Walking into town, Omega noted that the citizens were friendly towards him, not overly so, but not shunning, it was nice, to be able to walk down the street without someone wanting his head on a platter.
Passing by the buildings, he considered who he should visit first, his bio-electric energy was un-stimulated at current, he needed some sweets, oh how he loved sweets, he thought about seeing Pinkie Pie, but then he considered if she was planning a party for him, he didn't want to interrupt.
Rainbow Dash was an option, but she was comparable to a mixture of Xero and an actor, she was cocky and a show-off, he didn't hate her per se, he just didn't really feel like seeing her first.
Next was Applejack, He really wanted to see her, but self-consciousness soon took over, he hadn't bathed since before the 'Terminate XV' mission, and that was a bit more than 2 weeks ago.
He remembered Rarity's offer to clean him up, fix his clothes, and make him some more. He immediately set off to Carousal Boutique.
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After asking for directions, he came up to the boutique, knocking lightly on the door, which still came out as loud due to his immense strength.
"Coooomiiiing." Rarity's voice rang out.
The door opened, the fashionista had a brief look of confusion before she recognized Omega.
"Oh hello Mr. Omega, it's wonderful to see that you decided to take up on my offer, please come in, come in." she insisted.
A few words were exchanged as Omega walked into the boutique, the high ceiling gave the room an airy feel.
"Now then, I need to take your measurements, but might I say you are a tall fellow." she complimented
"Um, thanks, I'm 6 foot 4." he replied.
A few pieces of conversation went by, the measurements were taken, Rarity gave a few critiques on Omega's body as she darted around him, then she requested him to take off his shirt.
"Oh my." she said in astonishment.
He had many scars on his body, several circular ones from gunshots, several lines from knife and sword wounds, and a few splotchy ones from burns and chemicals.
"Did you get these in your soldier service?" she asked, hoping for a yes.
"Yeah, I've done a lot of peace defending in my time." he answered, calming her nerves
"How old are you, if you don't mind me asking." she prodded.
"I'm 25 as a human, 3 as a cyborg, I began my soldiering duties 4 years ago." he answered without hesitation.
"You certaintly are a noble one, defending the innocent for that long." she complimented.
"Right, can you please measure me." he muttered, a bit impatient, it was cold in the boutique.
"Oh, of course, let us get back on track." she blushed from her unprofessional-ness
She admired his musculature, it was very well defined, lean and compressed, and as hard as steel.
A few minutes with the only conversation being a few bits of instruction, straighten his fingers, bend his spine and neck, take off his boots, which he carefully laid the 200 pounds each pieces of armor on the floor, given a little leverage, they could crack the marble, his whole suit weighed exactly 2000 pounds, 400 pound boots, 700 pound helmet, 900 pound chestpiece, a beast of a suit.
"Aaaaand, DONE." Rarity finally announced
"Good, I'm getting tired of standing here being poked." Omega said a bit impatiently.
"Well, follow me, and I'll have you do something less tiring and more relaxing." she directed.
Omega followed the fashionista outside and down the street, less than a block away was the Flower Sister's Spa.
"Really, I'm going to get a massage or something?" Omega said emotionlessly
"Yes, and a nice cleansing soak, as well as some other spa treatments, you really need it." Rarity continued for him.
"That's..." he stopped, trying to find the right words
"What, darling?" Rarity querried, wondering if she had upset or even angered him.
"That's... fucking AWESOME." he said in excitement, he had been feeling tense and stressed over the past 2 weeks, and it had only gotten worse with time.
"Well, perhaps not to the point of vulgarity, but it is simply fabulous." she said giddily, taking them both inside the building
"Ah, hello Miz Raritee, and greetings to joo, Mr. Omayga." Lotus said in her thick accent
"Greeting Lotus, Mr. Omega here needs to FULL treatment, put it on my tab." Rarity requested
"Ah, ze full treatment, I vill go prepare it now, Mr. Omayga, if joo would sit on zat chair zere and vait a minute." the spa pony instructed.
"Right, I'll head back to the boutique and get to work on those clothes." Rarity announced, trotting out the door.
"Okay, I'll just, stay here then." Omega said, not sure what to do.
Several minutes passed and Omega began to be directed around the spa, hot tub soak with a glass of sugar infused whiskey, massage to undo the knots in his steel-like muscles, cleansing bath, shampoo that smelled of plant things, he felt like he was in heaven. Before he knew it, he was being ruffled up by a large, soft towel, drying his body and leaving him feeling amazing.
"Thank you, spa ponies." Omega said in extreme gratitude.
"Eet vas no problum, Mr. Omayga." Aloe said, Lotus having attended to another customer.
"I'll get going then." he said, leaving, energy re-flowing through his body, he walked outside and into to sunlight, he felt alive. The cool metal of the Light Arrow on his back sent a small shiver of surprise through him, he looked at himself and realized he was still shirtless, though his skin-level scars had been cleaned and were now gone, the purple tissue replaced with the usual gray.
Walking down the street to the boutique, he walked inside and noticed that Rarity wasn't there, finding his shirt in the dryer machine, he put it on, feeling the soft cotton against his skin, he went to find his boots, locating them on a stand, the metal had been polished and the scratches had been filled in with a crystal.
Scanning it, he found it to be diamond, why Rarity repaired it with diamond, he didn't know nor did he give a damn, he put his boots back on and left a note of thanks. He walked outside again to decide where to go next.
He briefly wondered if enjoying a spa treatment was de-masculating of him, but he figured it was simply a difference of opinion, he was still very worthy of his pride.
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A week had passed, Omega had grown closer to the ponies, and had worked quickly and vigorously, taking odd jobs to make money, getting a proper bed, making his lab safe, building a hygeine setup, sealing off the entrance and maintaining his machines, his armor took a lot of materials, luckily he broke through to an isolated cave and found more minerals, his base was both a lab and a home.
At the moment, he was at the library, talking to Twilight again, true to her word, Twilight still had the rifle on her, only removing it to sleep, Omega was now showing her the contents of his wallet.
"So, this is some money I happened to have on me, each of the notes have the face of one of my countries past leaders, my country was a representative democracy, and each of these men earned a spot as the faces of our currency, only the truly great leaders are priveliged to have this honor." he explained, allowing Twilight to observe each of the bills closely.
"That's interesting, the people of your country must be very decisive." Twilight complimented, observing each bill with a magnifying glass.
"Yeah, no, they aren't, but there are no good or bad decisions, just results." he sighed. He took back the bills and pulled out the next item, his driver's license.
"This is a legal notifier that I can drive an automobile." he began.
"Automobile? that means," she tapped her chin with her hoof, recalling the meanings of the base words. "self moving? but how does that work?" she asked.
"Let me show you." he offered, using his hologram projector to display several images of various automobiles, transporters of solids and liquids, cars, trucks, motorcycles, hazmat transport, public transport, and military vehicles.
"And I can drive all of those." he said with pride, it had taken months to get the clearance to learn all of that.
"That's impressive, you have a very wide set of skills, Omega." she complimented.
"Thanks, I do try, alright, next item." Omega insisted, taking back the card and handing over a different one.
"This card is another legal notifier, it's in case I get hospitalized or something else bad, whoever is taking care of me can look up any information they need, medical or legal." he explained, allowing Twilight to look at his social security picture.
"You look a lot different in this picture." Twilight said, confused, indeed he did, his hair was longer, and he had untrimmed facial hair as well.
"That image was taken when I turned 19, so, six years ago, I looked a LOT different." he explained, taking back the card and handing over a new one.
"This is another form of currency, instead of carrying around an assload of bills, you could just have this card, it links to you bank account, and you can pay with money you have safely stored behind a four walls made of a foot of steel plating, and you get a special code to make sure that nopony who isn't supposed to be able to use your money can steal from you." Omega explained.
"Wow, that's some incredible technology your kind has made." she said, amazed at the intricacy of such small things.
"Yeah, we've had a lot of time, and we only become exponentially more able to advance." he said, somewhat joyous to inspire such emotions of positivity.
"Alright, next item." she said, taking charge.
"Okay, here." he said, handing over the final item, a picture of Bolverk Squad.
"Wow, this is your team?"
"Was, Askad died, Kary split off, and I don't know what happened to Xero, and I'm here in Equestria, but I must say, life here is good, I'd rather stay here." he said, joy filling his voice at the end of his sentence.
"Really? You don't want to go back to your own world?" she asked, sounding like a mixture of happiness and sadness.
"No, my own world was a piece of shit, Equestria is peaceful and kind." Omega said, honesty clear in his voice.
"Well then, I, um, I was going to offer to find a way to send you back to you own world, but if you would rather stay in Equestria, that's great." she lilted, she had really grown to value Omega's friendship, he was kind (kind enough, at least), he was an intellectual, and he was noble.
"Alright, well, do you have any questions about my team?" Omega asked, ready to answer.
"Well, yes actually-" she was cut off by the sound of thunder, and a scream.
"AAAAAAAHHH!" it was the voice of Rarity.
A storm had been scheduled that night, and apparently somepony was caught outside when it started.
"CALM DOWN RARITY!" Applejack's voice rang out, make that someponies
"Oh fuck." Omega mumbled as he ran to the door, throwing it open, he peered outside, scanning for life-forms, he found Applejack and Rarity and ran out to them, his heavy boots keeping a stiff traction on the wet ground.
"Don't worry, I got you." he shouted to the distressed mares before he picked them up by their torsos and ran back to the library.
The whole process took 20 seconds. Placing them down, he ran back to the door and closed it tight. He breathed a sign of relief when he saw that the 2 mares were alright.
"What in tarnation? How'd we get here so fast?" Applejack wondered aloud, looking at Twilight, who was perfectly dry, and then to Omega, who was mildly wet.
"Well thank'ya Omega, me n' Rare wouldn't 'ave found our way home anyway." she thanked.
"No problem, I heard your shouts, and just, reacted." Omega admitted, the act had been mostly second-instinct, except usually he killed the ones he found, not bring them into the nearest building.
"Well still, thank'ya." Applejack insisted.
"Right, Twilight, could we get some towels, darling, we're both still soaking wet." Rarity requested.
"Sure, I'll go fetch them now." Twilight quickly made her way upstairs
"Well, Omega, how've ya been?" Applejack said, trying to make small talk.
"Good, my HQ is coming along nicely, I'm in great health, life is peaceful, and my friends are okay." he lilted.
"Well that's great, other than getting caught in the storm, my day's been mighy fine." Applejack said, happy to not be out in the rain still.
"That's good, what about you Rarity?" he asked
"Oh yes, I made some nice leaf sculptures, which were then torn down, and I got rained on, my day hasn't been great." she complained.
"I got the towels" Twilight cut in, trotting down the stairs levitating 2 large towels
"Excellent, this water was starting to really irritate me." Rarity said, taking the towel in her own magical grasp while Applejack took hers in her hooves.
The 2 ponies dried themselves off and hoofed the now wet towels back to Twilight, who discarded them into a laundry basket.
"Well, I don't think anyone would like to try to return home with the storm raging outside. Sooooo, I guess this is like a sleepover then." Twilight announced giddily.
"Allow me to prove your point." Omega said, laying on the couch and going to sleep.
"Well, that was unexpected." the 3 mares said in unison.
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They had their sleepover, everything went on relatively peaceful, Applejack and Rarity bickering but staying civil, then a tree fell through the window.
"Ugh, what's going on?" Omega mumbled, woken up by the sound, he got up went to Twilight's room, he was astonished by the sight.
Applejack was struggling to get out of the tree mess that had collapsed into the library, Rarity was moving books out of the rain, Twilight was looking through a spell book to find a solution, Omega only had one thing to say:
"Yo Dawg, I heard you like trees." he cracked up at the absurdity of the situation.
"Omega? HELP!" the 3 mares shouted to him. His leadership kicked in.
"Okay, Applejack, hold the tree back, as long as the whole thing isn't in the library, we'll be able to fix this, Rarity, break those branches and get them the hell out of dodge, or at least outside. Twilight, help Applejack with your levitation abilities." he ordered, running to the tree and lifting it so that Applejack could escape, Twilight helped him move the tree into a position, Rarity broke off branches and launched them out of the window, the tree was stripped bare and then pushed out of the room, falling to the ground and breaking on impact.
"Good work team." Omega applauded, clapping his hands together to clean them.
"Well, I should write to the princess about our lesson here." Twilight said, fixing the window and grabbing a quill and paper with her magic.
"The princess, as in, Princess Celestia?" Omega asked, trying not to sound like he already knew what was going to happen in the future.
"Yes, I write friendship reports to her every week, sometimes I can get some time off if I learn more than one lesson in 1 week." Twilight briefly explained.
"Now then, time to write." she concluded.
Dear Princess Celestia,
Sometimes, it might seem impossible that 2 ponies who are so different can get along, sometimes, one of them might not even BE a pony, my friends, Applejack, Rarity and Omega helped me learn a lesson, sometimes, friends can get along even if they are as different as can be.
If you can learn to support eachother's strengths and strengthen eachother's weaknesses, you can be the best of friends.
I also learned something about prioritizing, sometimes, when working with others, you need to not sweat over the small stuff, and sometimes, you need to worry about precision.
Signed, Your Faithful Student,
Twilight Sparkle.
P.S. I really need to know when you're coming back from that business trip so you can meet Omega, I think you'll like him.
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Making his way back to his HQ the next morning, Omega thought, he needed to re-protect himself in case evil arose.
One thing he has deduced was that evil in Equestria had a priority in quality over quantity, so he needed to be prepared.
Going back over his files, he found the list of episodes of MLP:FIM and made them into a list, checking the episodes off as he went.
Reaching his lab again, he found somepony at his door.
"HEY, get away from there." he warned, approaching quickly.
The unknown pony escaped into the Everfree Forest, he would need to search there soon, he entered his base and locked the door behing him.
As he drifted off to sleep, he dreamt of defending peace, and doing so with new weapons.
Oh how he needed new weapons.