The gentle night breeze caused Twilight's purple and pink streaked mane and tail to flutter gently as she held the front door to the library open. As she did so, several ponies, all unicorns filed in neatly. Twilight knew all of them fairly well, but the last three guests were especially important to her. She continued holding the door just as the last pony filed in.

After closing the door quietly Twilight strode over to her friend Rarity who was conversing with one of her old Canterlot buddies, Colgate.

"Oh, excuse me dear." Rarity said quickly as she saw twilight making her way across the room. Colgate simply shrugged as rarity turned from her and walked over to Twilight.

" Waiting for what? " Twilight asked, tilting her head to the side slightly, quickly distracted from what she was originally going to say to her.

"What? I stand here at 12:00 in the morning and you ask me what? I'm simply asking as to what we're doing so late at night." Rarity replied, impatience in her tone.

"Oh... that. I was just about to tell everypony, just go have a seat and I'l tell you in a second ok?" Twilight murmured, trying to keep their conversation private as ponies hovered nearby.

"Oh, okay Twilight, but this better be good. I'm missing precious beauty sleep." Rarity said as she flourished her luxurious curly purple mane back with one hoof.

As Rarity found a cozy place to sit, Twilight stood on top of her coffee table as she readied herself to speak.

"Attention everypony! Attention!" Twilight shouted over the buzz of conversations. As soon as they heard this, everypony quickly stopped chatting and perked their ears up to hear why they were here. Especially Shining Armor, who had to sneak out on his wife for the night.

"Good. Ahem... I know you're probably wondering why you're all here tonight at such a late hour. And I just I thank you all for coming on such short notice, especially you Shining Armor." Twilight said as she craned her towards her B.B.B.F.F. Shining Armor blushed as he looked away from his sister, who had caused everypony in the room to catch a glimpse of the captain of the Royal Guard.

"Anyways, the reason you're all here is to help me perform a spell that could change the course of history forever. We are going to try to perform a teleportation spell. but on a massive scale. Similar to the one Princess Celestia used to banish Luna to the moon. But on an even larger scale. We're not talking miles. We're talking light-years." Twilight said enthusiastically as a wide grin spread to each corner of her mouth.

For those unicorns that were well educated in the room they visibly shivered after hearing the word light-year. To comprehend traveling at the speed of light for a year, or more in this case completely boggled the minds of all ponies, save for Celestia herself. What was even more awe inspiring was that to imagine there is even enough space in the universe to travel at the speed of light for a year.

After shaking off the magnitude of the spell they'd be performing, they began to worry. A lot.

"Any questions?" Twilight said in her usual peppy tone when dealing with science.

A sea-foam green hoof rose from the small crowd of ponies as Twilight's eyes instantly darted to it.

"Yea, well, I was sorta wondering if you know... we'd be going with you..." Lyra inquired as Twilight began formulating a response.

"Hmmm... I'd thought about it, but casting a spell that could teleport all of us the amount of distance required would need so much power that every unicorn in Ponyville and Canterlot would have to be present and that's not the case." Twilight replied matter-of-factly.

As another hoof raised, this one blue, Lyra could be heard letting out a sigh of relief.

"Yes, Colgate." Twilight said pointing to the blue and white unicorn with a front hoof.

"Well, how do you know that you, and anypony else you plan to bring won't just be teleported into space and suffocate. Or end up on a hostile planet with dangerous creatures." Colgate finished as Twilight had already opened her mouth to begin speaking.

"In regards to your first question, I've already got the coordinates for a planet I believe to be habitable. And as to your second question... honestly I don't know what awaits me on a new planet. Guess it's all part of the job thought right?" Twilight chuckled as she squeed at the very thought of exploring a new world.

Another hoof raised, this one more muscular than the others. It belonged to Shining Armor, who waited patiently to be called.

"Okay, last question, we've really gotta get started." Twilight said as Shining Armor began.

"Only three. Myself and two others that would like to come along. " Came Twilight's quick reply.

"So then, moving on to the matter of who'd like to go with me. Raise your hoof if you'd lie to tag along on this scientific endeavor." She asked, deploying fancy language as she did.

There was a brief silence as nopony raised their hoofs for a good few seconds in which time one brave stalion mustered up the courage to raise his.

A white hoof shot up from the crowd as a stoic voice simply said, " I'll do it. I'll go." Shining Armor said as the crowd parted to reveal the buff stallion with a look of determination in his eyes.

" Are you sure? " Twilight said, honestly not expecting her Big Brother to be one for this sort of thing.

" Yea, I'm sure. There's no way I'm letting my little sister go on adventure without me." Shining Armor said as he approached his sister who was perched atop the coffee table, his eyes getting slightly gentler as he approached.

"Are you sure Cadence will be fine with this?" Twilight asked, still unsure of his accompaniment on this trip.

"She'll be fine, she's dealing with some royal business for the next week or so in the Zebra lands, and I'm on vacation for another week, when she wakes up she'll just figure I went out. Besides, we'll be back by next week right?" Shining Armor said in somewhat curious tone.

"Well... about that, it's true that we'll be able to get back... but the amount of time we spend on the planet I've been observing depends on what's there. We could be there a week, or a couple of years." Twilight replied in a solemn voice.

The crowd went silent as they realized just how long their friend would be gone.

"You can't be serious dear!" Rarity shouted over the crowd in shock at what one of her closest friends was saying.

" Look, I know this is hard, for all of you, but this is my chance. I've already informed Princess Celestia that I would be gone for an undetermined amount of time to study a new planet. Don't you see? This is my chance to make a difference, to be like all those great scientists and mages." Twilight said before a silence swept over everyone in the room.

"... If you think this is the right thing to do Twilight... I support you." Rarity choked out, fighting back the tears thatr she knew would come eventually.

A chorus of acceptance and support of Twilight's journey filled the air as Twilight became overjoyed that they were all behind her.

After the last pony had agreed to the trip Twilight finally spoke up, "Let's get to it..."

She pulled out a pack from under the coffee table and set it beside her as she reached down for a second pack and set it on top of her strapping it on. "Here's yours." Twilight said before snatching the pack up in her mouth and tossing it to her brother.

Shining Armor caught it and swung it onto his back with the momentum and promptly strapped it on.

"We've got everything we need in here for a 6 month stay Water, Food, Clothes. The basic necessities. If we're still there after that, there's probably some kind of food and water source to be had. We shall return when our observation of the planet is complete." Twilight said as she retrieved a book from her pack hastily.

"Alright, this is the spell I need all of you to perform. It's a simple channeling spell. You'll channel all of your magical power into me and then I myself will open a portal powerful enough to allow three ponies to pass through before it closes. The rest of the magical energy you'll give me will be used to make the return-trip when we've finished our stay." Twilight said as she flopped the large book open to page in front of everypony for them to quickly glance at the simple spell.

In a small room, a short, furry creature sat in a shortened chair. He was arched over a table with which something very important laying in front of him. The revised design for the Mega-Inferno bomb. The small creature gripped a pencil in his furry hand as he continued scribbling across the paper. His movements were erratic and swift, as if he had had too much caffeine.

The furry hand released the pencil as the furry creature looked back at it's work. As the figure stood back, it stepped into the light to reveal itself. It had short, stubby arms and legs, all covered in a thick coat of dark brown fur. It's small body led up to a short neck that was attached to a comically large head.It's face was well defined, with large, round eyes that were a beautiful jade green. A large, yet also somewhat disturbing, grin was plastered across it's face,where it's fur became a lighter shade of brown, as it cracked it furry knuckles.

"Well... I think that's enough for tonight. I can get a head start on building some of these babies tomorrow. " The small creature said in a confident, high pitched, and somewhat insane voice. He reached over to the edge of the desk where a set of goggles, the lenses the same jade green as his eyes, rested and picked them up by the strap.

He held them in his hands gingerly as his face stared back it him in the pristine green lenses. He yawned as he stretched his arms backwards, cracking his back before gently placing his goggles back on the table. As he did so, he picked up a newspaper from the institute of war.

We are holding a friendly match of war games this Sunday in the Fields Of Justice on Summoner's

Rift at exactly 5:00 P.M. We invite all Yordle and Human champions to attend. But remember, a well balanced team is the key

to Victory. Also on a side-note, I would like to welcome the League's newest champion Ziggs, The Hexplosives Expert. Watch

out for him humans, as he will most undoubtedly be attending the match this Sunday, and believe me when I say, he's got a

few tricks up his sleeve. We wish you all luck in the upcoming match. Below is a detailed description of Ziggs.

He read over the description fairly quickly and found that all of the traits and characteristics described matched him perfectly. But that was no surprise. He looked over to the picture of himself included. It showed him all suited up in his battle regalia. His leather jacket and pants showed only in some places as tough metal armor covered his chest, stomach, knees, thighs and large red shoulder guards that jutted out to the side adorned his each of his shoulders. His specially designed arm guards rounded out near the hand so he still had full use of his hand and arm. Long, specially made metal rods that could bend and twist connected his hand guard to a circular arm guard just below his elbow. His same face, with a manic grin spread across it stared back at him through his goggles. A leather and iron cap adorned the top part of his head, and two small bots slightly jutted out from the otherwise smooth cap. And as always, his lucky gold loop earing was attached firmly to his ear, the same as it always was.

Even now, the earring was still attached to his long pointy ears that curved backwards slightly. He sniffed a little as he saw the earring again. The truth was, it wasn't really an earring. It was a ring. He had planned on giving it to someone special but he hadn't gotten the chance before it happened. he shed a single tear and let it slide down his furry cheek, his coat slowly soaking it up and staining his fair as he set the paper down and took another bit of his half eaten bagel.

He quickly spat the bagel bag out as he brushed his tongue clean. "Yuch... stale..." Ziggs said as he gathered up what remained of his bagel and tossed it into the garbage can which reside neatly beside his chaotic desk.

"Time for bed..." Ziggs said as he closed the door to his office behind him and flipped the switch to turn the light off. He began to walk away from the door and head towards his quiet bedroom. He always enjoyed at the end of the day, just flipping on the television and watching some quality yordle T.V. Oh how the humans would envy him and all the other yordles if they only knew they possessed such an ingenious piece of machinery.

As Ziggs approached his room in his small seven room house, he gently opened the door, and did the same as he closed it behind him. He made his way over to the light switch and promptly flicked it up, illuminating the dark room in a flash of bright light. Ziggs shielded his eyes as they adjusted to the sudden burst of light. As soon as he could see clearly again, he walked over to his bedside table and picked up the small black rectangle that controlled his television. The remote.

Ziggs then proceeded to hit a small red button near the left corner of the remote, causing a good-sized monitor that was perched atop his dresser to turn on. The screen flashed with various images of yordles, real and cartoonized, going about their daily lives, having an intellectual discussion, or embarking on dangerous adventures, as the audio booms with all of the beautiful, and sometimes scary sounds that accompanied all of these scenarios. The small furry yordle flopped won on his bed as he continued to channel surf , lowering the volume a few bars every one or two channels. Finally Ziggs decided that there was nothing good on at the moment so he opted to browse through his dvd collection and see what he could find.

He rolled out of his bed and stood up as he walked over to the bookshelf on the other side of his simple bed. He eyed the bottom shelf and bent down so that he could reach. He continued to browse his good-sized collection of classic and newer films. But his perusing was cut short as a bright magenta light seeped though the underside of his door. He stared at the light in confusion as it grew brighter and brighter until the bright light seemed to outline the wooden door.

"That's it everypony! That's enough stop!" Twilight cried to the crowd of unicorns, all whose horns were lit up with their own respective color of magical aura. That is until Twilight ordered to stop. One by one, everypony let out a sigh of exhaustion and flopped to the ground.

"Again, I'd just like to thank every one of you for making this possible..." Twilight said as she began to tear slightly as her her horn sparked with a magical magenta aura, causing a large gaping maw of a portal to appear behind her.

"Promise me you'll come back darling." Rarity said, getting more and more hysterical by the second.

"Don't worry, I'll be back." replied Twilight as the two embraced each other in a warm hug. They continued to hug each other for several moments until finally Twilight shied away from the hug and turned to face the portal. She breathed in, and let out a loud sigh as she braced herslef for what she was about to do. And then... She entered the portal. leaving Rarity literally bawling her eyes out as Shining Armor too entered the portal.

Twilight felt a dizzy sensation sweep over her body as she seemed to be going somewhere, yet nowhere at the same time. She fought back the nauseous feeling like she was going to vomit back as she tried to stay calm. She seemed to drift aimlessly and slowly through a void that never ceased to stop swishing and swirling before her very eyes. This made her eyes want to vomit as she tried to focus on a single glob of something in the void and it'd be gone in a split second. She finally resolved to close her eyes after getting fed up with the immense speed of the void around her. Bu then, as if nothing had ever happened, she appeared in a hallway , furnished with a few pictures, a mirror and a coat-rack that held up a small trench coat. Where was she?

She began to start questioning this, but before she could get far, seemingly out of nowhere her brother, Shining Armor, appeared by her side, his eyes both spinning in different directions.

"Hey? Hey brother? Snap out of it!" Twilight said as she clicked her hooves together in front of Shining Armor's face. His eyes began to slow down and settle back into their usual positions as he shook his head.

Looking around, the stallion asked a quite obvious question, "W-Where are we Twi'ley?"

" I don't know... I sure hope it's on the planet I picked. Even if it's not on the planet I intentionally meant to transport us to, it appears to have sentient life, so that's a good sign." Twilight replied quietly.

"But couldn't we just be in Zebra or Gryphon territory?" Shining Armor asked, curious as to there whereabouts.

"Not likely, Zebra's live in huts like Zecora, and Gryphons live much higher up than this..." Twilight said as she looked out the window near the end of the hallway. Only two floors.

"Still.... it puzzles me as to what made this..." Twilight murmured to herself as she looked around the hallway.

All of a sudden, a small furry creature burst through the door near where Shining Armor was standing.

"YAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" the creature yelled as he toppled the large stallion with great speed.

"AHHHHH!!!!! GET THIS THING OFF ME!" Shining Armor yelled as he tried to punch the small creature off but, he kept dodging the powerful blows as it landed punches of it's own.

"WAITWAIWAIT.... YOU CAN TALK?" The small creature said discontinuing its onslaught and jumping off of the large stallion.

Dazed, confused, and slightly bruised, all Shining Armor could mumble out was "Yea? And so can you... By the way, what the heck are you anyways, and why'd you start attacking me like that?"

"Well, I heard someone out here and thought it was an intruder, and I can't use my bombs in my house so that's why I pinned you and started waling on ya... and ugh, sorry... if I hurt you, I didn't mean to, I just thought you might've been Zaun raiders come back for revenge. And by the way I'm a yordle, how could you possibly not know that? And now it' your turn to answer some questions. Who are you? And what are you?" The creature replied in a high pitched, gruff, determined tone.

"How could you not know who we are? I'm Shining Armor, Captain of the Royal Guard and she-" Shining Armor was cut off by Twilight as she spoke.

"Don't forget this is an entirely new world, he's probably never seen one of us before." Twilight spoke to Shining armor informatively.

"We're Equestrians. That's Twilight Sparkle, and I'm Shining Armor. And about you hurting me, it didn't hurt at all." Shining Armor spoke, revising his introduction and rubbing a bruise on his chest, wincing from the pain.

"I'm a yordle. I'm also an inventor And scientist. Just not the usual kind." replied the furry yordle.

Twilight noticed the yordle's earing as she began her next sentence. " So you said something about bombs earlier. Is that what you invent?" Twilight asked, truly curious, yet somewhat frightened at the implications of making bombs.

"Mostly. I dabble in other areas, but explosives is my specialty." the yordle answered as he leaned against a wall and crossed his stubby arms and legs.

Twilight began to notice the large head he was sporting, and how all his other limbs were fairly small. However she decided not to bring it up, as now was not the time to do so.

"What was your name again? Twilight Sparkle?" the yordle inquired as twilight nodded her head.

"And whats's yours?" Shining armor asked, sitting on his haunches, unstrapping his pack.

"That's it? No nickname? Middle? Surname? Just Ziggs?" Shining Armor asked, honestly expecting more than s ingle word.

Ziggs flinched at surname, remembering the time when he was about to get a new one... but after it happened, he even gave up his own. Opting for the single word name Ziggs. In a way it was fitting. It signified that he was now alone in the world. As he would always be. Sure he had good friends, some he'd even known for a good while. But his family was gone and so was his special someone. Stolen away from him by an unfair play in the game of fate.

"Hey? Dude?" Shining Armor said as he waved a hoof in front of his blank expressionless face.

"Huh? What? Oh, uhm, sorry... I just got lost for a moment..." Ziggs said, still coming out of his thoughts and trying to adjust what is, and not what was.

" I-I don't know..." Ziggs said trailing off, desperately wanting to know the answer to that question himself.

"Well anyways, back to what you said, yea, that's it. Just Ziggs." he replied solemnly, his usual hyperactive energy no longer present. the hallway was dark and gloomy as the moonlight shone silver streaks of brilliance through the windows, illuminating the somber yordle leaning a against the wall, his face harder to read than sanskrit.

"So, I suppose you to need a place to stay for the night?" Ziggs said breaking the grave and uncertain mood that filled the air.

"Yea, that'd be great." Twilight said, trying to sound as thankful and gracious as she could.

"No problem. There's a guest bedroom right down this hall to the left, and there's a fold out couch at home, I'll go set it up for you." Ziggs said as he plodded own the stairs.

"You think we can trust him?" Shining Armor asked Twilight in a whisper, still unsure of the yordle's honesty.

"I'm not sure... but there's something about him... I can't quite tell exactly what yet... but there's something special about him..." replied Twilight in an unsure tone.

"Well, whatever, we can figure everything out in the morning. Go ahead, get settled in, I'll take the couch. " Shining Armor said insisting Twilight take the room.

"Okay, but just remember to be nice, I mean we just show up in his house all of sudden, ad now he's giving us a place to stay. Being nice is the least we can do." Twilight said thoughtfully as she began walking down the hall to the guest bedroom.

"Don't worry, I'll be nice..." Shining Armor said as Twilight disappeared into the small bedroom. He picked up his pack with his as soon as she did so, and the stallion's usually gentle look faded into one of apathy as he walked downstairs, taking the steps two at a time, but trying to be as quiet as he could on the hard wood stairs. Every stair seemed to creak with every slight movement he made it seemed. Finally Shining Armor reached the bottom of the stairs, pack in mouth. He lay it gently beside the step way as he cantered over to Ziggs, who was setting the finishing touches on the bed.

"But nothing. You don't have to apologize for anything. I mean we've been here what, like 10 minutes? And you've already given us a place to stay. Plus you've never even seen an Equestrian before. Go get some sleep.You've done enough for now." The stallion said in a gentle and gratuitous tone.

" Well, if you say so. Good night." Ziggs spoke as he headed for the stairs, slightly blushing under all his fur from the wave of praise.

"You too..." Shining Armor replied as he began snuggling under the covers of his bed.

Ziggs reached the top of the stairs uncertain about what to do next. He definitely wasn't gonna be able to sleep right away after an incident like this, and T.V. didn't seem to appeal to him as much as it had earlier. So, finally the yordle resolved to just lie down and think. He crept into his room and turned the light off before sneaking into bed and getting cozy as he lay on his back, looking at the ceiling with that same glazed look in his eyes.

He continued to just lay there, deep in thought. The strange thing was, he didn't know what he was thinking about. Images, memories of times past, the sights and sounds of the League Of Legends, all flashed through his head so quickly he hardly had time to discern one thing from another. But then it all stopped. It didn't just slow down. It stopped. At an image of him. Standing proudly atop a mountainside, decked out in his battle armor.

As the scene continued to play out, Ziggs tried to open his tightly shut eyes but he couldn't. It was as if some part of him didn't want him to. Almost like it wanted him to see this. The scene quickly changed as h brought out an enormous bomb made of tough iron. The fuse was already alight as he cocked his arm back, and with one mighty heave, threw the over-sized bomb towards the walls of a small fortress-like complex.

It soared through the air with a majestic energy about it. That is until it impacted. The Mega-Inferno Bomb crashed into a section of wall, setting the stone ablaze and incinerating any unlucky guards that were stationed there. With a manic grin spread across his face, Ziggs hopped off of his perch and rolled down the mountain, coming to a stop on his feet, nailing the landing. As the fire died down and a few Zaunite raiders began to inspect the large gap in the wall, he charged in, bombs flailing everywhere.

The small yordle laying in bed continued to tried to fight back the memories and open his eyes, for he knew what was soon to come. Little by little the mental barrier began to weaken, but it wasn't quite breaking just yet. The scene progressed. He continued to fling bombs left and right, causing all sorts of chaos. Scaffolding fell to the ground in heaps of burning wood as the guards suffered similar fates when trying to confront him.

He kept advancing, sending Zaunite raiders running left and right for their lives. Finally, he came upon a large,open air building, filled with cells. All were vacant except one near he front, filled with many of Piltovers most esteemed scientists. With one great throw he hurtled a bomb straight at the lock on the cell, not just blowing it off, but destroying the barred door entirely. As the remains of the demolished door fell forward and hit the ground with a thud, Ziggs approached the scientists. He stopped and looked down at them, many in a fetal position, and spoke a one liner that would make Arnold Shwarznegger proud.

"Time to go..." was all he said as random objects and people behind him spontaneously combusted and exploded.The professors gazed upon their savior as if he was sent by god himself , causing them to regain their hope.

"Oh no... Not again..." the yordle laying in bed mumbled to himself as he fought with all his might to break the mental barrier. he could feel it starting to give, his eyes loosening bit by bit.

The scene progressed as the great minds stood, up, ready to make their hasty departure. However, before Ziggs could even turn around a spine chilling voice from behind him spoke loud and clearly, which caused the scientists faces to contort into expressions of terror and fear.

" You aren't leaving here without a fight. And I'm pretty sure you won't leave without this one..." The voice said in a grim tone. Ziggs began to turn around, curious, and a little fearful of who it could be.

Just then, the yordle's eyes burst open, panting heavily as he looked around his room nervously, as if expecting to see him waiting in the shadows. But he had no such luck.

Ziggs settled back into his bed and slipped under the covers, slowly but surely drifting off to an uneasy sleep, for he feared that he might be forced to remember his past. Luckily as sleep took him, nothing happened, and a small smile spread across the sleeping yordle's face, letting the warm embrace of sleep envelope him.

He was gonna need it, tomorrow was Saturday and he still had to build an ample supply of his new line of bombs. But it was also quite apparent that he had other things to deal with....

A/N: So what do you think so far? Should I continue with this? Leave your thoughts in the comments section below, and remember to leave a like if you want to see more. Also, yes I know, I'm not the best at getting grammar correctly and I don't really want comments JUST on grammatical errors, although I do welcome suggestions, as long as you don't be a grammar nazi about it. I wish all of you a good day and hope you enjoyed reading the first chapter of The Ballad of Ziggs The Yordle.

The Ballad Of Ziggs The Yordle

by Silver Centurion

A New World