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// The Other Side; Part 4 
// Story: What It's Like on the Other Side 
// by Dimitri_Domovoi 
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	I moved my arm to be an inch from the doors surface. I forced the door open, knocking it off its hinges. Then I walked into a room lined with cages, either one or two Pegasus per cell. "That's it, I now have two reasons to kill you"

I was surrounded as soon as I spoke, so I teleported to my workshop, and grabbed something I had been working on, two razor sharp mythril katana. The sheath was easy, but the blade was quite irritating. Then I teleported back, and clipped the katana sheaths to my sides. Then one of them walked up to me "Who in th' name of Tartarus are you?"

"Where is Fluttershy?"

"OH, I get it, your th' one who made the custom order; shy, submissive, and petite, in both ways. She is in th' back, we were about to 'break her in' if you catch ma' dr- hrkk" he was interrupted by my hand lifting him off the ground by the throat "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?" he yelled while fighting for air. I had enough of his voice, I squeezed collapsing his windpipe. He went limp with a wheeze and I dropped his body.

Stepping over the new body, I was quickly surrounded again. "Listen, unless you want to end up like him, I strongly suggest retreat." they just closed in, making me draw both katana. "C'mon, don't be stupid, I'm being far more rational than normal." They jumped at me; I spun and crouched, decapitating three, and bifurcating seven. Standing I looked around, all the mares were looking away, the stallions were looking at me as though I was Lucifer himself.

I walked to the door that led to the back and opened it. In front of me was Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy bent over forewords, ropes holding them in the position. Rainbow took one look at me and started to freak out to the best of her ability, and Flutters looked relived to see me. I walked up to them, making Rainbow freak out more, and tears start to flow. I looked around for a large cloth and found one under a sleeping stallion a little bigger than Mac. So I crouched in the pitchers position, and tapped him in the face with my replacement arm, his eye's fluttered open, then he kicked me on the chest, knocking me on my back. He stood and stomped my chest until a couple ribs poked through the scales. Then turned to go and do the job he was supposed to be doing, but he never even got close to Dash; I had grabbed his tail, and he looked back at me, just in time to see me standing up while the last rib went back into place with a sickening slurping sound. I grabbed him by the head and launched him at the wall, connecting with a loud crack I teleported to his side as he was getting back up Too bad I have to do this, he can take one hell of a beating. I grabbed him by the head and lifted him to look me in the eyes. He spat in my face, and I turned him to face the crack his body made in the wall, and used it to cave in his skull. I dropped the body and walked over to the two mares and lifted them up; Flutters still had a bad leg, and I had scared Dash into unconsciousness, and placed them on the sheet. Tying it to my back I walked to the room with all the cages and sliced all the locks off "Go to your homes, tell your loved ones that there is a new guardian of Ponyville!" They all flooded out and took flight when they got through the destroyed doorway. Following suit I walked out and just walked out of the alleyway, and to Fluttershy's cottage.

"I'm sorry it had to go that far, but if I had let them live they would have just moved to another location and restarted. Plus now Ponyville knows I'm here to protect them."

I put them on the ground and removed the gags, waking Rainbow, who started to scream "CELESTIA SAVE ME! PLEASE, DON'T KILL ME!!" I covered her mouth with my good arm.

"Listen, it's ok, your safe, I swear on my very existence, I will not harm you. " this seemed to calm her. I then cut the ropes holding like a trapped pig. She kicked me in the throat, knocking me onto my back. I just stood up, then she kicked me in the crotch, making me fall onto the center of the carpet, breaking the trap door, I landed with a thud. She then flew down but kept out of range of me.

"Do you think you can tri- what is all this stuff ?"

"Most of them are for building parts for my arm and eye."

"Why are they in Flutters house!?" 

"Because he lives here." Luna interrupted. "And, he's not supposed to allow anypony to see him."

"Yo, Flutters you home? The door was open, so I let myself in."

I stood and flew out of the hole to see red looking at the hole. "Hi, RED. How are you?" I stared angrily at him.

"D, can I explain why I didn't want any body to know where I was living?"

"Sure, go right ahead."