Balanced as Everything Should Be

by Omnicsarebest18

Chapter one: Fool me Once

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(???) Jack’s PoV

Uhhhhhh what?
I started to wake up in what looked like a black void with no end in sight, or was it no start in sight? This is just confusing, basically I have no idea where I am. Getting up I looked around and noticed a chair and desk behind me.

'I swear that was not there before.' I thought to myself as I approached it slowly.
Looking at the desk I noticed that on the chair there was what looked like a small laptop with what looked like a symbol of a theater mask on the top of it.

Seeing that I had nowhere else to go I decided to sit down and place the laptop on the desk. Should I open this? For all I know I could be dreaming right now. Yeah that's it, I'll probably wake up and second now.

….

….

Any second now.

Okay I'm not dreaming. I decided to open the laptop and find out what the hell is happening. Pressing the power button the computer then turned on showing someone with a dark silhouette of a adult man.

"Hello Jack Penhall, I am Carter, your assistant A.I." Said the … A.I? The voice seemed to be coming from the speakers of the laptop so I'll just assume its telling the truth. But why? Why am I here? And where the hell is the bathroom?

'You wish for a purpose, a destiny, or a mission, correct? Said Carter.

'U-um yes'. I said nervously. This is somewhat scaring me, seeing the place I'm in.

"Allow me to explain the situation, you will become a displaced short for dimensionally misplaced, someone who was taken from their home world to the land of Equestria as a certain character from a movie or game." Explained Carter.

Wait Equestria? From My Little Pony? I admit I would sometimes watch the show to pass the time and I decently know the lore. Saying nothing I allowed Carter to continue the explanation.

"There are other displaced and you can communicate with them with a token and most of them are placed in Equestria without much of a purpose." Explained Carter. So there are others like me? This will definitely be interesting.

"Well this will be different, you will be sent to this world to balance it, and instead of being sent as a character you will simply have multiple abilities." Said Carter. Almost as if sensing my confusion he continued to speak in his voice that sounded surprisingly like Batman's butler Alfred.

"There is far too much good in that world, little to no evil at all, so you will be sent to bring evil." Said Carter

"You must become the Puppet Master, with your skills you can make masks and puppets into villain characters from movies or games to serve you and your mission of evil and balance." Explained Carter. Holy crap I can make puppets of villains?! This is both so cool and really REALLY surreal!

"When you create a puppet it will perfectly copy the biology and personality of that villain, but they will be forever devoted to you and will follow your orders without question, it is also impossible to reverse a puppet to its base state." Said Carter.

"In the end they are puppets but if someone were to scan the lifeforce of the puppet they will see them as alive, and will act perfectly like they are alive, they will even interact with each other." Explained Carter.

"If you have any questions you may ask sir." Good thing he asked because I have a few.

"Will I have any abilities?" I asked.

"You will have magic capabilities exceeding power most hold in that world, and you will also have accelerated healing ." Wait what? That was my answer to Lee's question when he asked me what powers I would want."

"Um can you give me the history of Equestria?" I asked bracing myself for the long lesson. Surprising me though it never came. I shockingly felt like I knew the history from the tribes uniting to the second defeat of discord.

"Wait wasn't there more than that?" I asked curiously.

"You will be sent to that time period." Said Carter.

Oh man that's gonna be a great advantage because in the scenario I'm going to know the future very well. Who knew spoilers would be so powerful sometimes? And you know what they say. Always be 3 steps ahead of your enemy. Wait why am I thinking like that?

"I will now show you the rules of your mission." Said Carter. His form then disappeared showing a numbered list of rules. I then started to read down the list taking in every detail.

  1. Bring Evil by any means necessary balance is of the utmost importance

  2. Do not kill any of the main characters this includes the Main Six, the Princesses, Shining Armour, and Discord, you may injure them as much as you wish but you may not kill them

  3. Do not create celestial beings you cannot control them and do not create any characters from the show

  4. You will have to finish quests to increase your limit of puppets, your beginning limit will be 2 puppets

  5. You cannot create puppets of superheroes, you can only make puppets of villains and certain anti heroes

I literally have to fight against a power of a country with all of this? This will likely be hard to pull off, but then again Equestrias military power is pretty weak. If I'm going to want to increase my power I would need to complete as many quests as possible. I also noticed that at the bottom of the page there were a few things I needed to read.

Extra features
Powering
This unit can also work as a unlimited power source, anything that requires power you can simply have to touch this laptop with anything that needs it and it will charge.

Privacy
No one other than you will be able to read what is on this unit, this is for you and you only to see.

Assistance
Carter will be able to assist you when you need any extra support

"Ok Carter I think I got everything." I said preparing myself for what's likely to be the biggest adventure to be.

"Then lets go."


(Equestria) (Everfree Forest) Jack’s PoV

Slowly waking up I look around at the scenery and it appears that I'm in some sort of forest, and taking a guess its probably the Everfree. And jeez it looked more terrifying than it did in the show, all around me I'm seeing dark trees with what looked like faces and I could barely see because of how dark it is.
Turning around I notice there was a pond not too far from me. Walking towards it I look at my reflection and boy am I surprised.
Gone were my original cloths and instead replaced with what looked to be a large black cloak and pants with a white outline. I had waterproof combat boots on, and on my chest was a white robe and covering it was what looked like a grey military combat vest. The one thing that mainly caught my attention was that I was eight feet tall! Another thing I noticed was on my face was a mask covered in gradient red color and a black line reaching from the left of the mask to the right.

"What the?" I asked myself. I then noticed that when I spoke the line spiked replicating my voice when I spoke.

"What is this?." I asked with curiosity.

My hands moved themselves over the mask, checking to see if what I saw was real.

"Can you hear me sir?" Said Carter surprising and making me jump a little.

"Yeah I can hear you Carter, are we in the Everfree Forest? I asked curiously and also trying to ease my fear.

"Yes we are sir, to the north you will likely reach Ponyville and to the south you will reach the ruins of the castle of the two sisters." Explained Carter. Seeing as its likely the best option at the time I started to head south towards the ruins. On my way I continued to examine myself, I started to notice that I was definitely 8 feet tall, with much more bulk, and I felt like I could almost sense everything around me. Realizing something I decided to ask Carter a question.

"Carter, if is there a way to keep a magical storage of some kind? It would be pretty difficult to simply carry everything around." I asked.

"You can use a few certain types of magic to accomplish that, you can use a personal vault spell unique to you where you can store anything by simply willing it to storage and willing it to come out when you need it, you can also resize any object you wish, there are other ways but you will have to deal with that after the fight sir." Said Carter.

I then felt a threat coming from behind me, multiple actually. Turning around I saw 4 timber wolves slowly approaching me growling with murderous intent. Quickly preparing myself the first wolf charged at me jumping at me to try and rip my throat out.
I then felt it, a strong will I never felt before! Before the Timberwolf could reach me I extended my fist in a strong but firm punch to its head shattering the predator instantly. The others had flinched not expecting me to be this strong and in truth I hadn't expected it either.

But then again I am a gigantic superhuman now.

They then tried something risky, they all charged at me at the same time. Reacting swiftly I delivered a powerful roundhouse kick the Timberwolf on the Far left and then swatting the others away, but not before the both sunk their teeth into my right leg.

"Ahhhhh!" I yelled. It actually didn't hurt that badly, it surprised me more really. Was that the new villainous part of me? The strength and endurance? The resistance to pain? I then pushed them both back knocking them off balance.

Staring at the others I then did something they didn't expect. I RAN at them! Grabbing both of them by their heads I slammed them on the ground over and over and over until they were piles of sticks not recognizable as the terrifying wolves they once were.

Knowing they were going to regenerate I lifted my leg I stomped on the pile of twigs destroying them completely and causing a small quake to shock the area. Looking at the pile of splinters I lift up my pant leg looking at the wound. And the wound was HEALING quickly!

"I really do have all of this power!" I yelled.

This is so much to take in. At the same time though, I'm afraid. I can seriously hurt someo-

...

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I then realized something. I was strong! I have a purpose! If my purpose is to be a villain then I'm going to be the worst villain of them all!

Prepare yourself Equestria!

The puppetmaster is here!


After that long and determined rant I continued to walk down the path towards the castle until I eventually reached a rope bridge that looked like it was going to snap at any second.

'Ok Jack, one step at a time.' I thought to myself.
Slowly stepping one foot at a time I started to walk across the damaged bridge. With the fact that I was almost 8 feet tall and probably a lot more heavier than I once was I was really, REALLY freaking out. On the fourth step the bridge started to shake and then I realized.

THE BRIDGE WAS COLLAPSING.

Running as fast as possible I ran to the end and to my absolute disbelief I was on the other side. And wow just in time because when I turned around the bridge had just fallen into the ravine.

'Too close for comfort!' I said taking a deep breath in order to calm myself.

Collecting my thoughts I walked at a steady pace towards the castle and eventually I reached the double doors to the throne room. Slowly opening the doors I took in the scenery. And no wonder why not many came here. There were broken columns, walls, and bricks everywhere. Wandering into one of the rooms I sit down on one of the beds I decide to ask Carter something.

"Carter do you have any supplies I can make puppets with?" I asked not expecting a yes.

"You have it sir, just will it to come out of your storage, there is a mask making kit." Carter said.

Well everyone needs practice. Closing my eyes I feel my magic and I start to feel like I had a briefcase full of tools for masks and puppets. When I opened my eyes there was on my lap a open case with tools, paint, a hot glue gun, expanding foam, and much more supplies needed to make the masks I need.

"Carter is it possible for me to use a puppets ability?" I asked hopefully.

"You are only able to use one puppet ability at a time per day, if you wish to use a different puppet's ability you will have to wait 24 hours." Answered Carter.

At that I could practically feel the lightbulb lighting up above my head. Looking at the edge of the case I see two marionette dolls. I grab one and quickly get to work.
The Reverse flash is a speedster who was the flashes nemesis and he also had multiple abilities.
His real name is Eobard Thawne and can be pretty confident most of the time. He kinda reminds me of Rainbowdash. The main point is that with his superspeed I can travel across Equestria without much of a problem! Through expert and careful crating after a few hours I had an almost perfect reverse flash Mask.

Placing it on the puppet I imagined his personality. He hated the flash because he was destined to be his enemy, so he did whatever it took from combat, races, and even traveling through time. After a few seconds I eventually heard his voice.

"Hello master, I hope I will not disappoint you."

When I opened my eyes sure enough. Right in front of me was the Injustice 2 reverse flash. I made sure to make the injustice 2 version so that he would have some more combat capability when its needed.

"Once again sir, the puppet copies their biology and personality, but will follow your orders without question." Carter said.

This is so amazing. Looking at the puppet and poking it a few times it really was true. Deciding I should probably make one more puppet I start to think. Who should I make next? I need someone with some firepower and mainly good against single targets.

Ah I think I know one that might do well. Deciding to take one more from D.C and Injustice 2 I continue to work when I hear RF ask me something. Yeah I'm just gonna call him RF for now.

"Sir what should we do first?" Asked RF.

"Well first I'm gonna make us some backup and then were gonna finish the first quest in the quest log." I said. And once again through my careful work I eventually finish my work. Placing the mask on my second and temporary final puppet I see Deadshot in front of me.

"Hello master, I hope I wont disappoint you." Said Deadshot in his mechanical like voice.

Deadshot, a expert assassin that can takeout almost any target with his deadeye aim and arsenal of firearms. He also had a daughter that meant the world to him. In most jobs however the batman would be his number one enemy. He will do nicely in the days to come.

Alright now lets get to the real work. Opening the laptop In the corner of the screen I see a app called the quest log. Opening it I see my starter quest.

First times the charm!
Objective: Commit your first crime, make it a good one!

Alright then, lets get started! Having RF grab Deadshot and with me tapping into the Reverse Flash speed we run across the everfree quickly and eventually we start running down the road. And good god this feels amazing. Imagine feeling the wind in your face when your running at the speed of Mach one! My increased reflexes allowed me to know exactly where I'm going too.

After some more speed traveling we eventually reached a sign saying,

Welcome to Manehattan!

This should be interesting


(Manehattan) (Second Hoof street) Jack’s PoV

When we arrived I had quickly crafted a mask to fit a pony. I was a earth pony with a dark black coat and white hooves named Puppet showpony. I had Rf and Deadshot hide in a alleyway and I made sure to tell them to hide whenever someo-somepony would approach the area their hiding in. Walking around I start to think of what crime I should commit first. I need to do something that would attract some attention and would benefit me best.

Then conveniently the wind had pushed a news paper on the ground in front of me. Picking it up the title had read,

RITCHPONY BANK REACHES 2 MILLION BITS IN STORAGE!

Ok that seems way too open for someone to simply just say that in a newspaper, but than again. We are in ponyland.

The rest of the day I was scouting out the bank layout. There were two guards standing by the front desk so that would mean I would need to get rid of them. If I'm going to complete this mission I will have to take some lives. I don't want to, but I will do whatever it takes! And in truth, I could see why the security is so terrible. There hasn't been a crime in almost 100 years! I mean! Seriously?

It appears I'm at the time of season 1 time era, so its more before all the crazy stuff happens. Still hoping I could set up as much as possible before Discord comes around.

The next day I changed back to my original form and with Reverse flash and Deadshot following me to the bank.

'Alright get ready.' I told myself.

Opening the door everyone started to look at us with confused expressions. Luckily though, I had planned this out. RF quickly locked all the doors in the bank, and Deadshot had shot the two pony guards in the head killing them instantly. Everyone was suddenly terrified and froze in place. Slowly approaching the front desk I announced myself.

"Attention ponies of Ritchpony bank I am the Puppet Master." I yelled. Lets see If I can add a little, "villain" to my voice.

"If anyone tries to leave everyone will be killed before you can blink." When I said that everyone had gotten on the ground in fear!

'Alright lets get this show on the road.' I thought to myself.

Walking to the front desk with 3 large bags I asked the two front desk employees, "Fill these 3 bags with as much bits as possible and you might not be killed." I said with a menacing smile, hoping it will convince them well.

It seems it worked because in terror they grabbed the bags and started running to the vault to fill the bags. After a few minutes they came back with the bags full of bits! "Very good no-."

Before I could finish I heard RF running to grab someone trying to escape.

"Oh where do you think your going fella?!" Said RF while holding a male red unicorn by the horn. Looking at the stallion's expression he looked terrified beyond belief.

"Master, what should we do with him?" Asked Deadshot.

What should I do with him?

My soul is telling me not to do this, that's its wrong, but this is my purpose now. And I...will... not...fail.

"Kill them." I said slowly, making sure I was adding a sinister tone.


Rf smiled and then grabbed the head of the pony that tried to escape, with them screaming he snapped his neck loudly. When I saw that pony fall to the ground I felt, nothing.

Shouldn't I feel something more?
Well I guess that's not a option anymore, is it?

Well judging from their reactions I think they definitely felt fear.

Taking the bags and tapping into my speed Rf took Deadshot and we sped out of the bank and quickly to the alleyway they were hiding in.
First crime! Feels like a great accomplishment for this little mission of mine. Or ours if my puppets are added. Now that I think about it I should start referring to them as if their alive. They will act like their alive so it should be more convincing if I really sell it out. Though I will need to set up some kind of ranking system someone who will lead the others puppets when on missions that I'm not going with them.

"That went well sir." Said Carter with his calm yet slightly congratulating voice.

"I hope it did, now lets see that quest log." I said with hope.

Opening the app it read,

First times the Charm!

Complete!
Objective: Commit your first Crime! Make it a good one!

Reward: Extra support- +1 puppet

Stronger than you- Puppets now heal broken bones and bleeding wounds more quickly

New quest!

There is no stopping us!

Objective: Kill 13 Royal guards

I actually did it. I did my first crime! My god I feel, good, accomplished, and ready for whatever the world will throw at me!

I'm repeating stuff aren't I?

At least I feel good about it.

Inside the bags were thousand bit worth coins and all of that added together had added up to 1 million bits. Not all of the bits in the bank but it will do nicely! After placing the bits in my storage I had Reverse flash and Deadshot follow me from the shadows and I transformed back to My Puppet Showpony form. I later reached a hotel I could stay in.
entering a door I walked to the front desk.

"Welcome to the Fancy Pants hotel how may we help you sir?" Said the receptionist.

"I would like a room for 3 nights please." I asked politely.

'God I hope the disguise is working.' It would be pretty awkward if my disguise just stopped working out of nowhere. The mask should hold though. And the news on the robbery likely haven't reached everypony yet. But A 8 feet tall super human might scare ponies enough.

"Ah! On a trip maybe? That will be 60 bits please!" said the Receptionist.

After paying the costs I arrived at my room and later Deadshot and RF had entered through the window. I took a quick shower and called it a night. Lets hope I can keep going with this mission.


The next day I was eating breakfast and read the newspaper.

FIRST CRIME IN YEARS
Yesterday at 6:00 P.M Ritchpony bank had been robbed of one million bits! Two brave guards and an innocent pony was murdered on the scene. Bystanders have been traumatized and explained that a large bipedal creature taller than Princess Celestia and two accomplices had come in and terrorized the innocent! The 8 feet tall leader called himself the Puppet Master! Are we safe? Will this happen again? And can our guards stop them?

Princess Celestia and Luna has responded to the crime with this statement.

"This is a tragedy that cannot be accepted, we will do everything in our power to stop those who were to blame for this heinous act of evil, we will find you Puppet Master!"

Well this might be fun.


Author's Note

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Links to Reverse Flash and Deadshot pictures and I really hope that this will work out.

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