Chapters Life as a Displaced Digimon
Chapter 1 - The Adventure Begins
Leo was sitting in a park messing with his digimon v-pet when a strange man in a blue hood came up to him and sat down next to Leo.
"Interesting toy you got there kid, what you up to?" the strange man asked.
Leo looked at him then sadly muttered "got kicked out of the orphanage and have nowhere to go, so I decided to just sit here until I could figure out what I should do..." while putting his v-pet away.
The strange man noticing Leo’s plight smiled "I could give you a second chance on life if you so wish, but for a price." causing Leo to look at him with a raised eyebrow. "let me explain, I can send you to another world and either give you a form or powers of your choosing but you will never be able to return to this world." the man said holding out an envelope.
Leo took the envelope and pondered what the man just said, but before he could ask the robed figure what he meant he was gone with a puff of smoke. Then Leo realized what was going on, 'That man must be connected to the recent disappearances!' Leo thought and considered the offer. He heard the stories of people disappearing and being sent to a version of Equestria, also he had nothing here as well as could become whatever he wanted! So he ripped open the envelope and read it:
Hello there,
If you are reading this you have been invited and will soon be brought to your destination.
Good luck!
‘I thought it would be instructions…’ he thought, then a portal opened underneath him and he fell in as everything began to fade around him.
{Equestria}
[Leo's POV]
Leo began to regain consciousness and started to feel sunshine on his face again and heard the chirping of birds around him. He slowly opened his eyes to see where the portal had taken him to notice he was at the edge of a forest. As he slowly tried to stand to get a look at his surroundings something felt off, and then he noticed it he didn’t have any arms or legs for some reason. Shock filled Leo’s mind he began to freak out, then in the middle of his panic he noticed that he was somehow floating around in circles because of the panic attack. So calming himself he managed to float over to a nearby stream and looked at his reflection to take stock of what was happening to him.
As he looked into the stream Leo noticed that instead of seeing his face in the reflection there was a Sunmon staring at him. Leo was stunned, he knew that this meant that either he was hallucinating or he was now a digimon. Then an impish grin grew across Leo’s face as he realized it was the second of the two. ‘This is going to be fun!’ he thought as he started following the stream away from the forest to try and find civilization if there was any.
Leo began to hover down the stream for a good couple minutes until he saw a bridge in the distance. Noticing the bridge he made a b-line for it, and after a minute or two he finally reached the bridge and stopped hovering to rest. ‘Who knew hovering could be exhausting.’ He thought, then he heard a voice. Slowly he turned to the source of the voice and there was Fluttershy leaving her cottage to go to town. Leo instantly recognized her, and then began to grin even more than when he found out he became a digimon.
Leo was your typical brony, and began to fanboy like any brony would at the realization he was now in Equestria. Seeing that he was now a digimon the best thing he could do is befriend Fluttershy unless he was prepared for something bad to happen which he wanted to avoid at all costs seeing that he was currently a baby stage digimon. So as Fluttershy began to cross the bridge Leo mustered up the courage to act adorable to get her attention, and it was worth the blow to his pride because Fluttershy upon seeing him gasped and picked him up.
[Fluttershy's POV]
“Oh my! Who might you be?” Fluttershy said, then she thought of something “I don’t know what you are but I’m going to show you to twilight! Maybe we can find out what you are!” she said before putting me in her main before heading straight to twilights.
‘I don’t know what she was doing before I arrived but this is going to be interesting! I wonder what point in the series I am at.’ Leo thought before falling asleep in Flutershy’s mane.
“Oh my, it seems to have fallen asleep. I wonder where it came from, I just hope it’s not another Parasprite.” She said as she reached the golden oaks library and knocked on the door.
“Come in!” Twilight called from inside the library.
Slowly Fluttershy opened the door and entered “twilight? I found something and I thought you could help me find out what it is.” Fluttershy said to her friend as the purple unicorn entered the entryway from the basement. Then Fluttershy nuzzled the creature sleeping in her mane and it woke up and floated out and began to look around until it saw Twilight.
Twilight stared at it for a few minutes then asked where Fluttershy had found the creature.
Fluttershy told twilight how she found it while leaving her house to go shopping in town to buy food for her animals.
Twilight stared at the creature some more, and it then began to visibly grow nervous as it was sweating as if it was afraid of what twilight might do. Then twilight made a decision, “let’s get the girls and try and figure out what it is, we don’t need a repeat of the Parasprite incident.” And opened the library door.
While Twilight went to get their friends, Fluttershy watched over the creature. After twilight got their friends they all met back up at golden oaks library and sat in a circle around the strange creature.
“So what do you think it is?” Rainbowdash said, as if in response everyone looked at each other and shrugged.
Leo was starting to fanboy over the situation, not only was he in Equestria but now he was here with all of the main six! Leo was to busy fanboying to pay attention to the conversation until Spike came down from Twilights bedroom to find out what all the ruckus was about. Once he saw Spike Leo couldn’t control himself anymore, he jumped at Spike and started nuzzling the young dragon who was his favorite character in the show.
Spike was startled when Leo jumped at him and began to panic.
Startled everyone jumped and got ready to attack Leo not knowing what to do, then Leo began to glow!
A voice rang out through the library and said “{Digivolution}”.
Everyone spun to find out where it came from but they soon stopped trying as they noticed Leo begin to glow, and then transform!
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Life as a Displaced Digimon
Chapter 2 - What have I gotten myself into!?
[Leo’s POV]
I was fanboying like crazy! I was in the same room as the main six and in the Golden Oaks Library before Twilight became an alicorn! Then I saw Spike coming down the stairs. Now just so you know I love dragons and thus Spike was one of my 2 favorite characters in the show. So when I saw Spike I made a B line for him to hug him, but I forgot that I don’t have arms… so I just cuddled him while wishing I still had arms so I could hug him. And then it happened, something flashed in the back of my mind and out of curiosity I reached for that spark in my mind. Then energy began to pour into me!
[3rd person POV]
The Elements were watching Leo when they heard spike come down the stairs. The next thing they knew Leo was snuggling Spike startling them. Spike was trying to pull Leo off of him when Leo began to glow. Then they all heard a voice ring throughout the room, {Digivolution} it said in a monotone voice. As soon as the voice rang out throughout the room Leo was surrounded by a pillar of light and spike was flung into the Elements resulting in the seven of them to be left in a pile as Leo began to transform to the astonishment to all present.
[Leo’s POV]
As soon as the pillar of light appeared Leo noticed time seemed to have frozen around him. He tried to move but couldn’t and was starting to panic when the strange man in the blue cloak that he met in the park appeared.
“Hello Leo, I see you have met the main six of this dimension.” The robed man said. “Oh I seem to have forgotten to introduce myself last time we met! My name is Crux and I am your displacer.”
I was Stunned, who was this Crux!? And now that I think about it… “What’s going on!? Why am I here and what do you want with me?” I asked in desperation trying to find out what this all meant. The panic I had suppressed earlier was now spilling everywhere and Crux seemed to notice.
“Well young one you wanted a new chance at life so I decided to grant your wish, and in the process find something to do with all my free time.” Crux said, and then added “As for what a displaced is; a Displaced is a person that has been sent to a parallel world and given either powers, turned into a character they were dressed as, or in this case what species the individual being displaced wishes they could be.” Giving me a shrug.
My jaw was now on the floor after hearing his answers. And then it all sank in and I began to grin from ear to ear. I heard about this sort of thing back in the orphanage and I had wished It had happened to me and now that wish had been granted! Then I remembered what had happened before the pillar of light appeared. “So am I going to digivolve?” I asked him.
“Yes, and you can control you Digivolution too! You also have many other abilities but you have to discover them on your own. Well my time is up, I will see you again soon good luck!” Crux said before disappearing. And as soon as he left time seemed to resume.
As soon as time began to resume I felt strange, and then there was an explosion. And everything went black…
[3rd POV]
When Leo regained consciousness he felt off, as if something was different but he ignored it as he tried to open his eyes. At first everything was blurry but eventually everything came into focus and he began to hear voices. He noticed he was surrounded in one of Twilight’s magic bubbles so he decided to just listen in on the conversation for now.
“Twilight did you see that!? That THING transformed! What do you think it could be?” spike said as he and twilight entered the basement where twilight put Leo after the explosion and sent her friend’s home for their safety.
“I don’t know Spike, but whatever it is were going to find out and if it’s a threat were going to blast it with the elements!” Twilight said with a serious expression on her face as she and spike approached the bubble where she had trapped Leo to prevent the digimon from escaping should it wake up.
At the mention of the elements Leo snapped fully awake and began to analyze his new body. From what he could tell he resembled a Coronamon, but… something wasn’t right. There were also resemblances to Dracomon, he had become a mutant digimon! But that wasn’t the part that disturbed him the most… what he was the most worried about was the fact that he was now a girl! From what he knew digimon didn’t have genders and he wouldn’t mind no longer having a gender, but he was a girl! He began to panic, but the panic was short lived because Twilight let down the bubble surrounding Leo.
“Okay let’s take a look at you!” Twilight exclaimed pulling out a bunch of instruments and began to poke and prod Leo. She made sure to take notes about everything about Leo’s appearance and everything else the unicorn noticed about the digimon.
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Life as a Displaced Digimon
Chapter 3 - Welp, This will be intresting...
[Leo’s POV]
It has been a week since I digivolved and I was being kept in Twilights basement for the time being. On occasion Pinky would sneak in and we would prank twilight and the others from time to time, ironically I was able to understand all of them but the only ones that could understand anything I said were Fluttershy and Pinky resulting in some awkward charades from time to time. I was treated well but they still thought of me like some kind of baby manticore… not that you could blame them, I basically looked like a cat with dragon wings and tail to them. On a side note at least they weren’t treating me like a threat anymore.
I had just walked upstairs when I noticed that something was off, so I hid under the table and waited for something to happen. Shortly after I heard a familiar sinister laugh “Great I’m in currently in return of harmony…” I said to no one in particular. I then left the library hoping no one would notice me amongst the chaos in Discord’s wake and tried to avoid screwing with the timeline as much as possible, sadly it was fated otherwise.
[3rd POV]
Leo was sneaking towards the forest in an attempt to avoid the antics of a pre-reformation Discord but said draconequus noticed the young digimon sneaking away. Discord teleported in front of Leo confused as to what she was and how she was unaffected by his magic, the result was Leo jumping at the sight of him and trying to sprint away giving Discord an idea. At that moment Leo realized, she messed up…
Discord stared at Leo having never seen something of her species before, and out of curiosity used his magic on her and got an unexpected result. As soon as Discord’s magic touched Leo her powers activated for the first time and causing them to run rampant. That day was forever remembered throughout history as the day the world changed beyond comprehension. Discord was dumbfounded at what he had caused to happen and just watched as the sky rained fire with strange eggs falling from the sky all around the world.
Twilight was arriving in ponyville with her friends who were under Discord’s spell when she noticed something strange. There was fire raining from the sky and a few eggs in some of the balls of fire, she realized this had to have been caused by Discord after all only had the power to bull of something so large scale. Then something happened that she thought impossible, all of Discord’s spells were instantly neutralized as if he had run out of magic. Then the fire in the sky disappeared and everything seemed to return to normal, even twilights friends came to their senses. Seeing an opportunity they ran to the library where they found the elements and then ran up to Discord who was strangely slumped on the ground unconscious. Confused but not passing up the opportunity in case he woke up and got away they immediately blasted him with the elements turning him into a statue.
[Leo’s POV]
When I awoke I was back in the basement of the library wondering what had happened when twilight walked in the room with Fluttershy and they noticed I was awake. “What happened…” I groaned feeling like I had been run over by a train. The next thing I noticed was Twilight was staring at me with an eye twitching, she then muttered something that sounded like “did it just talk?” but I ignored it and looked toward Fluttershy. “Hey flutters, what happened? I feel like I was just hit by a train…” I said trying to get up only to fall flat on my face and grumble.
When I finally was able to move I slowly got up forgetting about the ponies and stretched, then I froze realizing I was being watched. Slowly I turned to the two ponies and made an awkward smile and waved at them. Twilight’s eye started to twitch as he repeated her previous statement like a broken record. Once I realized what she was saying I looked over to Fluttershy and asked “She can understand me now? How and since when?” while motioning at twilight.
Fluttershy was just as shocked as I was. “I don’t know but this is probably a side effect from whatever Discord did to you…” she said as she began to explain what happened to them over the past couple of hours.
When Fluttershy finished telling me what I missed and I connected the dots. Feeling disgusting about someone trying to control me by pumping their magic into me causing my digimon powers to activate and somehow make it rain Digi eggs for a good thirty minutes I began to understand the situation. “Fluttershy those were no normal eggs…” I told her and began to fear the worst. Well at least I now have something to do… but now this world is fused with a version of the digital world, things were going to get messy…
About an hour after Fluttershy finished filling me in on what had happened on their end we had managed to snap Twilight out of her trance and managed to get the other elements to the library for an emergency meeting. The elements all gathered around as I entered the room and began to introduce myself, making sure to not mention certain ‘things’ about my past. They were shocked to say the least, I might have broken twilight again… but after my introduction they started asking questions which I haply answered.
As soon as I finished answering all their questions the sun set. Seeing that it was now night twilights friends went home and I went to the basement for a much needed nap! But sadly that was going to have to wait. As soon as I reached the area of the basement where a bed had been set up for me a soft glow appeared in the air in front of me and fell into my hands. Looking to see what had appeared in my hands I noticed it was a gen 1 Digivice, and there was a note attached to it.
‘Dear Leo,
I forgot to give this to you when I last saw you, good luck!
Your friend, Crux.
I was surprised, I didn’t expect to get myself a Digivice seeing as I was a digimon but I didn’t care! I now had a Digivice and out of noglestia I decided to do something for the sake of seeing what would happen. I struck a pose and shouted holding the Digivice in front of me “My name is Leo. Should you need aid or a friend call me and I shall come, but should you be one of the shadows fear my name, for I am light incarnate!” I grinned as I coined my own catchphrase but then the Digivice began to beep and a gate opened in front of me and a second Digivice materialized from a beam of light that came out of mine, the second Digivice then flew through the gate and it closed. I don’t know what just happened but I had a feeling I was going to make some new friends in the near future.
[Crux’s POV]
I was sitting on my couch reading about the recent events in Leo’s Equestria when a gate opened and out came a Digivice and it landed on my face. I grabbed the Digivice out of confusion and was about to toss it when I realized where it came from. “Well Leo seems like you’re going to do much better than I thought!” I said as I left the couch. Now I just had to distribute the Digivices to other displaced, I wonder who I should send a copy of Leo’s token to… after all I wasn’t just going to give my displaced’s token to just anybody!
Life as a Displaced Digimon
Chapter 4 - Someone call The Doctor?
-The TARDIS -
David fiddled with the levers on the console, pulling up random locations. “No, that won’t do...Not that either…” And this went on for several minutes before David finally gave up and sat in the seat nearby.
“I seem to have lost interest in many parts of this universe,” he muttered, looking at the console as, shocking, a portal appeared and dropped something into the telepathic neurotransmitter. You know the one.
“That can’t be good,” David said, only for the hum and groan of the TARDIS to start up as she dematerialized from Golden Oaks and went flying into the Void.
-Golden Oaks -
It was the morning after Leo obtained her digivice from Crux and she was in a good mood. Sure, she was going to have to find the digieggs that scattered around the planet but that wasn't much of a problem, more of an excuse to go explore!, but getting ready to go out the door and figuring out where to go first were. She said something she shouldn’t have. “Nothing could possibly go wrong!” she exclaimed as she stepped out the door. then a note fell in her face.
“DUCK!”
From: Crux
Then Leo heard a familiar noise from a show she had once watched, and with eyes open in shock she hit the dirt! Seconds later, a large blue box flew out of a hole in reality and spun a couple of times before dropping on the ground, and a man quickly ran out, coughing.
“Extractor Fans On!” he yelled, the smoke from the blue box quickly disappearing back inside. “That is the last time I go with the flow when Displaced are involved,” he said, taking a deep breath.
Leo’s eye twitched as she got off the ground and turned to the Doctor. “Hey watch where you fly her! you almost hit me!” screamed Leo, getting ready to hit him with a fireball.
“Oh yes, because I can control what tokens do once they enter the Void, actually… They should get someone on that,” he muttered, before turning to Leo. “Hullo, I’m the Doctor.”
“I know... “ she said dispelling the fireball. “My name is Leo, and just in case you don’t know I think Crux has something to do with this,” she said.
David raised an eyebrow, “You’ve got one of those to deal with too?”
“If you mean overly friendly displacer, then yes. and he gave me a general rundown about how I’m a displaced, what he was and a few other things but I wasn’t fully paying attention…” she replied with a shrug.
“Void Dweller, actually, though I suppose it’s the same thing,” David said.
“Meh, so do you know what I am?” Leo said as she walked towards the everfree.
“Digimon, Gen 1, right?” He turned around, “One sec,” he ran inside the TARDIS for a moment before returning with her Token, “This yours?” It was covered in a goo-like substance.
“Yes and no. i'm a mutant digimon, first of my kind and where did that goo come from?” was all Leo said before a portal opened and Crux fell out.
“Ouch! Darn it I slipped while making a sandwich… oh hi! Sorry about where Leo’s token ended up Doctor I dropped it when making my sandwich and it landed in the jelly before the portal for it opened… Hehehe…” was all he said.
David glared, “You know how much trouble it’s going to be getting the jelly out of the neurotransmitter?”
“Yeah, and don’t be a bitch,” came a woman’s voice from above David where Essence was floating and playing solitaire. She frowned, “Why does this game always do this…”
“Hello madam, nice to meet you, and Doctor I can’t help coincidence. Well I’ll be off!” he said before disappearing in a mini explosion.
“YOU CALL THAT SHOWING OFF?” Essence yelled, floating away from David, “Watch this.”
“Sorry mam but no using your powers on one of my worlds” came Crux’s voice as Essence was teleported to the ground. “Can’t have something Too powerful spawn as a side effect!” was the last thing Crux said before his presence disappeared.
Essence started mouthing numbers and holding up the numbers of fingers, upon hitting one, Crux exploded into the universe, his eyes spinning. “Do you even know who I am? Trying to mess with my reality/powers like that…”
“Actually I made this dimension from scratch!” Crux shouted before retorting “and whenever strong power appears it throws off the balance! you know how hard it is to keep the balance with all these displaced flying around nowadays!?” throwing his arms in the air.
“I asked if you knew who I was, not for you to throw a tantrum. Besides, I don’t affect anything unless I choose to,” Essence said.
Crux was about to say something when he took a deep breath and calmed himself down. “Sorry but I’ve never met you before. I’m not from this plane of existence, and how did you take over my code?” Crux stated in an inquisitive tone.
“Oh good, you’ve learned to respect your elders. Ever been in the Void?” Essence asked.
“Not really, never had reason to.” Crux replied before pulling a grandfather clock out of his sleeve and checking the time. “Well I have to go maybe we can talk later ta ta!” and he this time disappeared into a puff of plaid confetti.
“Rude much, I didn’t even tell him my name. Maybe he would've acted different.”
“Please forgive him, he is a forgetful idiot but to my knowledge he always puts others before himself.” Leo said to Essence.
“Whatever, tell him my name when you next see him, he’s bound to remember it, all things considered,” Essence reached a hand out to Leo, “It’s Essence.”
“Leo, and I’ll make sure to tell him.” Leo said shaking Essences hand and smiling.
Essence drew back her hand, “I’m also Madness. THAT he should remember no matter what.” And she unraveled herself from reality by her tail, spinning her tail as her body spiraled away, leaving her hand which vanished.
“So, what should we do Doctor?” Leo asked turning back to him. “If you’re not busy with anything could you help me clean up a quick mess?”
David looked inside the TARDIS, flashes of electricity arcing through the room, “Yeah. I’ve got time.”
Leo pulled out her digivice and activated the locater. “Alright time to find those eggs before something not so friendly does…” she said walking towards the everfree.
David shrugged before following behind her.
-in a dark cave on the other side of equestria -
Ahuizotl was plotting his next scheme when four digieggs fell from the sky hitting him in the head. “What the!?” he exclaimed looking at the objects that just hit him in the head. ‘What the heck are these!?’ he thought as he picked up the eggs. out of curiosity he decided to rub them, as he rubbed the digieggs they began to glow and then hatched. as he stared at the strange creatures that were now in his hand an evil plot began to form in his mind. ‘I don't know what these are but i might just have a use for them…’ he thought with an evil laugh.
-somewhere in the everfree forest... -
“So, how much do you know about digimon?” Leo asked as they arrived next to a river before looking around and spotting the egg that the digivice located on a pile of rocks in the middle of the water.
“Not much,” David shrugged.
“Well, would you like a rundown on the basics?” Leo asked while trying to find a long piece of vine to anchor herself to a tree so the current doesn’t sweep her away as she got the egg.
David nodded, “Sure, but can you pass me your little device there, I have an idea.”
Leo smirks, “I can do you one better, here!” Leo takes out her digivice and materializes out another from a beam of light emitted from it. Leo then tossed the new digivice at David. “and this should be able to replace the one that got covered in jelly.” she said.
David nodded, before opening the device and moving the wires and other bits inside of the device before closing it up and pointing it at the digiegg, causing it to lift up and fly into his hand. He tossed the digiegg to Leo, “There you are.”
Leo whistled, “Dang didn't know you could do that! I mean the digivices can evolve but I didn’t know you could customize them!” she said before analyzing the egg. “Hm, seems to be a machine type, glad we found it before it hatched.” she said before scanning it into her digivice.
“Bit of a Time Lord upgrade,” David said.
Leo then got an idea, “Hey doctor, how about I give you a gift, should prove useful in the future.” she said before taking out her digivice and re-materializing the machine egg. “Catch” she said tossing the egg to him. “Try rubbing it.” she said folding her arms while smirking.
‘Alright,” he rubbed the egg a bit. As he did so the egg it began to glow, a few moments later the egg burst open and in his hands was a newly hatched Solarmon.
“Huh a solarmon… quite fitting actually…” Leo said as she walked over and linked David’s digivice with his new partner. The digivice then began to glow and transformed into a Data Link Digivice. “Oh and on a side note you don't have to worry about him dying, he will just turn back into an egg!” Leo stated, admiring the irony of a timelord becoming a digidestined.
“He turns into a clock, doesn’t he?” David asked, immediately realizing what her look meant.
“How'd you guess?” she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
“Magic?” David shrugged, the Solarmon floated up next to David’s head.
“Don't even try the magic excuse on me, my body is made up of 75% magic!” Leo deadpanned before locating another egg with her digivice.
“I’m a Time Lord,” David said, “Human turned Time Lord at that. Though, I suppose, the real David Tennant becoming the Doctor isn’t too far-fetched, is it?”
“Not realy. I mean, I’m a human that has been turned into a digimon and had a gender assigned to it that is the opposite of what it was when I was human…” she said with a look on her face saying that she was resigned to her fate.
“I’ve heard of gender swaps happening in Displaced. Seems pretty common,” David said.
“In truth the only problem I'm having with it are the fact that digimon aren't supposed to have genders, and the impending ‘monthlies’...” she said while shuddering.
“Why? Can’t Crux do something about that?” David asked.
“Its his fault in the first place…” she deadpanned.
David raised an eyebrow, “Purposeful?”
“From what I can tell, most likely.” she said while making a pouty face.
David reached his hand down, patting her on the head gently.
Leo’s face turned bright pink, a mixture of horror and embarrassment at what was happening. Quickly stepping away she composed herself and turned to the time lord. “Ok, Back to work…” she said while heading for the castle of the royal pony sisters.
David shrugged, “Onwards then.”
-The Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters -
“Ok, Doctor you check the Basement and I’ll check what remains of the towers and upstairs” Leo said before entering the remains of the castle.
“Allons-y!” David said before heading towards the stairs.
Leo wandered through the halls inspecting the craftsmanship put into the once great castle. As she walked down the hall she found the library and found eight digieggs which looked disturbingly familiar. She glanced around to make sure no one else had seen these eggs then quickly scanned them into her digivice and left the room to find David.
As Leo walked down into the main hall she then heard David scream. “LEO! WE’VE GOT A PROBLEM!” at that she made a beeline for the basement thinking ‘another day with the doctor i see.’ and chuckling under her breath. then she reached where david was standing and saw the problem. “Crap…” was all she had to say.
“So do you remember how to deal with these fellas?” Leo asked staring at the stone angels, after all the only outcome a digimon would get from being touched by one could only be guessed and she didn't plan on being a guinea pig.
“Yes, for now, don’t blink but don’t stare at them for too long, we’ll take turns,” David said, “Make your way out the door, we need to get to the TARDIS.”
“Just go get her! Digimon don't need to blink, and our eyes aren't reflective so one isn't going to spawn in my head!” she shouted to the doctor and hoping he could get the TARDIS before the sunlight in the room disappeared.
“You got it,” David said, sliding out the door and making a run for it, diving inside as the door closed, “If I can figure out where they came from, I should be able to poison the well and get rid of them. But I’ll need a paradox.”
“Someone say paradox?” came a voice from behind David.
“Yes,” David said, not even bothering to turn around, “What’ve got Crux?”
“Yeah, what’ve you got?” Another voice said.
“Well… I have a pocket sized paradox I always keep with me in case of emergencies.” he said while pulling out a ring with a rip in spacetime floating in the center. He then turned to the third person in the room. “So you came back here why?” he asked innocently.
“I tend to drift wherever,” Essence shrugged.
“Okay… well here ya go Doc that should help you out of your predicament and any future ones you might stick yourself in.” Crux said tossing the pocket paradox to the Doctor before disappearing into a crack in space time.
“Well, that’ll do,” David said, activating the console, and the TARDIS materialized around Leo.
“I see you finally arrived. so what's the plan?” Leo asked when she took notice that the TARDIS had materialized around her. “Although materializing the TARDIS around me probably wasn't a good idea...” she said, and a few moments later the TARDIS began to rock tossing Leo and David back and forth.
“I had just adjusted it for magic,” David sighed, “Let me work on this again…” David began messing with the console and the TARDIS stopped rocking.
“What now?” Leo asked delirious from being thrown across the room multiple times.
“Now, we cause a paradox,” David said.
“Well, this is going to be interesting…” Leo said trying to regain her balance on one of the nearby rails.
David grinned, “Allons-y!” The TARDIS dematerialized.
Life as a Displaced Digimon
Bonus chapter 1 - Marx (Part 1)
Chapter Three: Digimon, Digital Displaced
Marx stopped next to his destination.
’Okay this universe definitely has a displaced. Perhaps the displacer can help me.’ Marx flew to the universe and attempted to enter, but was stopped by an unseen force. ’Oh yay. It’s one of those “I don’t know you and none of your displaced are here so I won’t let you in without a fight!” universes. Great, now I have to enter the old fashioned way.’
Bracing himself, Marx piled into the universe with everything he had, fighting the force that tried to keep him out. Eventually, he broke through, but started coming in way too fast.
’*Groan* This is gonna hurt.’
{Leo’s POV}
I was leaving Twilight’s library when I was hit with a strange sense of deja vu before a note appeared in front of me. The note only had three very familiar words on it, ‘HIT THE DECK!’ Suddenly, there was a loud “BOOM!” and the whole town shook. I looked up to the sky to see something very weird. The sky seemed distorted and wavy. Then, the sky itself seem to rip open as something came in at a high speed. It proceeded to crash right into the center of Ponyville, causing something to the equivalent to a small earthquake.
“What the hay was that?!” I turned to see Twilight running out of the library looking towards the huge smoke cloud that had formed right at where the thing from the sky had crashed.
“At best guess I would think it was The Doctor but whatever it was I just saw it rip through the sky, literally!” While Twilight looked at the rip in the sky, I focused on the smoke cloud. A figure started to appear in it. Then, the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen came out of it.
“That went well. Someone remind me never to come in the old fashioned way ever again.” It was a Skeleton, with a black cape and a red gem holding it there. It also had a staff with a mini Tirek skull on top, and a spear tip on the bottom. It looked right at me, then smiled. “Ah, just the displaced I was hoping to see.”
“What the blazes are you, some kind of Skullsatamon ripoff!? Also how do you know about displaced, and why were you looking for me?” I stared at the strange skellington in front of me while sending Twilight the signal to evacuate just in case this ‘thing’ was hostile. After Twilight got my message I took a combat stance and prepared to fight the ‘thing’ if it showed any hostility.
“Oh come now, you think you can fight me? I’d love to see you try.”
“Try this!” I said firing a fireball at him and it exploding on contact. When the dust cleared, he was standing there as if nothing had happened.
“Oh wait that was your attack? I thought that was a build up for something big!”
“Interesting... I don't know how you survived but I don't plan on letting you harm anyone!”
“What? Who said I was harming anyone? My god you’re just like those other Xenophobic Equestrias I’ve seen. ‘If it isn’t a pony, then it must be evil!’”
“Wait what?”
“Have some courtesy to ask why I’m here before you order a town evacuation and start throwing around attacks!”
“Oh… sorry. I just thought you were one of Devimons minions...”
“Water under the bridge.”
“Who are you anyway?”
“My name is Marx, and I am a displacer.” I paused, letting that info bomb sink in.
“A displacer? Then why are you here?”
“Well quite frankly I’m hoping I can find something.” Closing his eyes, Marx seemed to focus before gaining a smile and popping his eyes open. “Found one!”
“Found one what?” With a snap of his fingers, a portal was opened up behind me.
“Rather than tell you, I’ll just show you!” He pushed me in and followed shortly afterwards.
{Marx’s POV}
Well I’m glad that there’s a piece of Lisa’s universe here. Looks like choosing at random may work after all! As we fell through the void, another portal opened up and we fell through. Landing on the ground first, I held out my arms and caught Leo before she hit the ground.
“Thanks for the save.” Leo said.
“No problem Leo.” We started walking before Leo paused.
“Wait, I never said my name.” Leo said while I rolled my eyes at her.
“I’m a displacer. I kind of have a way of knowing things.”
“Oh, right.” We walked along, heading for The Castle Of The Two Sisters. After a while, I tried to make conversation.
“So… who displaced you anyway?”
“Huh? Oh um… my dad did I guess.”
“Oh great. Another child of a displacer.”
“There are others?”
“Yes but I’m not going to tell you who. At least it wasn’t by the Merchant.” I had venom in my voice at that last part.
“You sound like you hate him.”
“He’s an annoying prick that doesn’t realize what he’s doing.”
“Really? Because when I last saw him he looked like he had a plan going, and a dark one at that.”
“He doesn’t even know what true darkness is.”
“How so?”
“Someone once said that the Merchant would end the multiverse. I showed them the only person that stood a chance at that. The Merchant can’t even begin to compare to his true power, and neither can anyone else that I know. But I do know one day he will be stopped, when he gets out that is.”
“You’re hoping he gets out?”
“I know he will. There is no way to truly imprison someone forever. Even death, is a way out.”
“That’s depressing.”
“It’s what I have to face every day knowing he could break out at any moment.” We stopped in front of the castle. “Well I’m done talking about this. Let’s split up shall we? What you’re looking for is a shard with a lot of colors in it swirling around!” With that I was off, hoping to find Lisa’s universe shard, and get the hell out of here.
{Leo’s POV}
“Well… he sure is interesting…” I said before going down one of the hallways and pulling out my digivice. “Now let's set you to unknown energy signatures and find that thing he was looking for.” I thought out loud before rounding a corner and accidentally activating a trap door and falling through it. “I hate ruins!” I screamed while falling.
When I finally reached the bottom I landed on a pile of pillows before standing up and looking at my surroundings. Near the far wall was a pedestal with a chest on it, and looking around the room revealed that that was all that was in here. So seeing as there was nothing else in the room I walked over to the chest and looked inside, only to find a key.
“Well, that was anti climatic.” I said before taking the key and looking at the hole I had fallen down.
Deciding it would be easier to fly out rather than climb I flapped my small wings a few times before shooting up the pipe i had fallen down. Once I reached the top my digivice scanners picked up an energy signal. Amused at the timing I began to follow the signal.
{Marx’s POV}
And so I walked around, trying to find the piece of Lisa’s universe that was missing. Even though I could tell it was here, the energy was bouncing off the walls of the castle, making it impossible to track. Apparently way back when the people that built this castle were smart enough to know that magic infused castle walls would hold up well against attacks. I however, wished they hadn’t. It just made it all the more difficult to find that piece. After a while, I decided to go to the less stable upstairs area.
This area also didn’t have any clues to where the piece was. I did find a locked chest in Tia’s old room which, for some reason, I couldn’t unlock, nor blast open. The chest was a normal chest, but some strange energy from inside of it kept the box invulnerable and unpickable. However, chests have locks. Locks have keys. Keys aren’t usually too far from what they unlock, so the key had to be in the castle somewhere.
“Hope I can find it soon. Don’t want to spend too long in one dimension, least the problems from my other ones get dragged here.” And so he ventured on, looking for the possible key, of this mysterious box.
{Leo’s POV}
As soon as I got out of the hallway the energy signature I had been tracking had started to move, but I wasn't really thinking about it because I had bumped into a strange being made of shadows and it had tentacles coming out it's back. I was worried yes but I was mostly annoyed because at this rate I was going to have a track record of bumping into things from other people's universes. And how do i know it's from another universe you may ask? Because the jerk was demanding to know where Marx was while bum rushing me.
“Tell me where Marx is!” The shadow creature screamed.
“Back… OFF!” I yelled while sending a fireball at it.
As the fireball hit the creature it exploded making a loud *BOOM!* which could probably be heard all the way from the other side of the castle. After the smoke cleared where the creature once stood was a purple orb that reminded me of a dark digicore. So out of not wanting to take any chances I blasted it with a concentrated beam of holy energy in an attempt to destroy it, but nothing happened. Out of concern I decided to take it to Marx to see what he knew about it before running off to find him.
{Marx’s POV}
Had I heard that sudden boom in the castle? Yes, yes I had. Did I know what it was? Nope, not a clue. Deciding it would be best to find Leo as fast as possible, I flew back down to the ground floor and searched for her. Thankfully I was able to detect her pretty fast. However, she had something with her that I knew was trouble. It was the exact reason why I didn’t want to stay in one universe for too long. My problems had followed me.
“LEO!!!” I flew down the halls towards her location. I turned a corner and saw her at the other end. “Leo!!!”
“Hey Marx! I saw this Shadow thingy and it kept demanding to know where you were, I managed to destroy it but it left this behind.” Leo said running up to me and giving me a very familiar purple orb. “What exactly was it, and what did it want with you?”
“Ugh, this is exactly why I didn’t want to be here for too long. What you just encountered was a Nightmare Fuel and, considering it could talk, it was one of the smarter ones. It was looking for me so it could destroy me. Thankfully it hasn’t adapted to any of your abilities yet so all I need to do is send it to someone that can destroy it.”
With a snap of my fingers, a portal opened right behind Epidemic, who was currently flying through the void. I threw it at his head and, before he could react, I closed the portal.
“Well, that takes care of that mess. So let’s get back to why we’re here. Any luck on finding the universe shard?”
“I found a key, by the way who was that you threw the orb at?” Leo had noticed what was on the other side of the portal and handed Marx the key she found.
“Hmm? Oh him. He’s the son of one of my displaced. He’s one of the only two people that can really destroy those damn Nightmares.”
“Interesting, and I think something was wrong with it when it attacked me. it was almost as if it had been severely weakened.”
“WHO IS OPENING ALL THOSE PORTALS!” said a voice that seemed to come from everywhere at once before a man in a blue robe appeared out of thin air. This, presumably, was Leo’s father, the displacer of this world.
“That would be me.” My answer caused him to turn to me. From the look on his face, I could already tell he knew I was a displacer. The only problem with that would be his reaction.
“Oh great… another one…. WHAT IS IT THIS TIME!?” he shouted flailing his arms.
“Oh nothing much. Just looking for the shattered remains of the universe of one of my displaced. You know, important stuff.”
“Oh really, and what makes this displaced special enough for you to be willing to help them?” he asked
“Well for one back on earth I was her imaginary friend. Second, the destruction of her universe is indirectly my fault.”
“I see, I guess you're ok. so mind telling me why I felt so many portals? And if it has something to do with those shadow creatures I will not be happy, Leo is already being targeted by the Merchant and his lackeys. I don't need another force trying to take her and make a weapon out of her… By the way my name is Crux.” he said.
“Well met Crux. I am Marx an to answer your questions, those portals were created by me. As for the Nightmares, I don’t know how they followed me, but they are the sole reason why I don’t want to spend too much time here, lest I cause more trouble than even I can handle.”
“Then I hope we eventually find time to have an actual talk without a threat looming over us. You're the only displacer I have met other than Loki that actually cares about the displaced and the worlds they inhabit.” Crux said before pulling out a dimension shard. “a while back two of these things landed in this world, one was found by celestia and luna and the other was found by me while I was searching for a world to hide Leo on.” Crux pointed out as he handed the shard to me.
“Perfect!” Taking out my own shard, I put the two pieces together like a puzzle. They resonated, and more of the universe was restored. It was still to damaged to even enter, but at least I was on the right trail. “Any idea where Tia and Luna put that shard?”
“Not a clue. by the way, what's in the chest?” Crux asked.
“No idea. Perhaps a clue to what I so desperately search for.” Taking out the key Leo gave him, he unlocked the chest. Inside the chest, was a sun colored ball. “Ah, looks like someone wasn’t too keen on anyone finding the second piece.”
“Heh, Trollestia strikes again.” Leo said smirking.
“Indeed she does! I had no idea she was strong enough to make a mana map. That’s incredibly hard to do!”
“This version of celestia is… for a lack of a better term… ‘Special’” Crux shivered at the statement.
“How so?”
“All I can tell you is she is stronger than most of the other Celestias, and has a multiple personality disorder that could rival Essence…” Crux said as he shivered and blushed at the same time.
“That’s very… odd… SON OF A BITCH!”
“Why do you say that, and does this mean we are going to canterlot? Because I don't wanna go back!” Leo said, her eyes shrinking to pin pricks.
“No, I say that because I just figured out how in the hell a Nightmare followed me here.”
“How?” Crux asked.
“Well, try and figure out why Celestia is much stronger, and has split personality. I’m betting that started once Leo got here right?”
“Yeah… why do you mention that?” Crux asked fearing what Marx was going to say next.
“Simple, it’s the same case with Luna. I don’t know how, or quite frankly why, but a Nightmare always posses her a thousand years before Twilight and co. arrive to stop her when she returns. However, it seems as if Luna wasn’t the only one to be possessed.”
“Great… so the shadows know about my daughter too… this is going to get anoying.” Crux said before turning around. “I’ll see you around I have to attend to some of my other displaced, no matter how much I want to dote on my daughter…” And with that, he vanished.
“Well, looks like we’ll have a challenge on our hands. Come on now, according to this mana map, the piece is pretty far.” I snapped my fingers, and opened a portal. I didn’t open it too close to the shard’s location as to not trigger any traps, but I needed to be careful. And so we were off, making our way to the third piece in Lisa’s universe.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Life as a Displaced Digimon
I wonder what time I returned to? after all you can never be sure when you hang out with Doctor Who. I wondered as i walked through town.
“Leo! Get over here!” I heard Twilight Whisper/shout.
I looked around for a bit until I saw Twilight and her friends hiding in a pit near the edge of town. Shrugging I made my way over to the pit before being pulled in by twilight.
“What are you doing!? It's the middle of the great dragon migration! Are you trying to get fried!?” Twilight said.
Well at least i know when in the timeline it is… I thought. “Just so you know I’m part dragon so I should be fine…” I said while giving her a deadpan stare. “Anyway, wheres spike?” I asked.
“We may have teased him a bit too much…” Rainbow chuckled.
“Oh joy. well I’m going to go talk to him.” I said before crawling out of the pit and walking away.
some time later…
“Hey spike! How are you?” I said when I found spike.
“Hey Leo. Not so well… Can i ask you a question?” Spike asked.
“Shure. What is it?” I said before walking over and sitting next to him.
“The girls said that I'm nothing like other dragons… Are they telling the truth?” Spike
“All I can tell you is that it’s true and it's up to you to decide what you want to about it.” I told him. I really wanted to help him but I don't want to change the timeline.
“Ok, I guess I’ll see you later.” Spike said before going into the library.
As I walked away from the library I decided to go see Fluttershy. While I headed in the direction of her cottage I took a look at the sky to watch Rainbow do stunts over Ponyville only to see dragons instead of the prismatic mare. Nearly forgot about the dragon migration. I mentally laughed.
As I approached Fluttershy’s cottage my digivice started to beep Indicating a Digimon nearby. This can not be good I thought starting to run in the direction of Fluttershy’s cottage until I crossed the bridge and heard Fluttershy Screaming on the other side.
“Well no time to learn how to fight like the present!” I said before running into the area behind the cottage.
As I reached Fluttershy's back yard I saw a Kuwagamon wrestling with Fluttershy’s bear. So spreading my wings and flapping them while running as fast as I could I brought back one of my fists and leapt at it at a speed that would have made Rainbow proud before punching it a good three yards through the tree line.
“Fluttershy are you ok!?” I called to the terrified pegasus.
“Leo!? Oh thank you! How did you do that?” She said walking up to me.
“No time to talk that Digimon isn’t down yet so you're still in danger. I recommend you and your bear get into the cottage until this is over!” I told her before we heard the Kuwagamon screech.
“Ok, I’ll let you deal with the monster seeing as you know how to deal with them.” She squeaked before hiding indoors with her bear.
Nodding my head i turned around just in time to be flung into the air by the Kuwagamon. as I soared through the air i spread my wings and began to fly. This is interesting, so i can fly with these tiny wings… I thought before diving to the side as the Kuwagamon flew at me.
“Ok, Time to get serious!” I shouted before flying at the Kuwagamon to deliver another punch. “Eat fist!” I shouted before hitting the giant bug square in the stomach causing it to slam into the ground. Now how did I make that fireball when Doctor Who scared me… I thought before making a ball of fire appear in my hand. “Huh… so i simply have to think about it? cool. now… Eat Fireball you oversized beetle!” I shouted before throwing the ball of fire at it causing a small explosion on impact.
When the smoke cleared the Kuwagamon was still there but it was beginning to glitch out showing that it was almost defeated, so I hit it with another punch causing it to burst into a stream of data before reforming into a digiegg. I then pulled out my digivice and scanned the egg into the digivice for storage.
“Its safe to come out now!” I called to Fluttershy.
As Fluttershy came out of her cottage she stared at me for a bit before looking around. “Oh my goodness! are you ok?” She asked.
“Yes I’m ok, and don't worry about that monster it won't harm you or your animals ever again.” I said before patting her on the head.
“What was it? How did you defeat it!” Fluttershy asked out of surprise.
“It was a Kuwagamon. like me, it was a type of Digimon.” I replied.
“It’s like you? but you act and look completely different!” She exclaimed.
“No two digimon are exactly alike, like ponies they have different personalities. Also Digimon are creatures made of solid energy so you don't have to worry about us getting hurt, we can heal almost immediately if we aren't in combat.” I decided to tell her in case she got any more worried.
“Oh, well, um that's interesting…” Fluttershy said, “It's getting late… would you like to stay over for the night? in case another one of those things attack again. If you don't mind…” She added.
“Sure, I don't have anything else to do anyway.” I told her with a small smile.
The next day I left to go to the library after telling Fluttershy I was going to hang out with spike for a while.
“I’ve decided. I’m going on a quest to find out about myself!” I heard spike saying as i entered the library.
“So you're going on a quest of self discovery?” I said playing along. “How bout I come with you? as a fellow dragon of course.” I added as extra incentive.
“Shure! It would be nice to have a fellow dragon that I’m already friends with along.” Spike said before turning to the door.
“See you soon Twilight!” I called as I followed spike out of the library.
“Were following them, right?” Rarity asked.
“Of course.” Twilight said in response
As me and spike followed the dragons threw the wild we encountered many things from strange new animals to a wild digimon every once in awhile. The animals we left alone but I made sure to check and see if the wild digimon we encountered would be of any danger to their surroundings. The digimon which were a threat, which was most of them, I made sure to handle as quickly as possible while at the same time accidentally making spike start to look up to me like some kind of superhero or something. We even found many un hatched digi-eggs as well as collected the eggs dropped by the digimon I defeated along the way. I even learned a new attack, which I named ‘Holy beam’ because it fired a beam of concentrated light attribute energy.
We had reached a volcano when we noticed the dragons beginning to land, so we decided to climb up and see what they were doing. or in my case, see if there were any differences from the show that i might need to be aware of.
“Ok spike, were here.” I said taking in the sight.
“Oh! and look, teenaged dragons! let's go say hi!” Spike said pointing to a group of smaller dragons in the volcano.
“Shure why not?” I told him. I know this isn't going to end well, but at least i'll be with him when he meets Garble and his group so it won't go as bad as it did in the show. I thought as we worked our way to the group of teenaged dragons.
“Um, excuse me? Uh, hi. I'm Spike.” Spike said to the older dragons nervously.
“and I’m Leo.” I replied before standing next to spike and making all the teenaged dragon's stare at me.
“What do we have here?” Said a red dragon that seemed to be in charge of the group.
‘oh boy, here comes Garble…’ i thought to myself as he came closer.
“A baby dragon, and a talking manticore?” Garble joked, causing the other dragons to burst into a fit of laughter.
“You know, you might want to be careful who you pick on.” I said sweetly to them with a toothy grin.
Garble raised what looked like an eyebrow at my statement then narrowed his eyes at me, “What are you trying to say?” he asked with a slight growl.
“That you should be careful around things you don't understand.” I replied with a yawn.
Garbles eye twitched, “Oh really, and why should I?” he said.
“Because, you can't judge a dragon by the color of its scales.” I replied.
“Are you claiming to be a dragon?” Garble said with a smirk.
“Yes I am, what of it?” I replied.
“Oh, yeah? Then prove it!” Garble said, a slight frown crossing his face.
“Gladly. How about we start with a fire breathing contest?” I said, smirking at him.
“Oh? Bring it pipsqueak!” Garble said as some of the dragons lined up for the contest.
Each dragon lined up belches while releasing a burst of flame larger than the last, until the fat brown one with the blue horns lets loose a flame three times as large as himself causing the other dragons to cheer.
“You think you can beat that?” Garble said to me and spike.
Spike decides to go first and after belching a letter from celestia appears.
All the dragons stare in confusion as garble picks up the scroll and opens it. “From the desk of Princess Celestia. Dear Spike, please te– Ha! Get this, guys! Spike's pen-pals with a namby-pamby pony princess!” Garble says causing the other dragons to start laughing before throwing the letter into the lava.
I was ticked, I knew this was going to happen and should have kept my cool but watching the dragons laugh at spike was getting annoying. So I turned to look right at garble and instead of concentrating my fire powers in one of my paws I concentrated them in my mouth and let loose a giant stream of flame on Garble, causing his scales to become covered in soot. “Hows that for you?” I asked in a mocking tone causing all the dragons, Spike included, to look at me in surprise.
“What the…” Spike said.
“What? Just because I’m a girl doesn't mean I have to be lady like!” I said while shrugging my shoulders.
“Wait, you're a GIRL!?” The dragons other than spike said in surprise.
“Yeah, what of it?” I replied before raising an eyebrow at Garble. “Something wrong?” I asked him as his eye twitched.
“Next challenge!” Garble shouted before Jumping on top of a pile of gems. “KING OF THE HOARD!” He roared causing the dragons to gather around the base of the hoard, me and Spike included.
As Garble defended the top of the hord me and spike tried climbing up only for him to throw one of the other dragons at spike knocking the young dragon off the hoard just before I reached the top and it was just me and Garble left. He made the mistake of seeing what I would do by staying still as I got up next to him on top of the mound before I punched him so hard in the face he flew off the horde while losing a few of his teeth.
I looked down at the befuddled dragons before inhaling and shouting “QUEEN OF THE HOARD!” as loud as I could before jumping and gliding down from the top of the hoard of gems.
Garble growled as smoke fumed from his nose and his eyes showed red. “Ok, one final challenge!” He shouted out of anger at me showing him up so badly.
“What is it?” I asked him with a innocent look, causing him to get even more angry.
Garble lead the group to a cliff over a pool of lava. “Lava cannonball! Whoever can make the biggest splash wins!” he said as he gave a victorious smirk.
As each of the dragons took their turns they each made splashes that reached to where we were standing on the cliff before it was Spike’s turn. Feeling nervous Spike backed up before gathering his courage and walking up to the edge of the cliff and doing a belly flop that made a loud smacking sound that could even be heard from the edge of the volcano and making all the dragons watching cringe. after sinking into the lava slowly Spike popped his head out of the lava to be met with cheers from the other dragons complimenting him on his durability before I stepped up for my turn.
The teenaged dragons began throwing insults as spike gave me a worried glance before I flew up into the air. Once I had flown up a good distance I turned and skydived towards the pool of lava making spike go wide eyed in realization. I grinned as the dragons watched spike struggling to get out of the pool as fast as possible in confusion as I fell towards the lava at terminal velocity before hitting its molten surface.
As I hit the surface the dragons had turned just in time to see me enter the lava before they were flung out of the pool by the massive splash I had caused.
As soon as I crawled out of the pool of lava, having succeeded in my plan to cause as big a splash as i could without using any of my powers, I looked around at the dumbfounded dragons and spike as well as an infuriated Garble. “So, does that mean i win?” I mocked while glaring at Garble with a pinkie level smile.
“I will not be shown up by a girl! let alone a half-breed! Get her!” Garble screamed to the other dragons, causing them to bum rush towards me.
“Oh no you don't.” I said while pushing spike towards the horribly disguised ponies nearby. “Hope you don't mind watching spike for a minute!” I joked towards the false dragon that spike was now standing next to. ‘now that I think about it, how did they find us? they definitely weren't following us, I would have noticed if they were. Oh well...’ I thought to myself before taking a battle stance.
As the first dragon got ready to hit me music began to play from out of nowhere. ‘Where did that come from?’ I thought as I grabbed the first dragon's fist and gave him a jab to the gut causing him to fall over windid before I used him as a springboard to launch myself at the next dragon. When I came into range of the next dragon I pulled back my fist and while coating it in my elemental power Punched him in the face as hard as I could causing him to fly backwards several meters away from me while doing a backflip. I then grabbed the fat brown dragon by his tail after leaping over him and begun to spin him around me to gain momentum before hurling him into the other dragons taking most of them out.
“Grr. Step aside, if I want something done I guess I have to do it myself!” Garble shouted.
“Oh? So is the boss finally going to get serious and fight for once?” I taunted after taking out two more dragons with fireballs, Leaving garble as the last dragon standing.
“I’m going to make you wish you never messed with me! And then I might let you off with being my pet, Hows that sound?” He fumed.
“What did you say about me?” I asked giving Garble my full attention.
“I said I’m going to make you my pet as punishment for humiliating me!” He said in a mocking tone.
“OH, YOU DID NOT JUST SAY THAT!” I shouted, my level of annoyance reaching its peak.
Me and Farble each took a battle stance as the Music Changed . I made the first move by Jumping at him while firing fireballs before hitting him with a punch to the gut causing him to fly halfway across the volcano away from me. I then began to charge after him as he landed and started to charge towards me while preparing to breath fire. I Jumped over him before he could breath fire on me and grabbed his wings while doing a front flip lifting Garble over my head then smashing him on the ground in front of me. Winded, Garble let loose his fire into the air above us before he reached back and grabbed me by the leg and flung me into the air. As I spun in the air Garble got back up and then charged at me before grabbing me and flinging me into the ground this time. We continued fighting like this for a few minutes before I finally took him out with a punch to the chin.
As I got off of the downed dragon I looked over to spike to see he had been watching with a shocked expresion until I stumbled from exhaustion. Obviously worried Spike shook himself from his shock before running over to me To make sure I was ok.
“Are you OK? And how did you handle all those dragons!?” Spike asked making sure I wasn't bleeding.
“Yes I’m fine, or at least as fine as I can be. You remember me taking on those digimon on the way here right?” I said while chuckling dryly.
“Yeah but those were all one on one fights! Are you sure you're ok?” Spike said, seeming more calm than a moment ago.
“Nothing a little rest won't cure.” I replied before the fake dragon walked over to us. “Now if you don't mind, could you teleport us home Twilight?” I said giving the fake dragon a knowing look.
“How did she know!?” Me and spike heard rainbow say before twilight silenced her.
“Wait, you were following us?” Spike asked.
“Actually they have only been following us after we got here.” I told spike before Twilight cast her teleportation spell.
As the spell wore off we found ourselves in front of Golden Oaks library. “I can't believe those brutes, I’m glad you're not like them Spikey wikey!” Rarity said as the costume was thrown to the side.
“I’m sorry that you didn't learn much about dragons spike,” I said as I started to stand up. “How about I tell you all i know about dragons later?”
“Wait, if you knew about dragons why did we go there?” Spike asked.
“Because you wanted to go and it helped me do a bit of cleanup.” I said with a smirk.
“Clean up?” All four of them said in unison, confusion evident on their faces.
“Well I'm tired, see ya around.” I said before going down stairs for a nap before they could ask any more questions.
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Life as a Displaced Digimon
Chapter 7 - Meeting Namiro, the changeling Je'Daii
Leo was walking around Whitetail woods the day after Spike’s ‘quest’ when she found an empty clearing. This would do nicely. She thought walking into the middle of the clearing.
“Since I am somewhat responsible for all the Digimon in this world I might as well take up the mantle of a Digimon sovereign.” Leo said marking the area before the wind started to kick up and the sky grew dark. “This does not look good…” She said before taking a defencive stance.
A dark emerald glow lit up through some of the nearby clouds, concentrating in a spot just above the clearing as it began to condense into a relatively small sphere of green energy. With a deafening burst the sphere was launched into the clearing with several black spheres trailing behind it. The green one shifted into the form of a pony-like creature just before it skipped a few times across the ground and landed in front of Leo.
The other five darker spheres had a bit more generous of a landing as they condensed into shadow-creatures that were vaguely humanoid in shape with red glowing eyes being the only indication of a face.
“Ok, I have some kind of injured pony that just materialized at my feet and shadow monsters surrounding us… I can guess that I’m not going to be able to walk away from this am I?” Leo asked no one in particular.
The creatures, silent as they were, drew several small metal objects from what appeared to be cloaks made entirely of darkness. With several hisses the objects brought crimson blades of energy into existence.
“Ok… I feel like I walked into a Star Wars convention now…” Leo said before proceeding to poke the downed pony with a foot until he woke up.
The tough chitin on the pony’s exterior didn’t seem to do much in response for several seconds. “You’re… not entirely wrong there…” The pony-creature groaned as he slowly pulled himself up from the dirt. “I’d be happy to explain… but as you can see…” He panted a little as he stood to his full height of at least a good eight feet tall, “Five against one really hasn’t been easy on me.”
“Ouch, well what's your side? and who are they?” Leo said stepping out from behind him. “If you're a good guy then I might help you, if not I’m flying out of here.” she added teasingly.
“Well… they’re Sith Phantoms if that helps…” He replied as he drew his own saber hilt, lighting up a green energy blade while he got back into a battle stance.
“then I shall help you young jedi.” Leo said trying to imitate Yodas voice before materializing a Fireball in each of her hands.
The tall pony-like creature dashed towards one of the closer phantoms, locking his blade against the crimson one the phantom brandished as it tried a vertical cut. The four other phantoms began their charge against the two fighters.
“Not so fast little shadows~” Leo sang before throwing her fireballs at the two furthest phantoms causing them to explode before charging the remaining two that were going after the pony-creature.
The two remaining phantoms turned their attention towards Leo, one raised its right hand as lightning began to arc away from it to give cover to the last phantom.
“Ooh! trying to use lightning on me? nice try!” Leo shouted flapping her wings and taking to the air causing the lightning to miss. “Now eat my Mach punch !” She shouted dive bombing the phantom that tried to use lightning on her while punching it in the face.
The other phantom that tried to use the lightning as cover brought its saber to bear as it swung the angrily-humming blade at her.
The pony-creature seemed a bit more confident now that it was fighting one-on-one against the phantom that he had clashed with. “So, I hope you don’t mind… but… uh… what are you?” He called to Leo as he brought his blade across the wrist of the phantom he was dueling.
Leo dived to the side to avoid being hit by the red Lightsaber before replying, “I’m a Coronadramon, a one of a kind digimon.” she said as the phantom that tried to strike her accidently destroyed its partner that Leo had knocked down moments before. “You could say I’m the first of my kind, as well as the unintentional creator of all the digimon on this world. Blame Discord.”
With a quick flourish an emerald blade emerged from the back of the phantom the pony-creature was dueling. “Who?” He asked as the phantom faded away.
“Discord, the spirit of chaos. be glad you haven't met him, he’s a jerk. Tried using his magic on me causing it to rain digi-eggs all over equestria.” Leo replied before jumping over the last phantom and kicking it in the back.
As the phantoms faded the strange, giant, bug-pony creature began to look around. “I get the feeling that I must not be in my Equestria then… do you happen to know what Changelings are?”
“Oh, another displaced then?” Leo stated, “No, I don't believe this is your Equestria, If it was I would have noticed giant bipedal ponies around and i know what a changeling is, but you don’t look like any changelings I have ever seen in the show.” she added.
“Show?” The changeling asked with a confused look.
“You didn't know? where I came from before coming here this world was a show called ‘My little pony: Friendship is magic’.” Leo said while shrugging.
“Wait a minute… that was the logo on the plush toy I bought for my sister’s birthday at the convention…” The changeling said as he looked over at the digimon. “So… this whole world is based off of that show?”
“Nope! Multiverse theory, I don't really know how to explain it. But dang you didn't notice? I wish Doctor Who was here this is hilarious!” Leo said, bursting out laughing.
“I’m familiar with Multiverse theory… but I’ve never seen an episode of the show, I saw the plush and thought my sister would like it.” He put a hand to his chin. “Then again, I’m not too surprised… the Celestia and Luna from my world are displaced as well…”
“They are? that’s interesting… at least you know you’re safe then. By the way what’s your name? I’m Leo by the way.” Leo said while extending a paw.
The changeling smiled a little. “My name is Namiro, I’m a Changeling King.” He explained as he completed the handshake. His eyes darted away a little as he let the handshake go a little early. “I’m actually a tad worried about my hive back home… I don’t even know what happened while I was trapped in that nightmare.” He cast a sidelong glance at the digimon. “How did you bring me here anyway? Wasn’t the whole thing about ‘displaced’ due to being summoned by a token? I haven’t sent one out… I know that much.”
“Yeah… I don’t know how you got here but I could help you if you want.” Leo offered. “After all, I could ask my dad to send us to your world.” She said before pulling out her digivice.
Namiro rubbed the back of his head a little bit. “Well… if what happens while I’m on other worlds stays roughly consistent… then I’m normally pulled away from my world when there isn’t a major event going on that I need to worry about. So I guess a little bit of a break wouldn’t hurt…”
“If you say so… but if you plan on hanging out here for a bit you might want to disguise yourself as something with four legs, unless you want to cause a panic. After all the only thing with two legs the ponies in this area would trust besides centaurs would probably be me.” Leo said while eyeing Namiro.
He seemed to think about it for a moment before his entire form was engulfed in emerald flames. Once the flames cleared a much shorter earth-pony stallion stood in the same stance. “I’m not used to quadrupeds… so I’d rather not re-learn to walk… Do the ponies of your world already know about Displaced as well?”
“No… and I hope they never do. I don't want to be swarmed by weirdos and Twilight is bad enough as it is… if she finds out I’m not simply some new species but also from another world… I don't think I could avoid getting dissected.” Leo said before shivering.
A near-sinister smile seemed to curl up on the disguised changeling’s muzzle. “How… uh… Oh how do I put this… How sensitive is your Twilight?”
“What kind of sensitive?” Leo asked nervously.
“On the Equestria that I’m from… I have an open relationship with my Twilight, nothing intimate on that yet but she’s working up her confidence, I was thinking as a special way to at least get these heroes to know about us without dissecting you… I could play up the fact that I think I’m still on my world with the Twilight I’m in a relationship with.” Namiro explained. “I wouldn’t be too vulgar or anything like that, just a bit of harmless fun if she gets really flustered when talking about more mature topics.”
“Well that would be hilarious, but I would rather not shatter what's left of the timeline thank you.” Leo said.
“Okay, well… There’s a few things I’m going to need explained then… Has the Crystal Empire already appeared on this world?”
“No, Cadance and Shining Armor haven’t even gotten married yet.” Leo said raising an eyebrow. “why do you ask?” Leo added out of curiosity.
“Mostly due to the last major event I remember being when Sombra invaded the Crystal Empire with… well… less than an army of Sith.”
“Okay… so your Sombra is a sith lord, never would’ve thought of that… at least my Sombra won’t have an army unless… yeah, not going to jinx it.” Leo said.
Namiro nodded. “So, did you need help with anything?” The brown earth stallion asked. “I did find out from one of my Mentors that the Displaced are typically summoned for assistance.”
“Unless my dad decided to call you without warning me, which he most likely did not. The only reason I would need help is finding most of the digi-eggs that are scattered around Equestria. that or the force wanted you to meet me for some reason so it sent you here somehow…” Leo said while scratching her head.
“Perhaps I was sent here to relax a bit… know any good places to do so?”
“Unless you tell me what you like to do to pass the time, I don't think so.” Leo said. “But if you want we could go to sugarcube corner.” Leo said before facepalming. “I forgot, you're a changeling, you eat emotions, not food…”
Namiro gave a nervous chuckle as he rubbed the back of his head. “I can eat regular food just fine, it just gets converted differently than what normal beings are used to… so I don’t get any nutrition from it whatsoever… and uh… for what I usually do to pass the time… it tends to be voluntary harvesting of emotions for my Queen’s hive.”
“Ok… and now I’m worried for my chastity…” Leo said.
“You don’t need to be worried about that, I’m not into BDSM or anything like that.” Namiro explained as he leaned up against a nearby tree. “Aside from harvesting love though… I guess I just meditate and train with The Force… huh… I guess I really did lose a lot of my hobbies after coming to Equestria…”
“Well i'm up for training if you want to do that. I don't really have much to do around here yet, now that i think about it… the jedi had a council, why not start setting up a council of our own?” Leo asked excitedly.
“The Jedi Council was just made up of a small group of masters who tended to get the others to listen due to seniority than anything else… Though most of my organization on my Equestria is meant to follow the even older Je’Daii order.” He explained. “Yes, I understand they sound the same, but there’s actually an apostrophe after the ‘e’ and two ‘i’s on the end. It’s a different organization than the one most Star Wars fans know about.”
“Sounds interesting, i don’t know the difference but then again I wasn’t that hard core of a Star Wars fan. i spent most of my time watching Digimon.” Leo shrugged.
“Neither was I… I just happened to find out about the organization through a Wiki made specifically for Star Wars lore. The Jedi and the Je’Daii are different because the Jedi that were part of the decline of the Republic only believed that the Light side of the force was the way to live by… while the Je’Daii on the other hand believed that there was no light or dark side… just The Force.”
“These Je’Daii sound quite wise.” Said a voice from behind Namiro.
He nodded a little. “They were… had it not been for a splinter faction within their order that began to crave power then they would’ve likely achieved lasting peace in the galaxy.”
“I see, then I think my daughter would be a great ally to you then young one.” Said the voice.
Namiro shrugged. “Much of my world has actually learned to balance hedonism with temperance… or whatever word is required to mean that they practice in little bits… Anyway, I’d love to give her a tour sometime… when I know that I’m not just going to bring her into that nightmare I’m currently trapped in on my world.”
“You seem awfully calm young one… and I could send you back there and destroy that nightmare at the same time if you ask.” The voice said.
“Of course I’m calm… The Force rewards patience and understanding, now… if you would be so kind as to step out to where you can be seen, I can properly introduce myself to you.” Namiro replied.
“As you wish.” Said the voice before its presence vanished and a humanoid shaped being in a blue cloak materialized in front of Namiro. “My name is Crux, it’s nice to see you and my daughter are getting along.” He said.
“Well, I am a fairly amiable changeling. I tend to get along with those who don’t try to kill me.” Namiro replied with a broad smile. “What kind of things do you guys do for fun around here, I honestly could use a small vacation from the stress that has become ‘managing a hive’...”
“I would say I feel bad for you but I honestly don't… It’s nice to spend time with family… if only I could spend more time with the only member left of mine.” Crux said in a somber tone.
“Well, I’m here right now, we could find something to do that would give you guys time to spend together… hmm… now that I think about it I believe I want some of those toothsome delectables from the absolutely divine bakery in town.” Namiro explained as he began walking towards town.
“Why not, my other displaced should be fine for a while.” crux said before taking Leo’s hand and walking with her after Namiro.
“As a small note of importance…” Namiro started as he continued walking. “I have been cut off for the most part from The Force while I’m on other displaced worlds until a source that can tap into it can be established… so while I’m here there is a bit of feeding at some point that I’ll have to do.”
“Hahaha! You are too calm for your own good, have you not noticed the air around here? when you were dumped into this world a connection was forcibly established.” Crux said.
“I understand that, but the connection itself is too weak for me to either keep fed or semi-effectively use my Force abilities.”
“Well if you feed off of anyone at least make sure it’s not one of the main six, can’t change the timeline.” Leo said.
“I don’t need to be physically intimate with anyone in order to feed, Leo, it just tends to be easier that way since such a connection produces the most concentrated and sweetest of love. But trust me, the last time I fed on the energy Pinkie Pie gave off… I thought I was going to grow a cavity somehow.” The disguised changeling replied. “I’ll only have the sweets from Sugarcube corner…”
“Ok, since that has been cleared up let's go!” Leo said before spreading her wings and taking off.
Namiro sighed a little. “Earth stallion disguise, remember? Not able to fly without breaking disguise.” He muttered a little to himself afterward, “though perhaps she’s just flying ahead to let her friends know about the mutant pony who’s coming.”
“Don’t worry about that, I have it covered.” Crux said before teleporting them in front of Sugarcube Corner, and making a brown cloak materialize around Namiro before anypony could see him. “Don’t take off the cloak, it will make them think you’re one of leo’s friends by wearing it, and it comes with the extra feature of nobody being able to see what you look like on the inside.” He instructed.
“I do know a few digimon… I mean, I haven’t really tried to change into any since it hasn’t been something I needed to do… but I could turn into a Renamon or something like that…”
“Not a good idea, the only digimon they trust is me. seeing as all the other digimon are wild ones that try and attack them I can understand why.” Leo said having caught up on them.
He sighed a little. “Fine… I’ll be a bit slow about it but a feral pony won’t be too big of a deal then.” The changeling replied as he tried to keep the glow of his shifting flames to a very dim color.
“Now we just have to avoid Rarity and we should be fine.” Leo said before leading Namiro and Crux into Sugarcube corner. “Hey Pinkie! I brought a few friends that decided to stop by for a visit!” She said as soon as the three of them walked into the bakery.
Namiro brought the hood on his cloak back to reveal his brown earth pony visage and his dark green mane. “I’ve been travelling quite a bit and Leo was telling me this place is great for getting delicious food.”
“Indeed it is! But you already knew that didn't you?” Pinkie said appearing in front of Namiro.
“Well, hearsay and rumor.” He replied with a smile as he took a small step back. “Any open seats for a weary traveller?”
“Sure, I already knew you three were coming. Your private booth is over here.” Pinkie said leading them to a corner with a curtain. “And you need to talk more often when in town Crux, It's like you’re a ghost with how quiet you are!” She added before leaving.
Namiro sat down at the booth with a small sigh. “So frustrating on four hooves…” He muttered. “I’m still confused on how some worlds can deal with it.”
leo shrugged, “they manage, I don't know how either but they do.” she then turned to Crux “By the way, could you give Namiro a copy of my token?” she asked.
“Sure.” Crux said before handing Namiro a digivice.
The disguised changeling took the digivice which morphed into a lime green D-power digivice upon accepting its new owner. “...Second generation of the digivices, right?”
“No, thats a generation three digivice. It might work out, now we just have to get you a digimon!” Leo said before Pinkie delivered food to their booth.
The changeling’s eyes seemed to light up a little. “You mean like Renamon? I forget what the pre-digivolution stages are…”
“Eh, it's possible.” Leo said before chowing down on the pile of sugar cookies that was left in front of her.
Namiro took one of the sugar cookies as well, “What kinds of things went on since you got here then? Maybe we could swap stories.”
“Sure, and I can give you some information about the show to possibly help you in the future. unless the timeline is dead there…” Leo said before scarfing down the last of the cookies.
“I wouldn’t assume that my world follows a particular timeline… Chrysalis died on my world so I don’t know if that changed anything too much… let’s see… the queen of my hive is Shining Armor’s daughter…” He began.
“Shining has a daughter!?” Leo said.
“Yep, the last royal egg Chrysalis had lain before she died.” Namiro replied with a smile. “Fortunately Ponyville’s been keeping the hive fed ever since we moved out there.”
“So you made peace between the ponies and the changelings? yeah that and Chrysalis having a daughter are so far the only changes to the timeline i have noticed so far in your world.” Leo said.
“Well…” Namiro started hesitantly. “...Sombra’s still alive in my world…”
“A-and that is bad… that is VERY bad…” Leo stammered. “He was supposed to die in the original timeline…” She exclaimed in a very worried tone.
“He hasn’t resurfaced since he was defeated in the Crystal Empire on my world… but… I’d have to say I’m definitely a bit curious as to what he’s been up to ever since his master pulled him out of the line of fire when Rin helped defend the city.” Namiro replied pensively.
“Okay, PINKIE! check please!” Leo called before turning to Namiro. “We are going back to your world ASAP, I fear that something may be going on that you are unaware of and that’s never a good sign.” She told him before paying Pinkie and leading Namiro and Crux to the edge of ponyville.
“I was locked into a nightmare… how wouldn’t there be something going on that I didn’t know about? Something is obviously going on and the fact I was sent here instead of immediately woken up means it’s something that, for now, those in my world can handle.”
“Well good luck you two, and may the force always guide you Namiro.” Crux said before conjuring up a portal to Namiro’s world.
Namiro nodded. “And may you find light in even the deepest of darkness.”
Crux noded, a noticeable tear running down his hidden face. “Yes, and may the darkness never conquer your light…” He said before vanishing.
“Oh boy… I think you may have accidentally said something that upset him…” Leo said before jumping through the portal.
“I think it was more a phrase to keep him motivated… it seemed like something that he could use.” Namiro replied as he stepped in behind her
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Life as a Displaced Digimon
Chapter 5 - Someone call The Doctor? (Part 2)
-The TARDIS -
David began messing with some of the controls, plotting their destination, the origins of the angels.
“Why am I starting to have a sense of deja vu!?” Leo screamed as she started to fly from one wall of the TARDIS to another and back again in a repeating loop.
“Stabilizers keep getting thrown off,” David yelled, hanging onto the console and slamming down some buttons. “Come on, old girl!” The TARDIS stabilized, dropping David and Leo to the floor with a thud.
“Finally… it's over... “ Leo said before running out the doors of the TARDIS and proceeding to throw up. “I still don't know how it's possible for a digimon to vomit!” she shouted when she finished vomiting.
“Well,” David said, peeling himself off the ground, “it’s probably magic, as usual.”
“Um… we may have a problem!” Leo shouted from outside the TARDIS, she then ran inside and slammed the doors behind her. “We're on Earth!” she said.
David peered outside, “Where on Earth?”
“My old hometown, where I lived before Crux brought me to equestria!” Leo responded practically hyperventilating. “The question is when!?” she screamed beginning to rummage around the tardis in hopes of finding a cloak. “Disguise, I need a disguise. I don't want to become a lab rat!” she said before finding and pulling out a large grey rain coat.
“One second,” David began messing with the console and swung the monitor in front of him, “The year is… 1999.”
“Great! we’re at the time where I was Dropped off at the orphanage…” Leo said with a bitter tone. “Let's find that portal and get out of here…” she said while buttoning up the rain coat and pulling the hood over her head.
“Allons-y,” David opened the door, holding it for Leo.
Leo rolled her eyes at the doctor and walked into the alleyway that the TARDIS had landed in. “So which way?” she said approaching the end of the alley.
David reached into his pocket and pulled out a small device, pointing it both ways before gesturing left. “That way.”
The two walked down the street in the direction that the device was pointing in and the closer they got the more nervous Leo became. “Are you sure this is the right direction?” she said with fear in her voice.
“Yes,” David said, looking at Leo with a bit of curiosity.
“Why did it have to be here!? WHY!?” Leo whispered looking at a certain building down the street.
“They probably chose you because you have a link to Equestria,” David said, peering up at the building for a second before pointing the sonic behind himself. “Well, well…” He turned around, the angel behind him frozen, “So, what’s your plan for my friend? Send her back in time? Feed off her potential, because let me tell you. I’m the Doctor, and I have a TARDIS.”
While David was looking at the angel Leo noticed something that they had nearly missed. She was stunned, running away from them was what looked like Crux but much younger than the one she knew and in his arms was a baby. then she heard something that sent a chill down her spine.
“Don't cry Leo I'll make sure they can't get you, I won't let you be used as food!” the much younger Crux yelled from down the road before going into the orphanage that Leo had been watching warily just moments before.
“Doctor? I think we just saved my past self from becoming angel food....” Leo said in complete shock from what she had just discovered.
“Well, that’s not much of a paradox,” David shrugged, “However, we still need to poison the well.”
Leo noded and turned to face the angel that David was staring at. “So what now?” She asked while staring at the angel with a dazed expression.
“Into the orphanage, of course,” David said.
When David said the word ‘Orphanage’ a chill went down Leo’s spine but she shrugged it off and got ready to go in that direction with him until a thought occurred to her. “Wait, what will we do about this one?” she asked.
“Its stuck for now,” David said.
“How? Wait let me guess, something to do with the sonic screwdriver?” she said before turning around to face the orphanage.
“Yup, it thinks its being seen,” David answered, already walking off.
Hurrying to catch up Leo sprinted towards the orphanage that she had spent the majority of her life in before waiting in front of the door for David and led him into the orphanage waiting room, where they saw crux in the corner with Leo as a baby in his arms.
“So do we find out why Crux has a baby version of me in his arms first or just ‘poison the well’ and hope we figure out this mystery eventually?” Leo asked David with a bit of concern in her voice towards the recent events.
“Likely, we’ll figure it out as it goes,” David said, making his way towards the stairs
Not knowing what to do first Leo looked back and forth between David and Crux multiple time before following David to the stairs. “Fine, but I really want to know what connection I have to him and why he would be dropping my past self off at an orphanage!” Leo said sending a last glance in Crux’s direction which did not go unnoticed.
“Yeah, yeah,” David muttered heading up the stairs.
As they reached the top of the stairs they began to hear whispering, “You think they captured the child of light yet?” a voice said. “No but when they do we’ll know!” said another.
“Did you hear that?” Leo whispered to David, “Sounds like there is someone in charge of or controlling the angels!”
“That’s odd, usually the angels are going for food,” David muttered.
“I have the strange feeling I recognize those voices too…” Leo said getting ready to sneak closer to the voices to find out what was going on.
David motioned her to ‘Go for it’.
Leo crawled across the hall until she was directly under the window of the room that the voices were coming from. then she peeked over the edge to see who was in the room and what she saw made her blood run cold. “This just reached a whole new level of bad…” she said before sinking to the ground and curling up into a ball.
David raised an eyebrow before looking in himself, inside he saw a man made of shadow and The Merchant!? David began muttering to himself, “That’s weird, very weird.”
“That's it, we're doomed! we are completely and utterly doomed!” leo whispers to herself curling up into an even smaller ball. “Not only do I have some guy from RE4 after me for who knows what reason, I also have a bloody Anti Spiral after me…” she said before looking to David for a solution to their predicament. “What do I do?” she asked beginning to break down, she had just found a clue to her origins which she had been searching for her entire life and now she finds herself being hunted by what she believed to be two of the most dangerous beings she had ever heard of.
“First, we take care of the Angels. Second,” David said, “We find Crux.”
Leo just nodded her head and followed David, who she believed to be her last strand of hope in the current situation she found herself in. After taking a deep breath she tried to compose herself as best she could before they began to walk down the hall and away from The Merchant and Anti Spiral.
David opened the door, revealing a room full of Weeping Angels, “Here we are,” he reached into his pocket and placed down the pocket paradox before leaning over to Leo, “Get ready to run!” He grabbed her and they turned around. seconds later, the room exploded as the ran downstairs and outside the orphanage. David brushed off his pants, “Well, good thing the orphanage was empty.”
“And also Explains what happened to the left wing that vanished around the time i arrived…” Leo said her eye twitching at the giant gap in the building.
David felt someone tap him on the shoulder, before turning around. “Yes?”
“Would you like to explain who you are, why you're here, and how you got ahold one of my patented pocket paradoxes?” the much younger Crux asked David before crossing his arms and taking notice of Leo in his arms, “And who is that?” he said while looking at Leo.
“Well of course, you gave it to me, and this,” David put his hands on Leo’s shoulders, “Is the kid in your arms. Try to keep them apart, the paradox would be horrific.”
Crux just stared at him then asked while backing up a few feet in case David was telling the truth, “Ok… I'm going to go with time travel and don't need to know should it change the space time continuum, after all I've had enough trouble fixing the current paradoxes left behind by other void beings…” before rocking Baby Leo a bit and pulling the pink blanket down a bit to show her face.
Leo just stared perplexed, “Wait a minute, when I was a baby i was female!?” Leo said before looking at Crux. “But i remember growing up in that orphanage as a boy…” she said giving Crux an idea.
“Interesting choice of words!” He said before waving his hand over Baby Leo turning her into a boy. “That should deceive them for now.” he said giving Leo a smile.
“He was a girl, she was a boy, can I make it any more obvious,” a familiar voice sang from above them.
Crux seemed to go rigid at the sound of the voice, “Where are you! I won’t let you do anything to my DAUGHTER!” he said whipping his head around as if searching for something.
“Oh come on DUDE, you know who it is,” Essence floated down into his vision, flicking her tail about.
“I’m going to guess and I don’t think I’m going to like either outcome, are you a time traveler and are you the cat lady that accidentally destroyed my home?” Crux asked backing up slowly.
“Time traveler,” she scoffed, “As for the home… that was an accident.”
“Figures... “ Crux said with a sigh, “So what do yall want to know? Or are you just here to look around?” he then materialized a basket and put Baby Leo in it and put him on the steps of the orphanage before leading the others into the alleyway where the TARDIS appeared as if it had been called.
“Well, we had an issue with the Weeping Angels,” David said.
“Thanks for disposing of them by the way, I hate those things…” Crux said before shuddering. “Those pests are one of the few things that could possibly kill me.” he said before recomposing himself.
“They are pretty creepy,” Essence muttered, sitting on Crux’s head.
“I’ve yet to deal with them back home. Actually, I’m only home for a few seconds before I’m summoned or sent off, so Torchwood may do that,” David said.
“You know, you're much cuter when your shrunken Ms. MADNESS.” Crux said while chuckling at the mini Essence on his head.
“Why thank you,” she giggled.
“So, if you’re my father... who is my mother?” Leo asked getting Crux’s attention.
Crux went rigid at the question and slowly turned to Leo, “Well… the only way i can put this is that she is no longer part of the omniverse…” he said in a sad tone before turning and staring into the sky.
Taking the hint Leo changed the subject, “So Doctor, What are we going to do now?” she asked before starting to walk over to the TARDIS.
“Might as well head back to your world,” David said.
“Ok, see you in the future Crux!” Leo said before stepping inside the TARDIS and flinging the coat she was wearing off into the pile she had originally found it in. “Home, here we come!” she sighed before strapping herself to the railing.
“Allons-y!” David said, throwing his hands down onto the console.
“So what do you think will happen when we return to Equestria?” Leo asked while smirking at David.
“The Angels should be gone. I’m not sure what that’ll affect timeline wise though,” David said.
“Well let's just hope nothing goes wrong.” Leo said before wincing, “I just jinxed it didn't I?”
“Possibly,” David said.
-Equestria -
“That went a lot better than I thought it would,” Leo said as she crawled out of the TARDIS before proceeding to kiss the ground, “I am SO glad this didn’t turn into one of the doctors end of the world adventures!” she said before turning to David and giving him a sheepish grin, “No offense…”
David shook his head, “It’s fine.”
“You know I never got a full explanation about this whole Displaced thing… I’ve mostly been winging it…” she said before laughing nervously.
“Right then, long or short version?” David asked, wondering why he always got people who knew nothing of such things, before having Leo follow him back into the TARDIS.
“Crux already gave me the short version, I will take the long one this time.” Leo said before sitting on the ground preparing for this to take a while.
“Okay, there’s no known exact time, but around a one Void cycle ago, The Merchant began Displacing humans in costume. Eventually, they came to call themselves Displaced. After that, a few new forms of Displaced, not costumed, arose. As for Tokens,” David held up his sonic screwdriver, “I’ve been studying them, and I think I know how they work. Basically,” David spun the monitor to face them, “A Token is made of a shard of your Universe. Something miniscule and unnoticeable. It uses this shard to connect to another and they form a link, or bridge, between each other. However, the link is very unstable and only allows travel once before it goes dormant. When you’re allowed to leave, it reactivates and sends you home or sends them home. By this logic, I believe you can send something through to another Displaced which is how Tokens are dispersed.”
“Interesting, So can I have a copy of your token?” Leo asked while getting up from where she was sitting.
David pointed his sonic in the air and a copy of it fell into Leo’s hand, “Setting D10, you can summon me.”
“Thanks, and if you want to summon me take the digivice I gave you and hold it in front of you while saying gate open and I can give you backup whenever.” Leo said before starting to walk away. “Until next time Doctor, Good luck! and I hope Solarmon is able to help you out in the future whenever I am not available!” she said before disappearing from his sight as the TARDIS dematerialized.
