StoneHeart

by JT


Befriended

Twilight ran over the hill, and saw an amazing sight. Before a crowd was a tall hairless biped, with a long black coat that had one shoulder in red flowing about him, a small strip of hair ran the length of his head, he was tall, well muscled, and full of information. She couldn't help but get his attention.

"Excuse me! Mr. Alien guy! Over here!" The lavender mare yelled at the top of her lungs, and waving her hooves frantically.
The biped turned around, and Twilight saw something that made her jaw drop.
On one side of the biped's face, were strange markings, upon closer inspection, Twilight found these to be akin to a tribal tattoo. The biped's tattoo was a line that came out from under his chin, up the right side of his face and around his eye. When Twilight got a better look at his eye's, she did assume it was a 'he' based on the physical stature. His eyes were different colors, one was a mud brown, while the other was blue, shiny, and had very strange circles set in a triangle formation in it. Twilight looked down to his body. From what she could see of his hands, she saw that they had bits of metal inset into the knuckles. The rest was covered up by his clothing.

"Can I help you?" The biped asked, his voice tinged with humor.

"Ummm...Yes, I would like to ask some questions please?"


"By all means." The biped shrugged.

"What are you?"

"Nothing."

Twilight frowned, this could be a turning point in Equestrian history, and the Alien says he is nothing.

"How did you get here?"

"Got banished from my planet, lost in space, met a blackhole, went through, then I crashed."

"Wait- Did you say you were banished from your home Planet?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because, my race thought me perfect for a program called the Project, I was kidnapped, tortured, experimented on, and forced to kill to live. They wiped my memory, my family, my birthday, my age, even my own damn name. Gone. When they found out about the program, I was put on trial for being a crime against nature, found guilty, and banished."

A pink mare was already sobbing when she heard that he had forgotten his own birthday.
Twilight felt saddened by this news. Banished for being tortured? This was unheard of.

"Well, none of that was your fault. And I wish to be the first to welcome you to Equestria!"


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I was paying attention to none of this, something was off, in the air, and in the dirt, I took a sniff of the air, my augmented sense of smell analysing every strand.

Sweat-Either a pony hared at work, or a pony that is afraid.

Adrenaline-Combat pheremones, somebody wants to fight me.

Saliva- Panting, heavy load.

Heavy metallic scent- Heavy armor

Tempered steel- Blades, weapons.

Scorched air- Hot weapons, likely an energy burst.

Then I felt the air around me start to shift, sensors in my skin exploding with information.

Expanding air- Something moving it.

Increase in electro-static pulses, high energy origin.

Analysis- Hostile.

Reaction- preemptive strike.

Negative- Pony's obviously civilians.

Re-analysis- soldiers teleporting in.

Reaction-Subdue, non-lethal approach.

By the time I had finished my analysis of the situation, two armor clad unicorns appeared right beside me.
They wielded spears, and their horns glowed. I reacted immediately, grabbing both their horns, lifting them off the ground, and slamming them together. Leaving two pony's with destroyed horns, and fractured skulls.

I felt another surge behind me, and in response, I lashed out with a powerful sidewinder kick.
Leaving a guard with two fractured legs, and a few powdered ribs. I felt another burst behind me and felt hooves clasp my neck, I dropped to the ground, reached back and threw the pony off. More hooves came at me. I swatted them away like they were flies.
A pony with wings came down at me at blinding speeds, I side stepped and stuck my arm out, the pony smashing into my reenforced flesh and falling to the ground in a daze. A spear pierced my shoulder and knocked me back. I spun with the energy and delivered a powerful backhand to the offending pony.
This time I felt a sword blade tip to my neck, forcing me to stop. This pony wore silver and purple armor, the mark of a shield surrounded by stars on his flank. He wore a grin of triumph as e pressed the blade closer.

"You don't want to die do you?" He asked me, the grin on his face growing wider.

"You tell me asshole."

I brought my fingers up and pushed the blade away, once it was within safe distance, I clasped both of my hands on it. I twisted around behind him, and pulled him close to me, I brought the blade to his neck and pulled so that at the slightes movement it would kill him.

"ENOUGH!"

I looked around as I saw every pony bowing down, I looked to the object in question.
It was a white pony with a mane that flowed like water the color of a pale rainbow.
She had a horn and massive wings, and judging by the crown, she was a ruler.

"Put my Captain down beast!" She roared at me, this only made me harden my gaze and bring the sword closer.

"Now Listen here, queenie, I am in the position to negotiate and that is exactly what I'm going to do. Now you call off you're metal heads and I'll let go of Captain Failure here. Do we have a deal?"

"Deal"

"Good" I drop the pony I was holding as the rest of the guards were teleported away from me.

"And I'm not a beast, my operational designation is HK48 Bitch."

With that I turned and ran, still holding on to the sword.