Genji sat in contemplative silence upon a balcony. Not in his usual meditative stance since that seemed to be a tad difficult to get into with his new body and how the legs bent. His eyes closed, he listened to the multitude of different sounds that were around him. Birds chirping, ponies going about their daily lives, kids laughing and screaming as they ran and played. Farther into the castle Genji could make out the tell-tale signs of research being done. Winston along with Princess Twilight was busy conversing about science and connections between their two worlds. Raising a hoof to the sky he looked at the metal that was covering the parts that made up some of his cyborg interior. He thought about how his current technological state was so different from the world that was around him. Everything seemed so old compared to him but yet he found that they were creatures around that could imitate his physical feats and even do some things that he couldn’t like actual flight.

“It is sort of like master used to say. “The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same...hello Spike,” Genji said out loud and slowly craned his neck so he could see the little dragon who had now frozen mid-step while holding a tray. He had picked up the sounds of something approaching him as he meditated.

“Wha-? Bu? How?” Spike spluttered and Genji just chuckled.

“You claws make easily noticed tactile sounds when you walk on crystal,” Genji told him and spike took an experimental step and noted as the tips of his claws made little clacking sounds as they touched the crystal.

“Huh well will you look at that,” Spike said sounding impressed with himself for some reason. “Anyway, everyone is having lunch... besides Bastion and I thought you would like some food,” he said as he walked up the Genji and set the tray down next to him. “How do you eat anyway?” Spike absentmindedly asked not bothering to think if Genji could even eat.

“Well while I don’t need to eat fully like most normal pe-ponies…” Genji said and watched Spike’s reaction before tapping against his faceplate. “This is a mask,” Genji told him and being as precise as he could with his hoof, activated the locking mechanism of his mask and slowly began to take it off. Spike, who had made a silent “o” shape with his mouth watched the mask slowly come off with all the surprise and wonder of a child watching a magic trick up close. Genji looked down at Spike, the dragon’s yellow looking into his red, but that wasn’t the first thing Spike noticed.

“Ouch, that looked like it hurt,” Spike said not thinking about his words but once again froze when he noticed Genji looking down at him with one eyebrow raised. “Oh sorry, I didn’t mean,”

“It’s ok Spike, I’ve made peace with what happened all those years ago, and forgiven those who did it. Now it is for them to forgive themselves.” Genji said before picking up and taking a bite of the sandwich.

“Wow, that is deep,” Spike said as he thought about what Genji just said as he stared into the distance. Genji chuckled beside him between bites and swallowing so as not to choke. After he finished he put his mask back on. He gave a few quick stretches before looking into the distance where Spike was.

“Spike I’m going to need you to do something for me.” He said as he grabbed his swords and attached them to their holster slots on his suit before looking back into the distance.

“Uh yeah sure, what is it? Want another sandwich?” Spike asked a split second before Genji seemed to teleport in front of him in a green blur, blade drawn as something bounced off if it and embedded itself into the crystal wall of the castle. Spike slowly turned to look and found an arrow sticking out of the wall of the castle that he took pride in keeping spick, and until now, blemish free. But before he could turn to say anything he another arrow joined the first in the wall. As Spike whipped his head back around to face Genji turn into a blur before he felt lifted and then the next thing he knew Spike was on Genji’s back.

“Hold on,” Genji told him before he galloped towards the balcony railing and lept. Spike screamed as they were in the open air for a split second before somehow they zipped forward and Spike found them in them in a tree and along a wall of a nearby house then on the roof of a house. Just like when Twilight teleported with him on her back, Spike became disoriented. The only constant was the occasional pinging noise as Genji kept deflecting the arrows that came towards them.

“Oh boy, getting dizzy,” Spike said as the constant whooshing made it hard to get a clear read on where they were and what direction they were facing.

“Just bear with it for a little while longer. We are almost close enough to him.” Genji said and quickly swiped and sliced and arrow in half.

“Close enough to who?” Spike asked as he quickly bounced of Genji only to fall back onto his back.

“My brother...Hanzo,” Genji told him. And leaped high into the air.

“YOUR BROTHER! Spike wailed as he held on for dear life as they fell down towards the ground. He watched as they plummeted and just before they hit the ground everything went fuzzy and he then found himself behind a cart. “Wha? Who? Huh?” he babbled as Genji set him down and walked out from behind the cart. Slowly and shakily Spike peeked out from behind the cart. They somehow managed to end up in the middle of Ponyville square. He spotted a bunch of other ponies who were also hiding behind carts looking at Genji and another pony who stood on the opposite end of the square. He had a bit of facial hair and his mane was pulled back into a bun. His clothes only covered the upper half of his body and only one foreleg. On the uncovered foreleg was a long tattoo that covered most of it and at the end, Spike could see him holding a bow, but it was a much different looking bow than he had ever seen. It looked like something out of one of his Power Ponies comics, so futuristic looking.

“Stay behind the cart Spike,” Genji told Spike as he got back to his hooves and walked out from behind the cart and began walking towards Hanzo. Ponies watched from their cover as the weird metallic pony approached the weird archer pony.

“Hello...brother” Genji said as a part of his left arm moved and his shuriken popped up.

“Not going to give me a chance to stand down? Brother?” Hanzo asked sarcastically as he grabbed another arrow from his quiver and slowly brought it towards the bow.

“Not this time. Maybe I’ll decide to see if you want to change your mind after you come too once I knock you out.

“Heh, you can try. So why did you bring the little blue and green lizard with you?” Hanzo asked chuckling as he took a quick look over his brother’s shoulder, the words loud enough for Spike to hear.

“Hey who are you calling a lizard? I’m a dragon you...you!” Spike jumped up on the cart he was hiding behind shouted but couldn’t find a decent end to his insult. Hanzo took notice of his words and raised an eyebrow at the so-called “dragon”.

“This world is a strange surprise brother,” Geji said, regaining his brother concentration just long enough before he attacked throwing a set of three shurikens in his direction. Hanzo dodged the first two and used his bow to deflect the last before he nocked the arrow he was holding and fired. Just like the last time Genji used his short blade to deflect the arrow before he lunged forward.

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Spike watched in amazement as the two brothers fought only a couple meters away. Arrows met shuriken, blade met bow as the two exchanged bows in a flurry that most who were watching had to pick their jaws up off the floor, some literally who were still hiding behind carts and low to the ground. Blue and green flashed in all directions from the two fighters collided, each dodging each others projectiles by centimeters until it looked like both had run out. The brothers landed a few feet from each other, hanzo visibly panting while genji similarly breathed but the mask hid if he was tired. Both of them look at each pof as the huffed, ponies watching them could feel the determination to beat the other coming off of them as they slowly got back to their hooves. Hanzo retrieved one last arrow from his quiver while Genji moved a hoof back to the larger of the two swords attached. Spike watched as green and blue energy collected around Genji and Hanzo.

“Ryū ga waga teki wo kurau!!!”/ “Ryūjin no ken wo kurae!” each brother shouted a line in a language spike didn’t know but he felt a surge of energy shoot through him when Hanzo loosed his arrow and Genji drew his katana and charged and the energy around them manifested into dragons. As the attack collided two blue dragons met one green dragon and everything went white.

“Mawp...mawp...mawp,” the noises Spike made help him start hearing again as the spots left his vision and everything came back into focus. There was another crater in Ponyville market again and near the edges were the two brothers who were both unconscious, most likely knocked about by the force of the explosion where they were at the epicenter. As spike made his way down the cart and over towards Genji a flash appeared next to him.

“Spike what hap- Oh my gosh! Twilight said as she began running and quickly levitated the dragon onto her back. And galloped over to the crater. As she got closer Genji stirred and managed to flip himself over onto his back.

“You need to….get back to… the castle.” Genji said wincing as he tried to sit up.

“You’re right, I can go get the first aid-”

“No!” Genji cut her off with a wave. “We’ll be fine,” Genji said trying to wave Twilight off try to get her to leave quickly. “You need to get back to Tracer, Winston, and Bastion. My brother wasn’t alone, he had allies, who are planning to hurt mine as we speak.” Genji managed to tell Twilight before promptly passing out, leaving the Twilight and Spike to give a panicked look back towards the castle

Author's Notes:

TETSUO!!!!!

KANEDA!!!!

...for those who didn't get the chapter title...and for those who didn't get that...well i can't help you