Destiny is a Fickle thing

You ever hit your head hard on something?  Or paint a room while the windows and doors are closed?  Or maybe you were listening to something and you had your sound amplified to 100%?  When that rainbow of happiness and friendship hit me, it felt/smelled/sounded like all of those.  It immobilized me while it tore into my head, working it's way into my mind trying to erase my very knowledge of existence.  Each time I pushed it back, it would surge forward with more vigor.

“Did it work?”

“He doesn't look like he's stone...”

“Maybe he was possessed like Luna?”

The pain stopped, I started to regain my senses.  I was kneeling on the ground in front of them, arms limp as my brain slowly regained control of my body.  The first thought that came to my head was:

Pure, unadulterated rage.

“You...psychopathic….RODENTS**!” I roared, my body glowed blue and each one of them were throw back by an unseen force.  Their direction only stopped by the nearest object of impact, dazed from my attacked.

The princess was the first on her hooves, “It didn't work!” she shouted

“No S#*t Sherlock,” I retorted, unloading my gun at her and her friends.

She quickly threw up a shield, stopping the bullets cold.  She flinched when they smashed at her shield.  The a@@ tried to lobotomize me because I scared them, they were playing with fire.

I knew full well of the rainbow and purple ones capabilities, and whatever that rainbow cannon thing was, it still loomed in my mind.

“The Elements didn't work, we'll have to do this ourselves girls!” she said to her companions.

I'd highly doubt they could dish out any real damage.  It was clear they were civilians, not trained combatants.  Using those trinkets only proved they relied more on taking one shot to clear out their enemies......

OH SH@#!

I barely dodged being a crater when Sparkles unleashed another magic bolt.  Screw that! Alicorn to OP!

I had to get out of here, the hybrids were still here and each moment they waited for me made it worse for them.  Well, time to cause a brilliant distraction.

“He's up to something Twi, we gotta get him now,” Skittles said, “And try not to kill him or blow up the town!”  Crap, how did the rainbow one know!

“Sorry!” Twilight said.  Huh, seems like our princess hasn't gotten use to her upgrade.

I pulled out an incendiary grenade and chucked it at one of the thatch roofs.  It lit up the roof, quickly spreading to the other houses.

BURN! BURN!  Yeah, I'm a pyro. What can I say, it's not like it'll kill anyone.  Unless they live on a roof....

Ponies began running all around.  Thank god for pony hysteria.  The fire gave me and my friends the opportunity to ride off the Everfree while out heroines put out the flames and calmed their people.

We entered the forest and after a while we slowed down.  Only after we actually got away did I feel bad for the hybrids.  They would never had this problem if it wasn't for me!

Ugh, I just wanted help and that princess tried to rip apart my mind.  I have no idea how those ponies hadn't pissed off another nation by now.  I could see the headlines: “Purple Princess mind melts the Griffon ambassador!”.

“Are you okay?”  Mimic asked, a worried expression on her face.

“I….I'm fine, thanks for asking,” I said, “It's just…. what was that all about?”

Spook looked towards me, “Those were the Elements of Harmony,” she said, “They're usually used to banish Equestria's evils.  Look, I honestly didn't know that was going to happen.  If I did I would have never brought you there.”

I don't know why she was apologizing.  I mean, it was not she shot rainbows at me.  I don't know where to go though, this had thrown a wrench in my plan.  Goal one was not to become enemy of the state.

“Okay, look,” Flight said stopping the cart, “we don't know who you really are, all we know is that you saved our lives.  I'm not asking for a life story, but I want answers before we go any further with you.”  She still didn't trust me, not that I'm surprised.  I owed them this anyway, especially if I was going to continue to be with them.

So I told them.  I told them who I was.  I told them how I got here and about humans.  They were fascinated with my stories, I mainly told them of the memories of the Guardian character.  They were my memories as well now.

“So Nathan,” Spook said, “where do you go from here, hideout in the forest for the rest of your life?”

I hadn't thought about that.  My main objective was to get home, but I doubted I'd find a way.  Another thing that I realized is that I had to change.  I wasn't the wimpy nerd anymore, I could kill a manticorn and go toe to toe with a super powered pony princess.  Heck, I hurt Rainbow and it wasn't even my intention.  But the main reason was what I almost lost, my memories.  That last think I held dear, almost taken from me.  In order to protect what little of me I had left I have to become stronger, smarter.

What I'd done a Ponyville was a fluke.  I could shoot a gun and use a knife, but I needed to get better.  I need to also unlock the powers the Traveler bestowed on me.

“Don't call me Nathan,” I said, “I'm no longer that person..”

Flight rolled her eyes at me, “What do we call you then?”  What should I be called.

“Dinkle, you there?” I asked

“Yes Guardian, I've been re watching memory footage of our encounter,” He said, “Do you need me to do something?”

“Yeah, I need you to modify my voice filterer,” I said, “make is foreboding, and some what distorted.”

“My purpose is clear,” I said to them, “I will go back with you, and take care of these Diamond dogs.  Their choice will be to join me or die.”  They looked shocked at my plan, if not happy. I would be freeing them.

“Then, I shall cut you free from the bonds of Equestria.  No longer shall you be forced to live under there rule!”  I continued, they were hanging onto my words.  Hope filled their eyes. Now to deliver the last part of my speech.

“So, from now on call me….” I paused for dramatic affect, “Virixas”

In a“I think we can list off the some of the charges now Twilight,” Celestia said.

“Charges?” I asked, oh why did I have to ask.  Twilight will probably have a list and exact detail of each of my “crimes”

“Yes Princess,” Twilight said, “We've got assault, arson, property damage, conspiring treason, committing treason, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, carrying illegal weapons (Bullshit!  They don't have guns!), causing mass panic, attempt of murder, and….theft.”

“As you can see,” Celestia said, “your number of crimes are server, numerous.  single day you manged to commit all of these, to think I allowed you roam in my land unchecked.  To think of all the ponies you terrified...”

“Yeah no,”  I said, cutting her off, “You ponies would run in fear from a hoard of bunnies!  As for crimes, how many did sparkle butt and her friends cause?  There's got to be prohibitions on mind spells. Plus I didn't steal anything.  I would have returned the books, eventually!

“What Princess Twilight and her friends did was reasonable at the time,” she stated, “and it seems their suspicions were right, lighting a house on fire as an escape plan risked the lives of those who dwelt there!”

“Shooting first and asking questions latter is not a proper police response!  In a matter of fact, are they even legally allowed to carry out punishments before a court is held?” I asked.

Twilight was the first to respond to my accusation.  “Under the Equestrian protection law, article 19, a pony is allowed to use physical force to detain anypony who might show signs of violence or ill intent!  Also, I'll have you know that those "borrowed books" are 4 months over due!"

Celestia and I just looked at her.  This girl and her damned books.....

“Okay, so besides the fact that you just recited that to near perfection (I've read the Equestrian protection law book, it's got 400 pages!) I was still attacked first!”  I replied

Celestia just stared at me, “You do know you could have filed a complaint against her instead of putting her through a building, right?”  Okay, she got me there!  Damn you and your logic magic horses!

“Hey Twilight,” I said with a smirk, still hoping to grab some victory.

“Yeah?” she asked, still smug at my “defeat”

“I burned your books…….”

Celestia just stared at me with pity, before walking out and shutting the cell door behind her.  Why would she....TWILIGHT NO!

(CENSORED DUE TO EXTREM VIOLENCE)

Where was I?  Oh right, liberating my people.  I decided if I was gonna be the “bad guy”, I'd need some loyal minions.  Who wouldn't, right?  Anyway, we kept going deeper into the forest.  Good thing is that the ponies have no idea where the village was.  Turns out if you got them coming to you, why ask where they live!

We had to make camp for the night since it was getting dark.  I decided that in order to build my army, I needed to focus on training them.  I mean, biologically speaking, these guys had a lot going for them!  They could hunt and fight, they just need to be shown how.  Plus, they had all kinds of unique body features that gave them an advantage….

NO! BAD! DON'T ANY OF YOU THINK LIKE THAT! YOU ALL KNOW WHAT I MEANT!

Anyway, it turns out that there is two ways that their community came about.  The first is normal love between two different species.  The other came about a 1000 years ago!  Turns out there was this guy named Discord.

Now, in his mad glory, he decided that the citizens of Equestria were to dull.  So he took a select group of ponies and infused them with his chaos magic, creating a variety of hybrids.

Discord was someone I'd like to sit down with with a drawing pad.  The things him and I could create……..

“NO!” Celestia shouted, “It's bad enough I have one chaotic entity on my hooves.  I don't need you running around with him!”  Damn, and to think what I could have achieved!  I knew I shouldn't have tried to kill him!

We told some more stories and I showed them how to cook rabbit.  I grabbed tons of books yet none were on cooking!

Then the Timber Wolves attacked.  Luckily, Strong Bow started throwing burning sticks at the kindle pups.  After about five minutes of us hitting the wolves, destroying them, them going transformers and turning into mega wolf, I blew them up with a grenade

The moral is that explosives solve everything!

One of the wolves got smart and decided to serve me instead of dying.  I don't know what I'll do with a wolf that is made of wood?  Maybe I could get it to help me hunt food.  Or to do tricks.  Anyway, I've got an evil pet.

We finally got to the village.  It was a nice place, remind me of Ponyville.  In the woods.  All around the town all kinds of mismatched ponies were going about their day.  One of the major things was that they didn't run in fear.  They sorta just stared at me and walked away.

Spook took me to her house were she set up a guest room for me.  A little girly, but I think her little sister uses it for her club house.  She warned me that her sisters friends might come by, and I should hide my weapons.

Who knows what those children could do!

(7 days later)

I went through an extreme training montage so I could be ready for my big fight with the Diamond dogs.  Dinklebot gave me a run through of all of my abilities as a hunter.  Usually, I could go through two routes as a hunter: Blade dancer, or Gunslinger!

The Blade dancer lets me focus on using me knife skills: I can do shot distance blinks, temporary invisibility, and I can use the Arc Blade which coats we and aura of lightning.  This increases my speed as well as turning my knife into an instrument of death as I can send out energy slashes as an area of affect or short ranged attack."

The Gunslinger lets me focus on my gun skills: I can fire with greater aim and range, I have increased ammo, and I have something called the Golden gun.  It lets me have three shots, all three of which have the heat of a sun.  I can literally disintegrate some one on a molecular level!

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Because of Equestria's magic source being on par with the Traveler, I was easily able to tap into it.  Giving me both sub classes to use, so I might not be able to shoot rainbows but I can still hold my own.  And I had the perfect target to test my combat skills on!

The Diamond dogs and their boss were coming by today to collect their tribute.  I'd set the stage for my hostile takeover.  I had talked it over with my friends/minions and we warned most of the town what was going down.  A lot were happy that they would soon be free. Others were skeptical, mainly because they were use to outsiders taking advantage of them.

Here they come now!  I'm excited to initiate my first take over.  I wonder if I can get the Dogs to join us after I kill their leader.  I'd have to lookout for any assassination attempts but I think I'll be worth it in the long run.  Now, let's analyze their leader and look for any weak...points……

“Mimic,” I said turning my head away from the sniper scope and towards her, “You….forgot to mention something about the dogs' boss,”

“We....we did?” she stuttered.  She seemed to be warming up to me, but she was still shy when I talked to her.  “I'm sorry, what did we forget?”

“Their leader isn't a dog,”  I deadpanned, “Mimic, he's a huge dragon!”  I don't know why they decided to leave out that crucial feature!

Calm down.  I just needed to focus.  He was just a big lizard.  A lizard that could breath fire, but a lizard none the less.

Of course, I made sure our fight wasn't in the town.  If I did that who knows how many houses would be destroyed, let alone how many ponies would get hurt.

I looked back through my scope, making sure I'd have a shot at it's wings.  No need to worry about it flying off or attacking in the air.  I just need to ground the guy and he'd be a sitting duck.

BANG!! BANG!!!

The dragon let out a ferocious roar as my sniper rounds tore through his wings.  Oh man was he pissed, well time to waste this joker!

“WHO DARES!” He shouted in pain, I determined his gender from his voice, so unless all females sounded like Smaug he was a guy!

“I did ya salamander!” I shouted back at him.  He swung his large head towards the cliff I was standing on.  The spines on his back stiffening at my appearance.

“Puny morsel,” He retorted, “you have signed your own death.  Prepare for my fire to turn your bones to ash!”

He launched a gigantic fire ball towards me.  Luckily, I grabbed Mimic in time before my sniper's nest went in flames.  I set her down and she ran back towards the town.  With her gone I turned to face the dragon.  Jumping away before his tail could crush me.  I sliced off a section of his tail with my blade.

He roared in pain at the lost of his tail.  I jumped back, deciding to taunt him, "You know," I said, "It's gonna be hard getting the ladies, you're gonna have to tell them how you lost your tail and all."

I pulled out my pulse rifle and began to fire at him as I ran from his torrent of flames.  I aimed for his legs first, scales and blood flying from where my sights were on.  My hope was to completely immobilize him so that I didn't have to worry about the range of his physical attacks.

After a while of my attacks, he roared and swung his claws, nearly cutting me in half.  “What are you idiots doing?” the dragon shouted to the dogs, “Attack him!”

The dogs continued to watch their leader struggle, not lifting a paw to aid their master.  Seems like the hybrids weren't the only ones who hated our mutual friend.

Speaking of him, the dragon's attacks seem to slow as I started aiming for his arms and head.  I'd give him 5 more minutes before he was out of steam, and energy to flail his limbs around.  He was easier to take the a Hive Ogre, those monsters gave me the heebie-jeebies!

He soon fell down after I place some good shots on his chest.

The town residents flooded out of their homes, running towards the carnage.  The dogs seemed amazed at their master's defeat, staring at me.  I'm not sure

“Thank you so much!”

“You showed that scaled bully!”

“How did you beat him?”

“You gotta show us how to do that!”

I was bombarded from praise of the towns folk. Flight, Bow, Mimic, and Spook shoved their way through the crowed towards me.

“You have no idea how worried we were for you!” Spook said, giving me a quick hug.  “I think one of us has something to say to you, isn't that right Shadow?” Spook turned towards the kirin giving her a look.

“Okay,” the kirin said, “I may have been wrong to doubt you!”

“And…...” Spook said.

“And I'm sorry that I might have made a bet with a couple of the others whether or not you would be eaten!” she finished in embarrassment.  Betting huh, well I seems not everyone had faith in me.

“How much did you lose?” I smirked, she just pouted at me.  The then all went wide eyed and started to back up.  Why would they…..

“YOU THINK YOU HAVE WON!”  The Dragon shouted behind me.  I had Dinkle switch out my weapons, time for the big guns. “I WILL BURN YOUR MISERABLE TOWN!”  He started to inhale to make another fire ball.

“Yeah,” I said, “not gonna happen!” and with that I turned around and fired my rocket launcher into his mouth.

“BOOM”

To say it was messy would be an understatement.  At least he wouldn't comeback from that!  Hopefully, you have no idea in magic pony land.

“So….does anyone have a shovel?” I asked.