//------------------------------// // The "Nightmare" is gone. // Story: Omega's Post-Humous Log // by The P Co //------------------------------// Omega was ready for tonight, it was Hallowee-no, it was Nightmare Night, and he had the perfect costume. All it took was some black hair dye, a blue shirt with some circuitry in it, white scarf attached via metal collar, shoulderguards in the form of a thick-ass plating necklace, a visor with 3 pairs of eyes, temporarily re-coloring his gloves from black and red to black and white, blades on the back of his boots, and a cyan X over his usual core plate, equipping the Light Arrow, he was ready. He was dressed as Xero. Making his way at Mach 3 speed, he had copied Xero's armor exactly, and loved the feeling of speed. He was in town in a few seconds, it was night time, he found that everypony was already out and about, flying through the sky on the jet function that would never work with his normal armor, he found RD on a cloud, laughing. "Hey Dash." Omega said, poorly imitating a british accent. "Omega, what are you? For Great Brimain?" Dash greeted, then she got a good look at him. "Before you ask, no I'm not wearing your armor, I made my own, they're both based on Xero's armor suit." Omega explained before the cyan mare could complain. "Oh, alright, sounds cool, anyways, I'm a Shadow Bolt, apparently the evil clone of the Wonderbolts, and if you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm just scaring the shit out of random ponies on the street." Dash revealed. "Hopefully not literally." Omega joked, but still though, that would be disgusting. "No, not literally." Dash assured him, because that would be seriously disgusting. "Okay, heh, talk to you later Dash." Omega said, leaving. "Alright, talk to you later Omega." Dash farewelled, waving to him before spotting another pony to scare. Omega soared through the sky, he found Twilight. "Hey Twi." Omega greeted, swooping down and walking next to her. "Hey, Omega, who are you dressed as?" Twi asked. "My old team mate Xero, nice Starswirl the Bearded costume." Omega said, his correctness cheered Twi up "Finally, someone who gets it." Twi responded, pleased that someone knew ancient pony history. "Right, 'sup Spike." Omega greeted the small dragon, Spike smiled. "Yo Dawg, I heard you like dragons." Spike imitated Omega's joke, gesturing to himself. "Heh heh, nice." Omega chuckled, Equestria's peacefulness had taken it's toll on him, he felt happy. "Well, you should meet up with everypony, maybe see what their going as." Twilight suggested. "Right, I should, see ya later Twi." Omega said, rocketing off. Finding Pinkie Pie and Applejack at a group of games, Omega swooped down to talk to them. "Hey girls." Omega lilted. "Hey Omie." Pinkie greeted, wearing a chicken costume. "Howdy Omega." AJ said, she seemed happy, she was a scarecrow. "Hey, nice costumes, I'm going as my old team mate Xero." Omega revealed, turning around to show them the extent of the costume. "Nice, wanna play some games?" Applejack offered. "Nah, I would probably win all of them, I'll give other ponies a chance." Omega declined. "Wanna come trick-or-treating with me?" Pinkie offered. "No, I'm just going around, talking to everypony." Omega declined, getting ready to rocket off. "See ya later then." all 3 of them said simultaneously. Omega soared through the sky again, he looked amongst the ponies, and found the only 2 of the Mane 6 he hadn't already talked to, Rarity and Fluttershy. "Hey you 2, wouldn't expect either of you to be out and about tonight." Omega said to the 2 mares, stopping his jets to stand with them. "It's wonderful to be out tonight, Omega, you helped us gather the courage to celebrate the holday outside, and might I say that is a fabulous costume, what are you supposed to be?" Rarity asked. "My old team mate Xero, and you 2 are?" Omega asked. "I'm going as Princess Celestia." Rarity explained, gesturing to the added colors in her mane and the fake wing jacket, she really did look like Celestia, though a shorter, darker maned copy. "I'm just a butterfly." Fluttershy said, she had a small head-clip with antennae on it, her wings had been coated in special chemicals to make them look like bulky butterfly wings. "Your costumes are great, I've got to get back to the square though, I'll see ya around." Omega insisted, jetting off. Landing in town square, Omega found Twilight off to the side, he decided not to bother her, he leaned against a wall, Light Arrow in hand, he decided to wait for something to happen. He didn't have to wait long, somepony shouted to bring attention to the sky, Omega looked, it was Luna on a black chariot being pulled by a couple of Lunar Guards, he had seen several of the Lunar Guards at the Gala, it wasn't anything odd. "It's Nightmare Moon!" he heard Pinkie scream, everypony went into a panic. Luna jumped from the chariot, gliding down to the ground, everypony cowered, except for Omega and Twi. "Greeting subjects, it is I, Princess Luna of the Equestria, goddess of the night." Luna proclaimed to the entire square. Nopony responded, they all tried to make themselves as small as possible. "Um, why are you cowering?" Lune asked, confused. "It's because these dumbasses think that your Nightmare Moon still, step aside Luna." Omega instructed, now standing in the middle of the square, he dismissed the Light Arrow before anypony could see it. "ATTENTION, EVERYPONY, THIS IS NOT NIGHTMARE MOON, THIS IS YOUR PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT, HER MAJESTY PRINCESS LUNA, THE NIGHTMARE SPIRIT WAS BANISHED FROM HER SOUL, AND I HAVE SLAIN THE HELLISH BEAST OF NIGHTMARE MYSELF, SO CALM YOUR COLLECTIVE TITS, AND SHOW SOME RESPECT TO HER HIGHNESS, RULER OF THE NIGHT, PRINCESS LUNA." Omega yelled, turning on his built-in-megaphone for emphasis. Everypony clenched their ears in pain, but they words still came through, after the announcement, they stopped fearing Luna. But they started fearing this black haired, blue clad, white scarfed, red eyed man. "AH, RUN, IT'S THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS!" somepony screamed, the panic was back. Omega simply left, the ponies calmed down when the horrific being had departed. Omega landed back at the HQ and shed a tear, he entered, crying, and leaped to the living room platform. Twilight entered the HQ in search of the distraught man, she found him leaned over, sitting in a chair, tears dripping off of his face. "I fucked it up, I fucked it all up." he sounded defeated, Twi walked over quietly, wiping a tear from his face. "No you didn't, Omega, you didn't fuck anything up." Twi tried to comfort him, though not sure why he was so upset. "Yes I did, now they all see me as a monster." Omega argued. "They see the costume as a monster, not you, Omega, they really like you, and personally, I find it impressive that you killed that Nightmare spirit, I had a feeling that it wasn't dead when we banished it from Princess Luna's body, but to know that you killed it is amazing. Maybe you should change the color of the outfit?" Twilight comforted, proposing a solution. Omega sighed, he felt better now, he walked over to the main computer, he entered the codes, now he had 2 suits of armor. Vertebral Armor (Omega Power) and Vertabral Armor (Omega Speed), the suit was re-colored and minorly re-designed, no gloves or boots, his own would work fine, but the armor itself needed a re-design, the shirt was recolored dark red, the mouth cover and shoulderguard necklace were fine, the scarf was removed, leaving a streamlined design, the jets were part of the armor, so they would stay, with practice, he could switch between his 2 armors with speed and ease. Dressed in his new normal clothes, ones that Rarity had made, which was just a white or red shirt and red hoodie or jacket, putting on the white shirt with the red jacket, he and Twi went back to town. Re-approaching town, the pair found it to be just as bustling and lively as it was before the incident with Luna and Omega. Nopony paid the pair any mind, proof that Omega was in the clear, the red haired man was visilbly more relaxed at the evidence that nopony knew that the 'destroyer of worlds' was actually him. The pair entered the library, Omega could just teleport to either his town-house or the HQ when he needed, turning on the light, the pony and the man found the other 5 of the Mane 6 waiting for them. "Hey, what was that?" Dash started, Omega could have feigned ignorance and asked what she was referring to, but he had too little of a tolerance for bullshit to do so. "It was me failing at fixing the situation, and before you ask, yes, it is true, the Nightmare spirit was banished from Luna's body, but I killed it, that's why I'm such good friends with her as to be on a 'no-title-first-name' basis, it was about 4 different rings of hell to kill that monstrosity, but I did, Luna herself can vouch for that, I know this means that I have fighting abilities that are abso-fucking-lutely terrifying, but I hope you can get over that and still accept me as the friend that you know and trust, remember, I only hurt people who deserve it." Omega explained wholly, waiting for a response. Then a miracle happened, all 6 of the mares gathered around him for a group hug, he felt something he hadn't felt in a painfully long time. He felt safe. <> It had been months, it was now Twilight's birthday, Omega had recruited all of the Mane 6, gotten their armors fitted right, it was great, New Bolverk Squad was complete. Rarity was in Canterlot, and the rest of the squad had moved Twilight's party to the castle. In the Party Hall, Omega had announced it safe to share some cigs, as they all were equipped with the necessary machinery to kick the ass of any diseases they might get. Rarity was running between 2 parties, one in the garden, one in the hall, eventually, Fancy Pants noticed something. "What is that flaming thing in your mouth, Miss Rarity?" the white coated stallion asked, contrary to his name, he did not wear pants. "What?" Rarity asked, cigarette falling from her mouth, she noticed it immediately and disintegrated it. "It was nothing." Rarity dismissed. "I see." Fancy dismissed as well. "Why are we out in the garden anyways? If you don't mind my asking," Rarity questioned. "It's because the 6 ponies and that human looking thing rented out the ENTIRE party hall," Fancy revealed, gesturing to the big-ass window "Say, I thought there were 6 ponies in there, but there's only 5, where's the other one?" he questioned. Inside the party hall, Omega was bringing out the liquor, of course he made sure that they were all old enough, surprisingly, the legal drinking age was 18, Twilight was, now, 20, Applejack was 20 as well, Pinkie Pie was 20, though closer to 21 than AJ, Fluttershy was 21, close to 22, Rainbow Dash was close to 19, and Rarity was, wait, where was Rarity, he looked for her before remembering the events of the show, he looked out of the big-ass window, when he saw her. "Hey, isn't that Rarity out there?" he said, not so much asking but pointing it out. "Huh?" most of the Mane 6 querried, turning from the table Omega was distrubuting the liquor at to look. Indeed, Rarity was outside, talking to several high class ponies. "Let's go check out that fancy party." Pinkie proposed. "Pinkie, remember the last time we dealt with a fancy party?" Twilight interrogated. "Oh, right, well then, let's CRASH IT." Pinkie corrected herself. "I'm all for it." Omega agreed. So, they devised the best way to make an entrance. Outside, Rarity was trying to squeeze in the bit of dialogue she needed to excuse herself from the party. She suddenly got the telltale signal of an update, she checked her notifications, she almost stopped breathing at the message From Omega>To All: New Objective; crash garden party. The big-ass window was blasted from its frame, the 5 mares and Omega exited, Omega simply magicked the window back into place and fixed it, for him, magic was an 'Imagination Based Superpower'. "WOOHOOOOO!" Omega, Pinkie, and RD shouted, Omega dismissed the Shockwave and joined the crashing. It started with Pinkie spiking the punch with a kilogram of sugar, then taking all of the tiny snacks and smooshing them onto cupcakes. Rainbow Dash made it rain, not like a rapper, but like a pegasus. Fluttershy brought in some animals. Applejack swapped the gentle music for something more lively. Then, Twilight and Omega began dancing together, not dancing-right-next-each-other together, but fancy-ass-dance-of-love-or-some-shit-like-that together. The fancy ponies froze in shock, then hauled their fancy flanks out of there. The only 3 who didn't leave were Rarity, Fancy Pants, and Fleur de Lis. "Well, I must say, that was certainly exciting." Fancy admitted, his tone was joking. "Yes, t'was the greatest thrill I've had in quite a while, and that's saying something." Fleur revealed, her voice was like a honey, mixed with whore, she levitated out a silver-steel pistol, cleaning it. "I'm Omega, and these are the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony, who are you." Omega interrogated, ready to strike. "I'm Fleur de Lis." the slender mare answered. "And most would call me Fancy Pants, but my real name is Fancy Gat." Fancy responded, bringing out a pair of heavy looking copper colored shoes. "And we're the Co-Leaders of the 3rd Street Saints." both of them said at the same time. "You're in the wrong crossover." Pinkie told them. "Oh, bye then." they both said simultaneously, fading from sight. "What the fuck was that?" Omega, Applejack, Twi, Rarity, Dash, and even Fluttershy announced all at once. Pinkie merely bounced in place. <> Omega entered the HQ, took off his jacket and hoodie, walked through the sanitation chamber, cleaning his body of the sweat and grime, as well as anything else that may have also clung to his skin, put on his red 'angryfaic' shirt, and sat down in one of the leatherbound chair on the living platform, he lit a cigarette and took a drag. "*long sigh* This place fills me with emotions, it's a rollercoaster of good and bad, I love the ponies, they're genuine friends, but they drive me crazy with their happiness, not that I hate that sort of thing, it's just, I've become too used to violence and hatred, it's hard to accept peace and friendship, but it's getting easier, it helps that I've been able to salvage some humanity, I need to work harder on adjusting to life here, what's today's date?" Omega ranted, looking at his calender he had been able to set up. Equestria's timeline worked almost the exact same as Earth's, but more, predictable, clean cut. There were exactly 7 days in each week, exactly 4 weeks in each month, and exactly 12 months in each year, so 28 day long months, 48 week long years, and 336 days in one year, very clean cut. The seasons were also clean cut, lasting exactly 3 months each, may-july for summer, august-october for fall/autumn, november-january for winter, and february-april for spring. He read his calender, it had been several months since he arrived, it was now the middle of august, he felt like he was forgetting something that was really, really, really fucking important, he shrugged it off. "Eh, it's probably nothing." he dismissed the feeling, it was probably nothing important. He fell asleep like that, his fireproof everything, cigarette in his mouth, inhaling deeply of the smoke, his lung filters cleaning out all the bad stuff. <> Waking up, Omega found that his cigarette was gone, taken by a cleaner bot, he had made them to maintain the hardware, not just clean, he found a notification from the terminal. CRITICAL: A large amount of carbon trigon-lattice crystal has been gathered from the mine, assess immediately. The name, carbon trigon-lattice crystal, it sounded familiar, he opted to simply go to the terminal instead of check his data banks for the name. Accessing the terminal, he checked first all of the 'blood' and 'light' hardware, then check the matter at hand. His mine struck diamonds, and apparently, a shit-ton of them, briefly considered a weapon idea, before dismissing it, but then thinking about it again, making diamond infused armor, he could make it work, defend himself against a hell of a lot more, he dismissed the thought again, this was NOT part of the adjusting to peace, he changed the blades on his boots to be diamond, as well as the shoulderguard necklace to be colored like grey metal but be made of diamond. He immediately remembered something, it was Spike's birthday today, Omega packed about a pound of single carat diamonds into a bag of chips, he sealed it up and teleported to the library. <> Appearing in front of the library, Omega instantly opened the door and walked inside. "Sorry I'm late." he greeted, seeing only Twi and Spike. "You're early, actually." Twi greeted. "Oh, well, hey, I'm here." he re-greeted. "What's up with the bag, is that my present?" Spike asked. "Yep, I know you're gonna love it." Omega assured, carefully placing the bag of diamond wafers on the table. Over the next few minutes, the other 5 ponies joined the trio, the party started. Omega wirelessly set up a song for dancing, and the rave began. Dancing skills (and lack thereof) were shown off, Twilight and Omega would have easily won if it was a competition, Spike was easily second, doing a variety of amazing dances, Pinkie did the moon-trot and other Micholt Jackson dances, Applejack showed off her balancing skills by doing her moves on 2 legs, Rarity did a ballroom routine, Rainbow Dash was breakdancing... on the Luna-Damned ceiling, just because she's that awesome, and Fluttershy politely declined the dancing. Spike opened his presents after the music faded away. He got: A bottle of 'Scale-everything you need' from Fluttershy, where she got a bottle of 'Scale-everything you need', nopony knew. Pinkie threw the party, but also got him the sapphire cupcake the Cakes made, as sapphires were known amongst dragons to possess berry-like tastes, and she decided to not make the dragon wait to go to Sugarcube Corner to get it. Applejack got him a blanket, because she knew he needed a new one. Rarity made him a nice necklace, silver with a bit of colored green colored glass instead of a gem, not because she was being stingy, but because she knew he would eat the charm if it was a real emerald, the charm itself was in the shape of a tiny unicorn, about an inch tall. Rainbow Dash got him a dumb-bell, because it was the only thing she could think of that Spike would want, this was his 13th birthday, and teenage colts liked to work out or something, she wasn't sure. Twilight gingerly removed the ribbon from the book she had gotten him and put it back on the shelf, from the way Spike spoke when revealing the fact he only ever got one present, a book, from her, he would be happier with nothing than with a book. Then came Omega's gift, Spike carefully opened the bag, extremely slowly. "You got him a bag of chips?" all 6 of the mares asked him, quietly and simultaneously. "A type of wafer, actually." Omega corrected. *crunch* "Are these... diamond chips?" Spike asked Omega with glittering eyes. "No," Omega started, Spike's visage deflated "They're diamond wafers, not chips." Omega corrected, Spike's visage immediately lit up again, he then grabbed a few of the wafers, and ate them, they tasted like victory, victory and hot sauce, because diamonds are made in the FUCKING MANTLE OF THE EARTH, SO OF COURSE THEY'RE HOT. "Thanks so much Omega, this must have cost a fortune, and all for me." Spike replied in great gratitude. "Naw, I got several tonnes of them in the storage bay, found them today," Omega explained. "Thanks anyways." Spike insisted, eating the chips with care and euphoria, because they were like a DRAGON DELICACY. Overall, they had a great day, and Spike didn't go crazy with greed and ruin the town. Omega still had that strange feeling that he was forgetting something important, not only that, but he was feeling older. He was feeling, though only very slightly, older.