“I don’t understand what the hell I’m supposed to do…” Nick said as he crossed his arms looking at Jason, “elemental magic..? I mean, I could just switch forms and be done with it but I’m pretty sure I can’t.”

He and Jason had been out in an open field just outside the Everfree Forest, much like Nick’s first appearance into Equestria.

“The point is to learn not to rely on the watch,” Jason responded, leaning on a tree. “That’s why we’re out here.”

“So if I fuck up nothing happens, smart. Just one more time, run by me exactly what I’m supposed to do, gotta make sure I get this right the first time.” Nick said as he then looked at his hands popping his fingers.

Jason shook his head. “Just focus on your inner energy, and command it to light something on fire.”

Nick took a deep breath as he sighed and looked at his hand, focusing on the inner energy in his body. His eyes closing for a few seconds before opening them back up, then looking back at Jason. “This fucking stu-” He jumped slightly at the sudden spark of a small flame in his palm.

His eyes widening slightly, “nevermind..” He said as he stuck out his hand, catching a small bush on fire with a moderately large stream of fire.

“Ok maybe just maybe that’s cool!” He said before quickly clenching his fist the flame disappearing stomping out the flames.

“There we go.” Jason smiled.

“OK I'm gonna at least try and not fuck up when I go back into the town..and you're sure there are no form of drawbacks to using this magic?” Nick asked raising an eyebrow as he sparked another fire and smothering it again.

“I use it, and I taught it to my kids. It’s fine.” Jason shrugged. “You’ll just need to get a good nights sleep after heavy usage.”

“Alright, so I'll just be a bit exhausted. I've got it.” He said as he rubbed his hair, “so I'm assuming you didn't just figure all this out on your own? Someone else taught you didn't they?” Nick asked before pushing his hands in his pockets.

“No, no one taught. Just a spell book and a lot of free time on my hands.”

“A lot of free time meaning three things. A. Not wanting to deal with anyone, B. Not fucking anyone's brains out. And C. Not saving the world? That just screams me, seems like something I'd do.” Nick said in a joking manner chuckling to himself lightly.

“Well aside from B and C. C’s probably gonna roll around at some point knowing my luck.”

“Let’s stay on topic here.” Jason gestured to his hands. “I want you to call down a bolt a thunder.”

“Alright..” Nick said getting rather into it, focusing once again he raised his hand up and waited slightly, a small delay occurring before a crack of of a lightning bolt struck the ground almost a few inches away from him making him jump.

“Hey, you’re getting the hang of it.” Jason gave a thumbs up. “Excellent.”

“Gonna take a bit of practice to not electrocute myself but yeah, I get the basic gists of it.” He said as he looked at his hand then at Jason.

“Good.” Jason reached into his pocket, pulling out a book. “Catch.” He tossed it over. “It’s a spell book. It’ll teach you most white and black spells.”

Nick quickly catched the book looking at it before opening it up, “gotcha. Thanks it'll come in handy.” He said as he put it in his armpit to hold it.

Jason nodded. “Now. Do you know how to fight?”

“Sadly no, I've wanted to take any form of self defense class but parents wouldn't allow it. Why?” He replied looking up at Jason. “Oh wait you're gonna teach me that? OK awesome! It won't be...painful will it..?” He asked raising an eyebrow skeptically.

Jason shrugged. “It’ll probably leave you bruised to hell.”

“Oh boy…” He took a deep breath before cracking his knuckles. “Well when do we start?”

A few hours passed as Nick had been horribly bruised, rubbing his almost broken kose and sore arm as he took a deep breath. “O-ok...I did not expect it to be that fucking rough! But...I think I’ve got the jist…” He said every part of his body either feeling sore or like it was on fire.

“A-also I’ve been meaning to ask...how many more unique forms do you have in your Omnitrix?” He asked managing to stretch a bit letting out a groan filled with pain.

“A lot,” Jason said simply. “I have a lot of them.”

Nick nodded slightly having a slight headache, before then saying. “You think I could scan a few? You know...just outta curiousity since you’ve been a pretty big help as of late.” Nick finished.

Jason walked around her, stroking his beard. “I dunno kid, any reason why you think I should?”

“Oh you know, Equestria or whatever it’s called is a pretty crazy place and I need every advantage I can get, plus this is sorta an opportunity for me to at least get maybe 2 or 3 forms.” Nick replied as he rubbed the back of his head, dirt in his nappy hair.

“Alright, I can spare a few.” Jason popped up the dial on his watch, sorting through it.

Nick smiled softly as he pulled down his jacket sleeve showing his Omnitrix taking a deep breath, “thanks. This’ll help alot, aside from you know, magic 101 and combat training. Which I will admit was not very fun in the slightest. Although then again it wasn’t meant to be fun-” Nick rambled as it eventually became low mumbling to himself before shaking his head.

“You mumble a lot,” Jason pointed out, eyes still focused on his watch.

“I do, it’s a habit I’ve had for a while. I am completely aware of it but I’m just too lazy to actually do anything about it.” Nick admitted as he shrugged slightly.

Jason nodded, finally coming to his first choice. “Alright, lets see if you can handle this one.” Tapping a few places on the dial, both watches flashed yellow before resuming their normal green.

Nick looked down at his Omnitrix sliding his fingers against the faceplate scrolling through the holographic interface. “Please let it be Krombopulos Michael from Rick and Morty.”

Jason just stared at him. “No, no it’s not. I don’t even know what that is.”

“Alright gotcha, just from another great Tv show.” Nick said as he kept looking at his watch thinking to himself, ‘Oh boy. Here I go killin again.’ Making him snicker to himself, “so what did you even put in here?” Nick asked raising an eyebrow.

“You’ll have to pop it, and find it.”

Nick looked up at Jason, clicking down on the faceplate the dial popping up. “Hmmmmm…” He just looked at Jason then back at the dial before pushing down. A bright flash of green light forming as Nick seemingly disappeared, until you look at the ground. Seeing a green gem on the ground with a shrunken down Omnitrix on it’s center.
Jason looked down, a smirk on his face. “You are now a Peridot. Figure out how to project a physical form.”

The gem just sat there for the next maybe 35 minutes, before something actually happened. A physical form appearing, the gem projecting a blank green body around it, before finalizing its appearance. His hair a lime green along with his skin and clothing, his hair sticking straight up in a triangle like fashion and his height shrunken down to 5’4, Nick’s eye twitched as he looked at Jason. “Did that make you feel good? Fuckin 35 minutes I was a GEM! I’m surprised Rarity’s Fashionista senses didn’t start fuckin tingling!”

Jason reached down, flicking him on the head. “Relax. You got it, didn’t you?”

“I did! But a warning would’ve been nice!” He retorted before taking a deep breath and rubbing his face, “ok...whatever. I know absolutely nothing about Steven Universe, like. At all, I know this is a Peridot from what you’ve said and being on Tumblr long enough. I just wanna know, what I can do in this form and I’m all good.”

“You can move metal, with untrained ferrokinesis.” Jason reached over, fiddling with Nick’s Omnitrix.

“Soooooo basically what I could do with Lodestar?” Nick replied raising an eyebrow looking up at Jason.

“Yup.” With a blur of motion, Jason retrieved a sword from his pocket, running Nick through the chest. After a moment of silence, Nick’s body exploded in a burst of green smoke, his gem falling to the ground. “Sorry about that, I needed you popped.” Lifting the gem up, he tinkered with the omnitrix some more.

Nick back in his gem state had been internally screaming in what little thoughts he had, his Omnitrix flickering a bit from bright green to it’s neutral green.

“And done. Go on and reform,” Jason stated, placing the gem down.

Nick quickly reformed himself as his eye twitched again before he took a deep breath, “ok...what did you do?” Nick asked as he gave Jason a puzzled look.

Jason sighed, pinching his nose. ‘Look down.”

Nick did so looking at his arms, mechanical limbs attached to his real limbs as he raised an eyebrow examining them. “This is..well...this is…” He paused as a green energy ball fired from his left hand actually making him jump. “Ok! That’s actually awesome!”

Raising his eyebrow, Jason eyed Nick critically. “What? Did you think I gave you something useless?”

“No not really, I was hoping it'd be something good considering you fucking stabbed me to get these.” Nick replied, “I'm assuming these are some sort of power enhancers? Limb attachments of course.” Jason nodded his head.

“Well then I suppose that would come in handy.” Nick replied smiling a bit, “any other surprise powers you wanna show me with this form?”

“Nope. Peridot’s are kinda short handed like that,” Jason explained.

“Gotcha.” Nick said as he clicked the Omnitrix, reverting to his human form. “Well anything else my friend? Are you going to show me the wonders of growing your hair to an amazing length?” Nick asked in a joking manner.

“No, I’m going to keep giving you a few scans, because you’re not gonna get them yourself.”

“Hmmmm alright perfect. Well I'm ready when you are.” Nick said taking a small breath.

They spent the next few hours going over forms, with Jason bestowing a further ten forms on Nick.

Nick after receiving all the forms had been preparing for Jason’s departure, his eyes looking to the side slightly as he looked at Trixie and Rita who had been ready to go. Tapping Jason on the shoulder, “hey do you think we could uh...talk for a moment?” He asked looking up at him.

“Yeah?” Jason turned, looking down at Nick. “Whats up, kid?”

“I need to know...is there is really no way of returning to earth..? Like permanently?” He asked.

Jason shock his head, a melancholy look on his face. “Not for you kid. You’re stuck here.”

“Oh...hmm..just it feels weird you know? Being ripped away from everything you know just to be flung into a completely new world you can barely understand…” Nick said as he took a small sigh, “i just feel so. Alien here…”

“You’ll do fine.” Jason slapped him on the shoulder. “Just buck up and deal with it.”

Nick let out a soft sigh before forming a smile on his face, “ha yeah I suppose so. I mean I guess a lot of people would love to be in my position.” He said crossing his arms.

“If you ever need anything, just give me a call.” Jason pulled away, moving to stand next to the others. “You have my token afterall.”

Nick nodded as he rubbed his hair, “gotcha. Thanks for everything by the way. Maybe we can hang out or something.” He said chuckling a bit.

“Anyway, to send us home, just say, ‘Jason, our contract is complete.”

Nick took a deep breath as he repeated, “Jason. Our contract is complete.” Giving the trio a two fingered salute, and similar to how they arrived a green light seemingly blinded Nick and by the time he opened his eyes they were gone.

Nick stood there for a bit looking at his hands, contemplating what to do next. “I suppose I should head back to town, the girls are probably looking for me.” He said as he began to make his way back to Ponyville, his hands in his pants pockets as he just thought on his way back. He’d never return home, but hey it’s not like he was important on Earth anyway. Just another average joe trying to make a living but now? He felt special, letting out a small chuckle he smiled. “Suppose now this where the journey begins truly.”

Author's Notes:

Well it's finally here! It's not dead thank god! "I'll Get the Job Done" is back baby! I promised to finish this story and I am.

Please check out shagohad12 this corssover couldn't happen without him! Follow and give him more attention then he already has XD and it'll be a while before Nick's next crossover and it'll be a dozy heh.