//------------------------------// // Preparation and a question // Story: Fates hand // by PixelSprite //------------------------------// It's almost been a week since I spoke to Celestia, as I was thinking on what the first lesson I was sc-startled by Core!Frisk appearing into my perspective. "What do you need C!Frisk?" I asked the monotone child. "While I dislike the nickname, I know it can get worse, so I won't complain, anyway, you have gotten your first question, even if it is more of a suggestion." She..he?, they enlightened me on the first contact through the void. "Alright then, let's here it." I spoke as C!Frisk reached into their eye and brought out a... Phone? DingoAte Asked: To Stagemaster: it's cool you have found a way for us to communicate with you, and for my question, have you heard of Inscryption? And if you have, you should make Leshy's camera, it functions like a weird form of imprisonment, and Leshy himself, he is a man who, much like yourself, is a storyteller, he mainly tells his stories while he plays his card game, but gets a little bit upset when things don't go his way, perhaps after you summon him he could be an entertainer in your base with his games and storytelling? I don't know, and thank you for listening to my question. "Hm, so they communicate with me like it's an ask blog? Fascinating, I'll have to make this camera and meet this Leshy, thankfully there is a picture of the camera for me to get the details just right." I thought out loud as I figured out what the first lesson shall be, unfortunately it will have to wait, as I'll need to steal the elements of harmony for this to work, I wonder how the main six will handle a Mario style adventure?, although I'll also need Discords magic for this to work, but first, I've got a Bowser shell prop and camera to make. 2 days later It's been about a day since I've Finnished the camera and prop, I've even put in props for Mario, Luigi, Kamek, and Starlow, and now I'm making a custom prop to give me a pony form so I can get some books from magic's library, as well as give me a better feel for pony magic to make trials that they won't be able to just skip, the main issue is getting Discords magic, so I made a prop to summon doctor Ivo Robotnik, Aka dr.Eggman, to help in finding a way to do so. 'Sigh' "So, any luck so far doctors?" I asked the two mad doctor's. "I believe so." Dr.Eggman spoke, gaining my attention. "Oh?" I enquired as I stopped working on the pony mask and turning to the egg shaped doctor. "If you were to make a Chaos emerald prop out of similar gems as you did with the Phantom ruby, I could use it to syphon his chaos magic into an container, it could be anything but we haven't decided on what yet, we were hoping you could make something to be the container, perhaps a powerful prop perhaps?" Eggman explained and enquired as I thought of the perfect artifact prop to use. "I believe I can do something that will work, but I'll need alot of materials for it, do you think you could make a metal-sonic unit while I'm of to Ponyville? I'll get a list ready for metal to follow, and by the time I return we will have everything necessary for operation: Egg-Koopa empire to work." I explained as I Finnished my mask, before I put it on I saw Eggman nod and demand GLaDOS to get him the components he needed for a metal-sonic unit. As I put on the pony mask I felt myself change from a biped to a quadruped, I felt my clothing disappear in a puff of smoke as fur grew all around my body, I gained a horn and saw my coat become a bright grey colour as my mane and tail became black with neon purple streaks, when I looked into a mirror I saw that I had deep azure eyes, and had a pony puppet Infront of a blacksmiths hammer for a Cutie-mark. "Hm, what do you all think I should call this form?" I asked the group around me consisting of Eggman, Doofenshmirtz, Perry and Scootaloo. "Personally, I don't care what you call that equine form." Eggman spoke as he didn't even lift his head from working on the metal-sonic unit. "Hm, I don't know, what do you think Perry?" Doofenshmirtz asked the spy platypus, who just shrugged, not knowing a name for my new form either. "How about Puppet Mender? It works with your personality and Cutie-mark." Scootaloo suggested with an excellent name. "Puppet Mender... I like it! Great job kiddo!" I congratulated Scootaloo. "Hehe, thanks... Dad." Scoots thanked me as I realised the time. "Oh!, Scootaloo, you've got to get to school, are you ready?" I asked Scootaloo as I called Kurogiri to make us a portal to my Ponyville base, located at the edge of the everfree forrest, neer Scootaloo's old home with the entrance being in a fake tree. "Yep! All set!" Scootaloo spoke as she walked through the portal, being sent to the 'sigh' Scoota cave, I should have never given her my batman comic collection. After a few minutes to set up the list, I gave the list to Eggman and made my way through Kurogiri's warp gate to the Ponyville train station. "Alright, now to the golden oaks library." I spoke as I walked out of the station and into Ponyville. Along the way I walked past the school Scootaloo goes to and as I saw the library I bumped into somepony I should have expected to see. 'GASP!' "Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie! who are you? do you like cake? what's your favourite colour? Do you like parties? What's your favourite drink? What's your favourite snack?!." Pinkie asked within a single breath. "Well, to answer your questions in order miss pie, my name is Puppet Mender, but I prefer to be called just Mender, yes I do like cake, purple is my favourite colour, I do enjoy a good party every now and then, raspberry pop is my favourite drink and for my favourite snack? Hm, I would say....caramel cookies." I answered all of Pinkies questions, to witch she smiled, nodded and then bounced away, I then resumed my walk to the library. When I got to the library I knocked to be polite. "It's open!" I hear a male voice from the other side, the voice obviously being Spike the dragon, I opened the door to see Spike helping Derpy with a few books, when they got the books she needed, she thanked Spike and left. "So, what can I do for you...?" Spike asked, not knowing my pony name. "Puppet Mender, but please call me Mender." I introduced myself to the young dragon. "Right, what can I do for you mr.Mender?" Spike asked as he wrote my name into the libraries logbook. "Well, I was hoping on finding books on gem finding and metal working spells." I answered the question honestly, I'll need those spells to make the star rod later on. "Ok, just follow me and I'll see if we have any books in that subject." Spike spoke as he led me to the G and M sections of the library, after a few minutes of searching, we found the books I needed, I payed for the books using a few of the bits I got from looting the dragons den from the episode 'Dragonshy', after I bought the books, I put them in a saddle bag I made and walked my way over to sugar cube corner, where, without a doubt pinkie is setting up a party for me, I'll pretend to be surprised to be nice, when I get there I open the door seeing nothing but darkness and then! "SUPRISE!!" A whole lot of ponies shouted from behind the counter, I jumped a bit to fain suprise, I then chuckle a little bit to show I was pleasantly surprised. "What's this?" I asked even though I already knew the answer. "It's tour welcome to ponyville party silly!" Pinkie answered with glee as she led me over to her friends to introduce them to me. "You already know me but these are my closest friends in the whole world! First we have Rainbow!" Pinkie pointed to the rainbow mained Pegasus, who waved with a, "Yo". "Then Applejack!" Pinkie then pointed at Applejack, who tilted her hat and said "Howdy pardner.". "And Rarity!" Pinkie pointed at rarity, who responded with "Hello Darling.". "Then Fluttershy" pinkie waved over to Fluttershy, she hid behind her mane with an "Eep!". "And finally Twilight!" Pinkie pointed over to Twilight, who responded with "It's nice to meet you.". "Nice to meet you all, my name is Puppet Mender but please, call me Mender." I introduced myself to the element bearer's. after the party The party lasted for an hour and a half, overall it was a great party, had some great caramel cookies and spoke to many ponies, after the party ended I said my goodbyes to the element bearer's and made my way back to the train station, when I got there, Kurogiri picked me up and warped me back to the Shadow Retreat, when I walked over to the doctors laboratory, I saw a pile of materials next to a finished Metal-sonic unit. "So, metal got everything needed?" I asked Eggman. "Indeed he did, it shouldn't suprise you with how fast he can get, the green crystals even radiate a tiny amount of chaos magic themselves." Eggman answered as I grabbed some of the green crystals from the pile and, using my new magic from my unicorn form used telekinesis to mold the crystals into the shape of a chaos emerald and, using the book I got from the library, condensed them into a single crystal chaos emerald. "Here, the chaos emerald you needed, you got the chaos siphon ready?" I asked the scientists as I got the books out and further studied the spells I would need to properly craft the wand i needed. "Just about finished, we just need a sample of the statue Discord became, to get a reading on his exact chaos energy so we can syphon it without syphoning any of the elements of harmony's magic." Eggman explained as Kurogiri's warp gate opened beside him and Doofenshmirtz walked out with a piece of stone in his hand. "Did you get the piece?" Eggman asked Dr.Doof, who, placed the shard if stone on a panel, witch, lit up and started to analyse the stone. "That I did, it was a little difficult, with it being the middle of the day, thankfully I wasn't spotted." Doofenshmirtz replied as he, and Eggman looked through the readings of the stone shard. As I read through these books I find more and more fascinating detail's in the magic that the ponies of this world utilise and it's history, such as, the earth ponies used to bend pure metal and stone into bridge's for transport and fun, there are also some interesting notes on some artifacts, such as, the shifter stone, from the description shown, it appears to give a creature a changelings shapeshifting magic but it feeds on the creatures life force, as such, it was locked away in a secure location and possibly have been the cause of the changelings curse to feed on love, the more I read the more I find, after a few hours of reading, I now know what I need to do to bend and merge the metals and crystals together to create a perfect replica of the Star Rod from Super Paper Mario. "I finally finished the Star Rod, have you finished your analysis of Discords statue?" I asked the doctors on their progress with their part of our preparation. "We have, yes, however there is something you should know." Doofenshmirtz started gaining more of my attention. "Hm?" I enquired them to continue. "While we were working on the chaos syphon, this fell out of a tiny portal." Eggman finished and pulled out what looked to be... Silver the hedgehog's glove? "Hm, could I hold it for a second? I want to test something." I asked the doctors, who nod and give me the glove, the moment I touch the glove, I hear a voice in my head. "My name is Silver, Silver the hedgehog, j fight to protect the good of my world, if you want to take over and harm innocents then It's no use to try and recruit me to your side, also the glove gives you a weaker version of Psychokinesis." I heard the voice of silver the hedgehog, so it is a displaced's token. After I explained what the glove was and did, I gave the glove to Eggman for him to use and we all went to sleep to get ready for the day to come.