//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 // Story: The Breach // by Mondays Dawn //------------------------------// A/N: I have decided where I'm going to end this story, and the basics for the storyline. Also, I want to say that now I have different things for saying where and who it is showing from the position of, (it's still 3rd person though) -_place_- _-persona-_ . Anyway, on with the chapter. Chapter 5: _-Day Mode-_ Midnight awoke several hours after dawn, he found there not to be much to do that wouldn't reveal him to the village not far from their cave, so he went back inside, and tried to go back to sleep. -_The Echo_- Midnight found himself in a small valley, in the surrounding area, he found that this was an area called 'The Echo,' also known as a dream world, when he realized this, he quickly looked for anything of symbolic nature, as the Echo was said to be a place only accessed when one sees the future. After a few minutes, he found a town, it seemed a bit odd, but that was likely because he was in another plane of existence. Midnight then looked up, and saw the sun and moon overlapping, creating a solar eclipse, suddenly, Midnight was standing before… a shadow, a black 'thing' slowly came into existence, and walked toward him. Then, Midnight woke up. -_Reality_- When Midnight awoke again, he noticed that it was starting to get dark out, and began to pack up all the things which had been taken out the night before, with the exception of Fire Storms bedroll. Midnight then willingly accepted the darkness. _-Night Form-_ When Midnight awoke, he saw all of his stuff was packed up, and decided to get some water for the trip to Ti's border town. The lake water was cool and refreshing, Midnight also ate a small amount of grass and an apple, and then went to wake up Fire Storm. Unfortunately, the first thing midnight tried was nudging her. This resulting with him getting second degree burns, the bright side to this, was that his screams of pain woke her up. After tending to his wounds, Fire Storm looked over their supplies, and then explained that she thought that they could reach the town in half a night, then they would find a place to stay until morning, when she would find someone to get beat up by either of his forms. After a quick agreement, they began the walk to their next location. -_Time skip to: end of the walk_- (- this just means I'm skipping some of the boring part) \Really, a bee's nest? Even I don't fail that badly/ "You would in collecting honey, trust me" \No, I don't think I would have let the entire nest get to me. I would have just jumped into a body of water and waited for them to leave./ "We'll see" "So, exactly how far are we?" Midnight asked Fire Storm "We're almost there, it's just over that hill." Midnight then galloped up the hill, and saw the town below him, he could see ponies harassing each other, and said, "well, it looks like we won't have to look for someone for me to beat up after all." \True that./ "Indeed," said Fire Storm, "we could do this right now, and we could call your transformations a spell backfire induced mutation, couldn't we?" "Ok, lets do this," Midnight said, as he began to walk toward the town, from what he could tell, there were still more than a few hours left of the night. Upon entering town, Midnight and Fire Storm were then eyed by all of the residents of the town. Then, one foolish stallion walked up, and said something so sexist and provocative to Fire Storm even Midnight was disgusted. Midnight, now enraged at the stallion, cast a spell, creating a pure black club, and proceeded to beat him roughly one third to death. The stallion then ran off, and a guard then ran up and said' "your under arrest! Lie down on your front and put your hooves behind your back!" As to be assumed, Midnight complied, so far everything is working, let's hope it stays that way, he thought to himself. Then the police knocked him out, and all was black once more. Midnight awoke one hour before sunrise in a cell, he tossed a small stone at the guard, who woke up with a startle, shouting "Who's there? Oh, its just you. I could get you hung for that," "Actually, I was just trying to wake you up so that somepony who is your superior doesn't find you sleeping on the job. Also, so that nopony thinks I ran off, I need a witness to see me change back." "Change back?" The guard asked, now intrigued. Midnight suddenly remembered his cover story, and said, timing it with the suns rise "Yes, a few years ago, one of my spells messed up and caused me to change form at night, at dawn my horn breaks in half, and my entire color scheme reverses. This should happen any moment." Followed by Midnight collapsing and changing into his day form. _-Day Form-_ When Midnight finished transforming, he stood up, and said to the guard, "I apologize if my 'night' form gave you any trouble sir. Also, exactly how long am I going to be in here?" The guard, visibly shaken by the sudden transformation, said "Y-your hearing isn't until tonight, at least that's what I was told." "Thank you kindly mister…" Midnight trailed off. "Oh, I'm Cloud nova, second in command of law enforcement here." "oh, well thank you Mr. Nova. Also, before I forget, what is the punishment for what I did?" Midnight said. Nova then stated, "Depends on your plead; if you plead guilty, you will be deported on the spot, and have to pay a fine, if you plead innocent, then you will have to sit through your trial, and then if found guilty, you will be sent to jail for 2 years, then fined and deported. In your position, I would plead guilty." "Thanks," Midnight said, and went to sleep on the cold cell floor. -_The Echo_- Upon entering the Echo, Midnight noticed everything was exactly as it was when he left, including the black… thing, standing right in front of him, whom he now noticed was saying something. He heard it say, "What is one shall become two, when that which is two becomes one." "What does that even mean?" Midnight asked, obviously confused by the question. The being suddenly started to disappear into the shadows created by the dream eclipse occurring overhead. Midnight suddenly ran in the direction he had seen a town in during his last dream, and saw something which surprised him more than anything he could have expected. Then, he was pulled out of his dream. -_Reality_- Midnight woke up a few minutes before sunset by Cloud Nova, who said, "As soon as you transform, we have to go to your trial." "Well it's not like I can just transform at will. So hold your horses." Then the darkness took over once more. _-Night Form-_ As soon as the transformation was finished, Midnight was bombarded with information from his day form for him, everything he was told by Cloud Nova. "So, shall we get going?" Midnight asked. "Yes, follow me," Nova said plainly, as he lead Midnight out to the vehicle meant to bring him to his hearing. The drive was long and boring. The trial was, sadly, no different, and, Midnight was deported on the spot, just like Nova said he would be. Fire Storm then had to spend all her bits on a combination of Midnight's fines, and a ticket so that she could come with me, as it turns out, the ticket cost more than Midnight's fines. "well, here we are," Said Midnight. "Indeed," Said Fire storm. Suddenly, several roars were heard, and a group of quicksilver manticores, whom Midnight instantly recognized as the same ones he had dropped off of Evisica a month or so back, he instantly shot out 3 bomb spells, which were designed only to destroy mercury. The pitch black explosions created a sound which likely made it around the world rather quickly, temporarily deafening him, and everyone else around him, but it did its job, the manticores were slowly reforming, but were still affected by the explosion enough that they stopped. The ship's captain began to rapidly shout orders to his crew, who responded surprisingly quick. Well, when you consider the manticores made of liquid metal that would kill them if they got to the ship, it seems natural. I made another layer of anti-mercury mines, and set them up around the port using displacement magic. The manticores dumbly ran into the second volley of bombs, and were destroyed, by that point, we were already mostly to sea. The hard part was over. That's all for now, this fanfic is approaching its end. I own nothing but my OC's, which Cloud Nova is one of them, and the quicksilver manticores. MaDmAN12435 Falling out.