This chapter was written with the assistance of Dragonblade0196. A Crossover with The time god of Equestria. The dialogue may not 100% match, but the story does.

inFAMOUS Displaced
Chapter 8
Trust the Conduit

I’ll admit, he or she is pretty convincing. I’ll trust him...or her...for the time being. ‘Is there anything you can tell me. Something that will allow me to try to help you.'

‘Yes, you’re in Ponyville, correct?’

‘I assume so. If not, I’m still in the Everfree.’

‘My mother and father live there. I’m allowed limited contact with them, but I have managed to devise a code with my father to keep him up to date with Skullcap activity so that my sister will remain safe and out of harm’s way. Tell him, ‘the TIME is nigh’ and he’ll know what to do.’

‘What are their names and tribes?’

‘My father is Dr. ‘Time Turner’ Hooves, a brownish grey earth pony with an hourglass cutie mark. He’s also a time conduit, but he rarely uses his power. Mother is Ditzy ‘Derpy’ Doo, a grey pegasus with bright blond hair and bubbles as a cutie mark. She also has a...problem with her eyes, but don’t mention it in front of her. And finally, my twin sister is Dinky Doo, a unicorn filly with Mom’s coat and mane colors. She lacks a cutie mark at this time, once again, be careful what you say.’

‘Thanks, I’ll do what I can.’

I felt the real world start to come back to me. As consciousness began to return to me, I began hearing voices.

“Lulu! He’s waking! Find Tia!”

“Okay!” I heard a few hoofsteps before a loud voice. “PRINCESS CELESTIA, THY FUTURE HUSBAND IS WAKING!!!”

If I wasn’t awake before the loud voice, I was definitely awake after. My eyes shot open and my arms were wrapped in Light, ready for a fight. However, instead of a battlefield, I was in what looked like a hospital room.

Looking around, I saw Stella looking at me with big eyes that held both wonder, and fright. I also saw Luna walking back into the room with a smug look of accomplishment. She noticed that I was awake, and she suddenly was interested in the design of the tiles. “I woke him, didn’t I?”

I looked out the window and saw that the sun was barely rising. “What gave it away?” I asked sarcastically. “Was it because I look like I was scared awake, or was it the Royal Canterlot Voice that could have woken up the entire hospital, if not the entire city?”

“Town,” Stella corrected. “We’re in Ponyville at this time and knowing Lulu, she yells like that a lot, even when I tell her that it isn’t needed.”

Luna huffed. “It’s not entirely my fault that our little ponies have changed over my thousand year absence and I have a hard time fitting in.”

Stella groaned and rolled her eyes. “Fine. Be stubborn in your ways. Just don’t come crying to me when you discover how this age redefined cake.” She smiled as her thoughts obviously drifted. “Miss Pie makes the best cupcakes that have ever existed.”

Getting up from the hospital bed, I walked over to the quarreling sisters and just hugged them both. They began to gag a bit from my strong hug nearly cutting off their air supply. I let go of them as the door opened and Celestia and the doctor walked in. I rushed forward and gave her a hug and a kiss. She interrupted her scowl to give me a smile and a kiss back. After I broke the embrace, she resumed her mean look and moved to Luna.

Luna seemed to try and shrink from Celestia’s gaze, and Stella seemed to have a bit of a victorious look to herself. Just as Luna looked like she was about to cry in fear, Celestia grinned and gave Luna a fierce hug, once again, nearly choking the life out of her. Celestia let her go and allowed Luna to gasp for air and gap at her sister’s prank. “Gotcha,” she said, causing laughter from Stella and I. Luna could only blush a bit at being pranked.

“Ahem.” We turned to the doctor as he pulled a clipboard off of the bed I was on. I sat down on the bed and let him do his doctor stuff. “From what Their Majesties have told us, your healing factor has taken care of most of the damage that came from the assault.” I gave him a questioning look.

“Most of the damage?!” I asked. He magically lifted a small mirror for me to see my face and I did a double take of my face. The right side of my face was covered with black veins and my right eye was pitch black. If I had to say anything, it seemed like whatever hit me made me look like a tame, yet inFAMOUS version of Two-Face.

“Well.” I looked to Celestia, closing my left eye, and confirming that I could still see with it. “That happened.”

Tia gave me a questioning look. “What happened?”

“So, do you recall what I said about Sasha?” All three alicorns nodded. “So, what happened was that Cybercorn must have obtained tar from the one controlling the Skullcaps. I had a conversation with that conduit and I need you to look some things up for me before I go throwing my trust to anypony.”

“What do you need for this trust and why are you planning on trusting this conduit?” Stella asked. She then gasped. “Does that mean you are being controlled?!” She flew over to me and began shouting in my right ear. “Let my soon-to-be brother go!” The yelling escalated as Tia, Luna, the doctor, and I combined our efforts to pry her off of me.

After Stella was pulled off of me and was restrained and calmed, I set the borrowed crowbar down and recounted the dialogue I had with the conduit, including the details of the conduit’s family. “I do recall the many times that Ditzy landed in the hospital, both literally and figuratively,” the doctor said. “However, I cannot legally tell you any information unless she was to sign for it to be revealed.”

“It is alright, Doctor.” Tia held up her hoof to reassure him. “We don’t need medical records, we just need to look to census records and deliver the message to his father to learn of the truth.”

“And I believe we should start on that, post haste!” Luna exclaimed. She rose from her sitting position and in a bright flash, teleported away. Tia rose as well, but turned to Stella and I.

“Do you wish to search the records with us or stay with Del?” She asked playfully. Stella answered by squeeing loudly and latching onto my back. She squeezed hard, not enough for me to be cut off from air, but hard enough for me to have to use the crowbar, if the need arose.

“I guess that answers that.” I walked to Tia and gave her a goodbye kiss. “I’ll see you when you get back.” She nodded and vanished in a bright light.

“I’m so excited to explore this new world!” Stella squeed. “Where do you want to go first?!”

“Well, for starters, let’s leave the hospital.” I turned to the doctor. “I am allowed to leave, correct?”

“The Princess just signed you out before she came to the room,” he confirmed.

“Well, now that's been taken care of.” I picked up the crowbar. “Now the next step, let’s get you off my back.”

After the doctor and I pried Stella off of my back, we exited the hospital and began to make our way to the town square (or circle, as it was technically that). Ponies were wandering to and fro in the streets as the sun was beckoning for them to start this new day. I saw that a few ponies gave us either apprehensive looks and backed away from us or bowed to us. Apparently, Luna’s shouting did unintentionally send that news across town.

Stella seemed amazed by everything that she saw. At one point, she was trying to flag down Pinkie as she was using her confetti thrusters to glide to Applejack’s apple stand, which seemed to have been built on the fly using now living trees embedded in the roadside. Both of us were amazed at how Rainbow Dash was doing stunts with her conduit abilities mixed in and how Fluttershy was helping an nearby Earth pony with her gardening by willing the weeds to not grow.

“It seems as though everypony is getting used to their conduit abilities,” I commented.

“You should have seen them when they were just starting to realize their powers. Twilight nearly electrocuted the Sea serpent in the river on our way out.”

“That bad?”

“Yeah.” We kept walking, but as soon as we arrived at town square, I heard somepony yelling.

“You brutes!” We heard the voice, evidently Rarity’s, shout. “This is a crime against fashion if there ever was one!”

*We don’t care about your stupid mane! The Mistress wants you roughed up, so we’ll do what we must to rough you up!*

“And that growling is so uncouth!” I turned to Stella as we listened to the conversation.

“Did you understand what that growling was?” Stella asked me.

“I did.” I ran to the town hall and began to scale it. “I guess it’s a side effect to what happened with the tar. The Skullcaps must speak their own language and the tar makes it possible for me to understand it.” I managed to get to the top of Town Hall and scanned the area to locate where Rarity was. It wasn’t hard when I knew what I was looking for.

I was looking North towards Canterlot and I saw in one of the districts of the town a fight was taking place. Rarity was on a rooftop, shooting a variety of gems at her attackers, some Skullcaps. Every so often, she would will a gem pillar to shoot up from underneath herself causing herself to be launched into the air and land on another rooftop. She did that whenever a Skullcap did the same thing with a pillar of earth instead, and would shoot rocks instead.

“Stella!” I shouted down to her. “Do you know any combat spells?”

She flew up to my position. “Yeah, why?”

“Well, we’re going to help Rarity with those bricks that call themselves Skullcaps!” I grabbed the flagpole on the building and spun around it, activating my flowmotion. I began to practically fly to where Rarity was fighting. As I got close, I tested a theory of mine concerning flowmotion. I latched a “string” of Light to his leg and began to spin around him. The string seemed to hogtie him as he stood. When I felt that the string was tight enough, I grabbed his neck and flung him into the gathered Skullcaps, felling them like bowling pins.

My act drew their attention. I unraveled my chain for engagement as Stella landed next to me, her horn lit and wings extended for intimidation.

*So the Equestrian Demon decides to join the party.* One of the Skullcaps growled. *It would do us great pleasure to break those legs of yours, let them heal, and break them again.* The Skullcap rose his head and let loose a loud, guttural screech. *The Demon has arrived! So has the Unholy Spawn of the Nightmare!*

The Skullcaps turned their attention to us. The Skullcaps seemed to wait before charging us. On instinct, I lobbed a ball of hard light that “exploded”, causing several of the Skullcaps to backpedal in fright and brief blindness. It didn’t deter the ringleader of the group, as he just charged past the blindness and jumped to tackle me. I reacted by trying to jump back, but time suddenly seemed to crawl to a slow, including my movements.

‘You are being summoned!’

‘Not Now, Screwball! Can’t you see that I’m busy!’

‘I informed Pinkie Pie of Rarity’s problem and she’ll be here shortly. I guarantee that the gathered Skullcaps will be restrained or dead by the time you get back.’

‘The fact still stands that this is a bad time!’

‘And the Displaced that is summoning you seems to be undergoing a lot of stress! So it may be urgent!’

‘Alright, already! Let’s just get this over with!’

‘Okie Dokie Lokie!’

‘Hey! That’s MY line!’

‘Pinkie! How did you?...’

‘Don’t Ask!’

I felt a tugging in my chest and my vision blacked out briefly. When my vision returned, my peripheral vision informed me that I was elsewhere, but one thing seemed to have remained constant. The Skullcap was still flying towards me. Time seemed to resume and the Skullcap knocked me over onto the ground. The Skullcap then lunged his head at my throat, but I put my arm out and held him back.

‘Gosh Flippin’ Dang It! Whoever summoned me better not get mad for accidentally summoning a Skullcap as well!’

‘If you can distract him with your natural telepathy, I should be able to reset his mind and he’ll be his normal self.’

‘As normal as anypony can be when they have a neuro-tar in their system.’

‘Yes, like that.’

"Hey, Delsin. Do you need any help? Because when it comes to first impressions, your failing." I heard a voice deadpan. I took a moment to try and find the voice's owner, but that brief distraction allowed the Skullcap's gnashing teeth to get closer.

"Just do one thing for me!" I lit my arm up with bright light and slammed my bright fist into his jaw. The Skullcap went flying into the opposite wall. "Hold him down! And for Karma's sake, don't let him bite you or use his grenade!"

"Fleahopper." Suddenly some water vapor restrained him and even stripped him of his bone armor, skullcap, and grenade. I took advantage of the breather to stand up and get a visual of my surroundings and who summoned and helped me. The one closest to me seemed to catch my attention, was a female anthro cat. I decided to thank her for the help.

"Thanks, the help was much appreciated." I then looked at the room I was in. Judging by what I could see, the building that is was in looked like the interior of a cluttered workshop inside a clockwork of some kind. It also seemed that the room had been through a beating. "How is this place still standing?"

"Don't worry about that. My dad can fix this place up with the bugs, which will keep him occupied...So let us go into the world...Also I'm going to grab Damien."

As she ran off to grab...whoever that was, I scanned the area with my telepathy. I felt a telepathic connection coming from the cat woman. I tapped into it and caught some of the conversation she was having with someone or somepony. 'So...What will you do with this Delsin guy? He seems...pleasant though not exactly the prettiest.'

I decided to interrupt at this point. 'Hello, ladies.' I saw the cat jump a bit in fright. 'If you're talking about me, you're being kind of rude.'

"Yes, and honestly your arrival, despite you not doing much, has already fixed my problem." She suddenly stopped. "Oh wait here's my token, and my dad's token should be laying somewhere over there," she said while giving me a golden coin that had her face embossed on it.

I took the coin and examined it. For some reason, I felt some form of power radiating from it. "Thank you, but is there an enchantment on this? Normal gold wouldn't have a strong feeling of power or engery." I thought for a moment before continuing "Or is it fools gold?"

"Nah it's my bonafide 100% magic coin that summons a card magician." She smirked. "Just so you know, and I'm quoting this, 'I have magic cards...and magic hands meow~'." Strange thing about what she said, it went clearly over my head.

'Just to let you know, she's practically trying to seduce you.'

If I was shocked, I apparently didn't show it. 'Thank you, Screwball.' I then turned back to the cat woman. "Thanks, catgirl, but I'm already taken." I then turned to the restrained Skullcap. "I almost forgot that he was there. Give me a moment to fix this guy's head and the conversation will resume." I then walked over to him and placed my hand on his head to begin the telepathic interference. 'Beginning interference.'

'Give me a few seconds.'

"Hey Delsin when your done just go through the piles on your left!" The cat blurted out unusually loud.

'Okay...And...Got it!'

I removed my hand from the Skullcap's head, who now was unconscious. I then said, rather loudly, "Well I'm going to find your dad's token!" I then moved to the pile to my left and began sifting through the pile. I honestly found almost everything in the pile interesting, I even found a sonic screwdriver, of all things.

As soon as I found a skull with a mark that looks like the devil's star that's blood red with many other symbols surrounding it I heard the cat say, "Sooo...did you find it?" She smiled sheepishly. "I forgot to tell you what his token is, but it seems you may have already found it." I then turn to her, showing her the skull.

"So, his token is a skull with a symbol on it?" I asked, raising my eyebrow in a questioning manner.

"No...it's a pocket watch with three dials. If you press both of the dials on the side it slows down time. Though mine doesn't have much to offer in support, though maybe it can absorb stuff..." She then trailed off in thought at the possibilities of her token. I pulled her token out and examined it again, thinking of what could be useful from it.

"You know, amidst all this chaos, I forgot to ask your name. I'm guessing that you may have learned my name from my token." I looked her up and down. "Come to think of it, where is my token? I don't see it on you." She then grinned a huge grin and spoke in a posh, sophisticated manner.

"Hello there Delsin Bow. I'm Carrow Coxen, the Ecaflip, and adopted daughter of Noximilien Coxen, the time lord."

"Its Delsin Rowe, not Bow," I said, face palming. "Despite grammar issues, this honestly helps keep introductions to a minimum." I then took a look at the guy Carrow dragged over, Damien I think she said his name was. He seemed to have a belt that held different masks each with a different expression, though they each seemed to be alive. His clothes looked like rags with a black color, almost like soot. It seemed to give the apperance of a medieval thief with no sleeves. "I take it that this is one of your friends. You already got my name, but Its nice to meet you." I held out my hand to shake, but he acted as if it didn't exist.

"Hello there. I'm Damien the Masqueraider, the guardian of Zecora and of the Everfree forest, and just so the both of you know I'll be heading back now. I don't want her to be in trouble." He then teleported to the ground then ran off. Seeing him go. I finally noticed that we're about a 100ft above ground.

'How does Carrow even live here!?'

'The same way I do.'

'ZIP IT, KARMA!'

"Is he always this weird?" I asked Carrow while still looking around the large landscape.

"He generally likes playing the part, and Masqueraiders only show emotion through masks, so he wasn't really trying to be weird. Though sometimes, I'd bet he was," she replied as she began to walk towards Noximilien and started talking to him. Then she got a look of concern on her face as her dad began to stare at me with his blue, mechanical eyes. I then saw that he materialized a sword and pointed it at me like he was aiming, so I readied myself for a fight.

"Line of Fire." The area around me began to rise in temperature intensely as a beam of pure fire was fired directly at me from Nox's sword. I jumped to the side to try and make the attack miss and hit something else to generate smoke. He anticipated my intentions s and teleported in front of me and tried to hit me, but he missed. I managed to absorb some smoke from his first attack and then lobbed a sulfur bomb straight at him. However, it somehow detonated just after it left my hand, taking me by surprise and causing me to back up towards a hole made by Nox's first attack. I then suddenly felt no floor beneath my feet and the wind rushing past me. Before I could comprehend anything further, I hit the ground really hard and blacked out.

Author's Notes:

Points: +7 Rank: Champion

Well, it looks like Delsin is screwed.
HEY!
I wasn't talking about you Screwball.
Anyway, what will happen to Delsin now? Why did Nox attack him? Will this be resolved? Who knows?
I don't! (Well, I do, but I can't reveal that because, SPOILERS!)