“I need help!” Slash shouted as he ran into the hospital, carrying Jason on his back. Applejack galloped in after him, her eyes wide.
“What happened?” a nurse asked, rushing over to them to examine Jason.
“We were attacked by some kind of creature! It did something to him!” Applejack explained, watching as the doctors moved him onto a gurney.
Before the doctor could respond, the Omnitrix pulsed, sending a surge of power through Jason. His veins glowed green, his body convulsing.
“Strap him down!” the doctor ordered, holding Jason still with his magic, “What is that thing doing to him?” Before he could answer, the Omnitrix chirped. “Omnitrix has detected mutagenic virus infecting user. Omnitrix is repairing genetic damage done to user and suppressing virus.”
“So... i-is he going to be ok?” Applejack asked with tears in her eyes, looking at the Omnitrix.
“User’s immune system is also being boosted by this unit. Chances of survival are high,”
Applejack let out a sigh of relief, watching as the doctors moved Jason into a room.
“Come on Applejack, let’s go tell everypony else,” Slash said, leading the exhausted mare out of the hospital.
****
Jason groaned as he came to, getting to his feet. “Where the hell am I?” he asked as he looked around, rather confused. All around him was blackness, yet somehow he was on solid ground. “Am I... in Hel?”
“No Jason,” his own voice responded. “You are not in Hel. You’re very much alive.”
“Who the hell are you?”Jason asked, spinning around. He stopped, freezing when he saw himself. Well, not exactly himself. This version was clean shaven and wearing a nice white suit.
“Well, seeing as how you’re Jason, call me... Hughes,” the copy said, nodding his head. “Yes, Hughes will do quite nicely.”
“Ok Hughes, please enlighten me, where the fuck am I?” Jason asked and crossed his arms, thoroughly unamused with the situation.
“Well currently you're in a coma, brought on by the T-virus that Majura infected you with,” Hughes smiled, watching as a look of horror took over Jason’s face. “No need to worry Jason, the Omnitrix is keeping you alive.”
“So what... you’re some kinda hallucination?” Jason asked, tilting his head to the side in confusion
“Close, but wrong,” Hughes said, walking closer to him. “Normally, you would only see me when you go Alien X, but the coma was a good enough excuse for us to meet.”
Jason just stared at him before sighing. “Well... you're better than those two floating faces. Can I, I don’t know, get a chair? I’d rather not spend my coma standing up.”
“Jason, we’re in your mind, we don’t need chairs,” Hughes said, looking at Jason like he was talking to a child.
“Humor me,” Jason said, giving his doppelganger an unamused look.
“Just focus on making a chair appear, it’s not that hard,” Hughes said, gesturing with his hand. “Even someone like you should be able to manage that.”
“Great, my own mind is insulting me,” Jason said, rubbing the bridge of his nose. “That certainly speaks volumes about my mental health.” He closed his eyes, conjuring up the sitting room of a mansion. “Ah, much better!” he plopped down on a couch, letting out a sigh. “So, what do we do now?”
“We could do an endless amount of things until you wake up, though I doubt you could come up with more than ten,” Hughes said, taking a seat in one of the chairs and crossing his legs.
“Seriously, stop insulting me,” Jason said, glaring at him. Hughes was about to respond when Hodgepodge appeared, drinking a can of root beer.
“What? You started the party without me?” Hodgepodge asked, letting out a burp and devouring the can like a goat would.
“Why are you here?” Hughes asked, a look of annoyance on his face, “This is between me and Jason!”
“I’m a pure manifestation of chaos,” Hodgepodge responded, reclining in a pool chair. “Make me leave.”
Jason sighed to himself, shaking his head. “I knew this place was going to make me crazy...” He magicked up a bottle of whiskey, downing it as he listened to the two bicker back and forth.
****
Fluttershy hummed to herself as she fed the various animals around her cottage, exchanging greetings with them. She was about to answer when a loud snarl caught her attention. Her newest arrival, a strange rocky dog creature, was currently growling at a fox, trying to steal its meal.
“Now that isn’t very nice,” Fluttershy said, getting between the two. “There is plenty of food to go around,” she said, making sure that the fox got his meal.
The creature snarled at her, looking like it was getting ready to pounce.
“Oh my, they didn’t feed you?” Fluttershy gasped, pulling the surprised beast into a hug. “Come on, let’s get you something to eat.” She let go of the creature, leading it into her cottage. “I have some fish, if thats ok with you.” With a quick nod from the canine, Fluttershy retrieved a fish and offered it to the creature.
It took the fish, starting to wolf it down. Once finished, it licked its lips, letting out a contented trill.
“Oh my, you were hungry,” Fluttershy said, blinking. “Oh um... can I ask what your name is?”
The creature growled, sitting on its haunches.
“Zed, I like that name,” Fluttershy smiled, grabbing a dog bowl and filling it with water. She placed it in front of Zed, smiling as she started to lap it up. “What are you going to do now?”
Zed paused for a moment before giving her version of a shrug.
“Well, I could help you find a new owner,” Fluttershy offered with a smile. “I take care of all the animals here in Ponyville, and that includes helping them find good homes.”
Zed tilted her head, letting out a short growl.
“Oh well... my friends and I already have pets, but I had somepony in mind already,” she said, giving Zed a smile. “I was thinking you’d be a great match for Jason,”
Zed stiffened up, letting out a loud growl.
“Now, now, it was just a suggestion,” Fluttershy said with a calm even tone, “You two have a lot in– eep!” she squeaked out as Zed pounced on her, knocking her to the side – only for a spear to slam into the floor where she had been standing a second before.
“W-what?” Fluttershy muttered out, vaguely aware as Zed moved off of her, assuming a protective stance in front of the timid pegasus.
“Well, looks like you were right,” an armored pony spoke, stepping inside the cottage. “Come on beastie, the king wants his prized pet back.” Several other ponies walked in, holding various weapons.
Zed growled, baring her fangs at them.
“Now beastie, we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” the lead knight said, taking a step forward.
Zed stood her ground. The Nemetrix activated, transforming her into a large, red furred, saber toothed cat. She grabbed Fluttershy’s tail and tossed her onto her back with a squeak before barreling through the knights and out the door.
“After them!” one of the knights shouted, chasing them into town.
***
“I think we should give all your Equestrian forms celebrity names,” Hodgepodge said, currently eating the pages of a People magazine like one would eat a bag of chips.
“Why?” Jason asked, tilting his head. It was hard to tell how long he had been in his weird head-space, time seemed to be non-existent here.
“Why not? I already have the voice of Christopher Walken.”
“Why do you have the voice of Christopher Walken?” Hughes asked, crossing his arms as he looked at the annoying creature.
“I dunno, I just do,” Hodgepodge said, shrugging his shoulders.
“How long have we been here?” Jason asked, sitting up from his couch. “I really, really, really don’t want to deal with you idiots anymore.”
“How rude!” Hodgepodge said, looking offended. “And I’ve taken time out of my busy schedule to keep you company and you just insult me. For shame Jason!”
“Oh shut up!” Jason shouted, tossing the couch at him, only for it to go through him.
“Jason...” Chrysalis’s voice slowly drifted through the endless void. “Jason please, you have to wake up!”
“Well, thats your cue kid!” Hodgepodge said, floating over to him, “Now you be careful out there, don’t get killed and make sure you give Chrysalis a big kiss for me!” he ordered before grabbing Jason and tossing him up into the air.
Jason groaned as he opened his eyes, his vision focusing on a very relieved Chrysalis. “Hey babe... whats up?”
“Oh thank Faust!” Chrysalis shouted, pulling him into a tight hug. “I thought you were never. going to wake up.”
“Hey uh, Chrissy,” Jason started, frowning a little. “Why are we in the hive?”
“It wasn’t safe there anymore,” she said looking away, “We had to bring everypony here when we evacuated the town.”
“Wait what!” He looked at her, shock evident on his face. “Why the hell did you evacuate Ponyville!?”
“Those knights that attacked you,” Chrysalis looked back at him, a worried look on her muzzle, “They launched a full scale rebellion several days ago. I managed to get you and the town into the hive before anypony could get hurt.”
Jason just stared at her, shaking his head. This wasn’t happening, it just couldn’t be.
What duh fudge happened in-between those 6-10 sentences?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
5207708 which ones?
5207725 The gap in events between fluttershy being chased and then Jason waking up!
O_O to this short chapter.... that is all. XD
That is one hell of a wake up for Jason. Can't wait for the next chapter keep up the good work.
Wait, what!? Since when are the Forever Knights this successful!? This is like the Incursian Invasion!
.... Hello Left field, why do you hurt us so?
This is really surprising, I wonder how they neutralized Celestia and Luna,
I'm gonna rip out their hearts and eat them
Rage, Lock it down. Now
Dammit Rage, y u so hard to calm down
5207839 Hey, it makes sense. The Forever Knights from Ben 10 could probably take canon Equestria in a day. I mean, really, just look at A Canterlot Wedding. Equestria Girls. Heck, even episodes one and two! I would've sent a detachment of guards with the girls into the Everfree, just so they wouldn't get eaten. Let's face it, Equestrias guards kinda suck at their jobs, human militias could trump the Royal Guard in a heartbeat. Militias with ancient equipment and no real training at that! There would be losses, mind you, but still.
5207839 Wait, don't tell me; Jason is going to summon Gilgamesh again to whup 'em right good.
So much happened in so little time.
You need to explain more.
I agree.
Silly Rexy!! We all have to agree!!
I'm gonna go now, before a get a fuckin migraine.
Oh holy beast core! Dude for this no matter what you say I'm letting you summon soul from dark star the crazed's king of monsters fic for this one. Its alright I own the guy. No he's not a displaced he is just from a alternate equestria and for kami's sake have Rex give Jason a chance! You don't want me calling inari on this mess. Seriously this really came out of left field here. To quote peter parker: hey! Didn't your mother tell you not to run with pointed objects! You could poke someones eye out!
You can use that for the retaking of ponyville.
And there's everyones favorite pale. CLIFFHANGER!
Cliffhanger.... ONORE DIKEIDO!
Can't wait for more!
should be in Niflheim not Hel as she is the goddess of death not the place.
5207914 I don't think they did I think that they are only attacking ponyville.
5208549
Full scale denotes that they have done more then take over a single town, it means they have attacked and/or taken over all Major cities.
5208559 No it just means that they attacked several major cities, not that they took over.
5208574
Which is why i said 'and/or.'
for the rebellion to still be going on that means they took over some of the cities. Also Only a complete moron would not have tried capturing the Princess's as anyone powerful enough to move the moon unaided has a lot of power to use on their attackers.
5208674 My choice would be to use a really subtle illusion to make everything appear normal when seen from Canterlot and ambush messengers thus negating the need to ever face them for the same reason as you would want to take them out first.
5208684
Two things make that statement incorrect, Spike's Flame-mail. and Luna's dream waling ability.
5208752 so you take out Spike first and not all worlds have dream walking Luna.
5208110 Her name is Zed... where the hell did you get Rex?
5207994 5208000 Huh. I guess you may have point there.
And no, Gilgy has no plans to interfere, at least not yet. In fact, if they do meet in the fire he'll be a bit... Preoccupied.
5208996 im terrible at remembering some names.
5208996 im terrible at remembering some names.
5209273 And if I don't?
KIll ALL THE HERETICS LET NONE STAND
I don't know why I imagined Jason's head like a Home Stuck conversation.
Jason is Karkat.
Hughes is John.
Hodge Podge is Dave.
Anyway so Alien X will have a fancy Jason? Interesting.
“We were attacked by some kind of creature! It did something to him!”
The nurse doesn't have much info to work with here. If I was her, I'd be thinking Cthulu just bit the guy. In fact that is what I thought.
Holy Fuck, What The Hell
Shit.
Better call the assassins, ezio and connor to help ya!
I'm liking it! The Omnitrix is awesome!!
Keep up da good work, shagohad12!!!!
5234793 No you misunderstand.
Twilight was the one that suggested this Human could be a changeling in disguise, thanks to Rainbow's earlier assasment.
But I question Twily's logic since she knows that the only humans she had seen were on the other side of that mirror, and NO other pony knows about the human's appearence aside from her, since this is a legitimate EQG universe appearently. She never told anyone and the Mirror is safely concealed, so how could a Changeling even know about humans in the first place? Or more so how they look like?
It makes no sense to suspect jason, and I doubt Twilight would overlook such a loop hole.
5234971 she is unaware it is a human.
5235259 eh.. NO? Pardon me but here:
Twilight clearly tells us that she knows about humans from the mirrorworld, so she rocognizes him immideately, then followed by this >
she digs a hole in her own logic, how can he turn out a changeling if she was the only pony that ever was in the secret mirror-world?
How would a changeling know human shapes? That's something I beleive Twilight wouldn't overlook or not question.
5235296 I thought you were talking about the first bit.
Well... wouldn't it be awkward for the Knights if some Templars came in and WRECKED THEIR SHIT!!!!!
...Does this mean he's a pony...?
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Why is this fic in the why and the no originality brigade groups?
5316673 nope he's a human
See, Jason, that's why you don't skip cutscenes.
I'm always so happy to see Chryssie work together with others.
The forever knights?!?!
Crazyness: awesome!!!
saneness3welp Jason is boned
Crap.... Astartes, prepare for battle!
Looks like The Nemitrix and the Omnitrix are going to uave to be friends!
Hughes already has a celebrity name.