A demon and a sentient virus walk into pony land, adventure ensues.
I finally get myself displaced but end up dragging my friend with me. I had nothing to lose, well nothing I cared about anyways Tony not so much. Let's just hope I am skilled enough to survive his anger without killing him and become his friend again.
My first story I have no editor I don't know if I will need one. Should be obvious but is a displaced don't like don't read. Tags will change as story goes on or if I feel they are un/necessary
It was a bright and sunny morning when I got up to go to the convention, my very first in fact. Doing my morning routine I put on my white button up shirt a gray hoodie over that and a black leather jacket with a red tribal marking on the back. I was going as my favorite game character ever, Alex Mercer but due to my poor eyesight I had to put on some contacts so I went to get them.
“Weeellllll shit” I cursed as I realized I was out off regular contacts. Remembering my special contacts I ran to my room went over to my bed and looked under. Right there it sat completely unassuming was a small box. Within was something I never thought I would use, two sets of specially designed prescription contact lenses that make my eyes look like the sharingan and rinnegan respectfully. Pulling it out, and going to the bathroom for a mirror and better lighting I pulled out the sharingan and put one in my left eye. When I went to put the right one in I dropped it on to the floor scrambling to get it I ended up crushing it.
“Damn it!” I yelled. I took a deep breath. Held it. Then slowly released it.
“At least I still have the rinnegan ones.” Not wanting to take the one I had in already I just kept it in. I had no trouble getting the right one in but that left me with only one rinnegan for later. Deciding to deal with it later I looked my self over. I could see just a bit about my dark brown hair covering my pale face.
‘I need a bit of a shave’ My scruff was getting a bit long but I had to leave now or I would be late.
Running downstairs out the door and to the car, I got in started it up and drove off to the convention going on down town, getting there and parking just an time to meet with my friend, Tony cosplaying as Virgil only missing his signature yamato.
“Hey, John.” He yelled while waving me over.
“Hey man how are you.” I responded happily.
“Thought you were a no show.”
“Hey my first con I’m not gonna miss it.”
“Alex Mercer nice choice… But what’s with the eyes?”
“I ran out of normal contacts ok. You know I don’t have many because I prefer glasses.”
“Looks cool but as Alex doesn’t make much sense. Hey look we’re in. How did we not notice?” He finishes sounding confused.
“What fun is there in making sense?”
“Amen to that!”
Shrugging we walked in a bit seeing a slightly less crowded area around a small and almost abandoned booth I lead Tony there I asked. “So what’s the, holy shit this is some true quality!” I said cutting myself off and motioning towards the high quality merchandise. He had things from the gjallarhorn to the dagger of time, all very high quality.
Seeing what I was pointing at he decided to take a closer look with me right behind. “Wow that’s some good stuff where did you get it?” He questioned while picking up a yamato and examining it.
“I make them myself stranger.” Said the man behind the table. Standing there voice and all was the merchant from Resident Evil.
Looking over the various items for sale I saw Alex Mercer’s claws. “How much for the claws and katakana?”
“That would be about $200 stranger”
Seeing Tony reach for his wallet and knowing exactly what’s gonna happen I put a hand on his shoulder and say “Don’t worry man I got this.”
“But shouldn’t I pay for the katana.”
“No just buy me lunch and we’re good.” I responded, getting a thumbs up. “ Ok $200 and here you go.” I wait just long enough for Tony to grab his new sword to slip on the claws. Once in place they start to tingle then slowly after that they start to burn. I look over to my friend and see his sword start to glow. Looking back to the merchant as my vision starts to fade “Don’t forget the eyes.” My vision goes black “They may have been mistake but I would love to have them included.” I start feeling nauseous and I swear I hear him chuckle and say:
“He he he. No problem stranger.”
I then collapse after a moment I hear Tony collapse next to me “ What’s going on?” I barely hear him say. I just smile and let unconsciousness take me.
’Unknown’ Location POV John
I slowly awaken to the chirping of birds nearby and the feeling of grass beneath me. Hoping the merchant actually followed through with my request I pulled out my phone and use the forward facing camera and take a good long look at my eyes and even tried taking out the contacts finding them to be real. The odd thing was my sharingan was a bit different it looked like a fusion of all of them.
‘Guess he couldn’t decide which one to give me oh well more power for me’ I jumped up in celebration accidentally leaping ten feet landing on my head with a thump my jubilation was cut short by a groan. Looking over I saw Tony, or should I say Virgil, waking up a few feet away.
‘What he should be in his own universe! Oh well, at least I have someone to help me through these odd times.’ Running over to him I crouched down and tried getting him to wake up faster by shaking his shoulders lightly.
His eyes flutter open as he sits up and looks at our new surroundings “Ok, what the fuck happened?” He more of demands than asks.
‘Should I lie and say I don’t know or tell the truth. He’ll probably get pissed if I say I knew what was going to happen and didn’t stop him.’ Finally deciding to play dumb I say “I don’t quite know but I do know I can jump higher and my eyes are real.”
“What! Bullshit! Wait how did you prove your eyes were real? How would you prove your eyes are real?”
“I can see much better and I see your demonic energy. So there’s that. Wait I have a amazing idea.” I stand up, make a hand seal and focus on pouring my new chakra into my hands and say “Shadow clone jutsu!” And in a poof of smoke ten perfect clones appear and five flawed ones. Tony is staring jaw dropped and eyes wide. “Ok you five disperse.” I order pointing at the flawed clones. Pointing to the other three I order, “The nine of you walking on trees. You meditate and remember all jutsus you can.” Saluting they all go to carry out their orders. Meanwhile Tony looks like he’s having a mental breakdown. So I give a good back hand to try and wake him up like I did in the good old days accidentally launching him into a tree snapping it in half. “OH SHIT! Dude you ok?”
Running over to him to see for the most part he’s just fine. “One ow you are dick. Two why didn’t that hurt more let alone not break anything. Three how did you get that strong? Four HOW THE FUCK DID YOU USE SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!”
“My guess is you are now actually Virgil now and blind luck.” I answered while walking back to were he dropped his sword.
“Ok then but how did you get that strong?” He asked getting up and brushing himself off.
Tossing his sword to him I started concentrating on my arms imagining them shifting to claws they shift quickly. Turning to him a look of fear on his face and a hand on his sword I answer. “Blacklight probably.” I turn around quickly faintly hearing clashing of steel. Without turning back to Virgil I say “Sounds like fighting, time to test our newfound power. Let’s go.” Shifting my claws away I start running towards the sound soon after I hear him follow not far behind.
“Wait the fuck up ass hole!”
After a minute or two we stop upon the edge of a clearing. Within said clearing is something I only partially expected, a camp of anthro ponies being raided by anthro griffins. The ponies are wearing golden knight armor while the griffins were wearing roman style steel armor at least I think it’s steel. The griffins main weapon seemed to be steel tipped partisan with short swords just in case they need it. The ponies used a more diverse range of weapons but even with diversity on their side they seemed to be losing. Considering the fact that some of them aren’t wearing full sets of armor I’m guessing that this was an ambush.
I turned to Tony and started whispering “Ok here’s the plan….”
Equestrian military camp POV Private Steel
Things were not going well for private Steel a unicorn with light gray fur and dark blue mane and tail. Ten minutes ago the camp was ambushed and 10 men fell immediately. Since then 15 more have fallen but at least they took some griffins down with them 12 to be exact.
The griffin in front of me was wielding twin daggers his spear having gotten stuck in the ground on a missed thrust. He dived down daggers aimed at my throat. I waited for the last second to dodge while he was to close to move I bashed his beak with the pommel. Making him squawk and put his hand over his face at that moment I stabbed him in the neck. Turning to a sword flying for my face to fast and close to block or dodge my eyes widen and I know I’m done for.
Clang
His sword stops an inch from my face, being blocked by a man in a blue trench coat using a neighponese style of sword that I can’t remember the name of. He has an flat face with small ice blue eyes, ears on the side of his head and white hair that’s slicked back. He looks the griffin straight in the eyes and says in a dark chilling voice, “My sword is thirsty I guess your blood will suffice.”
He then turns his blade so its edge mets the griffins edge and cuts right through his blade and decapitates him in one movement. He then turns to me and asks, “You ok?” My only reply is to slowly nod with a shocked expression. “Good, go help your friends.”
Shaking myself out of my shock I responded with, “Of course.” I watched as he ran off dismembering opponents left and right. He didn’t have much skill but he more than made up for it with speed and strength. I ran towards a group of five of my friends holding off seven griffins when a second man burst from the forest this time wearing a black jacket with white bands around the arms, red collar and an odd mask. The mask covered his whole head and had a swirl that led to it’s only eye hole on the left side of its face.
He jumps at the seven griffins with pure white blades extending from his sleeves. Stabbing and slicing them to bits. Within less than a minute all seven are dead their armor giving no resistance. I run over fearing for the lives of my comrades but it seems that fear is unfounded as offers a hand to them after retracting one of his blades. “Sorry I’m not good at healing, like at all.” He says before he notices me coming up behind him but when he does he looks over his shoulder at me. “Shouldn’t you be fighting?”
“I just wanted to thank you for sav-“ I’m cut off by him grabbing my shoulders and pushing me to the side just in time for a dive bombing griffin to miss me but still impale him. We all stare as he doesn’t even flinch at the spear in his chest. Reaching down he snaps it ware only two inches are sticking out then grabs the part the griffin is holding and yanks him down so he can stab him in the chest after he does black tendrils shoot from his sleeve and, for a lack of a better word, consumes him!
“W-w-what was that?!” I stutter shocked by what ever it was standing before me.
“You don’t want to know.” He answers as he pulls out the broken spear not even leaving a hole. “All of you clear out the camp!” He then jumps away to presumably kill some more.
“I have a felling something big has begun today.” One of the pegesi says in a disturbed tone.
I can only look to where the masked man jumped off to and say “You may be right. But let’s just hope it’s a good thing.”
Equestrian military camp a few minutes later POV John
All of the griffins were either killed or captured, my shadow clones had dispersed and we were being thanked for saving many lives. Tony turned to me and whispered, “What names should we go by?”
“I’m going by Alex Uchciha. You can go use anything just don’t make it stupid.”
“Really. Ok I’ll just be Virgil. Also how and where did you get that mask?”
“Alex Mercer can shape shift in game he never made any form just stole them due to game limitations I made this.”
“Oh, guessing it’s to hide your eyes.”
“Yep. Also we should give them as little information as possible, at least for now.”
I see the guy we first saved walking over to us. “I just wanted to thank you for saving us but, who exactly are you two?”
I look him in the eye and step forward “Alex Uchiha and my friend here is Virgil. Now can you give us your name, common courtesy after all.”
He straightens out gives a salute and says, “I’m private Steel Shield of the equestrian army.”
“Why are you saluting us? We aren’t your superiors let alone other soldiers.” Now that I could stop and pay attention I noticed the aura surrounding Steel looking at the others I saw they all had different colored auras. Looking to the griffins they all had light brown auras, makes sense they didn’t have strong magic let alone specialized like ponies do.
“Force of habit. Either way why are you here?” An understandable question two warriors of great strength wonder in and start killing things not the most trustworthy of impressions.
“Just wondering the lands and heard someone who needed help. So we came.” Eh close enough to the truth.
“Well what are you two gonna do now?”
“How about you start doing whatever you’re supposed to do after an attack and we will discuss our next action.” Slinging my arm over Ton-no Virgil’s shoulder and leading him to a more private spot.”Ok I know you’re going to have some questions so, shoot.”
“How come you already have control over blacklight?”
“I don’t have much it took a lot of concentration to make this mask and my blades.”
“Ok, how are you so calm about this?”
“I always had a hard time getting worked up about something and blacklight may have something to do with it.” Seeing a group of auras off in the distance coming closer I run back towards the others and yell, “Prepare yourselves something’s approaching.” Just after saying that a unicorn soldier runs up announcing,
“The reinforcements have arrived!”
Steel gives me an odd look. “How did you know about them?”
I point to my eye hole and say “My eye is special.”
“Ok then at this point I’m willing to accept it.” He says slumping his shoulders. ‘wow he is accepting’
Virgil walks up from behind and puts a hand on my shoulder whispering “So what is our next action.”
Looking back towards him “We rest, get a meal and go off into the forest to train our new powers. Then I will make my own peacekeeping force and end this war. What will you do with your new power?”
“For now, train after that I don’t know.”
I walk over to where the those originally in the camp are talking to the new guys. “I’ve taken a look at the bodies and there seems to be some where between two and three times as many hostiles as allies. Any idea why they would waste so many?” Though I already know because of the griffins I consumed but they don’t need to know that.
“Sorry we can’t exactly tell you that.”
As expected whatever this artifact does must be incredible. I didn’t know many details because I only consumed a few grunts ‘should’ve gone after the higher ups.’ “It’s ok we’ll be leaving tomorrow we have a lot of work to do.”
“What exactly is this ‘work’?”
“Oh, just wondering, learning and training.” I look to the sky and see the sun getting pretty low. “On second thought can we stay here fo the night?”
Steel looked to his comrades seeming to come to a silent agreement. “Sure. Follow me.”
So we followed him to a group of tents, at least intact ones. Leading us two a small sized tent he pointed to it and said. “You can sleep here we’re gonna have dinner soon over in that direction it’s just standard military rations. But with our losses I bet we can spare a couple sad as that fact is.”
“Just one I don’t need it.” Steel just nods and walks off to do whatever it is he does. I make some more shadow clones and have five of them doing energy control, two jutsu and three try and use kamui. They all run off into the forest to train then I remember I need hand to hand training, sure I got some from consuming the soldiers but I need more. So I make five more shadow clones to train in just that.
“Ok so you got your shadow clones, perfect memory and copy wheel eye but what about my training?” ‘Good point, good point. Aha!
“I could train you, I loved watching sword fights and demonstrations iaito especially.”
“I don’t like being so reliant on you.”
“Don’t worry I need you just as much as you need me if not more.”
“What, why?”
“Because my mind will mix with those I consume. I will need you to keep me stable, to keep me, well me. Now that I think of it those foot soldiers gave me a lot of information about this world wanna here it?”
“Sure we could use all the information we can get our hands on.”
“Ok so where to start…”
So we went over what we could before Virgil went to go eat while I trained. I trained him in the art of the sword for a few hours, afterwards I went to dispel my shadow clones and try out kamui. When morning came we set out into this new world.
The first two months where exactly as expected hunt, make camp, walk and train although not always in that order.
“I have an idea.” Virgil started he wasn’t wearing his coat today having me store it in the kamui dimension. I was wearing my white zetsu mask a akatsuki cloak zipped up completely a kunai knife hidden in each sleeve Incase I couldn’t shape shift for some reason. I was still ‘wearing’ jeans and black dress shoes though so I didn’t completely change my look. I looked over to Virgil and asked “What?”
“How about we raise an army and form our own country.”
“Nah I’m not good enough to run a country nor do I want to. But if you want to I’ll help.”
“Wait I thought you wanted a country just so you could name it Arstotzka?”
I shook my head “Not anymore. Hey there’s an energy signature up ahead, just one and sentient by the look of it.”
“How can you tell the difference between sentient and not?”
“The way the aura ‘acts’ if it’s a wild animal it lashes out at others and acts well wild. If it’s a sentient being it more or less keeps to itself and moves with purpose. I could give you a sharingan after I learn to alter others with blacklight without killing slash infecting them.”
“Awesome, can’t wait for it!”
We had finally arrived at the auras location there was a medium sized cart that looked like it was a big enough for one and a half people to live in it but one of its wheels were missing. There was a white Pegasus mare with bright and poofy yellow mane and tail. She was wearing some denim pants that were covered with scuff marks and a light brown shirt that hid the dirt on it quite well.
I’m guessing she heard us approach because she turned around and ran up to me to fast for me to track surprising me and making me fall to my ass with a yelp that I will forever deny.
“Hiya, cool mask where’d ya get it.” She said in a voice similar to Pinkie’s and with the same quickness as well.
I looked over to Virgil to see he was even more surprised than me understandable because I at least had an idea of who this was. Getting up and looking her in the eye I say “I made it myself thank you for the compliment.”
“Your welcome do you think you can make me one? Oh, where are my manners my name is Surprise what’s your name?”
Wow she can talk fast I only kept up due to my advanced brain. “I’m Alex Uch-“ I was interrupted by four individuals jumping out of the bushes, must not of heard them because I was focused completely towards Surprise. Looking at them I saw there was one pegasus two unicorns and one earth pony the were dressed in rags and dirty cloaks doing a decent job at hiding their bodies. The unicorns had chipped long swords, the pegasus had two slightly rusted daggers but they looked sharp, the earth pony had a sledgehammer that looked more for working than fighting.
“Alright give us everything you got and we won’t have any trouble .” The unicorn started taking a step forward and by his stance alone he wasn’t trained.
“The only trouble we’ll have is disposing of your corpses.” They immediately they turned towards me. The one that spoke started walking towards me, sword grasped tightly.
“You do know we outnumber you.”
“You do know we outmatch and outgun you.” He scowled at me and swung his sword, activating kamui having the blade phase right through me.
“What? Oh just an allusion so you are even more outnumbered. As I said give us GAK” he is cut off as I grab his throat and squeeze. After a moment of squeezing I apply more pressure and snap his neck having black tendrils shoot from my sleeve and consume him. Once that’s done I feel searing pain course through my body being the worst in my head while his memories flow into me.
His name was Lucky Haze, an illusionist who’s town was attacked and burned down by griffin soldiers. At this point the others he was with were the only ones to make it out that he knew of. At this point I was on my knees clutching my head in pain. They tried to take advantage of my moment of weakness and bum rush the others but Virgil used a judgment cut and decapitated the earth pony. Quickly rushing up and stabbing the other unicorn in the stomach. The pegasus flew up to avoid him but not for long as he jumped up and him in half.
By the time I had recovered the ‘fight’ was over although I was told it only lasted a minute at most the pain felt like years. I guess that’s what evolving and gaining years of memories at the same time feels like. But why did it hurt this time and not when I consumed the griffin. Might be the magic.
As I stood up Virgil and Surprise run over to help me up both asking if I’m alright. “I’m fine, I’m fine just give me a moment.” After getting up I extended my left arm which shot tendrils out and consumed all the bodies even the one trying to crawl away. Wincing at the new memories I turned around to a concerned Virgil and confused Surprise.
“Are you ok?”
“Yeah I’m fine.”
“What was all of that.” Apparently Surprise is tired of not getting an answer.
“Ok, I’ll tell you but I’m not going to explain everything. One word blacklight.”
“Really that’s it?”
“Yep”
“Ok what did you do to them.”
“For lack of a better explanation they became a part of me.”
“Are they dead?”
“They are never coming back but they live on in my mind.”
“I get that times can be tough but did you need to kill them?” Oh great we got a pacifist.
“They had two things I needed and extracting either would kill them.”
“And what would be those two things?”
“DNA and memories. The DNA for magic wings and even more strength.”
Virgil looked to me like I was crazy “Do you need even more strength?”
“Hey after a bit of experience and experimentation I’m giving you a sharingan. Oh my imagine Donte with the mangekyou sharingan in his devil trigger. Or you for that matter.”
Virgil looked at me accusingly, “And Just is that supposed to mean.”
“I’m just saying I think Donte is stroger then you.” After a moment I realized what I said and fall over laughing after composing myself I stand back up to correct myself,” I mean stronger not stroger.” I barely get out with my giggles. Virgil looked like he was in deep thought I tapped him on the shoulder, “What ya thinking?”
“It’s just do you still have organs or bones for that matter because I’m pretty sure you don’t.”
I look over to Surprise to see her utterly confused “ I only have lungs to help in speech I got nothing else. What brought on this question?”
“Oh it’s just I never heard your bones crack even in higher stress training we’ve been doing not have you shown any signs of internal damage other than lack of speech when I impale you.”
Surprise at least passed out when I said I had no organs. ‘Hmmm I thought she was the weird one maybe not or we’re the reason she’s weird or maybe that’s pinkie and Surprise has no relation to her. I dunno.’
We set up camp lying her down in a cot within the wagon and using a bit of ingenuity used are limited understanding of our powers to make a temporary place to sleep. I looked out to the forest, “I’ll take-“
“First watch, I know it’s not like I ever do it.” Virgil rudely interrupts me.
“No need to be rude about it.” I always take night watch because I don’t need to sleep and it allows me to hunt for new DNA samples. I’ve mapped out a large portion of the forest using my shadow clones. I’ve even attacked groups of griffins and helped some ponies but the mask they had while doing it was different, usually oni or kitsune masks.
With Surprise and Virgil asleep and my shadow clones out and training I sat down and watched over the camp.’ This is gonna be a long night’ I thought before seeing a bright navy blue aura in the distance coming towards us from the southwest. ‘Or maybe not’ I stood up and started running towards what ever this aura belonged to.