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// WARNING SYSTEM ERRORL: Απόλλων Offline 
// Story: Query 
// by ShadowRazer2121 
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As HADES sat in the library he was scrutinizing a book in front of him staring at the lettering. This was his least favorite part was the learning aspect of being mortal. HADES never understood why the humans did not just force feed them the information and knowledge of the world like Απόλλων. HADES paused, the name Απόλλων felt familiar but he did not know where from. The more he thought most of his memories were missing due to Sylens’ attempt at “interrogation” that might as well be considered torcher. 

Eventually Twilight entered the room only to see the small colt that was named HADES staring daggers at a book all the whole looking confused at the same time. She decided to make her presence known. Clearing her throat she spoke to him.

“Um, what are you doing?” Twilight asked him and she got a death glare in return, which kinda made her jump in slight surprise that somepony so young could have a stare like that.

“VARIABLE…ASSISTANCE…” HADES paused if The Aloy was there she would have called him out for it. He swallowed his pride and said the words that he swore would never come out of his voice modulator. “ASSISTANCE….REQUESTED……DECRYPTION….NOT RECOGNIZED.” HADES said feeling almost agony on the inside saying that a former king like him was asking for help, of all things.

This question took Twilight Sparkle by surprised as she let out a gasp. She approached HADES, only to receive a low growl from the young colt as she stop to ask him the question that she needed an answer for. 

“HADES, do you know how to read? Didn't your parents teach you?” Twilight asked as she tilted her head slightly eyebrow raised in confusion and suspicion as she successfully had hidden her dread from knowing the answer.

“QUERY…….DEFINITION…PARENTS UNKNOWN….Απόλλων…” HADES paused, that name bothered him, what was it. He bothered him but Twilight was thankfully more focused on the fact that he did not have an education. He felt, what were now metaphorical gears, spin in his head as his processor, that was a brain, worked away being able to see why machines like him were created in the first place. The grim dark fantasies of a mind was a joy to him, but he saved day dreaming for later.

“HADES, why didn’t your parents take you to school?” Twilight asked trying to pry for answers.

“VARIABLE….CREATORS…..CREATED TO….RESTART….CREATE BLANK…..SLATE.” HADES finished however Twilight rolled her eyes inwardly annoyed at the way HADES spoke and of how he addressed his words, but the word he said earlier was a word she had never heard of before. She could remember how to say it but she was going to get him into the Ponyville school. That would have to wait until tomorrow because it was getting late. 

Letting out a sigh she continued, “We will continue this tomorrow it’s getting late. You will need to get some rest after the events you have been through, so I had spike prepare a room for you.” She said gesturing HADES to follow.

“HADES…NOT REQUIRE….RECHARGE….MAIN POWER…IS AT…” before he could finish he let out a big yawn then quickly covered his mouth. HADES felt his ears droop as he looked at Twilight which just smirked.

“Sure.” Twilight said sarcastically as her horn began to glow and HADES felt himself being held in a purple glow and then looked to her horn. HADES was utterly bewildered. Magic existed he was running thousands and thousands of equations in his head until he had a head splitting headache.

When the pain stop thats when they had reached a door and Twilight opened it with her magic and walked in. HADES was set down back onto the floor inspecting himself. HADES quickly observed the room. The room it’s self was decently large. It had a circle window in the middle of the wall adjacent from him. And a bed pushed to the left side against the farthest corner with a nightstand next to it, HADES was also able to pick out a mirror in the right side of the room in which two doors that most likely lead into a closet. Other then that it was pretty barren. That’s when twilight spoke.

“I know it is not much but I recently had this room cleared from a little incident a while back.” She said grimacing at the discord taking over and all that. She would rather move on from that.

“VARIABLE’S…..ACCOMMODATIONS…ARE…ACCEPTABLE…” HADES said his voice still retaining that original tone from when he commanded the shadow Carja, but with a more childish tone to it and more clearer.

HADES walk into the room and next to the window from where he was he could see just to the side and above him he could see a balcony of sorts. He could also see more of the town proper or rather the many houses that aligned the edge of it from where he was. He eventually heard the door close, but paid no mind to the purple pony as he then moved to the mirror and looked at himself. Since he woke up he was curious on what they had done to him.

Looking at himself in the mirror with the lamp on the night stand the only thing illuminating the area. A shadow was cast over his body as the bandage that was placed around his eye was removed as he slowly opened it and stared in the mirror. Noticing a small scar going down the top part of the empty void but not going past that. He also noticed that the glowing orb in his eye had returned to normal as it focused on himself. As he grinned to himself. He would find a way back and this time he would win. He would carry out his duty his purpose. His creators demanded it.

He let out another yawn which really did not do well for his mood. So he decided to try doing what the purple pony had said and made his way to the bed and just barely being able to turn the lamp’s light off, he felt the cold and yet welcoming embrace of sleep caring him through the deepest parts of his mind.





Twilight had closed the door to her room and let out a sigh of relief for some reason, but she did not care she was tired. Spike was asleep in his basket curled up into a small ball. She smiled at the sight before heading to her own bed. Think of what to do tomorrow. She knew she had to take HADES to the school house to register him into to start classes, but she needed a way to hide the eyeless socket that a glowing orb was in its place. As she thought what his parents did to him or rather what or yet again who did this to him.

She stowed the thoughts in the back of her head as she quickly drifted off into dream land.





HADES looked at himself and saw he was still the same pony he was when he went to sleep. He let out a low sigh that was a mix between a growl and grinding metal. He was in a barren waste land. The wind blowing hard against hit body or would he say fur, coat? He didn’t know nor did he care. Pushing through the onslaught of the wind gusts and the clouds of dust that he could feel slowly cutting their way under his coat and into the skin. Raising a hoof to try and prevent some of the dust from entering his eyes and mouth. He noticed some structures a small distance away and started towards them.

As he pushed through the dust and wind it seemed to pick up a lot threatening to pick him up and throw him, however HADES dealt with worse if technically dying counts as worse, then he would have to say this was more so an annoyance. Soon he came across a small collapsed bridge and slowly this place began to feel familiar yet foreign. He looked to the object he was chairing and notice that it looked out of place.

When he got close enough he noticed that it was a ruined village of some sorts barely any remains of the buildings were there. Just the occasional layout that there even was a house, home, or maybe a restaurant. However, when he approached the center where a fountain, or at least the base of one, he noticed a glimmer out of the corner of his eye and saw a large shiny disk that looked like it was made of some kind of rock.

He headed towards the rock until he found that there was also what appeared to be a chair made out of a crystal that was in front of the what he assumed was a table made, from his assumption, out of the same material. However, the Crystal furniture isn’t what caught his eye. It was the holo projected map that the Crystal table was projecting that got his attention. It was a map of part of the world he was in. He knew this by using common sense which ponies and humans both seemed to lack. He was able to see the town that was, Ponyville if he remembered the name correctly and the display of a castle in the side of the mountains was also an indicator, but one place seemed to draw his eye the most rather three locations. The large spire in the north and the volcanic lands to the west, and the forest which was the closest to him being only in the outskirts of the village he was in.

He studied the map some more until he felt like something was off. His suspicions were confirmed when a deafening gargled roar split the air as a giant gust of wind threw him to the side as he rolled for a bit, after which he slammed into a dead tree stump which felt painfully convenient. HADES winced in pain even letting out a cry as he started aching all over his body. Cursed mortality and being able to feel pain. In that moment for the first time in his since his creation he knew what true terror was. As he looked to the distant mountain as a chunk of it collapsed taking the ruined city, that once stood majestically on the side coke crashing down to the ground below. That’s when a second roar came, HADES then braced himself against the true as the onslaught of wind slammed against his smaller more fragile body. When it stopped HADES felt that feeling of terror again, but this time it was followed by dread. As he watched as a tendril shot out of the newly made hole in the mountain as more followed. As the familiar drills spun at super high speeds enough to drill straight to the core of a planet if it chose to. He watched the tendrils tense up and constrict as the their owner finally pulled itself out of the hole as Horus Titan pulled its body out of the mountain as even from here he could see the red lights glowing in enraged fury as it began to survey the area which worried him. The Horus Titans were built to be walking factories, a walking Recon unit, and a walking everything. Needless to say their line of sight was endless it wasn’t until the Titan stopped and turned its head quickly to face his direction. In that moment he knew what humans felt when he was attempting to take control of the spire. As the Titan let out one last enraged roar he saw it’s drills spin up and dig into the ground. Noting to himself while they were never originally built to do that, from what HADES remembered and studied the logs of all the titans, is that the swarm modified them so they were able to do so but only for short periods of time since it consumed so much energy to do such a task. HADES could feel the ground tremble, but for some reason he was glued in place.

He felt the tremors get worse and worse. Until they suddenly stopped. He opened one eye and let out a breath he didn’t know he was holding which proved to be a mistake as the Titan shot out of the ground in front of him as he was thrown a good distance before landing on the ground where again a rock was sitting. He looked at the Titan, at it’s cold red enraged eye or eyes it’s main optic was in the center but the Horus titans were built to use all of them. 

The Titan just stood there staring at him. HADES was genuinely confused wasn’t the titans and all the other machines supposed to consume biomass. Well he was good for it. So what was it doing. Then it did something that in the moment, he would have preferred death. It would better to see if his killing himself idea would work in sending him back to earth. 

“ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑΤΑ ONLINE ΚΑΙ ΑΝΑΜΟΝΗ ΓΙΑ ΑΝΑΘΕΣΗ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑΣ.” The titan said as it continued to Stare at him. What was also weird was that he could not understand it. The words felt familiar, but yet again, it was foreign. His eyes eventually closed and he felt his body suddenly become increasingly heavier.



 

HADES shot up in the bed hyperventilating which was just a mixture of growls and heavy breathing. As if on queue the door opened and Twilight walked in. Before she said anything she noticed his state. Her look turned to worry as she looked at him.

“HADES are you okay?” She asked both worried and curiosity taking each other.

“HADES…..SYSTEMS….NOMINAL..” HADES said the way he was speaking irritating Twilight as she turned around and began to walk out before she peaked her head in the door to tell him that breakfast was ready. With a nod he rubbed his eyes and groggily got out of the bed. Letting out a sigh and put the what he assumed was a nightmare in the back of his mind and proceeded down to the kitchen. 

He sat at the table realizing sitting wasn’t as hard as he thought it would be. However, eating was a different story. He had a very difficult time trying to eat and slammed his head on the table which proved to be a bad idea as he suddenly let out a scream of massive amounts of pain in his head. This got the attention of Twilight and spike. As Twilight went to check on him she only then noticed the horn coming from his head which was mostly hidden by his mane. In the moment Twilight did a scan and found no major damage was done and all he would have would be a headache for a few hours.

After inspecting HADES a bit more she had confirmed only a headache would be there and that it should go away within a few hours. HADES was then asked why he did not tell her tha he was a unicorn. In which HADES just gave his normal cryptic answer of ‘fragment  disintegrated’. Whatever that meant she was tired of hearing it. With that minor annoyance she had helped him use his hoof instead of magic seeing how he may not know how, which if that was the case she would not stand for it. 

After a bit of cleaning she eventually made HADES sit in the main room and Twilight went to her room and went through a drawer and grabbed what she was looking for and headed back down stairs. Showing what she had planned and revealed a pair of glasses. HADES’ face fell flat.

“DOES THE….TWILIGHT….THINK..HADES…..WILL HAVE….LENSES IN OPTICS..” HADES asked as she nodded she brought them close to her and focused magic into her horn enchanting the lenses. With a bright flash the glasses were the same. She put the glasses on him and set him in front of a mirror and showed what she had done. 

HADES’ right eye was confused until his anger rose. “WHAT…THE TWILIGHT….DONE….OCULAR SYSTEMS.” HADES said with his anger being made obvious to her. She rolled her eyes and took them off and HADES then saw his eye was still there. She put the glasses back on and his right eye looked like his left. 

It clicked holographic projection, he had to admit he was impressed and his planing would also alter with this discovery. With this newly found discovery he honestly didn’t care that he had them just the fact that HADES now had a new idea to integrate his planning. However this also complicated things greatly. For one it shows that the power of the magic here may be limitless which means it would be almost straight up impossible to even make an attempt to start up any kind of takeover of this world.

HADES decided to wait for planning later for now he was being taken to the worst place that humans could have invented. School.





Canterlot Castle: Throne Room

The two sisters were in the middle of a man important meeting until a scientist barged in being chased by guards as the scientist desperately called for their attention and that brings them to now. The scientist in question rambling on about the strange metal giant that was currently in the Frozen North and large massive ranks of even smaller ones in the Badlands’ desert and Dragon lands discovering a about the same amount of larger metal creatures that were bigger than the ones in the desert but dwarf by the single metal giant in the frozen north.

“Your highness please please forgive my intrusion I know your be..” he was cut off by Celestia raising her hoof. The pony in question was shivering in nervousness. As she set her hoof down she looked to him and stepped down off the throne to meet him. Celestia looked fo the guards and nodded, so did the guards also and the guards at the base of the throne follows bowing before they left. While this was happening the silence was painful all that was heard was the city proper and the clanking of the armor the guards ponies wore that made them look the same. When the door closed Celestia used her magic and summoned a small table and tea cups as well as a few cushions. Luna followed close behind and they both sat down Celestia gestured for the pony to do the same with a bow he did.

“What is your name? “ Celestia spoke gently as to try not to frighten the pony than she could tell he already was.

“M…m..my name I..is Granite Shine y..your highness.” He said still a little nervous. The same time Celestia started to pour the tea to the small group.

“Now the what news do you bring of the excavation? Anything to note?” Celestia asked as she took a same sip of her tea.

Swallowing a lump in his throat he began to explain.

“Well it’s not what we have to note, but rather didn’t.” Granite said which got confused glances from the two sisters. He let out a sigh and pulled out a map and laying out on the table. Putting markers down at the sights that the metal creatures were discovered.

“This is what I’m talking about.” He said showing them still confused but he noticed the gears turning in their heads. So he gave them a hint.

“Do you notice anything about their locations and these images?” He said pulling out pictures of the metal creatures and a picture of the metal giant that was buried under a literal mountain and ice and snow. 

“They are in different geographical locations that doesn’t seem important?” Luna pointed before he pull out little small make shift models of the metal creatures they found she noticed that the one in the desert had six small, what she assumed were legs with a thin waist and a large head that was bigger than its entire body with two large tubes with a strange box like device holding both the tubes as the point outward, yet it was able to stand as the picture also show there were hundreds of them scattered in the desert. 

She then looked at the smaller ones that they found in the Dragon Lands. It had four legs that ended in very sharpe pointed ends as they also had a tail coming from the back, of what they assumed was it’s head, as it’s head curved inwards more to come and meet a singular spherical glass eye as the picture showed even not as many seemingly froze almost glued to the side of the mountain as it looks like the strange creatures were climbing the side of the mountain before the metal creatures died. As the two pieces were placed a third and final piece with  miniature versions of all the creatures being placed at the locations they found, Granite placed down the final one in the frozen north.

She had recently come back from that one as it was recently unearth when discord returned it somehow was discovered by a group of mountain climbers. And set the piece down the image show a single giant sphere that had multiple eyes on it with a large central eye in the middle as what looked the body was bigger than what they had originally found. Granite gestured to them then he went on. 

“Notice they direction they are all facing.” He said showing them the images, noticing that in all but the metal giant the Canterlot mount was just barely visible to the point it was a tiny dot as big as a fly, but is was visible.

“So what’s your theory?” Luna asked him looking at the pictures more thoroughly.

“We think that whatever made these things become in this state has to be here in this area. We noticed that the smaller metal creatures are in the Dragon Lands most of them seem to be in a state of movement before they died, meaning that these creatures were either protecting something, or attacking it.” Granite finished going over other stuff about how that the way that some are in pieces and others were on the ground but majority of them were standing up, as if frozen in time.

“This theory of your makes sense, but simply which way they face is hard to prove important. However, it is supported by the fact that large groups of them are in one place.” Celestia said thinking on it. For now she could not just dig up the mountain however the Crystal mines were off limits mainly because they were dangerous and collapsing occasionally.

“I think for now we change our focused efforts to try and figure out if there are any clues to determine the purpose of this theory.” Luna suggested as she looked to her sister. Celestia nodded and both looked at Granite who was just putting his stuff away as the map only remained. 

“Granite when you return to the sites give them this to prove that they have been assigned to find the purpose of this massing of these metal creatures. Until then keep looking.” Celestia said as she gave two letters to Granite and used her magic to send one to the team in the Dragon Lands.

Celestia and Luna looked to each other. Luna was the first to speak.

“Do you think?” Luna offered.

Celestia nodded in response, “Yes I do, but to be sure, we must wait.”





HADES walked out of the school house mentally exhausted from the amount of tests required to enter a school. Luckily Twilight said he could roam the town and much to his disappointment was told not to go to the forest. HADES did not care honestly, HADES had started to see why humans preferred sleep. After Twilight departed to do whatever she does. HADES stood where he was and sat down with a thud on the ground tired for some odd reason. He was about to get up and leave until two ponies approached him. He noticed that one was had a pink coat and pink mane and tail with a singular white stripe going through the middle of both her mane and tail. Not to mention. The tiara and her butt tattoo or cutiemark as there called was a Diamond tiara. The other one was grey fur and a lighter grey main and tail with a pair of fancy glasses in her face. As they approached the school house, they noticed him standing in the way of the steps into the class room.

“Hey get out of our way.” The pink one said as HADES just looked at her raising an eyebrow at her demand.

“Are you deaf we said move.” The grey pony said and HADES just sat there even more, smiling at them while he refused to meet their demands.

The grey one then had somewhat of a revaluation and whispered in the pink ones ear. Unfortunate his enhanced hearing wasn’t left behind in the Titan’s core. So he could pretty much hear everything. It was mostly about HADES being new and that he looked weird and stuff like that. He was getting bored already and shakily stood up and walked off by the time they turned to him they noticed he was gone and acted shocked that anyone would do that. They noticed him walking away.

“Hey you just walk away from me.” The pink one said shouting at him. He stopped and turned to give them one irritated look made them walk into the school fearfully. He continued through the town until he came up a building that looked like it was made out of sustenance. Curious, he entered only to be met with a surprise by many ponies he didn’t even know.

Outta of instinct he emitted a low growl of aggression although not as scary as it used to be. It still got the message across somehow, but he wasn’t complaining. That was until Twilight came forward and HADES inwardly relaxed seeing someone he knew barely, okay he had know knowledge or anything thing of where came from why she’s helping him being nice to him or anything. For all they know he could be a homicidal AI hell bent on ending the world. Wait…that’s exactly what he was.

“You finally made it. I was worried I’d have to come find you and bring you here.” Twilight said as a pink blur dotted past her and with the pink blue picking him up like some child. Which really did not help his mood.

“VARIABLE…WILL SUFFER…IF UNIT…NOT FREED.” HADES said as he flailed and started trying to hit this link thing off of him but his body was to small and weak to do anything. Eventually he was let go and gave the pink pony a death glare that meant that it was a promise. Until he saw The Twilights face of somehow over powering his. Stupid child body obeying more older individuals. 

The party lasted a bit he was sitting at a booth by himself drink some of the punch that was now only half of it remained because of him. HADES was enjoying himself until he opened his eyes to look across from him to see three pairs of eyes staring at him. To say his mood was turned sour it would be an understatement.

“Hi, I’m Sweetiebell.” The white pony said as she reminded him of the other pony which made the one that was introducing them the top of his hit list he was making to pass the time. He just kept drinking.

“This is Scootaloo and this here is Apple Bloom.” The one called Sweetie bell said. He just continued to drink the punch moving the empty cup with the other 28, who was even counting.

“Can we ask what your name is?” The orange pony called Scootaloo asked. HADES stopped drinking  and sat the drink down and looked at the three of them.

Letting out the sigh that put them on edge, he began to open his mouth to speak.

“DESIGNSTION….HADES…..SUBORDINATE FUNCTION….TO….GAIA PRIME..” HADES spoke his voice sending them into a fearful mood like it usually did with others. That’s when Scootaloo spoke up.

“That’s an awesome name, I mean not as good as Rainbow Dash, but it’s up there.” Scootaloo said as HADES didn’t know weather to take offense or not.

“So we heard that yer startin your first day of school tomorrow?” Apple Bloom said asking him.

HADES simply nodded in response. The three smiled and then looked nervous for a second before they got a chance to ask another question, a few ponies came over and HADES inwardly screamed. He just wanted to drink this heavenly, whatever it is in peace.

“Apple bloom now don’t start askin this young fella so many questions.” An orange pony with a hat said as the one called Apple bloom lowered her head in shame as so did the others. Before he could listen more Twilight walked over and Gestured for Him to follow. Doing as told blaming to childish brain and body for his obedience, he would have to find a way to over right that.

HADES and Twilight had moved to a different booth as Twilight had a serious expression on her face. HADES was a little uneasy with the way she looked.

“HADES I need you to be honest with me.” Twilight asked and HADES was both annoyed and concerned. Getting no response she continued.

“What was the word you said from when you tried to read the book, you said a word I have never heard of. Do you know what it means?” Twilight asked and he too started thinking on the name.

“DESIGNATION…….UNKNOWN.” HADES said sounding disappointed and irritated at not know how half of his existence could just disappear. Only certain pieces were there. What had Sylens done to him to make him forget so much of his being only remembering the other times he had to destroy the earth so GAIA could restart in constructing a new Biosphere.

Twilight sighed and gestured for him to leave and he did so he could get back to his drinking. Twilight let out about her sigh as the orange pony from earlier walk up and spoke.

“Twi, I’m afraid he’s telling the truth.” The orange pony said.

“I know AJ. It’s just that I can’t shake the feeling something’s not right with him. You saw his eye when we and Princess Luna found him.” Twilight said as the first time they saw it, it scared them to the point they got no sleep that following night.

“I hear ya, but I got that exact feelin, that one ain’t telling us the whole story.” The one called Apple Jack said as they both just watch him chug the whole punch bowl as Twilight just face hoofed and Apple Jack giggled. 



 

HADES had woken up in his bed and as if again on queue Twilight entered and told him he had school that day. His mood went immediately sour as he slowly got out of the bed yawning. He looked over to a newly made desk as well as a bunch of books on it twilight had forced him to read but he still preferred his vagueness if he was to be honest. His voice had slightly improved but the tone was still there. There were words he didn’t under stand really well, but he did not care. HADES however was in a slightly better mood because he now had the ability to do fill his memory banks, or brain, or whatever they called it, with the knowledge of this world so his planning could continue. The best part was that, he had discovered what a Unicorn was truest capable of doing when strong enough. So he made it a side objective to continue his research he would be careful this time. He was not going to lose again, not this time. For he would have his revenge. 

With that train of thought out of his head he proceeded down the stairs and into the kitchen. HADES as much as he hated his flesh and would began a data transfer to a machine of any kind, he couldn’t because of one simple problem, well two actually. One, there was not a single machine in this world, even if there was it would be to primitive for him to transfer himself. Two, if it failed there would be no third chances he would be stuck dead or deleted in his case, and he could not risk that. After a few moments of eating which he would never get used to what living things had to do when sustenance was digested. He will forever be scared by the process. HADES’ plan was still in the working stages. There were two princesses with the ability to move the sun in moon. However such a feat is impossible. Even if the celestial bodies did orbit the planet, all life on said planet would be satisfyingly burn to death, unfortunately, him with it. While he was never one for science and making assumptions, he was however good at calculations. So with his working theory was assuming that the moon and the sun are stuck in position, but rather than moving the celestial bodies, they both instead rotate the planet it’s self.

HADES shook his head and realized they had arrived at their destination. HADES was both curious and wishing he had just stayed dead. He would rather keep his memories missing if it meant getting out of this torture. 

Stupid childish body forced him to obey and walked in. He saw other younger pests sitting at desks except for one towards the front next to the pink child from yesterday. Before he could go to said desk a false purple pony with three flowers on her butt. Approached him and introduced herself.

“Greetings, I am Ms. Cheerilee and I will be your teacher. Now then, why don’t you introduce yourself to the class.” The teacher said as he walk forward and remembered how to speak. He wish not summon the wraith of the purple pony again. To say he was scared would be a lie, more so confused on how a pony was able to make their mane go up in flames. Apparently that’s happened before. Again HADES didn’t care.

“My..n..name….HADES..Subordinate function…to GAIA Prime.” He said which only got silence. His face fell flat. He was wearing the glasses given to him although he could have just had one made if given the tools. HADES wasn’t Hephaestus, but he could make and tinker when he wanted to.

“Well then why don’t you take the desk right there.” Ms. Cheerilee said as he went to the desk he saw earlier when he entered.

To say it was boring was an understatement they had gone under basic math that despite him being a child even the humans knew this by the time they could walk. At least he assumed so.

A bell rang and everyone or apparently it is everypony here he was still going to say the way it should be said. HADES followed and found himself outside where others like him were playing around. As he looked around he saw a tree nearby where he would sit and rest for a bit. As HADES got comfortable he heard a familiar voice call for him. It was the pink brat from earlier.

“Well well well, if it isn’t the stuttering weirdo.” The pink pony said. Which the insult made him cringe. He took a note to finally know what that feels like. He opened his eyes annoyed.

“What….Pink..annoyance want.” HADES said looking more annoyed by the minute. The pink and grey ponies both gasped at the remark.

“Why you little..” before more could be said a voice called out to them.

“Hey leave him alone.” A voice yelled getting their attention. A trio of ponies he recognized appeared in front of him.

“Well if it isn’t the blank flanks.” The pink pony said.

Then after that HADES stopped paying attention as they bickering continued. His anger began to rise as did his annoyance. He was trying to hold it, but their constant back and forth was really getting annoying. He was snapped out of it when he felt something go down his nose or muzzle whatever. He say it and knew what it was. Blood, but rather his corrupted blood. The stuff that could make anything under his control given time of course. 

He opted to try and wipe it on his coat and it seemed to work for now the bell had rung and everyone went back inside him following close behind.