The wrench chronicles (bioshock)

I woke up some time later; I found that Jass was asleep next to me and that Night was asleep on my chest. That's a point what do I call Nightmare Moon now? I'll just call her Night, well that should do it.

I noticed Twi was asleep on the other side of the library; I stood up and cradled Jass and Night one in each arm. I walked into the kitchen to see Spike, "oh hi Spike, what's the time" he looked at me and just chuckled.

"It’s about six why?" wait did he mean morning? I looked outside, definitely morning. He looked at the two children in my arm "cute"

"yeah they are, anyway I'm starting my new job today." Spike looked questionably at me "I'm going to be a police ... Pony ... Thing?" he just chuckled.

"We better get Twi up, you will need to go soon, hope you are ready for it." Jass woke up and rubbed her eyes, I passed her an apple and she nibbled it. I looked at them and then at Spike, "no, no way, nope I'm not looking after them"

"oh go on Spike, please" his face softened, and he agreed. "I'll find someone else to look after them soon. We walked out to see Twi was still asleep "how long has she been here?"

"since you passed out yesterday" wow she really has been there for almost eighteen hours? I put down Jass and shook Twi awake, jeez she looks awful, does she always look like this in the mornings or has she been worrying about me?

"Oh jack your awake" yep it's a morning thing, she used her magic and all of a sudden her hair was back to normal. "You are starting your job today, aren't you?" I nodded my head, she just grinned widely, "oh look at my baby all grown up!" wait was she back on my age thing again, god darn it.

She had noticed Night asleep in my arm, I could tell she didn't trust her, but she still thought it was cute. "Spike said it was tough to become a police ... Officer."

"well yeah you need to go through some challenges to show your up to the job" well I am probably up to the challenge, I hope. Night woke up and was squinting because of the light.

"Aww good morning Night" Twi frowned at me "what's the matter?"

"do you really think that is the best name for her? I mean the entire town is scared of her, well not her but what she was." oh I see me calling her Night combined with the way she looks someone might catch on.

"That’s my name though" aww she is so cute! But she is right, who are we to take her name away, I think Twi knew she was fighting a losing battle.

"Ok then let's get going, who is looking after the two … err?”

"Twi a female human child is called a girl, just so you know and Spike is looking after them this time." she just smiled. I put down Night and followed Twi towards the door, Night grappled my leg she was obviously scared of me leaving her. "Don’t worry Night, Spike and Jass are here to look after you" I scratched behind her ears, she seemed to melt, I didn't know ponies could purr. Maybe it's just here.

We walked across town and that's when I saw it, I mean come on it was a White and blue building with a giant police light was on top. It was like out of a cartoon for children, I mean come on! "That’s it" ok Twi I'm not stupid, she must be a mind reader because she followed up with "but you could tell that already" ok now that's just ... You know what whatever.

We walked through the front door it was a big open hall like area it was mostly glass, not too good in a fire fight, oh wait. We walked up to the pony behind the desk she wore a police helmet; she was blue with a White mane. Wait ... I looked around all the ponies looked the same, sigh, shenanigans why are you so common here? "Hello there can I ... Oh" oh come on!

"My friend jack" she pointed at me "would like to get a job here" the secretary looked at me as though I was joking.

"You do know that being a police ... Pony is meant for ... Ponies don't you?" I nodded my head. "Well the training is designed for ponies, are you sure you want to take the challenge?" I nodded my head again "the silent type? Huh I like the silent type" I felt like smashing my head on the desk. "Well we can get going with the training today if you like? Then the test will take place after two weeks of training."

"is the training mandatory?" it might be a stupid question but if the ponies found the training hard I probably won’t.

"Well no, but no-one has ever passed without it" she just looked at me strangely.

"well let's get on with the test" maybe I was being overconfident but she just nodded her head, she stood up and motioned for me to follow, I followed her outside and wow just wow, there was an obstacle course and It was massive.

"Ok now you have to complete the whole obstacle course in less than five minutes to be accepted into the police force." ok but really five minutes I could do it in less than two. "And the fastest anyone has completed the course is three minutes and forty one seconds." hah ok let's go. I took my jacket and T-shirt off, I didn't want to get it dirty and I could surprise the strange secretary.

*gasp* hehe it worked "well let's get this started" I stood at the start line "any rules?"

"Yeah no flying but magic is allowed" I nodded my head, magic, or plasmids, would help me cut my time in half. "Three, two, one ... GO!"

I ran forward towards the three meter high wall, oh god Twi doesn't know about my plasmids or magic as she would see it, oh well. I placed a Cyclone trap on the ground and jumped into it, I got launched up and over the wall. I landed on the other side and crawled into the tunnel, this was where all my time would come from, it was a long tunnel I guess this is to test for endurance, it took me almost a minute alone to get through the tunnel. I emerged from the tunnel and then it was a strait sprint to the end, it was a four hundred meter run and I ran as fast as I could.

I got back to two open mouths "but-but-but" she just shut her mouth and showed me the time, one minute fifty nine, it was good but I didn’t run as fast as I could. Well I didn’t want to look all puffed out. "That was the fastest time ever, now only two more tests left" wait two more tests? Ahh whatever.

I followed her round to the right side of the police station, we came to a fenced off area. The area around the chain link fence was a dirty flatland and further in was a few trees "now this test is to ... Test your ability to hide, you are already hired but we use a rank system here and this is a good way to start off high." ah so that's the point behind it, I have so got this. "You will get a minute to hide and then we will try to find you for five minutes" I turned around and saw two ponies they looked exactly the same, do all the police ponies look the same? "Three two one ... Go!"

Eep I wasn't ready, I saw that both of the ponies had turned around, only the secretary was watching me, wait the secretary was head of testing new applicants? Oh well I better get hiding, I walked into the fenced area and just walked to a bare corner and stood still, this was gonna be easy. Five minutes of them searching for me, nothing. "Well I am impressed, you can come out now" I stepped forward and both of the searches just sighed, they didn't have a chance. "that's five points to you"

I then followed her to the final test, she turned round to me and asked me a question "anything you find odd about today" Twi shook her head but I thought about it for a bit longer, I got it.

"what you mean you’re not a secretary and you were just posing for me being a new recruit, and that means you knew I was coming one way or another." she just started to clap.

"Well done you are most certainly the best candidate we have had to date" I'm guessing that was the final test. "You have graduated with a massive twenty points; you got ten for the first part then five for hiding for the full amount of time and then five for realising who I am. You have all the makings of a detective! And if you play your cards right you could be spec ops." wait what is a spec op? She must have seen the confusion on my face. "Spec ops are our special operatives they are used to gather information or take on the gangs in Canterlot."

Hmm maybe that will be the best way to get my own back on that gang that tried to take Jass, Well I assume that was a gang. "So what is my job then?"

"your job is going to be an inspector for when we need you but your other job is going to be patrolling the street, it's an enviable job" hmm I wonder why maybe I should ask. "You will be able to pick where you patrol and you can survey areas for any activity if you would like, you get total freedom." ohhh this is gonna be good! "You will start immediately, but you need to get a uniform first, I will let you decide where you get it from."

Twi was still with me she still looked shocked that I had magic. "so Twi want to go down to Rarity's to get my uniform made up?" she nodded her head "ok chief, well I assume you are the chief, can I please take a full uniform so Rarity knows what to make?"

"of course and here is 200 bits to pay for it" she disappeared into the building and quickly came back holding a bag and a uniform complete with a helmet. “Here you are, have fun"

"let's go Twi, to Rarity's." I pointed down the road and then we began to walk, on our way I turned to Twi "sorry I didn't tell you about my magic"

"you lied to me" this astounded me "you said your people didn't have magic" ohhh I guess that's what she meant.

"Well it isn't really magic it’s just my people learnt how to give ourselves special abilities through technology and drugs" she seemed to understand. "I didn't tell you earlier because I didn't want people to be scared of me"

"what else can you do, I saw the weird propulsion system." propulsion system? Oh the cyclone trap.

"Well I can create electricity, fire and a massive shockwave of air. I can also make things float and between you and me I can create a temporary copy of my body." she looked amazed that we weren't born with magic but yet we have managed to give ourselves powers.

"That’s amazing, now I have something to ask you. Was your world really as bad as you made out?" well I didn't expect that.

"Well not all of it, I guess the only bad part of it is where I was born and where I was just before I came here. the people there where driven insane and I was being controlled by a mad man."

"Controlled?" she seemed generally confused.

"Well when I was magically grown they put a ... Spell on me so when I heard the words 'would you kindly' I would do anything without question. That's why I don’t like that phrase; it's still hard for me to ignore it." Twi seemed to be sad at this, had I done something.

She hugged me then "oh Jack, I'm so glad that your here now" sigh I am glad I'm here now, I have friends and I have a family.

"Err Twi I can't feel my body anymore" it was a lie but it got the job done she let go, I could see Rarity's shop in the distance, we got inside to see Rarity drawing a new design.

"oh hello darlings" out of all the people in this world the one I misjudged the most was Rarity, she wasn't a rich posh snob, she was a kind a gentle person who was very generous.

"Hi Rarity, I'm here to ask you something, can you make me a uniform that will match this but fit me?" she looked at the uniform I held out and without saying a word levitated the uniform out of my hands and started to work.

"Rarity we are going down to Sugarcube Corner for a while do you want us to get you anything?"

She looked round for a second "oh no thanks Twi, I'm fine" we looked at each other and shrugged our shoulders; we left and made our way to the town centre.

We got to the town centre and I noticed Derpy tangled in a washing up line. "Excuse me Twi I have to go rescue Derpy from that washing up line, she took one look and started to laugh. Oh you nasty pony, I untangled Derpy and she thanked me a bunch of times, she just wouldn’t stop saying thank you, after like the fiftieth time she just hugged me and flew away. I didn't know where she was going, but then again I don't think she did either.

I turned around to see AJ, RD and Fluttershy talking to Twi "oh hi guys how are you?" they all looked round and smiled at me, even RD I found that strange.

"Hi Jack I heard you are now a police ... Err ... Umm" RD looked confused, I'm guessing she wants to say pony but I'm not one so that won't work.

"Man?" I had offered the word because it made sense, that's what they were called back home she nodded her head. "Well do you want to join me down at Sugarcube Corner? We are going to celebrate."

"Well of course we will come." well AJ has just answered for everyone, we then continued towards Sugarcube Corner. It finally came into view, we walked inside and I could hear Pinkie bouncing away in the kitchen.

I walked up towards the counter, a pony who I assume is Mrs cake asked me what I would like and I replied "five cupcakes please and make that six if Pinkie is available" I passed twenty five bits over the counter, she nodded her head and entered the kitchen, I caught a glimpse of pink flashing past the door.

Five minutes later out came pinkie with a tray balanced on her head, how come she doesn't drop the tray, she was bouncing all the way over and the tray was super glued to her head or something. Six cupcakes were on the tray and we all gathered around the table.

We continued to eat our cupcakes and talking about random things most of them supplied by Pinkie. We had almost finished our cupcakes when pinkie asked a question that almost killed me. "Who would you rather kiss, Rarity or Twi?" what the hell Pinkie how do you know these things!

"Well err I ... Maybe Rarity because I think she is better at kissing." they all started to laugh at me that is except Twi she just seemed annoyed. "Sorry Twi"

"well what would a four year old know about kissing?" oh come on I guess I deserved that. The rest of the group looked at me weirdly, oh god I don't want to explain; luckily for me Twi explained it to them.

Pinkie then continued to scoop me up, no I'm not kidding, and then cradled me like I was a baby "aww aren't you a cute little child" I struggled but Pinkie was ... Too strong? Ok it seems Pinkie can bend the rules of physics to suit herself.

"Pinkie!" I kept struggling but to no avail the rest of the cafe was cracked up, people were rolling on the floor laughing, especially Twi "wait Pinkie in think Twi is feeling left out" Twi stopped laughing immediately, her eyes went wide and she tried to scramble away, all of a sudden I was free and running for Rarity’s shop and Twi was being dragged away by Pinkie.

I got to Rarity’s shop and saw her there with a cup of ... Tea, I think. "Oh hello darling your uniform is over there, I picked it up and walked into the changing room.

I was half way through changing when I heard the door slam open, oh dear Twi ain't happy. I finished getting dressed and walked outside, as I walked into the front room Rarity screamed from her workshop. I ran into the room to see a brown earth pony, he was facing towards Rarity and I heard him talking to her "hush now, no-one is gonna rescue you. Prince Blueblood wants a bit of revenge for what you did to him at the galloping gala last year" whoa whoa isn't it the boss who is meant to give the plans away? Oh well.

I reached over and picked the guy up, he dropped his knife and started to struggle "you coming with me, down the station for a bit of ... Interrogation" hehe I gotta say that every time. "You alright Rarity?" she nodded her head, "I'm gonna go deal with this fool" I walked out of the front door to see a slightly grumpy Twi storming towards me. "sorry Twi I can't talk taking someone down the station" she was about to open her mouth when I said "tell you later"

I got a few strange looks on the way to the station, the thug had stopped struggling when I threatened to electrocute him. I got to the station to see a pony behind the massive counter typing away; I assumed this was the real secretary. "Err hello I caught this guy attacking Rarity."

"ah ok inspector, the interrogation rooms are to the right and the jail cells are farther along." I thanked her and walked the guy I had caught down to the interrogation room I hurled him inside and walked after him, oh this place has an audio diary, I turned it on and it started to record.

"So who sent you to attack Rarity" he just seemed to get all serious.

"no-one did I was doing it on my own." ok bored now

"I could easily electrocute you" he seemed to get a bit more nervous, "or I could roast you" my hands lit on fire.

"Ok, ok Prince Blueblood sent me, he was angry at what she did to him at the Grand Galloping Gala, or the GGG as most ponies call it. I was told to meet him later with her behind the Sugarcube Corner in about ten minutes." ohhh this is gonna be good.

Can I just say, every time I wrote “this is gonna be good” I had to make sure I spelled it right because of that stupid gif