//------------------------------// // Chapter 8: Ricklee's Arsenal // Story: The Day I was Reincarnated To Equestria // by ItsAceHerobrineAS //------------------------------// Narrator: Ricklee Two weeks later after Ace's 24 hour vacation. "Yaaaaawn, looks like the groceries that Ace asked for is complete. I guess I should head back home." I said as I walked down the market place. Anyways, during the previous two weeks, I got myself my own new room, just beside my cousin's room. And some clothes. I don't really feel comfortable without my clothes, but thanks Rarity for sewing some clothes for me that fits my tastes. They're mostly hoodies (Dark blue with white accents) but eh, it's fine. And why am I in this marketplace when Ace can just forage from the Everfree Forest? The answer is that the grocery is just a cover. I'm actually looking for a job. Well, Ace has his foraging job, Yuri has his woodcutting job but he didn't have any assignments yet, and Thous is helping Twilight on her magic research whilst going to school. They all have their parts in this society,  and I'm the only one in our residence that doesn't have a job. As I was walking around at the town, I saw a building that caught my attention. "Aight, I think I got an idea." I thought as I tapped my left hoof with a clenched right hoof At home, 3:19pm... I dashed at the bedroom hallway and knocked on Thous' door. "Thous! Ya there!?" I yelled. "Yeah! Come in!" Thous replied. I opened the door, and I saw Thous experimenting with a sheet of paper. I don't know what he is doing, but the paper is filled with red glowing cracks and the paper itself is pulsing a white glow. "Uh, what are you doing?" I asked as I noticed the table where Thous is experimenting on, looks like Skyrim's enchantment table. "Enchanting some shits. Prolly gonna be useful in the future." Thous explained. "So... about earlier at the marketplace, there is a place where I can work." I said. "Yeah, what about it?" He replied. "It's a fricking police station. I might work there." I said, making the demon widen his eyes. "A what now?" "You heard it right, no ear wax, wait you don't have any ears. But still, you heard it right." "Nice, you're gonna be a cop in this town. But why are you telling me this today when we can have a meeting at dinner later?"  Thous asked. "Do you know how to make a gun?" I asked, as he drank some water Thous was speechless, and spat out his water that was stored in his mouth... "Uhhhh, let's talk about that later at dinner. I still need to figure out on how to make it. Look, I'm not creative like Ace, but it's better if we have a meeting about this, Ace or Yuri might have an idea about it." He explained, and I understand. At dinner... "So, you found a job?" Ace asked. "Ya." "And you need a gun?" "Ya." "Aight." Ace nodded. "Somebody had any ideas on how to make a frickin gun? I don't have any idea on how to make it. I know that we can't afford a frickin gunpowder, but I don't know how to make a gun that relies on magic." Thous complained as he muched on his food. "Hey Thous, I heard you're researching on object enchantment right now. Did you make a good progress on it?" Yuri asked. "Yeah, the only thing I know is that it's like you'll give it commands and it will follow those commands permanently or something. It sounds easy, but trust me. It requires a ton of magic energy or something. Good things comes with a bad price after all." Thous explained again. "Commands?" Yuri pointed out. "Yeah, what about it?" Thous asked. "Eyeyeyey, remember the sleepover we had at Ace's room?" "Trying to change the subject? Ofcourse I'll still remember it." "Remember the anime we watched that time? The anime called 'Reincarnated Smartphone'?" "Yep, that overpowered dude that has his own harem? Yeah, I still remember." "I get what you're trying to say there Yuri." Ace chimed in. "What do you mean?" Thous asked. "There was a part at the anime where the main protagonist learned the 'Program' magic or something, similar with the enchantment magic you've just discovered. With his 'Model' magic thingy, he made a gun made out of a dragon fang that only has a trigger and a barrel, doesn't shoot any bullets otherwise. But with the 'Program' magic he just learned, he gave it a simple command, whenever he presses the trigger, it will shoot something." Ace explained, surprising the nuckelavee. "So what you're saying is... That I'm gonna make a gun through item enchantment!? That's a great idea!" Thous agreed, feeling excited on making the gun. "Now we finally figured out on how to make a gun, we need to know what kind of gun does Ricklee want." Ace said, and the three of them looked at me. "Since I'm gonna be a cop, I guess... I'll have a pistol that causes damage, and a pistol that causes some debuff." I said, making the three smile. "That's settles it then..." the draconid called out. As the other two agreed, we had a hoof (and a paw) bump. "Starting tomorrow morning! Let's make the guns!" Yuri cheered. "Yeah, looks like I'll be absent at school for a few days." Thous said, but didn't care, and smiled. The creation of the gun was at the top of his priority list after all. "I'll help you guys at the project with all my might. It's kinda unfair that I'm the only one at the group who's lazing around." I said. Ace laughed a bit. "Heh, you don't need to say that. Yuri is the laziest pony of our group, ofcourse he's the one who's supposed to say that." Ace teased. And we all laughed, except for Yuri, who's really irritated about it. "Yeah, anyways. Regarding about the project, we shouldn't tell this to anypony, except Twilight and the others. We don't want to change the weapons system of Equestria, like what I did with my katana." Ace explained, and all of us agreed about the condition. "Ricklee, if somepony asks about your weapons, just tell them that it's just a magic item that depends on one's personality." He said, and I agreed. As we're all finished with the meeting, we all cleaned ourselves up and went to bed. My cousin, in his room. He's busy looking for some gun references in google. He's looking something similar to an energy gun. Thous, also in Ace's room. He's also busy figuring out the commands needed for the guns' mechanisms. Then, we all slept at midnight. ============================== Tomorrow morning. Ace, who is a forager. Had a little day off. And Thous, who is a student. He was absent for the day. All of us went outside, and placed a tabe at the front yard. And sat down. Ace placed down a large paper that contains the blueprint for the gun, and some several energy gun references. There are even some guns from Doom. "Alright, here's the gun we're gonna make." Ace called out. And the three of us gulped. "As you can see, this looks like a desert eagle pistol, but it's not. It's a modified version of the desert eagle." Then he pointed at a cage-like part of the pistol. "This, is where the core of the gun is stored." Then he pointed again at the cage, and then dragged his hoof at the left side of the cage. "This is the drawer-like part of the pistol. If you pull this part out, this is the place where you will install or uninstall the core or cartridge." And the two of us (excluding Thous) were amazed at the gun's features. "Now, you're wondering about the cartridge or core. Let me explain" Thous chimed in. "The cartridge is a bullet-like object that has a little slopey-notch on it. And it's made out of metal. With a little commands here and there. To activate the core, the conditions must be met first. If those conditions are met, the core will begin to shoot a laser-like bullet for one time." Thous explained. "That makes sense, now. What's with these weird-looking polygons at the blueprint, what are those?" Yuri asked. "Those are modules Yuri." Ace answered. "Ehh? They don't looked like books to me." Yuri joked. (Note: For those who didn't get the joke, let me explain. At the Philippines, during the pandemic. We only relied on contact-less education. And there are two types of contact-less education available for all of us students, which is online class and module classes. Module classes are classes where you only rely on answering a magazine-like answer sheet that is provided every week. Anyways, either with those choices, it's still hell. Anyways, let's continue.) "Haha, corny asshole." Ace called out, and Yuri is not happy about it. "Anyways, the modules in this blueprints are made to change the modes of the gun." Ace explained Thous pointed at the first box that contained 4 polygons. "This is the Assault Mode modules, if you attach this at the pistol you have, it will be an automatic weapon. If you used it too much, the modules will deattach themselved and you must wait for an hour so you can use the modules again." Now, at the box that has a cylinder and 3 polygons "This is Explosion Mode modules, it's similar to RPG's, and it also has a similar conditions as Assault Mode." At the box with two polygons, a scope, and a long, thin cylinder. "This is the Sniper Mode modules, pretty self explainatory. This doesn't have any conditions, but this will kill a pony if you use this modules on your 'causing-damage' gun." And finally, a box with a blade-like polygon. "This is melee mode, but it's not really melee. It's kinda similar to Terraria's Terrablade, if you swing this blade, it will shoot a projectile towards an enemy. Same as Sniper Mode, no conditions." Thous explained and Me and Yuri are very surprised. "Also, we can also combine different kinds of modules at the gun. Like, you can attatch an automatic module with a sniper module or a sniper module with an RPG module. But here's the catch, if you used too much, the modules will enter cooldown mode for three hours. Yeah, it's three times risky if you do this kinds of combinations." Thous explained. And I was very disappointed at it. "Hey dude, why would you guys put some restrictions on my gun?" I asked with a bored expression. "DO YOU WANT ME TO DIE!?" "What?" "Look, enchanting these modules and your cartridges is enough for me to faint and fall asleep for a day! Do you want me to die by removing those restrictions?" "What does even that supposed to mean?" "Ricklee, lets just say I have 100 Mana points, enchanting one part of your gun takes 90MP. The remaining 10MP is enough to make me sleep for the whole day. If I remove the restrictions of the modules, it's gonna take 300MP. And using too much mana points is just a death sentence!" "Okay, now that explains everything." "Alright, since we now know the gun's properties. Let's start making the parts so Thous can enchant it." Ace stated. "How do we make the parts? We don't have any 3d printer or some other shits here." Yuri stated. "Easy, we will ask a toy maker to make one!" Ace answered. And the two of us (me and Yuri) are just air, trying to process on why the fuck we ask a toymaker to make the parts. "And for the cartridges, we will ask a blacksmith to make it." Thous added. Yuri raises his paw. "I get that the blacksmith will make the cartridges, but why would we fricking ask a toymaker to make the gun and the modules for petes sake?" "A toy maker can only make the gun, no other ponies in ponyville can ever make the gun we need. If we ask a blacksmith to do it, it's very tedious to be honest." Ace explained. Yuri agreed and we went to Ponyville to order some things. We first went to the blacksmith and preordered the metal cartridges. The blacksmith asked about the metal bullet-like pieces and we just told him that we are just repairing something. Then, we went to a toymaker to make the gun parts. When the toymaker looked at our blueprints, the pony already understood what we want to be made. And yes, the pony also understood the mechanism of the gun and we don't even need to explain on how it works. He also doesn't care on what we use it for. He's just happy that somepony came in at his workshop and asked for something. "He kinda reminds me of that old craftsman in Dr.Stone..." And finally, we asked Twilight for some help on enchanting the gun parts. This made Twilight so happy and excited that she happily agreed without any complaints. After a few days, the parts that we preordered at Ponyville are complete, now it's time for Thous to enchant it. It was a new day, at our backyard table, Ace, Yuri, Twilight, Thous and me gathered around. Ace pulled out a pen and paper. "Here's the commands list that me, Yuri and Thous created together. There's a ton of it so we can know what is the correct command to use for the cartridges." He explained. "That's one long list, we could probably finish the enchantments for the cartridges at evening or something." Yuri commented. "Well, there's one problem." Ace added "The enchantments we're about to put in the cartridges are very overpowered, thus it requires a lot of mana to use. Which means, we can only get one chance to enchant per day." Ace explained, me and Yuri were surprised about it while Twilight is just writing some notes. "I see, just like the saying 'Good things comes with a price'." Twilight muttered. "Isn't that the magic rules' 'Law Of Equivalent Exchange'?" I asked "Precisely, wait-" Twilight paused. "How did you know about the 'Law Of Equivalent Exchange'?" Twilight asked. "Let's just say that we already learned it before we were reborn." Ace answered. "Anyways, Thous, are you ready?" Ace asked. "I am!" Thous agreed and pointed his hooves at a cartridge. "Remember, we will experiment first with the Paralyze Cartridge first. If we were successful at this experiment, we can have a clear template for the cartridges and the modules." Ace reminded Thous and he nodded his head. Thous closed his eyes and the cartridge and his horns are emitting some red cracks. He opened his eyes back again and read the script written by Ace. Advanced Unicorn Magic: Enchant "[Target Object: Cartridge], [Modify: ((Color:)Glow: Blue)], [Effect: ((Bullet: Condition: If plastic lever meets the notch, shoot a visible blue light bullet that travels at the speed of light) Condition: If bullet hits target, halt the movements of the target's bones and muscles.) Ending enchant script.]" Thous chanted and he fell to the ground unconscious. And the cartridge didn't glowed up. "It's a fail, it's supposed to glow up." Ace said, dissapointedly. "You guys probably didn't renamed the cartridge or something. The enchant magic must be confused on what the fuck is a cartridge." Yuri said. "Hmm, that's probably one of the reasons. Good point though." Ace agreed. That one fail of enchanting the cartridge... Didn't make us quit... But... It motivated us instead. Anyway, with a lot of trial and errors, a lot of classes Thous skipped, a lot of days Ace missed. We finally got the correct enchant. Advanced Unicorn Magic: Enchant " Create Variable: Name: Bullet, Color: Glow: Blue Modifications: Effect: Halts target's movements for five minutes. Condition: Upon impact, excecute Effect: Halts target's movements for five minutes. Rename Target Object: Paralyze Cartridge, Target Object: Paralyze Cartridge, Modifications:  Color: Glow: Blue  Effect: Shoots a Object: Bullet Condition: Upon tapping the notch with the Object: Gun Lever, the cartridge will shoot out a Object: Bullet at a speed of light. End of enchant." Same as usual, Thous collapsed on the floor. We can't believe it... It actually worked! The cartridge is glowing in blue! "I can't believe we actually did it. After researching the correct commands and combinations for the cartridge... We finally did it!" Twilight smiled in joy, like she's living in a paradise. "Holy fuck, we did the impossible." Yuri was speechless. "This is not a dream motherfuckers... Its the fucking reality. Two months worth of Thousmay's collapses, we finally did it boys!" Ace screamed in happiness. I grabbed my black plastic gun, inserted the cartridge and pulled the trigger on a brown rabbit passing by the residence. And, it was paralyzed. "Yes, it really fucking worked." I said, as I smiled. Ten days later, we finally finished both of my guns, their cartridges, and their modules. Thanked my friends. And I was ready to apply for my work. I was at the local police station, and applied for a job. There's no training required for the job, well that's surprising. The only test they gave me is that is to catch a criminal that might do something illegal in Ponyville, and I agreed to the test. As I was patrolling and waiting patiently, there was a pegasus robber flying away from its victim. "Hey! My purse!" A mare yelled in anger towards the robber. A group of earth pony cops exited the police department and attempted to chase down the robber. But they failed because the robber is twenty feet above the ground now. "See ya later suckers!" The robber taunted. "Dang it! If we only have a way to catch that imbecile without flying!" The police chief complained. "Can I help?" I asked. "No can do newbie, there's no way we ground walkers can catch that criminal, if you can actually do it, I'll give away my position as a chief to you. But I know its impossible-" Before he could finish, I rolled my eyes and shot down the criminal with a paralyzing bullet. And the criminal fell down to the ground. "Screw this, I take back my words. You'll be the police chief from now on." The former chief said as he gave me the 'police chief' badge to me and then stormed off. "What a good first day of work..."