"Good to see you again Twilight... and... is that....?" Captain America began to say or rather, tried to say something... except he was merely lost for words at the new (and rather, pretty flamboyant) building within the outskirts of Ponyville that looked JUST A LITTLE out of place for some "rural" and "backwater" community.
"The new home of Princess Twilight Sparkle!" Spike announced proudly to Cap who was busy looking at the thing. Probably behind the Heli-carrier... this would be the second most AWESOME thing he'd seen in quite the while... though he had to admit it. It did look a BIT overdone. Crystals?! Really?! Maybe you should move up north if you really want to look like you fit in place.
Of course... he was a soldier, not a fashion commenter. Besides, that was the job of one of the local resident's anyways. Looking at everyone else... Bucky was still having a hard time comprehending everything that was going on, not big surprise there. Medic was just being Medic... fairly uninterested in the building or the glamor of it, rather, at the material. Slade of course... didn't give a damn. Erica was drooling... and Trude was somewhere along the lines of Bucky's reaction.
"This is awesome!" Erica commented, practically jumping up and done. Jeez... this kid.
"Calm down kid." Slade cut in curtly. He considered using some of the sleeping gas on this one...
"You wouldn't want her to." Trude whispered. After all, this man wouldn't have a clue to how hard it was to drag Erica out of bed early in the morning. Her attention diverted for a moment back to the... how was she going to describe this? Tower of crystal... that was just in front of them. If she was going to be perfectly honest with herself... than this thing was actually pretty darn amazing... and here Trude was... believing that Sanya had somehow made all of what she said up!
And... there was Erica's voice in the back of her head...
"Okay. So good news or bad news everyone?" Twilight asked as she faced the six humans standing in front of her.
"Give us the good news Sparkler." Slade grinned, his smile spreading wider with Twilight's clear sign of irritation.
"Okay... good news it is then." Twilight said with an indignant huff. "You guys can stay here... there's enough space."
"That's nice..." Erica said as her eyes lit up with a smile. "But... what's the bad news?"
"You have to share the basement... all of you."
Ummmmmmmmmm.................
"On the bright side again though, the basement is actually pretty big. I do store a lot of old books down there though." Twilight continued. By "old books" she meant the ones that didn't go up in flames with that whole Tirek thing. Which in turn meant that basement would be quite spacy which was good when you have to accommodate about six different people. Of course... there weren't exactly no concerns on the whole matter despite the apparent space.
He would keep it between himself and Steve... but sharing a room with a crazy german doctor... and two girls in SS uniforms wasn't going to sit well with him. Though Steve would have similar qualms to the whole "SS getups" thing he kept it to himself. Since Nazi Germany didn't exist, he probably wouldn't have any problems with them... probably... though Bucky... taking one look at the way Bucky cringed and then took a tentative glance at both Erica and Trude probably showed exactly how he was thinking about this whole thing. Slade? Slade didn't give a damn if the way he reacted gave any indication. Neither did Erica or Medic for that matter. Though... Trude clearly had a problem... no one would be able to tell what it was. For now.
"Well... I guess since that's all said and done, if you have belongings... put them downstairs. Just... try not to blow the place up... okay Medic?"
"Ja...ja..." Medic said. After explaining his story to Twilight... let's just say the lavender alicorn was a bit more hesitant on renting out a room to this clown. Opening the door, the doctor was the first man down.. and somehow producing all of his belongings from his pockets, which included four various medi-guns, a jar containing a bread monster, at least a dozen various types of saws and syringe guns, a crossbow, and some other things. The doctor was good.
How he managed to store these things in his POCKETS was a mystery to just about anyone. Of course... wait till anyone listened to how Heavy carried a minigun in HIS pockets.
"Bed's too soft." Slade grumbled as he placed his mask down on one of them. "A bit too small too."
"Well... they're like four feet tall tops." Bucky said as he watched Erica practically jump on one of them as though it was a swimming pool full of greenbacks. When four of the six people here were over six feet tall... it was going to be a problem for them. For the two people not over this height... lucky dogs...
"I like this!" Erica said, being the only one who's bed was actually larger than her. "It's perfect!"
"That's cause you're like five feet." Steve grumbled as he felt his bed. "Damn... feels like sleeping on water."
"Too soft." Bucky agreed. "Too small too..."
"That's the price for being over 6 feet." Slade joked mirthlessly.
"How are you so tall anyways?" Erica asked as she sized herself up with Slade. Standing at roughly five feet opposing to the assassin who was well about 6' 5''. It was like a bear comparing itself to a squirrel.
"He's American." Bucky answered as he sized himself up with the mercenary who stood a good inch over him.
"Indeed I am." Slade grinned. "I believe that's Liberian if we were from where you came from."
"LIBERION." Erica corrected. "Though how does a relic like yourself still manage to fight?"
"Because I am a war experiment of the Korean war... which you have no idea what that it is but that's okay. Being a war experiment... I get things like enhanced strength... enhanced senses... enhanced everything as well as an extended lifespan. The same goes for those two over there." Slade gestured towards Bucky and Cap. "Those two? They're about a hundred. Still got to turn 81."
"So... your country ran out of boys to fight with?" Erica teased, rather blissfully oblivious to Bucky's hidden desire of wanting to strangle her. "Besides... old men can't fight now can they?"
"I can kick your ass any day of the week with both hands tied behind my back." Bucky spat out. "Want to see?"
"Easy there tiger..." Erica chuckled. "Just a joke... no need to get upset."
Something tells me he's not upset about the joke.. Barkhorn thought as she saw Bucky "calm down". It did unease her however... that one... Bucky...
She never met a man stronger than a witch. And not just any witch... HER! Her power allowed her to boost her strength and endurance beyond the capabilities of any regular witch.... and yet... he was stronger. Maybe in just one arm... and even then... without enhancing or amplifying her strength with the use of a Striker unit... she wasn't exactly fighting at her full potential. Regardless, it was impressive how an "ordinary" man was stronger than a witch.
It would take time to realize he was far from ordinary. Though what she realized immediately was that the other two, Steve and Slade were both just like one another. "Super soldiers" they referred to themselves. Being able to bend steel with bare hands, take bullets or knives straight to the chest and walk out alright, and support a few tons with their bodies.
Heh... what the militaries of their world would have given for men like them. She took a look at Medic who was busy fiddling with some foreign device. Best doctor he ever met, Steve had described him. Though with quite a few screws loose. She looked back at Bucky and Slade who were placing several boxes upon a table he propped up.
"Customized eh?" Slade looked with approval as he looked at the sniper rifle. "Looks neat."
"It is. Magnetic mines, regular proximity mines, assault rifles, SMGS, LMGS, you name it. Quite the armory you got."
"Same for you pal." Slade continued as he looked at Bucky's grenade launcher. "Why carry all this with you huh? Planning on starting another world war?"
"Funny... I can describe you the same way. One assassin to another?"
"One assassin to another." Slade said pouring himself and Bucky a small glass of hard liquor. He always kept a canteen in case he needed a drink.
"Cheers." Slade said. "You want some Steve?"
"Sure."
"Death to HYDRA." Bucky said as a memory began to pop up in his mind. The one who had done this to him... Baron... Baron... wolf... Baron... wolf... what was his name?
The trio drank.
"Wolfgang Von Strucker" The man said as he entered the room containing a large and arcane device. "So... sir... I assume this can harness the power we need?
"It will but it's missing something." Schmidt said as he took a look. Off to the side there was a... a um... chair?
Looked kind of like a medical device... though if you knew the Red Skull well enough, you probably wouldn't take any medicine he gave to you.
"And what would that be?"
"Though I haven't come this far for safety. Raw energy like this will be the death of all of us. I need a means to make sure this doesn't happen. Magic, the raw power of it is quite unstable. However... I thought of a way to... stabilize it. Our men are retrieving just the means to do so now.
He looked over to the portal that had been opened to the room. His men would be arriving shortly.