Omega woke to the sound of hooves slowly stepping on stone, he immediately got up and looked around, and made his way quickly up the platforms to see if it was Twilight.
One thing that many thought was that Omega, because his armor was heavy, he was slow, when in reality, he had gotten even stronger from running around in that heavy suit, and was even able to move faster and more agile than normal soldiers, as well as jump higher and lift himself up better, so when the suit was off, he was like a ninja, not nearly as fast as Xero, but fast enough.
With a great leap, he landed on the top platform and walked up the slope to see Twilight trotting up to the cave.
"Hi Omega." she said cheerfully, like a kid who found a still edible piece of candy on the ground.
"Hey Twilight, nice to see you came by today, as opposed to another 5 days from now." Omega said, chuckling, he could feel himself lightening up in her presence, like someone who cared about him.
"Hey, I was dealing with some trouble in town today, apparently somepony decided to replace my ink with invisible ink." she grumbled, slightly irritated that her work had been set back.
"Yeah, I've dealt with lots of pranks, mainly from Xero, he hates my guts." Omega said, slightly sad that the one he almost escaped with had such a malicious attitude towards him, never in actions though, Xero wasn't one to act on his words of negativity with friends.
"Oh, that's a bit sad to hear, but I'm feeling happy, because I think I found some things that belong to you." she said, magically opening her saddle bag.
"What is it?" Omega querried, wondering if the lavender unicorn had truly found something he owned.
"Well, I thought this was yours because it looks similar to your SMG thingy." she said, magically pulling out a compressed orange and gray rifle.
The Grudge, it was an .80 cal OMG (Omega Machine Gun) sniper rifle, with a secondary fire that allowed the user to bounce the bullets off of thin air up to 5 times, useful for hitting multiple enemies in one shot, hitting one enemy multiple times, or getting around obstacles, the barrel was collapsible, same with the stock, scope, handle, and frame, for easy storage and tranportation.
"That's, my rifle." he said, holding it with care.
"A rifle?" she questioned.
"Yes, there may not be any like it, but it's mine." he answered.
"Okay, I need to know, what all types of guns are there?" she asked, wishing to learn more.
"Let's walk and talk, I want to see Ponyville, between my interaction skills and yours, I think we can handle any problems that the ponies may have with me." Omega proposed.
"Sure, plus I'm one of the most influential ponies in town, they'll listen to me." Twilight accepted
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"So, what you're saying, is that you and your friends seized the Hellements of Armory and destroyed an ancient evil known as Nightmare Moon, who was imprisoned on the moon for 1000 years, and as it turned out, she was Princess Luna, who's sister, Princess Celestia, banished her for wanting to bring about eternal night time." Omega summarized
"Yes, you basically just repeated my last several statements back to me, except I said Elements of Harmony." Twilight deduced
"Oh, right, that was my second guess." he said, blushing in a bit of embarrassment
"It's okay, I understand that it might be a bit much, so, can you tell me more about guns?" she asked sincerely
"Okay, here we go, so, you're most basic gun knowledge is that guns are dangerous, killing weapons that need to handled with care at all times, don't point a gun at someone under normal circumstances, next section, types of guns, let me pull up an image for you." he explained, using a projector that he had.
He explained all the types guns, handguns, which came in 4 forms, pistols, revolvers, and magnum variants of both, shotguns and their universal-ness, launchers of rockets and grenades, assault rifles, cannons, thrower weapons, mainly flames, but an indev lightning thrower was in his databanks, machine guns and the common mis-conceptions between them and assault weapons, and finally, sniper rifles.
"As you can see, the effective range and calibur of the sniper rifle is much greater than other weapons, and you found my sniper rifle laying in the forest." he finished, waiting for a response.
"Wow, so much meaning for such a small word." she said in astonishment
"Yeah, it's great, I love them all." he said, chuckling, he found himself doing that a lot more when in Twilight's presence, she had a positive influence on him.
"It's amazing, the power of them all, but so much violence, I don't like it." she admitted, not comfortable with such monstrous power
"It's okay Twilight, I only use guns to hurt those who hurt the ones I care about, or if they attack me, or if they are evil people." Omega said carefully, not wanting to upset the mare who he had grown close to in only a few meaningful conversations.
"I understand, Omega, it's a guardian thing." she said, much less sad sounding than her previous statement.
"It's okay to not like it, Twilight, at first, I didn't like guns either, but I later realized how necessary they were, and I got used to it, and even grew to like then very much." he explained.
"Alright, hey look, we're here." she observed, they were indeed coming close to town, less than 100 feet out.
"It looks nice, very home-like, a great place to settle down and live a peaceful life." he complimented.
"Yeah, it's wonderful." she agreed
They came up to town, passing by rows of buildings, mostly houses but there were several shops, restaurants, and other businesses around as well.
Not many ponies were out, and the ones who were out looked sad.
"Why the long faces." Omega querried, inwardly laughing at his unintentional joke.
"I don't know, I heard that one of Rainbow Dash's old friends came to town today, I'm pretty mad now, because I can tell that this 'friend' has been harassing the town." Twilight said, anger clear in her voice.
"Well then, let's see where this pony is." he said, he already knew this part, Gilda harassed the townsfolk and Rainbow Dash told her off after Gilda had lost her temper at a party.
"I heard there was a party planned for her, I wonder if it's already over." she pondered, before a new voice entered the conversation that had surprisingly moved into town square without being interrupted.
"AND NOW THERE'S SOME GRAY ARMLESS RED HAIRED MONKEY THING, WHAT ELSE DO THESE STUPID PONIES HAVE?!?" Gilda yelled in anger.
"You wanna run that by me again, feather-brain?" Omega said calmly, turning to face the griffon.
"YOU HEARD ME YOU FREAK, WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING IN PONYVILLE? IS THE CIRCUS IN TOWN?" Gilda shouted, still very angry
"You'd best watch your beak, if you don't wanna get hurt." Omega calmly threatened.
"OH, YOU GONNA WHOOP ME YOU PUNY WEAKLING? I'LL FUCKING DESTROY YOU!!" Gilda was screaming, face red, her rage had ascended into blind fury.
"You make the first move, bitch." Omega offered, still calm as can be.
"RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" she roared, charging straight for him.
He rolled out of the way, carefully pushing Twilight to the side of the road to keep her out of trouble. Gilda roared in rage again and charged, she was met with 3 bullets to the chest.
She bounced back, chest bleeding, the shot was nowhere near fatal, missing all of her organs and blood vessels. She took to the sky in an effort to beat her opponent with an aerial attack.
"HA, can't hit me good from up here, CAN YA?!" Gilda resumed her shouting
"Wrong." Omega said, still calm as a flower in a windless field.
He brandished the Grudge, checking the clip, he found 2 rounds, he would have to make more.
Taking aim, he fired, and Gilda dodged
"HA, IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?" she yelled down to the human.
"Nope." he fired again, but Gilda dodged again.
However, the secondary fire kicked in, and the round bounced off of thin air 5 times, and hit Gilda in the side and all 4 legs.
"AAAAIIIIEEE!" Gilda squealed in pain, she flew off, with one last shout to Omega
"THIS ISN'T OVER YOU GRAY FREAK!"
"I think it is." Omega said, collapsing the Grudge and putting it onto his back.
"WOOOOHOOOO!" he heard many voices shout, he turned around, several dozen townsfolk were cheering for him.
"Thank you, thank you, I am here to protect ponies." Omega said, lying to appeal to the townsfolk even more.
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He was moving to a stage, while walking, he warped in some materials, and did a quick upgrade to the Grudge, upping the calibur to 1.00 cal OMG (Omega Machine Gun), or 25.4mm, or 1 inch thick projectile, and resizing the innards and magazine to accommodate, then, he asked Twilight a fateful question.
"Do you want this?" Omega offered, willing to give up his rifle.
"Why would you give me this? You just used it to SHOOT some griffon." Twilight said in disbelief.
"Twilight, it's fine, She deserved it anyways." he tried to reassure her.
"Maybe the first shot, but the second was TOO MUCH." Twilight yelled, poking him in the chest for emphasis.
"Okay Twilight, I'll admit, I would have stopped at the first shot but that griffon wouldn't give up, I had to do something or else the situation would have escalated even further." he tried again to reassure her.
"You, you would have stopped?" she said, a tear of frustration rolling down her cheek.
"Yes, I don't want to hurt anyone more than I should, but if I have to stop them from hurting others, I will do as much as I can. I'm a middle-man, the line dividing the cruel from the innocent. Do you understand me Twilight." Omega tried once again to reassure her, wiping her tear away with a finger.
"Okay Omega, I, I understand." she said hesitantly, she still did NOT like the idea of violence to solve problems, but she was willing to accept it.
"Alright Twilight, as long as you understand, it'll only get easier, remember, I only hurt those who deserve it, and you should too, sometimes, communications break down, and when that happens, you will need to hurt people, but only hurt those who need to be hurt, okay?" Omega philosophized.
"Okay, Omega, okay, um, can I still have that rifle, just in case something bad happens?" she said, she didn't know any combat spells, and repurposing spells in other fields of magic was unreliable, so having a tool to defend herself with was preferable.
"Sure, but first, I just need a bit of DNA from you." he said, overriding the DNA lock on the Grudge, the lights and frame turning black, but then plucking one of Twilight's mane hairs, putting it into the interface. After entering a code, the lights and frame recolored themselves, only being a slightly darker than lavender color instead of orange, he took the magnet mount and stuck it to Twilight's back, she squeaked before the magnet mount stuck in place and stayed there, then Omega simply put the rifle on Twilight's back.
"Okay, when you need to fire, just levitate it, focus magic energy on the magazine, and pull the trigger, you can also bounce the shots off of thin air up to 5 times." he explained, allowing her to levitate the weapon and get a feel for it.
"When will I know I need it, and won't you need it?" she asked, wondering if she had made a wise decision.
"No, I'm out of ammo for it, and I have a new rifle in development, and you'll know when you need it when someone starts swinging their... hooves." he assured her, having to adjust his speech to get the message through.
"Okay, it's a nice design, by the way, are all of your weapons made for aesthetics, as well as power?" she querried.
"Yeah, they all looked cool and shot hard." he replied.
They had reached the stage, a microphone was set up on a podium, and Mayor Mare was standing in front of it, upright with her forehooves resting on the podium. She spoke into the microphone when the lavender mare and dark red haired man had gotten on stage.
"Fillies and Gentlecolts, I present you, the being who defeated that horrible griffon, and has vowed to protect our town from evil and terror." she announced charismatically, stepping away to allow the man access to the microphone.
"Hello, my name is Omega, and I'm a guardian of the innocent, I have indeed vowed to protect you ponies from danger," the crowd cheered and stomped at that ",and will keep that vow until my last breath. Up until now, my life has been chaotic and cruel, but I believe it will get better. I only hope that you will accept me as easily as I accept you, are there any questions?" he concluded, waiting for the storm.
"What's your full name?" somepony asked
"What are you?" another
"What's up with that sword on your back?" and another
"Can you use magic?" and yet another
"Are you a male or a female?" he almost facepalmed at that, but he realized the doubt that the pony may have, after all, different species, different rules.
"Okay, that's enough now. My full name is Omega, it's just Omega, I'm a male, and I'm a human, humans are sort of like monkeys but with less hair and more intelligence. This sword is a special weapon of mine, with two blades that can be used as a hi-tech laser bow. No, humans can't do magic, we use technology, from what I understand, my kind's technology is much further advanced than ponies', as your kind haven't heard of cyborgs." Omega answered each question without falter
"What's a cyborg?" one of the ponies asked, he expected question
"Basically, my body is part machine to make it more efficient and able to survive." Omega answered
"Why don't you have arms and legs?" another pony asked, the question caught him off guard.
"It's a human thing, species binomial nomenclature Homo Xionus." he answered after quickly gathering his thoughts.
Mayor Mare took over the stand. Omega moved out of the way, happy to not have any more questions.
"Okay, enough questions. it's starting to get late and Mr. Omega probably has a home to get back to, I expect you ponies to treat Mr. Omega with the respect he has shown you, and I expect him to continue to show respect for the townsfolk, meeting adjourned." Mayor Mare led, closing the meeting.
Everypony left, all except 5, the other 5 of the Mane 6, to be exact.
Omega and Twilight approached
"So, Mr. Omega, how do ya do?" Applejack started.
"It's just Omega, and I'm just fine, thanks for asking, might I say I adore your accent." Omega replied, chuckling a bit
"Well, you're quite the sweet talker, ain'tcha?" Applejack retorted
"I've heard that before." Omega said.
"HI THERE! I'm Pinkie Pie, town party pony, and I should say, WELCOME TO PONYVILLE, coziest, nicest town you'll find in all of Equestria, oh wait, you probably don't know about Equestria." Pinkie Pie said quickly and in one breath.
"I know all about Equestria and you 5, Twilight told me." Omega interrupted.
"So the egghead found herself a stallion, eh? and he's from a different species. HA HA HA HA, *snort* HA HA, HA HA HA." Rainbow Dash laughed.
"Well, Rainbow, you're quite the xenophobe." Omega challenged.
"Phobia means fear right?" Dash got a yes. "HEY, I'm not scared of you!" she got in his face, her snout against the middle of his cross
"Back up some please, no offense, but you're being a little bit bitchy." Omega replied calmly.
"I'm not like that." Dash denied.
"Right, next pony." Omega said, changing the subject.
"Well darling, I'm Rarity, fashionista, and might I say, I can help you, your clothes are torn and your hygeine is poor, how about you come to my boutique tomorrow and I'll get you situated with some new clothes and a bath."
"Sounds good." Omega accepted. "Now, who are you?" he continued, singling out Fluttershy
"Oh, I'm f-f-Fluttershy...." she wimpered
"Speak up please." Omega prodded gently
"I'm f-Fluttershy." she said with more confidence.
"One more time."
"I'm Fluttershy." she said at normal volume, Omega felt his heart warm at the sight.
"That's a very pretty name, Fluttershy." he complimented, Fluttershy had always reminded him of Kary before she was crazy, and he had really liked Kary.
She blushed and hid behind her long mane. Omega laughed inwardly.
"Okay, well, introductions are over I guess, we all have homes to go back to. So, I'll see you all tomorrow then?" Omega proposed.
"Sure thing, see you tomorra' Omega" Applejack piped up, trotting home.
"Yeah, tomorrow, maybe I can show my awesomeness." Rainbow Dash said, flying away swaggerly
"See you tomorrow, I need to throw you a PARTY!" Pinkie lilted as she bounced away.
"And I must return home to prepare for the morning." Rarity said as she walked off to Carousal Boutique.
"The animals must be wondering where I am, I need to go, It was nice to meet you Omega." Fluttershy said as she took to the sky and flew home.
"Right, I need to get home as well, Spike might be wondering where I am as well, We'll all see you tommorow then, Omega?" Twilight querried.
"Sure thing, I know my way back and forth, I'll come to town tomorrow." Omega answered as they took to separate directions.
"OH, and Twilight?" he said as turned around and began walking backwards.
"Yes?" she asked in a slightly raised voice to compensate the growing distance.
"Keep that rifle on you at all times." he instructed.
"Sure thing, Omega." she replied.
and with that, they went their separate ways.
Omega swiftly made his way home, satisfied his hunger and thirst, and laid down on his matress and pillow.
That night, his dreams were of achieved freedom and peace.