A human that does alot of DIY blacksmith who work for friends and himself ends up in Equestria when coming in contact with a book that holds knowledge of a strange and magical kind.
With book and blacksmith hammer in hand, read along to find out the story of a human DIY blacksmith as he makes do with a knew life in,
EQUESTRIA
sex tag is for sex jokes or innuendoes and random tag is for stuff that I don't care to explain.
Texas, the home of the plains and long-horns, basically my home state in America. Hey, my name's Kevin or as my friends like to call me, Tanker, the reason behind this nickname was of my hefty build of lot's of muscle and 7ft height. I was a lot shorter and considered chunky in my youth, but I was still as intimidating back then as I am now mainly because of my size compared to most around me, but I was and still am a massive tech nerd. So I was kinda insecure about my weight back then, then one day I had enough, looked at chunky self and said "fuck it," and started working out in natural ways: hiking, fishing, and of course my passion blacksmithing, which required a large amount of lifting, smacking, and pulling metal. Of course there's more to blacksmithing than that but what ya gonna do, anyway after two years of this plus my already high protein and calcium diet I grew to be a big boy. I eventually got a job in helping with melting down metals and small amounts of glass items for recycling purposes, I got a large sum of money every two months. I started my passion at the age of 15, got the job a year later and saved enough money by the time I was 19 I had a two story house in a small town with a huge backyard which doubled as my blacksmithing area and the town scrap yard. The town is called "Hogar Del Pollo" don't ask this town is kinda crazy, anyway I'm getting off track let's get back to the story shall we.
I was in my blacksmithing area minding my own business relaxing, drinking a root-beer watching my two German-shepherds Tala and Skyla playing with each other when a friend of mine walked around the five stacked wrecked corvettes.
"Honestly, Tanker how you don't get lost in this mess is astounding," I got up out of my game of thrones remake throne and greeted my friend Liam or as I call him.
"Can it, Rostlus, I could say the same for the mail room," he chuckled at my ribbing.
"Touché, you got me, anyway you got mail," can't be bills, I got those yesterday and payed them online.
"Mail? who's it from?"
"Dunno, but you need to sign this," he handed me a package and the clipboard and pen. I signed the paper for the package and handed it back to him.
"Thanks, Tanker, I should be going I have other things to deliver have a good day, OH! and see you tomorrow about my armored robes and sword,"
"You too, Rostlus," as he was walking away I called my dogs to follow me as I went inside the house. When me and my dogs got inside my dogs went and did there own things while I went up the stairs to my room.
"I wonder what it is?" I got to my room and walked past my amour and two handed war hammer, I set the package down on my bed, took out my trusty huntsman knife and opened the box, what I saw inside was jaw dropping.
"I didn't make this, but why does it have my engraving on it?" the one handed blacksmithing hammer was a beauty, the head was carved with what looked like utmost care and the handle was a type of polished wood I didn't recognize at the moment, but the most confusing part was MY engraving on it which was a unicorn head with a socket wrench for the horn was on the side. I picked it up and saw a note attached under the head of the hammer which read.
Hello human this hammer was made by me but I put your engraving on the sides to mark it as yours, there is a notebook under the foam holding the hammer that will help you with something, anyway see you soon friend. Oh and don't forget your other human friend.
-Discord
When I saw the name I instantly broke into a nerdy squeal, I failed to mention this earlier but me and Rostlus are huge fans of mlp. With that out of the way I put the hammer and note back in the box and put it in my bedside table compartment and quickly went to go grab my travel stuff and other stuff, All while sending a text to Rostlus
I spent most of the night getting ready for going to Equestria, I packed most of my tools, tech, and some other supplies. After the night passed Rostlus came over so we could talk about the package and his armor.
"I know yesterday was my last day as a mailman, but seriously why this early in the morning?" how he does morning shift without some coffee I have no idea.
"Okay~ guess you don't want that armored robe,"
"WHAT!?, n-no I want it, it's just early,"
"Sure,"
We're in my house's living room but on the table were his short sword and armored robes.
"Woah, they look amazing!"
"Told ya, the short sword was nothing but your armor on the other hand. Wasn't easy especially with all that cloth," I said barely containing my excitement.
The short sword pommel is shaped like the head of a bird. The cloth and chainmail armored robes were difficult to make mainly cause I had to look up how to make armor with cloth and metal. I ended up going with a hybrid mesh of titanium covered and slightly fused with military grade cloth fiber. It was worth it though to make my good friend happy, also kinda helps that he paid me well over two grand to make the stuff in a short period of time.
He held up his armored robes and proceeded to put it on, with some help from me in certain parts.
"I also had some spare leather and steel lying around so those belts have some clips for your 'short sword' as well as a couple pouches,"
"Thanks, Kevin, this was definitely worth standing still for three hours it's a tad snug but in the good way,"
"Hey, it wasn't that bad besides I wanted to make sure your armor wouldn't fall off or be loose, OH! Before I forget remember that package from yesterday,"
We decided to sit and talk for the next fifteen minutes about what to do and he eventually asked to see it for himself. I brought the package down and showed him the hammer, the note, and the book witch I'm guessing takes us to Equestria. He believed me and he quickly went to his home to pack some of his survival gear and grab his 'special' gun when he came back I was in my armor as well and I had my two-handed war hammer clipped to my back.
"H-holy shit, Tanker you actually look creepy in that armor,"
My armor was made to intimidate, showing I was not to be messed with, I based the armor of a mix medieval batman armor and dragon scales. My warhammer which I named Bone Breaker was based off of a mallet but it's something not to be trifled with.
"It's supposed to, but anyway you said you've been wanting to show me your special gun,"
"Ok, Liam, earlier you were talking about a 'special' gun of yours?"
"Yeah, here it is," what she showed me was mind blowing.
It was a working replica of the revolver from Assassin's creed V, reclamation. He handed it to me and I instantly started looking it over.
"Breech loading, empty casing ejector, Damascus steel grip, titanium barrel and ammo holder thing, steel butt with loop, and fires 10mm rounds," he handed me the holster for it and told me.
"Sorry it took so long, but it's not easy finding you a birthday present,"
"Thanks, Liam, no one's gotten me something like this before, anyway time to go to Equestria right?"
"Yeah,"
"Well we got all our stuff right here including Tala and Skyla so lets open that book,"
I got the book out and as soon as I opened it, it flew out of my hands and started spinning like a motor drill. It soon exploded with confetti and discord was floating were the book once was.
"Well, well, well, it's about time you opened that book I'm running out of time here. Anyway this is you last chance to not take anything,"
We looked at each other, nodded, put on my helmet, turned to Discord and said at the same time.
"We're ready,"
"Excellent let's go!"
FFWWOOOOOOOOOOOSH
DIMENSION SHIFT
SOCKET CAVERN: EQUESTRIA
FFWWOOOOOOOOOOOSH
When the magic sounds went away, I saw we were in a cavern with multiple little outcoves with small structures in them. There is a small blacksmith area, a shack, two random tunnels, and a house in the center, and opposite of the house, a large staircase to a fallout vault door with my logo on it.
"Where are we?"
"Yeah and why did you want us in Equestria?" looking around this cavern it's pretty symmetrical.
"Well my minions, we're in your new base, Socket Cavern, and the reason why is quite simple. You see this point in time is a little after I was freed from my stone prison and you two are my chaotic back up,"
We looked at each other and looked to Discord and asked at the same time. "And why is that?"
"Because you two are the only ones that can get rid of certain monsters in the future that I can't touch, because one being made of chaotic energy can't hurt another, while most harmonic beings can harm one another accidently or on purpose due to small amounts of chaotic energy but like most Eques born beings they don't have the right balance of harmonic and chaotic energy unlike you humans. That and you two can well, cause chaos, not enough to set me free if I lose but still enough to make some semblance of a balance.
Anyway I had to alter you both slightly so you could survive and live without worrying about ageing and there is three little robot helpers in your shack to help with certain tasks, OH! Here you go, Tanker, it's the base control pad you and you alone can summon it to upgrade the base with the robots go ahead and try, I gave you enough material to upgrade one thing and last a couple months,"
I looked at the base pad and looked at my options of what I could do.
option 1 upgrade blacksmith area will increase resource gain from ore and decrease resource use in projects by 10%
option 2 light up and explore tunnel 1 get more room and ore
option 3 upgrade home to level 2 more space and a hidden bunker room to store and protect valuable gear
option 4 light up and explore tunnel 2 get more room and ore
option 5 upgrade robot hut (2/5) robot efficiency increase by 10% +one robot per upgrade
option 6 upgrade vault door the door can no longer be opened from the outside unless by one that works for the good of Socket Cavern
"lets go with the door upgrade,"
"Let me make that instant," with a snap of his talons the vault door is done and looks awesome and impenetrable.
"Now how about you assign one of those bots a task,"
"Aight,"how about one go to door guard detail and another one go gather wood. the robots that left the hut looked quite strange, one went and stood next to the door and the other went to get wood.
"Well to me, you two look like you can handle your selves, Oh and watch out for the fatigue of jumping dimensions, TA TA!" He disappeared in a burst of confetti.
"So, Rostlus should we start unpacking our stuff in the new house?"
"Sure, Tanker,"
When we got inside the house Tala and Skyla started exploring. We both got our own rooms with a bathroom and a large closet to store our gear at the moment. There was also a living room with a 7ft by 5ft TV and every game console with disks for said consoles, as well as a kitchen, pantry, and walk in freezer.
"This place is nice,"
"I agree with you there, but ~YAWN~ I'm tired imma hit the hay, what about you?"
"I think I'll do the same,"
We went to our rooms and proceeded to do our own nightly routines then go to bed.
My vision soon came into focus, although a bit too clear considering I had gone to sleep. I no longer was in bed, but now I was in some sort of void filled with starry skies and flowing mist all around. Slowly, I got up to my feet, finding it strange that I stood with no visible ground beneath me.
"What manner of creature are you?"
Hearing the voice caused me to spin around to look behind me. I was surprised to see Princess Luna of the night standing before me, just as regal as ever. The princess was about to speak again, however I cut her to the chase.
"Why hello to you too," I said sarcastically. Hearing me speak apparently had an effect on the princess when she raised her front and took a step back
"You can talk!?" Luna asked with shock.
"I'm dreaming, aren’t I, Lulu?” I asked with a smirk. Luna stared at me with disgust due to not greeting her properly as royalty.
"You are not allowed to call me that, I am Princess Luna, Queen of the night Luna said as she took on a more royal stance with her chin up and chest out.
"Well, your highness, I am Tanker, Annoying blacksmith," I said back in a tone matching Luna’s.
"Are you mocking me!?" Luna yelled in a loudly as if I had insulted her. I noticed around me that the dreamscape changed to a slightly darker color according in reaction to her emotions.
"No, but you can't leave until we talk,"
"HA! like you can prevent me from leaving," Luna said with a lot of confident.
"Then why aren't you?" I asked this with a smug grin.
"HOW DARE YOU ASSUME I AM TRAPPED, I AM THE MISTRESS OF DREAMS!!!!" Luna screamed, resorting to using her royal equestria voice, causing me to be pushed back by its might.
"This is my dream and I just thought you would want to talk with me." I asked, still keeping my smugness despite being yell at.
She was a tad hesitant before giving me a glare and answering "Fine, I accept your offer, what do you want to talk about"
I awoke from a pleasant night of sleep to the sound of movement from where I think the blacksmith area was. I went through the morning routine of: brushing teeth, showering, 'other things', and putting on clean clothes. I walked in the kitchen wearing a black T-shirt and grey jogging shorts, to see a dome covered plate with a sticky note. "Yo, Rost here is some breky, by the way, I found out some neat things while you were asleep," "Heh you goof, I could have made my own," I took off the lid and saw steam rising off of the two well-done hash-browns and a breakfast burrito. After I ate the food, which was the best tasting food I've ever had. I went outside to see what those noises were and try and find Tanker. "HEY!, Tanker you out here?" "Yeah, just let me finish up here," I looked over at the blacksmith area to see Tanker and two robots working on something. "Yo, Tank, what you doin there?" It looked like a bunch of small items. "I'm working on something I found out from some books I found in a bookshelf that was in my room," "Ok, I'm gonna go train with my weapon," "Alright, have fun!"
P.O.V. SHIFT
Kevin/Tanker
When I woke up to answer the call of nature, I was still thinking over my conversation with Luna it went great, so I tried to do reading. I ended up with reading five out of the thirty or so books on the bookshelf, but what I learned was awesome and I wanted to put my engineering skills to use, after all, that's what I did in college, If you're wondering of what I'm talking about let me tell you a story. When I was still in school, my intelligence was not well known among my peers, so I worked and worked and ended up with a unique opportunity, since my school allowed us to work at our own pace I was way ahead of everyone else, so when I was offered to start my college classes in the middle of my final year of high-school, I took it and went with the math and engineering classes, I eventually finished those and graduated with a large amount of papers in my hands, but in truth I zoned out for most of the graduation party and I decided I didn't need to go to college, mainly because of the money I was earning. it also helps that I didn't really have much of a family, because my parents were ones I didn't care about, I have no idea why though. Anyway, let me tell you what I was working on, I was working on a device from a certain game I played but it has a fuck ton of tiny parts so it was difficult to put together and engrave the runes, but it was worth it and it was done so I called Rostlus over. "Hey!, Rost!, I finished the thing I was working on!" he came over from the other side of the house wearing his armored robes sans the hood, with his short sword on his belt. "Well, what did you make, Tanker?" I held up the new automaton I made, "Here is our new buddy, Buzz Beak! Buzz Beak, was based of a parrot so it can speak and repeat all manner of things," I turned him on and he scanned me and Rostlus to identify us as his masters, then he flew up and around the cavern shining his eye-lights everywhere, then he decided to land on my outstretched finger. "Buzz, say hello," It came out sounding like an autotuned pipsqueak, "Hello, Master Rostlus," "Aww, he is so adorable, hello, Buzz," "SQUAK!" Buzz proceeded to hover over to Rost and land on his shoulder. "Anyway, Rost, I worked on our armor so we don't have to clean them and our helmets can do some amazing things," "That was a weird thing to bring up," "I know, I know, its just I couldn't think of anything else to talk about," "It's ok, Tanker, anyway I'm gonna go explore," "Alright, have fun and don't forget Buzz,"
P.O.V. SHIFT
Rostlus
When I walked out of the vault door with Buzz Beak on my shoulder, I appeared at the entrance to a cave. "Well, the explains why when I looked out the vault door all I saw was nothing," I walked around expanding the discovered area of my upper right corner mini-map, but while I was doing that I started dredging up old memories of my years on earth. the house in the middle of nowhere, playing by the stream, my graduation of high school, my 24 birthday, and abandoning my father in the house after he set it on fire and saying I was a demon spawn, ahh, definitely the good old days.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
"Buzz Beak go check it out ill be there soon,"
P.O.V. SHIFT
3rd person
Rostlus ran as fast as he could following Buzz Beak's tracker rune. He dodged incoming trees, bushes, upturned roots, and small divots. Hoping against hope that he could make it in time and help the pony or ponies in danger. Meanwhile three fillies known as the CMC were running towards our bird obsessed friends trying to get away from the three timber wolves chasing them. Then one of them tripped causing the other two to stop in there tracks. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo worried for their friend, stopped and the cutie with a bow in here mane asked "Sweetie Belle are ya alright?" "Y-yeah, but I can't move," soon they were surrounded by the three timber wolves. But before they could pounce there was a mighty war cry akin to an enraged predator's mother. Then out of the trees came a strange metal clad creature we know as Rostlus. He charged the biggest of the three timber wolves and took off its head in on swing he then did a backflip and mounted the second timber wolf, he stabbed it in both of its eyes and spun of the timber wolf taking its head with him, and he threw the head with the short sword into the third timber wolf's head with such force both heads shattered. (music stops here)
P.O.V. SHIFT
Rostlus
I walked over to the awestruck fillies, crouched down and said in the most calming voice I could, "Hello, little ones,"
After saving the CMC from the Timberwolves I walked over to them and knelt to not scare them more.
"Hello, little ones," what I got in return was three extremely happy fillies.
"That was awesome! not as awesome as Rainbow Dash but still cool," heh, Scootaloo never change
"Are any of you hurt?" my cause for concern was true when Sweetie Belle lifted her foreleg for me to see.
"Oooh, little one come here," I gingerly picked up Sweetie Belle and told the other two to follow me, before I busted out into the area were they little ones were I told Buzz Beak to go scan out the area from there to Ponyville. As we were walking towards Ponyville Buzz came from up the path and landed on my right shoulder.
"Now I know you have even more questions now but let's wait until we get to safety first," Buzz looked at Sweetie and saw her injury and surprised me with something reminiscent of the Medi-gun from TF2, a baby-blue Medi-beam slowly went from his eyes to Sweetie's foreleg. After he finished, Sweetie wanted to be set on the ground but I told her we were almost there and she was too adorable to let go of. As we were I noticed the adult ponies are about double the height of a foal but I was twice as tall of the adults.
I soon saw the mane 6 approaching and three out of all of them had faces of pure rage when they spotted us, by far rarity was the most angry.
"Unhand my sister you ruffian!"
"Yeah! and Scoots stay away from that thing!"
"Applebloom when we get home yer in for a mighty heap of trouble!"
I gently set Sweetie on the ground and told the CMC and to go to there respective sisters. I quickly had to think of something to calm them down. "Dammit! Kevin was always better with words than me."
In the most disarming and soothing voice I could manage I tried being diplomatic. "Hello, I come here in peace, all I wish is for some food and water and I will be on my way," yay travelling alien speech bullshit.
Twilight looked at me with a suspicious gaze and asked, "What is your name?"
"My name is, Rostlus and this is Buzz Beak," they all looked at the metal bird with curiosity but snapped out of it quickly refocusing on me.
"Well, come with us we have some questions for you," they started walking off with me silently following them, one of them would occasionally look back to see if I was still following. Though no one noticed how Buzz Beak's eyes showed a slight hint of blue instead of the normally pure snow white eyes.
The walk through Ponyville was nice enough, no one ran in fear of me, most if not all the foals looked on with awe when they spotted me but the adults looked at me with worry. Short as it was the walk had to end and it ended at the Golden Oaks Library, after we got inside they went to the meeting area they usually went in the show when they all were doing something together.
After the mane six and the CMC took a seat in a semi-circle in front of me Twilight asked the first question as she poofed some old timey writing supplies in her magic, "First of all, Rostlus, what are you?"
"I am a human, and we are an extremely adaptive species,"
After she finished her scribbling she asked, "Okay, next question, how did you get to Equestria," "aw geez, what am I going to say, wait a minute!"
"Me and another one of my kind arrived here by accident by some strange magical surge that happened quite some time ago, you see we arrived in this cave right underneath that mountain city, but me and my friend only recently found a good home in the caves in the nearby forest, it reminds us of home,"
Rarity asked the question this time "Oh how dreadful but, how do you keep such magnificent beauty on your clothing darling?"
"I wouldn't know, my friend is the one that maintains our clothing,"
"Oh I ask her how she does it,"
I looked at her with a disappointed frown on my face and said, "My friend is male not female,"
She simply balked at the idea of a stallion doing anything involving clothing maintenance with such skill, even spike wasn't that good at washing his own little tux, at least that's what I thought was what went through her head at the time.
"It's alright, though I'm not offended it's just, he's like a big brother to me and I feel the need to protect him,"
"I reckon ya have a point there sugar cube but I was jest wondering, what were ya doin out there with our sisters anyhow?"
"I saved them from a pack of Timberwolves, but don't worry I made sure they were alright after I took the Timberwolves out,"
Rainbow dash got a cranky look and got in my face to ask, "Oh yeah! how did you do it, you clearly don't have claws or tough skin, I bet your lying!" all I did was unclip my short sword and point it near her face.
"That a good enough answer for ya?" I said this with a smug smirk while Dash backed off and looked kinda spooked.
Fluttershy asked the next question with some help from Rarity. "W-why does it look like a bird if it's a w-weapon,"
"Well my friend made my armor, my weapons, and Buzz Beak,"
"Okay, Rostlus, I'm sorry for being rude but your a new species that came near town with some weapons, anyway my name is Twilight Sparkle,"
After Twilight introduced her friends and the CMC to me they asked some more unimportant questions sometime near the end it was apparent to everyone that it was quite late, so Twilight offered me her guest room and I gladly accepted. Though before I went to bed I sent Buzz back to base to inform Kevin where I was
Grabbing some books off the bookshelf and my new hammer I made a quick breakfast for myself then went out to the forge while pulling out the magic tablet discord gave me.
After fishing out the DMT (Discord's Magic Tablet) I tapped on a app that was labeled as blueprints and when it finished loading a tiny holographic wolf appeared.
"Howdy there mine friend my name is J.E.V.I.N. your personal tablet organizer and assistant you may ask questions if you wish" my 'apparent' tablet assistant was constantly changing accents between a Texan accent, a German speaking English accent, a Russian speaking English accent, and a neutral accent. As soon as he started talking I felt as he was going to give me a massive headache in the future.
"Okay, does your name stand for something," forgot to mention that there was subtitles appearing below him as he talked.
"Oh yes it stands for 'Just, Everyone's, Very, Important, Neighbor"
looking at him in disbelief I asked "Really?"
"No sadly, I was human once before my death by scoliosis surgery which had a 75% percent chance of success," after he finished he looked down looking dejected.
"Wait, how did you turn into a wolf?"
Looking away and gaining a far off gaze in his eyes he said, "Well I died and discord happened across me before I could reach Heaven, yes it's real also to clarify I am Christion. Anyway Discord grabbed my soul before I could cross over and awakened me and my inner magic and well that's how I became a spirit linked to a magical tablet...but when discord did that I saw the pearly gates of heaven close and I heard Discord say I could die but only when my user does, "
"Oh...that's kinda sad,"
"Yea, I know, but let's not focus on that shall we I have multiple designs already within this thing,"
Blinking out the preformed tears away I looked at the blueprint count.
"W-wait, why does it say 3 hundred and sixty-seven blueprints available, also how long have you been a tablet?"
Looking embarrassed he said,"Well I've been a tablet for about an hour before Discord linked me to you, oh also I will dispense medical assistance to you if you are harmed or you want help healing someone,"
"That's good to know, but you didn't answer one of my questions, why are there so many blueprints, Discord said you only had thirty on you,"
"Hehe, well that's because I learn along with you, what you read I read as well, and no I don't look through your brain so yes you can keep secrets from me but I'm technically an invisible spirit that's connected to you, so I'm can choose between appearing next to you or just stay unnoticeable I'll also lend you my new found power when those types of things arrive,"
"Thanks I guess, I'm going to work on some of those blue prints now," after I finished saying that he nodded to me and disappeared.
Pulling up the blueprints and calling over a bot to help me I got to work.
Appearing on my shoulder looking smug Jevin said, "Told you it would,"
"Okay, fine you win that round,"
Looking down at my right gauntlet with its new modification quickly going over how it works once more within my head. It's called the Steef arm crossbow and fires mini-crossbow bolts and it reloads by teleporting the next round from my Hammer Space into the firing chamber when the string draws back, and it's all thanks to the runic array Jevin came up with. An added perk is also that it folds in on itself to look like and act as extra armor to the right gauntlet thanks to the runes.
(imagine it merged with Kyle's right gauntlet)
Folding up the Steef and putting it in my HS (Hammer Space) I turned my face slightly to turn my attention to Jevin and said, "Hey, thanks for teaching me ho to actually do certain spells more efficiently,"
"You're welcome, since we'll be stuck to each other for quite some time I might as well try to be friends with you, also go ahead and test the other two things we made on the magic dummy that I made the consistent with wood,"
Nodding I pull out a Wingstick from my HS and threw it at the realistic dummy as it came at me decapitating it and the Wingstick coming back to me and automatically going into my HS.
(this is a Wingstick)
Pulling out my left gauntlet I activated it to CDM(Claw Duster Mode) watching the weapon unfold and lock in place. I then charged the newly appeared attack dummy, jumped and put all my force into my swing and cleaving the dummy into ribbons.
[warning I'm only going to use claw one and dusters 2)
Landing on the ground with a heavy thud I folded up the CDM with a thought and put it into my Hammer Space.
standing up I saw Jevin appeared near my face with a smile.
"Okay dude, You should go inside to rest and cook some food for your partner, then finish Buzz Beak,"
"Alright I did spend quite a bit of energy on my new weapons,"
Walking inside I pet my dogs as I passed them to go in the kitchen and make Rostlus some food.
