//------------------------------// // Chapter 13: Cut // Story: A Hidden Blade // by Hidden_Blade_Attack //------------------------------// "If you're going to shoot yourself, get it over with!" Kram commanded. I had been sitting there for a few seconds, yeah, I think that fast. "You know as well as I do, you need me to take over all universes!" I snapped back. "I don't need you Mark, or Blade, or whatever your name is!" He yelled back. "You don't have the guts!" I then pointed the gun at him. "Go ahead I don't-*" He stopped mid sentence and kicked me over my face. I dropped the gun and fell back. He continued walking at me. I put my hand to my face feeling that it was bleeding but then I noticed Kram and quickly picked my gun up and pointed it at myself again. He stopped his attack and smiled. "You are realy dumb Mark." He taunted. Don't do it! Hang in there, help is coming, trust me! I don't trust him so I put my finger on the trigger and went back to rethinking... I was sitting at the dining table with Dash and Twilight as Spike made breakfast. None of us spoke, we never even made eye contact since this morning. I was just looking at the table thinking. Me and Dash didn't do all that much, not as much as was thought. Twilight found out about it (probably from hearing something) and we haven't said a word making it a very awkward silence. I don't know what Dash was thinking, was she ashamed of herself? I knew Twilight didn't want anything to do with me and had complete suspicions that I was evil. I wanted to look at Dash's expression but didn't bother to. Spike came over with pancakes and we ate. Spike just looked at all of us. Spike didn't know about me and Dash. "We can't just sit here, we need to discuss what happened." Spike said. I was actually happy he said that, I wanted Twilight's help. "He's right, I would like to talk about that." I said looking up finally. Twilight looked at me and sighed, I noticed the burn mark, it wasn't too bad, she probably healed some of it,too. "Alright, I'd like to ask what are you actually doing and why are you here?" She said bitterly. I still didn't want to come clean. I don't think they could take it. "Okay, I am not evil, I'll tell you that for certain. I'm certainly not the creature on that book." I said, she was obviously not buying it. "Look, I'm real sorry for that outburst, I'v just been over stressed, I'm in a different dimension, risking my life to defend all worlds from Kram." I saw that she was thinking. "Alright, I'll give you another shot." She said. "Thanks, I wouldn't mind help in this mission." I could see that Spike was happy and Dash seemed relieved. "What have you done for the mission so far?" Spike asked. "Well, I got Dash looking for suspicious activity." I said. "Still nothing by the way." First thing Dash said all morning. "Okay, so we need to find him." Twilight concluded. "Find who?" Pinkie said coming out of nowhere. That scared me so much. I had no idea where she came from, I'm always on my guard but that was crazy! The others seemed less surprise than me. I guess she was expecting an answer to that question but I was still spooked by her sudden appearance. "uh, hi Pinkie. We're...uh... playing hide and seek and we need to find...him?" Twilight said. Luckily she knew not to spread the word. "Who though?" She asked again. "Oh, uh..." Twilight said thinking. "We're trying to find an evil guy named Kram!" spike said. I glared at him. "Oh, I know a Kram! I met him yesterday!" She exclaimed. I was shocked, Kram was here! Twilight and Dash also looked scared. "Where did you see him?" Me and Dash asked at the same time. "I saw him on the edge of town." She continued. "His full name is Kramton." That is even worse. Kramton is a robot Kram made, he sent it to kill me a long time ago but it got trapped, I guess its free. That''s a relief, Kram might not know where I am after all. "In fact, I brought Kramton with me to show you him!" she said as the robot walked in. It was disguised as a pony but still dangerous. It looked over at me and a blue light shawn over me. Its eyes turned red. It scanned me and now knows who I am! "That's not a pony its a killer robot!" I managed to yell before it began transforming. The five of us quickly backed away. "What can it do?!" Dash asked. "Well, its very powerful and runs on red matter. It was sent by Kram to hunt me." I stated. "Spike get out of here, guys I'll hold him back." Twilight said as Spike ran and she stepped in front of us. I was still scared, I had nothing to fight it with and it wasn't my regular body. It finished transforming and it was a humanoid creature that obviously looked very strong. Twilight shot a beam at it, it roared in revolt. Then it hurled a chair at her. She caught it in mid air with her magic and placed it down gently. He chucked another chair which she did the same. 'We got to do something!" Dash said. I was still taking in what had happened. He than went for the table and through it at us, Twilight blocked it with a force field. He quickly shot the force field with a bullet. "How do I beat it?" She asked quickly. "Uh...water!" I said quickly. Kramton caught her off guard and broke the force field and smacked her aside. She was out cold. "Hey! No one hurts my friends!" Dash said taking a battle stance. He than tried to catch her but she dodged, he tried again and same results. Than using his powerful technology, beat her and she was caught in his grasp. "Come on Blade! Help!" She cried before she was thrown to a book shelf. "I got this!" Pinkie said stepping up to the plate. She took out a party canon from nowhere and blasted him with it. It had no effect. He than picked her up and threw her. "Hey!" I yelled as I was up next. I was his true target. "You think you can just barge in and-*" He took me by the throat. I tried calling for help but no sound came out. I was being strangled. He aimed a shotgun at my head. Right before he shot Dash came and bucked his arm which made me fall lose. "Don't worry, I got you!" She said to me. I got my breath back. "Lets do this!" She said. It pulled its arm back and threw a punch at us. We managed to dodge and run into the kitchen. "Alright Dash, we got to destroy its system, like any living thing." I said picked up plates. We were ducked behind a counter, we could hear it fast approaching. Dash picked up a pot. we got up from our hiding spot and attacked. I was wiping the plated at him quickly which was making him stumble back. Dash was hurling pots and pans at him. Eventually we ran out of ammunition and he regained his footing. 'Now what?" Dash asked. "We, uh, run?" I suggested. "We can't leave Twilight and Pinkie!" The robot picked up the counter and flung it and us at the wall. My legs were crushed under some wood. Dash was in the sink. It continued on the offensive. It was almost at me. "Buck this!" I heard Dash say, I looked over and saw her buck the tap off the sink allowing water to fly out at Kramton. It began retreating and making weird noises. "Come on, we need more water!" I said. She continued bucking at it and I got out of the rubble and blasted at it with my horn. We were destroying the plumbing desperately. Then the whole plumbing burst and water gushed out on Kramton. We than cheered as Kramton fell over shocking. "Yeah, we did it. Nice thinking Dash!" I said. "Not bad yourself!" She said to me. Once again I fell under her spell and found myself staring into her eyes unable to move. "Blade?" "Yes?" I was answered by her pressing her lips against mine. "Hey guys look out!" I heard Pinkie call from the book case she was stuck in. We broke the kiss and looked over at the robot to see it getting up. "Oh no! We don't have anything to throw at it!" Dash exclaimed. I quickly looked around and saw the window in the kitchen to the back yard. "The window!' I ordered as we smashed through it. "That should give us some tim-*" Dash was interrupted when Kramton smashed through the wall. We scrambled to our feet and ran to the street. "We need to get to the well, there's lots of water there!" Dash said. "Alright lets do it." We started running with Kramton on our tails. I haven't really ran with four legs, so I wasn't to use to it, but ponies were faster than humans. Kramton was rather fast. "Just around this shop!" Dash said gesturing to a shop up ahead. I could tell she was slowing down for me and she could easily run double this. I knew there was no time to go around, Kramton was right behind me. "Around? We got to go through!" I said lowering my head as I picked up speed, Dash didn't question me and followed suit. I hit the window but my horn got stuck. Before I had enough time to budge it free Dash Smashed through leaving a big chunk of glass stuck on my horn. It made my head that much more heavier so it dropped and I spun around on the slippery floor. Dash stopped and looked back. I looked up at Kramton who was already right there. His hand turned into a giant saw and he crunched it down on my head. He missed, which is why I have a gun at my head. But he hit my horn, he chopped the tip right off. I don't think I have ever felt anything like it. There was extreme pain, there was the release of power, and the numbing sensation like someone cut off a limb, I couldn't feel it. It was like someone ripped out your spinal cord. I screamed in pain yelling a curse and a "MY HORN!" You know that release of power I was mentioning before? Well it came out life a blast and hit Kramton flying. "Blade!" I heard Dash yell and before I knew it I was being held by her. "Gah!" Is all I could manage to say as I fought to stay awake. "The well is just up ahead! And the robot is getting up; more angry than ever!" She told me. She was right, the robot got up and now was armed with a mini-gun. My eyes widened at the realization. "Run!" We got up and ran. Kramton was firing the mini-gun at us, ripping apart the walls around us. We jumped out the back door of the store as the whole place practically exploded. "Its right there!" She said. I could see her true injuries. She was all sweaty and her head was gashed and her body was thrashed and bruised. I'm guessing I had similar injuries, not to mention the powerful pain of my horn being chopped off. We scrambles to our hooves and ran to the well...neither of us actually had any idea what we'd do once we got there. We just looked at each other waiting for a suggestion. I heard Kramton emerge from the rubble, with the shot gun now. "Now what?!" Dash asked. "I, uh, run! Go get help, I'll keep him at bay!" I yelled. Kramton was almost here. "I'm not going anywhere! I'm loyalty and I will-*" "Enough of this, you will go now or we will be destroyed!" I barked. She was about to protest. I nudged her. "Blade, we can run!" She said, tears in her eyes. "Dash..." I said with sorrow as Kramton came right in front of us. He shot but just missed. "Go!" I said smacking her flanks as she finally took my order and left. I heard the pull back of the shot gun, he was ready to fire again. "Kram's orders have been changed since he's seen you last!" I yelled at the machine. "I will give my self over, if you promise to-*" I was interrupted by the shot of the shot gun. "I said you're orders are different, don't disobey Kram!" Than I noticed the gaping whole in my chest, my flesh was torn and blood seeped out like a river. Luckily my body has adapted to this kind of thing, so I didn't die. But he must have punctured a lung. "You're out of shots, go ahead reload, help will only come quicker!" I said. But he didn't reload, instead he took out a steel whip and slapped it down on me, sending pain through my body. I fell to the ground. Now he reloaded. "You stupid machine!" I needed to buy Dash some time. Than I remembered. I took out my hidden blade from its spot; tucked under my watch. I activated it and it flashed with red. I used whatever magic I had and levitated it. "You won't kill me Kramton!" I said sending the hidden blade into its chest area which made it begin to malfunction. But it still reloaded, and aimed the gun. It was sparking red matter out of it. It couldn't handle the power of the red matter which was making it slow down. It put its robotic hand on the trigger and prepared to fire...