To say the walk through the Everfree was uneventful would be a half-truth, for the only thing that happened was the cutie mark crusaders asking the armored trooper question after question.

"Hey Lucky where are you from?"

"A land far far far away. I don't think you would heard of it,"

"Mr. Lucky why does your helmet look like it's frowning?"

"I think it was a design choice. Don't know the reasoning in the design,"

"Lucky? If you don't me asking are you a soldier or something?"

"You can say that,"

"Ohhhhhh!" The girls looked at him in awe.

"What kind of army are you a part of!"

"Are you some kind of new equestrian guard?!"

"How many bad guys did you get?!"

"Uhhhhh," TK-777 cleared his throat upon making it to a clearing. "Is that ponyville?"

He pointed to the clearing, the girls turned to see sure enough they had made it back into town after the long walk of twenty questions.

"Well, I think you girls for the help. I would have been lost in that forest if it was for the three of you. But I think it's time for me to be my way," The trooper thanked but the the CMC whined giving him the cutest set of puppy dog eyes he had ever seen.

"Awwwww do you have to go?"

"Why don't we show you around? If you have never been to Ponyville you have to meet Pinkie Pie!"

"Yeah! Or better yet I bet Rainbow Dash would want to meet you too!"

Waving his hand he chuckled.

"I be alright girls," Placing his hands on his belt he looked at them. "But I'm sure we'll see each other again,"

"Awww pleaseeeeee," The girls looked up at him, but the trooper resisted their attempt of pulling a 'puss in boots' and shook his head.

"Sorry girls I got to meet up with someone in town. Hopefully,"

"Aw man... but at least tell us what you are," Scootaloo asked while the other girls nodded.

He grunted knowing they'll bug him more about it if he didn't tell them now, and he really didn't need a set of tails following him around town. The white armor he wore made it clear he would stand out already but hopefully, the school was already set up and maybe he wouldn't get as many stares.

Then again that is a big ask seeing this was MLP.

"If you must know. I'm what's called a Stormtrooper," TK-777 answered causing the girls to look at him confused.

"What's a Stormtrooper?"

"Yeah I want to know too,"

"Do you do something with rain or thunder?"

He looked at them again and shook his head.

"Well, maybe I'll tell you girls if we ever meet again. But I really gotta go now girls," He began to walk away. "Be safe you three and stay out of trouble now,"

The girls, all be it hesitantly, waved goodbye while he walked into town.

Watching him go into town the girls looked at one another and smiled.

"I gotta tell Pinkie and my sister!"

"I'm going to tell Rarity!

"I'm going to tell Rainbow Dash first!"
The CMC bolted off to tell about their new friend they made in the Everfree, unaware of what was about to unfold from their innocent actions.

'So this is Ponyville? Different than in the show,' Walking down the town with the few ponies staring at him, he did feel like he was standing out but to his suprise, the ponies weren't freaking out or giving him the same treatment as they did to Zecora when she first came into town.

"Hello there traveler!" A voice spoke up causing the Trooper to turn what seemed like a food stand. "Would I interest you in some cabbages? You must have traveled a great deal and must be very hungry,"

The tan-colored pony in green clothes smiled at him with a cabbage in hand.

"No thank sir I'm good. Say, have we met before? You look familiar," TK-777 asked the cabbage merchant.

"I think not traveler. I've started my business last week and I never seen a pon-er-anyone like you before," The sell pony stated.

"Right," The stormtrooper looked at the cart full of cabbages. "Business has been good?"

The cabbage seller smiled at TK-777 while putting the cabbage back.

"Not yet not many ponies like cabbages but I'm sure the changelings and the griffins will be flocking to my stand in no time,"

'So the school is a thing. Good to know,'

"Yeah and who knows you might be able to make a thriving company out of cabbages," The cabbage seller laughed at the Trooper's words.

"That's my plan!"

"If you don't mind me asking is this the shopping distract?" The trooper asked the pony who shook his head.

"No, The market street is that way," The Cabbage merchant points out causing the Stormtrooper to look back here.

"Then why are you here and not up there?" The trooper asked to which the Merchant smiled.

"Well. I decided to set up here because this spot is right between the school of friendship and the dorms of the students so I can sell to them as they come back from School,"

"Do they come back this way from their School," The trooper's words seemed to cause the Merchant to think for a moment.

"Well no. Only a few of them come back this way and not many of them buy my cabbages. Most of them go to the sugar cube corner after School to hang out,"

"Where is that?" The trooper asked.

"Just beside the market street,"

"Why not put it between the sugar cube place and the market? I'm sure you'll get both students and other customers," The Trooper pointed out. "I'm sure they'll buy from you since I'm guessing the students need to eat something else with sugar and you'll be the first food cart they see when going to the market,"

The cabbage pony went wide-eyed at the realization.

"That's not a bad idea. Thank you, friend,"

Nodding TK-777 waved to the shopkeeper as he began to pack up his cart and move to market place.

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"Get your fresh carrots here! The element of Kindness gets them here!"

"Gems! Great to wear or to eat! Spike the dragon hero of the crystal empire buys my gems!"

"I have fabric that Rarity uses in all her dresses!"

"Boots, Ropes, and all of work equipment. Applejack approved!"

'Man, they're using the elements to sell their product here,'

TK-777 slowly walked down the shopping district he while being constantly hit with advertisement being shoved into his face like this was some flea market. Carefully avoiding any unwanted sales, he looked for a different kind of shop than some stall selling a bunch of Rainbow Dash mechanize.

'Where the hell is this Apprentice? I mean where else would a Merchant apprentice be besides a village infected by smart zombies?'

Eyes darting around from behind his visor the trooper sadly didn't see anything that stood out, He almost gave up thinking that the Merchant might have cheated him on this one.

That was until his HUD lit up with text on his face.

SHOP LOCATED!

Surprised at the sudden wall of text TK-777 watched the text shrink as a marker appeared on his HUD's compass. Recalling his conversation with the Merchant before, the Stormtrooper mimicked his movement from before.

'Could have just told me that,'

Shaking his head from the memory TK-777 followed the marker which led him into a small alleyway that didn't have much going for it besides resting on the right side of an old-looking building.

The marked door didn't seem that out of the ordinary besides a familiar symbol carved just above the doorknob.

A seven with two marks on its top left side.

Nothing that wouldn't seem like some random bit of graffiti.

But a Star Wars nerd knew what it was: the symbol of a galactic Credit.

Opening the wooden door he entered into a small space, barely bigger than a walk-in closest.

Shelves were lined up on the wall on the right with a small desk at the end of the room just before a door resting behind it, along with someone standing at the desk. A merchant but this wasn't the same merchant, rather a much different figure stood waiting for him.

"Hello Stranger I've been expecting you," A feminine voice greeted him while her glowing eyes stared at him.

He couldn't make out the merchant that was in front of him, but he could easily make out the merchant's outfit all be it different. A purple mask was over her face with the same stitchwork as the Merchant before her along with a large baggy hood resting over her head. Besides the clear difference in gender, she had white locks of hair dangling from under her hood.

Another factor that he could tell that made her far different from her counterpart was the fact she wasn't human or at the very least not human-shaped. The hood she had on had two hood ears but if they were either ears or horns the trooper couldn't tell, plus there was the fact that her face wasn't flat but once again he couldn't tell what she was.

But that didn't really bother him, as she provides him with the services he was promised.

"I can see," Taking a step to the counter desk he watched as she leaned on the desk her arms on the top while staring at his helmet. "So you going to tell me how this works?"

"I will but I got to ask. How are you liking this fresh start of yours?" The Merchant lady asked to which TK-777 shrugged.

"Surprisingly smooth. Meet the CMC and they helped me to town," TK-777 explained. "Good kids but ask a lot of questions,"

"I bet. So what name did you give them?" The merchant asked to which the trooper shrugged.

"I gave them a nickname really,"

"Oh~?" The merchant placed her head in her hands eager to hear what he chose.

"Lucky. In hindsight I should have something different than Boba's code name," TK-777 words made her giggle at his answer.

Holding her chin she looked up at him.

"I was right. You're such a nerd," The trooper crossed his arms at that but she waved at him. "In a good way! In a good way! I would be where I am if I wasn't a nerd myself,"

"How so?"

"It's complicated and a long story," The merchant went wide-eyed for a moment before leaning in across the counter. "Alex!"

"What?"

"Asher! It's a name related to fortune or luck! Why not take that for your new name," Looking at her he hummed in thought for a moment.

"I don't know. I know only one person with that name and he tried to rebuild Pittsburg using 'forced labor' and Raiders," Once again the Merchant gave a playful laugh.

"God you such a nerd,"

Grunting he stared at her as the Merchant playful kicked her legs, and that was when he saw something moving above her legs in the dark. Yet due to how dark it was, he couldn't rightfully make out what it was, almost looked like a tail but what kind he didn't know.

"If you don't like that name how about Boone it is a name referring to luck," Looking back at him the Merchant mask moved into what he could guess was a smile. "Or do you not want to be the NCR's version of Crosshair?"

"What about Alex?" The merchant asked causing the Trooper to think for a moment.

'Could work out... and there was that Trooper who was friends with Luke named Alex,'

"Alex is fine," The Trooper watched his benefactor stand back up. "What about you?"

"What?" She blinked at his question.

"What do I call you? Xura?" The saleswoman rolled her eyes at his comment.

"No... besides that will be confusing for me to tell Mentor Xur," She tapped her chin and snapped her fingers. "Cordelia,"

"Cordelia?" Hearing himself say that he nodded. "What does that name mean?"

"Wealth," She tilted her head towards him with a playful wink.

"Fair enough," Alex stated, he watched Cordelia open her coat like her counterpart.

Dozens of different pieces of combat equipment from Star Wars rested in sleeves and pockets waiting to be used, she reached into one of the pockets pulled out a long piece of equipment, and placed it on the counter.

"Put this on your left arm," She told him while turning back to her coat pockets.

Reaching for the item he held it, it was a long piece of something. He couldn't tell what it was except it matched his white armor and had two hinges that seemed to look like they could hook into the gaps in his gauntlet.

"Why my left?" Cordelia stopped going through her pocket.

"Are you right-hand or left-handed?"

"I'm Right handed,"

"Then I would recommend you install it on your offhand," Turning back to what she was doing Alex looked at the device.

Doing what she asked he was surprised to see with a simple pull the device snapped into his gauntlet.

"Now what?"

"Think about turning it on," Cordelia explained while placing a second item on the desk.

"What?"

"Just do it," The merchant's words caused him to turn back to his left arm.

He lifted his arm staring at it before looking at the merchant after doing what she asked.

"So what should be-" Stopping at the sight of a holographic screen appearing above his arm he was surprised to see what had happened.

"It should be connected with the system give it a second,"

"What system," Alex asked but Cordelia pointed back to the holo screen.

Turning back to it he was surprised to see what looked like a web browser now on the holographic image: items, prices, and goods all were before his eyes.

"Hot damn," He placed a finger on the holo screen to which it responded in turn as if it was a touch screen. "That's a lot of stuff,"

"So what I gave you was an uplink disk to all the items and equipment I can provide for you along with your balance," Cordelia pointed out.

"Where can I- Nevermind I see it," Tapping on it Alex blinked in shock. "Credits? Where am I supposed to find credits? They use bits here,"

"That's where this comes in," She pushed a small tray-like item towards him which he took up, and to the Stormtrooper's surprise, it opened up becoming much bigger. "That is a personal resource device. It will store any bits you get along with any other valuables you come across,"

"How?"

"Think of the PRD as a bag of holding," Cordelia explained pointing to the large tray before moving over to the holoscreen. "And think of that as a fancy holographic catalog,"

Looking at each item the stormtrooper watched as the device in his right hand folded down to a much smaller shape that can easily be stored in his belt. Placing the device away he returned to the hologram on his arm.

"Wait I can buy anything?" TK-777 asked to which she nodded leaning back onto the desk.

"Within reason of course. No Deathstars or Starforges. Not like the entire value of this world has what it takes to buy one,"

"But I can buy an Imperial Star Destroyer?" Cordelia answered with a masked smile while he pointed at the holographic image of an ISD.

"Of course stranger! But it'll cost you one hundred and fifty million credits not to mention the cost of fuel and the droid crew since I doubt any of the locals can be trusted to maintain or know how to run such a monster," She hummed. "However it is on the table if you can afford it,"

"What I can get droids?" She nodded as he quickly typed into the holoscreen's search bar, he froze at the image on display seeing the familiar black and yellow droid on screen. "Shut up,"

Turning to the merchant who simply smiled at his reaction of what he was looking at.

"I can get one of these!"

"Yep if you got the money," He nodded at her answer but was still happy that a favored assassin droid was in the store for purchase. "But there is something you should know,"

Turning to her the Storm trooper watched as she reached across to the hologram. Tapping an iconic, it switched to a series of items going for sale, these items however weren't any he was familiar with.

"Flash training modules?"

"Do you know how to pilot a tie fighter?" Cordelia asked to which the stormtrooper shook his head. "Then you buy one of those to learn how to pilot all fighters in the Empire's Lineup,"

She pointed to one of the Flash training modules.

"Alright, that makes sense I guess. Although these feel like DLC for this second chance of mine,"

"Don't say that. The boss added in these modules to make things easier for you plus he told me to give you this one for free," Tapping one of the modules Alex took a step back as data filled his mind.

"What the hell was that?" Blinking at what had transpired right before his eyes he turned to Cordelia.

"Basic combat training module. You are going to need it," Stepping back toward her TK-777, he shifted, trying to process the data now burned into his mind.

"Feels weird,"

"Don't worry about it. The side effects should fade in a few," Cordelia assured. "Now then the matter of credits,"

"Yeah, I was wondering that,"

"So the PRD I gave you will store all your bits and convert them into credits for the store. Luckily for you since the value of a bit compared to a credit is very different I'm pleased to tell you one equestrian bit is equaled to five credits," Cordelia explained.

"So Thirty thousand bites would get me that destroyer right?" Alex asked to which she nodded. "Damn,"

"Also if you need to. You can pull any money you put in for any other merchants her in Equestrian but why would you? You have me," The merchant pridefully states with a hand over her chest. "I am also the only one that can give you deals based on contracts,"

"Contracts?"

Tapping his screen again TK-777 looked at the series of data.

"These look like game achievements," Alex pointed out.

"They kind of are," The merchant shrugs. "But they're reusable and opinionable to choose so you don't have to go out of your way,"

"Un-huh,"

"You can ignore them if you want but they will stack if you complete a contract so all you have to do is cash them in to transfer the credits," Cordelia informed. "Also any valuable that is isn't a bit you transfer into your account will be held in store until you bring it back out or sell it to me over the holodisk disk,"

"That might be useful,"

"Plus any items that you might not need anymore can be sold back to me too but at half the value," Cordelia leaned in grabbing his chest plate to pull him close. "But don't get smart and try to sell me trash. I've been told what you do in those type of games do you understand me lucky?"

She glared at him causing the trooper to nod.

"Great," Letting him go and returning to her casual manner. "Than were good here,"

"What do you mean?"

Cordelia gave him an amused look.

"I got you all set up here, soldier, as the contract with my boss stated. So unless you got anything to sell our business for the day is done," The Merchant answered causing him to hum. "Unless you want to take me out for dinner?"

The trooper shifted her comment while she winked at him.

"But you might want to get some money first before you ask me," Standing up she waved to him. "See you around. Stranger,"

Walking to the door to the room she left the stormtrooper alone in the dark room, tempted to follow her to see where the door goes he decided to fight that urge. Best not to seem like a creep to the person who seems to know a lot about him, and with that, he turned to leave the Merchant's shop and back into the busy street of Equestria's little town.

'Now... where in the blazes am I supposed to get bits?'

"Hey Storm boy!" A voice called out causing Alex to turn toward it.

Suddenly a fist impacted his chest, in shock back the attack he barely registered it as the force behind the punch sent him flying through the street stumbling in a ball roll. His armor cracked and chipped as he ragged dolled but luckily the armor protected him from the attack.

Mostly at least.

Slamming into a crate of rugs, Alex groaned in pain his body hissed in pain while he attempted to stand back up from the surprise attack. Shaking his head he stood up slightly bruised from the impact but quickly he drew his blaster not knowing who or what hit him.

'Why the heck did I just- oh. Her,'

A familiar daredevil stood a few feet away from the stormtrooper with a look of determination on her face.

"You're really an idiot if you think that you can sneak your way into our home like this after what the Stormking did," Rainbow Dash warned fist raised.

'Stormking why would I... oh no. Scootaloo should have known she would tell her. But why does she think I'm-'

Alex barely dodged in time as Rainbow launched herself at him fist swinging but the stormtrooper moved out of her way. Stepping aside he took a few steps back to get some space between her and himself but Rainbow Dash stepped forward fists still raised.

"Lady, what is your problem? No one is sneaking!"

"Save it you white shell snake!"

Throwing another fist, Alex pushed her fist away from him as he sidestepped surprising both Rainbow and himself in the process.

'Okay, I regrate calling those modules DLCs,'

"Look lady I have no idea what kind of deathsticks you are smoking but I don't know who a Storm King alright!"

"Such your trap you damn lair! Trying to groom fillies into trusting your kind! I don't think so," Rainbow threw punch after punch but Alex dodged each attack like it was nothing while turning his blaster to stun.

Getting more distance again the stormtrooper held his blaster but didn't aim it at her, he didn't want to escalate things.

"Lady I'm just passing through not looking for trouble but I will defend myself if necessary," Rainbow didn't listen.

"RAAHHHHHH!" Zooming forward to him Alex didn't have time to react to Rainbow's inhumanly fast punch, the moment the fist hit his faceplate he regretted not stunning her as he was ragdoll again throwing across the street into a familiar cart as if broken from his impact.

"NOOOO! MY CABBAGES!"

TK-777 rose from the ruined vegs looking at his acquaintance from moments ago who was holding the ruined greens.

"Screw this," Alex raised his blaster seeing Rainbow coming at him again.

But with a single pull of the trigger, a blue ring was fired in her attack path hitting her causing the daredevil to stumble and ragdoll across and this time into the ruined cart head first. The cabbage pony passed out after seeing it, Alex reached for the merchant to help him but turned as he heard the familiar sound of magic being used.

Turning around he froze in place as a purple aura surrounded him causing the Stormtrooper to only move his eyes upon seeing the rest of the elements who didn't seem happy with him.

'Well, so much for passing through,'

Author's Note

AS PROMISED! 4k+ words, chapter 3 wasn't finished before we got the hotspot working so I hope you guys would enjoy this at least.

Don't worry I have at least 900 words in it.

Now for the story, I did some editing though out but since I'm not on my usual device to write these stories I might miss some error (more than usaul) so I do apologize. For Cordelia wouldn't really be a love interest for the MC, even though I did think about it but I'm still on the fence.

But I'm thinking the two would remain with a professional behavior with some light flirting, Speaking of the Merchant I did heavy consider a... not so well know but spicy character but decided against it so people wouldn't hate this story, more than normal.

Lets just say she would match the Stormtroopers black and white armor.

Any way, TK-777's name is Alex and his nick name is 'lucky' because of the star wars nerd I am I decided to name him after a Stormtrooper who befriend Luke Skywalker in legends before giving his life for his friend.

What else?

Right like a good Displaced/MLP isekai we got rainbow throwing hands because of a misunderstanding which I could use as good reason. It'll be explained in chapter 3 but until then you have to wait for me to get it ready while I need to wait for a hotspot usage.

Now I wasted enough time in these notes so before the hotspot gets turned off I'll saved this and hopefully you'll get it in time lads and lasses.

Till next time.