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Misunderstandings

Jack sighed as he stalked down the halls, examining his rifle to figure what exactly the ammo was. It confused him so much that there was no caliber of bullet to check, or the fact no casing were left after his short fight. The indicator said there was a single shot left, and he didn't really wanna waste it if he didn't know how to swap clips. So for now he slid it back into the mag holster along his back.

Nightmare Moon was eyeing the rifle as well, silently wondering how it was able to fire such large and devastating magical blasts while being completely made of metal. “How are you able to produce magic?”

“I'm not...”

“Yes you are.”

“No I'm not!”

“That weapon creates heavy magic projectiles, and your armor is able to defend against my power. It is surely alive if you don't seem to do it on your own. None of the former suits I have collected have done such before.”

“First, wait what! You've seen suits like this before, where?!” Jack turned towards her as they were just outside the bridge, he heard but didn't feel her smack into him.

The angry growl said he was about to get smacked around with magic, so he did the only thing he knew could prevent it. A gauntlet wrapped around her horn as his suit activated the electric field, Nightmare Moon froze with eyes wide, her mane and tail lost their ethereal glow and wave. It faded into deep rich midnight amethyst locks of hair. A single streak of light raspberry blue weaved through the center of both. She stood there glaring angrily as a hoof swing up right between his massive legs. There was a yelp of pain before she sat on her haunches and nursed the hoof.

“Ya good?” Jack inquired as a smirk spread across his lips.

“Fuck you!”

“Hey don't tempt me~” He wiggled his eyebrows behind the visor as a giggle filled the speakers of his suit. Both of them stood stock still as they turned to look at a speaker. “Who just giggled?”

“I did Jim.” A robotic feminine voice came from the speaker again, it took him a moment before he realized why and just who that was.

“Kerrigan, you're my Adjutant?” Jack was shocked that he had one hardwired into his suit. “I didn't know the suits had such a capability.”

A small six inch hologram of Sarah Kerrigan, back before she was betrayed by mengsk, stood on his shoulder. Her red hair held up behind some goggles as she leaned on his helmet. “They don't, I am hard wired into a neural slot on the back and base of your skull.”

“What is that tiny woman talking about?” Nightmare Moon seemed confused, angry, and curious all at the same time as she tried to use a hoof and poke through the projection. Who simply giggled as the hoof passed harmlessly through her each time.

Jack was ignoring them as he tried to remember when he added that to his suit... Then it hit him, he had a tattoo of a neural drive from Halo tattooed on the back of his head when he was younger.

“Now I remember, I had a Sarah Kerrigan voice app on my phone. So when I was transformed my tattoo became real as well, and the only AI nearby was my phone and the voice module.” The armored man let out a groan as he walked over to the main console and looked at the buttons.

The small image hopped off his shoulder and landed on the console before walking over the buttons, every so often she would drop a bullet over some. Jack raised a brow before he began sequencing the keys in order. Once again the heart poured energy out, it was all of a minute before the ship shook and warnings shot up on screen.

“Ah seems I forgot the damage to our engines. We need to fix those before we can be fully operational, but I can at the moment activate the auto lock on all foreign targets for the auto cannons.” Sarah was standing next to the screen and began to access a 3D model of the Hyperion in her hands.

“Alright, after that I'll take a shuttle down to hash out a deal with Miss Moon here."

“Might I advise having an escort? There are a few more of those things approaching, and a large force are patrolling just out of range.”

Nightmare Moon coughed at that moment, drawing both real and artificial eyes upon her. “I could simply teleport us down.”

Jack laughed loudly and happily before giving her a straight faced. “No.”

“Inform me as to why?”

“Firstly, I don't trust you. Secondly, I am not turning of my suits anti magic field. Thirdly, that would leave me down there with no definitive way back unless you deemed it so. Fourth, your horn is shorted out. And finally, I don't trust you.” Jack didn't even look at her as he checked over the ship's inventory to even see if there was a dropship or fighters in the bays.

Nightmare Moon growled as she tried to buck him full force, it didn't turn out as she expected. Because Kerrigan focused an electric current at the target area, and his suit had six inch plating. She was sprawled out on the floor with two aching and smoking hooves.

“What did you learn?” Kerrigan was standing on the edge of the console and shaking her head.

“I will destroy you for that!” Nightmare Moon lunged forward before she felt a power fist backhand. She felt immense pain as she was knocked onto her back, then a foot pressed down on her chest till she was gasping for breath.

“Stop fighting, both of you. Now behave or I will break that pointy horn off your head. Then toss you to the inmates, I am sure they would have a grand ol time with you.” Jack pressed the foot down a bit more before he heard a whimper of submission before turning back to his work. “Good, now we need six pilots. Unless you can operate all the fighters via remote control Sarah?”

The small figure shook her head before hopping into his waiting hand, she started climbing up the armor before reaching the shoulder again. “Negative, I could at most remote fly the dropship by setting it in autopilot. But taking off and landing requires a pilot. We do have copies of all prisoner and guard profiles though. Might I suggest the Skulls, all of them are former air force pilots decorated with combat medals." As she spoke several screens began cycling records from the prison manifest.

Jack thought for a moment as he sighed. “We may as well, although every member was deemed insane for the war crimes. A few members have minor crimes but the high up ones have committed severe acts of violence against humanity." He started walking out before noticing that Nightmare Moon hadn't moved from the floor. So the suited giant knelt down and prodded the mare with a finger in the cheek. “Get up. We are moving out."

Nightmare Moon looked up at him for a moment, blood dripping from her nose. A hoof gingerly touched the black ooze escaping from her nostrils before staring up towards this metal man. “You hit me...”

“Yeah, and now we need to get moving.”

“You hit me."

“Great... You broke her!” Kerrigan sighed as she slumped into the cervix between shoulder and chest plate.

“I don't see what the big deal is. This crazy bitch tried to attack me several times. Then she tried to go after you, and that could damage the ship beyond repair. We need every part of the “ Jack just knelt there as he waited for the mare to move.

Nightmare's mind was racing, thinking of all that had happened. He had insulted her, threatened to kill her, disabled her magic, and finally beat her. She kept running it all through her mind before narrowing her eyes. "How dare you!"

Both human and AI simply looked at one another before glancing at the black alicorn down below them.

Black tendrils of power began leaking from Nightmare's mane, horn, eyes, and tail. Alarms began ringing all around them as the power output was escalating at an enormous rate.

Jack raised a brow before doing the only thing that made sense to him. A hand snatched ahold of her horn as he poured every ounce of power into his disabling field. He felt the surge of power before an arc of electricity shot down his arm in a crackling ring. When it met the black magic there was a battle between the two forces. Light filled the entire bridge, shadows began fighting with the energy gave off from Jack's suit.

Nightmare Moon glared angrily as she began to stand, forcing Jack up. The forces tried to overpower the other before Jack swung a fist up to smack against the side of Moon's face. A solid thud filled the air as Nightmare Moon's mane and tail faded to a dull look. The light began to fade as the shadows returned to normal. Nightmare slumped over as her power was exhausted and now she was unconscious.

Kerrigan began scanning the mare almost immediately as an image of her began to construct itself in the air before them. "You shorted her out Jack."

"Good. Let her sleep that off while I gather the troops." With that he turned and began walking towards the cargo bay.