inFAMOUS Displaced
Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Saying Good-Bye (without saying it)
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Here's the last (and possibly anticlimactic) ending of this crossover portion with Dragonblade0196's story, The time god of Equestria
inFAMOUS Displaced
Chapter 12
Saying Good-Bye
Delsin's POV
I was rather confused and scared at the same time. Nisled apparently had control over a power that could heal him instantly and keep him from dying. If he had that kind of power, who knows what other powers he may have, aside from what is seen in game. Nisled readied to attack Nox, but just as he was about to fire off a shot of...something, I saw a lilac blur shoot past the red aura, dissipating it instantly. Nisled looked at his aura-less arm in confusion. He relit his arm and the same lilac blur shot past and undid the aura again. He yelled out in anger and frustration and pulled his arm back with concrete on it. Just as he was going to punch Nox, I heard an eagle cry and a feathery red and blue blur attacked Nisled.
As Nisled was distracted, Nox teleported out of his concrete prison, reappeared in front of Nisled and punched him in the face, sending him flying. Just before he hit the wall, he was enveloped in a yellow aura. Nisled noticed this and seemed to thrash about in fear. He was levitated towards the barely intact ceiling and then slammed him repeatedly on the ground like a sledgehammer. It wasn't until he was forcefully embedded into the floor, that the aura left and the sledgehammer slammer appeared. It was Screwball.
When Nisled saw Screwball, he gave a girlish scream, scrambled out of the hole and backed himself into a corner. Screwball gave me a mischievous look that said, 'I'll take care of this'. Her eyes then glowed yellow and she gave out the EXACT creepy child laugh that you hear in Call of Duty: Zombies (when the mystery box moves). She turned to where Nisled was cowering and pulled a round sphere from her propeller beanie. She then placed it on the ground and six symbols lit up on it. It was there that I noticed that it resembled the Summoning Key from Call of Duty: Black Ops III Zombies.
The Key then levitated to head level and began to glow red. Nisled glowed red and began to convulse in pain. A few minutes passed before both the key and him stopped glowing. Nisled stumbled forward and fell to his hands and knees. Suddenly, a portal of some kind opened behind him and a yellow beam of energy shot from the Key and hit Nisled in the face. The blast knocked him into the portal and it closed.
At that, Nox began howling in laughter. I was confused as to why that was, but before I could ask, his laughter stopped. "Carrow! GET AWAY!" He shouted. I turned to where Carrow was impaled several times over with red spikes. The foal that was standing next to her suddenly transformed into a young human. The Paradox Child.
"Too late, big guy," he said. I went to stand and get ready to fight, but before I could do anything, someone or something teleported in front of me. I didn't see who it was, but I was given a nice introduction...from the underside of a boot. I was kicked back hard and felt like I was flying for a brief second before landing on a hard surface and blacking out.
Celestia's POV
"Stella, calm down," I said, trying to calm my newest sister down. "Getting upset over this won't help."
"Then what can?!" She shouted back. "I go to help my soon-to-be brother and the Bearers of Generosity and Laughter fight some Skullcaps, but just ten seconds into the fight and he vanishes off the face of Equus. What else am I to do?"
I was about to respond, but I was cut off when I heard the sound of a portal opening. I turned just in time to see something large fly out of the portal and barrel over Stella. Both of them went flying into a wall. As it turned out, it was Delsin that flew out of the portal. Stella was pinned under him and Delsin's head made an interesting impression in the road. As amusing as that was, I had to show some concern for his health and welfare.
"Delsin! Are you okay?" I called out to him as I ran to him. I gently shook him until his eyes fluttered open.
"Wakfu...Key...Nisled Ewor...Pure, Unfiltered Chaos," he mumbled. Not understanding anything he was saying, I hoisted him up in my magic and backhoofed him. He was then alert and in pain. "What the Deuce was that for?!"
"Three things," I answered. "One: you put Stella in distress by vanishing for several hours. Two: I was under the similar distress when she told me. And three: you were muttering some incomprehensible nonsense."
"What did I say?" I repeated what he said, and his face seemed to remember something. He then told me of what he had been doing for the past few hours.
"I can't say whether I'm surprised or not," I said, "I guess being a Displaced means that you have to help when called upon."
"And since I discovered my opposite, I need to keep my wits about me so he doesn't try to plunge this world into Chaos."
"Don't worry, he won't," a disembodied voice called out. Both of us were scared almost senseless. Delsin ended up jumping up and I caught him in my front hooves as we turned to where the voice came from. As it turned out, it was Screwball with two other ponies. One was a grey Earth pony with long black hair and a black arrowhead as a cutie mark. The other pony I could barely recognize as the one that tossed me across Ghastly Gorge.
I dropped Delsin, and lit my horn, ready to fight. However, Delsin held out his hand. "Tia, not now. I understand that she needs to answer to the crime of assaulting Royalty, but she's been given a beating and needs to be attended to." Reluctantly, I canceled the spell I had ready.
"Alright, get her to a hospital..."
"And we need the tech from her world to replace her missing arm and fix the rest of her missing parts." I was taken by surprise by Delsin's comment.
"What do you mean?" I asked. In response, he walked to the strange pony. The pony sat down and allowed him to take her mechanical arm. He then twisted her arm at it's base and it came off like a part of a machine.
"This is what I mean," he said, waving it as if to prove a point. He replaced the arm and allowed her to go to the paramedics that came at my suggestion. "Now I've had a crazy time in the time I've been free and I need to get some rest...AFTER I talk to Doctor Hooves."
"Understood, let's begin searching for him."
Delsin's POV
It took us a while to find Doctor Hooves. It was by chance that we stumbled upon Ditzy, or rather, she accidentally crashed into me. After explaining what we needed to tell her husband something, she led us to her house. While my fiancé was led into the house, I scanned the area and found a presence in a shed in the back. I had the guards that Celestia had brought stay to watch the house as Obsidian and I approached the shed.
I pressed my ear to the wall and I heard somepony with a thick British accent mumbling about something. Not knowing what to expect, I simply knocked a few times on the shed door. "I'll be out in a moment!" A moment later, the shed door opened and the Earth pony known as Dr. 'Time Turner' Hooves came walking out. He took one look at us and jumped back into the shed. "Go Away! I'm not letting you capture me and end my chances of seeing my son again!"
I banged my fist on the door and called out, "Doctor, the TIME is nigh!" Upon those words being said, he carefully peered out of the shed at me.
"You've talked with my son?" I pointed to the right side of my face, showing him the neuro-tar 'scars.' He then nodded his head and walked back into the shed. I was about to bang on the door again, but I heard the sound of things falling and choice swear words from inside, and it gave me pause. He then came out with a box in his arms. "I believe that my son may have covered all that is to be known about me, but I don't think he told you about what that phrase meant."
"Yeah, he was kind of vague," I confirmed. "So, what does it mean for me or you?"
"In one of my visits with him, I showed him a few items that were peculiar in some way or another. After he saw them, he told me to keep them safe and give them to the one with that phrase IF he doesn't absorb my powers."
That caught me off guard. "I think he may have done research if he knew that someone or somepony would SPECIFICALLY be able to do that."
"Either way, here are the items."
This meeting seems rather brief, but I'll be gaining something beneficial. On the one hand, Doc here has items that, if I'm to guess correctly, seem to sound like Tokens for various Displaced. On the other hand, Doc is a time conduit and if I was to be summoned back to Wakfu Equestria, I would be prepared. And I could get those tokens afterwards, anyway.
So, what's best? The Tokens or Time.
Next Chapter: Chapter 13: The Tokens Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 18 MinutesPoints: +7 Rank: Champion
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