Alex never could be able to tell a good idea from a bad idea.

But now, at least it was clear. This was one of those plans that were pretty much doomed to fail (not unlike the story). Vanoss and his crew were usually ok, but, much like his brief assimilation into Ponyville, there were a fair amount of shenanigans.

Firstly, was their moving in. Someone mentioned 'Delirious' Special Spongebob Time', and Alex had feared the worst. Really, it was just Delirious hauling in a crap ton of snacks and watching Spongebob, but this was Delirious, and often, he would make a huge mess every time and not clean it, so the floor of the tent looked like the floor of a movie theater that the janitor just hasn't gotten to yet. Cheetos and Pringles and other assorted snacks left an inch-thick layer of sugary, disgusting crust on the floor, the occasional soda spill, all of that. Much to Alex and Karis' annoyance, they forced him to help clean it all up.

"I ain't cleaning that shit off the floor!" Delirious yelled.

"Hey, I don't care about what shows you watch, but for the love of god, at least clean up after yourself!" Karis had told him.

"NOOOOOO!"

And then there was the constant killing, exploding, and all sorts of crazy things, maybe even a race now and then.

Alex still remembered their musket fight, lead balls flying to and fro, nearly hitting Alex or Karis, and ripping huge holes in the tent, but at least they had a bunch of small windows now.

Alex was now trying to tape up any holes that resulted from their little Revolutionary War reenactment, and Karis... She was somewhere else, probably building his new armor or getting information on Winchester. Until Alex had finished, Vanoss would be in charge, he prayed for his sanity, but not from the constant nightmares and that other crap, which was very different.

KABOOM!!

"Holy shit! Delirious!!!" Vanoss yelled from across the camp.

"What?" The masked killer asked in an innocent tone.

"What the hell happened?"

"Nogla took off his bag, so I threw a grenade at his ugly face."

"Oh, okay, sounds reasonable, carry on."

"For Fock sakes, Evan!" Nogla angrily screamed.

Alex was getting quite annoyed, but he just had to finish taping back this one last hole...

"Lui, are you sure you know the controls to this tank?" Terroriser asked.

"Yeah, the controls seem pretty straight-forward... What does this button do?" Lui asked, confused.

This could only mean one thing...

Alex leaped out of the tent just in time for a large tank shell to rip through his tent, right where he was standing.

"Jesus! I almost died!" Alex was really starting to get tired of this.

"Marcel drew a dick on the wall!" Someone yelled.

"It's a brontosaurus! How many times do I have to tell you!" Basically yelled.

"Anyone else think that this 'Destoyer' guy is reenacting old videos because he has no original ideas?" Mini Ladd asked.

"Me!" Wildcat agreed.

"Could you guys go two seconds without drawing on the wall, or blowing stuff up, or breaking the fourth wall!?!" Alex yelled, exasperated.

"...No." Moo said.

Alex looked up at the sky, and put his middle finger in the air.

"Do you see what I have to deal with here? Why couldn't you have crossed this story over with something cool like... I don't know..."

"How about this one web series called R-" Destoyer asked, his voice booming from the sky.

"Don't...say it... You know what? I will go along with this." Alex said, with an air of determination in his voice.

Droidd crashed a car into a nearby tree.

"Droidd, what are you doing?" Alex asked in a neutral tone.

"I-I just wanna go to Cockatoos." Droidd responded.

Delirious also stumbled out of the car, obviously drunk.

"Really, Delirious? It's not even noon." Alex chided.

"You don't know my life!" Delirious retorted, his voice slurred.

Karis walked back into the encampment with Alex's pocket dimension, looking around at the chaos around her.

"Really? I leave for, like, two hours and this place looks worse off than it was when I left." Karis said, just...disappointed.

"At least I tried to fix things around here!" Alex defended.

"You really are helpless, you know that, right?" Karis rolled her eyes.

"Yeah... Idiot authors and their desperate attempts to ingratiate themselves to their audience..." Alex muttered contemptfully.

"I don't know about 'idiot'...but the whole thing about redeeming themselves to the reader...yeah... He did kinda fu-"

"Don't... He's going to try and keep this slightly kid-friendly." Alex scolded.

"To who exactly?" Karis replied.

"...yeah, you're right." Alex relented.

"So, you want the good news or the bad news?" Karis asks.

"Bad news. Just get it out of the way." Alex said.

"Okay, Princess Twilight gained Winchester's trust, probably on account of the destruction of the castle." Karis said.

"Well, I'd be lying if I said I didn't see it coming." Alex admitted.

"There is some good news..." Karis began.

"What?" Alex asked.

"I figured out how Winchester and Crimson got here, in the time the Government had studied Die Glocke, they made more than just the one." Karis said.

"That would explain things, how did they find me?"

"They probably traced your signal after you blew up the original." Karis concluded.

"Oh..."

"And I also learned that Princess Twilight has a Die Glocke of her own, probably as a gift from Winchester."

"Really?"

"Yeah... But there are still a few problems." Karis admitted.

"What, the like-to-dislike ratio?" Alex asked.

"No. Twilight's castle is very heavily guarded, Crimson, Your old Militia, the Guard..."

"What?! The Militia?!!? How?!" Alex gasped, the militia was after him, too? How did Winchester do that?

"I don't know." Karis said.

"What are our options?" Alex asked.

"The only way to handle this is to wait, build up our resources, wait for a weakness and exploit it."

"...sounds reasonable." Alex said.

"Also, I got to work on the Goliath Mk. VI, it should be done in about 6 days." Karis said.

"Okay, so we have at least a 6-day wait. I'll tell Vanoss to start buying up as much equipment as possible. They have us outmanned and outgunned, we may as well try to stand a chance." Alex said.

"Okay. Tell the crew, I'll be repairing those giant holes in our tent." Karis said.

Alex walked over to Vanoss and friends, and sat down.

"Team, we have some developments." Alex began.

"Like what?" Terroriser said.

"We found out that Winchester is working with Ponyville's hero,

Princess Twilight Sparkle."

"Isn't she Rainbow Face's friend?" Mini asked.

"Yes. Winchester's men completely outnumber ours." Alex said.

"You want us to kill the Military men?" Nogla asked.

"Not just yet. We're going to wait a minimum of six days so we can prepare for the assault, which brings me to our first order of business." Alex said.

"You need us to buy a bunch of Valkyries, Insurgents, and Hydras?" Lui asked.

"If by that, you mean buy a bunch of equipment, yes." Alex told him.

"How about a Cargobob and a tank?" Delirious asked.

"Anything as long as it can kill a bunch of soldiers." Alex nodded.

"Is this a heist?" Wildcat asked.

"No, the priority is getting to a machine called 'Die Glocke' and getting the hell out as fast as possible, killing Winchester is second on the list."

"Oh, what does this machine do?" Basically asked.

"It's a machine that is capable of inter-dimensional transport."

"What?" Basically asked again.

"It's like the teleporter from zombies, but it can take us to different universes." Vanoss said.

"Oh."

"How is this any different from what you tried last time?"

Rainbow Dash walked to Alex and the others, the cyan Pegasus had heard everything.

"This time, I'm going to tell people what happened to me, instead of just waiting for someone to lie and incriminate me, like what happened here." He said.

"I know this seems like the only way out of this, but..." Rainbow tried to reassure him.

"It is. I'm being hunted down by everyone, there isn't anyone I know for sure I can trust, and to top it all of, the rulers of two different countries want nothing more to cut my head off and mount it above their fireplace, or something!" Alex said.

"What about us," Vanoss said, "you paid us to keep your ass safe, you're asking us to buy military equipment, and you're trusting us enough to stay in the same place as us."

"I'm sure if I didn't pay you guys, I would be nothing but Swiss cheese right now." Alex retorted.

"So your best option is to just leave?" Rainbow asked, appalled.

"Yes, the way Twilight sees it, I'm too dangerous to be kept alive." Alex said.

"That's not true, and you know it!"

"I don't know for sure, but if it is as bad as it looks, my only chance is escape." Alex said.

"Fine. I won't say anything to Twilight or the others, but if you do attack the castle, I will hurt you." Rainbow said.

"Deal." Alex said for the umpteenth time.

Rainbow flew away, angry and confused.

"Well, let's just give up, Alex just lost the war." Moo said.

"No! I'm not living my life in fear anymore! We're getting out of here in a minimum of six days, we're going somewhere else, that's final." Alex said.

"You just pissed off the only other pony who was actually willing to help!" Vanoss said.

"I have NO other choice!" Alex argued.

"Not entirely true, Mr. Walker." A voice said.

Alex turned around, staring at a being that was part pony, part dragon, part...everything. He remembered everyone's description of who this was.

"Discord." Alex scowled.

"Clever observation, boy. I see you have yourself quite an army." Discord complimented.

"AAAAH! IT'S THE FLYING DUTCHMAN!!!!" Delirious yelled.

"What? Oh, him. Never really liked that guy, always going on and on about that little yellow guy."

"Get to the point." Alex said.

"You seem rather desperate, enough to turn away help from Ms. Dash. Shocking to say the least."

"What do you want?"

"Well, it would seem as if someone doesn't trust me. I'm hurt." Discord said, wiping his eyes with a tissue.

"I have a history of trust issues, it's to be expected. What do you want?" Alex asked again, hardening his voice.

"I have a proposition for you."

"What kind of proposition?"

"It's simple, really. You help me with something, and I help you with your predicament."

"I don't need your help." Alex bitterly replied.

"Well, someone doesn't know about Inquisitors, then. If you really don't want my help, I will take my leave." Discord scoffed.

What were Inquisitors? Alex didn't like the sound of that at all.

"What?"

"Oh, just a secret society of inter dimensional warriors bent on conquering the multiverse. If that's what you're asking, but, no, you don't want my help, goodbye." Discord poofed away, leaving no trace.

What was he talking about? This kinda scared Alex. He had no help with this.

Alex walked back to his tent, starting to rethink his decisions. He made a lot of bad choices, but this probably took the cake.

If he went face to face with an inquisitor, what would he do?

Author's Notes:

Well. I added more about Alex's thoughts on the Vanoss crew, and more than a few fourth wall breaks.
At this point, I'm really starting to reconsider putting this up, but I'm still going to keep writing, because, well, why not?
I'm also giving another story development, more antagonists, that kind of stuff.
Also, the plan in this chapter plus my hints=...well, you'll find out eventually.