//------------------------------// // Beat Downs, Bass Guitars, and Back Stories, OH MY! // Story: The Chronicles of a Travelling Brony // by Raven Smite //------------------------------// Chapter Five Beat-Downs, Bass Guitars, and Back Stories, OH MY!        Josh ran towards Chuck Norris, who just stepped back slightly into a more defensive stance. This is how their spars usually went; with Josh on the offense first, then Chuck Norris on the offense to test his defense. Josh was about 5/8ths of the way to Norris when he dove forward, planted his hands on the ground, twisted, and pushed off into a flying mule kick. "I call this one, BUCK TO THE HEAD!" He yelled as he flew towards his master.        Chuck Norris smirked, and simply put his hands up in a simple cross block. When Josh's feet made contact with his arms, Norris was actually surprised when he was pushed back about 3 feet. Josh springboarded backward off of his opponent and rushed him again, this time going for a regular flying straight kick, but then he somehow started spinning in mid-air on the axis of his right leg. "CORCKSCREW HALF-BUCK!"         Norris caught the spinning limb with ease, but his eyes widened when Josh's momentum kept him spinning, and allowed him to send a roundhouse kick going roughly 50mph straight for his head. "ROUNDHOUSE FOLLOW THROUGH!" Josh yelled.        Norris smirked when he saw his chance. He brought up his forearm and blocked Josh's roundhouse kick. Then he let go of Josh's other foot and did a jumping roundhouse kick to Josh's stomach, sending Josh flying and crashing into one of the dojo's walls. (Like So)        Josh groaned as he got up. "Okay, that hurt... WAIT A SECOND!" Josh's eyes widened as he pointed an accusing finger at Chuck Norris, "YOU STOLE THAT FROM FLCL!!"        Chuck Norris... Chuckled (Ba-Dum, Tsh!), "What can I say? Canti has some pretty badass moves!"        Josh smirked as he reached into his Pocket Dimension, "Well, if you're going to go there, I guess I'm going to have to get out, THIS!" He yelled as he pulled out a familiar blue Rickenbacker.        Norris's eyes widened, "You wouldn't."        Josh's smirk took on a slightly evil glint, "Wouldn't I? FLCL Form: Atomsk..." And with those words, his body became a glowing red silhouette and dashed at Chick Norris. Just as he was about to swing the instrumental weapon, a loud, electronic, and slightly British-sounding voice emanated throughout the room. "Attention, sir. There appears to be someone at the door."        Josh stopped right in front of Chuck Norris, the bass raised for the strike. "There is? Well damn... Guess we'll have to continue this fight at a later date, Master Norris." He said as the red color dissipated and he replaced the bass in his Pocket Dimension.        Chuck Norris just smiled, "Yeah, and too bad for that. I was just about to win!"        Josh smirked good naturedly, "Like hell you were! I was going to completely wreck your face!" He said as he disabled the simulation.         "You just keep telling yourself that, kid. See you the next time we spar!" And the simulation disappeared.        Josh smiled as he left the combat simulation room. His spars with his masters were always different due to the randomized program he had installed it it. He morphed back into a pegasus as he walked over to a door and opened it to his favorite pony. "Hi Ditzy! What can I do for you?"        Ditzy just looked like she was trying to keep from crying. Noticing this Raven asked her, "Ditzy? What's wrong? Why are you crying?"        Ditzy sniffled, "Twilight told me about your past. I'm so sorry! I didn't know about your marefriend! I must have brought up some really bad memories! Please don't hate me!"        Raven shook his head, "Ditzy, come inside."        Ditzy noodled, and walked in. She looked around and her eyes widened to the size of basketballs (about 15% larger than normal). This house was HUGE! She looked over at Raven, who was smirking slightly. "Wha... How... I don't even.... Huh? It's bigger on the inside! How?"        Raven chuckled, "Just a bit of borrowed Timelord technology, nothing major. Now, why would you think that I would hate you?"        Ditzy's face fell again as she remembered why she had come in the first place. "Twilight told me about how your love died, and I'm scared that I might have given you reason to hate me after I kissed you in the hospital, because you didn't visit me at all..."        Raven just smiled warmly, "Ditzy, I've been building my house for the past week. I wanted to visit you, but by the time I got my work done for the day, visiting hours would always be over. I could never hate you."        Ditzy's heart soared. He didn't hate her! She still had a chance! "Oh, thank you! I don't think I could stand loosing a friend. It's just that, not many ponies are nice to me, and if I were to lose you, it would really hurt because..." She mumbled the last bit.        Raven cocked his head to the side. "What was that last bit? I couldn't quite hear you."        "I .,,.__.,." She mumbled again.        "Can you please speak up, Ditzy?"        "I REALLY LIKE YOU!" Ditzy shouted.        Raven's eyes widened, then his gaze softened. "Ditzy... I really like you too... But, there are several reasons that we can't be together..."        "WHAT!? WHY?!" Ditzy shouted, tears forming in her eyes again.        Raven sighed, "I could tell you, but you can't tell anypony and you may not like me anymore after I tell you."        "We'll see, now tell me."        "Fine, sit down." After she seated herself on the couch, he started his story. "To start off, I am not from this world. I am an Inter-Dimensional Traveler of the Traveler Corps. I am a Chief Warrant Officer, I'm not actually a pony, and I'm immortal."        "What do you mean you're not a pony? You look like a normal Pegasus to me."        Raven smirked and morphed into a human, "How about now?" Josh asked.        Ditzy sat there, mouth agape. "Huh... Who... WHAT are you?" She all but shouted.        "Well, I'm a human. We are a semi-intelligent race of bi-pedal hairless apes. We don't have magic, at least not your type of magic. But we make up for it with technology, which we have lots of. I am part of an organization which travels throughout the multiverse a d different dimensions thereof, and help those in need. Another thing about this job is that we are immortal, but, as Twilight told you, it often prevents us from having relationships. My girlfriend, Gazz, was also part of the Corps., one of the new recruits.         "She was sent to a certain dimension that every new recruit is sent to to receive advanced training and immortality. This universe is actually one of a popular video game back on human Earth called Team Fortress 2. It's basically two different teams, RED and BLU, who have developed a machine that will rescan them in a certain area if they die, and they spend all of their days fighting and killing each other over who knows what. The immortality bit comes from an Engineer; a mechanical genius who had made a potable version of the respawn device that will bring back anyone who wears it within a few minutes.        "Anyway, she went into the dimension to receive her advanced training and her immortality, and a Sniper- one of the long range hunters- killed her. Now, normally, this would mean she would just come back in the area all of the others do, but she hadn't been there long enough to integrate herself with the main respawn device. Because of this, when she was killed, she stayed dead." Josh had tears running down his cheeks now. "I was devastated by her death, but what I did next disgusts me to this day. I went to 17 different Team Fortress 2 dimensions, dismantled the main respawn device, and slowly and painfully slaughtered each and every person there.        "I was in a blind rage the whole time, and when I calmed down, I realized what I had done; and I was horrified. After that, I threw myself into my work, taking only the most dangerous jobs and letting myself die whenever possible. I thought by doing that I could eventually forgive myself." He turned away from Ditzy, fully crying now. "I can understand if you never want to see me again, Ditzy. I'm nothing but a mon-" He was interrupted by Ditzy throwing her front hooves around in a hug.        "I could NEVER hate you, Raven! You're too nice for anypony to hate you! You're not a monster, you're not a killer, you just lost somepony you love! That doesn't make you bad!"        "But that doesn't take away from the fact that I killed a lot of innocent people. People that didn't deserve to die... I'm really sorry Ditzy, I just don't think I can be with you..." Josh said sadly.        "Why not give it a chance? We go out for a month and if you still feel that way, we just go back to being friends?"        "... Alright. One month. Ditzy, would you like to go out with me tomorrow?"        Ditzy squealed and jumped up, "YES! I would love to! I get off of work around 8:00. Since you don't know where I live, how about we just meet up in Town Square?" At Josh's nod, she squealed again, "Great! See you tomorrow night!" And she flew off. CHAPTER 5 END Whew! Done! I typed this all up in about 2 hours, with regular distraction intervals (Bobulator) and it is now 5:00 AM, I have been up all night, and I am going to go for a 30 minute bike ride before traffic starts to pick up. The next chapter will be a bit shorter and the one after that will finally introduce a villain in this story. Also, I wrote this whole thing on an iPad! Do you even know how bloody hard it is to type on an iPad!? Really bloody annoying... Anyways, Onwards and Upwards: ALLONS-Y!!