//------------------------------// // Chapter 13: The Sound of Green // Story: PonyFable // by Omega_code //------------------------------// “Cysero,” Jack annoying said, “why in LORE did you run into me?” Jack got up and looked at Cysero who was smiling gleefully. He held up a brown bag, “I wanted to give this to you before you left. Now I can deliver it myself.” “Deliver to who and what’s inside it.” “A friend and it’s a secret,” he smiled wide. Jack sighed and facepalm his hand. “Beside it has been a while seen I been to this world.” “Wait…you been here before.” “Yes…didn’t Wistala tell you?” Looking at Wistala, “She forgot to mention that part.” She smiled, as best as a dragon could, “I guess as long you don’t turn any of the building into a fish, you can help out.” What are you doing Jack, Cysero’s help, do want the town to end up a smoking carter. “Sure if you want it, but I don’t I’ll be that much help since my magic won’t affect your enemy.” “How do you even know that?” “I don’ know.” Jack’s head started to have a headache, “I need somewhere to change, Twilight can I use your library.” “Um…sure Jack, go right ahead,” she said as she was looking at Cysero. Jack left the group and went inside. “So Cysero…what do you do on Lore?” “Oh I do magical experiments, make and sell magical weapons, try to find my missing left sock (by the way have you seen it) and help with Capitan Science whenever I can.” “Who’s Capitan Science?” “Nickname for Lim,” Wistala answered. “Cysero, how exactly are you going to fine the pony you met last time?” “I have no idea, but I’m sure that we find each other in a few more paragraphs.” Everyone looked at him with puzzle looks on their face. “So Wistala, what have I missed in this quest of yours.” Wistala, with some help from the others, quickly summed up what happen over the last two days, Wistala of course left out Jack using his Doomknight power. Cysero gave a low whistle, “I would love to see those fly golems; I have some ideas of different ways I could use them.” “Sorry Cysero,” Wistala quickly said, “but they were all destroyed.” “Awe,” Cysero said with disappoint tone, but it quickly change with a happy tone. “I could make my own,” he said with a big smile. Great Wistala, you gave Jack some work to do in the future; clean up Cysero’s mess. “So Cysero,” she asked, “is there any sort of why you can help us defeat Obsidian.” “Nope.” Suns, Wistala thought as she closed her eyes and looked down, you’re a big help you know Cysero. “But there is a way to defeat him.” Surprised by the answer she looked at Cysero, “How?” “By using his weakness against him of course (don’t you learn anything by looking at the enemies stats).” “What’s his weakness?” “The element of Energy of course,” he stated in a mater-of-fact tone. “But he’s resisted to magic,” she furiously said. “Then don’t use magic use…” “Science,” Jack said finishing Cysero’s sentence. They all turn to see Jack walk out of Twilight’s library wearing a different set of armor. He had dark brown pants and shirt with a utility belt warp around his waist and a small cape hanging off of it. He had a bronze chest plate that cover the upper part of his chest and a pair of strong leather boots with some bronze metal fitting. On his right arm was a huge oversized gauntlet made of bronze and copper, and near his elbow were four blue glowing cylinders spread evenly around it. On Jack left side was his new weapon from Lim, clip to a multi purposes weapon holder (design to hold wands, staffs, dangers, anything else the user heart desired). “Your TechnoMancer armor,” Wistala said in a surprised tone. Jack got this armor to help the Gnomes protect their home from the mechanize bots, and soon later the undead. It was the top of the line of Gnome’s technology. It can convert the user mana into pure electrical energy which can power a drill, the force-sword, unleash a powerful energy beam on the user’s foe, and other things as well. “You knew Obsidian was weak to science?” “Well, I kind-of guess if he was resistance to the power of magic, he might be weak to the power of science. I only have two set of armor that are powered by the work of science so I grabbed this and the GPS.” The GPS, or Gnomish Personal Steamtank, was built after the war over the Gnomes’ home land, due to all of the left over scrap from the destroy bots. It was small, but packed a powerful punch. “Now,” Jack said as he flipped confarctulator to the ON position on the gauntlet and it hummed to life, “we just have to find Obsidian’s lair.” They all looked at him as if he had a plan to find it. “Don’t look at me; I have no idea where to start.” They all stood there thinking for a way. “Cysero,” Wistala asked, “you think you can do that location spell Warlic did, to find Obsidian?” Cysero scratch his chin then said, “Yep, I just need the components to cast it: a blank piece of paper, a compass, and something that Obsidian had recently worn.” “You sure we can’t use something he recently touch,” Jack asked. “Nope, must be something that he recently worn, like his clothes or his fur.” Sighing, Jack looked down in disappoint, then a thought came to his head, “What did you use for my location spell?” “Your dirty left sock.” “How did…no…never mind,” Jack said, I don’t even want to know he later thought. He looked up to the sky, and saw two chariots coming from the sky. “Seemed Princes Celestia is here,” he bluntly stated out. “We figure this out later.” Both of the chariots land near Twilight’s house, one had Celestia and the other had Rarity and Pinkie Pie. Pinkie suddenly zoomed out as soon as her chariot touched the ground. “CYSERO,” her shrill happy voice shouted out loud. She leapt into the air at him. “PINKIE,” Cysero happy answered. He caught her in his arms and both of them hugged each other with joyful smiles on their faces. “Wait,” Jack said in disbelief, “Pinkie…you met Cysero before…and you didn’t tell me.” “You never ask,” she giggly answered. “Beside the author told me not to tell you.” “Who,” Jack asked. “You know Davfdafjaodifh;o………... (Opps sorry data kind-of, “got lost”. Now back to the story, and Pinkie, don’t give out my real name...OK!) “That’s a rude way to ask you know.” “Pinkie,” Applejack asked, “who you talking to?” “It’s a secret.” She leapt out of Cysero’s arms and land in front of him. “So what are you doing here,” she asked Cysero. “Oh I bump into Jack trying to give him the gift I want him to go to you.” Pinkie gasp out loud, “A gift,” she hopped up and down with excitement, “what is it, what is it!” Cysero hold the bag out and reach inside it and pulled out a pie. “Oooooo,” she said admiring the pie with wide eyes. “A pie,” Jack said. It didn’t look any different from the pies he seen in Serenity’s inn. “Yep, a pie baked with the flavor of the color pink.” Yep, that sound like something he would do, Jack thought, I wonder if knows what green sounds like yet. “Cool, what about those singing dancing cupcakes,” Pinkie asked. “They explode; however, you can make dancing sandwiches.” Do I ever want to know what in Lore those two are talking about...nope. Jack left the two long lost friends to talk amongst themselves and went to talk to Celestia. “It’s nice to see that friendship can last even if they are apart from the barriers between worlds,” she said as looked to the direction of where Cysero and Pinkie were standing. “Now,” she turned to face Jack, “what exactly happen over there?” Jack told how he was fooled by Rainbow Dash’s plan, how retrieving the helm went, and how they were capture in the forest. “Once Obsidian left I was able to, free myself, and defeat the dragons again. I went looking for the others and we came back here. Lim’s was able to open a portal from Lore to here. I rushed in to grab this,” Jack gesture of what he was wearing, “and was about come back to Equestria when Cysero crashed into me sending us both through the portal. Right now we were trying to figure out how to find Obsidian.” He looked at the mares who were now gathering around Cysero, “Don’t worry, I will get Fluttershy back.” Celestia bow her head, “I trust that you will. While you were away I did my own search for Obsidian. I found three ponies with that name. One was living at Canterlot, the other in Manehatten, but the last one didn’t have a permanent home though.” “I’m guessing that our Obsidian is the one without a home.” “Your guess is correct. The last time anypony saw him was when he was working with a gem stone mining company, and that was about a year ago. The company said his last job took place in the Crevest valley to see if there were any good sources of veins full of gem stones. He later replied that weren’t that much to be bothered for a huge mining excavation, and he left without anyone hearing from him again.” “Until now,” Jack said. He crosses his arms and started to think. “Where is this Crevest valley,” he asked. “I thought you might want to check it out,” she said. “Tempest can take you there when you are ready.” She point to the chariot Rarity and Pinkie came in. Jack nodded his head. “Wistala,” he called out. “What,” she answered. “Get in the chariot; we got a lead on Obsidian.” “We do,” he heard a chorus of voices speak out. “Ya, a place called Crevest valley.” “Awe ya,” Dash yelled out. She flew to the air, “Time to show Obsidian a lesaaaaaaaaaaa,” a black aura cover her and she fell to the ground with a hard thud. She tried to get up, but she was too heavy to move a muscle, “What’s going on?!” “I temporally increased the gravity field around you,” Jack said, “so you won’t try to follow me again.” “But…” “No, I agreed last time because we were already half way to the dragons’ home. This time only Wistala and I will go. Obsidian is not fooling around, and is willing to play hard.” He bended down and looked deeply into Rainbow’s eyes, "Understand.” She sighed and moaned, “Ya, all right.” “Good,” Jack lean back up, “Now before I leave, I need to show you how to work an equipment of mine for some protection insurance. And no Cysero, it's not sponges." Ahh...don't look at me...i forgot to get my hair cut...it's .5 millimeters too long. Dragonfable is copyright to Artix Entertainment, LLC. MLP: Friendship is Magic is copyright to Hasbro. All charters that belong to their companies are rightfully theirs. This writing is for fun and nothing else. Next chapter: Rock Vs. Metal.