Author's Note

Been a while since I screwed with these extra chapters. I just haven't had a desire to write any extra content. It was more of an idea to just put stuff on paper. But instead of writing extra chapters, I have just started entirely new stories that may or may not ever see the light of day. But I've had some finished chapters just sitting that I never once edited.

This chapter was to poke at the fun of video game physics and the objects when find like ammo, health, etc.

But I never had the desire to finish it.

Akimbo

Akimbo

Location: Liset, Ponyville, Equestria, Planet Equin.

I stood in front of my foundry with my hands on the edge, staring down at the two Lex Primes and other little part while the BP was displayed in front of me. I was at a crossroad and didn't know what to really do.

As I was lot in thought, the sound of hoofsteps coming up the ramp caused me to turn me head. “Hey, Twilight,” I greeted before looking back down at my two pistols. “How are you doing?”

“I'm good! Great actually!” she merrily replied with a smile. “What are you up to?” She soon came to a stop next to me and looked at the two weapons. “You planning something?”

I glanced at her. “Sorta.” I looked back down at the two pistols and stood up straight, crossing my arms. “I was digging through some of my old weapon parts and blueprints and came up with this.”

“What is ‘this’?” she asked.

“This.” I stepped aside and gestured for her to step forward, which she did. “They’re called the Aklex Prime. Ak, meaning akimbo or dual pistols, but here is where my problem arises.” she looked up at me expectantly. “Why do I need to use two pistols, a link, and a blueprint when I should be able to hold them?”

She glanced back and looked back at me confused. “I don’t follow.”

“Here,” I stepped forward and placed a holoprojector on the table. It opened to show my arsenal. Main had my Soma Prime, Secondary was empty and the melee has my Skana Prime. “See what happens when I pick up my Lex.” I did just that and my secondary slot appeared with a picture of the gun and its name. I set the gun back down. “Simple right?”

She nodded.

“Now watch this.” I grabbed the first Lex yet again and glanced back at Twilight, who continued to watch my actions. “Here is where my problem arises.” I reached for the second gun, only to have a loud *beep* sound throughout the ship and my hand missed. I tried again with a grunt and again after that, both times missing the weapon. I sighed and put the first gun down. “See what I mean?”

Twilight raised an eyebrow up at me before slowly looking back at the two weapons. “You’re joking, right?”

I gestured to the guns. “Okay! You go ahead and try!”

Twilight rolled her eyes and her horn started to glow. As her magic wrapped around the first pistol, she lifted it into the air and spun it in her aura while giving me a smug smile. Her aura wrapped around the second pistol. Her smile faded when the second gun failed to rise off the table. Turning with a look of shock she stared at the weapon. Fulling turning to face the weapon, she placed her hooves firm on the floor and lifted her head with a grunt.

This continued for several seconds as she grunted, groaned and whipped her head in all directions. After about a minute or so, she gave up with an exhausted sigh and dropped her head, beads of sweat dropping from her brow. “That… doesn’t… make… sense!” she wheezed frustratedly.

“See what I mean?”

She lazily dropped her but on the floor and glared at the weapons. I huffed at her pain. “Well… when in Rome!” I added with a head tilt and a glancing to my right. “Ordis, please construct the Aklex Prime please? And make another Lex.”

“Would you like to use the one with the Orokin Catalyst and for me to remove the installed mods?” he asked for clarification. That was a good point I wouldn’t want to lose a fully modded and potatoed weapon.

…

How did I know that?

“Uh… Ordis please construct a new Lex,” I requested.

“Understood. Your new Lex will be- *BZZT* DONE WHEN I FEEL LIKE IT! *BZZT* in about twelve hours.” Twelve? I can assemble one in half that time! And I highly doubt that making one from scratch would be that hard with his 3D printer.

“Alright…” I turned back to Twilight. Only to find her missing. “Twilight?” Turning around I searched the immediate area for her, only to find nothing. After giving up my less than extensive search, I shrugged, grabbed my good Lex and headed to the top of the cockpit. As soon as I reached the top of the ramp I was greeted with the mare I was looking for, backside.

In all its unedited glory…

I slapped a hand to my eyes. “Twilight?”

I heard shuffling from under the right side table, then a *thud*. “Ow!” A few seconds later Twilight stepped out while I peeked through my fingers. Lowering my arm she sat down and held up a large blue orb. “What is this?”

“An energy orb,” I answered immediately. “It restores 25 energy and HOW THE HELL DO I KNOW THIS!?” I have never seen one of those damn things in my life! At my feet Twilight just raised her eyebrow.

“And the red one?”

“Health orb.”

…

The fuck!?