An hour after my greatest embarrassment was revealed, then showing Dash, Pinkie and Shy the rest of the album. Dragonforce, was not my idea but it suited the band with the fact that all its members were either half dragon or full blooded dragons.

Anyway, after I had shown them the album, they soon left with their own copies. I just wanted to burn those discs. Nyx saw that I didn't feel comfortable with the band and tried to avoid asking me anything.

But just as the elevator left the girls in surface, the entire facility shut down. No power which was odd but then again, age bitch.

So finding Cyrux on the roof, following the wires to the main reactor while I walked my way there. After a few twists and turns, we found the reactor room and it was filled with pylons that held Power cells on them. I groaned, seeing that every single power cell was out of juice. I went to the get another one but found none.

I'm out of Power Cells, God damnit. I had told Nyx to stay in Ponyville, that I was going to be gone for a while in search of another power source.

She agreed but not without offering to go with me. Of course I said no, it's dangerous to go where I'm going. Last I heard of Haven was that it was only used nowadays for the Kras City Grand Championship, which I will be competing in soon but for now, I must search.

Traversing in the dark is really hard, especially in here. I was only lucky that I had night vision. I was looking for one specific room and found it, though the state of the door showed that even if the facility had power, the door wouldn't open. It was covered in vines, rust and grass. Raising up a hand, I blasted the door open and headed inside.

Inside was another hallway, this hallway was special not only because it had only one door but because it was made with reinforced Precursor steel.

The door on the other end of the hall shone to life. I smirked, the door needs eco to open unlike the others.

As I walked through the open door, I was greeted by the sight of the Sub-rail station. I breathed in the smell of Precursor metal, the nostalgic feeling was nice and all but there's no time for that.

I felt something vibrate in my pocket, reaching in and pulling out the item in question, I saw that it was Jace’s talisman. Shrugging my shoulder, I decided why not.

“Umm, hey if you hear this, I might need some help.” I said before tossing to the side, causing a portal to appear.

Jace

“No! There’s nothing else to it, if you get pissed when you are using red mana shit goes haywire!” I yelled at her. The mare with silver hair in question crossed her arms and glared at me.

“Oh come on there’s have to be more than that, just saying ‘It’s magic’ doesn’t work, there’s more to it!” She yelled. We both been arguing at one another for about an hour as both Moonlight and Twilight looked at us, back and forth as if it was a tennis match.

“They are going at it huh.” Twilight said to Moonlight.

“Yeah, I think it’s funny to see somepony that looks like you and is your sister yelling at Jace about Mana.” She said. They both giggled at that as I glared at Twilight ‘sister’.

“And another thing, who are these robe figures that I been seeing in my dreams.” She asked. I groaned at her.

“For the billionth time, I DON’T KNOW! Now stop asking!” I told her. She was about to say something when a voice was heard.

“Umm, hey if you hear this, I might need some help.” I heard. I know the voice, it was Jak. I looked and saw that the portal. Everyone looked at it and the mare stared at it in shock.

“Wha…”

“THANK THE MAKER! BYE!” I yelled as I ran into the portal. I heard a ‘Hey!’ from behind me but I was in the portal as it closed.

Jak

While the portal was doing it's thing, I walked over to the cart and pulled out my amulet, allowing it to let out a red hue before the cart hovered to life.

“If only shit were this easy.” I said to myself. A light shone in the control panel of the cart and saw that it was a hole shaped like the amulet.

“Never knew what that did.” I noted before hearing something behind me. Looking back it was a dude instead of woman this time. He was looking at the portal.

“Closecloseclosecloseclose!” He said as the portal closed and he let out a sigh and turned to me. He looked like the woman from before but much taller and a beard.

I didn't want to say anything, so looking back at the cart, I kept checking if everything was good to go. He walked up to the cart and I saw him looking around.

“First, hello to you too and second this place is trippy.” He said to me.

“This place isn't mine, I just happen to live next to it but hello to you as well.” I said to him. I pulled out my morph gun and saw that I needed more ammo. I cursed at myself for ignoring the need to resupply.

“What is this place, it looks familiar.” I heard Jace ask.

“Have you not played one of Naughty Dog's Greatest PlayStation 2 hits?” I asked him with a raised brow. He looked up and had a thinking look on him. He then raised a hand.

“Crash Bandicoot, Ratchet and Clank, and… oh now I remember.” He said as he looked at me and pointed at me. “This is the… what the Precursor highway or something?”

“Sub-rails but yeah, you get it. I'm in need of a powerful battery or a shit load of Power cells and some ammo. Meaning, I need to go to Haven and the last I've heard of it, it was abandoned, left to decay and all that jazz.” I explained, holding the cart down a bit before letting go, seeing that it stays in the same hovering height. I turned and saw Jace frowning.

“When I hear abandoned, the first thing I think of is monsters, zombies and everything evil.” He said to me. I stared at him.

“Not that kind of abandoned, it's still used as a race track.” I said as I hopped on the cart. He came around and hopped into the cart as well.

“Onwards and up wards!” He said.

“Really…” I said to him. He just looked at me.

“What?” I shook my head and we headed out.

Last time I ever take the sub-rails, security was tighter than it was before. But it was worth it as we arrived at the other station.

I managed to slow the cart down, seeing that there wasn't another one and not really want to back home. After the cart came to a full stop, I hopped off the cart and looked at the station.

“Jesus…” I muttered out, seeing that the station was very badly weathered wasn't an odd thing but seeing it covered in Metal Head spores and plants was another thing.

“Well this place looks like shit.” Jace said as he got out of the cart.

“Really? I haven't noticed.” I said with sarcasm as I embedded my hand inside a giant Metal Spore before absorbing its life force, causing it to shrivel up and die. I took my hand out, seeing Dark Eco sparking around it. I looked at Jace and saw him tense up for a second. I saw that one of the gems in his gauntlet, the black one, shine a little brighter than before.

“Ugg, still didn’t get use to that.” He said.

“What the hell even was that?” I asked before seeing the exit blocked off by a large Metal Head Egg. Aiming my hand at it, I fired a ball of dark eco at it, destroying it in impact.

“Nothing that you need to worry about.” He said.

“Right.” I said as I saw the door open behind the dust, revealing the lift to the surface.

“Exits this way.” I told him before walking towards the lift. I guess since I'll be in the city, I could check the power station. Jace walked onto the lift and the lift started to head on up.

“What's your opinion on robot soldiers?” I asked out of the blue. Jace tilted his head a bit.

“That depends, are they shooting at us?” He asked.

“Define Us.” I said, seeing our stop closing in. I took out my morph gun and changed it into the Scattergun.

“Well if we walk off the lift and see robots and they are shooting at us then they are taught practice.” he said as he lifted his hand and a rifle that glowed green appeared.

“Some won't, others will. It's a fifty fifty chance.” I said as the lift came to a stop. The doors opened and revealed the Eco mines, though one thing struck me as odd was that it was still operational but I threw that thought out as a Scavenger bot crawled out of a vent. It crawled onto the ledge before jumping off into the abyss but landed on a transport ship as it took off towards the wall.

“The Eco mines are up and running, something's up.” I muttered to myself. Jace looked at me and the bot.

“Guessing that they aren't friends of yours.” He said.

“Well, when the city used be at war, I was public enemy number one. All the Guards fired the first chance they got as well as the bots.” I said to him before looking over the edge, seeing a line of Transport ships under me.

“So… We're going to be targets for everyone, maybe?” He asked me.

“Maybe not you but as for me, yeah.” I said walking off the ledge and landing on a ship as it took off. I looked around where I landed and saw that my shadow was lifting for the ground. As it stood up it turned into Jace. He looked at me and smiled.

“I learned some new tricks.” he said. I rolled my eyes at him.

“Try not to move while we go over the wall, it'll detect and destroy any who trespass but can't see a thing if you don't move.” I said as I did just that as well as Jace. As we flew over the wall, I was greeted with a war torn, scrapyard like of a city field with Krimzon Guard Bots with mismatched pieces.

Not to far from the two port towers, a spider tank could be seen picking up some scraps before walking into the industrial zone. As the ship landed next to a run down Naughty Ottsel, letting the back door open for the scavengers to crawl out. Before the ship lifted off again, we hopped off and ran into the Naughty Ottsel.

“What are we doing here?” Jace asked as I closed the door and blocked it off with a large shelf. Looking around the bar, seeing that it was well preserved through time.

“Hell yeah.” I said to myself but loud enough for Jace to hear. Running up to the counter and sliding across it, I found a neat little box of ammo.

Opening it and taking out two purple spheres before closing it and seeing something familiar next an old bottle Devil's Tongue. Picking it up, I saw that it was Praxis’ sword only it was rusted and unkempt.

I remembered why I had kept this from being scrapped, it was to remember my friends. The Baroness, Ashelin Praxis and her husband, Torn Blade or as everyone calls him, Torn.

I sat down, looking at the sword. I remembered everything we've been through, from thick and thin we've always counted on each other. I stared blankly at the blade, expressionless. Marking were carved onto the blade in Ancient Precursor Text.

“That could be useful.” Jace said as he saw the blade. I snorted at him.

“Yeah right, it’s all but a hunk of rusted metal.” I said to him. He blinked at me and put one finger on the blade. I saw the white gem glow and watch as the rust of the blade slowly fell off making it good as new. I even tested the blade, still sharp.

“I stand corrected.” I said to myself before standing up. Though seeing this blade feels with rage due to its original owner, it still felt good to have it back. Giving it a few test swings before activating the plasma cutter of the sword and cutting the counter in half in a perfect slice.

“Power to the people.” I recited the words on the blade before picking up the bottle of aged wine. I looked at Jace as he lift up one of the fallen trophies, one of the big ones. I heard him whistle at it.

“This thing looks a lot like a Eldrazi, both different but both ugly as hell.” He said.

“That's Kor.” I said gesturing at the trophy he held. He looked at it and nodded.

“Still, ugly as hell.” He replied. He looks at the rest of the place. “Quick question, wasn’t this this place last own by a small orange fur ball that calls himself… what was it again… ‘Orange lighting?’”

“Daxter, yeah. If I know him as well as I think I do, he’d be somewhere that has a good view and lots of women.” I said to him. Daxter is precursor, therefore immortal along with Tess. Jace nodded.

“You know, I met another Jak before, nice guy and all he mention Daxter before, although in his world he’s a orange changeling or something, I’m guessing yours is still a fuzz ball?” he asked. I just stared at him.

“Yeah…” I said to him before taking hold of the shelve that blocked the door and pushed it back to where it belonged.

As I did this, we heard loud noises coming from outside. I crouched down and peeked through the tiny crack of the door.

I saw that the bots were being attacked, they defended with the obsolete weaponry they had but were no match for their attackers. I opened the door slightly and saw that the attackers were Humanoid Metal Heads? What the fuck?

“What the fuck?” I whispered before closing the door as one of them snapped their gaze at my direction.

“E zoq zatyswefr!” I heard one of them shout.

“That’s not good.” Jace said.

“Of course it's not, nothing ever is.” I said as I backed away from the door as they banged on it.

“Ahyf ih! E nfaq uai'ly ef swyly!” The Metal head shouted. I took out my morph gun and changed it to the Peace Maker before placing the purple ammo spheres on the gun and charging a shot. I saw Jace checking his gun and put what I think is ammo into it and pointed it at the door.

The banging of the door stopped before a foot pierced through it. Second later the stock of a weapon broke through the door before it crumbled into pieces. The Humanoid Metal Head walked in and saw a large sphere of lighting inches away from him.

“Hyopy.” I said before letting go of the trigger and launching the sphere at him, causing him to fly out the door before the sphere exploded creating a chain lightning that struck any nearby enemies.

Lowering my gun and popping the ammo sphere out, I sighed. This was supposed to be a simple supply run.

“Split up, we can cover more ground and save half the time. I'm in need of a powerful energy source and some ammo.” I said to Jace. He nodded and ported out.

“The Power Station seems like a good place to start.” I said to myself before dropping onto all fours and sprinted like an animal with incredible speed. I headed towards where I remember the Power station was located.

Jace

After porting away into the city I started my search for the stuff Jak wants. After five minutes I stop as I realize something.

“I don’t even know what they look like, oh well I’ll figure it out sooner or later.” I said out loud as I continued on. As I went I saw some of those robots that Jak was talking about. I hid from them from building to building. Sure I could take them but I think it’s better to keep the firefight to a low. As I moved into a building to take a look around. I found guns that I think Jak uses and took a look at them. All are empty but I figure what the ammo looks like for them. I continued on through the building. I made a sweep of the second floor and found nothing. I took the window out into an alleyway. Right into a group of robots, I looked at them as they turned to look at me.

“Ummm… Hi?” I said to them. They all stood there, staring at me before a loud buzz was heard. The robots heard this and continued on. I watched them go on. Okay?

I continued on through some other buildings and found what I think is ammo.

After grabbing all the ammo I found in about ten buildings I started to do a headcount of them.

“Let's see, I got 64 of the yellow pill looking things, over two hundred of the blue curved thing, and twenty of the red frisbees and no purple orbs, well it’s a start.” I said as I sent them to my plane. I got up to check on building number 11, I moved into the place and took a good look around and then I turned a corner and came face to face with a group of those Humanoid Metal Heads. Oh crap.

“Hi there, sorry to bother you I didn’t know that this place was being used, I think I should-” I got cut off as one of them pointed a staff gun thing at me.

“NEDD WET!” It yelled. I blinked at it, the last time I came here I got to learn how to speak their language but this time I have no idea what it yelled out. But I found out as all of them started to shoot at me. I jumped out of the way and booked it. I ran through the building as they gave chase and shoot at me. Luckily I have my shield up as it took the blasts, only problem is that now it feels like I’m getting punched over and over again. I rounded into a room and hugged a wall and used another trick I learned as I melted into the shadows, it was very cold. I watched as the group ran into the room as I slipped out of it.

“Qwyly kek wy ra?”

“E kaf’s nfaq, wy paidkf’s wojy mizs kezohhyolyk deny swos.” As they kept yelling at one another I came out of the shadows and kneeled down and made some orbs of mana. I then rolled them into the room.

“Qwos oly swazy?” I heard one of them say before I saw a flash and a small Boom! I looked into the room and saw that the Metal heads are gone. I looked at the orb in my hand and smiled at it.

“Best. Thing. EVER!” I said as I went on my way. After looking around I found what looks like a safe room door behind a bookcase. I opened it and found that there was more ammo, even those purple orbs things. I started to grab them all. This room alone I got about three hundred yellow, seven hundred of the blue, a hundred of the red and fifty of the purple. I even found some hand size gems, some black and the others white. I grabbed them thinking that Jak would want them.

After sending them to my plane I went out of the building to look some more. I was about to head into the street but stopped and hid as one of those big spider mechs came walking past. The last group I found didn’t attack me but I’m not pushing my luck. I went into more buildings to look for more ammo.

“I wonder how’s Jak doing?”

Jak

During my sprint to the Power station, in the decaying state of a once proud city. I've also ran into a few of those Humanoid Metal heads but I took them down with the sword.

The Bots on the other hand, they dropped whatever they were doing as soon as they saw the Humanoid Metal heads and opened fire at them. There was a moment of cease of fire but that was because of a Krimzon Deathbot that was reconstructed saw me and alerted everything of my presence.

I couldn't take them head on but Hyde could, so I let him take control and before I knew it, I was already at the Power station while covered in purple blood.

The station was as bad as the city, wires covered the floor, decaying bodies hung from the wires above and I even found a skeleton of a Minotaur holding a face mask. The mask reminded me of Shiv, a racer back in the day.

Shaking my head, I walked towards the control panel and pressed a couple of buttons before the station was back up and running. The light, though dim, flickered on and allowed me to have a better chance of finding anything.

Vin was an old friend, still is too but he doesn't go by Vin anymore and I have a feeling that I'll be seeing him soon. Just as I remembered Vin, I also remembered on what he was working on before the war.

I've tried searching it up the database and his personal files which contained information on everyone who lived in the city back then. After a few minutes of nothing, I smacked the console, earning a loud beep before a hologram showed the plans for what Vin worked on and where he placed it.

I pressed the button to reveal the location and looked behind me where a small spherical hologram floated in the middle of the platform. The bottom of the platform under the sphere opened and a small container was gently raised up before stopping. Steam poured out the sides before it opened and I couldn't help but smirk at what I saw.

“Vin, you magnificent Bastard.” I said as I took hold of a dark sphere, similar to a power cell. I placed it in my pocket before walking back to the door.

As the door opened, I looked back and saw the platform again. I looked closer to the door and saw the walkway was breaking.

Not wanting anything to find this place or anything useful in here, I stomped the walkway, causing it to break off the wall before falling into the darkness.

After that was done, I walked out. As I walked around the empty industrial zone, I found a few eggs of the new Metal heads. I want to know what caused them to be that way or of there's a reason for their change.

I walked over to the egg and picked it up. The sound similar to flesh being ripped off could be heard as I took it off the spore.

“Swyly wy ez! Zwaas wet, wy tizs fas wojy swos Yrr!” I heard them behind me before the sounds of gunfire could be heard. Taking a firm hold of the egg, I ran as fast as I could.

The chase wasn't long but it wasn't easy either. I ended up at New Haven, the only part of the city where it doesn't look like shit, probably because of the races.

Jace

“SHIT~!!!” I yelled as I ran from a spider bot that was chasing and shoot at me with about two dozen robots doing the same. First off it wasn’t my fault, I just minding my own business then I bump into it. It looked at me and I saw sparks fly and then it started shooting at me. And now I was running like hell. I rounded the corner and turned around. ‘Screw this!’ I thought as I felt the green mana form around me making a twenty five foot tall humanoid transparent green man standing where I was. I saw the robots come my way and looked at me and opened fire. I raised both arms up.

“Hulk…” I began as I slammed down onto the ground making the ground rusper and spikes impaling the robots. “SMASH!”

All was left was the spider bot with some of it’s legs destroyed and sparks flying. I walked over grabbed it and ripped it in half. I then dropped the form and turn to walk away. I saw a light coming from my right. I glance at it and saw one of the the impaled bot scanning me. I heard beeping sounds and a hologram appeared that showed Jak. Above it was the words ‘Wanted.” I stared as the image change to show me about a moment ago with the same words. I frowned at that.

“They didn’t get my good side,” I said out loud. I went on looking for anything that’s worthwhile. As I went I saw that the place started to look less like an abandoned city and more like a city. As I went I stopped and saw what looked like a blockade. I frowned and hid in an alleyway. I looked on and saw a good place to port to. I looked down at myself and frowned, better looked someone different.

I closed my eyes and picturing the form I want, I felt the blue mana over me and after a minute I opened my eyes and looked at a somewhat intake window. I saw a dark blue fur earth pony with a black mane with a strip of blue that ran through it. Other than that I still had my normal clothes.

I looked back at the spot and ported there. Checking that I saw safe I walked along as if I was a normal pony. I walked about five steps and saw that it was full of the humanoid Metal Heads. Well crap.

I looked around for a place to duck into when one of them bump into me. I look at him/ her/ it and was ready to port away.

“Zallu oxais swos, qozf’s daanefr.” the Metal head said and went off. I watched it go and was shocked. I shook my head and went on. The place was like any other city with stales. I looked around and saw a lot of posters that looks like something for a race. Seeing the other metal heads look at me but didn’t do anything I went to the big building. I got to the place and looked up. I heard noises in there and remembered that Jak said that this place was mostly used for races. I looked around and saw a path and headed that way.

As I walked along I saw that there was many big rooms with vehicles and parts. As I walked I heard someone yelling. I turn and saw two big metal heads dragging a smaller one out. Thinking that they are the guards I duck into one of the big rooms and hid around the corner of the door. I looked around the room and saw that it looked like a garage. I saw tools, parts and plans every where. I even saw a wall full of trophies. I snorted a bit.

“This place would make Sam giddy with joy, she’s such a gearhead.” I said softly. At it seems that someone heard me.

“Who’s there?!” A voice called out. I stiffen a bit and looked around. I saw a walled off room with the wall is just a big piece of cloth. I saw a silhouette of someone there, she looks familiar.

“I said who's there, don’t make me call the guards.” She called out again. I looked around took some deep breaths.

“Uhh sorry about that, I kinda got lost.” I said to her. I saw her silhouette stood straight up and she put her hands on her hips.

“You didn’t answered my question, Who are you.” She asked bluntly. I rubbed the back of my head. Well no one other than Jak knows my name so I don’t think it would hurt.

“Names Jace.” I told her. I saw her nod and went back to work on… whatever she was working on. I moved around the place, not touching anything, as I looked at plans and trophies. A lot of them were for first place.

“A lot of trophies, guessing you won them all?” I asked her.

“Nope, none of these are mine.” She said, followed by the sound of a wrench being used.

“I see, guess you had a racer before or still have one?” I asked her.

“Well if I know him as much I think I do, he'll race the first chance he gets.” She said as she walked the opposite direction on whatever she was working on and bent over, looking for something. “I know your name but I doubt you’re a metal head, you don’t speak our language.

“Oh I’m just a wandering soul.” I said as I looked at one of the plans. It was in very good detail of what she built or building.

“Really, a wandering soul.” She said. I shrugged and moved closer to the cloth wall.

“Yeah, although I was helping out a friend with something and we split up along the way.

“Does he have a deathwish? The Grand Prix is today.” She said. I looked around and saw a broken jukebox.

“I don’t know what the Grand Prix is.” I said as I looked at it. I heard her laugh a bit.

“Someone's been living under an Oracle.” She said with a laugh. I turned and leaned on the jukebox.

“Not a racing fan, but I think it’s a tournament and I know tournaments, been in a few myself.” I said as I remembered the last few I been in.

“And they are?” She asked.

“Fighting mostly, the last one I was in was rules were one thousand enter and only one can leave.” I told her nonchalantly. She stopped what she was doing.

“Really? The Kras City Championship is similar to that, minus the thousand enter part. All you need is a good car and a fuck ton of weapons.” She said.

“Yeah, again not much racing, although one of them did bring a dino as a mount,” I chuckled at the thought. “Did you know that a T-rex monster taste like chicken.”

“What the hell is T-rex and chicken?” She asked as she walked out. I looked at her and blinked. Oh my god it’s Chrysalis. She was wearing mechanic overalls and has oil stains. She looks a lot like what she normally looks like but I saw that she has metal head traits.

“A T-rex is a giant lizard and a chicken is a tasty bird.” I told her. She just stared at me with a confused look.

“You… eat meat? I didn’t know that some ponies eat meat.” She said to me. I blink at her until I remembered that I looked like a pony. I just shrugged at her.

“I’m one of the weird ones, by the way you didn’t give me your name.” I told her.

“My birth name is Keira Hagai Pie but nowadays I go by Chrysalis Hagai.” She said. Another surprise for me with her last name.

“Pie? Question, are you related to a pony named Pinkie Pie?” I asked her. She narrowed her eyes at name.

“Pinkie Pie? If I'm correct she’s my very great grandkid. I think at least.” She said. I chuckled a bit, remembering Pinkie from another world.

“Well then, I guess that’s something to think about.” I looked out the door and frowned. “What are the chances that my friend coming here to this city?”

“That depends on where he’s coming from.” She said. I thought about it for a moment.

“Well I came for outside the city and I went through some ruins of the rest of the city, does that help?” I told her. She looked at me wide eye.

“You came from Old Haven, how are you still alive?!?” She asked. I chuckled at that, if I got a bit every time someone asked me that I would be rich.

“I have my ways, also my friend is as tough as me so I think he can survive through it.” I told her.

“Well, I think he should come this way in some time, it’s kinda hard to miss the city.” She said. Just then a loud sound came over the place. “The race is about to start, going to watch.”

“Sure, never seen it before but I don’t mind seeing it.” I told her. She nodded and shut the lights off and headed out the place as I followed her. As we walked I saw what looked like a ticket booth. I saw one of the metalheads had a chip thing to the other. So that what those thing are for.

Once we were next in line, the Metal Head in the booth greeted her in joyful manner.

“Ow swyly'z swy rod E qoz wahefr sa zyy. Poty wyly bal swy lopy?” The Metal head asked. I blinked at her. What?

“What?” I asked her. The Metal head frowned a bit and I turned to Chrysalis for a translation.

“He's friend saying hi.” Chrysalis said before turning back to the Metal head.

“Wy'z mizs jezesefr blat ais ab swy pesu.” Chrysalis said to him. The Metal head nodded before sticking his hand out the booth. Chrysalis placed her wrist on his hand before the Metal head took out a small device and shone on her wrist, leaving a few numbers. Chrysalis took a look before lowering her arm. The Metal head looked over to me I kinda panicked.

“Ummm, I’m not from around here but I found these.” I said as I pulled out some of the chips I found while looking for ammo, they were from a much bigger building and they were shiny. I think that’s good, right?

“That's the right amount, wrist please.” The Metal Head said, taking the chips before sticking his hand out waiting. I raised my left hand then stopped and moved my right to him. He eyed me for a moment then did the same thing to me as he did to Chrysalis. I saw the numbers appeared on my wrist.

“Enjoy the show, I hear this one would settle a bet with two crime lords.” He said with a grin as he turned to look at Chrysalis.

“Ugh, I’ve been in a situation like that a loooong time ago back at Kras City.” She said to him, causing the metal head to chuckle before we moved on. As we walked I saw Chrysalis looking at me.

“What?” I asked her.

“What was that back there, you started to lift your left hand but switched to your right, something special about your gauntlet?” She asked me. I looked at it as I saw the five gems.

“Let’s just say that there’s more than meets the eye.” I told her.

“Other than the fact you're in a disguise? Fine.” She said while raising her hands in defeat. I just smiled at her.

“Yup.” I said as we got to the place. We were at a very large clearing, big enough for a carnival event but now it had a giant screen on the side of a tall building. It showed a countdown of a minute.

“Just in time.” I heard Chrysalis say as we walked up to a hotel looking building. A guard was posted on the front door and stopped us to check our wrists before letting us pass.

“We need to be indoors, stray shots and all.” Chrysalis said before we entered a circular room. She pressed a button on the wall, causing a large screen to descend from the roof.

“Get comfortable, you can sit literally anywhere.” Chrysalis said as she gestured the whole room. I went and sat on the coach and l looked at the large screen.

“So this whole thing is between two crime lords?” I asked her

“Nah, it's just a yearly race that the big bosses of any gang could bet on. This only happened once way back when.” She said. I nodded as I looked at the screen. There’s was about thirty seconds left till it starts. The screen showed the racers in their vehicles. I saw Chrysalis grinning a bit.

“Excited?” I asked her.

“Yeah or else I wouldn't have bought a pass.” She said before a news like song started playing.

The screen now showed a blonde Minator wearing a purple velvet blazer with an orange barrymore collar and trim, and a flower over the right breast, with dress pants made of the same material as his blazer. Underneath his blazer he wore a white shirt with several gold chains.

“Welcome race fans to another turbo charged season of high stakes, high speed racing. As usual, yours truly, G.T. Blitz, will give you a pit row view of all the action as the best racers in the world swap paint in their quest to claim the Kras City Grand Championship Trophy. In the end, only one wheel jockey will claim the prize as the greatest racer in the land. And we'll be here to cover all the thrills, chills, and spills! The season's first race kicks off in a few minutes... so stay tuned, and keep those engines hummin'!” The Minotaur known as G.T Blitz said with enthusiasm. I couldn’t help but chuckle, I always thought announcers sounded funny.

“Ugh, this guy again? Can't the studio find someone who doesn't sound like he's forced to be excited?” Chrysalis said. I was about ask why but was cut off by an important notice before the screen showed G.T Blitz again.

“I have just received word that a late newcomer had joined. Will this Mysterious racer win or will he crash and burn like the rest! Stay tuned to find out.” With that the screen went black. I raised a brow at that.

“I didn't know that one could join this late.” Chrysalis mentioned. I didn’t say anything and looked around the room. I saw a bar and got up and went over the counter and looked at the selection. I kneeled down so I wasn’t visable and made a bottle appear before me, rule one of going to other worlds, don’t trust the drinks. I stood up and grabbed a glass and looked at Chrysalis.

“Want a drink?” I asked her.

“I'd love one, yes.” She answered. I grabbed another glass and went over and handed her the glass. I looked at the bottle and grinned. It was rum that was called ‘Seven Seas treasure.’ I poured each of us a glass. I took mine and took a sip. Yup taste just like I remembered. I saw Chrysalis took a sip and blinked at it and looked at the drink in her hand.

“It taste sweet yet bitter, and I can taste… molasses and pineapples?” She said. I chuckled and drank a little more.

“Yeah that’s what most rum is, but this one has a bit of fruity taste as well,” I looked at the bottle and frowned, “should of grabbed the whisky.” She was about to say something but the screen changed and I saw the minotaur again.

“How's the hair?” He asked, unaware that he's live. “Uh what? We’re live?” He said before looking directly at the camera before turning his body around.

“Welcome back to the G.T shows. Where we cover the most exciting and deadliest sport in the world. I know most of you just want to skip to the race but unfortunately, I have to list out the racers names.” He said before going off camera for a minute before returning. Then six pictures covered the screen while Blitz could be seen in the back waiting patiently.

Four of the racers were wearing masks but I could tell that there was a pony stallion, a griffiness, a minotaur and Metaling.

Two of the other racers standed out than the rest for one, the fifth racer was a fucking robot.

And the other one was Anthro dragon. I could see his face due to the goggles and scarf.

“Personally, I prefer UR-86. Don't be shy people, he likes living things..so he can make them dead.” G.T said with a laugh before the scene switched onto the starting line.

“Today's race is simple, one lap around Haven and the first one the pass the line or the only one, wins. Bonus points for not dying, Haha.” G.T said while the screen showed the competitors getting ready. As I looked on the image of the anthro dragon was still in my head. I smiled a bit, if it’s who I think it is than this will be fun.

Hyde

Hopefully that idiot would've brought the egg to them by now, Jak had risked his life for the egg. But now isn't the time for that, it's time for the race.

I heard a familiar set of beeps next to me. I didn't turn to see who it was since I have a good memory and so does the tin can.

The Sandshark, by the precursors it feels good to be back on the saddle. If I'd known Jak had kept the Buggy, I would've joined earlier.

Shaking my head, I looked up as a drone flew above us with a red light. The light then turned yellow before finally, green. Hitting the pedal at just that moment, I earned the starting boost, leaving UR-86 in the dust.

A minute of driving and keeping the bot from passing me, I saw a line of Yellow eco had been set up and everyone ran through it, allowing for the weapons to activate.

I checked and saw that I had missiles primed. As soon as I heard machine gun fire, I lowered myself a bit before making the Sand shark hop into a barrel roll.

I wasn't planning to do so but the hydraulics were custom made by a friend. UR-86 saw this and looked directly in front of him before turning the wheel and dodge a smoldering heap of what was left of a Spider tank. The other racers avoided the obstacle and continued on trying to kill each other.

A turn was coming up as well as a spider tank, it turned to us before it fired. Me and 86 both dodged the shot but the third place racer took the hit, causing his road blade to explode.

“Ohhhh, that's gotta hurt!” I heard G.T’s voice. I found it funny that two millennia aga, G.T was just an alias for a Crime lord in Kras city. Seeing a Minotaur version of the Griffin was just fucking hilarious.

As the scene of New Haven changed into the industrial zone, a patrol of those Humanoid Metal heads were in the way. I fired two missiles at the patrol, causing a cloud of purple blood to erupt.

It after an oil slick but 86 jumped over it, leaving the three remaining racers to slide around before gaining their traction back. The road ahead was straight and I took that in my advantage.

I spun the wheel, causing the car to do a one eighty and continued driving backwards in the same speed. Smirking at the racer behind me, I fired the last two remaining rockets.

My smirk left as he dodged them both, leaving the griffiness behind him to take the hit and explode in a fiery inferno. The heap of burning metal that was once a car tumbled around before hitting a large pole.

“You're dead in three, two, one…!” I heard G.T again. I groaned before arriving at the port.

Jace

“Damn, that was something.” I said as I watched as the one car hits the large pole. I heard a chuckle from beside me.

“You haven’t seen anything yet.” Chrysalis told me. I nodded as I took another drink, root beer this time, as we watch as the one car drove to the port. I saw the image of the anthro dragon was shown on the screen.

“Looks like I won our bet.” I said to her, she frowned and sighed.

“After this I will get all the plans that I have.” She said but I shook my head.

“Don’t worry about it,” I said as I pulled out one of her plans, “Already got them.”

“When did you-”

“As I went out sometime ago, it wasn’t hard.” I told her. She frowned and took the plans and looked at them. Her frowned turn to a look of confusion.

“This are plans for a simple racer, I have better plans than this.” She said as she handed me the blueprints. I tucked it into my coat just to cover up the fact that I sent it away into my plane.

“What I was looking for is something simple and these will do.” I told her. I looked at the screen as it was highlighting parts of the race as I heard a knock at the door. I saw Chrysalis got up and went to the door. I saw that there’s a Metalhead there and both were talking in a different language. I really need to use my language spell so I can understand them, I can go blue spirit mode but that won’t help other than to hear screaming. I saw Chrysalis turn to look at me with a raised brow.

“Looks like someone sent you something.” She said to me. I frowned and got up. I walked over and saw the metalhead with a package with a note on it as he handed it to me. I took it and lifted it to check if it was beeping, ticking, or anything that didn’t sound like a bomb. I moved over to the table and sat down and took the card. I opened it and started to read.

“I need a favor from you before you leave.” I read the note. I re-read the note and glance over to the box. Staring at it for a moment I took it and opened it carefully. What I found made me blink.

It was an egg.

I stated at said egg for a moment and set the box down and remove the egg out of the box and set it down on the table. I then stared at it without saying a word for a few minutes.

“What are you thinking.” I said to the egg. It didn’t say anything back, it was an egg after all. I stole a glance over to Chrysalis who was staring at the egg as well.

“Who is your friend and why did he give you a metal head egg?” She asked me. I turn and looked at the egg and picked it up and set it back into the box. After closing it I put a simple shield spell on it so if shit hits the fan it’s protected. I got up with the box and went up to Chrysalis.

“I don’t know, let's go ask him.”

We both headed to where the drivers are at. We were stopped by some of the guards to tell us to leave but for some odd reason they let us through, it was also odd that their eyes glowed blue for a second. I wonder why that is.

As we walked I saw a lot of other racers looking at us. I heard some whistling that were I guess directed to Chrysalis. We continued on until I saw the same anthro dragon talking to another group. He waved them off and I watched them walk away angrily. I went over and saw him checking his car.

“Good race.” I said to him. He turns his head towards me.

“Thanks, I take pride in my driving skills.” He said.

“When you said friend I didn’t think it was a dragon.” Chrysalis said to me. I shrugged at her.

“I have interesting friends.” I said to her. I saw the dragon look at Chrysalis for a moment.

“It's been awhile hasn't it, Kiera.” He said. Chrysalis looked at him confused until He removed his goggles and scarf and shifted back looking like Jak. Her eyes went wide.

“Jak?” She said.

“Hyde, but yeah.” he said. I looked at him for a second. Hyde? I shook my head and decide not to say anything and lifted the box up.

“So, what’s your favor?” I asked him. He frowned and looked around. I looked behind me and saw some of the others glancing at us. I pulled Chrysalis into the room and pulled the blind over. When that was done I turn to Jak/Hyde and revert back to my normal look. I saw Chrysalis blinked at me. I smiled at her and looked at Hyde/Jak whoever his name is.

“Alright, back in control. If it isn't so much of a burden to you, to take the egg and study its behavior, I know you don't know anything about Metal Heads but I really would appreciate you doing this.” He said. I looked at him and to the box. I rubbed my beard and thought about it.

“If I do this, just keep in mind that my world and your world is completely different from one another, I don’t know what will happen just that I will do this as a friend.” I told him. As I stared at him I felt the box move a bit.

“Thanks man.” He said before being slapped by Chrysalis.

“That's for disappearing.” She said. I watched this and started to laugh. I got a glare from both of them and just chuckled.

“Well I know this is a somewhat nice meet up but I think my job is done, again all you gotta do is say the words and I can get home and see what will happen when a Metalhead is introduced to a world full of mana instead of eco.” I told both of them. Chrysalis looked at me oddly but Jak nodded.

“Your service is no longer required.” Jak said before a portal opened up behind me. I saw Chrysalis’s jaw drop at the sight.

“That never gets old, see you Jak, Pie.” I said and walk through the portal.

I stepped out into my home and looked around as the portal closed. I saw both Twilight and her sister sitting at the table. Twilight looked at me with smile as her sister glared at me. It’s so creepy how much alike they are other than the different colours of fur and manes.

“Welcome back Jace, how was your trip?” Twilight asked. I saw Silver, as I sometimes call her, crossed her arms and still glared at me. She still is mad about earlier. I just shrugged and went to the table and set the box down and opened it and slowly took out the egg. I felt it move a bit as I set it down.

“What’s that?” Silver asked. I didn’t move my head as I stared at the egg. With a flick of my wrist some notebooks and pencils appeared.

“It’s an egg.” I told her. I picked up one notebooks and pulled some glasses from my plane. I stopped for a moment and did some signs and felt the bag of ammo that I got from Jaks world disappear to him. I put the glasses on and open the notebook and went full research mode.

“What kind of egg.” Twilight asked with curiosity. I got the feeling that she will help me with this.

“It’s a egg from another world.” I told her as the egg began to shake some more. Then I started to hear cracking sounds. It was hatching.

What looked like the shell was peeling off, it was sickening due to the sound it made. The egg peeled as if it was a banana and in the center was an infant Metaling. We all looked at the infant as I started writing stuff down.

“What is it?” I heard Silver asked.

“That is known as a Metaling, the world that I came from version of a changeling.” I told her as I wrote down what the Metaling looked like. It looked like a normal changeling but with what looked like armor plating like the Metalheads I saw in Jaks world. She had dark orange hair with dark red skin. When she opened it’s eyes I saw that they were somewhat normal yellow/golden eyes that glowed. It kinda reminds me of fireflies a bit. I put the notebook down and got a closer look at her, I saw small wings on her back and looked like they were slowly growing. Just then I felt something tug at my beard. The metaling was now playing with my beard, I don’t know if I should go ‘aww’ or ‘ow’?

“She is like a filly!” Twilight said. I turn and saw her writing stuff down. I rolled my eyes and picked up the metaling and stared at it. We stared at one another for a bit as the metaling went and pulled my hair, hard.

“OW!” I said. I move my head away as she giggled at me as if it was the funnest thing in the world. I hear more giggling from behind me.

“Ok now I’m happy that I stayed here.” Silver said. Rolled my eyes and studied the metaling. ‘Now that you’re here what’s going to happen? Are you going to change to live in this world or are you going to stay the same like back in Jaks world’ I thought. As I was thinking she reached over and boop me in the nose.

“Boop!” I said and blinked. Dang it old habits do die hard. She giggled at that as I set her down. She then crawled into my lap and curled up there. The sight reminds me of the one time Luna did the same thing when she was little.

“So, you have a name?” Twilight asked. I blinked and thought about it. A name, I can’t use subject #1 since it sounded mean and stupid. I looked down at her and remember her eyes.

“I think...Stella,” I said to her.

“Why Stella?” Silver asked.

“Her eyes, there like fireflies, and in another world Stella is the word for firefly,” I tilted my head a bit. “Well it also means ‘star’ and ‘sun’ but I thought firefly fits better.”

“Well it’s a nice name, Stella Beleren.” Twilight said. My head snapped at her and I give her wide eyes.

“Ummm what?”

Jak

After Jace left, me and Keira went to catch up on lost time. It's amazing to see that she was fine even after she explained the reason on her change of raceing. Apparently she wants to see Samos return, to be with him again and stay as the grumpy old stallion we both know and love but for now she'll reside in New Haven.

Speaking of which, I was fed wrong information about the city. Apparently Haven isn't abandoned, not completely anyway. New Haven which had slowly expanded over the years, was where one would reside while the rest of the city is a battlezone.

The citizens of New Haven actually get their supplies and resources from the scavenger bots I found out at the eco mines.

When she said that some of their core programs and directives still functioned, she was able to implement new ones. Now it made sense that they tried to kill at first sight.

But like all good thing it must come to an end, I said my goodbye to her and headed back to the Eco mines but stopped as I was in front of the Old Power station. It gave me an idea.

Walking up to the door, making it open and revealing the gap between the door and the center platform. I walked back to get some distance before breaking into a full sprint and jumping across.

Once I was fully balanced, I walked towards the console and typed in a few things, coordinates to be exact. Once I hit enter, I saw the Warp gate spark before turning on.

I took a deep breath and hoped into the portal. Once I regained all my senses, I saw that I was back home and in the Reactor room.

Reaching into my pocket, I pulled out the dark Power cell. I took hold of the top half and bottom before twisting it in the opposite directions.

The Power Cell clicked before sparking to life. Light eco seeped through the bottom while dark eco emitted from the top. Opening a hatch in the main core reactor, seeing an eco crystal drained from its eco

Taking the crystal out, I replaced it with the new power cell, causing the facility to come to life again.

‘Duck.’ I did as he said and ducked just as a large bag flew over my head. The bag hit the wall and fell to the ground, spilling the contents of the bag.

“Jace, you magnificent bastard.” I said as I looked at the cartridge on the floor. I walked over to it and picked it up along with the bag. I walked out of the reactor room and went to my room.

Once there, I left the bag before going to the lift and out to town.

Author's Note

Crossover with DemonG's Magic the Gathering: Friendship is magic...I think?

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