Awakening
"And… there," Clockwork said as she placed the face of a cuckoo clock into place, which the hands started to move as the face connected with the inner workings, "that should do it," Clockwork stated as she put the clock down among the other she had fixed on her first appointment.
"Oh thank you dear," an elderly Earth pony thanked Clockwork as she stepped into the living room.
"No problem Mrs. Fiddle," Clockwork said as she started putting the tools that she used into her saddlebag, "I am always glad to help," she packed the last of the tools and then made her way to the front door, "now remember Mrs. Fiddle, no more fiddling with your clocks, you're starting to wear out the gear work inside them."
"Duly noted," Mrs. Fiddle said as Clockwork stepped of her house and onto the street. "Oh wait Clockwork, don't forget about your helmet."
Clockwork immediately stopped in her tracks when she heard the strange saying, she looked back at the old pony standing in the doorway, "Don't forget about my what?" Clockwork confused at what the other pony said.
"I said, don't forget about your payment," the aged pony said as she reached back into the house and then pulls out a small bag of bits in hoof, "you almost left without it," she said as she held out the hoof containing Clockwork's earnings.
"Oh right, sorry about, I guess I must be still a little tired," Clockwork guessed as she focused her attention on the bag. A silvery aura appeared around the bag and floated off of the old mare's hoof and towards Clockwork, who then opened her saddlebag and floated the bag of bits inside. "Thanks for that," she thanked the elderly pony.
"No problem dear," Mrs. Fiddle said, "but um, are you okay Clockwork?"She asked the silver unicorn, suddenly concerned about something.
"Ah, yeah, I'm fine," Clockwork answered, "why you asking?"
"Oh nothing dear," Mrs. Fiddle replied back, "I thought you weren't feeling well, that's all."
"Well as you can see Mrs. Fiddle, I'm fit as a fiddle," Clockwork punned with a smile, causing them both to start laughing.
"Well glad to know that you're okay," Mrs. Fiddle assured, "now go on, I'm sure that you have other jobs to do today and I'm not helping you with me holding you back."
"Have a nice day Mrs. Fiddle," Clockwork said as she started walking up the street, "and remember, no more fiddling with those clocks of yours," she added as she stepped out of Mrs. Fiddle's range of good sight.
"I must be losing my sight, because just for a moment there, I thought I just saw Clockwork's magic turn gray," she squinted at the silvery and gold blur that is Clockwork, "nah, I must be definitely going color blind again," she said to herself as she stepped back into her home and shut the door.
...
"Okay what was all that about?" Clockwork questioned herself as walked down the street, "ah great, not only I'm a talking to myself, I am now hearing ponies saying things that they're not saying, oh jeez, I hope this isn't some kind of weird side effect due to Frosting's chalk drink," she hoped as walked down the street.
After a few minutes of walking and worrying about her sanity, she came to a stop in front of a house that is her next job. She walked up to the front door and grasped the quarter note-shaped doorknocker in her magic, gave the door a few knocks with it and then let it go. Clockwork didn't have to wait long until the door swung inward, revealing a sleepy looking grey coated unicorn stallion.
The unicorn spotted the silver unicorn through sleepy, "yo, what's up Clockwork?" he yawned as he brushed a couple fibers of white hair from his eyes, "are you hear to fix my turntable?"
"Yes I am," Clockwork replied as she caught whiff of smoke and hard cider, "oh come on Havoc, have you been partying all night at the Rock again?" she asked as she put a hoof over her mouth and nose to block the smell that the unicorn is saturated in.
"Hey, you know me, I love horsing around and…" he said as he leaned in close, but was immediately stopped as hoof made contact with his face from Clockwork
"Let me stop you right there," Clockwork calmly said, "what you're about to say can either get you to smell cleaner and awake, or…" Clockwork then coldly stared at him, "… you'll wind up with a black eye to go along with that hangover you possibly have in that head of yours," she threatened him as she removed her hoof from his face, "now what were you going to say?"
"… I'll take a shower," Havoc carefully finished his sentence.
"Good thinking," Clockwork said, "now if you'll be kindly enough to let me in so I can immediately get to work, while you're taking a shower," she requested and was responded back by Havoc stepping aside and clearing a pathway for Clockwork, who then immediately walked inside.
As soon as she stepped inside the threshold of the house, she almost tripped on empty bottles that littered across the floor, "and while you're at it, would you care to pick up these bottles? Somepony can have an accident in here," she added to the leaning unicorn that is probably making his way to the bathroom. Clockwork carefully stepped around the hazardous bottles and into the living room and there she saw a turntable that she is hired to fix, "okay, let's see what damage is this time."
She walked over to an oversized turntable and started examining it, "alright, let's see here, there's no gunk in the switches, nothing appears to be stuck underneath the top plate, no spills of any kind," she looked around the outside of the DJ equipment, "outside casing appears to be intact, so that means one thing, the problem is internal not external," she concluded and let out a sigh as she opened her saddlebag and started pulling out screwdrivers and sockets with her magic. "Perfect, just perfect, I always hate working on these things," she stated as she used the necessary tools to quickly, but carefully remove the top of the turntable from the rest of the body, "they're filled with small part that can easily get lost or break, which means I'm paying for the replacements."
She set the controls of the turntable on the floor and then peered inside the now exposed guts of the music making machine, all the while the sounds of water moving behind the wall was heard, indicating that Havoc is taking a shower that and as well as his horrible singing, "for a pony that can make excellent music, he sure sucks at singing. Now that's ironic right there," Clockwork noted as she looked around in the machine for the cause of problems.
"Okay, the belt drive is intact, although it's showing signs of worn, so that should probably be replaced in a week or so, the motor appears to be just fine, as well as the other components," Clockwork pulled out her head from the guts of the piece of DJ equipment and tapped a hoof on her chin in contemplation, "everything is in working condition, so how come it's not working?" and then her gaze settled on the power cord running from the side of the turntable and underneath a pile of trash near the wall.
"Oh please don't let it be what I think it might be," Clockwork complained as she walked over to the trash pile and started removing it with her magic. As soon as the last article of trash was removed, she saw that it is unplugged and lying underneath an outlet, telling Clockwork what happened, "oh Havoc you chaotic dumb nut, why didn't you see if it was plugged in?"
She picked up the power cord and plugged it into the outlet and immediately heard the machine behind her started to whir into life. Clockwork shook her head in disbelief as she lifted the controls of the turntable up from the floor in her magic and placed it back on top of the now powered up music maker, and quickly secured it to its outer casing, "Whoa, you're done already?" Clockwork heard Havoc asked behind her, "that was fast."
"Well the reason I was able to finish so quickly…" Clockwork said as looked at a damp looking Havoc, "… is because all I had to do was just to plug it in," she finished as she pointed at the now plugged in power cord.
"Oh," Havoc said as he saw it and then to the mess next to the wall outlet, "I guess I should clean up around here now and then, huh?"
"Yeah, you should," Clockwork agreed, "now, is there anything else you want me to fix that isn't just unplugged?" she asked unicorn as she started to put her tools back into her saddlebag.
"Well I do have one more thing, wait right here while I'll go and get it," he instructed as he walked out of the living room and into some part of the house to retrieve whatever needed Clockwork to fix. Clockwork reluctantly waited in the living room, starting to feel antsy of wanting to get back to Jace to see if there are any changes with his condition then the still form she found him this morning when she woke up and right before she left for work.
Clockwork suddenly realized something, "oh scrap, what if Jace wakes up when I'm not there, oh he's going to freak out when he wakes up alone in an unfamiliar place, and being in a new body isn't going to help either, I need to get home before he wakes and soon."
"Here it is Clockwork," Havoc announces as he walked back into the living room with an old looking phonograph floating next to him in his magic, "do you think you can fix this?" he asked as he floated over to Clockwork, "because I want it restored into working order."
"Sure let me see it," she said as she grabbed the ancient machine in her magic, which overlapped Havoc's magic and causing him to shudder, "what?" She asked as Havoc released his magic hold on the phonograph.
"Are you okay Clockwork?"
"Yeah I am," Clockwork answered him, "why are you asking?"
"Because I think there's something different about your magic."
"What?" he ignored Clockwork's question as he then started examining Clockwork's magic that is still holding the phonograph. His horn started to glow as he wrapped a magical hold around Clockwork's and the phonograph, "huh."
"What is it?"
"I'm not picking up anything here," Havoc clarified as his magical grasp let go of Clockwork's and started scratching his head, "I swore I just felt something… alien taking hold of my magic," he described the feeling that Clockwork had experienced last night. All of sudden Havoc started laughing, "Listen to me, I'm talking nonsense here, maybe I'm still a bit drunk."
"Yeah, maybe you are," Clockwork said unsure as she brought the old music contraption closer and started examining it as various tools started to float out of her saddlebag in a silvery glow. She removed the bottom of it and peered inside, "okay the gears inside are just a bit rusty, but nothing a little rust removal and lubricate can't fix," she inserted a few tools inside the guts of the music maker and started moving things around inside, "aside the ceased up gears and the condition of the wood casing, everything is in working condition," she said as she put the cover back on and floated over back to Havoc, "so if you do all of the things I said, your phonograph will start working."
"Thanks Clockwork," Havoc thanked her, "but I'm sorry that I got you all the way out here for little to nothing for you to do."
"That's okay Havoc," Clockwork quickly assured him as she floated her tools back into the saddlebag, "now if you'll excuse me, I have to get going to my next appointment," she lied as she started to head towards to the front door, "see ya later Havoc."
"Okay, see ya later then," Havoc called out to Clockwork as stepped out of his house and closed the door.
"Oh scrap, I hope that Jace didn't wake up when I was gone," Clockwork said as she quickly made her way from Havoc's and towards her home across town, but just as she stepped off of Havoc's street, she had a sudden realization, "what if Jace wakes up and decided to explore to see where he is, oh slag, he's going to scare the life out of ponies when they see him, I need to get home before that happens," she quickly increased her speed when that though completely formed in her head.
As she neared the centered the town, the sound of techno and yeah being said multiple times started playing in her ears, when the intro was done and the lyrics started, Clockwork immediately disliked it, "ah jeez, whoever is singing this song sure has one irritating voice and who wants to sing about Friday?" Clockwork asked to the space around her as she run pass by groups of ponies, not aware of the odd looks she's getting from them.
As the song about Friday continued, "personally, I don't like Fridays, because the weekend can be relaxing or it could be stressful- what a minute," Clockwork interrupted herself as she realized something, "where's the music coming from?"
She slowed down her pacing until she came to a complete stop in the middle of the street and started looking around for any music devices that could be the source of the weird music. But when Clockwork didn't find any and noticed that ponies around her doesn't seem to be bothered or not even noticing the bothersome song, she started to worry.
"Excuse me," she calmly called out to a nearby pony on the street and quickly gained the pony's attention, "I don't know if this will sound silly or not, but do you hear that music?" she asked the pony of the music that's playing in Clockwork's ears.
"What music?" the pony confusingly asked Clockwork as the pony started straining her ears, "I don't hear anything, hey, where're you going?" the pony called to Clockwork who had now started running down the street.
"This isn't happening, this isn't happening," Clockwork repeated scared as she realized where the music was coming from; it wasn't playing around her, it was playing in her head, "what's going here, why is this happening to me and why won't that annoying song stop playing?" she asked out loud as she started to cross a street without looking both ways.
All of a sudden a blaring sound of a horn was heard above the Friday music, causing Clockwork to look towards where the sound came from and there she saw a large wheeled metal beast barreling down the street and towards her, with the sounds of thunder to accompany it. Clockwork screamed from the sudden appearance of the mechanize mayhem as she lost her footing, causing her to trip and hit the cobblestone road. She looked up from the ground and saw the metal monster was now almost on top of her, Clockwork quickly huddled up and shut her eyes in fright as she braced for impact… but it didn't come.
"Um, are you okay?" Clockwork opened her eyes and there she saw a group of ponies surrounding her, with confusion written on everypony's face, "are you okay miss?" one of them repeated the question.
"Am I okay?" Clockwork asked in disbelief at the crowd, "I'm going to be run over by some metal monster."
"Ah Clockwork, what are you talking about?" a pony asked as he recognizing the silver engineer unicorn.
"What am I talking about, do you see the big metal beast over there?" she questioned as she pointed a hoof over the crowd of ponies… and at a confused pony attached to a cart, "but, but, but," Clockwork stuttered at the sight as a couple of ponies helped her up from the road, "I swore I saw some kind of huge loud machine coming right at me."
"Clockwork, I think you might've hit your head when you tripped," a pony suggested.
"Yeah, it looked like it was a nasty fall," another agreed.
"But I know I saw something coming right at me," Clockwork still in shock as the memory of what happened is now replaying in her mind.
"I think she has finally gone nuts," she overheard a pony starting to whisper to a friend, "and I'm not talking about the one that goes with bolts," Clockwork felt a slight blush forming in her cheeks when the pony said that.
"I-I think I need to go home," she said to them slightly embarrassed as she made her way out of the circle of ponies, who they all then shrugged and resumed what they were doing before, What's going on here, why am I hearing and seeing things that aren't really there? Clockwork contemplated as other ponies that saw what happened started to ask questions to see if she's alright, but she ignored them and continue on her way.
"What's happening to me?" Clockwork frustratingly asked as she walked into the center of town and was making her way across the town square, "none of this weird stuff has ever happened to me before," she said as she walked pass by a mother and her child, not noticing the child pointing at her and immediately got scolded by the mother, "in fact why is it happening to me anyway?" but just as she left the square she suddenly realized something.
"Okay think Clockwork, there must have been source for all of this mess," she then to recount what she did earlier that day, "let see, this is whole thing started… after I completed the final step of Jace's body," she then felt her anger starting to rise because of the trouble and humiliation it had just caused today, "just what did he do to me?"
As Clockwork made her way onto her street that leads to her home that the source of her troubles laid, she felt her anger increasing with every step she made. By the time she arrived at the pathway that leads to her front door, she was filled with so much anger that if other ponies were nearby, they could've felt the seething anger from her. Clockwork angrily made her way up the pathway, but along the way, she pulled out a metal rod of a long ago failed project that was sticking out of a pile of other scrapped ideas in a silvery glow of her magic as she approached the front door of her home, filled with malicious intents on what she's going to do to Jace with the makeshift weapon.
When Clockwork was about to reach for the hidden key, she remembered that she never had locked the door before she left that morning. She slammed opened the door and entered her home and immediately saw Jace's motionless body on the table, which just angered Clockwork at the sight of him, "I had enough of this," Clockwork declared as she stepped up to Jace's head and pulled back the metal rod like a bat.
"What the hell did you do to me?" Clockwork angrily demanded as she swung the makeshift bat at Jace's head.
…
It's dark… and a bit chilly, those are the words that Jace described about his surroundings as he stood in the middle of an infinite vast space of darkness, "where am I?" he asked as the vast darkness echoed his question, but he didn't get an answer in response.
"Hello, is anyone out there?" he asked out loud as he started walking in a random direction, but he was only able to move about a foot before his face met an invisible object, "oh god that hurts," he said in pain as he held his face in his hands to lessen the pain.
When the pain finally receded into a slight ache, Jace reached out with both hands and felt them make contact with the invisible wall and then started to run them over the wall until they hit the edges of the wall and others meet, compelling him to start exploring them as well and found that he's in a room that's just bigger if he stretches out his arm and the ceiling a few feet taller than him, and with no entrances in or out of it. This caused Jace to start panicking as a small hint of claustrophobia started to sink in at that realization.
"Let me out of here, what's going here? Where am I?" Jace demanded as he pounded on the invisible walls with the vast darkness behind them. This went on for a few moments until Jace's throat started to become sore and inflamed, forcing him to stop his yelling. Jace stopped pounding the wall and dropped to his knees and started taking in deep breaths to replenish what he used in his yelling, demanding for answers.
"Calm down Jace, calm down," Jace instructed and immediately felt his heart beats starting to decrease, he then repositioned himself till he is sitting on the floor with his back against the wall that is his invisible prison. After the claustrophobic induced panic died down to a manageable started, he started to think, "Alright, first things first now that I am calm and not in a panicking state, how did I get here?" he said as he surveyed the room.
"Let's see here," Jace said as he rested his head on his knees and closed eyes in contemplation, "the last thing I remember was leaving my house to go to the library," Jace strained to remember through the fog that is clouding his memories, "and I was also listening to some music as well," he continues as the fog starting to lift, "and then that annoying Friday music started to play that I'll never understand why I liked that song, now what happened next?" he said confused as he can't remember what happened to him after that.
"Come on, what happens next?" Jace frustratingly asked as he slammed his head against the wall and was rewarded with a sharp pain in the back of his head, "Ow, okay note to self, don't do that again," he said as he rubbed the area of pain, he then rested his head back on his knees and tried to remember what happened to him, but a few minutes later he gave up on trying to recover his lost memories and just sat there…
…
Jace opened his eyes and realized that he must have fallen asleep, but didn't noticed that he did as the darkness of the outside matched exactly of the darkness of his dreamless sleep, "so it wasn't a dream," Jace said as he stood up and felt the aches made themselves known from his sleeping position, "or unless I am some kind of Inception kind of movie deal here."
"I must have been asleep for about seven hours if I feel this refreshed," Jace estimated as he doesn't have any kind of time keeping device on him, but then he suddenly realized something, "oh crap, mom is probably freaking out about me for being gone this long," he presumed, "she probably already called the cops to look for me, oh I am going to be grounded till I'm dead for making her worry this much."
"No, your mother won't worry for you," a male voice called out from the darkness, causing Jace to quickly look around to see where it came from, but didn't find anything.
"Who's there?" Jace called out to the darkness and then comprehended what the voice said, "And what do you mean my mom won't worry about me, and where the hell am I?"
"Hmm, it appears that you've no recollection of what had happened to you," the voice observed, sounding surprised, while ignoring Jace's questions.
"Just answer me dammit," Jace yelled as he walked up against one of the invisible walls that he thinks where the voice was coming from, "what's going on here, where am I, what happened to my mom, and who are you?"
Jace heard the voice release a sigh of tiredness before he resumed talking, "very well, but I warn you, for you might not like what you're going to learn."
"I don't care, just tell me."
"Don't say that I didn't warn you then," the voice cautiously started, "Jace… you're dead."
"What?" Jace said as he backed away from the wall stunned, "no, that can't be true, it just can't be," he opposed.
"Think about it," the voice told Jace. "You have never once felt a need to eat or drink, and you have no memories of how you got here."
"But I can feel pain and I can sleep as well, so I can't be dead," he countered, "and where is here anyway?"
"It is true that you're dead, but it's only your physical body that's dead, your soul however is alive. As for where you are, you're soul is in a solid form of that of a crystal, which houses your thoughts and knowledge."
"Wait, what do you mean that my body is dead, but my soul is alive and in a crystal?"
"I was able to extract your soul from your dying body right before you were going to pass through the veil and beyond my reach," the voice explained, "and to preserve your soul, I had to shape it into a physical form so you can survive."
"I don't believe you," Jace unbelievably stated after the voice finished his explanation, "I just don't freaking believe you, because what you just said is just plain impossible, but if what you said is true, why me?"
"Explain."
"Why did you save me?" Jace clarified, "and would you tell me who you are already?"
"I am called Karma," the mysterious being finally introduced himself, "and the reason why I saved you is because of your wish and our deal."
"My wish and our deal?" this time it's Jace's turn for clarification.
"Just as you were dying, you made a wish to live more of life, and I heard it and offered you a deal at a second chance at it," Karma explained, "and you accepted it."
At those words, the fog that was blocking the last part of Jace's memories lifted, finally revealing what happened to him, "this can't be," Jace said in shock and disbelief as the final moment of the car hitting him and then to his dying wish, which was then followed by Karma proposing a deal and him accepting it. "This just can't be," he dropped to his hands and knees, "I can't be dead, I just can't."
"So you finally now remember what happened to you Jace?" Jace heard a voice above him ask, compelling him to look up from the floor and saw a tall dark hooded figure standing above him. Instead of saying anything, Jace just nodded in confirmation, "and as well as the agreement we made too, right?" Karma asked as he bent down to Jace's level.
"I hate to say it, but I do," Jace weakly admitted as he lowered his head back down to the floor.
"Good, now I'm going to give you a second chance at life just as I promised," Karma said as he stood up straight and started walking around the distraught Jace, "but there are a few things you should know first though."
"Like what?" Jace wearily asked as he shakily got up from the floor as Karma continues to circle around him.
"The first thing is that even though you're getting a new life, I can't give you a new body to live it," Karma started off.
"What?"
"However," Karma added ignoring Jace's outburst, "I had gotten another to make you a new one and she just finished it and has just inserted the crystal that your soul resides in into it. Now here's the second thing you should know; you're not able to go back to your old world, for your soul has left its' barriers, which won't allow you to return to it."
"Wait, if I can't go back to my world, where am I going then?" Jace asked as Karma stopped in front of him, "also, out of millions back home, why me?"
"I had asked myself ever since I saved you from death," Karma stated, "however, as time progressed, I sensed that you have the capability to tip the balance of light and dark," this confused Jace, but Karma continues on, "as for where you're going, that's the second thing you should know, I'm sending you to a world that the scale has been slightly tipped in favor of those that sides with the dark."
"Wait, you're sending me to a world that's in a middle of a war?" Jace said in disbelief.
"Not exactly in war, just conflicts here and there, and you're not alone on it, for there are others that are helping to tip that scale back into balance," the hooded figure assured him, "now the third thing you should know is that time has been moving forward without you."
"Wait, you're saying that it hasn't been a day," Jace implied and was rewarded with a nod from mysterious being, "how long then?" Jace asked, a bit scared at what he might learn.
Karma let out a sigh and answered, "It has been over eleven months since the day you died Jace."
"E-eleven months," Jace said as he backed away from Karma until his back hit the wall behind him and slid down it, "that's almost a whole year," he simply put as he placed his hands on his head in astonishment, "a whole year passed by in hours," Jace let out a nervous chuckle at that, "talk about time flying." Karma looked away from the dazed teenager in front of him and at the darkness outside and saw that it is starting to lighten up, which a sense of urgency descended on the god.
"Jace I need you to focus here," Karma ordered as he quickly stepped in front of him, "my time with you is coming to a close and I still have a couple of more things to mention before you enter your new life," he then bent down to Jace's level of sight, "I never wanted to be part of this battle of the gods, but lately the scale has been tipping more and more to the darkness, forcing me to participate in this "game" of theirs," Karma explained, "but since I am a god, I cannot directly interfere in the realm of mortals, especially since of what I stand for. So I need your help to tip that scale back into balance."
"Now for the last thing," he hurriedly said before Jace can say anything, "I have something to give to you," he then reached into the cloak and quickly pulls out an object. He quickly shot out his hand and grabbed Jace's wrist and pulled it towards him, Jace didn't even register what had happened until the god pressed the object into his wide open hand, which Jace then felt several bits of something biting into the palm of his hand, and gave Jace back his hand.
Jace looked at what the hurried god placed into hand, an assortment of gears ranging from the size of a finger ring to that of a wrist bracelet, making a shape of that of a cone, and with a dull silver light shining through the gaps between the gears, "what is this?" Jace asked as he looked up the god with a confused look as Karma stood up.
"That Jace, is the key to unlocking the power I'm going to give you," Karma cryptically answered that only raised more questions, but it doesn't even look like a key, Jace thought as he looked back at the assemble of gears in his hand and then realized what Karma said.
"Wait, you're going to give me what?" Jace asked he looked back up, but saw that Karma has mysteriously disappeared just as he arrived. Jace noticed that the darkness outside is slowly being driven back as light started to invade it, "hey what's going on?" Jace asked as he braced the wall and stood up, but all of a sudden he felt the wall give away, with the sounds of something cracking. He looked at the wall and saw that large cracks are now spreading throughout from his hand.
"Your soul is about to be assimilated into your new form," Jace heard Karma's answer echoes around him, "now, will you help correct the balance in the world I'm sending you, back to the way it should be as my herald?"
Jace looked down at the 'key' in his left hand. I don't know about this, Jace thought as he thumbed one of the gear's teeth, this isn't exactly what I meant to live more out of life, but it was offered to me and I accepted it, Jace closed his eyes and let out a calm sigh, sorry mom, it looks like I won't be able to keep that promise, but I hope that somehow you'll know that I'm going to be helping others in my new life, Jace opens his eyes and stared at the light that has almost completely banished the darkness and declared, "yes I accept," more cracks formed in the invisible walls of the cell.
He then heard a feminine voice starting to chant, "ignire in anima… et factus unum cum mea," and felt a surge of energy suddenly run through him, causing him to drop to his knees and hand, while clutching his chest in pain with his right hand, but before Jace can raise any questions at was happening, Karma started talking.
"Then I, Karma; the god of Balance, accept you to be my herald," the now known god of Balance declared. All of a sudden the gear work key in Jace's hand disappeared, but not without releasing a silvery light just as the walls of the cell completely shattered, allowing the light that was being held back to finally invade the broken cell and rush at Jace, causing him to flinch and move his arms in front of him in a defensive guard just as everything disappeared in light, which was soon then followed by a warm comforting sense of darkness that made Jace to start feel sleepy...
"What the hell did you do to me?" a feminine voice angrily demanded out loud above him, breaking the sound of silence and the grasp of sleep over Jace's mind as he felt a blunt object making contact with his head with surprisingly great strength, making Jace to fly off of whatever he was laying on and onto the floor that was about a few feet below. As soon as he hit the ground, the darkness that was covering his vision disappeared and he saw that he was now staring at a hardwood floor, which he then started to get very annoyed.
"Okay, this is getting really old fast," Jace declared as he pushed himself off of the floor, "for I am sick and tired of waking up in some unfamiliar place whenever something hits me," he explained as he started to look away from the floor and towards where he heard the angry demand came from, "and as for what I did to you, I have no freaking clue whatever I…" he trailed off when he fully lifted his head up and saw a silver and gold unicorn standing there with a bent metal bar floating in a silvery glow just like the glow around the unicorn's horn, "did?" he said shocked as the glow around the mythical creature's horn faded away, which the glow around the metal bar then soon faded away, causing the bent weapon to fall to the floor with a metallic clang.
Jace and unicorn stared at each other for a few moments as silence was served to each other on silver platters. "Oh you got to be kidding me," Jace finally spoke, breaking the silence between them. The unicorn's response was to roll its eyes up and then proceeding to faint right there on the spot with a sigh of disbelief, falling to the floor with a dull thud, "you got to be freaking kidding me?" Jace asked out loud annoyed.
He reached out a hand to try to stir awake the unicorn pony on the floor, but when his hand came into view of his sight he paused, for it wasn't his hand of bone and flesh that he saw, it was a hand of steel and iron, "what the heck?" he drew back his hand and turned it over and back again, he then pictured clenching his hand and the metallic one followed his thoughts and feeling every movement that went with the motions.
He quickly pushed himself up into a sitting position and started to examine the rest of his body and found that his entire body is made out of metal and gears, "w-what happened to me?" Jace questioned at the sight of the body that he awoke in, and at that moment he remembered what Karma said about his body being dead and how he gotten another to build him one.
Jace looked away from his new form and at the sleeping unicorn on the floor and realized that this is the 'other' whom Karma said that he got to built his new body, "oh you got to be fucking kidding me!"