//------------------------------// // A Deal and the Small Print // Story: A Night With Chaos // by Omega_code //------------------------------// Thanks to ProtheanBrony for proofreading this. _____________________________________________________________________ Twilight and Omega walked down the road in silence. Omega had his hands in his pockets with a bored expression on his face, while Twilight closely followed him. She kept both of her eyes on Omega, occasionally glancing over him to make sure they were still on the right path. While she might be overdoing her distrustfulness towards Omega, she couldn’t let her guard down after how so easily he was able to make Twilight defenseless. She also took the time to study him. He was about as tall as Iron Will, if you didn’t include Iron Will’s horns. Omega walked only on his two legs and nothing like what a Diamond Dog would do when they walk. Though his tail seemed to help him to keep his balance as it did small side to side sways with each step he did. In a way, Omega’s walking style reminded her much like a minotaur’s walking style. Another thing that caught Twilight’s eyes was Omega’s hands, which were also like a minotaur’s hands except Omega had five fingers instead of four. All of these little observations she was making caused Twilight to think about those mystical creatures Lyra kept on talking about. “So Twilight, would you mind if I ask some questions about you and your world?” Omega asked. Twilight was drawn out of her investigative mindset and harshly replied, “Why, so you can gain information on how to defeat us?” Omega let out a disappointed sigh. “No, I just wanted to learn about your world. It’s not every day I come to a world full of talking horses; in fact I think this is the second time I’ve been to one.” “Still, why should I?” “Because I love learning about new things, and I bet you love learning about new things too. How about this, for every question I ask you, you’ll have to answer it honestly, and then you can ask me one question that I’ll have to answer honestly; the same thing if you ask a question too. Sounds reasonable enough?” Twilight knew the great opportunity she was being given, and even though there were probably risks in accepting it, she couldn’t pass it down. “Deal.” “Great,” Omega said with much delight in his voice. “And for good show of sportsmanship, I’ll let you have the first question.” 
 Twilight thought carefully of what question she should ask first. “What makes you a Chaos Knight; other than you having chaotic power.” Omega brought one of his hands under his snout. “Hmm, that’s a tough one. To be honest with you, I don’t even fully know. Each Chaos Knight was promoted to their status for completely different reasons. And even though there are rules to follow once becoming one, there are no set parameters into becoming one. I’ll have to answer we become a Chaos Knight only when our leader thinks we’re ready to become one.” Not the answer Twilight was hoping for, but at least it was something informal, to her at least. “So what do you do for a living?” Twilight quickly answered, “I work at the town’s library. Now who’s this leader of yours?” “Hey, that’s all I get!?” Omega said with much agitation in his voice. “I work at the town’s library? I’m not going to answer your question till you fully answer mine.” Frustrated Twilight replied back. “Well it’s the honest truth, what more do you want?” Omega voice quickly went to an insisted tone. “Because if you only worked at the library that’s makes you a common folk. I don’t get assigned to team up with common folk on missions this important, otherwise I would’ve been told to do this alone. There something special about you, and I would like to know what that is.” Twilight had to give some credit to Omega. While he acted like a jokester, he was indeed very perceptive and smart. “Fine, I’m a student to Princess Celestia, co-ruler of our land. While I run the library in Ponyville, I also help around the town while studying the magic of friendship. Also I’m very skilled and strong in the field of unicorn’s magic.” She said that last part with a bit of intimidation in her voice. Omega glanced back at Twilight with an unconcerned look on his face. “Duly noted Mrs. Sparkle.” His voice instantly turned back to its whimsical tone. “Now as for our leader, he’s wise, smart, and extremely weird. Though considering what he has been through for his whole life, it’s understandable. I will have to say that once you get through all of his quirks, he’s really a nice guy who cares about the safety for the order of the universe and will do drastic measures in order to protect it.” “How drastic will he go?” “I once heard he moved a star and made it go super nova, for whatever reason why he did something like that I don’t fully know. He keeps on changing the story every time someone asks him.” Twilight was dumbfounded by that. She knew that Celestia, Luna, a dozen or so powerful unicorns, or even Discord could have the power to move a sun, but to have enough power to make it go super nova was unheard of. Omega held up his right hand with two of his fingers pointing up. “Also, that’s two questions my dear, so I get to ask two questions. My first one is…” His ears perked up and turned slightly behind him. “Never mind, it seemed we are about to get a visitor.” Confused, Twilight turned around to see one of her friends making their way hopping down the street. 
“HI TWILIGHT!” Pinkie cheerfully (and loudly) spoke out. Panicking, Twilight quickly turned her head around to face Omega. “Quick you need to…” Omega had vanished. Twilight frantically looked around the area, but didn’t catch a single sight of the white fox. “You lost something Twilight?” Pinkie’s voice spoke out from right behind her. Twilight looked towards her friend with an uneasy smile on her face. “Oh Pinkie, so it was you who was calling me.” Twilight hated to lie to one of her friends, but knowing Pinkie she didn’t want her to risk a mass panic so late at night. “Then why did you look back when I first called you?” “Oh…um…I guess I didn’t see you the first time.” Twilight’s sheepish smile grew bigger. “Then I think you need to see an eye doctor then Twilight. Though,” she picked over Twilight’s head with her squinting as if she was trying to spot something, “maybe I should see one too. I thought I saw one of those mean Diamond Dogs standing right behind you.” Pinkie’s face instantly snapped back to her cheerful smile as she ask, “So what are you doing up so late Twilight?” “Oh...I...I was just about to head out of Ponyville to the open fields to do some stargazing.” Pinkie tilted her head in confusion. “But don’t you need your telescope for something like that?” “Oh, yeah...well...I have a new spell that let me enhance my version temporarily to help me see better in the dark and let me see far.” Her sheepish grin couldn’t get any bigger. Pinkie’s eyes slowly closed, as if she didn’t believe Twilight’s lie. Twilight’s heart started to race and she was almost getting ready to sweat. Pinkie lifted up a hoof up to her mouth, fully closing her eyes, and let out a very sleepy yawn. In an equally sleepy tone she said, “Well I hope you have fun Twilight. I would offer to come with you, but *yawn* I just finished having a big party, and it was a wild one.” Pinkie started to walk away. “See you in the morning.” “Yeah, see you in the morning,” Twilight replied back. She continued to walk down the path towards the Everfree while Pinkie walked to the right towards the Sugar Cub Corner. After a Pinkie was no longer in sight, Twilight ceased walking and looked around. “Omega,” she loudly whispered out. Twilight looked in all directions, left, right, up and even down but there was still no sight of him. Great, I just lost a potential threat to Equestira and I have no idea where... “You know, her voice reminds me of someone, but I can’t figure out who that person is.” Omega’s voice spoke out right next to Twilight. Twilight quickly turned her head to the side to see Omega standing right next to her. He was facing towards the direction where Pinkie was heading and had a hood over his head. Twilight briskly moved away from him and with an annoyed tone asked. “Where were you?” “I was right next to you.” He reached up his chest and tapped a gray gem that was embedded in clothes. “You see my clothes are a very special set. For a limited time it can make me invisible, along with a few other things too.” “I guess it ran out of power then since I can see you.” “No, it has at least 23 hours of charge left. I just turned it off when you stood around looking around the area like a maniac. Now, let’s continue making our way to the forest; we’re wasting time and I have four questions that I get to ask.” “Four? I thought you only had two?” “I did, but you asked two questions after our encounter with your friend. And because of the deal we made moments ago, I get to ask my share in questions. Now it’s up to five.” “I thought that only applied to questions about Equestria?” “No, the deal was that every question you or I asked, the other can get to ask their question they wanted to be answered. Six.” Twilight glared daggers at Omega, but a small smirk formed on her face. “If that’s the case, your count should only be five. One of those questions wasn’t really a question but was just an observation of mine that I assumed from what you told me.” Omega’s eyes glanced up as he thought on what she was talking about. “Okay, I’ll let you have that. Now, we really should get a move on before someone else pops up out of nowhere. The after effect for going invisible too many times in a single day isn’t a pleasant feeling.” _____________________________________________________________________ MLP: Friendship is Magic is copyright to Hasbro. All characters that belong to their company are rightfully theirs. Omega and anything related to him comes out of my head.This writing is for fun and nothing else.