Project New Genesis

After a few minutes of falling, Jacob landed on Terra-2. Impact was hard, but Jacob survived it.

Solid ground detected. Opening escape pod.

Jacob left the escape pod and took a deep breath. "Good, old oxygen." He looked around. Jacob landed in the middle of the forest, on some kind of glade. Behind him were castle's ruins and canyon. Jacob looked into his escape pod. In left container were first-aid kit, reserves of nourishing packs and water for 2 weeks. In the right one was fire extinguisher with liquid nitrogen, plasma pistol (works as flare and self-defense), survival guide and backpack. In the front one were, ironically, all tools and parts needed to repair the escape pod. "You're shitting me." Jacob said to himself. In the back container were radiation suit, winter clothes and swim suit with oxygen cylinder. Jacob grabbed a bottle of water and one of food packs. He took a bite of dry, square, brown cake. "Tastes like engine oil, but will be okay. At least, water doesn't have taste."

After his not-very-tasty meal, Jacob decided to check what's under that canyon, because he found stairs. Downstairs was a crystal tree with wipes made of balls. On it's branches were holes in different shapes: butterfly, balloon, lightning, diamond and apple. In the middle was hole in the shape of six-arms star. "First day on the planet and already ruins and weird tree." Jacob commented and left the canyon.

Jacob looked inside of escape pod, once again. It had only useless radio. Without Athena, radio was only a piece of junk. It was hot outside, so he took of his black, space armor. Luckily, he had all his normal clothes under it.

"I told you, I saw something falling." Jacob heard a female voice.

"Fuck, more talking horses." He thought, grabbed plasma gun and hid behind the capsule.

"What, on Equestria, is that?" Jacob heard another female voice.

"Equestria? So this is their name for the planet." Jacob thought and decided to hear a little.

"I don't know, but it looks awesome." The first one said. "Wait. I see something. It's an armor. It has some name on it. 'J. Dracons'?"

"Kinda weird name." Second one commented. "It doesn't look like ponish. Gauntlets have some kind of claws. Helmet is pretty oval."

"It would fit for a monkey or dragon." The first one said again.

"Maybe owner is close?"

"Twilight, I think I found him." Jacob looked above. It was a pale blue pegasus with rainbow mane and magenta eyes.

"Hello, there." Jacob heard the second voice. He looked right. It was a lavender hybrid of unicorn and pegasus with purple eyes and dark blue mane. It also had strands in two shades of purple. "Are you okay... sir?"

"Except talking with horses, everything's fine." Jacob said nervously.

"Em, we're ponies, monkey." The pegasus one said.

"Rainbow, show some compassion." Hybrid said angry. "I'm sorry for her."

"First thing, I'm a human. Second thing, you don't have to sorry. Third thing, yes, I'm J. Dracons. Jacob Dracons." Jacob introduced himself.

"It's nice to meet you, Mr. Dracons. My name is Twilight Sparkle and this is my friend, Rainbow Dash." She said, pointing at pegasus.

"Good to meet some nice ponies, instead demonic unicorns." Jacob turned that situation into joke. "By the way, you're 'Princess' Twilight Sparkle?"

"Yes, I am." She responded. "But, what do you mean, saying 'demonic unicorns'." Twilight asked worried.

"Does name 'King Sombra' rings a bell?" Jacob asked straight.

Twilight's eyes whitened. "But... He's dead." She said scared.

"Well, he's very alive. He destroyed our spaceship, Athena."

Twilight's jaw dropped. "You... you're from... from space?"

"Well, yeah."

Twilight made 'eep' sound. "You have to tell me everything. Your native planet, your race history, your technology..."

Jacob closed her mouth. "Take it easy." He said. Jacob opened his bionic arm and took of h-tablet. "Everything is here."

"It's a metal stick." She said disappointed.

Jacob pressed the button and tablet activated, presenting a hologram database. "It has like 25 Zetabytes of data. Or 250 libraries. It has history, science, culture and technology."

"Rainbow, pinch me, because I think I'm dreaming." Twilight said, hugging a tablet.

"Wow, that's awesome." Rainbow said, pointing Jacob's implant.

"You mean my arm?" Jacob asked. "Yeah, it's pretty awesome. It's called 'bionics'. Or bioengineering. It's technology compatible with human and animal biology."

"It says, that Bionics helped already 230 mln people and 20 000 animals." Twilight said, reading an article on tablet. Jacob was confused, because it was flying in some kind of purple aura. The same one was on Twilight's horn.

"Wait, you can do telekinesis, without any implants?" Jacob asked, pointing her horn.

"It's natural for unicorns. And it's called levitation spell."

"Spell?" Jacob's brain had more question than earlier. "You mean 'magic'? Like 'Harry Potter'?"

"Who?" Twilight asked surprised.

"You know, that kid with glasses and bolt scar on forehead who lived in school for sorcerers and he's friends with nerd and redhead." Jacob explained. "Right. Different planet, different stories." He said and facepalmed. "Jacob, you fucking idiot."

"I guess, it was a curse." Rainbow investigated. "Anyways, don't you have magic, on your planet?"

"We have technology. We don't have magic." Jacob explained.

Twilight was still researching on tablet. She was literally in a trance. Rainbow started to suit in Jacob's armor. Engineer decided to look closer on second from the two mares. Rainbow Dash was definitely an athlete. Jacob also heard in her voice something from prankster. She had a rainbow lightning on her rump. "Nice tattoo, Rainbow." He said.

Rainbow made confused face and flew closer to Jacob. "I don't have any tattoos. Ah, you mean my cutie mark?"

"Say what now?" Jacob said, with another question in his mind.

"It's a symbol of my special talent." Rainbow explained.

"It means, you can fart with rainbow lightnings?" Jacob joked and heard a muffled giggle from rainbow-maned mare.

"We like jokes, don't we?" Rainbow made a grin with raised eyebrow.

"I just wing it and it goes by itself." Rainbow again giggled.

"Make it stop!" She begged. Jacob was very confused, because no one was laughing or even giggling by his bad humor.

"Am I that good?"

"You're that bad."

"Is it a crime, to be a bad joker? If yes, they should lock me away and destroy the key. If no, well... they should do this anyway, because I'm the most dangerous bad joker in whole galaxy! Or maybe I just hit my head, when I fell from the sky. Who knows?" Jacob could talk like this for eternity. "Anyways, what's your special talent?"

"I'll better show you."

Rainbow Dash spread up her wings and flew up with masive speed. After a few seconds, pegasus started to fly down even faster. Then, behind her, appeared giant, rainbow sonic wave, what damaged a few trees nearby and destroyed the windows in Jacob's escape pod, what he couldn't destroy with his bionic arm, what was 5 times stronger than normal.

"Holy fuck..." Jacob said, when he was fixing his new, pomfy hairstyle into his normal one. Twilight was still reading, like it was nothing. "Did someone wrote this atomic bomb's code?" Jacob murmured, still frozen by this show.

"Am I awesome or am I awesome?" Rainbow asked in heroic pose. Jacob took a isolation knife from escape pod and cut on ground '(AWESOME)1000', because he couldn't speak. Maybe he wasn't the best at maths, but Jacob knew, how to use it in bad jokes. "This is passable answer." Rainbow responded with smile.

"Did I miss something?" Twilight asked surprised. "I had to read too much. This is fascinating. I've never seen so much data. And so many cultures. Your planet is wonderful place."

"You mean Earth or Mars?" Jacob asked with little sad tone.

"Earth. Is there any problem?"

Jacob grabbed the tablet and wrote a phrase 'Earth's destruction' and gave it back to Twilight. "It was a paradise. But, 30 years ago, World War III outbroke. It was complete genocide. 76% of Earth's population died in week. The rest of us was forced to leave the ruins and settle on Mars."

"I... I'm sorry." Twilight said, feeling guilty speaking about it.

"I wasn't even made there, so I don't feel bad. I'm not Jacob Dracons from Earth. I'm Jacob Dracons from Mars. Maybe I should say, why did I come here, because, I suppose, you're the ruler of this region."

"No, I'm not. I'm only a Princess of Friendship."

"Interesting title. But who's in charge here."

"Well, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna rule all over Equestria, staying on guard of our sun and moon."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, they both are controlling the day and the night."

Normally, Jacob couldn't believe, that two creatures are capable to control celestial bodies, but after what happened, he could even believe in God.

"Are they sisters or gay marriages are legal here?" Jacob said with dose of humor.

"They are sisters. Alicorn sisters." Rainbow joined the conversation. "They made Twilight an alicorn, too."

"So, they can change gens of others?" Jacob asked. "Right, magic. Okay, lead to the leader. I've always wanted to say that."

Jacob in company of two ponies walked into thick, dark forest. He still felt weird in company of talking ponies, but he didn't care, until they would attack him. Engineer took with himself his armor, plasma pistol and some tools, like screwdriver, soldering iron or laser saw. Twilight was still reading on tablet, what Jacob gave her. Rainbow was looking for any signs of danger.

Jacob felt, like something was watching them, so he decided to put on his armor and have his pistol ready. Darkness of the forest reminded him about some dark unicorn.

"So, who exactly is that 'King Sombra'?" Jacob asked.

"About 1000 years ago, in Crystal Empire..."

"I know that part, but who's this guy?"

"He's the dark unicorn, corrupted by the Dark Magic. He don't know, what 'mercy', 'kindness' or 'friendship' means. He was defeated by Princess Celestia and Luna, about 1000 years ago and by me and my friends, 4 years ago."

"Okay, he's not Darth Vader. He's fucking Satan! Has he tried to buy you with a promise of great power?" Jacob asked.

"No, he hasn't. Why do you ask?"

"He tried to do this with me, saying 'You're special', 'You have potential' and shit like this. He also said, that my blood returned him here. I mean, back to the living world."

"Wait a minute..." Rainbow Dash said. "I've read about something like this."

"You only read 'Daring Do', Rainbow." Twilight said surprised by Rainbow's words.

"Yeah. It was in 'Daring Do and the Temple of the Eclipse'!"

"The one, when Daring Do is fighting with cultists of the Nightmare Moon?"

"That one."

"Now I remember. Daring Do found there a book, called 'The Dark Codex'. It says, that anyone, who saves dark mage's life, he will become his student."

"But Daring Do came there, kicked their flanks, destroyed book and the temple and saved Equestria once again." Rainbow finished the tale. Jacob had no idea, what they both were talking about.

"Daring Do? Nightmare Moon? I'm reminding, that I'm an alien." Jacob said.

"Sorry." Twilight said. "Daring Do is a character from the adventure book and Nightmare Moon is a dark alter ego of Princess Luna. I guess, that I shouldn't say the last one."

"Well, if she's not talking to herself, that is all right." Jacob said without any worries.

"She's not." Twilight assured. "But, why Sombra would do that?"

"Maybe even bad guys know, what does it mean to 'owe someone'." Jacob proposed. "There's any way to kill him for sure?"

"I don't know..." Twilight said with head down.

"If there is, I'm going to find it." Jacob said with determination. "That bastard destroyed my way back, so I'm stuck on this planet."

"Does anyone come with you?"

"Yes, but they can be anywhere on this planet. For now, their status is 'missing' or 'dead'." Jacob's voice was cold. It could even freeze sun.

"Was there anyone close to you?"

"My older brother, Raymond." Jacob confessed. "In our siblings relation, he has brain and seriousness, I have face and humor. I know, he likes my jokes and pranks, even if he have never showed that. Or, he liked." That turned on something in Jacob's brain. "Does your brother is the handsome one?" Jacob asked Twilight.

"Well, Shining Armor went to the royal army, just when he grown up and... Wait, how do you know, that I have brother?"

"Sombra."

"Oh. Anyways, yes. I'm egghead, he's muscles. But he's not an idiot."

"Yeah. He almost married queen of shape-changing bugs." Rainbow said with devilish smile.

"Dark unicorns, creatures controlling celestial bodies, shape-changing bugs... I'm starting to like this planet." Jacob said with sarcasm. "Anyways, I hope, that nothing will attack..." Jacob's sentence was interrupted by strong stink, similar to not very fresh breath mixed with rotten Brussels sprouts. "Jesus, something died here?"

"Oh no..." Twilight groaned. "Timberwolfs found us! Run!"

Ponies and engineer started to run. Mares were much faster than Jacob, so he was far away from them. Jacob managed to reach a little lake and jumped on a one of rocks. From the woods jumped wolf made of sticks, with green eyes.

"Suck my dick, wooden asshole!" Jacob said, showing a finger to the creature. His happiness was broken by a gurgle. The safe harbor happened to be a crocodile. "FUCK!" Engineer screamed and jumped off the dangerous island. Right in front of timberwolf. Jacob reminded, that he has a gun and shoot down the beast, turning it into a piece of sticks. Jacob laughed once, but timberwolf shortly returned to his previous form and bit off pistol's barrel. Jacob looked at the gun with fear. "I fucking hate this planet."

Jacob started to run again. "Wait, I have Grasshopper." Jacob opened a panel on his bionic arm and pressed some holographic buttons.

"Grasshopper implant: Online."

Jacob made a short jump and started to jump, like giant spring. Grasshopper is a special bionic implant, what accessed it's user to us very long and far jumps and fall from a big height. It was standard implant for Project Horizon's members. One of many others.

Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle left the forest in one piece.

"Have you seen Jacob?" Twilight asked her friend.

"No, I lost him." Rainbow answered.

Then, their guess from other planet, landed in front of them. He was heavy breathing and started to press holographic buttons again. "Grasshopper implant: Offline." The defect of special bionic implants is that they are very overstraining for their user, so they can't be used often and long. Jacob cleaned blood dropping off his nose.

"I'm never going back to that forest!" Jacob cried out and fell on the ground.

"Are you okay?" Twilight asked.

"Except being chased by wooden wolf, stone crocodiles and getting overstrain by my implants, it's a fucking heaven!" Jacob said with angry and tired sarcasm. "I need shower, bed and food. In that order."

"Let's go back to Ponyville." Rainbow said. "He doesn't look well."

"You're right, Rainbow." Twilight agreed and helped Jacob to stand up.

"Thank you, Twilight." Jacob sighed. He took a single step and fell on the ground with groan. "Fuck. I think, that my legs are striking." He joked to make his situation little better.

"Rainbow, stay with him. I'll get her Applejack with carriage." Twilight said with worry.

"Okay, Twilight."