//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 // Story: Welcome to Equestria Dr. Realis // by IRISHWULFHOUND //------------------------------// sorry this took a long time but the hospital wouldn't let me use my laptop until just yesterday. Don't ask, and for the love of god never get drunk with anyone from a town as small as north pole. also i know my capitalization sucks, but i'm too tired to take another look at it. P.S i probably wont be able to update for at least a month I ran harder than I had ever run in my life, it helped that I knew the forest like the back of my hand but I couldn’t hide from magic ponies forever. “We need to talk about your problem! You can’t just run away!” “Watch me Twilight! I’ve been running for far longer than you!” I had no clue why I was scared, maybe it was all the ponies chasing me, maybe it was the fact they wanted to take my booze, either way I could use this fear. The aura around me turned grey as I blasted upwards out of the forest. “He’s flying away!” Gotta go fast, gotta go fast, gotta go faster, faster, fasterfasterfaster! I heard a boom behind me and looked back to see Celestia streak towards me at an amazing rate. Fear and adrenaline, they filled me to the point that I didn’t have rational thought anymore, I just picked up as much speed as I could. I ignored air currents and wind resistance as I just kept going faster until I felt all of it disappear and I shot forward. I would have enjoyed it if I wasn’t being chased by a sun goddess; you get on her bad side and see what happens. We did a dance of sorts in the sky going in every direction until I had enough, “Sorry about this!” I blasted with a beam of grey energy and watched her fall. I slowed her decent and gently put the unconscious alicorn on the grass. I waited until she groggily woke up in the middle of the night before standing up, “Don’t get up for a while, you need to rest.” She groaned and plopped her head down, “She’s just worried about you, you should really talk to her.” I smiled and looked up to the moon, “I know, but I suppose I’m just too set in my ways to be a good brother.” I left her as she passed out again but just before I entered ponyville again I heard whimpering. It was coming from a carriage, “Silence slave! Somepony will hear you!” that was enough to make me investigate. I peeked into the carriage to see a light blue mare in a hat and cape glaring at a human in a cage, a little girl no less. I can’t say what pushed me over the edge, the fact that the mare struck the little girl for crying, or when she asked for her mother the mare replied, “I’m your mother now slave.” Either way I ripped the door off and glared at the mare, “Leave her alone you worthless sack of degenerate horse crap.” The aura around me was black, not just black but so black that light seemed to be sucked into me. I grabbed the mare by the throat and dragged her screaming outside, “Trixie is sorry! Trixie will never do it again!” “Sorry ‘Trixie’ but for some reason I’m not so inclined to give my slave any mercy.” “S-slave?” “You tried to make one of my species your slave, a little girl no less. You’re lucky I don’t just make sure every second for the rest of your life is filled to the brim with agony both physical and mental… But I can give you a third choice.” “I’ll take it!” I smiled, “To the moon it is then. Don’t worry; you’ll probably starve to death before you go completely insane. Then again the lack of air will probably be a huge factor.” “P-please don’t hurt me.” It took a second of looking at her terrified face before putting her down, “The girl will decide your fate.” She gulped, never a good sign. I tied her to the wheel before calming sown and poking my head into the room, “Are you ok? I’m here to help you.” “*sniffle* Is the mean lady gone?” “It’s ok; she can’t hurt you while I’m here.” “Promise?” “I promise.” She came out of her hiding place slowly walked up to me and poked my face. “Don’t worry, I’m 90% human.” “What’s the other part?” “Science, it’s a part of who I am. What is a part of you? What do you like doing?” “I like the mail.” “Well alright, we’ll see if we can help you with that. But first thing’s first, what do you think we should do with the mean lady?” “Police, momma said to report bad people to the police.” I nodded, “How about we do one better? Let’s take her to a princess.” She nodded eagerly and followed me as I grabbed the mare and made the short trip to Celestia’s now awake but groggy body. “Yo, Celestia.” “Yes?” “Throw this mare in the dungeons.” I tossed Trixie on the ground. “Why?” “Kidnapping and child abuse, I would have just thrown her to the moon but the girl said I should just hand the mare over to you.” “Girl?” “Ya, I’m going to start on a way to send her back as soon as I get another project done.” The girl peeked at Celestia from behind my legs and smiled at the alabaster alicorn, “Hi, I’m Sarah.” Celestia gave a motherly smile to the girl before standing up and speaking to Trixie, “I’ll hear your side of the story when we get to the palace, but I must say that it doesn’t look good Miss Lulamoon.” “Y-yes your highness.” I took a breath before smiling, “Well, I’m gonna loot the carriage and head on home.” With that I left with Sarah following closely, “What does loot mean?” “I’m going to take the stuff of value from the carriage.” “Isn’t that stealing?” “Dunno, but I might get something good out of it.” “Stealing is wrong!” “Look, Sarah, I’m not exactly a role model. I come from a land that one wrong move could get you killed. A little thievery isn’t exactly on my list of things to avoid.” “Momma says stealing is wrong.” “Then don’t steal, all it comes down to is whether you want to be a good person like your mother, or a broken one like me.” “I wanna be like momma!” “Then keep your nose clean, tell the truth and try to make everyone’s life better. Now me, my morals have been ground to dust.” “Why?” groan, little kids always ask the hard questions, “I came from a place that having morals got you in trouble.” “Why?” “Because people where I’m from aren’t nice.” “Why?” “Because my world is a savage and cruel place.” “Why?” “Mostly me.” “Why?” I furrowed my brow and scratched my chin, “Don’t know, I suppose it’s because I was selfish.” “Why?” “They wanted to take away what I had worked all my life to create; they wanted to take away my baby.” “Why?” “They feared it, and wanted it for themselves.” “Why?” “Let’s put it this way: if I put some ice cream in front of you would you want it?” “Yes!” “That’s how the felt about my work, only on a much higher scale.” “Scale?” “They were willing to kill millions of innocent people to get to me. They were very bad people.” “Did you report them to the police?” “Not exactly.” “Why not?” “I’ll tell you when you’re older.” “Why does every adult say that!?” “Because it’s easier than explaining the complexities of the human mind to a child.” I sighed as I went through several books on some magic mumbo jumbo, probably what Trixie used to rip Sarah from her home. I took several hats and capes just because along with a broach that had a flawless fusion of diamond and sapphires encrusted around the edges. Once I had looted everything of value I walked out and saw Sarah sleeping on the ground, I had a bad feeling about this kid. After I had gotten home and put the entire place on lockdown I finally fell asleep, to be woken up after half an hour. “Wake up!” I shot up and commanded, “Protocol 32, laser gun 49-t1si requested!” a small pistol like devise flew into my hands as I go behind a blast shield that rose from the ground. I looked at the terrified little girl and groaned, “For the love of god kid! I almost took your head off.” I saw a little yellow stream come from underneath her red dress. “For the love of, alright calm down. Scourge, take care of the kid while I wake up.” “Yes sir.” I headed into the chem lab as Scourge was comforting the child and drank my energy drink. “There, good for the next eighteen hours.” There was a frantic knock at my door, “Oh bloody hell, what is it now!?” I opened the door somewhat quickly to find six mares looking up at me, Twilight looking like she had cried all night. “Oh for the love of god, what happened?” Twilight spoke between sniffles, “Somepony, foal napped, Spike!” I sighed, “Alright, come on in.” I got to my computer and looked up all the information I had on Spike. Extremely close to Twilight, pudgy, no more than two feet tall, a dragon, purple, had a thing for Rarity, and his favorite food was opals. I walked into the living room where the rest of the girls were trying to comfort a crying Twilight. “Alright, do you have any clue who or where they are or took him?” “T-they left a note, they want 300,000 bits for him, and they say they’ll meet us at Sweet Apple Acres in three weeks.” “Alright, do you have anything that might have his DNA? Some spit or a scale?” she nodded and brought something that looked like a snake skin out of her saddlebag, “He wanted me to keep his first shed skin, it’s great against the cold.” I nodded and took the skin before heading up the stairs. When I got to the top floor there were three rooms, I took the one on the right. When I got in there I looked at all my military tracking and tactic books. I went straight to a rather large machine and put the skin in a small container. The machine instantly whirred to life and sucked up the skin, I looked over the stock of my weapons and ammunition for an hour before the machine dinged and popped out a tiny tracker, hand held. I walked downstairs to see Sarah hugging Twilight. “Scourge let’s go, recovery of living being. Make sure you bring all the serums on the list and at least three of the shock guns, one corrosive in case they’re real slime bags. Twilight, we’ll be back with Spike in no more than two days.” Scourge ran into the chem lab and grabbed all the vials before rushing upstairs. “Now while I’m gone someone will have to look over Sarah, I don’t care who it is just make sure she’s safe and happy. Now if I don’t make it back within the week go outside my house and yell protocol ending at it. If it comes to that I will be either in custody of the enemy or dead. I will come out of here with all my memories up until three days ago. Any questions before I leave?” Applejack cleared her throat, “Do we need anything before we leave?” “Oh no, you’re not coming with me.” “And why is that? Spike is our friend too!” “For two reasons, one if you get in the way on accident we’ll be too far away from here for me to be able to save your lives. And two, if you come with me by the time we get back you will never let me out of here again.” “And why would ya say that?” “Habit.” Scourge came down carrying a backpack, as we left the building I smirked, “Building, 5 hour lock down.” I heard a female voice respond, “Yes your awesomeness.” Science bitches, deal with it. As Scourge and I walked through the forest I began thinking, “How is it that we can walk through fifty miles of forest in only a few minutes?” “Miss Pinkie says it’s because the readers don’t want to sit through us walking for fifty miles and the writer is too lazy to actually write it.” “Readers? Writer?” “It’s Miss Pinkie.” I nodded, “True, and would you look at that, Sweet Apple Acres. How long did that take us?” “Five minutes and thirty seven seconds sir.” “Just doesn’t make sense.” I looked up to the sky for a moment before looking to the tracker, only 75 more miles to go. I let concern fill me and took off with Scourge keeping up on the ground it didn’t take long to get to a secluded camp and hear voices in the dark, “You think Sparkle will pay up?” “You bet, the dragon is basically her kid.” “I can’t wait to get my cut, no more mercenary jobs just the high life from here on out.” I got out of their earshot and smiled, “I have Spike’s position, make sure not to kill any of them unless they see you. Meet me back here in an hour.” It took just that long to get through the large camp without being seen, man ponies liked to be thorough. Screw it; I brought these guns for a reason. I saw Scourge slip by with the sleeping Spike and smiled. I stepped into the middle of the camp, “I am here for the baby dragon!” “Get over here everypony!!!!” in seconds I was surrounded by ponies. “Good organization, now that you are all here let me explain my plan. I am going to take back the dragon, and then you are going to go west until you either die or fall off the planet.” “Whatever you are, you must not be very smart. There are dozens of us, and only one of you.” The leader smirked, his orange coat slick with oil. “That may be true, but you don’t know what I’m capable of. I on the other hand have extensive knowledge on all pony abilities. And guns, I have guns.” “I don’t know what guns are but you’re going down, ATTACK!!” all at once I was blasted with energy punched and kicked until I pointed a shock gun towards the ground. I shot and a shockwave erupted out of the gun, onto the ground, and spread around me. The ponies closest got a quick albeit messy death but the ones farther back had the electricity move through their entire bodies before death took them. With the majority of the group dead the remainders fled faster than a bullet from a gun. “Scourge, how many days charge do you have?” “Five sir.” I nodded, “Let’s just rest here for tonight.” “As you wish sir.” I found a few cots in the tents and lied down on them. I quickly fell asleep but was rudely by a shove on my stomach, “Dude, wake up!” I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, “Can’t I get one good night’s sleep around here!?” Spike was looking at the dead bodies, “Did you do this?” I rolled my eyes, “No, the planet came alive and ripped them limb from limb then put them back together again.” “Sheesh I was just asking.” “And I was just trying to sleep, you’re lucky you’re Twilight’s kid.” “She’s not my mom; she’s more like my sister.” “Look kid, don’t take moms for granted. One day she’ll be gone and then you will realize what she really is. She hatched and raised you, where I come from that’s a mother’s job. Now then, we have a week to kill.” “A week?” “Ya, I really don’t have the energy for a tearful reunion right now.” “Won’t Twilight be worried?” “Hell, you’re probably right. I don’t want to get my ear chewed off, let’s get going then. It’s a two day walk from here.” “How do you figure that?” “it’s 125 miles back to my house.” “What?!? And you think it’ll only take two days!?” “Well if you had wings we could fly there, but since we’re earthbound we walk.” “Then how did you get here in one day?” “I flew, but I don’t have the energy this early in the morning.” “I don’t see any wings.” “It’s too early to explain, just start walking.” We walked for hours in silence until Spike groaned, “UHG! How much farther!?” “Scourge?” his head whirred, “Forty hours and thirty six minutes to destination with current speed.” Spike looked like he was about to cry. “Oh dragon up, it’s just walking.” “But it’s so boring!!” “I spent fifteen years locked up mixing chemicals, how much fun did you think I had?” “But you enjoy it don’t you?” “Not all the time and it wasn’t so much fun as a way to keep boredom in check.” “Oh, how much longer?” “An entire minute less than the last time you asked.” He just looked at the ground, “Carry me?” “You have two perfectly good legs, use them.” “But I’m tired!!!” “Then keep your yap shut, you’re going to need all the breath you can get.” “Twilight would never make me walk this far!” “News flash kid, I’m not Twilight.” “There’s no way you two are related.” “Believe that if you want, but my mom has the stretch marks to prove it. Or does she? I dunno anymore.” “But she’s so nice.” “Well she didn’t grow up like I did.” “Her parents are nice, so if they were yours too why aren’t you nice?” “Because I watched them be murdered.” “What!?” “Six years old, watched my parents be ripped apart limb from limb.” “Dude, that’s sick!!” “Not as sick as what I did to the guy who did it.” His eyes shrank as he looked away, “I don’t wanna know, I don’t wanna know, I don’t wanna know.” He kept quiet until the moon rose, “I’m tired, can we eat and go to bed?” I tossed him a gem the size of his head, “eat while you walk.” He munched on the ruby as he started falling asleep. I rolled my eyes and picked the kid up. He spent the night curled up in my arms mumbling something about Rarity. He woke up around noon the next day with some nasty morning breath, “What time is it?” “Scourge?” he looked up at the sun, “the current time is 11:53 am.” I nodded and let Spike eat some before putting him back down, “Walk.” Fine, were you walking all night?” “Yep.” “Aren’t you tired?” “Nope.” “Pulling a big mac?” “Nope.” “Is that ponyville in the distance!?” “Yup.” “What’s 354+0.987-8857x9983?” “-84965442.779.” “What’s as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?” “It’s shadow.” “Why are you so smart?” “Why are you a dragon?” “I was born this way.” “There you go.” “Are you really Twilight’s brother?” “It would seem so.” “You don’t seem very excited about getting a family.” “Truth be told I’m not, none of this seems very real. I can see clearly and feel everything but it feels like I’m just there. No real purpose other than that.” “Not true, you saved me.” “Oh please, you are the son of the most powerful unicorn in the world who is personal student of a sun goddess; those guys back there had to be idiots. If Twilight had just kept a rational head then I wouldn’t be here.” “That’s not very nice; she was just worried about me.” “Ya, not to mention her new arm is malfunctioning. She’s in pain but won’t admit it.” “Malfunctioning how?” “The nerve endings are sending magic and electrical instead of just electric. The result is the rest of her body going into magic overload. If I don’t fix it soon her horn could blow off.” “What!?” “Don’t worry, I already have the prototype set up and it’ll be finished within the week.” “oh, I have a question.” “Shoot.” “Why didn’t I just ride on your back while you flew?” I stopped in my tracks, “Son of a-”