Well then .... I’d might as well get things started, and what better way to do that than to introduce myself? Hello there whoever you are, and welcome to my flashback! My name is Dust and I will be your tour guide and memory donor for this trip down memory lane. Just so you know, this is a small glimpse of my past that should happen every now and then, but it usually only happens when something jogs this old brain of mine. I'm not sure if this is a form of P.T.S.D or some kind of psychological glitch, even though the later wouldn't surprise me after all these years, but oh well..

One more thing: this is where my small journey of knowledge started, so not much will be revealed about my past, but it should be either really interesting, or very depressing. Also, if you are wondering what jogged my memory, it will be explained later. Anyways, here we go!

It was a Saturday night at my friends’ and my hangout spot in the woods that we built when we were younger. It was a decent sized shack, one story tall and the size of a small house with some small furnishings that we all contributed. After a little while, we got electricity running to it so we could run a TV, record player, and a console. We eventually brought over one of my friend's old pool table and some old couches. There was also a fridge for drinks and a cabinet for junk food. We were celebrating a few things; being that Alec got back from being overseas, Josh finally got accepted as a welder at U.S. Steel, Jimmy finished his degree in mechanics, Chad was going over to Japan to do Chad things, and I finally finished my Master’s in weapons/armor design and moving on to my bio-mechanics degree.

Jimmy was a bit of a redneck/stereotypical American. He had blondish hair with green eyes. His southern drawl fit quite well with his height, at about 6'11", as he was built like a farm hand. He always wore jean-jacket vests (they were jean-jackets until he ripped off the sleeves), and a pair of, you guessed it, jeans with oil stains and a pair of cowboy boots and a Chevy hat. Even though he was huge, he was a gentle giant who was fun to talk to and relax with.

Chad was an otaku who was that one friend you had that knows everything about old games and watches tons upon tons of anime. He had blonde hair, brown eyes, and was a little bit overweight, but not by much. He stood at about 6'2" and had some Japanese in him; the eyes were what gave it away. He usually wore some kind of retro shirt and a pair of sweatpants, along with a pair of sneakers. He was rather nice to be around, though he was a HUGE critic, had very colorful language, and grunted often ... for some reason. But hey, he was a great friend.

Josh was that one friend that constantly made you face-palm at everything they did. His jokes were bad, his thought process scrambled, and was just a big sigh, if you know what I mean. He had reddish-blonde hair with light blue eyes and a Scottish red beard. He stood at about 5'9" and was wide bodied, but he was built like a truck. Short though he may be, he packed heat. He usually wore a T-shirt and a pair of black jogging pants with brown work boots. Josh might have been a weird one, but if you needed someone to back you up in a fight, he'd probably hit the person before you did.

Alec was the type of guy that everyone loved, though he mostly hated everyone else and showed it often. He had anger problems and was a bit unpredictable. If you saw him, he'd either hit you first, tackle you, or insult you... or something in between. He was a blast to hang with and for some reason, when he was around me, he was more... extreme, I'd like to say. He had black hair, brown eyes, and a black goatee. He and I were about the same height, at 6'6", and he was built like what he was: a soldier. Alec usually wore a long-sleeved black shirt, with his army uniform, military boots, and a scarf. He was a fun and interesting person to be around, and was my right hand man.

Then there's me. At the time, I was a quiet but tactical person that always seemed to bring out the worst in others (not much has changed there), and I always had outrageous ideas, and was a little crazy when it came to my thought process. I had medium length blonde hair and a striking pair of cold, death-blue eyes. I usually wore a shirt of some sort, along with my London-styled black jacket, with a pair of jeans and black boots. I stood at Alec's height, 6'6", and have a deep voice with a slight German accent. I had a skinny build, but underneath my clothing, there was muscle. I was the neutral friend that, for some reason, drew the group together. I didn't entirely understand that, but oh well.

Jimmy and I were playing pool while the others were playing some games over at the TV, with some jazz playing in the background. Alec was kicking some ass as Sub Zero. Again. Chad seemed to be doing some Chad things while Jimmy was kicking my ass at pool when suddenly the front door got busted down. Alec went soldier mode and pulled out his SR and ducked behind the couch. Josh went to do the same, but was too slow and got nailed with a .12 gauge slug. Around this time, Jimmy and I were behind the pool table we had flipped over. Jimmy got out his Glock 17 and I grabbed my sword, which was something I made. I have a hobby in blacksmithing, so I made a medium-sized katana that had a black blade and platinum hand guard and pommel. Jimmy hopped up and opened fire on the intruder, but all I heard was bullets hitting armor plates. When I heard that, I yelled at Jimmy to get down, but it was too late. He was shot promptly and fell over onto me. He had a hole in the left side of his chest with his left arm hanging on by mere tendons.

I was shocked to say the least, but it was not the time to panic as I looked up and saw the shield I made for Alec on the wall, which happened to be bulletproof. At that, I sheathed my sword, grabbed Jimmy's Glock, and checked the clip, which had three rounds plus one in the chamber. Then I looked at Alec and motioned my head at the shield and signaled him my plan to make my way over, but I'd need a few seconds. He nodded and shot a few rounds at the guy to drew his attention.

I used the time he had bought to grab the shield. Once I got it, I turned around and finally got a good look at the intruder. He was wearing full armor plating with (what I'm guessing to be) a bullet proof mask. He held a Mossberg 500 shotgun and had a bible strapped to his hip. Once he saw me, he took a shot at me. I blocked with the shield and ducked down quickly. I strapped on the shield and made my way over to Chad. The guy shot at me again, which was useless, considering I had this huge-ass shield. But he tried. I got over to Chad and saw him on his cellphone. He told whoever it was our location and to hurry. I think it was the cops. I told him to get behind me so we could regroup with Alec. He did, and we started our way over to Alec.

Chad lagged behind a bit, and that was all that crazy asshole needed. He hit Chad directly in the side. I tried to get to him, but I got grazed on my right side with the shot that hit Chad in the chest. The intruder, seeing this, started yelling crazily. "DIE, SPAWNS OF SATAN!!!".

WTF? What’s wrong with this guy? After that, I pushed my right arm on my side to slow down the bleeding, and continued on my way over to Alec. Once I got over to him, he asked me if I was alright. I told him I’d survive (which is ironic, now that I think about it). Alec asked me if I could take some shots while he reloaded. I nodded and waited for the click sound that a shotgun makes when one starts the reload process.

Once I heard it, I popped up and took some shots. I fired two shots and hit plates both times. My third shot hit his hand, and my fourth shot hit him in a weak point I spotted in his armor: his left thigh. The man cried out in pain, but remained standing. Once this happened, Alec took his opportunity and rushed the guy. He rammed right into him and pinned him to the wall. It seemed like Alec had the upper hand, until the crazy son of a bitch got a hand free. Before Alec could react, the man pulled out a trench knife and plunged it into the left side of Alec's chest. Alec stood there for a while, until he finally started to fall to the floor. When I saw this, something just... clicked... inside me.

Then I heard it ... or should I say, HIM. "HeheheheheHahahahaHAHAHAHA!!!!!" I started to laugh uncontrollably. I slowly got up from behind my cover, still laughing, and slowly drew my blade, looking at the ground. I suddenly lifted my head and made eye contact with intru .... no. Not an intruder. He was a "Muurrrrdddeeerrrrrrreeerrrr". His eyes widened when I made eye contact, and he quickly pulled out a small silver cross, held it up to me, and started mumbling prayers. That was when the one I heard earlier spoke, but more clearly this time. He spoke just two simple words, but those sparks really caught fire in myself.Those two words.

"DesTROy HiM!".

I immediately rushed after him at an impossible speed. I mean, I crossed a twenty foot gap in what seemed like a few milliseconds. Once I reached him, I used my momentum to drive my blade into him, through the plate armor, and pretty much nailed him to the wall. When he realized what happened, he quickly drove his knife into my heart .... but I just kept on laughing. I never even processed it. The killer then said, "God please have mercy on my soul, and save me from this demon!".

At that, I stopped laughing and just gave him a grin, saying, "Sorry, I don't forgive you," in a calm tone. I reached my hand back, which was then orbited like an atom by runes that only I could see. The man just stared at my hand as I slowly moved it towards him and, right before it touched him, I said one last thing. "Trust me; after this, there will be nothing left!" I made contact with his head, which started to disintegrate into dust, before the dust vanished into nothingness.

I was laughing again while watching him slowly vanish, but then I felt something touch my leg. I looked down and saw... Alec. He looked up to me and said, "Dust, look at yourself. Look in the mirror and wake up. This is not you. Don't let me go out seeing my friend turn into a monster." I looked up at the full-body mirror on the door and saw... a beast. There was something there. It had warped smile on it's face and a knife in its chest… but the eyes were... neutral. They contained immense power. They had both the potential to create and help, but also the immense overbearing power to destroy all in their path. Those eyes contained a glowing red star with two circles of glowing red runes that spun ever so slowly. Behind that was a glowing, cold blue background that was a little duller than the red star and rune.

I was shocked at what I saw... and the monster looked how I felt. It lost its wicked smile and looked surprised and scared. It took a while, but I finally figured out that this monster... was me. I then closed my eyes, and when I reopened them, I looked back in the mirror and the eyes were gone, with tears running down my face. I looked down at the knife in my chest and grabbed it. I prepared myself for a lot of pain and blood... and death. I worked up the courage to pull out the knife, which I did. The pain was excruciating, but there was no blood, and I was alive. Looking down, I was astonished. The wound was closing! I stared at where the wound used to be and could only say one thing before passing out.

"No..."

That was over ten thousand years ago. Now I start to come back to reality and take another look at what triggered this memory. I was standing in a doorway to a small shack as I looked inside at the occupants. To the left of the doorway were two equine-looking anthromorphs. They were sitting on a rather fancy-but comfortable looking-couch in front of some sort of entertainment center. There was what looked to be a TV and game system on it, along with a record player. The two beings got up and looked at me, one looking curious while the other was giving me a death glare.

The curious one was pink. She was about 5'4", not including her horn. Yes, she had a horn, along with wings and a tail. Her body had an hourglass look to it and she was at least a D cup if not bigger. She had a pink, purple, and gold mane. What? Anyways, she had light purple eyes and a flawless face. A blue shirt and a pair of yoga pants were worn on her frame. I could tell she had a deceit sized mana pocket, but it was only one-fifth of the way tapped.

Then there was the one that looked more pissed than me when someone takes my chocolate milk without asking. She stood at about five-foot-six, and was graced with a beautiful nightshade-blue coat. Similar to her partner, she also had a horn, wings, and a tail. Her body had a more built look to it, but she still retained the type of figure every man wanted. She was about a C cup, and had a nice pair of blue diamond eyes. She, like the other, was also gorgeous, but she had three-fifths of her potential unlocked, and it was large. I thought her hair showed this, as it appeared as though the night sky resided in it, even though it was up in a ponytail (no pun intended). Her choice of clothing was a baggy red shirt with some pajama pants that had game controllers all over them.

Upon seeing me, the blue one launched at me, using her wings to gather momentum. I saw this a mile away, and side-stepped right at the last second. Once she was slightly past me, I brought my right hand around, grabbed the back of her head, and slammed it straight into the ground, using her own power against her, which promptly knocked her out.

Once I stood back up, I felt a presence behind me and rapidly dropped back down. The pink one flew over me, hitting the wall. While she was dazed, I put my hand on her head and activated my magic, whispering,"Sleep," and used a very efficient and powerful sleep spell my one and only (living) friend taught had taught me. She immediately dropped to the floor, unconscious.

I stood back up once again and looked around the rest of the room. In the back left hand corner there was a purple one of these things, with a book on the ground in front of her and her hands over her mouth in shock. Over to the right side of the room there was a pool table with two more beings. One was a white version of the other three, but she was taller and sported a pair of wide eyes. The other was . . . interesting . . . to say the least. She was like the ultimate chimera.

The purple one had, well, a purple coat and wore a one-piece pink pajama outfit. She had dark violet hair with a hot-pink stripe going through the left side of it. She too had a horn, wings, and a tail, and was approximately anywhere from a B to a C cup (I think she was still growing), and stood at about five foot. She wasn’t as built as the blue one, didn't have the hourglass shape of the pink one, and had the build of an average London woman. Her eyes were a dull but pretty violet. Her mana pocket was very substantial, but only had about one-eighth of it tapped.

Now, the white one was certainly different from the others. For starters, she was at least six-foot-two, with hair that appeared to be made of the sunrise itself. She had-you guessed it-a horn with wings and a tail. She had magenta eyes and was wearing sweatpants and . . . a bra. She is an E cup by the way. She had a normal build . . . unless you look closely. Then you would see the muscle hidden beneath the alabaster fur. Her mana pool was the second biggest here- not including myself- and it was tapped four-fifths of the way, though it was weakened somehow.

I’d have to investigate that later.

Then there was the . . . unique . . . one of the five. She was six-foot-six (neat, my height) and had gorgeous snow-white hair. She had one antler (four point, still young.) on the right side of her head and one blue, curved-back horn on her left. Her body was a whole spectrum of colors. Her head had a grey coat that went down to her shoulders, and the color of her torso was gold. No, seriously. It was metallic and everything. She also happened to possess an impressive pair of Double Ds. Her right arm was that of a griffon (yes, I know my mythical creatures), with the feathers on the arm like that of a golden eagle with talons the color of cream, ending in black tips. Her left arm looked to be that of a panther, and a black panther at that, which was pretty cool. On her back were two wings, one that was of a purple wyvern, and the other that looked to be a light-orange pegasus wing. Her right leg was that of a hydra, with emerald green scales and blackened tips, while her right is that of a dragon with light pink scales, enhanced with a shimmering gloss. However, both legs seemed to have the same set-up as a human leg. She owned a tail that looked quite like it belonged to a blue kirin, complete with a tuft of white fur at the end. Her eyes were one of the most striking things about her, though. They contained white pupils and red irises, surrounded with bright yellow scleras, which shone beautifully . . . WHOA! WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ABOUT? . . . uh oh . . . ANYWAYS, she had one small fang slightly poking out from underneath the left side of her upper lip. A white tank top with blue jeans and a pair of rainbow socks showed off her build to be that of Debella, and trust me, I have seen that divine figure before. Also in her possession was a gigantic mana supply, partially sealed by a user of similar magic to hers.

After making these quick observations, I saw the purple and the white ones’ horns surround themselves in purple and gold runes (to anyone else it looks like a purple and gold aura), while the unique one remains just giving me a puzzled expression . . . it's really cute. Anyways, purple and white were charging up their spells; purple seemed to be a freeze spell while the white one charged up a light blast. Both spells were extremely easy (at least to me), and wouldn't take much to dispel, but I needed to nip this problem in the butt, so instead of dispelling their spells, I just cut them off from almost all of their magic. I left enough for them to live, of course.

Their spells stopped dead in their tracks, and their eyes widened in shock. I finally took the opportunity to speak. "Is that really how you treat people who were just thrown into your universe by a magical, skin bound book that they bought from a shady magical pawn shop owner?" Just when I thought their eyes couldn't get any wider, they became diner plates.

"Did ... did you just talk?" said the purple one with a stutter in her voice.

"Yes, yes I did." I said as I walked up to the blue one. I kneeled down and went to pick her up, but . . .

"Touch her, and I will end you right there." said the white one, giving me an even more intense death glare than before.

"One, I'm going to pick her up and take her to the couch; two, I'm not hostile until others are hostile towards me; and three, you can barely move with your magic sealed as much as it is," I picked the blue one up bridal style and carried her over to the couch. I checked her head and saw no external damage and I felt no soft spots on her skull, which was good. Completing that, I went over to the pink one and picked her up. While I was walking over to the chair purple was in, I saw their expressions. White was angry, but under that anger I saw defeat. Purple looked like she is going to piss herself, and was shaking like a leaf. But Unique was . . . smiling?

It was interesting, but I made my way over to purple in her chair anyways. Once I was in front of her I said, "Could you move please? I need somewhere to set her down," I asked this as politely as I could with a kind smile. Her shaking stopped a little, but not completely.

"O-Okay." mumbled out purple. She got up and went over to white's side. I set pink down, curled up into a ball on the chair (it was a big chair). After that, I stood back up at full height and turned around . . . to see two beautiful red pearls staring right into my ARGH! STOP IT BRAIN, THAT’S NOT ALLOWED!

I was blushing a little, but didn’t back up, which she didn’t do either. "Who are you?" she asked with her head tilted to her left. Two horse-like ears I didn't see before tilted also. The right ear was pointing straight up while the left ear pointed down. Damn that was cute. Her voice was hot, too. Fuck.

After observing once more how cute she was, I answered, "My name is Dust, and, just to get a future question out of the way, I'm a human. Now, who might you be, beautiful?" Shit. Why did I say that?

Her cheeks instantly flushed with a shocked look, with which she replied with, "Well- uh - he he-" she started rubbing the back of her head and averted her gaze "-well, my name is Pandora, and I'm one of the two last draconequi. The other is my father, Discord, god of chaos," She then slightly chuckled.

"Hmm. I would like to meet him one day," I replied with a smile. The scary thing was, it was a true smile. I hadn't had one of those since the last time I saw my best (and only, living) friend. "May I ask who the others are?"

She smiled and jumped back a bit and spoke with a very happy smile. It was that kind of happy smile that you knew indicated that they were going to say things freely and without care. "Well, the the blue one on the couch is Luna or Lulu, princess/goddess of the night and co-ruler of Equestria, alongside sun ass here," she pointed at the white one who glared at her, "Her real name is Celestia, and she is the princess/goddess of the sun. The pink one is Mi Amore Cadenza, or Cadence for short. She is the princess of love, ruler of the Crystal Empire, and a huge door mat. Finally, the purple one ready to piss herself over there by sun ass is Twilight Sparkle, princess of friendship, who also happens to have the hots for one of her friends! That about covers it!" She finished with a cute smile and a head tilt with her eyes closed.

After all that, there was only one thing on my mind after I processed everything: I like her, don’t I?

Author's Notes:

Well that's the prologue. Hope you enjoyed it. Also CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is acknowledged and accepted. And just to let you know, yes the main character is op as hell. He is meant to be. He might have unbeatable power but you will learn more about HIM as a character and how he solves things. That will be all the info I give on him until next chapter, NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

Edited by ChasingResonance 3/21/2015
Edited also by dawn seeker 3/11/2016

special thanks to Elric of Melnipony for pointing out the flaws within this chapter in a very toned back way. Thanks!