Toxigo Paralysis stepped into his room again and smiled. He closed and locked his door and walked over to his bed. His room was covered in replicas of famous paintings. Many of them he had stolen himself in the past, but he had returned them, but this were all replicas.

"Hey, TAaPS?" he called out. A panel opened up, reveling a screen with TAaPS face on it.

"Yes?" she asked.

"How do you know of all these?" Toxigo asked, gesturing at the paintings.

"I scanned your brain and replicated them," TAaPS said.

"So you can replicate anything from my world?" Toxigo asked.

"Almost," TAaPS said. "I can't replicate anything big like an attack helicopter or a tank." Toxigo nodded.

"That is so awesome," he said. "How?"

"I can replicate things by scanning all of you memories of an object, size it up, and using stored mass I recreate it," TAaPS said.

"Could you make a pony?" Toxigo asked.

"No," TAaPS said. "Are you asking for-" she was about to finish but an explosion rocked the base. "You'd better get going."

Fallout was fortunate enough to be close to the weapons when the base shook. He had overheard Starswirl talking to Twilight and Hidden Darkness about a weapons room, filled with suits of armor and things that were supposed to bond with you or something, and he had wanted to check it out. When the base shook, Fallout called out "TAaPS?" A panel opened up to show the screen with TAaPS face.

"Yes?" she asked.

"What happened?" Fallout asked. "Why did the base shake like that?"

"We are under attack," TAaPS said. "You are close to the weapons closet. I'll open the door and guide you from there on." A steel door opened.

"Thank you!" Fallout said as he rushed towards the door. What he saw inside the room was not what he was expecting. There were rows upon rows of sleek black objects lying everywhere. Some of them looked kind of like giant knives, some of them were spheres, and others looked like human sized robots.

"Select a sphere," TAaPS said. Fallout bent over and picked up the nearest sphere.

"What now?" he asked.

"It should activate any second," TAaPS said. As she finished saying that, Fallout felt it shudder. He almost dropped it in surprise. A beam of bright blue light shot out of it, and scanned his body. It seemed to stay on his head the longest.

"A.R.G.U.S systems activating," a voice came from the sphere. "Prepare for engagement."

"Engagement? I barely know you!" Fallout joked.

"Systems powering up," the sphere said. "Prepare for merging." A bright flash of light blinded Fallout, and the sphere activated. He could feel the sphere change shape in his hands, and started attaching to his hands, metal racing up his arms, across his chest, down his legs and up to his face. The metal was the interesting part, because it felt almost alive. It felt like it was becoming a part of him, the coding inside of it entering his bloodstream,and the metal soften up and becoming like a second layer of skin, and he felt cold. Really cold. For a few seconds, he couldn't see, and couldn't move. And then he could. Everything was the same, but it all felt different. He looked down at himself and gasped. His clothes were (fortunately) still there, but his skin now had a metallic gleam to it.

"What happened?" Fallout asked. "Why is my skin so shiny?"

"You've been chosen successfully by the sphere," TAaPS said. "That was a Fusion Core. Not all will be chosen by a Fusion Core, but that's not important right now. You've been given new powers and abilities. Now, can you place a finger inside of the hole below this screen?" As TAaPS said that, a hole about the size of Fallout's pinkie appeared underneath the screen.

"What will that do?" Fallout asked.

"It will allow me to entire the robotics within you, and give you a lesson on how to use these new abilities on the go," TAaPS said. "Now please insert your finger." Fallout placed his pinkie into the hole and yelped. A spark had hit his pinkie and he felt blood rush to his head.

Are you ready? he heard TAaPS voice say.

"Are you inside my head?" he said.

Technically, I'm inside all of you, TAaPS said. Now, exit the facility, please, and I can give you information on the way.

Another explosion rocked the base.

"What is happening?" Fallout said.

It appears that the Negative Space has summoned some minions TAaPS said. Something roared, and people scrambled around, trying to figure out what to do. Fallout ascended a ridge and saw what was attacking. Some kind of beast was through something at Hidden Darkness.

"Come on! You're not like this!" he was yelling. The beast roared and grabbed something off of its back and threw it at Hidden Darkness. Then Fallout relized that it had thrown a chunk of its back.

"How is it doing that?" Fall out asked.

I'm scanning it's cellular make up now, TAaPS said. After a second, she said Strange. It appears to made up off swamp water and some other toxic chemicals.

"And how exactly am I supposed to defeat him?" Fallout said. "You said that my physical strength and endurance were enhanced, but what else did that sphere do to me?"

Well, it also gave you several powers, TAaPS said. You also have a sort of freezing ray. You have sevral others, but those aren't important right now. It's pretty convenient, really. He's rather sludge like, like clay.

"That is convenient," Fallout said. "How do I use it?"

Well, you have to focus on it, TAaPS said. Remember, cold is slow.

"How does that help me?" Fallout asked as he ran down the ledge and towards the beast. Hidden Darkness was still yelling at it.

"Why are you doing this?" he yelled.

It helps you because you have to remember it spreads slowly, TAaPS said.

"Get back!" Fallout yelled. The beast roared and threw another ball of sludge at them.

"What are you doing?" Hidden Darkness yelled.

"I need to freeze it!" Fallout yelled back. Hidden Darkness looked confused.

"How?" he asked. He shook his head. "Actually, never mind. Just don't kill him!" Fallout slowly nodded.

"Ok," he said. "Now, how am I supposed to do this?"

Think of all those nights during winter, when snow would just keep falling, TAaPS said. Remember the feeling it gave you. Concentrate on that feeling, and you will be able to summon the cold.

"Ok, then," Fallout said. Last winter, he had spent a lot of it with Pinkie. One night, his heater broke, and Pinkie being Pinkie somehow knew. So she brought him over to Sugarcube Corner. But he had spent about half an hour trying to fix the heater, and it had been freezing.

Concentrate on that feeling, Fallout thought. After a few seconds, he felt something change.

It's activated, TAaPS said. To aim, all you have to do is face the palm of you palm towards him. To blast him, just focus what you thought of and will the coldness to your hands.

"That's kinda complicated," Fallout said. "But I need to do it anyway." He focused on the cold he had the on that night, felt the coldness in his skin, aimed his palms at the beast, who was looking at him, confused. He was still throwing stuff, just not at Fallout, for what ever reason. Fallout's hands were freezing, ready to fire. Fallout was waiting, though. He needed to charge it up. He charged it up for a few seconds longer, when he fired. A beam of concentrated ice blasted out of his hands. The beast, who was just deciding that Fallout needed to go, had just thrown a ball of toxic sludge at him. The ice blasted through the sludge ball, freezing it and splitting it in half, and hitting the beast in the face. It started to roar, but because of the ice spreading across its face, it couldn't continue. The ice spread all across its body, freezing it in place. When the ice was done spreading, the beast was frozen in a position that was rather humorous. It kind of looked like it didn't have arms, because one of them was frozen to his face, and the other was frozen to its back.

You did it! TAaPS said. Nice! Now here come your fans.

"What?" Fallout asked. When he turned around, he understood what she had meant. Starswirl, Pinkie and the others were running down the hill. As they got close, they started asking questions.

"How did you do that?" Hidden Darkness asked.

"Why are you so shiny?" Pinkie asked.

"So you managed to get a Fusion Core?" Starswirl asked.

"Woah, guys, slow down!" Fallout said. "I did that because of a Fusion Core I bonded to, I'm shiny because of the Fusion Core, and yes, I did get a Fusion Core." Starswirl nodded.

"Nice," he said. "So I'm assuming that that's where TAaPS went?" Fallout nodded.

"Yes, TAaPS is inside of me," he said. He turned to the beast. "So what is this thing."

"That is Toxicon," Hidden Darkness said. "Well, kind of, anyway. Last I saw him, he was no where near this big."

"You know him?" Toxigo Paralysis asked.

"Yeah. But I'm not sure what happened to him," Hidden Darkness said.

"I believe that the Negative Space did this to him," Starswirl said. "TAaPS, can you scan him, please?"

Right away, TAaPS said. A blue light emerged from Fallout's chest, scanning Toxicon's frozen form.

"It appears that he was taken from another world and injected with an unknown element," TAaPS said. A few seconds later, Fallout relised that she had spoken through him!

"How did you do that?" Fallout asked.

Circuitry and coding is everywhere in you! TAaPS said, now in his head.

"Ok," Fallout said. "Anyway, how do we....I don't know, fix him?"

"We'll need to learn about this unknown element," Starswirl said. "This wasn't used last time we fought the Negative Space. Now, we'll also need to carry him back in. I don't suppose that you have super strength as well?" Fallout shook his head.

"It's been enhanced, but no super strength," he said. Starswirl nodded.

"That's still good," he said. "Now, everybody, get ready to do some heavy lifting."

About 20 minutes, they were done. Fallout had needed to return to the weapons room to put his pinkie into the hole so TAaPS could open up a prison room for Toxicon. TAaPS cut a small pice of Toxicon's skin off and managed to isolate the new element. While she was doing that, Fallout asked her some questions.

"So this Fusion Core won't come off?" he asked.

"Not until you return to your universe," TAaPS said. "But you can deactivate the ice powers."

"That's good," Fallout said. "How?"

"After a short period of inactivity, it will power down. I believe it already has," TAaPS said. "You know how to re-activate it, right?"

"Yeah," Fallout said. "I remember." He felt someone tap his shoulder, and he turned around to see Pinkie.

"Hi," she said. She was grinning rather widely. "Why don't you come by my room in 30 minutes."

"Why?" Fallout asked. "What happens then?" Pinkie giggled.

"You'll see," she said.

30 minutes later, Fallout was standing outside of Pinkie's room. He had just knocked and Pinkie had cried "Just a second!" Now he was waiting. It had been more than a second.

"Ok, you can come in now!" Pinkie said. Fallout opened the door to revel Pinkie wearing a bathrobe. Fallout's eyes widened and blushed.

"Oh," he said. "Are you sure?" Pinkie nodded.

"Let's get started!" she said.

10 minutes later

"Oh, I don't think I've ever had an orgasm like that," Pinkie said. She was about to say something else when there was a banging on the wall.

"Are you guys done?" Rainbow Dash asked. She sounded annoyed. It may have been the pony one or the human one, Fallout was't sure. "I'm trying to get some sleep, and with you two going at it like that it's kinda hard to!" Pinkie blushed and Fallout face palmed.

"TAaPS, I thought you said that you soundproofed the room!" Pinkie exclaimed.

Author's Note

Wow, 2,565 words. I think that's my longest chapter. But the chapters of this story will be long, and the story itself will be long. Well, see you in the next chapter!