Author's Note

This was inspired by a fanfiction writer called Imaginationsburstingout. He's a writer from Fanfiction.net and I thought that maybe it would be a good idea to share this idea of his to this website. I have asked permission and he said it was cool for me to share it!

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Jumpers

Jumpers

Jumpers

A collective group of mercenaries that conduct expensive contracts from all around the known multiverse. Like normal mercenaries, their loyalty is dependent on how much a person pays them. Pay them a lot, they will give their everything just to finish the mission, on the other hand, if the price isn’t good that doesn’t mean that they won’t take the contract… they’ll just be lazier during the mission and will only help during crucial times.

Jumper contracts are special. While they take missions involving the real world, where they most shine is in fictional worlds. Indeed, most contracts that Jumpers accept usually involves them jumping to fictional world. It can vary from movies like Avengers to a kid’s cartoon show like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Jumpers are garbed in white skin tight suits, while this type of apparel does not give the mercenary feel it is what’s inside every of Jumper that makes them extremely dangerous. This object inside of them is known as the Core. The Core the single most powerful object in the known multiverse due to its capability to create or grant any weapon or body modification from any movie, show, book and comic.

A Jumper wants super speed? Use the Core to gain access to the DC’s speedster, The Flash. Summon iconic weapons from video games like the Blade of Olympus from God of War. Desire J.K. Rowling’s spells? Granted! Able to create multiple copies of yourself using Naruto’s Shadow Clone Justu? Done! The possibilities are endless for Jumpers and how they execute their mission is countless due to how flexible they are.

But there is a drawback

When using the Core to get what the Jumper wants. Jumpers need know something first before getting their desired weapon or body modification. For you see, in each of these legendary weapons and abilities were created for a reason. A story behind each weapon, an anecdote for each ability. For Jumpers to gain access to these weapons and abilities, they must know their stories, their Lore.

For example, if a Jumper were to use the Core to gain The Flash’s powers, they would need to know the backstory behind how The Flash got his powers. Jumpers need not to re-enact how it happened. Of course, the amount of Lore than Jumpers put in each weapon the powerful it becomes vice versa if they don’t know much about the weapon.

A Jumper could summon something a legendary as King Arthur’s sword, Excalibur but if they don’t know the Lore behind such a legendary weapon, then they would just be holding a normal, ordinary and well-crafted sword. On the other hand, if a Jumper were to summon the same weapon and know it’s backstory in detail then they will be holding the actual sword of King Arthur.

In the end, a Jumper’s strength is not dependent on how strong, witty or fast they are. Their power is determined by knowledge of culture references.

Click clack click clack

The sound of shoes on tiles echoed in the long and pristine white hallway. The owner of these shoes stood at an average height of 5’9’’. He wore the trademark Jumper outfit, a white one-piece jumpsuit with the number 0007 inscribed it the back. His eyes were a shade of brown and his hair was a soft black combed to the side. If he were standing in a busy street in any populated city, people would think nothing of him due to how average he looks.

Why was he walking down this long and seemingly unending hallway? Well, about five minutes ago, the he received a notification from the Jumpers’ headquarters intercom that he had received a contract. Hence, why he is now making his way towards his designated briefing room, G019.

He found said room, to the normal eyes it might just look like an ordinary white tiled wall. Looks can be deceiving as the ‘wall’ that Jumper 0007 was looking at suddenly had an outline of a rectangular door. The outline retracted and slid to the side revealing a cube room; a table sat in the centre of the room but that was all that was visible to him. As he made his way towards the table, the door behind him slid back to its original position and resealed the room even going so far as to removing the outline making it look like there was no door in the first place.

Jumper 0007 looked at the table to see a cylindrical object the size of a hockey puck. On the centre of this puck was a blinking blue light that the Jumper touched with his finger. The blinking stopped and what appeared was a hologram of a horizontal line. Sound began to emanate from the puck making the line wiggle up and down. Then the line went sporadic when a voice came in.

“Welcome to the Jumpers Agency, would you like to hire a Jumper?” an automated voice of a female came on.

“Yeah… I’d like a Jumper to enter the world of Equestria that’s been invaded by humans,” Another voice chimed in, accent reminiscent of an average Brooklyn Joe.

“Attention: creating a custom world will increase the price for hire as Jumpers are not restricted by canonical events. Do you agree to these terms?”

“Sure, I agree. I have enough money,”

There was short pause in the recording. Another second passed and the recording continued, “A Jumper has been notified and is now making his way to the briefing room, would you like your name to be known by this Jumper?”

“Nah, put me as anonymous,”

“Please wait… contract has been created, thank you for buying our services,”

A scoff was heard from the recording, “You’re the only group that does service like this,”

Finally, the recording ended. The horizontal line shrank and what replaced it was a hologram containing information about the contract.

Custom Contract

Contractor:Anonymous

Price:1,750,000$

Mission:Enter a custom made Equestria that had just been successfully invaded by humans.

Mission Duration:Unspecified

Objective:Assist ponies and create a rebellion against the humans.

(Note: This is a custom world. Canonical events will not happen.)

“Hmph, decent pay…” Jumper 0007 said to himself.

A mechanical sound reached his ears, in front of him, a platform rose. He made his way to the platform and stepped on it. A humming sound that slowly increased in pitch was heard. Upon reaching the apex a notification appeared in front of the Jumper.

[You are now Jumping to: Equestria (Custom)]

[Would you like to proceed?]

[Yes] [No]

Jumper 0007 hovered his hand above the ‘yes’ option. The platform began to engulf him in a bright light.

“Let’s do this,” 0007 thought as he left the headquarters.