(Sky)
(5 minutes later)
The group floated towards Canterlot on either clay dragon or a cloud of sand. Some of the Mane six decided to question the newcomers as they did Zeko. “So you guys are his friends? How do we know that you’re on the up and up?” Rainbow Dash questioned Nouka in particular but was surprised by his response.
“Well I am sorry if you don’t trust us but I’ve been Zeko’s friend for a while and Kotetsu’s known him since they were kids. Zeko is a really good friend to me and doesn’t make fun of me being technically weaker than them.”
“Whaddya mean ‘weaker than them’? Ain’t you a fighter too?” Applejack asked.
“I am but not like them, I can only use my clay to fight and I’m not very good at hand to hand. I can control how much power I put into each clay creature I make and how large the explosion will be.” Nouka explained to the mares that were with him but was confused when they looked underneath themselves frantically
“Is this thing gonna explode?!” Rainbow Dash questioned
“No it’s disabled, Kotetsu used a lightning style move to make it unable to detonate.” They relaxed once he said this allowing him to look over at his friend’s sand cloud and think.
“I wonder how they’re doing.”
On the cloud of sand Kotetsu was doing one of the things he does best, “So do you girls go into heat and try to rape guys?” What Kotetsu does best is ask things that are entirely inappropriate at the time, and what he asked made the 3 mares on the cloud of sand blush heavily.
“What the hell is wrong with you, where did you even get that idea from?” Zeko was used to his cousin’s off questions but was nothing short of angered and yet curious
“When we were looking for you there were different ‘mirror’ worlds that we went to, one of them had a population of mostly females and they were in heat when we got there. I’m planning on paying it a visit at some point.” Kotetsu looked up with a slight smile. Zeko looked back at Twilight, Rarity, and Fluttershy who still held heavy blushes.
“They let Applejack, Pinkie, and Rainbow go with Nouka to interrogate him but I know that Kotetsu’s the one they should be wary of.” He thought while Twilight began to stammer and form a sentence.
“W-we... I-In some... t-there are...” She wasn’t able to focus long enough to make a sentence to answer Kotetsu.
“So I’m right? You do go into heat and try to-“
“NO!” Twilight cut him off before he could finish. “We don’t force anypony to do anything when we’re like that... we just get very receptive and... amorous...” Kotetsu smiled to Zeko and nodded.
“You chose quite the place to end up in. You’ll be drowned in flesh and fur, which could be weird but I wouldn’t thi-“ A sand arm flung Kotetsu off of the cloud and to the ground below.
“He’s an acquired taste but you learn to enjoy his personality over time.” Zeko sheepishly said the the mares who tried their hardest to not look him in the eyes.
“U-um is h-he going t-to be ok?” Fluttershy managed to squeak out
“I’m fine! Just hanging under here.Wait a second... did that dragon have a hoard of treasure? I know I’ve heard stories that they do.” Kotetsu asked while standing on the underside of the cloud
“Why yes he did have quite the collection of gold and the most marvelous jewels I’ve ever seen.” The cloud shook and Zeko facepalmed which confuses the mares
“He jumped off.” Twilight’s eyes were the size of dinner plates and she went to look below them but was stopped by a small column of sand. “Calm down, He can take this fall no problem but we can go get that gold later.” The cloud descended quickly to catch up to Kotetsu who was speeding back to the mountain but had to soo once he was encased in water.
“Oh come on! It’s gold and jewels! We could be rich!” Kotetsu struggled inside his prison but was brought back onto the cloud
“It’ll be there when we come back, the longer we take to get to the capital the higher the chances of something coming across it.” The cloud went back into the sky where Nouka and the others were waiting
“What happened to him?” They all asked, curious as to why they had to be stopped from their trip.
“Don’t worry about it.” Zeko said and continued leading the way
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(Canterlot Castle)
(10 minutes later)
Nouka and Kotetsu were busy admiring the craftsmanship of the castle just as Zeko did to notice the guards open the doors leading to the Princesses. “Well well, it seems that we have more visitors.” Celestia spoke once she noticed Nouka and Kotetsu. Everyone else knelt down before her excluding the shinobi trio.
“Hey guys I think we should do that.” Nouka whispered, kneeling down in respect earning dissatisfied looks from Kotetsu and Zeko
“Damnit Nouka, I didn’t do it when I should have and we both know Kotetsu won’t.” He gestured to his cousin who was standing there, brows raised at Celestia and Luna
“These are the rulers here?” He whispered and got a nod from Zeko. “In a different reality I broke her horn!” Zeko’s eyes went wide and the ponies in the room gasped
“Wait they’re horse people, their hearing should be... oh not good.” Zeko thought to himself as Celestia walked down to them causing Zeko and Kotetsu to tense up in anticipation
“I’m not sure I heard that correctly... you broke the horn of a different me? Why did you have to do something like that?” She asked not showing any malice towards Kotetsu
“Well she told us we violated an important law and that we had to be imprisoned. I didn’t take that well and we had to defend ourselves.” Zeko looked over at him with a deadpan expression, knowing what Kotetsu’s self defense is
“So you probably killed something in front her her first, then tried to humiliate her and finished it by breaking her horn.” Kotetsu looked upwards with an expression that showed he was happy, proving that Zeko was right
“Y-You killed somepony?” Twilight asked, shocked at the revelation
“In those different realities, yeah I did. But to be fair, how was I supposed to know that murder wasn’t something that I could punish?”
“Hold on, you killed someone who killed someone else? How is that a crime?” Zeko questioned in a blunt manner which made everyone look at him accusingly. “What’s wrong?”
Applejack decided to break the tension with a simple question, one that was on everypony’s mind; “Ya said that ya had to kill before... weren’t ya forced to do it?”
“Yeah, you didn’t have a choice in it so it wasn’t wrong but it wasn’t right.” Rainbow Dash chimed in while Kotetsu started snickering to himself and Nouka just looked around, trying to avoid eye contact. She flew into Kotetsu’s face; “What’s so funny kid? Being forced to do something so bad is a joke?” She backed away once Celestia sent a disapproving look her way
“He’s laughing because you think we didn’t want to kill anyone, we killed constantly if we felt like it.” The guards raised their swords in a defensive stance and the Mane six moves away from the trio
“You would take lives as if it weren’t an issue? How could you do something like that?” Celestia asked while recalling combat spells just in case
“Well a sword to the throat...” Kotetsu stated
“A Sand Burial...” Zeko said
“Detonating clay...” Nouka added
“Or even a liger bomb.” Zeko finished making Twilight widen her eyes in shock and fall back onto the floor
“T-that thing y-you did to Sh-Shining... Y-you tried to k-ki-ki...” she started hyperventilating and was calmed down by Pinkie Pie putting an arm around her in a comforting manner
“If I wanted to kill your brother he’d be dead instead of just having healing ribs. The liger bomb I gave him wasn’t that strong... compared to what I can do.” Zeko explained to those in the room
“And as much as I don’t like it in our dimension we don’t just get to kill anybody we want, they have to be a criminal and it can’t be a mission where they need to be captured.” Kotetsu further added in trying to convince them that they weren’t bloodthirsty killers
“We usually kill to protect others.” Nouka said, shocking the Mane six since they had been under the influence that Nouka was the most innocent out of them. “We even beat that dragon that was making all of the smoke and we did it to save these ladies from its fire a glglglglglglgl.” Everyone was visibly irritated by his sound and Kotetsu proceeded to hit the back of his head
“That aside... you three children managed to beat a dragon?” Celestia asked making not only her guards tense up but any nearby maids slowly backed out of the throne room
“If we work together, there’s not that many things that can stop us.” Zeko said while putting his hands on Nouka and Kotetsu’s backs
“They did something that set the dragon on fire but I thought dragons were immune to fire.” Rainbow Dash interjected. “You mean to tell me that you guys sent that dragon running?!”
“Working together remember? Anyway I had the idea to teach some of the jutsu I know to as many on this world as I could but with Nouka and Kotetsu here that process will go way faster.” The aforementioned duo looked at Zeko strangely
“We came to bring you back, your friends miss you even Kotetsu missed you.” Nouka said making Zeko give a cocky smirk
“That’s so sweet to know but we haven’t finished our greeting yet so let’s do that.” Zeko walked over to a wall of the castle and raised a hand
“He isn’t...” Celestia thought but covered her mouth once a cloud of dust and rubble came from that direction.
“Let’s go guys!” Zeko jumped out the newly formed window
“Alright Kotetsu lets finish your greeting.” Nouka jumped after Zeko leaving Kotetsu with the others
“You might as well go too to finish this ‘greeting’ of yours.” A guard said and put his sword away
“No, I prefer to use doors since landing is too much work.” Kotetsu said walking back the way they had come in.
“They’re so dangerous... and unpredictable! How is the Princess not worried?” Twilight thought in a panicked way.
“I’m very worried Twilight and before you panic, remember I’m your mentor we share a special link to one another but I can only use it if you are nearby.” Twilight had stopped herself from thinking she’d gone insane but also realized that if Princess Celestia was concerned over the power of the shinobi then there was a problem.
“As concerned as I was with just Zeko, now there are two more? And how did he break through the wall so easily?” The Solar Princess pondered over what had happened, not understanding how the integrity of her Castle was compromised so easily
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(Training Yard)
(5 minutes later)
“Not as much of a turnout as it had been for the duel, but its been a couple minutes so...” Zeko said as he looked at the small crowd of guards, soldiers and a few nobles all of whom had either seen or heard Zeko break a hole through the castle wall. “Whatever though, Kotetsu! You know what to do!” He exclaimed to his cousin who cracked his neck in response
“We going with armor or what?” Zeko squatted down and thought on what the two should do as a reunion and settled on something that he liked personally
“Let’s go with a lighting armor lariat.” Kotetsu smiled at Zeko’s decision and coated his body in lightning as did Zeko
“Isn’t that the same spell he used against Shining Armor?” Rarity pointed out which made the group wonder what the two were planning to do when the shinobi duo suddenly jumped back from each other and reeled their right arms back.
“What are they doing?” Pinkie Pie asked right before the two jumped toward the other, slamming an arm into the other’s chest
“DOUBLE LARIAT!” They yelled once they clashed and formed a barrier of lightning around themselves and blew each other back onto the ground
“D-Did they just... hurt each other like that? I thought they were friends!” Twilight thought frantically while the crowd was shocked at the display excluding Nouka who just looked like he was tired. Celestia decided to fly down to the pair who were laying on the ground laughing
“Are you two alright? That didn’t look as if it was pleasant.” The two stood up and walked over to her and nodded to her confusion
“We greet each other like this all the time, but since that’s over we can go now.” Kotetsu said and got a perplexed look from Zeko
“Where are we going?” Zeko questioned
“Back to our dimension... you have been gone for two weeks.”
Zeko shut his eyes in thought and realized he was right, he had been here for quite some time; “But you found a way to get here, so you can come back to check up on me anytime.” Kotetsu’s eye started to twitch
“You’re really gonna stay here in... happy pony people land? You had to have hit your damn head, I’ll fix that.” Kotetsu pulled the scabbard for his sword out but stopped when Zeko held his hand up
“I get why you’re against that but this world isn’t all sunshine and happiness, the citizens try to live happy but don’t realize that they’re causing pain.”
“I’m listening...” Kotetsu said while the Mane six and Nouka came down to them
“They’re actually pretty... discriminating and are quick to avoid anything that doesn’t seem right to them. You know the story for Rinnegan wielders.” Zeko told his cousin who put his weapon back
“They can change the world for the better or for the worse. Alright fine I’m not for it but if that’s what you’re going to do then I’ll tell everyone you’re just somewhere else, but I’ll come back every now and again. Maybe there’s some other things to kill.” Kotetsu put his hand on Nouka’s shoulder and changed his eye to his Sharingan and transported the two away forcing jaws to drop at the display
Rainbow Dash stick her hand out and tried to grab at where the pair had been but only felt air; “H-how did they just...?”
“That’s what his eye does, he can put other things in there or himself and teleport.” Zeko answered
“Well we still should converse about your... history.” Celestia said
“What about it?”
“You’ve taken lives and made it seem as if it’s not an issue. You’re so young but you don’t show remorse for that.” She further elaborated
“Well why should I? I never just did it for fun, there was always a good reason. I mean Kotetsu got his eye by killing his dad.” They gasped while Rarity and Fluttershy fainted. “Ok technically the emotions he felt gave him the eye and he used it to kill his dad before he could kill his mom but that’s semantics.”
“Why’d his dad try and do somethin like that? He didn’t deserve to d-d-“ Applejack found herself unable to finish the sentence and just hoped Zeko understood
“Well I’m pretty sure it was something about him thinking Kotetsu was a monster doomed to kill them and he blamed his mom since she gave him the Sharingan. Either way he deserved it, in our world something like that is punishable with death.”
“It doesn’t work that way here, we always try to reason with somepony and find a peaceful resolution.” Celestia said firmly
“Well that dragon wasn’t a pony, so what we did to it wasn’t a crime.” Celestia froze and Twilight tensed at the mention of the dragon
“What do you mean?” Celestia asked
“Well you know we beat it... but do you know how?” He received a no from Celestia; “Well we used a jutsu to cut his wings off, then I trapped him in sand and Nouka wrapped him in clay and from there we just blew him up and crushed him at the same time.” Celestia looked as if she were going to throw up and Applekack and Rainbow Dash seemed like they’d pass out
“I knew that t-the dragon couldn’t have survived that... but why did you do that?” Twilight asked the teenager
“He was going to eat you all, I saved you.”
“That doesn’t change the fact that you took his life, pony or not he was within Equestria and had the same rights. I can’t let this go unpunished, Zeko I think you should stay within the castle walls for some time until I think of something fitting.” Celestia scolded the teenager who stood there silent before turning into a great deal of parasprites that flew around, distracting them before dispersing to the sky where Zeko was.
“Unfortunately I’m not going to do that, I acted to protect your subjects and I shouldn’t be punished for that.” Zeko said, floating on a cloud of sand.
“Hey! The Princess said you had to stay in the castle so you’re gonna do it.” Rainbow Dash exclaimed and flew up to retrieve Zeko but was forced back to the ground by intense winds
“You didn’t forget about my Rinnegan did you? I’ll repeat myself, I acted to defend you girls and I shouldn’t be punished for that so I’m going to go back to my home and wait until you’re all in a better state of mind.” Zeko floated off as one of the guard came up to Celestia
“We can attempt to pin him down with magic at your command Princess.”
“No, that won’t be necessary. I believe I may have to follow him myself.” Celestia responded while they all began walking back to the castle. ”I may have overreacted some.”
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