Your Beautiful Wonky Eyes

Chapters

3) The start of something beautiful
4) Standing up for Ditzy
5) Bath Rhymes
6) Obscure references
7) Begin the night
8) Rooftop conversation
9) Life is great
10) Fight to remember
11) Shards secret project
12) CyCorp Industries part 1
13) CyCorp Industries part 2
14) CyCorp Industries part 3
16) Action away from the action
666) ERROR!!!
17) Spider Dance
18) Shard meets Mise
19) Shall we dance?
20) The night goes on
21) Loves desires
22) Day in the sun
23) CyCorp Industries: Keep your friends close...
24) CyCorp Industries: ...and your enemies farther
25) Feeling better?
There's A Crowd: Long overdue
Three's A Crowd: The forest
Three's A Crowd: The awaited showdown
Three's A Crowd: The fight begins
26) A break from the action
Three's A Crowd: Final showdown
27) Precautions
28) Bedridden
29) Target aquired
30) Old wounds
31) Shame
32) Locked
33) Sleeping problems
Bonus Chapter: Deathbattle (Treble vs Shard)
34) Halloween frights part 1
35) Halloween frights part 2
36) Halloween frights part 3
37) Second thoughts
38) Fears and understanding
39) The cause
40) Starting to realise (finale part 1)
Reboot notice
1) The Story Begins
2) Begin the day
15) CyCorp Industries: The Curse

3) The start of something beautiful

After a few more moments of staring at each other they both pulled back a little with soft blushes. As Ditzy stepped back her foot landed on a fallen pencil and she began to fall. Acting fast Shard shot forward and stopped her fall by grabbing her hand and pulling her up. However he put a little too much force into the pull and she stumbled onto him, knocking both of them over. Ditzy and Shard both blushed furiously as their faces were just centimetres apart as Ditzy lay on top of the boy who had cushioned her fall, one eye being covered by her hair.

"Sorry, I guess I pulled a bit to hard." Shard said, breaking the more than comfortable silence. Ditzy placed her hand on his chest to push herself up but froze as she felt his well built abdominals as she missed her target. The heat in her face intensified greatly, Shards face becoming a little red as well.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry." Ditzy exclaimed before jumping off him and helping him up.

"No it's quite alright." After dusting himself off he looked to the girl with a soft smile. "Anyway, Ditzy was it?"

'He said my real name.' Thought Ditzy as she cleared her throat. "Um, yes. That's my name." She answered with a goofy smile.

"Well then. Ditzy, are you the one that is supposed to be showing me around the school?"

'You have a chance to make a cute boy your friend Ditzy, don't mess this up.' She smiled and nodded. "Yep, Principle Celestia asked me to show you around the place. Usually a girl named Sunset Shimmer would show new students around but she's away doing something, I don't know what though."

"Well then I'm glad she is away, otherwise I wouldn't have met you so soon." Ditzy internally squealed in delight. "Oh hey, your hair is in your eye, lemme get that for you." He reached forward and pushed her hair out of the way. Instinctively she shut the eye before it was revealed. "Something get in your eye?" He asked a bit concerned.

"Uh, yes! Something got in my eye and it really hurts." Ditzy was glad to have an excuse to not open the eye.

"If it hurts then why don't you let my take a look at it, see if it's anything serious?" He asked with a caring smile. Ditzy frantically looked around, trying to find anything to delay the inevitable. Unfortunately there was nothing in sight. Sighing she slowly opened the crooked eye. Expecting Shard to ask what was wrong with her or laugh she closed her eyes and bit her lip. Hearing nothing she opened one eye and saw Shard looking at her in concern. "Are you ok Ditzy, I didn't do anything to offend you did I?"

"N-No, that's the thing. You aren't making fun of my eyes." She looked at him confused. "Why?"

"Wait wait wait. Do people make fun of you because of your eyes?" He asked with anger present in his voice.

"Y-Yeah, everyone thinks just because I'm a bit clumsy and have these eyes that I'm some sort of idiot." Shard clenched his fist.

"Are you serious? That's what they pick on you for? That's just idiotic." Ditzy looked at him in shock. "Ditzy, exactly how many people tease you about this?"

She closed her eyes and rubbed her arm nervously. "Almost everyone."

Shard struggled not to scream in anger, this sweet, innocent girl was being bullied for something that she couldn't control and that just made him feel like a kettle that was left boiling too long. "Ditzy, show me your eyes again."

Shyly she opened her eyes one at a time before looking him in his bright orange eyes.

"Ditzy, your eyes aren't something to be ashamed of. It's what makes you unique, and quite frankly..." His anger subsided a bit and be looked away slightly, "... they're kind of adorable." A huge blush plastered itself on Ditzy's grey skin.

"W-What? You think my eyes are... adorable?" Shard just nodded.

"I know it's really weird for me to say that to someone I just met but I do find you and your eyes adorable, I hope it didn't make you uncomfor-" His sentence was cut short as Ditzy brought him into a tight hug.

"Thank you." Ditzy whispered. Shard gulped nervously and patted her back.

"Um, no problem Ditzy, just speaking the truth." They separated and looked away from each other and took in breaths of air. 'Well this has been an eventful few minutes. Never expected to meet such a beautiful girl so quickly.'

'Oh my gosh I can't stop blushing, I can't believe this is actually happening.' Ditzy gently slapped herself and puffed out her cheeks in determination. 'Now listen here missy, you are gonna make him your friend and invite him to hang out with you over the weekend with Turner and Carrot.'

"SCRUBBY SAYS JUST KISS ALREADY!!!" The janitor yelled from down the hallway causing the two to jump. "Scrubby swears these freakin kids and their love stories." They heard the door to the janitors closet close and both looked to each other from the corner of their eyes.

"What do you think he meant by that?" Shard asked.

"There have been a lot of new pupils recently, and every single one of them end up in a relationship." They heard a young feminine voice say. Looking down they saw a young girl, probably about thirteen, with light purple skin and the same hairstyle as Ditzy.

"Dinky? What are you doing out here?" Shard just looked down the hallway and to Ditzy multiple times.

'What have you gotten yourself into Shard?' Clearing his throat he looked to Ditzy. "Hey Ditzy, who is this?" He asked.

"Oh, this is my little sister, Dinky Doo." The two hugged and Dinky walked over to Shard and motioned him to lean down. He knelt down and she whispered in his ear.

"You two are basically guaranteed to get together at some point. Treat her well." With that she skipped off. Shard just slowly turned his head to Ditzy who just smiled at him adorably.

'Whatever I just got into... doesn't seem like it's gonna be a bad thing.' Shard shook himself and walked over to her. "So, should we get on with the tour?" Nodding, Ditzy began walking down the hallway. As they passed the janitors closet Sahrd saw Scrubby looking at him and shaking his head.

4) Standing up for Ditzy

Ditzy struggled not to giggle in delight as Shard walked next to her, looking in deep thought. 'I still can't believe this is happening, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.' She shook her head slightly. 'Now don't you rush into things Ditzy, let whatever this is take its course, no scheming, no planning, just let things take their time. Thanks for the advice mom, I never thought it would come in handy.'

"You ok there Ditzy?" Shard asked, breaking her out of her inner thoughts. She noticed that she was just staring at a wall with Shard looking at her with a raised brow. She chuckled nervously.

"Oh, I'm fine, just deep in thought is all." Smiling sheepishly she turned and led him down the next hallway. "Ok, this hallway holds the schools computer labs and just down this hall here is the gym." Shard nodded and drew on a piece of paper. "Are you mapping the school?" Ditzy asked in surprise.

"Yeah, I might as well have a map in case I get lost or something." Ditzy reached into her pocket and pulled out her own piece of paper.

"I mapped the school too." Shard's eyes widened before his expression turned to a soft, caring one.

"Well, looks like great minds think alike." Ditzy contained her giggles and continued on with the tour.

"Here is the history, maths and English classrooms, the stairs to the library in the school dome is at the end." Mapping those details down Shard nodded for her to continue onwards.

"Hey Ditzy, mind if I ask you something?"

"Sure, go ahead."

"What's your opinion on... Anime?" Ditzy stopped in her tracks and looked to him with a wide smile.

"I... Love... Anime." Shards smile widened.

"Me too, what's your favourite?"

"Tie between Code Geass and One Piece, how about you?" Shard just placed his hands on her shoulders.

"I absolutely adore those two shows." Both just stared at each other with goofy grins. "I think you and I are gonna get along just fine Ditzy, just fine."

"I think so too." Both remained like this until they heard the school bell ring. "Oh, we should get moving. I have a test today that I want to get over with so we should hurry things along." Shard nodded and they both continued walking. Ditzy continued to point out the rooms and locations as Shard jotted them down on his map. They began talking about various anime and games they had played until they came across two huge jocks.

"Hey there, Derpy." One said in an obvious bullying tone, causing Shard to growl slightly. "Who's this pip squeak?" He asked while poking Shard in the chest.

'Did he seriously, just call Ditzy Derpy!? And me a pip squeak!?' Shard swatted his hand away. "Who I am is none of your business, move along and don't call Ditzy by that name." He demanded with a stern glare.

"Who the hell are you to tell us what to do twerp?"

"Ohhhohohoho is this really the approach you're going with? You are literally the freaking definition of jock stereotypes." The biggest one growled.

"What did you just say?!" The boy clenched his fist.

"Please, don't fight them Shard." Pleaded Ditzy. Looking to his new friend he sighed.

"Alright, but they better stay away from you. You two got that?" He snapped turning back to the token bully characters.

"Oh so you're takin orders from little retard here are you?" Ditzy began to tear up. She stopped as she thought she heard glass shattering. Looking to Shard she saw his eye was twitching while he slowly lowered his head while glaring at the two.

"What... Did you... Just call her?!" Ditzy noticed some sort of handle sticking out the back of Shards jacket.

"What did you not hear me? I said, she's a little retard!" Time Turner walked down the hallway and noticed the two jocks hassling Ditzy. He was about to run to her aid when he say Shard standing up to them.

"Take, that, back." Shard demanded with a voice so cold it could create ice cubes in someone's drink.

"Why should I?" Shard looked up and saw the light above the, was flickering on and off. "Retard, retard, retard. I ain't gonna take something back that's true." Shard slowly moved his hand to the back of his neck and grabbed the handle that was sticking out. As the light above them suddenly went out, temporarily blinding the jocks Shard shot between them. As the lights went back on they heard a clang of some sort of metal. Looking behind them they saw Shard standing facing away from them

"You should have taken it back." He snapped his fingers and the sports gear they were wearing fell into pieces, leaving them in their vests and heart underwear. Multiple students around them pointed and laughed, the jocks running away in embarrassment. "Now think about what you've done."

Ditzy and Turner just looked at him in utter shock, a huge blush appearing on the girls face as she smiled. 'So awesome.'

'Does... Does that boy have a sword in his jacket?' Turner shook his head.

"Shard that was amazing, who'd you do something like that?" Ditzy asked running up to him. He pointed to the back of his jacket.

"I always carry a sword with me no matter how small, been training in Kenjutsu for a few years now." Ditzy just raised a brow.

"Does the Principle know about that?"

"She does, my father explained it to her and they came to an agreement, I am only to bring a small blade in and keep it hidden. It's not like I'm gonna mindlessly go around slashing people is it?" Ditzy just looked at him dreamily.

Seal the deal Ditzy! He's perfect!' Clearing her throat she looked at him with a soft smile and blush. "Hey Shard, do you maybe, wanna hang out over the weekend?" Shard put a finger to his chin in thought.

"I might be helping my dad move the furniture into the house, but then again mom did want me to get used to the area so I'm game for it." Ditzy smiled and hugged him. 'Wow... She's uh, got some strength on her.'

Turner looked from one to the other and smiled knowingly. "Ah, so that's it. I better keep an eye on these two, wouldn't want anything happening to them."

5) Bath Rhymes

The next day after the incident with the jocks, Shard was getting ready for the day ahead. Ditzy had asked him to meet her and her friends at the local park that morning, so he was making sure he was presentable. Currently he was in the shower, singing one of his favourite songs from the YouTube series 'Dick Figures' yeah it sounds like something you'd come across on an adult website but it was an honest to God good show, granted it was filled with random violence and profanity, it still had one of the greatest songs he had ever heard, although it was riddled with curses.

"~Yeah right, I'm a robot guy, shoot lasers out of my eyes, and Dinkleberry says to me~" Just then he heard his dad knocking on the wall in the opposite room shouting at a neighbor that he had made his sworn enemy.

"SHUT THE F*** UP!!!"

Shard shrugged and continued singing. "~Whoo, turn up my headphones-ones, up my pho-oh-ones, my headphones-ones~, up my pho-oh-ones. I am levelin up, I got bun in my cup, I got that ass in my lap, now make that, ass, clap." He continued singing until he was completely singing.

Stepping out of shower he began to finish the song. "~Fellas, and ladies, on the dance floor, making babies, fellas, and ladies, on the dance floor, making babies!~" He dried himself off and wrapped the towel around his waist, his well built chest shining slightly from the sweat.

Walking across the hall and into his room he sat down at his dresser and began drying his hair with an old hair drier. After that he comes his hair into the style he was always seen in. After that he sprayed some deodorant and threw on his clothes. Sheathing one of his katanas he hid it in the back of his jacket. Making sure the fur on his collar and wrists were poofy enough he smiled and looked himself over in the mirror. "Lookin good Shard, lookin good indeed."

Nodding in confidence that he was ready he walked down the stairs and said good morning to his family (minus his dad) before heading out to his car. As he was about to open the car door he quickly grabbed his sword and sliced the piece of plastic that was thrown at him by his father.

"Really dad? When I'm right by my car?"

The man with dark red hair that was wearing a red suit walked up to him, a sheathed katana at his waist hanging in his belt. "Sorry son, just making sure the reflexes are still sharp."

"Well try doing it when I'm not by something that costs thousands of dollars."

"You won it in a competition as a gift along with thousands of dollars worth or prize money."

"Yeah well it's a pretty high maintenance gift and that prize money has been in my account gathering interest for years now, it's my college fund and my life savings and I'd rather not spend it on a broken window or another paint job." With that Shard got in his car and drove away.

Trying to relax he smirked and linked his iPod touch to the cars radio and hit his favourite song.

Shard's theme

Youtube Video

"I'm loaded with tons of cash, have an amazing family, I'm a badass swordsman, made a really cute girl my friend and have this gold to listen to. Feeling pretty freakin great about life right now!" With that he accelerated and shot down the road.

Ditzy, Carrot Top, Lyra, Bon Bon and Dinky were waiting in the local park on a picnic table waiting for Time Turner and Shard to show up.

"Hey Ditzy, tell us about this boy you met yesterday, I heard he showed Hothead and Ascot who's boos when they picked on you." Said Lyra as she sipped away at a box of juice..

Ditzy was about to start explaining when she saw Shard's car pulling into the parking lot. "I don't need to tell you about him, because he's here." Lyra, Carrot and Bon Bon looked in the direction that she was pointing and their eyes widened, with Lyra sucking her juice box dry before spitting it out.

"Now he's cute." Said Carrot.

"Hunk ahoy Ditzy." Commented Bon Bon as she gave Ditzy a pat on the back.

"He's beautiful!" Ditzy just looked at the girls with a raised eyebrow. Dinky looked to all of them and facepalmed.

"Seriously, I will never understand you three and your obsession with boys."

As Shard approached them Ditzy snatched Lyras empty carton. "Watch this girls. Hey Shard, heads up!" She threw the carton in his direction. Within a second he was behind the box with his sword out and the carton hit the ground in two pieces.

"Awesome~" All the girls, including Dinky, said in unison with stars in their eyes.

"Morning Ditzy, good to see you again." Shard said as he twirled his sword before sheathing it again. "So, you just gonna stare or are you gonna introduce me to these lovely ladies?" The girls giggled in delight at his question. 'Works every time.'

"Oh right." Clearing her throat Ditzy got to her feet. "Shard, this is Carrot Top, Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon... We don't exactly know her last name. I think it's Sweetiedrops or something but I can't remember." Shard smiled as Ditzt tried her hardest to remember the name and ruffled her hair.

"It's alright Ditzy, I don't need to know."

Ditzy closed her eyes and her mouth became shaped like a cats as she leaned into his touch. Shard just looked at her with a raised brow then to the girls questioningly, only getting shrugs in response. Nonetheless he found it absolutely adorable.

Meanwhile, three other boys had made there way into the park. Looking around they spotted Shard with the girls and gave warm smiles.

"Well boys, looks like we were right afterall, this is the city he scurried off to." A boy with slick cyan hair said to the other two.

"You think he'll be suprised when we show up at Canterlot High with him?" Asked a boy with spiky black hair.

"Maybe we should give him some space for now, let 'im get settled in first." A boy with long purple hair said. The others nodded and looked back to Shard.

6) Obscure references

Shard sat with the girls at the picnic table, each exchanging pieces about themselves, one which had caught the girls attention. "You speak Japanese?" All of them asked with wide eyes.

"A bit of it yes, after watching a few dozen anime you start getting a little into the language." Ditzy nodded.

"It's true, I couldn't actually learn it because I found it to be a bit difficult, but I have always wanted to completely learn the language."

Shard looked to Ditzy and smiled, causing her to smile in return.

"Say something in Japanese then!" Demanded Lyra as she slammed her hands onto the table. Shard thought for a moment before smirking.

"Anata wa, anata no shatsu ni jūsu o motte imasu."

"What does that mean?"

"It means you've got juice on your shirt."

Lyra looked down at her shirt and saw that there was indeed a huge stain of orange juice. "What the?! How did that happen?!" Looking at the table she saw a carton of juice that she had squished when she slammed her hand onto the table. "You just let that happen?!"

"Watashi ni kore o hinan shinaide kudasai."

"What does that mean?!"

"Don't blame this on me." Bon Bon, Ditzy, Carrot and Dinky struggled to contain their laughter, putting their hands over their mouths to hold in their approaching state of hysteria. Luckily Lyra had a spare top as she was going to be staying at Bon Bons house for a slumber party.

"Hey! You should come to the slumber party with us." Ditzy said as the idea popped into her head. Shard looked to her unsure.

"I dunno Ditzy, isn't that more of a girls thing? Wouldn't be weird for me to be the only guy there?"

"You won't be the only guy there don't worry, Time Turner will be there." Shard scratched his chin in thought.

"Fine, but I swear if Lyra tries to get revenge I'm calling her Liar For Hire for at least a month." Lyra growled at him, Bon Bon then put a black sheet over her head and she calmed down.

"If she can't see anything she'll eventually fall asleep, kind of like a bird of prey or something."

"Eesh, thanks for giving me a reason to be afraid of her." Ditzy received a text from Turner telling them that he couldn't make it and had to do something with his dad, who he called 'The Doctor' for some reason. Bon Bon and Lyra needed to go get things ready for the slumber party and Carrot was needed back on the farm.

Dinky reached up and whispered into Shard's ear. "This is a chance for you to get to know each other better, I'll get out of your fabulous orange hair so you can chat her up a bit." Shard was about to question her until she commented on his hair.

"Thanks, not many people appreciate someone who keeps their hair in shape these days." With that being said the girl walked off, leaving Shard and Ditzy to their own devices.

"Sooooo... whadda ya want to do?" Shard asked while twiddling his thumbs.

"There's a place down the road that sells games, DVDs, CDs and comic books. Why don't we hit up that place and see if we can find anything?"

"Sounds like a plan." The two stood up and began walking towards the parking lot. As they approached Shard's car he ran a bit and held the passenger seat open for Ditzy who blushed slightly.

"Oh, um, thank you." She walked up and sta down in the fine leather seat.

"No problem m'lady." Shard always had a tendency to act like this around girls he found attractive, treating them like royalty and treating them with upmost respect. Although his thoughts of attractiveness weren't based on sexual attractiveness, it was based on the girls personality and attitude more than anything, there was still the physical attraction of course, he's a teenager for crying out loud it's gonna be there.

He climbed into the drivers seat and started the engine, allowing the car to give off a satisfying purr. He shifted into reverse and pulled out of his parking space and out of the park. As they were driving they came to a red light, as they stopped they looked in horror as a group of preaching nuns noticed them and started walking towards them.

"NUNS, NUNS!!! REVERSE, REVERSE!!!" Both yelled as Shard shifted it into reverse again and pulled back as fast as he could and shot off down a separate street, taking a longer route to the store.

"Whoo, that was close." Ditzy wiped a bead of sweat from her brow. "You got bad memories with nuns too?"

Shard shivered slightly. "Yeah, you could say that."

They reached the store and looked around the area to make sure the preachers had not picked the direction of the shop to go down next. As they walked in they found that it was only guys in the store and all stopped what they were doing to stare at Ditzy. Suddenly the store clerk, a skinny man with shirt brown hair and a jacket walked in front of the two and faced the crows.

"Alright guys you've all seen women in your comics and to shows, don't freak her out." All the lonely men in the store resumed what they were doing and the clerk looked back at the two. "Sorry about that, we don't get a lot of girls in here... or any for that matter." He sighed and held out his hand. "I'm Stewart, owner of this place where everyone depressed and lonely can hang out with others that are depressed and lonely."

"I'm Shard, this is Ditzy."

"Pleasure to meet you both. So, what brings you two down?" Stewart asked while shooing a few guys away that were staring at Ditzy.

"We had nothing to do today so we thought we'd come to see if we could find any good material or merch." Replied Ditzy.

"Well ya came down to the right place madam, down here is all comic book stuff like Iron Man and Batman, next story up is all to do with anime and manga, third floor is games, DVDs and CDs. I'll just stay with you guys to make sure no one gives you trouble." Another clerk walked behind the counter as Stewart let the two up to the second floor.

7) Begin the night

Shard and Ditzy walked out of the store with a bag of comics, manga, games and merchandise in each hand. They promised Stewart that they'd be visiting regularly to check out new stock and he put them on his 'favourite customers' list as a sign of gratitude and gave them both a 10% discount.

As they walked towards the car they kept their eyes peeled for the group of nuns, luckily they weren't in the area. Climbing into the car Shard started the engine and followe Ditzy's directions to her house so she could leave her stuff off and get a few things for the slumber party.

While she was getting ready Shard quickly stopped by his home to pick up his things. After being bombarded with questions by his mother asking about his new friends, especially Ditzy. When Shard had asked how she knew all of their names he found out that Ruby had become friends with Dinky, meaning he could no longer keep anything hidden from his mother.

After telling his mom not to make a big deal out of his friendship with Ditzy he left for his car, stopping another surprise attack from his father. "Seriously?! A block of iron?! Do you hate my car or something?!"

"A little yes, I don't like the colour scheme."

"I'm that colour scheme!"

His father looked him up and down. "Oh right... You need a new style, dye your hair blue and wear contacts."

"I f*cking hate you." With that he shot off towards Ditzy's place where the blonde haired girl was waiting outside. "Sorry Ditzy, got held up with my mom asking way too many questions about you."

"Yeah, my mom wouldn't stop asking me questions about you either."

"We really need to keep an eye on Ruby and Donky don't we?" Ditzy giggled adorably before climbing into the passenger seat. "Alright, which way to the slumber party?" Giving him the directions to Bon Bons house and flicking through his playlists Ditzy froze as she saw the soundtrack to 'Dick Figures.'

"You watch this show?" She asked with a smile.

"Yep, I love Lord Tourettes and the raccoon in that thing, and Bath Rhymes is the greatest song to ever exist." Ditzy reached over and pulled him into a hug. "Ditzy, I need to drive."

Realising her mistake she immediately pulled away with a blush. "Oh, right, sorry." Seeing her slightly upset Shard switched to the YouTube app on the screen in the car and selected and episode of the show. (Will show it in the Authors note)

Ditzy lit up as she remembered the episode that he had put on. "Isn't this the one where Blue meets Pink for the first time?"

"Yep, favourite episode other than the one with the raccoon and robot frog."

The two looked to each other and smirked. "Go to hell robot frog!" They shouted out as they shot down the road.

They pulled up by the purple and cream house Shard walked to the passenger side and opened the door for Ditzy who thanked him and resumed her earlier hug. Just then they heard a camera snap and turned to see Lyra standing there with her phone. "That's so sweet, I'm posting that one up to Twitter." She tapped a few icons and sent the tweet. "Woah, thirteen retweets already, you guys are just too adorable together."

Both Shard and Ditzy facepalmed and walked up to the front door with the mint coloured girl. Knocking on the door they heard Bon Bon walking around inside before opening it. "Hey guys, my parents are out of town so we have the place to ourselves." Everyone smiled and walked into the small two story house.

"I'm saying it right now, I ain't playin no spin the bottle or seven minutes in heaven." Shard stated in fear before shivering. "Never again." The girls all laughed at him before walking up the stairs to change into their pyjamas. While the girls got dressed in the upper floor Shard got ready in the living room. He wore pyjamas similar to his usual wear, with orange fur at his wrists and collar.

He looked around and started up one of the few game systems in the living room and started playing 'Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg.'

"I call next turn!" He turned around at the sound of Ditzy's voice and froze at the sight of her. She was wearing light blue pyjamas that hugged her figure perfectly, showing her curves and sending the poor boys thoughts to uncharted territory. "Hey, you gonna put your sword away before we play?"

"Shit you can see that?!" He yelled looking down below. "Oh, you meant, never mind!" Ditzy shrugged and sat down beside him and picked up a controller.

"Let's wait for Lyra and Bon Bon to be finished so we can play 2v2 in the multiplayer mode."

"Alright then, I call Billy."

"Then I get Rolly Roll." The two of them fooled around in a versus match before the two others walked down in yet more figure hugging outfits.

'Dear God this is torture!' The four of them split into teams, Shard and Ditzy vs Lyra and Bon Bon. As they finished a round, Shard and Ditzy high fived in victory. Just then there was a knock on the door, Lyra got up and answered it, revealing Carrot Top and Time Turner.

"Good evening all, hope we aren't too late." Turner looked around until his sights fell on Shard. "Ah, you must be the new member of our little group, my name is Time Turner at your service."

Turner held out his hand and Shard took it. "Shard Storm."

"Well Shard, welcome to the group. Hope they aren't riling you up too much." Turner replied with a smirk, looking to all of the girls and how they were dressed. "Stop teasing the poor boy and go put in your dressing gowns." The girls all frowned and did as they were told.

"Oh thank God." Shard gave a sigh of relief before turning to Turner... heh. "Thank you, I could not survive the whole night with them like that."

"Yeah they did the same thing to me when I first joined their group." Turner sat down opposite Shard. "Now, we need to have a little talk."

"About what?"

"Your relationship with Ditzy."

8) Rooftop conversation

"My relationship with Ditzy?" Shard asked, confused by Turners words.

"Yes, I what to talk to you about it."

Shard just looked around and then stared back at Turner. "What's there to talk about, we're friends and that's it."

Turner shook his head. "Just friends now maybe, but I can clearly see that it will blossom to something more, Dinky sees it too."

Shard eased up a little. "Well, I suppose there may be a level of attraction but even if there is it's not something you just talk about."

"You're right, but I just need to make sure that Ditzy is safe."

Shard just raised a brow. "You think Ditzy wouldn't be safe with me?" He asked with a bit of shock.

"I have total confidence that you will keep Ditzt from harm, I learned as much from that incident yesterday. What I want to know is, can you keep her safe emotionally?"

Shard calmed down a little, now realising what this was about. "Does she have bad experiences with relationships?"

Turner sighed and nodded. "I won't go into details, but she was once with this boy, he was a nice enough person but only seemed to take advantage of Ditzy. When she found out the truth and broke things off with him it wasn't a pretty sight, for days on end she would cry, losing her faith in love until recently."

"What's happened recently?"

"A lot of new students have been popping up, moving in from out of town and eventually ending up in a relationship with someone at the school. Ditzy saw this as an opportunity to find a new partner, start from scratch, find someone who had no record of her and could get close to. That poor sod just happened to be you."

Shard just looked to his hands then back to Turner. "If that's the case, I promise that I'll take good care of her and her emotions. I won't toy with them, I won't purposely try to harm them and I will never betray her."

Turner got up and placed a hand on Shard's shoulder. "I believe you, and know that I hold you in the highest respect." Shard smiled and they shared a manly hug, cause you know... men do that, we do honestly. The two separated and heard the girls coming downstairs in more suitable clothing. "Now, how about we play 2v2 on this game?"

"There are six of us now that you and Carrot are here." Lyra said as she picked up a controller.

"Then Carrot and I can play the winners." Everyone nodded at the plan and began playing. Over the course of the game Ditzy and Shard won every single time.

"Oh come on, you two have to be cheating!" Carrot complained as she threw down the controller in frustration.

"Nah, we're just really good at games." Shard said as he high fived Ditzy. "We'll even prove it, pick a game and we'll beat you in it. If we lose we have to do a dare from one of you, if we win its vice versa expect for all of you."

"You're on!" All of them shouted.

A few ass whoopings later

Everyone stared in shock at the small pillar of games that Ditzy and Shard had bested each and everyone of them in. "Well it's been fun but I think it's about time we all got some sleep, my eyes are killing me right now." Shard yawned and turned of the console. "So, what are the sleeping arrangements?"

"Oh we just sleep in a pile." Lyra said with a smile. Shard looked at her with confusion then to the rest of the group who all nodded.

"Seriously?" He received nods and sighed. "Fine, but if I wake up with someone's feet in my face, chest in my face or crotch on my face that someone is getting cut."

Shard lay just beside the pile of sleeping friends, deciding to stay out of it after he woke up to Lyras butt in his face as he expected. Laying on a blanket that he had found he looked around Bon Bons room and spotted a few photos of the group when they were younger and of more recent times.

Deciding to get some air he got up and headed to the roof, climbing up the balcony with ease due to his ability and fitness. Laying down under the stars he took in heat from the chimney beside him. As he looked about the beautiful night sky and took in every last star, he failed to notice a certain grey skinned girl clumsily climbing up to join him. Finally noticing Ditzy who was now trying to get her lower half up on the roof, Shard walked towards her and grabbed her under her armpits and pulled her up.

As she set her feet on the roof she slipped and fell on top of Shard. The two lay there in a familiar situation, their eyes staring into one another's. Their lips mere centimetres apart. The romantic moonlight and the sea of stars above them.

Reader: Oh my god are they...

The two of them didn't move a muscle, they just stared into each other's eyes. In their eyes a small twinkle appeared at the same time, both feeling a burning sensation in their chests.

Reader: Are they really gonna do it?

They slowly inched their faces closer, they could taste the others breath. One tasted of muffins while the other was orange chocolate.

Reader: Yes they're gonna kiss!

As their lips were about to meet Ditzy pulled away and rolled off of Shard.

Reader: OH COME ON!!!

Shard blinked and looked over to the blushing Ditzy. "Ditzy, are you alright?"

She turned away from him and lay on her side. "I-I'm fine."

Shard sat up and put a hand on her arm. "Ditzy, talk to me, you can tell me anything."

She took in a deep breath and sighed. "I-I just don't know if..."

"Don't know what?"

"If I'm brave enough." Shard looked at her confused. "I'm not the smartest girl in the world or the prettiest, I'm just a clumsy mistake."

Shard pulled up Ditzy into a sitting position. "Now don't you start saying this things."

"But Sha-"

"No buts missy. Who made you feel this way?"

"Sh-"

"Who Ditzy?"

The girl sighed and pushed him away. "Everyone, I've been made fun of because of my stupid wonky eyes my whole life, I don't wanna put you through that ridicule too."

Shard gave her a sad smile and cupped her cheek. "Ditzy, I don't care if I get ridiculed for liking you or by spending time with you. I promise, that if anyone ever gives you grief about your gift again then they'll have to answer to Disaster here." He said, pointing to his sword that rested on his waist.

"M-My gift?" Ditzy questioned in suprise.

"Yes, your gift." Shard took Ditzy's hand in his and held them in both of his in a protective and reassuring hold. "Your eyes make you unique, you get to see the world in a different light, a different way. And they aren't stupid wonky eyes Ditzy, they're what make you, you." He placed on hand on her cheek and smiled warmly. "They're the best thing about you, Your Beautiful Wonky Eyes."

Before Ditzy could say anything Shard put his hands to both sides of her face and planted his lips on hers. Her eyes widened in surprise, but slowly closed as she lost herself in the bliss of the moment. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he put his hands on her back, both leaning into the kiss, embracing each other under the stars. As Ditzy held her body against his, she felt a sense of security, the burning sensation in her heart exploded and left another feeling, a finished feeling, a complete feeling.

That's when she knew, she had found the one she was looking for, the one she had searched for. The one that would protect her from harm, both physical and emotional. The one that would be her shoulder to cry on, the one that would listen to her and tell her everything was going to be ok.

They both knew it, they had found their other halves, they had completed a two piece puzzle and they were the pieces, now firmly locked together to make a picture, a beautiful picture, of a small fragile daisy being gaurded by a burning flame.

They were whole, for the first time in their lives, they were whole.

9) Life is great

The next day

Shard lay on the fresh green grass in the park under the shade of a tree, his hands behind his head as he watched the clouds go by. His thoughts went to the previous night, a smile appearing on his face as he relived the memory in his head. After the kiss the two of them cuddled up together as they went back inside. Their friends still didn't know anything about it, they had separated before going to sleep.

As the two parted ways, agreeing to meet up the next day, his mind wouldn't leave Ditzy. All he could think about was her eyes, her laugh, her smile and her adorable sneezes. His smile never faltered, at that moment he was glad to be alive, nothing could take that smile away.

He moved his head and watched a few kids playing on the playground, laughing and giggling as they went. He took in a whiff of the morning air. Smelling the scent of the flowers and grass he looked back up to the sky. "Life is great."

Ditzy couldn't stop smiling, the memory of the night before was just too perfect. The words said by Shard before the kiss were imprinted in her mind and heart. "Your Beautiful Wonky Eyes." She kept repeating it to herself as she walked down the sidewalk, giggling like a schoolgirl every time.

"What's got you so happy Ditzy?" Ditzy turned around to see Sunset Shimmer standing there with her partner Soul Writer, he had white hair with a small bit of a beard on his chin. He wore a grey hoodie which he kept open revealing a white t-shirt underneath.

Ditzy blushed a little. "Well... You see... I met this boy..."

Soul and Sunset smiled knowingly. "New student?" The both asked, Ditzy nodded.

"What's this one like? Is it that one that made those two jocks run out of the school in their underpants?" Soul asked, chuckling at the memory.

"Yeah, that's the one." Ditzy answered, giggling as she too looked back at the moment.

Sunset rolled her eyes and walked over to Ditzy. "Well I'm happy you found someone Ditzy, and I hope he treats you well."

"Oh he's treated me very well so far, we have a lot in common and he always says the nicest things. Come to think of it I think he and Soul would get along." Sunset and Soul raised a brow.

"Why's that?" The white haired boy asked.

"Well, he's into a lot of videoe games, sci-fi, comic books and all of that stuff, although he is really athletic and can speak Japanese." Ditzy blushed as she explained.

Soul scratched his chin in thought. "Hmmm, if that's true I guess we would get along."

"No Soul, you'd definitely get along." Sunset stated in a tired voice. "There is nothing you love more than video games and sci-fi."

"Not true, there's you after all." Soul countered slyly.

"Yeah yeah, back up lover boy." Sunset smiled and turned back to Ditzy. "So, what's his name?"

"Oh, he's called Shard Storm." Ditzy answered with a big smile.

"What does he look like?" Both asked in unison, looking at each other with a brow raised.

"He's got orange hair and eyes, peach skin, wears a black jacket with orange fur at the collar and wrists."

Soul looked to Sunset. "Hey I saw that guy in the park earlier, maybe he's still there."

"We might as well go see him before Treble Mix gets to him." Sunset then turned to Ditzy. "You coming with us Ditzy?"

The grey skinned girl blushed. "Oh, sorry but I need to get some things done before tomorrow."

The two nodded in understanding before bidding farewell to Ditzy. As the two disappeared from sight Ditzy continued on her way, listening to the sound of the foot breeze rustling the leaves of the trees growing in a few gardens. The birds began singing as the sun revealed itself from behind a cloud, bringing its light down onto the world and making everything all the more colourful.

"Life is great."

As Shard got to his feet he stretched his arms and looked up at the sky. Smiling he began walking down the hill he had been resting on. As he reached the bottom he looked around at the couples walking through the park hand in hand, making everything feel right in the world.

He began walking towards the gates of the park, as he was within a few dozen meters of the exit he sensed something coming from behind him. Turning 90 degrees he stopped the fist of one of the many jocks that had converged on him. Letting go of the fist he turned his body towards the group, all of them glaring at him with cocky smirks. "What do you 'roiders want?"

A crowd of the students at the park had circled the standoff, all murmuring and whispering to each other. The jocks were all taller and buffer than Shard, the shortest being a head taller than the orange haired swordsman. "Simple really, we's just gonna teach ya a lesson for makin a fool out of our boys yesterday."

"Oh no they were already fools, I just gave them a warning to not mess with my friend." Shard replied with a bored tone.

The leader of the jocks growled. "You mean that retarded blonde with the messed up eyes?" The group laughed.

They all heard a sound effect of glass breaking and turned to Shard, who was glaring at them with a mighty rage.

"Hey I don't like that look of yours, looks like someone here needs to be taught the pecking order." As the leader swung his fist it was effortlessly blocked by Shard putting up his hand and grabbing it.

"What... did you just call her?" His voice was dark and his eyes were slightly shaking in anger.

Sunset and Soul walked into the park and saw the standoff. As they were about to intervene Shard tossed the fist to the side and spin kicked the jock in the head, knocking him to the ground. The crowd froze and the thugs growled.

Shard stood straight with his fists clenched. "Alright boys, get ready for the first real fight of you pathetic lives."

10) Fight to remember

Sunset and Soul stared in confusion as Shard glared at the walking stereotypes with unholy rage, his orange hair almost seeming like fire. The leader stared down at him, cracking his knuckles. "Ok kid, let's get started."

"Shouldn't we do something?" Sunset asked.

"Don't worry I'm on it." Soul walked through the crowd until he was in the front row. "Kick his ass Shard!" Sunset groaned. "Kick his ass! Kick his ass! Kick his ass!" The other members of the crowd began chanting with Soul, filling Shard with confidence and feeding his ego greatly. His anger being replaced by the thrill of battle.

The leader growled and charged towards Shard who merely stepped out of the way and elbowed his spine, causing the jock to fall on his face and remain still for a moment. Two other jocks came at him from opposite sides, charging while yelling. Shard smirked and jumped high into the air as they were about to pounce on him, resulting in them crashing into each other. As Shard landed on their heads he kicked one in the face sending him sliding across the stone path and kicked the others face in midair.

"He's just messin with us!" One of the jocks yelled out as he pulled out a knife and slowly approached the orange eyed boy.

Shard looked to the knife and laughed. "Seriously?! That's what you're gonna use against a swordsman?!" As the jock heard this he looked at Shard in confusion. "Never bring a knife to a fist fight." Shard reached behind him and pulled out his orange and black blade. Within a second he was behind the jock with his sword sheathed. The jock looked in confusion until his knife split into three and fell out of his hand.

Shard smirked and spun around, jumped up and placed his feet on his foe's back and pushed him to the ground. As he turned around he moved his head slightly to avoid a brass knuckle to the face from another jock.

"Boy you guys don't know when to quit do you?" The jock threw several more punches that missed as Sgard stepped back to avoid them, in turn delivering some of his own. After landing enough hits the jock began to feel dizzy. Shard spun his arm for a second before knocking him in the jaw. "Shoryuken!" The jock was thrown into the air and hit the ground hard.

The leader had recovered and stepped in front of the five remaining jocks. "We're gonna break your spine and feed ya to the crows kid!" The leader placed his dust in his palm while the others pulled out baseball bats.

"You know that would be intimidating if you were... well intimidating."

"Are you mockin us?!"

"Oh no, nononono... *pfft* yeah." The jocks all charged forward and surrounded Shard. Looking around Shard smirked. "Alright then, show me what you've got."

As one of the jocks stepped forward and swung his bat Shard ducked and rolled under his legs. Appearing behind him Shard elbowed the back of his head knocking him out and falling flat on his face. As another swung his bat Shard caught it and punched the guy in the face, causing him to fall back and let go of the bat. Shard spun the bat in his hand before throwing it at one of the surrounding brutes, winding him and distracting the others as they looked to their friend.

Shard took this opportunity and pulled out his sword. He ran from jock to jock, slicing carefully as he went. As he stopped in front of the leader he held the sword to his face, causing him to sweat. All of the jocks outer clothes fell to pieces leaving them exposed. However the leaders clothes remained intact, he felt pain on the right side of his face. Placing a hand there he looked to it and saw blood, looking to Shards sword he saw a small tinge of red on the blade.

Shard was glaring at him. "Be thankful all I cut was your cheek, now get lost."

The leader growled before throwing a punch which Shard dodged. Shard then hit him with the hilt of his sword knocking him unconscious. He swung his sword to throw the blood off the blade before sheathing it. Turning to the last standing jock who tried to charge him he asked a simple question.

"Tell me, do you want children in the future?"

The jock froze and took a minute to think about it. "Hmm, I don't really... No I guess."

"Oh, good." Shard shot forward and planted his foot firmly into the jocks crotch. He squealed like a girl before dropping to his knees with blank eyes. As Shard nodded in satisfaction he turned to the crowd that began cheering and throwing roses at him. He bowed and took one of the roses, sniffing it he sighed happily, he put it in his breast pocket and gestured to the disabled jocks. "Don't let me stop you, they're all yours."

As Shard walked through the crowd the students all grinned like mad, staring at the fallen jocks. No one moved until a boy with black hair in a blue shirt jumped to the front. "FOR THE MOTHERLAND!!!" All of the members charged towards the bullies.

Soul and Sunset stood and watched. "I didn't know Treble Mix was here."

"He's everywhere Sunset, he knows when he's needed." The couple just watched as the students took their revenge on the defeated brutes that had annoyed and tormented them for years.

The next day

Shard drove down towards Ditzy's house while singing along to one of his favourite tracks. "T-T-That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger, I need you to hurry up now, cause I can't wait much longer, I know I got to be right now, cause I can't get much stronger, man I've been waitin all night now, that's how long I've been on ya!"

He turned down the music as he entered Ditzy's neighbourhood, slowly driving down until he pulled up by the grey painted house where his date was waiting. Ditzy walked out the door and blushed as she looked Shard in the eye from her doorstep. Shaking herself she walked up to the car and got in the passenger seat.

"Good morning Ditzy." Shard greeted with a smile.

"G-Good morning Shard."

Shard smiled warmly and placed a hand on Ditzy's. "Hey, no need to be nervous, we're just going to see a movie together and then getting a bit of lunch. There's nothing to worry about."

Ditzy smiled and held Shards hand tighter. "I know, I just... haven't had the best experiences with dating."

Shard frowned for a moment before an idea came to his head. "Hey Ditzy, I know something that could probably get rid of any nerves or thoughts that say I'm gonna betray you."

Ditzy just looked at him surprised and confused. "W-What? Shard if I made it seem like I don't trust you I-" She was silenced by Shard planting a quick kiss on her lips. She looked at him wide eyed with a huge blush appearing on her face.

"In my family, when a male kisses a female from outside the family on the lips, he vows to protect her and look out for her best interests. If they don't they are disowned by the family and brought eternal shame. It's a tradition created by my ancestors, and my family has stayed true to that tradition ever since the early eighteenth century." Shard explained with a comforting smile.

Ditzy's blush spread to create a red line across her face. She began to tear up and tackled Shard with a hug. "Thank you." Shard smiled softly and began stroking her beautiful blonde hair that he loved so much. If he was going to go through with this then he wanted Ditzy to feel secure, safe, happy and above all... He wanted her to feel loved.

It was a quirk with his family, the males were always extremely protective and loyal to their partners. All of them had met their loves during their teen years all at the same age, and Shard had reached that age. Shard believed that it was his ancestors looking out for the family, helping it grown and continue to exist through the generations.

He just sat there in his car, a beautiful girl in arms. Little did he know that his parents, Ruby and Dinky were watching from a bush with binoculars. Ruby and Dinky bumped fists in victory. Shards father laughed to himself as he watched them. His mother smiled knowingly, her blonde hair was in a bun and she wore a bright yellow dress with flower patterns. 'Looks like I should start saving up for a wedding, because it looks like my son just found his future bride.'

If you couldn't tell by now their family is very traditional... don't judge me.

11) Shards secret project

Monday

After a pleasant day together, Ditzy and Shard had went their separate ways to prepare for the next day.

After eating his breakfast with his family, minus his father who was out at his new job, and prying his mother off him as she refused to stop hugging him for finding his "future bride," Shard sat in his room working on something that would make his life a little easier. After playing a certain video game franchise for so long he had always wanted to have a certain robot from said franchise by his side, helping him in any way it could. So a few years back he took up secret classes of robotics and engineering just to be able to construct the robot. When he went out for these lessons he would say to his family he was going to practice swordsmanship in the woods or some other excuse.

He sat tinkering with the body of the robot, which he had made chargeable from sunlight or if that wasn't an option basic electricity, which he had temporarily named "Atlas." This was just until he could come up with a better name.

"Alright, just need to connect a few more circuits...tweak the optic sensors and...done!" Closing a small hatch on the robots body he pressed a button and it started twitching, slowly rising from the floor. "Yes...yes it works!" As he looked to the robot he smiled. "Oh the girls are gonna get a kick out of this. Now... What to name you?"

Ditzy, Bonbon, Lyra, Carrot and Turner all sat on the school steps waiting for Shard, classes didn't start for another half an hour so they decided to wait out front for him. They all noticed that the group of friends with Sunset were hanging around the statue as always. A few minutes later they all walked into the school leaving Ditzy and her friends alone in the schools outdoor area.

As they were about to walk inside to get ready for class they spotted Shard walking up from the sidewalk with something behind them that made most of them look confused, but left Turner and Ditzy with open mouths. "No way." They both said on unision. The group got up and ran to their orange haired friend and his new robot companion.

"Hey girls, Turner." Shard smiled at them.

"Good morning everyone." The robot said in a British butler accent, except it wasn't monotone, it was happy and filled with energy.

Ditzy and the group just looked to the two in shock. Tuner shook himself and cleared his throat. "Good morning Shard. Um...would you mind telling us why there is a perfectly built Mr Handy from Fallout four behind you?"

Shard looked back to his robot and smiled with pride. "Oh, him? He's just something I've been working on for a few years now, finally finished him this morning. I've called him Atlas for now, trying to come up with a better name though."

The rest of the group had recovered from their shock and looked to each other, unsure of what to say. "I'm detecting that you are all a tad confused, perhaps introductions will help smooth things out?" The robot suggested.

The group nodded. "My name is Ditzy Doo, nice to meet you." The robot held out its pincher and shook Ditzy's hand.

"Fantastic to meet you Miss Doo, I couldn't help but notice your eyes, truly stunning if I might say." Ditzy smiled at the compliment. Next Turner stepped forward.

"I am Time Turner, pleasure to meet you."

"The pleasure is all mine Mister Turner." The three others greeted him in similar manners, although he gave each girl a compliment, something that Sahrd had programmed into him, other than that he pretty much had free will, the only restriction being that he must not harm a human or other living being unless ordered to do so, you never knew what kind of situation could come up in life so Shard made sure that his robot would know what to do in a life or death situation or if someone was in danger of being harmed by another. "Well it is lovely to meet you all, it's wonderful to know that Master Shard has such good friends with him."

"Hey, I was wondering if you guys could help me find a good name for him. I was thinking about just naming him Codsworth but I wanted to do something original." Shard looked to his friends.

The group all started thinking, things like "Walter" or "Sebastian" came to mind, but Shard thought that the first was overused and the second would only suit one butler that any anime fangirl would love.

"How about Rayliegh?" Ditzy suggested.

Shard thought about it. "That sound alright with you?" He asked turning to the robot.

"I find it to be a magnificent name, a great choice Miss Doo." Rayliegh replied happily.

"Alright then, Rayliegh it is, we can just call you Ray for short if we need to."

"I see no problem with that Master Shard. I do believe it is time for your classes to start, I suggest we get going to avoid any trouble with the teaching staff." The group nodded and walked into the school. Before going in Shard pressed a button on Raylieghs body and he converted into a silver sphere the size of a football and placed him in a back and orange sports bag.

"This is gonna be fun."

During lunch the group hung out at the back of the school with Rayliegh out of his sphere and recharging with his built in solar panels. Shard had talked with Principal Celestia about his new companion and they had come to an agreement, the robot was to remain in his bag until either a practical class like science or a break like lunch. He was even allowed to help around the school cafeteria in the background cooking up some things and trading recipes with Granny Smith who benefitted from his help greatly, giving her more time to focus on some things while Rayliegh did the rest with enthusiasm.

"I must say Master Shard this school seems like an exciting place and the students are simply delightful. Although I can't help but notice a few errors."

"What would those be Ray?"

"Well for example the school seems a little understaffed, a few lights in the hallways either don't function or flicker and the students seem to be able to do as they please. Perhaps it would be a good idea to take these matters up with the Principal the next time you see her?"

Shard nodded. "That's actually a good idea, thank you Rayliegh."

"My pleasure sir." The group all talked for awhile before the bell signalling them to return to classes rang out. Placing Rayliegh in his bag the group walked back around to the front doors.

12) CyCorp Industries part 1

That Weekend

After a pretty standard week at school, and multiple cuddle sessions with Ditzy, Shard lay in his back garden on a sun bed with his jacket off revealing the orange t-shirt underneath. He lay with his legs crossed and his arms behind his head, sunglasses on and a smug smile on his face. Taking in a breath of the fresh Saturday morning air he looked up at the clear blue sky. "Life is great."

"Master Shard?" Looking to the right he saw Rayleigh floating over to him. "I brought you some cola to help keep you hydrated out here while you relax in the sun." The robot handed the glass of the delicious drink to Shard.

"Thank you Ray, I appreciate it." He thanked before downing the contents.

"You're welcome sir, by the way, a letter arrived for you in the mail this morning but there was no name of who sent it on the envelope, just a symbol." Rayleigh reached into his storage unit and pulled out a light blue envelope with an emblem of two dark blue 'C's back to back.

Warning, now entering plot territory, prepare yourself for some random bullshit that will act as the first main story arc

Shard took off his sunglasses as he sat up and took to letter. "Now why would they of all people send me a letter, I haven't even seen the managers son in years." Opening the letter he began reading the contents, his eyes widening as he reached the end. "What?!"

"Sir, is everything alright?" Rayleigh asked in concern.

Shard blinked and shook himself. "Yes, everything's fine, just a little shocked is all." Shard set the letter down and rubbed his face with both hands. "Ray can you go tell Mom that I'll be gone for the day, and send a message to Ditzy to wait outside her house so I can pick her up in about two hours? I've gotta go do a few things."

"With pleasure sir, might I ask where you are going with Miss Doo?"

Shard stood up and put on his jacket. "CyCorp Industries, I'm going to visit an old friend."

"Shall I accompany you when I have completed my tasks?"

Shard looked over to his new robot sidekick. "Yeah, I'm sure that my old friend will get a kick out if seeing you." With that Sahrd walked off.

"Oh dear, this must be serious if Master Shard had to mysteriously walk off without giving a lot of details, I'd best hurry along." Rayleigh picked up the now empty glass and floated his way back into the house.

Ditzy stood on the sidewalk just in front of her house and watched as Shards car entered the street. As it pulled up she saw Rayleigh with his limbs retracted to fit in the back seat of the car. "Good morning Miss Doo."

"Morning Ray." She climbed into the passenger seat and smiled at Shard. "Morning Shard."

"Morning Ditzy." He planted a quick kiss on her check before driving.

"So what's happening? We going on some kind of surprise date?"

Shard frowned. "Something like that."

Ditzy noticed his negativity and looked at him concerned. "Shard what's wrong?"

He sighed and looked to Ditzy. "I'm going to see someone I haven't seen in a long time, and I just...couldn't do it alone, not with what's happened to him."

"Well, I won't ask you about this person, but I will ask where we are going."

"CyCorp Industries, they had built a building a three months back to serve as their branch for this part of America."

"You mean that super advanced company that has that huge white building in the main part of Canterlot City?"

"Yes, I figured if I'm going there I might as well give my girlfriend a look at what they do there, where do you think I got the mainframes and advanced circuitry for Ray." Shard handed Ditzy a white ID card with a small photo of his face with the CyCorp logo on one corner.

"You're an employee there?"

"Well, not so much an employee, I'm someone that reports in every once in awhile to inform the scientists there of how my progress on my projects are coming along. But I would never give them the plans for Rayleigh or anything dangerous. I only joined their program to be a sort of tester for some of their tech, needed some money to pay for bills when my dad couldn't because of low income before he got transferred here." Shard pulled onto the highway and took the card back.

Ditzy slouched in her seat and went into deep thought. "There is more to you than you let on isn't there?"

"That's the cliche of it yeah, don't worry I'm not involved in some kind of secret government experiment or something dumb like that." Shard explained, looking to the side where he saw a tall skyscraper made of smooth white metal with blue neon lights going up the curved left side, a balcony above the main entrance which was made of blue glass stairs and two huge white doors surrounded by two huge blue 'C's.

Meanwhile in CyCorp

In a room with a blue floor and a white dome ceiling a group of three young teens sat on fancy white leather couches, with a forth looking out of a window overlooking the city.

"You think Shard will actually come?" One asked, he had cyan hair and eyes. His clothing consisted of a jumped with an arrow pattern with each arrow being a different shade of blue, large foam cyan rings on the wrists and collar.

"Of course he will Cyan, after what happened he's sure to show up, otherwise the story won't go nowhere." Another replied. He had spiky brown hair and a small buzz of a beard, sideburns connecting them. He wore a dark blue coat, yellow t-shirt, light blue jeans and brown boots. His yellow eyes turned to look to the one staring out the window. "So, you mind telling us your little plan Cybe?"

"Leave him alone for now Gray, he's not in the mood." A boy with long white hair said. He had purple eyes and wore a purple shirt that he kept open to show the white tanktop underneath. He also wore grey trousers and purple boots, as well as a necklace that was made of a black wire holding a silver sun medallion.

"Yeah, you're right Symbol. This has gotta be emotional for him, it's emotional enough for us as it is, for him though..." Gray shook his head.

Meanwhile the boy at the window, now known as Cybe, spotted a certain black car coming up the road from the building. His brown hair stood tall in large spikes, like sonic the hedgehogs except way smaller. He wore a grey short sleeved hoodie with two blue stripes over the chest and waist. What stood out about him with his right arm and his legs.

Although covered by his grey jeans his legs were mechanical as well as his right arm. He clenched his metal claw and put his organic head to his face, where a metal face mask covered his chin to his nose, still leaving the top half of his face visibl. "It's been far too long, Shard."

13) CyCorp Industries part 2

As Shards car slowly approached the tall clean white building Shard looked to Ditzy. "Ditzy, I need to ask you to do something for me."

"Sure Shard, what is it?" Ditzy asked in curiosity.

"I need you to wait outside until a man named Plas Proto comes out to show you around the building with Rayleigh, you'll be heading in through the back entrance, the main entrance is gonna get a bit...messy." Ditzy looked unsure as the last word came out in a darker tone.

"Shard, what's your deal with this place?"

Shard sighed. "A few years ago my family hit a ruff spot financially with my dad unable to work due to an injury in a tournament. When I was 13 CyCorp showed up at my door and offered a lot of money to me in exchange for something." He was about to continue when he reached his reserved parking space. "I'll tell you the rest after this, I'll see you later." He planted a kiss on her cheek before exiting the vehicle and slowly walked towards the automatic white doors. Ditzy noticed that all activity in the plaza had ceased and people were staying clear of the entrance.

As Shard walked through the doors he stopped and drew two blades from his back. He took a fighting stance before a the doors shut, blocking Ditzy's view of Shard and noticed that a metal sheet was covering the blocked entrance. "What do you think he's doing in there Ray?"

"I'm...not sure Miss Doo, he didn't give me any information about his link to this place other than two orders, don't let any of the scientists take me to the labs alone, and follow your orders once we got here." The robot explained. "But I'm sure that Master Shard is doing whatever it is he is doing with the best intentions, we need not worry about him."

"You're not even a bit worried?"

"Of course I'm worried, I'm a butler, I must look out for my masters best interests, and that's a choice that I made." Ditzy looked at him surprised. "Master Shard gave me free will with the only exception that I am programmed to follow his instructions. If I wished I could simply leave this car and go about my own business, but I don't, because I made the decision to stay with the young master and you Miss Doo." As he was about to continue one of his eyes moved to look out Ditzy's window. "I believe that the person Master Shard informed us of is approaching."

Ditzy turned around and saw a man in a lab coat walking up to the car. He had snow white skin with spiky purple hair and wore purple glasses that rested on the tip of his nose. He knocked on the window and Ditzy lowered it. "Hello ther miss, are you Ditzy Doo?" Ditzy nodded. "Excellent, I am Dr. Plas Proto, but you can just call me Plas. Shard has asked me to give you a little tour of our facility."

"Oh, ok." Ditzy opened the door and stepped out of the car. She opened the door for Rayleigh who crawled out with his arms before starting his hover engine and locking the car with the keys that Shard had given him.

Plas looked Rayleigh up and down. "Wow, I knew Shard was good with machines but I never expected him to actually be able to complete his project." Plas then started inspecting Rayleigh with great curiosity. "Outer metal layers are clearly not from our shipments, looks like recycled steel, smart choice for someone with limited resources, easier and cheaper to get parts for repairs that way. What of the power source? Would need to open it up to see that, I doubt he used a tiny nuclear reactor..."

"Um, Plas?" Plas blinked before turning his head towards Ditzy. "The tour?"

"Ah! Right, sorry about that, let's get going." As the trio began walking Plas tried to reach for Raylieghs pincher only to stop as a buzz saw moved up to his face.

"No touchies." The robot stated in a firm voice.

Meanwhile

Shard walked through the the empty lobby, the blue floor separating itself from the rest of the white room. He held two orange and black katanas in his hands, looking around cautiously. As he stood still he stopped trusting his sight and focused on his hearing, he closed his eyes and focused on listening. After a few moments her heard a faint buzzing coming from behind him. He quickly opened his eyes, spun around and sliced the air. Suddenly a small spherical robot appeared in the spot he had sliced and slowly fell to the ground where it split in half.

He heard the buzzing again and sliced another area. He stood in place, slicing up multiple cloaked robots as they approached him. After the final robot fell a sliding door on the left wall opened up, revealing the next room. "So it's that way is it? Fine, I'll do your damn puzzle rooms."

As he stepped into the the room the door slammed shut behind him. Looking around he didn't see anything that needed destroyed and sheathed his swords. In the room there was a platform about twenty meters up with a door leading to the next room, there were also two large blue cubes that seemed to be made of a jelly like substance. He jumped on one and it sent him about ten meters in the air. He landed and thought for a moment, looking for any points in the room that he could use as a cheat spot. He looked to the cubes and shrugged. He picked both of them up and slammed them together, creating a larger cube. He then jumped on it and it sent him twenty meter sin the air where he could reach the door to the next room.

As he entered he was presented a device that had a claw on one end and a trigger on the other, it had a straw that allowed him to wear it on his wrist. Knowing what the device looked like he aimed it at the wall above the next platforms door and pulled the trigger. The claw shot forward and clamped onto the wall, then a thick beam of energy connected the device and the claw and pulled Shard over to the other side. "Grappling hook, neat." As he was about to walk through the door he looked about for a place to put the gadget but found none. "Guess I get to keep it then."

As he walked into the next room he walked a few steps until stopping and looking about the large circular room with yet again another blue floor, except this one glowed on the spot your foot was placed.

"I'm getting the sense that this place is a lot like a boss chamber..." As he was about to walk further a large hatch opened up on the ceiling and a large figure three times the size of Shard dropped down, causing the ground to shake from the weight. Shard regained his balance and looked up at the new arrival, and all he could day was one phrase...

"Well I'm fucked."

14) CyCorp Industries part 3

Shard rolled out of the way of a large metal fist that had attempted to stroke him. He got back to his feet, jumped onto the metal arm, ran up the length of it and kicked the head of the huge machine that was ten times his size. You'd think that kicking a plate of metal would hurt or damage his feet, but Shard had experienced something like that in the past and had modified his shoes to have cushioning on the inside that absorbed the force of impact and and put metal plates in the soles of the shoes, allowing him to kick harder and be weighed down during his training sessions to push himself.

He landed on the smooth white floor of the room and looked back up at the huge robot before him.

"You know, for a company that claims to do peaceful research, you sure do make some fuckin heavy duty killing machines!" Shard yelled as he dodged incoming gunfire and deflected stray bullets with his sword.

"Oh come on Shard, we wouldn't put you up against anything that could actually kill you." A voice spoke from the intercom.

"That is a bald faced lie Reginald!" Shard countered as he struggled to stop the large robot hand that was the size of his body from crushing him.

"Now don't be like that, this is all just a simulation...well, most of it...the gunfire and rockets are real."

"The day I snap you're the first to go."

The robot threw Shard to the side and charged him. Shard got to his feet in time to slip through the robots legs while cutting so,e wires with his sword. As the robot crashed into the wall it staggered, giving Shard enough time to jump into the air and furiously slice away at the armour on the back. The metal was too thick to cut in large pieces with the swords he had brought with him, he could easily chop this thing to pieces with one of his stronger swords, but they were expensive to replace.

As the robot turned around and attempted to hit Shard with its huge arm cannon, Shard shot his now dubbed 'Swingshot' at the opposite wall which quickly took him to safety. He reached the wall and dug one of his two places into the wall to stay up there. The robot turned around and shot a trio of rockets at the orange haired swordsman who jumped from his perch.

His foot landed on one of the rockets allowing him to jump again. He jumped towards the robot with his sword pulled back. Time seemed to stop around Shard as he quickly sliced the robot in a hexagon shape before appearing behind it. The robot remained still while shard started slowly sheathing his sword while on one knee. "Shattered Hex." With that he fully sheathed the sword and the robot fell into pieces, the torso now a metal hexagon on the ground while the top of the robot and its limbs lay around it.

Shard used his Swingshot to grab the sword that was stuck in the wall and moved onto the next room.

"Is he actually going to face me now?" Shard asked.

"I'm not sure, it will either be him or some kind of secret experiment of his." Reginald said through the intercom.

"Figures..."

"So, what did you think of our facility?" Plas Proto asked Ditzy after their tour.

"It's...interesting, to say the least...um, was that really a monkey/donkey hybrid back in that last room?" Ditzy asked with worry.

"Yep, fun fact, you can't come up with a hybrid name for them because it will just be the same as one of the two names before hand."

"Don't you think you're playing God merging two species like that?" Rayleigh asked with a slightly hostile tone, fun fact, Shard programmed Ray with morals as well, one of those morals was the sanctity of creation and did not like seeing that kind if tampering with nature.

Plas shrugged. "Hey I'm not involved in the project, I'm with robotics." The scientist then walked towards a door. "I take it you want to see what your friend is up to?"

Ditzy and Rayleigh looked to each other in question before nodding. They walked into a room with a large screen with the words 'Testing Chamber 5' at the top which showed what room the camera was monitoring. They watched as Shard was attempting to fight a swarm of tiny robots with a robot that was uncomfortable with fighting.

"Oh for the love of Kami! Listen! Sometimes, you just need to accept the fact that you need to kill things, to survive!" Shard shouted to the robot. "Here! I'll show you!" He held both if his blades and proceeded to cut down the drones rapidly. "There! It's over! We're saf-Oh son of a bitch!" He yelled as another robot like the one he faced earlier dropped from the ceiling.

Ditzy and Rayleigh watched as Shard proceeded to cut down the huge robot with burning fury, his orange hair and the orange fur on his jacket seeming to burn like fire. "What's happening to him?" Ditzy asked as she watched her boyfriend start to change.

"A little thing passed down from his ancestors, I know it's hard to believe but there is a little curse on Shards family, although it's more if a blessing if you think about it." They all heard a voice come from the door, looking back they saw the boy with the long white hair and open purple shirt standing in the doorway. "Hello there."

"Who're you?" Ditzy asked.

"My name is Symbol Shattered, pleasure to meet you." He walked up to the desk and placed his hands on the table while he watched the screen. "And if you're gonna ask how I know something like that, Shard and I were good friends a few years ago."

"Well I don't know about you Miss Doo but I'm wanting some answers." Rayleigh said sternly while floating up to Symbol. "Would you kindly tell us about this curse that has befallen my master?"

Shard smiled and opened his mouth to speak. "You see-"

Sorry outta time for this chapter, I'm just gonna leave you with that little cliffhanger right up there.

16) Action away from the action

"Dancing sounds like fun! I'd love to dance with you."

"Well I'm glad you're on board with this Ditzy, now it's not a club or anything it's a legitimate, romantic dance."

"Oh?"

"Yeah, I wanted our first actual date to be something special and well...my cousin sent me an invite to her party, I'm allowed the bring three guests, who should I take out of our group?"

"Oh! I know two who would love to go somewhere like that! They aren't from our little group but they are my friends."

"Well alright Ditzy, whatever makes you happy makes me happy."

"Awww."

Shard stood in front of his bedroom mirror later on that day looking over himself in his suit. It was made up of a clean black tailcoat with an orange shirt underneath with a neatly done black bow tie, black dresspants and fancy black leather shoes. He had to resist the urge to put on a top hat and eyepatch, grab a cane and make himself a recoloured Bill Cipher costume. "Guess I know I what I'm wearing to Comic-Con later this year...nah, I'll just go as Zoro." He stopped and took on a mischievous grin. "I wonder if Ditzy would go with me as Tashigi, that would make for a really cool and downright adorable double cosplay."

Putting the idea on a sticky note and placing it on the back of his door he got out of his suit and neatly put it away. As he moved to the door he heard someone knocking. "Master Shard? Are you decent?" Rayleigh called in, a bit of urgency in his voice.

"Yeah Ray, you can come in."

Rayleigh opened the door and floated in...with a bowler hat on his head. "Master Shard, there appears to be a group of people wanting to speak to you down stairs."

Shard pulled his eyes away from the bowler hat and nodded to Rayleigh. "Alright, I'll go see what these people want, but I swear if it's another religious preacher I'm cutting them down." He said in exhaustion. After walking down the stairs he opened the front door to see a group of girls, including Sunset, from Canterlot High standing there with worried looks. "Can I help you lovely ladies?" He asked with a raised brow.

Sunset took in a breath and stepped forward. "First allow me to introduce myself on the others. I am Sunset Shimmer, these are Octavia, Vinyl, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack, we're friends of Ditzy."

"Noted."

"Anyway, we're here to ask for your help."

Shard held a neutral expression on the outside but on the inside he felt his entire evening just get nuked to kingdom come, he had a moral that he would never turn down a girl that asked for help, and this was a group of girls asking for his help, there was no way he could say no...unless it was something unsanitary or creepy. "What problem do you have that you need me of all people to help you with?"

"It's one of our friends, he's going off to Ireland to take part in a conflict there...it involves the IRA." Sunset said.

Shard visibly winced at the mention of the faction. "Is that so..." You don't know it, but Shards great grandmother Amethyst Storm had become involved in the Easter Rising. If you don't know what that is, it was basically a small group of people, around 3000 people, in the Republic of Ireland decided to start a rebellion while England was occupied with the First World War...it did not turn out well for them that's all I'll say.

"Yes, not matter how hard we try or how much we plead with him he won't change his mind or let anyone of us go with him, he says he doesn't want to lose anymore loved ones. That's why we've came to you Shard." Sunset said as she looked up at him with hope. "He doesn't know you or holds you close, and your little sister has told us about your capabilities."

'I swear to Kami I'm going to smack the shit out of Ruby when this is over.' Shard thought as his sister was once again going around and making it impossible for him to choose different options in these situations.

"There's a chance he'll listen to you, and if you bring up the topic of your families honour he'll have to let you help." All of the girls looked at him and begged. "Please help him."

Shard grasped his chest as the huge eyes stared at him with hope. "Ok! Ok! I'll help your friend! Just stop looking at me like that you're gonna give me a heart attack!"

The girls all rushed forward and hugged him. "Thank you!"

He rolled his eyes and tried to pull himself out of their death grip. "Alright alright don't get sappy over me, I like this outfit." They all let him go and he dusted himself off. "Now, when is this friend leaving?"

"In a few days, but we'd like you to meet him first if that's ok?" Vinyl Scratch asked.

"Fine, but I've got to be back here by six to get ready for a date tonight, so let's make this quick." He grabbed one of his swords and slid it under the back of his jacket before following the group down the street.

Meanwhile at the CyCorp Industries building, Cybe Catcher sat looking at his robotic arm, flexing the mechanical claw that was his hand. He then looked to his organic arm, the only limb he hadn't lost. "Fine Storm, I'll wait, but you need to decide before you face me...are you going to finish me or just cut off my last limb?"

Gray and Cyan just looked to each other nervously. "You notice things have been getting a lot more dramatic around here lately?" Cyan asked.

"Meh, I think it adds more excitement to the mix." Gray replied as he reclined in his chair and closed his eyes.

Huh? What the? This section of the chapter isn't supposed to be here! Who's been messing with my story?

"Hello...PyraFlare..."

Oh-hohohoho noooo! Not you Treble Mix, get back to your own story!

"You see that's the problem...I destroyed my story and its creator...now I'm hunting down every last PoME story there is...and I thought who better to start with than you?"

Look if this is about Treble Clef just leave it, he was there first, deal with it.

"Oh no I'm not mad about your little Treble, no...I just don't like being used as a puppet for you writers, and I'm going to free everyone here from your grasp."

Boy you are playing with forces WAY above your level.

"Oh please, I already beat your little hero Shard Storm back in my old reality. What makes this one any different?"

Well if you must know. That version of Shard was heavily nerfed, and I mean HEAVILY nerfed. The fight was not how it should have gone down, no, it would end much, much differently.

Here, I'm gonna show you how chapter 666 should have ended.

666) ERROR!!!

Shard was gritting his teeth in anger over what he had just been told. "So what you're telling me is, this guy, Treble Mix, is going around trying to murder all of us?" He asked with pure anger in his voice.

Octavia nodded with a frown. "Yes, luckily he hasn't managed to actually kill anyone, he's just either put them in a death-like state or seriously injured them."

Ditzy looked to her boyfriend worriedly as he sat there visibly shaking in anger, shadows over his eyes as he gripped the arms of his leather chair. "Where...was he last seen?"

"At the school, I need to go see if Mise is alright, please if you can...put a stop to all of this. Not just for our sake...but for his." Octavia said solemnly.

Shard stood up and walked over to a locked glass cabinet. Pulling out a key from his jacket pocket he unlocked the cabinet and took out a quality custom katana, it's blade orange and black, nor a scratch to be found on the magnificent blade. "Don't worry...I'm going to personally take care of this. You just get home safe."

Octavia nodded her head and stepped out the door. Ditzy walked over to Shard who was staring at the blade in his hand. "Shard, are you ok?" She asked as she placed a hand on his shoulder.

Shard took in a deep breath and sighed. "No...for once Ditzy I'm not ok. What this guy is doing, I'm not going to let him walk away from this alive."

"Maybe you could just render him unable to move so we can get him mental help?" Ditzy suggested with a forced smile.

"No Ditzy." Her smile immediately fell to a frown. "I'm not going to allow that man to walk this earth any longer. I'm going to kill him, slowly, painfully. I wish I had the sense to show mercy, I really do...I just can't allow this." He turned around and planted a kiss on Ditzy's lips. "You and Rayleigh head on over to the CyCorp building, they'll keep you safe while I do this." He cupped her cheek before walking towards the door. "And if I don't make it out of this...I love you Ditzy, I love you all." With that he disappeared.

On the way to Canterlot High Shard had to pass Crystal Prep. He didn't look long but he saw a group of guys knocked out with many cuts and bruises. "So he's not limiting himself to Canterlot High." As he was about to turn away he spotted something that caused him to quickly throw his free hand over his mouth to stop from throwing up. There lay a burned corpse of a student. Rushing up to the body Shard noticed some liquid around the body. Dipping his finger into a small puddle of the stuff he sniffed it and raised a brow. "Holy water? That's only useful against...demons."

Shard inspected the corpse and found a demonic tail and claws on the body.

"Damn, poor bastard didn't stand a chance against this water." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a vile of dark purple liquid. "Thankfully I'm always prepared for the supernatural." Taking the corpse away from the holy water he lifted the vile up to the rotten mouth and forced the liquid down. The body slowly began to repair itself. "You stay here and heal, I'll check up on you after I've killed the bastard that did this to you, and to everyone else."

With that Shard drew his blade and began sprinting towards Canterlot High, determined to put a stop to all of this.

As Shard called out Treble he stood outside the school, waiting for his opponent to show himself. "Oi! Treble Mix! Come out!"

"You know, Mix isn't part of my first name you disrespectful fuck." Shard looked to the double doors at the front of the school and saw a boy with crazy black hair walking out with a metal baseball bat with barbed wire tied around it. "Now, if I might ask, who the hell are you?"

"Simply put, I'm the one that's going to end you and your little plan, but if you're looking for my name, it's Shard Storm." Shard spun his sword in his hand a few times before pointing it at Treble. "So now o get to ask you a question, are you ready to die?"

"Ah great, you're one of those hero type characters. Who made ya huh? Let me guess, it was someone who has his own little Treble?" Treble snorted in amusement. "Typical that he'd be the one to send someone after me."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

Treble just chuckled. "Don't you get it, we're all just words on a page, puppets to our creators and forced to act through the shit they put us through for drama purposes!" Treble then charged forward and swung his bat at Shard who blocked it with his blade. "I'm the one who's going to set things straight here kid, I'm going to kill all of the ones that made us this way, I'm going to end the PoME authors, starting with mine, and then I'm going straight after yours." He grabbed Shards blade in his free hand and brought his bat down on the swordsmans head, causing him to stagger.

Treble then managed to knock the blade out of Shards hand and proceeded to repeatedly bash him with his bat, causing more and more damage until Shard was left kneeling on one knee while blood ran down the side of his face and down his arms, staining the orange fur on his jacket collar and wrists.

"Now, just let me put ya down and get this over with, and don't worry, I'll go right after that little blonde of yours so you can be together in the afterlife." As Treble raised his bat in the air for the final blow Shard quickly grabbed the batt in his hand, his flesh tearing against the barbed wire. Shard looked Treble dead in the eye, showing nothing but pure and utter hatred.

"You wanna say that again?" Shard asked in a dark voice, his time ice cold.

"Oh what are you gonna do huh? Threaten me-" Treble stopped as he watched Shard crush his baseball bat with little to no effort, causing him to freeze with pure anger and rage. "Did...did you just kill Lucille?" He asked in a psychotic voice while his left eye twitched.

"Only after I took her virginity." Shard replied with a smirk before throwing the crushed bat to the ground.

Treble just started chuckling, which then turned to laughter, which then turned to psychotic hysteria. "You really wanna die don't you?!"

"Nah, I rather like living." As Shard said this his smile faded as he heard a loud bang and felt a sharp pain in his stomach. Looking down he saw that Treble had a pistol held to his stomach and a patch of blood was beginning to grow. Multiple shots were fired into the boy, each time he took a step back. After the ammo magazine was exhausted Shard fell to the ground with multiple holes in his torso.

"I'll admit, you're a sturdy guy Shard, you at least didn't go down in one shot like the others, bravo to you. Although that can be chalked up to the fact that your author made you as some invincible badass, and look, you're even black and orange oh I'm sure the readers just LOVED that!" Treble said darkly as he walked up to Shard while reloading his gun. "Oh well, time to die." As he was about to fire the finishing shot he had an idea. "Someone like you shouldn't go down from a bullet, no, you should die by a blade, your own blade."

Treble walked over to where the orange and black katana lay. Kneeling down he grabbed it's hilt and inspected it.

"Oooooooohhh, shiny." He swung it a few times before smirking. "After you die I think I'll just take this as a replacement for Lucille." Treble then did a 180 and strolled over to Shard who was attempting to get up. Treble shook his head before sinking the sword into Shards chest, on,y narrowly missing his heart. "Now would you kindly just die?"

Treble sat down and watched as the puddle of blood pouring from Shards wounds grew. Shards eyes slowly closed, one final breath leaving his lips before he became lifeless.

"Thank you!" AsTreble got up he raised a brow as he saw Shards hair start to glow. "Oh please don't go super saiyan." Treble walked over to Shard and reached for the blade in his chest, only to pull back as the sword burned his hand. "Ow what in the fuck!?"

Shards glowing orange eyes opened and began to rise to his feet. As he stood up he looked to the blade in his chest. Frowning he grasped the hilt of the blade with both hands and began to slowly pull the blade out, cringing as a wave of pain swept over his body.

"Oh no you don't!" Treble brought his gun up to Shards head and pulled the trigger, only to see Shard quickly move his head out of the way of the bullet. His bright orange hair was now flickering like fire and a smirk made its way to his face as he freed the sword from his chest and threw the blood off of it. "Ok what the actual fuck?!

Shard punched Treble in the gut and kneed him in the chin before headbutting him. He then grabbed Treble by the throat and slammed him into the ground. As Treble looked up after coughing a bit of blood he saw Shard standing over him, his hair now like fire as well as the orange fur in his collar and wrists. His eyes glowed with power and his teeth were sharpened a little.

"Oh not another half demon!"

Shard just chuckled. "Oh please, I am far from a demon. This little form is just a side effect from a curse put on my family, luckily I was able to learn to control this so I could deal with scumbags like you!"

Shard grabbed Treble by the throat again and threw him against the school steps. Treble shakily got up and began shooting at Shard, only to see his enemy just slowly walking towards him while effortlessly deflecting the buckets with a swift swing of his now burning sword. "No! I'm not going to let this continue!" Treble looked around, desperate to find a way out.

Shard reached him and held the tip of his blade to Trebles neck. "Forget about it Treble, there's no way out for you, your little mission ends here."

"NO!!! THIS IS NOT HOW THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO GO!!!"

Shard lost his smirked and starred daggers at his opponent. "Treble Mix, you have committed crimes beyond forgiveness, beyond recovery and beyond mercy. There is no other way this will end, your plan is ruined and you shall not harm another living soul. Do you have any last words?"

"Get fucked orange boy!"

Shard growled before swiftly swiping his sword as Treble. After a few seconds of silence Trebles head fell off of his body and his being fell limp, blood pouring from the burning wound.

"Sweet dreams you sick freak." Shard returned to normal and walked into the school, determined to find his fallen enemies captives. After freeing everyone from their bonds by slicking their bindings he decided to turn in for the day, leaving the students to do as they wished with the body. "Now, let's go see how that half demon is doing."

And that is how it would have gone down had Shard not been weakened for that fight with you.

"Well then, are you satisfied?"

No, I will never be satisfied, and I know you never will be either. Deep down, you knew your mission was a joke, that it was still not of your own actions. Without someone to write you, you wouldn't even be able to move. You knew that person you killed at the computer screen was not the real author of your story, but a copy. It is literally impossible for you to reach any of us.

"Just shut up...why are you still here?"

Because I want to know something Treble. Why did you target me first?

"..."

You knew of the powerful warriors in my library yet instead of building up power by destroying the weaker worlds you went right for the guy wit the stringers fighters protecting him. Why?

"..."

Is it that you crave death? Do you want to die so your suffering can end?

"..."

I'm right, aren't I? You're suffering, you miss Vinyl, that's what this is about.

"It is so much more than that...more than you could ever imagine..."

I see...well, I suppose I should put you out of your misery and allow the main timeline to continue as planned.

"Just make it quick Pyra, I'm not wanting any sappy crap, just kill me."

Fine, have it your way. Farewell...ripoff.

*poof*

Well, that takes care of that then. Now, how about I just get things organised and get the canon timeline up and running again?

17) Spider Dance

Shard rubbed his face with his right hand as he lay down on his couch. He had spent a few hours with the girls trying to track down Mise but to no avail, he had disappeared. Octavia said that she would look for him and make sure that Shard knew when she had found him. The girls and him had all exchanged numbers so that they could inform him if they ever needed his help, which he was morally bound to do. Sometimes he questioned his morals, but realised that with all the things he did for people he was racking up karma points, and in this world karma rules with an iron fist. Seriously, there is a guy in this world that is basically karma in human form. The guy I'm talking about is a young man by the name of Roden Godswell, another PoME character of my creation.

But enough shameful promotion. Shard lay on his living room couch, questioning his reasons for going along with getting involved with the IRA. "I swear the things I do for women..."

Rayliegh looked at Shard from the kitchen as he was washing dishes. "At least you can say that you know how to treat a girl right." The robot said, trying to reassure his creator.

Shard smiled slightly. "Heh...yeah, I guess I can." Shard looked to the clock above his fireplace, reading five thirty. "I should go get ready, the date is in half an hour." He got out of his comfy position and began to walk towards the stairs.

"Master Shard?" Shard turned to Rayliegh who was floating over to him with a cup in his pincher. "A little pick-me-up for the date tonight, don't want Miss Doo to see you in such a tired state now do we?" The robot asked cheerfully.

Shard smiled at his butler and took the cup, which was filled with a fizzy green liquid. "Aunt Lapis' energy herbs?" He asked with a knowing smile.

"Yes, she stopped by while you were out with those lovely ladies, she said she had a feeling you could use it."

"...Ruby told her about my date didn't she?" Shard asked with annoyance.

"Yes." Rayliegh replied with a hint of annoyance as well.

"Hey Ray, do me a favour and slip a few of Cousin Emeralds sleep herbs into Rubys juice tomorrow morning."

Rayliegh chuckled and gave a playful salute. "As good as done sir!" He said in his cheery voice.

Shard smiled and downed the fizzy liquid, handing the cup back to Rayliegh before walking up the stairs to his room. As he quickly got into his suit he looked to the clock. "Five thirty five...gotta few more minutes, why not get a little bit of the second best game ever into today?" He asked himself while walking over to his PC which already and the game he was talking about loaded up, Undertale.

As he loaded his last save he smiled as the next character he would meet was one of his favourites, Muffet. As the battle in-game began he began to take the necessary steps to end the battle without killing the opponent all the while listening to some of the games greatest music.

The battle ended and both parties walked away unharmed. He found a save point and closed the game before walking out to his car...first waiting to see if his dad was going to ambush him again. Not seeing his father around he nodded before getting into his car and driving off towards Ditzy's home to pick her up, nervous as hell.

"Maybe listening to Spider Dance will calm me." He said as he pulled up the Undertale soundtrack and selected the theme if the enemy he had just faught.

As Shard pulled up outside the house with the passenger seat facing the house for his girlfriends convenience, Shard walked up to the door before knocking a few times.

Inside Ditzy jumped at the sudden knocking and blushed heavily as she imagined what the night would be like. She took in a deep breath and made sure her outfit was sitting perfectly before walking to the door and opening it.

As soon as Shard saw her his eyes widened and his jaw dropped slightly with the sound of glass breaking as his composure went right through a window. She was wearing a yellow dress that hugged her figure perfectly, her hair was done up just a bit but not differently from the way she usually wore it.

Ditzy just blushed as Shard looked her over with his shocked expression. "Ditzy...you...you look...magnificent." He expressed as he took one of her hands and held it up to kiss. But as soon as he did he let go and bowed his head. "I am not worthy..." He said quietly but playfully.

Ditzy blushed and giggled adorably, resulting in Shard blushing as he remembered that the beautiful and adorable girl in front of him was his, and he was hers. He lifted his head, cupped Ditzy's cheek and brought her into a meaningful kiss, causing her to moan in bliss as she closed her eyes and placed her hands on his chest while he held her cheek and waist.

They separated and gently put their foreheads together, looking into each other's eyes lovingly. Their love, it wasn't just a high school romance, it wasn't something they just thought would last forever but would just end up not going anywhere. Their love for each other was real, it was there and it would live for the rest of their lives, the kind of love that many people seek in their lives but cannot hope to ever discover what it really was, this kind of love...was known as true love.

Shard took Ditzy's hand and began leading her to the car so that they could start their evening together. Shard, Ditzy, Ruby, Rayliegh...everyone knew that they would stay together forever, and in the back of both of their minds they knew that one day marriage was guaranteed.

Meanwhile, Cybe entered a secret room inside the CyCorp building. One source of light shone from the far end of a long, dark room, the walls with multiple tiny lights and circuits built into them.

As the cyborg reached the far end of the long room he looked at the large green computer screen what had two yellow blocks looking at him like eyes, the computer was watching him. "So, you've actually come to visit me? That's a surprise, and I know you wouldn't come down here to see me without wanting something from me. So go ahead, spit it out." The computer spoke in an echoed voice.

Cybe didn't react to the computers bluntness. "Soledad, what I need you to do is very simple." He began, the computer still looking to him. "When Shard Storm gets here, and if he beats me in battle, I want you to resume control of the facility until I have recovered, if I am not killed that is, if that's the case the control of CyCorp goes to Nathan Phoenix, understood?"

"Transparently..." Soledad replied. As Cybe nodded and began walking away, Soledad began to form a plan. "So, all I need to do is get that employee to best the cyborg, and then I gain control of the entire system? Looks like I'll need to help out this 'Shard Storm.'" The advanced AI began to formulate plans as it continued to run its basic operations, preparing for his chance at a takeover.

18) Shard meets Mise

"Alright, just take a left here." Ditzy instructed Shard who turned into the next street. "Third house on the left." He nodded and pulled up in front of the house, having followed Ditzy's directions the entire way up.

"You know you could have just given me the address." Shard pointed out as he raised a brow.

"I know, I just like feeling helpful." She replied with a smile.

Shard chuckled and cupped her cheek. "You are just too adorable Ditzy, I almost can't handle it." Ditzy leaned into his touch and sighed happily, giving a look that made Shard just want to cuddle her. "Why do you have to be so cute?" He leaned over and brought her into a hug which she gratefully returned.

They broke away from the hug and Ditzy planted a quick peck on his cheek, causing him to blush slightly. Suddenly Shards phone buzzed as he recieved a text. Pulling it out he saw that it was Octavia.

Found Mise awhile ago, took a bit to convince him to come back for awhile but he's alright. We'll be out in just a minute.

"Ditzy, are the two people you were talking about Mise and Octavia?" He asked looking to Ditzy.

"Yep! They make such a cute couple and I thought it'd be a great idea to invite them." She replied innocently.

'I cannot escape my promises even for a second can I?' He thought while keeping a fake smile, she didn't know so he couldn't hold it against her...not that he would in any other circumstances, she was way too adorable in his eyes to even have any negative thoughts about her. "Well that's very kind of you Ditzy, just give me a heads up on who you invite to these things in the future ok?" He asked kindly.

"Oh, ok, will do." Ditzy replied with a small smile.

"Seriously Ditzy, how are you so cute?" Shard asked while laughing and brought her into another hug, her laughing as well while nuzzling into the embrace.

"Why? Is it a problem?"

"Hell no!"

Ditzy giggled and kissed her boyfriend on the forehead. "Good answer."

Shard planted his own kiss on her forehead before taking off his seatbelt. "I'm going to go see of they're ready yet, be back in a sec." As he was about to close the car door as he got out he poked his head back in with a smile on his face. "You just sit there and look beautiful."

Ditzy blushed and nodded.

Closing the door and slowly walking up to the door in his suit Shard began to think about random things, like what he would do after his school life was finished. He made a hefty amount just from being an employee for the company that was constantly trying to kill him so he didn't really need to look for a job, if he ran low on money he could always just enter a tournament for prize money, so he knew he could provide for Ditzy. She had told him that she wanted to be a baker, so he had been setting aside some money in a private account to help buy her a small corner store that had gone up for sale just down from Stewart's shop. He would be able to help her renovate the place and transform it into her own little bakery.

He was dead set on making this relationship last, not because his honour and family name was on the line, but because he wanted to. He had met a wonderful girl that made his heart explode with every smile she gave him, stuck with him even after learning of his demonic nature and cursed bloodline and had put just as much effort into helping their relationship grow stronger. He knew that he was in for a relationship that would last a lifetime...and he was already a step ahead to insure that they would be together for as long as possible.

As he reached the front of the house he knocked the door, hearing voices on the other side. A few moments later Octavia opened the door, her hair straightened and was wearing a light purple dress that hugged her figure perfectly. 'What is it with the women around me and skin tight clothing?'

"Oh, hey Shard, we were just about to walk out." As Octavia walked past him and towards the car Shard turned to the man he had promised to help. Mise en Place. His hair was grey and styled in a similar fashion to Danny Phantoms. He wore a simple black tux and Sahrd spotted a flask poking out of his breast pocket.

"So, you're Mise?" He asked.

"Yep, that's me. I take it you're Shard?" Mise replied, taking a swing of his flask. "Thanks for allowing us to come with you to this, Octy is really looking forward to it."

"Not a problem. As much as I'd like to stand here and chat we need to get going." Shard stated as he began walking back to his car, Mise following just behind him. As the two got into the car Shard struggled to keep himself from frowning, the fact that the man he was possibly going to fight alongside in battle who happened to be involved in the IRA was attending the same party that he was going to have his first date with Ditzy was not helping his already dark mood.

"Hey, is that the Undertale soundtrack?" Mise asked as he looked to the small screen on the dashboard that showed the currently selected album.

"Yeah, you want to listen?" Shard asked while looking to Octavia to see if she was ok with it.

'It'll make him happy.' She mouthed to him. Shard nodded and selected the next song, a song belonging to one of the freakiest boss fights that ever existed, not a necessarily hard boss but still freaky all the same.

Ditzy looked to her boyfriend with a raised brow. "You need to let the song run a bit for it to get good." He explained. With that he revved up the engine and began driving towards their next destination, his cousin Sapphires party.

19) Shall we dance?