A Roegadyn in Equestria.

Chapter 37: His Bark is Worse Than His Bite. Part 1.

*Point of view: Third Person*
*Location: Mountain top home*
*Time: Eleven in the morning*

Towards the mountains, just Southwest of Cloudsdale, was the small house built by the hands of Brex himself, that was hidden away in a secluded area on one of the many mountain tops.

The sun was just barely making it over the crest of the hill behind the building. As it rose high in the sky, it began to reveal the handmaid house nestled along the natural stone walls. Along with some shallow pools of water, that were not very far from the house.

For but a few seconds ago, did its owner arrive to his dwellings. Only to disappear within the house after closing the door. Not even a second had passed by before that very same door was flung open once again.

This time, instead of Brex coming out alone, did he have a guest that exited the building along with himself. After taking several steps out into the open, one could hear the Roegadyn letting out a content sigh after breathing in heavily and releasing the breath that he was holding for several seconds.

This was followed with him exclaiming in a loud voice as he held out his arms to either side in a rather dramatic manner. “Finally! I forgot how fresh the air is on my side. No offense to yours Ryu! But there was just way too much going on over there.”

Rory spoke up in his head as he finished with saying, “I’ll say. Master, I was worried that you were going to get sick from that foul air. How could Ponies even live like that? there were times I could see the air…” Brex replied by saying within his mind, “Their used to it. That was probably just another Monday to them.”

As soon as Brex moved out of the doors entrance. It revealed a big, bipedal black wolf. With a black gantlet on his right claw and an outfit style that was looking as if he had just come out a Fallout video game.

Ryu removed the gas mask to reveal that it was covered his long snout and gray short fur covering the rest of his face. The Wolfman then replied with, “None taken, Zaun is not pleasant for most people. Hopefully, it will be better with the new plants that Gar made.” He then asked, “Anyway, you said you wanted my help with some businesses you want on your side?”

After taking in a few more overly exaggerated breaths. Not unlike that of a person who had nearly been drowning out at sea. Brex replied by saying, “Yeah, you remember the character Fancy Pants, right?”

“Well, I'm on good terms with him and we wanna get a number of things going. I was thinking of using your Gobbler Farms and Brewery to make more that nonalcoholic drink of yours. Got word that there is a food shortage across the seas because of the monster attacks and this would be a big hit. Also, the drink would be a big hit as well among the adventurers and those that want to go out drinking, without getting plastered for work.”

“Also, I was considering the idea of making some safe zones, perhaps making them into some underground rest stops and resupply centers that could be scattered about. You know, like a haven for adventurers to stop between traveling and going on quests so they can recover and resupply. Perhaps putting a few traps in there that are like the ones you have in your dungeons would help with deterring monsters from breaking in.”

While saying this, Brex was rubbing his left shoulder while rotating it a few times. He then said in an annoyed tone, “It's been a few days and my shoulder still hurts like hell...”

Ryu heard this and sighed out as he said, “That is what you get for blocking strikes from an ulting Mundo. After shaking his head, he continued with asking, “But all those things can be arranged. Now how is everything else on your end, how long will this take so I know how much time I have to plan?”

After finally giving up on his shoulder. Rex replied while tapping his mask a few times on the chin. “Hmm-mmm. Well from what I already discussed with him; we just need to finalize what you're willing to bring over to help out. We already picked out a location for the farm and I wanted us to meet up there. Now, when it comes to how much time I have left. There is a good eleven years to go, but I want to get these corporations up and running as quickly as possible so I have enough time to teach.”

Ryu started to scratched his chin and as he did this, Brex noticed that his friend’s tail had started to wag a bit. Ryu the said, “Alright, lead the way. God… It's so weird to have such a sensitive nose after a life with my nose always being stuffed up. I can smell everything from the dew on the grass, to the clean forests scent.” The Wolfman then paused before asking, “So, shall we get going or should we stop for a drink?

Brex was now holding out his right hand. Soon a small red orb appeared in it. He then waved it a little as to show to Ryu. Immediately after, he brought it close to his ear and said, “Give me a second. I gave another one of these to Blaze Caster. I'm gonna call him up and tell him we're ready to meet up and to have everyone go ahead and start heading over to the site.”

He then took a few steps away and turned his back on Ryu to start speaking into the link pearl. “Hello, Blaze Caster. It's Gambit, are you there?” There was a good, long several seconds before a young kid's voice came booming out of the pearl. Which caused Brex to hold it out at arm's length, before letting out a small hiss of pain.

After taking a moment to recover, he then brought the item back to his ear and spoke in a strained tone. “Blaze... Please don't scream into it. Simply having it out and speak as if I'm right in front of you. That’s all you need to do.” There was the sound of someone nervously chuckling that came through as the kid then said. “Sorry about that bro. So, does this mean that you're ready to go to the spot?”

Brex then replied by saying, “I got a hold of him. We'll be heading there now. Should see you in the next three hours. Shouldn't take you all too long with It being close to the tracks and all.”

After they exchanged a few more quick words, Brex finally put away the pearl in his item box and turn back to Ryu. He then said out loud, “OK, we got a few hours until we need to catch up. If you want, we can swing by Ponyville really fast and get something to drink. Pinkie Pie shouldn't be there yet, so we should be safe.”

While looking directly at Brex, Ryu then asked, “Did you say Blaze Caster? He wouldn’t happen to be a red Unicorn with an ashen mane that is almost black, with fire as his cutie mark, would it?”

Without showing any signs of it being an odd question. Rex simply answered with a nod of the head before saying, “Sounds just like him. I take it you’ve already met your worlds version too?”

Ryu quickly replied to that by saying, “You could say that, considering that is my pony original character from my old life, then and it might just be a coincidence. It’s not like this one is host to a dragon or some other kind of fire spirit.”

As Brex was listening, his carefree attitude from a moment ago was beginning to melt away as he heard Ryu going on. When it finally got to the part about having something inside of him, did the Roegadyn finally start to show an expression that just said, he couldn't believe what he was hearing.

While lifting but a single finger from his left hand, he began to stutter as he said, “H-How... When? What? No, no, no, no. There's just no way that he’s an original character from Earth!”

After seeing this reaction, Ryu sighed "Brex, calm down. In the multiverse, it doesn’t matter if it’s an original character, everything is real in some shape, way and form. I mean, even Cthulhu is real, he sleeps in the void. The multiverse is infinite, meaning everything happens or will happen. Worrying over something so small seems silly.”

Rory chimed in afterwards and added to what Ryu was saying with, “Master, he does have a point. Odds are, we were bound to have a run in with something like that happening if you really think about it.”

Brex slowly lowered his trembling finger and adopted a slouching stance as he released a heavy, tired sigh. He then said in a defeated tone, “I have literally been killed, come back, have been around talking anthromorphic ponies. Have a literal demigoddess persona inside of my head, been to two worlds aside from Earth.”

“Even had a run in with another video game character that tried to do unlicensed surgery on me... Against my will. Why do I keep going back to what is considered normal back home?”

Ryu Replied by saying, “No idea what is normal, but statistical of chance. If you think of it like that, normal is insane. Everything must change, if there was no change, then it would be nothing but misery. The strong would stay strong, the weak would stay weak. But you are in denial of one thing, we are displaced, we are the will of change, be it good or for evil stop, trying to fight it.”

“We have been granted powers far beyond what we had and it is our choices that shape worlds. We must do what we feel is right. For me, this is to drag the monsters of the world to hell and save as many people as I can. I was driven into becoming a nearly heartless monster, but my rage and wraith consumed me to make me who I am today. Now get yourself up and create the world to be better than the last.”

Letting out a small sigh, Brex got back to his standing straight position and looked over towards Ryu before asking. “You know, if you were discord. I would say that you've been opening up a bunch of fortune cookies behind your back to get all that. But you're right. Uh Oh, I just had a thought. That must mean that the pink menace is the only sane one in this world...” This caused the Roegadyn to shutter almost uncontrollably.

Ryu held three fingers up before saying, “Well, three to be exact. Me, Discord and Pinkie, that we know of. I have a saying, blessed by insane, cruse with knowledge. Someone like me understands chaos on a deep level. I'm only ever called insane. But I’m insanely smart.” Ryu smiled at his own joke.

Brex waved his hand tiredly in the general direction of the East before saying, “I don't know about you, however, if I stick around and try to figure out who's insane and who's not, then I'll end up being insane. So, what do you think about checking out pre-Twilight Ponyville? I had one of my body doubles keeping an eye on the place. Surprisingly, it's really boring. But there is a bar. I can get us there in time for happy hour and still meet up with the rest.” Ryu replied to that by saying, “Sweet, hope they have a good whiskey.”

Brex shrugged his shoulders and shook his head before saying, “I still don't get why others like to get drunk. I just hope they have something that doesn't have any alcohol in it. Unlike some of the other stories I've read, this world does have booze.”

He then stepped closer to Ryo and pointed to his right shoulder before saying. “OK, rules of the road. Hands and feet inside the car at all times. No sticking your head out of the window to wag your tongue in the wind.” That bit was clearly pointed towards Ryu, seeing as he was a wolf now. He then went on to continue saying, “Make sure you make contact with me at all times. Count to three and jump!” Ryu grumbled something under his breath before saying, “Fine.”

As soon as he had gotten a reply, “Brex made sure that Ryu had a grasp on his robes and proceeded to count to three. To which they both hopped in place and disappeared into their own shadows without so much as a hint of resistance as they went through the ground.

To them, hardly a second had passed while being in total darkness, until the sensation of them falling in reverse occurred and there was a sudden flash of light overhead as they came emerging out of a new set of shadow holes somewhere else and landed on their feet just as the shadows closed up again.

Brex quickly said under his breath, in an amused tone, “That never gets old.” The pair found themselves immediately on the outskirts of the town, right behind the welcome sign. Brex had chosen that spot so that they were close, yet at the same time, would not be noticed by the residents. Ryu upon seeing where they were, had started rubbing his chin as he said, “Well that was interesting.”

Brex simply nodded before saying, “That's for sure. Just make sure you never do that while moving at high speeds... Especially if you're exiting from a wall. Trust me, it doesn't end well. If at all possible, I'd rather walk into the shadow and do that hop in place move. Rather useful when you wanna be somewhere you've been. That's why I had my doppelgänger's running around the place so I have an almost the limitless supply of exit points.”

Ryu then said in response, “Well, as someone once said, speedy things go in, speedy things come out. Anyway, where is the bar? Oh, and you got the bill, right?”

When hearing the question, Brex reached into his robes left sleeve with his right hand and pulled out what appeared to be a small cloth bag. Afterwards, he tossed it into the air a few inches above his palm. This elicited a few jangling sounds of metal coming from inside.

Brex then said, “I got roughly fifty or so in here right now. As far as I can tell, it's two bits for a large mug of what they call beer. As for the whiskey you're talking about, it’s might be worth four or five bits. You think this is enough to wet your whistle until it's time to go?”

After seeing the bag, Ryu said, “Maybe, but I'm not sure if I can even get drunk any more, thanks to Mundo's passive. I might just process it faster than I can drink it like other people with healing factor. I would give you money for it but I doubt that they will be able to exchange Runeterra money.”

Brex merely shrugged before saying, “Just think of this as a business outing. Besides you're a guest in my world, wouldn't be right to make you pay for things. Even though I haven't had any of my currency converted yet, I still got plenty left over from when I worked for Fancy Pants as a body guard that one time.”

That was when he tossed Ryu the bag of bits and motion for him to follow. But after a few seconds, he stopped and looked over his shoulder and said, “Oh, and you may want to be ready for some screaming. I'm not entirely sure but they don't really get diamond dogs out here much, so it would be good to not seem as threatening as possible.”

“If any guards come running, I'll just flash them my adventurer’s card and vouch for you. That's also one of the things I want to start here in Equestria. I plan on making them more sociably acceptable with other species.” Ryu then said with a wolfish grin, “As long as none of them tries to physical assault me than it will be fine.”

Brex held up his hands in a placating manner as he said in a joking tone. “Hey, just don't go killing OK. Roughing them up is all well and good. Knowing you, you wouldn't do it unless it was called for. Now come on, it's right over there.”

Brex had used his left hand and pointed off in the distance at a small building at the edge of town. It appeared to have been conveniently located for patrons to come and go as they please whenever entering ponyville, or for weary travelers.

The building itself was mostly brown. It looked pretty much like every other building, aside from there being larger windows that were tinted and what appeared to be a single wagon wheel perched above the door for decoration. Right underneath that, the words, Mare's Pit, in bold, gold letters could be seen.

Brex then quickly said, “I know it's a weird name and all, but from what my body double showed me, it's a decent place to have drinks. Also, at this time of day, we shouldn't worry too much about there being a crowd inside.”

Ryu ending up saying, “Oh this is going to be fun with all the stereotypes of male here.” He snickers some before continuing to say, “Hope it’s not a gay bar or I'll have to give you a music box.” Brex quickly slumped his shoulders for a split second as he said under his breath, “Why do I get the feeling that this was a bad idea...” Ryu replied to that by saying, “Well, gender roles here are reversed, so yes, good thing I can't get roofied.”

Brex tilted his head in confusion as to what Ryu was talking about, but shrugged and began walking over to the door. To which the Wolfman followed Brex inside.

When they went through the set of double doors. They found themselves inside of a nearly empty bar that could have held a good hundred ponies inside. Currently, there were only six and total that were scattered about, while enjoying their drinks. Most likely, those on lunch break or getting off of the early schedule.

There was but one mare behind the bar that was cleaning some dishes in a sink on the far wall. Thankfully, the mirror that was right above the sink allowed her to see them coming in and turned around and started giving a big, over the top smile.

Brex initially flinched for but a brief moment before returning to normal. Then he brought himself and Ryu to the counter and sat down near the far-right corner. That was furthest from the door.

As Brex sat down, Rory suddenly said, “Master, you really need to get past your distrust of mare’s. The Changelings, your perfectly fine with. Now we need to get to work on your feelings towards the other’s.”

To this, the Roegadyn had to internally grunt before replying with, “Those of the hive have earned the level of trust I gave them… But I see your point. I have to get used to them. I’ll try with this bartender. Their known for being easy to converse with, right?”

Ryu sat down and took in one good sniff. Then whispered to Brex, “There has not been a guy in here for weeks, so I’m pretty sure this is a gay bar. But here, no one will try to grope us.” He looked over to the bartender and said, “I will take a shot of your strongest whiskey.”

When the mare heard the request, she nearly dropped one of the dishes that she was still holding, but managed to grab onto it before it made it to the ground.

When she stood up again, she gave him a, are you kidding me look. This was then followed with her coming over and standing on the other side of the counter before leaning in. The mare then asked in a rather cautious tone, so as not to get the attention of the rest in the bar.

She then asked, “Are you sure you want something as strong as that? Hun, if you're looking for the courage to ask one of them out, you may as well just wave. There's no need to poison yourself.”

Ryu looked over at her and said, “I just want a strong drink, I drank Ghost Pepper whiskey before, it gave me a pleasant burning of my throat. So, about that drink?”

The mare merely backed off and ducked underneath the table. A few seconds later, after hearing the clanking of glass, did she come back up and was now holding a shot glass and a large bottle of whiskey that that clearly was meant for something else with the amount it was holding.

Ryu then asked while he waited for her to pour the drink. “So, business has been well I take it, to give how many scents are in the bar. Guess you don't have many guys getting a drink here, do you?”

When she heard him saying this, the mare averted her eyes for but a brief moment before returning to her task and giving him his drink. Although her hands were a little unsteady as she did so.

This nearly resulted in her spilling some of the beverage, but thanks to having some experience, she managed to keep it all from coming out of the glass. Her eyes were slowly roaming the room while apparently keeping it from being noticed by the other patrons that were a fair distance away.

She then spoke under her breath, as to keep it a private discussion as she said. “Seeing as you're new around here, you probably haven't heard the word. You see, it's like this... A couple months back there was an incident where a stallion got taken advantage of by some of my patrons. It’s because of that, the stallions pretty much keep away from places like mine.”

Ryu nodded before saying, “Makes sense.” He takes the whole shot in one go and flipped the glass over, not even a drop hit the counter when doing this action. He then went on to say, “But I’m just a bit too hard to be handle like that.”

The mare simply chuckled at that after seeing him take an entire shot. She then said, “Well it looks like you can handle the drink. I suppose what you said earlier wasn't hoggwash after all.” She then gestured over to Brex and asked, “So, same thing for you?”

To which he simply shook his head and said, “I'll take whatever you've got that has no alcohol in it. One of us needs to be the designated driver.”

That only got the mare to tilt their head inquisitively. Soon she then brushed it off and went over to the far end of the counter began to put together a simple drink using some juice and what appear to be some seltzer water.

He then turned towards Ryu and said under his breath, “I wonder how long it will take until that saying makes sense to them? Also, I can see why this place has been empty of males of late.” Ryu replied to that by whispering, “Yea, but that’s a problem. Male, female, doesn't matter. No one should not be taken advantage. When the bartender returns, may i have another?”

Brex looked over at the bottle and motion to it by tilting his head, before saying to Ryu. “You could probably go ahead and just buy that whole bottle. Looks to be a good four liters in there. Think you could finish the whole thing off before we have to go?”

At that point, the one running the bar had returned and had placed down a large glass that was currently fizzing. She then said to Brex, “Here we go Hun.” To which he answered with, “I'm good with this. My friend however, would most likely want the rest of that bottle.”

The Roegadyn then brought out the coin pouch and handed it over to the bartender by placing it onto the counter. She went to go and pick it up and silently gasped when she realized just how heavy it really was.

Before she could say anything, Rex motioned with his finger up to his mask for a shushing gesture as he said. “Just take what's needed and put the rest on a tab. Put it under the name, Gambit. Make sure you hold on to that name, OK? I probably won't be back for a while.”

Ryu grabbed the bottle a took a big swig. Ryu then whispered to Brex, “It is a good brand. I just remembered something that you should look into, Slenderman is cannon, so be careful.”

Brex nearly threw his head back at what Ryu just said. He then asked, “I think I've heard of the guy, but I don't know much about it. And what does that gotta do with what's happening here?” Afterwards, he looked around for a few seconds and spotted a package of straws and got one out and started on his drink with it.

Ryu then said, “Well, the whiskey jogged a memory of him showing up on the episode, Pinkie apple pie.”

The disguised Roegadyn merely scratched the back of his hood as he answered with, “There are some episodes that I have trouble remembering off the top of my head. It seems that whatever Rory did to me, only strengthen my ability to remember things past the point that she did it. Speaking of her, did you already know when we first met, that she was inside of my mind?”

Ryu glanced his way and said, “Yes, I just didn't want to say it because it might send you into a mild panic.” Brex went ahead and took a big gulp through a straw and swallowed it loudly before saying. “Yeah, you right, I would have freaked out then. I was already paranoid as shit at the time.”

Wanting to change the subject, Brex went on to ask, “So, what is it like coming to another world that's pretty much in the stone age compared to the technology of your world? You pretty much got this, bronze, punk, electricity thing going on back there.”

Ryu gave a good chuckle before answering with, “No, that is only in Zaun and Piltover. Everywhere else has low tech levels, like Demacia and Noxus, theirs is medieval. The Freljord is tribal, and Bilgewater is colonial times. A lot of the other countries do that same thing.”

As the two displaced beings were conversing at the end of the bar. One of the tables a fair distance away, had a group of four mares sitting at it. two were Earth ponies with tan brown fur and black manes. At a glance, it could easily be said that they were related to one another.

The third of the group was a Pegasus that was gray in color, with a purple mane and tail. The last of the group, was a white Unicorn, with a light blue mane. The Earth ponies we're wearing what could consider to be biker gear, with how everything they had on was black. Also, quite revealing and tight fitting.

As for the Pegasus, she had on an outfit that was more along the lines of a pair of blue jeans. With some ripped sections around the knees and a white tank top. Obviously meant to allow her to have more mobility.

Now, as for the Unicorn. She was dressed more along the lines of an office worker. One of those black power suits and a very short necktie, just like one would see in an old ninety’s sitcom show.

They had apparently been eyeing the pair since the moment they walked in the bar and had been talking to one another under their breath as their eyes never left the duo. As soon as they saw how Ryu was knocking back the drinks, they all slowly got up out of their chairs and nonchalantly made their way over to them.

As soon as they'd started their approach, Brex stopped what he was doing and quickly swallowed what he had in his mouth. He then elbowed Ryu lightly with his elbow to gain his attention. He then whispered under his breath and said, “Appears we have company heading over.” Ryu looks to Brex and responds with, “Appears we do.” He then sat there and waited for them to engage.”

As soon as the group had made their way over. The Unicorn was the first to speak up as she was now on Ryu's right side, while one of the Earth mares was on his left. “What's a pair of strong looking males like yourself doing in a place like this. And without an escort no less.”

When she had finished speaking, the others were on either side of Brex as well. With the Earth pony on the inside and the Pegasus on his left. All of which giving nods of approval to the blatantly obvious, overused pick up line that needed to be put to rest.

Seemingly rather annoyed. Brex ended up releasing an annoyed sigh and just chose to remain quiet and went back to sipping away at his drink. Without giving so much as a reply to that statement.

Inside, Rory was steaming from how these mare’s were disrespecting her master by implying that he needed and escort out of some misconception that he was weak for being a male. This did not escape Brex as he gently whispered to her with his inner voice, “Its fine Rory. Calm down please. I expected as much from them the moment I caught a good look of them.”

Ryu, after hearing this, replied by saying, “Ladies, you couldn't handle me. But I would rock your world, if any of you could beat me in a drinking contest. But let's make it interesting. He reaches into his coat and pulls out four gold bars. Ryu began to say the next bit with a wolfish smile. “The winner gets everything the loser is carrying. What do you say, you game?”

The Unicorn merely raised an eyebrow while looking over the bars. As for the Pegasus, her eyes couldn't be pulled away from the loot in front of her. If one had been paying attention, they would have seen pictures of dollar signs in her eyes. The Earth mares simply whistled at the sight, while having wide eyes at the amount of goods sitting there.

It was the Unicorn that spoke up next when she talked in a business-like tone. “Will it be the two of you against the four of us, or will it just be yourself? It's all well and good to see a male that's willing to put it out, but I doubt very much you can do it all on your lonesome.”

Brex lifted his left hand and waved it nonchalantly as he said under his breath. “I don't drink.” Afterwards, he gestured with the same hand to go ahead towards Ryu.

The Pegasus mare was the next to speak up when she began to talk in a cocky tone. That was very much similar to a certain blue Pegasus in the future. “Ha! I could do this all by myself ladies. No way this little chump can drink me under-the-table!”

Ryu replied to the Pegasus mare’s boastful attitude by saying, “To make it fair, you all should join in. That would be one gold bar for each of you if you win.” He then looked over to the bartender and said, “Give us the top shelf.”

The bartender mare from behind the counter heard what was going on and quickly gathered up the drinks and lined them up on the counter. Right as she placed the last bottle down, she quickly asked. “Are you sure you fella’s wanna get into this? These girls are a couple of regulars. I don't think I've seen any of them ever walk out of here with so much as a lisp.”

Brex nodded to this. But before things went on, he reached into his robes and pulled out a silver ring and placed it on the counter. He then turned his head to the right so that it was looking straight at the Unicorn mare before he said. “Precaution... no magic.”

Seeming that this wasn’t a problem, Ryu said, “Fine with me.” He took the bars placed them on a table, along with all that he looked to be carrying. This including his shirt, pant, and a number of different weapons. leaving only his boxer briefers on, revealing his rippling muscle mass and gesturing for the girls to do the same.

This action apparently had a strong effect on the four as they began to eye him down like a piece of meat. If one didn't know that there were ponies, they would consider these girls to be carnivores with how they were practically salivating.

Rather reluctantly, the Unicorn grabbed onto the ring that was on the table and started to talk in a condescending tone that just oozed of unjustified superiority. “Fine! I'll use the ring. It wouldn’t do much good anyway. I am a pretty capable caster after all. This little trinket won’t do much.”

Before slipping it onto her horn, she used her own magic to teleport her clothing off of her person and into a neat stack that was neatly placed on a free spot on the counter. This exposed her to be wearing a black, lacey set of under garments.

When she was done with that and the horn ring slipped down to the base. The mare suddenly shuddered almost uncontrollably as her eyes nearly rolled into the back of her head. With a somewhat noticeable, nervous stutter. She said, “OK I-I guess, t-this wasn't a cheap b-bit store knock off... I-It's the real thing. I can't feel my m-magic at all.”

It seemed that the others were taken aback by this and were now shifting their eyes among one another before reluctantly taking off their own clothing until they were all in their undergarments as well.

The Pegasus mare was wearing something that was matching her fur colored completely, so that it at glanced, it appeared that she was completely naked.

The apparent sisters shrugged it off and began to half hazardly discard their clothing into the same pile seeing as they wore pretty much identical Items. Speaking of items, there was also a number of weapons being piled up such as some daggers and throwing knives. Most of which seemed very cheap and shoddily made.

The Earth mare’s were down to what could have been a G-string and bras that barely covered anything more than the nipples with how they were pretty much nothing but black strings going across their chests and down between their legs.

Ryu called out and said, “Alright, let's go.” He then grabbed the drinks and was quickly making a pyramid with the shot glasses. While Brex was watching this. He skillfully moved out of the way so that he was not in the group and sat just out of reach of the obviously, going to be drunken mares and remained silent, as to watch the oncoming train wreck that was going to be on its way.

It was a Unicorn that spoke up and said, “How about you allow us ladies to go first. After all, we don't want you getting ahead of yourself and passing out too soon.” The Earth mare's were the next to say something when they began to pretty much press themselves up against either side of Ryu. “Yeah! let us show you how it's done!”

When it came to the Pegasus, she merely scoffed and crossed her arms as she grumbled before she said. “I told you girls I could have done it all by myself. You’re just going to make it take longer before we can take his stuff and get him in the sack.” This earned her an annoyed slap from one of the two Earth mare’s that was the closest as they also gave her a death glare that screamed that she needed to shut up and start drinking.

Ryu kept on doing more and more shots and he just kept going full speed, even as the mare’s were slowing down after downing so many glasses.

Close to an hour had passed and it was getting to the point that it was difficult to even tell just how many shots they were all doing. All one could see, was them downing one after another and the bar mare having to wash glass after glass just to keep up with the small party.

There were several times that they were trying to get him to lose count by pretending to grab an empty glass and chug it, but was called out by Brex. Even with him not taking part, there was nothing said that he couldn’t act as a referee.

There was even on occasion, where the Unicorn attempted to use some type of magic, but only got a small glow and a fizzle from the tip of a horn due to the magic nullifier ring around the base.

The Earth mare’s were we're trying to keep up by leaning into one another, while the Pegasus was mumbling something about her past escapades under her breath. Which was very hard to understand by the time they had gotten that far. More than half of the bottles were emptied. Yet the girls never gave up.

When seeing their state, he started to say to them while downing another shot, with his speech being flawless. “How are you four doing?”

The Pegasus mare lifted a finger to try and say something, but as soon as she opened her mouth. She froze in place and face planted hard onto the counter. Then, proceeded to slide back with the weight of the rest of her body pulling her down until there was a noticeable thud from the floor below.

The Earth mare’s were pretty much completely out of their element, seeing as they were using one another to stay upright, but their legs gave out simultaneously and they crumpled onto the ground with the their arms and legs getting tangled among one another.

When it came to the Unicorn mare, she was apparently putting on a brave front as she gave him a dubious stare. While blinking with one eye, then the next. Seemingly unable to do so with both at once. She tried to ask something with a slurred voice that sounded as if it required an expert translator to find out what she was saying.

Right as it seemed like she had finally gotten her second wind and she opened her mouth. Did she have to immediately cover it to prevent herself from puking all over the place as she literally passed out on her feet and fell straight back onto the floor.

After seeing this, Brex got to his feet and turned around to the now nearly half-filled bar that was beginning to fill up with spectators. He then took ahold of Ryu’s left arm and raised it high in air and proclaimed. “Have a winner!”

This got a few choruses of cheers, which came from two other stallions that wandered in. The rest of the spectators however, that comprised of the mare’s, only gocked at the two in both abstract horror and disbelief, after watching what just had happened.

Ryu got up and drank another shot before gathered up all of his winnings and proceeded in putting his clothes back on. He then walked over to Brex and said, “Should we get to the meeting?”

The Roegadyn nodded to his friend's suggestion and got up. Before they could leave however, Brex slipped off the magic nullifier ring from the unconscious Unicorn's horn and quickly pocketed it away. Before they left however, he whispered to Ryu, “No way am I gonna lose this. This thing belongs to Luna.”

It took them a moment or so to get past the crowd that was no longer staring at them, but the pile of nearly naked mares on the floor. Just as they got through the front doors, did Brex ask, “So, that is a hangout for only mare’s right? You think they're gonna be fine? I got this feeling that we just left them in a den of lions... Or is that lionesses?”

Ryu started sneering as replied to the question with, “Yes, we did and this will be a lesson they won't forget, and yea, it is. But it is not a gay bar, it is like in olden time were women never when to bars. But in this world, it's males.”

Rory quickly spoke when Ryu was finished and said, “Seems that a music box isnt going to show up on your bed Master. Remember what he said what he would do if it was one?” This got the Roegadyn to internally shiver at the concept of what Ryu might have sent.”

Brex then started to muse to himself as he crossed his left arm over his chest. While resting his right elbow onto its palm to adopting a thinking pose, along with his finger on his chin during the time they made their way out of town and back to the welcome sign.

When they got to it, he turned to Ryu and asked, “So, does drinking even matter to you anymore, seeing as you can't get drunk? Ryu replied by saying, “Well yes, I can still taste it and feel the burn in the back of my throat, I just lost the negatives of drinking.”

Brex lifted his hands to do a shrug as he replied with asking, “I thought getting drunk was the whole point of drinking? I seriously don't understand those that drink something that tastes awful. I haven't touched it myself, but I have a vague memory that I hate it the stuff in my last life.”

The Wolfman responded with, “Yea, not all drinks are created equal, but you can get some good flavors if you know what you are doing.” He then starts pulling out a match. Ryu lit it and put in his mouth, causing a fiery belch to come out.

Taking a sudden step back at the spectacle, Brex takes up a defensive stance with his arms extended straight out in front of him as he quickly said. “Wouh there! I think we better make sure you're not around fire. With how much you drank, I am worried that you'll explode just like one of those floating firebombs!!”

Brex got a reply from Ryu as he said, “Well, I need to burn it off somehow. Don't want to smell like alcohol at a business meeting and with Mundo's healing, I’ll be fine.” He then shrugs it off.

After lowering his arms, Brex replied to that by saying, “Well, just be careful with that, OK? I think I'd rather you smell a little of alcohol, then burnt dog hair... Anyhow, we can get straight to there from here with no problem. Just so happens that I passed by that place after we got done with Titan.” Ryu then asks, “So, where are we heading anyway?”

Brex answered him by saying, “There's an area that hasn't been developed yet. There's a stretch of train tracks that goes past Ponyville and around the West side of the Everfree forest. It's about two hours from ponyville if they were to head South on the tracks. I already had Fancy Pants and his entourage waiting at Ponyville to cut the travel time down. We should get there long before they do.” Ryu simply said, “Sounds good.”

The pair then took another trip through the shadow realm and appeared near a set of train tracks out in the middle of nowhere, with a large tree line of the Everfree forest just behind them. In front, was a very large flatland that was perfect for setting up more than one type of business with how wide and open it appeared to be.

Brex pointed towards the flatlands and said, “This should be good enough for two or three to be started. Hell, we could just dedicate this whole area to making the Gobblers alone and supply enough for pretty much most of the world if we wanted to.”

Ryu then posed a small issue with saying, “Yea, but the problem becomes shipping at that point. Better to spread them out just in case of shipping issues, like the road being attacked by monsters.”

(Here is a map of the area.)

The Roegadyn pointed towards the train tracks. Then his arm would swing to the nearby river for a moment before pointing to the South. As he did this, he said, “I think I pretty much got that covered for this being a hub.”

After taking a moment to let what he was showing to sink in. He continued with, “We got a large river that could run East and West. This will give us a way of transporting it by water to Ponyville, Canterlot and need be, Dodge City. In the other direction, it could bring us to Los Pegasus.”

“Then we have the train tracks that run North and South. They have connections to the roadways. From there on, they passed by other towns. Later on, we plan on building airships to help transport goods by air if needed.”

He then began to turn in place with his arms held out as if trying to gesture to everything. This would be followed with him adding, “With all the places we chose first, this one has the most accessibility and multiple trade routes available. It even has a few natural defenses that would limit incoming and outgoing problems.”

After hearing what Brex had to say. Ryu began to add, “I agree it’s a great location. But that means you will have everything in one location and if any disaster happens, you won't have anything left. I'm just saying we should spread it out through out the world. So, people don't wonder how one place makes this much alone. And it won’t make these paths the only line to these supplies.”

Brex nodded to Ryu’s words. That was when he replied with, “Yeah, I took that into account. Altogether, I have nine ideas in mind. This would be a good place for one or two of them to be. Preferably I would like the Gobbler farm to be here. You know, what they say about livestock. The happier they are, the better they taste. Also, we could have the brewery set up. Seeing as we need you for both of those, I thought it would be a good idea to have them nearby one another.”

Ryu then said, “If they are going to be registered as different businesses it would be weird that they came out of the blue at the same time, at the same location. Unless you plan to doctor the documents or take over a failing business. So it doesn't clue in that anything like that is happening. This is just the prevent people from digging and finding too much proof of conspiracy.”

Brex chuckled to that and pointed over his left shoulder with the thumb towards the train tracks coming from the North. He then said, “Now that's where I have Fancy Pants coming in. With his connections in business know how. We're gonna put together a plan on how to do all that.”

“We're not gonna have them all pop up at once. We're going to shift property around by names on paperwork. By the time we're done and things are sent in the place, everything we want will be built and the paper trail will make it nearly impossible for them to find out just what's going on. I like to consider it as a little test to see just who ends up figuring it out first. I got more than enough bits to start up a few that are going to end up failing, just to be a place holder for the real ones later down the road."

Ryu nodded and replied with, “I see, do you want me to set up a bit now, or do you want me to show off the Gobblers to him?"

Brex answered his question with, “We don't own the plot of land just yet. So, you can go ahead and bring out a Gobbler to show us. Along with one of your barrels of beer. I got plenty of glasses in my inventory to pour it into. I told them that I would ask if you're willing to get in on this action. So, a meet and greet would have been the best way to start things off. Especially seeing as they're coming to see you.”

Ryu replied with, “Sounds good to me.” He then opens the screen from his gantlet and on the other side was Thalya, with a big smile on her face as she says. “Master, what do you need?” Ryu cleared his throat before saying, “I'm going to need two barrels of beer, two succubi and a large table, and Brex, how many chairs do we need?”

The Roegadyn taped his chin with his right hands index finger a few times before he replied with. “There should be eight of them all together. There will be Fancy Pants, his fiancé Fleur. Along with six Changelings that will be acting as their servants and guards.”

Ryu hums a bit to himself as he says, “Hmm, Changelings, interesting.” He turns back the screen and says, “That will be twelve chairs and two gobblers.” The dark elf bows her head on the other side. A portal soon opens next to Ryu. Snotts started pulling out thirteen chairs, two of them of elaborate makes. The table was placed and the two succubi came out with the barrels, placing them on the table.

But Thalya came through the portal as well. She starts rushing over to Ryu and proceeds on planting a kiss on his muzzle. When she was done, she said to him, “You do not leave me there, when you are going to have a party.” Ryu sighed alright. Ryu then sat down at the first elaborate chair, quickly follow by Thaya sitting next to him. The Snotts also brought the requested Gobblers and vanished through the portal as it disappeared.

While the table and chairs were getting set up, Brex had taken an involuntary step back when he saw the dark elf coming out of the portal. When it was time to take a seat, he opted for taking the chair on the far end that was giving him the most distance between himself and her.

This only got the girl in his head to grumble a bit before saying, “Master… She isnt going to kick you in the balls again. Please try to relax. You didn’t do anything wrong.”

Wanting to take his mind off of the horrible reminder from their first meeting. Brex brought up his connection to heavens computer and looked up the information of Fancy Pants and found it showing the pony to be a short distance away.

He then looked off towards the train tracks and hummed to himself a few times. After a few moments, he began to say, “I just checked and it looks like they're gonna be here in about five minutes or so. I do hope they don't freak out after seeing your demons. I do suppose that would help with saying that you're not from anywhere around here.”

While in his seat, Ryu said, “During the meeting, since this is business, I will be going with my title of Warden. This good with you, Gambit?” Ryu smiled after saying that bit towards the end.

Brex brought his right hand up and covered his face before shaking it lightly. While letting out a small grumble, he said, “I know I'm a displaced and everything, but knowing someone who has been reading a story that's about me feels weird. At least I know you haven't gotten to the part about me and Rory together. Honestly, I don't really know how I should take it. Knowing that there's others out there that are reading things I do in private.”

During the pause, Ryu said, “I mean, people will read about me. So why should we care. Hell, someone, somewhere wrote about our old lives. The multiverse is weird like that.”

After letting out a long sigh. Brex removes his hand from his mask and talks in a defeated tone while slouching in his chair. “At least you're not the one that has low self-esteem issues and an inferiority complex... Rory's been trying to help me with that. But you can only do so much inside of a person's head. And I'm not willing to let her just go in and rewrite my whole personality.”

This earned the Roegadyn a quick reply from Rory as she said, “Master, I would never do such a think to you. Er… sure I rewrote your memories… But that was an emergency that left me with little time to make a judgment call.”

Ryu rebutted with saying, “Yea, but you are not insane, or have so many different voices in your head that you don't know who is who, and who is you. Then there is having near no emotions except rage. and to top it all off, knowing if I want to save my world, I will need to fight literal gods.”

Brex then points towards Ryu and says, “You got me beat there. If I was thrown in your shoes, I probably would have committed suicide within the first week... No, scratch that, first day.” Ryu then said, “Yep, the amount of time in my old life that I thought of that were many. But enough of past, let’s look to the great futures we can bring to our worlds.”

As soon as Ryu had finished saying those words, the sound of a train whistle could be heard coming from a short distance away. Brex turned his head to the North and spotted a locomotive with just a single passenger car hooked up to the rear speeding its way on the tracks.

He then tilted his head as he looked towards the other displaced across the table and said, “I guess they wanted to get here pretty fast. I was almost positive that there was a lot more cars on the back of that train. Maybe they requested them to be detached to get here at a quicker pace?”

Author's Note

Here is the link for the Story that is a part of this Crossover.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/506969/welcome-to-runeterra