The Traveler

two hours before sunset

    "So let me get this straight." says Twilight, trying to recap what Alter told her. Which is the Earth Pony that has a light grey coat, a white mane with a black stripe and a black tail with white a stripe. His mane and tail have basically opposite color positions. "You're one of the royal guards from Canterlot that took a day off and decided to visit Ponyville, because you've never been here."

    "Yes princess." agreed the liar.

    "But before you book a hotel room, you decided to take stroll through the Everfree Forest. And since building a wall around the train station is not finished yet, you trotted 'through' the construction and straight into the forest." she continued while giving the 'i am not amused' facial expression. "And you expect me to believe that?"

"Fuck"

    "Seize him, secure his belongings!" Twilight shouted. Every single guard that he can see is now armed and ready to attack. He tried to make a defensive stance before his body started to glow.

    "What the-." Instantly with a bright white flash he was teleported elsewhere not far from the previous scene, but far enough to make a run for it. The flash was enough to blind everypony, which is another good advantage.

"Run Alter, run!" He wasted no time and started running from the law itself, which gave him a sense of Deja vu . "Ouh and, we also have another problem"

    "Really? now? for fuck sake." he said under heavy breaths. "I really need to work out more"

    "DON'T LET HIM ESCAPE!" shouted the Princess of Friendship. the sound of clopping hooves were everywhere, making him shudder.

"Remember when you destroyed the core of GOOs and there are some GOOs left alive and we told you to leave them for others? well the 'others' didn't finish their fucking job. To make matters even more fuckin worse, the GOOs decided to bunch up together creating a Colossus. " Gen explained with a mix of annoyance and frustration in his tone.

"Follow me, I will lead you there" A ball of light conjures in front of him, moving at the same speed as his before turning right in to an alley. Turn after turn, close calls after close calls, He finally reached the wall on the other side the town before the ball of light disappear. Even while running, Alter can still feel the vibration coming from the other side of the wall. His legs and lungs were burning for far too long, he needed to stop. He skidded to a halt catching his breath to prepare for the giant that is about to come through.

    "THERE HE IS!" A shout came from behind. Now he's just wondering which side should he deal with first. But that thought was interrupted by the loud banging on the wall, cracking with each blow. The guards were also skidded to a halt after noticing whatever monstrosity that's making that amount of damage to the wall. Alter's right foreleg glows white at the same time as the white gem on the sword's pommel. levitating it out of the scabbard. Floating it in front of him vertically, then to his right side horizontally. While moving his right hoof around in a waving motion that seems to be mimicking the sword, or, maybe its the other way around.

"Aaaany second now" He thought to himself, observing the wall with a giant crack that is getting worse and worse. A lot of civilians running away out of fear in every direction. Some of the guards trembled in fear but tried to keep their composure.

    Then it finally came through.

BOOM

    Rocks and pieces of shrapnel flew everywhere as the creature, the 'Colossus' smashed through the wall. Good thing he is in a safe distance from it. Alter's muscles tense up and took an offensive stance, ready to act as soon as the debris disappear so he can get a good look at what it is, one last time. Yellow eyes shone from the cloud of debris, its height from the ground rising up until it reaches what looks like 4 feet tall. "Hmm, there's at least 20 of em inside, alright, i can do this." He remark in his own thoughts. "If they aren't any more inconveniences while this is happening, everything should be fine."

    The debris finally disappeared revealing the true form of it. Its body is made out of..well, goo. The goo is green in color, and its not dripping to the ground making it it easy to shape shift and not lose their essence bit by bit. This time, its taking the form of what looks like a wolf but with bear claws as paws. And with a sharp pointed tail. Alter immediately recognized that tail, he'll have watch out for flying spikes from now on. The creature roars upon seeing him, like it recognizes the face that killed its entire pack. The roar was deafening until the windows nearby cracked, some are even shattered. He launches forward despite the ringing in his ears, galloping as fast as he can. The Colossus's tail flicked and Alter's instincts instantly made him dodge to the left, the rushing breeze that he felt on his right cheek assured him that he did the right move.

    After dodging countless flying spikes, tail swirls and getting minor cuts and bruises later, He finally got close to it, and its already trying to crush him with its huge paw. Seeing that the attempted assault was obvious, he dodge it easily. making a small but deep cut to the same fore leg that tried to flatten him when it hits the ground. It roars in pain as it lift back up. "Opportunityyyyyyyy~" he coos internally with a joyful tone. Time slows down, as Alter's 'left' fore leg is covered with some sort of black substance. The sword's edge glows bright white as scorching heat radiates from it. With a throwing motion of his left hoof, the black substance stretched and attached to the creature's upper neck like a grappling hook, sending him upwards.

    Alter positioned his sword under its neck using the momentum to cut through half of it like a hot knife through butter, but that was only half it. Because of the momentum he was now thrown into the air above the Colossus. Preparing for the final blow and relying on his good old friend gravity."OFF, OF YOUR HEAD!" he falls down slicing the other half of the neck finishing the job.

    Time resumes to normal speed, as he safely land on his hooves. He was breathing heavily trying to catch his breath. The decapitated head fell down beside him, giving a loud thud before disappearing into thin air. Same goes to the headless body, fell down on its side, and turned into nothing but thin green smoke. That's usually how it goes for these GOOs, he still doesn't know why. But his not complaining, since that meant cleaning things up was out of the question. The bright glow of the sword gets dimmer and dimmer until it turns back to normal, putting it back into the scabbard. Alter smiled, satisfied by his work. "This would go a lot smoother if i had friends" He laugh to himself. He heard a hoof step behind him and his ears flicked. He tried to turn around, but the next thing he knows his ears were ringing and his hooves were numb. He couldn't hear very well and his mind and body is getting tired by a sleep spell. He tried to fight it but it was a fruitless effort, not to mention that he was actually tired after that fight. His body drops to the ground as sleepiness consume his mind, he swore he could've heard yelling in the background. But it was muffled by the constant ringing in his ears. He close his eyes, letting the darkness consume his vision.

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    Twilight was writing notes for what seemed like forever, its like she can never stop creating more theories the more she find something that are out of the ordinary about this stallion. Which is tied, no.... chained. All four hooves chained and outstretched, a lot of attachments to a specific body part(mostly wires) that's connected to a specific machine, in an enchanted cage... Ok now that's what i call overboard. The desk was facing him so that Twilight can get a good look at him. She's writing her notes vigorously at this point. A bead of sweat forms on her forehead every now and then. She was constantly looking at her notes then to the chart, then back to her notes again. The more she finds something the more it fuels her need for more information.

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    Alter was sitting in the dark void of his dreams. He noticed the darkness and started to think of a way liven in up. "hmm, ouh! constellations from the night sky would be a beautiful background! as always" he giggled before trying to imagine a moon and some stars. But there was no effect. "huh, nothing happen, a nightmare maybe? But wheres the fear?" He thought aloud. Not noticing the figure behind him.

    "Beautiful you say?"

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    "GAAH!" he screamed waking up from his deep slumber. This made the lavender Alicorn yelp at the sudden commotion. Silence falls between them as Alter looked around, well.. he tried to look around but it seems that he's missing his glasses. Assuming it was taken away, before noticing a purple blur in front of him. "Twilight?" he assumed again. "I can't see very well."

    "I'm fully aware of that." she said.

    "Well... uh, would you kindly?"

    "No" she said blankly, making him think that she's mad at him or something.

    "Probably because i lied, ran 'and' blinded her" he thought to himself while looking away before trying to think of another way to get them.

    "Sorry, security reasons."

    "Hm? What does my glasses had to do with security?" He ask curiously, "Maybe she's paranoid after what she saw."

    "I.. won't take any chances" she blurted, making his ears drop down as well as his head and eyes. "I just can't take any chances, but i don't want him to think that i'm hostile either." She pondered, continuing the silence between them. While he was also in deep thought, weighing his options down.

    "twilight's brain is beyond intelligent, i need to be careful, any subtle moves will always be obvious to her. She can't be mad by something that simple can't she?...No wait, uugh keep forgetting that she's different. Every alternate universe is different, some of it. I can't expect anything at this point, this chains are clearly enchanted.... Well only one option left, be friendly. Guess who i learned that from." He rambled internally as Twilight notices that he's in deep thought , she only hopes that it's something good. There were a lot of red flags in her brain as she noticed that he's a thinking type, pointing out that she should more than careful, but she ignored them. Making him feel that she is not a threat to him specifically was the first step.

    "So uhh, what's your name?" She began, a slight awkwardness in her tone. Alter's ears perked as he lift up his head.

    "Uhmm.. Alter, name's Alter. you? No wait, I've known that already. wow really?"

    She giggled "Wow, he's already reaching Fluttershy levels of awkwardness." She caught her eyes staring at the Helvetica glasses on her desk. Her horn glows purple as she magically levitated the glasses to the owner. "Here, your glasses."

    Alter can now finally see his surroundings, a joyful smile spread across his face. "Ouh! uh-thank you, i can see clearly now." He said with a relief and thankful tone on his voice.

    "Nailed it!" Twilight thought to herself.

    Looking at his surroundings, he noticed the amount of machines and charts all around the side and back of the cage. The front of the cage was where Twilight and her desk is, the floor was a mess, full papers of what he assumed to be information. Every machine has their own wires and cables to them, some of them are apart of the machine and some other are connected to his body. well, its not digging into his flesh, its just attach to it. It seems like every single of his body part has their own attachments, including his....... nether, regions. His eyes widen in shock and his pupils shrink to pinpricks, a huge bright shade of red forming on his face. Twilight looked at him in confusion, but that soon change once she realized what he's looking at. And then realize something again that she forgot to take those off.

    "Oh no" Oh no indeed Twilight. He raised his head to stare at her with shock and terror.

    "Wha- i-i- y-y-you- PERVERT!" he shouted.

    "NO! its not what it looks like, i swear!"