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Chapter 13
The Tokens

Delsin’s POV

“Doctor Hooves, may I see the box?” He hoofed over the box. Opening it, I found a plethora of random items. At a glance, it would look like just a box full of random pieces of junk and toys. However, if one looked closely, they could notice something different about them. You wouldn’t be able to say what, but it was different. These are Tokens alright.

“Now, I noticed that you have a bit of my son’s neuro-tar in your system, if your face is anything to go by,” The Doctor said, before realizing what he said. “No offence.”

“None taken. Besides, I find that it provides a means for me to understand the Skullcaps.” I shrugged and readied myself to leave. “I hate to sound rude and just take these and go, but I still need to more properly enjoy my freedom from stone.”

“Could you at least stay for tea?” He asked, with a pleading look on his face. While I was eager to enjoy my freedom, I couldn’t deny a polite request.

“Alright, but I’ll take a non-alcoholic apple cider instead.”

“Of course.” The Doctor then led Obsidian and I into his house, where Celestia, Ditzy, and Dinky were enjoying a conversation about muffins while the tea was getting prepared.

Sometime later

“I have to admit,” I told Celestia as we walked through the Castle Gardens in Canterlot. “That apple cider was of better quality than what I had tasted nearly a thousand years ago. Even the meal was good.”

“Well, considering you haven’t had a decent meal...or any meal for that matter...for a thousand years,” She trailed off, letting me fill in the blanks. She then bumped her side against me with a bit of a laugh. “So aside from the crazy trip and finding an alternate version of yourself and my faithful student, how are you enjoying your freedom?”

I looked at the fairly clear sky as I answered. “It’s easy to take something as simple as being able to move for granted. It isn’t until you’ve been deprived of it, you realize it’s worth.” I gave Celestia a small smile. “So, I’m enjoying it greatly.”

“Now, concerning Dusk,” Celestia began. “As soon as she is ready, I wish to know of her world and why she came here.”

“Don’t talk as if I’m not here, Cake Flank,” we heard from a nearby tree. Both of us jumped as we saw Dusk Spark perched in a tree. Her missing limb had been replaced and her other body parts were properly repaired. Without her clothing, I could see her resemblance to Twilight, but there were noticeable differences (cybernetics aside). Her mane and tail were cut short and where her cutie marks were, in their place were bright neon burns.

Tia gave a brief sigh of both relief and annoyance. “Dusk, what did I say about the name calling?!”

“My apologies, Celestia,” she said. “But I Pinkie Promised my timeline’s Discord to heckle you on occasion.” Dusk then shuttered a bit before continuing. “Despite my timeline’s Pinkie Pie is dead, I never want to break that promise. Otherwise, she could haunt me forever.”

In a flash of confetti, Pinkie Pie suddenly appeared, scaring me onto Celestia’s back. She was standing on her hind legs in a pose and with a face that seemed to convey one thing: Crazy. “FOREVER!” She shouted. Then as quick as she was here, she vanished in another flash of confetti.

Tia and I looked at each other and back at Dusk before she continued. “And I feel that the best way for you to get the story best is by a power transfer.”

Tia and I only had the chance to say, “Wait, WHAT?!” Before Dusk grabbed my arm and forced it onto her head. She then surged a bit of electricity into my hand and I blacked out.

Dusk’s monologue

Your story in my timeline is drastically different. Rather than being hailed as a Hero, you’re Infamous. But that is not important right now. You already have an idea of what Nisled is like, but your fiance wants to know about me and my reasons for being here. To me, the story is one and the same.

It all started shortly after I ascended and became an alicorn. An infestation of plunderseeds had nearly destroyed Ponyville, but that wasn’t the worst of this. While everypony was distracted, Nisled snuck into Canterlot and murdered my parents and, later, Spike. I was devastated...Seeing their mangled bodies...I couldn’t stand it.

I vowed to find him and return the pain he gave me, tenfold. I never forgot my friends, but I took off every time I heard so much as a rumor of Nisled. More often than not, I found him. Every time we met and fought, I lost a bit of myself, mostly physically speaking.

After Tirek was defeated, my friends and I discovered that he took the opportunity to kill those who were close to my friends. That changed us greatly. We then went on a hunt to find and remove him from existence.

We heard of a rumor of him appearing in a town in a wasteland area. We traveled there to find a village that was populated by an all conduit population. We then discovered his plans to have the village be a base of operations for their most powerful conduit to raise an army and “lead” all of those who weren’t “special.”

With this information, we prepared every city and known creature on Equus to be ready for him. By the time we had readied everything, Nisled showed up in Appleoosa with his associate...The BEAST! A Giant Unicorn that can forcibly activate the Conduit Gene in anypony...provided they had the gene. If they didn’t, they were killed.

We began to fight the Beast until we had exhausted ourselves and it. In that state, the Beast shrunk down to her original size and color. Starlight Glimmer was the Beast. Us exhausting her had cleared her mind and she saw the devastation she wrought on Appleoosa and its citizens.

Nisled took advantage of our exhaustion and murdered my friends and mangled them in the worst ways. He ripped off Applejack’s legs, gouged out Fluttershy’s eyes, decapitated Pinkie Pie, tore off Rarity’s hair, and clipped Rainbow Dash’s wings. He was about to do me in, when Starlight and Discord interfered. Starlight stole all but his base powers and his chaos magic, and Discord cursed him so that he both can’t harm our world and won’t be able to have any more powers than his base powers and his chaos magic.

Nisled then fled, vowing to spread his version of chaos through the Multiverse. It was then that I decided to try to take a one-way trip back in time and destroy Nisled. Discord helped me, but something must have been screwed up in my trip, as I had arrived in the past, but I was here instead of there.

I researched you in this world and found that you were the complete opposite of Nisled...but corruption came in different forms here. The Skullcaps, the Shadowbolts, the Descendants, the Purists, the Magicians...Really, the list could go on forever.

But that is my purpose. I intend on stopping Nisled. If you meet him on your excursions through the multiverse, either let me at him or give him a beating from Tartarus.

And one more thing, I also had a few powers given to me from Starlight. You now have them as well.

After my power trip ended, I turned to Tia. She had an expectant look in her eyes. Without saying a word, I placed my hand on her head on transferred what I saw into her head. She suddenly gasped and collapsed out of shock. I helped her up to get her to her room. Before we left, I said to Dusk, “Go get some rest. I’m going to mull over what I just saw.”

After getting Tia to her bed. I left the room to my temporary quarters. I grabbed a random token from my box and flopped down into an armchair. I tossed the token, which was a black reptilian scale of some kind, up and down a bit before putting it in my pocket.

“You okay sir?” I heard from behind the door. I sigh and test out my new powers, using a lightning hook to pull the door open. Obsidian Shard was standing outside of the door with a concerned look on his face. “I saw what happened in the garden. Do you need to talk about it?”

“A little bit,” I answered with a sigh. “Dusk Spark has been through a lot by way of my doppelganger. He’s rather sadistic and only cares for himself. If what I’ve heard about Discord in this world is accurate, Nisled is more out for the “blood and pandemonium” kind of chaos rather than Discord’s childish shenanigans.”

“I guess that makes sense. Is that what you showed the Princess?”

I got up and began pacing. “Yeah. I guess seeing an alternate version of her student get tortured mentally like that by someone who looks like her love interest...fiancé, specifically...It took a lot out of her.”

Obsidian mulled over what I said while watching me pace for a few minutes before finally giving into boredom. “So, you now have new powers to work with. You want to go and test them out?”

“Yeah, I should do that.” I opened the windows to exit, but I turned back to Obsidian and said, “While I’m out doing that, could you figure out what you can about the Shadowbolts, the Descendants, the Purists, the Magicians, and any other crime organizations.” I then shot out a lightning tether over to the castle garden. After landing near a pool, I decided to test something.

Okay, electric test one. I stepped in, but I was quickly out of the water when I felt immense pain lance through my legs. Okay, electric test two. I shot a lightning tether to one of the chimneys attached the castle kitchens. I absorbed smoke and worked my way back to the same pool I electrocuted myself in. I cautiously stepped into it and felt no pain. Main tests complete. Time to…

I didn’t get a chance to finish that thought, as I felt something through my telepathy and my electric pulse radar. I guess I have a personal radar. Now, what… My thought was interrupted again when I received a blast of magic to the face.

“OW! What the Deuce!” I exclaim as a few unicorns in tan body suits and gas masks leapt out of some nearby bushes and approached. One of the unicorns motioned for the others to stop. “Uhh…”

“Greetings, Demon,” the lead unicorn said in a garbled voice, “I’ve been meaning to speak with you.”

“Then speak your mind, and be quick about it,” I snapped. I pointed to my neuro-tar scarred face and continued, “As you can already tell, I’ve already met some of the Skullcaps and I don't want any more scars out of the deal.”

“Ah, I can see,” he said. He shrugged, “Then I take it that you know of our deal with them and the Shadowbolts.”

I scratched my head in confusion. “No, I actually don't. Please elaborate.”

The lead unicorn cleared his throat and spoke. “We, of the Descendants, have agreed with the Shadowbolts and the Skullcaps to restore Equestria to its former regime.”

“Former regime?”

“Before Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were the ruling royalty, the three tribes were at first divided. However, when they united, we had our places and nopony had any problems with that,” he boldly proclaimed, “But when those cursed alicorns began their rule, the caste system that had worked in the time they weren’t ruling was cast aside. Our roles in society were put in the wrong places.”

“And who determined the proper roles?” I snarkily asked.

“The founders themselves.” I raised my eyes at that statement. “I’m a descendant of Princess Platinum. Her and the other members of the Equestrian council said that our talents lie in our nature and nothing else. The land is tended to by Earth ponies, the weather was left to the Pegasi, and any magic is left to the Unicorns.”

“And idiots are left with wishing for what was past,” I finish, lighting my arms up in smoke. “I’m not going to let you bring down what my fiance worked so hard to build.” The unicorns responded by standing on their back legs and their horns and arms lit up in unicorn magic auras. Aura conduits...sounds like what a group of unicorns would have. “Bring it.”

The fight began as the leader fled (coward) and three unicorns stepped forward. One enveloped himself in his aura and became an aura giant. The other two turned invisible. With my telepathy only, that would be a problem. However, couple my new radar pulse with it, and they were easy to find.

The aura giant made a swipe at me, but ended up hitting one of the invisible ponies, as I smoke dashed out of his reach and moved to near where it was. An invisible tried to come at me from behind, but I pelted a few smoke shots in his direction. With his physical form exposed and him coughing, I managed to get the invisible into a headlock. I turned to deal with the remaining two Descendants, but as I did, I noticed that all movement was suddenly slowed.

‘Delsin…’

‘Let me guess...I’m being summoned?’

‘Yes.’

‘Bad timing, but let’s just get it over with. Tell Obsidian of these two Descendants.’

‘On it...And AWAY!’

I was then whisked off to dimensions unknown, hitting the ground hard with the Descendant still in the headlock.

Author's Notes:

Points: +8 Rank: Champion

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Sorry about taking so long in writing this. My brain melted and I had to make a new one.