What It's Like To Call This Place Home

Two weeks later

"ANITCHKA! You have had enough time to heal, we need to act before they get too prepa-" Sombre stomped into the room.

"The Spectors are always prepared, that is why we wait until I get my army!" The now mostly healed dragon appeared next to Sombre "I messaged Queen Crisilis, asking for an army of large, heavily armored, changelings, and am awaiting a reply. And how many alternates have you made?"

Sombre smiled "A thousand."

"Not enough, they will last maybe 15 minutes against the real Spectors, unless..." Anitchka turned, facing the stone throne.

"Unless what?"

"Unless I gift them with the turbo ability! They won't last a minute against our army!" Laughing psychotically, he moved back to the throne and sat "Send Trixie in, please."

"Yes, my L-lord..." Sombre reluctantly walked through the door. A second Trixie walked in.

"What is it, Anitchka? Do you need any help?" She smiled "I know he does, with all the degrading feeling of being commanded by a dying half dragon."

He laughed "Do you really think I'm doing that much emotional harm? She nodded, then trotted over to his side "Good, maybe he will try to betray me on the battlefield. Then I can kill him for a good reason..."

Trixie leaned against him "What's wrong, you usually laugh more?"

Anitchka shrugged "It seems as though, Dimitri is not searching for me... It's disappointing... To say the least."

Trixie looked him in the eyes "He's probably trying to get to know his daughter, and catch up with friends."

"That's right, I forgot he had a child..." He smiled unnervingly "We can use this against him..."

"Atlus, you can get up now, your synthetic skin is finished." Dimitri stood back as Atlus stood up.

"Thank you, I believe she will be happy... Do you think I would be able to have rarity make me some custom clothes?"

Dimitri held out a stack of cloths, and a pair of combat boots "Way ahead of you, try these on."

Atlus put the garments on, a white coat, black tee, a circle with an X through it was stitched in, and black cargo pants. His new synthetic skin was light colored, with short blond hair. "This is perfect, I will thank her later." He walked out 'Derpy should be at work right about now, that is my destination.' As he walked he noticed he was going to pass the Carousel Boutique. When he got to the boutique, he walked in "Rarity, are you here? I must give you thanks for the ensemble."

"One moment darling!" Seconds later the white mare came down the stairs "Oh, it looks much better on you than it did on the mannequin. Echo made a mannequin of himself, RED, PK, and Dimitri, so I used the one of RED for your clothes. Turns out you and him are the same fitting."

"Thank you, but I must head out, or I will be late." Atlas turned and started to leave.

"Feel free to stop by, and have a nice day."

As Atlus stopped at the Sugar Cube Corner "Hello, welcome to Sugar Cube Corner, what would you like to sweeten your day?" Pinkie looked at Atlus closely "Do I know you?"

"Yes, I am Atlus, Dimitri made some skin for me." Pinkie gave a massive smile "Oh! What would you like?"

"One blueberry muffin, please?" As he said that a brown paper bag was placed I front of him "Thank you Pinkie, have a nice day." With muffin in tow, Atlus made his way to the post office.

Atlus walked into the post office a smile on his face "Hello, what can we mail for y-" the stallion looked Atlus in the eyes "H-hello... She's in the sorting room."

"Thank you, and you do not have to be afraid of me, I am very forgiving, until you anger me again." Atlus walked into the sorting room. He noticed Derpy sitting with her back to him, trying to sort a stack of letters. He took it as a perfect opportunity to test how strong the nanobots are. He manipulated several to go into the paper bag, lifting the muffin out quietly. Levitated the muffin in front of her, while walking to the opposite side of her, she stared at the muffin for a minute, then attacked it, only to have it move away. She tried a few more times, much to Atlus' amusement.

"This is the first time a muffin has run away from me..." She scrunched her face in annoyance "Come back here!" She jumped for it, only for it to levitate away, and onto Atlus' head.

"You must say hello, before you get your gift." He smiled, but stopped when he saw her face, she was pouting, her ears laid back "D-don't be sad! I was only joki-" he started frantically before he was assaulted by a flying Ditzy Hooves.

"Never taunt me with a muffin! I will always get it!" She sat on his chest, consuming the muffin. When she finished the muffin she smiled at Atlus "Thank you for the muffin!"

Atlus stood, while she hovered in front of him "I wanted to show you my new synthetic skin... What do you think?"

She looked at him in her scrunched up 'I'm thinking' face. After a few minutes of her staring, and moving around him she responded "It totally fits you, both in the size aspect, and looks!"

Atlus took hold of her hoof "Derpy, could I show you something, out side?" She looked at him then nodded "good then let us go." They walked out in front of the post office. Atlus took a few extra steps then turned to face his grey companion. "Dimitri added a few upgrades, to assist my combat."

"Cool! Can I see?" She looked as though she was going to explode in excitement.

"That is what I wanted to show you, Dimitri enhanced the strength of the nanobots, and the amount of weight they can carry, they also glow now. But you can only really see them when they are in mass numbers." As he said this a blue, slow moving, fire looking cloud came from under his sleeves, engulfing his hands.

"That looks totally cool, but it kinda looks like the aura of a unicorns magic." She cocked her head sideways.

"I have explained the nanobots, correct?" She nodded "Good, I manipulate them to do what I require, that is out of my normal reach." A blob of nanobots floated up to an apple high in a tree, engulfed it, then after removing it from the tree, brought it to Derpy "This apple is for you."

She took the apple and bit into it "Mmmm, juicy and sweet!"