Celestia knocked me out. Hmmmmmmm, what to do, what to do?' I thought while in a dream state. ‘Wait, I'm dreaming, I can just do anything.' That was then I brought out a chess board. “I know you are here, stop hiding."

"How did you know?” said a floating black mist.

"Well, most humans have a sixth sense that alerts when somebody watching

"Really?"

"No. I'm a lucid dreamer. Now, why are you in my dreams?"

"Well I have a proposition for you."

"Nightmare, you are going to offer me a chance to rule Equestria or have power or wealth in return for me helping you take over Equestria because I am very skilled in fighting and have access to the most dangerous weapons in Equestria and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and I think that is it."

"How did you know my name and what I was going to offer you?"

"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!"

"Well, since you know what I'm going to ask you, what is your answer?"

"No."

"What. You are going to say no to power, wealth, or a nation?” asked the Nightmare.

"Eeyup."

"How are you going to" started the Nightmare before I booted him from my mind. “Luna stop watching me."

"How did thee know we were watching?" said Luna.

"Luna, I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!!! Plus, this is my realm. "

"How could that happen in a sentient society."

"Why did thee not accept the Nightmare's offer?" Luna asked.

"I do good. Now leave my mind so I can end this dream and sleep. Also, get modern language lessons Luna" Then I literally kicked Luna out of my dream. 'Ah, now I can end this dream and sleep.

Meanwhile Outside Of A Certain Crazy Asian's Bedroom

"Sister, We found that Tran hath been approached by the Nightmare."

"WHAT?!??! This is bad. We must wake him before he gives in"

"We also have something to announce to thee sister, he didn't give in to the Nightmare."

"WHAT!? He is evil, why wouldn't give in?"

"Hey, Tran isn't evil", said Ike.

"Ike when did you get here?” asked Celestia.

"Well princess, I heard some yelling and I want to tell you to be quiet", Ike whispered.

"Why should we be quiet?” asked Celestia.

"We need to be quiet for Tran. If you are too loud he'll wake up" Ike replied.

"We need him to wake up", said Celestia in a still loud tone.

"Nooooooo. That is a bad idea and shush. He is like a hawk. He sees and hears everything", whispered Ike.

"We still need him to wake up and how would know we are talking?” said Celestia, still in a loud tone.

"Shush before he does something. He is grumpy if he doesn't sleep enough."

"What? He said that he only sleeps once a week."

"That's just it. When he does sleep, he just sleeps. He will just sleep for a long time."

"When will he be awake?"

"He should be awake at five past."

"He's going to sleep for another thirty-five minutes? I thought he was going to sleep for a long time."

"No he'll wake up at five in the afternoon and be quiet already."

"WHAT?!?!? HE NEEDS TO WAK-." *THUNK* "What was that?"

"Princess look behind you."

Then the princess did as what Ike said and saw a tactical throwing knife that belonged to a certain sleeping Asian, embedded into the door with the tip being exposed on the other side of the door. "WHAT THE HAY!??!" Celestia yelled before another throwing knife was embedded into the door and also exposed on the other side of the door. “HOW MANY DOES HE HAVE!?!?!?” Celestia yelled again before yet another knife was embedded into the door and sticking out on the other side.

"I think he has three of those", Ike said. "And about ten or fifteen more knives."

"FIFTEEN!?!?” Celestia said before a switchblade was embedded into to the door and exposed on the other side of the door.

"Stop yelling", whispered Ike.

"Thy friend has good aim" Luna said before another switchblade was thrown into the door. "Extreme skill."

"He is going to run out of knives eventually", said Celestia before a push dagger was embedded into the door.

"Will you guys start whispering before something happens?” asked Ike.

"We need him to wake up", Celestia said before a dagger was thrown at the door.

"Whisper already" Ike warned.

"He need to talk to him", said Celestia before another dagger was thrown at the door.

"We agree with thee sister", said Luna before a large bowie knife made broke through the door and knocked Luna's crown off her head before it embedded itself into another door behind Luna.

"That was a close one sister", said Celestia before a kukri went through the door and cleaved Celestia's crown in half and embedded itself in the same door the bowie knife was embedded in.

"I think I'll whisper now", Celestia whispered.

"We will agree with thee", whispered Luna.

"Smart bastard he is. He threw those knives in a circle to weaken the wood of the door and then he threw his biggest knives to break the door and get you to shut up.

"How can he do this when he's sleeping?"

"Well when he's asleep or finished sleep, he is extremely focused."

"What do you mean extremely focused?"

"Since he sleeps once a week, his actions and response time is slowed down due to lack of sleep. If he has a good rest, then he is basically unstoppable."

"What do you mean?"

"When he fought your royal guards, he was probably at a third of his best."

"How is it that thy friend came to this level?" Luna asked. "He's of adolescent age yet displays the skill of an insane killer.

"We still need him to wake up though. Can you wake up your friend?" Celestia asked.

"No fucking way in hell I am going to wake him up. I will do that when I want to be killed" Ike replied.

"Killed?? Does he like his sleep that much? We need to figure out a way to get him to wake up."

"Well, I suggest that you don't wake him up unless you want to be killed or something. Also he will be very angry and grumpy from his lack of sleep and the fact that you turned him into a pony."

"We think thy friend would be happy as a pony. Thee are able to fly and use magic."

"Yeah, he would probably be happy to do that. Also he might use magic to kill whoever wakes him up. Is that why you wanted us to sleep? To turn us into ponies?"

"Yes. Without thee sleeping, thee would be in great pain and we would not want thee to experience such an adventure."

"Also, thanks for teaching us how to use magic and fly."

"No need to thank us Ike", said Celestia.

"Sister, why don't we cast a spell on him that gives him a full days sleep?"

"That's a great idea Luna." Then Celestia's horn lit up and shot a beam at a certain sleeping Asian.

*YAWN* "That was the best sleep I ever had." I then got out of my bed and landed on my feet. Then I brought one of my hands to rub my eyes, but I was stopped by a stump."Quai nai la ki di dai? (what the fuck is this [Vietnamese]). WHY DO I HAVE STUMPS FOR HANDS?!?!??! WAIT YOU GUYS TURNED ME INTO A PONY?!?!?!? I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!" I attempted to charge forward but fell down in the process.

"WAIT!!!!! DON'T KILL US!!!!! The ponification is temporary. It should last another eight hours", pleaded Celestia.

"Well why did you turn me into a pony?" I tried to get up but I fell down again

"Well we turned you and your friends into ponies. Wait, what is wrong with being a pony."

"Well, I would not be able to use most of my weapons and my fighting skills." And I have no hands!

"But you would be able to use magic and fly."

"Sooooo, I won't be able to fight or shoot my guns. Wait, fly and use magic? I'M AN ALICORN!?!"

"Yes, also your friends are alicorn too." Andy should not have magic.

"Nice, now I want to learn how to use magic and how did I threw my knives at you if I didn't have hands?"

"You were able to throw things without fingers because we ponies have a type of magic that grips things for us when we want to grip something that is auto-responsive and available to all pony types. Also you can learn magic later, first we need you to meet up with your friends." Then Celestia and Luna started walking and were joined by two ex-humans. During the entire walk I was stumbling due to the adjust from being a biped to a quadruped After thirty minutes of walking through a maze of hallways, we entered a large room with my friends, several royal guards, the royal guard captains, Cadence, several nobles, several ponies in lab coats, several night guards, and several night guard captains. Spread around the room, were several training equipment that was probably meant for ponies. Upon entering the room, everypony bowed, including my friends, but I still did not bowed.

I saw that my friends were also alicorn. Nick had a large build like an oversized Big Mac. His coat was completely black with a red mane with green stripes through it. (here is a link if you want to see his OC) Ike had a build like Luna and he had blue coat and a red and white striped mane. Andy had a build that was skinnier than normal and a black coat with a white mane. I had a really skinny build, the point where you can see my ribs, with a snow white coat with a snow white mane. All of us were still wearing our clothes and we didn't have our cutie marks. Somehow, all of our clothes and armor were in pony form.

"Bow before the princess criminal scum", said a random guard.

"No."

"WHAT!?!?! How dare you disrespect the princess, you will-."

"Stormhoof just let him be", said Celestia.

"Let me guess, we are going to have a meeting to discuss the war you guys are having with the changelings, weapon designs that I know, and armor designs that I know. Also you guys are going to ask me to train some of your troops to help you guys fight due to the fact that I can easily beat your best soldiers in unarmed or armed combat without the use of magic? Also can you guys teach me how to use magic? Also, some of you guards don't think I can fight so you want to challenge and I will agree to that fight, armed and armored or unarmed and unarmored."

"How did you know", asked Celestia and the guard captains.

“I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!!!! Also I will help you guys with the war, I might show you guys several weapons and armor designs, and I might train your troops. Now how do you use magic?"

"Tran let’s start with how to use telekinesis. To levitate something, try thinking of lifting the object without physically lifting it", said Celestia. Then I started to levitate my armor and weapons onto the table.

"That seems simple enough. Now how do I do spells?"

"To use a spell you must either think of doing something with magic or you can learn a spell to do something. Learning a spell is easier, but takes longer while randomly making something happen with magic requires a lot of energy and are really difficult even to the most powerful magical beings. Advanced magic also requires lots of focus to happen." I started to cast a spell on myself. After several popping and cracking, I started to stand up straight on my back legs.

"What was that Tran?” asked Celestia.

"Well, I just used my magic to readjust all my bones so I can be biped or quadruped if I want. Also my skeletal structure is more similar to my previous species now."

"How did you adjust your bones, you haven't learned any spells yet. Also that must have been painful."

"Well I just thought of using my magic to change my skeletal structure and it just happened and Celestia, I ignore pain."

"WHAT!??!?! That type of magic is the most difficult. How could you do it when you have only been a pony for less than a day even I have trouble performing that type of magic?"

"Well, you said that magic requires a lot of focus right? Well back in my world, I could get pretty focused. I was also pretty good at multitasking. Wait, I just realized something, YOU PONIES ARE FREAKING SHORT!!!!!!"

The guards were probably only three and a half feet tall while the nobles were three feet tall. Then I saw that my friends retained their normal height, not including their horns, and probably weight classes. Then there was me. I was towering over everypony. I cleared Celestia's height easily on four legs. On two legs, I was probably twelve feet tall.

"Really Tran? You just noticed that. Also, how can you be so good at magic? All we've learned so far is levitation", said Ike.

"Well back on Earth, I could get really focused. And Andy probably can't do spells because he can never be focused or be serious."

"Good point."

"Wait, Celestia, you just said that that type of magic is difficult for you. Now I want to try something." Then the light sunlight started to dim and glow red.

"What's going on?” said Celestia.

"I do not know sister", said Luna. Then everypony went outside and the sunlight was dim and a little reddened.

"What the hell happened?” asked Nick.

"YES!!! I did it", I said.

"Tran, you crazy Asian, what did you do?"

"Well, I was wondering if I could move the sun or moon, so I moved both and started a solar eclipse."

"WHAT!?!??!?!?!?!” said both princesses, both using the royal Canterlot voice.

"WHY!?!??!” yelled Ike.

"Tran, why? Just why? Why?” said Nick.

"Nice with the trolling brother", said Andy.

"Hahahahaha, I just wanted to see how strong my magic was."

"YOU MOVED BOTH THE SUN AND THE MOON AND STARTED AN ECLIPSE WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEAT!!!!!! EVEN I CAN'T DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT!!!!” yelled Celestia.

"THEE IS TOO POWERFUL!!!!” yelled Luna.

"Well back on our planet, I was good at being focused, multitasking, and mental ability. Now let’s start this meeting." I then moved the sun and moon back to their respectful positions.

"Let’s bring in the diplomats", said Shining Armor. Then seven griffons, nine horses dressed in middle east attire, five hippogriffs, and twelve zebras.

"Ah, we are going to discuss several war negotiations", I said.

"First topic of discussion, we need you four alicorns to help regain several of our cities", said a pegasus royal guard captain.

"How many cities have been loss?” asked Ike.

"We have lost nine cities and worst of all, most of them are major Equestrian cities. We've lost Trottingham, Las pegasus, Baltimare, Manehattan, Fillydelphia, Vanhoover, Appleloosa, Cloudsdale, and the Crystal Empire. We only have Canterlot, Ponyville, Appleloosa, and a handful of other minor cities left", said the unicorn royal guard captain.

"You've lost nine cities?” asked Andy.

"Yes, we have been losing this war with the changelings for four months by now. We've been losing since day one. Their troops outnumber us twenty to one and most of them are able to beat our royal guard in combat. The night guard however, is barely able to defeat their troops", said an earth pony.

"Yah don't say", said a pegasus night guard captain.

"I have a few questions. Why do you pony guards all look the same?” I asked.

"It's our armor. We have them enchanted so we all look the same when they are worn. The night guard has armor that makes them look like vampire ponies” said a random noble.

"Ooooooooooh. That explains so much", I said.

"We will join your fight in the war, but I want access to your troops."

"Are you able to train our troops?” Celestia asked.

"Yes we can, but Tran only has the closest thing to military training", said Ike.

"I never had military training. The closest thing I had that was military training was ROTC and some offhand stuff. I liked the military back before everything happened. I knew everything about our modern military."

"What is ROTC", asked a scientist.

"Its Reserve Officer Training Corps. We will train your troops if we can do anything to them", I said.

"Deal", said Shining Armor.

"Next discussion, foreign help", said Celestia.

"Ambassadors, are you able to send us troops to help our cause?” asked Celestia.

"We will not send you our warriors. You ponies are a lost cause and it would just be a waste of good warriors", said the griffon ambassador.

"We cannot help you this time Celestia, your nation is losing too much", said the Saddle Arabia ambassador.

"I am sorry princess, we cannot help you, we are having civil problems", said the zebra ambassador.

"We cannot send you any troops Celestia. Us hippogriffs can't be bothered with such a problem", said the hippogriff ambassador. "Its a lost cause."

"Next discussion, weapons. Tran you said you would show us some weapon and armor designs. Which ones are you willing to show?” asked Shining Armor.

"I have several weapons I want to show you ponies that I can think of. I can show you ponies chain maille, steel metal, repeating crossbows, martial arts weapons, and a few other weapons I will think of later, but you griffons, hippogriffs, and Saddle Arabians aren't getting any of my weapons."

"Why not?” asked the Saddle Arabian ambassador.

"Maybe you should have sent some aid with your troops."

"How about the Zebricans then? You are willing to give them weapons, but not us?"

"Even though they are not helping us, they have a real reason. Don't say that he could be lying because I can tell when someone is lying."

"Are any of the weapons you are showing us on the table?” asked a unicorn royal guard captain.

"No, you ponies will get none of the weapons that I placed on the table."

"WHY NOT!?!?!? We can win this war with them."

"Those weapons are too advanced and dangerous for you ponies."

"Wait too dangerous? Can you demonstrate for us?” asked the griffon ambassador. "These appear to be mere clubs!"

"Yes I can. I need one of your guards to take off their armor and place it on the table." After a set of armor was placed on the table, I picked up my samurai sword and sliced the armor halfway through. “Next weapon of order", I said while picking up my M4."Watch that archery target out there?" *POOMF* *BOOM* The archery target was completely obliterated by a 40MM high explosive fragmentation grenade.

"Amazing, how may I get one of these?” asked the griffon ambassador.

"None of these is for sale and none of these is what you will get", I said.

"Nonsense. How much do you want?"

"They are not for sale."

"I will give you a thousand bits for the exploding one."

"No and they cost not even close to that."

"Ten thousand."

"No."

"A hundred thousand."

"NO!"

"A million bits."

"Let me rethink my offer, NO!"

"Then I will take it from you. GUARDS SEIZE IT!!!!!" All eight of the griffons guards decided to lunge at me with their swords. In response, I lifted them all up with their magic,

"YOU WILL NOT TAKE ANY OF MY POSSESSIONS OR I WILL TEAR OUT YOUR FEATHERS, CASTRATE YOU, AND EAT YOU ALIVE!!!!! NOW GET OUT!!!!!” I said. Then I launched all of the griffons over the castle walls. “I think I want to end this meeting now." I then started to walk outside on my hind legs and regear myself. “Princess, take me to your armorer. Wait I'll just teleport there." *SNAP*

"Humans, I think your friend stays with the good side with all that power he has", said Celestia.

"Don't worry, he may be demented and violent, but that doesn't mean he is evil", said Ike.

*SNAP* The room I teleported into was dark, stuffy, and soot covered. Literally, most of the room was covered in soot, even the walls.

"AHHHHH. Who are you???” asked a unicorn covered in soot.

"Well, I am someone that is supposed to help Equestria with their war with the changelings. And I assume you are one of the blacksmith", I said while standing back on four legs.

"Yes, I am Ironwork and ARE YOU AN ALICORN!?"

"Yes, I am an alicorn, my name is Tran and I am supposed to help your nation with its war. Now I want to make some new weapons for me and some of my friends."

"Wait, you are the one that is supposed to help our nation. I heard that you have weapons that supposedly beat our best weapons in quality."

"Yes, that is true. Would you like to see them?"

"YES!!!!" The blacksmith pony literally started to drool after looking at my samurai sword and my two signature knives. “What metal is this? It is strong yet light."

"That is steel."

"STEEL!!!!! I THOUGHT THAT WAS JUST A MYTH!!!"

"Well it is not and steel is a pretty simple metal compared to all the other types of metal that exists. Now I want to make some things, can you get me a smelting pot, smelting sand, two hammers, thirty pounds of iron, lots of wood poles, some scrap wood, and forty gallons of oil. Now watch me carefully, I am going to show you how to make steel." After an hour, I was presented with the needed materials and I started my metalwork. Back before the zombie apocalypse, I enjoyed metal work, including making or getting my own metal. To make steel, you need to take regular iron and burn off carbon present in the iron. Burning off the carbon, will make the iron stronger, lighter, and more rust protected and therefore turning it into steel. The only way I could make steel right now, was to dip iron into oil or blow compressed oxygen rich air onto the iron while it is red hot.  

My first order of business was to make some new weapons. Back on Earth, metalwork was relatively easy and timely task, but with magic, I was able to make anything with ease.

For Nick was a new knife, or should I say mace club. A mace is a blunt club weapon and is able to inflict damage, whether the target is or isn't wearing armor. A mace can be simply made by attaching a large amount of steel to a metal handle and shape several parts of the steel, that is connected to the handle, with small spikes.

For Ike was a new knife. A knife was a good close quarters combat weapon and is one of the most simple yet deadly weapons ever. I started with a large thin bar of steel. After pounding the steel for several minutes, I started modifying the blade. The result was a deadly illegal blade that was outlawed after the events of WWI at one of the several Geneva convention. The tri-bladed trench knife. The tri-bladed trench knife had a brass knuckles attached to the handle and a triangular shaped blade. Most people would think that a triangular bladed would be useless in combat, but the triangle blade allows for deadly lethality. The triangular blade is more effective than most knives because usually cuts made with the triangular blade have a high chance of infection. Also the triangular blade allows for piercing of most armor types, including some plate mail armors, and stabbings from this weapon are highly lethal due to the fact that if you are stabbed with a triangular blade, you are left with a hole in your body that are unable to be closed or treated.

For Andy, was a new staff. Bo staffs are one of the most effective martial arts weapons available. A bo staff is able to disarm and beat opponents in combat. Andy's bo staff was the simplest weapon I made. I just simply took a pole, being five foot and six inches long, heat it in a fire, cooled it down, and repeat it nine times. What resulted was a wood that was naturally stronger that other types of wood. Wood exposed to extreme levels of heat is known to be stronger than other types of wood. One example is the mesquite tree native to Arizona and Mexico. Then I started adding several steel rings on each end of the staff to enable harder, more painful attacks.

For me were some new toys. I pounded away at white hot steel hour after hour. I made weapon after weapon. I used wood after wood. The end result was several weapons I was proud of to use. I had made two tonfas, a nunchuk, three rope darts, six shurikans, and the assassin's axe used by Connor.

I cooled down all the weapons I made and began to make sheaths and holders for the said weapons. The blacksmithing had taken up six hours of my time after I left the meeting. I placed all the weapons into their respective sheaths and started walking back to the meeting hall. For some reason you can't carry multiple weapons in a castle filled with several important ruling figures.

"STOP RIGHT THERE!!! DROP THE WEAPONS AND GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!!!” yelled a guard.

"Wait, he's an alicorn. He must be one of those four mercenaries the princesses hired."

'Of course. The princess claims that we are mercenaries, so she can cover up the fact that there is a new sentient species in Equestria. Hmmmmmmm, I guess politics aren't different here after all.' I glanced at my watch (somehow it did not slide off my hoof) and saw that it was maybe one in the afternoon. After twenty minutes, I found my friends, some nobles, and the princesses in the dining room eating lunch.

"Tran, you Crazy Asian, where have you been?” asked Ike.

"I was in the blacksmith. By the way, I made some new weapons for us."

"Really? What did you make us?” asked Nick.

"Just look and see."

"NICE!!!!!!! I always wanted one of these", said Ike holding his new trench knife.

"Ooooooo. I'm going to have some fun with this", said Nick holding his mace.

"This staff is balanced and supple. Strong and light. Thank you", said Andy twirling his staff.

"Tran, I am afraid to ask what you made for yourself", said Shining Armor.

"Here let me show you", I said while taking my weapons and placing them on the dining table.

"Tran you copied assassin's creed. You are even dressed as Connor", said Ike.

"Who is this Connor character?” asked Luna.

"Well princess you need to take modern language lessons and Connor was a fictional character that was one of the most skilled killers known. I am wearing something similar to his clothing and I have several of his fictional weapons on me."

"How would some of these be used as a weapon?” asked Shining armor. "I mean you basically have several tools and what looks like decorations."

"After we are done eating, bring all of your available troops in the courtyard. I want to see how good your military is." I then took out a cracker MRE and began eating it. Instead of candy, I had a packet of five gum. After I ate the MRE, I chewed two pieces of gum. After everyone had finished eating, the three princesses and all the guard captains led us outside to a large courtyard. Then loud clanging was heard and the courtyard was quickly filled with thousands of armed guards. “Let me guess, that bell was an alarm system?"

"How did you know?” asked Celestia.

"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!! Shining Armor, line up all your ponies so I can see what their capabilities."

"ROYAL GUARD, ATTENTION!!!!!” Shining Armor commanded.

"Andy can I borrow your megaphone?” I asked before being handed the aforementioned object. Suddenly, the four of us started to glow gold and we were all human again. “Now all you royal guard members can't do squat and are unable to defend this nation. Due to your terrible combat skills, my three friends and I are going to help you guards win this war. Now if any of you guards think you can take beat me and my friends, step over to Shining armor." A quarter of the royal guard had trotted over to Shining Armor. “Shining, shoot out a magic beam in the air when you want the fight to start."

After taking off our ranged weapons, we stood in a circle, back to back. I was using my nunchuks and I had my tonfas and blades and tomahawk as a backup. Nick was using his mace and survival knife and had his brass knuckles as a backup. Ike was using his machete and had his new trench knife as a backup. Andy was using his staff and had his dagger as a backup. With a bright magical beam from Shining Armor, several royal solar guards lunged at us. Most of the guards were wearing the usual bright armor and was wielding either swords or spears. A circle had formed around us and guards were coming at us at different time intervals. Several guards tried to slash or stab me, but I wrapped the chain part belonging to my nunchuk and snapped the blades of the sword. Several other guards tried to stab me with spears, but I grabbed them and lopped off the heads with my tomahawk, destroying even more spears belonging to the royal guard. I then started to get bored so I took out my tonfas and started to take an offensive approach. I stepped out of the circle my friends had formed and started bashing ponies over the head with the tonfas. Using the tonfas, I blocked slashes and stabs and whacked ponies on the head. After incapacitating the royal solar guards, the royal lunar guards stepped up. What was different was the lunar guards were more disciplined. Their attacks were more precise and steady. After another hour of fighting, the entire contingent of guards that were fighting us were incapacitated. After the battle, I had noticed that the solar guard had more troops and sloppier training while the lunar guards had three times less troop, but had training that was two times better than that of the solar guard.

"Your guard is shit. Absolute shit", said Ike.

"That was possibly too easy", said Nick.

"Ha, even I am better fighter than you guys", said Andy.

"That was too tiring. I wish the deuce was here", almost immediately after saying that phrase, the deuce appeared two feet in front of me and I levitated a bottle of water out of the deuce. “whoa. Celestia, I think I can use my magic in human form."

"That is a lie", said Celestia.

"NO, THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!!!” said Andy. “What the hell? Why is my arm so warm?" Andy then lifted up his right sleeve and on his arm was a troll face. “WHAT THE FUCK!??!" The other three of us lifted up our right sleeves. On Nick’s bicep was a bicep being flexed. On Ike and my arm was nothing.

"What in the fuck is this?” asked Nick.

"Why don't me and Tran have one?” asked Ike.

"What is going on Celestia?” I asked.

Then Celestia's horn lit up and Andy and Nick were surrounded by a gold aura. “Tran, I think you four are the first nonequine beings to have cutiemarks", said Celestia.

"What the fuck are cutiemarks?” asked Ike.

"Ike cutiemarks are marks that someone gets when they find out a talent they are naturally good at. I don't know how two of us have them because cutiemarks are only available to the equine beings because they have access to magic, but I think I have a theory. Remember how we were alicorn? Well, I think that after being exposed to magic, we were able to get cutiemarks because we have magic. I think that is how I can still use magic. Ike, I think we don't have our cutiemarks because we haven't found the talent we are naturally good at", I said.

"But you need a unicorn's horn to use magic because a unicorn's horn is made of a strong magical channeling material", said Celestia.

"What in the fuck is wrong about this world?” asked Ike.

"Absolutely nothing. That is just it", I said before summoning a certain greaser's guitar.

"MY GUITAR!!! I thought I lost it at Luke Air Force base?” asked Ike.

"You did, I just picked it up before we left the base. Play a little jig Ike." With that, Ike began to play Stairway to Heaven.

"That was beautiful. Nopony can play a guitar like that", said Cadance.

"I'm not a pony", said Ike. Ike's arm then flashed a bright white and a guitar appeared on his arm.

"Looks like Ike got his cutiemark. Now I'm the only one that doesn't have one. “Cadance, I need you to bring us to the Crystal empire."

"WHAT?!?!?!?! That's suicide. I love ruling my beloved city, but it is completely taken over by the changelings."

"Cadance, we are going to take back that city."

"HOW!?!??!? YOU MAY BE THE BEST WARRIORS THAT HAVE EVER EXISTED, BUT YOU WILL BE KILLED!!!!!!"

"Just get us there."

"Niece, let’s bring them to the Crystal Empire, so they can at least try", said Celestia.

"FINE!! Who cares if the only hope for Equestria is going to kill themselves."

"Cadence, we will win this battle and this war. GEAR UP GUYS!" After my friends took up their respective primary weapons and the same amount of ammo as the invasion of Canterlot, we waltzed right back over to the princesses.

"How do we get to the empire?” asked Ike.

"By train", said Celestia."Any other way is impossible."

"Princess, can you arrange a train that goes to the Crystal Empire for tomorrow?

"Yes I can."

"Ok, guys we have one day before we go retake a city for the ponies, so what do you want to do?"

"I don't know about you, but I am going to play with Luna and prank ponies", said Andy.

"I think I might talk to the princesses", said Nick.

"I'm going to play my guitar. It had been ages since I last played this, well besides right now. I need to catch up on my skills", said Ike.

"I am going to change us back into alicorn. Also, I am going to walk around the city, meet back with the princess in the morning." I then started one of my rituals of clearing my mind with a walk that would last for an ungodly amount after changing us back into alicorn to avoid confusion. Walking as a human has a possible chance of causing panic with the ponies in Canterlot..

But before I started to walk, I was stopped by a certain sun goddess princess. “Tran I have one question though. How come you don't have a colored magical aura when you cast magic?"

"I don't know. Are magical auras supposed to be colored?"

"Yes. Magical auras represent different personalities. A different personality means a different colored magical aura. Unicorns with the same magical auras share similar personalities."

"That just might explain it. I have a personality that has many different characteristics. Wait, Andy's magical aura is golden like yours and he has a trollish and annoying personality. Does that mean...... OH MY GOD YOUR TROLLESTIA!!!!!!!!! Well, PEACE!!!!!" Then I began my ritual. I noticed how heavy my backpack, weapons, gear, armor, ammo, and supplies was extremely heavy. I could not give any of my friends the explosives or gear, because they would not know how to use them, so I carried them. Then I remembered how the guard's armor was enchanted so I took off all my aforementioned belongings. The aforementioned objects began to float in the air and there was a bright flash of white and I placed them back on.' YES IT WORKED!!!!!!’ I thought while rehearing up in my enchanted gear.'Ahhhhhhh. No weight to this schtuff." I started to walk again in without being restricted by my gear. ‘Got to love enchantments making armor and gear weightless when being carried." I then walked back to the deuce and picked up the Barrett and the flamethrower and casted the same enchantment on them. Then I casted a spell on the flamethrower to make it never need to be refueled or repressurized with a new air tank. I strapped the tools of death and started to walk again, but this time with no restriction to weight. Normally, all the gear and weapons I carried would weight upwards of two hundred pounds, but due to the enchantments I only had to worry about the twelve pounds of my clothes.

I kept on walking and walking and walking and walking until I reached the end of the city. I looked down and saw that the city was suspended. I took the Barrett off my back and placed it on the ground. Sniping is a skill that takes years to master or eight months for the average sniper at Fort Benning sniper training school. The modern military sniper program was started by Carlos Hathcock. Sniping is a difficult skill to master. To be a successful sniper, you need to have the following skills, good eyesight, patience, a fast mind, and the ability to control oneself, heartbeat, and breathing. Long distance shooting accuracy can be affected by the following factors, bullet size, bullet velocity, bullet type, bullet grade, bullet spin, gun steadiness, heartbeat, number of barrel spirals, humidity, weather, wind speed, distance, and the corealis effect, otherwise known as the planet's spin. These factors that are listed are just a small fraction of what can actually affect bullet accuracy. The ones that I listed are just some of the main things that can affect a bullet's accuracy. There are other small factors that affect the bullet's accuracy that I have not stated. Snipers have to factor these in when sniping, so a fast mind is required. Snipers are more successful than normal assault and support troops. On average it takes the average U.S. troop, during Vietnam, with an M16, 50000 bullets to kill one enemy soldier due to suppressive fire and common misses. For the average sniper, with any sniper rifle, 1.3(Yes one point three) bullets on average to kill one enemy soldier.

Before the zombie apocalypse, I was in a marksmanship program in my school. I was one of the best and could shoot eight or nine targets about the size of this period . ten meters away. The M82 Barrett was a rifle I was familiar with due to having an uncle that basically bitchslaps the ATF and gun control.

After using probably about forty .50 BMG rounds and four hours, my marksmanship skills were from rusty to scrubbed down and rechromed. I zeroed the scope in on a cake about to be eaten by Celestia and my friends eating. ‘Distance, 1700 yards. Wind speed, seven miles west. Humidity, twelve percent. Bullets, common ball ammo. Rifle, Barrett M82. Corealis effect, none. Bullet spin, medium major to major', I thought while taking a deep breath and exhaling part of it, slowing my heartbeat down. Slowly and carefully, I squeezed the trigger, not pull but squeeze. *BOOM* Time seemed to have slowed down as a 1.54 inch bullet long and .510 inch wide exited the barrel at 2900 feet per second. I watched as the .50 caliber bullet arched its way down through a wood crossbeam holding a window and hitting the cake dead center, making it explode and cover most parts of the room. “The cake is a lie."

I slung the cannon back on my back and opened my wings. ‘I wonder how I fly.' I opened and closed my wings for twenty minutes before I realized how to flap my wings. I continued to flap and hovered above the ground for ten minutes practicing. I began to flap harder and I was flying pretty well. Another two hours had passed as I flew and I got pretty good at it. I then flew through the air flapping my wings, going through the air. I sped through the air, going faster and faster. I then noticed a cone forming around me until *BOOOOM*. I had just made a sonic rainboom. THE SONIC RAINBOOM!!!! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!?! I watched as a rainbow shock wave traveled across the sky and I noticed it was too dark to see it farther than thirty feet. I flew to the ground and started walking again while taking out an MRE and began eating it.

After walking for quite a bit, I glanced at my watch and noticed it was 7:43 which explained why it was dark and why there was nopony around. I made my way back towards the castle, but my destination was literally on the other side of the city. After an hour, I was halfway towards castle and interrupted by three nice earth ponies needing help.

"What have we got here?” asked earth pony 1.

"It looks like a lost unicorn", said earth pony 2.

"Well let’s help him", said earth pony 4.

"Nah, I'm fine', I said.

"I think we should help you", asked 3.

"Nope, I'm fine" I said.

"Tall cocky bugger, isn't he?” said 3.

"If you want our help, we have a fee", said 2.

"Nah, I don't need help."

"GET HIM!!!” said 1.

All three of them pulled out a knife and 2 lunged at me. I sidestepped and watched him fall into a bush. I pulled out my tomahawk as he got back up.

"You're going to need a better weapon than that", said 2. This time I grabbed his leg as he tried a downwards stab with his knife and brought the tomahawk down on his leg, detaching the arm. 3 tried to buck me, but I sidestepped and watched him buck a wall before I bucked him in the chest. 1 tried to slash at me and I just grabbed his arm and slammed the spike end of the tomahawk into each side of his shoulder.

"You're going to need a hospital", I said while flying off. I flew to the castle and landed in the courtyard.

"STOP RIGHT THERE!! YOU ARE TRESPASSING ON ROYAL GROUNDS!!!!!” said a guardspony.

"I have permission to be here. I am Tran."

"THAT IS A LIE!!!"

Suddenly out of nowhere, Andy walked out of a door and said," NO! THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!!!!!!"

"Hi Andy."

"Hello brother."

"Let’s go talk to the princesses", I said. We walked throughout the castle, through halls and stairs until we reached the throne room with Luna, Celestia, and my friends. Andy respectively bowed down while I just stood there.

"Bow down to the princess punk", said a guard as he kicked one of my legs with his horseshoe clad leg. I looked at the guard and then I looked at the princess.

"Oh not this again", said the Celestia. I popped my neck and fingers. Celestia was wrong. When this happens, it's fun!

Forty Seconds Later

Seven guards had attempted to "arrest" me for disrespect for the princess and were now on the ground with dented helmets and broken spears and swords. “Did you really have to do that?” asked Celestia.

"Don't antagonize a sleeping bear", I said. “Or a Crazy Asian that has spent one entire year killing and fighting constantly."

"But really, did you really have to hurt those guards and destroy their weapons?"

"Yes. Now, why is there cake in your guys’ manes? Wait, Andy why don't you have cake in your hair"

"I ate the cake out of my hair", said Andy

"We were about to eat a cake when all of a sudden, BAM! The cake randomly exploded. How is that even possible?” said Ike.

"I don't know. Maybe that cake was a lie", I said.

"Really? You are really going to tell me that?"

"Maybe the cake exploded because it wanted to explode."

"What is wrong with you Tran?"

"Everything" I replied.

"Of course."

"Maybe the cake exploded because it wanted to die quickly rather than being slowly eaten alive."

"Where have you been all day Tran?"

"Well, I beat up some muggers and I was practicing my marksmanship skills today. This Barrett is a monster with its .50 cal rounds."

"Sniping? WAIT A MINUTE!!!! YOU WERE THE ONE THAT BLEW UP THE CAKE!!!"

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I WAS ONLY PRACTICING MY SNIPING SKILLS!!! THE CAKE HAPPENED TO BE IN THE WAY!!!! SO IT WAS THE CAKES FAULT!!!!!!"

"HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE!?!?!??!"

"I'M TRAN, SINCE WHEN DO I MAKE SENSE!?!?!?!?"

"WHY DID YOU WASTE A PERFECTLY GOOD CAKE?!?!?” asked Celestia.

"You don't need cake to live. I haven't had cake for like four years."

"Well I like cake."

"Ok, I won't shoot your cake anymore, but one more thing. That cake was a lie."

"Hey that's my line", said Andy.

"Well TOO BAD!!!!!!"

"Tran, you really need to change to live in a world like this", said Nick.

"Nick, I am always going to be my demented, insane, violent self. It will only get worse."

"Tran, I have one more question. How can you carrying all that? It must weight twice as much as you."

"Yes, I know. My gear is fifty pounds. Ammo is seventy pounds. Guns are sixty pounds. M2 flamethrower is seventy pounds. Melee weapons are twenty pounds. Armor is forty pounds. I can carry all of this because I enchanted my armor, gear, holsters pouches, and anything on my assassin's robes seems weightless to me until I take off the item or object."

"That is awesome. Can you do that for us?” asked Ike.

"Yes I can." My friend's armor and weapons were levitated off their bodies and flashed white until they returned onto their respective positions.

"This is amazing, it's like it’s not even there. How did you even do this? You've only known how to use magic for a day", asked Ike.

"Well, I remembered how Celestia said that you can do things by thinking and focusing on the task you want done and then trying to do it with magic. I just did exactly that."

"How come we can't do that? I can only do medium strength spells.  The best thing I've done so far is a stun spell. Anything harder and I just get a headache. Andy can only levitate and every time he tries a spell, he makes something explode. Every spell he tries just makes an explosion. It's ridiculous."

"How about Nick?"

"He's a little worse than me."

"Ah. Let’s call it a night."

"Fine by me", said Nick.

As everyone left for their beds, I walked back to the armory and saw Ironwork. “HI Ironwork."

"Hello Tran."

"I know you are a blacksmith, but how many other blacksmith are there?"

"About thirty or forty. Somewhere in that area."

"Ironwork, can you tell me how the armor to the royal guard is made?"

"Well, the armor is made of iron. First we take iron and pound it into plates. We then take the plates and shape them into their current shapes now. With those plates, we coat them in a gold finish for the solar guard or dark navy blue for the lunar guard. After all that, we take those plates and bolt them together. After putting it together, we place whatever decoration is needed."

"That explains why the armor is so terrible."

"HEY!! We work hard."

"Well I'm only sixteen years old and I have made better armor than this."

"That, I do not believe. Even I started smithing when I was eighteen."

"Tis true my friend. Look at this armor", I said while removing my chain maille and my vest's armor plates. “This plate is made of the strongest steel available and this shirt is made of steel. It is capable of stopping any slash or arrow."

Ironwork took the two pieces of armor up with his magic and stared at it for a few minutes before saying, “Too bad your armor is scratched and dented."

"It might be the fact that it is, I don't know, USED!!!!!” I said while taking the armor back in my magic gold and repairing it with my magic. “HAPPY!?!?!"

"Actually yes."

"Ironwork, would you like to see how to make this shirt?"

"YES!!!!!!!!!!"

"Well, first off it is called chain maille and I need you to get me a quarter inch pipe, forty pounds of smelting sand, and a large smelting pot", I said before being handed the requirements. “First you have to....."

Five Hours Later

".....And that is how you make chain maille." Ironwork had caught on to chain maille making pretty fast. Back on Earth, I had made chain maille entirely out of premade rings, pliers, and time. LOTS AND LOTS OF TIME!!!!(148 hours in total). With the help of levitation, the rings were made, cut, and chained together with speed. If it weren't for magic, the whole process would've taken probably nine days straight. In the end, Ironwork had made a small chain maille vest. I then placed the armored plates back in their respective plate slot and the chain maille back under my jackets. I looked in a mirror in the armory and saw my Connor's assassin's robe outfit covered in soot. I remembered what Celestia did to me at the library and then casted a spell on my outfit and body to clean the soot and filth. With my robe cleaned, I began to think about more armor enchantments. My armor lit up and glowed for a second before returning back to normal. I stuck my sleeve into the fire and waited.

"What are you doing?” asked Ironwork.

"I'm checking an armor enchantment I casted."

"What's the enchantment?"

"I tried to make my clothes fireproof, stain proof, tear proof, and waterproof. So far it's working."

"What I would do for an enchantment like that."

"Hold still then." Ironwork's clothes began to glow until all the soot on his clothes disappeared. “Well then my new friend, I will be leaving for a walk." I walked out into the courtyard and just sat there looking at the night. The cool night air was barely affecting my body temperature due to the assassin's robes, vest, and pants, the IOTV vest, my BDU, my jacket, and my black polo. I stared blankly into the sky nonmoving as if a statue.

"My. My. My. What have we got here?” said Discord.

"Oh just a chaos spreading insane and crazed Asian with enough magical powers to plummet the sun and moon into this planet and enough fighting skill to singlehandedly defeat any warrior that challenges me. You can just call me Tran", I replied.

"Oh really now? I doubt you can."

"Watch the moon." I charged up a spell and the moon began to move left, right, up, and down.

"Huh, guess you were telling the truth. Ahhhhhhh I can feel the chaos. Awwww", Discord said as the moon stopped moving erratically.

"I can cause and stop chaos Discord. I can kill you or help you. Soooooo, what do you want to talk about?"

"I'm just talking to you because everypony else is scared of me."

"So you tried to spread eternal chaos around the land. I killed probably more things than the entire population of Canterlot."

"You have not killed that much. I'll prove it and scan your mind to see how many beings you've killed." My head began to glow a dark pink until Discord's face was filled with one of horror. “So you tell the truth."

"I told you. I've only killed 719 changelings, 7694 zombies, and 112 humans."

"Only? You're  planning on killing more?"

"Yes, it is rather fun."

"How can you be so much like this?"

"Because I am. You should see how many my friends have killed. They haven't even gotten near my zombie kill amount. They are straggling in the one thousands. They haven't gotten past twenty human kills either."

"How come you've killed more than them?"

"Because when I walk, I kill anything bad that bothers me. Now I need you to wake me up in two hours when we leave. I might make some good old chaos for you."

"Ooooooo chaos. See you tomorrow Tran." With that, I started to sleep. Usually, when I am sleeping, I hate to be disturbed. However, if I take a nap, I don't mind getting bothered. Most people would prefer to sleep in a nice soft bed. For me, I like harder surfaces to sleep on. I took out a flask from my backpack and took a few swigs. Gotta love sake. I closed my eyes and soon entered the world of the dream world.

-X-X-X-

The land of dreams. A place where all of your dreams can come true or where your nightmares come to life. To me? Its a place where nothing happens. A place of... Zen. I enjoyed the peace. I didn't have to worry about anything. I didn't have to do anything. Nothing bad would happen to me. I could just simply rest. I couldn't get enough of it. However, I knew that I had stuff to do and if I enjoyed it too much, I would eventually lose everything, including the ability to enjoy my sleep. My problem? I don't get enough sleep. I love insanity. The funny thing about insanity is that insane people are completely aware of everything and what they do.

-X-X-X-

"Wake. Wake. Eggs and bakey", said Discord as I woke up.

"Thanks for waking me up. Well, PEACE!!!"

I walked back into the castle. I waited in the dining hall until the princesses, the mane six, and my friends arrived, one after another. “Let’s leave for the Crystal Empire. Don't say anything, let’s just leave." We just walked off to the train without any words being said.

"Tran, what are you working on?” asked Twilight.

"Well, I am working on a simple doppelganger spell."

"Doppelganger spell? You know when you use that spell, you have to be able to focus on more than one task?"

"That won't be a problem."

"How come?"

"Back on Earth, I often multitasked on eight or nine task at a time. Just one more thing Twilight."

"What?"

"GET DOWN!!” I said while pulling out my 1911 and firing. The .45 ACP round flew past Twilight and hit a changeling in the head.