Ken 10

Far beneath the soil in a cave near canterlot, a dim light filled the air as Twilight Sparkle, a purple pony alicorn along with her purple dragon spike walked down the dark path. A purple bipedal being made of flame walking behind them, having been hired by said purple pony for extra protection.

“Your majesty, I should warn you about these caves, they are as old as Canterlot itself which means they are unstable and could collapse at any second.” the being said, though no one could find the tiniest hint of worry for the Alicorn or her assistant.

"I know Adolfa, but the idea of finding hidden secrets in this cave is just too tempting." Twilight said excitedly, as Spike rolled his eyes.

"Why can't a bed ever find you exciting?" He muttered.

“I’m serious, princess, we should not be here, don’t ponies ever learn that some things should never be discovered? I mean, thousands of stupid scholars, adventurers, and treasure hunters all died from discovering something from long ago.” Adolfa said, clearly annoyed. “500 bits is not worth dying for.”

Twilight sighed. "Maybe you're right…"

“Damn right I am, now I think we should leave-” Adolfa started to say, however once they turned to leave the entire cave began to shake. The ground beneath the three began cracking and collapsed, pulling Spike, Adlofa, and Twilight down.

Adolfa reacting quickly, grabbed Twilight and Spike and used her free hand to blast flames to slow down their fall until they reached the bottom.

"T-that was scary." Spike muttered, but noticed Twilight staring ahead of them into the cave. "Twi?"

Adolfa used her flames to light up the area, and saw Twilight walking over to a cave with some sort of light. “Damn it princess! We should head back up, not follow the mysterious light!!”

"But it could be something magical!" Twilight said excitedly, flying right into the cave.

Adolfa, while growling in anger, ran with Spike to catch up to her before she does something she might regret, ‘I know I’m already regretting taking this job.’

The three freeze in place, once they reached a larger ice cave. The three noticed a green light coming from the largest ice stalagmite, making a clear outline of a young human boy, shocking Twilight. "A human?! Here!?"

“How the hell did a human get from Earth all the way to this place? And-wait a minute.” Adolfa looked closer and saw something on the humans wrist, gasping in shock, she placed her hands on the ice and began to melt it.

"What's wrong Adolfa?" Twilight asked slowly trotting up to the fire being.

“No time! Need to get them out, specifically the human!” was all she said as she made it to the human and carefully melted the ice around him.

Spike and Twilight glance at each other, not understanding why she was so worried. The human however coughed shocking the two even more before he opened his eyes slowly. "W-what?"

“Calm yourself, you're safe, do you remember your name, young one?” Adolfa asked the boy, showing worry since the first time they started their adventure.

"My." The boy paused. "My name's Ken Tennyson."

Twilight's eyes widen as she ruffles through old books and papers in her bag.

“What is it Twi?” Spike asked her, “Do you know that name or something?”

"I remember reading about a bipedal being named ken that helped in the reconstruction of griffonstone. Before they vanished." Twilight said. "It also said to be one of Celestia and Luna's oldest friends."

"W-wait… T-Tia, lulu?" Ken muttered sitting up slowly and holding his head.

“Easy, you must rest, you just came out of ice after being in there for who knows how long.”

"Wait… ice?" Ken muttered in confusion.

Spike looked at the watch device on Ken's wrist, and touched it before anyone noticed. It glowed yellow, as a black image of a dragon formed on it.

“It is the Omnitrix. I thought it was only legend.” Adolfa said in a barely audible voice, but Twilight and Spike heard her.

"Uh the everything matrix?" Twilight asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Don’t say it like that, you make it and yourself sound stupid.” Adolfa said, then picked up Ken. “We need to find an exit, he needs medical attention ASAP.”

Twilight drops her scrolls in shock at Aldofa's worry for the young boy, before she makes her horn glow and teleports the four to the canterlot throne room. Luna raised an eyebrow at the sudden flash as she was about to switch places with her sister. "Twilight? What art thou doing here?"

“How about you warn me next time?! Know what, nevermind, this boy needs medical attention.” Adolfa then ran out the throne room.

Luna raised an eyebrow. "We do not understand."

Spike climbed onto Twilight's back. "We found a boy named Ken." He told luna, before Twilight quickly followed the fire lady.

Once she caught up her, she saw that Adolfa was looking in different directions until her eyes landed on her. “”Well? Don’t just stand there help me find the medical wing!!” Adolfa shouted out.

"Ok ok!" Twilight said galloping down the hall to the medical wing, quickly passing Celestia.

“Twilight? What is going on?” she asked, gaining a growl of annoyance at being stopped again from Adolfa.

Celestia's eyes widened at the sight of Ken. "Ken!?"

“Look, we don’t have time, Ken just got out of some ice and needs medical attention, I’m doing the best I can to bring his body heat back up, but we need to get to the medical wing.” Adolfa said.

Celestia blinks and grabs Ken in her magic, quickly galloping to the medical wing. She set him in her own personal bed, and ordered all the medics to work on him.

“I really hate magic users, you never know what happens with them.” Adolfa said as she and Twilight entered the room.

Ken groaned as his eyes opened again. "Where am i?"

“You're in the castle's medical wing.” Twilight answered, walking to him. “We rescued you from the ice you were trapped in.”

“Are you alright?” Adolfa and Celestia asked at the same time, though the two either didn’t notice or care.

"Im ok and ice?" Ken muttered rubbing his head. "Wait… is that you Celestia?"

Celestia smiled softly and nuzzled his cheek. "Yes Ken, I've missed you."

"But… what happened? I just saw you." He muttered confusion clear on his face.

“Remember that ice we said? Well, we found you in it, and judging by how old the cave was, I’d say you were in there for quite a while. What is the last thing you remember?” the purple fire being asked.

"Um falling asleep in my friends cabin during a snowstorm. I was on my way to canterlot to get supplies to help griffinstone." Ken said rubbing his head more.

Celestia glanced at Twilight, Adolfa and spike. "That was over a thousand years ago.."

“A thousand years?!?” Ken asked, shocked by the information. “I’ve been frozen for a thousand years?”

"It would seem so, my friend. But it's so great to see you again." Celestia smiles at Ken as Luna walks in.

"Sister what's going on?" Luna asked in confusion.

"Sister Ken is back." Celestia smiled.

"Ken? We don't understand your jokes." Luna said

“Not a joke, take a look for yourself.” Twilight said, moving for Luna to see Ken.

"Ken!" Luna said happily, hugging Ken.

"L-luna." Ken said and slowly hugged her back. "W-wow you've changed."

Luna chuckles a bit, whipping away a happy tear. "Well it has been a long time, are you still able to turn into monsters?"

Ken chuckles and nods, showing them all the omnitrix.

“You should be able to with Omnitrix, it was the thing that showed us where you were in the first place, which means it still works.” Adolfa said, then held her hand out, “Adolfa, knight and merc.”

"Nice to meet you." Ken smiled, shaking her hand. "Are you a pyronite?"

“Yep, glad to see someone knows what I am, you have no idea how many times ponies mistook me for a fire spirit or golem. It got really annoying.”

"Well I can turn into heatblast, but why are you purple? Did you come into contact with corodium or something?" Ken asked.

“Eh, not really, just the way that I am.” Adolfa said, “Oh, looks like you dropped something.” Adolfa picked up a folded piece of paper and held it out for Ken,

Ken takes it and reads it, nodding at her.

Who nods back. “Well, if you need me, I’ll be heading to the nearest tavern, good luck with whatever you ponies do, and get better soon Ken.” with that, the purple Pyronite left the room.

“W-wait! We still need to explore those caves!! Aaand she’s gone.” Twilight said dejectedly.

Ken raised an eyebrow at Twilight. "Cave? Oh I suppose if I was in ice for close to a thousand years dirt and stuff formed around me."

“Not really, you were just in a stalagmite of ice in a large cave of ice, which is quite odd seeing how we are in a summer climate and.” Ken decided to ignore the ramblings of Twilight, and looked at Celestia and Luna.

“How soon can I get out?”

"Well everything seems Ok with you, so i suppose you can go but I'd like it if you'd rest more." Celestia said smiling softly.

Ken nodded and got up, making sure all his clothes and items were alright. "And do be careful, ponies aren't used to humans in this world." Luna said softly

Ken nodded and began to leave, once he reached the main doors to the castle, he began to head north, getting all kinds of looks from ponies, mostly ranging from awe, surprise or from the usual snob, disgust. But he didn’t care, he kept walking, he eventually saw a building that revealed to be a tavern, walking inside his eyes scanned the crowd for a certain someone, seeing them he walked over to them and sat down. “Glad you made it kid.” came the voice of Adolfa, who had her feet on the table.

"So what did you want to talk about? No offense but I'm still trying to cope with the fact that I'm a thousand and ten years old… and i thought Aang had it hard at one hundred and twelve."

“First let me ask you a question, what do you remember before Equestria?” she asked, her gaze hardening. With shadows covering most of her face combined with the glow from her body, she looked a little intimidating.

Ken raised his eyebrow. "Um earth, my parents died then me and my brother got an omnitrix and spellbook from ben ten ended up here."

She seemed to glare at him then nodded. “Good, sorry for the whole intimidation, force of habit. Look, you want the simple answer or the long answer on why I asked to come here?”

"Judging by the questions i'm assuming your a displaced as well?" Ken asked, smiling as he orders an apple cider.

“Hmph, good to see I don’t have to do the whole big speech on your displaced and all the other bull.” Adolfa said, ordering cider as well. “And your right about me being Displaced, though why am I here in your Equestria is beyond me. But I do have few theories. One of them involves the Celestiosapiens.”

Ken nods slowly. "That'd make sense."

“So, why don’t we get to know each other, throw any suspicion out the window or some shit.” Adolfa said, taking a big chg of her cider once it was brought to them. “Ain’t the Apple families special cider, but tastes just as good.”

Ken chuckles and drinks the cider as well. "Wow this is a lot better than the stuff i drank before being…. frozen…"

“Hey, I get that you probably had friends from before you were frozen, but what happens to us is beyond our control, maybe you were frozen for a reason. Maybe the Celestiosapiens or some other higher power, except fate, fate can kiss my burning ass. Saw something that needed you to be frozen for. Who knows?” Adolfa said with a shrug, “But everything happens for a reason.”

Ken chuckles with a slight blush. "Yeah… I'm just glad to see lulu."

“Heh, yeah immortality has its pros, and forgive my language, I’m just used to talking with more...mature beings.” Adolfa apologized while taking another chug of her cider,

"Ah don't worry about it. " Ken said, shrugging. "I'm just gonna miss the nice family that adopted me, well… took me in I should say."

“Hey, they aren’t lost as long as you remember them, not in here.” Adolfa said, pointing at her head, then placed her hand over her heart. “But in here. You understand?”

Ken smiles. "Yeah, i know. Thanks though."

“No problem kid.” Adolfa gave a friendly smile, and finished her drink and slammed the cup onto the table. “Alright, kid, your turn, ask me anything.”

"Well… how did you end up here?" Ken asked after finishing his drink.

“Heh, like I said kid, I have no fucking clue, I think it was the Celestiosapiens getting back at me for nearly wiping out the entire universe with the Anialarg or whatever it’s called. Luckily the thing was too broken to work. Good thing too, wasn't too keen on getting wiped from existence.” Adolfa said, ordering another cup. “That’s just a theory though, you know how Celestiosapiens are, don’t get involved with anything unless it broke like a multiversal law or something.”

"You tried to use the anialarg… ok you're awesome. And hey with the different color of flames are you a different kind of pyronite?" Ken asked, ordering some chips.

“Somewhat, I’m actually my Ben 10 OC, Adolfa was born different than the others, due to her mother being an Anodite, you know the Anodites right?”

"Yeah pure magic beings that only gain a body by well having some fun with mortal beings." Ken said, smirking.

“Your good kid, yeah basically Adolfa’s mom was Anodite and her father should be pretty obvious,” Adolfa took a drink of her Cider, “Can’t use magic though, well more like don’t want to, I feel like magic is just cheating, where is the rush of adrenaline during a fight? And seriously, we have hands for a reason, no need to use levitation to levitate a cup that is just inches from you, when you pick the damn thing up yourself, ponies too, I see that their able to pick things up with their hooves. Anyway, I’m getting off topic, I don’t use magic, my flames are weaker than candles cause they're tied into my magic, so I make up for it with my swordsmanship and with these.” Adolfa brought up a .44 Magnum.

Ken nods, drinking another cider as his chips arrived. "Mind if i try to get a scan? A different colored pyronite would be really cool."

“Hmm, sure why not? Knock yourself out. Just be careful, I haven’t onced used my magic, so I have no idea how strong you’ll be.”

"Well magic isn't based on the dna, Anodite don't have dna according to gwens and ben's grandma." Ken said reaching his omnitrix out for her to touch.

She reached a finger over and tapped the surface, then a yellow beam scanned her. “Congrats kid, you now have a Pyrodites Dna. Anything else you want to know? Maybe you’d like to hear my adventures, even what I did during my stay here? If you want that is.” the Pyrodite drank all of her cider.

"Sure I've got nowhere to be." Ken smiled, ignoring all the looks the two kept getting from all the ponies.

“Heh, glad to hear that someone is interested in what I have to say, most of my clients just want me to be the silent bodyguard. Where to begin,” Adolfa thought for a minute then brought her feet down. “Alright, let’s start with how I managed to take down two Tyranopeed’s with Daring Do. Or maybe what I did when I woke up in your Equestria. Yeah the last seems better, I’ll go with that. When I woke up, a family of Phoenix's decided my head was a good nesting spot. After dealing with two pissed fire birds, I realized I was in the Everfree Forest, now I was no stranger to the place so I easily made it out.” Adolfa received a look from Ken that clearly said he didn’t believe her. “Ok, I got lost a few times, managed to piss off an Ursa Major but eventually made it out.”

"Wow, and tyranopeeds? Humungasuars predator?" Ken asked. "Really hoping that doesn't mean there's a nemetrix here."

“I hope not. I don’t want to deal with Kyber or some other crazy alien hunter. Anyway, the first thing I did after getting out was head to Applelosa, but as I was walking through Ponyville I noticed the weird looks ponies gave me, I was kinda used to it as I rarely made myself get seen by anyone other than my clients. That was my first red flag. So I asked a random Pony about a guild called the Silent Arrow. It was pretty well known, so I knew I wasn’t in my Equestria. So first thing I did? Find the nearest tavern and drink cider to think about how I got here, and why. Eventually I gave up and started making a name for myself here. That led to Twilight seeking my skills in protecting her while we search a random cave for some guy named Starswirly the Weirded’s staff. That eventually led up to us finding you.”

"Starswirl the Bearded." Ken corrected.

“Yeah him, thanks kid, usually I’m not much of a scholar. Anyway, that’s how my adventure started here in your Equestria. Anything else you want to hear?”

"I think I get the gist of it. I wonder if the celestialsapiens froze me for whatever reason." Ken sighs. "But anyway maybe we can get you back to your equestria… or maybe they're the same world, just different time periods?"

“Eh, who knows, but gonna be a problem with that kid.”

"What do you mean?" Ken asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Never bothered to make a Token, didn’t see the reason to. Guess I should have huh? Besides, I still have to do a job for Sparkle, and a Silent Arrow Merc always gets the job done, so I might be here for a while. Hey, maybe you should come with us. You know, see if you still got it.”

Ken thinks for a moment. "Yeah that could work… I wonder if my old house is still standing."

“You never know, come on kid, let’s get out of here before we start a brawl. And trust me, I spend way too much on repairs back in my world, I don’t need to start a history here as well.” Adolfa said as she got up.

Ken nods, pulling out an uncut diamond and throwing it to the bar keep. "Keep the change."

The barkeep, a green dragon looked shocked. "Wow thanks!"

“Where the everloving fuck did you get that kid? Looks like something those Diamond guys are made of.”

"Pertrosapien and basically, i have a bunch when i first got here i decided to help rebuild griffinstone but had no funds soooo." Ken laughs. "I may have abused my powers ever so slightly but it was for a good cause."

“Don’t we always? Well, Ken I can take ya back to the castle, just be prepared in the morning. Sparkles is gonna have us on a tight schedule, so prepare for her wake up calls.” Adolfa said as the two began to walk to the castle.

"Yay." Ken muttered.

Adolfa laughed at that. And the two continued in silence, eventually arriving at the castle. “Well see ya later kid.” she said as she began to walk away, “Some friendly advice, wear ear plugs, it helps lower Twilights screeching.”

"Right." Ken said, heading to the throne room, only to be tackle-hugged by luna. "lulu!"

“Ken! Oh I’m glad you're back, how was your walk? I saw Adolfa walk back to the castle with you, what did you two talk about?” Luna asked Ken,

Ken laughs. "Relax lulu Adolfa just told me about her adventures here and my walk was fine."

“Oh that is good, I was just worried for you, she isn’t exactly famous for the right reasons. There have been a couple of cases where she stole from museums and many other places. Just be careful around her.” Luna said to Ken, worry in her voice.

Ken smiles softly. "Do you remember what I told you about displaced?"

“Um, a little bit actually.” she said. Having a thoughtful look on her face. “Please remind me.

"We're humans that get sent from our homes to different Equestrias." Ken said walking onto a balcony and looking at the stars. "Adolfa is one just like me, someone in a world not our own and needing to do whatever it takes to survive… we just have different ways of doing that."

“I guess you are right Ken, even though I don’t agree with how she survives, I can respect her skills in battle. I just don’t want to lose you again.”

Ken smiles at luna. "I know lulu, and you won't." He said pulling her into a hug.

“Thank you Ken, I needed that.“ Luna said, “Now go get some sleep. You still need rest after all.”

Ken smiles, waving to her before looking at her. "Um… where am i supposed to sleep?"

“Oh! Sorry! I forgot you just woke up, this way.” Luna and Ken walked through the castle and after many twists and turns, they stopped at a set of doors, “This is where you’ll be sleeping.” opening the doors Ken saw a pretty basic room, a large bed with a desk by the window, a closet and a door leading to the bathroom. “It’s not much, but with a little work you can make it feel like home if you wish.”

Ken smiles playfully remembering how they used to play around. "Well as long as you're here it's already home."

“I’m glad Ken, we really missed you. Maybe once you are done with your little adventure with Adolfa and Twilight, me, you and Tia can discuss what you missed.” Luna said.

Ken smiles and kisses her hoof.. "I'd love to."

“Good, now get some sleep, you have a long day ahead of you.” Luna left the room, leaving Ken to rest.

Ken sighs, laying in bed. "She was much easier to make blush when she was younger."

“I might have built up a small resistance Ken! You’re gonna have to try harder than that!”he heard Luna say from the other side of the door before he heard her hoofsteps fade.

Ken blushes and Chuckles. "Oh your on!"