Jason blinked, looking around the area. He suddenly found himself in the middle of Ponyville. He scratched his head, trying to figure out where he was when a voice cut into his thoughts.
“What the hell.” a voice said. “Who are you? What’s going on?”
“I’m Jason, who are you?” Jason asked, looking at the source. In front of him stood a young elf. “Let me guess, you found a unitrix core right?”
“So that’s what that was.” the elf said. “My name is Dox. That thing was from the show Ben 10, right? My memory isn’t as good as it was, too many hits to the head. But, yeah, I found a unitrix, hit the symbol on it. Why?”
“You’re the first person to actually use my token,” Jason said with a laugh. “That only took several months.”
“Token?” Dox said. “The heck do you mean token? I just found it on the ground and hit the button.”
“You... do know what a Displaced is right?”
“What about displacement? I’m sorry, ya kinda lost me there.”
Jason just facepalmed, shaking his head. “Are we in Equestria right now?”
“Yes, I’m pretty sure we are. I thought that was obvious. Don’t you see all the ponies wandering around? Or the purple alicorn over there? Speaking of that, can we move this elsewhere? I’m pretty sure that one is mad at me.”
“Hi Twilight~” Jason waved happily, smiling at her.
Twilight responded with a fireball, shot between Jason and Dox, just barely missing both of them.
“Told ya she was mad. Now can we please get out of here? Preferably to somewhere that doesn’t have an angry purple alicorn?”
“I’m not scared of Twilight,” Jason rolled his eyes, “Omnitrix, Arcticguana,” with a flash, he shifted into a blue lizard creature.
“The hell?! How did? Why did? What?! You’re just like the last guy I met, but with an actual Omnitrix. All he had was a weird gauntlet.”
He breathed in, then out, unleashing a torrent of icy winds that froze everything it touched, including a very suprised Twilight, “That should cool her off.”
“Heh, cool her off. But seriously, what the heck is going on? What did you mean by Displaced? And how did you get a working Omnitrix? Last time I checked, Equestria ran on magic, not science that’s light years ahead of us.”
“One sec. Omnitrix, Siegfried,” he shifted again, this time into a griffon. “Come on,” he spread this wings, flying off toward the Everfree.
“I can’t fly!” Dox screamed as he ran after him. “I don’t have wings, genius!”
“Oh yeah,” he said, swooping down and landing on a log. “This looks like a good enough place to talk.”
“So, what’s up with all this stuff? The Omnitrix, humans in Equestria, and that Displaced thing you were talking about? I’d like to know.”
“Ok so, you’re from Earth right?” Jason asked, spreading a wing, starting to preen it to pass the time.
“Yeah, of course. Don’t let my currently pale as hell skin and pointy ears fool you. Before all this started, I was from Earth. I’d just like to know what is going on.”
“And you bought something from some weird guy and got sent here correct?”
“Bingo. Also had this weird change happen to me. Used to just be a white kid... Now I’m super white. That, and my cloak,” he said, pointing to the tattered brown cloak. “Trust me, this isn’t what it normally looks like.”
“That makes you a Displaced.”
“Ah, and the whole magic and me being a completely different species now is part of that, too? Great.”
“Most Displaced bought things from that jerk,and we all got sent to different versions of Equestria,” Jason explained, looking at Dox.
“Mhm. Again, great. My already crazy life is all the more crazy. BRING ON THE DANCING BANANAS!” Dox shouted sarcastically.
“All I got is the Omnitrix, I’m still me,” Jason said, shifting back to normal. “Oh, you should be warned, stuff related to whatever you bought might appear in your Equestria,”
“Are you speaking from experience? ‘Cause if you’re serious about that, then I’m pretty sure I have nothing to fear about, other than what’s already in Equestria. Maybe a few more creatures, but still the same. Oh, and here’s something, you’re lucky as hell! I got changed into a completely different species. Meanwhile, you’re still human!”
“My Equestria was just ransacked by a bunch of genocidal knights who killed thousands, I’m not all that lucky,” Jason said with a slight glare.
“Oh. Sorry man, didn’t know you had it that hard. You have to kill anyone?”
“Yeah I did,” Jason said, looking at him, “I don’t recommend it.”
“Well then, I guess I can relate. Still kinda freaking out from the place I just was,” Dox said, looking solemn.
“Back on topic, a token is a item a Displaced sends out into the multiverse, that allows other Displaced to summon them.”
“You mean like this thing?” Dox asked as he held up a scroll. “A guy named Drake gave me this in the Equestria I just came back from. He said I could call him over with it.”
“Yeah, thats exactly what a token is, though I’ve never met a Drake before.”
“And you might not ever. I found him by accident. Kinda got fed up here and portal jumped without thinking. I didn’t even know what I was doing and next thing I know, I’m in what looks like an iTunes visualizer, then I’m in a Ponyville that’s in the middle of a war. Tough day for me.”
“A war?”
“Yeah, apparently the griffons and the diamond dogs had the idea of using Drake as a weapon. I helped him out, killed a few griffons, then left him to go find the Chrysalis of his world. Got trained in being a changeling, got a new name, and went back to find the war was over... I also got back around the time of a bunch of ponies heat periods... Yeah, not gonna talk about that.”
“You met Chrysalis?” Jason asked rather intrigued.
“Well, A Chrysalis. I figured if his world had a Chrysalis, this one might, too. Although his world did happen to be in the past compared to this one. I mean, I stopped the invasion of Canterlot from happening, who else can say they did that?”
“You did? Huh,” Jason said surprised, “I’m actually engaged to my Chrysalis.”
“Wow. I still haven’t met the Chrysalis here. Not even sure if the one in this world survived the whole wedding fiasco.”
“Yup, good ol’ Chrissy...” Jason said, getting a dreamy smile on his face.
“Ya know, I’m kinda surprised that you’re engaged to a Chrysalis. I guess I shouldn’t be though, what with all the crazy stuff going on. I mean, going to a convention, getting turned into a changeling, then going to another world on accident, the heat... then all this.”
“Well... she was my stalker for a while...”
“Dear goodness, that is hilarious. Lemme guess, now she never lets you out of her sight now that you’re engaged,” Dox said in a matter of fact voice.
“Actually no, she’s rather cool with that. I mean we live together already so what would be the point in that?”
“Good point. Although, let me ask this. Where is that place that you live?”
“We live in the old Everfree castle,”
“What a coincidence. Back on Drake’s Equestria, I found changelings out there that were using it as a base. They teleported me out to the actual changeling hideout. I learned about some of my new abilities there. At least, any of the ones that involve being a changeling. And some basic magic...”
“I’m new to magic as well,” Jason said. Holding his hand up, he conjured up a fireball, letting it dance around his fingers.
“Wow. Magic human. I don’t suppose you learned this though,” Dox said as he snapped his fingers. Ever so slowly he started to fade until he became completely invisible. “Did ya learn that yet?”
“No, but I can do this,” Jason said getting up. “Ultima!” he shouted, firing off several streaks of magic aimed at the empty forest. The explosion was deafening, leveling a good section of the forest.
“Jeez man! The hell was that! Sounded like a spell from Final Fantasy,” Dox said, reappearing next to Jason. “Where did you learn that? All I learned were cantrips.”
“Bought it from a shadow Displaced,” Jason said, sitting down. “And yes, that was from Final Fantasy,”
“A shadow Displaced? The heck do you mean? I’m getting confused again.”
“He’s a living shadow.”
“And he does what?” Dox deadpanned. “In fact, while I’m at it, what do you do? What were you doing at your convention?”
“Umbra goes from universe to universe selling stuff. As for what I was doing, it was my first con actually.”
“Okay. It was my third convention, my second Anime Expo, though. I was going to go meet my friends to go play some impromptu D&D at the con. I was actually dressed up for it, too.”
“I see.” Jason said with a nod,” I should tell you, the one Displaced you should meet is Gilgamesh, he taught me most of what I know.”
“Okay. I’ll look into that after I figure out how to master making portals. Also, do you think he’d even know enough to teach a Dungeon Master?”
“I have no idea, he’s more of Final Fantasy guy,” Jason said with a shrug.
“Hey, who knows. Hey, wanna see a trick?” Dox asked as his cloak changed from being brown and short enough to cover his arms to being black and long enough to reach his feet. His head became covered in the hood that emerged from the cloak, obscuring his face from view.
“That is pretty cool.” Jason said with a nod,” Don’t think I can do that,”
“That wasn’t the trick,” Dox said, “this is.” Dox’s entire body was encased in a green flame. When the flame faded, where Dox was standing was now a perfect copy of Jason. “Pretty cool, huh? Kinda hurts to do it still.”
“That is awesome man, I have to turn into a changeling to do that,” Jason said, getting to his feet, looking Dox over.
“Well, as I said, I am a changeling,” Dox said in a voice that sounded identical to Jason’s. “This sort of thing was why I had to go find Chrysalis. I mean, where else was I going to learn how to do this?”
“You got me there,”Jason said in agreement. “So... what do we do now? Someones going to come looking for the reason why a part of the Everfree is gone.”
“WHO BLEW UP MY HOME?!” said a loud, deep voice from far off.
“You were saying? ‘Cause I’m pretty sure whoever just said that is the guy who’s gonna come looking for us.”
“Well, fuck,” Jason said with a sigh.
“Agreed,” Dox said as he changed back and then proceeded to change his cloak. “I say we don’t just wait to find out who it is.”
“Yeah, I’m not really in the mood to fight anything...”
“That makes two of us. So what do we do?”
“Omnitrix, Hodgepodge!” he commanded, shifting his form once again. “Come on let’s go!” he said, throwing Dox over his shoulder and running away.
“The hell! Where are we going!”
“Wherever the plot takes us!”
“The hell are you talking about?!”
“I’ll tell you when you’re older!”
“Not funny! I would rather know where I’m being dragged!”
He came to a stop as they reached Twilight’s residence. “End of the line my elfy friend!”
“I’m a changeling, not an elf! And why are we in front of Twilight’s?”
“I dunno,” he said with a shrug. “We’re just here.”
“Wait... Take us to the plot... I KNOW!” Dox said, pulling out a thick booklet from Jason’s hair and opening it. “We blame Twilight!”
“Yes it is her fault isn’t it?!” Hodgepodge asked, scowling in anger.
“Yeah. She’s the one who chased us off. But one problem. She’s still frozen.”
Hodgepodge snapped his fingers, instantly thawing the frozen princess.
“Well then,” Dox said turning to the now unfrozen Twilight. “Yo, Twi. Take care of whoever you pissed off!”
“Yeah!”
“What?! I didn’t-”
“You hit the Everfree with your little spell, ruined someone’s home.”
Jason shook his head, reverting to normal. “Ugh I hate it when he gets to me... so uh... sorry for freezing you...” he said, giving you a sheepish smile.
“I’m still mad about that,” Twilight said, turning towards the Everfree. “Might as well go solve this problem and apologize.”
“That was my fault, let me,” Jason said looking at her. “Besides, I figured you would just melt the ice...”
“Dude. You’re seriously going to go in and take care of... whatever is angry?”
“Yes I am,” Jason said nodding. “I’m the one who blew up his home.”
“We don’t know what you angered. It sounds huge. And you’re still going out there? ARE YOU NUTS?!”
“I got this,” Jason said, moving back toward the source of the voice, “Hey uh, sorry about your home, It’s my fault!” he called out.
A large dragon rose from the Everfree Forest. “You did that? My hoard has been destroyed thanks to you!”
“I can make it up to you,” Jason said, putting his hands.
“And how can you make up a hoard as impressive as mine?”
“I can turn into a creature that grows diamonds, it’s really simple actually.”
“Then give me my hoard!”
“Ok jeez just relax,” he said, shaking his head. “Omnitrix, Diamondhead,” he said, shifting forms. He planted his hands into the ground, causing massive spikes of diamond to grow around him.
“This will do nicely,” the dragon said, heaving the spikes from the ground and turning back to the Everfree.
“Nicely done Jason,” Dox said. “I didn’t think you would be able to do that. Then again, I forgot about Diamondhead.”
“Hey, I’m trying to leave my assholeness in the past.” Jason said, reverting back to normal. “Again Twilight, I apologize.”
“I’m still kind of mad, but I forgive you. Could I ask you a few questions about your species, abilities, magic skill...” It was at this time Twilight started to list as many things as she could think of.
“I think she’s going to be like that for a while. You better get going while you have the chance. When I left, she tried closing portals like crazy. Almost closed one on my head!”
“Well it was nice meeting you,” Jason said, turning to Dox.
“Wait! I almost forgot! How the heck are we going to keep contact? Like, how are you going to get a hold of me? How do I make a token?!”
“Just pick an object that represents you and recite an oath into it.”
“Thanks! I’ll see you around!”
“You have to say ‘Jason, our contract is concluded.’”
“What. Why’s that?”
“To send me home. Thats how you send back a Displaced you summoned.”
“Oh, in that case. Jason, our contract is concluded. See you around.”
“Take care of yourself.” Jason said as he vanished, the unitrix laying where he once stood.