//------------------------------// // What's that supposed to mean? // Story: Ultimate Equestria // by CrAzY FaLcOn //------------------------------// "What's that supposed to mean?" Rainbow asks, leaning away from Twilight to try and look where I am. "It means, that if I allowed myself to be seen, I am quite sure you would scream your head off." I tell her. "Oh come on, it can't be that bad, hehe. Can it?" Rainbow says, not entirely sure. "How about this, I will reveal myself to you two, and if you don't scream, I will stay visible, okay?" I ask the two of them. "Yeah, that'll be easy." Rainbow says puffing her chest out. "If you feel your ok with it, then yes." Twilight says, trying to be reassuring. "If you promise not to scream then alright." I say to the mares, getting two nods in return. Before I can release my power, I hear something behind me. The sound of growling. "Pleugh, what is that smell." Rainbow says, squeezing her nostrils with her fingers. Uh oh. "Wait… that smells like a-" Twilight says, before being cut off by the source of the growling jumping at the two mares. "TIMBERWOLF!!" Rainbow cries, before shoving Twilight out of the way of the beasts leap. "WHAT?! WHAT'S A TIMBERWOLF DOING IN WHITETAIL WOODS?!?" Twilight cries, quickly picking herself and her friend off the ground. I cancel my intangibility, getting up as well and punch the wolf as it goes for another leap, damaging its shoulder and causing it to yelp as it is struck by an unknown force. The wolf lowers itself into a defensive position, wary of getting punched again. As this happens, it starts pulling in branches from the surrounding trees to regenerate. "Drat! Forgot they could do that." I say, cursing my luck. Let's hope this works. I say, focusing on trying to use the powers of Echo Echo. I breathe in, before releasing a beyond deafening sonic scream at the wolf, scaring every animal in the forest and stunning the wolf. Unfortunately, I also stun Twilight and Rainbow. I grab the two of them and bolt. As I run, Twilight comes back to her senses and see's herself and Rainbow getting carried by a invisible saviour. Half a minute of running later, I stop at a clearing and put down Rainbow and Twilight, both having regained their hearing. "What was THAT!? Did you do that? Ho-?" "Twilight! Stop! Yelling! My ears are still sore." Rainbow scowls, rubbing one of her afformentioned ears. "B-b-bu-but. Okay. Calm down Twilight. Okay. I'm calm. Now, can you please explain how you did that, and where you are. Please." Twilight says, stuttering before calming herself down and asking the air a question. "As for where I am, I'm right next to you, how I did that? With the scream? No idea. I just did, really." I answer honestly, causing Twilight to start to get frustrated. "What do you mean you 'just did'. You can't 'just do' something like that. Creating sound that loud out of nowhere is impossible." Twilight says, thankfully for Rainbow, keeping her voice under control. "Wellll… I don't know how it works, it just works." I try to explain to the inquisitive mare. At this point Rainbow speaks up. "That's a pretty big thing to just 'do' but I think I get it." "You do?" The purple mare asks. "Yeah. It's like me being cool or Pinkies Pinkie sense. You can't explain it, you just… believe it." Rainbow says to her friend "Ugh, not this again…" Twilight moans. "Do you have any idea how that sound… thing worked? Any at all?" Twilight asks, her eyes begging for an answer. I say the only thing that I can think of. "Genetics…? I think?" "Genetics? How does genetics let you achieve a directed sound based attack?" Twilight asks, befuddled. "No clue." I answer "Have you always been able to do that?" She asks were she thinks I'm standing. "No." "No? Well since when could you then." "If I'm right? This morning, same for the 'me being huge and scary' and the 'can't see me/can't touch me' thing." I answer "This morning? Is THAT what that weird magic was?" Twilight asks, perplexed. "Maybe. Don't know if it was magic or not. All I know is, I was at a convention, dressed up as a character I like, bought some replica of a guy called 'the Genie', blacked out, and now I'm here with these powers and this form, which even I haven't properly looked at, so… yeah." "Wait, you bought something from somepony, blacked out and now you're just here like this." Twilight says. "Pretty much" "Then how do you know how to use your… powers? Yeah, powers." Twilight asks. "Because they are loosely based on a show from home." I respond. "A show? What show?" "I doubt it exists here, but it was a franchise called 'Ben 10'. My specific powers coming from elements of its third continuation." "Ben 10? Never heard of it." Rainbow says, breaking her silence. "Not surprising, it was made in what I believe to be another dimension." I respond. This is probably a whole multiverse thing. Only way to explain it, really. "What? You watched a show from a different dimension? How?" Twilight asks, perplexed again. "The show isn't from a different dimension, I am. If the note I read is any indication. Where I'm from, none of this is rea- possible." I say, almost spilling the beans about them being fictional. Twilight, understandably, freaks out. "WHAT?! Your from another dimension?! How do you know that? And what note?" Twilight questions. "Because, back home none of this is possible, not me, not you, not my powers. And, after I woke up, I found a piece of paper stuck to my shoulder, detailing my situation." I respond to her questions. " I didn't see a piece of paper anywhere. Where was it?" Twilight asks. "Funnily enough, it evaporated after I read it." I said, sitting down again. "W-what was that?" Rainbow asks, frightened. "I sat down again." I tell her. "Oh." She responds. "So… your from another dimension?" Twilight asks. "Yep" "Wow, that's… amazing. We need to tell Princess Celestia about this and- wait. What's your name?" "Hm? Oh! My name's Seth. And I think yours was 'Twilight?' Correct?" "Oh. Well, it's nice to meet you Seth, and yes, I'm Twilight and this is Rainbow Dash." Twilight says, pointing at her friend as she introduces her. "Well it's nice to meet you too, Twilight and Rainbow Dash." I say, accidentally releasing my invisibility. Both mares go wide eyed as their gazes slowly travel up my form to my face. I noticed their reaction and look at myself. "Hm? Oh. Oops." … "Well… at least you aren't scr-" "THAT'S what you look like? You look awesome! I mean look at those studs!" Rainbow shouts, interrupting me. "Okay, yeeah, your face looks a little scaryyyy… what the? Do you have six eyes?" Rainbow says, staring intently at my face before she starts walking around me and looking like she's inspecting me. At this I blink. noticing I can still see Twilight in front of me as I do so. I close my 'eyes' and notice again, I can still see. What the? Oh right. U. spidermonkey has eyes along his forehead. I must have that too. "Not only that, what is on you forehead? It looks like there's a frisbee stuck to it. And by your ears too." Twilight questions. What? I look to my forehead and, yes, there appears to be something round there, with my other sets of eyes set below it, following the curve up to halfway up the 'frisbee'. As I'm looking at my forhead I reach up and feel the side of my face, bringing the mares attention to my hand, and feel a large bump by my ear, with the middle of it feeling caved in. "What the? Is that your hand? It's massive! Wait. Why do you only have four fingers? And why is there metal by your knuckles? And you have another one of those frisbee things on the back of your hand! And why are you wea-" "Twilight. Your rambling." Rainbow tells her from where she is standing behind me. "Thank you, Rainbow." I say to her. "Oh. Sorry, it's just… I've never seen anything like you before. But seriously. What are those things on your body?" Twilight apologizes then questions. I look at my hand and see blue and black frisbee like bumps on my palm and the back of my hand. "There's one on your palm too!" Twilight exclaims. "Yes, I see them, Twilight." I tell her. I remember these... they're the speakers that are on U. Echo Echos body. As I'm looking at my hand, the now revealed speaker on it clicks off, leaving a large hole on the back of my hand, and begins floating in the air. This, understandably, spooks the mare in front of me. "Ah! It came off! And now it's just… floating there? How is it doing that?" Twilight yells before her voice grows confused and she questions me. "Yeah, what she said." Rainbow says, having circled to be standing next to me. "I think that was me. And I think for some reason these things can float and fly." I say, making the speaker start to do loops around my body. "Don't know how though." I finish. "Okay… well… what is it, do you know?" Twilight asks. "Oh, it's a speaker." I say, making the speaker point up and broadcast a low volume hum, scaring a few birds out of their nests. "Whoaaa, cooool." Rainbow says. "Okayyy… so you have floating speakers attached to you face and hands. Why? Wait. Is THAT how you did that sound blast earlier?" Twilight asks me. "While yes, these would be able to do that," I say pointing at the speaker now floating next to me. "The source of that 'blast', was a sonic scream. In other words, I basically just screamed at that timberwolf really loudly earlier." I say, widening all my eyes to empathize my point. "Oh. So, wait. Not only do you have SPEAKERS ATTACHED to your body… but you can also scream at a volume loud enough to be debilitating, if not concussion inducing?" Twilight questions, a bewildered look on her face. "Yes." At my answer the purple mare just sighs and starts rubbing the sides of her head. "I can't take this anymore." She says, turning around and walking off into the forest. "Twilight! Where are you going?!" Rainbow yells after her friend from her spot, now in front of me. "To get Spike!" She yells back. "I need to contact Princess Celestia!" "Do you even know which way it is to Ponyville?!" Rainbow yells, causing Twilight to pause, then turn around. "No. No, I do not." She responds when she stops in front of us. "Here, let me check." Rainbow says, flying up past the canopy, me watching her fly, amazed such small wings can carry her. I decide to reattach the speaker to my hand and wait. While we wait, a awkward silence ensues. "Do… you want to ask more questions… or…" I ask her hesitantly. "No, I'll be fine. Plus, I shouldn't ask too much as Princess Celestia will want to ask you questions too." She responds. "You keep mentioning this 'Princess Celestia', who is she?" I ask her, faking obliviousness as I already know her from the show. "Whose- huh, you really are from another dimension." My form/powers didn't say that. I think sarcastically. "Princess Celestia is the Princess of the sun, and one of the rulers of Equestria, beside her sister, Princess Luna. It is Princess Celestias duty to raise the sun and rule Equestria during the day, as it is Princess Lunas duty to raise the moon and govern over the night and the dreams of the ponies, protecting them from nightmares." Twilight explains to me. "Oh. Well thanks" I respond kindly. A few seconds later, Rainbow lands back in the clearing. "Sorry I took so long, we're farther away then I thought. Anyway, Ponyville is that way." Rainbow says, pointing behind and a little left of me. "Alright, let's go." Twilight says, walking in the direction of Ponyville. I cloak myself again and we begin walking.