Drake POV
"Okay... steady.... steady... keep my breathing calm" I thought as I slowly flapped my wings to get off the ground. As I reached five feet, I slowly opened my eyes and seeing how far up I am, I lost control and fell to the ground with a loud thud. I groaned and lifted my head "Damn it!"
"Calm down man, it takes practice to fly... well for some anyway" Rainbow said with a smirk. Apparently all I can recall from a hero is their powers and movement. As for flying however... yeah we've spent the last twenty minutes teaching me how to fly. Well Fluttershy and Rainbow and honestly I'm not going to be flying high into the clouds, just barely off the ground because walking on talons.... a very uncomfortable walk. The crowd who gathered have simply been watching me fall with small snickers and snacks as to put it simply this is like a break from the brawl to help me fly.... granted this is going at a poor rate, but at least it's something.
After getting helped up with my staff and the two pegasi, I flexed my wings and are luckily unbroken still "Alright. Remember dude, keep your wings level, but also give off strong thrusts to take off!" she said demonstrating as I just sigh. Everytime the same advice. Doesn't she know I don't know a damn thing about wings?.... well guess not considering I sucked at Biology.
As I tried again, Fluttershy this time looked at me "Try to go for small flaps and control your breathing. Everyone starts out small and soon can do great things, like how we did. I used to be afraid of a lot of things, till I met the girls. Now I am afraid of only most things" she said in that sweet voice that seemed to of calmed me down a bit. As I slowly flapped my wings and felt myself rising, I still had one problem. See I was never a fan of heights, no matter what it was. Rollercoasters, planes, tall buildings, I just couldn't stop myself from shaking like a leaf in winter. As I reached my last recorded height of at least three yards, I kept breathing slowly as I just looked up at the clouds above.
My mind was slowly calming down as before long, I could hear Rainbow's voice cut through my thoughts "Your doing great! Just don't look down!" she yelled. Of course, being the 'curious' man I am, I looked down and just like that it happened again. My wings went stiff, hugged my body and just like a rock I fell. The unfortunate part is, I didn't know what would happen if I 'died' as a hero. Would I respawn? Would I revert to my old form? Would I just die? Well... this is going to hurt either way.
As the floor got closer and closer, I just closed my eyes as soon the rushing wind just.... stopped. I open my eyes and saw my helmet barely kissing the ground. A gaze up showed my Dash and Shy both grabbing a leg and stopping me from hitting the ground. Well that and a magneta magic aura around me. As they set me down, I got up with my staff to support me as I saw some disappointment on Rainbow's face, but also of worry "Hey don't beat yourself up, not everyone is great at flying" she said.
Fluttershy just nodded and agreed "Right, it just takes a lot of practice" she said. Wish it actually helped.... oh well, flying isn't my style anyway. One day I'll get over it, but not today, since the transformation ran out. After getting back my bearings and feeling myself get wobbly from standing, everyone decided a break maybe in order. In all honesty, I think I would need one after that falling action.
As everypony sat with their own little group of friends, I simply sat on a flat rocked and gave a little look through my gauntlet. Lo and behold, it had every hero from the DOTA 2 series, but also oddly enough in costumes that I chosen for them. Made sense in a minor way, but not a major way. I honestly figured they be in their stock appearance, but.... well magic. Needless to say, out of the group, Pinkie was the only one who came to sit with me. Strange feeling was, I guess despite all the smiles and nods, they were still weary of me.
If I was in their position, I be weary of a alternate dimensional being as well.
Needless to say, we just sat there in silence while I browsed through my gauntlet. Now and again, Pinkie asked about a few of the beings I got, like the 'fish with the anchor' or the 'human on the lion' and I tried to explain them as best as I could.... mostly without the use of geek talk for nongamers. As Applejack whistles, she hollered "Breaks over y'all! Back to training!" as if announcing Twilight's words. When we separated, I decided to go down a.... odder path. Now for certain I knew I had control over the Radiant beings, but what if Dire were different? What if I couldn't control them? It was best to go with one that they could easily beat.... as least, I believe was easy given their numbers and skills.
Getting into position, and of course siphoning a bit of magic from Pinkie, I went into the agility pool and found the one I would use. Tapping her icon, the world around me slowly went green.
3rd POV
As Drake's world turned green, the ponies saw his body start to change, much like the other times. Only this time... it was different. His skin had turned a pale grey color with some glowing white crack in the center of his chest. From his shoulders, hands, feet and head, he was covered in some kind of darkgreen/blue armor. The shoulderpads were of two parts, the lower part straight and the upper part curved up. The helmet covered his head from chin up, all the way to a black tail like feature on top. The oddest part was the gloves and feet seemed to be in some kind of ethereal like, sea green flame. In both hands, he held a pair of sword that also glowed with the flame. The only shocking part was.... he had breast.
When the green faded and he looked at them all with his glowing eyes, he spoke in a feminine voice "Phantom Assassin!". When he looked down, he did the one thing that made the ponies jaws go unhinged. He planted his swords in the ground, reached his hands up.... and groped himself. All around him the ponies stared slackjawed.... all except Derpy who looked confused and Vinyl, laughing her flank off.
When Drake looked up to see why everyone was surprised, some part of him told him to dodge as he leaned left and dodged Rainbow's charge. They were ready to fight and he was as well.
