“Whatever do you mean Kaz,” said Faust with a coy tone as she walked forward, the enemy soldier reluctantly moved aside and let the alicorn through.

“Which one did you use?” asked Kazuki as he approached the alicorn and met her in the middle after signaling for his troops to stand down but stay alert. Once they were about a foot from each other Kazuki started to float until he was at eye-level with Faust and as his own glowing pale blue Jōgan and metallic purple Rinnegan gazed into the glowing blue optics of the alicorn, then he asked before she could deflect his question, “Did you use the Fabricator of Composer?”

*Sigh* “I used both,” said Faust as her tone shifted to a more serious one.

“Do you have any idea of how close you were of destroying yourself?” asked Kazuki as placed a hand on her cheek.

“I was dying, I had nothing to lose,” said Faust as she leaned on Kazuki’s hand before adding, “The procedure would have worked or I would have died anyway.”

Faust basked in the warmth of Kazuki's hand and they stay like this for a while.

“I’m sure you could have brought me back, you didn’t have to bother in trying to save me back then,” said Faust and that cause Kazuki to chuckle but it was possible to feel some form of bitterness behind that smile.

“‘Ignorance is a bliss’ they say but it’s also a poison, you and your daughters seem to think there are no limits to my powers, contrary to that I actually have limits. One of the said limits is that I can’t revive a Deva(देव, god), Devi(देवी, goddess) or Tennin(天人, celestial being) that is too close of my own existence, a Devata(देवता, lesser god) or lesser Kami(神, deity) maybe. Either way, you are no lesser deity, my dear,” said Kazuki as he looked at the surprised alicorn before glancing at his own troops and Faust’s soldiers, “We can talk about these later, for now, we better focus on what we came here to do.”

Faust nodded before taking a step back and ask, “Anything else before I show you around the remodeled base?”

“Open it,” said Kazuki with a serious tone.

“Oh my, we barely see each other and when we do you want me to strip in front of our children, so naughty of your part,” said Faust as she placed her hands on her cheeks and feigning embarrassment while Kazuki just rolled his eyes.

“I’m not even going to question your logic or how you reached such a conclusion,” said Kazuki as he tangentially noticed that Faust’s soldiers seemed to get a bit more nervous.

“Spoilsport,” said Faust as she placed her arms on her hips and a single vertical line appeared on her front from the top of her chest to her crotch, then a few more lines appeared along the muscle fibers before small plates pop out and slid to the sides, even around her breasts, then two line divided Faust face into four sections before the upper plates slid to the side revealing the frame beneath and leaving only her muzzle intact. In the end, Kazuki saw the silvery fibers acting as muscles as well as the dull colored bones that served the same function as their organic counterpart. Then she asked, “Want to see my limbs too? Or is my torso enough?”

“Just the torso is fine,” said Kazuki as he traced the edge of her eye socket just around the optics, paying attention as the micro servos moved the parts that corresponded to the many small muscles on the face as well as the ones that corresponded to the iris in her optic giving a look similar to the lenses of a camera. Then he moved down just past her ribs where he could see a glowing sphere instead of a heart, her reactor core, beneath that he could see the wires and components that replicated the many organs in an organic body. He commented as he brushed the tip of his finger on the wires, “These are my designs.”

“Yes,” said Faust as Kazuki took a step back and she slid the plates back into their respective places before looking at Kazuki’s forces, as she looked at the two dragonesses and the diamond dogs she commented, “You always had a habit of collecting strays.”

That statement earned a chuckled from Kazuki before saying, “Your daughter said the same thing when I arrived with a pack of diamond dogs.”

“My darlings, time to help your father and his troops get settle,” said Faust with a smile on her face as she clapped her hands while facing her soldier, some actually a little embarrassed while other just nodded before folding their weapons and placing them on their backs, Kazuki was contemplating what was Faust's logic for these synthetics to be considered their children.

“Are you alright?” asked Kazuki as he deactivated his Jōgan as well as his Rinnegan and he noticed that his troops seemed a little more nervous than usual as he approached.

“It’s nothing, boss, it’s just that the ground feels strange,” said Rex and Kazuki remembered that he still didn’t know their location current location.

“Faust, where are we?” asked Kazuki and Faust placed her right hand on her chin with a thoughtful expression.

“Why not use your eyes to see outside the station?” asked Faust.

“I built this place to block most Dōjutsu,” said Kazuki with a matter-of-fact tone and Faust nodded.

“I think it’s better to show you,” said Faust as she motioned for Kazuki to follow as the soldiers activated the Gate they walked outside of the lab and into the hallway, however, all became clear when she added as she and Kazuki looked through the window, “The view is great though.”

“I see,” said Kazuki as he looked at the window.

Kazuki took in the view of the world below he saw many time thousands of years ago, it was rather nostalgic but unfortunately, his reincarnated bodies weren’t able to withstand the void of outer space, at least not long enough for him to meditate under the stars without enhancing it with chakra. He simply asked without turning away from the view, “Coordinates?”

“We are at the top of the Magnetic Pole of Equus just above the frozen continent that is infested with Windigos, so we don’t have to worry about anyone finding our land outpost just below us,” said Faust and Kazuki just nodded, then Faust motioned for him to follow until they arrived in a little room with an elevated floor and walls of wood, a window showing the starry void and in front of the window was a shelf with two incense burners as well as a statue on gold showing an alicorn with four arms, two clasped together in front of her chest and two on her lap facing up, then Faust opened a cabinet and took out two pillows, “Shoes off, I’m sure you have questions.”

Kazuki took off his geta before climbing on the wood floor and sitting in Padmasana/Lotus Position while Faust sat in front of him in Seiza while facing him before extending her right arm and making a fist.

“Just like I taught you,” said Kazuki and Faust nodded before smiling before fist bumping Faust with his right, then they closed their eyes and let the memories and feelings flow.

Thousands of years ago, Canterlot

Kazuki had his right geta buried on the floor and its teeth had the right arm of the struggling figure beneath him trapped. His hair had stabbed the other arm, legs and wings of the stallion pegasus that still clung to the bloodied dagger in his right hand. Then Kazuki while slowing activation his Byakugan before asking, “Do you have any idea who you just attacked?”

“Who else but that false Queen, abomination?” said the stallion before spitting on Kazuki’s kimono, all Kazuki did was kick the cheek of the stallion with his left geta. Then the trapped stallion just said while smiling with blood escaping from his mouth, “Pain means nothing to me, freak, you will die just like that mixed-blood pegacorn.”

That earned another kick of Kazuki before he stabbed the right arm of the stallion with his long white hair, which caused the stallion to release the dagger. For an alicorn “pegacorn” and “mixed blood” were among the most offensive insults they could receive, an insult that became quite popular with the pureblood member of the three tribes that had no desire whatsoever of coexistence between the tribes aside from what was strictly necessary and they did the latter with great reluctance. Why Faust bothered to help these ungrateful mortals that fell prey to the Windigos he will never understand... actually he could understand he just didn’t care. So, without bothering to ask any more questions to the uncooperative stallion he just lowered himself as grabbed the stallion’s face while he activated his Rinnegan on his forehead.

“Ningendō,” said Kazuki as he scanned the mind of the stallion that just attacked Faust and his eyes widen when he discovered what that dagger was made off. He removed the hair stabbing the stallion and picked the dagger as he looked at it with both his Byakugan and Rinnegan.

The downed assassin started to laugh at Kazuki’s response, he couldn’t get up because Kazuki made sure to paralyze all the limbs but he knew that Kazuki just discovered what that dagger was made off, he couldn’t help but taunt, “Soon that mixed blood will be dead, you might kill me but I know that I have earned my place in the Elysian Fields.”

“You called me an abomination, I won’t deny it but you should know that this abomination can eat souls,” said Kazuki as a bloodthirsty smile appeared on his face and it only widened at the look of fear of the stallion.

“No, you’re lying,” said assassin with fear as he tried to move his useless limbs, the convictions of zealots was so fleeting when confronted with the denial of their afterlife.

“It seems you superiors just sent you not only to your death but also to you eternal punishment, but first,” said Kazuki as he looked into the fearful eyes of the assassin that just stabbed his dear friend and uttered one word, “Saṃsāra(संसार, Wheel of Existence).”

The stallion world seemed to melt and he drifted in this emptiness for what it felt like an eternity.

Unknown location

The assassin was jolted awake when he scrambled to get on his hooves the first thing he noticed was the heat and when he looked around he was greeted by something that could only exist in Tartarus. The orange and red skies were filled with smoke from volcanos in this hellish place while giants shambled lifelessly over the cracked landscape.

“Where in Tartarus am I?” asked the assassin in disbelief.

“Oh, you actually got the name of the place right on the first try,” said Kazuki as he sat on a rock not far from the assassin, his white clothing and skin standing out on this place.

“What?” asked the assassin still disbelief.

“At first I was planning to just rip out your soul and deny you your paradise but I didn’t feel like keeping it, so I decided to send it to one of the many hellish dimensions I know, but which one? Then it hit me, I just going to send you to the one place all ponies fear: Tartarus,” explained Kazuki as all the while the assassin was paralyzed at the thought that he was actually in Tartarus. Just as Kazuki got up and opened a Yomotsu Hirasaka behind him the assassin felt something hot sear his leg and he fell forward. When he looked behind he saw something that could only come out of his nightmares, a skeletal body with partially melted flesh dragging him to a river of boiling blood.

Kazuki just ignored the stallions screams as more hands seared his flesh and dragged him to his terrible fate, then Kazuki made a point to slowly close the Yomotsu Hirasaka slowly so that the last thing the assassin saw before being immersed in boiling blood was Kazuki saying, “Enjoy an eternity in the river Phlegethon.”

Canterlot, infirmary

Kazuki emerged from the Yomotsu Hirasaka on the infirmary as he dragged the body of the assassin. In front of him was Faust in an operating table being tended to by the doctors and not far from them were Celestia and Luna with a downcast look being told something by the doctors.

“Don’t bother, he used an orichalcum knife, we need to remove the poison,” said Kazuki as he threw the soulless husk that was the assassin on the floor, that caught the attention of the sisters and doctors.

“Lord Kazuki, it's too late and there is nothing we can do, I think it’s better to say your farewells,” said one of the doctors and by the look of things Celestia and Luna already said goodbye to their mother.

“What are you talking about? All we have to do is remove the poison,” said Kazuki in a matter of fact tone.

“I know its difficult to accept Lord Kazuki but orichalcum nullifies magic making impossible to extract the poison,” said the doctor and Kazuki rolled his eyes, how dare this mortal assume that was no other way simply because their magic was useless in this case.

“I can still save her, out of my way,” said Kazuki with annoyance directed at the unicorn doctor, damn those privileged few that could get any form of formal education in this medieval society.

“I can't let you do that Lord Kazuki let the Queen have her final moments in peace,” said the doctor with a somewhat forceful tone.

“Out of my way mortal,” said Kazuki as he activated his Byakugan, which made all those present tense, and when said mortal refused to move Kazuki couldn’t help but rant, which was rare in of itself, with a cold and almost distasteful look that wouldn't look out of place in a Ōtsutsuki, “Narrow-minded primitive/mortals.”

Kazuki opened his third eye and activated his Mangekyō Sharingan before using Kamui to walk through the doctor, the others tried to stop him but he kept walking uninterrupted, even the princesses tried to stop him, and the moment he was close enough to touch Faust’s body he used the Kamui to take her to his pocket dimension, then he said while disappearing in a spiral centered on his forehead, “You will thank me later.”

Vale of Golden Lotus (Modern day Badlands), fortress Tenteienkyū(天庭園宮, Heavenly Garden Palace)

Kazuki placed Faust’s body on the operating table as he appeared in his lab, he could see that her vitals were very weak but still there, so much so that if she was a member of any of the three tribes they would consider her a lost cause but she was an alicorn and there was still a chance to save her. So, once her body was on the table he went to a nearby terminal and typed all the needed commands before creating a clone to get a dialysis machine, a mechanical arm lowered itself above Faust and as the clone placed a dialysis machine near the table while the original connect the cables on the machine before piercing the arteries and veins to filter that anti-magic metal after he disintegrated her hospital gown.

That process repeated itself and in the end Faust had many dialysis machine hooked all over her major veins and arteries to filter her blood as quickly as possible, with the machines set up he opened his kimono and let it hang around his waist while he used his aura around his torso, arms, hands and face to simulate the gloves, scrubs, mask and glasses while he tied his hair in a ponytail before unleashing his Hatsu. His hair turned into a braid that gave way to the spine of a metallic human-like skeleton with four inhumanly long arms and a blank featureless metallic skull, then he announced the name of the Hatsu, “Dr. Frankenstein.”

Kazuki using his Hatsu in combination with his Byakugan and Chakura no Mesu(チャクラのメス, Chakra Scalpel) he managed to separate the cells that were beyond repair. Tangentially he noticed that the clone followed his mental instructions and made four more clones and these four placed their hands on the ground to create a seal array around the table, as they performed the Chikatsu Saisei no Jutsu(治活再生の術, Healing Resuscitation Regeneration Technique) to regenerate the lost parts as well as to preserve the living parts the clone he created originally brought two big bowls filled with serum. The original placed his hands on the serum after creating a fine layer of chakra over the aura on his hands and when he lifted his hands the serum clung to his hands like a bubble.

Carefully placing the bubble on the small incision Kazuki used his Chakra control to pour the serum in and spreading inside her body to collect all the dead and contaminated cells, then he connected the two bubbles and moved the now free hand to another incision. Kazuki spend hours forcefully removing the poison and the metal out of Faust’s body with the Saikan Chūshutsu no Jutsu(細患抽出の術, Poison Extraction Technique), at some point all of her vitals stopped but thanks to her alicorn physiology he knew that they were extremely close to zero but not actually zero, essentially a healing coma. Once done Kazuki healed all the cuts, wounds and dispelled his Hatsu, now he had to wait for the machines to finish filtering her blood before he could restart her heart.

However, Kazuki’s introspection was interrupted by the facility shaking, so without hesitation, he summoned a crystal ball and used Tōmegane no Jutsu to see what was going on outside. He saw the Celestia, Luna and Discord attacking the barrier surrounding his fortress while troops were leading the inhabitants of the vale away from his fortress. Seeing no other choice he made another two clones, one to keep monitoring Faust and another to help discreetly evacuate the workers from the station/fortress before he opened another Yomotsu Hirasaka.

Outside of the Tenteienkyū

Celestia, Luna and Discord stopped their attacks as they saw a black “window” open in midair and from it came out a familiar alien.

“May I inquire why are you assaulting my research station?” asked Kazuki as if nothing was wrong.

“Don’t play dumb with us you took Big sis’ body for some reason and we all know about your… flexible morals,” said Discord, the draconequus was as tall as Celestia and had a muscular and slender frame covered by a black jacket with feathered collar, red shirt, brown pants, the sleeves were ripped showing a bit of his brown fur that ended just after his elbow on his left arm that had a avian talon as well as his light yellow fur on the right arm that had feline-like paw/hand. The leg of his pants were ripped at the shins showing the light green-scaled reptilian clawed right leg as well as the light brown furred right leg that ended in a hoof while the back had an opening for his red snake tail with a tuft of white fur similar to his eyebrows and beard, which didn’t match his black mane done in a mohawk-like cut that started just after his left goat horn and right deer antler. Then he lowered his sunglasses and looked at Kazuki directly with his red eyes with yellow sclera before saying, “C’mon Kaz, I’m sure we can figure things out.”

“There is nothing to figure out, you couldn’t help Faust but I can. If you excuse me I have a patient to attend to,” said Kazuki as he turned around and floated toward the still open Yomotsu Hirasaka, however, he shut it close when he felt energy built up behind him, good thing he did because not a moment after a beam of magic hit his right shoulder, had that beam missed it might have hit something important in his lab, so he turned with Byakugan activated as he glared at Celestia, her horn still shimmering, before saying, “I hope you were merely feeling trigger happy today.”

“It’s clear what your true intentions were from the beginning and we won’t let you use our mother’s body on your twisted experiments,” said Celestia clad in her golden and white armor and wielding a staff and a sword, just like her sister clad in her black and blue armor and also wielding a staff and sword.

(Just the armor but on anthro versions of the princesses)

“Yet you fight just like I taught you,” said Kazuki as observed how the Royal Sister adapted his teachings about using polearms and swords, however, that seemed to be the wrong thing to say because the two sisters charged at their former teacher who summoned a pair of Gudōdama before turning them into the two Shakujō he used before and use them to block the staffs and swords of the Royal Sisters. Good thing he didn't brought out the fact that the armor and weapons they were using were also forged by him, otherwise, it would probably antagonize them further.

“Discord! Quickly, while he is distracted,” said Luna and Kazuki just created a shockwave with his chakra to push the sisters away, then he gathered Yin and Yang Chakra on his right hand after letting go of the ringed Shakujō, then he snapped his finger and the wave of Yin-Yang Chakra neutralized the wave Chaos Magic.

“What?” asked Discord in disbelief at the fact his Chaos magic was negated, the Royal Sisters too were in disbelief and that split second was all Kazuki needed to open a Yomotsu Hirasaka in order to return his more pressing issue at the moment.

“No!” shouted the sisters as they tried to grab the edge of the closing window but they weren’t fast enough and all they grabbed was air.

Inside of the Tenteienkyū, medical center

Kazuki immediately dispelled the clone he left monitoring Faust and the one he instructed to start the evacuation protocols while he deactivated his Byakugan, then he looked at the four clones keeping Faust alive and bit his lip in frustration before making a clapping his hands and intertwining his finger, forming the Snake Seal.

“Tajū Mokuton Bunshin no Jutsu(多重木遁分身の術, Multiple Wood Clone Technique),” said Kazuki as multiple branches started to grow from his upper torso before said branches took his shape, wood clones were sturdier than shadow clones after all. Then he ordered the small squad of clones he created, “The barrier won’t hold them off forever, initiate the lockdown, disengage Tenteienkyū from Meidoseikon(冥土星根, dark root of the underworld) and prepare to engage thrusters as well as the spacial jump mechanism.”

Without hesitation all of them moved to initiate the lockdown of the research station and disconnect it from the expansion subterranean facility before taking off, unfortunately Kazuki never had the chance to test neither its flying nor its teleportation capabilities but had to ensure that Faust would make a full recovery and her daughters and Discord weren’t making this any easier. Suddenly he felt a large built up of Chaos Magic and he cursed his luck.

*BOOM*

*Alarm* “Barrier breached! Barrier breached!” *Alarm*

“Damn, it’s too soon,” thought Kazuki as he went to the terminal to check on the machines’ progress and they were going slowly because of Faust’s drastically reduced vitals.

*CRACK* *THUD*

A section on one of the was cracked open before falling and from it came the two sisters.

“Give up Kazuki you… won’… t…” started Celestia but she stopped when her eye spotted her mother hook up to many machines that were, apparently, draining her blood while Kazuki was typing on a nearby terminal, Luna was not much better.

Celestia was the first to recover and she jumped toward one of the clones maintaining the seal array ready to stab him with her sword. Kazuki opened a Yomotsu Hirasaka behind Luna as he launched Hakke Kūshō(八卦空掌, Eight Trigrams Air/Vacuum Palm) from his right palm before moving between the charging Celestia and the clone. The directional air cannon hit the still shocked Luna and sent her through the portal before closing it, while he sent the younger sister to the other side of the continent he placed himself between his clone and Celestia before bringing his left arm up and used Doton: Domu(土遁・土矛, Earth Release: Earth Spear) to harden his skin before creating a thick layer of chakra around his arm before using Iwa no Yoroi(岩の鎧, Rock Armour) which caused his arm and part of his chest to assume a more geometric and rock-like shape.

However, Kazuki underestimated Celestia's blade and magic as evident by the fact that she cracked his armor and pierced his arms but his armor and hardened flesh managed to slow the considerable speed of the blade that was now heading for his chest. Acting quickly he used Kōton: Kongōkai(金遁・金剛鎧, Metal Release: Adamantine Armor) on his right hand and proceeded to grab the blade, sparks flew as the edge of the blade scrapped against his fingers but unlike his left arm, it managed to stop the blade just shy of touching his chest. With her blade stopped Celestia used the bladed part of her staff that was similar to the end of a Getsugasan(月牙鏟, Moon Tooth Spade) with a crescent moon-like blade. However, Kazuki used Kōton again to protect his ribs, then Celestia said, “You will pay for this Kazuki.”

“Kami Kūgeki(一神空撃, Divine Empty/Vacuum Strike/Fist),” answered Kazuki as a giant fist made of chakra hit Celestia and sending her toward another Yomotsu Hirasaka, however, she flapped her wings and that was enough to change her trajectory and avoid the portal. In the time it took to recover her bearings Kazuki’s wound was already healed and he was upon her ready to strike with his hands, “Hakke Sanbyakurokujū Isshiki (八卦三百六十一式, Eight Trigrams: Formula Three Hundred Sixty-One).”

Kazuki hit a Tenketsu(点穴, Pressure Point) on each shoulder, the armor disrupted the chakra being fired from the tip of his fingers and it was just enough for the points in Celestia’s body to not close, however, she still felt numbness around the area as well as pins and needles on her skin beneath the armor. Kazuki broke the distal phalanges of his index and middle finger on that enchanted armor but as he pulled his hands back his regeneration healed the fractures and he continued to attack relentlessly, hitting the general area that corresponded to the three hundred sixty-one pressure points in the —human— chakra system, since most sentient creatures on Equus were humanoids their system was similar enough for his techniques to work and he just had to occasionally add or subtract the number of points based on anatomical differences. Good thing because if it wasn’t for those differences Celestia would be hard-pressed to survive this otherwise fatal technique, armor notwithstanding, and that was without even mentioning their effect on the six hundred and seventy nodes that let the Chi/Ki(氣/気, Vital Energy) flow.

*cough*

Celestia coughed blood as she fell on her knees before Kazuki, she tried to move her numb body but it failed to respond and she just glared at the alien she trusted as a friend and mentor, the blood splattered on his face and topless torso, the deep red contrasting greatly against his white skin, which complemented his wickedness in Celestia's eyes.

“You won’t get away with this,” said Celestia with some difficulty.

“Why won’t you listen? I’m t-” started Kazuki but he stopped speaking as his eyes widen when he noticed a rapidly approaching presence, so he launched a Hakke Kūshō at the hole on the wall, a small explosion was heard as Luna crashed on the floor before hitting the far wall of the lab. Without pause, Kazuki jumped in Luna’s direction just as the younger alicorn jumped toward the machines hooked up to Faust, with a kick he managed to lock her sword and staff on the teeth of his geta before doing a side flip and kick her with his other leg so she landed near Celestia.

“Sister!” shouted Luna as she was about to jump but her body suddenly froze and as she looked around for the cause she saw a black line connected with her shadow, following that line she saw that it was coming from Kazuki’s shadow.

“Since neither of you two are willing to listen I think its better to incapacitate you two for now,” said Kazuki as he approached Luna and was ready to paralyze the younger alicorn, he also used Kamui to warp their swords and staffs to his pocket dimension, when he felt a surge of magic coming from Celestia as she forced her mana through her body to flow so she could move, it was like stabbing her spine with a hot iron rod but she powered through the pain, then she proceeded to use her newfound mobility to tackled Kazuki through the walls and beyond, stabbing him with her horn in the process and Kazuki felt her horn scrap against his spine before coming out on his back.

After they hit something sturdier than the walls they crashed through Kazuki kneeled Celestia in the gut, seeing that his normally subtle styles would not work he decided to use the more straightforward ones. As Celestia was coughing he proceeded to grab her head and headbutt her after hardening his skin with Kōton, by the crack that followed his just broke her nose and as she clutched her broken nose he launched her at her sister with another Kami Kūgeki. Then he looked behind himself to make sure that they didn’t break anything important on the base, however, his luck didn’t help.

*Alarm* “Reactor has been breached! Meltdown eminent!” *Alarm* “Reactor has been breached! Meltdown eminent!” *Alarm*

“Dammit! We hit one of the reactors,” thought Kazuki he activated his Rinnegan and used the Shuradō(修羅道, Asura Path) to create some metallic tentacles capable of connection with the terminal near the reactor, then he proceeded to stabilize the rector as well as he could before decoupling from the terminal and look at Celestia and Luna who were taking the tubes hooked on Faust’s comatose body off before using Amenotejikara(天手力, Heavenly Hand of Power) to switch places with a pebble between the sisters. The two alicorns barely had time to react as Kazuki appeared between them just after they eliminated the four clones and destroy the machines that were draining their mother’s blood —in their perspective.

Kazuki released a burst of Fūton(風遁, Wind Release) chakra from his right ankle, the effect was similar to a jet that accelerated his kick to the point that would have broken his and Luna's bones if it wasn't for the fact he just Reinforced said bone with his Prana and the moment his shin made contact with Luna's armor he used Bakuton(爆遁, Explosion Release) where they met, the explosion plus the force of the kick was enough to send Luna flying out of the facility. With Luna out he used the shockwave of the explosion to reverse his spin with he used Senninka(仙人化, Sage Transformation) and his left hand doubled in size before darkening, his nails became claws and many tubes appeared all over his forearm, then those tubes opened as they pointed back before unleashing a jet of blue flames, a product of Katon(Flame Release) being enhanced by Fūton(Wind Release), the result, Kazuki punched Celestia in the gut at almost supersonic speed.

Once Kazuki sent the Royal Sisters flying he just put he kimono back on before cleaning the blood, he needed to distract the sisters long enough for his Wood Clones to finish detaching Tenteienkyū from Meidoseikon, so he went over the terminal and typed the automated sequence. Almost all the poison was taken out of Faust’s body and he would like to have filtered everything before forcefully jump-starting her vitals but it was necessary to do so for her healing factor to replenish her lost blood. Just as he finished typing that sequence and activating the automated defences he turned around and used Jinton(迅遁, Swift Release) to fly and catch up with the sisters, the moment he was outside he activated his Byakugan and he spotted Discord sitting with his back against a rock, probably tired from using a great deal of magic to break his barrier earlier and was waiting to recover enough to help in some way. To prevent him from taking Faust or damaging the facility further Kazuki opened a Yomotsu Hirasaka beneath the surprised draconequus, just as the tired Discord fell into the window/portal that led to the somewhere in Zebrica.

As Kazuki moved at great speed and nullified the wind resistance he passed Celestia and Luna who were desperately trying to use their wings to righten themselves in the air and maybe take advantage of their current speed, their pegasus magic protecting from the brunt of the damage that their bodies would be experiencing otherwise. Kazuki stopped in their path with his right leg lifted until it was pointing up, then he reinforced his bones and muscles before applying Kōton: Kongōkai on his leg. With all the preparations done he brought his leg down in a brutal and ruthless supersonic axe kick on Luna’s back, unfortunately she was flapping her wings so his kick managed to pin her left wings against her back and the Radius and Ulna of her wing didn’t stand a chance as they were crushed between the back of her armor and Kazuki’s leg.

A shockwave became visible as Luna’s trajectory was changed from an arc to a straight line, just as a small explosion was heard and a crater was formed on the plains below Kazuki took advantage of his momentum by turning around so that he was upside down when Celestia approached him. He saw in slow motion and in vivid details as the mare’s eyes widen when she spotted him, her brain having barely received and processed what her eyes saw when Kazuki performed Roundhouse kick that nailed the older alicorn, however, her luck was better than her sister —depending on one’s perspective— since the kick nailed her on the stomach and her enchanted armor protected her torso, which resulted in another shockwave and a crater near the first one.

“I’m disappointed in both of you, my faithful students,” said Kazuki as he landed between the craters and his answer came in the form of a golden beam of magic, he dodged but it singed his kimono.

“Don’t call us that,” said Celestia as she got up with great difficulty and she was in a better state than her sister who landed on her broken wing.

“You lost the right to call us that when you betrayed us,” said Luna as she too got up, however, her left wing hung uselessly.

“‘Betrayed’, it seems those fools influenced you a bit too much. No matter, since you are unwilling to listen I won’t waste my breath trying to convince you otherwise,” said Kazuki as he reverse-summoned his kimono and summoned his kariginu. Just as he did that he sidestepped to dodge Celestia flying kick, then her hooves touched the ground she turned and used a flurry of punches and kicks, which was somewhat awkward since she was over three feet taller than Kazuki but she was used to that size difference.

Kazuki defended himself from Celestia’s using Ryu(流, Flow), he expertly relocated his aura to the areas of impact, however, she always made sure to keep herself between Kazuki and Luna while the younger used her telekinesis to place the fragment of bones in their proper place so that her healing factor could mend her broken wing. However, deciding to not waste any time Kazuki use Amenotejikara and switch places with a pebble behind Luna and before she could react Kazuki grabbed the back of her neck with his right hand as well as the broken wing with his left before squeezing it painfully.

“Luna!” shouted Celestia as she heard the pained grunt of her little sister as she tried to not scream. Celestia glared at Kazuki and screamed with rage, “Have you no honor?! Have you no shame?!”

“Honor is useless when confronted with an opponent that does not care about it, at least in a fight, or if said enemy has a different definition of honor,” said Kazuki as he looked at Celestia impassively with his Byakugan and he just frowned at Celestia statement before saying to himself, “Damn Starswirl, you idiot.”

“Don’t speak about him, you have no right to speak about him and he was more of a stallion than you will ever be! Especially with those monstrosities that I saw while in your fortress!” shouted Celestia as she tried to think about a way to save her sister.

“You’ll have to be more specific,” said Kazuki as he tilted his head to the side to express his confusion and Luna tried to gather magic to teleport out of Kazuki’s hold, however, Kazuki tighten his grip on her wing when he felt magic built up.

“Those vile and despicable experiments, the deformed bodies floating in those tubes,” hissed Celestia and it took a while for Kazuki to get what to she was referring to.

“Ah, my failed experiments dealing with evolution and natural energy,” said Kazuki nonchalantly, which further increased their disbelief and anger at his disregard for the natural laws as well as the lives he violated —in their eyes that is since they don’t know the whole story— in his pursuit of knowledge. However, before he could speak any further his instincts screamed for him to dodge but if he did whatever was going to hit him would hit Luna, so he just reinforced his back and pooled the entirety of his aura there using Ko(硬, Temper).

Kazuki felt a spell hitting the middle of his back, which proved to be a distraction and that was enough for Luna to wrestle herself from his hold and jump forward, however, that ended up ripping out a few of her feathers and pulling on her broken bones. Kazuki turned his head to the side slightly and that allowed him to see that either by design or coincidence Discord manage to teleport himself to Kazuki’s blindspot. Not being able to afford any more distractions Kazuki clapped his hands together and intertwined his fingers while red markings appeared on his face around his eyes before announcing a technique that would have repercussions for the millennia to come, “Senpō: Mokuton Hijutsu: Jukai Kōtan(仙法・木遁秘術・樹界降誕, Sage Art: Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees)”

The ground started to rumble before roots broke through and attempted to ensnare the alicorns and draconequus. They kept dodging but more and more roots would grow from the ground and eventually, Luna was captured by one of them while Discord and Celestia kept dodging and escaping from the roots and branches until for miles around them a vast forest was born, just south of Canterlot and connecting with the swamp on the Eastern Coast a reaching near the south border of Equestria, luckily, most pony settlements where located north of the capital and ponies were colonizing this land from north to south, so Kazuki didn't have to worry about accidentally destroying a house or a village nearby.

With his opponents distracted Kazuki took his time to analyze this spell he was hit with by using Structural Analysis on himself, during the process, he noticed that his body felt heavier and sluggish. Apparently, he took more time than he realized because Luna, Celestia and Discord landed in front of him by the time he finished his analysis, he was hit by a power Petrification Spell. The three of them shot magic at Kazuki, probably trying to apply more Petrification Spells on the top of the one that he was already trying to delay, he tried to move but his body wasn't responding correctly, he tried to use his Rinnegan but the petrification process disrupted his chakra, so all he could do was use his own magic to fight off the effect and he was losing. Then a massive explosion was seen on the horizon, for a moment it was like a second sun appeared in the south, having no other choice he rejected his own Hitodama (人魂, spiritual orb) from his body, which took the form of a small see-through ball with a flame-like or smoke-like top.

Kazuki used his magic to transport his spirit to the location of his base and when he arrived all he saw was a burned wasteland where a blooming vale once resided. Not knowing if his base managed to jump or not or even if Faust managed to survive Kazuki expanded his senses as much as he could, then not far from the Eastern shores beyond the mountains surrounding the vale he felt someone approached, so he teleported near the location of the individual. Once there he found a gryphon flying toward the vale, needing to rest he shot his soul at the gryphon and once he was possession the gryphon he let himself sleep. Once he woke up sometime later in Gryphonia he learned that his body was moved to Canterlot, the forest he created was named Everfree and the Vale of Golden Lotus was renamed Badlands but luckily no one managed to find the subterranean facility that was still buried there.

The first thing he did was trying to recover his body but unfortunately, the natural energy he gathered before his petrification ended up feeding the spells and he wouldn't be able to break them with the help of some massive event that was capable of causing “ripples” through nature itself. After that he went back to Gryphonia in order to find suitable candidates to make a body for him, a suitable mother wasn't that hard to find but she was stubborn and picky as hell so it took a while before she found a mate, regardless his first reincarnation was a gryphoness and all Kazuki had to do was wait and see.

Inside of the Tenteienkyū, medical center, a few moments after Kazuki went after the Royal Sisters

A mechanical arm inserted four needles into Faust's chest and delivered a shock directly into Faust's heart, her body convulsed before staying still, then she opened her eyes.

Immediately after her eyes were opened she almost panicked because the last memory she had was that of an assassin stabbing her with an orichalcum dagger and the sharp pain on her chest didn't help. Her body felt heavy and weak but she felt the needles that were stabbing her slowly be removed and as she looked around she recognized as Kazuki’s lab, more specifically the medical center. She forced her body to sit and when she did she also took note of the pool of blood around her —her own blood— as well as the destroyed machines and walls, however, the most telling sign was the leftover magic from her daughters.

“Celly, Lulu, what did you do?” asked Faust as she got on her hooves but slipped on the blood, however, she managed to righten herself before following a trail of destruction leading further into the facility and eventually, she came across one of the furnaces that supplied the base with energy that he referred to as “reactor”, then she noticed a red light blinking.

“Faust, what are you doing here?! You should be resting!” said Kazuki alarmed when he came in from the hallway, then he looked at the path of destruction before spotting the red light and say to himself, “Damn it.”

“Kaz?” asked Faust as she leaned against the wall.

“Not the original, just a clone,” said Kazuki as he started typing on the terminal.

*Alarm* “Core meltdown imminent! Critical failure!” *Alarm* “Core meltdown imminent! Critical failure!” *Alarm*

“Damn it, it's no use. The original’s patchwork managed to delay the meltdown enough for us to jump but we have to leave this reactor behind,” said Kazuki as he helped Faust walk out of the reactor chamber by placing an arm around his shoulder and floating at the appropriate height.

*Crack*

Kazuki heard a cracking sound coming from the rector and he immediately hit the emergency button on the hallway, however, the door didn't shut fast enough and some of its energy hit Faust and Kazuki. The wood clone placed himself between the reactor and Faust, thus taking the brunt of the damage before becoming a wood statue and fall on the floor, without support Faust fell on the cold floor as well and her vision was starting to get blurry.

“Faust wha-” started another Kazuki before he spotted the shut door and the clone not far from the naked alicorn, he connected the dots and immediately used his Byakugan to see what was the damage. He couldn't help but say, “Dammit, Faust, are you trying to get yourself killed?!”

Faust tried to say something but she was still weak and before she could say anything this Kazuki used his telekinesis to lift her body before racing back to the medical center. Once there he activated the emergency protocol and the walls were sealed as he placed Faust back on the operation table and placed an oxygen mask on her face.

“Faust, I have bad news,” said Kazuki with a grim tone before continuing, “Your body is too weak to fight off the radiation and the poison at the same time, plus you are still suffering from blood loss. There nothing I can't do and my chakra will be over soon and the medical robots don't have the necessary knowledge to operate you on their own, I’m sorry.”

“So, I'm going to die?” asked Faust with surprising calmness and Kazuki nodded, then she asked, “What about the M.O.F Project?”

“All tests have resulted in failure, are you sure?” asked Kazuki as his eyes widen in surprise.

“I'm going to die anyway, so let's at least try,” said Faust calmly, it was so strange, she was about to die but her mind was surprisingly clear, maybe she was in shock and it hadn't sunk in yet, either way, it was far better than the panic and betrayal she felt when one of her subjects tried to kill her.

“Very well,” said Kazuki before leaving in order to bring the relevant items, which left Faust alone with her thoughts. She reflected on her actions and inactions, it seemed that she gave too much freedom to the three tribes after their exodus, she chose to not interfere in their lives since she reasoned that a relic of a bygone era like herself shouldn't control their future. Evidently, that only allowed old grudges and bigotry to fester like an infection on an open wound, she knew that it would take time but she should have ruled with a firmer hand and she could only hope that her daughters and Discord didn't make the same mistakes as her.

Celestia and Luna, the most precious treasures that Faust gained when she agreed to protect the three tribes, it seemed so long ago that she met their fathers. Her time with each stallion was brief —to her— and she feared that she would never found a mate to spend eternity with, the only one that would be beside her was Discord but little Dissy always felt like a little brother to her, however, that mattered little to an immortal. Then one day she met him, the curious being that came from beyond the stars, he was powerful and wise but also had a childish curiosity as well as a burning desire for knowledge the drew her. The way he bonded with her daughters and taught them only made him more desirable in her eyes.

“I'm back,” said Kazuki as he walked in with two devices, the one in his right hand looked like an arrowhead with glowing circuitry and the one in his left hand looked like a crystal ball with black flame-like lines all over its surface, “Which one do you want to use?”

“Explain to me what each one can do?” asked Faust as she looked at the two devices.

“The Composer will, in theory, record everything about yourself before converting it into data and pull all the energy in your body into a digital space,” said Kazuki presenting the sphere floating just above his left palm. Then he presented the arrowhead floating above his right palm, “The Fabricator will, in theory, convert every molecule in your body into inorganic components with analog functions to their organic counterpart.”

“Both,” answered Faust and Kazuki nodded, he wanted to protest but he was out of time so he activated both devices, then Faust started to say, “Kazuki I…”

“Don’t, I’m just a clone and my memories won’t reach the original. He will not give up in finding this place, it may take a long time but I’m sure he will come back, so conserve your strength,” said Kazuki and Faust nodded before closing her eyes, as she did so Kazuki looked at all the blood on the floor. Not wanting to waste it he used his Onmyōton(Yin–Yang Release) to filter all the blood before placing them in a cabinet with preservation seal. Then he said just as he was turning to wood, “Good luck.”

Inside of the Tenteienkyū, meditation room, present time

Kazuki and Faust opened their eyes before lowering their hands.

“After a while, I woke inside the Cyberspace and it took me years to leaner how to ‘live’ as a being of pure information, my body was cyberformed successfully and I just upgraded it when I felt I needed. It also took a while to learn everything that was necessary to repair and keep this place running,” said Faust and Kazuki nodded.

“I see,” said Kazuki still recovering from the connection.

“Sometimes, I managed to track you over the years but I suspect that I missed quite a few of your reincarnations, in the end, I decided to wait for you to recover your original body,” said Faust with a smile.

“Just out of curiosity, earlier you called those synthetics ‘our children’, why?” asked Kazuki.

“Well, you provided the blueprints and I built them, at its core it wasn’t that far off from actual reproduction,” said Faust with an innocent yet mischievous smile and Kazuki just groaned but he couldn’t help but smile as well.

“You daughters are going to be happy that they have little siblings,” said Kazuki.

“Isn’t it?” asked Faust and she was just giddy with joy.

“I wasn’t talking about Celestia or Luna,” said Kazuki with a smirk.

“What?” asked Faust out of reflex.

“See, that’s what feels like to be on the other end,” said Kazuki before laughing and soon Faust followed suit after they stopped laughing he extended his first and said, “I wasn’t kidding though, let me show you.”

Faust didn’t know how she could have children that she didn’t know about but knowing Kazuki he would have found a way —if he hasn’t already— for that to happen, either way, she was intrigued so her fist met his.

The cybernetic alicorn was in for a surprise.

Author's Note

Sorry, the chapter ended up a bit longer than intended because of the fight.

Most of the references as well as his powers and limitations are from Asian Mythology, mainly Buddhist Cosmology. I made so that he is a very specific type of Deva/Kami/god and can only revive and interfere with the souls of entities "bellow" him, Faust is on the same level as him and Discord and the Royal Sisters are one level "below". If you are curious Kazuki and Faust are Parinirmita-vaśavartin/Paranimmita-vasavatti(देवनागरीः परनिमित्त-वशवती) in Sanskrit or Takejizai-ten(他化自在天), also know as "Devas/Kamis 'with power over (others') creations'", while the Royal Sisters and Discord would be Nirmāṇarati/Nimmānaratī(देवनागरीः निम्मरथी / निम्मरती) or Keraku-ten(化楽天), or "Devas/Kamis 'delighting in their creations'".

Faust robotic body was inspired by the technology used on Metal Gear(4 and Revengeance timeframe) and Ghost in the Shell, more specifically the full body models.

Because of the Greek influences present in the show, so I decided to base some of their beliefs in the Greek afterlife.

Phlegethon is one of the rivers of the underworld in Greek/Roman Mythology as well as some interpretations of the Christian Hell, the name means "Flaming" and it was described by Plato as "a stream of fire, which coils around the earth and flows into the depths of Tartarus" while Dante described it as "a river of blood that boils souls in the Seventh Circle of Hell(Circle of Violence), which punishes those who committed crimes of violence against their fellow men", I thought it was fitting. The image might be of God of War's Hades but the place resembles the 3rd Ring of the Seventh Circle, a wasteland with raining fire near the margins of Phlegethon, a place reserved for those that committed blasphemy(violence against God, in this case, goddess), sodomy(violence against nature) and usury(violent against Art).

If you are curious about Discord's look the inspiration is here.

Before anyone points out "Prana" is not an error, it's the energy that flows in and around the individuals and the universe itself in Hindu Philosophy, Tradicional Medicine and Martial Arts. Prana, in this case, is used in the same context as the Nasuverse, it the refined Mana or Od after passing through a Magus' Magic Circuits. In the Nasuverse Humans have a tiny reserve of energy called Od and Mana comes from their surroundings, regardless of the source both energy are conducted and refined by the Magic Circuits. However, some nature spirits have an "organ", for lack of a better word, that can store Mana from the surroundings, ponies are similar, so they have an internal reservoir of Mana to use that is conducted by their bodies(Earth ponies), hooves and wings(Pegasus) as well as being focused by their horns(Unicorn) while an alicorn can do all the above but this is instinctual so they don't refine the energy to become more potent. That comes from the fact that Equus is rich in Mana unlike the Nasuverse's Earth where they had to make due with what they had.

The Composer is based on the artifact of the same name from the Halo franchise while the Fabricator is based on the Key to Vector Sigma from Transformers and the combination of those two process is basically robotization like in the Archie Comics Sonic and Sonic SatAm.