Chapter 4: Having fun with a Slenderman with a Scythe… not as bad as you think.

It’s been a week since meeting Trevor and Violet and due to the video Nyx made, Rainbow has been in her workshop trying to build the gizmo that Violet had. So far the stuff she made blown up but she’s determined, or that would be brain damage from all the explosions.

Today started out pretty normal, I was working at Aj’s farm fields for some new crops; not only they grow apples, but they grow other food as well, Who knew!

Also my powers over the earth has gone from stones to dirt, it helps since I can till the ground without a sweat. As I did that I went and started to plant seeds into the ground, as I was planting I kicked something that wasn’t there before. I looked down and saw an odd object half covered in the ground. I bent down and picked it up and saw that it was a necklace with a black sharks tooth.

“What are you doing here?” I said. As I said that I heard three voices coming from nowhere, whispering in perfect unison.

“I am Cabadath, call upon me if the battle seems lost, I shall be thy blade against evil.”

I looked at the necklace one last time and put it in my pocket. Odd? But it should come in handy at a later date.

A rock then hit me in the head, seeming to come from nowhere. There was a note tied to it “Say Cabadath” it said, on the other side, it showed a Slenderman like creature with a mouth full of black shark teeth giving a thumbs up “I wanna hang out, need an excuse.”

“Okay… the hell?” I said before I heard footsteps coming from behind me. I looked and saw Applejack and Fluttershy there.

“Howdy Taliyah, seems ya finished up ya job,” she said to me. I smiled at her and saw that Shy looked worried about something.

“Yeah, I just finished about… five, ten minutes ago.” I told her. I looked over at Shy and frowned. “Is something up?”

“It’s Twilight, we haven’t seen her for a few hours,” she explained. I crossed my arms at her and tilted my head.

“Oh I think she’s fine, she’s probably researching something,” I told her. That didn’t help much.

“That’s the thing, she did go off into the Everfree but that was hours ago and she hasn’t come back.” Applejack said. Ok this was a bit worrying.

“Okay, do any of you know where she went off to?” I asked them.

“Ah do, she said there’s a clearing that has some magic purple flowers that she wanted to get, ah came with her one time to see if ah knew what it was.” she explained.

“Alright, should we get the others?” I asked. Fluttershy shook her head.

“They’re busy with something else but they might drop it if we ask.” I shook my head.

“That would take some time, me and AJ will go and find her.” I told her. As I turned around I got hit in the head with a rock, again. “OW! GOD DANG IT!”

I looked at the rock and it too had a note on it.

“Take me with you! I’m bored...
-Greg/Cabadath”

I frowned at it and looked back at the other two. “Don’t ask.”

Me and AJ headed towards where these flowers are at. It took us a few hours and I saw the sun setting. As soon as we got there I knew something was wrong, there were tents set up with four anthro dog looking things tending the fire, I think they are called Diamond dogs.

“What are they doing?” I heard Aj ask. I was about to say something until the bigger tent door opened and I saw a figure walk out that I knew very well.

“Oh dear lord, why him.” I groan at this. Why does it have to be Veigar. I listen into what he was saying, which was easy since he was yelling.

“How long is it going to take you dolts to carve out a transport circle!!” he yelled. One of the dogs flinch at him.

“We- we’re trying, we no good at magic circle.” one of them said. Veigar looked at the dog and pointed his staff at him. A black orb shot out and grew bigger to swallowed the Diamond dog. When it disappeared, the dog, seat, and ground were gone.

“You three hurry up! I have to take this purple winged horse back to my castle, her power will make me stronger!” he pointed his staff at them. “Unless you want to be like your friend there.”

The three dogs yelped and went to work as Veigar went back into the tent. I looked at Applejack and she looked worried.

“That thing want’s Twilight’s magic, why?” she asked. I shook my head.

“Don’t know but let’s stop him before he get’s a chance.” I said as I moved out of the bush. I walked towards the dogs and as one of them looked up to see me as I moved my hand and shot a rock at his head. The others jumped in surprise as I stomped my foot which launched one of them up into the air. The last one looked at me and pulled a sword out but I saw a blur going past me as Aj grabbed his wrist and judo flipped him onto the ground. My jaw hit the ground.

“Wow, that was cool,” I said. Applejack shrugged at me.

“Ya learn how to fight when ya live in the big city for a few months.” she said. As I got closer to her the tent door opened and Veigar walked out.

“What’s going on! I told you to- oh, oh great.” He put his over sized hand on his head and shook. “This is what I get for getting dumb dogs as slaves.”

“Look, Veigar we mean no trouble. All we want is our friend back.” I told him. He looked at me and began to laugh at me.

“Oh that’s funny, you want me to release a being that has a lot of magic power in her body because she’s your friend. Haha… No.” he stopped laughing and glared at me.

“Look ya short stack, just let Twilight go and no one will get hurt.” Applejack said. I saw Veigar twitch a bit and snapped his gaze on her.

“What did you say?” he asked, venom practically dripping from his voice.

“Ah said, just let Twilight go ya short-” she got cut off as a black orb shot out from his staff and sent her into a few trees.

“DON’T CALL ME SHORT!” he yelled. He turned to look at me and pointed his staff at me. “Your next.”

“Yeah, good luck with that.” I said as I thrust my arms out and stones shot out toward Veigar. He dodged them with ease which was odd for him. He pointed his staff and black orbs shot out from them. I made a stone wall to block and started to move. I kept shooting rocks at him but he kept blasting them in the air. He lifted his staff up and slammed it down as a black comet came down on me. I moved out of the way as it landed and made the stones come up in front of me.

I slammed my foot down and made the earth under Veigar shoot him forward which made the stones come up as spikes. He flashed a dark blue and vanished, reappearing a few feet away. He did a gesture which made me move to the left only for me to freeze in place.

“What the?” I said as I saw what looked like claws coming from the ground. I heard him laughing.

“I have to admit, you almost had me there at points but now you’re stuck.” He pointed his staff at me. “Any last words?”

I tried to think of a comeback but they all had to do with how tall he is, that is until I remember the black tooth. I hope this works.

“Cabadath,” I said out loud. Veigar tilted his head a bit.

“What?” he said before… something happened.

A massive, 9 foot tall monster with only a mouth as a facial feature appeared right behind him, smiling by far the most terrifying grin I had ever seen he let out what looked like tendrils made of pure darkness from his back and grabbed Veigar's staff, throwing it behind him as he chuckled “Hello, pip squeak. What brings you here? Aside from attempting to harm my new friend here? ” That voice… it sounded like three voices… whispering at the same time… and the teeth, DEAR GOD IT’S ONE OF HIS TEETH ON THE NECKLACE!

Dear lord, what have I done. Veigar looked at him and thrust his hand out only nothing happened.

“What the… oh why you, back off this has nothing to do with you!” he yelled at… I have no idea what it is. Also the field that was holding me was gone so I was free, only problem I can’t feel my magic. The being tilted his head at him, his voice different now, more… human.

“Well, seems the transferral wore off. Good, I actually sound like me now, feels like rubbish having all that pressure in your head, let me tell you.” He then smiled again. Okay, even if he’s speaking normally he was still creepy. Veigar growled at him.

“You know I had enough with all of this-”

The Being grabbed Veigar’s foot with a tendril and shook his head “Ah, ah ah… No swearing, a lady is present.” He then flung him into a tree, not unlike Veigar did with AJ, and his four sided scythe disappeared, becoming blades at the end of four tendrils “Now… Shall I fight you seriously, and most likely kill you. Or will you LEAVE?”

Veigar stood up and glared at him. “You really need to let someone finish speaking.”

As he said that I felt something grab my neck. I looked behind me and saw… I don’t know what.

The other guy stepped forward but I grunted as the beast tightened its grip.

“Ah ah ah, you don’t want to do that. If you move and do anything her head will pop off.” Veigar said. I felt cold as I was losing air. I looked over at my bracelet that with the gem in it.

“Nick… help…” I tried to say. The gem glowed a bit but it went out; I heard Veigar laugh.

“Foolish, there’s no one that can save-”

BAM!

A loud shot rings out and the beast recoiled in pain. In an instant the arm that the beast was holding me with was stretched out and a flash came and cut it’s arm off. I fell to the ground as I gasp for air. I looked over as another figure was standing there with a gun and an axe. Where are these people coming from!?!

“Oh what now?!?” Veigar yelled. The beast growled at the figure and charged. The figure side-stepped out of the way and pointed his gun at it. Another shot was heard and the beast again recoiled in pain and fell to the ground, the being went over and chopped it’s head off. The beast turned into dark purple goo and went into the ground; the being looked over to Veigar and disappeared.

“What! Where did he- gah!” I saw Veigar being lifted him up and stare at him. He shook his head and turned to toss him. I watched as Veigar flew as if he was nothing, the being looked around and saw me and then at the other monster and pointed at him, then at me, then he did the cutting his throat gesture as if he said ‘If you do anything to her, I’ll kill you.’

The figure walked over to me and kneeled down to check if I was hurt. He saw that I had red marks on my neck from the beast and pulled out some sort of jar. He opened it and showed it to me, I saw that it was some sort of cream. He pointed at it a couple time then pointed at my neck and did a rubbing gesture. I knew what he was saying, a healing cream for my neck. I nodded and took the jar, he nodded and stood up, taking some steps back and bowed to me before turning into mist. I blinked a few times and looked at the cream, I put my fingers in and began rubbing it on my neck. It hurt for a second but the pain slowly went away as the cream took effect. I looked up and saw the same figure reappeared with Aj in tow. He sent her down and started putting on the cream. Seems that he has more of the stuff.

When that was done I stood up and saw the last being walking towards me. Don’t get me wrong but the way he walks creeps the hell out of me.

He kneeled at my side when he reached me “You okay? If he hurt you… I’ll kill him.” An aura of TV static grew around him, seeming to press against my mind as it grew “You don’t know me yet. But I am a friend.”

He turned to the other being and smiled “Nice to meet you for the first time again, Jace. Got to say, I never get tired of seeing that axe. Freaking awesome.”

I looked at the being with wide eyes. He looked at… I have no idea so I’m calling him Greg, and after a moment nodded then look at AJ. She groans a bit as he puts his hand out and I saw a white light come out. Wait he can use magic?! This got the attention of Greg.

“Oh, right the aura, must be making it hard to use your magic, sorry, so used to using it in battle that I kind of got used to the feel.” He made a strange gesture, like a sweeping motion with his hands making shapes that they… should not be able to, and the aura dissipated. The being looked over at Greg and shook his head as he stood up and walked over to me.

“Are… are you really you?” I asked. He tilted his head a bit and did the ‘so-so’ gesture. I stared at him as he ruffled my hair. When he was done he bent down to write in the dirt.

‘Good to see you again, this isn’t really me but a shadow. That gemstone is really handy, huh, it's the same sort of deal, use it once and let it recharge for a few days.’

He looked over at Greg and continued writing.

‘I don’t know that guy but I can tell that he has time travel powers. . . . . Ba.’

He looked at me with an annoyed look. I laughed as he continued.

‘Much has changed, but just know that I’ll be there for you if you need help. I got to go, not going to last long here as is.’

He stood up and patted me on the head. I playfully punch him in the arm and saw him move as if he was laughing. He nodded then turned to mist again, this time, I knew he was gone. I looked at the gem and saw that it was dark. I looked over at Greg and walked towards him.

“I guess I have to thank you for saving me if it wasn’t for you I would have been a pile of goop… So I guess this is where we do introductions or... you already know me?” I asked him.

Greg laughed warmly before nodding “You could say that. You could also say I don’t, you see, it all depends on which me you are speaking of, the me you are talking to, or the me of your time.” He leaned back, cracking his back in a relaxed stretch, his unnaturally long arms raised above his head. “Anyway, I was wondering, would you like some combat tips? This time’s you seems too magic dependant. There are others who can nullify magical energy, or even steal the ability to use it. I would hate to not meet you for my first time because I did not tutor you in how to handle yourself in about of fisticuffs.”

I stared at him for a minute after he said that. So he has met me or hasn't he? Time travel is so confusing; I heard a groan coming from behind me; I looked and saw Applejack sitting up.

“Ow… what in Sam hill did that short stack fire at me?” she looks around until she saw me. “Taliyah, can ya tell me… what… happened…”

Applejack eyes shifted to Greg and stared. He waved at her as her eyes rolled into her head and fainted. I walked over and saw that she really did faint.

“Huh, didn't think you could fai- oh hell Twilight!” I ran towards the tent and went inside it. Inside there wasn't really anything here, just a bed and some bags. Twilight was passed out on the bed with her hands and legs bound. I went over and saw a knife poking out of one of the bags; I took it and cut the rope and picked her up. Oddly she’s lighter than she looks. I carried her out of the tent and saw that AJ was gone. I saw Greg standing there waiting patiently for me.

“Where’s Applejack?” I asked. He turned to me.

“Back at home, sleeping. She’s probably going to have a headache from her fall onto the floor.” He answered. I was going to ask how but I decided not to, time travel powers, just time travel powers.

“Right… I’m going to take Twilight here back home, I’ll be back in a bit.” I said as I walked away. I stopped walking and turned to him. “I will take some of that combat lessons, just give me a minute.”

Greg laughed “minute for you, instant for me.” Then, he decided to elaborate “I can make portals through Space time and step through them. Basically walking to where and when I want to be in a single stride. Sadly, I cannot run, as I will just wind up slenderwalking to my planned destination.”

“Right, just stay here for a bit and I’ll come back in a biiiTTTT!” I yelled as I felt Twilight begin to hug me. I felt my face heat up and I bet that it’s also red. I could hear Greg chuckle.

“My waifu treating you well?” He then sighed “I miss when ponies would accept me…”

I stared at him for a minute and turned to walk back to town. I made a stone board and surfed my way back to the library.

After getting Twilight back home I returned to the clearing with Greg sitting down looking at the sky.

He was singing gently to himself, not realizing I was there.

“I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way…”

He stopped and looked at me before standing back up. “Sorry… memories of a time… long gone...” He sighed and then raised his fists, the sadness emanating from him “You ready to train?”

“Yeah,” I said as I went to a boxing stance.

He tilted his head a bit. “You know this won’t be a sporting event, right? You don’t just want to use your fists. Use every part of yourself that can harm your opponent. That’s rule number one, No quarter, no mercy. Because if you hold back, those close to you will suffer for your hesitance. There are those out there that make that little runt you just fought look like a pansy. And trust me, they hurt ponies for shits and giggles. I will always be there when you call. But I can only protect so many people at once.” He sighed “Trust me, it hurts losing them…”

I stand there without saying anything. I heard him sigh and then was in front of me to throw a punch. I side stepped to the right to dodge and grabbed his arm then brought my fist towards his head. After landing a few blows I felt him move and I let go and pushed him away. I watched him shake his head and looked at me. I smiled at him. “What, you thought I had no experience in fighting? Me and my brother went to a few schools that taught them, didn’t get much out of it but it sure help at points.”

Greg nodded “I know, you told me. But at this point, you are much weaker without your geomancy, Imagine how much more potent you would be, if you could be just as much of a threat without the magic?”

“Wait the magic was still up? I thought you turned on your ‘No magic zone’ thing?” I asked him.

Greg shook his head. “No, I just didn’t tell you it was off, and see how well you are handling yourself without it.” He smiled, “Then, that brings me to lesson two.” He materialized a scythe and let it fall into his hand as a one-handed weapon. “If you can, use your enemy's weapon against them, if not, disarm them so they may not.”

I looked at the scythe then back at him as he started to circle around. A weapon, I haven’t fought anyone with a weapon before, not good. I began to think of a plan and a memory came to mind. I smiled as I rushed forward towards him. He holds his scythe and as I got close he swung it towards me. I ducked down and came close to him and punched him in the stomach. He doubled over and I swept his legs from under him, making him fall, I went for his weapon but as I touch it I felt cold, really cold. I stomped his hand and pulled the scythe out of his grasp and threw it away. I began to rub my hand as if it had frost bite.

“Should've worn gloves,” I muttered as I looked at Greg as he stood up. “Scythes are cool and useful but they fall under the same problem as spears, get in close and the wielder can’t do much.”

Greg nodded “You are a fast learner. I didn’t even have to bring up rule number three; analyze your opponent and use their weaknesses.” He then let out his slendrils and looked to her “But remember, your foe may have tricks up their sleeve, so don’t get too close unless you KNOW what they are, Such as, if you are fighting a Sans, just keep dodging and you will wear him out. Or, if you are fighting an evil Twily, trust me there are, keep that necklace I gave you on, it will negate magic that is cast against you up to a certain level. But after it turns white, it needs to recharge, mind that.”

“Right...wait tokens do other things?” I said as I thought about it. Does mine do things?

Greg seemed to know what I was thinking and smiled warmly “You have to make it that way, I suppose you could give it a slight enhancement maybe a Geomancey application, so they can summon small rocks to throw, or cause landslides.” he then looked to me and looked anxious “Could… could I come with you to ponyville? I… I miss their kind hearts…”

“I don’t see why not but it’s the middle of the night.” I stared at him for a minute then realized something. “Right, time travel powers, anyway let's get the token power thing over with first to see if it works.”

He nodded and began to reach over to me. I saw where he was reaching and I panicked. “WAIT NO!” too late. He touched the bracelet and for a second nothing happened. Then a loud Thump! Happened and he was sent flying towards a tree. I heard him grunt in the hit and he shook his head. He looked at me and I guess he was confused. Hard to tell with him with no eyes. Or nose. Or ears… or any facial feature aside from a mouth.

He stood up and brushed himself off before pulling a branch out of his back “Well, that hurt. Be proud, few have actually managed that. Usually too fast for them.”

“Yeah, sorry about that. That wasn’t my token it’s… something else.” I looked at the gem and prayed that Sans wasn’t too mad at me for that. I fished my token out and handed it to him. “ This is my token.”

Greg took my token and covered it with both of his hands as that tv static aura was around his hands. Wait a minute.

“Hey sorry about for that last bit I been calling you Greg since I didn’t get your name, again sorry,” I told him.

Greg laughed “Funny thing is. It’s the only name I go by now. It seems our roles have reversed, my dear friend…” He laughed “I still remember when I first met you… you were like a big sister to me…”

I stared at him for a minute as my head tried to piece together what he said.

“Now I understand why he hates sci-fi books, paradoxes are confusing,” I said which made him laugh.

“Trust me, the first few centuries, I was just trying to wrap my head around the whole thing.” He then finished enchanting my token “Ok, you should be able to put some of your power in it now, don’t worry, you’ll be just as powerful, think of it like a rechargeable battery. Plug it back in, and it is good as new.” He then smiled and sat down as he seemed to make himself comfy “If you want, I could slenderwalk us to tomorrow, though I won’t promise you won’t feel a little nauseous.”

I nodded as I looked at the token, I felt some power coming from it just waiting to be something. I thought about it and thought of just the thing. I made an imprint of what I wanted and felt the power slow settle. I looked at it and decided to test it out.

I raised the token up and, without using my own power, used it. The ground shook a bit and some of the rocks flouted up. I made the stones dropped and tried something else as I used to and made a stone wall.

After an hour of testing, I found out that the magic died and began to recharge. I looked over at Greg as he watched me. “Well there you have it, I guess with the token you can have basic control of the earth for an hour. After that, it needs to recharge.”

Greg smiled and nodded before slenderwalking to his scythe I threw away and retrieved it, then slenderwalked to me and sliced open a portal in the air, the interior of it looking like surprise surprise, TV static. “Just throw it in, and it’ll be sent to random dimensions.”

I walked to it and threw it in. I watch it disappear as the portal closed. I looked over to him. “So… how does, this time, travel thing work?”

He smiled, “I hold your hand and move at more than a brisk walk.” He shrugged “I have had centuries, but I still can’t figure out how to just run.” He then held out his hand to me. “Want a piggy back ride? Just kidding, but seriously, hold on tight.”

I stared at him and grabbed his hand, it felt… weird just… weird that I can’t describe. We started to walk forward and very quickly we came out of the forest and in the sight of Ponyville, in the middle of the daytime.

“And here we are, that wasn’t so ba-”

HURL!!!

I ran to a tree and threw up onto the ground. I felt like my stomach was trying to come out.

“Ugg, this sucks.”

Greg looked to me and patted my back as he pulled out a cellphone “Yeah, Prax? Big sis is sick again. Can you bring the water and a stomach lozenge?”

Just then, a small, furry creature walked out from behind my barf tree and handed me the two items on a tray “Here ya go little one.” He said in a snuffly voice, his smile quite cute. “Hope yah feel better.”

Greg smiled and gestured to who I assume was Prax “Taliyah, meet Praximus Vex the Gremlin king, my best friend, and part-time proxy.”

I nodded and took the two items and used them. After a few moments, my stomach began to settle. I took some deep breaths as I finished the drink.

“Ugg, I hate this... it’s worse than riding a plane, thank you.” I said to him. He nodded and started looking around.

“Is… is he here as well?” he asked. I frowned at him.

“Who’s he?” I asked him.

Prax looked to me and laughed “Why, Jace, of course!” He looked around and smiled “Let me guess, he’s planning on jumping out at me again? Not funny, boy!”

Greg started to laugh. “Really? Boy? You know that he’s older than you right?”

“Hey! Don’t you start, remember that he’s one of your students and yet you still can’t beat him.” He rubs his head. “Last time he used me as a hammer to beat you with.”

For the first time I met him, Greg frowned. “Stubborn kid won’t let me teach him about magic… it’s going to bite him in the arse one day, mark my words.”

Prax nodded solemnly “Oh sure, I think it already happened. Old Lord of Ash and Cinder had a bunch of monsters attacks him at the thing… the gala I think as he tried to do a peace treaty… it didn’t turn out well for the monsters…” He said as I saw a look of fear on his face.

“What’s with that look?” I asked him. He looked at me and didn’t say anything for a bit.

“You’ll understand when you see it. He’s not human.” Prax said before sighing “But… I don’t want to be a downer, so… let’s get to town, eh?”

“Yes! Let’s go to town!” A voice said from above us. I looked up and saw Pinkie hanging upside down from the tree.

Greg laughed and booped pinkie's nose, causing her to fall into his arms before he set her down “Oi, you are an earth pony, not a monkey! What are you doing, mucking about in a tree!” He playfully scolded her before laughing.

Pinkie Smiled at him “Hey you don’t know that.” she then pulled a bunch of bananas out of her mane and began to eat one of them. “Want one?”

Greg shook his head “Nah, only drink tea. Don’t really need food. Just drink tea to relax.” he then smiled and pointed to Ponyville “As a great Time lord once said, Allons-y!”

“Yes! See you all there!” Pinkie said as she walks over to a clearing and pulls something else out of her mane. I went wide eyed as it was Fishbones.

Greg looked at me and shrugged “Meh, not the craziest thing I’ve seen her do, once she pulled out Jinx’s Rhino. And Jinx. Not a Displaced one either.”

Pinkie set the rocket launcher on the ground and jumped on it. She looks at us and smiled.

“Hey! You know my Aunt! Well again... see you soon! LIFT OFF!” She yelled as she rocketed off like a… well a rocket to Ponyville.

I facepalmed at this. “Of course, the crazy pink one is related to the insane character,” I muttered and looked at the other two. “Let’s go to town then.”

As we walked through the town, various townsfolk stared at us with differing looks on their faces, ranging from mere wariness, to full on hatred. Greg sighed “I forgot, most ponies think I’m some kind of brutish monster from the Everfree that will eat their foals.”

Just then, a towns-pony, namely one of the flowerponies, fainted while exclaiming “The horror, the horror!”

Then… shit hit the fan, the ponies were quickly growing agitated, shouting various insults and hurling objects at him, one even throwing a flowerpot at his head. I frowned at this.

“This town goes from zero to a hundred quick,” I said as I felt my magic begins to build. Just then I hear a loud gunshot close by.

Prax looked to the ponies, his eyes seeming to glow green as he grew steadily angrier “This shit better stop soon…” He said, his voice nearly a bestial growl.

“At least it’s not the Valley, they wanted to kill us due to the fact that we look like something they hunt,” Greg said to Prax.

“Now now... no need for this, we’re all civilized.” some one said. I turned and saw a mare with purple fur walking towards us. She had some sort of sniper rifle in her hands but what got me was what she was wearing.

She wore a purple corset with a same coloured skirt, brown boots and gloves and a purple top hat; oh my god it’s a pony version of Caitlyn. She sighed and shook her head.

“Honestly, everypony here freaks out over everything yet there’s no town guard,” she said as she grew close. “Hey there, I guess you’re new here.” she pointed to Greg.

Greg shrugged “I, myself, am not, but my present self will be. So… yeah, just assume if you see me around here without any idea what’s going on, that it’s a previous version of me.”

The mare stared at him for a minute. “Time travel?” Greg nodded and she chuckled. “You be surprised at what I’ve seen back at home but as my partner would say, ‘I really don’t care about that…’ err I’m not finishing that thought but you get the idea right?”

Greg nodded with a chuckle “Yes, and may I say, it is a pleasure to meet such a refined beauty?” He bowed in a gentlemanly manner before rising back up and turning to Prax, gently grasping and holding his hand “It is okay, my friend, I am fine.”

Prax snarled at the pony who threw the pot before sighing. “Ok… but if someone throws anything else I will lose my Discord be damned temper!”

The mare chuckled. “My what manners… sort of,” she stated as she looked at Prax. “You don’t see that around as much, not as much as SOME PONIES THAT ARE AROUND!”

The towns folks jumped at her yell. “Anyway I’m Caitlyn, Sheriff of Piltover, I have to ask did you come from a place that’s called the Shadow Isles?”

Greg looked solemn for a moment before sighing “I was a normal person. Went to conventions, listened to music, even had a family. But-”

“It’s just a yes or no darling.” she cut him off. Greg… stared at her, again hard to tell, then nodded.

“No.”

“Good, just want to be sure. Many things come from that place and sadly you kinda look like something from there.”

He nodded before smiling “Oh if the thing that created me was from there, you’d be in deep, deep trouble.”

“I don’t know what… the thing created you but you don’t have a deadly mist coming behind you and you’re not killing anyone so you’re good in my books.” her gaze became dark as she continued. “Unless you are…”

Greg shook his head “I only kill to protect, and as a last resort.” He shuddered “I am not like the rest of my kind…”

“You remind me of someone.” She said. I looked at them and stepped in.

“So! What are you doing here?” I asked her. She looked at me for a second and smiled.

“Well I got news that my niece was kidnapped so I rushed over to help,” she said as she turned and started walking in the same direction as us. We followed until I saw where she was going.

“Oh wow,” I said to myself as Caitlyn knocked on the door to the library. The door opened and Spike was there with a smile.

“Hey, you came! I wasn’t taking you from anything?” he asked. She shook her head.

“I was just going to bust a crime gang but this was more important, plus Vi get’s to punch bad guys with me away,” she said as she walked in. Spike looked at me and looked at Greg and his eyes went wide; he opened his mouth but closed it and shook his head.

“Coming in?” he asked/

Greg nodded before patting Spikes head “I missed seeing you, Spike. You were always more kind than the average pony. How’s Peewee doing?”

Spike stared at him for a minute before Caitlyn yelled “Don’t ask!” and he shook his head.

“Peewee is fine, though he has been eating a lot.” Spike frowned as he turns to walk away. I heard him mutter to himself.

“Hey, what about me?!?” Prax said. Spike stopped and looked at him for a moment.

“Sorry, I thought you were a Yordle and most of them that I met you don’t want them to start talking.” he replied.

Prax sighed “I miss my striders… when I am in a pair of robot legs, no one thinks I’m some dumb fluffball.” he then handed Spike a gemstone “Here’s a fire ruby, kid, enjoy…” he then went to join Greg, not noticing that he had dropped a music box behind him when he rustled through his pack.

I bent down and picked it up. “Hey, you dropped this.”

He turned and I saw his eyes go wide as he, very fastly, grabbed it from me. He then realised he was rude and sighed “Sorry… that’s… that’s just very precious to me....” he then put it back in his satchel and walked to Greg, who smiled at him.

I came over and we all sat down on the couch and chairs that were available. Spike moved to the kitchen and stopped. “Anyone care for tea?”

Greg's head shot up as he raised his hand like an eager student “Ooh! Me! I want tea!”

“Someone's eager, Earl gray for me,” Caitlin said calmly.

“No thanks,” I replied.

Prax shook his head “Nah, got any oil? I need to do maintenance on my rifle.”

“Oh, I got some.” Caitlin handed him some oil and he nods at her. Just as Spike walked into the kitchen I hear footsteps coming from the stairs. I saw Twilight walking down the steps half asleep. She turns to us and blinked at us.

“Well, morning sleeping head,” Caitlin said with a smile. Twilight again blinked and looked at her.

“Coffee…” she slurred. Spike came out with a tray of drinks and hands them out before going to Twilight with a cup of coffee. She took it and began to drink it.

“Ahh... that’s better, thank you Spiii- what the Celestia!” she said as she looked at Greg, who strangely looked kind of shaky as he drank his tea.

“Now don’t be rude to your guest,” Caitlin said. “From what I can gather he’s one of two that saved your life.”

Prax patted Greg's shoulder as he tried to calm him down, Greg, shaking intensely now as he averted his eyes from Twilight. Wait… he doesn’t have eyes…

I leaned over to Prax. “Is he ok?”

Prax whispered in her ear “He gets nervous around Twilight, he has a serious crush on her.”

“Ohh I see…” I said. As Twilight sat down still staring at Greg, who was growing steadily more twitchy. Caitlin looked at him and at her with a raised eyebrow.

“So Twilight, I know you just woke up but I have to ask, what happened last night?” she asked.

“Wha… oh! Right well, I was out getting some flowers to study and then something came up behind me and knocked me out.” she explained.

Caitlin nodded at this and drank her tea. “Well you're safe now, I think you should thank your heroes for saving you.”

Twilight blinked at her and Caitlin nodded towards us.

“Oh umm… thank you for saving me.” She said. I smiled at her.

“Umm, no problem,” I said to her. She smiled at me and I felt my cheeks heat up a bit. Wait why are they?

“Well, aren’t you going to say anything?” Caitlin asked Greg.

Greg looked to Caitlyn before timidly looking to Twilight “U-ummm… you are most w-welcome” a black tint showed up where I think his cheeks would be, wait… is he blushing?

“Twi, do you know what kind of flowers are the ones in the forest?” Caitlyn asked. Twilight lit up with that.

“Oh yes it’s the most amazing thing, they don’t grow around here but that one spot in the forest is just right for them to grow. I have a book upstairs that talks about it.”

Caitlyn smiled at her. “That’s fascinating, mind going up and getting it?”

Twilight nodded and got up to get said book. As she leaves and becomes unable to hear Caitlyn, she turns to Greg. “Not going to happen.”

Greg nodded “I know, I’m a freak, and you don’t want something like me involved with her that way.” He sighed “Times like this I wish I was still human.”

Caitlyn sighed at this. “Look there're two things to say first, you don’t know that, the Twilight from your world might have a thing for you-”

Greg grew angry as his TV static aura grew to be suffocating for all of two seconds, Prax looked to Caitlyn and made a sign ‘You don’t wanna do that.’

Caitlyn stared at Greg and set down her cup. “Got something to say?”

Greg stood up, his body stiff, almost as if he was restraining himself “My worlds Twilight, and all of her friends, are dead. I could not protect them from my enemies. But I damn well avenged them.” his voice was once again in that creepy three part harmony as black liquid gathered at where his eyes would be.

I looked between the two of them as I got nervous. Caitlyn didn’t seem fazed by this. “ I see, well that was my fault that I brought that up and I apologise but you need to be calm right now, you don’t want Twilight from here to have a panic attack; if she does then we’ll have real problems.”

Greg sighed and turned to leave, setting the tea on the table “I am going to go gather some flowers…” he then disappeared and reappeared with the flowers, the blooms in question still alive and perfectly removed from the soil, ready to be re-planted.

“Umm, is this a bad time?” I asked feeling never unwelcomed. Caitlyn shook her head as she eyes Greg.

“What are those?” she asked him calmly.

Greg calmly looked to Caitlyn “The flowers Twilight got into danger to collect, I took two samples and treated them so that they can survive in the library, without losing any of their properties.”

“Well I believe she would be really happy at that, also I said there two things about that, the first… well let’s just say that you shouldn’t sell yourself short.” Caitlyn said to him.

Greg nodded calmly, seeming to almost be emotionless “The second?”

“She’s not into stallions,” she said bluntly. My jaw dropped at that, wow.

Prax snorted as he continues to clean his gun. “Saw that coming a mile away.”

“Ugg you have no idea, as smart as she is as subtle as a rhino in heat! Everyone can tell from a mile away.” she groans as she rubs her eyes. “I can’t believe that my sister tricked me into telling her about it, five hours of my life gone because of it.”

Greg nodded and sighed, collapsing into a chair “Guess I should’ve known, the universe wouldn’t let me be a knight in shining armor for any Twily.”

“There was that one Twilight but… she was crazy.” Prax said.

Greg nodded grimly “Tried to dissect me in my sleep... “ he shivered

“Don’t go to Zaun, they won’t think twice when they see you and trust me you think that Twi was bad, there it’s worse,” Caitlyn said. Greg stared at her for a minute before shrugging and nodding.

Prax sighed before handing the oil back to Caitlyn, getting out of his seat. “Well, I suppose it’s time to go for us, eh, boss?”

Just as he said that Twilight came down with a big book in her hands. “Sorry, it took a bit to find and… oh, what’s going on?”

Greg stood up and took a theatrical bow “I regret to say I must bid you lovely ladies adeu.”

“Oh, I see, well umm… look sorry for the way I acted it just… you remind me of some stories I read as a filly.” Twilight said as she shifted a bit.

Greg nodded sadly “Yes, those are stories of one of my… siblings I guess is what you would call them, I just call them Fellow Victims.”

Twilight looked at him with a sad expression as Prax started to elbow Greg. “Boss the flowers, The Flowers!”

Greg smiled and walked slowly to the table, taking the flowers before handing them to Twilight “Here you go, treated with my power so that they will survive in the library.”

Twilight looked at the flowers with a surprised. “These are… how did… you..”

“It’s nothing, just something-” Greg got cut off as Twilight hugged him tightly.

“THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!” she yelled as she kissed him on the cheek and ran upstairs. Greg looked shell shocked at this and Prax poked at him

“Ummm you ok?”
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THUD!

Greg fell to the floor with a silly smile on his face… or lack thereof. Prax shook his head at him.

“She just made his night, anyway later.” Prax said as he grabbed Greg and dragged him through the front door. I looked out the window and saw that they were gone. I looked over at Caitlyn.

“You… knew that he was from a different world?” I asked her.

She nodded. “Why of course, I would be a bad sheriff if I didn’t know things and look at others in a way. Besides we know of the Void so the whole Multiverse theory is a possibility.”

I nodded at her as Twilight came down stairs with two now potted flowers. “Oh are they gone?”

“Yup and I should get going as well.” Caitlyn said. Twilight looked at her for a moment.

“You’re leaving, but you just got here.” she said as she set the plants down.

Caitlyn nodded at her. “That I am, if I don’t return to Piltover Vi would start basing heads together out of boredom.” she went over and gave Twilight a hug. “It’s good to see you again Twi, you should come home some time to visit.”

“I will auntie.” Twilight said. Caitlyn looked at her and flicked her on the head.

“What did I say about calling me auntie.” she said playfully. She turns to me and shook my hand.

“It’s nice to met you as well.” I smiled at her, I was going to say something but she pulls me into a whisper. “I saw the way you look at her, just as a heads up that if you hurt her or make her cry the last thing you’ll see is a bullet to the head.”

I looked at her with some confusion and fear as she smiled and walked out of the door. Twilight looked at me oddly.

“Is something wrong?” she asked.

“Spike! I think I want that tea now!”

Author's Note

Look another crossover... and it's not with Legion!

Anyway, this is a crossover with Lord Krahtorra and his story. Also, this is another Prequel for his story... kinda, the dude has time travel powers and... stuff. Will post link to the story when it's up.

New stuff! If you get Taliyah's token you can use it to do some Geomancy, as in making stone walls, throw stones and whatever for about and hour then it has to sit to recharge for an hour.

See you all in the next chapter :)