In the streets of Seattle, a young man with dirty brown hair, green eyes, fair skin, and a slim lean build, was sitting on top of an election billboard that had been spray-painted to make the person running for mayor look like he was a puppet, throwing rotten eggs from a carton down at people and cars below him, he wore a letterman jacket that looked to be green but was so filthy it was brown and the letters were too faded to read, dark blue jeans, white sneakers, and a green beanie.
"Think fast coppers!" he yelled as he chucked a rotten egg at a police car as they drove up.
"Goddammit, Zeke! Just wait until we get up there!" One of the cops said as they stepped out of the dark.
Then as a police officer climbed up to the billboard platform, the young man named Zeke threw the spray paint can at the officer's unprotected forehead then dumped the remaining eggs then ran, jumping from the rooftop onto several air conditioners like they were stairs, then onto a deli sign, before landing on a table and slipping into a crowd of people.
The cops tried to find Zeke, but they couldn't spot him, one of the cops groaned in frustration and said, "Dammit, every time!", Zeke slipped out of the crowd as the cops had their backs turned.
"Heheheheh. You'll never catch this Conduit Positive, donut munchers." Zeke said as he continued down the street while evading the police, then he passed a TV store, the news was on.
"As you can see behind me, the Conduit freedom movement is a hot topic, with the recent events many people have joined the side of Conduit's side but some still think of Conduits as bioterrorists. Alleged reports say Psychic Conduits send messages that only people who are natural-born Conduits can receive." the news reporter said, she was in front of two groups of people with signs that either said, "Conduits are people too! #All Lives Matter" or "Conduits are bioterrorists!"
Zeke ignored the TVs as he walked down the street, but then he spotted a kid in the street picking up a frisbee, but the next thing he noticed was a truck with a distracted driver speeding toward him.
What will Zeke do?
Save the child?
Let the child die?
'This thing again? My answer should be obvious!' Zeke thought as he bolted out into the street and threw the child into the sidewalk, letting himself get hit by the truck instead, the last thing he heard was screams and the sounds of the truck driver trying to escape before he blacked out.
"Oh my goodness! Are you alright?!" said a female voice.
'Huh, weird I thought I was dead- Gah! Cold thing touching me!' Zeke thought before his eyes snapped open, he saw he was in an alleyway, it was nighttime and raining, in front of him was a colorful mare in a nun outfit, she was brushing her hoof across Zeke's muzzle, 'Wait, muzzle?'
Zeke looked at himself, he was now a colt probably about 5 years old with a tan coat, his human hair, a tail of matching color, and clothing. '........... Why am I not freaking out right now?'
"My goodness, you're burning up." the mare said before picking Zeke up, "What's your name, little guy?"
"Zeke..." Zeke said now hearing his new high pitched voice.
"What an... Odd name... But I'm Penned Heart, come on now, let's get you somewhere much warmer and some food in your belly," Penned Heart said before walking off with a still perplexed Zeke on her back.
'Why the hell am I still not freaking out?!?!' Zeke thought.
It was a very weird time for Zeke, as it turns out Zeke was reborn into a world called Equestria, a land populated by ponies with normal ones, pegasi, and unicorns, with two alicorns that both raise and lower the sun and moon separately and rule the land together, Celestia and Luna. Zeke's pony body had a near-death experience which caused Zeke to remember his past life as a human, which was why Zeke wasn't freaking out. Zeke's body was someone else's while Zeke's mind ran the body now.
Zeke still had his natural climbing ability among a few other things, It turns out Zeke was still a Conduit because after a doctor's exam they found a strange gene trait inside of Zeke, which Zeke already knew what it was.
Zeke was now living at Penned Heart's Orphanage and Zeke seemed to be going the same route as his human self did, which was 'hide from adults and wait till he's 18 to legally leave'. So Zeke just hid and watched foals get adopted. Not that he really cared, he never made friends with anypony.
Some other foals did try to speak to Zeke but they found that they'd get more of a response from a brick then Zeke, eventually after 3 and a half years, Zeke was the last foal in the orphanage. Zeke was currently in his normal spot, in the rafters, eating an apple watching the last foal other than him leave with their new family. Zeke during his human time had grown numb to the feeling of wanting a family, Zeke was fine with living on his own.
'Just need to wait for 8 and a half more years to pass until I'm a legal adult and I can go about my life.' Zeke thought, giggling at the thought of possibly spray painting one of the princesses billboards.
'Now that's a very rude thing for a foal to do or think for that matter.' a motherly voice said in Zeke's head, causing him to fall out of the rafters from the shock of hearing a second voice in his head, before he was caught by a unicorn's magic.
In front of him were 2 alicorns.
The first had magenta eyes, a four colored mane, those colors being a light deep blue, a light turquoise, a very light cobalt blue, and a pale pink, and a white coat, wearing gold jewelry and shoes. Also, her horn was glowing a gold aura.
The second had cyan eyes, a sapphire blue mane with grayish Persian blue, and a dark blue coat, with silver shoes and black metal jewelry.
"Oh hey, it's the princesses, Sunbutt and Moonbutt," Zeke said with a blunt look on his face, causing the first mare to giggle as the second mare blushed and pouted only for Zeke to say, "What are you laughing about? Your butt is bigger then Moonbutt's, Sunbutt."
The second mare laughed at her sister's face, which was filled with shock, Penned Heart looked behind her to see what the noise was and was shocked to see the princesses, Penned Heart quickly stepped in front of them, bowed her head, and said, "P-Princess Celestia! Princess Luna! To what do we owe this honor?"
"'To what do you owe this honor' I don't care a single bit about these two," Zeke said to which Penned Heart quickly shushed him but Zeke just blew a raspberry.
"I am so sorry about him, Zeke here has a bit of a rough personality." Penned Heart said.
"No need to punish the foal, he was simply speaking his mind," Celestia said.
"Bitch, that wasn't me speaking my fucking mind, me speaking my fucking mind involves a lot of fucking-" Zeke was cut off by Penned Heart covering his mouth with a hoof.
"Where did such a young foal learn such language?!" Luna yelled in a very loud voice.
"Gah, use your fucking inside voice!" Zeke yelled pushing away Penned Heart's hoof before rubbing his ears and continuing, "Also, can you put me down, the blood is going to my fucking head."
Zeke was lowered to the ground and Celestia's horn stopped glowing before she said, "I think we'll adopt this one."
"What?" Zeke, Penned Heart, and Luna said.
"We came here to adopt a foal, but it seems he's the only one here, and this is the only orphanage in Equestria, so we'll take him, we might even fix that personality of his," Celestia said with a smile.
"I'd like to see you try," Zeke said before getting a light shove from Penned Heart.
"Well, if that's what you wish, come with me, Zeke go pack your things." Penned Heart said Zeke rolled his eyes and went to his room.
Penned Heart and the Princesses walked to the counter then Luna said, "You still have yet to answer my question, where did he learn those words?"
"I found him when he was 5 years old in Seaddle while coming back from a family visit, he was sitting in an alleyway all by himself so if I had to guess he heard those words from some foul-mouthed pony," Penned Heart said.
"That's awful, who would put a foal out in the streets at such a young age?" Luna questioned.
Penned Heart rubbed her forehead and said, "I wish I knew, anyway, before we sign anything I'm legally obligated to tell you everything I know about him."
"Very well, begin," Celestia said, neither Celestia nor Luna noticing Zeke had finished packing and was around the corner listening to them.
"Well, you know his personality, so starting with the traits of his mental ability, he's very smart, at a college level in fact, from Science to Math to even Grammar," Penned Heart said.
"Impressive!" Luna said.
'It's more that everything here is at a 10th-grade level since ponies relied on magic for everything, so most subjects get shafted while Magic is all you study.' Zeke thought.
"Next, his physical ability, the doctors say he's stronger, faster, and tougher than most foals his age. When he grows up, they say he's going to be stronger than most ponies. He's also quick to recover from injuries and I've never once seen him get sick, not a little sniffle." Penned Heart said.
"My, my, he must certainly keep himself fit and healthy," Luna said.
"Actually it's because of something else entirely, the doctors found a strange gene trait inside him, next to nothing is known about it, and the doctors can't make heads or tails of it."
"I thought that was the case. Luna, did you not sense it? That gene trait has been letting off strange energy." Celestia said before glancing at Zeke, making his presence known.
"I had not been focusing on the energy around us, I hadn't even noticed him," Luna said.
"Zeke can be a sneaky one, he's lost multiple chances for adoption because he goes somewhere no pony can find him." Penned Heart said Zeke shrugged in response.
"Well, he's not hiding now," Celestia said.
Penned Heart smiled and said, "True, now please sign here and the adoption will be complete."
Both Celestia and Luna signed the Mother's side of papers then Zeke said, "You two aren't really convincing me that you're not lesbians."
"Hush, little Zeke, you're new Co-Mothers are finished up and we will be leaving soon," Luna said.
"Co-Mothers? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Zeke said bluntly.
After the papers were signed, the princesses and Zeke left the orphanage in a chariot pulled by pegasi, Penned Heart waved them off with a few tears, then Celestia took out a scroll, wrote something down then used a spell to send it somewhere before speaking, "We'll be heading to Ponyville because we believe you'll grow much better there than Canterlot."
"You're also worried about me picking a fight with the nobles." Zeke quickly added.
"I... Uh... Was I that obvious?" Celestia asked getting a row of nods from Luna, Zeke, and both the guards pulling the chariot as they flew off.
Author's Note
Thank you for reading and feel free to point out any grammar mistakes I've made, also any ideas you have.
Anyway, I've borrowed down 3 picks for Zeke's first power, each a reference to the game series, and I need some opinions to choose which to use;
Smoke from Infamous Second Son = 13
Electricity from Infamous 1 = 13
Ice from Infamous 2 = 15
Final Edit: No more votes will be counted, voting ends today.
Ponyville, E.A.M., Blast Cores
As the chariot was pulled across the skies by the armored pegasi, Celestia and Luna looked at Zeke, he looked like he was about to fall asleep at any moment, "You seem tired, you should take a nap, young Zeke." Luna said putting a wing over Zeke while she used magic to take Zeke's clothing off.
Zeke immediately tried to push Luna's wing away and said, "I'm not..." Zeke yawns mid-sentence, "Tired..." Zeke then puts his front legs over his beanie to keep it from leaving his head. "And magic off the beanie!" Zeke said then he felt Luna's feathers brush across his withers making him even more sleepy than before, "Oh, you cheating-" Zeke flopped face-first onto the cousins passing out completely, Luna attempted to take off his beanie again but Zeke's hooves landed right back onto his head again.
Celestia giggled and said, "Oh, Lulu, leave his strange little hat alone. So now that he's asleep, can you find what caused him to be so vulgar and use those illegalized words?"
Luna's horn continued to glow as she stopped messing with Zeke's beenie, then Luna said, "Hmmm... From what I can guess, he's suffering from a traumatic experience, his mind has put him in a delusional state that he's a human reborn as a pony. As for his vulgarness, I can't seem to tell what it is, he seems to have."
Celestia sighed and said, "I hope my little ponies will be able to help with his-"
"Hold on, I've noticed a pattern in his memories, he seems to do it to repress a regret he has he and if I had to compare how much he regrets this action, it's like my regret since the Nightmare Moon event, also he climbs structures when nervous or stressed," Luna said.
"I see, well, as his Co-Mothers, we'll have to help him uncover and overcome that, won't we?" Celestia with confidence in her voice.
Luna smiled widely as she then picked up Zeke and held him like a baby and said, "Yes, I doubt it needs to be said that we've both wanted a foal to call our own!" Luna then attempted to take off Zeke's beanie.
Zeke's eyes snapped open and said, "Yeah that's great, but let me tell you a little secret though, when somepony is sleeping, you should whisper!" Then Zeke pulled his beanie out of Luna's grasp, "And keep your mouth off my beanie!"
"It's filthy! Give it here!" Luna said as the two began to wrestle over the beanie until Celestia pulled it off his head.
"Hey!" Zeke said before jumping up to try and grab his beanie.
"You can have this back after we clean it and if you no longer swear," Celestia said.
"Fine, but I want it back as soon as it's clean," Zeke said with a bit of venom in his tone.
"We'll also have to work on your tone with grown-ups," Luna said before brushing Zeke's mane, "I don't know why you hide your mane in the first place, it's so naturally smooth and soft."
"You get no swearing or be kinder, I ain’t doing both," Zeke said before he swatted away Luna's hoof then said, "Stop it!"
Zeke spotted a town outside the window and noticed a large apple orchard then he felt the chariot land on the ground and come to a stop, Celestia opened the door and they were greeted by hundreds of ponies, Celestia and Luna stepped out of the chariot and were greeted by 6 ponies.
An Alicorn mare with a dark purple mane and tail with a pink stripe, a lavender coat, horn, and wings, and a tattoo of a 6 pointed star with smaller white stars on her flank.
An Earth Pony mare with a long sandy blonde mane and tail, an orange coat, and a tattoo of 3 apples on her flank.
A Unicorn mare with an elegant deep purple mane and tail, a snow-white coat and horn, and a tattoo of 3 diamonds on her flank.
A Pegasus mare with a short rainbow mane and tail, a cyan coat and wings, and a tattoo of a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt on her flank.
An Earth mare with a curly deep pink mane and tail, a pink coat, and a tattoo of a blue balloon and two yellow balloons on her flank.
A Pegasus mare with a light pink mane and tail, a butter yellow coat, and a tattoo of 3 pink butterflies on her flank.
"Welcome, Princesses, as you can see, the ponies of Ponyville are overjoyed you'll be staying here," Twilight said.
Celestia chuckled and said, "Twilight, you're a princess too, you don't need to address us in such a formal way."
"Sorry, It's just after hearing you adopted a foal and you'd be moving into Ponyvillie, I couldn't help but get a little excited," Twilight said as she rubbed the back of her head.
"So where is he or she?" The pink mare said before she zoomed past Celestia and Luna into the chariot.
Then Pinkie came out Zeke was on her head, but she didn't seem to know that as she said, "Where is he or she?".
The ponies chuckled at Pinkie's obliviousness, "He's a boy and try on your head, darling." Rarity said.
Pinkie looked up only for Zeke to lean back to keep out of her line of sight, quickly leaned into Pinkie's line of sight, and screamed, "BOO!".
"AAAAHHHHHHi there, I’m Pinkie Pie!" Pinkie said as she almost immediately recovered from Zeke's jumpscare.
"Well that was short-lived," Zeke said then as he jumped off Pinkie's head and walked forward until Pinkie jumped in front of him.
“Whatisyournamewhenisyourbirthdaywhatisyourfavoriteflavorofcakehowaboutdrinkwhatkindofpartiestoyoulikehuhhuhhuh?!” Pinkie said, of her words Zeke understood none of them.
“Were you dropped on your head as a foal?” Zeke bluntly said.
Pinkie gasped before saying, “How’d you know?”
Zeke rolled his eyes and said, “Psychic powers.”
“Really?! What number am I thinking of?!” Pinkie said with even more excitement in her voice.
“........ Cupcake.” Zeke said with a glare.
“Your good.” Pinkie said with a smile.
Celestia giggled and said, “Well, you seem to have a handle on this Luna and I are going to unpack our things at the new house, see you all in a minute.”
As Celestia and Luna walked off with packages levitating over their heads, Zeke jumped into the chariot and came out with his beanie and jacket.
Then Twilight walked up to Zeke as he got dressed before Pinkie could continue and said, “Well, hello there. I’m Twilight Sparkle.”
“Equestria’s biggest book nerd, I’ve heard the rumors,” Zeke said bluntly.
Twilight said, glancing back at the others as they chuckled, “I’m not that bad!”
“Look! A pony with a rare book!” Zeke yelled, pointing to an empty area.
“Where?!” Twilight yelled turning her head in the direction Zeke was pointing only to be laughed at when she realized she was tricked.
The rainbow mare said while laughing, “He got you good, Twi!” After a solid minute of laughing her head off Zeke was about to say something but the rainbow mare said, “I’m Rainbow Dash, I’m sure the rumors about me are about how awesome I am.”
“About 5% were, 65% were about how you have an ego so big and dense that talking to you is talking like a stack of bricks, the remaining 30% is from ponies trying to guess how many times you’ve crash-landed,” Zeke said.
“He’s got a point Rainbow, ya do got a big ego to keep in check,” the cowgirl mare said.
Rainbow blushed and said, “Shut up! I’ve been getting better about controlling my ego!“
“Sure ya have, we’ll mah name is Applejack, so where ya from little fella?” Applejack asked.
Zeke shrugged and said, “Seaddle, I’m guessing by you apple pun of a name you're from that apple orchard.”
“Eeyup! I help run Sweet Apple Acres, home to the best apples in Equestria!” Applejack yelled.
Zeke rolled his eyes and said, “And judging by how loud you yelled that you're not selling many apples and are trying to promote your crop.”
Applejack was surprised at Zeke’s comment and said while looking around and sweating uncontrollably, “W-What!? No!”
“Oh my adoptive mother, you lie like a cheap rug,“ Zeke said.
“He’s got you there AJ, you can’t lie worth a darn,” Rainbow said with a smirk, Applejack blushed from embarrassment and turned away.
Then the white mare stepped forward with the yellow mare in tow and said, “Greetings, I am Rarity, owner of several high-retail fashion stores across Equestria, as the new prince, I’m sure you’ll need a tux-”
“If a tux so much as even gets close to me, I will strangle you with it.” Zeke interrupted with a glare.
Rarity chuckled nervously before coughing and saying, “Right, and this shy mare is Fluttershy, she takes care of animals.”
“And from the rumors, she’s also a moocher and a jobless bum,” Zeke said.
Fluttershy looked away and made a noise but nopony could tell if it was words or not. Then Pinkie jumped in Zeke’s face again and said, “Now that introductions are out of the way, let’s begin your welcoming party!”. Suddenly Pinkie pulled out from her mane a large cart with ovens, confetti cannons, snow cone machines, and several different party supplies. Then a boom box started playing a playful tune as Pinkie began bouncing around repeating the word welcome over and over in a sing-song voice as her cart’s cannons went shot off confetti, the snow cone machines started on their own, and colored lights.
Zeke noticed three strange objects on the cart as he ignored Pinkie’s singing, glowing crystals covered in jagged rock, one orange stone making smoke from wood and leaves for the cannons, one blue hooked up to the lights powering them, one a light cyan submerged in water and freezing it and supplying ice for the snow cone machine. ‘Blast Cores?’ Zeke thought before saying, “Hey, nerd. What are those rock looking things?”
“My name is Twilight and those ‘rocks’ are Magicite, magical stones that, depending on the specific coloration, create one specific thing from nothing! Most of Equestria uses them like Pinkie does, to provide that one thing, like ice, electricity. However, two problems with it, one, when it forms naturally it creates fairly big explosions, and using magic on them makes them go critical and make an explosion big enough,” Twilight sighs mid-sentence, “To turn Manehatten into a crater.”
“Then why call it something that has the word Magic in it when it hates magic? Why not Blast Cores, frankly it sounds better and-”
“No!” Twilight angrily yelled interrupting Zeke before coughing her hoof and saying a calm voice, “I mean… Magic is the building blocks of just about everything in Equestria, how else could the Magicite do the things they do?”
“From what I can see, they’re fed certain materials and then they create that one specific thing from those materials given. Meaning the orange Blast Core is just extremely hot, the blue Blast Core just has an extremely high electrical charge, and the light cyan Blast Core is just extremely cold, that’s science, not magic. How? I don’t know I’m not an expert on Blast Cores.” Zeke said, saying and adding emphasis on ‘Blast Cores’ to get under Twilight’s skin, and from the looks of how beat red Twilight’s face was, it was working.
Zeke was about to continue but Pinkie began getting in his face while still singing Welcome over and over. “Will someone shut her up!” Zeke yelled and as if on queue a small black bomb landed in one of the ovens and blew up the whole cart to pieces, the Blast Cores falling to the ground. “A bit excessive but I’ll take it,” Zeke said as Pinkie stopped singing.
Ponies looked to see armored Earth Ponies and Pegasi, each colored dark grey with yellow stripes with the letters “E.A.M.” on the stripes, the Earth Ponies had small cannons on a strange-looking staddle bag that fired the black bombs high enough for them to turn around and buck the bombs at a target, the Pegasi had fully working tesla coils on their backs and were dive-bombing anypony that got too close to the Earth Ponies.
“E.A.M.?! Why now of all times?!” Twilight said.
Zeke raised an eyebrow and asked, “E.A.M.? Who are they?”
“It stands for Equestria Against Magic, a group that wreaks havoc on ponies, especially Unicorns, all to get rid of any magic-user or magical object in Equestria until there is no more magic. They tend to attack things the Princesses are involved in, they probably hear for you,” Twilight said.
“Well, what are we waiting for?! Let’s kick ‘em outta town!” Rainbow said hovering off the ground as the other 5 readies for a fight and the other ponies ran away.
Pinkie then pointed a cannon at the E.A.M. ponies and said, “This for wrecking my party wagon! Have some super sticky cupcake batter!” Pinkie then fired a glob of pink batter, but some E.A.M. Earth Ponies lined up, the front row facing the back row, which was facing forward.
Then the front row stood on their front hooves raising their back hooves in the air and the back row began launching bombs into the ready to buck hooves of the front row, launching bomb after bomb into the batter glob like a row cannon fire, halting its forward momentum. Then the two rows bucked a slightly larger bomb at the batter glob which exploded before it could connect, sending the batter glob right back at the Mane 6, then as the group was about to run from the glob of batter the bombs went off and blasted the batter onto the Mane 6, restricting any movement.
“Dangit, I can’t move!” Rainbow yelled as the mares struggled to get free.
“Hold on, girls! I’ll get some help-” Pinkie says as she broke through the 4th wall.
But she was rudely stopped by a wooden katana held by Deadpool, “No ya don’t my rambunctious pink pony, ya ain’t breaking the 4th wall this time.” He said as he stuffed his disfigured face with Chimi Cherry Changas from a nearby machine.
“But-” Pinkie said with puppy eyes until she was hit again by Deadpool.
“No buts. Unlike in Death Battle where I wasn’t being paid to complete the task I was so rudely given, I’m being paid to keep you from breaking the 4th wall to get outside help.” Deadpool stated.
“Ok, but can I have a Chimi Cherry Changa before I go?” Pinkie asked
”Sure thing! I’m being paid with lots of food!” Deadpool said before stuffing three Chimi Cherry Changas in Pinkie’s mouth and sending her back to the scene.
Her friends had completely ignored the fact Pinkie vanished from sight then Twilight glanced behind her to see Zeke messing around with the remains of the party cart. “Why are you still here?! They’re after you!” Twilight yelled.
Zeke snickered and said, “In the physical sense, I’m much like you, but in the genetic sense, I couldn’t be more different than you.” Zeke then pulled out the light cyan Blast Core, “I’m something called a Conduit! Now watch this!” Zeke said before he crushed the Blast Core with his bare hooves and was engulfed in a light cyan light then he seemingly turned into icy dust that was blown across the battlefield by a strange and very sudden breeze. “Ha Ha! It worked!” Zeke said, his voice coming from the icy dust.
“What the hay!?” One of the E.A.M. units yelled in confusion, then the icy wind began to swarm and terrorize the E.A.M. units, making their armor start to grow patches of frost and ice in places that made it hard to move.
“A-Ah where to begin with this!” Applejack said.
Rainbow glanced at Twilight, who was unconscious with her head steaming and foaming at the mouth, “Don’t think too hard about it, or you’ll end up like Twi.” RD said.
‘Hmmm… This icy wind stuff is bound to run on a timer, I’ve heard about that happening when a newly awakened Conduit has a certain power both after a while they can’t seem to do it again, or at best, not to the level of the original... So at best, I’ll probably just be able to become Ice Dust for a short period... I wonder if I can…’ Zeke thought. Then the icy wind began to swarm on top of a house, Zeke started to form and become a living creature again but not in the shape of an Earth Pony colt, Zeke was forming back into his old Human self, and when he was done, there stood Zeke in his old Human body and ponies went slack-jawed. “Fuck yeah! Human and ready to knock some fucking head! Might not be permanent and I might change back at some point but I don’t give a flying fuck!” Zeke yelled at the top of his lungs, Rarity immediately passed out in the batter from his swearing, then Zeke jumped down from the rooftop and said as he walked toward the E.A.M. units, ”Best hope your boss has a thawing machine! Because I’m about to send you fuckheads to the Ice Age!”.
Author's Note
Thanks for all the love for this story.
I'd like to clarify that Zeke is still a pony he's just changed himself into a human Prototype style where he is basically shapeshifting.
Also for the next chapter, I'm going to need a lot of battle based Ice puns, any and all are allowed.
