//------------------------------// // Past Radar // Story: MLP - New Game Plus Postmortem // by Reizthefakebrony //------------------------------// Rotatory abilities: Book of Healing DNA Twister Plasma Cannon I had arrived at the morgue of the Ponyville Police Department, where Reiko was proceeding in her usual ritual to temporary resurrect the dead Remodeled Corpse pony. This time I was accompanied by both Celestia and Luna under their request. The atmosphere was a very surreal one. The princesses looked a little disturbed due to the necromantic nature of the rite. As for the dead pony, it was a... Or I should say used to be a female pegasus with two wings made of steel and a sword being implanted on her forehead. That's pretty much the type of trademark that Nero will leave on her victims. "Are sure that is a good idea?" Luna questioned. "Trust me," I said. "Neither I wanted to resort to this." "You know our rules regarding the presence of necromancy in Equestria." Celestia reminded. "And yet you allowed her to act as your agent too," I replied. "I know, but this mess of Remodeled Corpse pony didn't gave us much choices," Celestia said with a bit of resignation in her voice. "If Reiko's methods are needed in this moment," She sighed heavily. "I guess I should let her doing her job." "After all, she is a good investigator too," I alluded. "..... I still dislike her methods," Luna retorted. "Breathe life into death, if only for a moment's breath," Reiko concluded. As the ritual was done, the corpse opened her eyes and slowly stood up four legged, for the shock of the two princesses that had witnessed so many cases of necromancy in their eras in which they lived in. Their shock was then replaced by their natural disgust toward those things. Reiko, however, wasn't disturbed at all... as usual- "C-Celestia? Luna?" The pegasus said, looking around. "Where am I?" "Did you remember at least what you were doing before being reduced into this?" Reiko demanded. "I was returning into Cloudsdale after a very long holyday," The pegasus said. "When all of sudden someone just... Ponynapped me and then turned me into this thing." "Can you remember the place in which you were in?" Reiko asked. "It was too dark to remember," She said. "But for what I could remember... It didn't looked like a very normal place. It was a very large laboratory. I was putted on a table-" "Wait," Reiko halted. "Can you say what did he ordered you to do?" "He asked me to retrieve a certain Twilight." The pegasus affirmed. "What?!" Celestia flinched. "I was under some kind of narcotics that made me susceptible to her words," The pegasus said. "Not only that, but she promised me one thousand bits for the retrieval." "Really?" I said surprised. "Seriously! Who the fuck in Equestria is funding Nero!?" "Can you tell at least in which state you were?" Reiko demanded. "I was in-AAAARGH!" As she screamed, her body was suddenly engulfed by flames and was instantly reduced into ashes. Just like Celestia and Luna, I was left speechless and shocked for what had transpired. Reiko didn't seemed too disturbed, but was just taken aback by that. "What the heck was that?!" A random police pony said. "Auto-detonation spell... I guess," Reiko assumed. "It seems like this Nero knew my ritual far too well, so of course she had put that spell to prevent her from giving us information regarding her whereabouts. Whoever is this pony is far more dangerous and cunning of than we could imagine." "Like hell it is. Is fucking Nero we are talking about," I thought. "This is not good," Celestia said and then turned toward me. "Allen, I know I'm asking you too much." "I get it," I anticipated. "I will go after Twilight and try to prevent any ponynapping or something worse too her." "Like killing her by mistake?" Luna reminded. "Hey." I said. "I will continue my investigation," Reiko said. "While you go to secure Twilight from any possible menace,". "You better go," Celestia demanded. "Right," I said as I went out of the morgue. Like a lightning, i headed toward the Golden Oak Library. In my arrival, I saw something that I had already predicted in the window. This is the point were Twilight was talking to her counterpart from the future, the one who looked like Snake from the Metal Gear series. "I have something extremely important to tell you about the future," Future Twilight said. "And I only have a few seconds, so you've got to listen! Whatever you do, don't–" But before she could give her dire warning, Future Twilight disappeared, leaving Twilight with a doubt regarding the missing point of the message. "Future Twilight?" Twilight said. "Future Twilight? Oh no! What was she trying to warn me about? Her clothes, her mane, that scar... Oh, what a mess she is! ...I mean, I am... or I will be... [gasps] She must want me to prevent whatever horrible thing happens in the future!" She gasped. I entered from the door of the library. "It's seems like you were talking with somepony." "Allen?" Twilight questioned my presence for a moments. "You saw that, right?" "Talking with your future self?" I paused. "Yeah. Now listen to me. Your future self is probably telling you to not worry too much about the future. But... If you are not convinced, I think I will give you a ride to Starswirl the Bearded's archive and guiding you toward the locked time spells that he had personally away." "How do you know about that detail anyway?" Twilight demanded. I shrugged my shoulders. "Just a theory. Now what you have to do is to do nothing... Until the night before Tuesday." "How you can be so sure that nothing bad happens and that what my future self was telling is exactly what you have said to me?" Twilight asked suspiciously. "If you are not convinced, try at least to met up with me for a plan." I said. "Fine." Twilight concluded. As I went out of the library, I decided to spy her from the window, like any real stalker will do. I didn't liked that method but I have to preserve her security at any cost since Nero and her Remodeled Corpse ponies are on the loose. As for Twilight, she wasn't convince about what I said regarding Future Twilight's message and began her quest to find what the real disaster is. A day passed by and the 'disaster' didn't happened yet. There were a few cataclysms that happened of course, but where resolved by themselves. Like Fluttershy taming a cerberus and some other things. And was still awake, until I ended up sleeping. The following day, I was still following Twilight, who, despite having the scar on her cheek, decided do not do absolutely nothing... Until Rainbow Dash and Spike decided to have at her expenses. Spike in particular tickled her, resulting Twilight to telekinetically tossing Spikes away and causing him to belch his flames, scorching Twilight's mane and putting in the same style of her future self. I followed her at the Sugarcube Corner. At that point Twilight even resorted to Pinkie Pie's Pinkie sense to make sense in this story. And no, that's not a joke. Since there's nothing much for me to do, I decided to leave her privacy alone and go back to home. I know that would be risky, so I was lucky that Lilly came at the last moment to give me a change. I hate play the stalker part anyway. It was all too dark. I was dreaming, so I didn't even bothered to ask what was going on. Although the question was how is going on. Aunt Death was in front of me, like someone giving a message from the Twilight Zone. No pun intended. "Sometimes a message from the future is a good thing, but..." Aunt Death paused. "What if the dire future is your own." I woke up with a start. I instinctively went out of my coffin and headed outside, headed to Ponyville. It wasn't strange if that was the morning where Twilight had the epiphany to monitor everything in Ponyville and decided to stop time itself. As I had arrived, I was approached by Pinkie, Spike and Twilight, who resembled just like her future self. "Allen, you have to help us," Twilight said worried. "Let me guess," I said. "You wanted me to escort you to the archive of time spells." "That's right." Twilight said. "You are Celestia's agent, right. Could you at least make us a favor." "...... Alright, let's go," I said. "But first, we have to wait for night to fall if we wanted to enter inside." "I hope you plan works," Twilight said. "Did you had predicted what my Pinkie Sense was warning me about?" Pinkie asked. "...... Does that even matter?" I asked suspiciously. "Alright, let's just do what he said," Spike suggested. In the wait, we played some poker and then decided to hang out for some exploration in the woods until night fell. The hang out part was a excuse to find some other clue regarding Nero's whereabouts or even another corpse for Reiko. Well guess what. I found nothing and I ended up empty handed. With the night having completely took the place of the day, we headed toward the archive where the Starswhirl's time spells. Twilight, Pinkie and Spikes were about to use their 'stealth' abilities but I know that will take awhile. So I used a piece of my authority as Celestia's agent to enter with excuse of a possible intrusion of some Granite Daggers' member. We have also found a helpful Night Guard who decided to take us inside the place for academic reasons. To be honest, he was too hesitant to let me in due to my reputation and the time I had almost destroyed Equestria for a Batman Gambit against Discord. "Do you like it was your home," The guard then glared at me. "You better not doing any harm to her." And then he closed the door. "Too late. He already have." Twilight murmured. "Again with this story?" I complained. "I am still sorry for killing you by accident and turning you into a zombie like creature." "You did WHAT?!" Spike said shocked. "It's a very long, creepy story," Twilight said deadpan. "I wonder what kind of other reality screw you were planing in this moment," Pinkie said suspiciously. "Hey." I said. "Focus guys," Twilight hushed. "We don't have the whole night to goofing around. The disaster will happen at any moment!" "It seems like you didn't had listened to me," I said calmly. "Look, I hanged out with you because, let be honest, nothing bad will happen anyway." "How could you establish that?" Twilight retorted. "I almost just look like my future self! That should mean something to you!" "You think that's bad?" A male voice in the dark said. That voice... Oh dear lord. Tell me that it's not what I think it is. I mean, when I told the guards that a Granite Dagger's member... "I was bluffing!" I exclaimed. At that point a rust orange maned red stallion with a cross like scar on his face came out, deviously wearing some kind of unicorn amulet and holding a scroll in his claws... Wait a minute. "Is that the scroll Pinkie was supposed to find!?" I thought. "This is bad." "You can bet your ass, Allen," He said arrogantly. "I had just found this archive thanks to you, and I can officially say that all your base are belong to Shiv!" Yes, that guy is indeed Shiv, Granite Daggers' arch-bishop, stealth master, fire user and a nutty fan of Zero Wings. His original self didn't had much upper hand on me during our fight in my past time. But now that this alternate version was holding the time scroll? Not that is a serious threat. "I think I know what you are going to do." I said with a grave tone. "You are right, Allen," Shiv said. "What I have to do is just going back in time to prevent your rebirth." I flinched. "Whoa!" "So I won't be turned into a zombie like creature?" Twilight said hopeful, tempted by his threat like it was a offering. "Yes, but you will end up having an entire army of Granite Daggers' members invading Equestria," I warned her. "Really!?" Twilight said surprised. "So that's the disaster that was going to fall upon Equestria... And you told me to not worry about that!" "I won't waste anymore tine with you!" Shiv said as his unicorn amulet glowed and opened a time warp behind him. "Adios, suckers!" "Not so fast," I said as I summoned the black chains and flung them toward him. Shiv tried to jump inside the port, but has his leg completely wrapped with the chain. The attraction force of the portal was so great that both me and Shiv got dragged inside. Twilight was exclaiming my name, but at that point everything went dark and I ended up loosing consciousness. After an apparent eternity of blackness, my brain reconnected with my consciousness just in time to allow me to scan my surrounding. It was still night and I was in front of the Castle of the Two Sisters, but this time is different. And speaking of time... "I suppose that bastard dragged me in the past," I assumed. "But in what time, exactly?" "Spare me your morality, Allen!" Vaelox's voice said. "You want to know how I was able to find you? The original members that you had destroyed in your universe has sent their different counteparts of them to haunt you right after their death, just like me." "...... No, don't tell me-!" I said incredulous. That voice answered that question for me. Without any delay, wore both the Freezing Gauntlet and the Berserker Claw, and went inside the castle. I was hiding myself from behind a wall, witnessing a very familiar seen. It was my past self dealing with Vaelox and his hostage strategy. That would be the chance to prevent myself from accidentally killing Twilight and being forced to select Corpse Remodeling as my first level up reward... Although that was my choice. But that wasn't the time to think about that. I had one psycho to take care of... And was right behind the other me. I summoned my black chain and flung them toward Shiv. They wrapped around his body and allowed me to instantly drag him away from my past self and tossing him out of the castle's entrance. And speaking of him, he turned toward the entrance, wondering what was that voice. That lasted one second that he already returned his attention to Vaelox. As for me, I went out of the castle and was about to deal with Shiv, who was standing two legged with his clawed hooves being ignited with flames wrapping around them. He looked furiously at me, although he was also mostly confused. "You could had been a clever bastard," I said mockingly. "Too bad that you had selected the wrong event." "Either you or your past self will die by my hand this very night!" Shiv roared as he thrown a fire ball toward me. I dodged the blow and unleashed pyroclasms of plasma that traveled toward him and overwhelmed his body... But he was still standing unharmed. Damn! I had forgot he had a plasma's nullifying armor. "It's that what you got!?" Shiv provoked as he unleashed a fire wave from his left clawed hoof. I rolled away from him while shooting a freezing bullet at him. Simultaneously. He was about to counterattack but it was too late. Half of his body and his own hooves ended up being encased in the ice. The time spell scroll already fell from his grasp without him having noticed. I slowly walked toward him and picked up the scroll. The victory was mine but... *BANG!* It was too late to prevent my other self from accidentally killing Twilight. That was a real letdown for me... But I suppose it's better this way since meeting myself could have created a paradox by crushing Yomi's system or something. Anyway, I was about to finish Shiv, but without any warning, the time warp reopened beneath me and him, dragging both of us in it's center. In a split seconds, we ended up reappearing in the time spells archive, falling on the floor. I grunted in pain for the impact and slowly rose up two legged. As for Shiv, the ice that was blocking his body began to melt. I never wanted to see his face any longer and have enough time to react, I rummaged inside my bag and pulled out the my shotgun, just in time to point it on him and shoot him in the head before he could have the time to release himself. Black embers and pieces of ice were flying around the room, having the strange courtesy to not hit Twilight, Pinkie or even Spike. Only the unicorn amulet remained unscathed. The way I used my weapon was so nostalgic and yet not nostalgic at all. "It's been a while," I declared. "Yeah, Allen," Twilight sighed heavily, almost cringing. "You better not remind me of that," I putted away the weapon. "Twilight, let me remin-" "Don't say anything or I will change my mind on your account," Twilight said. "I guess the disaster is adverted," "So... What are you going to do now?" I asked, pulling out the scroll. "You are still going to use it?" "I don't think so..." Twilight was reconsidering the options and then snapped somehow her hoof and took the scroll with. "But considering how much I was worrying about the future of Equestria and other things, I guess I should use the spell to reassure my past self about it." That being said, Twilight used the scroll to go back in time and then disappeared. We have waited for about thirteen seconds until she reappeared with the remaining piece of the phrase. "–waste your time... worrying... about... Ugh! I can't believe I just did that!" Twilight lamented. "Ah, don't worry about it. It's past Twilight's problem now." Pinkie assured. "Yeah, think about listening to me next time." I stated, causing Twilight to glare at me while Pinkie and Spike looked at me in confusion. "What?" "Ohhh... my stomach..." Spike lamented. "I, I think it's all that ice cream... I thought the stomach ache would be future Spike's problem... but now I am future Spike. Ohh..." Twilight and Pinkie giggle while I turned toward the entrance and went out. "Whatever, I'll go back home." As I went outside, the guards were already questioning everything that happened inside. And yet they didn't had the courtesy to storm inside when Shiv attacked. I just answered to them by telling them that is all just fine. It was a miracle that Shiv didn't had killed me in the past. Otherwise Equestria would had Nero being able to build her own army of remodeled zombies. And speaking of Nero, I didn't had found any clue. Or so I thought until Reiko showed up and approached me with an exhausted look. "Jeez, what happened to you?" I asked. "While you were hanging out with Twilight for some reason," Reiko said sternly. "I was attacked by three Remodeled Corpses." I flinched. "You mean-" "Yes... Nero has made her first move." Reiko stated. It seems like that the real disaster is going to get real. Next Level Up:-1 1)Power Limiter: A gauntlet with power to nullify the magic of every living creature. 2)Money Rifle: A shotgun that uses money as bullets. 3)????: It's up to the public to see what it is, so don't be shy and unleash your creativity.