Off course
Chapter 8: Waking up
Previous ChapterNext ChapterI floated there in shock as I watched my body being set onto a operating table at Canterlot castle. I watched as they brought Evan's body in the room and laid him on the table that was about four feet from mine. I looked around the room and saw that in was large and had all sorts of medical equipment along the walls. There was a window at the top of one of the walls and was at an angle, and I could see that their version of Cadence, Applejack, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Celestia, Luna plus Ash and Rage were watching what was happening. I also saw three other alicorns standing there watching what was happening. One Looked like Luna but she had a deep purple coat with a mane that looked like Luna's, the next one had a shy blue coat along with a aqua mane, and the last one had a white coat plus a crimson mane. They were new as I hadn't seen them before, I then saw the amaranth maned one looking at me as if she could see me. So I did the dumbest thing, I waved at her. And to my shock she waved back. She smirked at me as I stood there shocked that she could see me so I turned back towards the doctors. I stared at my body for Faust knows how long until I felt a hand on my shoulder. Out of reflex, I grabbed onto the arm with my left hand and spun around preparing to deliver a right hook. I stopped a inch away from the persons face when I realized who it was. It was Evangeline standing there, unfazed by my actions. I removed my arm and turned back towards the table. I got a good look at what I had changed into during the fight with the scorpions. I had turned into a male version of Evangeline; everything about my appearance was the same as her. I turned back and looked at my body.
"Ya know, no matter how many times I see my dead body the shock never wears off." I said as I watched the doctors and nurses try and revive me.
"I know. Theres nothing that we can do now. Your body is too heavily damaged to repair, and you can't tie your soul like you did last time." she said.
"Are you suggesting something?" I asked.
"She's suggesting that we make you a new body." came a voice to my left. I turned to the voice and saw that it was Senbonzakura as he walked up to us.
"Okay that's everyone except fo-" I didn't get to finish my sentence as I felt something hit me and latch onto my back.
"Hiya Ethan!" Shi said as she giggled.
"Hey to you too Shi." I said as I reached an arm back and ruffled her hair. After that I turned back and saw them getting a pair of defibrillators and started to charge them. As soon as they connected with my body's chest I felt a pulling sensation, but it quickly stopped. They continued to try that for the past ten minutes. Two minutes ago Evan regained his consciousness but he was still weak from the poison. After they stopped trying to revive me and put the white sheet over my body, he threw a fit. They had to put him to sleep causing him to return to the realm of dreams. I stood there for a few minutes before a thought came to mind, "Hey can you two still turn into swords?" I asked getting a nod from both Shi and Senbonzakura. "Okay, you don't mind going back to that form in a little while?" I asked.
"I don't mind! But I don't know about Senny." shi said.
"Im not going to tell you again stop calling me that!" Senbonzakura said before he sighed "I don't mind, but it would be nice if we actually had a form to take besides the swords." he finished. I turned back towards my body.
"So do you have a plan to fix this?" I asked as I sat down and leaned against the wall. "Because I have nothing."
Evangeline stood there for a few minutes before her finger shot up and she turned to me. "I have an idea. Do you know how many souls you have collected over the years?" she asked.
I rubbed the back of my neck as I thought about what she asked. "I think," I paused for a second. "I think that it was close to five-hundred thousand souls." I said.
"Its actually five hundred sixty-two thousand three hundred forty-three souls." Senbonzakura said.
"Thank you for that, Senny." I said.
He turned to me and gave me a cold glare."Don't." he said.
"Fine, I wont. " I then turned towards Evangeline. "So what was your idea?" I asked.
"Okay the idea is to use the souls and your magic to create a new body. I might use your body too." she explained.
"Before we start this, what happened to me during the fight? Why do I look and feel different?" I asked.
"Well that's because you absorbed most of my power and now your...." She said mumbling the last part to where I couldn't hear.
"What?"
"A hollow, your now a hollow." she said as she looked me in the eyes. I sat there speechless thinking over how this could have come about. I then remembered that the thing that had triggered my magical outburst was when I saw those visions and saw Luna die. I quickly fumbled around as I pulled out my pipboy and turned it back on from being off for over a thousand years. I watched as the screen turned on and I scrolled to the my custom option to view the chip I implanted in Luna's arm to keep track of her vitals.
"That might not work Ethan." Shi said as she sat beside me.
"I know, but I have to try." I said as I selected the file that said l.u.n.a and check the vitals. Somehow someway she was alive, but the vitals were show in the way as if she was in a coma. "That can't be right." I whispered. I continued looking at the screen and double checked the recordings. It still show the same thing. I even checked her brain waves and saw they were in the same pattern of someone in a coma. "NO!" I yelled as I threw my arm against the wall putting cracks in it. I then looked up and saw all the doctors looking in my direction. I sat there shock still hoping they would resume what they were doing. They did so and I sighed in relief after that and turned to Evangeline.
"So how are you going to put your plan into action?" I asked her.
"Like this." She said, to which I gave a confused look. I watched as she walked in front of me and turned and faced me.
"What are yo-" I didn't get to finish as boot connected to my face and I was knocked unconscious, somehow.
Evo's POV
I felt the world around me come back as I heard the sound of the heart monitor. I looked over to Ethan's corpse and let a single tear roll down my face. I then turned my head and face the wall. For some odd reason they hadn't moved us and kept us in the operating room. I cant really tell how long I had been in here seeing as they had to sedate me because I was going into a fit because they stopped trying to save my brother. So I sat there for what felt like forever until I heard the door to the room open.
I turned my head so I could get a good look and saw that a nurse had entered the room and walked to the right side of my table and started to disconnect me from the machines. Then about a few med techs came in with a stretcher came over to me. They lifted me up and set me down on it. I was pretending to still be asleep as they wheeled me out the room and brought me into what looked like a medical bay. Ten hospital beds lined each wall and each one had a screen to let the patient have privacy. I was brought to the forth one on the left side of the room. After they put me in the bed they started to hook me up to the machines there.
Once they were done the nurse wrote something down on the clip board at the end of my bed before she left. So I sat there with my eye's shut as I thought about now being alone in this world. He was the only one I still had from Earth. At the time it seemed like a good idea to leave, but over time I started to miss my other friends and parents and wanted to go back. Though I realized I couldn't because we had been sent to an entirely different universe. I laid to my side and pulled my legs to my chest as I started to cry. I don't know how long I laid there and cried, but I do know that I had fallen asleep as I was once again in my mindscape. Unlike most peoples minds, mine is a simple boxing gym. Everything was in here from the equipment to the weights to the boxing ring. Since I was in a lucid dream everything was in my control and time went by at the same time as the waking world. I decided to start practicing with the punching bag, and then go over to the weights after I was done. I had been punching the bag for about thirty minutes until I felt someone trying to enter my dreams causing a holographic screen to pop up right next me showing that it was their version of Luna along with another alicorn that had a deep purple coat along with the same starry mane and tail as Luna's. I stared at the screen for a few seconds before I pulled up a new screen showing my defensive measures for a scenario like this. I pressed the eject button and saw them being pushed away from the outside of my dream. So with that dealt with, I resumed my exercise for another hour before I felt my dream start to collapse signaling that I was waking up. As the final piece of my dream broke I could see a bright light as I opened my eyes. Apparently I had rolled onto my back during my sleep. I looked around and saw that there were several doctors and nurses walking around. l then I noticed a nurse walking over to me so I shut my eyes. I listened to her as she checked on me. I then felt a tingling sensation flow over my body as she scanned my body, then I heard a gasp.
"Doctor!" she yelled. I then heard a set of hooves rush over to us before stopping right next to the bed.
"Yes nurse." he said.
"The patient seems to have fully healed from his wounds." she said.
"That cant be right..." he said as he trailed off. I then felt the same tingling sensation over my body as he preformed the scan.
"Well shoot. He sure does heal fast." he said. "Send in one of the royals when he wakes up. Im sure they would like to ask him a few questions." he ordered.
"Yes sir." she said. I sat there contemplating my options for a few minutes before I sighed. I opened my eyes and sat up before moving back and leaning against the pillow. I looked myself over and noticed that I had indeed been fully healed. 'I wonder how long I had been asleep after I passed out in the wasteland.' I thought. I then noticed a nurse looking at me before she rushed off out of the medical bay. 'She's probably going to go get one of the royals like the doctor asked.' I thought as I leaned my head back and looked at the ceiling. I stared at the ceiling for a few minutes until I herd a cough. I shifted my eyes to the source and saw that it was Ash.
"Glad to see your up, how're you feeling?" he asked as he walked over and pulled out a chair and sat in it reverse style.
"It hurts." was all I could say at the moment.
"I see." he said as we entered an uncomfortable silence. "Look man I know there is nothing I can say or do to cheer you up after losing someone but please understand the doctors did everything they could and I kinda feel partly responsible for not getting him here sooner."
I brought my head up and looked at him with a piercing glare. "Do you know why it hurts?" I asked him. He sat there in silence, before he shook his head. "It hurts because the closest friend I have had for a millennia, a friend I considered my brother just died and Im all alone in the universe now. I have no one, and I have no way to get back home and save everyone." I said.
"I wish I could help you, really I do. But what would you want me to do I can't revive your friend, save for necromancy and trust me that's the last thing you'll want for him. Also no one I know of whose strong enough would have brought you here and the others aren't as powerful enough to do that so that must mean you came by your own means. Quite frankly you guys just showed up on our doorstep and beat in one of my guards for no reason making you guys seem hostile to all of us and yet despite this and everything I've seen, I try and save your life." he said.
I looked away from him "I know that you can't bring him back, it just hurts." I then looked back at him. "Plus no one sent us here, my brother didn't get the chance to set up a shield right before we teleported form our fight. Now I believe you have some questions to ask me?"
"Yes I do and for now I'm going to ask simple questions so first off can you tell me both your name and your partners name and where you come from?" he asked.
"I go by many names. There's the Courier, Evo and Evan. You don't use that last one until you gain my trust. My brother went by The Wanderer, That crazy son of a bitch, Ethan smith, and if you were close to him Wade." I said as I looked forward. "We don't really remember our parents names seeing how we are over a thousand years old, and we came from a planet call Equis. Though before that we were on a planet called Earth."
"Equis and here I thought both Rage and I were the only ones here unless that multiverse theory bullshit is actually accurate," he said.
""Well its not. I used to tell Ethan to shut up about all that nonsense back home. I never truly believed him until the day we arrived."
"I see so how did you arrive in this alternate Equestria?"
"We arrived by the means of teleportation thanks to a void dweller named the Merchant. Im; however, not able to give his real name or he might do something rash. And if your wondering why he did it, he may have do it for fun. Ethan and I aren't the only one's he has sent to a version of Equestria."
"Well if he's anything like The Outsider then there's nothing I can do," Ash said as he let out a sigh.
"Yea, can't really help it." I said with a chuckle. "So anything else of importance you want to ask?"
"Yeah two more things actually and a small request," he said.
"What are they?"
"First is simple I need to know what terms you were on with the princesses if you have them in your Equestria and don't lie cause I will know," Ash said.
"Well we were pretty close to the princesses, Ethan more than me. Luna is his wife. And I was preparing to ask Twilight out." I said with a sigh.
"I see that explains why he screamed her name before and buddy you won't have much luck with this Twilight she has somepony already," Ash said.
"Well I don't plan to. I need to get stronger so I can go back an"Well I don't plan to stay here for long. I need to go back and save equestria." I said.
"Which brings me to my second question and keep in mind you don't have to answer if it's personal but it would help me understand your problem so I can try and help. What was it you were fighting before you came here and why did they attack?" I asked.
"We were fighting the Caribou. Somehow they were able to defeat us before we teleported. And the reason why, was to stop them from turning all the mares in Equestria into sex slaves." I said in anger. I looked towards Ash and saw he was pissed about it too. I watched as his right arm became demonic looking and was set ablaze by black fire causing the temperature in the room to go down to where ice formed on the windows. I looked at him with caution, and maybe some fear as I tried to scoot away. He noticed this and stated to snuff out the flames on his arm and it reverting back to normal.
"Sorry about that still learning to get control on that part of myself," Ash said.
"The hell was that?" I asked.
"Let's just say it was the devil inside of me," he said, and I was about to respond when I heard the sound of armor on hooves running down the hall and I saw some guards pass in front of the door. "Trooper where are you all off to?" he asked.
"An alarm has gone off in the morgue sir were on our way to check it out," a guard said before he ran off.
"Want to go check it out?" I asked.
"Do you want to come?"Ash asked with a smirk as he stood up from his chair.
"Hell yea!" I said as I blinked off the bed and in font of it.
"Better keep up then boy." Ash said as he ran out the door with me not too far behind.
Meanwhile in the morgue
3rd person
It was deathly quite as the previous body was loaded into a bay waiting to be looked at. The morgue pony had just shut the door before he walked over to his table and started to write down documents for transaction with the hospital. After a few minutes of him sitting in the quietness of the room, he felt a magical outburst coming from one of the bays behind him. He set his pen down and turned around. He had a look that said he wasn't amused.
"Okay you youngins, you better come out or else i'll come over there and call for the guards." He said. Nothing happened as he sat there waiting for what he thought were filly's and colt's playing around in the morgue. "I'm going to count to three before I call the guards." Then there was a slight rumble coming form the newest edition to the morgue. "One." the room started to rumble to where it was noticeable. "Two." There was a bright light coming from around the door to the bay. "Three." With that the door to the bay blew from its hedges and into the wall across from it. There was dust in the air as alarms went off. The explosion caused the doctor to be pushed onto his back. He sat up coughing as the dust flowed out the room and as the alarms were blaring in his ears. As he sat up he noticed a silhouette in the dust and he could only make up a few features from the pony standing in front of him. He noticed that they had a set of wings along with what looked like a skull atop their head. He watched as the pony turned to their left and noticed some lumps on their chest meaning that they were female.
"Who are you?" he asked as he pressed the button to call the guards. "What do you want?"
"I'm sorry but you need to sleep." she said as he was knocked unconscious.
Ethan's POV
I had just knocked the morgue doctor unconscious, I noticed that my voice had changed. I then made Evangeline materialize next to me as I taped my foot on the floor. She had a embarrassed expression on her face as she shuffled around uneasily and avoided eye contact.
"Evangeline I'm going to ask you this once, why am I a chick? And why are my breasts this big?" I asked as I pointed to my new set of boobs. Apparently when you die they strip you naked before dissecting you; I didn't really know that. 'Huh the more you know...' I thought. So I stood there naked, taping my foot and waiting for her to give me an explanation.
"Well I used your body for the transfer, but there was a problem with setting you back before you became a hollow since both your body and soul became one. So I guess the spell decided to use aspects from my form." she said as she still avoided eye contact with me. I then heard heavy foot steps coming from the hallway, so I used a little of my magic to close the doors causing them to slam. I was shocked to say the least. I then placed a spell so no one could teleport in here and couldn't brake the door down. I then sat down on the ground with my leg splayed to the side as I started to cry from losing my manhood and almost losing Luna. I felt Evangeline sit next to me and she proceeded to give me a hug. I then heard several loud thuds coming from the door.
"Open this door now!" someone ordered.
"NO!" I yelled as I was crying. I then noticed that I had wings and I looked at them for a second before I used them and wrapped them around myself trying in an attempt to protect myself from the world. I continued to hear the banging for a few seconds before it stopped and all was quite. I then heard a familiar voice from the other side of the door.
"Who's in there?" Evan asked.
"Who the fuck do you think?!" I yelled.
"I don't know who you are mam, but I'm about to break this door down. You can come out peacefully or they will use force." he said.
"Just go away."
"Miss I need you to get away from the door," I heard someone else say.
"I don't care go away!" Next thing I know there was a huge gust of wind that flew by me catching my white hair and I was once again surrounded by a dust cloud. I peeked through my wings and saw Evo, Ash and Rage standing there along with some guards. With Evangeline sitting next to me must have confused them, seeing how we look alike.
"Why are there two of you?" he asked.
"Dude I'm not a chick!" I yelled.
"Okay just what the fuck is going on here?" Rage said"
"Nothing. I just came back from the dead and this is what happened to me." I said as I opened my wings showing them what happened. I looked at them and noticed most of the guys forming noticeable blushes. I was wondering why they were blushing until I remembered I was naked. I let out a girlish 'eep' as I rewrapped myself with my wings.
"As you were the lot of you!" Ash shouted causing all the guards to snap out of their trance and leave the room. He turned his head back towards me as Evan walked right in front of us.
"Evangeline who's this?" he asked.
She let go of me and stood up in front of him."I knew you were dense, but not this dense. I thought you'd be able to recognize your own brother, or should I say sister now." she said as she glanced at me from the corner of her eye. I sat there for a moment before I started to shiver form the cold air flowing through the door. Ash must have noticed seeing how he summoned a brown blanket and walked over to me before he draped it over my back. I reached out and grabbed the sides and pulled it tighter around myself. I thanked him as he walked back over to Rages side. I stood up right next to Evangeline as I looked at Evan.
"Yea Evan, don't you recognize me?" I asked.
"Ethan? But how?" he asked in shock.
"Hey don't ask me, ask her." I said as I jabbed a thumb to Evangeline. Evan looked over to her.
"We used the souls he collected along with his magic. I tried to turn him back to normal using my powers but the spell backfired and started to suck my powers from me. Though I don't know where the wings came from." she said.
"Well that explains it. Soul magic is unpredictable most times when used." Ash said.
"Well before we continue this conversation, can we get something to eat! Dying and being resurrected made me hungry." I whined.
"Yeah I'll take you three to the dining room to grab something. Rage can you go tell the royals about our situation and tell them to meet up with us when they're able to?" Ash asked.
"Sure thing." Rage said before he left.
"Well lets get a move on!" I said as I ran over to the doorway. Ash then teleported in front of me causing me to stop in my tracks.
"Can you summon some clothes cause if so it may be a good idea unless you want a lot of ponies to be staring at you." he said as he gestured to the blanket covering my body.
"Oh yea. Sorry kind of forgot." I said with a blush as I snapped my fingers creating a bright light. When the light died down I was wearing pair of white jean that had a black line going down the side along with some bandages wrapped around my breasts and a white jacket over it that had black strips.
I saw Ash give a nod of satisfaction to me before he spoke.
"For the record names Ash Blade and you met my brother Burning Rage and now I believe some of you have some questions to be answered," he said before he turned around and gestured for us to follow him while he began to walk down to the dining room and at first it was silent before Evo spoke.
"Ash whats your statues here?" he asked.
"Basically...Protector I'm part of a small group known as the Knights of Equestria and we are a force that handle the most serious threats in Equestria there were five before me and my brother and I've been labelled as the sixth Knight of Equestria or Knight of Freedom if you prefer," he said.
"Okay my question is, why did we run into Templars? And what did you do with Nightstreak?" I asked.
"The Templars were a shock to me too but they have been labelled as a terrorist group and I'm hunting them down one by one with a small team of mine for awhile now and as for Nightstreak which I assume is the filly you were with before you died she's fine she's in a guest room right now which reminds me that I need to ask you about something later but first I have a question how'd you know they were Templars? Cause I never told you their name," he said
"Well back on Earth a company that went by the name Ubisoft created a series of games that involved a creed of assassins that would hunt down Templars and spread free will to the weak. The games time line went from 75383 BC to the industrial period. The game's name was Assassin's Creed and I loved playing those games." he said.
"Hmm...Tell me did these assassins have a blade on their wrist like this?" he asked as he summoned a hidden blade onto his right hand and extended it to show us. I let out a sound of awe at the sight.
"Yea they did." Evan said as I tried to touch the blade.
"Well you should know that isn't a fantasy where I'm from," he said as he retracted the blade and lowered his arm before he sent a small shock of energy at me, to which I responded with a small ow. "In fact three master assassins were members of the Knight's of Equestria."
"Evangeline, whats going on with Ethan? He... I mean she doesn't usually act this childish." Evo said.
"I think it has something to do with the fact that he is younger now." she said.
"Well how old is he now?" Evan asked.
"About sixteen." she said.
"Well thats nice." he said before he turned to Ash. "Whats the most recent event revolving around Twilight and her friends?"
"Well probably Twilight and Spike getting sucked into a time portal by a mare named Starlight Glimmer who has been reformed back to good recently," Ash said.
"Huh I don't remember that on the show." I said as I place a finger on my chin.
"What show?" Ash asked.
"Well just like Assassins creed, there was a show created by Hasbro for little girls called My Little Pony Friendship is Magic staring twilight and her friends as they go on adventures and learn aspects about friendship." Evan said.
"Yea but the were quadruped instead of anthro." I said as I hopped onto Evan's back.
At this Ash stopped and turned around to face us. "I highly suggest you guys keep that information to yourselves for obvious reasons understood," Ash said.
"Yes sir!" I said as I gave him a salute before giggling.
"Okay moving on Evangeline right?" Ash asked as he looked at Evangeline. I then jumped off of Evan's back and onto her's.
"Yes, what is it you would like to know?" she asked as she grabbed a hold of me.
"I've been meaning to ask but what are you and how do you just keep popping up out of nowhere?" Ash asked.
"I am what is known as a hollow. A beast that consumes souls to fill in the void in there heart. And the reason I can just pop in and out is because I am a part of Ethan's soul." She then looked to me and saw a black zero on my shoulder. "Ethan whats that?" she whispered to me.
"Oh thats a rank." I whispered in her ear.
"I see that last part sounds similar to Epsilon and that first part reminds me of Rage," Ash said gaining Evangeline's attention again.
"How does my position remind you of Rage and who is Epsilon?" she asked.
"To put it simply Rage wasn't born like I was he was once my subconscious who ate a lot of demon souls to free himself from me and as for Epsilon he's my currant subconscious come on out and say hi Epsilon," I said before the blue figure in my armor appeared next to me.
"Hello miss Evangeline I am Epsilon it is nice to meet someone who shares my particular situation," Epsilon said as he held a hand out to Evangeline. She accepted his and and shook it.
"Hey don't forget Senbonzakura and Shi!" I said trying to include them in this too.
"Shi isn't that the Japanese word for death and Senbonzakura means Thousand Cherry Blossoms correct?" Ash asked.
"You are correct in you assumptions." Senbonzakura said as I made him materialize next to Evangeline.
"Glad to see my Japanese wasn't as rusty as I thought cause you see I was once a samurai for an emperor a long time ago but that's a story for another time I suppose however your name reminds me of a song Lindsey Sterling plays cause you see the song shares your name," Ash said
"That seems interesting." he said.
"What about me?!" shi yelled as she materialized on her own next to us.
"What do you mean what about you little one?" Ash asked.
"I wasn't being included in the conversation. Now I want to ask you question." shi said with a smile.
"Alright shoot," Ash said returning the smile.
"Why are your wings different?" she asked while pointing at his wings.
"Oh...Well uh...To put it simply I'm what's known as a Demonic Angel and my wings are proof of this the feathers on my wings symbolize the angel inside of me," he said as he pointed to the feathers on both of his wings before he pointed to the webbed parts on his wings that were below the feathered parts of my wings. "And the webbed parts they symbolize the devil in me and the reason they're like this is because my mother was an angel and my father was a demon." he explained.
Shi had that awe look in her eyes as she looked at Ash.
"Cool." was all she said.
"Glad you think so there weren't many others who thought so when I was born," Ash said with a small frown.
"How much further are we from the dining hall?" I asked as my stomach rumbled.
"Oh almost there," Ash said as he shook his head pulling himself from his thoughts. He then lead us through the hallways till we arrived in front of the dinning room door.
"Are we going to be meeting anyone in there?" I asked.
"Possibly the royal family but you be meeting the head chef Perfect Serve I've never met anyone walk away from one of her meals unsatisfied and rest assured she can cook meat," Ash said.
"Thats great. I feel tired now." I said as I fell asleep.
Evan's POV
I watched as Ethan fell asleep on Evangeline's back and somehow was still able to keep Senbonzakura, Shi and Evangeline all materialized. "Before we get there, is Blueblood male or female here?" I asked as I looked back to Ash.
"Uh male and if your next question is he a total ass face then unfortunately it's a yes," he said.
"Well shit. I hope I don't get the pleasure of meeting him." I said while being sarcastic about the pleasure part.
"Don't worry I know what it's like cause I have to put up with him but I wouldn't worry I gave him something to remind him to stay as far away from me as possible," I said and as I began to open the doors Epsilon disappeared and when I looked inside I saw all the royals were here along with Discord, Eris, Shining Armour and my foals were here along with the white and blonde maned dick of a prince. "Although I could be wrong."
"Huzah!" Ethan said as she looked back and forth noticing everyone in the room looking at us. "Uh Hi." she said with a little wave before she yawned.
"Oh joy the monster has brought more pea brained apes you brought to our land at least two of them would set a fine example at being utter whores," Blueblood said aiming his gaze at both Ethan and Shi. I looked to shi and saw her start to cry. I tried to find Ethan but he wasn't on Evangeline's back anymore. All of a sudden I hear the sound of a blade being drawn and I saw Ethan standing there right beside Blueblood with Senbonzakura in her hand.
"You remind me of someone I really don't want to think of right now. So be a good doggy and stay down." she said with a tone that could turn a sun to ice.
"Hey Blueballs want my advise leave now before I do something far worse then what she has planed," Ash said as he thumbed towards the exit. I watched as Blueblood stormed out the room with his tail between his legs and saw Ethan resheathed the sword and walked over to Shi before crouching and giving her a hug, calming her down.
"Ash I don't care if he talks about me, but if he talks about the people I care about again you better be near me." she warned.
"Noted but honestly there wouldn't be many that would give two shits about him," Ash said.
"Ash!" Celestia screamed.
"Aw come off it Celestia you know I'm right and you heard what he said just now and if it were up to me I would probably feed him to some scarabs," Ash said.
"Alright Ash that will do let's just please drop this topic enjoy our breakfast and you can introduce us to our visitors," Faust said.
"As you say Faust," Ash said with a sigh.
"Finally!" Ethan said. "Death really makes you hungry."
"I hope you haven't killed anyone when you mean death," Chrysalis said giving Ethan a critical eye.
"What she means Chrysalis is that when we first saw him he was both a dude and dead," Ash said
"Yea I kind of died. Hasn't been the first time though." she said.
"I think I'm going to lose my appetite if we continue on with this conversation," Twilight said.
"Hang on a second you were a guy before what the hay happened and how the buck are you alive?" Rainbow asked.
"Rainbow language around foals remember also I believe Evangeline can answer that one," Ash said as he sat at the table next to Luna.
"Well like I said before I used the souls Ethan had collected over the years and his magic. I tried to turn him human again but the spell back fired and started to absorb a tremendous amount of my magic. I guess it used my power and body as a template. I still have no Idea where the wings came from though." Evangeline said.
"Perhaps one of the souls you collected had wings and they were added to the body as an extra a technique like this is like drawing numbers in a lottery," Faust said.
"That could be a possibility or could have been where Steelclaw scratched your face and your blood mixed with his before it went back and healed? I don't really know which one." Evan said.
"Is no one going to question the fact that I collect souls?" Ethan asked.
"It's not that surprising really I could do the same thing when I was with Ash," Rage said as he ate his breakfast and Perfect Serve came out and gave us ours.
Ethan's POV
I waited until Perfect Serve set our plates on the table before I spoke. "Yea it would be the same but its not. Remember when my black tendril went through that templar?" I asked
"Hard to forget." Rage said.
"Well when you heard that guy scream in agony, that was me pulling his soul out and consuming it." I said as I started to eat my breakfast.
"Oh great if you keep this up I'm going to be sick," Ash said as he was trying to eat his food.
"Well change of subject, anyone want to ask me anything?" I asked.
"Yes where'd ya'll come from?" Applejack asked.
"We initially came from a different universe, but we came here through the void." Evan said.
"A different universe as in that multiverse crap exists?" Rage asked.
"Well yea," I said as I swallowed a mouthful of pancakes. "There are millions upon millions of different worlds out there each one with different characteristics." I explained.
I then looked at Twilight and saw her eyes begin to sparkle comically and I saw Ash cover his ears trying to protect himself from the mass of questions about to spill out of her mouth and sooner then you expected an endless flow of questions were asked in seconds. I couldn't keep up with her and luckily Ash created a zip on her mouth and zipped Twilight's mouth closed.
"Twilight your asking too many questions and in so little time alright just slow it down a few notches," he said before he unzipped her mouth and I saw she had an embarrassed blush on her face.
"Heh uh sorry about that," Twilight said as she rubbed the back of her head.
"I have a question where did you three come from cause I only remember two humans being brought into the medical wing," Dream Catcher said as she gestured to Evangeline, Senbonzakura and Shi and gaining my attention.
"I have one what am I like back in your Equestria?" Shining asked.
"Well honestly, not that different. Everything looks to be the same." I said before snapping my fingers and conjuring a glass of chocolate milk.
"What do you mean by not that different?" Shining asked, and I saw Discord raise and eyebrow at me with the glass of chocolate milk.
"Okay is Cadence your wife?" I asked as I drank the glass and not the milk.
"Yes Cadence is my wife but what does this have to do my question?"Shining asked and Discord stare at me in shock while Ash looked at my with a raised eyebrow.
"Let me get to the point. Do you also rule the Crystal Empire along with her and did you used to be the captain of the guard?" I asked with a chuckle because of Discords reaction.
"Um yes," Shining said.
"Then the only difference I can see is that you're a mare where I'm from." I said with a shrug. I watched as everyone laughed at Shining's misfortune.
"Oh man Shining's a mare!" Rage hollered.
"That actually gives me some ideas for later," Cadence said seductively as she leaned in closer to Shining and I could hear him gulp audibly.
I smirked "Oh bro I feel bad for you." I said.
"I'm so glad that I'm not you." Senbonzakura said as he sipped some tea.
"Hey Cadence," Evan said.
"Yes...um I'm sorry this is embarrassing but I'm not aware of any of your names," Cadence said.
"Oh sorry, where are my manners," I said as I threw the chocolate milk behind me causing it to shatter. "I go by The Wander, That crazy son of a bitch and Ethan Smith. This is Shi," I said placing a hand on top of her head and ruffling her hair. "thats Senbonzakura," I pointed to him. "and thats Evangeline." I finished.
"And I go by The Courier or Evo." Evan said.
"I see and since you come from an alternate Equestria is there anyone here you don't know?" Cadence asked.
"Yes, there is." I said as gestured to the three other alicorns in the room along with the female draconequus.
"Well allow us to introduce ourselves I'm Eris goddess of chaos and daughter of Discord," Eris said proudly.
"I am Dream Catcher the princess of dreams," Dream Catcher said
"I am Chrysalis princess of nature," Chrysalis said.
"And I am Faust Queen and Creator of Equestria," Faust said causing us to stare in shock.
"Well that was unexpected." I said as the shock wore off.
"Now that I think about it, I distinctly remember Luna and Dream Catcher trying to enter my dreams earlier today." Evan said.
"Oh so it was you that forced us out," Luna said.
"Anyway Evo you were asking me a question?" Cadence asked.
"Ah yes, would you like to know the name of Shining's female counterpart?" Evan asked.
"Oh yes please," Cadence asked excitedly.
"Ethan if you would." Evan said.
A devious smile formed on my face. "Her name was Gleaming Shield, and let me tell you she was drop dead gorgeous." I said as I rested my hands on my chin.
"Be sure to remind me later to ask about the details but for now I wish to ask a question," Cadence said.
'Oh I will.' I thought. "Fire away." I said.
"Was there a special somepony for you back in Equestria," Cadence asked also resting her chin on her hands. The smile on my face vanished as I sat back in the chair and looked at the ceiling for a few seconds.
"Yea there was." I said in a monotone.
"Oh...I'm sorry if it was personal," Cadence said noticing the look on my face.
"Its not the case. Ash you cant tell them what happened before we got here if you like." I said sadly.
"I wasn't going to say a word anyway actually," Ash said. 'That's good. I din't really want them to know.' I thought.
"Okay. Lets change the topic to a happier note. Anyone else want to ask us something, anything?" Evan said.
"No I want to know what happened before you came here?" Chrysalis asked in a demanding tone.
"Chrysalis drop it," Ash said.
"Ash it's important that we...," Faust started but she stopped when she noticed the look of malice in the back of Ash's eye and closed her mouth causing everyone to go quiet.
"I said drop it and if your worried that they were a threat to the other Equestria then I can vouch for them being friendly now if anyone needs me I'm going to the training yard Faust I want to try that spell again," Ash said as he stood up and began to walk to the door.
"Alright Ash," Faust said before she stood up and walked over to Ash.
"Hey wait up I wanna give it a shot as well," Rage said as he got up and followed the two out the doors.
"Chrysalis. Do you really want to know what happened before we came here?" I asked.
"If Ash gives that look to us then it's better that we don't know last time that happened we regretted finding out badly," Rainbow said with a sad look.
"Well okay. Do you want to know what our status was over there?" I asked.
"That's not necessary Ethan if Ash can vouch for you then that's good enough for us, but I am curious," Twilight said.
"Well I guess I could tell you at dinner," I said as I got up and pushed my chair in. "But I want to go see what Ash and Rage are doing." I said as I started to walk to the door.
"That seems interesting." Evan said as he blinked right next to me. "You three coming?" he asked Senbonzakura, Shi and Evangeline,
"Yea!" Shi shouted as she jumped into the air and over to us landing onto my back. All Evangeline did was walk over to us without saying a word.
"I guess that's fine. I've had my fill of tea for now." he said as he stood up and came to us. He then bowed to the others. "Thank you for the tea." So with that we all left and left. We walked down several hallways in silence as we headed to the training room. After a little while we made it to the training area and I noticed that looked almost like the training area from Berk, but it didn't have the cage doors and the cage above the arena. When we walked in we saw Ash and Rage lying on the ground, but then I noticed a magic screen showing Ash and Rage in their assassin robes with some weapons but they were ducking behind a fallen tree to avoid gun fire. They looked to be in a snowy pine tree forest. I saw Faust standing a few feet away from their bodies while watching what was happening on screen. We all walked up to where she was standing. We all sat down on the floor, except for Faust.
I looked at her "Faust, what's this?" I asked.
"Oh hello Ethan I'm just managing a virtual reality session with both Ash and Rage they're in Norway at the moment during World War 2 and as you can see they're pined down by a tiger tank and Nazi soldiers," Faust said.
"Well damn. that seems fun. Oh well I'll let them have the fun for now." I said as I conjured a bucket of popcorn. "So what does this really accomplish exactly?"
"This is to cover actual situations in life like in a war zone as the two are in now and I can communicate with them just by talking and they can here me," Faust said.
"Oh sweet. That seems like a very complex spell." I said as I ate some of the popcorn.
"Oh so you lot are here enjoying the show?" Ash asked.
"It's certainly interesting." Evo said.
"I think it looks fun." I said.
"Ash what's going on and what is that metal contraction?" Luna asked as she walked in.
"Uh everyone who doesn't know welcome to World War 2 and that thing is a Nazi tiger tank heavy armor and weapons and Rage and I need to kill someone without taking a single shot from these guys," Ash said.
"Whoa Faust don't you think your setting the bar kinda high," Rainbow asked.
"Calm down they can handle it besides it's not real life you they'll just restart at the beginning if you're hit," Faust said.
"Comforting now who exactly do we need to kill Faust?" Rage asked.
"You'll know when you see him," Faust said.
"Great so Ash you have a plan?" Rage asked.
"I'll draw their attention you flank them and take out one or two MG nests and anyone in your way I'll take care of the tank," he said.
"Understood," Rage said.
"Hey Luna you mind playing a song called Steel for Humans on my IPod for me? Ash asked.
"Of course Ash," Luna said.
"Epsilon I need you to get ready when we move," Ash said as both he and Rage put the hoods of their robes over their heads and Ash put a metal mask that covered the lower half of his face.
"Understood Ash," Epsilon said as he appeared in front of Ash for a moment before he disappeared. Suddenly a song began to play through the forest that made me want to get up and go.

"Let's go!" Ash shouted before he stood up and vaulted over the fallen tree and drew two revolvers and one was golden while the other was plain
I saw Ash's left eye glow blue as he ran forward and used both Damnation and Salvation to take out any of the Nazis that were either about to fire or were firing at him dodging hundreds of bullets at the same time. He then grabbed a Nazi who was dumb enough to try and stab him with a bayonet before he tossed him to the ground and unloaded several bullets into his chest so quickly you'd think the pistol was an SMG resulting the snow beneath the Nazi wad painted red with blood before he did a 360 degree twirl while crouching and shooting several targets that were about to shoot.
He holstered Salvation and drew Whispering Wind and sent a blast of wind at a tree slicing it and causing the tree to fall on at least five Nazis, I then saw the tank was about to fire when he turned to look at it and saw it about to fire. The round blew out of the barrel so he pointed Whispering Wind at the massive round of ammo and as it glided over the blade he tilted Whispering Wind slightly redirecting the tank round causing it to miss him ever so slightly.
I then saw two Nazis in front of him and another two on either side of him. He sheathed Whispering Wind and pulled out Salvation again and he waited for the four to shoot and once they did he leaped into the air and twisted around dodging all the bullets they fired before he shot the two Nazis in front of him while the other two shot each other.
He landed in a kneeling position and saw a Nazi about to shoot Rage in the back so he transformed into a wolf and ran at the Nazi and jumped on his back before he bit into his neck. Once he did he turned back to my normal form and teleported into the branches above a small group of Nazis and pulled out a rope dart and threw it at a Nazi and leaped off the branch and as soon as he landed, he lunged at two Nazis and stabbed his hidden Blade into their necks and rolled off them as they hit the ground.
He then used his skills and hidden blades to engage in close quarters combat against the rest of the Nazis, killing them swiftly and efficiently. I saw the tank about to fire again he lunged to the side and went into a roll right as the round fired missing him again and once he recovered from the dodge, I saw an MG nest filled with about ten or so Nazis and were about to shoot him.
But before they could he used the rope launcher and shot it at the machine gun and yanked it towards himself and once he caught it, he aimed it at the Nazis and unleashed a storm of bullets on them before he dropped the gun and looked at the tank and saw it aim at him.
"Okay I've had enough of you," Ash said.
He teleported in front of the tank and kicked it causing the tank's front to go upwards while the back still touched the ground. He then drew Whispering Wind and slashed at the tank causing the air to ripple like water before he turned around and began to walk away from the tank while the main gun spun around to face him. He then began to slowly sheathe Whispering Wind as the tank began to load another round and once he almost finished sheathing Whispering Wind he quickly sheathed it with a snap and the tank fell apart before it exploded raining pieces of burning metal down around him. 'Cool guys don't look at explosions~' I thought to myself.
Suddenly Ash was surrounded by Nazis while the commander demanded in Austrian that he surrender. However he just stood there staring at all of them but did nothing. The commander then ordered his troops to shoot while he just flexed the fingers on his right hand cracking them and the Nazis aimed their rifles at him. Once the commander gave the order the Nazis fired but he held out his hand and I watched as all the bullets stopped around him before he flicked his hand sending the bullets back to the Nazis killing the ones that shot at him but leaving a small army left.
The commander then gave another order to use blades on him while he reached for both Whispering Wind and his shotgun and drew them just as the Nazis charged. He used the shotgun to thin out their ranks and then used Whispering Wind if they got too close this went on for a few minutes and I saw that he was beginning to be overwhelmed and Epsilon suggested an idea so as I fought I summoned as much energy as I could into me.
I watched as he was lifted into the air and then he unleashed a pulse of magic all with a cry of anger causing a sphere of pure magic energy to rush out of him turning anything close to him into embers and the Nazis further away were killed with the electric shockwave before they were sent flying along with a ton of snow and extinguishing the tanks flames before he touched back onto the ground. He sheathed Whispering Wind and placed my shotgun on his back before he looked around and saw the commander trying to flee but with a flick of his wings he sent a feather blade after the commander and hit him with deadly accuracy. I then saw Rage walk up behind Ash.
"Talk about going overboard I think you made a new clearing here," Rage said before he tossed Ash a German K43 Sniper Rifle.
"What's this for?" I asked.
"I found our target and you would not believe who it is," Rage said before he walked away.
I followed Rage and he led me up a tree and climbed up with me not far behind and when I made it to the a branch Rage was sitting on he pointed to a small town that appeared to be in ruins about 5 clicks north west of our position.
"Under the bell tower that's almost in shambles and is ready to come down any second it's in the center of the town," Rage said.
Ash followed Rage's instructions and looked through the scope of the rifle. I then saw the look of surprise on his face.
"Hitler our target is Hitler?" Ash asked.
"Looks that way," Rage said.
"Well let's take him out then," I said as I checked the mag and saw it was full before I reloaded it and slid the bolt back then forth to load the bullet. He then looked down the scope and aimed for Hitler's head but he stopped and I saw him move the scope up aiming for the bell.
"What are you doing Ash?" Rage asked.
"Getting a unique kill Rage just watch the bell tower closely," he said he lined the cross-hairs up with the rope holding the bell up before he smirked.
"For whom the bell tolls." I then saw him pull the trigger and I watched the bell and saw the rope snap causing the bell to fall from it's perch and onto Hitler and bringing the bell tower down on any Germans around it.
"Nice kill Ash," Rage said giving him a thump on the back.
"C'mon let's get out of here," Ash said as he tossed the gun away and saw a portal open underneath them. Ash gestured for Rage to jump first which he did in a leap of faith style and he followed right into the white light.
Ash sat up and let up a groan as he rubbed his head before he looked at the others and saw them staring at him and Rage.
"So I take it you all enjoyed the show?" he asked
"Dude you were untouchable," Rainbow exclaimed.
"That looked so much fun!" I said as I jumped into the air.
"Well your free to try it out but for now I need to go brush up on a few things from my past," I said.
"I know what you mean Ash and I've had the books placed in the Archives you can go have a look if you wish also I believe Amalthea is there too," Faust said.
"Thanks and as for you guys enjoy yourselves and I'll see you later," Ash said before he walked off.
"I would like to try. But before I do, can I ask a few questions about the spell." Ethan said.
"Who me or Faust?" Ash asked as he looked back at me.
"Oh uh Faust." I said.
"I see alright check in with you guys later," he said before he walked out of the arena.
"Okay." I said.
Author's Note
I hope you guy's and gal's enjoyed this super long chapter that me and Wolf worked on and i'm sorry if you didn't like what I did in the last chapter but it was the only way I could figure out how to give Ethan all of his power back. And a huge sorry for leaving you guys thinking that she was dead. But I hope that you don't hate me that much for what I did. I hope you guys enjoy this story and I big thanks to Wolf Blood for letting me do a crossover with his story. Also if you haven't read his story, I highly suggest you do. It is an amazing story and I have no way as to describe it, all I can say is that you have to check it out. I am going to warn you again, it is rated Mature so don't say I didn't say anything.
If you cant get to it, there's a link in my previous Author's Notes from the last chapter. As always please leave a comment down below and slap that like button and I'll see you in the next chapter.
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