> Jerry looked to see who just walked in. Omega looked around, suspicious, he ran a few tests to see how fast his armor could be summoned, it came back to his liking, he looked around again. Everypony present had a strange device on a necklace they were wearing. He walked up to the pony at the front desk. "Is there anything I can help you with, sir?" Jerry asked the strange stallion. Omega turned his whole body to the side to look at the main hallway that security would come through. "Yes, I'm part of the NBS, and I'm here to tell you that your operations are going to be shut down." he told Jerry in a professional tone. "Okay, and just who is the NBS...." Jerry trailed off when his eyes landed on the stallions cutie mark, the omega-symbol. Omega turned to face Jerry again. The music started. https://img.youtube.com/vi/v89PAxi2ycQ/mqdefault.jpg "The New Bolverk Squad!" he said with force as he punched his hoof through Jerry's skull. Quickly turning into a human again and recovering his fist, which had ended up on the other side of the poor desk-jockey's head, he summoned his Power armor and shot everyone in the room with the T-12. One worker survived, he hit the button on his necklace, it was a device that turned them back into humans. Approaching quickly, Omega looked down at the fool. "Target Omega has arrived and is equipped with the cervical armo-" he was interrupted by 12 flechette-like projectiles piercing his skull. Omega reloaded the Terminator and the New Bolverk Squad quickly entered the building. "Begin Log, I am Omega, the leader of the New Bolver Squad, we are here for 1 reason, to destroy everything. Agents deployed on this mission, Twilight, codename Shade, Applejack, codename Slam, Rarity, codename Shiv, Pinkie, codename Scar. Fluttershy, codename Cross, Rainbow, codename Blur, and myself Omega, codename Omega." Omega logged. "Alright, you all know why we're here, Shade, Blur, and myself will go after the power station, Slam, Scar, and Shiv will be on massacre duty, Cross, provide healing cover for us, keep the Angel Blade equipped at all times, ROLL OUT!" Omega commanded. The groups split up. It was about to get hectic, yes. But Omega was prepared this time, with his 7.4 armor and even more powerful weapons. It was going to be fun. <> Omega, Shade, and Blur made their way through the halls, the next room was filled with mooks, all armed with FAMASs and .45s. The opened fire, on them, the combined 20 guns going at 900rpm made for a force of 18000rpm coming at them. Blur blocked them with her blades, Shade lined up shots to kill them all, Omega fired a shock grenade into the group. They were easily killed, the trio was too skilled for their weak tactics. Moving through the pile of bodies, the trio continued, showing off their skills and killing everyone. It was a bloodbath. <> Slam smacked another mook with a killing blow, Scar was busy spraying fire fucking EVERYWHERE with the Einhoofer, her MP5 with HI (high incendiary) rounds, Shiv cut mooks down with her Sight Lasers, several thin rods that launched magic-powered-lasers, getting into a position where she could use the Bird Watcher, a mobile laser lattice, to kill them with ease. Slam used her new gun, the Tridozer, a shotgun revolver, which fired shells that were 1.4 inches in diameter and 3 inches long, the shot calibur was .20cal yellow hot pellets with 36 pellets in each shell, it was very dangerous. The trio purged their way through, Scar used the Dragon's breath to practially giggle fire everywhere, she had her Plasma Cutter equipped for the mooks that got too close. The shots Slam fired 'dozed' through her enemies, cutting through several bodies at once. Buckshot bucking the ones that got too close, and using her Sledge-Sluggers to break through doors on their way. Their job was to kill as many mooks in as little time as possible, using another weapon, the Nastol, a rifle calibur pistol frame, she shot and smashed mooks as they came in waves, the groups defenses kept then safe from the small calibur yet high velocity rounds of the enemies' rifles. They blasted their way through, supporting eachother's strengths and covering eachother's weaknesses. It was a slaughterhouse. And the slaughterees were coming in droves. <> Cross flew fast as she took the liberty of not only staying mobile, but doing on-field recon to keep the 2 groups of 3 aware of what was to come, she landed in an open area, she was attacked. And ATD (anti tank dragon) appeared, along with a helicopter, she flew up to the helicopter itself, the firing man was revving up the gatling gun, she quickly jammed it and euthanized him. "What are you doing? She's getting close... fuck" the driver said as he saw the Angel Blade a second before it pierced his throat. Flying the copter to the roof, Shy claimed the gatling gun, warping it away for upgrades and claiming. Flying away and informing the group of the confiscations, she went back to her medical duties, waiting for the Grater to be completed. <> Omega blasted open the door to the outside, the open area led to the other building, containing both the power station and, if the layout was the same as the first time he came here, the labs. Blur shouted in warning. "BIG METAL THINGY!" she yelled as she took off, it was an ATD, Cross had dealt with the heli, but not it. Taking the lead, Shade used the Shower, a 60,000rpm monstrosity of an SMG, to blast its legs to pieces, Omega tackled the worm that was left and shot the Archangel's Smite into its weak spot. Blur used the Claws, a pair of mithril swords sharp enough to cut through tank plating with ease, to rid the trio of the doors. They entered, walking their way to the elevator that went to the underground, the power, labs, and all that shit was held underground. Omega commed the trio of Slam, Shiv, and Scar to find the power station above ground, he scanned the floor plan and found it was back in the main building, oh well. They had some tech to get. <> Scar led the charge, she and the other 2 cut through the walls and machines to get to the power station. Coming into a hallway with a big blinking neon sign that read 'POWER STATION THIS WAY' The trio made their way down the hall, it was quiet with how many mooks they had killed. Entering the room, the group found the computer. Shiv requested the info from Omega, who commed it back, the group logged into the computer and accessed the files. Searching for 'Black Ops.', the trio made a strange discovery. An article, it read; MBORF has completed their automatons, Kratos, to replace Omega, Infus, to replace Xero, Receivad, to replace Asked, and Kary-09, to replace Kary-08. We hope that they do not try to break their treaty, as we have the XV2 alien, it will crush all 4 of them with ease. All 4 of them are highly dangerous, and have thus been placed on a training platform in the middle of the fucking ocean with Fi-Fu reactors and mass fabricators to make all the training materials they need. End Log. Transferring the info to Omega, the trio placed the explosives on the power core, and left immediately, the entire squad now had a countdown. They all had 20 minutes to kill them all and get the hell out of dodge. <> Cross glided through the halls, spraying everything with the Grater, her light gold recolor of the M134 'minigun', which fired plasma balls of energy. Sawing through everything in her path, she merely sprayed and prayed, but since she was praying to deities that were living/breathing proof of themselves, her prayers were answered. And the answer was yes. She made her way up into the sky again, stopping her wave of destruction and doing a bit of recon. She saw it, the approaching vehicles. <> "We're all going to die." blue spy 1 said aloud. "It's not the bee that kills, it's the swarm." yellow spy 1 replied. Blue and Yellow spies, Blue taking the place of Green, and Yellow taking the place of Red, they were equipped with M16A5s, a special model for the 7.62NATO, and Desert Eagle Mark XXVI, a special model cartidged in .44 magnum and .500SW magnum, they featured slightly longer barrels, and the DE had a much longer grip and held 14 rounds. Skidding to a halt, the group of treader-trucks deployed their soldiers. A few hundred meters away, Bio. Int.'s own reinforcements drove up. "Alright, with reinforcements, we may have the few needles left for the 'Death of a Thousand Needles' we can wear them down until they fall, come on." the leader of the charge shouted to his forces. Cross chose that moment to land. "Huh? That's one of them! SHOOT HER!" the leader commanded. Cross overcharged the Angel Blade, making the bullets seemingly go at a few cm/s, she dodged them all with ease, she summoned the Grater and opened her own fire. The reinforcements were of absolutely no help to their comrades. <> Omega shredded the soldiers in their way with the Joy Love, Shade put the Shanker to use, a short rifle that held enough piercing power and velocity to shoot through 12 inces of FeNiC steel. Blur had the Tenny, a 10 inch long staff that shot laser bolts out of 1 end. Omega had set up several weapons for the group, the constant confiscations helped the process along. The trio made their way through a door, Slam, Scar and Shiv had split up, and Shiv was in the hallway the door led to. "Come on, follow me." Omega commanded the precision-ist, the trio-turned-quartet made their way through the hall to the containment chambers. That's when it happened... <> Slam and Scar had smashed and melted their way through the buildings, and were now in the 3rd floor food-court. The scientists there were enjoying their food and processing some digital calculations on the latest project they were doing. Slam broke one of their heads open, which was noticed not only because of the sound, but because the bits and pieces were spread out across the room. The scientists first screamed like little fillies, then brandished their weapons. They were all armed with silver-finish M1911s, though the .45 pistol rounds didn't do much to the heavy-melee and pyro experts. Like a mentally ill game of Minecraft, Slam simply broke everything. like an average game of Little Inferno, Scar burned everything. Shiv had split off, they needed to cover as much ground as possible, they had 16 minutes left. The power went out suddenly. But how could that be, when the bomb hadn't exploded yet? <> The Yellow and Blue spies had, to their credit, snuck into the power station and set up C4 charges on the power feed while Slam and Scar were STILL IN THERE without being seen, and now were in a literal fire-fight with the 2 cyborgs. "Why can't we hurt those things?!" Yellow spy 1 shouted. "Their tearing us to pieces, detonate the C4 already!" Blue spy 1 replied And now the power feed was out, the massive generator still worked, the back-up generator powered only high-priority areas, the food court was not one of them. But the labs were. <> Right as the main power feed cut off, the back-up generator keeping the underground area lit, it happened. The infected beings attacked. They got to Shiv and stabbed her before they were killed. In the same underground parking-lot like area Omega fought the infected in the first time, here they were, and they were here. Shiv got stabbed, she was lost in the fray. Summoning the last of her strength as the infected beings surrounded her, she took out the Longinus that Omega had prepared for each of them, she stabbed herself. She siezed up for a moment, she glowed bright white, and detonated in a blast of star-hot white energy, taking out all of the infected beings with her. "RARITY!" Twilight shouted as her friend was reduced to ashes. "Ugh, great, well, she did what she had to do, at least the infected beings are gone now." Omega mourned as he summoned the Red Death and led the charge. "She didn't have to BLOW HERSELF UP, OMEGA, don't you CARE?!" Dash demanded angrily. "Of course I do, but I'm not going to let her death stop me from saving this world, I can't let what happened to Earth happen here." Omega assured the speed-fighter cyborg. "What happened then? Why is it so bad that we can't say a few words first?" Twilight querried, despite their protests, the 2 mares followed Omega and he quickly walked to the next room. "Because, it's a nightmare, plantlife was practically extinct except in odd, obscure areas, or just blackened by the pollution, the people rarely cared for eachother, except when personal benefit was involved, murder and suicide came in droves, it was absolutely terrible, and I don't want that to happen here, so WE CAN WAIT FOR THE THREAT TO DIE BEFORE GIVING A FUNERAL!" Omega explained, destroying the door they were faced with, he froze when he saw where it led. They were in the XV's containment room. "Blur, Shade, stay close." Omega commanded. They made their way forward, Omega held the Red Death in one hand and the Powder in another. XV reared its ugly head. "Blur, Shade, speed along and get to Slam and Scar, Cross, find the quickest path to the front gates, NOW!" Omega commed his team, Blur and Shade were already gone. XV roared as it sent out a scanner shockwave. Omega blocked it with a forcefield. "Nice try, old friend, but this time, I have a few tricks up my sleeve." Omega taunted, summoning the Judgement Blades as XV summoned its own. Omega blew up XV's form, rapidly hitting it with slashed, smashed, and explosion energy, it didn't stand a chance. It turned into its reaper form. Omega shot it rapidly with the Ballistic Nightmares, assisting them with the Powder and the T-12. XV was reduced to bones. Omega summoned the Archangel's Smite and broke its bones with the massive, powerful, homing bullets. It turned into a humanoid form. Omega summoned the Retractor and the Ring Leader, slicing it over and over again with a windmill spin, and blasting it with the double-helix lasers. XV tried its damnedest to fight, but Omega was too prepared. Omega lived by a simple philosophy when fighting. The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle. And Omega had cumulatively sweat 13.37x the mass of his body. He was winning by a long shot. XV didn't stand a chance. Using the Joy Love to shred the XV's body to pieces, Omega was just having fun at this point. Shockwave, Joy Love, Powder, T-12, Ring Leader, Red Death, Ballistic Nightmares, Retractor, Archangel's Smite, Arspace (rename of Sollun), running over it with the Rider a few times, and finishing that bastard off with a Shadow Void. The Shadow Void, was, undoubtedly, his most powerful weapon, it created a 6 inch wide black hole for 1.337 seconds, long enough to suck in anything he needed it to, but short enough to not rage out of control. XV was completely gone, no coming back, and it did NOT infect Omega again. He looked at his timer, he had less than 2 minutes to escape. Using his weapons that were less powerful, but more conventional, he blasted his way out, and escaped. The whole group ran the fuck away as the building exploded violently. Omega landed on his back, he looked up. He cursed at the sight. The MBORF battle cruiser, like a sick joke to him, it was like a Star Destroyer from Star Wars, but black with huge green lights everywhere. Then it happened. The fucking thing had a Luna-damned TRACTOR BEAM. It pulled them up, all 6 of them. Omega took this break to sort out the equipment. Omega: Joy Love, Shockwave, Ballistic Nightmares, Red Death, T-12, Powder, Archangel's Smite, Retractor, Arspace, Ring Leader, Rider, Shadow Void, Judgement Blade(s). Twilight: Grudge, Choker, Shanker, Shower, Sight Lasers. Rainbow: Claws (swords), Wing-blades, Shingers (hidden blades), Tenny, Bird Watcher. Applejack: Tridozer (shotgun revolver), Buckshot (sonic boom buck), Sledge-Sluggers, Nastol (rifle pistol). Pinkie: Einhoofer (MP5 HI rounds), Dragon's Breath, Plasma Cutter. Cross: Medi-gun, Lethal Incision, Angel Blade, Grater (mini-gun). Rarity: *DEAD* He held remorse for this act, he tried his damnedest to make sure everypony stayed alive, but Rarity was lost. They crossed the threshold, the door closed, and they were dropped onto its cold metal surface. The soldiers that came to collect them immediately killed Applejack with a sniper shot. The other 4 were furious. Omega started shooting the Ballistic Nightmares at full auto, and killed several dozen guards, before an EMP hit them all, disabling their weapons and armors, Omega stayed standing, his weapons clicked and shut off. The guards dragged the group of now 5 soldiers to another area of the ship. Omega didn't protest, he was too busy formulating a plan. <> The soldiers dropped them unceremoniously onto the floor, Omega was the first to stand, he faced the man in charge. Said man had dark, VERY dark gray skin, he had visible eyes, despite being male, he wore a gold headband like a crown, with a bushy black beard and long, oily hair, his clothes were bleach white, it was like a bathrobe of some sort, maybe a gi, with a gray belt holding it all together, his eyes were completely red, he stood 7 feet tall. Words came up in front of Omega's eyes. "Help, hey, BRO, OVER HERE, OMEGA!" the words read, Omega knew only one being that did that. He turned to the left, sure enough, it was him. It was Hank. He looked different, with red lensed goggles, a bandana covering his head, a gas mask, black gi clothing, but the most shocking part of the transformation, or the ONLY shocking part about it, was his arm. It was the fact that he HAD one, it was red, like a lobster, with powerful fingers curled up on the end, it was his right arm, it had been changed. "Hey, yeah, I see you, stop shouting." Omega calmed his old friend, they had been room-mates in college, all 2 years of master studies Omega did, he had heard that Hank had been in the Black Ops. business as well, though in more obscure parts. He was now being kept behind a crystalline wall, apparently he had his own powers, akin to chaos. "Well, Omega, how nice of you to not try to shoot anyone again." the Omnilord greeted with an evil laugh. "Your position of authority has given you a strong sense of apathy, you don't percieve the challenge because you are overly confident you are able to overcome it, you and me differ in this area." Omega philosophized. "Fuck you, I'm going to kill all of you, starting with HER." the Omnilord dismissed, pulling out a .500SW magnum and shooting the group. Omega jumped in front of Twilight to take the bullet for her, he didn't feel anything. "AH!" Rainbow Dash! He felt a warm liquid splatter on his armor, he looked to his comrade. Her face had a hole in it, the back of her head was completely blown out. She was the one the Omnilord was aiming for. Omega brandished the Joy Stallion, aiming it at the Omnilord. "You're fucking dead." Omega felt the insanity come in, the Chaos Power Armor was summoned, he aimed directly at the Omnilord's face. "No, you're just a fool." the Omnilord replied. Omega smiled in insanity and rage. "What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Bio-Mech Operations, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on all governments, and I have over nine thousand confirmed kills. I am trained in guerilla warfare and takedown tactics and I’m the top soldier in the entire world. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with force the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me after killing my friend? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am preparing my arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and your corporation is being taken down right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, maggot. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to my own arsenal of customized weapons that can take out cities in minutes, and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you Luna-damned idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, bucko." he ranted, smiling an insane smile. He, true to his word, Omega shredded the Omnilord to pieces, all that was left of his team was Shade, Cross, and Scar. The ship was knocked from the sky suddenly, Omega reacted. "Come ON, we have to GO!" he screamed, the team got themselves armed, the EMP had worn off. Omega turned to Hank. "Don't leave me, bro." the words that were his voice said. "I'm not." Omega replied, breaking the lock on the door. Hank opened the door and hugged Omega in happiness. The Gi-clad man had a tendency to change emotions quickly. "Alright, come on, we need to go." Omega directed his old friend. The pair of humans ran out of the room, quickly catching up to the rest of the New Bolverk Squad, the group of five forced their way through, coming out of the ship seconds before it hit the ground and destroyed half the city. It was one hell of a mess, and it was about to get even worse. Standing again, Omega heard laughing after the ringing in his ears stopped. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha." he heard the strange voice laugh. He turned to see the strangest sight. "Thanks for the help Omega, we'll let you 5 stand up before we kill you all." the being said. Omega came face to face with... ... ... ... ...Omega? Author's Note BOOYAH, that's PART 1 done. tune in next time for PART 2. See you all next time. I <3 you all, byeeeeee. //-------------------------------------------------------// My name is "Omega", hear me roar! Part 2 //-------------------------------------------------------// My name is "Omega", hear me roar! Part 2 This chapter is ALSO brought to you by Epic Starting blah blah bullshit just look at the banner. https://camo.derpicdn.net/b898ff2ed0073710bd8fb68560647aadd16f9e0b?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages2.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20110626161938%2Fgodofwar%2Fimages%2Fthumb%2F2%2F2e%2FGowc_lg_dl_01_png_jpgcopy-1-.jpg%2F1024px-Gowc_lg_dl_01_png_jpgcopy-1-.jpg Omega came face to face with... ... ... ... ... Omega? He looked at the beings facing him. He was horrified. https://camo.derpicdn.net/0e93489bd387f372da3d467fdfb19e7801b06b72?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.wikia.com%2Fxionicmadness%2Fimages%2F0%2F0d%2F179106_lolomega.jpg https://camo.derpicdn.net/e5099a06f0234a98de3efd912b79f4087931dd03?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.wikia.com%2Fmadnesscombat%2Fimages%2F6%2F6d%2FXero.png https://camo.derpicdn.net/42252bac3dcdc6ae4c4e31c185cc0a5307b6ebac?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.wikia.com%2Fmadnesscombat%2Fimages%2F5%2F57%2FKary.png https://camo.derpicdn.net/eeef12153bdf783820b36f446fb20d3e97656809?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.wikia.com%2Fmadnesscombat%2Fimages%2Fd%2Fd9%2FAskad.png Robot clones of himself and the Old Bolverk Squad. The others stood and got steady, looking to their offenders. Hank spoke first, his words floating in a visible form in front of everyone's eyes, rather than being sound. "Holy SHIT, ACTION FIGURES! Omega, you're fucking FAMOUS man." he said, the joy was evident. "Shut up Hank." Omega replied. "So, here's a little bit of courtesy, I suppose." the Omega clone said, his voice was just like Omega's, but with a robotic accent. "I'm Kratos." the Omega clone started, "I'm Infus." the Xero clone added. "I'm Receivad." the Askad clone piped in. "And I'm Kary-09." the Kary clone finished. "Okay, get ready to be destroyed." Omega said. "Hold on, we need some tunes for this." Hank said, poking Omega in the side. The files were sent, the rest of the group armed themselves as the Robot Bolverks landed, they had been flying becaus they had the power to do so, and armed themselves. It was pitiful, really, Kratos had the Joy Colt and Armadillo, Infus had an A.P.S. and the the Nightstar, Kary-09 only had her imagination based superpower, the mask wasn't even built, and Receivad had a Painkiller mini-spear. The song was downloaded in a second, and began playing. https://img.youtube.com/vi/q9-IDsbvBQc/mqdefault.jpg Omega knew this fight would be extremely difficult, he looked over the weapons again. Omega: Joy Love, Western Culture (Tridozer and Nastol), Ballistic Nightmares, Shockwave, Shadow Void, Arspace, Archangel's Smite, T-12, Powder, Rider, Ring Leader, Retractor, Red Death, Tenny, Judgement Blade(s). Twilight: Grudge, Choker, Shanker, Shower, Sight Laser, Bird Watcher, Claws, Blacklight (hidden blades). Pinkie: Dragon's Breath, Plasma Cutter, Sledge-Sluggers, Buckshot. Fluttershy: Lethal Incision, Medi-gun, Angel Blade, Grater, Wing-blades. Hank: I don't even fucking know. Once the equipment check was complete, Omega had himself armed. The Robot Bolverks were ready. The New Bolverks were ready. It was time to fight. <> Kratos shot off first. Hitting the group full on with shotgun blasts, Kratos kept firing. Omega shot back, hitting his bullets in mid air and blasting Kratos to pieces. The other 8 were already in battle. Blasts from Kary-09, explosives from Receivad, speedy slashes from Infus, it was hectic. Cross kept firing the Grater, her Wing-blades kept her safe while she was flying, but Kary-09 countered each plasma ball with her own. Shade used the Shower to try to kill Infus, but the cyborg was moving too fast to hit, either dodging or blocking every shot. Scar was setting EVERYTHING on FIRE, Receivad was not impressed. Omega was busy crushing Kratos to pieces, the poor robot was unable to get free and attack, and was turned into a metal pancake. Hank had used his lobster hand to pick up a FUCKING BUILDING and throw it at the enemy. Kary-09 disintegrated the mass of stone, metal, and glass to ashes. That was when the robots started losing. Kary-09 was distracted with destroying the building and got hit, a LOT. Receivad's optical sensors got smeared with ash, and he stopped to clear them, and got burned. Infus had gone out of his way to dodge the building, and got Showered. The robots pulled out their Longinus Knives, they stabbed themselves. The explosion took out the rest of the city. Omega and Shade were the only ones left. Shade let her vision clear, she cried at the sight. Omega looked at the sight in pity, the Chaos Power Armor was unscathed. "*sigh* I wish it would have gone differently, I just wish it all would have gone differently." Omega mourned. "*sniff, *sniff sniff*, *shiff*, I, I, my friends are, gone." Twilight cried. At least the fallen deserved a proper burial. <> Omega and Twilight stood on the small stage that had been set up, only a few ponies had attended. Rainbow Dash's father, Speed Spectrum. Big Macintosh, Granny Smith, and Applebloom. Sweetie Belle, Rarity's parents were too far away to make it in time. Fluttershy's brother, who just so happened to be Blue Comet, the Class 4 General Pegasus. Pinkie's parents, Clyde and Sue, and Mr. and Mrs. Cake. Scootaloo had come too, out of respect rather than relation. Luna stood at the podium. She spoke little. "*sigh* This, we are gathered here today, for the burial of 5 of the 6 Bearers of the Elements of Harmony, they died how they lived, protecting peace, their leader, Omega, led them on a mission to stop an evil corporation who would stop at nothing to take over the world and make it into a living hell, they each are honored with the Medal of Honor, and they will be dearly missed, if anypony has anything to say, come up to the podium and say it." Luna mourned. Twilight was the only one who made a movement to the podium. "Hello, I'm Twilight Sparkle, Element of Magic and sole surviving Bearer of what will be remembered as the Metal-and-Blood Battle. I remember the first day I came to Ponyville, almost 3 years ago, and I met each and every one of them, they were vibrant, full of life, happy, we all were, we were heroines, saviors, it was wonderful, when we went into that fight, we had a lot to lose, but so much more to gain, it was all good, but things happened, things that none of us expected, we were overtaken, and they were killed, we all had so much to live for, and I'm the only one left living, I swear on their honor, that I'll make the most of the life I was lucky enough to keep." Twilight cried half-way through her speech. She left the podium, Omega came up, tapped the microphone, cleared his throat, and spoke. "Ugh, I, I don't know where to start, the Bearers were great ponies, they shed away the brutal years of war and hatred that had clung to me, they made me happy, I know I should have gone alone, I should have never brought them into my problems, I can't help but feel like I'm the reason that they're dead, I probably am. I've stopped hurting though, the pain is like poison, and I'm not letting it stay inside me. I've gotten over what, to most of you, will never be forgotten or healed from. I'm going to go now, I don't deserve to stay here. Goodbye, everypony, I'm not going to see you again, I know I'm heading straight to hell." Omega said, walking off the stage and leaving. He teleported away before anypony could react. <> Omega walked through the rocky lands, keeping himself steady with the Powder. His strength had left him, just like he left the ponies, he didn't feel like he deserved to live in a wonderland like this anymore. He was as far as he could get away, he couldn't life the Judgements Blades, or any of his weapons, all he could hold was the Joy Love now, the Powder had been dropped, the base was nuked, he had nothing left. He lifted the Joy Mare and Joy Stallion to his head, ready to pull the trigger. Thought ran through his head. I should have never brought them into my problems. None of them should be dead. I'm the one who deserves to die. I... I wonder...... I wonder if........... I wonder If Xero................ I wonder if Xero would............................... I wonder I Xero would have done any better....................................................................... Xero....... Kary......... Askad........... I wonder if their waiting for me? They probably are. But... ... ... ... .. ... I still wonder if Xero would have done any better..... Time to pull the trigger. I'm too weak to do even that. Tired... So tired... This seems like a good place to rest. I hope nobody finds me. I leave this as my last message. Something I should have said a long time ago. https://img.youtube.com/vi/Lk_L4H9hkvQ/mqdefault.jpg I'm just going to rest now..... -End of Log Author's Note Well....... damn. That was intense. Stay tuned for the epilogue and the sequel. I <3 you all, byeeeeee. //-------------------------------------------------------// Bleeding into Equestria //-------------------------------------------------------// Bleeding into Equestria 'Twas a peaceful da- oh, nevermind about peaceful, but it was daytime, the smoke and haze merely blocked the sun from view, after a long fight in New York City, which destroyed by themselves and robot clones of themselves, Xero and Omega were on the road to freedom... for about 6 seconds... They were interrupted, and they knew the fight would last quite some time, and it did, Kary-08, their former team-mate and somewhat friend had tried and succeeded to kill them, at least for Omega, that is... <> The last few rays of light shone into his dull gray eyes, he was technically dead, brought back by an alien he thought he had killed, though only alive long enough to kill Kary-08 and die again, in the last few moments before he was decapitated, thoughts raced through his head Goodbye, Xero, and Goodbye, Kary I wonder if my parents are waiting for me in the afterlife scratch that, I'm going on an express trip to Lake Burnyourassoff in the lowest part of Hell oh well, at least I did my best wait, I need to stop thinking, I'm dead now ... ... ... Hell looks... different from how I imagined it Indeed it did, instead of the fiery depths, or fiery peaks, or fiery anything, Omega found himself waking up staring into a pool of clean, reflective water. He looked like shit, skin cut open, blood stains around his mouth, eyes swollen, hair disheveled and matted with dirt and ash, and the pain, oh dear god the pain. It took every fiber and wire in his being to not howl in pain, his body was burning with the horrible, broken glass filled sensation, he might actually have broken glass stuck in his body, he would have to run a bio-scan later, but for now, all his mind could focus on was pain. He rolled over and his sight was filled with dark green foliage and bright blue sky, he immediately knew he was nowhere near the U.S. or several other countries either, industrialization killed off anything in nature that looked this healthy, he slowly got up after his body ceased it's screams of 'You're hurt, I thought you should know that.' His vision focused slightly and he could tell he was in a forest, he turned immediately away from the pond and proceeded to throw up, the act awoke the muscles and nerves in his mouth and he knew he was thirsty. Once the vile mostly-acid-and-blood mixture was forced from his body, he dunked his head into the pond and began drinking. He felt like he was in heaven, the sensation of the chill, clean water entering his system almost made him shiver in pleasure, his abused body felt better within seconds, but he still drank, he drank until he no longer felt the blood, ash, and bile in his mouth. Finished, he sat up and gave a small burp. "*sigh* If there's one thing I like it's feeling human." he stated in his usual tone, his speedy team mate Xero had compared his voice to Johnny Depp, though significantly deeper, with which Omega had merely replied with some of the actors quotes. He chuckled at the memory, how simple times had been, doing Black Op missions and shooting people in the head, then his company had to ruin it by saying he was too 'humane' for sparing some civilians who not 15 seconds later killed 8 human soldiers and were then swiftly shot and sliced to death. His head felt strangely empty, attempting to run a bio-scan, he figured out why, his robotic body parts had shut down from lack of power, leaving about 45% of his body infunctional, though enough was still usable to get up and move around, possibly fight as well, but he didn't want to test that just yet. Getting shakily up to his feet, allowing the still human parts of his brain to gather themselves and wake up his body, he still felt a large amount of pain, but it wasn't debilitating, he stretched, feeling his muscles moan and his joints snap into place, which reduced his pain significantly vision restored, he began looking around the forest, it was normal enough, plants growing randomly, animals taking care of themselves, and the weather went on it's merry free way, but he still felt something off, an aura of evil, he walked slowly through the brightest portions of pathways, cautious of any danger, he looked for someplace to stay safe. Making his way with a slowly decreasing level of pain as his body healed itself, his pace became quicker and more fluid, he found another clearing, with a cave at the base of a mountain, he looked inside, seeing a great sight. Lava resting in a large pool and a series of flat surfaces connected by stair-like formations, but that's not what made him shed a tear of joy. Minerals, elements in ore, metals, nonmetals, crystals, and bound to be more in the dark areas of the cave, he carefully entered, putting his expert scientist mind to work. With these minerals, I can get a scientific lab of sorts set up, minerals to refine and make into parts, parts to make into machines, and the lava can provide geothermal energy, and maybe I can get some upgrades for my... armor He finally looked at himself fully, a few pieces of helmet and part of a disabled visor clung to his head, several damaged plates on his torso, his boots had several scrathes in them, but no dents or holes, and his gloves were two halves of themselves, his shirt underneath was a bit bloody but only had a couple of holes in it, one on his left side near his abs, and one by his right shoulder, despite not having arms and legs, and instead having floating hands and feet, the anatomy of a Homo Xionus was very similar to a Homo Sapien, he suddenly felt naked though, stripped of armor that was bonded to his skin, he immediately switched his goals to getting something to protect himself and creating a machine to make his armor again. Most think Askad, our technician, demolitionist, and comms expert is the smart one of the group, heh, he's only the smartest, I know how to make the machines necessary to rebuild my armor and weapons, maybe even improve it later on, I should get started immediately. He removed his gauntlets and set them down on one of the platform structures, he could sacrifice having two infunctional halves for one functional whole, as they been upgraded to a powerful weapon, he used his car lifting strength to punch some stone out of the wall until he got a pickaxe head shaped piece, he jumped outside and grabbed a suitable branch from the first tree he could get to and attached it to the stone head. "And voila, a pickaxe, my younger days playing Minecraft and studying various geo-subjects payed off.", he stated proudly, he turned to re-enter his cave when the sound of a voice caught his ear. "Well girls, the explosion went off here, but we don't know who or what caused it." Who in there right mind would be walking around in those foreboding woods? It gave him a sense of danger, surely most people would be able to see the evil of the forest. He immediately ran to his cave as quietly as possible, unfortunately, being quiet was far from his forte. *CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK* "Did anypony hear that? It sounds like metal on stone, claka-claka-claka." Something didn't seem right about that sentence, but Omega was too hellbent on hiding from whatever might be looking for him and probably wants to kill him to think what it was. He was unarmed, but he could stop a leaping lion, punch a bat out of the air, and break a scorpion's sting while being stung, but he couldn't risk it if the unknown entity was armed with a gun or other ranged weapon. He had died once and ended up in a peaceful yet foreboding forest, he didn't want to have another shot at landing in hell. Diving down into the cave and concealing himself below a ledge, he waited for this enemy to approach. The sound of hooves on stone came to his ears. His only thought was: Who in the hell rides a damn horse in a fucking forest? <> 10 minutes earlier It had been a peaceful day in Ponyville, sun shining in the partially cloudy sky, birds chirping, ponies milling about running errands or doing whatever they had set out to do. Twilight Sparkle had arrived a little less than 4 weeks ago, and had on the first day saved the world and made 5 new friends. She was already better off than she was in Canterlot, she was living in Books and Branches Library and she had a social life. Right now, she was placing the last few books into their correct places. She had balanced her schedule between re-organizing the entire library, and spending time with her new friends, and had now finished the former. "Phew, that took a while, well, let's check the schedule." She brought forward her day's plans, and saw that nothing else had been planned besides 'Find something else to do' and 'Spend time with Friends', an important item she now valued, where as she would have previously not even thought about other ponies besides her parents, her brother, the princess, and the librarian. She equipped her saddlebags and set off outside to see who had time to hang out. Nearing Sugarcube Corner, a sudden explosion sounded off, briefly darkening the sky and showing its red light pillar and shockwaves from all the way deep in the Everfree Forest. Panic was short-lived, when nopony was hurt by the explosion after it dissipated, they all went back to their previous activities. All except Twilight, after all, her logical mind knew that explosions of that size, shape, and color don't just randomly happen, so she immediately galloped off... ... only to run muzzle first into Pinkie Pie. Known for her randomness, Pinkie merely giggled and took in a deep breath. "Hey Twilight, Whatcha doin'? Gonna go off and investigate that huge explosion that happened? That's GREAT, I was wondering what is was too, HEY, do ya' want me to gather the girls for another mission into the Everfree Forest? Huh? DO YA' DO YA' DO YA'? Twilight blinked, the pink mare had said all that in one breath, the purple unicorn merely sighed at the display of disregard for biology. She knew her friendship with Pinkie would never get better or easier if she always questioned her wacky ways. "Sure Pinkie, I think it would be safer with all of us there, faster too." "Alright then, I'll be right back." ... ... ... Derek Ganter the unicorn had always stayed courageous, even when he performed a massacre with his fighting magic. He magically lifted his glass to take a sip when suddenly Pinkie Pie dove into it, disappearing into her warping system without a trace. He only had one thing to say: "Um, I'm afraid to drink this now." <> A few minutes later the Main 6 were making their way through the Everfree Forest, Twilight was the first to speak up. "So, remind me why this place is so dangerous." Twilight asked half-heartedly "Tha stories go that tha forest is cursed." Applejack began "Yeah, the clouds, MOVE ON THEIR OWN." Rainbow Dash continued "The plants grow every which way, darling." Rarity added "A-a-and the animals, they, they take care of th-themselves." Fluttershy stuttered out in fear "And EVERYPONY who ever goes in, doesn't come out, FOOORREEEVEER." Pinkie concluded "Uh-huh, right, well, let's move on, shall we?" Twilight said, forcing the subject to change They walked in relative silence only a few comments were made "How long have we been waaalking." Rarity complained, not happy to be amongst dirt "What do you think caused that explosion? Probably a bomb, I would be pretty disappointed if all we found was just some burnt dirt and scorched trees." Rainbow Dash proposed "No 'bomb' Equestria has developed is advanced enough to cause an explosion that big, besides, the explosion itself was mostly light, only the princesses can make that much light normally, and they wouldn't add sound to it or perform a spell like that without informing ponies about it. It's an anomaly, a possibly dangerous one at that, who knows, maybe we'll find a technology infused two-legged ape?" Twilight stated simply, laughing at the end. The other ponies began their various forms of laughter as well, what were the chances of THAT happening? absolutely negligible. They arrived at a clearing, slightly off center of the middle was a pond with mostly clean, cold water, the ponies were more focused on the patch of scorched grass and dirt in front of it. "This is weird." said Twilight, Applejack, and Rarity simultaneously The 3 ponies looked at eachother, then gave their individual reasons why they thought so. "It's weird because an explosion that big woulda burnt the ground a whole lot more than that." Applejack explained, he knowledge of fire coming from years on the farm, where fire needed to be quickly evaluated and dealt with. "Also, horrid debris would be launched everywhere, but there is only a scorch mark on the ground, no crater or anything, except a bit of dirt and ash in the water, it looks like somepony tried to drink from the pond while bathing." Rarity added, her eye for detail paying off "And there is no sign of what caused this, no physical remains, no magic residue, nothing, evidence can't just get up and walk away." Twilight analyzed, her studies informing her as she spoke "Well girls, the explosion went off here, but we don't know why or what caused it." Rainbow Dash concluded, ending the debate *CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK* "Did anypony hear that? It sounds like metal on stone, claka-claka-claka." Pinkie lilted The Main 6 proceeded to gallop in the direction of the loud clacking noise, whatever it was, it was probably the one who caused the mysterious explosion. They approached a clearing of stony ground and mountain face, in said face was a cave, they peered into it, looking at it's structure, several levels of platforms, and a pool of lava, strange, but far from impossible, though nothing seemed out of place. "Twilight, nothing is here." One of them whispered "Well, I guess it was just a feeding animal." Twilight observed after a few minutes <> With his one thought concluded, Omega peered over the edge of the platform, and was met with a strange sight Horse creatures, too small though, perhaps ponies? but, wait, is one of them flying? with WINGS? did I land in a land of mythology? lucky I studied some mythology. Wait, stay focused Omega, yes, definately pony-type creatures, I see a protrusion from the head, wings on the sides, 6 specimens, 2 unicorns, 2 normal ponies, and 2 pegasus..es, pegasuses? pegasuseseseseseses? pegaseeses? Oh wait, it's pegasi, none the less, they lack riders, so they came here of their own curiosity, but wait, then who spoke in the forest back ther- "Twilight, nothing is here." he heard whispered, as though attempting to be sneaky or private, but failing in the presence of his trained hearing, though quiet, it stopped his train of thought on a dime. "Well, I guess it was just a feeding animal." a studious sounding voice said, Omega immediately knew that this voice belonged to 'Twilight', whoever that was "Ya think it was Twi?" another voice, with a southern drawl. Omega immediately liked it, he was a fan of western culture and a southern drawl was enough to win him over a little bit. "M-maybe it w-was an animal, and f-from the blood stains, it s-seems like a carnivore." a quiet and timid voice this time, either this pony-owner had a talent in polyvocalism, or these pony things were talking, and Omega didn't see any owners around. "Well whatever it is, it's either completely uncouth for simply bleeding everywhere, or perhaps it didn't even know it was wounded." a posh voice added, Omega didn't like this one at all, posh reminded him of snooty, snooty reminded him of arrogant, and arrogant reminded him of Kary, and Kary, well, he didn't like being dead as much as the next person, and Kary had killed him. "What kind of silly filly doesn't know when their hurt?" a happy voice, Omega tried to break it down into secondary emotions hiding a truth behind a wall of lies and false joy, but he couldn't, replaying it over and over in his head, he couldn't find anything malicious with it, odd, the sentence itself was off, as though the speaker wasn't speaking right. "It was probably somepony either dangerous, dumb, or both if they made an explosion." a rough voice, Omega knew he heard all of them, if these ponies were talking, then all 6 of them have spoken, but that voice, if he didn't know any better, better being the fact that Xero wasn't a pony-creature, he would call out to the rough voiced one, he could tell that it's owner was brash, reckless, probably insane with some obsession, and more than likely a speed demon, just like his almost friend/disrespectful subordinate Xero. He did not want to get into a fight within... his internal clock, like all of his robotic parts, was still shut down from lack of power, his bio-electric energy not enough to keep them online for a usable period of time, he greatly regretted not getting a reactor upgrade before he left, but it would probably be broken when he got here anyways. Slowly but surely, each pony left, leaving one unicorn, she, he had deduced that it was a she because all 6 voices were distinctly female, even the tomboyish one and the really quiet one. The unicorn took a step back, revealing herself in the sunlight after previously being backlit, her coat was a soft, light shade of purple, lavender, he recognized. She had a mane and tail that were a very dark blue with a streak of purple and streak of pink in them. Her eyes were weird, not because they took up half her face and were distinctly anime-like, but because they faced the same direction, a sign of mental illness or possibly retardation, he figured the smartest of the ponies had eyes that faced different directions. He felt conflicted, he needed to inform her of his presence, and figure out if these ponies could talk, but he needed to do it in such a way that she doesn't freak out, he gathered his strength, he jumped up to the higher platform he was hiding behind, now in full view of the purple pony. "What the? wait, girls, HEY-" she had started, before being cut off "Shush shush shush" Omega cut in, ending her sentence "What are you? Wait, can you talk?" Twilight asked calmly, though unsure of his response "Yes, but don't tell anyone about me, Twilight." Omega said, barely containing his faltering confidence, if the legends were true, unicorns were mages, and he could NOT deal with magic. "Who are you? How do you know my name?" Twilight querried, catching on to his statement immediately "My name is Omega, and I know your name because I heard you and your friends, and one of them whispered it, I do not wish to fight, but know this, if you tell your friends about me in my absence, you WILL suffer consequences, I just want to live peacefully, and I will not let anybody stop me." Omega concluded, trying not to sound too aggressive or mentally unstable. "Um, uh, okay then Omega, I won't tell anypony about you, but I will need to talk to you later, you are a strange creature and I wish to study you, if you don't mind?" Twilight said "I was going to say the same thing, let me just gather my strength, and maybe we could meet again some time." Omega proposed, his soldierly discipline helping him greatly with coping with the circumstances, he may not know who these ponies are, or why they seem familiar, but he would kill to stay in the clear with them, if they were sentient beings, then they probably have a civilization, society, government, and god only knows what else, but they more than likely were the dominant species here, while he was probably endangered "I'm not sure, but it's possible." Twilight answered, accepting his offer and putting his mind to a slight ease, after dealing with lies, half-truths, and betrayal all of his cyborg life, he always maintained a constant sense of doubt and caution, but she seemed to trust him, so he let go of his suspicion a little bit. "I would like that, now get along, your friends must be wondering where you are, come back tomorrow, preferably alone, your friends might not react to me as well as you have." Omega observed and would have documented if his digital memory was still online, he internally sighed at the inconvienence. "OH right, I'll talk to you tomorrow?" Twilight blurted out, visibly ready to gallop off to get back to her friends. "Sure thing Twilight, tomorrow." Omega replied, chuckling softly at her enthusiasm. With that, Twilight galloped off to rejoin her friends who were probably looking for her, Omega waited, counted to 60, and then turned back to the area that would be his laboratory. He ran a bare hand through his dirty hair as he looked, mapped, and thought. Good thing I learned how to do all of that science fuckery while I was still employed, I could build a whole laboratory to make my armor and weapons, design a warehouse to store materials and supplies, and whatever else I need. Almost everything, I need a team, I'm a leader, a damn good one at that, but I can't do everything alone. That can come later though, I need to get myself situated first. *drip drip drip* I'm bleeding, aren't I? Yep, bleeding, I probably looked WAY too dangerous during my conversation with Twilight, fuuuuuuuuuuuuck. <> Twilight ran faster than she ever had before, she had encountered a possibly alien creature, and had agreed to talk to it, she was surprised her false confidence didn't visibly falter, Omega seemed nice enough, though possibly mortally dangerous, she would have to get a shield spell ready to use in case it attacked. Him, not it. she thought, it was male, at least from what she could tell, his face was a cross, with thin lines for his eyes and mouth, but what was apparent in his bio-structure was what made it obvious, she couldn't see any physical signs of mammary glands and the torso was mostly flat, and the voice was only slightly higher pitch than that of Big Macintosh, which was still very deep, masculine formation of the body, chiseled jawline, short hair, it all fit. Omega was a male. She still worried though, while he didn't look dangerous, per se, he WAS bleeding, but most fleshwounds bled, he said a few dangerous things, but he could be trying to look tougher than he was in order to avoid a fight, he was wearing a few broken plates of armor, but he could have been a knight of some sort, the intelligence factor was the key to a full understanding, she didn't know how advanced his race was, she would have to wait and prepare for their meeting tomorrow. Twilight had returned home, and prepared a set of materials to analyze Omega, science was calling, and she was hellbent on answering. She would have to wait, she had to sleep, and hope that this mysterious stallion wasn't nocturnal. Author's Note So, this is the first chapter, I'll admit, I'm new at writing, even when I have it all in my head, I have trouble getting it typed up in a sensible way. I highly recommend watch the Xionic Madness series for a better understanding of Omega and, if you like action, some good entertainment as well This starts off the day before the events of 'The Ticket Master' The lack of reactions from Omega comes from being an awesome soldier and having dealt with emotions so thoroughly before that he no longer has much reaction, the super-smart science part of his mind is just so it's logical that he eventually recovers his armor and weapons, because he will. The lack of reactions from Twilight comes from being not allowed time to freak out before her panic is replace with enthusiastic science and studying. Again, my first official writing, many scenes were scrapped or put into storage for future use, I rewrote several parts, tried a few formats, and attempted to keep the word repitition to a minimum, any natural skill is from personal literacy and vigorous studying of successful stories. Have a nice day. //-------------------------------------------------------// Friendship is Magic, and Magic can power Machines //-------------------------------------------------------// Friendship is Magic, and Magic can power Machines "Omega?" Twilight asked, her voice filled with confusion and disbelief. "Ugh, what?" Omega said, his head hurting from the sudden energy influx, he turned around to look at her. "I'm sorry I didn't come back to talk, but I didn't think you would come and try to find me, what are you doing here?" Twilight querried, not noticing his discomfort "I didn't come to look for you, I've been working, I needed some food, so I went out looking, that's when I found this orchard. What are you doing here though? Do you live here?" Omega answered, his head having stopped hurting from his robot parts turning on without regulation, he needed to know something. "No, my friend Applejack lives here, this is her farm." Twilight said simply, her minor disbelief having gone. "Farm, eh. Does she speak like this?" Omega prodded, asking his question in a southern drawl. "Yes, actually, are you making fun of her?" Twilight asked, a bit upset that Omega might be mocking her friend without even meeting her. "No, not at all, I'm a huge fan a western culture, that's why I asked, I think me and Applejack would get along fine, what are you doing here though? I doubt you would visit her from the Evil Woods." Omega prodded again, wanting to know more. "Evil Woods? You mean the Everfree Forest? I don't live there, if that's what you're asking. I live at the town library, I'm all the way out here because I realized I left something in the orchard, me and my friends helped Applejack with applebuck season." "With, what?" Omega asked in minor disbelief, not sure if he had heard he correctly, cleaning out his ears and cringing at the dark yellow substance he removed, a sign of poor hygiene. "Applebuck season, that's what they call harvesting time, and I didn't see you before that because I had a conundrum with tickets to The Grand Galloping Gala, which, before you ask, is the biggest, fanciest party of the year. It takes place in Canterlot, capitol of Equestria, the country we live in." Twilight stated intelligently, answering each question Omega would have asked but immediately after didn't need to. "Sounds like you ponies have a pretty advanced society, one quick question though." Omega complimented, though needing even more information. "Sure, what is it?" Twilight said, happy to inform this confused stallion. "Can you do magic with that horn?" "Yes, I'm actually Princess Celestia's personal protege in the arts of magic." "I see, well, that's all I wanted to know. Do you have any questions for me?" "YES, I've actually got my notebook with pre-written questions on it. I was planning on coming back to see you today and ask them, but being here works too." Twilight proclaimed excitedly, if there was one thing she liked more than informing the uninformed, it was learning. "Okay, empty the clip." Omega chuckled, that line was an extension of using 'shoot' as a way to approve questioning, he used it whenever someone had a LOT of questions. "What does that mean?" "It's just another way of saying 'go ahead and ask your questions', alright?" "Alright! so, let's see, what is your full name, if Omega is just a first name?" she started, sitting down on her haunches as Omega laid with his back against a tree. "It's just Omega, my real name was lost when they started the project." "What project?" "The 'Omega' Project, they needed someone big, tough, and strong for the program, and I was the top candidate, afterwards, I was called Omega and was the leader of my own squad of soldiers." 'So he IS a knight, and a commander at that, interesting.' she thought, writing quickly with her magic. "What did the Project entail, exactly?" she asked "Genetic Engineering, Cybernetic Implantation, and being put into a higher regard by the company, eventually I recieved a suit of highly advanced armor." he answered, the company had him in a high enough regard to make custom weapons for him, at least until the betrayal. "So you were part of a company, not the military?" "Yes, the company did some gnarly stuff, both the good and bad kinds." "Did you have to, *gulp* kill?" "Yes, a goddamn lot of people, not animals, no, this wasn't for food, this was for power." "You kill animals for food?" "Yes, as well as farming for food, we humans are omnivores, we eat any substance that won't kill us, and any animal that doesn't kill us first, which is a lot of animals, as we are the dominant species on my planet." "Okay, you just answered a few questions I was about to ask, so, next question, does your species fight a lot?" "Yes, enough fighting for at least 1 war per century, maybe 2 or 3 wars, and we've been roaming around for several thousands of years." "That's a lot of fighting, what were your people fighting over?" "Eh, new characters, new costumes, new props, same play." "Your people have theater?" "Yes, after we got over most of our differences, and establishing our dominance, we developed many things, entertainment, luxury, electricity, big one, electricity is, even making copies of ourselves with machinery, something that I don't really like much anymore." his voice took on a sad tone at this. "You have machinery? What are the most advanced machines your people have made?" "Myself and my former team." he stated simply. "...... what?" she said, full of disbelief. "It's true, I'm and my former friends are the most advanced machines my people have made, we're cyborgs, part human, part machine, made for destruction." "You're part machine?" "Yes, that's why I asked if you could do magic, because humans can't do magic, there have been many who tried to perform it, tried to philosophize it, but none have done it, you see, when you approached, my robot parts activated, I think magic has the same frequency as electricity, because it sure as hell works." "Magic works the same as your electricity, hmm." "Yep, that's what I've gathered, and I think it might be beneficia-" he stopped. "Beneficial? I can see why you would think that, and maybe you're right, but, why did you stop talking?" He had stopped because he had been going through his memories, trying to find out why Twilight looked so familiar, despite having seen her twice, when he found it, a memory. It was christmas time in the human world, and the members of Bolverk Squad were at their company issued apartment, a fancy place with all of the utilities, clean, big, and nice, with marble floors, plush carpets, advanced facilities, and some nice walls and ceilings too. They had ordered a pizza for Christmas dinner, too lazy to cook and too hungry to not eat, luckily several places were open because the owners and employees did not celebrate the holiday, but that was okay, they had their differences of belief but that didn't make them any less human. After hanging up the phone after ordering, Omega announced it was present time. and everyone took turns handing out their gifts Askad had given everyone something that they, he had gotten Kary a pair of cool glasses, with silver frames and green tinted lenses, almost the same as his but his had yellow tinted lenses, for Xero, the demolitionist/intelligence officer had gotten a bottle of Starcraft themed hot sauce, as the ninja liked both the game and spicy foods, and for Omega, the SCO had bought an artist pallet, a set of paints, and a canvas sized note book, Omega liked painting. Kary had tried, at least, she was still in early stages or development and wasn't sure what to get everyone, she got Askad a glass ball filled with water and plutonium, which equaled out to a high-power-low-tech bomb, where she got the glass, none of them knew, for Xero, she got an obsidian framed monocle on a bladed chain, because Xero was both british, a ninja, and also liked dark colors, and for Omega, whom she had had a Guardian Crush on, which was love of someone because they protect you, she had bought him a book of poetry, with half of a page for a written and half for and half for writing you own, Omega also liked poetry. Xero had half-assed it, he got Askad an orange kevlar lab coat, Kary a bottle of blade oil for her glove, and Omega a pack of British blend cigarettes and a pack of Japanese blend cigarettes, along with a picture of Xero flipping him off, Omega really liked smoking, and the picture was funny. Omega put a bit more heart into his gifts, He got Askad a radio upgrade, he had pitched in to the luxury developers of the armors for it to be made faster. He bought Xero a box of tea from Britain and another from Japan, the whole team had a joke about Xero being British and trained in Japanese martial arts, but Kary, well, that was a tough one. He had searched the internet for something that a young girl would like, because he liked her, and she liked him, he found a TV show, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, probably the girliest thing in the world, but he watched it, he had bought both seasons 1 and 2 for her, not all three as the third was not for disc purchase, and stored the data in his robot brain parts, the human parts having somewhat repressed it, he had watched every single episode, and enjoyed them, he didn't regret it. Even when that asshole cashier made fun of him for buying it, not believing his soldierly affiliation or the fact he was buying it for someone else, he kicked that bastard right in the crotch, probably fractured his pelvis, then shot him between his eyes, the higher-ups pulled some strings for him after they found out the victim was part of Bio-Int., nobody who he didn't know mocked him and got away with it, Omega was big on pride and maintaining rightful ownership of that pride. But he knew who Twilight was, because he had seen the events of this world happen, and he wondered if they would change because he was here. Omega blinked at his name being called. "OMEGA!" Twilight almost shouted, poking him in the face with a hoof. "WHAT?" Omega almost shouted back in surprise. "You just sort of, shut down for a minute, what happened?" "Oh, I just got lost in thought for a minute, I was answering your questions, and I said magic was beneficial, your magic powered up my robot parts, but my body battery isn't repaired and back in my body yet, so if you get out of range of me, they'll shut down, and if they do that while I'm conscious, I could get really hurt, so to avoid that, could you come with me, back to my lab?" "You built a laboratory in that cave?" "Yes, can you just follow me?" "Um, sure, after I find what I lost." "I can help you with that," he said as they started walking through the orchard. "What did you lose?." "My special reading glasses, they have magic that can translate other languages into equish." "Equish?" "Yeah, the language we're, kind of, speaking right now." "I was under the impression that we were speaking english." "English, eh? It could be that we're speaking two different languages that are identical in all but name." "Sounds logical." Omega said as he turned on his scanners, changing the matter code from it's usual 'blood' setting to glass. Everything became slightly darker, and whatever was made of glass would appear bright and glowing. They walked for a few minutes before finding the glasses, 20 feet away from a path through the middle of the empty apple orchard, Omega became cautious at the sight of the path. "Where does that path lead?" he interrogated "One way leads to town, the other leads to the farm house, calm down Omega, you're not in your world anymore, nopony wants to hurt you." "*sigh* I know, it's just secondary instinct, you know?" "Okay, just try to stay calm and collected, okay Omega?" "*sigh* Okay." <> They entered the cave to the sound of the low rumbling of machinery, Omega felt proud of his creation, he had done something right, besides killing people, he always killed people right. Going to his pot of water, he removed the pot from the heat, and then removed the meat from the pot, he began eating ravenously after assuring Twilight that he did not, in fact, eat ponies. " *chew* Nobody I know *nom* eats pony meat *bite* only the sick and twisted do that *nom nom* and I'm both, but I don't do that *chew chew bite bite nom nom swallow*. " "O-okay." Twilight said, keeping her distance "Don't be like that, I'm just fucking starving, I usually don't eat like this." "Um, okay, Omega, I believe you." "See there, trust, an important part of interaction, we may just be friends yet Miss Twilight." "Don't call me 'Miss', it's doesn't sound right." "Just trying to be formal." With that, he moved the meat that he didn't eat to the sustaining chamber he built to keep it fresh, it tasted like a mixture of sirloin and angus, 2 very high quality meats. "If you don't eat ponies, where'd that meat come from?" "A manticore that I killed, gutted, burned, drained, and just ate part of." "You killed a MANTICORE? HOW?" "I just shot it in the head about 8 times." "You have a bow?" "No, techincally yes, but, I used a gun." "A gun? What's that?" she said, now curious of this device "If you know cannons, it's like a small, handheld version of that." "So you used a Hand-Cannon?" "No, I don't have one of those, I have this." He showed her the Ballistic Glove, its 3 barrels shiny and painted with black and yellow caution stripes. "Metal caution tape?" "No, these are gun barrels, hold on." He expanded the Ballistica off of his glove, turning back into it's full form, he showed it to her, and demonstrated by firing at a wooden target he had also built. A bang sounded out and 3 circular holes were punched through the dummy. "Wow, that's amazing, such power, and in such a small size, do you have more of those?" she asked in amazement "I used to have a lot, but they were lost, this is just an SMG, which stands for sub-machine gun, it's actually of low power compared to the others." "What about that sword looking bow on your back?" "This?" he brought forth the Light Arrow "Yeah." "This is the Light Arrow, it's like a bow and a double blade, it's actually not supposed to be mine, but I made it mine." "What do you mean?" "it's DNA locked technology, I re-locked it to my DNA." "Oh, well, um, it's looks cool." "Yeah it does, now then, do you have any light spells?" "Yes, why, do you need light?" "No, I need to cut my hair, OF COURSE I need light." he said, laughing "Okay, here." she giggled and cast out a light spell Omega looked at the dark part of the cave, and found it, lithium, the last component he needed for his battery repair. After mining out the ore in the magical light, he moved from machine to machine, refining it, purifying it to weapons grade, adding it to the components, and constructing the repaired battery. "Voila, my battery, now, Twilight, I need to charge it up, do you think you could just, do some lightning magic on it?" "Sure thing." she cast out some magical lightning to the battery after Omega put it into his body, the symbol of the front lit up. "Good, that magic is useful, we don't have talking ponies or magic where I come from." "If you don't have ponies, then why do you have a shoe on your battery?" she said, pointing to the glowing greek symbol "That? That's a foriegn symbol, it literally means Omega, which is why I have it, because that's my name, as for the shape, he have horses, large, unintelligent forms of ponies, all they do is neigh, eat, and poop." "That's gross, but the symbol thing is neat." "Yeah, it is. Well Twilight, it was nice talking to you again, but you should head home, it's almost sunset." "Oh! Okay, well Omega, it was nice to see you again, anything else that you or I should know before I leave?" "Yeah, come back tomorrow, and please, make it tomorrow, and not a week from now, I want to see that town." he requested, chuckling, he asked even though he already knew. "Alright Omega, I'll see you tomorrow, and I'll introduce you to Ponyville." she accepted, giggling a little. "Thanks." "Goodbye." "Goodbye, Twilight." And with that, the purple mare left. Omega laid down on his leather-bound, sand filled matress, before sleep overtook him, one last thought ran through his now powered head. 'Wait? Ponyville? How unoriginal.' Author's Note AWWW YEEEAH another update, I love this story and I love you, the viewers So, magic can be converted into electricity? Why? I felt like it, that's why, also, Omega threatened me with one of the weapons I'm developing for him, so, yeah, I changed some reality and made magic be able to power electrical machines. Have a nice day, see you next chapter. P.S. Chapters are named alternatingly on weapon names, and learnings, next chapter is a weapon chapter, and it's called "I don't hold a grudge very well" //-------------------------------------------------------// Darkness and Light through the glass //-------------------------------------------------------// Darkness and Light through the glass Omega was quickly working, it had been a month since the events of the wedding, fall had started, after the discovery of the crystals in the cave, Omega sent mining droids to test them, he had made an almost frightening discovery. When heated to a certain temperature, the crystals acted like non-explosive anti-matter, disintegrating themselves and an equal mass of whatever else on contact, after cross-analyzing the temperature they had to be above, he found that the range was well within common bullet temperatures, he had upgraded the Pownder, changed to just Powder, to fire 5mm diameter 20mm length spitter rounds of the stuff, the crystals could easily be shaped into bullets and the scraps could be ground up and formed into bullets with a bit of bonding fluid, the large box magazine held 6000 rounds, so he could fire continuously for 10 minutes, effectively erasing his target from existence. He teleported to Canterlot again to see the progress on the mining process, only a dozen of the large crystals had been extracted and processed, yet the droids had made enough rounds for 100 magazines, he would not run out of bullets anytime soon. Teleporting back, he upgraded his Ballistic Nightmare again, the rounds would be heated to white hot, and the blades could cut through tank plating with great ease. He wasn't sure why he kept improving his gear when his enemies barely stood a chance against him with only one Judgement Blade, his normal Ballistic Nightmares, and his Power armor. 'It's because I want to make sure that I can save everypony.' he remembered, he cared for the ponies very deeply, he did not want to see them get hurt, speaking of which, he needed to see his sister. Teleporting to Ponyville again, dismissing the Ballistic Nightmares and summoning the Speed suit, he took to the skies to find his sister, she would often fly very close to Ponyville air-space, peering throughout the blue expanse, he found her, practicing her moves for the upcoming Best Young Flier's competition, it was starting to get close, about 6 weeks away, the middle of winter. Rainbow Dash would not be participating this year, as she was now 20, and the age requirements were 12-19, Scootaloo was just within that range, having turned 12 at the end of July, she had been improving herself greatly, Rainbow Dash often lacked motivation without a challenge, Scootaloo was working herself hard, Omega was full of pride about his little sister's achievements, he once speedometer scanned her going 700mph, very close to Mach 1, the speed of sound. Watching the small orange filly zooming through the sky, pulling off expert level tricks with ease, and going break-everything-in-your-body speeds, he wasn't worried though, with the air resistance and her own ability and perception, she wouldn't crash if left unopposed. He jetted off to someplace else, feeling importance rising. What would happen today? <> "Sister, I will NOT abandon Twilight Sparkle without my own reason, your reasons mean NOTHING!" Luna protested. It was dark inside the throne-room, often used for court, the only light shone down along the center carpet, showing Luna standing in the middle of the room, facing Celestia, who was staring Luna down from her perch on the throne. "You will get rid of her, she no longer deserves to traverse the path of ascension." Celestia demanded, her voice was dripping with malice and blood. "I refuse, she still as potential, and I'm not giving up on her, so DEAL WITH YOUR PROBLEM WITH HER, AND LEAVE ME OUT OF IT!" Luna argued, shouting and desperate. "I will not simply 'deal with it', she has been tainted by Omega, both of them will be executed." Celestia revealed. "You cannot hope to execute Twilight, and even less so Omega, he will protect her, he will come after you and he will kill you in blazing fury and cold blood." Luna warned, the scary part was, it was true, the sisters may have been ageless, but they were far from immortal. "He will not succeed, and Twilight will pay for what she did, regardless of how much Omega or yourself will protect her." Celestia had flared up her magic. "You will do NO SUCH THING, Twilight is innocent, she was desperate, something that YOU seem to have forgotten the meaning of, YOU were too busy with STUPID SHIT to CARE ABOUT HER, YOU turned her AWAY without a SECOND THOUGHT, YOU did not TAKE HER CONCERNS SERIOUSLY, THIS is EXACTLY like.... like..." Luna trailed off, the tears were coming in waterfalls now. "I will banish you if you continue to try to change the way I have things working." Celestia threatened, her magic was aimed at her little sister, ready to blast the midnight-blue alicorn. "THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID BEFORE I BECAME NIGHTMARE MOON!!!" Luna screamed, using her most powerful royal canterlot voice, the force of the sound threatened to break the building around them. Celestia was shocked silent, her magic died out, she simply sat there, unmoving, unblinking, and probably unbreathing. "That is EXACTLY what you said before I became Nightmare Moon, you were mad that mother had left us, you couldn't deal with your own problems, and YOU TOOK IT OUT ON ME, ALL I WANTED WAS A LITTLE RECOGNITION, BUT NO, BOOM, TO THE MOON WITH YOU LUNA." the younger princess was now imitating her white coated sister. "Oh but SHIT, I DIDN'T THINK THIS THROUGH, I SHOULD HAVE DEALT WITH MY PROBLEMS, you thought at NO POINT, I'LL JUST BANISH MY FLESH AND BLOOD SISTER for wanting some attention, you acted without thinking, NOT EVEN FROM MYSELF, BUT FROM OUR SUBJECTS, OUR, NOT MINE, SHE IS JUST AS MUCH OF A PRINCESS OF EQUESTRIA AS I AM, you ALSO thought at NO POINT, YOU CAN'T DEAL WITH YOUR OWN PROBLEMS, HOW CAN YOU DEAL WITH EVERYPONY ELSE'S?" Luna was ranting. "Luna, I..." Celestia's voice was weak, pitiful. "THINGS USED TO BE SIMPLE, AFTER WE BEAT DISCORD WITH THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY, we were HAPPY, things were HAPPY AND SIMPLE, but then, THEN WE TOOK CONTROL OVER THE PASSING OF TIME, OVER DAY AND NIGHT, MOTHER LEFT US though, THROUGH THE YEARS you became a SHELL OF YOURSELF, NIGHTMARE MOON didn't come BECAUSE I REFUSED TO LOWER THE MOON, it came BECAUSE YOU REFUSED TO RAISE THE SUN, I TRIED to HELP, TRIED TO RAISE THE SUN MYSELF, I WASN'T READY AT THE TIME, you had FORSAKEN ME, our COUNTRY, BECAUSE YOU HAD ABANDONMENT ISSUES, you would not DO YOUR DUTY, the one THAT NOPONY or ANY OTHER CREATURE COULD DO. I am MORE FIT to RUN this country than YOU, you TRIED TO KEEP CONTROL, despite your INABILITY TO DO SO, I TRIED to HELP YOU, TRIED to HELP you SEE, HELP you SEE that you had PONIES THAT CARED ABOUT YOU, and ALL THIS, ALL THIS HAPPENED, because YOU COULDN'T LET GO, you couldn't LET GO OF THAT WHITE COATED RED MANED MARE we called a MOTHER, YOU CAN'T FIX ANYTHING, SO STEP DOWN, I'll do it MYSELF." Luna ranted, though every point she made was true "Luna, I, please..." Celestia sounded helpless, weak, defeated. "You will NOT oppose MY decision, or SO HELP ME, I will MAKE MYSELF an ONLY CHILD!" Luna threatened. "Luna, I, please, I..." Celestia's voice was meek, she could barely talk. "I will teach young Twilight Sparkle MY OWN WAY, and my first decree is that she will help with the Crystal Kingdom and King Sombra problem, I have faith in her, something that you and I OBVIOUSLY do not have in common." Luna announced. "Go ahead, Luna, I will not oppose you." Celestia accepted, she sounded completely defeated. Luna stopped for a few seconds, the words sunk in. "That is what I thought, now, if you need me." Luna said, summoning a dark looking book "I'll be working on the magical coronation ritual, Twilight will be joining us, and the preparation steps are in this book." Luna said, trotting out of the throne room. Celestia only sighed, she knew she was in the wrong, there was no denying this fact nor attempting to change the state of affairs, she stood, stretched, the remainder of the bones in her wings had been surgically removed, the pegasus magic gland was still there, she could walk on clouds, but it was practically useless if she could not get to them. She walked slowly out of the throne room, she would listen to her sister, she would deal with her problems, the first step was to acknowledge them. It would be hard, but she would do it, for herself, and for the sake of Equestria. Luna would have to be in charge now, but the younger princess had ironically sky-rocketed her interaction skill level by dealing with not only nobles, but all social classes of ponies, Luna was 10 times more sociable than herself despite the 1000 year gap. The solar princess teleported to her bedchambers, she would acknowledge her problems in her sleep, she was completely exhausted in every possible way anyways. Luna took her Solar Deity power, Celestia didn't oppose, she didn't even deserve it in the first place, Luna would take care of everything, her sister had a tendency of doing that. <> Twilight and Omega were talking, they were at the library, just sitting next to eachother on the couch, talking. They stopped when they heard the distinctive sound of Spike coughing up a letter, the little dragon entered the room with the strange scroll in tow. Rather than tannish paper and black ink, like Celestia, Luna sent dark blue scrolls with silver colored ink, Twilight levitated the scroll over and opened it. To my Personal Student Twilight, I have discovered a great mystery, one older than the Nightmare Moon incident, has uncovered itself, the Crystal Empire, long forgotten to the history books, has reappeared in Equestria's arctic north, I request that you and your friends, as well as Omega and Spike for support, come to Canterlot castle for further information. I have already ordered the Friendship Express to pick you all up on Royal Order. Signed, Her Majestic Highness, Princess Luna of Equestria. "Interesting, a lost kingdom has reappeared for the first time in more than a millenium, well, Omega, Spike, time to get ready for a trip." Twilight directed the 2 males, Omega stood up and Spike followed the tall man to the train station. Twilight simply sent a message to the rest of the Mane 6, the conveniences of cybernetics ran wide and deep, the whole group was informed in a hundredth of the time it would take to go out, find, and talk to just one of them.. The whole group inbound on the train station, Twilight quickly tested her warping system by summoning the Grudge, tactical evasive round sniper rifle, and the Choker, poison gas round pistol, they summoned just fine, she dismissed the weapons and made her way to the train station. The Mane 6, Spike, and Omega rode the short train-ride to Canterlot, luckily there were 2 stations in Canterlot, one near the southernmost end, and the other right next to the castle, the latter being the one at which the train stopped, the group exited and made their way into the castle, Omega taking a detour to the soldier area. Twilight was several meters in front of the others, she entered the door to the throne room, which immediately closed itself, the other 5 were locked out. Luna sat on the throne, reading a black covered book, the dark alicorn lowered the book after a few seconds, looking to her student. "Ah, Twilight, nice to see you've arrived, please, come forward." the lunar princess greeted. "Luna, it's wonderful to be here and to see you again, I would love to stay and chat, but I'm here to acquire further information on my assignment." Twilight greeted, getting right to the point. "Right, now then, you know about something that everypony calls, someone's 'dark-side'?" Luna querried. "Yes, everypony has a dark-side, their light-side is when they are in control of themselves, the dark side comes out when they lose control, the things that their light-side demeanor would restrain them from doing would become very accomplishable when the dark-side breaks free, and their minds are hard to bring back to the light." Twilight answered. "Correct, now you see, not just ponies, or any living being, have dark-sides, even things like buildings and rocks and the air have dark-sides, but the point is, is that you will need to know a certain spell to help you on your mission, and I will teach you it." Luna explained. "You must channel all of the negative energy inside of you, energy that not even the Elements of Harmony can remove, it is part of being alive to have this energy inside of you, it is what drives our survival, channel this energy and focus it into the environment." Luna explained, her horn lit up with magic, the aura, rather than the normal dark blue or raging starry sky pattern, was black, she fired it at a crystal on the ground, a crystal Twilight didn't notice before, it was a beautiful light maroon color, but it turned black with the magic, the marble floor around it turned to gray stone and a bit of ore. "This crystal is from the empire, it is a useful material that, if used correctly, can alter the nature of the space it touches by reverting the time around it, this castle was, in the past, not here, part of the mountain was dug out to make room and stability for the whole city, the crystal has reverted the time of the space it touches to show the past." Luna explained. The dark alicorn levitated the crystal, the air it touched turned to stone, she moved it around, leaving a trail of magically suspended stone behind it, she turned the crystal back to light, all of the changes reverted. "It can be dangerous, but you must find the cause of the suffering of the crystal ponies, and using this spell, you can change the area around you to the past, when King Sombra was in rule, and see what differences are there, it's a game of alternating space, you can even reverse age if you can utilize it correctly." Luna debriefed. "I see, that can be useful." Twilight responded, focusing the magic like Luna instructed and waving around the time-reverting object around, then removing the energy and reversing the time-space changes. "Now then, you're ready, one last thing before you leave." Luna said. "What would that be?" Twilight asked. "Shining Armor and Cadance are at the crystal kingdom, as Cadance is it's ruler, I just thought you should know." Luna informed. "Right, thank you, I'll be looking forward to seeing them." Twilight replied with gratitude, turning to leave. The lavender mare left, Luna gave a 'good luck' while she was still in ear-shot, Twilight made her way quickly to the northern end of Canterlot, where the group had agreed to rendezvous, she found all but Omega there. "Where's Omega?" Twilight asked as she came up to the group. "He said something about preparing a transport." Pinkie Pie answered. "How could he organize a transport?" Twilight skepticised. Suddenly, the Mane 6 and Spike heard the loud sound of a moving machine, they turned to see it. The dark red car, with neon orange rims, dark gray hood and roof, super thick front, blindingly bright yellow lights, amber orange windows and windshield, capable of going 777mph, faster than the speed of sound, the front grill had a large dark red omega-symbol on it, and a glowing orange one on the dark gray hood, it was a weapon Omega never really used for fighting as it was very heavy and hard to carry around quickly, it was known as the 'Rider', the Joy Rider and the Gatrev had been renamed and combined into the Joy Love, as the models for the weapons were upgraded forms of the Joy Filly and the Joy Colt, thus, mare and stallion, thus, love. Driving up to the group of 7, Omega stopped the car, the edge of Canterlot city was less than 50 meters away. "I have the transport." Omega greeted. "Wow, it looks even cooler than before." Dash praised, gliding around the automobile and gazing at it's parts. "Right, so, Twilight, what's the situation with the Crystal Kingdom?" Omega querried. "As it stands right now, same shit-different setting, I found a book about it and downloaded its information, we have to find a relic called the 'Crystal Heart' and save the Crystal Kingdom from a big and powerful evil that threatens to shroud the land in darkness." Twilight explained. "It certainly sounds like same shit-different setting." Applejack observed, the others agreed. "Right, get in, Twilight will be with me up front, don't worry about the drop, I added a function that makes the car fly." Omega directed, the group of 7 piled into the powerful vehicle and got comfortable, Twilight sat up front with Omega. "Wait, did you say the car can fly?" the lavender unicorn querried. "Yep, don't worry, I tested it." Omega assured her. The automobile backed up about 100 meters, and Omega hit it the gas, the car drove fast, when it reached 111 mph in 4 seconds, Omega flipped a switch, outside the car, a pair of wings extended from the back seat doors and the exhaust pipes became jet thrusters. The car was now a car-jet, and it was flying towards the Crystal Kingdom at close to the speed of sound. <> 5 minutes later, the vehicle ploughed through the 'light-only' forcefield and began flying over the Crystal Kingdom, Omega let off of the gas entirely, the impossibly strong vehicle began to descend, it would crash into and most likely straight through the Crystal Castle, Omega focused his warping energy and dismissed the car suddenly, Omega, Dash, and Fluttershy acted quickly, Omega caught Twilight and Applejack, Dash caught Spike and Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy caught Rarity, the group slowed their descent to a gentle stop on a balcony with a muzzle-agaped Shining Armor looking out. Letting themselves down light, the group stood calm, letting their beats per minute slow to normal rates, Omega looked at the shocked white stallion. "What? No dive score?" the red haired male joked. "That was, I, wow, that was incredibly stupid and awesome at the same time." the blue haired male responded, his muzzle still agape. "I see, so, nice to see ya Shiny." Omega said to the stallion, walking past him and into the wide open room beyond. The Mane 6 greeted the crystal prince as they passed, all that was left was Twilight. "Hey bro, nice to see you again." Twilight greeted her sibling. "Let me guess, part of 'black operations transport-procedure'?" Shining guessed. "No, part of 'black operations having-some-fucking-fun'." Twilight corrected, trotting past her brother and bumping him with her flank. "Get in here and help us with the situation." she instructed, the white stallion followed. "Right." Shining replied, Twilight seemed much less professional and more forceful, a bit brash, and very playful. The group entered, Twilight saw Cadance sitting at the throne, looking exhausted with her horn aglow with magic, Twilight rushed forward to greet the pink alicorn. "Cadance!" Twilight greeted happily. "Twilight!" Cadance greeted, happy but tired. The two mares got close to one another, they were about the same build at this point, slim and attractive, but strong and powerful, they did the song and dance. "Sunshine Sunshine, Ladybugs awake, Clap your hooves, and do a little shake." the two mares sang, going through the motions, ending with a wiggling of their flanks, resuming their normal stances, they giggled at eachother and hugged. "We really need to meet up when the fate of Equestria isn't hanging in the balance." they said to eachother simulataneously. "Well darlings, we're here for a mission, so, what do we need to do to save the day?" Rarity brought the conversation back on track. "Well, we need to set up the permanant defense, the Crystal Heart is the centerpiece for an evil-destroying aura that covers the Crystal Empire. "Right, anythin' else?" Applejack asked. "Yes, the Crystal Empire supposedly is supposed to be happy, and the citizens happiness fuels the Crystal Heart, keeping the evil out and keeping the citizens happy, so it's a circle of cause and effect." Shining continued. "Did, did you just say that the Crystal Heart runs on happiness?" Omega querried, twitching slightly. "Not exactly, but it was heavily implied." Shining answered. "I thought so." Omega said, twitching much more noticeably. "Is there something wrong? I just said that the defense of the nation is fueled by happine-" Shining was cut off. "THAT'S IT, I'M DONE, I'M FUCKING DONE, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, I CAN'T HANDLE ALL THIS SHIT THAT STAYS SAFE BECAUSE OF POSITIVE EMOTIONS, I'M FUCKING DONE, BYE, I'M FIXING THIS PROBLEM MY WAY!" Omega shouted suddenly, equipping the Speed suit and flying away. "What the hell just happened?" half of the group asked in confusion. "I have no idea." Twilight replied, unsure of her mate's sudden outburst of rage. <> The Mane 6 were looking through the library, trying to find a history book. "I found it, I found it!" Pinkie suddenly starting singing, as though she had won a contest, Twilight took the book and brought the group to the main intel room, she had downloaded map information into her memory banks and knew where everything was, at least in modern day. "So, the Crystal Fair, it's how the Crystal Ponies became happy in order to power the Crystal Heart and defend the Crystal Empire." Twilight explained briefly. "That's a hell-of-a lot of 'Crystal'." Dash observed uselessly. "Yes, yes it is, so, food, fashion, jousting, floogle-horn, fun, I've sent all the files to your data-banks, so GET TO IT!" Twilight commanded, the other 5 saluted and went on to fulfill their duties. Twilight sighed in relief, she would have to get the Crystal Heart, wherever it was. First she thought about all of the possible places it could be, it had to be in the castle, the most important thing had to be at the highest point, she teleported back to Canterlot, she was very able to do that at this point. <> Luna had taken full responsibility while Celestia recovered, taking the 'Solar Deity' magic force from the white alicorn, the dark princess held full control of the sky, she felt full of energy from the magic she held, her mane taking on several shades of blue alongside it's starry appearance, the stars themselves being all sorts of different colors, court was in session, not legal court, of course, it was diplomacy court. A boring pony representative from Germaney, Adhoof Hitler, was going on and on about his plans for Steurope, another representative, the pony leader of Great Brimain, Winston Churfill, was arguing with him, joining them were Benito Mussaddlini, the pony leader of the masculinist country Istaly on Adhoof's side, and Joseph Stalion, the bear leader of the proud and strong country of Bearussia, on Winston's side. Luna watched them go at it, the leader of Equestria diplomacy, Flanklin D. Roosevelt, broke up the arguing by bucking Adhoof upside the head, the leader of Japone, Hirocuto, slashed Flanklin in the side with a katana, the wounded unicorn diplomat retreated, Churfill, being a pegasus, dive-bombed Hirocuto and punched him in the neck, Flanklin returned with a bright green rage-enhanced spell charged up, Joseph, being a fucking bear, simply mauled Adhoof, Hirocuto got a leg blown off by Roosevelt's explosion spell, the Japonese leader stabbed himself through the heart and spine to preserve his honor by not dying at his enemies' wills, Joseph simply began eating the corpse of the mauled Hitler, Winston and Flanklin high-hoofed. "Yeah, that was AWESOME!" Flanklin announced. "I say, chap, that was most exciting of a battle." Winston replied. "Da." Joseph agreed simply, he was a bear of few words, but much power, because he was a FUCKING BEAR. "Military priority COMING THROUGH, GET OUT OF THE WAY." Twilight announced as she entered and passed the trio of winners. "Da, is little Twilight filly, hi Twilight, is me, Joseph." the bear greeted. "Hm? Oh, hey Joseph, how's Bearussia?" Twilight asked, the 2 were old friends. "Motherland is fine, I come to Equestria for vacation, leave Vladimare Putin in charge, hopefully FPSBearussia does not put skills to test on motherland, how is your life?" Stalion replied her. "I've been great, moved to Princess Luna for my royal studies, I have a stallion-friend, his name is Omega, and I'm helping save the Crystal Kingdom right now." Twilight answered. "Ah, crystal kingdom, I heard is in arctic cold like motherland, this true?" the black-haired bear asked her. "Yes, but Princess Cadance and my brother Prince Shining Armor are keeping it safe and warm." Twilight revealed. "Nice, is very nice, wish I had pony magic to make motherland warm, but I settle for mild Spring and Summer times, how goes you and this Omega stallion? You have foals yet?" Joseph laughed. "Heh heh, no, maybe, if we were genetically compatible." Twilight jokingly answered. "I see, you already have intercourse, but he not pony, I guessing?" Joseph guessed. "No, he's a human, remember, those bald monkey-like things?" Twilight revealed. "Da, I know story, very nice, is he strong like Bearussian? Or weak like Prench?" the bear requested more information. "He's very strong, not to discredit you or the other countries in the area, but he could probably beat about half of Haysia by himself." Twilight statisticised. "Ah, he great mighty warrior of much power, I respect one who can suplex Bearussian, much more one who could single-pawedly wipe out motherland." Joseph praised, something he did not often do. "Right, sorry but we'll have to meet some other time though, I need to talk to Luna." Twilight dismissed. "Is alright, comrades, wait for Joseph!" Stalion shouted to the departed pair of diplomats. "Right, so, my student, what do you need?" Luna asked, casting a bit of magic to send the bodies of Adhoof and Hirocuto to the afterlife, Twilight analyzed the spell, it could be useful. "I need a reliable way to move myself around." Twilight requested. "That all? Okay, follow me." Luna directed. In less than a minute, Twilight was shown a powerful spell called 'Sai-yan's Flight' she learned the spell in a few minutes, it was a very highly controllable levitation spell, she could adjust her altitude at will, something only a few levitation spells could do. "I'm learning spells much faster under you, Luna, why is that?" Twilight asked the lunar (and now solar) princess as they levitated together. "Well, my faithful student, like your mate Omega, I don't bullshit around, Tia would tell you the name of a spell and order that you look it up, study it, and learn to successfully cast it, I show you the spell so you can know how it works, and do it yourself, no need to study beforehoof, you can do that on your own time, not my allotted time, I lead by example, Tia leads by the book, that's why she's taking a very long break while I take over all of the affairs of Equestria as it's Lunar and Solar Deity." Luna explained. "That's, wow, I didn't realize, you're a much better leader, Luna, and a much better teacher." Twilight complimented. "I suppose I am, Tia is too reserved, some pride-well-deserved never hurt anyone." Luna accepted the positive words. "Well, I suppose I ought to get back to the Crystal Kingdom, I'll see you later Luna." Twilight said, flaring up her magic to teleport. "I'll see you later, Twilight." Luna replied, and then, her student was gone. The bi-spacial princess returned to the court room, happy to have helped her personal student, the 2 had grown close with their 'friend-to-friend' relationship than with a 'student-to-teacher' relationship, Twilight had very much gotten over Celestia, Luna was much cooler anyways. Teleporting back to the Crystal Kingdom Castle, Twilight prepared to use her newly acquired spell to fly up to the top of the castle. Soaring upwards, she quickly found out just how high the castle tower went, taking to the thermo-stabilized space in the stairway, she flew fast and high, quickly calculating the perfect path, the lavender mare waited as she flew, her friends could handle their own tasks to make the crystal ponies happy, she would get the crystal heart. She only hoped it was there. <> The rest of the Mane 6 were keeping the Crystal Fair running, the Crystal Ponies were happy. Spike was jumping from roof-top to roof-top, he had made a pact to get more fit, and he had kept it, he could easily make the various jumps, his current goal, however, was different. Check out 'Dose Asses', the plural form of 'Dat Ass' He was under the impression that the Crystal Ponies were made of gemstones, and gemstones were 99% of a dragon's diet, the other 1% being anything else they could possibly eat. Cadance was barely going with her magic, it would be less than 10 minutes until the forcefield fell. Shining Armor was trying to siphon his power into his wife, but Cadance was unable to keep the forcefield going AND do the energy siphon at the same time. Nothing else was really happening other than King Sombra trying his damnedest to get inside the forcefield. <> A few minutes passed, Twilight finally reached the top, only to find: A; Omega was already here and had the Crystal Heart B; The top of the tower was like a gazebo. C; Omega was staring at the horizon, waiting for something. "Twilight, look now." Omega suddenly said, he had heard her approach. "What is it?" Twilight was a little bit worried now. "It's the beauty of nature." Omega said, he pointed to the 2 horizons. The sight like a dramatic song. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=WL9C49452E8E65745E&v=WteF0j5gYGk&feature=player_detailpage#t=92s) From this altitude, the pair could see about 50 billion rainbows covering the sky in spectral beauty. Not only that, but the sun was setting and the moon was rising at the same time. They gazebo they were in was completely lit up. Suddenly, a small, sand-tan colored burst of magic flashed, and out of it came a dark bit, which is worth 1,000,000 bit units. Twilight spoke first. "While this is nice and all, WE HAVE TO SAVE THE CRYSTAL KINGDOM WITH THE CRYSTAL HEART!" Twilight got the situation back on track. "Right, come on." Omega said, stepping onto the stairway. Then something happened. The darkness of the crystalline energy detector, made to activate when an EoH bearer entered was diffused by Omega's dark energy, being a generally dark and sometimes moody person, this energy was so strong that it masked the EoH energy Twilight had, at least while Omega was still on the platform. The dark crystals shot up from the ground again, trapping Twilight in the gazebo. "TWI." Omega said in shock, he tried to break the crystals, punching them with the ICBM attack, but they were magically reinforced. King Sombra chose that moment to break through the forcefield. "Omega GO, this isn't enough time!" Twilight commanded. "Alright! But I'm coming back for you after this is over!" Omega complied, diving off of the edge. Omega was about 100 meters above the ground when Sombra charged at him. Using the advanced trajectory and perception calculations he recieved when he first downloaded the Grudge, Omega threw the Crystal Heart to the ground at the right physics-specs to have it bounce into the aura generator. The Crystal Heart plummeted to the ground, it didn't shatter like a normal crystal because it was a relic, relics don't break because the rules of reality forbid it, it bounced off of the ground and still went forward, landing perfectly between a stalagmite and a stalactite and charging energy forth. The warm, protective aura blaster King Sombra away, back to the depths of the arctic, the Crystal Kingdom was saved. Omega landed, using his Power armor to not die or even get hurt from the impact. He turned to the Crystal Ponies, they stared at him like a god of war. He slowly raised his hands into the air, they cheered louder and louder until his hands were straight upwards. As though to accentuate his power, he had a bloodless scar over his right eye, for no real reason other than to look more badass. Dismissing his armor, he let them cheer. Everything at that moment was perfect. <> Purpleness "I have heard that you are in possession of knowledge of someone who is in possession of a map that can lead me to the one who is in possession of a powerful relic, one that could, in the right hooves, overpower even the Elements of Harmony." a feminine voice, it was full of pride. "Yes, you want it? They're in Trottingham, the map is with them." a humble, masculine voice replied. Blueness "We need to ATTACK, Equestria is TOO MUCH of a THREAT, they CLAIM to be a paradise of HAPPINESS, a UTOPIA, but they possess a weapon, one that, if they unleash it, could destroy EVERYTHING, we mush SEIZE them and DESTROY their 'Plan X' before they destroy US." a different feminine voice raged. Orangeness "She'll pay, she'll pay for what she did to me." another feminine voice, it sounded strange. "What did she do?" a raspy masculine voice asked. "I'm going to find her, and when I do, I'm taking back my gold." the feminine voice replied. Whiteness "What's the progress Meg?" a dark male voice asked "I've traced the DNA sample you had through the Equestrian records, apparently, the modern day descendent is one of the Element Bearers." a strange voice answered, it sounded like it was speaking through a spinning fan, it's voice distorted. "Right, I'll find them, and I'll make them pay with their lives." the dark male voice replied Yellowness "How goes the research, Watt?" a strange female voice, it sounded like she was gargling while speaking. "Lady Wooden, it would be very beneficial to your health if you didn't bathe in the blood." a professional male voice replied. "Have you found the escapee?" the strange female voice querried, apparently ignoring the wise words from an unseeable splash. "Right, you won't believe this, she's living, literally right next to the EVERFREE FOREST!" the male voice lost it's professional tone for a second. "Okay, I don't fucking care, we are the rulers of the sky, we don't worry about the Earth Pony and Unicorn problems, we will find her, and continue our operations, starting with HER FIRST!" the female voice, un-distorted, sounded absolutely insane. "Your daughter will not escape this time, Lady Wooden." the male voice assured. "STOP CALLING ME THAT!" the female voice rebuked "Sorry, then, Director." the male voice apologized Pinkness "I will find that bitch, she's getting an arrow right between the eyes." an angry female voice said. "Calm down, you'll find her soon, I heard from the bartender in Chicolto that she's in Ponyville." a friendly male voice comforted, or at least tried to. "I'll kill her for triggering that mining 'accident' she killed my father." the female voice still raged. "My father was killed too, but I guess you've taken it harder, listen, I'm going to Seaddle, I'm not helping you with this." the male voice said, apparently getting farther away as it got quieter with each word. Redness "Is the prototype running?" a forceful male voice demanded information. "Sir, you've been gone for 2 days, it has been fixed and gone out of beta, the prototypes Kratos and Infus, as well as Rekivad and the android are fully operational and functional." an intelligent male voice revealed. "Right, so, the soldiers are functional, upgrade all parameters until you FEAR them, then, give them the old weapons, the ones the I sent you, give them to the bots, make sure they stay how we had them." the forceful male voice directed "Right, what about the alien?" the intelligent voice querried. "The alien is still safely stored, it will be released either when we go after him, or when he comes for us." the forceful male voice revealed. "Omnilord, sir, how can we trust those bastards at the Biological Intelligence district to keep their word and help us?" the intelligent male voice skepticised "They're after him just as much as we are, they were lucky enough to get the first alien, and he killed it, the second alien doesn't stand much larger of a chance, but his survival rate was less than 1%, so maybe this time he'll die." the forceful voice answered "Right, we haven't located him, so the latter will be the option, if he finds us." the intelligent voice added. "Listen, we may have given him a horseshoe, but that doesn't mean he wins in a land of horses, or ponies, or whatever, he will NOT escape this time, he will NOT live this time, and he will DEFINATELY NOT win this time." the forceful voice proclaimed "Right, and you think he hasn't been improving himself?" the intelligent voice argued "He may be a soldier, but he would dive head-first into the peace of this land, I bet he hasn't even repaired or built a single weapon, let alone his Power armor, and I doubt he even knows about having the Judgement Blade." the angry voice claimed, unknowingly ironic. "I see, if confidence could kill, you'd be alone in this world, sir." the intelligent voice grumbled. Darkness <> Twilight stood with Luna in front of a new stained glass window, it showed Omega with the crystal heart above him and the Mane 6 below him, he held the Joy Love, a dual wield of the renamed Joy Mare, his MP, or machine pistol and the renamed Joy Stallion, his gatling revolver. the rest of the window was normal background stuff. "Let me guess, I failed?" Twilight asked, sad. "Nope, you passed." Luna replied. "I, I passed? How?" Twilight asked in confusion. "You see, by accepting your fate and letting Omega save the day, you have shown the ability to accept your own limitations, a valuable lesson, one of several that I have planned for you." Luna assured her student. "I, I don't know what to say." Twilight said, breathless for some reason. Luna hugged her, the hug lasted a few minutes, when they broke off, Twilight said her goodbye and turned to make her way to the door.. "Well, I'll let you get on with your life, then, stay smart, and keep on living." Luna said in farewell. "I will, trust me." Twilight replied. "I do, I do trust you." Luna whispered to herself And with that, Twilight left. The future would hold more adventures, more lessons, more emotions. The only question was; When? Author's Note Whelp, that's that chapter done. Not much to say, I didn't bother with much editing. I <3 you all, see you next time. Byeeeeeeeee //-------------------------------------------------------// Epilogue: It all fades to Blue //-------------------------------------------------------// Epilogue: It all fades to Blue As Omega lay there, on the dry, hot, stony ground, one thought repeated itself over and over again in his mind. Xero.... I wonder if Xero would have done any better. Xero... I wonder if Xero would have done any better. Everything seemed to slow down, the blood coming from his mouth reversed itself back in. Before the walk of shame. Before the funeral. Before the fight. Before the music competition. Before the 2nd marriage. Before the princess conundrum. Before reforming Discord. Before the Crystal Kingdom. Before the 1st marriage. Before taking Scootaloo in. Before the first Discord incident. Before the Grand Galloping Gala. Before the Sonic Rainboom. Before the Gilda incident. Before the arrival in Ponyville. Before the building of his lab. Before the first encounter with the ponies. Before waking up in Equestria. An explosion. An explosion made of red energy. Something came from it Back it up. Wrong. An explosion. An explosion made of blue energy. Something came from it. Blue It was time for Blue (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/92690/xeros-afterthefinal-fight) https://camo.derpicdn.net/3a3722e6b67ed495b9bb614e681a97171c1f26cb?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages2.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20111207204011%2Fmadnesscombat%2Fimages%2F6%2F6d%2FXero.png Author's Note check out the sequel/whatever. Xero's After-the-Final Fight. It's been a pleasure writing this, I love all of you viewers. I <3 all of you, byeeeeeeeee see you all in the sequel.