Chapters I was The Wanderer: Brothers of The Wastes
Brotherly reunion, where is my bat
Funny, I didn't think you'd be interested in more. Alright, My name is Steel Breaker, I was originally a normal human guy in a convention but you know the deal, I bought something and ended up in a new world. Anyway, I'm six foot five. I have ash grey Chitin and my mane was a darker shade of grey.
What's worst you may ask is that I was sent to a Post-apocalyptic Wasteland from Fallout three only I was in Equestria’s past.
From being a normal Wastelander to the Messiah Of The Capital Wasteland and it'll all started with two teenaged Vault dwellers from Vault 101.
Defeating the Enclave and finding an oasis of trees were two of my greatest accomplishments. The tree known as Harold had asked me to kill him but I had a better idea and he agreed.
Soon after that began a whole new Adventure through Equestria. From The Mojave to the Commonwealth. I've made many mistakes in my life, so many that it would overshadow my good deeds but it never stopped me.
I'll just be quick here, don't want to waste your time. I was a human turned Anthro Earth pony, normally you'd think I would freak out but I didn't, shit happens all the time.
But that all changed when my ex and I went to search for her Sister. We were drugged and taken to a massive research facility where they proceeded to take some organs from my ex while they injected me with a mutagen that would've turned me into a mindless bug like monster that kills and feeds for a living. But what they did to her was was more severe than what they did to me.
They replaced a few organs with robotic ones. Heart, spine and lungs. Long story short, we got what we wanted along with the satisfaction of Revenge.
I would go on about The Mojave but I rather wouldn't talk about Ulysses.
After finishing in the Mojave, I had left for the Commonwealth a decade later after injecting a modified version of the F.E.V to Harold.
In the Commonwealth, I've suffered quite a bit. I was a Brotherhood of Steel Vanguard, so killing them was hard for me. I also met a griffin by the name of Salvador, The Sole Survivor of Vault 111.
We've been through a lot together and I felt a strange sense of familiarity towards him. Then he told the truth. He's like me, a displaced but not just another displaced, he was my little brother.
To say that was furious was putting it mildly. He not only left our family but he explained that he was trying to find me and that I was gone for ten years.
Which brings us to now. He stood there with a smirk, knowing that there were ponies behind him.
“You're not my brother, not anymore.” I stated, anger seething through my tone of voice. Twilight stood back, trying to wrap her head around the situation.
“I helped you, I saved your ass from the wreckage, I gave you new limbs and you still can't accept me back.” He said with a frown.
“No, bribery is making it worse. Nothing in the whole world could change my mind.” I said to him. I looked behind him and saw Nyx and Scootaloo behind Twilight.
“I'm sorry alright, is that what you want?” He asked, I shook my head no.
“You killed innocent people, you robbed me of my six thousand caps. You killed every single faction regardless of what they did. If being related to you means being related to a homicidal, alcoholic, Chem addict then I'd rather fight three alpha deathclaws bare handed.” I firmly stated.
“That wasn't me, it was the institute. That's why I blew it up.” He said in defense.
“You killed everyone inside, including your dying son. He wanted to give you a synth with his likeness as a child, so you could be a father again but you ignored him.” I said, causing him to look down in sadness. Seeing this, I felt my brotherly instinct kick in.
“You could've done so much good with the institute. You could've been a hero but you didn't and for what? Revenge? Kellogg apologized and gave you his prized gun as an apology.” I told him as I crossed my arms at him, waiting for an answer.
“The day I lost Nora, my whole world fell. So don't you tell me what I could've been because without her, I'm nothing.” Sal said as he pulled out a M1911 and aimed at me. This caught everyone by surprise but me.
Twilight was about to use magic but I raised my hand to stop her from doing so.
“Do it, because if you do, you'll know I'm right.” I said, waiting for him to pull the trigger but heard sound of metal hitting the crystal floor.
“How can I change?” I heard him ask.
“I can't tell you, it took someone else to encourage me to change....and losing my leg but you get the point.” I said to him. I offered my hand to him and he took it. I yanked his arm and pulled him to hug.
“This is for having you back.” I said as I pulled back. I then punched his beak, causing him to fall on the floor as he held his beak in pain.
“And that is for breaking in here.” I told him. It hurt my hand but, so worth it and I still have more left.
“Steel, what's going on and who is this?” I heard Twilight ask me as she walked towards me with Nyx and Scootaloo.
“This-” I started as I stomped him on his chest.
“Is Salvador De Rivera, my little brother.” I said before kicking him again. He knows he deserves worse and is taking it like a man. Speaking of which.
I kicked him again, this time in the area every man has to protect, causing him to scream in a high pitched tone.
“Then why are you doing this!?” Twilight shouted as she pulled me away.
“I'd rather keep it short, back then I was known as The Messiah and he was known for being Evil incarnate.” I said to her as she held me.
“But he's changed, right?” She asked me. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be hauled off into questioning.
“I don't know, but I know who can tell for sure.” I said to her. I then felt a pair of arms around my legs.
I looked down and saw Scootaloo with a worried look.
“You're not going to put it back on are you?” She asked me. I placed a hand on her mane and began to stroke it.
“No, I promised you I wouldn't.” I told her, earning a smile from her.
“Steel, is this going to stop our Linguistic lessons?” I heard Nyx ask me. I told her that I studied multiple languages, mostly french and spanish but as soon as I told Nyx she begged for lessons.
“No. You two should head to school without me, I need to go visit Fluttershy.” I said as I forced Sal to his feet and pushed him.
“Move it.” I ordered him as I walked out the throne room with him following behind.
‘I'm not going to let this ruin everything ’ I thought as I passed by Kate, one of Chrysalis’ foals. I stopped and looked back only to see Spike with a sheepish smile as he waved at me.
I shook my head and turned back to the door and saw Scootaloo there.
“Can I come with?” She asked. I looked at her, waiting for her to tell me why.
“Why?” I asked her. I heard Sal mutter something out but I stomped his foot to shut him up.
“I-” She started but stopped, not able to come up with a reason. I crouched down and picked her up.
“I'll write up an excuse but just this once, alright.” I said to her as I straighten up. I took hold of Scootaloo's backpack and dropped it near the door.
I then opened the door and helped Sal walk out.
8:48 A.M.
We arrived at Fluttershy’s cottage and saw Dogmeat carrying two bags of seeds on that were suspeded by a pole on his back. He let out a bark and gained the attention of all Shy’s brids.
Scootaloo walked up to him and hugged his neck. When she pulled back, Dogmeat greeted her with an onslaught of licks.
I walked up to him and petted him behind the ears, making him shake his back leg. Once he saw Sal, his mood changed to that of anger.
I managed to calm him down but when Sal got near him, he almost bit him. I went and knocked on Fluttershy’s door.
A few seconds later, a familiar bear opened the door with a tired look.
“Morning Harry.” I greeted him as he let out a yawn.
“Is Fluttershy here?” I asked the bear. He held out a claw and walked inside, minutes later he came back with Fluttershy following behind.
“Hello Steel.” She greeted.
“Good morning, I'm sorry to bother you so early in the morning but something came up and I need to ask a favor from you if it isn't too much trouble.” I said to her.
“Oh, I hope it isn't as bad as I think it is.” She said in her usual tone. I shook my head and.pulled Sal up close.
“This is Salvador, my little brother and he's been a thorn on my side since I found him and I'm asking you if you could see if he has changed. He's usually a drunk, chem addicted, homicidal psycopath but he told me that he wants to change but I can't do it, I can't be in the same room as him.” I explained to her. She looked shaken up by this information.
“If shows any sign of danger to yourself, you come and find as quick as you can. I know that you reformed Discord and I'm hoping you could do the same to him.” I finished explaining to her. She closed her eyes and let out a breath she was holding.
“Okay, I'll do it.but it'll take time.” She said, determination in her voice.
“Take as much time as you need, I just want my little brother back.” I told her. She was about to ask something else but I stopped her.
“I'll explain later.” I said to her, earning a nod of understanding from her. She took hold of Sal’s arm and guided him inside.
Once the door closed, I turned around and came face to fur with Harry. I looked up and made I contact with the bear as he gave me a questioning look.
“Yes we're brothers.” I said, eanring a snort from the bear.
“Listen, it's complicated.” I said to him. He let out a small roar, meaning he was telling me something.
“Yes, if he acts with aggression then you're free to knock him out.” I said as I walked passes the bear. I walked towards Scoots, who was playing with Dogmeat.
“Come on, Scoots. Dogmeat has work to do.” I said to them, earning a whine from the both of them.
“You need to work for your food, remember.” I said to Dogmeat. I then looked at Scoots and saw her holding onto Dogmeats neck.
“If you don't let him go, I guess we won't go to that Wonder bolt show you wanted to go to.” I said outloud. She immediately let go of Dogmeat and ran up to me.
I smirked at this.
“Good choice.” I said as I started walking towards the Apple Farm.
On the way, I passed by a few townsfolk like Vinyl Scratch and Octavia S. Melody. I waved at both of them as I walked past them.
I heard Vinyl shout if she could use my Pip-boy for one of her gigs but was soon silenced by Octavia.
I chuckled at their arguing, either their dating or just friends with very little things in common, I don't know. I felt Scootaloo take a hold of my hand as we walked by her by her old home.
“Don't be afraid, Scoots. They're not coming back to hurt you, I promise.” I said as I stood on one knee and looked at her.
“I know, it's just I have so many bad memories of this place.” She said.
“I know, but I'm going to give you good memories, ones that you'll always want to cherish.” I said to her, giving her a kiss on the forehead.
“You really are like the best dad.” I heard her whisper to herself.
I was The Wanderer: Brothers of The Wastes
9:06 A.M
After walking through town and seeing some friendly faces, me and Scootaloo finally arrived at the farm. Once there, we were greeted by Mac, he lost an arm wrestling match, causing him to lose his title as the strongest stallion in town, plus he wasn't tall to begin with so calling him Big Mac was out and it was also the fact that his nickname is from The McDonald's fast food.
Anyway, he gave us the baskets and asked me why was Scoots with me and not in School. I answered with the one thing I could come up with.
“Because I can.” I answered him. He looked at and then at Scoots, then back to me and then Scoots again, fortunately she wasn't me and I'm not her, that would've caused some problems.
“Fine, but if my lil’ Sis asks me to do the same, I'm blaming you.” Mac said as he walked off towards his side of the field.
I shook my head as me and Scoots grabbed the baskets and went towards our side of the field, seeing Applejack along the way and receiving the same question.
Finally arriving at the far side, I dropped the baskets and climbed up the tree while Scoots flew up to a branch.
“Why can't you kick the trees like AppleJack, again?” Scootaloo asked as she started picking apples.
“On my first day on the job, I tried kicking a tree and it ended up making the tree embed itself on the barn. I paid for the damage and helped but they didn't want it to happen again, so I'm playing it safe.” I answered as I took hold of the trunk with my right arm and grabbed a branch with my left, then proceeded to shake the branch, causing the apples to fall.
Scootaloo saw this and flew down, then started picking up the fallen apples.
I smiled as I looked down at her. To think that she was an abused filly breaks my heart but seeing her smile fixes it back up. The first few weeks since her parents trial, she was scared, sadden and heartbroken by the revelation of what her father would've done if she hadn't ran away.
I postponed my date with Twilight, any meetings with the local newspaper and spent the entirety of those weeks with Scootaloo. Of course at one point I had to leave for important matters, like signing an adoption form. She needed a family and I'm determined to be a real fatherly figure to her.
Which bring us back to now, ever since I told her of the adoption papers I signed she had started calling me dad from time to time. When I had asked her why, she had answered that it right.
I heard the sound of wood snapping and looked to my left to see that the branch was falling off. I maybe sort of panicked a bit and let the branch go, causing me to lose my balance and fall down.
I felt my right leg get in between two branches and it managed to stop my fall, leaving me upside down with wide eyes.
I could hear the sound of laughter and saw that it was Scootaloo laughing at my clumsiness.
“Alright, alright, it's funny. Now please help me down.” I said to her. She stopped her laugh riot, leaving her giggling every second as she flew up and snapped one of the branches off.
Landing face first into the dirt wasn't what I had in mind but it'll do.
I placed my hands on the ground and pushed myself off the dirt, allowing me to spit out some grass that landed in my mouth. I sat on the dirt and dusted my face and a bit of my arms, chitin and dirt aren't a great match.
“Graaaassss, tastes bad!” I stated with grass in my hand.
“Pfft, you should know.” I heard Scootaloo say as she flew down to me. I quickly took hold of her, surprising her and started tickling her. It's very unfortunate for her that she is very ticklish.
“Hahahahaha, Stahp hahaha.” She said between laughs.
“You must face your punishment, now feel my wrath.” I said with a fake evil tone and earned another round of laughter from the filly in my arms.
After a minute of laughing, I stopped and held her in my arms as she returned the embrace.
“I love you, dad.” I heard her whisper. My lips formed a small smile.
“I love you too, Scoots and don't forget it, ever.” I said to her as I stroked her mane. I stood up after letting her go and started picking up the apples from the floor while Scoots did the same.
Once all the apples were in the basket, we moved onto the next tree and repeated the process for the next hour and a half.
10:42 A.M
“Done!” I heard Scoots shout out as I placed the last Apple in the basket.
“Good, now all we need to do now is put the baskets in the barn.” I explained to her as I picked up four baskets while she picked up two.
“Last-one there-is-a-filthy-Mole-Rat!” I shouted with incredible speed as I broke into a full sprint towards the barn. I looked back and saw that Scootaloo wasn't there and I was soon passed by an orange blur.
“No fair! You know I can't fly!” I shouted as I continued to run.
I arrived at the barn doors, panting like a dog in the middle of a heat wave and saw that Scootaloo placed her baskets inside.
“I win.” She declared. I weakly patted her shoulder as I was out of breath.
“You look like you're getting old~.” She said to me with a grin.
“Child, I'm older than you think.” I said between ragged breaths. It took a few seconds to get my breathing under control but that didn't stop Scootaloo from calling me old.
I walked inside the barn and saw Gob checking the apples near two buckets. Seeing as some of the townsfolk wouldn't hire him on account of what he is, I managed to get him a job here, in fact The apples were kind enough to let him stay in the guest room until he gets the bits to get a house. He wore a brand new white shirt with jean like overalls.
“Hey Gob.” I greeted the Ghoul.
“If it isn't my good ol’ Friend. How's it been, smoothskin?” He greeted as he tossed a rotten apple in the basket full of rotten apples.
“It was good, until Salvador decided to show his face. I can't look at him as long as he takes chems or drinks, so I'm hoping that Fluttershy could help him out of his addiction.” I said to him as I placed the baskets beside him.
“Why not use a Fixer on him?” Gob asked as he looked at a clean red apple and tossed it with the rest.
“He needs to prove himself that he can and will come out of this, if not, I'll leave to the Deathclaws.” I told him.
“I thought you took care of them a few weeks ago.” He said.
“Naw, just caved them in their nest.” I said as I looked outside and saw Scootaloo waiting on me.
“Listen, we'll catch up later. I have to go.” I told him as I walked towards Scoots, earning a wave from Gob.
I walked out with Scoots and caught up with both Mac and AppleJack.
“Sup, boss. You'll be happy to hear that I'm done.” I said to AppleJack. She chuckled as she walked into her home and a minute later she came out with a bag of bits and threw them at me.
I caught the bag and thanked her for the pay before heading back to town.
On the way, I counted the bits up to fifty and took out fifteen bits. I then gave those bits to Scootaloo.
“Here, this is for helping me out today.” I said to her as she took the bits and put them in her pocket.
“Thanks but you didn't need to give any bits, being with you is rewarding enough.” She said. I smiled at this as I picked her up with ease.
“And being with you is the most fun I've had in a really long time, the game of tag comes in a close second.” I said to her, giving her a peck on the cheek.
All of a sudden I heard somepony call out my name. I looked back and saw that it was Twilight and Fluttershy running towards me.
“Steel, you need to come quick. Salvador did something and now there's a vortex in Fluttershy’s home.” Twilight said to me. I looked over to Fluttershy.
“He didn't mean it, he found this and asked if it might be worth something.” Fluttershy said as she held out a familiar item.
“Alright, let's go.” I said to them as I started running to Fluttershy’s cottage.
When we made it to Shy’s cottage, I saw a strange woman holding Salvador down with his arm on his back.
“Well, there goes my normality out the freaking window.” I said to myself as I saw Harry laughing his fur covered ass off at the scene.
I was The Wanderer: Brothers of The Wastes
Steel Breaker
Twilight's Castle
8:00 A.M
Morning, the hardest time of the day. After me and Twilight had our fun , we fell asleep with Twilight in my arms.
Anyway, I had to get up, even if every fiber of my being thinks otherwise. Sitting up, I had stretched with loud yawn. I stood up from the bed and felt the cold morning air.
I groaned as I remembered that I had slept without clothes so it would've been obvious to me why I felt cold. Moving towards my dresser, I opened it up. While searching for what to wear, I heard the bathroom door open and Twilight walked.
I heard her whistle as she saw me, making roll my eyes with a chuckle.
“Stare at my ass all you want, but you ain't getting it...yet.” I said with a laugh as I started to put on some clothes. I heard her chuckle at my joke.
I then felt her wrap her still wet arms around me, pressing herself against me. Great, now my back is wet.
“I can't help it and you know that.” I heard her as she placed her head on my shoulder. Turning my head, I kissed her cheek as she pulled away.
“Morning.” I said to her as she walked towards her dresser and I'm sure she knew I was staring by the fact that she dropped her towel and started swaying her hip on the way towards her dresser.
“Teasing aside, when are your parents arriving?” I said to her. She stiffened at the mention of her parents but continued on and started to get dressed. She didn't answer, too early maybe.
I put on snow camo shirt and some black jeans. Twilight put on a magenta shirt with the words Magic, nuff said and skinny torn jeans.
We headed to the dining hall for breakfast and picked up Nyx and Scoots on the way.
We ate breakfast, discussed today's agenda and chatted with each other. Then my nieces showed up, slamming the door opened they flew in as they played tag and Liberty was the one trying to catch them.
I clapped my hands together, making the four fillies stop in midair and look at me. They then shrunk under my disapproving glare and landed near their mother.
Spike walked up behind Chrysalis with Kate following behind and gained Chrys’ attention.
“Morning to you all.” I said to them, earning a reply from all of them minus the sadden fillies. They apparently don't like it when I'm mad at them.
I stood up and walked towards the three sadden fillies and crouched down. I then embraced them while telling them never to do that again.
“Okay.” I heard them say simultaneously. I straighten up and nodded as they flew to their mother.
I walked back to Twilight.
“You never told me at what time your family would arrive.” I said to her.
“They'll be in town in a few hours, four hours max.” She answered me. I nodded and kissed her before leaving the room with Scootaloo following behind.
It was clear sunny day, almost no clouds were visible in the sky. You're probably wondering Where's the Iron Patriot of Equestria, Liberty Prime? Your answer, he's been shut down and placed in the workshop of the castle. I plan to use Liberty for non-lethal purposes.
Anyway, it was time for Dash’s early shooting lessons. She might've pissed me off and I punished her with an early lesson.
Though, I'm sure she'll enjoy the gun she'll be using. I brought my old Gauss Rifle with me to see how well she can handle a gun with a strong kickback.
“So, can you tell me about your brother? Like good times you've had and stuff like that.” I heard Scootaloo say as she sat on a large rock. I used the gun as leverage so I could lean on it and looked at Scootaloo as I did so.
“Sure, I mean he and I had a decent childhood, a funny one at that. Like this one time, it was his turn to cook dinner and after he left dinner cooking, he went to his room to work on a school project and when he walked out, his hand was covered in oil and once his hand was close enough to the stove, it lit his hand on fire and be ran around the house screaming Mommy, I'm on fire! ” I said to her, she laughed at that.
“How old was he!?” She laughed out.
“Sixteen if I'm not mistaken.” I said with a few chuckles of my own. She laughed for a whole five minutes while I waited for Rainbow to arrive.
“But why is he like how he is now?” I heard Scootaloo ask after a few more minutes of silence.
“It's..not my place to say but it started when his wife died and went downhill from there.” I said to her. She was about to ask another question but was cut off by the sound of wings flapping.
I looked up and saw that Dash finally arrived.
Salvador De Rivera
Voices, yells, shouts and mumbles was all I could hear but one stood out from the rest.
“You're not my brother! You're a monster, a fucking drunken, chem addicted monster and I will not be known as the one related to such a thing!” He was right. Steel’s always right. Why didn't I grant my sons last wish? Why wasn't I the better man and let Kellogg go?
What would Nora think of me now? She'll probably divorce me if she had the chance.
Walking down a path carved through my sorrows, seeing my sins. A disgrace, that's what I am. Mother would disown me like Steel had done, deny my existence and hate my very being.
Regrets, I have many for I think before I act but chose to ignore the pain and continue my journey along the darken path I carved.
Love. It is something I might never achieve. Nora, if I could turn back time and save you, I'd do it in a heartbeat but time isn't a toy for mortal beings.
Would your love for me die if you were to see me again?
Walking along this darken path that I carved with my sorrow, I never knew pain until I realized what I have done.
The merchant. He is to blame for everything. No, no, no, His actions had nothing to do with mine. Perhaps...perhaps he tried to reunite me with my Brother.
Brother. A word, a title, a name for one who is born from your kin. A title I have lost.
Mutters, whispers and hushed voices clouded my hearing. Familiarity around the area was the only thing I felt.
Walking down this darken path that I carved through my sorrows. A lonely road, the lonesome road, The Divide.
Memories of a distant past, one I have yearn to go back to.
Walking down the lonely road, the only road that I have ever know for I know where it goes. The road I have carved through my mistakes, over the path of sorrow and into my blackened heart.
“Salvador .” Nora? Looking around, nothing but looking down the darken road, I saw her. Nora.
Walking towards the only thing in my sight, towards the one I truly loved.
“Salvador, you must not stay in the past.”
Nora?
“Move on and live the life you yearned for. Move on and find love again.”
No! You're the only one I could ever love. I will not betray your love!
“If you do love me, then you must accept the truth and move on.”
But-
“Do it please, for me.”
Only now I felt true pain, accepting the fact that I'll never see her again but nodded.
“Now, wake up.”
“Salvador, it's almost noon. I don't think it's good to oversleep.” I heard the voice of my caretaker. Her voice, it reminds of her .
“Nora?” I said through my groggy state but I could tell that the pegasus knew not of the one I mentioned. I rubbed my eyes as I sat up.
I then turned my head to see Fluttershy but my beak came into contact with her muzzle. That woke me up completely.
Pulling back with a race face, I could see that Fluttershy was in the same state.
“S-sorry, I didn't know you were that close.” I said to her.
“N-no no, it was my fault. I'm going to feed the animals.” She said as she hurried out the door.
Standing up and placing my left hand over my eyes in the form of a face palm, I let out a groan as I walked into her kitchen.
Before I had went to sleep last night, she had said that I could help myself with anything that I could make in her kitchen.
While making a regular sandwich, I swore I could hear a voice.
‘It's feels good to help but it cramps my style, Lulu!’ I stopped and looked around but found nothing then continued on.
Steel Breaker
Three hours after Dash’s arrival
It's been three hours after Dash’s humiliating lessons. She couldn't keep herself from falling backwards every time she shot the Gauss rifle.
Me and Scoots had went over to Sugarcube corner, where I had met Mr and Mrs Cake. They had gotten back from their three month long vacation, which meant they haven't been around during the incident.
Anyway, me and Scoots had asked for a sunday and left after paying. Now, I was on my way back to Twilight's castle with Scootaloo eating the Sunday between my shoulders.
Of course she shares a few spoons, sometimes but I don't mind. We arrived at the castle doors, seeing a few guards posted out in front.
“Halt!” They said, crossing their spear to block my path.
“We don't allow you insects near the prince-” Asshat number one was knocked out and I turned to Asshat number two. He looked at me with wide eyes as I rolled my eyes and faked a punch.
He flinched and lost consciousness.
“Rule number one?” I said to Scoots as she kept eating the ice cream.
“Don't make you angry.” She said with her mouthful.
“Numero dos?” I asked again. She sighed as she took another spoonful and lowered the spoon towards my mouth. I opened it and she dumped the ice cream inside.
“I scream.” I said opening the door, dragging the two unconscious guards with it.
“You scream!” Scootaloo shouted with enthusiasm.
“We all scream for Ice cream!” We both shouted as the door closed behind us.
Twilight Sparkle
Meanwhile
I sat on one of the many chair in my personal study with both my parents sitting in front of me. Cadence and Shining were here too with guards...oh boy.
“So, Twilight. I keep hearing that you're dating somepony. Has a stallion finally swept you off your hooves?” Cadence asked me.
“You could say that.” I kept my answers vague for now until Steel gets back.
“Is he good stallion? Does he treat you with respect? Has he cheated on you?” My dad, Nightlight asked me.
“No, that's seventeen times I've answered you.” I said to him. Shining hasn't said a thing and more importantly, he hasn't let go of his sword.
“Well, whoever he is better b-”
“In a nutshell, that's what a Deathclaw is. All I want to know is who's idea was it to make them? I mean really, a super soldier that would replace pony soldiers.” I heard Steel’s voice coming from the other side of the door.
“Maybe they were just weird, you know.” I heard Scootaloo’s voice as well. I smiled as they walked through the door but that soon changed when I heard glass breaking.
I looked at the source and saw that mom had dropped her teacup in shock.
“Hey, Twi.” Steel greeted before kissing me. He then looked at the group and waved casually before sitting down next to me.
Steel Breaker
“Don't let me interrupt your conversation.” I said to the ponies staring at me
“Twilight. What is that thing doing here?” I heard the blue maned unicorn ask through gritted teeth.
“I live here.” I answered simply.
“Bullshit.” He retorted as he pointed his sword at me. Twilight was about to remove said sword but I took hold of the blade.
“You must be Shining armor, the brother of my marefriend and if you insult me on more time..” I said bending the blade into a curve before snapping it off.
“Now sit down, listen and shut up.” I said to him, not even trying to hide my disgust towards him.
He sat down, muttering insults before getting kicked in the shins by the pink Alicorn. Looking at said Alicorn, I bowed my head.
“You must be Mi Amore Cadenza, Princess of Love. C'est un plaisir de vous rencontrer.” I greeted her. She smiled and looked at Twilight.
Looking over to the two older couple.
“My name's Steel Breaker and you are?” I said, standing up and offering my hand. The light grew mare took my hand and shook it with a large smile.
“Twilight Velvet, Twily’s mother.” She said before letting go. The stallion stood up with a grunt and took a firm hold of my hand.
“Nightlight, Twilight's father.” He said before pulling me close.
“And if you ever hurt my daughter, you better pray to Celestia’s light that I'd never find you.” He said in a whisper.
“Then I'll be sure to shoot you on sight.” I said with a smirk, earning a laugh from the stallion.
“You've got guts, kid.” he said as he patted my right arm, earning a metal slap. He held his hand in minor pain and looked at me in confusion.
“First of all, don't call me kid, like ever. Second, next time…” I said, rolling up my right sleeve, revealing the metal arm. “Try looking at my hand first, kay?” I said before patting his shoulder and sitting back down next to Twilight and Scootaloo.
“Twi.” I said, gaining her attention.
“Where's Nyx?” I asked her.
“She's playing with Chrysalis’s fillies outside.” She answered.
“Cool. So, Scoots would you rather sit here and listen to boring adults talk or go out-” Without even finishing the sentence, she was already long gone. “Side…” I finished saying, stunned by her incredible speed before shaking my head and looking at the group.
“So...any questions.” Regrets. I have many, this is one of them.
I was The Wanderer: Brothers of The Wastes
Salvador De Rivera
I've been busy for the past few hours after waking up, for one, I've been helping Fluttershy with her animals as well as giving some medical advices to her. Back at Earth I studied to be a Veterinarian but never got passed my first year due to being Displaced.
Afterwards she had asked me to accompany to the and I agreed for various reasons and the first being that she was kind enough to deal with me.
Her pet bunny though, that demon keeps trying to make me lose it. So I had showed Angel what my synthetic arm could do if I was really angry. He got the point and left.
To be honest, while I was feeding the animals, I couldn't help but admire Fluttershy for her dedication to them. I also felt envious to the animals but I pushed that feeling back, not wanting to know where that came from.
An hour after returning from the market and helping putting the bags away, I had excused myself to go around town for a walk.
I've been walking for only thirty minutes and I noticed that some of the townsfolk were giving me stares. It's almost like they had a bad experience with a Griffin before.
Regardless of how I feel, the town actually has some sights to see. From a Gingerbread house, a Carousel Building and a clock tower which happened to be a clock shop. I couldn't help but smile from the town's good vibe.
“Lookout!” I heard someone behind me. Stopping in my tracks, I looked back and saw a grey blur seconds before colliding with me. I was sent to the floor, sure I was mad but not furious mind you.
Opening my eyes, I saw that a grey pegasus mare with blonde mane and tail was on top of me, making it hard for me to breath. She sat up onto my stomach as she placed a hand on her forehead before groaning.
“I'm soo sorry, sir. I just needed to ge-” She wasn't even able to finish speaking before someone pulled her away by the mane. Still dazed, I saw two angry stallions yelling at the mare. One of them was muscular than the other. The left one looked as if he took steroids while the other looked to have legitimately gained his muscles. I finally got good look at her eyes, wonky golden yellow eyes.
I sat up with a groan and that's when I heard the sound of a loud slap. Quickly snapping to look back at the mare, seeing her holding her cheek in pain on the floor.
“Stupid bitch.” I heard one of them say. I looked at my synthetic arm before it split into three parts, revealing a rotating barrel. A loud click was heard from within before aiming and firing a single round at closest to the mare. The arm fired and hit the stallions leg, earning a scream of agony before he fell to the floor.
His lackey turned to me with a look of surprise before it turned to one killing intentions. I made the barrel of the gun spun around, he saw this and took a step back before running away.
“Get back here and help, me you fuck!” The muscular stallion shouted.
I took a deep breath before opening my one good eye, everything was slowed down. I used this to aim at the fleeing stallions leg and fired. As everything sped up back to normal, the stallion fell to the ground.
I heard my arm reforming back to it's passive mode. I stood up and ran towards the downed mare.
“Hey, are you alright?” I said as I bent on one knee. I could hear her sobbing.
“They-they did things to me.” She sobbed out. I was confused before seeing two holes at certain areas of her pants. I heard someone sneak up behind me.
I turned around, seeing that it was the stallion that took steroids. He delivered a strong punch onto my arm, recieving a loud clang in return before he reeled back in pain.
I then used this to my advantage and repeatedly punched both his knees before using my metal arm to basically cripple him by punching his knees and causing them to bend the wrong way. He fell onto the ground again.
“Why are you even helping this slut, she ain't good for anything except for a good fucking.” He said as he sat up. I'm guessing the adrenaline in his blood is letting him ignore the pain for now.
I then did something, I haven't done in a long time. I growled, like a Deathclaw. I placed my boot onto his pelvis.
“Fuck you.” I said before stomping him. I looked at my boot and saw blood. I wiped it off using the unconscious stallions shirt.
I turned back to the mare and helped her up. As I got her to her hooves, she almost fell back down. I was about to ask if she could fly to the hospital but I saw the state of her wings.
I guess that's why she was flying so low. I sighed before surprising the mare by picking her up bridal style.
“Where's the hospital?” I asked her. She stuttered a few times before telling me where to go.
I heard an inner beep before my vision was blocked by a message.
Karma has increased
Current Karma level: The Goddamn Fucking Devil
I ignored the message and continued to walk to the hospital, at least I think I am.
Steel Breaker
Our little get together could've gone better. Yes, I got along with Twilight's parents and Sister-in-law but her brother was just being a pain in the ass.
Most of his questions involved what I do for a living, what I will do and why do I think I'm good enough for his sister. I answered them regardless and told him if he doesn't change his attitude he would have to leave, Twilight had agreed to this as well.
I guess she wanted a happy family get together. Shining thought otherwise and challenged me to a duel. I just wanted him to shut up, so I had agreed to his challenged.
Now I stood in the middle of the castle courtyard with Shining Armor under my hoof. When the fight started he tried to swing at my upper body, leaving his lower body exposed to attacks and kicked both his knees in less then ten seconds after the fight started.
He kept trying to wiggle away but ended up being pushed further onto the floor. We were silent before a chuckle broke out.
Shining started chuckling while I did so as well before both laughing like we've been buds for years. I moved my hoof off of him before helping him up.
“You're stronger than you look.” He commented.
“It's not strength, it's strategy but thanks anyway.” I said to him before we started walking back to the library.
On the way we started conversing with each other.
“Hey I saw bar not to far from here, want to get a drink?” Shining asked. I shrugged my shoulders before we turned towards the exit.
After countless twists and turns, we've made it outside and started heading towards the town bar. On the way, I saw Salvador carrying Ditzy towards the hospital.
“Listen, I'll catch up with you.” I said to Shining before turning towards the hospitals direction.
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I was The Wanderer: Brothers of The Wastes
Regenerative feeling of Nostalgia and regret
To think I am a weapon would be idiotic if it weren't true. Having a curious mind had taught me that no matter what I switch, what I take out, I'll always be the same just different in some ways.
I've killed many people, no matter what race, guilty or innocent and all because of my anger. The same anger I felt when I saw my wife die in front of me, the same anger I felt when I fought Steel and the same anger I felt when I lost my son only days after finally reuniting with him. Those of the Commonwealth feared my presence, not just because of my technologically advanced prosthetic limbs but it was because of what they heard, what they've seen, what I've done.
I am and always will be a weapon.
-Salvador De Rivera
I've taken the mare to the hospital and waited for any news regarding her. I've been waiting for almost an hour with my brother, Steel.
He came in seconds after the doctors took the mare in, he asked what happened and I answered but that did not mean he was happy with the answer I gave him.
Even after his initial reaction, he responded in kind and brotherly manner, telling me that I did what had to be done but he doesn't know, he’ll never know.
He left saying that he'll find the ones responsible while I waited.
“Sir? ” I felt someone shaking me lightly.
“Sir? ” Another shake. It was then that I opened my eye and saw the nurse from earlier holding a little bell.
“You dropped this.” She said, handing me the ball before leaving. I let out a yawn as I stretched my only good arm before taking a look at the bell.
It was the size of a pocket watch, it even had a string attached to the tiny hook. I kept staring at it, knowing nothing about it before hearing a voice speak.
“If you are in need of assistance, ring the bell four times and say your issue, if I deemed it worthy I will come. ”
A Displaced. I looked left down the hall before looking right, seeing the cafeteria sign while spinning the string in my hand before stopping as I heard the bell chime.
Looking down I couldn't help but groan at my mistake. After a minute of nothing I saw the mist came around as some sort of arm reached up and handed me a roll of paper. I took it, unrolled it and read what it said.
“Saying nothing when you ring the bell doesn’t do shit you dumb ass” the note said.
“Fuck you too, bud.” I muttered out before looking at the bell.
“Only issue here is that somepony is hospitalized and the fucks responsible are still breathing.” I growled to myself. After a moment another note came up.
“Need help hunting them down?” The note said. Shrugging I said.
“Sure, why not.” I said. The mist dissipated for a moment then it slowly lifted up from the ground making a tall archway. After a moment I saw something coming out of it, He was… tall. I saw he wore black leather armor and a clawed gauntlet over his right arm, a gun and weird sword looking thing and on his back there’s was a weird looking bent staff. He looked at me and I saw that his face was covered with a hat and face mask. All I could see was his eyes that were Dark blue. He bowed at me.
“Greetings, I’m Jace Belaguard, Hunter of Ash and Cinder.” He said to me.
“A simple name would do.” I said to myself before standing up.
“Salvador De Rivera, nice to meet you.” I said leaving out my title of terror of the Wastes. He nodded and looked around.
“Well this is a weird place to come out of but I seen worst, so who am I hunting?” He asked me.
“Two stallions, one looks like he's either been in the gym for way too long or is on steroids and his lacky. Both have bullet wounds so it's easy to find them.” I said to him. He nodded and looked off down the hallway.
“Do you want me to be seen or not be seen?” He asked me as I saw his eyes glow a bit.
“Let them see you, a way to show them the consequences of raping.” I said to him. Jace tilted his head and started to head out until he stopped.
“Want them alive or dead?” He asked. Was it me or did his voice sounded… cold.
“The edge of death, I'm trying and failing, to not reduce to killing.” I answered. He nodded and turned away.
“Wait two hours and come to the center of town.” He said as he turned to mist.
“Right.” I said before sitting back down. Not a second later, I raised my wrist as it showed a digital clock. Setting an alarm for two hours, I continued my nap.
Jace
I walked out of the hospital and looked around. I saw many ponies walking around and it was the middle of the day. I sighed and started my, very short, hunt. With a tracking spell I found the place where the two stallions were at and saw some blood on the ground, this made things easier as I followed the trail. I saw many ponies look at me with curiosity and fear but I didn’t blame them for seeing a 6’5 man walking armed to the teeth. What surprised me is that there wasn’t that many of them.
I finally found the place that the trail lead me to, a rundown apartment building. I looked at the front door and walked in and followed the trail to a room that looked like it been used as a punching bag, now that’s rude what did the door did for this much abuse. Looking over at another door and saw a do not disturb sign I took it and knocked at the door.
“What the fuck do you want?!” Someone yelled out. I smiled at this.
“Candie gram~” I said in a sing song tone. After a minute and some grunts from inside the room the door opened revealing one of them. My spell showed me that this was one of them.
“Who the fuck are yo-” I cut him off by kicking him into the room. I bented down to go inside the room and placed the sign on the door and closed it as I placed a silent spell on it. I turned and cracked my knuckles as I went to work.
one hour and thirty minutes later
I sat up on a rooftop looking down at my handiwork. Those two stallions, now beaten to a bloody pulp and have all of their bones broken, tied up in their underwear in the center of town as the towns folks gather around them. I chuckled and looked up at the sun and saw that I did this with thirty minutes to spare. I got up and took out one of my blue elixirs and drank it.
Gods it tasted nasty and my head was being pulled in many directions. After that was done I saw that I was now stealth and jumped down to the ground and began to explore for the next thirty minutes.
I walked down the street I saw that it was a nice day, so nice that I remember a song that I heard a long time ago. After a minute I started to sing the song.
“Sky lanterns that we've made,
lifting off from the cold hard ground,
will set the skies ablaze
'cause the stars in our eyes burnt out.”
I saw the ponies that were passing me started looking around to see where the singing was coming from. I smiled and continued.
“You know what I mean
how we cling to the darkness.
We know what it takes;
to be something we're proud of.”
“Don't wait for the sunlight
to brighten your day.
Take up the torch and be strengthened.
We can light up the darkness
and fight through the pain.
Work up a dream worth the chasin'.”
As I was singing I remembered the time when Tia sang this song as she grew up. It was a nice song and it has an uplifting beat to it. I continued on with singing as I confused more ponies.
Salvador
As much as I loved to nap and ignore those around me, I had to go and head towards the center of town. On the way I had checked my arm, remembering that it glitched when I fired a few times.
The arm split into three and revealed three gun barrels. A chain gun, plasma rifle and pocket rocket launcher. As I tried switching between the different gun types, I noticed that it kept getting stuck halfway before completing its cycle.
After a few more cycle spins, I pressed a tiny button that was hidden between the guns. Once I pressed it and quickly pulled my hand back, the arm sparked a few times signaling that it was being self repaired before closing up and forming an actual arm again.
During all that, I had managed to make to the center of town and what I saw was most delightful. Though I could've walked through the crowd and finished the job, I had to oblige the new laws and push the thought back.
“Nice.” I said outloud. Hearing the beeping of my built in sensor, I looked back and saw the man that did the job for me. It wasn’t hard since he was a giant of a man, he looked like he was looking at some sort of bottle.
“I see you've done what I've asked, I do hope they learned their lesson.” I commented. Jace looked at me for a moment and looked back at the group.
“Well they should since with what I did they are stuck in the hospital for a long time healing and I did leave them a warning if they try to something like this again.” He said. I didn’t have to ask what with the way he said it. I could feel the threat from his tone. He looked over me and narrowed his eyes. “Someone looked pissed.”
“I have a feeling who it might-” Interrupted from my sentence, I fell to the ground after being hit in the back of my head.
“Do you ever listen to what I say?” I heard his voice, I knew by the calm tone that he was beyond angry. I've seen him like this back when we were still human.
Placing my hand on the ground before pushing myself up, I looked at Steel.
“You know they had it coming, you know that I could've killed them before but I didn't.” I said to him as he crossed his arms. He didn't say anything but helped me up.
“Last chance, blow this one and you'll be dead before you know it.” Steel said with a glare before turning to look at the man.
“And you are?” He asked. Jace looked at Steel for a minute.
“Names Jace, and you are?” He said as he stared at him.
“Steel Breaker, Former Lone Wanderer of The Wastes.” He said. Jace snorted at him and looked away.
“Yeah, going down in a war blimp does that to you.” He said then blinked a few times.
“It was a Zeppelin and more importantly, how did you know that?” Steel said as he looked at his synth arm. Jace looked at him for a moment and grunted as he holds his head.
“Ugg the hell is going on!?” He yelled as he looked at Steel. “Who the fuck are you and who is Ulysses!?”
With that he disappeared in a mist. I watched as the mist go into an alleyway.
“Before we follow him, I've received this and it has both our names.” Steel said as he showed me an envelope with a strange mark on it. Looking at him strangely he shrugged before putting away the envelope and following the mist.
I looked back, seeing that no one had noticed the commotion that Jace caused, I then followed Steel.
Jace
I dropped the mist form after getting away. I felt my head pounding as if I got hit with a sledgehammer. What’s worse is the images that I was getting in my head.
I have seen Steel before but where? Who the hell is Ulysses? Ugg this is giving me a headache. I found a spot that I could meditate for answers. I crossed my legs and removed my headpiece to breath better, I looked over to a broken piece of a mirror and saw my reflection. Dark blue hair and beard and eyes with a scar over my left eye. I sighed and closed my eyes and headed to the Hunter’s dream.
I opened my eyes to see I was in the dream. I stood up and walked into the workshop and saw that the Doll was there.
“Good evening good hunter, is there something wrong?” She asked. I walked over to the workbench and put my weapons back and browse the other ones.
“Just a headache and weird images in my head.” I told her as I pulled the Claymore rifle and the Trigger cutter. I chuckled at this since they weren’t in the normal game but I built them anyway.
Looking at them I began to tune them so they were up to standard.
“Good hunter, maybe these images are memories from a past life.” She told me. I stopped and looked at her. A past life huh. I holster my weapons and turned to her.
“Maybe but I think this ‘Steel’ figure know’s more about this.” I said as I left the workshop.
“Good hunting.” She said as I returned to the grave I came from and kneeled down and felt my soul return to my body.
The first thing I realized that there were people around me and one of them were poking me. I waited until they were going to poke me again then grabbed them and hold the cutter at their throat.
“Stop that, it’s rude.” I said.
“Says the man holding a blade to another's throat.” Steel said.
“Well can’t help it, force of habit you're lucky that you’re not dead.” I said to him as I pulled the cutter away. I stood up and dust myself off and looked at Steel as the memories slow came to me. “Good lord I didn’t realize how short you are, maybe I just got taller.”
“Size don't matter, pun intended.” Steel said. I stared at him for a bit with a smile.
“Well other than the… odd meet up it’s good to see you again Steel… Barker?.” I said with a frowned, dang memories messing up.
“Breaker, you never answered my question. How did you know about the Zeppelin and Ulysses?” Steel said while Salvador was doing something to his arm. I looked at Steel with a smile.
“I’m the one that helped you blow it up, and brought you back from the dead and I told you that I was an asshole.” I told him. He stared at me for a bit until I saw the light bulb in his head lit up.
“I see now, you're as ugly as ever Jace.” Steel said with a little grin.
“You haven’t seen Aldrich, now that’s ugly.” I told him as I put on my mask and hat. I looked over at Sal and saw him tinkering with his arm and saw that it was really a chamber gun. I frowned at him as he tried to fix it. “You’re doing that wrong.”
Sal stopped and glared at me but I continued. “Look I seen a chamber gun before and I know for a fact that you’re doing it wrong. Now let me see it.”
“Please you don’t even know how this thing even works.” Sal told me I raised an eyebrow at him.
“Your arm is really a syntactic arm that holds either three or four chambers that shoots different ammo, one is probably shoots just normal rounds, but you are having one of a few problems: you can’t switched back to having a normal arm, you can’t fire the rounds or lastly you try to switch chambers but it get’s stuck between cycles now shut up and let me see.” I explained to him. He blinked at me as I grabbed his arm and took a look at it. It’s a bit high-tech than what I’m used to but they have the same parts, I also see that there’s a self-repair function that looks like it needs an update. I pulled out some tools and went to work.
“I didn’t know you know how to fix weapons Jace?” I heard Steel said to me. I started to take some screws out and replaced them with new ones and some other things.
“Well that’s because I lived in a world that most hunter weapons are trick weapons and we hunters need to know how to build, repair and take apart them when needed.” I told him as I saw the problem, a rusty screw and some faulty wiring. “I learned from a stallion named Djura, an old hunter of the Powder Keg Hunters and his wife Sparks.”
“What are the Powder Keg Hunters?” Sal asked as I pulled a wire which made him wince a bit. I eyed him for a second before continuing.
“The Hunters are just that, hunters but there are different factions within it with different ideas of how to hunt, one such faction is know as the Powder kegs Hunters, they had a motto that they followed ‘If a weapon ain’t got kick, it just ain’t worth it’ “ I chuckled at the memories of Djura and some of the engineers showing me their latest creations. “All the others factions labeled them as heretics due to their crude genius but the Powder Kegs didn’t really mind.”
“And why’s that.” Steel asked. I replaced the last wire and screw and stood up.
“Well they knew that the others can’t help but accept that trying to kill a behemoth with out a cannon is a bad way to go.” I told him as I looked at Sal. “Ok that should do it, give it a whirl.”
Sal looked at his arm as it changed to its gun form and I saw it spin without getting stuck. He blinked at it and made it turn back to his arm.
“So, what happened to you? Just a day ago you're were a mage from Magic the Gathering.” Steel said as leaned against a wall. Salvador had reformed his arm again before looking back at me. I looked at him for a moment.
“I… I don't remember all I know is how I came into the world and a lot of heartache.” I told them. I was about to continue until I hear something coming from somewhere, it sounds like… yelling. “What’s that?”
“Don't know.” Steel said. Sal walked towards the source of the screaming. I looked up and run towards the wall to climb it. I got to the roof and began to run towards the yelling and screaming.
After a minute of this I stopped to look out to see what’s going on. I saw all the towns folks gather around a big group of armored soldiers. I looked around and saw more of them on the rooftops with rifles. Taking out my Monocular to take a closer look at these soldiers. I saw that these soldiers look more gruff looking and didn’t have a symbol of anything, I guess they are mercs, I looked at the snipers and saw that they were aiming for someone. Following where they are aiming I saw… Chrysalis? No wait this isn’t the same one in my world. She looked like she was protecting something behind her and yelling at someone. I shifted to see who it was and started to wonder who would bring a large group to Ponyville and…. it’s Blueblood… god dang it why is it he’s a pain in every other world.
I looked at the soldiers and snipers around and frowned, there’s too many for the three of us.
“Sal, give your handgun.” I could hear Steel as he and Salvador walked out of the alley. I don’t know what he’s going to do but with these snipers things are going to be bad. Closing my eyes and focusing I began my chant.
“Wolves of old, hear your lord’s call, I summoned you for one last service.” I chanted softly. At first nothing happened but then I felt a chill up my spine.
“We are at the ready my lord.” Voices speaking as one. I nodded as I mentally told them what to do and out of the corners of my eyes I saw shadows go off. I turned my head saw one of the merc snipers aiming at Chrysalis. Shaking my head I sneaked up to him and knocked him out, it didn’t take fifteen seconds.
Taking out my rifle I set my sights on Blueblood and waited.
“Alright Blueblood, your move.”
Steel
If there was a word that could describe how enraged I am right now with everything that happened not even an hour ago, that word would probably not even exist.
Once Sal gave up his handgun, We both walked out of the alley with one thing in mind. Everything went green and focused on three of these blood suckers.
After picking my targets, I fired the gun at them. A 9mm pistol round to the side of the head can cause a bit of a mess. Once the three now deceased mercenaries fell, I saw familiar face before walking up to him.
He noticed me and tried to grab the nearest weapon but that weapon was shot away by Salvador.
“Do not dare touch me you insect!” Blueblood yelled as he walked backwards. While this occurred, the remaining Mercenaries had turned to my location. Using the remaining ammunition, I fired the pistol a few more times. Three mercenaries were fell to the ground for cover while the other four fell to the ground dead.
“You, I've had enough of you.” I said to the stallion in front of me. He was shaking in fear as I glared at him. I was about to knock him unconscious against the wall but was shot in the back by one of the mercenaries.
Slowly turning around, I saw that the one who shot me held an AR rifle with a detachable scope. I closed my eyes before taking a deep breath.
“Oh boy.” I heard Sal mutter before I snapped my eyes open, revealing that my eyes were now that of a reptiles.
“You're dead! ” With that said, I sprinted towards him and halfway I started running on all fours as I felt my entire body shift and change.
Jace
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Three down from the rooftops as the others took care of them. I smiled at this until I heard screaming. I looked over and saw something that made me blink in surprise.
I frowned at this as it tore through two mercs with ease as it turned to Blueblood.
“My lord the monstrosity is going to kill everything in it’s path to it’s bloodlust, should we take it out?” a voice said in my head. I stood up and holster my rifle.
“No, stand by and let me handle this, if things go south get everyone out of the town as fast as you can.” I told it.
“By your commanded my lord.” it said. I took the rifle and pulled out the sword from it and backed up on the roof and sprinted forward. Jumping off the roof I landed in front of Sal and looked at the monster. I glance over at him.
“What the fuck is that?” I asked him.
“A very pissed of Steel.” He said. I looked at it and back at him.
“...really.” I said to him.
“Yeah, this only happened once before and I ended up near an irradiated zone full of Super Mutants. He's got an impressive amount of tolerance but once you've passed the limit, pray.” Sal said as he crossed his arms. I looked back at Steel with one thought in mind.
“Is he in control or on a rampage?” I asked him, I prayed for one of two answers.
“He's got full control, you can bet your ass on that.” He said as Steel had ripped a Merc in half. I looked over and saw Blueblood leaving through an alleyway, I shook my head at this.
“Oh no you don’t.” I said as I began walking to the alleyway. After taking some turns I found him in a dead end. It was dark and no where to go. “Hello Blueblood, we need to talk.”
He spun around and saw me, at first he had the look of fear but it turned to one of a snobby noble.
“And who pray tell are you?” He asked. I began to walk towards him slowly.
“Someone who had enough with your shit, now I want answers,” I said to him as I shoulder my sword. “Why did you bring mercs here?”
He looked at me for a moment and snorted. “And why should I tell you? You’re nothing more than a comm-.” I pulled out a throwing knife and threw it at the space by his head, imbedding itself into the wall.
“Watch what you say, my patience is running thin.” I told him. I never really had the patience for snobby nobles, one of many downsides of being a lord, and I had to keep him alive, I’ll leave him with Steel or Twilight.
Though that thought was thrown away as the large beast slowly appear behind Blueblood. The beast had blood splattered around it and its claws were drenched in the same liquid. I had to hold back when I saw it, but my old hunter instincts were screaming to fight it.
“I’ve got half the mind to put you where you belong. ” It said as it picked up Blueblood.
“But I'm not a monster. ” With that he threw him to a wall, knocking him unconscious and breaking some bones in him. I looked at him for a moment as shadows fell from the roofs and took form.
They all looked at Steel and went to a battle stances but I walked forward.
“Stand down.” I told them as I kept my eyes on Steel. “You ok?”
Steel moved his head to look at the wolves and looked at me.
“I’ve been better. ” He said. He took a step forward and the wolves twitched a bit. I eyed them for a second and saw that Steel looked at me. “Who are they?”
“Old fighters, knights, and hunters. They are known as the old wolves.” I told him. One of the old wolves walked up to me and I looked at him.
“Do you need our services my lord?” the wolf said. I looked over at Blueblood as he groaned.
“Yes you can leave.” I told the wolf. The wolf bowed and then all of them turned into dust and shadow, after a moment I was alone with Steel.
“Before we conti nue our conversation from earlier, I need to go check if Chrysalis is alright.” I heard Steel as his voice turned back to normal.
“Alright,” I said to him as I looked at Blueblood and went over to him to picked him up. “I’m going to take bag of shit here to Twilight, since she’s a princess and this town is under her protection I think she will have a few words with him.” I told him and started my trek to the castle.
Salvador
It had been a trip down memory lane, seeing Steel finally losing it and going ape shit again was something to behold but what I find even more interesting is the gear the poor souls had.
They stood no chance with their pea shooters. I had been looting the corpses for either money or anything remotely useful.
I felt a sudden surge of pain in my chest, it meant I needed a power core soon or find a way to charge my current core but in the meantime, I had to keep that to myself.
I had looked through another pocket and found a small pouch of bits, a few gems and a used needle of med-X. Finishing up with the upper body that had been impaled onto a street light, I moved on to the lower half that was lying on the floor near the street light.
Next to the legs was a bag and inside was mostly chems, Buffout, Psycho, Turbo and a few others. Closing the bag and standing up, I looked towards Chrysalis and her daughters and on the ground next to them was another changeling, a synth. He seemed to be fine but had suffered a bullet on one of the joints in his left leg.
Steel sprinted out of the alley and stopped just in front of them before checking them and asking if they were okay.
Looking a bit past them I saw Jace carrying a body and heading towards the castle. I watched as he stopped as a cyan bler passed him and crash into a building, he shook his head and turn himself and the body into mist. I saw Dash step out of the building looking for Jace.
Wondering what she wanted, I walked towards her but stopped as I kicked something on the floor. Looking down, I saw what it was. Energy cells.
I bent over to picked them up and as I grasped them in my hand and straightened back up, my arm locked up for a second or two before going back to normal. My vision was blurring and I quickly entered an alley before anyone noticed.
I raised my robotic arm as it shifted slightly into an energy transferring module. A slot opened just under my wrist and I placed the energy cells in it before it closed.
The fingers of my hand soon extended slightly into electricity rods. Taking a deep breath, I raised my shirt up until the center of my chest was exposed.
I hovered my free hand over my chest as little hatch opened and extended out my core. With that the transfer started.
While the core was out, my entire body was shutting down slowly but as soon as the transfer was done, the core went back inside.
“Power levels sufficient, I knew I should've brought a backup core.” I said to myself. I leaned against the wall before slouching onto the floor. A message covered my field of view.
Energy Core levels: 70%
I felt my breathing slowly going back into rhythm again. I leaned my head back to the wall with a sigh.
“Tick tock, I ain't got much time.” I said to myself. I looked down to my arm and saw that my right sleeve was rolled up, showing a few numbers on my upper arm.
SD-450
I rolled down my sleeve before standing up and dusting the dirt off me.
Jace
I looked up to the crystal castle as I walked up to it. I saw that there was two guards stationed at the doors. One of them was going to speak something but the other one stopped him and muttered something.
“Gentlemen,” I said to them as I walked past them. I opened the door and headed towards the throne room. After a minute of walking and hearing Blue stirring I came up to the doors. Putting my hand on the door to opened it I went in to see Twilight there talking to her brother and Cadence, I also saw two others that were there. They stopped talking and looked at me, Shining’s hand went to his weapon.
“Who are you? How did you get in here?” He asked. I looked at him for a moment.
“Front door, the two guards let me in.” I told him as I walked over to a random normal chair and put Blueblood on it. I pulled out a rope and tied him up so he didn’t get away.
“What’s going on? Why is Blueblood here and why is he beat up?” Twilight asked me.
“And more importantly who are you?” Cadence asked me. I looked at them as I stood up.
“My apologies but I can’t say much until Steel comes back, as who I am just know that I’m a friend.” I told them. I walked behind the now bound Blueblood and leaned onto the wall and started to shift through the memories that started appearing.
As I did so I notice that Twilight was looking at me with an odd look. I didn’t say anything for a few minutes.
“Yes? Do you need anything?” I asked her which seemed to make her jump.
“Oh umm… sorry it just that… I sense something about you, something… odd, so I have to ask what are you?” She asked me. I sighed and closed my eyes.
“All I can say is that I’m a monster.” I told them as the doors opened, Steel, back to normal, Sal and Chrysalis with three changeling kids followed her. One of them, one with red hair, looked at me as if she knows me. I looked over at Sal and saw that he was… off.
“Steel! What’s going on?” Twilight asked him.
“In short, Blueblood showed in town with a band of mercenaries and intended to get rid of and I quote, Parasites from the face of the planet and only managed to injure Liberty but he's fine. Silver lining, I had lunch.” He said before letting out a small burp. I stared at him for a moment and heard a groan coming from Blueblood, he’s waking up.
“Ugg.. what… what’s going on? Why am I tied down?!” He said as he started to strain on the ropes only to wince in pain. I rolled my eyes at him as Steel looked at him, if looks could kill, Blueblood would be dead right now.
“Shut it, before I rip out your spine and force feed it to you.” He threatened him.
“You can’t tell me to shut up, all I was doing was getting rid of those Parasites from the land.” He said to him. I saw Chrysalis, Twilight and Cadence frowned at him. I pushed off the wall and leaned forward so I was next to Blue.
“Hey dipshit let me tell you something, technically those so called parasites live in this town and you, a noble of Canterlot, just openly attacked them. So by right of the Princess Twilight she could have deem you a traitor to the land.” I told him.
“Which could leave you banished or hung.” Steel said and I could hear Chrysalis add something about crucifying him. Huh... deja vu. I saw Blueblood pale a bit.
“You… you can’t do that! Do you know who I am! I’m Prince Blueblood! The nephew to Princess Celestia.” I saw him smug a bit. “Do you want to kill someone in her bloodline?” I looked at Steel for a moment and grinned.
“Oh that’s a good point Steel, how about this let’s get Celestia down her and tell her what’s going on, heck bring Luna as well I think she want’s to hear this as well.” I told him as I looked at Blueblood. “I wonder what they would think about you attacking someone.”
Steel looked at me and Blueblood and slowly looked over at Twilight.
“Alright, give me a couple of minutes to notify them.” He said as he walked back out of the room. I looked at Blueblood for a moment and stepped away from him and back to my spot on the wall.
I was lost in my thoughts until I had a feeling that someone was watching me. I turned and looked down and saw the red haired changeling staring at me.
“... Yes?” I asked her. She simply stared at me. I looked around for a moment then back at the changeling who was still staring at me. I do remember that I sent eggs over here for some reason but… there’s something else about her. I saw looking sad then went to hug my leg, I simply stared at her… what?
“Uhh… why are you hugging me?” I asked her.
“Changelings have the ability to sense the feelings of others.” someone said to me. I looked over and saw Chrysalis walking over with three other kids. “I’m guessing that she sense that you're sad about something.”
I looked down at the changeling and frowned, I’m sad? If I am about what?
“I don’t know.” I said as I saw Steel walking into the room.
“They will be here in a few minutes.” He said. I saw Blueblood with a smug look on his face, I shook my head and went back to the spot on the wall. I saw Steel walk up and did the same next to me. Chrysalis and the four changelings went to talk with Twilight about something.
“So, what is it that you can remember?” Steel asked me. I closed my eyes and went to my memories.
“It’s… fuzzy but I do remember some things, I remember meeting with my sister who’s now a displaced now and… something else.” I said to him. He turned to look at me.
“You have a sister?” He said to me. I chuckled a bit as I pulled out a notebook and pencil. Doing a quick scribble and tearing it out I handed it to him. It was her smiling and doing the peace sign.
“That what she looks like now just to let you know she can be… a pain at times but means well.” I told him.
“Alright, anything else or you’re still in the dark?” Steel asked. I caught a glimpse of Salvador leaving the room unnoticed by anyone else. Something feels off about him. I was taken back by Steel snapping his fingers in front of my face.
“Earth to dumbass, come in dumbass.” He said. I looked at him then back at the door.
“Uhh bright flash of light and that's it, say is there something wrong with Sal?” I asked him. I turned to see Steel looking around and I pointed at the door.
“No, at least to my knowledge.” He said with a shrug. I looked back at the door and narrowed my eyes.
“I'll be right back.” I said as I turned into mist and went out of the room. I went through the castle until I found him walking in one of the halls. I dropped the mist form behind him. “What's wrong with you?.
I watched him jump a bit and spun around to look at me.
"Why do you always do that?” he asked with a growl. I shrugged.
“Reasons, now answer the question what's wrong with you?” I asked him again. He stuffed his hands into his pockets and looked away.
“Nothing, there's nothing wrong.” he told me. I crossed my arms and stared at him.
“Yeah… bullshit I lived long enough to know someone is hiding something now tell me the truth, what's wrong with you.” I asked him for the second time.
“I don't have time for this.” He said as he turned back around. I frowned and used a bit of magic to see what's going on. I saw nothing wrong with him.
I began to turn when I saw something on his arm. It was covered but for a second I saw something. Knowing that he would straight up not tell me I went mist form and charged him.
As I was on top of him he started to wave his arms around to push me away. I waited until I saw my opportunity and made my hand solid and grabbed his arm and reformed. I turned his arm and removed the cover to see numbers.
“What the?” was all I said when Sal punched me in the head. Deciding that this is getting old I tapped into the flame a bit. I twisted around and punched him on to the wall making cracks.
“Start talking, what's with the numbers on your arm and don't lie to me.” I told him. He stared at me for a long minute. and he hit the wall..
“Fuck yo…” I slammed him on the wall again a bit harder and then lifted my clawed hand.
"If you're going to be a pain maybe some… motivation will help. I wonder what will happen if I fill you with lava?” I said as burning flames form around my hand, drops of it fell to the ground and made blackened holes.
“You wouldn't.” he said as he kept his eyes on my hand.
“Try me you have five seconds, 5…” I began as I moved my hand to near his chest.
"4…”
“3…”
“2…” I moved my hand closer to home and I saw his jacket began to catch on fire.
“1...”
“ALRIGHT! Alright I'll talk…” I stopped moving closer and moved back a bit but didn't stop my burning hand.
“Talk, what with the numbers on your arm and don't leave anything out.” I told him as I waited for him to talk. He moved his arm a bit and I saw a light. I got sent back into a wall.
“You know, fuck this.” standing back up and dusting myself, I turned around and started walked back to the main room. I froze in place as I heard the sound of metal shifting.
“Never got to say thanks for the repairs.” I heard him say as a ball of green blasted passed me and hit the wall. Looking back, I saw that he had used his built in gun.
“I've got enough rockets to level this place, now what the fuck do you want.” He said as the barrel of the gun switched and the tip of a rocket appeared out of the new barrel.
“Answers, I want to know what’s with those numbers on your arm and what they mean.” I told him. I didn’t say anything until I saw him blink. In that window I dashed forward and stood in front of him, grabbed his gun arm and placed it at my chest.
“What… what are you doing?! You know that I can kill you right now!” He yelled at me. I stared right into his eyes.
“Then what are you waiting for pull the trigger and kill me, you said that you were failing to stop killing so what the harm of killing me.” I told him. He stared at me as I leaned in a bit. “But just to let you know I’m trying to help you I just need to know what’s wrong.”
We stayed like that for minutes but it seemed longer as I waited. I watched his eyes and waited for his choice. He then sighed and turned his arm back to normal.
“You know how Steel is the Hero of the Wasteland back when it was still a Wasteland?” He asked. I stared at him for a moment and slowly nodded.
“Bits and pieces but yeah, he made the Wasteland… greener.” I told him. He stared at me and chuckled a bit.
“That's one way of putting it. We are different sides of the same coin, he's the good side. Can you guess mine?” Sal asked, crossing his arms. I looked at him for a moment as he said that. I sighed.
“I understand what you are saying but let me tell you that, sure you’re not Steel and you did… I don’t know what and I’m not asking but all I will say is that you shouldn’t paint yourself as the bad guy.” I told him. He started to glare at me.
“I'm not, I never did. But that doesn't change anything, I was the bad guy, even described as The Goddamn Devil after killing off an entire city for ten thousand caps.” He explained with a glare. I looked at him and pulled my mask down.
“We all did things that we are not proud of, you, Steel” I gripped my right arm as a old throb returned. “Even me, but that was the past and this is now and if you’re the goddamn devil then start showing everyone that even the devil has a good side.” I said to him.
“Would you not try to pity me, I wasn't even done explaining.” He said. I blinked at him for a moment and angry sighed.
“Goddamn school counselor…” I muttered at myself. I saw Sal looking at me with an odd look.
“Anyways, since I was the Devil, of course people wanted me captured or my head on a pike. Skip two decades after Steel left this world's version of Boston, I turned myself in. Back then I was in no condition to be walking freely, I was still..heartbroken over the loss of my wife and son. My journey to find my son only added more fuel to the fire.” He said as he turned to look out the window.
“So yeah, I turned myself into the N.C.R, New Canterlot Republic. This isn't even a tattoo, they branded it onto my arm as a memento and had taken my heart, literally.” Sal said, turning to look back at me. I looked at him for a moment.
“So what happens next, after they did that to you?” I asked him.
“They tortured, locked me up in the most solitary cell and even killed me once.” He said. I nodded at him as he continued.
“But with this still attached and pumping blood into my veins I can be brought back as long as the Energy Cells has enough power.” He said as rolled up his shirt, showing a small hatch in the center of his chest. I looked at it and thought of Iron man. I looked out of the window.
“I’m guessing that Steel doesn't know about this?” I asked him.
“No, he doesn't and even if he did, nothing would've changed and I'll still be battery powered.” He said. I thought about it for a moment and looked at him.
“I might know a few ways to make it that you don’t need a battery to keep you going, if you want it I can help.” I told him. Sal looked at me for a minute.
“Sure, I'm getting sick and tired of almost dying again and again and again.” He answered. I nodded at him and frowned.
“There’s two ways that I know that will work… well one of them will work and the other… kind of will.” I said. I saw him going to ask but I continued. “There’s a beast back in my world that has the ability to regenerate, and I don’t mean just it’s arms and legs I mean everything it can regenerate, head, heart, bones you name it. It took me forever to gets its blood to study it since it was trying to kill me.”
“Ok… why are you telling me this?” He said as he crossed his arms again.
“There’s an old practice of blood transfusion that will give you the ability to regenerate by will alone, but there’s a chance that it will turn you into a blood crazed monster.” I told him.
“You mean like a cannibal?” He asked me.
“No I really mean a blood crazed monster you’ll kill everything in you path and keep going, I perfected the treatment but… I never tried it and there’s a small chance for it to make you a monster.” I told him as I tilted my head a bit. “The other way will work but it will hurt… a lot and you won’t be able to regenerate. So which hell do you want?”
“The first option, if what you say is true that I'd be a normal griffin again.” He said as his metallic hand clutched into a fist. I chuckled a bit.
“If this works you’ll have your old body back but you would be much, Much stronger than before now do you want to do it now or later?” I asked him.
“Later, I was planning on taking a stroll through town before stopping by the hospital.” He said as he placed both his hands in his pockets. I nodded to him and looked down the hall.
“Well I’m going to get everything ready for the operation, and after Blueblood gets yelled at.” I said with a smile. “Call me a heartless bastard, but seeing him squirm a bit never get’s old.”
He eyed me for a minute then nodded, he then walked off as I turned and headed back to the room. I sighed at what’s going to happen, this is going to be one hell of a time.
Steel
It's been fifteen minutes since Jace left, probably went after Salvador but I digress. During the time, I had talked with Twilight's parents about my colorful past and career.
They had mixed reactions towards the country's horrid past but I wouldn't blame them. Shining had paid absolute attention as soon as I had mentioned an army of highly trained soldiers with state of the art laser weaponry.
I didn't leave a single detail out, I wanted to be truthful to the marefriend’s family. Blueblood had also been paying attention for an odd reason, his reason being that he had never known that Equestria, along with the world was a war torn, Post-nuclear apocalyptic place.
He had stopped trying to free himself after Twilight tightened the ropes, giving him no freedom to move whatsoever.
I heard the doors open and saw Jace walking in. He nodded to me and went to one of the walls and lean against it with his arms crossed.
Minutes later the doors opened once more, revealing both Celestia and Luna walking in. Celestia wore a magenta colored top with cream skinny jeans while Luna wore a shirt that expresses her gaming habits to the world and a pair of baggy jeans, oddly enough.
“Afternoon everyone.” Celestia greeted with smile. Luna only waved without a word while Celestia gave her sister a smirk.
Nightlight and Twilight Velvet stood up only to bow at the two casual wearing royals while I waved at them and Twilight just smiled. Jace simply looked over to them and nodded, Celestia looked over to me and raised an eyebrow.
“Don't even, It's hard to explain.” I said, waving my hand around. Her eyes then landed on Blueblood and her mood soured.
“I'm sure you knew what you were doing.” Celestia said to the Prince. The latter nodded while Celestia crossed her arms.
“Then I hope you realized that what you've committed was treason against Equestria’s law of Equality and must be punished.” She said as her eyes shone white. Everything went white for only a second before I saw the aftermath.
“Be grateful that I haven't gone another step and banished you as well, dear nephew.” Celestia said as all eyes were now on the unicorn prince..scratch that, former unicorn.
His horn was gone with no trace of it ever being there.
“You are stripped of your title as Prince as well as your magic, rendering you to an Earth Pony. You are no longer allowed in the palace of Canterlot without an appointment.” She said as everyone saw Blueblood. His reaction wasn't one of horror but one of shame, he'll soon learn the error of his ways.
“Understood, Auntie.” Blueblood said. I saw Jace looked up at Blueblood, nodded, and picked up a big bag. Wait where did the bag come from?
“Where are you going?” I asked him as he was heading towards the door.
“Hospital, I have an appointment and I want time to prepare since there's going to be a lot of screaming.” he said as he went out of the room. I saw Twilight looking at me confused.
“What?” She mouthed. I just shrugged at her. I saw both Celestia and Luna approach me.
“Now, I do hope nopony got hurt during your...purge.” Celestiasaid to me. I looked at her with a serious look.
“The only one's that were the ones that were hired, a band of Mercenaries from Old Canterlot. They wore the uniforms, so it's pretty easy to tell.” I said to her. Celestia only looked at me with a frown before walking towards Twilight.
I walked towards Blueblood before untying him. He stood up as he rubbed his wrists.
“You and I are going to have a little talk.” I said to him, earning a nod from him. We both walked out of the room. I wanted to know how he came into contact with The Talon Company Mercenaries. They wore the same uniforms from way back when and didn't act like other mercenaries from this era.
Jace
I walked towards the Hospital with everything I needed for the operation for Sal. I had a notebook out checking the process of the operation. When I made it to the place I asked the head desk if there was a room in the basement that’s fortified, she said there’s is one and asked why. I told her that there’s something going on and no one should head down there also I told her to send Sal down there when he get’s here.
I made it down to the room and saw it was a bunker. It was big enough for what I have planned and almost strong enough to hold it but with some inforce spells should do the trick. After that was done I started preparing for the operation.
When I finished with setting up the table, bed, and the runes I heard a knock from the door. I looked over and saw Sal standing there.
“You called?” Sal asked. I nodded and stood up.
“Everything is ready, now I know that you may not want to hear this but do you really want to go through with this?” I asked him. He stared at me for a moment and walked towards the bed.
“Let’s get this over with.” He said. I nodded, I turned to walk to the door and closed it and locking it. I placed the last inforce spell on it and headed back on to the table.
“Alright just to let you know that this maybe a simple blood transfusion but it’s going to hurt, a lot and there’s going to be a lot of magic flying around so we’re going to attract every magic user in town and then some, all I want you to do is to think about something to anchor yourself so you don’t lose it.” I told him as I took some embers and begin the spell. Sal laid down in the bed and waited.
I looked down to see the runes begin to glow reddish orange, I walked over to the table and put in some needles into Sal to draw blood out of him and moved around to put in the needles for the beast blood. When that’s finished I took two more embers and crushed them to pour over Sals body. I watched as the blood pour into him, at first nothing happened.
“Uhh you said this was going to hurt and so far nothing-” Then it started to happen, runes lit up all at once and Sal’s body jerked and he began to scream. I watched as his arms claw the bed and at points turn into more beast like and back again. He started to thrash around but I used a binding spell to hold him onto the bed.
I pulled out a small bell and began my chant. His screaming became louder as I continued, I then heard some sort of banging from the door. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the door glow white and blue for a second then died, I shook my head and continued.
Sal began growling a bit as the runes on the ground burst into flames and they went into him. After a few more minutes of him screaming he stopped as the last of the beast blood went into him. I finished my chant and went to the other side to take the needle out. He was breathing slowly but I didn’t take any chances as I reached for my sword.
“Sal… you alright?” I asked him. Slowly he looked over to me and I saw his eyes were glowing embers but turned back to normal.
“Ow.” He muttered out. With a sigh I went to grab some water and helped him sit up to give some to him. He downed it in one go and threw it behind him.
“Well you're still you, that’s good so let see if you can use the ability.” I told him. He looked over at his arm and pushed a button that made it come off. After looking at it he tried to regain his arm with no success. He frowned then took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He grunted as his shoulder twitched a bit as a arm shot out of it. He looked at it while opening and closing his hand. He started to laugh.
“My arm… it’s really my arm.” He said as he looked at it.
“Well congratulations, you’re now even harder to kill now.” I told him as I heard the banging from the door. I looked over at it and saw dents in it. “By the way now that you can regenerate your heart and anything else that was replaced with robotics with slowly grow back and will absorbed the metal, so you don’t need to worry about your iron intake.” I joked. He shot me a glare and I sighed, no one understands my jokes.
I turned to the door and waited for a second and opened it. Rainbow, AppleJack, and Pinkie came tumbling in as they were trying to get in. I looked out and saw Steel, Twilight, Tia and Lu and the rest of the mane six there. I waved at them.
“Howdy.” I greeted. Steel walked right in and glared at me.
“What the hell is going on in here!?” Steel shouted. He didn’t look happy at me and I crossed my arms.
“Like I said at the castle I had an operation I had to do and I just finished.” I told him. I looked over at Tia and Lu and nodded to them. “Greetings, it’s nice to meet you.”
They looked at me for a minute as I saw Fluttershy walked into the room. Steel looked beyond pissed off at me but I was used to it.
“I offered to help Sal out and he agreed to it.” I told him. I looked over at Sal and saw that his regeneration was going smoothly, his cybernetic eye was gone and some of the other robotic parts were gone as well, fallen off or absorbed I don’t know. I walked over to him and pulled out a estus flask and handed it to him.
“This will help but mind the taste.” I told him. He eyed it for a second and took it and drank it. He shook his head and looked at it.
“It taste like Sunny D.” He said.
“Huh it tastes like bubbly lemonade to me..” I told him as he handed the flask back. I looked around and saw that Twilight picked up one of the books on the table. I got up and took the book out of her hands.
“Hey!” she said as she glared at me.
“Don't read this book, the others are fine but not this one." I said to her. I put the book into my bag with some other things. I saw Steel talking to Sal with Fluttershy.
“What was that?” I was taken out of my thoughts when someone asked me a question. I looked over to see Tia and Lu looking at me.
“What was what?” I asked them.
"Some time ago we felt some sort of magic, it wasn't like anything we have felt before.” Tia explained to me.
“It felt… old, really old.” Luna also said.
“Oh that, yeah you can call it old magic but really it's just some runes, pyromancy faith, and blood magic.” I explained to them. They frowned at the last part and I pointed at them. “Don't look at me like that I know what I was doing.”Tia didn't look any happier but I didn't blame her since she was the goddess of light and all that.“These runes, what so special about them?” Luna asked. I looked at her for a moment.“Runes are like words and there's a lot of power in words.” I told her as I pulled a book out and handed it to her. “This is the basic starter book for the runes, just keep it out of the hands of Twilight.”I looked over at her and saw her reading a book of arcane from Big Hat Logan. The other two, a book of pyromancy and Faith magic, where gone but I bet she had them.Steel walked up to me, he didn’t look as pissed off than before. I looked at him with a straight look as he shrugged at me.“Not mad at me anymore?” I asked him.
“You helped my brother, I can't be mad at that.” He answered.
“Happy to help.” I said to him. I looked at Sal as he was talking to Shy, he looks genuinely happy for once.
"So what going to happen now Steel?” I asked him.
“I'm sure this would bring him one step closer to be reformed.” Steel said to me.
“Yeah, also just to let you know that you don't have to hold back if he messes up, he’s… well he's now almost un-killable.” I told him.
“Nothing is unkillable, everything has it's ways to make one seem immortal but nothing is unkillable.” Steel said. I stared at him for a minute and snorted, he hasn’t met Annalise.
"That's why I said almost, if the thing was unkillable then Sal would still be a cyborg.” I thought about it and chuckled. “It would also give us hunters a hard time to kill it.”
“Then how did you kill it?” Steel asked. I thought about it for a bit.
“A lot of explosives, fire and luck.” I told him. Steel nodded as Sal and Fluttershy walked towards us.
“Hey I guess I have to send you back, but before that I want to say thanks for everything.” Sal said to me.
“No problem.” I said with a smile.
“Anyway, Jace your services are no longer required.” Sal said. We waited for a few minutes but nothing happened. “Uhh did I do something wrong?”
“Oh right I go by a different phrase, it's ‘Your duties are finished good hunter’." I told him. Sal looked at me and at Steel. Steel shrugged.
“Alright… your duties are finished good hunter.” as soon as he said that mist gathered and made a pathway.
“See you around.” I said to them and walked through the portal back home.
Steel
After the portal closed, I looked over to where the ritual took place, seeing Salvador’s metallic arm and legs before looking at Sal. Seeing a genuine smile had given hope for him, maybe having him back wouldn't be such a pain after all but as long as Talon Company lives, I can't be sure of anything but I'm sure Sal knows what to do.
I felt a pair of arms wrap around me before a chin rest on my shoulder. I turned my head slightly to see Twilight before finally realizing what time it was.
“Crap, I forgot to pick up the girls.” I said out loud. Twilight unwrapped her arms and let me go before giving a quick kiss.
I broke into a full sprint, seeing that I had only three minutes to get to the school before the bell rang. Last time this happened and was only three minutes late, I was punished with non stop pranks by the girls.
I was The Wanderer: Brothers of The Wastes
Until someone opened a portal
Jess/Jace
10 minutes ago
I poked at the fire I made a bit and watched as it flicked on the cave walls. I looked outside to the blizzard as it rage on. Great, finding him will be hell now. I looked down and eat some of the snow rabbit.
‘Jace are you sure you're okay?’ I heard a voice come out of nowhere but since I knew who it was I didn’t move.
“I’m fine Jess, stop asking.” I saw a shimmer and Jess appeared in front of me. She looked worried.
“Jace it been four months since the wedding-” She began but I stopped her with a glare.
“I told you before it’s not that, I have to do this to pay off that debt.” I told her. She crossed her arms and frowned.
“Paying off the debt with Lady black is risky, we’re out in the middle of nowhere in the North! Come on, send them a letter, I don’t think they would be mad-” I again glared at her.
“It’s not that they would be mad, I have to do this.” I looked down at the fire as I felt the pain again. “I won’t be able to face her if I didn’t.”
“Ugg you know it’s hard to argue with you, not only we are the same, but right now we look the same, this is so weird.” I snorted at her. I sat there for a moment until I heard a voice that I didn’t know.
“How does this stupid thing work? Do I press a button on it or say a phrase?? How much would this thing sell for?” I blinked as the portal opened. I frowned at it and thought on maybe skipping on this one. I eyed it a bit more and frowned.
“This better be worth it.” I got up and walked through the portal.
I walked through the portal and saw that I was in a cottage. I saw that there was animals around. I also saw a big bear staring at me. I looked down and saw a griffin on the ground staring at me. He seemed familiar also he looked funny since he had a shocked look.
“I've seen some shit before but this takes the cake.” He said. I raised a brow at him.
“Yeah well get used to it,” I said as I glared at him. “I also don’t like the fact that you were going to sell my token.”
“And what are you going to do about?” He said as I noticed that his eyes weren't the same. His left eye was more mechanical with a red glow while right eye was normal and blue. Not taking chances I felt my red mana sparked and before he could blink I blurred forward and kicked him to get him facedown on to the ground. I grab his arm and pinned it to his back. I heard a ‘Eep’ sound and looked up to see a pink and yellow shape run out of the front door and a bear laughing his head off.
“Now you better say something that won’t piss me off more, I’m having a really bad day.” I told him.
“Boohoo, Like I give a shit.” He sneered. I rolled my eyes and with my other hand grab his head and slammed it a few times into the floor.
“You were saying.” I deadpanned. He groaned a bit.
“I repeat my last statement, like I give a shit.” He said, his tone wasn't of pain or agony but one of a calm-ish person. I looked and saw that half of his body was made out of metal. I place my hand on the metal and sent a lighting bolt through him. He tensed up for a bit.
“You'll need to try harder.” I narrowed my eyes and felt my eyes go dark.
“Well, there goes my normality, right out the window.” I heard someone said. I looked up and saw Steel. I blinked at him. What the??
“Steel? Is that you?” I asked him. He looked at me for a minute.
Twilight looked at him with a questioning look.
“Twi, I'm just as confused as you are.” He said. I looked at him and thought of what I said before.
“Come on Steel you should know that I’m an ass and there’s nothing could take that away.” I said to him with a grin. I heard a snort from the guy that I pinned and using a giant growth spell I punched him in the head. His head made a hole in the floor. Whoops.
“Before anything, could you please get off of my little brother?” He asked. I blinked at him and looked at what is to be his little brother.
“Can I punch him again, he kinda pissed me off.” I told him.
“No, that's my job.” He said.
“Alright.” I pulled him up as I stood up. “Then you do it.” I said as I pushed him to Steel.
“What did you do?” Steel asked with a straight face.
“Nothing! I just wondered if I could sell the damn token for a good price.” The younger brother said.
“You get one free pass, but if I see shit happening like this with you, then you have to clear up a nest of Deathclaws.” Steel said, making his younger brother pale a bit. I got a chuckle at that.
“So how you been Steel?” I asked him.
“Could've be better but what can I do?” He answered as the front door opened and Scootaloo walked in.
She saw me and walked up behind Steel. I frowned a bit and looked away from her.
Steel saw this and turned around to pick her up.
“Come on, Scoots. You shouldn't hide from our guest.” He said to her. I looked at them and looked at her and gave her a smile.
“Hey there.” I said to her. She stared at me for a minute and give me a smile. I stared at her and saw a flash of memory. The look of Scootaloo looking scared. I gasp and took a step back.
“You ok?” Steel asked. I looked at him and saw Twilight standing beside him. I felt the memory coming back and I look away.
“I’m fine, I just… I just need some air.” With that I ported out.
Steel
“Well that happened.” I said out loud, earning a growl from Harry.
“Shut up, Harry, you're a wizard.” I said to him only to receive another growl and I almost broke out laughing.
“What did he say?” Twilight asked. Fluttershy stepped in and answered her.
“He said, I'm not a wizard I'm just Hairy.” Fluttershy answered. Of course Twi didn't understand but Sal did and so did I.
I shook my head and let Scoots down.
“I'll be right back and you..” I said, pointing at Salvador.
“Clean this up while I'm gone.” I said as I walked out the door and followed the negative emotions.
Where is she/he? I looked around for Him/her. Ugg this is giving me a headache. I followed the negative emotions throughout town. Normally it would be easy but she seemed to teleport all over the place. I was about to head somewhere when I hear an explosion. I turned to see smoke coming from the Everfree.
I headed towards the direction of the explosion as another went off. After running there I saw her staring up to the sky and saw a rock launches itself off the ground and her shooting a bolt at it. She didn’t seem to notice me.
“What's going on with you?” I asked with my arms crossed. She didn’t even turn to me.
“I don’t know what your talking about.” She said as another rock is launch.
“Don't even try, I'm a living emotion detector, so spill it. The sooner you stop emitting the negative emotions, the less it'll affect Chrysalis’ kids.” I said to her. I saw her twitched a bit. One of the rocks stopped mid air and fell.
“How are they? I didn’t know if sending them to another world would work.” She said.
“They're fine, a bunch of trouble makers yes but they're just learning what's right and what's wrong.” I answered. I frowned at her. “Stop going around the problem.” I heard her mutter something.
“What was that, I didn’t hear you.” I asked. She didn’t say anything. She turned and I had a second to duck as a blast shot out at me.
“The Hell!” I yelled. I looked at her and was about to attack her but she started screaming.
“DAMN IT!!!” She punched the ground sending a shock wave through it. She did that a few more times.
“DAMN IT, DAMN IT, DAMN IT, DAMN IT, DAMN IT, DAMN IT!!” I ran forward and grabbed her arm.
“Will you stop! I don't need another town meeting to explain this.” I said. I then felt her shaking.
“Why… I have all this power but I can’t protect anyone.” I then saw something that I never saw. This lady who I knew as Jace was crying.
“Will you talk now?” I asked as I sat down on the dirt. We didn’t talk for a bit.
“She died, Steel.”
“Who died?” I asked as I laid down.
“Twilight, my worlds Twilight and there wasn’t anything I could do.” She said. I stared at her for a bit.
“Hmmm.” I hummed out in thought.
“Yep, I got nothing to say but I'm sorry.” I said to her.
“Though, I'm sure that she wouldn't want you to be consumed in rage.” I added afterwards her. She shook her head.
“I was tired, I just got back from Canterlot after Chrysalis attacked.” She snorted. “Pain in the ass nazi vampire went and brainwashed them to attack just to kill me, if it wasn’t for my friend the whole place would of been rubble.” She started to shake again. “We just got back to Ponyville and everything was fine until he showed up and killed Twilight.”
“Alright, but tell me this. Why were you covered in snow and don't leave anything out.” I said to her. She looked at me.
“Vlad, after he killed Twilight I didn’t know what to do, I could bring her back so I did something in the moment, I tapped into the black mana and made a deal.” I frowned at her.
“With Death.” I guessed. She shrugged.
“I don’t know, all I know is that her name is Lady Black and she’s creepy as hell, so you could say that she's Death, anyway I made a deal with her and gotten overpowered with black mana and went after Vlad.” She looked up to the sky.
“First off, I'm sorry. Second, you need to chill out, fighting blindly with Rage will only make things worse.” I said to her. She started laughing.
“That’s just it, it wasn’t rage I was in, Vlad is a bastard and if I was in a rage I would of went red demon, no this was something else, something personal.” She said.
“Well keep it to yourself until you get back. I can't handle another meeting, especially today.” I said. She started laughing.
“Oh Maker I missed you, I’ll give you a quick version, I turned into death incarnate and went after Vlad, I found him and did the impossible.” I looked at her for a moment.
“And that is?” I asked. She looked at me for a bit.
“Vlad was an immortal, nothing could kill him but I ripped out his immortality and switched it with a bit of Twilight's spark of magic.” I sat up as she said that.
“You ripped his immortality out of him, and replaced it with…” I stopped as she nodded.
“It was the only thing I could do, I put his immortality in Twilight and it revived her and my friend killed Vlad,” She frowned a bit. “I think.”
“So what happens next?” I asked her.
“The black mana disappeared and I took Twilight back to her home and I left.” She looked down to the ground. “I couldn’t face her for what I did, she didn’t do anything but she payed for my mistake.”
“What did she lose.” I asked her. She looked at me with bloodshot eyes.
“She lost her magic, Twilight the bearer of Magic the element of harmony can’t use magic and it’s my fault.” She looked away from me.
“I took away her magic, the thing she lived for her whole life and I took it away.” She said. I put my hand on her shoulder.
“Jace…” I began but she stopped me.
“Jess, it’s the name I go by when I’m in this form, it avoids confusion.” I stared at her and shook my head.
“Jess, Twilight wouldn’t hate you for that, you saved her life and she would be grateful because of it.” I told her. She shrugged a bit.
“So now back to my question, Why were you covered in snow?” She chuckled at me.
“Remember I made a deal with Death, since I saved a pure soul I need to go and save a darkened soul and the one I need to save lives up in the frozen north.” She told me.
“North, north. Hmm.” I said out loud before releasing a loud animalistic roar, receiving a roar in return as I heard trees being pushed out of the way. Jess looked at me for in surprise.
“Okay…” She said. I held up my hand as a tiny magma skinned Deathclaw ran out of the trees and stopped in front of me.
“Meet Stripe.” I said as I gestured at The Magma Deathclaw.
“Hi…” She said.
“He can help you track the one you're looking for, but you'll need something else and it helps you with actually telling him what to do.” I said to her. Stripe stood there waiting patiently as the ground under him burned.
“I thank you for the offer but I have a pretty good idea on where he is, I just have to deal with monsters between him to me. Though he might help with taking them out.” She said.
“He'll help but you need blood of the Alpha Omega Deathclaw.” I said as my ears folded onto my head.
“Do you have anything sharp?” I asked her. She flicked her wrist and a dagger appeared.
“Thanks.” I said as I poked my thumb with enough force to make it bleed. I then smeared it on Jess’ arm.
“Umm ok, why are you doing that?” She asked.
“I am The Alpha Omega and it's either this or kill me. I'd rather live if you don't mind.” I said as Stripe now walked up to Jess as it stopped burning the ground.
“Now it sees you as it's master, in a way.” I said. Jess looked at the Deathclaw and smiled.
“Well I could use the help, fighting ice monsters can be a pain.” She said as she put her hands into her pockets. She now looked at me. “So, you have a brother?”
“Yeah, Yeah, You couldn't tell by the fact that we're two different species.” I said to her as Stripe curled up next to her. She then started to pet him.
“He’s like a dog.” She said with a grin. I snorted at her.
“Surprisingly.” I said outloud.
“Anyway I kinda let my anger onto him, if you didn’t intervene his metal parts would of started to heat up.”
“Wait what, you almost killed!?” I shouted in surprise. She stared at me.
“What, you think I almost killed you brother?”
“His vital organs are through that metal plating. His heart and lungs. I would know, I performed surgery on the fucker.” I said to her, calm enough to not shout.
“Hey I was going to heat his metal arm up, it wouldn't damage his insides but it would hurt a lot.” She then tilted her head. “Though slamming his head to the floor and he didn’t seemed fazed by it. Though I think I messed up his beak.”
“No it was already broken.” I said to her as I pointed at myself. She nodded.
“Alright now that out of the way what now?” She asked.
“Now, I have to go tell Twilight the truth.” I said as I stretched my arms. Jess looked at me.
“What truth?” She asked.
“About being Displaced.” I answered. She blinked at me.
“You never told her? It’s kinda hard if portals start popping up at time to time.” She told me. I shrugged.
“That’s just it, it never happened. The only time it did was when I fell into your world.” I told her as she nodded.
“I see well then.” She walked up to me and smiled. “Come on lover boy, there’s now time then the present.”
Jess
10:55 A.M
We headed towards the castle. I saw some of the townsfolk picking up some stuff that fell for some odd reason. Whoops.
We continue on to the castle. Stripe was staying out in the Everfree, it seems that bringing a Deathclaw into town would be a bad idea. As we got to the front door Steel stopped and I looked back to him.
“What's wrong?” I asked him.
“What if she hates me for lying again?” He said. I stared at him.
“Do you think that?” He shrugged and I nodded. I walked up to him and smack him on the back of his head.
“Hey! What was that for?” Steel asked. I rolled my eyes at him.
“She knows that you're a changeling mercenary that can shoot anyone if they make you mad.” I poked at him. “But she looked past that and fell in love with you, now answer me this did you fall in love with Twilight Sparkle or Princess Twilight Sparkle?”
“What kind of question is that?” He asked. I stared at him.
“Do you see her as a princess or as Twilight.” he stared at me for a moment.
“As Twilight.” I smiled at him.
“Then she would understand, besides she knows about the Multiverse and she knows me so she probably understand more than you think.” I turned and opened the door. We walked into the castle and I saw that it looked the same since the last time I was here.
“Alright, I think she will be..” I ignored him and took a deep breath.
“TWILIGHT GET YOU BUTT DOWN HERE, YOUR BOYFRIEND WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!!!” I yelled. I heard my echo through the castle.
“Let's just get this over with.” He grumbled out as he walked in. I followed behind him and closed the doors behind me.
“And did you have to yell?” I heard Steel say. I was going to answer but I saw something flying at me. I ducked out of the way and turn to see who it was. I saw Chrysalis and she didn't look happy.
“Christine, get get down from there!” I heard the voice of Chrysalis followed by a giggle.
I looked to see Chrysalis wearing a green blouse and skinny jeans. She looked extremely worried and looking up, I could see why.
A blue maned changeling foal was crawling up the ceiling.
I was about ask on what was going on but Steel had managed to climb up to the ceiling and take hold of the foal.
“This the third time this month, you're not an arachnid pony. You're an adorable little baby changeling that needs to be with her mommy, now fly back to her.” I heard Steel talk to the foal. The foal then started buzzing her wings and flew towards Chrysalis. I watched this and I got to say it looks adorable.
I heard more giggling as two more changeling fillies chase each other. I saw one was orange and the other was purple.
“Delia, stop chasing you sister!” Chrysalis said as she lowered I guess Christine down. The other two still ran around until the purple haired filly ran into me. I saw her look up at me and she looked afraid. I frowned at this, If I was a guy it would make sense but now… I kneeled down to look at her. Her eyes were the same colour as her hair. She reminds me of Twilight with her look.
“Hello there, did you hurt yourself?” I asked her. She shook her head.
“Well good, because if you did then that would be bad and I would be sad if you got your pretty little face hurt.” I boop her on her nose and she started to giggle. I smiled at her.
Soon Liberty appeared running towards Chrysalis with another foal in his arms. A red one.
I noticed that Liberty looked a whole lot different than last I saw him. He has a new layer of fake Synthling skin and wore casual clothing, not what I expected from a former Terminator like synth.
“I apologize for my late arrival. I was searching for Kate and found her in the library of all places. ” Liberty said as he gently placed I guess was Kate on the ground, allowing her to meet up with her three sisters.
“I'll handle it, he said. I've done this before, he said. When I get my hands on the little Deathclaw wannabe…” I heard Chrysalis mutter to herself.
“Chrys, calm down. I'm sure he didn't mean for this to happen. ” Liberty said in a loving tone towards Chrysalis as he wrapped an arm around her. Okay, what? Am I missing something?
“You left Spike with four changeling foals that are curious and energetic, I'm sure he tried his absolute best.” Steel said as he and Liberty greeted with Bro hug.
‘I‘m so lost.’ I thought as I saw this. I shook my head a bit. ‘ It may have been some time since I last came here, stuff may have happen.’
I looked up and saw Chrysalis staring at me. I waved at her but she still stared at me.
“Hello?” She said, still confused. I tried really hard not to laugh. Now to be confusing for a minute.
“Miss me?” I asked her. She blinked at me in confusion.
“Jace, you look more feminine than you did. ” Liberty said. I looked at him as my smiled fell.
“Oh come on, you knew? So much of the surprise.” I crossed my arms. I saw Chrysalis eyes go wide.
“It would've worked if you acted as if this was our first meeting. ” Liberty said as Chrysalis nodded a bit, agreeing with him.
“Right, anyway,” I pointed at the four kids, fillies, foals, ba still messes me up. “How are they?” I asked.
“As you’ve seen, they're quite a handful but I love them.” Chrysalis said as she gotten on one knee and embraced the four foals.
“I know the feeling.” I said to her. I saw Steel look at me. “What, you took care of two alicorn kids before and I did the same.”
“Wait what?” I heard Chrysalis asked. I looked at her and shrugged.
“In my world I took care of Tia and Luna, anyway where’s Twilight.” I asked as I pointed at Steel. “Old lover boy here needs to talk to her.”
“She's in the workshop.” Chrysalis answered. I saw Steel chuckle at this as he began to walk down the hall. I followed him and waved at them.
“Well they seemed happy.” I told Steel.
“Didn't expect that, huh?” He asked. I shrugged at him.
“It was… surprising but seen stuff enough to not question it.” I told him. I looked around and frowned. “How the hell do any of you find your way around this place?”
“Here's the thing, I don't.” He answered with laugh. I rolled my eyes.
“One word: signs.” He continued to laugh.
We continued to walk through the halls and after a few twists, turns and backtracking, we finally arrived, I think. The doors look all the same.
He opened the doors and were greeted with Twilight disassembling a terminal.
She stopped as she turned to look at us and smiled at Steel.
Her smile soon dropped as she saw Steel’s expression.
“It's time I told how Salvador and I are brothers.” Steel said. I walked to one side of the room, trying real hard not to make a joke at what he just said. I saw Twi look at me in confusion.
“Hey there Twilight.” I said to her.
“Who…” she started but stopped as with a wave of my hand.
“I will tell you later.” I said and looked at Steel. He sat down in a chair.
“Steel?” Twilight looked worried at him. Steel rubbed his eyes and looked at her.
“We have been brothers for a long time and that is because we…” He paused for a moment and sighed. “Because we are something called displacements.”
“Displacements? What are those?” She asked. She got up from her desk and stood between us.
“Displacements are people that came to another world and put into a different version of Equestria.” Steel said. She was about to ask another question but I stepped in.
“Do you remember the Multiverse theory, well it’s true.” I waved my hand a bit in the air. “There’s millions of different versions of Equestria and each one is different from the last.” I pointed to Steel.
“Displacements are those that are taken out of their world and get put into one of those worlds and given powers or weapons and have a power to travel between world with the help of something called tokens.” I told her. She looked at me and then at Steel.
“These tokens, you have one?” She asked him.
“Two, yes. Though I only just got the second one a couple of weeks ago and the other belongs to her.” Steel said, pointing at me. I snapped my fingers and my token appeared in my hand. She got a look at it until I sent it away. She looked at me for a moment.
“You said that you both were taken from your homes, how?” She asked.
“I was young and stupid when it happened to me. I went to a convention dressed as what I am now, I found this other guy, real shady but he had the one item I was looking for.” He explained.
“Same for me, you see there’s this rumor that people disappear in conventions and costume shops and there’s always a guy that goes by the name of The Merchant. For me it’s the same as Steel I went to a convention with a costume that was missing one piece and he had it and I bought it, next thing I knew I was thousands of feet in the air and falling.” I told her. She looked at us a bit.
“But don’t you two have families to get back?” She looked at us for a second. “Is Steel and uhhh…”
“You know me as Jace but in this form I’m Jess, less confusing” I told her.
“Is Steel and Jace your real names?” I looked at Steel for a moment. We stayed silent for a bit.
“No, it's Vokun. My parents were creative people.” Steel said.
“And for me it’s Nick, my parents weren’t that creative” I told her.
“Have any of you tried to find away back to your home?” She asked. I shook my head.
“I don’t know if Steel has but I didn’t, I didn’t have anything to go back to.” I said.
“I have, for the first week that is. I just gave up, knowing I wouldn't be able to go back home but I guess since there was nothing that reminded me of home, my mind must've just threw those thoughts away.” Steel said. Twilight frowned at him.
“What about your family? Don’t you want to go back to them?” She asked him. She looked at Steel.
“I can't, not anymore.” Was his answer.
“What do you mean?” She asked. Steel was about to say something but I stepped in.
“Twilight, the worlds in the multiverse they don’t follow the same time wave, some go faster then others so,” I looked at Steel for a moment. “Our home would be much different.”
“There’s could be a way, maybe if..”I put my hand up to her.
“Twilight, we came to accept this.” I looked at Steel. “Well I have.”
“Besides, even if I had managed to go back, I don't think they would've liked what I've become.” Steel said, chuckling to himself. Twilight looked at him.
“Why didn’t you tell me this before.” She asked. He was silent for a bit and looked at me. I gestured him to tell her and he sighed.
“I've pushed those thoughts so far back that they've become just another distant memory.” He said. She went over to him and looked at him.
“And now you telling me now, what brought them up?” She asked. Steel scratched his head.
“Salvador de Rivera, he's the reason.” He said, hate filling his tone when he said the name. I frowned at him.
“Your brother…” Twilight said. He nodded at her.
“He wasn't always like how he is now. I kept my sanity but he didn't, he lost his the day he found his son.” He said to her. I frowned as Twilight gasped.
“He… He lost…” She started but Steel stopped her.
“Not in that way but yes, he found his son but the thing is that he was kidnapped during cryostasis fifty years before Sal woke up. Meaning that he found his son of fifty one years. He was a good griffin but cancer took him, leaving Sal a broken mess.” He explained. She looked at him for a second then at me.
“You said that displacements can travel to other worlds, can they do so freely?” She asked. I shook my head.
“Not really, our tokens are sent out to every other world so other displacements have them, all they have to do is speak and a portal will open.” She looked me and looked scared.
“Would Steel have to go…” She stopped as I gave her a look.
“Not...really, we do have a choice of going or not, for me if a portal opens and I leave it alone for long enough it will disappear.” I told her. She looked at me and back at Steel.
“Why were you so scared of telling me about being a displacement?” Steel stiffened at that.
“Because I lied to you again.” he answered. She looked at him and did something that made me laugh. She hit him over the head. He blinked in surprise at her.
“Wha-”
“That’s for thinking that I would be mad at you for lying.” She then hugged him and I saw a tear fall down her cheek.
“You know that I love you and that will never change, just tell me instead of keeping it to yourself alright.” She asked. Steel smiled and hugged her. He looked at me and I gave him a ‘I told you so’ look and chuckled. I then heard some muffled yelling coming from somewhere.
“What the hell?” I heard Steel say. He looked at me and I put my hands up.
“Don’t look at me I was here for the whole thing so it’s not my fault this time.” I said to him.
“This time?” Twilight asked. I shrugged.
“What can I say, trouble likes me.” I told her with a mad grin.
“Well let see what’s going on.” Steel said. He was about to leave but turned around and kissed Twilight.
“I needed that.” He said and left the room. I looked at Twilight as she blushed.
“He had a long day so far.” I told her as I went out of the room.
Steel
12:00 P.M.
After leaving the workshop, I started looking for the source of the yelling. I heard Jess running behind me. I turn to see her slow down to turn but spead up as I past the turn.
“I’m starting to hate this place!” She yelled.
“Lambin.” I muttered out to myself. I stopped as I waited for her to catch up.
“Can you get any slower?” I asked as she caught up. She glared at me.
“I’m sorry that I don’t have a good idea of where I’m going, I only been here three times.” She said sarcastically. I rolled my eyes and continued. This time she just followed me.
After a few more twists and turns we made it outside. The first thing I saw was Salvador holding a 10mm pistol while he chased Kate while covered in excessive amounts of feathers.
“Oh fuck no.” I said as bent over to pick up a loose stone. I straighten back up and spun around once, gaining momentum for the stone before I threw it, hitting Sal on the arm, earning a sickening crunch from it.
He dropped his gun due to having his arm crippled. He raised his left arm and a small barrel appear and aimed at Kate again but didn't have chance as I tackled him to the ground.
“Move and I'll rip your arm off.” I threatened him.
“That Synthling did this to me!” He shouted in anger. I smacked his head into the ground again.
“Don't ever try to shoot one of my nieces.” I said to him.
“Also it's Changeling, not Synthling.” I heard Jess said. I saw Kate hiding behind her.
“What? But you're the only one.” Sal said, confusion evident in his tone.
“No, there was two more, one's dead and the other will kick your ass for trying to kill her kid.” I explained, earning a groan from him.
“I fucked up, didn't I?” He asked.
“Big time.” I said as he buried his face in the dirt. I turned to Jessica and saw her talking to Kate. She seemed to know what she was doing since Kate was nodding.
“Well now-” I began but I heard someone yelling.
“I'M GOING TO SKIN HIM ALIVE!!” I heard Chrysalis yelled.
“Apologize to both Kate and her mother, then hand over your Pip-boy. Seriously, I care about you dude but you're making your situation worse.” I told him as I turned to look at an enraged Chrysalis.
“First off, you can't skin him, half the skin on his body is synthetic and second, he has something to say.” I said as Salvador sat up.
“I’m …. I'm sorry.” he said. I glared at him.
“For…” He groaned a bit.
“For chasing your filly with a 10mm gun.” he said. Chrysalis glared at him and grabbed the front of his shirt.
“If you ever do something like this again I'm going to rip your wings off and feeding them to you.” She threatened as she let go. “Now where's Kate?”
“she's right-” I got interrupted by something out of the corner of my eye. We turned and saw a blue glowing top thing spinning as it disappeared. I looked behind me to see what's going on.
“Ok next try pulling it back and letting it go.” Jess said as she made a white orb appear and handing it to Kate. She took it and pulled back and let go as the orb zipped past us and exploded into snow like sparkles. Kate giggled as that happened.
“There.” I finished as I got up and helped Sal to his feet. He then took off his Pip-boy.
“You'll get this back when you're trustworthy. Also, remember the Alpha Omega?” I asked him.
“You mean the Deathclaw that was the size of a two story building AND could camouflage with its surroundings? Yeah why?” He said.
“Apparently being covered, drinking or injecting the blood of the beast makes the person the new Alpha Omega.” I explained.
“Cool, by the way, Fluttershy said I'm good to be around but I still needed to be kept on watchful eye.” Sal said. I nodded then started to hear something behind me. I looked and saw Jess and Kate watching three glowing top things going. One was making sound, one was jumping, and the last one was making sparkles. Kate was clapping at them. I also saw the other three were there and doing the same thing. I couldn't help but smile at that.
“Les filles , il est temps de revenir à votre mère.” I called out to my nieces, gaining their full attention. They looked at Jess and waved their goodbyes at her before flying towards Chrysalis. Jess waved her hand and made the three tops disappear and walked over to us.
“That was fun.” She said. I was about to say something but Salvador beat me to it.
“Hey, um I'm sorry for trying to sell your token. Old habits die hard, I guess.” He said as he offered his right arm for a handshake. Jess took it after two minutes of staring.
“Eh don’t worry about it, other than bringing me over here the thing is a paper weight.” Jess said, earning a nod from Salvador. I saw blood started seeping out of Sal’s left eye.
“Seriously.” I heard Sal mutter as He placed a hand over the eye and took hold of it. He then started to pull it out.
Once the eye was removed, Sal closed his left eye socket as a glow appeared through his eye lid. He then opened it and a pure white sphere appeared, probably a fake eye to feel a little comfortable.
“Well, I can kiss this goodbye.” He said, crushing the mechanical eye in his hand.
I looked over to Jess and saw her face of confusion.
“I told you to find a better replacement.” I told Salvador, earning a groan of annoyance.
“Shut up, you know I'm right. Come on, it's time to send Jess back.” I said afterwards as I started walking towards the forest with Sal and Jess following behind.
“So what are you supposed to be anyway?” I heard Sal ask Jess. She was about to answer but Sal tried to guess.
“Wizard like robes, magical reading that doesn't match anyone else's. I'm guessing you're supposed to be someone from Magic: The Gathering.” Sal declared with a snap and point of a finger.
“Something like that, although I should look like Jace Beleren, the mono blue mana user and I took his name.” I heard Jess say.
“Then why are you a girl?” Sal asked.
“Blue mana and other shit.” Jess answered.
12:13 P.M.
Once we made it to the entrance of Everfree forest, I stopped as I realized something.
“What is it, Steel?” I heard Jess ask me.
“You said that Twilight lost her magic, right?” I asked, I saw her stiffen a bit then nodded. I can't believe I forgot about it, there's a way.
“I just remembered, there's a way for her to get it back. A fruit that can do wonders and it's found in the forest. And fortunately enough, here it is.” I said as I found a bent over Tree. I reached up to the fruit and pulled out a banana yucca.
“Believe it or not an F.E.V banana Yucca can give those who lost their magic back. One is enough and it doesn't rot , so here. Once you give it to Twilight, tell her it was get well gift.” I said to Jess.
“A fruit that can give magic back? Doesn't that sound far fetched?” She asked me.
“I know but it works. Trust me.” I said, handing her the fruit.
“Fine but if this is some sort of-”
“It's not a fucking joke. I don't joke with serious things such as this, it's legit but it's got a bitter taste.” I said to her. She took hold of the fruit and put in her bag.
I nodded and put two fingers on my lips, allowing me to let out a whistle. Not long afterwards, Stripe came running out of the tree line and stopped just beside Jess.
“Take care of him for me, will ya? He needs a family and that's why I'm giving him to you.” I said to Jess.
“Why, what happened to his parents?” She asked.
“Magma Deathclaws aren't friends with the others and now he's the last Magma Deathclaw. A fight broken out against The Magma and Lightning Deathclaws. Since the Magmas were outnumbered, it was a slaughter.” I explained to her.
“I just happened to have heard of a monster sighting that led me towards the Magma nest and found two Lightning Deathclaws about to smash the last Magma egg but stopped as they saw me, I guess they could smell the blood of The Alpha omega but it didn't matter to me. I killed the two Deathclaws and took the egg, a few hours later, it hatched and here we are now.” I finished. Jess looked down at Stripe and began to pet him, avoiding the horns.
“I think I can do that, with some help from Fluttershy.” She chuckled as Sal frowned. “Trust me, there’s a lot of creatures and she has a way with them.”
“Right.” I heard Sal mutter.
“Ready to go?” I asked Jess. She looked around and nodded.
“Say the words and I’m out.” She said.
I nodded and signaled Sal to say the Phrase.
“Your services are no longer required.” Salvador said, causing a portal to open. The Deathclaw looked at it and went in, I saw the portal grew a bit as he went in. Jess looked at us.
“See you around Steel,” I nodded to her. She looked at Sal and stared.
“Stop being a pain in the ass chicken legs.” And before Sal could say anything she went through the portal and it closed.
Jess
The first thing I thought of was that it was cold. Really cold. I shivered as I returned to cave in the north. I saw the deathclaw sniffing around, not bothered with the cold. Though being something with the word magma in it would mean that he won’t feel cold. I looked outside to see that it was dark. I frowned and made some blankets appear and set them up as a makeshift bed.
Stripe walked over and laid down beside the bed. I chuckled and petted him.
“Who knew a dangerous monster with fire and death can be adorable.” I said to myself. I pulled out the fruit that Steel gave me and stared at it. This can bring Twilight's magic back. I put it back and laid down.
“I’ll make this right Twilight, this I swear.” I heard a snoring sound and looked over to Stripe. I chuckled and closed my eyes, falling asleep.
Steel
Seeing the portal close and turning to look at my brother as he stared blankly on the ground. I placed hand on his shoulder, gaining his attention.
“You've got a long way to go but it's good to have you back.” I said to him with a smile.
“Thanks.” He said in a hush tone. I frowned at this.
“She would want you to change, you know this as well as I do.” I said to him. He looked up to me with the face of anger but the look was replaced with one of sadness.
“You're right. I need to be better than this.” He said with a sad smile. I patted his shoulder as we walked back to town.
“So, you and the purple mare, eh?” I heard Sal say as he nudged me with his elbow. I rolled my eyes as I smiled.
“Yes, and it's Twilight. Now come on.” I said to him. The rest of the walk was spent reminiscing the past, before our Displacement.
9:00 P.M.
After sending Jess back and finding Kate so Salvador could apologize to her, the rest of the day was spent with the remaining normality I had. I had given Nyx her linguistic lessons and Scootaloo wanted to tag along with her.
Afterwards, I had given Spike another lesson in combat. This time I taught him to use the resources given to him.
After that was done, I had told Rainbow that her shooting lessons would have to wait for another time, which fortunately for me, She had actually came to say that she needed to work at the time.
Now I sat on the bed with Twilight in my arms, enjoying our passionate moment. Our clothes were scattered around the room, leaving us in our undergarments.
“So..” I said, catching my breath.
“So?” Twilight asked with half lidded eyes.
“Why the sudden urge? Not that I'm complaining.” I said to her, earning a small chuckle from her.
“What, can't a mare and her stallion make love every now and again?” She said to me as she traced a finger across my bare chest.
“Is that all, because I sense that you have another reason.” I said with a smirk. She sighed as she reached behind onto her back.
“My parents are coming over tomorrow, along with Shining and Cadence.” She said. My eyes grew in shock and tensed up. Well, I need to make a good first impression tomorrow.
“I knew you'd react like that, so that's why we're doing this.” She said, finally unhooking her bra and discarding it behind her, allowing her perfectly shaped breasts free. Smirking at this, I started kissing her neck and traveled downwards doing so, earning moans from the mare in my arms.
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