Staying Sane In A Peaceful World
Chapter 8: Chapter 7: Shenanigans Everywhere
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAfter Fluttershy's visit, I walked back towards my home. I went to the first floor and I began to take off my armor and weapons before jumping into a bed even though it was only six PM. Once sleep hit me, I entered similar dreamscape as the one where the nightmare first attempted to deal with me."Luna get out of hiding, I know you are here."
"How did thee know that we was here?"
"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!! Or maybe it is the fact that we are in a similar dreamscape as the one where the nightmare first attempted to try to get me to work with him and the one when you first approached me in my dreams."
"I praise thee for such a deduction."
"Luna, get modern speech lessons before I show you one of my memories the next time that you enter my dreamscape."
"Thee would not do such a thing."
"Luna, I ate a changeling’s head while it was still alive after I slowly sawed down each of its limbs and body. Try me."
"Fine, we will do so when leisure time is available."
"Stop using the royal we, I thought Twilight told you to stop using it during that one Nightmare Night."
"How did thee know about that event?"
"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!"
"Tran, how are thou able to control thy's dreamscape?"
"It is really simple Luna. It requires a lot of mental capability and thinking."
"Really?"
"No, I'm Tran. You know, I know everything."
"What does thee want to do currently?"
"Chess?"
"I agree to that notion."
And that is what we did for probably two hours in the dreamscape. Like a stereotypical Asian, I enjoyed chess and I was pretty good. “This is impossible", said Luna.
"I like chess."
"Thee has won every game so far."
"I like chess. By now, I should have another hour in this dreamscape."
"Why does thee think so?"
"Back on our world, research has shown that time moves four times as faster than in reality. Somehow they were able to research it."
"How does one research such a subject?"
"It is simple really... "
"And what is it?"
"Something."
"Could thee be more specific?"
"They did it in a way."
"Could thee be more specific?"
An hour in the dreamscape had passed being spent by Luna trying to get me to tell her, only for me to be completely broad with the answers. I then felt my body stir around in comfort in reality.
"Time to wake up. Bye Luna. PEACE!!!" I woke up in my bed and began to regear myself up. I walked into the armory and grabbed more ammo. For a normal person, carrying two times your weight in armor is not a good thing. For me, I was carrying two times my weight in ammo that was on an enchanted vest to make it seem weightless to me. I casted a spell on myself and my front hooves turned into hands. ‘Hooves may be normal, but they are impractical as hell.'
I started a walk into town and towards the library. For some otherworldly reason, everypony was looking at me and then running into a building to hide from me. Once I walked into the library, I saw Twilight reading. “HI Twilight."
"Hi Tran. How are you to-" Twilight started.
"HOLY CELESTIA!!! CANNIBAL!!!" yelled out Spike.
"Question mark?", I said. Spike then started to throw several books at me in an attempt to get rid of me, but I literally just sidestepped for every thrown book. It took a while, but Spike eventually got tired. “You done there?"
"I *HEAVE* Won't *HEAVE* Let *HEAVE* You *HEAVE* Get *HEAVE* Twilight" Spike said.
"Spike what are you talking about?" asked Twilight.
"He's the cannibal" said Spike.
"Whatchu talkin bout?"
"Why is he in here Twilight?"
"Whatchu talkin bout?"
"Twilight look at this" said Spike who handed Twilight a newspaper with the title The Cloudsdale Gazette. Twilight picked the newspaper up with her magic and began to read it.
The Cloudsdale Gazette
After two months of a hostile takeover from the changelings, Cloudsdale has been liberated. This may seem impossible but, only one pony was needed to liberated Cloudsdale. The pony believed to have done it is a pure white alicorn with a pure white mane and tail. This alicorn had singlehoofidly liberated the town of Cloudsdale. After entering with a magical disguise, making him look like a changeling, he started to slaughter the changelings. Making his way through the Cloudsdale, he freed every imprisoned pony. The ponies that he freed stole weapons from dead corpses and joined the slaughter. After freeing the ponies, he went to the town hall and killed every armors in the building and threatened the queen present, making her pull her troops out of Equestria. After his actions in Cloudsdale, the changelings have dubbed him "The Cannibal" due to the fact he enjoys eating meat and how he roasted changelings alive and proceeded to eat their heads as a snack. Anypony who sees this alicorn beware the fact that he is extremely dangerous and is capable of killing anything. His magical prowess is believed to be more powerful than Celestia herself and was most likely the cause of the Eclipse that happened a few days ago. This alicorn is believed to always carry nearly thirty weapons with each of them capable of killing a dragon and is believed to wear armor that is capable of stopping common powder cannon. If this alicorn is seen, beware of his abilities. Underneath the article was a picture of me in my alicorn all geared up
"Tran, you liberated the town of Cloudsdale yesterday?" asked Twilight.
"Wait, HE'S TRAN!!??!?!" yelled out Spike.
"Eeyup. Before you ask, I am not going to kill or eat you. The cannibal nickname thing might explain why everypony in town is hiding from me or why there is an angry mob outside of the library" I said.
"What?" Twilight asked as she looked out of a window and probably a hundred ponies with various weapons, pitchforks, and torches. Twilight went outside and started to talk with the crowd. Unfortunately, I could not hear over the sounds the mob was making. Twilight walked back inside and asked me to come outside. Once I was outside of the building several ponies started to scream at me and some others threw rocks at me. I watched as the rocks missed me as I dodged them, until a pony shot me in the side with a crossbow. Since, I was still in alicorn form, I looked pretty normal. I stood on my hind legs and towered over everypony. I was still getting shot at so I unslung my Barrett and shot a round in the air, making everypony cringe at the noise.
"Done yet? Good? Now, let me ask something. Why are you trying to attack me, if you have read the newspapers, I am on Equestria's side."
"You're a monster" a random pony yelled out.
"If he was a monster, why did he save that foal from that burning building?" said Twilight.
"That wasn't him, I would recognize him" said Berry Punch. I held up my hands and showed it to her. “I still don't believe you." *SNAP* The spell I casted had just turned me back into my human form. I took of my assassin's robe, vest, and pants and looked at her.
"It's me" I said. Berry Punch looked at me in awe.*SNAP* I had turned myself back into an alicorn except I didn't have any hands this time. I looked back at the crowd and said, “I may be demented, insane, violent, but I am not evil. I may have killed more beings than the entire population of Canterlot and its guards combined, but I am not evil. I am helping Equestria with her war with the changelings."
"Why are you demented, insane, violent, but not evil?" asked a random pony.
"Citizens of Ponyville, listen to this important message. I will not eat anypony for those who are wondering that. I am demented, insane, violent, but I am not evil. The reason behind this is because the world I came from is a dead world. Nearly everyone died. Anyone that survived had to survive. What I mean by this is everyone had to survive on their own or with a friend. I myself had three friends. Every day we had to search for food, search for weapons, fight off bandits, and the worst, kill. Anyone that previously died became alive again but in an undead zombie form. I am like this because I had to kill every day. My friends had to too but I killed more than all of them combined. I am not evil because before the world died, I was a nice person, an egghead, a fighter for defense, and many other things. I have done things that would have drove others insane. If one of you viewed my mind, you will be scared for life. Somehow I am still able to function with myself being like this. I have been stabbed, shot, slashed, crippled, burned, beat up, dropped from high distances, and many other things but I still function. I suffer from heart problems, joint problems, muscle problems, arthritis, and many other things but I still function. The worst about me is the fact that I am only sixteen years old."
Everypony stared at me with a look of horror and sorrow. “PEACE!!!" I said as I walked off.
"How can he be such like this?" asked a random pony.
"That is what I am wondering, he is still capable of living like a normal pony even though he is a child that had gone through the horrors of killing", said Twilight. Well, Twilight. I am Tran.
I walked off into the town and started to look for food. I kept on walking until I found the same cafe Twilight went to in the episode, The Ticket Master. I sat down at a table that was situated outside. Once I sat down, a waiter went up to me and handed me a menu, but I just gave it back to him and told him I wanted a salad. After a few minutes, I got my salad and started to eat it, until I was interrupted by a certain fashionista.
"Tran, you eat here too?" asked Rarity.
"This is the first time I've been here."
"Well this eating establishment is absolutely lovely."
"The salad is pretty good", I said, finishing my salad.
"The croissants here are delectable."
"Well I'm leaving. PEACE!!!"
"WAIT!!"
"Yes?"
"You should join me in my usual spa session."
"I don't know."
"You should. I remember you talking about how there are many things that you suffer from. A spa session could help you with that muscle soreness that you suffer from."
"Fine. I give in. LEAD THE WAY RARES!!" I said while pointing randomly. I followed Rarity as we walked towards the center of the town until we reached a large, purple, pointed building. ‘This is going to take a while.' I walked inside and was greeted by Aloe and Lotus, the spa ponies.
"Hello Rarity" both of them said.
"Hello fillies. I'm here for the usual. Oh, I brought my friend here too."
"Oh, who is she?"
"He is right here" Rarity said while pointing to me. At the sight of me, the two spa ponies tried to drag off Rarity in fright.
"Let me guess, you two are afraid of me because you read about me in a newspaper stating how I liberated the city of Cloudsdale and how I'm The Cannibal."
"Tran, YOU WHAT?!?!??!"
"Eeyup. I did all that. Aloe and Lotus, you don't have to worry about me, I am a good pony." I gave the twins the same lecture I had given to the mob from earlier. After the lecture, the spa ponies had looks of pity as they stared at me, captivated by my story. “Rarity, aren't we here for a spa session instead of a story?"
"OH. Sorry Tran", said Rarity.
"Aloe and Lotus, I am sorry about the scare and I am not going to eat anypony, that would just be wrong. I eat meat because of my previous physiology. You see, I used to be a different species before I was turned into a pony by your beloved princesses."
"You were?" said Lotus.
"Can we see your previous form?" asked Aloe.
"Ok." *SNAP* I turned into my pony form and it completely surprised the spa ponies. “Before you ask, in this form, I am biped and I have to eat meat because instead of belonging in the equine family like you three, I belong in the primate family. That means I am descended from apes. Being from the primate family means I have to eat meat to gain protein usually present in meat or bugs. The reason is equine stomachs houses nonharmful bacteria that produces protein from the leafy diet you ponies eat. This is in turn causes all of your teeth to be flat. Me belonging to the primate family means I do not have that bacteria because it would most likely harmful to my species. This in turn causes me to have sharp front teeth meant for tearing into meat and flat back teeth to eat plants. I can eat both meat and plants but I have to eat both to be healthy and live a long time. Before you ask, this species are called humans and my name is Tran."
"How did you know we were going to ask that?", said Aloe.
"ALOE NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" said Rarity
"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!!!"
"AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHH" groaned Rarity. “Never ask how he knows stuff. He only yells out he knows everything."
"I'm going to turn back to normal now." *SNAP* I was back into my pony form except I was the size of an average pony this time.
"Why are you in your equine form instead of you original form?" asked Aloe.
"I don't think you know about human physiology and some other reasons."
"What other reason?" asked Lotus.
"Uhhhhhhhhh" I said. Rarity then leaned in towards Lotus and whispered in her ear and did the same to Aloe. The two twins started to blush, making them similar to Big Mac's hue."Yeah. Exactly."
"Tran, shouldn't you take off your clothes and weapons" Aloe said.
"May I borrow a table."
"Yes, just place your belongings onto this table" Lotus said. Lotus had pointed to a simple massage table.
I started to take everything I had on off. My kukri, bowie, two switchblades, two daggers, two boot knives (push daggers), lanyard, sword, bow, two hidden blades, two tonfas, tomahawk, six shurikans, nunchuk, and my three rope darts. My PPK, M1911A1, desert eagle, Glock 18, M4a1, AA-12, 870, M2-2, M82a3, and various explosives. My backpack, IOTV vest, chain maille, robe, vest, BDU jacket, fleece jacket, polo, pants, BDU pants, and underwear. The only thing I had on was the cloth wrappings and bandages around my legs.
"What have you been through" said Aloe, who was looking at my scars. Despite being in my equine form and having fur, the said scars were still somewhat visible if one were to look closely.
"Is this why you wear so much clothing?" asked Lotus.
"Back on my world, it was illegal to not wear clothing because of the same reason as why I went into pony form. Also, it would be about 120 degrees outside by now so it is pretty cold right now. Before you ask, we could not control the weather. Before you ask, our weather was extreme in every way. Before you ask, we don't have magic. Before you ask, the sun and moon rose by itself. Before you ask, instead of magic we had technology."
"How did you-" Aloe started before having her mouth covered by Rarity.
"Remember, he knows everything" said Rarity.
"What does that mean?" asked Lotus.
"It means I know everything. Before you ask, I just know a lot and I am well educated. Before you ask, back in my home, our people really cared about education and I have been going to school since I was three years old. Before you ask, I am sixteen years old and by the time the apocalypse started, I had already been educated for twelve years. Before you ask, I have these scars because of what I had to go through to survive."
"Wow."
"Exactly. Now let’s start with this spa session. I swear we have been talking for basically an hour by now."
"Oh, sorry" said Rarity. The spa session started with us getting into a sauna.
"Ahhhhhh. I have never been in a sauna before. This is nice" I said.
"Oh, I know. The steam op-", Rarity started.
"It opens up your pores and cleans out some of the waste in your body and helps your complexion."
"How did you know?" said Rarity. She then covered her mouth with her hooves and looked at me. She waited a couple minutes before saying,
"I'm not gonna say it this time because we are relaxing in a sauna. Plus yelling it out strains my vocal cords."
"Oh thank goodness. I sometimes forget you yell that out."
"Don't worry Rarity, we are relaxing. This heat is really nice. Although it could be hotter" I said. "Rarity, I have a question. Why aren't you doing this with Fluttershy? I thought you had your scheduled spa sessions with Fluttershy."
"How did you know about my spa sessions with Fluttershy?"
"Rarity."
"Right. Today, Fluttershy said she had to do something important. She didn't say anything except that."
"Suspicious. I'm going to check on her later. Now let’s just enjoy this." Ten minutes had passed before we moved out into another area of the spa where ponies were getting mud masks. Aloe applied a mud mask to Rarity while I just motioned I didn't want one.
"Tran, don't you want a mud mask?"
"Rarity, I am a male."
"My apologies."
I walked onto where a bunch of massage tables were and looked around. After a few minutes, Aloe came over. I lied down onto a table and Aloe started to massage my back. “Ahhhhhhhhhhh."
"You have knots on your knots on your back", Aloe said.
"Comes from being Asian. Aloe, can you stand on my back for a minute?"
"Sure?" Aloe started to stand on my back and it started to pop multiple times.
"That is revolting" said Rarity as she walked into the room.
"Bodies tend to pop when you apply enough pressure on a specific joint. It pops even more if you have been through a lot of damage. Rarity, if you popped your bones, we would barely hear it because you have never been severely injured. I have been stabbed, shot, slashed, crippled, burned, beat up, dropped from high distances, and many other things that you don't even know about. I don't know what you have suffered from but I doubt it anything serious."
"I'll have you know that I have broken a leg before. It took me four days to heal" said Rarity.
"And I have broken a leg before and still walked miles that day. Don't ask, let’s just say that you shouldn't attack an Asian with a baseball bat" I said in retaliation. “Ahhhhhhhhhh. This is soooooooooo goooooood."
We moved on into a room with several mud baths.
"Tran, you need to remove those wrappings around your legs" said Lotus.
"I'm just going to skip out on the mud bath. Always hated mud" I said. After a while, we moved on into a small room with several shallow pools. “I’m going to have to remove my wrappings am I?" I was responded with a nod and I walked towards a since and started to take off my wrappings. Under the wrappings were blood stained gauze and bandages. I unwrapped the gauze and bandages and my hooves had stopped bleeding an unknown time ago. I rinsed the dried blood off of my hooves and threw the bandages, gauze, and wrappings into a trash can. I walked back and into one of the shallow pools. After that part, me and Rarity walked out of the spa. “That was relaxing Rarity."
"You should do this with me more often" said Rarity.
"Maybe. Depends on some factors. Bye Rarity" I said while walking off. I went into the town until I was interrupted by eight pegasus guards.
"STOP! You are needed in Canterlot" said a guard.
"Why?"
"It is urgent" said another guard.
"Why?"
"We can't tell you" said another guard.
"Why?"
"Because we cannot trouble anypony else."
"Why?"
"Because it could lead to a riot" said another guard.
"Why?"
"Will you just come with us!" said another guard.
"Why?"
"AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" yelled out another guard.
"Why?"
By now the eight guards lunged at me. To dodge, I PERFORMED THE GREATEST DODGE-COUNTER MOVE AVAILABLE! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY LIVING BEING!!! I had sidestepped. I watched as the guards slammed into a stall selling roses. “Sorry about that Roseluck."
"How'd you know my name?" Roseluck asked.
"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!! Also, here's a thousand bits for the roses and broken stall, I said. I reached into my pocket and pulled out several gold bits before tossing it to her "Again, I'm sorry."
"It's alright" Roseluck said. "It's definitely okay." She held up the gold bits.
I then watched as the guard stood back up. I unveiled my wings and flew into the air. The eight guards did the same and followed me in the air. I started to fly faster and noticed that the guards were straining themselves as they tried to keep up with me. It was so fun to mess with them. It had passed a few minutes before I got bored and teleported to Canterlot after saying, “SEE YOU IN CANTERLOT!!"
I reappeared back in the Castle courtyard of Canterlot and was immediately surrounded by guards. “Do you royal guards ever learn? Oi I'm Tran. I'm supposed to be here." Unfortunately for them, I still had all of my gear. I pulled out a concussion and a stingball grenade and pulled the pin on both of them. I released the spoon and dropped them while taking flight. Two consecutive booms sounded out, followed by large amounts of pained groans. I hid my wings back into my robe and I started to walk into the castle and until I reached the throne room. Inside were Celestia and Luna. I walked up to them and said, “Hi princesses."
"Kneel down before the princesses punk" a guard said.
"No."
"Why you-"
"Leave it be guard" said Celestia.
"Still won't bow down to anyone here princess. You need to gain my respect."
"How will we gain thee's respect?", asked Luna.
"Can't tell you and get modern speech lessons. What do you two need me for?"
"We heard you liberated Cloudsdale", said Celestia.
"Yes I did. Apparently, the changelings nicknamed me The Cannibal. Anything else?"
"Yes, Queen Chrysalis is coming to the castle for some negotiations."
"And?"
"There is one guard that wants to challenge you to a fight."
"And?"
"We need you to discuss war tactics with our guards."
"And?"
"We need to discuss what weapons you are going to show us."
"And?"
"Tran, stop saying and."
"And?"
"Tran."
I grinned at her. "Let’s start with the negotiations with the queen first." We then went into the room where we first had a meeting about several matters. Inside was not Queen Chrysalis but Queen Meta.
"Celestia, you know that this isn’t Chrysalis but an entirely different changeling queen. Even I know there are other changeling queens and I have been here for less than a week. Hi Meta."
"There's more than one queen?" Celestia asked.
"Eeyup."
"I think I'm going to leave now" said Celestia.
"Hello Cannibal."
"Hello Meta, you needed to meet with me? What is this about?"
"The changeling nation needs to negotiate and talk with you so they sent four leaders to talk to you. One being me."
"The others?"
"Queen Chrysalis, Queen Transform, and King Drone."
"Ahhh. Now can you tell me why they are trying to sneak up on me?" I said. Behind me was the three changeling leaders Meta had mentioned and I had noticed they were trying to walk silently. Unfortunately for them, hooves are pretty loud.
"Hello Cannibal" said the three of them.
"Hello. Can you tell me why you changelings nicknamed me The Cannibal?"
"You slaughtered our troops and then ate them", said Meta."I saw you eating one of my guard's head."
"It is not my fault you changelings taste like grasshoppers. Now what do you four want to ask me?"
"We want you to show us your true form" said Meta.
"What are you talking about, I am a pony alicorn." I then casted a spell on myself and I was once again a human. “See, a pony." The four of them stared at my human form. "What you're looking at?"
The four of them blushed and Drone said, “Why must you help the Ponies, they were losing this war before you came. The only reason we haven't won yet is the fact that you stopped our last invasion guaranteed to win this war. Why don't you join the winning side?"
"No. Here are the reasons. One, I like to help keep the good good and the evil evil. I may seem evil but I am good. I stick to the good side. Also, I have three friends similar to me. I am not going to the bad side. I will win this war for the ponies, even if I have to kill every last changeling on your side."
"And is there any logical reasoning?"
I pulled out some gum and popped a piece into my mouth. "Think of it like this. I'm not sane. I am literally insane. Back home, I was psychologically tested. When I have a goal. I will do anything to achieve that goal. I don't care if you are in my way. You will die and I will win."
"I think I want to pull my troops out of this war and surrender the current cities I have control of. You ponies can have Manehattan back" said Queen Meta.
"I am doing the same thing. You ponies have Las Pegasus and Trottingham back" said Transform.
"WHAT?!??!?! THIS IS TREASON!! YOU ARE ABANDONING THE SUPERIOR RACE!!!" yelled out Drone.
"You remind me of someone of my own kind. His name was Hitler. He caused millions of deaths in a genocide. The war he caused started out with him winning and then my home country joined the war and they lost. You are like him, Starting a war where you start out winning and then you losing. Surrender now or your hive will die. Don't forget the fact that I like the taste of changeling flesh and I have killed your kind without thought."
"Fine, I surrender Baltimare and Fillydelphia" said Drone while grinding his teeth and fangs.
"You three will regret this. When the changelings win this war, you three will not exist longer" said Chrysalis.
"I think this meeting is finished." The four of them flew out of the castle with changeling guards while Celestia and Luna approached me.
"What was discussed in that meeting?" asked Celestia.
"They want me to join their side. Before you say anything out of worry, I said no. I also got three of their leaders to surrender. We have Las Pegasus, Trottingham, Manehattan, Baltimare, and Fillydelphia back."
"THEE MANAGED TO REGAIN FIVE TOWNS IN A WAR CONVENTION!?!?!" yelled out Luna. For god's sake, stop using the Royal Canterlot Voice.
"Yes. Four of their changeling leaders came. Three of them wanted to pull their hive's troops out of the war in fear of me slaughtering and eating them. They don't want their hives to become nonexistent. Also here is some more good news, there are only two changeling hives left to fight in the war. I'm kinda pissed now and changelings taste reeeeeeeaaaaally good." I took off my backpack and looked through it, resulting in me finding a changeling head that was still edible. I bit into it and visibly watched as the princesses vomited into a bush. “What?"
"That is revolting" said Luna.
"It's good. Don' knock it til yah try it. You said there was a guard that wanted to fight me?"
"Yes, there is a member of the lunar guard that wanted to fight you. He claims he is the best fighter of the whole royal guard battalion" said Celestia. “Follow me." We walked through the castle(which is still infested with ridiculously long halls) and then into the castle courtyard with several barracks. We walked into one of them and saw several guards fighting in what looked like a boxing ring. Every guard was a lunar guard. Inside the ring were two guards fighting. What caught my attention was the fact that one of them were fighting while standing on his hind legs. The pegasus guard fighting on his hind legs was punching the other Earth pony guard with his front hooves. *SNAP* I turned myself back into my smaller normal pony sized form and I hid my horn so I didn't raise any suspicion. I continued watching him fight until the other guard fell to the ground, most likely unconscious.
*DING* "KNOCKOUT!!!" yelled a guard.
"That was too easy" said the guard who stood on her hind legs.
"PRINCESS!!!" yelled out one guard. Everypony then bowed down to her except me. I then saw several of the guards staring at me.
"Bow down to the princess" said the guard who won the match.
"No, I only bow or salute those I respect" I said in reply.
"Why you lit-"
"He's fine Nightwatch" said Celestia. “Albeit disrespectful to the royal family, he doesn't bow to me because he doesn't respect me. He is also the one you said you wanted to fight."
"So this is the high and mighty Tran. I wanted to see you fight because i don't think you are all that. I bet you can't even beat a normal guard. I don't believe the fact that you captured several cities with only you and your friends. With your small size, I don't think you can even beat a foal in a fight so i don't think you will fare very well against me", said Nightwatch, trying to show off her muscles.
"He who talks does not know, he who knows does not talk" I said.
"What?"
"Whoever has a skill they are good at, they don't talk much or brag about it. Those who brag or talk about how well they are at a skill aren't very skilled. Let's see how you fare." I began to take off all of my weapons and clothes except for my BDU pants. With my pony torso exposed, my skinny build and scars were visible. The guards around us, including the one that challenged me, looked at my body, so small yet so damaged. They had a look of horror as they stared at my scars, my chest nearly 25% scar tissue, mainly due to getting shot with a ballista's oversized artillery-like arrow. I casted a spell on myself and changed myself back into a human. I stood upright and started cracking my bones. I stared at the pony that challenged me and saw her staring at me in fright. “Oi. Are we going to fight now or you guards going to keep on staring at me?"
A loud Ding rang out from a bell and Nightwatch lunged at me. She tried punch me in the face with a hoof, but I push the hoof out of its path to my face and watched as it slid across my face. I then grabbed her arm and twisted it, nearly tearing it out of its socket. Nightwatch tried to get her arm out of my hold, but I kicked her in the face with the flat of my foot. She was sprawled to the ground and I watched as she sprawled on the ground. She got back up and tried to punch me again but I just grabbed her hoof in front of my fast and punched her in the face. She fell onto the ground and stared at me. She got back on all of her four legs and walked off the stage. I walked off the stage, took back me belongings, and walked back to Celestia.
"How did you kicked her so high?" asked Celestia. “It is impossible for ponies to kick that high."
"Humans are more flexible and bendable than ponies. I am more flexible and bendable than most humans. Watch." I sat on the ground and place both legs behind my head. I got back up and looked at Celestia who needed to get her jaw off the ground. “Well, I'm leaving. PEACE!!!"
*SNAP* I had just teleported to the blacksmith to where my friend worked. “Hello Ironwork."
"TRAN!!! What are you doing here at this time of day? I thought you were an alicorn."
"This is my original form. Also, I want to show you another design. Before I show you how to make something, I want to ask you one question. Do you have any black powder?"
"Yes. I have like three barrels right over there', Ironwork said while pointing to three barrels huddled together in a corner.
"Nice. Do you ponies have any weaponry that uses that?"
"Yes. The Equestrian nation doesn't have that many weapons that use black powder. We only have wheel lock rifles and pistols. They are not very strong either. They aren't accurate outside thirty feet and they take very long to reload so we use crossbows."
"HA! I have guns that uses powder similar to that and I am able to shoot it 100 times consecutively before I have to reload. Then it is accurate easily within a hundred yards. Then I have a gun meant to shoot a mile away and it will make you explode on contact."
"I don't believe you."
"Really? I have shown you technology easily better than your kind and you still don't believe me."
"Good point."
"Now let’s show you this new weapon that will help Equestria. I am going to need a lot of wood, several bow strings, a lot of metal, and several bolts."
Three Hours Later
"What is this supposed to be?", asked Ironwork. What we had made was probably the first handheld repeating ranged weapon that existed. Sun Tzu's Cho Ki Nu's repeating crossbow. The repeating crossbow a crossbow is capable of shooting 10-30 bolts in a minute, depending how fast someone can shoot and reload it. The repeating crossbow uses the simple lever mechanism to string the bow and uses a regular trigger to shoot. However, I make a lever trigger for the ponies. On the top part of the crossbow is a box that can hold 15-20 bolts. Usually, the lever meant to restring the crossbow is built on the part of the crossbow, mine had the lever on the underside of the crossbow. The string on this crossbow was 95 pounds. I began to make several 16 inch bolts. Wood, metal bodkin tips(basically armor piercing bolts), and basic shortened feathered fletching. After an hour, I made forty bolts. Usually, repeating crossbows lacked accuracy, but I designed for the frame of the crossbow to not move like usual repeating crossbows and direct the movement to the front stock and added sights and a longer guide system.
I walked outside into where the guard's barracks were and went to range. My appearance had immediately spooked everypony shooting and they aimed their crossbows, various bows, and even some wheel locks at me."Really? I have armor that can easily stop those and weapons that can easily kill you all before you can grab another arrow to shoot. Plus, I'm on Equestria's side you dummkofts(idiots[German]). I am just testing a new prototype weapon I developed for you ponies. Now stop pointing those at me or I will kill you all. i am also the one that beat Nightwatch in a fight." The ponies stared at me until an officer came over and saw me.
"Let him be, he's with Celestia. What are you doing here?" said the officer.
"I am testing a new prototype weapon I made for the royal guard. Now move over, I gotta test it" I said while shoving the officer out of my way and moving onto an empty range. Several ponies walked over and looked at what I had. I aimed the sights and started to shoot. This being designed for ponies made it really awkward to shoot but I still shot with my usual precisiony self. It only took me less than two minutes to fire all forty bolts. Every pony looked at the crossbow in awe. “And that is the new crossbow for the guards. Anyone want to try?"
Three Hours Later
"Give me my crossbow back" I said. I grabbed the crossbow from a guard's hooves who in turn grabbed it back. “It’s mine."
"Come on, just let me shoot it a little more" said the guard.
"No, I must show it to the royal guard captain."
"IF I CAN'T HAVE IT, THEN NO PONY CAN!!!"
Already irritated from this guard, I unslung my 870, which was loaded with nonlethal rounds, and shot him in the side, making him fall to the ground in pain. “I’ll take that."
"Was that a rifle?" asked a guard that was shooting a rifle. To be more specific, he was shooting a flint lock.
"No, it's a shotgun."
"What's a shotgun?"
"That's right, you ponies aren't that advanced with firearms or advanced powder weapons yet. A shotgun is a subclass of firearms that are meant for close quarters combat. It is capable of shooting several pellets or specialized rounds. I just shot this guard with a specialized nonlethal round meant to cause pain or incapacitate."
"I think that worked well" said the guard who was looking at the guard writhing on the ground.
"He should have maybe a broken rib or two. I'm Tran, what's your name?"
"Bullseye."
"Let me guess, your special talent is being a good shot?"
"How did you know?" said Bullseye who took a section of his armor off, which showed a crosshairs cutiemark.
"You know what your cutiemark looks like?"
"Nope, never figured what this was a picture of."
"Then look through this tube." I unslung my Barrett and placed it onto the barrel. I then pointed to the scope.
"What is this contraption?"
"Another gun. Except this one is meant for long range firing and will make most living beings explode upon impact of the massive round it has."
"I want to try this out."
"Sorry, can't let you. This is way too dangerous and advanced for a pony. Also, it's meant for human use, not pony." I reslung my 870 and Barrett and unslung my M4a1. I looked down the range and took aim. The target was only twenty yards away so this was nothing for the M4a1 compared to using the repeating crossbow. Gunshots resounded from the range, louder than it ever was. Several ponies went to where I was shooting and looked at the target. I was shooting the M4a1, without the silencer, in short burst at the bullseye of the target. Every single shot was centered on the center circle of the archery circle. I continued on, going through the 100 round beta mag, until..... *CLICK* "Damn. Mags out." I inserted a new mag into the M4a1 and replaced the silencer.
"That. Was. Awesome" said Bullseye.
"Eeyup. One of the many perks of being from a superior race. Shining Armor stop trying to sneak up on me."
"How did you know I was sneaking up on you?" he asked.
"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!! Also I want to show you a new weapon I developed. It is called the repeating crossbow."
One Hour Later
Shining Armor became pretty adept at shooting the repeating crossbow. He used his front legs to aim, shoot, and rearm it while using his magic to reload. He shot at an average of twenty-five bolts a minute.
"Nice weapon isn't she? She can shoot up to thirty bolts a second. it is accurate within fifty yards. It holds twenty bolts. I made it to be the new weapon for the royal guard. Being a human is way better than being a pony."
"Being a human isn't better than being a pony."
"Yes it is. Humans are better species."
"We are better species."
"We are better species. Everything about humans are better than ponies."
"No, we can fly, use magic, and are great farmers."
"We can fly with our technology, we have things that can do what magic does, and we have found ways to be more efficient farmers than just planting something. We have gone as far as growing plants completely submerged in water and cloning plants. Humans are also more skilled than ponies. Look at me. Back on my planet, I was a nerd. I am already smarter than most of your scientists. Us humans are way more technologically advanced than you ponies. We have even gone to cloning animals and people. Also, you ponies aren't skilled in combat. I can also beat your royal guards in combat. Chris Brackett the best archer we had could shoot flies ten yards away. The best people we had that could shoot were able to shoot both of your eyes consecutively 3000 yards away. Our best fighter? You think I'm good? Bruce Lee was the best. If you take me, multiply myself by a hundred and give me unlimited endurance, you maybe have a tenth of him. Humans are easily better than ponies even if we can't use magic. One more thing, I need you to talk to the blacksmith, Ironwork, about mass producing this repeating crossbow. PEACE!!!"
*SNAP* I turned myself back into my alicorn self and took flight. I then started to think deeply into my mind. ‘How do my clothes become ponified. This makes no sense. Why are my steel toed boots steel horseshoes now? How did my hood become modified for extremely long pony necks? Why doesn't this make sense? Why are my socks meant for pony legs. This confuzzles me." If someone were to see my mind, they wouldn't understand it most of the time. However, if my demented side was seen, there might be a need for more mental asylums. I continued to fly and noticed I had flew into Cloudsdale. Then I realized i was barreling towards a large cloud building that was the town hall. I crashed right through the roof and onto a pony. “Oi, who'd I crash into?"
"You kinda crashed into, uh I don't know, THE MAYOR OF CLOUDSDALE!!! NOW GET OFF ME!!"
"Sorry about that mayor."
"Who might you be?", she asked.
"I'm Tran. Or as the changelings call me, The Cannibal."
"YOU'RE THE CANNIBAL!?!?!?!?"
"Yes? Nothing special about me, just normal old Tran. The Crazy Asian, The Cannibal, Tran, nothing special. Well, my wings are down for the count. I'm done with flying for now."
"How can you be done with flying? You're an alicorn."
"My wings feel too strange and pained to fly."
"What? Let me see them" The mayor stared at my wings for a minute until, I know why you don't want to fly. You need to get your wings preened."
"Preened?", I said while coking my head sideways.
"You don't know what preening is? An alicorn that liberated the city doesn't know what preening is. A full grown stallion doesn't know what preening is? The supposed savior of Equestria doesn't know what preening is?"
"What's preening and I am not fully grown, i am only sixteen." The mayor stared at with surprise and horror.
"How can you only be sixteen. You did things. Things. What have you been through?"
"I only come from a world where I killed daily just to survive. It might be the fact that I am insane, demented, and violent. It might be the fact that I am not normal. I am just my own person."
"Person, don't you mean pony? Right? Right? Please say yes."
"Nope, this is just my alicorn pony form." I casted a spell on myself and I was a human again and able to stand on clouds. *SNAP* "That's my true form. This alicorn form is one for ponies to not freak out and I am also able to fly. Let me explain something to you. My personality is like this because I come from a world where you had to kill to survive. I have killed nearly twenty thousand beings, half of them changelings, the other half my own kind. Don't worry, I am not a bad person, I am a good one. I will never harm the innocent just the bad. Anyone that belongs to the wrong side doesn't deserve to belong in living side. I have been through a lot and have experienced everything. This is why I am like this. This is why I was able to liberate Cloudsdale. Cloudsdale is one of the many towns I had to liberate. I have two more towns to liberate before my job is done. Now, how do you preen wings?"
The mayor just looked at me, as if she was in a hypnotic trance until she realized what I asked. "No wonder you don't know what preening is, you are still a kid. What confuses me is you are a kid and you are already matured."
"I know. My species mature when they are about 10-15 years old. You ponies however mature when you are in your mid-twenties. How do I preen my wings?"
"You could probably get somepony else to do it but don't ask random ponies to do it for you, otherwise it would be plain creepy. You could also go to a spa and pay a professional to do it for you."
"Do you know any good spas? If you do, I'll treat you for the help"
"Oh I know a few."
Two Hours Later
"PEACE!!!", I said while flying off. After spending 500 bits on a spa session, mostly for the mayor, I had my wings preened. I noticed the difference between flying with preened wings and unpreened wings. The preened wings were lighter and more aerodynamic. Everything about flying as an alicorn felt natural, the air beneath my wings, the pressure difference, the wings flapping, it felt like I have been flying all my life instead of less than a week. I kept on flying until I reached Ponyville. I glanced at my watch and noticed it was about five in the afternoon. I landed and turned myself back into a human.
I walked through the town just looking around. I kept on walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking until it was well into the night. I kept on walking and saw one thing that caught my attention, a bright light. Don't think I am simple minded, the fact I was interested in a bright light was the fact that there are not many things in Ponyville that can cause bright lights. The only thing that could have caused a bright flash like that was one of my friends, Twilight, or someone with a belonging of ours. I walked to area it appeared from and hid behind a wall. I peeked over and saw a pony with a bright stick in his mouth. Oi. How'd that pony get a flashlight?' I looked at the pony and noticed that the pony was a he. I stared at him, who was holding the flashlight in his mouth. I then noticed how he looked. Light brown fur. Dark brown mane. Hourglass cutiemark. Oi. I know who he is.' I walked past the wall I was behind and up to the pony. “Hello."
"AAAH! Oh a person. WAIT, A HUMAN!?!??!" yelled out the pony.
"What are you doing Time Turner? Or shall I say Doctor Whooves."
"What are you talking about? I'm just Time Turner" said the pony.
"Doctor, I saw you use the sonic screwdriver. Let me guess, you placed it into the collar of you tie which holds a small pocket dimension?"
"What are you talking about?" he asked.
I reached over to him and pulled out a sonic screwdriver, except it was gold colored meaning it was the laser screwdriver, out of his collar. I reached into his collar again and pulled out a sonic screwdriver. The sonic screwdriver is similar to the laser screwdriver except it doesn't shoot lasers and it is a multi-multi-multi tool. It can scan things, pick locks, holds information, change some gases into other gases, etc. The sonic screwdriver is about the size of an 8 inch expo marker. The laser screwdriver was a device used by Doctor Who's main enemy, the Master. The laser Screwdriver basically shoots lasers and can do things like the laser screwdriver. The laser screwdriver is about the size of a 14 inch expo marker. Doctor Who is a timelord who occasionally saves the universe. What is a timelord? A timelord is a being that is near immortal and can travel through time and space. They are highly advanced in technology. Timelords are what humans are based off of except timelord biology is different. Such as their body temperature is lower, they have two hearts, several modern type of medications can poison him (like aspirin), and many other things. I stared at Doctor Who while twirling the laser screwdriver. Then the laser screwdriver shot a laser at the wall.
"HEILIG FICKEN(holy fuck[German])!!! I thought the screwdrivers were isomorphic(made to only and can be used by one being)?", I said to the doctor who just stared at me."What's up doc?"
"Really now? You are going to say that joke from an old cartoon?"
"I knew you were real, you know with all the alternate dimensions."
"How'd you know about all the other alternate dimensions? Are you a timelord?!"
"I am just a human and alicorn when in pony form summoned by Celestia with a spell."
"Damn. I thought you would be able to get me out of this dimension."
"What? I was hoping that you would have a TARDIS."
"Unfortunately, no. I lost her years ago." The TARDIS is a vessel capable of traveling between time and space. They are commonly used by Timelords.
"How?"
"I used it to trap the Master in the space between spaces. He won't be able to get out of that one."
"Aaauhhh. I was a fan of you. Well here's your screwdriver back. Why doesn't it work on wood? I never understood that. I mean, if you are a race of sentient beings capable of traveling through time and space, I think you should be able to make a device that can work on wood. Also, can I keep the laser screwdriver? One more thing, isn't the laser screwdriver isomorphic?"
"The wood thing still embarrasses my species as a whole and you can keep the laser one, never had a use for it. Also, I modified it so I could use it, you know with being trapped in a universe."
"Ah. How's it like with being a pony."
"It's terrible. I miss these soooooo much" said the doctor who was holding on my hands with his hooves. “Worst is I'm an earth pony so I don't have anything special about me. I miss having my TARDIS and the luxuries in it. I can't do much as a pony."
"Wait, I just thought of something. How long have you been here?"
"Twelve years."
"Can you still regenerate?"
"I don't know and I don't want to find out."
"Damn. Wait, if you are here, then who is saving the universes?"
"I don't know. Although I did get rid of the Daleks, most of the weeping angels, the Master, and a lot of other things."
"Ahhh. Are weeping angels ponies here?"
"I don't know and I don't want to find out."
"Then what's that behind you?" I said while pointing to a large statue behind him. The statue was one of a pegasus with its wings hiding it's eyes.
The doctor turned around and looked at the statue and said, "Oh dear."
"What should we do?"
"Don't move or blink at all."
"How do we kill it?"
"I forgot."
"HOW CAN YOU FORGET SOMETHING LIKE THIS AT A TIME LIKE THIS!!!"
"It’s been twelve years since I last done something like this. I forgot." Somehow, the both of us blinked simultaneously and the statue closed 3/4 of the distance it had between us.
"Hey doc, can I kill it by sending it to the sun?"
"Let’s see."
*SNAP* The statue then disappeared. “Can I keep the laser screwdriver?"
"Sure."
"If you ever need something, just go near the Everfree forest and keep on walking until you notice a small cottage. Then keep on walking along the side of the forest in the direction pointing away from Ponyville until you notice a random clearing of trees and two unlevel pieces of land. Once, you're there, open the door."
"I don't have a key."
"Doctor Who." I gave a mocking glare at him.
"I'm just messing with you, I'll just sonic it."
"I can throw pears at you."
"NOT PEARS! NO!" Lets get this out now, Dr. Who/Whooves really hates pears. It was rather comedic.
I walked away from the Doctor while placing the laser screwdriver into a pistol magazine pouch on my IOTV vest. I walked back to my home and tried out the laser screwdriver. *CLICK*
The door to my home opened. ‘This is gonna be useful.' I walked into my home and into the third story, into the workshop.*SNAP* I summoned several logs from the forest and I began shaping them into dummies. This dummy was the kind of martial arts fighting dummy made of wood that had several poles sticking out of it that represented arms or weapons. *SNAP* I shrunk my size to be more like Cadance. I think I prefer this small alicorn size.
While I flew to Cloudsdale, I had noticed that wings were like an extra set of arms or legs for ponies. The wings were similar to human arms in several ways. They bent in similar ways, they could grasp things like hands, and they were similar to arms in size and length. Theoretically, I could use them for martial arts.
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