Forced Reboot

I looked out the window towards the amber horizon as the sun set, Luna had started training me in a similar fashion to herself, and every night at sunset we would begin training, and end just before dawn, it had only been a week but progress had been made, I sharpened my skills with swords a bit and modified some of the albeit limited jujutsu moves I remembered from highschool to work against the different geometry of ponies. Today marked the end of basic combat training and would begin training me in the art of magic combat. I had calmed down considerably once celestia had agreed to not keep me locked down so much, and had thankfully issued a restraining order on Pinkie (who was now somehow still alive after being drilled, sawed, shot, and burned, and being at the 1st place spot on my shitlist) to prevent more problems, now I was pretty content to be trained as their trump card, mostly because of the aforementioned freedom to live my life as I choose so long as Luna was aware of my plans. Today also marked the day Luna would help me forge an enchanted weapon of my design so that I could deal damage on an even more rediculous calibur. My reputation with the public was still shit, and my short temper still attested to that, I kept it under enough control to avoid killing anyone, but depending on what they did, it could still mean a trip to the ER with broken bones for the unlucky offender. Luna was different, I didn't snap at her because 1, She's pretty nice, 2, I don't want to become a kebab again, and 3, She is one of the few creatures on this planet that I could consider a friend of sorts, the only others being Fluttershy and a hesitant maybe to Rarity.

As soon as the sun slowly scooted its way beyond the horizon, I left the window in my little room, put on my shirt and track jacket and began to walk towards the castle training grounds, I had adopted an almost completely nocturnal schedule, and I was glad to see that my eyes could well... see in the dark very well, only in the monochrome but certainly better than nothing. My ability to make tools and weapons from seemingly nothing was something d experimented on, when adrenaline and fear were at the wheel I could manage several at once, but under normal strain it was a pretty strenuous process.

After I had returned from my mental away mission I had already arrived at the training grounds, I saw luna standing beside a billowing forge holding a large sledge hammer.

"Art thou ready to begin?" she called to me as I dropped my stuff by the gate and walked over to the anvil sitting before her, she wore a thin tank top and a large leather apron.

"Yup, Let's get this show on the road.." I grabbed a hammer and a large bar of the strange damascus-esque metal Luna brought along, it was far different from steel in mass and color, it was far darker and much lighter. I put it in the forge and we waited, the sword I was planning on making would be a beefy tanto sword with a magic twist, The final weapon would be about 4 feet long total, With a blade capable of being launched at the enemy and returned to tye hilt...hopefully, it would also have a secondary dagger blade mounted inside tha handle just in case the main blade was prevented from being returned to the hilt via a winch built into the pommel, compared to Luna's sword, my idea of magic choices was pretty mundane, so she decided to add in her own enchantments to make up the difference.

"Ok That's probably hot enough"I said after a few minutes of waiting before the white hot bar with some tongs and stuck it on the anvil, I struck it with a hammer to start and luna followed up with a second strike, and began to draw out the shape. We drew out a rough shape by the 5th heat and finished forging the main blade with a 6th, there were no power tools so I used magic to spin up a manual grinding wheel and began making a hollow grind, this stuff was Really tough, it had to be heated to blindingly white hot to even begin forging and even when it wasn't hardened it was still decently hard to grind, still remained flexible As I continued whittling away I heard Luna say something.

"After thou hath finished the sword we shalt help thee enchant it, Please summon us when thou hath finished" Luna got up and removed the apron to allow me to finish working.
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After I had finished the several hour grinding process, I hardened and tempered the blade, polished it, sharpened and honed the edge and began the forging of the second blade.

6 hours later the sword and its mechanical bits were finished, all I needed now was some help from luna to enchant it. I got up and brought the newly finished weapon to Luna, who was currently reading in her room.

"I finished the sword...." I presented the blade to her for inspection. My hands were coated in a layer of black dust that had been ground into the short hair. Luna looked at the blade with the eye of a connisuer before she picked it up, I had left a large almost mirror finished flat area where a fuller would usually be toward the handle, it was blank for now until it was enchanted and runed by luna.

"Thou hath done well, allow us to prepare the the enchantments." she walked to the center of the room and placed the sword on a blank rune outline, and began to change and fill it in, within a few minutes she finished and we watched as the sword was wrapped in magic and levitated from the floor. Luna whispered to me as soon as the sword stopped moving.

"Lay thyself under it, and remain still while we position your limbs" I silently complied and lzued down under it, luna adjusted my position before she continued. I felt the pommel against my chin and the rectangular guard laid across my chest and down my torso. I felt the now somewhat familiar sensation of magic charging up before I heard a sudden and intense Crack and felt the energy being drawn from me and poured into the sword, this sensation lasted for a few minutes and then I felt myself stand up. Then it stopped, inmfront of me the sword hovered, the hilt presented to me, the whole weapon was glowing white, I grabbed it, and the white faded and i saw the blade in it's new glory and infused with my magic, the damascus-ish pattern on the metal was much more visible now, and the flat area had a menagerie of runes etched into it, all of them were glowing a deep blue, sureounded by a ring of runes in the center of the largest portion of the flat area was a small etch of the voyager 1 spacecraft, the blade jad a practically mirror finish. My work looked great, the elongated modified tanto tip segwaying into the relatively wide straight edged blade, flowing right into the hand guard and finishing with the heavy hexagonal pommel-esque cage surrounding the spool of cable.

"Holy fucking shit... That was cool...." I looked the sword over one last time and looked into the etched runes, the flat area was mirror smooth and looked like a piece of outer space was put in it. On the handle there was now a little glowing symbol right where I prefered to rest my thumb, I pressed it and i felt that I suddenly knew how to control it. It felt amazing.

The enchantments we had put in the sword were the aforementioned launchable blade, the ability for me to call it to my hand like Thor, a magic beam fired from the blade, assorted durability spells, the ability to spontaneously superheat the air around the blade to cause an explosion, and my favorite was the ability to steer and essentially fly the blade around like a missile, the dagger part was much less impressive but still had Durability and rediculous sharpness. Compared to Celestia or Luna's weapons, this was still pretty far from being similar, power wise, match but it was pretty destructive all the same.

"So... What's it actually made of?" I was never given the acual name of the stuff, just an alias and how to forge it.

"The material is known as celunite, Tis' an alloy of lunarum, celestite, titanium, and small amounts of tungsten carbide and silicon."

"Thats pretty neat, so, let's go try it out" mentally I was jumping around like a little kid at Christmas."

"Let us test it's worth, then we shalt construct a scabbard"

"Sounds like a plan"
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After a good 30 minutes of testing the sword, and it's abilities on some, now dismembered, training dummies, I had decided to call it quits for tonight and "hit the hay"....gosh damn I hate these ponies' insatiable urge to make puns of everything.

I stripped down to nothing and flopped into bed, as soon as I turned off the lantern I was using to light the room, my brain drifted into the glorious realm of sleep.

My dreams had been weird as of...well since I was dragged onto this planet, but they were weirder now that I had a new volley of shit to deal with shot in my general direction. This time it was a surrealistic environment that I could have passed off as something Salvadore Dali would have put to paper. There were trees in many odd shapes and colors, ranging from neon yellow to ugly brown, there was the ever vigilant Monolith sitting off in a pile of melting clocks. The ground was smooth and flat and appeared to be made of plastic. I looked out across the weird environment and began to see its inhabitants, the three ponies currently at the top of my shitlist, cloned and re proportioned, all of them were of varying sizes and clothing, each was going through the trees as if they had something urgent to do. I watched the scene devolve into them either eating one another or performing mitosis and making more of themselves. I watched the scene for a few minutes before I realised that I was not a pony, I was my old human self again, I marveled at myself for a bit before I felt a gentle tap on the shoulder. I quietly turned my head around and saw Luna standing behind me. She sat beside me and then spoke.

"Thou art troubled, we hath seen dreams of this sort before....."

"That's probably obvious enough to anyone in the waking world too...Why are you here all of a sudden? You haven't come to me before in my dreams.

"Our dear sister hat forbade us from entering your mind until now... Please tell us what thou art feeling,"

"Lonely, worried, tired, probably some lingering anger and sadness, a bit of fear, ya know, Usual Ptsd stuff."

"What Doth thou mean by P-T-S-D?"

"It's an acronym for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, it's probably not that serious right now but it... It's tough to manage if I think about it too much"

"Ah, we see thy point, upon our reform we were also fearful."

"Not quite, it means I am having trouble coping with being dragged to this place with no hope of return..."

"Why doth thou speak of this issue in a lighthearted manner, would it not be prudent to speak it freely and completely rather than hiding one's feelings?"

"If you were a man, and came from my planet, you'd understand, I wont explain it now but, it has to do with habit..."

"We now believe we see thou burden, and we are sorry that we can never truly understand what thou must feel..."

"That's also why I can't bring myself to forgive Twilight or Celestia... And probably never will," off in the distance the figment's had begun to explode into bloody chunks as I started to feel my anger welling up.

"Is it not better to 'forgive and forget' as the saying goes?

"Unlike you, I have no hope of return... I can't ever forgive them because their mistake is permanent... Its simply so severe for me to ever truly forgive... Sure I'll eventually get over the depression and pent up rage... but nothing I can think of could make up for the injustice I've been dealt, nor the countless times I've had to see my past life, or think about how everyone I knew would react to my dissapearance." If I was crying I couldn't tell, my mind was other places, and in dreams, anything could he true.

"We...see"

A long silence persisted for some amount of time before luna spoke again.

"It is nearly time to wake, I shall meet with thou at breakfast... Before we depart, Is the form you have similar to thy's original appearance?"

"Basically identical..." I felt my face droop a bit at my response.

"Twas but a question, we did not mean harm,"

"I know...just pokes at a sore spot is all...you are probably needed for something, I need to wake up, so I guess this is goodbye for the next ten minutes" With that I watched aout across the now very messy dreamscape as it collapsed and I returned to conciousness."