Author's Note

Here you go valued readers the next installment of The American Scrapyard Blacksmith

chapter 2

GETTING A HOOF ON THINGS

P.O.V. SHIFT

Rostlus

I awoke from a pleasant night of sleep to the sound of movement from where I think the blacksmith area was. I went through the morning routine of: brushing teeth, showering, 'other things', and putting on clean clothes. I walked in the kitchen wearing a black T-shirt and grey jogging shorts, to see a dome covered plate with a sticky note. "Yo, Rost here is some breky, by the way, I found out some neat things while you were asleep," "Heh you goof, I could have made my own," I took off the lid and saw steam rising off of the two well-done hash-browns and a breakfast burrito. After I ate the food, which was the best tasting food I've ever had. I went outside to see what those noises were and try and find Tanker. "HEY!, Tanker you out here?" "Yeah, just let me finish up here," I looked over at the blacksmith area to see Tanker and two robots working on something. "Yo, Tank, what you doin there?" It looked like a bunch of small items. "I'm working on something I found out from some books I found in a bookshelf that was in my room," "Ok, I'm gonna go train with my weapon," "Alright, have fun!"

P.O.V. SHIFT

Kevin/Tanker

When I woke up to answer the call of nature, I was still thinking over my conversation with Luna it went great, so I tried to do reading. I ended up with reading five out of the thirty or so books on the bookshelf, but what I learned was awesome and I wanted to put my engineering skills to use, after all, that's what I did in college, If you're wondering of what I'm talking about let me tell you a story. When I was still in school, my intelligence was not well known among my peers, so I worked and worked and ended up with a unique opportunity, since my school allowed us to work at our own pace I was way ahead of everyone else, so when I was offered to start my college classes in the middle of my final year of high-school, I took it and went with the math and engineering classes, I eventually finished those and graduated with a large amount of papers in my hands, but in truth I zoned out for most of the graduation party and I decided I didn't need to go to college, mainly because of the money I was earning. it also helps that I didn't really have much of a family, because my parents were ones I didn't care about, I have no idea why though. Anyway, let me tell you what I was working on, I was working on a device from a certain game I played but it has a fuck ton of tiny parts so it was difficult to put together and engrave the runes, but it was worth it and it was done so I called Rostlus over. "Hey!, Rost!, I finished the thing I was working on!" he came over from the other side of the house wearing his armored robes sans the hood, with his short sword on his belt. "Well, what did you make, Tanker?" I held up the new automaton I made, "Here is our new buddy, Buzz Beak! Buzz Beak, was based of a parrot so it can speak and repeat all manner of things," I turned him on and he scanned me and Rostlus to identify us as his masters, then he flew up and around the cavern shining his eye-lights everywhere, then he decided to land on my outstretched finger. "Buzz, say hello," It came out sounding like an autotuned pipsqueak, "Hello, Master Rostlus," "Aww, he is so adorable, hello, Buzz," "SQUAK!" Buzz proceeded to hover over to Rost and land on his shoulder. "Anyway, Rost, I worked on our armor so we don't have to clean them and our helmets can do some amazing things," "That was a weird thing to bring up," "I know, I know, its just I couldn't think of anything else to talk about," "It's ok, Tanker, anyway I'm gonna go explore," "Alright, have fun and don't forget Buzz,"

P.O.V. SHIFT

Rostlus

When I walked out of the vault door with Buzz Beak on my shoulder, I appeared at the entrance to a cave. "Well, the explains why when I looked out the vault door all I saw was nothing," I walked around expanding the discovered area of my upper right corner mini-map, but while I was doing that I started dredging up old memories of my years on earth. the house in the middle of nowhere, playing by the stream, my graduation of high school, my 24 birthday, and abandoning my father in the house after he set it on fire and saying I was a demon spawn, ahh, definitely the good old days.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

"Buzz Beak go check it out ill be there soon,"

P.O.V. SHIFT

3rd person

Rostlus ran as fast as he could following Buzz Beak's tracker rune. He dodged incoming trees, bushes, upturned roots, and small divots. Hoping against hope that he could make it in time and help the pony or ponies in danger. Meanwhile three fillies known as the CMC were running towards our bird obsessed friends trying to get away from the three timber wolves chasing them. Then one of them tripped causing the other two to stop in there tracks. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo worried for their friend, stopped and the cutie with a bow in here mane asked "Sweetie Belle are ya alright?" "Y-yeah, but I can't move," soon they were surrounded by the three timber wolves. But before they could pounce there was a mighty war cry akin to an enraged predator's mother. Then out of the trees came a strange metal clad creature we know as Rostlus. He charged the biggest of the three timber wolves and took off its head in on swing he then did a backflip and mounted the second timber wolf, he stabbed it in both of its eyes and spun of the timber wolf taking its head with him, and he threw the head with the short sword into the third timber wolf's head with such force both heads shattered. (music stops here)

P.O.V. SHIFT

Rostlus

I walked over to the awestruck fillies, crouched down and said in the most calming voice I could, "Hello, little ones,"