//------------------------------// // Unity Across Species // Story: Psycho // by Bishibosh the Shaman //------------------------------// Psycho Chapter Fifteen "K...Krieg?" The soft voice seemed to echo across the forest as the psycho knelt down embracing the pony. "Is that you?" Krieg turned his head to face the voice, Twilight also looked to see who it was. Twilight was still stressed, and in all honesty... who wouldn't be? She felt Krieg's embrace loosen as he stood and stared into the brush line. Another human came stepping out of the brush, she was small and slender but the strangest thing about her was her arm. It was metal, fake. She had heard of ponies who needed prosthetic limbs, but never like hers. The girl slowly paced towards Krieg, then sped into a dash as she crashed into the psycho wrapping her arms around his neck. Twilight swore she saw tears running down her face. "I can't... I can't believe it!" The girl shouted as Krieg followed her embrace, spinning her in the air around him. "You're alive!" "Gaige... You have no idea what I've been through..." Krieg responded. "I thought I lost yo... Wait... You said... You spoke... normal..." Gaige stared into her friend's dark brown eyes. "Yes... I did." Krieg smiled behind his mask, and even though it didn't show, Gaige new his feelings. "So you... you're... fixed?" She asked, still quivering with excitement. "Not quite... But I'm better, thanks to my new friends in this world." Krieg took a moment to glance at Twilight who shifted her gaze away, blushing. "Your new friends? What new... OH MY GOSH PONIES ARE REAL!?" Gaige nearly flipped as she saw Twilight sitting in the clearing. "I KNEW IT! I KNEW THEY WERE REAL! They are what I based all my tech off of! This is sooooo awesome!" "Gaige..." Krieg tried to interrupt, but Gaige's rambling continued. "I have seen every episode going all the way to the finale of season THIRTEEN! Oh my gosh... this is too much... AWESOMENESS!!!" "GAIGE!" Krieg shouted this time, resulting in two adorable eep sounds coming from both Gaige and Twilight. "I know this must be exciting for you... but calm yourself. Were are the others?" "Oh, they were right behind... me... oh..." Gaige turned around to see her other friends, all staring. She thought at first it was her and her rambling on ponies, but then noticed Twilight and her tattoos. "She... she is a..." "Siren" "Siren" Both Lilith and Maya responded at the same time as they stepped forward from the brush. Twilight watched as the two other human girls stepped out from the brush. Seeing the both of them in person was filling her with unease, at least until... "Don't worry sister..." Twilight heard in her head. She couldn't explain why, but she was sure it was the voice of the blue maned human. "Yeah sis, you're safe with us." The red maned human's voice rang. It seemed so relaxed, and calming. "I can feel your distress, maybe a little confusion. What happened? Did you get hurt?" The blue maned one voiced again. Twilight stared as the two human girls smiled down at her, even though they were a completely different species they considered her as a sister... Six sirens in all the known... everything... and here she found two others like her. Twilight felt a special kind connection already and they only shared a few words. "How... how can we talk like this?" Twilight thought, hoping the other sirens would hear. "I don't know, first time I ever felt the feeling was last night. Quickly figured it to be another siren. The red maned siren voiced again. "How did you figure?" Twilight asked. "Because I heard it too, in fact it connected us to you during our descent. We saw through your eyes a few times." The blue siren voiced again. "But why does it happen?" Twilight asked again. "I guess it's your power, you can read minds it would seem. Try it on Axton." The blue one voiced again, with a certain slyness to her voice. "He's the taller one, brown hair." Twilight looked in the direction of the other humans who stepped out while the sirens communicated with her. She quickly spotted the one they called Axton, he was abnormally... normal... The other humans here had different things that really stood out, but he just looked... normal. She focused her mind to his, she could feel her power surging out into the air before him. All at once, her mind was flooded with images. She saw a woman, her face full of anger. Her hands came together as one hand closed around a finger. It pulled something off the hand, and threw it at the man she was peering through. She felt pain, but it was quickly countered. The next few visions were of an escape, leaving the world. Her vision flashed as she was suddenly strapped to a chair. Large goonish looking humans spread around her, their mouths moved and shouted. A blunt pain shot through her stomach as one of the humans punched. She barely understood their broken language, but there was mention of a wife. After a smart remark, she was rewarded with another bludgeon, this time to the face. Her vision moved to a small box on a table nearby. The goons made mention of a bounty. One of them picked up the box, asking questions then tossed it on the ground. The box opened into a strange device, her vessel recognized it as 'turret'. It began pumping as the goons fell one by one. "See? That's your power sis" The red siren voiced. "I can... read minds?" Twilight responded. "So it would seem, but I'll warn you now sister. Some minds are better left untraveled." The blue siren voiced. "I have so much to ask si... sisters" Twilight smiled at the word sisters. "May we ask your name sister? Mine is Maya" "Yeah, you can just call me Lil" "A pleasure to meet you Maya and Lil, My name is Twilight Sparkle"