//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: When Friendship Rules Part 1 // Story: The side characters // by BoneCruncher47 //------------------------------// The side characters Chapter 1: When Friendship Rules Part 1 Cyan That was the first color that Gaige saw as soon as she regained her senses, cyan. "What the hell.." The red haired mechanic was amazed at the sight she saw, the clouds were very lazy and fuzzy, they just sat there in the sky, just to be seen. The rainbows also added to that effect, Gaige never saw a real life rainbow. Except for that one time where a psycho exploded into a double rainbow at Thousand Cuts. As Gaige lowered her head, her eyes widened, Krieg was hanging from a vine that was wrapped around his foot. That was when Gaige realized that she is in a forest. "Crap!" was all Gaige said before the vine snapped. SNAP Krieg collided with the ground. It seemed that he had been knocked out cold ever since he got here, either that or he's dead, which is highly unlikely. Gaige sighed as she stood up and moved a few strands of her red hair away from her emerald eyes. They needed shelter, quick, before skags ate them, assuming that they are located in a forest like environment on pandora. Lifting her mechanical arm, she summoned Death-Trap, his metallic figure rose from the ground. Before Gaige could ask Death-Trap a question, she was quickly interrupted, "You want to know what happened? or what?" Death-Trap said in a monotonic voice. "I actually didn't consider that, but I guess that would be nice to know, what's the hypothesis?" replied Gaige. Death-Trap sighed (How does he sigh if he has no lungs?) "My theoretic generator has came to a conclusion that when we did that high five, it caused so much awesomeness that the universe could barely handle it. But when it fused to the phaselock, the universe couldn't handle the awesomeness. so we got sent to another dimension. It's either that or my theoretic generators are on the fritz again.." "Yea, I think it's the latter" mumbled Gaige. Death-Trap turned around to see Krieg "I'm not even going to ask." "Death-Trap, what location are we in?" asked the Mechromancer. Death-Trap shuffles uncomfortably "I... wait.. Searching... [DATA UNKNOWN].. uhh.. no? .. I, I don't know, apparently this is an unexplored area of the universe.. Guess it's safe to assume that it's the undiscovered country." Gaige groaned "I guess we have to find shelter on this planet before skags, or something kill us first.." "Assuming skags inhabit this planet." "Shut up!" "Yes mom!" replied Death-Trap sarcasticly "Carry Krieg, otherwise I'll feel kinda bad for leaving him here, since he saved my life a few times.." "Yes mom!" Death-Trap grabbed Krieg and threw him over his shoulders. "And stop calling me mom!" "Yes mom!" There was a faint giggle in Death-Traps voice. "I swear, that voice modulator is slowly damaging your A.I. core, I need to make one that is totally not based off Jacks voice modulator." Gaige punched down a tree with her metallic fist, the tree fell down and it revealed a pathway in the distance. "Yes mom!" It can be heard that Death-Trap was trying to keep in a laugh. Gaige sighed "I need to reprogram you one day." "Aww, no need to be like that, I thought you loved me to bits!" "I'll break you to bits if you don't shut up!" For some strange reason, Death-Trap became quiet, he didn't want to take his chances. An hour later Sweat gleamed down Gaige's forehead, The sun was beating down on her ever since they got there. Today was pretty warm, unless you're in the sun, in which case, it would be even warmer all day. This pathway revealed a lot of light, the trees were very spread apart compared to the rest of the area. Perhaps this a walkway area that everybody used? "Mom!" "What?" "Krieg is waking up!" "Oh great, sit him down.." sighed the red haired schoolgirl. As ordered, Death-Trap lowered Krieg onto the ground, until Krieg had a random spasm and punched Death-Trap in the face. "NO ONE EATS MY MEAT BYCYCLE!!!" yelled Krieg. The sound of a flock of birds leaving the local area could be heard, possibly from Krieg's shouting. "Calm down Krieg, no one want's to hurt yo-" Before gaige could finish a lion appeared. No wait, it had bat wings and a scorpion tail. "Manticore?" was the last word Gaige said before Krieg went on a rampage. "GAAAAAAAAH" Krieg slammed his buzz axe into the manticore's skull. The beast didn't have a chance to react. It's head exploded as grey matter, flesh, eyeballs and skull pieces flied everywhere. The manticore made a small twitch before it was completely turned into red paste from the work of Kriegs buzz axe. Krieg was still slamming his buzz axe into the red sauce before he slowly started to realize he killed it 30 seconds ago. "Ahahahaha.. Ohhhh, that startled me..." "Well that escalated quickl-" Gaige was cut off from the sound of Krieg screaming for his dear life as he was suddenly lit on fire by Death-Trap's laser. "GAAAAAAAAAAH" Krieg ran around in circles before he ran off elsewhere to the great unknown and beyond. "DEATH-TRAP!" yelled Gaige. Death-Trap made a small whining noise, "He punched me.. It REALLY hurt" "Death-Trap, you're a robot" Gaige facepalmed, she loves Death-Trap, but it's just times like these.. times like these... "We've got [1] less mouth to feed, right?" "We can't find him at this rate, lets just keep going with this stupid pathway, maybe we'll find something.." Throughout the whole walk, Death-Trap remained silent. 2 hours later Finally, after what appeared to be forever, Gaige finally reaches the end of the pathway. It lead to (OMFG) a small village made with wood, and hay rooftops. After observing it at a distance, Gaige realized where she was. "Now.. Evidence from earlier where we killed a manticore, and the fact that it was in a forest, and the pathway lead to this village that I am very much aware of. My hypothesis is simple.." "And that I-" "WE ARE IN EQUESTRIA!!" yelled Gaige. The annoyed android groaned "Not THAT show" "Yes that show.." "THAT SHOW WAS INTENDED FOR SMALL CHILDREN!" argued Death-Trap. "I like to think myself as a little girl, you know, 'Daddy's little angel'" "You are such a suck up" "Hey my dad is awesome!" "He is.. alright" "What you mean he's 'alright'" Before Death-Trap answered that question, he stopped, "Actually nevermind" Gaige poked her tongue at Death-Trap "You're just jealous of the fact I have a Dad, you don't" "I have something better than a dad, and that is infinite imortality!" "That's just depressing.. Wait" Gaige notices that half of Death-Trap's face is missing " what happened to your face?" Death-Trap touches the damaged part of his head, most of the casing on his head is removed and the left side of his head is mostly destroyed. Wires can be seen making sparks every few seconds. "I think this was caused after Krieg punched my face. I thought he obscured my vision by rattling the vision sensor inside my casing.." stated Death-Trap. "Well time to digistruct you back." replied Gaige. "But I don't wanna.." whined Death-Trap. "Too bad!" Gaige lifted her mechanical arm and made Death-Trap digistruct back into it. "At least I can get some peace to myself." Gaige mumbled to herself. Looking back at the village, Gaige starts to decide who to meet first, Twilight? or Rainbow Dash? OOOR Pinky Pie. She started deciding in her head before she saw Twilight walking down from Sweet Apple acres with Spike in the distance. "Okay, she is SO first!" with that, still alongside the edge of the Everfree Forest, Gaige runs to Twilight. As she gets closer and closer to Twilight she starts to make out a conversation between spike and Twilight. Reading their lips, she figured that they are talking about some sort of event going on. Gaige soon realized a thing that Twilight does not have, wings. Thinking that maybe she can somehow turn off her wings, Gaige continued to race towards Twilight. As she got close, she can finally make out their conversation. "..But in the letter Princess Celestia said specifically that you should make friends!" whined the small dragon. "I told you spike, once I'm done talking to everypony with the preparations, I'll go out to find the elements of harmony!" replied the determined and smart unicorn. Spike groaned in defeat, for now. This was Gaige's chance, she gets to meet Twilight Sparkle, ignoring the conversation, she bursted out of the forest with open arms and a grin on her face. "OMG TWILIGHT!!" Twilight instantly stopped in her tracks and her ears fell flat. It was obvious that the purple unicorn was scared shitless of Gaige's imitating figure. Spike on the other hand was hiding behind Twilight, hoping that her magical abilities will protect him. Gaige wrapped her arms around Twilight, squeezing her small figure before she met her hooves. Gaige got launched in the air before she was captured by Twilights telekinesis. "WHO ARE YOU!" yelled Twilight, her mane was slightly ruined after Gaige hugged her, and she looked about as pissed as Maya on a Sunday if she didn't have what she wanted for dinner. Gaige floated there in silence before she introduced herself. "I am Gaige, the best engineer, OF ALL TIME!" boasted the cocky redhead. "I.. I never heard of yo- never mind. What are you?" "I'm Gaige, a bipedal sentient being of which that evolved from the apes, because, THE PAST SUX! Anarchy is the way to go!" replied Gaige in a dramatic tone. Twilight looked at Gaige for a while before she slowly lowered her to the ground "I've never met your kind. Did you travel from a far land?" Gaige shook her head "Oh nah, Me and Death-Trap did a highfive, and yea, that's all I remember before I teleported here.." Spike poked his head around one of Twilight's hind legs "W-Who's Death-Trap?" he asked in a nervous tone. "Oh, THIS" Gaige raised her arm and summoned Death-Trap, he rose from the ground like a zombie in those old 80's movies, his fierce and deadly figure quickly intimidated both Twilight and Spike. "What IS that thing?" asked Twilight as she put a fair distance between her and Death-Trap. "Ohhh Nothing much, just- A FREAKING FLOATING TORSO OF AWWWWWWESOMENESSS!!!!" Death-Trap facepalmed "Why must we be teleported to this world out of all worlds..." "Anyways, considering we got here to Ponyville, we need to tell pinky that I'm in town, I bet that she'll make the BEST cake because I'm human an-" "Who is Pinkie?" interrupted Twilight. Gaige blinked. "You.. You don't know Pinkie Pie?" "Sounds familiar, but.. no.." Gaige stood there in silence, piecing together what Twilight just said. "Listen, I uh, I need to go and see a few more ponies that I have on my list for the Summer Sun Celebration, so-" "WAIT! You don't know Pinky, and you are meeting ponies on your list for the Summer Sun Celebration because Princess Celestia ordered you too?" asked Gaige. "Yes, and, how did you know about Pri-" "OMFG I'm in the first episode!" "What?" "Listen Twilight, MEET THE PONIES, AND SAVE EQUESTRIA, From that bitchy Nightmare moo- Oh crap" "Okay you are creeping me out.. uh, Gabe? Uuh wait, how do you know my name?" "There won't be a princess to defeat if Krieg gets to her first.." muttered Gaige. "Uh? Hello?" "Oh crap, Twilight, when I came here, I came here with Krieg.." "Okay this is getting REALLY weird now" complained Spike. "Living with her is a different matter my friend.." complained Death-Trap. "Okay, THIS is confusing, Weird bipedal creature, SLOW DOWN, I don't know this Krieg guy, or how you know my name, or What you are. So just slow down!" ordered the purple pony. Gaige took in a deep breath and sat down of the soft grass. She calmed herself down before she told Twilight everything. Kind of. "Okay, so let me get this straight. Krieg is some dangerous psychopath, who, just like you, is a bipedal creature. And the last time you saw him was when he ran off in the Everfree Forest. While he was on Fire. And that if we don't find him soon, bad things will happen. Am I correct?" asked Twilight. "Yes." replied Gaige. "This is ridiculous Twilight, her story is too insane to be real, and she won't explain to us why she was carrying him." complained Spike. "Our world consists mainly on bandit and psychos, he is different.." explained Death-Trap. "And you, she didn't explain what you are, to me you look like some sort of golem. That can fly. Twilight, do you honestly believe in these guy's story?" Twilight shifted around uncomfortably "Well, I don't know Spike, they stated that they are from another world, and I haven't done that much research around theories on Interdimensional travel. Considering that I have far better things to do research on, like marine life, chemistry, elements of har- Oh shoot!" Twilight got up on her hooves as quick as possible. "Look I uh, I REALLY need to go, I need to meet these ponies for a VERY important occasion. Umm, I'll come back here tomorrow!" apologized the purple pony as she levitated Spike onto her back. "I still think she's lying." "Whatever Spike! We got to run, bye!" with that Twilight galloped faster than a shock skag with roid rage, yes, Gaige did that once. Gaige put on her game face, "Okay Death-Trap, Equestria rest in our hands, if we don't find Krieg, he'll blow things up!" "Ohhh threatening.." replied Death-Trap sarcasticly. "Shut up! We're going back to where that manticore got killed, we might be able to follow the scorch marks he left behind and get a lead to where he is!" replied Gaige. "That... That is actually a pretty good plan, shame we only have a [92.73263%] chance of [not] finding Krieg.." "Yea whatever, as if percentages matter anymore." "Last time you did that, we got teleported to Equeareia.. uhh.. We got teleported to this world!" stuttered Death-Trap. "I consider that a win!" replied Gaige as she starts venturing into the forest with Death-Trap following beside her. "This is going to be another long trip.." complained Death-Trap as he watched the sun lowering in the distance. Another 2 hours later Gaige and death-Trap arrive at the destroyed manticore, Gaige almost tripped over one of its ribs. Small carnivorous animals were eating the remains of the fearsome beast before they noticed Gaige and her robot companion and fled. Gaige looked around the area before she found charred leaves that were on a tree branch. "He went that way" pointed Gaige as her finger pointed to the direction of the burnt tree. "Lets go!" replied Gaige's robot in a monotonic voice. As the redhead advanced towards the tree, she tripped over "Arrgh my god, do I have to trip over EVERYTHING?" Gaige looked down at what she tripped over, it was one of the manticore's limbs, nothing too special beside the fact that it was ripped off the manticore. "Oh hey, that's one of the manticore's limbs!" said the amazed engineer. "Oh come on, let's go." groaned Death-Trap. "Okay fiii.. Oh crap.." "What now? "What if this is the same manticore that Fluttershy help?.." replied Gaige in a worried voice. "Oh come on, it's either Flutter-by gets a special flower, or Krieg kills them all, let's go!" "But you don't understand, if Fluttershy doesn't prove that she is the element of kindness, then Nightmare Moon will plunge Equestria in TOTAL darkness!" explained Gaige. Death-Trap facepalmed and groans. "Ooooh no, nononononono, now I CANNOT help fix the problem, I screwed them. I screwed them all over. nononononono" "Oh why don't you get a replacement if it's that serious?" asked Death-Trap. It took Gaige a couple of moments before she conjured an idea, a very stupid idea, but it was sure as hell better than crying over a problem that she caused. "Death-Trap I have an idea, maybe silly, but you're going have to bear with me" Gaige said in a slow, maniacal voice. Death-Trap shuddered at the thought of Gaige having an IDEA, it's extremely dangerous if she had an idea. Before Gaige could continue, she noticed that it's night time. "Oh yes, I still have time!" Death-Trap sighs in defeat, "What do you want me to do?" Gaige grins as the moonlight reflected off her eyes, Death-Trap could see it. Her idea was a stupid idea. 6 hours later Gaige and Deathtrap went to the cliff face where Applejack saves Twilight from falling off it. If Gaige played her cards right, she would be able to trick the mane 6 into thinking that she is some sort of monster. With a disguise of course! "I knew this was a bad idea.." Gaige was covered in mud and small twigs, she almost looked like some sort of swamp monster, only he was trying to look like Santa AT THE SAME TIME! "What? They'll think I'm a monster!" replied gaige as she slaped on some more mud "Yea, except they'll think it's a bad rip off of a 'Swampy Dave' costume.." replied Death-Trap as he applied more mud on Gaige. "That show was possibly one of the worst shows that they presented on the Echonet.." "Well it's the only show that they had that was intended for dirty orphans on the Echonet.." Gaige was fully covered in mud, she looked like the cookie monster, only he jumped in a pool of mud. "That is so threatening, I think I'm leaking." stated Death-Trap in a sarcastic tone. "Shut up, it was the only way I could do it." "Why didn't you just use me? What? apparently I'm not scary enough to be som monster? Gaige sighed in annoyance "It's not that, it's that Twilight's already seen you, so she would know that you're not some sort of threat." "Then why didn't you paste mud on me instead?" "What?" "Why go through the trouble of putting mud all over your only only pair of clothes, when you could of done that to me?" asked the metalic compaion, as he had his arms crossed. Gaige just stared at Death-Trap before she silently cursed to herself. "Welp' too late now, may as well go with what we got.." While the robot couldn't display any emotion, Gagie could tell that Death-Trap was silently laughing to himself. "What about Krieg?" suddenly asked Death-Trap. "Later, Nightmare moon is more important!" "How so? What is she? Some bad horse who makes everybody unhappy by taking away all their cupcakes?" Death-Trap replied in a condescending tone. "No, she is Princess Celestia's sister. But Celestia sealed her in the moon for years cause she turned evil. Until tonight when she escapes from the moon and plunges Equestria in darkness. Seriously, watch the show Death-Trap.." "I'd rather watch two girls one cu-" Death Trap was cut off when he heard a strange noise coming from the sky. Gaige looked at the moon, the craters on it disappeared, Nightmare moon escaped "Okay, she's out, now we have to play.. THE WAITING GAY.. MEH!" Death-Trap sighed "Can I die now?" "NO! I love you too much" Death-Trap groaned "Whatever.."