Bionicle: Equestrian Saga
Chapter 22
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI came to feeling…strange, as I sat up I noticed was I was now on a bed.
“Oh, you’re awake” I heard someone say, I looked in the direction of a voice to see a pony in a doctor’s uniform standing in the door way “I’ll just go and get the Princess” I nodded and she walked away, I was still slightly confused, I remembered that I was visiting Celestia for some reason, but I wasn’t sure about the specifics, I swung my legs over the side of the bed and I noticed that I was still in my armour, ‘that’s odd’ I thought, they always removed my armour beforehand, I was disrupted from my inner musings by hoof steps coming from down the corridor, eventually Celestia walked into the room.
“Thank goodness you are okay” she said, sounding relieved, I was confused.
“Err, why wouldn’t I be?” I asked, she seemed taken aback by my answer.
“You don’t remember?” she asked “you don’t feel any different?”
“No I don’t remember, and other than a little strange, I don’t feel much different, why?” she levitated a mirror over towards me, when a saw my reflection I did a double take, instead of the plated shirt under my chest armour, there were now wires and pistons, I looked at Celestia.
“You have five minutes to start explaining before I lose control and punch something” I said, deadpanning
“I think it would be best if you followed me” she said, I stood up, getting vertigo from my apparent increase in height, I walked after Celestia, trying greatly to resist the urge to punch the centuries old stone walls “do you remember why you came here so quickly?”
“I remember it was something important, but other than that, not much else” I said, she sighed.
“Something was found, an object of great power, a mask, and when it was shown to me and my sister, it formed its own body, the being that resulted from this called himself Mata Nui…” I cut her off, grabbing hold of her shoulder
“Wait, Mata Nui, as in the Great Spirit” I asked, she nodded.
“Yes but, out of curiosity, how did you know of him?” she asked.
“Stories, told to children” I said, simplifying the truth “but where I come from he is supposed to be nothing but a fictional story, the creator of a race of biomechanical beings”
“Well, then you’ll know what power his mask holds” she said.
“Kenohi Ignika, the mask of life” I said “where are we going with this?”
“long story short, when you met him, his mask reacted to the presence of you and your friends, your pets included, and you were all changed, some more so than others”
“What about Autumn?” I asked.
“She is fine, a little shaken, but fine” she said, she then stopped outside some large wooden doors “I’ll warn you, Vinyl Scratch, Autumn Skies and your pets were effected the most, you and your brother, physically speaking, aren’t much different” she then opened the doors with a flash of her horn when I saw what was inside I did a double take, all of my friends were there, but they were vastly different, Minion was taller, a lot taller, about 7-8 feet tall now but other than seeing wires and pistons around his joints he wasn’t that much different, Autumn and Vinyl were vastly different, they were now bipedal, with hands and at each joint I could see various wires and pistons, Autumn had orange armour with maroon highlights and was wielding two thin swords, Vinyl had grey armour with highlights that were the same blue as her hair and was holding some form of cannon, resting the rear of it on her shoulder, but it was Boris and Scar that were changed the most, Scar was now taller and looked like a cross between a diamond dog and a werewolf, he had what looked like small Gatling guns above each shoulder and his claws were longer, looking more like small blades, and he had green armour with red highlights, Boris was the most different out of all of them, instead of a small falcon, he was now a mighty falcon headed griffin, with green armour, with two swords in his hands and what looked like two small rifles attached to his hips, they were all talking amongst themselves, Boris and Scar included, and they hadn’t noticed me or Celestia, I turned to the Alicorn.
“Care to explain why Scar is a werewolf with Gatling guns, and why Boris is a griffon with rifles attached to his hips?” I asked.
“that is something we cannot figure out” a baritone voice said, I looked in the direction of the voice to see Mata Nui walking towards us, with the scarabax Click on his shoulder “when you approached us, my mask activated by itself, turning you into Toa”
“Vuur Koning!?” I heard Autumn say, I looked in her direction to see her running, albeit unsteadily, towards us, she ran up and embraced me, and I returned the gesture “I was so worried about you” I looked over to see Mata nui regarding us curiously.
“I’m not one to let a little something like this drag me down, if anything I was worried about you” I said “how are you holding up?” she looked me in the eyes.
“I’m fine, I was a little shaken at first, but once Mata Nui explained everything, I started to understand” she said.
“Come on” I said “I still haven’t spoken to the others since…” I gestured us all, I noticed the other 4 were walking towards us.
“Vuur Koning, are you okay?” Minion asked, I actually had to look up slightly.
“I’m fine” I said “I’m more worried about Scar and Boris, I gestured to them”
“We’re good-fine” Boris replied, ‘oh god, he talks in tree speak’ I thought.
“Let me guess” I said, “you’re a toa of air?” he nodded
“And the rest of you?” Celestia asked, Mata Nui stepped forwards.
“Minion is a Toa of Magnetism” he said “Autumn Skies is a Toa of Iron, Vinyl Scratch is a Toa of Sonics…”
“What’s Sonics?” I asked.
“Sound manipulation” he explained.
“That isn’t even the best part” Vinyl said “Check this baby out” she gestured to her ridiculously big canon.
“What is it?” I asked, she stepped back and turned around, aiming it towards a target, she then turned her head to look at me, a manic grin plastered on her face.
“Oh, it’ nothing… JUST MY BASS CANNON” she then pulled a trigger, the air rippled around the muzzle, blue energy shot from the barrel and she slid back a couple of feet, it also let out a deafening level of sound, we all had to cover our ears to try and block it out, the blue beam of energy hit the target, shattering it to splinters, she then shut it off and smoke drifted from the nozzle, she brought it to her snout and blew the smoke away “Pretty cool, huh?”
“Gutter Gott!” I exclaimed, bringing my hands away from my ears “that is loud”
“Can you see why I called it the Bass Canon?” she said.
“It’s got quite a bit of kick-back” I said “Anyway, Mata Nui, you were saying?”
“Yes” he said “Scar is a Toa of Plant-life and you are a Toa of Fire”
“Actually” I said “Scars power makes a lot of sense, he used to be a Timberwolf, so theoretically he could, if he so chooses, summon a pack of timberwolves”
“Gee, I hadn’t thought of that” Scar said sarcastically in a deep, gravelly voice and crossing his arms
“What about mask powers?” I asked.
“Toa must earn their mask power” he said, I went to say something but he held his hand up, silencing me “however, if it is a mask that is always on at a low level, like a Hau or a an Anthron, then that will be active, you just won’t be able to control it”
“I’m guessing mine is a Hau” I said, he nodded.
“Your brother’s mask is the Kenohi Sonak” he said “which gives him incredible accuracy, and Vinyl Scratches Mask is the Kenohi Anthron, which lets her see targets through eco-location, as for the other three, I’m not sure, I can only sense masks which are active, so we shall have to wait and see”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Mata Nui shall be joining you on your travels” Celestia said “I feel that he is a key to unlocking the reason why you were sent here”
“Oh” I said “speaking of our travels, I kind of have a favour to ask”
“Go on” Celestia said.
“We’ll you see” I said awkwardly “the ship that we are using, is kind of low on crew, we only have a crew of 500 or so”
“And how many should it have?” Celestia asked, quirking an eyebrow.
“Around 70’000” I said “But, I was thinking of doing something in return, for you lending me a crew”
“I’m listening” She said.
“The Jörmungandr officially becomes a part of the Equestrian navy” I said “and its current crew also become a part of the navy, I plan to head into the uncharted south-eastern lands of the southern continent, so maybe it could be classed as an expeditionary voyage, if we come across any undiscovered civilisations, then we could always try and negotiate with them to become our allies” she didn’t say anything, leaving me quite nervous, after about 30 seconds she smiled.
“I think that I can give you enough crew” she said, we all sighed with relief “how does about 49’500 individuals sound to you?” I did a double take.
“That many? that’ll give us a crew of 50’000!” I said, she nodded.
“Comprised of not just sailors and guards” she said “but ambassadors, cooks, interpreters, survivalists, naturalists, scientists and biologists, Everypony you would need on an expeditionary voyage”
“Once again, your generosity never ceases to amaze me” I said, she chuckled.
“Why do you think I once wielded the Elements of harmony?” she said.
“Also, do you know of anyone that will make a figurehead for a 720 meter tall hoard-ship?”
The next few weeks were rather hectic, the Jörmungandr got put into dry dock for re-fitting, it’s cannons got upgraded, with new, more efficient systems and independently operating two barrel auto-AA guns added on top of each turret, the interior was totally refitted, with new navigation systems that automatically charted any unknown terrain and then sent the information back to Canterlot, we now even had a sentient magical construct that monitored the ship systems, totally new boilers were fitted, the ship was repainted to the colours of the Equestrian Royal Navy; blue with gold railings and lining, they also fitted an absolutely beautifully carved and painted wooden figure-head depicting the Jörmungandr rearing up as if to strike, with its body stretching from the bow and running the full length of the hull, all 3620 meters of it, with the tail actually appearing on the rear of the ship, so it looked like the snake was being keel-hauled, they actually had to install it in sections because it was so long, but you couldn’t tell unless you got up close to it, we actually ended up playing a concert in a stadium, with poster making use of the fact that Vinyl was a part of the band, and we basically played shows whilst the ship was being refitted, after about a month of playing shows in canterlot we headed to Ponyville on the train, with the band, Boris, Scar, Aurora and Mata Nui travelling with me, Frostfang and Blazewing would fly the ship to Ponyville the next day, but I had told Celestia to only tell Twilight that we had a ship, and not to specify its name, size, or the fact that it was pulled by a dragon, I wanted it to be a surprise for them, we would play a weekend of concerts from our stage on the hold of the ship, with us arriving on the Thursday, and the ship arriving on the Friday, so we had two full days of relaxing, the train was soon to arrive in Ponyville and I was just going over specifics with everyone.
“Okay” I said “remember, don’t tell anyone about our ship or the fact that it’s pulled by a dragon, if they ask, just tell them to wait and see, okay?” they all nodded, the train pulled into the station and I stopped them before they could walk out, I could see the Elements of Harmony standing on the platform , but they hadn’t spotted us yet.
“I’ll go first, and tell them about what happened” I said, they nodded “Okay, wait for me to call for you” I then stepped outside and greeted them, they were surprised by my change in hight.
“Whoa, Vuur Koning” Rainbow Dash said looking up at me “You weren’t tall enough already?” I chuckled.
“Yeah, you girls know of Mata Nui, right?” I asked and they nodded “well when I met him, his mask started to glow and it shot out energy at me and my friends, I passed out and when I came to…” I gestured to my body.
“Speaking of which” Twilight said “Where are they?” I poked my head into the carriage.
“You can come out now guys” I said, I turned to the Elements, thir eyes widened when they saw Autumn “you already know Autumn”
“What in hay happened to yawl?” Applejack asked, looking up at Autumn
“Mata Nui happened” she said, leaning against me, I put my arm around her, Rarity seemed to pay close attention to this
“And Mata Nui you already know” I said as he walked out, Vinyl walked out and Rainbow Dash recognised her.
“Vinyl!?” She asked in surprise “what are you doing here” I did a double take.
“You know each other?” I asked.
“I stopped in Ponyville for a short while” Vinyl said, kneeling down and giving a hoof-bump to Rainbow, Scar walked out and the Elements backed away slightly, his immense size casting a shadow on them, plus when he tried to small it showed all of his teeth, Fluttershy started trembling.
“This is Scar” I said “you all remember him, right?” the nodded stiffly.
“L-let me guess” Twilight said “Mata Nui?” I nodded, then Boris stepped out.
“In case you didn’t recognise him, this is Boris” I said
“Hello” he said “I am happy-cheer to see you again” this just left them confused.
“Er… what did he say?” Rainbow dash asked.
“He’s happy to see you again” I said, massaging my brow “don’t ask me why he speaks like that” then Minion stepped out with Aurora on his shoulders.
“This is my older brother, Minion” I said “with his adopted daughter, and therefore my niece, Aurora”
“You’re huge” Rainbow Dash said, Minion just smirked.
“Brother” I said “don’t even think about it”
“Aww, come on” he said “She walked right into it” Rainbow Dash looked confused.
“What?” she asked, looking between the two of us, Minion went to say something but I placed my hand on his mouth.
“I swear to Fantasia, Minion” I said “if you dare say what I think you’re going to say, then I will not hesitate to deck you” he just smirked before licking my hand, really slowly, I groaned in disgust before removing my hand from his mouth to wipe the spit off.
“I wasn’t going to say anything” he said.
“You are disgusting” I said, wiping my palm on my leg “you are lucky your daughter is on your shoulders otherwise you would already be on the floor” Cloddiwr and Saphyrus now walked out of the carriage.
“Dragon!” Fluttershy shrieked before hiding behind Applejack.
“Before you go into a panic” I said “allow me to introduce Saphyrus the Dragoness, she is the Bass guitarist in our band and she won’t hurt you”
“A-are you sure?” Fluttershy asked, trembling behind Applejack, Saphyrus knelt down and looked at Fluttershy.
“By dragons honour” she said, placing a hand on her chest “I will not hurt you, and please, call me Saph” Fluttershy slowly poked her head out from behind Applejack.
“Um, o-okay, Saph” Fluttershy said, Saphyrus smiled kindly and Fluttershy slowly walked out from behind Applejack, I then gestured to Cloddiwr.
“And finally, the last member of our little group, Cloddiwr” I said “that’s with a W, not a UU”
“Why is it spelt like that?” Twilight asked.
“He comes from Minotauria, that’s how they spell things over there, right, shall we all go to the library, or do you want to stand in the station all day?” I asked, Twilight seemed to become downcast at that, this confused me “okay, what did I miss whilst I was away?” Twilight sighed.
“The library was destroyed when I battled Tirek” she said sadly.
“Oh, gosh, I’m so sorry” I said “out of curiosity, where will we be staying?” she seemed to brighten up at that, her horn glowed and I felt the familiar feeling of being teleported, next thing I knew we were all standing in front of a crystal tree.
“Twilight” I said “what the hell did I miss whilst I was away?”
“And that’s how I became the Princess of Friendship” Twilight said, concluding her story, we were all sat in a large study room, minus Aurora, who was off playing with Spike and the CMC.
“So Celestia, Luna and Cadence all gave their power to you to fight Tirek?” I asked, she nodded “Bloody hell, remember what I said, Minion?”
“What did you say to him?” Twilight asked.
“Am I correct in saying that for ever unicorn that casts a spell on the same object, the combined power is multiplied by the total number of unicorns casting on that object, so if you and Rarity both levitated the same object together, you combined power would be doubled?” I said.
“That pretty much sums it up” she said “TP=MxC”
“What?” Minion said, he had, up until that point, been browsing the different titles on the books
“Total Power = Magic times by Casters” she said, rolling her eyes “So Vuur Koning, you never told us about your adventure so far”
“Oh, right” I said, I then began to retell our tale to the Elements, with the others adding their own parts when necessary, I omitted certain parts, like instead of telling them of our battle with the creatures in the forest, and anything connected to that, I skipped it completely, I was also incredibly vague about the details for the ship, and when they asked me to elaborate, I simply told them to wait till tomorrow, they were greatly saddened to hear of how Minion ended up adopting Aurora.
Oh, the poor dear” Rarity said, she then looked at Minion “you truly are doing a wonderful thing, looking after her, I still don’t understand why you kept the dreaded pirates on your ship, if they did such a horrid thing”
“Trust me Rarity, when you see the ship, you’ll understand why” I said, Twilight went to speak up but I cut her off “tomorrow” she pouted and did the whole puppy-dog act to try and change my mind, I simply chuckled darkly.
“Ihre Kräfte auf mich keine Wirkung, Hexe” I said, Autumn looked at me, a shocked expression on her face.
“Vuur Koning, how could you say that?” she said, jabbing me in the side.
“Because it’s true” I said, jabbing her back
“You speak Germane?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“hat damit Ihre Frage beantwortet, Kegeln?” I asked, Autumn’s eye twitched
“I’m guessing that’s a yes” She said.
“Jawohl” I said
“Warum muss ich selbst die Mühe machen?” Autumn muttered, massaging her eyebrow in frustration.
“You love me really” I said, kissing her on the forehead, Rarity saw this.
“Are you two…?” she trailed off.
“Together?” I asked “Yes, since before we went to the crystal kingdom” when I said this she made a strange, squeeing noise.
“What the fuck was that noise?” Minion asked, looking around confused.
“A marshmallow” I said, picking up one from the selection of snacks that Twilight had provided and eating it, the glare Rarity gave me could melt diamonds, thankfully my armour wasn’t made from diamonds so I was fine, I shot back a look that essentially said ‘Fuck you, bitch’
“They make a noise on this world?” Minion asked, completely oblivious of most of the ponies trying to contain their laughter.
“Yep” I said, Rarity looked away from me and stuck her nose up in the air, Rainbow Dash burst out laughing.
“Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha” she guffawed.
“I’m guessing it’s an inside joke?” Minion said.
“during the year that I was training to be a royal guard I visited Ponyville a lot, as a result I started giving them nicknames, one of which was my nickname for Rarity; Marshmallow” I said.
“ha-ha-ha-ha, Marshmallow, that’s a good one” Rainbow said.
“Oh shut it” Rarity said, she suddenly got a devious glint in her eyes “or do you want me to call you by your nickname, Skittles?” Rainbows eyes widened
“You wouldn’t dare” She said, narrowing her eyes at Rarity.
“Try me” Rarity said “Skittles” the two of them then started to backer amongst themselves, I just sat there and laughed, Autumn sighed.
“Now look what you’ve done, V.K.” she said.
“Oh, come on, it’s funny” I said, she just groaned in exasperation.
“Explain to me why I’m in love with you again” she said.
“Is it my dashing good looks, my courage, or my charming personality?” I asked, I heard Minion sniff.
“I smell bullshit” he said, I simply flashed my hunting knife at him, Fluttershy went pale when she saw the knife.
“W-why do you have a knife that big?” she asked, I took it out of its sheaf and all of the ponies eyes went wide when they saw the 7 inch blade.
“Hunting” I said, Minion scoffed.
“I think you are forgetting something” he sang, I glared at him.
“Not now, brother” I said “and you can’t say anything when you have a knife that is exactly the same” he quietened down after that.
“What is your brother talking about?” Twilight asked, I sighed.
“I want you to realise something before I tell you what happened” I said “we have been in situations when if we didn’t act, it would have been us that were killed, now, we were headed towards Equestria and a band of pirates tried to take over our ship, some of their crew tried to kill me, I retaliated in kind, they came off worse, as I said this I ran my finger down the blade.
“Y-you mean…?” Fluttershy said.
“Unfortunately yes, but I was quick about it, I used my spell pistol, one shot in the head, quick and painless, if it was the other way around then they would have done much worse, not just to me, but also to the crew, quite a few of our crew are female, a group of randy, male pirates attack the ship, what do you think they would try to do to the females?” I asked, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Applejack paled.
“Throughout our journeys I have maintained several moral boundaries, one of these is, if I have to kill someone, I have to be quick about it, I don’t want them to suffer, unfortunately I crossed that boundary when the captain tried to use Autumn as a hostage, long and gruesome story short, I killed the entire crew of pirates in a rage and made the captain suffer for ever daring to use Autumn as a hostage, looking back I wish I hadn’t done what I did” when I finished all of the ponies had paled considerably, Mata Nui, who up until now had been meditating, opened his eyes.
“When I train you to be a Toa, you will have to learn to control your anger, the fact that you regret doing it is a sign that you can be swayed from the path that you now walk” he said, he then narrowed his eyes at me “but be warned, carry on as you have, and you may reach a point where you can never return to light” at that moment a guard burst through the door.
“Your majesty, there are dragons in Ponyville” he said.
“What sort of size?” Twilight asked.
“About the height of your guests, and their intentions are hostile” the guard said, she nodded to the guard and stood up.
“Thank you, guard” she said, “me and my friends will handle this”
We stepped outside the castle to see three dragons harassing the CMC, Spike and Aurora, I had to resist the urge to run over there and run one of them through, it seem that Minion was suffering the same dilemma
“These guys?” Rainbow asked incredulously.
“You know them?” I asked.
“Sort of” she said “Spike wanted to find out what it means to be a dragon and…”
“Got in the wrong sort of crowd?” I asked, she nodded, Twilight called over to them.
“Dragons” she called, gaining their attention “why do you harass these young ones?” they flew over to us, landing about 500 yards away
“What’s it to you?” the tallest, a red one, said, Twilight went to say something but Minion stepped forwards.
“Maybe the fact that that dragoness is my daughter” he said, the dragons looked at each other before bursting out laughing.
“That explains why she is such a freak” the red one said, Minion growled before drawing his huge scimitar, letting the blade touch the ground and silencing their laughter “seem this one wonts to pick a fight”
“He’s not the only one” I said, walking up and standing next to my brother, I turned to Twilight “get the kids, I don’t want them to see what happens next” Twilight nodded and teleported over to the kids, teleporting away with them seconds later, she quickly returned, minus the children
“It’s still three against one” the dragon said, the rest of the team stepped forwards “that’s better”
“As much as I would very much like to run you through” I said, drawing my sword “I’m giving you the chance to back away now, with you honour intact”
“You’re just afraid to fight” the red dragon said.
“You see that’s where you are wrong, you should be afraid to fight us, but if you feel so sure of your selves, I’ll give you a free hit” I then patted my chest “your hottest flames” the rest of the team backed away several tens of feet, the dragons shrugged before inhaling and breathing intense flames in my direction, thinking quickly I raised my sword and the flames split down the middle, passing me on both sides, I then swung the blade to the side, the flames began following, I started circling my sword above my head and the flames formed a rotating column in the air above me, the dragons looked surprised, I began to turn the column faster and faster, until it became a tornado, I smirked
“Dragons” I said, rolling my eyes “you think you are so powerful, just because you breathe fire, BITCH, I…AM…FIRE” I then swung me sword forward and the column then shot towards the dragons, their eyes widened in fear and they took flight, I dissipated the fire before it could do any damage and the dragons landed back on the ground.
“You missed” the red one said, I walked over to Scar.
“Fire for effect” I said, I then whispered in his ear “set to stun” he nodded and walked forwards on all fours, the dragons laughed.
“What are you gonna do?” their leader said “bark at us?” the other two dragons laughed, Scar rolled his eyes and I heard a click, the guns started to swivel on their mountings and the barrels started to rotated, soon becoming a blur, red energy started to spew out of the barrels, the dragons quickly took to the air, issuing cries of surprise, the guns started to follow the larger of the 3, as he was slower, several shots hit the dragon and he plummeted out of the sky, he hit the ground with a thud and groaned, the other two looked on in shock.
“I’m gonna get you for that” the red one yelled, before flying towards Scar, who just rolled his eyes and fired his guns at the dragon, the red dragon quickly fell out of the sky, landing in a heap in front of Scar.
“You were saying” he said before walking away, the dragon struggled to get up.
“Get back here you coward” the dragon said, Scar froze, very slowly turned around, and then, with a speed that surprised even me, ran over and pulled him up by the frill on his head.
“Say that again” Scar growled, baring his teeth, the red dragon gulped, Scar tossed the dragon away “get out of here, you yellow bellied bastard” the dragon shakily stood up.
“Come on guys, they aren’t worth our time” he said, taking flight, the other two dragons quickly followed, soon they were out of sight.
“Good riddance” Scar said.
“Ah’ll say” Applejack said, I turned to see the elements walking towards us.
“How did you do that, Vuur Koning?” Twilight said “you were able to control the flames yet you weren’t using magic”
“I’m a Ta-Toa” I said, noticing her confuse look I elaborated “I'm a spirit of fire, I can control fire as naturally as Rainbow controls her wings, just like Scar could call forth a pack of timberwolves on a whim, and Boris could cause a tornado if he felt in the mood to do so, but a toa should never abuse his or her power, only use them for good” Mata Nui walked up to me and placed his hand on my shoulder
“You have the makings of a great toa” he said, looking me in the eyes and smiling.