//------------------------------// // A new land // Story: The Cyborg Colt // by Huntermjiolnir //------------------------------// Chapter 3: The new land. (AN: Switching view points away from Nexus for the first few moments of this chapter, he'll come around later tho.) Twilight was reading a book from the her personal collection when a rainbow blur smashed through her window. “Rainbow what was that about?” Asked the bookish unicorn in an annoyed tone. “We got a problem a big one!” Rainbow said frantically. “What is it?” Twilight asked, her tone changing to concern. “One of my weather team spotted a large dragon it looked angry, it's headed this way!” Rainbow exclaimed. “Oh no! Rainbow you go gather the other girls tell them to meet me in the square, make sure they bring their elements with them as well! I'm going to write the princess, hopefully she can get here before the town gets destroyed TOO badly.” Twilight replies, turning to her dragon assistant. Rainbow salutes then blazes out of the broken window saying. “I'm on it.” Twilight passes a scroll to Spike who sends it with a flash of green flame. “Stay here Spike, I don't want you getting hurt!” Twilight says as she gallops out of the library, heading towards the main square, donning her tiara as she runs. Moments later Twilight skids to a halt in the square to find the other friends waiting anxiously, their elements hanging from their necks. “Yah sure we gotta do this sugarcube?” AJ asks. Twilight nods, and they gasp as a large shadow passes over them then circles around to land in the square. The dragon was huge easily forty foot tall and fifty foot long, its gigantic wings flared open before folding to its sides. The dragon roared its emerald scales glinting in the afternoon sun. “All right girls! Elements of Harmony FIRE!” Twilight says. The girls nod and light forms around them, then a giant beam of rainbows fires towards the dragon obscuring it in light. Seconds pass and the light fades, the girls shake off their dizziness only to see that the dragon remains completely unharmed. In response to the attack, the dragon flares its wings and rears back its head in preparation to breath fire on the six strong group. Suddenly a brilliant beam of red energy slams into on of the dragon's outstretched wings and the dragon lurches to the side roaring in pain. As the light fades the girls can see a smoking hole in the wing of the large beast. As one all seven heads turn towards the source of the beam. ON a nearby rooftop standing on his hind lands its a colt, coat as black as night, cyan tail waving in the breeze. His left foreleg and part of his left head gleam silver in the sunlight, and where his left eye was instead was a large oval dot as red as blood. This dot seemed to glare mercilessly at the dragon. Cradled in its front hooves was a long bluish tube, the far end of which was smoking ad glowing red. The colt spoke, his voice laced with anger. “Listen, I don't know what the hell you are, or where the hell you came from, but I'll be damned if I'm just gonna stand by and let you destroy this defenseless town! So I'm giving you one chance, leave and no further harm will come to you.” With that the colt places the blue tube on his back, next to a smaller white device. The dragon roars and rears back its head, it is stopped by a loud regal voice yelling to it. 'HALT CREATURE! I SHALL NOT LET YOU HARM MY SUBJECTS!” The voice says. A white blur lands before the dragon. And the girls can see a large white alicorn multi-hued mane waving in the breeze. In response the dragon roars a jet of flame engulfing the alicorn, sending wisps of back smoke into the air. Twilight yells out in concern. “PRINCESS!” The colt growls and yells at the dragon. “You just made a bad mistake lizard!” The colt pulls out the second smaller device and aims below the dragon. He fires and a swirling oval of orange energy forms below the beast, easily big enough to hold the dragon. The lizard looks down in confusion then towards the colt. The colt smiles pointing the device at the shadow of the moon in the sky. “Hope you like the view from the moon punk!” The colt fires and second later the orange portal flashes and the dragon is sucked violently through the portal, the air nearby begins to roar towards the portal but the colt presses a button on his device and the portal fades. The colt replaces the white device on his back and leaps from the rooftop landing near the smoking spot where the princess once stood. The colt turns towards the girls and gestures towards the rising smoke. “Sorry about your princess, wish I could have saved her, but at least that dragon's gone.” “There is no need to worry about me I am unharmed.” Says the regal voice. Out from the smoke, completely unharmed walks the princess. “Princess! I thought you died!” Twilight says running to embrace her friend. “Fear not Twilight it would take more than dragon fire to hurt me.” The princess replies. The princess then turns towards the black colt. “Thank you for saving my subjects.” The colt bows. “It was no problem, to be honest I wasn't going to interfere until that rainbow thing didn't work on that lizard.” “Well I'm glad you did help else my subjects would be nothing more then ash. How did you get rid of that dragon, and did it really go to the moon?” The colt smiles and pulls out the small white device, patting it affectionately. “Portal gun. And yes, that dragon won't be coming back from the moon anytime soon.” Pinkie pie bounces towards the Colt talking a mile an hour. “OH! That's neato! I like your neat gun! Can I try it?! HUH HUH HUH?!” The colt chuckles. “Sorry, but this portal gun takes responsibility. So no you can't try it.” “Who are you? And where did you come from! ARE YOU A SPY?!” Rainbow dash asks, flying up in the colts face. “Rainbow I'm sure he ain't ah spy, he dd save us after all.” AJ replies. Rainbow deflates then backs off slightly. “Hehe oh yeah. Sorry about that. But still where dd you come from?” The Princess speaks up. “Indeed, I can tell you are not one of my subjects.” “To be honest, I'm not even from this WORLD. I was making another portal gun when something went wrong. The portal destabilized and sent me here. It also turned me into this well.... this.” The colt's metal arm gestures at his body. “What do you mean it changed you?” Twilight asks. “Well for one thing I know for a fact I was not a horse before I got sucked into that portal.” The colt replies. “We're ponies darling, not horses.” Says Rarity. “Do you have a name?” “OF course I do! My names Nexus, inventor extraordinaire. Who are you all?” Nexus asks. The group introduces themselves, Rainbow having to introduce Fluttershy due to her shyness. The princess speaks. “So you're telling me you invented those items on your back, as well as that strange leg and eye?” Nexus nods. “Yeah, I had to make myself a new leg and eye when I was younger due to an accident involving one of my inventions exploding on me.” The ponies wince. “That sound horribly painful.” Rarity says. “It was, but I've gotten used to my robotic arm and eye, I don't even notice the difference anymore. Say I've got a question. You wouldn't mind if I stayed in town would you? I kinda don't have anywhere else to go, and I have NO idea how to get back home.” Nexus says. The princess smiles softly. “You saved this town from a horrible fate, I'm certain you will be right at home here.” “Thanks.” Pinkie pushes her face against Nexus'. “So you're staying here?!” She says with a smile. “Yeah......” Nexus replies moving his head away from the pink invasion of his personal space. “YAY!” Pinkie exclaims before dashing off in a blur of pink. “well that was... odd. Where is she off to?” Nexus asks. AJ chuckles. “Knowin' her, she's gonna make ah party fer yah.” “Well I do like parties. And it'll give me a chance to get to know more of the townsfolk, maybe even advertise my inventing skills while I'm at it.” “i can see you'll do just fine here, I'll be returning to Canterlot now.” With that the Princess vanishes in a flash of magic. “How the hell did she do that?! Some kind of personal teleporter?” Nexus asks. “No she teleported her self with magic.” Twilight replies. “Magic exists here? Where I'm from Magic doesn't exist!” Nexus replies. Twilight looks at him incredulously. “Then how does your world work, who moves the sun and moon who takes care of the animals and plants.” “For the most part, no one does those things. Nature handles it all. As for our daily lives we use machines like my arm to accomplish goals without magic.” Nexus replies. “That that's almost unbelievable if I didn't see it for myself. How does that Portal gun work?” Twilight asks her curiosity taking over. “YEAH! I want see it in action again!” Exclaims Rainbow “All right.” Nexus replies as he pulls out the portal gun. “Basically it works by making a stale 'window' between two fixed points that can be changed at a moments notice. A person, err pony can use these 'windows' to travel between long distances in an instant.” “Can you show us?” AJ asks. “Sure.” Nexus replies. He aims the portal gun at a nearby building and fires, a swirling oval of blue forming. “The portal's not open yet, so I'm gonna give you an option, name a point I can see and I'll shoot a portal at it, and you can test it out for yourself.” Nexus says. Rainbow speaks first, pointing at the outline of a mountain in the distance. “There, that mountain is several miles away, it'd take even ME a few minutes to get to it.” Nexus nods and aims the white gun at the mountain, and after several seconds of slight adjustments, fires. A second later the blue portal opens, showing the view from the side of the mountain. “There yah go, go ahead through it won't bite.” Nexus says. Rainbow nods and flaps towards the portal, tentatively she puts her hoof through. Then she nods and flies through to the sound of a 'voop'. The girls gasp as they spy Rainbow on the other side flying around by the mountain. After a few seconds Rainbow returns smiling. “That is AWESOME!” Rainbow exclaims. Nexus chuckles and presses a button on the gun, the portals fading. He then replaces the gun on his back. “Now I think that's enough sowing off, don't we have a party to go to?” Nexus says. “Yes we do!” AJ says. “Before we go, I hope you don't mind me asking. But would one of you mind if I set up a workshop somewhere temporarily, at least until I make enough money to buy a place of my own?” Nexus asks. “Shoot ah reckon yah could set up shop on tha farm.” AJ replies. “Yah could use part of tha barn.” “Thanks AJ, I'd be more than happy to pay you a portion of what I earn in repayment for your kindness.” “Shoot yah don't have tah pay me none.” AJ replies. “I insist, it's the least I could do for you being so kind to let me use your barn.” Nexus says. “Well, if you insist all right then.” “Enough chatter lets get to that party!” Rainbow says. The group nods and walk towards Sugarcube Corner. (AN: Sorry for the short chapter, and not including the party, I'm not great at Pinkie parties, however I promise you'll get one later. Hope you enjoyed this chapter.)