//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 - Tia's Shoot // Story: No Better Title - Arc II // by ThePerverted1EyedBrony //------------------------------// Chapter 3: Tia’s Shot *Tia’s POV* Several days have passed and everyone has been following Twilights plan to act like nothings happening. You continue to pose for the shoot in a cream-colored one-piece bikini. “Beautiful, Celestia, the camera loves you,” your photographer and manager tell you, You continue to listen to make sure he’s not going for any NSFW shot’s as per stated in your contract. “Okay everybody take five,” he says as he puts down his camera, “Except for you Celestia, I want to talk to you,” he says as you reach the door to go and change into your next outfit. “What do you want to talk about?” you ask him (AN: The manager looks like a 100% human cross between Fancy Pants, and Coriander Cumin) “You don’t seem to be as happy for these past couple of shoots, what’s up?” he asks in a worried manner, “There’s nothing wrong…” you start to say, “Is it about that guy you like named Cameron?” he asks hitting the nail right on the head, you tense up, “Looks like I hit the nail on the head,” he motions for you to sit down, “I don’t know what might be going on, but not as your photographer, or your manager, but as your friend, I want to know if your alright,” he asks you in concern as you take a seat. “*sigh* Look… me and the others talked about this, we all promised that this would stay between us,” you tell him, “I don’t care what promise you made, I worry about you, not as a model, but as another living being, I want to know what going on, I don’t like this mask your putting on for work, I like to see that beautiful smile in all of my employees. So, can you please tell me?” he asks trying to get you to open up, you try and keep it quiet but you start to cry, “Don’t cry Celestia… look, if your not willing or ready to talk about it then I understand, and I sorry I pushed you, but I just want to see you happy, and from my living experience, talking about problems like this helps,” he says as he gets up to go, but you grab his hand, “Look, I’m not crying because I’m not wanting to talk about it, its just that… just that…” you say between sobs, He comes up and hugs you, “Look, I’m always here to lend a hand. Hell, I own my own photography company, and I know that someone like you would be an excellent leader,” he says while hugging you, As he says that it hits you like ton of bricks, “Look… I want to tell you something,” he pull away from you to look into your eyes, “But, you have to promise me that this’ll stay between us, no one else, not even the police,” you tell him as sternly as your condition would allow you to, “Look, if it’s bad enough to get the cops involved then I’m telling them but other than that, I promise I won’t,” he tells you as he kneels in front of you. After explaining what happened to Cameron, you see him with a shocked look on his face, “But that’s illegal, his father didn’t win custody and his mother died after he became a legal adult, so his father can’t just abduct his son like that,” he says trying to comprehend what you just told him, “That’s not all though,” you tell him and he looks at you with shock in his eyes, “There’s more?” he asks in disbelief, You stand up and lock the doors, close the blinds, and cover the security camera’s, “Look, what I’m about to show you… you to promise me that you won’t look at me any differently because of it, okay?” you ask him, “Okay,” he says with skepticism, “Okay,” you say to yourself as you show him your wings since your horn doesn’t exist in this world for some reason. He looks at you dumbfoundedly with his jaw slack and just saying inconsistent babbling, “Look, I know this MAY come as a shock to you, but I’m showing you this before I give you the rest of the story, okay?” you tell him, He slowly nods his head because that seems to be all he can do because of your wings being out. “So, let me get this straight, you, your sister, the one named Twilight, and your niece are all from some other world and Cameron’s ancestor sealed you away, but he freed you and now your lives are like this,” he says trying to comprehend what you just told him after putting your wings away, “That’s the general jist of it,” you respond, “Wow,” he leans back in his chair, “… well, I should’ve seen this coming with how big your breasts are, haha,” he says as he laughs off his worries, “When you put it that way, I should’ve tried to hide it better, haha,” you laugh as well to lighten the mood *BOOM* The explosion throws you and your friend out of your seats, “OWOWOWOW,” you hear you manager say, “You okay?” you ask “I’m fine. You?” he responds “I’m fine as well. What was that?” you ask, “I’ll check,” he get’s up and runs to the phone connecting to security, he picks it up and says into it, “What’s going on down there?” you hear him ask in concern, ”…” “Okay. Thanks,” he turns to you, “It looks like some people have blown up the front and back doors and there looking for you,” he tells you, Your eyes go wide in shock, then suddenly dilate because you can guess who’s coming after you, “How many have we lost?” you ask him in an angry calm attitude, “Um…” he counts with his fingers, “Around 5 people because of the blasts,” he responds, “Get me on the loud speakers, I’ll deal with the problem,” you tell hi trying to reassure him that no one else is going to die, “Okay,” he runs and turns to the loud speaker, “here,” he hands it to you, “To those of you that have come after me come to main shooting room, I’m in there, in exchange, you leave the innocent out of this fight, this is between us,” you say into the loud speaker, you then turn the loud speaker off and turn to you friend, “Get out of here, I don’t want you getting hurt,” you tell him in your motherly tone, “But...” he starts to say, “No but’s, I don’t want to lose another friend,” you tell him in your motherly tone, He looks into your eyes before darting off through the back door of the room to escape. You then hear the doors being rammed into, you turn and face the door and unlock it with your magic. You see five brutes barge in, they turn to look at you in your bikini, they then all begin to salivate at the hot sight before them, you then snap your fingers to turn back to your normal clothing. “Now how about formalities, I’m Celestia, the one, I’m guessing Cam’s father hired you to capture,” you say in then tone you usually talked to your subjects with on an everyday basis, You then see them start to go into a stupid pose, “I’m Bruter the blue hurricane,” one of them says, “I’m Gully, the physic,” “I’m Jake,” “I’m Reese the muscle,” “And I’m Zinu,” the last one says, “And together we are the Zinu Force,” they all say together while going into a stupid pose, “… You do know you look like idiots in those poses right?” you ask them genuinely curious if they know that they look like idiots, “How dare you insult the fear inducing pose of the Zinu Force, Reese, Gully, get her,” Zinu says, “Okay,” they both say, You sigh at their stupidity but get ready for a fight. *One hour later* You look around on the floor and see that they all have been lightly beaten by you, you turn to face Zinu, “Hahahaha, and here I thought you were too much of a coward to face me, but prepare yourself, I’m the strongest member of the Zinu...” he starts to say but you cut him off by rushing up and kicking him where it hurts most, “… Hey, I didn’t even get to finish my…” he tries to say but you kick him in the jaw before you have to hear any more of his annoying voice, He’s sent into the wall on the other side of the room, “Well then, looks like your pretty powerful, I think I’ll take that power for myself,” he says as you walk towards him, you then see him spread his arms, “CHANGE,” you hear him yell, you throw up your arms in defense of this attack, but nothing happens, you look towards him but when you look you see yourself, you look down at yourself and see that he somehow swapped bodies with you, “Surprised, personally I like it, and I think I’ll enjoy all the perks that come with this new body, ahahahahahaha,” he says in a haughty tone, You start shaking in pure anger, as he starts to poke around your body. “Ahahahahahaha, this body’s perfect to help make him…” he starts to say before you nail him in your face with a look of pure unbridled rage as you start to wail on your body. *One minute later* You hold up your beaten and battered body and look it dead in the eye, “Change me back or so help me; I will have my sister banish you to the sun, where you will feel like your being burnt into ashes every atto-second of every day, for a thousand moons,” you tell him in pure rage, “EEP, fine, fine, fine, I’ll change us back,” you see your body doing the same pose as he was doing before you swapped bodies, “CHANGE!” he says in your voice. You open your eyes and see him holding you by your hair like you were before you changed back, “Oh, crap,” you think, “I didn’t think this through,” you say in a low tone, “You didn’t,” he says as he punches you in your gut, “And now the tables have turned in my favour, now I shall take you in and rewarded my His Greatness,” he says in a monologuing tone, “Not if I have anything to say about it!” you hear someone yell, you then see a small steal bar hit Zinu in the head, which results in him letting go of you. You turn your head and see your boss, “What do you think your doing here, I thought I told you to leave,” you tell him, “How could I leave you after seeing you in trouble,” he turns his head to look at you, “ And I know you didn’t kill those other guys, but him,” he looks back at Zinu, “you may have to kill,” he tells you. You look up and are reminded of Cameron because this is something he would do, you give a small chuckle, and start to stand, “Your right, even though where I’m from killing isn’t something we like to do, but since we’re not there,” you bring your head up and look at Zinu, “I will fight and protect those I care about, and be sure to tell your boss that we’ll be coming for Cameron,” you tell him heroically, “And you really think that I’ll go down easily?” Zinu says in a prideful tone, he then snaps his neck, “You thought that I’d go down to a simple steel beam? HA, you’re an even bigger idiot than that Cameron fellow, if I were allowed I would…” he starts to say in an insulting tone as you cut him off by taking his arm. He slowly looks down to where his arm once was, “…AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” he yells I pain as his body hadn’t even registered the loss of the arm, “What the hell!? Why would you take my arm like that? Your no harbinger of peace, you’re a harbinger of death!” he yells as you slowly take steps towards him, Once you’re in front of him you look down at him, “The second you insulted Cameron was the second I decided to show you no mercy,” you say in his face, “DAM YOU!!!” he yells as he tries to go for your throat, “Boom,” you say calmly, His body then erupts into flames as he yells in agony as his body slowly turns to ash, you turn back to your manager and see that he’s afraid of you because of what you just did, you take a step towards him and he takes one back, “Get away from me,” you hear him quietly say in fear, You stop and look at him, “Look… what just happened… I only…” you try to explain to him, “…” “I’ve had to do worse back where I’m from… then again… the only reason I did it then was because it was a time of war…” you look at him, “Please don’t hate me, we’re currently in a time of war, under normal circumstances, I would’ve given him the chance to run away and live, but with what he was planning to do with my body to, more than likely Cameron, I just didn’t want him to be hurt,” you solemnly say while looking into his eyes, “… Look… I don’t know anything about this… but if what you’re saying is true… then why didn’t you ask for time off… I would’ve at least tried to help,” he says while still keeping his distance from you, You give him a smile, “I didn’t want any innocent lives to be put in danger, that’s why I didn’t tell you,” you tell him in your motherly tone “You might not know this about me, but I’m an ex-military officer, more specifically, ex-commander, I quit the line after I took a bullet to the knee,” he raises his pant leg to show that there’s a bullet wound on his knee. “I… didn’t know that, wish I knew earlier, cause then I wouldn’t’ve had to kill him in such a gruesome way,” you say and mumble the last part to yourself. “I know I don’t act like it, but at least let me help you get your love interest back,” he says in a haughty tone, You immediately go red as a tomato and start to jabber utter nonsense as you try to defend against his claim, “Hahahaha! Don’t go trying to deny it Celestia,” he looks you dead in the eye and points his finger at you, “The second I met you and that Cam fellow I knew you loved him,” he pulls his finger back, “I could see it in the way you looked at him, it was the look of someone you want to be with but just can’t for some reason. So, let me ask you this; why can’t you be with him?” he asks. You look at him for a second and contemplate if you should tell him about your royal status in Equestria. You turn and face him, “I’ll tell you so long as this stays between you and me, no other being; living or dead, is to know about this, okay,” you tell him, he nods his head, “*sigh* Okay… Back where I’m from… me, my sister, my niece, and my ex-protégé are all… how do I put this… royalty,” you squeak out the last part. You see his jaw drop and stare at you bug eyed, “Look I know that if you live and were to ever come to my world you would probably make more of a fortune selling the pictures of me than any of your planets richest people, but please don’t hate me for…” you start to beg, “I know royalty,” you hear him say, “I know royalty, ha,” he turns to you and kneels, “I’m at your service your majesty,” he says as he kneels, You roll your eyes and pull him up by his shoulders, “Look, I don’t like being treated as royalty were I’m from, I don’t want anyone to know that I’m a princess in some other world, okay,” you tell him, “I was just kidding around,” he looks you in the eye, “and I promise that this will stay between you and me,” you smile, “But,” you groan, “I want to know; if you’re a princess, then who’s the queen?” he asks, “To put it shortly, my mother was the queen and for the other princesses, we seem to be treated as gods, and my mother in this worlds terms would be considered as your equivalent of the cause of Big Bang,” you tell him, “Wow, looks like power runs in the family, haha,” you playfully smack him on the head, “You can take the rest of the day off, I’m going to have everyone do that with the event that just happened,” he turns around and walks to the door, “And Celestia,” you look at him, “Make sure that when you rescue him,” you start to brighten up at that, “Make sure he’s wearing protection,” he says as he laughs his ass off as he leaves the room and your there redder than a tomato, -End of Chapter 3-