"If the city must die, then we all die! Aaaagh!”— Baron Praxis, Jak II

PoV: Jak
Location: Sweet Apple Acres
Time: 10:00 A.M
Next day

After getting up and explaining to Nyx why there's a bird/monkey thing in our home, we all had breakfast and I took her to school.

After leaving her there, I walked towards the Apple farm with Pecker on my shoulder. To be honest, I couldn't have been happier to have a friend back.

Once we arrived and explained Pecker’s reason in being here as well, Applejack had instructed me to buck (Kick) all the trees from the far side of the farm until I get tired.

As I arrived at the far side of the farm, Pecker flew up to check if the apples were good and gave me a thumbs up. At first I tried kicking, nothing happened. I then tried to tackling and ended up with the same result.

I had gotten frustrated and punched the tree in anger, making all the apples fall down. To say I felt like an idiot and forgot that the game's melee attack was overpowered is putting mildly.

“Nice hit, you think If you've remembered that earlier we would be half way there.” Pecker said as he flew down to look at me.

“I forgot, alright.” I said as I began to pick up the apples and place them in the baskets. Pecker landed and started to help out.

After we finished with the first tree, we moved on to the next and repeated the process.

After finishing up on our tenth tree, I picked up the baskets with a levitation spell I learned.

“Now we bring them to the barn.” I said as I started heading towards the barn with Pecker in one of the baskets, eating an apple.

“I see why they take pride in their work.” Pecker said with his mouth full.

“Gross, just gross.” I said as I kept on walking.

“So, how's life treating you?” Pecker asked.

“Other than the fact that I had been freed from my stony prison a week ago, I guess it's been doing fine for me and my new daughter.” I said to him as he bit into another apple.

“Speaking of which, you never told me how you had her.” Pecker said as he swallowed.

“Luna went bat shit insane and was imprisoned in the ‘moon' for a thousand years, she came back, I found out she had touched dark eco and she was then struck by the six precursor stone shards.” I said to him as the barn came into sight.

“The shards beam separated Luna from her dark half, creating another body for the darker half. I asked her if she knew who she was, she answered no. Then I asked her if she knew who I was, to which she answered ‘You're my dad’.” I finished explaining.

“Pretty rough first day?” Pecker asked.

“You have no idea.” I said as I opened the barn door and moved all the baskets inside.

After leaving the baskets inside and closing the door, We went to look for Applejack.

We made it near the exit of the farm and saw Applejack, Twilight and Spike. Spike was rummaging around the basket Twilight was holding and threw some bad apples out.

Spike then pulled out an odd shiny apple and ate it, earning a complaint from Twilight. I chuckled along with Pecker at the drakes antics.

“We're done with our side.” I said to A.J as I walked towards them.

“Already?” She asked in disbelief.

“You'll find them in the barn.” Pecker answered for me as I saw Spike pound his chest and burp out a letter. Pecker started at him with a confused look and turned to me.

“Magic.” I said with a shrug of my shoulders. Spike began reading the letter, which was actually an invitation to ball with two tickets.

“Two tickets.” Spike said as he pulled out said tickets from the letter. I began to walk away from them before Applejack began fantasizing on going.

As we walked out the archway of the farm, I headed towards town to see what's what. As I walked by building after building, ponies have been staring to the point where I will explode in anger if they so much as ask what am I.

I passed by Fluttershy and I told Pecker, well threatened more like it, to apologize about his rude behaviour towards Fluttershy.

She accepted the apology and walked away while Pecker flew back onto my shoulder, swearing as he did so to me.

Once he calmed down and I stopped laughing at his useless attempts to agitate me, we moved along the dirt road and passed by the town hall, a carousel building and a large gingerbread house. Can things not get any weirder?

I stopped and processed what I just thought, then sighed as I realized that Murphy's law will come and bite me in the ass.

“Don't tell me, you jinxed.” Pecker said in a monotone voice.

“Yep.” I said simply as I continued walking.

“Murphy's law going to bite you in the ass?” Pecker asked in the same tone of voice.

“Most likely.” I said as I passed by a mint colored unicorn mare.

“Bring it on.” Pecker said with his eyes narrowed in determination.

I stopped in front of a small park bench and sat down, then proceeded to take a small nap.

2,000 years ago
Location: Spargus City, infirmary
After the fight

I had regained consciousness and took noticed of my surroundings.

I could see some first aid kits lying around and some beds with wastelanders occupying them. I sat up and placed a hand on my forehead as a massive headache could be felt.

But the pain lasted a few seconds as I heard what sounded like light shining at something. I lowered my hand and saw that it turned pure white, surprising me and fell off the bed and onto the floor.

I winced at the pain but kept my mouth shut as I looked at my hand again and saw that it was back to normal. I then carefully stood up and walked out of the room.

After closing the door behind me, I looked at both sides, seeing only long hallways on both sides. I sighed and walked towards the left hallway, passing by a few mounted wall trophies of Metal-heads.

I was honestly a little creeped out about it at first, but repeating the words they're dead over and over again in my head managed to calm me down a bit.

I then passed a particularly large mounted head of a Metal-Dino, specifically a T-rex. The jaw hung loose as if it was getting old and falling apart. Their was a plaque on the bottom and it read:

“Here lies the remains of Ol’ Betty, infamous for being classified as un-killable and very deadly. Ol’ Betty was tracked, found and shot on sight by three brave wastelanders: Damas, Sig and Kleiver.” I read out as I saw the signatures of the ones who brought it down. Their signatures were written in precursor text along with the plaque. Saying I wasn't surprised by this revelation was an understatement.

I read it again, then again until I finally convinced myself to deal with it.

“So, you're up and looking better.” I heard someone say behind me. I turned around and saw this world's version of Sig.

He is is an Earth-type kirin, no wings or horns just scales here and there and wore Metal head armor, he could've been mistaken for an earth pony but the tail was a dead giveaway. I also noticed his eye, it was cybernetic while his normal eye was green.

“What happened?” I asked him.

“After you, well, slaughtered every single marauder in the arena, you passed out with two swords in your abdomen.” He said as he gestured the bandages around my sides and stomach.

“I don't really remember anything after I was on the floor, all I remembered was the marauders swarming from all around me as one held me to the ground, after that is just a blur.” I explained to him my predicament.

“So you don't remember changing into some sort of demon.” He said.

‘So I have Jaks powers as well. *sigh* Why me?’ I mentally asked as I shook my head no.

“So what happens now?” I asked him.

“Damas wanted to know more about what you did back there, so you should at least tell him what you know. I'm pretty sure you passed and earned the right to stay, so talk to a guy named Kleiver, he might have a few jobs for you.” He said as he began to walk the way I came from.

“By the way, names Sig.” Sig introduced himself as he walked away.

“Mine’s Jak.” I said to him, earning a wave of his hand as he walked away. I have to get used to calling myself that from now on, that didn't mean it felt right.

As he turned the corner at the other end of the hallway and I realized one thing. I didn't know where the fuck I'm supposed to go.

I walked the opposite way from Sig, passing by a few old photos of previous arena fights, Metal Head hunts and there was one small tear of an old newspaper and it read in precursor text.

“Baron Damas banished from Haven, citizens riot all throughout this outrage!” I read out and saw a small picture of Damas being held by Krimzon Guards as he was taken to the cargo ship.

“I knew I'd find you out here.” I heard Damas behind me. I turned around to see him standing beside a door.

“You have answers to what happened, so tell me.” Damas said as he pointed at me with his staff.

“I don't know, all I remember was feeling pure rage then blackness.” I said in defense.

“You changed into a beast that was bent on killing everything it saw, and I also noticed that you had changed with the use of Dark eco.” He said, lowering his staff back down.

“I guess I did, but I don't know how it happened.” I said as I kept my hands up in defense.

“Then make sure that if it happens again that you're fighting marauders in the wasteland.” He said as he tossed me the first piece of the battle amulet, along with the city pass. He then walked away but stopped and turned to look back at me.

“Kleiver has a job for you, he's outside.” Damas said, gesturing the door he came from and walked away.

I sighed as I rubbed my eyes in frustration and walked out to the city.

The Present

I awoke with the feeling of someone nudging me. I opened my eyes and looked to my right and saw a disguised Twilight and Spike.

“Do I even want to ask?” I asked no one in particular. Twilight lowered her newspaper and looked at both sides then sighed.

“The whole town is chasing me for these tickets and I can't even have one minute of peace.” She said as she shook me by my shirt. I swatted her hands away.

“Who sent you them?” I asked as I saw Pecker sleeping upside down on a tree.

“Princess Celestia sent them, why?” Twilight asked as Spike crawled out of the bushes.

I sighed as I rubbed the side of my head, trying to get rid of the upcoming headache.

“Go to your Library, lock yourself in and think on who to take or send the tickets back. I don't care which, as long as I don't have anything to with it.” I said as I covered my eyes with my arm as I tried to go back to sleep.

“I can't get there without being spotted, please I need your help.” She begged me. I sighed again in annoyance and stood up.

I then walked up to Pecker and smacked him awake.

“Madre mío! What the hell was that for!?” He shouted as flew off the branch and onto my shoulder.

“It was either that or the lake.” I simply said, making Pecker clamp up as he heard lake.

“Nevermind.” He mumbled out as he crossed his wings. I focused my dark eco to turn Twilight invisible and it worked.

She was surprised at the revelation of invisibility is possible with other methods. I could see her with my Eco sense, I feel anything with Eco.

I walked with her to keep the invisibility going on the way to her library.

Once we finally arrived without anypony noticing and went inside. After closing the door behind me, I heard Twilight groan in frustration as she couldn't think of what to do.

I reached into my pocket and took out a nail file as my nails turned into claws. I then sat down as I began to sharpen them.

The door soon slammed opened with the rest of the mane six and they looked pissed with each other, wanting the ticket for themselves.

“You five are despicable, showering, bribing and doing favors for a dumb ticket is pretty idiotic if you ask me.” I said, gaining their attention and turned to look at me with questioning looks

“You're making Twilight have a panic attack because she can't decide who to take to the fucking Gala.” I said, earning a gasp from Rarity.

“I'll have you know the Gala is only the most prestigious-” Rarity began but I interrupted her

“Snobbish ball, full of nobles with sticks so far up their asses that they have to stand straight and never sit down, with classical music, which I might add ain't half bad but for the whole night it's fucking ridiculous!” I said to them.

“None of you will benefit from the ball, you'll all just end up having the worst night of your lives.” I said as I looked at my claws and began to sharpen the other hand.

“What are you trying to say?” Dash asked me.

“Nothing, just stating my opinion.” I said with a bemused look at her as she glared at me. I then made my eyes pitch black, scaring the living shit out of her as she flew backwards.

She hid behind AppleJack as her friends tried hard not to laugh. I then told them where Twilight was and warned them if I heard Twilight shout in anger, I will kick then out.

After they went up stairs, I got comfortable and took another nap as Packed did the same.

“How many time have you poked him?” I heard Applejacks voice.

“Twenty times.” Twilight answered as I felt someone start to shake me.

“How about cold water?” I heard Rainbow ask.

“Do that and you'll be living without your wings.” I said as I opened my eyes and sat up. I looked over to Rainbow Dash and saw her on the other side of the room.

I then noticed each of them had their own tickets while Twilight held two.

“The Princess sent you one as well and thanks for the advice.” Twilight said, giving me a quick hug. She then pulled back and gave me the ticket.

I looked at the ticket and saw a precursor writing on it. I sighed with a smile as I read it.

“I managed to get you a ticket, Luna wouldn't stop until I did and please, by the precursors and any divine being, please come with formal wear.” I read. I chuckled as I placed the ticket in my pocket and was about to walk out the door but remembered Pecker.

I picked up the nearest book and threw it behind me, earning a shout from the Moncaw as he was rudely woken up by the book.

After he flew up to my shoulder and slapped me, I walked towards Nyx’s school to pick her up.

Author's Note

After two days of violently coughing and anger, I managed to make this.

I hope you enjoyed. Leave a like if you favoured it and comment.