Wanderer woke up in the middle of a room, it was quite large, but seemed devoid of anyone except himself until he stood back up. "Hey, he's finally awake. What's with you?" A female human asks before helping Wanderer back up, "Seriously, you ran into that trap, so why didn't you run away like a smart person?"
Wanderer replies with disdain in his voice, "I'm fine, thanks for asking. If you saw the area I was in, then you would know that I couldn't get out of there at all."
Rarity and the crusaders walked around the corner and seemed fine. "How are you doing darling? Any bangs or bruises?"
Wanderer answered with annoyance in his voice, "I'm fine! I don't need a mommy to lick my wounds for me."
The crusaders remained silent until Applebloom walked forward, "Do you think we're gonna get out of here mister?" This seemed to worry the other crusaders.
Wanderer raised a fist, "Of course, but... we need to put our heads together and think of a plan..." He suddenly turns toward the female human, "What's your name? It'd be nice to know everyone."
She replied, "I'm Katherine. I'm an asset in the army. Now that that's done, how about some ideas? I say we go through the air vents."
Sweetie Belle objected, "We'll never know where we'll end up, and without weapons... it's not a viable option!"
Wanderer tried his own idea, "How about... we ask for the keys? Oh, guard!"
The guard yells at him, "I ain't coming over there!"
"But I found booze the other day!"
The guard replies, "You ain't got nothing on you..." he took another sip of his glass of beer.
"Ain't got nothing means the opposite of what you think it means!"
The guard ignored Wanderer after that statement, "That only works in video games kid. That won't work so..."
Rarity tried, "IDEA!!! Wanderer, come over to this wall!" Wanderer did so and prepared for whatever she had planned, "We're going to break this wall down! Get ready to punch when my magic transfers into your hand!"
The magic went into Wanderer's fist and he tried breaking down the wall, "HIYA........... OUCH-OUCH-OUCH-OUCH!" He immediately backed away from the wall and inspected his hand. It wasn't broken at least, "How..." He suddenly looked up, "Magic fizzle tag, it makes magic useless." A piece of paper is a unicorn's weakness, Whoo-hoo!
The group tries multiple ideas, but don't get good results. After a while they all took some relaxing time, "Hey you, boy! The boss wants to talk to you!"
Wanderer went with them and met the one of the more holy villains in Equestrian history, "Well, if it isn't Mr. Wanderer! How nice to see you, I didn't think I could find you so soon after that desecration of my sanctuary."
It was Chrysalis, queen of changelings. Why was she here, leading an army of humans? Because she's evil! Also her changeling army wasn't working very well at infiltrating Cantorlot.
"Isn't this sad? I ran away from you because I knew you might kill me, but it seems mere chance has brought you your prey... huh, that's a little more sad than I thought would happen." Wanderer reminisced. He and Chrysalis obviously had a past between them, "Anyway I don't think you want me alive after destroying the nest, huh?"
He sits back in the chair and relaxes, "Sure, go ahead and try. Just remember that if you keep me, then a weight is lifted off the other humans shoulders."
Chrysalis snickered, "You think that I should let you live? You destroyed my home!" She slammed her hooves against her desk, "I should make you burn like you did my parents!"
"Ooh, watch out! We've got a revenge seeker in here!" Wanderer chided, "Really, you need to think strategically when you kill your enemy, because if you hang me, I know a good trick to avoid having a broken neck. I also know that a firing squad won't work, because I've dodged arrows blindly before and I can do it again! You know that as well as I do!"
Chrysalis seemed to have not many options to kill Wanderer, "I know of something, but I guess you'll have to wait... take him back to the cell!"
Wanderer goes back into the cell and sees new arrivals, they were Derpy and Dinky. Derpy looks at Wanderer in surprise, "Y-You! Why are you here?"
The door behind Wanderer closes with a bang, "The same as you... waiting for a redemption." Derpy looks a bit surprised, but says nothing, "Now, I'm assuming that's your daughter? Dinky, how are you doing?"
Dinky answers, "I'm fine, but why do you know my name?"
Wanderer quickly shoves the question aside, "If you'd been in my life, then you woulda known why... anyway has anyone gotten any ideas?"
Rarity answered for everyone, "No, I don't think we can do anything to get out of here..."
One of the guards opened the door and said, "Come on, it's lunchtime."
In the lunchroom.
Wanderer was eating the slop they served, "Ick, this tastes strangely like my worlds school lunch..."
Katherine looked a bit worried for him, "You eat this slop at your school?"
"It was a joke..." Wanderer still sulked while eating, "However... speaking of school..." He thought for a couple seconds, Maybe if I do that... then everyone would go into a full on battle, time for some risk and reward! Time... for Operation Hellstorm! After he told everyone how it was going to work he suddenly screamed for everyone to hear, "IDEA!!! FOOD FIGHT!!!!" Wanderer yelled as threw a plateful of slop at a random human.
He looked very mad, but a spark of mischief gleamed in his eyes, "Alright, everybody, you heard him! FOOD FIGHT!!!!!" The lunchroom bursts into a frantic fight of food, the guards try to calm everyone down, but end up being in the middle of the fight too.
Wanderer quickly initiated Operation Hellstorm and said to everyone that was in his cell a few minutes ago, "Quick! Run!"
The group ran out of the lunchroom and toward the armory and got their equipment back. They tried to get as much of the other equipment too, and ran back to the lunchroom. It was still chaos in there!
Many of the guards had slop on their faces and all the inmates were still food fighting. The weapons were thrown into the middle of the room and everyone grabbed a sword, crossbow, etc. and started assaulting the guards that were blinded by the food in front of their armored helmets.
None of them could anticipate attacks coming at them. Most of the guards died, the other part of them ran away because of the sheer fear that this army was going to kill them.
One guard even yelled, "Every man for himself! We are not Spartans!"
Everyone was evacuated, but Wanderer stayed to talk to Chrysalis, "So I guess your so-called army sucked! Do you mind if I let you live?"
Chrysalis gave words of sadness, "Why should you? You killed my family, my original army, and my home! I have nothing to live for and you say that I can still live with this? You honestly understand pain," She looked at Wanderer's bandages, "but don't let me escape it?"
Wanderer turned away from her, "Because I didn't simply do all the things that you think I did. I told the changelings to run away, I burned your house when your parents weren't home, and I don't like bloodshed... it ruins the carpet of your office and it's not right for this universe." The carpet was black and seemed to fit the room very well. "It's best if you try and figure this out yourself. I only wanted to send a message, but someone figured out how to make it seem like I had a grudge."
Chrysalis was left in the dark, alone as Wanderer left her office and headed outside of dungeon. It seems she wasn't the main villain... who could it be? Someone who can use magic and be able to get out before anything can happen to them. Who knows, but that's how a mystery works, it leads you in an infinite circle full of doubt. Many questions can be uttered about Wanderer and his goal, but maybe only one of them will be answered in the next chapter...
The end of Chapter 4... new scenes added!
Initiating the beacon of Chrysalis's house...
Wanderer was standing on a hill overlooking the nest, "Alright, I just need to send the signal that I'm here so that she'll know what to do..." He checks his equipment. He has a Molotov, his battle supplies, and a deck of cards, though all of the cards were aces of hearts (that becomes relevant for spell casting later...), "I guess I have everything... don't be nervous!"
Chrysalis returning home...
She was walking around block, when she turned the corner, her house was on fire and she could hear the fire crackling, she was stunned that it was being burned, but still yelled, "M-Mother! Father!" She sprinted for the house, but stopped in front of a boy that dropped down from the second-story window, "WH-Who are you, and what have you done to my home!?" She lashed out with her magic, but he evaded every strike and eventually was able to run away quickly.
The inside of the house was on fire, but Chrysalis didn't care what happened to herself, she ran in and tried to find her mother and father. She eventually found them burning with looks of terror on their faces. They were burnt to death, and it looked like the father had a note, but it burned up before Chrysalis could read it. She ran as soon as she heard the wood cracking and the house collapsed. She made it out okay, but was furious at the boy. Outside was a note, "I'm Wanderer, if I did anything wrong, then you should try to find me, however as my name implies, I'll not be found so easily, because of this ever expanding world. Best of luck to you! Try thinking before going though with whatever plan you have!"
He killed my parents for fun!? That little brat!
That's how she came to hate Wanderer, but what villain could be cold-hearted enough to kill two changelings just to get Wanderer set in the middle of crosshairs?
This is an optional scene...
Wanderer sat in a chair in front of you in a white room, "I bet you want to know the why, what, who, and where about me huh?" He smirked, "If you want I can answer your questions, but first you have to ask me in the comments, or if you're feeling like Flutters, then you can just PM Author. Why do I call him Author? One: He's responsible for the stuff you're reading, and two: his internet persona is LonesomeWanderer which could possibly cause problems with him trying to reply through the story to people, because your first thing to do with internet personas is shorten their name. So by instinct you'd call him Wanderer, which is my persona. You don't need to ask anything, but if you want to, then go ahead! I don't care and neither does Author!" He gets up and leaves, "Goodbye! Until next time!"
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