The Hands Of Time

by The-darkevil101

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Crossover, Tragedy
Length: 3972

Rifleman Robert Parker is killed in battle, and necromorphed but with his brain intact. However, he lands in ponyville and begins having to kill in self-defense.

[The main character is the same from the curse of cruelty series, but greatly toned down and older….or at least it was until I deleted the stories. XD] This is a dead space crossover.

Robert Parker never liked his duty as a soldier for EarthGov. But when he's stationed on Tau Volantis with his crew, a strange…horse-like new enemy attacks them while on base. They were called "necromorphs" by the crazed unitologists, but looked more like cartoon horses to his crew. Later on he is attacked and sadly killed by what appeared to be some gory unicorn with wings. For some reason, he wasn't completely killed, as his brain was still intact. Eventually; he got used to his new body and wandered on for days, and came across some weird technicolor town with what appeared to be talking cartoon horses.

And being a 7'5 wailing monster won't help when he asks for directions…

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-08-24 14:43:04 UTC

Death, and complicated rebirth

     "I love you, Mr. Nesterton!" said a purple pony

     "I love you too, Ms. Poopface!" said a rainbow haired pony.

This was the last line from a television that rifleman Robert Parker would ever see while on duty at Tau Volantis. The name of the show? My Little Pony. Yeah, It's been going on for that long now. The show had gotten so bad that not only in 2514, and with unitology at every corner you look at, it was the only escape you could watch to feel comfortable again. Problem was the show was horrible. The plot, the characters, the animation, the names, and the love interests. The lists goes on; but anyhow, Parker had seen enough. The silver suited solider began to get up and walk off from this horrifying television show.

He decided the best thing to do was stay warm on this ice-ball of a planet. He checked his RIG monitor to see how cold it was today. -40 degrees, heavy snow. Typical. Besides what would he suspect? Just before he could get a drink, the alarm in his cabin sounded off, and he rushed quickly back to the conference room, which ironically, WAS the TV room with the show on it. When he got their his commanding officer had him line up with the rest of the ten-man crew side by side.

"Alright, listen up!" yelled General Mahav. "We have detected a huge movement of the unknown enemy line and we have our first look at what the enemy looks like."

He showed a picture of what appeared to be a pink pony with grizzly pink hair and appeared to bounce whenever it moved.

"Now we, like all of you, have no idea of what in davy-jones locker this is, however, I will not allow this to circle our base anymore." he took a moment to pause. "We need a four-man scouting group to search-and-destroy whatever this thing is....Any takers?" He waited for a moment, and then hand-picked four men to send out.

"Kaufman! Ackerman! Roethlisberger! Parker! I need you four to find and destroy this pink monstrosity!" Ordered Mahav.

All four of the soldiers geared up, and prepared to open the hatch door to the icy graveyard they were about to uncover...

Tau Volantis, thirty minutes into searching.

The four soldiers were already about to head back just after they all heard a very loud roar in the distance.

"Wh-What was that?!" Asked Kaufman.

"I think it came that way!" Answered Roethlisberger.

"Your both wrong." said Parker, who was pointing back to where they came from. "Whatever it is, it must be following us."

The four men didn't get much farther, as the very beast that made the sound jumped out in front of them. It glared it's eyes at each one of them. The monster, which the men called "pinkie", looked exactly like in the picture. The mane was pink, it's skin was pink, and it smelled like pastry. The monster wasted no time in going after Parker and his men.

"Open fire!" yelled Parker.

They unloaded everything they had into the un-wealthy monstrosity. But it just kept bouncing toward them. It finally got to Ackerman, and it lifted him up with it's tail, and tossed him up in the air. He fell head first after landing, instantly snapping his neck, and then shortly, death.

"Ackerman!" yelled Kaufman. Ackerman was Kaufman's friend since childhood, but they had to keep moving.

"Guys, we have to run;...NOW!" said Parker.

The three remaining troops bolted for the nearest abandoned cabin, and when they finally did get there, they shut the door, and could finally catch their breath.

"puff...puff..What in the name of EarthGov...was that?" Said an exhausted Kaufman.

"THAT....Was what General Mahav wanted us to kill." answered Parker.

"Then why did we retreat then, hmm?" said Roethlisberger.

"Because. It was going to pick us off if we stayed there." answered Parker.

"Then how do we kill it?!" Snapped an impatient Kaufman.

"Easy, we set a trap." spoke Parker.

The veteran rifleman pointed out a very heavy crate on a cliff very near a bulldozer, with the ground not too far down from the small cliff. Though it would take timing to get the creature in range of the deadly trap, it would make killing it so much easier. And the best part, it would save ammo.

                                                                             ~~~

"Alright! Kaufman, Roethlisberger! Is the trap set?" yelled out the slightly nervous Parker.

He heard a faint yes from the cliff, and assumed it was his fellow soldiers. Now the hard part was guiding the thing towards the cliff. But Robert had a plan. Then he had stupidly forgot to use his RIG line to call his teammates.

"Guys, do you see this thing in sight?" called Parker from his RIG.

"Yes, we see it just over the horizon." Responded Kaufman on his RIG.

And not a moment sooner, the pink, bouncing "pony" came on it's way, attracted by all the noise of the bulldozer, and the scent of their foot-tracks.

"HERE IT COMES! GET READY!" called Parker on his RIG once more.

The monster set it's sights on Parker, and began to charge. Or better yet, bounce it's way toward him.

"Steady...Steady......NOW!"

As soon as Robert spoke the words, Kaufman and Roethlisberger set the bulldozer in motion, and then came the heavy crate; right on top of the things head.

*CRASH*

Robert didn't even have to dive out of the way, his calculations were perfect, just like his childhood.

"Alright guys, you can come down now....Guys?" Robert called on his RIG line several more times but with no Answer.

The nervous rifleman had to climb up to the source of where they were, only to find them both dead, and headless.

"NO! Great, now what?" Parker asked himself uselessly. Just then though, he got a RIG call from General Mahav.

"Parker!..*BANG BANG* We're under attack! We need you and your men to report back to base NOW!" said General Mahav.

But before Robert could respond, the transmission ended, leaving Parker to have to report to base by himself.

The snow cabin, Tau Volantis

Parker finally arrived only to find his snow cabin in ruins, due to the roughness of his RIG call an hour ago. He wondered if General Mahav was still alive... Anyhow, Parker walked-in on the ruined cabin, with the TV thankfully busted by the supposed break in. It wasn't until he came into the mess hall that he found Mahav's body, and even better, he was still ALIVE.

"General Mahav! Thank goodness your still alive!" said an assured Parker.

But it wasn't all giggles and laughs, as Robert could tell, Mahav was near death.

"Parker...*cough cough* Thank goodness your still here..where is the rest of your crew?" asked a wounded Mahav.

"Sir..They're all dead. I'm the only one left." said a disappointed Robert. "But we did kill the pink snow beast though." Parker added.

"That's great soldier...but you need to get out of here..it's not safe..there IS a domed village not too far from here, but you'll need access to get in though..." and with that, general Mahav took out a security card, and handed it to Robert.

"Here, take this...it's what you'll need to get in...*cough cough*..but I'm not going to last soon...It's north-west of here..When you see a purple heat balloon flying over it...that's the spot..*cough cough*.." and not a second later after Mahav said this, he died in Robert hands.

"Sir..Whatever did this...I WILL END IT!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. However, right after saying this, he heard a low growl, and light...hoof-step? But to his horror, what came around the corner was terrifying.

It was a pure white Alicorn with white wings, a flowing, colorful mane, now blood stained because of the break-in, and it had a golden tiara. It also appeared to have a golden sun on it left butt cheek. It stared down Parker a few moments before finally charging. Robert wasted no time either firing his weapon at the forsaken thing. However, the alicorn was faster, and it latched it's front hooves on him, now with blades coming out of it's knee-caps, and started to stab Robert on his right shoulder.

He muffled in pain, but still managed to get the thing off him by blasting it's chest open, and pushing it away. It yelled in pain and stumbled backwards, but it didn't budge far, as it charged again, but this time, Robert was ready. He side-stepped it, and began firing at it's back and as it fell to the ground, almost dead, it rolled over, and slashed it's stomach open even more, and it released these little spider-like things at him. Robert easily mowed down almost each and every one of them; HOWEVER, one was missing. Robert counted twelve of the crawlers, but he only shot eleven of them...

He wondered where the last one went, but before he could wonder any more, the last one jumped on his back, and got under his helmet. Robert threw his helmet off to get it off him, but it was no use, the darn thing latched it tentacles around his throat, and began to squeeze. Robert couldn't scream....Nor could he fight it...But it was only a matter of seconds...it squeezed hard enough to pop his his head off with an audible click.

However, after his head came off, the new head adjusted itself onto it's new body, but something made it want to pick up Robert's head and cut it open..then replace it's own brain with his... (Don't ask why.)

                                                                                           ~~~

Robert awoke with what sounded like a gasp. He got up slowly, and felt for his helmet; only for it to be nowhere to be found. He felt his own head, but it felt different...Almost like he had been transformed by something. Then he instantly remembered fighting that ugly alicorn...And then that thing squeezing his head...

He rose up to his feet, which now felt like they were farther away. He looked in a broken mirror, and he was in shock to what he saw.

He looked like a walking stick with a torn vest!

But when he tried to talk, only a deep, bellowing moan came out, and when he tried to scream, a high-pitched...he didn't even know how to even DESCRIBE IT!

Luckily, he found the key General Mahav gave him and put it in a savored vest pocket.

He had a long way to go if he wanted to get to the hidden village in time...

The Journey

     Robert was still shaking in disbelief of what he saw in that old, broken down mirror. He had been turned into a terrible creature. He had a brain, but the question was: Did he even have a soul...? He also had no protection against the cold. Then, however, he stupidly realized that he didn't feel the cold anymore because he was dead. Or was he...? Anyhow, it didn't matter because only one thing was on his mind: Destroy the source of this madness.

    'I wonder if General Mahav has even been to this so-called village...' Robert thought.

    Finally, he decided he was used to his new body, and, just to be sure, he grabbed some shirt and pants leggings to make himself extra warm against the icy ground of Tau Volantis.

Ponyville, Twilight's library

"Spike, where did you put my telescope?" asked the ever smart Twilight Sparkle.

"I put it on the nightstand next to your window." answered her trusted assistant.

"Good..Okay, I found it." she said, picking it up.

"What do you need it for anyway?" asked spike.

Twilight looked to the window, and then slowly back at spike. Her facial expression told all the info he needed to know.

"Oh..your still worried about Pinkie, aren't you?" he asked her sadly.

"Yes..It's been weeks since she wen't outside the border to deliver that large order." said Twilight.

She slowly put the telescope back where she found and went outside to get some fresh air.

Outside the border, Tau Volantis

Robert for some reason didn't need his sight to navigate through the heavy snow. He was going North-West of the abandoned cabin; the way General Mahav had told him to go. His tall, gaunt figure let him slip by the snow. It wasn't until he came across dead human soldiers, that he saw the unthinkable. Something zipped by him at first; then it came to a halt right out in front of him. It looked like a raptor, like the dinosaurs, but this one had a club like head, an open, spike-like chest, and made clicking noises whenever Robert moved around him.

Then, what really got his attention was that it began to talk to him.

"So...aren't you that soldier that killed that new brute that was created?..." it said in a voice Robert could not even begin to describe.

Before Robert could respond to him, six more of the same variant came out of hiding, and lined-up right next to the one who was talking to him. They all started to chatter around him. The middle one spoke again.

"Aren't you looking for a certain town?" he asked.

Robert was slightly shocked. He knew where he was going to, and what he was. Robert nodded, as if in a response.

"Good..Come with us if you want to get there." and before Robert knew it, he was in the pack with a group as they called themselves "The Stalkers".

'I wonder if they know how to get in..' Robert wondered once more.

Ponyville, Canterlot Castle

Princess Celestia was sitting in her throne room looking down into a magical hologram spell she had been working on. She had a look of worry on her face as she saw this new event un-fold before her own eyes. She lowered her tireless eyes once more at the hologram...Such creatures as this were certainly not welcome in ponyville.

"I must warn the others at once."

Ponyville, twilight's house

Twilight was going through her things once more as she heard a soft knock on the door. But just loud enough to be heard by spike, and then she quickly told him to go open it.

When he came back, he had Rainbow Dash with him.

"Twilight, the princes needs you, me, and the rest of us to report to canterlot immediately!" she told her purple friend frantically.

"Okay, calm down." twilight told her friend calmly.

As they packed their things in a hurry, twilight told spike to stay here just in case something comes up. He nodded with a small smile on his face, or grimace in twilight's words. The two headed out the door, and spike breathed a sigh of relief.

"Finally; they're gone...Now I can invite fluttershy over for some "hot-sex"." he smirked, and whistled out to a tree limb in the corner of the room, which when he did so, a certain yellow, pink-maned mare pulled off the head compartment of her new tree limb costume.

"Well baby...do ya' wanna...snuggle?" she said in a seductive tone.

"Hell yes!"

And not a second sooner, the two collided in a mountain of kisses as they fell to the floor, moaning and groaing for a day sure to be full of pleasures.

Outside the Ponyville dome, Robert's POV

Finally the pack of misfits arrived at the gate. Once more, the lead stalker turned to Robert and asked him one final time:

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

Robert slowly nodded his head yes, and the pack jogged slowly up the door. At first, Robert didn't know what to expect, but then, they started violently banging their rock-hard heads on the wooden gate door. Robert's eyes shot open, or so he thought. He was still unsure of his new body's old functions still worked right.

Before he could wonder more about his out-of-this-world-body, they had finally finished breaking down the door, and he was shocked to see they had killed a few royal guards along the way as well.

'I need to quit thinking so hard...it's really drowning out the world.' he thought to himself.

The lead stalker spoke to him again: "C'mon, let's go!" and Robert quickly followed.

They all stopped shortly after the door up ahead busted down in front of them. They all stopped sharply to see a bright white alicorn in front of them. She spoke in a very loud, and broad voice.

"STOP NOW, OR FACE THE WRATH OF-" *STAB STAB*

She was stopped short of her talking because one of the stalkers snuck up behind her and stabbed her in the neck. She collapsed to the floor, and the lead stalker once again motioned for Robert to keep moving. So, he simply followed orders.

Finally the crew reached the door to ponyville. But what came next shocked Robert.

"This is as far as we go, and no further. After this point, your on your own." he told him sternly.

Robert didn't bother to ask questions, so he simply nodded to him and stepped forward to the closes door to him.

"That door will take you to ponyville, that's your best shot at living now...farewell..Parker."

Before Robert could ask him how he knew his name, he gently pushed him through the door, and a bright flash of light surrounded the former rifleman...Then it all went dark for a moment.

Tau Volantis, Pink beast's POV

The old rusty boxes used to destroy the pink monstrosity slowly began to rustle. Then they began to slowly fall off the once thought dead creature. It slowly got up as it shook off the heavy crates once used to crush it. Once it got to full stature, it stood up and looked around. The person who attacked it was already long gone. It reared it's once pink eyes at the small tracks on the ground in front of it. Finding the bastard wouldn't be so hard after all.

The pink abomination began on it's way, bouncing once more on it's way to it's former home: Ponyville.

Into The Dark

Twilight and her four friends walked slowly into the dark, somehow cold palace of Celestia. They found it surprisingly quiet. No guards, no music playing, no nothing.

"Gee, I wonder where everyone could be?" said Twilight, with a fake grin on her face.

No one replied to her. They all came because of Rainbow Dash's plea that Princess Celestia ordered them to come to canterlot at once. But since she wasn't clear on where they should meet, so the five of them decided to go to the main throne room; where they usually met.

Robert's POV

Robert walked aimlessly in this unfamiliar castle. He was sure he was lost until he heard...hoof steps? He listened closer.....Yes, he was sure of it this time. He decided to get closer to the noise to find the source of it. After all, it's not like he had any other choice...

Twilight and her friend's POV

"Girls, do you have the feeling that we're being...watched?" spoke Twilight as she moved her head from left to right, and then left again.

"N-no, I don't think so." spoke Fluttershy.

Then all of a sudden, they heard a monstrous, low-pitched wail from behind them.

Robert's POV

'Well that certainly didn't come out right' thought Robert as his "words" came out as a low-pitched wail, and he then realized who was in front of him.

'It's...Just like the cartoon! Those things are talking ponies! Maybe I should go hug them to see what would happen..' He thought as he gleefully "jogged" over to them.

Twilight and her Friend's POV

Twilight was still shaking, as were her friends as they suddenly heard fast paced footsteps behind them as they whirred around to see that a creature straight out of a horror movie was coming right at them!

"Ruuuun!" screamed a stupid spoiled who-, I mean, Rarity.

They all bolted out of the castle as the giant whatever thing was still chasing after them. He even fired out a weird tentacle out of it's mouth to catch them. But however, right after it did that, it stopped chasing them.

~~~

The five horses kept running even when they were back in Ponyville.

"What was that thing?" said Fluttershy, still running along with her friends.

"I don't know, *Puff* but it definitely wasn't human." answered Twilight.

Robert's POV

'How did I do that?' Parker thought to himself. Among many other thoughts.

He looked around himself, and realized he wasn't in the castle anymore. He, however, was just outside Ponyville. He decided to head towards that direction. But suddenly he heard a powerful roar above him, and suddenly, the pink beast dropped out of the sky in front of him and he came face to face with the ugliest abominations on the planet...Pinkie Pie.

'Alright...LET'S GET IT ON!' thought Robert, as he charged forward at the thingy with a dingy, his claws raised, he wasn't about to let this cartoon let anymore people get annoyed by her. He jumped in the air and landed on it's face. He then began taking swipes at it's unattractive face and then finished by (somehow) farting in it's face.

The pink creature fainted from sucking in the first place and because on how awesome Robert really was. As it began to fall on it's back, Robert did a backflip and landed on his feet as the pink ugly fell to the ground, defeated.

'That'll teach you to mess with me...trick.' he thought confidently as he began once again towards the poorly financed town of Ponyville.

Ponyville, the mane six's POV...Or should I say, Mane Five's POV

"*Puff Puff* What..was...THAT?!" bellowed Twilight as she and her friends arrived back at her library house thingy and finally got a chance to catch their breaths.

"I...don't know." responded Rainbow Dash.

"Maybe it was a poor beast trying to find it's way home?" said Fluttershy, a small smile starting to spread on her face.

"Shut the buck up fluttershy, that THING wanted to kill us!" yelled Rarity, right in the face of the weak and helpless Fluttershy.

Fluttershy instantly burst into tears at the sight of Rarity's rambling, and surprisingly, Rarity made no move into apologizing to Fluttershy. She then literally picked up Fluttershy and threw her out of the window.

"Urgh, that's better, I didn't need to hear anymore of that little baby's crying." grumbled a now frustrated Rarity.

"Rarity?! What has gotten into you?" spoke a flabbergasted Twilight Sparkle.

"Oh nothing...It's just that thing is probably still out there running around, possibly killing more innocent lives, and now that we got away from it, it's possibly coming after us and possibly going to hunt us down and kill us off one by one. That's all."

Well Twilight wasn't going to let this little drama queen just throw out her friend and talk like that to all them.

"Well listen up you stupid spoiled whore! You can't just throw out fluttershy like that! I'm gonna kick your-"

Suddenly a familiar voice rang out in the night.

"OH CELESTIA! HELP ME! IT'S GETTING CLOSER, AND IT WANTS ME! HELP! OH NO, NO, N-"

It was the voice of Fluttershy and it sounded like she needed help. Not wanting to waste time, the remaining four ponies put their differences aside and rushed out to met whatever was attacking Fluttershy...Or what's left of her.

Weakly, with the last breath she had, Fluttershy said this final phrase: "Girls.....run"

Right out in front of them, it was the monster from the castle, and it had came for them...