The Forge Chronicles

Chapters

Chapter 1: Unexpected People in Unexpected Places
Chapter 2: Getting Acquainted with an Old Friend
Chapter 2.5: Jake's Awkward Encounter
Chapter 3: And Then There Were 11

Chapter 1: Unexpected People in Unexpected Places

Episode 1: The Awakening

Chapter 1

Unexpected guests.

I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Alex Kalen. My family consists of my stepbrother Jake, who is 27 years old. My dad disappeared 2 years ago. The only thing I knew about my stepmother was that her full name was Katherine Jane Macgrath Kalen. Anyways my story on how my life was turned upside down began with terrible news.

The news was hard on all of us. It had been several days since the Empire Event happened off the East Coast. My older brother and I watched the news and were kept in touch by our cousin in New Marais. Thats right, I was the 25 year old cousin of Cole Macgrath. His death hit us hard, he sacrificed his life to save the millions that were on Death’s doorstep. I was heartbroken for several days.

Jake tried to cheer me up, said that things would get better soon. It worked, for a while. Sometimes, when no one was home, I would try and lift my spirits by watching MLP: FiM. Even that didn't work.

Then one day, a visitor was knocking on our door. I answered the door and I almost lost it; there, standing in the doorway was Cole very much alive. He explained to us on how he survived, and that the lightning bolt that brought him back to life gave him a new power. Ever since the RFI blast all conduits dropped dead, but out of a miracle Cole and all pre conduits were kept alive. He didn't come here without a reason. Then he turned to me and said, "How would you like to join the band of freaks?"

We instantly got to work on my powers. I had all of the same electric powers that Cole possessed plus some. The new powers included creating portals and inhanced swordsmanship skills. We practiced for a whole week; all while Jake was crafting his own weapons to use in combat. His masterpiece was a green bladed lightsaber.

One night, a thought crossed my mind, “What would happen to my powers if I overcharged myself?”

“Hey man, look. Are you sure you want to do this,” my brother said. “Have you ever heard the saying power corrupts?”

“Yes I have,” I said to my worrisome brother,“I’ve been dying to do this all night, just go.”

3 hours later....

“All right it's ready to go,” Cole said, “But I still have a bad feeling about this.”

The next few hours were filled with chaotic results. Apparently, my powers would be amped to 100x their strength if overcharged. However, that's where the madness began; the final power to be overcharged was ionic portal. I shot one portal into space and the other on the ground, at first nothing happened. Until the portal on the ground became a swirling vortex of.....Magic? I didn’t know what to think. Then, all three of us were sucked into the vortex, unaware of our destination.

15 minutes later....

“Alex...Alex do you read me?!”

“...*Grown...wa-what happened?”

I awoke to the sound of my brother calling me worried sick. “Thank god you’re alright,” Jake praised. After that I checked myself to see what changed.

I still had my powers. Thats good.

And my trusty machete was still on my back. That even better.

But then I remembered what happened. Slowly, I surveyed the area I was in, and began to feel dread creep into my soul.

“Hey Jake,” I said, “Is Cole with you?”

“No,” he said. “Come to think of it, I haven’t seen him since that vortex swallowed us up. Speaking of which, where are you at the moment?”

“I seem to have landed in a forgotten castle,” it was true. The walls looked like they could fall down any moment. The room, in which I was currently in, had a strange familiarity to it.
Please don’t tell me this is the Palace of the Two Sisters.

Sure enough, it was. Everything in the chamber was just as I saw it in the battle against Nightmare Moon.

But wait, if this is the temple, that means......OH GOD NOOOO!!!! In that instant I realised Cole, Jake and I had landed in Equestria.

However, something was off about the Palace. Toward the back of the room there was a strange coffin against the back wall, with a beam shooting into it. Strange as it was, the beam was coming from a red longsword, locked in a pedestal with ancient markings.

I tried lifting the sword but it wouldn’t budge. Suddenly, I felt a massive headache come over as I collapsed to the floor. In that instant, a vision from beyond told me what was in that coffin.

In the beginning of time God himself was creating his latest masterpiece, the Universe. However, this project was too great for him to do alone; so he created a being in his own image to help him make the worlds.
God named his helper by his job, The Forge.
The duo had it all planned out. The Forge was to craft the worlds, each world was similar yet unique in some way. And God made the creatures that would live, breath, and work in those worlds.

Centuries later, the Forge overlooked the current lifeforms in each of his masterpieces. What he saw baffled him, each and every creature shunned the Forge for all of his hard work. Jealousy, consumed the Forge which led to hatred. The Forge turned on his creator and made his own greatest worlds burn. For his act of darkness, God separated The Forge’s body, and spirit and sealed them away. The demon's prison was a coffin that contained the body, a red longsword that trapped the spirit, and a short sword combined with the power of 8 artifacts to act as the lock.

The Forge was put to sleep for many years to come. However, legend said that if six creatures from other worlds would end up into the world where the Forge was kept, the lock would shatter. The evil would wake up, and begin his plan to copy every creature, destroy all worlds, and create his own world to rule the whole of creation.

“...Whoa,” I said, after I recovered from the vision. Afterwards, I looked towards the sun to see what time it was. It was mid afternoon, around 4:00-4:45 PM.
“Uhh, brother, are you ok?”

“Wha, yeah I’m fine. Where are you right now?”

Suddenly, a familiar voice called my name in panic, “Alex...Alex come in...do you read me,” it was Cole. “I need your help, NOW!”

“I’ll have to get back to you soon Jake. Cole’s in serious trouble,” I replied.

I made my way to the exit and found out that the castle was in the middle of a gigantic forest, resembling one from earth. While I was traveling through the forest, a familiar tune popped into my head.

The whole forest seemed to come alive to the tune, every so often I would hear a bird whistle in time with the music. The forest had plenty of obsticals to get through: ridges, raging rivers, thorn bushes, rocky clifts, and a vast amount of plant-life. As soon as I found Cole exhausted, the music ended. But that was not the only thing I saw. On the battlefield there were these familiar corpses that had the body of a lion, tails like a scorpion, and the wings of a bat (BECAUSE IT’S MIDNIGHT!!!).

Sorry......had to do that.
“What happened here,” I said.

“I should ask you the same thing cousin,” Cole replied. Back on Earth I was a closet brony meaning that all my friends, even some of my family, didn’t know of my secret joy. So you could tell what my reaction was from the Manticore corpses, FREAKED OUT. But eventually, someone had to find out. So I began to explain to Cole about how I knew about those monsters, and what world we are stuck in.
“Well Cole, it all started a few months ago...”

15 minutes later.....
“And thats why I know what those beasts where, and where we are,” I finished.

“Okay, so let me get this straight,” Cole replied. “We’re in a land that is ruled by talking magic ponies. And to top it all of, Jake is NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!”

“Pretty much, yeah.” I then realised that it was getting dark, and we needed to find a place to sleep. Maybe there was a town nearby? “Hang on, I gonna check if there is a town nearby.”

I lept into the air to get a birds eye view of the forest. What I saw baffled me. To the far north of us, there was the largest mountain I ever saw. Near the middle of said mountain there was a large, regal looking castle, with a city at its base.

Canterlot Castle?!? No way we're going up there.

I shifted my gaze to the west and found a small, familiar looking town. And an all too familiar cottage near the edge of the forest.
Ponyville. I think thats our best bet.

I dropped back down to the ground with a resounding *THUD. “Okay, I saw a town not that far away from here to the west.”
“Alright, lets get movin,” Cole said.

The night came earlier than I expected. Already I could feel many eyes watching us as we made our way to the town. Most of them were not friendly eyes. To keep me from thinking about the watchers, I looked up into the sky. My reaction...lets just say I never saw a more beautiful night in my life, until now.
Eventually, we reached a swamp. The marsh was too thick for us to get through. All of a sudden, a familiar feeling of dread crept in my stomach. Then it happened, bubbles started to form in the mud. They started out slow, until they grew savage. And then, the swamp released the beast within.

“HYDRAAAA!!!”
That thing looked mad and ready to kill. So we did what a normal conduit would do.
We. Fought. Back.
The next few minutes were filled with blasts of lightning, grenades of ice, and some sharp wits. Eventually, I came up with an idea. "Cole! You still got your ionic storm power," I shouted
"YEAH," he screamed.
"LET'S LIGHT THIS OVERSIZED LIZARD UP!!!"

(KRA-KA-BOOM!!!)
The beast never stood a chance from our combined ionic storm. After the battle, I couldn’t help but realise that we created quite the light show in the night sky.
Oh boy...But if we caused that much commotion, that means...*GASP!

“We have created countless nights in the past before. But what we, *ahem-I saw tonight, I can not thank...whatever thou are, enough for your, how do ponies today put it? Ah yes, your ‘light show,’” Came an oh so familiar voice from behind us.

Slowly, we turned around to find the princess of the night herself. Oh. My. God. I couldn’t believe it, standing here was Luna in the flesh. Everything I saw from the show was spot on, down to the smallest detail. With that in mind I gained some courage and spoke, “Uh...yea-yea uh you're welcome, Princess Luna.”
“How does thou know our name? And more importantly, what are thou?” She replied, surveying the carnage we caused.

“It’s a long story,” I replied. “Do you have anywhere for us to rest? That battle really drained us.”

It didn’t take long for the princess to notice the carnage we caused. “Oh my, y-you two destroyed a Hydra, all by yourselves” she replied, with a concerned look on her face. “Well...you can stay at the castle for now. But in the morning both of you have to give me and my sister a proper explanation of your arrival.”

“Thank you your highness,” I replied.

I think the rest of our arrival you already know....Celestia.

Author's Note

Just an idea I had in mind after finishing inFAMOUS 2.
The rest of the story might be told in 3rd person or 1st, depending on my way of writing.

Anyways, thanks for reading and stick around, because things are about to get epic. Oh, and in case your wondering, the time period in Equestria is two days before the Grand Galloping Gala.
So you can imagine the fun thats about to happen.

Until then, this is Sirjadan13 signing out.
But before I go, see if you can spot the Homestar Runner reference in the story.

Chapter 2: Getting Acquainted with an Old Friend

Chapter 2
Getting Acquainted with an Old Friend

After I was finished with our story of how we got here, Celestia had a thoughtful gaze upon us. But before she could say something, a familiar voice caught me off guard.

“Well, well, well. It appears that I’m not the only human that was saved from death’s icy grip,” he said. We turned our gaze to the newcomer. I didn’t know who he was, but Cole recognized him, and almost blasted him right on the spot.

He stood a few inches taller than Cole, eyes that glowed blue, trench coat that was white as snow, and a robotic arm and chest piece with bright blue lights. Standing right before us was someone that Cole thought was dead.

“Kessler.”

“In the flesh,” he replied

The tension was so thick in the room, you could cut it with my machete. Before someone could blast a bolt, Celestia separated Cole and Kessler away from each other. Once that was done she spoke. “I bet you’re wondering how he is alive. Well let me explain,” she began, but was cut off by Kessler.
“Actually, you're highness. I think it would be better if I told them my side first.”

After I had told Cole the truth, that I was him from the future and that I molded him into the hero I failed to be, I began to slip away from the land of the living. Yet......fate seemed to have other plans for me.
Somehow my spirit was left behind, and I watched you achevements of heroism in the following month. Your first fight with the beast, the destruction of Empire City, and your great sacrifice with the RFI. As soon as you were gone, (or so I thought) I began to slip away into Heaven. But then, a light flashed before my eyes, and a grand, booming voice spoke out to me.

"Look at what you've done Kessler. You have created a hero on Earth, and have saved millions," it was god himself that spoke to me. "However your time is not yet over. You are needed in another relm. A shadow threatens its heart."
He paused, "But fear not. I will lead you toward your newfound companians, help you overcome a conflict with one of the heroes, and guide you all to victory!"

Then, somehow, the light got brighter than before. And then, everything got quiet. Suddenly, I found myself in the room we're standing in. Celestia found me, wounded from my trip, and took me into the royal healing room. I recovered from all of my wounds, and told Celestia who I was and how I got here.

"And so here we are, where it all conects."
As soon as he was done speaking, I realised that we forgot about Jake. Fearing that he wasn't going to be happy with me, I returned his call.
"Jake. Can you still hear me," I began.

There was a long pause, which began to worry me. Suddenly I could faintly hear hushed voices asking startled questions, then they stopped. Finally, Jake answered in a loud whisper, "Where the heck have you been man!"

"Jake, I am deeply sorry-" I began, but was cut off by him.

"I don't want to hear it. Yesterday was the worst. Day. EVER!"
This could be bad. In all my life, Jake never got this upset, until now. "First you get the bright idea to overcharge yourself, sending us to lord knows where! Second I come across this cottage who the only one living there is a pink haired pegasus pony, who got the crap scared outta her just by looking at me and finally, the rest of her friends came along and started asking me stupid questions like, 'where do you come from, what is your species, and do you like parties?' You've got some explaining to do Alex, and I'm not hanging up until I get answers!"

Now, I'm willing to admit that it was time to tell him the truth. But just before I was about to Celestia replied as if she was listening to my conversation, "You can find out the answers in person. I have a train set up with a private trip to Ponyville. You can thank me later."

I was shocked about how she gave us that trip. So I ended my call, much to Jake's dismay, and agreed to the princeses's terms. Soon after, Cole, Kessler, and I were off to the train station. But just before we left, Celestia had one final thing to say. "Oh! I just remembered," She reached with her magic to grab something. She gave me a letter filled with 6 tickets. However, they were not for the train.
"When you come back here in a few days with my student, those tickets should come in handy."
Well that was weird.

When we got to the train station, their was a guard escort waiting for us. They gave us a salute and lead us in the train. As we were speeding off through the scenery, we caught a glimpse of the sun rising from the eastern mountains. It was truly a sight to behold.

Soon, the train ride came to a stop. And who was there to greet us, you might ask. Well none other than my pissed off brother and his six new friends.
I am so dead.

Author's Note

Sorry for this chapter being late. Had a bad case of writers block. But anyway, next chapter, Alex gets properly introduced to the Mane 6, as well as get his groove on for the upcomming Gala.

I might need some help with the next few chapters, so if anyone in the comments wants to help, give me a shout.
Until then, This is Sirjadan13 signing out. Happy reading!

Chapter 2.5: Jake's Awkward Encounter

Chapter 2.5

Jake’s Awkward Encounter

Jake here. Now many of y’all are probably wondering, “What happened to me when Alex hung up.” Well, I’ll tell y’all, but this might be a bit painful for you to listen to. You have been warned!

“Wait, Cole made it here as well?! How did that happ-and he hung up on me. Great just great.”

After Alex hung up, I decided to study my surroundings. Apparently, I ended up on a path that looked like it led to a small town.

When there’s a town, there’s people. When there’s people, there’s a way to fix this mess. Then that’s where I’m going.

With vigor running through my body, I followed the road. While I was walking, I viewed the landscape around me. It was a fantastic day, well except for Alex’s whole backfire power-thing. But I ignored that little hiccup, and continued on my way.

However, something seemed off about the area around me. There were animals that seemed to give me weird looks. Some stared in wonder, others looked scared. But perhaps the most common look I was getting was of determination. It seemed like they where ticked off about something.

Then I noticed a rabbit that was giving me a ‘go to hell’ look. I figured that he was their leader, or the overall jerk of the group. But I paid no attention to the looks I got and continued on my way, only to be stopped at the sight of a cottage.

It was getting late in the afternoon, so I figured why not ask the person who lives here for a place to stay. I made my way to the door and knocked...only to hear a startled yelp, as well as frantic hooves galloping across the house.

And then everything got quiet.

What the hell was that?! Does this person let their horse in the house? Well only one way to find out.

I went to open the door to find it unlocked.Weird. Making my way inside, I surveyed the house. One word came to my mind to describe it: cosy. It looked like someone hired a Disney animator to decorate it. There were mice holes, and bird houses everywhere. Just before I could survey the rest of the house, I could hear faint whimpering from underneath the couch.

I looked underneath the couch, and I saw something I never wanted to see. Now back home I knew enough about ‘Friendship is Magic’ to understand that its popularity is crazy. But I did not hate it, nor did I find the need to watch it. So, guess what my first reaction to seeing Fluttershy was. Well, out of shock, I fainted.

Ponies, why did it have to be ponies?

Several hours later

“*YAWN, w-where am I?”

I awoke in a very comfortable bed that was just my size, but barely. Who put me here? More importantly, why did I pass-out in the first place? These were good questions that I was about to find answers to. I got out of the bed to find that my gear had been stored next to the nightstand. Everything I packed was there: pistol, other weapons that I do not want to mention, binoculars, hunter knife and my prototype lightsaber.

Gear in check, I made my way outside of the room to find that a certain group of people were waiting for me. Actually I should say a certain group of, ‘ponies’ were waiting for me. And every. Single. One. Of. Them. Was looking straight at me.

“You’ve gotta be kidding me,” I said at last.
That seemed to kick them out of their frozen state. Then the onslaught of questions broke through them like floodgates to a damm.
“What are you?”

“How do you stand like that?”

“What are you wearing?”

“Do you like parties?

Just before I could answer any of their questions, my phone rang.

“Jake. Can you still hear me,” Alex said.

After that happened, They were dead quiet. Then they started whispering questions between themselves. They kept on giving me weird looks; some were shocked, others looked curious, and only one of them smiled at me with a huge grin. Wanting to avoid the onslaught of questions that would return, I made my way out the front door and answered Alex. “Where the heck have you been man!”

“Jake, I am deeply sorry-” There he goes again with the bad excuse routine.

“I don’t want to hear it. Today was the worst. Day. EVER!” I made sure he felt my wrath through the phone. “First you get the bright idea to overcharge yourself, sending us to lord knows where! Second I come across this cottage who the only one living there is a pink haired pegasus pony, who got the crap scared outta her just by looking at me and finally, the rest of her friends came along and started asking stupid questions like, ‘where do you come from, what is your species, and do you like parties?’ You’ve got some explaining to do Alex, and I’m not hanging up until I get answers!”

...You know, looking back at this know, maybe I was too hard on Alex. And plus I was having a very bad day.

Then, following a puff of green fire from within the cottage, a soothing voice calmed my nerves down. “You can find out the answers in person. I have a train set up with a private trip to Ponyville. You can thank me later.”

Ponyville. So thats what the town is called. Why am I not surprised.

After the call ended, I returned to the house...only to find the ponies frantically galloped out the door. So I decided to follow them. We ran straight through the town, earning some strange looks, and continued to the train station. We arrived, and we waited.

Several minutes later, the train arrived. Disembarking off the train was none other than my idiotic brother, my cousin Cole Macgrath, and...was that an older Cole in a white trench-coat? Too many question were going through my head, although one thought stood out from the rest:

How did we end up in Equestria, and why are we even here?

“Like I said Alex, you got a lot of explaining to do,” I said.

Just before he was about to answer, all of us heard a strange noise coming from behind us.
(Whhhhooooosshh, Whhhhooooosshh, Whhhhoooooosshh boom.)

We all turned around to find a strange blue box. None of us made a sound, until the door of the box opened. A strange man stood in the entrance. He gave us a once over and said, “Well...this is new!”

Author's Note

Whew, that was tough. Anyways, how do you like this new format, me switching between perspectives.
As always, share your thoughts in the comments, and I hope to see-ya next adventure.

Oh! One last thing. In my next blog post, I will show you what the characters look like. Some of them you've already seen. Others, like Alex and Jake, you have not. The only way I'm going to show you is by LEGO minifig models. And in other news, I've decided to start a game with you guys. I have two characters that are to be released in my story. This goes along with the game. Here's what you have to do: click on the link that I give you in the Author's Notes, close your eyes, and try to guess the character based on the song.

Good luck, and this is Sirjadan13, signing out...By the way, here is you first challenge.

Chapter 3: And Then There Were 11

Chapter 3

And Then There Were 11

The 11th Doctor was on vacation. Hard to believe if you think about it. He decided to take a break from saving the Universe. Why you might ask? Well let me tell you why; it all began several days ago, when the Doctor was reminded of a terrible prophecy.

As the TARDIS flew through space, the Doctor thought back on all that had happened. He discovered the creatures known as the Silence that wanted him dead, fooled them into thinking he died, and learned why they wanted him dead in the process. Apparently they wanted the Doctor dead because they were afraid that he would one day answer the First Question, the question that he had been running from all his life.

“Doctor who,” he said, thinking to himself as he worked the controls of the TARDIS. The question had been right in front of his face the whole time. Every time he told one of his future companions his name was ‘Doctor,’ they would always reply with, “Doctor who”.

He knew what the question meant, but he also didn’t want to think about it. For now, he decided to lay low in the Universe, answering cries of help in the shadows from now on. However that would prove pointless one day when a larger threat reveals him/herself.

Unfortunately that day was today, or yesterday or tomorrow. Time is complicated like that in a lot of ways.

The Doctor was orbiting planet Earth, keeping a watchful gaze on the planet that seemed to have trouble brewing every century or so. Everything was peaceful so far, to the point where the Doctor’s mind began to wander. He wondered how the Ponds were doing after he left them to their own things. Family related things and what not. He also wandered about his newfound wife River Song, and the adventures she experienced.

This trip down memory lane lasted for a little while, when suddenly the TARDIS sounded an alarm. The Doctor rushed to the console to find out what happened.

“Hello? What’s this then,” he said to the TARDIS controls. He activated the monitor that hovered over the controls and examined the disturbance. It was a Fluctuation of Time in a sector in the Universe that the Doctor had never heard of before. This puzzled the Time Lord because he’d seen nearly all there was to see in all of time and space. Yet there was an area he had never seen before? The thought almost sounded silly.

But now was not the time for jokes. There was a new sector of the Universe that was waiting to be explored. “I see no harm in exploring new places,” he said to the controls. “There’s always time for another adventure.”

With that, he zoomed off into the stars. This was easier said than done because a soon as the TARDIS began to fly, it shaked like a mini earthquake just went off.

‘This almost feels like I’m breaking the boundary of the Universe again,’ he thought as the shaking continued. And then he realised that this new part of the Universe was, perhaps, a Bubble Universe that was connected to this one. It was only an idea, but the more the TARDIS creaked and groaned, the more that idea sounded true.

Wherever this trip was taking him, he enjoyed every moment of it. Whooping and hollering like there was no tomorrow. Suddenly, the TARDIS lost all control and began to spiral off course. With one last flip of a switch the Doctor shouted, as loud as he could to the ceiling, one word:

"GERONIMO!!!"

After several minutes of neverending tremors, the TARDIS finally landed. With a slight adjustment to his bow-tie, the Doctor remarked, “Now, lets see what this planet has in store for me this time.” So he ran straight for the door. He opened it up, and what he saw was beyond his expectations.

Standing right in front of him where six colorful...ponies, of all things. They had their own distinct features. Two of them had wings, another two had horns on their heads, and the other two had neither. But what was interesting was that there were four humans behind the six ponies. This puzzled the Doctor. But he didn’t have time to think about it, because both the humans and the ponies were staring at him like he was the most interesting thing they’d seen all day.

So, after all that was established he finally remarked with a simple, “Well...this is new!”

No one said a word. Then one of the humans spoke. “Who the hell are you,” asked Alex.

“I’m the Doctor.”

“...Okay, your a doctor. That's cool and all, but what’s you're name.”

“I just told you. You can call me the Doctor.”

This banter kept on for a minute or two. Then one of the six, Twilight, spoke up. “Where did you come from?”

The Doctor gave a surprised shout when he heard the unicorn speak. “I didn’t know you could talk. This planet just keeps on getting better and better.”

The banter between the humans, the ponies, and the one Time Lord continued, much to the amusement of some of the ponies passing by. However none of them were aware of a mysterious man, sneaking past them almost unnoticed. He inspected the area for traps, analyzed the 11 bickering civilians, and checked his revolver. Then he emerged.

“Tell me what the hell is going on right now,” the man said, just as his golden sunglasses clicked onto his face.

Author's Note

Did you guess right. If not, this is the Doctor from the hit T. V. show on BBC.

We now have 11 characters in the roster, but I still have one last trick up my sleeve. Here is your next song/character Challenge.
Good luck.

Till the next time. This is Sirjadan13, signing out. Happy Reading