Author's Note

This is my first shot at writing a displaced story. Enjoy!

I love that Merchant

Have you ever done something, said something, or bought something and then regret it instantly? No? Doesn't it feel fucking awesome! I mean if you haven't then I feel bad, just don't blame me for your fucking mistake.

Okay some backstory, I never had a regular, normal, boring, uneventful life. I was a history and physics teacher at Harvard University. I'm a brony, I became one from watching the show My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic with my nieces when I would babysit them. I'm also a huge video game and anime enthusiast. I should probably give an introduction. My name is Jack, no last name as I don’t wanna be stalked, and I have come to comic-con all dressed up as well. But not as an anime character and unfortunately I didn't have the skills to make an original costume, oh no no no. I am here as my favorite Lord protector Corvo from Dishonored. I was excited for a couple reasons, the first and foremost being I was at Comic-Con and the second being I was excited to see other people in their cosplay and the last reason was because I was definitely going home with a lot of stuff.

I stretched my arms wide over my head once I finally got off the bus. Me and many other anonymous people stood in front of a large building, everybody all dressed up in some fashion. I saw one guy that had a modified robe with fists on it, he looked like a muscular wizard. It was pretty funny honestly. I looked at other cosplayers and noted the good ones, the great ones, and the bad ones. I shrugged my shoulders, adjusted my sweet assassin's hood and strutted towards the building.

I pulled out my iPhone, put on my headphones, and put on some sweet, sweet music. I adjusted my trench coat and danced around a bit while I walked alongside people. I got some stares and some people actually join me and started dancing just sort of following my lead since they couldn't hear the music, it has always been a hobby of mine to make people feel like they aren't alone and that they can be them selves around me. My friends call me the giant teddy bear, though I just see it as being friendly.

I mellowed out a bit with the dancing as I got to the more crowded part of the inner building. I’m weird, but not much of an asshole thank you very much. I looked around at all of the sweet stalls and even took a few pictures with my phone when I saw a particularly good cosplay. I just finished a conversation with someone using my Corvo impression (you know the one do you thin smooth) and fist bumping a fellow brony when I came across an interesting stall.

It was not just any stall; it was a stall that sold the most random assortment of goods that I had ever seen, and I've been in thrift stores that sold alcohol next to baby clothes. I won’t list them because, honestly, I my eyes keepet wondering around all over the cool stuff that was on display that I couldn't keep track of it all. The guy who worked in the stall was dressed up as the Merchant from Resident Evil 4, he even got the voice down pat, you know with the cockney (south east/west london) accent.

"Hello stranger what are you buying?" he asked me with that Australian like accent.

"Not sure yet, just looking for now." I replied.

As I was looking around at what he had for sale, and he had a lot, I was having a had time choosing until my eyes found the things that I wanted.

"I'll take the assassin's mask, the Paarthurnax statue, the Aldrin statue, the Deathwing statue, the Durnehviir statue, the Sindragosa statue, the sayin tail along with the capsule corps. Hyperbolic Time Chamber and gravity room capsules and Gogeta's vest, those three books of magic, that syringe with the blacklight virus in it, Ichigo's swords, Sasuke's Rinnegan and Naruto's Nine tails Sage Mode, discord's lion paw glove and the smoozes hat and bow tie, a piece of ambrosia from Hercules the Legendary Journey, kenichi's armguards, a Skyrim medallion, Dante's sword and guns, the statue of rava as well as the stones with the elements carved into them, two lightsabers with the Grey Jedi oth (one had a white gem the other one had a black gem) also those two keychains of Bahamut and Fenrir." I told him.

He looked at me and then started laughing, really hard.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you're an interesting person stranger and a man of good taste, that'll be $6,978.58." he said to me as he got all my things together.

"Thank you my good man." I said to him as I paid him.

"Enjoy your trip." he told me.

I was so going to enjoy the rest of my trip with all the cool stuff i bought, i was so happy that i gave him a winning smile and a fist bump. After fist bumping him for I left the stall. With my new stuff in hand I started walking away when I felt really dizzy, i could feel myself start to fall and then everything flashed white and than everything immediately went black.

As I starting to come to I felt a breeze on my face, heard birds chirping, and felt grass underneath me. As I stood up I noticed I wasn't at the convention anymore, I was in the woods by an old abandoned castle, one that I recognized as the castle of the Two Sisters from My Little Pony friendship is Magic, it was a beautiful sight. Yet the only thing I could think of was 'Wellp looks like we're not in Kansas anymore.' With that thought in mind I decided to take stock on what I had and I immediately noticed that all of the things I bought we're gone and I also had the mark of the Outsider on the back of my left hand. I didn't think much of it considering I had it put on as a washable tattoo. As I continued to look for my stuff I couldn't find any trace of the things I had bought, though I did still have my phone which I was very happy about.

I took my phone out to see what was up, not surprising at all I had no service however the battery icon was in a state of charge which I found weird because it wasn't attached to a portable charger, so I filed that away as something to investigate later. The time sad that I was 12:15 in the afternoon, I'm not sure how accurate that is though.

However I did find three apps that weren't there before, they were called inventory, magic, and skills. So I clicked on inventory and to my great surprise I found most of everything that I bought in there with damages out put, weight, and how much they sold for. I backed out of the inventory app and then I checked out the skills and magic apps. I had somehow acquired all the skills of the items that I had bought and same with the magic, needless to say I was excited as all hell.

During my excitement I heard I heard a scream coming from the west of where I was. So I equipped my assassin's mask and using my newfound agility and speed took off in that direction.

After about 2 minutes of running and jumping through the forest I came upon a swamp and what I saw made my eyes go wide. I saw Hydra about to eat an anthro Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie(this is also what Maud will look like), Twlight and Spike. Looking over the situation I quickly moved myself between the Hydra and them. Calling upon the force, I pushed the Hydra back good 10 feet.

"Run, I'll keep him distracted while you guys get away!" I said to them as I looked over my shoulder.

"Are you crazy that things going to kill you!" Twilight yelled at me in protest.

Before I could give a retort my attention was drawn back to the Hydra as it roared in frustration or anger I'm not sure which it was all I know is that he was pissed. Deciding to focus on the immediate threat I dashed up to the Hydra ready to take it down. As I was running towards the Hydra it decided to bring it's tail down on me, I quickly equipped my lightsabers and cut off it's tail before it could do any damage.

It roared in pain as it took a couple steps back but I didn't let up as I jumped up and cut of one of its heads. As I landed behind the creature I quickly turned around, jumped up again and this time came straight down with both my lightsabers and sliced the Hydra in half. As it fell in two different directions I saw the surprised and awe inspired looks from the ones I had just saved. I unequiped the lightsabers and walked up to them.

"Well, I'm glad to see your all still ok." I said as I stood in front of them.

"THAT WAS AWSOME!" both Pinkie and Spike yelled in unison.

"I was just trying to make sure that you all made it home safe and sound." I replied trying to be humble and hide my own excitement of the feet that I just accomplished.

As I said this Twilight turned to Pinkie and said,"You were right Pinky, that was a doozy."

"Nope it wasn't him." was her simple reply.

"What?" was Twilights dumbfoundead question.

"He wasn't doozy." Pinkie told her.

"Well I see you have stuff to talk about so I'm gonna go. I'll see you guys around." I said as I backed away and used my chaos magic to bring me back to the castle of the Two Sisters.

As I appeared in front of the castle ruins I decided to walk inside of the structure. I use my phone to bring up my inventory list and took out the capsule with the hyperbolic Time Chamber. I clicked the top, tossed it and was rewarded with a satisfying *poof* sound, and there before me stood the door to the hyperbolic Time Chamber.

With determination and a purpose I walked up to it, and went inside. Let's see if I can figure out what's going on and maybe I can see what else I can do.