Evolution. All races go through it, genetically and society wise. Some people think we Humans evolved from apes, but that’s stupid. If that were true, there’d be no apes, only man. And if you want to go with the idea that they were too slow, or we just went through different experiences, I’ll tell you that we’d have another race with us on earth. Like another race other than Humans.

But there is a form of evolution I do believe in. Two, in fact. Changing culture is one. Through war, technology, and morals. The other is evolving ourselves. To better our lives. I’m not sure I taught my son right on that… I’m not even sure if I prepared him at all, for that matter… I am Silvia Jiris, and no, don’t ask, it’s never made sense to me the surname.

Although I don’t go by that name anymore. Most things call me Aya Brea, and yes, I’ll get to that.

But first, let me tell you more about myself. I am- was, a very shy woman. If you asked me on a date, I’d pretty much faint, and don’t ask about the first time I tried to fix a broken nose.

My family all died in a car crash when I was five years old. Meaning my mother, father, and twin sister. Only family that was left was my older sister, Tiffany. I wish I was able to stay with her, but I was sent to my father's brother, uncle Uren… Let’s just say he wasn’t the nicest guardian. After an… Accident, I was sent to a special hospital for abused children. Spent the rest of my childhood in there… Being judged, pitied… The later wasn’t that bad, though...

When I entered my twenties, I worked at a Target as a janitor… I couldn’t do the cashiers job, I would get fired in under an hour. Anyways, I worked there for a few years, until I met the man of my dreams… Steve Jiris… He was another janitor and I was tasked with teaching him. He said his parents were rich, but wanted him to learn what good, honest work was.

Little left to say about that. We started getting to know each other, became close, and after a year or two, we started dating. It was like a movie… I was so under his spell… Wish I wasn’t…

We got married and he got me pregnant… Once our son was born, he just… Didn’t. Didn’t seem to care. To say hi, to spend time with me, to call me beautiful… To love me… He’d used me. His family wanted a grandson, and he gave them that… Specifically, Sean, a beautiful boy...

He stayed, and I guess gave Sean a good role model. I was never around them because he gave me dirty looks. I was too afraid… Too much of a pathetic coward to stand up to him… I guess that’s better than when I asked him what’s wrong…

I think he hated me. I don’t know. He started beating me. It was around the time when Sean was five. I was glad I’d taken acting lessons when I was younger, or I think he’d have caught up to my fibs. He thought I was clumsy, or an idiot. I never cared, as long as he was happy…

When Sean was six, Steve died. Apparently, one of his workers wasn’t mentally stable. I nearly jumped in joy, but held back because of Sean. Steve may have been a bad husband, but he was still Sean’s father… After Steve’s passing, I called Tiffany and spoken to her for the first time since I was five… It was emotional, but I was able to get support from her and her husband. She’d also changed her last name to Walker… Looks like the Hilton name’s been dropped since I’m Jiris, she’s Walker and my uncle passed away.

But I couldn’t give myself a break. I couldn’t let Sean know Steve was abusive. I started hurting myself. From bruises to cuts, I did them all. Tiff seemed to notice, and questioned me about it. I never told her, but I think she assumed it was depression. But Sean seemed to notice the difference between Steve’s and my attempts to hurt myself.

I think he figured out I was hurting myself… But I’m not one hundred percent sure… Always need to be sure.

Don’t know when, but I got a job as a waitress for a really dirty place. I’ve been trying to forget my time there, but it payed well. I think I was happy, but like I said with Sean figuring out, I’m not one hundred percent sure… Maybe equal bits happy and in self loathing. I’m glad I never became an addict, but I might as well have…

When Tiff died…

My last sibling… My… My only trust… The one I… She died during childbirth. I don’t… I don’t know what I did next. I heard her husband fell into depression, but I lost more than him. I lost the one person who knew, who knew, what I’d gone through. The one I hoped would take care of Sean if… If anything happened to me…

I tried, tried so hard to move on. But I guess I was just too weak. I never wanted to become that weak ever again. I’d lost my parents and twin, I lost my abusive husband, and now I lost the last connection to myself. I think that’s when I lost myself… I became cold, self centered. The only being I cared for was Sean, and I kept him to myself. I became strict, not letting him stay out after nine, keeping an eye on him, questioning him- no, interrogating him. After a while, he started hating me. Eleven, I think. Times were lost to me, I’d forgotten my own birthday by then… I stopped then. I bet he loved that. I had become obsessive, that I- I-... I became Steve in a way… I never told him I loved him, I just… Became demanding… It had to be that way for me, or I’d punish him.

Then, for the first time in my life, I… cracked. On his way to school, I told him I loved him. He couldn’t respond since the bus was almost leaving. When he was out… I think my cold front I’d put up changed. It didn’t go away, it just... Evolved into a personality trait, but not a strict monster, just… Distant.

I think Sean was happier this way, so I continued being that. I couldn’t just change back, but I could make him happy. I think he was the only reason I stayed alive… I can’t say it was a sacrifice, though. We did have fun at times, and I spoiled him from time to time. Did playdates with his cousin, Lance.

My first meeting with Lance was… Different than I thought it’d be. I thought I’d hate him for taking my sister away, but… I couldn’t. He looked a lot like her… Oh, who am I kidding, I adored him… I think… It’s already getting hard to remember… What was my name again? Something… With an S, I’m sure… It rhymed with silver, or sounded similar… S- Silvia, right…

Anyways, things were looking up… But… I guess that’s just a joke… Sean disappeared… I… I can’t even remember his f-face…

When it… Happened, I had two options. One: become a drunk/drug addict. Two: Search for him the rest of my life… I went with the later. I searched and searched until I came to a dead end. He disappeared at a limited time event, and nobody would help me.

Eventually, I came to an idea. Sean went to this thing as Sun whatever, so, I’d go as a character like him. I prepared myself a year in advance for the next one, and I’d dress as Aya Brea from the classic horror game Parasite Eve… Guess how that turned out?

All jokes aside, I ended up here in… Whatever this place is called as said character, and… Aw hell, I just forgot his name!

No… No, no… NonononononononononoNONONONONONONONONONO!!!!!!!! I couldn’t forget him! Please! He’s… I have nothing… I am nothing…

No… I’m one thing… A parasite. And I’ll find out what happened to… Sun! I… I’ll die before I give up on him!

Let’s see how these things handle my powers… Everyone knows you never mess with a mother looking for her child. I’ll kill them all if I have to.

Manehattan, New Yoke. 11:04pm

“New Yoke, New Yoke, such a horrible town~!” Sang a pink Pegasus with a blue mane and eyes. This was Firefly, and she trotted through the city with a sarcastic smile.

“C’mon, Fire, it isn’t that bad…” A white Pegasus with a yellow mane and purple eyes said. Though, as to prove her wrong, there was a scream, and a few curse words, followed by a gunshot, causing her to flinch.

Firefly looked back at her friend deadpanned, “Even the crooks hate this place, Surprise! Ugh, you know what? Let’s get back to the others…” As they were trotting though, something was still… off to them. They didn’t hear just one gunshot, but several.

“Okay, now I’m getting a little concerned about that.” The Pink Pegasus told her friend, “You don’t normally hear five gunshots in a row like that.”

“M-maybe it’s a gang w-war?” Surprise said, trying to convince Firefly to ignore it. “It’s happened before, the NYPD hasn’t been able to clean this area out… P-Posey’s probably worried now, we should go.”

“Yeah, but if it were a gang war, you would hear more screams.” Firefly reminded her friend. Her senses were kicking in as demonstrated by her hearing. Again, another gunshot went off. This time a lot closer to the pair of them. “That was around the corner. Surprise, can you teleport us to the roof?”

Sighing, Surprise nodded. Placing her hoof on Firefly’s shoulder, the curly maned Pegasus teleported to where Firefly asked. “We’re so gonna get in trouble with Twilight…”

“Screw that. I rather not have somepony killed because you wanted to-.” Firefly stopped speaking the moment she looked down into the alley below. The Pegasus was shocked at what she was seeing. “Okay, what the actual hell is that?!”

A Human with blond hair, wearing torn jeans and a black vest while holding a .30 caliber handheld pistol was shooting a giant grotesque looking rat. It’s bones ripped out of it’s flesh, and it’s tail spreading into three separate barbs.

“Ew…” Surprise stuck her tongue in disgust. Firefly though focused less on the monster and more on the human. She didn’t know if she was hurt or in trouble, but felt like she needed help. The Pegasus saw this when the gun that the human was using soon clicked and didn’t fire anything.

“Shit!” she cursed, hiding behind a dumpster as she scrambled to throw out her old clip and switch to another one. She pulled another from her vest and shoved it in the empty pistol. She aimed and shot once, and the rat fell dead. But the human didn’t have anymore time to rest, as another two rats came out of nowhere behind her and shot three fireballs each. Every one of them hit their mark, causing her to scream in pain and fall.

“We got to do something!” Firefly told Surprise, itching to get down there and use her powers. Ignoring Surprise’s plea to stay back, the pegasus rushed in and grabbed the human, using her energy powers to blast the two rat freaks before they could try hitting her with any of the burning flames they can fire. “Surprise, get us out of here before more of those freaks show up!!!”

Said pegasus fumbled a bit before teleporting closer to them. Once close enough, Surprise hugged Firefly and the human and blinked away. Surprise kept up her vise grip for a bit before apologizing and letting go. Back at their base though, somepony was waiting for them.

“Girls!” Yelled Twilight Mist as she screeched herself to a halt in front of them and glared, “I saw your vitals! What were you doing!? We took an oath not to intervene in these events after the banishment! What were you thinking!?”

Surprise backed up fearfully, “I- Uh- We did nothing dangerous, just…” She trailed off, “Oh crap…”

“Look, Twilight. I know we took an oath. But this human…” She told her, gesturing to the blond girl behind her. “...was fighting something that we have never seen before. It was like zombie roadkill or something like that and it would’ve killed her if we didn’t do anything!”

“If we haven’t heard of her before, then she was supposed to die there. History says there were only five humans, and only one was female. As for the monsters, they were probably an anomaly from our error.” Twilight sighed, “We’ve ruined the past enough already, and Surprise and I have already paid for that…”

“Urgh…” The moaning noise caused all three of them to jump, looking behind them. The human that was behind them was beginning to wake up. “W-what-?”

Mist, a unicorn with a light pink coat, white and purple mane, with purple eyes groaned. “Take her to Posey, Surprise…” The white pegasus sighed, trotting over to the human as her vision was beginning to clear up. Her eyes widened in panic, and she began to try and move, but realized she couldn’t. Twilight’s horn glowed, and the woman passed out.

Surprise quickly teleported herself and the human away, leaving Twilight and Firefly alone. “Look, I get it. You still want to be a hero, and us time traveling here was the biggest mistake I’ve made as leader. But we can’t upset the timeline anymore.”

“What if we were in a different timeline that we didn’t know of in the first place?” Firefly retorted. “I get that there is only suppose to be one woman, but I found out that she is in Maretropolis hiding amongst a Vigilante group. Doesn’t that surprise you that there are two females?”

Twilight Mist gave a sigh, sounding almost defeated. “In order to go to a different timeline, we’d need to leave this universe, and I’d rather not endanger you all. As for there being two females, I’m not that surprised. There were several Displaced to arrive here, but only those five survived long enough. This woman must have been one of the deceased.”

“Well, how about we give her an analysis once she’s awake. We can set up a lie detector and also check if what she says fits the information we have in the database.”

“I think that’s the best I can come up with. As for these… Monsters, I think AJ and Radiance should deal with any you missed.” Twilight mumbled.

“I was going to ask our newfound guest that question during the analysis. She was fighting them and looked like she knew where to shoot them, so maybe she knows.”

“Once she wakes, we’ll question her. For now, it’s best to eliminate this threat as fast as possible.” Twilight trotted over to a large computer and pressed a button labeled ‘com’, “Rade, AJ, there’s been an incident. I need you two to exterminate them quickly and quietly, we don’t want this to spread or get out.”

“Understood, dearie, we’ll take care of it like a boot to an ant.” An elegant voice replied over the communications.

“Be careful, Rade. This might be a red ants nest fer all we know,” Another voice added with a southern accent.

“AJ is right, be careful.” Mist said before cutting communications. She turned to Firefly, “I hope this doesn’t break any more fixed points…”

“Quit being fixated on that, Mist. Let’s go check on Posey.” The Pegasus insisted. Twilight rolled her eyes, but lead the way nonetheless.

“You think the Power Ponies hate us...?” Asked the Unicorn.

“I… I don’t know, Mist. I rather not talk about it.” Firefly told her as they turned another corner. They soon arrived in the medical wing, where Surprise and Posey were waiting for them.

“How is she?” Asked Twilight.

“She’ll b-be fine after some r-rest. I h-have my plants w-working on healing h-her.” Posey stuttered, petting a long pink flower hovering over the sleeping human.

Twilight smiled softly, “That’s pretty good news. What’s different with her from the Adept, Ghoul, etc?”

“She’s p-pretty normal, o-other than a h-higher gene s-set. I believe th-the scientific term w-would be… Mutant?” Posey shrugged, “It’s some k-kind of parasite I-I’ve never seen.” Both Firefly and Twilight looked at each other upon hearing that. This… was not normal.

“Is she awake? Twilight and I were thinking of running an Analysis on her.” Firefly soon asked Posey.

“I said s-she needs s-sleep,” Posey frowned, “Once she is, I’ll call you two, but she needs at least an hour before I’d-” The Earth Pony was scared stiff when the female human screamed. “Sh-she’s all y-yours…”

“What do we ask first!? I- I’m not ready, I haven’t-” Twilight was interrupted as the woman's fist came into contact with her face as a right hook. The Unicorn fell to the floor, holding her jaw in her hooves.

“WHERE THE FUCK AM I!?” She screamed. Surprise yelped, backing off from her with Posey.

“Ma’am, please calm down. We’re only trying to help you-.”

The woman pulled her gun and pointed it at Firefly, glaring, “I asked: Where am I, not if you’re trying to help me.”

Twilight seemed to finally regain her balance, still holding her jaw. “You’ in ah undahgwawn base in da citah ov Noo Woke…”

The woman narrowed her eyes, “What?” She turned her head towards Firefly, “Care to translate?”

“Underground base in the city of New Yoke.” Firefly explained. “We found you getting attacked by whatever were those monsters you were shooting you at and tried to get you out of there as soon as possible.”

“Should have taken her weapons…” Surprise mumbled.

The human lowered her gun, “Wh-why are you horses?”

“What? No, we’re ponies.” Firefly replied.

“Ah tink ya are confushed, mith. Ya were Dithplashed.” Twilight Mist tried to say.

“Dith- what?”

“Displaced. Short for Dimensionally Misplaced… Can somepony please help fix Twilight’s face?” Firefly deadpanned. “It would be easier if Brainiac could speak.”

“Oh, that should have been her hero name!” Surprise joked, helping the downed Unicorn away.

“Why… Why am I… Not me? I… I feel so… Weird…” The woman said shakily.

Now it was Posey’s turn to speak. “Miss?”

“Yeah?” The human acknowledged the Earth Pony.

“A-are you aware of the… p-parasite in you?”

“Wh-what? P-parasite? I don’t even know what’s going on, why am I-” She stopped, examining her body more, “Who am I? I… I can’t remember my name… All that’s there is… Aya…”

“Aya? W-would you like f-for us to c-call you that?” Posey asked. “As for… the p-parasite… well… you should see this.” As the earth pony finished, she showed a screengrab of an x-ray of Aya’s body, showing the parasite that she was telling her about.

Whatever this parasite was, it looked… Wrong. Like millions of them, in fact. “I’m… Oh… I get it now…” Looking at her hands, the human sighed, “I guess it’s okay if you call me Aya. Aya Brea.”

“I-I need to look a-at Twilight, but I’ll b-be back to check o-on you… As far as I’m a-aware, th-the parasite isn’t l-life threatening. I-it’s more o-of a symbiote.” Posey stated as she made her way out of the medical wing, “I th-think Ms. Brea w-would like one o-of the guest b-beds… Surprise?”

Sighing, Surprise nodded. “Why do I always get these kind of assignments…” She took hold of Aya’s arm and blinked away.

Posey waved her hoof for Firefly to follow. “We should give Aya a bit of time to familiarize herself with her surroundings before we conduct the analysis. You can get the room setup for it though.” Turning to Twilight Mist, she nodded her head as she left the room and went to go find the equipment they needed.

Surprise and Aya appeared in one of the guest rooms in Underground Hideout, the woman seeming scared.

“I’ll explain later, but right now you need some rest,” The white Pegasus stated, laying Aya down. The woman, still shocked, confused, and scared heeded the command, and tried to relax.

“Who exactly are you?” Aya asked the teleporting mare before she could leave. Surprise halted and turned around.

“Surprise Storm, I’m an experimental teleporting pony, descended from a great superhero you wouldn’t know.”

“Wouldn’t know?” The woman retorted. “For the record, I don’t know anything at all. Not even who you ponies are. Could I at least know some things so that way I know at least a little bit in order to get by?” Aya asked, tilting her head.

Surprise shrugged, “Not much to know, there are, to start off, three kinds of ponies, including Unicorns, Pegasi, and Earth Ponies. Then there are other beings like Griffons, Yaks, Dragons, Centaurs, Minotaurs, Caribou and Deer, Breezies, Draconquus, and Kirin to name a few. Oh and also Alicorns, even though they are extremely rare. Many ponies here though, like myself, have special powers. I showed you my teleportation,” The Pegasus scratched her head, “There are six of us here, but more in other cities.”

Aya processed this for a moment, then, “So… You’re like Comicbook heroes?”

Surprise raised an eyebrow, “Really? Ugh, fine. But the six of us aren’t heroes, villains, or anything...”

“Why?” Aya asked again.

“We… We made a mistake and are disliked by many,”

Aya nodded. “So… You have a hero name?” A smirk appeared on the woman's face. The pale mare’s face turned red, and she glared her purple eyes at Brea.

“I was called Transport by my team, but that was when I took everypony to missions. Now I’m just Surprise,”

“Why is your name Surprise?” Aya questioned.

“Cause I used to be surprising… Now I’m not… It’s complicated…” The Pegasus rubbed her temples, “I gotta fly, I promised Firefly I’d teach her Monopoly. I hate it, but Fire’s curious. Night!”

Surprise flew out of the room and shut the light off, leaving Aya in the dark. Said woman curled up in a ball and let out her sobbing. It was going to be a long night.

Applejack the Third and Radiance made their way to the ally Firefly found the human girl in. The Radiance was slightly blue, with a darker blue and purple mane with blue eyes, while Applejack had an orange coat, blond mane tied up in a ponytail as well as her tail, green eyes and a black stetson.

The Unicorn froze when they arrived. The corpse of the first rat lay there with gore dripping down it. Radiance trotted away to puke.

“Well… This is gross…” AJ said, though not that affected. “Rade, it isn’t that bad.”

Radiance coughed, gagged, and even screamed. AJ face hoofed.

AJ trotted up to the dead creature, a look of uncertainty adorned her face. She was closely followed by Radiance, who jumped at any sudden sound. “Yeah, an ant and boot…” Mumbled AJ.

The Earth Pony was shaken out of her grumbling when she heard Radiance yelp. Though Applejack knew Radiance to be… Jumpy, she could tell when her friend was actually yelping for a good reason. And before the southern pony could turn around, she heard a loud scream of terror. When she’d finally turned all the way, Radiance was being pulled into the sewer through a manhole. Already half way inside, AJ couldn’t see the threat to her friends safety.

“Help!” She cried out, barely able to hold on. AJ jumped to quickly catch Radiance’s hoof, only for her to be dragged down. AJ lay on the ground, eyes wide and tears brimming.

She shook her head, “A-Ahm comin Radiance! D-don’t worry!”

AJ steeled herself and jumped in. She landed in the sewer water, but she didn’t care. Her eyes turned red, signaling her infared vision. She would find Radiance alive, if it was the last thing she did.

Author's Notes:

I'd like to thank Frost The Wolf... No link...

Aya is Sun's mom from Frost's story... I'm too lazy...

Warning, crossover for three stories in the next four chapters, but all from the same universe. Lance, One Punch Mare, and that Ghoul. Each chapter will have an opening similar to this, and each character will get one except crossover characters.