Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Fluttershy rushed through the forest, her fears of what lied within temporarily forgotten as she tried desperately to find the animals that were in pain. She ran for what felt like hours until she heard it: the sound of rushing water.
Following the sound, she eventually saw a clearing up ahead. As she ran into the clearing she saw what had been making the yelps- and nearly vomited as a result.
Everywhere she looked, she saw the broken bodies of what must have been countless timber wolves.
And right there in the middle was the creature, standing over the body of a dead timber wolf.
Strangely, this body was intact compared to the other ones. And as she looked at the face of the creature, it seemed almost…sad as it looked down at the corpse.
The creature didn’t seem to notice her yet, but before she could try to sneak away, she heard the sound of somepony running coming up from behind her and Twilights voice called out “Fluttershy, why’d you ru-“ Her question was cut short by a sharp gasp and a look of horror was on her face as she surveyed the carnage around her.
The others followed behind her, and they soon held the same look of horror as Twilight when they saw the corpses around them. But that look of horror was soon replaced by fear when they saw that the creature was staring straight at them.
James Heller was not angry when he saw the same purple unicorn and yellow pegasus from the town standing a few feet away from him. He was not annoyed when he saw several more horses run out of the forest and stop right next to the purple unicorn and yellow pegasus. He did not bother questioning why the white unicorn looked like she used 12 different kinds of hair products in her mane, or why the orange horse was wearing a cowboy hat, or why the pink horses hair deflated like a balloon and went from puffy to straight the minute she saw the bodies around him.
He just felt tired. So very tired.
The events of the last few hours had drained him, both mentally and physically. He had hoped that killing the wolves would make him feel a little bit better, but instead, it seemed to drain him even more.
He just didn’t care anymore.
He and the ponies just stood there staring at each other for several moments; them in fear, him in indifference.
After a while even that began to drain him.
Sighing, he turned around and began to walk further into the forest. He didn’t know where he was gonna go. Right now the castle didn’t seem so appealing. ‘I guess I’ll just keep walking until something happens.’ He thought bitterly.
Or at least that would have been the plan had he not suddenly found himself lassoed.
Turning around, he saw the orange horse holding the end of the lasso with her mouth. Although a small part of him wondered how the hell a horse managed to throw a lasso, a much larger part of him wondered how the hell they expected to stop him. ‘I can tear apart tanks with my bare hands, do they really think a piece of rope is going to be able to hold me?’
Before he could break the rope and end this foolishness, he heard the orange one yell “Now Twilight!” The purple one, whose name was Twilight apparently, shot some kind of purple light out of her horn that struck him in the chest.
To his shock, the blast actually caused him to drop to his knees. He felt… tired! ‘What the hell?! What kind of attack was that?!’ He thought as he struggled to stay awake.
This time he heard the blue pegasus speak. “Twilight, I thought that paralysis spell was supposed to knock him out!”
“It was! I don’t know how he’s still standing!” He heard Twilight yell back.
“Well hit him again!” He heard the blue pegasus yell with urgency in her voice.
He looked up just in time to get hit by another purple light. He felt himself nearly black out, but he forced himself to stay awake.
Looking up, he almost laughed at the look on Twilights face. It‘s obvious she wasn’t expecting him to stay standing after two hits. She began charging up another blast, but by that time he had regained his strength.
Breaking the rope, he jumped into the air to avoid the third blast and landed back on the ground…right in front of the frightened unicorn who had just blasted him. Cocking his right fist back, he prepared to send the unicorn flying, but found that he couldn’t move his right arm forward. Looking at it, he saw that his arm was covered in some kind of white glow- the same glow that the white unicorn’s horn was now producing.
‘They have telekinesis now too, the fuck?!’ He thought as he struggled to get his arm free. The unicorn was visibly struggling to hold him back, but was still hanging on. He was just about to change his right arm into the hammerfist, doubting she could hold that much weight back, when he felt something strike him from behind.
Looking behind him, he saw the orange horses back hooves were pressed against his back ”Did you just try to buck me?” He questioned to her shocked face.
Applejack was less shocked by the fact that the creature could talk and was more shocked by the fact that he was still standing. She had kicked him using her full strength. A kick that could topple trees barely made this thing flinch!
Rarity herself was shocked as well and Heller took advantage of that by finally forcing his arm free from her magical grip. Her yelp of surprise as her telekinesis was broken turned into a scream of pain when Heller kicked her. The force of the kick sent her flying and she nearly fell into the river until she was caught by Twilight. Turning around to face Applejack, he grabbed her back hooves just as she prepared to buck him again and lifted her into the air, causing her to uselessly flail around.
She stopped flailing and began to scream in pain when Heller began squeezing her legs, fully intending on breaking them. “Hey! Put her down!” He stopped squeezing as he tried to locate who had just yelled at him, his eyes landing on the cyan pegasus from before trying to put on a brave face.
Dropping Applejack on the ground, he slowly stalked over to her. “You say something to me bitch?” He questioned as he got closer. Rainbow looked him in the eyes and any bravery she felt at that moment promptly vanished when she did. She felt the familiar cold fear wash over her as his glare hit her full force.
‘What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I move?!’ She thought as he slowly got closer. ‘Come on darn it! Move! Move!’ She tried willing herself to move, to fly, to do anything! But nothing was happening. All she could do was shiver in terror as he finally stopped just a few inches away from her.
“What’s wrong? You were talking all that hot shit before, now what?” He looked down at her, his glare piercing her very soul. The only sound she made was a pitiful whimper as he looked at her in disgust.
“Don’t wanna talk huh? Then how about I make you talk.” He threatened darkly as he slowly raised his fist, preparing to finish what he started back in the town, when someone’s screaming voice interrupted him.
“YOU LEAVE HER ALONE YOU BIG BULLY!”
Turning around, he prepared to face whoever challenged him…
… Only to find himself frozen in fear.
Flying in front of him was the same yellow pegasus from before. Only she was looking at him with a glare that made his blood freeze.
'Wh-what’s happening to me?' He thought, as he desperately tried to escape her spell.
Noticing his attempts to escape, she started yelling. “How dare you! I don’t care how scared you are, you do NOT attack my friends DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME! Now you are going to apologize and stop this right now!”
To his shock, he actually started to say an apology. “Sssssoo…” He stopped himself and gripped his head. ‘What the fuck are you doing?! You are not going to apologize to a fucking horse!’ He tried to convince himself and fought harder to break her spell.
Fluttershy did well at hiding her shock at his resistance, and increased the power of “The Stare” “What are you waiting for, I SAID APOLGIZE!”
Heller, still gripping his head, looked her in the eyes and grinned.
“Fuck…you.”
He couldn’t help it. He actually chuckled at the look on her face.
Quickly getting over her shock, Fluttershy flew closer, hoping the closer proximity would increase the effectiveness of “The Stare.”
“HOW DARE-“
She never got to finish.
Doing exactly what Heller wanted by flying in close, he used the last of his remaining free will to launch his fist at her. It was a weak punch, admittedly, but it was still strong enough that it sent her flying back into a tree, the impact knocking her out.
Heller fell to his knees the moment the spell wore off, his body drained from the effort of resisting it. Looking around, he checked to see how his other opponents were faring.
The blue pegasus was cowering in fear a few feet away, his defeat of her friend only increasing that fear of him. The orange one was desperately trying to stand on her sore back legs, but fell back down every time. The white one was unconscious and the pink one had been blankly staring at him during the whole thing.
That left…
He looked directly at his last opponent, the only one whose name he actually knew.
Twilight Sparkle.
Twilight, like Rainbow Dash, tried to put on a brave face, but inside she was terrified. This creature had managed to defeat every single one of her friends. He took a direct buck from Applejack and even resisted “The Stare.” How was she supposed to fight against something like that?!
Her train of thought was interrupted when she noticed that the creature stood up and was slowly walking away. A part of her wanted to let it go, knowing she wouldn’t be able to stop it.
But another part of her wanted to stop it now. Stop it before it hurt anypony else.
In the end, that part won out.
Standing on all four hooves, she poured every drop of magic she had left into her horn and trapped the creature in a magical grip.
Heller thought the fight was over. He could see the fear in her eyes even as she tried to hide it and believed she would have been too frightened to try and stop him. As he slowly got up and made his retreat, a part of him wondered why he didn’t just consume the horses to regain his strength.
‘Because’ He tried to convince himself. ‘I already have monsters, Marines, Blackwatch soldiers, and Gentek scientists floating around in my head. I don’t need to add talking horses to that list as well.’
Heller suddenly found himself paralyzed on the spot, unable to move at all. ‘What the fu-‘ He couldn’t finish that thought as he found himself being pulled back.
‘Is she doing this?’ He wondered, shocked that the little unicorn had this much power. The white unicorns telekinesis and even the yellow pegasus spell wasn’t as powerful as this.
But he wasn’t going to give up.
Gritting his teeth, he used all his power to fight against the force that was pulling him back.
Twilight began to worry as she found it harder and harder to pull him back. This was her maximum power. She had once lifted an Ursa Minor using this power, yet this creature was somehow fighting back.
What was this thing?
It was a battle of wills as both Twilight Sparkle and James Heller struggled against the other; Twilight struggled to hold him back and Heller struggled to escape.
In the end, only the stronger will would win.
He couldn’t keep this up for much longer. His strength was quickly leaving him and he could feel himself being pulled back inch by inch.
As his resolve began to waiver, Heller was sorely tempted to just let her take him so he could take a long deserved rest.
But then he thought about the consequences of what would happen if he did.
If he was captured by these things, they’d either lock him up forever, or put him on a chopping table for dissection. If either happened he’d never get home. And if he never got home… he’d never see Maya again.
‘No.’ He thought, as he felt a familiar rage rising within him. ‘I will not lose her again. I will NEVER lose her again.’
He balled his fist as he thought of all he had been through; all he had suffered. ‘Blackwatch didn’t stop me. Gentek didn’t stop me. Mercer didn’t stop me. SO THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY A BUNCH OF TALKING HORSES ARE GOING TO STOP ME!’
Driven forward by pure rage, Heller fought back against Twilights magic with everything he had.
Twilights eyes widened. While before she was able to slowly pull him back, now she couldn’t pull him back at all. He was actually moving forward!
‘I-I can’t hold him!’ She thought with disbelief.
With a shout of fury, Heller threw himself forward effectively breaking free of Twilights magic.
Her hold on him gone, Twilight collapsed to the ground, her magic completely drained. Heller fell on his knees shortly afterwards, his own body pushed to the limit.
Both of them panting profusely, they couldn’t help but take one last look at one another. Twilight shivered when she looked in his eyes. Now she knew why Rainbow was so terrified: the amount of rage in those eyes would freeze anyone to the spot.
Heller on the other hand, was not surprised to see the fear in her eyes. Everyone was afraid of him, so why should now be any different. When her mouth began to open, he assumed she was going to beg for her life, but was not prepared for what she actually had to say “Pl-please, don’t hurt them” She begged as his eyes widened. “Please don’t hurt my friends.”
Heller just sat there stunned. She wasn’t begging for her life…she was begging for her friends! She cared more about her friend’s well being than her own. As he stared at the weakened unicorn he couldn’t help but feel… respect for her. It took balls to put others well being before your own.
Maybe there was hope for this world.
Eventually, Heller began to move. Standing up, he slowly began to walk out of the clearing leaving his fallen opponents behind. Twilight could already feel herself slowly losing consciousness.
Before blacking out, she heard the mysterious creature say one last thing:
“Don’t follow me.”
Then she saw only darkness.
A/N: Man I had a lot of fun writing this chapter. It was an interesting process trying to make the conflict between James Heller and the Main 6 look even. I didn’t want Heller to completely slaughter the ponies and I didn’t want the ponies to easily capture Heller. There’s probably a few mistakes, but I think I did a descent job. Also, for any Rainbow Dash fans out there, don’t worry she won’t be a cowering wreck the entire story. She’ll have her badass moments soon enough.
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They really think they can defeat Heller?
. And now that he knows what they can do, he will do what all viruses do... ADAPT!
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I know right? Seriously, why do all the fics do this? It makes no sense, especially in relation to canon. What ever happened after the Zecora incident? Did no one learn? And even then at least they waited until they thought Zecora was evil.
...BADASS.
That....was awesome.
AWWWWW YEEEAAA! You do not know how long I have been waiting for a Prototype 2 crossover! Thank you! Will read later.
FIRST I DEMAND MOAR
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Well he did nearly strangle Rainbow Dash, so you can't say he wasn't hostile.
U DUN GOOF'D!
That is all...
-Jorofrarie
Now they're going to send royal guards to try to subdue Heller. If the element of Magic can't contain him with Magic what chance do royal guards have. It will just turn into a feast fit for a very angry Heller.
813908
My guess is: They tell Celestia.
Heller Vs Celestia? Someone's gonna Diiiiieeeeee
hmmm the virus likes to adapt when exsposed to new circumstances.... so whats going to happen now its been exsposed to magic?
well anyway SHUT UP AND TAKE MY THUMBS UP
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This takes place before the ending of the game, so there shouldn't be any spoilers.
I appologise to all this offends, but it must be said to the auther:
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And now the virus will do something that the military tries to do every single time they face a new threat.
Adapt and overcome
813945 Epic Showdown between Heller and Celestia
813908 This was awesome! I was a little afraid you'd make Heller succumb too easily to the Stare, but you pulled it off quite nicely.
Shit just got even more reel..........
Wow, If 6 ponies could do that to Heller...... I always thought if humans were unleashed on Equestria it would be a massacre of epic proportions. Now it actually looks like the ponies might win... or at least put up a decent fight. That fight was handled well, I expected Heller to flatten the lot of them. I tip my hat to you sir, you deserve it. -slow clap-
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managed to take the mane six and james heller and make an epic battle scene
I want mooore chapters. Don't you love us enough? * flails *
Fics like this are the reason I love videogame crossovers, excellent work!
813898 Shit... time to change my avatar.
813945 Or somepony. If that happened, my money's on Heller.
Love this chapter. Good job not making Heller too overpowered, but nowhere near helpless. I got the feel the entire time that if he wanted to do more damage, he could have (one example being him kicking Rarity, pretty sure that had the possibility of snapping her spine in half.) But one question, why wouldn't Heller consume the timber wolves? They are made of wood, an organic material after all. Maybe I just don't know how the virus works that well. Anyway, loving this story, hope we get to see Heller vs. the Royal Guard next time, he probably won't hesitate then, seeing how they are soldiers, something Heller has shown having no qualms about killing.
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celstia
So you used "The Stare", huh... My interest would have dropped profusely if Fluttershy would have been able to subdue him. Luckily she didn't.
He's really POWERFUL
Especially against Ponies....w00t
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I think Mercer wanted to save humanity but he then got betrayed or something (think that was the comic). Mercer pretty much went into "Fuck everything!" mode after that.
Here, people, some ear candy for your reading convenience.
Man, I usually hate these crossovers because they make no sense and just plain suck. But you sir AWSOMNESS.
please put MOAR!
I never played the Prototype games, since I only have a SuperNES and a PS2, but I can tell this shit is awesome!!! FIVE PINKIES OUT OF FIVE!
Please continue!
What, you used The Stare and it barely affected him? You sir have gained my respect for not using an OP plot bunny.
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Here I wanted to show that The Stare, while powerful, could still be resisted.
thx. I'm also sick of stories where the The Stare is treated as this unstoppable weapon that can incapacitate even the most badass of foes. I once read an MLP/GOW crossover where Fluttershy used it to stop friggin Kratos.
819631 It's a stare... Not a nuke. That's all I'm gonna say. Thank you for understanding that!
The stare's not invincible, I mean fluttershy's not Weegee. After all.
811510 ok sorry i just didn't know the authors gender (mumbles really low) ugly fucking whore.
811510 ok sorry i just didn't know the authors gender (mumbles really low) ugly fucking whore.
817516 or maybe that was some of the virus in his form that wanted to see how humanity could do the comics are just pure dinoshit with its explanatitions.
Damn can't wait till the virus adapts to magic.
if they nearly shit themselves now just what till he showes them his powers
814237 Well, that image is a bust
My God that was brilliant!
ya cant beat James and.. what are you... i... i am James heller
813908
Sorry, but as much as I love this story so far (finally, a prototype crossover that doesn't completely suck!) I have to agree with them. The ponies were way too OoC in this. First, he had yet to do anything bad at all which should have been clear to them, and he could also obviously talk, which the ponies should have obviously heard. In fact, that makes the part where they were surprised to hear him talk rather confusing; after all, they should know he could talk, since by that point he should have said something to several of them. That then makes the part where they go to subdue him and turn him over even stranger. Why wouldn't they try to talk at the very least? The only time he did something even remotely aggressive was after Rainbow had attacked him several times, when he had done absolutely nothing to deserve it.
Sorry for the rant, but I'm just very annoyed since this happens in pretty much every crossover like this: the guy shows up, does nothing bad at all, and is then attacked by the Mane 6 for no other reason than the author using it as a plot device.
That said, I do love this story so far, and I'm glad to see a Prototype CO where the writing is good, and the characters aren't OoC (other than the part I mentioned above with the Mane 6 being way too aggressive and not making any sense by being that way, they seemed pretty good for all the other parts).
Heller can survive anything, especially if he thinks he wont be able to get to Maya,
FUCK YEA
813860 Same thing with that dragon episode lol
813908 To be fair, rainbow hit him and was annoying.
Damn son, that was epic as hell! Shoot, magic is op as hell, never mess with a mage.
"And if he never got home… he’d never see Maya again.
‘No.’ He thought, as he felt a familiar rage rising within him. ‘I will not lose her again. I will NEVER lose her again.’
He balled his fist as he thought of all he had been through; all he had suffered. ‘Blackwatch didn’t stop me. Gentek didn’t stop me. Mercer didn’t stop me. SO THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY A BUNCH OF TALKING HORSES ARE GOING TO STOP ME!’"
I am completely on Heller's side on this fight. Fuck the Mane 6 for wanting to capture him.