The Ultimate Surprise
Chapter 1: My first convention
Load Full Story Next ChapterFinally, my first convention. This is gonna be awesome!
Hi, my name is Dillan. I'm 18 years old, I have light brown hair, and I'm 6 ft. 4. I was attending my first convention...then my life took a drastic change.
It started with me walking and browsing all the different cosplays. I had chosen to go as Ben 10, the blue one from the alternate dimension. I was wearing the complete alternate Ben's outfit, minus the silly hair and pointless tie.
I was walking around for a while, enjoying the con and that it had to offer. It was then that I saw a color swap of the original Ultimatrix, the color being blue. Interested in the design, its own outranking the makeshift one I had made, I made the decision to take a closer look.
I made my time examining the model, looking for any flaws. It was then that the man who ran the stall noticed me. He was a gangly figure, his face old and rough. He had just finished haggling with another client. I could tell by both the look on the salesman’s face, and the empty handed customer walking away, that he could not make a deal with the man.
"You have a good taste my friend,” He smiled, giving me a toothy grin. “That right there is a prototype, a toy if you will, of the Omnitrix called the Ultimatrix.” I looked up at the happy man, I assumed that he was hoping for a more successful deal.
"Yeah, I know what the Ultimatrix is,” I replied, still marveling the prototype. “It’s from my favorite version of Ben 10...may I ask why it’s blue?" I asked politely. It was a strange color choice, but who was I to complain.
"Well, it’s a design of the Ultimatrix, But with the color from the dimension where Ben had a blue Omnitrix." he replied, pulling out a key for the display case. Makes sense to keep it locked up, you can never be too safe.
"This one on the other hand," he said as he took it out of the case "Wasn't made by Albedo, but by that dimensions Azmuth. It’s suppose to be a stronger device than the original Ben had. The alternate Ben was stopped by his original before it could come into play.” The seller explained.
It was an interesting story, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it before...but the watch would go better than the one I already owned.
"How much would it cost?" I asked, pulling out my wallet.
“Well, it's the last one,” The man mused, tapping his foot as he thought of a decent price. “And I sold the other versions I had to some other guy for a lot so… 98 dollars would be a reasonable price, though I must warn you that it's faulty." The merchant answered, warning me that the product might not be as perfect as I thought it was.
"Eh, it looks fine and I don’t mind much," I hand him the 98 dollars, he in return gave me the watch. I went to walk away, discarding my old watch and putting on the new one.
"Wait!” The man cried out to me. I turned around and he was holding out a small rectangular chip.
"What's this?" I mused, looking at the chip in his hand.
"Oh, just an upgrade that I was going to put in it but forgot since you bought it,” He said offhandedly. “You might as well take it." He took the watch back and put a strange code into the Ultimatrix. The top popped open and he inserted the chip into the watch before closing it again.
"Oh, thanks,” I said, grateful to the old man’s generosity. “But what does it do?” It was strange to see the watch behave the way it did, but it was most likely some new feature.
"Oh, just a little bonus feature," He said with a devilish grin. I put the ultimatrix on my left wrist. I was looking at it and admiring it when he spoke again.
He gave a small chuckle, the sound of his laughter was...maniacal. “Also, if you meet another displaced with an Omnitrix, you can give them the same upgrad if you have a unicorn to clone it."
I looked at him like he with confusion. Displaced? Unicorns? Before I could ask the crazy old coot what the hell he was going on about, the Ultimatrix started glowing. I saw nothing but a bright blue light as a bubble wrapped around me.
And then it became dark…
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My eyes fluttered open and my vision, while blurred, had returned to me. I got up, my legs wobbling due to the lack of use...how long had I been out for anyways?
I looked around at my surroundings, trying to getter a better glimpse on where I was. It was clear that this wasn’t the convention...or the city. Rocks were littered on the ground and I looked up to see that I was in some kind of ravine or canyon.
"What the hell?" I muttered. I then realized that one of my wrists had something around it, looked down at a glowing Ultimatrix and yelled in shock.
"What the… is this real?" I questioned. The watch looked weird, and I can remember that flashy light show the thing had put on. I hesitantly activated the watch, seeing that it showed all of the signs of it being the original Ultimatrix. “It is real!” I exclaimed, something of this power was amazing and I now held it--wore it!
I looked around to see some stairs going up the side of the wall. Realizing that the path was the best way out, I started walking up the stairs and look around and I see a really broken down castle. The cartoony features...the ruined state it was in...with this and the place I woke up in, this could only mean one thing for me…
The Castle of the Two Sisters...from MLP:FIM.
"I'm… in… Equestria… no way!" At this realization, I was more excited than anything else.
" I'm...in...equestria, oh my gosh, oh my gosh,oh my gosh... but how?" I asked myself. It Slowly dawned on me on what the possible source of this movement was. I looked down at the Ultimatrix, remembering the light show it had given me.
"Did... you bring me hear?" I asked it, knowing that getting an answer was unlikely. A thousand theories crossed my mind, but it was abruptly stopped.
A blood curdling scream rang out, sending a cold chill up my spine.
I frantically searched for the source of the scream and then ran to where I thought it could have originated from. I didn't know exactly what I was going to do, but I knew I had to do something.
I kept running and running towards the origin of the screams. Finally, I arrived into a clearing and straight into a group of colorful… humanoid creatures. The yellow one that made a meep noise and they looked at me and I looked at them.
I was speechless. I assumed that I would meet ponies in this colorful world, if this was infact a world and not some kind of dream, but not… human ponies. So, all I could really do was stare in shock at these people.
After a few moments, they respond differently from how I had. Said response involved screaming at the top of their lungs.
I had to cover my ears to keep them from erupting my ear drums. "For the love of, stop yelling!" I shouted, my voice barely managing be heard over their cries of fear.
They stopped and looked at me with wide eyes, shocked that I could speak. I walked over to the one I assume to be Fluttershy, one can only guess with the strange appearances they had.
"You ok?" I asked with a smile as I held out a hand to help her up, I didn’t want them to freak out and get all defensive. She flinched back and looked back at me with fear. While she still showed traces of fear, realizing that I wasn’t a threat seemed to calm her down and she cautiously took my hand.
"T-thank y-you" she mumbled, still showing nervousness.
"No problem," I said, using a reassuring tone to keep her and her friends calm. "So, were any of you the one who screamed?" I asked her. They all shook there heads in response, most still unsure what to make of the situation.
"We were looking for the one who screamed when we ran into you." the orange one, who I assume was Applejack, said.
"Um okay, I have a question; Would you name happen to be Applejack, the Element of Honesty?" They all looked at me with shock and confusion.
"Yes ah`m Applejack,” She answered hesitantly. “Who are you and how do you know me?"
"Well I`m Dillan and-" I was about to tell them everything I knew, but we heard another scream and I instinctively ran towards it.
I was able to hear the scream more clearly as I ran. I quickly looked back to see the Elements running after me. I kept running until I came to a cliff, I frantically scanned the area while the Elements caught up.
"Well, did you find the pony who was screaming or not?" Rainbow Dash asked. I looked at her and shook my head. It was only silent for a moment until we all heard more screams.
Our eyes glanced down and saw a couple of anthro ponies running from their unseen pursuer. One was orange with purple hair, another was white with pinkish purple hair.
"Scoots, Sweetie belle!" Rainbow and Rarity cried in unision. Our shock at the children running was increased as we saw what they were running from right behind them.
A pack of nine to ten Timberwolves.
“Oh no!' Fluttershy whispered , panicking at the sight of the fillies predicament.
"What are we going to do?” Twilight cried in distress. While the mares thought on what they could do, I looked at the Ultimatrix. Then my gaze met with Scootaloo and Sweetie belle.
"You go back to ponyville and get some help for them,” I said, the dial on my watch popping up. “We don't know what injuries they may have and the may need medical attention.” They looked at me with angry faces, frustrated at my order.
"We can't just leave em, they're our family!" Applejack protested, the others nodding in agreement. I turned around and they saw my watch with the image of a biped that looked like its head was on fire.
"What are you doing?" Fluttershy asked, baffled by the figure the watch displayed.
"While you're going to get help I'll hold off the timberwolves,” I answered. “I have just the thing for this situation." I looked at them with a smirk. They shot me looks of confusion as I slammed down the center of the watch. A bright blue flash was replaced with a big red and orange creature that looked to be on fire
"Heatblast" I exclaimed before I ran and jumped off of the cliff towards the pony`s and timberwolves.