I was woken up by searing headpain. It felt like someone had hammered a spike into my skull... I opened an eye and regretted it as my vision was greeted by sunlight. I flinched back.

"GYAH THE HARSH LIGHT OF THE DAYSTAR!"

I landed on the ground with further regret as agony went through my head again, now exacerbated. I limply whispered as I curled up on the floor.

"...ow."

I dared to open my eyes again to figure out what was happening. From what I could see through a pair of blurred up eyes I was...Home. Or at least in me and Jen's house.

"Okay...What did I do last night to make my head hurt this much...?"

"Drank a liquor shop from the empty bottles I found in your 'loot' bag, sweetie."

I tilted my head up and...Whoa. Jen looked way different. She still had XJ9's color scheme, but she looked like sorta like she did as a human. Like... Biological. Sorta hard to describe. She gave me a slight grin.

"Good morning."

"...Okay story behind you being all biomalogical and stuff later... For right now can I...I...Oh gods my stomach hurts...Jen pass me that trash can please..."

She nodded and grabbed it and set it in front of me. A few minutes of rainbow-colored vomit later I managed to recover enough to down some painkillers for my head. I looked up at her blearily.

"Erkay... Do you know-urp- What I did last night to make me feel so shit?"

"You don't remember anything at all?"

"No...I remember some flashes...Robots...fire...Something about Bionicle..."

Jen sighed and patted my shoulder.

"Damn. Well what's the last thing you remember from yesterday?"

"Waking up. Then it turns into a blur..."

"Okay...Well all I know is that yesterday you went off on your own for a bit, and then we got summoned by Dox to attend his bachelor party. We both arrived at the same time and you were all injured and yelled something about shoggoths and fire demons... I was freaked out but Dox and took you and all the other guys out to party and stuff so I never found out what happened. I didn't see you until the end of the night, and you were too wasted to even speak discernibly..."

"Oh jeez...Hey Jen...What was that you said about loot?"

"You had this bag of stuff that you brought back with you. And an adorable pig. You named him Trevor."

"...Whut."

"And you got me this hoodie."

"...Okay that one I vaguely remember. I kept thinking of the fact that you didn't really seem to care about having clothes but back home you always said you liked having a hoodie to wear...I think I bought it for you as a present..."

Jen lit up and pecked me on the cheek. I feebly smiled at her and was about to say something when the door slammed open.

"Guys you gotta help!"

I curled up as a wave of pain shot through my head again and Jen patted my shoulder. I looked up and saw Spike standing in the doorway, holding... Holy shit. It looked like Sombra but... Made of crudely carved crystal. I looked at Jen and she spoke slowly.

"Spike...What's going on?"

"Okay so a long time ago this cheap unicorn magician showed up in town and was a huge jerk and lied about what she was capable of and there was this ursa minor that came into town but basically Twilight stopped it and Trixie ran out of town but-"

Jen shushed him. "Story later, problem now!"

Spike nodded. "Okay so Trixie ran out of town but now she's back and she's super powerful! And just as crazy! She out-magicked Twilight and threw her out of town and trapped everypony inside this giant glass dome! And Sombra he...He knew somehow that this weird amulet she had was the source of it all. He tried to use his crystal magic to get it off her but she caught him and...And..."

I looked back to the statue he had brought with him and froze. Jen spoke in a low tone.

"Good gods... Okay normally I'd let event follow their normal course but this... This makes it personal. Kyth you go and play interference, I'd feel better if you didn't get involved with the fighting until you're sobered up and not hungover. You go with Spike and make sure that everyone that could get hurt is out of the way, and make sure nothing happens to Sombra until we can find a way to turn him back to normal."

I stood up. "Jen... What are you planning on doing?"

"I'm gonna do two things. One I'm going to put my fist through Trixie's face. Second I'm gonna kick her flank three ways from Sunday. Third I'm gonna knock the crazy out of her."

"That...That was three things."

"Yeah. I'm pissed off enough that two wasn't enough. No one messes with my friends, especially not those I look at like siblings. That means you and Sombra, Spike."

I nodded. "Gods you're cute when you're pissed off!"

She smiled at me. "Thanks sweetie. Now let's go kick some ass!"

Spike looked at Jen and seemed to realize something. "Whoa... Jen what happened to you?"

"I got an upgrade. I'll tell you guys about it later. For now let's deal with Trixie."

Spike nodded and I did the same.

"Let's go."

I directed Kyth to find the mane six and he carried Spike and Sombra with him as he ran off. I stretched out to loosen up to make my transformations easier. Transforming was kinda like... Like using a muscle. If you pull something the wrong way it can get messed up and you have to take a while to figure out how to make it better before using it again. For a normal person that means therapy or whatever, for me it would be taking a few hours to get everything untangled and reassembled to normal function. Against Trixie, and opponent wielding an artifact of unknown magical power, I would need every available transformation I had. Along with that I got one final system upgrade from F.A.U.S.T. in the form of a way to use magic. Well...Sorta. It was an extra modification to my power core that could filter the near infinite power I got from my Dox battery into artificial magic using a  chunk of eridium (an unstable but powerful material from the Borderlands games that had emerged in F.A.U.S.T.'s world). I was hoping to have some experience in using magic before entering combat but this might override that. A static sensation went up my body as I shifted my artificial tissue into 'armor' mode, cancelling all sense of touch but returning me to being combat ready. I ignited my thrusters and decided to save some time.

Rather than finding Trixie I'd draw her to me. I shifted my right arm into a drill and rocketed through town, going to the patch of the glass dome encompassing Ponyville that was above the town center. I rammed the drill into the dome at full speed and drove it in, sending out a spiderweb of cracks across the dome and producing a massive reverberating sound all throughout its interior. I heard Trixie call out to me from the ground below after a few minutes of digging into her dome.

"Hey! Stop breaking the dome of the Grrrrreat and Powerful Trixie you wretch!"

I dodged to the side and saw a bolt of red lighting shoot past me and hit the cracked dome. I retracted my drill and turned to her, slowing my thrusters. I dropped down, landing in front of her with a glare to match hers. She spoke in a cocky tone and had an expression to match.

"Ha! The Great and Powerful Trixie knows you! She heard of you from the little crystal abomination as she turned him into crystal to stop his insolence!"

I didn't move, and held her in a steely glare.

"Well? What do you have to say to the Great and Powerful Trixie before she puts you in your place for harming her dome!?"

I spoke slowly and tightened my hands into fists.

"One thing. Do you want a nose guard?"

She blinked in slight confusion.

"Why would I want a-" A resounding crack echoed through town square as I socked her dead in the muzzle. I didn't bother moving as she sailed through the air and crashed into an empty carrot stand in the market nearby. I heard Trixie scream in pain and a moment later a red flash went off in front of me as Trixie teleported back. I gave a grin despite my glare as I saw how her muzzle looked, like a tin can that someone stomped on. Trixie blinked back tears and let out a long grunt a her magic forced everything back into place and fixed the damage. She gave me a hateful glare and yelled in rage, lowering her horn and sending a wave of lightning at me. I sidestepped and let it go past me and raised and eyebrow at Trixie.

"That all you got, crap and impotent Trixie?"

"No it is not! I am the most powerful unicorn in the entire world, and you are NOTHING!"

She raised her head again and conjured a ball of deep red fire and launched it at me. I extended my right arm into Mass Hammer mode and brought it down, driving the fireball into the ground and snuffing it out.

"Wow. Veeery powerful. I think I might have had my body temperature go up one degree."

She gave me a baleful look and sent a wave of raw magic towards me, screaming in frustrated rage.

"The Great and Powerful Trixie will NOT be upstaged by a...a...A WHATEVER YOU ARE!"

I raised an eyebrow and swapped my hammer for an umbrella shield and nonchalantly blocked it. Trixie fumed further.

"GRRAH! FINE THEN! LET'S SEE HOW YOU LOOK WHEN YOU'RE AGED INTO DUST!"

I crossed my arms as her magic wrapped around me, seeking to find purchase as she entered into an aging spell. I crossed my arms and felt it wash over me, seeking to age me to the point of death. I gave her a moment of putting the spell on me before I tore my way out in an aura of power and stretched, letting out a yawn.

"That all ya got?"

Age spells were something I had no fear for until something damaged me. My body was bio-mechanical, but I was still artificial and I had no biological 'expiration date', so an age spell wouldn't affect me other than wearing through my power supply and wear out my components. I had near infinite power from my Dox battery (though I could easily overload my weapons if I put too much power into them) and with that my bio-mechanical systems were capable of self-maintenance as long as I both had power and wasn't critically damaged. Standing in one place without moving for the equivalent of decades I could do with the only side effect being that my joints were a bit cramped up. Pretty much what you'd expect your legs to feel like if you sat down and didn't move for a few day straight and then started moving again. Trixie's jaw dropped as she attempted to stutter out a response.

"W-w-what!? That should have reduced you to...to nothing!"

"Nope. That was an aging spell. My current body doesn't age. Therefore, your spell can't touch me b-hole. Now it's my turn."

Before she could speak I rocketed forward and grabbed her in a headlock, pinning her to a wall.

"My Dad was a police officer y'know. He taught me and my brothers how to do this awesome police hold he used for cuffing criminals. It went a bit like this,"

I twisted her arm behind her back and kept her down, extending out a pair of handcuffs from my arm and cuffed her. With a flash she was gone and I whirled around to face Trixie again.

"Fool! Mortal chains cannot bind one as mighty as I!"

I retracted the cuffs and crossed my arms. I had an idea for how to get the amulet off her at that point, and thus when the next bolt of lightning was thrown at me I shut down the thorn shield I got from FAUST and threw myself into a wall. I let a few hits from Trixie land and made a big show of acting damaged (though I was barely scuffed. Being lightning-resistant and fireproof made combat with a powerful but noncreative magic user easy). I dramatically threw my head back with a hand on my brow.

"Oh no! I cannot best thee Great and Powerful one... I have but one request for you when you end me. Whatever you do, don't take the amulet off when you smite me! Use its full force and not your own!"

Trixie blinked.

"And why not!?"

"Surely such an amulet is but an inhibitor for you! Your own power must be truly terrifying!"

"Erm...Y-yes! Of course it is! I AM the Great and Powerful Trixie after all! Heheh... Certainly m-my magic would be more than enough to finish such a...a pathetic whelp!"

She looked around nervously as she removed the amulet from around her neck. I had her right where I wanted her. If she tried to finish me with the amulet on then she'd look weak (though even with the thing she couldn't touch me if I were actually trying to fight). If she removed the amulet then I would snatch the thing and win instantly. Just like clockwork she took the thing off and started attempting to charge magic for an attack. I rocketed forward and grabbed the thing, slamming it into a storage compartment before turning and launching a chain to tie Trixie up.

"H-Hey! How are you not defeated!?"

I leaned in to her ear.

"You didn't beat me in the first place. I tricked you. Quite easily in fact, but that's just a minor detail. Now then you're coming with me and paying for what you've done."

"Never! Trixie is too great and powerful to be beaten by such a-"

"Such a what? You really want to finish that sentence when I have you in a headlock?"

"You do not have Trixie in a-GACK!"

I grabbed Trixie easily and held her down.

"Now I do. And besides that wasn't a question."

I muscled Trixie into following me as I moved to the fountain in the town square and deployed a pair of handcuffs from my arm and locked Trixie to the fountain so she couldn't leave.

"Now stay here. I'm gonna go make sure that all the damage you caused has been reversed."

I didn't give her a chance to respond before taking off into the air and looking over town. So far it seemed that everything was fixed... No giant dome anymore, no crazy storm clouds...I activated my scanners and looked around until I found Kyth and Sombra...Well Sombra was erupting into glowing cracks and the crystal was busting off like a cocoon so that was good but... Huh. I hadn't noticed until then that Kyth gave off the same aura as Messenger...There as just a Kyth-shaped void in my scanners' sights. That'd have to be investigated later. For the moment I just dropped down in time to see Twilight and the mane six charging into town.

"Trixie it's time that-Huh? What happened?"

I waved to them. "Hey girls! I just got done here."

Twilight looked up and her jaw dropped.

"J-Jen!? Is that you?"

I nodded and reconfigured myself out of combat mode and waved to them.

"Yup!"

"Wha...What happened to you? You look almost completely different!"

I gave a small smile and nodded. Pinkie dashed up and started poking and prodding me all over in curiosity.

"Wow! You're all squishy and not metal anymore Jenny!"

"Darling whatever has happened?"

I giggled. Now that I had a sense of touch again I realized how freaking fuzzy pony hooves are. I ruffled Pinkies mane and looked up to the others.

"Okay guys I'll explain the new look later, for now I gotta figure out what to do with this."

I took out the Alicorn Amulet and held it up. They all gasped and Twilight lit her horn up and attempted to pull it from my hand telekinetically.

"The Alicorn Amulet! Good job Jen, now I can give it to Zecora and hide it from anyone ever finding it again!"

I yanked my hand out of her TK and shook my head.

"I got a better idea. I can just throw the thing into space, problem solved."

"Wha...What do you mean into space?!"

Her eyes gained the look of burning curiousity and she seemed to be drooling at the prospect of learning what I was capable of. I decided to give a brief explanation.

"I'm capable of flying outside of the planets gravity and atmosphere, so I can just throw it and the odds that anyone could find it in all the vastness of space are near impossible. And seriously I'll explain everything later, for now I gotta tell Kyth know what I'm up to."

I flew off before they could ask me anything else, and quickly found Kyth watching Sombra break free. I dropped down next to him.

"Hey Kyth I'm gonna go get rid of the Alicorn Amulet. You gonna be alright here?"

He nodded. "Sure thing! Have fun I guess."

I pecked him on the cheek and extended my wings. I shook a bit before rocketing off into the air. I managed to compile a rough map of Equestria's solar system from my flight practice with F.A.U.S.T., and with that I managed to find my way into orbit. After a moment I picked up the planet's moon and made my way to it, landing on the surface of it after a moment. If there was any sort of atmosphere I would've gasped. It was as beautiful as always, a pure white landscape without a single thing marring it but the slight hills in the distance. I took a few minutes to walk around, just to get a look around for the map I was building of it for later use. After that I reconstructed my legs into drill form and tore a deep hole into the surface and threw the Alicorn Amulet into it, refilling the hole afterward. I made a marker in my maps of where I left it in case I had to find it later, but as Equestria didn't even have planes yet then I doubted space travel would be a factor for at least a few decades so it would be safe for the moment. I turned to fly back home when I began to feel a tingling sensation. I spoke in binary signal out of habit from spending time with F.A.U.S.T. though I knew I was alone for the moment.

"[So THAT'S what being summoned by my token feels like! Sense of touch rules!]"

I pumped my fist as darkness washed over me, pulling me on through to another world... Next Chapter: Chapter Sixteen: Jen Meets Bill Cipher And A Bugbear Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 7 Minutes