Chapter 14: The Quincy of Imagination Part 2
Two Hours Later
After showing the others the rest of Ponyville, we head back out to the edge of town.
“And that’s pretty much it, just surprised we didn’t see Pinkie at Sugarcube Corner, though I can guess why,” I say glancing at Giselle.
“Whatever you pyjama wearing Soul Reaper,” she retorts.
“My sense of dread is detecting a group of ponies heading towards us,” Gremmy says.
“Who could that be?” Lotus asks only for a rainbow coloured blur sending Gremmy into a tree. “Oh, never mind.”
“Why am I always getting hit?” Gremmy asks and gets back up.
“This them, Pinkie?” Rainbow Dash asks Pinkie Pie.
“Not him, her! She’s the Evil Enchantress!” Pinkie says pointing to Giselle.
“Hey, I’m not evil! Okay maybe a jerk at times, but I’m not evil!” Giselle says glaring at the pink pony.
“Uh-huh, and my coat colour is blue with yellow polka dots! Anything to do with zombies are evil!” she replies and without warning throws a cream pie at Giselle’s face.
Giselle wipes the pie off and glares at Pinkie. “Who throws a cream pie at somebody? I would’ve thrown an apple pie or a cherry one at best.”
Gerard walks in between the ponies and Giselle. “Five against one huh? This should be an interesting sparring match for me. Greetings pony Soul Reapers, I must say you have quite the impressive spiritual pressure than any of the low powered Soul Reapers I’ve met,” he says.
“Whoa whoa whoa, hold on there big guy!” I say and stand in between them. “I don’t need you beating up my friends, they’re still learning their Shinigami powers and I don’t want Celestia and Luna breathing down my neck on how they got roughed up…” I tell him.
“Fret not my Shinigami friend,” Gerard says as he pulls a tree branch from off a tree next to him. “They can use their weapons, skills, or whatever they have. I’ll just use this stick than my sword.”
“Well at least he’s using a stick then a sword this time,” Lotus says as she lands on my head. “Finally, I get to see The Miracle fight.”
“The what?” I ask her.
“Oh right, Gremmy never told you about their powers. Just like him all members of Vandenreich Sternritter have certain powers,” she tells me.
“And his are?” I ask.
“Ever fought against a giant before that wasn’t a hollow?” she asks me.
“Can’t say I have, the biggest thing I fought was a Menos Grande,” I reply.
“Well imagine that, but with Gerard and he’s a lot stronger in that state,” she informs me.
“Sounds like there’s a catch though, how does he get bigger?” I ask her while looking at Gerard.
“Of course he does,” Lotus says as she pulls out a bag of candy. “Just watch the show and you’ll see what I mean.”
“Why do I feel like I’m going to get in trouble for this?” I say and sigh.
“So you wanna throw down huh?” Rainbow Dash says to Gerard.
“That’s the attitude I love to see in my opponents! Let’s see what this world’s Shinigami’s can do,” he replies and lifts up the branch.
“Maiagaru Hiun!” Rainbow Dash yells out and her zanpakuto turns into her wing blades.
“Erm… I think I’ll just w-wait over t-there with O-Orihime…” Fluttershy says and quickly hides behind the redheaded girl.
“Oh Celestia… Rainbow just has ta pick a fight now don’t she,” Applejack says and facehoofs.
“Your friends can join in if they want? It wouldn’t matter to me anyway,” Gerard says. “All the miracles in the world won’t help you win against me.”
Rarity walks over to Fluttershy and sat down on a cushion she created with her magic. “I’m sorry, darling, but I just had a ponypedi and I don’t want to chip a hoof,” she says.
“An’ ah can’t risk gettin’ injured when apple buckin’ season is just around the corner,” Applejack replied.
Pinkie Pie is mumbling to her zanpakuto. “Sorry, dashie, but Myōgane says it isn’t time to reveal herself yet,” the party pony said and hops over to the others.
I just sigh and pick Lotus up off my head… “I knew I was gonna regret this,” I mumble and walk over to Dash, I draw my zanpakuto and summon my mask.
“Perfect! This should be an interesting fight!” Gerard says cheerfully.
“Just remember, Gerard, this isn’t a fight to the death so don’t go overboard,” Gremmy warns him.
“Relax, I won’t,” he replies.
“So, how do we start?” Rainbow asks.
“Mares first,” Gerard says and left an opening for us to attack.
I look at Rainbow and smirk. “Hey Dash, remember what I did to you when we first met?” I ask her.
Rainbow frowns and glares at me. “Yeah I remember, I still need to get you back for that,” she replies.
“Well, I’m gonna do the same thing now, that’ll be your cue.” I tell her and point my left middle and index finger at Gerard. “Bakudō number one. Sai!” I yell and Gerard’s arms are pulled behind his back.
Rainbow takes advantage of this and launches herself at the Quincy and plants all four hooves into his chest.
“Not bad for a first move, but you’ll need more then that to beat me,” Gerard says as he flexs his chest muscles causing Rainbow Dash to be thrown back.
I dash forward and use the back of my sword and swing at Gerard. “Sneak attack, nice move,” he says as he blocks my sword with his shield. “But predictable.”
I swing again making the Quincy block the attack again, Rainbow Dash flies in from behind and aims one of her wingblades for the back of his head.
“Interesting,” the Quincy grabs me by the head, and throws me at the oncoming pegasus from behind.
“SHIT!” I yelp and gather reishi under my feet and kick the air to avoid hitting Rainbow, but I end up crashing into the ground instead. “Ouch…” I groan.
“This would be good practice for the both of you,” Gremmy says appearing next to me.
“Why do I get the feeling that I’m just so underpowered for this moment…” I say and wipe the dirt off my mask.
“I’ll say this much, you’re stronger than Giselle and Liliotto,” Gremmy tells me.
“Hey! I take offence to that!” Giselle yells.
“Thanks for the pep talk... “ I reply and get into my Bankai pose and dismiss my mask. “BAN-KAI!” I shout and charge Gerard now that I’m in my Bankai form.
I start to run around the Quincy leaving after afterimages behind me.
“Err… Does anypony else know which one is Ichigo?” Twilight asks the others while trying to keep up with my speed.
“I lost track after the fifth after image to be honest,” Gremmy answers. “I’m not very good when it come to stuff like that.”
“I think it’s the one on the left, no wait the one on the right,” Giselle says as she tries to find the real Ichigo. “Gah! Stop moving around so we can find the real one!”
“You have the speed of a Captain… but.” Gerard unhooks his shield and tosses it right at my face. “You still need to use a better tactic than afterimages.”
“I’m surprised he’s able to use a move like Captain America does,” Gremmy says.
“Bugger me!” I yell as the shield just misses my face. “Quick, Dash! Facehugger!” I yell to the sky blue pegasus.
Dash quickly flies at Gerard and latched onto his face with all four legs wrapped around his head, I dash forward now that he’s blinded and finally landed a blow with the back of my sword into the Quincy’s stomach.
“Cute trick, but you’ll need more the that to bring me down.” Gerard pulls Rainbow Dash off his face and throws her at my face instead. “Tell you what, I’ll let you both hit me with the deadliest moves you got.”
I push the dizzy pegasus off my face and stand up. ‘Zangetsu, can I use my mask in my Bankai form yet?’ I ask my zanpakuto.
‘With the training you’ve been doing, only for about twenty seconds I believe,’ he replies.
‘Good enough,’ I say and form my mask.
I gather my reiatsu into my sword and raise it above my head. “Getsuga, TENSHOU!” I yell and release the pent up energy as I swing down and a large black beam carved through the ground leaving a large scar in the land as it flies towards the Quincy.
“Now that’s what I’m talking about!” Gerard says as the attack makes contact sending him flying into an abandoned house.
My mask crumbles off and my Bankai fades away, I collapse onto the ground exhausted. Two bright flashes of light blinds everyone as the two Princesses appear with their zanpakutos drawn.
“Ichigo! What is going on!? We felt thy magic rise exponentially!” Luna yells out and spots me on the ground, she gallops over and lifts me up onto her back with her magic. “What happened here?” she asks me.
“Sparring match between Ichigo and Rainbow Dash verses Gerard The Miracle,” Gremmy answers.
Celestia walked over to Gremmy with her sword still drawn. “And who are you? You resemble a pony…” she asks him with narrowed eyes.
“I’m a pony from this world’s future. Where we’re-” Gremmy starts but I manage to fire a Sho at his head.
“What did I tell you about that!” I weakly scold the Quincy and go limp on Luna’s back.
“Ugh again you’re just as worse as Buzz Killington over there,” Gremmy says pointing to Buzz while drinking tea with Fluttershy and Orihime.
“Again I resent that remark good sir,” his double replies.
I groan in pain and irritation. “Just tell them the damn truth… I’m gonna be sore in the morning…” I tell Gremmy.
“Fine but before I do that.” Gremmy tosses a flask filled with a strange green liquid at me which Luna catches with her magic. “Drink that, it’ll restore your health and fix any damage you received before the fight.”
Luna examines the flask. “What is in this? It resembles some kind of poison,” she says and sniffs at the contents.
“For your information that potion was made by my world’s Luna. I’m pretty sure… Crap I forgot they’re still on the phone,” Gremmy says as Giselle tosses him his phone, only to hear Luna and Night Glider still arguing with each other. “Okay they’re still on the phone.”
“Why can we hear our voice?” Luna asks looking at the phone.
“That would be my Luna arguing with Night Glider…” Gremmy tells her.
“Then thou mean thee are similar to Ichigo and the last group of humans that were here?” she asks the Quincy.
“Yes…. Wait last group?” he asks.
I quickly snatch the flask out of Luna’s magic and down it, I shudder and jump off Luna’s back.
“Holy crap that works better than the stuff the fourth squad gave me… and it tastes better too,” I say as the flavour of apples lingers on my tongue.
“You can thank Applejack for that, she’s good when it comes to making potions like that,” Gremmy informs us.
“Ah what? Ah can’t make potions… Now if’in it’s cider ya lookin fer,” Applejack says confused.
“Not you, my world’s Applejack, she and the rest of her friends are Quincy’s thanks to me,” he replies.
“Oh… Kinda like how we’re Shinigami’s thanks to Ichigo and the Elements?” Twilight asks.
“In a way yes, but I just simply transferred a bit of my powers to them,” he tells her.
“You can do that?” she asks with surprise.
“Yeah, it’s not that hard really,” Gremmy says as he jabs himself in the chest and pulls out an orb of reishi. “It’s not that hard really, though you might want to be careful about doing it.”
“Why?” I ask while I stretch my muscles.
“It’ll leave you drained for a month or two, seeing how your body will have to calibrate itself for the sudden lost of power,” Gremmy replies.
“Wait… Does that mean I could use a Quincy bow then?” I ask Gremmy.
“In a way yeah. Though you’ll only fire one arrow at a time seeing how you’re not a Quincy and your reishi is more on the physical side.”
“Hmmm, still a ranged weapon could be useful and more subtle… My getsuga ain’t exactly discreet,” I say.
“True, it’s pretty much a target for anyone to see you. So, I take it you want me to give you the power of a Quincy?” he offers.
“Sure, if it’ll make me stronger and give me more options in a fight I’m all for it,” I reply.
“Alrighty then,” Gremmy levitates the orb in front of me. “Just touch the orb and you’ll have the power to make a bow just like a Quincy does. Just a heads up you might have some weird side effects that will last for a week or two,” he warns me.
“Side effects? Like what?” I ask as I eye the orb.
“Burping bubbles, floating in mid air, transforming into a female which lasts only for a day, laser eyes, and I think from what Pinkie Pie said she gained the power to summon giant cakes.”
Pinkie Pie is suddenly in Gremmy’s face using her shunpo. “She can do WHAT!? Oh oh oh, can I do that to? Pweeeease!” she begs the Quincy.
“Um… Sure… Just give me a second. I need to get somepony to help me out with that,” Gremmy says as he opens a portal. “This will only take a second,” he tells us and he jumps into it.
“You know I just realized something,” Lotus says.
“What?” I ask while walking around the orb.
“Whatever happened to Gerard?” she asks, only for her question to be answered as a giant hand appeared out of the building he was thrown into. “Oh right, nevermind.”
Everyone’s heads slowly lean back as the giant Quincy slowly gets up. “Bloody hell… Has he been jacking up on steroids!?” I say stunned.
“Gerard M Valkyrie, The Miracle, whatever damage you dish out on the guy he can transfer it into energy to make himself become a giant.”
I look at Lotus and then back up at Gerard. “Nope, nope nope sooo much nope. Fuck that you win, I give up,” I say while shaking my head quickly.
“Oh you have no problem facing a hollow, but when it comes to something like that you’ll give up in a heartbeat?” Lotus teases me.
“How do I beat someone who just grows bigger the more you spank him? My full power getsuga didn’t even leave a mark on him,” I retort.
“Oh come on you can…. Okay never mind you’re fucked if you met this world’s Gerard,” she tells me.
“Duh, I’m still training, hell I think I could even control my fully hollowfied form with enough time and practise,” I reply.
“I’m actually surprised that the Soul Society hasn’t noticed us here. Especially seeing how Gerard is giving off a huge amount of Reishi,” Giselle says.
“Okay I’m back,” Gremmy says as he hops out of the portal with his Pinkie Pie. “What did I miss?” he asks.
My Pinkie just pointed a hoof at the towering Quincy. “Oh hey, it’s been awhile since you took up your god size Gerard,” Gremmy says.
“I was planning on fighting Ichigo in this form, but he submitted defeat,” Gerard says in disappointment.
“What? I just don’t have the power to fight something like that, I know that an Arrancar could kick my ass right now,” I say in my defence.
“You’ll reach that level soon, but for now allow me introduce to you Pinkie P Pie,” Gremmy says and gestures to an anthropomorphic Pinkie.
“Hi!” she says.
The ponies all look… scared. “Land sakes! Now there’s two of em!” Applejack says in alarm.
My Pinkie gasps and tackles Gremmy’s Pinkie with a hug.
“Oh my gosh! It’s four legged version of myself!” Gremmy’s Pinkie says as she hugs her alternate universe version back. “Finally I can cross off my list of things to do in other worlds,” she says as she pulls out a check list. “Now all I need is to throw a party in a different world and I’ll be halfway done.”
I just stare at them for a few seconds before looking back at the orb. “Well, let’s get this over with then.” I say and grip the orb with my left hand.
The orb changes into a keychain that wraps around my wrist and just dangles there, but something feels off to me. I look down and notice my chest was sticking out and my hair is covering my eyes.
“What the fu…” I start speaking but shut my mouth. “You gotta be fucking kidding me! Out of all the side effects this is the one that starts!?” I yell in frustration. ‘Of course, out all the effects Gremmy said there are, I get the gender swapped one, FUCK!’
‘For once, I agree, this feels fucking embarrassing!’ Bob says, I guess he was effected as well since he sounds like a girl now. Oh god, what does Zangetsu look like now?
The others giggle and chuckle at my predicament.
“Well that’s weird. Usually they would start out with burping bubbles or shooting lasers from their eyes… This is the first time someone started with the gender bending side effect,” Gremmy comments.
I just glare at the Quincy. “You’re enjoying this aren’t you,” I accuse him.
“I’m enjoying the fact that I’m away from Luna and Night Glider. This is pretty much a normal thing for me,” he replies.
I sigh and hold up my left hand. “Whatever, is there an instruction manual for this?” I ask. He did say this should only last a day.
“Just transfer your reishi into the keychain and it’ll form into a bow,” Gremmy explains.
I hold out my left arm and poured my reiatsu into it and a black longbow forms. “Why is it black? I thought they were blue,” I ask as I look the bow over.
“Hollowfication remember? Just like how your attack colour is black, so is your reishi,” he tells me.
“Huh,” I mumble and pull the string back, a black arrow forms and I release the arrow across the open field. “Well, at least it works,” I say and start walking towards the others, only to stop mid stride. “Jesus christ, you have no idea how weird this feels!” I say, the feeling of my junk not there and my chest jiggling is creeping me out, I continue walking and the bow fades away.
“Not gonna lie, but you do look kinda hot,” Lotus says causing everyone to look at her. “Judge me all you want but I’m entitled to say what I want,” she tells them.
Orihime steps up to me with a giggle. “She’s right, you make a pretty girl,” she teases me.
“Gee, thanks. I can just feel my masculinity slipping away,” I grumble.
“Could be worse, at least you’re not being fought over by two mares,” Gremmy says and he turns the volume on the phone up.
"You bitch! How dare you insult your Princess of the night like that!" Luna yells.
"I just did you old hag!" Night Glider retorts.
"Flat chested bimbo!"
"Cake gobbling whore!"
"Celestia’s the one that eat cakes! You little brat!" Luna tells her.
“They sound like the best of friends,” I say sarcastically, It’s going to take awhile to get used to my new voice… again.
“I’m surprised Celestia isn’t doing anything about it,” Gremmy says.
My Celestia walks over and sighs. “If she’s anything like me, she’s probably busy with court duties, I had to cancel court for the rest of the day just to come here,” she says and looks at the phone. “Luna, behave yourself, that is no way for a Princess to act,” she scolds the Luna on the phone.
"...Gremmy, are we on speaker phone?" Luna asks.
“Pretty much yeah for the past two to three hours,” he replies.
"..." *Click* Huh, she hung up.
“Well, that was unlady like,” Rarity says while my Luna was red faced.
I giggle at her embarrassment. “Wait, did I just fucking giggle!?” I ask with horror on my face.
“The effect will last for a few weeks, just try to cope with it until the next side effect kicks in.”
“Oh! I hope it’s the cake one, because that one was fun!” Gremmy’s Pinkie says as she gives my Pinkie Pie an orb filled with her reishi.
My Pinkie just stares at the the orb with a look of worship. “This will give me cake power right?” she quietly asks.
“Yep! The power to make unlimited amounts of cakes!” Gremmy’s Pinkie exclaims.
“GIMMIE!” My Pinkie yells and ate the orb, a bright flash of light blinds everyone and once it clears, Pinkie is just sitting there looking just the same. “Oooooh, how do I make the cake now?” she asks the other Pinkie.
“Just think of a cake you want to make and just snap your fingers or hooves silly.” she replies.
“Okay!” And with that, Pinkie clopped her hooves together and a three metre tall multilayered cake with chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, lemon, and other flavours all stacked together appears.
Celestia starts drooling at the sight.
“Huh, I guess no matter what world you’re in Celestia will always love to eat cake,” Gremmy says.
Celestia blushes and glares at the Quincy. “Is there a problem with enjoying a slice of cake every now and then?” she asks him.
“Nothing wrong with that, but you might want to watch your weight though. You don’t want to be sluggish when fighting or sparring with somepony,” he replies.
“Are you calling me fat?” she asks him in a dangerous tone while levitating her zanpakuto.
“I said watch your weight, I didn’t call you fat. Also,” Gremmy points a finger at Celestia’s zanpakuto and it went limp like a wet noodle. “Don’t point stuff at me please.”
I just sigh and rub my face. “Gremmy, please put her zanpakuto back to normal, and Celestia, please put it away,” I say to them both.
“Fine.” Gremmy lowers his finger and Celestia’s zanpakuto returns to normal.
Once back to normal, Celestia teleports her sword away. “Very well,” she simply states and levitated a slice of vanilla cake over to herself.
Thirty Minutes Later
Everyone enjoyed the cake as they all chatted amongst each other, Orihime, Rukia, and Luna constantly teased me about my current problem while the Ponies all talked with each other.
Gremmy’s group had some as well but now it was time for them to return home.
I then walk up to Gremmy. “Thanks for the help with the hollow and the new bow, though the side effect I could have done without,” I say to him.
“Don’t mention it, before I go, who was it that warned you about me if you don’t mind me asking?” he replies and asks.
“His name was Nicko, he was a Rune Slayer from a game called Elsword. He only warned me that you were a Quincy, and after what you told me about the manga, I can see why,” I reply.
“.......If they do show up in your world, give me a call, and don’t fight them under any circumstances until you become stronger,” he warns me.
“Sure, oh by the way, since you gave me something, maybe I could give you Soul Reaper powers like Rukia did for Ichigo on the anime?” I offer him.
“Thanks, but I’ll have decline your offer Ichigo,” he says.
“Yeah, I don’t think being stabbed in the heart would be a pleasant way to get a new power anyway,” I reply and shudder, that would bloody suck.
“That and I’m already strong enough as it is seeing how I am the master of imagination,” he says and turns around.
“True. Well then, again thanks for the help. Just give me a call if you need help with anything, hopefully I’ll be stronger by then,” I tell him.
“Will do, see ya next time.” Gremmy says as he and the rest of the Quincy’s hop through the portal behind them.
I turn back to the others who are all looking at me with insane smiles on their faces. "The fuck you all looking at me like that for?" I ask and back away slowly.
"Well, thou art a mare now, even if it is just for a day," Luna says.
"I have the most wonderful idea for a dress for you," Rarity says with half lidded eyes.
"Oh this is so exciting! We can all have a slumber party! I've always wanted to try one of those!" Twilight says excitedly.
The others voice ideas and even a spa trip! "Erm, that sounds awesome and stuff... but I err, got things to do! Yeah, I think I left my oven on, see ya!" I turn to run but a gold and deep blue glow lifts me off the floor before I could use my Shunpo.
"Thou art going nowhere, Ichigo. Since we have no court for the rest of the day, we declare a mares day out!" Luna exclaims with the approval of the others and I can feel my stomach drop.
I breathe in a lungful of air and scream like a girl, "NNNOOOOOOOOO!"