//------------------------------// // The Other Side; Part 5 // Story: What It's Like on the Other Side // by Dimitri_Domovoi //------------------------------// I hovered to the couch and sat "Alright, spill it, now." Rainbow, Luna, and Flutters then sat looking at him. He looked at the others then back at me "This does not leave this room, for safety reasons." He demanded with a stoic face, we all nodded. "I am the unofficial guardian of Ponyville, the reason this does not leave this room, is I'm currently living with the Apples. When i stayed behind to stop and destroy the mini nuke it went off as I hit it with my hottest fires, and somehow opened a portal to Equestria, thinking I survived the blast and was catapulted to a thriving environment, I began wandering around to find civilization to contact you. I found civilization, but it was being attacked by some dragons, and I thought 'What. The. Fuck. I'm in hell aren't I?' so when I hit myself a few times to make sure I wasn't dead or dreaming, I sprinted to the edge of town, close enough for me to get the attention of the dragons, and blew the wing half off the closest one, it worked. So then they tried to destroy me, it didn't work, and I ended up roasting all of them. There, now you tell me everything that brought you here." "No. That's not all, don't forget I can read you like a book, and do you know anything about a Pegasus slave trading group?" "Yes, Celestia told me to find and apprehend them, why?" "Oops, I really need to think before I act." "WHAT?! What did you do?!" "I may have... Sliced up most of them, and caved in the skull of one... And unleash information that wasn't supposed to be known." "WHAT?! WHAT INFORMATION DID YOU RELEASE?!" "Just that... I'm the new guardian of Ponyville." "BASTARD, YOU STOLE MY JOB! I'LL KILL YOU!!" He grabbed me and threw me through the open doorway, making the ponies jump. Landing against a tree I stood just as the air around me exploded, sending me into the air. Just as I stopped rising, it happened again, seven times but I didn't rise or fall, I was grabbed out of the air by something big. "Why, must you younglings be so impatient for fighting?" A deep reptilian voice asked "Do you realize that creature, whatever he is, has already roasted three of us?" "Leave this area, or die." I said the reptilian tone coming into my voice. He moved his arm to have me eye to eye with eye "Insolent youth! You no not the power you insult! What is on your arm and eye?" "They are replacements, not coverings." I freed my arms from his grip, gripped around his wrist. I then teleported, only his hand came with me. "Insolent brat." He screamed, stopping in a hover facing me. "How do you use unicorn magic?!" "It's not magic, it is ingenuity. Now leave this area, or I WILL kill you." He then flew over me, and out of sight in the distance. I flew to Fluttershy's cottage, and walked in. RED stopped me "So, you are the official guardian?" "No all four of us are, you, Echo, PK, and I." I walked passed him and jumped into the pit I had been living in, finding Fluttershy inspecting the machine I used to shape the blades for my Katanas. I walked over to her "What'cha thinking about?" She looked at me. "Why are you protective of me?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, how far would you have gone, if I hadn't said something, when we were in Canterlot?" I walked over to my chair, and noticed a mirror I hadn't seen before. Walking up to it I saw a black dragon, with an emerald underbelly, one ruby colored eye (the other obviously replaced) looking back at me."I... would guess I'm protective of you, because I like you, but more than just friends." She hovered over to me and sat in between the mirror and I. I noticed a few feelings in her eyes; anger, nervousness, understanding. What are you thinking? "Wh-what do you mean?" I sat cross legged in front of her "I mean the last time I felt this way about a female, war took her away from me. So I vowed never to let someone I care for receive harm, sure Echo, RED, and PK get hurt all the time but I allow it because I know they will survive. But you and everyone else aren't like us. And..... I.... I'm scared.... I'm scared something might happen to yo..... Like always I'm interrupted by something important "Fluttershy! It's Time Turner, please is the half dragon here?!" The voice came from outside the cottage, and sounded panicked. I grabbed her and flew into the living room. She trotted to the door and let him in. "Oh, thank Celestia! Please a one handed dragon just made off with Scootaloo!" I was furious "How?! What direction did it go?!" I yelled making him jump. "Follow me I'll tell you on the way!" He ran out the door, I followed close behind. "He went into the Everfree!" I then grabbed him and flew to get a better view. "There in that clearing!" I dropped to the ground, taking care not to go to fast. "What are you doing?! Your wasting time!" I looked at him "I am Dimitri Anitchka Domovoi, -Doctor- and that name should mean something to you, if you are -who- I think you are." I then disappeared, leaving a worried Doctor Whooves behind. I reappeared in a clearing with a dragon lifting an unconscious filly over his mouth, and stopping when he saw me "Ahh, you did take the bait. So what importance does this measly morsel of meat mean to you?" "THAT IS NONE OF YOUR CONCERN!" Full reptilian tone and second deeper voice in with my own "NOW RELEASE HER TO ME OR YOUR BODY, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DISCERN!" I stepped closer, and he flew into the sky and darted towards a mountain with an obvious cave on the side. I teleported to the entrence and changed my sight accordingly for the amount of light in the cave. "COME OUT, COME OUT, STUPID DRAGON! I ONLY WANT TO HAVE SOME FUN!" Walking in I was grabbed and smashed into the ground and wall until most of my bones were broken, then thrown to the ground, I watched the dragon walk over to a whole in the wall as my bones rapidly fixed themselves. "Well, well, well, you failed at saving the filly, and didn't stand a fighting chance, lot of talk does nothing for how well you fight, and now I eat." He looked away as he picked Scootaloo up from behind some rocks, I stood as he lifted her over his head again and I flew at him, faster than Pinkie would move to get to a party, and smashed his bottom jaw in half, sideways, against the cave wall, warping my mythril arm, slightly. Yelping in pain he dropped the filly, waking her up, she started to scream as I caught her "It will all be okey. I will get you home after I make this monstrosity pay." "O-okey..." She started to shiver. "Await me at the entrance of this cave. This creature has dug his final grave." I set her down, and she ran to the entrance. I turned to face him, and was thrown against the wall. I teleported next to him and slammed my fist into his side breaking a rib, and warping my arm further. "Threatening the life of a little one?! Now your pain has only just begun!!" I continued to mirthlessly beat and break the worthless creature. When I had finished I walked out of the cave, looking around then finally finding the filly. She started cowering when she noticed me. "Do not fear me. I only wish to be a friend, not an enemy." She stopped cowering and I picked her up, into the crook of my arm (living one) and flew into the sky, towards Flutters cottage. Landing a short distance away, I set her down, then collapsed. "Are you ok, mister?" "Yeah, go get Fluttershy... tell her to get PK... I cannot explain why." only the reptilian tone and deep voice present, my voice was nowhere, she galloped into the cottage, returning with PK a minute later. He lifted me to my feet, then assisted me inside "You seem to find the worst times to overwork your abilities, why is that?" "We can not reside in the same body anymore. What will happen if he and I are not separated you will truly abhor! How it happened, us getting trapped in the same mind, I have no time to explain. Now help me into the basement; for a remedy we must search Dimitri's brain." PK helped me onto the hole, then turned around. "No matter what you hear, stay away from this door." PK then jumped into the hole, landing with a dull thud. Luna closed the hatch and covered it, moving over to the couch, she sat and waited with Fluttershy. It wasn't long before a pain filled roar pierced the silence, making both the mares jump.