(cue never again by Danko Jones)
(3 years before the events of Phoenix chapter five)
Location: crystal empire, department of Defence HQ
Time: 2:34 AM
Alarms rang out obnoxiously, the blur of the red lights flickering frightfully as ponies in service uniforms sprint towards a specific room.
The control room.
Inside this facility were dozens of computers with different functions, lining up neatly in rows similar to the Apollo control room. Communication was artful, the ones at their seats spoke to the pony on the other side of their headphones.
Prime example
The screens flashed red as the ponies began to panic even more.
“WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!!” a stallion barked, wearing a higher-up uniform as he walked in through the doors from the back of the room. A stallion wearing a white formal top with an ID badge saying ‘intern’ turned his head to the officer and spoke first.
“M-major stone sir, someone is hacking into our systems!” the stallion stuttered from the sudden appearance of the major, panic pouring into his voice. The now-identifiedmajor looked back at the main screens for a second before leaning towards the panicking stallion's computer, putting a hand on the intern’s chair as the intern turned back to his computer.
“Who the hell is hacking us?” Major Stone asked the intern with a stern voice, the major clenching his jaw at this news. The crystal empire had some of the best cybersecurity in the world for the average citizen, never mind the military, whoever was hacking them must have some high-level tech, no one should be hacking into this mainframe this easily.
“That’s the thing, sir… We don’t know, everything was okay until about 30 minutes ago when the system alarm 82 was tripped.” the intern said, explaining to his superior as he furiously mashed his fingers on the keyboard.
The intern was a younger man, maybe about 23 around 5’8 in height with brunette hair and blue eyes, though bits of his coat were damp due to sweat.
The major, and imposing large stallion, who stood at 6’6” and was the perfect definition of a COMPLETE UNIT. His body was covered with muscle and battle-eternal scars, jet-black hair turning grey, and blue, and piercing eyes, glared at the intern.
“Alarm 82? What about the other 81 alarms? Why weren’t we warned earlier?” the major asked, with a hint of irritation and confusion. He wasn’t the best with tech but he knew enough to know there was some heavy-duty security if someone could hack them, these hackers were not to be taken lightly.
“I don’t know how sir, it says the alarms are active but looking further into it, the hacker must have found a way to send a fake active signal while still being able to disarm the alarms.” The intern said without stopping to fight off the cyberattack, chaos was breaking out, the lights began to spasm out and phones began ringing. What the hell? The hacker is hacking our phones too? There is no way one man can do this, this must be a group.
Major Stone stood up and looked at the pure utter chaos, it seemed like something that would come out of the God of Chao’s wet dreams. Computers were sparking and catching fire due to the sprinkler systems going off, and ponies began running around in a panic trying to find a way to stop the attack.
Stone himself, he had to stay calm under this bad situation. He leans back down to look at the screen in shock, he had only seen this kind of chaos on the battlefield.
He finally snapped out of his shock-induced paralysis, his head filled with a mixture of tension and powerlessness for what was about to come crashing down on him. In a voice filled with fear and dread, he asked.
“Can you trace his location?” The Major asked, hoping to be able to stop the hacker in an ambush. The intern stops for a moment before beginning to type again.
“I-i don’t know for sure but, wait, yes I can, he’s in Canterlot, no Ponyville, no Manehattan, no the Dragonlands… what! no… no… no… DAMN IT! How is this possible” The intern shot up in a jolt, causing the major to recoil back in shock before questioning the intern.
“What’s wrong? Did you find them?” The major asked in a baffled voice while looking at the intern in confusion. The intern was putting his hands on the back of his head, he took a deep breath and slowly dragged his left hand over his head.
“No, not even close, he’s bouncing his signal everywhere, every IP address on the fucking planet! No one should be this good, it’s… Godlike!” The intern said, freaking the fuck out by this phenomenon. No one could blame him, it was pure chaos in the HQ, and he couldn’t do anything about it.
Major Stone spoke up.
“Do we know what they're trying to get?” he asked, wanting answers as he came closer to the screen.
The intern went to his computer and began searching the data banks. Seconds felt like years as he typed violently before he finally gave them an answer. At this point, a small crowd had gathered around the intern's desk.
“Umm, blueprints for the castle, guard routines, security camera locations, everything like that…… sir, this doens’t seem like a random attack,” the intern turned to the major,” I think whoever is hacking us is planning a heist on the crystal heart, sir,” the intern said with a look of horror.
Major Stone started panicking.
“Get me Shinning Armor on the line… NOW!!!” the major order as another intern rushed to the phone.
“The phone lines are dead, what’s happening?!” the other Intern screamed
The major took the phone and threw it on the ground in anger, confusion and stress, he was panting and sweating hard, never in his life had he seen such bullshit.
“This motherfucker is toying with us…” Stone said
The intern spoke up.
“Sir the hacker’s jammed all signals except the ok signal from getting in and out of the place” he explained to the now frustrated Major before going back to his computer “Oh no.”
The intern then spoke in a panicky voice. The major looked towards the intern in fear.
“What is it?” the Major asked, worry seasoning his voice ripping his necktie off to allow air to get to his chest.
The intern spoke with pure terror in his voice.
“The download’s starting, he’s taking everything!” the intern yelled out in panic
“I’m putting the download progress on the main screens now” he pressed a few buttons until the large screens at end of the room lit up with “download progress”.
Pure utter chaos broke out as ponies ran to different sections of the room trying to figure out what to do, this was no longer a job for them, the safety of everything they cared about was at stake.
The ones at the computer typed away try to counter the hacker, and put up code walls. At first, they thought all of them working together would be enough until…., a barrage of code came in, this stumped them, even though they all worked together they couldn’t even come close to the speed and quality of code the hacker was pouring out, in a matter of seconds the hacker did what an entire group of coders could do in a week and more.
“WE CAN’T STOP THEM!” a mare at a desk yelled out, at this point, the download was at 90% and quickly rising.
Major Stone looked around and saw a fire axe and had an idea. He asked a question.
“Where are the power lines?” he asked while rushing to the fire axe’s case. He punched the glass, blood splattered out of his knuckle, but he didn’t care.
The intern turned to the major and pointed outside the doors.
“They are just outside the room, what are you planning to-” the intern wasn’t able to finish before the major was already at the power cables, he started chopping them, as the percentage rose he kept chopping and chopping, and just as the screens said 99%, he cut through, and the power went out.
The room went quiet as it was covered in darkness.
The intern spoke up “D-did we do it, did we stop them” he said, hope filling his voice, until the screen flickered to life, and glitch out til they display a message saying, download complete, along with a symbol.
The intern stood in shock before he spoke, with fear in his voice.
“I-its the fox!” the intern yelled out, the major looked at him, turned around and said one thing.
“I’m going to lose my job.”
ELSEWHERE
Location: manehattan
Time: 2:54
In a dark room in an apartment in manehattan a computer screen partiallylights the room, a unicorn stallion wearing a black hoodie can be seen sitting in a chair stretching his finger out above him as he let’s out a big sigh before speaking.
“Welp, that’s another job done, got a bit rough at the end though better inform the client about that as well.” the stallion's voice was young yet mature placing him at about sixteen years old, the stallion pulled out a smartphone and dialled in a number. He put the phone put to his ear and listened as the phone dialed.
(beep beep) (beep beep)
This continued four times until….
(click) “Hello, how may I help you?” a deep and sophisticated male voice said.
The stallion answered him.
“It’s business, switch over to a private line” The stallion said
There was a click before the same male voice returned, now having lost its cheery tone.
“So, did you get what I asked for,Fox ?” Tirek spoke as “Fox” began to explain
“I got everything you wanted and I’m sending it to you. Now, I know we agreed to privacy and secrecy, but, I feel like there is something you are not telling me… sir…” said Fox
“Interested all of a sudden, well, that can only mean that there were complications,” said the voice
“I underestimated their security, tripped an alarm, I cut their coms so they won’t be able to get word to the royals til about 10 AM… it seems to me like you are planning on much more than you led on,” said Fox
The voice replied with a laugh.
“Ha so much for the ‘world's best hacker…’” The voice mocked Fox as he laughed.
Fox didn’t like this client, but he pays good money and he knew he had to tolerate whoever this was… there was only one thing he was 50% sure of… this wasn’t a regular client.
“If you want me to help you, you need to give me factual information of what you need me to get you, that way incidents, like today don’t happen,” Fox said as he heard the voice laugh again.
“Listen, kid, it is best that you stick to what you know, if not, well… this conversation is over, and I will go and request the help of the “REAL” best hacker in the world,” said the voice
“I am the best, any other hacker would have been caught, traced, and either killed or arrested and then executed, you wanted the best, you got the best, now, my money?” Fox said with an annoyed tone, he wasn’t a push over, supervillain or not he’d get his due pay, one way….
Or another.
“Yeah, yeah, don’t get your panties in a bunch, I’m wiring you the money now, 140 million in cold untraceable cash” The voice said pissed at how the fox had treated him, but even he had to admit the kid was beyond good, he was Godly, he knew his way around the streets, he wasn’t someone to mess with lightly, even he knew that a war with The Fox would be costly and the war that could do what the heroes and government were to weak to do, punch in his ticket.
When he first came across The Fox he looked down on him, and tried to make him give him his services for free. the fox wouldn’t take it, his intimidation attempts only made the Fox angry, and in one swift move, before he had even realized it, half of his most sentitive information had been “stolen”, “deleted” or leaked, he had to pay the Fox $50 million only to make him fix this. From that day on, he knew, never mess with “The Fox”.
After receiving the transfer, Fox spoke up with a curious tone.
“I know that it’s any of my business but what are you going to do with this stuff, it almost seems like you're going to attack the Crystal Empire? Added to that fact that the last job you asked me to give you prime information about Warltonwood fort…” Fox said, he didn’t really care but it’d be nice to know.
“It is best you don’t know, and don’t even think about hacking around or whatever… it is none of your business hacker,” the voice said as he hung up the call
“Motherfucker, now he piqued my interest” Fox said with a flat voice a he rolled his chair away from his table.
“I could go looking around, but… Nah,”
Fox didn’t think much of it really, he stood up and walked to his light switch, the room was then engulfed by a brilliant bright light blinding him as his eyes weren’t ready for the flash bang called a light switch, after about 30 seconds
he slowly started to open his eyes, constantly blinking, he looked to the left of the light switch towards the door of his room, noticing that there was no light coming in from the hallway, meaning everyone was asleep
He turned and looked around the room, it wasn’t a big room at all, rather small actually, but he didn’t care, it was enough to see, his set-up, it looked like a standard gaming set-up, and while he indeed did game on it, he also used it to hack people all over the globe, do jobs to hack into places and steal information, this was how he got money or satiated his thirst for Conspiracy Theories.
He transferred most of the money to an offshore account. If he were to suddenly get millions of dollars not only would his family question where he got the money, the government would get suspicious, and if his time being a hacker taught him anything, he wanted to get as little attention as possible.
Another way he earned some cash, was by being a Dj, he wasn’t extremely popular, mostly due to the fact he hid his face behind a mask, but, he was able to gain a large following, which helped him explain some of the amounts that he kept in his personal account to his parents,
He first started officially three years ago, but really, he’s been doing it for 6, just three years ago he finally started gaining traction, when he got an offer from a well-known hacker organisation. They wanted to test him, see if he was capable of joining their ranks.
They wanted him to hack into the government database, and install a back door, but there was a catch, he had to break into the offices and do it from within the building.
while most would back down, he didn’t, it took him 3 hours, but he did it, he infiltrated the government offices, installed the back door, and ran… he almost got caught by the police that day.
At some point he realized that a silent alarm had been tripped and the police arrived earlier than expected, it was only thanks to the face mask he was wearing that the police did not recognize him completely.
He was able to run but they were hot on his tail, luckily he was able to dump his clothes and throw himself into a wall, making him look like a victim getting him off Scott free.
After that he quickly rose the ranks, he was the best, after all, no one could beat him. After that the big bucks started rollin’ in, of course his family knew nothing of it.
His family, he loved them, but he hated their jobs, his mother and father were heroes, his father, a pegasus who possessed super strength and tough skin. His mother a unicorn, had the power to teleport and shoot thunder, and his sister was studying to become a hero, she was a necromancer, and even though there was a very STRONG stigma surrounding the dark arts, she was fully accepted, why, she was the daughter of 2 well known heroes, not to mention, she was determined to do it.
And him? A unicorn, who couldn’t use magic, funny, a race that was certified to be able to use magic and yet, he had none, siltch, nada, not a fucking drop of it.
A “normie” as they call it, fucking racist bastards. But he didn’t care, he had his own powers, his skills, and in the end, he’s got the skills to pay the bills, in fact, he does pay the bills, he also paid the rent, and bought his own food.
They lived in an apartment, it was old and slightly run down, but no one would expect superheroes who got paid pretty well to be living in this dump, same for him, the world's best hacker.
But his parents believed it was safer for their identities, since, outside the unitards and latex, his parents were… screw ups… his father, was never able to keep a proper job, mostly thanks to his ego, and his mother… well, she had a decent enough job working as a teller at a bank, but, that was it, she never gave it her best, nor did she care about being promoted.
In his room, there was a single bed tucked in the corner of the room with a nightstand with draws next to the head of the bed where he sleeps, at the end of the bed was a chest of draws, it was small, and contained things like under ware, socks, tanktops, gloves and shoes.
His PC was tucked in the opposite corner from the bed, there was a black dresser placed in between his PC and the nightstand, it had shorts, shirts, hoodies, pants.
And, finally, on top of the dresser was a box, it was rather large. Inside it were emergency supplies in case he was ever tracked down.
But to his family, it was just his porno collection, nothing more.
To be fair, there were a few in there, to uphold appearances, yeah, that’s it.
He cracked his neck, before taking out his phone and checking his offshore accounts, he was confused for a minute as he looked up at his dark green walls before looking back down at his phone as he bagan remembering.
‘Cold untraceable cash, he could believe the cold part, he doubted the client would have any cash that the police could trace laying around, the untraceable part, he wasn’t so sure of, he wasn’t friends with him by a long shot, it wouldn’t surprise him if the client would try to track him down, so he also had the money sent to another offshore account, where an A.I he created called “A.C.T” (anti-cash tracer), which would check the cash, and see if it was traceable by going through the normal web, the deep web and the dark web as well as the government database, and google HQ. before, if the cash checks out, it was sent to his main offshore account, if it didn’t check out, it would be sent to an offshore account used to hire people whenever he needed some goons to take care of something,
May it be to immediate a detective that was getting to close to find him, or to get a “Sticky” (Corrupt/Money-minded) hero to provide an alibi for him or help him out in case he got in a sitch.
He put the phone in his pocket before switching the light, and walking over to his bed, he didn’t have school, he graduated high school a while ago, via skipping a couple grades of course, he was only sixteen.
he didn’t want to go to university, even if his parents told him to.
He usually replied “Go to university, for what? To learn shit I already know?... its a waste of money, money we “don’t” have, besides, its not like a piece of cardboard paper is going to give me a better job in this society,” and that was the end of it.
He laid down as he looked up into the darkness known as his ceiling
“Tomorrow is a new dawn”.
But he had no idea how right he was.
He awoke with a start to someone banging on his door, he groggily rubbed his eyes and called out to the rude banger, with a more than annoyed but less than angry tone.
“What is it?!” he was pissed, it was only…. What time was it again? he reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone, tabbing on the screen a few times, his lock screen popped up, showing that it was, 1 pm, christ he had been asleep for a while.
“Michael! Get out here now, you got to see this.” the voice was female, young, maybe 13 to 14 in age.
He lazily chucked the blanket off of himself and threw his legs over while at the same time sitting up in one quick movement, he stood up and stretched his back, getting serval clicks out of his back before walking towards the door, unlocking it, and opening it, there stood a stunning mare, that’s what he would say if he wasn’t that mares older brother.
She was a unicorn too, she had a grey fur, she was wearing a black t-shirt and blue denim jeans, as well as wearing white socks coupled with red sneakers.
Her mane was red and her eyes were ocean blue, and he hated to say it, but she had a decent bust, and he now feels disgusted with himself.
She was roughly 5’6”, with him being a good 5’10”, most would find it hard to believe they were related to him having dark red eyes, and black hair.
He was at the time wearing dark green sweatpants and a dark green hoodie, with no shoes and no socks, course he had underwear and a tank top on, why a tank top, because he fucking liked it. And also it was a habit from back when he was obese, before he didced to get his shit together after getting beat near to death by a couple of dick heads in high school. It helped hide his gut. But back on track
She was Sarah Jane Rider, younger sister of Micheal John Rider aka himself. And the daughter of Martha Rose Rider and Thomas Ken Rider.
She spoke with a slightly panicked voice as she waved him towards the living room.
“Come on Michael, you need to see this” she spoke as he started towards the living room.
Confused, curious and worried Micheal made his way towards the living room, Sarah was a necromancer, meaning she could reawaken the dead, something she has never done, but she studied her power in order to learn how to use it, and that came with learning some fucked up shit, so if something worried her, it bothered him as well.
He arrived in the living room to see his sister sitting down, his mother and father were there as well, his father standing at 6’6 in height, wearing a white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up with black formal pants and a belt with an interesting oval shape buckle that had a ‘K’ carved into it. He’d once asked his father about it, he said it was a family heirloom. Old one two, constantly repaired through the times, and kept up to date, the belt could be traced back to medevil times, it was worn by his ancestors who were knights at one point. Anyway Back on track.
He was wearing some formal shoes coupled with white socks.
His mane was brown and his eyes were blue, he was quite bulky and didn’t look like some you’d want to pick a fight with.
His mother was a 5’5 unicorn and was a pretty lady, and could quite honestly be called a milf. he now felt even more disgusted, she was wearing a lime green t-shirt with light blue pants and white socks. she had a lean build, a blonde mane and a blue coat. She had light blue eyes it. It was hard to believe she was “Thunder Horn”.
His fathers' superhero name was a Thunderbolt”, on account of him being able to “fly as fast as thunder” it was cringe if you asked him, but he’d never tell his father that, his father came up with it when he was 12.
He walked into the room and looked towards the tv, they were all seated.
“What’s going on?” Michael asked with extreme amounts of confusion and fear in his voice, his father looked to him before nodding towards the TV.
On the TV was what appeared to be a news broad cast. The room was bead silent until his father finally spoke.
“Michael, you need to see this” his father said with a serious tone, it was odd, his father despite his appearance was a very cheerful and friendly person, a gentle giant if you will. If he was speaking like this, it was beyond important
Michael looked towards the TV before his father did the same, and what came next, would change Michael’s life forever
“Today, a group of unknown assailants captured and held the Warltonwood Fort in Canterlot, all available hero personnel were deployed to the area, including students of the Canterlot Hero Academy.”
“At 1:20 PM the battle began, with whoever had taken over the fort opening fire on the heroes, sidekicks, and military personnel present, when the heroes were finally able to counterstrike, the assailants turned the protection shield on, stopping any and all attempt to storm the fort by the heroes, while the barrage of missile and gun fire kept raining down on them,”
“It was not until 1:37 PM, that Canterlot Hero Academy students attempted their best to destroy the protection shield, while at the same time being bombarded by the fort’s defence mechanism,”
“It was at 1:40 PM sharp, that Canterlot Hero Academy Sidekick-in-training, Humdrum, summoned bravery never before seen, and made a mad dash of death against the fort, being able to break into the protection shield and create a portal system that other sidekicks were able to use to get to the outer wall of the fort,”
“At 1:41 PM, the Canterlot Hero academy students were able to breach the wall and storm the fort, recapturing it by 1:48 PM to, and I quote “Next to no resistance at all,” whoever was behind this attack escaped, leave behind various puppets and mind-controlled members of the armed forces behind,”
“We just got a report that the fort, which housed various top secret military projects, has been ransacked clean, everything from powerful weapons to special armour was taken from the fort, and the only trace left of the culprits is a destroyed portal door,”
“So far, no deaths have been reported during this battle, but the number of injuries has gone from 30 to about 276… we will keep you all updated as more information emerges, this is Lara Osten news at 1, and please, stay safe,” said the anchor.
“What the fuck?” said Michael said shocked, that place was a fortress, he also had to admire the pure size of humdrums balls of steel.
“Hey, language mister,” his mom said
He turned his head and gave his mother a death glare before trying to speak.
“Nnni-” he was cut off by a frying pan hitting him in the head hard by his mother.
He got back rubbing his head, he was pretty sure he saw grandpa and grandma waving to him at the gates of heaven.
“This is bad, Warltonwood was impenetrable, and if someone was able to make it in, and take all of those weapons and items… shit is about to hit the fan,” said his father standing up
“By the way, did you see what that Humdrum guy did, that was brave,” said Sarah
“Indeed, however, I wouldn’t have allowed it, risking the life of a kid,” said Michaels mother
“Still… very brave,” Sarah said as she looked at the screen again
Michael at this point, chained it for some comedic relive.
“More like a guy with massive balls of steel” Michael chuckled as a pot was sent flying towards his head by his sister. He didn’t see it comin’
“The syndicate is going to call an emergency meeting about this, we’re going to have a massive state of emergency for sure,” said his father as he stood up
“Yes, people are scared, no one knows exactly what were those weapons in there were… we have to be in the look out from now on,” said his mother
As soon as she said that, their superhero comms rang
“Emergency meeting now… sorry kids, we’ve got to bolt,” said his father
“There is food in the fridge, and I don’t want to hear about the 2 of you fighting each other from the neighbours,” said his mother
“Won’t happen mom, I was about to head out to practice my skills again,” said Sarah
“And I have some freelancing jobs to do, I’ll be busy until late this afternoon,” said Michael as he rubbed that back off his now very bruised head.
“If you say so… please take care of each other, ok,” said Mother
“Yes mom,” they said
“And remember, both of you, despite of anything, don’t forget, you guys are Ryders, and Ryders never die!” said his father pumping his fist into the air
“Yes dad,” they both said as their parents left
“By the way Michael, what were you doing last night?” asked Sarah
“Coding, one of my clients changed the deadline due to an emergency and so I had to work until late,” Michael lied.
“Oh, Ok, don’t work to hard,” said Sarah as she left the apartment
“I won’t,” said Michael as he headed to his room in a hurry.
As soon as he entered his room, Michael locked the door and grabbed his phone in a hurry, doing his best to dial the client.
“Come on… come on… pick up… PICK UP DAMMIT!” he said but nonetheless, the client did not pick up.
“Motherfucker,” Michael said as he through his phone on the bed
“I knew there was something off about that job… they used me to bypass the security and enter without being detected… DAMMIT, I SHOULD’VE PAID MORE ATTENTION!... Wait,........ no… the job only wanted the architectural layout of the fort, not a way in… someone else was involved here… but who could’ve possibly have that information?” Michael thought, but after a few more seconds, he decided to ignore it and actually do the freelance coding jobs he had.
A FEW HOURS LATER
“... and… done, that is all of them, time for me to collect,” Michael said as he started to send notifications to his employers regarding the completion of the tasks requested.
But then, just before he finished, he received a special request, on his “Private consulting” page
“Well, well, what do we have here?” Michael said as he read the job request he leaned towards his computer screen in order to get a better look.
“Job title, steal the Knight 2000 from the Powercolt Tech corps. And deliver it to the location indicated to you. Location will be made known ONLY when a notification of possession of the vehicle is received. Payment $200,000,000.00. Please complete tonight. He leaned back onto his chair and thought, he didn’t usually take these kinds of jobs, why his handler sent it to him was unknown, he leaned back in slightly and opened a new tab on google and searched up it up only to find nothing, it didn’t exist according to the web, but he knew not to always trust things he found online, and not to trust the media. His interest was piqued, he moved his cursor back to the tab with the request and hit the accept button
“Well, it seems I have a new challenge,” Michael said as he got off his chair.
4 hours later near Powercolt Tech corp
It had taken him 4 hours to walk there, why walk? Because he didn’t have a car, he’d never really needed one, though after this he was for sure investing in getting one, maybe a dodge charger, they were fairly common so it shouldn’t take him too long to ‘save’ up enough money for one, he of course already had more than enough money, he had about 3.5 billion dollars in his offshore account, and they say crime doesn’t pay, but he needed to wait long enough so that with his legal income he can buy a car without arousing suspicion, maybe he could make a fake I.T company? it wouldn’t be too hard, but he was only 16, being a rich CEO with a company would draw too much attention, and in the end, would backfire horribly,
He put on a face mask as well as a dark green cap and flipped his hood up, and to add more, he added some glass with no lenses in order to pull a super stallion as well, he donned his gloves and made his way towards the entrance.
He reached the outer wall and climbed over it in a matter of seconds ducking down behind a car in the parking lot as he spotted a guard in a security checkpoint booth leading into the facility.
The place had some serious security, barbed wire electric fences, and not the normal ones, the big tall ones, and behind the fences was a stone wall, if he looked closely he could see security camera everywhere, on the wire fence, the stone wall, on the building, on the security booth, and he could also see the faint glow of flash lights behind the stone wall signalling that there were guard patrols, and just from looking at the gear the guard at the booth had, he knew they were heavily armed. Michael thought to himself.
‘Something tells me their doing a lot more then just making microwaves to cook up some butter chicken and rice from the local countdown… growl… GREAT!!!... now I’m hungry” Michael loved butter chicken with rice, or as he called it: curry
But just as he forced his stomach to compose itself he noticed something… something rather off…there were many cars, too many for this time of night or, hell to many for this place in general, he knew something was up, but he was no goody to shoes, he was a criminal too after all, a very handsome and rogueish criminal, but a criminal nonetheless, though he hated how in the government databases he was a ‘high-threat level villain’ but he supposed it comes with the kinds of jobs he’s pulled off, he’s always had a knack for computers.
He starts creeping from car to car, while most would think he went quickly, he took his time, the only time he went quickly is when passing by a camera, he kept doing this until he got near the fence, then he saw a problem, he couldn’t get over through around or under the fences, meaning his only option was to go through the security checkpoint… the heavily guarded check-point that is.
He was stumped until he saw a lamp post flicker and go out, and turn back on after a minute, this place had unreliable power, he could use this.
He looked around till he saw a fuse box, he crept towards it and opened it up.
There were dozens of switches and a few fuse’s, he took a look at the fuse’s and saw that they were old, by about a decade.
“Typical corporate overlords, cutting expenses inorder to save a buck or two, well, their greed shall be their down fall, now if I redirect some power here…”,
He moved his hands around preparing the fuse box, he’s seen this tactic before, a lot of places in Manehatten have outdated fuses, causing them to be weak, only the more recently built places have up-to-date fuse’s around here, though, he’s heard rumour that the city is going to change the regulations so that they have to have up to date power systems, though he doubted it would work since the inspectors will probably just get bribed to look the other way
‘...then judging by the state of this fuse that should either, a) trigger the circuit breaker cutting out the lights, b) blow the fuse or c) hope it doesn’t cause a power surge too big to be natural” he moved all the switches into place except one, and he breathed in as he prepared to flip the switch, 200 million big ones were on the line, and one fuck up, could ruin his life, he thought for a moment, if he gets caught, they're going to be able to ID him, his family will disown him, his few friends will abandon him, and he will surely get executed, he’ll die with no family, no friends, no lover, and as a virgin, he then breathed out and had fire in his eyes.
‘Well, as a great time-travelling mad lad once said, ALLONS-Y’ He flipped the switch as sparks start to shoot out of the fuse box, the lights start to flicker as the guard at the booth starts to look up at the light, until finally, they go out
“Oh God fucking damn it not again!” a guard yelled out in frustration and Michael had struck gold, they were used to black out’s, meaning he would be able to give them the slip with ease.
Another guard yelled to the guard in the booth.
“Hey man, could you do it this time, I’ve had to fix that hunk of junk five times this week, if I have to again i’m smashing it” the booth guard groaned as he started making his way towards the fuse box
Michael quickly sneaked away as the guard from the booth came closer to the fuse box.
Michael wasn’t the most experienced heister out there, but he was decent.
He smirked as he began to creep away, only to trip over a can and made a barrel fall over by falling on it, thus making a loud noise, Michael got behind the barrel and couched down as the guards' flashlight swept over to the barrel he was hiding behind
“What was that?” the guard said as he changed his route and started walking towards Michael, Michael began to panic and held his breath as the guard got closer and closer and as he was about to reach Michaels's hiding place,
“OI YA WANKA, you fixing the lights yet?” a voice called out, another guard was standing a few meters behind the booth and he had an annoyed expression, the other guard looked at him. The other guard continued
“Could you please stop fucking around, all the higher-ups are here today, if we fuck up then we’re not gonna have jobs, or worse, lives” the guard said with an irish accent. It was too dark to make out any features on either of the guards the only thing he could make out was their uniform, which consisted of a white shirt, dark blue pants, and a security badge, the booth guard grunted and turned back to the fuse box as he began to make his way towards it while speaking, “alright alright, i’m going” the booth guard spoke as he got to the fuse box and started getting to work, the other guard turned and went back to his post.
Michael started to make his way around through the parking lot and towards the checkpoint, he crept out into the open as he creeped towards the checkpoint. He was about to get to the checkpoint before a guard pointed his light in his direction before speaking “What was that?” Michael dropped down to his belly in a desperate attempt to avoid detection, he prayed to whatever God there was out there that the guard wouldn’t see him, seconds felt like hours as Michael lay there unmoving, and breathing little, before he heard
“Fuck, I need to get more sleep, seeing shit now” the guards light went away from Michael as he sighed in relief before getting back into a crouched position and moving towards the booth, creeping past it as he sneaked into the perimeter.
He was keeping as low to the ground as he could, he could not get caught now, guessing by what those guards were saying he might not get busted by the police, rather his head would get busted by a bullet. He crept to a nearby bush and sat beside it as he scouted the area. The building looked nothing like the outside, it was clean and well kept, while outside the perimeter it looked old and rundown like everything else in this damn city.
He looked and saw a guard walking out of a door leading into the building, there were no other open entrances, this was Michaels's only shot, he had to be quick.
Michael sat up and ran, he tried to be quiet but the guard that exited had spotted him.
The guard turned and started running as well, however, he was on the heavy side for a stallion, and so he had trouble keeping up with the leaner and more in-shape Michael
“Oi stopped right there!” the guard yelled out as Michael ignored him and ran through the now-closing door, he entered and cursed to himself, this was going to get loud in a couple of seconds, he hadn’t brought any weapons either, he didn’t even think he’d have the guts to use a weapon even if he had one.
But now was no the time for thinking, he got this far, all he needed to do is run and grab whatever the knight 2000 was, and get it out of there, he started to run through the corridors as alarms went off, he heard shouts as guards rushed around, they didn’t seem to know exactly where he was right now, he heard guards approaching as he stopped and looked around, he saw a door and tested the handle, it was unlocked, without thinking he opened the door and entered the room, making sure to close and lock the door, he held his breath as he leaned against it listening, he waited as he heard guards run by, and by the sound of it, heavily armed guards.
He let out a sigh of relief as he heard the guards pass by, he was safe……for now.
He turned to towards the inside the room and froze, there standing was a man with a bucket of water and a mop in a grey jumpsuit and grey cap, was a brown earth pony stallion with brown eyes opened wide with shock, Michael acted quickly as the guy was about to let out a shout by running up to the guy and tackling him, the guy was bigger and older them him, but Michael got the drop on him, literally, as both of them tumbled down, Michael recovered quickly and held the guy down, he had to think.
‘This guy’s seen me, if I let him go he’ll tell the guards where I am, but I can’t just kill him he’s done nothing, if I do then… wait, why am I caring so much about some random person, no time for that, I need to know where the knight 2000 is, maybe this guy knows.’ Michael thought as he began to question the stallion.
“W-what do you want from me?!” the stallion spoke quietly in fear as he looked up at Michael in terror, Michael looked down at the terrified stallion for seconds, and this made the stallion nervous, just what did this guy want.
“Where is the Knight 2000?” Michael said in a cold and seroius voice, he had wiped all expression from his face, and the man under him started to shiver as he replies.
“K-night 2000? I don’t k-know what your talking about” he said Michael started to examine his speech and looked him up and down.
‘Sweaty palms, lack of eye contact, an increase of resistance, sutter in voice, all signs point towards one conclusion, he’s lying out of his ass to me’ Michael thought for a second, this guy most likely wasn’t afraid of him, but rather his own bosses, this means Michael wouldn’t be able to get info out of him easily, he looked around until he saw a few things, duct tape, a hose, a cloth, and a sink, he must’ve been in a janitor's closet he thought for a second, until a voice said something.
‘WaterBOARD HIM, IT’S THE QUICKEST AND MOST Effective method to get information’ the voice was corrupt, but still his own in a way, but he didn’t have time to dwell on that,
He drew his fist back and threw it hard into the janitors face, the janitor opened his mouth to scream in pain only to be silenced by Michael hand going in, grabbing the janitors lower jaw, and pulling down, until he heard a click, the janitor began to scream out in agony, but the screams only came out in muffles as his eyes filled with pain while turning to pinpricks.
Michael had just dislocated his jaw, he stood up and headed towards the duct tape, he grabbed it and walked over to the hose, with both hose and duct tape in tow he headed for the sink and put the entrance of the hose to the tip of the sinks mouth, and duct-taped the hose to it, he then grabbed the rag and walked over to the janitor and kneeled down he used the palm of his hand to push it in, hitting the janitors jaw, relocating it, the janitor tried to yell out in pain but Michael put his hand over the janitors mouth before speaking.
“If you want to live through this, I’d highly recommend one, shutting up, and two, telling me where the knight 2000 is or things will have to get….messy” the janitor began to struggle more as he spoke.
“Y-you sick FUCK, if I tell you they’ll kill me!” he shouted in fear, Michael drew back his fist and punched the janitor in the face again.
“I said keep it the fuck down, or? Do you like getting force fed knuckle sandwiches” He drew his fist back and “fed” the janitor another “knuckle sandwich” he then spoke again.
“And if you don’t tell me I’ll kill you, so you better start talking” Michael spoke, the janitor laid on the guard silent before answering.
“F-fuck you” he said appearing to make a tough face, Michael sighed, he wasn’t going to be able to make this guy talk just using normal brute force and some light questioning.
Michael laid the cloth on the janitor's face before getting up and stomping on the janitor's hand in order to stop him from getting up, he then walked to the sink and turned it on to full power, and water gushed out of the other side of the hose as Michael grabbed the end the water was coming from and took it to the janitor.
The janitor tried to get up, but Michael pushed him down with his shoe, before, he stomped on the janitor's stomach in order to knock the wind out of him, finally beginning the torture.
He aimed the hose end at the janitors face as the water splashed him, the rag let water in, but didn’t let water out, and when it became damp, it stopped air from coming in as well.
The janitor started thrashing as he began to slowly drown, even a highly trained equestrian equestrian member could only take 14 seconds of the torture before cracking and refusing to continue, the janitor thrashed but Michael held him down with his shoe.
This continued for 16 seconds before Michael stopped and kneeled down, he pointed the hose away from the janitor before finally taking the cloth off, the janitor coughed and hacked as water shot out of his mouth, his eyes were tearing up and he started sobbing.
“W-h-hy me ‘sob’ what do you want from me? Please just make it stop!” he sobbed out Michael looked at him and smirked the janitor was broken, and so, he questioned him again.
“I’ll stop only if you tell me the location of the Knight 2000, if not I’m going to keep going and stopping just before you give out, it will be painful and it will not stop until you tell me.” Michael said as he leaned closer to the janitor and making him finally breaking under pressure
“G-go out of this room, head to the right then keep going, until you come to an intersection, then go left and continue until you spot a door at the end of the hallway” the janitor had stopped sobbing, his eyes were starting to lose life, not in a dying way, but, in a will to live way, he had given up.
Michael didn’t know if the info was accurate, but chances were they are, but they were still a decent chance they weren’t, but he didn’t have time to check, he had stayed in one place long enough, any longer and he’d risk getting caught
Michael then spoke, but something was different, almost like, it wasn’t truly him speaking, but in another way, like it was him speaking
“Alright then, I’ll take your word, but remember this before I depart, if I find out you’re lying to me, I will hunt you down, and I will burn everything you know and love, before finally torturing you to death” Michael spoke, voice cold and serious, like he meant every single word of it
Michael stood back up and kicked the janitor in the head, knocking him out, he walked over to the sink and stopped the water flow.
He turned and walked over to the door, he was taking a risk, but he had no other choice, he unlocked the door, and slowly opened it, he peaked his head into the light grey corridor, the walls were made out of concrete, the doors were steel and painted red, they were signs directing him to different sectors of the building,
The lights were bright and stable, unlike the ones outside the facility, and the floors were flat and smooth, made out of metal, and the ceiling was made out of concrete, he was certain that this place was no ordinary power company, and he was starting to suspect it wasn’t a power company at all, more then likely it was a front, but it wasn’t any of his business, they could do whatever illegal actives they wanted after he got the ‘knight 2000’.
He looked the other way to see if the coast was clear, nodding his head he quickly snuck out of the room and started following the now-unconscious janitor's directions.
He crept forward and just as he turned the corner he saw a guard, only a couple of meters away, he tried to get back around the corner but, first came the the gunshot, second came the pain, he turned the corner and hugged the wall, he was in agony, he wanted to look at the wound but there was no time as he saw the guards' shadow turn the corner, he charged as the guard came into sight, slamming into the guard, making him drop his gun, the two fell back and impacted the ground, Michael quickly got up and started running, the guard stood back up and took out a radio before pressing and holding a button on the side and speaking.
“ALL UNITS BE ON ALERT, THE INTRUDER IS HEADING TOWARDS SECTOR 3!” the guard shouted into the radio before putting it away, grabbing his gun and giving chase.
Michael was running as his flight or fight instincts reared their heads, his muscles tensed as he turned a corner only to see a group of guards aiming assault rifles at him, he didn’t know why, but he just kept running, the guards opened fire, bullets gazed and hit him, but he didn’t have time to think where he had been shot as he saw a sign saying, knight 2000 research area, to the right in front of the guards, he kept running until he was almost right in the guard's face’s as he quickly turned and ducked into the knight 2000’s room
He Locked the door as he grabbed a nearby chair and wedge it in between the door handle and the ground, he heard bangs at the door as he relaxed his muscles he turned around and-
Bang!
A gunshot rang out as Michael felt his back slam against the locked door behind him, he felt pain seeping in from his chest, he looked down as he saw a bullet hole leading into the left side of his upper body, now most would think that it hit his heart, but a little known fact is that the heart wasn’t on the left side of the body, it just leaned in a bit to the left side, but its actual placing was in the middle.
The pain of the wound reminded him of the pain in his shoulder, he suddenly started feeling tried, he was running off of 0 hours of sleep and had been losing quite a bit of blood.
He looked up and spotted the shooter, a light blue pegasus with blonde hair wearing the same uniform as all the other guards, holding a smoking 44. magnum revoler, he stoad at roughly six foot with a rather imposing build
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Ic5QndpPA
Michael started feeling tried, but not like he was going to pass out, but like his sanity was fading quickly, and then he started hearing it.
Let go
let go’
‘Let go’
Let go of everything!
Michael’s vision started to gain a red tint, was this it, him, the mighty fox, the man who the government feared, him who could have the world, killed by some goon, NO this was not how his story- no, legend ended, HE WOULD NOT FALL!
Michael started to fall, but he used his foot to catch him self, he didn’t feel tried any more, he felt, powerful,
The guard came closer as, gun drawed and aimmed at his head.
“Maybe I’ll get extra if I take you alive” the guard spoke, and as he got close Michael charged him, the guard caught him as a struggle ensued, each others hands on their opponents shoulders , the guard was much stronger and heavier as well as taller then Michael, but Michael wouldn’t quit, he gave everything he had as he pushed the guard back as best as he could.
“Fuckin’ hell, got some fight in ya… okay, let’s go then” the guard kneed Michael in the stomach, but with the height difference it was close to his chest, this caused Michael to weaken as the guard pushed michael down.
Michael impacted the ground hard, the guard came up and tried to stomp Michaels head in, but he rolled to the side, he rolled 2 more times inorder to make distance, before sloppily getting back up and taking a combat stance.
His hands rolled into fists with his thumps on the outside of his fists, his fist were position in front of face almost forming a triangle as his feet were slightly apart, his vision became slightly more red as he charged the guard, headbutting the guards stomach.
Michael kept going until he pushed the guard into something, it seemed like a strangely shaped jet black counter, but for some reason he couldn’t make out what it was, all he could focus on was the guard.
The guard started slamming his fist on Michael, but it didn’t really faze Michael, Michael had been in fights with bigger people, he could take one hell of a hit.
Michael started punching the guard with his right hand as his left hand focused on keeping the guard still, this continued for a while before the guard delivered one strong hit to Michael's back, more specifically his spine, this stunned Michael as the guard pulled Michael in an upright position and pushed Michael back a bit before pulling out his gun and aiming it at Michael’s head.
Time for Michael seemed to slow down, his peripheral vision became completely blood red, Michael could now only see the guard and his gun, he felt his muscles tear as he leapt towards the guard clearing the counter and hitting the ground hard.
Michael held the guard down as he grabbed the hand with the gun in it and the guard's other upper arm, they struggled as the guard tried to lift his gun, he started edging his gun towards Michaels head.
It was nearly at Michaels head when Michael took his left hand that was holding down the guards upper arm and grabbed the inner section of the guards elbow and began pushing down, using his right hand, towards the guards head, the guard’s eyes openned wide with shock and then turned to a mix of fear and panic as he used his now free arm to grab At michael, he tried in despertion to push Michael away as he started hitting him in the head, but all Michael could feel was a grin forming on his Masked face, and his vision pulsating red as he felt his arm muscles go above and beyond what they were capable of doing.
He felt a huge amount of pain coming from his arms along with a new wet feeling, but he ignored it, as the gun came closer and closer to the guards chin, the guard started yelling.
“WAIT WAIT PLEASE NO MORE MERCY!” the guard yelled out as the gun's barrel edge was planted at the guard's chin, Michael laughed and said one sentence.
“Sorry, all out of mercy” Michael then squeezed the guard's arm hard, drawing blood, as the guard screamed in pain for a second, but at that time, the guard tried to grib his hands into fists, causing him to pull the trigger.
Bang
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Everything went silent as the guards brains splattered across the floor, the guard's eyes turned lifeless as he uttered his final word,
“I’m sorry brother” at that the guard exhaled what was his final breath as he went limp.
Michael shook his head and looked down at the scene in front of him, his face slightly covered in blood just like his right hand.
He sat up, as his brain processed what laid before him.
Before he could fully process what he had done, he heard banging on the door as he reconnected with reality, he could almost swear he could hear a low laugh before he shot up on his feet.
“W-what? Where, oh, wait, I’m robbing this place, what was I stealing again?” Michael thought back as he tried to recover his memory before his memory finally clicked back into place as he looked around, he knew the knight 2000 was in there somewhere, he saw a clipboard and walked over to it, he picked it up and started reading it.
Item name: Knight 2000
The knight 2000 has the appearance of a jet-black 1982 Pontiac Trans Am with a light placed at the tip that when the knight 2000 is activated, has a red light that moves side to side.
The knight 2000 has a practically unbreakable shell that is resistant to all forms of magic, magic cannot be used on the knight 2000.
Its tires are unpoppable And its windows can not be smashed.
To accompany its high durability it is also extremely fast, able to even break the sound barrier and to top it all off it can reach these speeds quickly it has even been witnessed in the past to be able to somehow jump.
The knight 2000 is also equipped with a multitude of gadgets.
While not all functions of the knight 2000 are known, here is what we know it’s capable of.
Firing rockets out of it’s exhaust pipe.
Deploying tear gas out of its exhaust pipe.
Deploying a smoke screen out of it’s exhaust pipe.
Firing a grabbling hook through a hole in the rear bumber.
Able to jamm electicle device’s and signals.
Able to use sonar to give a rough map of a building and the location of people inside the area.
Able to track vehicles and aircraft over long distances, how it does this is unknown at this time.
Able to tap into radio, cellphone, and TV signals.
Able to redirect calls.
We suspect there are dozens of functions that we have yet to tap into, we are going to attempt to reengineer it by taking it apart, but we will require heavy machinery.
Michael finished reading through the lengthy report as he turned around and looked up, before putting it to the side and looking at the car that laid in front of him
(cue slowed knight rider theme)
Michael looked in awe at the beauty of a car that lay before him, it was, just as the report had described but seeing it in person, it almost made him completely forget what he was doing.
He snapped out of it as he began to make his way to the car, he went to the driver's seat window and formed his arm into an L, before slamming his elbow cap into the window as hard as he could.
Michael used, a classic car-jacking attack on Knight 2000.
Michael's brain was filled with pain as all the kinetic energy that he sent into the window travel throughout his elbow. It was a pain worse than stubbing your toe, And~ it was super ineffective.
Michael reeled back in pain as he grasped his elbow, he quickly recovered before slapping himself in the forehead.
“Fucking retard, the report said the glass was unbreakable” Michael cursed at himself, he didn’t have much time.
Michael looked around at the area surrounding him, it was a garage.
The garage had a weird design even for the untrained eye, it was not opened like most car shops, but it contained a long L-shaped counter, which, by the way, had no sign of tools, or grease marks, or even any sort of tear in it from being used… it seemed oddly… new.
But Interior design was not Michael’s interest nor did he give to fucks about millionaires taste in decorations.
As he continued to look around for any clue or idea, something caught his eye, at the very end of the L-shaped counter, was a small metallic looking box, with a note tucked underneath it.
He walked over to it and picked the note up, looking at it he began to read before he heard the banging again, they were shouting, he knew didn’t have much time, he looked at his watch, about an hour had pased, he started reading the note
We can’t get it open, all attempts at opening the door have ended in failure, we’re running out of time and budget, we’ve bought a tank and a 55.cal anti material rifle with armour priceing bullets, we’re gonna try that, if it doesn’t work, we can use the anti material rifle on the tank to show the boss’s why we’re having so much trouble.
The only way we might be able to open the door is with the watch that came with the car, but it’s not functioning, I've opened it up and checked everything but it all looks fine, I can’t find the problem.
WHERE DID THIS CAR COME FROM? AND WHO THE FUCK FOUND IT AND BOUGHT IT WITHOUT KNOWING HOW IT WORKS!!!
Michael looked over to the box that was next to the note.
‘I wonder?’ he thought as he grabbed the box and opened it, inside was one of the weirdest, yet coolest, watches he’s ever seen before.
It was small, and looked like something a teen would’ve worn in the 70’s or late 80’s, but the oddest thing was… the watch was still displaying the time… it was just frozen in place.
He looked at it, trying to find what was wrong, the note said that the watch is in good condition, and when it came to tech, if it wasn’t working, but wasn’t broken, the only thing that could be wrong with it was………
He flipped the watch over, and gave out a slight chuckle.
There was no battery.
“Of course, the eggheads over looked the most basic problem… typical eggheadery,”
He looked at the slot and realized it was the same size as his own watches battery.
He quickly took it off and used a near by screwdriver to pry the battery out.
The battery gave quickly as he popped the battery out, causing catastrophic damage to his watch, and then put it into the other one.
He flipped the car watch around and saw it was working, Michael looked at his now broken watch and smashed it into a million pieces making it hard for anyone to track it or find any prints in it, before tosing it behind some large barrels.
He then grabbed the watch and wrapped it around his left wrist before walking over to the car and looking at the watch.
‘Maybe it’s speech activated?’ he thought as he start throwing out random phases
“Car open” no response, “car on” no response… “car unlock?”... “Open Sesame!” and no- wait! Nope no response
He groaned in frustration as he hung his arms and turned around in defeat, how was he going to get out?,
But as he turned around the watch's face passed near the door handle and Michael heard a sound.
(SFX beep beep car unlocking sound)
Michael turned towards the car in confusion as he looked at the door handle and noticed a green flashing light coming from it
His face lit up with hope as he walked towards the door hand, and pulled outwards slightly, instead of the handle stopping it, gaving in or in this case, out as he saw the door slightly open.
He smiled as he opened the door fully to see the 90s-level futuristic interior, almost like the back-to-the-future delorian car, but to a totality different level.
There was hundreds of buttons, all dark, and even two screens that were about the size of his head and in the centre of the dashbroad was a weird screen, almost like an audio-level reader
He was about to hop into the car when he saw something, something sticking out of the now deceased guard's pocket, he walk over to the guard and took the item out, it was a picture, of a family, the guard and a mare with plain blue fur and dark brown hair who looked to be in her mid to early 30s, both holding a little baby in their arms, but the face was smugged due to the blood.
Michael felt, suffocated, almost like a weight had fell onto his shoulders and was now crushing him, stopping his lungs from expanding
He looked up and spotted a phone propped up against a tin can of paint, he got up and walked over to it, grabbed it and put it in his pocket, he didn’t know why, he just felt like, he had to do it. Little did he know, that this decision would work in his favor sometime in the future.
Turning around he got into the car, and shut the door, he looked around at the hundreds of buttons, they looked like they could light up, but he didn’t know how to turn them on, how was he going to drive the car.
He looked through the wind shield as he stared at the garage door.
‘Maybe I could push it out?’ he thought as he consider hopping back out of the car.
‘No! the place is on high alert, they’d noticed it almost instantly, and then I’d be shot’ he criticsized himself as he looked at the ignition and saw a key inside.
He openned the door, got out, and headbutted the wall serval times, out of anger or desperation, that was the question, you see, asperger and ADHD are a horrible mix… and after this, he wouldn’t be surpized if he developed PTSD, and he’d have to hide it! He’d ask for a bonus extra 10 mill for this bull-fucking-shit!
He got back into the car and closed the door, he turned the key as he grabbed the weirdly shaped steering wheel, and locked the doors, just in case.
He took a deep breath before slamming his foot down on the gas…. Nothing happened…. He looked confused before looking down and seeing the drive stick was in park, he head butted the wheel before putting it to to 10 yes it had 10 gears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYsXnZx5iK0
He hit the gas and the car lunched forward making him regret not wear a seat belt as the car rummed through the garage door, easily turning what was once a thick reinforced door that could likely stopped a semi-truck going at full speed, into play dough.
Chaos ensued as the guards outside heard a lot crush, they turned to see a small black car barreling towards them, the drew their rifle and oppened fire, a barrage of bullets cappble of tear a normal car apart, bounced off the car’s unbreakable shell, a unicorn even fired off sereval powerful magic missiles, only to do nothing, the car hit a copule of guards, one guard even got cutt in half, and the other guards died on impact.
Michaels eyes opened wide in disgust and shock as he kept on driving, he wanted to puke.
He would have if the blood and guts had stuck to the car, but due to the high speeds they all flew off. A feeling came up in him as he drove away. But before he could ID the feeling he heard a sound
An attack hellicopter
He looked up out of the window next to him, and saw something horrifying
It was an un marked attack heilcopter wielding heavy weapony, and it was ready to use it.
It followed him with high speeds, but even it had trouble keeping up with the Knight 2000.
(heilcopter POV)
“Boss we can’t keep up with this thing, we’re losing it!’ the co-pilot said into a radio as the main pilot forcusd on flying.
There was radio silence for a few second before a voice came over the radio.
“We can’t afford to lose this chance, if we let it out then someone else get’s the profit, if we can’t have it, then nobody can, open fire, you have permission to use air to ground missles, rain hell down on the bastard” the voice of the ‘boss’ came over the radio as the co-pilot looked over to the pilot and began to rely their orders over the intercom.
“Jose, we got orders to open fire, air to ground missiles authorised” the co-pilot spoke as the pilot glance over and smirked before regaining a stone face.
“Rodger that, engaging” the pilot turned the safety on the weapons systems off and lowered his altitude as he opened fire.
(3rd person pov)
A hell-fire of bullets and missiles capable of tearing a tank apart rained down onto the knight 2000, it- did nothing? The pilot's months opened side in shock, they knew that every shot had hit, and they kept firing until it stopped they had run out of ammo, and yet the car was still going, hell it was going faster than before due to the bullets giving it a push.
The car entered a suburban area as the helicopter kept chase it, Michael remembered that the report had mentioned something about rockets, he quickly looked at the now lit up buttons and saw one that said rockets, the report said they were fired from the exhaust pipe, he needed to angle the car right, he looked to see a steep incline, which would, with the helicopters current altitude, make a perfect opportunity for the hit.
Michael turned the car towards the incline and speed up more, when he reached it he slowed the car down as to not go flying, though he wouldn’t be surprised at this rate if the car really could fly.
He went down the incline and as the helicopter came into sight, he pressed the button and a rocket fired out of the cars exhaust pipe, flying and hitting the helicopter right under the cockpit, killing the two pilots instantly and causing a large explosion mid air.
(stop music here)
Michael slowed the car as he shifted the gear into simply drove and began cruising through the nighborhood that he had just killed 2 people in.
He had killed, his eyes water up as the feeling he felt before came back, but this time he could ID it… guilt… with a hint of regret.
He looked to the passenger seat and saw the picture, he was a windowmaker now, he had just killed a little girl’s father, and they might never know what happened to their husband and father, all because of him.
He tortured an innocent man! More then likely scaring him for life. He killed even more when he escaped, and to put the mother fucking blood stained cheery on top he killed the 2 pilots that were chasing him.
Guilt filled him as he started head butting the wheel.
“Could you please stop doing that, you’ll damage your head” a robotic voice said as Michael shot into the seat in surpised.
“Who said that?!” Michael yelled in shock as he slammed on the break bring the car to a quick stop, looking around, faced filled with panic and fear.
The voice spoke again
“I am the Knight Industries Two Thousand, you may call me Kitt, and you are not supposed to be driving me,” the voice said as Michael freaked out, he didn’t know what to think, but after all he had been through, he knew one thing, this car was powerful, he had already been partially involved in an untold amount of super weapons being put out on the market, he couldn’t let this car get out on the market too.
Michael began to speak, voice shaky, but full of determination
“W-well too bad, I’m keeping you, I can’t- no-” Michael cleared his throat before speaking with more confidence as he kept going.
“-Won’t let you get into the wrong hands, so you have two options, you either let me drive you or be hidden in a secret underground garage in the middle of the ocean for the rest of time” he spoke to Kitt as he offered him a deal, he needed a car, and after all the shit he went through, he wasn’t going to be more responsible for more deaths. Kitt was silent for a minute, persumbly thinking, he could understand, Kitt was making a discuison for the course of his continued existence
“.....fine, have it your way, could I at least get your name then” Kitt spoke as Michael leaned back into his new car, he knew he would love it.
“My names Michael, Michael John Rider” Michael introduced himself to Kitt as he moved his arms to grab the wheel before flinching back in pain, he looked to his right shoulder as he as he saw the bullet wound, the only reason he wasn’t heavily bleeding was due to his magic, he couldn’t use most magics, but he could use a healing spell on himself to heal, well, it wasn’t really a healing spell to be honest, more of just him speeding up his natural healing… which meant he was a “special”
‘GAAA, fuck, how the hell am I gonna explain this to my parents, fuck it, I’ll just say I got drunk and can’t remember’ he thought.
But then, another thought came to his head “ALCOHOL! Please, my parents know I don’t drink, not to mention, if I actually did, they’d be able to locate the store faster than I can say it was a lie,”
“Maybe I can just tell them I fell while running, that’s more believable,” Running was his only escape besides video games and youtube, he was a normie, he would have committed suicde already if it hadn’t been for the ability to clear his mind… or due parkour and look cool while doing it.
“Hey I don’t suppose you can drive your self right?” he spoke with a pained tone, it was a long shot, but he was injured, it would be dangerous to drive right now.
“Well, I would say it’s a pleasure to meet you but I would be lying, and to answer your question I am capable of driving myself, where would you want to go?” Kitt spoke as his audio level monitor expanded to the volume of his voice, Michael’s eyes opened slightly with surprise, turning quickly into relief as he gave Kitt his address
“Manehatten, airfield road, 3, quick, I need to check my emergency first aid kit” Michael spoke, still pained, as soon as he treated his wounds, he was going to sleep for a week he swore to the lord he would right there.
“Alright, I will go as fast as the road laws allow me to” Kitt spoke as Michael leaned into his seat, Kitt seeing this, tinted his windows to where it was impossible to see inside and began driving to Michael's destination
HALF AN HOUR LATER
“Hey, I know it’s none of my business, but, why are we coming to the slums?” Kitt asked as they neared their destination
“Because the police almost never come down here, but, most people here are well-behaved, mostly thanks to the high number of sidekicks that live or patrol this area… and, you’ll see in a second,” Michael said as Kitt turned into a back street cul-de-sac/
“What is this place?” asked Kitt as Michael rolled the window down and held his phone up.
Seconds past in pure silence, until a CLICK was heard and the wall before them opened up revealing a hidden tunnel.
“Go” said Michael
Kitt followed the orders and drove down the tunnel as the wall closed behind him.
After a few seconds they arrived at a underground, abandoned parking lot.
“We’re here,” said Michael as he got out of the Kitt
“And where is here?” Kitt asked as he followed Michael
“My hideout/man cave…” Michael said as he turned the power on “... I come here when I need to lay low for a little bit, or if I want to be alone… by the way, here, you can copy the key to enter the hideout,” said Michael
“Is this because you are lazy, or what?” asked Kitt
“NO! If we ever get into a deep-deep trouble and we get separated, you come here and lay low, at least you’ll be safe and give me time to lose my tail or come up with a plan,” said Michael
“Ok… that sounds dumb, but, well, I’m not expecting much from you,” said Kitt
“Fuck you… anyway…” Michael started as the sound from the a TV in his hide out interrupted him.
“... We have a confirmation that the flying fortress has crash landed into the Firefrost Mountain Range, completely destroying itself… according to officials 85% of the people on board of said fortress how escaped before it crashed have been arrested, sadly, it seems that the hire comanders of the fortress, including Tirek, Have escaped and are on the run…”
“What the…” said Michael
“... It has also been brought to out attention that the battle between heroes and goons in the outskirts of the Crystal Empire has left 12 deaths, including the deaths of heroes Powerhoof, Ademantite, Sans, and Oni, the rest of the deaths were members of the attacking party… WHAT?!... Are you… Are you sure about this?... can… CAN YOU CONFIRM THIS YES OR NO?!!... Oh God… D-dear viewers… we’ve just received… confirmation… the boarding team that consisted of the Power Ponies has landed safely, with Radiance being rushed to hospital with a bad head injury, but doctors say she is out of danger… however… they have confirmed… that… Humdrum… he has… he has… died… … … according to Masked Matter-horn, he sacrificed himself to angle the falling craft away from the empire, saving everyone and everything…” the announcer said as tears fell from her eyes.
“Oh no,” said Michael as he grabbed his phone searching for a number
“Judging by your reaction this has something to do with you… in a bad way,” said Kitt
“Fucks sake, pick up, pick up…” Michael said
“Well, hello, I was awaiting your call,” said the voice
“OY, WHAT THE FUCK!” said Michael
“I beg your pardon?” asked the voice
“THE WEAPONS ON THAT FUCKING UFO, THEY WERE INSIDE THE FORT WEREN’T THEY?!!!” Michael screamed
“Yeah, and?...” said the voice
“You made me get the blueprints of the fort for this reason,” said Michael
“Yeah, and honestly I don’t see the problem with it,” said the voice
“You used me to commit mass murder!” said Michael
“Well, not you, but, your services, as we’ve done before… by the way… where’s my car?” asked the voice
“YOU… I… I went to the place, but I was unable to steal it,” Michael lied
“Really… because the reports and radio chatter coming from the corporation is that you killed a guard and stole the car… so, I recommend you come clean with me now, before I feed you and your family to the feds, as conspirators to the attack… your choice,” said the man
“F-fine… where?” asked Michael
“333 Rublen Drive, in 20 minutes,” said the man
“Ok, i’ll be there,” said Michael
“You better, if you want to see your family ever again…” said the man as Michael heard his mother and father’s voices in the background.
“JACK!” Sarah screamed
“DON’T YOU DARE GO ANYTING TO THEM!!” Michael said
“You are not the boss of me kid, see you soon,” the voice said as he hung up.
“WE HAVE YO GO!” said Michael
“And do what? It is obviously a trap,” said kitt
“I have to save my family!” said Michael panicing
“Get in, I’ll get you there!” said Kitt as Michael got on “also, take this, you;ll need it trust me,” said Kitt as he opened his glove box and showed Michael a .45 gun
“Thanks, let’s go!” Michael said as Kitt took off at full speed as he opened the wall.
17 MINUTES LATER
Kitt and Michael pulled up to an abandoned 1860’s mansion that used to be a grain plantation.
“We’re here, be ready,” said Kitt as he pulled up
“OK I”M HERE!” Michael screamed but nothing happened
Just then several lights turned on and aimed at him.
“Glad to see you could join us,” said a man as he walked out of the building with 2 hostages and several goons in tow.
“I’m here, and here’s your car, let my parents and sister go!” Michael screamed
“Uhm… well, a deal is a deal…” the man said as he and the 2 guns holding his parents walked towards him “... however… I am not a man that likes to leave loose ends… “ the man said as he took out a gun and suddenly shot him in the chest
Michael fell backwards holding his chest
“... I hope you understand… it not personal… just business,” the man said as he aimed the gun at his parents and shot them in the head killing them.
“NO!!!” Michael screamed
“MOM! DAD! NO!!!” Sarah Screamed catching Micheal’s attention
“SARAH!!” Michael screamed
“Jack!” Sarah screamed as the goons took her inside again
“Kill them,” the man said
“As if!” Michael said as he took out the gun and shot at the man, but, he quickly grabbed the 2 goons and used them as human shields.
“Wow, even with the bloodloss you can still shoot that well… you are dangerous… better deal with you now!” the man said as the remaining goons, started firing at Michael.
Michael quickly jumped behind Kitt as he took cover from the bullets
“Well, this went to shit faster than I thought…” Kitt said
“Not helping Kitt” Michael said as he returned fire
“Oh yeah, give me a second,” Kitt said as he summoned 2 small miniguns out of the trunk and fired at the goons, killing most of them.
“Since when could you do that?” Michael said confused, and honestly shocked.
“Since 1957” kit said as the goons shot the mini-guns out
“CALL FOR BACK UP!” one of the goons said
“ETA 3 MINUTES!” another one said
“We have to hurry!” said Kitt
“I’m going in after my sister!” Michael said as he got out of cover and started firing and killing goons left and right as he neared the front door
“BACK UP IS NEAR MICHAEL, WE HAVE 30 SECONDS!” Kitt ‘yelled’ out
Just as Michael got close enough to the front door, the whole mansion exploded sending him flying through the drive way straight into the perimeter wall, covering him in debris
“MICHAEL!...” Kitt said as he saw Michael fly from the shock wave, just then, backup arrived
“DAMN IT, I HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE AND GET HELP!” Kitt said and fired a missiles at the back up truck and goons, making them fly.
Kitt decided not to wait and see if he killed everyone before high tailing out of there.
MINUTES LATER
Various heroes appeared at the scene
“What the fuck happend here?” one of them said
“Look!” another one said as she pointed at the bodies of Michael’s parents
“Thunder Bolt and ThunderHorn!... executed with a shot to the head,” said the hero
“Look, there are many more people dead here,” said another one
“Members of the BloodPosse gang… are they behind this? How could they even over power them.
“Hey over here!” said another heroine
“A kid…” said another hero
“That’s their eldest son, Michael… ” said the hero
“He’s alive, but barely,” said another one
“Quick get him to the hospital now!” another one said as they picked him up and carried him away, as police officers arrived on the scene and cordoned off the scene.
Author's Note
Hey readers sorry if this seems a bit rough, but it'll get better, and yes this is cannon to underrated drakes story, he asked me to write this for his story
Chapter one: a knightmare
Chapter One: a Knightmare
(warning, quite a bit of comedy and fourth-wall-breaking present)
Pain…
That's all that Michael felt as he came to. He tried to move his limbs, but they felt like they were screaming in agony. Like a fire was burning up each of his limbs.
‘Where am I?’ he hazily thought as his senses began to clear.
He heard the gentle crackling of fire echo all around him, accompanied by the distant wails of some approaching emergency vehicle sirens.
He tried to feel his body, but his mind reeled back as it fully possessed his pain, but there wasn’t time to complain.
Pushing through the pain he felt the rough gravel of the road, his weight causing the gravel to slightly stab into his skin.
The gentle breeze hit his skin as it carried smoke to his nose, but with the smoke was another smell.
Burning flesh.
Confused, He mustered up whatever energy he had left and lifted his head slightly, to see bodies.
Some of them looked to have been caught in an explosion as they burned away, others were riddled with bullets as the remnants of two small miniguns lay destroyed on the ground, but some were killed by a couple of bullets, their bodies rather close to him.
He suddenly became aware of a weight in his right hand, he slightly turned his head to his hand and saw a pistol, a .45 ACP from the looks of it. He realised something as terror and disgust wiped through his mind.
He had killed them.
It wasn’t his first time of course, but he had never been directly responsible for the deaths of others, he had organised murders, “accidents” and assassinations, but had never done the killing himself, until now. He looked over suddenly remembering something, only to be shocked beyond belief.
He saw the dead bodies of his parents, executed like common filth as their cold lifeless bodies lay dead on the grass in front of the now burning remnants of the mansion
He tried to gulp down the fluid that had gathered up in his mouth only to find it tasted odd.
He focused on the taste of the liquid in his mouth.
It wasn’t spit, but it tasted like iron - blood.
He started to choke as he drowned in his own blood, he started to lose consciousness before hearing ponies running up to the area.
He noticed that the sirens were blaring away nearby, and looked to see ponies and strange costumes start to investigate.
‘Heros? Too late to stop the death this time’ he thought grimly as he finally lost consciousness.
Pov: Michael John Rider
Time: Unknown
Location: Unknown
I wake to the sound of a steady beeping sound as I slowly yet surely woke myself up.
My eyes fluttered open as they got used to a bright light shining into them until finally after about 30 minutes, give or take a minute or two I regained my sight.
I stared up in confusion at the pure white ceiling above me, I sniffed the air, expecting to be greeted by the smell of smoke and burning flesh that I had been smelling before I blacked out, only to be surprised by the smell of disinfectant with a mix of hand sanitiser.
‘I know this smell’ I thought to myself as I began to shuffle myself into an upright sitting position and looked around, around me was a room with white marble-like floor tiles, pure white walls with a blue strip about half a metre thick running along the middle of the wall. It was a small single room, with only one bed.
There were machines surrounding me, I could firmly identify most of them. A heart rate monitor to the right of me. The source of the noise that had awakened me was located at the head of my bed. An AC above me on the wall making the air cold, a fire detector on the ceiling accompanied by a sprinkler, and an idle TV placed on the wall across from my bed, there was an IV stand to the left of me, in between the space separating the bed and the wall.
I was beyond confused.
I threw the blanket off and saw my clothed body as I got off the bed, I stretched and looked around before making my way towards the door.
Before I stopped dead in my tracks.
Something wasn’t right, pieces weren’t wielding together true, I turned back around and looked more closely, the air was cold, yet walking towards and sticking my hand out in front of the AC,
no cold air was blowing out.
I listened closely, this was a hospital. Yet it was dead silent.
‘I’ve been in enough hospitals from my time in high school to know the no matter the time, the place, and the country, hospitals were always busy, I should at least be hearing the shuffling of nurses' and doctors' feet alike as they quietly try to move in between locations in the hospital’ I thought to myself as I looked around more, another thing the came across my eyes and ears was the fact the heart monitor was still beeping, now this could be explained if I were in a multi-person room but I wasn’t, then there’s the fact that I didn’t have to disconnect and tubes or wires, or the fact that I was fully clothed still, mask and all, they would have stripped me down and put me in a hospital gown.
‘Something is wrong, something is horribly wrong, I know it’ I said inside my head as I began piecing it all together.
‘Heartbeat is still being monitored, lack of pain and any presence of any hospital staff, fully clothed, and still cold’ I thought for a while until I could come to only one conclusion.
“This isn’t real” I said to myself, the ground began to crack as I looked to my feet, and the ground began giving way as I yelled out and fell.
Pov: third person
Time: none
Location: none
Darkness, it was all he could see and feels as he fell for an unknown amount of time until a bright light assaulted his vision as he felt the falling sensation stop along with feeling his body move into an upright position and his feet planted firmly on the darkness that he once fell through,
Confused and dazed, he turned to see a figure in a cloak, their face obscured by the hood of said cloak, their head slightly pointed down until it shot up to meet his gaze. They stared at each other for what felt like years before finally, the cloaked figure spoke
“ fucking bastard, why couldn’t you just go along with the illusion huh? Well, that’s to be expected I guess considering who you are” the figure chuckled out the last bit as he insulted Michael- Michael? We both know he- the fourth-wall-breaking figure was then drop-kicked out of the fourth dimension and back into his own by the author, before continuing the story
Michael stepped back in shock before regaining his composure, somehow the figure's voice was familiar. Michael replied to the figure.
“And just who am I to you huh? And who are you for that matter?!” Michael yelled out. He was pissed, who was this person? Why did his voice sound so familiar?
The man chuckled before closing the distance between him and Michael.
“Aren’t there better questions to ask right now?” the figure said in a mocking tone as he stood before Michael, Michael thought for a moment before replying.
“Where am I?” Michael said as he asked the more important question, why hadn’t he asked before? Had he simply forgotten, no that can’t be it, so why? Why hadn’t he even thought about where he was?
At this point, the figure chuckled before speaking again.
“You know exactly where we are” the figure spoke, his words echoing throughout Michaels's mind. His mind.
Michael's eyes shot wide open in shock as he realised where they were, he took a step back, tripping over an invisible object and crashing into the ground.
Michael looked at the figure in shock and confusion before speaking once again.
“We’re in my mind?” Michael uttered out as he stared at the figure. How was the figure here then?
“Correction, ‘our’ mind” the figure spoke to Michael, moving slightly closer to him as Michael replied,
“What do you mean by ‘our mind’?” Michael said, angered as he looked up at the now seemingly looming figure, the figure laughed before moving his hands to his hood as he replied.
“I mean our mind, as in we’re one in the same” the figure removed his hood to reveal, Michael? The figure's fur and hair were darker, and their eyes slightly glowed, but they were identical to Michael, Michael quickly replied as he shot up and backpedalled away
“Who the fuck are you!?” Michael yelled as he stared at the figure and pure shock and terror as the figure chuckled
“I’m you, well, the smarter side of you, you may call me, Fox,” the now identified Fox said as he wore an arrogant smirk before continuing to speak.
“And you are Knight,” Fox said as he pointed to Michael.
Michael was beyond confused as he replied to fox
“Knight? What the fuck are you talking about jackass, My name is Michael, Michael John Rider” Michael said, offended at this asshole claiming to be him
Fox shook his head as he looked at Michael like he was looking at a mental person before speaking.
“You just don’t get it, neither of us is Michael, just different parts of his personality, You’re the goodie two shoes that are held back by his morals, aka the reason why he hasn’t brought the world to its knees, and I’m the businessman, the one who makes the tough decisions that bring in the dough.”
Michael was Shocked, but, was even more shocked when he could deny anything, deep down inside he knew it was true, Knight looked at him speechlessly as Fox continued
“But enough of that, I’m here to make an offer” Knight looked at Fox before speaking slowly. He had to go with the flow, it was his only way to keep sane
(authors note: yes this is my way of explaining why the story may feel rushed, blame writer's block and my inexperience)
“Okay ... what's your damn offer” Knight spoke as Fox looked at him with a pleased face before continuing.
“Ah so there is a brain in there after all, well then, my offer is simple, let me take control of the body” Knight froze as he proceeds to fully process Fox’s offer before stuttering out a reply
“W-what d-do you mean take control of the b-body?” Knight said as Fox looked at him with a disappointed expression before sighing, and then beginning to elaborate
“Well you see, currently we lay in a hospital bed, in a comatose-like state, not a mere coma, our body, in reality, is turned off I guess you can say, without a personality to control it, it can not function, and before you ask and more stupid questions, I’ll answer them for you, due to what happened in the morning today and what happened when we got Kitt, our sanity was extremely weakened, due to the morals that held us back, when we learned of the indecent involving Tirek a full-scale mental breakdown occurred but was unable to be attended to due to the kidnapping of our parents, so the wound kept festering until it turned fatal, and, like a concussion, when we lost consciousness, our personality split, now with that out of the way, I will give you two options 1: let me take control and I’ll keep you around, or 2…things get ugly” Fox said ending his lecture with a dark note as he looked at Knight.
Knight didn’t know what to think but he did now he had to ask one very important question, Knight gulped as he spoke.
“If I give control, what will you do when you get back to the real world” Knight asked as Fox Hummed, thinking how he should reply, and even if he should reply.
“A reasonable question, one that I shall answer, I will rebuild, with losing our position in dead sec I’ll need to rebuild, thankfully with our contacts it won’t be hard,” Fox said as Knight listened, but there was one very important thing he didn’t hear.
“And what about our parents?” Knight asked Fox, fox’s turned to one of confusion as he asked.
“What about our parents?” Knight was getting pissed beyond belief now.
“Our parents were murdered right in front of our eyes, how will you avenge them?” Knight asked, his voice filling with anger as he glared at Fox waiting for an answer.
“Simple, I won’t, while their deaths are tragic I can’t afford to go toe to toe with dead sec, it would be extremely unprofitable,” Fox said in a monotone voice, Knight was beyond furious, he was absolutely, positively vivid, Knight lunged forward and grabbed Fox by the collar of his cloak using both hands, and with all the might he could muster, he threw his head back, and head-butted Fox, pulling Fox towards him as he did it, he heard a sickening crack as Fox’s forehead was cracked and bruised beyond belief, Knight then stepped back, and spartan kicked Fox onto his ass before yelling out.
“There is no way in Hell that I am letting a cold bastard like you take control of my body, you little piece of shit!” Knight said as he reared his foot back, and delivered a blow to Fox’s family jewels.
Fox’s eyes shot open as he screamed out in pain, clutching his now badly bruised crouch he slowly stood back up as he looked at Knight, rage filling his eyes as he glared at Knight, finally after a moment, Fox fought through the pain, he spoke.
“I gave you a chance, and you spit in my face, alright, have it your way” Fox snapped his fingers as four shadow figures appeared, their bodies distorted and disfigured their groans came out as distorted and nightmarish as they charged at him. Knight was able to dodge, just barely, three of them, but the other one hit him.
Knight reeled back in agony as an unimaginable amount of pain shot through his body, like he had been tased times ten, he punched the creature with a strong right hook before jumping back landing on his ass as he scooted away from the monster.
He tried to get up but found that the ground stuck to him like tar, his hands slightly sunk in as he tried to yank them out. He screamed as he was pulled into the now tar darkness as Fox muttered out one last sentence.
“Maybe you’ll learn once you’ve spent some time in the dark” before Knight was taken by the dark.
Journal Entry one: I found this journal in a building while looking for weapons. I know it doesn’t matter since I’m in my mind, but I need something to keep me sane, okay, um guess I should bring you up to date journal, when I was sucked into the darkness I got a falling feeling that last for an unknown amount of time, till I finally crash landed in what appears to be a city, an exact recreation of manehattan, I looked around and travelled a bit, I first attempted to call for help, but the city is void of any and all life, there isn’t any power and even then how the hell would I get signal inside my mind, and for that matter what the hell would I say, ‘hey my name is not Michael John Rider but I’m still him kinda, I’m trapped in my mind, could you please send help?’ yeah no fuckin’ way, I wondered for a bit before making terrorizing discoveries, the city was crawling with that creature, those shadows, I’ve started to study them and have found out- shit, they’re comin’ gotta go.
Journal Entry 2
Been a while, maybe…. I don’t even fucking know, to be honest time is a distorted blur for me, I don’t know if days, years or centuries have passed by, anyway, got myself a double barrel shotgun, found it in a cabin in the woods while dodging a patrol of those creatures, most likely it was a hunting cabin, found some buckshot, a backpack, a hunting knife and of course, the shotgun.
Got about 42 shells, most of which I’m storing in my backpack, I only got about 20 including the shells in my shotgun on hand to use quickly, as I write this I’m sitting under a tree, across from me by about 30 metres is a fence, behind the fence lays what appears to be a high school, Something tells me I should loot it, Don’t know what though. I see quite of few of those shadow bastards wandering about in the field, probably quite a few inside as well, but I’ve had to fight dodge and even fight quite a few of those bastards during my time here
I’m confident that I can slip past the ones outside without getting spotted, and with my new toy, I should be able to take care of any inside.
Pov: Knight
Time: Unknown
Location: A high school
Knight stood up from under the tree he was under as he gazed towards the school in front of him, he crouched down and started creeping towards the fence, the short grass quickly giving way under his feet as he quietly moved, he’d gotten better at sneaking, having to avoid those shadows helped with that. It wasn’t cold, nor was it hot as he crept towards the fence, reaching it, he jumped up and climbed over the fence.
Grunting as he landed, his legs slightly bending to accommodate his rough landing, but otherwise, nothing went wrong, he quickly and quietly crept across the field as he made his way to an open window……
He arrived to the window as he silently climbed through it,
As he entered he was just about given a heart attack as the familiar sound of a school bell suddenly rang, catching Knight off guard as he tumbled to the ground.
He got up, groaning as he rubbed the side of his head, evident that he had hit it during the fall.
He stopped nursing his new head injury to look around the room he was in, there was several Bunsen burners, beakers and science books and pretty much every thing you’d expect to be in a lab, it was clear that this was a classroom used for science lessons
There were 8 counters in 2 rows of 4, each counter being about 4 metres long and a little over half a metre wide, each one had a sink in the middle of the counter and 2 double-topped taps with a yellow knob on top spread on each side of the sink, that from his or rather Michaels experience, were for connecting Benson burner hoses in order to get gas which then would be lit.
At the end of the calls was a slightly elevated platform which had a desk and behind said desk was a whiteboard.
The room was extremely familiar to him, probably because Michael's best subject was science, with his worst being social studies.
Knight walked through the middle of the counters his right hand softly gilding on one of the counters, before making his way towards the door, opening it he stepped out into a hallway, each wall had blue lockers plaster across them, only giving way to doors, drinking fountains, staircases and crossroads to new hallways.
He felt a pull to his right like an invisible force was trying to lead him somewhere, the same one that made him come here.
‘Fuck it’ He thought as he followed the force, shotgun in hand, as he went he heard something, it was faint, and familiar, in front of him he could hear a low mocking laugh, behind him he could hear the quiet whispering of gossipers as he slowly walked, yet he could still hear the echos of his shoes hitting the ground.
He stopped as he heard a crash from behind him.
He whipped around as he saw one of those shadows, its movements were sluggish, it looked at him as he backed away, it rushed him stumbling as it quickly made its way to Knight.
Knight brought his shotgun up and aimed, waiting for the creature until it got about 5 metres away from him, sure he could have fired earlier, if he had slugs, but he didn’t, not that buckshot was bad, just at longer ranges fewer pellets are likely to hit, and he wasn’t sure if these things had organs for them to hit. Plus he only had #3 buck which wasn’t the most damaging size but still good.
Firing his shotgun as the creature came, the pellets shot out of one of the barrels as they ripped through the sorry excuse for the flesh of the creature as it exploded in a mist.
Knight stepped back as he admired his handy work before he heard groaning coming from further down the hallway as he looked forward and saw a large group of creatures turn the corner as they spotted him, they rushed forward as Knight held his ground, for a few seconds before losing his nerves and firing off his last shell in his shotgun as it slowed the hoard down, then, turning around, and running as fast as he could away from the creature,
mid-sprint he cracked the barrel of the shotgun open, thanking god that this shotgun had an auto ejector as the shells went flying he reached into his pocket and as carefully as he could, grabbed two shells and placed them into the barrel, he snapped the barrel closed, priming the shotgun for use as he kept on running.
That was till he turned a corner and reached a dead end, he felt that whatever had drawn him near was close, and he knew that he had to make his stand and that he had no choice, he turned around and aimed his shotgun towards where he knew the hoard would turn.
“Just remember days gone Knight, remember what decon saint John could do, if one biker with a pistol could take on hoards of zombies and win, then you can take down a dozen shadows” He siked himself up as he thought about a battle plan, before realising something.
‘Wait, that one shadow exploded, and considering I could feel the explosion from a couple of metres away, I could shoot one, the explosion would break their formation and take quite a few out. But then I’d have to wait for them to get close” He said to himself as the shadows turned to the corner and charged at him.
“Welp, no time to think, only to act” He said as he prepared to attack
‘Wait for it’ the creatures approach quickly with sluggish movements as they
‘Wait for it’ They were almost to him, to the point he could make out a smell, a sick combination of ink, and rotten flesh.
‘NOW!’ he pulled the trigger two times one after the other as the first four targets with hit with the portable freedom pellets giving them the freedom of death, their bodies exploded and flung the others away, including Knight him self as he was sent flying onto his butt, he quickly scrambled to get up as the creatures, who were spread about, began to rise like zombies.
He tried to reload his shotgun but one of the shadows charged him, he kicked the creature in the stomach and it slightly staggered back.
Finishing his reload Knight used the shotgun as a stick between him and the creature as it nearly impaled itself on the shotgun before Knight pulled the trigger snuffing out the creature, as well as at the same time gutting it.
Knight stepped back as he aimed the shotgun at the head of a still-recovering shadow before pulling the trigger, blowing its head right off in what would be a show of gore, instead being only a show of the shadow's blood.
A creature then jumped onto him from behind a shadow, it clawed his chest as he screamed out in agony, he dropped his shotgun and back peddled into a wall.
Slamming the shadow into the wall a couple of times he reached to the creature, grabbed it, and as he slightly crouched and threw it over his head, stood up, and stomped its head in. Looking back up he saw a larger shadow rush towards him as he dived out of the way towards his shotgun, he crawled on the floor and tried reaching for his unloaded gun.
Thankfully he grabbed it (not every single thing has to go wrong)
Rolling away as a shadow slammed its…… foot? Onto where he was.
He pushed the release lever to the side as he opened up the shotgun barrel, the two used 12 gauge size shells ejected out to a spot behind his head as he reached into his pocket and grabbed out two more buck shots and loaded them into the shotgun and closing the barrel before aiming the shotgun up at a rapidly approaching shadow and pulling the trigger as the shadow was blown apart by the power of doom god, otherwise known as buckshot.
Scrambling to his feet he aimed his shotgun and fired at a shadow but due to its movement the shot only clipped its arm, he reloaded two more shells as he whipped around upon hearing a groan, but was too as his gun was slapped to the side and he was slashed downwards by the claws of one of the shadows, he sent out a jab as he backpedalled in pain.
‘God damn, this hurt more than all those times I got my fingers slammed between doors combined!’ he thought to himself as he reached into his back pocket and pulled out his knife, it wasn’t big, likely only meant for skinning, but it’d do for cutting up this motherfucker.’.
He charged forwards as he delivered a wide diagonal slash right to the shadow's chest, after that he shoulder-checked the shadow using the position that the slash had put him into.
He jumped into the now downed shadow as he started brutally stabbing downwards into the shadow before turning his knife to the shadow's head and yelling out one last sentence before stabbing the fucker in the head.
“Get shanked bitch!” he yelled as the shadow exploded into mist knocking him away, into another shadow, then into a wall shattering into the wall making another mist explosion and shooting him towards another shadow, taking this chance he divided to perform a WWE move on the shadow.
He put out arm as his inner L-bow caught the shadow's face, stopping his momentum which then caused him to slam the shadow onto the ground, killing it.
‘Do a barrel roll!’
Thinking fast he did a barrel roll away from the shadow as it fucking exploded
‘It really doesn’t surprise me that these fuckers explode, this is my brain after all, I do love some big booms’ He was pretty sure his favourite method of getting rid of his problems was a large drone with a small canister of propane taped onto the top and C4 strapped to the bottom, wait was he a terrorist?
He shakes his head as he banishes his thoughts to the shadow realm he jumped back onto his feet, he gripped his…. Hand? He looked towards his hand, then to the knife that had been knocked out of his hand where he had shanked the fuck out of that shadow on the ground, he slapped his forehead as a shadow came at tackled him into a wall hard, so hard that the wall cracked and had a small crater.
He reeled in agony as he felt…. Terror? He shook it off as he shoved the shadow back and delivered a strong right hook to the shadow's head knocking it to the ground before he went up to it and curb-stomped it ten times, obliterating its head.
He heard a shadow rapidly approaching from behind but before it could attack he whipped around and kicked the shadow away before stomping it in the stomach as it exploded, knocking him onto his ass again.
A shadow came running and pinned him as he quickly looked for some way to defeat the shadow as he kept it away with his arms.
he looked up and saw his shotgun a bit away from him, but still in grab-able distance, but he’d have to use it hand to grab it, meaning one less hand to fend off the creature, he thought for all of but 2 seconds before thinking ‘fuck it’ and reaching for the shotgun.
Grabbing the high powered firearm he awkwardly aimed it at the shadow's head, before pulling the trigger and removing the shadow's head.
He nudged the shadow off as he properly gripped the shotgun and fired at the last shadow hitting it right in the chest.
He lay there, tired and sore. Covered in the black goop that the shadows seemed to call ‘blood’
“I need a drink” Whenever he said it he meant it, he didn’t like alcohol, and what it did to people, but he needed it right now.
He shoved the body fully off him as he stood up and admired his handy work the black blood splattered across the floor just about everywhere, and then he felt the tug, the same tug that had lured him to this accursed place, he turned and noticed instantly, almost by instinct, a locker, badly beaten and broken, barely left on its hinges, covered in profanities written by cowards.
He slowly walked towards the locker, as the whispers and laughter he heard before started to grow louder and louder the closer he got. Knight kept his shotgun in hand as he reloaded it.
He got to the locker and stared at it, he put his shotgun down as he began to try and open it, but suddenly a large creature came from behind and yanked Knight away from the locker and right through a door into a gymnasium.
A large monster standing at around 7 feet rushed in as it tried to smash Knight ( and not in a good way).
He rolled out of the way as he clumsily stood up and raised his fists, having no other choice but to go cuff-to-cuff with this monster.
Surprising the behemoth he charged first, running as fast as he could.
Just before he reached the beast he rolled to the side, got up and threw a strong kick at the inner part of the monster's knee causing it to kneel as he threw a strong punch at the back of its head.
Before he could throw any attacks the creature whipped around and backhand bitch slapped him sending him flying into a wall, he groaned in pain as got back up, his vision was hazy, his movements slow and sloppy and his thoughts sluggish.
His vision cleared he saw the bastard rushing him as he jumped out of the way just in the nick of time.
The creature slammed into the wall heavily damaging it, Knight saw it had made a small hole big enough to fit someone's head in.
The creature was stuck as Knight kicked it’s inner knee again making it take a knee before he grabbed its shoulders, yanked it back, angled the shadows head, and shoved it into the hole, he then stepped back as he spartan kicked the shadow so hard in the ass it was sent through the wall.
he grabbed a piece of brick that had fallen from the top of the sizeable hole the monster had made before running up to the creature and started caving its head in blow after blow before it finally fought back and kicked him away as he was sent flying through the air, back into the gym and through the opposite wall, he yelled in pain as he creature came charging, he grabbed a piece of brick and threw it at the creatures knee cap causing it to tripped and fly towards him with it’s still going hard momentum as Knight barrel rolled out of the way.
The creature landed as it was grinded by the stones and its momentum before stopping.
Knight ran up and curbed stomped the fucker before it picked him up as Knight grabbed a still mostly intact brick.
And broke it on the fuckers face with a strong right palm to the face before putting his foot between him and the chest of the creature as he kicked off the shadow, escaping its grip and falling on his ass a few meters away from the creature, he groaned as he stood back up, holding the top of his head and slightly looking down before hearing a noise and looking up just in time to see the shadow tackle him, still charging it tackled him through the two gym walls stopping as they hit some lockers causing heavy damage to them, he quickly delivered a strong right jab to the creatures face as Knight kicked the creature off of himself before finally sliding back to the ground from the wall of lockers had been pinned to, he got onto his hands and knee as he started coughing blood, he felt the feeling of blood sliding down his face from his nose and the top of his head.
He saw the shadow stand back up, but he also saw his shotgun on the ground a bit to the left of himself. The creature charged again as he drove for the double-barrelled weapon and turned its barrels to the shadow that was now moving towards him, he scrunched his Muzzle as he felt blood still coming down it, he waited for a second before quickly unloading the gun into the shadow.
It staggered back as he got up, reached into his pocket and reloaded the gun before he took aim and fired again, then he reloaded again, and again and again, filling the shadow with lead until he had only one more shell left, loading it in he took aim as the shadow finally recovered-ish from the barrage of 12 gauge lead.
He waited until he could practically feel the shadow's breath before turning the gun upwards slightly and shooting his last shell into its head.
Chucking his firearm away he dashed over to where he remembered his knife was and picked it up. Turning back he saw the monster try to slowly stumble its way towards him, clearly showing that it was injured.
He ran up to it before giving it two diagonal slashes in the shape of an ‘X’ before stabbing the knife into the creature and then kicking said knife, borrowing it deep into the monster as he roared out in pain.
His kick toppled the shadow over as it lay, revering in what can only be assumed as agony.
He lazily walked over to it, straddling it so that he was sitting on its chest, before he sent the first punch in, he began wailing away at the creature's face as its face between hits changing to a unicorn stallion with a blonde mane and a dark blue coat before changing back to the shadow creature, this repeated until Knight put both of his fists high up into the air as he slammed them on Jacks face, finally ending it, but the shadow was no longer then, but rather his high school bully, Jack Rollerson, or Hunter to his friends.
He noticed that all was silent, even the whispering and laughter had ceased.
He staggered up as he got to full height, looking down at the now deceased Jack Rollerson. His corpse disappeared as Knight turned around and kneeled back down, grabbing his knife.
He stood back up and limped to the locker, in one hand was his knife, while his other hand was holding his ribs as he got to the beaten faded dark blue locker.
He took his knife and wedged it in between the lockers opening, before prying it open and seeing a Scar-L assault rifle with an extended mag with spares mags of the same size in a duffle bag that was slightly propped up.
He broke into a cold sweat as his hands started to shake as they reached out for the weapon.
Grabbing the firearm his eyes went cold, he knew this gun, and what he had almost done with it.
Looking towards the duffle bag he noticed that there was enough space to fit the rifle to fit in.
He took out the mag and put it into the duffle bag before making sure the rifle's safety was on and stuffing it into the bag before finally zipping the bag up and putting its straps so on so that the bag full of ammo and the rifle was sitting at his side, before turning around and making his way out of the school, his eyes donning a thousand yard stare as he walked out of the school build, he saw most of the shadows heading to where he could only assume, was the gymnasium that he had fought…. Jack in.
He walked as he ignored the very few shadows that were spread throughout the field, he knew he could take them down if he needed to now. Reaching the wire fence he threw the duffle back over and his backpack as he climbed over it.
Hitting the ground he grabbed his bags, and kept on going through the forest, he needed somewhere safe to contemplate what he had found.
‘The hunting cabin I found in the woods should do the trick’ he thought as he made the necessary adjustments to his course using his memory as reference.
Time: 25 minutes later
Location: nearly to the hunting cabin
Pov: third person
Knight walked through the forest, thinking about everything, the gun, the shadows, he needed to sit down. And a drink.
‘Fuck, if I survive this and take control of the body I’m going to become an alcoholic’ he grimly half-joked to himself as he trudged on, each step becoming more and more sluggish, he thought about what he had done. As he remembered it all.
He tripped over a rock as he fell onto the ground face first, breaking his nose and damaging his muzzle.
He got onto his hands and knees, the pain on his face reminded him of that day.
Location: Hatten high school
Time: 1 year ago
Pov: third person
Michael walked down the hallway, backpack slightly bouncing with every step, his face turned slightly downwards as he looked up.
His eyes lit with the fire of determination in them as he walked down the high school halls, he wore a dark green button-up polo shirt with a white long sleeve underneath as well as his signature tank top, and on his lower half he wore blue jeans with white socks and cheap black sneakers, his backpack was black with the bottom being orange. His Light blue fur slightly frizzled in the low amount of wind he created as he walked
People of all species talked to each other, huddled in their own friend groups.
He saw some walking through the wide halls chatting, all were in groups of at least two, some were couples, some were in herds, and others were just friends but there he was, walking alone, as always.
He suddenly tripped as he felt the leg of someone stretch out, hitting his face as his nose started to bleed he turned and saw a pegasus mare with her hand to her mouth, trying to hold back laughter before after not even a few seconds, bursting out, all others in the hall nearby turned to investigate, and either minded their own business and ignored him, or started pointing and laughing at his suffering, he got up as he continued to make his way to his locker,
‘I’m not going to take this shit anymore’ he grimly thought as he walked his way through the halls, people stopped laughing as they saw the look on his face, he was frowning darkly, red eyes slightly squinting making whites of his eyes less visible, so from a far, he had blood red eyes, the fire in them didn’t help either as they began to whisper and gossip behind his back, it pissed him off, but in a few minutes, they’d all learn And he’d finally be gone.
He walked up to his locker, he knew what was inside, he had snuck into school and stashed it the night before, he reached to open his locker, that was heavily beaten, but before he could he felt someone grab the back of his head, and slammed his face hard into the locker door, warping it slightly. He was than rotated around to face his attacker, a unicorn stallion with an impressive build wearing classic Jock attire that looked like something right out of an old 80’s TV romance show.
The stallion had dark blue fur, and a blonde mane, his eyes were black with his pants being light grey sweat pants with red sneakers.
“Hello Jack” Michael said in a monotone voice as he coped with the burning that was his face.
Jack looked at Michael, slightly surprised at Michael's monotone expression even with the amount of blood coming out of his face.
“Hello Normie, How’s your weak life going” he taunted Michael with an arrogant smirk.
Michael knew this guy was tough, super strength that allowed him to grow to 7 feet from his already impressive 6 foot 4 also making him damn near invincible.
“Pretty good, but then I saw your ugly mug and it ruined it” Michael replied as Jack slightly recoiled, this was the first time Michael had insulted him, and it had hurt, Michael knew this, Jack wasn’t confident in anything, Just like a lot of bullies.
Jack retaliated by punching Michael in the gut causing him to bend over in pain as he clutched his now bruising abdomen as Jack spoke once more.
“So the pussy finally decided to grow a small pair of balls, how cute” he said as Michael looked back up to and replied, at this point a small crowd had gathered around them.
“Still bigger than you, here you are beating on a no powered, smaller, weaker, younger, kid who has done nothing other than try to mind his own goddamn business, doesn’t sound like a very big ball move” Michael said to the face of the now stunned bully, people around them started whispering. Jack looked around as he got mad, he pulled his fist back and threw it as hard as he could towards Michael's head, Michael weaved out of the way as he delivered a quick and strong uppercut to jacks chin, not stopping there Michael rocked Jack on the side on his right cheek as a sickening crack can be heard signalling the Michael had just broken Jacks cheekbone, Jack staggered back as Michael spartan kicked him causing him to fall flat on his ass.
Michael stood, panting slightly as he stared at Jack, he didn’t know he was capable of fighting.
Jack stood back holding his cheek, he glared daggers at Michael as he activated his powers.
“You are going to fucking pay for that jackass!” he grew as his muscle buffed up, his clothes slightly ripped as his shirt was ripped apart, the girl's cheeks started turn rose red as they looked at Jack hungrily and the guys started cheering, wanting to see the normie that dare waste their air get crushed.
Michael was scared, but he knew he had no other option but to stand his ground, he raised his fist and got into a fight position as some of the guys and girls laughed at him mockingly as Jack chuckled before speaking.
“Really? You think a twerp like you can beat me, Man I want the drugs you're having” he chuckled as he reached his full mass standing at around 7 feet.
The slightly chubby 5 foot 6 boy looked up at the giant of a Jock as he prepared himself for the beating of his life.
Jack charged at Michael as he jumped out of the way of an earth pony stallion that shoved him back into the fighting ring that the crowd had created, scrambling up just in time to take a hit to his ribs sending him flying into the lockers behind him, heavily damaging them and him.
His body fell as he started coughing blood.
Blood. Red.
He was going to die
Murder. Kill.!
And all because one bastard was feeling extra superior today.
He closed his eyes as he heard the footsteps of Jack the bastard approach, readying himself to be put into the hospital, or maybe a morgue.
Kill kill kill kill kill kill
Kill kill kill kill kill kill
Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill!
No, he wasn’t going to die, he wasn’t going to the hospital either, he was going to win.
Michaels's vision turned red as he slowly rose back up to full height, his mussels pulsed under his clothes, tightening to the extremes as he felt what could only be described as an adrenaline rush and a sugar rush topped off with more then 8 hours of sleep hit him like a freight train going downhill at full speed.
Jack stared down at him, having stopped right in front of him, the smaller teenager was looking down as the giant stared at him before speaking.
“Still got some fight left in ya eh? Well I’ll just knock it out of ya!” He smiled as he reeled his fist back and threw it as it…. was caught?
Michael had caught Jack's slightly oversized hand.
All was quiet.
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Michael slowly looked up at Jack, his eyes slightly glowing as he spoke.
“Fuck off” Michael pulled Jack in and kicked him in the stomach as hard as he could as he let go of his hand.
Jack was sent flying for about half a metre before gravity pulled his heavy ass back to the ground, but still, he slid across the floor for a bit and his head hit the lockers across the hall with a decent bit of force, Jack attempted to get back, but when he was about halfway his face met Michaels knee as Michael ran up and kneed him in the head.
Jack's head slammed into the lockers before bouncing a bit, only to be met with a strong punch to the face causing a crack as all gasped, Jack's powers made his body extremely durable, the weaker nose bones couldn’t take the pressure and broke.
Michael started wailing his fists away at Jack's face throwing jabs and hooks, it did little damage to Jack's head but caused Jack to be in a lot of pain, his skin felt it was on fire from all the blows he was taking, and his brain hurt from being rattled around so much,
He finally managed to get a hit in on Michael as Michael was sent flying, the crowd cheered as Michael hit the wall hard.
‘In the end, no one cheers for the weakling, but I’ll show them, BY BEATING HIS FACE IN!’ he thought as his veins became visible before running at Jack and performing a strong dropkick on him, making a large crater in the wall of lockers as Michael got back up and stepped back before Jack fell back to the ground.
Jack stood up, his vision hazy before he felt a strong hit on his stomach going upwards.
Michael had uppercut Jack's stomach.
Michael jumped back as Jack coughed a large amount of blood out, covering his chin before jack collapsed onto his hands and knees as he went into a coughing fit, each cough shooting blood onto the floor, and right before Jack could let out a partially large cough Michael walked up and kneed Jack in the face almost looking like he was jumping as the large amount of blood that was going into his cough spilt out onto Michael's knee as Jack felt his teeth wiggle slightly out of place,
Jack now on his knees, face bruised, bloodied and beaten is then subjected to a jab to his mouth, knocking his teeth out and into his throat, Michael then gave Jack a knuckle sandwich via a powerful right hook, dislocating Jack's jaw.
Michael then hit Jack with a jab that knocked him onto his back.
His head was looking up, making his lower jaw point towards the sky as Michael walked up and kicked Jack in the Jaw fucking it up even more, Michael then punched Jack in the throat and threw him causing Jack to be flipped over on his stomach in the middle of the hallway.
Michael, his hands sore, the flesh on his knuckles bare, his pants and shirt covered in blood, was panting, his muscles were sore from going beyond what they were capable of, he walked up to Jack and kicked him in the balls causing all the boys around to clutch their balls as Jack groaned in pain.
Michael straddled Jack as he began punching away at his face, his fists screaming in pain as they hit the stone-like bone under Jack's skin, but Michael ignored it as blood started covering his fist, like even got onto his face and legs as he began slamming his fists into his face, an act that was much slower, but far more powerful.
All were stunned as they saw the much smaller stallion beating the strongest student in the school to, at this rate, a literal bloody pulp.
Even the teachers were too shocked to do anything all they knew was everything was getting out of control until one brave teacher puffed his chest out and
Pulled out his phone and called for help.
Pov: 3rd person Thunderbolt, aka Thomas Rider
Location: quickly closing in on Hatten high school
Time: 10 minutes after the teacher called for help
Thomas flew as fast as he could as he darted to his son's high school in his hero outfit which comprised of golden sides, a lighting blue chest and a diamond with a lightning bolt inside, his mask left his hair and his muzzle exposed for all the world to see, he also donned a long coat that could be zipped up as it was partially cold that day.
He had just gotten a report about a situation at his son's school.
As a father he was terrified, and as a superhero, he was terrified, had someone found out and identified him and gone after his son, was there a school shooter? A bomber?
He worried as he willed his wings to go faster.
Arriving at the school he noticed there was no one in the reception as he entered, he kept going as he entered the halls of the school, walking until he after a short time later, heard a commotion, rushing he turned the corner as he saw a large crowd of students huddled around a portion of the hallway, it was almost dead silent, expect the sound of grunting and the familiar sound of fists hitting faces, he flew up a bit and saw something that would haunt him for the rest of his life.
It was Michael, His own son, wailing away at a large unicorn stallions face, Michael's muzzle had quite a bit of blood on it, and his fist and forearms were covered in blood, even his legs had a considerable amount of them, he looked rough but the unicorn he was on top of, was worse.
The stallion's muzzle was covered in blood as his lower jaw was crooked, likely being dislocated, his teeth seemed to be punched in and was in general not in good shape.
He thought about what to do before he saw his son's eyes, filled with fiery rage that he had never seen in his son, but behind his eyes he could tell there was agony, his boy was suffering behind all that rage, he knew that right now his son didn’t need a superhero in tights, but a father.
Going back behind the corner he looked around making sure the coast was clear before pulling off his mask and stuffing it deep into the pocket of his jacket before zipping it up, hiding his symbol, and his long coat hid most of his legs as he rushed towards the crowd, the teacher turned hearing his foot step, faces full of hope, likely wanting to see a mask hero, but rather seeing a worried father running up to them as he began to slow down. As he spoke
“I need to get through there, that’s my son!” He shouted as the teachers noded thinking he was the father of the large unicorn.
“Alright sir, but be careful, that kid is out of control,” the teacher said before Thomas began pushing his way through the crowd.
Finally getting through the crowd, Thomas grabbed the shoulders of his son and yanked him off the badly beaten, bloody and now bruised large stallion, he was even worse up close.
He got his son and held onto his upper arms as he spoke to the rage-blinded boy.
“Fucking ughh, let go of me asshole!” Michael held out as he thrashed in Thomas’s arms trying to break away from the firm grip that he had on his rage fueled son.
“Michael, it’s me Michael, Your dad, calm down!” he shouted into Michael's face as he began to slow down, before looking at his dad.
His eyes were slightly glowing red as the glow began to fade, his breathing began to slow down as he looked at his dad, slightly confused.
“D-dad? Where am I, what’s going on?” Michael began looking around, confused as to why his father was at his school. Thomas looked at Michael as he spoke.
(Pov change: third person, why? Because it’s a nightmare to write one character third person)
“Michael, you’ve seemed to have had an… Incident, I need you to calm down” Thomas spoke as Michael was even more confused as he looked around again, wondering why there was a crowd around them, he noticed some were looking to a space just by Michael's legs as he started to follow their gazes.
Thomas grabbed the sides of Michael's head as he made his son's eyes meet his own.
“Michael, just look at me, I need you to tell me what happened.” His father firmly, yet gently said as he looked into Michaels eye, he saw confusion, so he figured wouldn’t get much out of Michael.
“I was reaching for my locker when…. Someone slammed my head into the locker I think? Then I turned around and saw Jack, we exchanged some words, he threw a punch and I punched him back maybe? Then all I remember is, red, I-I felt so, so angry, with everyone in the school, with Jack, then, I don’t know” Michael said as he tried to remember all he could for his father.
His father looked at the location where the other people had been looking, still holding Michael's head in place, he turned to a student and called him out.
“Hey, you, is what he says true?” Michael's father glared at the student to make sure they didn’t try to lie, the student gulped as they replied.
“U-um y-yes sir, a few details were missing, but what the normie- I-I mean Michael said was true” Thomas’s eyes narrowed at the word ‘normie’ he was quite familiar with the phrase, even said it himself before he had Michael.
But when Michael came, his view changed entirely, when he found out Michael had no powers, not even any superhuman traits, he was disappointed, but still, kept Michael, to him at the time, Michael was the byproduct of his and his wife's love and hard work, but they still tried again, 3 years later, but at that point, his view of his son had changed a lot, no longer was he just a product of him and his wife’s love, but rather a bundle of joy that tried his best to help everyone, at that point, he saw him as a younger version of himself, just without powers, but when they had Sarah, he changed a bit, Sarah was diagnosed with powers and that instantly made them give their love to her, but instead of being enviousness of the younger child, he was loving too, maybe even more so than them put to together, he was also very protective, requiring a lot of persuasions even for them Sarah's parents! To touch her.
This made Thomas respect and open up to his powerless son, and he learned so much about him that it made him proud.
to name one thing he learned was that he was smart, very smart, hell he was smarter than him, the only reason he could think of at the time was that he had left him unsupervised for long periods of time, and really didn’t pay attention to his school reports.
Thomas shook his head as he unburied himself from his thoughts, before glaring at the student again and speaking in a sharp tone.
“So, that’s why this happened eh?” he said in a voice that was almost dripping with hate, the student started to look at Thomas scared and confused
Meanwhile, Jack was fucking dying but at this point, everyone had forgotten that.
“U-um sir what do you mean?” the student asked the fuming father as he looked around at the students.
“Let me ask you if you were insulted, beaten and robbed, on a regular basis, would you lose your shit?” he said as the students started murmuring amongst each other the student, nervous
“P-personally sir, Yes, but what does that have anything to do with this” the student said, Thomas began glaring even harder at the student as he looked at him.
“Are you really that fucking stupid? I’ve noticed Michael coming home limping sometimes no matter how hard he tries to hide it, with his shit gone, which I can only assume was stolen, and he had to deal with this shit for years, but you haven’t thought about that have you? Because he’s a normie he suddenly doesn’t have emotions, You kept poking him, you all kept poking him, and look what’s happened now!” Thomas pointed to the injured Jack as he looked to the teacher.
“Call an ambulance, and this shit heads parents, you should have my number, give it to them if they ask, now if you excuse me, I need to take my son home” he finished as he wrapped an arm around Michael's shoulder and started escorting him back home.
When they stepped out of the building Thomas pulled out a phone and dialled his wife’s number as he put the phone to his ear.
His wife picked up as her voice came over from the phone.
“Yes Thomas?” She asked curiously why her husband was calling her when she knew he should be patrolling
“It’s Michael, he’s been in a fight,” he said grimly as he heard his wife gasping over the phone as she replied
“Oh my goodness, is he okay?!” She asked as she began hyperventilating over the phone.
“He’s fine, other than maybe a concussion, some bruising on the head, a broken nose, and the skin on his fingers being raw it seems, " he said as he put his mask back on so that they wouldn’t draw any attention from the police due to Michael's bloody appearance.
“Just concussion?!, our baby boy could die and you say ‘JUST’!” she screamed out as she panicked before Thomas calmed her down.
“Calm down Martha, I said ‘just’ because he did a lot worse to the other guy, from what I could tell, the guys' teeth were knocked in, his jaw was dislocated and his face was all bloody” he said as he talked to His wife.
Michael overheard this all.
‘Oh god, what have I done?’ Michael looked down at his fists as he and his masked father walked, his fists were covered in blood as they started shaking, he remembered what he had done, he had almost killed Jack, if Jack weren’t using his power, Jack would have died.
‘And here I was going to shoot up and the entire school, what was I thinking!’ he thought as he heard his father's conversation continue
“Wait what? Was it another powerless kid” she asked over the phone as she calmed herself.
“Nope, it was at school, the guy was huge as well and looked like he had some sort of strength-enhancing power active’ His father said as he started to zone out of the conversation and reality as a whole as Michael closed his eyes as time seemed to fly by.
Knight’s eyes opened, breathing heavily as he looked around his environment, he was still in the forest, it was still dark, and his father was still dead.
He didn’t want to remember that day, he didn’t want to remember any days back during his time in high school, but that day in particular he didn’t want to remember.
He got back up and resumed his hike towards the hunting cabin he was calling home.
‘Why that day, of all the horrible days I could remember why that one, my most violent one’ he thought grimly as he finally arrived at the cabin as he opened the door and entered, making sure to close and lock it behind him.
He walked into the dark cabin, it wasn’t much, a couple of cabinets, a stove that he would most likely never use, a fringe, a few draws here and there, most empty, if not had some mildly useful equipment or just plane useless stuff to him like food or water, he hadn’t felt hungry once in the years he’s been trapped here.
But there were two drawers that caught his attention
One was a small silver drawer that was about just over half a metre long, and a good bit over half a metre wide, it got up about to his belly button.
It was made of metal, with a small modern key hole on the top right corner of the drawer, it had 4 draws, the contents locked away inside, likely never to be opened.
The other one was a metal green painted drawer that reached his chest in height, it was about over 2 metres and length, and in width it was a good bit under a metre, the drawers were split into two columns, each having about five drawers that were each a a metre long and roughly thirteen centimetres big.
Again there was a small modern lock in the top right corner of drawers.
He had tried prying them open, shanking them, he even tried shooting the lock point blank with his shotgun, but nothing worked, so he had long since given up on the drawers.
There was a bed in the corner of the small cabinet with a withering fire in a fireplace that he had lit. He provided some type of warmth, but mainly he used it for light.
He walked up to the fireplace and opened its window hatch and took a book that was laid open on top of the fireplace near the tube that led to the chimney, it was in a language he couldn’t understand, and he highly doubted that he would even be interested in anything in it even then.
He tore out a handful of pages and chucked them into the fire causing the fire to roar back to life with the force of Celestia’s sun.
After he thought the fire was powerful enough he chucked a couple of small pieces of dry wood that had already been in the cabin when he arrived into the fireplace, watching as its flames engulfed the wood, breaking it down into food so that the flame could continue to live, he stared into the fire, feeling the heat on his muzzle before he began shaking, remembering the death of his parents as he closed the hatch as he stepped back, a small tear running down the side of his face, slightly dampening the fur the got into his path before finally being absorbed.
He propped up his shotgun against the head of his bed and the wall, making sure to unload the rounds so that if it falls it doesn’t go off.
He sat down on his bed and put the duffle bag at his feet as sat up straight
Sighing as he remembers those dark days before all this happened before this eternal nightmare began, the one he just wanted to wake up from.
He thought those days would be his darkest, but now he knows that he was wrong, so, so very wrong, he would take those days over the hell he was being put through now, but he knew those days were long gone, and never coming back.
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Knight reached down and unzipped the duffle bag.
Slowly reaching in he took out the assault rifle and felt that it was way too heavy as he felt a weight on his shoulders.
He brought the gun closer to himself as he inspected it, gripping it at the foregrip he tried to put his hand on the handle, only for an invisible force to yank it off.
He looked at the weapon, which had become his symbol of violence, it shackled him, tied him to the past, no matter how much he wanted to rid himself of it, he knew he couldn’t, so he did the only thing, could do, he accepted it.
“This weapon, it’s a curse, one that I will never truly be free of, even in death I’ll likely not part from it” He said as he reached down and grabbed a full magazine from the duffle bag before sitting up straight again, turning the weapon so that the mag-well was facing outwards as he continued.
“But this weapon, for years I’ve thought about it as a shackle, forever tying me down, but it’s not a restraint, it is a tool, only by believing it to be a shackle can it become one” He took the magazine and lined it up with the mag-well before he continued.
“But now that I know that, I have to accept it is a part of me, But this weapon shall no longer be a shackle to me, but rather…A tool to be used” He pushed the magazine into the mag-well before finally pulling the bolt back and letting snap back in place, priming the weapon to be fired before grabbing the pistol grip and resting his finger near the trigger, before feeling a growing heat
He looked to the flame in the fireplace and noticed its intensity grow before the flame bursted out of the fireplace and formed a large spiral of fire in the middle of the room, the wind flung his mane around and tipped his shotgun over onto the ground as he heard a click, he was thankful he had taken out the shell or his foot would have been shot off.
The spiral of fire started changing hue as it became green before starting to retract upwards and becoming just a ring on the ceiling before finally shrinking into an orb until finally shooting back into the fireplace as the hatch closed and the fire returned to its original colour and intensity.
Knight looked back to the place the orb had been as he spotted a glowing key that hovered in the air for a few seconds before dropping onto the ground with a tinkling noise.
“What in the name of a thousand fucks?” he whispered to himself as he slowly put the firearm to the side, making sure the safety was on, before getting up and slowly lumbering to the key's location.
Reaching for the key he knelt down and picked it up.
Examining it he could see it was…
Just a key, not a skeleton key, not a tardis key.
Just a green key with a circular base.
He looked at the key as he stood up, he then had a slightly crazy idea, he looked at the green drawers before walking over to them and putting the key into the lock before trying to turn it.
With almost no resistance the key turned, taking the lock with it before it began disintegrating in green sparks.
He looked at the drawer for a couple of seconds before pulling out the top drawer on the left column.
The draw opened as he peered inside it to find a motherload of shotgun shells.
Knight was amazed for a second before he grabbed a box of shells and held it up to his face as he read the writing on it.
“Twelve gauge double ought buckshot for men, the only power a man could need” He read out as he realised what it meant.
Taking it away from his face he looked at it with amazement as he spoke to himself.
“Wait, this is like the best buckshot in the 12 gauge size, how much is there?” He looked back into the drawer and gasped slightly in shock as he stared at the top of another box of shells.
He opened the drawer under the top drawer and saw even more shotgun shells.
He closed the drawer as he looked at the other drawers.
“Wait, assuming that each drawer has two layers of shotgun ammo, and-” he looked at the box as he stared at another piece of writing saying.
‘25 shells full of portable death? Alright a bit grim but okay’ he then continued talking to himself.
“-Then assuming that each layer has about 60 boxes in each row, and with there being ten rows, that means one layer easily has a hundred shotgun shells, and with there being two layers and 5 drawers each most likely having two layers that means doing some quick maths that these at the very least 1100 shotgun shells, but what about the other column?” he closed the ‘buck drawers’ as he decided to call them as he moved over to the second column and opened it to find, not shotgun shells, but rather a ton of magazines that looked identical to the ones for his Scar. he looked at all the ammo amazed at his discovery before turning to the smaller silver drawer.
‘If there was ammo in here, what is in that drawer?’ he wondered as he shrugged, he had already tried to open it and had failed, no point in wasting his time.
He walked over to the bed and sat down, deciding before he should reflate as he grabbed his journal from under the bed along with his pen, and started writing.
Pov: journal.
Entry three.
That day, before when I thought about that day I almost broke down, must have been the reason why I forgot about it. But now? Whenever I think about it now I don’t even flinch, sure, it was a horrible day, but in the end, it’s my day.
And I can’t change that, But I can improve upon it, use it as a lesson instead of just a reminder.
After that, nothing really happened that day. The father didn’t press charges, I found that weird so I looked into it and found out he was crooked to the bone, he figured that if the media found out he was pressing charges against the son of two well-known heroes, well, the press would snoop around, then find out that his son was bullying me, so that would make them snoop around even more till they got wind of his illegal activities.
Jack was hospitalised, I figured since I put him in there I could at least foot the hospital bill for him, so I switched out the paying credit card to my off-shore account, but I made sure the hospital wouldn’t overcharge me using blackmailing tactics as well as threatening and intimidating certain staff.
In the end, I only lost a couple thousand dollars which even at that time wasn’t much for me as I was close to being a billionaire.
I wasn’t expelled, surprisingly, since I was the son of two well-known superheroes, they wanted to keep me so that in the future they could see that I went to their school. But in order to please the other adults I was only techily enrolled, I did learning from home, all my work would be sent to me, when it came to group activities I had my family so I never saw any of my schoolmates again.
Anyway, tomorrow morning I’m going to check out some locations where some bullshit happened to me. I wanna see if I can trigger that effect again and get the silver key.
Right now though? I’m tired, so very tired, I’m going to attempt to sleep.
Good night journal.
End of entry three
Pov: third person.
Location: hunting cabin in the woods
Time: to go to bed
Knight closed the Journal as he put the pen on top of it, bent over, and slid the journal back under his bed before he laid down on his bed, pulled the covers on, before closing his eyes, and went into a dreamless sleep.
Pov: Journal
Time: None
Location: None
Start of Entry Four
It’s been… ten years I think, I don’t know, it feels like hundreds of years have passed by, time here is all just one big blur of confusion and chaos. I’m not even sure if seconds are going by or hours.
I’ve checked places where I’ve been robbed, places I’ve been decked for no reason other than I'm a normie, places where I’ve been arrested for no good reason and then have had to call my parents to come to pull some strings to get me out, and I even went to a back alley where I've been drugged, yeah, don’t take water from strangers in back alleys no matter how clear it is and how thirsty you are, thankful I left all my valuable shit at home.
Not so thankfully I had to wait till night and sprint back home in a cardboard box in order to hide my bits.
But anyway, I haven’t found any keys, only shadows which I killed in order to search the area, I feel myself getting more and more skilled each fight and at an alarming rate too.
I have an Idea though, an… old memory that I wanted to forget even more then
‘That day’, I will… have to go to my apartment, where me and my family lived.
Before…..
Anyway, I’m sitting in the cabin right now, getting my weapons and the figured ammo ready.
Right now what I have for weapons are:
I’ve made a strap for my back that connects with my pack back, I’ve made it to carry one of my bigger weapons, as well as a tool belt to carry my knife, a flashlight I found in an alley near a supermarket, as well as a couple of pouches for some quick to grab ammo.
I Found a shotgun shell carrier for the butt of my shotgun as well, it holds about 6 shells. Helps me reload quicker, and when it comes to a double barrel shotgun.
Also, I found a crate of duct tape, and have taped my mags together in order to help me reload my Scar quicker.
Anywho. I’m packing my shit up now, going to be heading to the apartment in a couple of minutes
End of entry four.
Pov: Third person with Knight
Location: Hunting cabin
Time: year 305
Knight Closed his Journal as the soft crackles of fire gently echoed throughout the cabin, calming him. He sat on his bed, L bows on their respective knees, his back hunched, his face slightly downturned as he wore a grim expression.
‘The calm before the storm’ he thought as he looked up and looked around, he looked to his right and saw his weapons, his shotgun at his side, his Scar holstered on his backpack, and his Knife on his belt.
He looked to his left and saw Gym equipment he had grabbed when he went to a gym, a past memory of when he was chased out one day. He had been working out on the equipment for years now and his body boasted of a pretty tight six-pack and all from years of hard work, devotion and a great diet, that being: Nothing!
He stood up and grabbed his gear before double-checking his ammo and putting his backpack on.
He reached over and grabbed the shotgun.
Holding it he walked over to the door and opened it beginning his journey to his old home.
-An unknown amount of time later-
Knight stood in front of the apartment building, it was quite tall, a decent tall building.
It was a brick building, nothing fancy, in fact, it looked a bit run down, with windows covering sections of the building.
He looked at one particular window.
“Just as I thought it would be, broken” He looked to see a car on the road parked slightly on the sidewalk under the window, its roof caved in with the body of a shadow laying on a puddle of crimson red blood.
Knight sighed as he began walking into the apartment building.
Walking in he took a breath, feeling that without power the building's ventilation wasn’t working, therefore, causing the air to taste stale, he saw a shadow by the reception desk.
He rose the barrel of his shotgun to meet the head of the shadow as he pulled the trigger, the recoil sending a jolt throughout his shoulder as the shotgun shell blasted a good chunk of the creature up due to his lack of a skeleton structure and flesh, and muscles, and pretty much every organ as it exploded into a mass of black liquid that luckily didn’t hit him,
he went to lower his barrel before suddenly whipped around and shot a shadow that had been silently approaching from behind him point blank as it was sent flying and exploded.
He lowered his now-empty shotgun as he thought to himself.
‘There's probably more in here’ he said as he switched out his shotgun for his Scar, making sure to reload the shotgun before placing it in the holster so that if he needed some quick extra firepower he had it.
He began talking to whom he remembered was a staircase, walking he started hearing more groans, likely comin’ from shadows on upper floors as he raised his rifle, he didn’t know where they were or how strong they were, in the time he had been in the ‘mirror realm’ as he had taken to calling it he had learned that these shadows came in all different shapes in sizes, they were found large groups in places that Michael had suffered, which is a lot of places, even if you clear them out they come back, like moths to a light source.
Walking up the stairs he lightly chuckled at how alien it was to him to use stairs now, since he had been using parkour to get to most places and avoid large groups of shadows, which worked, most of the time at least.
He walked onto a platform with a door and more stairs to his side.
Just then, a shadow busted through the staircase door and rushed him, knocking his rifle out of his hands before he was shoved onto the ground.
The Shadow attempted to slam its fists down him, which would have most likely crushed his ribs, but before it could Knight barrel rolled to the side as he dived for the rifle.
Grabbing the firearm quickly he quickly got up and turned before as he set his rifle to burst before pulling the trigger twice sending two bursts of three bullets into the body before walking to the shadow, gun drawn, back hunched slightly, his left foot when stepping faced to the side to allow him to keep his gun aimed and not have to be in an awkward position, he called this tacti walking.
Just like in the movies
(Note for viewers, just think how Swat/police or military move when clearing a building in movies),
He put his right foot on the shadow's chest before switching the firing mode to single shot and firing into the creature's head.
The compression from his foot stopped the signal telling the shadow to explode, only allowing the head to splatter across the floor.
‘Note to self, work on checking corners’ he thought as he removed his foot from the creature.
‘Alright so I used about 7 bullets roughly there so I should have around 33 +1 if you count the one in the firing chamber’ He counted his ammo to make sure he didn’t run out in the middle of a fight.
‘Should I switch out for a full mag?... Nah, bad idea, I’d lose track of how many bullets is in this mag, then if I run out on the fresh mag I’ll think I have a full mag’ He thought, knowing how much ammo he had was important, as it allowed him to figure out when to switch his partially used mag for a full mag, even the slightest miscalculation could put him into a tight spot he may not survive
He continued his journey up the staircase, someone having to dispatch Shadows Once in a while before reaching the sixth floor and going for the sixth floor’s door.
Opening it he quickly shut it as he saw several figures.
This time, being much slower, he opened the door and peeked through, surveying the area.
There were two brutes, larger shadows that were much stronger and tougher, but slower, 7 normal shadows, and 3 rushers, quick and smaller shadows but they weren’t as strong as normal shadows and couldn’t take as many hits
‘12 shadows, all scattered throughout the hallway, all in my way.’ He thought as he readied his firearm for combat.
He threw open the door and rushed in, gun blazing away, ripping through 4 normals, slightly damaging a brute, and killing a rusher via a bullet entering its head.
A brute rushed into him slamming him through a wall and into an apartment room, he dropped his scar as the brute stopped sending its momentum into Knight causing him to be sent flying to a wall, he found himself in a bedroom, he dove to the side as the brutes fist slammed into the wall he once leaned against causing the wall to cave in and break.
He reached to his back and drew his shotgun as the brute pulled its fist back and rushed towards him only for its head to be blown off by Knight's shotgun before he stood up and shot a rusher in the stomach that had been coming at him.
‘Shit, I need to get my gun back, shotguns are good but it won’t do much here, too slow to reload’ He thought as he ran towards where his Scar-L was while at the same time, mid-sprint reloading his shotgun.
He fired at another normal shadow that had approached the hole that the brute had bad before reaching down and grabbing his discard weapon, he heard stomping approaching and twirled around his shotgun in his left hand as he shot his arm out causing the double barrels to be jabbed into the face of a brute before he pulled the trigger casing the black blood to splatter all over him, and his weapon.
‘Both brutes down just got to kill the rushers and this will be-’ His thoughts were interrupted when a hand slashed across his back in a straight line causing him to scream out in pain before whipping around and looking for his attacker, it was a rusher, its arms long and skinny, it was taller than him, and unlike the normal shadows its ‘skin’ was white, there was also the fact it’s claw had crimson blood on it now.
Knight put his shotgun away favouring the scar as he started shooting, trying his best to aim at the quick-moving shadow before he mentally face-palmed and started shooting where the shadow was going to be as it zipped through the hallway, before finally taking a bullet to the knee and falling, it’s own momentum grinding its body across the floor, killing it.
Another rusher runs to the end of the hallway and starts running towards him, luckily it wasn’t Fillysecond speed, cause if it was he’d be fucked.
He aimed and attempted to fire but instead of hearing the familiar bang of the weapon setting off the primer of the bullet all he heard was a click as he realised he was out of ammo, now this would be bad if it wasn’t for the fact he had another full mag taped to his now empty mag.
He swapped out his mags before aiming his gun and mailing lead straight to the front door of the rusher's torso.
Knight looked and saw the last three normal shadows.
Tired of games he switched to full auto and mowed them down using half of his mag.
‘Welp. that was underwhelming’ he thought, fights had begun to be less of a challenge and more of an annoyance, he had gotten better in pretty much everything except for hacking, but that didn’t matter since he was already proven to be the best.
Knight walked through the hall, which was down-painted black with the blood of the exploding shadows, he kept walking until he came across a certain door, he felt it, the tug that led him to the school was now leading him into this room, his family's old apartment.
He reached for the doorknob and opened the door, entering his old home.
Walking in he noticed that there were bodies of shadows, spread throughout the apartment, he looked forward and saw the broken window.
“Yup, right place” He spoke to himself in a monotone voice as he continued to follow the tug until he came to the door of his room.
He could feel the tug, stronger than ever as he stood outside the door.
He opened the door, entering as he looked around, he saw everything was the same since he left all those years ago. Except there was a corpse of a shadow laying in the middle of the room, he scanned the room till he saw it, a small case containing who knows what, but Knight could tell it was the source of the tug.
He walked up to it and tried to open it, but couldn’t, he just couldn’t as a shot of pain ran throughout his body.
He hissed in pain as he backed away, opting to just pick up the case and take it back to the cabin.
Pov: third person
Time: year 305
location: Hunting cabin
Knight sat in the dark, fireplace long since died out, his breath was slow and paced, he sighed as he looked at the gun case.
He held it as he started fondling the latch until he flipped them up, opening the case, the contents made him remember.
Pov: Michael
Time: 9 PM
Location: Apartment in Manehattan
Michael sat on his bed, staring at the firearm in his hand, it was a 1911 painted black chambered in 9-millimetre rounds, it had an extended mag giving it 12 bullets, 13 if you do the fire chamber trick, loading a bullet into the firing chamber, then putting a fresh mag in.
His father had given it to him as a ‘present’ a couple of days ago, but a bit of searching in his journal revealed the true reason.
Someone had targeted his sister, meaning they were after their family and knew who they were, but what hit hardest to him, was the reason he had given him the gun, it was because Michael was a normie, his dad knew his sister could take care of herself, but Michael didn’t have powers.
That had hit harder, if it was anyone else he wouldn’t care, but his own father? His mother, according to the journal, had even agreed.
‘I’m weak, a burden to the family, at this rate they're going to have to protect me, all I do is drag everyone down’ He thought as took hold of the pistol's grip.
‘Maybe it would be better’ He raised the gun to the side of his head, he closed his eyes as his hand began shaking, slowly putting pressure on the trigger
‘If I ended it, end the pain, and stop burdening everyone-’ his thought was interrupted when he heard the front door being broken down, he put the gun down to his side slowly as he stood up and crept to the door, his foot step creaking across the slightly run-down, yet sturdy floorboards, this place was one of the most caring places when it comes to apartments, no tricks, no bribes, no expenses held, back in the old days it was a very famous place, back before the corruption took its hold, which is the reason the place was so run down, it had a high safety rating but due to that the place didn’t have enough money for appearance.
Reaching the door he put his ear to it, he heard nothing, he tried slowly opening the door before a man in a black ski mask slammed the door open and rushed in as he tried to grab Michael, but Michael resisted causing a struggle to ensure.
“Hello, Hmm, thunder brat 1, you're coming with me.” The man grunted out in their struggle.
As Michael struggled he remembered the gun, fully loaded, he stomped on the man's foot as he yelled in pain, losing his grip enough for Michael to pull them back, enough so that they fell onto the bed, the struggle continued as Michael placed his left forearm on the man's chest allowing him to have a free hand as the struggle kept going Michael put his free hand on the side of the man's head making it look like Michael was trying to claw at his head, but in reality, he was hoping for one thing.
The ski-masked-wearing man fell for Michael's trap as he swatted away his hand.
“Not bad kid, but it’s better if you just give up and-” he was cut off as he felt the barrel of Michael's gun being pressed on the side of his head.
“Kid put that thing down before someone gets-” Michael didn’t let him finish as he pulled the trigger, the gun going off blowing a good chunk of the man's brains out as he went limp, Michael pushed the man off him as he gripped his pistol, he walked over to his door and saw a man kick down his sister's door as he heard a scream belonging to Sarah, he without thinking ran up to the man, grabbed the back of the man's shirt collar and pulled the man out of his sister's room and onto the ground before closing his sister's door, turning and shooting the still recovering man in the head, he heard another person approaching him before he jumped over the body as another man charged at him.
“You fucking cunt, I’M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR THAT!” the man yelled out as he tackled Michael, his hands flaming as Michael started to feel burning on his sides.
‘Fuck this guy’s got some sort of fire power’ He said as he was driven back into his room, he put the barrel of his 1911 to the man's stomach and fired off two shots into it.
“AAAH!” the man screamed out in pain as he started to back peddle, hunched over, clenching his wounds Michael walked over to him and grabbed his head Before quickly aligning it with his door, and slamming it on the masked man’s head as hard as he could, he repeated this process twice until a chunk of the door broke off, causing the man's skull to be caved in, Michael then spartan kicked the man backwards into a wall making him sit down and lean against it.
Michael, rage fueling him due to these home invaders breaking into his home, and by what that first man said, targeting him and his sister Michael walked to the man, put his shoe into the man's mouth, putting his hands on the wall.
He then started stomping, and stomping, and stomping, until one stomp, caused the man's lower jaw to be ripped off, blood splattered all over Michael's shoe and knee as he took a step back and looked toward the kitchen area.
He saw four Ponies in all black, a pegasus mare, an earth pony stallion, a unicorn stallion, and one pegasus stallion.
Their eyes all slightly bulged as they witnessed their comrade being de-jawed, the mare eye started twitching as she raised her pistol and pointed it at Michael as he drove back to his room right before she started firing causing the rest to begin opening fire, he hid around the corner, think of what to do, that was, until his sister poked her head out, shaking, one of the intruders noticed and turned their attention to her, Michael saw this as his brotherly instincts kicked in.
“Sarah get down!” He yelled out as his vision gained a blue hue.
Time seemed to slow down as Michael jumped out of cover and pointed his gun at the heads of his attackers, a few bullets gazed at him and one even full-on hit him in the side but that didn’t stop him.
He only needed to pull the trigger four times, each hit was followed by him turning his gun to another's head, to him he was moving slowly, but to an outsider's view, he was a quick shot, killing most of the home intruders with one bullet in the blink of an eye.
He took a breath as he looked to his sisters' door, it was closed.
‘Seems Sarah went back into her room during the commotion’ he thought as he started walking towards the intruder's bodies before he was jumped from behind, the set up the house allowing a Fifth intruder to set up an ambush, he felt breasts on his back, a female, he also her claw at his skin as he felt her strength begin to increase as she carried on clawing him with him back pedalling and slamming her into a wall, her grip loosened as he turned his gun towards her and shooting her in the knee thus fore ending her career as an intruder.
He turned and punched her with his free hand before putting his gun into his pocket and beginning to punch the absolute shit out of her.
He threw a couple of hits to her ribs causing some damage such as broken ribs and judging by how far one of his fists went into her one of her ribs punctured her right lung as she started gurgling as a bit of blood came out of her mouth, only for Michael to punch it back into her throat, as well as most of her teeth.
In a desperate attempt to avoid her fate, she grabbed his arms pulling with her super strength as he got an idea of pure gore.
He grabbed her head and started using his thumps to puncture her eyes, she started screaming or at least trying to. As she saw a sickening smile of insanity and enjoyment, his eyes crazed and blood-fueled, he was lost in his own insanity and anger, how dare they? They thought that some mere weaklings could kill the mighty Fox? They would learn, through blood.
He pushed her eyes in as the last thing her eyes ever saw was the terrifying smirk on his face as his thumps got a decent way into her skull, the fur on her muzzle was damp in blood, tears and sweat.
He started pulling her head in two opposite directions, the pain caused her to pull his arms away hard, which caused him to pull hard until finally.
He ripped her skull apart, exposing her brains and throat as her now lifeless and mutilated body fell to the ground.
He stood back up and started to head back down the hallway.
‘I need to check on Sarah’ He thought as he got about halfway until he heard someone yell at him. And then try to charge him.
“YOU BASTARD!” A unicorn mare exclaimed as she rushed at him, Her mask showed fresh tears running down it, as well as eyes full with the rage of a thousand Hells, all glaring at him as.
He whipped out his gun and fired his remaining ammo into her, she was a larger mare, well built from what he could tell.
His ammo ran before she tackled him, knocking his gun out of his hand and onto the floor in the process as they went through the window and fell.
Thankfully gravity was on his side as the mare was turned mid-air making it so she would break his fall.
Hitting a car even with the mare underneath him he could still feel his ribs breaking and his muzzle getting fractured.
He pushed himself up slightly as he saw the mare was still alive.
Seeing her horn he started punching away at it as it began to break off.
Taking the now broken horn as she screamed in agony he jammed it into her right eye making her spasm.
To add salt to the wound he then punched the horn into her brain, killing her as his adrenaline rush started to cease, but not before saying one last line.
“Stop being so goddamn horny.” He said before he got off her and started limping back to his apartment, the person at the reception tried to ask but he put his finger up.
“Not. a. Word. I’m calling the cops now to deal with this bullshit.” He said before getting into the elevator.
-5 minutes later-
He limped back into the apartment, almost tripping on his own feet several times.
He walked towards his discarded gun and picked it up before heading into his room, remembering there was a body in there, and at this point couldn’t manage to care.
He grabbed his phone and dialled the police, to which they responded pretty fastly.
“911 what's your emergency?” The operator said, sounding male.
“Agh, yeah Um, some pricks broke into my home,” He said as he grunted in pain.
The operator sounded worried as they replied.
“Sir, are you in any danger?”
“No, no not anymore at least, I killed them all.” He said in a tired tone.
The operator stuttered as he replied yet again.
“W-wait what? You k-killed them?”
“Yeah, I did, pretty sure I said that already, anyway, Umm could you get some officers down here, I’m at Green Safe road 17, apartment 607, tell them to bring quite a few body bags, and also, Could I get an ambulance, I’m bleeding quite a bit and honestly I’m having trouble staying awake.” Michael said as his head started bobbing down as he lost consciousness
“Alright sir, help is on the way, please try to stay with me..” The operator said, waiting for a reply.
Not getting one the operator spoke again.
“Sir? Are you there? Sir?” He asked, but Michael was too tired to wake up.
-Two hours later-
Thomas walked down the road with his wife Martha as they headed home. They had been working late tracking down the Gang that was targeting them and had gotten them arrested. They turned the corner onto the street their apartment was on only for their hearts to sink, therein front of their apartment building was several police cars with police ponies and even one or two superheroes standing outside, there was also an ambulance parked outside as well.
They rushed towards the scene as an officer stopped them right outside the perimeter the police had set up.
Since they weren’t in the hero suits the officer treated them like average citizens.
“I’m sorry citizens, I can’t let you in here.” The officer said blocking their way.
Thomas spoke up as he talked to the officer.
“But we live here, what happened?” Thomas asked the officer as the officer looked at him, his muzzle scrunching up before struggling and answering.
“Well since you live here I guess I can tell ya, some ponies broke into room 607, there were two kids in there, one older stallion and one younger mare, the colt beat the crap out of the intruders, pretty graphic, anyway, the kids in critical condition, and from what I hear he’s a normie, kinda hard to believe he sur-” the officer was cut off when Martha grabbed his collar and pulled him to eye level before hissing out.
“Watch what you say about my son” She said as she let the officer go and stormed past him towards the cars.
She ran up with Thomas before stopping dead in her tracks along with Thomas
They saw their son, covered in blood, being wheeled into the ambulance.
What made it worse was that they knew a lot of that blood wasn’t his own.
They saw a familiar friend and detective who knew who they were.
He noticed them first as Thomas walked up to him.
“Thomas, nice to see you, though I wish it were on better terms right now” He said grimly as.
“Nice to see you too Johnson,” Thomas said as he looked at Johnson Jackle Brown.
Or Brown to his co-workers, or Johnson to his friends.
Usually, Johnson had a cup of coffee from a cafe or something, but right now in his hand was a bottle of what appeared to be hard cider, his eyes…well the only way to describe them was that they made him look like he had seen some shit.
Detective Brown was a Brown unicorn stallion that had a black mane, bags under his eyes, and a brown trench coat with black jeans, black formal shoes, and a brown fedora, all in all, he looked like a classic image of a detective.
Thomas looked at the beverage as Johnson took a drink.
“Rough night?” Thomas asked as he looked at his friend, Johns rarely drank, rarely needed to, he was an experienced homicide detective, meaning he had seen some shit, domestic murders, serial killers, Disgruntled Ex-lovers, Disgruntled Ex-employes, things like that, never pretty, John was used to it though, but Thomas, as a trusted friend, knew that John always had a large bottle of Hard cider stash away in his case just in case it got a little too ugly even for him, Thomas was starting to get worried now.
“To say the least” He took a BIG sip of the large bottle before picking up where he left off. “Yes”
Thomas and Martha looked at each other, exchanging worried glances before turning back to John.
They were about to ask the million-dollar question but John beat them to it.
“Before you ask, Sarah is fine, Michael on the other hand? He’s not in great shape, most of his ribs are broken, his jaw is dislocated, his muzzle and horn have taken damage, his right leg is broken, his right arm is broken, and he has a few gunshot wounds, most of them are just grazes, others were lucky not to hit anywhere important, he also has a concussion from, we can’t Judge how bad it is though.” John said as he took another big sip from his bottle.
Martha was terrified but Thomas was confused about a few things.
“But that’s not bad enough for you to pull out the cider, also why are there body bags?” Thomas asked as he looked at John with a stern look as John sighed before speaking.
“It’s not about what happened to your son, it’s about what he did, the body bags contain the corpses of the intruders. Your son, to put it lightly, Slaughtered them, some of them we’re going to have to get a fingerprint test with how fucked up they are.
Martha stopped crying and joined Thomas in looking at John as the detective continued.
“Removed jaws, horns ripped off and used as weapons, powers used against their own user to rip their users head in two, bullets in heads, heads caved in, and that’s just a bit of the list we made with the equipment we have HERE! Who knows what else the morgue will find on them? '' John said as he took another swig, his voice starting to slur from the alcohol as he started to become shit-faced drunk.
Two of the paramedics came out, rolling a badly beaten boy out on a stretcher and heading towards the ambulance. The two parents looked at their boy, horrified at his state.
And what he had done.
Pov: 3rd person Knight
Time: year 305
Location: Hunting cabin.
Knight looked at the black 1911 with an emotionless as he sat on his bed, the fire long gone out as he spent hours thinking, nothing, his brain was empty, he just couldn’t think of anything, other than he went too far, he didn’t need to bring them so much terror, so much pain, and he enjoyed it, he lost control, and he hated himself for it, but, he knew he didn’t have any choice, they were going to kill both him and his sister.
He had to let go, he had to. He thought that as he made a statement of fact
“What I did was too far, but it was justified, they were killers, and they knew the risks, yet they ignored them, I will no longer blame myself for their mistakes,” He said to himself, his expression softening as he noticed a glint coming from the gun case that was sitting to his side on the bed before turning his head towards it.
There lay a sliver key, in the place where his new firearm had once rested.
‘I could have sworn that that key wasn’t there before’ He thought as he reached over and picked it up.
He looked at it as he already knew what to do from last time, he stood up, not needing the light from the fire to navigate his room due to years of traversing it as he made his way towards the locked silver drawer, his footsteps causing the worn wood to creak as his weight descended upon them, barely having time to relax as he took another step forward.
Reaching the drawer and kneeling down, he stared at the silver Drawer before thinking to himself.
‘Should have lit the fire’ he thought as he regretted not lighting a fire in the fireplace.
He fiddled with the key until he found the keyhole, then fiddled with the key more until he finally managed to stuff the key into the hole before turning it.
The key disintegrated like the green key as its sparks went to the fireplace and lit a fire.
‘Thank you to whoever made such convenient keys’ he thought as he stood up and opened the drawer, as expected, there was a motherload of ammo for his 1911, as well as a note, written on it was a phrase he often repeated to himself in times of depression, one that he had forgotten.
‘Victory does not lay in the hands of those talented, but rather in the hands of those who work for it- You
He looked at those words, his eyes lighting up with a new fire of determination as he was reminded of the things he had left behind, revenge and cheeseburgers.
Got damn was he now angry and hungry, a confusing feeling,
‘First thing I do when I get back is get a Big Mac, then hunt that bastard’ he thought as his mood went back to being grim as he donned a frown.
He put the firearm to his side and reached under the bed.
Grabbing his journal from under the bed he Opened it up and looked at the years of pages he had filled with tactical information, no matter where he was information was power, and he was great at collecting information thanks to his autism, the funniest thing was, he had barely filled this with any personal logs.
He began writing his thoughts into the paper.
Pov: Journal
Start of Entry Five
What do I even write? That I feel bad about what I did to those criminals that were there to kill me and my sister. Fuck that, maybe in the past I would have, but I’ve realized one thing, they knew what they were doing, sure, I was too brutal, but do I regret killing them? A couple of days ago I would have said yes, but now? No. Killing is just a means to an end, murder and killing are different, Soldiers and police officers kill, and criminals and villains murder people, it becomes even more different when you break them down even further, Soldiers and police officers kill to stop threats, criminals and villains murder because they feel like it.
But, what am I then? I’m not a criminal anymore, and I’m certainly not a villain no matter what the government says, neither am I a cop or soldier, and I can’t be called a hero.
I guess if I can’t be a cop or a hero, I’ll just be a vigilante.
End of entry Five
POV: Knight
Knight sighed as he closed his book and hid it back in the place he had stored it for what felt like hundreds of years.
He sat back up as he lost himself in his thoughts despite having just written them down in his journal.
“A vigilante huh? That’s if I escape alive, or at all” He said out loud to himself as he laid down on his bed before pulling up the covers, and allowing himself to be consumed yet again by the void known as sleep.
Pov: Journal
Start of entry Six
It has been… three hundred and Ninty five years since my last personal entry, and this likely- no, Will be my last one, I spotted him, that fucking bastard Fox, He’s here, in the city with a small army of shadows, I noticed about 2 years ago the shadow population had been decreasing quite a bit, but I thought it had just been me killing them so much, that they couldn’t reform them selves, but with the numbers he has, he must have been rallying them, don’t know how, and can’t really seem to give a fuck as to why, but I do have a plan, he’s heading towards my cabin as I write this, but he’s never going to make it.
I’ve set a trap, I found a propane truck and some C4, don’t ask where. I don’t have time to explain, not that you can ask considering you’re a book.
Anyway, this is it, I’m either going to lose and fade into oblivion, or I’m going to get out of here, either way, I’m kicking Fox in the nuts hard repeatedly and there's nothing this world can do to stop me… other than give me a burger, then I may consider not doing it, maybe.
Anyway, I'm going to end this entry here, I see Him approaching down the street from my hiding place.
Hasn’t even noticed the C4 on the truck they're passing now, Fuckin’ idiots, welp, see you never Journal, I’d say it’s been a pleasure but then I’d be insane, er, more insane than I already am.
End of Journal, yes you, your fucking dead now, your spirit shall now haunt Knight forever.
Pov: Third person.
Time: Judgement day, aka, year 730
Location: Shadow-hatten, aka, Michaels mind.
Knight hid behind a parked car as he watched Fox’s shadow army approach his position, darkness bathed him, and with it being night and already being pretty dark in the shadow-hatten as Knight had taken to call it, he was in a crouched position as he held his scar-L tight to his chest, gripping the foregrip and the pistol grip so hard his knuckles turned white from the pressure, he gritted his teeth as he stared at the bastard that had put him through all this torment.
‘Oh do I want to just open fire now and end this asshole, but no, I can’t, if I kill him now all the shadows will converge on me and likely rip me apart to a million pieces, so for now I need to follow the plan- oh shit I need to hit the switch!” He took his hand off the pistol grip of his rifle and reached into his pocket.
Pulling out the box with a button on it as he flipped the protective glass over the button-up and yelled.
“YOLO!” he pressed the button as a decently big explosion went off, followed by a massive BOOM! Knight jumped out to his Fox barreling towards him, looking behind himself, and totally unaware of Knight's existence before turning his head towards Knight's direction, only to meet Knight's fist as his face was caught on in, but Fox’s momentum didn’t stop causing Fox to slid across the road for a few second before stopping.
He groaned in pain as he stood up, Knight got a better look at Fox when he reached his full height.
Fox was the exact same height as Knight, which had increased over the years from 5’10 to 6’5 from Knight's rough guess, He had on what was surely the remnants of an expensive and handsome-looking suit that was fully black except for the white dress shirt and crimson red tie, his mane was messed up, his horn was damage quite a bit and his muzzle was bleeding from several places.
A vast contrast to Knight's more Manehattan style get-up, being black and white sneakers, dark blue jeans with tears in them likely from combat, a blue tank top, a grey long-sleeve shirt, and a dark green hoodie, not to mention his weapons, which he had quite of few of, and Fox.
Fox had none.
Knight's Light blue muzzle was showing a snarl as Knight spoke to the welly dressed injured man, his voice in a dangerously low tone.
“You know, I thought for years what I would do if I ever saw you again, what I would say-'' Knight paused as he took a rifling position and raised his assault rifle’s barrel, making sure to line it up with Fox’s head using the Scars Iron sights. “But now? I just want this hell to be over, to return to Manehattan, and get my revenge for our, no, my family seeing as you only give a shit about getting your next payday.” Knight insulted as he placed his finger on the trigger as Fox dashed towards Knight and Knocked the scar out of as well as knocked Knight backwards onto his ass, fortunately, Knight was able to grab Fox’s shoulders and pulled him down with him, a struggling ensured as they clawed away at each other, rolling around in the road as the smell of smoke entered their noses, the fire crackled gently in the backroad despite the fight going on giving light to them as Knight managed to shove fox off and back peddled away before standing up, Fox did the same.
They stared at each other, their hate for each other burning through their eyes as Fox spoke.
“You know, I was going to try to negotiate your surrender, let you live, but it seems all this time has only strengthened your childish resolve for revenge” Knight’s glare intensified as his muzzle scrunched up into a snarl before Fox continued.
“Don’t you get it?! we may be strong but a war with Deadsec is still suicide, they have access to weapons that make the military nukes look like toys-” He was cut off by a bullet to the knee as he collapsed, clutching is kneecap before Knight ran up and started kicking him while he was down.
In the balls, several times, HARD, boot tips go into the batter holders themselves, causing Fox to do what any self-respecting man would do-.
“MoMmY!” He screamed for his mom causing Knight to kick again, and again and again and- okay I’m the fucking author aka god and satan combined and even I think this is brutal, fuck if I had more time I’d add a longer more epic fight but- fuck Knight stop he’s already dead!.
Cuz he’s a dick head
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Knight ignored the words of god as he just kept kicking, for what felt like hours til he finally ran out of breath and stood back as he spoke.
“I *pant* will never *pant**pant* let a cold bastard like you *pant* take control, and *pant* win! *pant pant*” he yelled as he kicked again Fox then cried out before speaking.
“AGH, alight Michael I surrender” Fox yelled as Knight froze at the mention of the name, he looked down at Fox in confusion as he asked.
“What did you just call me?” He said as Fox slowly rose to his feet looking at Michael and clutching the remains of his testicles.
“I can hear the resolve in your voice, there's no way I can make you surrender, at this rate, I’d be wasting time and resources, so Knight, you win” He said as fell back to his knees.
Knight could only stare, he won? After over 300 years of suffering, he finally won.
It started to rain as Knight fell to his knees he arched his head back and felt the water hit his face like a tiny artillery barrage, he saw a light flash to his right and watched as Fox’s eyes shot to the source of the flash as Knights followed.
There stood, a normal ass door metal door, the only thing special about it was it was golden yellow, knight's head lowered as he thought about what to do, Fox broke the silence as he looked back towards Knight.
“I think it’s for you” Fox said, Knight looked towards Fox before he nodded.
Michael rose to his feet once more before he walked to the door.
He grabbed the handle and twisted it, he then pushed, only to face-palm himself when he realised it opened outwards.
He then pulled this time and the door flew open with way too much force as Michael let off a yelp and was sucked into a white vortex.
Pov: Michael John Rider
Time: unknown
Location: nowhere and everywhere in pizza hut
Michael landed on his ass as he was shot out of the door before it disappeared to the shadow realm never to be seen again.
“Ow, my fucking ass” He said out loud to himself as he stood up and looked around, he was in a city, it was bright, of course, but there were no cars and people since he was still most likely in his mind but still!, it was so bright that if he didn’t pay attention he would think he was in a city.
Looking forward he saw a…pizza place, no not just any pizza place his favourite pizza place, Pizza Hut.
He raised his eyebrows as he started walking forward, making to enter the building full of the food of the gods known as pizza.
Entering he saw the place was almost empty, key word almost, sitting at one of the tables was a man in a white suit, he had golden-coloured shoes on and a golden tie, and he bore a striking resemblance to Michael.
‘For fuck sake, another one?’ He decided not to wait for the man to tell him his grand evil plan.
Michael walked up to the man and saw he was eating a meat lover's pizza.
‘Least he has good tastes’ Michael thought before he socked the man in the face out of nowhere.
The man fell off the chair and began clutching his throat as he hacked and coughed trying to rid his airways of the food that had been sent into his throat the wrong way.
He coughed out the pizza before he looked at Michael.
“What the fuck man?! Are you trying to kill me?” He yelled out as Michael's eyes opened slightly in shock and confusion before replying to the well-dressed man.
“Umm, aren’t you going to try and take control of my body?” Michael asked, very confused but still ready to punch the shit out of the man.
The man stood back up and dusted his suit jacket off before straightening it out and gesturing for Michael to sit down on a chair across from his own.
Michael reluctantly walked to the chair and sat down on it as the mystery man sat on his own chair. He put his L-bows on the table and intertwined his fingers as he spoke to Michael
“Well I can see why you would think that but that is not the case, to answer your questions, I am your subconscious, but you may call me Tony.” The identified ‘Tony’ spoke as Michael leaned closer, resting his arms on the table.
Michael was about to speak before Tony cut him off.
“As to where we are, we are in, well I suppose you can call it limbo, a place between reality, where time, space, dimensions, life and death, as well as the dreamscape all meet, it’s complicated beyond belief, my advice? Don’t think about it too much.” Tony said as he explained to Michael but there was one thing Michael was confused about.
“How did you know I was going to ask?” Michael said as he looked at Tony, Tony chuckled at Michael's question, his muzzle slightly scrunching up as he did before replying.
“I’m your subconscious Michael, of course I know what you're going to say, but back to more pressing matters,” Tony said as his muzzle turned into a frown and his eyes hardened.
Michael tensed when he said this but listened to Tony.
“To make sure there is no confusion I need to explain a few things so listen closely” Michael nodded as Tony continued.
“As you have more than likely figured out time doesn’t work the same here as it does in the waking world, but what you haven’t figured out is by how much” He said as he looked at Michael.
“To put it simply, one day in the waking world is one year here, and according to my calculations it’s been about 2 years in the waking world, meaning 730 years here” Michael leaned back into his chair as he muttered out a sentence.
“730 years? Fuckkkkk” he then hunched over and held his head in his hands, he was having an overload of emotions, shock, fear, guilt, anger, and more running throughout his system.
“I know it’s shocking, but I didn’t pull you here to tell you that we have far more pressing matters to attend to.” Tony spoke before Michael slowly recovered from his overload and spoke to Tony.
“And just what would that be?” He said as he squinted at Tony. Tony looked down in thought, seeming to try and think about a way to explain it. He then spoke after what felt like a decade
“To put it simply, bioelectricity, as you most likely know it’s what allows people of most species to send commands throughout our body, up to moving our arms and walking, or subconsciously commanding our white blood cells, it’s even more important than air, as without bioelectricity our mind can’t spread the air around,” Tony explained as Michael listened on, intrigued as he continued listening
“But there's something else about bioelectricity that likely no one knows, in order to produce Bioelectricity a personality. To generate it. Like a car, or rather, an electric car, needs a driver to drive it, change its fluids, charge it, things like that.” Michael nodded as he listened intently to Tony's explanation.
“When our body lost its personality due to the splitting of you and Fox it went into a kind of coma to preserve bioelectricity, leaving only required organs working, that was up until 2 waking days ago when our body went critically low on bioelectricity and went even further to preserve itself, shutting off all organs except for the brain, leaving our body dead to medical professionals, meaning your body is more than likely in the morgue” Tony finished his mouth full and sat quietly.
Tony's British accent echoed throughout Michael's mind as his words played over and over again in his head.
“I’m fucking dead? Then why the fuck have I been fighting, 730 years wait no sorry only two, half my fucking suffering is a lie init?” Michael exploded slightly as he shot up and threw his arms into the air and waved them around slightly in anger.
Tony shook his head before he looked at Michael.
“Could I fucking finish ya halfwit motherfucker?” Michael froze, not expecting to hear the vulgar language that came out of the mouth of the wall-dressed Tony.
“Thank you, now as I was saying, while all our organs are shut off they can be turned back on, now that the body as a personality its bioelectric producers have started pumping out bioelectricity again, But here comes the problem.” Tony paused to take a breath then continued.
“We’re running out of time, we got lucky due to it being the end of the year, but in a few days the morgue staff will likely return to process our body and then burn it, killing us all, but I have a solution,” Tony said as he rested his head on his hands, Michael was beginning to get impatient as he looked at tony with annoyance in his eyes and voice as he spoke
“Can you get to the fucking point! We don’t have forever as you’ve just said” Michael crossed his arms as he spoke, his Manehattan accent slipping out.
Tony lifted his head off of his hands as he sighed and shook his head before speaking again.
“My solution is simple but highly risky with only a ten per cent chance of working,” Tony said, staring at Michael before picking up a slice of pizza and biting into it.
“And just what is this solution of yours?” Michael asked.
Tony chewed his pizza for a couple of seconds before swallowing it and explaining
“As I’ve told you our bioelectricity production is not enough to revive our body but I can send a shock of bioelectricity throughout our body, but with the current production it won’t work, but here's where Fox and I play into this idea, since we’re both technically fully formed personalities we can hop into the ‘backseat’ if you will, and cause the brain to produce more, then I can send the shock out and restart the body, it will have more than enough power to do it, the only problem is that much bioelectricity will most likely fry our brain” Tony finished his explanation as he sat back and watched for Michaels response.
Michael sat for a minute, only for a minute though as he spoke to tony.
“Do it” Michael said in a monotone voice as Tony nodded his head.
“Alright, but just so you know whatever happens is on you, Understand?” Tony said before closing his eyes, the shop began to rumble as Bolts of golden electricity started to spark all over the store, Tony openned his eyes again making gravity fuck off to get the milk as items around the shop (including the pizza) started to float upwards.
Tony's eyes glowed the same colour as the electricity, upon further inspection one would also see a tiny bolt of golden electricity darting around his eyes slightly coming out and hitting his muzzle, but doing no damage.
Tony’s eyes started to grow bright and brighter before finally two streams of lighting beams came out of Tony's eyes and hit michael in the face, Michael fells over as he sunk through his chair and the floor, he started getting that falling feeling you get in a dream right before you hit the floor and wake up.
He suddenly came to a stop as his world went black.
Pov: Michael John Rider
Location: ????
Time:????????
I took a breath of air as I stared into blackness.
‘Am I dead?’ I thought to myself as I breathed out, only to feel the hot air travel throughout my throat, through my muzzle, and out my mouth, but then I felt the air bounce off of something and onto my muzzle, into my eyes.
I was confused for a moment until I came to a conclusion.
“Okay, not dead” I paused as I heard my voice, it was gravely, and dry, but diffantly deeper.
‘Of course it’s deeper, it’s been like, two years, I’m 18 now, Fuck I’m old now’ I felt around my body, crueling my toes, tenseing and un tenseing my muscels, an scrunching up my muzzle, I realized I was in a laying position.
I tried to lift my head up to see where I was only to knock my horn on something in the dark.
“Ah Fuck!, stupid fucking horn, first your useless then your a burden! For fuck sake, anyway, where am I? Tony said I pretty much died and it’s really cold as well so I’m most likely in….” I paused as I processed my conclusion as dread fell upon me.
“A mortuary chamber, Fuck that's why it’s so damn cold, need to get out of here.” I thought out loud as I started shuffling a bit towards where I thought the door was.
Once I felt the cold metal door on my feet I tried to open it by pushing my foot against the door, when that didn’t work I started kicking.
‘I want out, I have not fought all this time just to be defeated by a door!’ My voice echoed throughout my mind as I started kicking harder and harder, feeling the door loosen. I gave one last mighty kick and with more force than I expected the door flew off hitting something or rather someone as I heard a Yell.
‘Okay one, how the fuck did I muster that much strength and two did I just nail a hospital staff in the face?’ I questioned what I had done before mentally shrugging and started shuffling out again, when my feet were out I noticed that the platform I was on had followed me slightly, realising that it must be one on wheels I planted my heels on each side of the chamber before pulling myself forward with them as hard as I could, which considering what I had just done in hindsight was a bad idea as I was sent flying out of the chamber onto the ground.
“FUCK!” I said as my ass hit the ground.
‘Pain, without end.’ I chuckled at my own pain as I groaned, I slowly recovered and stood back up, the room was big, it stunk of antiseptic disinfectant, and dead bodies, as well a smell of… fresh blood?.
I started to track down the smell using my equine nose, looking down I saw the door that had trapped me, seemingly I had fallen onto it, but just above the top of the door was a stallion which I couldn’t identify but I knew that he definitely wasn’t a unicorn judging by the lack of a horn, most of his body was covered by the door, with only his hands, feet and head being exposed, He wore a Balaclava on his head with only his eyes being visible.
Before I could inspect the man, who at this point had a puddle of blood forming around his head, I picked up the noise of another person breathing, looking to the source was a Light gold pegasus mare standing and staring at him, she was quite a bit shorter than me. Which is odd since she looked to be about 5’8 in height.
She had a decent bust from what I could tell through her green short sleeve shirt, not too big but still more than enough to catch the attention of any guy passing by, she had a decent bit of muscle from what I could tell from her little exposed skin.
On her lower half were brown cargo shorts and some black study-looking boots, with white socks peeking out.
She had a mane that was composed of several dark colours, those being Black, Very dark grey, Medium grey and Dark grey, her eyes were pinkish rose.
She was clutching at a bloodied part of her shirt located at her abdomen.
I was more than a bit concerned at this point as we just stared at each other, before I tried to break the silence.
“Um, hi?” I said, she looked at me for a few more seconds before finally responding. Her voice was slightly scratchy, but other then that, mature sounding
“What the fuck?”
To be continued.
Author's Note
Okay, kinda over did the words on dis one, I thank DJjabberwocky for editing this chapter
