For Friendship and Adventure

by Jamis

10. Prince?

The question was barely passed Rarity’s near shrieking lips when Vulkan began to steadily chuckle. It evolved into a throaty laugh quickly before a sharp untick in volume and depth occurred, “Hohoho! HOHOHO! YUZ PONIEZ AR FUNNY! I MOIGHT BE TA BIGGEST BOSS YA EVA DID SEE, BUT I AINT NO PRIZY PRINZ!" his tone and voice the increasingly more common form of outburst. "It would be much more accurate to say myself and my surviving brothers would be the best suited to leading the Imperium. Seeing as my father is a spooky half living skeleton right now.” On the flip of a dime the primarch's voice regained its much more normal tone.

The others looked like they wanted to speak but their words were stuck in their throats. Ella for her part woke up at the loud noise that came from Rarity's voice. The manticore looked up still sitting in annoying mood, Fluttershy looking at the man absent mindedly petted Jona into a near sleep state again. In this silence Pinkie broke the walls down, "BOO!"

Vulkan looked at the earth pony to his right, "Did I scare yea, you said your dad was spooky was I thought it lighten the mood! So did it work?!" her smile was very broad. The brick wall was in barely standing with a hole in it.

'Was that wall there before?' the remaining seemed to look at Pinkie instead, their shock temporarily forgotten to collectively sigh.

Applejack spoke as she turned back to the giant, "Well, Ya say ya aren't a prince. And you sure don't act like any we know," Rarity started to shudder before she clamped down on her thoughts, "But being the next in line for a ruler is the best comparison we have right now." Her accent seemed to be rather clear despite the difference from Vulkan's own.

"I mean what else would everypony even call you if not prince?" Rainbow Dash spoke in a confident tone and gestured with her hooves pointing around then at him.

"I would assume most if not all would call me 'my lord'." Rainbow went to contridict him but fell silent before putting her hoof to her chin slowly nodding.

"Yeah, checks out I guess." as she spoke Fulttershy left Jona's side and hovered over to stand next to the giant. A rather brave move given her demeanor.

"You said earlier you said that many of your brothers were dead or missing, is that true?" her tone was not one of innocence so much as confirmation.

"Yes, and I miss all of them..." his eyes took an air of calm, "Even the ones that hated everyone." at those words the pegasus stepped forward and tried her best to hug him. Pinkie quickly joining her a small comforting smile that seemed almost alien on the hyper ponies face after his small amount of interactions with her.

After a few moments the primarch chuckled, "Thank you." when the two let go of him he looked over at Twilight. She had put down her note pad met his eye. "Do you have any more questions?" The alicorn shook her head and spoke in a tone of sympathy.

"No, I think that is enough for now. So you intend to travel? Where will you go? When, will you go?" several questions all at a much slower pace compared to last time. Her eyes showed minour concern, though one could suppose it was both for the human and anyone he scared.

"WEZ WANT TA GO EVRY WHER! I plan to see as much of this strange land and its people as I can while I am here. As for when I will go, DONO!" slipping in and out of the odd voice seems normal for the giant. And while they didn't understand. The group had all seen weirder than that with just Pinkie. At this point Fluttershy returned to Ella who stood and stretched by raising her hind legs and lowering her front. Afterward she let her back legs fall and pushed up with her front legs.

Twilight took the lead again, "Well if you don't know when. Would you like to stay the night in Ponyville? If nothing else I could give you a map." she paused after a bit of thought on what he might need, "Though, maybe a paper with my mark explaining your reasons would be better. It could at least stop you from getting attacked by the guard in certain towns."

The man stood slowly, followed by those who were still sitting on their haunches. "If you don't mind my presence for a night. And a map would be nice. "

Twilight nodded as she thought, "Where you would stay tonight is the issue right now. Not many places that would be big enough. And that assumes any of them would take you." Vulkan opened his mouth to say that wouldn't be needed.

But before he could speak Applejack spoke again, "Well, ma family farm has space in the barn for you and yer friend. A night's stay ain't much, but I can't leave somepony hanging when I can help now can I." small smiles exchanged between both of them when Rarity bumped in.

"You know, despite your oddities you do have a noble air about you, you being the heir to an empire makes sense." her voice held the same regal tone as always but that didn't stop an eye roll from her blue pegesus friend.

"Oh yeah, I bet. Say, how about you and I have a race before you leave to go on your...road trip. With how long your legs are I bet you can move pretty fast!" the primarch turned to see she had devilish smile on her muzzel.

"YUD BE SORPRISD!" as they spoke, Vulkan found his sight blocked by Pinkie who was looking at him upside down. Her hooves on the man's shoulder pads. '...this must be normal to a degree, no one has commented on how she somehow got onto me without drawing attention.

"SOoo, who wants to have a welcoming party!" her shout and smile were almost infectious, her friends seemed to smile after she said that. "Cause I for one think you need to enjoy some Ponyville hospitality!" she jumped off of the giant.

"Of course Pinkie, we should probably also check on everyone who is hiding. Otherwise we could have an issue." Twilight sounded almost like a older sister. Though that took a pause when the door to the tree house opened and Spike walked out rubbing his eyes. After a yawn the young drake started talking still half asleep.

"Hey guys, you aren't gonna believe the dream I had there was this HUGE thing that was next to a manticore and-" he stopped after looking at the others all around the subjects of that sentence. "... I am going back to sleep." the dragon turned around and started to close the door.

Author's Note:

Wish granted.
I found this, enjoy:

Ferret Manus

Comments

[paladinwolf]

i.redd.it/niycvmq8gr001.png

[Delta238]

VULKAN LIVES!! STOMP!! STOMP!! VULKAN LIVES!!

[shadowgod3211]

"Hey guys, you aren't gonna believe the dream I had there was this HUGE thing that was next to a manticore and-" he stopped after looking at the others all around the subjects of that sentence. "... I am going back to sleep." the dragon turned around and started to close the door.

lol AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

[Anon E Moose]

OI, DIZ PINK ONEZ SNEAKIER DEN A PURPLE ORK

[zanthimos]

WAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHH Is Magic

[Kembrius]

Ferret Manus.... i hate that i love this.

[Smurf]

I’m happy to see this updated, though truth be told I was hoping to see Vulkan explain each of his brothers/father and their final fates just to see the reactions from the ponies.

Also Ferret Manus

[mrkillwolf666]

10/10

[qazse]

Remember those beasts Vulcan tamed on Attila through hugging. Well I see him doing the same thing with an Ursa Major, much to Twilight’s utter disbelief.

Vulcan: This creature does my bidding now.

Twilight: .....Why?

[ForgottenBackgroundPony]

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Mood.

10533941
GET TEH ZOG OUT YA GIT!

[Alot Master]

10564840
Exactly. Its part of the charm of the imperium, its just a shame we can't do crossovers into it.

[Late_Night]

gonna hafta ask, who dies
i don't wanna go into this with high hopes and have them smashed
edit: so far, nobody that wasn't obvious from the premise alone
you've gained a reader

[1n6jx]

Just found this some people might like to see it
Plague - Warhammer 40k FanMade animation. (Anti-COVID special) - YouTube
skip too 238 see the epic speech if you wanna skip the fight definitely recommend hearing this speech it's really good

[Draco Dei]

Applejack spoke as she turned back to the giant, "Well, Ya say ya aren't a prince. And you sure don't act like any we know," Rarity started to shudder before she clamped down on her thoughts."

While ANd statement is perhaps a reasonable one, Rarity's shuddering is not so much, given she has met Shining Armor by now.

It still see some similarities between him and Shining. They would probably get along well.

[Josiador]

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I've actually thought quite a bit on how it could be possible. Ponies are inherently anti-chaos, and the Elements of Harmony are likely the best weapon for defeating Chaos that there is. Any radical Inquisitor would gladly keep a relatively harmless xeno species alive if it meant using an advantage against Chaos like that. And if that's too unbelievable, you could always have the Emperor (or Guilliman) himself sanction ponies, for similar reasons.

[Comet_Chaser]

Found this after watching Bruva Alfabusa's video about what GW's new policy is on fan animations...... sad that as of right now we won't get to see any more of Vulkan's adventures.......

[Comet_Chaser]

3 years since this was updated. Is it ever going to continue, or should I just untrack and move on with my life?

[Status L]

If Vulkan were to be let loose on the modern Warhammer 40K universe, He would fix the imperium by literally bear hugging tthe grimdark out of it, until the only thing left was noble bright. Sanguinius would awaken once more. The eye of terror would spit out countless ponies chanting friendship is magic. The Necrons would decide life was all right and set out to nurture it. The orks would replace comedic sociopathy with comedic inability to cause any real harm. The squats would return. Black templars would finally remove that stick out of their asses. Slaanesh would start making anti rape PSA's. Kal Jerico would go back in canon, and make his living helping people get thteir lives back together. Gaunt's ghosts would find out a ridicolously wealthy rogue trader rebuilt and repopulated Tanith with as many residents offworld as he could find on a whim.

Don't forget that Ci Ci Ciaphas Cain would finally get therapy.