Deaths Blossom

by BioQuillFiction


Chapter 2: New Job, New Rules

As Blueblood’s bodyguard/servant, I had two basic things to do. Get him what he asks for, and keep him safe. By any means, Celestia clarified, same went for Cadence too. So I gotta split my time between the two somehow, or keep them together as often as possible...Bingo.

When I requested a large TV, Celestia looked at me strangely, but I explained it was to make my job easier and entertain Cadence and Blueblood she didn’t question it further. She got a Really large TV and had it placed in the sitting room, I kept my room locked but brought with me the NES and Mario World. I hooked it up and, thank god, it worked right away. “What...is this?” Blue Blood asked.

“Entertainment from my world, this thing and game here are actually really old back home.” I explained, hooking up the two controllers.

“It’s a game? Like chess?” Cadence asked.

I chuckled. “Do you know what a video game is?” I asked, the two shaking their heads. “Wow, you have DVD movies, but not video games. You poor deprived children.” Than made those two look at each other confusingly. When the game booted up I selected new game and set it to 2 player. I then gave Cadence the player 1 control and Blueblood the player 2 control. “Alright, control are simple, that little cross on the left controls the character on the screen, the buttons on the right make them do specific actions, and the ones in the middle pause the game, most of the time, and yes, that’s what they do in this game?” They both looked at me confused. “Trust me, once you get the hang of it, it’s fun and easy...just remember to blink when you get into it.”

Five Hours Later

“Blueblood, Cadence?” Celestia asked, walking into the sItting room. She saw them  both sitting on the couch, I watching them as they, played the game. Celestia walked up to me. “What show is this?”

“Not a show, a video games.” I explained, followed by a brief explanation as to what a videogame was.

“I see, so those strange boxes allow you to play as another in a fantasy world?”

“Like a movie you control.”

“How long have they been...playing?”

“Five hours.”

“Are their eyes supposed to be that red?”

I looked at the kids eyes. “Damn, I told them to blink.” I said, turning the system off.

“NOOOO!!!” Cadence and Blueblood yelled. They then both yield and rubbed their eyes.

“I told you two to blink.”

“We were almost at the fifth castle…” Cadence wined.


A month passed since my first day and now it was time for the Grand Galloping Galla. I am to watch over Cadence and Blueblood and when it gets late, escort them to their bedrooms. This might be a challenge, since there will be a lot of ponies here and I will have to keep them both in check.

Cadence was dressed in a pink and sunset orange dress and Blueblood was dressed in a simple black tux. Since I’m their guard I get to wear my Reaper attire, much to the dislikes of the snobby guests here.

“This is boring.” BLueblood sighed.

“Agreed.” Cadence said.

The three of us were at a table just ordering drinks and the occasional snack. “Yeah...Well, since we got nothing else better to do, how about we do this.” I start, sitting up right. “I know little about you two despite being your guard/servant for a month now. You each ask me a question, and I ask a question about you two. Deal?”

Cadence and Blueblood both looked at each other and sat up. “Alright...What’s your name. Your real name.” Cadence asked.

“Chris.”

“Odd name.”

“DIfferent world, remember?”

“What’s earth like?” Blueblood asked. “You only talk about it in small bits.”

I chuckled. “Earth is...strange. To you anyway. There’s no magic, no pegasi, unicorns, earth ponies there kinda are, but they aren’t like you two, able to walk and talk… Actually only humans can talk, and have sentient.”

“Sentient?” Cadence asked.

“It means smart enough to know right and wrong, and who you are. We...humans. We are obsessed, always asking questions we have to find the answers too. It used to be that when something new and strange came around we’d call it evil and burn it, kill it, just want it to go away. Nowadays, when something we don’t understand comes around we wanna know how it works, what makes it tick. That change in mindset lead to things like the games you both seem to enjoy, advancements in technology, science. Hell, we put people on the moon and into space.”

“Wow…” They both said.

“My turn. Cadance, Blueblood. Where are you two from?”

“Well. I came from village west of Canterlot. My village was being torn apart by a witch that was harvesting the love and energy from everyone. I confronted her and managed to stop her, and I blacked out. When I woke up, I was in Canterlot, had a horn, and auntie filled me in on the rest. Village was safe, and for my selfless actions auntie made me an alicorn.”

“Alright, Blueblood.”

Blueblood sighed. “I am from here, Canterlot. My parents were nobles that worked with the crown as finance managers. Well, about seven years ago it turns out they were taking money from the crown, so they are in the dungeon, and aunt adopted me. I was just three and had nothing to do with what they were doing. I don’t remember much about them, but when I did see them in the dungeon ones they seemed...nice.”

“I’m sorry. Money can turn nice people into monsters if they let it.”

“Well. What were your parents like?” Blueblood asked.

Now I sighed. “My dad, I never knew him, the man I grew up calling dad when I was young was fun, but after a move to another state, when he finally was able to come over he was...different. He would rather drink and smoke than be with us. My mom was a good person, a little too religious and superstitious personally but she was good...til she got ill. She was in pain, began hating everything, no medicines worked, and since she couldn’t be left alone I had to stay with her. Some days she would sleep through it all, all day, others...she was screaming, crying all day and night from the pain. It got to the point where...I snapped. I couldn't’ handle it any more, had her sent to a nursing home...she died not long after. She just let herself go.

“I had known for a long time that, my family...we can get along, but not for long term. We do best when we only talk and meet up here and there...So I left, didn’t tell a soul where I went, even changed my last name to make sure they couldn’t find me easy.”

“Why?”

“Because the things I said to my mom when I snapped...I couldn’t face my family. I got a job in the one place I figured they’d never look. A place called New York. It was a crowded, noisy city, but I made due. Worked in records for a company. Basically I just sat in the basement where all the past files and such were kept, and when someone needed one of those files, which was rarely, I lead them to it. All in all, I kept my life simple, and even when I was working I had free time, so I gamed. Watched tv, and still got paid.”

“What changed to bring you here?” Cadence asked.

“Curiousity. I had a few grand, about three thousand dollars saved for a rainy day, and I was gonna use it to go to a convention. E3. It was being held a few states away from where I was, all video games, and video game related stuff. I was there for a few hours, buying mostly before I was gonna go to any reveals. I got those weapons you see me with and was playing with them. They weren’t real, before anyway. Next thing I know the lights went out and, well, here I am.”

BANG!

I reacted, pulling the table over and keeping the kids low behind it. I looked out from the side, seeing one of the nobles missing their head. “Kids, look down and stay close.” I said, getting them up with me and leading them to where guards were leading the crowds. Once they were safe I pulled out the shotguns. Here’s hoping they “reload” Like Reapers. “Show yourself!”

“Well well,” I turned around. My eyes widened at who I was looking at...Widowmaker. “Took long enough to find you Reaper. Sombra took her time making an interdimensional locater, but finally we found you.”

“...So she made a portal?” I asked, playing dumb.

“Yeah, and it seems you have your boney fingers in this world’s kingdom. Got any plans?”

“Just my job here.”

That made her chuckle. “Doing what? Playing bodyguard to some rich brats?”

When she turned around as some guards were entering, I pulled both shotguns out, and fired, both her arms being blasted off as she screamed in agony. “Yeah.” I said, the guards looking scared as they walked up. “Get her a doctor. And restrain her legs, she can still kill you without her arms.”

“Grah! Traitor! You’re not Reaper! Who are you!?” Widowmaker yelled as the guards started to pick her up, carrying her to a medic. Heh, good thing her heartbeat is slowed, it will keep her alive longer.

“Who was that Reaper?” I turned around, seeing Celestia there.

“Widowmaker. An assassin for a terrorist organization, not from earth, or at least mine.”

“Yet another world?” She asked.

“Sort of. Follow me.” I said, leading her to my room, where I kept my games and other consoles when Blueblood or Cadence wasn’t playing them. I turned on the PS4 and pulled out the Overwatch disk. “She comes from this.” I said, handing her the disk.

“A...one of your games?”

“It was supposed to be a game...but then again, here I am with Reaper’s powers and there Widowmaker was, thinking I was him.”

“So...what do you think is going on?”

“Something tells me that what I thought were games, what everyone on my world thought was just games on my world, might be real, at least in other realities. So, that makes it a possibility of this world.” I tapped the game disk in her hand. “Flowing out into this one. And god knows what else.”

“That’s worrying. Are these games why you told me about that filly, Twilight Sparkle?”

I sighed, grabbing my laptop and booting it up, quickly entering my media folder and finding the MLP episodes/movies. I then played the first episode ever and showed it to Celestia. “Your world in mine isn’t a videogame, like the one Widowmaker is from, it’s a TV show, though, as you can clearly see there are differences, I am only assuming there will be similarities.”

“So in other words this...TV show version of this Equestria might have similar if not exact events similar to what happens in this show?”

“Bingo. But, with me, and now this event with Widowmaker, I am not sure how much of this show will still ring true in this world.”

“But you are thinking that preparing for them, even if they end up not happening.”

“Better safe than sorry, right?”

“True...on one condition.”

“Being?”

“I wish to have all these consoles, and games, and this…”

“Computer, laptop specifically.”

“Computer. Wow, ours are still rather large. These items all examined, copied, and made for our markets, though, we will take some artistic licensing with the games and what they hold. We don’t want too many details being similar enough for the citizens to make connections.”

“Well, alright...but promise, that once they know what they are doing, everything will be working properly when returned. As I told you when you first saw them, these things are expensive.”

“Relax, a simple examination spell should let us learn all we need to know. As for things like operating systems, we will have to create that from the ground up.”

“Okay fine. You had me worried.”


“They already sent someone to retrieve him?!”

“Calm yourself, thanks to Tracer and Lucio’s work, we have the blueprints that Sombra used to make the portal machine. I can recreate it, and thank to the Overwatch medical records Mercy kept, we have Reapers DNA. Even if it’s from before he became Reaper, it should be enough.”

“Alright...just let me know when it’s ready so you can send me to deal with him.”

“No.”

“What?”

“When it’s complete, we will be sending Genji.”

“You can’t-”

“Jack! Your past with him is the reason we decided on this. Look, from what I can tell, so long as the portal is operating, we can tell vital signs. If Genji… Then, and only then will we send you.”

“...Fine Winston.”