What It's Like To Call This Place Home

Dimitri hovered down the hatch, and into his workroom "Xatarrus, Sumarus, what's wrong?" Dimitri looked to both of them.

Sumarus brought his attention to Dimitri "Spectus was our brother, and Xatarrus wants to go back and avenge him." Xatarrus looked away "But I am informing him, it would not be logical."

Dimitri looked to Xatarrus "You know I won't allow you to go back, if they kill you, then you will have failed Spectus."

"But I must fulfill my final act of loyalty to my lost brother!" Xatarrus snapped, making Dimitri raise an eyebrow. "If you do to me, what you did to Atlus, then they can not harm me, am I correct?"

Dimitri sighed 'Why did I make them smart?' "In theory, yes." Xatarrus' face lit up "But that's only in theory, I'm never going back there, and that's the only way you could get there."

Sumarus looked to Dimitri "If you can make him indestructible, then why can't you send him, then retrieve him when he is done?"

"Because I said so, end of story." Dimitri flew out of the hatch.

As Dimitri was pouring the last bowl of critter chow to be transported to the feeding location, flutters walked to his side "I almost forgot to tell you, do you remember the pack of timberwolves that attacked us?"

Dimitri flinched "Yes, why?"

They made amends with me, and now they guard the smaller animals while they eat, they even help me with some of the bigger ones."

Dimitri stopped pouring the critter chow "Wait... What?!" Dimitri put the bag down looking at the yellow Pegasus "what do you mean 'made amends'?"

When I got back home, they were waiting there, they said that they wanted to apologize to my guardian, you, for the attack. But when I told them what happened, they said they are honor bound to work until you return, and they can ask for your forgiveness." She picked up a basket packed with prepared bowls "So let go."

Dimitri held his wings In the carrying position, as he loaded them with food bowls "Let me guess, Anitchka did something."

"Yep, he told them, if they worked for him he wouldn't destroy their homes." She replied as she led the way to the familiar clearing.

"That's not cool." Dimitri stated as they entered the clearing, several timberwolves stood and began to growl, but stopped once they noticed both Dimitri, and Fluttershy. 'They truly are guarding the little ones...' He thought as he noted the little ones were waiting in the clearing, the timberwolves lying on the edge of the space.

One week later

Dimitri watched as Sumarus stood, he had spent the most of a week swapping the metals in Sumarus', and Xatarrus' bodies with mythril, and just finished adding the synthetic skin. Sumarus opened his new eyes, both were grey, due to damaged circuitry (Beyond repair), and was left half blind. His skin kept turning pale, so Dimitri just stopped trying to re-apply the skin. There were six circular holes on his back; one on each shoulder blade, one three inches below each shoulder blade, and two three inches below those. He had holes that were covered on each of his palms. Dimitri handed him a stack of old, tattered clothes. Sumarus walked behind a changing panel on the wall, stepping out from behind it a few seconds later. He now wore an old tattered faded green half vest, holes cut where it would have covered the top four on his back, a white shirt with the operator logo on the front, and holes cut over the holes in his back. A pair of old faded black cargo pants, slightly shredded at the bottom. And a tattered pair of black combat boots.

"Do you by any chance, have a pair of glasses? It seems you could not repair my vision." Sumarus asked.

"Yea, I had to scan your eyes, and if I had tried to repair the problem, it could have damaged your memory unit, but you have been upgraded fully in every other aspect." Dimitri responded as he removed a pair of glasses, handing them to Sumarus. They had a mythril frame that had been painted black, they were half lenses (bottom half).

Sumarus put them on, then smiled before he disappeared in a cloud of static in the shape of his body (Xatarrus is the only one of the three that can't teleport).

Xatarrus stood next, he had blond hair, and wings with owl feathers (like Echo's, but they don't shift with the light). His skin took a purely normal complexion. His eyes were cyan. He stood, as Dimitri held out set of old battle worn cloths, just not as bad as Sumarus'. He yanked the pair of baggy black jeans, and a grey t-shirt with the operator logo on it, he then grabbed the old combat boots, and after putting them on, he flew out and away quickly, without a single word.

Xatarrus flew into the clouds, laying on one he noted that upon entering this world, he and Sumarus gained the magic of the specific pony races they would have been (Sumarus = Unicorn, Atlus = Earth Pony, Xatarrus = Pegasus). He also realized this allowed them the physical abilities of said races. As he rested on the cloud, he heard the sound of wings beating the wind. He opened one eye, noticing a certain rainbow Pegasus trying to Sneak up on him, when she got close he spoke before she could "Hello, go away."

Rainbow raised an eyebrow "Um, you do know you are in my favorite spot to nap, right?"

"Do now." He said, not moving.

"And?" Rainbow asked.

"Not moving." Xatarrus closed his eye.

"Yes you are!" Rainbow retorted as she kicked the cloud, destroying it, and dropping Xatarrus.

"Thanks, I defiantly needed to be given more of a reason to hate this world." Xatarrus said as he beat his wings, diving toward the ground.

Sumarus appeared in the Ponyville town square, he approached the nearest pony "Hello, might I ask where the best fashion shop is?"

Lyra looked at the stranger "Your looking for the Carousel Boutique, it's down that way. Don't worry, you can't miss it." she said pointing down a center road.

"Thank you." Sumarus began walking in the pointed out direction.