Deus Exquestria: Pony Revolutionby TG divet3ChaptersI never asked for thisPrepare for arrivalColorful Ponies!The Magic of TechnologyI never asked for thisIt had been three months since the incident at Panchea. Three months since Adam Jensen had made the decision to promote the advancement of augmentations. He had the choice to let the world decide for themselves, but that would involve him dying. He also had the choice to promote anti-augmentation to keep the world from advancing into its own doom. However, spurred on by his loyalty to his job working for Sarif Industries, he chose to let the world keep augmentations. Tonight, he lay in his apartment in Detroit, which for reasons unexplainable seemed to be the only apartment in the entire apartment building. He was currently watching the News, which was still going on about the discovery of the DNA- his DNA- alterations which could be made to negate the necessity for Neuropazyne, the drug normal augmented people needed to use to not die. Adam turned off the television. He already knew everything about that. Moving to his kitchen, he noticed he was low on energy, so he decided to look for an energy bar. Not finding one on his counter, he lifted up his refrigerator and moved it to his living room. There, behind the refrigerator, he found a couple bars and a pack, along with a hypostim. “How did a hypostim get back there?” He asked himself. He decided to ignore it and eat the energy bar. However, as he unwrapped the bar, there was knock at the door. “This had better be the guy coming here to replace my mirror.” He thought. He opened his apartment door, to be greeted by not the janitor, but rather three heavily-augmented soldiers. “Who the hell are you guys?” Adam asked, getting a little suspicious. As far as he knew, janitors didn’t have body armor, heavy rifles, and frag grenades. “Not like you’re going to need that information.” The man in front stated as he and the other two soldiers shouldered their rifles. Adam quickly crouched and activated his cloaking system as the three men sprayed bullets everywhere in his apartment, splintering a table, pulverizing his couch, shattering all of the windows in his apartment, and tearing multiple holes in his fridge. He sat in his kitchen as the soldiers continued to walk through his apartment, decimating everything they saw. Adam snuck behind one of the soldiers and pulled out his stun gun. Not wasting any time, he zapped the guy, rendering him unconscious. When the other backup soldier turned around and saw his friend lying on the ground doing nothing, Adam maneuvered behind him and cut two clean holes in him with his wrist-blades. Then he suddenly uncloaked, as the low energy warning appeared on his heads-up display. “Shit.” He cursed, as the lead man turned around and saw Adam strafe-jumping from side to side, while frantically attempting to reload his stun gun. The soldier chuckled as he spun up the heavy rifle. CLICK “Huh?” He said. He looked down at his gun. Out of ammo. He looked up to see that Adam had pulled the combat rifle off of his coffee table, which was aimed right at his face. “I’ll give you one last chance to tell me.” He said. “Tell you?” The man said. “Tell you what?” “Tell me why you barged into my apartment and tried to kill me.” Adam stated plainly. “I was sent to kill you.” “No shit. Who sent you?” The man snorted. “Fuck you.” Adam said nothing, but instead put two bullets in the soldier's thigh. “AGH!” The soldier bellowed. "Alright, fine, take a look for yourself." The soldier pulled a pocket secretary out of his armor and handed it to Adam. Adam read over it. It was an email from none other than Taggart. RE: Your assignment. Thanks for contacting me Tex. It's that asshole Adam Jensen. I've had it with hearing about his DNA and how Augmentations are the way of the future. I know I'm not usually a man to hold grudges, but he's such a fucking attention whore! Anyways, I should warn you that he's near-impossible to take down on your own. Take some backup with you, and do not let him talk you into anything. He has the apartment in the Chiron building in North Detroit. And remember this; do not have any mercy on him. I heard you might have some jobs for me Who's my target? "Your name is Tex? Isn't that just a r-" PLINK Adam looked down at the soldier. He was holding a grenade with no pin. “What?” He had totally forgotten that he had a frag grenade. “I have to get the job done.” The man stated. The only thing that followed was an explosion, which shattered everything in a 10 foot radius, including the two men. Adam Jensen was dead. Chirp Chirp. The sound of birds was a rare thing to hear in the big city; mostly because there was hardly any natural habitat left in the world anymore. Adam pondered this for a moment before he tried to sit up. It was no use. Considering his massive headache, not to mention the fact that he was sore all over, he collapsed back onto the soft grass. Wait… There was hardly any grass in Detroit… where the hell was he? This time, Adam shot up without any complaint whatsoever. He was in a beautiful garden, decorated with sculptures of various equines and creatures, freshly-trimmed and well-maintained hedges, and many exotic animals most people would only dream of seeing. ‘How the hell did this happen?’ He wondered. The last thing he remembered was the guy in the apartment with the grenade, and dying. ‘Is this heaven?’ But no matter how hard he tried to convince himself, he couldn’t make himself believe that it was heaven. Even worse, he had no explanation how he got to where he was. But the explanation could wait. The first thing he needed to do was find out just where the hell he was. So what better place to ask for directions than the nearest building? Adam clambered to his feet and made his way towards a VERY large, picturesque castle. ‘Heh, it looks like something out of a ‘10s kids’ show’ he thought to himself. And that’s when he noticed something far more surprising; all of his HUD was still working, even the map! ‘That’s a plus… now what about my augmentations?’ To check, he slowly deployed (but didn’t shoot) the Typhoon explosive system, quickly activated and de-activated his GlassShield Cloaking System, and from the looks of it he could still perform a dual takedown. After checking his augmentations, he went through his inventory. He still had a shotgun with about 40 shells, his silenced 10mm pistol, which he had 50 rounds for, his silenced Machine Pistol, with 150 rounds, a stun gun and 15 darts, a Heavy Rifle with a full 200 round canister, ten Cyberboost ProEnergy bars, two Cyberboost packs, a Cyberboost Jar, two Hypostims, four painkillers, a beer (which he quickly discarded), four Typhoon ammo canisters, ten Stop! worm software cards, twelve nuke viruses, but most importantly, his beloved Laser Rifle and 4000 battery left in the pack! But the most surprising thing yet was the fact that he had a spare Praxis point! He decided to save it for later. Right now, it was time to get to this castle. He’d been walking for 20 minutes before he could finally see a door. A very large wooden door, at that. It was being guarded by two… horses? He checked his minimap. They were denoted by white triangles. “Am I in Romania or something?” He said out loud to no one in particular. “Did you hear that?” A gruff voice said out of nowhere. ‘Shit, a guard.’ Adam quickly took cover behind a statue and looked out from the side. But there were no humans in sight. “I think I did.” One of the guardponies said. ‘Okay, I must be seriously dreaming or something. Did that fucking horse just talk?’ To say Adam was confused at the moment would be like saying we’re excited for Season 3; it’s quite the understatement, to say in the least. After waiting for a couple moments, the guard on the left of the door shrugged and continued to stare at nothing in particular. At this point, Adam realized there were two options; kill the guards, or attempt to confront them. Now, contrary to what one may think, Adam Jensen is not generally a violent person, and would rather talk to one rather than shoot first and ask questions later, so he went with the latter option. Adam simply walked up to the guards. “Halt, intruder! State the reason for your presence or be confronted by our ruler, Princess Celesti-Luna!” The two guards said in unison, up until the Princess’s names. The guard on the right turned to the other guard. “You’ve got to be kidding me, Spear. For the last time, we say ‘Celestia’, and I don’t care if you like Luna more, it’s what we’re ordered to say!” Before “Spear” could put in his two bits, Adam cleared his throat. “Actually, I’d appreciate talking to your Princess. Although I have one question before I do.” Spear cut off whatever the other guard was about to say with a “What is that, sir…?” Rising to the question mark at the end of the sentence in case this… thing… wasn’t actually male. “Is every single occupant of wherever I am a..." Adam realized these horses were way too small to be horses, but way too big to be foals. "pony?” “Yes sir.” Prepare for arrivalSo as far as Adam could tell, this had been his day; He’d been blown up by a mercenary hired by Taggart, moved his refrigerator into his living room again, woken up on possibly another planet (universe? Dimension? He didn’t know) which was for some reason filled with talking horses, and was now being escorted by two of them to their “Princess Celestia”. It was very difficult for Adam to not laugh at the cheesy name, which is incredible considering he hadn’t laughed since he was seven years old. Fortunately he had been able to keep his laughless streak up and held a straight face. “We’re here” The guard named Spear said. Adam snapped out of his thinking trance and looked up. His vision was greeted with a bunch of rebooting signals. ‘Oops. Forgot that I turned that off.’ He thought to himself. Once his visual augments rebooted, his vision was filled with massive wooden double doors. “So these are the Royal Chambers?” He asked the guards. “Yes sir. We’ve contacted the princesses in advance about your arrival. They’re very eager to meet such a unique creature.” “Alright, thanks Spear. Thanks other guard.” “For the last time, you can call me-you know what? Forget it. Spear, let’s get him in there.” The other guard said, and began to push open the doors. And that’s when something Spear said hit Adam. “Spear, what did you mean, ‘Princesses’? I thought there was only o-“ Adam never got to finish his sentence because of a certain dark blue alicorn as the doors swung open. “WHO ART THOU, MYSTERIOUS NEW HUMAN?” A very, very loud voice boomed from across the chambers. “AUGH! Dammit!” Adam yelled, trying to readjust his hearing. He pulled out his machine pistol as he finally reset his hearing augments. “I want to know right now, who threw the concussion grenade?” He said. “Come on, who was it?” “I think you’ll find that was simply my sister Luna, my dear.” A much more soothing voice assured from the other side of the chambers. Adam looked up and this time, for the first time in 27 years, he truly laughed. And he laughed REALLY hard. Because what he saw was a massive BLUE crossover of two mythical horse-like creatures, a Pegasus and a unicorn, and a white counterpart with a PINK, blue, and green mane. After about a full minute of laughing, he finally composed himself and straightened up. “Excuse me. I had a childhood of laughs waiting to be used. I assume one of you is Princess Celestia?” He inquired, unsure of which one was the one he was supposed to be talking to, although he had a sneaking suspicion that it was the white one. “That would be I.” The white one responded. So Adam now knew that the dark blue one was ‘Luna’. “Well, please forgive me, but where I’m from, this would be called a children’s show.” He said without much respect. “And here you’re going to be considered a dangerous new creature by everypony except for myself and my sister, so we’d like to give you a little test to see if you’re worthy of being allowed citizenship in our realm.” Celestia said, narrowing her eyes at Adam. At this point, Adam actually got a little nervous. He knew that he could fly off the handle if he was provoked, and he knew that he’d have to shape up or get out. “Alright, I’ll do it.” He agreed. “So, first of all, what is your name?” “Adam Jensen.” “And how did you get into Equestria, Adam?” “Well, as far as I can tell, I was blown up by a grenade, which somehow threw me through a dimensional plane or something, and I woke up in your little garden back there.” “And what was your job back from ‘where you come from’?” “I was a-“ Adam stopped himself. He knew that telling possibly the largest authority he was a mercenary probably wasn’t a good idea. “I was a security manager for a company called Sarif Industries.” Celestia rolled her eyes. “Don’t lie to me Adam.” She said flatly. Adam sighed. “Alright, fine. The truth is, I WAS a security manager for Sarif Industries, but sometimes my boss, Sarif, would send me on missions to find out problems in our world, namely if they were a threat to his company. But I won’t lie to you, I frequently had to use force and stealth to solve these problems, often occurring with deaths and injuries to others. So you could also call me a mercenary. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to go around killing peop-ponies without rhyme or reason. I’m not a violent man, Princess. I won’t hurt anyone unless it’s absolutely necessary to my life or others’.” Celestia pondered his statement for a moment. On one hoof, he seemed like he could kill even her with a low amount of effort, but on the other hoof, his statement sounded sincere. She made her decision. “Alright Adam, I have one more question. Do you swear to never do any harm to any of my subjects, even if you feel it absolutely necessary, unless it is ordered by a high ranking individual in my country?” Adam knew he didn’t really have a choice. “I swear on my mother’s grave.” Celestia gave him a suspicious look before levitating a scroll and quill over to herself. “Then I, Princess Celestia, decree that you are deemed fit to live in Equestria. Adam, I’m sending a letter to my protégée in Ponyville. You’re going to stay with her and her friends there, because quite honestly, I don’t really trust anyone else to take care of you properly. Once you get there, you’ll meet her and her friends, who represent the most powerful source of magic in all of Equestria, called the Elements of Harmony. They’ll decide who you should stay with at that point. If everything goes as I think it will, then I think you should have a lot of trouble making friends with anypony other than them, save for one pony. One of my Royal Chariots will arrive here to take you to Ponyville in about ten minutes.” Adam made sure he collected all the information, then walked up towards Celestia. “Ma’m, I’d like to ask a few questions about your world before the chariot gets here.” Celestia wrapped up the scroll and burned it, sending the ashes flying out her window towards a town in the distance. “Alright Adam, what would you like to know?” Ponyville 2:00 P.M. Books and Branches Library “Spiiiike!” Twilight called. “Get down here right now!” “Jeez Twilight, I just told you, I’m coming downstairs!” Spike said, clambering down the stairs as he said so. “What do you need?” “You STILL never cleaned up this mess! I thought I told you to do that last night!” Spike rolled his eyes. “Twilight, I did! You made this mess earlier today when you were looking for that book Rarity wanted, remember?” Twilight chuckled. “Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Then don’t worry, I’ll clean it up with you.” Spike waved her off. “Nah, don’t worry about it Twi. It isn’t too big of a mess.” He said, as he began to pick up the romance novels scattered across the floor. Suddenly, he felt something coming up his throat, followed by an emerald-colored flame along with a burp and a letter. “Oh, Princess Celestia must have gotten my friendship report! Boy, was THAT day an adventure!” She said to herself, picking up the scroll and opening it with her magic. My Dearest Student, A new, apparently sentient creature called a ‘human’ has appeared in my castle. He appears that he may be dangerous, but as far as I can tell, he isn’t, and certainly means well. I’m sending him to stay with you and the Elements. He will arrive at your house in a Royal Chariot in about half an hour. Please treat him well, as a guest of mine, actually. I want you to have him help you study the Magic of Friendship, if you can even convince him to do so with you and the Elements. Also, as far as I can tell he’s from another world, and may have some questions for you, so I won’t put a restraint on you for asking him questions too. As I said, please take good care of him, and don’t make him angry. You probably wouldn’t like him when he’s angry. Your Teacher, Princess Celestia P.S. He was a mercenary and security guard where he was from ,so don’t be afraid to ask him to take care of dangerous creatures that may attack anypony. “What does it say Twilight?” Spike asked. “It says that a new sentient creature has appeared in Equestria, and she wants ME to take care of him. He’ll be here in half an hour!” Twilight broke out of her happy trance for a moment. “Spike, go gather up the girls, I need to get ready!” Twilight dashed upstairs to get in her shower. “Yeah, Yeah, I know, leave everything to me.” Spike grumbled to himself as he exited the library to gather up the other Elements. Colorful Ponies!As the chariot approached Ponyville, Adam once again recapped everything that had happened previously. He’d met up with the leader of the lands, which was apparently known as “Equestria”, which Adam thought was incredibly cheesy. He’d also learned basic knowledge of how the world worked differently from his own, which he never even asked for, but after his situation had been fully explained, Celestia had insisted on telling him about how the weather and all that worked. Honestly, Adam had no idea how weather didn’t just work on its own, and had relented in trying to convince the Princess that’s just not how weather works, but gave up after a couple minutes when he actually saw it in action outside of the castle window. He also learned about how the sun and moon worked, as well as the certain species of ponies, what they were capable of, and the tales of the “Elements of Harmony”. “We’re here, sir.” One of the Pegasus chariot pullers said. “Yeah, thanks.” Adam said curtly, and got off of the chariot, which then left back towards the castle. “Hey, you guy there!” Came a voice from his left. Adam turned to his left and came very close to dying from laughter and shock. What he saw before him was a purple pony with a pink streak in her hair along with a horn, a white pony with purple hair and a horn, an orange pony with blond hair in a…ugh…ponytail, a yellow pony with pink hair, wings, and was currently hiding behind the orange one. But the two ponies that really got to him were the pink one, which was bouncing up and down with excitement, and a cyan blue pony with wings, and RAINBOW hair. It took Adam a while, but he finally recovered and professionally faced the ponies in front of him. “I want to know one thing before we get started to know each other here.” Adam began. “How much dye do you guys go through in a week?” “Dye?!” The Rainbow-haired one practically shouted. “I get this SO MANY TIMES! It gets SOOO ANNYOING! Why does everypon-“ She was cut off with a hoof to her mouth from the purple pony. “I’m sorry, but she can get kind of hotheaded sometimes. To answer your question, we don’t use dyes for anything! We’re born this way, if that’s what you’re asking.” She responded. “I don’t believe we got your name. May we?” “My name’s Adam Jensen. Obviously you can just call me Adam. Now I’d like to know your names, but seeing how this world is, your names are probably going to be ‘Pinkie Party’ and ‘Rainbow Fun’ or something.” The pink one practically exploded before the rainbow-haired one could do so. “My name isn’t Pinkie party, its Pinkie Pie, silly! But I do love throwing parties! Oh, and I just realized I don’t know any Adam Jensens, so that means you’re new in town! Wait a minute, that means-“ Pinkie Pie let out a massive gasp, jumped into the air and held there for about five seconds. Without missing a beat, she practically flew off into town without another word. “I thought only pegasuses could fly.” Adam commented. “First of all, its pegasi, Adam, and secondly, don’t try to figure out Pinkie Pie. She has this uncanny ability to defy all logic, so we all just tack it to ‘Pinkie being Pinkie’.” The purple pony said. “Anyways, allow me introduce myself. My name is Twilight Sparkle. I’m Princess Celestia’s prized student, and I own the library in town.” “Well no offense, Twilight, but your name is pretty gay.” “That wasn’t very gentlecoltly, sir!” A posh voice responded from his left. Adam turned and saw the elegant, white unicorn mare with a fancy mane giving him a dirty look. “You should be ashamed for treating Twilight like that!” She made a pouty face. “Anywho, my name is Rarity. I’m a fashion designer, and I work at the Carousel Boutique. I must say, please stop by sometime soon so we can take care of those garish clothes you’re wearing.” “Yeah, nice to meet you too, Rarity.” Adam responded, rolling his eyes, which of course the ponies couldn’t see due to his HUD visors. Suddenly, his vision was filled with cyan blue. “My name’s Rainbow Dash!” A voice said as the figure slowly backed up to be the rainbow-maned Pegasus. “I’m the fastest flier in all of Equestria, and some day, I’m gonna be a Wonderbolt!” She exclaimed, doing a quick backflip, followed by a neat landing on her hooves. “Wonderbolts?” Adam asked, raising an eyebrow. “Yeah, they’re the awesomest fliers ever, and one of these days, I’ll be with ‘em! Oh, and your sunglasses are really cool!” She added, hoping to get on his good side now that he wasn’t being incredibly aggressive to the ponies. “They aren’t sunglasses. They’re Heads-Up Display visors to help me see things better.” He responded, trying to keep the technology as concealed as possible. “Heads-a-what?” Rainbow asked, tilting her head to one side. “Never mind…” Adam muttered, shaking his head. After a long silence, the orange pony approached him. “It’s a pleasure to meet ya’ll, mister Adam!” She exclaimed with a Southern twang as she savagely shook his hand. “Mah name’s Applejack! I work on Sweet Apple Acres farm, so if ya’ll ever want some apples, make sure ya’ll stop on by! We got the finest apples in all of Equestria!” Adam waited for her to stop shaking his hand. “Yeah, good to meet you.” Adam then looked around for a moment. “Where’s the yellow one? I thought there was a yellow pony.” “Oh, um, t-that’s me.” A small voice squeaked from behind Twilight. “Well why don’t you come out? I still need to meet you.” Adam said. “Oh, um, o-okay, I’ll come out. I-I mean, if that’s okay with you…” The voice said as the yellow Pegasus came out from behind Twilight. “M-my name is… Fluttershy…” Now, most ponies, even with their better hearing than humans, would have to ask Fluttershy to repeat her name. However, with his hearing augmentations, Adam had no problem at all hearing what she had said. “Well the name suits you, Fluttershy.” Adam looked around. “Well, I’ve met you guys, so I guess I’ll be going to try to find a hotel or something since its getting late.” “Nonsense!” Twilight exclaimed. “You’ll be staying with me!” “What?!” Everypony else (other than Fluttershy) yelled, including Adam, although the way he said it, it was less of a yell and more at normal volume . “Well, I mean, the Princess sent him over, so I guess he should be staying with me! Besides, I have so many questions to ask him!” Twilight clopped her hooves. “Oh, it’s going to be so much fun learning about a new sentient species in Equestria!” Rainbow Dash approached Twilight. “That’s all you have to reason? Besides, I doubt he wants to be barraged with billions of questions all night!” Twilight shook her head. “No, Rainbow. He’d fall right through your house, he’d hardly fit in Fluttershy’s house, Rarity would give him a makeover, (to which Rarity responded with a muttered ‘he needs one’, Pinkie Pie is crazy, and I think he’d prefer a bed rather than some hay in a barn!” She let out a sigh. “Come on Adam, let’s get you inside. You still need to meet Spike!” As Twilight dragged Adam inside with her magic, everypony else simply stood there in front of Twilight’s library, befuddled. The Magic of TechnologyThe door slammed shut behind Adam. “So what’s the enthusiasm? You want to throw a tea party?” Adam asked dryly. “Not really,” Twilight replied, throwing books and scrolls everywhere around the room with her magic. “I want to know more about you…” She paused. “Humans… and those kinds of things.” “Well, I guess I could be having a worse evening.” Adam muttered. “What?” Twilight asked. “I didn’t quite catch that.” “Nothing.” Adam said, shaking his head. “So what do you want to know?” Twilight gestured him over to her kitchen, where they sat down to…not eat, but talk. “Well, first I want to know, how did humans get along with ponies in your world?” Adam shrugged. “Ponies where I came from weren’t anything like ponies here.” He said. “For example, they couldn’t use magic because there weren’t any unicorns, and they couldn’t fly because there weren’t any pegasuses.” “Pegasi, Adam.” Twilight corrected. “And if there weren’t any unicorns, I guess humans were pretty good at using magic?” “Actually, magic doesn’t exist there.” Adam replied, drawing a huge gasp from Twilight. “No magic?!” She practically shouted. “How could your world function if it doesn’t have any magic?!” Twilight practically exploded. A world without magic?! Preposterous! “We make up for it with technology.” Adam said, hardly taking note of Twilight’s anger. “For example, the largest part of technology is called augmentations. Augmentations improve a human by adding cybernetic implants, and nanotechnology, which basically means using millions upon millions of tiny machines. If one were to be augmented enough, they could become a super-soldier, like me.” “Woah, hang on, you use technology to make super po-er, humans?” Twilight interjected, eyes widening. “And you’re one of those?” Adam laid back in the chair. “Yeah, I guess you could say that. I guess you guys don’t have much technology here, then?” “Well, the furthest we’ve gotten to is a basic railway system and lightbulbs.” Twilight said sheepishly. “What a shame.” Adam said emotionlessly, face unchanging. “Anyways, if you want to see my augmentations in action, I guess I could do that for you some time.” “I’d love that!” Twilight exclaimed. “Hey Twi?” A young, male voice called from the common area. “Where’d ya go?” “I’m in the kitchen, Spike!” Twilight answered. A few moments later, a small purple and green lizard came jogging into the kitchen. “Hey Twilight, I was just- woah, is this the visitor guy?” He asked, gazing up at Adam. “Yeah, I guess you could say I am.” Adam responded, sticking out his hand. “And it looks like I can finally have a proper handshake. My name is Adam. I guess you’re Spike?” “Yup, that’s me!” Spike said, proudly puffing out his chest. “Twilight’s Number One Assistant!” He cleared his throat and shook Adam’s hand. “Uh, nice to meet you Adam.” He said sheepishly. “Twilight, I was just about to ask you if you wanted to go to bed soon. Luna’s already brought up the moon!” Twilight glanced out the kitchen window. Somehow, her short conversation with Adam had taken a really long time. “I guess so.” She said. “But I want to learn more about your world tomorrow, Adam!” “Got it.” Adam said. “So, uh, where am I going to sleep?” Twilight giggled. “I have an extra bed in my room that you can use. Spike, go set it up for him!” “Got it!” He said, saluting to Twilight. “C’mon, let’s go upstairs Adam. You should probably get some sleep too.” Twilight said. “Alright.” Adam said. As they finished walking up the curved stairs, they reached the bedroom, where Spike had somehow already gotten the bed ready for Adam and was sound asleep. Adam climbed into the small bed and pulled the small blanket over himself. “Good night, Adam.” Twilight said softly, climbing into her own bed and turning off the lights. Both adults fell asleep at the same time. Adam walked through the labs of the familiar manufacturing plant. No one was there. It was just him, looking around the place he once thought was destroyed. However, as most people would be frightened by this sort of thing, Adam showed no emotion. In truth, he didn’t like the feeling of the factory, but was nonetheless showing no emotion, as usual. He closed his eyes and took a breath, then continued on. At least, he tried. He realized he couldn’t move. Panicking slightly, he looked down at his feet; but they weren’t there! They had been replaced by hooves! Adam was now fully panicking, hoping to find help somewhere, but no one was in the factory. Alarms and klaxons went off everywhere in the lab, the roof breaking open to reveal mercenaries falling down into the factory. Two of them rushed over to him and grabbed him by two hooves. “We have it, sir, we have it!” One of them said. Adam recognized that voice; it was Michael Zelazny! But when Adam attempted to reason with him and tell him who he was, all that came out were neighs and snorts, as Adam bucked furiously. “Sir, it’s acting up!” Michael shouted as he knocked Adam out with the butt of his rifle. Adam shot up in his bed. Looking around, he noticed that he was still in Twilight Sparkle’s room, on her spare bed. Adam’s legs were dangling off the end, his feet against the floor. ‘Feet?’ Adam thought to himself. He breathed a massive sigh of relief. He was still a human, just still in the pony world. He then noticed that Twilight was still sleeping soundly, although the sun was slowly sending creeping tendrils of light across the room. Adam got out of his bed and activated his silent walking augmentation, so as to not wake Twilight up. As he approached the stairs leading to the common area of the library, a delicious smell wafted towards Adam. He detected the smell to be eggs. Now, although Adam didn’t have to eat food for long periods of time, he would still prefer to eat rather than not. Walking into the kitchen, he saw Spike wearing a small pink apron as he prepared breakfast for the three current occupants of the tree. Adam couldn’t help but chuckle at this, which made Spike jump a little bit. “Dude, what the heck? I didn’t even hear you come downstairs!” Spike exclaimed. “Oh, I must’ve forgotten to turn that off.” Adam said to himself as he deactivated his silent-walking augmentation. He cursed himself for being so mindless, as he was now down to a single battery cell. “Turn what off?” Spike asked. “Something that lets me walk silently.” Adam explained. “I used it so I wouldn’t wake up Twilight, but I guess I forgot to turn it off when I came downstairs.” Spike shrugged. “Well, I’m making breakfast right now. We’re gonna have eggs and daisy sandwiches, since Twilight loves those so much.” The last item on the menu hit Adam like Rosie O’Donnell sitting on someone. He realized he couldn’t eat most of the things a pony would normally eat. “Yeah, I think I’m going to pass on the sandwiches…” Adam said. “Let me guess.” Spike said. “Humans can’t eat flowers and stuff?” Adam nodded. “That’s the simple way to put it. But eggs are great.” “Well, they’re almost ready!” Spike exclaimed. He looked down. “Oh, uh, they…are…ready…” he trailed off. “Burn them?” Adam asked. “Only a little!” Spike protested. “Here, I’ll give the least-burnt part.” Spike handed Adam a plate of eggs, along with an apple. Adam dug in, and by the time Twilight had come downstairs, Adam had already finished off everything on his plate. “Oh, good morning Adam!” She exclaimed happily. “My, somebody’s awful happy this morning.” Adam said near-emotionlessly. “Well, I decided to not pound you with questions this morning.” Twilight said, causing Adam to breathe a sigh of relief. “I’m going to show you around town instead!” Adam facepalmed. “Now?” “Of course not NOW, because you DID promise me you’d show me how your augments work, remember?” Adam sighed. “Alright, let’s do that then.” After Twilight finished her breakfast, Twilight took him into the common area of the library, where there would be plenty of room to do tests. “Alright, so the first thing I want you to do is set up a relatively strong wall, preferably out of bricks or something.” Adam instructed. “Well,” Twilight said. “I don’t just have bricks lying around, but I can set up a low-energy magic barrier!” “Do it.” Adam said. Horn glowing, Twilight constructed a quick, relatively weak magical barrier. Adam brought back his arm, mechanism in his hand spinning into a tight ball of steel, and he then proceeded to punch directly through the barrier, shattering it into tons of invisible pieces. “Wow!” Twilight exclaimed. “That was amazing! Not even Applejack can break a barrier!” She made a mental note to herself that if she pissed him off, to set up a very thick barrier. “Alright, the next thing I want you to do is find me something heavy.” Twilight went inside, and a few moments later returned with Adam’s favorite: a refrigerator. “You sure you don’t need this?” He asked. “No, this has been broken for a couple years now.” Twilight explained. “Well, alright then.” To Twilight’s shock, Adam not only picked up the fridge, but threw it across her house. “Oh my Gosh, that’s amazing!” Twilight bounced happily, much akin to Pinkie Pie. “I mean, I’ve seen ponies pick up really heavy objects with telekinesis, but never seen a pony pick something like that up on their own strength and then THROW it!” “Yeah, alright.” Adam said. “Next I- uh” Adam stopped. He really didn’t think innocent ponies needed to know the destructive power of the Typhoon. “Next I want you to meet upstairs on your balcony.” He said as he activated the GlassShield Cloaking System. Twilight sat there, amazed that technology alone could make somepony disappear entirely. But she figured it would probably be best to simply follow his instructions and meet him at the balcony. She trotted up the stairs, and sure enough, when she approached the balcony, Adam was standing there, waiting for her. “That was really cool Adam!” Twilight said, not having nearly enough time to stop herself from sounding like Rainbow Dash. She cleared her throat. “What I meant was, why do we need to be up here on the balcony?” “Watch.” Adam said as he leapt off of the third-floor balcony. “Adam, wait!” Twilight yelled. But it was too late to catch him with her telekinesis. In horror, she dashed over to the balcony edge, only to see Adam engulfed in some sort of yellow ball. After seeing him walk back inside, she decided he’d probably wait for her in the common area again. But as she entered the encirclement of books, there was not an Adam to be seen. Confused, Twilight began to trot to the kitchen, only to have the crap scared out of her when she felt a tap on her shoulder. “Surprise.” Adam said, only to be met with a hoof to the face. “Well I see someone can’t take a joke.” “That was for jumping off my balcony without telling me what you planned to do!” Twilight yelled. “Well, anyways, what was that yellow bubble thing?” “That’s called the Icarus Landing System.” Adam responded. “It allows me to fall from any height without fear of death or injury.” “Wow, any height?” Twilight could just see the possibilities lining up. “That's incredible! Your technology can do some things nopony really remembers how to do with magic!” After a few more minutes about talking about magic and technology, Twilight led Adam out of the Library to go explore Ponyville. Adam simply sighed. He knew today was going to be a long day. ((A/N: Sorry this took so long to get out guys! I really didn’t have much access to my computer. The next chapter may be out soon though! -Dash))
I never asked for thisIt had been three months since the incident at Panchea. Three months since Adam Jensen had made the decision to promote the advancement of augmentations. He had the choice to let the world decide for themselves, but that would involve him dying. He also had the choice to promote anti-augmentation to keep the world from advancing into its own doom. However, spurred on by his loyalty to his job working for Sarif Industries, he chose to let the world keep augmentations. Tonight, he lay in his apartment in Detroit, which for reasons unexplainable seemed to be the only apartment in the entire apartment building. He was currently watching the News, which was still going on about the discovery of the DNA- his DNA- alterations which could be made to negate the necessity for Neuropazyne, the drug normal augmented people needed to use to not die. Adam turned off the television. He already knew everything about that. Moving to his kitchen, he noticed he was low on energy, so he decided to look for an energy bar. Not finding one on his counter, he lifted up his refrigerator and moved it to his living room. There, behind the refrigerator, he found a couple bars and a pack, along with a hypostim. “How did a hypostim get back there?” He asked himself. He decided to ignore it and eat the energy bar. However, as he unwrapped the bar, there was knock at the door. “This had better be the guy coming here to replace my mirror.” He thought. He opened his apartment door, to be greeted by not the janitor, but rather three heavily-augmented soldiers. “Who the hell are you guys?” Adam asked, getting a little suspicious. As far as he knew, janitors didn’t have body armor, heavy rifles, and frag grenades. “Not like you’re going to need that information.” The man in front stated as he and the other two soldiers shouldered their rifles. Adam quickly crouched and activated his cloaking system as the three men sprayed bullets everywhere in his apartment, splintering a table, pulverizing his couch, shattering all of the windows in his apartment, and tearing multiple holes in his fridge. He sat in his kitchen as the soldiers continued to walk through his apartment, decimating everything they saw. Adam snuck behind one of the soldiers and pulled out his stun gun. Not wasting any time, he zapped the guy, rendering him unconscious. When the other backup soldier turned around and saw his friend lying on the ground doing nothing, Adam maneuvered behind him and cut two clean holes in him with his wrist-blades. Then he suddenly uncloaked, as the low energy warning appeared on his heads-up display. “Shit.” He cursed, as the lead man turned around and saw Adam strafe-jumping from side to side, while frantically attempting to reload his stun gun. The soldier chuckled as he spun up the heavy rifle. CLICK “Huh?” He said. He looked down at his gun. Out of ammo. He looked up to see that Adam had pulled the combat rifle off of his coffee table, which was aimed right at his face. “I’ll give you one last chance to tell me.” He said. “Tell you?” The man said. “Tell you what?” “Tell me why you barged into my apartment and tried to kill me.” Adam stated plainly. “I was sent to kill you.” “No shit. Who sent you?” The man snorted. “Fuck you.” Adam said nothing, but instead put two bullets in the soldier's thigh. “AGH!” The soldier bellowed. "Alright, fine, take a look for yourself." The soldier pulled a pocket secretary out of his armor and handed it to Adam. Adam read over it. It was an email from none other than Taggart. RE: Your assignment. Thanks for contacting me Tex. It's that asshole Adam Jensen. I've had it with hearing about his DNA and how Augmentations are the way of the future. I know I'm not usually a man to hold grudges, but he's such a fucking attention whore! Anyways, I should warn you that he's near-impossible to take down on your own. Take some backup with you, and do not let him talk you into anything. He has the apartment in the Chiron building in North Detroit. And remember this; do not have any mercy on him. I heard you might have some jobs for me Who's my target? "Your name is Tex? Isn't that just a r-" PLINK Adam looked down at the soldier. He was holding a grenade with no pin. “What?” He had totally forgotten that he had a frag grenade. “I have to get the job done.” The man stated. The only thing that followed was an explosion, which shattered everything in a 10 foot radius, including the two men. Adam Jensen was dead. Chirp Chirp. The sound of birds was a rare thing to hear in the big city; mostly because there was hardly any natural habitat left in the world anymore. Adam pondered this for a moment before he tried to sit up. It was no use. Considering his massive headache, not to mention the fact that he was sore all over, he collapsed back onto the soft grass. Wait… There was hardly any grass in Detroit… where the hell was he? This time, Adam shot up without any complaint whatsoever. He was in a beautiful garden, decorated with sculptures of various equines and creatures, freshly-trimmed and well-maintained hedges, and many exotic animals most people would only dream of seeing. ‘How the hell did this happen?’ He wondered. The last thing he remembered was the guy in the apartment with the grenade, and dying. ‘Is this heaven?’ But no matter how hard he tried to convince himself, he couldn’t make himself believe that it was heaven. Even worse, he had no explanation how he got to where he was. But the explanation could wait. The first thing he needed to do was find out just where the hell he was. So what better place to ask for directions than the nearest building? Adam clambered to his feet and made his way towards a VERY large, picturesque castle. ‘Heh, it looks like something out of a ‘10s kids’ show’ he thought to himself. And that’s when he noticed something far more surprising; all of his HUD was still working, even the map! ‘That’s a plus… now what about my augmentations?’ To check, he slowly deployed (but didn’t shoot) the Typhoon explosive system, quickly activated and de-activated his GlassShield Cloaking System, and from the looks of it he could still perform a dual takedown. After checking his augmentations, he went through his inventory. He still had a shotgun with about 40 shells, his silenced 10mm pistol, which he had 50 rounds for, his silenced Machine Pistol, with 150 rounds, a stun gun and 15 darts, a Heavy Rifle with a full 200 round canister, ten Cyberboost ProEnergy bars, two Cyberboost packs, a Cyberboost Jar, two Hypostims, four painkillers, a beer (which he quickly discarded), four Typhoon ammo canisters, ten Stop! worm software cards, twelve nuke viruses, but most importantly, his beloved Laser Rifle and 4000 battery left in the pack! But the most surprising thing yet was the fact that he had a spare Praxis point! He decided to save it for later. Right now, it was time to get to this castle. He’d been walking for 20 minutes before he could finally see a door. A very large wooden door, at that. It was being guarded by two… horses? He checked his minimap. They were denoted by white triangles. “Am I in Romania or something?” He said out loud to no one in particular. “Did you hear that?” A gruff voice said out of nowhere. ‘Shit, a guard.’ Adam quickly took cover behind a statue and looked out from the side. But there were no humans in sight. “I think I did.” One of the guardponies said. ‘Okay, I must be seriously dreaming or something. Did that fucking horse just talk?’ To say Adam was confused at the moment would be like saying we’re excited for Season 3; it’s quite the understatement, to say in the least. After waiting for a couple moments, the guard on the left of the door shrugged and continued to stare at nothing in particular. At this point, Adam realized there were two options; kill the guards, or attempt to confront them. Now, contrary to what one may think, Adam Jensen is not generally a violent person, and would rather talk to one rather than shoot first and ask questions later, so he went with the latter option. Adam simply walked up to the guards. “Halt, intruder! State the reason for your presence or be confronted by our ruler, Princess Celesti-Luna!” The two guards said in unison, up until the Princess’s names. The guard on the right turned to the other guard. “You’ve got to be kidding me, Spear. For the last time, we say ‘Celestia’, and I don’t care if you like Luna more, it’s what we’re ordered to say!” Before “Spear” could put in his two bits, Adam cleared his throat. “Actually, I’d appreciate talking to your Princess. Although I have one question before I do.” Spear cut off whatever the other guard was about to say with a “What is that, sir…?” Rising to the question mark at the end of the sentence in case this… thing… wasn’t actually male. “Is every single occupant of wherever I am a..." Adam realized these horses were way too small to be horses, but way too big to be foals. "pony?” “Yes sir.”
Prepare for arrivalSo as far as Adam could tell, this had been his day; He’d been blown up by a mercenary hired by Taggart, moved his refrigerator into his living room again, woken up on possibly another planet (universe? Dimension? He didn’t know) which was for some reason filled with talking horses, and was now being escorted by two of them to their “Princess Celestia”. It was very difficult for Adam to not laugh at the cheesy name, which is incredible considering he hadn’t laughed since he was seven years old. Fortunately he had been able to keep his laughless streak up and held a straight face. “We’re here” The guard named Spear said. Adam snapped out of his thinking trance and looked up. His vision was greeted with a bunch of rebooting signals. ‘Oops. Forgot that I turned that off.’ He thought to himself. Once his visual augments rebooted, his vision was filled with massive wooden double doors. “So these are the Royal Chambers?” He asked the guards. “Yes sir. We’ve contacted the princesses in advance about your arrival. They’re very eager to meet such a unique creature.” “Alright, thanks Spear. Thanks other guard.” “For the last time, you can call me-you know what? Forget it. Spear, let’s get him in there.” The other guard said, and began to push open the doors. And that’s when something Spear said hit Adam. “Spear, what did you mean, ‘Princesses’? I thought there was only o-“ Adam never got to finish his sentence because of a certain dark blue alicorn as the doors swung open. “WHO ART THOU, MYSTERIOUS NEW HUMAN?” A very, very loud voice boomed from across the chambers. “AUGH! Dammit!” Adam yelled, trying to readjust his hearing. He pulled out his machine pistol as he finally reset his hearing augments. “I want to know right now, who threw the concussion grenade?” He said. “Come on, who was it?” “I think you’ll find that was simply my sister Luna, my dear.” A much more soothing voice assured from the other side of the chambers. Adam looked up and this time, for the first time in 27 years, he truly laughed. And he laughed REALLY hard. Because what he saw was a massive BLUE crossover of two mythical horse-like creatures, a Pegasus and a unicorn, and a white counterpart with a PINK, blue, and green mane. After about a full minute of laughing, he finally composed himself and straightened up. “Excuse me. I had a childhood of laughs waiting to be used. I assume one of you is Princess Celestia?” He inquired, unsure of which one was the one he was supposed to be talking to, although he had a sneaking suspicion that it was the white one. “That would be I.” The white one responded. So Adam now knew that the dark blue one was ‘Luna’. “Well, please forgive me, but where I’m from, this would be called a children’s show.” He said without much respect. “And here you’re going to be considered a dangerous new creature by everypony except for myself and my sister, so we’d like to give you a little test to see if you’re worthy of being allowed citizenship in our realm.” Celestia said, narrowing her eyes at Adam. At this point, Adam actually got a little nervous. He knew that he could fly off the handle if he was provoked, and he knew that he’d have to shape up or get out. “Alright, I’ll do it.” He agreed. “So, first of all, what is your name?” “Adam Jensen.” “And how did you get into Equestria, Adam?” “Well, as far as I can tell, I was blown up by a grenade, which somehow threw me through a dimensional plane or something, and I woke up in your little garden back there.” “And what was your job back from ‘where you come from’?” “I was a-“ Adam stopped himself. He knew that telling possibly the largest authority he was a mercenary probably wasn’t a good idea. “I was a security manager for a company called Sarif Industries.” Celestia rolled her eyes. “Don’t lie to me Adam.” She said flatly. Adam sighed. “Alright, fine. The truth is, I WAS a security manager for Sarif Industries, but sometimes my boss, Sarif, would send me on missions to find out problems in our world, namely if they were a threat to his company. But I won’t lie to you, I frequently had to use force and stealth to solve these problems, often occurring with deaths and injuries to others. So you could also call me a mercenary. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to go around killing peop-ponies without rhyme or reason. I’m not a violent man, Princess. I won’t hurt anyone unless it’s absolutely necessary to my life or others’.” Celestia pondered his statement for a moment. On one hoof, he seemed like he could kill even her with a low amount of effort, but on the other hoof, his statement sounded sincere. She made her decision. “Alright Adam, I have one more question. Do you swear to never do any harm to any of my subjects, even if you feel it absolutely necessary, unless it is ordered by a high ranking individual in my country?” Adam knew he didn’t really have a choice. “I swear on my mother’s grave.” Celestia gave him a suspicious look before levitating a scroll and quill over to herself. “Then I, Princess Celestia, decree that you are deemed fit to live in Equestria. Adam, I’m sending a letter to my protégée in Ponyville. You’re going to stay with her and her friends there, because quite honestly, I don’t really trust anyone else to take care of you properly. Once you get there, you’ll meet her and her friends, who represent the most powerful source of magic in all of Equestria, called the Elements of Harmony. They’ll decide who you should stay with at that point. If everything goes as I think it will, then I think you should have a lot of trouble making friends with anypony other than them, save for one pony. One of my Royal Chariots will arrive here to take you to Ponyville in about ten minutes.” Adam made sure he collected all the information, then walked up towards Celestia. “Ma’m, I’d like to ask a few questions about your world before the chariot gets here.” Celestia wrapped up the scroll and burned it, sending the ashes flying out her window towards a town in the distance. “Alright Adam, what would you like to know?” Ponyville 2:00 P.M. Books and Branches Library “Spiiiike!” Twilight called. “Get down here right now!” “Jeez Twilight, I just told you, I’m coming downstairs!” Spike said, clambering down the stairs as he said so. “What do you need?” “You STILL never cleaned up this mess! I thought I told you to do that last night!” Spike rolled his eyes. “Twilight, I did! You made this mess earlier today when you were looking for that book Rarity wanted, remember?” Twilight chuckled. “Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Then don’t worry, I’ll clean it up with you.” Spike waved her off. “Nah, don’t worry about it Twi. It isn’t too big of a mess.” He said, as he began to pick up the romance novels scattered across the floor. Suddenly, he felt something coming up his throat, followed by an emerald-colored flame along with a burp and a letter. “Oh, Princess Celestia must have gotten my friendship report! Boy, was THAT day an adventure!” She said to herself, picking up the scroll and opening it with her magic. My Dearest Student, A new, apparently sentient creature called a ‘human’ has appeared in my castle. He appears that he may be dangerous, but as far as I can tell, he isn’t, and certainly means well. I’m sending him to stay with you and the Elements. He will arrive at your house in a Royal Chariot in about half an hour. Please treat him well, as a guest of mine, actually. I want you to have him help you study the Magic of Friendship, if you can even convince him to do so with you and the Elements. Also, as far as I can tell he’s from another world, and may have some questions for you, so I won’t put a restraint on you for asking him questions too. As I said, please take good care of him, and don’t make him angry. You probably wouldn’t like him when he’s angry. Your Teacher, Princess Celestia P.S. He was a mercenary and security guard where he was from ,so don’t be afraid to ask him to take care of dangerous creatures that may attack anypony. “What does it say Twilight?” Spike asked. “It says that a new sentient creature has appeared in Equestria, and she wants ME to take care of him. He’ll be here in half an hour!” Twilight broke out of her happy trance for a moment. “Spike, go gather up the girls, I need to get ready!” Twilight dashed upstairs to get in her shower. “Yeah, Yeah, I know, leave everything to me.” Spike grumbled to himself as he exited the library to gather up the other Elements.
Colorful Ponies!As the chariot approached Ponyville, Adam once again recapped everything that had happened previously. He’d met up with the leader of the lands, which was apparently known as “Equestria”, which Adam thought was incredibly cheesy. He’d also learned basic knowledge of how the world worked differently from his own, which he never even asked for, but after his situation had been fully explained, Celestia had insisted on telling him about how the weather and all that worked. Honestly, Adam had no idea how weather didn’t just work on its own, and had relented in trying to convince the Princess that’s just not how weather works, but gave up after a couple minutes when he actually saw it in action outside of the castle window. He also learned about how the sun and moon worked, as well as the certain species of ponies, what they were capable of, and the tales of the “Elements of Harmony”. “We’re here, sir.” One of the Pegasus chariot pullers said. “Yeah, thanks.” Adam said curtly, and got off of the chariot, which then left back towards the castle. “Hey, you guy there!” Came a voice from his left. Adam turned to his left and came very close to dying from laughter and shock. What he saw before him was a purple pony with a pink streak in her hair along with a horn, a white pony with purple hair and a horn, an orange pony with blond hair in a…ugh…ponytail, a yellow pony with pink hair, wings, and was currently hiding behind the orange one. But the two ponies that really got to him were the pink one, which was bouncing up and down with excitement, and a cyan blue pony with wings, and RAINBOW hair. It took Adam a while, but he finally recovered and professionally faced the ponies in front of him. “I want to know one thing before we get started to know each other here.” Adam began. “How much dye do you guys go through in a week?” “Dye?!” The Rainbow-haired one practically shouted. “I get this SO MANY TIMES! It gets SOOO ANNYOING! Why does everypon-“ She was cut off with a hoof to her mouth from the purple pony. “I’m sorry, but she can get kind of hotheaded sometimes. To answer your question, we don’t use dyes for anything! We’re born this way, if that’s what you’re asking.” She responded. “I don’t believe we got your name. May we?” “My name’s Adam Jensen. Obviously you can just call me Adam. Now I’d like to know your names, but seeing how this world is, your names are probably going to be ‘Pinkie Party’ and ‘Rainbow Fun’ or something.” The pink one practically exploded before the rainbow-haired one could do so. “My name isn’t Pinkie party, its Pinkie Pie, silly! But I do love throwing parties! Oh, and I just realized I don’t know any Adam Jensens, so that means you’re new in town! Wait a minute, that means-“ Pinkie Pie let out a massive gasp, jumped into the air and held there for about five seconds. Without missing a beat, she practically flew off into town without another word. “I thought only pegasuses could fly.” Adam commented. “First of all, its pegasi, Adam, and secondly, don’t try to figure out Pinkie Pie. She has this uncanny ability to defy all logic, so we all just tack it to ‘Pinkie being Pinkie’.” The purple pony said. “Anyways, allow me introduce myself. My name is Twilight Sparkle. I’m Princess Celestia’s prized student, and I own the library in town.” “Well no offense, Twilight, but your name is pretty gay.” “That wasn’t very gentlecoltly, sir!” A posh voice responded from his left. Adam turned and saw the elegant, white unicorn mare with a fancy mane giving him a dirty look. “You should be ashamed for treating Twilight like that!” She made a pouty face. “Anywho, my name is Rarity. I’m a fashion designer, and I work at the Carousel Boutique. I must say, please stop by sometime soon so we can take care of those garish clothes you’re wearing.” “Yeah, nice to meet you too, Rarity.” Adam responded, rolling his eyes, which of course the ponies couldn’t see due to his HUD visors. Suddenly, his vision was filled with cyan blue. “My name’s Rainbow Dash!” A voice said as the figure slowly backed up to be the rainbow-maned Pegasus. “I’m the fastest flier in all of Equestria, and some day, I’m gonna be a Wonderbolt!” She exclaimed, doing a quick backflip, followed by a neat landing on her hooves. “Wonderbolts?” Adam asked, raising an eyebrow. “Yeah, they’re the awesomest fliers ever, and one of these days, I’ll be with ‘em! Oh, and your sunglasses are really cool!” She added, hoping to get on his good side now that he wasn’t being incredibly aggressive to the ponies. “They aren’t sunglasses. They’re Heads-Up Display visors to help me see things better.” He responded, trying to keep the technology as concealed as possible. “Heads-a-what?” Rainbow asked, tilting her head to one side. “Never mind…” Adam muttered, shaking his head. After a long silence, the orange pony approached him. “It’s a pleasure to meet ya’ll, mister Adam!” She exclaimed with a Southern twang as she savagely shook his hand. “Mah name’s Applejack! I work on Sweet Apple Acres farm, so if ya’ll ever want some apples, make sure ya’ll stop on by! We got the finest apples in all of Equestria!” Adam waited for her to stop shaking his hand. “Yeah, good to meet you.” Adam then looked around for a moment. “Where’s the yellow one? I thought there was a yellow pony.” “Oh, um, t-that’s me.” A small voice squeaked from behind Twilight. “Well why don’t you come out? I still need to meet you.” Adam said. “Oh, um, o-okay, I’ll come out. I-I mean, if that’s okay with you…” The voice said as the yellow Pegasus came out from behind Twilight. “M-my name is… Fluttershy…” Now, most ponies, even with their better hearing than humans, would have to ask Fluttershy to repeat her name. However, with his hearing augmentations, Adam had no problem at all hearing what she had said. “Well the name suits you, Fluttershy.” Adam looked around. “Well, I’ve met you guys, so I guess I’ll be going to try to find a hotel or something since its getting late.” “Nonsense!” Twilight exclaimed. “You’ll be staying with me!” “What?!” Everypony else (other than Fluttershy) yelled, including Adam, although the way he said it, it was less of a yell and more at normal volume . “Well, I mean, the Princess sent him over, so I guess he should be staying with me! Besides, I have so many questions to ask him!” Twilight clopped her hooves. “Oh, it’s going to be so much fun learning about a new sentient species in Equestria!” Rainbow Dash approached Twilight. “That’s all you have to reason? Besides, I doubt he wants to be barraged with billions of questions all night!” Twilight shook her head. “No, Rainbow. He’d fall right through your house, he’d hardly fit in Fluttershy’s house, Rarity would give him a makeover, (to which Rarity responded with a muttered ‘he needs one’, Pinkie Pie is crazy, and I think he’d prefer a bed rather than some hay in a barn!” She let out a sigh. “Come on Adam, let’s get you inside. You still need to meet Spike!” As Twilight dragged Adam inside with her magic, everypony else simply stood there in front of Twilight’s library, befuddled.
The Magic of TechnologyThe door slammed shut behind Adam. “So what’s the enthusiasm? You want to throw a tea party?” Adam asked dryly. “Not really,” Twilight replied, throwing books and scrolls everywhere around the room with her magic. “I want to know more about you…” She paused. “Humans… and those kinds of things.” “Well, I guess I could be having a worse evening.” Adam muttered. “What?” Twilight asked. “I didn’t quite catch that.” “Nothing.” Adam said, shaking his head. “So what do you want to know?” Twilight gestured him over to her kitchen, where they sat down to…not eat, but talk. “Well, first I want to know, how did humans get along with ponies in your world?” Adam shrugged. “Ponies where I came from weren’t anything like ponies here.” He said. “For example, they couldn’t use magic because there weren’t any unicorns, and they couldn’t fly because there weren’t any pegasuses.” “Pegasi, Adam.” Twilight corrected. “And if there weren’t any unicorns, I guess humans were pretty good at using magic?” “Actually, magic doesn’t exist there.” Adam replied, drawing a huge gasp from Twilight. “No magic?!” She practically shouted. “How could your world function if it doesn’t have any magic?!” Twilight practically exploded. A world without magic?! Preposterous! “We make up for it with technology.” Adam said, hardly taking note of Twilight’s anger. “For example, the largest part of technology is called augmentations. Augmentations improve a human by adding cybernetic implants, and nanotechnology, which basically means using millions upon millions of tiny machines. If one were to be augmented enough, they could become a super-soldier, like me.” “Woah, hang on, you use technology to make super po-er, humans?” Twilight interjected, eyes widening. “And you’re one of those?” Adam laid back in the chair. “Yeah, I guess you could say that. I guess you guys don’t have much technology here, then?” “Well, the furthest we’ve gotten to is a basic railway system and lightbulbs.” Twilight said sheepishly. “What a shame.” Adam said emotionlessly, face unchanging. “Anyways, if you want to see my augmentations in action, I guess I could do that for you some time.” “I’d love that!” Twilight exclaimed. “Hey Twi?” A young, male voice called from the common area. “Where’d ya go?” “I’m in the kitchen, Spike!” Twilight answered. A few moments later, a small purple and green lizard came jogging into the kitchen. “Hey Twilight, I was just- woah, is this the visitor guy?” He asked, gazing up at Adam. “Yeah, I guess you could say I am.” Adam responded, sticking out his hand. “And it looks like I can finally have a proper handshake. My name is Adam. I guess you’re Spike?” “Yup, that’s me!” Spike said, proudly puffing out his chest. “Twilight’s Number One Assistant!” He cleared his throat and shook Adam’s hand. “Uh, nice to meet you Adam.” He said sheepishly. “Twilight, I was just about to ask you if you wanted to go to bed soon. Luna’s already brought up the moon!” Twilight glanced out the kitchen window. Somehow, her short conversation with Adam had taken a really long time. “I guess so.” She said. “But I want to learn more about your world tomorrow, Adam!” “Got it.” Adam said. “So, uh, where am I going to sleep?” Twilight giggled. “I have an extra bed in my room that you can use. Spike, go set it up for him!” “Got it!” He said, saluting to Twilight. “C’mon, let’s go upstairs Adam. You should probably get some sleep too.” Twilight said. “Alright.” Adam said. As they finished walking up the curved stairs, they reached the bedroom, where Spike had somehow already gotten the bed ready for Adam and was sound asleep. Adam climbed into the small bed and pulled the small blanket over himself. “Good night, Adam.” Twilight said softly, climbing into her own bed and turning off the lights. Both adults fell asleep at the same time. Adam walked through the labs of the familiar manufacturing plant. No one was there. It was just him, looking around the place he once thought was destroyed. However, as most people would be frightened by this sort of thing, Adam showed no emotion. In truth, he didn’t like the feeling of the factory, but was nonetheless showing no emotion, as usual. He closed his eyes and took a breath, then continued on. At least, he tried. He realized he couldn’t move. Panicking slightly, he looked down at his feet; but they weren’t there! They had been replaced by hooves! Adam was now fully panicking, hoping to find help somewhere, but no one was in the factory. Alarms and klaxons went off everywhere in the lab, the roof breaking open to reveal mercenaries falling down into the factory. Two of them rushed over to him and grabbed him by two hooves. “We have it, sir, we have it!” One of them said. Adam recognized that voice; it was Michael Zelazny! But when Adam attempted to reason with him and tell him who he was, all that came out were neighs and snorts, as Adam bucked furiously. “Sir, it’s acting up!” Michael shouted as he knocked Adam out with the butt of his rifle. Adam shot up in his bed. Looking around, he noticed that he was still in Twilight Sparkle’s room, on her spare bed. Adam’s legs were dangling off the end, his feet against the floor. ‘Feet?’ Adam thought to himself. He breathed a massive sigh of relief. He was still a human, just still in the pony world. He then noticed that Twilight was still sleeping soundly, although the sun was slowly sending creeping tendrils of light across the room. Adam got out of his bed and activated his silent walking augmentation, so as to not wake Twilight up. As he approached the stairs leading to the common area of the library, a delicious smell wafted towards Adam. He detected the smell to be eggs. Now, although Adam didn’t have to eat food for long periods of time, he would still prefer to eat rather than not. Walking into the kitchen, he saw Spike wearing a small pink apron as he prepared breakfast for the three current occupants of the tree. Adam couldn’t help but chuckle at this, which made Spike jump a little bit. “Dude, what the heck? I didn’t even hear you come downstairs!” Spike exclaimed. “Oh, I must’ve forgotten to turn that off.” Adam said to himself as he deactivated his silent-walking augmentation. He cursed himself for being so mindless, as he was now down to a single battery cell. “Turn what off?” Spike asked. “Something that lets me walk silently.” Adam explained. “I used it so I wouldn’t wake up Twilight, but I guess I forgot to turn it off when I came downstairs.” Spike shrugged. “Well, I’m making breakfast right now. We’re gonna have eggs and daisy sandwiches, since Twilight loves those so much.” The last item on the menu hit Adam like Rosie O’Donnell sitting on someone. He realized he couldn’t eat most of the things a pony would normally eat. “Yeah, I think I’m going to pass on the sandwiches…” Adam said. “Let me guess.” Spike said. “Humans can’t eat flowers and stuff?” Adam nodded. “That’s the simple way to put it. But eggs are great.” “Well, they’re almost ready!” Spike exclaimed. He looked down. “Oh, uh, they…are…ready…” he trailed off. “Burn them?” Adam asked. “Only a little!” Spike protested. “Here, I’ll give the least-burnt part.” Spike handed Adam a plate of eggs, along with an apple. Adam dug in, and by the time Twilight had come downstairs, Adam had already finished off everything on his plate. “Oh, good morning Adam!” She exclaimed happily. “My, somebody’s awful happy this morning.” Adam said near-emotionlessly. “Well, I decided to not pound you with questions this morning.” Twilight said, causing Adam to breathe a sigh of relief. “I’m going to show you around town instead!” Adam facepalmed. “Now?” “Of course not NOW, because you DID promise me you’d show me how your augments work, remember?” Adam sighed. “Alright, let’s do that then.” After Twilight finished her breakfast, Twilight took him into the common area of the library, where there would be plenty of room to do tests. “Alright, so the first thing I want you to do is set up a relatively strong wall, preferably out of bricks or something.” Adam instructed. “Well,” Twilight said. “I don’t just have bricks lying around, but I can set up a low-energy magic barrier!” “Do it.” Adam said. Horn glowing, Twilight constructed a quick, relatively weak magical barrier. Adam brought back his arm, mechanism in his hand spinning into a tight ball of steel, and he then proceeded to punch directly through the barrier, shattering it into tons of invisible pieces. “Wow!” Twilight exclaimed. “That was amazing! Not even Applejack can break a barrier!” She made a mental note to herself that if she pissed him off, to set up a very thick barrier. “Alright, the next thing I want you to do is find me something heavy.” Twilight went inside, and a few moments later returned with Adam’s favorite: a refrigerator. “You sure you don’t need this?” He asked. “No, this has been broken for a couple years now.” Twilight explained. “Well, alright then.” To Twilight’s shock, Adam not only picked up the fridge, but threw it across her house. “Oh my Gosh, that’s amazing!” Twilight bounced happily, much akin to Pinkie Pie. “I mean, I’ve seen ponies pick up really heavy objects with telekinesis, but never seen a pony pick something like that up on their own strength and then THROW it!” “Yeah, alright.” Adam said. “Next I- uh” Adam stopped. He really didn’t think innocent ponies needed to know the destructive power of the Typhoon. “Next I want you to meet upstairs on your balcony.” He said as he activated the GlassShield Cloaking System. Twilight sat there, amazed that technology alone could make somepony disappear entirely. But she figured it would probably be best to simply follow his instructions and meet him at the balcony. She trotted up the stairs, and sure enough, when she approached the balcony, Adam was standing there, waiting for her. “That was really cool Adam!” Twilight said, not having nearly enough time to stop herself from sounding like Rainbow Dash. She cleared her throat. “What I meant was, why do we need to be up here on the balcony?” “Watch.” Adam said as he leapt off of the third-floor balcony. “Adam, wait!” Twilight yelled. But it was too late to catch him with her telekinesis. In horror, she dashed over to the balcony edge, only to see Adam engulfed in some sort of yellow ball. After seeing him walk back inside, she decided he’d probably wait for her in the common area again. But as she entered the encirclement of books, there was not an Adam to be seen. Confused, Twilight began to trot to the kitchen, only to have the crap scared out of her when she felt a tap on her shoulder. “Surprise.” Adam said, only to be met with a hoof to the face. “Well I see someone can’t take a joke.” “That was for jumping off my balcony without telling me what you planned to do!” Twilight yelled. “Well, anyways, what was that yellow bubble thing?” “That’s called the Icarus Landing System.” Adam responded. “It allows me to fall from any height without fear of death or injury.” “Wow, any height?” Twilight could just see the possibilities lining up. “That's incredible! Your technology can do some things nopony really remembers how to do with magic!” After a few more minutes about talking about magic and technology, Twilight led Adam out of the Library to go explore Ponyville. Adam simply sighed. He knew today was going to be a long day. ((A/N: Sorry this took so long to get out guys! I really didn’t have much access to my computer. The next chapter may be out soon though! -Dash))
