What You Wish For 3: The Book of Earth Pony

Chapters

Chapter 2: Headaches and Heartaches
Chapter 3: Sky High Troubles
Chapter 4: That Was Fast
Chapter 4.2: Operation Infrastructure
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Shock
Chapter 5: Emotions of Love and Regret
Chapter 6: You Can Fly!
Chapter 7: Discord
Chapter 8: My Fault
Chapter 9: What Lurks Beneath Part 1
Chapter 10: What Else Lurks Beneath
Chapter 11: War
Chapter 12: Just a Talk
Chapter 13: Mom, Dad, I'm home!
Chapter 14: Stoopid Soldiers
Chapter 15: Fatherly Love
Chapter 16: The Wings Within
Chapter 17: The HL3 Effect
Chapter 18: Cthulu
Heroes and Legends
Chapter 20: Smile is Forever
Chapter 1: The Setup
Chapter4.1: An Old Friend I Have Never Seen Before

Chapter 2: Headaches and Heartaches

Mike’s head felt like it was spinning as he slowly regained consciousness, his limbs felt like they were on fire. As he regained his vision he realized he had a bag over his head, he could hear the faint breathing of another man in the room. As Mike began to try and get up, he realized he was strapped down, the other person in the room said calmly, “You’re wondering why you have a bag on your head, don’t worry because it’s only to make sure you don’t panic after the initial shock you’re about to go through.”

Mike’s breathing was heavy with fear as he said, “W… what’s going on?”

The man took a short breath before saying, “I have your pistol pointed at your head, the finger on the trigger and ready to pull. Unless you want the last thing that passes through your mind to be a bullet, you’re going to tell me what military you’re in and why you joined the military.”

Mike’s breathing turned to a panicking one as he said, “P-please don’t kill me. My name is Michael Eisenberg; I joined the United Nations Peace Corps as corporal rank Private rank III. I joined because our world doesn’t have enough heroes for our kids to look up to, all they have are rappers and criminals these days.”

Mike could feel a tear coming out, he was truly afraid of getting killed. What surprised him was what he heard next, “Well, so far you’re doing a good job at keeping yourself alive. I’m about to take the bandages off of you, but you have to tell me what your mission is here.”

Mike was quick to respond, he could clearly remember everything from the previous day, “My mission is over, I was originally being sent home to California but something happened and next thing I know I’m God knows where in what seemed like Russia.”

The other voice was low and calm as he said, “You’re far from Russia or home.” Mike could feel the bandages unraveling around his head, the light blinding him for a moment before his eyes could adjust. Once his eyes had grown used to the lighting he looked at the young man in front of him, he had no weapons on him and looked like a nice person. The kid gently brought his hand over Mike’s chest as he said, “You’re lucky to have survived that, you have more broken bones than ones that aren’t broken.”

As soon as Mike heard the word survived he looked at the boy as he said, “Please, tell me someone else survived the crash.”

The man was hesitant at first, he then hung his head low as he said, “I’m sorry, Private, but no one else survived.”

Mike laid his head back on the pillow as he said, “I know there’s a higher force because if there wasn’t then everyone would be alive. I know that God himself has punished me for whatever crime I have done.”

The boy gently brought a wet sponge to the Mike’s head, the water was soothingly warm. As the boy soaked Mike’s head he said gently, “You lost a lot of people didn’t you?”

Mike looked down at the boy as he said in an aggressive tone, “You don’t even know.”

The boy raised an eyebrow as he said, “Ran away from home cause of my depression from my Dad’s death. My mother soon killed herself afterwards when she assumed the worst for me, never made it to her funeral. My best friend came looking for me, turned out to be a psycho and nearly killed me before he died as well. Then I made a friend with someone who had saved my life on several occasions, turns out he was an imposter working for the enemy. Everyone I loved dearly either died on the outside or died on the inside.”

Mike’s expression turned to a slight sympathy, this boy may not have lost as many people as him but he did lose the closest people in his life in the worst ways possible. Mike waited a bit before he slowly said, “Tell me, what is your name?”

The boy damped the sponge in the sink as he said, “The name is Alex, Alex Mulroney. Don’t bother asking where you are because telling you now in your state would send you into cardiac arrest, your heart did take quite a beating and is running off of adrenaline I am feeding you.”

Mike’s look changed to curiosity and disbelief, he wondered how it was possible. Mike laughed a bit as he said, “Oh yeah? How exactly are you feeding me this adrenaline? Magic I assume?”

Alex sat back down in the chair; he inserted a thick piece of wood between Mike’s teeth as he said, “Actually yes. Hold my hand, it will relieve the stress.”

Mike looked down as he said, “Wai wah? Whah hresh?” As soon as Alex’s hand touched his ribcage, he could feel an unbearable amount of pain course through him. His vision began to blur as he looked towards Alex’s hand, he immediately grabbed it and began to feel a soothing warmth course through his veins. He felt the pain immediately disappear as the warmth reached his ribs, he could feel the ribs slowly moving back to place and they tickled him a bit. When Alex lifted his hand from his ribs, his ribs had fully gone back to place. Alex tapped them and gently punched them to prove that they were no longer broken.

Alex slowly pulled the piece of wood out, bite marks sank deep into the piece of wood. Alex put the piece of wood aside as he said, “Yeah, I forgot to tell you I was about to fix your ribs.”

Mike took in a deep breath and felt no pain, he felt a million times better than before. Mike looked at Alex as he said with curiosity in his eyes, “How the hell did you do that?”

Alex soaked his hands in boiling hot water, the steam rising up out of the sink. Alex pulled his red hands out as he said with a smile on his face, “I thought I told you, it was magic. In fact you guessed it yourself”

Mike began to get annoyed and impatient with the boy, he hated being mocked. Mike just laughed it off gently as he said, “No really, did you plant macrobiotics inside me to reconstruct my bone structure? Did you plant chemicals in my veins through skin contact to create a super healing drug? What was it?”

Alex shrugged as he said, “This is why you’re still tied up; you are refusing to believe in what seems out of the norm. I really did use magic, while one hand was sped up the healing process; the other hand sent a pulse of numbing energy through your body via your nervous system and your veins.”

Mike looked down at his chest as he said, “How is magic possible?”

Alex repeated the process on his limbs; he fixed the legs and arms as quick as he could. Once Alex had finished up he said calmly, “Let me tell you all about it. Magic is an entity that not many humans possess, there are three types of magic: Unicorn, Pegasus, and Earth Horse. Each one has its own downfalls and perks, but to actually wield your magic you have to be in a state of Zen or zero mind where no thought passes through your head and you are at an emotional balance.”

Mike laughed as he said, “Unicorns, Pegasus, seriously? If this is true, how come I haven’t been able to use any magic?”

Alex watched as Mike’s face changed to astonishment as he hovered a bottle of apple juice to his mouth as he said, “Because thanks to a friend’s scanning, you aren’t a unicorn. You are a Pegasus which would explain why you became a soldier; your fearlessness got you where you are.”

Mike leaned his head back as he smiled, he really didn’t believe all of this. After taking in a deep breath he said, “So when will I be able to go?”

Alex shook his head as he said with a sympathetic look, “Letting you out now with the condition of your heart would definitely kill you. To make sure you stay alive you cannot learn where you are all at once, so I will tell you bit by bit until you have the entire story.”

Mike sighed before slowly saying, “So can you please tell me what country I’m in? Is it Russia? Northern Greenland? Antarctica?”

Alex shook his head as he said while looking over his chest, “It’s none of those, all I’m going to say is that you are nowhere near earth. You are on an alien planet.”

Mike laughed a bit as he said, “Well that doesn’t surprize me, after all we colonized Mars in 2050.”

Alex smiled as he said, “Funny you should mention that, since we are farther away than any human mind can comprehend, time is warped. I was born in 1995, so I wouldn’t know about these things, I’ve been living here for the past while which would explain the time gap between us.”

Mike shook his head as he said, “This shit’s confusing me.”

Alex quickly hushed him and said, “Please don’t use such foul language here, and it’s only gonna get a lot more confusing from here on out.”

Mike looked up at the plain white ceiling, he looked for a window but couldn’t find one. After a couple of seconds of silence he said, “So, what planet am I on? Venus? The moon Titan? Io?”

Alex took a deep breath again before saying slowly, “I guess I can tell you now that I have recreated the cell structure to further reinforce your heart and arteries, you’re in a different universe.”

Mike laughed as he said, “You’re shitting me.”

Alex shook his head as he said, “Look at your watch, time here moves slower, each couple of seconds is a day on earth and a whole day is a year.”

Mike slowly brought up the watch around his wrist, the arms were spinning out of control, hours were going by faster than seconds and the hand was only a blur. Mike began to worry as he said, “I need to get home, I need to get back to my family before they forget.”

Alex wiped his hands off as he said, “No can do, you and your ship were wrecked to shit in that anomaly of science. Putting you through that again will most likely kill you, besides by now your family is accepting your death. Consider this purgatory.”

Mike shook his head as he said, “Hell no, son. I need to get back home, I need to see my family again.”

Alex shrugged as he said, “Fine, go ahead, good luck out there.” Alex used his magic to open the door and undo Mike’s bindings; as soon as he did Mike sprinted out. Mike ran as fast as he could, he felt free. After five seconds of running he realized he had no idea where he was going, and ten seconds later he realized his bones were breaking from running again. Mike fell onto the snowy ground, his legs and arms broken once again. Mike took a look around at his surroundings and could only see snow, the fog was too thick to see past his own nose. He soon felt a warm hand against his back lift him up onto a pair of shoulders as Alex said, “Your bones need time to heal, I can speed up the process, but not heal them altogether.”

As he carried him back into the room, the white walls surrounding them once again, Mike said, “So what am I going to have to do to get back home?”

Alex quickly fitted the bones back into place, with minimal pain, as he said, “It’ll take a few days to prepare for the journey back, we need the ship to be in mint condition for your return to be as epic as possible.”

Mike looked down at the white kid as he said, “And you’re gonna do this on your own?”

Alex snickered as he said, “Did you really think that we were the only two here? Oh I forgot to tell you about the inhabitants, yeah they are all horses.”

Mike blinked a couple of times before saying, “Oh you said horses, I was about to say that it’s no different back home. Seriously though, when will I meet the other people that live here?” (adult joke)

Alex finished up with the bones as he said, “Well, I know one that would be perfect for you.”

Mike began to think of his sister, the only person in his life who he truly called “perfect”. Mike held his head low as he said, “No one will be the same as my sister.”

Alex smiled as he gently tapped his cheek and said, “I’m sure this girl can cheer you up pretty good.” Alex walked up to the door and opened it, he then shouted out, “Come on in Pinkie!”

Mike closed his eyes for a bit, he was beginning to get a headache from all the bad news he had just received, plus the fall he had went through had shaken him up pretty bad. As he rested his eyes, he heard some heavy footsteps entering the room as a slightly cheerful voice said, “Hey, my name is Pinkie Pie.”

Mike slowly turned to see the girl as he said, “What kind of name is…” Mike stared at the pink horse, for a second he thought he was on acid. After blinking a couple of times he said to Alex, “You weren’t kidding.”

Alex was exiting the door as he said, “Remember Pinkie, try and keep calm cause his heart can’t take too much excitement.”

With that Alex put on his coat and exited the room into the snowy blizzard, leaving the pink snow covered pony to talk with the soldier. A few minutes of pure awkwardness had gone by without either of them saying a word, neither of them knew what to say. After a few minutes Pinkie said in a slightly calm voice, “So what’s your name?”

Mike stared at the ceiling as he said, “Michael Eisenberg, and you are?”

Pinkie slowly trotted up to his side as she said, “I’m Pinkie Pie,” She then noticed the expression on his face, she watched as he slowly pulled out a photo of a little female human and said, “who’s that?”

Mike began to tear up as he said, “My sister… the only girl I had in my life I truly cared about.”

Pinkie took a close look at it as she said calmly, “She looks like a wonderful person. I’m so sorry you’re here, I guess you lost a lot of people in your life.”

Mike nodded his head as he said, “Yeah, being in the military you have to expect to lose a few people. You never expect to lose them all though.”

Pinkie rested her head on the bed as she said, “I wish I knew how that felt, I had my poor little heart broken by a big meanie pants.”

Mike sighed before saying in a sad tone, “We both lost something important to us.”

Pinkie nodded her head as she said, “At least I have Alex; he’s the only human I have ever trusted.”

Mike looked down at her as he said, “You can trust me.”

Pinkie looked up as she said with a hopeful smile, “We’ll just see about that.”

Mike patted her on the head as he said, “So is Alex the only other human here aside from me?”

Pinkie shook her head as she said, “Nope, there is one other, but no one is allowed to see her unless it’s an emergency.”

Mike raised an eyebrow as he said, “Why only in case of an emergency?”

Pinkie smiled as she said, “Because she’s a god.”

Mike’s face turned to surprize as he said, “A god? You mean she can control the world?”

Pinkie nodded her head as she said, “Yessiree, her and Alex are responsible for saving the world.”

Mike had a look of awe as he said, “But Alex isn’t even an adult yet.”

Pinkie giggled as she said, “Like I always say, the tastiest candy might not look like it.”

Mike smiled as he said, “That was pretty deep, can I nickname you Pinks?”

Pinkie giggled as she said, “Sure!” She then climbed up onto the bed as she said with glee, “So what do you like to do for fun?”

Mike began to smile brightly as he said, “Well sometimes I like to play some basketball, I like to read a good book indoors, and”

Before mike could finish his sentence Pinkie jumped up and said, “I know where we can get lots of books!”

*****

Alex knocked on the library door as he said, “Ms. Lauren? Ms. Twilight? I need a word with you two.”

The door soon opened up to reveal Lauren, her hair in curlers as well as Twilight’s, Alex stepped into the room and away from the blizzard taking place. After getting the snow off of him Lauren said with a smile, “Hey Alex how’s the survivor?”

Alex smiled as he was hanging up his coat, he then turned around and said, “He’s doing fine, I gave him a Pinkie Pie to keep him company. By the way I think your hair looks nicer curled.” Alex then looked over to Twilight as he said, “Your hair is fine straight. Anyways what I came here to talk about is our mission.”

As Alex sat down, Lauren turned towards him and said, “Well I just got settled down, are you sure we need to go after the next book so soon?”

Alex nodded his head, he had a serious look on his face as he said, “Yes, we never know when Shadow will strike again, we also don’t know what she will do next so it would be best if we were prepared for the worst.”

Twilight began to think before saying, “Well which book should we go for next?”

Alex sat down as he said, “I say we should go for the book of Earth Pony, Lauren could really use the ability to remain indestructible without a conscious decision.”

Lauren nodded as she said, “So when should we go?”

Alex looked out the window as he said, “This Friday.”

Twilight dawned a sympathetic look as she said, “But that’s in another three days.”

Alex turned around, his face had no expression of joy as he said, “We’re leaving on Friday, me and Lauren only. These missions are getting too dangerous for you girls, and I don’t want any of you to come home in a box.” Alex looked at the window, the sun was beginning to set for the day. Alex got up and walked towards the door as he said, “Is it snowing in Manehattan?”

Twilight shook her head as she said, “No it is not, why?”

Alex put on his coat as he said, “I need to clear my mind somewhere where it isn’t snowing like crazy.” Alex exited the door and closed it behind him, the sudden gust of cold air making him shiver. Alex kneeled down and, using a surge of magical energy, took off into the dusk sky.

Twilight and Lauren watched as he flew away into the distance, Lauren turned to Twilight as she said, “Do you think something’s wrong with him?”

Twilight shook her head before saying, “Well… he might feel a little reluctant to bond with another human after being stabbed in the back by Kyle.”

The sudden crash of the wall beside them made the girls jump in fear, a gust of cold winter wind blowing in and ruining the room’s warmth. Twilight and Lauren had jumped behind the couch before slowly raising their heads, ready to defend. What they saw both surprized them and did not at the same time, Pinkie Pie with the human survivor in the hospital bed. Pinkie began to lift pieces of the wall back up as she said, “Quick help me patch this up so Mikey doesn’t get cold when he’s reading.” Twilight then grumbled, her brows low over her face as she planted her hoof over her eyes.

*****

Alex sat on the top of a building in the downtown district of Manehattan, he watched the new Royal Equestrian Air Force test out their new flight suits for the non-pegasi. The large turbines at each of their sides propelled them through the air at breakneck speeds, the thick smoke trailing behind them. Alex looked over at a large sign, Lyra was on the front of it with the name of her industry on it, Lyramotive. Alex smiled as he said, “Never thought of you making peacekeeping devices, Lyra old pal. Hope Bon-Bon approves.” As Alex watched the ponies below go about their nightly business, Alex got up and began to walk. He began to use his powers to warp the gravity around him and began to walk down the building. As Alex walked in peace, he heard the sudden noise of a window shattering and alarms blaring. Alex looked in the direction of the noise as he said, “Never expected there would be a crime in Equestria, oh well.” Alex then began to use his powers to jump from building to building, the orange electricity trailing behind him and spreading through the buildings he landed on.

Alex began to approach the source of the alarm, there were royal guards surrounding a Lyramotive store, the unicorns ready to protect. Alex jumped towards the one open spot and landed with a bright flash of orange light. When he got up he approached the most decorated guard there and said, “What seems to be the problem commander Lightwing?”

The Pegasus gave a shrug of his wings as he said, “No idea, Alex, it seems that someone or something wanted a few things from Lyra and had no bits to pay for it. I was originally going to send in some troops but the unicorn’s scans say there’s a large amount of dark magic coming from there.”

Alex nodded his head as he said, “Tell your squads to fall back, dark magic is something I deal with.” Alex then watched as the commander rounded up all the guards and took off, the unicorns teleporting away while the pegasi carried the earth ponies away. Once Alex was alone on the snow covered street he said silently, “Here we go.” Alex cautiously began to walk towards the building when a large explosion knocked him over, startling him and making him freeze with fear. Alex scrambled to get to his feet as he heard the sounds of heavy footsteps, they thumped and they thumped as the ground shook loudly. Alex turned his head towards the source of the shadow to see another human, one that was somehow ten feet tall. Alex got to his feet as he silently said, “What the hell…”

The large human dropped the bags of stuff he was carrying before saying, “Hello… Alex. Remember me?”

Alex’s arms began to course with orange energy as he said, “Sorry, I’m not friends with Marvel villains.”

As Alex went to attack, the man grabbed him around the waist, his hand wrapping around completely and lifting him up. Once the man had Alex in the right place the light of the store shined onto his face. Alex was disturbed by the charred face of the man, his decomposing skin around his mouth and the missing piece of skin and muscle around his jaw. The pink and yellow puss oozed out of gaping cracks on his skin as he said, “How about you take a look in the light as I say once more… remember me?”

Alex squirmed to get free but failed no matter what; his powers were only absorbed by his hands. He couldn’t bear to look at the man’s face; it looked like a mask had melted onto it. Alex suddenly stopped struggling as he said with a look of horror, “Kyle…”

Kyle laughed in a deep voice as he said while walking towards a wall, “Yes, it’s your old friend Dark-Castle. Hard to recognize me when have three years of infections on a mask that you melted to my face, you did this to me you putrid shit!” Kyle then slammed Alex into a concrete wall, the impact was great enough to shatter the wall and shake up Alex. Kyle smiled as he grabbed him by the legs and swung his head into the wall again, he smashed his face against the concrete and blood sprayed onto the wall. Kyle then threw Alex to the ground; he was bleeding from the nose mouth and parts of his head. Kyle walked over top of him as he said, “You made me ugly, now I’ll make you a monster.” Kyle brought one of his fists back as far as it would go, Alex could barely stay awake to notice the purple fire around his fist before it smashed into Alex’s face.

Kyle laughed as he looked at the boy, his head stuck into the ground and blood beginning to soak his hair. As Kyle got up he said to himself, “I always get my revenge.” Kyle walked back and grabbed the bags full of things and began to walk away. As he did he pulled out a cellphone as he said into it, “We have the technology, now we wait.”

*****

Mike had been moved into a custom wheelchair made for humans, he was allowed to use his arms but his bowels were still too weak to handle walking without dumping everything. Mike was wheeling down the hallway next to Twilight as he said, “What happened to him, purple unicorn chick?”

Twilight brushed her hair as she said with a concerned look, “Alex was brutally attacked, so far his heart has stopped twice for two minute periods. Fortunately the doctors say he will experience no loss of memory when he wakes up and the facial damages will he fully repaired, and my name is Twilight.”

Mike rolled his eyes as he said, “Sorry, I’m glad he’s going to be fine. I can’t handle another lost man in my life.”

Pinkie lifted her head from inside Mike’s shirt, surprizing both Twilight and Mike as she said with a scared look, “You and me both.”

Twilight looked down at Mike as she said with a sympathetic look, “Get used to it, she will begin appearing in your mirrors as well.” Twilight then opened the door to Alex’s hospital room, his face was covered in bandages and the rest of his body was not. He simply lied there with a yellow Pegasus lying next to him, weeping and crying his name silently.

As Mike approached her, Twilight whispered, “Think about what you are going to say, she’s his girlfriend.”

Mike shook his head as he said, “Dating a horse… whatever.” Mike then slowly wheeled up to her as he said in a quiet voice, “Hey there, girl, he’s gonna be fine.”

The yellow Pegasus did her best to stay calm as she said in a shaking voice, “My name is Fluttershy, and I know he will be okay but I hate to see him like this.”

Mike brought his hand to his neck as he said, “Look, if you’re ever in doubt, touch right here and feel the beat of life.”

Fluttershy gently placed her hoof on Alex’s neck, she could feel the gentle rhythm of his pulse under his bandages. Mike slowly backed up to hear Twilight say, “Look, Mike, this is too dangerous for you, we’re sending you back home as soon as possible.”

Mike spun around in his chair and looked at the lavender unicorn, his face didn’t show any agreement with her as he said, “Forget that, I aint going home knowing he’s gonna look like this on a regular basis. I’m staying to help him, besides Pinkie needs someone to help bake some cupcakes.”

Twilight shook her head as she said with an unsure look, “I hope you know what you’re getting yourself involved in.”

Mike looked at Twilight with his eyebrow raised as he said, “Girl, I was in a war, how bad could this be?”

Fluttershy looked up from Alex as she said, “Bad enough for Alex to wind up dying for the fourth time now.”

Mike gulped as he said, “Damn, that’s bad.”
*****

Chapter 3: Sky High Troubles

All Alex could hear was the sweet sound of Fluttershy’s lullaby as she gently cuddled up to him while in the hospital bed, calmly humming a tune as she wrapped her hooves around Alex. Alex simply lied there, his head still wrapped in bandages from the injury, he was able to talk through a closed jaw but no more due to it being broken. Fluttershy kept running her hoof along Alex’s chest until her song had reached its end where she said, “Are you ready to come out of those bandages, hun?”

Alex inhaled deeply before saying in a muffled voice, “Sure am, I can smell my own breath… not too pleasant.” Alex concentrated on fixing his jaw bone and before he knew it his jaw was back in place, the feeling of the bones shifting beneath making him cringe a bit. Once his jaw had come back into place he said calmly to the yellow pony, “Can you do the honors and unwrap me?”

Fluttershy scooched up towards the pillows before gently placing his head on her crossed hind legs and saying, “Promise not to breath into my nose?”

Alex laughed as he said, “Promise.” He then began to feel the bandages slowly letting off the pressure from being wrapped around him so tightly, soon he felt his scalp come into contact with fresh air. He then felt his forehead and was beginning to see light, soon enough he was completely unwrapped and looking up at Fluttershy. Her warm soft coat of fur feeling like ecstasy with the slow rhythm of her breathing making him give off the largest and most dopey smile yet, he couldn’t help but kiss her gently as she smiled down at him.

Fluttershy broke away from the kiss as she said with a giggle, “Alex, you told me you wouldn’t breath in my face! You smell like a pig sty in that hatch of yours.”

Alex laughed as he slowly got out of bed and said, “Not my fault I couldn’t brush my teeth, some nice mints would have been good though.” Alex then proceeded to fill his mouth with water, rinsing out the bad breath.

As Alex took in a large gulp of water he heard the door open again, the sound of human footsteps making him fear the worst when a voice of a middle aged man said, “Mr. Mulroney?” Alex looked up to see three men, two soldiers at the side of a man who wore a suit with every western country’s flag on it. Alex was so startled that he spat the water out, realizing his mistake he caught the water in mid-air and began to float it in front of the man as he said with awe, “You are just as good as he said, young man. Come with me, we need to negotiate.”

Alex watched as the man turned around and walked out the hospital followed by one of the soldiers, the other one staying behind for Alex. Alex looked over at Fluttershy and shrugged to sign that he had no clue what was going on, he then turned towards the door and walked out with the soldier pointing a futuristic assault rifle at him.

*****

Turns out that the man visiting Alex was supreme commander of every army in the western hemisphere, he said he was here to negotiate with Alex. As the plane flew through the winter skies, inside the commander and Alex sat in opposing chairs in a luxurious conference room. As the commander took a sip from his coffee he said, “Mr. Mulroney, like I said earlier I am here to strike a deal with you.”

Alex raised his hand to stop him and said while looking around the room, “First you’re going to answer my questions. How did you get here and why do I have a small army aimed at my head?”

The commander washed down his coffee before saying, “Thanks to advances in science, and the coordinates of a very helpful individual, we have managed to bridge the gap between these two universes that you bridged so many years ago.”

Alex’s brows lowered in slight anger as he said, “You still haven’t answered why I have guns pointed at my head, is this how you treat all of your guests?”

The man slowly got up as he said with a fake smile, “Don’t tempt me, boy, these men will kill you with a flick of their wrists. Be grateful that I came here instead of my friend, with him in power he would become the next Hitler and would kill you in a snap. I however am a peaceful one and present you with a deal.”

Alex began to calm down before saying, “Fine, let’s hear it.”

The commander took a deep breath as he leaned back in his chair and said, “Young man, I know of all the people you are holding hostage here, yet I shall not punish you because you are in foreign territory. Instead all I ask is that I let my army come through to this world to bring back the hostages, mine a few minerals here and there, and we shall become trading partners and will make a fortune.”

Alex smiled as he gently laughed and said, “You really think that I’m going to let your troops into my land? As soon as your guys set foot, you have taken over Equestria. Besides, I have no hostages so your source is lying.”

The man pulled a folder from his desk as he said, “Oh really? We know that these aren’t just stupid horses like the ones back in your real home, Alex, no these ones were professional kidnappers and have kidnapped so many people at your command.”

Alex looked at the photos as he said, “Bullshit, I am the guardian of this city, I want nothing to do with your world so why would we kidnap the pope?”

The man sighed before saying, “You tell me, criminal. Just let our troops in, we take back the hostages and your name is cleared.”

Alex stood up as he said, “Listen to me, you may not remember what happened almost two hundred years ago when Germany gave Austria the ultimatum, but this is exactly the same. I will not allow your troops inside my world.”

The man laughed an evil laugh as he said, “Do you really want to go to war? Even if we did, you would lose in an instant with your horses and your old technology. That’s right, one of my sources infiltrated your world, stole some of your most advanced technology and left with only ‘minor resistance’.”

Alex slammed his hands on the desk as he shouted, “Your source is tricking you! I know who he is!” Suddenly one of the soldiers jammed the butt of his gun into Alex’s leg which made him fall to the ground. As he slowly got back up, he looked at the soldier’s gun pointed right at his head.

Once Alex was back up he listened to the laughter of the commander as he said, “Like I would believe you, criminal. It’s a shame we couldn’t make a deal, looks like we will have to settle this some other way.”

Alex said angrily, “Anything but war, these citizens are too innocent to fight back.”

The man shook his head as he said, “Surely we will find another way, anything but war.” The man blinked a couple of times before he said to one of his soldiers, “Kill him.”

As the soldier approached Alex he said through a speaker, “Say good night, kid.”

Alex was then slammed onto the table, his face pressed hard against the table as he laughed and said, “You really think we rely on technology to protect us? No… we use magic.” Alex then sent a pulse of magic from his mind to his back; he created a shockwave that sent the soldier crashing into the others at the door. Alex took the opportunity to burst into a sprint down the hall, the commander immediately whipping out his pistol and firing at him.

As Alex ran for his life he could hear the commander shouting, “Kill him by any means.” Alex turned his head towards the end of the hall to see soldiers filing in and blocking the exit. He then turned around to see soldiers at the other end as well; he then realized he was surrounded. As the guards slowly approached him with their guns drawn, Alex thought hard about what to do next. He looked around as the commander said, “It’s a shame you had to do this to yourself, it could have ended so peacefully.”

Alex looked to his side and saw a window, having no better ideas and not to mention he lacked impulse control he extended his arm and sent out a blast of energy. The shockwave shattered the window and began to suck the warm air from the airplane, he then took the opportunity to run and dive out the window as the bullets began to fly. As soon as he was completely out of the plane he realized that the vessel was heading for a mountain with no intention to stop, the plane not showing any signs of slowing down. Alex watched in horror as the plane suddenly tore itself apart as it smashed into the mountain, exploding soon afterwards.

Alex watched himself as he fell from the sky towards the mountainside below, he thought of a way to get himself out of this situation and right before hitting the ground he casted a levitation spell on himself. He immediately began to float in the air above the trees and sharp rocks below, pieces of the plane wreckage soon following him in great balls of fire. Alex looked up to see burning corpses raining down; the commander’s being the one to land first for some reason. Alex had to resist the urge to throw up as he quickly turned towards Ponyville and took off; he had a dark and grim message to tell Equestria.

*****

Rainbow Dash seemed more scared than ever as she said, “War? You cannot be serious; we are not going to war.”

Alex sighed as he slumped his head; he looked around the library at Lauren and the rest of Fluttershy’s friends. The princesses watched the explosion and knew that nothing good was going to come out of it, so they came here as soon as possible. Alex took in a deep breath as he said, “I wish I was kidding, but Earthlings are only going to see this as a message of war and are going to strike us in god knows how much time.”

Mike rolled his wheelchair into the middle of the room as he said in a serious tone, “He ain’t kiddin’ girls. The big dogs back home ain’t gonna see this as an accident and are gonna whoop our asses.”

Celestia talked silently with Luna before saying, “Alex, this is extremely important for all of Equestria to know, you must set up a conference tomorrow to warn everypony.”

Alex shook his head as he burrowed them into his hands and said, “I can’t believe I did this to you all.”

Luna rested her hoof on Alex’s shoulder as she said, “Listen, we know you didn’t mean to do this but moping about what happened will only make it harder to face what hasn’t happened yet.”

Fluttershy hugged Alex as she said, “Please don’t leave us, Alex. Don’t leave me.”

Alex hugged her tightly as he said, “I won’t be leaving anyone here, in fact I need to stay here to help Lauren find a certain book.”

Lauren nodded her head as she said, “Yeah, we need to find that book of Earth Pony, we’re going to need all the firepower we can get if we want to keep Equestria safe from the military.”

Alex thought hard before turning to Twilight and saying, “Twilight, I need you to look around the library to find out where we are going to find the next book. We need the location as soon as possible.”

Twilight nodded her head as she said, “Gotcha!”

Alex then turned to Dash and Applejack as he said, “Girls, you two are going to help Pinkie and Rarity prepare for the announcement in Canterlot with the royal sisters.”

The six ponies nodded their heads in agreement before Alex turned to Fluttershy and Mike as he said, “You two are coming with me, we are going to earth for a bit. We need to find out who our enemies are and we’re taking back Mike here.”

Mike shook his head as he said, “No way in hell, dog, I’m staying to fight for you. You save my ass and I save yours.”

Fluttershy looked up at Alex as she said, “Why do you need me?”

Alex inhaled deeply as he said, “I need you to come with me because that way you and Lyra will document as much of Earth’s technology as possible. Lyra’s tech is being dwarfed by Earth’s smallest things.” Alex then turned to the rest of the group as he said, “By tomorrow Fluttershy, Lyra and I will have returned with blueprints of Earth’s gadgetry, I will then announce that war is on the horizon and we will then go looking for the book as soon as possible.”

Everyone in the group nodded their heads in agreement as they all said, “Right!”
*****

Inside the White House, the president was fixing up his tie as he said to the secretary, “Is the press ready?”

The woman nodded her head as she said, “Yes Mr. President, right this way.” She then motioned towards the door; the president quickly walked through and walked onto the stage in front of the shouting crowd of reporters.

The president motioned for them to quiet down as he said, “May I have your attention please?” The man watched as everyone immediately stopped talking, sitting down back in their seats and waiting for him to speak. The president cleared his throat before saying, “Last week we got a report that the supreme commander of the Canadian, American, Mexican, and All southern countries militaries died at the hands of the one known as Alex Mulroney. This is not a sign of murder but a threat to go to war; we will not negotiate with terrorists and shall proceed with Operation Bridge. Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans alike must all listen carefully because we are entering a dark time with one of history’s greatest wars on the horizon.” As he said that the crowd began to take millions of pictures. The president calmed them down again before saying, “As of today, the Prime Minister, the President of Mexico and I have all signed and passed conscription meaning that all able bodied men and women between the ages of 18 and 50 must join their national military. We are entering a dark time in human history; let’s make sure these aren’t our last years alive. God bless America.” With that the president walked off the stage and exited the room answering no questions for it was absolutely clear what he had said.

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So now lets hear your own opinions, if we went to war against Equestria, who would you fight for? Equestria and their right reasons or for Earth so you fight alongside your family and die with honor.

Chapter 4: That Was Fast

Alex stood next to Mike who was sitting in his wheelchair, the two of them watching as the ponies they would be travelling with said goodbye to their friends. As Lyra hugged Bon-Bon she said to Alex, “Cant Bons come along?”

Alex shook his head as he said, “Sorry, its already dangerous enough with two Equestrians coming along, I can’t risk having any more in danger.”

Fluttershy looked up at Alex as she said in her sweet voice, “Actually, remember when I told you I learned self defense? Well that means I can take care of myself, for the most part, besides Bon-Bon is a pretty safe girl.”

Bon-Bon nodded her head as she said, “I always miss out on the action, I want some adventure in my life darn it!”

Alex motioned for her to calm down as he said, “Alright, alright, let’s get you ponies turned into humans.”

Alex then closed his eyes, he focused on what he wanted to accomplish as he loudly snapped his fingers. Through his eyelids he could see a flash of bright orange light quickly appear and disappear. When he opened his eyes, he was staring at three naked women in front of him. He quickly closed his eyes as he said loudly, “Rarity get these girls some clothes please.” Another flash of blue light later the girls were dressed in (insert current trend here). Alex walked up to the three new humans as he said, “Alright, remember your human names because they will be the most important thing you need to know. Lyra, you are Laura Heartstrings once again. Fluttershy, you are Flora Shine once more. As for you, Bon-Bon…” Alex thought for a couple of seconds before jumping up and down as he said, “Be Jane Bon! Be Jane Bon! That’ll be so cool!” Alex watched as she laughed a bit and nodded her head.

When the laughing was done, Alex turned to Mike and extended his hand while saying, “Hand me one of your guns.”

Mike raised an eyebrow as he said, “Dude, you have magic.”

Alex shook his head as he said with an understanding look, “It’s for you, you’ll appreciate what I’m going to do with it.” With that Mike pulled out a 12 gauge shotgun from his bag at his side and handed it to Alex. Alex picked it up before making it float in front of him, after a couple of seconds of suspension the shotgun was instantly disassembled into separate pieces before they began to spin around. Mike watched in curiosity as the pieces began to rearrange themselves into a new formation, soon they had taken on a new shape looking like it was made to fit around an arm snug. Alex floated the new device towards him as he said, “This is a perfectly concealable shotgun that will attach to your arm. Wear it and with a few spells of mine it will disappear when you want it to and cannot be felt in a pat down. To fire you simply punch the target, the design allows the shot to muffle thanks to the body in front of it making it a stealth weapon.”

Mike quickly strapped it on as he said, “Dude, that’s awesome.”

As Mike was about to say goodbye, Pinkie jumped onto his lap as she said with a hug, “I know you might be gone for a second or two, but I know that I will be gone for a few days in your eyes. Please be safe and come back to Pinkie Winkie!”

Mike tussled her mane as he said with a laugh, “Girl my word is da bomb, when I make a promise I will keep it.”

As Mike finally wheeled himself into the middle of the group, Alex waved goodbye as he said, “Be back in an instant.” As the other ponies who would not be coming along waved goodbye, Alex’s eyes lit up before he shouted, “Oh god this hurts! Ah my eyes burn every time this happens!” The orange light quickly filled the room as a blast was heard. When the whole spectacle was over, Twilight looked at the emptier library as she counted to herself. As she quickly reached 16 seconds a bright flash of orange light filled the room once more from outside. The Princess of the night was the first to spot Alex emerge from the smoke.

As Twilight approached Alex she said in awe, “Wow what happened to you?”

Alex turned to look at the group, he then remembered that he left this universe looking completely different. He looked at Mike who was now in a large mechanical suit, his feet thundering against the ground every step he took. He looked over at Lyra to see that the unicorn and her girlfriend were both wearing armored military outfits, the US and Canadian flags all over the chest. Fluttershy was wearing an orange jumpsuit still as she blushed brightly as she brushed her hair from her eyes with her hands. Alex looked back at himself and realized it must have been odd to see them with his hair completely shaven off. Alex smiled as he said, “A lot of crazy crap happened on Earth, but we got the blueprints for everything from A to (Insert new alphabet symbol here).” Alex pulled from Mike’s new bag a bunch of blue papers and handed them to Twilight.

As Twilight brought them inside, Pinkie bounced up as she said, “Holy Moly, tell us how you got that suit, Mikey Wikey!”

Alex picked her up and gently tossed her into Mike’s gentle arms as he said, “Let’s get inside and I’ll tell you absolutely everything.”

Fluttershy tapped his shoulder as she said, “Not everything right?”

Alex quickly turned tomato red as he said, “Yeah, 98.532% of the story then.”

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So before everyone rages about this short chapter keep in mind that this was from one perspective, and one that isn't often chosen in these time skewing adventures. For example: imagine how short back to the future would have been if they showed it from Doc's perspective instead of Marty's. It would be this: Doc gets shot a few seconds before the Delaurien disappears, Suddenly Marty appears at his side and Doc says, "I read your letter." The End.

So yeah, this was done mainly because of My exam poop, I spent most of my week playing X-Bo... err studying... i was studying really hard and barely had time to focus on anything else

Also the perspective that would be more preferred will be shown in the next chapter so stay tuned.

Chapter 4.2: Operation Infrastructure

As soon as Alex’s eyes had opened back to life he sprung out of bed, the sun shining through the cracks of the window and lighting up the dust in the room. Alex looked back down at the bed to see the yellow Pegasus still asleep, her mouth gently curved upwards but slowly began to frown and squirm when Alex got out of the bed. Alex quickly crawled back in and wrapped his hands around her yellow soft body as he whispered into her ear, “Shy… it’s time to wake up.”

Fluttershy rolled over to face Alex, her big eyes were semi closed with tiredness as she took a big yawn before saying, “Can’t we just enjoy a few minutes of us like this?”

Alex kissed her nose as he said, “We’ll do this as soon as we get home; right now we have a military base to infiltrate.” Alex then got out of bed and lifted Fluttershy up like a small kitten, allowing her to sleep in his arms as he walked down the stairs towards the lobby. The sudden change from high class room to destroyed lobby made Alex’s heart cramp up, the thought of innocent people being forced to live like this in order to avoid war was intolerable. As he walked into the center of the lobby he could see Oscar there, standing in front of a large object covered in a curtain.

As Alex approached the old man, Oscar turned around and said with a smile through his super-wizard beard, “I have something to help cripple get around much better.”

Alex nodded his head as he looked up and down the object while saying, “We need all the help we can get for him, try not to mention family around him cause he just made the decision to leave it behind for us.”

Oscar nodded his head as he said with the tilt of his hat, “He’s a good man, a man that doesn’t give up when his own legs fail on him.”

Alex shook his head as he laughed and said, “He’s not a paraplegic, he just broke almost all of his bones in a plane crash and after healing him he would spew diarrhea poo everywhere if he tried walking.”

Oscar began to make breathy laughs before saying, “Wow… that’s different.”

The sudden and loud sound of light metal clanging against wooden stairs made Alex and Oscar turn their heads to see Mike bouncing down the stairs in his wheelchair. When Mike got to the bottom he said with a smile, “You can’t tell me what I can and can’t do.”

As he wheeled towards the two, Oscar said with the nod of his head, “Morning Mike, I have something for you.”

As Mike approached the two he said, “Lyra and Bons will be down in a bit, should we wait.”

Oscar shrugged as he said while fondling his manly beard, “Is the military going to wait?”

Mike sighed as he said with the roll of his eyes, “Fine, what is it?”

Oscar snapped his fingers as he said, “Yokoma Takashi here made this using the blueprints of an older model so it might not be up to date in technology,” As Oscar talked, a man with long straight black heir covering one of his eyes and a handkerchief covered his face walked from behind and pulled the tarp off while Oscar said, “but what it lacks for in brains it makes up for in strength.”

The removed tarps revealed a giant mechanic suit, the dark rusted metal welded with the metal from tanks and armored vehicles made it aesthetically appealing for some reason, all over it there were large sheets of hard metals. As the tarp fell to the ground, Takashi said in almost a whisper, “My ancestors will be proud of my achievements, I chose on my own to leave Japan for this country to help those in need.”

As Alex looked up the giant metal monster, Fluttershy had just woken up and squealed a bit. Lyra and Bon-Bon had just entered the room as the tarp was removed. Whistling as she approached them, Lyra said, “Wow, Takashi that there is some incredible work. We need to work together sometime soon. What kind of generator is powering that? Atomic?”

Takashi bowed as he said without looking up, “Thank you. To answer your question, no it uses nuclear energy that is generated in the back and is sealed within eighteen walls of reinforced diamonds to make sure as little radiation as possible affects the rider.”

Mike slowly pulled himself out of the wheelchair, as he stood up his legs began to wobble under his weight. Alex quickly got under his arm to support him as Mike said, “Oscar I can’t thank you enough for giving me this.”

Oscar watched as Mike slowly climbed into the open chest, his legs fitting into the holes as well as his arms. Small sensors around his body gently hugged him as the chest piece slowly returned to its position. The sound of the air hissing as the chest closed tightly signaled that it was ready to go. Before Mike could take a few steps, small screens on stands popped up to reveal GPS, Compass, time, damage, and energy. Mike began to slowly walk away as Oscar said with a smile, “Oh and you can thank me by saying hello to the princesses for me.”

Alex slowly let Fluttershy down again and let her return to being human, thankfully her clothes were already on so there was no embarrassment. As they all stood in a circle, Alex shook Oscar’s hand and said, “Listen old timer, be ready because we might need you in the future.”

Oscar smiled as he said, “Better hurry, kiddo, doctor said I only have another fifty years to go. Yes people live longer in the year 2070, but enough of that you have to go.”

Alex nodded his head as he said, “Make your way to Africa, get in touch with all the other bronies, we are the only people who would help the Equestrian side.”

Oscar tilted his hat downward and said, “Boy, we’re already loadin’ up to head over.”

Alex began to walk away, as he was nearing the door he turned around and said, “Oh and one more thing, how did you know Kyle betrayed us?”

Oscar simply turned around as he said, “I’m your author, not a fucking mind reader.”

Alex shook his head, a smile in the corner of his mouth. He slowly pushed the doors open to reveal the empty streets filled with sunlight, newspapers blowing down the road as graffiti defaced every monument present. The streets were dead silent and only the wind could be heard, the gentle hum of Mike’s generator sounded like a jet engine at the moment. Alex took a few steps out onto the street as he said, “Here’s the plan, Mike and I are going to infiltrate enemy base, Mike is going to send me as a war prisoner so I can get inside and know who they are targeting, that way we can safely protect their targets. Fluttershy is going to have to be a distraction while Lyra and Bon-Bon steal enemy data.”

Fluttershy squeaked a bit and said, “But why do I have to be a distraction.”

Alex shook his head as he said, “Trust me, being a war prisoner will be much less pleasant than being a distraction. Does everyone understand? We will remain in constant communication through my telekinesis, as of now I have gifted all of you with a joint mind so you hear what I think. That way me and Mike can reveal the entire military infrastructure so we can successfully navigate our way through and find the room with the blueprints.”

Alex smiled as he said, “Alright, it’s show time.”

*****

The summer heat outside the military outpost was intense inside the military outfits, two soldiers stood at the sides of the door with the guns in their hand. The sudden rumbling of the ground made one of the soldiers jump a bit, he quickly positioned his gun and prepared to fire. The thumping began to grow in volume as the shape of a very tall man began to approach. Eventually they were staring at the long lost Mike Eisenberg in a dated mech suit, carrying with him the unconscious body of a man in early adulthood. Three women were at his side, one of them seemed to be mortified by something she had soon while the others were generally scared. As Mike approached he said while throwing the unconscious body at their feet, “Take him to the interrogation room, he’s the mastermind behind the enemy army.”

One of the soldiers nodded his head in the direction of the girls as he said, “Who are these girls?”

Mike gently moved them forward as he said, “They were hostages, take them to the care center.”

The other soldier approached Mike as he said, “Well congratulations, I am sure the captain would like to speak with you, by the way that is an odd looking mech suit you’re wearing. It looks a lot like one of ours… only with added parts.”

Mike smiled as he said, “Being trapped in a dungeon with nothing but the suit and a few parts, decided to reinforce the plating and get the hell out with the unconscious boy in my hands and a few of the hostages.”

The soldier nodded his head as he said, “Right, follow me Mike and don’t worry the girls will be taken to a safe place. I can only imagine the post-traumatic stress they are going through.”

As the two walked away, Fluttershy turned to Lyra as she whispered, “What did he mean by post-traumatic stress?”

Lyra whispered back, “PTSD is when you can’t get the images of something horrible out of your head and it drives you insane. I think I have an idea on how to create a distraction.”

Soon the three girls were guided by a man in a white lab coat into the base, leaving Alex to lie unconscious next to the remaining guard.

*****

Alex’s head was spinning pretty darn fast when he came to, he soon realized he was sitting in a steel chair in a room with only a mirror. The small light flickering every now and then giving away its old age, the room was slowly decaying. Alex looked up as he said to himself, “You didn’t really need to knock me unconscious by throwing me you dumbass.”

A loud buzz and the clanging of metal shook up the room as the door on the opposite end opened up. A deep voice came from the other side saying, “Well… if it isn’t Alex…”

Alex had a smile in the corner of his mouth as he said, “Look, I know I’ve been a bad boy so just lock me up. I’m guessing I will be locked up the same amount of time I would have been for sharing a song on the internet?”

As Alex smiled at his joke, a tall and very buff man entered the room wearing a very nice black suit saying, “No… we plan on doing much worse.”

Alex’s smile quickly faded and turned into a flash of anger when he realized who he was talking to. Kyle gently sat down in the chair in front of him while saying, “We plan on… inhumane treatment.”

Alex began to grind his teeth and ball his fists hard enough to crack them as he said, “Torture won’t be looked so kindly upon by the others watching.”

Kyle smiled as he stood up and said, “Oh those aren’t one way windows, those are actually mirrors.” Alex watched as the door behind him suddenly slammed, the loud clash of metal ringing in Alex’s ears as Kyle said with an evil grin, “It’s just you and me.” Alex watched as the skin on Kyle’s face began to flake off in small charred bits, exposing the green and yellow decaying muscle beneath that was pussing white goo. Not even a second later Kyle had swung his first punch towards Alex and knocked him off balance and onto the floor.

Because he was handcuffed, he could not get off of the chair or prevent it from crushing his hands. He immediately began to feel the warm sensation of blood running down into his throat from his nose, he watched as the monster Kyle walked towards him and picked him up with a single hand. When he rested him back down on the four legs he shouted as he slammed the table, “Where are the prisoners!”

Alex spat blood as he said, “I… I don’ have any prisoners…”

Kyle smiled as he said, “I knew that, I just need to make it sound like I’m doing my job.” Kyle then planted a hand behind Alex’s chair to hold him in place as he punched him repeatedly in the stomach, he punched him to the point of throwing up all over the counter. Alex quickly wiped the bloody vomit from his mouth as Kyle said with a laugh, “Hurts doesn’t it, know you can imagine that pain when I looked in the mirror for the first time after you roasted me and left me for dead.”

Alex tilted his head back, blood began to squirt out of his mouth as he laughed while saying, “You still believe in that? I never”

Before Alex could finish, Kyle grabbed Alex by the head and smashed his face into the mirror, bits of glass stabbing his eyes and making him go blind. He could feel his warm blood trickling down his face and filling up his mouth, the cold sharp edges of glass sticking him everywhere in the face. As Alex fell to the ground in bloody tears he could hear Kyle shout in an angry voice, “YOU DID THIS TO ME! I can never look at myself without remembering what you did, so I made it even and took away your sight altogether.”
*****

Fluttershy, Lyra, and Bon-Bon were quickly wrapped in warm towels, cups of hot coffee in hands as they were moved swiftly down the hall. As they walked, Fluttershy said to the other two, “This coffee isn’t that bad, compliments to the chef.”

As Fluttershy looked behind and the smiling man in the white robes, his small moustache curving upwards as he smiled while saying, “That’s very sweet of you, you seem so nice of a person. It must be a relief to know that you are out of the hands of that evil man Alex.”

Lyra shook her head as she said, “Believe it or not, he wasn’t all that bad.”

The man in the white robes walked up to a small iron door, a small device at the side instead of a doorknob hung on the door. The nice man swiped his card through the door as he said, “Well I am sure this will make you feel better.” As the door opened the girls could see what was inside, there were a couple of theater chairs next to a big screen.

As the girls entered they could hear Mike talking to them through his mind, “Alright girls, just keep it cool, I’ll let you know when you can commence the distraction okay Fluttershy?”

Fluttershy began to think, “Alright, how are things for you, cause we’re getting a nice movie. It was awfully sweet for this man to be nice enough to set up a movie for us.” As Fluttershy sat down, the “movie” began. The lights of the room suddenly flashed on to reveal Alex in the other room, his hands were cuffed to the chair and he had a large purple bruise on the side of his head. Fluttershy felt her heart sink deeper than the titanic as she spoke to Mike and the girls through her mind, “Oh no…”

Mike was quick to respond as he said, “Oh no what?”

Fluttershy was incapable of saying anything, after a few seconds of silence Lyra said, “Alex… we’re an audience to something involving Alex.”

Mike tried to sound comforting as he said, “Don’t worry girls, as long as he can hear you you’ll be fine.”

The nice man noticed the girls were deep in thought, he gently sat down next to Fluttershy as he said, “I know what’s going on… he’s trying to communicate to you. Don’t worry, the thick one way glass was specially designed to repel telekinetic thoughts. Not a single crack between you and the prisoner to fully prevent said thoughts.”

Fluttershy gulped as she said, “P-Perfect.”

The girls could hear Mike on the other end beginning to sound worried as he said, “Oh no, you’re watching him be interrogated aren’t you?”

Bon-Bon was quick to reply and said in a nervous tone, almost as though she didn’t want to find out, “Yeah… why?”

Mike paused for a bit, a clear sign that it wasn’t good, “Girls… you’re about to watch Alex get tortured.”

*****

The feeling of glass in Alex’s eyes was unbearable, he was shouting in his head, “Oh please god, Mike help me!”

Suddenly Alex heard a whimper, not through his ears but through his mind say, “Please… don’t die.”

Alex laid on the floor, his warm blood beginning to soak his hair as he said, “Fluttershy? Where are you?”

“I’m in the other room!”

“I thought I was alone with Kyle.”

Lyra decided to intervene as she said, “There’s this man with us saying that they tell you that to instill true fear into you, that way they can get answers quicker.”

Alex could hear Fluttershy begin to cry as she said to him, “Please… you promised we would hold each other when we got home.”

Alex spat blood as he said calmly out loud, “I never… break… a promise.” Alex felt himself get jerked upright again, after a few punches he heard Kyle say with laughter, “Well… and I thought you would have read the Book of Unicorn, after all that’s what I’m going to do.”

Alex began to look around, the glass still wedged in his eyes as he said, “What do you mean?”

Kyle grabbed the pieces of glass and violently pulled them out as he said, “It’s a race to the book, and I’m going to win. Prepare to die Alex.”

Alex may have been blinded by the glass, but he knew where to spit his blood. He felt the liquid gush out of his mouth and heard the sound of Kyle grunt in anger as footsteps signaled he had stumbled back. Alex then activated his powers and slowly stood up as he said, “You know what? I never break a promise, and I promised I would be home for Fluttershy.” Alex began to cast a healing spell over himself, the feeling of everything going back to their original state felt rejuvenating to Alex. He felt the cuts in his eyes go away as he pulled out the large chunks himself and said, “I hate to say it, but I did read the book.”

Alex stared at Kyle, the man had a baffled look on his face. As Alex turned around to see the cracked windows he sensed in advance Kyle’s fist travelling towards him. The instant Kyle’s fist made contact with him he sent a force of equal energy back at him. Alex turned to see Kyle slam into the wall before falling on his ass, he had a confused look on his face as he said, “Wha… what was that?”

Alex walked up to him as he said in an angry tone, “I just reversed the amount of energy and force you used and delivered it back to yourself. So to simplify it, you punched yourself.” Alex had a smile in the corner of his mouth as he watched Kyle bring his fist back to punch him again, he listened to Fluttershy, Bon-Bon, and Lyra cheer as he reversed every one of Kyle’s moves.

He suddenly heard Fluttershy say, “Be careful, they just sent security after you.”

Alex could hear Mike speaking in his head, “Okay, now Fluttershy!”

*****

As the girls watched Alex begin to pummel Kyle, the man in the white coat spoke into a microphone with urgency in his voice, “Get Wayne Weston some backup.”

Lyra’s first thought was to stand up and expose Kyle, otherwise known as “Wayne”, and his secret. Yet Fluttershy did the first thing she thought of, her thought process went something a little like this:
*****

As Alex told the story, Fluttershy began to pick up where the embarrassing part was coming up, she immediately tapped Alex on the shoulder as she said, “Uhm, Alex, can you please skip this part? Like you promised?”
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Alex immediately snapped out of it, he turned his head and looked towards Kyle whom was also staring at her. He immediately took the opportunity to wind his fist back and punch him in the face, his fist nearly exploded with energy as he connected to Kyle. The eight foot tall man flew through the doorway like a ragdoll before crashing into the wall opposite of the door in the hallway. Alex immediately burst into a sprint as he shouted, “I’m free!” Alex knew that he had to draw as much military attention as possible in order to let Mike, Lyra, and Bon-Bon steal the documents.

As he ran down the hall he heard Fluttershy say through her telekinesis, “Please don’t tell anyone.”

Mike was the first to respond as he said, “What, what happened?”

Alex listened to Lyra say in a non-amused tone, “You don't want to know.”

Alex got frusterated with them as he said angrily, “Just get yourself alone in the room, Mike, are you there yet?”

Mike was quick to respond, his tone was serious as he said, “Yeah I’m in the lab where the suit was being tested. It’s in the west wing of the facility. But that’s for the weapons; the vehicles are in the north wing. So far we have everyone cleared out of here because they think you’re heading here. So make your way towards the end of the hall ahead of you and make a right and you’ll be heading for the northern area.”

Fluttershy immediately jumped in and said, “I hope you guys are coming back for me, they say I’m going to someplace called an asylum.”

Alex’s tone turned to caring as he said, “Fluttershy, just keep screaming, thrashing, and spitting. Do it like your life depends on it, convince them you’re crazy. I’m sorry I had to put you through this, I will get you as soon as possible.”

Fluttershy’s voice began to fade, a clear indicator she was being cut off. Her last words were, “I love…”

Alex whispered to himself as he rounded the corner, “I love you too.” He then charged towards the hall, as he ran a couple of guards stepped out with their guns pointed at him. Alex continued to run as they began to open fire, the bullets hitting everywhere but Alex. As he continued to draw closer, the bullets began to come dangerously close to him. Soon Alex could feel one brushing his hair, he immediately began to distort gravity around him. The bullets that were originally going to hit began to float in front of him, the continued to get stuck until he had a shield of bullets in front of him. Alex then used his magical abilities to repel the bullets in every direction but the soldiers, unfortunately one soldier fell to the ground with a bullet in his foot.

Alex burst through the doors, the alarms blaring in the empty room. He immediately turned around and shut the door behind him, igniting his hand to super-hot temperatures to weld the door shut. He calmly breathed in as he slowly stepped away from the door to take a look at where he was, the room he was in was connected to a garage with military vehicles of all sorts. As he began to plan his next move he could hear something that made his heart cringe, the sound of heavy footsteps charging towards his location. He turned around as the slamming of the door began, he watched in horror as the metal plates were bending like tinfoil under this man’s strength. Alex quickly began to back away, his mind focusing now on taking out Kyle at all costs. As Alex jumped behind a desk, the doors were blown open. The force of Kyle’s fists sent the heavy metal doors flying through the air before colliding with the glass window to the garage. Kyle stepped into the room, his face burning with rage as he said, “I’m going to kill you.”

Alex stepped out of hiding as he said with a calm tone, “After that you’re going to kill many more innocent ponies.”

Kyle charged at Alex, his fist extended and grabbed the young man by the head before slamming it against the wall. Alex was prepared and had created an extremely dense sheet of air in front of him to act as armor, yet the shock of the impact managed to daze Alex a bit as he dropped to his knees. As he slowly got up he listened to Kyle growl at him, “Why would I care? I already told you I’m doing this to save our people.”

Alex brushed himself off as he said, “ShadowThunder is tricking you, she just wants to see us both suffer. She doesn’t care for you.”

Kyle’s rage boiled over, he swung both arms at the kid and sent him crashing through the windows as he shouted, “She gave me my powers, she knows I can save my people and gave me strength to kill off the one man who is throwing us into war.”

Alex flipped and flopped through the air like a doll, he was travelling at the speeds of a bullet as he impacted with a tank inside the garage. The force of the blow was great enough to move the tank back several feet yet show no damage to the armour. Alex’s head was spinning as he laid on top of the tank in pain, he wasn’t able to take this much abuse to the head despite having magical capabilities. When Alex came to, he realized he was on a vehicle and began to get up. He crawled for the open hole to get in as Kyle threw cars at him, managing to get in just before a light tank smashed the top.

As Alex climbed inside he said in a deeper voice, almost robotic, “If I can’t talk sense into you, I am going to have to beat it into you.”

Kyle watched in awe as the tank began to shift, its tracks began to bend and fold as pieces of the tank began to pop out of place. The tank began to shift and reform itself, the sound of metal clanging together ringing through the small garage. Eventually Kyle began to make out arms and legs in the new metal machine as it slowly stood up, Alex’s head poking out near the center of the chest with the turrets on the shoulders. The large dual tank cannons were now reshaped into pistols as the new green and black robot held them tightly.

Kyle twisted his neck as he said, “Now we’re talking.”

Kyle knew he would be able to take down this metal monster, if he could destroy Alex then this was no different. Before he could take a step towards him, Alex pointed one of the cannons at Kyle and fired. A large fiery explosion shattered all the vehicle windows as the vehicles were blown back by the shockwave. Alex looked down into the crater to see Kyle, he was still breathing and able to get back up yet showed signs of weakening. As he stood on his wobbly legs, Alex said through the robo voice, “I can see Shadow made your skin infinite resistance… to magic, not so much human weaponry. Quite the weakness I might add, plus the fact that your strength and overall skin resistance does have an effect on your energy makes it hard for you to fight me.”

Alex quickly raised his foot over top of Kyle, the large metal toes hovering a few feet above the giant tired man as he said with a shaking voice, “Please… please don’t kill me.”

Alex smiled as he said, “I never kill my enemies, what better would I be if I killed like my foes?” Alex then stomped on Kyle, he knew how hard to push in order to spare him from death yet put him out for a while. When Alex lifted his foot back up he saw the unconscious body of Kyle, lying there with blood trickling out of his nose. Alex slowly stepped over him as he said, “I’m taking this home.”

As Alex walked up to the lab, he could see Lyra and Bon-Bon knocking out a few guards with simple self defense moves. Lyra turned to the giant robot Alex and said with a jump, “Oh goodness, that’s epic!”

Alex pointed at the blue pieces of paper lying on the drawing boards as he said, “Marvel at this later, we need to get those blueprints.”

Alex could hear Mike in his head saying, “You got the documents?”

Alex looked at Lyra and Bon-Bon as he said with a look of approval, “Sure do, you got the weapons blueprints?”

“Yeah man, let’s go get Fluttershy and get the hell out of here.”

Alex began to formulate another plan as he said with a smirk, “You guys go ahead, I’ll be doing this one on my own.”

*****

Deleted Scene

The following you are about so see is a very rare scene that will only be viewed by select people. In 2012, a man who went by the name Dark Freakin' Castle (Im changing my legal name to that soon) wrote a chapter to his short story series called What You Wish For 3. Unfortunately one scene was deemed too risque by the author and was soon removed after publishing.

WARNING
Copying and releasing of this deleted scene is prohibited by the author and if violated, the author will crawl into a corner and cry.
*****

Fluttershy’s thought process was like this:

Gee willickers zippidy doo-dah, I really need to think of a way to help Alex out and I need to think of it fast. Before I can jump into executing my distraction I must first think of the most effective manner of getting a person’s attention, preferably a man’s. We can only guess that this man is much like Alex, after all we have no data to further prove that this man has different social standards than Alex, so what does Alex get distracted by? Well he gets distracted by bright shiny objects, loud noises, trees, and my chest for some reason. If this man shares much of the same preferences as Alex then one of these will probably distract him, but I have no shiny objects on me, I can’t scream and I certainly cannot be a tree at the moment so what could I do? Of course, my chest might distract him. But standing there in front of him won’t help so I need to make it more of a desired object to be drawn to, like shaking my chest or exposing it. Since Alex is in danger of dying at the moment I must act quickly so my only option is also my best option.

Fluttershy closed her eyes as she said to herself, “Forgive me girls.” As the girls turned to see what she was going to do, they soon went into shock. Fluttershy jumped onto her chair as she said to the man in the white coat, “Excuse me, I need to distract you so here.” Fluttershy then took off her shirt and threw it to the ground. It was as though everything was paused, everyone in the room was staring at her. Alex looked around to see the man in the white coat staring blankly at her, Lyra and Bon-Bon had no shame in being entertained, and Kyle was ogling her.

As Lyra stared at Fluttershy she had a thought process that went like this:

Holy flying toe jam! Fluttershy just took off her shirt and exposed herself, obviously distracting everyone in an effective way. Making this the perfect opportunity to escape into the building to try and find the military documents in order to further prepare Equestria for the upcoming war.

As Bon-Bon stared at the topless woman she had a thought process as follows:

That was unexpected, not only that but it is also rather embarrassing for her. She is the one to shy away from things much more tame than this so it obviously shows her quick thinking ability also corresponds to her love and desire for her partner’s safety. Yet this is at the cost of her being shunned by her peers for humiliating herself, I truly feel bad for her because Alex might not forgive her for this.

Bon-Bon and Lyra then both jumped up while the man in the coat remained stunned, the two exited the wide open door and ran down the hall.

Back in the interrogation room, Kyle continued to stare at Fluttershy as he thought to himself:

What just happened? First I was winning a fight then I was losing it, next thing I know I am staring at a two way window I thought was a one way, looking at a half-naked chick!

Alex could clearly see through the broken mirror. He was staring at a half-naked human Fluttershy. His thought process was like this:

Nice

Shock

* So my birthday is March 11 every year (You don't say?) and I will be turning the big age. Oh yeah im turning seventeen where it will finally be legal for me to drink all I want with a fake ID named McAnal. What i wanted to talk about was how i am going to be really happy to celebrate my birthday in Cancun with my family, but i want you guys to join in on the party in any way you want. And yes while i am in Cancun there will be zero stories being posted the entire week (hope i don't die of boredom) and when i get back its M-rated games alapalooza for me.

Bottom Line, I love you all and I have never been happier to call myself a brony until now. A big shout out to a man named Corey (No last names given) For being the only other brony in my school (as far as i know, i could be one)*

ENJOY THIS OR I WILL MAKE A BUNNY SAD!

The rain poured hard down from the sky onto the wet grass, the white beams of light from the guard tower shined down upon the grass for intruders or jailbirds. Alex and Mike slowly approached the edge of the forest as Alex whispered, “Alright, once I give the signal you are going to get into the suit and create a distraction. Make sure it doesn’t involve taking any clothes off.”

Mike dawned a look of confusion as he said, “Why don’t ya take the suit. Drop their asses like flies.”

Alex shook his head as he said, “First of all, we need to keep this PG, secondly these patients are going through enough mental torment. There are people in there who wouldn’t be able to handle a giant green robot with explosions like you and I can.”

Mike smirked as he whispered, “I bet you’re gonna get caught.”

Alex snickered as he said, “Fine if I get detected, you can shave my hair off.”

Mike couldn’t help but agree as he said, “So what, ya gonna use ninja skills or something?”

Alex nodded his head as he whispered back, “Something along the lines of that.” As he spoke, he slowly began to turn invisible and emerge from the bushes in front of him. He immediately began to whisper in pain, “Ouch, ouch, I hate thorns.”

Mike laughed silently as he said, “So much for ninja.”

Mike wasn’t able to see Alex, but he knew he was being given the death look as Alex whispered in frustration, “Shut up.” Mike watched in amusement as a branch suddenly flicked as Alex nearly shouted, “Oh god, ouch.”

Mike couldn’t help but be entertained as he said, “Even I could do better.”

Alex was ready to just give up as he said, “How about you do the job… okay I’m out of the bushes.” The next thing Mike could hear was Alex slipping on the grass and hitting his head on a rock. The frustrated silent cries of Alex made it clear he would rip Mike apart if he joked any more. Mike watched from the trees as footprints began to form towards the building at the speeds of a running man, the invisible man silently cursing in languages he didn’t know existed.

Alex quickly neared the gate, he looked through the door to see a couple of officers walking out of the building with their umbrellas in their hands. As the door closed he quickly slipped through inside the facility. Alex immediately took off his shoes to avoid squeaking and began to tip toe through the halls, making sure he wasn’t heard by anyone. His head throbbed like it had been hit by a truck as he rounded the corner; his legs were probably bleeding because of the thorns. As he rounded the corner he saw a woman talking on the phone, she was sitting at the desk looking at a holographic computer screen as she talked to one of her friends.

Alex quickly began to tip toe past her towards one of the doors when the worst happened, a metal clamp quickly snapped down onto his toes which made him jump and curse. Alex quickly lost his invisibility as he shouted, “God damn it, my toes! Why the hell do you have mousetraps seventy years in the future?”

The woman behind the desk nearly screamed, she quickly pulled from her desk a small canister and began to spray an orange cloud of dust into Alex’s eyes. Alex screamed in pain as he stumbled back, he quickly caught the edge of his pants and slipped backwards and hit his head on the desk. As Alex was on the floor he shouted, “Come on seriously? Pepper spray? I’m gonna kill”

Before he could finish the woman shouted in fear, “Death threat!” She then pulled what looked like a pistol and fired a small plug at Alex’s crotch. Alex began to scream at the top of his lungs as a huge amount of electricity coursed through his genitals, he squirmed and slammed his hand down on another mousetrap which made him swear even more.

Alex quickly got up as he said through grinding teeth, “Fuck this.” Alex then pointed his arm at the woman and sent a pulse of energy at her; the shockwave sent her over the desk and onto the computer. Alex then turned towards the doors to the patients and blasted them open, his anger was the source of his energy as he stormed down the hallway. As he walked he heard the alarms begin to blare, he slumped his head backwards as he said, “Oh forget me!”

*****

Meanwhile Fluttershy was in her padded cell, her coat wrapping her arms together and prevented her from doing anything violent. She was scared and confused as to how she could be treated like this for taking her shirt off while back in Alex’s times people were paid to get naked. As she sat in her cell she could hear the person across from her saying as loud as possible, “Stay out of my shed! Stay outta my shed!”

As Fluttershy sat there, she wondered when Alex would arrive to help her out and let her change back to a pony. Fluttershy nearly jumped out of her own skin when large slamming began against her door, she watched as the door began to bend and twist out of shape until it simply fell down. Fluttershy jumped up in hopes of seeing a heroic and glowing hero, with hair blowing in the wind. Instead she got a drenched, puffy eyed, smoking haired, enraged Alex. He stood there with the door in his hand, his eyes had swollen nearly shut with the pepper spray and his hair was sticking straight out from static shock.

Fluttershy gently swayed towards him as she said with joy, “Oh Alex I knew you would”

Before she could finish her sentence, Alex picked her up over his shoulder and jerked her around as he said in a growl, “That’s fantastic how about you tell me when were out of here.” As Alex was exiting her room, a guard approached him with his baton in hand. Alex looked at him as he shouted, “Go ahead, hit me! Hit me again Johnny and put some sweet cream on it!”

Alex watched as the guard slowly backed down, Alex nodded as he said, “That’s what I thought.” He then began to walk down the hallway full of shouting prisoners, Fluttershy could swear she saw the top of his head pop off when he shouted in a demonic voice, “Shut up all of you!” Immediately every single patient went silent, needles could be heard dropping it was so silent. Alex then walked out the front door, smashing everything in his direction. Fluttershy watched as the rain immediately boiled into a gas when it touched Alex’s forehead.

*****

Mike looked down at his hand of cards, he then looked back up to see Lyra and Bon-Bon looking down at their cards. Mike had the biggest grin on his face as he said, “Got a king of hearts?”

Lyra planted her card down as she said, “Go fish” The card in her hand was not a king of hearts but rather queen of spades.

Bon-Bon shook her head as she said, “Wait what are we doing?”

Mike began to get a confused look as he said, “I have no idea.”

Suddenly the side of the landed the vessel was torn open to reveal an angry Alex and worried Fluttershy. Alex gently tossed Fluttershy into the plane as he said, “Turn me into Britney Spears doctor! The whole world knows!”

Mike gently put his cards down as he said, “Looks like it, first let’s get Fluttershy out first.”

*****

Fluttershy wrapped herself into the blanket, her hooves wrapped up snugly in the blanket as she watched Alex get his hair cut. Alex’s eyes had begun to open back up and he had cheered up, he finally had a smile on his face. As she watched him get his skull shaved she said, “So you bet your hair that you could free me without being seen?”

Alex shrugged as he said, “Essentially yes, how was I supposed to know there were mouse traps in there.”

Fluttershy giggled as she said with an innocent smile, “Well the good thing is that now we’re back, what are we going to do next?”

Alex looked up at mike as he said with an approving nod, “Well thanks to your genius and sexy plan, we were capable of stealing every blueprint for every vehicle and weapon that the military is using. Now we can go home, after being gone for a bout sixteen seconds in Ponyville.”

Fluttershy’s eyes widened as she said in awe, “Wow, this whole universe thing is weird. I can’t wait to get home and celebrate hearts and hooves day with you.”

As Mike finished Alex’s shave, he removed the towel from his neck as he said, “Welcome private Alex.”

Alex quickly got out of his chair, he then rushed over to pick up Fluttershy and hold her tightly as he said, “No amount of pepper spray could keep me from you.”

Mike laughed as he said under his breath, “How about tazers?”

Alex gently kissed Fluttershy on her forehead, it had felt as though he had not done it in years and it felt rejuvenating to finally hold her again after a crazy adventure. Alex turned around with Fluttershy in his arms as he said, “We get to Kemptville again, you get in the suit and we head back to Equestria.”

*****

Alex leaned back on his chair as he said, “Next thing that happened, we were back in K-ville and walking through the portal to Equestria.”

Twilight slowly raised her head in understanding as she said, “Well that certainly explains everything,” Twilight brushed her dark purple hair from her eyes with her hoof as she said, “I still can’t believe you let Mike shave your head in a bet.”

Alex turned to mike as he said, “I still can’t believe if Mike actually shaved my head.”

As Alex turned around, a large amount of luscious hair that hadn’t been touched flopped onto his chest, right outside his view. Alex turned back to smile at the ponies, having no idea he had one of the ugliest mullets ever. He looked at Celestia and Lauren, whom were resisting the urge to point it out. Alex smiled as he said with glee, “Well I would love to stay and chat, but me and Fluttershy have something to do for tomorrow.”

Alex opened his arms to allow for the yellow pony to gracefully jump into them, immediately planting a kiss on his nose. Fluttershy giggled as she said silently, “Finally we get a break.”

A half hour later, when all the ponies were gone from the library as well as Mike and Lauren, Alex remained in the library’s kitchen cooking up some pasta as he and Spike talked. Alex levitated a bowl over to his pot and poured some warm spaghetti into the bowl as he said, “So Spike, you wanted me for something.”

Spike licked his lips when he was presented with the bowl, he immediately began to dig in on it as he said with a full mouth, “Well as you know, hearts and hooves day is tomorrow. It’s a day where we give gifts to our special someponies, and I need your help with my gift.”

Alex laughed at himself as he said, “That’s cute spike, how old are you again?”

Spike wiped the pasta sauce from his lips as he said, “I’m eighteen years old, I know I’m still a baby.”

Alex shrugged as he said while twirling his fork he crafted from the suit’s metal and said, “That’s about the same age as me, I’m pretty sure you’re old enough to date Rarity.”

Spike quickly jumped onto the table and covered Alex’s mouth as he whispered, “Don’t say it out loud, how did you know it was her?”

Alex looked up at the ceiling as he silently sighed and said, “Because Spike, you are the worst at hiding your feelings. Back to you two getting hooked, you need to take her on a date.”

Spike handed him a small pamphlet as he said, “Already have that covered.”

Alex looked down at it as he read the title out loud, “Bucky Cheese?” Alex looked back up at the purple dragon as he said, “You’re kidding right?” As Alex saw the poor dragon slump in despair he said, “I’m not putting you down, I’m sure if you took Applebloom there she would fall for you in an instant if you got her free cheese pizza. Rarity is a lady of class though, have you ever seen a single mom in one of those places? They look like they want to strangle the life out of someone, so take your date to somewhere where she wants. Like my father always told me, happy wife happy life.”

Spike began to think over a new date before saying with a smile, “How about the arcade?”

Alex winked as he said, “The arcade is for where I show you all up at prance-prance revolution. Here’s a suggestion, take her out to dinner at the finest place in Canterlot and then a play. Oh god putting myself into Rarity’s… shoes, I would have shared our first kiss before we even got home.”

Spike slowly backed away as he said, “Dude, that’s creepy.”

Alex began to motion for Spike to calm down as he said, “All I’m saying is that Rarity has high standards to make sure to go above and beyond. What she expects is the casual dinner at the local restaurant, when she is gifted to tickets to the royal play in Canterlot she will scream with joy.”

Spike smilled from ear (does he even have any) to ear before taking out a small box as he said, “Well see, I want to make it as romantic as possible so could you put on a performance for her?”

Alex looked at the small box containing a diamond necklace before saying, “We’re homies, we do these things for each other. Just be sure she says yes.”

Spike and Alex then did a random secret handshake as Spike said, “No problem, thanks Alex.”

Chapter 5: Emotions of Love and Regret

So first of all, happy St. Valentine's everybody and everypony! Secondly this chapter is dedicated to the lonely goobers out there like me, this is my valentine's gift to you guys. I love you all for getting me to where I am today!

*****

A car drove down a lone highway during the night, the rain pouring down hard upon the earth nearly drowning it. As the car drove, Kyle sat in the backseat; his finger tightly wrapped the trigger of a small pistol he had pointed at the driver. The inside of the car was high class leather with fine wood dashboard, the driver tried his best to remain calm as he said, “So uh… can I live?”

Kyle shook his head as he said in a deep and raspy voice, he sounded hesitant to answer him almost as though he was regretting it, “I don’t know,” he said with his head low, “that will be decided by my friend and not me.”

Eventually the car pulled up to a lone house, the rain had begun to calm down by now yet still helped litter the car in brown mud. As Kyle exited, the car nearly bounced as the pressure was released from the suspension. Kyle slowly turned back, revealing a drenched and infection ridden face as he said, “Stay here.”

Kyle watched as the man nodded his head with a shake, the fear of death was in his eyes. Kyle then turned around and began to walk up the wooden steps of the house; they creaked and cracked under his weight as he took every step. Kyle reached the door and extended one of his fists; he slowly tapped the door and waited for a response. The sound of a whispering and ghostly voice sent shivers down Kyle’s spine as it said, “Come in, you’re late.”

Kyle slowly pushed the door open, finally escaping the rain as it thundered outside. Kyle looked around the abandoned house, not a single living thing had touched it in nearly fifty years and the wood began to show its age. Kyle called out in a deep tone, “I think Alex might have discovered a weakness in my abilities.”

Kyle didn’t have to wait for too long to hear the voice once again, “How so?”

Kyle watched as a shadowy black unicorn emerged from the shadows of the old house, her eyes glowed a dark blood red as she looked at him. Kyle extended his right hand, he pulled a knife out with his left hand and began to drag the blade along his hand as he said, “Human weapons seem to hurt me more than Equestrian magic.”

Shadow looked down at his bleeding hand as she said in a hiss, her face barely showing any care for him, “Well then it’s a good thing you have the humans fighting for you, with your weapons against their limited powers as well as the time skew being on our side, we will be unstoppable.”

As Shadow turned away to face one of the windows, her hair bleeding black smoke that fell at an angle as the moon shined onto her face. Kyle closed his hand tightly due to the pain as he said, “Alex stole all the blueprints.”

Shadow turned her head a full 180 degrees, her eyes flaming up with rage as she said, “What?”

Kyle approached her as he said in a grim tone, “He infiltrated one of our posts and stole blueprints for all of the vehicles we had developed for Equestria. With that knowledge he can figure out the weak points on all of our technology and use it against us.”

Shadow hissed, her hair beginning to turn to black flames before she turned around while saying, “It’s a shame he isn’t as weak as you, you pathetic waste of my energy.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Sorry does not bring all of our precious information back, sorry only makes me regret hiring someone as pitiful and as useless as you. We need to attack them as soon as possible. We must move the attack to next year.”

Kyle looked down at her, a mixed look of confusion and worry on his face as he said, “But we need the three other years to train the soldiers of what they will encounter.”

Shadow began to mock him, her head swaying in a dopey fashion as she said, “You already have Special operatives, do you not? Are they not capable of dealing with any situation?”

“Yes they are.”

“Then send them as a warning not to mess with ShadowThunder’s will.”

Kyle began to think of the plan; something was not right about this. He slowly turned around as he said without looking back, “Why must you start a war between us? Why must you pit humans against Equestrians? Why must we put the lives of innocent humans at stake?”

Shadow did not turn her head, she felt embarrassed enough being in the same room as him as she said with a sigh, “Alex is a man of peace, I have seen the dedication in his heart. I have also sensed his mental disability, he is distracted. If we bring war to Equestria, he will either: leave behind Equestria to die to find the book or fight for the ‘right cause’ and allow us time to find and steal the book.”

Kyle nodded his head as he said, “So war is necessary.”

“Yes it is. You may go and command my new request, have the troops ready by next year to be deployed.”

As Kyle walked towards the door to leave, he heard Shadow turn her head and say, “Oh and you can kill the driver. He is no longer needed.”

Kyle nodded his head; he slowly opened the door to enter the rainy weather. As he stepped down the stairs, he slowly pulled the small pistol from his pocket. He watched as the driver began to panic, his eyes beginning to tear up as he held tightly to the cross around his neck. As Kyle approached the driver’s side, the driver slowly rolled the window down to meet the pistol halfway. As the driver sat there with his eyes tightly shut, Kyle closed his eyes as he said deep with regret, “Bless this man, our Father. He did not deserve the death he has been given and may St. Peter greet him with eternal peace.”

As the driver looked up, his face beginning to understand Kyle, Kyle looked back at him as he said in a shaking whisper, “I’m so sorry.” Kyle then pulled the trigger; he felt the metal piece click back as a loud gunshot was heard and his arm shook. He kept his eyes closed the entire time until he heard the horn begin to honk, the driver’s head resting on it as it lay there dead. Kyle slowly opened the door to the driver’s side and pulled the driver out, Kyle quickly opened his wounded hand and wiped some of his blood on the man’s head as he said, “Hope this helps.” He watched in slight joy as the wound began to close up, leaving a dead man with no sign of a gunshot wound. Kyle quickly pulled a shovel out of the trunk of the car and began to dig a hole next to the house, hanging his head low as he planted the spade into the ground. Once the hole was finished he gently placed the man in the hole and buried him, keeping his necklace in his hand as he filled the hole with dirt.

When he had finished the burial, he gently kneeled down and placed the small cross on top of the soil as he said to himself, “I’m sorry…” Kyle slowly got back up, his head drenched and his suit soaked. He slowly walked towards the car and dropped the shovel in the passenger’s seat, the mud splattering the fine leather seating. Kyle plopped himself in the driver’s seat and gripped the steering wheel, as he stared at the house he began to tear up. Kyle gently rested his head on the steering wheel and let his tears fall from his face; he felt regret like never before. He had killed an innocent human. Once Kyle had finished his regret and pulled himself back together, he then turned the car back on and drove away.

*****

All Alex could see at the moment were flashes of images, they mostly lasted for a couple of seconds though. Alex then found himself standing in a field with Fluttershy, the flowers were brushing against his skin as he laid peacefully in the grass next to his love. Fluttershy slowly crawled on top of him and smiled down at him, the warmth he felt in his heart made him nearly giggle with joy. Alex looked up at Fluttershy as he said, “I love you.”

Fluttershy looked back down as she said, “I love you too.” Fluttershy then closed her eyes as she moved towards Alex, as their lips began to approach Alex closed his eyes as well. As Alex kissed her, he began to feel warmer and warmer. He opened his eyes to see that a burning body was laying on top of him, the surrounding fields had now begun to burn like the pits of hell. Alex quickly threw the dead corpse off of him and stood up, he looked around at the burning cities that were being ravaged by explosion. He looked back down at his feet to see more bodies of humans and ponies, most of them were missing limbs or chunks to their bodies as they lay there covered in blood. Alex began to scream as he tripped over the bodies, he then fell into a ditch to find a man sitting there. Alex shouted at him, “What happened here?”

The man slowly turned to look at Alex and revealed his face. Alex nearly vomited as he saw the rest of the man’s head; it had been blown clean off. The man looked at Alex as he said with no emotion, “You did this.”

Alex suddenly jolted upright, his eyes and arms were glowing bright orange and his forehead was sweating. He quickly got himself together and realized it was only a nightmare; he looked around the room to see everything had gone back to normal. He then looked down to see Fluttershy sleeping peacefully with a dopey smile on her face, her legs twitching every now and then. Alex slowed his breathing down before getting out of bed; he slipped his slippers on and put on a bathrobe before going downstairs.

Once he reached the kitchen he opened the fridge and pulled out a large tub of yogurt, he popped the top off and began to pour it down his throat. Alex planted the tub of yogurt on the table and began to shovel it into his mouth with his hand, like the author does when he is lonely. As he ate (not sure if that can even be considered eating), a soft voice spoke from behind Alex, “What’s wrong honey?”

Alex shook his head from side to side as he said, “Nothing, dear, go back to bed.”

Fluttershy slowly trotted up beside him as she said, “Shoveling expired vanilla yogurt down your throat is not nothing. You eat when you are bothered.”

Alex turned to Fluttershy, his cheeks were puffed out and filled with the now expired yogurt as he said, “Do not.”

Fluttershy gave Alex a look that said “Oh really”. Fluttershy pulled up a chair next to him as she said in her soft voice, “Oh really? When The Expendables 4 came out, you were devastated to the point of eating my pearl necklace.”

Alex shook his head, he managed to swallow the yogurt before saying in a tired voice, “Am I a bad person?”

Fluttershy moved her chair closer to him as she said with a hug of her wing, “No you are not. You’re the greatest person a pony could ask for.”

Alex dropped the empty yogurt container into the trashcan as he said, “I’m sending Equestria to war with my own people. If I hadn’t kept myself alive all those years ago… I would never have put you in danger.”

Fluttershy began to tear up, she felt hurt to hear that as she said in a gentle tone, “Alex… if you killed yourself all those years ago… you wouldn’t be here, you wouldn’t have saved our world from ShadowThunder. You wouldn’t be living here in Equestria, you wouldn’t… have met me. Aren’t you happy with me?”

Alex looked back at her, he could see the tears streaming from her eyes. He slowly brought up his hand and gently rubbed it against her cheeks, the soft hair on her small pink cheeks tingled his fingers. He slowly stroked under her eyes and wiped the tears from her as he said with the most sincere smile, “I have never been happier, I want to be with you forever.” Alex kissed her cheek, he slowly planted his face in her hair as he hugged her and said, “But I’m afraid everypony else might hate me for what I got us into.”

Fluttershy began to stroke her hoof through Alex’s still uncut mullet as she said, “You are a hero, you’re here to save us. You’re fighting for our safety and freedom.”

Alex hugged her tightly, he wrapped his arms around her soft body as he said, “But what if me and Lauren aren’t enough?”

Alex could suddenly feel the gently nibble of her teeth on his earlobe before hearing her say, “You are enough to save us from chaos.”

Alex began to think of what she just said; something in that sentence gave him an idea. As he thought about it he began to rejoice, he whispered in awe, “Chaos… I have an idea.”

*****
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Chapter 6: You Can Fly!

The sun finally poked over the mountaintops, pouring sunlight into the peaceful town of Ponyville. It was truly a magical thing to have had snow just a day ago but have summer weather the next, everypony had worked their flanks off to make it happen for Hearts and Hooves day.

Inside a small cottage, on the top of the hill, lied a peaceful couple who dreamt their dreams. The heat of the sun slowly seeping through the curtains and casting its warmth onto the face of the sleeping human and pony inside was like from a fairy tale (cause this is based on a true story).

As the sun reached his eyes, Alex peacefully brought himself back to reality and inhaled deeply. He slowly rolled over onto his side to find the yellow Pegasus curled up, he slowly wrapped his arm around her as he said, “Morning Fluttershy.”

Alex had to wait a few seconds before he heard the timid voice of Fluttershy say with a yawn, “Happy Hearts and Hooves day.”

Alex smiled innocently as he watched her roll over, her pink mane falling in front of her eyes only to be blown out of the way. The two stared into each other’s eyes for about a minute before Alex said while getting up, “I’ll make the coffee this morning.” Alex then got out of bed and headed down the stairs towards the kitchen, as he descended he watched as all her little creatures came out of their little homes to stretch and get ready for the day. Alex slowly slumped his way into the kitchen and began to make coffee, using his magic to help him out for the most of it. Once the coffee was done, Alex brought the two mugs upstairs to their room. He gently placed the bright pink mug on Fluttershy’s half before sitting down on his side and drinking from his mug.

As he drank his coffee, he watched as Ponyville sprang to life. He looked down to see Fluttershy taking a sip from hers as he said, “I’m going to be helping Spike with a few things today, how about you and your friends go to Canterlot to see that new Talent Show?”

Fluttershy smiled as she said with a giggle, “That would be lovely, but I want to spend this day with you.”

Alex kissed Fluttershy on the forehead, her soft pink hair tickling his nose as he said, “You’ll see me alright.” Alex looked down at his watch to see that it was almost eight in the morning, he quickly downed his burning hot coffee and got dressed as he said, “Anyways we’ll see each other tonight, here’s my Hero Discount card for some shopping you can do with your friends. If they ask for some ID just tell them that Alex doesn’t want a sad Fluttershy.”

Fluttershy looked at the small card, it seemed odd to her to find it in Equestria. As she held it in her hooves she said, “I still don’t get this whole card thing Lyra invented.”

Alex smiled as he said while putting on his dress coat, “Just don’t come home with anything too big. It has a limit you know.”

Fluttershy giggled as she said, “Alright, have fun with Spike.” Fluttershy then hugged and pecked Alex on the cheek before saying goodbye to all her little critters and leaving.

Once Alex had made sure that Fluttershy was out of hearing range, he looked over to the record player and flicked his wrist. As the needle fell onto the vinyl record he said to himself, “But first I need to get the wiggles out.” Alex then picked up a can of whipped cream and poured some onto his eyes and mouth as the music began to play. One thing you have to know about Alex by now is his love for this one song and a very specific dance he made to go along with it.

*****

Meanwhile, Mike was putting on his change of clothes as he said aloud, “Alright, I’m gonna be hangin’ with Alex and Spike today. We have a surprize for the six of you for tonight.”

Pinkie sprang out of bed, her pink mane flying everywhere as she said, “Oh boy I love surprizes I can’t wait to see it, can you give me a hint to what it might be? Please, please, please please?” By now Pinkie had her head nearly upside down as she smiled at her friend.

Mike laughed a bit as he said with a pat on her head, “I aint gonna tell you, girl. Now go meet up with Twilight and Rarity. I’ll see you tonight.” With that, Mike picked up Pinkie as though she were a small dog and carried her down the stairs out the front door. Mike gently rested her on the ground before closing the door behind him, he then waited at the window until she had gone out of hearing distance.

It was almost as though it had been waiting for the specific moment, because as soon as Mike assumed he was alone a voice began to ring in his head. It wasn’t one of a conscience but rather a telecommunication, the crackling and low quality of the sound made it difficult to understand. All mike could hear after a long painful beep was the voice saying, “Good… you still have the headset inside. I don’t have much time to explain so listen carefully.”

Before the voice could continue, Mike planted his two fingers on his temple as he spoke aloud, “The hell are you son?”

The grim voice sighed before saying, “If you didn’t get my last message I sent a couple of days ago I am going to say it again, be careful.”

Mike began to worry, he didn’t like these mysterious threats or warnings of things. Mike began to feel uncomfortable but did his best to keep strong as he said in a very stern voice, “As long as you tell me who the hell this is.”

All he heard next was fuzz coming from the other end of the line. Mike had dropped to his knees as the frequency of the fuzz was seriously hurting him; he gripped his head tightly as he kneeled in pain. Mike suddenly snapped out of it when the voice of a well-loved baker said, “You alright there?”

Mike slowly turned his head to see Mr. Cake looking down at him with a worried look; his eyes were scanning over and inspecting his body language. Mike slowly got back to his feet as he said, “No I’m fine, had a bit of jet lag or something.”

Mr. Cake slowly tilted his head as he said with a caring look in his eyes, “Pinkie told me about all the weird things you own, you know that girl is like a daughter to me and my wife. We practically raised her, we hope that you can keep her just as safe as we did.”

Mike nodded his head as he walked up the stairs while saying, “Don’t worry, I became a soldier to protect. It would be my honor to protect her.”

As Mike walked up the stairs to his room, Mrs. Cake walked out of the kitchen with the babies at her side. Mr. Cake turned to her as he said, “These poor humans don’t do so well living here. I have a feeling that this might be a different Hearts and Hooves day we won’t ever forget.”

*****

Alex watched Spike wave goodbye to the girls as they headed off to Canterlot for a day of shopping, their saddlebags ready to be overstuffed while Alex’s Hero Discount card is ready to be abused. Once the girls had boarded the flying chariot and headed off to Canterlot, Spike turned to Alex as he said, “So what are we going to do to help me win Rarity’s heart?”

Alex sat down and began to think; he knew Rarity pretty well and had a basic idea on how to impress her. Alex began to grin as he said, “Rarity is a girl with high standards; she acts like a princess so she should be treated like one too.”

Spike looked at Alex oddly as he said with a confused tone, “What do you mean?”

Alex got up and grabbed a flower from Twilight’s vase as he said, “I’m saying that getting her a bouquet or some chocolates isn’t going to impress her. She puts a lot of effort into making her dresses and clothing for her friends, so why not put as much effort as possible into impressing her. She loves performances by the way so maybe we could put on a show for her.”

Spike immediately bounced in his seat as he said with glee, “Oh wow that would be perfect!”

Alex looked over to Mike as he said, “Hey you’re out of your chair. Good cause we’re going to need a third person for this.”

Mike shook his head in irritation, he was hearing that telecommunication once again saying, “Be careful and keep your eyes on the sky.”

Mike gave his head a shake before saying with a stutter, “Yeah… alright bro. Let’s do this.”

*****

The airstrip was fairly crowded with advanced planes, three of them were heavily equipped with missiles while two had bombs and one looked to be made for radar. Kyle stood at the center of the runway; he was deep in thought as he watched a large crane drop a huge metal ring at the end of the airstrip. Two smaller trucks were carrying computers on their flatbeds as they drove towards the giant device, people were walking around it and inspecting it.

As Kyle stood there in thought, a man walked up behind him and said in a German accent, “Excuse me, Mr. Clyde?”

Kyle slowly turned around as he said, “Yes… did you call me Clyde?”

The small man nodded his head as he said, “That’s right; you are Kyle Clyde aren’t you? You escaped from Alcatraz a few years back.”

Kyle slowly approached the man as he said in a very calm tone, “You must be mistaken my name is”

The small young German raised his hand to stop him as he said, “Don’t bullshit me. I know who you are; I know what you have done.”

Kyle looked around, he didn’t see anyone else there but this man and him. He looked at the man’s suit to see a chest full of badges and ribbons, his hair was thinning and his face showed wrinkles from frowning. The small man stuck his hand out to shake as he said, “Albrecht… Albrecht Freud. I’m not going to arrest you because of the potential behind this project.”

Albrecht slowly turned around as he said, “I have always dreamt of going to another world to colonise it, for the good of the human race. This is a quantum leap in space and time travel alike; with this we could use other planet’s resources as energy and keep our people alive… we could even live on the other planets.”

Kyle turned to look at the giant machine as well as he said, “It’s not going to be that easy, on that planet lies intelligent life with a military and a government of its own.”

Albrecht smiled at the corner of his face as he said, “Maybe it was a good thing for me to become the one in command, ever since my superior died in that world at the hands of that boy. People like him piss me off, they are the ones who hate their own kind like hippies and vegetarians. I’m glad you suggested we use our new military equipment as well, I love a good fight every now and then.”

Kyle began to feel a pain in his stomach; something wasn’t right in this situation. He turned around and began to walk back towards the military outpost as he said, “I hope we win as well, with as few casualties as possible.”

As Kyle walked through the doors to the outpost, he found a woman with jet black hair waiting for him. She began to walk at his side as she said, “It’s a good thing humans are stupid, if I were him I would have turned you in. But seeing as I need you, I am going to keep you.”

Kyle shook his head as he said, “We have a few more months before we deploy. I hope we make it out of this alive.”

*****

Meanwhile back in Ponyville, Alex along with Mike and Spike plopped themselves down on the benches and began to drink from their glasses of water. As they drank, they all wiped the sweat from their brows. Alex looked over at Mike as he said with a grin, “How does it feel to finally move your legs like that after a few days.”

Mike gave out a tired laugh as he said, “It was… different. Well we finally got it all set and ready, now to wait.”

Spike began to take sips from his water and turn it into steam as he said, “Doesn’t it seem kind of odd to suddenly do this in Twilight’s house?”

Alex looked over Mike towards the baby dragon as he said, “How so?”

Spike shrugged as he said, “Well it just seems like we put a lot of work into this. Wouldn’t you think that this deserves a bit more attention?”

Mike began to think about it, he quickly said, “Yeah Rarity seems like the kind of girl to wanna show off. But how would we get a crowd for her?”

Alex got up and began to walk around the room, he thought about the ideas they were throwing at him. He slowly approached the balcony window and looked out into the distance, hoping to find some inspiration for an idea. Suddenly an idea popped into his head as he looked at the castles, he had probably the best solution and said, “The question is not how we are going to get a crowd, but how are we going to get in.”

Spike tilted his head as he said, “What do you…” Spike’s eyes suddenly widened as he understood what Alex was talking about and said with a slacked jaw, “Oh.” Spike looked up at the bald man as he said, “Do you have to make your ideas confusing like that?”

Alex looked back down at the purple dragon and said with narrowing eyes, “It makes it more interesting. Let’s go!”

As Alex began to make his way towards the door, Mike had a confused look on his face as he said, “What are you doing?”

Alex ran out the door and into the warm afternoon heat as he said, “I’m getting us a ride to Canterlot.” Alex was soon out of view, for a few seconds there was peaceful silence but it was soon interrupted by a crashing of metal and soil. Mike and Spike rushed out of the house to see Alex inside a royal Canterlot carriage, there were no pegasi at the front but instead a large metal ball. Mike slowly walked out as Alex said with a wave, “No time to explain, get in the carriage.”

Spike rushed over to the carriage as he said with worry in his voice, “We have to hurry, it’s going to be dusk in a few hours.”

Alex nodded his head as the two others got into the golden cart, he quickly began to levitate the ball in front of him and make it pull them into the air. The cart suddenly jerked into motion and was soon flying above the houses of the peaceful village. As they flew, Alex began to peer over the edge to make sure there were no ascending pegasi. As he looked back up he saw a grey pegasus with a mailbag at her side sitting on the hood of the cart, her eyes were both focusing on Alex and Mike as she said, “Hi Alex!”

Alex smiled impatiently as he said, “Hi Derpy, we have to go so we can’t talk.”

Derpy smile brightly as she said, “Well I don’t have to go, I can talk to you.”

Alex looked down at her saddlebag as he said, “Sorry Derpy, we actually do have to go.” Alex then gently wrapped his arms around her and picked her up, he slowly walked towards the open back of the cart and let go of her. Alex and Mike watched as the grey pony fell through the clouds towards the ground while giggling, she waved goodbye to them as she plummeted towards the town.

Mike had a look of horror on his face, his eyes had widened with shock and his jaw was hanging low before he said, “You just threw her off the edge.”

Alex shook his head, he showed no signs of regret as he said, “Don’t worry, she can fly and even if she doesn’t she doesn’t know how to obey physics so she won’t be hurt.”

Mike looked over the edge again to see the grey pony flying below them before she veered off into another direction, he slowly returned to looking in the direction of the castle when the voice returned yet again saying in a slightly more worried tone, “I know I can’t hear you, but you can hear me and you can understand my instructions. Stay out of the sky; you’ll thank me tomorrow morning when you wake up alive.” The voice quickly disappeared followed by the buzzing before it slowly faded away as well.

*****

Fluttershy sat next to Twilight and Rarity in the large theater, she watched in amusement as the performers did their acts. She was amused by some, impressed by others, she felt bad for some, and was shocked by a few odd ones. As she watched she leaned over and said to Twilight, “It sure is nice to see Trixie performing her magic once again; she seems to be happy with the reception she got.”

Twilight nodded her head as she whispered, “Maybe because this time she wasn’t talking down to us.” Twilight and Fluttershy then both giggled, the audience began to applaud for the last performers who seemed to have done a better job than most of the others.

Fluttershy leaned over to Rarity as she whispered, “Which one did you like so far?”

Rarity was quick to answer, she already knew which one she had liked as she whispered, “I for one loved the singer, it broke my heart to know such a great talent came from a colt with no family. What about you dear?”

Fluttershy blushed before saying with darting eyes, “I liked the violinist that played with Octavia, she certainly put a lot of care into her music and it really did sound calming.”

As the large crowd applauded, a pony walked out onto the stage as he said while speaking into the microphone, “Fillies and Gentlecolts, we have a very special performance coming up. This one is for a very special somepony in the crowd here.”

As the entire crowd looked around with smiling faces, all of them chiming in on a large, “Awww.” Rarity looked over to Fluttershy as she said with a giggle, “This should be interesting, I wonder who the special somepony is.”

Rarity looked back up to see a small purple dragon walk onto the stage, he slowly put on the microphone from the pony up there and said into it with a nervous voice, “Uh… hello.”

Rarity slowly began to sink into her chair as she said to herself, “Uh-Oh.” She noticed her friends looking towards her with smiling faces; she quickly put on a fake one to make them look back towards the stage in order for her to hide her face.

Spike began to walk in a pattern as he said with some stuttering, “This is… uhh… dedicated to a very… very special somepony in this crowd. If they know who they are could they please stand up?” Spike looked over the crowd to see none of the ponies standing up, he began to scratch at the back of his head as he said silently, “Of course.” Spike then closed his eyes as a thought ran through his head:

What a dope, who was I thinking to actually try and impress Rarity. She’s probably trying to sneak out right now after being embarrassed in front of her friends. Maybe I should just… No! I have to do this; this could be my last chance to tell her how I truly feel.

Spike took in a deep breath and began to speak a bit louder as he said, “Fine, Rarity could you please stand up?”

It took a few minutes, but Spike could see the white unicorn slowly rise above the crowd with an awkward and fake smile slapped on her face. Spike took in a shaky breath as he said, “Rarity… I want you to be my diamond forever. Will you be my special somepony?”

Rarity paused, her brow began to sweat as she said, “I… Uh…”

Spike watched as she began to close her eyes in regret, he knew what she was about to say and stuck his hand out and said with a grin, “Before you answer that, we might need a bit of seducing.” Spike slowly began to walk towards the rear of the stage as he said, “Boys… we’re going with plan B!”

Spike turned around to face the opposite side, his back facing the audience as the curtains slowly began to close. Rarity slowly descended in her seat as she whispered, “I hope I don’t sound mean but what in the hay was that all about?”

Pinkie Pie quickly grabbed Rarity by the face and turned her towards the stage as she said with excitement, “Look!”

Rarity watched in surprize as the curtains began to reopen, smoke began to pour out from the stage onto the crowd as one of Alex’s all-time favourite songs began to play. As the curtain raised above Spike’s head, he revealed his new coat that resembled Alex’s favorite white hoodie as well as baggy blue pants similar to the ones his human friend wears. Spike looked up at the crowd as he said, “Guys… let’s help change her mind!”

Alex and Mike slowly began to rise from under the stage, they were both wearing matching clothes to Spike as the headbanged to the music. Rarity watched in awe as she said, “Wow…”

Spike began to sing the intro lyrics while Mike and Alex continued to rise on their platforms. Spike finished off his lines with the iconic, “We gettin’ twenty percent cooler!”

It didn’t take long but Alex and Mike both jerked their heads up to reveal metallic faces, bright yellow and blue lights for their eyes began to light up as the two simultaneously said in robotic voices, “We gettin twenty percent cooler.”

As soon as the music kicked in, Alex and Mike began to do the robot on their platforms. The crowd began to go nuts over the performance, Rarity was smiling brightly as she watched Spike begin to rap for the first time ever.

As they performed , Mike began to hear the voice in his head once more. The voice sounded more urgent and worried as it said only two words before cutting off again, “Get down.”

At first Mike was too stunned to react, but the sound of a single Pony screaming allowed the entire production to stop. Mike, Alex, and Spike looked into the distance to see a large wall of energy tear open. They watched in horror as multiple planes came flying out, the planes immediately began to disperse and travel in separate directions.

Alex slowly stepped forward as he said, “Oh no…” He watched as one of the planes approached and began to spew balls of light that rapidly approached. Alex quickly realized that they were in fact missiles and shouted at the top of his lungs, “GET DOWN!”

The audience suddenly began to panic as the missiles hit buildings scattered across Canterlot, large explosions quickly tore the towers apart. The crowd began to panic as more blazing explosions tore around the stadium, the place suddenly beginning to tilt towards the edge of the cliff. Alex quickly remembered that all of Canterlot was rested on the side of a mountain and would crumble of the supports were destroyed. Mike shouted at the top of his lungs, “Everypony move NOW! Get to the other side of Canterlot!” Slowly the crowd began to shift towards the outside of the building, outrunning the gradual tilting of the stadium.

Alex watched as the plane made another turn around and began to head for Canterlot again, it began to fire off it’s mounted Gatling gun at Alex. He quickly put his hand up and began to deflect the bullets with a large invisible field, lighting up orange every time a bullet struck it. When the plane passed by, it launched a few more missiles at the castle towers and easily demolishing them.

Alex began to hear the alarms blaring throughout the city as he ran up to Mike and said, “We need to get all these ponies off of Canterlot, the whole place is coming down.” Alex looked down at the baby dragon, who had frozen in fear and said in an aggressive tone, “Spike, get out of here.”

Spike tried his best to speak but only managed to say, “But”

Alex shouted at the small dragon as he said, “I said get the hell out of here.”

Alex turned around to see the plane making another turn, he then looked down at Ponyville to see it being engulfed in thick black smoke. He slowly said, “We don’t have enough help on our side.” He then had an idea, he had not seen this man in a couple of weeks so it seemed necessary to get back at him anyways. Alex sucked in as much air as he could before shouting as loud as an explosion, “SLENDEERRMAAAANNNN!”

It only took less than a few seconds before a shaowy ball of fire and smoke fell from the sky and landed right in front of Alex and the others, throwing smoke in every direction. A very tall man with a very thin figure quickly emerged from it saying, “You called?”

Alex walked up to him and pointed towards the outside of the stage as he said, “John, we need as much help as we can get to make sure that every resident in this city is out before the entire place collapses. My hopes are that the princesses are safe so get to them and have them help you teleport all the ponies in Canterlot to outside Ponyville.”

The faceless creature nodded its head as it said in a calm tone, “Got it.” With that, the faceless man in the suit turned into a cloud of smoke and flew away.

Mike suddenly looked towards the collapsing side of the room to see a small pony screaming, “Mommy, mommy!”

Mike suddenly began to run as he said, “I’m coming lil’ guy!” But as he made no more than a few steps, the other half of the room began to slowly descend and break off. The loud noise of all the burning wood and breaking concrete was deafening, yet the screaming of the small pony was even louder. Mike watched in horror as the entire half had broken off and began to fall off of Canterlot, he had watched an innocent child fall to their death. Mike couldn’t accept it, he wasn’t going to fail today. Mike closed his eyes as he said, “You said I’m a pegasus.” Mike then jumped over the side for the falling room.

As Mike began to fall, he brought in his arms and stiffed his legs to allow him to fall faster. He slowly approached the room and began to pull himself closer to the foal using the chairs around him, as he approached he could see the look of gratitude in the small pony’s eyes. Mike quickly approached the pony and scooped him in his arms as the pony screamed.

Mike could see the ground rapidly approaching through the doors at the end of the room, the feeling of weightlessness was nauseating to him but did not stop his hunger for heroism. Mike quickly planted his feet on the seats under him and began to jump up, he slowly ascended the room by using the seats as a form of stairs and eventually had exited the room.

As Mike and the foal began to fall from the room, they watched as it crumpled into dust against the ground. The pony closed his eyes as he said to Mike, “Thank you, you’re my hero.”

Mike closed his eyes as well as he said, “I’m… a hero.” He could feel a small buzzing inside his stomach, a strong sense of power and energy had begun to form in him. He had discovered what had truly put his mind at peace, it was to be called a hero. He gently hugged the foal as he stuck out his legs, he could feel energy and heat coursing through his veins as they rapidly approached the ground as well as their untimely demise. What Mike felt was not the crushing sensation of impact, but rather something pulling at his shoulder blades. Mike could see a faint green light through his eyelids begin to glow around him, he slowly opened them to see his feet hovering right above the ground. He looked to see what was carrying him and nearly lost his balance when he saw a pair of green, glowing, wire mesh-like wings on his back.

Mike could feel the energy coursing through the wings; he could feel the wind against them. They felt alive as he brushed his hand against them; he looked down at the foal to see his eyes wide with awe. The foal smiled brightly as he said with joy, “You can fly?” Mike felt total control over his wings, it was almost as though he had known how to use them all his life. He extended his wings as far as they could go and watched as they stretched out ten feet in both directions, he slowly wound them up and got ready to thrust himself in the air. When mike jerked his wings down, he watched as him and the foal began to rocket into the air at breakneck speeds.

Mike continued to flap his wings as the foal screamed loudly, “You can fly!”

Mike smiled with joy as he rapidly approached the Cliffside city, travelling like a rocket and trailing green jets of flames under his feet.

Meanwhile, Alex knelt at the edge of the collapsed stadium as he cried softly to himself; he had just watched his friend die a hero in front of him. But as he cried, he began to hear the sound of a whistling bullet traveling towards him. A green glow began to appear under Alex as he looked over the edge, suddenly a green ball of light flew up to Alex’s level carrying the small foal in his arms. Alex smiled brightly as he said with joy, “You found your powers!”

Mike nodded his head as he said, “Yeah I did, now to test them out.”

Alex shook his head as he said, “You don’t know your powers yet, get as many ponies to Canterlot before this entire place collapses!” Suddenly another large explosion shook the ground as all of Canterlot began to tilt even more, large pieces of the castle slowly tumbled over the edge as burning houses toppled over in the distance. Alex watched as the plane began to make one last round towards Canterlot, beginning to fire its gatling guns at Alex. Alex quickly teleported onto the plane and threw the plane off course, his heart burning with hatred as he stared down at the pilot from the nose. Alex slowly knelt down and grabbed hold of the windshield and began to tug at it.

Alex quickly lifted the windshield and grabbed the pilot, he tugged at the pilot and pulled him from the seat and threw him over the edge before jumping in and closing the window behind him. When Alex got in he said to himself, “Nothing like Battlefield 3 at all, or any plane from my generation for that matter.” Alex looked down at the space where the controls were but only saw two blue touchpads with the outline of hands on them. Alex slowly put his hands in them and quickly began to spin the plane, using his thoughts to control the vessel. Assuming that everything worked through these pads, Alex quickly turned the plane around and began to follow the holographic images towards the other aircrafts. As he soared over Ponyville he could see no damage done to anything except for a small forest fire in the Everfree forest, everything else had remained intact.

As Alex approached one of the other planes he could hear through the intercom, “Holy hell, that kid’s flying the plane!”

Alex quickly did a barrel roll over the top of the plane and began to fire his Gatling gun at the aircraft, he watched one by one as he destroyed each and every plane that he came across. He looked towards the large ball of energy to see a plane pass through it, the wall of light slowly began to shut as Alex sped towards it. Alex quickly began to push up on the cockpit until he had broken off the glass; he then jumped off the plane just as it passed through the wall of energy and watched it close as he fell to the ground. Alex gently touched the ground, he had exhausted his powers completely. Alex looked up to see the castle begin to crumble in the distance, the buildings began to disappear in the thick black smoke.

Alex fell to his knees and began to tear up, he had watched the very symbol of freedom crumble before his eyes. As Alex began to cry aloud, a small buzzing noise came from his pocket, Alex quickly pulled out one of Lyra’s intercoms only to hear Lyra’s voice, she shouted in rage, “Those jerks destroyed Canterlot!”

Alex sniffed before saying in a shaky voice, “Fluttershy… Dashie… Rarity… Awesome Black guy, their all gone…”

Lyra paused for a couple of seconds before saying, “Wait… oh it was you that was in the plane. Everypony got out of there safely; hold on somepony wants to say something.”

A small shaky voice began to speak through the device, “Alex… sweetie? Is that you?”

Alex quickly jerked his head upright, not only did his quick thinking save everypony, but he was able to comfort his very special somepony. Alex began to feel joy in his heart as he said with a hopeful smile, “Oh Fluttershy… everything is going to be alright.”

Fluttershy sniffed as she said, “Something in Ponyville is on fire, I’m assuming the worst.”

Alex gently laughed as he said, “No, no, no, it was a small bit of the Everfree forest. Don’t worry the weather-masters have it under control.”

All Alex could hear was Fluttershy sighing with relief before handing it back to Lyra, Lyra waited a couple of seconds before saying, “Do you think we will make it out of this alive?”

Alex began to shake his head as he said in a dark tone, “No… we need to call in the big guns.”

Lyra didn’t take too long to respond, “You mean Pinkie?”

Alex sighed, he needed to get his anger out without taking it out on the ponies before saying, “No… Discord.”

*****
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Chapter 7: Discord

Chapter 7

Discord

The night sky was dark, and the moon was yet to shine its glimmering light upon the forest trees for the smoke of the fires had blocked the skies. Alex, Lauren, Mike, Celestia, and Luna treaded carefully through the high grass, crunching the dead dry leaves under their feet and hooves. As they walked, they kept together as best as they could for the darkening night would soon blind them and being lost in these woods was suicide. Mike caught up to Alex as he shifted his assault rifle onto his shoulder and said, “So who’s this dude we’re visiting again?”

Alex turned his head, ready to answer, but Lauren interrupted him, “Discord is this universe’s god of Chaos, he is bent on ruling over the chaos capital of the world.”

Alex decided to intervene, he knew he had to keep Mike serious and said, “This guy is messed up and can mess you up in the snap of a finger, and we’re not visiting him…” Alex slowly turned his head back forwards as he said with thinning eyes, “we’re awakening him once again.”

The group came into a clearing of the trees; there were burnt plants everywhere with trees burnt to a crisp. Yet amongst the clearing there was a stone formation, one that looked to have been carved by fine hands of art. A closer inspection revealed the face of the devil of this world himself, Discord. The look in his eyes showed his last state of pure fear before he was imprisoned by the Elements of Harmony, his body language showed a strong sign of DO NOT WANT.

As Alex walked up to the statue, Celestia and Luna began to light their horns as they said, “We suggest you stand back, removing the stone from his body is a delicate job. We don’t want to put him in a bad mood.”

Alex slowly began to back up as he said, “Yeah well we don’t want him thinking we worship him either.” Alex quickly brought his fist back, he let a huge amount of energy charge up inside his knuckles. As his hand started to glow orange, he swung as hard as he could at the statue and watched as the stone began to crumble. The force of the impact sent the stone tumbling backwards as the chunks of rock flew away. Beneath the grey shell lied the living and breathing god, the expression soon changed from its last state of fear to anger as the stone around his legs shattered as well.

Once discord was free, he immediately began to slither away at high speeds. Alex caught him by the tail and grabbed hard, he quickly realized he was grabbing onto the tail of a god and that he would need to put up a fight this time. Discord tugged at his tail and turned his head as he growled, “Let me go foolish mortal!”

Alex smirked as he simply said, “Sure.” Alex then released the grip on his hands and let the monster go. Discord didn’t make it more than two feet away when he turned his head around just in time to get a foot to his face, the mortal had somehow managed to get in front of him and kick him with the strength of a thousand bison.

Discord tumbled to the ground, shocked at what had happened. Before he could get up, the mortal walked up to him and planted a knee on his chest. Discord tried his best to escape but for some reason the mortal had somehow harnessed power stronger than him.

Alex began to punch Discord in the face as he said, “Are we going to keep fighting or are you going to listen?”

Discord began to try and bite back as he snapped, “Never shall I work with anyone! I want my world back!” When Discord went to bite once more, Alex quickly wrapped his arm around his neck and put him into submission. He slammed him onto the ground and began to squeeze, his arm slowly making Discord’s neck begin to pop at the joints.

Alex began to feel his neck reaching its breaking point and grunted, “If I twist any more, you are dead!”

Discord began to struggle as he said through gritted teeth, “You can’t kill a god you foolish mortal, I shall get my Equestrtia back!”

Alex quickly lifted him up onto his feet; he turned his head to the castle as he said in anger, “If I can’t kill you, then I’ll reason with you. Is this the Equestria you want?”

Discord suddenly stopped squirming, he had suddenly begun to focus on the castle… or what was left of it. Discord’s eyes slowly widened with disbelief as the castle towers slowly began to crumble before his eyes, the whole city had begun to fall off the side of the mountain. Discord slowly muttered, “What… happened.”

Alex kept his grip tight on the draconequus, he knew these things were cheating bastards. Alex then looked back at the castle and remembered his mission, he began to calm down as he said, “Yeah… chaos happened.” Alex shook his head, he quickly got serious again and said, “Now I’m going to let you go, we are going to talk this over do you understand?”

Discord began to make patterns with his finger around his chest as he said, “You have my word.” Discord began to feel the creature’s grip lighten on his neck, he felt the burns against his skin and the strain of his muscles kick in as he got back up. Discord took a few steps back as he stretched out his neck, he kept his eyes on the ruins of the castle before saying, “If this was a gift to me… I want you to know I am a god of chaos, not death and destruction.”

Alex began to remember the stained glass windows that were in the once majestic castle, they showed pictures of ponies in flames and represented destruction and torture. Alex did his best to stay calm as he said to the god, “But those stained glass windows, they all showed you with flames and ponies burning and whatnot.”

Discord slowly turned around, he had a look that Alex would never expect to see on a guy like Discord: remorse. Discord blinked a couple of times before saying, “Back more than a thousand years ago, ponies had no sense of humor. They took offense to everything I did and blew it way out of proportion.”

Alex refused to believe this, the very idea that Discord would be an okay guy seemed downright wrong. Alex turned to the royal sisters to see Celestia say with a look of guilt, “It’s true, all he was doing was playing some games on them. But continuing after we did all the nice options to make you stop forced us to give you some tough love.”

Alex turned back to the god of chaos and with a look of confusion he said, “Right now you looked so eager to rule the world again like a god of death.”

Discord slowly approached Alex, he put his hand on his shoulder as he said, “Kiddo, for a kingdom like this I am pretty darn sure you would act the same way if you were forced out of office.” Discord then gave a dirty look to Celestia and Luna, the two gave nervous smiles as they backed away.

Alex began to gently hold Discord back as he said, “Look you guys, its been two thousand years and both parties made some mistakes. Discord didn’t stop when he was told to, and the sisters turned you into stone.”

Discord quickly corrected Alex, “Twice.”

Alex quickly brought up his fist as he said with a straight face, “I will turn you into a girl if you don’t let me finish… okay? Anyways, we’re in a time of great peril and we need an alliance. Discord, will you help us?”

Discord raised an eyebrow; he didn’t look too enthralled as he said, “Help you then just go back to being the most hated god ever? No thank you, I’d rather watch the fight.”

Alex shook his head before saying in an exhausted tone, “You will become rightful ruler of Equestria once this whole thing is back to the way it originally was.”

Princess Celestia and Luna were both shocked by Alex’s idea as they both said in synchronization, “Are you crazy?”

Alex motioned for them to calm down as he said, “He deserves it, he was kicked out without a vote. After figuring out this isn’t an aristocratic government, it seems to be some sort of demographic government. So Discord gets fair vote in this, if he helps us he gets his kingdom back.”

Alex looked back at Discord to see the monster dawning a look of great joy as he said, “Oh what fun!”

Alex raised his hand as he said with a stern look, “That is, if you rule fairly. No horrible schemes that will hurt a resident emotionally or physically. Just pranks of the sort.”

Discord smiled as he said, “Sounds just, after all I think I have learnt my lesson. I never wanted to do this to my kingdom and whoever destroyed it shall pay dearly.”

Alex smiled as he said, “There we go, and that gives you two girls some time off for a vacation for a thousand years or so.” Alex watched as Luna and Celestia both began to nod in agreement, quickly dawning looks of joy at the thought of a break from the royal rush.

Lauren slowly approached Discord as she said, “By the way, the enemy you are going to face is like no other.”

Discord slowly whispered to Alex, “Who’s the cute read-head there?”

Alex had a look of disapproval as he said with a smirk, “She is the god of this whole universe, she’s essentially your mother you sicko.” Alex watched as Lauren began to laugh and blush at the same time, Celestia, Luna, and Mike joined in near the end.

Discord gently calmed the crowd down as he said, “So you mentioned the enemies I am going to face? Who are they, who are you creeps anyways?”

Mike slowly let his assault rifle rest on its straps as he said, “We’re from the same species as the enemy. We are smart, cunning, nimble, many, and extremely deadly.”

Discord began to look puzzled as he said, “But why would you fight for us?”

Alex shrugged as he said, “In our universe, there are thousands of people who would choose to fight for Equestria with no regrets. But those are only the few of the billions of deadly metal machines that fly and spew fire that we will be facing.”

Discord nodded his head slowly in understanding as he said, “I understand, sort of.”

Lauren began to smile as she said, “So it’s settled then, we now have Discord on our side.”

Lauren stuck her hand out and watched as one of the cheesiest moments began to play out, one by one everyone else had their hand, claw, or hoof, in the center before Alex and Mike shouted, “Avengers assemble!”

*****

Later, while everyone was at Twilight’s library discussing the plans to go looking for the Book of Earth Pony, Discord and Celestia sat together at the beach of a lake. The water gently reflecting the moons light in a distorted manner every time it rippled, the gently breeze making Celestia’s mane flow while it made Discord’s eyebrows sway in the wind.

Celestia began to breath gently as she said, “Beautiful night isn’t it?”

Discord began to blush as he said, “It truly is. One of the most beautiful things I had made. It was your sister that perfected it.”

Celestia giggled as she said, “Yeah… it’s been boring without you.”

Discord’s ear twitched as he slowly turned his head and said, “I… I don’t understand.”

Celestia looked into Discord’s eyes, hers were filled with honest joy as she said, “I’m saying that now with you as King of Equestria and a sense of morality, it’s going to be more fun around here.”

Discord smiled as he chuckled, “I never knew you had a sense of humor.”

Celestia began to inch closer as she said, “I never knew you could make me laugh. I’m not one for the whole chaos thing, but… you seem to have a sweet side.”

Discord blushed as he said while hiding his face, “Oh stop it you silly goose.” Discord then giggled with joy, his cheeks as pink as Pinkie’s ears.

Celestia extended her wing, she slowly draped it over Discord and gently began to pull him in for a hug as she said, “Thank you for making the right choice… Dissy.”

Discord was stunned, he had not heard the name in forever. He nervously brought his arms around her as he said, “You haven’t called me that in thousands of years. You haven’t told anypony about that right?”

Celestia slowly cocked her head back, she began to look Discord in the eyes as she said with the flutter from her lashes, “Not a single soul knows. Although I don’t think we can exactly call it official anymore.”

Discord slowly backed away as he said with a confused look, “What do you mean?”

Celestia shook her head before saying, “It’s this whole thing about me being hypnotized by a block creature before figuring out it was a monster with a bloodlust.”

Discord winked as he said, “Like you said, not a soul knows.”

******

Chapter 8: My Fault

Sorry for the short chapter... I had a sh**ty week, mostly figuring out that this competition i have been waiting patiently for the past few months has disqualified me because no one gave me the task sheet. I had no idea the f*cking video was supposed to be done before hand and assumed that it would be like all the other competitions that were being held there. Anyways you guys don't care about the depression I'm in, you want the story right? Well unfortunately I have met a few... complications... with my love life and it's going to be hard for me to write with a passion so things might get a little shallow in the future. I am a dedicated author and will do my best, just don't get your hopes up too high like i did... *sigh*

Chapter 8:

My Fault

Alex looked at the new group, possibly the best candidate for the new Avengers/ X-men/ Teen Titans/ Justice League/ Knights of the Round Table/ Chaotix/ Blue man group. The team consisted of Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, Dash, Fluttershy, Lauren, Black guy to avoid racism, Discord, and yours truly. The entire group sat in the library, talking about the new plan that had been in the works since last night over finding the book of Earth Pony.

“The book has been lost for thousands of years, not a single living thing knows where it is.” Twilight Sparkle had searched through her books but alas could find no hints to where the book lay. She searched frantically through all relevant books, the sweat on her brow becoming ever so visible as the stress grew. Twilight eventually became fed up and chucked one of her books, quickly tossing it at Alex. Twilight opened the last possible book titled, “How to Cook” yet could find no information there either, finally planting her face in the pages as to say she has finally given up. From the pages she mumbled, “Oh, it’s hopeless, no living thing has seen it since before Prequestria.”

Alex looked over his shoulder when a voice had cleared it’s throat, “If I may say something, Dear Twilight, it’s that you are all mortal beings. I however have lived for the past hundreds of thousands of years, my father once told me about how he fought to get the book from the clutches of the earth Ponies.”

Mike turned towards Discord; he had been relaxing in the corner atop of a cloud showing no signs of worry at all. Mike gave Discord a look of frustration as he said, “Ya gotta make yourself heard, man, can’t you see that Twilight here got all doom and gloom cause of you?”

Discord slowly dropped the sky blue shades from his eyes as he said with a look of pity, “I thought I made myself clear, I like to watch some suffering every now and then. I am the god of Chaos after all.”

Mike cracked his knuckles as he said, “I’m about to turn you into a goddess of Chaos if you don’t contribute to the team.” Alex quickly extended his arm to hold Mike back, gently shaking his head as he restrained him.

Discord tilted his head back and gave out an exasperated sigh, he quickly hopped off of his cloud and walked up to the group as he said, “Look, Lauren, if you want to find the book, the only ones who would know where it is are my parents.”

Lauren shrugged as she said, “Well… where are they?”

Discord rolled his eyes, he thought he had made it clear enough and had no need to say, “They’re at their house… Duh!”

Alex’s brow lowered as his patience thinned, he looked Discord in the eyes as he said, “Where would their house be?”

Discord planted the palm of his paw on his face, he used his hand to quickly snag the history book from Twilight’s grip and turned to a significant page. He brought Alex and Lauren closer as he said, “They’re on the other side of the Big Flippin’ Ocean. That would be about a few days journey by boat there and back. Counting the time it would take to get to the book, I would say that this entire journey will take about a week.”

Dash began to groan, everyone looked up to see her hanging from the beams atop as she said, “A whole week? We might as well fly there with one of Lyra’s flying machines.”

Twilight shook her head as she said, “Unfortunately, Lyra hasn’t had the time to perfect a flyig machine for a journey that long. Besides, she needs time to set her office back up in her new home after… Canterlot was destroyed.”

Applejack slowly trotted over, she genrly placed a comforting hoof on the lavender unicorn’s back as she said, “Now now sugarcube, we can’t sit here and think about what has already happened if we want to change what is going to happen. Whether we like it or not, we have to travel by sea, which means we need a big boat.”

Rarity gave a fluff of her hair as she said, “I know where we could get a boat.”

Applejack raised an eyebrow as she said, “How come y’all have a connection to everypony important?”

Rarity slowly began to blush as she avoided eye contact, she sheepishly said, “I’ve… been around.”

Lauren quickly clapped her hands together as she said, “Well now that we have our means of travel to get to Discord’s parents, we need to know who’s coming along.”

Dash quickly flew to the ground in front of Lauren as she said, “I’m coming, there’s no way I’m passing up a big adventure.”

Applejack tilted her hat as she said, “I’ll be joinin’ y’all as well, ah know Dash here will get herself in trouble and ah want to see it.”

Rarity gave a swish of her hair as she said, “I would love to join, seeing the eastern countries would be a delightful experience.”

“I want to come, pick me! It’ll be so much fun!” Pinkie Pie quickly bounced up and down as she raised her hoof.

Twilight was replacing her books in their original order as she said, “I think we need someone with the know how to come along, and that someone would be me.”

Fluttershy brushed up against Alex as she said, “I can’t be alone without Alex, not that I’m attached or addicted to him. It’s just… well I will feel extra lonely now that I got used to Alex around the house.”

Mike reloaded one of his pistols before placing it back in its holster as he said, “No one here aside from Discord here knows what dangers are there, I was trained to lead a group in any situation.”

Discord shrugged as he said, “It’s kind of a no brainer why I need to come along.”

“Ditto.” Said Lauren as she helped Twilight rearrange her books, finally putting the last one back in its place.

Alex nodded his head as he said, “Lyra and Bon-Bon just went through losing their home, they need time to themselves to move into their new house. I however, will be joining because otherwise my book I’m planning on writing about my adventures would be pretty boring.”

Yet before the group could do anything cheesy, a small purple lizard came walking up as he said, “First of all, you all need to quiet down, second, you’re taking me along. I just watched my home crumble because of the bad guys, I want to watch you beat them.”

Alex shrugged as he looked at the rest of the group, he looked at Twilight to see her approval before saying, “Alright, you can come.”

Lauren placed her hand in the center of the group as she said, “So it’s settled. Boys and girls, we’re going on an adventure!” Lauren watched as everyone in the group placed their hand in the center, quickly stacking it up until everyone had placed a hand or a hoof.

*****

While Fluttershy hugged her critters goodbye, giving each one a gentle hug to show she cared, Alex was carrying bags out the door to a nearby cart. Alex leaned over as he said, “Fluttershy, we have to go! Did you feed every animal a week’s worth of food?”

Fluttershy slowly hovered out of the house as she said, “Yes, I double checked too. We can go now.”

Alex nodded his head as he said, “Alright, you heard her, boys.” Alex looked down to the end of the cart at the two stallions that were strapped to it, they nodded their heads before beginning to pull the cart. As the cart slowly moved down the dirt road, Alex checked the inventory as he said, “So who did you get to take care of the house?”

Fluttershy brushed her head against Alex as she said, “The Doctor, I tried asking his name but all he said was ‘Exactly’.”

Alex slowly shook his head before saying with a smile, “I’m sure the doctor will recognize when an animal needs caring for, we’ll be fine.”

A few minutes had gone by, the couple simply looked at the buds on the trees as they began to grow their beautiful leaves. After a few minutes, Fluttershy broke the silence, “So… the bad guys are finally coming.”

Alex nodded his head as he said, “Yeah they are, hopefully showing them that their planes are able to be damaged by us is a sign that they need a few more years to perfect them.”

Fluttershy closed her eyes as she said, “I wish that there were other humans like you and Mike. You two are the only humans I know that are plain… good.”

Alex slowly brought his hand up and began to stroke her hair, as he did he said calmly, “There are others that are good, millions of them. In fact, some of those guys were probably good people but were forced to do the wrong thing.”

Fluttershy began to look confused, she attempted to understand such an idea as she said, “But why can’t they just say no?”

Alex paused; he had never truly understood why people don’t just say no to a tyrant or a bad guy. With such a large amount of followers who disagree with their leader, they are the ones in charge yet continue to work for the bad guy. Alex gently stroked Fluttershy’s mane as he said, “Sometimes… people don’t have a choice… maybe they do it to help people they love. They have right intentions, but were maybe doing the wrong thing.”

Fluttershy smiled gently as she said, “I like how our world doesn’t have that, everyone is nice and kind to each other and never fight.”

Alex contemplated the thought, he truly was in a Utopia, yet it was slowly turning to a Dystopia as the war approached. Alex was truly beginning to fear the lives of the Equestrians and how they might not be able to fight the human forces.

A few hours had gone by, neither talked; they simply looked at the trees passing. Trees soon turned to buildings, and buildings soon turned to beach as they approached the harbour. Docked at the harbor was one of the most majestic looking pirate ships Alex had ever seen, it looked to be straight from Hollywood with its fine wood, it’s beautiful sails, and the incredibly fine craftsmanship. Alex hopped off the carriage; he helped Fluttershy down before carrying his luggage on board. As he carried, he heard the voice of a white unicorn coo, “Oh Alex dear, what do you think of the boat? One of my old friends from school bumped into me and was generous enough to captain the boat.”

Alex scanned the boat from end to end; he was truly in awe of the fanciness of the boat. He let out a wolf whistle as he said, “This is pretty awesome, he sure is a generous colt.”

Rarity nodded her head as she sad, “He truly is.”

Alex boarded the ship, he carried the luggage into his new room and began to put it away. A gentle knock at the door made him look up to see Discord standing there, Discord slowly walked in as he said, “May I have a word with you?”

Alex looked back down at the clothes that had been half stuffed into the bedside drawers before saying, “Sure, I guess.”

Discord brought a hand over his shoulder as he said, “Walk with me.”

Alex gave a look of confusion before saying, “Okay…” Alex and Discord began to walk down the hallways before Alex said, “So what do you want to talk about?”

Discord took a deep breath before saying, “Love… more specifically yours.”

Alex raised an eyebrow as he said, “What about it?” Alex could feel Discord slowly begin to grip tighter as the continued walking.

Discord looked down at the human as he said, “You love Fluttershy, don’t you?”

Alex nodded his head as he said, “More than anything in the world.”

“And you want the best for her don’t you?”

“More than anything, I don’t want a scratch on her ever.”

“If that’s the case then you must leave her.” Discord’s face began to sadden, Alex could easily tell he was caring for Alex at the moment.

“Why? Why would I ever leave her?”

“Not like that, if you want her to stay safe then you must force her to leave for somewhere far away while the war takes place. You will have to leave her to stay behind and fight for the war.”

Alex began to grin as he said, “This won’t be that bad, all I have to do is make a few bright clouds with lightning and they’ll be running tail between legs.”

Discord stopped walking; his face had gone from sad to serious as he said with doubt in his eyes, “Is that so? Then take a look around, tell me what you see.”

Alex had not realized they were no longer on the boat; they were standing in the middle of a field while fire consumed the nearby trees. Explosions tore up the ground, soldiers both human and pony rose above the trenches only to be gunned down by the enemies. Both sides exchanged firepower as they destroyed the land with their anger, turning the surrounding area into the new Passchendaele. As they watched, Alex said in disgust and horror, “Where are we?”

Discord kept staring at the ongoing fight as he said, “Ponyville, a month from now. Over 50,000 deaths total within the first days, most of them were human. One of them being you.”

Alex looked up in horror as he said, “Are you saying that I’m going to die?”

Discord gently guided his face to the changing surroundings; the area began to ripple like the water on a pond. When the rippling had gone away, nothing had changed. Alex had a confused look on his face as he said, “What just happened?”

Discord knelt down beside him as he said, “I just changed the future for you,” When Discord got to his knees, the surrounding area returned to outside the boat, no war in sight. Discord slowly began to walk back as he said, “you can thank me if you want.”

Alex looked behind him to see Fluttershy and the rest of the mane six staring at him, they all had worried looks on his face as he said, “It’s alright, girls, just D and I having a chat.” As Alex boarded the ship, he could not get his mind off of the images he had seen of the dead ponies and humans simply laying there on the battlefield. Then it occurred to Alex, he was going to be responsible for the 50,000 deaths in only a few days. Alex began to feel his heart sink and blacken, this time he knew it’s going to last awhile.

So if you do want to know more about what happened, please don't ask me here and instead send me a message to my inbox.

Chapter 9: What Lurks Beneath Part 1

Sorry about how short these chapters are, I've been focusing mainly upon spending time with my boyfriend and have gotten sidetracked by my upcoming birthday. I'm going to try and begin releasing a chapter every week, except next week for two reasons: 1) I will be in Mexico (about 3000 miles from my computer) and 2) It's going to be my birthday so i want to take a break from everything. I know things are getting a little shallow in these chapters (such a bad pun considering what's going on in this chapter) but I've also been caught up in my relationship's first week anniversary (most teen relationships i know don't last longer than two hours so this is big for me). ANYWHO, enjoy what is here and know that I love you all (calm down J I don't mean it like that.)

Chapter 9:
What Lurks Beneath Part 1

The first few hours of the trip were quite interesting; they usually are when it’s your first time on a boat of that size. As the boat sailed across the Big Flippin’ Ocean, the group managed to entertain themselves through songs and dancing as well as games. But eventually they entertained themselves out and had to focus on the mission at hand, for the dangers that lurked underwater were preferred unseen. As the boat sailed through the choppy waters, Alex stood at the front of the ship with his hands circling over his eyes like binoculars while Lauren and the captain watched over the ocean.

Fluttershy stood by Alex’s side, the wind blowing gently through her mane as she said, “This is wonderful, we should do this more minus the end of the world thing.”

Alex quietly chuckled as he said without looking at her, “Yeah. Hey will we be able to see any beautiful and majestic creatures?”

Fluttershy nodded her head; she gently placed her hoof on Alex’s hands and directed his vision towards a group of dolphins doing flips in the air. Alex’s jaw began to slack as she said with a giggle, “How’s that for majestic?”

Alex rolled his eyes; he had already seen dolphins before and said to the yellow pegasus, “We already have dolphins back on earth. I meant things that we can only see here in Equestria.”

Fluttershy nudged Alex as she said, “Well those things usually live farther out in the ocean, keep your eyes peeled and maybe you’ll find something.”

Alex smiled at the corner of his mouth before saying, “Alright, might we be able to see Seaponies?”

Fluttershy began to back away as she said with nervousness in her voice, “For your sake… I hope not.”

Alex continued to stare through his makeshift binoculars; he began to spot something in the distance. A small couple of dots that slowly began to grow and shoe more detail as the ship sailed towards them, they slowly began to show what they truly were and made Alex feel like an explorer.

Mike slowly approached Alex as he said, “Yo, man, what’re you seein’?”

Alex didn’t take his eyes away from his magical hands, he continued to stare through them as he said, “We’re nearing a small patch of islands.”

Twilight galloped up to Alex’s side as she said with a growing look of worry on her face, “How many islands?”

Alex quickly began to count them, after a few seconds he said, “Looks like ten islands or so.”

Twilight began to shake at the legs, she had a look of fear in her eyes as she said with a gulp, “Oh no, oh no, this is bad!”

Alex looked down to his side to see the lavender unicorn beginning to pull at Alex’s shirt as he sad, “Why, what’s so bad about some seemingly harmless tropical islands?”

Slowly as the boat approached the small sandy islands, fog as thick as a blanket began to roll in. The low flying clouds began to envelop the ship, blocking their vision from seeing any more than thirty feet in front of the boat. The captain continued to sail, though, and as they began to near the islands they could see wrecked ships scattered amongst sharp rocks that were previously invisible. Twilight began to tug harder at Mike and Alex’s shirts as she said, “That’s why, these rocks are called the adventurer’s arrows and they have claimed the lives of many explorers. It’s not the boats I’m afraid of it’s the…”

Twilight was cut off from finishing her sentence; a gentle humming began to ring out amongst the rocks. The voice carried a beautiful note which made Twilight along with the captain’s fur stand up. Twilight let go in fear as she said, “Seaponies.”

Lauren looked towards Twilight as she said with a tone of urgency, “Get them inside pronto!”

Alex was suddenly being tugged by Applejack and Dash; they tugged at the two humans and dragged them into the room as Pinkie Pie said with a serious tone, “For the love of Celestia, do not open your eyes!”

Alex, Mike, Spike, Discord and the captain were suddenly blindfolded inside the dining hall. They listened to the chanting that came from beyond the rocks; the beautiful voices sang melodious tunes that made Alex, Spike, and Mike all feel wonderful on the inside. Alex calmly said, “The girls must be afraid of us having a crush on the sea ponies.”

The captain spoke in a deep and raspy voice, “That’s essentially it.”

Mike suddenly tripped over a chair he attempted to sit on as he said, “Meaning?”

Discord slowly hovered above them all as he said, “A while back, seaponies were very well loved. Yet as the years went on, the other ponies began to move away from the seaponies for they could not ever live with them, what with the whole longs and gills problem. So the more the ponies began to distance themselves, the more the female seaponies became aggressive. Now they are extremely dangerous and are known for claiming the lives of the colts and stallions who would survive the adventurer’s arrows.”

Spike began to huddle closer to Alex as he said, “Dude… that’s creepy.”

Discord did not laugh, he had a very flat tone as he said, “Yes… yes it is.”

Alex listened as the humming grew louder, he began to fear the singing as it had a chilling tone to it. He broke the silence and said, “How come Twilight and the girls aren’t down here?”

The captain quickly responded in his Scottish accent, “Aye, the mares of the ocean crave only for the men. The will claim our lives in one way, through eye contact, yet it does not affect the fillies and mares of the solid ground.”

Alex sighed as he said, “Great, they get the easy side of it.”

Mike quickly brought his hand up as he said, “Shh! Y’ hear that?”

Everyone in the room quickly silenced, and all they could hear was the nervous breathing coming from each of them as the waves crashed against the creaking boat. They continued to listen, but nothing could be heard aside from the noises of the ocean. After a few seconds, Alex broke the silence and said, “It was probab”

The sound of the window shattering made Spike jump, he quickly began to run forward until he tripped over a chair. Alex began to listen as best as he could, but without being able to see it he was useless. As everyone in the room looked around and listened to the slithering, they tripped over each other as well as the rugs in the room. As everything went silent again, Alex could hear the faint breathing of a slithering creature. The blindness scared him to the bone as he could hear the slithering approach him. A sudden strong pressure against his chest caused him to lose his breath as he was violently pushed out the window, after a few faint seconds of weightlessness Alex felt thee coldness of the water surround him.

Despite the water, he could hear something speaking to him in a beautiful voice, “What for do you hide your beautiful eyes?”

Alex simply shook his head before hearing another woman’s voice, “Do you not want to see the true majestic form of the seapony?”

There was a pause; Alex began to struggle as he was losing his breath. His thrashing only made the situation worse as he felt the tail of a scaly creature tighten around his ankles while a woman said, “Come on… open your eyes.”

Alex gave up, he was either going to drown or get killed, so he opened his eyes. The sight of an actual seapony scared the rest of the air out of him, the true ugliness was almost vomit inducing. The long uncut and wet fur that mixed with the scales of the seapony clashed with the goat eyes that shined like fire, the teeth as sharp as knives poked out of its mouth as small fins at either side flapped furiously.

Yet nothing happened to Alex, the sea ponies began to anger as they said, “What’s this, you have not succumbed to us?”

Alex looked down to see his chest had grown to a C cup; he brought his hands up to feel his long hair and his eyelashes. His plan had worked; he was immune to their spell. Alex began to ball up as he collected the last of his energy; his life clock was beginning to time out as he used up the last of his energy to explode a large pulse. The force of the shockwave was so intense that water began to curve around him and form a giant bubble, the seaponies were launched out of the water and onto the small island as Alex continued to repel everything surrounding him.

The passengers of the boat, mainly the women, watched as a large hole in the water formed that sank to the bottom revealing Alex looking back up at them. Lauren’s eyes widened with awe as she said, “Not bad! That’s one way to make a bubble.”

Alex quickly lifted himself off the bottom of the sea and floated up to the ship, he gently landed on the hard ground as he said, “I remember one of the guys saying that women aren’t affected by the seaponies. So I turned myself into a woman.”

Fluttershy slowly hovered over as she said with a nervous look, “That’s not permanent right? Cause I like colts…”

Rainbow Dash nudged Fluttershy out of the way as she said with a grin, “If you don’t want her, I can take her.”

Alex gently giggled as he said, “Wow… so this is what it’s like to be a girl.” As Alex watched Mike emerge from the captain’s room, he said with a wink towards Pinkie, “Now I see why you wanted him, Pinkie. He’s a strapping young fellow.”

Mike gave an awkward look as he said, “Okay that creepy.”

Alex shook his head as he said, “You’re right, the estrogen is getting to my head.” Alex closed his eyes, he felt his body shift and shape, grow and shrink. When he opened them up again, he could see his toes once again. Alex frowned slightly as he said, “Damn, I was so looking forward to studying female anatomy.”

Lauren slapped Alex across the face as she said jokingly, “You’re a pig.”

The girls rolled their eyes as they resumed their posts, leaving Alex behind as he said, “What? You would try peeing standing up if you could turn into a guy and you know it!”

Chapter 10: What Else Lurks Beneath

So I am very sorry for the delay, i just got caught up in the whole breaking up and relationship stuff as well as getting back from Cancun. Anyways after waaaay too long, here is the next chapter. Enjoy!

After facing down the Seaponies, Alex and the rest of the group had calmed down and continued sailing out of the Adventurer’s Arrows. As the ship sailed through the clear turquoise water, with the wind in their favor, Alex walked up beside Twilight at the tip of the ship and asked her, “Those seaponies were pretty freaky things.”

Twilight continued staring out at the endless ocean as she said, “Yeah, but things get much worse now that we are in the open.”

Alex paused for a minute, he took a quick look around before saying, “I don’t see anything that could crash into us, or fall on top of us.”

Twilight slowly turned her head as she said, “What about from under?”

Alex’s eyes widened a bit, he slowly peered over the edge and looked into the deep abyss before saying, “What about from under?”

Twilight slowly approached his side as she said while also peering over the edge, “While there are dragons, serpents, lycans, and other monsters on land, they aren’t scary because we know they exist. But what about the things that lurk from under the water, we don’t know how scary they get or how big, all we know is that something lurks down there.”

Alex’s eyes began to dart, he was looking for a way to change the subject but accidentally said, “Like what?” Alex could immediately feel regret for saying this.

Twilight gulped before saying, “Legends have it that beneath the sand, at the very bottom of the Ocean, lies a creature of unmatched terror.”

Before Twilight could carry on, Discord slowly approached the two, he began to float around them as he said, “It was like a science experiment gone wrong, I just wanted to see the cross between some other animals like how I created the cockatrice. I decided to go with the gorilla and the squid, two completely different things that might have worked. But I overpowered it, the creature grew far stronger than me, and like a god it will never die.”

Twilight continued to peer over the edge as she said in a slightly trembling voice, “Sailors gave it a name that would strike fear into the hearts of all other land lovers as much as the sight of it would.”

Alex wanted to end the conversation as fast as possible as he said, “What was its name?”

Twilight refused to answer him, she simply shook her head as she said, “The very mentioning of his name is bad luck to everyone. No creature of any power has dared sink to the bottom to discover what it looks like now.”

Alex gulped as he said, “This is creeping me out, how big would it be?”

Discord shrugged as he said, “I created it over a thousand years ago, who knows how big it’s become.”

Alex closed his eyes, he knew this was a bad idea. After not thinking it over he said to the two, “I’m going to find out what it is, we need whatever we can to fight Earth when they attack.”

Twilight began to pull Alex away from the edge of the ship as she said, “Oh no you are not! That thing will wipe you from existence simply by looking at you.”

Alex broke from her magic, he stumbled a bit before saying, “I’m sorry but I have to do this, if we could get whatever this thing is onto our side we will have a better chance of winning.” With that, Alex hopped over the edge. He could feel the wind rushing past his ear before he plunged into the cold salty water, the cold water sent a shock up his spine as soon as he was entirely submerged. Alex quickly began to push the water away from him, creating a bubble of air and sea level pressure as he began to drop. The water began to darken as he slowly sank deeper and deeper, the ocean creatures becoming more nightmare fuel as he continued.

Alex suddenly froze in place, the coldness was becoming unbearable but that was the least of his worries. Staring back at him was a pair of glowing red eyes, a quick blast of light from Alex revealed the body of a supersized Megalodon. The body was stretching far beyond Alex’s light, yet he hadn’t needed to shine it much further for the Alex sized teeth indicated the danger level to be over 9000. Alex quickly began to blast his way up, the very speed he was traveling at was consuming more and more energy as the Mega shark chased after him. Alex burst out of the water as he shouted, “Move! I think I got it angry.”

The crew on the ship watched as Alex breached the water, soon followed by the snout of the largest fish any of them had ever seen. Alex continued to rise into the air as the Mega Megalodon slowly began to approach him, catching up to the tiring Alex.

Alex could feel his head throb as his eyes fluttered with exhaustion, he could smell the mouth of the shark begin to engulf him as it rotted with the stench of dead fish and ocean water. As Alex slowed down, he watched as the mouth of the shark began to close on him. Before Alex ran out of energy, he watched as the teeth clamped together, trapping him inside the mouth that was large enough to fit a transport truck.

As the shark began to fall back down, Alex watched as a body jumped onto the teeth. Mike had his green wings fully extended as he stood upon the mouth of the shark, bringing his fist back for a punch. When Mike’s fist connected with the shark, he immediately remembered he had an impact triggered shotgun attached to his arm which busted the teeth apart.

Mike looked into the dark void of the shark’s mouth to see Alex floating there (actually he was falling but it was at the same speed as the shark, creating the illusion he was floating), Mike quickly wrapped his arm around Alex’s waist before jumping into the air.

Mike could feel the rush of adrenaline as the thought of being a hero yet again helped sprout his wings, the green wire mesh like wings helped him in flying away from the monster. Mike soared as fast as he could towards the boat as he shouted, “Gotta move, that thing looks pissed.”

Fluttershy simply stood there, her knees buckling as she whimpered, “Cuddling with a dragon sounds really nice at the moment.”

Mike was moving too fast towards the boat and landed, or rather crashed, gracefully onto the deck, causing Alex to tumble like a ragdoll. Mike got to his feet as he said, “Lauren, you’re the powerful one here, can’t you get us out of this?”

Lauren frantically flailed her arms as she said, “I haven’t read the book of Pegasus yet, you and Dash pull the boat while Twilight and I fend off whatever that thing is.”

Mike nodded his head as he shouted, “Alright RD, let’s get this biatch movin’!” With that, Mike took off into the air again with the rainbow maned pegasus close behind.

As they rounded the ship, they could see the monster shark swimming up towards the ship with its mouth wide open. The two quickly soared to the front where Applejack tossed a couple of lassoes around their necks for them to pull. The two struggled as hard as they could, they could feel the vessel slowly begin to move.

As soon as the boat was moving fast, the rest of the crew watched as the massive fish breached the water yet again. Huge waves were sent towards the ship as the shark narrowly missed the boat on its descent, causing the boat to push forward even faster.

Fluttershy shook Alex as she shouted, “Please wake up, Alex!”

Discord began to pull on the collar of Alex’s shirt as he said, “The poor boy tired himself out quite a bit, he’s going to miss out on all our fun.”

Meanwhile, Twilight and Lauren watched as the shark breached the water yet again. As the shark descended, Twilight said to Lauren, “Got any ideas?”

Lauren shook her head as she wondered, “Something that big couldn’t possibly be scared of anything.”

It was almost as though a small light bulb appeared over Twilight’s head as she said, “Fear! I have an idea.” Twilight galloped towards the edge of the boat as she shouted, “Hey, Slenderman!”

It only took a few seconds before a large black plume of smoke to crash into the boat, the thick fumes poured in every direction as a faceless man got to his feet. As he towered over the rest of the crew, he looked towards Twilight and said with a shrug, “What do you want now?”

Twilight pointed her hoof towards the large shark as she said, “Use whatever method you can to scare that beast away!”

Slenderman turned around, he slowly looked up to see the towering monster’s fin as he nervously said, “I’ll see what I can do.”

Slenderman slowly began to make his way towards the end of the ship, the captain watched as he treaded calmly as though there wasn’t a single problem in the world. As the faceless creature reached the edge of the boat, he made one simple hop off the edge and landed on the snout of the rising shark. He quickly dashed towards the face, looking for one of its eyes to hop in front. Once he spotted it’s left eye, he slid towards it before grabbing around the edges of it.

He looked down at the fully black eye the size of him, he inhaled deeply before focusing all of his energy on his unique power to strike fear. The shark began to slow down when it saw the man’s face begin to distort and tear itself apart while tentacles poured out of it. The shark began to feel an unnatural sense of fear so strong that it began to turn around. The shark quickly sank back into the water and swim away, as soon as Slenderman felt water touch his shoe, he turned back into a plume of smoke and headed back towards the boat.

When Slenderman landed, he looked towards Mike and Discord as he said, “Anything else you need help with?”

Mike hopped back onto the deck as he said, “Wait a minute, I saw this dude earlier this week. Who are you?”

Slenderman slowly bowed as he said in a calm tone, “I am Slenderman, the master of fear, the god of nightmares, the guy who made you wet yourself when you were a kid. No need to introduce yourself, my young fellow, for I already know everything about you simply by looking at you.”

Discord began to float towards him, he had a curious look on his face as he said, “You don’t look like anything I would have created, you are so… complex.”

Slender stuck his hand out for a shake as he informed him, “I am not your creation, ShadowThunder was my creator, crafted from the fears of Alex and was originally meant to kill him but somehow befriended him. Call me John, by the way.” John paused for a moment, he looked around at the crew as he said out loud, “Speaking of Alex, where is he?”

Rarity trotted up as she said, “Alex tired himself out, poor boy hasn’t enough energy these days. I believe it’s because of all the things Spike feeds him.”

The little purple dragon shouted out, “Hey, it’s not my fault he likes my cookies. Besides, he deserves them for doing the things he does often.”

As the cute couple bickered about Alex’s dieting, Pinkie bounced into Mike’s arms as she said, “As for you, Mr. Hero Pants, you deserve a party for being such a hero.”

Mike tightly hugged her as he giggled, “As soon as our adventure is done.”

Applejack trotted up as she said to Slenderman, “If y’all want to see Alex, he’s restin’ his eyes in the lounge.” Applejack then began to trot towards a door; she gently pushed it open to reveal Alex fast asleep in one of the hammocks. AJ whispered, “Just be quiet, recently he’s begun to have nightmares according to Fluttershy.”

Slenderman whispered, “Don’t worry, I’ll be fine.” With that, Applejack gently shut the door behind her before trotting back out with the rest of the group. Slenderman was left alone with Alex; the blinds were rolled down to block most of the sunlight from entering the room. John slowly tip-toed towards Alex’s bed before gently sitting down; making sure not to make too much noise as he rested next to Alex while whispering, “Wake up, kiddo.”

Alex rolled over as he said with a whisper, “How did you know I wasn’t asleep?”

John laughed quietly, “It’s impossible for me to enter your dreams if you aren’t asleep. I couldn’t help but remember seeing the cliff side city collapse in flames, seeing the anger on your face meant something incredibly important was going on behind the scenes right?”

Alex sighed, he gently raised his head as he said, “My own people, the ones I once talked so highly about, are waging war on this peaceful place.”

“You’re kidding right?”

“You’re right, we just destroyed Canterlot simply to fool you, no this is legit.”

“But why would they want to fight us?”

“Because they thought I killed the leader of their army which means war to them. Also ShadowThunder is behind all of this, I just know it.”

“What makes you say that?”

“Ky… Oscar was there, turns out he was a double agent working for her.”

“Pfft, called it.”

“Anyways, we’re on a quest for two things right now: to find the book of Earth Pony as well as recruit some of Equestria’s creatures.”

Slenderman gently rose to his feet as he said, “Well… count me in.”

Alex stuck out his hand to shake John’s as he said, “I guess this whole shark attack wasn’t a recruiting failure after all.”

Chapter 11: War

Kyle looked down upon the new military; they had been training for almost ten years now and were well prepared for the dangers they were going to face. As he stared down at them, he felt deep regret in his heart and he knew exactly why. Suddenly, a woman hissed from the shadows, “Its time you call your army forth to defeat the horrid Equestrians.”

Kyle took in a shaky breath; he straightened out the tie on his XXXXL suit before stepping forward. Once he stepped into the open, he could see the entire military lined up, tanks were ready, jeeps were being turned on, tanks were being lined up, and helicopters were being boarded. The troops looked up at Kyle as he stood next to their leader, Albrecht Freud, as the leader announced, “Around ten years ago, we lost our master commander as he tried to make peace with Equestria. But in a few hours, we will show those creatures that humans will not back down from a fight. I, as your leader, will guide you to victory in what will forever be known as The Universal War!”

As Albrecht took a step back, the two listened to the cheering of the soldiers. The low hum of a large metal disc was heard as the wind picked up; the giant portal that took ten years was finally being fired up for the first time. Kyle watched as the army slowly began to march towards the large wall of light that had formed, tanks were leading the way into the portal with soldiers on foot and in trucks soon followed. The soldiers were finally entering into Equestria to go to war.

Kyle turned around to see Albrecht and the mysterious lady; the two were looking at him as though they were staring at an alien. Kyle cleared his throat before saying, “Excuse me, I need to return to my office.”

Albrecht nodded his head, “We’ll contact you when we have entered completely, until then you are dismissed.”

Kyle nodded his head before walking off; he kept looking forward as he pushed the tears back in his eyes. He felt his heart sink as he realized he had just failed his own promise to keep the humans safe, he needed a new way to help stop the war. Kyle thought hard, his last attempt to communicate with Mike barely worked so a new way of stopping it was in order. Kyle then had an idea, he knew it was a risky idea but it would be worth a shot. Once Kyle had exited his building and into the field amongst the troops, he burst into a sprint. He began to zoom past the soldiers at superhuman speeds as he heard Albrecht shout, “What are you doing, Kyle?”

As Kyle began to approach the portal, he jumped into the air and turned around to shout, “I’m doing what’s right!”

ShadowThunder watched as Kyle passed through the portal, anger began to burn up inside her as she growled, “He betrayed us.”

Albrecht looked towards the woman as he asked, “What do you mean?”

Shadow slammed her hands to the desk as she shouted, “Kyle had a conscience attack, he thinks Equestria is the innocent side.”

Albrecht looked at the woman with a smirk on his face as he said, “He won’t be able to win their trust after betraying them. Let’s just move on with our attack on the capital, Ponyvillle.”

*****

Meanwhile, in a small school house in Equestria, two Alicorns decided to come to the class as guest speakers. The fillies and colts looked up with mixed looks of shock, awe, and wonder as the two royal sisters demonstrated their lesson.

Celestia looked at the class proudly as she said, “After the first few dates, and on rare occasions after marriage, comes the fun part. So Luna helped me show you all how the kissing and cuddling worked,” Celestia looked over to see her poor sister shivering in the corner as she faced the wall before continuing, “the next part I am going to use some props.” Celestia began to use her magic to bring to her a collector’s edition Smarty Pants doll and a wooden horse’s head before announcing in a male voice, “Hello Smarty Pants.”

Celestia’s voice changed to a small feminine voice as she cooed, “Hello Woody.”

“I really like you, let us mate.” With that, the alicorn proceeded to slam the two objects together with force great enough to tear and break them apart. The foals looked on in horror as the two props died before their eyes, revealing the true brutality and violence of the moment they once thought was a sacred moment of true love at its finest.

Ms. Cherilee jumped from her desk as she said with a nervous tone, “Alright, princess, it was very nice of you to offer to teach these kids mating but that’s not really appropriate.”

Celestia paused, she looked down at the torn doll and broken model of a pony before mumbling, “You’re right; we need a volunteer from the audience. Anypony want to help demonstrate mating with me? Preferably a unicorn, that way we can show the foals what those horns are really made for.”

Luna shouted loudly out of anger, “For the sake of our parents, Tia, keep this PG.”

Celestia looked back at the class before slowly dragging her hooves off to the side of the classroom as she murmured, “I can see where I got my nickname.”

Suddenly, out of the peaceful winds and the avian melodies came a siren. Ms. Cherilee felt her heart sink as she said, “That’s not the natural disaster siren is it?”

The schoolhouse sat silent, their listened to the tone, the round rings of the siren made Luna blurt with eyes widening with fear, “It’s the war sirens…”

Before the class could panic, a large explosion tore up the schoolyard, causing the ponies to scream in terror. Applebloom quickly dove for the underside of Scootaloo’s desk as she wimpered, “Ah sure wish mah sister, or mah brother, were here to protect us.”

Scootaloo swallowed her tears of fear back as she said, “I sure wish Rainbow Dash was here, she isn’t afraid of anything.”

Sweetie Belle sniffed as she looked out the window and said, “Nopony can stop these big monsters.”

The entire class slowly crawled to a spot where they could get a view of the outside, where they saw a large giant tortoise with a pipe on its back and flat wheels on its feel slowly crushing the swings with humans like Alex following it.
*****
A soldier looked at the schoolhouse from inside the tank, he looked back up at his commanding officer as he gulped, “But there are children in there.”

The commanding officer said grimly, “Do as you’re ordered private, or I will have you court marshaled.”

The man closed his eyes, he brought a small cross to his lips and whispered, “Forgive me for killing the innocence of the children.” He then pressed the big satisfyingly large button that fired the shell at the school.

The soldiers outside the tank watched as a chunk of the schoolhouse was torn to shreds by the power of the tank, screaming of children could be heard inside as well as a few adult screams.
*****
Cherilee looked up at the two princesses as she said, “Aren’t you going to stop them?”

Luna shook her head, “Jumping out to something with that much power will only kill us, we cant get a clear shot without exposing ourselves.”

Another blast from the beast caused the ponies to fall to the ground once more, tearing the rest of the schoolhouse down and exposing the foals. A good solid thirty three and a half soldiers surrounded the school with metal sticks pointed at them, one stood forth and said with a grumble, “Take the children as prisoners, kill the women.”

Scootaloo suddenly felt her mane get violently tugged, she screamed in pain and began to resist as best as she could, she watched as Sweetie tried to use her magic only to get a cloth around her mouth which put her to sleep quite fast. Applebloom watched as one of the humans pointed his metal stick at the apple on another humans head, and with the push of a button the apple exploded. Applebloom and Scoots immediately put two and two together as they watched the soldiers point their sticks at the princesses and Cherilee, whom were asleep as well. Applebloom shouted as loud as she could, “Leave them alone ya big bullies!” As a reward for her bravery, Applebloom watched as one of the humans smacked her across the face with the blunt end of the metal stick.

In a daze, Applebloom watched as they pointed the sticks back at the princesses and Cheerilee. Applebloom closed her eyes when she heard one of the humans shout, “Ready… Aim… Fi” Before the man could finish, screaming and smashing was heard. Something big and heavy jumped from the sky and began throwing things around, at least that’s what Applebloom assumed since she had her eyes closed. Once all the smashing was over, the loud man said in a shivering voice, “Please… don’t do this. I beg you please! No!” A loud crunch could be heard and the man’s voice was muffled, all that was heard was the sound of heavy breathing and silent crying.

When Applebloom opened her eyes again, all she saw was a larger human standing while all the others were asleep on the ground. The loud man Applebloom heard last was tucking his head into his clothes as he lied in front of the monster human. The monster slowly turned his head to the princesses as he said in his deep voice, “We need to get you to safety.”

As the man sat there, untying the dizzy princesses, Scootaloo whimpered, “Help us… please.”

The large man shook his head as he said, “No. I need to protect the princess.”

Sweetie Belle squirmed towards the man while still tied up as she squeaked, “Please… we need to find where our hero is.”

The man didn’t turn towards them, he simply continued to untie and tend to the princesses as he mumbled, “That hero would be me, I’m the one who saved your lives.”

Scootaloo squirmed closer as she struggled to say, “No… we’re talking about a human named Alex.” The Cutie Mark Crusaders watched as his head straightened up, meaning he knew who they were talking about. Scootaloo nudged closer as she said, “Come on… the least you could do is untie us.”

The man sighed, he slowly lifted Scoots with ease and began to untie her. She eventually dropped to the ground and went to help her friends, biting the ropes off with minimal struggle. Once everypony was untied, the large human stood up and said, “Where’s Alex?”

One of the princesses managed to come around and said, “We think Alex is halfway across the planet by now, he’s in search of the Book of Earth Pony.”

The large human brought his hand to his face as he grumbled, “Well then we’re on our own.” He then proceeded to kick one of the large squished metal machines like it was paper craft.

Celestia got to her hooves, she sprouted her wings majestically as she cooed, “Not exactly, we have Lyra.” Celestia inhaled deeply before shouting at an incredible volume, “LYRA!”

Kyle waited for a few seconds, he soon saw a large fleet of robotic vehicles descend from the sky, bullets and anti-aircraft missiles began to fire in the fleet’s direction only to be blocked by a turquoise force field. The fleet of ships hovered over top of the burning school house while a small vessel descended, revealing Lyra in a green military outfit. When she stepped out she said in a serious tone, “Okay everypony get on the shi… Kyle.” Lyra began to narrow her eyes at the large human, making him back up nervously.

Kyle looked up to see all of its cannons point towards him, the barrels began to light up with energy as he bleated, “I’m on your side! I just took out one of the commanders to save the school.”

Applebloom, Sweetie, and Scoots all jumped in front of Kyle as they said with serious looks, “The CMC will not let you hurt this hero!”

Lyra paused, she looked curiously at Kyle before cautiously saying, “I’m keeping my eyes on you, if you so much as think of hurting any of us, you’re in for serious trouble.”

Celestia finally managed to get to her hooves as she urged them, “This is no time for chit chatting, we have to get somewhere safe!”

Lyra hopped into her airship as she said, “Follow me, we’re going to round up as many ponies as possible and head to Zecora’s place.” With that, every school filly and colt hopped onto the airship along with Kyle and the two princesses before they all took off into the air again. As the ships began to fly away with all the ponies on board, Lyra slammed a giant piece of paper onto the conference desk as she said, “We need to get serious, for too long we have been gentle and peaceful towards enemies. But not this time, with this device we are going to fight back and hopefully win the war.”

As Lyra spread the blueprint across the table, Kyle looked over it as he said with widening eyes, “How are you going to get this into space?”

Lyra smiled as she said, “It’s going to be built in space, that way it’s already orbiting the planet when we’re done.”

Luna looked over the project in awe; she then turned to Lyra and asked, “When do you expect the project to be completed?”

Lyra gently laughed inside her throat before saying, “Considering this project is already underway right above us, I can assume that it will be done in a few weeks. Seeing as I alone can make a fleet of airships in an hour, a device like this the size of Canterlot will take a bit longer.”

Kyle looked out through the windshield to see fighter jets whiz by while firing missiles at the force fields, Ponyville was in flames as the soldiers set fire to the trees throughout the land. Kyle took a deep breath before saying, “I can’t believe I am saying this, but I am now fighting against the humans.”

Eventually the ships landed near a cave large enough to fit a thousand planes, ponies began to disembark and enter said cave. Slowly as ponies filled the caves with their belongings while they cried and mourned, Lyra turned to Kyle and said, “As much as I want to go and help Alex, Ponyville is in more need of my tech. I’m gonna stay and keep the force fields up to make sure we don’t lose any more lives.”

Bon-Bon trotted up next to Lyra as she said, “May the heavens above have mercy on us.”

Kyle slowly turned towards the exit of the cave as he said deeply, “Come on, Alex, you need to help us now that we need you the most.”

Chapter 12: Just a Talk

So hey guys, sorry i didn't get this out sooner it's just that things have been going pretty bad since my bad breakup with my ex boyfriend. Anyways, this is supposed to be a little filler to let you better know about who Mike really is.

Enjoy guys, by the way I will do my best to get to comicon either this year or bronycon next year for gits and shiggles as i dawn a Scootaloo mask and hardstyle shuffle.

Enjoy, for the second time.

Enjoy, for the third time and reasons that escape me.

Mikes eyes were wide open; the rocking of the ship among the waves was what kept him awake and alert. As he lay there awake, Pinkie Pie had snuggled up to him, burying her head in her own mane as she calmly munched on her tail. Mike gently stroked her cheeks to keep her happy while she slept, yet could not get to sleep himself. After what felt like an eternity of sitting in the room, he decided to look around to see Discord floating on a cloud next to Lauren. He looked around to see everypony else in their beds, except one was missing. Mike looked towards Fluttershy’s hammock to see it was rather empty, only the yellow pegasus remained in deep sleep there. Mike inhaled calmly and deeply, he was hoping not to wake Pinkie up with what he was about to do. Mike slowly began to lift the pony, she was much lighter than what an actual pony might have been. Mike rose from the hammock and as he planted his feet on the hard wood floor, he silently returned Pinkie Pie. He made sure not to gasp at all throughout the process, and was beginning to lose breath. As his heart and lungs slowly began to panic, Mike tip-toed as fast as he could towards the exit to the deck.

Once outside, Mike exhaled greatly into the cold night sky, the chilling air showing his breath float away like smoke. Mike looked towards the front of the deck to see a lone man standing there, slouching over the edge of the rocking ship. Mike slowly made his way towards his friend as he silently said, “Hey man, you look like you could use a friend.”

Alex didn’t turn around, he simply nodded his head as he replied, “Yeah, it gets lonely even for an introvert like me.” As Mike walked up next to Alex, the boy turned to the soldier as he asked, “It’s funny how I know barely anything about you, yet we are friends close enough to die for each other.”

Mike shrugged, “A soldier does that for strangers on a daily basis, but that doesn’t change the fact that I consider you a homie at the least. I’m guessin’ you want a life story?” Mike watched as Alex nodded gently as he returned his gaze towards the Big Flippin’ Ocean. Mike took a deep breath, this was going to be a long story, “Well to start it all off, my name isn’t actually Michael.”

“Are you serious? What’s your real name?”

“My real name is the blackest thing you could ever think of. Its !yan.”

“YAN?”

“Nah man, you have to make a clicking sound for the exclamation point, !yan. Figuring it would be too weird for you crackers to get it, I legally changed my name to my favorite classic basketball player’s name, Michael.”

“Where were you born?”

“I was born on a plane goin’ from Africa to the USA, so legally I’m an American baby. I just like to think of myself as an African.”

“What were your parents’ names?”

“Joseph and Irene. My dad was white which is why I don’t look too black in the first place, I’m like a tan white boy.”

“What was it like back home?”

“Shit was cash, man, had a great sister that I practically raised myself. A big house with a pool to play in, and a racist kid who’s ass I could kick to oblivion.”

Alex snickered as he said, “So it was your average neighborhood where you lived.”

“Nah man, maybe back in the early 2000’s, today saying racist things can result in charges and prison shit. We’ve become more hard asses than ever before.”

“How’s the internet?”

“Pree damn useful actually, got most of my education from it. Hey did you know that president Obama was a terrorist?”

“Are you serious? You got into the army with that kind of an education? My god, the idiocracy theory was true, you really do get dumber as the generations carry on.”

“Dude, I’m kidding! I graduated top of all my classes and received a PHD in physics as well as a doctor’s degree in engineering, I know seven different languages and own a world title in MMA.”

“Shit, you did much better than me when I was in school.”

“What happened?”

“Equestria happened in grade 11, when I came back to earth some forty years later I was considered dead and had to pick up a few jobs. For a few years, I was raising the six girls all on my own and I was only eighteen.”

“Wow man, you’ll make quite the father.”

Alex quickly backed away from Mike, the last statement made him nervous a bit as he said, “What are getting at?”

Mike shook his head, he was still staring at the moon only slightly above the horizon as he said, “I mean… you and Fluttershy. You two make the perfect mom and dad for a kid, you’re responsible enough to probably lead an army as well as raise a family while Flutts is one of the sweetest women out there.”

“Listen, !yan, this is a bit of a personal area you’re entering.”

“That reminds me,” Mike turned to look at Alex with his serious face as he said, “You and Fluttershy… have you… you know.” Mike then made a circle with one hand and stuck a finger through it with his other hand, raising an eyebrow as he smirked greatly.

Alex snorted a bit, the way Mike looked made it hilarious to him. Alex smiled brightly as he said with a sigh, “Not yet, in all honesty I think sex is sacred. I mean, I’m not religious at all but I still see sex as sacred to a life itself and not in a system of belief. I really love her, don’t get me wrong, but… I’m just so nervous I might hurt her.”

“Don’t get too cocky kid, you know what they say about blacks.”

“You’re perverted, I meant that Fluttershy admitted to still being a virgin. It apparently hurts women the first time they have sex, and I don’t want to do that to someone as innocent as her. Besides, what if she gets pregnant? Think of all the ugly mutant offspring that are going to rip her open like in Alien from the 80’s.”

“Dude, you’re a living mortal god. You know every magical spell there is, there’s gotta be one for safety right?”

“This conversation is getting way out of hand, next thing you’ll be telling me is how you porked Pinkie while she sang Oink Oink Oink.”

“I was just asking a question, you were the one who brought that up. You’re the weirdo.”

Alex and Mike laughed for a bit, the two nudged each other a bit before Alex asked, “So you mentioned your family right?”

“Yeah.”

“Are you hoping that someday you might get to see them again? Like your sister is going to be almost twice your age by now and your parents are going to be really old.”

“I was planning on seeing my family at least one last time before they pass away.”

Alex looked over at Mike, he could see a glistening tear stream down his cheek and fall off his chin. Alex took in a deep breath as he said, “I know how it feels to be torn away from your family, I barely remember my dad who at the time was the most kickass person ever. And my mom killed herself shortly after I left to Equestria. To me, the two most powerful influences on a man are love and family. The dedication I see in your eyes to see your parents once more is like no other… and because we are best friends… I am going to make a promise.”

Mike slowly turned his head to see Alex raise his right hand and say with a serious look on his face, “I swear on the very life of myself that I will do whatever it takes get you to your family when this shit is over.”

Mike sniffed as he said, “You’d do that… for me?”

Alex shrugged; he leaned back against the deck of the boat as chuckled, “What are friends for?”

Mike stood back from the deck, Alex gave a curious look when he saw Mike slowly raise his arms as Mike whispered, “I never thought I would say this to a white man, but you’re the best man in my life at the moment.”

Alex smiled gently as he brought it in for a bro hug, Mike patted Alex on the back hard as he said, “Thanks.” When the hug had broken, Mike looked towards the room full of hammocks as he said, “Pinkie’s probably gettin’ lonely in there. See you tomorrow?”

“Yeah man. Goodnight.” Alex then watched as Mike walked off to bed, the only sounds left were the sounds of the waves crashing against the belly of the ship. Alex returned to leaning against the banister as he said to himself, “I just hope that I didn’t gain all this trust again for nothing.”

Chapter 13: Mom, Dad, I'm home!

Alex was suddenly woken from his sleep when the ship suddenly stopped, the force was great enough to throw him along with all the other ponies onto the ground. After a few seconds of resting under a pile of marshmallows, Alex mumbled from the bottom of the pile, “I must have forgotten to turn my swagger off…” Alex popped his head out to the top as he said with a large smile across his face, “cause I’m covered in bitches!”

A murmured mumbling came from one of the hammocks, Mike slowly raised his head as he slurred, “Yo, we there?”

Pinkie quickly raised her head from the hammock as well as she squeaked, “This is totally awesome! I’m a pirate now!”

As Pinkie bounced out of the bed, Alex grabbed her by the tail as he giggled, “Hold on a minute, we need everyone to wake up as well.”

As Alex turned his head towards Lauren’s hammock, all he found was an empty sack. Suddenly her red hair dropped from outside the doorway before she revealed her head while saying, “Come on wake up, lazy pirates. Discord, Twi, Slendy, and I were just planning on our next steps.”

Alex rubbed his eyes as he groaned, “Alright, I’ll be up in a few.” When Lauren disappeared above the room, Alex looked down at the pile of sleeping ponies as he said, “Can… can someone help me out of here?”

*****

After a few minutes of getting everypony ready, Alex made his way to the upper room. As he approached the doors of solid silver and gold, he began to think of how Ponyville is doing with the sudden influx of Canterlottians (I don’t know, I guess they can be called that). He feared of how Earth could be on the brink of entering into this universe, all piss and vinegar. Alex pushed open the large doors to reveal the sun filled room occupied by Twilight, Lauren, Discord, and Slenderman. They all sat around the large dining table, a map had been laid out in front of them depicting the city they had arrived to.

Alex quickly took a seat as he said with a nod, “Morning everyone, so now that we made it across the Big Flippin’ Ocean what would our next steps be?”

Discord looked up as he said, “Considering we arrived here before scheduled time, we do have some time to play tourist. For about thirty minutes we could take a look around my hometown, Fillydeplhia.”

“You were from Fillydelphia?” Alex exclaimed in joyful surprize, “Which side? West side or East side?”

Discord decided to get up from his chair, he casually stuck out his hand and materialized a pair of sky blue shades and an orange baseball cap as he said, “This might help explain it.”

Now this is the tale all about how
My being became the way that you see.
And I’d like to take a minute and rap a whole lot
About the tale I became the evil me
From Canterlot

In west Fillydelphia born and raised
In the clouds where I spent most of my days
Flying through, laughing, and floating all cool
And all makin’ some choco-milk for the kids at school

When this one alicorn, he was up to no good
Started cussing at me all because he could
I zapped one tiny spell, he started crying a lot
Everyone shunned me before I said, “I must flee quickly
I’m off to Canterlot.”

I flew away, fast over the sea
Towards a new island called Equestria for friends I sought
The castle was large, big enough for me
I said aloud, “I finally made it to Canterlot!”

I pulled a few tricks, a gag or two
The princesses fought oh Boo-Hoo
Stone imprisonment, and now I’m here
This was the story of the god you should fear.

When Discord had finished his rap, he stared down at the group. Pinkie Pie, Alex, and Dash looked at him in awe of his bodaciousness. Lauren smiled brightly as she stared back at him. The rest of the group had their heads tilted in confusion.

Alex simply turned around and said, “It’s from an old eighties show called Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”

Twilight gave a curious look as she said, “I think we should be on our way now. We can talk about shows that we saw back on earth later.” With that, Twilight turned tail and trotted away with Discord and Lauren at her sides.

Alex along with Mike trailed at the back of the pack, Alex leaned over as he asked, “You know Will Smith right?”

Mike looked over as he said, “You mean the guy who won a Nobel peace prize for being the first human made of solid swagger?”

Alex’s eyes were wide with surprize, he knew Willie had talent but not to that extent. Alex kept his blank look on his face as he stuttered, “Er… yeah… that guy.”

Mike and Alex watched as the girls trotted along, looking at all the wonderful stores that would bar up as Discord walked past them. Pinkie would bounce around the place and wave to all the new ponies she met, making sure she left no pony unfriended. Mike had a warm smile on his face as he said, “Yo man, I really am enjoying my time here.”

Alex continued to walk, his hands buried in his jeans as he said with a look of curiosity, “Yeah?”

Mike pulled a toothpick out and inserted it in his mouth to up the swag meter as he chuckled, “Meeting Pinkie made me realize something important, I learnt that girls ain’t all booty and buns, but rather how much they make you smile.”

Alex patted Mike on the back as he said with a look of pride, “A good cliché lesson to learn, my friend. Yeah… Pinkie seems so happy to be around you.”

Mike took a deep breath as he said while rubbing his shiny head, “Imma have to say in all honesty, I’m gonna miss bein’ here with Pinkie and you.”

Alex dawned a look of worry as he turned to Mike and asked, “What do you mean?” Alex began to fear the thoughts of Mike admitting to having a terminal illness which would send this story into a crappy romance tragedy.

Mike pulled the toothpick from his mouth as he said, “I have to go home someday, right? Once there’s a way for me to go home and see my family. I need to see my sister, she’s probably worried sick right now.”

Alex looked over at Pinkie as he said to Mike, “You’re going to break her heart yet again; another human lied to her and hurt her emotionally. Leaving her will devastate her and probably send her into insanity.”

Mike shook his head as he pleaded, “Look man, I have to make a difficult decision.”

Alex looked at Mike with eyes of pity, he could see the pain Mike was beginning to feel as he thought of his family he left behind. Alex gave Mike a sympathetic look and rested his arm over Mike’s shoulder as he said, “I think we will be able to make a compromise somehow.”

Mike gave a look of hope as he said, “You think that’d work?”

Alex winked as he said, “A Mulroney never ever breaks a promise. In fact, I once had a friend admit he was gay to me. Despite all the horrible things he put me through when he started hating me, I never once mentioned his secret.”

Mike grinned as he said, “You just broke your promise dawg.”

Alex shook his head as he said, “Nope, the kid has probably been dead for a while. He was into the whole death metal thing where he would set his hair on fire and stuff. If he is, though, then I owe him a shot to the nuts.”

Mike laughed a bit, “Hey, since I might not be here for much longer, I’m gonna hang out with Pinks.”

Alex patted him on the back as he said, “That would be a good idea.” Alex then watched as Mike ran up behind Pinkie and lifted her off her hooves to hear her giggle and snort in joy.

Alex decided to catch up to Twilight and Discord. As he approached them, Lauren said, “So where are we going?”

Discord looked over at the goddess of everything as he said, “Just around the corner, it’s amazing I can still remember which street I lived on.”

Twilight looked around at the houses in the complex, they all seemed to look the same with the same bland colors with curtains that had frightening patterns on them. Twilight looked over to Rarity as she said to Discord, “It’s amazing how you can remember which house you lived in.”

Discord laughed as he said, “Alright, house 42, now let’s be quick with this alright?”

Alex shrugged as he asked, “Why be quick? Aside from the fact we are on the brink of war.”

Discord hung his head low and sighed, he had to muster up the courage before saying, “Mom and Dad would act a certain way around new guests.”

Lauren approached the door as she said with a look of sympathy, “Oh come on, not every parent is the same when it comes to new people.”

Mike nodded his head as he contributed, “Yeah, my mom would smell people’s shoes and use the smell to determine whether they were baptized or not.” Mike quickly realized everyone was looking at him, looks of extreme confusion across their faces. Mike shrugged as he exclaimed, “What? I was just trying to make D feel better.”

Discord lightly knocked on the door as he said, “Yeah well my parents hate me.”

Lauren was shocked to hear this, she gave a surprized look as she said, “Discord, your parents don’t hate you! It’s called tough love.”

Discord gave a sneer as he whispered, “What do you think drove me out of the house when I was young.”

The door suddenly swung open, a large dark figure that towered over Discord stood at the doorway as it said in a thunderous voice, “Well, well, well… if it isn’t my son?”

***** Stay tuned for Chapter: I lost count! ******

Chapter 14: Stoopid Soldiers

For all those who don't read my blog, two things: A) Read it! B) This is the last What You Wish For book written in this chapter by chapter format. The next one and so and and so forth shall be written fully before being uploaded. Once this book is complete, I shall finish off The Blue Blurs and The Ultimate Crossover before I begin with WYWF4.

The caves beneath Ponyville were wet and dark, the air heavy with fear of the earthlings attacking. It had been a day since the initial invasion, and casualties have been on the rise. Celestia had exhausted herself into a depression as she watched more and more heroic stallions lose their lives, galloping out of the caves never to return. Luna had begun to accept imminent death; it was only a matter of time before the soldiers would make the swift movement into the cavern to finish off the remaining survivors. Lyra and Bon-Bon were nowhere to be found; their ship had taken off the night before and hasn’t returned since. Speculations were that they had been ambushed on that night and were killed.

Kyle walked amongst the ponies, his scarred face scaring off the younger foals and rustling the jimmies of their parents. He was doing his best to keep the children quiet while their fathers lost their lives in battle; it took a lot of patience on his behalf. As he knelt down to talk to a set of twins, a small yellow filly galloped towards him with her bow bouncing in her hair as she called out, “Kyle, the princess wants to see y’all.”

Kyle slowly turned his gaze towards the small pony; her eyes were telling him that something was up. He slowly got to his feet as he rumbled, “Alright.” Kyle slowly began to walk towards the princesses’ area of the cavern, the explosions above causing dirt to fall from above. Kyle slowly stepped forward towards the regal sisters as he said, “You had something to tell me.”

Luna looked over to her sister; the two had no need to talk for they could see in each other’s eyes that they had come to an agreement on a plan. Luna looked up towards the towering human as she whispered, “We wanted to talk to you privately so nopony else could hear the plan. Our sister and us have finally decided on our next move.”

Kyle got onto his bottom and sat in front of the sisters as he whispered back, “Whatever it is, I shall do my best.”

Luna took in a shaky breath before turning her gaze towards the cowering civillians, her heart was heavy with grief and her mind was cluttered with lost hope. She continued to stare at the civillians as she said in a depressed tone, “Celestia and I are going to ascend to the ground, we shall discuss a peace treaty. We have accepted our deaths and shall sacrifice ourselves for the sake of our beloved Equestria.”

Kyle shook his head as he got to his feet, he never expected one of the royal sisters to openly accept death like that. Kyle pushed back his emotions as he said, “There’s no way I will let you two do that, it’s not like you to surrender and give your own lives.”

Celestia raised her head as she said mournfully, “It’s also not like us to let so many young colts and stallions die for a lost cause. We have already made our decision and we are sticking to it.”

Kyle shook his head as he raised his voice, “You are not going to do that, I can’t let you. I will fight them off or die trying.” Suddenly, Kyle could feel his body collapsing on him. It seemed as though his strength had just left his body, it oozed out of his orifices in the form of purple smoke. Kyle collapsed onto the ground, ponies rushed towards him to see what was going on. Kyle groaned in pain as his body began to shrink, his muscles dissipating and returning to a human size. As the purple aura that once represented his strength poured out of his eyes, nose, and mouth, a voice familiar to the sisters and Kyle hissed through his mouth, “Disobey me, I shall punish thee. I gave you your powers and I am taking them back, traitor.” With that, the smoke finished pouring out and flew away. Kyle was left on the floor, his body back to original proportions and his powers gone. Kyle slowly got to his knees as he groaned, “What happened to me?”

Luna pointed a shaking hoof at his arms as she said, “Thy powers have been stripped of thy body. We did not know that you had been working for ShadowThunder.”

Kyle shook his head as he got to his feet, his pants were the only things that could still fit him. He felt over his weak body he originally had as he said with anger, “I used to work for her, but once I realized the human army had been brainwashed into an evil state I realized that I was fighting for the wrong side.”

Luna got to her hooves as she whispered, “Soon, there will be only one remaining side to this battle. Come sister, let us go.” With that, Luna and Celestia made their ways out of the cave.

Kyle chased after them as he shouted, “Let me come with you, I can’t let you pass heroically without a witness.” Kyle then made his way around the hill, his small legs were barely supporting him with his new lightweight body. He watched from the corner of his eye as the sisters flew over the top of the cavern towards the large plume of smoke, they landed at the top and waited for Kyle to approach them. As he ran towards them he said to himself, “This can’t be happening, they’re going to sacrifice themselves only to die in vain. There has to be something I can do to help them.” As his mind raced, he looked down at his body and had a brilliant idea. He thought over the consequences and other options yet this seemed the best to him at the time. Kyle ran up to the sisters as he said with a bit of a grin on his face, “Girls, I have an idea.”

Celestia kept her head low in sorrow as she said, “What would that be?”

Kyle raised a hand as to say, “Excuse me for what I’m about to do.” He then proceeded to wrap his hands on his face, his nails digging into the infected and rotting skin on his face. Kyle felt very little pain as he gently pulled a large chunk of his cheek off of his face and onto the ground, exposing the inner muscle and bones. Kyle swore under his breath as he continued to pull off his skin from his face.

Luna and Celestia watched in horror as Kyle threw the rotting chunks of flesh onto the grass, exposing the bright pink and fresh skin beneath.

The pain was almost unbearable to Kyle by now, he had even torn pieces of the good half off of his face and had thrown them amongst the pile at his feet. Kyle looked at his hands to see they were covered in bright red blood, his face felt like it had been soaked in acid as he struggled to say, “Do you even recognize me?”

Celestia couldn’t bear to look at him as she said with shut eyes, “I guess not, what is your problem?”

Kyle wiped the blood from his eyes as he said, “Take me on your back to the soldiers I’m going to get on the inside of the hospital while you two wait to speak to the leader.”

Celestia jolted her rump away from Kyle as she said, “You must’ve eaten some bad apples, that’s a horrible idea. Getting my hide dirty is the thing a princess wants the least, especially if its stained with blood.”

Kyle looked over at Luna to see her say with rolling eyes, “I’ll give you a ride, as long as you promise to never do this again.”

Kyle nodded as he climbed onto her back and said, “You can count on me, now let’s head on over.” Luna began to canter as Kyle lay on her back, his head bouncing as his body began to slip. He quickly regained his balance as he whispered, “Try not to drop me, otherwise they will kill you.”

Luna hushed him; she then turned her head towards the destroyed Ponyville. Bodies were everywhere, mostly ponies but a few were people. The two princesses were on the verge of tears as they rounded the corner to see a small group of soldiers at a fire. The smell of the fire was horrid and reeked of death, the soldiers didn’t seem to care though. Celestia approached them with clenched teeth, she was resisting the urge to push them into the fire as she called out, “Soldiers, we have one of your men.”

The men turned around as one of them said in a Boston accent, “Hey, she’s got a soldier.”

Another one of the soldiers turned his head as he murmured to him, “Aren’t they the princess horses or something?”

Celestia approached them cautiously as she said, “We are willing to make a trade. This man here is still alive, and we are not afraid to take drastic measures to talk to your leader.”

One of the other soldiers had a bit of an Italian accent as he said, “What exactly are we talkin’ about?”

Luna kept her nose from the fire as she said, “We are willing to make a peace treaty.” Luna watched in horror as one of the soldiers turned around to add a bit more material to the fire, it turned out that it was the corpse of a stallion they had recently lost. His face was warped with holes and stained red as it was tossed into the fire amongst the rest of the burning ponies. Luna began to hold back tears of deadly rage as she watched the man act like nothing happened. He cleared his throat as he said, “So hand us back the soldier, and you will get to talk to our commander. That’s the best we can do cause we are the Ponyland outpost, the master in command is a ways away.”

Celestia motioned her head at her sister as she said, “Then so be it. Luna, give them their soldier.”

Luna gulped; she slowly trotted towards the soldiers with Kyle on her back. She could hear them thinking of all the horrible things they would do to the ponies later on, she heard something about a concentration camp and slavery. She was violently tackled to the ground and Kyle was removed from her back, she watched as her sister had the same done to her. The two were violently dragged along onto a vehicle that took a short drive to a large silver dome. Soldiers were scattered all over the place, they all had human weapons in their hands and were pointing towards the princesses. She watched as they entered an air conditioned building, quickly stopping and the room was suddenly flooded with soldiers.

Celestia and Luna were tugged by the wings and hooves towards a small black room where they were violently thrown in, the door slamming shut on them as a man said with a snort, “You’ll have to wait a bit, if that man is dead then so are you.”

Silence filled the room, a good solid three and a half seconds went by before Luna turned to her sister as she murmured, “We cannot believe Alex, a noble and heroic human, comes from the same planet… from the same SPECIES as these monsters.”

Celestia kept her head low as she responded, “Contain your anger sister, for Kyle has a plan for us both. What I am more worried about is where your daughter and son-in-law are at the moment.”

Luna quickly hushed Celestia as she whispered, “Nopony must know of my child, not even Cadence must know her mother had her through unmarried adultery.”

Celestia shook her head with disapproval as she said, “I cannot believe that it even happened, it must have been awkward for you to have had her while on the moon.”

Luna silently giggled as she said, “While I was overrun with madness, I believed that a child was a burden. And since I could not return myself to Canterlot with her, I decided that surprizing you with her would be good enough.”

Celestia smiled lightly as she giggled, “The mood swings caused by your pregnancy would explain why you turned into Nightmare Moon.”

Luna giggled a bit as well as she responded, “Yeah, just don’t tell anypony that I turned evil because I was lacking deep fried ice cream smothered with chocolate. It makes more sense if I turned evil because of jealousy.”

Celestia began to laugh a bit louder as she said with a smile, “You know, I’m glad we are having this talk. It’s keeping my mind off of the worst possible outcomes. Oh my goodness we didn’t even answer the question earlier.”

Luna cuddled up to her sister as she said with a sigh, “Candence and Shining Armor have been escorted to outside of Equestria, Hasbrite is a big planet and they could be anywhere.”

The sudden clanging of metal startled the sisters, a soldier stood at the entrance with cuffs as he said, “Alright girls, you’re lucky he’s alive. Come with me.” With that, the soldier cuffed the girls’ wings and hooves before dragging them out of the room.

*****

The commander stood at the large window that showed the dome, soldiers were lining trucks and training in the yard. The commander turned to the sisters whom were sitting in chairs, he took a puff from his cigarette as he said, “So… you two wanted to see me?”

Celestia nodded her head as she said, “Yes, we wanted to discuss a form of peace treaty.”

The commander shook his head as he said, “No can do, one of your own killed our master commander chief guy a few years back which gives us full rights to invade your country.”

Celestia raised an eyebrow as she said with a curious look, “That’s sort of odd, wouldn’t you need to make a form of ultimatum with the ‘enemy country’ before attacking them?”

The commander took another puff from his cigarette before he said with a mocking smirk on his face, “Look girls, we just invaded your country and claim it our own. Soon you’ll have to convert to Catholic or be evicted from your home; after all we deserve all the mineral deposits here.”

Luna’s anger suddenly burst out of her as she shouted, “How is that fair? This is our land how could this possibly belong to you?”

The commander began to lean over his desk to get a closer look at Luna, his nose pressed against hers as he said, “It’s fair because I’m American. It just works like that. We may have not known of this universe’s existence until ten years ago but it has been ours all along.”

Luna slouched back in her seat as she mumbled to herself, “Kiss my shiny blue flank.”

Celestia gave her sister a stern look before calmly saying, “Look, we would like to at least discuss a bit of fair game.”

*****

Kyle’s eyes slowly opened up, he was on a table in a hospital with doctors looking down upon him. One of the doctors said calmly, “Welcome back… we reconstructed your face as best as possible sir.”

Kyle watched as one of the doctors went to reach for a mirror, he was beginning to get excited to see his new face all beautiful and everything. As the doctor handed it to him, he quickly turned the mirror towards his face only to see disappointment. Kyle shouted at the top of his lungs, “OH COME ON!” Staring back at him was the charred face he once bore, infected and everything.

One of the doctors took the mirror away as he said, “It took us a while to get the chunks of skin infected so it would look like your face again.”

Kyle jolted upright as he said with anger, “Why the hell didn’t you make my face pretty? You guys are paid to fix us, not half ass it.”

The doctor’s eyes narrowed as he said, “Look buddy, first of all: We don’t get paid at all. Secondly: It was really hard work getting the infections into that face, you should thank us.”

“THANK YOU?!”

“You’re welcome!”

Kyle began to shout in anger, he jumped off the bed and began to storm out of the rooms when one of the doctors shouted, “Hey hold up Kyle!”

Kyle froze in place, he realized that he was bucked and that they recognized him as the traitor. He watched as the doctor approached him with an assault rifle in his hand and say, “You forgot your gun. Happy hunting!”

Kyle stood there with a blank look on his face, he stared at the gun for a good few minutes before walking out of the room while whispering, “Good these people are so dumb they deserve to die.”

*****

Celestia and the commander had been arguing for a good while over fair game. Celestia shouted demands out of frustration at the commander, “Give us a week to train our soldiers to fight.”

“No, it won’t be fair!”

“Your soldiers are waiting at the cave entrance to shoot the next pony to exit, that’s unfair.”

“No it isn’t it makes sure that we win.”

Celestia looked frantically around the room, she looked for something to tempt the commander when something caught her eyes. She looked towards what appeared to be a painting of a man with many ribbons across his chest; he looked into the distance as his little white beard and mustache swayed in the wind. Celestia looked at the painting as she asked, “Who’s that a painting of?”

The commander gave a shrug as he said, “I think the price tag said something like Colonel Sanders or something, it just seemed cool to have hung in a military office.”

Celestia began to levitate a marker found on the desk towards the painting as she said, “Give us a few weeks to train our military or I will draw something inappropriate on the man’s face.”

The commander’s eyes widened with shock, he dropped to his knees and pleaded, “No, anything but that! That painting is awesome, please don’t ruin it!”

Celestia smirked as she said with an evil laugh, “I really like the painting, it would be a shame to see a funny speech bubble indicating that his intelligence level does not meet the quota be written beside his mouth in black permanent marker.”

The commander tried his best to pull the marker away, but her magic was strong enough to lift him off the ground. The commander dropped to the ground onto his knees as he said with his hands clasped together, “Have mercy, I’ll let you train your army as long as you leave the painting alone!”

Celestia dropped the marker as she said with a victorious smile, “There. Glad we can come to an agreement.” Celestia got up from her chair as she said to her sister, “Come now, Luna, let us find Ky”

Suddenly, the wall beside them exploded. The loud explosion hurt their heads as painful ringing could be heard, the shockwave throwing them off balance. Debris flew across the room and knocked the commander unconscious, throwing dust everywhere and blocking the sisters’ vision. When the dust settled, the hole in the wall opened up to Kyle poking his head out of one of the metal tortoises with a long cannon at the end of it. Kyle shouted loudly over the blaring alarms, “Get in the tank!”

The two sisters hurried as fast as they could into the tank, Luna jumped in first followed by Celestia. As Celestia settled herself in she said, “Hold on could you do one thing for me?”

Kyle nodded his head and watched as Celestia pointed towards the painting as she snorted, “I really hate that painting.”

Kyle smiled as he said, “Alrighty then!” Another sudden explosion consumed the rest of the building, for sure destroying the painting. Kyle began to back out as he said, “Stupid idiots gave me a tank.” He then began to mock their voices as he said with a fake smile, “Hey dude we just met, take the tank if you want to! Its not like we don’t know your rank or anything.”

Luna looked at Kyle’s face as she said, “I guess that explains why they didn’t fix your diseases on your face.”

Kyle nodded his head, “Yep.” He then turned the cannon around to see behind the tank, he looked at the screen to see soldiers running for other tanks to chase after him despite the fact that these tanks weren’t travelling any faster than a walking speed. Kyle turned the cannon around once more to fire another shell at the gate, obliterating it in a second.

The tank slowly made its way out of the dome followed by three other tanks, one man who was standing atop of one shouted while swinging a sword, “Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword!”

Kyle began to worry as he said, “Oh crap, their gaining on us.”

*****

Eventually, like about a half hour later, Kyle’s tank had driven into an open field and he had lost his patience. Kyle stopped the tank and climbed out of the hole to watch the other tanks catch up to him, with popcorn in his hand. Once the three tanks had surrounded him, the soldiers got out of the tanks to surround him with guns in their hands. Kyle looked down at the sisters as he said, “They got out of their f*cking tanks, how stupid are these people?”

As one of the soldiers approached the tank, he pulled a sword from its sheath and began banging against the side of the tank. Kyle just sighed with exhaustion as the man walked back to his tank while saying, “Alright, now we can blast the” The man could not finish his sentence though, a hole had suddenly appeared below the man and a pair of furry arms pulled him under.

The other soldiers began to back up with fear as cracks in the ground began to circle around them, eventually causing the ground to collapse under them and drop them into deep holes.

Kyle watched in awe as the cracks began to make their way towards the dome to consume it as well. Kyle hopped out of the tank as he said aloud, “Alex? Was that devious plan yours?”

A loud voice was heard from the hold, “We haven’t heard that name in forever!”

Kyle looked (That was the 50,000th word woohoo!) down the hole as he said, “Who are you guys?”

Another voice, one much deeper, called out, “We are friends of Alex’s. He taught us all a valuable lesson many years ago.” The holes began to rumble, Kyle backed up as he saw what looked like a mutated dog’s head poke out of the hole. It slowly poppes out with a very human like body with clothes studded with diamonds, it’s arms very disproportionate to it’s legs.

Another mutated canine popped out as it said, “Yeah, we diamond dogs are allies with Alex… and you are not Alex…”

Kyle backed up as he said, “I may not be Alex, but I am a… good friend… of his. So if you are his ally, than you are mine as well.”

The leading diamond dog approached the tank as it said, “What kind of machine is this?”

Kyle banged his knuckles against the armor as he said, “It’s carbon 40 plating, hardest man-made object for a man with a budget.”

The leader hopped into the tank and looked through the hole, he quickly removed his head as he said, “You were protecting the princess pony?

Kyle nodded his head as he said, “Yeah, thanks again for saving us.”

One of the larger diamond dogs decided to jump into the conversation as he said, “We crush bad guys because they look for diamonds too.”

Celestia and Luna popped their heads from the tank as they said in synchronization, “And we want to crush the bad guys because they are killing ponies by the minute.”

The leader laughed silently, he looked over towards the dome as he said, “Not any more, look!”

Celestia, Luna, and Kyle looked towards the dome; a large cloud of dust began to rise as the dome itself began to slowly sink into the earth beneath it. The larger diamond dog approached Kyle as he said, “Bad guys no more.”

Kyle shook his head as he said with a serious look upon his face, “No… that was one small group of a very, very, very large armada. Consider yourselves lucky for having to deal with the dumbest of them also.”

The leader approached Kyle as he said in his hissing voice, “We shall take ponies somewhere safe, for good of Equestria.”

Kyle stuck out his hand as he said with a smile cracking over his skin, “For the good of Equestria.”

*****

As Kyle watched the diamond dogs calmly and peacefully herd the ponies into the large tunnel, he pulled out his notepad and wrote aloud:

Dearest Lyra Heartstrings,

You may have returned to an empty cave, for that is because the Diamond Dogs have brought us to an underground haven. The outpost of dumbass soldiers has been taken care of, so no need to worry or hurry. Just follow the cavern towards our sanctuary, remember to destroy the entrance behind you. I have marked the weak points on the cavern walls that will aid in the collapsing. If you have found Alex, please let him know that I will be under his command for the rest of this war. If Alex is not following you, please re write this letter for him giving him instructions on where to go.

Your friendly neighborhood,

Kyle Clyde.

Kyle tore off the piece of paper and taped it to the wall of the cavern, making sure it would stay in its visible place. Kyle then proceeded to walk down the tunnel with the princesses at his sides, Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle trailing behind. Titty Sprinkles.

Okay, you may be wondering why I added Titty Sprinkles to the end of this chapter, its because my weird brain forced me to make this chapter an exact amount long. Now my story has 50,600 words in it instead of 50,598 words.

Chapter 15: Fatherly Love

*So this took a ridiculous amount of time to make, i have no excuse aside from SKATE 2.*

Discord had troubles looking at his father in the eyes, he felt humiliated he was at his old home once again. As Discord stared at his feet, he mumbled, “Hey, dad…”

The large dark figure stared at Discord for a few seconds before slowly turning around and shouting in a booming voice, “Mutiny! Our son is home!”

Alex leaned over towards Discord and whispered, “Mutiny?”

“My mom is named Mutiny, my dad’s Anarchy. One big chaotic family, huh?”

A whining voice that sounded like Mrs. Potato Head called from inside the house, “Oh Dizzy, you were supposed to call a century ago!”

Anarchy turned back to look at Lauren and the others as he grumbled, “Who might this be, Discord?”

Lauren gingerly stuck out her hand as she said gleefully, “I’m Lauren, pleasure to meet you.”

Anarchy stared at Lauren for a couple of seconds, he looked at her hand with disapproval before turning to Discord and saying, “A few seconds in and I already hate her… new record.” Anarchy then turned around and walked inside, slamming the door behind him.

Lauren stood there, her hand still extended. She had been slightly flabbergasted by what she had just witnessed; you could almost say her jimmies were rustled. Lauren turned back to Alex and Mike as she said, “He seems like a sweet old man, did he do this to your other girlfriends?”

Discord began to pound his fist on the door again as he snorted, “Last time I brought in the prom queen and she was dismembered for not wiping on the mat. Consider yourself lucky.” Discord kept pounding at the door before shouting in an angry tone, “For the love of yourself, open the door.”

The door slammed open once more, revealing a very wrinkly ape like creature with her hair in curlers. She put on a gentle smile as she said, “Oh aren’t you the cutest couple, Dizzy I already like her.”

Lauren shook her head as she said with a smile, “Oh he’s not my boyfriend.”

Mutiny looked at the group for a couple of minutes before saying with a surprized look across her face, “Well what are you then?”

Alex approached the doorway as he said, “If you let us in, then maybe we can tell you all about it.”

Mutiny quickly backed away as she said, “Well why don’t you come in, I’ll get the beast. ANARCHY!”

Discord slowly stepped into the house as he said, “I really hate this place, let’s make this quick and be on with it.”

Mike nodded his head as he said, “Besides, that dragon dude, Anarchy, he scares me.”

Spike poked his head from between Twilight’s legs as he murmured, “You said it, he’s scarier than Twilight when she goes on her monthly crazy spree.”

Applejack trotted along as she said, “Come on y’all, we need ta be quicker than this.”

As Rarity trotted into the house, she began to look around as she cooed, “My, my, my, such fabulous décor.”

The group slowly made their way into the living room; almost everything but the walls and floor were made of precious metals and gems. Anarchy was already in his reclining chair as he said, “Alright, why are you here? You need us to parent you again, son?”

Discord began to lose his temper, he looked at his dad as he growled, “I’m not a demi-god anymore!”

Anarchy laughed gently as he grumbled, “You’re not even a god to begin with.”

Alex watched as the two began to argue, their tones beginning to climb rapidly. Alex raised both his hands and shouted at the top of his lungs, “Everybody, shut the hell up!” Once the noise had calmed down, Alex took a deep breath before saying very calmly, “Listen, Mr. Anarchy, we are on a very important mission involving her.” Alex then pointed towards Lauren, who had begun to levitate some of the artifacts found on the coffee table.

Anarchy examined her before saying in an unimpressed tone, “What about her?”

Alex continued, “It just so happens that this woman you hate already is the very god that created you.” Alex noticed how Anarchy dawned a surprised look before nodding his head, “That’s right, she’s the god that created this entire universe. The thing is, she needs to discover her powers by finding the three great books: The Book of Unicorn, The Book of Pegasus, and The Book of Earth Pony.”

Anarchy quickly had a shocked look on his face as he quivered, “Did you say The Book of Earth Pony?” When he saw Alex, Lauren, and Twilight nod their heads he continued, “I can assume that is why you are here, son.”

“Yeah, not to present myself as the failure you guys expected me to become.” Said Discord, as he kept his arms crossed with his gaze at the floor.

Anarchy gently raised himself from the recliner as he grunted, “Well… unfortunately the only documents I have of that book is about who owned it last.”

Alex sighed with relief as he said with a smile, “Who might that be?”

Anarchy shook his head as he said, “I’m not telling you, not unless you show me you’re worthy of such info.”

The entire room froze, Discord sat there with his mouth agape as he stared at his idiot father (every dad does that to you in some way), Slenderman and Spike were shaking their heads as Twilight looked to be about ready to scream into a pillow. Lauren jolted upright as she said heroically, “Alright, you want me to go friendship on you?”

Anarchy shook his head as he spoke, “No, not you. You’re powers are indeed strong, but not controlled like… his.” He then drew his gaze towards Alex, whom was hugging Fluttershy tightly as she squeaked.

Alex looked over to Lauren then back at Anarchy as he said, “But… I’m not the chosen one.”

“I sense a… strange sort of presence in your aura, something that I might like to see.”

Alex stared at Lauren with a surprized look on his face, this was the first time anything had taken more interest in him rather than the chosen one. After a few minutes of thinking, Alex nodded his head slowly, “I’ll do it.” He told the monster cautiously.

Discord got to his feet as he motioned for the rest of the group to move along and said, “Alright boys and girls, no need to see what ensues.”

Fluttershy jumped into Alex’s arms, she had a look of serious worry on her face as she bellowed, “Please don’t do this to yourself!”

Alex kissed her on the forehead, he looked into her tearing blue eyes as he said, “I promise I’ll be fine. We’ll get the info in no time.” For a minute, the two stare at each other. Neither of them said anything yet they seemed to have been communicating on a deeper level, a more mental level.

A few more minutes had gone by; Fluttershy kissed Alex’s cheek as she exclaimed, “Show that meanie what it means to be a Ponyvillian!”

Alex slowly turned around and grinned as he popped his knuckles, “This is gonna be oodles of noodles of fun.” the now bald hero grunted.

Anarchy slowly rose from his recliner as he said with the crack of his neck, “Alright boy, hit me with your best shot.” Anarchy rounded his hand over his chest, to symbolize the perfect strike area.

Alex had suddenly realized the mess he had gotten himself into, he slowly raised his hands as a sign of peace and calmly said to the monster, “Come on now… you’re a few millenniums old and I feel bad for hitting o” Alex had troubles finishing his sentence for Anarchy’s fist had collided with his face, sending Alex through the wall of the house as the speeds of a bullet. Alex showed no signs of slowing down as he smashed through yet another house and tumbled onto the street a few blocks away, he had managed to pull half of the neighbor’s interior with him as he slid to a stop on the cobblestone street three blocks away from Discord’s house. Alex slowly raised his head and shouted at the top of his lungs, “WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!”

Meanwhile, Discord was standing inside the destroyed house with a shocked Fluttershy and Lauren at his sides as he said nonchalantly, “That’s my dad, and you wondered why I had no friends.”

Back to Alex, the one who got his ass handed to him in a single punch. Alex was struggling to get to his feet, his legs refused to push any more strength out while his ribs felt like they had become mush. Suddenly a large dark red flash of light appeared in front of Alex, revealing Anarchy, “This will be quick,” the creature snorted, “I thought you would have taken that a bit better what with your hidden power.”

Alex was quite dazed through the short statement the creature made, all he heard was ringing in his ears and muffled voices as he wheezed, “What are you talking about?” Instead of an answer, Anarchy wrapped his tail around Alex’s legs and whipped him in an arching motion towards the ground behind him. The force of the impact was great enough to leave a crack in the cobblestone and a small puddle of blood, that being from Alex’s head. Through blurry eyes, Alex watched as Anarchy tossed him like a ragdoll into the pile of broken wall. A sudden jolt in pain went through Alex’s stomach and pulled on his shirt in front of him as well as disabled his legs.

Mike watched in horror as Alex’s body went limp, a large steak had gone square through his spine and out his stomach. Mike trembled with shock as he shouted inn disbelief, “ALEX!” No response came from his friend, Alex was now dead. Mike fell to his knees and began to weep as he said, “I can’t believe it… he’s gone.” His eyes began to fill with tears; his hands were trembling as they covered his mouth.

Fluttershy gently brought a hoof to his shoulder as she whispered with no emotions at all, “Shh… he’s fine. Watch what happens now.”

Anarchy stared down at the dead body; he didn’t feel sorry at all for him. He arched his back and began to laugh at the top of his lungs as he said, “That was over quick, guess I misjudged him.” He slowly looked over to see Mike crying, he snickered as he said with an expression of false sympathy, “Here… you can have his body.”

As Anarchy walked over to Alex, he slowly brought out his arms onto the boy’s shoulders. With one small tug, Alex jerked his head upright as he said with a grin, “I guess you did misjudge me.”

Anarchy stumbled back, his body jolting with shock as he said aghast, “How did you? What?”

Alex looked down at his stomach, he saw the large wooden post stuck through him and wrapped his hands around it. With one mighty tug, Alex snapped the steak from the pile and began to walk forward, the steak still through his stomach. Alex wiped the blood from his mouth, covering his hand in red before he tore his shirt off, “First off, know that Mike, Lauren, and I are from another universe so we cast magic a little differently. Secondly, as a master of magic, I have perfected a spell where I cannot die unless decapitated. Thirdly…” Alex slowly brought his gaze back up to Anarchy as he said with a grin, “you owe me a new shirt.”

Alex tossed the shirt towards Anarchy, covering his face quicker than the monster could react. Anarchy tumbled backwards as he grabbed for the shirt, the blood soaks staining his white fur coat. As Anarchy pulled the shirt from his face, Alex was already in the air with the steak in his hand. Alex planted his foot on the ground before Anarchy and with all his might he swung the steak at the creature, sending it soaring through the air.

As Alex watched Anarchy fly past the housed, Mike ran up to his side as he said with a look of surprize and joy, “That was incredible.”

“Probably nothing like the special magic he mentioned earlier… I guess I’ll find out.” With that, Alex burst into a sprint and jumped over the buildings after Anarchy. As Alex leapt across the houses, he wondered of what Discord’s dad was mentioning about. The thought began to annoy him as he approached the destroyed house Anarchy had fallen into, the large gaping hole had consumed a large portion of the beautiful house.

As Alex smashed into the ground, causing a small crater around him, Anarchy pulled himself from the wreckage as he said with an evil grin, “Good shot, didn’t see that one coming.” As Alex stomped towards him, he drew his fist back as far as it could go, orange electrical energy crackled around his fist as his eyes began to glow. Before Alex could swing his fist of fury, Anarchy had wrapped his hands around Alex’s skull and began to ram it into the ground.

After a few seconds Anarchy began to sprint along the cobblestone street, dragging Alex’s face through the stones and causing him to bleed. Anarchy quickly picked up his speed and threw Alex into a brick wall, blasting a hole through it like it was made of Lego.

Anarchy waited a few seconds, not a sound was heard from the inside aside from confused muttering. He slowly turned around to walk away when the sound of bricks shifting and Alex groaning, “Is that all you’ve got?” Alex slowly wiped the blood from his bottom lip before his wound closed up in an orange cloud.

“My, my, my… you’re not one to give up so easily.” Anarchy narrowed his pink eyes on Alex as he said, “You’re also not what I expected.”

Alex charged the beast, his rage beginning to get the best of him as he grunted in anger. Alex quickly threw a punch towards Anarchy’s face only to have it miss; yet using the momentum gained from his fist he quickly turned it into a roundhouse kick. Alex pumped the energy into his feet to quadruple the impact’s force and send Anarchy back a couple of feet. Alex landed swiftly, “You’re not one to be so ugly!” Alex said in a very sarcastic and immature tone.

Anarchy quickly recovered from the force of Alex’s blow and lunged towards the boy, gripping him in a sort of tackle as he began smashing Alex against the wall. As he threw Alex repeatedly into the side of the building, through gritted teeth he growled, “You immature, slow, and weak child. You barely put a dent into me and you are acting as though you can defeat me?” He then grabbed Alex by the ankles and whipped him at one of the exposed steel beams supporting the building, the force was strong enough to bend the metal and cause bricks to topple onto Alex like a failed Jenga game.

Alex slowly climbed his way out of the pile, “I threw you halfway across the town and you dare call me weak?”

“You have so much more potential inside you than that of what you have demonstrated.” The beast grumbled, “You have a type of magic like no other out there.”

Alex had become extremely angry by now, he was panting as he grunted, “What are you talking about?”

Anarchy’s eyes narrowed as a grin enveloped his face while he recited, “You begin to feel your primal instincts seize control of your body…” The beast slowly approached Alex as he whispered, “your anger begins to rule your thoughts as hatred begins to control your body.”

Alex looked up at Anarchy; his rage was beginning to get out of control for some reason. His frustration with understanding what Anarchy was talking about was beginning to get out of hand.

Anarchy lowered himself to Alex’s level as he said, “Bring the house down.” Anarchy then launched a large fist at Alex, throwing the boy into the pile of bricks and bouncing him off into the distance.

Alex rolled through the street; the force of the punch was incredibly strong and only fueled Alex’s rage. He slowly stopped at Discord’s house, Fluttershy had galloped her way towards the mangled body of Alex as she said, “Please don’t leave me, Alex. You need to win this fight not for the book, but for me. I don’t want you to hurt yourself anymore; I need you to win so I can go home with the one I love.”

Fluttershy sat there at Alex’s side; she had begun to cry when Alex didn’t respond. She knew he was alive but didn’t know if he was still going to fight, his eyes darted from side to side under his eyelids. He calmly moaned, “Stand back…”

The yellow pegasus immediately hopped back as she squeaked, Alex had begun to rise once more. Only this time, Alex wasn’t looking the same. Alex’s eyes had begun to light up with an orange glow, his skin began to crack like stone with glowing orange energy to fill the gaps. Alex cracked his neck as he said, “Bring the house down eh? Well bring the motherfucking house down it is!”

Anarchy waited in the same spot, he looked into the distance with content as he said to himself, “I’ve still got it.” Yet something caught his attention, a small flash of orange light and the sound of whistling could be heard rapidly approaching. The beast calmly snickered as he took a step to the side in order to avoid the oncoming object. As the whistling had made it to Anarchy, the force of a thousand trains in a single arm wrapped around Anarchy’s body and carried him along at breakneck speeds.

As Alex ran, his skin quickly turned a black soot color as he shouted in a deep demonic voice, “Bring…” Alex suddenly smashed Anarchy into the side of a cliff; the impact caused rocks to tumble over. Alex pulled the beast back again as he shouted in the same demonic voice, “the…” After every smash being stronger and harder than the last, he would complete his sentence, “Motherfucking… House...” Alex took a thundering step back and extended the arm that held Anarchy as he shouted in a booming and deafening voice, “DOWN!” Alex pulled as hard as his body would let him, his arm quickly snapped in front of the new satanic Alex, launching Anarchy through the air.

Mike simply stood at the side of Discord’s house in awe; he had witnessed Alex turn into the magical equivalent of the Hulk. As he stood there, Discord’s mom shouted at the top of her lungs in her whiny voice, “Oh Dizzy, could you please tell your father that, while he’s fighting that sweet young man, he could bring home some milk and eggs.”

Discord shook his head as he said with an embarrassed and red face, “I’m sorry you’re getting the full experience of my mother.”

Twilight turned back as she said with a wink, “I think your mother is very sweet.”

“She works just like her name,” Said Discord, “she will make it seem like she’s on the same side as you but will eventually turn against you.”

“Oh…” Twilight backed away before looking up to the sky, “oh look, your father is home.”

A thunderous smash proved Twilight right, Anarchy crash landed into the cobble stone street like a meteorite as he groaned, “I give up…”

Before Anarchy could rise from his smouldering hole, Alex stomped into the ground next to him with a roar. Alex looked to his side to see the weakened god, crawling to safety. Alex slowly lumbered towards the wounded god as he rumbled, “You asked for it.” Alex then picked up the white furred beast and began driving his fist into the old creature’s skull.

As Alex delivered each punch, Lauren became more and more uncomfortable with her friend’s actions. She eventually began to flinch in sheer horror; the anger in Alex was almost Kratos worthy. Suddenly, a glistening liquid began to make itself seen in the air and on the ground. After quick examination, Faust noticed that the liquid gold only meant one thing, a god’s blood. Lauren began to squeak, “Alex… stop.”

After no sign of him stopping, and more god blood being spilled, Pinkie Pie cried out at the top of her lungs, “Alex! Please stop!”

Mike began to chip in, “Friggin’ stop punchin’ him dog!”

Twilight shrieked in disgust, “Alex, you need to control yourself.”

After no sign of him stopping, Anarchy was dropped onto the ground as he whispered in a dying voice, “Alex has reached what I call a breaking point… he has lost all senses by now except sight.”

Anarchy slowly turned his neck, the sound of cracking echoed through the street as the bones in the old creature’s neck gave in. With his dying breath, he looked up to see Alex towering over him as he grunted in bloodlust rage. Alex slowly brought both fists back as he shouted in a deep thundering voice, and with all his might he brought his fists down.

Fluttershy jumped towards Alex as she shrieked, everyone watching shouted in a mixture of horror and disbelief. A large explosion of light ensued as the sound of thunder ripped through the town.

Twilight galloped to the side of the street as she shouted in terror, “Fluttershy!”

When the dust settled, a rather different sight was seen. Alex continued to stand there, his fists hovering over top of Fluttershy only by a few millimeters. Alex panted in a deep monstrous voice, yet his eyes were no longer glowing. He stared at Fluttershy as he gently brought his hands down to Anarchy’s sides, his palms calmly opening back up. In his deep voice, he said to Fluttershy, “I… I lost control.”

Fluttershy gently rubbed her muzzle against Alex’s arm as she whispered in a soothing tone, “You got it back though, now use this as an opportunity to turn back to normal.”

After a few seconds, Alex began to change. His skin’s color began to return to its original Caucasian color. The gaps in his skin quickly closed up and he shrunk back to normal height, his voice had returned to its original tone as he whispered, “I’m sorry…” Alex’s eyes began to flutter, his legs began to buckle, his balance was lost, and Alex fell to the ground unconscious.

*****

The first thing Alex heard was the sound of Fluttershy’s soothing voice, the gentle rocking helped keep Alex in his happy place as Fluttershy said, “You were asleep for quite a while.”

Alex slowly inhaled before saying in a tired moan, “What happened?”

Fluttershy smiled brightly, she gently kissed Alex’s forehead as she said, “Well a few hours after you went out, Anarchy had already made a full recovery and played fair game by giving us the coordinates to the most recent owner of the Book of Earth Pony.”

Alex smiled as he began to fall back asleep, he already made out that he was back on the boat and was in the sleeping room with Shy. The gentle rocking of the ship helped make Alex feel at peace as he said, “Awesome… hopefully I won’t have to ever do that again.”

Fluttershy kissed Alex once more; she inhaled calmly before whispering as she stroked his hair, “Not until you learn to control yourself.”

Alex smiled as he kissed Fluttershy on the lips; the two remained there for a few minutes before Alex pulled her into the hammock as he silently giggled, “What time is it anyway?”

Fluttershy began to slow down her breathing, a quick shiver coursed through her body as she squeaked, “About nine o’clock at night. I decided to stay awake until you came back.”

Alex yawned; he slowly wrapped his arms around the yellow pony before whispering, “Well… might as well get some beauty sleep.” Alex waited for a response, he looked down to see Shy was already fast asleep. Alex yawned before saying, “Goodnight, Shy.”

Chapter 16: The Wings Within

Fluttershy gently poked at Alex’s side as she whispered, “Alex, wake up.”

Alex groaned loudly, “No…” his head slowly rising from the pillows to reveal his messy hair, “it’s way too early.”

Fluttershy hesitated for a few seconds before saying, “It’s actually about noon now.”

There was a pause between the two, silence had come upon them. Alex’s brain was still waking up and beginning to process the information. He slowly rose from his bed as he mumbled, “I’m up, what’s going on?”

Fluttershy smiled brightly, “Oh nothing,” she began, “we’re just going to show Mike how to use his abilities.”

Alex rubbed his noggin, he was slightly confused with the order of things so far, “I thought he was flying perfectly well.” Alex mumbled tiredly.

“Oh but he is,” FLuttershy said with the nod of her head in agreement, “for the first few seconds before he loses his ability to fly.”

Alex looked out the peep hole, he checked the deck for Mike’s presence while shielding himself from the sunlight. Alex took a quick breath before mumbling in a less tired voice, “So what, you want me, a unicorn, to train a pegasus on how to use his wings?”

Fluttershy nodded her head, “Essentially,” she began, “you had to learn all about finding your zen. It might be the same principle for him as well.” Fluttershy trotted up and pulled Alex to the window as she said with a warm smile across her face, “Now hold your breath as mama takes care of your hair.”

Before she could open the window, Alex muttered, “Calling yourself mama is making it really awkward for me to be dating you.”

She simply rolled her eyes in response, “Oh whatever, you know I’m trying to help.” With that, she opened the window and gently nudged Alex’s head through the window. Only exposing the top of his head to the water that was splashing up the side of the boat, she began to wash and pat down Alex’s short hair.

After a couple of seconds, Fluttershy pulled Alex back in as she asked with a confused look on her face, “How did you get your hair back?”

Alex shrugged, “I’ve been exploring the extent of my magical abilities and figured out that growing my hair at an accelerated rate is one of my abilities.”

Fluttershy looked down at Alex’s chin as she said, “Your beard is looking… rather… umm...” Flutteershy had troubles putting the words nicely for Alex to understand without being offended. His beard had barely any hair in some places while it had too much hair in other places, resembling the many beards on pubescent colts that Fluttershy met during flight camp.

Alex felt over his beard as he said with a raised eyebrow, “I guess this is looking kinda scruffy eh?”

Fluttershy simply nodded, “Yeah, you’re almost a legal adult and you still have a beard.”

Alex laughed a bit, “Shut up, it’s not my fault I can’t grow a beard.” Alex paused for a minute; an idea had just popped into his head, “Hold on,” he said while taking a few steps back, “maybe this’ll work.”

Alex began to stroke his beautiful man mane chin warmer, each stroke bringing out more hair than before until he had a ZZ Top-esque beard growing out of his face. A proud look dawned Alex’s face as he boasted, “Well? Is this not the best and most manliest beard ever?”

Fluttershy looked at it only for a second before saying, “Remember back on earth, you showed us a movie called Iron Man?”

“Yeah, that was a great movie. What about it?”

“Well remember the beard the main character had? What was his name?”

Alex snapped his finger, he immediately knew who she was talking about as he exclaimed, “Robert Downey Jr. what a handsome devil he is!”

Fluttershy nodded in agreement, “As creepy as that was of you, I was thinking of a beard like that on you.”

Alex lifted his beard to his face, he thought about it for a couple of seconds. He didn’t really want to get rid of such a luscious beard, but he knew that a relationship required constant obedience to the female or else she psychologically damages you. Alex sighed, “Fine… hold on.” Alex quickly swiped over his beard with the chop of his hand and it all came falling off, the hairs quickly disappeared into the air in bright orange glows. Alex then drew on his face what looked like a goatee, the one resembling Tony Stark’s. After a few seconds, he had a drop dead sexy beard and stunning hair.

Fluttershy looked at him with a red face as she whispered, “Perfect. Now go and talk to Mike about the whole flying thing.”

Alex nodded his head before exiting the room; he swung the door wide open in a proud manner before stepping towards the center of the deck. The first thing to catch his eye was Mike standing at the far right side of the ship as he looked out towards the ocean, his mind deep in thought. Alex approached the soldier as he said with a serious look upon his face, “Michael, you’ve demonstrated your abilities to use your pegasi powers for good. Yet these powers have not been mastered yet.”

Mike turned towards Alex with a confused look upon his face as he replied, “The hell are you talking about?” When Mike turned around to stare back at the ocean, he realized he had somehow climbed a few hundred feet into the air above the boat.

Alex and Mike began to fall as Alex shouted over the sound of the rushing wind, “You seem to demonstrate a state of zen when you need to be a hero.”

Mike shook his head as he yelled his response, “You need to save me, dumbass! You’re the one with the magic!”

“Unfortunately, you’re on your own,” Alex began as he placed his hands around his neck, “for you see, I am unconscious.” With the twist of his arms, Alex snapped his neck a full 180 degrees around until his head was facing the opposite direction, his body immediately going limp.

Mike stared in disbelief at what he just saw; he was overcome with the feeling of shock and disgust as well as the sense of urgency. Mike tilted his body towards Alex and soon began to curve his fall towards the dead corpse as he shouted at the top of his lungs, “You stupid son of a bitch!” Once Mike was against his dead friend, he grabbed hold of him and closed his eyes. He could feel a sudden rush of energy go towards what felt like an extra pair of arms sprouting from his back. Mike turned his head to see the fiery green flames in the shape of wings sprout from his shoulder blades suddenly sprout and cause him to make a sharp curve upwards. Mike quickly realized he was now flying at maximum velocity past the ship, Mike smiled only for a couple of seconds before remembering that his idiot friend had just killed himself. The winged soldier quickly turned around and headed back to the ship, his jets of green flames spraying from his back like after burn on a military jet.

Mike finally landed on the boat, the ponies as well as Faust and Spike as Mike gently placed Alex on the floor as he shouted at the dead man, “You stupid mother fu”

Before Mike could finish his cursing, Twilight pointed towards Spike as she said with a stern look, “There’s a baby dragon on here that doesn’t need to hear you swear.”

Mike quickly apologized to the purple dragon and returned his focus on Alex, his sense of heroism was still kicking as he twisted Alex’s head back into place. The man’s skin was cold and dead and his eyes had rolled into the back of his skull, the neck was badly twisted and ruined as parts were poking out where they shouldn’t be. Mike looked towards Twilight as he pleaded in desperation, “Is there anything you can do to save him?”

There was a long pause, Twilight hung her head low as she said in a solemn voice, “I’m afraid I don’t know.”

Fluttershy trotted around with a look of calmness upon her as she said with a smile, “This is classic Alex, he did this to me when I wouldn’t let him leave the table without eating his peas. You just gotta stick your hoof right here.”

As Fluttershy planted her hoof deep in Alex, his head jerked upright with a smile across his face. Alex quickly squirmed out of the way as he said with a shade of red on his face, “I said don’t poke me there! You know that’s an exit only doorway right?”

Fluttershy giggled as she spoke softly, “You know how I hated it when you pretended to snap your own neck.”

Alex hesitated to respond, he looked around at the entire group to see he was being showered with looks of concern and disappointment. Alex eventually looked down towards his bright white shoes as he said sheepishly, “I guess I’m sorry for scaring you all.” Alex looked up towards Mike as he said with a look of fear and embarrassment, “I’m sorry for scaring you there.”

Mike punched his friend across the face, his fist making a satisfying whack as it connected with his jaw before sending him to his behind as he shouted, “Don’t you ever do that again. I thought you were gonna die!”

Alex pointed towards Mike’s back as he said with a look of pride, completely ignoring his pain, “Look! Your wings are still here, that sense of constant need to save is what puts your mind at zen. You are a true warrior of the pegasi race.”

Mike stopped; he slowly turned around to look at his warmly glowing wings. The flames didn’t seem to hurt him as he touched and felt them. The low hissing of flames emanated from his back as he touched his wings ever so gently, it felt like touching an actual wing of a bird. Mike watched them disappear as he said, “So all I need to do is just feel like I need to save the world to keep these wings going?”

Alex nodded his head, “Although we will need to perfect your stamina because magic drains your energy as a beginner. Not only that, but here are thousands of skills a pegasus needs to learn and be trained in.” Alex looked at Mike’s reaction and nodded, “That’s right, there’s a lot more about a pegasus than it looks. Tomorrow, we’ll train you on your indestructibility.”

Chapter 17: The HL3 Effect

The everfree forest rested in a peaceful silence, the leaves upon the trees swaying slowly in the wind, a low thunderous beat could be heard in the distance rapidly approaching and growing in noise. Suddenly, trees could be seen tumbling over upon each other as a large metallic body made itself visible above them. Within this monster of cogs, gears, and rusting paint lay two ponies with determination in their spirits. The one unicorn looked towards her companion as she asked with a look of unsettlement, “Hey Bons, do you think that we may have stirred up the guys at home?”

The butter colored mare didn’t keep her eyes off of the path ahead, she sat inside an enveloping case of bio-synthetic polymer, tracking her thoughts to keep the interior working at a safe status. As she stared at her screen depicting the forest, she replied, “What do you mean?”

Lyra was in a separate room, more towards the head of the mech, she sat within her own case and controlled the exterior, managing the movement and weapons. Lrya quickly listed all her reasons, “Well, we did leave without telling anypony where we’re going, we could die doing this, or we could consequently doom all of Equestria even further if we fail at this. All I’m saying is that we should have at least left a small note with a smiley face on it.”

Bon-Bon pulled her head away from her visor and looked around the dimly lit room, a small red light was all that was required to see everywhere. Bon-Bon rubbed he eyes on her shoulders to try to get rid of the burns in her retinas due to the brightness of her screen as she replied, “Speaking of which, why are we doing this anyway?”

Lyra quickly replied as the mech reached the mountain, “We’re going through the mountains to find creatures we could recruit.”

“Why?” Bon-Bon asked aloud.

Lyra pulled her eyes away from her overly bright screen and rubbed her eyes as she sighed, she had become tired of continuously explaining things to Bon-Bon. Lyra calmed herself down as she explained it to her, “Because we need all the help we can get if we want to win this inevitable war.”

“No,” the candy loving pony began, “I mean why are we using a five hundred hand tall walking tank for this?”

Lyra stopped walking; she immediately brought up a camera intercom with Bon-Bon so she could see Lyra’s look of pity as she said, “Two words: Robot Tank. Violence may not be the answer, but it sure as heck helps us find the answer.”

Bon-Bon smiled as she shook her head and replied, “Whatever, we have to get ready, we’re almost at the top of the mountain.”

Lyra grinned with anticipation,she could finally test the firepower of this iron beast as she whispered, let’s do this.”

*****

The giant walking tank finally climbed to the top, the flat top of the mountain was barren aside from a few holes here and there, Lyra quickly scanned the area for signs of life. After a few minutes of scanning, Lyra quickly assumed there was nothing at the top of the mountain, yet a small signal began to sound and Lyra looked towards the ground. The ground was packed with moving life forms, a silent scuttling and the sound of bug shells rubbing against each other could be heard.

Lyra pointed her arm towards the ground, the very end of it began to glow brightly and a low humming could be heard. Bon-Bon began to frantically fiddle with the controls as she panicked, “Are you crazy? You’re not going to blast them out, are you?”

Lyra was silent for a few seconds; she stared into a blank direction that was the barren dirt ground before quietly replying, “Yeah, when you’re brainwashed by some sadistic psycho queen bent on ruling a land of love, you tend to hold a grudge.”

Lyra smiled at the corner of her mouth, she narrowed her eyes like Clint Eastwood as she whispered, “Surprise, mothabucka!” Lyra fired at the changelings general direction as Bon-Bon screamed.

*****

Alex was sitting on one of the benches in the dining area of the boat, his eyes suddenly widened as he said to himself, “Woah, that was weird.”

Mike calmly approached his friend as he questioned him, “What happened?”

“Well, two things just happened,” Alex began, “first was the feeling that everything just stopped for a ridiculously long time for no reason and then started again. Almost like when an author just doesn’t write anymore and has no excuse for it.”

Mike nodded, “Yeah, well what about the other thing?”

Alex shook his head as he tried to think harder, “There’s also the feeling that someone somewhere made a really, and I mean really, stupid decision. Kinda like trying to stop a burning box of magnesium with water.”

Mike sat next to his buddy as he began, “Look, I kinda understand the first feel that you had, I’ve been feeling that too but I’m sure there’s a reasonable excuse for it.”

Alex nodded in agreement, “Yeah I guess you’re right,” he began, “thankfully whatever that feeling is, that feeling of being stopped, that feeling is gone now.”

Mike patted his friend on the back as he said, “Gotta get ready, we’re almost at our destination.”

Chapter 18: Cthulu

Alex swung the door open; light from the outside poured in and blinded him slightly as his pale skin began to burn in the direct sunlight. As he took a step forward, the entire crew looked his way as he said with a grin, “I’m back, baby.”

The crew gave each other looks of confusion, not understanding what Alex was talking about after being alone for only thirty minutes. Fluttershy cleared her throat, “Alex,” she began, “what are you talking about?”

Alex, not even understanding himself, shrugged, “Iunno,” was all he could say, “guess I felt like I had been away longer than I thought.”

Suddenly, the boat tipped upward, the ponies and people staggered, rolled, and tumbled backwards as a large exploding noise rocked the ocean. Screams could be heard right and left as Mike and Alex stepped towards the bow to see what the commotion was all about, what followed shocked the two of them. Making its way up, breaching the water slowly and causing waves as tall as buildings to disperse in all directions, was what appeared to be a man crossed with a squid, its roar shook the heavens and sent violent chills down everyone’s spines. The figure continued to rise above the world, reaching a height too great to be a mere natural creature, no, this was something god-like. It fixated its piercing greenish yellow eyes upon the ship as it roared once more.

For the first time ever, Mike shat his pants.

Alex simply smiled as he said through a toothy grin, “Cthulu, god of all gods.” He then proceeded to walk off the edge of the ship, floating in the air as though an invisible staircase guided him upwards towards its eyes. As Alex reached the face, he could see pieces of other ships from hundreds of thousands of years ago once lucky enough to be consumed by the great Cthulu. He also noticed pieces of Earth-like ships stuck in its yellow teeth, ranging from the 80’s battleships to more current attacking military. This gave Alex a brilliant idea, he slowly bowed before the damned god as he shouted, “Oh great Cthulu, hear my beg for help.”

The giant creature simply looked at Alex as it said in a thunderous yet slightly Scottish accent, more like Sean Connery’s not like Mike Meyers (by the way, have you heard they are making a fourth Austin Powers, sorry getting off track here), it said to the human before it, “You can cut the crap, human, I know you only want me on your side to overthrow Equestria in order to kill Alex, Lauren, and Mike, and the answer is still no.”

Alex raised his head, his eyes filled with surprize as he stuttered, “You… you don’t speak like a god.”

“You don’t speak like one either so I guess we’re even. Still my answer is and always will be no.”

The boy looked towards his crew, they simply gestured him to keep talking. Alex darted his eyes back at Cthulu’s as he said nervously, “Anyways, you are actually speaking to Alex himself.”

“Ah, Alex Mulroney,” said the god, “I have heard a lot of things about you.”

Alex nodded as he replied, “And I of you, I hear you are very powerful.”

Cthulu shook its head as a depressed look spread across its visage, “Not anymore,” it began, “your fellow humans drained me of my power to fuel their ships and weapons of mass destruction. They said it was all part of a plan to make sure you don’t survive.”

“What do you mean?”

“The humans, the plan on making sure there’s no possibility you survive what is to come.”

“Meaning what exactly?” Alex began to worry, this plan was sounding worse by the minute.”

“I don’t fucking know,” growled the beast, “Something about a bomb or something.”

That’s when it hit Alex, “Oh god,” he began, “we have to get back to Equestria right away!” Alex shouted towards the boat as he quickly made his way down. Before he embarked on the boat, he turned to Cthulu as he asked, “If my thoughts are correct, and my plans work, will you be on our side when we need you?”

Cthulu nodded, “Of course,” it began, “The humans do not belong here if they are wielding weapons as dangerous as they are. I serve only for what I believe is right and to rid this planet of the humans is what I believe is right.”

Alex nodded his head before turning around and pointing at the captain, “Get us home, now!”

Lauren stopped Alex as she worryingly asked, “What’s going on, Alex?”

Alex looked towards the group, took a deep breath and began, “The humans aren’t planning on finding me and killing me, or going to war, they plan on wiping this entire country off the face of the planet. Kyle used to work for the enemy as far as I know and he kept a Tzar Bomba in his basement. That shit could blow all of Equestria and its neighboring countries right off into space. The military is used mainly for distraction; I’m betting most of the soldiers don’t even know what’s going on. We have to get back home so I can stop this. Then the rest of you go and find the Book of Earth Pony. If all goes as planned, I will sacrifice myself in order to save everyone I love.”

Fluttershy began to tear up as she said, “No, you can’t do this!”

Alex looked down at her, “Either way, I’m going to die whether by nuclear fallout or by execution and I’d rather go with the option involving the least amount of casualties. I’m doing this because I love you. I’m doing this because I love you all. My days are numbered now, counting down to a day that will be remembered forever.”

Heroes and Legends

It had been a couple of weeks since Alex and his crew had set sail for the fabled Book of Earth Pony, only to be sent in another direction to eventually run into the god of the oceans. There they were told of the plot to destroy Equestria in a ball of fire, all to make sure Alex would be dead. By now it had been a few days since Alex had made the decision to sacrifice himself in order to save the world, after all, it was only him they wanted. The boat had set sail for Ponyville as soon as they could, they would leave Alex behind to let him die for their freedom as they continued their search for the book. It seemed almost impossible for anyone to talk to Alex, he seemed to have distanced himself from them, making sure they wouldn't be as attached when he gives himself up. Not a single member of the group wanted to let him go, and tensions were rising.

Alex stood at the bow of the ship, his eyes locked on the sunset in the horizon. He hadn't spoken more than a word to any of them, not even Fluttershy. His face showed a look of distraught mixed with a look of pain, they all knew what he was thinking and what was going on inside his mind. They could almost hear the screaming that was taking place in his head, his conscience fighting itself in hopes to change his idea.

As he stood there, Twilight approached him before clearing her throat and mumbling, "So... this is how it all ends?"

"How else is it supposed to end?" He replied, his eyes still fixed on the horizon, "They want me, they should be able to have me and leave everyone else alone."

Twilight remained cautious of the words she chose, she knew that he was emotionally unstable inside and the smallest mistake could yield unfavourable results. After thinking of her words, she cautiously responded, "What about us? We don't want you to leave."

Alex sighed, he knew immediately where this was going. As he leaned back he spoke to her without looking at her, "I'm not changing my mind. I want the best for everyone else even if it means I have to go."

"Stubborn." Twilight blurted, she immediately realized what had escaped her mouth and closed her eyes, but it was too late.

Alex turned around, his eyes were focused on her as he said with a hint of frustration, "If I stay, everyone dies."

"If you leave, we will have our greatest hero die."

"Lauren is the chosen one, not me." Alex growled, his eyes flickered with an orange spark as his brows furrowed.

"Lauren is to stop ShadowThunder, you can protect us from the Human Army."

"Lauren is a goddess!" Alex shouted, his anger was the first to be released. The echo caught the attention of every member on the ship before Alex continued, "I am just a simple nobody! This choice is the hardest choice in my life, don't you think I have enough stress knowing that I'm going to die?"

"FLUTTERSHY LOVES YOU!" Twilight shouted, "Maybe if you weren't so blind to other people's problems you could see that there's a way that isn't your choice."

As Alex approached Twilight, his skin grew dark, the orange energy began to glow all over him as his anger grew. Suddenly, a small voice sounded from the other end of the ship, "You gave me reason!"

Alex turned his head to see Fluttershy standing before him, her cheeks stained with tears as she whimpered, "Before you came into my life, I had nopony that loved me, not like the way you did. I have friends, but when the sun goes down I would be alone in my bed, no one to explain my problems to and to be told that I mean something to them. You showed up and changed that, I would come home knowing that you would always be there in bed when I woke up, you gave me a greater reason to wake up."

Alex looked into her eyes, his fists were shaking with emotions as a tear rolled down his cheek. His took a shaking breath as he said, "I... I... I can't..."

The stress had gotten to him, he grabbed his head with his hands and shouted at the top of his lungs, his body engulfed in orange light. With a loud bang, he was gone. All that was left was a slightly burnt area where he once stood. All the ponies turned to Fluttershy as she squeaked, "He's never done that before."

*******

Alex opened his eyes, or at least he thought. He couldn't see a thing in the dark void that he had suddenly appeared in, it was almost as though his eyes were still closed. As time passed on, what appeared to be miniature constellations began to twinkle all around him, it was like he was weightless in space. When Alex made sure he was alone, he curled up into the fetal position and began to sob in silence. As he sobbed amongst his infinite echoes, he heard a faint voice, "Alex... Alex sweetie what's wrong?"

He looked around once more, there was no one else yet he could feel their presence. The voice and presence felt so familiar to him that he immediately recognized it despite not hearing it in years, "Mom?"

"Why are you crying?"

"You wouldn't understand." Alex was slightly confused as to what was going on by now, but his sudden feeling of comfort dominated his confusion and he carried on.

"Tell me anyway, sweetie."

Alex took a deep breath before saying, "I've failed again, at first I ruined your life along with everyone else's and now I'm going to ruin more lives."

As Alex was preparing to sob once more, he felt a warm entity brush against his cheeks and wipe his tears from his face. Alex's mom then said in her warm angel voice, "How did you fail?"

"When I let go that day so many years ago, I left all of you behind. You eventually passed away because of me and Justin went psycho also because of me. If I hadn't let go, none of this would have happened. Everyone else would be happy and I could live without having to hurt anyone."

"You never ruined my life, I remember looking into your eyes on the first day we met and I knew you were destined to do great things. Sure I was broken when I heard you were gone forever but I had a feeling that you we still alive somehow. Soon after you left our world, science made the discovery of teleportation that saved countless lives in the medical world."

Alex looked up from and sniffed, "What about Justin? He lost his mind and killed people just to get me back, if I hadn't left, he would have been able to live his dream."

Kelly continued, "Justin's fall from sanity had nothing to do with you. I remember shortly after your passing that he picked up drugs and crime to help get him the money to continue his science. He chose to make the wrong decisions, not you."

Alex paused, he then said after what felt like a minute of silence, "This time is different though, I have no choice and I am going to ruin so many lives just to save them all."

"There's always a choice, you chose to let go and save everyone else the first time and now you are choosing to sacrifice yourself to save everyone else. This time though you have a different choice, you can fight back. There are so many people that value you... and a very special pony that loves you very much." Before Alex could ask her how she knew this she continued, "When we first laid our eyes on you as a baby we knew that you would mean so much to so many, you would go on to do great things in life. This may seem like it's your last great thing but there is so much more for you, you don't have to die to become a hero, you become a legend when you die. You will be a hero if you live on, you're always my hero, now go on to be Fluttershy's too."

Alex began to feel different, it was as though all the stress had been lifted from him. His mind went from a haze to absolute clarity, he no longer saw sacrifice as the only solution. Before he could say anything he was engulfed in a bright light once more.

*****

Back on the boat, the crew stood there, stunned by Alex's disappearance. As quick as he disappeared he had returned in another great ball of light. Everyone had to shield their eyes from the incredible light until it died off to reveal a completely different Alex. Alex stood there, his head held high and his chest stuck out with confidence. Twilight and Fluttershy saw that spark they all recognized as their moment of heroism.

Alex smiled gracefully as he said in a calm and ready voice, "Gather 'round." The group immediately followed this new man's orders and huddled into a circle. As they surrounded Alex he said, "New plan, we are going to fight back and we are going to show them that there is no such thing as giving up here on Equestria."

The entire crew cheered in union, "Yeah!"

Alex pointed towards Mike and Rainbow Dash as he said with his grin, "Mike and Dash, you two are going to patrol the skies and scout out the area. We might run into some heavy resistance when we come back."

Mike nodded his head as the two shouted, "Got it!"

Alex then turned towards Twilight as he said, "Twilight and I are going to have to protect the rest of the group until we reach Ponyville where I will then break off and make my way to the command centre. We can't let anything happen to Lauren, got it?"

Twilight gave a salute as she said with a look of determination, "I will do my 110%!"

Alex then said with a look of confidence, "Once we reach Ponyville I will make my way to the command centre and cut off all communications with the rest of the army. Once communication is down we will have crippled their ability to give orders and carry out their plan to nuke this place. That'll give us time to regroup as much of the royal guard as well as any helping hands to fight back the military. If at all possible, evacuate survivors to anywhere remote and away from the Humans."

Alex looked around at the group as he said, "It's not time yet for Equestria to have a legend, they need a hero."

*********

Later that night, Fluttershy tossed and turned in her bed, she couldn't fall asleep to the thoughts of what happened to Alex to cause him to change so much. As her hammock swayed to the rhythm of the ocean, the sounds of seagulls and waves brushing against the boat, she stared at the ceiling. She laid there for what felt like an eternity, always checking Alex's bed to see any movement. Nothing happened. Fluttershy then realized the door to the bow of the ship was still open, Alex must have escaped to look at the ocean like in some drama movies.

Fluttershy quickly summed up the courage to hop out of bed, she quietly made her way to the door to see Alex leaning against the rails once more. Fluttershy gently opened the door and silently approached Alex as she whispered, "Alex?"

He looked down at her, his eyes twinkled with peacefulness as he smiled, "Hey Shy, what's up?"

"What happened back there?"

"What do you mean?"

"Where did you go for that moment? Whatever happened in that time that you were gone it sure did change you."

Alex sighed, he wanted to simplify this as much as possible. After a few seconds of thinking he said to her, "I was somehow talking to my mom, she was there and comforting me."

Shy giggled before squeaking, "She must have been a good mother to be able to change you like that."

Alex sighed and gently laughed, "Yeah," he began, "she was a great mom now that I think about it."

There was a long pause between the two, they both looked at the large full moon that seemed to be rested above the water. After a little while of peaceful silence, Fluttershy quietly blurted, "I've always wondered what it would be like to be a mom." Fluttershy quickly realized what she said would surely bother Alex on some level despite how peaceful he seemed. His response, though, was not what she expected.

"You'll find out." He said with a wink towards her.

Fluttershy was stunned, she had no idea how to feel when he responded in the exact opposite that she was fearing. That fear quickly changed to cheers of joy as she jumped Alex, her hooves wrapping around him tightly as she giggled in joy.

Chapter 20: Smile is Forever

So da niqqu get of da bote an sez "were da humins" an he go to da toun an sez wit magic "were da ponis" an den he beet up da niqquz that not nise cuz dey dont hav swag.

Can you imagine if my writing had suffered that much? Fuck no. Lets move on!

The fog was heavy over Ponyville, not a sound crept through the streets, houses had been either closed up or burnt down. The smell of death was heavy in the air as Alex stepped off the boat, what he expected was a safe haven and was instead greeted with a cartoon Chernobyl. Ashes slowly rained down from the sky as the gentle yet grim lights of house fires shined in the distance. Alex could feel his heart sinking while staring into the clearing fog, he things had become so silent that he could hear his own heart beat. He slowly turned to Fluttershy as he instructed them to keep quiet, "It's clear what's going on, so stay low."

As he looked back at the group, he could see the ponies faces grow more and more depressed, they were looking at the destroyed remains of what they called home and weren't there to help when it was burnt to ashes. For the first time ever, Alex saw Mike gulp in fear. Mike took a quick breath as he said, "I've watched people lose everything, I can't let it happen again here." Mike had a look of anger and determination on his face, it was clear what he was thinking of and it was obvious that he was willing to risk his life for it. Before Mike could move any further, Alex extended his arm to stop him, he slowly shook his head as his hazel eyes stared right into his soul.

"You have no idea what you're up against," he began with a nearly whispering voice, "the time-space continuity of these universes are different. One day for you is a year for Earth, so after three weeks it has been more than a decade and with the technology you had then... they could probably make you melt." Alex's ear twitched, he heard footsteps slowly making their way towards the group. Alex motioned for Mike to ready himself for anything and to stay with the group. A dark figure slowly began to form within the heavy fog in the distance, it appeared to remain motionless yet somehow made the noise of footsteps. Alex began to notice the shadow resembled a certain friend of his, someone tall and thin who dressed properly. Alex sighed with relief as he approached Slenderman and said with a grin, "Thank god it was just you, Slendy... I never thought I would catch myself saying that. Why aren't you with Discord back at his place?"

The figure didn't answer.

Alex slowly approached it as he said with a growing feeling of nervousness, "Slenderman, you okay?"

A slow, raspy, deep, and sinister laugh sounded from Slenderman's direction. This only further fuelled Alex's unease, Slenderman never laughed. Alex watched with wide eyes as the figure raised its hand, it was holding a top hat. The creature gently began walking in his direction as it spoke, "You may think you're powerful, you may think you're a god, but as the gods defeated the titans, do did the mortals defeat their gods to become their own." The creature stepped out of the fog, it's tall and thin limbs were dressed much like Slenderman would, only with a bow tie and a top hat that were covered in fading vinyl polka dots, its visage was that of Slenderman's but with a crudely cut smile from the chin to the temples. It's eyes looked like they were holes town into fabric with a small black marble that glistened inside them. The creature frightened Alex more than anything, yet somehow made him want to laugh, it towered over yet continued to grow taller until it had tripled the height of Alex. In it's left hand he held a small Gray pony with silvery white hair and a spoon in her hindquarters, everyone but Mike recognized her as Silver Spoon as she struggled to free herself but with no success. The creature brought the pony to its face, holding her by her mane and causing her to spit blood and whimper in fear, he seemed to smile even more as he spoke once more, "You are still mortal..." The creature then dragged its bony pail finger across Silver's cheeks. She didn't seem to struggle as his finger cut her mouth wider and wider into a smile much like his, he then turned her maimed and smiling face towards the group as he said in his whisper, "I am your god."

Author's Note

Yes Twilight became an alicorn, fuck that, this is going my way now. I did like the episode though and must see what they do with season 4 before i lose all hope.

This was short, but I will make a part two very soon i promise!

Chapter 1: The Setup

Well here it is, after a long wait (almost a week) the third installment in an almost unknown series is finally here. You guys are the best, thanks for everything.

WHAT YOU WISH FOR 3:

The Book of Earth Pony

Chapter 1:
The Setup

A woman with luscious dark hair approached the counter in the prison, her dark classes covering her eyes as she approached the counter and said, “I am here to visit an inmate.”

The man at the desk opened up the files on the computer as he said, “What’s the name of the inmate?”

This woman was quick to respond, without any hesitation she said, “Kyle William Clyde… I’m his sister.”

The man looked at her before punching in a few buttons and saying, “Alright Ma’am, he’ll be with you shortly, please move to the visitor’s area down the hall to the right.” As soon as he said that the mysterious woman was on her way to the visitor’s room. As she waited there, she watched as other families met and either cried for their child or talked about disowning them.

After a few minutes a man came walking in, his face was covered with a cloth bag, he sat down in front of her with his hands cuffed behind his back as well as his ankles. He took a few breaths as he said, “Who are you.”

The woman slowly pulled the mask off as she said, “A disappointed boss.”

Kyle’s eyes were filled with blinding light; he had been blinded by the bag for weeks in shame. As his eyes slowly adjusted until he was seeing a woman dressed in black clothing, her hair was jet black as well as her glasses. Kyle simply blinked as he said without making eye contact, “You think I’m a monster don’t you?”

The woman stared at Kyle, she had to admit she was shocked by his infected skin, where it was supposed to be skin it was either black or yellowish white. Puss filled infected cuts littered his hairless scalp as well as part of his cheek was missing, his skin peeling off as pink juices dripped from under his burnt flakes. The woman blinked a couple of times before slowly running her hand across his face while saying, “Darling… I am a monster.”

As soon as her hand came hear his cheek, Kyle could feel skin once again, not infected flaky skin but skin as smooth as a baby’s cheeks. Kyle began realize who was talking to him as he silently said, “Shadow… it’s been a while.”

Shadow snickered as she said, “Believe me it’s only been a few days to me. Can I assume you still have a grudge… a deep burning hatred for that putrid slime Alex?”

Kyle felt his face once again, as he scratched his new cheek he could feel his nails digging into his skin, infected blood squirting out as he gently pulled the piece of dead skin off. Kyle dropped the piece of black charred skin onto the table as he said, “You don’t usually forgive someone who melted a mask onto your face… someone who turned you into this!” By then he was shouting as he stood up from the table, his robotic eye glowing bright green. Kyle slowly sat down as he said in a quieter tone, “What Alex did to me needs to happen to him… I need to deface Alex himself.”

Shadow rested her hand on his shoulder as she whispered, “It doesn’t seem like you want revenge that bad considering you’re still here.”

Kyle leaned in as he whispered, “You have no idea the inmates I have nearly killed. I never kill because that takes away the pain. Just you wait… I will be breaking out of here soon.”

Shadow pulled her glasses down, revealing her black and red eyes as she whispered, “Well tonight I will be opening the portal to you and any comrade you chose, but chose fast because I won’t be opening this ever again. You failed me once already… don’t fail me again.” With that she pulled a small box of spaghetti from her purse as she whispered as to make sure no one else was heard, “The key to getting out is here.”

Saying nothing more, Shadow stood up and walked out of the room, not even looking back to check on him. Kyle simply stared down at the container, not blinking at all. As he picked it up one of the guards approached him as he said, “Alright, freak. Let’s get you back in your cage before anyone else gets a nightmare.”

*****

A few hours had gone by and Kyle continued to stare at that container, it had his name on it with a broken heart next to it. Kyle got up and walked to the window, contemplating his life and thinking about where he would go after this, his wife is probably dead by now and none of his descendants would remember him or want him. Kyle looked back at the container as he said to himself, “No point in trying to regain a normal life.” Kyle walked up to the container and opened it, his stomach rumbling for he did not enjoy eating the prison food here. Kyle quickly began to devour the noodles and tomato sauce, amazed at how warm it still was. As he downed the last bit of it he read a note on the bottom that read, “Use what you have.”

Kyle looked at the note, wondering what it could have meant. Suddenly as the lights were going out for the night, he began to feel cramps all over him. He could feel his muscles shrinking and expanding, he felt his face tighten then loosen back up. As he got to his feet he began to grunt in pain, as he ventured on into this world of pain he began to shout out loud. He could no longer bear what he was going through and began to slam his fists against the walls. Suddenly the pain left him, he took a couple of deep breaths and looked around; he felt as though he wasn’t ever in pain. The first thing he did as he listened to the guards approach was check the mirror, he quickly approached the mirror and what he saw both disgusted and amazed him. Kyle looked like the hulk, only after dumped in an acid pool. He had grown to be eight feet tall and his head was touching the ceiling, his shoulders had widened by a foot and his neck was thicker than a baby rhino’s. Kyle looked down at his hands to see they were the size of baseball gloves and his feet had torn out of the largest shoes he could find in the prison. His arms and legs were bulging with muscles as well as his chest.

One of the strongest guards ran down the hall, he was assigned to take care of Kyle and knew how to handle the punk. The six-foot seven guard had trained in the military and a black belt in three different marshal arts, he had also spent time as the strongest man in the world. As he ran down the hall he shouted as he approached Kyle’s cell, “Hey freak show, lights out!” The guard pointed his light into the cell in hopes of shining it in his face but all he saw was an abdomen. The guard slowly looked up to see a man more ripped than any body builder could ever achieve on steroids, Kyle simply looked down at the puny guard as the guard said, “What the hell…”

Kyle slowly wrapped his giant hands around the metal bars and with ease he yanked the door from the walls. Kyle slowly dropped the wall as the guard began to pull out his pistol. Kyle lunged at the man and lifted him off the ground with a single hand around his waist. As the guard was held in the air, he fired at Kyle repeatedly in the head. Yet to his horror, Lyle shrugged off the bullets as he said, “Payback time.” Using only his foot and hand he bent one of the bars on the prison door and inserted the guard halfway through, after bending the bars back to fit the guard perfectly, he jerked the door to the right and spun it quickly around the guard. Kyle watched in amusement as the guard’s upper torso was facing the opposite way as a loud snap came from his spine. The guard dropped to the ground, obviously dead.

Kyle turned to face the other guards before charging them, shrugging off the bullets fired in his direction as the alarms blared. Kyle smashed through the doors of the prison and headed for the barrier that separated him from the beach. He looked up to see a guard getting his sniper rifle ready to fire, his cigar in his mouth. Kyle jumped as high as he could before landing on the guard tower, he smashed his fist through the roof and grabbed the guard before jumping towards the rocky beach. As the two fell, Kyle stuck out the guard and watched in joy as the impact crushed the guard against the rocks. After letting the mangled body roll down the hill, Kyle jumped off the small cliff and into the water where he used his new superhuman strength to swim as fast as a jet ski towards Angel Island. Kyle felt proud of himself for being the first person in over a hundred years to break out of The Rock.

*****

Mike was putting the last of his stuff into his bag, he had a mixture of tiredness and relief inside him rather than excitement for things that took this long. As he packed everything he reached for his small desk inside the bunker, on that desk was a photo of his younger sister from three years back. It suddenly hit Mike that it had been three years since he last saw his sister or the rest of his family, he had been fighting in the war for only three years yet was finally ready to be sent home. As Mike tucked the photo into his pocket, he felt another photo. Mike slowly pulled it out to see him and four of his friends smiling into the camera, their military outfits weighing heavy on them. Mike forced a tear back as he said, “Rest in peace, brothas.” He then slipped the photo back into his pocket and headed outside.

As he walked down the landing strip, soldiers on both sides saluting him and his platoon, a man with more badges than you could count walked up and said to him, “Young man, you did a great thing for your country. We salute you and God bless your soul.” The man then saluted Mike; his look said everything about how he felt seeing this soldier leave. You don’t always come across a man who has dodged more bullets than an action hero while in an enemy base.

Mike saluted the man back as he said, “Thank you, sir.” Mike then slowly approached the carrier, the rest of his small platoon of five already inside and putting their helmets on. As Mike approached the plane he pulled his helmet from its strap and placed it on his head, the visor immediately slamming down over his face.

As Mike entered the plane, one of the other soldiers attempted to brighten the mood by saying, “Yo dog, are y’all ready to get home?”

Mike slowly turned his head towards the guy as he said with no emotions, “Five thousand blacks boarded these planes back home, and only thirty are coming back. Now’s not the best time to mock us white boy.”

As Mike went back to staring at his feet, the other soldier shrugged as he said while leaning back, “Jeez… just trying to lighten the mood.”

Another soldier leaned towards the man as he whispered, “He just lost three of his best friends today.”

The soldier turned to him as he said, “I thought he lost his best friends a while back.”

The soldier shook his head as he said, “Nah… those five other guys weren’t close enough to be called best friends. You have to feel bad for him, losing everyone.”

Mike stood up and walked towards them as he said in an angry voice, “Don’t talk like I aint here.”

The first soldier stood up as he said in a frustrated mood, “Look, you’re going to have to let go of all those that were lost because they aren’t coming back.”

Mike was ready to throw one of his fists at the guy when one of the soldiers in the corner said, “Hey guys… do you hear that?” As soon as he said that, everything went silent. Every passenger listened carefully as they heard a faint noise, the sound of trumpets blowing like the ones in Inception.

Mike turned towards the pilot as he said, “Where are we? We can’t be over land yet, we just passed on top of the Pacific Ocean.”

The pilot turned around as she said in a worried voice, “I know what you’re talking about. It’s not coming from land… that sound is coming from above us.”

Mike began to think, his mind going through all the possibilities of what could be making all the noise. His thoughts had to wait though, because the sudden rocking of the ship threw him off balance as he said, “Pilot, what the hell is going on?”

The woman turned around as she said in a shaking voice, “Take a look for yourself.”

Mike walked towards the cockpit, as he looked out the windshield he saw a dark purple and green cloud of smoke and light. It looked to be a few hundred meters higher but was powerful enough to begin to pull the water from the ocean. As Mike stared at this, his mouth agape, he said silently, “Lord have mercy…”

Suddenly the alarms began to blare as the pilot said frantically, “Mayday! Mayday! We are losing control of the ship! We are passing through the Bermuda triangle people, buckle up!”

As the ship began to spin out of control, going higher and higher into the sky, Mike stumbled for his seat and strapped himself in tightly. The crew began to grip to whatever they could as tight as they could possibly squeeze, some were even crying out of fear. While the aerial vessel’s alarms blared and the signals were lost, Mike pulled out the photo of his sister as he said, “I’ll always love you, Felicia.” Mike could hear the sound of the ship’s body being bent and skewed as he felt gravity pull them in odd directions, he could feel both halves pulled in either directions ever so slightly. The pressure went from too low to bear to too high to stay focused. Mike’s head began to hurt more than anything in the world as he felt his skull begin to collapse on him. The sudden change in pressure was making him see stars when suddenly the pressure went back to normal. He was barely conscious when he looked to the side to see the back of the vehicle was torn off as they fell towards a wintery forest, the other half crashing into the forest and causing an explosion. The sudden impact made his seat pop out of its place and fall out the open end, Mike barely stayed alive to watch himself roll in the snow at high speeds. His limbs were like ragdolls as he felt them snap in all sorts of places before falling off a small cliff, as he fell he watched the other half of the ship he was once in crash into the ground and morph into a dented heap of burning metal.

The last thing Mike saw was him falling towards the white snow face first before blacking out on impact.
*****

It felt like an instant later when he woke up again, this time fully conscious. Everywhere Mike looked all he could see was snow, it was somehow the middle of December and midnight when it was summer and mid-day when he left base. A thick plume of black smoke rose into the night sky and blocked out the stars, embers beginning to slowly rain down from the sky as they burned the cloths and other materials the fires were consuming. The moon was shining brightly upon them as it appeared to be closer than normal, Mike couldn’t tell if it was the lack of oxygen that caused him to see a head made out of the craters or if he hadn’t noticed it before. Mike’s first instinct was to get up, but as soon as he made it to his feet his legs bent inwards at the broken points and he fell back to the ground again. His arms were no use at breaking the fall as they were broken to shit.
Mike slowly began to think about what to do next, he assumed that the source of the black smoke was the airship wreckage and decided to crawl there to see if there was anyone else that survived. He hopped to God that someone else survived the crash; he didn’t want to be surrounded by death anymore. But with an impact as bad as that, he assumed the worst for the rookies.

All of his limbs hurt like never before as he slowly dragged himself towards the wreckage, his vision was still blurry but he could make out the shape of a burning plane and pieces of it littering the surrounding area. Mike slowly rolled over as he shouted for help, he couldn’t make any words, he could just shout like a caveman. As Mike began to fade away once again, he watched as the photo of his sister floated down, burnt around the edges but otherwise unharmed. The photo slowly landed on his visor and allowed him to see nothing else but the picture before he passed out yet again.

*****

Alex stood at the top of the hill next to Dash, Applejack, Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy. Alex dropped the snowboard to the ground as he said to the girls, “Now I haven’t done this in years so forgive me if I’m not a snowboarding god as well.”

Applejack rolled her eyes as she planted her hooves into the skis while saying, “You aren’t a god to begin with, Lauren is the god.”

Alex turned to the rest of the group to check up on them, Applejack, Dash, Twilight, and Rarity were already strapped in and ready to go. Dash seemed a little grumpy she wasn’t allowed to use a snowboard as her first time going down the mountain, while Pinkie and Fluttershy looked nervously at the hill. Alex hobbled towards them with one foot inside the bindings as he said in a sympathetic tone, “Look girls, I know this is your first time skiing, so I’ll be at your side the entire time okay?”

Pinkie nodded her head as she forced a smile onto her face before strapping in and resting down at the edge with the rest. Once they were all sitting over the edge of the slope, their tails swishing back and forth and bobbing against each other’s fluffy tails, Alex sat down next to Fluttershy as she said in a nervous voice, “Alex… this scary. I don’t think I want to do this anymore.” Before she could say anything more, Alex kissed her on her cold lips, the wind blowing their hair majestically as her face turned red. When Alex broke the kiss, he gave her a smile and raised an eyebrow. Fluttershy hid her face as she said with a giggle, “Okay, promise me you’ll stick behind with me though.”

Alex wrapped an arm around her as he said, “Why would I leave you behind?” Fluttershy smiled brightly as she got up and slid down to the rest of the group. Alex breathed in the cold mountain air, the snow going up to his ankles in white powder (no Charlie stay away). Alex quickly jumped up on his feet as he said loudly, “Alright girls, I know Twilight, Rarity and Applejack have already skied before so you three can go on ahead with Dash and Pinkie and teach them the basics. Take them around the east side and meet us back on this side of the mountain to make sure you remain on the easiest course. Me and Fluttershy will be taking the scenic route so don’t expect us to rejoin as soon as you had hoped.”

Alex watched with joy as everypony but Fluttershy got off their plots and plopped themselves onto the white powdery snow and began to ski away. He watched as Dash and Pinkie would begin to do the splits every now and then and occasionally fall. Once they were behind the thick row of trees, Alex turned to Fluttershy as she said, “So how do you steer on these.”

Alex began to tilt from right to left as he said, “Balance is key in this situation, you need elegance and guts, because to remain in control you have to lean forward.”

Fluttershy got onto her hooves and began to wobble as she said, “Like this?” She then began to apply pressure to the left side of her body and her skis turned in that direction. Alex watched as she quickly got the hang of it, she began to laugh and cheer silently, her mane barely blowing in the wind as she was barely moving at all. Once she began to distance herself from Alex she called out, “Aren’t you going to come?”

Alex smiled at the corner of his mouth, he slowly slipped on his ski mask and goggles as he said loudly, “You’re going a little slow Fluttershy. You might need to move faster.”

Fluttershy tilted her head in his direction as she called out, “What?”

Alex smiled as he quickly realized the two had set themselves up for an action sequence as he shouted in a booming and echoing voice, “Move faster!” Alex turned around to see snow beginning to break off and slide towards him, it quickly grew into an avalanche and Alex jumped onto his snowboard and yelled, “Move Now!” As Alex began to snowboard in slow motion with the intro credits rolling, a certain holiday song began to play, Alex laughed as he began to outrun the avalanche towards Fluttershy. Alex watched as she panicked until he lifted her up with his magic, she slowly opened her eyes to see him looking back at her with a smile on his face. As the two floated in the air, the avalanche slowly began to push them faster and faster down the mountain. Alex began to drop onto the snow as he said, “We’ll be making a right soon so get ready.”

Fluttershy closed her eyes in fear as she cuddled up to Alex as he rode the avalanche. Alex slowly counted down in his head when to turn and as soon as he saw the gap of trees that led to a path he jerked the board right and landed on the path. Fluttershy was shaking out of fear as she said, “It’s a wonder I’m in love with you.” The couple looked behind as they watched the pile of white snow rush by like a train, flattening small plants as it plowed through.

Alex kissed her rosy cheeks as he said, “Don’t worry, we’ll take it slow from here.” Alex slowly let FLuttershy back onto her skis and soon enough the two were slowly moving along the quiet snowy path, the cold air was heavy on them as the sun shined brightly through the trees creating the most beautiful afternoon shadows. After a few seconds of silence and once Fluttershy had stopped shaking, Alex started the conversation, “So how has Pinkie been doing? You know, after the whole Kyle Clyde thing.”

Fluttershy’s expression turned to a slight worry as she said, “Poor Pinkie hasn’t been herself lately, she just isn’t as friendly and bouncy as usual. Maybe she just needs some time to adjust, after all things did change quite fast around here with all the snow.”

Alex smiled as he said, “Yeah, I do have to worry about her even if I know she’s going to be alright.”

Fluttershy looked up at Alex as she said with a curious look in her eyes, “What do you mean?”

Alex shrugged as he said, “I mean, I might not be a god but I have the responsibilities of one. I have to train Lauren to use her magic as fast as possible while making sure that all of Ponyville is safe, most importantly the ones I love.”

Fluttershy nudged her head against Alex’s hip as she said, “By the way, how do you feel about all these responsibilities anyway? You must feel like an adult having to take care of an entire city.”

Alex laughed a bit as he said, “Well considering that next week I will be an actual adult, I don’t feel too different.” Alex began to have memories of his childhood; he began to remember when he first came to Ponyville almost four years ago. He remembered Justin and how he used to be his best friend before he betrayed him for that little awkward period. He then remembered how Oscar turned out to be an imposter and nearly killed their only chance of surviving. Alex began to feel a little blue as he said, “Wow… I sure to have the worst of luck with friends, Justin died, then Oscar died on the inside. I don’t know if I can make any other friends other than you.”

Fluttershy smiled as she said, “Don’t worry, some other human is waiting out there with a heart just as sweet as yours.”

Before their conversation could continue, the sudden sound of an explosion got Alex’s attention. He looked up into the sky to see an unfamiliar aircraft falling in a big plume of black smoke, the pieces of the tail coming off in big balls of fire. A ring emitted from Alex’s pocket followed by Lyra’s voice saying, “Alex, that was not one of my planes, you need to check it out.”

Alex was ready to make a snappy answer when it rang again with Twilight’s voice saying, “You heard her, get over to that thing as soon as possible, we need to save those who made it out.”

Alex slapped his pocket to turn the thing off as he said to Fluttershy, “Well maybe I can find some friends on that carrier. Let’s go.” With that, Alex picked up the yellow Pegasus and took off into the air on his flying magical snowboard (fruity I know but otherwise awesome).

*****

The president looked at the newspapers as a large man said behind him, “Again Mr. President, these disappearances are no coincidences. All of them had a similar event, a large and a dark horse like figure taking them away, the only exception being the aircraft carrier from a few weeks ago.”

The president put the newspaper down to show a man who was almost eight feet tall, his arms nearly tearing up the suit he was wearing. His face had a mask over it to help him remain almost anonymous. The president looked at the picture on the newspaper, it showed a blurry picture of a dark horse like creature with bright eyes holding onto the pope that had mysteriously gone missing that day. The president tapped the newspapers as he said, “You seem to know a lot about these incidences, it’s a good thing my men allowed you to enter otherwise we would not have information like this. Unfortunately this information is otherwise useless if we have no information on where they went, until we get that info we have no real reason to wage war on an alien planet.”

The man was quick to respond and said, “That’s the thing, through my extent of research I have pinpointed the exact location of this planet and all we need to do to get there is build this.” The man pulled out of his small bag at his ankles a large blueprint of a circular gateway with calculations and algebra all over it, physics that today are incomprehensible to the best of scientists due to their futuristic nature.

The president quickly skimmed through the design as he said, “I can probably get a team of engineers together to look over this, just judging by some of the materials needed to create such a large device would probably take about seven years or so. That is only if it is approved though.”

The man nodded his head as he stuck out his hand for a shake and said, “Yes sir, these kidnappings must stop, otherwise you could be next.” Saying nothing more, the tall man turned around and left the office. As he shut the door he opened up his phone and said silently into it, “He bought it.”

The hissing voice on the other end cackled as it said, “Well done, Clyde. Did his guards put up too much of a fight?”

Kyle looked down at the floor to see the gassed men who had died before reaching the now airtight office of the president. He looked at all of them as he pulled off his fume-proof mask and said, “Nah, they dropped like dead puppies, oh and you can kill the hostages, seven years from now the soldiers will have forgotten what they were fighting for.”

All that could be heard on the other end of the phone was the sounds of screaming as throats were slit, the sound of blood spraying everywhere made him cringe and laugh silently at the same time. Kyle slowly closed the phone and resumed walking out of the building, as he walked he casually kicked a mashed up police car out of the way. He was feeling grateful that the president was sitting in a soundproof room as well, the lack of windows allowed Kyle to have full range of chaos to get in. Kyle slowly jumped out of a large gaping hole in the wall and landed on another SWAT van.

Law enforcers began to fire their weapons at Kyle but didn’t manage to penetrate his invincible skin, as he walked past the cars he casually kicked a few cars onto policemen. Suddenly a man shouted from the distance, “Hey big guy.” Kyle slowly turned his head to see a man standing at the end of the road, his suit began to light up with a bright blue as he said, “Just got out of the cryogenics, I think I have an ass to kick before I go back in for another couple of hundred years.”

Kyle slowly turned to face him, he casually bent over and picked up a car and began to crush it in his hands as he said, “And who are you to tell me what to do?”

The man smiled as he said, “The name is Cole O’Reilly, and I think that your strength against mine will be a good workout for my suit.” As Cole stepped forward, his suit flared up in a bright blue light, a helmet quickly wrapped around his face as he said, “Let’s play.”

Kyle laughed silently as he said, “Are you serious? You and your Crackdown 2 outfit rip off taking on me?” As Kyle walked forward, he threw the cop car at Cole, the car spun madly in the air before being knocked out of the way by a backhand from Cole.

Cole charged Kyle as fast as he could; he sprinted hard towards him as he balled one of his fists and got ready to punch. Cole then threw his arm as hard as he could, he used as much of his own strength as well as the suit’s to punch Kyle but all he heard was his knuckles break. Cole looked up to see a disapproving Kyle say, “That punch sucked!” Kyle then wrapped his giant hand around Cole and slammed him into the ground, his fist felt no pain as the ground collapsed under all the force. Kyle kept his death grip on Cole as he wound up and threw Cole into a SWAT van, the van flew thirty feet in the air as it did a 900 degree barrel roll before landing on top of Cole. The last Kyle saw of Cole was his suit’s lights going out as he said, “Go back so sleep for another hundred years and maybe then you will be able to beat me.” Kyle then casually walked away.

Here we are, chapter two will be out when exams are done, I know right? What bullcrap, I wish the exams were over with. But while you wait you can check up my YouTube page for a thirty second butt butter animation I'm making. I can promise it will be a huge success in my opinion. By the way, like track and comment and you will get some love back!

Chapter4.1: An Old Friend I Have Never Seen Before

Once everyone had settled into the library and had warmed up, Mike finally walking again after being in the wheelchair for a few days, they all sat down on the benches around the fire prepared to listen to Alex’s telling of the story.

Pinkie hopped up on Mike’s lap as she said, “So I wanna know how he got that big thingy over there.”

Alex motioned for her to calm down as he said, “You’ll here that when I get to it.” As Alex said that, Fluttershy slowly climbed up on his lap and began to snuggle up to him. Alex took in a deep breath as he said, “Well, it all started like this…”

The street was empty and dark, not a whisper could be heard as the wind blew shopping bags throughout the streets. A sudden gust of wind began to pick up at the end of one of the alleyways and slowly began to grow ever so violent until a ball of orange light began to appear. The light grew ever more intense until it was a few inches away from being a supernova, as quickly as it appeared it disappeared much the same, leaving behind a group of people.

Alex slowly got up to his feet as he said in a whisper, “So where do you think we are?”

Mike slowly wheeled up to Alex’s side as he said, “No clue man. All I know is that it seems oddly quiet.”

Fluttershy looked up as she said, “I think we’re back in your home town, Alex.”

Alex slowly walked to her as he said in a sympathetic voice, “Come on, Shy, how could we possibly be back in Kemptville?”

Fluttershy pointed towards the stars as she said, “Every night when I climbed into your bed for the night I would look up at the bright shiny stars and remember how they looked. I never forgot the way they looked compared to all the stars we could see in the big cities.”

Alex gently patted her shoulder as he said, “Wow… that’s odd but somehow understandable. Let’s just ask Mike over here, Mike where are we?”

Mike quickly pulled out a small cell phone shaped object and turned it on, after looking at it for a few seconds he said, “Well we are in a place called Kemptville which is in Canada… strange how the streets aren’t filled with people at this time of night.”

Alex slowly began to creep out of the alleyway as he said, “Maybe there’s a reason for it, let’s try not to draw too much attention.”

As Alex was prepared to step out onto the streets he heard Bon-Bon’s voice say, “Guys… you might want to take a look at this.”

As everyone turned to look at Bon-Bon, they watched as she picked up a newspaper from the trashcan. Alex slowly walked up to it and picked it up, reading the headlines in horror as his eyes went wide with shock. Alex slowly read the headline out loud, “Death of supreme commander… Conscription passed… oh god this is all my fault.”

As Alex stumbled back in a dizzy shock, Mike grabbed the newspaper and read over it before saying, “Well it says here that you only made Canada, America, and Mexico go to war with you.”

Alex began to panic as he said, “We have two of the most powerful countries against us and your saying its ONLY Canada Mexico and America?”

Mike motioned for Alex to calm down as he said, “Be happy it ain’t Africa, in 2040 the new leader of Africa dominated all of Europe and Asia and quickly became the world’s super country that it is today.”

Alex began to stare at Mike as he said, “What the hell happened in the seventy years I was gone?”

Mike smiled as he said, “Dude, Canada and Mexico are nothing compared to Korea and Africa now… you ain’t got nothin to worry about.”

Alex quickly grabbed the newspaper and threw it into the trashcan as he said quietly, “So our best guess is that lots of people moved over to the eastern countries to seek refuge. We better make sure we’re not caught by the military and forced into war.”

Mike began to think, he brought his hand to his chin as he thought hard about where to hide from the military before saying, “How about over there?” Mike then pointed towards an empty building across the street, the letters “H”, “O”,”E”, and “L” remained while the “T” laid on the ground, the windows were boarded up with glass still behind the wooden covers, Mike smiled as he said, “That was easy.”

Alex quickly moved towards the other side of the street, making sure he used no magic that would draw attention as he said, “We have to move quick before someone spots us.” As Alex reached the other end of the street he silently created a portal through the barred up door, the rest of the group then swiftly crossed the street into the dark room. Once everyone had entered, Alex walked in and closed the portal behind them. Once inside, they were enveloped in darkness. Alex took a few steps in as he said in a bit of a louder voice, “Hopefully no one else saw us.”

The sudden click of a bunch of guns made Alex think otherwise as a deep and old voice said, “Alone is one thing I wouldn’t include if I were you.”

Alex quickly spun around with his fist ready to punch, the next thing he felt was his arm being grabbed and pulled before he felt a knee jam into his stomach. As Alex thumped to the ground, Fluttershy quickly came to his side as she said in a panicking voice, “Alex! Are you okay?”

Alex quickly began to light up like a glow stick, the room began to illuminate and reveal all the other people inside. Alex quickly got to his feet to see a man who looked to be in his late seventies with a pistol in his hand say, “Boy… you don’t look like a soldier.”

Alex shook his head as he said in a sarcastic tone, “What you mean the glow in the dark teen? What made you think that old timer?”

The old man looked over at Mike as he said, “But this one looks like a soldier… Ni”

Before the old man could finish what he was about to say, Mike interrupted him, “Excuse me?”

Another voice that sounded just as old came from the back of the room saying, “Leave him Max… they haven’t attacked us yet, they must be on our side.”

Alex slowly brought his fists down to see who the man was, behind the first old man approached a man whose face was covered in shadows. The man moved swiftly as he said, “Tell me young man, why are you all here, and how the hell are you glowing?”

Alex slowly began to dim down, the orange light slowly fading away as he said, “We just came from far away and we are here to stop the western armies.”

The old man slowly rested his hand on Max’s shoulder as he said, “You can put the gun down,” He then turned around as he said; “these are good guys, guys.”

****

A few minutes later Alex had gotten everyone from his group settled down around a small fire the old man had set up, turns out that there were a bunch of men and women ranging from ages between twenty and a hundred years old camping out in this abandoned hotel. As Alex sat down next to Mike, the old man approached the fire with a scarf around his face. As the old man sat down Alex quickly got up saying, “Here old timer, take my seat.”

The old man gave out a tired laugh as he said, “I’m not that old, I may be eighty years old but I can still kick ass like I could sixty years ago.” As the old man sat down, he began to poke at the fire with a stick as he said, “Sorry about my brother, Maxwell… the boy can be a bit racist at times. Tell me, what’s your name?”

Alex smiled as he looked into the fire while saying, “I’m Alex Mulroney, this is Michael Eisenberg, this is Flora Shine, Laura Heartstrings and uhhh….” Alex actually forgot what he had named Bon-Bon as he sat there with his finger pointed at her.

Bon-Bon rolled her eyes before saying with a wink, “The name is Bon… Jane Bon” From behind the old man she could see Alex throwing his fists in the air as to say “YES SHE SAID IT”.

The old man quickly pulled the scarf from his face to reveal a nicely trimmed beard as he said with a bright smile, “My god… I can’t believe my eyes, you’re really Alex Mulroney.”

Alex’s eyes began to dart from side to side; this old kook might be a few apples short of a bush as he said, “Yeah… that’s me.”

The old man looked towards Fluttershy as he said, “I know your real name, young girl you’re not Flora Shine. You’re Fluttershy.”

Alex’s heart skipped a beat, how this man knew her name he had no clue, but he somehow managed to get all the other names right as well. Alex quickly stopped the old man as he said, “Wait, how do you know who we are?”

The old man took off his cowboy hat as he said, “Almost eighty years ago I wrote a couple of stories about your adventures… who knew they actually happened. I am the real Dark-Castle”

Alex’s eyes went wide as he said, “But… you’re old.”

Oscar laughed as he said in a tired voice, “Well without the mask it would be kind of hard to recognize me, besides anyone can look like me with a mask on just look at Kyle Clyde. Back in the old days when I could still grab the soap from the shower floor without throwing out my back, I was writing your adventures and posting them up on the internet before SOPA came back and bit us all in the ass. I remember when I was young I was imagining meeting you girls for real… but I convinced myself that that was impossible. Its too bad I’m too old to get too excited about meeting the real Ponies.”

Alex watched as the fire began to die out, he quickly divided the oxygen atoms above the fire and watched as the hydrogen quickly caught fire. Once the fire was going again, Alex said, “So… why are you here and not in Europe?”

Oscar laughed as he said, “First of all, its Europe is called West Africa, secondly: I am here with a bunch of others like me because we are some of the many remaining bronies, we are fighting against the system to keep our rights to live in our own country.”

Alex began at marvel at the old man, even though he was too old to be forced in the military, he was still fighting for what was right. Alex smiled as he said, “So… how many bronies are there?”

Oscar scratched his beard as he said, “Millions, most of them moved to Africa to stay out of the great war that’s taking place… wait a minute.” Oscar’s eyes widened with shock as he said, “Is earth going where I think it is?”

Mike nodded his head as he said, “Yup, they’re going to ponyworld.”

Oscar began to think as he said, “Alright, well now I know that your mission is top priority, we have to get you to one of the military posts so you can sabotage it.”

Alex shook his head as he said, “We aren’t going to play as dirty as that, we just need to steal some of the blueprints for their weapons and tech.”

Oscar nodded his head as he ran his fingers through his beard (I really want a beard that’s longer than the one I have now okay), as he thought over the situation he said with a smile, “How about you young adventurers stay here with the rest of us for the night, tomorrow you can go when there’s light out.”

Alex shook his hand as he said, “Thanks, old timer.”

*****

Oscar led Alex and Fluttershy up to their room along with Mike and the other two lovers as he said, “This might not be much, but it’s enough to get you through the night.” Oscar slowly placed his hand on the door and pushed it open to reveal a room in mint condition, the lights working fine and the heater on. Alex and Fluttershy slowly walked into the room as Oscar said with a laugh, “Now remember, these walls aren’t too thick so we can hear everything.”

Alex lowered his arm around Fluttershy as he said, “Don’t worry, we’re not that crazy.”

Slowly Oscar closed the door behind him, when they heard the click come from the door Fluttershy turned to Alex and said in her sweet voice, “Alex… I’m scared.”

Alex slowly brought her in for a hug as she changed back into her original Pegasus self. As he kissed her on the forehead he said in a quiet voice, “I’m right here for you.”

Fluttershy slowly wrapped her hooves around him as she said, “But… what if this is the last time we do this… where we sit and just talk? What if I lose you, Alex? I don’t want to lose you, there are so many things I want to do with you.”

Alex began to blush as he said, “Like… what?”

Fluttershy slowly began to inhale, her eyes closing as she gently began to push Alex onto the bed as she said, “Like this.”

Alex began to go tomato red as he whispered, “Right now? I thought you wanted to wait until,”

Fluttershy quickly covered his mouth with hers, muffling his voice with a kiss. Once she broke the kiss she said with a blush, “Just follow my lead.”

*****

Mike was slowly wheeling himself down the hall towards Alex’s room as he said, “Yo, Alex, I need to”

Mike could not finish his sentence, all he could hear from inside Alex’s room was the sound of loud moaning. Mike shook his head as he grasped the door handle while Fluttershy said, “Ouch, that hurts.”

Mike slammed the door open only to hear Alex and Fluttershy squeal, Mike’s jaw dropped as he stared into the room, what he saw was nothing like he expected. In front of him was Alex in a full spandex suit being put into a headlock by Fluttershy, as Alex looked up while moaning he said, “Give us some privacy, we’re wrestling here.”

Mike quickly closed the door as he said, “Sorry, dawg, I was hearing something else going on.”

As Mike closed the door he could hear Alex say, “Pervert.”

When Mike closed the door, he began to wheel away. Yet he was quickly stopped when he heard Fluttershy moan, “Oh… It’s so hot and moist… all over me.”

Mike quickly slammed the door open again as he said, “You sick…” Mike was again stunned by what he saw, he heard right.

In front of him was Alex holding a fountain of Fondue over top of Fluttershy, the warm thick chocolate liquid spilling from her mouth onto her chest as Alex said, “Can’t you give us some privacy, we’re trying to enjoy some fondue here!”

Mike quickly spun around as he silently said, “Kids those days had the most perverted vocabulary…”

Before Mike could get too far he heard Fluttershy squeal as she said, “Oh dear, there’s semen everywhere!”

Mike didn’t even wait, he knew what he heard and it was impossible to misinterpret this. Mike slammed the door open as he said, “Okay now I know you were having se…”

Mike looked into the now crowded room; the room was nearly overstuffed with sailors in white and blue suits, all standing in the upright position. As the stood there, Alex frantically looked around saying, “How did all these Sea Men get in here.” Alex looked up to see Mike with a disapproving look as Alex said, “You pervert…”

The couple watched as Mike slowly wheeled out of the room, closing the door behind him. Once they could no longer hear the sound of his wheels, the holographic images of the sea men disappeared. Alex and Fluttershy laughed silently as Fluttershy said with a wink, “Gee… Pinkie was right, pranks are funny.”

Alex kissed her forehead as he said, “You’re the best.”

*****

I'm sorry im releasing this as a fractured chapter, but i needed to get this scene out. This was just too good for me to keep to myself for so long. Believe it or not, this entire story was built to fit this one joke, if i had not thought of this joke, the whole thing would be different.

Tell me, did this joke beat WYWF2's stereotype joke?