The Hospital:May 14th, 3:30PM
Zaps' eye lids slowly began to open, his visions too blurry for him to see as he let out a soft groan. He turns his head left and right, soon as he turned only to see three figures, two were sitting down one was reading while the other was writing. The other one was pacing back n' forth closely by his sickbed. His vision began to slowly clear up, two figures that he could easily recognize was Screecher as he was nibbling on his own finger nails with a intensely worried expression. The other was Sunset Shimmer, she was writing something down in her journal with a Social Study book beside her. The one beside her was new and looked a bit more older than the two. It was a male with a pail toned skin with black colored hair, and red eyes making him seem to look more like a vampire, a vampire who wore an ugly sweater while reading through a newspaper articles. Zap weakly raised his left arm placing his hand over his forehead, letting out a gentle groan.
"S-Screecher?... S-Sunset...?"
He said in a gentle voice, the three immediately turn their heads towards him as Screecher and Sunset eyes grew wide. Tears began to roll down Screechers' cheek at the sight of seeing Zap alive.
"ZAP!!!"
Screecher shouted, quickly wraps his arms around Zap hugging him tightly. Zap only chuckles softly, patting Screechers' back gently.
"H-Hey buddy... boy did I had a strange dream... I was in hell and some feminine like Grimm reaper took me off to help control my dark powers... but she only said and did stuff that only pissed me off... not much help at all."
Zap gently groaned, rubbing her forehead. He slowly sits up while letting out groans, Screecher let go of him before wiping his tears off his cheeks. Sunset closes her journal and book stood up, takes a few steps close to Zaps' sickbed.
"You feeling ok, Zap? Screecher and I were worried about you after Inferno attacked you."
"Yeah, what gotten in to you? You turned all dark and gruesome right after Inferno gave your arm fourth degree burn."
Zap looks at his right arm, seeing it wrapped in bandages as he sighed.
"I see but I don't what gotten into me back then... Sigh But I sure hope there won't anymore crazy events happening again."
"Unfortunately Lightning Warrior, that wish is unlikely going to come by now..."
They all turn their attention towards the male as he folded his newspaper before standing up. He adjusted his glasses, taking a few steps closer to Zaps' sickbed before clearing his throat.
"It is an honer to meet the son of a famous elite warrior, Ace Stormwing. But I'm afraid this "crazy events" is only just the beginning for what truly lies ahead for you."
"Ok, who are you? And what the hell do you mean by "is only just the beginning"?
Zap asked.
"My name is Cobra, prince of Kryo. And to get one thing out of the way our scout Inferno Blaze, didn't intentionally assaulted you. He had a dark crystal lodged into his neck and it made him go berserk. But if you want to know, he's alright but I'm very curious, how in the ancients did end up with such dark power in the first place?"
"It's hard to remember how, so much has happened, and been out cold for quite awhile. I can't even remember when and where, sir."
"I think I can help you remember, Zap."
Sunset replied, they turn heads towards her as Cobra raised an eyebrow.
"Well from what I can remember from your story Zap, you said about being imprison by a baron named Dark Dragon..."
"Wait! Baron Dark Dragon?!"
Cobra interrupted her as she nods in reply.
"You know who he is?"
Screecher asked.
"Of course, he was once our first lieutenant during the war against the Primals. But he betrayed us and now served a evil alicorn called The Dark Queen."
"What do you know about this Dark Queen? All I've heard about it was in some spooky campfire stories."
Zap asked, crossing his arms.
"What you heard from those stories were true. She's shadow pony who captures any living organism and preforms this type mutation methods called "Dark Mutation", turning any living thing into savage blood thirsty dark mutants. And now, our foes have found this world, The Dark Queen hidden somewhere in the city waiting until its' midnight when the full moon is out."
"And what will happened next...?"
Sunset asked, Cobra took off his glasses cleaning his lends before placing them on.
"When that happens, her powers will grow and everyone in this world fates will be sealed."
Zap sighed, as he facepalm.
"On the first day waking up from a coma, what do I hear first? More trouble, great!"
He groaned.
"Fine, what do you want me to do? Because I'll be dealing with allot of things trying to kill me so, why complain?"
Cobra let out a snicker slowly forms a faint smirk.
"That's the spirit, Zap! Once you get all dressed and ready, meet me at the junkyard. Then, we'll be discussing certain tasks you should do for your first day. See you there, Stormwing."
Cobra turns away and heads down the hallway towards the exit of the Hospital.
"...Do any of you guys know where my clothes are?"
Zap asked, Screecher grabs his cloths stacked from a small counter beside his sickbed placing them on his lap.
"I'll be near the exit whenever you're done dressing up, Zap."
Screecher heads out the exit while gawking at a few young nurses along the way. Zap let out a sigh before slipping on his new gloves.
"So, how Screech been doing so far?"
He asked.
"He's actually been less obnoxious over the past two months since you were in the hospital. He's been very worried since the doctors confirmed you were in a coma."
Sunset replied, Zap began to snicker.
"Yeah, he can be a bit annoying and almost unbearable at some point, but he's a real cool guy once you get to know or if you could."
"You're not kidding about him being unbearable sometime, I'm quite amaze you were able to."
Zap faintly chuckle before rubbing the back of his neck.
"I get that allot back home... Sigh if I had just listen to my uncle wish, none of this would have happened."
He lowers his head, facing the stack of his cloths on his lap letting out another sigh.
"Hey listen..."
Sunset places her hand on his shoulder as Zap slowly turns his head towards her, stared directly at her eyes.
"Don't be so down now, Zap. You know what they say, every tragic moment has a silver lining."
She said with a warm smile, Zap turn his head away.
"You could... Say it like that."
He faintly blushed at the thought of one of the silver linings he came across.
"Oh! I almost forgotten, I meant to give you this before we left for School."
"Hmm? What is it?"
She reaches for he backpack digging through before pulling out his Lightning sapphire necklace, this time had a new and more stronger string. She placed it on top of his cloth, Zap slowly picked up gazing upon it with eyes widen.
"M-My necklace..."
"Back when you came to this world, I accidentally ripped you necklace off as soon as you gain conscious."
She scratched the back of her neck letting out a gentle sigh. Zap looked back at her once more before he gave her a quick hug as Sunset blushed from his unexpected hug.
"Thank you so much for that accident! You have no idea how much this necklace means to me."
"E-Eheh, no problem I guess. And I can see how so, is it something to help you remember someone you cared?"
Zap went silent after her question looking back down with a quiet sigh.
"My father..."
Her smile immediately turned into a frown after she hear him mention his dad and assumed something bad might have happened to him.
"Oh... I'm very sorry to hear that."
Zap lets out one last sigh.
"It's fine, just give me some time alone right now... I'll meet you guys at the exit."
She nods gently pets his shoulder before exiting. Zap continued to stare at his necklace while in thought about his father.
"Father... If only I could meet you in pony, rather than just knowing who you are and your reputation... Sigh The dream..."
He adverts his thoughts to the "dream" he had, remembering the last thing he remembered before he woke up.
"I honestly hope all of that was just a dream but... I seem so real... Hmm.."
The Underworld: 10 Minutes Before Waking Up
"Congratulations! After months of trial and error you have finally completed your training."
Stella giggled as she smiled widely with her arms crossed behind her back.
"What training? All you was continuously annoy the crap out of me to piss me off!"
Zap shouted enraged, Stella only rolls her eyes tisking at him.
"Your dark powers are summon when you're in intense rage, this training is only to help control your anger as well as these powers. The ruler of the underworld hate to have countless souls lined up in a single day."
Zap collapsed on the ground, letting out a grunt in frustration. The female Grimm reaper groaned.
"Look, you're going to be facing stuff that'll piss you off ALLOT worse then how I did, so stop your complaining! Look would it make you feel better if I told you that you don't have look for some mythical light crystal shards?"
Zap immediately froze for a minute before he sat up as the two made eye contact to each other now.
"..You're kidding, right?..."
Stella shook her head with a smile.
"Nope! I actually read the wrong scroll message ever since you arrived."
She chuckled awkwardly, pulling out a scroll from under cloak unwinding it before clearing her throat.
"Mmm, this is in a very long description so I'll just sum it up short. You just need to find and absorb the magic from the Lightning orb, one of the five Power Orbs."
"E-Ehh, Power Orbs? Aren't those relics myths?"
"Ugh, you ask way too many questions. Just ask Cobra about those when you see him!"
She rolled up the scroll, slipping it back into her cloak.
"B-But how do I even absorb magic from an---"
A shimmer of light had shinned down upon Zap before he could even continue, he stared up in confusion. Not a moment later he was levitated up higher and higher at a slow pace. Soon as he notice he began freaking out.
"W-Wah?! Hey, what the hell?! What is happening?!"
Zap started to squirm around rapidly hoping it would result in freedom but atlas it was an utter failure. Stella waved at him with a snicker.
"This is your ticket out of here. Farewell, possibly may or may not see you again!"
"W-Wait what---"
He was pulled up immediately towards the source of the light before vanishing.
The Junkyard
The three were standing in front of the entrance of the Junkyard, it was quite noisy and faint chatting was also heard behind the wall. Zap took a few steps before knocking on the door three times. Not too soon a voice was heard, it had a deep western accent and sounded rather more of a male then feminine.
"Who's there?"
Said the unknown male, Screecher stood beside Zap as he cleared his throat.
"The motherfucking Griffin!"
Screecher shouted, the male grunt in response before opening the door revealing what he looks. The male had wore a plain white T-shirt, blue jeans, brown leather boots, and wore a brown hat over his head. His skin color was dark brown, his eyes colors were like emerald green and he had blond hair. He seem to be rather taller then Zap, he was holding what it looks like a crossbreed of a rifle and a shotgun in his right hand. He had his attention towards Zap with a faintly astonished expression on his face, having to come face to face with a Lightning Warrior for the very first time.
"Well golly, it's such an honer to finally meet a son of a legend himself."
The male said, as he tip his hat at him.
"Wait, what does he mean by "son of a legend"?"
Sunset asked, Zap had crossed his arms before closing his eyes.
"I'll explain later about that. We're here to see Cobra, he said he had a "welcoming" job for me?"
"Ah yes, he did mentioned to us about a new addiction to our cause-- But now it's not the time to chat here, get inside quickly!"
The male grabs Zap arms forcefully pulling him inside, doing the same to Sunset and Zap. He peeks his head out for just a quick second before closing the door, Zap and the other grunted as they got back up dusting the dirt off their cloths.
"Ugh, what the hell what that all about? Is this really how you welcome a newcomer?!"
Zap said angrily.
"I apologize for that, but we were told that we needed to keep a low profile to avoid getting the wrong attention."
"Just show us where Cobra is mister uh..."
"Mohawk and sure thing Zap. And while we're on our way, why not give you two a tour of our base."
Mohawk replied, walking towards the east side of the junkyard as the rest followed his lead. Both Zap and Sunset were looking around their surroundings, seeing people with weapons wondering around chatting to one another. A few or more had notice them walking by, most of them had their attention towards Zap. Some mumbling and a few whispering was heard but was hard for them to hear from the distant they were in. Zap tried not to make eye-contact towards any of them.
"Screecher I forget to asked, how did you or everyone here even got to this world?"
Zap asked curiously, Screecher scratch the back of his neck trying to remember the events that occurred afters Zaps' departure.
"Well, it all happened a month after you went through that portal. A couple royal Pegasus guards showed up at your uncles front door, they were requesting for you and I to head to Cobras' palace, but I told that you were already gone to another world so they took me instead. When we arrived Cobra had this huge crystal cluster in his Study room. He had preformed a spell that said be so advance but hardest to master..."
"Wait, what this advance spell?"
Sunset Asked.
"Its called the Crystal Dimensional Portal spell. Only unicorns in the element of Magic and had study Crystal Magic can try to learn this spell. But it said its practically impossible considering few have died trying to cast the spell. But for those who have learned and mastered it will have to take a huge risk, because when preformed it'll take quite the amount of magic within them and will cause a very nasty headache."
Mohawk replied.
"Hey! Can't YOU see I was trying to tell a story here?! Hmph! As I was saying, he cast the spell on the crystal opening the portal leading to this world. We went through and ended up near a building with some crystal like structure around the evening. But then we came cross their guard dog so we had to scram quickly."
Screecher'd snicker, Mohawk rolled his eyes.
"IT wasn't an actual dog, but that person sure was friendly as a guard dog. But anyway, we're here."
They all had stop a foot away from a large grey tent in front of them. Mohawk slide the curtains out the way as the three entered. Zap observed his surroundings, seeing mostly shelves filled with books, scrolls, and paperwork lying around the carpet that was placed under the dirt floor. Cobra was writing something down in of his scrolls, but what caught Zaps' attention was another person lying down on a sleeping bag. A female with skin color equivalent to charcoal, her eyes were dark blue as the batter of dark magic back at Graveyard Cove. She had long silky hair matching the same color ad her eyes. Her clothing style made her looked menacing like if she was apart of a aggressive gang. She were a black leather jacket, skirt, and a boot with three silver spikes. She had a two caste one on her right arm, and the other on her left leg. Her eyes were thinned when she first saw Zap walked through the entrance in shock but she avert her eyes away as soon as Zap looked back at her.
Zap stop in front of Cobra desk having his arm crossed. Cobra look up directly at letting a faint sigh.
"See you finally showed up from your trip from the hospital. So, ready to begin your "welcoming" assignment?"
"But first, I need to asked you a few questions..."
Zap replied, Cobra raised his eyebrow at him.
"I need to know, are these so called Power Orbs are really just legend?"
He asked, Cobra raised both his eyebrows before he clears his throat.
"To answer that question, no. They are real. Long ago during the war for Kryo, my mother Queen Liz banished all but the magic orb to another dimension, keeping Ashtrail from using them for something evil."
"Wait Ashtrail? Last time I saw him was after Screech and I defeated back at his fortress."
"Oh... About that, you didn't kill him.."
Zap eyes instantly thinned both his eyebrows raised up with his lower right eyelid twitched same goes for Screecher.
"W-Wait what?!"
Both Zap and Screecher said.
"Look, you didn't because the Ashtrail and his sister you thought you two fought against was just a powerful crystal dummies. Ashtrail killed his family along time ago only sparing his little niece. Beside, the plan that Screecher told sounded very ridiculous."
"S-So he's still alive?.."
They both asked.
"No, when we arrived to this world three years ago, a year later we detected a Primal in the area but at the same time, the signal we detected just vanished. As if... Something killed him already. But whatever it was that did, you two don't have to worry about him anymore."
They both sighed in relief.
"But, wouldn't that mean there's something more powerful then this Ashtrail?"
Sunset asked.
"Well Miss. Shimmer, if so the most likely that would be the Dark Queen. Probably by dumb luck..."
The girl in the caste lets out a huff in response to Cobras' insult. Cobra look over to her.
"Is there something wrong, Bella?..."
The girl slowly turn her head towards them, she let out faint grunts in the process.
"N-Nothing, its just that I wouldn't get too cocky if I was you.."
"Bella? Is that your wife or something?..."
Zap asked, both Screecher and Mohawk facepalm. Bella formed an disgusted expression as Cobra glares at him.
"That's my little sister, Mr. Stormwing."
Zap eyes thinned again as his jaw dropped, pointing at Cobra then Bella and back at Cobra.
Can WE get back to business?"
Cobra asked angrily, Zap slowly nod in response.
"Good! Now for your first mission, I want you and Inferno to go down into the sewers. We detected some Dark Mutant movement down there. We suspect that there must be a nest down there. Go down there, find this nest and destroy before more keep hatching."
"W-Wait Inferno? Are you sure about that? I-I mean not after last time..."
Cobra nod in response.
"I figured this would be the perfect way for you two to let bygones be bygones after that incident in Canterlot High. Just meet up with him at Zeeks' Lab at the west side of the Junkyard."
"A lab? In a JUNKYARD?"
Zap said in disbelief.
"You'll believe it when you see it. Now you two must be going, Mohawk continue your post until further notice."
Mohawk'd nods to his commands, walking out the tent.
"And Miss. Shimmer, mind staying her a bit before you leave? I only want to know everything that you know about Equestria."
"Oh sure thing, I'll be sure to fill you in as much as I can."
Sunset replied.
"And again for you two..."
"Yeah yeah yeah, we must head to the west side of the junkyard. Come on Zap, I'll show you the way."
Screecher interrupted, walking out the tent with Zap following heading down the opposite direction.
After ten minutes of walking, they spot a familiar figure up ahead. The figure seem to look allot like Inferno Blaze from behind, it was carrying a small cylinder tank behind with a fire hazard warning label. It also was carry two dual flamethrowers connected to the tank but had different color scheme on them, one was dark orange, and the other was green. They walked towards to the figure as Screecher shouted.
"Hey Inferno!"
"Oi?"
Inferno spoke in a Australian accent as he respond to Screecher before turning towards them.
"Hello there, mate---"
Inferno's eye thinned once he made direct contact with Zap.
"O-Oh u-uh hey there Z-Zap! H-How was y-your recov-very?
Inferno shuddered in fear as Zap lets out a sigh.
"Look, before we let bygones be bygones. I need to know, how did you turn into a savage monster back then?"
Zap asked calmly, Inferno lets out a deep sigh.
"Well alrighty then, I dunno how but while I was on my walking to school on the same day, someone in a cloak just stabbed that sliver into my neck! And bloody hell did it hurt badly, I couldn't see who's face it was until it was too late. After all that, I've blacked out. That's all I can remember but I'm really sorry for attacking you."
Inferno sighed once more, Zap rubs his chin gently.
"Hmm, who ever did this will be very sorry to have mess with us!"
"H-Huh? Does this mean...?"
Zap smiled before he nods.
"Mhm, letting bygones be bygones. Besides, we'll teach that person a lesson for harming a friend of mine."
Inferno stared at him in confusion soon as he heard "friend of mine".
"Y-You're befriending me? After all the trouble we had since?"
"Hey, what did I say? It's all in the past. How about we have a fresh start, m-mate?"
He slowly reaches his hand towards.
"GAAAAAY!"
Screecher shouted, the two turn their heads towards him with a frown before Zap slaps him behind his head.
"O-Ow!"
"Mate means friend/buddy you nincompoop!"
Inferno shouted, rolling his eyes as he looked back at Zap.
"Alrighty then, mate."
He shook his hand smiling back at him.
"So, where is Zeeks' Lab?"
Zap asked.
"Simple, just stay still aaaaaand..."
He pulled out a controller with one red button. Once he pressed a panel right underneath them had open, they all fell and side down a pitch black tunnel as they screamed while sliding down. Not too long they slid out the tunnel, Screecher landed first on top of a mattress, then Inferno on top of Screecher, then Zap on top of Inferno. Both Screecher and Inferno groan in pain getting off of each other. Zap observed around the area in awe, seeing the most basic laboratory essentials; machines, chemicals, beakers, parts of animals inside jars, and inventions of all sorts. The three hopped off the mattress, dusting themselves.
"Sooo, where is this Zeek?"
Zap asked, Inferno points towards a large desk with three computers. Zap heads toward the figure sitting in front of the computer in the middle as he slowly raises his arm and gave him just a gentle pat on it's shoulder. Not too long the figure freaked out for a short moment before having direct eye contact with Zap. Zeek was a young male with a robotic right arm and his left side of his face was metallic. He had slightly long silky red hair on his right side of his head. Surprisingly his left eye was in perfect condition, his eyes colors were violet. His choice of clothing were a bit odd, he work a white lab coat, dark purple buttoned shirt, a poke-a-dot tie, navy blue pants, and black boots. He was panting so heavily with his robotic hand placed on his chest.
"Are you Zeek?"
Zap asked, Zeek took a deep breath before calming down slightly.
"I-I-I-I am, and you must be the new recruit I was informed. E-E-Eh welcome to the Renegades, Zap!"
Zeek said while he shudders. Zap turn his head to Inferno with one of his eyebrow raised as Inferno rolls his eyes.
"Don't worry about this bugger, Zeek is kinda a total brain wreck."
Inferno whispered, Zap shrugged looking at Zeek again.
"So, Cobra said you had something to set me up on my first day or what?"
Zap asked once more with a stern look on his face.
"R-R-Right! Well of course, you can't just go down there unarmed. Here at Renegades our weapons are built to fit our soldier's element they're born as. N-N-Now considering that you're born in the element of Lightning, supplies here are quite plentiful in the recent years. And judging from your bio and your recent usage of w-w-weaponry that Screecher was willing to fill for us, I might have the perfect weapon for you."
"Great, more weapons. So what kind would it be, whip, crossbow, a sword?"
Zap asked with a sarcastic tone despite he wasn't being sarcastic. Zeek let out a chuckle.
"O-O-Oh please, none of those primitive weapons. Over the last two centuries since the G-G-Great Depression, our weaponry has advanced over the years. F-F-For your choice of weapons would be these."
Zeek grabbed two gun like objects from his desk, handing them over to Zap. The two guns were pistols looking exactly the same, with same blue color scheme, and lightning tattoos all over it. Zap hold one of guns in each of his hands observing them closely before looking back at Zeek.
"These are pistols... No rifles, rail guns, or rocket launchers or something?"
Zeek shook his head in response.
"N-N-No, those are for the higher rank soldiers. And these are not just b-b-beginners pistols, they are called Twin Lightning Bolts. T-T-Trust me, the damages they do will s-s-satisfy you. Now b-b-before you guy head out, y-y-you must be aware of the types of D-D-Dark Mutants that lurk down in the sewers."
Zeek turn to his computers and with one press of a button images appeared on all three of the screens. One the left side had a mutated black rat with dagger like teeth, fang like buckteeth, beating red eyes, and two tusk on each side of its jaws. The middle had a turtle standing on two legs, webbed feet and hand with long thin claws, and several rows of sharp teeth in its mouth. And the last image on the right computer was a giant snake with a spiny sail along its spins, thick scales, and giant fangs at front. Zap observed the images while rubbing his chin, thinking to himself.
"T-T-These are the three mutants we a-a-analyze after our first investigation. You two must down there, locate and destroy the nest or whatever source that's m-m-mutating these poor creatures."
"HEY! These two?! What about me? What am I suppose to do?!"
Screecher shouted, Zeek rolled his eyes.
"S-S-Screecher, you were suspended from any duty but k-k-keeping an eye out for any suspicious in Canterlot High, u-u-until further notice."
Zeek said, Zap looked at Screecher with an eyebrow raised before lets out a sigh and look back at Zeek.
"I'm not gonna bother to asked what he might did wrong. But before we leave, I need to ask you one small request."
Zeek raise his one eyebrow up at Zap, Zap clears his throat.
"I need you to get me enrolled for Canterlot High."
Zap requested, Zeek stroked his chin for a bit.
"So y-y-you want to be assigned to watch out for any strange occurrence at the s-s-school huh? You'll have to speak about that to C-C-Cobra about that. But d-d-don't get your hopes up, not after they know what happens if you get p-p-pissed off."
Zeek replied, Zap let out a sigh, remembering his returning to Canterlot High.
"Yes I know that the school would had raised their suspicions about me since then. But I'm different now and I'm willing to be apart of this assignment."
Zap said, Zeek placed his metallic hand over his forehead as he sighed.
"Just be careful Z-Z-Zap, I'll take to Cobra about your r-r-request. Now you two better head down the sewer right now."
"R-Right, so which way is the exit?"
Zap asked, Zeek pointed towards a ladder near the mattress.
"J-J-Just climb up that, it'll take right up to the surface now get out."
"Right! Let go Inferno."
Inferno nod in response as the two headed towards the ladder. Zap slip his pistols in both his pockets, climbing up as Inferno followed from behind.