Earthling or Equestrian?

by Tjtbomb

#4- Hello There?

Twilight's' POV

Those blue eyes looked as if they could pierce the black of night. I was scared.

Then they disappeared as the being unfolded itself from atop its perch, revealing a towering figure in the shadows. The other girls didn't dare move. They gasped as it slowly stepped into the sunlight. A strange creature stood before us on its hind hooves and in menacing clothes. It had on a strange, steel plated shoes, a long, brown coat of some kind, a red and gold striped scarf that covered its face, black lens goggles that covered its piercing eyes, and oddly enough, a top hat with a red band atop its short, blond mane.

"Hi..." I tentatively murmured.

It jerked its head towards me in surprise. The girls flinched and scooted back a bit. We gasped when it spoke.

"Hello there?" It replied in a questioning, markedly Stallion-like voice.

......... Huh?

"I-I'm T-twilight Sparkle."

He paused a moment, and replied, "The Mad Tinker, but you can call me Tobias."

I was a bit awestruck by his friendly, intelligent tone. I was blown away that this towering thing could even speak Equestian.

"Sorry about that," he said scratching the back of his head, "I didn't think you could talk at first."

"Uh... same here. Do you mind if I ask what you are and why you're here?"

"Not at all, come over to my tree and I'll tell you all about it I guess. I've got some questions too."

He motioned us over and sat back down on his mound of foliage. I quickly followed, my need to learn about this 'Tobias' slowly overpowering my fear. The rest of the girls were a bit tentative at first but eventually came over. After I introduced the girls he made himself less menacing by taking off his hat and goggles with his odd, talon-less claws. The piercing blue eyes appeared again, ringed with hairless skin and blond eyebrows. I was surprised that he didn't use any magic to take off the clothes. Did he have any magic? I trotted forward.

"What's up with your hooves?" I asked.

"Hooves?"

I gestured to the odd grasping structures on the ends of his limbs.

He extended his 'hands' to me and moved all the little appendages on them as I stared intently. I unconsciously pulled a scroll from my bag and scribbled down notes as I listened to him.

"Well, first off, I'm a human. That's my species. We don't have 'hooves' or whatever those are called, we have hands and feet. I walk on my feet and grab stuff with my hands. Wait a tic- What are you? I honestly have no idea other than the fact that you have 4 legs."

"Well I'm a unicorn, She's an Earth pony because she doesn't have a horn," I said pointing at Applejack, "And Rainbow Dash is a Pegasus because she has wings. Do you have any magic? Also, Why are you here?"

"Magic? Other than extreme speed, no."

Rainbow jumped up.

"Extreme speed!?"

His eyes squinted a bit in amusement.

"You're the fast one then?"

"You bet!"

He started getting excited.

"Wanna race in a bit?!"

"Of Course!"

"THEN ITS AGREED!!!" He boomed in a voice that could easily rival the Royal Canterlot Voice.

"ONCE WE GET A GOOD TRACK, YOU'RE ON!"

Rainbow Dash grinned and nodded, bouncing in place a bit. Obviously hyped up to have a new challenger. He turned back to me.

"As for your second question... The one about why I'm here..."

He looked away for a bit, a little hesitant, before answering.

"I uh, kinda broke everything."

I looked up with a deadpan expression on my face.

"Okay, I, uh, can explain. So, my planet was called Earth before it vanished from existence. The dominant and most intelligent species of Earth, Humans, decided, for some idiotic reason, to make stuff that fragged up the planet. Repeatedly. The most dangerous thing that they ever made, was Project ALPHA. Why they were so curious about how to erase everything is beyond me, but in short, it made the universe just vanish from existence with everything inside of it. So, finally someone figured it was dangerous and hid it underground. Time skip roughly 400 years and we dig it up again. It ends up in our enemies hands and the idiots decided to crack it open. I rushed to stop it. And fell about 30 feet short when they punctured the floating-ball-of-all-encompassing-death that was the heart of the device. By some inexplicable means, I landed here. And ate a ton of that fruit stu-"

"SO IT WAS YOU!!!"

He recoiled in surprise from Applejack. He gave me a quick, worried glance before looking back to her.

"...Maybe?"

"WHY?!"

"I was starving. Literally. I was just pushed through an inter-dimensional wormhole. It takes a lot out of a guy."

Applejack grumbled and stomped around muttering 'varmint' and 'tree killer' under her breath.

Tobias leaned toward me.

"Why is she angry about trees? There's lots more."

"She's an apple farmer. It's kind of like harming her family."

"Ah... Sorry about that. I've never eaten fruit before."

I froze. Applejack's head turned like a squeaky hinge. The rest of the girls were in similar states of shock. Applejack was the first to speak.

"What!?"

"I've never eaten fruit before?"

That was a horrible existence! How did he live!?

"What did you eat before?"

"Uh, potatoes... meeeeeeaaaaaa-" he trailed off, his eyes landing on my mouth for a moment,"-UH! Bread and other stuff I found...."

He suddenly averted his eyes in any direction other than mine.

"That sounds horrible! What's 'mea'?"

He froze suddenly.

"Uh... Mead? Yeah, mead! ThatsdefinitelywhatIsaid!"

He looked very nervous. I got the distinct suspicion that wasn't what he was going to say.

"Is that what you really meant-"

"Yes."

I looked to AJ and caught her eye. She shook her head and glared at Tobias.

"Are you sur-"

"Yep! Ohhey, whatsthatonyourside?"

I gave him a glare like, 'You aren't off the hook yet' but then looked to where he was pointing.

"My cutie mark?"

He stared, uncomprehending.

"It's a representation of the most prominent thing about me. In my case, Magic."

"Huh."

Suddenly he jerked around comically and looked at his backside.

"Do I have one?"

I snickered at the sudden action. He really caught me off guard. I composed myself and quickly got back on track.

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(Rainbow Dash POV)

Tobias was AWESOME! He was weird and random, but he was hilarious and he said he's really fast! I couldn't wait to race him! It's gonna be rad! He did a real number on those trees back there! Oh, yeah...

"How did you chop down those trees?"

He looked up at me.

"The fruit trees? I used my Bladelock."

"Your what? It sounds awesome!"

"Wanna see?"

"Heck yeah!"

"You might wanna step back, these things are dangerous."

We all scooted back as he stood up and shook his hands. With a little grunt, two swords unfolded from his sleeves with chains trailing back into his coat. The girls and I were in awe.

"Woah!"

"Cool!"

He began twirling the swords in his hands, revving up a low whir that gradually got louder and louder as the swords blurred.

"Give me something to chop!"

I looked around and spotted an apple tree. I flew over and grabbed a few before flying back.

"Tobias! Here!"

His eyes suddenly twisted crazily. I threw an Apple and just as it started to come back down, it was suddenly in two. I gasped, I didn't even see him move! How did he do that!? I looked over and saw him pulling a chain from the ground. I watched in disbelief as over 40 ft of chains retracted into his sleeves before the sword was back in his hand.

Now I see why he's so dangerous.

"You can come back now, it's safe."

We cautiously got closer again as he snapped the chains once and let momentum do the rest. The chains zipped up into his sleeves as if drawn by magic. We began spurting off questions.

"Where do all the chains go?"

He turned around and shrugged off his coat, revealing a massive spool of chains.

"How didn't we see that when you were talking with us?"

"Eh, it folds nicely, so do the swords. As for how it does it? No idea, I just know it works very well."

"How fast do you run?"

"Definitely not as fast as my swords, I can tell you that much. Nearly cut off my own leg when I tried that. The swords' speed isn't me, has something to do with momentum and technology. I'm no expert in either unless it comes to stopping before I run into something."

I laughed with him.

"I have to deal with the same thing!"

"HAHAHA! We need to have our race sometime then."

"Only if you're ready to eat my dust!"

"Try it, Fuzzball! I'll make you eat those words!"

"Oh it is on!"

"Heck Yeah it is!"

"Yeah!"

"YEAH!"

We started laughing again.

This guy is awesome! He can trash talk like a boss! I think an epic rivalry was just born!

"... Technology?"

I realized Twilight had a familiar look on her face. The little creepy smile, the twitching eye, and the steadily scribbling quill and scroll gripped in her magic. Nu uh, no way, getting out of here.

I laughed as I quickly made a tactical retreat with the rest of the girls as Twilight moved in on the unsuspecting human.

Author's Note:

So hey, what do you guys think? Do I need to change anything yet?

If not, well, that means i'm doing a good job. I'm also trying to make him seem a bit less OP with the momentum thing. He cant be TOO epic. CYA!

Comments

[crossed]

"Eh, it folds nicely, so do the swords. As for how it does it? No idea, I just know it works very well."

it just works
it just works
it just works

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