Shadow Warrior
Ch.9 - Convenient Upgrades
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAfter Rainbow's 'moment', she sort of froze. Pinkie and I were laughing, Applejack elbowing me to stop.
"So did I break her or did Pinkie did?" I voiced my question grinning.
"Why say that Pinkie broke her?" Rarity ask poking Rainbow's arm.
"Because how nonchalantly she said it, also with the cliff-hanger." I said.
"Ah think it's cause you got 56 points." Applejack said, which made me snicker.
"Welp, wouldn't be the first time~!" Pinkie said while pulling a sharpie from her ~~hair~~ mane.
Twilight took the sharpie away from Pinkie with her magic. "And we should make sure nothing happens to her when she's frozen."
"Yeah I guess your right, besides I want her to be conscious when she has to do her embarrassing challenge." I said, snickering a bit.
Twilight then picked Rainbow up in her magical grasp and we proceeded to head towards the library. Why the library? That is beyond my understanding.
Then a sly remark came into my head, "Aw, Twilight lifted Rainbow right off her hooves. Romantic, wouldn't you agree Rarity." Rarity and Pinkie giggled a bit.
She stopped and turned towards me, blushing profusely by the way. "Oh yeah... well I can say the same about you and Applejack." She had a confident smile.
Applejack blushed and I retorted with, "Yeah, but at least I'm conscious." Spike let out an 'OHHHHH'.
Twilight on the other hand threw the marker she took from Pinkie at me. "... That was indecent." I said
Twilight huffed and proceeded to the library. Rarity, Pinkie and Spike were trying to stifle the laughs. Applejack was still blushing, though she actually pulled me in closer... questions for later. Fluttershy was in her own world, speaking with LQ. Speaking of LQ, how am I gonna get the materials for LQ to become Blade Wolf.
'I might be able to help with that.' The always useful Yami, said... um... thought?
'Really? And how will you do that?'
'If you allow me control of your body, then I can infuse him with our powers. I basically be turning his metal plates into shadow tech, so to speak. I would also be healing your body.'
'Shadow tech? That sounds awesome! Though it seems awfully convenient... the healing too.'
'Shadow tech is what I'm calling it. I'll be infusing our power into his hardware changing it to match Blade Wolf with some added bonuses. With the infusion of machinery and shadow magic, it's obvious to be called shadow tech.' He said as a matter of fact.
'Well ain't you a master of plot convenience, how long will this take?'
'Not long, considering my proficiency at magic.'
'Well as long as it doesn't take long, I'll let you do it once we're at the library.'
We made it to the library relatively quickly, Twilight set the still frozen Rainbow on the wall. Applejack led me to the couch to sit on, she immediately put as much distance between us.
I decided to not beat around the bush and offer LQ the proposition, "So LQ, I was wondering if you would like to be upgraded by my other self?"
Everyone (minus Rainbow) looked at me with confusion. "What do you mean an upgrade from your other self?" LQ voiced everyone's question.
"I'm offering an upgrade that my other self would be doing." They're still confused. "OH, my other self! Yeah, guess I forgot to explain that, you see when I was being rebuilt by the void, it made another being that I call Yami. He's basically more in touch with the void and an master of magic. He says that he can give you an upgrade changing your body to make you more tough and some extra abilities. Oh and he'll be healing my body at the same time." I explained.
Twilight was excited to learn more about Yami, Fluttershy was wandering if it is painful for LQ, LQ was giving it some thought and Pinkie was wandering what was his favorite flavor. The others didn't really seem to think too much about it, Rainbow not thinking at all.
"I accept your offer to have an upgrade." LQ agreed to it.
"Oh but what if it's painful?" Fluttershy interjected.
"I have a special component called a pain inhibitor. It does what the name implies." LQ explained to Fluttershy, to which she calmed down. Twilight was even more intrigued to learn about LQ and myself.
"I always thought you didn't feel pain because you were a machine." I said, while running my hand through my hair.
"I do feel pain, it is a necessity to feeling emotion and to know that you are alive. My pain inhibitors just make it so that I do not have to worry about it during battle. Now can we move on to where you are giving me an upgrade." He said rhetorically.
"Yeah yeah, let me switch to Yami." I begin concentrating after I said that.
No one's PoV
Wilby stood up ignoring everyones protest, his scarf started to blow in a nonexistent breeze and black wisps were coming from were his injurious from LQ.
"I need everyone to stand back and LQ, I need you to here in the middle." Wilby? said.
"Wilby is acting very much different isn't he." Rarity whispered to Applejack.
"That's because I am not Wilby. He clearly stated that he will switch out and put me in control." He stated.
"So then you're Yami, I guess we should have assumed that." Twilight chuckled sheepishly. "Oh, why does your scarf blow when there is no wind and what's with the wisp?"
"It's basically the same as why Celestia's mane blows in a nonexistent wind. As for the wisp I'm just healing the wounds that the vessel has obtained."
Twilight gave a small gasp, "So that means you are have an outstanding amount of magic? That's quite fascinating to think that you're on par with Celestia when it comes to magic."
"I'm more powerful than Celestia but I mustn't go overuse my magic. Now if you'll exscuse me I need to get started on this upgrade for LQ." He said while he charged his hands with magic.
Twilight wasn't going to stop but she was at a lost of words, mostly because he claimed to be stronger than Celestia.
"Relax and we'll be done soon." Yami said to LQ to which he complied.
Yami then began to pour magic into LQ, his own shadow engulfing himself. Everyone that wasn't frozen were shocked to see his body changing slowly. After awhile it was complete and the shadow slowly returned to the ground. Everyone was in awe of what they saw.

"I have completely upgraded you. Your armor is far more tougher than before and you have more abilities that you'll have to find out on your own." Yami said moving back to give LQ some room.
LQ looked himself over, admiring his sleek design. "I thank you Yami, for this." He said, bowing.
"No need to thank me, it was Wilby's idea. Speaking of Wilby, I'll give him back control over this vessel." After he said that, he closed his eyes and his scarf stopped flowing and the wisp dissolved into nothing. He then fell onto the couch.
"Huh, so that's what it feels like to not have a body." Wilby said while placing a hand over his face.
"How does it feel?" Twilight said getting a paper and quill.
"Like being encased entirely in jello." Wilby said nonchalantly.
"Lucky! I want to float in jello." Pinkie whined.
Wilby then glanced towards LQ seeing him new and improved. "Sweet LQ, you look so awesome. Though I guess we should give you a proper name since I'm pretty sure 'LQ-84i' is just your serial number, correct?"
"Silly Wikby, cereal doesn't have codes" Pinkie said while seating herself next to Wilby.
"A serial code is a number set onto an object to identify it. And yes it would technically be my serial code." LQ explained.
"Ooh ooh! How about Blade Wolf!" Pinkie somehow read Wilby's mind.
"Why would you give such an intimidating name to LQ who is already intimidating enough?" Rarity mistakenly questioning Pinkie's logic.
"Because he looks like a wolf and look at those blades on him. I'm pretty sure Dashie would agree with me, watch. Hey Rainbow if you agree say nothing." She called out to the still petrified Rainbow. "See she totally agrees."
Rarity was about to counter her with something but Wilby cut her off, "Actually that was exactly what I had in mind when naming him."
"I would actually like my name to be Blade Wolf, as well." Blade Wolf agreed.
Rarity seemed distraught but she decided to stop before this got confusing.
Wilby's PoV
Rainbow finally regain consciousness and was about to attack Wolf, until everything was explained to her. After that she then started going on about how cool looking Wolf looked. Also I decided to put her loser challenge tomorrow and also collect my pay of an outstanding 1289 bits, at least I hope it's alot.
Anyways we were all talking, mostly talking about how different my world is, which had everyone intrigued. After awhile, we decided it was time for bed. Twilight, Spike and myself said our goodbyes to them. As for Wolf, he actually went along with Fluttershy.
I told Twilight and Spike goodnight and went off to my room. This time around, I actually took delivery to remove my clothing. Than the though hit me.
'This will be the first time in a 1000 years since I removed my clothing.' I laughed a little bit at that thought.
I removed my shoes, my scarf and all of my top half. Since this is not my home, I left my pants on, I still have some decency. Although I was a little surprised that I was slightly buffed, not too majorly, more like Bruce Lee buff. This surprised me because, I wasn't the workout type but I'm not complaining.
Anyways, now comfortable in my pants I jumped onto the bed and began my slow pace to sleep.
'If I'm able to create a scenery exactly in my dreams, then am I able to create the exact same events? If so, I think I'll enjoy myself tonight watching Luna try to survive five nights times four.' I let out a quiet evil laughter after that thought.
Author's Note
Hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm kind of stalling the loser challenge because there has only been one recommendation. I want to hear your clever ideas that will embarrass Rainbow, I'll be giving you full credit to which idea I use. Also chapter 10 is coming soon, which also means the first Q&A and there is only one question. Remember your question can be anything and directed to anyone that has appeared in the story or to me, the author. When I say anything, I mean anything. If it's serious, I'll answer it seriously, if it's silly, I'll answer it even more silly. Anyways the loser challenge will be in the next chapter, so put your recommendations up and questions.
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