"10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck!"

"How long have I been sleeping? What's been happening while I slept in my stony stasis?" Don't get the wrong idea. I willingly let myself get turned to stone. 'Why?' you may be asking. Well let's start at the beginning of my tale, so take a seat and I 'll tell you how I came to be here.

1,103 Years Ago
My story starts as many other Displaced's stories start, at a Comicon or Bronycon, hell sometimes a Mechacon. Pardon the language, I still have some of that to get rid of. First I was walking down through a surprisingly empty part of the local Con when I happen upon a small stand with tons of merchandise and custom made pieces, like that Tessaract in the corner from the Avengers Cinematic Universe, it looked like the real thing, which now that I think back probably WAS real. I pity the poor sucker who buys that, maybe he dressed up as the MCU Vision, at least the Mind Stone would work then, or was it the Soul Stone?

"Welcome to my humble little stand, Mr, Basco. You know you're the second person to come by with that costume." The man had said to me as he came up to me out of nowhere.

"DAH!" I practically screamed before I took a good look at him. He was dressed in a rather well made Merchant outfit, though I couldn't see his face because he kept the hat over the top half of his face. "Um, thanks? You've got a nice costume too." I told him with a small stutter because of my slightly chattering teeth.

"Oh, this isn't a costume." He said eerily.

'If he's trying to get customers he should cut back on the creepy.' I thought.

"So Mr?"

"David Reed." I said introducing myself like a fool.

"Mr. Reed, see anything you like? I might even have something you need to finish off that costume of yours." Merchant said before he looked down at the suitcase I had brought with me. "So kid, what's in the suitcase?" He asked curiously, excited I should say. I lifted up the suitcase and opened it up to show him the contents.

"Bakugan, huh? Didn't expect a Basco fan to carry around those things."

"I was hoping to meet up with some friends I met online, they all claimed that they had the most Bakugan out of all of us. As you can see I have a lot of these beauties." I said as he picked one up and dropped it. The Bakugan opened up into a small golem-like creature with small yellow crystals coming out of its shoulders.(1) "Nice, did you custom make this?" The Merchant said looking up at me.

I rubbed the back of me head sheepishly before nodding. "Yeah, I like making things so why not make ball forms for some of my favorite characters." The Merchant picked it back up gently and returned it to its ball form before handing it back to me.

"I have just the thing." He said before he ducked under the table/stand and pulled out a metal trumpet tha looked like it had the Bakugan Element symbols on the top of six keyhole and the best part is that it looked like a metal replica of the Rapparatta, Basco ta Jolokia's trumpet weapon.

"Woah." I said looking at the object of beauty before me.

"So? You interested? He said before he continued talking. "Now normally I'd price something like this at around a minimum of 100 dollars, but for you? I'm willing to cut it down to 5."

It was at that moment huge red flags started to raise up with the words 'DO NOT TRUST' written on them in big bold letters. I somehow ignored them as I pulled a five dollar bill out of my pocket and handed it to The Merchant before he handed it to me.

"Why don't you give it a try? It works like a real trumpet so it shouldn't be hard." He said in that eerie tone again which sent shivers down my spine before I brought the Rapparatta up to my lips as I blew into it before everything went white.

I woke up in the middle of a forest that I knew all too well. "What in the name of Lauren Faust am I doing in the Everfree Forest?" I said before I found out my voice didn't sound right, it sounded older and more mature. Before I could question anything I heard a loud commotion going on in the forest not that far from me. Being the person I am, I decided to see if anyone was in trouble before I heard a filly scream.

"HELP!"

I started running to the voice and found two little anthro fillies surrounded by six dead guards, three threstals, one Earth pony, one Unicorn, and one Pegasus. Their attackers were a gang, later I learned it was an actual gang named 'The United Oppressors', there were Diamond Dogs, sentient Timberwolves, Minotaurs, Griffins, you name them they were in there, except Zebras they didn't include Equines for some reason. Looking at the situation I felt it would be a good idea to make a flashy, and showy, entrance.

I raised the BakuRapparatta, I named it for the Bakugan symbols and its base form, and began to play the Gokaiger theme music.

(3rd person pov) A few minutes before

"Isn't this fun Lulu? We get to explore the forest!" The alabaster coated filly said to her sister.

"Bah!" Gurgled the dark blue coated baby before laughing.

"Remember Princess Celestia, you and Princess Luna are only out here to collect some flowers. Nothing more." A threstal said to the young ones.

Luna stuck out her tounge and blew a raspberry at the threstal before babbling some more.

"I agree with Lulu, you all need to stop being so uptight and bossy." said Celestia.

"We are 'uptight and bossy' because it's our job to protect you and your mother from harm." said the unicorn.

"Mommy doesn't need potectin and I don't either." Celestia said with here head raised before she stumbled over her own two hooves before regaining balance. "We're okay."

Suddenly out of the trees rushed several figures, a Minotaur, a Diamond Dog, a Chimera, and a Timber Wolf.

"Stay behind us." Yelled the Earth pony as she and the others tried to defend against their assulters. Tried, being the keyword here. What happened was between a fight to the death and a massacre, the guard lay dead at the young Princesses' hooves in just two minutes. Luna was crying her eyes out with Celestia very close behind her.

"What should we do with the tiny ponies?" asked a Diamond Dog.

"Those guards kept calling them 'Princess', they'd fetch a high price in the slave markets." said the Minotaur with a cruel smirk.

Celestia couldn't take anymore before she yelled at the top of her lungs. "HELP!" After she screamed that music began to fill the air, everyone present looked around before they saw the source of the music who, in their opinion, was the strangest thing they'd ever seen. It stood upright on two hooves, but they didn't look like hooves, in its right hand it had a metal instrument over its mouth creating the music, its left hand was on a case on the side of his belt. His outfit was the strangest thing on him, even stranger than the fact that he didn't have a coat of fur, it comprised of a green vest over a white dress shirt, a red coat with frayed/fuzzy bits on it, black dress pants, and a strange hat on its head with three points on it one in the front and two in the back with a feather on it.

The Minotaur became angry, very angry, and asked in his calmest voice. "Who the buck are you?"

(1st person) Now

"WHO THE BUCK ARE YOU!?" I heard the Minotaur scream at me. I lowered the BakuRapparatta and gazed at him in distaste.

"First!" I said holding up my pointer finger, "Never swear in front of children. Second!" I said adding my middle finger to the pointer finger already held up. "I'm just someone passing through. Etch it into your memory." I said tapping my temple like my favorite Nobody Axel. From his face I just made him even more enraged which may or may not have been a good idea. Before he could charge however I released a small amount of my new power subconsciously which made the Timber Wolf and Chimera run back into the forest.

"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING! GET BACK HERE AND FIGHT YOU COWARDS!" The Minotaur yelled at his fleeing...pets? I don't know. The Minotaur kept staring in anger at them before he turned back to me and I decided to be a smart*** about it.

"Looks like they have more brains than you do." I said before he promptly slammed me into a tree. It hurt. Not me, the birds that were living in that tree are now homeless and that made me mad.

The Minotaur began laughing his plot off until he felt my anger. Literally, my Killing Intent, or KI, went of the chart. There was so much that I had an aura around me in red and black. "You can hit me," I started to say, "you can hurt me, you can drive me into the ground." I said before looking him in the eyes with my now burning red eyes. "But the one thing you never, ever do when I'm around, is harm the innocent!" I yelled as the aura enveloped me turning me into Basco's true form, which was basically and armored version of his usual appearance, the only thing different from Basco's and mine, sea blue eyes if I'm not angry or in the middle of a fight, after that the battle lasted a total of one minute and they could not get out of there fast enough. As my red eyes faded to blue I turned to the fillies, already knowing who they where by their coats alone.

"Are you two alright?" I asked them.

"Mmhm." said Celestia as Luna stared at me and starts to laugh and hold her arms out to me. Before I could pick her up, however, Queen Faust herself landed in the clearing with a worried look on her face, her next actions were justifiable based on the scene she came upon.

Present

'After that situation was diffused the rest is history, I helped stop Tirek, beat down Sombra till he activated that curse or spell, stopped a Changeling invasion in Ancient Roam, found the Elements of Harmony and became a distraction while the girls started the Element's magic, finally I asked Tiny Tia to turn me to stone to guard Discord after Little Lulu became Nightmare Moon because I swear Discord or Sombra were the reason behind that. It didn't work because after Discord freed himself he snapped his claw and sent me to sleep, till now.' I finished thinking, knowing this will somehow get on Fimfiction, before I focused all of my energy towards breaking the stone casing so I can get back to helping others.

What I saw made me confused and angry, Canterlot in ruins and the Equis looks like Tartarus has taken over.

"Whoever did this is getting a righteous beat down!" I said before I saw something familiar in the distance. "Tirek, so it's the season 4 finale." I smirked cruelly, "I'm just going to let this play out. I wonder If Queen Faust has returned from her trip into the Cosmos yet?" After I had finished thinking out loud the normal color of Equestria had returned and I saw the Rainbow Powered Mane 6 floating towards the Friendship Castle that had just sprouted.

"Time to reintroduce ourselves. Don't you think?" I say to the Bakugan in the container before I disappear in a burst of speed and reappear in the throne room waiting for Celestia to open the doors. "3...2...1...Showtime." I say as the doors open and Celestia and Luna stop in their tracks.

"Little Lulu, Tiny Tia, long time no see." I managed to get out before Luna, ever the over emotional filly I knew and cared for, pounced on me crying her eyes out screaming "Uncle Basco!"

Author's Notes:

An alternative title for the fic would be, Basco the Battle Brawler!
(1) One guess as to who that is.

Jolokia Explanation and Some Yelling.

After Lulu had released me from her patented "The Hugs and Snuggles Shall Last FOREVER!" hold I stood up and gazed at the Elements shocked faces and Tia's teary face, Twilight was the first one out of them to speak.

"Princess, who...what is that, and why does he look so..."

"Why the heck does he look like a hairless ape?" Rainbow Dash said rather bluntly. I raised an eyebrow at that remark and smirked before Celestia started talking.

"Twilight, everypony, this is Basco ta Jolokia. He helped Luna's and my mother, Queen Faust, raise us." she explained. "He..." was as far as she got before Pinkie Pie interrupted her.

"Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie! So what are you? What's your favorite foods? Hobbies? Where are you from? How old are you? What's
your favorite color? Mine's hot pink. How mmmhmmhmmh" Applejack grabbed her muzzle silencing Pinkie Pie for the time being.

"I sincerely apologize for Pinkie's behavior. Sometimes she's not exactly right in the head." Applejack said in her southern drawl.

"I'm a Displaced, Pizza and Spaghetti, making things, Bradford, I lost count at 1,000, blue, and finally I didn't catch that."

"You are good." she said after she removed her muzzle from Applejack's hand.

"How do you do what you do Pinkie? The last pony I knew that had those powers was a Pegasus Pony named Surprise, Equestria's first 'Party Pony'."

Pinkie gasped at that, "You knew Granny Surprise?!"

"Well that answers my question."

Twilight's, Applejack's, Fluttershy's, Rarity's, and Rainbow Dash's jaws had all dropped after I had finished that little conversation with Pinkie. "What?"

"Darling, how in Equestria did you keep up with Pinkie Pie? Nopony can keep up with Pinkie Pie, not even her coltfriend Cheese Sandwich and he's almost exactly like her."

"Orange coat, plays an accordion, has a poofy brown mane, wears a poncho and cowpony hat, and carries around a rubber chicken on his shoulder?" I asked even faster than Pinkie Pie did, their jaws dropped even further.

"Yeah. How'd you know that?" Pinkie asked me.

"Just a hunch~." I said in a playful voice while shrugging my shoulders. "So Celestia, what has happened while I was gone?"

2 hours later

"You blatantly disregarded the word of Twilight Sparkle, your own STUDENT, on a matter of extreme importance, and urgency about a possible CHANGELING INVASION! Which, may I add, hasn't occurred since King Cocoon, the INSANE, almost took over ANCIENT ROAM, with an army of 2!" I yelled at her before giving her a very disappointed look. "Little filly, you have disappointed me for the last time since you started this story and now I believe a punishment is in order." I said in a tone that made her swallow from being nervous.

"What are you going to do?" She asked scared out of her wits.

"Oh, I won't be doing anything. You on the other hand will be doing 1,000 push-ups, 1,000 wing-ups, 1,000 sit-ups, and 24 hours doing a handstand! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!?" I yelled channeling my old drill sergeant persona from when I was Faust's personal bodyguard.

"YES SIR!" She yelled in fright before dropping down and started doing the push-ups.

"If I see you slow down for even a second that light workout will be tripled. Understand me MAGGOT!"

"YES SIR!"

"Good, seems you still know when to obey orders from an elder. Now, as for you, Luna." I said to the quivering Alicorn in the corner. "Seeing as your sister will not be able to return to her duties for at least a whole day, you will be handling both the day and night shifts for today." I told her before she sprung up.

"But that's not-"

"SILENCE!" I screamed in MY version of the Royal Canterlot Voice, which shattered (read: reverted to sand) the throne room door. "If you think about whining or complaining about how this isn't fair, then take your complaints to Celestia when her punishment is over. One more word out of you and I will take away every single thing I made for you as a filly, and that includes the you-know-what."

"Yes sir." She said after she sighed and lowered her head which I went up to pet her head like I did when she listened as a filly which made her smile return to her face.

Now, I wanted my return to be known throughout the land so I gave my student, yes my student, one request in the flashiest way I knew. "NOW, my faithful student, GO AND SCREAM FROM THE HEAVENS that BASCO TA JOLOKIA, the CRIMSON CREATURE, the TRUMPETER OF TRIUMPH, HAS RETURNED TO EQUESTRIA!"

"HAI, SENSEI!" She said before teleporting away.

“Now, what next?” I said before turning towards the Elements and a certain Draconequus. “So, Discord.”

He swallowed before he flew out of there like one of those bats I'd seen after escorting Tirek to Tartarus.

“Why did he run?” I stood confused before shrugging my shoulders and looked to the Mane 6. “So, who wants to know about what exactly I am?”

“OOH OHH! ME! PICK ME!” Pinkie said excitedly.

“Alright, Pinkie.”

“YES!” She yelled pumping her fists.

“Alright, what question or questions do you have for me? They can't be any that you've already asked, however.”

“Okay.” She said before pulling a book titled ‘Trumpeter of Bakugan Script’ “Now which ones have I asked already? Got it!” She proclaimed before shoving the book back into her mane. “So, Mister ta Jolokia. What is a Displaced anyway?”

“Very good question Miss Pie. A Displaced, shortened from ‘Dimensionally Misplaced’, is any being that is from a different reality than the one they are currently in, but must be sent by someone called a Displacer or a higher power to actually be considered a Displaced. I myself was just a simple human who was enjoying myself at the nearest Comic-Con, I'm assuming you have those. While I was browsing the merchandise for sale I found myself in a surprisingly empty part of the building with only one stand open, that is where everything changed.” I said stopping the story before Rainbow Dash decided to speak up.

“What happened next?”

“That will have to wait for a little while, I believe the spontaneous sprouting of a castle in the middle of Ponyville has captured the attention of everypony living here.”

“Oh my gosh! I forgot about checking on everypony in town!” Twilight said before she teleported herself out of the room and started flying down the hall at a breakneck speed.

“Isn't anyone going to follow her? Your families are probably out there too.” That got them running. As soon as they were out of sight I turned to Celestia still doing her push-ups, same speed, and walked over too her. “I think now would be a good time to head home Tia.” I said before I picked her up off of the ground like she was a ragdoll and sped off to Canterlot.

Author's Notes:

I know it's short but I've had a bit of a writing block with the stories I've been working on. However that doesn't seem to be a problem when I'm working with other writers so I'm not sure if it's something wrong with me, or something else. I'm also working on several other stories on my own so that could have something to do with it.