After the explosion, bits and pieces of the cloud floating away, the mane six looked around. The guards were exchanging looks between themselves and Jason, Fluttershy was hiding under a nearby cart, Twilight, RD and AJ were trying to stop the ringing in the ears, Rarity and Pinkie were kneeling on the ground and Jason was walking back to his pack. None of them speaking, all of them were too busy to notice the new arrival.

With the distinct crack of displaced air, princesses Celestia and Luna popped into existence a few feet behind Twilight, serious expressions on their faces. Looking around, their eyes settle on Jason, not noticing, he kept walking towards his stuff. Pushing past the guards with little resistance, he collected his bag and gun. He then turned back towards Twilight.

"Look, a distraction!" he pointed at the royal sisters, all eyes following his finger, when all the guards and Twilight's friends noticed them, they all bowed. While this was happening, Jason looked for a exit, sadly, none presented themselves to him. Sighing at how his plan failed, Jason looked back at the newcomers.

Great, more hybrids. Looking towards the corpse, Jason decided to see if it might have something compatible to his current form. Following his gaze, Celestia and Luna hardly kept from showing their disgust at it. Walking towards the corpse, Jason's path was blocked by two guards without any accessories. Trying, and failing, to think of a way past without beating them into the mud, and pissing the rest off as well, Jason decides to try gently moving them out of the way.

Thud, Thud.

Jason was new to the word gentle. Looking down at the shocked expressions on their faces, he offered them each a hand, after stepping past them of course. If the looks on their faces were any indication, they were shocked that Jason knocked two fully armoured royal guards down effortlessly, and them being Earth ponies at that, their pride keep them grounded a moment before one of them accepted his hand. The other mumbled something and picked himself up.

"Sorry about that, don't know my own strength." Smiling sheepishly, Jason turned around and approach the corspe. Pulling out his knife, Jason proceeded to drip the tip into the blood and opened a small tray attached to his data pad.

Now, let's explore the world of nanotechnology and DNA manipulation. A single drop of blood contains all the necessary DNA to completely rebuild the source of the blood, the body would be needed for the raw materials to modify or build something. Now, nanobots and nanites are devided into three categories.

Micro, Bio and Inanimate. Micro nanos are the one's that reorganize and modify the body's DNA, Bio breaks down and rebuilds the organism, breaking the necessary parts down and funneling the vitamins and minerals to other nanos that place them in a manner similar to a 3D printer, sometimes supplied by medical nanos in your standard GEM MedKit, and Inanimate nanos are able to scan, study and maintain anything from body armour to aircraft carriers. Cloth shoes to Kevlar vests,

After waiting for the DNA nanos to finish, Jason received a shock. DNA not recognized, would you like to save the data? What? This is obviously part panda and part bumble bee, there sould be some evidence of that. Tapping his data pad and starting a tag search reveals the utter lack of a DNA tag, something even Jason has. This isn't happening, impossible, even GEMO pets have tags.

Watching him interact with the device on his wirst, Luna barely caught the last words coming out of Twilight's mouth.

"Then he threw the ball away before it blew up the cloud, I'm just glad no pegasi were up there or-"

"That's enough Twilight," Celestia interrupted her before she could finish the grim thought. "We're happy nopony was hurt, but we still need to figure out what we should do with him."

Looking back, Luna started observing the marine. If I look at him as a whole, he looks like any other earth pony stallion, but when I focus on individual areas, Solid sixteen hooves tall, weird tan armour that matches his coat, doesn't speak Equestrian, too many fingers and weird lack of fingerhooves with bumps on his knuckles, a powerful weapon with no evidence of magic when it's used. What are you?

Walking over, Luna noticed that he kept tapping on the mirror-like portion on the back of his wrist, while muttering something under his breath. He smells like the desert, maybe he is from Saddle Arabia and... No, he would surely know his own language. After making her mind up, she tried a traditional Saddle Arabian greeting, "Good afternoon."

Or she could try small talk... After getting no response, verbally or physically, she tried again.

"Good afternoon, do you understand me?" Nope, still nothing. Maybe he's ignoring you, try yelling in his ear.

"Does thou speak Equestrian?"

"Look, I'm pretty busy your highness, but as soon as I find out where this thing came from, I'll be happy to kiss your ring or whatever it is you do when you meet royalty, mmkay." Probably not the best thing to say to a immortal princess who was known for overreacting when she got ignored.

With a determined look, Luna focused on Jason's data pad. Finding it difficult to "grab" onto, she eventually gets a grip and teleports it to her waiting hand. Looking up from her victory, her smile interrupted by the sight before her. Jason, his left hand limp from the massive hole in his forearm right next to his wrist, has a finger imbedded in his own body. Oddly, Luna chose to take another note on how they may look alike, Two bones. What is this thing that looks like us, and yet doesn't. The next seconds were tense, He slowly looked to his side and stared at what used to be a part of him for so long, he might've been born with it.

Bitch, you don't have to tell me how, but at least tell me, why? In the few seconds delay, Jason could feel his nervous system kicking in, pain that would overwise been suppressed screaming at him, his arm pouring pints per minute worth of blood causing his colour vision to fail and blackness to fill his vision. Looking back at the colourless pegacorn responsible, Jason gave one last thought before he slumped forward. Where am I?

"Luna, what did you do!?" Looking back, the normally nocturnal princess noticed her sister staring at the unusual box, thinking quickly, Luna looked back at the swaying stallion before focusing on the box and teleporting it back into its owner's arm.

"*Recalibrating, please hold still.*" Luna jumped at the voice that came from nowhere before it continued. "*User, 1442394748, recognized. Reconnecting datapad to nervous system, connected. User's heart has stopped, initiating Palpatine protocol.*"

Thump. the unconscious stallion bounced into the air before coming to a rest.

"*Reconnecting vascular system, muscular system and tendons... Connected. Resuming nervous system defibrillator.*" After the stallions box, which luna finally figured out as the source of the disembodied voice, finished talking, he did another bounce. Still asleep, putting her ear next to his chest, Luna focused on listening for his heartbeat. Finding none, Luna decides to lend her magic to the mix. Summoning a small storm cloud, she waited for the neutral toned voice to predate the bounce.

"*User in danger of brain damage, initiate higher voltage.*"

Sending the lightning bolt down at the same time as the stallion bounced, Luna was rewarded with him jumping up and speaking his unknown tongue at an amazing rate.

"Dying sucks, Fuck that shit! What happen? Where am I? Why is your horn glowing, that mod was discontinued because no one wants their corpse found if it means your casket is gonna be lit up like a rave. What are you all looking at?" Jason looked around at all the civilians who were staring at him. "What the fuck just happened?"