Tony Atlas: The Titan of Friendship
Citizenship has it's....drawbacks
Previous ChapterThe dungeon wasn't as scary as I thought it was. It was made out of iron bars and stone, I could've easily smashed my way out. I didn't though, there's a reason why I want to get into their good graces and if I could find a way home. There was a pile of hay with a blanket and pillow, there was a bucket and there were the cell doors plus a small window to look outside. I just needed to play the waiting game, I was staring at the stars seeing if I could find the north star from where I'm at. I was still looking until I heard footsteps, hoof-steps? coming down the hall I could tell it was for me after all I was the only prisoner here.
The sound came to a stop at my cell, I was sitting with my back to the cell doors. I didn't turn around though I did ask. "Yes?"
"We would appreciate it if thou wouldst giveth us the favor of addressing us to our face."
I could tell it was a mare by the pitch and tone of the voice but she was speaking old english. "I would appreciate not being thrown in jail for saving a town from a dragon, so it seems we are at an impasse."
"So t'would seem, if thou could entertain us for a moment. What is thou doing?"
"Why does it matter to you?"
"We are just curious."
"Curiosity killed the cat."
"Satisfaction brought it back." She completed for me, she's smart I'll give her that.
"I was looking at the stars." I finally relented.
"Why?"
"I always liked looking at the stars when I was growing up in my orphanage, when I looked up there I aways thought that if there was life out there maybe I could be the one who found it." I smirked, "Now I'm on a potentially alien planet with no means of going home and my only hope is looking at the stars and see if I can find something familiar."
"We thank thee for thy words."
I stood up and turned around to find a midnight blue unicorn with wings and a starry mane. She was different than that of the other ponies. "Why are you thanking me? I said nothing about you."
"Tis true that thou has proclaimed nothing for us, but thou has complimented us all the same."
"How?"
"Tis what thou has said about our stars, for thou would see it is we that controls them."
"How is that!?-No wait, lemme guess, magic?"
"Yes."
"Okay, so if you can't explain it. It's gotta be magic, that's stupid."
"How is that so?"
"It doesn't inspire others to find new things, where I come from there is no magic."
"Wouldn't thou's race be disabled?"
"No, in fact it's quite the opposite. It inspires us to find a different way of thinking. When we couldn't move faster than what our bodies allowed us to, we invented the car. We didn't have wings to fly, so we built them. Not even 50 years after we built machines that could help us fly. We built a machine that could put us on the moon."
"Thine race sounds amazing, but we feel that thou is not telling us the whole truth."
"Every race has it's mistakes. Not only did we build effective ways of moving, but also killing. There were wars, fought and wars won. There was a lot of killing for power, land, the right to rule, but even so my race has a saying. 'We're only human' it means that no one is perfect, and we admit that. It's the fact that we can overcome those faults, and rebuild to be better than ever that makes life worth fighting for."
"Thy words are inspiring, where did thou come up with them."
"It's from a hard life lived. Every time someone would put me down, I thought of the words I've spoken and took action. I never killed them though."
"Why would you not execute them?"
"It wouldn't make me any better than the ones that put me down."
"There is truth in thine words, we appreciate it we bid you a good rest."
"Same to you." I said as she walked away leaving me to my thoughts once more. "Better get some sleep." I mumbled to myself. "I don't have much better to do anyways." I lay on the pile of hay with the blanket covering most of my unclothed areas. I don't care who you are hay is itchy as hell. I drifted to sleep soon after.
I was asleep but, I wasn't dreaming. In fact I rarely do dream at all, it's got to do with my DNA. It's said that everyone in the world uses only 10% of their brain capacity, that's what separates Titan agents from most people. Titans can use up to 20% I can use 25% brain capacity, but that's the limit any further and we will destabilize which basically means that our body's cells will continue to replace dead cells. It's like dead skin but much worse our bodies will literally start to evaporate.
The reason why I can use 25% is because I have three powers, while other titans only have two. My third power of healing myself accounts for only 2.5%, the last 2.5% is called titan rage. It makes me able to use all my powers at once.
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I was sleeping when I heard guards tapping the cell doors. "Hey freak the princesses want to see you."
I got up while the guards unlocked my cell door and put the shackles on me. I walked along side them and upstairs, I saw the pony from last night sitting on a midnight blue throne next to a white pony that looked a lot like the one I talked to last night. They might be sisters, with them looking so familiar.
I was unshackled and the guards left, I looked up and said. "I suppose you have your questions."
"Greetings to you as well. I would call you my subject but you aren't are you?"
"Let's start off with names first. I am Tony Atlas, agent of T.I.T.A.N., also known as Tactical Insertion Team of the Allied Nations."
"Hello Mr. Atlas, I am Princess Celestia Everfree, this is my sister Princess Luna Everfree. We are the co-rulers of Equestria, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance."
"You can stop with the whole Holier-than-thou act, I know what you rulers are like. Not willing to show your true selves to the public, you don't have to do that to me. Like you said, I'm not one of your subjects." I chided. The rulers just looked at me with wide eyes, it was like I had just committed sacrilege.
"You certainly are a rude one aren't you Mr. Atlas?" Celestia asked.
"I'm just a realist, I don't want this illusion of you two being perfect when I know that no one is. It's just the way I life as it is." I said to the white mare.
"In all my life I have never met someone as perceptive as you." She said.
"I know you want something from me, I wouldn't be here if you didn't. Now the question becomes, what do you want from me?" I asked.
"From what the reports the guards made it appears that you possess unregistered magics. I want you to register them." She said.
"Okay let me tell you why that's impossible. First off they're not magics, they're abilities. Second I can't exactly register my DNA into a book or a filing cabinet."
"What thou is telling us is that thou has no magics?" Luna asked.
"My abilities are limited only to my DNA, and if you try to extract my abilities it will kill me." I said. "Look I am perfectly willing to pay for my damages but I don't think you take visa or master card. I came here by pure accident I'm just waiting for my return trip home."
"Oh, well that is complicated." Celestia muttered. "I'm sorry about the situation that you have been put in and I will personally accommodate for any misconception starting with this." Her horn flared a golden light then the shackles were free from my arms and legs.
"Thank you those were chafing my wrists bad." I rubbed them as they healed. "Though I don't think you did that out of the kindness of your hear, I know you want something from me."
"Oh and why would you assume that Mr.Atlas?" Celestia asked.
"The rulers of a country wouldn't allow something as dangerous as me walk around without gaining something in return." I chided.
"Thou wouldst be most correct." Luna said. "We are willing to grant thou temporary citizenship to our country until thou's companions come to get thee."
"Don't expect me to bow to you and call you goddesses, because you're not." I replied sarcastically.
"Why not?" Sun-ass asked.
"If you two were truly goddesses then you would be omnipotent, therefore you would know of my existence on the planet the moment I arrived. You didn't, the only reason I'm here is because I decided to save a helpless village from a rampaging dragon, if you do something like move the sun and the moon that just makes you glorified unicorns with wings that are only slightly above average in what you call 'magic'." I explained. They were both visibly nervous, and I just smirked.
"You've got us there Mr.Atlas, we may have been age-locked to make us seem immortal but we're far from goddesses. I don't even know why our subjects refer us to be so, you are definitely a cut above the rest." Celestia said.
"Now we can get down to brass tax, I'm willing to agree to your conditions of temporary citizenship. I'm not a chess piece on the board of your games though."
"Why did you say those things then?" The sun princess asked.
"So you know where I'm coming from and so you know I'm not willing to be one of your pawns, I have my own very confusing life to get back to and I'd rather not spend another minute in rainbow-shitland fairytale dungeons." I said dripping with sarcasm.
It was at that moment when Twilight and her friends burst in. "Princess please don't send Tony to the sun or moon he did nothing wr-wrong-g." Twilight was in tears and was gripping my leg and crying. I just sat down and hugged her, Ok, I just have to do this.
"Princess don't you care about your subjects?" I squished Twilight's cheeks and showed it to Celestia. "They'll vouch for me. What did I ever do to deserve imprisonment in the deepest cave in equestria." I started to pretend to cry, and Twi squeezed me harder.
"Please d-don't-t P-princess-s I'l-l be g-good-d j-just don't-t d-do i-it." Twilight cried even harder.
"N-no it's alright T-twi, I just have something to say before I go." I could just barely hold together. She looked up at me. "I'm not going anywhere."
"I-Wait WHAT!!?" That got her attention.
"I'm sorry I couldn't hold it in any longer. When you came in tears and assuming that I was going to jail I took the opportunity to prank you." I laughed. She then hit me with her hoof.
"That wasn't funny." She said.
"Not even a little bit?"
"Maybe an itsy bitsy tiny bit funny." Twi said. "But not laugh out loud hilarious, I embarrassed myself in front of the princesses. I hope you didn't either."
"No, I just disproved that they are all powerful goddesses."
They all gasped, I just looked at them. AJ spoke up. "Tony what you just said, could be the highest form o' treason."
"Let me say this, if they were goddesses they would know the instant I came here. They didn't, sure I'm willing to admit that they can move the sun and the moon but that's about it."
"How would you explain how Princess Luna moves the stars then?"
"She bends the light coming from the stars to form new images every night."
"But that doesn't make any sense it's not....not...natural." Twi said.
"Tell me, what do you think the planet would do if you ponies weren't here to mess with the ecosystem?" I asked. Now the were speechless, and I continued. "The plants would grow on their own, the animals would take care of themselves, and the clouds and weather would dictate itself. Due to your interference in the ecosystem, not only have you handicapped your technological advance, but also crippled your scientific method. Ponies don't question everything, if you can't explain something it's gotta be magic."
"I.....I don't know what to say." Celestia said, "The first time in my life I'm absolutely speechless."
"What about hew-mans then huh tough guy, what have they done without magic?" Dash said.
"We put a person on the moon, when everyone said we couldn't. Only 60 years before that, we just discovered how to fly without wings or a hot air ballon. Now we have aircrafts fast enough to break the sound barrier."
"Pfft, I can do that in my sleep."
"FIVE times. We have aircrafts that can travel in outer space and break the sound barrier five times. Our weaponry can easily outmatch yours any day of the week, and we figured out how to transport without the use of trains."
"Well....we have friendship." Dash said quietly.
"That can't be good for your international relationships." Celestia said.
"Well back on earth we have a saying 'Necessity is the Mother of Invention.' Humans are not perfect by any means, but then neither are ponies. That's where I come in, I stop potential wars before they start."
Author's Note
I'm sorry it took so long for this chapter to come out I have had a major case of writers block, but here it is and please feed me comments and don't forget to give that like button a click.
