The Light, The Darkness, And The Shadow

by Uncle_Death

What doesn't kill you, will probably just piss you off

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"Buddy, you don't wanna piss me off!”— Sig, Jak 3


Jak
Outskirts of Ponyville
An hour after leaving the party


‘Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck!’ were the only things going through my head after leaving. I let my rage get the best of me, again.

I've just been walking around the perimeter of Ponyville, just to calm me down from with the peace and silence it had to offer.

Though after thirty minutes of doing so, it only allowed me to change back to normal. After changing back to normal, I had chosen an open field and laid down to take a nap.

I only got to sleep for about thirty minutes before someone poked me and woke me up. I opened my eyes and saw a yellow glow above me.

“Cyrux, you're back. How did it go?” I asked, tired from being rudely woken up.

After a day or two hiking around the forest and a few mountains, I had found my old hive. I also took some reconnaissance on their defenses.” He said in his native language as he handed me down a few notes written in Horan.

After memorizing all the Metal heads listed in it, I knew I couldn't this with just me and Cyrux. I then remembered that talisman that hit me in the face and took it out of my pocket.

“This better be fucking worth it.” I said as I was about to activate it.

“If this piece of shit works and you're listening, I need some help, badly.” I said to the talisman before tossing on the ground.


PoV: Jace?
The cottage.


“I really hate you right now.” I said to Moonlight. She was reading a book on the couch. She had the book up to covering her face but I could hear her chuckling.

“Oh it’s not so bad, you need to loosen up a bit… Jess.” I groaned and went back to what I was doing. I was find this morning but when Moonlight gave me a drink which had Poison joke in it and it turned me into my female form.

“I can’t believe that I got to wait a few days for Zecora to get the stuff to make the potion.” I sighed and went back to work. I stopped when I heard a voice.

“If this piece of shit works and you're listening, I need some help, badly.” I blinked and looked around.

“Jak?” I knew the voice and it sounded very much like him but there’s something off about his voice. I got up and saw the portal opened. ‘Well this is the first time I been summoned.’ I got my cane sword and bag. I looked over and saw Moonlight standing with her bag.

“No you’re staying here”

“Why can’t I go.”

“Because you turned me into a girl.” I laughed and walked into the portal.


Jak
Outskirts of Ponyville
1:30 P.M


“What was the point doing that?” Cyrux asked me as he kept looking at the active wormhole.

“I've read something related to this back where I'm from.” I said to him, earning what looked like a confused look.

“I'm not from this world, I'm leaving it at that.” I said, earning a nod of agreement.

Not long after finishing our conversation, someone finally stepped through. She was shorter than me and wore a black trench coat and some jeans. She had shoulder length dark blue hair and blue eyes with a scar under her left eye. She was holding a cane with a raven’s head on top. She also wore a gauntlet with what looks like five different gems in it that glowed. She looked at me and smiled.

“It’s been awhile Jak, how have you been?”

Do you know her?” Cyrux asked me, still talking in Horan.

“Nope. How the hell do you know me? I've never met you.” I said to the wizard looking woman. She frowned and looked at me. She tilted her head a bit to the right.

“Does the words Slivers mean anything to you?”

“No, no it doesn't.” I said to her, crossing my arms.

“Hmm, I guess you're a different Jak than the one I know of, you sound different then him more…. angry. Anyway that doesn’t matter, I’m Jace nice to meet you.”

“Jace? That sounds like a dudes name.” I said to her. She looked at me and looked down at herself then facepalmed.

“Right poison joke, forgot about that, okay look normally I’m a guy but at it seems there a flower called poison joke and it plays jokes on people, and at it seems it thinks turning me into a girl is funny, so just to make sure there’s no confusion call me Jess.” She muttered something after that.

Don't delude yourselves from the matter at hand, warrior.” Cyrux said, reminding me the reason why I've called.

“Listen, I need help getting rid of a nest of Metal heads, but I need to stop by the Everfree castle before we do anything.” I said to her, him? Fuck it. She nodded.

“Lead away Jak.” She replied as I started walking towards the forest.


Everfree castle


We arrived at the castle after a ten minute walk, I stopped in front of a dead end looking area.

“You know, someone needs to do something back home in my world.” Jess said out loud.

I counted the number of bricks until I saw the middle brick and hit really, fucking, hard. The brick was pushed inside, earning loud machine noises from the other side.

Once the noise stopped and the wall lost its disguise and revealed a large metal door with a few turning gears on it.

The gears gave an eighty degree spin and a loud click resulted as it stopped spinning and soon opened, revealing an elevator lift.

“Ladies first.” I couldn't help but tell the joke.

Really? Warrior it is not the time for puns.” Cyrux said to me. Jess just rolled her eyes at me.

“Oh hardy har har, you’re so funny mister tall dark and gloomy.” She walked passed me and into the elevator.

“Bottom floor.” I said, hitting one of the many buttons. The door closed and the lift moved downwards towards the Under section of the castle.

The lift came to a sudden stop and the doors opened afterwards. I stepped out and saw the living quarters and went towards mine. I heard Jess whistled.

“Damn, I gotta admit this is badass, also Jak I got a question.”

“Fire away!” I shouted through my room. I replaced my current clothing to my wastelander attire and armor. I opened the gun case and took out my morph gun. After finishing up I walked out my room and saw Cyrux hanging upside down on a pipe which he held on to with his tail.

“Who’s your lizard dog friend? You never said anything about him.”

Watch your tongue, mage.” Cyrux said, threateningly.

“Calm down, Cyrux. I'm sure she didn't mean it like that.” I said to him as he dropped down on to the floor and stood up.

“This is Cyrux, a Metal Head who's different from the rest. I had Celestia change him to look more like a Pony, making him a Metal-Pony.” I said to Jess.

“I see, so I’m guessing that his growls is his way of speaking? Hmmm ok I’m going to try something, I hope Cyrux doesn't mind.” She asked me.

Try anything that brings harm, prepare to suffer.” Cyrux said.

“He's fine with it only if it doesn't hurt.” I said to Jess.

“There’s no pain really, it’s kinda tingles a bit now hold still.” Jess raised her left hand and the blue gem glowed. A blue beam shoot out and hit Cyrux forehead. For a moment his eyes turn from yellow to blue and back to yellow. Jess eyes turn to more of a bright blue and stead like that. The beam disappeared and she lowered her hand and smiled and tilted her head a bit.

“Was that suppose to do anything, mage?” Cyrux said, still in horan.

“Yup it did, I can now understand you.” I blinked at Jess when she spoke. She said that in horan. She looked at me and smiled.

“The spell I used is a language spell, I tap into anyones mind and I can learn any language, sometimes if I put in more power into the spell I can make it that Cyrux can speak any language as well but it will leave him with a headache and I didn’t want to push it.” She said normally.

“How far is the nest?” I asked Cyrux.

“Just on the other side of the forest, twenty miles away from here.” He said as I pressed a yellow button, opening a large secondary exit leading straight into the forest.

“Well, see ya there.” I said, changing into my drake form.

“Ha ha ha ha ha!” I laughed as my mouth grew into a muzzle and wings sprouted out of my back, thank god for the holes I put into the back of my shirt. My tail snakes its way out and my hands turned into claws.

“Neat.” Jess said.

I shook my head at her comment before taking off, breaking the sound barrier with ease.


PoV: Jess


I watched Jak turned into a dragon and went off flying. I heard a loud boom from outside. Ok that’s cool, it reminds me a bit of my rage form but a little less glowly. I turn to Cyrux.

“So you want a lift?” I asked him.

“If it means getting to our objective quicker, by all means.” He answered.

“Ok, just tell me which way the nest is.” I said and began a farseeing spell.

“Up West, past the mountain.” He answered. I nodded and used the spell. I got some flashes of a mountain, a second later I found the nest.

“Got it, hold on.” I put my hand on his shoulder and teleport us there. It took a second but now we were standing about twenty feet from the nest’s entrance. I put my hand to my head as it pounded a bit. Ugg I hate teleporting.

“Ok we’re here and I’m guessing Jak is already here.” I asked Cyrux. I saw him wobble a bit.

“Ugh, I feel like I'm going to throw up.” Cyrux said.

“Yeah that happens when someone teleports for the first time, I’m done many time but I’m still getting used to it. Take some deep breaths and you should be fine.” A thought went came to mind. He’s a Metal head. I don’t know if that would work. I pulled a potion and handed it to him. “This is something that can help I think, it works on ponies and dragons.” He stared at me for a moment and looked at the potion.

He took hold of the potion, though I just noticed his face mask. He did something to his mask and it emitted a loud click, then it fell onto his empty hand.

His muzzle looked normal, if not just a few inches smaller than a normal ponies muzzle. He opened wide, showing that he had the teeth of an omnivore, the front on his teeth were jagged teeth, probably to rip off the meat of an animal with ease.

He drank the potion in one go and quickly put the mask back. He threw the bottle away in a bush, hitting something on the other side.

“Ow!” I heard Jak’s voice through the bush as he came out of it, dragging..something dead.

“Hey there Jak.” I greeted him. He shot a glare at me that made me shut my mouth. Note to self: Don’t piss him off.

“Our goal here is to kill them all, no survivors.” Jak said, tearing the head off the dead creature off. Cyrux looked all to happy to oblige and went inside the cave that led to the nest.

“Kill everything in sight, alright you head in, I need to do something out here first. Only need a few minutes.” I told Jak as I walked to the front of the cave and bented down to the ground and started to make my runes.


Jak


After leaving Jess outside, I had followed Cyrux as he leaped through the cave wall. We stopped as we saw a big Metal head door, we could tell it meant it belonged to the nest by looking at the breathing door. I placed my hands at the door and started to absorb its eco.

As I drained the eco, the door slowly opened up with the more eco loses. Once I drained it all, the door was completely open, revealing what lays inside.

Metal head eggs could be seen on the ceiling walls and some on the floor as well. I took out my morph gun and switched it to the Peace Maker, knowing that there is a whole legion of them inside.

I looked at Cyrux as he walked inside and stood near an egg.

“Rot in the pits of Ausul.” He said as he stomped on the egg, spilling the liquid around his foot as he raised it back up. Not long after stomping the egg, the echos of thousands of Metal Heads could be heard.

“Well they don’t sound happy.” I turned to see Jess walking down to us. I saw she was holding a sword in her right hand.

“Well, how would you feel if someone broke into your home and killed your child.” I said, readying the Peace Maker, making a large ball of pure electricity grow out the gun.

“Don’t know, I’ll tell you when if it happens to me.” Jess sword started to glow white and her left hand was now holding a axe made out of lava. “So, how many do you think there are?”

“Cyrux?” I asked the Metal Pony as he began to recount.

“A lot, there's a lot.” Cyrux said, giving up on counting.

“And here they are.” I said, aiming down the sight and seeing a horde of a hundred Metal Grunts.

“This is going to be fun.” Jess pulled the lava axe and as threw it as I shot the peace maker.

The ball of lightning collided with the nearest grunt, shocking him and at least ten of the others to death. The lava axe hit one of the other grunts and exploded, burning everything around it.

“Let's see if they can handle a change of gravity.” I said, changing the Peace Maker to the Mass inverter and fired a pulse of it, making the grunts who run through the circle float up allowing Cyrux to jump up and kill them. Leaping from one metal head to another, killing one by one.

I saw a small yellow glow behind Jess and shot it, revealing it to be one of the Metal gunners.

“Okay, how did they get behind us?” She asked as she turned and saw another one. She shot lighting at it and it’s head exploded. She turn to me and aimed at me. I bolt of lightning shot out and passed me. I heard a squeal from behind.

After thirty minutes of endless killing. They just stopped coming at us, Cyrux took notice of this and went to smash another egg to be sure, earning another echo of a thousand metal heads.

“That roar, it seems…Oh Fuck! Run!” I said as I made a break for the exit while it was still far away.

“What the hell is THAT!” Jess yelled out.

“By the makers.” I heard Cyrux behind me as I looked back and saw a Metal head I hated the most.

“It's a fucking Metal-Pede! Run and gun, run and gun!” I shouted as I changed the gun to the plasmite RPG and fired a plasmite grenade at it. It landed and exploded on impact in the Metal-pedes skull gem, angering it even more.

“Oh come on!” I yelled as I ran. Jess turned and shot a small bead of something red. It went for a second and turned into a white fireball. It hit it and the whole place shook. Out of the dust and smoke it keeped going.

“CRAP!” She yelled running faster. It looked angrier, I think, I could never tell their facial expressions. It soon jumped and landed into the floor, allowing it to drill down.

“Oh no.” I muttered to myself as I ran back to Jess and saw the ground around her crumble. I shoved her off of the way as the floor collapsed and the metal pede swallowed me whole.

“JAK!” Was the last thing I heard.


PoV: Jess


I watched as Jak got eaten by the Metal-pede. It turned and looked at me.

“RUN!” I heard Cyrux yelled at me. I only stood there for a moment and blinked out of the way as it tried to eat me. I ran up beside Cyrux.

“Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!” I yelled as we saw the outside. We got out of the cave and as we got to about ten feet of it we turned to see it burst out of the caves. Right into my traps.

For a split second the ground glowed and the sound and explosions went off at once. Sure I thought putting some traps out front of the cave was a good idea to get any of them trying to escape the nest. I didn’t expect the giant metal caterpillar coming out. I watched as it looked at use. By the glare alone I just pissed it off some more.

“Cyrux, how the living fuck do we kill it?” I asked him. I prepared some spells as I asked him. If I’m going to go out, I funking going out fighting.

“I don't know, it's armor is thick enough to withstand anything.” Cyrux said as he picked up a few rocks and kicked them, hard enough to make a sounds each time it hits.

“I don’t think kicking rocks at it will help.” I bit my lip. I began to feel red mana begin to surround me and my vision was going red. I took some breaths to keep in control. Got to keep calm, don’t want another rampage. But if I got all out I might break the armor to get to…. the…. soft spot…. hmmm.

“Cyrux do you think Jak is still alive in there?” I asked him. Just as I asked that, the Metal pede rose up ready to strike but stopped as a loud boom could be heard inside it. Seconds later, light pierced through it.

It screamed in agony as it swung around as smoke came out of its mouth, cracks still forming around it as light shone through the cracks.

Then it exploded in a gory mess.

“Fuck you! I can't die that easily!” I heard Jaks voice through the mist of blood.

“Well that was, ummm something, you ok? I don’t know about Metal heads and you just got eaten by one.” I asked him. I felt myself calm down a bit. I saw Cyrux look at me and I just waved him off.

“Meh, never much cared to learn about them, they're just annoying.” He said as he flew down.

“Right, ok so now what? We took on this thing, well kind of, what are we going to do now?”

“Now, I do this.” Jak said looking at the cave entrance. He raised both his hands at it and fired two beams of light and Dark eco at the cave. He stopped and lowered his arms back down and turned around, getting ready to fly back. He looked at me with a serious look.

“You might want to get out of here, quickly. Meet up back at the town.” He said before taking off at breakneck speed.

I turned to look at Cyrux as he stared at the cave with wide eyes, at least that's what I think he's doing.

“Get us out of here, now.” Cyrux said, serious beyond belief. I raised an eyebrow at him and looked at the cave. My eyes grew wide as I saw Rhino like Metal heads deep inside, charging at us.

“Right.” I grabbed Cyrux and ported into town.


Jak


Landing at the outskirts of Ponyville, I had changed back to normal and waited for Jess and Cyrux while holding a sphere of eco.

Seconds later they had appeared next to me and I crushed the eco sphere in my hands, resulting in an earthquake and a large Purple and light blue explosion back at the nest.

“Done.” I said, having a hard time standing up due to the large amount of eco I used. I looked at Jess as she was holding her head.

“Ugg two long range teleports can do a number on one’s head.” She put a hand on her stomach. “And stomach.” She pulled two potions out of her bag and passed one to Cyrux. She took the potion and stood up.

“So you blew up the nest?” She asked.

“Yeah, listen I need to get some rest, how do I send you back?” I asked, tired and sore all around.

“Well all you need to do is to say ‘your services are no longer required’ and the portal will open.” She said to me.

“Alright, your services are no longer required.” I said to her.

The portal soon opened behind her. She looked at it then back at me.

“It's been something, call me if you need any help.” She said as she started to walk through.

“Expect my token at some point, I made one a long time ago.” I said, gaining Jess’s attention.

“Alright, take care.” She said, stepping through the portal. The portal closed soon after she stepped through.

I held a hand up to my forehead as a massive headache came through. I started walking towards Ponyville and pick up Nyx, then head on home and rest for a week at least.


Jess PoV
Story: Magic the gathering: Friendship is magic- I think?
Place: The cottage.


I step out of the portal into my home. It was good to see I was back home. I didn’t see Moonlight anywhere but I didn’t bother looking, I had a long day and all I wanted to do is sleep. I put my cane sword down and then my bag and opened my bag to see what potions I need to make/get again. I rummage through the bag until I saw one potion that made me stop. I grabbed it and looked at it. It was the poison joke cure that I was looking for. I looked at it and shrugged and opened it and drank it.

After a moment after the potion went it course and I looked into a mirror to see that I was back to normal. I smiled and went back to my bag to put it away. Then I started coughing.

I stood there for a moment and thought about it. As I seemed that my body feel sluggish and aching. I frowned a bit.

“Great I’m getting sick.”


Jak


After picking up Nyx and left before anyone could question me, I had started walking back to the Everfree castle. On the way, Nyx couldn't stop worrying about me and me being covered in Metal Head blood didn't help either.

I had told her that I was fine but tired, she accepted my reason though she wanted to know more.

Once back home, I went straight to the showers, because dried Metal head blood smells like dog shit. After repeatedly showering off the blood, I had put on some shorts and went straight to bed, though my sleep was interrupted later that night by Nyx.

“Daddy, I had a nightmare.” I heard her say through my tired ears. I sat up, worried about what she dreamt.

“What was it about?” I said, picking her up and placing her on my lap.

“I dreamt that you'd turn into a monster, forgetting about me and k-killing e-e-everything.” Nyx said, tears swelling up in her eyes.

“Well let me tell you something.” I said, poking her nose while saying the word boop.

“It's just a dream, I'm not going to turn into a monster, I'm not killing anyone unless they give me reason to do so and I'm NOT going to forget and abandon you, ever.” I said, hugging my daughter.

“Can I sleep here with you?” I heard her ask. I closed my eyes and sighed.

“Sure, just let me get you a pillow.” I said, moving her to the right side of the bed, noticing how big the bed is.

I walked towards the closet and took out another pillow and went back to bed, giving Nyx the pillow and laying back down.

“I love you, dad.” I heard Nyx say as she laid down. Once she laid down, I gave her a kiss on the forehead.

“I love you too, my little angel.” I said as sleep overtook me.

I‘m pretty sure I'm going to be out for a few days.’ were my final thoughts as I drifted off into sleep.


Author's Note

Hey, I know I know, crossover already? I did it because it was fun and gave me the excuse to write with a friend.

I'll probably do some crossovers, if you have a displaced fic and wanting to do one. In other words, to those who follow me, I have the most joyful news, Dragon God of Equestria's new chapter is almost done and it's part of the finaly.

Thanks to DemonG, I got to write this and hang out with him a bit, it's always fun to write with someone who I trust to be a friend.

Adios(Goodbye) and have a nice day!

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