//------------------------------// // Ch.6 The Week of a Lifetime. Day two // Story: Overkill: The Shifter // by Emerald Shield //------------------------------// That night. "damn" I grunted as I turned around in bed. I hadn't slept al night. I just had this annoying as hell fuzzy feeling in my chest and it won't go away. "Fuck it I can't sleep anyway" I said after I decided I wasn't going to fall asleep and thus, I was going to work. I jumped out of bed and walked around the house until I came to the door separating the living part of the house from the workshop. "C.R.O.W. ready project L.B. would you?" I asked seemingly to myself once I came into the workshop. But soon enough, "Certainly sir" a voice came from seemingly nowhere. Once the voice was done speaking the lights flickered on in the giant hall, around a quarter of the workshop was dedicated to storage of various projects, out of one of the huge doorless closets came a giant metal box carried by a crane hanging from the ceiling. The box was positioned in the middle of the remaining three quarters of the hall. "Project L.B. delivered and ready for progression sir" C.R.O.W. said. "Thanks C.R.O.W. and could you bring me two kilograms of element one-eighty-seven please, and while you're at it tell me how much we have left after that?" I asked. "Certainly sir, after this you will have exactly 398 kilo's left" "Thanks" I then proceeded to bury myself into my work until early morning. The following morning Dash was woken up by the sound of thunder ringing through the house, "what the? There isn't another storm planned until... one week from now" Dash said getting out of bed. "Morning Tank" she said when she walked past her pet tortoise. She continued walking until she found Rex lying in front of a massive steel door. When he noticed her he walked to her and nuzzled her in the neck. "What's up boy?" Dash asked. Before she could get a real answer the doors blasted open and I flew out. "Oh my gosh Overkill! Are you alright!?" She yelled. "I'm fine, never better. Literally" I said with the biggest grin Dash has ever seen (which is impressive because she knows Pinkie). "What were you doing in there?" She asked me. "Working" I replied cryptically. "On what?" "Sir Overkill is working on project L.B." Came the voice of C.R.O.W. from past the door. "Who was that?" Dash asked me. "That was C.R.O.W. it stands for Computer/Robotically Operated Workshop" I said. "Yes, sir Overkill made me in those three days he worked on the house" C.R.O.W. said. "And what might project L.B. be exactly?" Dash asked. "Project Lightning Bolt, is that tank that shoots lightning I told you guys about two days ago" I replied. "Wanna see?" "Sure, why not" Dash replied. We then walked in and I said, "Voilà" whilst pointing to a green vehicle, the tank had (of course) tank treads and a cylindrical turret on the top that ended in a golden sphere. "What does it do?" Dash asked me. "Why don't I show you?" I said guiding dash to a firing range. "Wait here" I said before running to the tank. I opened a hatch in the side and then proceeding to climb in. "C.R.O.W. execute systems check" I said whilst trying to get comfortable in the prototype tank. "All systems functional" C.R.O.W. Said from within the tank cockpit. "Good, power up tritanium generator" I said again. "Commencing activation of element one-eighty-seven generator" C.R.O.W. replied. His voice was followed by a steady hum emanating from the back of the vehicle. "Okay baby, steady steady" I said as I rode the tank to the firing range. When Dash noticed the tank actually moving her jaw fell to the ground, as she had low expectations. I positioned the proto-tank in front of a couple gryphon dolls. Once it was lined up properly. I took a deep breath and, "Reroute all power to the storm generators" I said. "Power has been rerouted to storm generators" C.R.O.W. said. When he was done talking an antennae slid out of the back of the tank and pointed straight up where it met a storm cloud hanging over the tank, when it hit stray bolts shot everywhere, one particularly big one strikes right on the antennae and the raw electrical energy was redirected to the internal storage. "Redirect lightning to tesla coil" I said. When I said that a blue glow traveled upwards from the base of the turret, when the entire turret was glowing I took a deep breath, opened the hatch and yelled, "Take cover!" Dash didn't need more warning and ducked behind the chest high wall around the firing range. "FIRE!!!" I yelled after I closed the hatch again, the sphere on the end of the turret started glowing blue as well. A second or so later three separate bolts shot out making a thunder sound and hit the gryphon dolls instantly making them explode. "The test was a complete success sir" C.R.O.W. said. I opened the hatch, walked out and looked at the dolls (or what was left of them). "I can't believe it worked" I said with a dumbfounded expression "Overkill? Are you alright?" Dash said walking to my side. "It actually works" I said again, a second or so later the same huge grin from before came to my face. "IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!!" I yelled as I hugged the life out of Dash causing her to blush like all hell. "Eh, easy there pall" Dash said patting me on the back, when I let her go she looked at me with a look in her eyes that just screamed 'I need something'. "You're thirsty again I presume?" I asked her. "Not only that but I need you to pick up Scootaloo from school" she said simply. "Why?" "She was going to stay at my place for the weekend but since I'm now practically living here she'll have to come here" "Okay, what does she look like?" "She's about a head shorter than me, has an orange coat and a purple mane and tail" "Any cutie mark to speak of?" "No" Dash answered simply, "oh and she might bring two more filly's from school, both have no mark either" "You got it" I replied and after that our morning routine of Dash sucking my blood started once again. 11.45 in the morning "Sir if you are going to pick up this Scootaloo from school you'll have to get going" C.R.O.W. warned me. "Why?" I asked getting away from under the lightning-tank as I was trying to make it more safe to stand near it. "Don't you remember sir? On Fridays school is out at twelve pm" "And how late is it now?" "11.45 sir" "Oh shit I have to get going! C.R.O.W. open take-of hatch!" I yelled "Already done sir" "Thanks see you later. Bye dash!" I yelled in a perfect copy of the RCV (royal Canterlot voice). Before blasting out of a circular hole in the ceiling whilst a black and red trail followed me. "Ah there it is" I sighed after spotting the school on the horizon. I landed with a loud thump that threw dirt up in the air. "Show off" some Pegasus said. "Screw you" I said back, the Pegasus in question flinched at my harsh language. A couple minutes later the school bell rang and a horde fillies and colts bursted out of the door. After about a Minute of looking I found Scootaloo talking to a yellow and red earth pony filly and a white and pink/purple unicorn filly. "Who are you?" The unicorn asked in an annoying as hell squeaky voice. "I am Overkill, I was sent bye Dash to pick up Scootaloo" I said simply. "You were sent by Rainbow Dash?" The Pegasus I thought was Scootaloo asked. I nodded. "Why?" The earth pony asked. "Dash is staying at my place for the week so Scootaloo has to come to my place as well" I explained. "Okay, Sweetie, AB, you guys coming?" Scootaloo asked the others. "Okay" the two said in unison. "Alrighty then hop on" I said. They obliged and jumped on my back. "Hold on" I said. "Why?" Applebloom asked. I just shifted into the apex colossus, the filly's understandably screamed, but didn't jump off. "What are you!?" Sweetie asked. "I'm a mutant now happy, just hold on" I said in an annoyed tone. "This is so awesome!" Scootaloo said. After that the three fillies each took a hold of one of the spikes on my back. "Ready?" I asked. "Yes!" The three said in perfect unison. I nodded before running of in high speed. The fillies (of course) yelled there ass of. After about a minute of running we stood before my house. "Okay, hop of" I said, they hopped of. "That was so awesome!!!" Scootaloo said. "hey Scoots" Dash said walking out of the house. "He didn't scare you did he?" "No he just became this... thing and gave us a lift" Sweetie explained. "Okay that's good, he does that sometimes" Dash said. "Come on let's go inside" I said after turning back to normal. "Yeah, let's go" Dash agreed. After that we all walked inside. "Remember me to make C.R.O.W. increase safety measures when they're here" I asked. "Sure" Dash chuckled at my crude but all too true humor. When we were inside I excused myself and walked back to the workshop but right before I could enter a triple colored blur flew by me and went into the workshop yelling. "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS TECHNICIANS! YAY!!!" After that Dash walked to my side. "You told them didn't you" I asked Dash without looking at her. "What can I say, they are very persuasive" Dash replied. "Screw you" I joked before walking into the workshop. What I saw inside broke my nonexistent heart. The fillies were jumping all over the place playing with my tools and machines. "Oh no it's a nightmare! C.R.O.W. lock those three in a anti-grav field and bring them here!" I commanded. "Certainly sir!" C.R.O.W. replied. No sooner did he say that and the fillies were picked up in a blue glow and floated over to me. "What in tarenation!?" Applebloom said. The other two soon followed and were already busily yelling. "SILENCE!!!" I yelled in my own version of the RCV. "From now on you three are not allowed in my workshop! Got that!?" "Okay mister Overkill, we're sorry" the three excused themselves. "You better be" I said bitterly. "C.R.O.W. lead these three to their rooms" I continued "Certainly sir" C.R.O.W. said as a blue hologram of an earth pony appeared. "Follow me" the hologram said. The CMC obliged and followed the holo-pony. "Don't you think you were a bit to harsh just now?" Dash asked after following me back into my workshop where I continued working on the lightning-tank. "No" I answered simply. "Okay then. Don't you have to train?" I just looked at her with a funny face showing that my right eye is red again. "The running of the leaves is Monday and that's three days from now. Why is your right eye red again?" "The chaos magic has a way of showing that the host is happy, the happier I am the brighter the color pallet of my eyes, the more bad and cruel my thoughts, the darker the colors. Got that?" I explained. "Yeah sure, so what were your original colors?" Dash asked. "My original colors were blue eyes, snow-white mane and tail and an emerald coat, my colors stayed that way for a short while after I discovered my abilities, but when everybody started calling me a monster my colors darkened" I explained. "Everypony" Dash said. "No everybody, I didn't only travel all across Equestria but the planet of Equis as a hole" I explained before sliding back under the tank continuing my work. "Need help?" Dash asked. "Sure, come here so I can give the knowledge you'll need to help me" I said beckoning Dash over to me. Dash walked to me with a slight blush. "Okay, hold still" I said as extended my right hoof to her forehead" "Will it hurt?" Dash asked with a slightly fearful expression. "If it does I'll take the pain away" I reassured her, she nodded. Once my hoof met her forehead it started glowing blue, Dash was heavily blushing all the while. A minute or so after I pulled my hoof back she started grunting in pain as her wings were enveloped in a white glow, when her wings were completely covered the glow extended to the rest of her body, the glow brightened to the point where I had to close my eyes. A couple minutes later the glow lessened to the point where I could open my eyes, when I did I saw the most beautiful thing I ever did see. The chaos magic I used to give her the knowledge had the side effect of making her a full vampony. Dash stood in front of me, and holy hell did she look amazing, her wings were now bat wings and had increased in size, but not overly so, her muscles had bulged out a bit, but once again, not overly so, her fangs were more obvious, her eyes were now slitted like mine and her mane and tail were a tint or two darker, if I had to use one word to describe how she looked, there is no such word. "Beautiful" I said with a dumbfounded expression. "Overkill, what's up? Why are you staring?" Dash tried to ask, but her question fell on deaf ears as I finally found out what that fuzzy feeling was... love. "Oh, s-sorry. Come with me you gotta see this" I said as I led Dash to a shiny/reflective piece of scrap metal. "Oh my gosh!" Dash said once she saw her own reflection. "I know, amazing" I said still slightly in trance from the now even more beautiful mare before me. "Amazing!?" She said blushing heavily, although when she said that there was a hint of pure happiness in it, "weird you mean!" She continued. "Can you reverse it?" "I can try" I said with a little sadness. I then placed a hoof on her forehead. After a couple minutes I gave up. "Sorry, I can't" I said with a little sadness. "Ugh, well shit" Dash said chuckling sadly. "Well that's something we can agree on, I can give you the ability to put up an illusion with a special pendant?" "Yeah, you do that" "On it!" I said before running of. A half hour later "Okay I had C.R.O.W. reprogram this piece of tritanium so that it'll hold up an illusion of the original you, it's also enchanted with an infinity matrix" I said once I came back to Dash. "So that it'll hold up the illusion indefinitely" Dash clarified. "I see the knowledge is paying off. Oh and, one more thing, whilst wearing this pendant the shifting powers will be suppressed as well as your newly acquired knowledge on engineering" I explained. "Okay, so what does that mean?" Dash asked me. "It means that as long as you're wearing this you'll need to take it off to really work and/or fight with me" I explained. "Okay I can live with that" Dash said. "Okay hold still" I said as I held the pendant in my hoofs, the necklace itself was actually nice looking, the chain was a nice silver/blue color, and the tritanium pendant was and shone in a beautiful shade of cobalt blue. I surprisingly gently lowered it over her head. Once in place the pendant glowed a bright white and within seconds Dash looked like her old self again. "Ah, much better" Dash said with a slight smile. "Do I still have to suck blood?" "Yes" I answered. She looked a little downcast at that. "Don't worry, I still don't mind it" I reassured her with a slight blush. "Okay" after that we just stared. "Come on let's go get the girls" Dash said breaking the silence. "Y-yeah" I said blushing heavily. After that we walked out of the workshop to the room of the Scootaloo where the CMC's were staying. When we got there we saw the three of them sitting on their bed. "Girls, come here for a sec" Dash said to them. The three of them walked wordlessly to her. "I want you to say your sorry to Overkill, okay?" "We're sorry" they said in perfect unison. "Apology accepted" I said. "Now let's go have some fun" Dash said. "Fun!?" I tried to say before the fillies started clinging to me and Dash. "YAY!!!" They yelled. "Let me go!" I yelled, they jump of me but then started clinging to Dash who was glaring daggers at me, I just smirked back. After that followed an entire afternoon full of pranks and fun, supposedly. At around five pm Sweetie and AB left to go home, after that diner and Scoots went to bed at nine. "Finally she's sleeping" I said as I closed the door to Scootaloo's room. "Yeah" Dash said standing next to me. "So what now?" Dash continued. "How about... I teach you about some of the forms you can shift into and what they do?" I asked. "That sounds awesome!" She replied. I signaled her to follow me to the workshop. "C.R.O.W. open takeoff hatch" I said once we came into the workshop. "Of course" C.R.O.W. said before a hole opened up in the ceiling. "Follow me" I said before I took of through the hatch. Dash followed soon after. "Now you already know about the colossus and the stalker right" she nodded. "Okay a more basic one is the bullfrog" I said before I shifted into a frog like thing. "Eew" Dash said with a disgusted expression. "I know right, now the bullfrog can spit corrosive acid so I can't demonstrate it on the roof" I said turning back to normal. The rest of the night was spent showing many more forms (which you guys won't see till a later chapter) and just increasing the quality of our bond. We went to bad late in the night, and since Scoots was sleeping in Dash' room she slept in my bed, next to me.