"10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck!"
'How long have I been dreaming? What has been happening while I slept in my stony stasis?' I thought before I focused all of my energy towards breaking the stone casing so I can get back to helping others.
What I saw made me confused and angry, Canterlot in ruins and the Equis looks like Tartarus has taken over.
"Whoever did this is getting a righteous beat down!" I said before I noticed something familiar in the distance. "Tirek, so it's that time." I smirked cruelly, "I'm just going to let this play out. I wonder If Queen Faust has returned from her trip into the cosmos yet?" After I had finished thinking out loud, the normal color of Equestria had returned and I saw the Rainbow Powered 'Mane 6' floating towards the Friendship Castle that had just sprouted.
"Time to reintroduce ourselves. Don't you think?" I say to the Bakugan in the container before I disappear in a burst of speed and reappear in the throne room waiting for Celestia to open the doors.
"3...2...1...Showtime." I say as the doors open and Celestia and Luna stop in their tracks.
"Lulu, Tia, long time no see." I managed to get out before Luna, ever the emotional filly I knew and cared for, pounced on me crying her eyes out.
"Uncle Basco!" It took awhile, but Lulu had released me from her patented 'The Hugs and Snuggles Shall Last FOREVER!' hold and I stood up to gaze at the assembled Elements shocked faces and Tia's teary smile. Twilight was the first one out of them all to speak.
"Princess, who...what is that, and why does he look so..."
"Why the heck does he look like a hairless ape?" Rainbow Dash said rather bluntly. I raised an eyebrow at that remark and smirked before Celestia started talking.
"Twilight, everyone, this is Jolokia ta Bvasco. He helped Luna's and my mother, Queen Faust, raise us." she explained. "He..." was as far as she got before Pinkie Pie interrupted her.
"Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie! So what are you? What's your favorite foods? Hobbies? Where are you from? How old are you? What's your favorite color? Mine is hot pink. How mmmhmmhmmh" Applejack grabbed her muzzle silencing Pinkie Pie for the time being.
"I sincerely apologize for Pinkie's behavior. Sometimes she's not exactly right in the head." Applejack said in her southern drawl.
"I'm a Displaced, Pizza and Spaghetti, making things, Bradford, I lost count at 1,000, blue, and finally I didn't catch that."
"You are good." she said after she removed her muzzle from Applejack's hand.
"How do you do what you do Pinkie? The last pony I knew that had those powers was a Pegasus named Surprise, Equestria's 'Pony of Parties'."
Pinkie gasped at that, "You knew Granny Surprise?!"
"Well that answers my question."
Twilight's, Applejack's, Fluttershy's, Rarity's, and Rainbow Dash's jaws had all dropped after I had finished that little conversation with Pinkie. "What?"
"Darling, how in Equestria did you keep up with Pinkie Pie? No one can keep up with Pinkie Pie, not even her coltfriend Cheese Sandwich and he's almost exactly like her."
"Orange coat, plays an accordion, has a poofy brown mane, wears a poncho and cowpony hat, and carries around a rubber chicken on his shoulder?" I asked even faster than Pinkie Pie did, their jaws dropped even further.
"Yeah. How'd you know that?" Pinkie asked me.
"Just a hunch~." I said in a playful voice while shrugging my shoulders. "We'll catch up later Celestia, I think your student and her friends want some more answers." I said, before Discord got scared and flew out of there like one of those bats I'd seen after escorting Tirek to Tartarus.
“Why did he run?" Fluttershy asked me as I eaned against the Cutie Map.
“You'll understand once you know my story." I said and gestured for them to sit down, which they did. "I've been sealed in stone for the better part of the last thousand years. Don't get the wrong idea, I willingly let myself get turned to stone. As for the why? Well let's start at the beginning of my tale."
1,103 Years Ago
My story starts as many other Displaced, shortened from Dimensionally Misplaced, stories start. At some kind of Convention. Which one doesn't matter as they're almost all the same, and I was walking down through a surprisingly empty part of the local Con when I happened upon a small stand with tons of merchandise and custom made pieces. One of them was a Tesseract in the corner from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it looked like the real thing, which now that I think back probably WAS real. I pity the poor sucker who buys that, maybe he dressed up as the MCU Vision, at least the Mind Stone would work then, or was it the Soul Stone? Never mind, got off topic.
"Welcome to my humble little stand, Mister Jolokia. You know you're the second person to come by with that costume." The man had said to me as he came up to me out of nowhere. Almost gave me a heart attack when he did that.
"DAH!" I practically screamed before I took a good look at him. He was dressed in a rather well made Merchant outfit, though I couldn't see his face because he kept the hat over the top half of his face. "Um, thanks? Y-you've got a n-nice costume too." I told him with a small stutter because of my slightly chattering teeth.
"Oh, this isn't a costume." He said to me far to eerily.
At the time I was thinking 'If he's trying to get customers he should cut back on the creepy.', then he asked for my name and I introduced myself to him like the fool I was.
"See anything you like? I might even have something you need to finish off that costume of yours." Merchant said before he looked down at the suitcase I had brought with me. "So kid, what's in the suitcase?" He asked curiously, excited I should say. I lifted up the suitcase and opened it up to show him the contents.
"Bakugan, huh? Didn't expect a Gokaiger fan to carry around those things."
'Gokaiger?'
'I'm more concerned about Bakugan being carried in a briefcase.'
"I was hoping to meet up with some friends I met online, they all claimed that they had the most Bakugan toys out of all of us. As you can see I have a lot of these beauties." I said as he picked one up and placed it on a piece of metal. The Bakugan opened up into a small golem-like creature with small yellow crystals coming out of its shoulders.(1) "Nice, did you make this yourself?" The Merchant said looking up at me.
I rubbed the back of me head sheepishly before nodding. "Yeah, I like making things so why not make ball forms for some of my favorite characters." The Merchant picked it back up gently and returned it to its ball form before handing it back to me.
"I have just the thing." He said before he ducked under the table/stand and pulled out what looked like a metal replica of the Rapparatta, Basco ta Jolokia's trumpet weapon, with the Bakugan Attribute symbols on the top of the key holes, and a couple extra key holes for more
. In hindsight he probably made this on the spot
"Woah." I said looking at the object of beauty before me.
"So? You interested? He said before he continued talking. "Now normally I'd price something like this at around a minimum of 100 dollars, but for you? I'm willing to cut it down to 5."
It was at that moment huge red flags started to raise up with the words 'DO NOT TRUST' written on them in big bold letters. I somehow ignored them as I pulled a five dollar bill out of my pocket and handed it to The Merchant before he handed it to me.
"Why don't you give it a try? It works like a real trumpet so it shouldn't be hard." He said in that eerie tone again which sent shivers down my spine before I brought the Rapparatta up to my lips as I blew into it before everything went white and I woke up in the middle of a forest that I now know all too well.
"What in the name of God am I doing in a forest?" I said before I found out my voice didn't sound right, it was older and more mature sounding. However before I could question anything I heard a loud commotion going on not that far from me. Being the person I am, I decided to see if anyone was in trouble before I heard a filly scream.
"HELP!"
I started running to the voice and found two little fillies surrounded by six dead guards, three Bat Ponies, one Earth Pony, one Unicorn, and one Pegasus. Their attackers were a gang of thugs and later I learned it was an actual gang named 'The United Oppressors', there were Diamond Dogs, tamed Timberwolves, Minotaurs, Griffins, you name them they were in there, except Zebras they didn't include Equines. Looking at the situation I felt it would be a good idea to make a flashy, and showy, entrance.
I raised the BakuRapparatta, my name for the item which brought me here, and began to play the Gokaiger theme music.
(3rd person pov) A few minutes before
"Isn't this fun Lulu? We get to explore the forest!" The alabaster coated filly said to her sister.
"Bah!" Gurgled the dark blue coated baby before laughing.
"Remember Princess Celestia, you and Princess Luna are only out here to collect some flowers. Nothing more." A thestral said to the young ones.
Luna stuck out her tongue and blew a raspberry at the thestral before babbling some more.
"I agree with Lulu, you all need to stop being so uptight and bossy." said Celestia.
"We are 'uptight and bossy' because it's our job to protect you and your mother from harm." said the unicorn.
"Mommy doesn't need potectin and I don't either." Celestia said with here head raised before she stumbled over her own two hooves before regaining balance. "We're okay."
Suddenly out of the trees rushed several figures, a Minotaur, a Diamond Dog, a Chimera, and a Timber Wolf.
"Stay behind us." Yelled the Earth Pony as she and the others tried to defend against their assaulters. Tried, being the keyword here. What happened was somewhere between a fight to the death and a massacre, and ended with the guards laying dead at the young Princesses' hooves. Luna was crying her eyes out with Celestia very close behind her.
"What should we do with the tiny ponies?" asked a Diamond Dog.
"Those guards kept calling them 'Princess', they'd fetch a high price in the slave markets." said the Minotaur with a cruel smirk.
Celestia couldn't take anymore before she yelled at the top of her lungs. "HELP!" After she screamed that music began to fill the air, everyone present looked around before they saw the source of the music who, in their opinion, was the strangest thing they'd ever seen. It stood upright on two hooves, but they didn't look like hooves, in its right hand it had a metal instrument over its mouth creating the music, its left hand was on a case on the side of his belt. His outfit was the strangest thing on him, even stranger than the fact that he didn't have a coat of fur, it comprised of a green vest over a white dress shirt, a red coat with frayed/fuzzy bits on it, black dress pants, and a strange hat on its head with three points on it one in the front and two in the back with a feather on it.
(1st person) Now
The Minotaur became angry, very angry, and asked in his calmest voice. "WHO THE BUCK ARE YOU!?" I lowered the BakuRapparatta and gazed at him in distaste.
"First!" I said holding up my pointer finger, "Never swear in front of children. Second!" I said adding my middle finger to the pointer finger already held up. "I'm just someone passing through. Etch it into your memory." I said tapping my temple like my favorite Nobody Axel. From his face I just made him even more enraged which may or may not have been a good idea. Before he could charge however I released a small amount of my new power subconsciously which made the Timber Wolf and Chimera run back into the forest.
"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING! GET BACK HERE AND FIGHT YOU COWARDS!" The Minotaur yelled at his fleeing...pets? I don't know. The Minotaur kept staring in anger at them before he turned back to me and I decided to be a smartalek about it.
"Looks like they have more brains than you do." I said before he promptly smacked me into a tree. It hurt for a little bit, but I was focused more on the two children who were starting to tear up again.
The Minotaur began laughing his plot off until he felt my anger. Literally. My power, or K(illing )I(ntent), went of the chart. There was so much that I had an aurora around me in red and black. "You can hit me," I started to say, "you can hurt me, you can drive me into the ground." I said before looking him in the eyes with my now burning red eyes. "But the one thing you never, ever do when I'm around, is harm the innocent!" I yelled as the aura enveloped me turning me into Basco's true form, which was basically and armored version of his usual appearance, the only thing different from Basco's and mine, sea blue eyes if I'm not angry or in the middle of a fight, after that the battle lasted a total of one minute and they could not get out of there fast enough. As my red eyes faded to blue I turned to the fillies to check on them.
"Are you two alright?" I asked them.
"Mmhm." said Celestia as Luna stared at me and starts to laugh and hold her arms out to me. But before I could pick little Lulu up, however, Queen Faust herself landed in the clearing with a worried look on her face and her next actions were justified based on the scene she came upon.
Flashback end
"After that situation was diffused the rest is now history. I helped stop Tirek the first time, Sombra too until he activated that curse or spell or whatever, stopped a Changeling invasion in what's now considered Ancient Roam, found the Elements of Harmony and became a distraction while the girls started the Element's magic, and finally asked Tia to turn me to stone to guard Discord after Lulu became Nightmare Moon because I swear either Discord or Sombra were the cause of that. It didn't work though, because after Discord freed himself he snapped his claw and sent me to sleep, till now."
Author's Note
An alternative title for the fic would be, Basco the Battle Brawler!
(1) One guess as to who that is.
