The Elements of Liberty
Chapter 7: Chapter 7: Reunited with an old friend
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI was stunned to see one of my few best friends! Bowen must of been summoned to Equestria with me!
We stand as still, staring each other down with apprehension in our eyes. After what seemed like forever, we snap out of our trance of shock.
With his face reveled, I remove the mask covering my own. I see him look to the group of ponies I had arrived with, then he looks back to me and winks with a devious smirk. I cock an eyebrow, confused of what he meant. Then he starts to make a fist with and begins punching it into the palm of his left hand. Signaling the universal sign of wanting to -knuckle up-.
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I return the smile now understanding what he meant. Realizing that he wanted to fake a fight between us in front of the girls, Spike and princess I begin to crack my neck.
"You!" Bowen spits with fake malice.
"We meet again!" I growl back.
"Ready to get your ass handed to you!" Bowen shoots back with a now boastful tone of voice.
I decide to follow his lead and choose to reply in a just as boastful voice.
"Think you can take me?" I challenge stuffing the mask back into my right cargo pocket and removing my ulacks from my belt loops and proceeding to throw them aside, along with my urban camo dagger and black ops knife.
"Your on!" He excepts, removing his own new found weapons also tossing them to the side.
With both of us freeing ourselves from our life threating tools from our persons, me also of my baggage. The girls along with Spike, Shining and the princesses start to back off of the soon to be brawling field of the two humans. As does Trixie and anypony else on the street.
"This doesn't look good girls!" Twilight says out load.
"Hey wait, let me...AH!" Shining Armor try's to trot forward to assist me, but his leg causes him to wince in pain, not being fully healed.
Twilight gives Shining Armor a shoulder to lean on as he nearly falls over. I hear the commotion behind me so I raise a hand to stop what ever they were thinking about doing.
"Hey, I got this girls, Shining don't stress yourself right now."
I snicker quietly to myself lowing my hand. Not taking my gaze off of Bowen. We stare at each other only for what seems like forever. The street starts to clear of all ponies as we stare each other down. Even the shopkeepers close their stalls, I can not believe that these ponies fear us so much as to abandon ship when they see a conflict coming. My thoughts of them reacting to us were interrupted as Bowen charges, quickly closing the distance between us. He tackles me to the ground, luckily it didn't hurt to much because of my quick reflexes to brace for impacted. I struggle with him to brake free from his grip on me, but I manage to release his hold and push him off me.
Jumping back on my feet, I counter by tackling him back. I start to give him a few punches. After four punches he pushes me off of him lest time. I try pouncing him once, but he kicks his none bandaged leg at me, making me jump back to dodge a blow to the gut.
Bowen rushes back to his feet and takes a fighting stance.
"That the best you got!" Bowen taunts.
"Beast mode activated!" I retort.
"Eagle catch!"
I look to see Celestia levitating my black ops knife with her magic. Before I could say anything, she forces the blade through the air, nearly landing in the side of my head. Luckily I lean my upper body back and dodge the airborn blade, I watch it whip past my face and land in a wooden support beam of a market-stand. I then turn my gaze back to Celestia, who had a hoof over her muzzle with a big red blush and wide eyes.
"Sorry!" She yells in apology.
"I said I got this!" I shout back, still scared shitless after that stunt she pulled.
Bringing my attention back to Bowen, whom was just as wide-eyed as me and Celestia. Recomposing ourselves, we get back into fighting stances.
"As I was saying. I continue. Lets do this mother fucker!"
With that we charge at each other. When we meet halfway in the street and we start going at it!
We strike at each other with a series of fast tight quarter punches and elbow-strikes, going back and forth between hits and blocks. But after a while he pulled a fast one, catching my arm and throwing me over his hip, sending me down to the ground with ease. It hurt like a bitch, but I muscle through the pain and kick my leg strait up and hit his shoulder with the end of my foot, backing him off for a moment of space.
Jumping up I receive an assault of kicks, forcing me to back up while blocking them with my arms. I eventually back into a wall and he nails me a couple times in the sides under my arms. I retaliate by kneeing him in the gut and beginning my own assault on him. Sending a fury of more punches and elbows, slipping a few hits past Bowens defense here and there. Now with his back against a brick wall of a building I switch from knee and elbow strikes to punches. I try to give him one wide punch to his head and miss, instead smashing my fist into the brick wall.
But it didn't hurt? Instead of a broken hand, I made a dent in the hard surface of the building! I reel my right fist back to look at my knuckles, and see not a scratch on them! Yet again wide eyed I look at Bowen who was just as freaked out as me. I look to the girls and see that I had made their jaws drop. Without saying anything I look back to Bowen, who had somehow recomposed himself after I almost made his head explode unintentionally. He tries to elbow me but before he could I jump back and go on the defensive.
Following up on his attack, Bowen kicks me back into the middle of the street.
"Lets finish this!" Bowen says, signaling to bring our little display of marshal arts.
Bowen rushes up to me and I ready myself for the final confrontation. This time it was all out! From punches and Kicks, to elbows and knee strikes, we hit and blocked each other with every thing we had in our arsenal of moves.
Bowen swings his right leg at me for a round house kick, and I duck under it. I try to elbow him by going back-in-forth between both arms, Bowen blocks them with his arms. He and I attack simultaneously with kicks, but both end up blocking each other with the others attack. Until finally we grab each others throats with our right hands, and our wrists with the left.
Yanking and pushing one-another by the throats. We stop wringing each others necks to realize that we look like complete idiots in our currant position. Bowen and I start to smirk at the realization of what we were just doing. Soon our smirks turn into giggles, then from giggles to full blown laughter. Bowen and I release our hold on each other and give one another a few pats on the shoulder, looking at the girls, Spike and Shining, then Trixie. Seeing their dumbfounded expressions drove us over the edge. We both stand there pointing and laughing at their expense, them not knowing it was all a display of two idiots having fun be beating each other up.
"Dude that was badass!" I complement.
"Oh shit dude, we haven't done that in forever!"
"I know man, we need to do that more often!" I reply.
"Can somepony please explain what's going on!" Luna cuts in.
Bowen and I cease our laughing and catch our breath.
"Ladies, this is my best friend Bowen and he is my cock-sock he and I have known each other for years now. What you just saw was one of our boyish antics of marshal arts. Which is a form of fighting with our limbs. I say showing strikes with each possible limb and body joint. We were just messing with yawl, everything's fine. As I move to gather my weapons from the sides of the street, I notice that Bowen had a limp, as he struggles to collect his weapons.
"Wait so human friends fight when they meet after an extended period of time!" Twilight asks confused about human customs.
"Nope that's just our thing." Bowen replies holstering his bow on his torso.
"Yeah, we're professional morons." I add as I retrieve my black ops knife from the random market stalls wooden support beam.
"You both seem fairly intelligent to us!" Celestia chimes in.
"Not compared to everyone else!" Bowen reply's.
Finishing picking up our weapons and baggage from the street, Bowen and I meet back up in the middle. The girls, Spike and Shining along with Trixie, approach the both of us as we shake on a good fight.
"Um Bowen, you never said anything about another Human with you?" Trixie comments.
"Technically I didn't know either until today."
"Hello Trixie." Twilight says with kind smile for reasons known to me.
Bowen puts on a confused face. Not knowing their history with each other.
"T-Twilight!" Trixie gasps in shock at Twilight's new appearance. Not seeing her for who knows how long before her transformation into an Alicorn, probably freaking Trixie out that Twilight has achieved the highest power of magic and status in Equestia.
Turns out I was correct. Trixie fainted right on the spot. Eveypony looking at Trixie's unconscious body, I was about ask the obvious before Bowen beats me to it.
"Soooo....somebody what to explain what's going on here?" Bowen questions.
"I'm guessing you ladies have a history with that pony Trixie?" I say knowing full well of what happened between Trixie and Twilight.
"You have no idea." Rainbow Dash says hovering up next to me.
"Yeah she's a big meanie!" Pinkie Pie adds.
"Quite darling."
"I'll say partner."
"Well I'm sure its nothing you couldn't handle." I finish wrapping my arm around Dash's neck in a friendly manner.
"Woe what's going on there!" Bowen says pointing at me and Dash.
"What?" I ask.
"She doesn't seem to mine your arm holding her close to you bro?"
"Well...were good friends."
"Looks like your a little closer than that dude."
"So just because I put my arm around a cute mare's neck, we're automatically boy-friend and girl-friend!" I say in a defensive tone.
"Oh so you think she's cute!"
"Oh my god, YES I think she is cute and I think a lot of these ponies are cute! With their big eyes and cute little ears."
Everypony except me, Dash and Trixie because she out cold. Cracks up laughing at the recited history Pinkie just had to blurt out for the world to hear.
"Well seems you two chummy chummy, it looks like I have some competition for the title of best bro ever!"
"I told them to call me by my old nickname by the way."
""There actually calling you Eagle?"
"Yeah."
"Shoot partner, wouldn't surprise me if I caught them actually kissing in one ma apple trees back at ma family farm!" AJ brings up once again.
Bowen and eveypony else to which laughs their ass/flanks off. Me and Dash just sit there Silently blushing at their remarks about our relationship status.
"Oh come now darling, there is no shame in liking somepony!"
"If you to love birds are done cooing at each other, can we get on with whatever we were going to do, my leg is really starting to hurt." Bowen says patting his injured leg.
"Oh you poor thing!" Fluttershy rushes up to him with concern. We can't have you moving around with that big boo boo!"
"Hey I'm not a baby, I can walk!" Bowen protests.
"Well not with out someone to lean on your not." I cut in releasing Dash from my hold.
I walk up to Bowen and sling his right arm around the back of my neck, and wrapping my left arm around his back.
"Now can we get to we're going?" Bowen winces as he try's to apply pressure to his leg.
"Yeah, hey girls and boys this trip just got cut short, Bowen needs his leg patched up." I say playfully.
"I can have one of our doctors at the guard barracks look at it when we return to the palace." Celestia announces.
"Good, well Dash, looks like our music in public cap has just been revoked!" I say chantingly.
"Awesome, what other cool songs do you have on that phone of yours!"
"I think we could use a mellow song after all that." I reply as I reach for my phone. Bringing up the main screen I tap the music player and scroll to the through of the short list of songs, having only a few mellow songs I go with a track from brand x music.
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Luna picks Trixie up off the ground and puts her on her own back with her magic. Fluttershy hovers to the other side of Bowen and moves his left arm around her neck for support. Pinkie, Twilight and Rarity group up with Celestia and Luna. Rainbow on the other hand, hovered close to me on the right. Applejack was next to Fluttershy on the left. I noticed something strange about her though, the way she was eyeing Bowen. It looked as if she was eyeing him with admiration. I brush it off as being from our public display of false combat, and being the two of a race that hasn't existed for thousands of years.
Looking ahead, I notice another stare similar to the one from Applejack, this one coming from Rarity. As before I brush it of as a wonder of thought about how Bowen and I behave. Walking back to the palace in the clam mid day sun was a nice change of events. Other than still receiving the nasty looks of disgust in the wealthy locals faces. But they were easily shut out by the eyes of the pony hovering next to me. Glancing over at Dash, I catch her looking my way.
"See anything you like?" I tease.
She looks away quick like to avoid letting me see her blush, but I know she was.
"Oh wow, Really!?" Bowen starts.
"What?" I ask.
"You just said you two are only friends, and now your flirting with her!"
"No I'm just joking around with her, there's a difference!"
"Yeah, same difference!"
"Will you drop the hole I'm in love with a mare I met a day ago!"
"I didn't say anything about love!"
"W-well why would me be flirting with Rainbow be such a big deal if you don't know what led up to me having a emotional connection!"
Realizing that I just contradicted myself I mentally face palm.
"One you just contradicted yourself by saying your flirting with her, two what did lead up your currant connection with the girls anyway?"
Recollecting on past events, the images play through my head like a movie. The sounds of battle cry's and slashing of flesh. The clash of two armies as I defended the elements of harmony and princesses. My first kills of other satiate lives. Joining in the massive clash fighting alongside the ponies as I hack, slash and stab my way through the Changelings for Chrysalis's life to end. The final confrontation between me and the Changeling queen herself. The young guard pony's sacrifice, laying down his life for me as Chrysalis was about to crack my skull with her fore-hooves. Killing her in my rage of loss of life by her and her Changelings hooves. Returning to the palace with Shining slung over my shoulders, seeing the pain of lost brothers in arms of other ponies as I pass them by, the one pony crying over the body of one such brother.
"Eagle...Eagle!?"
I hadn't realized that I had came to a halt in my walk, and had drifted deep into thought as Spike tried to snap me back into reality. To which I shake my head and look towards him.
"You alright dude?"
"Yeah man you weren't responding for awhile?" Bowen adds to Spike's comment.
"Y-yeah I'm fine, just a little...Its not good story."
"Oh that explains the damage on the main street. If it makes you feel better, my time with Trixie wasn't free of trouble ether."
"I explain later, for everyponies sake."
"Thank you for considering my little ponies mental well being again Eagle."
"Its the least I can do for them."
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We had arrived back at the royal palace. Receiving many odd looks from every passerby, at least the guard ponies gave smiles and waves of recognition to which I happily returned the gestures. Arriving at the Canterlot royal guard ponies barracks, I help Bowen sit on one of the beds so he doesn't hurt his leg further. A nurse pony had came to check his leg by request of Princess Celestia, luckily the verdict was good. After the nurse had removed his bandages and examined his leg, she said that he would be fine and that his leg would heal. But the wound would likely leave a scar. She also went on to say that he would also have to keep from doing anything rough for a while, to be careful to not reopen the wound. It made Bowen aggravated to be hindered but he kept it to himself. Luna Set Trixie on the bed to the side of Bowen.
Bowen thanked the nurse for replacing the old dirty bandages with clean new ones. The nurse said your welcome and trotted away to attend to the others. The wounded from the battle. Guard ponies that survived and were wounded into nursing care. They were bruised and beaten with cuts and scratches riddling their bodies, some of them even covered head to hoof with them. The feeling of dread returning as I see them. But the dread was soon replaced with a feeling pride. I see them looking our way with smiles. They nudge others close to themselves while pointing a hoof at me whispering. I smirk and wave back to them.
"How you boys doing?"
They all respond with various reply's, all happy and up lifted. I decided to walk over to the guys and hang with them while I have the chance.
"Which one of you boys knocked me on my butt when I was trying to clime over you in that skirmish!?..." (Laughter from me and guard ponies)
"He is rather quick to make nice with our guard is he not sister?"
"Quite Luna, I'm rather happy that he is friendly with our royal defenders. Perhaps he mite even join their ranks as a profession?"
"He was quick to complement us on our appearances." Twilight adds.
"Gage...er Eagle is a nice guy, he was always the quiet one, never talking unless spoken to. But encountering a new form of sentient life has its exceptions I guess."
"You seem alright yourself partner."
"Thanks...um...I don't believe I got your names yet?"
"I am princess Celestia co-ruler of Equestria along side my sister Luna." Celestia gestures a hoof towards her sister.
"Hello Bowen!" Luna says with a smile.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle, its nice to meet you!"
"Hi I'm Pinkie Pie!"
"I'm Rainbow Dash! Fastest and most awesome flier in all of Equestria!"
"And I'm Applejack, nice to make your acquaintance partner!"
"Nice to meet you all."
"Hey Bowen check this out!" I call walk quickly back over to the group.
As I approach, I raise my right hand with my fingers pointing down. Showing RD's cutie mark.
"Dude what the heck!?"
"I know right! I passed out and poof, I wake up with them imprinted on my hands!"
"We can explain that later, once you had time to settle in." Celestia says.
"Settle in?" Bowen reply's with a questioning tone."
The Girls exchange nervous glances. The cartoony graphics of this universe making their expressions easy to read. Their worried faces confirming what I had assumed was the case of our being here.
"Theirs no way to send us home is there?" I ask.
Silence filled the air as me and Bowen stare the elements of harmony and princesses down. Until finally Luna was first to speak.
"We have some explaining to do."
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