Walker had a tough call to make. To his understanding he could get a nether star from two places. One way took him to the Nether were he had to find three wither skulls and summon a Wrath and fight it. The other took him back to 'The End' were he had to scale a one of the obsidian towers to get a star from one of the beacons but risk being attacked by the ender dragon. Both paths seemed to be a bad idea but what choice did he have. It mean't he could escape this world and live his life and find its meaning. Walker leaned on the stone wall in the portal chamber room, his arms crossed as he tried to come up with a game plan.
3 hours later
The portal room was silent. Walker was napping against one of the walls while Charley was watching the stone furnace smelt some iron from their journey for diamonds. The portal was transmitting some conversations from the strange world but they were merely whispers. Although both mobs were underground Charley had a feeling that the sun was setting. If Walker was going through the portal he need to get going. Charley moved over to Walker and tapped him with his head.
"You decided yet?" Charley asked.
Walker stirred and opened his eyes and stretched his long arms causing them to brush the ceiling. "Well it depends"
"What do you mean?" Charley asked, looking back at the burning furnace.
"I have been looking into my physic ability's in my dreams and experimenting" Walker groaned, slowly waking up.
"And?"
"Well so far I can throw objects, blink, and use telekinesis"
"Yes and?" Charley pushed, getting rather curios.
"Well do you know what plasma is?" Walker said, flexing his fingers causing them to make a click noise.
"No" Charley said tilting his head.
"Its one of he four fundamental states of matter, the others being solids liquids and gas" Walker explained.
"Right and?"
"Well I found out that my telekinesis works through a form of magnetism . That means I can control the electronic particles around a object so my hand works like a magnet, I can control the flow of electrons around a object so I can pick up throw it"
"Get to the good part" Charley insisted.
"Well what if I can amplify the affect and materialize the particles into a static charge, into electricity. Lightning and the likes, hence plasma"
"How do you know all of this?" Charley asked.
This caught Walker. How did he know all this, it just flowed in his mind as if he knew it already. Were did he learn it from?
"SO can you use it?"
"Lets find out" Walker declared, pulling some iron out of the furnace and walking over to the crafting bench.
"What are you doing?" Charley asked.
"Making two swords and some gauntlets for my hands"
"Your fighting the wrath?" Charley asked again.
"Nope" Walker replied picking up two finely crafted swords and fixing the iron gauntlets on his four hands "I'm going home for a visit" Walker grinned.
XXX
Walker emerged from one of the obsidian puddles and looked around just as bleak and empty as I left it. Walker shook of the sludge like obsidian and made sure he had his swords and the gauntlets were secure before setting off for the nearest tower with only the sounds of the surrounding endermen for company. Walker looked up at the black tower that gave off a purple like hue and braced himself for the clime ahead.
Using his new powers Walker griped the wall with ease and started to scale it. Taking huge strides thanks to his huge arms and legs he could clime the tower in several moves before his hand caught the towers top ledge and pulled himself up. Walker looked over the edge and immediately regretted it. He was high up, really high up. Walker quickly pulled back and sat down to stop his head from spinning. Walker knew the towers were high but his new height made it all the more terrifying. After his breathing had returned to normal Walker returned to the matter at hand.
On top of the tower was the beacon that energies the dragon that protected the island. Walker flexed his hands for some reason and swore that he was sweating. Taking one last look at his home Walker approached the beacon and gripped the star. A painful sensation shot through Walkers arm as a unnatural energy burned his hand. His arm screamed for him to let go but Walker refused that luxury. He need this star to escape this world and start a new life. Through shear willpower alone Walker slowly pulled the star from its alter.
As soon a the star left the alter a wave of energy exploded throwing Walker off his feet and causing his head to smack against the hard obsidian floor. The world around him spun and spun and a huge headache rang through his head. Walker held his head, trying to regain some feeling of sense. Walker rose to his full height and looked at the alter. Finding that it was no longer there Walker panicked and looked around frantically for the star. After a few moment Walker looked at his right hand and saw the nether star, Walker let out a breath he didn't know he was holding in and firmly griped the star and walked over to the edge of the tower before a shadow covered his own.
Feeling a presence behind him Walker slowly turned around to come face to face with a huge pair of purple eyes. The ender dragon was looking Walker dead in the eye, its wings were perched on the towers sides and its tail was hanging lazily off the edge. The protector of the 'The End' and all Walker could do was stare.
"PUT-IT-BACK" the dragon growled, slamming its tail against the tower making it shake. Walkers legs were shaking but he stood his ground, he had come this far and wasn't going to back out now.
Walker shook his head but his gaze never left the dragons " I'm *gulp* sorry but I....can't". This didn't sit well with the dragon as it slammed its tail against the tower again, smoke bellowed from its nostrils.
"YOU SPEAK LIKE A HUMAN AS WELL AS ACT LIKE ONE AND AS SO YOU SHALL BE TREATED LIKE ONE" with that the dragon took in a huge breath.
XXX
Walker slid over the tower ledge as a raging purple fire ball shot over head. Using his new gauntlets Walker wall grinned against the tower to slow his decent. Walker could of just blinked down but he need some form of concentration but he couldn't, his mind was muddled and unclear. Walker was shaking frantically but he did not know why but he also felt a spark of energy it felt good what ever it was. Once he had reached the bottom of the tower Walker had only a moment to catch his breath before a wail could be heard from all directions. Looking around Walkers eyes shrank at the sight of every enderman staring and wailing.
Walker looked around frantically for one of the pools of obsidian so he could get back to the 'Over world'. After spotting one Walker sprinted to it with impressive speed, his long legs carrying him along huge distances. Walker was close to the pool but suddenly felt a sharp pain around his chest and was hosted up into the sky. The burning pain in his chest caused Walker to almost cry in agony as he looked up and saw the ender dragons talons grip firmly and painfully around his torso.
The dragon surged forward with Walker flying faster and faster, taking sharp turns that caused its talons to dig deeper into Walkers chest. Flying by one of the towers the dragon slammed Walker against it and pulled him across its wall. Walker this time cried in agony, combining the talons that dung into his chest and the grinding of obsidian was beyond agony.
After the dragon pulled away from the tower Walker pulled out one of his swords and stabbed the dragon in the leg drawing blood. The dragon seemed unphased by the attack and simply flew to a beacon which healed the scar. Walker tried again but his stab was shallow causing it to scrap the dragons scales and fall out of his hand. The dragon slammed walker into another tower and dragged him across it again. Walker resisted by extending his two other hands and pushed against the tower. The gauntlets sparked and grew hot and they scraped against the obsidian and his pumpkin helmet cracked against the onslaught.
The dragon pulled away and began the sharp turns again. Walker was getting weaker by the second and decided it it was all or nothing. Focusing his magnetic power in his right hand he rubbed the partials of air together. Sparks soon jumped around his hand and into a sphere like shape, the sparks grew more intense until he had a ball of lightning. With what little strength he had left Walker slammed the ball into the dragons chest.
The dragon roared in pain as the electricity surged through its system. Soon the dragon was losing altitude, the dragon tried to flap its wings but the electricity coursing through its body had caused its wings to contract. Consequently the dragons talons had dug deeper into Walkers body but Walker refused to give up the attack. Sparking up his left hand Walker grabbed the dragons leg and stimulated the dragons talons to let go. Walker dropped to the floor in a painful roll as the dragon slammed into the ground, its monument dragged it across the floor. Walker grasped his wounds to stop them from bleeding heavily as he slowly and clumsily got to his feet. The dragon roared with rage and got up and wiped round to face Walker and took a deep breath.
Walker rushed to a tower and took cover as fire erupted beside him as the fire hit the tower. Walker peaked from the tower to see the dragon thundering its way towards him. Spotting a pool ahead of him Walker made a mad dash for the pool. Thankfully Walkers long legs barely kept him ahead of the dragon as he scooped up a few buckets of the goop before jumping in.
Walker blinked into the 'Overworld' and saw that it was nearing dawn time doesn't exists in 'The End' thankfully. Walkers moment of rest however was brought to a halt and an arrow shot dangerously past Walkers head. Endermen passively dodge all projectiles but Walker was too weak and dove to dodge another arrow. Turning around Walker saw spiders, skeletons, zombies and creepers coming towards him. One skeleton fired another arrow at Walker who had another close call dodging it. Gripping his wounds Walker ran for the fortress avoiding arrows, zombie arms and creepers along the way. Walker slapped his entire hand into a skeleton shattering it into pieces thanks to his strength and managing to chain lightning a few zombies as well. Steering clear of the creepers Walker found the fortress and made his way down. Tripping down the stairs Walker crawled to the portal room and sealed it off.
Walker slummed against the wall breathing heavily and shaking violently as he wrapped up his wounds in some cloth from one of the fortresses banners. Walker knew once he had taken the star that the world would reject him like Steve and Walker believed he would be ready for it but now that he was safe all that had happen hit Walker like a train. The stares of his once former brothers and sisters, the dragon who had protected them tried to kill him, the mobs had saw him as a thing that need to be killed. Every mob was probably against him and that's when Walker opened his eyes and realized Charley was still in the room.
Walker looked at the creeper. He was in a sealed off room with the most dangerous mob in the 'Overworld'. Walker had come so close but realized that Charley was probably like the other mobs. So Walker closed his eyes and awaited his fate.
...
Nothing happened Walker opened his eyes and looked at Charley. Charley looked back, tilting his head sightly.
"Did you get it?" Charley asked.
"..."
"Hello...Overworld to Walker do you read me"
"H-how are you not like the others" Walker asked.
"Oh well when you took the star I got a massive head ache and it hurt. I mean really really hurt and I mean really really really REALLY hurt"
"That doesn't explain why" Walker deadpanned.
"Do you remember when I told you about why I didn't blow up Steve" Charley said a little too happily.
"You mean your head injury" Walker said, tapping his helmet.
"I think because of that it broke my desire to attack on sight instead I can do it with free will" Charley happily explained "but enough of that did you get it" Charley asked bouncing around Walker somehow making ping noise with every jump. Walker pulled out the star and got up from the floor. Still griping his wounds with his three other hands Walker put the last shape into the slot.
The portal glowed brightly as it opened out a bit revealing some sought of ring with an arrow on it. The ring moved to one shape. Once there the shape gave a small chime before the point moved to another symbol. Butterfly, apple, rainbow bolt, diamond, balloons and star was the order the ring pointed to before the portal closed up again.
"um...was that supposed to happen" Charley asked.
"I don-" Walker was interrupted by the symbol jutting out slightly. Walker examined the symbols and pushed the Butterfly one first. The symbol shone and made the shame chime. Walker then pressed the others in the order that was shown. The portal then erupted as the water like center shot out but then rested showing a much clearer version of the museum.
Walker laughed with relief as Charley looked mesmerized by the portal opening. Walker quickly grabbed his stuff and said his farewells to Charley.
"I will come back for you if you want" Walker said happily, giving Charley a hug.
"Sure just put in a good word for me before you do" Charley smiled.
Walker prepped himself to go through. Taking a deep breath Walker made his way to the gate.
"Oh one more thing" Charley called "while you were gone I made a pen pall so if you meet Pinkie tell her I said hi and 'I will be there soon' ok" Charley said happily. Walker wondered how Charley made a pen pall but decided against it Charley's being Charley was Walkers last thought as he stepped through the gate.
The sensation was strange as Walker stepped through he was violently pulled into what looked like a tunnel of energy. The feeling was strange to Walker, it felt like some sought of liquid surrounded his entire body and that he was just floating there..suspended in a strange yet happy aura but Walker could feel some change in his body.
Walker was then thrown again and emerged on the other side. Blinking a few times Walker looked around. The world was very strange, when Walker had a first look at the new world every thing was smooth and curvy and now that Walker was there it was even more fascinating. Curves, balls and shapes that Walker through was impossible were all a reality in front of him. Walker clenched his hands to contain his happiness and felt strange. His hands closed more easily here than when he was in his world. Looking at his hands Walker almost gasped. Taking off his gauntlets Walker saw that his hand was not rectangular any more but more complex.
His fingers were a lot more flexible now and oval shaped but pointed at the top not enough to be talons but claw like so he could do some major damage if he wanted to, along his arm were patches of hardened skin and muscle and on his elbow was a spike. A twitch feeling in his feet caused Walker to look down. Like his hands his legs were no longer rectangle but complex and smooth. Walker could see lumps of muscle in his thighs that in his world were non-visible. His feet were no longer stumps but they protruded out into a flat base with two talons spiking out, two at the front one at the back. Walker flexed his claws and to his surprise his toes before his wounds gave him a painful reminder.
Looking at his torso Walker saw a well toned chest with hardened skin covering his small but noticeable abbes. More hardened skin cropped around his torso but most were covered by Walker purple blood and cloth wraps.
A warm sensation bathed Walkers skin as he looked out a window to see the sunrise. Walker also found that he could smile more smoothly now taking off his pumpkin helmet walker ran his claws over his skull. His head was still square in shape but the edges and corners were smother. Bringing his claws to his mouth Walker felt his teeth had gone pointy and sharp and his tongue split slightly at the top and was longer that he realized drooping out to his chin. Pulling his tongue back into is mouth and putting his helmet back on Walker decided to wait for the little ones.
2 hours later
Walker was slumped against one of the walls and was resting from his life threatening fight to get here. A clop noise caused Walker to stir and get up. As the clop got louder it was clear from the sound that this pony was bigger than the ones he planed to meet up with. Panicking slightly Walker tried to find some were to hide.
The museum janitor had finished his rounds and decided it was time to open up the place. Passing through the Stargate room he looked around to see everything in tip top shape. Nodding satisfaction he walked out to open the doors. If the janitor had looked up he would have seen two purple slit eyes watching him. Walker had used his magnetism to clime the museum wall and propped himself on the ceiling using his long arms and legs and his new claws and talons made it much easier to hold on.
After the pony had left Walker decided to get down but non to gracefully landed on his feet only to fall on his behind. Rubbing his ass a bit Walker heard a group of small clops coming towards the room. Walker hid behind a sarcophagus just in case it wasn't the little ones. Sure enough Walker saw the three small buddies of joy that Walker had talked to.
"Do ya recon he's gonna be here" Applebloom asked the others.
"Its got to be here" Scootaloo said with confidence.
"Its a guy I think" said Sweetie bell.
"Do ya recon we'll get you cutie marks for this" Applebloom said eagerly.
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS ALIEN HELPERS" they said together, Walker chuckled at there antics.
"HELLO ALIEN DUDE YOU THERE" Scootaloo called.
"Maybe" Walker said from his hiding spot. Walker chuckled again when there eyes grew to diner plates.
"Can ya come out now" Apple bloom asked nicely.
"Ok but don't freak out" Walker asked.
"Ok" they said in perfect sync again.
Walker emerged from his hiding spot and rose to his full height. Walking over to them they really were small compared to him, Walker could pick one up in his hand. Walker looked at them and hey looked back.
"WOW your really tall" Appleboom said in amazement.
"Almost as cool as Rainbow dash" Scootaloo said half amazed and half impressed.
"Why are ya wearin a pumpkin on ya head" Applebloom asked.
"Its a long story but lets just say its impotent and must only come off is needed and if is dose do not look at me" Walker explained.
"Why are you ugly" Scootaloo joked.
"No but its dangerous for both you and me just....just trust me on that ok its very important to me" The crusaders nodded, Walker knelt down to talk to them better but winced in pain and remembered his wounds.
"Oh my gosh are you hurt" Sweetie bell said running her eyes over Walkers bad cloth bandages.
"I will be fine" Walker lied.
"Still we got to take you to Fluttershy she can help you" Sweetie said in a concerned tone.
"Alright but I don't want to draw attention to myself" Walker claimed.
"We could sneak out of a window or something" Scootaloo said to no one in particular.
Walker nodded and scooped up the three young filly's and opened one of the museum windows and climbed over. Once outside Walker breathed in the sight before him. There was a healthy bustling town to the side of him and to his front a lush green forest that took Walkers breath away.
"Are you ok" Sweetie asked, concerned again.
"Its...its just so different" Walker said in amazement "Its beautiful"
"Come on Fluttershy's house is in the forest" Applebloom said, pointing one of her legs at a forest path.
Walker nodded and lumbered over and onto the path. As Walker made his way down the path he was taking in the beautiful landscape and wildlife. The dirt path felt strange as Walkers new feet were more sensitive than before and he could feel the young ones on his palms. Birds and other wildlife populated the trees and bushes around him and meany of them looked and observed Walker as he observed them.
A sharp snap behind Walker caught his attention as he wiped round to see a wolf. This one however was larger than the ones back in his world and apparently made of some kind of wood. With Walkers height he stood an about 12 foot while the wolf stood at around 7. Still with the height difference Walker was wounded and the wolf was looking for easy pray. Walker put the filly's down.
"GET OUT OF HERE AND GET HELP" Walker commanded as the wolf lept at him. The three little one were hesitate at first but soon ran further up the path as the wolf pinned Walker to the ground. Walker grabbed the wolfs mouth and held it to stop it from biting him. The wolf thrashed its head around to get free of Walkers grip snapping at him in the process.
Walker extended his two arms and punched the wolf in the gut causing it to wince and Walker threw it off him and into a near by tree. Both of them got up, Walker began to charge up his right hand and used his left one to pick up some dirt. To Walkers surprise the dirt lifted the same and was shaped the same as in his world, the hole was square shaped too. The wolf pounded at Walker again but was hit by the dirt that Walker had thrown. Again to Walkers surprise it snapped into place like it would in his world. The wolf shook its head to regain its senses but Walker rushed forward and slammed his plasma ball into the wolfs head.
The ball discharged but appeared to do no damage what so ever Of course its made of wood. Walker then shot a bolt out and hit the wolf again. The wolf recoiled a bit as the bolt left a scorch mark. Walker then held his had up and began to charge up again while he tired out a new theory in his head. The wolf charged at Walker but was griped again by Walkers two other hands and was hit repeatedly in the head by his third. Doing a uppercut sent the wolf into a tree again. Walkers charged right arm was attracting some clouds. The wolf got up again and charged again but this time biting down on one of Walkers arms.
Another wound was added as Walker used his two free hands to grip the wolfs mouth and open it. A large cloud had formed over Walker and was now taking the charge Walker was pumping into it. With one swift push Walker threw the wolf into the path. Gathering the last of his strength Walker commanded the now dangerously black storm cloud to strike. A defining boom shook the forest and the town in the distance as a wicked bolts of three million volts struck the wolf causing it to be completely obliterated and a massive crack in the earth.
After such an attack Walker felt his consciousness fade. He could hear the voices of the little ones behind him as Walker fell back onto the dirt floor. As Walker faded into unconscious he could make out 4 figures looking at him and in the sky a blue one.
"Thanks girls" Walker croaked out before the world went black.
So much for a warm welcome