Today was beautiful. There wasn't a cloud in the sun was shining, the birds were chirping, all in all today was a good day.

It didn't help with the fact that I had a massive headache.

“Ugg… my head.” I groaned. I laid in bed with the shades closed. Twilight was sitting beside me with a few books out. She was trying to tone down the headache with some magic, which I thought was somewhat lazy but didn't say. But for some reason her magic wasn't working.

“I don't understand, none of my spells are working!” she yelled quietly. I looked at her.

“It's… just a headache, no need to get worked up over it.” I said. She looked at me with a frown.

“But there's something about it, I can feel it.” she looked through another book. “I'll try a few more spells.”

"Ahh, no you don't need to do that.” I quickly said. She frowned.

“But what if it's something bad? It starts out as a headache sure, but what if becomes worse?” she asked.

“I really think using spells is going overboard.” I said.

“Oh it wasn't that bad.” she said. I gave her a deadpan look.

“The last spell felt like a worm wiggled into my ear and made me speak in a different language.” I told her. It was weird, I didn't know I was saying. How was I speaking if I didn't know what I was saying?!

“Oh it wasn't all that bad…” she fidget a bit as she muttered something.

“What was that?”

“Nothing!!” she yelled, making me flinch. Her face was blushing. I sighed and got out of bed. “What are you doing?”

“Getting some air, it helped me before.” I told her. I left the room and headed downstairs. Nyx was at school and Spike was out, I walked to the door and grabbed a pair of sunglasses. Looking down at myself I wore a green t-shirt with some shorts, I decided not change into my robes that Taliyah would wear. My hair looked like I just came out of bed, which was true, but I really didn't care, which was also true.

I walked out of the library and started walking. I was happy that this place was more quiet than other places. Well, I haven’t really been anywhere else other than the Crystal Empire, the Everfree forest, another world, another-another world, this time in a dream and it left me the headache, but so far Ponyville is the only quiet place and I’m happy with it.

I tried to reflect on what happened the past two weeks but this headache making it hard. I sighed.

“Dang it Greg, you said it was a headache but not a massive one.” I muttered to myself. I kept walking for a few minutes until I stopped, which was caused by me walking into someone. “Sorry! I wasn’t watching where I was going.”

“It's quite alright, I too didn't see where I was, so we are both to blame.” The voice was that of an older stallion in his mid thirties. Looking up, I came face to face with the stallion only to see that his face was covered up.

His face was slightly covered up to his nose by a dirty cloth rag and his eyes hid under a pair of dusty goggles. I backed up a bit and saw that he wore what I can describe as steampunk clothing, cool.

“Uhh… you look new to town.” I said as I put my hand out. “My name is Taliyah, welcome to- ahhh!”

I grabbed my head as my headache sucker punched me. I muttered a bit as I saw the stallion looked at me concerned.

“Are you alright?” he asked.

“Somewhat, really bad headache.” I replied. He pulled out a tiny metallic pellet before sticking it onto the side of my arm and seeing it melt and fuse with my skin.

“That should help with your problem temporarily but do expect it to wear off in an hour or two.” He said, his accent was similar to that of a British man from Earth. I blinked a few times as my headache dimmed a bit.

“I would've given you something stronger to help ease the pain by more than a few hours but I am all out and in need to make more.” The stallion said in an informative/apologetic tone.

“It's fine, I'll just drink some water and I'll be fine.” I told him.

“If you think that is wise then I'll respect your decision.” He said with a nod. “Oh how terribly rude of me, I have forgotten to introduce myself.” He said before coughing slightly.

“Harrison Clockwork, at your service.” He said, bowing as he did.

“Hey there, as I said before I’m Taliyah-” I paused for a moment. I don’t know Taliyah’s last name, I don’t think I seen anyone make a last name for her which is kind of sad really. As I thought about it I remembered that Nick changed his name to fit with his world so… “Belaguard, Taliyah Belaguard.”

“What a lovely name.” He said as he pulled out a small pocket watch.

He muttered something under his breath but it was muffled by the rag. He then put away the watch.

“I must be going now. I need to find a seamstress to fix the tear of my arm.” He said before going around me. “Have a nice day!”

“Uhh… I may know of someone that would be happy to help you.” I said. Now thinking about it Rarity would be interested in his steampunk look. He stopped in his tracks before looking back at me.

“You do?” He asked, earning a nod from me. “Then lead the way, my dear.” He said before moving aside.

I led Harrison through Ponyville towards the Boutique. Along the way I looked over to him.

“Why are you covered up?” I asked. He looked at me.

“Oh.” He said, realizing what I meant and pulled up his goggles before taking the rag. He flicked the rag, causing all the dirt fall from it before putting it in his breast pocket. “I had just arrived from the forest.”

As he pulled the rag and goggles off I saw that the stallion, the man, looked human. Wait what? How did he get here, I didn't use a token to summon him. I looked away as I thought about it.

“You’re really not from around here.” I said as we continue walking.

“I never said I was a local, did I?” He asked as he took off his goggles and rubbed the lenses clean.

“You got that right, not a local of this world.” I said. I rubbed the top of my head and frowned. I miss my goggles.

“I get that a lot.” He said, putting the goggles back on. I narrowed my eye at the man and felt my fingers twitched.

“Great, I'm getting paranoid, that's your job Nick.” I muttered. Luckily he didn't hear and the rest of the walk was spent with idle chatter.

After some time we arrived at the Boutique. I walked up to the door and opened it.

“Hello~. Anyone here?” I called out. I heard a muffled voice from upstairs. I walked towards some chairs and sat down. I saw Harrison looking around.

“So… steampunk, you dress up like it because you like the design or you came from a steampunk world?” I asked.

“Steampunk, so that's what they call it.” He muttered under his breath before looking at me. “To answer your question, the way I dress is my own design. If steampunk is what you call it then yes, I wear these because I happen to like them.”

“I see.” I responded. I pulled out two stones and tossed them into the air. They began to fall but stopped in the air. With a wave of my hand turn they started to rotate around my hand.

“Practice makes perfect.” I said. I continue that until I heard someone coming down the stairs. I saw Rarity turn the corner and smiled.

“Welcome to Carousel Boutique, where every garment is chic, unique and magnifique.” she greeted. I chuckled at that since it sounded rehearsed.

“Good evening, madam.” Harrison said with gentleman's bow. Rarity looked over at him and blinked.

“Well, you’re someone new.” she said as she eyed him. I don’t know if it’s because he’s human or of his clothes.

“Indeed I am. I'm in need of someone who is able to fix this.” He said before raising his left arm, showing a large tear going from his shoulder and ending at the wrist. “I was told that you would be the mare for the job.”

Rarity gasped as she took a closer look at the tear. “Oh you poor thing! What happened to you?” She looked at the shirt and at Harrison.

“Please tell me you didn’t do this on purpose.” she asked.

“Why would I ruin my favorite clothes on purpose?” He asked with a raised eyebrow. “But to answer your question, my arm was caught on a branch without me noticing.”

“I question why you were out in the woods but that’s not important right now. If you don’t mind I’ll get you something to wear as I work on this.” she said with a smile.

“That would be lovely.” He said with a nod. He took off his grey vest before taking off the broken shirt and handing it to Rarity. She walked over to one of the racks of closes while eyeing the shirt. She picked out one of the shirts there and hands it over to Harrison.

“This should be good until your shirt is done.” she said. With a nod, he began to put it on before finally putting on his Vest again.

“Thank you very much, madam.” He said with a smile. Rarity smiles and looks at me then frowns.

“Really.” she deadpanned. I blinked at her.

“What?” I asked. She just sighs and picked out some other clothes and threw them at me.

“Put these on and don’t question it.” she said. I stared at her and looked at the clothes I was wearing.

“What’s wrong with the clothes I’m wearing?” I asked.

“They look like you crawled out of bed with them, now chop chop.” she clapped her hands. I grumbled as I headed over to the change room.

Clockwork

“Honestly, Rainbow, Twilight, and her are going to give me a headache with their choice of clothing.” The seamstress mare said as Taliyah walked into another room.

Charming mare, isn't she?

‘Quite.’ I thought as I took a seat and took out my watch. The mare went to a desk and pushed something on it. It made a beeping sound and a sewing machine appeared. She put on a pair of glasses and sat down.

“So, I have to ask about you.” The mare asked. “It’s not everyday you meet someone who looks like Taliyah.”

“I'm a traveler of sorts.” I told her as I put the watch away.

“Well you do look the part, covered with dirt.” she said. “I’m happy that you have a good sense of fashion.”

Here I thought I was the only one who thought that.

‘Quiet you.’ I thought before replying. “Thank you.” I said.

“I wounder… on your travels have you met someone named Jace?” the mare asked.

“I know of him but I never met him personally.” I answered.

“Well the reason I asked is that Taliyah talks about him.” she turns to me with a frown. “Though she does, how did Rainbow put it, being a bit bashful about him.”

“I see.” I said as I looked at around the room.

“It’s odd though, she talks about him but when we ask to meet him she says that we can’t.” The mare said, going back to her work.

Peculiar, it seems they don't know what happened to Belaguard.

‘Saanvodkiin will deal with the situation soon enough.’ I thought as I looked over the many selections of clothing. I heard her sigh a bit.

“Though her reasoning is somewhat odd.” she shifted a bit in her chair. “‘If he does come around he brings trouble with him.’ was all she says.”

“It's more mischief than trouble.” I said to her.

“Well I guess he will get along with Rainbow and Pinkie quite well.” she said. She stops working and looked at me. “Oh, sorry I didn’t mean to ramble your ear off.”

“No need to apologize, having a conversation is one of the many things I enjoy.” I told her.

Amongst other things.

Ignoring those words I continued to look around.

“See something that caught your eye?” the mare asked.

“Yes. I've seen handmade clothing in my travels, yours is certainly on the top three.” I told her. Her head tilted a bit as she stopped working for a moment then went back to work.

“Top three you say, well I must be honored.” she said. I chuckled lightly before finally sitting back down.

In a way, she should be. After all, the many successes the other Rarity’s goes around like wild fire.

I nodded at those words before taking out my watch for the third time. Putting back in my pocket, I looked back at the seamstress as she worked.

“Do you take pride in your work? Is it something you enjoy doing?” I asked.

“Of course I do, I love to see-” she stopped for a second and looked at me. She stared at me for a second with a scary look. “Please tell me you are you and not some demonic force that would steal one of my memories of something that’s very close to me.”

“No, I'm not a demonic force of any kind.” I told her.

“Good, I like my memories and I don’t want to lose them thank you very much!” she said with a huff. After a moment she blinked a few times. “Uhh… what were we talking about?”

“I believe you were in the middle of telling me why you enjoyed being a seamstress.” I told her, not wanting to question her.

“Oh yes well I enjoy being a seamstress because…” she stopped for a moment to think about it. “It’s really a simple answer but I just do.”

I nodded and looked over around a bit more. I saw a roll of thread sitting in the corner of the studeo. It was white and it shined like glass.

“Interesting.” I said under my breath. I saw her ear twitched.

“What was that?” she asked as she pulls some tread out of a drawer.

“The roll of thread, it shines like glass.” I said. The room went silent with the sound of the machine going.

“What about it?” she asked. I caught a hint of anger in her voice as she asked.

“Nothing, it's just that I have never seen anything like it before.” I told her.

“Well if you want it you can have it.” she bluntly said. “I’d be happy to get rid of it for a few weeks until I get another one, like always.”

"Is there something wrong?” I asked her with a raised brow.

“Nothing wrong it’s just something from my great-grandma that I don’t want to deal with.” she said. The way she said it sounds that she’s questioning her response.

“Alright then.” I said. I took out my watch for the fourth time and saw one of the gears moved.

“Oh no.” I muttered.

“What’s up?” I heard someone ask behind me. I turned to see Taliyah standing behind me. She wore a brown t-shirt with some jeans, her sunglasses were perched on top of her head.

“It's nothing, nothing that you should worry about at least.” I told her. She frowned and pointed at me.

“Yeah… no you said ‘oh no’ which means something bad is going to happen and ‘oh no’ is one of the phrases that you say that something bad will happen.” she said.

“Well if you must know, my watch just broke down. One of its cogs moved out of place.” I told her, showing her the watch in question

“Take it to Rainbow, she’ll fix it.” the seamstress said. I sighed at this.

You put yourself into this situation.

‘It's your fault that I am in this situation.’ I thought as I looked at my watch once again.

“I think RD would fix it if you asked.” Taliyah said.

“Alright. I'll ask your friend if she could fix it.” I said to them. I looked at the mare as she waved her hand a bit.

“Don’t worry, I’ll have your shirt done by the end of the day, the fabric is most interesting.” she said. I stood up and both me and Taliyah walked out of the store and headed to the next place.

“So… sorry for making you wait so long, took longer with all the clothes she gave me.” she said.

“ No apologies necessary.” I told her. As we walked, I felt the watch vibrate in my pocket.

‘It seems I was right, it is damaged.’ I thought as I walked. This could prove to be troublesome.

It's damaged, yes. But it is nothing to worry about.

Taliyah

We continued to walk towards Dash’s shop, we talked along the way there. Clockwork kept looking at his watch at times, I didn’t ask about it I just assumed that the watch is important to him. We turned the corner and saw the garage.

“Here we are.” I said as I showed off the place.

“Rainbooms Hex-Tec Shop, peculiar name.” Clockwork said. I just shrugged as we walked in. The place looked the same as the last time I came here, lots of room, simple, blue walls with rainbows, clouds, and lightening bolts. What’s new was the gizmos that are stashed in places. Rainbow Dash walked out of the back room with some tools in hand and talking.

“No the clouds west side aren’t supposed to move until tomorrow, that’s the north side.” she said. She grumbled a bit before continuing. “This is why you should keep an eye on the greenhorns, anyway I got to go.”

She hung up and muttered something before putting on a smile. “Welcome to Rainbooms, if you have something broken, we can fix it.”

She turned to use and blinked. “Oh hello Taliyah, what’s up?”

“Nothing, just showing my friend here this place, he needs something fixed.” I gestured to Clockwork as he bows.

“Evening, I'm in need of repairs for my watch.” Clockwork said as he pulled out the watch in question. “I'm not quite sure what's wrong with but Taliyah said that you'd be able to fix it.”

“Well one, nice clothes gotta love the whole steampunk look, and two let’s see what we got.” she said as she walked over the the counter. She sat down and pulled out some goggles that seemed to change as she flip some switches. She puts her hand out as Clockwork hands her the watch.

“Alright little one, let’s see what’s wrong with you.” she said to the watch. Clockwork looked at me.

He didn't say a thing but only gave me a questioning look to which I shrugged in return. We watched Rainbow worked on the watch, pulling the top off and being careful at some parts.

“This is some watch, looks both old yet new, you took good care of her haven’t you.” she said probably to Clockwork

“You'd be surprised.” Clockwork said with a small laugh. Rainbow tilted her head a bit.

“If you taken good care of then why are you… Ah! There you are.” she took some tweezers and went to pull something out. It looked like a piece of shrapnel. “Now how did you get in here?”

She set the shrapnel down and put the watched back together. She took the goggles off and handed the watch over to Clockwork.

“So that was the cause of its malfunction. Should've known.” Clockwork said to himself as he pressed a button, causing the watch to turn on. At first glance it seemed it needed to be readjusted to the current time but that didn't last long as the inner gear started spinning before stopping at the current time.

“Okay, that’s cool.” Rainbow said as she stared at the watch with joy in her eyes.

“Thank you.” He said before putting his watch away.

“No problem, don’t worry about paying first time customers get one on the house.” RD said with a smile. This earned another smile from the man.

“How very kind of you.” He said.

“So, what are the two of you going to do now?” Dash asked us. I just shrugged my shoulders.

“Is there a library nearby?” Clockwork asked. Rainbow snickered.

“Is there a library…” she pulled a monitor from the wall she was near and tap at it. She turned it to show us a map with a small image of a tree with a book for a top with a chibi Twilight sitting on top. There was some arrows pointing where to go. “Taliyah has a map on her tablet that you can use as a map but this is the way to the library.”

Clockwork nodded and took another look at the map before turning towards the door. I said goodbye to Rainbow and followed him out of the door.

“You looking for something?” I asked him.

“A book.” He answered as he walked. I rolled my eyes.

“That’s specific.” I said and I rubbed my arm. I looked down to see that I still have my bracelet on, the one with the glowing stone in it. I smiled a bit at the sight of it.

“The book is titled To Kill Time, it's a special book on account that there is nothing written in it.” Clockwork said.

“Invisible ink?” I asked. He stared at me. “What? I had a friend who did that to me.”

“No, there's just nothing written in it.” He said.

“So there’s a book with nothing in it. It’s blank.” I said.

“Pretty much.” He said with a chuckle. I eyed him for a minute as we continued on to the treehouse. After a few minute we were walking up to the door to said place.

“Hello? Anyone home?” I called out as I walked in.

“Oh good you’re back.” Twilight said. She walked in with a book in hand. “I found a spell that should help, though you might turn green by it.”

I felt a chill run up my spine. “No thank you Twi, I prefer not going green.”

“Are you su-” she stopped when she looked up. “Hello?”

“Afternoon.” Clockwork said with a small bow. Twilight looked at me with a raised eyebrow.

“Twilight, this is Clockwork, and vise versa.” I said to them.

“Well hello there Clockwork, are you here to look for something?” Twi asked.

“Yes, I'm looking for the book To kill time by Starswirl.” Clockwork said. Twilight tilted her head and headed to one of the big books on the shelves and pulled it out.
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“Let’s see… To kill time… hmmm…” she flipped through some of the pages and turned her head. “SPIKE! HAVE YOU SEEN A BOOK NAMED TO KILL TIME BY STARSWIRL?!?”

“No need to yell…” Spike said as he walking into the room. He wore a green shirt with camo shorts. “Also it’s in the bin of books that make no sense to you.”

“Wait you have one of those?” I asked. Spike nodded.

“It happens when she finds a book that, again, makes no sense to her so she puts them here.” he pulls a bin of books out and rolls it in front of us. In less than a minute he pulls a blank book out. “Here we are.”

“That's the one.” Clockwork said. Spike hands it over to Clockwork as Twi walked over to me.

“I remembered why I put that there, there’s nothing on it. I tried many spells on it to see if there’s something but again nothing. There’s not even a hint of magic on it.” she says with a huff.

“Honestly, it has been so long since I wrote the damn thing.” I could faintly hear Clockwork mumble to himself as he opened the book onto the first page. He then pulled out his watch before pressing a button. The watch, after emitting a loud click, shone a blue light. The light was then directed towards the blank book, causing the pages to rapidly flip before the book closed.

“That’s like some Harry Potter magic right there.” I muttered to myself. Clockwork opened the book, writing covered the pages of the once blank book.

“Amazing…” Twilight said as she looked at the now worded book. I couldn’t help but smile at her.

“So… what’s the book for?” I asked Clockwork.

“Nothing major, except this book shouldn't exist in this world but since it does I might as well allow others to read it.” He answered.

“Umm… can I see it?” Twilight asked. With a nod, he handed the book over to Twilight.

“It's mostly old spells and enchantments along with a few blueprints.” He said. Twi’s eyes lit up as she ran over to the window seat.

“You, just made her day.” Spike chuckled. I nodded as I watch her go through the book.

“I expected as such, the book was written for those find that the arcane arts aren't enough. For magic, there is spells long forgotten through time as advanced spells.” Clockwork said as he looked at Twilight. I chuckled as I felt something hit my foot. I look down and saw Mr. Nibbles looking at me.

“Mr. Nibbles! There you are.” I said as I picked him up. He licked my face as I brought him close.

“How adorable.” Clockwork said with a smile.

“ He's a poro of course he is.” I said in a matter-of-fact tone.

“Fascinating.” Clockwork said as pat Mr. Nibbles. In turn, he started licking his fingers as there was a knock at the door.

“Odd, why is anyone knocking? This is a public place.” Spike said. He walked over to open the door. “Hello, how can I help… you?”

I looked over to see a figure wearing a large brown cloak. The hood was pulled over their head so I couldn't see their head.

“Greetings, I came to see what selection of books you have.” the figure said. Her voice was smooth and rice, like music… somewhat. I felt Mr. Nibbles fur stand on end.

“Hmm.” Clockwork hummed. Spike stepped out of the way as the lady walked in. She started looking through the shelves.

“If I could ask, can I have something to drink.” she asked.

“Yeah… sure.” Spike lazily said. I saw that his eyes seemed glazed over, but that was fine she did ask nicely. It would be rude to say no to mistr-

I shook my head a bit. Where did that come from? I felt a hand on my shoulder as Clockwork stood behind me.

“”Don't fall for it, my dear.” He said. I blinked a bit and looked back, Spike returned with the tea as the lady took it. I didn't see her hand as she continue.

“Spike can you… Spike?” Twilight said. She got up from her seat and towards him. He seemed out of it, glassy eyed and stood there. “Spike?”

“I think he's fine.” the lady said. Something jabbed at my head as she spoke, trying to will me to agree with her.

“What did you do to him?!” Twilight yelled. The figure sighed at this.

“Why you ponies freak out so quickly?” she said as she thrust out her hand. Something shot out of her hand and flung her into a wall. She was trapped there with some kind of web. Wait web? I rack my head as Clockwork stepped forward.

“Is there a reason to why you're here?” He asked, his tone taken a serious turn.

“I was trying to find a good book to read, isn't that so hard?” she paused for a moment. “I would also like to see my great-grandchild but ahh we're not on good terms at the moment.”

I watched her for a bit as clench my hand, feeling the ground below, as the door opened again.

“Hello~ Mr. Clockwork? Are you still here?” Rarity asked in a sing-song voice. “I finished your shirt and may did a few changes and… uhh did I miss something?”

“Rarity! Be careful, that woman is dangerous!” Twilight yelled as she struggled with the webs. Like seriously I should know this.

“If you left me alone and allow me to look this wouldn't have happened.” the lady said. Rarity blinked a few times and groaned.

“Oh no not you.” she said annoyed. Both me and Clockwork looked at her.

“So this is the great-grandmother you briefly spoke of.” Clockwork said. Wait what? The lady took this chance to remove the hood of her cloak.

My jaw hit the floor. “Oh you gotta be kidding me. First Caitlyn and now Elise… I should really be seeing this coming.”

Elise stared at me with a smirk, what was freaky was that she looked like Elise, she looked human, from the game I mean.

“Well I’m happy that others know of me.” her gaze landed on Rarity. “It’s good to see you again Rarity.”

“Oh don’t try to be all nice to me, I’m still crossed.” Rarity said angrily.

“You’re still mad at me, what happened so long ago.” Elise sighed. “You loved it when you would sit on my lap and watch my weave.”

“Yes I am still mad, it’s hard not to be after what I saw.”

“Oh that was just a minor thing my dear.”

“It was traumatizing! I watch you eat my neighbors!” Rarity yelled. Elise rolled her eyes.

“They were not as nice as they say they are, I did you and every… pony a favor.”

“You. Still. Ate. Them! IN FRONT OF ME!”

“You should of stayed in bed like a good girl.” Elise said. Me and Clockwork looked back and forth at this, as if it was a tennis match.

“I still can’t understand this world.” I said to him. He only groaned in annoyance as he shook his head.

“Uhh… a little help please.” Twilight asked us. She was still on the wall by web. With a nod, Clockwork pulled out his watch again and pressed a button, causing it to shine in an orange light.

The web shone orange as well and slowly burnt away, leaving Twilight free and unharmed… sort of. She fell onto the ground.

“Ow~... thanks.” she groaned. I went to help her up.

“What are you here for?” Rarity asked. Elise looked up at the ceiling annoyed.

“I’m here to find a book to read. How hard is it to understand that!” she said. “Living alone really get’s boring after a while and I already read all of my books there.”

“Really.” Rarity deadpanned. She looked over at Spike who was still standing there. “And you charmed Spike!”

"Force of habit." Elise said.

“Can you remove it.” Rarity asked.

“It will come off when I leave.” she said. She looked over at the bookshelf and pulled a fairly large book off of it. “This will do, now miss librarian can you check this out please.”

“... sure.” Twilight said. Her eyes stayed on Elise as she went to get a scanner. After a few minutes Elise now had her book under her arm.

“Now that’s done I’ll take my leave.” she said. She turned and looked at Rarity for a second before leaving. I caught a sight of her looking a bit sad before she put her hood up. As soon as the door closed Spike blinked a few times.

“Uhh… what happened?” he asked.

“You were charmed, my boy. Stuck in a trance of sorts.” Clockwork said, looking over to the drake.

“What! I was charmed! How!” Spike looked around to see who charmed him.

“That, is what happens when others meet my grandmother, her voice is laced with magic and can make even the most iron will soldiers do her bidding.” Rarity said. She shook her head and looked down. “She’s… really not that bad when you get to know her.”

“Yet you are still mad at her.” I said to her.

“Well she did make my childhood hard with what she did, I had to go get therapy after she… ate them.” she said. I saw her shudder a bit. “I still get nightmares of that.”

Clockwork walked towards the grey book before picking it up in silence as he began reading. Rarity shook her head.

“That’s in the past, now what was I… oh yes.” she smiled and turned to Clockwork. “Your shirt, it took me a bit longer to do some changes to it but it’s done.”

Clockwork turned to look at Rarity before smiling at the sight of his shirt. He stood and walked towards her.

“It looks good as new.” He said with a smile.

“Of course it looks good as new, out of the changes you don’t need to worry about tears and rips.” she said with pride in her voice. I chuckled as I sat down.

Like before, Clockwork took off his vest before taking off the shirt and handing it to Rarity before putting his old shirt back on as well as the vest. He smiled happily at this.

“Much better.” He said.

“I hope so, even with the rip it look very nice.” Rarity said.

“Thank you.” Clockwork said as he clapped his hands together.

“It’s my pleasure, I’m happy to help.” Rarity said.

“So Clockwork, what are you going to do now?” I asked.

“I'm not quite sure.” He answered as he turned to look at me.

“Well I for one have some reading to do.” Twilight said as she returned to her book and spot. Rarity rolled her eyes.

"Well it’s nice to see you all, and Mr.Clockwork if you ever need some clothes repaired just swing on by.”

Clockwork nodded before Rarity turned and left. As the door closed, Clockwork sat down on an empty chair.

“This is much better than what I usually have to deal with.” I heard Clockwork say to himself. I shrugged at him as Mr. Nibbles jumped up onto my lap.

“I’m still a bit new to this, seeing them so… it’s kinda cool.” I said.

“New? New to what?” He asked with a raised brow. I looked over at the room.

“This really, I’m not from around here as you can tell just by looking at me.” I told him.

“Oh you mean being a displaced.” He said, finally realizing what I meant. I nodded.

“Yeah, it’s weird knowing that, there’s many more people like me. Being a displacement.” I said as I scratched Mr. Nibbles behind his horn.

“Think of it this way, there are others out there.” He said to me. “Being new to the whole Displaced ordeal isn't uncommon to those amongst your kind.”

“Yeah… all I know is that they're going to be weird.” I said with a grin. This got a chuckle from the man.

“Indeed.” He said, still chuckling. I smiled at him as I thought about it, then frowned.

“If there’s others out there, I’m guessing some are not as nice as others.” I said. With a sigh, he nodded.

“Unfortunately, yes. Power corrupts those that aren't ready, they lose any and all sense of reason to achieve their goal.” He said before shaking his head. There was a brief moment of silence before it was shattered by a loud pulse like sound.

I flinched at the sound and looked towards the source, seeing Twilight with her hand up as it shown a lavender glow. Her eyes were wide with shock and her jaw hung loose.

“I see you found the Monopulse spell, effective for staggering your foes or handy for a large party.” Clockwork said, unfazed by the sudden sound. “Do be careful, charge it long enough and it'll release a lethal sound wave that could very well shred the skin of your bones.”

“How do you know that?” I asked him. He looked at me with a smirk.

“I wrote the damn thing.” He said, gaining Twilight’s full attention.

“What? You wrote it?” she asked.

“Yes I have, everything you see in that book is written down by my hand.” Clockwork said. Twilight stared at him for a moment before going back to her book.

“Sure you did, if you did than I'm going to ascend to alicornhood.” she said unconvinced. I snickered a bit.

“You know that she-” I stopped Clockwork from continuing.

“Just let it happen, it will be funny.” I said with a grin. He nodded in understanding before glancing back at Twilight.

“I recommend you make sure she doesn't try to read the whole thing, it's infinitely expanding its pages.” He said.

“A book that never ends? That's something.” I said. Looking back at her I saw her reading the never ending book with the biggest smile I have ever seen. I smiled at this and felt my cheeks heat up.

“Uhh… what were we talking about?” I asked Clockwork as he finished saying something.

“All I said was that there's someone at the door.” He said. I blinked as a set of knocks was heard from the door. I stood up, putting Mr. Nibbles on a nearby pillow, I went and opened the door.

“Howdy there Taliyah.” Applejack greeted.

“Hey AJ, how goes it.” I asked.

“Nothing’ really, came over to see how ya feeling.” she raised an eyebrow at me. “Ya seemed a bit better now.”

I nervously chuckled at her, earlier today I sent AJ a message that I may not be coming to work due to the headache. But now...

“Hehe, yeah uhh sorry about that, kinda forgot to tell you that I’m better.” I said sheepishly.

“It’s fine, got everything done so ya don’t need ta worry.” she said. She looked over my shoulder and saw Clockwork. “Didn’t know ya had company.

“Err… yeah.” I looked over at Clockwork. “This is Harrison Clockwork.”

“Howdy.” she said as she shook his hand. Luckily not as rough as she did with me.

“Good afternoon.” Clockwork responded as Applejack let go of his hand.

“Names Applejack, owner of Sweet Apple Acres and,” she jerked a thumb towards me. “Her boss.”

“I see.” Clockwork said with a raised brow. “Well it's nice to meet you.”

“Same. Anyway ah’m here to check on Taliyah and tell her,” she turned to me. “That if ya are feeling any better ya are with me in the fields tomorrow.”

“Yes mam!” I said while doing a salute. She just rolled her eyes.

“Anyway, see ya around.” she said. She left the place as I sat back down.

“So… do you…” I paused as I thought about what I was going to ask. Clockworked raised an eyebrow at me.

“Do I what?” He said in confusion.

“... have a family?” I asked. I shook my head at this. “Sorry, that’s personal and… ugg I need to keep my mouth shut at times.” He looked at me, not saying a word before signing. I could see sadness in his eyes.

“Yes, a great granddaughter.” He answered in a saddened tone. “I never met her personally but I watch over here using the watch I have. She's the only family I have left.”

“I see well… wait great-granddaughter?” I stared at him for a minute. “How old are you?” He looked at me with a sad smile.

“Old.” He said before chuckling. “I've lost count after the first five millennia.”

I blinked at him as I looked at the man who looks around thirty. “Nope, not going to go any farther about this. Time is confusing.”

“It is indeed.” He said with a shake of his head. I chuckled a bit.

“If you met my brother he’ll have a field day on the idea of time travel.” I said.

“Trust me, my dear, it isn't time travel in the slightest. I'm not anchored onto time anymore, it has gotten to the point where age means nothing and is just a number.” Clockwork explained in a matter-off-act tone.

“Still confusing.” I said. “I prefer my knowledge on geomancery thank you.”

He nodded with a smile. He leaned back onto his seat. I looked over at Twilight, kow was still reading that book. I gotta hand it to her she can read anything without any getting interrupted, sometimes.

“So anything else you want to talk about?” I asked. He stayed silent, almost as if he was in deep thought before finally his eyes widened.

“I should get going.” He said, standing up from his seat.

“Uhh… okay?” I stared at him for a moment. “You okay?”

“Everything will be fine once I leave.” He said, making his way towards the door. I stood up from my seat.

“Err alright, so… see you around I guess.” I said in a confused tone. As soon as he grabbed the door handle I heard something.

“They've found me.” I heard Clockwork mutter. I felt a shiver up my spine, I looked over at Twilight and saw… that she’s still happily reading her book.

‘Really…’ I thought as I looked at Clockwork. “I hate to ask but… who’s ‘they’?”

“They are the reasons I travel.” Was his answer. I went to the window and looked outside. From afar, lightning of unknown origins sparked and crackled just as a small sphere appeared and grew in size.

Once it grew, it imploded and left a group of what appeared to be steampunk like robots.

Clockwork

“Robots, I’m getting a feeling that this should be the main plot point of any sci-fi show.” Taliyah said.

“If it were a show, then the creators are insane.” I told her as I saw one of them beginning to move in jerky manner.

I'd like to think I'm quite sane.

“Why do I have a bad feeling about that one?” she said.

“That is how it walks.” I told her as I narrowed my eyes at it.

“Right… so what’s the plan?” Taliyah asked me.

“There is no plan.” I said just as the bot’s gaze snapped towards me. “There never is.” The bot shone slightly, causing its erratic movement to change.

“So we improvise.” she said. I looked at her and saw her smiling.

They began running towards my direction, pushing past the town residents that walked by as they did. The residents did what most others do, started to panic. I looked at Taliyah.

“You stay, they'll only follow me.” I said before taking out my watch once more and pressing the button. Not long after I did, I was engulfed in a bright light.

Taliyah

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I watched Clockwork got engulfed by a bright light and disappeared. I saw everyone running into buildings. I looked over to the other window and saw more of those robots.

“Me, stay here, please.” i said as I crack my knuckles. “Then I would miss all the fun.”

I ran out of the door and headed to the other group of robots as they marched towards me. They didn’t really seemed to notice me, or they do but didn’t care.

“Well I don’t know what Clockwork is doing but I’m not letting you past.” I said and I raised my hand. The ground behind me rose up and made a fifteen foot wall of stone.

“Now that’s there, time to make some scrap metal.” I said as I thrust my arms out. Stone shards shot out of the ground and launched towards the robots.

The shards of stone pierced through their metal chests but to my surprise, the holes made by the stones melded itself back as if it was never there. One of bots turned their gaze towards me before getting into a fighting stance.

“Right…let’s try some crowd control.” I muttered. I spread my hands out and made small mounds of stone rise up on the surface. A clenched my hands and pulled back, making some pillars of earth erupted. I sent a few of them towards me but the mounds shot up into spikes, impaling them.

“Ha! Now that is how I do things.” I yelled. My victory was short lived as a set of loud noises. I looked back at the group of three impaled robots and saw their forms changing.

As their bodies finished shifting and changing, they broke off the stone that impaled them. Their eyes shone slightly before one of them raised their hand and a set of stone pillars erupted from the floor.

“OH THAT IS NOT COOL!” I yelled as I moved out of the way of the pillars. I looked back at the ones that now have stone floating around them. “That’s really not cool.”

I backed up to the stone wall as they advance. Three of them raised their hands as stone spikes flouted up, aiming right at my head.

Then they exploded.

“HA! KABOOM!” I heard someone yell out. I looked up and saw Pinkie sitting on the wall with a rocket launcher.

“Pinkie? What are you doing?!” I yelled up to her.

“Well, I thought I would throw a big party for these guys but I saw them fighting you and I realized that they are big meanies so I’m going to throw them a rocket party!” she said as she jumped down with the rocket launcher.

“Right, uhh Pinkie I don’t think-” I stopped as I saw the robots walking towards us, already repaired. “That didn’t work.”

“Huh, I thought that would work.” she said.

“Got any plans?” I asked.

“Blow them up into pieces?” she said. I stared at her.

“A different plan.”

“Oh… nope.” I groaned as I clap my hands together, making a stone box and boxed the robots in.

“Well that will hold them.” I said as an arm shot out of the box. “For the next ten seconds, so… RUN!”

I grabbed Pinkie and ran through the wall, I made a door first, and ran back to the treehouse and ran into Rainbow.

“There you are, what the heck is going on!” she yelled.

“Well, a big group of robots appeared out of thin air and started to head towards us, Taliyah went to deal with a group of robots and did well until they adapted to her fighting and turned into robots that can throw rocks around, then I came and blew them up but that didn’t work so we ran and ran into you.” she said with a smile. Rainbow and I stared at her.

“Yeah, that.” I said.

“Wait wait wait, are you saying that these robots are… changing to fight?” she asked.

“Looks like it.” I said. I saw her face lit up a bit at the idea. “Rainbow no, we don’t know why they are here, I don’t think it’s a good idea to look at their specs.”

“But… the idea of them…” she looked off into space with a goofy grin. I sighed as I heard something walking up behind me. I whip around with three rock spears at the ready, only to see Clockwork there. He did not look pleased, at all.

“I leave for three minutes and you've managed to not only evolve them but give them the power of stone manipulation.” He said with a angered look.

“How am I supposed to know that they can do that!” I yelled back.

“I told you to stay put.” He retorted simply.

“There were more of them on the way!” I said.

He didn't get a chance to reply as the wall behind him broke down, revealing one of the robots. Clockwork frowned before quickly taking out something from his vest which led to a strange and loud pulse like sound. The robot behind him fell over, twitching before seizing all movements.

I looked back at Clockwork and finally saw what he held.

“Whoa…” Rainbow said as she looked at it. I knew that look very well, it was the one that she wants to have it, take it apart to see how it works, then remake it.

“I’m guessing that you have a way to stop them?” I asked Clockwork.

“Yes, I do.” He said in a bemused tone. After he said this, he lowered the strange weapon.

“Awesome.” Both Pinkie and Rainbow said in unison. The strange gun emitted a mechanical whirring sound just before a capsule was ejected from it.

“Ooo, what’s that?” Pinkie asked.

“A hand cannon I’ve hand crafted many eons ago.” Clockwork said. I stared at it and repeat the word eons.

“Don’t think about it, it will just make my head hurt.” I muttered.

“If you have questions, ask them later.” Clockwork said as he turned a small dial. “I have something to take care of.” With that he walked passed the dead robot and continued towards the center of town.

“Let’s go help!” Pinkie said. She started to skip forward but I grabbed her.

“Oh no, I already made them worse, I don’t think we should be fighting rock throwing rocket launching robots!”

“Err, as much as I want to see that I have to agree with Taliyah,” Rainbow said. She walked over to the dead robot. “Now help me with this.”

“Why?” I asked. She looked at me with stars in her eyes.

“Because I want to know how these things work!”

I stared at her for a moment and did the only thing I could think of; I facepalmed.

Clockwork

As I walked down the dirt road, the mechanical stomps began to emit behind me. I glanced behind me and saw that the other to Adapters had just turned a corner and began running towards me.

What are you doing standing around, shouldn't you start to run?

“When have I ever done that?” I asked back but received no answer as the Adapters closed in. The second Adapter raised its hand, causing it to shift.

Once its hand finished shifting and changing, the hand was now a flail. It spun it around before swinging it towards me.

I raised my hand and snapped my finger, the result was the sudden stop of the flail. Another snap and the flail was sent back towards the Adapter that threw it, landing a hit square on its visor.

The whirling sound of the last Adapter greeted my ears just before it came into view with a large stone sword. The adapter tirelessly swung its sword only to miss each swing.

Once I grew bored, I raised my left hand and the sword stopped inches away from my neck as it vibrated along with the Adapter bot that held it. Unable to move away from where it stood, I pulled out the hand cannon out of my vest and fired at the bot in front of me, leaving a large hole where its core once was.

“That should do it.” I muttered to myself before looking up.

You make me worry sometimes. If you were to be killed, I would have to come up with the most convoluted story just to bring you back.

“I'm touched that you care.” I said in a mocking tone. I walked up to the downed adapter, seeing the flail stuck its head. I raised my hand towards it which caused it to start vibrating.

The Adapter thrashed around unable to escape before melting into a tennis ball sized metal sphere. The sphere hovered onto my hand before I began making my way back.

Taliyah

“I think there’s a term for your kind of beings, I just can’t place what it is.” I said to Rainbow as she took a screwdriver to the robot.

“Shut up.” she replied. “Is it so wrong to get excited over something cool?”

“That thing almost tried to kill us.” I replied. Dash turned towards me, she wore a pair of mechanic goggles that made her eyes weird.

“Says that one that ran out and fought it with stones.” she replied. I bit my lip at that.

“We all make mistakes.” I muttered. Rainbow went back to the robot and took some pieces off.

“This is so~ cool! This thing is so advance yet so old” she said. I did see it but I could tell that she has the biggest grin on her face.

“Dashie, you’re doing it again.” Pinkie said as I saw her hanging upside down, defying the laws of gravity.

“Don’t care, best day of my life.” she put her head down on the robot and give a loving sigh. “Where have you been in my life?”

“Okay… this is getting weird.” I said. I watch this happen, I could literally see hearts coming off RD, as I heard the door open.

“I've expected as much.” I heard Clockwork’s voice. “Already in the middle of taking the thing apart.”

“Don’t look at me, it was all her idea.” I said without looking. I heard a sigh from him.

“I see. Well, I do hope you don't plan on using its parts on anything dangerous.” He said.

“I wish!” RD yelled. We looked back at her to see her goggles were on top of her head. “The metal plates keep repairing themselves as long some kind of energy is going through them, and…” she then hung her head. “I don’t have anything to do that.”

“Oh don't act like there isn't hope.” Clockwork said as he raised his hand towards the robot before both his hand and the robot vibrated rapidly. Once the vibrating stopped, Clockwork lowered his hand and the sound of metal parts clanging onto the ground.

“What did you do!” RD yelled with panic in her voice.

“Oh calm down, I've only just disabled its ability to self repair.” Clockwork said with a roll of his eyes. Rainbow picked up one of the parts and looked at it.

“It’s… not going to repair itself?” she asked.

“It won't, meaning you'll be free to tinker with it.” Clockwork answered with a nod. She looked at the parts for a moment.

“Pinkie, help me with this!” she said as she stood up.

“Okey dokey lokey!” she said as she pulls a trolley out of nowhere. The two moved the parts over and headed out. I stared at them as they left.

“Well, that was… something.” I said.

“Indeed.” Clockwork simply replied. I decided to sit down and think back on them.

“So these robots, they are here for you?” I asked.

“Yes. They've been after me for as long as I could remember.” He answered with a shake of his head. “A race of hyper intelligent machines are after my head for their beliefs.”

“Okay, that’s creepy.” I said. “Like, Terminator like creepy.”

“They're also the reason that I have my great granddaughter left. They've butchered her parents, my granddaughter and her husband were both killed in an attempt to lure me out of hiding.” Clockwork added with a sigh.

“But… why? Why are they after you?” I asked.

“Because of what I am. In simple words, I'm an immortal Traveler with knowledge that surpases their own.” Clockwork answered, anger evident in his tone.

“So… you're a Time lord?” I asked. He stared at me for a minute.

“No, I'm just a Traveler.” He answered.

“Oh, well, that’s good. It would make things more confusing if you were.” I said.

“It would indeed.” He said with a chuckle.

“So, you have robots that can change and evolve as they go, what are you going to do now?” I asked.

“What I do best, travel.” He answered. I eyed him for a moment.

“That’s it, you’re going to travel.” I said. He looked at with raised brow.

“I don't suppose you have another suggestion.” He said. I shook my head.

“I don’t have any, sorry.” He chuckled a little before placing a smooth metallic sphere on the table.

“So what is… what the?” I said. I had looked back towards Clockwork only to see that he wasn't there. I looked back at the sphere as it hovered.

I stared at the sphere as it hovered. “Please tell me you're not an evil metal ball of doom.” I asked it.

“I assure you I'm not.” A voice answered. I looked around to see if anyone was here but didn't see anyone. I looked back at the ball.

“Oh lord I'm talking to a talking floating ball.” I stopped to think about it. “You know, I shouldn't be surprised.’

“I take offense to that.” The voice said as the orb shone a blue light. It was taking another shape before I was blinded by the light.

“Sorry, I rarely get to be out and about.” The voice said. Blinking rapidly as I slowly regained my vision, I was greeted with an odd sight.

“Hello?” It said as floated closer.

“Uhhh…” I stared at the object that was staring at me. “Hello?”

“You seem confused.” It said.

“I try not to be but things happen.” I said. I looked around the floating object. “Err… what are you?”

“I'm a Ghost. Well technically, I'm your Ghost now.” the object said. I blinked at him, err it. Wait is it a guy? It sounds like a guy and… wait was I thinking about… oh yeah.
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“What?” I said.

“It's hard to explain but think of me as an informative companion of sorts.” He said, blinking as he did.

“Ahh… Ummm… what. Where’s Clockwork? You… ugg..” I clench my head for a moment. “Is this what Nick has to go through every day?”

“To answer your first question, The Traveler left to another world.” He answered before looking around the room.

“Okay… he’s not here, and I’m guessing he left you.” I said as he floated over to one of the bookshelves.

“In short, yes.” The eyebot said as it shone a bright blue light on the books.

“Okay on to the last part and I’m going to be blunt, why?” I asked drawing out the last word. He turned and looked at me as his frame spun around.

“To keep them out, the Adapters I mean.” He said before looking back onto another book and shining the same blue light on it. “You wouldn't want an army of killer impossible to kill robots that can learn your every move and use it against you.”

“That… would be helpful, keeping them out I mean.” I said.

“Which is exactly why he left me here.” He said as his frame did another spin. “Any other questions?” He asked, still looking around. I thought about my next question, I didn’t really have any other question than the normal one that you see in alien movies but I’m in a world with magic and I can throw giant rocks around like it was nothing so those are out, so…

“Do you have a name?” I asked.

“A name? I… I don't have one. I never saw the need to have one.” The Ghost said, looking at me. I frowned at that.

“Well why not have one, calling you Ghost is all well and good but it’s a bit overused.” I said.

“To be quite honest, you are the only one I've talked in a really long time. A name wouldn't have been necessary beforehand.” He answered.

“I see, well if you want you can have a name. I think both of us would agree that ‘floating robot eye’ isn’t really a good name.” I said.

“Haha, very funny.” He said sarcastically. I smiled at him as he floated around the room thinking… I think. “But I suppose you're right.”

“Me being right? Now that’s a scary thought.” I muttered. I thought of different names that would work for him. I took one of the many notebooks in the library and began writing down some names. “These are a few that I can think of.”

The robot floated over and shined a blue light on the notebook. He hovered there for a few moments, which I guess he meant that was thinking.

“Beta. It sounds… right.” He said after the long silence.

“Alright, nice to meet you Beta.” I greeted him with a smile. He quickly nodded, which resulted in him losing his hovering balance. I chuckled a bit and looked over and saw Twilight, still reading… the same book… did she miss the whole killer robot scene?

“You gotta be kidding me.” I said to myself as I walked over to her. “Oi.”

Nothing. “Oi~”

Still nothing, I grabbed the book and took it out of her hands.

“Hey!” she yelled as she looked at me, then looked around. “Where’s Clockwork?”

“You DID miss the whole thing!” I said loudly. I closed the book and walked away with it. “No more book for you.”

“Wait, what! You can’t do that!” I heard Twilight yell out.

“Just did.” I replied as I sat back down with said book on my lap. The two of us glared at each other for a bit.

“Does this happen often?” Beta asked as he floated into view.

“What is that!” Twilight yelled at the sight of him.

“Yes, yes it does. This is what I get with living with a bookworm.” I said with a shrug.

“Doesn't it get frustrating?” Beta asked, ignoring Twilight’s remark. I thought about it before answering.

“Not...really, before coming here I used to live with my brother and he’s a bit of a bookworm as well, not as big as Twi here but still a bookworm.” I sighed at some memories. “He used to keep all of the History and Science books we get from school after we finish a grade and has a collection of fantasy novels. There was a very odd yet nice thing about it, having one side grounded with facts and logic yet the other open and creative.”

“Your brother sounds intellectual with how you describe him.” Beta commented. I shrugged at him.

“If you tell him that he would deny it, and probably say something like…” I straighten a bit. “‘Everyone has ways to deal with everything, this is my crazy way.’” Beta did what I could only assume was chuckle.

“Yet you never say if he comes to visit, I would like to met him.” Twilight said.

“If he does then something bad will happen, he has a way to bring trouble with him.” I said as I cross my arms. Beta stayed silent after hearing this. “Trust me, it happened.”

“I'll take your word for it.” Beta said. I smiled as I saw the book on my lap glow a bit. Frowning I pulled a rock out of my pocket and flicked it over at Twilight.

“Ow!” she yelped.

“No book.” I retorted. Twi grumbled a bit as I pulled the book closer. Twilight looked over at Beta.

“Wait, why is there a floating robotic eye in my home?” she asked. I stared at her then at Beta.

“I forgot about that.” I said with a sheepish smile.

“I'm Beta, her Ghost.” Beta answered Twilight. She looked over at me and mouthed ‘ghost’. I just shrugged.

“Nice to… meet you?” Twilight greeted oddly.

“You’re acting like this has never happened before.” I said to her.

“Because it never did! When will I ever met someone who’s a floating robotic rubik's cube.” she paused and looked at Beta. “Err… no offence.”

“Some taken.” Beta said in a bemused tone. Twilight fidget a bit at that.

“Also if given some time Rainbow would have built something like that.” I said. Twilight looked at me with a frown, then a neutral look, then tilted her head and nodded.

“That’s… really true.” she said. She looked at Beta for a second. “Speaking about her we might want to keep them away from one another.”

“Why?” Beta asked.

“Because she’s a gearhead and if she see’s you she would want to figure out how you work.” I said without missing a beat.

“I wouldn't worry about that. Unlike the Adapters, I can't be disassembled.” Beta informed me.

“Right…” I said as I leaned back. “So I have a question, while you’re here what are you going to do? Learn?”

“Learning will only take a few minutes but after that… I don't know.” He answered. I scratched my head at this.

“What else can you do, if you don’t mind me asking.” Twilight spoke up.

“For starters, I can scan unknown objects or material and analyze the element they're made from. I can mimic others voices…” He said, stopping before his blue light turned lavender. “Like this.” He said in Twilight's voice.

“Whoa, that’s cool… in a creepy way.” I said. Beta did his equivalent of an eye roll as its color turned blue again.

“I can record audio and video as well as projecting holograms.” He said as he turned to the floor and shone his light on it before it formed a tiny blue humanoid figure. “Useful for observation.” He said as the the figure moved as if it was the one talking.

“So… you’re a walking talking giant library?” I said to him. “The reason I say that is that you remind me of something I saw some time ago.” Beta nodded.

“Right…” Beta said. I thought about this for a bit. I have a robot that has knowledge of who knows what and can keep the killer robots off of this world. Honestly I have no idea what to do.

“What… would you like to do?” I asked him. He and Twilight looked at me. “What? I have no idea what to think.”

“Well since I'm your Ghost, I follow wherever you go in case you need help.” He said.

“Okay? So you’re going to be following me around.” I thought about it for a moment. “As in floating around me as I travel?”

“Only if you're alright with it.” He said. I just shrugged.

“Eh, you do you, I don’t have a problem with it.” I said. He replied in the form of a nod.

“Well it looks like you have a new friend.” Twilight said. I stared at Beta for a moment.

“Guess you get friends from others.” I said. “Though your a floating robot eye, it’s kinda cool.”

“Who knows, maybe bringing me along will prove to be a good thing.” Beta said.

“For her that’s a yes.” Twilight said.

“Hey!” I glared at her as she sticks her tongue out. Beta let out a chuckle. “Oh, don't you start!”

“Try me.” He said in a daring tone. I glared at Beta for some time.

“Well I believe you two are going to be great friends.” Twilight said as she was walking up the stairs. “Also, yoink!”

I blinked as the book in my lap shoot towards her.

“Hey!” I yelled as she chuckled at me.

“I had a big brother that does the same thing Taliyah, that trick doesn’t work that long.” she said as she disappeared.

“For as smart as she is, she can be dumb.” I said as I pulled the book from behind me.

“You switched books on her?” Beta asked.

“Yup, so what do you want to do now?”

“Whatever you're up for, I'm along for the ride.” Beta answered. I nodded as I stood up.

“I guess I’ll show you around town.” I said as I walked to the door. “It also get’s me away from Twilight before she starts yelling.”

Twilight.

I hummed happily to myself as I walked into my bedroom. I had to admit that Taliyah did try to keep the book away but like I said to her; I have a big brother that did the same thing, I know ways around that.

I laid down on my bed with my back to the wall as I got comfortable to continue reading. I took my reading glasses and smiled at the book as I flipped to the page that I was at and started reading.

“And you thought you’re so clever, huh Twilight
-Love Taliyah.”

I blinked at the page and flipped through the pages. Blank. They are all blank. I stared at it as I realized what has happened.

“Oh that cheeky…” I got up from my bed as I ran downstairs to get her. I got to the bottom just to see both Taliyah and Beta gone. I saw a note on the desk with my name on it, I picked it up and read it.

“Went out to show Beta around town, will bring back a drink. :P
-Taliyah”

“OH COME ON!”

Author's Note

Hey this just happened and it's with Legion again :P.

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