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My Little Overwatch

by HAZESHIFT

Chapter 3: Chapter 3: Not Lost in Translation

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Chapter 3: Not Lost in Translation

“Genji, we were transported here by accident, these ponies mean us no harm. Now will you please put down the throwing star down and let the fraulein go?” Reinhardt told his cybernetic teammate as visor met visor. But all Genji did was tighten his grip slightly not moving his hoof which held his foldable throwing stars

“I think during the trip and subsequent trash might have scrambled some of his parts, he may not understand us at the moment, although he appears to at least recognize us,” Winston said as he did his best to hold Rainbow Dash back from charging at Genji.

“Well why don’t you talk to him then, don’t you speak like six languages? Cause I know I’m not going in there, he never falls for it and I end up with some hair missing every time,” Tracer said calmly as she began playing with her new wings.

“Well I don’t like to admit it but I haven’t taken up Japanese yet,” as he managed to snag the end of Rainbow’s tail as she tried to dash past him. He looked back to the other ponies who all stood back looking worriedly at Fluttershy and her metallic captor.

“So you mean to say that we have no way of communicating with this ‘teammate’ of yours?” Celestia asked as she moved up to Winston.

“As it stands, yes I believe that to be the case. The best case for right now unless his translator starts working again is to just wait it out and-”

“Sumimasen?”* (Excuse me?) Winston and everyone else in the room stopped when Fluttershy suddenly spoke to her captor. His visor meeting her eyes. “Watashi wa omonidearu koto o imi suru monode wa arimasen. Shikashi, wareware wa naku, anata no teki wa, wareware wa yūjindesu. Dakara, nai hidoku kokoro ga, anata wa sore ga anata to daijōbuda baai... Watashi ga ika sete kudasaideshitanaraba?”* (I don't mean to be a burden. BUt we not your enemies, we are friends. So if you don't terribly mind could you please let me go...if that's okay with you?) If Genji was surprised by the pony speaking Japanese it didn’t show as his visor remained the same green color it had for the past couple of minutes. He turned his attention his attention to Winston and the other ponies in the room, tilting his head as if to ask the question silently. When he got a large round of nods he looked back to Fluttershy before slowly he let her go and his ninja star retracted into his hoof.

“AHA! Now I got you?” Genji looked up to see a rainbow blur moving towards him fast, but not so fast that he didn’t have any options. Seeing as how the yellow pony had been so nice he decided to let it go and when the rainbow haired pony got close enough Genji simply leaned slightly to the left and Rainbow Dash zoomed past him and crashed into a bookcase, causing her to be buried in a pile of books. He turned around to look at the scene and when he saw that the pile wasn’t moving he walked away confident he wasn’t going to be attacked from behind.

“Rainbow Dash!” Came a couple of cries as a few ponies rushed past him as he walked towards Winston, Tracer, Reinhardt, Bastion ,and a small group of taller ponies.

Celestia was a bit wary as Genji approached her, although she was understanding of his actions. Suddenly thrust into a foreign world with creature you couldn’t identify, if she was in his hooves she would also be a bti defensive and ready to attack.

“Gomen'nasai,”* (I’m Sorry) Genji gave a bow before Celestia and Luna before turning to Winston and motioned towards his head.

“Yes we already guessed your translator isn’t working properly. Now sit down so I can get a proper look at it, Winston said as genji turned and sat in front of the gorilla, a small piece of Winston’s armor popping open to reveal some small tools. As Winston got to work on Genji, Reinhardt made an appeal to the princesses.

“I’m terribly sorry for my teammates actions your majesties,” He said bowing as low as he could, even though his pauldrons still sat around the height of Luna’s head. “Please in your most kind and noble ways, do not judge him to harshly. He will suffer through any punishment you deem fit,

“Nani?”* (What?)

“Don’t you question me Genji, we are in the presence of royalty,” Reinhardt seemingly roared as turned to face Genji, but in his actions he missed Luna and Celestia struggling not to laugh. “What do you think would've happened if you had seriously hurt one of these small innocent ponies-”

“I’m gonna break his bucking legs!” Reinhardt heard a roar come from across the room and he looked to see Rainbow Dash who was now free of the book pile and being held back by numerous ponies as she glared murderously at Genji.

“Um...what connotation does the word ‘bucking’ have here?” He asked

“One that will probably have you reconsider your definition of ‘innocent’,” Shining chuckled as he stepped up to the armored behemoth.

“Ah I see...Excuse me Miss Rainbow Dash, was it?” Reinhardt took Shining's words and thought on them for a moment before approaching the fuming pegasus. “I would like to apologize for the actions of my cyborg friend, I am sure that he didn’t-”

“Wait did you say Cyborg?” Twilight cut into reinhardt’s apology and before he could give a reply Twilight teleported over to Winston’s side looking over Genji with interest. Sure enough she saw Where Winston was working and saw the inner workings of Genji. But before she was able to squee genji shot a hoof to her mouth to silence, which made most of the ponies in the room jump slightly given his earlier actions.

“I appreciate that you are intrigued by my state of being, But if you could be so kind as to keep close noise to a minimum while my systems are recalibrating,” Twilight heard the synthesized voice come from the mouthless mask and blushed slightly as she took a step back.

“Oh I’m sorry but the thought of meeting all of you along with an actual cyborg is just so exciting! I’ve taken notice of the level of technology most of you seem to be wearing or in Bastion was it?-” she paused to ask the somewhat giant robot who looked down at her before nodding. “-is made of. Most of it is years beyond what we have here in Equestria, it’s like Shining’s old sci-fi novels that he used to read,”

“What do you mean ‘used to’ Twily? He still does. He reads a little bit before we go to bed every night,” Cadence said out loud to her sister-in-law causing Shining to blush as everyone laughed a bit.

“All joking aside though, it interests me to know how you managed interdimensional portals and travel with your level of technology. As a fellow scientist may I ask of your secret?” Winston asked, readjusting his glasses after he had removed them to wipe a tear from his eye. He saw a quick look of confusion on Twilight’s face before she quickly broke into a smile.

“Oh well you see I found that the mirror which acts as a sort of dimensional anchor had a magical frequency which anchored it to another dimension which i had already traveled to so I theorized that if I was able to change the frequency it could lead to other worlds!”,” Twilight told Winston as she trotted around everyone and grabbed a small notebook from the table and handed it to Winston who only slightly raised an eyebrow at how she was able to handle things without fingers.

“So what was special about the frequency that you found?” Winston asked as he slowly went over the notes noting that the level of math that Twilight was applying was advanced.

“I beg your pardon?”

“Well you said there was a ‘magic frequency’ so I have to assume there was something that made it stand out and had you investigate it?”

“Oh no no, I think there’s been a small misunderstanding. By ‘magic frequency’ I didn’t mean to imply that there was something special about it. I was referring to the natural frequency of the magic within the mirror. I found that using my own magic I could change the frequency and-”

“Excuse me Twilight but what do you mean by ‘magic’?” Winston asked not quite fully grasping what Twilight was trying to say

“Well you know magic, the energy found in most organic and some inorganic life form that we find ways to manipulate and help us with things in everyday life,” Twilight quoted a sentence from an old book she had read as a filly. And while she did her horn lit up and her magic reached out to a nearby book pile on the ground and several small tendrils picked up some books, quickly dusted them off, and placed them back on the shelf.

Beaming with pride at cleaning up what was probably the smallest mess in the whole room Twilight turned back to Winston only to find him looking dumbfounded in her direction, his eyes seemingly locked on the bookcase behind her. “Um Winston?” She said walking up to him a waving a hoof in his face, fear setting in slightly when he gave no reaction. In a slight bit of panic she turned to everyone else who was busy chatting and spied tracer across the room. “Um...Tracer can you help me for a second?” Twilight called out catching Tracer’s attention who quickly made her way over, her smile faltering when she saw Twilight’s look and then looked to Winston before her smile came back quicker than ever.

“Oh I haven’t seen this look in the longest time. Not since the time we told him about peanut butter ice cream. So you told him about something he hasn’t seen or can’t quite understand yet? Happens every once and awhile. He may be super smart but he doesn’t get out much unfortunately. So what were you talking about?” Tracer told Twilight while she stood on her hind legs to get a better look at the frozen Gorilla.

“Well he asked about how i got the portal to work and i started talking to him about magic and then he just froze up. Is magic a rare thing in your world?” Twilight asked still worried she may have broken one of her newest interdimensional visitors.

“Magic? You mean like magicians and stage magic? Or like the stuff in kids book?” Tracer asked back.

“The latter?” Twilight’s reply came out as a squeak.

“Oh well...no not really i don’t think we have something like that...at least not that i’ve seen. And I’ve seen...quite...a lot?” Tracer looked down at Twilight to find her sporting a somewhat identical look to the one Winston wore. With a quick wave in front of Twilight’s face Tracer decided that it was about time she struck up a conversation with someone else. That pegasus with the rainbow hair looked like someone she could relate to, from the way she charged at Genji Tracer could at least confirm that she knew something about going fast.

Twilight and Winston both sat motionless only about a foot or two away from each other. Each of them was trying to comprehend something that was a bit out of their depth. Thier minds trying to form logical conclusions only to find that they did not have enough facts to back things up. Each hoped that sooner or later something would happen that could distract them from their respective quandaries so that they may come back to it at a later date. And thankfully it appeared that karma, the universe, or some other entity entirely was willing to oblige because as luck would have it right before Pinkie was willing to declare this a party a loud series of crashes and noises made themselves known to the occupants of the castle. Both Twilight and Winston were literally shaken out of their stupors and the crashes and other noises became louder and a slow but steady rumbling made itself known.

“Girls!” Twilight immediately snapped into action as her and her friends quickly moved for the castle entrance. Celestia and Luna following behind them with a bit of a slower pace while Shining and Cadence were the last to leave.

“Sorry about this but it looks like there might be another monster attack. We'll just take care of this real quick and be back before you know it. You all can just stay here this won’t take long,” Cadence assured the before she and Shining Armor headed out of the room leaving the five new visitors by themselves.

Each of them looked around at each other, none of them speaking a word as the rumbling continued and the noises kept growing. Finally Reinhardt spoke up. “They might not exactly know who we are...but do they really mean to think that we’ll let them handle this all by themsel-”

Reinhardt never got to finish his sentence as the sound of a blade being drawn gathered everyone’s attention. Genji was back where he had first landed, he had found his swords and drew his katana from its sheath. He wasn’t sure how he could grip the handle without fingers but he gave a few tentative swings not noticing any difference before he had turned into another kind of creature. “Do you even need to finish that comment Reinhardt?” He said as he slid the sword back into the sheath with a soft click.

Winston and Tracer and even Bastion chuckled, It wasn’t the first time Genji had said something like that, something that just answered for everyone in the room and reminded them of what they need to do.

“You know…” Reinhardt chuckled through his helmet. “I really hate it when you do that,” he said moving over to a pile of book and pulling a giant hammer out of it.

“But you can’t downplay its effectiveness when he does it,” Winston said as he found his tesla gun, giving it a quick look over to make sure it was fine. Bastion beeped in agreement with Winston as he tapped a part of his chassis and a hatch popped open and a bird came out and perched on Bastion’s shoulder.

“Well boys, it may be a different world but it still looks like it need some heroes to fight for it. What do ya say we show em’ how Overwatch does it?” Tracer gave her chestpiece a quick tap to make sure it was fully powered before the five of them headed for the door.

Author's Notes:

HAHA I'M BACK MOTHERBUCKERS!!!!!! had some of this done awhile ago and then i just got into the rest of it in a couple hours.....god I procrastinate too much...

so anyways thank google for thew japanese translation otherwise this might have been a bit shorter. but i had wanted Fluttershy to do the whole speak japanese thing from the get go

god the game comes out in 2 months i can hardly wait!!!!!

not sure when i'll get around to the next one but if i start picking things up it probably won;t be as long of a wait....hopefully...i'm sometime prone to lying so...just fyi

but hey if you like this check out my other stuff...it should tide you over for awhile...although the first few chapters of my first fic could use some rewriting....eh maybe

PECAE OUT TILL NEXT TIME CYA!!!!

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