Back on the battlefield, Iron Man was facing the last fifty of the mechas. He fired laser after laser at the things, but they just kept getting up. When he tried that again, it didn’t work. He was starting to panic. “Shit. Bullets don’t work on these things, they can intercept missiles, flares aren’t working, and the lasers aren’t strong enough.”

“Dumbass,” said Hyde, “Stop thinking about this like how Iron Man would, and think about this like how Jacob would.”

“You’re right Hyde. If armors don’t work, then maybe something else will.” Jacob turned intangible as he flew out of the suit. He glared at the machines of mayhem before saying, “I didn’t think that I would ever have to use this again, but I think that it is time.”

Hyde interjected, “Wait, what if you can’t control it? What if it’s too much for you to handle? Surprise isn’t here to stop you!”

“Then I guess that I’ll have to take that chance.” He clutched his two fists together. “Smile!” His lips curled up his cheeks as a large grin became plastered on his face. Blue energy surrounded his very being. “HD! Haaaaaaaaaaaaa!” Suddenly, power exploded out of him in a chorus of screams. The mechas observed this with confusion.

The power flowed back into him before he looked at the machines with a look of insanity. “Let’s go then!” He rocketed towards the robots. They tried to fire their lasers at him, but Jacob quickly dodged all of them through teleportation. He punched a hole through the first one, took its body, and slammed it into the second one. After that, he slammed the two previous robots, into the third one.

He flew through the next five of them, grabbing power cores in the process. He rewired the power cores into small bombs and destroyed ten of them. The rest of the robots stopped to try and figure out what to do, giving Jacob enough time to monologue

“I tire of your cold faces.” He put his hands together. “Your soulless bodies.” The hands moved back. “Your senseless destruction.” He got into a stance. “I got a nice present for you. KA ME HA ME HAAA!” A gigantic beam shot out of his hands.

The robots looked to each other, “Beep.” Thirty one of the previous robots morphed into a giant rail gun that the final one used. It fired a colossal beam that met the energy blast. The lasers collided to produce the first, but not the last, beam struggle in Jacob's time. “Beep”

“Don’t take that kinda tone with me.” said Jacob.

“Beep,” said the mecha.

“What did I just say?!” shouted Jacob

“Beep,” repeated the mecha.

Jacob deadpanned, “You're doing this on purpose.”

After a few moments, the only thing that the robot said was, “Beep.” An explosion tore the massive rail gun to shreds. “Beep”

Jacob sighed, “I am going to take far too much enjoyment in killing you, aren’t I?”

“Beep,” agreed the machine.

“Good.” his smile widened as he ran up to the bot, phased his arm into the bot, and removed his arc reactor. The energy faded from the final robot. Energy crackled around him. “Such power.” said Jacob, “How could I not use this power more often? I could do so much with this level.” He paused. “I could get my vengeance on anyone.”

“Come to your senses!” shouted Hyde. “Where’s the Jacob that I know. The guy who prefers to use nonviolence to get vengeance. Remember the plan?”

“The plan doesn’t work if I don’t have my company.” replied Jacob.

“Then do what you do best. Adapt!” said Hyde. “I can’t believe that I have to be the voice of reason.”

The energy flowed back into Jacob as the form dissipated. “Thank you Hyde.”

“Don’t mention it.” said Hyde, “Now, get back to the ship. You have an injured populous to deal with.”

Smiling, Jacob put his armor back on and flew to his ship.

When he landed on the ship, he was mortified at what he saw. Five hundred twenty seven ponies, all crowded together in stasis tubes as they were lined up, from most severe to least severe. In the front of this line of horror was a tube containing what looked like the remains of a filly. “Jarvis, I said that these were for the injured, not the dead.”

“But Sir,” said the Butler, “This one is alive.”

This shocked Jacob right down to the core. “Then we have no time to lose.” He put a hand to the side of his helmet. “Attention all robots, report to the airship for immediate instruction. Not one minute later, the robots all showed up. “Now, you are to dismantle each other. After that is done, I want Jarvis and Caleb to melt the pieces. When I need pieces, I will send instructions to Jarvis so that I can get them. Also Jarvis, I want you to get me the superplastic, the fibers, and the synthetic nerve endings.” The other robots nodded and, in a few minutes, the entire army was in pieces. Jarvis and the others proceeded to run to the ship’s lab.

Jacob proceeded to lay the first pony on the medical table. He proceeded to take off his armor and put on his lab coat. The madman took out a scalpel and a medical scanner. “Alright, whoever you are, let’s see how much of you can still be used.”

Meanwhile, in the laboratory, Jarvis received a parts request. “Oh my.” Caleb looked back while melting the last of the robots. He gave Jarvis a questioning look. “It appears as though Master Jacob has requested the parts for nearly an entire body.”

“Well then, we better get to work.” said Caleb. He took a pre-melted vat and took it to a processing machine. The machine then proceeded to produce a series of parts that were made of the melted metal. A specific amount of super plastic and fibers were also produced. The parts were placed on a cart before being rolled out to the med bay. Once he got to the med bay, he saw Jacob, his while lab coat stained red and a brain in a smaller stasis chamber.

“Good, you got the parts that I requested.” said Jacob in an oddly calm voice. The outer layer of his pointer finger came off. “Before you ask, this is why you don’t poke an unstable portal.” What was on his hand wasn’t a finger, but a blue bulb that glowed and hummed. “I call it, my sonic finger.”

Using both extremis and the finger, he quickly built a mechanical body. The synthetic skin, fur, and mane were grafted onto the body. In the end, it looked like a small filly with a hole on the top of her head. The brain was carefully lowered into the machine. “Do be warned.” said Jacob, as calm as ever, “In order to activate your nerves, I’m going to have to have you awake. It will not feel pleasant.” He looked at his finger. “I would know.”

He flipped a series of switches, jump starting the arc reactor within the body. Her eyes opened as Jacob put the final piece in before sealing it permanently and putting the skin on it. Her eyes began to open up. “Mistuh,” said the filly. “What am I doin' here?”

Jacob gave a sad smile, “Well kid, you and a lot of other ponies got wrecked pretty badly. I am just here to fix them up.”

“What are yuh tawhkin' ...about?” she looked at all the tubes. “Celestia’s holy ass! What in tartarus happened here?”

“Simple, the result of the unholy combination of idiots and power.” deadpanned Jacob. “Now, I am going to activate your nerves. This isn’t gonna feel good. However, before I do that, what is your name?”

My name’s Babs, what aboutcha?” said the filly.”

“My name is Doctor Jacob Finch, but you may call me Jacob.” said the man. “Now, lie down on the table and find something to bite down on.”

Screams echoed throughout the ship. There would be a thirty minute laps, then a new scream would take the old one’s place. It went on like that for the next week and a half weeks until Jarvis walked into the med bay. “Sir, you need to take a break, at least drink something that isn’t coffee.”

Jacob threw his mug at a nearby wall, shattering it to pieces. “I’ll worry about me when I’m done!”

An elderly stallion rose his head up. His mechanical horn glowing once again. He got up, and said, “Thanks young one, and here I thought that my magic was lost forever.”

Jacob smiled as he put a hand on the stallion. “It’s no problem Mr. Strings.” He proceeded to walk out the door to meet with his family, who showed up. “As you can see Jarvis, there are more important things than personal health." He sniffed his arm. “I do need to take a shower though.”

“Indeed you do, Sir.” said his Butler.

Jacob looked upon all of the empty stasis tubes. He sighed in happiness before clutching his stomach. “For some reason, I’m craving shawarma. You know a good shawarma place? I tended to some griffins here, and I think one of them owned a restaurant.”

“Well sir, I’m sure that we can find out you’ve slept and been washed.” said Jarvis as the pair walked away from the med bay.

Meanwhile, Mason has been unconscious throughout this whole event. While he was dreaming, he met someone who looked very much like him.

Mason’s dream-

This dream consisted of one large, grassy plane. Mason got up before turning around and seeing something peculiar. It was a warrior clad in steel like armor that had rune plates etched onto it. His blonde hair and steeled expression showed that he meant business. “Hello, lookalike.” said Thor.

Mason backed away, “I know who you are, it’s just that I am having a hard time believing it.” He then looked around. “How is it that I am speaking in my own tongue here?”

“Simple,” said the demigod, “You are dreaming. Before you ask, I am here to explain a few things to you. Both you and your younger brother were accidentally displaced without buying any cursed item. Your displacer, feeling guilty, gave you powers akin to my own. Now you must have a question popping in your head.”

“Where did he get the power?” said Mason, finally getting it.

“Exactly,” answered Thor. “He reached into the multiverse and pulled hulk’s power along with my own. Unlike your elder brother, your powers have literally fused themselves to your soul.” A small, blueish wisp appeared. It danced along, producing a glow whenever it moved. “See?”

“Wait, so what happens now?” said Mason.

“Simple.” said the Asgardian. “We fully will fuse into one being over time, but for now, we are at a partial fusion. What you tasted in your battle with the living laser was but a fraction of the power of a fully realized Thor. Just keep working, training, and trying. Eventually, you will learn how to do what I can do, and much more, but first, you need to wake up.”

“What” said Mason. His world shaking around him.

“Wake up!!” said a loud, thunderous voice. Mason’s eyes cracked open to show a green giant shaking him. “Bro?”

“What happened?” said Mason.

Caleb shrugged. “I dunno. After your fight, I brought you back here and put the laser guy in a mirrored ball. Whatever you did really did a lot to you. Jacob woulda came in to check on you personally, but he was kinda working on a bunch of other guys. He kept mumbling, “My fault, my designs, my machines.” over and over and over again. I think that he might have a few screws loose.“

‘’Oh.” said Mason in a worried tone.

“But hey,” said Caleb. “I heard that he got out of that stuffy med room and is at a restaurant. He even said that we could come by once you had recovered. He actually found a place with meat.” He took out a map and pointed to seemingly random point.

Mason gave out a smile. “Then let us be off then.” He reached out his hand as his hammer flew directly to it. “You shall has’t lead the way though.”

Caleb smiled, opened a large window, climbed outside, and jumped to the coordinates.

Mason frowned, spun his hammer, and flew out.

When they got to the place on the map, they didn’t even know that it was a restaurant. It looked more like a hut with a chimney attached. Then again, it was called, “The Meat Hut.” Inside was Jacob, eating some shawarma topped with tabbouleh on pita bread. Outside the restaurant, Bubbles was eating a giant hamburger. The cooks inside the place were griffins, most of them having cybernetic parts, while the head chef had a talon that turned into a chef’s knife. “Come on,” said Jacob. “It’s on me.” The two looked at each other before walking in, and placing an order. Once Caleb and Mason got bowl of chili and a BLT respectively, they began to chow down on the food. Once they were done, Jacob payed for the food, along with a generous tip, and the five proceeded to walk out the place. “Jarvis, remind me to come back here sometime.”

“Of course, Sir,” said the Butler.

Author's Notes:

I know that I didn't answer everything, but those questions will be answered in the later chapters. Also, please leave a comment. I enjoy them deeply.