The Heir and the Chimera

A couple of minutes have passed since the escape and nothing happens. No ponies have left the entrance or any other nearby.

S151 reports, “No one hasss come out of the sssewer.”

Glass Cannon’s head pops out of a cardboard box, Glass Cannon’s Chimera comes out of a pile of scattered old papers, and Patchwork appears out of skin changing camouflage.

Glass Cannon quietly panics, “Things were not supposed to go to Tartarus, yet. I had 2 more days.”

Patchwork goes up to Glass Cannon and pats his back lightly.

Patchwork says, “I don’t usually speak but I have learned that sometimes choices are made without your say.”

“That doesn’t make me any feel better. Do your transfer quickly so we can get out of here.”

Glass Cannon grabs his ax and looks around to check for danger.

G77 tells Patchwork, “You heard him, do what you need to do.”

Patchwork replies, “Well there are 2 conditions: I need time to get a certain gene mod organ out of this body and an escort to the Monster Market. Now with time to think, I can go the market, myself. If I have a safe place nearby to remove the defective genes.”

Glass Cannon asks, “What do I get if we let you have the second option.”

“I will help you as a medic, later on or at least I will get you a few free gene mods like a regeneration organ. My Main Head will make sure of it. I only have an hour to fix this body.”

T21 says, “I still say we…”

Glass Cannon goes up to T21, “I am the boss of you. So any decision outside of the battlefield is mine. Got It.”

Glass Cannon goes to the street and sees a supermarket called Harvest Point. It was one of his dad’s many markets. Glass Cannon knows this store as Harvest Point 21 and it is nearby his air dock.

Glass Cannon goes back to the chimeras.

Glass Cannon asks Patchwork, “Can you do what you need to do in an airship?”

Patchwork answers, “I can try but I’ve never done that before.”

“Just do that invisible trick until we get into my ship.”

“Deal.”

T21 whispers to S151, “Keep your eyes on him.”

S151 nods her head.

They rush towards the air dock. The air dock was long with dozens of airships parked near the end of the cliff. It also had a few buildings catering to the owners of the ships and staff.

Glass Cannon went to his airship with the Chimeras behind him. Glass Cannon’s airship was red and grey, with a big pink balloon with ruby horse shoes on the sides. The gangway is extended by one of Glass Cannon’s friends; Airborne. Airborne is a white pegasus with blue hair with a cutie mark of the sky.

Airborne comments, “So that’s the monster everypony has been screaming about. Wherever you found that, it is sure making its mark. It might want to clean itself off in the wash room.”

Glass Cannon says to his Chimera, “We both need to clean up.”

Noises of an unseen passenger are heard running across the wooden floors.

Airborne screams, “Intruder!”

Glass Cannon screams, “He is my unexpected guest, we made a deal to drop him off somewhere.”

“Keep that Changeling in check, I don’t want him or her ruining this ship.”

“What do you have to worry about, this is my ship.”

Glass Cannon and his Chimera board the ship.

S151 scans the ship. She only sees the other chimera and the 2 ponies. S151 reports what she sees to Glass Cannon as he gets aboard.

Glass Cannon asks Airborne, “Where are the others?”

Airborne says, “They all ran off as soon as they heard the screaming of the monster from the dock. I’m glad to see that it is your monster, not some wild hungry one.”

T21 goes up to Airborne and says, “As long as you don’t hurt him, we don’t hurt you, got it.”

“He is one of my pals. I would never hurt him.”

Glass Cannon tells Airborne, “I need you to take my ship on a short fly around the city.”

“My pleasure.”

Airborne goes up to the bridge and gets the ship in the air. Glass Cannon takes a seat on a nearby wooden bench. Glass Cannon’s Chimera lays down on the surprising comfortable wooden floor.

As the ship glides through the air, Glass Cannon finds it to be a good time to talk with his bodyguard.

Glass Cannon asks T21, “How did that mugger know you, T21, or should I say Tizzy?”

G77 and S151 start remembering that moment and stare at T21. T21 knew that question was going to come up.

T21 takes a deep breath and says, “I used to be part of the Pocket Pokers. I was originally made to defend their main leader at the time.”

Glass Cannon grabs his ax out of fear.

T21 pulls out her paw in front of her face and continues, “I am not a part of them anymore, in fact, I grew to hate them.”

Glass Cannon asks, “Why would you hate your old master?”

“I loved my original master, but after he died, the gang blamed me for his death. I went from leader to leader, losing body parts, blood, and other sisters. That gang of scum kept blaming me for all of their deaths, even to the point my last master traded what was left of me for a new creature to guard him.”

A moment of silence and shock happens. No one knew how to react with such an answer.

T21 asks Glass Cannon, “Do you question my loyalty now?”

Glass Cannon responds, “Did you have any other masters outside of that gang?”

“No, I have been stuck in There for months. Waiting for a chance to prove that I wasn’t bad luck and a good fighter. I am more than glad to serve you so far.”

“You’ve only been with me one day.”

Airborne comes out to check on Glass Cannon.

Airborne says to Glass Cannon, “Who are our guests?”

Glass Cannon turns to Airborne, “The unseen one is Patchwork and the triplets are my new bodyguard. I believe they can introduce themselves. Besides, I need to go to the cleansing room to get this smell off.”

Airborne wonders what he is talking about and then smells the answer.

Glass Cannon goes deeper into the ship. While S151 grabs a bucket of water and dumps it on her body.

As the bucket falls, “Don’t, that’s the…” Airborne says too late. “The drinking water.”

When the water hits the Chimera, the others heads got surprised by the sudden splash.

G77 says, “You wanted the only drinking water on this ship to get us wet?”

T21 comments, “This isn’t water. We smell like cherries.”

Airborne says, “That is… was flavored water. Good thing, I got a few more buckets of the stuff. I’ll start introductions, I am Airborne, soon to be one of the captains of the sky.”

G77 introduces herself as she tries to shake the water off, “I am G77, the magic user.”

S151 slips by her sisters and says right in front of Airborne, “Hello, I am S151 the lookout.”

T21 introduces herself, “I am T21.”

Airborne asks T21, “You’re T21 the what?”

“The muscle, of course.”

“Ok, The Muscle, how was today.”

S151 answers, “We had an exccciting firssst day.”

The Chimera tells Airborne about their day with Glass Cannon and argued over certain details. Airborne enjoyed their storytelling.

After 20 minutes, Glass Cannon was finally cleaned. He stepped out of the cleansing room and decides to look for Patchwork. Glass Cannon remembered all of the room on his ship and only 3 of them could hold Patchwork. He rules out the ice room.

Glass Cannon looks at the closest big room: the storage room. He opens the door. He only sees boxes and crates of supplies. Glass Cannon goes through the hall to the lounge.

When Glass Cannon arrives at the lounge, he opens the door and sees Patchwork preforming surgery on himself with some blood on the floor. Glass Cannon quickly closes the door and holds back his sudden sickness. He takes a few deep breathes.

Glass Cannon says, “I found you.”

No response happens.

After a while, Glass Cannon hears a splat from the Lounge. He creaks the door open.

Glass Cannon asks Patchwork, “Are you ok, Patchwork?”

A moment passes and nothing is heard. Glass Cannon didn’t want to move or see the Patchwork’s body so he goes up to the deck.

He’s Glass Cannon gets nearby the door to the deck. He hears footsteps behind him. Not sure if that is Patchwork or someone else, so he runs to the door and kicks it open.

Without thinking he screams, “Assassin!”

As Glass Cannon runs up to the wheel, his Chimera get ready to fight while Airborne grabs a seat to see the Chimera at work.

The footsteps echo through the hall of the ship.

Patchwork screams, “Get me out of here!”

Patchwork comes out faster than Glass Cannon and hides behinds S151.

Glass Cannon peeks out to see Patchwork alive. He laughs at his mistake.

T21 says, “False Alarms are not funny, Master.”

Glass Cannon declares, “I am laughing at my mistake, I actually was starting to think somepony killed Patchwork.” He tries to calm down. “I’ll start driving to the Monster Market and clear my mind.”

Airborne gets up, “I’ll fly, I am the only one who can make a landing in the city.”

“That is probably for the best. I will stay near you Airborne.”

Airborne walks up to the wheel.

G77 threatens Airborne, “Don’t forget we are here.”

Airborne responds, “You girls are not that hard to forget.”

Airborne and Glass Cannon go into the bridge and Glass Cannon checks all of the ship’s navigational instruments.

After getting the information that Airborne needs from the equipment, he asks Glass Cannon, “There is a lot of places in the bad part of Canterlot. Is there a specific landmark or details?”

Glass Canon responds, “I remember all of the spooky plants around the place.”

“Of course, it is the place full of spooky stories.”

“From what I have seen, I don’t want to hear the stories.”

“I hope you can learn what to do quickly, I want you to keep being one of my ‘alive’ friends. Maybe if you quit this game of death, you can live back with…”

“I want to be independent from them, you know that.”

“I know, but does it have to be this? Risking your life and trusting that freak show for a mountain of bits and a mansion. You can...”

“I want to keep as much of my uncle as I can.”

Airborne realizes that he isn’t helping to calm his friend down. He continues, “I… Let’s continue this another time. This is your last day before Tartarus, right. I know I good pizza place nearby the drop zone. I’ll get us a few pies.”

“Thank you.”

The airship makes it journey towards Canterlot with the winds pushing them there.

When they arrive to the drop zone, Patchwork rushes towards the market while everyone else enjoys the recovered plans of fun that last until nighttime.