The Forge Chronicles

by Sirjadan13

Chapter 1: Unexpected People in Unexpected Places

The Forge Chronicles

Episode 1: The Awakening

Chapter 1

Unexpected guests.

I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Alex Kalen. My family consists of my stepbrother Jake, who is 27 years old. My dad disappeared 2 years ago. The only thing I knew about my stepmother was that her full name was Katherine Jane Macgrath Kalen. Anyways my story on how my life was turned upside down began with terrible news.

The news was hard on all of us. It had been several days since the Empire Event happened off the East Coast. My older brother and I watched the news and were kept in touch by our cousin in New Marais. Thats right, I was the 25 year old cousin of Cole Macgrath. His death hit us hard, he sacrificed his life to save the millions that were on Death’s doorstep. I was heartbroken for several days.

Jake tried to cheer me up, said that things would get better soon. It worked, for a while. Sometimes, when no one was home, I would try and lift my spirits by watching MLP: FiM. Even that didn't work.

Then one day, a visitor was knocking on our door. I answered the door and I almost lost it; there, standing in the doorway was Cole very much alive. He explained to us on how he survived, and that the lightning bolt that brought him back to life gave him a new power. Ever since the RFI blast all conduits dropped dead, but out of a miracle Cole and all pre conduits were kept alive. He didn't come here without a reason. Then he turned to me and said, "How would you like to join the band of freaks?"

We instantly got to work on my powers. I had all of the same electric powers that Cole possessed plus some. The new powers included creating portals and inhanced swordsmanship skills. We practiced for a whole week; all while Jake was crafting his own weapons to use in combat. His masterpiece was a green bladed lightsaber.

One night, a thought crossed my mind, “What would happen to my powers if I overcharged myself?”
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“Hey man, look. Are you sure you want to do this,” my brother said. “Have you ever heard the saying power corrupts?”

“Yes I have,” I said to my worrisome brother,“I’ve been dying to do this all night, just go.”

3 hours later....

“All right it's ready to go,” Cole said, “But I still have a bad feeling about this.”

The next few hours were filled with chaotic results. Apparently, my powers would be amped to 100x their strength if overcharged. However, that's where the madness began; the final power to be overcharged was ionic portal. I shot one portal into space and the other on the ground, at first nothing happened. Until the portal on the ground became a swirling vortex of.....Magic? I didn’t know what to think. Then, all three of us were sucked into the vortex, unaware of our destination.
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15 minutes later....

“Alex...Alex do you read me?!”

“...*Grown...wa-what happened?”

I awoke to the sound of my brother calling me worried sick. “Thank god you’re alright,” Jake praised. After that I checked myself to see what changed.

I still had my powers. Thats good.

And my trusty machete was still on my back. That even better.

But then I remembered what happened. Slowly, I surveyed the area I was in, and began to feel dread creep into my soul.

“Hey Jake,” I said, “Is Cole with you?”

“No,” he said. “Come to think of it, I haven’t seen him since that vortex swallowed us up. Speaking of which, where are you at the moment?”

“I seem to have landed in a forgotten castle,” it was true. The walls looked like they could fall down any moment. The room, in which I was currently in, had a strange familiarity to it.
Please don’t tell me this is the Palace of the Two Sisters.

Sure enough, it was. Everything in the chamber was just as I saw it in the battle against Nightmare Moon.

But wait, if this is the temple, that means......OH GOD NOOOO!!!! In that instant I realised Cole, Jake and I had landed in Equestria.

However, something was off about the Palace. Toward the back of the room there was a strange coffin against the back wall, with a beam shooting into it. Strange as it was, the beam was coming from a red longsword, locked in a pedestal with ancient markings.

I tried lifting the sword but it wouldn’t budge. Suddenly, I felt a massive headache come over as I collapsed to the floor. In that instant, a vision from beyond told me what was in that coffin.
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In the beginning of time God himself was creating his latest masterpiece, the Universe. However, this project was too great for him to do alone; so he created a being in his own image to help him make the worlds.
God named his helper by his job, The Forge.
The duo had it all planned out. The Forge was to craft the worlds, each world was similar yet unique in some way. And God made the creatures that would live, breath, and work in those worlds.

Centuries later, the Forge overlooked the current lifeforms in each of his masterpieces. What he saw baffled him, each and every creature shunned the Forge for all of his hard work. Jealousy, consumed the Forge which led to hatred. The Forge turned on his creator and made his own greatest worlds burn. For his act of darkness, God separated The Forge’s body, and spirit and sealed them away. The demon's prison was a coffin that contained the body, a red longsword that trapped the spirit, and a short sword combined with the power of 8 artifacts to act as the lock.

The Forge was put to sleep for many years to come. However, legend said that if six creatures from other worlds would end up into the world where the Forge was kept, the lock would shatter. The evil would wake up, and begin his plan to copy every creature, destroy all worlds, and create his own world to rule the whole of creation.
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“...Whoa,” I said, after I recovered from the vision. Afterwards, I looked towards the sun to see what time it was. It was mid afternoon, around 4:00-4:45 PM.
“Uhh, brother, are you ok?”

“Wha, yeah I’m fine. Where are you right now?”

Suddenly, a familiar voice called my name in panic, “Alex...Alex come in...do you read me,” it was Cole. “I need your help, NOW!”

“I’ll have to get back to you soon Jake. Cole’s in serious trouble,” I replied.

I made my way to the exit and found out that the castle was in the middle of a gigantic forest, resembling one from earth. While I was traveling through the forest, a familiar tune popped into my head.

The whole forest seemed to come alive to the tune, every so often I would hear a bird whistle in time with the music. The forest had plenty of obsticals to get through: ridges, raging rivers, thorn bushes, rocky clifts, and a vast amount of plant-life. As soon as I found Cole exhausted, the music ended. But that was not the only thing I saw. On the battlefield there were these familiar corpses that had the body of a lion, tails like a scorpion, and the wings of a bat (BECAUSE IT’S MIDNIGHT!!!).

Sorry......had to do that.
“What happened here,” I said.

“I should ask you the same thing cousin,” Cole replied. Back on Earth I was a closet brony meaning that all my friends, even some of my family, didn’t know of my secret joy. So you could tell what my reaction was from the Manticore corpses, FREAKED OUT. But eventually, someone had to find out. So I began to explain to Cole about how I knew about those monsters, and what world we are stuck in.
“Well Cole, it all started a few months ago...”

15 minutes later.....
“And thats why I know what those beasts where, and where we are,” I finished.

“Okay, so let me get this straight,” Cole replied. “We’re in a land that is ruled by talking magic ponies. And to top it all of, Jake is NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!”

“Pretty much, yeah.” I then realised that it was getting dark, and we needed to find a place to sleep. Maybe there was a town nearby? “Hang on, I gonna check if there is a town nearby.”

I lept into the air to get a birds eye view of the forest. What I saw baffled me. To the far north of us, there was the largest mountain I ever saw. Near the middle of said mountain there was a large, regal looking castle, with a city at its base.

Canterlot Castle?!? No way we're going up there.

I shifted my gaze to the west and found a small, familiar looking town. And an all too familiar cottage near the edge of the forest.
Ponyville. I think thats our best bet.

I dropped back down to the ground with a resounding *THUD. “Okay, I saw a town not that far away from here to the west.”
“Alright, lets get movin,” Cole said.

The night came earlier than I expected. Already I could feel many eyes watching us as we made our way to the town. Most of them were not friendly eyes. To keep me from thinking about the watchers, I looked up into the sky. My reaction...lets just say I never saw a more beautiful night in my life, until now.
Eventually, we reached a swamp. The marsh was too thick for us to get through. All of a sudden, a familiar feeling of dread crept in my stomach. Then it happened, bubbles started to form in the mud. They started out slow, until they grew savage. And then, the swamp released the beast within.

“HYDRAAAA!!!”
That thing looked mad and ready to kill. So we did what a normal conduit would do.
We. Fought. Back.
The next few minutes were filled with blasts of lightning, grenades of ice, and some sharp wits. Eventually, I came up with an idea. "Cole! You still got your ionic storm power," I shouted
"YEAH," he screamed.
"LET'S LIGHT THIS OVERSIZED LIZARD UP!!!"

(KRA-KA-BOOM!!!)
The beast never stood a chance from our combined ionic storm. After the battle, I couldn’t help but realise that we created quite the light show in the night sky.
Oh boy...But if we caused that much commotion, that means...*GASP!

“We have created countless nights in the past before. But what we, *ahem-I saw tonight, I can not thank...whatever thou are, enough for your, how do ponies today put it? Ah yes, your ‘light show,’” Came an oh so familiar voice from behind us.

Slowly, we turned around to find the princess of the night herself. Oh. My. God. I couldn’t believe it, standing here was Luna in the flesh. Everything I saw from the show was spot on, down to the smallest detail. With that in mind I gained some courage and spoke, “Uh...yea-yea uh you're welcome, Princess Luna.”
“How does thou know our name? And more importantly, what are thou?” She replied, surveying the carnage we caused.

“It’s a long story,” I replied. “Do you have anywhere for us to rest? That battle really drained us.”

It didn’t take long for the princess to notice the carnage we caused. “Oh my, y-you two destroyed a Hydra, all by yourselves” she replied, with a concerned look on her face. “Well...you can stay at the castle for now. But in the morning both of you have to give me and my sister a proper explanation of your arrival.”

“Thank you your highness,” I replied.

I think the rest of our arrival you already know....Celestia.

Author's Note:

Just an idea I had in mind after finishing inFAMOUS 2.
The rest of the story might be told in 3rd person or 1st, depending on my way of writing.

Anyways, thanks for reading and stick around, because things are about to get epic. Oh, and in case your wondering, the time period in Equestria is two days before the Grand Galloping Gala.
So you can imagine the fun thats about to happen.

Until then, this is Sirjadan13 signing out.
But before I go, see if you can spot the Homestar Runner reference in the story.

Comments

[AtTheCrimsonFckr]

Hmm The thing with hydra and then Luna seemed a bit out place maybe but if you want a grammar I'm not him I can help with wordplay and spelling because that what I'm best at. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you need it.