Chapter 7
Jack Hunt vs Jack Hunt (Wait What?)

It was now a week and a half into Souls recovery while staying at the hospital. He had received visitors only once since Twilight came the first time. It happened his fifth day in the hospital. Twilight had come by with her friends Rarity and Pinkie Pie and they had a small conversation about his health and how he was doing. Pinkie Pie had promptly got in to his personal space and proceeded to tell him that she was going to throw him a super duper party once he got out of the hospital. In person the hyperactive pink pony scared the ever living crap out of him. Rarity had politely said he should come by her shop when he could so they could talk. After that the three of them left and he had been left alone again. Albeit with two new chips bearing their images. They had each taken a look at the strange devices and after they left the images had appeared.

Souls was now allowed out of the bed and was able to move around on his own using a crutch designed to help him stay up. His shoulder was still far to weak to handle his weight along with the rest of his body so he had to walk around using it. His side was healing nicely although there would be scarring from the claw marks. His ribs on the inside had been set and were also healing nicely with the addition of healing magic that sped up the healing process. his neck and side of his head were doing fine as well despite the claw mark. Again there would be a lot of scars but they were nothing compared to being alright in the first place.

When he was out and about outside of his room, he had to have a nurse or volunteer accompanying him. Most of the time it was BonBon who accompanied him out of his room. It seemed she really liked to come volunteer here in her free time when she wasn't spending it with her room mate Lyra.

He hadn't had any conact from BlackWarGreymon's spirit or any of the other spirits since that first talk with BlackWarGreymon. It seemed the device was keeping itself quiet as far as that went for which he was grateful. During his time alone in his room he ended up reading books belonging to the hospital and from the library. It was just as he expected the whole place to be. Apparently Twilight and her friends had taken care of the Storm King only 5 months prior to him coming here. They hadn't faced the shadow stallion yet which he was grateful for but he wondered when it would happen. He also wondered just why he hadn't seen Starlight yet but guess she was probably out spending her time with her friends.

Heading towards the gardens, he gave a soft smile to BonBon who was accompanying him yet again. Souls pushed open the doors leading to the gardens and limped out into the bright warm sunlight. He grunted in contentment as the warmth of the sun played along his hide and bandages. Although the warmth did start making his bandages itch quite a lot from the heat. Ignoring the itching he turned his head to BonBon to ask a question.

"Excuse me Miss BonBon but could I perhaps be left in peace for a bit over in my usual spot?" he asked calmly.

She nodded her head with a soft smile,"Of course Mr. Souls. I won't be to far away so please call me when your ready to walk around the gardens some more or ready to head back inside." She trotted off to help with another patient who was having a hard time as he settled into his secluded spot in the gardens.

He figured now would be as good a time as any to take a look at his Archiver again and hopefully get it to work without his body being taken over by a spirit again. Setting his satchel down on the ground beside him, he sat on his haunches and opened the flap to look inside. Lazily picking one of the chips up in his hoof, he slipped it into one of the Archiver's slots with a soft click. He had just picked on at random while looking at the flowers for a moment.

The screen of the Archiver lit up as it analyzed the chip inside before beeping up at him. The screen had several messages for him to read at his leisure. He looked down at the first message that read,"Scanning of Keldeo Soul chip complete. Keldeo's soul is fully repaired and fully functioning again. Sychronization rates with Keldeo soul at this time is at 40 percent. This unit does not recommend using the Soul Unison at this time with the current Synchronization rate."

Frowning he dismissed the first message as he started reading the only other message,"User Shattered Souls is too injured to fully utilize Soul Unison at this time. This unit recommends the user recovers more before trying a Soul Unison." He swiped at the message with his hoof to dismiss this one as well grumbling at the machines attempts to stop him from investigating. He sighed and pressed the red button on the Archiver which made the chip slide up from its slot.

Taking the chip out of the slot it was ejected from, he put it back into the bag. Souls fished for another one and held it up to his face this time to see which he had chosen. He sighed as saw he had chosen BlackWarGreymon's soul chip and moved to place it into the device. Gently placing it into the Archiver, he heard the click and pressed the green button in the middle. The Archiver made a humming noise before beeping at him again with another message.

He moved his gaze down towards the screen of the Archiver again in order to read the message. It read,"Scanning of BlackWarGreymon's Soul chip complete. BlackWarGreymon soul functioning at full capacity. Current Synchronization rate is 80 percent. Soul Unison with BlackWarGreymon is possible at this time." He blinked in surprise at this but quickly dismissed the message with a flick of his hoof on the screen.

Frowning at the Archiver in thought, he reached down and pressed the green button in the middle yet again. The machine hummed again but did not stop this time even as it beeped up at him. The message he read this time simply said,"Please say the initiation phrase for Soul Unison program. Each soul chip may have a unique initiation phrase if the user wishes. This unit will record the user's voice and phrase and catalog it with the chip in use at the time."

He nodded to himself as he got to all four of his hooves and closed his eyes. Moving his hoof in front of him, he held his foreleg horizontal as he prepared his program initiation phrase. Finally deciding on the phrase he called out,"Time to Warp Digivolve! Soul Unison BlackWarGreymon!" The machine hummed and beeped with one last message even as the white light started to gather around him.

The last message on the machine read,"Initiation phrase recorded for BlackWarGreymon Soul chip. Phrase recorded and tagged to chip. Soul Unison program initiated. Time limit for current form......10 minutes." The light formed around him and he closed his eyes as he felt the changes happen.

Inside the ball of bright white light he could feel the different parts of the armor forming around his body and locking into place. The deadly claws of the armor attaching to the hoof guards on his hooves as the cast on his foreleg completely disappeared. The armor finally finished locking into place around him as the two halves of the shield appeared and attached with a heavy click to his back. Feeling a heavy coldness on his face, he knew that the mask/helmet had just appeared on his face. The bottom part of the mask appeared underneath and clicked into place with the top part making his appearance complete. He felt the sudden urge to just lash out with his claws so he did so. This shattered the ball of light around him letting golden triangle shaped pieces of light float to the ground around him.

He looked down at himself and finally saw the armor that had been described to him by Twilight. The first armor he had been seen wearing fighting off that Timber Wolf the first time they had met had been a mystery to him for a while. Observing the deadly claws attached to his hooves, he smiled at the feeling of familiarity from seeing the armor of BlackWarGreymon on himself.

He winced when he suddenly felt some kind of sensation in the back of his head. It felt like there was someone observing him all of a sudden as if questioning what he could possibly be doing. Then he heard BlackWarGreymon's voice in his head,"Kid why the heck did you call on me if there is no enemy to fight? Its a waste of time and energy. Besides I can do all the fighting myself. All you would do is hold me back."

Grumbling he spoke out loud,"Oh sure. Just let you take control of my body again to do all the fighting. That's not going to happen. I'm doing this to become experienced with the Archiver and so I can keep control of my body during these soul unisons. I'd like to keep control of my body thank you very much."

BlackWarGreymon sighed in his head,"I see. I guess that makes sense kid. Your just trying to get some training in. Well if that's what your going to do I'd suggest actually trying to use my attacks rather then standing there like an idiot. I believe your body can handle it despite being injured."

Nodding to no one in particular he moved towards a secluded clearing in the gardens farther away from BonBon. BonBon hadn't noticed the light or sounds because she was still busy helping a nurse out with the difficult patient. And no one else saw anything because they were in different parts of the garden. Finally arriving at his destination, he brought his good hoof out in front of him. He closed his eyes and got a feel for his body. He could feel some kind of tingling energy coursing through his body which he suspected was his body's innate magic keeping the transformation going. He felt more of it concentrated around his bad shoulder and leg. So his magic was probably reinforcing the damaged limb so he wasn't yelling in pain and could actually do stuff.

Opening his eyes he growled out in a bad imitation of BlackWarGreymon,"Dramon Killers." The claws glowed a bright white as he lashed out with his good leg leaving trailing lines of white light in the air. The lines of white light were in the shape of the claws and faded after about 10 seconds of hanging in the air. After he didn't make anymore slashes after another 15 seconds, the claws stopped glowing altogether and went back to normal.

Moving his hoof and leg backwards out to his side, he concentrated as he forced the energy in his body to move towards his claw. He called out,"Terra Destroyer!" And the energy rushed into the claw before forming a glowing bubbling black ball of flames in it. It was a ball of energy about the size of a baseball and that seemed to be all he could manage for now. Tossing it out in front of him he watched it sail quickly through the air before impacting against a hill in the distance which caused an explosion that sent smoke up into the air.

Unknowingly to him, Jack Hunt had been walking near this part of the gardens on his way to try and catch his friend in the hospital again when he saw the orb of energy fly off. Jack saw it cause the explosion, which caused him to quickly draw his sword off his back in his telekinetic grip. He galloped off towards the direction the orb came from only to skid to a stop when he saw the being before him. He could tell it was a unicorn before him wearing some kind of armor. He looked into the unicorn's eyes only to see a glowing red looking back at him.

Right before Jack Hunt appeared before him Souls heard BlackWarGreymon comment,"Kid that was one of the weakest attacks I have ever seen. You need to put far more into it. Just let me take over for a moment to show you how before this form disappears." Right after saying this Jack appeared in the clearing with drawn sword and glaring at him.

"I don't know who you are but I'm going to have to ask you to leave. Someone like you is only going to cause harm to the ponies around here and I can't let you do that." Jack growled at the unicorn before him.

Souls made to reply when BlackWarGreymon replied for him instead after taking over his body,"I'd like to see you try to make me leave kid. Luckily for you my time here is limited. But I'll leave you with a little parting gift first." He held out his claw and held it up,"Terra Destroyer!" He flung a basketball sized energy ball at Jack.

Jack rolled out of the way quickly as the ball of energy sailed past him impacting into the same hill in the distance. This caused a large crater to form in the hill as smoke rose into the air showing that something had happened there.
BlackWarGreymon floated up into the air as he readied yet another Terra Destroyer attack. Six minutes of his current form had passed and the time limit was swiftly approaching. He flung his foreleg out before him tossing the ball of energy down at Jack who somersaulted backwards to avoid the ball of energy. The ball of energy connected with the ground and caused another large explosion of. Dirt and grass was flung everywhere as large swaths of smoke erupted from the crater the explosion had created.

Jack coughed and heaved as he backed up further and his eyes teared up from the smoke. He couldn't see anything at the moment and yelled out,"Show yourself you cowardly yellow belly."

BlackWarGreymon chuckled as he landed on the ground and internally told Souls,"Here is where I pass back the reigns kid. You need to insert another chip and switch to a different soul unison before your magic is used up." With that he let Souls regain control as the Archiver appeared on his foreleg on top of the armor there. The satchel containing the chips appeared a few seconds later slung across the neck and chest of his armor. The claw around his bad leg disappeared as he huffed and puffed.

Figuring that he should probably follow BlackWarGreymon's advice, he pulled out another chip and quickly slotted it in. He pressed the green button in the middle of the Archiver causing the machine to hum again. It let out a beep with a new mesage for him to read,"Jack Hunt soul chip functioning at full capacity. Synchronization rate......90 percent. Soul Unison is available for use. Time to hold form at current energy levels.....15 minutes. Soul Unison program waiting to be initiated."

He called out in a modulated voice,"Unleash the power of the inner dragon! Soul Unison Jack Hunt Soul!" With a flash of light he was encapsulated in the bright light again. He could feel his body shifting as the armor of BlackWarGreymon completely disappeared. His legs elongated a bit as horns sprouted from the top of his head between his ears. They curled inwards like ram horns as draconic canine teeth grew from the top of his mouth as his tounge became serpentine. Great blue wings grew from his back and stretched out to either side of him as his tail changed from hair to a long blue dragon tail tipped with a bladed end. The fur on his body took on a dragon scaled appearance and the color of his coat became a darker shade of blue. Finally a blade appeared on his back looking exactly like Jack Hunts. New knoweledge of sword techniques and attacks filled his head as he felt instinctively how to use eletrical energy. Lashing out with a hoof he smashed the white orb around him to pieces and revealed himself.

The smoke of the crater had finally cleared enough for Jack to see and his eyes widened at what was there. Right in front of him he saw a version of himself very similiar to his true hybrid form. The biggest differences were that the coat color wasn't quite right and the other being's eyes were a distinct shade of steel gray. But what shocked him most of all was that this hybrid had an exact copy of his sword.

Growling at the hybrid before him,"I don't know who you are or where the other guy went. But I'll take you down just like I would have taken his cowardly hide down." He ran forwards in unicorn form and lashed out with his sword quickly in an expert sideswing.

Soul's dragon horns glowed with magic since he now lacked his unicorn horn and levitated his own sword to the side which blocked Jack's sword. He didn't speak as he instead moved forwards while channeling electricity into the sword causing it to spark. He went through a series of rapid swings which caused Jack to back up. Jack had to course electricity through his sword as well to offset his opponents while he blocked the swings.

"I can tell your not going to go down easy."Jack grunted as he jumped over his opponent and swung around to catch him in the back with his sword.

Without turning around, Soul's sword levitated behind him blocking Jack's strike with a clang of sparking metal against sparking metal. Lashing out with a follow up he shoved Jack's sword aside with his own and smacked Jack in the side of the face with the flat of the blade.

Yelping in pain and holding his face with his hoof, Jack cursed him and summoned a couple of ghostly weapons.

Souls' horns glowed brighter as he summoned two more ghostly weapons then Jack had and pressed his advantage and attack. Lashing out with four ghostly swords at Jack all from different directions as his true sword swung down at him.

Hunt showed his true sword mastery at this time as he expertly parried two of the ghostly swords with his own before lashing forwards with them to impale the other two ghostly swords by their hilts causing them to fade from existence. All the while he moved his sword in and blocked his opponent's sword before shoving it to the right. He made his own follow up by smacking Souls in the face a few times with the flat of his blade.

Souls backed up and took a deep breath as he instinctively forced his magic to the back of his throat and then exhaled spewing out a bolt of lightning at his foe. Hunt hadn't been expecting this and was caught in the chest full force by the bolt. It heaved him up off the ground into the air a few feet before he crashed back down. The bolt had left a heavy black mark on his chest and managed to knock him for a loop for the moment.

Souls was very weary now and staggered backwards as he quickly made the Archiver appear on his foreleg. He quickly pressed the third and last button on the device and with a flash of light the Soul Unison aborted and the chips ejected from the device. They flew right back into his satchel as the flap cloased and he looked very weary. Finally the fatigue of the battle hit him as well as the fatigue from all the magic he had used. His vision swam before him and before he knew it his body had slumped to the ground. His vision faded and he fell completely unconcious.

Jack groaned in pain as he forced himself back to his hooves. Looking around for his opponent he found no one but the unicorn he had met before. A broken crutch lay on the ground next to the unicorn while he groaned in pain while unconscious. Jack rushed over and observed his surroundings to make sure his look a like had left. He figured he had scared his doppelganger off and counted it as a win for himself. He quickly levitated the unconscious unicorn in his grip and headed back for the hospital. Thus the battle of Jack Hunt vs himself came to an end with the true Jack Hunt being victorious.

Author's Note

Woo. Hey Everyone. I got two chapters done in one day. It felt pretty good. I can only hope that I've been living up to all of your expectations. I decided to have this one farther apart on the timeline then the last one. I made sure to mention that he had been visited by Twilight again. So overall I'm satisfied with my work. Comment on the parts you liked or pm me with an oc you'd like me to add to the story.