Cruger was overseeing the repairs to the Delta Base. Grumm’s debut had caused a lot of damage to the surrounding area, and several dozen people were injured, luckily there were no fatalities.
Fetch came over with a damage report, “All teams are reporting that repairs are ahead of schedule. Assuming that nothing else happens, repairs will be finished by the end of the week.”
As soon as those words left his mouth, a hole opened up in the earth and four crystal pillars shot up around it. Out of it walked a nine-tailed fox, who looked extremely drunk carrying a resigned looking Trixie in some of her tails.
“Fetch,” Cruger said, “for invoking Murphy, I’m docking you 1 vacation day.”
“Yes sir,” Fetch replied remorsefully as he walked off.
“Ohhhhh. Look Trixie it’s a dogfish!” The fox said as she pointed at Cruger with a paw.
“Yes, yes this world has the diamond dog equivalent of the sea ponies.” Trixie said in a bored tone. “Can you put Trixie down now? And perhaps this time you can go through this world without razing the dead?”
“Look at the big dog house! Let’s go see what’s inside!” The fox shouts as she runs into the base through a hole in the wall.
“Oy, get back here!” Cruger called, chasing after them. When he got inside he found the fox with her back to the ice tea dispenser with her head leaned back with her mouth wide open letting the sweet tea poor into her mouth. Trixie just hanging there in the fox’s tails with a plate in her magical grasp eating a slice of pie like nothing was happening.
“So,” Cruger said, “Displaced?”
“She is.” Trixie confirmed. “And Trixie would like to apologize in advance for any pranking, raising of the undead, property damage, Unwanted hugs, or wedgies that may occur due to Rin being drunk off her plot. We’ve been world jumping for a while now and those are the most common things she does. She’s normally not this bad but… Trixie has learned to fear the effects of dwarven ale.”
“Unless you’re a dwarf of course,” Cruger said, “so, want some help?”
“Trixie would appreciate th- oh here we go again.” Trixie shouted as Rin took off into the hallway taking Trixie with her. When Cruger ran out the same door there was no sign of anyone there.
“Well then,” Cruger said to himself, “we’ve got a drunk nine-tailed fox of significant magical power running around my already damaged base. I’d ask how things could get any worse, but I am not a stupe.”
“Help!” called someone from deeper in the base. Cruger rushed towards the voice to find the Walker twins with their pants down and their naked butts super glued to the ceiling. What looked like a fox’s face drawn by a five year old marking their foreheads.
“Really?” Cruger said. The Walker twins had no comment. Cruger sighed as he went over to a wall panel. “Attention,” Cruger said over the intercom, “we’ve got a drunk Displaced in the base, extreme magical power, looks like a nine tailed fox and is carrying another verse’s Trixie. And send a member of engineering to section 1-14, with a ladder.” With that, Cruger went to find the fox, after snapping a picture of the Walker twins.
“This is Steam Gear, the fox is in the R&D department! Requesting immediate assistance! Oh dear Celestia not tha-!” The voice on the intercom cut out with a popping sound. “That...is not how you use the chicken gun.” The voice of Steam Gear wheezed.
“The fox has just entered the Runner Bay! She has grown into a giant and is painting the Delta Runners!” A Flare Blast said over the intercom.
Cruger facepalmed, “Teleportation, perfect.” All of a sudden, he grinned, “It’s a good thing she hasn’t tried anything to me yet.”
“Wait! She’s gone! And all of the Runners look like glorified clown cars!” Flare Blast shouted in anger. Looking around Cruger waited...and waited. When he was about to move on he felt a tug at his leg from a rope that was suddenly tied to it which dragged him into a nearby bathroom and stopped when he was in front of the stalls. He was only just barely warned of what was about to happen by the beeping sounds coming from inside the toilets before the water erupted from them like a row of geysers. Just before the water came down Cruger teleported out of the room. Out in the hall an invisible fox dropped her scrying spell with a frown.
“What’s going on? Normally you’d be laughing by now.” Invisible Trixie asked from the fox’s tails. Rin didn’t answer but turned around, to see Cruger standing there, sword on his shoulder.
“So,” he said, “are you going to stop with the Discord impersonation, or do I have to beat you until you reached the ‘passed out’ stage of being drunk?” Rin froze before slowly raising her head to look up at the displaced.
“Challenge accepted!” Rin called out before a hole opened up in the ground and she jumped in. Her invisibility melting away as she fell through.
Cruger jumped in afterward, finding himself in Ponyville. “So, you thought you’d be safe coming here?” he asked.
“Beep beep!” Rin shouted. Hopping with each beep before blowing a raspberry and cast the haste spell on herself before running down the street.
“Very well.” Cruger said before taking a deep breath, “PINKIE!!! THERE’S A NEW DISPLACED IN TOWN!!!”
“Where!!” Pinkie said as she ran up to him out of nowhere.
Cruger pointed, “By the way, she’s a little drunk, so we need to get her to sit still until she sobers up so she can enjoy her party.”
“Don’t worry,” Pinkie said as she pulled out her cannon, “I’ve got just the thing.” She fired the cannon, launching a barrage of tranquilizer darts, every one of which hit their mark.
Cruger looked at the aftermath, “Do I want to know?”
“Well, since that Grumm meany pants is turning nice ponies into giant monsters, I thought I’d find a way to help,” Pinkie explained. Rin and trixie just finished rolling painfully across the ground from Rin losing her balance at super speed. Both fox and pony groaned in pain as Rin tried to get up but her wobbly legs made it impossible.
“Ahh, ahh…. Achooo!” With that sneeze Rin fell over and pulled Trixie in to use as a teddy as she fell asleep.
“...Trixie is too tired to care.” Trixie grumbled before laying her head down and following the fox into dream land.
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The next day. (Rin’s POV.)
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“Ohhhhh… My head. What happened.” I groaned as I got up and look around at the unfamiliar room I’m in. The room looked normal enough except for the steel door and the strange things all over the floor. “What?” I asked aloud as I pick up a piece of old looking paper with what looks like a kid’s drawing of Horny with a friendly smile in crayen with the words ‘angel of mercy written at the bottom. “...If Horny saw this he would tear his way through the multiverse with the power of his rage to kill everyone on the planet this came from.” I groan as I collect everything on the floor with my magic and send it to my dungeon. I can tell by how stretched the connection with my heart is I’m off world but I can feel one minion near by. Using my sight of evil spell I can see Trixie in what looks like a cafeteria sitting with a blue dog man. With a grunt I create a portal to that location and walk through and sat next to the blue unicorn.
“Welcome back.” Trixie said making me groan again.
“Head hurts. Talk quieter please.” I request as I cast the create imp spell and send it to get me water to rehydrate. “What happened? I remember something about pokemon… Then we saved a dwarf kid and we had a party but nothing after that.”
“Well after you managed to drink an entire barrel of dwarven ale. By the way you are now an honorary member of the Iron Hyde clan for managing to drink all of that and not pass out. You let slip that you were royalty so the leader came down and got wasted for what the dwarves called drunk politics. Which they insisted was far more effective than regular politics and you entered a trade agreement with them and gave the head dwarf your token so you could find them again.” Trixie said with a wave of her hoof. “You’re now trading spider’s silk and gems for dwarven crafts.” I sigh in relief that I’m only trading what I can produce myself indefinitely.
“That’s impressive,” said Cruger, “I’m not sure even Luna could negotiate a trade agreement while drunk.”
“Well apparently the dwarves refuse to negotiate anything unless all parties involved are drunk.” Trixie said with a shrug. At this point my imp returns with a plate filled with glasses of ice water and I quickly took one and started drinking.
“Ok. So I made a great deal trading for the two things that I could never run out of. What next?” I asked after I finish my glass.
“After that you healed a cut on a dwarf that fell down with your necromancy and that led to talk about something called a lich in the area that was attacking travelers to create an undead army and you, me, and several dwarves formed a party and attacked its tower. While the dwarves and I fought its minions you snuck off and found something called a phylactery and sucked all the magic out of the soul inside and that killed the lich.” Trixie said before taking a bite out of her lunch. “After that we split the treasure then you took the lich’s spellbook and had your imps raid the lab and library.”
After hearing this I close my eyes and focus on my room which is the most likely place I would have sent a lich’s spellbook and see a book I don’t recognise on my bed. So I grab it with my hand and drop it into my paws before opening it up.
“What are you doing?” Trixie asked.
“Hoping against hope that a lich would have a cure hangover spell.” I grumble.
“Be careful. Who knows what kind of evil spells are in that thing.” Trixie warned.
“... The first spell in this thing is summon harem…”I say with a deadpan.
Cruger facepalmed, “I do not want to know.”
“...Trixie does. And more importantly can Trixie cast it?” Trixie asked with hopeful eyes.
“It’s not dark magic so yes. According to this it summons a large number of magically constructed slaves. They can be any race the caster chooses and they come out naked and the embodiment of beauty for whatever race and gender the caster chooses. They do whatever the caster wants and how long they stick around depends on the strength of the caster. Man Asphyxious would kill for this spell.” I say before shrugging it off and flipping through the pages. “Expeditious retreat, stone skin, create undead, these are all D&D spells...What’s the point in making it rain blood for two days?” I kept searching till I found something that might help and I grab my now empty glass and cast the spell. “Ohhhh that’s so much better. Thank you liquid pain.” I say as droplets of a strange glowing red liquid started appearing in the cup. “Now I just need to keep this up till I’ve fully rehydrated.” I say before downing another glass.
“A healing spell?” Cruger asked.
“Liquid pain takes the pain of the one it’s cast on away and turns it into a material to boost the power of my spells or to use for enchanting. Or if you’re dumb enough to drink it a potent and highly addictive drug. In the game it takes one full day to make one bottle of the stuff. Probably because of how slowly this glass is filling up. This is great. I’ve pushed my necromancy studies and now there is no better healer on my world than me because of it. But stopping pain was something I could never do before. This was a lucky find.” I say with a happy smile. “Oh sorry how rude of me. My name it Rin. What’s yours?”
“Call me Cruger,” Cruger said. “So, forgive me if I’m totally and completely wrong, but based on that little spell you did, I’m thinking, Dungeon Keeper?”
“You mean the create imp spell? Yes I’m dungeon keeper Rin. A pleasure to meet you. So what are you from exactly?” I ask before downing another glass.
“Power Rangers SPD,” Cruger replied.
“Oh. Haven’t seen that since that Z guy showed up. When the weakness of his guys turned out to be the big Z emblem on their chests I just stopped watching after that.” I say in an apologetic tone.
“Don’t worry, the cheese doesn’t last forever,” Cruger chuckled.
“Anyways after that we left that world and wound up is some kind of multidimensional shopping mall.” Trixie continued.
“Did I buy anything nice?” I asked.
“You did buy one thing.” Trixie confirmed and she took a remote control looking device with one big, red button on it out of her hat and set it on the table in front of me.
“What is it? Some kind of calling button for a giant robot or something?” I ask her.
“Just push the button.” Trixie said in a bored tone. I lift my paw up and press the button. The device made that charging up sound as electricity arcked off of it. It had that ‘going to explode’ look about it and I back up away from it. Cruger generated a small forcefield around it. POP!
“...is that?” I ask in wonder as I looked at the steaming lump in front of me. “A muffin button!?”
“Yes.” Trixie said in a deadpan as she looked at the device.
“Well then,” Cruger said, “I know what Derpy would like for Hearth’s Warming.” As soon as the shield was down I picked up my muffin and happily started munching on it while sending my button to my room.
“After that we just jumped from world to world, several of which you now have cults worshiping you, until we got here. You know some of the people that work here are still finding the surprises you left around the place during your drunken pranking spree.” Trixie deadpanned. “These guys are cops and they don’t need distractions like ungluing plots from ceilings or dealing with toilets yelling at them when they’re trying to use them.” Trixie chastised.
“I’m sorry.” I say with my ears folded back as I give Cruger the puppy eyes.
“You were drunk off your rear, I won’t hold it against you” Cruger said as he placed a slip of paper on the table, “that said, as an officer of the law, here’s your fine.”
“Quick question. Are gems valuable here?” I ask as I look at the distressing number of zeroes on the paper.
“Depends on the type,” Cruger said, “by the way, they’ll be worth more if they have magical properties.”
“I was talking about regular gems. Or are you talking the kind best used for material components and enchanting? If that’s the case will these do?” I ask as I use my hand to grab a large number of diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds and dropped a huge pile on the floor stacked taller than Cruger. “Those are great for spells.”
Cruger counted off a few gems then handed the rest back, “Consider your fine paid. So, what’s going on in your verse?” I sighed in relief as I sent the rest of my gems back.
“Well aside from a fanatic group obsessed with killing be because of my dark magic? I’ve been hunting this guy that’s working with them but so far I can’t find the bastard. You see in my world I’m Celestia’s and Luna’s aunty and when I was off world he attacked them. Torchered them even. Broke their horns of and literally skinned them alive only to repeat the process again and again as they regenerated. When I got home I had to use my magic to put their organs back in the right places. It burns me that no matter what method I try the Juggernaut remains hidden. In fact I should get back to my world and start looking again.” I say as I look up at Cruger.
His face was contorted in a rather scary looking frown. After a few seconds, he released it, “Sorry, I kinda raised my Verse’s Celestia and Luna, so you saying something like that happen to them just… well let’s just say you should be very happy you’re not him.”
“Trust me I know. What I wouldn’t give to get that guy.” At that moment I felt my token being used. Umm aunty. He’s back and we can use some help here. I jump up and create a portal back to my home world. “Thank you Murphy! Trixie come on the Juggernaut is attacking again!” I shout as I jump into the hole.
“Oh buck me.” Trixie groaned as she followed.
“Oy, mind if I give you a hand?” Cruger said.
“Mite as well we can use all the help we can get.” Trixie said before passing through the hole in the ground.
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Back at the palace in Rin’s world
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I come out to a once more trashed palace grounds followed closely by Trixie and Cruger and we all had to dodge to the side as Discord came flying by.
“Discord’s out? How much did I miss?” I ask before my attention was drawn to the behemoth that was walking towards me carrying a sack on his back. “Trixie go hide.”
“Ok.” Trixie said timidly as she vanished in a puff of smoke.
“Oh goody. The fluff ball’s here. I’m glad you could make it. I’ve already got a coffin made just for you with the perfect lining for you. Even used what was left to make myself a blanket. What do you think?” Juggy asked as he opened his sack and pulled out a poorly stitched together blue and white blanket with Celestia’s and Luna’s cutie mark sprinkled around it. “Nice pelts don’t you think? I cleaned them myself.” Juggernaut said in a taunting tone.
“Self control Rin. Self control.” I say through clenched teeth. I create a portal and using my magic bring the gun in but I almost fall over when it fell into my paws. What? Why is it so heavy all of a sudden? I think to meself.
“Well, well, well,” Cruger said as he walked through the portal, “so, you’re the one who hurt the Diarchs so bad?”
“What you want my blanket now? I do a better job as sewing than I thought.” Juggernaut said as he folded the blanket made from my girls pelts before putting it back in his bag. “Now step aside blue boy. This is between me and the fuzzball.” Juggy said as he marched forward.
“No,” Cruger simply said, “now, I’m giving you one chance to explain your actions. Depending on your answer you might walk away from this with your dignity.”
“Nothing to explain. I just felt like doing it.” Juggernaut said as he got down on the ground like a football player and shot forward.
“Very well, kiss your dignity goodbye. SPD Emergency! Breach Mode!” Cruger was enveloped in a flash of light. As Juggernaut reached him, a large mechanical fist punched him on his left side and knocked him off course if just slightly sending him running through a wall. The light died down to reveal that Cruger was now encased in an impressive set of power armor. “Now,” Cruger said, cracking his knuckles, “unstoppable force, meet immovable object.” The wall next to Cruger exploded outwards as the Juggernaut crashed through it and grabbed Cruger in a hug as he barreled through the next wall and the wall after that before coming back around and throwing Cruger at me like a missile forcing me to catch him in my magic.
“So much for unmovable.” Juggernaut said as he ran at us. “Credit where it’s do though. It takes a lot of force to make me change directions.”
I have only one shot at this. I think to myself as I lift my gun and try and take aim. BANG! Juggernaut slowed to a stop as he slowly looked down at the hole in his stomach. A growing look of incomprehension on his face. Crap. I was aiming for his heart.
“Stand down,” Cruger said, “I’ve got this, gravity anchors just take too long to charge, need to fix that.” With that, the boots of the power armor expanded, revealing various components that glowed with a blue light. “Round 2, dumb dumb.”
“H-how?” Juggernaut asked as he looked at his own blood on his hands.
“You’re too reliant on your invulnerability. You never try to dodge or block anything. Now surender. If my friend here doesn't take you down in your weakened state I have five more bullets with your name on them.” I lied. I was hoping that he would take my bluff and raise his hands in surrender but instead from the look in his eyes I can see something else. For once in his life the Juggernaut had to take his fight seriously. Quickly grabbing the ground he ripped out the floor and tossed it at us before running at us again only instead of a straight charge he sacrificed speed so that he could react if he saw me lift my gun again. As he came in to punch Cruger I lifted my now much lighter gun and Juggernaut tried to duck low and keep the other displaced between himself and me. Even if the gun is empty he doesn't know it so I can still use it to influence the fight. I thought to myself. Juggernaut threw a punch at Cruger in an attempt to send him flying at me to knock me down long enough to get close to me. Cruger grabbed the fist before it could make contact, then delivered several blows to his helmet butting a few shallow dents into the metal.
Juggernaut grunted and grabbed Crugers arm back before pulling him taking a large chunk of the floor that was still attached to the displaced feet spinning Cruger around and tossing him through a was before taking cover in the entrance to another hall huffing and wheezing. “That...Shouldn’t have taken so much effort.” Juggernaut said between pants. “What happened to my strength?”
“I’m impressed,” Cruger said as he walked out, “I was basically connected to the planet’s surface and you could still throw me. I’ll have to take a look at the data later, but I think it’s time to end this.” With that, several lasers emerged from his gauntlets and fired at Juggernaut's helmet.
“...We’re on the top floor of the palace, not counting the towers. How can you do that without being pulled down through the rooms below?” I asked as I backed away while keeping the gun fixed on the hall the Juggernaut is heading in. Unable to see what’s happening with that beam. But I can hear the Juggernaut grunting in pain.
“Really? Huh, maybe I just connected to the bit I was standing on, enough talk though, time to end this.” With that, he shut off the beams. Walking forward, he grabbed Juggernaut’s now red-hot helmet, and yanked it off. “I don’t suppose you’d mind ending this? Assuming you have any form of telepathy of course.” I attack his mind with everything I have but all I’m getting is cries of pain.
“Celestia! Luna! I could use some help in here! I’m not very good with mind magic!” I shout out as Juggernaut gets up and starts running away while holding his head. “No, no, no!” I shout but before the giant could get away Celestia teleported in and added her own assault of the mind. As the titan fell to his knees Luna flew in and as the strongest amongst us with mind magic put him down.
“Where were you?” I asked them as they glared down at the Juggernaut.
“Evacuating the area.” Celestia said as she lifted Juggernaut in her magic. “We have a cell made just for you.” Celly said to the unconscious giant.
“You do?” I asked in surprise.
“Of course. Considering what he’s done in the past it would be foalish not to find a solution to deal with him once defeated. Didn’t you think of something?” Celestia asked as she looked down at my gun before looking at the wound on the Juggernaut.
“...Yes.” I say as I send the gun away.
Celestia gave me a disappointed look before walking down the hall. “Come. We can talk more once this criminal is put away.”
“About that Celestia,” Cruger interjected, “I said that I’d take away his dignity, and I’m not quite done with him yet.” Celestia stopped and looked back at Cruger. “I have a set of magic damping manacles,” he continued, pulling them from a portal, “the people should see that he’s been defeated. By the way, if you don’t mind, I’m gonna need to borrow a sturdy wagon with a crane mounted on it, a team to pull it, lots of chain, and a set of baby clothes that’ll fit him if you want to be really mean.”
“Yes let’s do it sister!” Luna said excitedly.
“I don’t know. It sounds dangerous. Even if I were to agree to this it will only be if all three of us were there to take him down again should he wake up.” Celestia said with concern.
“I still don’t see the problem, be good for the populous to see you three there, triumphantly leading the procession,” Cruger said, “besides, did you not see me curb stomp him five minutes ago? And that was my first time in Breach Mode. To be honest, the main reason I left him for you to finish him off was so that you three could get some closure.”
“...” Celestia looked back at the man that had skinned her and her sister not long ago.
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“Why must I wear a dress?” I asked sourly as I sat in my moble throne next to my girls as we were being driven down the street right behind the Juggernaut who was hanging limply from the steel, magically reinforced arch attached to a wagon made from the same materials for the cheering ponies on either side of the road.
“It’s just for the parade just grin and bear it.” Celestia said while she waved at her little ponies.
“Cruger gets to wear something cool” I grumble as I look over at the blue dog man who walked next to the Juggernaut’s waggon. He was in his dress uniform and sporting a shiny new medal. Though I must admit that it’s amusing how all of the children in the crowd were calling him Mr. Dogfish. In his hand was an air cannon, which he was using to launch candy at the crowd.
“Thank you our little ponies! And give an applause to Mr. Dogfish! Who fought so bravely while helping us bring this villain down!” Luna shouted out. Taking great amusement at Cruger’s new nickname.
“Dogfish! Dogfish! Dogfish!” The crowd cheered for the hero. Cruger responding by sending an extra sour batch of candies directly into their mouths. “THE NAME’S CRUGER!”
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After the parade we all moved to the airship dock and moved to a nearby mountain. Once inside the cave near the top we went through steel door after steel door and guard after guard till we reached the center of the mountain where a powerfully enchanted ring was placed on the Juggernaut’s head.
“We enchanted this ourselves to to keep him asleep.” Luna boasted before the Juggernaut was placed in a room carven into a perfect circle.
“This one was my contribution.” Celestia said as she activated the complex set of runes that covered the walls creating a powerful and controlled gravitational pull in the middle of the room making the Juggernaut’s sleeping form float out of reach of the ground and walls.
“And you’re sure this will hold him?” I ask.
“The sleep spell is the most powerful we could create. He can not leave if he can not wake up.” Luna replied.
“And even if he did he can’t touch anything to move. So we should get plenty warning should he awake.” Celestia added. Besides I can tell that he lost almost all of his magic during the fight. Can’t you take what’s left?”
I look up at the Juggernaut’s floating form. Trying to gage his power.
“No I can’t.” But exposing him to that bullet just a little longer will. Just as soon as my imps find it.
“If it helps,” Cruger interjected, “I happen to know the most effective sealing spell, period. It contains the target in a pocket dimension, then siphons their magic to sustain it. If you want I can add it to the mix.” Celestia looked him up and down before glancing at eachother.
“If you can do it without messing with the magic keeping him asleep.” Celestia said.
“No problem,” Cruger said, “stand clear.” We all stepped back to watch. Cruger brought out his morpher and held it out. “Juggernaut, you are charged with assault on royalty, terrorism, torture, attempted murder, and various other charges, face your Judgment.” Cruger said. With that, he pressed the button on the top, causing the front to flip open revealing a red X and blue O that flashed in sequence.
“Why is that device flashing between the X’s and the O’s like a game of roulette?” Luna asked in a tone of confusion.
“Safety feature,” Cruger replied, “this particular spell is hard-wired so that it can’t activate without a guilty verdict from a Judgment Scanner. And before you ask, a Judgment Scanner takes thousands of data points, ranging from surveillance footage to forensic reports to the suspect’s body language to deliver a 100% accurate determination of the suspect’s innocence,” the Scanner stopped on the X, “or guilt.” With that, Cruger flipped the morpher closed and pointed it at Juggernaut like a remote. “Confinement!” A beam of white light shot out from the Morpher and enveloped Juggernaut. When the light faded, all that was left was a metallic card. “There we go,” Cruger said as he picked it up and handed it to Celestia, “should have mentioned it also makes transporting them a breeze.”
“...wait. This world has no surveillance tech, magic or otherwise. Info will be in hard copies and you were never near them. And the Juggernaut was in a forced sleep so no body language. What was that thing using exactly to decide he was guilty?” I asked as I look at the card.
“Well, there was the built in camera and voice recorder in my uniform,” Cruger said as he pointed to the gold bar on his uniform, “the security footage when we talked about him, plus the lie detector spells with the footage, the fact that the Judgment Scanner can use hard copies, plus if all else failed it could have looked at Jug’s Acastic Record, which it didn’t need to anyway.”
“Okay then. Thanks for the help. I feel like I should give you something for your help. Want to come to my dungeon? You can pick out some gems, or if you would like some spider’s silk. Stronger than steel. Bet engeneering would like to work with that stuff.” I say while creating a portal.
“Why not,” Cruger said, “might be interesting.”
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In the dungeon.
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We came out in the room where I kept the shrunken changelings in their tank. Looking down at them one of them was right at the edge making faces at us by pressing her face to the glass.
“Just give me a moment I need to receive the regular welcome home greeting before we can go anywhere.” I say as I walk over to the door and wait.
“Do I want to ask?” Cruger said.
“Just my dog. She can always sense when I get home.” Just as I said that the ground started to shake from Sasha’s running. I didn’t need to wait long before I was pind down by the giant pup and getting a thick layer of drool coating my body as all three heads bombard me with puppy kisses. “Ok, ok Sasha that’s enough! I’m glad to see you to.” I say as I use my magic to lift her off of me and set her down to me left. I get off and try to shake off as much drool as I could wile Sasha moves over and starts sniffing Cruger’s butt.
“Back off.” Cruger said as he moved away. All three of Sasha’s heads tilt in confusion before they apparently come up with the idea that he wanted to go first so they turn around and lift their tail and put their but his his face.
“Ahahahahahahahaha!” I laugh at the look on his face. “That’s so sweet. She’s trying to make friends with you!”
“It was bad enough when I was just being mistaken for a Diamond Dog,” Cruger said, “Sit!”
“Wait don’t she...why would you tell her to sit when she had her butt hanging right over your head?” I ask the pend ranger before picking my dog up with my magic. “Sasha I’m sorry but I think this one is going to be a grumpy doggy. Why don’t you go play with your shadow wolf friends.” I say as I send Sasha back to her room and drop some shadow wolves in with her. “You going to be ok?” I ask Cruger.
“I am going to need to do a WCS simulation when I get back to reassert my masculinity.” He replied as he got up.
“Ok, well come on you can take a look at my products and take what you like.” I say as I turn and walk down the hall. “I hope you don’t have a fear of spiders.” I say as we enter the spinner room where my giant spiders were busy spinning rolls of silk for me. “Go ahead and take some.”
Cruger examined some of it, “Rather nice looking, comfortable to the touch, nice tensile strength, I think I know what the new dress uniforms will be made of.” With that, he grabbed a few bolts and placed them in a small portal. “So, let’s see, smacked down Jug, paraded Jug, confined Jug, got reimbursed for confining Jug, all that’s that left is for us to exchange Tokens I think.”
“Ok. And if you need any more spider’s silk for your uniforms just give me a call. Selling these things is how I make my living and you’ll get the friends and family discount.” I say as I paw him a mini dungeon heart. “Oh and quick question. Have you been in your office yet since I went on my drunk rampage?”
“I am suddenly very nervous,” Cruger said as he handed me a badge. “By the way, think you could do me a favor?”
“Depends on the favor but probably. As for your office… Check under your chair before using it.” I reply with a nervous grin.
“Got it,” Cruger nodded, “as for the favor, please for the love of all the ancient alicorns make sure they get my name right. I am Anubis Cruger, Commander of Space Patrol Delta, not Dogfish.”
“...Nightmare!” I shout out causing the wraith like creature to appear. “There are some ponies working on a statue of this guy for the hall of heroes. I need you to give them a message to change the plaque for me.” I say as I conjure up some paper and a quill and write down what Cruger said. “And please be quick.” With a mock salute it grabbed the parchment and took off. “There that should do it.” I say with a smile.
“Thank you,” Cruger said, “well, see you later. By the way, you teaching at Beacon?”
“Beacon? No I don’t teach. Well I did teach this one displaced how to safely wield the darkness. Dark magic is my thing. That and being a trickster. Why do you ask?” I ask him.
Cruger shrugged, “Just curious, I’ll be teaching there and wanted to see if we’d be working together.”
“...Ok, what is this school about and why did you think I would be a teacher?” I asked. “What are you teaching anyways?”
“You seemed like a Displaced that knows what they’re doing,” Cruger replied, “as for my subjects, I was thinking engineering, battlefield or otherwise, tactics, and advanced combat techniques.”
“...A school for displaced? I guess I can check it out. Now that I think of it didn’t Asphyxious say something about becoming a teacher? Anyways how do I find this school?” I ask. Who knows they might have something for me to learn as well.
“It’s in a verse that’s filled with RWBY Displaced,” Cruger said, pulling a coin out his pocket, “this Token belongs to a guy named Sun, he’s the one who thought of it in the first place. If you want, I know a duplication spell.” I nod and hop up and down excitedly as he uses his magic and I take the token.
“Thank you. I’ll look into it soon. Now I should look into what other damage I did while drunk and I’m sure you have things to do so Cruger our contract is complete.” I say aloud.
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“...Oh ya I never summoned you. Can you find your way home on your own? I asked the still present displaced.
Cruger chuckled as he drew his sword, “No problem.” Slashing at the air, he opened a portal that he stepped through, “Hope to see you there when it’s done.”
“See ya later!” I call out before the portal closes. “Alright let's see.” I say aloud as I use my powers to search my dungeon for anything new. ...I have a death claw?... Hmmm oh that room is full of stuff. At that thought I use a portal and go to what was once an empty room now filled with random things from the multiverse. “Hmmmm Oh sweet pokeballs!” I say as I pick one out and toss it only to be surprised by what comes out.
“...It was so cramped in there.” Trixie whispered as she lay curled up on the floor.