Love in Dimensions

It took a while, but the gang got Striker back to his home. Before they had knocked on the door, they something moving around inside. The gang looked through the window to see what looked like Striker on inside and rubbing his noise and making smoothie faces at a picture of Rainbow. Just a couple seconds later the so called Striker jumped up in the air just under the sealing laughing and started to glow. Pretty so the identity of the impostor to reveal it was Scorhwing, who was making fun of Striker's love for Rainbow.

"AH! Let's just get in already!" growled Rainbow will there was blush upon her face.

They turn back to the door and Rainbow knocked on it very hard and done it until Scorhwing opened it. Scorhwing, annoyed that he had to stop making fun of his best friend a bit more. He opened the door to see Rainbow with an angry expression, but that didn't matter to her that much at the moment. She shows Striker to Scorhwing. This surprised Scorhwing made go on a rant which no one could understand. All but Fluttershy.

"Oh my..."she said.

"Well, what did he say?" asked Rarity.

"Well, besides from the bad language, he asked us to follow him," said Fluttershy.

A very upset Scorhwing lead them to a bookshelf, where he pulled one of the book which revealed a secret that lead to something shocking.

"I'm starting to think that Strike has been hiding lots of stuff from us then what we saw him do today. Why didn't he tell us about what has been going on? We are his two best friend for crying out loud!" said Rainbow to Fluttershy.

"I'm sure that he had a good reason to sugar cube, “said Applejack as they continue down the long staircase.

"Still, he could have trusted us. I'm sure if Luna knows about this, then it would of been safe to tell use," said Twilight.

"Yeah, what was with that. Luna is Striker's teacher what's with that..."said Pinkie before she saw when they had made it to the bottom.

The gang looked all around in the huge room that they just had entered. What they saw was shocking to say the very less. They saw the walls that had many, and I mean many weapons being lined up on them.

"What the hey is this? Striker, what have you been hiding this for?!?" said Rainbow as she had feeling of fear and awesomeness.

They then had made their way to the end of the huge room which lead to a smaller room. In this room was a few things. A pod looking machine in the middle of the room and a giant screen with a smaller screen that had two limbs that were only recognizable to Twilight. On the desk were the monitors stood was a couple of pictures. Some of these pictures showed Striker along with some other ponies that none of them knew, especially to Rainbow or Fluttershy. One of the picture showed a setting that was familiar to Rarity.

"Isn't this that video game that Sweetie Belle and that colt Button plays," she said.

The other picture showed what seemed like Striker and one of the other ponies, but were different creators that were only, once again, recognizable to Twilight, but they seemed different even to her. And they were seen more unfamiliar beings.

"Who are these guys?" asked Rainbow as she picked up one the pictures.

In the process of doing so, she had hit a button that turned on the big screen which caused her to jump a bit and back up with her friends. What appeared on the screen was a face of a mare with her eyes closed and a smile on her face which was going to change shortly.

"Hello Striker, how many I assist you today. Probably something on the cure..." said the face as she upped her eyes to see Striker laying on Rainbow's back, unconscious and covered in battle wounds.

"Oh my gosh! What happened?" said the face a she had move to the right hoof bottom corner of the screen and getting smaller until she couldn't be seen. The gang could see the wire that connected the small screen to the smaller screen glow as if something was crawling through it. Soon after the small screen activated and the face showed up on it. It hovered to Rainbow, taking the wounded Striker off of her back with the limbs which had five smaller jointed medals on each limb. The screen had placed Striker in the pod, put an oxygen tank mask on him, closed the pod, pushed a button and watched, along with the gang as it filled with a green, glowing, translucent liquid.

"Hey, what are you doing?" asked Rainbow feeling concerned for her friend.

"Relax, this will restore his energy back to normal. Now what happened to have caused this?" asked the screen.

"Well, Striker was fighting this pony named Ike, and he was using his.... powers? I guess," said Applejack.

"Oh god, Luna is going to be so mad," said the screen.

"By the way, who are you?" asked Pinkie.

"Oh where are my manners, I'm Mindy, Striker's supercomputer," said the screen.

"Supercomputer? I know about normal computers, but supercomputers?" asked Twilight.

"I'm a computer that is able have its own intelligence," said Mindy.

"So, what is this thing you put Striker in anyway?" asked Pinkie.

"It's a healing pod with Strikers cells which will bring will make him feel good in no time," explained Mindy.

"So his own cells are going to heal him faster? I'm sorry put that just doesn't seem like that is all darling," said Rarity.

"Well your right. It also contains many other healing...." explained Mindy before she was interrupted.

Striker started to bang on the glass of the machine as much to everyone's surprise.

"Oh my gosh, is he ok?" asked Fluttershy.

"He's fine, just over the years he had developed a fear of drowning," said Mindy as she pushed a couple of buttons.

The machines contained water started to drain out from a pipe hole on the floor. A very wet Striker came out with a ticked expression on his face. This was shock to Rainbow and Fluttershy, this was the first time they seen Striker besides his little outburst of anger earlier. As a kid he was always so happy, even if was bullied around a lot.

"Uhhh...." Striker sighed, “I hate being in water for that long."

"You know that was the fastest way to be healed," said Mindy as Striker took the towel that she was handing to him."

"That doesn't mean that I have to like it, " grouched Striker; wiping as much of the water and other liquids that were mixed inside.

He turned to look at his friend, wanting to see they reacted it any way. And out of nowhere, a flaming wing smacked him across face. This gotten everyone's awareness.

"OOOwww, what was that for?!" yelled Striker to Scorchwing.

Scorhwing began to talk in his language, yelling and waving his wing all over the place.

"Do you think I didn't know the coincidences? I did what I did because I wanted to keep the town SAFE!" snarled Striker.

"Umm, sir, your friends are waiting for you," said Mindy hesitantly.

Striker and Scorhwing stop they're arguing. Striker's face began to frown.

"So.....I'm guessing that you want to know what went on out there?" asked Striker.

"As much as some of might want to know, we can all forget we saw anything," said Fluttershy.

"Thanks Flutters, but it’s already too late. There is no point to hold back now. Mindy could up bring me the book."

Mindy nodded her screen and went to grab the book.

"Ike is right, I too am a Speacyian, and for proof," said Striker as he lifted his right front hoof up, “Here is the Speacyian mark. This cursed mark always reminds me that I'm still a full blooded monster."

Striker looked at his marking a started to tear up.

"What do you mean by monster, from what we just saw, you are a hero, a very cool one to me," said Spike.

Striker shot up, back with his upset face and yelled, “NO SPIKE! There is nothing cool about this!"

Strikers eyes were lit like a fire when he had looked at Spike. Everyone could clearly see that he was not in a good mood. Spike coward behind Twilight from fear. Once again, Striker was frowning as he released that he scolded one of his friends.

"Sorry Spike, just having trouble with this situation."

"Um...Striker. Here’s the book," said Mindy as she handed the book to Light, very cautiously.

"Thanks Mindy. Let’s get this over with. It began a very long time ago, about a million years in the past. There was much more and wonderful races that I would have liked to meet, if it wasn't for my kind, the Speacyians. They were murders, always blood thirsty beast. They would look at their enemy dead in their eyes as they ask for mercy, with an honest to god smile would blow them up without hesitation. The only ones they would barely fight would be what they would call you guys."

"And that is?" asked AJ.

"Norms. They thought that they were too weak to be wasting their time. However, if they intersected with each other in the outside of their Kingdoms, they would fight. The Speacyians would normally win but wouldn't kill them. Instead let them craw back to their Kingdom in pain, just as a reminder what would happen if they ever become their enemy. Finally, the Speacyian’s terror finally caught up with them. First, the Unicorns were drained by some mysterious force, but they were able to fight it off. The thing that mostly wiped out the Speacyian race was another mysterious force, stronger than most of Speacyians put together, finished most of them off. The king along with most of his people gave their lives to defend the kingdom. When all hope was lost, a legendary warrior used the last of his outstanding power to vanish the beast at the cost of his life. The population of the Speacyians was very thin," finished Striker as he slammed the book closed. It startled then gang.

"This damn book is just another reminder, THAT I WAS BORN ONE OF THESE MONTERS!" yelled Striker as he chucked the book into the machine he was healing in.

The glass shattered into bits and pieces. Striker breath became heavier and started to tear up.

"And the worst about this is that I won't be able to see any of you again.”

"WHAT?!?" yelled the gang.

"What do you mean we won't be able to see us again?" asked Rainbow.

"Luna made it very clear that if I was to speak or show any of my powers, I would be banishing to Neptune."

"That rule has changed, Light Striker" said a holy voice had spoken.

A bright light had appeared between the gang and Striker. From the light appeared Luna, the princess of the night.

"Luna?" asked everybody.

"I had come to discuss this situation that we have," said Luna as she stared Striker down.

"Luna, great sensei, I understand what I had done and will take my punishment with no hesitation," said Strike as he kneeled down, crying knowing his faith.

"Did you not hear what I said? You will not be punished for something like this. In the matter of fact, I'm here to give you your new task, aside from finding a cure for those ponies. You are to stay in this town and protect it with your life. I know that you are nothing like your ancestor, but you must keep the one know as Ike in mind, because if anything does happen, it would be because of your hoof. Do you understand?" asked Luna.

Striker looked up with one of happiest faces he had ever made.

"Thank you princess, I will not fail in this task!"

Luna turn and was about teleport. she stops to remembering something. "By the way, your friends had sent a message for you, ‘Special’ friends. They say they will return soon and might invite all of you on a little trip if your friends here agree with it. That is all. Farewell."

And with that, Luna vanished back to who home. The visit was so quick that it hardly seems like she was there. Striker looking at his friends, began to laugh with a smile. Soon after he collapsed on the floor still laughing.

"Thanks Luna, I won't fail," said Striker as his eyes slowly closed and fell asleep.

"Is he ok?" asked Fluttershy.

"Oh he's fine, all of these things pulling on his emotions had made him so tired. Between his fight, the story of Speacyians, his secret reveled, and that his friends coming back soon was making his head spin," explained Mindy, "I think it would be best if we let him sleep."

"Yeah, your probably right Mindy-Windy," said Pinkie Pie.

"Shh...we should leave and come check on him tomorrow," whispered Twilight.

"Come on everybody let’s get go'n," said Applejack as the gang turned and went back the way they came.

They were finally out of Strikers home, said good bye to each other. All except AJ, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash because their houses were generally in the same direction.

"It is still strange to me. Striker is a full-blooded fighting warrior that was supposed to be wiped out by some dark force and he is supposed to love figh'n. Did he show any of this fighting desire when you guys went school with each other?" asked AJ.

"Not that I could remember. How about you Rainbow, could you remember anything like that?" asked Flutters.

Rainbow wasn't paying attention. She had her head down thinking about something.

"His revealed secret.... Was Mindy talking about that he was an awesome fighting hero...or what he said earlier," she thought as she visualized Striker saying 'GET YOUR HOOVES OFF MY LOVE!'

"Um... Rainbow?"

"Huh! Ah no I don't remember Light beginning like this."

"Oh well, see y’all girl tomorow," said AJ as she walked to her path back to the farm. They waved good-bye to Applejack.

Soon after, Fluttershy and Rainbow separated and made to their homes. Rainbow closed her door to her home.

"Striker...and me.... coltfriend and marefriend?" she questioned, "No that couldn't happen, I don't know if I actually feel that emotion, other than when I'm reading Daring Do, or wanting to be part of the Wonderbolts, or being super-fast, like Strik....Um never mind! I'm thinking way too much about this. It’s getting to my head."

And with that she closed her eyes and went into a deep slumber.