Chapters The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
2
Rex woke up in Trixie’s sofa a little disoriented at first but slowly the memories of his last day began to come back and he smiled to himself; he was lucky to find that pony on the first place. When he put on his jacket, he walked to the dining room where Trixie were having breakfast already.
“Ehem, buenos días Trixie” greeted Rex.
“Morning Rex Salazar” said Trixie with a smile. “There’s some cereal or instant oatmeal if you want; just add some hot water. Oh, and there’s some fresh coffee on that pot at your right. Hurry because we have a long day before us”
“What you mean?” Asked Rex.
Trixie levitated a photograph of a brown earth pony with green mane and a dollar sign Cutie Mark.
“His name is Bank Bucks; he was a banker, or that’s what he pretended. In fact he was a swindler who ran away with half of the savings of Vanhoofer’s good ponies”
“Alright, sounds difficult to locate”
“No he’s not. In fact he’s living the great life in Manehattan in one of the most expensive and luxurious buildings of all Equestria. The ponies of Vanhoofer have being trying to get him to justice but they can’t get him since he hides behind a team of lawyers, paperwork and such; so they decided to hire me to deliver him to them so they can apply justice on their own hooves. Poor guy, it’s gonna be painful as hell”
Rex gulped, was she serious?
“And why the heck do you need me? Are you demente or what?”
“No, I really don’t need you but I can’t let you alone in MY house just like that; I mean, you’re a complete stranger and Trixie could be kind but not stupid. You’re going with me, then if you want to go on your own once we arrive Manehattan, go ahead; I’ll even lent you some money but that’s it”
Rex sighed and nodded knowing that Trixie was right; she already did a lot for him and he couldn’t thank her properly or repay the favor.
“You know, Rex? One of our most basic rules is that you never accept a job in the city you live in or you’ll call too much attention. Sadly I learnt it a little too late”
Rex nodded a little uncomfortable.
“It’s alright Rex, I’m very good at this. Besides, you don’t have to come even if I dragged you here. You can stay in the hotel if you want, or even go away from me and start over again; I’ll let you some bits, I don’t mind. So relax”
Rex sighed and shook his head.
“No Trixie, this isn’t right. It’s true that I don’t like what you’re doing but I also feel that it’s too dangerous and you’ll need help. Consider this my way to repay for all you did for me”
Trixie seemed surprised at first but then she smiled.
“Thank you, even if there’s no need to but I gladly accept it, I could use your powers”
Rex sighed again but smiled. It was when two small silver objects dropped out from his jacket’s pocket.
“What’s this?” Asked Trixie examining it.
“I don’t remember” mumbled Rex scratching his head, when he suddenly found himself remembering. “Wait! I do remember, that’s called a transmitter, it’s used to communicate instantaneously, even at miles of distance. You put this on your ear and you can communicate with anyone who also haves one of these”
Trixie’s eyes widened.
“Rex Salazar, this is amazing! Can we try it?”
Rex nodded and helped Trixie put the small piece on her ear; and then he put the other himself, then he walked to the hotel’s hall and placed his hoof on his ear.
“Trixie, Trixie; do you copy?”
“WHOA, IT WORKS!! REX THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!”
“Psst… Trixie a little quieter please; it’s like you’re shouting right to my ear”
“Sorry, I just got a little too excited. Rex this is great; do you mind if I borrow it for the mission?”
“Of course; I’ll use the other and help you in whatever I can. Remember: place you hoof in your ear to activate it, remove it to deactivate”
Trixie smiled beginning to think in all the possibilities of this technology; but right now she had to concentrate in the mission.
“It’s a dangerous fall Rex; but I have a spell to slow it. Do you need me to use it on you?”
“No, I think my abilities will do the trick”
Trixie nodded unsure what to do but sighed and jumped to the other roof; with her magic abilities she reached it safely and entered through the fire exit. It was closed at first, but it was a very simple spell; no big deal for somepony like Trixie.
“According to my register this guy lives right on this floor; apartment 904. What to do next; that’s the question. Anyway, Rex, I’m in” said Trixie activating the transmitter.
From the other side of the line, Rex jumped trusting blindly on his abilities. He didn’t know what to expect, if he was going to die or what; but one more time his memory came back just in time; and on the right time he changed his back hooves into his mechanized legs: the Punk Busters that absorbed the impact fully.
“Great, apparently Rex isn’t precisely an expert in being subtle”
From his apartment, Bank Bucks stayed alert.
“WHAT THE HAY ARE YOU WAITING FOR?” Shouted the swindler to his gorillas. “DO SOMETHING”
The bunch of thugs ran to the roof to see what was going on; founding Rex preparing his Big Fat Sword.
“Normally I wouldn’t do this but… I’m in debt. Lo siento compadres”
Then began their fighting, while Trixie still watched from her hiding. Luckily Rex’s scandal called Bank Buck’s attention and walked away from his apartment along with his most trustable thugs: two minotaurs and a domesticated manticore. Apparently Bank Bucks wasn’t too smart since he went out of the apartment but those guards were going to be a pain in the flank.
“Rex? Rex! Do you copy? Think you can give me a hoof down here?”
“Sorry amiga, but I have my own problems here” said Rex from the other side. Soon enough, paying attention Trixie identified the sounds of fighting and groans of pain in the background, great, she was alone. But at least Rex distracted most of the guards upstairs.
True: during the fight two of the earth pony thugs managed to immobilize one of Rex’s mechanized hands and two unicorns the other one; now the mutant was at the mercy of the other five ready to beat him up.
“Any last words?”
“Go to hell” said Rex turning his forehooves back to normal and activating his Punk Busters kicking away the three idiots in front of him. Another, a griffon, extended his sharped claws and flew to him ready to shred Rex but he defended himself with the Big Fat Sword cutting the griffon’s claws like a stylist to then electrocute him with the electric tentacle.
“It’s a monster!”
“I don’t care we have a job to do…”
And they kept fighting.
“What? Master Kick! What happened to you Master Kick?”
The brooms closet opened letting pass the blue unicorn who dedicated him an ironic simle.
“Is hard to find good helpers in the current times, right? I’m the Great and Powerful Trixie Mr. Bank Bucks and I’m here to bring you to justice”
The banker just lucked at his remaining minotaur but he seemed unsure what to do; if that unicorn managed to get rid of Master Kick he was going to be an easy pray.
“Buy me some time!” Ordered the swindler before start running.
Trixie sighed and pushed away the minotaur with a powerful spell before sent another to block Bank Buck’s run away. The banker was trapped, with his other bodyguards busy with the other intruder, presumably this mare’s partner, he was an easy prey.
“Now you’re done” said Trixie. “Are you ready to go Mr. Bucks?”
The banker was about to faint of desperation when the door of the fire exit opened and his beaten but victorious thugs entered dragging a grayish blue colt.
“Rex!” Screamed Trixie.
The boy half smiled to her trying not to faint.
“Ey Trix, sorry I failed”
Trixie gulped, and that little moment of doubt gave the thugs enough time to immobilize her too.
“Okay I worried for nothing, apparently” mocked Bank Buck. “Somepony open the window and you know the rest, right? And I want to see it; every single moment”
Two of the guard did as his boss asked; it was a window of considerate size enough to push a pony through it; exactly what was going to happen.
“Nopony threats me; I’m the one who threats; and speaking of, JUMP YOU TWO!!”
Trixie grinded her teeth but Rex hugged her by the waist and gave him a confidence simle.
“Don’t worry, I have a plan. Trust me”
“Rex but…”
“I SAID JUMP!!” Shouted Bank Bucks.
Rex wrapped Trixie on his hooves and jumped confidently
“REEEEEEEEEEEEEX”
“I said trust me” smiled Rex letting his memory to flow.
Bank Bucks was smiling, enjoying the moment; when suddenly a giant mechanized propellant appeared from Rex’s back; raising the bounty hunters back to the air.
“WHAT’S GOING ON?” Asked Trixie.
“I don’t know, another sealed memory perhaps?” Smiled the stallion.
Both of them kept flying.
“What now Trix?” Asked Rex.
“Faster, fly faster!” Shouted Trixie.
Rex obeyed and right in the pent-house at the right time Trixie made appear a powerful rope that she used to catch Bank Bucks and pulled up with them.
“Boss!!” Called the thugs running to the roof.
“Help me! Help me please!” Cried Bank Bucks until Trixie silenced him with a third sleeping spell.
“Now what?” Asked Rex when he noticed the Pegasi thugs flying to them.
“Trixie’s specialty” smiled the blue mare. “FIREWORKS! ENJOY THE SHOW MY FRIENDS!!”
Trixie shot a magic attack, covering the sky with beautifully distracting lights of all colors preventing the pegasi to follow them. They have won.
“And now what?” Asked Rex once they flew until the city limits. “Because I don’t think we can just get back to the hotel after what we did. Because they’re gonna begin to find us, to find this guy”
Trixie nodded looking at the unconscious Bank Bucks.
“That’s why I always pay in advance” said Trixie. “Now we have to deliver this idiot back to Vanhoofer. Now prepare pal, we have a long way dragging this idiot to that city; or do you have a transport hidden on you with your amazing powers, right?”
Right considered it for a moment and then turned his back hooves into a motorcycle.
“So, do you need a ride or what?”
Confused, Trixie tied Bank Bucks to the back part of the motorcycle and then hopped in. Rex smiled and drove them to Vanhoofer.
“Rex, I’ve been thinking…”
“Tell me”
“I know you told me you didn’t like my business; but we make a great team! Can you consider to make it something permanent? I mean, while we find the truth about yourself and you go back to your old life you can consider be my partner”
Rex considered it for a few moments but nodded.
“You know? Even if I don’t approve it, I can’t think in anything better. You win Trixie, I’ll be your partner”
Trixie smiled brightly.
“Now we have to think a new name for our team; because I don’t think the Great and Powerful Trixie fits the both of us”
“What about the Amazing Rex and Trixie?”
Trixie frowned, but she was still smiling.
“What about the Great and Powerful Trixie and this other?”
The both laughed happily.
“What about a neutral name?” Asked Trixie. “The only problem is I can’t think in something”
Rex scratched his head.
“So… what about Providence?”
Trixie nodded.
“Providence, I like it”
And both advanced to the horizon in their way to Manehattan.
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
3
It was another morning in Trottingham. When Rex woke up he noticed it was almost noon; well, it didn’t matter, as a bounty hunter he had a flexible schedule and if Trixie haven’t woke up him yet meant that they had no new assignments.
“Morning Rex!” Greeted Trixie looking over her book when he heard the boy entering to the dining room. “There’s some coffee if you want”
Rex nodded and took a cup of coffee and a bagel with cream cheese. His life with Trixie was so different that the one he left behind… or at least that’s what he thought.
“For Celestia’s sake Rex Salazar, try to think! If you keep presuming like that you’ll get attention we didn’t want! Or do you prefer to spend the rest of your days in a research facility?”
And Rex had to admit Trixie was right considering how much she worried about him.
“Ey Trix, I’m bored. Where do you watch the telenovelas?”
“What now?”
“You know, telenovelas, dramas, teleteatros; call them whatever you want, I just want to watch one of those”
Trixie raised an eyebrow and levitated a couple of books from the shelf.
“Well I only have these two, because that’s what you really want; a novel, right? Because you ‘read’ this stuff, don’t ‘watch’ them”
Rex seemed confused at first but quickly took the books. Yeah, a novel, that’s what he really wanted; because there was no such thing as a telenovela. Right?
Anyway, after several successful hunts as ‘Providence’ splitting the money in equal parts, the two friends knew they had a great future together. And while Trixie spent her gains in spell books and combat manuals, Rex preferred novels, lots and lots of novels because that’s how he liked to spend his time; right? Right?
“You know? I’m still surprised you refused to accept the payment for our first mission as a team” said Rex one day.
She half-smiled.
“Well, what can I say? Bank Bucks took almost everything from them, I couldn’t came and take more. And they did rewarded us, remember? They invited us to dinner”
Rex laughed.
“I know, I know. I’m just astonished that the Great and Powerful Trixie truly is so humble and charitable”
“Ey! Isn’t the Great and Humbled Trixie the best pony you’ll ever met? But Trixie doesn’t judge you for judging since when we met, you didn’t know a thing about the Great and Powerful Trixie”
They laughed, it was good to have each other as company. But then a parchment materialized in front of Trixie, who opened it with her magic. She grinded her teeth.
“What? Something bad?” Asked Rex.
“Yes and no. It’s a job but it’s only that…”
“What? Wanna drop it?”
“I’ll love to but they’re asking specifically for Providence’s help and our reputation is on the line. It’s a relatively simple job: a griffon who robbed three ponies and tried to rob a bank, the problem is… the target is now in Ponyville, a town where Trixie haves some history”
“So what now?”
“You wait outside the town and I drive the target to you so you can capture her”
“Chido” said Rex.
…
In Ponyville the recently named Princess of Equestria, Twilight Sparkle, was walking with her friends to the town’s restaurant for a good lunch with friends.
“Great idea to have lunch here girls, is good to change the routine from time to time” said Rarity.
Applejack nodded.
“Ya’ right Rarity, I can’t wait to taste their delicious lily sandwich; this morning was especially tough with all those apples. It seemed like the trees somehow agreed to give me more work for today”
“Yeah, thank you again for joining me girls” smiled Twilight. “I always eat with Spike but he’s in Canterlot for some Royal business and it’s good to know I won’t have to eat alone”
“What are friends for?” Gently smiled Fluttershy.
“Speaking of friends, have somepony seen Dash?”
As a matter of fact, the cyan Pegasus was missing; where was she? It’s when they saw her walking happily along with a griffin. Almost all made an exasperated groan, but Pinkie bounced happily to them.
“Ey Gilda! What brings you to the old Ponyville?” Smiled the hyperactive girl.
The griffin rolled her eyes but after exchange a look with Dash she just shrugged.
“Hi, I came here to apologize and say hi to Rainbow. Is not big deal”
“It is a big deal” said Dash. “Gilda wants to start over again, and I always give a second chance to my friends”
The girls nodded and invited Gilda to have lunch with them, it was a good start-over. But suddenly Rainbow frowned.
“Ey what is she doing here?”
Before them, the Great and Powerful Trixie was eating a daisy and roses salad with an oatmeal drink with extra hay.
“Well, well, well, what do we have here? The Great and Powerful Trixie herself” mocked Rainbow. “What the hell are you doing here, huh?”
Trixie laughed ironically.
“What it seems I’m doing Rainbow Crash? It’s lunch time and this is a restaurant. You don’t have to be a genius to figure out what I’m doing; but of course a pony like you needs an explanation, right?”
Rainbow grinded her teeth, when the waiter came with another drink for Trixie; so the cyan Pegasus took the glass ,emptied at once; and then looked at Trixie like asking, what are you gonna do about it?
“Here, Trixie bought you a drink, can she eat her lunch in peace now?”
Rainbow was about to answer when the rest of the friends came.
“Rainbow, that wasn’t very nice!” Scolded Twilight “It’s true that Trixie has a history here but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t deserve a second chance, or a third one. Right Trixie?”
“Twilight is right” mumbled Fluttershy. “Even if she did all those mean things to us back on that time”
Trixie finished her salad.
“If Trixie doesn’t remembers wrong, back on that time she was possessed by a dark amulet that I tried to use to defeat Twilight Sparkle in a magic duel, but I never expected that the amulet possessed me at that level. Besides I made it up to Ponyville, remember the anonymous pony who donated more than enough money to remodel the town hall and turn that boring statue of Princess Celestia into a beautiful fountain? … Ehem, what else? Oh yeah, Trixie is only here for business, I’ll leave before the afternoon. It wasn’t a pleasure to see you, now Trixie haves to go”
“Whoa, whoa, wait a second!” Said Applejack. “You were the one who donated fifty thousand bits?”
“Why, do you need more? I don’t fucking care, I’m rich”
Rainbow raised an eyebrow.
“How? After Twi defeated you the first time you kind of… went bankrupt”
Trixie shrugged.
“Trixie haves a new job, right? And speaking of… are you Gilda the griffon?”
The griffon smiled.
“You’re right! What? Have you heard of me?”
Trixie nodded.
“Yeah, I heard that you robbed more than thirty ponies in Baltimare; tried to rob a bank and you sent three ponies to the hospital. You have quite a reputation, Gilda”
The Mane 6 stared at Gilda, what was going on?
“Gilda, is that true?” Asked Rainbow feeling disappointed of her friend.
“Well, I kind of… WHAT ARE YOU, A COP?”
“Nope” laughed Trixie, most for the griffon’s relieve. “Bounty hunter”
Gilda paled, but prepared her claws and flew to Trixie; who simply teleported two meters to the right making Gilda stab her claws on the ground.
“Your head costs three thousand bits, so are you coming with Trixie at the good way or at Trixie’s way”
“TO TARTARUS WITH YOU!” Shouted Gilda charging against Trixie again.
This time Trixie teleported behind Gilda disorienting the griffon; but she quickly recovered and flew away from Trixie.
“That three thousand are not in your pocket yet” said the griffon.
“Let me go Sparkle, my prey is running away”
“Your prey?” Asked Rainbow. “Listen carefully you annoying unicorn: if you mess with my friends, you mess with me; and believe me: you don’t want to mess with me”
As an answer Trixie opened her saddlebag and levitated a folder to Trixie.
“Here you go: Gilda’s police record, can the Great and Powerful Trixie go hunting now?”
Rainbow checked it in awe, what kind of nightmare was this? Her friend was a wanted criminal?
“Do you realize Twilight is now a Princess and you can go to jail just for saying ya’re a bounty hunter?”
“Applejack is right Trixie” said Twilight. “Maybe she has a police record but as a bounty hunter you’re an outlaw yourself and I can arrest you in the name of the Crown”
Trixie levitated a book from her saddlebag but before she opened it, she placed a hoof on her ear.
“Rex! Are you there? I have a little problem here so I probably won’t show; but feel free to do whatever you need”
“Who are you talking to?” Asked Pinkie Pie.
Ignoring her Trixie began to read her book:
“Now getting back to our business, your highness, according to Equestrian Law claiming to be a bounty hunter isn’t illegal; and since I didn’t attack Gilda, you have no reason to arrest Trixie. And, even if I tried to attacked her, it wouldn’t be illegal neither; because she attacked me first. That would mean that I was acting in self-defense.”
“Twi?” Asked Pinkie.
The purple alicorn sighed, Trixie was right; she never did nothing illegal.
“Go the hay out of here and stay away from Gilda, do you understand?”
Trixie shrugged and placed a bag of bits on her table.
“Okay, just make sure the waiter get the tip, okay?”
So the blue unicorn walked away with a smile on her lips; knowing that at this point Rex would be taking care of Gilda already.
Rex landed in front of her activating his sword.
“Hi little birdie, it’s time to put you in a cage; do you mind if we start?”
Gilda was scared, but her desire of freedom was stronger than her fear and ran to destroy Rex with her claws. The boy received the attack with a powerful blow of his Big Fat Sword and attacked her back with a kick from his punk busters.
Rex jumped backwards and prepared himself; apparently he underestimated this one, but he won’t lose. Gilda flew like an arrow to him ready to destroy the one who dared to put in her way; but Rex turned his left forehoof into some kind of giant cannon that took a portion of the ground and launched it to Gilda making her instantaneously faint.
This time the griffon was defeated for real; so Rex transformed his back legs into the motorcycle and placed the new capture on the back so he and Trixie could go to cash the reward.
“Trixie, is Rex. I got her, I’m on the limits of the Everfree Forest”
Trixie nodded and walked to find her friend.
“Great job Rex, sorry I couldn’t join you but I met some nuisances in my way here.
“It’s okay friend, I had good fun with the birdie”
Trixie made appear powerful steel wires with her magic and after tie Gilda; she and Rex flew away to their next adventure together.
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
4
“You had five weeks doctor Salazar; I want results” said the Black Knight.
César Salazar shook his head sadly while he showed his leader the lacks of information he gathered.
“I’m sorry but I have nothing. Just like Ben Tennyson showed us, there’s an infinity of parallel dimensions each one with its own laws of physics and its own energy sources equally powerful and amazing. I’ve found a lot of interesting things but not a single trace of my little brother”
“Try harder, remember that the boy is vital for the interests of Providence”
Said that the woman in black left the scientist alone with his thoughts. None of this had sense, why did Breach sent Rex away without even noticing where? God damn it, not even Van Kleiss was able to get something from the unstable girl. No, something wasn’t right, there was a missing piece of this whole story.
…
In the streets of Trottingham a young Pegasus tried to do his best to escape from the blue unicorn who was following him. It didn’t mattered how fast he could fly, the other one was a true expert in magic and apparently she casted a tracking spell on him. Wherever he went, Trixie was there with her ironic smile and began to attack him with all the spells she knew but after a while the Pegasus realized that Trixie was only having fun on him.
“No, it can’t be!” Said the Pegasus jumping scared.
“Trixie admits she risked that the tracking spell she casted lost its effect when she stopped for her coffee-brake but still trusted in your stupidity. Why you just didn’t left town you moron? Anyway, the Great and Powerful Trixie thanks your lack of common-sense.
The Pegasus laughed happily.
“Speaking of lack of common-sense, have you realized this is a public space? If you capture me here you’ll be in lots of trouble”
Trixie shrugged.
“You aren’t as dumb as Trixie thought. You know? Your brother truly underestimates you, and speaking of him…” Trixie placed her hoof on her left ear. “Rex, it’s me. How is the idiot of Iron Feathers doing?”
“He left town, now I can use my whole arsenal”
“Chido” cheered Trixie turning her attention back to the confused Sharp Feathers (her prey) and smiled. “Oh, the Super Feather Bros; with a bounty of two thousand each and all because you lead an illegal casino. Dude, if you’re going to be bad, at least try to be more careful. I mean, Rex even had the time to steal more than enough evidence to make sure your brother and you won’t ever see sunlight again”
“Still we’re in public, you won’t capture me here”
“Is that so?” Asked Trixie glowing her horn.
Great and beautiful fireworks covered the sky astonishing, joying and distracting the ponies; making them too busy to notice what Trixie was about to do. It was the advantage to live in a country where everypony always thought the best of the others.
“No, you have to be fucking kidding me” gulped Sharp beginning to run.
Trixie knocked him over the floor with a single spell and made appear several chains all over his body and then teleported where Rex was already holding Sharp’s brother and was only waiting for Trixie.
“Excellent team work Rex”
The boy nodded.
“Now to cash bounty and forget about those two once and for all. By the way, I saw your fireworks; very chidos, me encantaron”
Trixie blushed slightly.
“What can I say Rex? I can’t forget I once were a street performer”
Both of them nodded and brought those two to the next police station on Rex’s motorcycle.
“Ey Trixie”
“What’s up?”
“I just noticed that this two weeks we’ve being working harder than usual and you don’t take any job that’s under a thousand bits of reward. Did something happened? Debts or something?”
Trixie smiled to him.
“You’re sharp Rex, almost as Trixie. The thing is that there’s a guy whose head costs over four hundred thousand; Master Sword, captain of Celestia’s personal guard. The guy is a master of hiding behind his position to do whatever he wants without fear the consequences”
“Órale, and who would pay that for somepony like him?”
“The griffins. He took by force the honor of a damsel, the Griffin’s King niece and the monarch isn’t happy about it, but there’s no way to prove it only the damsel’s word. And even is not the first time it’s rumored he does something like that; Celestia still believes in her soldier. That’s why there’s such reward on him”
Rex scratched his head.
“I don’t get it” said Rex. “So you’re unable to get your hooves on that guy so you’re using other jobs to release your stress”
“No idiot, Trixie haves a master plan; a plan worthy of her, it consists in capture Master Sword in the middle of the greatest social event of all Equestria: an event he’ll assist as a guest not as a soldier”
“The Great Galloping Gala?”
Trixie nodded.
“They think that nopony would dare to do something like that on the Princesses’ noses, but that’s why nopony expects it as well”
“I see… very clever but would you be so kind to stop talking in third person about yourself? Do you have any idea of how annoying is that?”
Trixie rolled her eyes.
“Whatever. I have a contact who can sell me real invitations but those are too expensive; and economizing isn’t Trixie’s… I mean my style so I need more money. Besides I love challenges and if I succeed, I’ll become a legend between bounty hunters”
Rex sighed.
“Bueno good luck; I think you’re crazy but I support you”
“Thank you Rex. You’re a great friend and the first pony I can say I would trust my life. Thank you to be my partner and support Rex, and just because I know I can trust you is that I’m risking to do this”
Rex blushed, for some reason he thought it was the first time he experimented real friendship; not being with an asshole who got paid for being his friend.
“So is for this project that you’re studying a lot”
The blue unicorn nodded.
“I’m a master in magic combat, but considering that my target is an elite soldier every caution is necessary. And how’s your reading? Did the maid already proved her innocence of sell the ring of Lady Chocolate Heart to her beloved Warm Smile?”
“That was last week’s book. Now I’m about to see if the doctor will choose Rosalie or her evil twin sister Ana María”
Trixie sighed.
“I can’t believe you like that cheap novels for mares on their forties”
“Honestly me neither” he said putting the novel apart. “I mean, I like the stores… they’re catchy and charming and great; but I still think I used to watch those with real actors”
“Celestia have mercy on whoever write a play based on one of those stupid books!”
Rex shook his head sadly.
“I’m not even sure if there were plays or else. Seriously I’m not even sure who I am; where I came from”
Trixie felt a little concern for her friend.
“Well, I don’t know where are you from but I can guess it was a very dangerous place considering you were barely alive when I found you; and for who you are, you are Rex Salazar a very powerful an strange mutant who loves cheap novels and always says things like ‘chido’ or ‘telenovela’ or ‘bueno’. But also you’re Trixie’s dearest friend”
Rex only hugged the blue mare.
“I’m also the one who keeps reminding you how stupid you sound when you speak on third person every single time. Really, would you mind?”
Trixie smiled to him
“See? I only allow that to my dearest friend”
Rex nodded and went to bed after a quick meal. Trixie stayed reading for a while giving Rex time to rest and recover. He spent countless hours staring to the roof asking where he came from; until he finally fell asleep.
He opened his eyes; apparently he were on an unknown place floating in the air watching a weird-looking bipedal creature who looked a lot like him; the creature also wore his same red and orange jacket along with his goggles.
Rex’s bipedal version was on his knees with his whole body covered in bruises and burns; right before another of those being who had an extra pair of arms. Extra-large monstrous arms.
“You’re broken” said the one with the extra arms; apparently a female.
Rex’s bipedal version looked at the other, with sadness burning on his eyes.
“Broken? Yes, I’m broken Breach. Holiday and White only care about their stuff and say that I have to keep fighting without a rest; Six says I have to try harder even if I’m exhausted and I just ask for a little of peace. And if that wasn’t enough, I was betrayed by my own brother and Black Knight and Van Kleiss still want to put their hand on me. Yes, I’m sick of all; broken as you said”
Breach looked at him sadly.
“If you wish I can do something for you until you repair. I can send you far away from here. I won’t see where to make sure no one will go after you and you can recover. You’re broken you need a repair”
The one on his knees let escape a few tears and mumbled something like ‘please’ so the girl with the four arms made a small moves making appear a red portal under the male that made him disappear.
Rex woke up startles and ran to Trixie’s room desperately banging the door.
“Trixie! Trixie! Are you awake? Please Trixie!”
The door opened revealing Trixie wearing a pink bathrobe and a green face-mask.
“Is there a reason to interrupt Trixie’s beauty-sleep? Oh! Are you alright Rex Salazar?”
He shook his head scared.
“No, I’m not okay. I just had the weirdest dream but it wasn’t a dream; it was more like a memory but it had no sense. I wasn’t even a pony but it felt so real… “
“Okay, try to calm down a little” said Rex. “How it was?”
He looked away.
“You said memory spells weren’t your specialty; but can we go with somepony who can do it? Please, I have enough bits by my own and I’m beginning to worry”
“But what about your dream Rex? What did you saw?”
“I’ll tell you when all have more sense, alright?”
Trixie looked at his friend still worried but nodded.
“As you wish. Now, there’s a specialist in Canterlot, very expensive but I think you can manage it. And I’ll buy the tickets to the Great Galloping Gala while I wait, is that okay with you?”
“Are you sure?”
“I am, like I said you’re my dearest friend Rex and I care about you more than you think. And when we find the truth about you, you can go back to wherever you’re from and everything will get back to normal”
Rex sighed.
“If I’m honest with you, I’m not sure if I want to go back”
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
5
“Here we are: doctor Sigmane Freud” said Trixie. “Are you sure you’ll be okay by your own, Rex Salazar?”
Rex smiled shyly to his partner.
“No problema amiga, I’ll be back at the hotel in less than you think. Now go for the tickets to the Gala, isn’t that why we came here?”
“And for your mental sanity” reminded Trixie sternly. “But fine, I’ll see you later. And please, take care Rex, you’re my best friend and I don’t want to anything happen to you”
Rex blushed slightly at hearing this but quickly nodded and entered to the clinic of the famous unicorn psychiatrist. Only two other patients to go and he could give a significance to that strange dream… and perhaps recover part of his past. But did he really wanted it? What if he lost his memories for his own good?
In the meantime Trixie, as skilled as only herself, moved all over her contacts of Canterlot’s underworld to find the pony she was looking for: a mysterious stallion known as M.
…
Back to doctor Freud’s clinic, it was finally Rex’s turn.
“Welcome my friend, welcome” greeted the old doctor opening the door for Rex. “Now, what can I do for you, mister…?”
“Salazar, Rex Salazar, and this will be quick. I have no memories of my past and everypony says that you’re an expert to recover repressed memories. Help me doc”
“Seriously?” Asked doctor Freud raising an eyebrow
“Do I look as I am kidding?” grumped Rex annoyed. “Look, all I ask you is to help me find who I am, just use that spell you’re famous for and I won’t bother you again. It’ll make everything clear, right?”
The doctor shook his head slowly.
“This is not as simple as you think, youngster” said the doctor. “That spell is a last resource, is healthier for you to follow the full psychological treatment; depending of the patient is a slow process but is worth it. Try to understand that the mind is something very mysterious my boy, and if you buried that memories that means that something really bad happened to you; a mind doesn’t do that unless it has a powerful reason to”
“I need you to do the spell doctor” insisted Rex.
“The consequences of force a mind are very dangerous my friend. I’m a professional, I know what I’m talking about. Now, can you tell me about your dreams? It can be a good start”
Rex kicked the wall in frustration.
“My dreams have no sense. In those I see myself as a strange bipedal creature with weird clothes surrounded by similar creatures. One of them have severe deformities but I know she’s the only one I can trust between them. She approaches to me, comforts me and finally she send me away from where I was. Besides I have the urgency to watch a telenovela even if I have no idea what it is”
“Read a book perhaps?”
“No, is more like go to see a play… but in my house in my coach. Again I know it have no sense, but I try to conform with reading books for mares on their fifties or go to the theater. As I said it haves no sense, and then are those abilities I have that…”
Rex suddenly realized what he was about to reveal and muttered, even if doctor Freud seemed really interested in the last part. But the boy finally shook his head and looked at the doctor’s eyes with true fear on his.
“It doesn’t matter, I only want to give sense to all of this. Are you sure you can’t help me, doctor Freud?”
The psychiatrist sighed.
“Okay, I will, but only because you seem like a unique case. But I warn you: last time I tried to force a repressed memory to come back it was to a very powerful unicorn whose magic release almost destroy my clinic, since then I have a double-strength shield spell all over the place. Can you assure me that nothing dangerous will happen if I try?”
Rex didn’t say anything, with his powers he couldn’t make that promise but at the end he lied.
“It’s fine doctor”
Freud detected the lie but curiosity were stronger and tied Rex to the divan as a safety measure. Finally made his horn glow and…
…
Trixie entered to the clinic happily, where a kind secretary saluted her.
“Good afternoon miss, do you have an appointment or want me to set you one?”
“No, thank you. I just came here looking for a friend who I suppose is still in consult”
“I see. Please take a sit”
Trixie obeyed and took an old newspaper to entertain with the Sudoku, thinking in her friend Rex Salazar.
Her friend was screaming with all he had while his machines appeared and disappeared all over his body while a white light was coming from his eyes and mouth. He fought to retrain it but he couldn’t.
“REX! REX STOP IT, PLEASE STOP!”
Rex turned to his friend and tried to say something but instead his mechanized hands took over and began to smash the floor hardly.
“I warned him” said doctor Freud, not scared but upset. “The memory I tried to recover is too well protected. At this rate he’ll…”
Enough said, Trixie teleported on top of Rex and began to shook his head trying to get him back to normal.
“Rex! For Celestia’s sake, what are you doing? Stop!”
“Trixie,… I… can’t hold it… anymore… STAY AWAY FROM ME BEFORE I HURT YOU, I. I…”
“I won’t leave you” said Trixie crying a little. “No matter what you say, I stay. Rex, you’re stronger than your powers, please react”
“I’m not worthy, LEAVE, GO AWAY!”
“NEVER!” Shouted Trixie hugging her friend. “I won’t’ leave you no matter what. You’re my best friend and friends should be together”
Rex felt how his robotic parts turned against Trixie. He screamed louder trying to resist but it was useless, he was about to kill his best friend.
“Please Trixie, I can’t contain them anymore. Go away, save yourself. It was fun to be your partner but you have to leave me now my friend”
Trixie shook her head even if the metallic whip immobilized her.
“Nothing you say will make me leave. I’ve been alone for so long until you came. I have a few friend but you’re the first I can trust plenty. The first one I can feel what the idiot of Sparkle call the Magic of Friendship. And what kind of friend leaves her friend just like that? No Rex, I won’t leave you”
“Trixie…”
Rex’s smack hands were about to smash Trixie to death, she felt it was the end but still she had something very important to do before leave. Struggling against the whip, she could approach to his friend face and kissed him deeply.
“Trixie…”
The blue mare smiled.
“I love you”
“I love you too, oh Trixie”
They kissed again, this time more calmly, gentler.
“Thank you Trixie, you made it”
“Now you know that there’s nothing that the Great and Powerful Trixie can’t do”
“What we said about speaking in third person?”
“You almost kill me with your machines, Trixie earns it”
But then the doctor coughed to call their attention.
“Did you paid in advance Rex?” Asked Trixie.
“As always”
“Good” she said before teleporting them away.
The doctor stayed where he was and sighed.
“I warned that stallion, I surely did”
His secretary approached looking at the mess.
“Shall we inform to the Royal Guard, Doctor Freud?”
“You see miss Notepad: I have no idea. He is a true mystery so nopony would believe us”
The mare wasn’t so sure about that but nodded.
…
In one of Canterlot’s aleys, mare and stallion rested against a wall tired but happy.
“So, did you get the tickets?” Asked Rex.
Trixie showed him the golden tickets.
“Eeyup, while sompeony I know was making a pointless scandal, Trixie actually did her job. Now let’s move to the hotel, we have a lot to plan before we get back to action. Luckily for us I have the perfect plan, but I need to borrow your transmitters”
“Sure”
They hugged and went back to the hotel. Perhaps Rex didn’t recovered his past but at least he got Trixie, and Trixie got Rex.
Author's Note
Hello, sorry for the delay, I was occupied translating Spike’s story but at least this was a short chapter. I’ll translate the rest soon, in the meantime:
Read ya’ later!!
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
7
GREAT GALLOPING GALA ENDS UP IN A DISASTER: MYSTERIOUS GROUP OF BOUNTY HUNTERS EXECUTE A CAPTURE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EVENT
Yesterday, during the most exclusive event of Canterlot, the infamous group of bounty hunters known as Providence made what was thought as impossible: to foalnap one a high-ranked officer of the Royal Guard, the Sun Captain himself Master Sword. Not only it was risky to try a move against one of the most famous soldiers well known by his achievements in combat, but they also did it during one of the events with most security in the Kingdom. The leader of Providence, the former street magician Beatrix Lulamoon, managed to make Master Sword confess his crimes to the whole guests before face him in a hoof-to-hoof combat along with her partner, Rex Salazar. Salazar was capture right after the events of the night and is considered a dangerous since he revealed himself as a mutant during the confrontation with Master Sword. The true nature about Salazar’s abilities remains unknown, but the authorities assure us that they’ll find out and prevent us if there’s any other pony with similar abilities. Along with that, Lulamoon is still free and the Crown offers a 5000 bits for any information that leads to her capture.
The article finished with a perfect photo of Trixie on Rex’s bike along with the unconscious soldier.
…
“Miss, are you gonna buy or only mess with my merchandise?”
Trixie (under a camouflage spell with blonde mane and magenta fur) deposited five bits on the counter desk.
“The Canterlot Times only costs one bit”
“I want the five papers you sell” said Trixie.
The salespony shrugged and give her what she wanted in a plastic bag. The mare went out of the store without saying a word.
“Damn it Rex! Why would you do that? At least Providence’s profits are already on the house; now Trixie haves to think how to save the other half of Providence. I hope that go to prison would be easier to get out. Rex, why you did that? I’m not worthy”
Said that, she lead to the Palace. One of the tricks she used the most was to hide at sight, all she had to do was to enter to the dungeons and let the guard to take her inside. No problems, or at least she hoped so.
...
In a tiny cell of the Palace, Rex sighed. He turned himself in just to give his best friend the chance to escape, and he really hoped that she used that chance instead of try something stupid, like try to rescue him.
“Huh, why not try”
Without any hope, he kicked the wall with the Smack-Hands; but besides make the cell shake, nothing happened, not a single crack. Then he tried to use the Punk-Busters to the bars but again nothing. Finally he charged again to the bars with the Big-Fat-Sword. Still nothing so he sit on his bed.
“Do you really thought it would be that easy, Rex Salazar?” Asked a maternally stern voice.
He turned, it was Celestia, along with the others: Luna, Candace and Twilight.
“I had to try, besides there’s nothing I can lose, only time and I have tons of it” he said like calmly. “But I should imagine this cell would have a spell or something. Anyway…”
“I’m curious my boy” said Celestia. “How you do that stuff?”
“Nanites” he answered instantly, but suddenly he froze. What was that? Another memory?
“Don’t play games with us” said Luna sternly. “What are Nanites?”
Rex shrugged.
“I don’t know! see: the thing is I have no memories of my past, I have no idea of who I am, where I come from or why I have this powers. My whole memories are only for the past six months when Trixie found me out of her house unconscious and hurt. Since then we’ve being together as a team and things look great for us. We even kissed and have a date on a high-class event!”
Candace sighed with patience.
“Are you trying to be funny?”
Rex smiled stretching on his bed.
“Yeah, I have the habit to make bad puns whenever I’m nervous. For example: did you know alcohol is great for your eye-sight? It makes you see double!”
Princesses exchanged a look and laughed happily. Everypony but Luna, who seemed annoyed. Still Twilight had something else in mind:
“Tell me Rex Salazar, what can you tell me about Trixie? Why did you associated with her? Did she took advantage of how she found you in front of her house?”
Rex shook his head.
“She healed me and took me to the city looking for professional help, but suddenly we were attacked and I found that I had powers; so we get back to Trixie’s home really scared. Then I stayed with her even if she offered e money to start a new life, did you know she’s super-rich? Anyway I stayed because I liked to be with her; even if I disliked what she did for living. But then I helped her with a job in Manehattan and here we are, Providence”
Then Luna approached and decided to save time and effort with Rex, so she casted a spell to allow everypony to see Rex’s memories even at her sister’s protest.
“LUNA STOP IT!” Shouted Celestia.
She obeyed gulping.
“Well, that was interesting. Apparently you’re telling the truth and have a good heart, even if you associated with the wrong ponies”
“Trixie may be a little zafada and is at the wrong side of the law but is chida and I like her how she is. I don’t care what you think, she’s a good pony”
Cancade smiled to Rex, moved by the love on his words; but they had to discuss first so they moved to other room.
…
“What you think?” Asked Celestia.
“Even if with his powers, I see no danger coming from him” reasoned Candace. “He likes to fight but he never pass to certain limit”
“I see no danger NOW” said Luna. “He haves great power but he’s just a young colt, and a young colt with that amount of power is a recipe for disaster. I suggest to lock him in a hospital until we know what we’re dealing with”
Celestia sighed with patience, but she knew that they had no other choice. She looked to her faithful student looking for support but she was thinking in something else.
“Let me and my friends speak with him. I do think that he’s a good pony and his skills can be used for good. The problem here is Trixie but… that’s why I want to talk with him. I’m sure we can get Trixie through him and together they can become helpful to Equestria”
Celestia raised an eyebrow.
“Beatrix Lulamoon you say? I she who worries you?·
Twilight nodded.
“Quoting Rex, she may be a little ‘zafada’ but she’s a good pony in the insede. And she’s capable to do terrible things whenever she’s desperate… and now that we have her partner I can’t imagine what she would do”
“Probably something really stupid” reasoned Luna. “But terrible things? I thought you just know her about the Ursa Major thing and that wasn’t even her falut”
Twilight didn’t answer, in fact she avoided tell the Princesses about the Alicorn Amulet incident, mostly for Trixie’s sake. But that wasn’t the time to think about it.
“It doesn’t matter, right now can me and my friends can talk to Rex Salazar?”
The other three Princesses nodded.
“Go ahead Twilight Sparkle. You demonstrated us that you and your friends can handle with every situation if you want to. But this time I’ll join you, just as a precaution; we don’t know what can happen with Rex Salazar’s abilities”
Twilight agreed and ran looking for Spike to send the message to her friends.
…
On the Princesses’ private gardens, Trixie wandered around looking for a guard, she didn’t had to wait too long.
“Ey! This is a restricted area!”
Trixie ran to hug him like feeling relevied.
“At least! Thanks Celestia I found somepony. I came with the eleven o’clock tour, got lost and before I knew I was in here. Can you guide me outside, please?”
The soldier’s expression softened.
“Of course young lady, follow me please!”
Trixie evaluated her savior, finding the key to the dungeons. Before he could react, she knocked him with a branch, took the key and ran where her partner was locked. As the prevented mare Trixie was, before she brought Master Sword to the Griffon’s king, she questioned him about the castle security to be extra sure she could enter without being noticed. The blue unicorn had her compass, her map and the key; now it was time to do her thing.
“I’ll be with you in no time, just wait for me, Rex”
…
“So do you really want to help Trixie?” Asked Fluttershy while the group were walking to the dungeons along with Princess Celestia.
“Come on Fluttershy, is the least we can do” said Twilight. “Trixie is not bad, a little impulsive and stupid but not bad. And the last time she wasn’t being herself, we can forgive her for that”
“Well I believe in second chances, is what friends do” said Pinkie happily.
“I just hope that she actually learns something this time” said Rarity making a lady-like pose.
Rainbow just grumped, she never liked Trixie and since she read on the newspaper that two bounty hunters locked her friend Gilda she disliked her even more. Still Twilight wanted to believe.
“Come on, we all know Trixie, and surely she would do something really stupid in any moment so we have to be alert”
Applejack then stopped and gulped.
“Ey Twi, when you say something stupid, to break into the dungeons would count?”
“Technically yes but is impossible to do such thing” said Twilight before spotted the blue mare speaking with Rex through the bars. “Oh, you have to be kidding me”
Trixie turned to them.
“Trixie is not Celestia’s most praised student but I still am a gifted mare, Sparkle”
The seven ponies (yes, including Celetia) dropped their jaws, how did she got in without alerting all the guards.
“Trixie? What are you doing here?” Asked Twilight.
The unicorn just gave Twilight an insolent look.
“Being that stupid I can’t imagine how you ended up as Celestia’s student, Twilight Sparkle. Trixie is here for her friend”
“Don’t’ you dare to call my friend stupid” warned her Rainbow.
“Or what, Rainbow Crash?” Defied Trixie with a devious smile.
Rainbow wasn’t in the mood for joking and charged against her opponent at full speed, but Trixie simply teleported to left making Rainbow crash against a door.
“That nickname really suits you, Rainbow Crash” laughed Trixie.
Celestia advanced, calmed but stern.
“Watch your mouth, Beatrix Lulamoon. You’re in enough trouble already, by infiltrating in the Gala and foalnap a member of my guard to make justice in your own hooves. Besides, do you realize to get out of here won’t be as easy as enter?”
Trixie nodded.
“Trixie knows it very well your highness; that’s what I planned anyway. I don’t care where I am as long as I can be with Rex Salazar. Trixie knows it sounds lame and stupid, but he is my first true friend, and the first pony who makes me feel like this. I can’t let him go, he’s my very special somepony”
Rex chuckled.
“Leaving sappy things aside, I’ve spent the last fifteen minutes trying to convince her to run but she just don’t listen”
Nopony said nothing until Twilight approached carefully to the bounty hunter.
“Okay, I can understand it but… do you realize you could avoid all this? why did you had to become a bounty hunter? One of the most dangerous and illegal jobs in Equestria, you could be with Rex if only you weren’t broke the law”
Trixie smiled to Twilight, sincerely smiled.
“Because of you, Twilight Sparkle”
“Seriously?” Sighed Rarity. “Are you really blaming Twilight for your wrong choices, again?”
“Trixie is not blaming nopony for nothing. Last time I tried to blame Sparkle for my own stupidity I ended up wearing a cursed amulet that instead of giving me the power to defeat Sparkle, drove me crazy and tried to enslave Ponyville”
Celestia looked Twilight like asking, but the other alicorn avoided to look her on the eyes. Gulping, Twilight returned her attention to Trixie, who seemed… happy.
“After Sparkle saved me from the amulet and I realized all the bad things it made me did, I had to run away and restart my life from scratch. But the good thing was that I realized how I enjoyed using my magic, and if I wanted to start over again; I wanted a job where I could use magic. And one day two idiots tried to assault me, but I easily defeated and delivered them to the police, where I got a reward for doing that. It was a revelation for Trixie, that was the sign I was waiting for, a job where I could use my magic at any way I wanted without being criticized, being a bounty hunter”
“Trixie, that’s the wrong path!” Protested Twilight.
“Is the right one, because I chose it, Sparkle. For the first time in my life before I invented the lie about the Ursa I feel that I love what I do, even recovering my fame as Great and Powerful but this time for real”
“And our fame only incremented when we became Providence” added Rex.
They both smiled to each other and looked at the group like waiting for their destiny.
“So we’re going to be partners in jail, right Rex?”
“Chido… but this wasn’t the best of your ideas, right?”
“Maybe, but I just wanted to be with you Rex”
But suddenly Celestia interrupted their moment.
“You don’t understand, go away”
“Sorry, what?” Asked Trixie.
“Out of my sight, seriously” warned Celestia.
“WHAT?” they all shouted.
“You heard me. I’ve seeing and heard enough and I see no reason for you to stay. Perhaps Beatrix Lulamoon have done some serious things on the past, that somepony should told me, but now is too late. Still, Master Sword did horrible things under my supervision and he deserves what the Griffon King has prepared for him, so you’re free to go”
Luna appeared before them seeming confused.
“Are you out of your mind or what sist? Rex’s abilities make him a great danger for the entire pony race, we can’t let him go mjust like that”
“I have the feeling that on the right time, he’ll be useful for us. Right now we better let them go with a warning”
No one said more and Celestia herself guided the two prisoners out of the castle.
“But be aware, I don’t want to see you ever again, is that clear?”
“Crystal like” said Trixie jumping on Rex’s motorcycle.
“Wait, Trixie!” Called Twilight. “Is there any way to convince you to change this dangerous path of yours?”
“No there isn’t, Sparkle. Now, I hope to never see you again, I have a huge reward I want to spend as soon as possible. Perhaps I’ll do another anonymous donation to Ponyville but that would be all”
Rex smiled to Twilight.
“She’s chida when she wants”
Then they moved at full speed; and after winking an eye, Trixie shot her trademark fireworks before disappear on the horizon.
“I’ll see you again Trixie, even if you don’t want to”
…
“I hope you have good news, Doctor Salazar” said the Black Knight.
“As a matter of fact, I have” smiled César. “I found a track, is weak and unprecise but I’m ninety percent sure is Rex’s transmitters. Now all I have to do is to create a device to imitate Breach’s powers and go for him”
The Black Night nodded, they’ll see each other again. Not now but one day.
Author's Note
This one was fast, I concentrated more on Trixie’s redemption and how she became a bounty hunter. I hope you liked it and as always:
Read ya’ later!!
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
Life lessons and a strange turn of events
8
Rex woke up early and went to check the mail if there was any new request for them as he did every morning since Celestia released Trixie and him. Not much, a couple of ‘Wanted’ pamphlets that seemed interesting… and a direct request for Providence to take care of some business in Ponyville signed by Twilight Sparkle herself. Rex smiled to himself and as always he threw that specific letter to the trash-can knowing Trixie would do the same. They had being receiving requests from Twilight Sparkle for a month now and annoying Trixie more and more.
“If it were that urgent she would contacted another group of bounty hunters already” was that Trixie used to say and Rex of course admitted she was right.
“Morning Rex” said Trixie walking out of their room and walking to the coffee maker. “Anything new besides Sparkle’s harassing?”
“No” he said with a smile. “A couple of ‘wanted’ pamphlets from the dudes we captured yesterday and a low-profile criminal. Nothing interesting”
Trixie nodded with a yawn and started to spread butter in a piece of toast while Rex made a bowl of oatmeal for him, they had no rush, this was going to be one of those days that they would spend at home with Rex reading sappy novels and Trixie learning new fighting spells.
And suddenly a green fire bolt appeared in the middle of the table leaving a letter behind. Trixie sighed and checked on the envelope.
“Sparkle again?” Asked Rex.
“Yes. Interesting, usually she just send a letter at day” she said taking a sip of her morning coffee.
Then Trixie made appear a couple of scissors to take care of the unwanted mail and at cutting the letter both of them disappeared from their beautiful house in Trottingham to appear in the Golden Oaks Library right in front of Twilight and Spike. Trixie took another sip from her cup of coffee and looked at Twilight with complete indifference.
“That was low Sparkle”
Rex just stood in front of Twilight activating his mechanized hands in case there were trouble.
“I didn’t had the time to put my jacket on. Bueno at least I won’t be afraid to stain it” said Rex preparing for battle.
Twilight just sighed and offered to them a couple of muffins from Sugar Cube Corner.
“Sorry for forcing you to come but since you haven’t answered any of my letters I had to use my authority as a Princess”
“Trixie believe that she already made clear that I don’t want anything to do with you or Ponyville after what happened. Last time I came was because of that stupid griffin but Trixie finds extremely unpleasant to be here. So with your permission, or without it I don’t really care, Rex Salazar and I will leave now”
Said that the two bounty hunters lead to the door but Twilight shut it with her magic. Trixie glared at her.
“Shall Trixie reminds you that we were freed by Celestia herself? Leave us alone Sparkle!”
“Yeah, I’m not particularly interested in becoming a teste subject just because I’m full of Nanites” said Rex crossing his hooves.
Twilight rolled her eyes.
“Look, I know I’m not your favorite pony in the world but there’s a situation and only the two of you can solve it. There are two colts…”
Trixie shook her head.
“Since Snips and Snails screw up Trixie’s artistic career I prefer to stay away from kids Sparkle, thank you very much”
“Precisely, Snips and Snails are getting into more and more troubles since your little number at the Gala!” Protested Twilight. “They still idolize you after the two incidents and now are planning to become bounty hunters”
“And why should I care?” Asked Trixie.
“Because they don’t listen to their parents or their teacher anymore; not even me! But they would listen to their idol” said Twilight. “Last week took a train to the nearest town just looking for ‘wanted’ signs to see there was something that they could handle; that’s how much trouble they’re getting into”
“Wow, I knew you were a bad influence but this is a whole new level” chuckled Rex.
“Ja-ja” said Trixie sarcastically. “But I get it, you want me to explain them how dangerous this profession is”
“No, I want you to show them. Today is Career Day at their school and all the foals will spend the day observing the profession they want to be when they grow up”
“And there is where I enter” sighed Trixie. “It’s all too sudden Sparkle”
“That’s your fault for not answering to my letters” said Twilight. “But that’s your mission, cooperate and I’ll pay you well, but if you don’t I’ll make you direct responsible if something happen to Snips and Snails.
Trixie grinded her teeth but at the end looked at Rex who gave her a confident smile.
“Fine! I’ll do it. Rex, is there any job near this town?”
“Just a small one. We have to…”
“Explain me later, those two are about to learn their lesson. But I won’t take responsibility if they get hurt during this learning, understood Princess?”
“It’s fair. Better now that they’ll be with you”
…
Career Day, an opportunity for children to watch closely the professions they wanted to do when they grow older. That day instead of school, all the children went to the Town Hall where they would split up to stick around the older ponies.
The only ones who stayed behind were Snips and Snails.
“Kids,” began Mayor Mare calmly, “I know what you want but you know that’s not possible. But there are a lot of careers you can chose from. What about you being mayors for a day, huh? I’ll gladly share my desk with you and even aloow you to create a couple of new laws!”
“No! We want to be like the Great and Poweful Trixie!” Protested Snips.
“Yes” joined Snails.
Mayor Mare and Cheerilee sighed.
“Of all the ponies, it had to be her!” Complained Cheerilee.
“I know, with so many more positive options…why don’t they admire the Princesses or Royal Guards?”
And suddenly the roar of a motor was heard and everypony turned to see a hatred blue mare and a grayish blue stallion in some kind of floating vehicles… no, now that they looked better it was the stallion’s legs. What on Equestria was that?
Trixie smirked to her public and jumped from Rex and waved a hoof happily.
“Hi, I heard a bunch of insensitive ponies are denying this poor kids the opportunity to be like the Great and Powerful Trixie. Let the colts follow their dreams”
“Trixie!!” Cheered the two unicorn colts running to her, but they were stopped by the grownups.
“What are you doing here?” Asked Cheerilee frowning.
Trixie shrugged.
“What else? This is career day and they want to be bounty hunters like the Great and Powerful Trixie. Let me take them to my next mission for them to observe how awesome being a bounty hunter really is. Who knows? The may get hurt but that’s part of the charm of this world. Trixie only hopes that after this first-hoof experience they stay interested in becoming this when they grow older”
Everypony except for the kids got the sarcasm at the last sentence. Of course, that kind of made sense. They had no idea who they had to thank to call Trixie but it was the right thing to do.
“Wow! Great and Powerful Trixie this is beyond amazing!!” Said Snails astonished.
“What kind of magic you used in your partner?” Asked Snips.
“Believe it or not I didn’t use magic on Rex Salazar” explained Trixie with a warm smile. “And this is your first lesson kids: if you’re going to be bounty hunters you better befriend a mutant. Especially one as powerful as Rex”
“Thank you Trixie I love you too” said Rex sighing.
“And what’s the mission?” Wanted to know Snails.
“We’ll explain it on the go, now let’s go!” Said Trixie jumping on Rex and helping the two colts to do the same.
And there they went, to an unknown destiny at the concerned look of the citizens of Ponyville, but luckily Princess Twilight came to explain the situation.
“Don’t worry everypony. I called Trixie because is the only way to stop those two. And she promised that they’ll forget about this nonsense when she finishes with them”
“But they can get hurt” said Snail’s mothers.
“I know, but that’s the only way for them to learn I’m afraid” said Cheerilee with a sweat-drop on her forehead. “I’m with you on this one Princess”
The rest of the ponies agreed, praying for this to work instead of motivate those two even more.
In the meantime the small party were on the way to Iron Will’s house.
“So this is a small thing,” began to explain Trixie, “Iron Will kept a book from a library more time that he should and haves to pay a ticket; but he haven’t returned the book yet so now he haves a citatory; our job is go to his home and take him to the sheriff office”
“That doesn’t sound like a job you would take Great and Powerful Trixie” complained Snails.
“I know, but is relatively safe for you two come with me; and is for very too little money that Trixie will allow you to keep it. This will become your first step on your new and exciting career as bounty hunters”
“Yey!!” Cheered the colts, this sounded so cool.
Rex went faster, this was going to be interesting.
Like a lot of minor celebrities, Iron Will had little to no respect to his fans and almost no one dared to importunate him for an autograph in his own house. But from time to time a brave fan tried and the answer was the same catch phrase he learnt from Fluttershy: no means no (but very less kindly and much louder).
The goats looked at the curious group of visitors but after Trixie assured them she only wanted an autograph from the Minotaur who ‘changed her life’ they just chuckled and let them pass, they loved when this happened so the visitors were guided to the main door.
Showtime.
“WHO DARES TO INTERRUMPT IRON WILL?!” Shouted the powerful Minotaur opening the door.
Trixie gulped and shyly presented him his book.
“Afternoon, mister Iron Will. Trixie is a huge fan! Before go to your seminars and read you books I was nothing but a carpet for everypony; but now nopony mess with Trixie and all Trixie wanted was to thank you and see if you can sign your masterpiece for her!”
The goats chuckled again waiting for it; and Iron Will smirked to Trixie, who gulped nervously but still looked at the Minotaur to the eyes. Iron Will took the book Trixie was offering and began to laugh loudly while ripped the book in half.
“This is my answer, you don’t know how much I hate when my fans come to my house to bother me with this. If you want Iron Will’s autograph then go to the events at the mall!”
Trixie shrugged.
“Okay as I see it, you owe a new book to Ponyville library” said Trixie showing Iron Will the citatory. “And speaking of libraries, you kept a book for too long and now not only you have to pay a ticket in another library but also have a date at the sheriff office. Is just me or are you going to have a long day?”
Iron Will screamed in anger and tried to smash the impertinent unicorn, but Trixie gracefully rolled away and smirked. The goats bleated and charged towards Trixie to help their boss, and this time Trixie teleported out of their reach causing a very comedic mass collision.
More goats arrive while Iron Will tried to teach this damn unicorn a lesson. Trixie looked back to her friends like asking for help. Snips and Snails shrank in fear, they didn’t expected to take part in an actual battle. But Rex smirked and charged to a few goats himself transforming his fore-hooves into big mechanized nun-chucks.
Both adults were fighting with all they had leaving the kids unprotected much to their horror. A couple goats noticed this and tackled to them with all their strength, not noticing they were just young colts.
“Colts?!” He asked concerned about this.
The fight immediately stopped when everyone notice what just happened.
“Oh right, I supposed to watch for this two” said the blue unicorn with a small grin.
“That was cruel” said Rex looking at the colts.
“What’s going on here?” Asked Iron Will.
Trixie shrugged.
“Let’s say my real job was teaching this two a lesson of how dangerous being a bounty hunter is. Their parents are afraid that they chose me as a role-model”
“And what it has to do with Iron Will?” Protested the Minotaur.
“Nothing, it was a relatively easy mission near their home” explained Rex. “Sorry for bothering you pal, but seriously; go and pay those tickets, is not worth all this trouble don’t you think?”
Iron Will groaned but nodded.
“Iron Will suppose you’re right. Iron Will will pay those tickets tomorrow at first hour” he said going back to his home and handed Trixie and Rex a new book to replace the one he destroyed. “Take this to Ponyville Library instead the one Iron Will destroyed, and also send Iron Will the hospital bill, is the last he can do”
“Don’t worry about it, it’s on my employer’s account” smiled Trixie. “Sorry again for bothering you, now if you excuse us we’ll leave”
Trixie turned his back-hooves into his motorcycle and Trixie placed the two unconscious colts in there and assured them with a spell before jumping herself on. Rex and Trixie waved their hooves in good-bye and accelerated to the nearest hospital.
“It’s funny, he reminds me you with when he speaks in third persons”
“Between the two of us I actually took one of his seminars where he assured that speaking in third person help to your self-confidence. Trixie took that words a bit too serious and began to speak that way too”
Rex couldn’t help but laugh and kiss her. Trixie accepted the kiss but cut it soon since they had to arrive to the hospital.
…
It was past noon and the Career Day was about to end. All the foals were excited and ready to go back home and tell their parents about the experience. It was when they noticed Snips and Snails were missing, but just a couple of seconds later they heard the roar of Rex’s transport.
“Mission accomplished, after this, they’ll think twice before becoming bounty hunters”
“What happened to them?!” Asked the teacher angry.
“We went to a mission and got hurt, what it supposed to happen” said Trixie. “We took them to the hospital and that’s pretty much it. They’ll stay asleep for an hour or two but they’re fine”
It was when Twilight approached to Trixie.
“Wow, thank you Trixie. I didn’t really expected the two of them actually getting hurt but I guess it’s for a greater good”
“Trixie just followed your instructions” said Trixie indifferently.
“And Rex followed Trixie’s instructions” joked Rex.
Twilight rolled her eyes but smiling she offered Trixie two bags full of bits.
“Anyway, thank you for your help. This is your payment”
Trixie sighed and gave the bag back to Twilight.
“Keep it, but I’ll send you the hospital bill. Understood?”
And without a word she jumped back on Rex’s transport, but Twilight stopped them.
“Wait! Why don’t you accept my money?”
Trixie decided to ignore her but Rex kindly explained:
“Don’t you see Princess? This is a closure for her history in Ponyville, and that’s enough payment for Trix”
Trixie face-hoofed annoyed.
“Thank you Rex, however that’s how it is Sparkle. From now on I’ll say as far as possible from Ponyville if you don’t mind”
Twilight nodded sadly but still looked at the blue mare.
“Still I would like to do something for you: as a Princess I can officiate certain ceremonies, like a wedding for example”
The faces of the two bounty hunters turned red and Trixie shouted.
“Damn it! Rex lets get the hell out of here!”
Rex obeyed quickly and the two of them went back to their home in Trottingham as fast as they could.
“I’ll officiate your wedding, I’ll officiate your wedding” mumbled Trixie. “Who does she think she is to get into our personal life? She may be a Princess but she doesn’t have a bit of common sense”
Rex giggled but then he turned serious.
“But hey, if you think about it, is not a bad idea; what if…”
“Rex: shut the fuck up before I send you a magic beam, dumbass” warned Trixie.
They kept advancing in an uncomfortable silence until they arrived to their home in Trottingham outskirts. Once they got in, Rex ran to get one of his novels and began to read but Trixie removed the book with her magic.
“What were you thinking proposing to me like that, Rex? What?”
Rex lowered his head.
“Nothing, it was a bad joke. That’s it!”
“Rex…”
The young stallion just sighed.
“I don’t know Trix, is just that, this days I’ve spent with you are the happiest of my existence” he said sadly. “I have no memories of my past but something deep inside me tells me that I don’t want to go back to my previous life. With you I’m happy and safe, and as long as I am at your side I don’t have to worry about anything from my past. But also have the feeling that it’s about to end”
“End?”
“I don’t know, is just that unnerving sensation that all this time I’ve been dreaming and I’m about to wake up, and the only thing I have for sure in this world is what I have with you Trix. That’s why I want us to be officially together”
Trixie kissed him deeply.
“Is wrong to allow fear to lead your actions Rex, but whatever happens Trixie will be with you no matter what. But if you want it so badly, I’ll marry you. A piece of paper won’t change anything between us; so I don’t see why not marry you”
Rex smiled you.
“Now you’re the one who’s wrong Trix, you can’t do something you don’t want just to make me happy”
“Like I said nothing will change between us. Besides I love you Rex Salazar, I don’t need to prove it to anypony but still if you want to marry me, I don’t see why not. But ask me for a foal and we’re done Salazar”
Rex laughed.
“We barely could protect two grown colts today, I’m not looking forward to it”
They both smiled to each other and kissed.
“So you really want this?”
“Yes, just to make sure we’ll be together no matter what”
Trixie nodded, she felt a little confused but also kind of happy. Marrying him now seemed strangely good now. And as long nothing change between them everything would be great.
Author's Note
First of all, sorry for the delay; but if it makes you feel better, I got stuck in this point at the original version as well. Anyway, let’s hope I finish this soon and in the meantime:
Read ya’ later!!
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
9
Trixie took a deep breath, as she opened the door of Ponyville’s town hall, where, the Bearers of Harmony, plus Spike, Snips and Snails, were together, along with a very special pony. Rex Salazar was waiting for her, on the other side of the room, wearing a red tuxedo, with orange undershirt, that combined perfectly with his grayish blue fur. As for Trixie, she was wearing a beautiful wedding dress, complete with a silver crown and vellum.
And in front of him, Princess of Friendship Twilight Sparkle was waiting. Trixie blushed, and approached to her groom
The bounty hunter made a small nod to Twilight, who smiled to her, and began reading:
“My dear friends, we’re together on this day, to join Beatrix Lulamoon, and Rex Salazar in holy marriage. Tell me, Beatrix Lulamoon, do you accept Rex Salazar as your loving husband, to be at your side in life and death, in sickness and in health; in happiness and the bad times, until death take you apart?”
Trixie smiled, and answered: “I do.”
“And you, Rex Salazar, do you accept Beatrix Lulamoon as your beloved wife, to be at your side in life and death, in sickness and in health; in happiness and the bad times, until death take you apart?”
“I do!” said Rex, taking his bride’s hoof.
Twilight smiled widely to them, and finally said:
“With the power given to me for the Crown, I now declare you, husband and wife. You May kiss the bride.”
Rex embraced Trixie, and kissed her deeply. Trixie held Rex with her magic, and pushed him closer to her, making the kiss even deeper.
Their little audience chuckled quietly as they finally separated, looking into the other’s eyes.
“I love you, Trixie. Especially when you’re not speaking in third person.” Mocked Rex.
“Go to hell” smiled back Trixie. “But, yeah, I love you too, Rex Salazar.”
Then, the couple kissed again.
“Hey, Rarity,” said Rainbow to her fashionista friend. “I thought you say you would never make a dress for her, so, why did you?”
Rarity shrugged. “What can I say? I couldn’t say no to that amount of bits. And, you must admit Trixie looks radiant in that dress. And Rex’s tuxedo is simply spectacular, it makes his natural charm to stand out. And he paid me extra, to make sure that the outfit transform when he does.”
“I think they look fantastic!” cheered pinkie Pie. “Exactly like the cake dolls. I took extra effort to make it especially delicious!”
The little ceremony finished, with the two bounty hunters happily chatting with the guests, seeming truly happy.
Twilight was happy too, she couldn’t believe that Rex and Trixie accepted her proposal, but here they were, a couple of newlyweds married by no other than Twilight herself.
“Well, they look really happy” said Fluttershy.
“And, Trixie has change for good since she met Rex Salazar.” added Applejack.
It was true. And now that they were happily married, no one would separate them.
Finally, Trixie bowed to Twilight and smiled.
“Thank you so much, Twilight Sparkle. Letting aside our history together, you offered me a second, and even a third chance. I really appreciate you doing this.” Trixie turned to the rest of the girls. “And you, thank you for joining me today.”
“Hey, what are friends for?” asked Fluttershy.
Trixie froze for a few seconds, but at the end she nodded.
“Yeah, what are friends for?”
“Así me gusta!” cheered Rex. “Now everypony is in peace with each other.”
The girls chuckled.
“And what are you going to do now, Rex, Trixie?” asked Twilight. “Are you going to continue with the bounty-hunter business?”
Trixie nodded. “Yes, is an interesting career, and if you’re good, your profits are unbelievable. But first, we could use a rest.”
“We reserved at a resort on the beach for our honeymoon.” explained Rex.
The others just nodded in silence, even if they didn’t like Trixie and Rex’s chosen lifestyle, it was none of their business. And, Trixie was happy, so they let her be.
But, in the bottom of his heart, Rex was worried. Like everything he had lived in Equestria was nothing but a dream, and he could wake up any minute now.
…
The streets of Canterlot were peaceful, as any night. The guards were patrolling, even if they know nothing would happen. They were wrong.
It started like a flash, with a red light that appeared on the skies, alerting both civilians and guards. Then, a black metallic structure appeared, followed by another, smaller one. All the unicorn guards made their horns glow, as the pegasi extended their wings, ready to fight.
The doors of the metallic giant opened before the terrified ponies, and a squad of strange bipedal creatures marched out of the ship. Strange beings they were, wearing strange black bodysuits, dark gray boots and vest. And, on their backs, the bipedal creatures carried strange cannons, that they prepared ready to face the enemy.
The unicorns shot several magic blast; and the bipedal answered by shooting laser beams. In the meantime, the pegasi gathered electricity-charged clouds that they threw against this new enemy. That was more effective, and several of the black creatures fell to never move again. But, strangely enough, the remaining guards seemed indifferent to their fallen partners, and continued shooting like nothing happened.
Both sides prepared for a bigger fight, when suddenly a female voice commanded:
“Hold your fire!”
The creatures in black stopped, and slowly moving away letting pass to their leader. It was a dark violet mare, with gray mane covering the left side of her face; who wore a black suit, black boots and a long black cape.
“Let’s avoid unnecessary confrontations. I can assure you, my intentions are not hostile. All I ask is an audience with whoever is in charge.” said the strange mare.
“And how can we tell you’re telling the truth?” asked Hylian Shield, the new captain since Master Sword was now under gryphon custody.
The purple mare grinned. “What about this? You can destroy all the soldiers you want, and they have strict orders to not to respond.”
“Yes Black Knight!” answered the soldiers of Providence.
The mare grinned to the astonished guards, when, suddenly, a tall shadow appeared above Black Knight.
“So, for you, your soldiers are nothing but objects. Nothing but shells who doesn’t have their own hopes, or dreams?” asked a voice.
The Black Knight looked up, and grinned to Princess Celestia, flying right above her.
“They are indeed objects. Nothing but machines. Human mistake cannot be tolerated in our forces. That’s why we use robots.” explained Black Knight.
“Machines? Human mistake?” asked Celestia landing before the Black Knight.
The violet mare bowed respectfully.
“It’s my pleasure.” said Black Knight.
“Who are you and what are your intentions?” asked the Princess.
“Again, I’m no hostile to this territory or your people. We’re here in a rescue mission. And, as who I am, they call me Black Knight.”
“Rescue mission? Black Knight?” asked Celestia.
“Yes, a rescue mission. A few months ago, an anomaly in the space-time fluctuation, sent one of our few human soldiers to this lands. After several months of hard work, we managed to locate him, and create our own anomaly, anomaly, that we used to get here. Once we get our man, we’ll go back where we came from. That’s a promise.”
“It’s unbelievable that you move this amount of personnel only for one person” said Celestia.
“I only brought the absolutely necessary. Besides, this soldier is very important to us.”
After a few moments of silence, Celestia made a sign to Black Knight to follow her to inside the Palace. As for Black Knight, she made a sign to another, smaller ship; cylinder-shaped, with insect-like legs coming out of it.
The little ship landed aside the big one, and opened its doors. A single earth pony came out of the ship. His fur was olive green, and he had black mane and tail; with brown, smart eyes. The green earth pony bowed respectfully to the alicorn, and followed his leader, Black Knight.
In the Throne Room, Princess Luna raised an eyebrow to the two visitors, but she limited to greet them with a nod.
“So, what is this all about?” asked Princess Luna.
Celestia simply looked at the strange ponies. “Apparently this two are here to locate one missing friend. Mostly I would understand, but their entrance was a bit unnerving.” Then she turned to the two ponies. “Now, you two, whatever you need to do to locate your ‘man’, do it in front of us. And, for your information, my sister and I are prepared to stop you in case you do something that could harm our little ponies. Understood?”
Black Knight bowed. It was true that she didn’t wanted to conquer Equestria or do any harm to the ponykind. In fact, the less she was in that world full of colorful equines, the better.
“As you wish.”
The mare, then, turned to her partner.
“Go on, Doctor Salazar. Do it quickly.”
César Salazar obeyed, he unfolded what the Princesses thought it was a normal suitcase, but in reality, it was a laptop, where César began to look for Rex’s signal. All he had to do, was to detect the small amounts of selenium Rex emitted every time he activated one of his machines.
But then, Luna looked at César.
“Did you said Doctor Salazar?” asked the Princess.
Both Black Knight and César Salazar turned to the Princesses.
“Huh, I guess you already met my little brother. Yeah, someone with his unique abilities doesn’t stay unnoticed for long. How is he? Out of trouble?”
“On the contrary, I would say.” said Celestia. “He associated with a troublesome pony, but it doesn’t matter now. Since the very beginning, I knew he didn’t belong here, not only because of his abilities, but because his aura answers to a different world.”
“But, there’s an issue.” added Luna. “He haves no memories of his past.”
César frowned. “Yeah, Rex’s amnesic episodes are pretty common. That would make the process a little more difficult, but isn’t something we haven’t deal before.”
“But it is okay, we take Salazar back?” asked Black Knight.
The Princesses nodded, unaware of the recent events on Rex’s and Trixie’s lives.
Finally, the computer made a beeping sound, and César went to check it.
“I get him!”
Then, the two ponies left the Palace, getting into their respective ships.
“You know Rex doesn’t trust me, Doctor Salazar. And, even if he’s amnesic, he can suspect of me. I leave this on your hands.”
“Technically, are hooves now.” joked César. “But don’t worry, we’ll bring Rex on time. That’s a promise.”
“I trust your capacity, Salazar.”
César smiled, and closed his ships’ door, and, before anypony could tell what was going on, he was crossing the skies.
“You heard that, right?” asked César, turning to the bunch of people he brought without telling Black Knight. “This won’t be easy, Rex may not even recognize you.”
It was a white mare, with black hair, tied in a bun, and green eyes; who wore a lab coat. A gray pony with dark-brown hair, triangle-shaped beard, and sunglasses. And finally, a chimpanzee with strange clothes and an eyepatch.
“I trust in the boy.” Said Agent Six, with confidence. “He will recognize us, eventually.”
“Always saying complicated stuff.” mocked the chimpanzee. “I’m fine with knowing he’s okay.”
“But, most important, Rex is the last hope of mankind.” finished Doctor Holiday. “And we must do what we can to save that hope.”
César grinned. “Okay, enough of the emotional chit-chat. We’re here!”
Thanks to the speed of César’s lab, they arrived quickly to the beaches of Maréxico. A popular destination for newlyweds. And, most of the visitors were enjoying the beautiful night that Princess Luna had gave them.
Trixie was lying on the beach along with her new husband, Rex Salazar, and she embraced him tightly. This was just their second night on this beautiful place that Trixie enjoyed almost as much as her companion. Almost.
Or that’s what they thought.
Rex stood, suddenly alert.
“Rex? What’s going on?” asked Trixie worriedly.
“Something isn’t right. Not right at all.” said Rex looking around.
Still unsure of what was going on, Trixie stayed alert too. Did the enemies of Providence had found about their little vacation? Well, considering the amount of captures and their skill, that was certainly a possibility. But no, something else was going on; the couple knew that on the bottom of their hearts.
Them, they both looked up, to see the strange metallic structure over them. Trixie and Rex jumped backwards, read for a fight.
The structure landed, and opened its doors. Four figures came out of it, three ponies, and a chimpanzee with clothes? What the hay?
Rex prepared his Smack-Hands ready for battle.
Trixie gulped and looked at her husband. “People you know?”
“Yes, I’m certain we’ve met before, and even if I can’t remember them properly. But, what I do remember, is that I never wanted to see them again.”
Trixie nodded, and let her magic flow through her horn. A new battle was about to begin.
Author's Note
Hi there guys! First of all, I want to thank you for the following this story had. Even if I abandoned for a while, I’m back and ready to finish it as it deserves. Now, strangely enough, this also happened with the original version, in Spanish.
Anyway, I hope you like it, I won’t let you down again with this story. Read ya’ later!!
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
10
Five months had passed since that night. The Crown gained a tireless enemy, who never doubt before accepting a job that could potentially damage the system, and now she was one of the most wanted ponies of Equestria.
Two royal guards entered into the library, dragging the prisoner, a blue mare with silver-blue mane. They both exchanged a look, and knocked at the door. Twilight opened the door, and looked at them.
“You got her.” she said relieved.
“Yes Princess Twilight. Shall we leave her here?” asked one of the captains.
“Please! And remember…” began Twilight.
“We know, Princess Celestia knows nothing of this.”
“Have a nice day, Princess. And good luck, this is a tough one.”
Twilight nodded, at the guards, who saluted her, and left, leaving the pony on the floor.
The prisoner had cuffs in her four hooves, and a magic-nullifier ring on her horn. It was Trixie, but she had changed a lot since the last time Twilight had seen her. The day after her wedding, the day she had to separate from Rex Salazar, forever.
Trixie’s silver-blue mane was now larger, and fell over her right eye, giving her a more sinister appearance. She also wore now black ponyshoes, that ended in menacing spikes that she used as a weapon. And last, her eyes sparkled with all her anger, hate, and mostly, sadness. Trixie looked at Twilight with disdain, as the Princess drove her into her home, where the other Bearers of Harmony were waiting, careful.
“If glares could kill…” said Twilight nervously.
“Straight to the point, Sparkle. Lock Trixie away, or let her go, because I have a ‘date’ with your brother, Shining Armor. Queen Chrysalis offered Trixie a huge amount of money for get him for her.”
The six friends exchanged a look, not an angry one, but worried.
“Trixie, I understand they did something horrible to you.” said Twilight. “But that doesn’t mean you should turn into an enemy of the Crown. You’re lucky my guards got you first. Imagine what would happened if the Solar, Lunar, or even Crystal Guards, get you?”
Trixie spitted to Twilight’s face. “What? Come on, tell me. Lock me away? Exile me, or better, execute me? Go on, I don’t care. Your teacher always tell us to find happiness through harmony, peace, and the magic of friendship. But if she truly believed in what she says, she would never separate me from him. From Rex…”
“Trixie…” said Twilight, as she released Trixie from her restrains.
Before anypony could react, Trixie’s horn glowed with all her power, and the alicorn found herself trapped in a lavender magic aura, and slammed her against the wall over and over. Twilight used her own power to get free from Trixie’s hold, and landed before her.
“Trixie…”
Trixie shrieked in anger, and tackled Twilight, to finally put one of her spiked horseshoes in her throat. Twilight just sighed patiently.
“Trixie, you know I’m an alicorn. You can’t kill me with this. You’ll only get into trouble. Think about your family, about your friends, your home…”
“Now that Celestia took Rex away from me, Trixie haves nothing to lose.” said Trixie with a killer glow in her eyes. Maybe she wasn’t an alicorn like Twilight, but she was a powerful unicorn. “Family? Trixie turned into a traveling magician to get away from them. Friends? He was my best friend, the first and last true friend Trixie had. My home? My savings? Trixie is capable to live without all that, that’s how Trixie was living before the Alicorn Amulet incident. Don’t you get it? I have nothing to lose, you, on the other hoof, can lose everything. Starting with your life!”
Trixie raised her hoof, ready to deliver Twilight the death stroke. The others were about to intervene, but Twilight simply looked into Trixie’s eyes, and closed hers.
“All this time, you’ve been looking to get killed, right? Your criminal behavior, challenging the Crown directly, accepting more dangerous jobs every time. You’ve been looking for your death.”
Trixie trembled, and separated from Twilight, as she began to cry. Nopony have seen Trixie cry before, not even that night, when she lost her special somepony. It was devastating to see.
“It’s okay, sugarcube.” Said Applejack, with a comforting tone, hugging Trixie. “No matter what you’ve through, it doesn’t worth ya’ ending yer’ life.”
Trixie grinded her teeth, and Applejack was sent to a wall by a powerful magic blast.
“Now you’re sorry, right?” asked Trixie with hate. “None of you said anything to stop Celestia, or those monsters. None of you supported me when I needed you the most. Where were you? Oh, right, holding me back, preventing me to help Rex. TO TARTARUS WITH YOU! ALL OF YOU!”
Flashback:
Trixie and Rex were fighting with the strangers for a while. And even if they didn’t have magic or flying abilities, they were giving the two bounty hunters a hard time, thanks to the strange weapons they brought. Weapons that they were shooting against them (the chimpanzee was a challenge, shooting with both of his hands and one foot.
But what unnerved Trixie, was that they were all interested in Rex.
“Rex! Come back with us! You are the last hope of mankind!” said a green earth pony, a little chubby, who looked a lot like Rex. “Please, brother!!”
“I have no brother!!” answered Rex angrily. “I don’t remember you, and I don’t want to. GET OUT AND LEAVE ME ALONE!”
“It seems like we’ll have to force you, Rex” said the gray pony with the triangle-shaped beard, taking two long katanas from his suit, and charging against Rex.
Rex reacted quickly, and activated his Big-Fat-Sword to repel the pony’s attack. Trixie ran to help Rex, but a white mare with lab coat was already on her way. Doctor Holiday shot several times to Rex, but Trixie protected him with a magic force-field, and then counterattacked with a magic beam. Holiday moved backwards, and, the monkey jumped in to grab the unicorn.
Trixie made appear several fireworks that surprised the monkey, Bobo, giving Trixie the time to tie him with a magic rope. And then, she charged against the pony with the katanas.
“Careful, Six!” called the pony with the white coat.
Agent Six turned in time to elude a magic blast from Trixie. Both magician and special agent looked into each other’s eyes, ready to fight, when the sound of a body falling called their attention.
They both turned. Rex had fell on his knees.
Six. That name sounded familiar. Six, Six, Six…
He screamed, surrounded by white light, coming out from his eyes and mouth. His machines were activating all at the time, losing control.
“REX!” shouted everypony around.
Rex turned back to normal, and slowly stood. His eyes were sparking with anger.
“I remember.” he mumbled. “I REMEMBER!”
“Rex?” asked Trixie, approaching carefully.
The young stallion embraced his wife, glaring at the group of newcomers.
“I remember everything. Providence, White Knight, Black Knight, Abysus, all of you. And I was right, I don’t want anything to do with you. I’ve made my life her, so LEAVE ME ALONE!”
“Rex, you don’t understand!” said César.
“No, GET OUT!” shouted Rex.
The impact sent the agent all the way to the sea, but before he landed, Trixie made appear giant seaweed that immobilized him.
“I’ll deal with him and the one in the lab coat. You take care of the monkey and your brother.”
“Watch it, Trixie. They call him Six, because he’s the sixth more dangerous man in the world.”
“I’ll keep that in mind. Have he fought a top magician before?”
“Magic doesn’t exist where I come from.” assured Rex.
“That’s all I need to know!” assured Trixie.
Rex then jumped, and kicked Bobo with the Punk Busters, leaving him at Trixie’s mercy, who threw him up, and shot several magic beams to him.
“Rex, stopped!” cried the pony in the lab coat. “You don’t belong here! You belong with us, to our world, where you have a responsibility. You are our only hope, Rex.”
“No, Holiday, I’m not going anywhere!” said Rex, activating his Smack-Hands. “No one understood how I really felt, how much I needed to escape from all that madness. Only Breach. She sent me to this world because she knew I was sick of everything. Being chased by Black Knight, Van Kleiss… and betrayed by my own brother. I WANT YOU OUT OF MY LIFE! ALL OF YOU!”
“Rex, this is beyond you, and you know it!” said César.
“Forget it, César, all of you know that I can’t take it anymore. I want a normal life. And if not normal, at least stay here, along with Trixie. If you really care about me, leave me alone. That’s all I ask.”
Trixie took her husband’s hoof, and together, they prepared to fight until the very end. The ‘rescue’ mission only got more difficult when Rex recovered his memories. But, as the pony in the lab coat have said (Doctor Holiday), Rex was the last hope of mankind, and they couldn’t just leave him here.
“I’m sorry Rex. I really wanted to avoid this, but you’re leaving us no choice” said César, as he called for reinforcements.
Black Knight’s ship appeared on the sky.
“Oh great, more bad news.” said Rex, swinging his Big-Fat-Sword.
Trixie didn’t say anything, instead she took a small piece of parchment and a quill, and wrote a quick note, that she sent with her magic.
In Ponyville, Twilight and the others were having a nice time on the library. Just enjoying their company, when Spike burped a letter.
“What is it Spike? A message from the Princess?” asked Twilight.
“No,” said Spike. “It’s from Trixie.”
“Trixie?” said Rarity raising an eyebrow. “Did she sent us a postcard from her honeymoon? That’s really considered!”
Spike shook his head.
“No, she’s in trouble!”
Twilight took the letter from Spike’s claw, and, after reading it, she nodded.
“Girls, we need to help her. Now, I know she’s a nuisance, and she have met stupid mistakes, but…”
“Twilight, ya’ can count on me!” assured Applejack. “That pony has changed since she met Rex, and A’m willing to help her.”
“But, isn’t she in trouble for, you know, her job?” asked Fluttershy, unsure. “Maybe we end up doing something illegal.”
Twilight shook her head. “No, this is other kind of trouble, some people wants to foalnap Rex. Now, get close to me! This is going to be uncomfortable, but we must get to Maréxico as soon as possible!”
The girls approached to Twilight, and soon enough the library vanished in a flash of light. When they opened their eyes, they were at the beaches of Maréxico. But right now, it seemed more like a battlefield, where Trixie and Rex were doing what they could to hold against the strange forces that were attacking them. But it was impossible. Bobo and Six were a handful, both of them, and César’s and Holiday’s weapons were too powerful; but still they managed to contain them. But, when Black Knight and her forces joined the battle, there was nothing they could do. It was only a matter of time before the enemy capture Rex.
“Give up, Salazar!” said the Black Knight from her ship. “You cannot win this battle, willingly or unwillingly, you’ll come with us, where you belong.”
“NEVER!” shouted Rex, as he fought with his Big Fat Sword to dispose of Black Knight’s robots, protected from their lasers by Trixie’s magic. “You’ll never bring me back, Black. If Holiday and Six couldn’t convince me, there’s no way you can!”
There was no need to see more, the Bearers of Harmony ran to help the bounty hunters. But then, something unexpected happened.
Two large figures landed on the battlefield, stopping the battle immediately.
“Your Majesties!” shouted Twilight.
Celestia turned to Twilight, and made a small nod to her. “Twilight Sparkle, is strange seeing you in the middle of this situation. However, I demand to know what’s going on! You clearly said that this was just an ordinary rescue mission. However, I found you here, disturbing the visitors of these beaches. This is not what we agreed.”
Rex glared at the Princess, aiming his BFS toward her. “So you agreed to this? Yypical, I should know you wouldn’t let me escape that easily. Well, sorry Princesses, but I have no intentions to go back to my world. The only good thing that came from that visit, is that I remember everything. Including that I didn’t want to see them again! No, Bobo is fine, but the rest of you are dead to me!”
“Stop this nonsense, little brother!” said César. “This colorful land is not your place, it’s with us. Now low your weapons and come with us!”
But then, Princess Luna stood firmly between Rex and the visitors from the other world. “Stop it right now. The only reason we allowed you to come for Rex, is that we thought he would willingly go with you. But, if it’s true that he recovered his memory, and doesn’t want to go back, you shouldn’t force him.”
“Luna is right!” said Princess Celestia, joining her sister. “This is Rex Salazar’s decision, and nopony else. But,” Celestia turned to the EVO, “you owe us an explanation, understood, young colt?”
Rex nodded, as he held Trixie’s hoof with a relieved smile. Luckily, this would end well for the two of them.
But then, Doctor Holiday took a remote control from her lab coat.
“I really wanted to avoid this, but, you’re leaving us no choice, Rex.”
She pressed a button on the remote, and, from César’s ship emerged a screen, where appeared some kind of metallic spheres, with cylindrical appendices giving it a strange appearance. Doctor Holiday sighed.
“This machines are called Nanites. Small robots, no bigger than a cell, created originally to cure every desease in the world. Unfortunately, an accident ended the project abruptly.”
The Nanites’ images were replaced by what was left of the lab of Abysus.
“As the result of this tragedy, the Nanites spread all over the world, and on the current days, almost every living being in our world have a percentage of inactive Nanites in our systems. But, they could activate any second, and when that happens, the consequences are mostly bad.”
The monitor showed a sequences, of a human turning into a deformed mutant that attacked others. More of those creatures appeared on the screen, not always that horrible, or deformed, some of them were rational, and other weren’t. But, in the end, the mutations were generally dangerous.
“This mutations are called EVOs” explained César. “Once you mutate, there’s no going back. For years, there were no known cure, but then…”
“NO!” shouted Rex when he understood what Holiday and César were about to show.
The screen showed him, curing EVOs with his ability to control Nanites.
“Rex is the last hope of humanity.” Explained César. “I hate to put this weight on my little brother’s shoulders, but that’s how it is. He’s one of the most powerful EVOs in the world, and the only one who can control Nanites.”
The two Princesses stood there, without knowing what to do. But at the end, Celestia lowered her head
“I’m so sorry, Rex Salazar. I understand you wanted to escape, but the truth is, you have a responsibility, and I can’t let you run away from it. Rex, your place is with them, not with us.”
“NO!!” shouted Trixie and Rex at the unison.
“The decision is taken.” said Luna. “I’m sorry, for both of you.”
Black Knight’s soldiers tackled the astonished Rex, as César used a laser to get rid of Trixie, and grabbed his brother back to the ship. Trixie screamed, and tried to go after them, but she was held by Twilight’s magic. Trixie turned to Twilight, like asking for help, but Twilight exchanged a quick look with her teacher, and shook her head. Trixie screamed in anger, and, with all her power, she got rid of Twilight’s magic aura, and ran toward Rex and César. Twilight ran after her, and shot her a magic beam. Trixie fell, and Twilight’s friends came to held her.
As for Rex, he was struggling against the soldiers, but César knocked him away with an especial weapon to put him to sleep. Once he fainted, Providence’s soldiers had no problem dragging him into the ship.
The Black Knight made a quick nod to Celestia. “As we promised, now that we have our man, we’ll leave where we came from. And, to make sure this doesn’t have further consequences, we’ll use our technology to erase Rex’s memories about this dimension.”
César nodded. “That would spare him the pain. Nothing happened here.”
Trixie screamed, still struggling, but, in the end Twilight knocked her out with a quick spell. Everything finished, there was nothing else to do.
Celestia made a deep sigh.
“Twilight Sparkle, I know this is too much to ask you, but, for this young mare’s sake, erase her memories as well. The pain she would go through is going to be insufferable. I wish there’s another way, I’m truly sorry.”
Said that, the Princesses flew back to Canterlot.
And for the ships, they flew away disappearing into a flash of red light.
Back to the present:
Trixie looked at Twilight with hate in her eyes. “So what? you have me now, so what’s going to be? Lock me away, or kill me. I highly recommend the second choice, because, if you lock me away, you can be sure I’ll escape and bring your beloved brother to Chrysalis.”
Twilight sighed. “Trixie, I know it was unfair with you and Rex, but that’s not a reason for you finishing your life. Think about…”
“Consider that Twilight could erase your memories, but chose to let you have them, to keep all the precious moments with your first love.” said Fluttershy. “Please, Trixie, it doesn’t have to end this way.”
Trixie sobbed.
“I wish you had erased them, Twilight Sparkle. I hate you. Not as much as I hate Celestia and Providence, but I do hate you very much.”
“The reason we brought you here, is because there’s a way to help you.” explained Pinkie Pie. “Twilight found a spell. We can’t bring you back Rex, but we can send you to him.”
Trixie raised an eyebrow.
“You are kidding.”
Twilight smiled sadly. “I never agreed with what Celestia did to you. But, back at that time, I was too coward to defy my teacher. And I failed you. That’s why I dedicated every single moment I could spare to find a way to help you reunite with your especial somepony. But you have to trust in us, and stop menacing my brother. Do you think you can?”
Trixie glared at Twilight. “First show me what you’ve got.”
Twilight levitated a book to Trixie.
“This is the only volume Star Swirl wrote about dimensional travel.” explained Twilight. “It’s a complicated spell, but it can send you with Rex Salazar.”
Trixie looked at Twilight.
“For real?”
Twilight nodded, smiling.
“But, if you go, you’ll have to spend the rest of your days on that world, living as a human.”
“I don’t care!” cried Trixie. “As long I’m aside Rex, I don’t care about my looks!”
“He may not recognize you at first, but have faith on Rex.” said Fluttershy softly.
Trixie nodded, as she prepared to cast the spell. But, then, one of the bookshelves fell, almost hitting Trixie.
“Huh, sorry about that.” said Twilight. “Are you okay, Trixie?”
“Just hurry, Sparkle!” protested the blue mare.
“Okay, okay!” said Twilight, casting the spell.
Trixie disappeared into a purple light.
…
Trixie examined her surroundings. It was a city, but that’s all what Trixie could say. It was bigger and more industrialized than Manehattan. Tall buildings and flying vehicles were all over the place. It was a strange sight, but not as strange as Trixie herself.
Her mane, no, her hair, reminded the same, same style and color; just as her eyes. But what astonished Trixie the most, were her new human form. Somehow her fur transformed into a pair of jeans, along with a purple sleeveless shirt. Her ponyshoes turned into a pair of boots and bracelets.
“Interesting.”
Then, Trixie turned to a near trashcan.
“I wonder…”
She extended her new fingers toward the trashcan, and let the magic flow through them. It was an easy levitation spell.
It worked perfectly.
With a grin, she examined the page she ripped from Twilight’s book during the bookshelf commotion (that she staged).
“This isn’t over, Rex. We’ll be together again, just the way it should.”
Author's Note
Strange chapter, sad at the beginning, but the perfect preamble to the final battle. I wrote the original some time ago, so I didn’t remember much of the story. It was really fun to remind it as I transalted.
Read ya’ later!!
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
11
Rex sighed as he continued throwing a ball against his room’s walls. Noah had come not so long ago, and tried to convince Rex to join him for a double date with Annie and Claire, but Rex declined, unwilling to do anything. Not so long ago, right after the final battle with the Consortium, and cure all the EVOs in the world, Rex’s mood had decline dramatically. He wasn’t himself, he didn’t goof around anymore, he had quit basketball, and he didn’t use Colombian idioms when he talked. In fact, he barely talk or eat.
His friends did their best to cheer him up, and desperately tried to get him back to normal, but nothing they did could help Rex. He was still depressed, unwillingly to do anything, or seeing anyone. What had happened to him?
Not even Rex knew for sure what was going on. All he could tell, is that his depression had something to do with his last amnesic episode. It happened a little before the final battle with the Consortium, he woke up in César’s lab, completely disoriented and lost. His friends assured him that he had a big fight with an EVO, and César had just saved him from a certain death. And Rex, of course, believed in them, but he couldn’t remember the battle. As a matter of fact, he couldn’t remember anything from the last ten months.
Rex panicked, and asked his friends to tell him what happened, but they assured it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. Play some basketball, fight a few EVOs, find the way to defeat Black Knight and Abysus, hang out with his friends, and watch telenovelas. It was only logical, such was Rex’s life, but then, why his friends did seemed suspicious whenever he asked too many questions. If he insisted too much, they only reminded him the last time he tried to force his memories, so, he eventually gave up.
Besides, there were more things to think about at that time. Like finding the Meta-Nanites before Providence and the mutants of Abysus.
But now, the Consortium was defeated, Van Kleiss gone missing, and Rex had healed all the EVOs in the world. So, without that much to do, Rex began to notice that he was depressed. Suddenly, his victory meant nothing to him anymore. At first, he tried to kill time training with Six, and fighting with some minor threats, but, with the time, he gave up those too.
Rex was sick of everything, all he wanted was an escape from his pain. That’s why he spent his days bouncing a ball inside his room. A useless exercise, but it was sedating, helping Rex to spend his days. But, at some point, as always, Rex had enough of the monotony, and turned on the radio. Automatically, Rex started to switch stations randomly.
He stopped at a Latin station, that was playing an old ballad from Cuban folk singer, Silvio Rodríguez:
Mi unicornio azul ayer se me perdió / Yesterday, I lost my blue unicorn
Pastando lo dejé, y desapareció / I left him grazing, and he suddenly disappeared
Cualquier información bien la voy a pagar / I’ll generously reward any information
Las flores que dejó, / The flowers he left behind,
No me han querido hablar / They still don’t want to talk to me
Mi unicornio azul ayer se me perdió / Yesterday, I lost my blue unicorn
No sé si se me fue / I don’t know if he escaped
no sé si se extravió / I don’t know if he got lost.
Y yo no tengo más que un unicornio azul / And I have nothing, but a blue unicorn.
Rex froze, and smashed the radio with his Smack-Hands. That song, why did it affected him that much? He couldn’t bear it anymore, he hide his face under his pillow, and cried uncontrollably.
…
It was eleven PM, a bad hour get into a dark alley. But there was, a beautiful girl wandering around that red area, confident and unworriedly. Trixie looked around, trying to find the right address, in silence, always in silence. It had been a week since she arrived to that strange world, and sill had no clue of what to do. But, at least she gathered a lot of information, like what happened during the Nanite Event, the EVOs, the destruction left by the Consortium, and how the star-agent from Providence, Rex Salazar, have saved the world. Quite useful information, but not nearly enough to infiltrate inside Providence, and get Rex back.
And that was the major problem, she was aware that Providence had erase his memory, and had to find the way to get him back to his senses.
“Hey beautiful!” called a cold voice behind him. “Don’t you want to come with us?”
Trixie extended her hand, trapping the stranger in her magic aura, and smashed him violently to the ground. But, the dude wasn’t alone. A group of six more thugs approached toward Trixie, with their knives in hand. Trixie grinned, and snapped her fingers.
The six attackers were trapped into a snake-shaped aura that wrapped around their wrists and ankles; to finally turn into heavy chains, immobilizing them completely. The thugs screamed in fear, as they struggled against Trixie’s chains.
The girl shrugged, and finished them with a powerful magic beam.
It was strange to canalize her magic through her fingers instead of horn, but during the last week, she have got used to it. Anyway, it wasn’t the time to think about that stuff, but finding the right address. The door she was looking for was only two houses far, so she walked toward it, and knocked at the door.
A guy in a black coat opened the door. “I’ve been watching you. And, I must congratulate you. I don’t know what kind of powers you have, but, you may have a chance against that man, Six.”
Trixie nodded. “So, you have the information about the sixth more dangerous man in the world.”
“First things first. Do you have the money?”
Trixie snapped her fingers, making appear a bag of bits on the guy’s hands. The man in the black coat nodded, and gave Trixie a small folder.
“You know, I’m more used to cash, not solid gold.”
“I can change it for money if you want.”
“No, gold it’s fine. Is just strange, but, anyway. Have a nice night, and I hope you succeed with whatever you’re planning.”
Trixie didn’t said more, and she teleported away, back to her temporary hideout. It was a small apartment, she rented thanks to the gold she brought with her. It was strange to Trixie, she still didn’t get how humans preferred green pieces of paper instead of gold, but, all she had to do was to change it in a pawn house.
Still, she opened the file that costed her half of her resources, and began to examine it. It wasn’t much, but it was pretty useful. A large criminal record before he joined Providence, and a clear description of his abilities. Trixie frowned.
“The problem here, is that Trixie haves to keep him one place long enough to get him with my magic. But, how do I do that? Trixie is in trouble.”
Trixie sighed, as she fell on her bed. The easier part of her plan was to get into Providence’s headquarters. But, she wasn’t familiar with this world’s technology, and everything she tries would be equally risky. Her only hope was to recover Rex’s memories before the hour of truth, but how? All she had was what Fluttershy told her, believe in her husband.
“I must do this, or die trying.” said Trixie, as she finally decided to act. “Trixie believes in you, Rex.”
…
“Come on, Rex! Defend yourself, or at least do something!” said Noah, exasperated.
For the last half an hour, he have tried to put Rex’s mind into the game, a friendly, basketball encounter, that he managed to convince Rex to join in. But, as the last months, Rex was just standing there, barely moving. But, at least, he was making an effort to participate. Last night’s song had made him reach the bottom. Why did it affected him so much?
Beverly Holiday just looked worriedly at the scene. She had gladly join Rex and Noah, relieved that he finally got out of his room, but he was just the shadow of who he was. And, sitting aside Bev, was Circe. Also worried about Rex’s breakdown, she had come to see him, and she didn’t like what she saw. Not only her dear friend was devastated, but also, not César nor Holiday or six had done anything to help him. Somehow they were looking on the other way, precisely when Rex needed them the most.
Noah finally gave up.
“You know Rex? I’m glad you came with us, but, as a soldier of Providence, I have things to do. See you, pal!”
Rex waved a hand weakly, and took the ball to put it back on its place.
“Come on Rex, there must be something you want to do.” said Circe.
“Yeah, let’s go to the game center, or, what about the movies?” suggested Beverly. “You decide Rex.”
Rex was about to answer, when suddenly, Six’s voice called him at the transmitter of his ear.
“Rex, it’s an emergency! There’s a problem in the southern part of the city. We don’t know if it’s some kind of new EVO.”
Rex shook his head in disbelief. “What, an EVO?”
“We need to capture him first, for verification. All we know is that this one haves uncommon abilities.”
Rex was about to cut communication, but he stopped halfway through. Maybe this was what he was looking for. “Okay, I’m on my way.”
Rex ran to the hangar, and jumped to a jet, already waiting for him. After exchanging a quick look with Six, they were on their way to the city.
“The lectures come from this point, would you be okay, kid?” asked Six.
“Yes, leave it to me.”
The gates opened, and Rex jumped to action, activating his Jet-Pack for the first time in a long time.
On the land, right in the middle of the street, a masked figure, completely covered in black, except for the eyes, was causing major disasters destroying the buildings around by sending purple beams from her hands. A group of police officers ran to action, shooting to the figure, but the stranger was protected by a purple sphere that stopped all the bullets. Then, the figure snapped its fingers, making their patrols to explode, or surround them with the purple aura, and crash them against each other.
From the air, Rex couldn’t believe what was going this one seemed like a real challenge. With a small grin, he landed before the figure, preparing his Smack-Hands.
“Hey, compañero! I don’t know who you are, or what you’re trying to do, but we can do this the easy way, or the hard way. And I truly hope it is the hard way, I could use a good fight.”
The figure tilted its head, looking Rex to the eye. The strange violet eyes, moved something inside Rex, only that he couldn’t tell what, exactly. Around him, the agents from Providence surrounded the both of them, aiming the weapons to the figure in black.
The figure looked around, and raised its hands.
Rex sighed. “Seriously? Just like that?”
The figure nodded, and allowed six soldiers to cuff him. One of them tried to remove the mask, but a purple aura rejected him. It didn’t matter, they reduced the stranger, and took him to Providence, where they could study better the situation.
Rex didn’t understand a thing, something was definitely, not right. But he wasn’t on the mood to think about anything.
The agents of Providence lured the stranger into the jet, and drugged him to study the situation better. However, soon it was obvious that it wasn’t going to be an easy task. They couldn’t remove the suit, the purple aura somehow always rejected them.
“So, what do we have here?” asked White Knight, from the communicator.
“We need to take this one to the lab, we can’t do anything with our current equipment.” observed Doctor Holiday.
“Just take your precautions.” said Six. “Maybe it isn’t an EVO, but it’s something really dangerous.
…
Trixie opened her eyes, and examined her new surroundings. She was into some kind of prison cell. Three walls padded walls, and a crystal one on the front. A bunch of soldiers were watching her from the other side of the glass, ready to act if she tried something.
Trixie grinned, everything went good so far.
“Try something, and we’ll going to get a neurotoxin shower.”
Trixie shrugged. “You guys haven’t see magic before, right?”
“Real magic.”
Trixie created a force-field with her magic. It wouldn’t last long, but she had to get out of there as soon as possible. As the guards prevented her, an emergency device freed a cloud of atomized neurotoxin, but the force-field protected her, but she didn’t know for how long.
She snapped her fingers.
The glass turned into a bunch of butterflies that flew away before the astonished guards, who got disposed by a new set of magic beams.
“I’ll get you back, or die trying. I promise, Rex.”
Author's Note
So, a new chapter, focusing this time on Rex’s depression, and a close encounter with Trixie. A battle is coming for the next chapter, so read ya’ later!!
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
12
In his dormitory, Rex continued bouncing his ball on the walls. The old habit helped him to kill time, and also, to think. And that afternoon’s capture have really bothered him. First of all, Holiday haven’t been able to determine nature of the stranger’s powers; so it couldn’t be an EVO. But then, why does that person had that strange abilities? And then, there was the fact that the stranger turned himself in without any resistance?
The most Rex thought about it, the most he suspected it was some kind of trap.
And he was right, the emergency alarm confirmed his suspicions. Apparently, someone was destroying the headquarters, and Rex had a very clear idea of who was it. And then, Six called him.
“Rex, come quickly. The prisoner has escaped, and it’s going to the lab. You are the one who is closer, we need you. Holiday and me will join you as soon as we can.”
“Coming right now, Six. In the meantime, tell White Knight to send reinforces!”
“The reinforces have been neutralized already. Whoever we’re dealing with, it’s very dangerous. Be careful, Rex.”
Rex didn’t need to hear more. He cut the communication, and ran where he was called. The alarm was still ringing, seriously annoying Rex, but he didn’t mind that much. Rex was mostly anxious, he really needed to see that stranger again. Those purple eyes had awoke something inside Rex, even if he couldn’t tell what exactly.
Finally, Rex arrived to the lab that was sealed as a security measure. With a grin, Rex kicked the door open, using the Punk-Busters.
Before him, he saw a complete squad lying unconscious, right at the feet of the stranger. Providence’s soldiers were known for being the best of the bests. Both because of their training, and their weaponry. However, they seemed defeated, by a single person.
“You did all this?” asked Rex.
The stranger shrugged, like saying, ‘what if I did?’
“You and I have un problema grande.” said Rex activating his Smack-Hands., and jumping toward the stranger, who didn’t bothered to elude the attack.
Instead, an invisible force rejected Rex’s attack, sending the boy to a wall. Unbelievable, what kind of power was this? It didn’t matter, Rex transformed his right arm into the Big Fat Sword, and ran again to the figure.
This time, however, the stranger did counterattack, extending his hand, releasing the purple aura.
Out of nowhere, lots of fireworks appeared, astonishing Rex, who didn’t know where to look. Finally, he spotted the figure in black, sneaking through the door. Rex, who wasn’t in the mood for games, used the Slam-Cannon, to shot a portion of the floor to the runaway. But, the figure vanished at the impact.
“What?” asked Rex.
“Illusion is my especially.” said a voice, right behind Rex.
Rex jumped backwards, just in time to avoid a vehicle of Providence, thrown to him by the attacker’s purple aura. He barely eluded the attack, and looked at the stranger to the eye. The voice made Rex realize two things. First, that he had met this person before. Second, it was a girl. He grinned.
“Okay, I’m not used to hit ladies, but seeing how you left my friends, I have no choice but make an exception.”
The girl yawned, and snapped her fingers. One beam from the roof almost fell over Rex, but he activated his Block-party right on time. When he stood, to face the girl, he noticed she have disappeared again.
“Bien, you have skill.”
And with his Smack-Hands, he threw away the beam, and began to look for the girl.
“Rex!” called Holiday, as she got in the lab, along with Six. “What’s going on?”
Rex was about to answer, when a purple beam, hit directly Holiday. The doctor fell on the impact, leaving her defenseless to a new beam. This one was followed by an explosion that got her unconscious.
Six turned to the direction where the attack came from. A figure in black waved an arm to him, like saying hi. Frowning, but without making a sound, Six took his two swords and ran toward her, just to be rejected by the force field like Rex. Catching him in her aura, the stranger shot an energy beam to him, making the man to fell right over Holiday.
The attacker just chuckled.
“You find this funny?” asked Rex, turning his legs into the Punk-Busters, to try to kick the girl in black.
She snapped her fingers, teleporting to the other side of the room. Without a word, she placed her hand over the main computer, and released the purple aura. The computer went crazy, to finally explode. One more time, the stranger chuckled in delight, but didn’t have time to enjoy her little victory, since a new shot from Rex’s cannon called her attention. He missed, but barely.
Gulping, the figure began to shot more explosive beams from her hands; and Rex rejected them over and over with his Block-Party. Finally, the girl changed her strategy, sending a new kind of attack. This time the purple light turned into heavy chains when it impacted Rex.
Rex struggled against the chains, but those were too tight for him. Finally, he decided to get free by activating his Punk-Busters and the Smack-Hands at the same time, freeing from the chains instantly. Then, he jumped toward the girl, with his Bad-Axes. A pair of large blue axes, with an energized blade
The stranger reacted on time, creating a purple force-field. But this time, she underestimated the power of the Omega Nanite, and the axes easily went through her force-field, leaving her no choice but make a quick backflip. Rex switched his axes to her Funchucks, but she teleported away.
“Show yourself!” shouted Rex, looking for his opponent.
From a beam on the roof, the stranger whistled calling for Rex, and began to send him more of her purple energy attacks. Rex groaned in annoyance, and generated the Block-party to protect himself.
“Lo siento mija, but I got tired of this!”
And he created the jet-pack to jump toward the attacker. The girl jumped from the beam to avoid the incoming attack. It was going to be a bad fall, but she snapped her fingers, and the fall immediately slowed down, allowing her to land unharmed.
Rex jumped as well, to face the stranger, absorbing the fall impact, with the Punk-Busters.
“You are a very interesting case.” Said Rex. “But what are you? You certainly can’t be an EVO, I cured them all. Or maybe, you’re another one who escaped thanks to Breach. Are you with Van Kleiss?”
“I am not. I don’t even know Breach or Van Kleiss. Just accept the world is bigger than you think already, Rex Salazar.” replied the stranger.
“And that’s the other thing, we have met before, haven’t we?”
“That’s for me to know, and for you to find out, Rex Salazar.”
Said that, she sent two more purple energy beams to Rex, who eluded them easily. However, this time, the attacks switched direction, and impacted over Rex’s back, making him fall.
But Rex wasn’t defeated, not yet. He transformed his feet into his motorcycle, and charged against the stranger. He wasn’t planning on killing her, just incapacitate her for enough time to interrogate her properly.
But the girl in black, trapped Rex with her purple aura, holding his attack. Rex turned back to normal, to then, activate one weapon after another, trying to get free from the strange held. But, he couldn’t.
On the other hand, the girl in black was struggling as well. She was tired, she had used too much magic. And, the worst part, the battle was far for over. She had to find a way to end it soon, or she’ll be in deep trouble.
Finally, Trixie sent a current of pure energy, over Rex. The boy screamed in pain, and fell over his knees, all covered in burns and wounds.
“REX!” shouted Holiday and Six, when he was defeated by this mysterious opponent.
The figure turned to them. “Oh, you’re still here. Let me fix that.”
Before they could react, she raised her right hand, trapping the both of them in her telekinetic aura. They tried to struggle, but as Rex, they weren’t familiar with that kind of attack. It was strange, thought, somehow Holiday and Six could feel the stranger’s hate through her aura. And, when they looked her to the eye, they saw the same hate reflected on them.
“Who are you?” asked Holiday.
The girl in black grinned under her mask. “Give up is your only option. The power of the Great and Powerful Trixie cannot be understand by simpletons like you. Don’t you see? This battle have been won by Trixie already.”
Rex, difficultly, went back on his feet.
“Have anyone told you, how irritating it is to hear you talk on third person? You need a humility lesson.”
Trixie looked at him from the edge of her eye.
“Oh, Trixie already had one of those. Isn’t the Great and Humbled Trixie the best person you’ve ever met?”
It was enough, all Rex could do was to see how his friends were in danger. But he was too weak, the last attack really hurt him. But, he had to save them no matter what.
Rex closed his eyes, gathering all the energy he could.
Trixie was still looking at the doctor and the agent, deciding what to do with them. She finally decided to smash them against the walls over and over. Grinning under her mask, Trixie continued with her little game. But then, a metallic tentacle wrapped around her waist. Trixie closed her eyes, readying herself for what was coming.
“What?!” she shrieked, faking surprise.
The tentacle released a powerful electrical current over Trixie. She screamed in pain, releasing Six and Holiday on the act. They fell hard on the floor, infuriating Rex, and he charged against Trixie with the Smack-Hands.
Trixie crashed on the stainless steel walls, bending it because of the impact. She fell, defeated and in pain.
Rex advanced toward her, and took her by the blouse’s collar.
“It is over.” said Rex coldly.
“You must be proud. Is not easy to defeat the Great and Powerful Trixie. With you, there are only three people who have achieve that. Trixie is not proud of her defeats, but only three is still a great number!”
Rex frowned. “Stop it. You just let me hit you, why? And why do you insist in keep talking in third person? It is annoying!”
“But the Great and Powerful Trixie loves the sound of her voice!” mocked the girl.
Rex grinded his teeth. “Shut up!”
“The Great and Powerful Trixie would shut up when the Great and Powerful Trixie wants to. Because, as long as the Great and Powerful Trixie know, the Great and Powerful Trixie haven’t been defeated yet. You said it yourself, you hit the Great and Powerful Trixie, because the Great and Powerful Trixie let you.”
Rex activated his Smack-Hands, and punched the wall. The nonsensical rambling was getting under his skin, but he didn’t know why. Something had move in his heart. He suddenly fell a weight over his heart every time the girl spoke in third person. It felt like something buried deep in his heart was trying to get back to the surface. But what was it? Did it had something to do with the ten months he lost? No, it couldn’t be. His friends had assured him that nothing have happened. But, could he really trust his friends? He kind of reminded that one time he had have enough of them. He was tired, and sick of his so-called friends acted more on their own interests instead of his. Then, César betrayed him with Black Knight and…
The image of Breach came back to his mind.
“Stop it…” said Rex weakly.
“Trixie won’t stop just because you say it!” said Trixie. But she shut up when she noticed the tears running through Rex’s face.
“I’ve been telling you since the day we met! It’s annoying!” whispered Rex, slowly removing Trixie’s mask.
The girl smiled softly. “I know, but it brought you back to me.”
Unable to control himself anymore, he hugged Trixie, who complained.
“Rex, careful. I think I broke something.”
Rex carefully released her. “God, what have I done? Why…? Why did you let me do this to you?”
Trixie smiled. “I don’t care. This is nothing Rex, nothing compared with all the time when we were apart.”
Said that, she embraced Rex as she could, and kissed him. Rex held her carefully on his strong arms, and turned to Holiday and Six.
“Rex? What happened? Is everything okay?” asked Doctor Holiday.
“Are you alright?” asked Six, getting back on his feet.
“No, nothing is alright.” said Rex, containing his anger. “Between César’s betrayal, and the defeat of the Consortium, I lost ten months of my life. When I asked you what happened, you said nothing out of the ordinary. And I foolishly chose to believe in you.”
Holiday paled, first looking at Rex, and then to the girl on her arms. And finally, she put the pieces together.
“It is you… but, but, César told us that there was no way to link our worlds again!”
Trixie grinned. “What do you expect? That, I, the Great and Powerful Trixie, would give up on Rex that easily? Also, the third part of the pony population is able to use magic. What do you expect, idiots?”
“Rex, this was beyond you and you know it!” said Six. “We did what we should!”
“What you should? Kidnap me, and taking away the happiest days of my life?” asked Rex. “And what’s worse, you forced me to hurt the one I love. That’s enough, I QUIT! I’M GOING BACK TO EQUESTRIA!”
Holiday sighed, and aimed her weapon toward Rex.
“I’m sorry Rex, but you just don’t understand, maybe you cured most of the population of EVOs, but with the Consortium and Van Kleiss still around, we cannot let you…”
Suddenly, a shot from right behind her hit Holiday. She fell on her knees, and turned.
“Beverly! What are you doing?” asked when she noticed her little sister, aiming a weapon to her and Six, along with Noah and Circe.
“Helping a friend. Is it true? You erased his memory on purpose?”
“This is Rex’s life.” said the blond guy. “And what you did was, wow, it was horrible.”
Circe cleaned a way her tears. “Rex deserves to be happy, even if I’m not the only one. Now, step back! Both of you!”
Rex smiled to his friends.
“Thank you guys! I’ll never forget this!”
“You’ll thank us later, run while you can!” urged them Noah.
Rex nodded, and holding Trixie carefully, he ran. Six tried to stop them but Trixie’s telekinetic aura sent him to what was left of the main computer.
This was the last step, the security system suddenly went crazy, shooting all over the place, completely out of control. And, as his friends were protecting him and Trixie from the security system, Rex managed to lock Six and Holiday into the lab, and then, ran as fast as he could carrying Trixie and protecting her. As for Trixie, she was barely conscious. Using that last attack against Six drained what was left of her magic, and that could be really hard to recover for a unicorn.
“Don’t worry Trixie, I’ll find a way to get us out of here.”
“Rex, I’m not worried. Not now that I’ve get you back.”
Author's Note
I know, that ending was rushed, but that’s how it is in the original, and I don’t like to touch my previous work. Especially with my early works. Still, I hope you enjoyed the fight, and as always:
Read ya’ later!!
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
13
Noah carefully placed Trixie over a bed, as Rex used his Smack-Hands to block the door with both desks and beds. It had been quite a task to get to the infirmary. With the security system completely out of control, and, with Trixie that hurt, they had to move slowly. At first, they tried to get away from Providence, but, with all the traps, and attack robots randomly attack everything that moved, Rex had to trust his wife to Noah, and had to fight their way to the infirmary. They barely could make it, but they know they couldn’t get out there that easily. Not with a very injured Trixie.
“Whatever your friend did, had quite an effect on the headquarters.” Said Noah, cleaning the sweat from Trixie’s forehead with a handkerchief. “I don’t think that Providence would recover from this one.”
Beverly approached to Trixie, who also had lost conscious a few minutes ago, and was breathing difficulty. At first sight, she didn’t seem that bad, only a broken bones, and bruises around her body. But also, she was incredibly cold, and her body temperature was decreasing every minute.
“Rex, she’ll die if we don’t do something.” mumbled Circe. “The problem is, I have no idea what happened to her.”
“Beside I hit her, you say.” said Rex sadly, as he approached his wife, and kissed her on the forehead.
But, when his lips made contact with Trixie’s skin, Rex gasped.
“Oh no…”
“You know what’s happening with her?” asked Circe.
Rex nodded. “I’ve only seen this once. Back when we were bounty hunters, we chased an unicorn for too long, that he got desperate and used all his reserves of magic, but kept casting spells despite it. The problem is, when a unicorn does that, the magic feeds on their life-force.”
He couldn’t continue, as he began to cry. Trixie have gone this far only because of him, and there he was, unable to help his wife.
“Dude, what do you mean with unicorn?” asked Noah. “And magic? Who, or, what is her?”
Rex was about to answer, when someone called at his communicator.
“Rex, Rex!”
The boy grinded his teeth as he recognized the voice.
“ César…” he answered, doing his best to hide his anger. “César, is that you?”
“Yes. Rex, what’s going on?”
Rex looked at Trixie, that Beverly has just covered with a bunch of blankets in a desperate attempt to keep her warm. He took a deep breath. After what he did to him, César was the last person he wanted to see, but he was aware that his brother was a genius, and Trixie’s only hope. Rex had no choice to act up.
“I have no idea, all I know, is that we captured an interesting specimen. Next thing I know, the entire security system went crazy. Luckily I was with my friends and I was able to open us a way to the infirmary, but we can’t get outside.”
“Okay, what about the specimen? ” asked César. “Is still around?”
“I told you, I have no idea. Maybe it escaped, maybe it’s still around, right now, protecting my friends it’s my priority.”
On the other side of the transmitter, on his mobile lab, César Salazar nodded.
“Say no more, I’m on my way.”
“César, there’s also a soldier we found, she’s badly injured. Apparently, she was directly attacked by the creature, but she couldn’t say more as she passed out.”
“Don’t worry, I have the equipment to establish her, at least until we find and specialist. But, what about Holiday and Six? Are them with you?”
“No, I don’t know what happened with them. They’re probably with the others, but, I don’t know. Right now I’m with Noah, Beverly, Circe, and this soldier. Please, hurry. I don’t know how long I can keep them safe. My powers are not enough to protect us all.”
“Understood. I’ll be there in a minute.”
Rex drove his lab to Providence, right where he tracked down Rex’s signal. It was strange that Rex wasn’t more worried for Six and Holiday, but César thought it was because he was busy taking care of his friends. Besides, he knew all-to-well that the scientist and the agent could take care of themselves, especially the agent.
When he entered into Providence’s air space, all the security systems immediately targeted his lab. Normally, César would easily elude the attacks, but, because of Trixie’s destruction of the main computer, the attacks didn’t follow a predetermined pattern. Instead, they shot at random directions, making impossible for César or his equipment to predict the next attack. The scientist frowned, this things were so well designed, that not even an electromagnetic pulse would be able to deactivate them. But, if he didn’t do something soon, his lab would be down in seconds.
Luckily for him and his equipment, César was a skilled pilot, and even if he couldn’t deactivate the crazed security system, he was perfectly capable to outmaneuver it. It took a while, and César had to destroy six watch towers, he was able to drive the lab to Rex’s location.
With a smile, César sent a missile to the wall.
Inside the infirmary, Rex transformed his hands into the Smack-Hands, ready to fight, but he relaxed when he saw it was only his brother. And he came just in time, since the barricade he put on the door was about to fall.
“César!”
“Hurry, and come in!” urged César.
Rex nodded, and carefully took Trixie in arms, as Beverly, Circe and Noah got into the lab. Once they were safe, he got in, with his wife. Once everyone were safe inside the lab, César escaped from Providence as far as possible.
Inside the ship, César carefully connected Trixie to vital-support machines, as the lab made a perimeter around Providence, right out of the reach of the security system.
“It’s a pandemonium down there.” reasoned César. “I can detect lots of S.O.S. signs, but, I cannot locate them properly if I don’t get any closer. But, giving the current conditions, that’s impossible right now.”
Rex nodded, ignoring César, as he focused in Trixie. César looked at his brother, but, he interpreted the expression as he was planning what to do next. And, giving Providence’s current situation that was only logical.
By his way, Rex knew that he have fooled César so far, but if he wanted to keep him that way, he had to distract him somehow.
“César, tell me, is there any way to know if the thing who did this is still around?”
César quickly checked in all his screens, but he just shook his head.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t connect with the security system to locate it. Also, I cannot contact with anyone. There’s no way to know. “What about you? There’s something else you can tell me?”
Rex nodded. “Yeah, this thing turned herself in. And I was stupid enough to believe she had given up. But, next thing I know, is that the security system went completely out of control, and the prisoner has escaped. I tried to join Six and Holiday, but I just couldn’t. And then, I found my friends, and they needed my help, so here we are. Also, I tried to contact with Six and Holiday, but all the communications are down.”
César nodded, thoughtful, as the others looked at Rex, genuinely surprised of how long he could keep on the act. Whoever this girl was, she was making Rex thinking really quick.
“So, you have no idea how Holiday and Six are doing.” said César.
Rex kicked a wall. “I don’t know if they’re still there, or if they escaped. I don’t know anything. But I must find them, César! Our little visitor could still be there, and considering how dangerous it is, maybe they’re in trouble.”
César then, looked at his brother to the eye.
“Are you telling me, you plan to get in there?”
“What other choice do I have, César?” replied Rex. “If I don’t do something quick, they could die!”
César made a quick nod, and placed a hand on his brother’s shoulder. “Think, Rex, think. What if you find that thing, huh? As long as we don’t understand her powers, there’s no chance you can beat her.” Then he turned to Trixie. “But, you said she was attacked by the intruder, right?”
Rex nodded.
“Yeah, do you think she can tell us more of what we’re facing?”
“Claro mijo, if I’m able to stabilize her.”
Said that, César focused in check on Trixie’s vitals. And, as Rex feared, they were extremely low. Not to mention, the broken bones and internal hemorrhages that Rex caused were not helping. Rex had to use all of his self-control to not to cry. How could he do this to her?
But then, César called him back to reality. “No comprendo, it’s like something had suck all her… vital energy. Rex, seriously, do you really have no idea what are we facing?”
“I told you, when I showed up, back when we captured her, this one just turned herself in. I hadn’t have the chance to test her abilities.”
Rex let escape a few tears, thinking about Trixie, but he had to make believe César it was for his friends.
“César, I was so stupid!”
The scientist could only hug his brother. “Easy, Rex. I know you haven’t been yourself lately. It could happen to anyone.” Then, he turned to Trixie, and back to Rex, smiling with a determined look on his eyes. “Now, remember when you saved the world, hemanito?”
Rex raised an eyebrow. “Yeah, why?”
“During the last two months, Raylander and I have been working with dead Nanites, seeing if we can reactivate them. We succeeded, relatively. We’ve been able to reactivate just a few!”
“Reactivate Nanites? Are you out of your mind, César?” protested Rex.
“I swear the only registration of our activities exists only in my mind, and Gabriel’s.” said César. “No one knows.”
Rex nodded, understanding.
“You have some of those reactivated Nanites here, right?” asked the boy.
César Salazar nodded. “Nanites were originally created to cure the diseased and the injured. I would use them to cure her, and then, we can focus on saving Providence.”
Rex frowned, he didn’t want to face a new Nanite Event, but, if this could save Trixie, he would give it a chance. But there was also a small problem that worried Rex. He closed his eyes, and made a small pray. Please, God, Jesús, y el Espíritu Santo, do not let her transform into an EVO. Please!
“Go on, let’s take a chance.”
The others looked at Rex in silence, unsure of what to do or what to say. But he smiled to them confidently.
César opened a container, revealing a small syringe. And, after exchanging a look with his younger brother, César injected Trixie.
Almost immediately, his equipment detected a considerable change on the vitals of the young woman. The Nanites slit in two groups, one of them trying to repair the internal damage that Rex had cause, and the other half, focused on keep functioning the vital organs. Soon enough, Trixie’s difficult breathing turned back to normal, and the color slowly returned to her cheeks.
“She’s recovering!” cheered Circe.
“Gracias, Señor…” mumbled Rex.
Ten minutes have passed. Rex Trixie haven’t recovered consciousness, but César assured she was just sleeping, and she would wake up any second. Rex began to walk around the lab, anxiously. And, as he wandered around, he spotted a small object in one of César’s shelves. It was a bright, round object.
Rex felt the anger running through his veins as he recognized it. Without a word, he put the object between his fingers, and walked back where his wife was lying.
César smiled to his brother.
“She just opened her eyes, but I convinced her to sleep a little longer. In less than an hour, we’ll rescue the rest of your family.”
Rex looked at Trixie, and nodded.
“I lied.”
César raised an eyebrow. “What do you mean?”
“I do know who got into Providence and created that mess. It was her. And also, I know what happened with Rex and Holiday. They got what they deserved.”
“What?”
Rex showed César his fist, and slowly raised his middle finger, where he put his wedding ring.
“I found this in your stuff.”
“That’s…”
“I bought it in Equestria, to the famous jeweler Goldand Diamonds. It’s my wedding ring.”
César sighed deeply.
“So, your wife somehow brought your memories back. What happened to her? Did you two have a fight or something?”
Rex had to use all his self-control to not punch César.
“That’s not of your business. You have betrayed me before, César, but this time you went too far, stealing the happiest time of my life!”
“It was for the greater good, Rex!” said César, as his finger quietly moved to a button behind him.
Then, suddenly, a purple beam impacted on César’s back, transforming into heavy chains. Rex looked at Trixie, who had incorporated on her bed. She grinned, but, immediately fell on her back.
Beverly and Circe held her, and slowly put her back on her bed.
“Trixie!” called Rex, running toward her. “Trixie, what do you think you’re doing? You have barely recovered!”
Trixie smiled weakly. “He was about to press a button behind him, dumbass. But you were too busy yelling, that you didn’t realize. Besides, this Nanite-things are incredible. Are those the same that give you your powers, Rex?”
“Oh, Trixie!” said Rex, holding her. Trixie smiled weakly, and slowly placed her arms around Rex.
“I’m okay. I’m okay.”
“Can she turn into an EVO?” questioned Noah.
“I don’t know. César?”
César was struggling against his chains, but it was useless. His equipment could protect him from everything, except for magic that he didn’t truly understand. Finally, he made a resigned sigh.
“Like you, I don’t know. She shouldn’t, but, she’s not human, so I can’t really tell,”
Rex frowned, but Trixie smiled at him, confidently.
“It’s okay, as long as I’m with you, I’m not afraid. You’re the cure, remember?”
“Not always, there are some EVOs I cannot cure.”
“I’m confident that I won’t become an EVO.” smiled Trixie.
César looked at Trixie with the edge of his eye, and sighed again. “Unbelievable. I’m surprised how far you went only to recover Rex. What are you going to do now? Get him back to your world, or go into hiding?”
Trixie smiled, and put her hand into her pocket, to reach a page of an old book. She grinned.
“What do you think, moron?” then, she turned to Rex, and kissed him. “Would you want to go back home, with me?”
Rex nodded. “Of course!”
Trixie then charged her magic. “Okay, Rex, when we’re back in Equestria, please take me to Twilight Sparkle immediately. I don’t have enough magic to do this, so when we’re back in Equestria, I’ll be standing between life and death all over again.”
“TRIXIE, DON’T!” shouted Rex.
But it was too late, she focused all her power over the page, surrounding it with a purple aura. The aura absorbed Rex, Noah and Circe. Rex screamed in fear, when she almost fainted on his arms. But Trixie closed her eyes, and redirected her vital force to her magic. The spell got stronger, but Trixie got weaker.
In the meantime, César’s equipment was going crazy thanks to the excessive amount of alien energy on the air. The scientist looked powerlessly how the group vanished of the ship, as it began to malfunction, and went to an imminent crash.
César Salazar closed his eyes, knowing it was over. But, in his last moments, he said:
“Rex, hermano, lo siento de verdad.”
…
A purple flash appeared right in the middle of Ponyville, and materialized into a group of strangers, right on the center of the main plaza. The townsfolks recognized only two of them, Trixie and her husband. The bounty hunter, and the mutant who challenged Celestia herself.
There was no time to lose, Rex activated his motorcycle, and his friends carefully put the unconscious Trixie on it. He began to look for the library, but he couldn’t find it anywhere. Groaning in frustration, he began to look for Twilight. He could still detect Trixie’s Nanites, that partially relieved him, since she was still alive. But for how long?!
Finally, he spotted a new building on the distance. It was a Palace he had never seen before. Without hesitating, went there. It was his only chance.
…
“I must say, I can get used to this place!” cheered Spike. “I already know which room would be mine!”
The young Princess could only smile. “Of course Spike! Just remember, the ones on the first floor are for the library and my personal study. Oh, and the basements is reserved for my lab and…”
“Calm down, Twilight. I want one on the second floor. Okay?” asked the dragon.
“Okay Spike. Sorry, is just that I’m really excited to have this much space.”
The rest of the girls giggled at this. It have only been a couple of days since Twilight moved to her new home, and she was still deciding how to organize all the new rooms.
But then, somepony knocked at the door.
“Yes?” asked Spike, as he answered the door. “Oh, Rex Salazar?”
Twilight heard that, and ran to the door.
“Rex? Is that really you?”
The young EVO came back to normal, and took Trixie between his forehooves.
“Please, she’s dying. I need your help.”
Twilight shivered at Trixie’s condition, and grabbed her with her magic, to run upstairs. She had no time to lose. Rex ran after her, as his friends walked into the Castle looking at the astonished ponies.
Author's Note
A little tragic, and over the top, but back when I wrote the original, I really hated César’s character. And, unbelievably enough, also the Spanish version took its time to finish. Almost as long as the translation. Strange, but, I guess that’s part of this story.
Oh, and if César went too OOC, sorry guys, but when I wrote this chapter the first time, I was rusty on Generator Rex.
Read ya’ later!! is wife to No�L��!
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
An EVO of magic and technology
14
Twilight placed Trixie (or what was left of her) over her own bed, and started to work. The physical injuries were minimal. A few broken bones that were halfway through healing, a few bruises, and a few burns caused by electricity. But, again, she was in her way to recover.
What truly worried Twilight, was that how much magic Trixie have used, despite being at her limit. The inter-dimensional-gate spell was one of the most exhausting spells a unicorn could perform, and, doing it after being injured, and waste a lot of magic power, was a really bad idea.
“And, how is she?”
“To be honest, I’m seriously surprised that she’s still alive.” said Twilight biting her lip.
There was no time to lose. Twilight knew an old medical spell that may work on Trixie. Twilight placed her horn on Trixie’s heart, and concentrated her magic on it. The organ began to work frantically at Twilight’s magical impulse. Also, the Nanites assimilated the magic as an extra source of energy, and began to work at full capacity, speeding up the healing. Twilight separated from Trixie, looking astonished at Rex.
“Did you do something to her on your world, Rex?” asked the alicorn frowning
Rex nodded. “Yes, she was too injured, and we had no choice but making an emergency medical procedure. Why, did something went wrong”
“No, on the contrary. You’re making my job much easier. Still, I don’t know what she did, but it drained all her magic, and more than half of her life-force. You were lucky to bring her when you did. One more minute, and she wouldn’t make it to this room.”
Rex shivered.
Twilight wiped the sweat from Trixie’s forehead, it was a good sign. That meant that her vital functions were working again. But Rex knew it was too soon to celebrate, she knew that Trixie won’t hesitate in doing something that reckless again.
Then, the purple alicorn sighed.
“Rex, there’s a bottle on water on my night table, give it to me. Now!”
The young colt gave Twilight what she asked, and she took a deep breath, to prepare herself for one of the hardest spells she knew. She concentrated a huge amount of magic over the water that slowly passed from transparent to bright purple.
“Rex, open her mouth.” commanded Twilight.
Rex obeyed, and Twilight forced the purple liquid on Trixie’s mouth. At first, the blue unicorn tried to spit the liquid, but Twilight blocked her nose, forcing her to swallow.
Trixie shook violently, as she opened her eyes, breathing heavily. Twilight smiled relieved, and continued forcing the magic on her mouth.
At first Trixie was disoriented, and didn’t even knew who she was. But, then, Rex took her hoof and smiled at her gently. That seemed to comfort Trixie, and Twilight could make her drink more magic without having to force her. Soon enough, Trixie was able to hold the bottle on her own, and emptied the bottle.
“Twilight Sparkle, thank you, Twilight Sparkle.” mumbled Trixie weakly.
“Don’t talk, preserve your energy.” Said Twilight sternly. “We’ll talk about it later, now rest and recover. We almost lose you.”
Trixie sighed, and closed her eyes. “Thank you.” She smiled.
Twilight shook her head, exasperated, and then looked at Rex, who was still watching over his wife.
“Come on, let her rest, and explain this to me downstairs.”
Rex nodded quietly, and followed Twilight out of the room.
Back at the Thrones Room, Rex’s and Twilight’s friends were waiting.
“Is she going to recover?” asked Spike.
“Yes she is.” said Twilight, with a frown. “But it’ll take it’s time. Now, Rex, tell us, what happened? How did you brought you back?”
The colt sighed sadly, and Applejack offered him a chair. He smiled, and sat sadly.
“So, what happened, darling?” asked Rarity.
Rex shook his head sadly. “Well, my so-called friends, and brother, erased the ten months I spent in Equestria, and what I lived with Trixie. In order to recover my memories, she fought with me, an allowed me to hurt her so bad…”
He trembled, using all his self-control to not transform his forehooves into the Smack-Hands, but controlled himself when Circe (now a red earth pony) when to comfort him. Rex smiled at his friend, and calmed down, but, just a little.
“Well, what I’m surprised that you spent the ten months you disappeared in such a colorful world.” said Noah, as he looked at his new appearance: he was now a green earth pony, but he still had his blond hair and blue eyes. He chuckled, he liked this new look.
It wasn’t the time for that, though. They were all focused on how Trixie was doing.
At the end, Twilight frowned. “So you hit Trixie?”
Rex frowned. “Worse. I electrocuted them with the Blast-Caster, then I hit her with the Smack-Hands.”
The girls gasped.
“Rex, can you tell us exactly what happened?” asked Fluttershy.
Rex bit his lip, and began to tell everything that happened. Starting with his depression after he defeated the Consortium, and saved the world. And then, of how he got an emergency call to fight a mysterious opponent that turned herself in to Providence, but, in the end, it was all a trap to get into Providence’s headquarters. Then, the real fight. And of how the stranger began to attack Holiday and Six, intentionally turning her back on Rex.
“…and that’s how I hit her. After what she did to the equipment, mess with the security system and all, I had to hit her. I broke her several bones. But, that’s what she wanted. Even if I defeated her, she continued talking, provoking me, and trying to make me remember by force. And she finally made it. I recovered all of my memories, my life in Equestria, and the love I feel for her.”
He couldn’t continue, so, Beverly and Circe came to hug him. As for Noah, he just gave him a friendly pat on the back.
“When Rex got his memory back, he confronted Six and my sister.” continued Beverly. “They were trying to force Rex to stay forever in Providence, but he didn’t wanted to do anything with them for what they did to him. Well, we couldn’t just sit there and watch, bso we open fire against them.”
“We escaped, but it was hard.” explained Noah. “What magic did to our technology was incredible, she made our entire security system go crazy. The entire headquarters turned into a warzone, wherever we tried to find shelter, we were received by laser beams, attack-drones, and such. Finally, we managed to shield ourselves in the infirmary, where we were saved by César Salazar.”
“Then, well, César helped to save Trixie from a certain death. But he had an argue with Rex, and next thing we know, Trixie used a spell, and we ended up here.” finished Beverly.
Twilight nodded, with a darkened expression. “Well, this was only to be expected. Maybe we would never be friends, but, at least she’s a different pony now. Still, we need to have a serious talk after she recovers.”
“But, she’s going to recover, right?” asked Fluttershy.
Twilight nodded. “They brought her just in time.”
In the end, they all sat as Spike offered the newcomers a cup of tea. Rex kindly refused his, he couldn’t eat or drink anything until Trixie was fully recovered.
“So, what did I miss?” asked Rex looking around. “Got a new place? I like it, está chido este lugar.”
Rainbow Dash simply shrugged.
“Oh, it was no big deal, right after Trixie left, we had a big showdown with a guy named Tirek. But, don’t worry, it is over now.”
Nopony said anything. They just waited, looking to Twilight’s room.
“Shall we go to rest, now?” suggested Twilight.
The girls said goodbye, and went to their respective homes, as Twilight offered Rex and his friends to stay at her castle. They agreed, but, that night they slept little, and badly. Only Rex stayed awake, watching for his wife.
Next morning, at seven o’clock, Twilight entered back at her room, and couldn’t help but smile seeing at Rex, who had finally fell asleep around three a.m. and had stayed aside his wife. The lavender alicorn took a blanket, and placed over Rex, leaving the room.
“How are they?” asked Beverly.
Twilight smiled at her. “Good. Trixie looks much better, and Rex have just fell asleep. She’ll be able to move for today.”
The group from Providence sighed in relief.
Around nine thirty, the rest of the Bearers of Harmony came in, and asked for Trixie’s condition. And, as the guests, they felt really relieved that Trixie was out of danger.
“So tell me, how Rex was doing all this time?” asked Twilight.
Circe just cleaned a small tear from her left eye. “He wasn’t being himself. He did saved the world, and cured all the EVOs, but after that, he went down. He barely ate, barely spoke…”
“I tried to invite him to hang out with us, but he refused every time.” sighed Noah. “But he was like dead in life. I’ve never seen someone as depressed before.”
“It was really hard to see how the cheerful, and energetic Rex, became the shadow of who he was. But, as much as we tried to help, no one understood what was really going on. Not even him.”
The Elements looked to each other, and sighed in silence. Maybe it wasn’t as bad as Trixie’s case, but still very sad.
Suddenly, they heard a scream from Twilight’s room, followed by a white light.
Twilight gasped, and teleported in.
Inside the room, Trixie was glowing, with strange limbs growing out of her body, to instantly disappeared, and then, reappear again. The limbs went from extra hooves, to claws, or even extra eyes. Trixie was crying in fear, trying her best to control her body, but all this was new for her.
As for Rex, he was desperately trying to approach Trixie, but also her magic was out of control, and she was shooting random magic beams, making Rex go backwards every time.
“I’M SORRY REX, I CAN’T CONTROL IT!” apologized Trixie.
“I’ll help you, don’t worry. I promised I won’t allow you to become an EVO, and I’ll keep my promise!” said Rex, activating the Block-part.
Twilight was just frozen. “Nanites? DID YOU INJECTED HER WITH NANITES, REX SALAZAR?”
Rex ignored her, and jumped toward Trixie. One more time, Trixie’s out-of-control magic impacted several times, but Rex was able to approach, thanks to his Omega Nanite, and finally embraced Trixie.
“You are not becoming an EVO. You are NOT becoming an EVO!” shouted Rex, kissing his mare.
…
Downstairs, the group were still waiting in silence. The girls didn’t know what was going on, but, Rex’s friends did know, and they didn’t like the situation at all.
It was when, suddenly, a large white alicorn materialized in.
“Princess Celestia!” gasped Rarity. “What are you doing here?”
The Monarch of the Sun looked upstairs, frowning. “I feel a weird energy coming from there. I must investigate!”
Said that, she teleported to Twilight’s room as well.
…
“Rex!” gasped Trixie, as she felt the mutation going backwards. “It’s working! It’s working!”
“It’s not over yet!” shouted Rex.
The boy was struggling against Trixie’s incoming mutation. At this point, he knew it was inevitable, she would become an EVO. But he had to make sure that she lost her mind, totally, or partially like Breach. No, he wouldn’t let Trixie to become a monster.
Rex kissed his wife, trying to redirect her Nanites, through his lips, and the two hooves around Trixie’s waist. He had to hurry, without César’s equipment, or the Meta-Nanites, he wouldn’t be able to do anything if Trixie become a dangerous EVO.
Slowly, he separated from his wife, and looked at her. She was the same Trixie of always, except for…
Trixie looked at Rex. “Is it over? is Trixie an EVO, now?”
Rex smiled slightly. “How many times do I have to tell you? Stop speaking in third person, it is irritating.”
“Sorry, did I turned into an EVO?”
Twilight raised an eyebrow. “So that’s what happens when you mix our magic with human technology. Wow, this is just, wow.”
Trixie looked at the alicorn with fear in her eyes. “You’re scaring me. How bad it is? How bad is my mutation?!”
Luckily, Celestia was a bit more informative when she teleported in.
“Twilight Sparkle!” she called.
The entire group turned to the white alicorn.
“WHY ON EQUESTRIA DID YOU TURNED THE WANTED CRIMINAL, BEATRIX LULAMOON, INTO AN ALICORN?”
Trixie’s eyes widened.
“A mirror. A mirror for the Great and Powerful Trixie!”
Speechless, Twilight gave her what she asked for.
Trixie grabbed it, with her magic, and looked at her new wings. “Okay, this is certainly unexpected.”
“I am waiting!” insisted Celestia, angrily.
“I had nothing to do with this, promise!” said Twilight defensively.
Rex just smiled weakly to the Princess. “And, technically, Trixie is not an alicorn. It’s an EVO who looks like an alicorn. Totally different stuff!”
It was when Celestia noticed he was there.
“You? What are you doing here? You’re supposed to be in your world and…” she couldn’t continue, so, Celestia took a deep breath, and looked sternly at the trio. “Okay, you three are going to explain me what is going on in here. NOW!”
Half an hour later, Celestia was aware of everything. Rex told her the whole tale all over again, but this time, Trixie joined in to add a few things from her point of view. Of how Twilight have captured her first, and, instead of throwing her to a dungeon, she sent her to Rex’ world. But right before she disappeared, she managed to steal the page that had the spell to come back home.
At the end, the Princess made an understanding nod. “Okay, so, let me see if I get this right, this new alicorn is the result of mixing our medical spells, with that highly-dangerous human technology called Nanites.”
Twilight nodded, and Celestia shook her head in disappointment.
“Twilight, I believe I taught you better than that. What were you thinking when you used that spells, with that things inside Miss Lulamoon’s system?!”
“I wouldn’t do it, if I knew. Rex just told me that he had to use an emergency medical procedure with Trixie. I had no idea he would use the Nanites, especially since he knew what those things are capable of.”
“I was desperate, okay?” said Rex. “There was no time!”
Celestia nodded, staring at the couple. “Now I wonder, what should I do with you?”
“Princess, I know Trixie have been a big headache all this time.” said Twilight. “But, she did it because you took away her special somepony. Rex Salazar was her first true friend. We pushed her to do all this, to become that reckless criminal just to be executed, because she lost her will to live. Sorry, but, I felt I was doing the right thing when I helped her. please, Princess Celestia, do not punish her for taking her beloved back. She had enough for those months she was alone.”
“Not to mention, I wouldn’t recommend them to go back to our world.” added Noah. “Not after the disaster they left behind.”
The Princess looked at her student, then, back to the couple, and nodded.
“Okay, I do realize that I was being unfair when I took you two apart. I did it because Rex had a duty back where he came from, but, as far as I know, you have defeated the Consortium, and cured all the EVOS, right Rex Salazar?”
“Except for Trixie, and Van Kleiss, and a few others.” mumbled the boy.
The Princess, then, nodded sadly. “Okay then. If that’s the case, you can stay in Equestria.”
“For real?” asked Rex.
The white alicorn nodded, slowly. “On one condition.”
“And, what would that be?” asked Trixie confusedly.
“From now on, I want you two to quit that dreadful lifestyle you’ve been having too far. Beatrix Lulamoon, it wasn’t your destiny to become a Princess, but, giving your current condition, we have no other choice. Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll announce your ascension to the rest of Equestria.”
Trixie raised an eyebrow.
“Seriously? Me, a wanted criminal, suddenly crowned a Princess? Sorry, but, that sounds like an awful idea. Being a Princess would mean that I should play by the rules, and that doesn’t suit Trixie. What about…?”
Princess Celestia shook her head. “During your career as a bounty hunter, you’ve proved to have great skill for offensive, and illusion magic. Twilight Sparkle is quite skillful with illusion, but, in combat, not that much. Besides, your partner Rex can be useful for Equestria in a future. Your choices are, accept the Royal Status, or face the consequences for your little performance in Providence Headquarters.”
The two bounty hunters exchanged a worried look, but, in the end, they sighed, resigned to their fate.
“Fine, Trixie understands.” said the blue mare.
“I’m glad you do.” smiled Celestia.
“Yeah, give the potential menace a position where you can watch her. It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book.” Sighed Trixie, rolling her eyes.
Celestia raised an eyebrow. “You’re smarter than I thought. Yes, pretty much that.”
Rex giggled. “At least it’s better than going back to Providence. We accept.”
Celestia then, looked at Rex’s friends.
“What about you, my little ponies? Do you want to stay, or are you going back to your own world?”
Noah shrugged. “Nah, I’m going back to Providence. I have my own responsibilities, after all. Maybe I don’t fully agree with what they did to Rex, and Trixie, but it is my place.”
Circe smiled. “We know that Rex’s its fine, that’s enough for me.”
Beverly sighed. “Yes, I must check how my sister is doing. Knowing her, and Six, they’re fine. But, yeah, they shouldn’t show up around Providence for a while.”
Rex looked at his friends, and smiled warmly to them. Activating his Smack-hands, he embraced them all in a tight group hug.
“Good by guys. I’ll never forget you.”
“We won’t forget you, Rex.” Said Circe sadly.
“You take care, Rex.” Recommended Noah, and then, he turned to Trixie. “And you, do not push yourself that hard again. I don’t know how Rex will do if something happens to you.”
Trixie giggled. “No promises, but Trixie would try.”
They smiled, and, in the end, between Celestia and Twilight made a portal to send them back home. Trixie wanted to help, but Twilight looked sternly at her, giving Trixie no choice to sit and watch.
At least everything was fine now.
A week later:
Ponies all over Equestria have reunited in Canterlot, ready to celebrate the ascension of the newest Princess. There were several rumors about her mysterious origin, of how she started as a traveling magician, and turned into a feared and respected bounty hunter. How did Celestia allowed her to become a Princess on the first place?
There was a lot speculation. Finally, the group of the four current Princesses showed up, leaded by Celestia, who announced:
“Thank you for coming, my little ponies. I know this is sudden, and I must say Beatrix Lulamoon have met several mistakes on the past, but, she also have some merits on her own. She have achieved great things all by herself, and later, at the side of an equally especial companion, and I’m convince that, together, they’ll do great things for Equestria. Now, let me introduce you to, Princess Beatrix Lulamoon!”
A bunch of guards walked in, followed by a group of trumpeters, who played a slow march to welcome the newest alicorn, along with her personal knight, and Prince Consort.
But, instead, who appeared was a servant, running to the Princesses.
“I’m terribly sorry, your Majesties, but her new Highness Trixie have declared that she’s sorry, but she’ll arrive a little late to her own crowning. She have some unfinished business in Appleloosa, apparently a group of bandits are causing trouble, and Major Braeburn have offered a juicy reward to the one who stops them.”
Celesita made a face-hoof. This is just great, when Trixie come back, she was going to pay for this.
Cadence and Luna just exchanged a confused look, who would arrive late to her own crowning just for something like that.
Only Twilight was laughing happily.
“What do you expect? Is just Trixie being Trixie!”
Author's Note
So this is it, the final part of my Generator Rex story. Sorry the delay, but, just as the original, I didn’t feel like continue the story. But, the inspiration came back, and here it is. The final chapter. I hope you liked it, and, as always:
Read ya’ later!!
The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
1
Trixie sighed tired but satisfied after another day of hard work; after all she had one of the most dangerous and despised works in Equestria. But looking on the bright side, Trixie was her own boss.
“An excellent afternoon for the Great and Powerful Trixie, but now is time to enjoy my delicious reward” said Trixie admiring the bottle of wine and the fancy cheeses she just purchased. Since she was always alone because of her job, Trixie acquired the habit of speak to herself. “Anyway, it’s a shame not to have a friend to share it with; but is the price of success. Trixie’s success”
She was too concentrated on her monologue that she didn’t noticed the fainted stallion who was on her way home until she bumped with him making her fall and almost lost her precious bottle. But once Trixie recovered and confirmed that her belongings were safe, she proceed to examine the young pony before her.
“Ey, wake up! Who do you think you are to get drunk on the Great and Powerful Trixie’s way home, huh? Come on, answer me!”
But he didn’t responded, not even when Trixie used her magic to shake him violently. What was going on? Was he really drunk or perhaps something else? Trixie approached to the boy only to realize his entire body was covered with wounds and burns.
“For Celestia’s sake, you’re terribly hurt! What is the Great and Powerful Trixie suppose to do with you?” Asked the blue unicorn.
At the end she decided to take him home and do what she could. As a bounty hunter, Trixie spent most of her time practicing both attack and healing spells; much because in her position as an outlaw, she wasn’t able to go to a hospital like any other decent citizen of Equestria.
“I know, the Great and Powerful Trixie spent too much time with this pony that she missed dinner, but that’s about to change right now; so what about a generous plate of can soup? Trixie knows I had better plans for dinner tonight but we can have it tomorrow”
Nothing else happened that night, Trixie placed the stranger on her bed and spent the night watching him; but he didn’t react until next morning.
“Ey! Are you okay now? Can you talk?”
The young one seemed disoriented but he nodded weakly.
“Ehem, yes, thank you. I…”
“It’s alright” said Trixie with a faint smile. “Do you remember what happened to you?”
The boy looked at Trixie and tried to remember but he immediately began to scream in pain grabbing his head. Trixie moved carefully backwards, but the stranger didn’t attack.
“Wait, its okay!” Said Trixie a minute after. “Whatever happened to you left you very damaged and can’t remember… yet. In the meantime, try to get better. Oh! And my name is Beatrix, by the way. Beatrix Lulamoon; but you can call me the Great and Powerful Trixie”
The stranger looked dumbly to her but nodded quickly.
“Ehem, yeah, thank you Trixie. My name is Rex, Rex Salazar… and that’s all I can remember besides waking up here with you. Then everything is blank, sorry…”
“You don’t have to apologize” said Trixie taking a tray with a full breakfast and giving it to Rex. “Here, eat something and then we’ll go to the city to find you a doctor; they probably have better healing magic than Trixie”
“Thank you for all you did for me” smiled Rex. “Ey, wait a minute! Did you say magic?”
Trixie raised an eyebrow but nodded.
“Yeah, magic” she said levitating an orange in front of Rex. “Like this, and Trixie is beginning to think you hit your head a little too hard. Anyway, do you know where we are?”
Rex tried to remember but at the end he shook his head sadly.
“Sorry”
“It’s okay. We’re in Trottingham; a city in Equestria. Does that name ring a bell?”
Rex shrugged but smiled warmly.
“I can’t remember but está bien Trixie. You already helped me a lot”
“Don’t even mention it” smiled Trixie proudly. “Even if most of the ponies think the contrary, Trixie isn’t bad. Now, shall we move now?”
Rex, who already finished his breakfast, nodded happily and followed Trixie. The blue unicorn was a little worried about the stallion’s memory but there were more than enough doctors in Equestria to take care of that issue.
Trottingham was a relatively big city; not as big as Canterlot or Manehattan but bigger than Ponyville and Appleloosa together. Anyway, what Rex noticed first was that most of the ponies avoided Trixie as they were afraid. From Rex too but only because he was with the infamous unicorn.
“Where are we going?” Asked Rex.
“To the bounty hunters information circles, in Trixie’s experience they’re more reliable than the city records. Before taking you to a hospital we should make sure that you don’t have any family or friends in here”
Rex nodded, it made sense.
But suddenly a bunch of ponies jumped out of nowhere surrounding the two of them. One of them even tackled Trixie and took her by the horn preventing her to use magic… or that’s what he thought because the blue mare kicked her right on her masculinity making the pony bend in pain. With a smirk, Trixie pushed him away and finished the job by sending a powerful lighting that made the poor stallion scream in pain.
“Anypony else?” Asked Trixie.
Several other jumped to Trixie approaching a knife to her horn to cut it off and letting the blue unicorn useless for the bounty hunter business.
“Easy buddy; this is a private party”
Rex tried to struggle against the magic but he couldn’t; he was too strong.
“We saw what happened” explained the unicorn. “Who would say it? Lulamoon capable of an act of kindness! Anyway, she owes us that our captain was arrested and we came for revenge. No worries, we’ll let take you exactly where she was taking you”
“NO THANKS, I ALREADY CHOSE A SIDE!” Shouted Rex struggling harder; but he couldn’t do anything; again, his opponent’s magic was too strong.
Trixie was desperate, if she weren’t that focused on her new friend she could do something to avoid this but now…
“TRIXIE!!” Shouted Rex at the time his eyes began to irradiate a white light and his forelegs transformed into two enormous mechanized hands.
The unicorn who was holding him screamed and released Rex; a critical mistake that sent him violently to a wall making a giant crack and also breaking his bones.
“Rex?” Asked Trixie when the boy went back to normal
“Trixie, believe me: I have no idea of what just happened” said Rex very scared. “I, I…”
“It’s alright Rex, it’s alright” said the blue mare hugging her new companion. “You saved Trixie’s life and it’s all that matters”
Rex didn’t seemed happy and Trixie couldn’t really blame him; obviously he was scared and knew that what he just done wasn’t normal at all.
“First things first” said Trixie. “Help Trixie bring these idiots to the police station, cash the reward and we’ll think in something”
“There’s a reward for them?”
“Of course! The whole band have at least a hundred bits by each one! And Trixie thought that she had a good week by capturing their leader yesterday! Now help me; forgive Trixie if she’s mistaken but she thinks you need some cash, right?”
And she had a point so they grabbed the attackers to the nearest station and got seven hundred bits before go back to Trixie’s home.
“Now Rex, Trixie can let you the seven hundred, more than enough to find you a decent place and food for a week or two; but she doesn’t feel comfortable with that”
“Why? Because you get nothing?” Mocked Rex.
“No idiot, because you’re some kind of mutant with no memories of his past and it could be dangerous to abandon you to your luck. And because of her last experiences, Trixie is a much more humble and kind pony that she used to be. So, would you like to stay with Trixie?”
“Eh…”
Rex was astonished, he never expected that somepony that he just met would offer him a hoof just like that, and she even took care of him when he was unconscious. There was a small possibility that she was the one who left him on that state but he felt that he could trust Trixie. But most important, he wasn’t use to this kind of kindness… or was he? He didn’t know.
“Órale, pues muy bien Trixie. But first promise Rex that you won’t talk in third person anymore because that confuses Rex”
Trixie pouted but couldn’t help but smile to the stallion. She didn’t really know why she was being so kind; maybe because she was alone.
“I’m glad you accepted Tri… I mean my offer”
“Thank you Trixie, I don’t know if I’ll be able to make it up to you”
“A certain idiot taught a thing or two about humility; besides every good action is sooner or later rewarded by Celestia so don’t worry about it my friend”
“I was talking about the third person thing; you know how annoying it is?”
“Ha-ha”
Trixie shot a small beam to Rex, who transformed his forelegs into two small mechanized hands that generated a small energy field that protected him from Trixie’s attack. Again both of them exchanged a silent look but kept walking. After all they had all the time in the world to meditate about it.
In the meantime, far, very far away in a different world, a strange bipedal creature with two pairs of hands (two normal sized and the other two gigantic and deform) was walking to a unprecise direction; keeping her eyes closed and talking to herself.
“You cannot avoid me forever Breach!” Shouted Van Kleiss. “What have you done with him?”
Breach turned to the other mutant and shrugged.
“What have you done? Where did you sent him?” Demanded Van Kleiss again.
“He told me he was sick of everything and wanted to run away. He is broken, I cannot play with him anymore. I gave him what he asked for, I sent him so far that not even I know where he is now”
Van Kleiss looked at Breach with anger bursting in his eyes; but he knew there was nothing he could do for now.
“Holiday, did you hear?”
“I’m afraid so Six; and it’s true. Not even Cesar is capable to track Rex. We lost him, not sure how long; probably forever”
Agent Six grinded his teeth and went back to headquarters unsure what to do from now. He just hoped to see the boy one more time.
Author's Note
This is a small story I made long ago; it's suppose to happen in the middle of the four season before Tirek destroys the tree-brary. I hope you liked and,
Read ya' later!!
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The Equestrian adventures of Generator Rex
To avenge Princess Zelda, the capture of Master Sword
6
Trixie thought she could die in excitement, after tons of successful missions, she and Rex got their respective tickets to enter to the Gala. And the great day just came.
“Oh, the Great Galloping Gala Rex! The most waited ‘soiree’ in Equestria. And after we capture the idiot of Master we would pass to history. Until now, nopony dared to foalnap a pony in an event with unbreakable security”
“But that’s why Master Sword will lower his guard” smiled Rex.
“Now you’re talking like a true bounty hunter my dear” chuckled Trixie.
Rex winked an eye to Trixie and putted on his fancy jacket as Trixie her elegant night-dress.
“So how are we gonna recognize this guy? I’ve seen photographs of the Royal Guard and they all look the same to me”
“It’s because Celestia’s Guard wear enchanted armors that made them all look like that: white or light-gray fur, and blue eyes. But tonight, as a distinguished high-ranked soldier, captain Master Sword will assist as a guest, not as a guard”
“Chido! So how does he looks like?”
Trixie passed him a photo of a dark gray unicorn with purple mane and a sword on a pedestal Cutie Mark. Pretty muscular and a devious look in his eyes.
“Here you go hero, Master Sword”
Rex raised an eyebrow.
“He looks dangerous”
“Trixie knows, but that’s why we’re being extra careful with this mission”
They exchanged looks and nodded to each other and walked to the castle ready for the best night of the year. Celestia herself graciously greeted them without think too much about them, after all they were just a pair between too many guests.
“Trixie to Rex, just found him. You know what to do”
Rex grinned and calmly walked to the buffet knowing he had a few minutes to himself before Trixie started her plan.
In the meantime the unicorn carefully approached to her target, looking gorgeous with that dress made with the finest silk and beautifully embroidered with gold and silver string; giving her the look of an important and influent pony.
“Ey Trixie!” Called Princess Twilight.
Trixie made an exasperated groan and turned to the purple alicorn and her group of friends.
“Twilight Sparkle” said Trixie. “Celestia’s praised student and new Princess of Equestria! What can the Great and Powerful Trixie can do for you tonight?”
“Trixie…” began Twilight, but she was rudely pushed apart by Rainbow Dash who faced the unicorn.
“What are YOU doing here, Great Annoyance Trixie?”
Trixie yawned and took a glass of wine from a waiter.
“Well, you see: Trixie’s last ‘work’ had two tickets to the Gala as its reward so here is Trixie. Now, can the Great and Powerful Trixie enjoy her evening without being bothered by the six of you?”
Rainbow was about to answer but Applejack put a hoof on her mouth.
“Rainbow, leave her alone; she isn’t doing anything bad, she’s just enjoying the night as the rest of us. Leave her alone and she’ll leave us, right Trixie?”
“Right, Trixie doesn’t want anything to do with you”
So they better left the blue unicorn, who took that tiresome as an opportunity and ‘accidentally’ bumped to Master Sword.
“Sorry, I was distracted” she mumbled.
“No problems, my beautiful lady” said Master Sword kissing Trixie’s hoof with elegance. “I’m Master Sword, Royal captain”
“Trixie, and sorry for that, seriously, but I was distracted. You see, those six always give me a really bad mood”
The stallion nodded.
“I understand my friend, those six were the ones who ruined the Gala last year. Still I’m glad to meet pony who doesn’t bow to Sparkle because she was magically turned into a Princess, that’s not true royalty”
Trixie gave him the reason.
“Yeah, luckily for us there are still some ponies with common sense who see Sparkle as what she is: a plebe with luck”
The stallion nodded again, he certainly liked this mare.
“So, want to go somewhere else more private, beautiful?”
“Oh, straight to the point, I like it. I’m Trixie by the way”
He bowed.
“And as I already introduced myself, Master Sword”
Trixie giggled playing silly and let the stallion took her somewhere else; and Master Sword was pleased, the first prey of the best night of the year literally just bumped to him. And gosh, she was so beautiful! Yeah, I’m a lucky stallion , he thought.
From the buffet table, Rex looked to the both of them and smiled, his marefriend and team partner had already set the tarp, now it was time for him to act.
“Good luck Trixie”
By their way, Master Sword took Trixie to a very isolated part of the Palace, a restricted area for most of the ponies; but not for the Royal Captain Master Sword. As he planned, Trixie let him lead her to that area fascinated by the stallion’s rank and connections. And now he had her at his mercy, too far for anypony to hear her in case she changed her mind to give herself to Master. Oh, it was so perfect, and it was only the beginning.
“That was only regular; but Trixie admits that your charm is amazing, unfortunately for you, the Great and Powerful Trixie won’t ever be yours. And if you excuse me, I’ll return to the Gala”
She walked to the door, knowing what was coming, Master Sword would shut the door preventing her to escape.
“What’s going on in here?”
The stallion laughed.
“Trixie demands to know what’s going on!” Shouted Trixie, sounded scared.
The stallion shrugged.
“What do you think, brat? Do you really believe that after drag you all the way here I’ll let you go without having ‘fun’? There’s no pony who can hear you, want it or not… you’re mine beautiful. And you better want it because it’ll make the experience a little less painful… for you”
…
Suddenly, the whole Gala muttered without understanding what was going on; the perfectly performed music was abruptly interrupted by two voices; the male one recognized both by Guards and Princesses.
…
Trixie laughed.
“Always the same, right Master Sword?” Asked Trixie calmly. “You use your charm to distract dumb ladies and drag them to wherever you want so you can do your thing and then forget about them. Is that what you did to the Griffon’s king cousin?”
“Princess Zelda, right? She was the dumbest of all; poor little girl, yeah. So what if I got what I wanted from her by force? I don’t fucking care”
“You should. See, the Griffon King offered a juicy reward for anypony who bring you to him. And just happens that I’m the best bounty hunter of all Equestria”
He laughed.
“Do you really think you have a chance against me?”
Trixie levitated the small device on her ear to him.
“See this? It’s called Transmitter. Thanks to this device everypony in the Gala knows the truth about you and your little moves”
…
On the Great Gala nopony dared to talk, do they really heard what they just heard? The guards began to mumble between them, of course they heard the rumors but they would never believe such thing from their leader.
…
Master Sword chuckled.
“Let me see if I get this right: you want me to believe that I just confessed my sins to everypony? Nice try to distract me, but I do believe that you’re a bounty hunter. Ready to fight and lose miserably?”
A powerful beam destroyed the door, letting pass several soldiers, Master’s former companions who now turned their spears to him; looking the soldier with both repulsion and confusion. Trixie give him her best smile:
“See?”
With an anger scream, Master Sword sent them a lighting and began to run for his life. Trixie cracked her neck and went after him.
“The fun begins!”
Master Sword began to shot several attacks to Trixie who dodged them with a laugh.
“To slow! To slow! And you call yourself Celestia’s captain?”
He yelled again and shot an extra powerful beam but this time Trixie teleported again. Still the attack was strongly enough to destroy all the walls to the gardens. Trixie dedicated Master a raspberry and ran to the gardens where the Gala was taking place.
“Nicely done partner” smiled Rex.
Master grinded his teeth.
“Do you think than a simple earth pony and a unicorn are enough to defeat the Sun Captain? You don’t have any chance against me and when I finish you, I’ll be far away from here”
Rex putted on his goggles.
“Yeah, you may be right but I’m not an earth pony, I’m an EVO”
“EVO? What’s an EVO?”
“Let’s say a kind of mutant, and your worst nightmare”
With a grin, Rex jumped turning his forelegs into his mechanized hands (smack-hands) punching Master Sword through a crystal wall destroying it in the process. Then he turned his left foreleg into his cannon that took the cake and also sent it to Master; confusing him right before a counterattack.
“And the great finale!”
Rex used his mechanized tentacle to caught Master and sent the electric current trough the warrior, making him first to scream in pain and then letting Master unconscious.
“Rex, shall we go?”
“Ya rugiste” said Rex turning his back-hooves into his motorcycle.
Trixie jumped on and levitated the unconscious Master Sword to the vehicle.
“See you!” Said Trixie.
They flew away at full speed, but after ten seconds of surprise, Princess Luna finally shouted the order:
“What are you waiting for? GO GET THEM!”
The Royal Airforce flew behind the bounty hunters.
“Yeah, I supposed this would end like this. Go faster Rex Salazar!”
“I’m doing the best I can!”
Trixie groaned and shot fireworks from her horn, confusing the pegasi after them.
“Childish but effective”
Rex gulped but suddenly a tall and powerful figure blocked their way out: Celestia.
“TURN RIGHT, TURN RIGHT!” Shouted Trixie.
Rex obeyed but this time their escape was blocked by Candace; they tried other direction but now Luna was on their way and finally Sparkle.
“What we do now, Rex Salazar?” Asked Trixie making her horn glow even is she knew that was useless against an alicorn; not say four.
“Teleport with Master Sword and cash the reward, I’ll entertain them” ordered Rex.
“WHAT?”
“Do what I say, don’t worry about me… I’ll deal with them alone, JUST GO AWAY TRIXIE!”
“But Rex!”
Rex kissed her passionately.
“Sorry for this” he said.
Then Rex used his cannon to shot Trixie and Master away from the four alicorns.
“NO, WAIT, REEEEEEEEEEEEEX!”
But she was half way on the air already, stillshe reacted on time and teleported to a safe spot.
“Yeah, you got me, you got me. Where do I find a lawyer?”
Author's Note
I know, lack of action but this is a translation of my early works and I had especial difficulties with that part. Still I hope you liked it and as I always say:
Read ya' later!!
