So there I was, floating around in my lack of gravity…..

I swear, this has been getting old fast. I’ve been stuck like this for a few days now, and I still have no clue how to control this power. I mean, I was able to figure out the magnetism crap thanks to Hyper Bolic, apparently it’s just like using telekinesis, but the gravity powers? Nope.

No, I get stuck floating through the air, completely unable to even try to set foot on the ground.

An item popped into existence near me. I could tell because it came with an audible *POP* sound, and the fact that it hit me on the head right afterwards. Looking down at it, I noticed it was a black diamond. Huh, odd. Wait a second, the only things that randomly show up besides loot, is tokens! I didn’t beat on any enemies around here recently, so that must have been a token! Now, if only I could reach it.

After about an hour of struggling to reach it from my suspended point in the air, Emerald walked in and handed me the dang thing.

“Thanks Emerald,” I said to the robotic changeling.

“No problem, Dox,” she said back. “You should know by now that you can just call us if you need to pick stuff up off the ground.” She looked at me smugly before exiting the room.

Well, great. Now I have the token. Now, how do I activate it….. Ah screw it!

I threw the diamond towards the ground. It bounced back and hit me in the face before a portal opened up about a foot away from it, sending a very good looking girl tumbling in.

“Oh mon dieu,” she groaned, her long blonde hair falling over her face and nearly covering her deep red eyes. “I really need to get the hang of Void travel. This tumbling about is so annoying.”

“Tell that to me, or Wade,” I said. “We’ve both had portals open beneath us. Hell, I fell a good ten feet once thanks to a portal. Let me tell you, it hurt.”

“Oh hello,” she said with a wave, finally noticing me. “Sorry, didn’t see you up there… what are you doing up there anyway? That’s supposed to be my bit, merde!”

“Hey! You watch your tongue young lady,” I said. “I’m up here ‘cause I decided to go for a swim in a Gamma Pool. Now I have gravity powers…. apparently. I’m honestly just going off the big guy’s word. Don’t ask. All I know is that I’m at a loss for gravity right now.”

“Va te faire foutre,” the girl said with a smirk. “Gravity powers, huh? Don’t know if I should be flattered or insulted.”

“I said watch your language!” I yelled at the girl. “Ah forget it. Listen, can you help me or not?” She snapped her fingers with a smirk… and I fell flat on my face. “Thanks. Now, can you actually help me so I can fix it if it happens again?”

“Hmm, we’ll see,” she said smugly. “First I need to see if you’re worthy of such power. If not, well I’m just gonna have to take it from you.” She cricked her back and strolled off in a random direction. “I’m hungry, let’s get something to eat.”

“The dining room’s this way,” I said, pointing in the opposite direction than she was heading. “I don’t know what your Equestria is like, but mine’s pretty different. Such as, the big guy turned everyone Anthro, so yeah. Be prepared for that.”

“I knew that.” she said, making a one eighty turn. “Anthro, weirdness, peaceful, military, dégueulasse. I’ve seen ‘em all. Nothing’s new anymore.”

“Yeah, try a world based on D&D,” I said in an annoyed tone. “That’s all my world is. Hell, it’s getting worse, too! Ever met Avarice? How about Jack? Well, things have been leaking in from their worlds, let alone creatures. I think Jack’s world leaked in some form of corruption. That corruption took the form of Tiny Tina who had Dungeon Master powers. Called herself the Bunker Master and summoned The Warrior on me and Athena. Trust me, it sucked.”

“Blech,” she stuck out her tongue. “D&D? That’s for lonely nerds who live in their mother’s basement.”

“Hey!” I yelled. “I don’t know what sort of ideas you have about D&D, and I don’t care. If you don’t like it, keep it to yourself. I liked the game. Hell, I was a dungeon master myself! Now I’m a changeling with superpowers! My life has, debatably, gotten better because of D&D.”

“NERD!!” she shouted with a big smile.

“Yeah, say that later when I cast a fireball on you,” I said. “Then we’ll see if you and your stuff makes a save.”

“Hey, boy, you gotta take this lady to dinner first before you see her naked,” she said nonchalantly.

“Yeah, keep dreaming,” I said. “Already got a bunch of mares here literally begging me to take them.”

“I don’t beg.” She looked over her shoulder with a demon’s grin. “I command.” She turned back away, humming lightly no doubt with a happy smile.

“Yeah, whatever,” I said. “Let’s just get some food, then we can get this done with.”

Out in the dining hall, everyone seemed to be eating lunch. Made me hungry. I had to have been fed weird liquids to eat because I kept flipping over in my lack of gravity. Finally, I could eat solid food!

I took my seat on the right side of Luna, who was sitting at the head of the table.

“Yo, waiter!” I called out. A waiter came running out with a notepad. “Can I get a salad with Ceasar dressing? Oh, and a… Um, miss? I never got your name. Anything you want?”

“It’s Kat. Kat Shifter, the Gravity Queen. I’ll take whatever the waiter recommends… and maybe the waiter himself later.” She gave the poor guy a sultry wink.

The waiter nearly fainted from the look. Wow, either she’s good at that, or the waiter was an even bigger nerd than me, which was impossible. The waiter quickly recovered, scribbled something down, and took off.

“Ya know, the staff here knows Displaced pretty well,” I said. “I had a party here once. There had been a big battle. Celestia over there was corrupted by this Fell Shadow that had gained a ton of power, see? She had come to confront and try to kill me, so I summoned a bunch of Displaced. It was a pretty epic battle. Afterwards we had a party here. A few of the guys I summoned ordered things like burgers, though, so don’t be surprised if you get one.”

A few minutes later, the waiter came back with a large lidded tray in his hands. When he stopped between me and Kat, he removed the lid, only to reveal my salad and, guess what, a burger for Kat. “Bon appetit,” the waiter said before running off into the kitchen.

“I should feel insulted, but there’s meat in front of me, so I’ll let it pass.” She took a big bite out of the burger. “Mm, glorious meat~.”

“Glad you’re enjoying it,” I said.

“Um, Dox,” Luna said. “Is she… a Displaced?”

“Yeah, don’t worry, Luna,” I said. “I summoned her, she put me on the ground, now we’re eating, okay? We’re all friends here.”

“Mmhm,” Kat said, wiping her mouth and swallowing the bite. “Hi Luna. Nice to meet you… well, this you, anyway. I’ve met a lot of you.”

“U-u-uh…” Luna stuttered.

“Um, Kat, can you not mention things like that?” I asked. “The ponies here are still having a hard time trying to comprehend things like that. They’re fine with beings from other universes, but for some reason, mention other thems, and they break.”

“Whoops, sorry. Forget sometimes. Travel for too long, and oops! You forget stuff like that. Sorry, Luna. Just been on my own for too long. Ya go a bit nuts in the head, you know what I’m sayin’? ...Oops, just did it again. My bad.”

It was at this point that Luna had a total meltdown and passed out, her head landing on the table.

“Great,” I sighed, abandoning my salad to try and wake up Luna. “Luna, wake up. You’re the only you I have eyes for, okay? You’re you, they’re them. Just remember that Luna. Now please, wake up.”

Luna woke up slowly. “I need to go lay down,” she said before leaving the room.

“She’ll be fine,” I said. “She just needs some time to get her brain working again.”

“Well that happened,” Kat said, taking another bite. She sighed afterward, setting down her burger. “Sorry about that, I’ve been going a little crazy lately. Some things happened and, well, I’ve been on my own for far too long.”

“Sounds pretty bad,” I said. “I’m not sure if it helps much, but hey, you’re not too bad. As far as I’m concerned, so far, you’re welcome here. Hell, if you want to talk about it, I’m all ears.” At that last statement, I cast an illusion spell to make it look like I had grown ears all over my body.

“...that’s creepy. It’s just… no, no they’re my problems. Not anyone else’s. Don’t worry about it.”

“Hey, that’s not how things get fixed,” I said, dropping the illusion. “Well, they do, but it helps to have friends by your side. It’s like a dungeon, it’s good to have multiple people to take it on with, it increases the chances of success. I’m just trying to make you smile a bit, maybe get you to be happy.”

Kat chuckled, no emotion in it. “I don’t get happiness. It doesn’t exist for me. I’m here to make others happy. It’s fine, just drop it.”

“Hell no,” I said. “You sound like my sister back on Earth, granted her attitude was worse. Even then, though, I got her to be happy. I can get you to be happy, too, ya just need to tell me what’s wrong.”

Kat smiled. “That’s nice, but it’s fine. There’s nothing that can be done to give me any happiness. I’m here for others, not myself.”

“Well, why not make it about yourself for once?” I asked.

“Because every time I do, people die,” Kat said nonchalantly, taking a sip of water before returning to her meal.

“Well then, you haven’t met me,” I said. “I’m Dox Ad Finem. Here in this world, as well as another, I’ve died helping others. Well, except for that one time, but I let that slide. Listen, I’m not easy to kill. So, if it makes you happy, I know a spot where we can go so you can let it all out, alright? It’s far out of the way, up in the Frozen North. You can let it all out there, and no one will get hurt, alright? We can go there after lunch.”

“No thank you,” she waved off. It was at that point I noticed that continually talking about this, her voice had gone from happy, enthusiastic and teasing to straight up dead. It was disconcerting to say the least.

“Fine,” I said. “But you said you wanted to see if I have what it takes to hold gravity in my control. If we’re gonna do that, I’m not doing it anywhere near ponies. I don’t want anyone getting hurt. The only place I know where that’ll happen is the same place I was just talking about.”

“If you think I’m going to test your battle mettle, then you’d be wrong. I would only train someone good of heart in the ways of gravity manipulation.” She smirked through her food. “You’ve already proven that to me.”

“Wow, and I didn’t even do anything,” I said. “First it’s convincing Jack to get me an arm, then it’s you. Oh shit! Speaking of him, I still need to send him all that Eridium the Warrior dropped! I’ll be right back.” I got up from my seat and left the room.

Kat stayed there for a moment before sighing. “He’s got a good head on his shoulders. Hopefully he doesn’t suffer the gravity shifter’s curse.” She got up and followed after me.

After going back to my newly relocated room in Luna’s side of the castle, sending Jack a good sixty bars of Eridium, and purchasing a metric crap ton of ammo for my new sniper rifle and ammo for Athena’s shotgun, Kat dragged me out to the Canterlot Gardens.

“Alright, this place will be empty enough to practice. Wide open spaces and nothing too bad to fall on. Hopefully you have high durability… because you will get hurt doing this,” she told me.

“Don’t worry, I do,” I said. “I’d still rather do this out at the other location. There’s plenty of things there, and absolutely no creatures to harm…. unless that dragon somehow respawned, then we’d have a battle on our hands.”

“Just trust me… you’re gonna wanna be close to modern medicine.” Kat shuddered at some old memory. “It’s not fun without it.”

“Well, I could always bring Athena,” I said. “For some reason, she’s always prepared for everything. Plus, she’s kinda hooked up with Hyperion tech. And if that’s not enough, I have my magic satchel.”

“Might wanna have her on hand then. Because… well, lesson one is… falling.”

“Wait, what?!” I said. “Athena! Can you get out here, quickly?”

“Already here, Dox,” Athena piped up. “I’ve got his vital signs synced up automatically. Reading yours now, Miss Kat.”

“Alright… now… please forgive me for this.”

“For what?” I asked.

“This.”

She snapped her fingers and I suddenly found myself in the air… very high up in the air… very, very, very high up. Oh sweet Jesus I can see the planet below from up here, what the hell was she thinking?! ...and then I fell.

“SON OF A BITCH!” I screamed as I fell. I eventually hit terminal velocity. Hell, I felt EVERYTHING at that point. I could feel the air around me heat up, my skin start burning, I even felt a bone or two in my leg break from the sheer speed and force from the fall, and I hadn’t even hit the ground yet!

Back on the ground, Athena was looking around for me while Kat was staring up into the sky.

“Might want to keep that med kit on standby,” Kat told her.

“Sure,” Athena said, pulling out a large white box with a red cross on it. “Um, might I ask, where did you just send Dox?”

“Upper atmosphere.”

“WHAT?!” Athena screeched. “YOU SENT HIM THERE?! Sure, he’s dived off Canterlot Mountain before, but he was always prepared for a fall like that! It was always controlled! You just sent him up without warning!” Athena looked up. “He’s falling too fast to even ready a spell to slow his descent! What were you thinking?!”

“Have faith in your friend,” Kat said wisely. “He’ll be just fine.”

“Not if he can’t ready a spell!” Athena yelled.

Back in the air, I was still falling. I tried pulling out the big tome of D&D a few times, but the only time I was able to get it out, the thing blew out of my hands! Lucky for me, its soul bound, I just willed it back into my magic satchel. Too bad, though. It was my only saving grace. I’d have to figure out a way to stop my descent without it, if not just slow it down.

I tried my hoodie, no dice. I tried my other clothes, no dice. I tried acting like a skydiver without his parachute open, still, no dice. Hell, I even rolled my dice in the Dice Roller Core.

Wanna know what I got? A one. This did not bode well for me. Either it meant there was no way I could find a way to slow myself down, or this was gonna hurt….. a lot.

After about a solid hour and a half of falling, I could finally see where Kat and Athena were. They were coming up really fast. I barely had time to wave to them before colliding with the ground… or so I thought. Somehow, I had actually stopped barely an inch above it, floating in place.

“Um, what the hell?” I said, not bothering to look up from the ground. “Did… did I do that?”

“Mmhm,” Kat nodded with a proud smile. “Gravity is a tricky power, my boy. It may not always work when you want it, but it will always be there when you need it.”

“Huh, cool,” I said. I tried to stand up, forgetting what I felt when I was falling, only to cringe when I put pressure on my left leg. “GAH!” I had to sit down. “I think my leg broke mid fall. Man that hurts.”

“Yeah, like I said. Need to be around modern medicine,” Kat said apologetically.

“That’s okay,” I said. “I heal fast.”

“Yeah, but you’re gonna need a brace at least,” Athena said, reaching into her big white box. She pulled out a large leg brace and put it on me. “There you go. You should be able to walk on it with that on.”

“Hey, just be glad you stopped… took me a few tries before I did, and I started in the upper stratosphere.”

“Uh, wow,” I said, finally getting up. “That’s pretty scary, come to think of it. Glad I have a teacher. Heh.”

“Yup… I did too at one point.” She looked sad for a moment, but shook it off just as quick. “Anyway, lesson two is about practical manipulation. Essentially, gravity powers are a good replacement for unicorn magic. It runs on similar principles and perform similar tasks, it just packs an enfer of a lot more punch.”

“Um, okay then,” I said. “So, what are we gonna practice on?”

“What else? The statues in this garden!” Kat said, waving her hands at the multitudes of stone statues. “They’ll be perfect for practice.”

“Alright,” I said. “So, got one in mind? There’s a bunch in here. I even saw a few made of metal, but I’d rather not practice on those ones. Apparently, I have magnetism powers, too. Gamma Pools are weird things.”

“Bah, magnetism isn’t as helpful as one may think. Not many metals can be magnetized for it to be very efficient.” Kat put out her hand and every statue in the garden lifted ten feet in the air and began to dance around. “See, when you are able to get full control of these powers, merde like this becomes easier than cake.”

“Alright then,” I said. “So, just concentrate on moving it and- WHOA!” I sent the statue I was trying to move skyward. It went flying into the sky, so far that I couldn’t even see it anymore. “Well…. that happened.”

Kat sighed, snapping her fingers and making the statue appear right next to me. “That was your freebie. Next time you send one flying or break one, I’ll start dropping them on you.”

“Yeesh, harsh much?” I said. “So, lets try that again. Just focus, and….”

Woops. That was a teleport spell. Shit. Oh hey! This was my camp outside the Obama Dragon’s lair!

“Um, oops?” I said, shrugging. “Eheheh, sorry about that. I’m really not used to the whole having powers that are like telekinesis thing. Kinda used a teleport spell instead. Oops. Hey, on the bright side, there’s a dragon’s lair up in a cave in this mountain just full of stuff to practice on. Hell, if you didn’t like the president, there’s even a white house in there. Don’t ask why, it involves a dragon.”

"Any dragon here?"

“Not anymore,” I said. “I killed it with some help.” Why did a chill just run down my back.

"Sweetie," Kat said with a voice so sweet it could kill. "Please keep in mind that I am a goddess of the dragons. That being said, please tell me it was an evil dragon. If not well, things might get messy, mkay~?"

“Okay,” I said. “Um, ya know, it had a name. The dragon was black, named Obama, and please don’t ask. Let me just say, yes, it was evil. It was holding ponies, and a friend of mine, hostage here and in a trance. Then, it did some kind of magic power that revived it and made it huge. It then proceeded to lay siege to Canterlot while using Canterlot Castle as a huge chair.”

"Alright," her voice went back to normal. "That's perfectly fine. Allons-y."

A short trek up the mountain later, and we were at the Obama Dragon’s former lair. There were random houses and trees all around, as well as the random white house on the hill in the back of the lair.

“See?” I said. “Completely empty and full of stuff to practice on.”

"Eh, I suppose it will do. Now then, resume practicing. Until you can manage levitation, we won't be moving on to the next one."

“Alright then,” I said. “So, just like telekinesis… Gonna move that tree over there.” I pointed over to a tree that was at the end of the clearing. Alright, I got this. Just imagine grabbing it and… pull!

The tree went flying into the air, but not as high or fast this time. No, this time it went to a manageable height before staying there.

“Oh hey!” I said. “I got it! Well, kinda. I kinda got it!”

"Good," Kat said. "Now replant it in that far wall."

“Alright,” I said. I focussed a bit, sending the tree towards the far wall. Right before it hit the wall, however, I got a strange feeling. “Um, Kat? Am I supposed to feel tingly?”

At that moment, the tree crumpled like paper. The strange feeling I had turn from a tingly feeling into pure pain. The tree kept compressing, until it became a black hole. Right afterwards, I lost the pain in my arms.

“Um, Kat, I don’t think I’m controlling it anymore,” I said. The black hole then started pulling me towards it at an alarming rate. “KAT?!”

Kat sighed, reaching out with her hand. She started to twist it in the opposite direction the hole was spiraling. A moment later, it faded away like the end of a tornado.

She walked over to me, looking disappointed. "What do you have to say for yourself?"

“I don’t know what happened,” I said. “Everything was going so well, then I felt a weird tingling sensation. That turned into pain, then that black hole happened. What was up with that?!”

"You used gravity to the extreme. Anything can be condensed into a black hole with enough pressure. Tell me, were you starting to think this was easy?"

“No! Not even for a second!” I screamed. “Hell, I was having problems just picking it up! I was just trying to move it into the wall. I honestly don’t know what happened! I was focussing and then bam!”

"Hmm, then it just maybe the opposite is the problem."

“What do you mean?” I asked.

"You might actually fear this new power."

“Oh no,” I said. “No, this power is awesome. It’s like when I found out I could do magic, but way more cool. I don’t know how to use it, but I know to respect it.”

"Therein lies the problem."

“What do you mean?” I asked.

"Gravity is not a power that demands respect. It is one that demands fear. You need to fear this power. Understand that you are nothing but its tool."

“Wait, what?!” I said. “But, how can that be? It’s being used as a power. How can I be its tool?”

"You must understand that gravity is the oldest primal force in existence. It is the first force of nature. It is not just a power, gravity is law. Those granted its power must use it so that even they know they are not above that law. Abuse of this power equals death."

She started to stroll about. "Being as ancient as it is, it holds phenomenal power. That power is not one meant to be wielded by one person. As such, it is prone to fluctuate and go berserk. That's why I am bothering to teach you, because these fluctuations can and will kill people. I will teach you how to use these changes and shifts appropriately. Do you understand?"

“Fine,” I said. “But why fear? Why all this emphasis on being afraid of the power? Is this what’s the whole not being happy thing is about?”

Kat chuckled. "Because only when you are afraid, can a person use their true power. If you fear your powers, you will know how, where, and when to use them. When you are afraid, your power spikes to keep you alive. And when that happens, then you can start to master it."

“Alright, I think I get it,” I said. “Okay, let me try this again.” I tried to move a tree again, this time getting it a few feet out of the ground. “Alright, so try to plant it in the wall again?”

“Just keep your power stable, don’t focus too much energy or you’ll overload it again… if it helps, think of it… like the Force, actually.” Kat smiled, looking up in thought. “Yeah, actually, from how I see it, gravity is basically the Force. Great! I get to get my Yoda on!”

“Alright,” I said. “Hey, come to think of it, would that make me one of the younglings, or would that make me Skywalker?”

“A youngling in training,” she said with a giggle.

“Alright then, master,” I said, laughing a little myself. “Alright, so, tree into the wall.” Alright Dox, you can do this. Just put it near the tree slowly.

The tree went flying towards the wall.

“Crap!” I said, only for the tree to stop a foot away from the wall. “Holy crap. That was close. Okay, now to turn it sideways.” I concentrated as much as I could, trying to get the tree to turn. Luckily for me, it did so really slowly. It was when it was actually sideways, I noticed the flaw with my plan. “Um, I don’t have a hole to plant it in.”

“You make the hole, andouille,” Kat said with a roll of her eyes. “Multitask.”

“Okay,” I said. “Now, how to-” I sent a large amount of dirt flying away from the wall and towards Kat and myself. It stopped right in front of my face. I looked at saw that Kat had her arm up, her hand point out towards the rock.

“Control, control, you must learn control,” she tsked. She clamped her hand shut, causing the dirtwad to evaporate before my eyes. “You’ve got a long way to go. Now get to it.”

“Yes, ma’am,” I said. I moved the tree into the hole, if not a bit too fast. The top of the tree broke off a bit. I then tried to smooth the dirt around the tree, to try to merge it with the wall. I succeeded, but accidentally used too much… in the wrong area, shattering the tree at the base. “Damn it. I was so close.”

“Again,” Kat ordered. “Practice makes perfect.”

This whole process went on for another twenty times before I was finally able to put the tree into the wall without breaking it.

“WOOHOO!” I said, glad to see I finally got it right. It was kind of short lived, as I noticed Kat was staring at me.

“Great… but you have a long way to go.” Kat gave me an apologetic look. “See, this is only lesson one, beginning control. I’m gonna have to fit in nearly a year and a half’s worth of training in only a few days for you, so we’re just starting small. Tomorrow morning,” she smirked, “is when we get tough.”

“Alright, but where do we sleep?” I said. She pointed behind me, to all the different houses. “Oh, I feel stupid now. You gonna call one of the houses? ‘Cause I kinda want to sleep in the white house.”

“You wanna feel like the president?” she asked with a smirk.

“Eh, it’s been a dream of mine to sleep there,” I said. “Maybe not in the presidential bed, though. I mean, that was a dragon’s house, after all…. Actually, I think I’ll just take a random house, there’s no way I’m gonna fit in one of the beds in there.”

“Then I’ll take it. Won’t be the first time I’ve been in a dragon’s bed… and yes, that entitles both ways you can take that.”

“All right then,” I said. “Let’s just get to some beds.”

The next day, I was awoken at “0600 hours” by Kat...with a flugelhorn.

“WHASAWHOSITHUH?!” I screamed. I calmed down almost instantly. “Oh, hey Kat. Is it time to get back to training, already?”

“Yep! Celestia hasn’t even risen the sun yet, perfect time to get to work. Come on, sleepy. Up and at ‘em!”

“Fine, fine,” I said, getting up and out of bed, my sheets clinging to my body. “Um, mind getting out so I can get dressed?”

“Alright fine,” she shrugged, stepping out. “Just don’t take too long, I already wasted enough time taking care of your morning habit~.”

I closed the door behind her and got dressed. Kat was waiting for me outside, leaning against the wall opposite the door.

“Ready to get started?” she asked, now in full training mode.

“Yeah,” I said. “Let’s get to it.”

The second we got outside, Kat immediately set me to work.

“Okay, lesson two through five,” she clapped her hands together. “Now we’re getting to real spiel. Remember your little skydiving fun yesterday?”

“We gonna do more of that?” I asked.

“Nope… well, sorta. You need to do it… in reverse!”

I groaned in response. “Really? So, I’m guessing send myself into orbit?”

“Yep and then back down, each time without killing yourself.”

“Wait, each time?!” I said. “How many times am I doing this?!”

“Two through five, remember? Ten times per lesson and we’ll be adding in additional objectives each time. Now hop to it, chop chop!”

“Fine, fine,” I said. “Okay, now…. focus on getting-” I went flying into the air, slamming through the top of the mountain and continuing my path. “WHYYY!”

I may have overshot how much power to use when I launched myself skywards. Not only did I send myself into orbit, but I sent myself OUT of it, too. I felt a pull on my back and suddenly I was right back where I started.

“Again!” Kat shouted right into my ear. “And don’t die. You’re not covered on my health insurance.”

“Ha ha,” I said. “Okay, let me try this again. Up, up, and away!”

I went flying into the air again. Thank goodness I stopped in orbit this time.

“Now, to get down,” I said. “Just change the direction I was first flung, and-” I went hurtling back towards the ground, stopping an inch above it, just like when Kat had sent me up.

“And failed,” Kat said, clicking a stopwatch. “I saw that. You didn’t stop yourself, your power’s natural safety mechanism did. Again!”

“Alright,” I said. “Here we go again.”

This continued for about seven more times before I finally did it right. I was about to celebrate, but Kat told me to do it again….. and again…. and another few times. Eventually, I reached ten times.

“That’s good. Lesson two complete. Now,” she hefted a tree stump with one hand and placed it in front of me. “To combine the first and second. You’re gonna go up and down ten times again, keeping this thing in a telekinetic grip. And no cheating, I can tell when you’re not using gravity.”

“Fine,” I said.

The trial went along with a few mistakes, one of them being me letting go of it, sending it out of orbit. Another was when I sent myself up and back too fast and it burst into flames. I was able to eventually get it right, though. Then I was told to do it again…. and failed. Then again, success. Heck, I got to ten successes, but was told to do it one more time all because I had failed that one time. Oh well.

“Okay,” I said between deep breaths. “Now what?”

“Now we get to the hard part. You’ve gotten up and down, but now, you gotta fly. I want ten laps around the world. Ten clockwise, ten counterclockwise. After that, then you can rest and eat.”

“Okay, ten laps, got it,” I said. My eyes widened when I realised what she said. “Hold up, around the world?! Seriously?!”

“Yep. Lessons three and four: horizontal shifting. Your task is not to touch the ground even once during your laps. If you need water, fly over a stream or through a cloud. But no landing.”

“Well, shit,” I said. “So, hold up. How high do you want me to go? Orbit again?”

“As long as you’re in the air, it doesn’t matter. Just only gravity flight is allowed. Are we clear?”

“Clear as the Crystal Empire,” I said. “So, no assists in any form, right?” I jumped into the air and stayed up there. Wow, not liking this already.

“Hmm, if you get starvingly hungry, fly by a friend and have them grab you a bite. That’s all I can give you. I’m already losing military cred by allowing you that.”

“Right, thanks,” I said. “Now, this is just like skateboarding…. just with no board, and I’m shoving myself with gravity…. Well, as a wise man once said: Allons-y!” With that, I took off, flying at an extremely fast pace at first. When I stopped, I almost touched the ground while I tumbled mid-air to catch myself. “No, Dox, no touching down. You can do this. Just gotta remember what Kat taught me.”

I shoved off with gravity again, this time going at a much more manageable speed. Sure enough, after about three hours, I had made my first lap around the world.

“That’s one,” I said. “Now for the other nine in this direction, then the ten in the other direction.”

“Keep it up, kid!” Kat called from a nearby cloud, reading a magazine.

“Right,” I said.

This time, I took off at a faster pace. This time, it took me two and a half ours. The next was two hours, then faster and faster. Hell, the last lap took thirty minutes, it was almost unmanageable, but hey, I did it.

“Woo! Did it!” I screamed. “Finally!” Kat looked down at me from her cloud. “I know, I know, now go the other way.

Counter-clockwise went a bit slower at first, taking an hour for the first lap. Eventually, I got it back to going half an hour per lap.

“Finally, I’m done,” I said after my tenth lap. “That was amazing.”

“Very nice, now come on down. Luna’s here and she brought us a spread!” Kat called from the white house.

“Sweet!” I said, dropping to the ground, running over, and throwing my arms around Luna. “Lulu! I missed sleeping next to you last night!”

“As did I, Dox,” Luna said. “But please, I brought food.”

“Alright, fine,” I said with a harumph and letting go of Luna. “But I want some fun tonight.”

“I’m open~” Kat said, swaying her hips a little more as she walked past me.

I felt a blush appearing on my face. “Okay then,” I said. “L-let’s just eat…. Er… You know what I meant.”

“Sure thing,” Kat said before digging into the food. “Offer’s still open though.”

“I-I don’t really know how to process that,” I said, laying into the food.

“Oh, come on Dox,” Luna said. “We could have a lot of fun with it! I could even call Celestia over~!”

“..... Fine….” I said. I could feel the blush on my face spreading. I swear, at this rate, I’d become a tomato.

“Oh now you’re just teasing, Luna…. but seriously, could you? That sounds like it’ll be even more fun.”

“Of course!” Luna squeed with delight. “I could even call over everyone else, if we felt like it!” Damn it Luna. You know just how to press my buttons, sometimes.

“That sounds amazing! Good thing I swing both ways.”

“Oh, that sounds like fun,” Luna said. “Of course, we could always get Dox to-” Luna leaned over and whispered something into Kat’s ear. I wonder what she said….

“Oh mon dieu,” Kat muttered with a blush. “...Luna, we are not sharing at all besides with each other. No one else is invited anymore.”

“Um, Luna,” I said. “What did you tell her?”

“Something that I won’t repeat~,” Luna said with a smirk. That smirk turned into a sultry look. “Not until tonight, anyways~.” Why, Luna, why?! Why must you be so cute?!

“It’s going to be a good use of that big bed,” Kat said in an equally sultry tone. “We gravity shifters have a special trait that just makes everything so much better for us.”

“What,” I said. Damn it, Kat. I can feel my face just completely enveloped in heat. Well, I must look like a tomato now, no doubts about it.

“Invulnerability… all over.” She leaned in and whispered, “We never loosen up~.”

“Je suis vissé,” I said. Again, damn it Kat. Oh great, and now Luna is looking at me with that look of hers! Wait, why is she getting closer?

“Well, why don’t we just do it now?” Luna asked.

…. Again, I’m screwed. Literally and metaphorically, take your pick.

“Sounds like a plan to me, Luna,” Kat said, licking her lips. “You willing to put off dinner and get right to, mmm, dessert?”

They’re both looking at me with that sultry look. “Sure,” I said. Why can’t I resist that look?! “Wait, Luna, no!”

After being dragged over to the white house by an overly enthusiastic Luna, there was a lot of fun to be had. Luna tried to hog me a bunch, but hey, she only had so much stamina. Kat… Holy. Shit. How does she do the things she does?! I mean, come on! No girl should be that good. It’s just not fair! Backward, forwards, underneath, on top, she could do it all. So insatiable too, she didn’t let up even after I passed out! ...I only knew that because she brought Luna in to do it as well and the two were comparing notes during breakfast.

“So, uh, wow,” I said. “So, um, now what?”

“Last day, I’m afraid,” Kat said, back in trainer mode. “Lesson six is where the teaching stops.”

“What happened to lesson five?” I asked.

“Oh, you passed that last night, sweetie,” she said with a sultry wink.

“I… I…” I said. “So, back to the lesson please.”

“Yes, ahem, anyway, lesson six is reflexes. You’ve built up your stamina and endurance plenty, but the real challenge is being able to move in with your powers in order to maximize their effect. I refer to this lesson as, the gravity dance.”

“Um, okay,” I said. “Why’s it called the gravity dance?”

“Because--

“I’M BACK, BITCHES!” interjected an annoyingly high voice. Please don’t be who I think it is. “You’re Bunker Master has returned!” DAMN IT!

“Damn it, Tina!” I yelled at the teenager. “Go away! I’m in the middle of something!”

“Nope!” Tina yelled back. “Gotta get you back for kicking my butt back at that volcano.”

Speaking of volcano, I decided to try and take a cheapshot with my Maliwan Sniper. It missed, but hey, I tried.

“Fuck off!” I yelled at Tina.

“Hey, screw you, smelly pants!” she yelled at me. “It’s time I showed you what I can do! And by that, I mean it’s time for dragons!”

Wait, she wouldn’t…. She is. From all around us, things started being ripped from the ground and sent flying towards Tina. Trees became bone, houses turned into flesh, the white house was ripped from its foundations and turned into scales. When Tina was done transforming herself, there now stood Obama Dragon…. with the mind of Tiny Tina.

“GOD DAMN IT, TINA!” I yelled. “Why the Obama Dragon?!”

“Well,” Kat stepped forward, “good thing I was raised a republican. This is going to be a little enjoyable… in the sadistic kind of way.”

“You say that, and it has horribly effective attacks,” I said. “Just watch out when we beat it. This isn’t the final form, and I’m sure she knows that.”

Kat smirked. “Hmm, I think this will be a good opportunity to enact lesson six.”

“Yeah, hopefully we don’t get screwed,” I said. I then realized Luna was with us… without weapons. “Wait, what about Luna? She doesn’t have weapons!”

“I am more than good enough with- WHOA!” Luna said before being snatched up by the dragon. A magical inhibitor ring appeared on her head.

“Hostage now, bitch,” Tina’s voice said. “Watcha gonna do?”

“We gonna putain you up, that’s what we’re gonna do, ya crétin!” Kat shouted.

“Just try it, bitch!” Tina yelled at Kat. Now, I’ve only known her for a couple of days, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what you want to say to the ‘Gravity Queen’.

I took a few steps back from Kat, uncertain of what she was gonna do.

“Oh, sweetie.” That creepy voice is back!! “...you’re going to die today. Won’t that be lovely?”

Yep, taking a step back was a good idea. Kat’s scary when she’s mad. Well, might as well help her.

I opened my magic satchel and started reaching around in it. “Hey, want a weapon?” I asked. “I got daggers, this snipe, and a flintlock that’s got infinite ammo.”

“And I got this.” Kat put her hands together by her side and...No. Way. “Ka. Me. Ha. Me.” Red energy began building in her hands and… I’d better back up some more. Maybe a lot more! “HA!” she blasted the energy right at Tina.

Tina stumbled back a bit. She looked like she was about to counter attack, but when it connected, it did nothing. Like, literally nothing. She tried to swipe at Kat, but what connected was a tap.

“Oh yeah, forgot that this form’s all defence,” I said to Kat. “Pretty cool, right? Kick her butt!” I then started shooting at her with my sniper rifle. Tina, realising that she couldn’t hurt us like this, began to run like hell. “Get back here bitch!”

Kat teleported right in her path. “Unh uh,” she shook her head.

“Oh butts,” Tina said.

“Allow me to introduce myself. I am Kat Shifter. I am the Goddess of Battle to all dragon-kind. I am the eradicator of the changeling race. I am the Queen of Gravity itself. And you… you have pissed me off.”

Tina attempted one more attack, this time picking up a tree and hurling it at Kat. She didn’t even move, the tree just disintegrating into nothing long before ever getting near her. Kat smirked. “I should also mention, I’m what you could call, ‘OP’.”

“Tina, get owned,” I said.

Tina panicked for a second and attempted to take to the air. Kat teleported right above her. “Nuh uh. Seriously girl, just give up already. I’ll make it worth your while~.”

“Yeah, no thanks,” Tina said, trying to fly away.

“She’s just trying to help you, Tina,” I said. “But if you want to fight, I’m afraid the only way this will end is with me destroying your soul.”

“Hmph, why is it always the cute ones that are evil?” Kat asked herself more than anyone. “Just give up, kid. You’ve got no chance.”

“The Bunker Master never admits defeat!” Tina screamed defiantly.

“Yeah, well, she’s Kat Shifter, and I’m Dox Ad Finem,” I said. “We’re not too keen on giving up, either.”

“Maybe this will make you reconsider.” Kat reached out and yanked her arm to the side, Tina’s left arm being ripped off at the same moment.

Tina screamed out in pain, clutching her new wound.

“Oh come on, Kat,” I said. “Where’s the mercy kill?” I took aim and fired at the distracted Tina, nailing her in the head with my snipe. Her body fell to the ground before bursting into a dark purple mist. “Great. Now we need to get ready, Kat. It’s time for the giant dragon.”

As if on cue, a loud ‘Boom’ sound came from outside the dragon’s lair. Kat and I ran outside to find, surprise surprise, a giant Obama Dragon Tina.

“You ready for this?” I asked Kat. “This one can actually hit.”

“I’ve fought worse… and bigger. This? This is going to be fun.”

“Great to know,” I said. “But can you actually cut loose on it? It takes a lot to kill the damn thing. Last time I had two Displaced helping me.”

“Cut loose?” she asked with a sinister smile. Before my eyes, Kat’s entire body became enveloped in white and red fiery energy. “You might want to stand back and watch. It’ll be a good visual aide for you.”

I took a good ten steps back, then another ten, followed by another ten. Let’s just say I was afraid of Kat’s full power, especially since I had never seen it.

Kat disappeared from my sight and right in front of the massive dragon. “Alright, sweetie, let’s dance.”

Tina breathed fire at Kat and tried to swipe into the fiery cloud to strike her. The cloud exploded outward from Kat, the flames dissipating, and Tina’s claw was stopped by just Kat’s hand.

“Sorry, sweetie,” she told the dragon. “But this is gonna hurt you a lot more than it’s gonna hurt me.” She grabbed the claw tight and with incredible strength, she flipped Tina over her head and down onto the ground.

Tina laid there for a few seconds before getting up and attempting to do a repeat of her last tactic, this time adding in a tail swipe instead of using her claws. Again, Kat got rid of the fire no problem, but the tail was a different story. Instead of stopping it, Kat moved out of the way, pulled out a sword, literally from nowhere, and then completely cut it off from the middle. With one slice, Kat cut off Tina’s tail.

Tina screeched in pain and clutched at what was left of the tail, which wasn’t much. She glared at Kat for a second before lunging into the air and attempting to bite her. Then, Kat did one of the most epic things I’ve ever seen. She bitch slapped Tina. Not even kidding, she literally bitch slapped giant Obama Dragon Tina into a far away mountain.

Tina laid there for a few minutes, unmoving. When she finally did get up, she breathed fire and then attempted to flee. Kat sighed, lifting Tina into the air with her power. “If you thought you could get away, you were mistaken horribly, sweetie. So… not sorry about this.” Kat backflipped up above Tina’s head and shot down with enough force to break the sound barrier, slamming her feet into the dragon’s cranium. Tina was out like a light.

Tina’s body poofed in a cloud of dark purple smoke. Now no longer laid a giant dragon dead on the floor, now laid an unconscious Tiny Tina. I teleported over to her in my normal shadow-poofy way, then took out one of the orichalcum daggers in my magic satchel, as well as the giant D&D tome. The book opened to the page on soul trapping, and I carved the rune into Tina’s chest before stabbing down on the center of it. Tina’s body disintegrated, and a few seconds later, the dagger exploded into shards.

“Well, that’s done with,” I said. “Hey, Kat! Thanks for the help! Wait a second, where’s Luna?!” It was a good question, she seemed to have disappeared in the middle of the fight.

“Is it possible she got left behind after the first transformation?” Kat asked.

“Well, yeah,” I said. “But she kinda disappeared after you did the Kamehameha.”

“Yes I did,” Luna said, walking up to us. “Turns out that beam of yours disrupted this inhibitor ring. How odd. It must have overloaded when it came close. I was able to teleport away, but afterwards, I was stuck with walking.”

“Well, that answers that,” I said. “Now, how do we get it off?”

“The old fashioned way, of course,” Kat said as if it was the answer to everything.

“So, just pull it or break it off?” I asked. “Huh, seems simple enough.” I walked over to Luna and put my hand over the ring on her horn. I pulled, the ring snapped, and Luna was free to do magic once more. “Well then. So, Kat, any other lessons you want to tell me about? Any kind of tips or tricks?”

“There is only one more thing you need to understand about gravity.” She walked over to a small rock and picked it up, caressing it in her hands. “Gravity is not just about floating or crushing. It’s so much more.” She covered the rock, her hands lighting up for a brief moment. When she opened them, there was a perfect little bust of Dox and Luna together. “Gravity is a power of creation. It thrives on the ingenuities of life. There is so much you can learn and do with this power, so I urge you to embrace your creativity and imagination. You’ll be amazed at what you can do.”

“W-wow,” I said. “Thanks for the tip. And the lessons…. and everything else. I owe you. So, are you just gonna go now, or do I need to send you back?”

“Back? Back where?” Kat asked with a tiny laugh. “There’s no place for me to go back to. I’ll probably just head into the Void again and see what there is to see… and hopefully not get shot by Daleks… again.”

“Wait, what?” I asked. “What do you mean there’s no place to go back to for you?”

“I’ve been in exile from my world for nearly thirteen years.”

“But why?” I asked. “What did you do that put you in exile? I mean, you’re a good person, as far as I can see. Why would you be in exile?”

She gave me a sad smile. “Not every hero starts on the side of good, Dox. I’ve got a dark past of death and destruction. Exile was the only thing I could do to save my friends from further torment because of my mistakes. I gave up everything for them. I don’t know when I’ll be able to return for sure, but it won’t be for a long time.”

“Wow,” I said. “That’s….. deep. Anyways, glad I got to meet you, Kat. If it means anything to you, I’m sure you’ll be able to return sooner than you think. Heck, if you need anything, I’ll be more than willing to help you out with it. Again, I owe you.”

“I’ll keep that in mind, Dox. Honest I will. That’s the one benefit to all these travels, I’m always making new friends and finding different ways to make them smile. That’s all that matters, right? As long as I can make a difference, that’s all I need.”

“Well, you did here,” I said. “So, again, how are you gonna leave? Do I need to say the whole contract thing, or what?”

Kat smirked, snapping her fingers. A swirling portal opened up behind her. “Like I said, there’s so much you can do.”

“I’ll keep that in mind,” I said. “Thanks, again. See ya later, Kat.”

“May you fall in whatever direction you feel, Dox. I hope to see you again sometime… perhaps I’ll just show up some night~. Ta ta!” She jumped through the portal, closing it behind her.

“She was fun!” Luna said. “Can we just summon her tomorrow to-”

“No,” I said. “If she pops up, then we can do that. Otherwise, I’m gonna summon her if we need her. She’s a good friend, and I don’t plan on abusing that.”

“Fine,” Luna said. “But when we get home, I want to go have some fun.”

“Alright Luna,” I said.

Author's Notes:

So, this was a crossover with DJSkywalker and his character, Kat, from his story Gravity of the Situation.

Anyways, this is Music Mod, signing off with one more little note.
Crossovers are always open, that's why I'm able to do these. Heck, if you want to do one, just send me a private message. If you have multiple stories, just tell me which one it's for.
Music Mod out. Peace!