Job Training
After coming to the conclusion that Rarity had somehow been reverse aged, Bruce had begun making a few speculations based on past experience and what knowledge he had managed to gather on the workings of magic. He had compiled his conclusions in a list he went over as he prepared his next move for her sake.
Fact: He knew Rarity's capabilities - both intellectual and social - showed signs of experience rather than just natural talent.
Conclusion: Rarity had been reverse aged.
Fact: Rarity had appeared in the Batcave, in the high magic vault, and her appearance coincided with the complete drain of magical energy from all artifacts stored there.
Supposition: Either Rarity drained their energy on her arrival to sustain herself, absorbed the energy to empower herself, or the energy went to powering this end of the gate she arrived through.
Evidence: Rarity's magic demonstrates limited applications, so far managing only telekinesis and minor transfiguration of fabrics to different shapes. Telekinesis also limited presently to many small objects or one larger one, nothing with total mass greater than her own.
Conclusion: Rarity's magical energy quotient is drastically less than the total energy of the drained artifacts, indicating the spell that brought her consumed the energy.Final Conclusion: Rarity is from another world, a world of powerful magic, and was reverse aged as she arrived in the Vault. This was either a result of saving her from a cataclysm (Superman scenario), banishing a thorn in someone's side (Mythos scenario), an accidental casting (any number of scenarios), or random fluctuation of magical circumstances (Deus Ex Chaos).
Whatever the initial cause, Rarity will eventually need to make her way back to her world if it still exists - whether to continue her own life to its fullest or because the world needs her - or function completely in a world totally alien.Course of Action: Begin training immediately.
Having reached this decision, the only thing that confronted Bruce was how, exactly, to go about doing it. He knew from past experience dealing with youngsters that trying to make it a parenting directive was sure to either foment rebellious behavior or give him only an indifferent student. For her sake, he needed to find some way to make her want to train. Unfortunately, here his experience failed him, as the only ways he knew from his experience to get youngsters to want to do something was to either order them not to do it after they'd shown interest, or to demonstrate that their life depended on obedience. The first wouldn't work as Rarity had shown no interest in an activity she had no knowledge of, and the second would require needlessly terrorizing her. As willing in the past as Bruce had been to do whatever it took to do the right thing, he didn't want to take that path if he could help it, as a determined student learned better than a terrified one.
Having reached no conclusions as to how to capture Rarity's enthusiasm, he did know one thing: if he was going to train her, he needed to be in better shape than he was. As per doctor's instructions, he had been taking it easy since his heart condition had started acting up, and he was beginning to get out of shape. Still, there were plenty of ways to keep in shape - and get back into condition - without putting his heart under strain.
To that end, he began the next morning with a basic Tai Chi workout, getting his muscles back into condition for the more strenuous workouts, while also building up his wind again. After completing three katas, he relaxed and took a drink of water.
"Father, that was beautiful!"
Blinking in surprise, Bruce turned to the door, seeing Rarity standing there in a light bathrobe, her mane and tail already perfectly curled as usual. How did she sneak up on me? Bruce wondered, shocked, making a mental note to also work on his getting his senses back up to their old acuity as well. He wasn't that old yet. "That was Tai Chi," he explained. "It's a martial art focused on spiritual stability, and is good for both training the body and maintaining health."
Rarity smiled widely, her eyes sparkling like stars. "It was breathtaking! It was like a dance in the wind!"
Bruce raised an eyebrow. He hadn't expected to catch her interest this easily, but he wasn't about to complain. "Would you like to learn?" he offered.
Rarity gasped happily and clapped her hooves...though no sound came. "I would love to!" she said eagerly, rushing into the exercise room, her hooves making no sound on the floor. It was at that point Bruce realized her horn was glowing, and a matching glow surrounded her four hooves.
"What's this?" he asked, gesturing to it. He was pretty sure it was some form of sound suppression, but he was curious about the exact nature and how Rarity had come up with it.
Rarity smiled nervously. "Well, sometimes you're deep in something, and I don't want to disturb you as I pass...so I put a sort of 'magic cushion' on my hooves so they don't actually contact the floor. It slows me down a little, since I have to make sure to brace myself more carefully with each step to keep from slipping, but it lets me move almost silently.
Bruce didn't bother to suppress the proud smile on his face. Whether through instinct or accessing suppressed experience, she already had some grasp of the arts of ninjitsu, yet another part of the discipline he had learned to be Batman and fully intended to teach her as she increased her skills. "That's very impressive," he praised her. "There's quite a number of times in my own life that I would have liked to be able to do that." As she blushed in pleasure, he noticed a faint hum from her horn. "Can you manage it without the glow?" he asked carefully.
Rarity blinked. "I've...never tried. I'm not sure how I would manage it."
Bruce gently stroked her mane. "We'll work on that - and other things - together, alright? For now, how about I start teaching you Tai Chi?"
Rarity smiled happily. "I'd like that very much, Father!" she said happily.
"Then stand to my side," he instructed, internally pleased at how eagerly - and calmly - she obeyed. "We begin with breathing..."
Rarity's training over the next few months progressed well. While Rarity could manage to balance on her hind hooves to perform the hand movements with her forelegs, she wasn't able to maintain that balance for a full kata, as her body simply wasn't built for it. However, it wasn't that difficult for Bruce to take the basic principles of the art and reformulate one for her four-legged frame.
Once she achieved a certain level of mastery and confidence in Tai Chi - and his own skills and conditioning had returned - he began to introduce her to the concepts behind other martial arts. Given her small size and limited movement flexibility as compared to the human frame, most of the offense-focused martial arts were beyond her ability to learn at this time. As such, he decided to focus on defensive.
The first art after Tai Chi he introduced her to was Aikido, as her small frame, good leverage, and telekinesis were ideal for redirecting an opponent's force. The hardest part of adapting Aikido for her use had been determining exactly to what extent she should utilize her magic in the art. Eventually, he decided to first teach her how to utilize the art without any magic whatsoever, and leave it to her own creativity as to how best to utilize it once she understood the basic principles.
The internal focus these two arts granted her also put forth an answer to the question Bruce had asked at the beginning. It appeared that the glow of her horn - and the hum - during spell casting was because the magic was being focused through and then projected out of her horn to effect the world around her. While this was something she had to live with for casting spells on objects, her 'Silent Hoof' spell could be cast by focusing the magic through her horn and then - utilizing the principles of Tai Chi - sent back through her body and into her hooves.
Once she had mastered that, Bruce began introducing her to the art of ninjitsu, focusing on stealth and vital point strikes. If Rarity were to go on the offensive, her small size dictated that she would have to be fast, silent, and take her target down before they were aware of her presence.
It was during this part of the training that Rarity asked a question Bruce had been expecting. "Father, how did you learn all of this?"
Maintaining his calm, Bruce explained as best he could. "When I was younger, I had...a great deal of anger inside me. A lot of rage and pain and..." He shook his head. "I was a bit of a mess. The martial arts gave me focus, and...helped me find a purpose, a use for those emotions. It allowed me to temper the rage inside me into a weapon, and gave me the wisdom to use it properly."
Rarity's eyes widened, dewing with sympathy. "What could have happened to make you like that?"
Bruce was silent for a time. "Are you sure you want to know?" he asked softly. When Rarity nodded, he sighed. "Tomorrow, I will show you. For today, training is finished."
Rarity smiled widely. "I'll make dinner then!" she said happily, rushing to the kitchen.
Bruce sat back, letting his body relax after the training of the day, catching his breath. Tomorrow was going to be rough.
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nice chapter. You misspelled "deus" though. but still. it's a great story
Visiting the grandparents, hm?
tomorrow is going to be a vary hard day for Bruce.
this story is getting interesting rather fast.
Things can only get heavy from this point
Bruce outliving his parents ages was always statistically improbable. A costumed vigilante who fights criminals and supervillains using minimum force and almoat never killing should not have a life expectancy above bilionaire philanthropists. Such is the randombess of the universe.
I've put off reading this because I know the reason he (the author) made all these was because of (the success of) Fortresshy, and decided to make a similar story with every mane 6.
Therefore, I assumed him doing quantity over quality and ignored his works.
But seeing how this is in the featured box now, I'll give it a try.
Also, I'm curious, why are they making the supes vs bats movie? Hasn't this fight already been settled, numerous times?
Dude, I'm loving these crossovers. Twilight with Rachet and Clank, RD with Iron Man, now Rarity with Batman... I can't get enough.
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How about Pinkie with God of War? Applejack with Devil May Cry? Fluttershy with Team Fortress 2? Trixie with Sam & Max?
5675644 Can you beat my upcoming crossover though?
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Depends. What is it?
5675704 An xover. I could pm you more details, but not right at the moment.
5675644 I only played the first GoW, never play Devil may cry and TF2 and I'm not into Sam and Max much. Still doesn't mean I won't read them but over all I don't know much about those games to understand them... well except maybe TF2 but only because of all the content and fan videos I've seen online.
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I've never played TF2 either, but the success of Fortresshy is what lead to these others being written.
Anything you need to know about GoW for that game will either be explained in story or can be derived from having played the first game.
The DMC one requires some knowledge of what the series is to get full enjoyment, but playing shouldn't be required.
Same goes for the Sam & Max one.
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I'll be happy to hear from you about that whenever.
Tomorrow will be tough for Bruce, if they go to both Crime Alley, as well as the graves. Luckily, Rarity is a cute filly.
YESSSS!!!! I HAD A TERRIBLE DAY AND I AM BUCKNG READING AN AMAZING CHAPTER!!! WOOOHOOO
good job
Really interesting story so far, I'm looking forward to the next update.
Let me just say--thank you for actually portraying Rarity as a character, with both flaws AND strengths in her personality. Something I've seen a lot of lately is people portraying Rarity with only her flaws emphasized, and I'm really glad you didn't do that.
Great work so far, Tatsurou.
And tomorrow little Rarity Wayne will find out that she will never get to meet her grandparents, and why...
And thus, Supermare was born!
Wrong, fic, wrong pony, and wrong author, Pinkie!
Megamare?
Rarity's superhero name is already in the title, Pinkie...
I dunno... isn't Alreadyinthetitle kind of awkward?
THE FEELS ARE COMING! BRACE YOURSELVES!
5675501 You're missing out by not reading the others. I would say among them the only one I don't like is Applejack/Dante, and probably more because I don't like Devil May Cry. As for the movie... no idea. It always ends in Batman's favor.
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It wasn't going for quantity over quality.
It was a glut of ideas hitting all at once in preparation for a larger story. Specifically, one where each of the Mane 6 - post these stories - lives through the canon series, just to see how crazy it can get.
Hm, I'll say one thing. Through observation and deductive reasoning alone, Bruce seems to have a better grasp on how Rarity arrived in his world and what she is than Tony has on Rainbow's origin and true nature, despite all his gadgets and readings.
Point goes to Batman, but that's why he drinks his morning coffee out of this:
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Soon to be replaced by this:
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It almost seems out of character for Bruce to open up that much about his feelings. Then again, if he were to open up like that, his daughter would be the person to do it to.
Interested to see how Rarity will react when she learns about Thomas and Martha Wayne's fate, and what Bruce has gone through as a result.
Feels incoming.
Bruce, you have understated the oncoming storm of tears quite well! Tomorrow is going to be impossible! Oh! Will Bruce Wayne die in this, and will that be the catalyst for Rarity becoming the Batmare? I predict he will!
The reason I predict this is because Batman Beyond's (I think his name is Terry McGinnis? I don't watch the show, so I don't know for sure) father died, which led to him becoming Batman.
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What is the Pinkie Pie/God of War one called? I don't think I saw it on your page back in November...
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"Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter"
Tag your human, bruh
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As I've told numerous people, stories tagged Crossover don't have to be tagged Human unless the ponies get Humanized.
5676721 I'm missing out by not reading the others. Pfft.
I'm missing out on RD and iron man if I read this, and if I read RD and iron man I'll be missing this.
This, my friend, is the paradox of choice.
... and also the reason I haven't decided what to read yet. I keep telling myself "just read a chapter, it's only 1k words" but I rebuttle with "yeah, exactly, it's only 1k words. What kind of author does that to his readers?"
and then I counter to myself "tatsurou. You've read fortresshy, now read this,"
And it goes on and on and on... I can't agree with myself.
5678360
True, the chapters tend to be between 1k and 2k words in length. That's because I stick to the events I want to cover in that chapter.
Also, that chapter length means that when I am writing, I'm churning out an average of two new chapters a day - good, if short ones - although I spread them out to separate stories each day.
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Mind providing a link? Thanks.
5681746
Here you go.
One things for sure, I await the next chapter.
DISCORD!!!!!
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5695846 I think we all popped up when that word is mentioned.
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Yes is gonna be.
Why did a random: MY PARENTS ARE DEAD!!! Pop into my head at seeing this? God the days when Cartoon network would make fun of Batman...
And a Tai Kai Jiu Jitsu ad pops up at the bottom of the chapter. ...Fancy that.
YES!!!
Finaly I see the art I practice in a place it might introduce new practitioners to but i need to ask is he teaching her Aikikai or Yoshinkan style Aikido as the two are very different. I personally am a practitioner of Yoshinkan Aikido which is a more grounded style where you keep both feet on the ground at all times. Aikikai aikido on the other hand is very springy and has lots of little jumps and stuff. The difference itself is small but it changes the art so much that if you practice one the other often becomes near impossible to learn after a few years.
so......I'm currently writing a batman-esqe fic that I would absolutely LOVE your opinion and help on...my writing skills aren't anywhere near as good as your's and from what I've read of your's you would be the PERFECT editor/co-writer for the story....I may not be much of a writer but when it comes to ideas I'm chalk full of them...is there any way I could possibly PM you or e-mail you to get you on board?
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I'm afraid I'm not that much of a Batman fan, actually.
6006774
EEEEE!
Cannot express my excitement, you practice the SAME EXACT KIND of Aikido!!(Yes I do practice Yoshinkan)
Just...
YAY
OH yeah.
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After "Rarity Investigates" aired, it has become more and more apparent that the Author had made the right choice with this match up.
6639730 Another possibly good choice could be Twilight Sparkle after "MMMystery on the Friendship Express".
I really dig this change for Rarity, placing the emphasis on her business skills with seamstrissing more as a hobby. I also love the glasses and imagine something like them will exist in the near future.
Hello, Discord
Deus Ex Chaos ->God of chaos/chaos God->Discord
8557437 Starting her own clothes shop from scratch was an impressive enough feat. But she not only did that, she parlayed it into a chain of boutiques in the two most fashionable cities in Equestria. Okay, part of it is the superior quality of her products, but she had to have been a pretty savvy business mare too.
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What... I don't see any muffins anywhere in this equation!