Mecha was sitting on a bench, in Manehatten, relaxing after a long day of haggling. He'd came to the city to deliver an order initially, but had stuck around when he noticed some top quality material for sale. This, of course, lead to him spotting the cloaks in a nearby store and... it all kinda blurred from there. Chuckling to himself, Mecha got up to walk to his hotel, when he heard screaming and shouting in the distance. Instantly going alert, Mecha ran towards the source of the screaming.
Upon arrival, he went rigid, and swore, “Lust's panties dipped in Gluttony's chocolate sauce! What in the royal sisters' names is an aboleth* doing in Equestria!” Taking stock of the situation, he grimaced as he saw the town guard getting thrown around by the tentacled creature. He could only watch as the blue-green fish thing roared, scattering the valiant defenders who stood no chance against the behemoth. Looking at the fight once more, Mecha knew he'd stand no chance against the aboleth, at least, not with out some heavy fire power.
So sparing the fighters one more glance, he bolted towards the hotel, and rushed up the stairs to his room. Pulling out the drawers of the room's dresser, he threw everything and anything that wasn't what he needed across the room, until he finally came across what he was looking for. Two sashes, much like what he wore when he was practicing with his throwing knives, with one major difference: they had what appeared to be various sized balls with caps on them instead of knives. Sighing, Mecha threw the sashes on as he bolted out of the building, saying, “I brought these to test on the way back to Ponyville, not to use in live combat...”
The objects he was referring to were the balls filled with powdered hydra scales, each containing a different mix of powder and air, powder and gunpowder, and other such things. Reaching the fight scene once more, he took in the changes to the situation. The guards were retreating, apparently haven been given the all clear to evacuate themselves, as the civilian populace had already left the city. Nodding his head to himself, Mecha waited for the majority of the guard to leave, before charging in. Ignoring the shouts from the retreating ponies, he waited until he was around fifty feet from the beast, before pulling a medium sized grenade from his sash, causing the cap to be removed, lighting the fuse that was previously hidden. Lobbing it, Mecha watched as it came into contact with the aboleth's side and blew up in a small (comparatively) explosion.
Having not noticed the explosion, the foul creature looked at Mecha, before letting out another roar, and tried to strike him with one of its four tentacles, each coming from a different direction. Swearing, Mecha leaped over the first two, ducked under the third, and dived away from the last. Getting back up, Mecha started to run back, only for a tentacle to block his way.
Stopping in mid tracks, Mecha twisted in place to prevent himself from running into the wall of flesh, and grabbed two of the bigger explosives. Taking careful aim, he pulled the two from their spots on his sashes, and threw them at the creatures gaping maw. Seeing the beast swallow them, Mecha smirked until he heard a faint boom, after which the creature belched smoke. Giving himself a facehoof, Mecha quickly paid for his lack of attention with a tentacle strike to his side. Flying to the side, he twisted mid-air and landed on all fours, trying to form a plan.
His largest explosions didn't do squat, and he could only throw two at a time. That meant that he either started throwing as fast as he could, hoping to hit something important, or he could go with the extremely dangerous and highly untested plan Z...
The aboleth answered for him, roaring as in swiped at him with its whip like tentacles. Flipping and twisting his way around them, Mecha quickly ran up one of them on only his hind legs, using the forelegs to peel back the velcro on the top of the sashes, revealing two rings. Grabbing the rings, Mecha pulled hard on them, releasing all the grenades on each sash at the same time, as he lept as high as he could at the same time. Having timed it just right, Mecha was at the peak of his jump when they detonated, creating a giant explosion that rocketed the area, each individual explosion having fed the other to form it. So large, that even near a forty feet above it, Mecha was still affected by it. To be exact, the concussive force from the explosion launched him high into the air, throwing him away from the town.
Looking down, Mecha briefly saw that the aboleth was nothing but a gel, and sighed. Letting go of the tension he had, he thought to himself, 'At least that took care of the Wrath forsaken beast. Although, I could do without flying once more, since I have yet to have a soft landing. Ah, speaking of landings, I can see mine now...'
And indeed, Mecha's flight was coming to an end, as twisted himself to get a better view of his soon to be impact sight. If he was lucky, he'd hit some trees and not die upon impact, but since the only forest between Manehatten and Ponyville, which if his sense of direction was right meant he was flying in that direction, was the Everfree forest, he didn't expect to be so lucky.
Instead, he got just a bit luckier, and landed in fairly deep lake, with the water taking most of the force from his impact. However, this luck was short lived when he noticed that he was caught in the mud near the bottom of the lake bed, and didn't get that much air before his splash down. Struggling, he quickly got his forelegs out, before trying to twist his way out of the mud. All this accomplished, however, was a gasp that let out some of his much needed air, and a twisted ankle. Ignoring the black encroaching upon his vision, he spotted a solid rock near him, and pushed on it. After a few more seconds than he was comfortable with, Mecha finally pushed himself lose, and quickly swam for the surface, most of his sight gone due to lack of oxygen.
Pushing himself as hard as he could, Mecha knew he was close, as the water was lightening up. Ten feet, his vision had all but deserted him. Five feet, he could barely move his muscles. Three feet left, he felt light headed. Two feet, and his vision was gone. One foot to go, and his lungs burned. Six inches, and Mecha could feel his conscious leaving him...
And with a splash, he broke the surface, taking in a deep breath of air, before coughing out water. Treading water, Mecha realized just how close to drowning he came. Shuddering, he slowly made his way to shore, where he assessed his situation. His mechanical leg was slowly jamming on him, and would be completely stiff in an hour or so. His left hind leg was the one that he'd twisted, and he couldn't put much wait on it without extreme pain. And based on the sign near the road he was on, it'd take three days for him to reach the nearest town in his condition... Ponyville. Well, that was some good news to this otherwise dreadful day. So, without any further thought, Mecha started to hobble his way to Ponyville, pain visible on his face with every step of his injured leg.
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Despite walking both day and night, it had actually taken Mecha four days to get to Ponyville, instead of the three he'd predicted. Sighing, Mecha walked towards the town, starving and wanting to lay down in his bed. However, he forgot about this when he noticed that everypony had gathered in town square, all with sad somber looks upon their faces. Curious, he limped over to try and find out what had the normally cheerful town so glum.
He got his answer when he reached the edge of the crowd, and heard his aunt finish her speech with, “...however, his death was not in vain, as Mecha was able to use the explosion to kill the creature that threatened not only the citizens of Manehatten, but potentially all of Equestria.”
Ah, so they thought he had died in the explosion. Well, that makes sense, as he hadn't come across anypony on his way here... and in an explosion that large, the chances of finding a body afterwords would be slim to none. Deciding that he preferred a happy Ponyville over this sad one, Mecha cleared his throat as loud as he could, catching the attention of all the ponies in the crowd.
Seeing their shocked looks, Mecha couldn't resist the opportunity, and said, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” before turning and limping home, leaving the crowd stunned silent.
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Mecha sighed, relaxing on his couch. After an hour of sleep, and a nice fresh daisy sandwich to eat, he felt much better. Watching Wolfgang eat another log on the floor, Mecha chuckled, remembering the looks of everypony in town when he announced that he wasn't dead. Granted, he was probably going to be yelled at by all his friends and family for making them worry, but hey, he just got back into town!
Knocking at his door interrupted his thoughts, as he groaned while getting up. Walking slowly to the door, Mecha hollered out, “I'm coming, I'm coming!”
He opened the door to see the Cutie Mark Crusaders standing on his doormat, looking at him with teary eyes. Leaping onto him, they all started to shout about how they were so sad when they heard he died, and how they couldn't stand the thought that somepony as nice as him could die at all.
Now, normally, Mecha would be touched that three little fillies he barely knew would be so upset at his death, but this was different, due to the fact that the three were all hugging him around his chest, which happened to contain several bruised ribs.
“Girls,” he groaned, “please get off of me.”
“Never!” the three shouted, with Apple Bloom adding, “We ain't lettin' ya go!”
“Yeah,” Scootaloo said, “if we did, you'd just go off and do some other stupid life threatening heroic act!”
“And then we would be sad again!” Sweetie Bell finished.
“As touching as that is,” Mecha told them, “I mostly asked because your squeezing on my bruised ribs.”
Eyes widening, the three fillies quickly hopped off of him, stammering out apologies as fast as they could. “Hey now,” Mecha said, holding up a hoof, “you didn't know. Now then, I don't plan on leaving town unless it's for a vacation, and I don't have one of those planned anytime soon, so unless another rabid manticore or hydra shows up, I don't think I'll be getting involved in any more, what did you call them? Stupid life threatening heroic acts?”
Blushing, the three looked down and poked at the ground with their hooves. Chuckling, Mecha said, “Now, get outta here you three, I need to replace this leg before it starts to rust!” and shooed them from his front door. Turning, Mecha stopped when he noticed that Wolfgang had gone and brought him one of his mechanical legs whilst he was talking to the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
Shaking his head, Mecha said, “You continue to impress me. Tell you what, after I visit the hospital for my check-up, and inevitable visit to Doctor Stable, we'll go and get you some treats from Fluttershy, okay?”
Getting several yips of joy from the young timberwolf cub, Mecha sat down and got to work on changing out his leg.
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Mecha was walking a lot better now that he'd swapped out legs and gotten his ankle looked at by Doctor Stable. He was currently waring a brace thing around it, which let him put some weight on it without having pain shoot up his leg. Heading towards Fluttershy's cottage, he chuckled at the enthusiasm that Wolfgang was emitting from on top his head. “You realize,” Mecha told him, “that eventually you'll be too big to do this, right?”
Nodding his head, Wolfgang all but said to him, 'which is why I must enjoy it while I can!'
Shaking his head lightly so as not to shake Wolfgang off his head, Mecha approached Fluttershy's cottage, and knocked on the door. After a few seconds, Fluttershy opened the door, meekly saying, “Hello...?”
Smiling, Mecha said, “Hello Fluttershy. I was wondering if you had something that would be a treat for Wolfgang here?”
Looking up to see the cub on Mecha's head, Fluttershy's eyes widened, before stuttering out, “I m-m-might h-h-have s-s-something...” before quickly disappearing for a few minutes, and coming back with a bag of wood chips. Passing them to Mecha, she told him, “T-those are some wood chips f-from a zap apple tree. The m-magic in them should b-be a treat for him,” while still eying Wolfgang.
Pulling one out, Mecha held it in front of the cub, who quickly gobbled it up, yipping in joy. Leaping onto Fluttershy, he quickly started to lick her.
Sighing, Mecha stepped inside the cottage and pulled Wolfgang of Fluttershy's face, saying, “Sorry about that, he's a bit affectionate when somepony feeds him something he likes.” Glancing around the room, he noticed the suitcases laying near the door. “Going on a trip?” he asked her.
Getting up, she replied, “Um... yes, I am. I'm going with Applejack to deliver a tree to a new town,” stutter gone, having gotten used to Wolfgang's presence.
“Oh, you mean Bloomberg!” Mecha explained.
Blinking, Fluttershy asked, “How do you know Bloomberg? Um, if you don't mind me asking that is...”
Chuckling, Mecha told her, “Big M had me help pull him from the ground. But if you're going to Applelossa you should probably hurry, the train leaves soon.”
Glancing at the clock on her wall, Fluttershy let out an, “Eep!” before rushing past him, heading towards the train station.
*Aboleth- Basically a giant amphibious fish thing that wishes to destroy any creature that isn't an aboleth. For more information, look it up via google.