Chapter Three:
The pony and the thief

"Hey Big Mac, have y'all the crusaders around? Gettin pretty late, and ah ain't seen em in quite a while." The orange farm pony asked her older brother. "Nnope." Was his only reply as he continued to buck the trees for their fruit.

"Ah land snakes, where in equestria could could they have run off to? Y'all don't think they went into the Everfree again do ya?" She said as she looked away worried.

"Don' worry sis, ah'm sure they're fine." Mac said as he walked up to his sister and put his hoof on her shoulder.

"Hey Applejack, Big mac!" Came the familiar call of the youngest of the Apple siblings, as she and the other crusaders ran up to them.

"Where in tarnation have y'all three been all day, ah looked everywhere and ah was startin ta worry." Applejack said as she turned to face the three little fillys. "Sorry sis, we were tryin ta git our cutie marks in cave explorin, but it turned out the cave we were goin ta explore, already had some timber wolves livin in it." Apple Bloom said as she and her friends looked down sullenly.

Sighing Applejack rubbed her hoof over her little sister's hair. "Now y'all should know better than ta be wanderin around that forest by now."

"We're sorry." Was their rehearsed reply. "We were lucky that somepony was there to save us." Said Scootaloo.

"Well y'all be sure to thank Zecora the next time y'all see her." Applejack said as she began to turn away, but stopped when Sweetie Belle replied. "Umm miss Applejack, it wasn't Zecora who saved us..."

"So let me get this straight, you ain't actually Jing?" Asked a certain black bird, as he and a boy in black with an orange overcoat walked along the road towards the town.

"No kir, my real name is Adrian, I don't know how we got here or what i'm doing in Jing's body. The last thing i remember before this was going to a convention with my older brother." The boy replied while he looked at his hands while they walked.

"Eh I thought something seemed off about you lately. Hmm well I guess we're stuck together either way until we get some answers, and it'll just be confusing to call you Adrian while you're in Jing's body, so i think I'll just keep calling you Jing to make things easier." Stated Kir as he landed on Jing's shoulder.

"Alright, I guess that sounds fair." Jing said as they continued along, until a rumbling could be heard behind them, causing the pair to turn around and see a man on a motorcycle approaching them in the distance.

"You must be Postino." Jing said as the man pulled up in front of them. "Right you are kid, got a message for you too." Postino answered.

"Alright, what's the message?" Jing asked. "Welcome to Equestria kid, you're now what is known in the multi-verse as a displaced." The post man said.

"What's a displaced?" Jing asked him "Basically, you've been picked to be sent to another universe. What you do there is up to you, but you also take on the appearance and abilities of whatever character you were dressed as upon your transporting. Pretty much, you're now the real bandit king." Postino stated.

"Huh, well that's new." Jing said. "No, no it's not." Postino said as he looked right at you. "What are you doing?" Kir asked. "Nothing." Replied Postino.

"Anyway, back to the matter at hand, you also have to make a token, an object of your choosing, that you speak a message into then toss into a portal, so that other displaced can summon you to their universe and vice versa." Postino said.

"Hmm a token..." Jing said as he patted around his pockets until he pulled out a familiar looking jewel on a chain from one of them.
"That will do fine, and don't worry about losing it, the portal will just make copies and give you back the original." Stated Postino.

"Alright then..." Jing held up the jewel. "I'm the king of bandits, Jing. If you ever need my help, press the jewel to your heart and call for me and I'll be there." The incantation finished, Jing twirled the jewel by its chain, then tossed it forward just as a small portal opened, which caused it to glow and split into several more which disappeared before closing and depositing the original back onto the ground. "Kir jumped off Jing's shoulder and retrieved the jewel and returned it to Jing who returned it to his pocket.

"Well that's about it for now, see you around kid." Postino waved to the pair before turning around and driving back off into the sunset.

"Displaced huh?" Jing said as he waved back and turned around to continue walking to the town. "I suppose that means that this isn't Jing's body, but my own i guess." Jing thought out loud. "Guess so." Kir stated. "Well I guess that makes us partners now." He continued.

"Yeah, I think so." Jing said as he began to smile. "So does that mean you're going to be my boss?" Jing said jokingly as he remembered what Kir was like in the anime and manga. "Your darn right it does, just because you're not the original Jing, doesn't change the deal we made." Kir answered his question, looking up triumphantly.

As the pair finally made it into town, the began to notice that something seemed a little bit off. "Hey jing, do ya notice anything strange about this town?" Kir asked as they both looked around. "Well now that you mention it..... It does seem a little....empty?" And empty was right, there didn't seem to be a single soul around.

"Where do ya think everybody went?" Kir asked his companion. "Not sure." Answered Jing.

Jing then heard what sounded like hushed whispers. Listening around, they all seemed to be coming from one building.

A very colorful and delicious looking building. So they began to head towards it.

Author's Note

Chapter three done, and our first guest appearance. Hopefully some of you recognize Postino, the helpful mail man from the king of bandits series. If not then what the hell is wrong with you.
Rest assured i plan to have others appear in the story as it permits, and by all means i'm open to crossovers with other displaced stories, let me know if you're interested.
See you next chapter guys and gals.