The Gates 2 The Rising

Chapters

Chapter 1
CANCELLED
Chapter 2
Chapter 2.5

Chapter 1

Somewhere, deep in Russia, a lone man walked alone in a snowstorm, the town was dead silent in the middle of the night. The man was walking at an angle to fight the speeds of the wind, the snow hitting his face and stinging ever so slightly. He slowly made his way for a tavern on the side of the street. It had a Russian name to it and the man pushed open the door and walked in. Snow blasted the inside with strong winds until the mysterious man closed the door behind him to make the bell ring. The man was wearing a large black trench coat and wore a thick black hat. The man dressed completely in black and even wore a black face mask, either to hide his identity, or to shield his face from the cold. The man slowly walked to the bar in front of him and took a seat next to another lone man. This other lone man wore a fall weather coat and a red tuque. He had a dirty unshaven beard and looked like he had been smoking for the past thirty years. He was dressed a little too lightly for this weather, which was rather odd to the other Russians in the room. The mysterious black man took a seat on a stool next to him and too off his thick hat to reveal snow white hair, it was cut short and somewhat spiked. He took off his facemask to reveal a man who had a dimple on his chin, a square jaw, and piercing yellow eyes. The man looked up at the television to see a news report on the man who saved the world from an unknown monster.

The reporter said, “I’m standing at the base of the mountain where the infamous unknown man shown here,” suddenly a rather blurry picture of Cole O’Reilly popped up beside her as she continued, “saved the world from a mysterious creature. Some people say that it was aliens; others believe it was the gods returning from ancient Greece. Also, no one knows the location of this man. He was never seen again after the incident. He didn’t even show up for his Victoria’s Cross the day after.”

Suddenly the man dressed in black said out loud in Russian, “Turn that shit off.”

The man next to him coughed a little before leaning in next to him saying in Russian, “What is your problem with this man?”

“I’m sick of that god-damn asshole not showing up for his own medal. He’s trying way too hard to be a mysterious superhero.” The yellow eyed man said to him.

“Personally I think he moved to an alien world, but hey that’s just me.” The man said between coughs.

The yellow eyed man turned to him with and said, “You believe in that? You know that that’s impossible.”

The old man then said after he took a slug of vodka, “Traveling to another universe isn’t impossible.”

Then the yellow eyed man raised an eyebrow and said, “Who said anything about multiversal.” Then he leaned in close to the wrinkled man and said now in English and almost at a whisper, “You’re not from around here are you?”

The wrinkled man laughed in his throat and said in English, his voice now completely different, it was deeper and more evil, and he said, “Neither are you.” Suddenly, the wrinkled man got up out of his stool, took his bottle of Vodka and smashed it against the table to use it as a stabbing weapon. He pointed it to the mysterious man with a trembling hand. He said in his evil voice, “I can’t let you leave.”

The yellow eyed stranger simply laughed while still in his stool, the room now completely silent as the man said, “Now I know that you can do better than a broken bottle.” Then all of a sudden, the stranger shot out of his chair and stuck his arm out at the stranger. At first the surrounding drunks laughed until they saw the stranger’s arm brighten with energy. Then like a gun, his arm exploded with energy as the wrinkled man was thrown across the room and made a crater in the wall. The wrinkled man stepped out of it as his eyes began to glow with energy, his arms began to change shape at the fingertips. Slowly they turned into sharp blades and formed one large sword on each hand. The bartender then took out his shotgun and fired it at the man. When the shot impacted with the wrinkled man’s head, it blew off a huge chunk of his face and he fell to the ground. The bartender then pointed the gun at the white haired stranger. In response, the stranger put his hands in the air but used one of his hands to calmly point at the corpse. The bartender and some of the patrons turned to see the corpse’s head begin to reform. It slowly got up as his face took shape once again. When he got back up, he looked almost as though he was never shot and he spat out a tooth.

The wrinkled man said to the stranger, “Die Equestrian!” and charged for the man. The stranger stayed calm right until his blade was inches away from his face, he then grabbed the man’s arm, twisted it, and threw him out of the door breaking the entire wall down with him and letting a huge gush of wind enter. The stranger stepped out after him as the super human got up and said, “Hope you can fly too.” Suddenly it’s back quickly sprouted wings and it took off. The stranger started to run after it as cops began chasing them both. The man then burst into a sprint so strong that the ground under his feet was thrown into the air. The white haired stranger than found a nearby car and used it as a launch pad to take off. He fired a blast of energy at the car as he was jumping on top of it and used the explosion as another step on an invisible flight of stairs to propel himself into the air.

The mysterious man landed on the beast’s back and spoke into his wrist saying, “It’s a harpy this time, were gonna need a few pegasi.”

The speaker in his wrist crackled a bit before it said, “On our way.” Shortly afterwards the harpy took to the sky as they climbed to a really high altitude. The white haired man turned around while now gripping the feet of the creature. He saw two small dots that were rapidly approaching him. When they got close enough the man could see that one of them was a white maned pegasus and the other one was a red maned pegasus. Both were dressed in black outfits where the only holes were for the tail and wings. The two of them approached the flying creature and began tying ropes around its hands and feet. They then grabbed the wings and managed to support the weight of the harpy and the stranger as they tied the wings with their last rope.

The harpy was thrashing its limbs madly and managed to make the stranger lose his grip. As e began to fall he yelled, “Well, shit.” He fell for about thirty seconds before landing on top of a three story building. He fell through each floor until he hit ground level inside a toy store. The room was filled with terrified children and parents who looked at him with horrified faces. The man brushed himself off as he got up and said to everyone in English, “Now I know this looks bad, but imma pay for this here,” he motioned his hand for the destroyed shelf of toys and other goods, “It was a crazy bar fight, so nothing too out of the ordinary here. Merry Christmas, or whatever you guys celebrate. Peace.” he then stuck his hands in the air making the peace sign as he walked out the door. The parents were looking at him with a mixed look of confusion and disgust. When the stranger exited he was surrounded by police.

The police were following them the entire time, and they were all pointing assault rifles at the stranger and said in Russian, “You are under arrest.”

The stranger gave an awkward laugh as he replied with his hands up, “Sorry, but I have to be home by eight or my daddy will beat me and take television away for a month.” (my apologies if that insults you) The stranger then disappeared into a cloud of smoke leaving the confused police officers there to wonder what he had said.

The white haired man reappeared somewhere in a warehouse, Russian language was everywhere to reassure him of his location and that he was at the right place. He looked to his right to see a cage there with the harpy inside it, its skin had gone completely black and it was in rage as the stranger approached it. When the stranger was inches away from the creature’s face it shouted, “Your powers are useless against chaos. Chaos is always close behind.”

The black maned pegasus who was standing to another human dressed similarly to the stranger said, “That sounds like either a threat or a warning.”

The white haired stranger in front of the harpy then said, “Well then we better not take this too lightly.” With that, the man’s arm turned into a blade and punctured the harpy’s chest, killing it painlessly and instantly. When the stranger got back up, his eyes changed from yellow to grayish green.

A lavender unicorn popped out of the crowd of people and ponies and said, “I seriously hope he meant another form of Chaos than the one I’m thinking of.”

Cole brushed his white hair aside and said, “I wouldn’t worry, these harpies are like the pawns, they will talk tough to make up for the power they lack.”

The lavender pony replied, “Well I’m going to worry, the fact that this is the fifth time in a month earth has been attacked means something is going on.” The lavender pony had a worrisome look on her face which made Cole think about the facts. He did notice how odd it was to have that many threats in a week, since the normal amount was less than one a month.

Cole turned to the group of ponies and people and said, “Job well done, go home and rest up. We need to meet up in the royal hall tomorrow at noon.” With that the group of people walked towards a helicopter and took off shortly afterwards. Cole and the three ponies remained. He turned to the lavender one and said, “By the way, how’s Dash been holding up?”

Twilight gave a swish of her hair before saying, “Good, after a few months of you in Canada, she got really excited to hear you’re coming back for the holidays and staying for a while.”

Cole smiled at her; she was the only one of the six ponies he remained in touch with after he took up the job of leading an elite team of Earthlings and Equestrians. Long story short, a few months ago Mike approached Celestia with the idea of forming a mixed team of ponies and people to help keep an alliance between the two and to help one another in times of need. Since Cole was the only one they knew that: a) was both human and a pony during his life, b) was capable of saving the world, and c) knew how to control his magic abilities while in human form. There was no other candidate that could match Cole in all three categories, so Cole was picked as the leader. Since then, he has been living in Canada, waiting to go back to his real home in Equestria. Cole and the ponies walked away to a form of gateway similar to the one Cole used while working for the agency. This time though it was perfected to follow them with Cole and the ponies that way it doesn’t have to remain stationary, it will simply travel into its own portal and will reform into a large crate. Cole walked the ponies to the portal, typed in the coordinates, and saw them off to their universe.

Once that was taken care of, Cole suited up and walked out of the building. Waiting for him outside was a helicopter that looked to be from the future, Cole boarded it and they took off in the direction of Canada.

*****

When Cole landed at the Ottawa airport in Canada, there were a few security guards waiting there. When Cole approached them one said, “Sir, your helicopter does not have a license, we’re going to have to hold you here while we contact authorities. Cole turned his head to the helicopter as it began to take off.

Before either of the security guards could react, Cole looked at them and his eyes flashed a bright white and then said, “What helicopter?”

One of the security guards rubbed his eyes and then said, “Uh… sir, you’re not allowed here, this is for military personnel only.”

Cole tipped his hat to them as he entered the building saying, “My apologies, I got lost in the airport.” He entered the door to leave the two security guards trying to remember what happened.

Cole absorbed everything he saw while at the airport, he enjoyed being a citizen every now and then, instead of living everyday a soldier. He loved to see the beautifully lit stores and the families that were coming back to Canada wearing Hawaiian shirts or carrying souvenirs from Disneyland. He enjoyed watching the families boarding planes with excitement for either a better life or for a vacation. Cole didn’t mind being stopped by security, but he always worried that if he went through a metal detector or an X ray that it will show is magic aura that surrounded him. Cole had to either be embarrassed in front of the military or have his junk grabbed by TSA, you can probably guess which one he picked for the sake of the human race (who knew that a guy grabbing his balls would save humanity from a dark secret) Cole took long strides as he passed by happy people and headed towards the exit. When he got outside, Canada was still in the middle of summer, and Cole had put on some proper attire for the season. He was wearing a white button up T-shirt with a plain white shirt underneath it. He wore nice denim jeans and black skater shoes and a baseball Cap to hide his hair. Cole walked to the nearest taxi and got in it. He said to the cab driver, “Downtown Ottawa please.”

The cab driver turned around and said to him, “Sure thing, hey I know you from somewhere.” The cab driver’s eyes widened when he recognized who he was looking at.

Cole gave him a smile at the corner of his mouth and said, “Oh really? Where have you seen me?”

The cab driver then said in an excited tone, “You’re that Cole O’Reilly who saved the world from aliens!” The cab driver was beginning to freak out and was getting his phone to tell one of his friends who he picked up.

Cole laughed as he took off his hat and sunglasses to reveal white hair and yellow eyes and said, “Yeah I’ve been getting that a lot, unfortunately that’s not me. But man what I wouldn’t give to be as awesome as him.”

The cab driver, obviously disappointed that he wasn’t going to be driving a hero, turned around in his seat and pulled out of the airport onto the onramp. As they were driving, the cab driver looked through his rear view mirror to see the man looking out of the window as he sighed with relief. The cab driver than said to him, “So, you visiting family or something?”

Cole snapped out of his daydreaming and said, “Oh no, I’m coming home, and then leaving for my home town tomorrow.” Cole put his glasses back on and returned his hat to his head. He was suddenly beginning to have an interesting conversation with this man. He was going to try and say a lie and tell the truth at the same time.

The cab driver raised an eyebrow at what Cole had said and replied, “Oh, so where do you live?”

“Far away, I’d rather not get into details.”

“Come on, you can tell me anything because I also work part time as a psychologist.” The man then handed Cole his ID proving that he had a PHD in psychology.

“It’s… top secret.” Cole wasn’t going to tell this man where he really lives for the sake of humanity’s sanity.

“Tell me. I swear I won’t tell anyone you said that,” The man began, “I’m writing a story on the interesting people I’ve talked to, their all going to remain anonymous.”

Cole gave out a long sigh and then said, “Fine, if you really want to know then let me give you my backdrop,” Cole took in a deep breath and then said, “I was part of a military branch that was underground and worked to protect the world. One mission I was sent to an alien world filled with magical unicorns and pegasi and pink earth ponies that ate cupcakes 24/7. I lived there for a few days before finding out that the human race actually originated from that dimension and the creator of all living things was going to come and destroy us all. I fell in love with a rainbow haired pegasus and the two of us and five other magical adorable ponies went on an adventure to save the planet using a very ancient magic called The Elements of Harmony, I then defeated the creature by blasting the fuck out of it and sent it to the moon for a million years or until I truly need its powers. Then when I returned home I figured out that an old time enemy of the agency, Albrecht Freud, was a Neo-Nazi and was attempting to take over the alien world to rebuild Nazi Germany to then recreate the master race, using the habitants as slaves. I eventually saved the two princesses he was going to kill with a giant robot suit by spitting a suicide pill into his mouth and then I died. When I woke up one of the magical unicorns gave me my arm and eye that I lost at the cost of my hair color. Later I quit the agency and moved into the alternate universe with permission from the queen unicorn sisters and I turned into a pony. Recently my old commander met with one of the princesses to make a team of humans and ponies to help fight monsters and evil things on both planets. What I’m doing here is packing my shit and moving out to my original home with my pegasus girlfriend.” Cole then gasped for air as he finished that incredibly long story. He turned to the cab driver expecting to see his mind blown. Instead, Cole saw him just staring at him with eyes wide with suprise. Cole then took off his glasses and a bright flash of light zapped away the cab driver’s memories of what Cole had just said. The man blinked a couple of times before Cole said to him, “Did you get that?”

The cab driver blinked a few more times into the mirror facing Cole and said, “Did I get what?”

“My background story, I was born in Ireland and have been living here in Canada for the past few years. Now that I have made enough money as a salesman, I can move back to Ireland with my family.” Cole lied through his teeth, he absolutely loved to do that to people.

The cab driver rubbed his eyes and said, “Yep got it all on tape.”

Cole began to panic, the cab driver had all that Cole had said recorded on it. Cole then pointed to the road to distract the driver as he yelled, “Watch the fucking road, man.” The driver instantly swerved the taxi and Cole took the recorder out of his lap when he wasn’t looking and threw it out of the window.

*****

The taxi pulled up to an apartment building and Cole stepped out, he gave the man his well deserved money and the driver took off down the street. Cole turned to the huge apartment building and took his bag of clothes in his hand and began to walk in. Inside was a man waiting there t greet him, the man said, “Evening, Mr. Everfree.”

Cole gave the man a tip of his hat as he walked by him saying, “Evening, Carter” Cole headed for the elevator and pressed the button for the fifth floor, slowly the elevator began to make it’s way up to the floor and when it arrived, it made a ding that made Cole smile. Cole walked to his room, number 215, and put his key in the door. When Cole opened it he was greeted with clothes all over the place, Cole didn’t allow for anyone to clean his house for him due to the weapons and other things he brought back often. Cole jumped onto his bed but before he landed he gently held himself in the air for a few minutes, he levitated a can of Coke and his bottle of Disaronno to make himself a glass of Disaronno and Cola. He loved its cherry Coke taste it sported and the slight buzz it gave him. Cole levitated his remote to his hand and his X-Box controller to his other hand (No flame wars over consoles please), he turned on his television and X-box to see that his only friend, SpectrumSpeed233, was online. Cole put on his headset and opened up Battlefield 4 (give it some time, it will be here soon) and next thing e knew he was playing online with her. Cole said into the mic, “Hey, Spectrum, how are things going down there?”

The girl on the other end of the line said in an excited tone, “Ohmigosh, Colt? Wow awesome! Things are going great here and I can’t wait to see you. Damn it, some camper got a headshot!” She yelled into her mic with rage which made Cole begin to laugh.

Cole then calmed down and said into the mic, “Find me back at the base, I’ll be waiting in an apache for you!”

Soon enough, her character respawned back at the base and headed for the apache helicopter Cole was in. Soon after their characters took off into the air and Cole and Spectrum were mowing down the enemies together with the mounted minigun on the side and the missile launchers on the sides. As the were mowing down the digital soldiers, Spectrum opened up a private voice chat and said in a sad voice, “You see how good I am at operating this minigun? Imagine how good we would be together as a team in real life.”

Cole immediately said in a strong, but loving voice, “Speed, you know I’m just going to say no to you. I know how good a flyer you are but you crash into things a lot and under a lot of pressure you tend to mess up, no offence. Also, I can’t risk losing you like I almost did a few months back.”

Spectrum took a long pause as she was shooting the enemy avatars and said, “What if one day you did need me, imagine the feeling. I think someone from earth said, it’s better to have a person you don’t need than not to have one you do. I think that applies to ponies as well.”

Cole gave that some thought, after a few minutes of silence and tea bagging n00bs, Cole said, “We’ll talk about it when I get there tomorrow, actually in like another 15 hours, I’m getting sleepy now thinking about it. I might arrive in the morning f all goes well.”

Spectrum was squealing with excitement on the other end, she was so excited to see Colt846 for the first time in months and not on an X-Box game. Both Cole and Spectrum said their goodbyes and logged off. Cole looked at his alarm clock as it read 8:57 pm, Cole set the alarm for 6:00 am the next morning and went to bed. His eyes slowly closed as he filled with excitement.

Cole opened his eyes to see him talking to Pinkie Pie, she was her usual bouncy self which made Cole smile. They were in the royal Castle in Canterlot, in a room that had a large window facing Ponyville. The sight of his home made him feel good on the inside, but the good feelings quickly disappeared when Cole realized he was no longer in control of his body. He was watching Pinkie bounce towards a window as she overlooked it. Cole watched everything in first person as his body walked up to Pinkie and say, “You ever get jealous of Dashie and Fluttershy being able to fly? Or of Twilight and Rarity being able to use magic?”

Pinkie suddenly frowned and said, “Yeah sometimes I do feel a little jealous, why?” By now, Cole could tell something horribly wrong was going on in his dream as he watched his body slowly creep behind Pinkie, who was still looking out the window.

Cole watched himself as he walked up to the pink pony and say, “Maybe now you will get to feel like Dash.”

Pinkie’s ear twitched as she turned her head to say, “What are you talking about?”

Cole couldn’t look away, for some reason he couldn’t. He watched in horror as the person who was in control of his body ran up behind Pinkie and pushed her violently through the window, making it shatter. Cole watched in horror as he could see the look of betrayal and pain on Pinkie’s face as she slowly fell down towards her doom. For some reason he was following her closely as she fell and he saw her close her eyes and a tear roll out before she impacted with the ground. Suddenly Cole was seeing this from the ground as he watched Pinkie fall through the roof of a house below her. She was screaming not in pain, but out of sadness at how Cole betrayed her.

Before she died on impact Cole woke violently from his sleep, he was sweating up a storm. His hooves were glowing pure energy and had returned to alicorn form in the middle of his sleep. Cole used his hooves to wipe off the sweat from his brow as he levitated the clock towards him to read that it was only a few minutes to 6 in the morning. All of those horrible feelings left Cole as he remembered what was going on today. Cole used his magic to open his little fridge and chug down an energy drink to wake him up. Cole went over to his dresser, pulled out a months worth of clothes, and stuffed them into his old de-atomiser case he had received a few months back. In a matter of fifteen minutes Cole was ready to go. Before he left, he turned himself back into a human by thinking of the shape he wanted to take on, he used a photograph of him and Dashie to help him better picture how he looked. Before he knew it he was ready to go. He ran for the door and had put a mute spell on him to allow him to shout at the top of his lungs without waking up anyone else. Also the objects he touched would no longer make a sound as long as he was under the mute spell. Cole violently opened the door and slammed it closed, all without making a sound, and began to skip down the halls. He decided that it would be necessary to put on some music while he skipped merrily down the hall, he also figured it necessary to add special effects like a rainbow trail he would leave behind and pretty flowers that would shortly sprout and disappear where Cole had stepped. All of this together made it the manliest exit ever (in my opinion). Cole undid his spells as he exited the elevator to see Carter standing there.

Carter’s face lit with joy as one of his most favourite and most pleasant guests stepped in front of the counter to say, “I’m gonna be gone for the rest of the year, so here’s my rent for the next nine months.” With that, Cole handed him a pile of money that made Carter’s smile grow even wider.

As Cole made his way to the exit, Carter waved and said, “It’s not gonna be the same here without you, Mr. Everfree.”

“Mr. Everfree” tipped his hat to Carter and said, “Life’s gonna be like this, it’s how my job works, and I just don’t want to come back to find out that my apartment had been rented out. This is my favourite place to stay after all.” Cole closed the doors behind him and as he walked out onto the sidewalk, a cab shortly pulled up in front of him. Inside was the same man Cole saw the other day; Cole looked at him and said, “Oh my god, what a coincidence! Well you know where I wanna go today don’t ya?”

The cab driver instantly recognized the white haired man and said, “Holy shit! Never thought I would see you again, hell yeah I remember where you’re going today, the airport right?”

Cole nodded his head as he got into the backseat of the cab and pulled away. The ride went rather well considering traffic is not so heavy at around six in the morning. Cole didn’t talk though, he pretended to sleep so he could imagine how exciting it will be to finally get back into Ponyville in time for the holidays. When they got to the airport, Cole got out of the car and paid the driver extra. He told the man to go buy himself something nice as he strode happily into the airport. Cole searched high and low and found a bathroom stall, Cole rushed for it and when he got in, he pulled out a picture of a cop’s outfit with Cole in it. Cole used his magic to turn his black jacket, button up shirt, jeans, and runners into an O.P.P. outfit. When he exited, he looked in the mirror to check for anything odd. After a close inspection, Cole walked out of the bathroom as a cop and headed towards the metal detectors, Cole did his best to keep his cool as he just walked through and showed them his fake badge as he passed through. When that was over, Cole headed for the airport hangar; he found the helicopter pad and entered that door. Waiting there was the helicopter Cole was in the other day. Cole quickly boarded it and it took off heading for the Rockies where no one would see him enter the portal. The automated driver instantly turned in that direction and began flying there. A half hour later the helicopter landed on a flat part of the Rockies and Cole stepped out, he walked up to the drivers side of the helicopter and put in the coordinates for it to return to the Agency Cole used to work under. Cole took the large metal crate off of the helicopter. It was still sunrise here in the Rockies and it reminded Cole of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Cole took the crate and pressed the button on it. Immediately it formed into a giant gateway and sprung to life. By now Cole had retaken the clothes of his casual self. Cole slowly stepped into the portal and the gateway was sucked in with him.

Next thing Cole knew, he was in some in between universe thingy, it looked like space, only it had no stars, just colors that remained in the purple section. Cole had always remembered to hold his breath to not lose consciousness, and before he knew it, he was taking shape somewhere outside Ponyville. It was only a small walk to get to the edge of town. The place was just as beautiful as ever, the houses were all made of wood and had a nice middle age feeling to it all around. Cole then began to walk towards Ponyville. When he got there, everypony was busy, Cole looked around to see if anypony would recognise him. Eventually when he went to the town square, he saw the six of them heading for Rarity’s boutique. Cole suddenly developed an interesting idea on how to present himself.

Inside Rarity’s boutique, Rainbow Dash was trying on her newest gown for when she met Cole today, everypony in the room was filled with excitement to finally see him. Suddenly the lights went out, Rarity began trotting for the matches to re light the candle’s when she started to cough and said, “Is something burning?”

Fluttershy began to panic as she squeaked, “W-w-what’s hap-p-pening?” She slowly backed behind Twilight who was getting ready for anything.

Applejack looked out of the window to see a bright light in the sky. She then shouted, “Twilight, you have any idea what that there thing is?”

Twilight approached the window to see the object moving faster and faster and she said in a nervous voice, “I have no idea what that could be.”

The ponies rushed out of the boutique to join the crowd that had gathered. The object was rapidly gaining speed as it approached the crowd, and when it got too close for comfort, the ponies in the way began to back up. The object was at breakneck speeds when it landed, it didn’t cause a crater, it just created a harmless shockwave that blew the manes of everypony near it. The object suddenly stood up as laser lights began to shine in every direction and heavy rock was playing. Suddenly, a large voice emanated from nowhere and everywhere at the same time saying, “Behold… the one and only… Co-o-o-o-o-o-o-ole O’Reilly” The object quickly stood up to reveal Cole as fireworks around him exploded in every direction. Cole raised his fist into the air as he transformed back into an alicorn, his white mane swaying in the air as he brought his hoof down. The special effects disappeared as Cole stepped down from the stage he created. He walked into the crowd to hear the cheering. To them, Cole was a celebrity, and not a stuck up one, he was generous and acted more like a citizen than he did a celebrity, often helping ponies out with their everyday stuff.

Cole trotted into the crowd to hear in the distance, “Show off!”

Cole turned his head in that direction to see a familiar lavender unicorn standing there, beside her was a really excited pink bouncing pony, and on her other side was a blond maned horse. Beside Applejack was a white unicorn who gave a gentle swish of her hair. Beside Pinkie Pie was a terrified Fluttershy.

Cole turned to them and shouted, “PONIES!” and gave out a very happy sounding laugh as he began to charge them. As he approached them like a train, the ponies assumed defensive position and braced for impact. Cole tackled them and squeezed tightly. He lifted them into the air as he tossed them around in his arms, he then dropped them one by one as he said, “So where’s Dash?” Suddenly, his vision was filled with rainbows and hugs as a cyan pegasus charged into him at the speed of sound covering them in snow.

Cole could hear the pony say, “Finally you got your plot here! I’ve been so excited to see you!” When the rainbow was removed, he could see a loving and extremely happy cyan pegasus staring at him with her big purple eyes. Her weight pressed against his chest as she sat up. Dash had been waiting for months now and you can understand how excited she would be. Dash then planted a kiss against Cole’s cheek before she got off of him to let him breathe again.

When Cole got back up and brushed the snow out of his white hair, he said to the six overly excited ponies, “Hey, I got special permission from the princess to have you all come with Twilight and I to the conference. It’s going to be short though, it’s just a status report and then we’ll go home to celebrate the Winter Festival.”

Cole began to walk; from behind him he could hear a buzzing noise rapidly approaching him. It sounded like a motor but a lot smaller, Cole thought of what it could be when suddenly he heard three fillies shout, “Cutie Mark Crusader Snow-mobilers! YAY!” As soon as Cole said that, he was knocked from his feet and got his foot caught in a toboggan that was being propelled by a small, orange pegasus. Her wings were what was causing the buzzing noise as Cole was dragged for several feet in the snow, his shirt slid up his chest and let all of the cold snow come in contact with his skin which made Cole scream out loud.

A white unicorn that made Cole think of marshmallows turned around to notice the human being dragged in the snow, she turned her head to the driver and said, “I think the Cutie Mark Crusaders aren’t meant to ride snowmobiles.” The white marshmallowy pony frowned at the thought of not getting her ass tattoo yet. Same thing went for the other two fillies on board. When they stopped the sled and let Cole get up, he had a fragment of a rock stuck in his skull and most of his teeth were missing. The little fillies began to panic after they checked their flanks cause of the damage they had noticed the damage they had done to Cole.

Cole just smiled as he dislodged the 12” shard from his skull, instantly he began to heal there and within seconds he no longer had a single scratch on his head. He looked at the three relieved fillies and said with an encouraging smile, “Hey keep trying, and no hard feelings about the dragging. Just don’t try that again please.” Cole then patted them on their heads and walked back to the group. The crowd had already left to carry on their usual jobs so it was just Cole and the six ponies he ad shared an adventure he would rather not recount. Ever since that day Cole died, he had always feared adventure but wouldn’t let it stop him from having one. Now that Cole had magic that was only limited by his energy, he could do almost anything he wanted, anything but use magic to attack first. Cole approached Dash and said, “Shall we head to the palace?”

Dash and the others nodded with excitement, even Fluttershy was excited to be there. So Cole and the rest walked to Twilight’s library, along the way Cole talked about the huge adventures he went on while on Earth and was happy he could finally come home to celebrate the Winter Festival with everypony. Once they arrived, Celestia’s hot air balloon was already ready to go. But before they went, Cole walked up to Spike to talk to him for a couple of seconds, Spike said to Cole, “What do you want to talk about?”

“How have you and Rarity been since I left?” Cole asked the small purple dragon.

Spike sighed before he said, “Well, we kinda went for dinner, but I don’t think she liked where we went that much, I guess you’re supposed to pick a restaurant the ladies would like.”

Cole had a confused look on his face before saying, “Where did you take her.”

Spike lowered his head with shame for what he was about to say, he took a deep breath and said in almost a mumble, “Bucky Cheese.”

Cole sighed, he felt bad for the poor dragon, he was only a kid who was trying to hook up with a young adult mare. Cole looked at the ashamed dragon and said, “Legit? You actually took her there?” Before Spike could say anything Cole interrupted him, “No duh you’re supposed to take them to a restaurant they want. That way you will look like you care about what they like. And not only did you fail miserably at showing any consideration, you made it look like she was your mother by taking her to a kids place. Spike, I R disappoint.” He tussled the dragon’s scales on his head with no success before saying with a reassuring smile, “How about you come to the castle with us? Maybe you could apologise to Rarity for messing up.” Cole the picked up the cheered up dragon and hopped into the hot air balloon.

As they began to float upwards, Dash turned to Cole with a look of slight confusion saying, “How come we don’t just fly there with our wings, Cole?”

Cole chuckled before saying, “It adds the drama when the hero takes his time to arrive.” By now they were really high and were moving towards the castle, Cole could see only white for miles on end. All of a sudden, three gateways opened up and three fighter jets rocketed out of them and into the distance. Cole could tell they were no threat to them or the Equestrians, when the planes were overtop of the castle, their wings began to turn upwards slowing down the ship and making it slowly descend in a straight line. It landed safely on flat ground near the castle as did the other two planes. Cole could faintly see three figures stepping out of the planes and he recognized them instantly, he turned to Twilight and said, “Can this bag of hot air move any faster than the speeds the wind is carrying us at?” Twilight simply shook her head, which made Cole just wrap a rope around his hand and he jumped off the edge. In mid fall his legs began to light up with a white light in a tetris format, the light pattern made his way up his body until he was engulfed completely. He then turned back into an alicorn and used his wings to propel himself and pull the hot air balloon faster than the speeds it was originally going at. Within half of the time it originally would have taken them, Cole and the others landed outside the castle. Standing in front of them were six humans dressed in outfits very similar to Cole’s old outfit he stopped Albrecht in. He walked up to the first woman standing there, who was wearing a lighter version of the suit, and said, “Taylor, great to see you!” He gave her a friendly hug.

“Great to see you too, I can’t wait to demonstrate the new weapons I’ve perfected.” She said with her eyebrow raised.

Cole walked up to the man standing beside her, he was wearing a suit that had an oxygen mask built in to cover his face, Cole smiled at him and said, “Kevin, glad you’re here!” They shook hands before Cole walked up to the next person who was wearing a very thick and bulky version of the suit, his suit was obviously made for heavy lifting and multiple attacks, inside was a man with no hair and an eye patch that left only one red eye with the ability to see. Cole gave him a handshake before saying, “Jordan, how good you’re here.” Jordan simply grunted as did Kevin. Cole then clapped both of his hands together and said, “Let’s begin the conference them. I’m sure Celestia is waiting right now.”

*****

Cole stepped up to the microphone now suddenly wearing a business suit (unrealistic you say? Tell that to the talking horses). When he was in front of the microphone he cleared his throat before saying, “Well, first off let’s thank Celestia for hosting our first conference here in Equestria. Round of applause,” Cole began to clap his hands for Celestia who faintly blushed. Cole then resumed saying, “enough clapping! We have something very important to get to. Our last mission ended with a particularly disturbing message according to Twilight here. Twilight, please enlighten us on why this seems like a threat or a warning.”

Cole backed from the microphone as Twilight gently trotted up and adjusted the height of the microphone with her magic. When she had her papers sorted out she said, “Monday night, at seven eighteen, a harpy was captured and brought to the hidden facility on earth, more specifically in Russia. Before the harpy was put down, the harpy said that Chaos is always close behind. From my studies over the years in Ponyville, and from personal experience, I believe that he was threatening us with a warning that the god of Chaos will return, or maybe has returned. If this is true, we can expect something much more serious than his last appearance. This warning has to be taken seriously and we must alert the citizens of Equestria and maybe Earth.”

From the crowd in front of Twilight, Celestia had a serious face as she said, “Not to discourage your ideas, but what makes you think that he’s returned?”

Twilight began to explain, “The last time Chaos had been released, it was because the Elements of Harmony had been transferred over to another wielder. When Nightmare invaded Earth, we temporarily gave Cole his ability to use the Elements to stop it. I think that he has been released again because we gave Cole the elements of Harmony and we broke the spell.”

Suddenly, a voice dark and evil filled the room. Its laughter chilled Cole’s spine as did everyone else’s, the voice said with a hiss, “Well, Twilight, you’ve been studying a lot now. You know, the last time I returned I only wanted to have fun, but you ponies broke my heart. Now that I’m back, the real fun shall begin.” It gave a maniacal laugh as a cloud entered the room, it began to take shape until it formed a creature that had a lions paw, an eagles claw, a snake’s tail, a horses head, an antler, a dragon horn, and a pair of bat wings. When the dust had cleared it stood up tall and said, “Behold, the god of Chaos! What’s the matter; no one seems excited to see me?”

“Discord! You know you’re going to lose again to the Elements of Harmony!” Celestia shouted out in anger, her eyes burning with rage.

“Well is that so? Well that wouldn’t be too fun now would it? Don’t worry my beautiful princess; those Elements have been hidden better than ever.” Discord had a devilish grin on his face as he teased them. From behind Discord suddenly stood a small harpy, its eyes full of pain as it cowered. Discord kneeled next to the harpy and said, “Oh and you have one week to find the elements of harmony, everyday after that, I’m going to wipe out an entire city. Trust me, I never lie.” He then snapped his fingers and the harpy began to scream, its ears were bleeding as it covered them. As the harpy’s screaming became louder with pain, more facial features began to bleed starting with the nose, the mouth, and then the eyes. Eventually the veins in the harpy’s head turned black as its eyes filled up with blood. It let out a gurgle and fell to the ground, dead. Discord’s face had become more sinister now as he said, “I’m not giving you any hints other than the next one. Good luck.”

“You’re a sick fucker, Discord.” said Cole, who was struggling to move due to Discord’s sudden spell.

Discord slowly hovered towards him, stepping over the corpse as he said, “Ah, you must be the protector they once told of in the prophecies. Well your powers of protection will be fun to tamper with.”

Discord hissed as he slithered over top of Dash saying, “Oh and I read you’re thoughts, I know how much she means to you,” Discord said as he slid his finger down her cheek, she gave him a disgusted look as he resumed, “it’d be a shame if anything happened to her.”

“You so much as give her a bruise and I swear to my own God I will use your burnt skin as a napkin.” Cole hissed, his eyes glowing a dark blue.

Discord’s eyes began to glow a blood red as he said, “Oh I promise nopony or nobody will hurt her.” He gave Cole a menacing look before he said, “Good heavens, look at the time, I was lying all along! The chaos commences tomorrow and there’s nothing you can do about it. Enjoy finding your precious elements, and remember. Good luck.” Discord gave an evil smile for the last two words before he disappeared.

Cole turned to Twilight and said, “We’ve got a serious problem now, we have a psychopath wreaking worldwide havoc on two different planets. If we’re lucky, he won’t throw both worlds against each other.”

Cole turned to Celestia, Cole opened his mouth to speak but Luna interrupted him, “Go, now. We need you, Cole, now more than ever.” With that Cole turned to his group of men and ponies and said, “Congrats, AJ, Rarity, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Dash, you five are now part of the Equestrian-Earthling protection, we leave in five minutes to god knows where looking for god knows what while god knows who is doing god knows what in god knows where to god knows who. Where in god’s name are we going, Celestia?” Cole turned to the pony gods (god this god stuff is not too godliness goddamn it).

Celestia immediately replied with, “There is one place, The Fountain of Luck. That fountain is said to bring the best of luck to anypony or anybody for that matter. It will grant them one wish, but only if their worthy.” Then Celestia and Luna stood up, Celestia turned to the forming group and said, “You better hurry though, it’s on the other side of Equestria.”

Cole gave a loud belly laugh as he said, “No problem!” Cole then stuck his fist in the air and said with a stern tone, “Group, grab my face!” every member was slow at first to grab Cole’s face, but when everyone had latched on Cole threw his arms to his sides as he said, “ADVENTURE!” What Cole expected to happen next was to shoot into the air with a rainbow trailing behind him, after all that’s how it worked on memebase.com. But instead of a rainbow, Cole got a quadruple rainbow as he shot into the air. Quick at first, Cole began to slow down and tire out before he even got to the roof (which was very fucking high), eventually, Cole tired himself out and fell to the ground saying, “Well, shit.”

Celestia looked at Cole with thinning eyes as she said, “First of all, Cole, I don’t like the language that you are using, I can understand when you were facing Discored, but please try to restrain yourself while under the palace. Second of all, I don’t understand why you can’t just teleport everypony to The Fountain of Luck.”

Cole dusted himself off as he got up and said, “My apologies, Tia, the language is unnecessary. The reason I can’t teleport everypony to the Fountain is because I have no idea where exactly it is, and because if I do teleport a group of 11 to the other side of the country I will have tired myself out so much that I would be out cold for weeks. And with Discord running rampant through two worlds I cannot be missing.” Cole walked up to Celestia and bowed to her before he loked up and said, “Now if I may ask, do you have a map of all of Equestria?”

“Why yes I do, hold on a moment.” Celestia summoned a guard to go and fetch a copy of the map and within seconds, the guard returned with a copy of the map. Celestia gave it to Cole and said, “Here you go, and good luck to you all. This is serious business now, we cannot fail at this otherwise it’s doomsday for everything.”

The fact the princess was saying such brutal words made the ponies shudder, Cole on the other hand just shrugged (when you’ve dealt with terrorists who’ve said that they will create doomsday on a regular basis, it get’s pretty old) Cole wasn’t too afraid, after all, Discord was probably bluffing. Cole turned to the group of ponies and said, “Pack your clothes girls, were goin’ on a cross country trip.”

With that said, the ponies dashed out the door heading for their homes to pack up. Cole and the humans stayed back, Taylor walked up to Cole and said with an eyebrow raised, “You think that bringing along those ponies will be helpful, like I understand the lavender one, and the cyan pegasus is a maybe. But the others seem useless, like the pink one is gonna make me snap. The yellow one is scared of everything, the white one hates adventures unless she’s carried. The orange one just seems too… She wears a hat for Christ’s sake!” By now, Taylor was getting pretty annoyed by them.

Cole just laughed in his throat and cracked a smile as he said, “All were doing is going on a road trip to find a fountain, we’ll get high off of it, wish him gone, and Boom! Discord gone!” Cole seemed pretty confident that this was going to be easy. But remember folks, if the adventure were that easy, I wouldn’t write it, would I? (maybe, after all, your plots doo seem a little cliché) Oh shut up. (I’m just saying, if this were turned into a film, everyone would think of Michael Bay but with less screaming) I said Shut up, sorry people, I’m just getting into an argument with my other personality, he writes all of the intense action sequences, I (try to) write the comedic parts. (He gets his jokes off of Memebase.com) GO PLAY CHESS. (You really shouldn’t make insults, you’re only hurting yourself) Whatever, you’re stupid. Anyway, Cole thinks he’s going on an easy adventure. Boy is he wrong! (No shit he’s wrong, you know what? I give up; call me when you need someone to write the good stuff.)

CANCELLED

Let's face it, this is BATTLEFIELD: Earth compared to The Book of Unicorn and for that I am canceling this story

Chapter 2

Lol look what I found buried deep inside my documents!

Rarity was moving quickly through her house, she was packing clothes into one, big, fucking, suitcase. She was putting all sorts of unnecessary clothing like twelve different coats, sixteen pairs of boots, eight different hats, thirty eight and a half pairs of glasses (one was a monocle so shut up). As she sped through her boutique, Sweetie Belle (the marshmallow one) said, “Why can’t I come? Maybe I’ll discover my cutie mark!”
Her face brightened up when she mentioned her opportunity to discover her talent.

“Sweetie Belle, I don’t think getting us all killed is going to be your special talent. I know we’re just going on a trip to a fountain, but I know you and I know you would get us killed somehow.”

Sweetie Belle rolled her eyes as she said, “Only the ones that I don’t care about. Please please can the Cutie Mark Crusaders come?” Sweetie Belle added emphasis to the pleases.

Rarity looked at her younger sister with a look of annoyance as she said, “As sweet and disturbing as that was, the answer is still no, I want to keep my fur. I’ll be back in a few days, remember to stay at least twelve feet away from my boutique.” Rarity kissed her sister’s forehead as she exited the door with her.

“Where will I stay?” Sweetie Belle asked with a look of confusion.

“I don’t know, go to Scootaloo’s place, or the school, I don’t care, be creative. Tah-Tah!” With that Rarity began trotting for Twilight’s Library. Leaving Sweetie Belle sitting there, a look of confusion and deep hurt on her face as she sniffled, Rarity turned her head and said, “By the way, I’m kidding about the twelve feet from the boutique, just no sewing or anything involving my job. Bring Scootaloo and Applebloom over if you want.” Rarity noticed the sudden look of joy and love that swept over her younger sister’s face as she trotted off, the huge suitcase floating in the air next to her.

*****

Meanwhile at Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie Pie was also packing a suitcase, one what was one tenth the size of Rarity’s and only contained a sleeping bag, a tent, some clothes, and a shit ton of cake ingredients. Pinkie grabbed her suitcase and began trotting down the stairs with the suitcase thumping its way down after her. She went to go say goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Cake when she noticed they were sitting at the table waiting for her. Pinkie trotted up as Mr. Cake motioned her to sit down. Once everypony was seated Mrs. Cake said, “Now, I know that you are finally going on a life changing adventure,” (she really never heard of Pinkie’s other adventures), “and we both think now is the time to tell you this.”

Pinkie’s eyes widened with confusion as Mr. Cake said, “You’re probably still wondering why you have never heard from your family in so long, that’s because their not your real parents.”

Pinkie’s eyes widened even more with disbelief and tears formed as she said, “Well, who was my real family?”

Mrs. Cake put a hoof over Pinkie’s to comfort her as she explained, “Your real family was a family of assassins and mercenaries. Your real father, Sir Slashalot was one of the best in the family history of assassins. Before they died they gave you this while you were still a newborn.” Mrs. Cake pulled out a large chest and put it on the table. She took a deep shaky breath before continuing, “It’s their only remaining possession that was passed down to you. We tell you this tragic truth now because as a foal you would have never been able to handle it.”

With a shaking hoof, Pinkie opened the chest to find two swords, she found two SMG’s made to fit around hooves, and a costume (I need no description for later holds the answer). Pinkie took the swords, guns, and costume and ran to her room. When she entered, she threw the swords aside and began to put on the costume, when she was done; she picked up the two swords and pulled them out of their sheaths. One had, “Love” engraved on it while the other one had, “Tolerance” on it. She gave the swords a spin and a few slashes and noticed that not only were the swords extremely light for their size, she had a natural talent for them. She then picked up the SMG’s and gave them a twirl, she loaded the magazines and put them in their holsters. When she was heading for the door she saw a note that had fallen off of the suit, Pinkie picked it up to read, “May the knowledge and teachings be with you, Pinkamena.” Pinkie read the last of her original name to herself before going downstairs. When Mr. and Mrs. Cake saw her, she put her mask on and said, “I’m no longer Pinkie Pie, I am Pinkie Pool.”

She then saw Mrs. Cake say, “Pinkie, are you okay?”

Pinkie woke from her daydream to notice she was still at the table when Mr. Cake said, “We just wanted to tell you that your parents gave you a call saying they hope you visit the rock farm now that it’s doing well.”

Pinkie blinked a couple of times before saying, “Oh, well, that’s nice.” She had a big fake smile on her face before she got off the chair and headed for the door. As she exited she said, “Try not to have too much fun without me.” She gave a big joyful smile as she exited.

When Pinkie was no longer in sight, Mr. Cake said, “Poor mare, do you think we should tell her about her actual family?”

Mrs. Cake said with a look of worry, “I think she’s happier without it.”

*****

Applejack was packing her saddlebags with useful things (thank god) she had fire starter, matches, a tent, a sleeping bag, and apple pie mix (OH COME ON) when little Applebloom trotted up beside her and said, “Can ya tell me why I can’t go?”

Applejack sighed and rolled her eyes as she said, “Because yer mah lil’ sister and I don’t want anything bad to happen to you. I know we’re only goin’ on a trip to some fountain, but knowin’ you, yer gonna get yourself hurt somehow.” Applejack then put her saddlebags on and headed for the doors of the house. There stood Granny Smith and Big Macintosh, Applejack gave them each a big hug before turning to Applebloom and saying, “Now while I’m gone, I want you to be a big girl and run the family apple business for me.”

Applebloom’s face brightened with joy and began hopping around the room while saying, “Really? Yer gonna’ let me sell apples?” Applebloom was full of joy as se skipped throughout the room.

Applejack chuckled and said, “Of course not! You’d probably sell them potatoes without even knowin’ it. What I do want you to do is to look after Granny Smith for me, and you can harvest some of the apples with Big Mac.”

Despite being teased, Applebloom retained some of her joy as she said, “Well, ah guess that’s cool and all.”

“It’s better than nothin’ right?” Applejack raised an eyebrow to her little sister. Applejack gave her sister one last hug and headed out the door to Twilight’s library.

*****

Fluttershy was pacing around the room, obviously worried and scared not only for her, but for the animals that she cared for. On her bed were saddlebags filled with relevant and important things like medicine (I guess that’s needed), a sleeping bag, some pots and pans, and a book on animals (FOR THE LOVE OF GOD). As she packed everything, Angel was standing at the door to her room; he was holding a pocket watch and pointing at it madly. Fluttershy slowly made her way toward him saying, “I know I have to go now, but I need to make sure I have everything.” Fluttershy then trotted to her dresser and pulled out a book, as she read the title she said, “Martial Arts as a self defence, I guess I might need that, oh I hope I didn’t forget to give any animal some extra food.” She then gave Angel a kiss on his head, put her saddlebags on, and headed out the door. She then took off and made her way to Twilight’s Library, waving goodbye to all of her little animals she loved so much.

*****

Meanwhile, at Dash’s cloud house, Rainbow dash had a saddlebag with actual important things relevant to the adventure they were going on. Inside her saddlebags was a tent, a sleeping bag, some clothes to keep warm, and a jar that had, “My Awesome” written on it (FOR FUCKS SAKES, REALLY?). In the room down the hall, Cole was in his alicorn form, floating actual stuff he needed into his de atomiser case. Inside his case was now a passport for when he’s on earth, some snacks, his iPod, a book, a tent, sleeping bags, and a fuckton of guns. When he was done packing everything, Cole trotted into the living room where his suit stood, enclosed in glass as a way of remembering his great victory. Whenever Cole looked at it, his spine shivered, he remembers the pain he felt when his arm was torn off and the suit only made it worse. Cole changed back into human form and opened the case. Since the suit was out of energy, Cole had to manually put it on which was a pain in the ass for him. When the suit was on, Cole put his de atomiser case on his belt and walked into Dash’s room. She was putting her saddlebags on with trouble, so Cole decided to help her out. When the packing was done, Dash turned to Cole and said, “Well, it looks like I finally will be going on an adventure with you after all!”

Cole gave a silent laugh as a smile cracked on his face and he said, “Don’t get your hopes up, all were doing is going on a road trip to a pool and coming back tomorrow.” Suddenly a loud nock thumped against Dash’s door. The door burst open to reveal Scootaloo who was panting. When she had caught her breath she said, “Before you push me over the edge again let me just point out that getting up here with these wings was almost impossible.” Scootaloo gave a flutter of her little chicken wings on her back as she continued, “I also heard you, Cole and the group of ponies and humans are going on an adventure and I want to come.”

Dash floated over top of Scootaloo snickering as she said, “Sorry, kiddo, but no can do. Let’s face it, nopony likes you. I know were just going on a trip to a fountain but knowing you, you’d get the stuffing ripped out of you.”

Scootaloo frowned a bit before she rejoiced saying, “Any way I can help you around here? Like clean your house, or house sit?”

Dash gave a shrug of her wings and said, “Nah, it’s a cloud, no one is desperate enough to break into a cloud.”

Scootaloo’s wings drooped as she said, “This is stupid!”

Dash’s ear twitched as she exited the door hearing that, she turned to the young foal saying, “Stupidity?” Both Scootaloo and Cole gulped, Scootaloo knew from experience while Cole knew from Hollywood where she was going with this. Rainbow inhaled and then yelled at the top of her lungs, “THIS IS EQUESTRIAAA!” Rainbow Dash turned around and bucked Scootaloo off the edge.

“Again?! Really!” Scootaloo yelled as she slowly descended to the ground thanks to her wings. Rainbow Dash made sure to not hurt the poor filly cause then she would lose her youngest creepy fan.

“You’re horrible!” Cole jokingly yelled out.

“I know, that Gerard Butler guy does it so much better than me.” Dash jokingly replied as she turned around. She flew into her room, picked up her saddlebags and said to Cole, “Let’s roll!” Dash then took off into the air with Cole trailing slowly behind her. Cole made sure to have a rainbow of his own trailing behind him to make the whole experience better.

*****

When Dash and Cole got to Twilight’s library, the group was already waiting for them. Somehow the author left out how Jordan, Kevin, and Taylor got the motor home in Equestria so let’s not explain that. When Cole landed, he walked up to Jordan and yelled, “Fist bump?”

Jordan just grunted and said, “Fuck off.”

Cole cleared his throat and put his serious face on and turned to the group of ponies there saying, “First off, where’s Shock Wayve and Ruckus?”

Twilight burst out of her door, the suitcase floating beside her saying, “They said they were busy with personal missions from the princess so I guess it’s just us.” Spike was close behind her carrying a small backpack of his own.

Cole turned to Jordan and said, “Firs off, thanks for getting the RV, is it at full tank?”

Jordan brushed his long manly hair away from his eyes saying, “It’s got several extra gas cans in case we run out. Now let’s get our asses moving before that furry faggot Discord kills us all.”

Pinkie Pie happily skipped her way past Jordan saying, “I don’t think Discord can be a fuzzy cigarette, that’s just not possible.”

Kevin leaned towards Jordan saying, “She owned you there.”

Jordan gave a low grunt and said, “Fuck you. She’s a dumbass, you bug me and I’ll kill you.”

Kevin and Taylor backed away with worried looks on their eyes while Taylor said, “Okay calm now, bud.”

Cole got all of the ponies on the RV and left the three humans out to talk to them personally, before he could begin, Jordan said, “Nice suit, I used to have one like those, then I got promoted.” Jordan laughed at his silly joke while Cole gave a smile.

Cole gently inhaled and said, “Yeah well this suit is what saved our world we are fighting for, while you were still working at Radio Shack I was defeating our god with this thing on. Also it saved this kingdom from a neo Nazi or something like that. Anyways, I wanted to let you three know that I know these ponies can be annoying at times, but just try to be nice to them.”

Kevin laughed a bit and said, “Don’t worry, we wont let them suffer.”

Cole’s hand suddenly turned into a blade and was pointing right at Kevin’s neck as he said, “Really? That’s weird because I was thinking of showing you guys what real suffering is like.”

Taylor slowly moved her hand over Cole’s blade and lowered it. She could feel the energy radiating off of it as she said, “Calm down, I think we’ll be fine with them. Just try not to bug the yellow one, the silent one is always the killer.”

Kevin turned his head to the window to see Fluttershy hide from the window, she was startled by the sudden movement. When all of that conflict was over Cole said, “allrighty then, Let’s go.” With that Cole teleported his way into the bus and sat down at the table with Dash. Jordan got on next after taking his suit off and putting it into his de atomiser case. Kevin got on next followed by Taylor.

When everyone and everypony was seated, Jordan sat in the driver’s seat, turned his head around and said, “Everyone buckled in?”

Pinkie picked up the two straps from her seat and said, “Is that what these things are?” Before Jordan answered, he slammed on the gas making the bus jerk and making Pinkie fly out of her seat. The bus made sharp turns to avoid the houses and to see Pinkie fly across the room bumping onto everything. Jordan, Kevin, and Taylor laughed at the poor mare. Pinkie simply got up and brushed herself off and said, “I guess that is what they’re for.”

Once the RV was balanced out on a flat road, Cole jumped into the air and yelled, “Road trip!” The ponies began to cheer happily, Spike was sitting next to Rarity at the table, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Twilight were on the couch, Applejack was on the reclining chair, Taylor and Jordan were at the front driving, Kevin was sitting across from Rarity, looking like he wanted to pull his ears off or turn mute on. Cole and Dash were on the bed in the back just laying there.

Dash moved her head on top of Cole’s chest and said, “Finally, some alone time with you.” Dash then moved to kiss Cole on the lips.

Before Dash could make contact, Cole stopped her and said, “The rest is only a couple of feet outside the door, this is awfully bumpy. Do you think the others will know were making out?”

Before Dash could answer, Pinkie Pie popped her head out of the sheets and said, “Nah, nopony will notice.” She then gave them her adorable huge smile. Next thing Pinkie knew, she was sitting on a chair that was bolted to the top of the RV, the wind blowing into her hair at 100mp/h as she said out loud, “Okay I learned my lesson, can I come down now, these bugs taste awful.” Cole then appeared in front of her and untied her from her chair, picked her up, and disappeared back into the bus.

When Cole was back inside, he walked up to the front to Twilight and asked, “So how lo0ng do we have until we arrive at the Fountain of Luck?”

Twilight used her magic to pull the map from her saddlebag and spread it in front of her, she gave a look over it before saying, “Well if we are travelling at about 80 km/h then we should be there by midnight.”

When Jordan heard how long it would take, he began to frown. Taylor leaned over and said to him, “Just sixteen more hours, remember when we went to your family reunion? That was a week long, I’m sure you can grin and bear this.”

*****

Meanwhile back on earth, in a high school in L.A. A boy about the age of sixteen was walking down the halls carrying his books when a group of the football team walked by, knocking his books over. The one in the middle said, “Sorry about that, did I hurt your imaginary friend?”

“Fuck off, guys.” The poor kid said as he picked up his books.

The one to the right looked at him with narrowing eyes as he said, “The fuck did you just say?”

The poor kid who had finally picked up his stuff said, “I didn’t say anything.”

The three boys, who were in disbelief, walked towards the boy, picked him up and walked him to the bathroom. When they entered, they threw the boy to the ground. When the kid tried to get back up, he was kicked in the face. The oldest of the group said to him, “I said, the fuck did you just say, faggot.”

“I swear to god I didn’t say anything.” The poor bruised boy said, wiping blood from his nose. When he tried to get back up, the tallest of the group punched him across the face, breaking his nose. When the kid tried to return a punch, the shorter one of the group kicked him in the stomach. The kid finally understood that he wasn’t going to win and just laid there, crying. The burly one of the group picked up his binder and began ripping all of the fan art the boy had been working on, crumpling each one up and tossing it aside. When that was done, the boys dragged the kid to the nearest bathroom stall and shoved his head down the toilet and held him there. The boy struggled for his life but was powerless against these larger boys, he struggled and fought for air until the boys let him out of the toilet to gasp for air as they laughed their way out of the door. When not a sound could be heard, the boy, who’s name is Jack Swagger (what an epic name) peaked outside. He immediately dashed for the pile of shredded art and theories that could prove what that man Cole O’Reilly was fighting.

He looked at the pile and began to cry when suddenly, a voice came from nowhere, the voice sounded deep and sinister, but at the same time comforting. It said to him, “What a shame, I quite like your style of art.”

“Thanks, I guess.” Jack said with his head low.

“Aww, what’s wrong? I’m assuming it was the way those larger more powerful men overpowered you.” Jack stood up to face whoever he was talking to. But couldn’t find anyone, the room was completely empty, Jack walked over to pick up his art that was sitting next to the mirror. When he raised his head to look at his reflection to check for injuries, he was shocked at what he saw. He saw his reflection, but instead of leaning over, it was in the corner of the room in the reflection. His reflection spoke to him, “I know how you feel, you feel like you are trapped forever right? Stuck in this eternal hell constantly being tortured?”

Jack spun his head around to look for his doppelganger, but found nothing, it really was his reflection. Jack calmed himself down and accepted this was happening and said, “That’s exactly how I feel. Who are you?”

The reflection stepped towards Jack, as it approached, its eyes darkened, the whites of the eyes turned yellow and the pupils turned red. Once it was face to face with Jack his reflection said, “I’m your salvation, boy. I can get rid of all of your problems in life.”

Jack had a confused look on his face; he moved his limbs to notice that the reflection was moving his limbs in perfect harmony. Jack then said, “How? You’re just a reflection.”

The reflection laughed and said, “By granting you power beyond your comprehension. I can give you these abilities. Unfortunately I have been cursed to not make contact with this world, only a habitant from this world can make contact with me to grant me access. See the thing is, over a thousand years ago, I was trapped in stone by an evil enchantress, and only a few years back I was freed and then trapped again by her minions. Now I remain with a curse that limits my power in this world. I want revenge, you want revenge. What do you say? Let’s work together, allow me access to this world and I will grant you one wish. It can be anything.” With that the reflection put his hand against eh mirror. At first Jack was reluctant, but eventually convinced himself with the opportunity to have super powers. Slowly, Jack brought his hand to the mirror. As he was doing so, the reflection said, “By the way, my name is Discord, god of Chaos.” Before Jack could react to the news he had made a deal with the devil, his hand was touching the mirror. It felt like Jack was being electrocuted. He could feel his body tingling with energy as he was thrown back into one of the toilet stalls, breaking the door down. When jack got back up, he could see his reflection standing in front of him. Discord stuck out his hand and said, “I never break a promise.”

“What did you do to me?” Jack said as he looked at the black smoke that seeped out of the cracks in his skin.

“I only granted you power beyond human ability. You can now create any form of weapon if you think about it. Try it on that witness over there.” Discord pointed a finger to a boy who had entered the room, his eyes widened with horror at the sight of now two Jack Swaggers. Jack could suddenly feel a deep burning rage inside him. At first he tried his best to fight back, but eventually was overpowered and stuck his arm out at the boy, who was no older than twelve. Jack focused him mind on a blade and suddenly his rung finger turned into a needle sharp blade that stretched across the room. As fast as a bullet, the needle pierced the child’s brain. Blood drooled from the hole as the child’s eyes drained of life. He died before he hit the ground; he fell to the ground like a sack of bricks and lay there, motionless as blood leaked from the hole that had formed. Jack’s hand returned to normal, his conscience was trying to fight the urge to kill more. But some sort of joy was being felt when Jack took the life of that young person.

Jack turned to Discord and said, “Once I claim my revenge, what do I have to do for you?” Jack’s mouth broke into a devilish smile.

“Chaos, my boy. Just create chaos with me.” Discord brought an arm over Jack’s shoulder as they walked out of the door. Once they exited, Discord disappeared saying, “Kill everyone in sight, starting with the ones who tried to kill you.”

Jack stormed down the hall; his mind was blind with an unknown rage. Jack walked into the gymnasium where the three bullies were demonstrating wrestling moves to the other students. When the tall one who wasn’t busy saw him, he said, “Look who decided to finally come to class, get changed, I have to teach you some wrestling.” Jack walked to the change rooms across the hall, giving the boy a menacing look in his eye as he entered. When he got in he quickly changed into his gym outfit and stormed into the gymnasium where the three boys were now free of demonstrating. They stood in the center, as though they were waiting for him. The tall one said, “Time to be my bitch, get in the ring.”

Jack slowly stepped into the ring, his face looked calm, but underneath was a monster waiting to attack. Jack got himself in wrestling mode. When the match begun, the burly one immediately flipped Jack over him and onto his back. The burly boy immediately got into a head lock position where Jack’s head was being cut off of oxygen. The burly boy said, “Don’t try to be the hero, kid, you’ll only make yourself look like a faggot.”

Jack immediately stopped struggling, which surprised the three boys, but the laughing really threw them off. It wasn’t Jack’s normal screech of a laugh, it was deep and sinister as jack said, “That’s why I’m the villain.” Immediately Jack stood up, lifting the burly kid into the air. He grabbed the kid’s head and flipped him over. The boys were stunned by this sudden strength he found. Since the burly kid outweighed Jack by a hundred pounds. When the burly kid was on the ground, Jack put his hand around the kid’s face and began to squeeze. Jack imagined the image of his hand crushing his head as he said, “Here’s for all the years of humiliation, torment, torture, injuries, pain, humiliation, and suffering you brought me.” The burly boy tried his best to pull Jack’s hand away from his face, but his hand was like a vice that was getting tighter and tighter. Eventually it began to hurt him and he began to scream. Everyone in the gym stopped what they were doing to see what was going on. Jack had an evil look on his face when he began to see blood leaking from the kid’s eyes and ears. The kid was screaming at the top of his lungs in agony as his friends tried to pull Jack off of him, but to no avail. Jack gave one final squeeze and the kid’s head exploded. Blood sprayed everywhere as his skull was crushed, leaving mushy chunks of brain and muscle on the ground, blood was still spraying from the neck as the corpse’s hand let go of Jack’s arm.

The tall kid immediately ran for the door saying, “What the fuck!” Everyone was in a panic as Jack brought a wall of stone to block the exits off. Everyone was trapped now.

Jack then removed all of their voices and said out loud, “Don’t bother screaming, no one will hear you.” Jack then walked up to the taller of the bullies and punched his fist through the kid’s chest. His fist exploded out the back holding the heard and part of the lung, blood sprayed all over the other kid who was behind him. Jack yanked his fist back through the kid’s chest destroying his ribs and killing him, his stomach and intestines spilled out of the open hole as the boy died in pain. All that was left now was the one last kid. Jack slowly walked to him saying in a deep and sinister voice, “Here’s what you deserve, ten years worth of pain, torture, and suffering in one tiny blow.” Jack then brought a finger to the boys neck, his finger was oozing black smoke as it gently touched the boys chin. Immediately, a lightning bolt’s worth of energy surged through the boy’s head as it exploded. Brains and skull fragments went everywhere as blood sprayed from the neck. The body fell to its knees and plopped onto the ground, dead. The gym teacher ran for Jack trying to tackle him, but Jack was ready, he simply stomped on the ground and a giant stone steak for every person in the room popped from the ground under each and every person. Stabbing through them and killing everyone in the room. Blood was everywhere as Jack slowly walked out of the gymnasium, leaving the fourth graders to see what had happened.

Jack walked into the hallway to find his reflection standing there, waiting for him. It turned its evil eyes to Jack and said, “How many survivors?”

“None.” Jack said as he brought a blood covered hand into view.

“Well done, my boy. Come with me, and together we will claim our revenge on the world.” With that, Discord turned into a cloud of smoke and seeped through the vents and slithered away. Jack began to run for the exit, his hands growing large whips at eh end with huge spiked weights at the end. Jack never felt so good doing things so evil, and he loved every second of it. Jack was going to enjoy killing everyone he saw.

Chapter 2.5

Cole and his team of heroes re-appeared in the RV that was still on the highway, which was full of burning corpses and destroyed cars. Twilight immediately covered Fluttershy’s eyes so she wouldn’t see the black bodies that the boy had burnt. When Jordan was re oriented, he handed back the A-7 “Skullfucker” to Taylor. Taylor gave it a twirl and returned it to her de-atomiser, along with her other weapons. Cole noticed the strange looking gun and said, “I’ve never seen a gun like that before.”

Taylor gave a chuckle before she said, “That’s because it’s the only one of its kind. I made it myself.”

Cole was obviously impressed with her craftiness, Cole then said, “Before we play tourist for a bit, I want to congratulate everyone in here for doing an amazing job,” Cole walked up to Twilight and said, “especially you, Twilight.” Cole gave her a gentle hug before turning around and saying, “Off to a place that will be of slight interest! Preferably a restaurant because I am hungry as fuck!” Jordan gave a long sigh before dropping himself into the driver’s seat and pressing a few buttons. Before they knew it, the bus was being transported to another section of the city.

*****

The voice in the speaker was crackly at first but managed to say, “Hi welcome to Mc Donald’s, may I take your order?”

Jordan, who was speaking into the machine, said, “Yeah, I’ll have four double bacon cheeseburger meals, one double bacon cheeseburger alone, and five medium fries alone.”

The voice responded with, “Okay, so your total is $42.98”

Jordan pulled up to the window to see the girl prepared to give it to a minivan, Jordan then yelled, “Up here, the heroes of the day would like their meals.”

The woman at the window suddenly gasped her eyes wide with surprise as she turned inside and said, “Hey, those guys that killed the giant snake thing are here!” She then poked her head out of the window and said to Jordan, “I’ll pay for this! Go on ahead!”

Jordan gave a half smile before saying, “Thanks, have a good day!” Jordan pulled the RV out of the Mc Donald’s drive thru and began to drive for the fanciest hotel they could find in L.A. That’s right, they left for New York. Since the author of the story hates describing long trips he decided to have them teleport to N.Y. instead. Jordan slowly pulled the RV up to the Four Seasons Hotel.

Before they exited, Cole reminded Twilight to change the ponies into human. When all of that was done, Cole looked at Spike; he had completely forgotten he came with them on the trip. He kneeled down and said to the dragon, “Have you ever changed into a human before?”

Spike shook his head saying, “No, but since I already walk on two feet, how different could it be?” Since Cole has never been a dragon before, he had to agree with him. He turned to Twilight and gave her a nod. Twilight sighed; it was a little tiring having to constantly change ponies from one form to another. Her eyes began to glow a bright purple while Spike began to float into the air. As Spike floated there he said, “This feels odd.” Before Spike could say anything else, his entire small body was wrapped in a ribbon of light. The ribbons acted as a form of cocoon as it began to change shape. When the transformation was over, Spike landed on the ground. At first Spike had a few troubles keeping balance on legs that long, but he managed. Spike stumbled for the bathroom mirror to see himself. He had bleach blond hair and striking green eyes, his voice was completely different, it sounded as though it was the voice of a ten year old. Spike walked back out saying, “How old do I look?”

Cole rubbed his chin before saying, “You look like your around nine or ten years old. It suits your personality. I’m going to guess your ages too, girls. Twilight, you look to be about nineteen, like me. Rarity looks to be about twenty one or so, thank goodness (now someone can buy them alcohol). Pinkie looks to be about nineteen as well. Fluttershy is twenty something. Applejack looks to be about twenty three, and Dash here looks to be eighteen. I think that suits you all well. Now when anyone asks, just say your actual names are your nicknames. Ready? Let’s go!” Cole then opened the door to see a huge crowd of people surrounding them.

One reporter shouted from the crowd saying, “People are saying you’re related to Cole O’Reilly, is that true?”

Cole gave a laugh as his eyes turned a solid yellow. He said loudly as to speak above the crowd, “We all know about that guy, Cole, who saved us from failed military bio-weaponry, to say that I’m related to him in any way is entirely false. I’m William Culford, I’m from Scotland, while he’s from Ireland.”

Another reporter, this one was a woman, shouted, “What about the rumours that you were involved in the terrorist attack on the highway?”

Cole gave her a serious look before saying into the microphones, “That was not a terrorist; it was another failed bio-weapon experiment. A few lines of code were left out causing the droid to go haywire and go rogue. Now if you’ll all excuse me,” Cole spread his hands slowly as the crowd of reporters were suddenly moved aside, “me, my girlfriend, and my team are going to be staying here for the night.”

One reporter shouted over Cole, interrupting him saying, “What about your telekinetic abilities? These powers cannot be physically recreated by machine.”

Cole stopped in his tracks, he turned to the reporter and said, “Listen, there are things in this world that are beyond human comprehension, the reason I’m saying all of this bullshit is because if I tell all you stupid people.” Cole looked into one of the cameras for CNN and said, “That’s right, you stupid people out there won’t understand a single thing. But since you ask so nicely I will have to tell you. My powers are achieved through thousands of years of evolution, a small race of people have been slowly flourishing underground. We have a capability of using 32% of our brain. That little snippet of space gives us our super powers. Its simple evolution, and if you try to ask me to do a test, I will use you as a demonstration of my powers.” Cole gave the reporters a dirty look before sighing and saying, “Look, I’m sorry about that, but it’s how you treat what just happened that pisses me off. More than eighty innocent lives were lost today and all you care about is where I’m sleeping. Try investigating into the killings, find out where the enemy might strike next. And be prepared, were entering a new millennium people, one with threats far greater than we could imagine.” Cole then wrapped his arm around the human Rainbow Dash and walked through the doors. The bellhop decided to let Cole stay for free but only for the night.

When the group got into the villa at the top and once the girls returned to human form, Rarity immediately said, “The style, the elegance, the beauty. Oh this place is like a palace!” Rarity began to spin around the room.

Cole laughed and said, “Don’t get too excited, were only staying for the night.”

Immediately, Pinkie and Twilight rushed for one of the rooms while Pinkie yelled, “Called dibs.”

Fluttershy and Rarity rushed for another as Rarity said, “A Jacuzzi?”

Applejack followed after Rarity saying, “I’m pretty sure Rarity’s gonna fall asleep in the hot tub, so I’m gonna bunk with them.”

Spike rushed after her saying, “Rarity might need company.”

Cole and Dash dove for the last room while Cole said, “No way! Water beds!”

Once everyone was gone, and Jordan, Taylor, and Kevin were alone in the room, Jordan pulled one of the bacon cheeseburgers out and walked to Fluttershy’s room saying, “Hey Fluttershy, come try this, I think you might like it.”

Fluttershy poked her yellow head out of the door saying, “What is it?”

Jordan waved the burger in front of her saying, “Try this, it’s delicious!” Fluttershy slowly exited the room; she slowly approached the burger while taking sniffs at it. She then took a small bite out of it, at first she was slow to chew but that soon changed.

Fluttershy took the burger out of Jordan’s hands and began eating away, with her mouth half full she said, “This is incredible, what is it made of?”

Jordan tried his best to hold back a smile before saying, “Just made of cows and pigs.” Fluttershy immediately froze, her eyes wide with horror at what she was doing. She was mortified even more by how she actually enjoyed it! Flutershy’s hooves began to shake as the burger dropped from her hooves. Jordan and the other two burst out laughing at the sight as the walked into their own separate room.

*****

As Kevin changed into his street clothes, he took off his helmet. Underneath the helmet was a man aged about 23 with straight black hair cut short. He had a clean shave and had brown eyes. Jordan had long black hair and a thick beard, he looked to be about 24. His eyes were a greenish color as he took off his glasses. Taylor’s hair had a bit of a Punk style to it. Her eyes were dark red and her face was narrowish.

Jordan Taylor, and Kevin were dressed in street attire as they watched the television. They were watching a news report on the events that took place in L.A. a few hours ago. The news anchor said to the camera, “People are saying this is the new age of the super heroes. Others are saying this is the new age of aliens. Both agree that what happened today will be a day no one will ever forget. Around noon today, a boy identified as Jack Swagger went on rampage, causing $30,000 of damage and killing eighty people, most of them children. The terrorism ended when an unknown man killed what appeared to be the boy’s giant pet snake and the boy himself. He was then found in New York a few hours later stopping at the Four Seasons Hotel. Some say that they were aliens he killed, others say that it was a monster, some even think that it was an ancient god that has returned.” The three’s attention was diverted from the television when they heard pounding on the door. Immediately, Cole burst through the door and grabbed Jordan by the throat, he lifted him up and brought him to the large window behind them. The window immediately disappeared as Jordan hung over the edge.

Cole then said, “I just found Fluttershy trying to drown herself, mind telling me what the fuck you did to her?”

Jordan gulped before saying, “It was a simple prank, calm down.”

Cole dropped Jordan but immediately caught him again while yelling, “A simple prank doesn’t result with someone trying to kill themselves. You knew damn well that she was a veterinarian and a vegetarian.” Cole then threw Jordan across the room while saying, “You people disgust me, and I thought my best friends would actually accept these incredible ponies as friends too. But you’re too stubborn to see past their colors to learn that they actually have incredible qualities. They’re so innocent and you go on and try to get them to commit suicide, how soulless are you.” Cole then stormed out of the room, the window reappeared in its original place.

The news reporter then said, “In related news, a man who goes by the name Sethisto is being interviewed for his knowledge on military information and spreading it across his blog.”

Kevin looked down at Jordan and said, “Cole’s right, you know. I’m going to apologise to her. That was really cruel.”

As Kevin walked out of the room, Jordan said, “Whatever, he’s gone soft.”

*****

Kevin walked to the door that was filled with the sound of weeping, he then said in a soft voice, “Fluttershy, listen I’m sorry for what we did, that was horribly cruel of us to do that to you. Please let me in so I can explain.” Slowly the door opened up, inside there was Fluttershy in the corner. The lights were off as she sat in the corner crying, Kevin walked up to her slowly and kneeled down.

Fluttershy sniffled before saying, “Why would you do that to me? I love animals and take care of the, and you just made me eat two at the same time.”

Kevin sat down next to her and said, “We didn’t know you enough to know that you were this sensitive, it was mostly Jordan’s idea to do this. But I’m taking responsibility for it, we didn’t take the time to learn about you and understand that you are one of the most interesting things to happen to us.”

Fluttershy wiped a tear from her eye before saying, “What’s so interesting about me?”

Kevin shrugged as he said, “Well to start off, you’re kind, you’re generous, you’re thoughtful, you’re delicate, you’re cute.” Kevin felt his face grow extremely hot as the last word escaped his mouth.

Fluttershy’s ears immediately flicked into a perk as she said, “You think I’m cute?”

Kevin took a deep breath of courage before saying, “Yeah, you have this innocent look in your eyes and the way your hair covers one of them is just… adorable.” Slow at first, Fluttershy rested her head on Kevin’s arm.

Fluttershy took in a deep breath, the crying over now as she said, “I forgive you, Kevin.”

Kevin then had a sensational idea; he turned his head to face Fluttershy as he said, “How about I make it up to you, you like animals right?”

Fluttershy perked up when Kevin mentioned animals, “Oh yes. I love animals, every animal in Equestria is my favourite!” she said with a smile on her face.

“Well how about we visit Earth’s animals? You and me.” Kevin gave her a wink with the last sentence.

“That would be wonderful!” Fluttershy spread her wings and began to hover above Kevin, she brushed the hair from her eyes as she rose.

“Then let’s go.” Kevin immediately got to his feet and headed for the door.

As they exited, Cole and Dash watched them, Cole turned to Rainbow Dash and said with a large smile on his face as he said, “I knew Kevin was a good kid, his heart is in the right place.” He then kissed Dash on the lips before saying, “Soon he’ll know what it’s like to love a pony like you.” Dash blushed at the not so charming thing Cole said. Cole brought an arm around Dash as they cuddled in bed together. Soon Dash was asleep in Cole’s arm, the sight of this made Cole want to vomit a rainbow of candy (even magic can’t do that) but he couldn’t. Instead he cuddled closer and kissed Dash on the forehead as he drifted into his dreams.

*****

Kevin looked up at the large gates and said, “Well here we are, the Central Park zoo!”

Fluttershy was a little nervous looking up at the menacing structure before her, but after looking back at Kevin, she calmed down a little bit and said, “Nopony is here…”

Kevin then said with a gentle laugh, “That’s because it’s closed, I know how uncomfortable you get in crowds so I brought you here when it’s empty.” Kevin then began to climb the fence and before either of them knew it, they were both on the inside of the zoo. Fluttershy immediately broke into a canter towards the nearest animals. Fluttershy was in her own little world as Kevin looked at the snakes.

Suddenly, one of the snakes looked at him and said, “Hello, Kevin Rowd.”

Kevin jumped back at the sight of this before saying in a shaking voice, “D-Discord? I thought you were gone?”

The snake laughed as it said, “My dear boy, I am gone, I can’t make any physical contact with this world other than through people and animals. Listen, I know why you’re working for that dreadful Cole.”

Kevin had a puzzled look on his face before saying, “Why am I working for Cole?”

The snake gave a flick of its tongue before saying, “Your sister, she’s sick isn’t she? I think your medics called her ‘terminally ill’, she has pancreatic cancer, doesn’t she?”

Kevin tried his best not to tear up at the thought and managed to say, “Every day I saw her suffer, I joined Cole because the salary would help afford possible treatments for it.”

The snake approached the window as it gave another flick of its tongue while saying, “What if I told you that I can make it go away, I can take that horrible disease from her and bring her back to her normal self again?”

Kevin couldn’t help but listen to Discord now; he wanted to do whatever he could to help his sister. Kevin said to the snake, “How would you do it? What do I have to do?”

The snake somehow smiled as it said, “I’m a god, I can do whatever I want, all you have to do is work for me. It’s as simple as that.”

Kevin lowered his head, his mind deep in thought. He then said, “I don’t trust you, Discord. You’re the devil and I believe Cole O’Reilly will help me.”

The snake’s eyes began to glow as it pressed its face against the window, the snake said in an impatient voice, “They lie to you, Kevin. Work for me and I will give her back her life.”

Kevin got angry; he suddenly began to make sense to him. Kevin then said, “What do I have to do?”

The snake gave a sinister smile before saying, “Kill the ponies. By any means possible.”

Kevin’s ears flicked as he heard a familiar shy voice yell, “Kevin, where are you? I’m scared, come on I want to talk to you.” Kevin then stepped away from the snake cage, Discord’s snake was gone now. When Fluttershy saw Kevin she gave a long sigh before saying, “I thought I lost you.”

Kevin gave a fake smile before saying, “Don’t worry, I’d never leave you.”

Fluttershy then flew next to Kevin saying, “So why did you work for Cole even though you didn’t really like us ponies?”

Kevin’s head hung low as he said, “I wanted to help find a cure to my sister’s disease before she dies. I would do anything to help her, so I joined the winning side of the battle in hopes that I can afford the cure someday.” By now, Fluttershy had her back to Kevin. His hand immediately went for his coat; he brought out a tactical knife as he approached her silently. Kevin continued his rambling, “Unfortunately, the winning side has changed. That means that I have too.”

Fluttershy turned her head before Kevin could react and said, “What do you mean?” As Kevin dove for her with the knife in the air, Fluttershy screamed and began to run.

Kevin grabbed her by the tail and dragged her to him while saying, “I mean, Discord promised me that my sister would get better if I kill you all. That won’t be a problem.” Kevin launched his hand into the air and began to drive it for Fluttershy’s heart. All Fluttershy could let out was a small scream as she watched the metal blade dive for her heart. Instead of feeling the pain of a blade inside her, she heard a loud thundering noise approach her at high speeds. She opened her eyes just in time to see Jordan in his suit jump over the wall of the zoo and land over top of the two. He immediately grabbed Kevin’s arm and lifted him into the air and threw him aside.

Jordan snorted as he said, “I knew you would betray us!”

Kevin brought his blade into combat mode as he shouted, “Its you whose betraying us! All Discord wants to do is kill those fucking horses. It’s Cole that’s causing him to kill humans.”

Jordan shook his head, his suit lighted up with color as he said, “Discord fucked with your mind too, huh?” Kevin didn’t respond, instead he ran for Jordan with his knife ready. Jordan simply transferred the energy from Kevin’s attack into a throw and brought Kevin to the ground. Kevin struggled; he was blind with rage as he squirmed. Suddenly, Kevin grew strength that was beyond human. He brought his legs in and kicked Jordan a few meters away and went for Fluttershy. Jordan got back up and dove for Kevin, Jordan and Fluttershy closed their eyes when they heard the sound of a knife penetrating skin. Fluttershy screamed but could not feel any pain. She looked up at Jordan to see him with the four inch blade deep inside his chest. Kevin laughed as he tried to pull the knife out of Jordan, but it was in there pretty good. Jordan looked up at Kevin and said, “I knew you would betray us.” Jordan then pulled the knife out of his chest, blood began to spray out after the knife. Jordan took the butt of the knife and used it as a blunt weapon to knock Kevin out. Jordan wailed on Kevin’s face for what felt like an eternity. Kevin just laid there, his face bashed and bloody, Jordan’s wound felt like it was on fire as he brought his fist up one last time and punched Kevin in the temple. Kevin’s head flopped to the side, motionless as Jordan got back up.

Fluttershy was mortified by what she had seen as she said, “You…”

Jordan coughed up a pool of blood as he said, “You thought I was going to betray us huh? Well I know what I’m fighting for and I’m sticking with it.”

Fluttershy got under Jordan’s arm to help support him as she said, “How did you know I was here?”

Jordan let out a silent laugh from his bloddy face as he said, “It’s because I…” Jordan couldn’t finish his sentence, he fell to the ground unconscious. Fluttershy panicked, she tried her best to move Jordan, but couldn’t. Then she focused as best as she could on what Jordan just did for her and she grabbed under Jordan’s arms and picked him up. She managed to get him on her back but he was almost too heavy for her, it was only the adrenaline that was keeping her up. She then used all of her strength to take off back to the hotel. As she flew she cried and cried, she would never get over what she had just witnessed.

*****

Cole was rudely awakened from his sleep when he heard the sound of a window shattering. Cole immediately jumped out of bed along with Dash. Together they ran to the source of the noise, Cole was ready to attack a monster or a robber, but instead found an exhausted pegasus with a nearly dead soldier on the ground. A trail of blood could be traced to the window, the man was still breathing, but barely. Cole rushed to Jordan’s side as he suddenly yelled, “Help! Somebody help!” The shouting not only woke up the other ponies, but shortly triggered the sound of alarms; the sound of an ambulance could be heard. Cole turned to face the window as a medic helicopter came into view and stopped at the side of the building. The medics made it into the room and got Jordan onto a stretcher, before long the medics were airlifting Jordan to the nearest hospital.

Fluttershy was panting when she said, “Jordan… Kevin… Discord…”

Cole rushed to her side along with the rest, Spike was hiding behind a shaking Twilight’s leg as Cole said, “What happened?”

Fluttershy wheezed before saying, “Kevin tried to… to kill… me.” Cole was shocked to hear Fluttershy say that. Cole didn’t think for long, he picked up Fluttershy and brought her into his bed where she slept for the rest of the night.

Cole stood outside in front of the broken window as Twilight approached and said, “I thought…”

Cole interrupted her saying, “I’m not too surprised to hear Kevin did that. He lived the worst life possible, he never knew his father, his mother died when she gave birth to him. All he had was his sister; it was just the two against the world as they moved from Germany.”

Twilight scratched her mane as she said, “Pardon me, Cole, but what does that have to do with Kevin’s decision?”

Cole looked at her and said, “His sister took care of him his entire life. He loved his sister more than anything in the world. She was his only company, a few years back; Kevin found out that his sister was sick.”

Twilight was getting more confused as Cole went on as she said, “What are you talking about, her being sick has nothing to do with Kevin killing Jordan.”

Cole kept calm as he said, “His sister is going to die, unless Kevin makes another eighty thousand dollars to pay for a very rare cure, she will have only a few more months to live. Kevin searched high and low for a job when I stumbled upon him going into a rage in a hospital. I figured out he had just lost his job and I decided to hire him. He seemed to have the drive necessary to do the job. And said that as soon as he gets enough mone, he’s quitting.”

Twilight then shouted at Cole in rage as she said, “Damn it Cole, what are you getting at?”

Cole then said with no expression, “He would do anything for a cure.” Twilight suddenly understood what he was getting at, her eyes widened with knowledge as Cole said, “He was probably promised a cure by someone or something as long as he tried to kill us. I’m thinking it has something to do with Discord wanting us dead.”

Twilight rubbed her hoof against her chin as she said, “Discord probably hypnotized him into believing that he was fighting the loosing side and joined Discord.”

Cole dawned a look of deep sorrow as he looked into the distance and said, “After seeing all of the powers that boy had earlier, I can only worry what Discord has given Kevin. Tell everyone to pack their stuff, were leaving first thing in the morning. Were getting Jordan and going to Equestria to continue our search for the Fountain of Luck.” Twilight nodded her head and returned to bed, Cole stayed there to watch the streets as he said to himself, “Kevin, I hope Discord does keep a promise. I know I would.”

*****

Kevin opened his eyes; his head throbbed with pain as he slowly got to his feet. He looked around to notice it was still dark out, suddenly he could hear a voice in his head, “Kevin my boy, I could see it in your eyes you wanted to kill Jordan more than anything in the world. Unfortunately I only expected there to be Fluttershy, without Jordan you could have killed her ne problem. So now the other humans have made it quite clear that they hate you. You need to kill them now, but you will need a gift in order to rival Cole’s magic. I give you a piece of my heart, Kevin. The flames of hatred burn deep inside your heart as you turn into a cold blooded predator.” Suddenly Kevin could feel his entire body cramping up. Mostly his skin as he felt it harden, his eyes began to see many more colors, and was that heat he could see? Kevin also noticed that his new vision granted him the ability to see the pulses in animals that traveled through their nervous system. Kevin felt his tongue begin to take shape as he dropped to his knees in pain. He let out a screech of pain as the pain stopped. Kevin immediately got to his feet and ran for the gates. His armour had been torn off of his body as the cramping took place so he needed to use conventional ways of entering and exiting. Kevin ran up to the iron bars and pushed as hard as he could, at first the gates barely moved, but suddenly he could feel the gates bending more and more until he broke through. Kevin then ran off into the distance to plan for his next attack. The voice returned saying, “Go to a bar in Manehatan called The Apple Orchard, they’ll be there before you know it, looking to kill you and your sister.”

*****

Jordan could faintly hear talking going on around him, “He’s awake, but I’m afraid he can’t leave the place yet.”

Then another voice said with a cocky tone to it, “Don’t worry, he’s a trooper.” Suddenly Jordan felt a fist collide with his face as the pain brought him back to reality. Jordan looked around to see Cole, Taylor, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Twilight, Rarity, and Dash looking at him. Jordan figured out it was Cole who punched him as Cole said, “Morning sunshine! Time’s ticking and we have to go.” Cole grabbed Jordan by the arm and pulled him out of bed, Jordan simply flopped onto the ground. The doctor said that Jordan still didn’t have enough blood in him to keep him supported. Cole took him to the RV anyways and plopped him in the bathroom and said, “The doctor also said that you have no control over your bowels either so we don’t want to take any risks.” Cole then shut the door on Jordan. Cole did some unnecessary back flips to the driver’s seat to find out Taylor is driving.

Before Cole could say anything Taylor said, “Shut up, I know what you’re thinking, I can drive.”

Cole then said, “But you’re a…” Taylor pulled out a pistol to Cole’s head which made him stutter. All Cole could do was say, “A good driver so we shouldn’t argue.” Cole then dove behind the reclining chair where Pinkie was sitting.

Taylor then said to the group, “Off we go, to Equestria! What do I press?”

Slamming could be heard from the bathroom door as Jordan burst out of the door and came storming into the room saying, “God damn it you make me sit in that bathroom one more time and I will cripple you!” Cole nodded with agreement as Jordan sat in the driver’s seat and pressed a few buttons. Next thing they knew they were in Equestria, The bus was in the middle of a huge city that resembled New York, but with a surplus of ponies and happiness. Jordan was still angry for the way Cole was treating him and “rage parked” the bus next to a store. He then turned his head almost as though he was possessed and yelled, “Everyone off the bus!”

As the ponies were exiting, Dash said to Pinkie, “Jordan’s acting like he’s lost his mind.”

Fluttershy was about to agree with Dash, when Twilight stepped into the conversation and said, “Remember my breakdown, he’s got nothing on me.” Both Fluttershy and Dash had to agree with that, she did go ape shit over that whole “no letter to princess Celestia” conundrum.

Cole looked around and said, “This isn’t where we left the last time we were in Equestria.”

Jordan then said as he struggled to get off the RV, “That’s because we have another problem. Something huge this time.”

*****

Let’s time travel back a few hours, the Great and Powerful Trixie was at a bar, doing her low budget performances. She had really begun to hit hard times after she humiliated herself in front of Ponyville. Now all she does is perform for very few birthday parties and perform low budget magic tricks for the occasional drunk stallion that was down on hard times as well. One night, as Trixie was exiting the stage after being booed once again, she began to cry when she looked at herself in the mirror. She couldn’t stand the sight of herself, she was a failure. She sat down next to her boxes of props and cried. Nopony came to comfort her because of her reputation. Suddenly out of nowhere, a voice rang through her ear saying, “Down on hard times as well hmm?”

Trixie stood tall as she said, “The Great and Powerful Trixie is never on hard times.”

“So you would consider eight ponies to be a good show day. If I were you, I would start calling that ‘every day’ because lets face it, your magic is getting old now.”

“How dare you insult the show stopping magic of Trixie.”

“How dare you be so ignorant!” The voice hissed with rage as it said to her, “Your magic isn’t doing anything for you. Ever since that Twilight Sparkle defeated an Ursa Minor, you have almost resorted to working as what a human would call a ‘whore’.”

“I am a pony, not a horse!” Trixie scoffed, she could barely take these sort of insults, but they were true.

“Whatever, I came to you knowing how you feel, being humiliated in front of millions for a huge failure. I’m here to give you your life back, and since you remind me of me, I will give you greater power. But before you can truly become the most powerful equine ever, you must do one thing for me.” Trixie immediately perked up at the opportunity to reclaim her fame, she truly would do anything.

Trixie then said, “What must I do?”

“See there’s this unwanted visitor in Manehattan that’s claiming to be the most magical creature ever, and since we know that title goes to you, I want you to show him who’s boss. Use your new gift and show them all what it means to hold the title, ‘The Great and Powerful’ now go. He’s on the corner of Sunlight Avenue and Trottston. He’s in a bar called The Apple Orchard.”

Trixie broke into an evil smile, the thoughts of showing everypony in the world, how powerful she truly was, was incredible. Trixit turned her head to look for the source of the voice as she said, “Might I ask, who are you?”

Trixie turned her head to see a horrifying monster; it had the head of a pony, the antler of a goat, and the horn of a dragon. Its skin was decaying and was extremely pal as it said, “I’m Discord.” Suddenly, Discords eye’s flashed a bright light and the face was gone. Trixie was left there, a feeling of chaotic rage burned deep inside her. She wanted to get rid of this other magical creature the most violent way possible. Trixie turned her horn to the wall and shouted out as loud as she could, the wall exploded outwards like a bomb onto the streets. Trixie trotted into the middle of the road pushing everypony out of the way n a violent manner.

Inside the Apple Orchard was what looked like a cross between a dragon and an ape. It stood perfectly on its hind legs and could bend its arms in ways a dragon could never. It had dark green scales for skin and looked like it had coal black scales fashioned in a way to resemble hair. It was wearing a suit that was not of this universe, it was rumoured to be what humans wore. It would be there, breathing fire into the air lighting the alcohol it threw into the air. It created fireballs and tested the hardness of its scales by having ponies hit it as hard as they could with anything to watch the objects break. It said to the ponies, “Turns out, I was fighting for the wrong side, I want to do whatever I can to make my sister better, so I joined the most promising side. Now all I have o do is take a few criminal ponies to justice. And take out a few others for personal reasons.”

One of the mares beside him was about to say something when suddenly, a large smashing noise could be heard near the exit. The doors were busted down to reveal that failure, Trixie, trying to do another spell that would lull the crowd to sleep. Trixie stormed into the bar, pushing security out of the way and approaching the fire breathing lizard and yelled, “So you think you’re more powerful than me? We’ll see about that.”

Te monster turned to the bright blue unicorn and said, “Go back to your low budget shows, these girls filled me all in on your show stopping abilities.”

Trixie’s face was red with rage as she said, “How about you run back to your freak family.” Trixie was most pleased with her insult towards the beast, but let me tell you, she fucked up.

The hybrid stopped in the middle of a gulp of water as he said, “Let me tell you about my family of freaks,” the monster threw his stool at the wall, making it break causing the commotion in the room to die immediately, “my father is dead, so is my mother, my sister is all I had, now that she’s dying I’m going to lose my last bit of family. You want a magic trick, you’ll get one.” The monster then took a glass bottle of soda and shattered it across her head. Everypony in the room gasped at the sight of such violence as the beast said, “Calling me a freak, freaks are people who bite off more than they can chew. You made me waste a good line for nothing.” The beast returned to facing the bar when all of the glass bottles flew at the beast, causing him to be thrown off of his feet towards the wall.

Trixie got off of the floor and said as her eyes began to glow a sinister yellow, “Bite this.” The beast simply grinned a sharp toothed smile at his first fight with his new abilities.