I have now fully recovered, but I still could only uncover one hand, but I felt like I was making progress. I got out of bed and stretched before grabbing my gun, and putting it on my back, hopefully there are Grimms around town I can deal with.

But first I made sure I had everything I needed, I had out the orb Ed gave me with my dust, and I kept his watch in my pocket then I stuffed a few cylinders of dust into my trench coat mostly air, and ice but I had a few others.

I said goodbye to Chibi ed then proceeded to town hall with a smile on my face only to see a battalion of guards waiting for me, along with the princess who was pacing, and now the pacing when your bored, she was very worried about something. I walked up to her with an equally worried face, to say. "What's wrong?"

She turned to face me before grabbing my shoulders. "We need your help?" She said panicking.

"Hey calm down, and explain to me what's going on?" I asked her while putting my hands in her cheeks to help calm her down. She took a few deep breaths before saying.

"A horde of beowolves is heading towards Canterlot we don't know where they came from, or how they go so close without noticing but we only have one day to prepare for the worst." She told me, while pulling me to a carriage.

I got in with her before it took off quickly towards Canterlot. I did a quick check of my weapons taking it apart to make sure all of the parts were in good condition, I know it was made of extremely powerful material, but this world is different than Ed's so it doesn't hurt to check.

Celestia seemed to pay close attention, as I did this maybe so she can make weapons for her guards. "So are all your weapons a hybrid of melee, and ranged weaponry?" Celestia asked me.

"Mostly only hunters wield these weapons, but some are purely ranged or melee weapons, but the majority have a hybrid." I explained to her.

"I see." Celestia said, was she rubbed her chin then she took a closer look at the material. "And what is it made of I’ve never seen any metal like this?" Celestia asked me.

"It was a gift, I'll explain later." I told her, while putting it back together. I then took out the magazine, to check if it was good as well, I haven't used it in combat yet so I had to do more checks with it.

"Looks like we're about to land." Celestia said while looking out a window, surprising me.

'Did she upgrade the carriage since the last time we met?' I thought, then it seemed Celestia knew what I was thinking.

"We managed to take a few designs from the outpost, and made our own version, but we still haven't learned the more complex designs." Celestia explained, as we landed.

We got out of the carriage, then walked into the castle. "What have you planned so far?" I asked her.

"Have a look for yourself." She told me before opening a door to show me a war room with a large map of Equestria in the middle of the room with small strategies of Grimm, and blue flags representing Equestrian forces each flap had a symbol on it form what a I could guess the sky blood where the flags with the wings in the design, the mystic blood were the ones with stars, and the earth blood were the ones with mountains.

From the placement of the grimm statutes I could only guess they were coming from the north, then I looked at the flags to see the grimm outnumbered them greatly.

'How could they appear so suddenly?' I thought as I walked over to the map to see what could be a good strategy.

"Princess who is this." A voice called out so I turned my head to see a 6 foot tall man dawned in Golden armor but on the chest piece was an engraving of the sun, along with an engraving of the same thing in his shield. He took off his helmet to show his face, his eyes were cerulean, and his hair is moderate sapphire blue with moderate cerulean, and dark phthalo blue streaks his skin was lightly tan and finally he had a small scar under his chin very hard to notice unless you really look.

"Shining Armor, this is Winter Storm the bounty hunter I told you about before. I asked him to come here because of his experience with grimm." Celestia explained, as I looked at the detailed map.

"I have a few ideas but none of them are certain to work." I said, the odds weren't in our favor.

"The same could be said for every plan, you can plan as much as you want but when it's time to put it into action anything can happen to derail it." Celestia said to give me confidence as Shining armor walked up.

"So what do you suggest?" He asked.

"First we have to lower their numbers as much as we can, I suggest sky blood flying high in the air, then they'll shoot arrow drop boulders, whatever they can to take as many of them down as they can, that's the easy part." I told them.

"And what's the hard part?" Shining asked.

I pointed to a spot on the map not far off their current course, it was surrounded by tall mountains, and had only two ways in or out. "We will draw them here mystic blood will blow up the way they came in, and leave only one way out the Equestrians’ forces will be stationed there, along with archers, and magic along the cliff to pelt the grimm with spells, and whatever else they have available. The first few lines protecting the way out will be spearmen, but should they get past them, behind the will be swordsmen, the grimm large size will put them at a disadvantage in the narrow passageway, from there all we have to do is keep them contained till they’re all dead." I explained but I knew what he was going to ask next.

"And how do we lure them here?" He asked like I suspected.

"For that we’ll need a volunteer. Grimm are attracted to negative emotions, so after drawing the front of the packs attention naturally the rest will follow." I said to the two of them, and you could hear a pin drop in the room. "I know it's not ideal but it's the best I've got." I said putting both hands on the table as I closed my eyes.

"But who would volunteer for something so dangerous?" I heard Celestia asked.

"I don't know." I told her before opening my eyes, then Shining said.

"I'll do it, I might not like the plan, but it's better than everything else we've thought of." And before Celestia could object he said. "I know how important this is, and I'm likely one of the only ones that can do this, and survive."

Celestia tried to see something after that but decided not to as she looked at the map again. "We'll have to go now to get there in time to prepare, Shining armor, send word to every guard we can muster we'll need all the help we can get, and I'll also send a letter to Jessica, see if she can lend aid." Celestia said before teleporting away.

Shining armor teleported, as well leaving me alone, and now that I'm alone I checked on the cylinders I brought with me. I had brought mostly Air but I had 2 lightning, and a single ice dust.

'Ok I have a good selection against a large number of enemies.' I thought to myself. I grabbed my spear rifle then placed it on the table.

After awhile they came back, and brought me to the carriage, after all three of us got in the carriage it took off.

After a few hours we arrived at our destination along with hundreds of guards. The mountains made this a perfect place for the plan, Shining armor, and Celestia were already talking to the guards who had sky blood.

As for me I prepared for the fight from the time it took us to get here we now only have a few more hours till they are close enough for the plan to be put into action. I walked over to the guards with earth blood, and asked.

"So do you think you guys can set up some kind of artillery or maybe rig up an avalanche, we need to reduce their numbers as quickly as possible once their here." I said, making several of them look around before getting to work.

As for me I set up a few giant ice spikes across the soon to be battlefield, if my aim is good I can make them collapse on the grimm. After an hour all the preparations were finished I looked at what I had to work with. The guards had set up an avalanche, and the sky blood were already taking off to complete their task.

I made a chair made of ice to sit on as I pulled out the magazine, and started making bullets to put in it. My weapon was in rifle mode by the time I could see the golden armor guards flowing above the mountains along with a yelling Shining armor.

"THEIR COMING!" He yelled his voice echoing off the mountains. All of the guards or in their positions, and I got on a tall cliff so I could look down the scope of my gun.

From the gap between the mountains Beowolves funneled through to try to catch Shining armor, but the archers above him kept them a good distance away from him. I fired my first shoot, the bullet pierced through the beowulf's head, and into the one behind him. I was happy the rifle was effective as it was but now wasn't the time to be glad.

I took out an air dust then loaded into my gun before firing an ice bullet, the energy of the air dust funneling into the bullet, as it left the barrel.

As it made contact with the ground inside a large group of Beowolves, the bullets exploded making an isolated blizzard appear freezing them to death. The cylinder popped out of the gun as I loaded another inside, and fired again making another blizzard appear not only freezing the one already inside, but the ones that entered as well.

They were getting too close to the other end for comfort, the guards have already formed ranks but many of them would definitely not survive this battle if they got too close. I fired normal ice bullets, to take out the ones I could, but just as I ran out if ammo they reached the guards.

I loaded my gun then fired at all of the spikes I created crushing many of the beowolves, but more of them funneled into the area through the gap. "How many of the fuckers are there?" I said to myself before jumping down to deal with them myself.

As I charged towards the horde I covered the ground in ice expanding my territory so I could attack from anywhere I choose. This of course took a bit of my energy but the results are worth it as spikes of ice impaled all of the grimm that walked over my territory.

I switched to spear moose then began cutting down every grimm I saw, but my aura was being drained quickly from not only my territory but from me blocking attacks, the kinetic energy was absorbed by the spear which I used to kill a good number of them but my body was still being protected by my aura so whatever I couldn't block, or dodge took a chunk of my aura to keep me from getting hurt.

It was like an endless wave of grim whenever I killed one a few dozen took it place, the guards in the sky did what they could to cover me but it didn't help much as more funneled into the area, and we couldn't collapse it yet, because if we did what remained would go to canterlot.

I was suddenly punched by a Beowulf sending me into the rocky wall of the cliff I had jumped off of. 'God damn it there's no end to them.' I thought while gritting my teeth. I loaded an air dust into my spear, which caused the blades to started spinning around the barrel. Soon a blizzard shoot from my spear, as I turned left and right freezing everything that stood before me, turning them into ice sculptures, which the other Beowulf had to climb over to get to me.

That little break was short lived as the grimm smashed their frozen brethren, just as the dust was depleted, and when I reached for another I noticed I had none left that were useful.

My vision suddenly blurred and my aura shattered meaning I was none un protected against the hundreds maybe thousands of Grimm that stand against me, and with my back literally against a wall I had nowhere to go. One of them lunged at me, but I could badly lift my weapon to defend myself as it's jaws clamped down on my right arm.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" I screamed as it lifted me up, and flung me across the field. My body bounced off the ground a few times till it slammed into one of the giant pieces of ice form my spikes sending waves of pain through my body.

My head slowly lifted up my vision becomes even more blurred as I saw many black figures charged towards me, my gaze then looked to me right arm, or what used to be it, everything under my shoulder was gone, devoured by that grimm.

I screamed in pain once again as I tried to get up only to have a Beowulf plant, it's foot on my chest, and I could swear I could hear my ribs break. It lowered its head and looked at me before roaring, just before it slashed my face with its claws right where my right eye was.

I couldn't scream anymore so I just glared at the Beowulf with hatred, as it looked like it was going to rip my head off. So many things rushed through my head as everything moved in slow motion, as it jaws inched towards me.

'So this is how I go.' I thought, and in my mind I chuckled I never expected to be killed by a Beowulf, i thought I would have a more epic ending maybe fighting a god like grimm I'd never seen before.

But then suddenly I saw something in the corner of my vision, then it found itself in the Beowolves eye. It was an arrow it killed the grimm making it disapper, and I coughed up blood before trying to get up again, but Immediately I could feel my bones breaking, but it also made something fall out of my pocket, Ed's watch. I grabbed it with my left hand, and it opened but I could barely see what was on the inside of it.

"Ed I don't know how much longer *cough cough*I have but if you can hear this I need your help." I muttered quietly as my vision grew darker and darker, but not before I saw a figure kneel down beside me.

(Moments ago 3rd person)

A void portal opened in the middle of the battlefield and out stepped a tall blonde man with a braid. He was wearing all black clothes with a silver trim. He looked around to see where he was.

“Back here again, but on purpose this time,” he turned his head to see the massive packs of Grimm. “Winter must be in a heap of trouble to bring me here in the middle of this,” he remarked as a Beowulf came up from behind him only to be met with a metal hand grabbing it by its face. He scowled at the beast, “I don’t have time to play with you small fries,” he said applying pressure to the Grimm’s face. The Beowulf clawed at the man’s arm trying to break free tearing apart his sleeve to reveal a metal arm. In the next second the only thing that could be heard was a sickening crack as the Grimm fell to the ground and faded to ash.

“Now, let’s find the kid.” The man known as Edward remarked as he walked across the battlefield killing the Grimm that either approached him and or got in his way. He then came across a small gathering of them racing towards a familiar man. “Found you,”he remarked as he clapped his hands together sending red sparks of electricity out toward the Grimm. Before any could realize it the Grimm were all impaled on spikes of earth killing them instantly.

Ed walked over to the man laying on the ground dying of blood lose.”Don’t worry Winter, I got ya,” Ed kneeled down to the man’s side and in another flash of red closed his wounds but his arm, and eye were still missing. “That’ll do for now,” he carefully picked up with man in his arms and began to move off the battlefield. In the meantime his shadow grew and from it sprang many black copies of Edward and they began to make short work of the remaining Grimm as Ed scanned the horizon for the camp of the locals only to find nothing. He did find an old settlement of sorts just past the mountain . He then mentally communicated to his clones, ‘bring anyone alive to settlement on the other side of the mountains and tell anyone who’s in charge to meet me there with medical supplies.’ Edward moved as swiftly and cautiously as he could doing his best to not cause any more damage to Winter’s body.

Ed carefully made his way off of the battlefield and took a moment to look around. He looked at the unconscious hunter in his arms and then to the direction of the settlement. “I don’t have the luxury of time. The kid has already lost a lot of blood not to mention an arm and eye but I can’t just run or teleport either. Why do you have to get sick when magic is involved,” Edward grumbled as he shifted Winter onto his back. “There, now I move easier at least,” he held out a hand, “ Solid Air.” Underneath Ed’s hand appeared a round sheet of what looked like glass. Ed stepped on to the disc and began to float off in the direction of the abandoned settlement gradually gaining speed as they ascended, but on the ground Celestia saw them raising into the air but she couldn't risk leaving her guards to deal with this alone, while the shadows were taking out a great number of them more grimm simply took their place so she took note of which direction they went, so she could quickly take care of this so she could follow.

Edward made it to the settlement in under an hour. He stepped down of his Solid Air disc causing it to disappear. The man looked around taking note of the various buildings that surrounded him until he saw a small building with a faded red cross on it.

“Clinic,” He smiled. “Its old and decrepit but its what Ive got to work with,”

Ed made his way into the clinic and gently placed Winter’s unconscious body on the first gerny he came across. Edward wheeled Winter into the nearest cleanest medical room he could find in the building. After using his alchemy and magic to fix up the place for a passable operating room he went to work on the dying hunter. He injecting nanomachines to clean up and repair the microscopics and internal injuries that his earlier alchestry hadn’t fixed. Next Ed hooked the young hunter up to I.V. of antibiotics, fluids, and blood transfusions to help fight any lingering infections and the blood lost from the Grimm attack. Ed stepped back and sat down on a chair in the room letting out a relieved sigh.

“You’re not going anywhere today,” Ed sighed as he leaned back and looked to the ceiling. “Not this time.”

Celestia, Shining Armor, and the guards had finally started to drive the Grimm back to the point that they’d started to retreat. They had won the battle but not without heavy losses to their own forces. After the grimm had finally stopped funneling through they collapsed the ways they came in allowing them to easily slaughter the remaining grimm. Celestia lt out a strained sigh and looked to the guards and tried to locate the Captain. She finally found him amongst her soldier and called him to her side.

“Captain,” Celestia looked onto Shining Armor with an unwavering face. “I see you managed to survive the Grimm.”

“Very narrowly so Princess,”Shining Armor let out a relieved sigh. “Some of my men weren’t so lucky though.”

“Yes, some of mine perished as will,” Celestia looked off in the direction she saw Edward floating off towards. “But I’m afraid that we don’t have time to mourn our dead.” She looked back to Shining. “Is Winter Storm amongst your battalion?”

“No Princess,” He said with a bit of underlying worry. “I thought he was with yours when I didn’t see him among my men.” Shining said while looking around for the missing hunter.

"I saw a figure carry him off over the mountains I believe there is an old settlement there." Celestia said pointing to where she saw Edward carrying Winter.

"Shall I send my men to go look for him?" Shining asked while drawing his sword, there have already been attempts on Winters life' now they could have kidnapped him for ransom.

"I think it best if we went ourselves." Celestia suggested while putting a hand in Shinings blade telling him to sheath his weapon. "I will teleport up there, after arriving well search for the clinic, we might not be dealing with kidnappers, or assassins." Celestia said before her hands glowed with an golden aura before they both vanished.

Edward was sitting down next to Winter working on something on a holo-display to pass the time when he noticed that Winter was starting to stir. The hunter’s eye shot open as he jolted up only to find a metal hand on his chest.

“Easy kid,” Edward said slowly forcing him back down in the bed. “Take it easy. You’re very lucky that you called me when you did. I’m sorry I could get here sooner though, I couldn’t save your arm. The grimm had already devoured it by the time I got to you.”

He looked over at his stump with his good eye, then simply stared at the ceiling. "What do I do now I can't fight the grim like this?" He said to himself.

“You still have options available to you,” Ed held up his metal arm. “Doesn’t have to be autmail either. I have a few things that could replace your eye and arm. Not all are viable to us at the moment but once we got you to a town I could rig something up.”

He looked like he was thinking about something then suggested. "Me and Celestia searched an old Atlas outpost, we found some blueprints, the scientists here couldn’t make sense of them, but maybe you can." He told Edward.

“I can most definitely try,” Ed looked at Winter. “I’ll do what I can for you lad but for now you need to lay back and rest while your body recovers enough for me to move you.”

Ed let out a breath as Winter closed his eyes and went back to sleep. Edward in the meantime started to take a walk partially to move and partially to see if there were any Grimm near them. He set a powerful barrier around Winter to make sure the young man stayed safe during Edward’s absence.

After his initial sweep of the clinic and the closer buildings were finished Ed stood outside the clinic’s main entrance and looked up to the sky. “He mentioned blueprints of some kind. Guess we’ll have to wait till we get to Canterlot.” He leaned against a column and pulled a flask from his pocket and took a swig from it before placing it back. Ed looked up again noticing a golden flash of light not far from me. “Guess someone saw me after all. Oh well, best go say hi and the other bull.” he shrugged and then walked out placing his hands in his pockets.

He saw this Equestria's Shining armor and Celestia, and went to greet them.

“Hello your highness,” Ed said with a bow. “Sorry about my appearance but I didn’t think to repair my clothing after sweeping the area for any Grimm.”

She looked over Edward for a moment before saying. "Are you the traveling sage Twilight mentioned in her letter?" She asked.

“Quite so Princess,” Edward nodded. “Young Winter saved me from a Grimm not long ago as I was passing through the Everfree on way home. I was in the area and thought to return the favor and I do enjoy the young man's company. The young don’t deserve to pass from this world at his age. He is in the clinic behind me,” He motioned to the building where Winter was being kept. “Though he didn’t make it out unscathed. The poor boy lost his right arm and eye during the ensuing attack. He mentioned to me that you and he found some sort of blueprint that might help him."

Celestia looked at him confused before her left hand, was enveloped in magic making the two blueprints appear. "I don't know why he would tell you, but we can't figure them out." She said tossing them over to Edward.

“You haven’t given my own right arm a good look yet then,” Edward remarked as he caught the blueprints in his grasp. “He thought I could use them to help him as I’m familiar with this technology.” he said as the light glinted of the exposed metal right arm. “Come.” Ed said with authority as he turned and walked into the clinic.

They all walked into the Clinic, then after Celestia saw Winter unconscious she ran over to him worried about him. She did a few checks with her magic before she finally calmed down and sighed. "So can you help him." She asked.

“Oh, undoubtedly,” Edward said looking over the designs. “But I’d rather not do it here. It’s unsanity as is and I don’t have access to the materials, tools, and technology I need either. I do see some areas in this blueprint that can be improved upon as well. Do you have the means to move him?”

"Yes we do but it'll take hours to get to Canterlot." She told him.“

“You highness,” Edward looked at Celestia. “One of the best things for the lad at this time is well, time. It’s imperative that he get back the blood the lost and the only way to do that is to let his body produce it. I don’t have a steady supply of Magically Adaptable Blood. Frankly, the boy is lucky to even be alive from what I had on hand to make it. But the quicker we get him to an actual hospital the better. The fastest means is preferred but I know he has a bad rep with magic so that rules out teleporting. So please get a chariot with you fastest peg- Sky Bloods or whatever you use to pull them.” Ed threw a hand up.

Celestia summoned her fastest carriage which had been recently upgraded with what the scientists had managed to figure out form the many blueprints. "This is the fastest one we have." She told Ed.

Edward walked and placed a hand on the carriage, “Enchant Swift,” He said as a magic circle appeared above the circle. The carriage glowed slightly and then Ed turned back to Celestia and Shining Armor. “Let’s get the kid and go.” They nodded and went back and got the injured hunter carefully loading him into the carriage. Once everyone was on board the carriage took off.

As the group waited Ed noticed Shining Armor was staring at him hard. “Can I help you with something lad?”

"What were those shadows on the battlefield, and why do they look like you?" He asked.

“Ah so you saw my clones,” Ed chuckled. “The long of it is that they’re my copies that spawn from my shadow as part of my semblance. They can last for sometime as long as I’m somewhere close but after about an hour they start to lose their corporeal form and then return to nothing. I needed some quick assistance to get Winter out so I used them to buy me some time.”

"I see." Shining armor said before looking out the window.

“If there is anything you wish to know about me then you may ask and I will explain to you in the best of my ability,” Edward softly smiled at the duo.

"So how is it you can understand these blueprints even my best can't figure out, are you from Atlas like Winter." Celestia asked.

“Oh no,” Ed waved his hand in front of his face. “I’m from Vale another continent entirely. I just wandered around as a hunter sales word until I lost my right arm and left leg. I signed up for a prototype prosthetics program and got these,” he tapped his arm and pulled his pants leg revealing a metal left leg. “One day I was wandering in the wilds looking for wild herds and the next moment I found myself in this world. I've been here,” he tapped his chin feigning thoughts. “The better part of a decade.”

"We can help you if you'd like?" Celestia asked.

“How?” He tilted his head.

"Well for the past five years we have been aware of the presence of other worlds, we have only been able to observe a few but if your from another world, then we could use your natural energy to send you home." Celestia expla

“HAHAHA!” Edward belted out a harsh laugh. “I’m sorry my dear princess but I have no desire to go back to the world I once called home. If you remember your student’s letter, I’m a wandering mage. I’ve been in this world long enough to gain access to magic but more importantly, I have my family to think of first. My wife and children depend on me, not to mention my town.”

Celestia looked out the window then said. "It looks like we've already arrived let's hurry, and get Winter to a hospital."

“Canterlot General if I’m still remembering your city correctly,” Edward said as they landed. “I never cared for this city. To many people with sticks up their butts and mightier than thou attitudes.”

"Yes a rather unfortunate aspect of the city but I try to change them." Celestia said as she helped carry winter

“You can’t change what is raised from birth princess,” Ed said as they carried the hunter into the hospital into the Critical Care area. “Let’s get the lad hooked up to the right stuff and when he comes to we can give him the good news.” Ed held his arm up and a compartment opened up on it let what looked like silver dust come out. The dust soon formed in a miniature Edward. “It’s called a chibi Ed. somewhat of an artificial intelligence made of tiny machines that will make the materials I need for the construction of the prosthetic from the blueprints. Chibi.”

“Yessir,” the Mini soluted to its larger counterpart.

“Go down out and find as much scrap material as you can and convert it in proto-adamantium. I need as much of it as you can possibly make if I’m to make this arm and eye correctly,” Ed ordered.

“Yessir,” the mini flew off.

“In the meantime I have to work on a power source and modify the arm and come up with an eye,” Ed rubbed his chin as a holo-display appeared in front of him. “Hmmm…”

"What?" Celestia asked.

“I’m planning to use Prometheus as a power supply but I’ll need highly condensed vibranium to make a protective power unit strong enough to with stand the radiation of the metal without it affecting the boy's body,” Ed explained. “In order to do that I’ll either need my forge or an extremely powerful gravity spell to compact the metal down.”

"My sister, and I can perform the gravity spell." Celestia told Ed.

“One the can condenses buildings down to the size of peas,” Ed said as he looked at his screen his vision never wavering from it.

"Yes." She responded.

“Then I suggest you get her and we get somewhere that has a lot of open space,” Ed commented as he typed. “I’ll be fine tuning these blueprints so the eye and arm are fine tuned to Winter’s nervous system.”

Celestia sent a telepathic message to her sister just as Ed left, then Luna teleported next to her sister.

"Are you sure we can trust him?" Luna asked her, as she walked up next to her to watch Ed leave.

"I don't know him, and Winter seems to be acquainted, so I hope he means well." Celestia said turning her head to look at Luna.

"But what if" Luna said but Celestia interrupted her.

"Ed doesn't have much of a choice Winter needs those machines, this is far from over." She said with a raised voice, making Luna raise a brow.

"Are you suggesting?" Luna asked but was interrupted again.

"Yes I am." Celestia said ending their argument.

Edward was outside the hospital typing on his hollow display while his Chibi hovered over his shoulder.

“You think this will be enough,” asked the Chibi as he brought a finger to his mouth as he looked upward with a two story tall stack of dark grey metal in front of the duo.

“It’ll have to be. I don’t have the means to make more at this time. Too many people are watching and I ‘m on thin ice as is with the sisters both being here,” Ed remarked. “The Prometheus is high dangerous and can cause mutation if not shielded correctly. Normally I ‘d just make it myself but again, too many eyes are on me as is.”

“You know he’s made some progress,” The Chibi chimed.

“Who? Winter? What’s he made progress in?” Ed raised an eyebrow still typing away.

“In Haki, i was there the other day and he’s able to cover his whole hand,” th eChibi floated with a justified smirk while crossing his arms.

“Good, see to it that he keeps it up,” Ed slowed down slightly. “CCause he’s going to need it now that he lost an arm. Done,” Ed hit a last key on his display’s keyboard. “Now all we need it the Sisters to use their spell to compact this stuff down and then I can weave and anti-gravi spell into the case so it won’t way fifteen megatons.”

“It won’t really be that heavy will it?” The chibi retorted.

“Of course not but it will be heavy enough to the point that normal humans can’t lift it without some form of outside help,” Ed said crossing his arms.

Just as the man finished up his conversation with his mini me the sisters walked out of the hospital behind him.

“Nice to meet you Princess Luna,” Ed said with a quick turn and bow. He then stood back up. “My name is Edward Elric.”

"I know my sister has told me." Luna said while looking at him then the Chibi. "And may I ask is that." She asked calmly.

“This is Chibi Ed, an artificial construct machinery from my homeworld,” Ed explained his smaller doppelganger to the newcomer. “I left him with Winter on me pass through of the town in which Winter set up his base as a means to keep in touch with me and to provide the young lad with material for his weapons and other things he may need.”

“Hello, the Chibi waved at the royals.

“Now if you would be so kind as to use your spell on this stack of metal in front of us,” Ed said moving as side revealing the metal to the sisters.

They lifted their hands, just as the stack metal metal was wrapped in their magic, just as it started to compact very quickly at first, but as it became smaller it slowed down until it became the size of a soft ball.

“Yes that will do quite nicely,” Ed said as he walked over to the sphere.

He held his hands up and and silvery strings of light began to fall from his fingertips to the metal ball in front of his feet. He slowly moved his hands in a circular motion getting the strings around the metal ball. As soon as the ball was covered in the string Ed pulled up with his hands and the ball began to float effortlessly up to the man. When it reached his chest he clenched his fingers tightening the strings. The sisters looked on as they hand never seen the like of this practice done before.

Suddenly Ed turned to the duo, “Now that the power source is completed all that's left is to make the arm and eye,” Ed looked to his Chibi. “Are they finished?”

“Yes, the prosthetics were completed just as the sister cast their spell,” Chib nodded.”

“Good, then we have all we need. Now all that needs to happen is graft them on to the lad and then place the power sphere in the arm,” Ed looked at the sisters. “I need access to your most advanced operating room in this facility.”

"Of course I'll show you the way, Winter was already being moved there." Celestia said as she led the way.

“Look Princess I know you have your doubts about me but trust me when I say I’m trying to help the kid as much as I can,” Ed said as they moved through the halls. “If you wish to know something simply ask. If it’s something I can answer I will, but if not then I won’t. oaky.”

"Luna is the one suspicious of you." Celestia told Ed.

"Yes I know you want to help Winter, but in my experience many people that help others always have other motives to further their own gain." Luna explained.

“Yes this is true,” Ed nodded. “Most humans don’t do something out of the kindness of their hearts and those that do are either taken advantage of one to many times or are killed simply for doing what they find is the right thing. The way you speak though,” Ed looked at the lunar Diarch. “You have personal experience with it don’t you?”

Luna sighed. "Yes before my banishment I was engaged but after awhile my sister and I learned he only wanted my hand, so his associates could sneak into the treasury." She said but it was clear in her voice she had feelings for him.

“You truly loved him and he hurt you deeply,” Ed looked at the princess. “I do have some experience with betrayal myself. I had a good friend who stole a precious item that I work hard to create, I had intended for it and us to change the world but in the end I was robbed and went partially insane causing a rift to form in between my family. Trust me when I say I understand your pain all to well”

The trio soon arrived at the operating room. Edward walked in and looked around.”This will do just fine.” He looked back to the princesses. “I’ll need Scalpels, clean towels forceps just about any type of surgical tool you can think of really. Chibi take this,” he handed the power sphere to the mini. “Most of all I’ll need Winter and the most powerful painkillers you have that won’t make him loopy or high as a kite.”

"I'll inform the nurses, and we'll leave you to your work." Celestia said before her and Luna left the room to tell the nurses what he needed.

As soon as the sisters had left Edward went to work and started crafting the prosthetic arm and eye from the blueprints he’d received from Celestia. In a matter of a few minutes Ed had the arm completely assembled except for the power sphere which could only be installed after the prosthetics had been grafted onto Winter’s body. Next Ed went to work on the eye using his nanomachine to build the eye from the ground up.

“Done,” Ed said wiping his forehead of sweat. “Now all I need is the patient to attach them to. But first I need to scrub up and change into a gown and gloves for the surgery.”

The nurses brought the younger hunter into the operating room where Edward was waiting in a doctor’s cap, gown, and rubber gloves. Next to him on a stand was Winter’s new arm and eye. The hunter was still unconscious and under heavy sedition as Edward had instructed. Edward director the nurses and doctor as he needed them and then picking up a scalpel, started to operate and began laying the groundwork for Winter’s nervous system would attach to the links for his arm. All the while the Chibi watched recording the entirety of the process for the princess for later use and example.

Hour went by and Edward finally finished with the grafting for the arm and now he could move up to Winter’s eye.

“For those who might freakout at things you don’t understand, you might want to leave for this next part of the operation,” Ed looked at the nurses and the doctors who merely stayed in place as they watched this unknown man use his skill to save the young hunter. “Very well then,” Ed remarked as he pulled off the rubber glove on his right hand.

The fingers on Ed’s hand opened to reveal several delicate instruments that the medical staff could only marvel at. He then soaked the instrument in medical alcohol and after letting them dry, began to operate on Winter’s eye socket with the utmost precision.

Another few hours went by as Ed continued his work on the young hunter before him. After he finished cleaning up the nerve and ocular connections Ed bagan to work on the grafting components for Winter’s new eye. Now that they were in the final stages of the operation Ed started to install Winter’s eye, which would no doubt help the hunter with his shooting. A couple of hours passed and then Ed walked out of the operating room to meet up with none other than the two princesses.

“Follow me, please,” Ed said calmly as he walked out of the hospital. He pulled a cigar from his coat lighting it and took a puff blowing it into the window so as not to hit the royals. “The kid is going to make it, if not a little worse for wear, but with full mobility. He’ll need some to help look after himself for a few days once he leaves here. He won’t need any rehab as is the prosthetics are fully integrated into his body,” He brought up a holo-display. “These are the plans you gave me. I made the necessary changes for universal application in all of them so that the doctors can start using them.” He gave the plans back to Celestia. “I’m going to stick around for a while to make sure the kid wakes up and is fully aware of what's happened to him. Anything I can help you two with in the meantime?”

"No you've already done more than enough already" Celestia said.

Edward pulled a pocket watch from his pocket and gave it to Celestia. “This is a magical communication device I developed years ago. Simply say “Call Edward Elric” and a display will pop up from the watch’s face and you’ll be able to speak with me no matter where in Equestria I am. Winter has the same one, that is how I knew he needed me. Should you ever have need of me services simply call and if I am able I will come in an instant with a one of a kind teleport spell.”

"Thank you." She said.

“Think nothing of it,” Ed took another puff of his cigar. “Winter reminds me of myself, in more ways than one. The fact that we share a similar origin to this world plays a lot into this one.” Edward looked at the sky. It had gone will into the night by the time he’d finished Winter’s operations. “I can’t but think of him as somewhat of a nephew after this whole ordeal. And I always look after my family.” he put his cigar out in his metal hand then looked at the princesses “I mean it, need anything and I’ll be there, now let’s go check on the kid.”

"I think that's a good idea." Luna said to her sister, and she nodded in reply.

The trio walked into Winter’s room after finding out from the front desk where he’d been moved to. Edward had not a worry in the world that Winter would pull through this affair with very little damage to his psyche but there is always that feeling of uncertainty. He still needed the hunter to end his contract with him so he could return home. The three walked in to see a very awake Winter Storm.

“Here there kid,” Ed waved. “How ya feelin?”

"I've been better, and this new limb we'll need some getting used to." Winter said, as he struggled to lift the metal limb.

“Basic motor function is a check,” Ed gave a thumbs up. “And the heaviness will take time. I suggest lift simply objects and gradually moving up to large ones. The big issue right now is going to be your helper. You can’t live on your own for at least a week. Got anyone down in that little town who can stay with you?”

“Other than me,” the Chibi said with a pout from Winter’s table.

“Yea, other than him,” Ed pointed at his mini-me.

"Well there’s Rarity." He suggested.a

“Excellent,” Ed gave another thumbs up. “Also, you’re gonna have to lay off the hunting for at least a month. I’m including the week of down time with Rarity in that. You’ll have to go through therapy for your arm and eye, plus a training regimen. I’ve given the Princesses here the plans for mass production on the prosthetics. Yours are a little more on the advanced side and Chibi can help with maintenance. I included a few extras just for you. One more thing,” he held his finger up to Winter’s right eye. “Close your left eye and only using your right follow my finger.”

Winter did as his friend instructed and followed the man’s metal finger flawlessly.

“Good, no complications there,” Ed smiled. “Overall, what do you think of the upgrades?”

"Well I don't know what they are." Winter told him

“The arm has a plasma cannon and hard light dust shield built directly into it, “Ed ward explained pointing to Winter’s new arm. “With some extra space for future add ons that you might like to put in. The hand can be charged with all types of dust as well, giving you a wide range of attacks you can use. Your eye has several features that allow you to see in varying light waves, auras, and so on. You can snipe at much great distances by linking it with your scope also. Plus x-ray vision and night vision just because I thought they might come in handy. Both prosthetics are made of vibranium and power by Prometheus. I also wove an Uru fiber mesh under the vibranium to promote magical flow.”

"Thank you, um Celestia Luna can you give us a moment?' Winter asked, and they respected his wishes, and left.

“You need to start training others kid,” Ed crossed his arms. “You are extremely lucky you called me when you did.”

"I've already unlocked Celestia aura, plus I don't think I would be a good teacher, it might take years for them to get their semblance." Winter explained.

“One man does not an army make.” Edward scowled. “Neither does two. You need help.”

"Maybe but sometimes all that is needed is for one person to step up, aura can be used for great good, that much is certain but the opposite is true as well, when I unlocked Celestia's aura it was because I trusted her to do the right thing." Winter told Ed.

“Don’t talk to me about trust kid, that’s a bridge you don’t want to come to,” Ed sat down in a nearby chair. “I get with power there comes those who will miss use it/ You have the right idea in starting with Celestia, next you should do Luna, Twilight and her friends, Shining Armor is another I recommend. He was worried about you and fought hard in the Grimm Battle. Maybe even the guards that fought with amongst his troops and few of Celestia’s recommendations. The thing is you can’t do this alone anymore.”

“Ed,” Chibi interrupted. “What about Adam and his friends?”

“Maybe,” Ed rubbed his chin.

"Who's Adam?" Winter asked.

Ed reached into his bag at his hip and pulled out a mask that resembled a Grimm’s mask.

“Another Displaced, and my nephew,” Ed explained. “Like you he's a RWBY Displaced but he was Displaced as Adam Taurus. He has other members of the actual RWBY universe in his world but He goes by Adam Winger not Taurus. He formed the Equestrian White Fang but his is a branch of the Royal Guard dedicated to helping. Perhaps he can help you setup an organization of your own here. I’ve kept your secret as a Displaced passing myself as a wanderer from Remnant that’s been here longer than you so the Princesses are still in the dark about our origins but if more of us keep showing up like this around you they’ll start to piece things together.”

"Maybe, but that's a bridge I'll cross, when the time comes." Winter said then looked up at Ed. "And now that you've helped me is there anything else you want to say before I send you back?" He asked.

Ed let out a heavy sigh. “As I told the princesses. Don’t frit to call on me, for anything. I gave a watch to them but it’s just a communicator. You can use it to speak with them from yours.”

"That's good to know but now our contract has ended." Winter said with a smile.

A portal opened in the room and Ed got up and moved to it but looked back to Winter. “Take care kid. “He looked at the Chibi. “Chibi, watch out for him.” The chibi saluted and Ed smiled back then left to return home, leaving the Grimm mask in front of Winter.

A short crossover in between with harlock5399's The Hunter in Equestria