What You Wish For 3: The Book of Earth Pony

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.”

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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.”

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