The Masked Matter horn looked at the old Warehouse where the Horder, a less than phenomenal villain, was set to sell of a powerful weapon of mass chaos and destruction for some worthless knick-knack or another, the Villian had the power to find legendary artifacts with easy but couldn't find common things easily so their worths had swapped for him, this rare one of a kind relic of probably one of the hundreds he had just laying around, really his only crime was selling without a license, the villain he was selling to on the other hand had a track record of violence, The Slicer was a Serial Killer playing at being a Supervillain, his only goal in life was to cut off the head of a High ranking hero, any hero, and use their skull for a Nacho bowl, something he had told her in person when he had attempted to do just that.

"Alright team ready?" She asked, with her was Filly-second who was to make a go for the Artifact, Saddle Ranger in case of emergency, and Humdrum who was on back up emergency grab and run duty, the rest of the Powerponies where dealing with a rampaging monster in Haywaii, Matter horn herself looked down as the Slightly overweight Horder walked out of the warehouse, he looked like he was done with life and all its bullshit, "Move into position" Matter horn said, Filly gave her a thumbs up and, after picking up Humdrum and the small bag he had brought with him, ran to his point and dropped him off before running to her point, Humdrum was close enough to smell that Horder hadn't bathed in a good long while, Matter horn and Saddle stood atop the roof, ready to jump in if Filly was caught so they could provide enough of a distraction to let Humdrum grab the object of power and get far enough away from the fight so the rest could take down the villains without worry. Humdrum mentally sighed as he saw the large group of thugs circling around Horder, the circle broke momentarily so Slicer could walk up to him, in his arm's was a box. Slicer was wearing the most generic punk clothes ever, complete with the douchebag method of wearing Sunglasses even tho it was pretty dark out.

"Exactly what you asked for," He said as he opened the box and displayed a stack of the most recent and easiest to find comic books in it,

"And as you asked for," Horder said, holding up a much smaller box "I must caution that you shouldn't hold it without..." Filly-second made her move and jumped over two of the goons, kicking them while she was in the air, the split second of jumping and kicking was all Slicer needed to drop his box and pulled out a metal bat with knife's welded to it, Filly stopped in her tracks, not wanting to risk him getting a hit on her, one small prick at full speed could end up turning into a cut deep enough for stitches and would prevent her from properly using her powers if it was in the wrong place.

"Plan B" She called, Matter horn took the to sky and blasted the group with a frost beam, freezing one of the grunts in place,

"Plan B" Slicer called back with a smile, multiple goons game out from the alleyway and began shooting at them, one of the gunshots hit a bird and before it even hit the Ground Saddle Ranger was beating the goons into the ground while Filly avoided Slicer, who stood between her and Horder, behind Horder Humdrum walked out from behind the Trashcans that had been his hiding place. Horder turned and stared down at Humdrum, he was about to notify Slicer of him when Spike picked the bag and revealed what was in it, the recently released Super Mare movie, Horder stared at Humdrum like he was giving him a lottery ticket.

"Just came out today," He said in awe as he offered Humdrum the box who took it and gave Horder the bag who, without hesitation, put it in the box of new comics and headed back into his Hideout, Matter horn didn't try to stop him since it had been proven in the past that the odds of hitting him where impossible unless you had no idea how to aim or use what you where attacking him with, Slicer turned just as Horder's garage door began closing, He looked first at him then to Humdrum, then smiled.

"Alright, buddy, hand over the Gear and I might consider using your head as a doorstop instead of throwing your body in a lake." He moved to attack and got tackled by Filly-second the two fell forward and Humdrum took off, he started heading the nearest ally, "after him!" He demanded as the held Filly second down and the two rolled in their struggle "Get me that fucking gear!" 5 goons turned down the alley and started opening fire Humdrum took a turn and the box was blasted out of his hands, the bullets shredded his gloved and the box but his hands and the contents where fine, Humdrum, turned and picked up the Gear and ran down the turn, his costume and his cape getting shredded as he did so.

"Let's just tackled the little fuck," one of the goons said as they gave chase, Humdrum looked at the black and white gear, it didn't look too special to him, then he became acutely aware an uncomfortable burning in his hands, he blinked and slid to a stop, barely noticing he had hit a dead end as the gear melted into the holed in his gloves and drained the color's from his scales, suddenly he felt like he had been stuck with a brick and fell to the ground as every atom in his body began violently shifting. The goons turned the bend and saw him laying on the ground.

"Alright, Pipsqueak," The biggest of the 5 said as he punched his own hand "Time to hand over the good if you know whats...whats...what the fuck?" Humdrum wasn't much of a Pipsqueak any more and they became aware of this as he rose off the ground, a shallow sound echoing threw the alley as he got to his feet, the sound got louder and became distinguishable, it was a broken laughter, it sounded as tho it was coming from a old movie projector that was just a little past usable, the large, lanky Humdrum turned to look at them, and they saw his colorless face and they now saw that he looked like he had jumped out of an old steampunk 80's cartoon, he had a stovepipe top hat with goggles resting on the brim, he was wearing a long trench coat a white undershirt, a bow, and a pair of black pants, his arms where long and ended in large gloved hands, his eye's where black circles and his smile was round, his teeth where sharp and metal.

"Hey boys," he said merrily "Lookin' for me?" he tipped his hat and the goons pulled out their guns again, his smile melted as he gave them a once over as his hat came to a rest back atop his head. "Oh we playin' now are we?" he asked as he put his hand in his coat "Alright boys," He pulled out two cartoon pistols and pointed them at the goons smiling "But only for a minute, kay?"

Filly-Second and Slicer split and ran as Saddle ranger came crashing down near them, Slicer turned to the alley where Humdrum had fled and was about to give chase when one of his goons ran out of it, he was splattered with blood and had a little bang flag stuck deep into his arm, Matter horn caught sight of him and, before she could even begin to worry about Humdrum, a shot rang out behind the goon and a bang flag impaled itself deep into the goon's calf he screamed and fell face-first onto the concrete. He turned back in fear as the shooter walked out in, the three Power ponies froze, even the hulking Saddle ranger was at a loss as what had once been Humdrum walled to the goon spinning his pistol.

"Please!" The Goon begged as he tried to crawl towards his boss, "Please don't..." Humdrum puled the Trigger and the goon screamed as the shot ran out, after a moment he rapidly felt his chest, Humdrum smiled as he held the Pistol back up, a Bang flag flying out of it, "Oh thank you," the goons cried, relief was short-lived.

"I won't sit there if I was you," Humdrum said as he pointed up, the goon was suddenly covered in a shadow, he just had time to look up before the Giant Anvil crushed him, Saddle-ranger was is such deep shock she had lost her rage over the dead bird and was no longer bulked up.

"Humdrum," Matter horn said heavily, horror evident in her voice "You...you would never..."

"I suppose your right," He said cutting her off, "Humdrum would never kill. so I guess I ain't Humdrum no more," he spun the pistol in his hand and it was gone, he looked up at her with a smile and pointed at himself "You can call me Rerun now since I look so much like an old cartoon" as the exchange went on Slicer looked down at the Anvil that had killed the goon,

"That should be mine," he said angrily as he picked up his knife bat, "That power is mine!" He ran at Rerun who had put his hands behind his back, Slicer swung the Bat down over Reruns head, and hit the ground instead as Rerun sidestepped the swing, Slicer turned and, before he could swing again, Rerun had grabbed his shirt and began spinning around in a circle, pulling Slicer with him like he weighed nothing, as she spun he sang.

"I spin you round and round, all around Maris town!" Rerun came to an unnaturally fast stop and whipped his arm, throwing Sliver into the air. "and when you hit the ground, you'll wish you'd never fallen down," Slicer flew high into the air, just before he hit the ground Matter horn caught him, and flew back down, Slicer had passed out, the speed of his accent had torn the air from his lungs, Matter horn tossed him onto the pile of knocked out goon and turned to Rerun, who looked less than happy.

"Well aren't you a killjoy," He said as he turned back to the alley, the Anvil disappearing as he did so, "But between you and me," he looked at the Power Ponies with a smile "I wouldn't have put him there," Filly second reacted without hesitation, the unconscious goons and Slicer ended up being tossed haphazardly across the small area and just as she slid to a stop an over sized Anvil crashed where they had been a second before, Matter horn and Saddle ranger looked back in temporary horror, then relief when the say Filly Second had saved them, the Trio turned back to Rerun, only to find he was gone. Matte horn landed and there was a long silence.

"What just happened?" Saddle ranger asked, trying her best not to cry at the thought of the lines their friend had just crossed. Filly-second ran down the alley, then ran back pale-faced.

"Don't go that way," she said as she did her best to not look at the Anvil crater full of Goon.

"I...I...I..." was all Mater-horn could think to say as she sat down as stared blankly at the alley, the image of the demented cartoon that had once been her brother still burning in her mind.

Author's Note

Just so you know this chapter is disjointed from the stories Timeline and is happening before the events of the first chapter.

Rerun - Designed after Peacock from Skullgirls with powers based off of Peacock, old cartoons and any Robot character I can think of who has a cool power (Like Inspector Gadget or Lego Cyborg)
Special thanks to Dragonknife5 for gifting me this art.