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// Ripper 
// Story: A New Flashlight 
// by Neroson40 
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EQ Flash POV
It took Shining four days to get the portal working, and another two to convince me to take him with me. After that we had to wait an extra day for a Zebra friend of his who apparently studied witchcraft, which Twilight was skeptical about… until Zore (Pronounced Zo-ruh) used a temporary perception spell to show her the Breaklands. Apparently that’s how witchcraft operates ninety percent of the time, who knew? Twilight wiped the runes away from her eye and made me promise something.
“If you ever have to go to the Breaklands again… don’t overdo it,” She said. “We can’t lose you.”
“I know,” I said. “I promise.” I hated it. The fact that in another world I could be severely hurt, and that was dragging me away from Twilight and my unborn child. Yes, by the way, it was confirmed that Twilight is… y’know, expecting my foul. I searched the small gathering of friends and found my big sister Starlight and Base. I made sure that Twilight would at least tell Starlight about Kayen and how he was responsible for the crimes Starlight thought she did. As for base, I had one more thing to ask from him.
“Kiddo?” I said.
“Yeah?”
“Can you take care of Twilight, and Starlight, and this place while I’m gone?” I said. “I’m sure they don’t need it, but I’d feel better if somepony available could watch them.”
“You sayin’ my mouth would make some promises my legs couldn’t keep?”… Well that came outta nowhere. And so did Pinkie blowing a kiss towards... something in a very cartoony fashion.
“Goodnight Everybody!” she said loudly… it was then that I realized why she did… that, and what she was doing for most of… whatever “this” was.
“Nah, I just… I just wanna be sure you’re fine.” Soarin stepped forward and put a hoof on Base’s head.
“Ironsparks and I… will be checking in every now and then, to make sure nothing blew up.”
“Thanks,” I told him. “By the way, Shining and I recently received a complaint from the Wonderbolts about you retiring, is it true?” he looked away awkwardly, but the remark seemed to get Rainbow Dash’s attention.
“I was at the height of my career, so I could only go down from there,” He said. “More importantly, two certain someponies need me even more than they do.” Again if you’ve got talent, you need patience and passion. I was one of the “Someponies,” but if you can’t figure out who the other one was, have someone lock you in your room for the rest of the day. That was enough distractions; Shining, Zore and I braced ourselves for a wild ride, and stepped through the mirror.

CH Flash POV
School. I wasn’t entirely thrilled about it, but at least I could get… something out of that Monday. It would’ve been better to work and listen to lectures than listen to doctors discuss and bicker over stuff you know is happening in your body, while making it sound overly complicated and having nowhere to go. Starlight made breakfast for the three of us, Base was getting ready for Third Grade, and I was eating my toaster waffles while wondering what happened to our parents.
I ate quickly, still having an hour before I had to leave when I heard the Doorbell ring. I heard Base answer it and yell back into the house “Flash, it’s your girlfriend!” I was intrigued to say the least. So I went to the door to see who this “Girlfriend” of mine would be, hopefully cute. When I got to the door… it was the teacher!
“Hello Flash,” she said. Violet skin, purple hair with a pink streak, purple eyes behind wide-rimmed glasses. “I’m Twilight Sparkle, we went on a couple dates before… you know.”
“Aren’t you a teacher?” I asked. Did I feel stupid? Wouldn’t you? But she just laughed a little bit, like I said something I didn’t know was ridiculous.
“No, I was tutoring then, I’m a student. You and I normally walk to school together since our houses are on the same route to school. I thought I should come get you and help you to school… in case you forgot where it was.” If I ever heard a herd of bull… no homophone intended, this would be it. She just wanted to spend time with me, though I had to wonder why. That was probably the amnesia talking because I still didn’t remember a lot about myself. I just took the offer. Bad idea, as I noticed things on the way to school that kinda gave me the creeps.
First thing I noticed, there was a guy in a grey coat with the hood up popping up along the road to School. Second, I heard a few voices saying the same thing in unison, “Sentry, Sentry, Sentry,” over and over. Finally, and Twilight noticed this too, but everything looked red and started randomly flying and remaining suspended in the air.
“Is this normal?” I asked.
“No…” Twilight said. “This never happened before!”
“SENTRY!!” a voice yelled from the school building. We turned around slowly and saw a decrepit winged hunchback with claws the length of his legs. He jumped down from the roof and landed in front of us, showing his deformed, incomplete face.
“Twilight, run,” I said.
“What!?” she said. “Why!?”
“He’s after me, just get out of here!”
“I’m not leaving you!” the thing raised its claws and got ready to bring it down on my neck, when someone had the nerve to Whistle, causing it to stop and look towards the Wondercolt statue, upon the mane of which stood the guy in the grey coat holding a sword on his shoulder and wearing the hood down. That face… how was it possible!?
“Target identified. Bloodripper. Mid-class Breaklander, Rank A. I can’t let you hurt him!”
“Two!?” the thing, probably Bloodripper said. “Two targets!?” the guy on the statue jumped into a shadow and popped up between us.
“You don’t leave now, you’re not gonna get the chance to regret your decision,” He said. In response, Bloodripper roared and tried to tear the stranger in two, but he got stabbed straight through the torso. “Dead.” Bloodripper disintegrated like sulfer.
“Who are you?” I asked. He turned around, put the sword away, and said something so unbelievable that I’m surprised I believed it.
“I’m you from another world… for sanity’s sake call me Master Chief.”