Psychopathic protector

“What did you do!?” Barb asked in shock.

“We simply put him to sleep.” Luna said, looking confused. “Was that not the idea?”

“Ah think he meant after he was done explainin’ everything he kin do, Princess.” Applejack speaks honestly as Justin begins to snore.

“Oh?” Luna asked with a frown. “Our apologies.”

Suddenly, Justin begins to groan as he sits up and runs his forehead with his left hand. “Ugh… yeah, Sonic's definitely here…ow…”

“You spoke to someone in your head?” Rarity asked, looking confused.

“Yeah, kinda the only place we can talk to each other, in dreams….and Sonic is not happy with me at all, well, the original me that is.” Justin mumbled as he slowly stood up.

“What do you mean?” Celestia asked.

‘sigh’ “your going to want to take a seat for this.” Justin sighed before lifting his head to look at everyone…only to find Pinkie already handing out everyone soft cushions to sit on.

“One step ahead of you!” She said with a smile.

“I…fair enough, now, before I explain anything about the original me, I should explain about the energy I generate and control, I have no doubt you two can feel the power radiating off of me, Princesses.” Justin spoke as he turned to look at Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.

“Indeed.” Luna nodded a little. “You use chaos energy.”

“WHAT?!” Everyone minus, the princesses, Applejack, and the CMC exclaim in shock.

“Yes, I do. However, my Chaos energy does not come from the spirit of chaos.” Justin explains with a nod of his head.

“How is that possible!? Discord controls chaos itself!” Twilight yelled.

“Oh? What kind of chaos?” Justin asks as he looks Twilight in the eyes and smiles.

“W-what… kind?” She asked in confusion.

“Yes, positive, negative, insanity inducing, miracle making, calming, necessary, unnecessary, there are MANY different kinds of chaos out there.” Justin explains, his smile never leaving his face.

They all stayed quiet as if processing what they heard.

“Anyways, the type of chaos I use is the Miracle making type of chaos energy, the power to change fate itself, now, unlike Discord, I do not receive this energy naturally.” Justin explains, pausing to allow the others to process his words.

“You… don't?” Barb asked in confusion.

“No. I receive my Chaos energy through seven gems of near infinite power called the Chaos emeralds, legend says that when you bring all seven together, miracles happen. My existence is proof of what happens when someone uses the chaos emeralds when they are unstable.” Justin explains with a sigh.

“They can be unstable? They are not here are they?” Luna asked with a frown.

“...if they weren't, I wouldn't be alive, and they are right here, in me. I don't really know how it works, but the chaos emeralds can be physically absorbed into a being to grant them the chaos emeralds power.” Justin answers with a frown of his own.

“How would we be able to find out?” Twilight asked tilting her head in confusion.

“Simple, we don't. Cause I don't really like the thought of not existing just so you all can research clearly unstable artifacts of power.” Justin answers curtly as he crosses his arms.

“That's… a fair reason.” Applebloom said with a small nod.

‘sigh’ “the only problem with that, is that Sonic is still trapped within my mind, hm, I would ask some more questions to get caught up with what is important in this world…but we are in a library so…” Justin speaks before blitzing throughout the library, the ponies and dragoness only being able to see after images of Justin reading several books per every second.

“Whoa.” Barb said a look of aww on her face as her cheeks began to Glow with a red blush again. “H-he's so fast.”

“Not really, I'm just using the chaos emeralds to slow down time so I can read through everything quicker.” Justin replied, now standing next to Barb as his after images continue to read all the books in the library.

Barb jumped and looked at him suddenly with a surprised look, her blush deepening a little. “Y-you can't control time that's!?”

“Impossible? That's the whole point of chaos, to make the impossible possible, with no chaos, there will be no change, and believe me, that outcome is a lot worse than you might believe.” Justin explains as he looks at everyone around him.

Everyone stared at him in shock and awe, unable to process what they were seeing. ng.

“...yeah, don't try to think about it too much, the main function of the Chaos emeralds are to turn thought into power and reality, so it doesn't really follow logic all that much.” Justin shrugs as the after images of himself begin to fade, leaving a neatly packed pile of books in the corner of the room.

“So you just learned about everything from our world?” Twilight passed looking bewildered.

“Not really everything, most of the books were very educational, but. I still don't really know much about recent events.” Justin answered with a shrug.

“What kind of recent events would you like to know about, if you don't mind me asking?” Fluttershy said with a timid squeak to her voice.

Justin smiles gently at Fluttershy before answering. “Nightmare Moon and the elements of harmony, it is fairly obvious that the tale of the mare in the moon was about Celestia and Luna, and reading about Luna's transformation into Nightmare Moon worries me, as it reminds me of something from this body's original world.”

“How so?” Celestia asked, raising a brow.

“...it's called Dark Gaia, one half of the Gaia cycle, and the dark half of the force that created the chaos emeralds in the first place.” Justin mutters as he taps his foot in thought.

“I see, that is interesting.” Celestia said with a short and slow nod.

‘sigh’ “Dark Gaia has infected sonic with its dark essence before in the past, thankfully, it was awakened a millenia too early, otherwise sonic wouldn't have been able to do anything to stop it, even with the chaos emeralds fully on his side, consider yourselves lucky these ‘Elements of Harmony’ seem to have the same purifying properties as the positive energy within the chaos emeralds.” Justin explains as he rubs his temples with his left hand.

“So they're like the elements…” Twilight mumbled a little as she wrote everything down.

“Honestly, it makes sense, Chaos and Harmony are technically the same thing, if you look for the correct details that is.” Justin shrugs, not noticing the sudden silence in the room.

Everyone stared at him again before Barb spoke up. “How so?”

“Well, even if harmony and chaos are opposites, they need each other to exist, I think that's why this…Discord was it? Allowed himself to be defeated, because he knew that if there was too much chaos, and too little harmony, he himself would begin to fade away to restore balance, this is just a theory though.” Justin thought out loud.

Everyone stared at him again in surprise.

“...what? What is it? Is there something on my face?” Justin asks in genuine confusion.

“W-what you said… Discord, letting himself get defeated?” Twilight asked in shock.

“Well, it seemed obvious to me, he can change reality with a snap. I've seen Sonic face someone like that before…and he didn't stand a chance during their first fight.” Justin answered simply.

“That… makes sense.” Barb said slowly.

“Yeah, and honestly, did none of you ever question why Discord didn't just, you know, Teleport out of the way? I mean, I don't know how the Elements function, but if I had to guess using stereotypes, I'd say they emit a wave of purifying energy towards their target?” Justin asked with a tilt of his head.

Everyone looked at each other in surprise before nodding slowly. “That's… about it.” Rainbow said.

“Huh, intuition is twenty-twenty I guess.” Justin murmurs to himself.

Barb figited a little while glancing at him. “W-where are you going to live?”

“Eh, probably a forest, or wherever the wind takes me, though I'll definitely stay near this town most of the time, and before you say any objections to this, I can literally feel that this body is more comfortable outdoors than inside.” Justin replies with a shrug as he Pat's Barbs head.

Barb blushed more and nodded slowly as she looked away bashfully.

Justin chuckles before leaning against the wall. “Now, let's get back to what I can do with chaos energy shall we?”

“R-right. W-what else can you do?” Twilight asked.

“Hm, let's see, Teleport, slow down time to a stand still, fly, I'm practically invulnerable to damage, I can breathe in space, but strangely not underwater, I can emit spears of pure chaos energy, really just energy blasts, if someone else were able to use the same type of chaos energy as me, we could time travel, no telling what time we'd end up in though, chaos is random like that, repair damage to the fabric of reality, travel to different worlds….. really just anything you can think of I guess.” Justin lists off before blinking at the looks of disbelief on everyone's faces. “...too much?”

“T-that's… so cool!” Barb said with a wide smile.

“Only if it's used right, and I would know, the original me did NOT use chaos right at all…” Justin answered in a tone of shame, disappointment, and sadness as he looks away from everyone with a frown.

“He was a bad guy?” Pinkie asked.

“Oh, he was SO MUCH worse than a bad guy, he was a genuine psychopath…if I'm going to explain anything else, we should remove Bloomie, Scoots and Sweetie, it's not something they should hear.” Justin spoke with an edge of mild anger in his tone of voice.

Applejack nodded a little, before leading the girls out. “Aww come on!”

“.....alright, now that those three are out of here, who here is uncomfortable with blood and/or violence?” Justin asks, receiving gasps of shock.

“Blood/violence!” Everyone yelled.

“Yes.” Justin answers seriously. “Why do you think I look so feral.”

Everyone stared at him in shock and horror, each one slowly backing away.

“...you know, I expected this response like, half an hour earlier.” Justin mumbled with a shake of his head and a chuckle. “I ain't gonna hurt ya, it'd be stupid of me to do so, you six are directly connected to the fundamental force of harmony, you two command the sun and moon, and you, you're just too damn cute to harm.”

Everyone looked at each other while Barb blushed redder, looking away as her hips swayed a little.

“Look, I ain't the original Fleetway, and what he does makes me sick in the gut too, I mean, the literal only emotion he was capable of feeling was anger.” Justin speaks with a mock gag.

“Only anger? Why?” Rarity asked with a frown.

“It was the first emotion he ever felt from the moment the chaos emeralds created him within Sonic's mind, technically, Fleetway, and now I, am just a transformation for Sonic, we are incomplete because we have minds of our own. And that fact infuriated Fleetway to no end as he wanted a body of his own, and that anger festered every time his time in control ran out and he was forced back into the back of Sonic's mind. To be honest, I'm surprised I'm still in control.” Justin explains as he paces back and forth with a thoughtful expression on his face.

“Maybe because you're not him?” Barb asked him, putting her hands behind her back cutely.

“Maybe… but if that were the case, I wouldn't have a version of Sonic in my head…or is it that I'm in his head controlling his body? Oh for the love of Chaos, why is this so confusing…” Justin grumbles to himself as he facepalms.

“Because it's chaos?” Pinkie asked with a giggle.

“...right.” Justin deadpans.

Barb giggled a little before looking at Twilight. “What do we do now?”

“Hm, well it's getting pretty late, I'd say it'd be best for us all to get some sleep and continue discussing everything tomorrow?” Twilight suggests.

All the ponies slowly nodded a little. “That is a good idea.” Luna said with a smile.

“It is, now, while I don't think I even have a need for sleep, I'll probably end up putting myself to sleep so I can explain the situation to Sonic, I'll meet you all back here tomorrow!” Justin waves before snapping his fingers and disappearing in a flash of blue light.

The ponies looked at each other again, unsure how to continue.