The Unique

The alarms triggered inside the police station. Cops rushed to the armory and grabbed supplies. They yelled at eachother as they formed a defensive line into the jail cells.

In one of the jail cells was a man that had been arrested earlier that night for assaulting an officer. He was now crawling on the floor screaming out in pain. His body was experiencing a change as he could feel every bone in his body crack and take horrifying new shapes. Another man in the jail cell pounded on the fence, begging to be let out.

Shining armor and a couple cops rushed into the prison cells and unlocked the cell. As the prisoner was allowed to leave, Shining Armor watched in horror as the man in the prison cell screamed out in pain. His whole body was growing exponentially and his skin was changing form. His brown skin solidified and morphed into a hard rocky shape. The man cried out one final time as his entire body changed into a colossal being made of rock. He looked like a bunch of rocks piled on top of each other to look like a human.

The man opened his now blue eyes and slowly got up. When he did he fell back down when his head had hit the ceiling. Sparks blew as the light above him gave out from the sudden impact.

The man got up as low as he could and looked at his hands. He was horrified to see what he had become and roared in anger.

He freaked out and started waving his body around. He easily broke through the prison cells as his body crouched into the other cell next door. He looked around the room and saw the cops and Shining Armor staring at him.

"What is... what... what is happening to me?" He said, looking at himself. His head snapped torwards the officers and gave them a hog-like growl.

“What did you do to me!” He roared, his voice echoing loudly through the walls.The cops had fired their guns at him to no effect. He blocked the bullets with his huge hand and roared. He stood up and broke through the ceiling. He rose up and escaped the police station through the roof. His rock body still growing behind him. The cell was quickly covered in smoke, causing cops to cover their eyes.

"Cease fire!" Shining Armor demanded. When the smoke cleared up, Shining Armor walked to the broken prison cell. He looked up at the giant hole in the ceiling and could see the moon from outside. The building shook as they felt the giants footsteps.

"Find him! Make sure he doesn't get into the city!" Shining Armor ordered.

"What else do we do?" Officer Soundwave asked.

"Go with them! I have a call to make." Shining commanded.

The rock man jumped off the roof and landed in the parking lot, crushing a vacant cop car under his new weight. He looked at his hands again and felt a tear fall. He narrowed his eyes and roared out into the sky. He stood up and realized how tal he was. He turned around and looked down at the front entrance. He was one and half stories tall. He flared his nostrils and ran, making huge holes into the road. He leaped off the road and landed a hundred feet from where he jumped. Realizing it was faster to jump, he leaped into the air again and disappeared into the night.

The next morning.

The Agents filled up the police station. Officers and prisoners who were there last night were in the lounge room getting interviewed by Agents. One of these Agents was Norman, who was talking to Shining Armor about what happened. They were outside looking at the footsteps that cracked the streets. Adagio was also there checking out the footsteps in a standard Agent suit.

Adagio looked at the footstep and crouched down. She put on a glove and picked up a small brown rock. She inspected the rock with focused eyes. The rock wasn't warm or cold, but was just right. Three sides of the rock were brown, but one side had a mirror like texture that reflected the sun.

Bonbon and Deacon were also at the police station checking out the stations security cameras. Bonbon looked at the multiple screens in the room and watched them all with Deacon. Deacon was completely focused on the screens. When Deacon was like this, nothing could snap him out of it.

"Hey, Deacon! Want some coffee?" Bonbon asked. Deacon snapped out of his concentration and paused the recordings with lightning speed. He turned around in the spinning chair and nodded his head.

"Yup. This place has coffee?"

"It's a police station. That's all they drink." Bonbon said, matter of factly. Deacon glanced to the left and thought about it. He didn't see anything wrong with that statement.

"So does this place got donuts, too?" Deacon asked. Bonbon looked at him with an obvious face which made him chuckle. Bonbon left the room and Deacon immediately went back to watching the recordings.

Back outside the police station, Shining Armor was talking about what happened that night to Norman. Norman listened intently and wrote everything down on paper.

"Me and Officer Normandy got a call last night about a disturbance in a bar. Some crazy guy came in and caused a stir. We got there and tried to arrest him, but he was stronger than he looked for a guy that thin."

"Thin? The camera showed that shortly before his transformation the man you arrested was tall and strong built."

"Not when I arrested him." Shining Armor said. Norman looked at Shining Armor and raised an eyebrow.

"It's sounds hard to believe, but when he got in my car he was thin. Then, by the time we brought him in the station he was huge."

"I thought something was wrong with him when we arrived, but I didn't know he was gonna turn into a giant rock." Shining Armor said. Norman wrote what he said down and asked him a question.

"Did he say anything to you when you were at the police station?" Norman questioned.

"He was completely freaking out on us. He kept twitching and saying help me. We didn't know what to do so we put him in a cell and called a hospital. We all left the room for a few minutes then we heard screaming and the alarms going off. That's when we saw him transforming." Shining Armor said. Norman listened and wrote the whole thing down in his notes. He finished writing and asked Shining Armor a few more questions.

"Did you guys get his name?"

"Yeah, his name is Crackdown. He used to work in construction before he was fired. After that he joined a gang and assisted in a few beatings. We arrested him a few years ago after a member had snitched to us. After that he got in an accident that left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life." Shining Armor said, causing Norman to pause. He stopped writing and looked at Shining Armor in confusion.

"A wheelchair?"

"He used to be disabled. When we saw him at the bar I didn't recognize him until the ride." Shining Armor explained.

"So we're dealing with a rock man that used to be a disabled criminal who is about as tall as a one story house?"

"See why I called you?" Shining asked. Norman nodded and dismissed Shining Armor. He looked around the street and looked at the damage on the roads. They'd have to be paved over again before they could be used. He saw Adagio putting a rock in a plastic bag and walked up to her.

"Found something?"

"A piece of him that fell off when he landed. The rest of him is on the crushed police car over there, but this is the biggest sample I've found so far."

"Do you recognize this from your world?" Norman asked. Adagio looked at it again and nodded.

"I have, but only from a traveling merchant in my world. He transformed into a rock when we tried to hypnotize him."

"Do you know where he got it from?"

"When we asked him where he learned it from he said it was from a group of rhinos."

"Rhinos?" Norman asked, just now hearing about this race.

"They used to be one of the dominant races in Gaia, then they went extinct. Only a few were alive in my time. The merchant must've got lucky and found a few." Adagio explained. Norman nodded his head and was satisfied by her answer. He left her to do her work and entered the police station. He walked the buildings halls and entered a small dark room where Deacon and Bonbon were drinking coffee and eating donuts.

They were taking and laughing about something instead of working. Norman coughed and made himself known. Deacon and Bonbon put everything down and welcomed Norman.

"Is that how you watch cameras, Deacon?" Norman asked, rhetorically. Deacon answered and leaned on the spinning chair.

"Not all the time." Deacon said. Norman rolled his eyes and asked him about the cameras.

"Did you see anything on the cameras?" He asked. Deacon spun around and faced the cameras and typed in a time on the keyboard.

"Yeah. On the outside cameras only. Look at his face." Deacon asked. Norman walked up to the cameras and looked at it. It was at night when the police car had just arrived.

The car parked infront of the building and the doors opened. Shining Armor and his partner walked out and opened the door for Crackdown. They got him out the car and during that time, Crackdown's face had slightly morphed and changed structure.

Deacon then changed the time to after his transformation. The camera captured Crackdown jumping off the roof and onto the street. The camera turned staticky when he landed, but quickly recovered. The rest of the footage was Crackdown running away and leaping out of the cameras vision. Deacon stopped the video and turned back at Norman, who had watched the camera's intently.

"So,a dangerous rock monster has escaped prison and could likely attack anyone. How do we stop him?" Deacon asked.

"Until we have sight of him I don't think we should do anything. Going by his previous criminal record, approaching him ourselves might get us killed."

"So what? We wait for him to do something?" Bonbon asked.

"No. We'll search for him, but we won't attack. We'll let Tauren go after him while we sit in the sidelines. Lets just hope he turns himself in." Norman said. He didn't think it was likely Crackdown would surrender, but he could still hope.

Adagio then walked into the room in a rush. Norman, Bonbon, and Deacon all turned to look at her. She looked at them with a surprised face.

"What?"

"It's snowing." She said.

"What?" Norman asked, looking confused. Deacon looked at the outside camera and could see the snowflakes falling onto the ground. The four of them rushed towards the front entrance of the station and exited the building. They came outside and looked outside to see snow was already filling the streets and ceilings. Norman and the Agents were completely surprised by the sudden snowfall.

"But it was clear an hour ago?" Bonbon said.

"That just made things difficult." Norman said.

"Well this is weird." Indigo Zap said, looking outside the classroom window. Everyone in the school looked at the snow as it began to pile up outside. Indigo Zap looked up at the clouds in wonder. First period had just started and then suddenly a snowstorm appeared. Indigo Zap thought about it and felt that something was off. The forecast said there were supposed to be clear skies from today through the weekend. The rest of school was cancelled that day due to the sudden snowstorm, so Indigo Zap and her friends were a few of the only students left in the building.

Ronin and Sunny Flare were sitting in the classroom with Indigo. They walked into her class when they were allowed to leave their class. The teacher didn't care if students came into his class. He was sitting on a chair, typing away on the keyboard connected to his laptop.

Sour Sweet and Lemon Zest had shown up as well. They were just recently recruited into the Agency like Indigo Zap. Sour Sweet and Lemon Zest asked the same questions Indigo had when she joined. Even down to the experimentation question. They were quickly filled in to the basics of being a Agent. The two of them listened to Ronin as he explained what the Agency was and what actually happened during the incident.

Sour Sweet and Lemon Zest were sad to hear the flying electric guy had died during the incident. They remembered seeing the huge explosion above the lake and feeling scared. They were interested in learning about what happened to the horn guy and who he really was. The question did come up about who Tauren was before and what happened to him after the friendship beam hit him. That question was the only one Ronin and Sunny Flare didn't answer. That information was classified and they didn't want to share it.

"Who's Lilith?" Sour Sweet asked. Ronin and Sunny Flare looked at her in confusion. They wondered how she could know that name when the two of them weren't thinking about it. They then turned their heads at Indigo Zap, who looked embarrassed.

"Sorry, It just popped in." Indigo apologized.

"How do you know her name?" Ronin asked, in confusion.

"Only Agents who were there at the incident know." Sunny Flare said.

"Tauren told me." Indigo answered.

"He did. When?" Ronin asked.

"When I was mad at him, he wanted to talk to me and apologize. He told me who Lilith was, but he didn't go into detail." Indigo said, repeating everything Tauren had told her. Sunny accepted her explanation, remembering that she told her that Tauren wanted to talk. The group listened to Indigo Zap and felt sadness and sympathy for Tauren.

"Wow." Was all Lemon Zest could say.

"I can see why he's ashamed to be a Minotaur. Knowing someone used your body to kill and destroy. I don't think I'd be want to be human if that happened to me." Sour Sweet said.

"I hope Lilith got what she deserves." Sour Sweet said, clenching her fists.

"You know, Tauren told me who Lilith was, but he never told me what happened during the incident. What happened that night?" Indigo Zap asked, wondering how they discovered Lilith. Ronin and Sunny Flare glanced at each other and sighed.

"Lets talk about this outside." Ronin said, directing their eyes at the teacher. They understood and got up to leave the room. They walked out the class and stood in the hallway. When Ronin made sure it was clear, he explained what happened after the incident.

"After Behemoth was hit by the Elements of Harmony, we thought it was over. It looked like the beam had destroyed him completely, so we checked the crater to make sure. That's when we saw Tauren and something else lying in the crater."

"We quickly surrounded the crater and got the girls from Canterlot High out of there. They hardly saw what was down there thankfully."

"What was down there?"

"Tauren was bleeding and was undergoing a regenerative process. We saw some bones and other gross things." Sunny Flare said.

"The worse part was the second figure in the crater. She took us by surprise. We didn't expect to see another body in there, yet there she was." Ronin said, describing Lilith's condition.

"We got the two of them out of the crater and moved them to the Agency immediately. Norman, Bonbon, and Adagio stayed behind to help stop the fire that started in the school library. We restrained the two of them in separate rooms and waited for them to regain consciousness." Ronin said.

"Tauren was the first to wake up. At first, he didn't know where he was, but then it all came back in his head. I wasn't there to see it, but once he did remember everything all he did was cry." Sunny Flare said. Ronin nodded his head, confirming what she had heard. He was there with his mother that night.

"So, she's inside the Agency?" Indigo asked. Ronin nodded and answered her.

"We converted the storage areas at the bottom of the Agency to a prison. As of now, it's the most heavily guarded prison in the world. Thankfully, her magic was drained by the elements of harmony, so she's nowhere near strong enough to escape." Ronin explained. Before any more questions could be asked, Sour Sweets phone rang.

"It's my mom. She's here to pick me up." Sour Sweet explained.

"We'll continue this later." Ronin said. Sour Sweet nodded and left the group.

"So what now?" Lemon Zest asked.

"I guess we should leave, too?" Sunny Flare said. The group decided to leave the school and drive to the Agency. Ronin had stayed behind to grab his notebook that he accidentally left in class.

He walked in the room and saw the teacher sleeping on his desk with his head in a book. He silently walked to his seat and grabbed his notebook and left. He walked down the hallway and was about to leave, until he was stopped by a sudden chill and a voice in the corner.

"Hello, Ronin." She said. Ronin recognized her voice and turned. That's when he saw Sugarcoat looking at him with her arms crossed and a serious expression on her face.

"Hey, Sugarcoat. What's the matter?" Ronin asked, wondering why she was talking to him.

"I need to talk to you." Sugarcoat said,solemnly.

" oh, well I don't have time to talk, right now. Maybe, tomorrow if schools still open." Ronin said.

"That's what I need to talk to you about, actually." Sugarcoat said.

"It is?" Ronin asked. Sugarcoat nodded her head and uncrossed her arms. She raised them up halfway and concentrated. Ronin watched in confusion as a blue and grey glow filled Sugarcoats hands . Ronin watched in amazement as a snowball formed in one hand and a cloud formed in the other.

"I heard your conversations earlier and I thought that you could help me control this." Sugarcoat explained.

"You made the snow storm? How?" Ronin exclaimed, quietly.

"It was an accident and a long story." Sugarcoat sighed.

"Well, we have plenty of time in the car. Come with me, we're going to the Agency." Ronin said.

The human turned rock looked at the snow fall into the city with wonder. He sat on the top of hill near a forest. He looked at the city with hatred. From the very beginning, Canterlot has been one failure after the other.

He remembered his life before he turned to crime and felt nothing but anger. Ever since his firing, he's thought of nothing but getting revenge on his boss. He thought about all the things he'd done while in a gang and when he was arrested. They were, in their own way, blocks that stopped him from doing the things he really wanted to do.

But now, he looked at his body with shame. He looked at the jagged brown rocks that made up his hand and grew frustrated. He clenched his fists and roared, dropping his arm to the ground. The ground shook as it made contact with his arm, destroying the grass and sending dirt flying.

Crackdown looked at the damage his arm had caused and grinned. He looked at his rock hand again and stood up to his full height. Crackdown looked around and saw abandoned apartment buildings nearby and walked towards them. An idea had formed in his head and he wanted to test it out.

He reached the apartments and destroyed the walls by simply walking through them. He stomped around and examined the apartments. He decided that they were good enough for him to experiment with.

He looked at his hands and clenched them. Thinking about all his pain and suffering, he grew more angrier and angrier. That anger he welled up inside was let out when he roared at the sky and started to punch the apartments wall.

He punched through a wall and repeatedly punched the apartment with both hands. He screamed and screamed as he let loose his rage. He punched through the apartments supports and was buried by the collapsing wood. Inside his wooden grave, his rage grew bigger. He roared again and broke through his wooden grave and punched his way out.

With every punch and kick his anger grew. Thinking about his life only made his rage bigger. With his rage, he grew stronger and stronger. He charged the other apartments and demolished them with his punches and. He was like this for an hour. When the apartments were all destroyed, he stood in the center of the destruction and looked at his work. The whole place was nothing but fallen debris.

He sighed and dropped to his knees in exhaustion. He looked at his hands again and smiled. Maybe, his transformation wasn't as bad as he had thought. Then he saw a snowflake land on his hand. Looking up at the sky, he realized the sun had vanished and snow was falling from the clouds.

He calmed down and closed his eyes, feeling the snow fall on his rock body. He sat there for what felt like hours, relaxing. As he sat there, a noise coming from the nearby forest had snapped him out of his thoughts.

He picked up a piece of wood and threw into the foliage where he heard the noise. He heard the sound of wood piercing through skin and realized he got something. He stood up and walked towards the foliage. He looked at what he hit and saw a deer lying on the ground, covered in blood. The piece of wood he threw had tore through the deers stomach and killed it.

Looking at what he had done only made him smile. His smile twisted into a evil snicker, then a chuckle, and then a horrifying laugh. He finally realized with that with his new body, nothing could stop him from getting his revenge. It didn't matter how he got it anymore. Instead all that mattered was how he would use it. And that made him even happier.

He turned around and walked through the snowy terrain. The ground had already been covered by snow. Crackdown looked up at the clouds and wondered why it was snowing in the spring. Ideas formed in his head, but the one he accepted was more spiritual. He took it as a sign that things were finally looking up for him. That a new age, with him in the center, was born.

He looked straight ahead and saw Canterlot down the hills past the trees. The city had taken him down once before, but not anymore. He'll bring the city to its knees. He clenched his fists and roared.

His rage had reformed inside him and pushed him to run faster and faster. He stomped and stomped as he ran up and down the hills. His anger blinded him with hate. He thought of what he would do first and decided he'd go after the ones who hurt him the most. Starting with his boss.

Crackdown roared, reaching the forest. He charged through the forest and snapped branches of trees and bushes in his way. When an entire tree was in his way, he would focus all his rage and charge straight through the tree, knocking them down with one hit. He ran all the way to edge of the forest and could see the city was even closer. He sighed and flared the two slits on his head that were his nostrils and continued running. Reaching the city in half an hour.

Crackdown remained hidden as he moved through Canterlot. He didn’t want to get caught by the police. He successfully evaded their sight and had reached his destination. He looked at the snow covered building and watched as the workers all left.The sudden snowfall had cancelled all plans of construction for the day. Leaving his boss all alone for him to get his revenge. Crackdown watched them leave and enter their cars and noticed something off about them. All of their cars were dark colors. He clenched his fists and suppressed his rage for later.

When all the workers left it was time for him to make his move. He slowly made his way to the giant tent that his boss was inside and thought of all the things he would say.

He stood infront of the entrance and rised up to his full height. He clenched his fists and ripped the tent door open. He roared and raised his fists towards his boss. Instead of seeing his boss, he saw a beige man sitting on the seat with a leg crossed and a cane beside him. Crackdown looked at the man in his old bosses seat and recognized him as his former mob boss. He stopped his charge and looked at his former mob boss in frustration. He didn't notice that another figure stood beside him.

"Crackdown, its good to see you!" Neo exclaimed, raising his hands into the air.

"Neo. I swear, if you took my chance to get back at my boss- Crackdown growled.

"Relax, Relax. He's right over there." Neo said, pointing to a man in handcuffs and a piece of cloth covering his mouth. Crackdown looked at where Neo pointed and saw his boss looking at him, frozen in fear.

"I think you really freaked him out." Neo said. He looked at Crackdown and asked him a question.

"Did you get taller?" Neo asked, looking at Crackdown.

"Why are you here?"

"I heard you broke out of the police station as a giant rock monster. So I thought, hmm, what's the first thing Crackdown would do?" Neo said.

"Where's your right hand? And who’s she?" Crackdown asked, referring to the quiet woman leaning on the tent wall. Neo's face formed a grin as he introduced her to him.

“Her name is Misty and she's my new right hand. After that son of a bitch abandoned me after the invasion and flew off to California!" Neo said.

"Invasion?"

"What, they don't give you any tv in there?" Neo asked, Crackdown shook his head and asked what it was. Neo didn't answer and went for a shorter explanation.

"Lets just say there's a whole lot of people like you now, including misty." Neo said, causing Crackdown eyes to grow.

"What?" Crackdown exclaimed, glancing at the quiet woman.

"Yes, misty is like you. Not as rocky as you, but she's got power. But I'm not here to introduce you, too.

"What do you want?" Crackdown asked.

"Knock him out first." Neo ordered. Crackdown listened and faced his ex-boss, who scurried back in fear. Crackdown widened his hand and slapped his ex-boss across his face. He immediately fell unconscious from the force. Crackdown watched as his body fell over and laughed. Neo laughed at the way he knocked him out and stood up out the chair.

"Now that he's unconscious, we can talk. I have a plan that involves you, the police, and my new best friend.." Neo said, discussing his plan. Crackdown liked where it was going already. Neo told Crackdown his entire plan and was very interested in it. They stood there talking about the plan for 30 minutes. When it was over, Neo leaned his hand towards Crackdown.

"Do we have a deal?" Neo asked. Crackdown looked at the hand getting offered to him and recapped the plan in his head. He was 100 percent with Neo on this one.

"Deal." Crackdown said, shaking his hand.

"Glad to have you back in the gang, Crackdown. You can have your ex-boss, I don't have a use for him." Neo said, walking out of the tent.

"With pleasure." Crackdown said, preparing himself for what he was about to do.