The Heir and the Chimera

It is morning in Canterlot, Glass Cannon is in his bed barely waking up. He has a hard time getting up from his bed. He slowly opens his eyes but cannot see anything. He feels the softness and warmth of his blankets. He struggles to move around.

A voice says, “Our Master is awake.”

Some of the blankets open up to reveal that it was the Chimera’s fur surrounding Glass Cannon. This is the first time that he sees the front pattern of his new guard. The coat is orange with black stripes and its matching head fits the description of a tiger.

The tiger head says, “You’re safe now.”

The snake head comments, “I can only sssense your workers.”

Glass Cannon asks, “What?”

“I can see heat in other beingsss even through wallsss.”

“That sounds cool, but why was I wrapped like an asparagus in a blanket?”

“It wasss my idea, master. If we wrapped ourssselvesss around you to make sssure you’re sssafe with usss taking the hitsss firssst.”

“Wait outside my door. I have things to do before we get on with my day.”

The Goat head asks, “Will you be fine without us?”

“I am sure I can clean and cloth myself without some thug jumping me.”

The Chimera obeys their master and waits outside.

After an hour, Glass Cannon comes out of his room with his favorite pink suit. He walks down the hall for breakfast with his bodyguard.

As they walk down, a pegasus in a brown suit (and has a few cards with bits as a cutie mark) goes up to Glass Cannon. Glass Cannon recognize the shaking bits as he walks.

Glass Cannon turns to the pony in the brown suit, “Hello, Card Counter?”

Card Counter says, “I have been reading your monster buying guide. My research advices you to get the Divide and Conquer Combo. It gives your ‘bodyguard’ the ability to split up to 3 bodies for a little while and can fuse back. The combo also includes the Magic Organ so your goat can do more tricks. It will only cost 60 bits”

“I’ll get it after breakfast.”

“I don’t recommend getting any other of those Gene Mods until a week has passed. You don’t want to blow your spending cash for mods, you want that will make things worse.”

“Noted, Card Counter.”

“Your bodyguard can only have 10 Gene Mods, 1 for each head, and 7 for the body.”

“Can I have my book back so I can study it?”

“Well, I need it to find more...”

The Chimera turns to Card Counter.

They say in union, “The Master wants the book.”

“I’ll get it back to you right now.”

Card Counter runs off. Glass Cannon is forced wait.

Glass Cannon finally asks, “So, what are your names?”

The Goat head says, “I am currently called G77.”

The Snake head answers, “They call me, S151”

The Tiger head finishes, “I am T21.”

Glass Cannon says, “Basically the first letter of your species and a number of… umm…”

G77 interrupts, “When we were created, master.”

“That means T21 is the oldest, right.”

T21 says, “I prefer the most experienced. Tigers are the toughest and the scrappiest of the Chimera choices. I admit I went through a few masters before you, but I have learned from those…”

“What happened with old masters.”

“Too many battle scars on my other bodies that end with my other masters, ‘not happy’.”

“Why?”

Card Counter comes rushing back with the monster manual in his book bag. He goes in front of Glass Cannon and gives the book to him. Glass Cannon picks up the book and tucks its away in his suit.

Glass Cannon says to T21, “We will talk again, later.”

Glass Cannon rushes because of lost time, to the dining hall with his Chimera. Card Counter goes back to his office and locks the door.

When Glass Cannon arrives at the dining hall, the workers are there eating at their tables enjoying themselves. They see the Chimera bodyguard, their merriment turns into fear and curious staring. A few of the workers were finishing up preparing the Master Table pancakes with Zap Apple jam, eggs, strawberries, and Zap Apple juice. They set up a metal chair waiting for Glass Cannon. On the other side was a bench with creative dishes and buckets of liquids fitting each of the heads’ diets in front of it.

Glass Cannon goes to his seat and starts eating his breakfast. On the other side of the table, the bench barely keeps up with the combined weight of the Chimera and only T21 was eating. The other heads were keeping an eye for trouble.

Glass Cannon asks, “Why aren’t you all eating?”

G77 answers, “Only one of us can eat because you never know when an attack will happen.”

“I have guards protecting this place for a little while.”

Glass Cannon claps his hooves and one of the butlers comes up to him.

The butler asks, “What do you need sir?”

“When is your last paycheck from my gruncle?”

“Tomorrow, sir.”

“Do you know anyone that will help me after tomorrow?”

“Your gruncle did have a special reward for anypony that will help you in the upcoming events, but most of the staff will not do it. We have families that need us and… thieves and thugs are usually much more aggressive during these times.”

S151 comments, “Sssounds like cowardly talk.”

“Sorry not all of us are made or train to fight, you... You.”

Glass Cannon added, “You might want to stop before my bodyguard does a show of force without my command.”

The butler gulps, “Enjoy your meal and day, sir and madams.”

The butler leaves to go somewhere else. T21 eats a feast while every pony else eats nervously. Glass Cannon looks to be fine, but thoughts of how the mansion will be defenseless in 2 days. He tries to drown out those thoughts by reminding himself of the fun day that he had planned.

After breakfast, Glass Cannon and the Chimera leave the mansion to meet up with Glass Cannon’s friends by his airship at the air dock, but first he had to pick up his new party clothes from one of his gruncle’s favorite clothing stores. The walk was long with many eyes staring. Ponies, including his fellow high class ponies, got out of Glass Cannon’s way. Some ponies ran away in terror. Glass Cannon didn’t like his fellow ponies running in fear but he keeps telling himself that the runners are villains that wanted to hurt him.

Glass Cannon whispers to G77, “Keep an eye out for a fancy purple building called Carousel Boutique. It looks like a fancy cake with windows.”

Meanwhile, inside of the Carousel Boutique, Rarity has just returned from her time with her sister. Rarity came to check with this store’s manager, Sassy Saddles (She is a blue unicorn in a signature black dress with a golden saddle).

Rarity asks Sassy Saddles, “How are things here?”

Sassy Saddles answers, “Everything is fine here. We just have somepony picking up an order, today.”

“Oh, The Rubyshoes order.” Rarity groans. “I still don’t like that one of my creations is supposed to get dirty but…”

A pony comes in screaming, “A monster is coming this way!” the pony sees Rarity. “You have fought monsters, right. Go out there and defend Canterlot.”

“What is it doing?”

“It is walking this way.”

The pony runs and hides in one of the changing stalls. Sassy Saddle joins the pony in a nearby stall.

Rarity carefully goes to the window and takes a peak outside. She sees Glass Cannon’s Chimera and dozens of panicked ponies. The Chimera points at her building with one of its claws.

Rarity goes prone and starts panicking. She never had to fight monsters like that on her own. Rarity summons her couch to calm down and think.

Before Rarity could get an idea, her front door opens. A tiger paw in the form of a fist is seen going through the door. As the fist pulls back, G77 and T21 stare in, but they couldn’t fit in the door. They move back and let S151 slip through the door. Rarity scans the Chimera and remembers hearing a story from Applejack about how she saved her sister from what she thinks is the same beast.

Rarity says to The Chimera, “I know how to deal with a ruffian like you.”

She runs off to get her gear.

S151 pulls her head back out and warns Glass Cannon, “There is a bad guy in there we have to her beat up. The owner and her assistant are hiding from her.”

Glass Cannon orders, “You girls beat up the thug and I’ll hide in that alley over there.” He points to a nearby dead end alley.

The Chimera forcefully breaks the door down and its frame is hang off of G77.

Glass Cannon screams, “I have to pay for that!”

S151 asks, “Would you have liked us to have go through the window?”

“Yes, they are cheaper that doors around here.”

The rest of the Chimera forces S151 to pursue Rarity.

Glass Cannon gallops to the nearby alley, but before he could hide, he spots a blue unicorn mare with white hair. He knew her as Midnight: his ex-crush. Glass Cannon lost her to a stallion that recently became a clown, which made it more insult to injury for him. Glass Cannon loved her for being different than other rich girls by being nice. fun, and naturally beautiful. Despite his loss, Glass Cannon still had feelings for Midnight.

After seeing Midnight, Glass Cannon goes to the nearby fountain to see his reflection. Glass Cannon fixes his hair to look good in front of her. As he looks at himself in the water, he notices that his sword is floating. Suddenly he feels a bag consuming him. Glass Cannon tried to scream for help but couldn’t.

Back with the battle between Rarity and The Chimera, Rarity tries to use Applejack tactics from her encounter with the chimera that she fought in the Fire Swamp, but proves to fail. T21 unhooked her jaw to prevent Rarity’s metal stool from getting stuck in her jaw, G77 spits out Rarity’s expensive cheese, and their restless attack prevents Rarity from using her singing voice properly to make S151 fall asleep. Rarity starts to think her memory was wrong and tried to change tactics.

S151 uses her heat sensing vision to check on Glass Cannon, only to see that he was being coltnapped by 2 other ponies.

S151 alerts, “Our master is being taken away, outside.”

The Chimera gives up on attacking Rarity and goes after the 2 ponies. Rarity sighs in relief.

When The Chimera ran outside they depend on S151’s sight to continue the pursuit. T21 gets the scents of the coltnappers. She recognizes that certain smell coming off both of them.

T21 says, “I know where they are going. Let me have full control of the body for a while.”

G77 asks, “How do you know where they are going?”

S151 announces, “I am losing them.”

“Looks like I don’t have a choice.”

T21 goes on an alternative path.

S151 asks in a worried tone, “You are going the wrong way.”

T21 smiles, “I know a shortcut through here.”

T21 leads her team to a hidden door big enough for them and uses a mysterious tunnel. The safety of Glass Cannon is on the paws of T21 and her secrets.