Ken 10

Far from canterlot deep within the mountains in a cave that a dragon once called home sounds of machinery and the zaps of electricity could be heard for miles. Machines made of all sorts of scrap and discarded parts whirled to life, as a man with grey hair laughed musically. "Those pirates failed in acquiring live specimens but I gained more than enough data on them to complete my research. And I shall use it to capture that son of tenneson or my name isn't doctor Animo!"

“Geez, if you keep talking like that, I may as well kill you where you stand!” said a shadowed figure leaning on the wall.

Animo spun around. "Who are you!?"

“Just someone who is looking for work and is able to get the job done, unlike those pirates.” the figure said,

Animo raises an eyebrow, glancing at the small crabdozer behind the cloaked being. "With an animal like that i believe it, how much?"

“Not for sale. This thing is part of my crew, ask me another time though.” the figure said as they and the Crabdozer walked forward, the figure holding a blade. “But I’m willing to do a job for you. For the right price of course.”

"I see, well the only thing i want is DNA to experiment with. Tell you what, let me get some dna off your pet there and if you can get me some Dragon dna, I might be able to create something that could be beneficial to your crew." Animo smirked with yellow teeth on display.

“Sure, but what kind of dragon? Far as I’m concerned, you would want strong DNA, like from Dragon King Torch himself?” the figure suggested.

Animo puts his hand to his chin. "For now it's only an experiment, so any dragon dna will do. Consider it a test of your skills and the payment is the hybrid of a brand new species on your crew, deal?"

The figure seemed to think for a moment. “Alright, but I also want any currency you have, I know these caves are filled with crystals, I’ll take the hybrid and a couple of gems. Just two for now, just to show how generous I’m willing to negotiate.”

Animo smiles and points to twenty gems on a table. "If you get a pony dna sample as well you can have all twenty."

“Deal. And be surprised for what I bring you.” the figure began to walk away. “Better get that Crabdozer DNA while you can, my friend doesn’t like strangers very much.”

Animo takes out a scanner gun, scanning the predator. "Good, now go away i have work to do."

“Fine.” the figure said, beginning to walk away, then stopped. “Oh, and one more thing.” they turned around and next thing Animo knew, something shot into his mouth, which turned out to be mint. “Brush your teeth for fucks sake.”

Animo rolled his eyes, sucking on the mint simply as he continues to work on his computer. The hooded being noticing what looked like a bipedal cat like being whose dna was getting mixed with what looked like crystals.

“Hmph, what are you in for?” the figure asked the feline.

"He threatened to refreeze me unless i helped him with his experiments." The feline person said.

“Heh, should have gone with the refreezing, cause you’re gonna be in there for a while.” the figure said, then began to leave. The feline then noticed what looked like a small piece of paper.

"Wait is that Ken?" He asked in a whisper. "He's alive?"

The figure did not answer, but the feline saw a small nod as the figure kept walking.

"If you see him please tell him, Tigrin is ok" He whispered.

The figure turned a corner and they were gone. “I’ll do what I can.” the figure said to themself.

Ken woke up with a small yawn, smiling at luna. He gently pulled out of her grasp and got up, un intentionally waking her up.

“Hmm, Ken?” Luna asked, letting out a yawn. “What time is it?”

Ken looks at the time. "It's eight am, im sorry for waking you up i just needed to use the bathroom."

“It’s fine.” Luna said, getting up. “I needed to get up anyway.”

"Oh right, lowering the moon?" Ken asked, smiling softly. "I haven't seen it in so long, ill join you once i go to the bathroom."

“Alright Ken.” Luna said, walking to the balcony.

A few minutes later Ken smiles as he watches Luna lower the moon, just as Celestia raised the sun. "Great job… my dear." Ken said, kissing luna's cheek.

Luna blushed, but smiled and kissed his cheek as well. “Thank you.”

Ken smiles. "Now then you made dinner so its my turn by making you breakfast."

“Oh Ken you don’t have to, I could just make it.” Luna began.

Ken shushes her by kissing her forehead. "Nonsense, its my job to be romantic. And i have something special planned." He smiles heading into the kitchen.

“Alright, I can’t wait to see what you have made.” Luna said, walking to the dining room.

Ken headed into the kitchen, making lunas old favorite food. He made everything exactly the way he used to two thousand years ago, hoping she still liked it. Ken carefully brings it into the dining room and sets it in front of luna. "Bon appatete, waffles with home hay fries and syrup."

“Oh Ken you shouldn’t have.” Luna said, “Thank you for this.”

"Anything for you." Ken smiles. "I hope you still like it."

“I’m sure I’ll still love it.” Luna said as she took a bite, a content smile on her face as she chewed. “Yep, still delicious, maybe even better than last time.”

"Only two thousand years late." Ken chuckles as celestia walks in.

"Good morning." Celestia smiles.

“Good morning sister.” Luna replied.

"Morning Tia." Ken said, eating some more waffles.

"Are those Ken's special waffles and hay fries?" Celestia asked her lips watering a little.

“Yes they are sister. And they are better than last times.” Luna said happily, eating another waffle.

Ken smiles and eats some more hey fries. "There's more in th-" He didn't get to finish his sentence as celestia went running into the kitchen.

“Didn’t take her long.” Luna said, laughing a little. “I mean I expected her to immediately sniff it out and just run straight into the kitchen.

Ken smiles. "Maybe her nose has gone soft in her old age."

“Hey I’m not old.” Celestia said from the kitchen.

"Tia i knew you when you were six!" Ken yelled. "That was two thousand years ago!"

“So? Someponies actually say I look really young.” was Celestia's reply as she came out with a plate of waffles and hay fries.

"Yeah because your an alicorn." Ken said chuckling. "Im just teasing you."

“Your mean sometimes.” Celestia said, playfully pouting.

Ken shrugs, winking at luna. "Should you tell her or should i?"

Luna kept quiet, blushing a little.

“Tell me what?’Celestia tilted her head in confusion.

Luna smiles softly with a blush. "W-we're dating now, after yesterday we decided to make it official."

Celestia became wide eyed. Then smiled and hugged both Ken and Luna. “Oh I’m so happy for you two!”

Luna blushes and shys away, as Ken smiles. "I've missed you guys."

“And we’ve missed you Ken.” both Luna and Celestia said,

Luna gave Ken a long kiss on the cheek, just as the main six and Adolfa walked in. "Ew." Dash mumbled seeing them

Adolfa elbowed her in the side, “Shut up Skittles, I for one am happy the two are together.”

Pinkie gasped and bounced around ken and luna, jumping over the table at points. "I'm gonna throw you a welcome back/ congratulations party!"

“Pinkie you don’t have to do tha-” Luna began but was interrupted by Pinkie

"Of course i do! Im Pinkie pie!" She said getting in luna's face.

“She got you there. No matter what, she’ll throw a party.” Applejack said, the other Mane 6 nodded their heads in agreement

Ken chuckles and holds lunas hoof. "Hey i for one am happy that my first pinkie party will be with you."

Luna blushes as the other mane six sans rainbow giggle.

“W-well if you're happy I’m happy, and I’m also glad as well.” Luna said.

Ken smiles and kisses her cheek making her blush deeper. "I'm gonna go look for my friends again, i hope someone is alive…"

“Alright Ken, be safe.” Luna said,

Ken smiles and stands up, stretching before heading to the door.

“Want me to go with ya kid? Or do you want to go alone?” Adolfa asked, idly spinning a dagger.

Ken shrugs. "Doesn't matter to me."

Adolfa shrugged, “Alright then.” Adolfa then began to walk towards the door with Ken. Though Ken could have swore he saw Adolfa put something in a bag but shrugged and thought he was seeing things.

Ken looked around as they passed ponies on the street of canterlot, grinning at the scared and worried faces. "Bunch of scaredy cats."

“Eh, you get used to it after a while. No matter how many times they see me, this happens.” Adolfa said, “And on a rare occasion, a bunch of unicorns come over to try and deactivate me or some shit cause they think I’m a golem.”

Ken laughs, just as group of snooty upper crust unicorns walks up to them. "What in equestria are the guards thinking letting beings like you in canterlot, you’re ruining the whole cities atmosphere."

“Well fuck you too.” Adolfa said, “And just to let you know buddy. We don’t ruin this city. Snobs like you who think they are better than everyone else are!”

Ken holds his hand out to stop her. "Hey its ok, besides if we're insulting to them then so is luna seeing as im her colt friend."

The snobby ponies monocle falls right off his eye. "Ha yeah right like princess luna would like something as hideous as you!"

ADolfa then pulled out her gun and shot the air. The ponies had looks of fear at the sudden noise, “As if you know princess Luna asshole, now here’s what’s gonna happen. You and your buddies are gonna leave us alone.”

"Or what freak?" The snobby mare asked.

“This.” Adolfa said as she stomped on the ground, and a pillar of flames erupted from the ground.

The snobby ponies screamed in fear, running away from the two. "You know that could bite us in the butt."

“Don’t care, I’m used to it. Another reason why the princesses hate me.” Adolfa said, dispersing the flames.

Ken nods slowly, walking out of the city. "Well anyway lets go."

The two walked all the way to the cave entrance, and Adolfa brought Ken where the hole where she, Twilight and Spike found him.

Ken glanced around. "I'm not sure anyone else could have survived."

“Don’t worry kid, I’m sure we will find somebody alive.” Adolfa said, looking closely at the ice. “After all, we did find you.”

Ken nods slowly, following the ice down a passageway.

“So, who was with you when you got iced?” Adolfa asked.

"My friends Tigrin, I always used to call him tigger." Ken chuckles.

“What does he look like?” Adolfa asked, melting a bit of ice to get a sword and a book.

"He looks like a tiger, but he did have a scar over his eye." Ken said.

“Alright, I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for him.” Adolfa said, putting the book in a bag, and discarding the sword after seeing how rusted it was. “Anyone else I should keep an eye out for? Like a pony, dragon, maybe a griffon?”

"I'd appreciate it." Ken said looking around more.

“No problem.” Adolfa said, looking around some more.

Ken sighs as he sees no sign of anyone. "This seems pointless."

“Kid, it’s not pointless, I’m sure we’ll find someone. I mean, the cave is big so we’re bound to find someone.”

"Unless no one else made it." Ken said.

“Hey, you made it. So someone else might have survived too. We’ll find them.”

Ken nods slowly. "I understand."

“It’s good that you understand. Now let’s keep searching.” the two continued searching, Adolfa often taking anything interesting from the ice, but still helped Ken look for his friends, until they came up to a large ice cave. Adolfa held her arms and shivered, “This place is colder than Pluto!”

Ken chuckles, a bright green flash engulfing him and fading to show a big blue butterfly like alien. "Big chill loves it."

“Lucky! My flames barely keep me warm seeing how their connected tomy magic, which I refuse to use again.”

Ken shrugs. "Why not try lightning something on fire and carrying it with you?"

“Good idea.” Adolfa said, “Except I have nothing to burn.” Adolfa looked around then picked up pieces of wood and lit it on fire. “Nevermind. This is the place where we found you, so it probably means your friends are here too.”

Ken nods and flies around, looking in each ice shard. "I wonder what made this cave, these aren't normal ice shards."

“I know what you mean. Even if the ice is in a mountain, it should have already been halfway melted by now.”

Ken floats back to Adolfa, holding up a hand. "Do you hear that?"

Adolfa listened but couldn’t hear anything. “No, what is it?”

Ken looked around and pointed to blue lights flashing in the distance. "I have two theories on those lights, and im hoping its the first."

“What’s your theories?” Adolfa asked, pulling out her sword.

"One artigwanas species that got trapped here by pirates." Ken said. "Two… DNAliens and highbreeds."

“I really hope it’s the first, and they are called Polar Manzardill.” Adolfa said.

"Right, i just like the nickname. Way better than ben twenty threes freeze lizard name." Ken stated, slowly going close to Adolfa and her fire in hand before turning back to human and shivering. "Oh yeah, this is cold."

“You think? Even with the fire it’s still freezing. Let’s go check out what you heard.”

Ken nods, as the two slowly start heading to the noise. Ken shivered more, noticing the air was growing noticeably colder and harder to breathe.

“G-g-geez! T-t-this i-i-is s-starting to g-get a-a-annoying!” Adolfa said, shivering.

"M-maybe we're not dealing with either of those theories, in the show it was never this cold for either of them…" Ken said, coughing a bit. "W-we should head back and s-see if Tia or lulu know what's going on."

“G-g-good Idea!!”

"Y-you said your fire powers weaker due to magic right?" Ken asked, the two turning around to head back.

“Y-yeah. T-they a-are connected.” Adolfa replied. “A-and seeing h-how I d-d-don’t use magic, my fire is weak.”

"W-well what if i infused you with swampfires dna? To increase your own thermal power?" Ken asked, as the two began warming up the farther away they got from the sounds of ice freezing.

“Sounds like a good idea. But I’ll have to think about it, besides, what I lack in ‘fire’power, I make up for it in skill.” Adolfa said, making a fire pun,

"Haha." Ken fake laughs, breathing normal now that they left the ice cavern. "I hope the ponies have cold protection spells or something."

“I’m pretty sure they do. But we also got one of these.” Adolfa said, pulling out the book she grabbed earlier, and Ken could see it was a spellbook.

"When'd you get that?" Ken asked blinking, the sound of the omnitrix reactivating sounding throughout the cave.

“Got it from the ice along with some other things too. And what's up with the Omnitrix?”

Ken glanced at the watch, noticing an alien had become unlocked. "This thing has had random aliens unlocked randomly from time to time, looks like i just got shocksqwach."

“The alien with a canadian accent? He was pretty cool in the show. But I think Feedback is awesome.”

"Oh yeah, mister big bang holder? Imagine what he could do fused with alien X." Ken said, taking in a deep breath of fresh air once they got out of the cave.

“Now that would be awesome!” Adolfa said, taking in the suns warmth. “Glad to be out of that cave.”

"No kidding… um… we went down, to the right and left and right and right and right didn't we?" Ken asked. "In a sort of snake like pattern?"

“I think so.” Adolfa scratched her head in confusion, “Good thing I marked the cave walls of where we were.”

Adolfa sees Ken staring at the cave before slowly turning to look at canterlot, before pointing at the cave entrance not taking his eyes off of canterlot and tracing the way they went. "Left, right, right, right, right…" he said the motion of his hand heading right to canterlot.

“Made some distance huh?” Adolfa said, looking at Canterlot.

"If im right, i think that really freezing area is just under canterlot." Ken said sighing. "I wish i was naive and clueless sometimes, less stress."

Adolfa patted his back. “Don’t we all kid, but life of a hero isn’t easy, sometimes we have to be smart and clever to protect the innocent, and those we care for.”

Ken nods, heading back to canterlot. "This should be fun…"