The Last Bat

NO POV

Jason spent most of the night reading on the history of this world and what he learned was.... He's fucked. This planet is now named Equis, the country he's in is called Equestria, and humanity is officially gone, now ponies are at the top of the food chain and they can use magic. There are three types of ponies, Pegasus that can fly and control the weather by moving the clouds and crap. Earth ponies have a more deeper connection with nature and are stronger than most. Unicorns have horns and can control and manipulate the magic around them to perform all sorts of spells.

"Probably not as skilled as Zatana or Constantine." Jason muttered to himself. Then there were the two rulers of this land, Princess Celestia, ruler of the sun, and Princess Luna, ruler of the moon. How the fuck are they able to control two celestial bodies he will never know and it made him wonder how the fuck the solar system get so screwed. Princess Luna got jealous over her sister due to the ponies loving the day more than the night.

"The day is overrated." Jason scoffed. So one day Luna transformed into a mare of nightmares called Nightmare Moon, sounded like a emo kids username. Nightmare Moon tried to bring eternal night to Equestria until Celestia banished her to the moon. Whoa, that's actually pretty hardcore. Jason skimmed through some other crap like these things called The Pillars, Elements of Harmony, and other pointless crap that didn't help him

"Knowledge is power. You should't skip through any of this." Batgirl said while leaning over his shoulder

"None of that is gonna help me, what I need to know is what else changed about this place and also a way on cash." He said, thinking about becoming a mercenary, or just rob assholes, maybe both.

"You could try the town nearby, bet they have a library you could check out a few books from. These books seem to be bit... Outdated." Red Robin suggested while looking at some of the ripped up and dusty books.

"That's not a bad idea. It could help with rebuilding your image, maybe be the good guy?" Nightwing nudged my shoulder, but Jason couldn't feel anything.

"Fuck no, good guys is your stick. Let me wallow in my awesomeness."

"I think you mean your misery and self-loathing."

"Fuck you." Jason threw the back at the wall and leaned back in the beanbag. Alone. Just like always. He didn't wanna sleep, and he needed more information. Jason stood up and stretched as he then headed out of the room and out the ruined castle, he decided to not take the Batmobile as it would draw too much noise and attention so he just ran through the forest, his injuries have healed somewhat so he wasn't limping everywhere thankfully. Jason was able to free run through the forest and trees, the night sky will help in masking his presence so he doesn't need to worry about anyone catching him.

After some time Jason made his way to outside the forest and he could see a cottage nearby, not what he was looking for so he ran past it and followed a road until I reached a town. Jason ran towards a building and stuck to the shadows and rooftops, now this made him feel somewhat calm, running across rooftops, hiding in the shadows, reminded him of... Home. Jason groaned and shook his head to clear away such thoughts as he kept running, soon he saw a massive tree and saw a sign

"Golden Oaks Library." He read, chuckling to himself as it really was a tree house. Jason climbed down from the building and made his way over to the library, circling around the place until he saw a window and climbed up, pushing it he discovered it was unlock, the pony inside probably didn't think anyone would break in. Then again, who would break into a library?

"You do realize what you're doing, right?" Nightwing chuckled from the window. Jason gave him the finger and climbed inside, using his helmet to see inside the dark Jason saw a bed and saw three living "people" inside. One was an owl perched on a little perch, next was... Is that a fucking dragon?

"I don't know who that is or who owns them but I want it." Robin said while looking at the small purple and green dragon snoring in a small bed.

"Zip it, you little runt." Jason whispered to Robin, only to smack myself for asking that. They were gone. They're not here anymore. On another bigger bed Jason saw a unicorn with purple coat, dark purple mane with a pink streak, snoring softly in blissful sleep. Jason quietly made his way down and started searching through the books, looking for ones on wildlife, plants, economy, and one on the different tribes anatomy. Jason was about to leave until he saw one book that caught his eye.

"Humanity." Jason muttered the title as he grabbed it and decided to take it with him. Jason turned to walk up the stairs when he suddenly heard a voice

"Twilight?" Jason went wide eyed as he quickly climbed up the bookcase and hid on the ceiling. Jason looked down and saw the small dragon holding a candle as he scanned the room. Jason held his breath and watched as the small dragon rubbed his eyes and headed back upstairs after blowing out the candle. Once he was fully asleep in his bed Jason made his way out back through the window and closed it. That was close, but he still got it. The books and the skills. Jason started running across the rooftops as he was heading back to the forest, but stopped when he heard voices below. He couched down on a roof and peeked over to see two small ponies walking and talking. One was a colt with a brown coat, dark orange mane and tail with a propeller hat on. The other was a filly with an orange coat, wings, and purple mane and tail. Jason watched and assumed they must be kids, he didn't know why they were walking alone in the middle of the night, but he figured it would be best to watch them as he didn't want anything happening to them.

"I can't believe we spent the whole day, and almost all night, at the arcade." The orange filly laughed while brown seemed a bit more nervous

"My mom is gonna kill me! It's WAY past my bedtime, Scootaloo!" The brown one said while rubbing his face with his forehoof

"Don't worry, Button Mash, we'll sneak in, go to bed, and your mom will be none the wiser." The now named Scootaloo reassured Button Mash. The colt sighed heavily but smiled as they two playfully bumped into each other. Jason smiled softly, they seemed to be alright. He was about to leave until he heard a few bottles rattling in a nearby alleyway. Jason looked and saw three earth pony stallions walk out from the alleyway

"H-hey, what are yyyyou two doing out here by yourselves?" One stallion asked, Jason didn't even need to smell their breathes to tell that they were drunk.

"Y-you sssshould come with us. We'll keep you two little ones safe." Another stallion said, stepping closer towards the two. Button Mash and Scootaloo both took a step back and had a look of fear on their faces

"N-No thank you. W-We're fine." Button Mash said as he and Scootaloo kept backing away, but the stallions just kept getting closer. Suddenly one of the stallions grabbed Button Mash and held him down

"Hehehe, I like this one." The Stallion said, chuckling to himself as Button Mash squirmed under him

"Button!" Scootaloo went to tackle the stallion but was then slammed and held down by another stallion. The stallions all cackled as they had perverted grins on their faces.

"I'm gonna have fun with you, little filly~" The stallion was about the mount Scootaloo when suddenly something wrapped around his head and he was dragged into the dark alleyway

"What the buck is-AAAAGH!" The stallion cried out but was silenced as quickly as it happened. The other two stallions both stopped and looked on to where their companion was dragged.

"Sleazy? Sleazy!" One of the stallion called out, they heard boots stomping and looked on to see.... A monster. It stood over six feet tall, had a red head with white eyes, and a red bat on its chest. The two stallions both backed away in fear but the one that pinned down Button was brave enough, or more acutely stupid enough, to step forward

"What the buck are you, eh? Some some sssome sort of ugly diamond dog playing dress up?" The Stallion walked up to the creature and threw a punch, but the creature grabbed his forehoof and crushed it "AAAAA-" His screams were cut short as the creature slammed him against the wall and started beating his face over and over and over again. Blood and teethes were seen flying as the creature then lifted up the Stallion high over his head and then brought his back down on his knee.

CRACK

A loud and sickening crack was heard as the stallion fell limp and was tossed to the ground like discarded trash. The creature turned around and saw the last stallion shaking and whimpering while backing away before turning and running away. The creature used a strange device and fired a rope rope that wrapped around the stallion's hind hooves and pulled him back

"No no! No! Please no!" The creature lifted up the stallion and bashed his head against the wall, breaking his snout and then kneed the back of the stallion's head into the wall. The creature turned around and looked down at the two children, both holding each other while backing away. The creature lifted a hand and the children flinched

"Hey hey, it's okay. I'm not gonna hurt you. Are you both okay? You're not hurt anywhere?" The creature asked while kneeling down, still having to look down at them. Button Mash and Scootaloo both held each other and were shaking in fear. Suddenly the creature started to remove its head, revealing to actually be a helmet and the two saw the creatures face. It was.... Strange, to put it kindly. His face was a little flat, he had a small bump on his face, his mouth was... Weird looking, and he had no fur at all. His had black hair and blue eyes.

"See? I'm not that scary." The creature chuckled softly, trying his best to calm the children. Button and Scootaloo both calmed down a little

"T-thank you..." Button Mash thanked their hero

"No problem, kid. You two have a place to go?"

"Y-Yeah. M-my house is just down the road." Button Mash pointed

"Alright. Good. I'll walk you there, make sure nothing happens to you two." The creature then put his helmet back on and stood up.

"You sure we can trust him?" Scootaloo whispered

"He saved our lives, so, yeah." Button told her as the two started walking again. It was a rather somewhat awkward, yet comforting silence. Button and Scootaloo couldn't get over the fact of what happened, they nearly got... And they were saved by... They didn't know what it is, but he saved them! And he honestly looked awesome! He looked like a superhero by his armor from the comics the two read from time to time. The two were still shaken up over what happened, shivering at the thought of what would have happened if he didn't show up, would they even still be alive? Would they be kidnapped and be kept as their pets? The creature looked at them and cleared his throat

"Try not to think about what would have happened if I wasn't here, it won't help. Just... Be thankful that you're safe now. That's really all you can do." The creature told them. It may not have been the most comforting advice, but it was... Real. And with it the two did find comfort it. The two soon reached Button's house

"This is... It?" Button Mash and Scootaloo both turned to see the creature was gone. Vanished without a sound or a trace. Button and Scootaloo both looked at each other with stunned and confused expressions on their faces, how did he just disappear like that?

Jason was back over at the alleyway looking over the knocked out stallions, wondering what to do with them

"You could leave them here and let the proper authorities handle them." Batman suggested

"Yeah..."

"You could deliver them TO the proper authorities." Nightwing added

"Uh-huh..."

"You're... You're not gonna do that, are you." Batgirl asked. Jason said nothing as he smirked under his helmet.

ONE HOUR LATER.

Jason was cleaning his knife of blood while sitting back in that old castle he stumbled upon, he had "dispose" of the stallions the best way he knew how and chuckled.

"Can't blame me, can you?" Jason asked the others, but found no one. Because there isn't anyone here! He took off his helmet and groaned, rubbing his eyes he shook his head and started reading, he had to take his mind off everything and focus on the here and now. He opened up the book and started reading, the first one he learned about would be the pegasus.

NEXT MORNING. NO POV. PONYVILLE

Within the Golden Oaks Library Twilight Sparkle was seen looking around at the numerous bookshelves in her library with a curious look on her face

"Uh, Twilight? What are you doing?" Spike, the small young dragon and Twilight's number one assistant, asked as he was sweeping

"Some books are missing." Twilight said

"What? You sure it's not just somepony checked them out or forgot to return them? This is still a public library after all."

"Nope, I checked the logs and nopony have checked out those books." Twilight said while eyeing the bookshelves once more

"You sure you didn't just misplace them after sleep reading last night?" Spike asked while rolling his eyes

"Sleep reading? What are you talking about?" Twilight asked while turning to face Spike

"Yeah, last night I heard something and woke up to check what it was. I assumed you were sleep reading." Spike told her

"I wasn't sleep reading. Was I?"

"You have done it before, like when you were researching everything about Nightmare Moon."

"That's... Look, I know what I'm seeing and I'm telling some of my books are missing." Twilight said while stomping her hooves, a small little blush spread across her cheeks from embarrassment. Spike sighed and continued sweeping. Suddenly the door knocked and Spike walked over to open it. Outside he saw Applejack, Button Mash, Scootaloo, and two other fillies. One was a unicorn and she had a white coat, pink and light purple mane and tail. Sweetie Belle. The other was an earth pony with big red mane and tail with a yellow coat and a big pink bow in her mane. Apple Bloom

"Hey guys, what brings you all here?" Spike asked

"Is Twilight here? We need to talk." Applejack said, Spike let them inside and Twilight turned to see her friend and the fillies and colt

"Applejack! Good to see you, but what brings you by?"

"You're gonna wanna hear this." Applejack looked down at Scootaloo and Button Mash as they shouted and talked over one another about what happened, they talked so fast that it was difficult to understand the two

"Hold on! One at a time, please!" Twilight told them

"We saw an alien!" Scootaloo and Button Mash both shouted

"He was big!"

"With a red head!"

"Only it wasn't his head, it was a helmet!"

"Yeah! He had a black mane, no fur, and had a red bat on his chest!"

"Wait, a red bat on his chest? Did he say anything? Did you see where he went? Wait, how did you see him?"

"Well... Last night, me and Scootaloo stayed up a bit too late last night at the arcade so we were heading back to my house, then... Then three stallions came up to us... And t-they..." Button Mash shivered in fear at the memory of that night "Then the alien came and saved us! He was awesome! Like a super awesome ninja of the shadows!" Button Mash and Scootaloo pretended to battle each other just like the alien did the night before.

"He saved your lives, too?" Spike beamed with excitement "This guy really is a superhero!"

"He is! He even walked us home to make sure we were safe, but when we turned to thank him he vanished!" Button Mask exclaimed

"So he saved you both and vanished, did he say anything? What he was? Who his is? Anything?"

"Not really, we don't know what he is, only his face." Scootaloo said

"Well, the important thing is you're both safe. Can you show us where you met him?" Twilight asked them. The two nodded and ran out of library, leading the others back to the alleyway.

"It was here!" Scootaloo said, Twilight looked around but didn't anything that would stand out too much, until she saw blood stains on the wall.

"D-Did he do that?" Twilight asked, shocked to see such a thing

"Y-Yeah, he was protecting us." Button Mash answered

"Or was he just beating the fella?" Applejack muttered to herself.

"The stallions don't appear to be here, but this is too much for it to just be an accident." Twilight then turned to the filly and colt "Thank you both for showing us this. It helped a ton. Applejack, we should a letter to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, they should know about this." Applejack nodded and took the fillies and colt away back to her farm. Twilight and Spike went back and sent a letter to Celestia, informing her on the latest of news they learned about the strange creature.

"What are you?" Twilight questioned out loud as Spike sent the letter away.

WITH JASON

Achoo

Jason sneezed and rubbed his nose, he put down the book and learned a good deal of what he would deal with in this world. Unicorns would be essentially tricky to face as their magic can be used as both a form of attack and defense, but he was sure he could handle them. Pegasus could fly and, depending on their own skills, could reach tremendous speed, not to mention them controlling weather is definitely interesting he will handle them as long as he can get them on the ground or force them to fly low. Earth Ponies seemed to be the more physically strongest of them all, but he fought stronger. Jason had also learned about the place he was in, the Everfree forest, and read legends and rumors about the place. From what he read this forest has some sort of unnatural phenomenon surrounding it, the weather and plants all grow and form on their own, the vegetation has some forms of magical natures to them, and it is a hive for dangerous creature to flourish. But something peaked his interest the most, in legend it is said that a fairy of nature created the Everfree in order to protect a loved one, giving up her powers and life in a flower which grew and expanded, becoming the Everfree of today.

"Fairy..." Jason hummed in thought as he had a sinking suspicion about what caused this place to grow but shook his head "It can't be... Could it." He stood up and looked out the window, looking over the Everfree as he narrowed his eyes.

What could this forest be holding?