Chapters They were shooting at him with high powered tazers, and he was running, but flickering because one of the tazers had gotten him, in the lower leg. He jumped behind a corner and yanked the spikes out of his leg. Then flickered out of sight.
He teleported out, went to a camera store, took a news camera off the shelf, and teleported again, going to a red carpet showing. He then mingled with the paparazzi, and then he started taking a video holding the camera over his head. After the woman got into the limousine and drove off, the crowd dispersed quickly. Suddenly, a voice whispered in his ear,
“Hello Danny, have a nice ride? You did a nice job with shaking us, but your luck has run out.” The man standing behind him laughed nastily, and Danny teleported. The man said,
“Run, Daniel, run” The man left, going to a completely unnoticeable building, just a door, and went down the steps.
Daniel reappeared in Panama, on an uninhabited island. He tapped his chin, and wondered aloud,
The price has been paid in full by Anonymous, The Merchant
Daniel woke up, and stretched muttering, “What a nightmare, I have no idea what that even was.” A lavender unicorn walked into the room and Daniel’s jaw fell onto his chest, staring at her.
The lavender unicorn looked up and shouted to someone outside the room, “Hey, Spike, our guest is waking up, see if he wants anything to eat, I have to go work on something else.” She turned, and he saw her wings and fainted, falling back onto the bed. A small purple and green dragon walked in, saw him sprawled on his back on the bed with his legs hanging over the edge.
Spike muttered, “Stupid guest, wake up then go back to sleep. I’m going back to my comic books.” He walked back into the room he came from, and started reading the comic book from the top of the pile. Daniel cracked open an eye, and looked around. He saw a window, got up, and walked over to it. There was a forest nearby, and his image distorted, and when it cleared, he was no longer there. He appeared just inside the forest, in the middle of a path. He started walking down it, until he reached a fork in the path.
He looked down both paths and took the left, walking for a while. He could see a rope bridge ahead of him, but he couldn’t see the other side, due to dense fog. He was about a hundred yards away from the bridge when he heard a whoosh, and he teleported backward a few feet. Daniel saw a large tan blur land right on top of where he was before he teleported. It turned and looked at him, and he saw large fangs, bat wings, and a scorpion tail on what appeared to be a lion’s body. It pounced, but he was no longer there, he was now standing at the end of the path. It turned back to him, but he was already teleporting across the bridge.
He started walking down the path, and saw a large stone castle rise out of the mist. He walked up to it slowly, looking around. He entered into the throne room, with two large thrones in it. The throne on the right had a golden banner hanging over it, with a sun with curving rays coming out from it. On the left, there was a banner in midnight blue, with a crescent moon with black stars around it.
Canterlot Castle Medical Wing
Princess Luna appeared in the middle of the hall of the medical wing of the castle with something draped over her back. She ran into a nearby storage closet and grabbed a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and dabbed some on Daniel’s face over a large cut from him landing on uneven flagstones. Luna was still dabbing it on when she realized that the wound had closed, leaving no trace other than a small indent, but disappeared while she was staring at it. He opened his eyes, saw her, and looked confused.
“Who the hell are you?” Daniel asked the mare that was leaning over him.
She looked down and looked confused, and said, “I am Princess Luna, co-ruler of Equestria with my sister, Princess Celestia. Who are you?”
“My name’s Daniel Ponce, I’m a jumper from Earth, and a human.” He said in response to her question.
“I am surprised that you are awake and healed already, you had at least a half-inch deep gouge in your head.” Luna said, looking at him in surprise.
He got up, and shrugged, and asked, “Is there anyplace that I can sleep around here, I’m pretty tired.” She nodded, and her horn flashed.
A unicorn servant dressed in a modest shirt, tie, and black pants walked in, bowed, and asked, “What can I do for you, Princess?”
Luna said, “You can take this stallion to one of our guest rooms, give him the Royal Seal, so that he can go anywhere in the castle.” The servant nodded, and cast a spell, which put a miniature version of Luna’s cutie mark in the hollow of his neck. The servant then showed him to a guest room, bowed him in, and left, after saying that if he needed anything to ring the bell by the bed. He walked around the room, looking through everything, and then showered.
He went to sleep, and started dreaming about a mismatched creature trying to tell him something. He could hear a faint buzzing and the occasional louder buzz when it looked angry. He tried to read its lips, but they turned blurry whenever he focused on them. It turned and stalked out of sight and everything went dark. The dream ended when a bright light shone into his room, waking him up.
Canterlot Throne Room
“Sister, is everything alright?” Luna asked Celestia. They were in the throne room, and Celestia was pacing around.
“No!” Celestia snapped, and then apologized, “Sorry about that, it’s just that, well, Discord’s statue is gone, and if he was out and about, something would have happened. I think someone stole it.” Luna looked surprised, and then stretched her consciousness to envelop all of the dreams around the castle.
She gasped, and said, “The pony that I brought in earlier is dreaming about Discord. You can see Discord trying to speak, but all you hear is a buzzing. I guess that Discord entered his mind, but he has no control, he’s stuck in the sub-conscious. We don’t have to worry about him, except he may develop Chaos magic. That shouldn’t be a problem, unless he turns psychotic.”
“Good, we won’t have to worry about Discord escaping.” Celestia said. “I will raise the sun, and then would you like to go to the gym and box? I’ll cancel the morning Day Court.” Luna nodded, and left the room, presumably to change into her gym clothes.
Daniel’s Room
Daniel woke up to a bright light shining in his eyes, and covered them. He reached over and tapped the bell, signaling for the servant. The servant came in, and before he asked, Daniel said, “I would like oatmeal with raspberries on top, and some maple syrup in it.” The servant nodded and left, returning a few minutes later with a steaming bowl of oatmeal, set it on the bedside table, and left. Daniel got up and dressed, then ate. He went to the bathroom, brushed his teeth, and then sat around thinking of what to do.
Daniel made up his mind on what to do, and rang the bell again. A servant came in and asked, “What may I do for you, sir?” Daniel asked if there was a gym, and the servant said yes and showed him to it. There were a few off-duty guards using the punching bags, and the tallest was about 5’9”. After he went to an unused bench press and put on a hundred pounds, he started doing reps.
He did fifty, and then a servant came in and shouted, “Sorry, but you will all have to leave, the princesses are coming.” The guards all left and the servant came over to Daniel, and repeated the order. Daniel reached up and pulled down the neck of his shirt and showed the servant the symbol. The servant nodded and said, “Sorry to bother you, I didn’t know.”
The servant left, and the Princesses came in, Luna talking to a taller white mare. The white mare looked around and noticed that Daniel was sitting up, stretching his arms. He got up and was stopped by Celestia, who said, “I’m sorry, but I don’t think that I have had the pleasure of meeting you. I am Princess Celestia, what is your name?”
He nodded to Luna, and said, “I’m Daniel Ponce. So this is your sister, Luna?” Luna nodded and he said, pointing at an area with punching bags set up “I’m going over there, if you want me for anything, just ask.”
He walked over and started punching the bags, doing combinations of martial arts moves to knock some down, and send others swaying. Luna walked over and asked,”Do you want to box me or my sister? It’ll be fun.” He nodded, and walked over to the ring. He grabbed a pair of gloves then slid under the ropes. They had magic blockers in them, so unicorns couldn’t cheat. He jumped up into the ring, and Luna teleported gloves to her and pulled them on.
Luna hopped into the ring and asked cockily, “Ready to lose?”
“No, how about you?” He answered even more cockily.
He knew that he could teleport, and was prepared to, when Celestia shouted, “Fight!” Luna came in with short, sharp jabs that would be impossible to dodge because of their speed. She smiled, thinking that she would do damage to his arms, making it harder for him to fight. Right before the first punch would’ve connected, he side-stepped, grabbed her arm, and pulled her in a circle, making her lose her balance. She fell down hard, letting out a small gasp.
She leaped to her feet and warily circled around him, saying, “You fight well. Most ponies would not have been able to do that to me.” She reached in and attempted to hit him, using both fists to punch at different places on his body. Again, right before they connected, he moved, but this time he teleported behind her and kicked her in the small of her back. She fell forward onto the ropes, regained her feet, and spun around. Light blue flames started coming off her arms, she was so mad. She screamed, “How do you do that!?” and ran at him trying to catch him in a tackle. Right before she reached him, he teleported behind her, tapping her foot and changing her vector so that she went right into the rope.
Luna started crying, and when he reached down to help her up she grinned evilly, and said, “Big mistake, Daniel,” She grabbed his arm and yanked him down.
He teleported again, just behind her and said, “If you’re going to be a poor sport, we can do something else. This place seems up-to-date, do you have video games?”
Luna perked up and said, “Yeah, you should come up to my room, I have a bunch there.” Luna started walking to the door leading into the castle. She turned, looked back, and asked, “Aren’t you coming?” he was still standing there.
“Shouldn’t we change into normal clothes, and then go to your room?” Daniel asked walking to the door. “I know how to get back to my room, and I can ask a servant for the directions to yours.”
Luna looked downtrodden for a second, and then realized that he’d just avoided an awkward situation, and smiled. She said, “Yeah, I forgot about that, normally I don’t act like that.” Daniel walked out of the gym and went to his room to change and take a quick shower. After rinsing off, he looked in the dresser for clothes and saw jeans and a T-shirt, and put them on, along with clean socks.
Daniel stopped and asked the guards if he could go in after showing them the pass, and when he went in he saw lots of video games, most of which were first or third person shooters. He saw GTA V on a shelf, grabbed it, and put it in on the console that showed less wear. He created a new account under the handle of NightShade, and joined a relatively empty server. Luna walked out while it was loading, and asked, “GTA V, what server?” He told her the bottom server and she joined, the TV announcing
Noct3rnal has joined the session!
They played for about fifteen minutes and then more people joined, announcing,
StarBurst has joined the session!
Daniel paused the game while he was underwater in a sub to put in a cheat code, and his character turned into a unicorn. He selected his grenades, and had his character cast a Want It, Need It spell on his grenades, and came to the surface. As soon as he reached the surface, he beached the submersible by the marina and got five stars on him and got cornered at a stunt ramp. He cycled through his weapons and stopped on the grenades, and lobbed a few into the cops, causing them to try to grab them and get blown up.
He waited until there was no risk and met up with Luna at a corner store when they died, and the server said
You were mowed down by DJPON3
Daniel grinned and said, "Hey, bitch, eat grenades!"
DJPON3's in game character suddenly reached for the grenade, and she shouted, "How about you eat you- damn-it throw the fucking grenade! I call hacks!"
Daniel smiled and said, "Ever hear of the unicorn cheat code? I have to get off now, see you later." He signed off and left Luna's room to go to sleep, as it was 2:00 in the morning.
Just before he left, Luna said, "I'll have a servant take that console and play disc to your room tomorrow morning, good night." He waved and walked back to his room, flopping down on his bed, and falling asleep, had the same dream, but this time the thing held a medallion that looked oddly familiar...
"Hello, Daniel, I know that you can hear me, I live in your head." The creature said, and then continued, "Stop thinking of me as a creature, I am intelligent. My name is Discord."
"Well then, Discord, why is that medallion familiar to me. I seem to be having a memory lapse about it at the moment." Daniel said, walking over to Discord.
Discord said, "Let me check your memories, see if it is there," He paused then Daniel grabbed his head, remembering all of the images, each of a different Displaced. Discord continued, acting like Daniel was in no pain, "Well, it appears that you were the last of the Displaced, and sent to end it by killing all of the others, or banding together with them to destroy the Merchant." He waved his hands around, swinging the medallion and continued, "I suggest that you collect the Tactician, Toushiro Hitsugya, Malthael, and some of these others. You will get there tokens tomorrow. I suggest that you also make a token yourself."
"How would I do that?" Daniel asked, taking the medallion from Discord, and rolling it in his palm.
Discord laughed, and said, "You make an object and implant it with your magic, and give them a call sign." Discord snapped his fingers, and said, "Oh, yeah, you also have Chaos magic, so you can visualize something, snap your fingers, and it'll come into existence." Daniel smiled, thinking that with that power, he could do anything. Luna walked in and Discord disappeared, not wanting to be seen.
Luna nodded at him, and then said, “Hello, it seems that Discord has told you about Chaos magic, and the Displaced, which I know nothing about.” Her horn flashed, and he woke up, shaking his head. He visualized a lightsaber, like no other, it had a cross-shaped hilt, and a line down the center. He snapped his fingers, and a flash of light, and the lightsaber appeared, falling onto his bed.
You can use any power that the wielder of any object that you make could use. Discord said in his mind. He stuck out his hand, and willed it to come to him. It flew into his outstretched hand, and he ignited it, showing a blue blade. He waved it around experimentally, and turned a dial, changing it from a lethal beam to a harmless blade.
He changed his clothes into a tunic with armor plating over the top of it, and left his room, stepping into the hall. He visualized a tablet and snapped his fingers. A tablet appeared, and he caught it on the way down to the floor and started tapping on the screen, opening a typing program. He started typing, and ran into a group of ponies talking and laughing while walking down the hall toward a different guest room. He ran into the lead pony, a purple alicorn who was holding a small lizard like creature. He dropped the tablet and fell down, the mare dropping the lizard-like creature. He caught it, stabbing a hand on one of its back spikes.
The dragon said, "Ow, that hurt, can you set me down?" He set him on the ground, and pushed himself to his feet.
He realized that he recognized the purple pony, and the dragon, when the purple pony smiled at him, and said, "Hey, you're the pony that I summoned a couple of days ago. I'm Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia's personal student. Where did you go, on the day that you got here?" he concentrated, and the wound disappeared.
He nodded and said, "Yeah, I'm Daniel Ponce, and I went to the Castle of Two Sisters, though there may or may not be a manticore hiding out there. I tripped over Princess Luna, and I ended up here." Twilight introduced her friends and Daniel looked suspiciously at Pinkie Pie, who was bouncing around. Twilight asked him if he wanted to go to Ponyville and stay with her and her friends. He said yes and walked off to Luna's room and said good-bye to her until the next time he came back. He wandered around Canterlot for the rest of the day, and when he came back it was time to leave.
On the train to Ponyville, he remembered what Discord said about the token. He took out the necklace with the medallion, and tossed it in the air, saying, "I am Daniel Ponce, Master of Chaos, Lord of the Jumpers, Master of the Force, Soul Reaper, and The Underlord, and the Game Lord. Call on me if you need help in any way, shape, or form." There was a flash of light, and it started multiplying, each new medallion disappearing in a flash of light.
Twilight looked up from the magazine she was reading when Daniel started speaking. She saw the medallions multiply and disappear, and after the last of them was gone, she asked, "How did you do that? What was it? Why did I sense Chaos magic?" with the last question she teleported the Elements of Harmony to the respective bearers and zapped him with the Elements. He turned to stone slowly, with the petrification creeping up from his feet. He quickly changed what he was wearing into a cloak and tunic, with a black scythe over his shoulder, the blade coming out of a black skull on the end. The stone finished encasing him, and he was shipped back to Canterlot statue garden.
"This is the being known as Daniel Ponce, sometimes known as the Lord of Jumpers, Master of Chaos, Master of the Force, a Soul Reaper, the Underlord, and the Game Lord. I don't know why he has the title of Underlord, but he might have made it up." Twilight said to a group of colts and fillies.
One looked at it closely, and asked, "Are there supposed to be glowing blue cracks all over it?" Twilight looked around, but it was already too late, and he'd broke out of the stone shell.
He coughed a couple of times and stretched, and said to Twilight, "Next time you blast someone with the Elements, please refrain from summoning them from their world to do it." He looked around at the foals fear-struck faces, and continued, "What are you all looking at? Never see somebody escape from stone and psychologically bitch-slap a Princess?" A little colt shook his head and Daniel said, "Figures. Hey, Twilight, is Princess Luna still around, or is she gone?"
Twilight shouted, "I will not let you get near either of the Princesses!"
He asked if their rooms were in the same place, and when she looked surprised he muttered, "Thought so." His form warped, and when he reappeared inside the castle with jeans and a t-shirt on. Luna was sitting up playing video games, and he said, "Hey, Lun-" and was cut off by being summoned to a different dimension. He said out loud, "What can I do for you?"
Luna was looking around back at the castle for the voice, and then Daniel warped in. She jumped up and hugged him, and said, "You're finally back!" she started crying, and holding him.
Twilight burst in and shouted to Luna, "Get away from him, he's dangerous!" Luna let go of him and stalked up to Twilight, her arms catching on fire.
She started shouting to Twilight about how he was a good person and all that stuff, and he interrupted, telling her to calm down. Twilight started freaking out when Luna listened to him and screamed that she was telling Celestia.
There was a muffled boom, and Daniel looked outside, and asked, "Is there a giant centaur thing that is ravaging the city and heading for us, or is it just me?" Luna ran over, and saw Tirek trashing the city and sent him to deal with it. He teleported to the ground at its feet and thought, 'Hey, Discord, you in there?' Discord did whatever it was that he did to communicate and thought back That is Tirek, you're going to want to sever his soul. Call my name out loud, and I'll give you a blade to do it.
Daniel yelled, "Discord!" and a blade appeared in his hands, and he thought to Discord, 'Isn't this Tensa Zangetsu?' Yep, that is Tensa Zangetsu, hurry up and use Getsuga Tenshou. Daniel shrugged, and moved to the side in time to avoid being smashed by Tirek.
"Getsuga Tenshou!" Daniel shouted, bringing the blade around in an arc, hitting Tirek in the head. Tirek looked surprised, and his head fell off, landing on the ground. A spirit came out, and he shrugged, purifying it and sending it to the Soul Society, or into oblivion. Twilight came out and blasted him with the Elements again, and he thought to himself, 'Fuck this shit.' Discord was stripped from him, and became a separate statue.
Author's Note
This is actually the first time that I've written more than one chapter for a story. Hope you enjoy.
'Screw it.' Daniel thought, noticing that the medallion wasn't turned to stone. He concentrated, and it started glowing, turning him back to normal. He stepped down from the pedestal, and Twilight walked out to make sure that he was put in the right place. He turned invisible and walked up to her and became visible again. She gasped, and he slapped her in the face, causing her head to snap to the side. She started charging her horn for a spell, and he grabbed it and flipped her in a judo throw.
He said to her while she was catching her breath, "You realize that I have no idea why I have Chaos magic, you, the Princess of Friendship, did not try to befriend me, but instead blasted me with the Elements, not once, but twice, for no reason. You immediately assumed the worst about me, when all I did was use a brand of magic you are unfamiliar with." She winced at his words, and apologized, and he took her hand and helped her up.
They walked up to the castle and he warped his clothes into light armor. Twilight asked why he had it as armor, and he said, "I can feel that something is about to happen, I don't know what it is, but it requires this." They entered the castle, and a black wolf jumped out from around the corner. He pulled a lightsaber from hammer space and sliced it down the middle, bisecting it. "We have to get to the throne room!" He shouted, running down the halls. Twilight blasted two wolves with lightning, and when they reached the throne room, Celestia and Luna had a telekinetic barrier blocking off the wolves.
Daniel killed all the wolves with lightning, and a man in a black cloak with a scythe over his shoulder stepped out of the void and looked around, saying, "You killed all of my pets, I guess I'll kill you." He disappeared from view, making numerous gashes on Daniel's arms and legs that healed almost as fast as the man made them.
Eventually, he reappeared in the same spot that he was in when he entered the room from the void, and Daniel said, "My turn. Discord!" A red demon blade appeared in his hands, and he teleported in front of the man and brought it down on him. The man brought his scythe up to block, and the sword phased through the scythe, slicing off his arm. He fell to the floor slowly, and whispered, "I am the Reaper, I transfer my power to the one who defeated me in battle." with those words, the scythe dissolved into dust, and shot at Daniel, fusing with the silver medallion, causing it to become black.
A woman with cat ears and a tail stepped into the room from a void opening, and Daniel readied his sword. She said, before he could strike, "So, you are the new Reaper, will you ally with me in my fight against the Merchant, or will you ally with the Merchant, in his fight against me?" He nodded yes to her, and collapsed from exhaustion.
She turned and looked at him, shook his hand, and said, “I am Essence, and you seem different than the other Displaced. Normally Displaced use the character that they are as their name, but you use your own. Why is that?”
She looked at him, and said to herself, “He’s the Ender.” He looked up at her confused, and she said, “Sorry, don’t know what happened there.” She left through a void portal and he got up and stretched, walking down to the gym. He went to the punching bags, and started trying to get angry or get adrenaline. He succeeded, and on the next punch, his arm went through the bag. He smiled, switched the bag with a new one, and left. He wandered around Canterlot for a little, looking in stores and other shops.
He walked to the cliff-face in Canterlot, and warped his clothes into Mandalorian armor, spread his arms, and stepped backwards off the cliff. A pony screamed, and a royal guard pegasus came flying to catch him, and just before the guard reached Daniel, he activated the jetpack, sending him rocketing ten feet over the ground. The guard tried to catch him, to no avail, until Daniel landed a few miles out from Ponyville.
The guard caught up to him, and gasped out, “Stop, in the name of the Princesses.”
He grabbed Daniel’s arm, but Daniel just shook him off, saying, “I’m under the personal protection of Princess Luna, and may I ask why you were trying to apprehend me?”
The guard held up his hand and bent down, with his hands on his knees. After a few minutes, he straightened up again and said, “Princess Twilight Sparkle said to find you and tell you that she wanted to speak to you.”
Author's Note
And so begins the crossover with ElementBrigade's story, The Crimson Avenger
