank said.

''Yea, well we can think about that tomorrow, sleep comes first.'' I said, closing my eyes and drifting off to sleep.