> Hybrid
>  by BAR0SS
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> Prologue
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So here's my story. I was being escorted down a lit up hallway by 4 heavily armed soldiers. Thats not what worried me, its been like that for the past 7 years. What did have me worried is that today we were in a rush and I had absolutely no idea what was ahead for me. However, I did know that my being here was because of these scientists that wanted to pull some tests on me. I was fine with that, it wasn't ever that bad.

Oh wait. Perhaps I should start further back, just so you can get a better idea of why I am in this kind of shit situation. I mean I've been in some shit positions before, but this one takes the cake.

Anyway. My name is Orion. I am 23 years of age and I live in a special containment chamber in the middle of a government military owned facility somewhere. I was apparently a product of science. I was living in an orphanage at one stage, but I ran away because abuse led me to discover my condition. And that condition led me here.

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I was 16 at the time and the daily abuse from both both other orphans and care takers was beginning to get to me. I don't remember the details of that day properly either.

I remember that it was early morning and I was on my way to the cafeteria to get food. It wasn't often that I would get fed so I would break in early, take what I would need for the day and get out.

Anyway, I was on my way back to my dorm when suddenly I was struck on the back of my head. My vision blurred and I fell to my knees. Holding the back of my head, I could feel a warm liquid on my fingers.

I turned to look at what had connected with the back of my head only to see Alex holding a wooden table leg with blood on it.

Alex was like the ring leader of all the orphan bullies and the fucker had taken a table leg and hit me over the head with as if it was a club. Then again, cave men always did use clubs so it was a fitting weapon for him.

"OW! Why the fuck did you do that you ass?" I shouted at him. He smirked at me. Well he tried, his smirks just make him look like a bigger retard. He really needed to get that fixed.

I see him lift the club up and before I can do anything, he brings it down on top of my head with a crack. "You stupid little shit. Think you can eat my food and get away with it?" he asked

Before I could respond however he it me again and this time fell over into a prone position. But Alex didn't stop there. He began to repeatedly smash me with that damn club. I could feel my consciousness leaving me. I think that was the first time it happened. I wasen't even awake anymore but I could FEEL that something was happening. I had no idea heat was going on, I was just along for the ride.

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After what felt like at leas 4 hours of moving around, I was finally able to 'wake up' in a sense. The first thing I noticed however that i was in the middle of a forest somewhere and it was night.

But that wasn't my biggest problem. I looked down to myself and panicked. "What the FUCK!!!" I shouted. No only was I covered in about 10 litres of blood. As I was trying to get the to get the blood off my arms I noticed my pants leg was on fire. I stared at the flame for a moment before finally realizing I should put it out. I hurried to pat the flame down and that's when I realized another problem that made me have a panic attack.

Scales, black scales. I was squeezing my leg, trying to see if it even was mine. That's when I noticed my hands, they were normal. Oh, except for the fact that they too had scales and my fingers had become claws.

Ok. So now I should have had a heart attack of something. But instead, I just decided to sit down, cross my legs and close my eyes and tell myself that this not real, that its just a dream. That's when I noticed that I felt... Better. Just better in general. And a hell of a lot more capable, that's for sure.

I opened my eyes again and saw my hand/claws were still scalie. I wanted to get a better look at myself to get an idea of how much of me had scales. But I was still covered in blood and I wanted it off me before I hurl. I got up and began to walk. I don't know where or why I went in THAT direction. I just did.

After about 20 minutes of walking, I came across a lake. I looked at the lake, then back to my blood covered body, then to the lake again. And without thinking, I ran and diver into cool looking water.

I re surfaced 40 seconds later and began to swim back to the land. As I exited, I began to take my shoes and pants off to get a look at look at my somehow altered form. My shirt was already missing.

My feet still looked somewhat normal, except scalie and my legs the same. One thing that stood out to me was that all of my muscles were larger too. Ok continuing on, as I was looking up my legs, I saw I had a tail too. A tail. And I could feel it. That was pretty cool.

As I looked over my body and saw that my stomach scales were red and my ab's were pretty cut too like my legs and arms. I continued looking over my stomach until I reached my neck. I was afraid of this part.

I moved my hands over my head and frowned. all of my facial contours were off. My face felt elongated and I apparently had horns jutting out the back of my head. I wanted to see this.

I walked back to the water to get a glimpse of my new look. When I did look, I only saw what I would call a human/dragon hybrid. My yellow eyes were like cat eyes too. After I had done admiring myself, I put my pants and shoes back on.

I walked away from the waters edge and toward's a tree. I was tired so I was just going to sleep and hope to wake up from this weird dream. As I lay down, I couldn't get comfortable, as if something was underneath me. I sat up and looked at the ground. Blank? I looked at my back and my eyes widened.

Wings! Fucking wings!! WTF!!! How in all things holy did I not notice them before. Ah, whatever. I'l wake up and they'll be gone so it dosn't matter.

I lay back down again, on my side this time and closed my eyes. Listening to the sounds of nature as I slowly nodded of into the dreams, if I wasn't already in one.

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I woke up feeling like shit, as usual. However, I was more comfortable that usual. Those orphanage beds were like sleeping on shattered glass so whatever I was on was a treat to me.

I opened me eyes and immediately squeezed them shut to stop the suns assault on them. I rubbed my face. I sat up and put my hands on the ground to support myself off... the... ground?

I looked around my surrounding surrounding area to find myself is a forest. "The hell. Why am I in a forest?" I said to myself. Then all at once, all of last nights memories came back to me.

Quickly checking myself over, I saw that I was back to my normal human self. But my pants still had the burnt hole in them. I still didn't know why my leg was on fire but anyway.

I got up thinking it would be a good idea to find out where I was. What confused me was that I knew this area very well. If I was correct, this is a portion of the land the property that my parents owned before their tragic accident.

That thought got me moving. I wanted to see if my old house was still there. I got moving in the direction my house should be in and within 5 minutes, I had arrived there.

The house was still there, except it looked.like a bomb had hit it. I walked up to the front door and pushed it open. I stood in the doorway looking around inside, realising that it had been near 9 years since I had last been here. I looked around what I remember being the lounge room, the only thing there is a dusty old couch.

I walked past the empty kitchen, up the hallway to the bedrooms. I opened the door to what I remember being my room to find it void of anything but dust. I closed the door and tried my parents room next. Empty.

Sighing from remembering them. I walked back down the hallway past he kitchen, and back into the living room. Looking at the couch again, not caring about the dust, I lay down on it with having the intent to on remembering as much about my parents as I could. But that plan was short lived.

At first I could hear a helicopter in the distance that sounded like it was getting closer. What caught my attention next was what sounded like a metal canister in the room. I was stunned by its sudden appearance. next thing I know, it detonated and both blinded and deafaned me. I had no idea what was happening. I was both blind and deaf, that and fell backwards over the couch. Eventually, the ringing in my ears stopped and my sight returned. 

I wish it didn't. When I could see again, I had at least 7 m4a1 barrels pressed against my face. "Don't move or you will be fired apon!" one of the guys holding one of the rifles shouted at me. He got his wish. I was too stunned by this sudden event to even breath properly. 

I was hauled to my feet and my hands were cuffed behind me. I was then very roughly pushed back outside the house towards a black van. I looked around to see two helicopters, four army humvees, a few troop transports and an absolute shit tonne of soldiers either aiming at me or looking very angrily towards me.

I was very much thrown into the van, landing with a thud, and the doors were slammed shut. Next thing I know, I slid back to the doors, indicating that van quickly sped of to god knows where with me in the back.

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The next few hours were spent with me sitting in the back of a moving van trying to figure out what was going on. I had already figured out that it most likely had to do with the blood that I found myself covered in.

"Damn what the hell did I do!" I shouted to myself. I wished there was I way I could find out for myself. But I do think that I will find out regardless and its not going to end well. "Alright Orion. Your going to be fine. You going to..." I was cut off but the van coming to a raid halt and falling on my face. Before I had time to recover, the doors were ripped open and another soldier grabbed me by my hair and dragged me out.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" would have been the only thing anyone could hear as I was being dragged through some facility. I was dragged into a room and thrown again. I cradled my head as I heard the door being slammed shut.

I got up, still holding the top of my head and looked around. There was not one window into this room and there were camera's in each corner. Was I in some sort of holding cell? The only thing in this room was an empty desk in the against one of the walls. I sat on the on the ground and thought about this. Until I heard a noise.

I looked in the direction of the noise and saw a small slide open behind the desktop and food was pushed through onto the desk and the slide closed back up. I have to say, the food looked good to me. better than anything I've ever had from the orphanage. I walked over to get a better look. 

A cooked pork chop and roasted veggies and some mashed potato. I took a whiff and I couldn't help myself. I started with the veggies and the potato. But as I got half way through the chop, the door opened and a two guys walked in. One a soldier and the other guy in a lab coat.

The guy in the lab coat walked over to me and put a hand on my back. "Hey son. My name is Professor Howard. Do you know why you are here?" he asked me sounding like he actually cares.

My head drooped. "Yes, although I don't remember it" I awnsered to him. 'No point in lying, I got nowhere to go' I told myself.

Howard frowned. "Well would you like me to tell you?" 

I thought about his offer for a moment. "With all due respect, no. The blood was bad enough for me. I don't think I could handle the truth" I said respectfully.

Howard looked at me with a flat expression. "Well, I'm going to get right to the point. There is something Inside of you. And we would like to study it and help you learn to control it."

"What's in it for me?" I asked trying to drag this out. I already knew I had no choice in the matter. But I might be able to get something out of it.

Howard smiled at me. "Well how dose a comfortable bed, new clothes, a shower, good cooked food and a healthy life style sound to you?" 

And of course there was a catch. I knew that so I had better ask. "What's the catch?" This caught him off guard.

"HAHA.No foolin you. Good, I like witty people. saves making up Lies" he said putting his arm around me. "I'l be honest then. You will have wrist band on for the rest of your life that has a tracer in it. Every time you do go outside, you will be escorted. And we will occasionally perform some tests on you.But they will be nothing too painful." he said honestly.

I weighed my options. Take his offer or the will take what they want by force. Well I didn't have anything to loose. Why not. "Alright professor. I'l do it." I said shakeing his hand

"Terrific. I shall have a room set up for you on site" he exclaimed he walked out of the room with the soldier, leaving me to my thoughts again.

'Did I really just sign my life away? Oh well. Too late now. Besides, it might not be that bad' I told myself.

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So. After being taken in by the military for 7 years, I had become more healthy and physically fit. All of my friends turned out to be scientists that wanted to try some tests on me. The tests never hurt me and the lab guys were always honest to me about the effects that might happen. 

My (what we call) hybrid form was 7 feet tall but very fast, and durable. The scales over my body were strong enough to reduce a .50 cal bullet to the equivalent of an air rifle to human skin. My bone structure also incredibly durable. Howard said they were virtually indestructible. It also had the ability reconstruct its bone structure to that of a quadruped.

I also learned that I apparently had some of the traits to what Howard called Psychokinesis. In my Hybrid form, I could use Telekinesis to manipulate objects, I had Supernatural healing, I could create an Energy shield to protect myself or other objects and use teleportation too.

I had also learned to use some of these abilities in human form, but it always caused me a chronic headache and cause me to black out if I used it to much.

I also trained in military tactics in both my forms just for fun. I was not an expert in survival tactics, but I knew enough to get by. However, I was pretty good at stealth movement and concealment and I was un-mached In hand-to-hand and melee weapons combat. I was like a soldier that could turn into a super soldier, but I knew I would never would get out to every use these skills.

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So now where back to the beginning of the story. I was being escorted through the base by 4 escorts. But it was with haste this time so something was wrong.

We got to an open room that was freezing cold inside and had smoke blowing all over the floor. There were also a pod of some sort that had its hatch open. Scientist's were all standing around said pod, most looking down.

Howard turned and approached me with a sad look in his eyes. That was never a good sign. As he got to me, I tried to lighten the mood. "Hey doc, what's up?"

He just sighed. "I'm sorry Orion" he said putting his arm over my shoulder. " This is a cryogenic pod. It will preserve one inside it until it is unlocked."

"That's great. What's it go to do with me?" I asked in a hesitant tone. He looked at me  before taking the tracer armband off my wrist. 

I looked at him confused. Until I felt something sharp stick into my neck. I turned to see Joe holding a syringe in his hand. Joe was my main security escort, and the syringes like the one he just jabed me with was filled with some sort of tranqilizer. I was about to ask what the hell, but my legs gave for under me.

Howard and Joe caught me and hoisted me towards the pod. I wanted to stop them, but i couldn't talk let alone defend myself. Stupid tranq.

They layed me down inside the pod and the hatch closed over the top. Howard put his hand on the glass window. "I'm just so sorry. I hope that one day you will forgive me" he said.

I wanted to say something, anything. But it was hopeless. I suddenly felt very sleepy and could not resist the urge to close my eyes. I did so knowing that I might not ever wake up, that I would remain like this forever.

How wrong I was.
> Chapter 1: The Awakening
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Chapter 1

Perspective change: Daring Do

So here I was again. In the middle of a dark, overly humid forest that was situated just south west of the Equestrian border.

I was here with at least 50 royal guards from Canterlot and I had an excavation team digging out some ruins that I found a few days back.

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I remember that I was evading some zebras that wanted my hide for some reason. Might have to do with that relic I stole from them a few months back, but anyway. I was running and the zebras were almost upon me. I found a cave that was very hidden, and thinking it would be a good place to hide until the heat dies down.

I ran and dived into the opening and covered the entrance. Thinking I would be here a while, I decided to explore the cave I just jumped into. As I made my way further back, I got a tingle in my spine. I only ever got this tingle when I was about to make a discovery.

I had to make a torch eventually because it was getting increasingly darker. now my path was lit and I could see. I continued my way further down the cave and eventually came across a giant open room. 

I couldn't believe my eyes. I had just discovered a room full of ancient relics. I walked to one of the nearest building's and I was amazed. Whatever had made these building's had made them to last. They were from as far as I can tell, at least 700 000 years old.

I was reluctant, but I knew I had to leave to get a team to dig this place up. By the time I got out of the cave, the zebra group had given up. So I made a bee line to the museum of Canterlot. They would fund my excavation once I told them I had found a precursor site. They had to.

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So there I was. Back at the entrance to the sight. With Rare Artifact, the curator of the museum. He was an aged grey unicorn with a brown mane and tail, he also had a gold totem as a cutie mark.

By about 2PM, the sight had been completely un-covered and the researchers had began exploring and studying every little thing. Rare and I were also exploring the sight as well. We had discovered many things, like this what we believed was a carriage. But it was very strangely shaped and it didn't have a harness to be pulled. We did also discover the odd picture and were able to get an idea of what these creatures looked like. 

They looked like bipedal, kind of like a dragon, but with skin instead of scales, no tail or wings, and had much flatter faces. And from what we could tell, they all wore colthes for some reason.

"Well miss Do. I must say that this is an extraordinary discovery. Its not often you find something that pre-dates everything else on known record" said Rare.

I stopped in my tracks. "Pre-dates the known record?!?!" I shouted. That cant be right. The oldest known relic is over 4 million years old.

"Why yes. I have used a spell to carbon dated some of these artifacts, and the results say that they're over 17 million years old. Its amazing that this is all still in great condition for its age" Rare said happily.

I couldn't believe it. We had just made the biggest find since the founding of Equestria. Except this was a lot older. A lot. "Hey miss Do! Ya coming or not!" Rare shouted to me.

I was brought back to my senses to see Rare standing outside of a door to one of the building's doorways, looking back to me smirking. He then turned and walked inside. I had to run to catch up.

I caught up to him in a room that looked like a reception lobby. Rare was looking around on all the desks very carefully reading over the sheets of paper. My attention was drawn to a door. This door was different. It seemed to be made of steel and had some smoke blowing through its gaps. Curiosity got the better of me so I want up to the door and put a hoof on it.

It was cold to the touch. So cold in fact that I had to take my hoof of as soon as I made contact. What was in here. This door was like the coldest thing in the world.

"Hey Rare, get you flank over here now!" I shouted. Soon after, he came tearing around the corner. "Check this door out" I said pointing to said door.

"Darn it miss Do. I thought you had gone and hurt yourself" he said scolding me, I just rubbed the back of my head. He then looked back to the door and put his hoof on it and yelped. "Sweet Celestia that door is cold. What could be in here?"

"I don't know. But perhaps we should get this door open and find out. You go and get some of the guards. My guess by the look of this door, whatever is behind it could be dangerous, like a weapon or something, it should be seized" I said

"That's a good point. It should be quarantined until deemed safe. I would hate to think that we would be like foals with a sharp sword" Rare said turning and exiting back outside.

I looked back to the door. Now I just had to figure out how to get it open. I had a knack for this. It would have to be boobie trapped in some way or another, It always is. I just had to figure out the trap was without setting it off. I looked over the door to find the clue that would show me the way, and you know what I found.

NOTHING!!! I looked over this door and not a single thing on this door. It was just a flat silver door with nothing on it that stood out in any way. I found a leaver a few metres to the side of the door, and there were lines on the wall to the door. I couldn't be that simple could it? I walked over to the lever and put a hoof on it. I looked back and forth between the door and the lever several times before I finally got the nerve to pull the lever down.

There was a huge crack noise followed by the sound of hissing and screeching. I panicked thinking I didn't do it properly. I was then both relived and disappointed to see the screeching was coming from the door opening.That was the easiest problem solving ever.

I walked into the doorway and was immediately freezing cold. This was nuts. What did they have that needed to be kept so cold anyway. That and how is it still cold. Its like 1000 degrees and this room is freezing.

I looked into the room, the cold biteing at my face, and observed as much as I could. I noticed a few skeletons that looked like they belong to the creatures around the room. But I noticed one particular skeleton that looked like it was lying up against some sort of canister with a black... Thing in its grip, and there were little brass cylinders beside it.

I forgot about the cold and very carefully walked over to the large canister. I found out that this 'canister' was the source of the cold as I moved closer. I loomed over it and found a window of sorts on its surface, but it seemed to be covered with frost.

I wiped my hoof over the surface and saw something inside. It looked like it was one of the creatures frozen inside. I stared at its face. It looked...sad.

I was so mesmerized by its facial features that I failed to notice Rare Artifact and the guards behind me. 

"Uhh... Miss Do?" asked Rare and I jumped higher than all the times Ahuizotl had scarred me combined. He and the guards tried to stifle their laughter but they were just laughing as hard as they could. Rare put his hoof over me. "I'm sorry miss Do. I didn't mean to scare you like that."

"Its fine. Anyway, look at this. I think its one of these creatures that have been preserved in ice" I exclaimed pointing to the canister.

His eyes went wide as he to looked inside the canister. "Incredible, but why would they need to freeze this specimen? Surely the had better methods of preservation based on what we have already seen" he said. 

As he loomed over the canister, I saw a small bench with what looked like a sheet of glass sitting on a 90° angle. The bench had all of these tiny little buttons on it and each button had either a letter or a number on it. I looked at the glass sheet and it had a flashing dot on it. I tried to rub the flashing dot with my hoof before I accidentlly knocked some of the little buttons. Then the most strangest thing happened. Little letters appeared on the screen. 

It read 'Activate protocall No.7450. Y/N?'

I looked at the letters on the screen, then to the at the buttons. It was asking me?. I searched all of the buttons and found the 'Y' button. I pushed that button then the screen changed.

'Beginning thawing procedure! Please stand back!'

Uh-Oh.

I looked to to Rare Artifact and noticed little lights flashing on the canister. I ran at him and tackled him away from the canister just before a large gust steam blew out of all the cracks in it.

"Guard's! Get ready! I think something is coming!" I yelled and they ran back into the room and made a circle around the canister. I could see that the thing in the canister was moving and trying to get out.

"Whatever that thing is, do NOT let it near the civilians! UNDERSTOOD!!!" shouted one of the guards.

"YES SIR!!!" the rest shouted back. All was quiet after until a loud noise was heared and a hatch began to slide open.

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Perspective change: Orion

Cold.

So cold.

All I could feel was my skin being frozen stiff and my lungs not working properly.

Some good news however is that I could feel myself rapidly warming up and my lungs and heart started to function again. I also gained movement in my body back too.

I tried to open up my eyes. It was a lot harder that it should have been, but I eventually got them open. All I was able to see was white until my eyesight adjusted and I could see a room on the other side of the white. I looked around, but all I was able to see was white minus the strip through the glass.

I began trying to push my way out of whatever I was in, not making much progress. I had never felt so weak before in my life. I could hear someone shouting outside. I kept trying to get out until I herd a hissing noise and a hatch opened.

After it opened, I fell out and landed on my face. As I lay there, I could my strength coming back to me. What was going on. Why was I in that thing and why was I so weak.

Suddenly, I remembered everything. I woke up one day, had a shower, got dressed in my cammo pants and black shirt before putting on my army boots. I remember that I had breakfast then something happened. 4 escorts told me I needed to follow them so I did and they led me to a cold room with a pod.

Howard said sorry and I was tranqued then halled into the pod. The so called cryogenic pod. Why did he put me in there. The last thing I remember was falling asleep in the pod.

Suddenly, I was rolled over onto my back, expecting it to be one of the scientists. I was shocked to see however what looked like a grey horse looking in my eyes. Is that a horn?

Next thing I know, I'm being levitated up and that's when I saw more of these horses. No, not horses, ponies. And all but two seemed to be wearing gold armour and weilding... spears?

some of the ponies had hors while others had wings. And some were what I would call ordinary. Except none looked 'ordinary' per say. for starts, their heads were massive and their eyes were even bigger. They also were very brightly coloured.

I couldn't move my body. I looked at myself and saw that I had a brown glow. I was turned around to look at the grey pony with the horn again and I saw that his horn gave off a brown glow. I put 2 and 2 together and realised he was using telekinesis to hold me in place. By the feel of his grip, he wasn't very strong with his ability.

"Can you hear me?"

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Did this pony just speak?

How the hell did this pony just speak.

I looked around to see that they were looking at me, awaiting a response. The grey pony put me down. and released me from his telekinetic grasp.

*Sigh* "Well I guess this thing can't understand. Alright guards, can you please keep this thing under a watchful eye and escort it to the camp and cage it" asked the unicorn. 

Nope, not good enough. I looked around and my eyes fell upon a handgun. A Steyr M9-A1 to be precise. Still in the grip of somebodys skeleton.

I looked around to the five armored ponies as they began to close in on me, I planed my escape. I didn't have time to transform into my Hybrid form so I had to do this the fun way.

As one of the guards got near me grabbed his spear and reffed it towards me and swung my right arm out clotheslining him. I then turned and broke the spear on another ponies legs tripping him while another pony tripped over him before I kicked him in the head.

There was two guard ponies left, and both were too stunned to do anything. Before they could react, I sprinted at them and roundhouse kicked the first one before kneeing the last guard the neck. Check and mate.

I ran over to the Steyr and picked it up, dropped the mag and checked the chamber. 5 rounds. I put the weapon in my right leg pocket ant the mag in the left as I looked around. I saw all of the ponies were fine and that's great. I really didn't want harm them but they were recovering and I needed out.

I spotted a door and sprinted for it, knocking over some tan colored winged pony wearing a pith helmet and a green vest. Paying no attention to her I continued to run. 

'Where the hell am I?' I yelled to myself. I had been all over the military facility I used to call home before and I knew every part of it. This however was completely different.

I began running in a northern direction and saw that this facility looked ancient and it was teaming with ponies. I kept running as I was getting looks of confusion. Good thing was they were stunned by my appearence. I was about to make it to the forest when I was tackled from behind. 

After I had stopped rolling, I quickly jumped to my feet and saw the same tan winged pony from before. She dived at me again trying to grab me by I countered it by grabbing one of her forelegs and wrapping it around her throat like she was headlocking herself and I held the other foreleg behind her. What I didn't anticipate was her wings.

She snapped them open and hit me in the face and I dropped my grip. She then turned and kicked me in the gut before punching me in the face. I landed on my back with a thud and she was on me again panting and holding a rusty machete in her mouth.

Thinking quickly, I rolled us both over and dissarmed her of her weapon and rolled her on her back and put the rusty blade to her neck. She noticed this and stopped thrashing instantly, pleading with her eyes.

As I looked into her dark pink eyes, I couldnt help by ease off her neck and smile before seeing myself in her eyes and frowning again.

'What the hell am I doing?' I asked myself. I stood up, letting go of the pony and dropping the machete to the side. 'I cant kill a living creature. I promised myself I wouldn't ever do that again.' I told myself remembering the day I let my Hybrid form slip control.

I was brought out of my emotional to the sound of clinking armour as I was being surrounded. I looked up to see about 50 armored ponies standing around me and the tan pony. 

"Surrender now and you will be spared!" Shouted one of the armored pony that I clotheslined earlier.

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Perspective change: Guard Pony Iron defence

"Surrender now and you will be spared!" I shouted to this... this... freak.

It had a scuffle with Daring Do, and it was winning. But for some reason it stopped and got up, releasing Daring in the process, looking all emotional.

"Guard's! Advance!" I shouted, and my fellow guardsponies started to move forwards, closing the circle around him.

What caught me off guard next was that he looked at me and smiled before he started glowing white. The next thing that got me was Daring jumping at it before there was a bright flash of white.

When I was able to see again, it was gone, and Daring was gone too. Now this thing had crossed a line. 

"Guard's! I want 5 pegasi to return to Canterolt and inform Captain Shining Armour that we have an unidentified creature that has abducted Miss Do and has evaded capture. GO!" I yelled.

I turned to Rare Artifact. "Don't worry sir. We'll find her and capture that thing" I assured him.

"Thank you lieutenant. But you must bring this creature back alive. We need to study it" He told me.

"You can count on us sir" I boasted. "Alright guards I want 20 of you to come with me. We're going hunting. The rest stay here and defend this location" I explained.

"Yes sir!"

3 minutes later, Myself and 20 of my guards were standing at the edge of the forest. "Are you ponies ready?!" I asked/yelled.

"Yes sir" I got in response. I loved that sound.

"Alright. Guard's. Forwarrrrd... March!" And we were off on a tracking mission.

> Chapter 2: Clearing things up
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Chapter 2

Perspective change: Orion

"AHHHH!!!" I yelled as I landed back to the ground. I fell to my knees then curled into a ball on my side and cradled my head. The pain was so bad that I had to fight to keep my consciousness. I began to black out, but managed to stay awake by holding as still as I possibly could. I felt like I was having at least 6 aneurysms at once so I just did the only thing I could. Breath slow and rest.

You see, I did mention that if I used my abilities in my human form, I would end up with a chronic headache, and possibly black out. Good thing I didn't black out this time, I was however very exhausted now and needed sleep, but I was exposed here on the ground. I would have to find a safe place to camp before anything else. Then after I wake up, I will need to find some food and water, water being the bigger priority.

With my plan set, I tried to push myself up up the ground. I got up into a sitting position when I heard someone groaning a few feet away. Still cradling my head, I turned to see who it was, and I had a hard time believing my eyes when I did.

Sitting a few feet away from me was that same tan pony from before. 'How!' I shouted I'm my mind. 'The only way she could be here too is if she made contact with me before I ported.'

I tried to carefully stand up and almost blacked out again from the rushed movement, but I managed to hold my ground. The pony hadn't noticed me yet. She was still groaning on the ground.

I began to slowly back away from her and got behind a tree. I was about to turn away from this pony and bail as fast as I could, but a sudden scream from her made me look back and I saw a pool of blood beginning to grow underneath her. "AHHHHHHH!!!" She screamed again as she rolled onto her back and that's when I saw her injury.

She had a rather large stick sticking out of her left side, just above her hip. I looked away to the horizon then back to her again. Could I really leave her here to bleed out?

NO!

I got behind the tree and took my shirt off before I began to transform into my hybrid form. 'Ok, so right leg first' I told myself as I began to concentrate on that area.

*CRACK* *SNAP* *CRUNCH*

I hissed in pain as the change applied itself. It wasn't as bad as it used to be, but it still did hurt. After my leg changed, I concentrated on each other individual body limb and made them change before transforming my torso, which made my wings and tail grow. I that finally began to transform my head. This bit always hurt the most.

I grabbed my tail and squeezed it to try and compensate for the pain. You see, when my head transforms, my facial structure has to brake down and be re-constructed before the horns grow and the scales push their way through the skin. I clenched my eyes shut and tried to think through my pain.

And as quickly as it came, the pain receded as the transformation was complete. I looked myself over to see if I had missed anything but was glad to see I didn't.

I then closed my eyes and concentrated, making sure I still had control. When I was still learning to harness my Hybrid form, I found out the hard way that if I transform too quickly. I would loose control. And trust me when I say 'That is a very bad thing.'

Happy that I had transformed successfully, I looked back over to the pony. Only, she was unconscious and my smile dropped instantly.

I jumped over to her, rolled her on her side so the stick was pointing up and inspected her injury. From as far as I can tell, there was at least 3 inches of the stick imbedded in her stomach. I had an idea. An incredibly stupid idea, but it just might save her life, and being in my Hybrid state would make it possible.

I put my left claw on her stomach near the stick and grasped said stick with my right. I then yanked the stick out quickly, yet ever so carefully and her blood spurted everywhere.

I had to hurry. I put my right claw on the wound and my left claw on top of my right. I then began to focus my telekinesis to manipulate my biological healing to her temporarily and her wound began to heal extremely fast. 

She would remain asleep from the trauma for now, but she would be fine. I removed my claws from her body and saw that she didn't even have a scar.

Now I needed to find a place to camp. Same plan as last time but this time I did not have a knife in the back of my skull feeling. I love how pain disappeared in this form due to its resilience. It took a hell of a lot to cause it pain. I began to walk away only to remember something.

'That pony. I cant leave her here asleep' I thought to myself. I looked around the surrounding area. 'God only knows what's in here and what would happen if I did. What the hell should I do?'

Sighing because I already know the answer, I put my shirt in my pocket before I walked back to the pony and picked her up in my arms. I then began to walk in a northern direction using the sun to show me which was is west.

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'This place is weird' I said to myself. The forest I was in was dark. But at the same time, it was bright. What I mean is this place has brighter colors than it should.

It was getting dark now anyway, so I was going to have to find a place to camp soon. I was looking around as I was walking, being mindful of the pony on my back. I was carrying her in a piggy back like fashion and her head was resting on my shoulder. It was beginning to get colder and the pony had snuggled up to my back subconsciously.

I had been walking for at minimum, 1 hour, at least. and finally, finally I had found a place to camp. It wasn't a cave per say, more of just a concave dent in the wall of a small hill. It wasn't much, but it would be enough shelter for the night. I walked over to the dent in the wall and lay the pony down inside, using my shirt as a pillow for her.

Next thing we would need is a fire. I turned and walked back into the trees to get some firewood and I soon got back with a large pile of wood. When I did bet back however, I realized I had a problem.

How do I light a fire? I'm not dumb, but I don't have a lighter, am not good at the stupid stick rubbing crap, I got no stones that I can cause a spark with, I'm not going to waste any bullets from the pistol I have to do it and I couldn't think of any other way.

'Wait, what if I used my telekinesis to make the atoms of a space vibrate faster' I though to myself. I looked back to the small unlit campfire I had made in a fire pit. I raised my claw to the logs and created a small force field around it to be safe of the effects of making atoms vibrate. I had never done this before and I just wanted to be safe.

I tried to envision the atoms vibrating faster only for nothing to happen. I kept trying to do this for a few minutes only for a wasted effort. 

"Fucking piece of shit!" I yelled, slamming my fist into the logs. Next thing I know there is a small blaze burning.

...

"Wha... bu...ha..." I tried to say but I couldn't form the words properly. I felt my eye twitch in anger.

I looked to the pony that was still sleeping a few feet away from me and I felt my anger disappear slowly as I finally took in her appearance properly for the first time.

I already said that she had a tan colored coat and wings, and I saw her dark pink eyes when I had the machete to her neck. I looked at her mane and saw that it was streaked in different shades of... well shades. Ya know, black, grey and white, all in different tones. Her tail also had the same pattern. What really caught my attention was the tattoo on her hind leg. I don't know what it means, but the gold cross reminded my for a map I once saw. It was the cross that pointed the directions of north, east, south and west.

I sat down against the wall opposite the pony, before pulling the pistol and mag out of my pocket and placed them on the ground next to me. I then looked out into the forest and tried to go to sleep. It wasn't easy with my mind being plagued but the turn of events that had happened to me recently. But I did eventually lay down and pass off into the land of dreams.

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I awoke with a start as the sun came over the horizon and shone on my eyelids. I looked around and saw that I was still in the cave. The memories came back and my eyes shot over to where I placed the pony. She wasn't there.

"Hu... what ever" I said out aloud. I looked back to myself and saw that, as usual, I was human again. That always happened when I want to sleep. Something about muscle relaxation or something. I still don't know why reverting back dosn't hurt either as much either.

I stood up and streached myself out before I realized that I was shirtless. I looked back to where I left the pony to see if my shirt was still there, only to see that it wasn't. 'Fucking pony stole my shirt' I yelled to myself.

Looking to the ground next to me, I saw that the pistol was still there (thank christ for that). I always liked these steyr m9-a1 pistols for their trapazoid iornsights. I had never fired one before, but I did like to think that I knew a bit about weapons. My favourite weapon overall would have to be the chain blade whip, or daggertail for short. The wound's that weapon could create were devastating and it could be used as an excellent stealth weapon if used correctly. Problem was that it could easily get caught on something leaving the user exposed.

Anyway. I picked up the pistol and turned it over in my hands. It was a nice weapon system to say the least and it felt comfortable in my hands. The problem was that I only had 5 rounds. If I have to use them, I have to make them count.

Another problem was that I needed a holster to hold it. But based on the heavy armour and spears those ponies using yesterday, I seriously doubt that they had any sort of firearms let alone holsters. So I was going to have to make my own eventually, but for now, my pocket was going to have to do.

I got up and pocketed the weapon and looked around. I heard my stomach rumble loudly and looked down frowning.

"To bad if I was trying to hide. I mean I know your hungry, but do you have to be so loud about it?" I asked my stomach thinking nobody could hear me. And again, I was wrong.

"Well, I would have to say that you wouldn't have remained hidden for very long, that's for sure."

I tensed when I heard the voice. I quickly spun to my left and say the tan pony standing there, looking at me frowning. She didn't move, just looked at me.

I began to get anxious from the staring. Those dark pink eyes looking at me with wonder as her mouth signaled that she wasn't happy about something.

"Will you stop staring at me!" I shouted. I didn't mean to. I was just getting antsy. She stepped back and her frown deepened.

"What the hay are you? And how can you talk?" She asked me.

I looked back to her and smiled. "Do you really want to know?" I asked

"Yes. And while your at it, tell me why I shouldn't buck you back to your own time?" She yelled.

"Ok. For starters, I'm a human, sort of. And I have no idea where on when I am. That said, I gota ask. Is this how you treat all of the people that save your life?"

"Save my life?" She asked tilting to the side. "What do you mean save my life?" 

"Well perhaps you remember the pain of a stick sticking out of your side and passing out soon after" I said, my smirk growing.

Next thing I know, her pupal's expanded beyond any natural size pushing most of the dark pink into he eye sockets. 

Her head the quickly spun around to the side to the left to inspect her injury only to see that it wasn't there. She then slowly looked at me but I just turned and looked back into the forest.

"Why?" She asked. I turned back to her and raised an eyebrow. "Why did you do it? You could have just left me to die."

"Listen miss. If I wanted you dead, I wouldn't have eased up when I had that machete to your neck" I said and she shied away.

"And why did you do that. It could have been so easy for you to..." before she could continue, I cut her off.

"Now hold up. Do you take me for just a dumb animal that would kill you as soon as you look at me? Because you are wrong. I do have morals and I don't kill for the fun of it" I said in a rather angry tone.

She didn't respond. But I could see that I was in her eyes.

I began to walk past her, but I noticed my shirt under her wing. So I snached it and only to have a pile of fruit fall fall out from it. I looked at the fruit then back to the pony.

"I guess now is as good as any time to say it. So... thanks. Thanks for not letting me die. If you want, I guess you can have some of this fruit" said the pony.

"Well your welcome" I said picking up an two apples and began eating them. She to grabbed a piece of fruit and began eating it. Thinking now would be the best time, I decided to ask some questions of my own. "Hey. What's your name?"

She looked at me confused for a moment before answering. "I'm Daring Do. Famous archaeologist and explorer."

"Well Daring. My name is Orion and I have another question. What are you? I know you resemble a pony, but from what I remember, ponys never had horns or wings" I said.

"Well I'm a pegasus pony. And the ones with horns are called unicorns" she explained. " I can't believe that you know what ponies are, being over 17 million year old and all."

Wait... WHAT!!! I started to choke on a piece of apple and repeatedly slammed my chest with my fist to try and cough up the offending object. I eventually managed to remove it from my windpipe before suffocating and began breathing in beautiful oxygen. 

"17 million years! How the hell have I been frozen for 17 million years! Why was I not woken up earlier by other humans! Speaking of which, WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY!!!" I shouted as loud as I could.

"Whoa, calm down now. We don't need you to attract every predator in this place. Just calm down" Daring said trying to get me to stop yelling.

"Daring. Do you know anything about humans? Anything at all?" I asked. I needed to know if they were still here somewhere.

"Sorry. Nothing. There aren't any so called... hu-mans anywhere. The oldest recorded find were pony remains and they are just over 2 million years old and you predate them by a lot. You kind must have died out long before that." She explained.

The first question to come to my head was 'What happened to them?' But it was quickly replaced by 'Do I even want to know?'. I got up and began to walk away. I needed time to think. But before I left. I took of my shirt, took my boots off and dropped my pants infront of Daring, and proceded to transform into my hybrid's quadruped form. Even if it hurt considerably more.

You should have seen the look on Daring Do's face as I did so.

Fuckin priceless.

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I was jogging however quadrupeds jog ( I know its trotting for horses, but I don't know the right word for how a lion or tiger would jog. Considering my bone structure is equivalent to that. Just with a different head shape, horns and a dragon tail) through an open field, trying to clear my mind. I had my belongings tied around my body by my belt.

I could hear Daring running to keep up. She had to run to keep up because I was double her size. I still don't know why she didn't just fly, she had wings after all. 

She was calling out to me, telling me to stop. But I didn't listen. I started to increase my speed to a run, and eventually to a sprint. I knew Daring wouldn't be able to keep up while she was on the ground. Last time I tested this form, I was able to reach a total of 104 mph at maximum running speed.

I was sprinting fast. Feeling my blood pumping and hearing each beat of my paws as they made contact with the ground. I always had fun sprinting in my quadruped hybrid form. But I had to stop. I was nearing the edge of the field and back into the forest.

As I skidded to a halt, Daring overshot me and crashed into a tree. I cringed but she got up and stumbled back to me.

"That looked painful. Are you alright?" I asked as she sat down infront of me, rubbing her head.

"Holy hay you can move fast. But why are you a dragon now? Can all humans do that?" She asked.

"Uh... no. I'm am, or was the only human that could do it. What you see now is one of my two hybrid forms. Quadrupedal and bipedal. So now that's out of the way. Ima get going" I said walking past her.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" She yelled to me while catching up. 

"I dunno. Might just keep walking and see how much this place has changed over the 17 million years while keeping a low profile" I said back. I began to walk away but Daring just kept following me. "Why are you following me?" I asked.

"Because you are the biggest archaeological find of the century, perhaps ever. I'm not going to simply let that get away from me. I'm going to follow you until I am paid for finding you and I plan on being paid by a museum" she said.

"HA HA. So you want me to be in a cage for the rest of my life being stared at by little kids and judging adults until I die just so you can put my body on display. Yeah No" I said before running off back into the bush.

She took flight again and began to chase me down, but I was not using speed this time. I was using great amounts of agility to quickly pass through the trees, narrowly avoiding each one, as I blazed passed them.

"Wait! Stop! At least hear me out!" Daring yelled. But I didn't listen. I just kept running. Until I rolled around a tree to try and lose her. It worked.

She passed me, unaware of my sudden direction change and continued forwards. That is until she flew into a... net?

'Ugh. Here we go again' I thought to myself. I walked over to her laughing. "Now look what you have gotten yourself into."

"Orion! Run! Get out of here!" She urged me in a hushed tone. I tilted my head before turning it to the side and spotting the rope that was holding the net up. I walked over the the rope and cut it with a claw and she landed on the ground with a thud.

"See. No harm done. What were you..." *THWIP* I couldn't even finish what I was saying before my body went numb. I looked down to my hind leg and saw a small dart stuck between my scales. I fell over to the ground and my eyesight started to haze. But I was able to make out Daring run over to me and try to shake me back awake before she was grabbed by some ponies. I couldn't see them properly, but something was off.

I tried to stay awake for as long as I could but it was a losing battle. I closed my eyes and fell asleep.
> Chapter 3: Gryphons now?
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Chapter 3

"UGH. What the hell did I do to deserve this shit" I groaned. I had just woken up from a rather uncomfortable nap and my shoulder felt like I had been lying on it for an entire day.

I opened my eyes and well, I should have been worried, but I just didn't give a shit anymore. I seemed to be in a prison cell that looked like it belonged in a 500 year old fort dungeon.

The floor was dirt. The walls seemed to be made of cinder blocks. The, what I presumed was once iron, cell bars were that badly rusted that they looked like they would give you tetanus just by breathing in the air if you went near them. The hall on the outside of the cell was also dirt and cinder blocks, but was lit by fire torches. And this place smelt just as old as it looked.

I got up and began dusting myself off when I notice my legs. They were normal human legs, but something was different. I stared at them for what felt like hours until I realized the problem.

"Where the fuck are my clothes!" I shouted. I felt so exposed that I started to mumble such incoherent words in my anger that I didn't notice that I was being watched from outside. That person must have gotten angry with my rambleing.

"Oh, for the love of... Shut up!" I snapped my head around and saw something that I didn't believe I would ever see in real life.

It. No he, by the sound of his voice, was like a lion, but its front part of its body resembled an eagle. It was a damn gryphon. It was wearing armour made from steel covering its back, chest and legs. And it stood at about my height when I was in my hybrid's quadruped form. He gave me the stink eye before turning and facing away again.

"Oi, shit head. Where is my stuff? And where is Daring Do?!" I shouted at the guard. He turned back to me and shoved the back end of his spear through the bars and hit me in the stomach.

"You will shut your trap until you are spoken to!" The gryphon shouted back at me.

"Now now lancer. There is no need to be so violent with our new guest" said another voice from down the hall.

I turned and saw three outer gryphons. Two of which were also armored, and the one in the middle was wearing a cape and little more.

The middle gryphon walked over to my cell. "Sorry for the rough treatment. But safety requires that you be locked up until we think your safe" he said.

"Riiight. Three questions. Who are you? Where is my stuff? And where the hell is Daring Do?!" I shouted while counting off the questions on my fingers.

"Well" the gryphon said rubbing a talon on his chest. "You may call me Black Wing. And you stuff is in our possession until I say so."

"And Daring?" I encouraged. I want to make sure she was at least ok. I had put too much effort into keeping her alive already.

"Ah. She must be that pegasus that the zebra hunters that we bought you from also had in their custody. To bad for her. They never take prisoners unless the want you" he said. "And besides. I would recommend you stop worrying about her and start worrying about yourself."

"Why? Are you gonna try and hurt me. Because if you do, I will pull your spine through your ass and strangle you with it. Got that?" I said.

He recoiled back. "Uh... well. I can see that you could make and excelent contestant for this months games" he said.

"What games?" I asked through clenched teeth. I didn't like where this was going.

"Well, you see. Every month, I sir Black Wing, host a combat arena challenge where contestants fight to the death among eachother. And the victor is rewarded with a rather large sum of money"

He wanted me to fight in an arena? To kill others for fun? I couldn't do that even if I wanted to. Ok, that's a lie. I could but I still don't want to. "And if I refuse. What then?" I asked.

"I wouldn't suggest that. If you refuse you will be put into the arena anyway, and you will die anyway. And I would rather not have my bits wasted." He said beginning to lose his temper.

"Ok then. You wanted to know what I was capable of right?" I asked with a grin. He nodded quickly and smiled. "Well then, watch this."

I began to transform into my hybrid form again, but bipedal this time knowing that I might need the agility of this form. If these zebras and gryphons knew to get tranq darts between my scales, who knows what else they could do.

After I had finished transforming, I applied a forcefield over my body. To anyone else that saw it, the forefield would just look like my scales had a white glow.

"Ah. A dragon. And you look more capable like this. Much more capable that that pink fleshy thing you were not a moment ago" Black Wing said happily.

"I'm sorry Mr Black Wing. But I'm afraid that I will have to decline you offer. I need to go and find someone so can you please tell me, in which was the place that you found me? And I'm going to need my stuff back, like now." I said. It was time to track down Daring.

"You don't have a choice. I had spent a rather large fortune on you. And I'll be darned if I'm just you walk away. Guard's! Get in there and teach this thing a lesson!" Black Wing yelled.

The three guards opened the cell door and began to walk to me, completely forgetting to close said door behind them. I facepalmed. But as I was rubbing my head, I felt a very slight surge in my forcefield.

I took my claw away from my head and saw that one of the gryphons only had half a stick. I then looked to the ground and, 'Oh look. Half a spear is next to my foot' I said to myself. I looked at the gryphon then back to the spear again. I looked to the gryphon again smirking.

"Are you going to get that?" I asked, watching for any movement of any sort.

He looked at me before looking at the spear on the ground. He did this several times before he began to slowly inch forward to grab it. As he got closer, he stared at me intently, hopeing that I wouldn't react in any way. He got closer and closer and soon he had to break eye contact to find the object he was looking for. This is when I acted.

I balled my right claw into a fist before raising it and bringing it down onto the back of the gryphons head so fast that the other gryphons couldn't follow my movements. I then jumped forwards and did a backwards roundhouse kick to the second guards head with a loud crack, sending him through the cell bars into the cell next to the one I was in before I ran at the last gryphon and slid between his legs, grabbing his talon legs and pulling them with me, resulting in him being flipped onto his back. I then quickly jumped over and punched him in the side of his head, resulting in a knock out.

I stood up and looked at the last gryphon. He looked so scared. And here I was thinking that a gryphon would be a fearless fighter, un-matched in combat, and proud if his or her skills.

Yeah, No.

This was sad. First I absolutely dominate my way through five ponies without even being in my hybrid form. And just now, I very much destroy three gryphons, leaving a fourth shaking in fear so bad that he looks like he's about to drop shit and ru- oh look, there he goes.

He ran. Of course he ran. That is until I used my telekinesis to open another cell door in his path with a flick of my wrist. Yeah, he was looking at me so he didn't see it. But he sure as hell felt it.

As he was dazed on the ground, I walked up to him and grabbed him by his throat and lifted him off the ground. He was still dazed so I gave him a few light slaps to his face to bring him back. I could tell when he did, his eyes widened greatly and he tried to... smile? He had teeth in his beak? How was that possible.

'Ah whatever. This place is just screwed up' I told myself.

"Look man, I'll make you a deal. If you give me my stuff and lead me to the... zebras... you bought me from, I will see if you can get you money back for you and I won't have to drop you too. How's that sound?" I asked. I didn't want to belive that actual 'zebras' were holding Daring, but with how broken this place seemed to be, I was willing to bet that they were.

I had never seen anyone nod their head so fast. I dropped him back to the ground and held out a claw to him. "Deal?" I asked.

He looked at my claw before very carefully placing his talon in it for a handshake. "O-Ok. Deal. At least I won't have had a complete loss, right?" He asked. I just glared at him. " Uh, right. Belongings first. Follow me"

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We had been walking through this fort for about 2 minutes now. And every now and then, some guard gryphon would be all like "why is that dragon following you sir Black Wing?" And Black Wing was smart enough to say "This dragon is a friend of mine and I need to have a word to him about something confidential."

Eventually, we arrived at what I would call an 'evidence room'. He walked over to a table and pulled out a box and set it on a table infront of me. I opened it up and, sure enough, my stuff was inside.

I pulled out my my boots, followed by my socks and then my pants. That reminded me. I checked my pants pocket and found that my pistol was still in there (Thank god). I put on my pant followed by my boots and put my shirt into my pocket.

"Alright Black Wing. Now that this is done. Just lead me to where you bought me and we will conclude this deal" I said.

He looked to me and shuddered. Good, he was still scared of me.

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An hour later, we were walking through some sort of market place. And I saw some things that made.me just want to question logic all together.

"W-We are almost there. Its just around the corner" said Black Wing. Was he still scared of me? Was I that intimidateing to him? Daring seemed pretty courageous around me. 

Anyway. We got around the corner of some stalls and that's when I saw a giant pile of cages. In those cages was all different types of animals, some of which I couldn't identify.

"That's it. That building is where I got you" Black Wing said pointing to the same building with the cages around it.

"Alright. I'm going to go inside to try to get information on where there holding Daring Do. Then I will see if you can get you money back. After that, you and I will never have to cross paths again" I said before walking inside and up to the zebra at the counter.

This zebra had its her back to me and was going over some stock papers or something. Needing to get her attention, I rested my claw on the counter top and began to tap my claw tips. She turned and almost fainted when she saw me.

"Y-You!? You are dragon thing we caught two days ago. Why you not in cage?" She yelled.

"Quite simple actually. I'm here to find out where the pony I was with when I got captured is currently being held. Are you able to tell me? Or am I going to have to take this building apart to find out myself?" I asked.

"Uh... She is our prisoner and she is being questioned as we speak. After, we will make her feel as if she was never born!" The zebra yelled at me.

"Alright then, I guess we're going to have to do this the hard way" I said turning around. I closed my eyes and began to search the building telekineticly search the building.

There, third floor, north east corner of the building.

"Ok now that that's done. I'm going to have to ask you to give back the money the gryphon payed for me. He wants it back and I promised that I would get it for him" I said.

"And why would I do that?" She asked.

"Well, let's just say that it would be in your best interest for you and you co-workers."

She pulled out a blow gun and shot it at me. My forcefield took care of that however.

I pulled out my pistol and loaded it. I aimed at the roof beside me and.

*CLICK*

'The hell'

I looked over my weapon to see if I can find out what was wrong with it. Nothing was visibly wrong with it. I pulled out the mag and checked the chamber. No damage what so ever.

'Screw it. I'll deal with it later' I said to myself. Putting it back into my pocket. I looked over and saw her standing there with a raised eyebrow.

"Don't look at me like that. Your weapon was just as effective. I said and her brow furrowed.

"How you do that anyway?" She asked.

"Look, I would rather not have to explain that right now. And I don't even know how it works. I just know that it dose ok?" I said.

I began to walk towards the door that would lead to the stairs, but was stopped by a very angry looking female zebra. "You not go any further. You not alowed in!" She yelled.

I picked her up in my telekinesis and brought her closer to my face. "Please don't make this any harder than it has to be" I said before moveing her to the side and placing her back on the ground.

I walked into the stairwell and began to walk up to the third level, sneaking through the building past many zebras. I walked over the door that Daring was supposed to be behind. But I heard voices inside.

I tried to listen to what was being said, but they were all talking in some foreign language and I couldn't understand it. I then heard what sounded like a slap followed by Daring scream in pain.

That's it. Party's over. I stood up and kicked the door down as hard as I could before jumping into the doorway.

I looked around the room and what I saw made my eyes go wide.

"OH HELL NO!!"

Now, I may be new to this place. But I know rape when I see it.

I reacted in an instant, time seemed to slow down. I sprinted as fast as I could and brought my boot up into the the rapists balls as hard as I could and he just passed out instantly.

I turned and looked at the second zebra, glaring at him so hard that he should have exploded, but he didn't. He ran out of the room and now only me and Daring remained. I turned to look at Daring and my heart almost gave.

She had cuts all over he body, and you could tell that she had been violated repeatedly. Her eyes however, they seemed to almost be grey in colour instead of their natural dark pink. She looked like she was in a lot of pain and the tears in her eyes told me that she was depressed.

I walked over to her, sat next to her and put a claw on her shoulder and she jumped before looking at me with pleading eyes.

"Its ok Dee. Its me, Orion. Your going to be ok. I'll make sure that your safe" I said trying to sound comforting. I must have worked. She relaxed and began to cry again. I just hugged her tightly while she did, trying to be even more comforting. After a few seconds, she put her fore hooves around me and squeezed.

After a few moments of hugging, Dee had stopped crying and looked up to me. "Look Dee. I can heal you if you let me" I said quietly.

She looked over herself before looking back to me and nodding her head slowly. I smiled at her and began to heal her like I did last time, only her injurys were not as deathly.

After a few moments later, I pulled my claws away from Dee's chest and helped her up. She was still shakeing pretty bad, but that was because the damage was emotional, not physical. I went to walk away, but she just stood there, looking at the ground.

I walked back to her and picked her up. I was expecting her to start flailing all over the place, but that wasn't the reaction I got at all. She just lay there.

"Hey, Dee? Is there anywhere you want me to take you. Anywhere at all, and I'll get you there." I offered.

"Canterlot" she whispered out. "Please take me to my home in Canterlot." I smiled at her and began to walk out of the building. Why there was no zebras, I don't know. 

I got outside and saw Black Wing standing in an ally. He was looking around nervously for some reason before he spotted me and ran over.

"What in all of Terra did you do in there. Like 70 zebras ran out of that building not to long ago" he said in a hushed tone.

"Well. I would tell you, but I need to get Dee here to Canterlot. Do you want to come with?" I asked.

"Did you get me my money?" He asked.

"Ah shit. Sorry but I forgot but you are welcome to go in and try to find it. I'm not waiting however" I said walking past him.

He looked at the building and then back to me. He then looked back again and saw about 300 zebras run into the building. "Ah creature. Wait for me!" He yelped before running to catch up.

I transformed from my bipedal form to my quadrupedal form before I extended my wings and flew up into the air with Dee on my back and Black Wing beside me. "Ok Dee. Which was is Canterlot?" I asked. She pointed her hoof in a western direction. "Ok Dee. Hold on tight" I said as I began to fly in that direction and I felt her tighten her grip around my neck.

And we had began our trip to this so called Canterlot.

HUZZAH!!!
> Chapter 4: Canterlot and Doughnuts
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Chapter 4

Me and Black Wing had been flying for about 3 hours now, and the sun had only just started to drop out of the sky.

"So let me get this straight. You are not only a creature that is millions of years old, even older than the pony princesses. And you have all of these abilities, one of which is teleportation, and yet we are flying why?" Ceylon asked.

I got sick of calling him 'Black Wing' so I gave him a nickname that suited. His feathers were more of an ebony colour that black, and Ceylon is a type of ebony so it kind of fit.

He didn't like it until I had explained it to him.

"Two reasons. #1, Dee is asleep here and #2, I would port ok, but god only knows what would happen to you and Dee. Last time I ported, I was fine, but Dee decided to grab on at the last second and she ended up getting impaled by a stick" I explained. I looked back at Dee and she was wrapped in my clothes and tied on with my belt.

Me and Ceylon had spent the time we had been flying trading information. He would explain how the world worked today, which I was both amazed and angered about. How the 'Land of Equestria' was a happy peaceful land where the locals were guided by two royal sisters and everything was great. But outside of that places boundries were like third world countries everywhere.

He told me about these creatures called changelings. These creatures apparently looked like a pony and a bug had a baby. Like a pony bug hybrid. Ceylon also said that they can transform into ponies to hide, but they apparently need love to survive. Don't ask how one feeds of an emotion.

Anyway. I would tell Ceylon about humans history and tech. He really like the tech part but I didn't go too into detail for fear of shifting the balance of power (regardless of how un-balanced it was).

I also told him that we humans had such advanced tech that we had actually landed on the moon once.

Yeah. I shouldn't have mentioned that. He ended dropping from the sky and I had to catch him.

He told me that one of the royal sisters of Equestria was dubbed 'Princess of the night' and that she would not like that 'her' moon had been walked on as if it was easy.

So here we were. Flying over a forest of some sort.

"We just crossed the border into Equestria. Won't be long now" Ceylon said to me. I looked to him a nodded.

I still had a hard time believeing that Dee had so easily talked me into going exactly where she wanted me to go before I saved her the first time. But I did say I would take her anywhere, and only after she said Canterlot did I find out that I was going to a town packed with ponies. Ceylon also said that Canterlot was also the place where the most rich and snobby nobles live.

I already hated Canterlot.

"So what was with all the guards that you had before?" I asked.

"Oh. They aren't my guards. They belong to my father." Ceylon said. I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Oh don't worry, If I get payed back. I leave you alone and you will never hear from me again" he laughed.

"Well that's good. Id hate to drop you family and its employees like I did to your guards earlier" I said back and his laughter stopped instantly.

"U-Uh yeah. Sure." He stuttered, rubbing the back of his head. "Oh look. That's the palace up on the hill over there. And Canterlot itself is just under. It" he said. I looked over to the hill that Ceylon was pointing at and what I saw amazed me to say the least.

The 'castle' was somehow on the side of a mountain. I couldn't believe my eyes. It looked so... majestic. Until I noticed the hundreds of guards around it.

Shaking myself back to reality, I turned my head and and poked Daring with my tail. She mumbled something but remained asleep. So I poked her a little harder and she groaned before waking up.

"Hu. Wazzat. Where are you ya filthy animal!" She exclaimed. She was flailing so much that she hit me on the back of the head at least 3 times.

"Jeez Dee. Calm down before you hurt yourself" I shouted to her. She did eventually and looked at me apologetically.

"Sorry Orion. I didn't hurt you did I?" She asked.

"Nah. Takes a lot more that three punches to harm my hybrid form" I said loosening my belt so Dee could fall free from me, while I caught my clothes as they fell.

"So now what?" Ceylon asked.

"Why are you still here?" Dee asked in a slightly irritated tone.

"Hey. I'm just here until I'm compensated for my losses. That's all" Ceylon said back with just as much venom in his voice.

"Hey. Can you two not start this now. Dee, where is your place?" I asked. And she pointed her hoof to a rather large building situated near what looked like a museum.

'Figures'

She got off my back and began to glide there. But me and Ceylon stayed back and looked to eachother.

"Well?" Ceylon and I looked back to Dee. "Are you two comin or not?" She asked.

I looked back to Ceylon and he shrugged. "Uh... sure. Where comeing. Just as long as we don't get ratted out" I said back to her.

"Why the hay would I do that?" She asked.

"Human remember" I said pointing to myself.

"Oh. Uh sure. I'll keep your secret" she said smiling.

I glared into her eyes for any sort of doubt. But she looked true enough. I looked back to Ceylon and motioned for him to follow.

We flew down to Dee's house and both she and Ceylon landed quite gracefully. I however landed with a loud *THUD* and ended drawing attention to us from every single pony in the area, including the guards.

'Wait... guards. Shit!'

Two guards approached our trio and I tensed. I cracked my neck and everyone that heard it seemed to shudder, even the guards.

One of the two guard ponies was a unicorn and the other was a, what Dee called an 'Earth Pony'. They both had white coats with blue manes and tails.

The unicorn walked past me and Ceylon and up to Dee, while the earth pony stood back and just gave us a foul look. I wanted to hit him to make him stop to I stowed my anger.

"Ms Do. What happened? You have been reported missing, taken hostage by some sort of ancient threat. Princess Celestia has summoned her protègè and her friends to a meeting tomorrow morning to find a solution to this creature" said the unicorn guard.

Dee looked to me for a second before turning back to the guard. "Uh... Well... I lost the creature. It got away. Yeah. Was a real shame. But this dragon and gryphon were nice enough to escort me back here" she stuttered. I was happy that she was covering for me.

"Well ma'm if your safe. Ceylon And I shall be on our way" I said bowing and beginning to walk away, giving Ceylon a look that just said 'just shut up and follow me'.

"No! Wait! I want to come with you" Dee shouted making me, Ceylon and the guards jump.

"Uh sure?" I said.

"Well Ms Do. We will inform the princess that you are here and safe and you should most likely get summoned to her" said the unicorn.

"Alright then" Dee said.

We walked away into the streets of Canterlot and I heard Ceylon's stomach rumble. "Yeah, I think I need to get something to eat" he said.

"Couldn't agree more. Do you know any place we can eat up around here?" I asked.

"Look. This place is for ponies, and I'm a gryphon. And you are... what you are. In this place, creatures like us wouldn't be allowed to 'dine' in any fancy restaurants even if they did have food that suited our diet" he explained.

"So is there any lower class place we could go. At this rate, I would eat the bark off a tree" I said.

Ceylon looked at me skeptically before his expression changed. "Yeah, you probably would wouldn't you?" He said. 

"Anyway. There is a doughnut shop a few blocks down. Perhaps you could-" Dee started to say but I didn't listen to the rest of what she said. I just dashed ahead and they gave chase.

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A few moments later, I was in the doughnut shop browsing through all of the delicious looking treats when I realized I had a problem.

I had no money

My head drooped until I felt Ceylon talon on mu shoulder. I looked at him and he had a grin on his face.

"I'll shout you this time. But I expect to be payed back in full" he offered.

"How much do I owe you already?" I asked.

He looked from side to side before moving his beak near the side of my head. "1 million bits" he whispered into my ear.

My eyes widened before the logical side of my brain took over. 'Calm down now. A bit might not be all that much' I told myself. "So... Uh. Is that a lot?" I asked.

He just laughed.

Damn. I've dug myself into a deep pit here.

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A few minutes later, Ceylon and I were squaffing down doughnuts so fast that we were getting strange looks from Dee as she just ate them like a normal person would.

There was one left on the plate and I went to grab it only to have a talon grab it at the same time.

I looked to Ceylon and he looked at me.

We both tried to pull but the doughnut didn't split evenly and he got the bigger half. I dropped my bit and snached his half out of his grip and ate it.

"Real mature Orion" Ceylon groaned before grabbing the last bit and eating it. I just smiled at him while he glared at me.

We sat there for a while. Just talking about this world and what had changed. I wouldn't say it publicly, but Ceylon was actually not that bad one he got past his prissy state. And Dee was being abnormally quiet.

"Hey Dee did you want to talk about what happened?" I asked 

Her head shot up and her eyes widened. "NO!" She shouted drawing the attention of everyone in the building. "Hehe. I mean no thanks. I'm fine"

I looked at her with a raised eyebrow. She was still affected by hat had happened but she was trying to hide it. I have to admit, she was taking the damn situation on how I had found her quite well. She should not be like this. She SHOULD be a massive wreck about it but I wasn't going to argue with it.

We were talking about how Ceylon wanted adventure in his life. But his father had never let him do anything that could be considered fun of fear for his safety.

I was about to ask that because he was with me, could this be considered run away. But my attention was drawn to the door opening and 6 ponies walking in.

"I can't believe that we have been summoned to the princess about a creature that predates even her. Just think of all the things that we could learn from it" said a purple unicorn with a dark blue mane and tail with a pink and purple stripe through them. He cutie mark, so Ceylon called them (there just tattoos that 'magiclly appear'), was a big star with smaller stars around it.

"Yeah but twi. You said yourself that this thing ponynapped Daring Do and easily beat up 5 royal guards before teleporting. Who knows what else this thing is capable of" said a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane.

"Oh I'm sure it meant no harm. I think it was just scared" a yellow pegasus with a pink mane said in a voice that was just over a whisper. All 4 other ponies looked at her and she hid behind her mane. Poor thing.

...

... ... 

'Wait a minute. 4. There should be 5 scolding her.' I thought to myself as I began to look around the store from my seat.

I was just about to give up when I felt a slight wing on the back of my neck. I turned my head around and came face to face with to giant blue eyes.

"HI!"

"AHHHHHhHHH!!!" I yelled as I fell out of my sitting position and onto my back. And in my flailing, I kicked over the table and tripped Ceylon in the process.

"Opps. Sorry Mister dargon guy. Are you alright. I didn't mean scare you. I was just trying to say hi. But I did say hi. And you fell over anyway. I didn't want-" 

"OK! I get it, you didn't mean to. Jeez" I shouted to get her to stop. I looked at her and saw that she was pink. Her entire body was pink. Including all her hair.

I looked over to Ceylon and walked over to him. "Sorry man" I said holding out a paw to him. He took it and I helped him up before I lifted the table and set it striaght and apologized to the pony behind the counter.

The other 5 ponies that were with the pink one walked over to us, stareing in with bemusement on their faces.

"Sorry about Pinky pie here. She can be quite... in your face at times" said the purple unicorn from before.

"It's all good. No harm was done. How about you?" I asked turning to Dee.

"I said I'm fine!" She shouted. We all looked at her with shock.

"Uh... sure. How about you Ceylon? Are you ok?" I asked.

"I am quite alright. A little shaken up from the sudden action, but I will recover quite fine" he said in the biggest french accent I have ever heard.

"My my, such an elegant accent. One can tell a lot about another by their accent"

'In soviet russia, the accent speaks you' I couldn't help it. That thought popped into my that quickly that I didn't realize it until I almost said it.

I looked at the pony that said that. She had a white coat with a deep pure mane and tail that looked like she had put a lot of time and effort.

"Why thank you ma'am. I do-"

'Oh for the love of pete' I shouted in my head as I began to block out Ceylon voice while he rambled on and on about god only knows what.

I was sitting there, bored out of my mind while Ceylon continued to talk to the ponies whle Dee was talking to the cyan pegasus. I figured that I would let them finish their conversations with eachother to keep them happy. They had no idea that the 'creature' they were going to see their princess about was sitting a fee metres from them.

I wanted to pull out my pistol and find out what was wrong with it. But I wouldn't be able to do so without my fingers or claws. So next time.

"- isn't that right Orion?" Ceylon asked. I looked back up and saw all the ponies and Ceylon looking at me with wondering faces. 

"I-I'm sorry. I completely zoned out there. What were you saying?" I asked. 

Ceylon laughed.

"We were just talking about the changelings that attacked Canterlot a few months ago. Before we asked you how you think that they would have invaded the city" said the purple unicorn. I thought about it for a moment before I answered. 

"Sleeper agent" I said.

"What the hay is a sleeper agent?" asked the cyan pegasus.

"Well... first, what's your name" I asked her.

"Rainbow Dash. Fastest flier in all of Equestria, and future wonderbolt" she said while striking a pose.

"Right. And you are?" I asked pointing at the purple unicorn.

"I am Twilight Sparkle. Princess Celestia's faithful student" she said.

"Well, Ms Dash and Ms Sparkle. A sleeper agent is a unit that remains inactive until activated. You would probably find that Queen Chrysalis or whatever had an agent that was here longer that any of you could have known. That she had help, whether that being was changeling or pony, from the inside to get her in past the barrier. And if I was a changeling, I would have an agent here now because you have stopped looking here for them, so one could easily be here now and nobody would suspect them" I explained. I looked over each ponies face. Each if them had seemed to loose colour in their faces, even Ceylon. "What?"

I looked behind me to see if there was anything behind me and saw nothing. I was about to voice my concern when the door to the store swung open.

"Twilight! A letter from the princess!" Someone shouted. I looked over the ponies and what I saw mad my heart skip.

It was another dragon. A dragon that came up to my knee, but a dragon none the less.

Said dragon was holding a scroll and ran over to Twilight, and passed it to her.

As she was reading it, I motioned for the small dragon to come over to me and he did.

"Wow. I never expected to see another dragon in Canterlot. I'm Spike, what's your name?" He asked.

"Hi Spike. I'm Orion" I said back happily. I couldn't believe that I was talking to another like my hybrid form even if he was always like that.

Spike had been telling me about his life for so long that I didn't even notice that it had actually started to become dark.

"Sorry to intrude you guys. But we have to get going" said Twilight.

"Yeah, we should probably get going too" Dee said.

I got up and began to strech, cracking a few joint's in the process, and all the ponies shuddered. The ponies, minus Dee, left the store with Spike. I looked at Dee then to Ceylon. "So what now?" I asked.

"Well, you guys don't have anywhere to stay do you?" Dee asked with hope in her voice. Ceylon and I shook our heads. "Well you two can stay at my place. A way to say thanks" she said.

I looked to Ceylon and he nodded. "Alright Dee, lead the way" I said.

A few minutes later, the three of us had arrived back to Dee's place and followed her Inside.

"I got two couches in here that you guys can use to sleep on" Dee said.

"I call the big one!" shouted Ceylon. I just grumbled before walking to the smaller couch and lay down on it.

"I guess I'll see you two tomorrow morning" Dee said before walking over to the bottom of the stairs and taking one last glance at us. "Goodnight."

"Night" both Ceylon and I said in unison. She smiled and trotted up the stairs to what I would presume would be her room.

"I'm tired too" Ceylon said getting on his couch and lying on his back.

"Yeah, it's been a long day. God only knows what will come of tomorrow. Especially if those ponies figure out that the reason they were summoned to their princess was right in front of them all evening" I said to him.

"Well I'm going to sleep. I'll see you tomorrow." he said.

"Yeah man. Night" I said. And soon after, I had fallen Back into the land of dreams.
> Chapter 5: Situation getting worse
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Chapter 5

The sun rays slowly beat their way through the window of the room and within moments, were landing on my eyelids. I stirred for a moment then opened my eyes before I immediately squeezed them shut again. 

"God damn it. Why do you hate me so much sun?" I asked out aloud.

I was lying on my stomach, something I never really do, and I decided that I needed to get up. I went to pull off the blanket that was draped over me only, when my hand made contact, I could have sworn that I had never felt something so soft in my life.

I moved the blanket to my face only to notice that this blanket must have been very small. When I pulled it to my face, it only covered my head. I slowly opened my eyes to get a look and realized that the blanket was not a blanket at all.

What I had pulled over my head and began to subconsciously rub my face against was a wing. A tan coloured pegaus wing to be precise. It was only now that I realized that there was a weight on my back.

I slowly turned my head to look at said weight only to find that Dee's head right next to mine, her body asleep on top of my back while her legs where hugging me in a sense. her wings were just splayed all over the place. She also wasn't wearing her pith helmet to shirt.

'Her fur and wings are really soft. I could get used to...' I thought to myself but stopped when I realized where that thought was going. 'DAMN IT! Don't think like that! She's a pony, and you are a... a whatever you are!' I yelled in my head.

I was Frozen in fear of how awkward this situation was going to become, knowing full well that I was naked. 

'Why the hell didn't I transform to my bipedal hybrid form just so I could put some pants on?' I asked myself.

While I was trying to figure out a way to get out of this situation, Dee must have felt my movements and opened mouth and gave a loud, but cute yawn, before opening her eyes. She was smiling and we just starred at each other for what felt like hours. That is until she realized that she was sleeping on me and I was aware of her situation.

Her eyes shrank to pinpricks and her smile faded to an expression of shock. She jumped up and flew up stairs again faster than I could blink.

I got up and began to put on my clothes. 'What was up with her? Why was she sleeping on me? Why did she speed off when I found her sleeping on me?' These were the questions that swirled around in my head. I needed to know what was going on.

I finished putting on my clothes by pulling my shirt on. I then began to walk to where Dee had flown off to. As I made my way up the stairs, I could hear what sounded like someone was sobbing, but trying to muffle it.

I got to a door. The sobbing was coming from the other side. I carefully pushed open the door and found Dee on her bed, head buried in her pillow.

"How could I have been so stupid!" She yelled, only it was in her pillow so it was muffled.

I walked over to her bed and sat down beside her. She noticed and looked at me with her red eyes.

"I-I'm sorry Orion. I didn't mean anything by it, I swear. If you do-" I cut her off. she was getting pretty upset for nothing, so I hope things better.

"You don't have to be sorry Dee. As awkward as it was for me, I'm sure you had your own reasons, and besides, you fur and wings are really soft. If I had my clothes on, I would have been completely fine. Nice actually. But, I would like to know why, IF you want to tell me" I said.

"I... It's... You... But..." She stuttered before taking a deep breath. She sat up next to me before speaking. "I cant believe that I'm going to say this, least of all, to you. You promise to keep it to yourself?"

I put my arm around her. "Dee. I, Orion, hear by state that whatever you say will remain in the confines of this room. Your secret will always be safe with me" I state as if I am royalty giving a decree.

"Thanks" she says before taking a moment to collect her thoughts. "OK. I feel safe around you. I don't know why, but I think I have an idea. Last night, I tried to go to sleep on this bed, but my mind kept going back to what the zebras were doing to me yesterday. But ever since you kicked that disgusting zebra off me, and I know it's only been a short time, I have been able so see that you mean me no harm. Otherwise you wouldn't have saved me yesterday. I know this sounds paranoid, but the further away from me you are, the less safe I feel. And now I feel like a small filly that needs to watched all the time." she began to sob again.

I pulled her into a hug. "It's going to be ok Dee. I promise that I won't let anything happen to you for as long as I am with you. However, my human form that you see now is wanted by the rest of your race. And from what I have seen in my short time awake, I don't know if they have any way to stop me. And if they do, I won't have any choice. They will most likely imprison me and try to study me."

"But what of your hybrid form's abilities?" she asked

"I do take some pride in my skill with them. But I am smart enough to not take any chances. That and I wont kill anyone" I said.

She smiled then frowned. "So what are you are you going to do?"

"I don't know. I have yet to pay back Ceylon so he'll go back to whatever it was that he was doing before he found me. But I know I wont be able to stay in this city any longer that today. Even in my hybrid form, I don't want to risk giving away what I am" I said.

"Yeah. Heres what we'll do. I need to pick up some stuff today, and tonight, we go to Volcano City. It's a place just outside of the Equestrian border. I have a friend there that can give us a place to stay"

"Alright then. Lets not waste any time" I said as I got up, too my shirt off and began to shift into my hybrid form (Bipedal). "I'm going to go wake up Ceylon. You do what you need to do"

"Ok. I'm going to take a shower and I'll be down soon." She said. I nodded and left the room. 

'Damn it. Now I have two people... or whatever stuck with me' I thought to myself. I have been here like what, four days, and I'm socially bound to others. I'm going to have to fix this soon. It's not that I don't mind the company, it's just that I feel that I would be better off alone.

I got to the bottom of the stairs and looked over to the couches. Ceylon looked like he was having a really nice dream. Time to be an ass.

The couch that he was on was out in the open so I walked up behind it and put my claws on the the back.

"Ceylon. This is your one warning to get up. I suggest you take it and get up off your ass. Are you going to take this warning?" I asked in a normal voice.

Ceylon just mumbled something in his sleep before rolling onto his side and beginning to snore again.

"Very well. You brought this on yourself Ceylon" I said. I kneeled down and put my claws under the couch.

And with a bit of force, the couch quickly lifted off the ground while spinning forwards and throwing Ceylon half way across the room and sending his feathers all over the place.

I'd like to think that Ceylon woke up relatively quickly.

I then began to pick up the couch and set it back to where it was not a moment ago, ignoring whatever it was that the angry gryphon way yelling at me.

I walked over to the couch that I slept on and pulled out my pistol. I then pulled the slide open and looked into the chamber.

No round in the chamber? Good.

I flicked the slide lock and released the slide back to its forward position, aimed at the ground and pulled the trigger.

*Click* Good. Step one complete.

I looked to the disassembly lever and saw that it had one of those 'integrated access lock'. And I didn't have one of the piece of shit lock keys that you should get with the weapon when you buy it.

'Fuck it. I don't need it anyway, but it will be helpful if some pony tries to take what isn't theirs' I told myself. I could just lock it with my telekinesis if they did get it.

I pushed the disassembly lever down and slid the slide of the front of the frame before putting it down.

Next step was to depress the recoil spring while lifting it out of the slide. I then removed the barrel from the slide. I didn't know how to break down the weapon any more than that.

I looked over all of the parts that I had managed to separate. They spring and the slide looked slide still looked new. Even the barrel was clean. It's as if the entire system had never been used.

I picked up the frame and inspected what I could of it, but was met with the same result, Looking as if it had only been used once or twice.

I began to put the weapon back together the way it was supposed to assembled. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it as far as I could tell.

After I got it back together, I picked up the mag and removed a round. Turning it over in my claws, it too looked fine. That's when I realized a potential problem.

I got up and walked over to a table that was in the room, held the end of the projectile against the end of the table, and hit it to bend the end of the cartridge and release the projectile. I then carefully poured the powder out onto the table and moved it into a strip.

"What's that?" Ceylon asked from over my shoulder. I looked to him and saw that he had a very interested look on his face.

"That there is a powder charge. I need something to ignite it with" I said. Ceylon looked under his wing and pulled out some matches and set them on the table. "Ok. Where the hell did you get these from?"

"I always had them" he said.

"Yeah but... Ugh never mind." I picked up th matches and lit the one. "Lets just hope this dosen't detonate to violently."

"WHAT!"

I put the flaming end of the match into one end of the powder strip and.

Nothing happened.

Just as I thought. The gun powder had aged to the point that it wont even ignite anymore. Damn. I've gone from five rounds, to four from this test, then straight to none.

"Was that supposed to happen?' asked Ceylon.

"Nah. It was supposed to burn up along the line of powder. But it's aged to much now" I said. "Also. If I get caught, I'm saying that this thing is yours" I said while picking up the pistol. "And in return, I might tell you how it works one day"

I put the pistol back into my pocket and the mag back into the left before sweeping up the powder. I carefully pulled off the primer from the damaged cartridge and kept it along with the actual bullet. I disposed of the cartridge and powder in the bin.

"Can you at least tell me what it is and what it dose?" he asked.

"Ok, but this stays between me and you. It goes no further alrigth?" I asked and he nodded. "Think of it as a small bow. It's called a Steyr M9- A1. It's a projectile based weapon that fires small lead projectiles somewhere between 305-400 m/s, depending on the manufacturer that you purchase it from. But sadly, the powder charge in the ammo I have has aged an will no longer ignite. So all I need now is to talk to a blacksmith to make new rounds. Oh yeah, we are leaving today by the way Ceylon"

"Where we going?"

"Dee said something about a place called Volcano city or something"

"Well, I guess that that dump of a place will have to do. Not my favourite place in the world" he said.

"Oh quit your bitching. Dee says she knows someone there that will help us out, and I am going to trust her with that."

"And I bet that you would do anything she asked, wouldn't you?" he asked with a sly grin on his face. I turned to look at him and saw in his eyes what he meant.

I walked over to him, grabbed him by the neck and slammed him up against the wall. "Is that supposed to mean something!? Or are you just trying to be funny?" I asked while yelling at him.

"*WHEEZ* N-No. I didn't mean anything by it. I promi-"

"NO! You opened your mouth just before. Do it again so I can understand please!" I said, cutting him off. He seemed to be having a hard time breathing so I dropped him before taking a deep breath to calm myself down. "Sorry, I just got angry for a sec. But seriously, what did you mean?"

He was rubbing his neck while greedily taking in air. "*COUGH* Yeah, I'm sorry too. I should have just kept my mouth shut. What I meant is, if all the ponies are out to get you or whatever, what make her so different?" He asked in a raspy voice.

I held out a claw to him and he took it with a talon and I helped him back up. 

"That's a mean grip you have by the way" he added.

"Yeah sorry about that. But to answer you question-" I was about to tell him what we Dee and I talked about this morning, but remembered that I promised that I would keep it to myself.

"What's going on down here?" Dee asked coming down the stairs. Ceylon and I both turned our heads and saw her standing at the bottom. She had her mane wrapped up in a towel.

"Ah... nothing. We were just planing on how we should get out today" Ceylon lied for me.

"Well. We'll deal with that after breakfast. I'm hungry" Dee said turning around and walking into the kitchen. Ceylon and I looked at each other and shrugged before following her in.

I was about to ask what food she had, but I was stopped by a knock at the door. All three of us looked to each other, waiting to see if another would answer the door.

"I guess I will get it" Dee groaned as she left the kitchen. Makes sense, it is her house after all. I walked to the doorway to listen to what was being said while staying out of sight. I signaled Ceylon to keep quiet as well.

Dee opened he door. "Miss Daring Do. You have been summoned to throne room of Canterlot Castle by Princess Celestia herself to discuss the whereabouts of the prehistoric creature that was found by you four days ago and on your escape. You are to also bring the dragon and gryphon that escorted you back here yesterday as well" someone said. Sounded female, or mare if I recall properly.

"Ah... Sure. When?" Dee asked.

"The Princess wishes to speak with you right now" said the mare.

"Umm. I'll be right out. I just need to get a few things and I'll make my way there" Dee said.

"OK. I pass word that you are on your way. Thank you for complying" the mare said. Then I heard the door shut and Dee walk back to the kitchen.

She entered the kitchen and turned to face me. "Any Idea's?" she asked.

"Two. Either we go to the summon, in which case I need to transform into my quadruped form because that's the form I was last seen in, and act as if we know nothing about this 'Creature'. AKA, I never saw it. Or option two where we just make a break for it and give up my secret instantly because we won't be unnoticed" I offered.

Dee looked down in thought for a moment, going over what I just said.

"Well I think that we should go with the first option" Ceylon said.

"Yeah I have to agree. We don't need to be hunted down any more that you are now" Dee said.

I smiled and nodded. "I'll be back in a second then" I said as I bagan to walk out of the room.

I got into the living room and stripped off my clothes and began to change into my quadruped form... Again. This was becoming a bad habit. Never had I transformed this many times within a season let alone in four days.

After I transformed, I walked back into the kitchen. "Hey Dee. Do you have like a small bag or something that I can borrow to put my stuff in when I am in this from. Just saves tieing my things to me with my belt constantly?" I asked.

"Yeah sure. I have a gryphon saddle bag that you can use" she said walking back up stairs.

Ceylon was just looking at me weirdly. "You loose something over here or something?" I asked sarcastically.

"I gota ask. Dose it hurt when you... 'change'? I definitely sounds as if it dose" he asked.

"Well it used to when I was learning how to do it. But it just kind of got easier to handle"

Dee came back into the room with a large strapped saddle bag in her mouth and tossed it to me with a flick of her head.

"Uh Thanks" I said as I began to put all of my clothing and my pistol into it before throwing it over my back. It fit perfectly.

"We should go. We cant keep the princess waiting too long or more guards will show up looking for me" Dee said.

"Alright then. Lead the way" I said. and we began our trip to the palace.

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"These doors lead to the throne room. Are you guys ready?" Dee asked.

I looked to Ceylon and he nodded. "Lets do this" I said.

Dee nodded approached the guards outside of the door and they opened it for us, so the three of us walked in.

The first thing my eyes locked onto was the giant white horse at the far side of the room. Ceylon told me that the princesses were alicorn's which were both unicorn and pegasus, and they had unmatched power aside from the so called 'Element's of Harmony'. God only knows what they did.

This alicorn's mane seemed as if it was made of... what seemed like solid light and was blowing in a non existent wind.

"Ah welcome. Please come in" she said. Her voice seemed to radiate power, but also a calm and kind vibe. How that was possible, I don't know.

As Dee, Ceylon an I walked toward's her, I noticed the group of ponies that my two companions seemed to have a great conversation with in the doughnut shop. We three got past the group and Dee and Ceylon bowed in respect. I just did it because they did.

"Rise my subjects. This is a gathering of great importance. No need for formalities" she said.

'Her subjects?' I thought to myself. Uh-uh, not happening.

"Now miss do. I have been told that you are the discoverer of the human?" I tensed when she said that. how the hell did she know what we are called. "And I have also been informed that it attacked and used magic to get away, but you managed to hold onto it. Please tell me, what happened next?" She asked.

"Um, Princess if I may, how do you know what they are called?" Dee asked.

'Yeah how the hell do you know that!?' I demanded in my head.

"We will come to that another time. But for now, lets stay on subject" Said the princess. Of course she would dodge the question.

"Well, When I saw the... 'Human' beginning to glow, I jumped over and hugged it just before it teleported. I was then hurled away from it as it got to where ever it had teleported us to and I lost sight of it and haven't seen it since" Dee explained.

"So what about this gryphon and dragon with you? How do they fit into all of this?" asked the princess.

Ceylon stepped forwards. "You majesty, I will speak on behalf of myself and my friend here" he said gesturing to me. "He and I were in the gryphon hunting grounds near my fathers domain when we discovered Miss Do there. We knew who she was form her famous book series and noticed that she seemed to be in the wrong place, so we brought her back here, and in return, She would give us autographs." That was well said by him.

"Ah. You are Black Wing, Son of lord Aragon yes? It's been a long time since I have had any contact with you family" the princess said.

"Yes, and I am aware why" Ceylon said.

"So now to you" the princess said turning to me. "What is your name?" I had never been so caught off guard.

"A-Ah. B-B-Ben D-Dover... Ma'am" I said while I mentally face palmed at how big of a mistake I just made.

The room went silent.

All the ponies were looking around at each other quickly before one guard broke and fell over laughing, holding his sides.

'Dude, wasn't that funny' I said in my head.

"Guard control yourself at once!" shouted another guard.

"Y-Yes captain. S-Sorry Sir" the guard said getting up while trying to suppress his laughter.

"Sorry princess for my stupidity. But you may call me Halex" I said trying to defuse the situation.

"Ok Halex, what is your story?" she asked while giving me an evil look, but I could see in her eyes that she to found what I had said amusing.

"My story goes kind of like this" I said as I had an awesome cover story. "It all started when-"

*CRASH*

I was cut off by the throne room doors being thrown open with force.

"Princess! Get away from that thing!"

For Fucks Sake!!!
> Chapter 6: Why me?
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Chapter 6

"Princess! Get away from that thing!"


I swiftly turned my head around to see what yelled out and blew away any possibility of peace with the princess only to be tackled by someone with enough force to take out a small car.

We rolled to a stop and I ended up being on my back with a pony on top of me. I had never been caught off guard before. This was entirely new to me, so time to fix it. I opened my eyes.

"You?" I shouted.

"You!" he growled back.

The pony that was standing over me was the same one that tried to get me to surrender back when I was woken up four days ago. He seemed to be very angry about me being here.

"You are under arrest!" He shouted. "I would read you your rights, but as you are not a member of this nation, you have none!"

"That's a bit harsh don't you think?" I asked but was rewarded with a hoof to the face. My head did snap to the side, but I didn't feel any pain. I looked back to him slowly and saw that he was smirking.

"Oh, you find hitting my in the head funny? Then how... about... THIS!" I yelled as I placed my hind paws on his stomach and kicked up with all I had.

He went sailing straight up into the roof of the throne room. My guess says that it was about 50 metres up. And when he collided with the roof, he left an indentation of his body shape in the roof.

"Iron Defence!?" Someone yelled. So that must be his name.

As he started to come back down, I rolled onto my paws and dived out of the way. I expected him to come land where I had kicked him from, but as I look up, I saw that he had been caught by to pegasi.

I concentrated my power and and tried to teleport away, at least for now. Only, I didn't go anywhere.

"Don't try and teleport. We have already place a spell around the castle so you cant do that again" Said Iron Defence as he was gently placed back onto the ground by his allies.

'Shit. They can do that? Fine' I said to myself.

"That don't mean I can't just walk out" I said as I threw off the saddlebags before I activated my force field and got into a ready stance. I had never even thought about training in close combat as a quadruped before, so I really had no idea what I was doing.

Then a thought came to me. If he found me, what's to stop him from doing it again. I needed to know how he did it so I can avoid what I did wrong in future.

"Before we do this, I need to know. How was it that you found me here after I lost you last time?" I asked.

"Simple. When you teleported, you displayed your magic to us which left an energy for a unicorn to follow. Normally, this is quite difficult to track, but your energy seems rather powerful and stands out and all we had to do was follow it. It led us to the town between Equestria, the gryphon domain and zebra's home land. There, we found gryphon's that looked like they had just been through a war and lost. They said something about a hairless monkey changing into a dragon and not only beating the hay out of the, but also kidnapping the son of their ruler. Later you were spotted flying in the direction of this town. SO here we are now" he explained.

"How very smart of you" I commented. The way I see it, if I get away, they can easily find me again.

"Thank you. Now if you please, surrender" he said with his tone getting dangerous towards the end.

"Sorry Iron. But I will NOT simply keel over and bend to the wishes of others as if I am some sort of pet. I am going to leave now. If you want me, You're going to have to find a way to stop me" I said as I began to walk away but I was stopped when I saw many guards of multiple types standing in the doorway.

"Captain Shining Armour sir. Do you think that you can form a bubble spell around this thing to capture it?" Iron defence asked the pony that shouted at the laughing guard before.

"I think I can" He said as his horn began to light up purple. Then a purple bubble formed around me and tried to hold me. I could feel me force field fluctuate slightly but it held.

With my force field activated, they couldn't touch me. I walked forwards through the purple light with ease.

"I-I can't do it. He is shielding himself from my magic somehow. Magic seems to have little effect to him!" yelled Shining Armour.

"Yep. A simple psychokinesis force field" I said with pride.

"Guard's, stand down" the princess Celestia ordered. We all looked to her and she was walking to me. "If this human truly has psychokinesis, nopony aside from the elements of harmony stand a chance. Twilight, you and your friends go and retrieve the elements. I will keep him occupied."

"Keep me occupied? How do you plan to-" I was cut off when she fired a magic bolt at me and it hit me square in the chest. I slid back about 10 metres, but did not fall. I was more worried about the fact that my field had actually shattered before re-activating. "Shit! I did not expect that" I said while panting.

"You would be wise to keep your concentration on me" she warned.

I had a bit of a problem. I had to defeat this princess, that seemed to be very powerful, quickly. But I couldn't bring myself to kill her. I won't do that.

She charged at me and hit me in the face quicker that I could blink and I was slammed into the wall at the back of the throne room. I actually felt that.

And it actually hurt.

"What's the matter human. Your predecessors put up a better challenge than this. Or do you want to give up?" she asked. 

I put a paw to my face and rubbed my jaw. I felt something wet so I moved my paw away and saw I had blood on it.

"That's it. No more games! Just remember, YOU asked for this!" I shouted.

Celestia fired another blast of magic at me, but I concentrated my entire force field to my right fore leg and reared up before I backhanded the bolt away and charged her.

Her eyes widened greatly before I slammed into her and pinned her to the ground. Her horn began to light up again so I put my paw onto her throat. "Don't even try it" I said in a low voice.
I saw every guard begin to run towards us. But just before they reached us, I let out a telekinetic shock wave that pushed all of them back and holding them all in the air. They were helpless to do anything.

"What do you think you are going to do now? If you kill me, every nation will be out to get you. But if you wait, the elements will be along soon and you WILL be defeated" said the princess below me.

"Orion don't do this!" Dee shouted running up to me. "Please, let her go. You don't need to do this."

"Why not. It's not like I can win anyway" I said applying slightly more pressure.

"But you can show them what mercy looks like. If you do that, they will feel regret" Dee said touching my paw that was pressed to the princesses neck.

"I-I can't" I said as my composure began to break.

"Please Orion. For me" she pleaded.

"RRRRAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!" I shouted before I ripped my paw away from the princesses neck while dropping all of the guards and sat down a few feet away from them.

Dee walked up to me and pulled me into a hug. "I do believe it's my turn to tell you that you're going to be fine" she said. I put a foreleg around her to return the embrace.

We sat like that for a few minutes. That is until the six ponies that we met yesterday burst into the throne room. They were all wearing necklaces, except for Twilight who had a tiara upon her head.

"Ready girls?" Twilight asked her friends. And they all answered with a "YEAH!"

Their necklaces all began to glow as they were levitated off the ground. Twilight tiara then began to glow before she opened her eyes, only they were pure white. Next thing I know is a giant rainbow beam shot up into the air before curving and coming back down towards Dee and I.

Time seemed to slow down in an instant.

As the beam came toward us, I reacted by grabbing Dee and throwing her to the side so she was safe. I looked back to the beam and concentrated all of my willpower into a force field over my tail.

I saw that the beam was going to land on the ground in front of me so I spun around, slamming my shielded tail into the beam with an extreme amount of force. And I was rewarded with the beam changing direction from me and out through a wall, over the city and off into the distance.

I could not believe what I just did. Those elements were supposed to be the strongest thing in existence. And I had just showed it otherwise.

I smiled at my great achievement. But that smile was soon turned to a frown.

The ponies were shouting something to each other in a painced tone. something about them being doomed for the strongest magical items not working, but I began to feel this tingle in my tail and my concentration was on that.

Said tingle began to grow rapidly, in both size and pain. Within a few second, it felt as it someone was trying to pull my tail through a superheated pipe.

"ARGH!!!" I yelled as the pain spread to my legs and torso, forcing me to the ground. I looked back to my tail and saw that it was no longer there. My upper legs were back to their normal human look, and the conversion was spreading.

As far as I could tell, something was forcing me to revert back to a human, very very painfully.

I began to thrash on the ground, trying to do anything to make it stop. It was way to much, I had never felt anything so painful before. It felt as if my scales were being ripper off with a pair of pliers while my skin was coming off with dry ice.

"Orion, NOOO!!!" Dee shouted while she ran back over to me before she slid on the ground and began to cradle my head in her forelegs.

Some of the guards began to approach me while I was on the ground in pain, but Ceylon flew up and landed between us and them. "Stay back!" he warned them.

"What in the all of Terra are you two doing!?" shouted Celestia.

Dee and Ceylon both began to argue with Celestia, but I was still writhing on the ground in pain, not listening. Soon, the reversion of my body reached my head.

I could feel my facial structure being shattered in my head before being reconstructed and the pain began to get to me.

As I started to black out, I was able to hear Dee shouting out my name over the sounds of my head snapping and cracking back to it's human shape. But when my eyesight faded, The sounds of the world started to drown out. It didn't take long for me to pass out.

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My body slowly began to come back to it's working condition. I felt weak again. I couldn't move any of my limbs or even open my eyes. But at least my hearing was back. I could hear the sound of hoofsteps coming towards me.

"Any news on him?" I heard someone ask.

"Sorry your highness. He hasn't shown any brain activity since this happened to him. And I am beginning to think that he never will" Someone else said.

"Do not say that!" Yelled this apparent princess. "My sister fought this human and believes that he is different from the human we know. She also believes that he could make a great ally to us after she was convinced by Miss Do and the gryphon Black Wing.Rare Artifact and Twilight Sparkle also wish to study him."

'Even after I blacked out Dee and Ceylon still tried to help me?' I thought to myself. That thought made me smile.

"Doctor! Look! he smiled!" shouted who I heard was named Luna.

I then began to hear the sound a unicorn makes when their horns light up and I could feel a tingling inside my head.

"He's awake. His brain activity has returned and is looking strong" said the doctor.

I began to try to lift my hand, but I found that I couldn't and my smile dropped. It felt as if I had a restraint around my wrist, holding me down, but I could not feel any restraint. So I did the only thing I could think of. I began to pull at it, hopeing it would come free.

"No! Stop! You could risk further injury" the doctor pleaded.

I stopped trying to get my arm free and began to try to open my eyes. It proved to be a much harder job that I thought it could be, but I did eventually manage to crack open my right eye.

Looking around with said eye, my gaze fell to a unicorn stallion wearing a white lab coat and glasses. He had a brown coat with a blue mane. He was looking at me with a stern glare before he looked away.

"He is awake now. If you wish to talk to him, you may now princess" He said. I followed his gaze with my own and saw another alicorn.

This one was definitely smaller than her sister. She had a a very dark blue coat and a transparent sapphire blue mane that seemed to have white specs in it and blew in a nonexistent wind. It looked kind of cool.

"Thank you doctor Cardio. Could you please inform Twilight Sparkle and Rare Artifact that this human is awake and he too may come and see him?" she asked.

"Yes princess" he said before he turned and left the room.

I looked to the smaller princess and she was smiling at me. I closed my eye and rolled my eyes beneath their lids.

"What is the matter human?" she asked but I didn't answer. I instead tried to focus on transforming so I could try to bust out of here. 

Only I couldn't.

I tried harder to transform only for the same thing to happen. Absolutely nothing.

I opened my eyes in shock. My abilities were gone.

In desperation, and not caring about any possible injury, I concentrated on a small tray on a table on the other side of the room and tried to get it to levitate.

Nope.

I began to panic. I, for the first time since I was 17 years old, felt... exposed. And noticing my panic, Luna came closer to me.

"Human, what's the matter?" she asked, placing a hoof on the bed and causing me to jump at the contact. I just wanted to curl up into a ball and just be alone, but I still had the restraints on my wrists. I just sighed in defeat.

A few minutes of Luna trying to get me to talk later, the door opened and in walked Twilight and that grey unicorn with the brown mane that accused me of being a dumb animal when I was first discovered. They bowed to Luna before they walked over to me.

"So it look's like our paths have crossed again hmm?" asked who I presumed was Rare Artifact. I just glared at him and looked to the other side of my bed to find Twilight there with a large grin on her face. So I just looked back up to the roof and closed my eyes.

"Don't worry Orion... or was it Halex? Either way, that would be a good place to start. What's your name?" asked Twilight.

I didn't answer. I just continued to lay there with my eyes closed.

I felt a nudge to my right side ribs. "Look human. Don't be like this. If you just cooperate, we can get through this quickly and it will be all over" said Rare Artifact.

"Even if I did give you what you want to know, then what. Kill me and preserve my body to put on display?" I asked and he recoiled in shock. "Besides, I only give to not only those who deserve what they want, but also give themselves to get it."

He looked down in defeat before Twilight spoke up again. "So what would we need to do?" she asked.

"You have to figure that out for yourself" I said as I closed my eyes again.

"Come you two. It is late and you need your rest. I will have a lunar guard posted here so we will know if he try's anything" Luna said as she began to walk out of the room.

Twilight and the grey unicorn looked to each other and shrugged their shoulders before following the princess out and closing the door behind them.

'Finally. I can have some alone time to try to figure out what's up with my abilities' I said to myself in relief. These ponies man, these ponies.

I began to try and feel in my mind for any trace of my power's, but I was interrupted buy the door opening again. I groaned before I looked to see who it was this time. And I did not expect to see that on what I did.

A pony wearing dark blue armour walked into the room. I saw that she had a grey coat and a deep blue tail. I presumed her mane was the same colour, but She had a helmet on and I could not see the colour. She also seemed to have the wings of a... bat? Instead of normal feathered pegasus wings.

She looked up to me and I saw her eyes. They were Cyan in colour, but they were like cat eyes, like the eyes of my Hybrid form. Oh, and she also had fangs.

'Was she a vampire? What would you even call that? A vampire pony? A pony vampire? How about a vampony?' As I was contemplating this in my head, she walked over to the side of the bed and stood facing the door, completely unmoving.

"So what's your name?" I asked. only to get no response.

I looked at her and she just stood there at attention. 'Jeez, she's not even looking around' I said to myself. As I looked her over, I had to admit, she was probably the most bad ass guard I have seen in this place.

"Helooo? You can talk you know" I said but she just remained still. "Don't make me do it" I warned her with a grin. She just continued to ignore me. "Ok, your fault then."

I cracked my neck from side to side. I was about to pull an allnighter so I needed to 'feel' ready.

Phase one of crack plan, clear throat.

"EHHRRRRMMMM!"

Phase one complete. Begin phase two.

"Row row row your boat, gently down the stream" I began to sing. It was going to be a long night, but even longer for this poor guard.
> Chapter 7: For F***S Sake
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Author's note:
Just a heads up, this chapter will have a section of violence and gore in it. I don't think it's that bad, but I do find it necessary to warn you.

Chapter 7

"Row row row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but A dream" I sang.

I had been singing this song for the past six hours now, and by the look on the pony's face that was next to me, she was about to snap. She was sweating, her eyes were twitching constantly and she was shaking.

I smiled. "Row row row your boat-"

"FOR THE LOVE OF... SHUT THE HAY UP!!! OR I SWARE TO LUNA, I AM GOING TO SIC YOU!!!" She yelled while jumping off the ground and hovering before she extended two blades off of each forehoof and aiming them at me.

A little dangerous, but phase two complete none the less. Now we wait.

The guard pony took her hoof blades away from me and got back to her position that she was in before. I just continued to stare at her.

'Wait for it' I said to myself.

'Wait... For... It...'

"Row row row your boa-  AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she yelled out loud enough that you probably find that all those in the gryphon domain heard it.

'Mission complete' I thought to myself while doing a little fist pump.

The pony turned to face me again and I had a hard time trying to stifle my laughter. She looked so angry. She lifted her hoof off the ground. I think she was going to hit me.

But I was gladly saved by the door opening and Celestia walking in. The guard very quickly lowered her hoof and faced Celestia before giving a salute.

"At ease Star Wind. I heard you yell and came as fast as I could. What has happened?" asked Celestia.

"Permission to speak freely princess?" asked Star Wind and Celestia nodded. "This stupid hairless ape has been singing the worlds most frustrating and stupid song for the past six hours and its stuck in my head. It has made me loose my composure and almost lash out irrationally. Lucky for him, you came along" she explained.

That's when I lost my shit.

I began to laugh out loudly at the angry facial expression on Star Winds face. She glared back at me but soon Celestia joined in on the laughter.

We were there laughing for about a minute and my stomach was beginning to hurt. I wanted so badly to hold my stomach, but I was still bound to the bed. However, we both eventually stopped.

"Why did I have to be posted to watch this freak?" Star Wind mumbled to herself.

"Hey! That's a bit uncalled for don't you think" I said. Star Wind just glared at me again. She's gona have to stop that or she's going to burn a hole into my head.

"I am sorry Star Wind, but If you'll excuse us, I would like to have a chat with this human here" Celestia stated and Star gave a bow before walking out of the room and closing the door behind her. Celestia then turned and looked to me.

"What?" I asked. She was just staring at me. I tried my hardest to read her facial expression, but she was just looking at me with a neutral look. 

I would hate to play poker against her.

She then walked up next to the bed I was restrained to. "Forgive me. I don't normally like to do this, but I must see something" she said.

I gave her a quizzical look and she closed her eyes before lighting up her horn and placing it to my forehead.

My vision turned black. I began to panic, that is until everything went white then my entire life flashed before my eyes.

I watched as my life went back to the earliest day that I remember.

My tenth Birthday.

Back then, I still lived with my birth parents. I loved them and they loved me. Life was great for me back then.

My life seemed to fast forward to the day I was dropped off to the orphanage. I was only ten and a half years old by that day. This made me think about it again.

What could I have done within half a year to make my mom and dad hate me so bad to the point where they felt as if I had to be in that orphanage? Why was I abandoned? To this day, I still don't know.

I felt my gut twist. That particular memory of mine made me wonder why I was even born.

I watched for what felt like minutes as all the bad memories of my past came before me, and made me feel as if I needed to relive them. That is until the day that it all changed.

I was in the corridor of the orphanage that led between the dorm's and the cafeteria. I was just standing there until I saw something that confused the shit out of me.

What I saw was... me. I was walking back from the cafeteria toward's my room. I watched and walked in front of the younger me.

"Hey man-" I began to talk only to stop when the younger me past right through me. I turned around and watched as the younger me kept walking, until that retarded Alex kid walked through me holding a table leg. "Orion watch out!" I yelled but it had no effect.

Alex lifted the table leg over his shoulder and swung it at the back of the younger me's head and it struck making a loud crack.

"OW! Why the fuck did you do that you ass?" the younger me shouted at him. Alex started to lift the club again but I knew what was coming next and tried to intervene. But was me with a failed task as he brought the club down onto younger me's head.

"You stupid little shit. Think you can eat my food and get away with it?" he asked. I knew what was about to happen and there was nothing I could do about it.

I watched as the dick head hit the younger me with the club again but he fell over this time. I watched Alex start to beat the living shit out of the younger me for about a minute, the younger me on the ground, seemingly lifeless. Until he started to push himself off the ground.

I don't remember this part.

"What the fuck?!" Alex shouted as he backed right off. and he was right to do so.

The younger me was on his hands and knees coughing up blood like a... a... I can't even describe what it looked like. His face was all bloody, he was shaking violently and he was grunting and growling. I noticed his eyes were red and had slit irises. He was transforming.

I watched as wings began to grow from his back and a tail from his tail bone. The new limbs seemed to push their way out of his skin, causing the skin to split. I then saw that his bone structure was beginning to morph, not just his face either. He was becoming what happen when I loose control of the abilities.

Think for this form having the bone structure of a werewolf, just with scales. This form is a cross between both biped form for the upper half and quadruped form for the lower. All of the scales were black, no red what so ever and he seemed to give off black smoke. There was also a strip of black hair that went from the top of his head, all the way down to the tip of his tail.

I was shocked. I had never seem this form before. I was always unconscious in the event that it came forth. and that only ever happened twice that I know of, This being the first.

I turned and saw Alex was standing there, shaking. He was as scared, if not more... no, definitely more than me.

This form that younger me was in was just standing there, looking at the ground. That is until Alex dropped his bloodied club and turned tail. If he was smart, he would have snuck away.

The sound of the table leg hitting the ground made the monster form look up faster that one could blink. And within the next blink, it had pounced on Alex and pinned him to the ground on his back. Alex began to try and fight his way out of the Hybrid's grasp, but to no avail.

The Hybrid moved its snout next to Alex's face and gave him a few sniffs. Then it pulled its head back and the slit irises narrowed as it let off a growl of anger.

It then opened its right claw and began to scratch at Alex's chest quite deep and very slowly, smirking as it did and all Alex could do was scream in pain.

Suddenly, the scream of one of the orphanages care takers caught all of our attention as she ran off. The Hybrid just looked back to Alex and began to scratch his face, causing him as much pain as he could.

Minutes passed and the Hybrid was still just scratching at Alex. Until sirens could be heard.

The Hybrid looked up and growled before picking up Alex and sprinting on three of its limbs to the front door of the orphanage and bursting out the door and stopping as it saw the five police cars outside.

"Woah! What the fuck!?" one of the cops shouted as he took cover.

The Hybrid held the bloodied but still alive Alex in front of it like a human shield as all of the cops drew their weapons and took aim.

"Let the boy go and put your... uh... claws up!" another of the cops said through a megaphone.

The Hybrid form roared while lifting Alex into the air with both arms and ripping him in half and throwing both halves to the ground.

Ok. I kind of glad I was unconscious for that part.

The cops all began to fire their weapons at the Hybrid, only succeeding in pissing it off more. They all kept firing until they were out of ammo.

The Hybrid looked at them and blew out a plume of ash from its nostrils. It then charged the first cop and drove its claw through his stomach before pulling out his spine while swipeing at another cops throat with its other claw, effectively slashing her windpipe and spraying the Hybrid with blood.

The cops took one look at the scene before them and began to retreat only to find that when they turned around, the Hybrid was already there, splitting another cop in half down the middle before grabbing the side skirt of a police car and forcefully rolling it in the squads direction, crushing four of them in the process and crippling two more. the last cop standing looked at his squad and quivered violently and actually wet himself. He then began to look around for the monster that did this, but was to late. The Hybrid appeared behind him and beheaded him at the neck.

I looked around to the sight that was in front of me. I don't think I had ever seen this much violence, especially not in real life. I just wanted to barf. This also tells me why the military was after me when they did find me.

I saw a helicopter flying toward's us. As it got over us, it shone a spotlight on the Hybrid, causing it to look up. I would have shouted for it to get out of here, but I knew that wouldn't do anything.

I turned away as the Hybrid got ready to jump. I didn't want to watch any more. It just made me feel worse about something I had no control over.

I tried to block out the sounds of things exploding and people dying. This was a memory that I was stuck in. I just had to wait until it was over.

After what felt like hours, the memory eventually jumped forwards again, but this time it jumped to more happy times. I watched as I relived birthdays, Christmas's and every other great memory I had with Howard, Joe and all the other people that seemed to treat me as family and not a prisoner. But then came the memory of my last day with another human.

I still cant believe that they stuck me in that cryo pod for whatever reason, and forced me to be stuck in this time, a time where I do not belong.

My vision went white again and before long, I was back to the room I was in before with me bound to the bed and Celestia standing beside me. Only, she seemed to have a tear in her eye and smiling at me.

"What the hell was that? Are you just trying to make me feel bad just because I'm different?" I asked in an annoyed tone.

"No Orion. I just took a peak at your memories. And I saw that you can be a kind person when you are with those that treat you well" She explained

"You WHAT!!!" I shouted. I take great offence to my personal memories being invaded.

"I just read your memories. And now that the evil thing has been purged from you, we can get those things off you" she said happily as she used her magic and the restraints on my wrists disappeared.

I should have been angry that she just took it up upon herself to invade my head, but I just didn't care anymore. I was still shaken up over what my Hybrid form did to those cop... and Alex. Sure he was a dick, But I don't think that he deserved what he got.

-I believe he got what he deserved. How could you pity him after all he had done to you?-

'Shut up brain. You have no right to think like that' I told myself.

-PFFT Whatever.-

"Are you ok?" Celestia asked.

"No, although I am disgusted at what my Hybrid form did, I still cant help but feel exposed without it. I have become dependent on it since I learnt about it, and now it's gone and I feel as if I have become the most useless thing in existence" I said.

"Well look on the bright side. With those dark powers gone from you, You might have a chance to make a great life here. A life of peace that we once offered to the rest of your kind, only to have them throw it back into our face" she said.

"What do you know? How could you know about Humans, and what happened to them?" I asked.

"I will tell you in time, But not now. I have other things that need my attention so I must be leaving" she said as she began to walk for the door. "Until next time."

She opened the door and walked out.

I was alone for a few minutes, just thinking about HOW Celestia could possibly know about humans. Up until the door opened and in walked Star Wind, Dee, Ceylon, Twilight Sparkle and her five friends and finally, Rare Artifact. I found this room to be quite crowded now with nine ponies, one gryphon and me. At first there was silence, but that was broken by Rare Artifact.

"So how are you feeling today?" he asked. I just glared at him. I then looked to Dee and Ceylon and my expression softened. 

"Are you to ok?" I asked.

"Yeah, we're good. I'm more concerned about you. What happened?" Dee asked.

"I don't know. I remember that I felt an extreme amount pain as I changed back. I think that contact with that beam destroyed my abilities, and now I am in a position that I never wanted to be in and there is nothing I can do about it" I said as I looked back down at the bed.

"What do you mean by that?" asked Twilight.

"Simple, in a moment or two, you and this guy" I said pointing at Rare Artifact "are going to try and grill me for any information you can about me and my race. The after you get it, lord only knows what will then happen to me" I explained. "Uh... do you have my things? I kind of would like my clothes back."

"I got them here" Ceylon said passing me The saddlebags that Dee lent to me. I pulled out my clothes and began to put them on underneath the blanket.

As I finally pulled my shirt on, I noticed that my pistol was missing from the bags. Beginning to panic, I looked to Ceylon and saw him wink at me before he slowly opened his wing slightly to show that he had it there. Seeing that made me calm right down.

I threw my legs over the side of the bed and pulled my boots on and tied them up. I then put my feet on the ground and tried to stand, only to have my legs fail me and fall over onto my side.

"What the hell? Why cant I stand?" I asked myself out loud.

"Well, you have been unconscious for almost two months by now. I would be surprised if you could stand properly" Dee said coming to my side and helping me back up.

Two months?

-Yeah and it couldn't have any more boring-

'Shut it brain. You're not helping here. And how is it that you know that but I don't?' 

-In time-

"What do you mean two months?" I asked.

Twilight walked up to me. "You have been out for an month and 27 days. The doctor thought you would never wake up" She said. I sat there in silence. I had no idea what to do next.

"Are you ok?" Fluttershy asked in a voice that was barely above a whisper. She wasn't scared of me, was she?

I put my hands to my face in frustration. "Well the question is, What do we all do now?" I asked.

"Simple" came a voice from the door.
> Chapter 8: Temper Tantrum!
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Chapter 8

"Simple" came a voice from the door.

I moved my head around Fluttershy's to see who said that. It was none other than Iron Defence's. And he was also with his captain, Shining Armour.

"The first thing you're going to do is teach military training methods in combat so if we ever find another like you, he won't stand a chance" Iron Defence stated.

I looked to twilight. "See, first you're going to grill me for info, like this loser" I said while gesturing to Iron Defence.

"How dare you!" he yelled as he began to run at me, only to be stopped by Shining Armour's magic.

"Calm down lieutenant. Be nice and he might actually want to give us what we want to know" Shining Armour's said as he slowly dropped Iron back to the ground.

I pulled my head back and blinked a few times.

"Uhhh no" I said.

Shining looked at me. "Well why not?"

"Remember when I said things must be earned?" I asked and they all nodded. "I heard a story once. That these people with amazing technology and knowledge visited others that were, well let's just say behind. These greater being shared their knowledge and technology with the others as a sign on good will before leaving. But unfortunately, the lesser being's had used the their new gifts as weapons and ended up destroying themselves in a very short duration. The greater being's then vowed that they would never make that mistake again" I said to end my story.

"I don't see how that was relevant" stated Iron.

'*SHIGH* You fucking wouldn't would you' I told myself

-Wow, he is thick.-

"I mean that for your own good will and safety, I'm going to NOT give you what you haven't discovered for yourself" I said out loud.

-I just realized. You got that whole story from that Stargate SG-1 tv show and changed it-

'Two things. One: How did you not realize that when you are apart of me, and Two: It's a good example for me to keep my mouth shut.'

-Yeah yeah.-

"And who are you to decide what we have earned?" asked Iron Defence.

"And just who the FUCK do you think YOU are to just walk in here and just start to demand things from me that I don't want to tell you!" I shouted back. Everyone but Ceylon recoiled back at my use of foul language.

"Uh. You might want to tone down on the bad language. These ponies take offence to cursive language" Ceylon said.

"How the hell else am I supposed to express my anger?" I shot back before I realized who I was talking to.

-Wow. Don't loose your shit at your friends. You might be all alone if the ditch you. Oh but your used to that aren't you?-

'Shut the fuck up brain! How is it that I can even hear you anyway!?' I shouted in my mind.

-Oh stop being so angry. You will find out in time.-

I took a deep breath. My brain was right, I shouldn't be so angry, even if I had every right to be. Ceylon dosn't deserve it.

"Sorry Ceylon. I'm just sort of in a defensive mood. I haven't been in this mood for 7 years" I said. "Or more like 7 plus however many it has been since I was put into that cryogenic tank" I mumbled.

"What do you mean by defensive mood?" asked Dee.

"I didn't always have my powers. Well I might have, but I had never experienced it until I was 16" I said to her.

"What happened to make these powers come forth?" asked Twilight.

"Why don't you just go and ask your stupid pony princess!" I said in the most angry sarcastic voice I could and this caused everyone, including Ceylon, to gasp in an overly dramatic way before taking a defensive pose.

"How dare you talk about the princess like that!" yelled Shining Armour. 

"HEY! She was the one who thought she had the right to use her freaky mind reading magic to make me bring forth memories that I didn't remember and still would rather not! I feel as violated as can be! And the worst thing about is was there was nothing I could do about it!" I shouted back. "You know what! I'm not going to just sit here and listen to all of you caring about yourselves and your own personal gain!" before trying to stand only to fall over again.

Dee tried to help me up again but I pushed her away and Forced myself back up on my own. It was difficult, but I managed to climb to my feet before stumbling out the door and slamming it behind me.

I continued to stumble through the castle, trying find a way out.

"HALT!" Came a voice from behind me with the sounds of a set of armour clinking and hooves running on the stone floor.

"WHAT!!!" I shouted while turning and giving my hardest glare at the guard, causing him to come skidding to a stop.

"I-I need... uh... I need you to... umm... come back to your room... Please" He asked while shaking.

I stopped towering over him. "Why?" I asked in a normal tone.

He shook of his fear. "We have been ordered to make sure that you are confined until we are told otherwise" he explained.

"And just who gave these orders hmmm?" I asked while tuning my head to the side.

"Princess... Celestia"

"Ah, I see. Well I'm afraid I'm going to have to tell you to FUCK OFF!!!" I shouted the last part as loud as I could and he jumped like 30 feet into the air.

I turned around began to storm away from the guard, but I noticed a pink Alicorn was in my way, looking at me completely horrified. I just grumbled and rolled my eyes before I pushed my way past and continued on my way.

"Such hate" she mumbled to herself as I continued to walk away.
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"FINALLY!!" I shouted, causing me to get curious looks from all the ponies in the area.

I had been walking around that castle for about an hour and a half, just trying to find a way out. And now, I have made it back out into the sun.

I looked around. I seemed to be in some sort of garden.

"Wait!" called that pink Alicorn. She had been following me the entire time, trying to get me to stop and calm down.

Without even glancing back to her, I walked out into the garden. I was looking for a place where I could be alone, but in this place, I don't think such a place even exist's let alone possible to find.

"Please. Just let us help you." she said as she began to trot beside me. "All we wan't is to get to know you and help you make some friends."

I looked back and saw everyone that I stormed away from before were also following me before I looked back to the Pink Alicorn that was still beside me.

"Fuck off. I don't need any help or friend. And I don't want them" I said to her causing her to almost trip.

"Everyone needs friends in their-" She began to say but I cut her off.

"NO! Friendship is like an addiction. I you never have it, you don't need it. But if you ever experience it, THEN you can't live without it because you know what it's like!" I said back.

I was acting as if I had never had a friend. But I will never forget Howard or Joe. But remembering them also makes me remember why I'm here, in this time. I was literary stabbed in the back by them and forced into the cryo tank.

-What's the matter? Afraid of more betrayal?-

'For crying out loud, you are of help you know that?'

-Yeah well, you need me.-

'Whatever, just stop voicing you thoughts'

-Alright fine.-

"Perhaps you're right, But friendship is something that everyone deserves" Said the Alicorn.

"Even if that's true. Not everyone gets it" I shot back.

"AH-HA. You've never had a friend before, have you?" she asked.

"For fuck's sake" I groaned as I put a hand to my forehead. "I'ma say this one more time before someone gets hurt. GO THE FUCK AWAY!!!" I shouted. Gladly, this time she stopped so I just kept walking.

After I got about 100 metres away, I found a large tree and sat down resting against it and closed my eyes.

"I know Shining. But I have never sensed so much negative emotion pouring out of one being heart before. Even Queen Chrysalis was never this angry. I would say that we have re-opened old wound's of his past so he's blocking us from getting near him" I heard the Alicorn say.

"You ma be right Cadence. But his anger is a possible threat that I don't wan't to have just going around" Shining responded.

"I agree with the captain. I think this hairless ape should just be locked up for the rest of it's life." I looked up to see Iron Defence with a smug grin on his face.

-You see that stick beside you?- I looked down to the ground beside me and sure enough, there was a stick. -You should throw it at him.-

I silently laughed at the mental image.

The Alicorn so named Cadence walked over and sat next to me.

"Can't you take a hint? Go away means exactly what it sounds like. It involves you... well going away and leaving me alone" I said as I felt her wing push it's way between me and the tree drape over my back.

"If I sad no, What are you going to do?" she asked.

I opened my eyes and raised an eyebrow while smiling before I proceeded to get up, but quickly was pushed back down by a light blue aura.

"Oh come on. Just give us a chance to get to know the real you" She groaned.

"The real me is gone. To me, my abilities were not just a sense of security, but they made me who I was. And now that's gone."

"That may be true. But you are still here and you have a chance now try try something different. Come on, at least give us a chance" she begged.

-I know you said you didn't wan't me to talk right now, but I just thought I should let you know that she is trying to discretely manipulate your emotions with her magic.-

I looked up to Cadence's horn, but it seemed to be-... Wait a minute. There is a faint blue glow around it.

"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!!!" I yelled as I pushed her away from me.

"Cadence!!!" All the pony yelled.

"Hey! What was that-" She tried to tell me off but I cut her off.

"DONT PLAY DUMB YOU MANIPULATING WHORE!!!" I shouted as I backed away from the group.

"Cadence! are you alright?" Shining asked as he ran up to her and helped her back to her hooves. "GUARDS! I wan't you to seize the human!"

'Fuck, not again'

-Mayhaps you should run-

'And I am out' I thought to myself as I turned and began to run.

"I got him!" I heard as I was running. I looked to my left and saw a pegasus guard basicly slam into my side, but I was quick to kick him off before I got tackled by another guard, but this one was an earth pony. He was strong, but I had fingers and flexibility on my side.

I managed to pry him off and basically throw him at another guard. I took this moment and dashed away with as much haste as I could muster.

While I was running I did learn that pony's seemed to have the greater advantage on the straight's, so I used my awesome agility that comes natural to any biped over a quadruped and began to weave through as many of the trees as I could.

But after a while, I realized that these stupid ponies began to cheat. The damn unicorns where teleporting themselves and their allies, trying to block me from the front.

I spied what looked like a giant garden maze and quickly changed direction to it.

"He's heading into the royal maze!" one of the guards shouted.

I sprinted into the entrance of the maze and took the first let followed by another left then a right before stopping completely.

"God I hope this works as well as I hope" I said to myself and I pushed my way into the bush itself and basically stood in the middle of the wall. I just hope that they were gullible enough to think I kept going.

A few seconds past and about 40 royal guards ran past the point where I entered the wall before I had another group pass me on the other side.

-That was probably not only the most illogically stupid plan in all existence, but it seemed to have just the slightest touch of genius in it-

'So was that a complement on an insult?' I asked my brain.

-A bit of both. Only, now what?-

'I guess we wait.'

And so the wait began.

Fucking Sigh.

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11 Hours.

11 pain strikingly boring hours.

I had managed to sit down after the first few minutes without telling everyone where I was, but still. 11 hours of searching, and the still hadn't given up.

The sun was beginning to set. I was hungry, and tired. Especially tired. I I am regretting pulling that allnighter last night.

I began to doze off when I heard the voice of one of the guards.

"Corporal! Sit rep, NOW!" Shouted the voice.

"Sorry Sergeant. But he is nowhere to be found. Even the air patrols can't seem to locate him. It's like he vanished" Said the corporal.

"That's not possible. Princess Celestia explained the his powers have been destroyed. There is no way he can just vanish" the sergeant.

"I know sir. but because his power's are gone the unicorns can't track him either."

"Alright Corporal. Tell the troops to call off the search. If what you say is true, combined with how slippery this colt is, he could be on the other side of Terra by now."

'Colt?' I asked myself.

-I believe it's their way of saying 'boy'. You know, Stallion= Man, Mare= Woman. So I guessing that Colt is that of a young boy, while a Filly would be a young girl- My brain explained to me.

'Thanks for the tip' I said to myself sarcastically.

"What will we tell the Captain. He looked like he wanted to strangle the hay out of the human for calling his wife a-"

"DON'T SAY IT. if you do, cap will want to wipe the floor with you too. And don't worry, I will take responsibility for loosing the human. I'm more worried about Princess Luna. She seemed to really want to know this human" said the sergeant.

"Yeah. Hate to be him when he dose get found. Anyway, I got to pass on your orders to the troops. I'll see you in the mess."

"Good. Off with you them" said the sergeant. and then the sound of flapping wings combined with the sound of clinking armour moved off into the distance. "Colt, if you just gave in, things would be better for you" Said the sergeant before his hoofsteps faded out of ear shot.

-Now we go?-

'Not yet.'
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About half an hour later, I very carefully parted the hedge and looked around.

Not a single pony in sight.

With even more care, I stepped out of the maze wall and began to walk back out.

'Good thing I didn't go in that far' I said to myself as I reached the exit of the maze.

I looked around and saw that there was still not another pony in sight. It had gotten rather dark by now and the castle was casting a shadow over the gardens that I was in from the moonlight.

I was able to see in the dark quite well. No one needs night vision, all you gotta do is let your eyes adjust to the darkness. And so, with my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I began to stealth walk out of the castle grounds.

Only, problem was that I ended coming up to the perimeter fence. But the gaps were that large in the fence bars, and I just managed to squeeze through.

-So. Where to now?-

'I don't know. How about that way' I thought to myself while looking in a random direction.

-Did you have a plan for this?-

'To be honest, I didn't think I would even think I would get this far.'

I began to walk in the direction that I was looking, avoiding any ponies that seemed to be out this late.

Eventually, I came past a restaurant. I could smell it long before I could see it.

I looked around a corner, and sure enough, there was an out door restaurant with ponies sitting and eating their dinner.

'Man, what I would do for some food. I haven't eaten since... I don't remember when.' I said to myself.

-Look, there is a table with food on it and no ponies around it. Maybe you can distract the attention of everyone elsewhere while you, I don't know, take what you need?-

'No no, I'm not a thief' I told myself.

-Don't think of it as stealing. Just try to think of it as you taking what you need. If you don't you'll starve.-

'Alright fine. You have any ideas?'

-Look next to your foot.- I looked down and saw a rock about the size of my palm before I picked it up and examined it. -I would suggest throwing that rock over all their heads and into the kitchen, and when all the commotion is still going on, you run up and snatch what you need.-

'So the best thing you could think of is destruction of property?'

-You got any better ideas?-

'Unfortunately no.' I said as I got into a pitching position before throwing the rock as hard as I could.

The rock sailed over everyone's head, completely unnoticed. That is until if flew into the doorway of the kitchen and all that was heard was loud banging noises, shouting and pots and pans falling. All of the ponies snapped their heads in the direction of the kitchen so now was my chance.

I sprinted up and grabbed the nearest plate that was on the unoccupied table before sprinting away into an ally behind a dumpster.

I looked at the food I had acquired. Salad and some sort of brown stuff that looked like deep fried hair. I took a bit of the brown stuff and placed it into my mouth.

Yeah, I couldn't have spat it out any faster. The stuff tasted like hay.

-They are ponies you know right? They do eat that naturally.-

'My god what I would do for a steak or some chicken' I thought to myself.

I began to eat the salad. It was all I was going to get tonight, but it was still better than nothing. However, I found that this salad actually was quite nice, so I kind of ended up eating it as fast as I could and wanted more by the end.

I threw the plate into the dumpster and lay down on the cold hard ground.

'I need some sleep' I told myself.

-Then sleep. You should be fine here for now.-

I yawned and closed my eyes before drifting off to sleep.

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(Inside a dark void that was in my mind)

-Rest Orion. We may be no longer be of one mind, but we are still very much apart of each other. All you must do is wait.-
> Chapter 9: Path to the truth.
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Chapter 9

I woke up feeling better than I did the day before. I looked around and saw that I was still behind the dumpster that I took refuge behind after I stole my last nights meal. I carefully got up and looked around.

I began to walk out of the alley but remembered that I was technically a wanted man. So I checked my surroundings before I exited.

Sadly, there were ponies everywhere unlike last night.

-So what now?-

'I have two choices. One: sit here until nightfall and escape then, or Two: sprint out like a bat outa hell and be gone before anyone can call any authorities.'

-I'm all up for the sprinting option.-

'As stupid as it is, so am I. But before I do, Thanks.'

-What for?-

'You helped me yesterday. Like a brain should I guess but yeah.'

-You seriously haven't figured it out yet?-

'Figured what out?'

-Oh you are thick some times. *SHIGH* I not your brain you idiot.-

I almost fell over at hearing this. Luckily I hadn't ran yet.

'If you not my brain, then what he hell are you?'

-I don't have a real name. But you keep calling me 'Your Hybrid form'.-

I walked back over to the dumpster and sat down behind it again. 'My Hybrid form?' I asked.

-Yes. You know, that form you used to change into all the time. That's me..- A smile formed on my lips. -And before you get any Idea's, No, You can't transform.-

'What! Why?' I asked as my smile fell.

-Because whatever that beam that you knocked away seemed to split our minds and basically sealed my powers away. I can't even use them let alone let you use them. And I am to weak to break the seal.-

'Oh, So will you ever be able to break the seal, or are you stuck in my head?' I asked.

-I don't think I was ever strong enough to break the seal. I'm still trying to figure out how you managed to redirect the beam in he first place. It's like you got a massive energy boost from nowhere.-

I sighed in defeat. 'Well at least you're ok' I said trying to lighten the mood.

-Thanks, but maybe we shout get out of here.-

'Good point. You ready?'

-Hey. I'm just along for the ride.-

'I'll take that as a yes' I got back up again. I felt better that the part of me that I preferred more was still with me.

I got into a ready stance before counting down.

... ... ... 3
... ... 2
... 1
"GO!" I shouted as I started to sprint ass fast as I could out of the alley and into the busy streets of Canterlot.

As I was running, I could hear the gasps and even some terrified screams from the ponies as I flew past them. Some even tried insulting me, but I was more concentrated on running at that point so I just ignored them all as I continued me escape.

Within a few minutes, I had almost exited the town. But I couldn't stop there. As I was running, I heard some of the ponies calling for guards, so there is no way that they have not been alerted to my presence.

I looked back and saw a group of ponies talking to guards so I pulled a quick right turn and bailed down an alley and somehow managed to not get spotted. 

I pulled out of the other side of the alley and spotted a train in a train station.

I bee lined myself in the direction of the train and vaulted into a car that seemed to be a storage car while no one was looking, and quickly dived behind some luggage and sitting down to catch my breath.

'So what should we call you now that you need an name?' I asked in my head.

-Are you asking me?-

'It's not like anyone else can hear my thoughts.'

-True.- There was a moment of silence before he spoke again. -I don't know what I should be named. What sound good?-

'Dude, It's your name, not mine.'

-Well... How about that name you said to Celestia when you met her? Halex wasn't it?- he suggested.

I thought about it for a moment. It sounded like a good name to me. It seemed to suit the from if you asked me.

'Alright Halex, I'll call you that from now on.'

Although I couldn't see him, I swear I could feel him give off a huge grin.

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A few hours later, I felt the train apply its brakes as it began to slow down.

I had no idea where this train was going, but I honestly didn't care. I just wanted to get away from ponies. 

I just hope Dee dosn't take it to hard. Same with Ceylon.

As the train came to a halt I ripped open the doors and ran into the closest cover I could find.

A shrub.

I looked around from the safety of my shrub to get an Idea of the surrounding area. It looked like a quaint little village. I saw a sigh above the ticket office.

'Welcome to Ponyville' it read.

-Oh you have got to be kidding me. Ponyville for crying out loud?-

'Yeah well'

I carefully stood out of the shrub and a pony spotted me. But what confused me was the fact that she just turned and walked away. Shrugging my shoulders, I began to just casually walk through the town.

Surprisingly, none of the ponies really reacted that badly. They all just stopped what they were doing and stared at me with wide eyes. The attention was making me nervous so I just picked up the pace.

"I knew that they were real! I HAVE to tal- Hey! Let me go Bonbon! Please, I might never see another one again!" I heard one of them shout as I exited out the far side of the town. I didn't dare look back to see who shouted it.

I Spotted a dark looking forest and began to make my way there. But as I entered, something felt off. As if the world turned dark and cold. It kind of reminded me of my own time.

"NO! It's getting away!" I looked back and was tackled by a mint green blur before I felt myself being dragged back out of the forest. I just lay there with my eye closed.

"Lyra? I think you killed it." someone said in a worried tone.

"No he's fine. See, he's breathing" said the first voice.

"He?"

"Based on his facial structure and lack of breasts. I think that he is a male" said the first voice in a matter of factly tone.

"What is this thing?"

"I believe that it's a human. A living breathing human."

"What's a human?"

These question's were beginning to annoy me so I just simply groaned as I sat up.

"Look! He's awake. I'm going to try to commune with it." I turned my head and saw a mint green pony that had a mint green and white mane and tail.

She stood in front of me and sat down.

"ME! LYRA!" she shouted at me while gesturing to herself as if I was stupid. "ME! FRIEND!" she shouted while hugging herself.

-Oh my god, is she serious?-

'Fuck, if she keeps this up, I'm going have to say something stupid' I said to myself as it took all of my will not to burst out laughing.

"I WANT YOU COME HOME WITH ME!" She shouted while making a series of movements to match.

I couldn't help myself.

"But you haven't bought me dinner yet" I said in my most snobby offended tone. This caused her to jump back to all fours and blush furiously. Her flustered look made me fall back over and roll on the ground with laughter.

She just huffed as I continued to laugh for about 12 minutes.

As I stopped laughing I wiped away a tear. "I'm Sorry, I should have said something sooner" I apologized for making her look like a fool. Even her cream coloured friend with the pink and blue mane was looking at Lyra weirdly as she tried to 'Communicate'.

"She'll be fine." Said the cream coloured mare.

"I'm sorry, I'd love to stay and chat, but I must be off. I'm on the move and I can't stop yet" I said as I got up of the ground.

"Well I'm Bonbon. But I must ask, What are you?"

"Well miss Bonbon. My name is Orion, and I am human."

"I told you they exist!" Shouted Lyra as she ran up to me again. "Everypony thought I was crazy, but I knew that they were real." she said as she reared up and went to place her front hooves on my chest, But I caught them and carefully put her back down.

I looked around and saw that some of the town inhabitants had come out to see what the commotion was about. 

"Don't get ahead of yourself Lyra. I said before that I need to keep moving. If I don't, I'll probably wind up dead" I said causing them to recoil slightly.

"What in all of Equestria would cause such a thing?" asked Bonbon.

"I afraid I can't tell you" I said as I looked into the distance toward's Canterlot. That's when I spotted royal pegasus guards pulling a carriage toward's the town I was currently in. "I-I'm going to have to go now. Bye" I said while waving before turning and sprinting into the forest. I heard the ponies telling me to wait, but I ignored them as I kept running.

I sprinted for about a total of 10 minutes before I slowed to a jog and kept that pace for about 1 hour before I had to stop.

I sat on a tree stump for about 2 minutes, just catching my breath. But was interrupted by the sound of a stick snapping.

"*SIGH* Why cant I just have a break?" I asked myself out loud.

-Because that would be to easy- Halex said.

I turned around to look at what had stepped on the stick.

"OH! you have got to be kidding me!" I exclaimed. What I had seen when I turned around will make history for me.

It was a wolf. A wolf made entirely of wood with glowing green eyes. And by god it smelt bad.

The wood wolf took a few steps closer before growling at me and getting into a pouncing position.

"Nnnoooooo! Don't even try it. I'm warning you. You bett-" I was cut of by the wolf leaping at me really fast.

I didn't have enough time to blink let alone get out of it's way. It pounced on me and stood over me before trying to bite my neck. Fortunately, I managed to throw my arm into its mouth, saving my jugular in the process.

I spent the next couple of seconds trying to wrestle it off my arm, but I wasn't getting very far. If anything, I was just causing the wolfs teeth to sink further into my flesh.

"AAAHHH! You son of a bitch! Let the fuck go!" I shouted while I continued to fight the wolf.

-I might be able to get it off you if you trust me, but that's all!- Halex warned me.

"WHATEVER JUST GET THE PIECE OF SHIT OFF!!!" I shouted.

I felt my body go numb and began to panic. That is until I watched my eyesight shift around on its own accord. It shifter to my left arm which was not the one in the wolfs mouth. I watched my hand ball up into a fist and a black aura surrounded it. My eyesight shifted back to the wolf and I felt my left arm launch toward the wolfs head.

When my fist made contact, the wolfs head basically exploded away from me, causing the rest of it to basically fall apart before I felt my body return to normal, but seemingly more drained than it did.

'Halex? Are you alright?'

-I'm *PANT* I'm fine- he said. -I just need some time.-

'What was that?' I asked.

-That was *PANT* was our power being used. But I still haven't recovered fully from that rainbow blast. I wont be able to help you like that for about another week now- he explained.

'Well thanks. I guess I owe you' I told him. But was soon reminded of my injury by a burning pain. I looked down to my right arm and saw it bleeding. I ripped off the bottom of my shirt and bandaged my arm with it.

I sighed before I heard movement. I turned back around and saw the bits of wood that remained of the wolf began to shift.

'You know what? I am NOT going to sit here and see what is going to happen' I said to myself as I turned and legged it again.

I ran for a few minutes but soon had to stop from fatigue. When I did stop, I stopped at the end of an old rope bridge that didn't look very safe. I looked over to the far side and saw what looked like an abandoned building.

Curiosity got the better of me.

I very carefully eased one foot onto the bridge, but nothing happened. So I crossed it with no hassle. Only, when I got to the other side, a rope snapped ant the bridge fell into the deep chasm below. I didn't even hear it hit the bottom.

-Well you ain't turning back now.-

'Tell me about it.'

I turned around to get a better look at the abandoned building, only to find that it was a fucking castle. The most of it was hidden by fog earlier, but that had cleared up.

'So, You want to check out the creepy castle with me?' I asked Halex.

-Do I have a choice?-

'Not really, no.' I said as I began to make my way to the entrance. I was surprised to find that the place had doors. It didn't even have a roof. Even so, I was kind of glad. The walls alone looked ready to drop on me from their age.

I walked inside past the doorway and was immediately greeted by an ominous gust of wind.

-That was... Different-

Ignoring Halex, I continued to walk through the open room that once looked like a throne room.I stopped at a pedestal of some kind that was in the center and I began to look it over.

Around the back of it, facing where the throne would be if this place still had one was a small plaque that was covered in vines so I cleared it and began to read.

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Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honesty, Loyalty.
When present, these five elements will cause a spark and bring fourth the sixth. The most powerful element.

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I though about it for a moment. Element's. Not the basic Wind, water, earth, fire elements, but apparently elements of some other kind. And there were six of them, only five of which are stated.

I sat there thinking about it for a moment longer before I realized it.

"I get it now. Twilight and her friends kept being called the elements of harmony. And there were six of them. And when they attacked me, they all had those weird necklace's on apart from Twilight who had that weird looking tiara. those pieces of jewelry must be the Element's that once rested here" I said out loud to myself.

-And I'm guessing that Whatever Element Twilight had would be the supposedly most powerful one.-

'Agreed. Which means that they have been here before and solved the riddle. But the main question is, What is the sixth one, and why was it a tiara and not a necklace like the rest' I said to Halex as I stood up, bumping the plaque with my foot and causing it to fall off and land on the ground with a clang.

I looked at the small plaque on the ground for a moment before Picking it up and looking it over.

'Wait there's more here on the back.

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H-S.T.C
Homo-sapien Tech Co.

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'What?' was the only thing that I could think of.

I looked at the words again. Homo-sapien was the scientific name for human wasn't it?

I looked back to where the plaque had fallen from and saw that there was a compartment hidden behind where it used to be.

I put my hand in the hole and felt around and felt something. I pulled the object out of the compartment and what I saw amazed me.

What I now had in my hand was a military grade PDA. These things where basically I-Pad sized computers that could do almost anything a new computer could do.

I looked it over for the power button and tried to turn it on and...

Nothing.

I presumed that it was flat. This thing was most likely in here since The last human, and considering that the vast majority of the population today dosn't know what a human is, I guess it had been there for a very... very long time.

But that makes me wonder more with questions like: How the fuck did human technology get into this thing! And other questions like, What the fuck happened to the humans anyway!

I looked back to the screen of the PDA and saw that it had a Small blue dot upon the black screen.

'Press thumb' showed up underneath a small box with a fingerprint in it on the screen.

I Pushed my thumb against the screen and it flashed a few times.

"Project Orion identified. Access granted" The PDA said out loud while showing a green unlocked padlock.

When the screen changed again, it loaded a video. As I watched the first few second, I couldn't help but yell

"JEYSUS MERRY MOTHER OF GOD! WHAT THE FUCK!!!"
> Chapter 10: Truth and Reconciliation
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Author's note: Fist part of chapter is veiw of a video log. Some parts will be missing. Just a heads up.

Chapter 10

Video log: #1874.
Date: 23rd of August, 2035. 00:57 A.M.
Location: CLASSIFIED!!!

The camera was watching a door for about 20 seconds before...

"I cant believe it! It worked!" Shouted Professor Elise (according to her name tag), running out of a lab room and to another unknown professor and handing him a data pad.

"What? This early? That's amazing!" he exclaimed while looking over the pad. "With results like this, we can move up our time scale."

END OF LOG: #1874.
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Video Log: #1943.
Date: 12th of May, 2036. 10:33 A.M.
Location: CLASSIFIED!!!

"Is the camera on?" asked the unknown Professor that was in the last log.

"Uh... Yeah. Just begin when your ready sir" said a voice behind the camera.

"Ok good" the Professor took a drink of water from a cup before putting it on a table and looking into the camera. "Today is the... Uh what was it again?" he asked.

"8 035th sir" said the voice from behind the camera.

"Right, 8 035th. So we have been at work on this project for 8 035 days now, 22 years, and I think we have finally had a breakthrough." the Professor began to walk down a hallway with the camera man in tow. "Early last year, we gained promising results on being able to use the healing properties Project Orion's blood samples to artificially replicate life. With these results, we managed to replicate a number if different life forms of today's creatures and even create 2 entirely new species's. However, these life forms had no brain activity what so ever, but we managed to keep them alive. In August this year, we managed to successfully start brain activity in some of the creatures but they ended up falling into seizures that we could not rectify and ended up being terminated." The Professor said before turning a corner. "But after 9 months of research, we managed to finally get actual brain activity and promising vital signs." The Professor stopped out side of a door.

"In this room is our successful bundle of joy. She is easily scared due to her young age however so try and be nice." The Professor opened a small keyboard on the side of the wall beside the door and typed a few buttons, and the door opened and both the Professor and the camera man walked into a room that looked like it was for a child.

"Pelia? Where are you little one?" the Professor asked into the room.

"I'm here daddy" came a small voice in the room behind the bed. Soon after, a small white pony walked from behind the bed and up to the Professor. This little pony was only about knee height and had both a horn and wings.

"Well, this is Pelia, which means Miracle of god. and she is what we have come to call an 'Alicorn'. She is about 6 years of age" the Professor said to the camera. "Pelia, say hello."

"Hello" she said meekly.

The Professor smiled. "She has sentience and the IQ of about 104. She has come to call me daddy over the time she has been here, but she dose know the truth about her origins" the Professor said kneeling down and picking up the small Alicorn and blowing raspberries on her stomach, causing the small filly to squirm while squealing in delight. Eventually the Little pony got free and ran away from her human daddy.

"Hehe. She is a fun bundle of joy alright. Anyway, with her as our success, we might now be able to find the secrets to life itself.

END OF LOG: #1943.
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Video log: # 47 097.
Date: 30th of January, 2055. 23:20 P.M.
Location: CLASSIFIED!!!

The veiw of this log was the Professor sitting at a desk with the camera facing him.

"Alright. Pelia is 25 years of age now, she has been for about two months now. And I must say that she has matured into a beautiful mare. Ok, to work. Pelia has been very compliant for us. She has learned to use her magic on a cosmic scale. She actually has the ability to control and influence things in outer space regardless of size or distance away, but that's not all. See log #38 252 for review of her magic skills. Her power seems to be on an even scale with the original Project Orion specimen that was put into cryogenic hibernation about 42 years ago now. With study of Pelia's 'Magic', we have made designs for a super weapon that cannot be used for ill intentions. The design team for Homo-Sapien Tech Co. has dubbed it 'Project Harmony'. We believe that this device will be the end of all wars on our planet." The Professor, whom looked considerably older, picked up a note book and began to flick through it.

"I regret to say that my team is being moved to assist in the Harmony devices research and construction" said the Professor before wiping a tear from his eye. "Pelia didn't take well that I wouldn't be seeing her anymore. In her anger, she almost destroyed the entire compound without realizing it. But I managed to get her to calm down. I just hope she will be fine without me."

END OF LOG #47 097.
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Video log: #47 758
Date: 2nd of June, 2055. 16:00 P.M.
Location: H-S.T.C. development facility #04

I received news from Professor Elise, a friend of mine that stayed with Pelia, that Pelia has had a dramatic emotional change over the past few months. At first, she began asking questions to why she was the only one of her kind and asking when others like her would be born. Of course, Pelia herself turned out to be a fluke chance and any other times at replicating another with brain activity was met with failure. She just wanted to be with her own kind, but no other existed. Because of this, she has apparently been getting very moody, and in some cases, Violent. I just hope she calms down."

"Side notes: I was also informed by Elise that the original Project Orion specimen had been recently relocated to an even more classified facility compared to the one he was just at. Apparently, only a small group of people know where it is. And apparently they were testing prototype equipment there for the specimen for a doomsday prevention plan for if the Harmony Device failed. So basically they were going to turn him into a super soldier. That's if they ever wake him up."

"The other side note is that we have almost finished the Harmony Device. We have managed to isolate the magic into six separate gem stones, but when transferred, the gems turned to round stones, each with a different symbol upon them. And we cannot seem to figure out how to get it to work properly. I believe that she only one who can use them is Pelia."

ENDO OF LOG #47 758.
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Video log: ######
Date: Unknown
Location: Unknown

The Professor seemed to be sitting in a town that looked like a bomb had hit it. There were building's destroyed everywhere and there seemed to be an immense amount of light. The Professor himself had scars, bruises and a large gash down the side of his head.

"Something terrible has happened as you may know. With what has happened and all, this might turn out to be my las log entry."

"I'm here at the H-S.T.C. HQ After this log, I will be hiding this PDA in a secret compartment in the pedestal for the Element's of Harmony."

"This all started 19 years ago. Pelia was brought to this facility at our request to see if she could use the Harmony Device. Need less to say, she could. But that's not when things went bad."

"No one is sure how, But shortly after her contact with the elements, she somehow became pregnant with a foal that was like her, and even with brain activity. She was happy, I was happy. But after some officials made a terrible mistake, that happiness only went so far."

"As Pelia gave birth, her child was taken away from her. She became so mad that she lost control of her anger and began to destroy everything. And I MEAN everything. She ended up going on a destruction spree. Most think that she was evil, But I know in my heart that she was just trying to find HER baby foal."

"In four days, she had wiped out a large portion of the human race before she found her child. Two days after, She came to this facility and took the Harmony device and used it to turn all the horses and ponies into sentient equine creatures because she could not create them from nothing. Some of the equines that she transformed ended up either growing wings OR gaining a horn."

"The humans. Well Pelia renamed the Earth into Planet Terra. A few years later, the humans that were still alive ended up starting a resistance against the equines and actually started to take ground back using older human weapons combined with technology that gave the user similar abilities to The original Project Orion specimen, but nowhere near as powerful as him." 

"I recommended to the resistance that they wake up Orion to help us fight. Him with his equipment could have given us a huge advantage over the equines, but all the people that knew of his location were gone already so he was out of the question."

"Yeah, As I said. The human race was beginning to take back ground until they hit a stalemate against Pelia's daughter, Celestia. Celestia seemed to control the power of the sun itself. That's where we began to loose. We could have really used Orion's help there."

"That was three days ago. I haven't seen another human since Celestia ended up slaughtering any human around and... I think I might be the last one left on this planet."

The Professor sat down against the pedestal as he began to cry.

"I can't believe that the one I used to call my daughter did this to human kind."

He choked up a bit before talking again.

"To whom ever finds this. The Alicorns have destroyed the human race. and they are no more. This PDA contains a prototype memory unit that has all of the humans history  and technology on it, both good and bad. Please make sure that it is either destroyed or put to damn good use."

*CRASH*

"And now I have been found. This is Connor Whitley, signing off"

END OF VIDEO LOG HISTORY.
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(Back to Orion)

I put down the PDA and backed away from it. Just trying to process what I had just witnessed.

-So Celestia and her mother are responsible for you being the last human left in existence.- Halex said. -Hey, Are you alright?- I just remained silent as I sat down against the far wall. I sat there for a few moments as I realized the truth that Halex just told me.

"THAT FUCKINNG BITCH!!!" I shouted as I jumped back to my feet. "I swear on the all the humans that she killed, She will burn at the entrance of hell for this, AND I WILL BE THE ONE TO KICK HER ROASTING CORPS IN TO HELLS FLAMING DEPTHS!!!"

I began to storm my way back towards the entrance of the ruined castle, hellbent on making Celestia pay. But as I entered the doorway, my body went numb again and stopped without me wanting it to.

-I'm sorry, but I can't let you do that.- Halex said.

"And why the fuck not!" I shouted.

-You wouldn't make it for starts. She is in a castle filled with guards, and as a normal human, you won't get far on a frontal assault. And two: remember what Dee said, Show mercy. I hate to admit it, but killing her will not help you. You will only regret it later.-

"And how the fuck would you know!?"

-Remember that Alex kid that beat you into unconsciousness?- I took a second to remember the vision that I saw. -To this day, I still regret that moment of me taking his life.-

My mind went back to the moment when he was ripped in half by my Hybrid's darker side. I relaxed and that's when I felt my body return to normal and I collapsed to the ground. Halex was right. Even if I did manage to get to Celestia, I don't think I could be capable of hurting her. I never was one for hurting others if I could help it.

I dragged myself back to the pedestal and sat on the ground with my back against it. I looked down to the PDA and picked it up.

'Might as well see what had changed since I was put into cryogenic hibernation' I said to myself as I unlocked it again and began to sift through the vast amounts of knowledge in it.

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After about an hour of sifting through information, I was beginning to feel tired. It was only early afternoon some time, but all the running mixed with my injury on my right elbow, I was feeling kind of sleepy.

I locked the PDA and closed my eyes for a rest. But as I began to drift off, I heard the sounds of hooves on the stone floor.

I didn't even care any more, but I was curious as to find out whom it was, so I squinted through my right eye to see who it was only to see a dark cerulean hoof with what looked like a glass slipper on it a few centimetres from my face and knew who it was.

I felt my right arm being lifted up by nothing but a slight tingle, I presumed it was magic, and the makeshift bandage I had around my elbow slowly unwind and fall free.

I guessing that the blue Alicorn was shocked at the sight of my injury that I had sustained by her reaction. She gasped loudly as my arm fell back down to my side.

"Did you really have to just drop my arm Luna?" I asked without even looking to her.

"What in all of Terra happened?" She asked me But the moment she said Terra, my mind went straight back to the videos I witnessed earlier, but I quickly shook the feeling off. There was something else I had to know.

"How did you find me here?" I asked her.

"To be honest, We didn't expect to find thou here. We just venture here sometimes to remember our history here" She said.

"Your history wouldn't have anything to do with humans would it?" I asked.

"Nay curious little one. We were born over 12 million years after the human extinction. Hence is why we are so interested in them. My sister Celestia said that they are dangerous, but we have always wanted to meet one" she said the last bit with happiness in her voice.

"Do you always talk like that?" I asked in genuine confusion.

"Nay- I mean no. I have been practicing in the common slang, but still keep reverting to the old 'WE' every now and then" she explained

"Well good luck on trying to meet one of them" I said as I got up and began to reapply my makeshift bandage to my arm, facing away from her. As I tightening the bandage, Luna basically snaked her way a snaked her way around to get in front of me.

"Well, perhaps you would like the honour of being the human I get to know?" She basically pleaded in a way that was concealed as an offer.

I thought about her offer for a second before I had an answer.

"Uh... No."

You should have seen the look on her face. She looked like she had just watched her best friend spontaneously combust in front of her.

-Now that was an evil thought- Halex said.

'Yeah well.'

-Just look at that face and tell me you don't feel bad for rejecting her.-

I turned and looked to Luna again. She was looking at me with wide eyes and tears falling from them.

"Why not?" Luna sobbed.

I turned and looked away from her. "Look Luna. I have to ask. Do you even know what happened to the humans?" I asked. Her tears instantly cleared up and she had a thoughtful expression on her face.

It took her a minute, but she finally answered. "No! I don't!"

I shook my head. "Well perhaps you should go and ask your sister. I guarantee you she would know" I informed her.

"You promise to be my friend when I get back?" She asked.

I opened my eyes in shock "Wait? Wha-" 

"Excellent! I will be back in a moment!" she exclaimed before teleporting out of the castle ruins.

"Uh oh" I said to myself as I sat back down.

-So why are you still here?-

'Because you made me look at her in the first place.'

-Meaning?-

'*SIGH* You saw her reaction to when I said no to talking with her before. If I run and she comes back to see me NOT here, God only knows what she would be like then.'

-Oh! I get it. You think that she would turn suicidal or something.-

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'NOW whose the one with the evil thoughts!' I shouted in my head at him.

-Well I think you made a good choice. She's different compared to the others. I sense her soul is pained and lonely.-

'Then why don't you go and marry her.' I said sarcastically. 'Wait a minute. Since when can you sense things in others? I never was able to do that.'

-Well I hate to tell you, but I AM your abilities. I have to say that you only nicked the surface of your full capabilities and skills.-

"ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!" I shouted out loud.

-Calm down. You don't want Luna returning and knowing that I am still here. She and all the ponies... somewhat... trust you because they think I'm gone.-

I took a deep breath. 'Alright, fine.'

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I sat there for about an hour.

-Wow, Luna is taking her sweet time.- Halex said out of nowhere.

'What? Miss you girlfriend already?' I mocked.

-Shut up. You know damn well that's not-- he was cut off by a flash of blue light.

Standing a few feet from me was Luna. She had tears in her eyes... again. That plus a look of anger.

"Shit."
> Chapter 11: I just want to be left alone.
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Chapter 11

I was standing with my back to the pedestal, facing an Alicorn that looked like she had just found out her boyfriend had just cheated on her.

'Ok. I think I regret staying here now' I thought to myself.

-Yeah, she don't look to happy about something.-

Luna lowered her head and struck the ground with her right forehoof twice before charging at me.

'What did I do!' was all I was able to think to myself as I threw my arms over my head and tensed my body, preparing for the impact.

Only, I felt something soft go around my body. I opened my eyes and was immediately greeted by a field of dark cerulean blue. I pulled my head back and saw that Luna was... Hugging me?

"Orion. Please come back to Canterlot. My sister wishes to speak to you." Luna asked.

"Why? So she can kill me like she did the rest?" I asked sarcastically.

"She dose not. She just wishes to talk to you about your future here in Equestria. And captain Shining Armour also said he had something he wishes to show you" she said.

"Oh GOD no!" I shouted as I got up, picked up the PDA and began to run again. I only made it out the door before I was caught in a blue aura and started being dragged back the way I came. "NOOOO!!! HE WONT TAKE ME ALIVE!!!"

"Calm down already Orion. I'm sure it wont be that bad" Luna said in a 'DUH' sort of tone.

"Not that bad! I called his wife a whore in my anger!" I shouted back to Luna, and in her shock she dropped me.

I began to make a run for it again, but was once again caught in the blue aura and dragged back, no matter how much I struggled.

"And what, pray tell, influenced you to call my niece a whore!?" Luna shouted at me.

"It's not my fault. I was angry, then I notice her trying to manipulate my mind with her magic!" I shouted as I hung upside down and continued my thrashing against air.

"Well it's too bad for you that there coming here."

"WHAT!!!" I shouted louder that I was already shouting as I doubled my thrashing efforts.

-Suck's to be you right now.- Halex said but I just ignored him. I was to busy trying to get free.

"Well I said I wanted you to come back to Canterlot. They are bringing transport. How did you think you were going to get back?" Luna inquired.

"In all seriousness. I wasn't going to go back, no matter what you said!"

I looked to Luna, trying to formulate a plan. I still had full movement, so maybe I could use that.

-For crying out loud. If you want to get away, just flick her horn and run like the wind.- Halex told me.

'And you're telling me this now!?' I shouted at him, but before he could respond, I quickly reached out and game the Luna's horn a flick, causing her to gasp and drop me.

The second she did, I ran. But not to the door this time. No, this time I ran to the left side of the crumbling castle and through a doorway that led to some stairs leading downwards.

Not caring where they went, I ran down them as fast as I could. I just hoped that they would hold my weight.

I reached the bottom and found myself in a hallway type deal with doors lining the sides. I sprinted down the hallway and picked a random door on the right and opened it.

Inside was bare.

I closed the door and continued to run and eventually opened a door on the left. Inside this door was a statue of a pony. I walked up to the statue and examined it.

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Princess Pelia.
Mother of all pony kind.
Giver of life.
Protector of Peace.
And,
Creator of the Element's of Harmony.

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"Bull Shit!" I said in an angry tone.

I heard the door begin to open and jumped to the other side of the statue and hid just in time.

"Orion please. Stop this and come out." Luna's voice came from the door.

"Auntie Luna! What are you doing down here?" came the voice of Cadence.

'SHIT! Why the fuck is SHE here?' I thought to myself.

-Maybe she wants to say hi?" Halex suggested sarcastically.

"Princess. Where is Orion? I was informed that you said he was here?" came the voice form Shining Armour. A.K.A. The guy who wants to kill me.

I peeked over the edge of the statue and saw the two alicorns and the unicorn. Oh, and the group of guards behind them.

"He is, or was. He... got away" said Luna.

"How?" asked Cadence and Shining Armour in perfect sync.

"That's not important" she ordered.

"Sorry" Shining Armour said. before clearing his throat. "So... What did you want us to do?" he asked.

"Well. I don't think he would have come down here. He would have trapped himself if he did." I just looked forward with a 'really' expression. "But just in case, I want you to post three guards down here just in case while the rest do a search of the surround area of the ruins."

"Yes princess!" Shining said. The next thing I could here was the sound of many hooves in armour walking away.

I carefully walked out from behind the statue and toward's the door. I found a piece of glass and picked it up.

As I reached the doorway, I used the glass to look around the corners. Luna was right, only three.

Time to see if all those video games I played back when I was a test subject has taught me anything.

Lets play Assassin's Creed.

I guessed that the closest guard was about 7 metres from the doorway. I rested up against the doorframe inside of the room, quietly placed the PDA in my lower right leg pocket (Cammo pants have huge leg pockets) and zipped it up before I gave off a light whistle from my mouth.

Next thing I know is the the sound of the gullible guard go "hu?" before he makes his way to the source of the noise. I may not have eagle vision, but I sure as shit could hear him coming.

As he peered his head in the doorway, I grabbed his head and pulled him the rest of the way while holding him in a sleeper hold, and after a few seconds, he stopped fighting. I then carefully placed him against the wall and checked his pulse.

Thankfully, he still had one.

Then the excitement kicked in.

'Holy shit! I just pulled of a move from a video game and it worked. THATS FUCKING AWESOME!!!' I shouted in my head.

-You stole that from Connor Kenway. But that was pretty cool.- Halex complemented.

'Thanks man. And thanks for telling me about the horn weakness too.' I said.

-You're welcome.- he said in a boastful tone.

'Alright then. One down, two left.'

I looked back out the doorway and saw that there was no door to the room adjacent to the one I was in. I looked around until I found another piece of glass. This piece was about the size of a head.

I quietly picked it up and took it to the doorway before hurling it into the other room. It landed with a smash.

Both of the other guards came running at the sound. I heard the first one go into the room, but as the other one got outside of the doorway to the room I was in, with him facing the room where I tossed the glass, I quickly reached out and grabbed him the same way I did to the first guard.

After a few seconds, he too was out like a light, so I placed him against the opposite side of the door frame to his friend before checking his pulse.

-That's two.-

'Just one left now, and I might be able to get out without touching him.'

-We'll see.-

I rolled my eyes. 'Thanks for the vote of confidence man.' I thought as I used the piece of to see if I could spot the final guard.

I did. He was still in the other room, using his horn as a flashlight to look around.

'Time for a high profile fistycuff assassination' I thought to myself as I got ready.

I waited until he was facing away from me until I sprinted around the corner and toward's the final guard. He heard me coming, but he was too slow.

By the time it took him to turn around, I managed to get to him with my arm out and clothes lined him. Winding him to the point where he passed out. 

After I made sure he was ok, I stealthfully made my way back out of the hallway, up the stairs and back into the throne room with the pedestal. But before I made my way out, I looked around.

Luna wanted the Shining Armour and his guards to search surrounding areas for me. 

-Got any ideas?-

'Well I know this. Once they realize that I'm not out there, they are going to come back for their friends I left down in the basement, they are going to know that I am still here.'

-Well I would recommend that you get as far out as you can before hiding. Then when they go to return to the ruins, they should pass you without even noticing you. And you can even use rocks to lob like you did with that piece of glass earlier. Use them as distractions.-

'Alright, I'll try.'

Seeing that the ruin's were clear, I quietly ran up to the main doors and scoped the area out.

I couldn't see a single guard, so I presumed that they were a distance out already.

As quiet as I could, I exited the ruin's and made my way down the dirt path back to where the rope bridge was before it broke. 

I looked to the left before looking right down the chasm, trying to see if I could spot another way across.

Seeing only one way, I turned away and walked about 30 metres from the bridge before turning and facing it again.

-You're not going to do what I think you're going to do are you?-

'Yep.'

-Well good luck then. If we die... Nah, I'm not doing a speech.-

'Alright then.' I said as I got ready by stretching a few muscles.

When I was ready, I got into a position ready to sprint. I took a few quick breaths before launching forwards. I sprinted as fast as I could to the bridge. As I reached the cliff, I jumped with all my might and reached out for a single rope that still hung upon the bridge support on the other side. As I began to fall, my hands wrapped around the rope and I squeezed to stop me decent.

I did manage to stop, but not without a price. What I didn't anticipate was the extreme rope burn I just caused myself. I very quickly wrapped and tied the rope around my feet in a way so I could let go.

When I completed the knot, I hung upside down and I vigorously shook my hands, trying to cool the burns while doing everything I could to suppress a scream of pain.

I looked at the palms of my hands. They both had great big gashes cutting across them and they were shaking.

-Are you ok?- Halex asked. 

'I will be. I just have to find a way back up now.'

-How are you going to do that?-

'I'll think of something.'

After a few moments of just hanging there, I lent up and grabbed the rope, only to have my hand scream in pain and cause me to let go again.

'Fuck it! My shit is damaged enough as it is' I said to myself as I pulled of the sleeves off my shirt and began to bandage my hands with them. After I completed my bandaging, I tried to grab the rope again. It still burnt like all hell, but it was now bearable.

I began to pull myself up the rope, hissing in pain as I did so. But as I reached half way, I looked up and saw pegasi flying overhead toward's the ruins.

-They must be coming back now.-

Redoubling my efforts, I reefed myself up the rope, agonizing pain was burning through my hands as I did. But fortunately, I made it to the top and pulled myself up over the edge. I quickly untied the rope from my feet and began to jog in the opposite direction of the ruins.

I took a glimpse back and saw a mass of guards entering the ruined castle.

'Hey! Maybe now I can be left alone.' I said to myself.

-Yeah, but for how long?- Halex asked.

I shrugged and continued to jog away. This time, I had no intention of being found by ponies.

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I continued to jog for what felt like hours and the sun had actually begin to set. I needed to find a place to crash for the night.

As I was running. I thought I heard something so I stopped and looked around. Only, Just as I looked behind me, I was tackled.

Me and whoever tackled me rolled for about 10 metres and the attacked in question latched onto my back and hugged me before throwing a forehoof around my neck and trying to strangle me.

In a panic reaction, I jumped up and went to land on my back, but instead landed on whoever was hugging me and causing them to loose their grip of both me and my neck. I quickly scurried to my feet and looked at who it was.

"Oh for crying out loud. Don't you have others that you can follow and then accuse them for being annoying!?" I shouted at my attacked.

"Call this pay back for getting that song stuck in my head."

That's right. The attacker in question was Star Wind.

"Now how the hell did you find me?" I asked her.

"I saw you climb out of the chasm of where the rope bridge use to be. How you got across, I don't know. But I quite frankly don't care. My job now is to kick your sorry flank and then drag it back to the Captain!" she shouted at me while getting into a fighting stance and spreading her wings.

"What? No peace offering?" I asked sarcastically.

"Nope" she responded with a smirk before she shot at me. I didn't have time to blink let alone react to her attack and she ended up tackling me in the stomach and we both hit the ground.

As she stood over me, I shook off my stupor and kneed her in the stomach. I didn't like to hit women, but this was in self defence. When my knee made contact, she coughed and keeled over onto the ground while I rolled to the side and got ready to counter whatever she threw at me next.

She wheezed a bit, but after a few seconds, she got up and got back into that ready stance.

She shot at me again, but this time I anticipated it.

I lent to the side and she flew past, but I grabbed her left hind leg and brought her back to the ground. It hurt my rope burn, but I had other things to worry about.

"You give?" I offered.

"Nope" She said before rolling onto her back and kicking me in the head in the process.

My vision blurred and I stumbled back. A few seconds after, I felt myself get tackled again.

With my eyesight still blurred, I grabbed the closest thing near me and swung it at her.

The log that I had grabbed had crack when it made contact with her torso and sent her off me again.

I shook my head a few times and put my hand up to the spot where she kicked me. There was warm fluid running down the side of my head.

"Ow" I said while holding my hand to my injury. 

I went to get up, but fell over. I was feeling light headed from the injuries that I had sustained over the past two days. I clenched my eyes shut tightly as the headache kicked in.

Star just simply walked up to me and pushed me back down to the ground. I tried to struggle.

"Oh shut up and just let me look" she told me.

I felt something cool and wet go along the side of my face, starting from my chin and making its way along the blood trail and to the spot where she had kicked me in the head.

I hissed when whatever she was doing mad contact with the wound, but almost immediately after, the pain was gone. and my eyesight began to return.

The first thing I saw when I could see properly was Star Wind pulling her head back from mine. She had blood on her fangs.

I began to freak out at what I thought she just did.

"Shut up! Bat ponies saliva has healing properties" she told me.

"So you just lick my head and all is good?" I asked with a raised eyebrow. She just nodded. "That's disgusting."

"Fine. I'll just leave you to bleed out next time" she huffed.

I rolled my eyes. "Look thanks for healing my injury, even if you're the one who caused it. I, in some weird way, appreciate it" I thanked her.

"You're welcome. Now, back to what we were doing" She said as she got into her ready stance again.

"Do we really have to do this? All I want in life is to be left alone" I told her.

"Hey! I have better thing to do than to sit here and negotiate with you. If you want to be left alone, that is something you're going to have to take up with Princess Celestia" she explained.

I felt my eye twitch when I heard that name.

Celestia. Daughter of Pelia.

And together, they destroyed my race.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.

-It's alright Orion. She dosn't know.-

'I know that. It's not like I was going to blame her'

"So are you going to come back peacefully?" Star asked.

"I-I can't. And if you don't know why, it's better to keep it like that." I said.

"Then I must do this. Sorry" she said as she got back into her ready stance yet again.

I sighed while drooping my head and shoulders. But as I looked up again, there was a roar in the distance. I looked over in the direction of the noise.

Whatever it was, it sounded big. And it if was getting closer.

I turned to face the direction of the noise. So did Star. I waited a couple of seconds but nothing happened.

I looked back to Star and she looked to me. She had a determined look on her face.

But that look quickly turned to one of horror.

I heard something behind me. It sounded as if it was right there.

I turned around, but was struck upon the head and my vision went black as I yet again fell unconscious.

This was getting old.
> Chapter 12: Forced to Intervene.
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Authors note: A bit dark this chapter.

Chapter 12

I opened my eyes to find myself in chains before Celestia herself. I tried to get up, but was immediately beat back down by one of her guards spear.

"Well Orion. I wanted to give you a chance at a life here. But you have proved to be more trouble that its worth. What do think I should do with you?" Celestia asked.

"I don't know" I said.

"Well I think I have and idea" she proclaimed. She lit up her horn and the chains around my body unlocked themselves and fell free. "Guard's! You are not to interfere!" she ordered. I was then hauled to my feet.

I looked around then back to Celestia, but as I made eye contact, she fired a magic beam at me and it him me square in the chest, sending me flying back and into the far wall.

As I lay there on the ground coughing and spluttering, Celestia walked up to me casually.

'Ah, I think I broke a rib' I told myself.

Halex said nothing.

'Halex? You still there buddy?' I asked.

Still nothing.

Celestia stood above me and looked down. She lit her horn up again and a golden glow surrounded me. Next thing I know is I have what felt like 1000 volts of electricity coursing through my body while having my limbs bent in directions they shouldn't.

"Come Orion! Get up and fight for the right of your race!" she shouted at me while continuing to use her magic on me. I tried to get up and fight back, but I couldn't. Her magic was just to overwhelming. "You're as pathetic as the rest of your race" she said.

Her horn began to glow even brighter and the pain intensified. I looked to my arms and saw my skin beginning to boil. The same happened over my legs and torso.

"Goodbye Orion."

Her horn grew brighter yet and the pain intensified about three times past the pain level of when I was forced back to human form from the elements. 

I couldn't take it. it was way to overwhelming.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-"

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"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I shouted at the top of my lungs as I jolted awake. I jumped to my feet and felt someone grab my shoulder so I turned and swung as hard as I could. My fist connected with the figures face and they went sailing across the room and into the cell bars.

-ORION CALM DOWN!!!- Halex shouted at me.

'Oh thank god you're ok.' I thought to Halex.

-Yes I'm fine. But maybe you should check on Star Wind after you smashed her across the cell- he ordered me.

I looked around to where the figure I hit had landed and saw Star Wind there, rubbing her jaw.

A look of dread washed over my face as I realized what I had done.

"Star, Shit. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it" I said frantically as I helped her up.

"I-It's ok. I should have seen that coming with how much you were thrashing" she said stumbling to her hooves. "Just what was that nightmare about anyway?"

I shuddered at the thought of the memory. "I'll save you the drama" I said as I looked around. That's when I noticed that we were in a prison cell with walls made of some black material I could not identify instead of bars. I looked back to Star and saw that she was not wearing her armour that she had on before and she had cuts and bruises all over her. "Where are we?" I asked.

As I looked Star, the look of her injuries made me subconsciously reach back to where I had been hit on the head. Only, it was perfectly fine. I quickly checked my hands and my elbow to see that the injuries I had at those locations were healed as well.

-Well at least they let you keep your clothes on- Halex said.

'Yeah. But what healed me?'

-Just look behind you.- I did as Halex said as my gaze fell upon Star. -That's right. She healed you in her weird way.-

I did NOT know how to feel about what I had just found out. I had been licked multiple times by a girl, but that girl was a pony. And a pony with fangs mind you.

"Uh... Star? Did you lick my wound's again?" I asked.

"Yes, now please don't talk about it" she answered quickly.

"Why not?"

"I am aware of how awkward it seems. 'Hey I got an injury. Can you lick it to heal it?'" she explained before saying the last part with sarcasm. "You have no idea how many stallions try and use that as a pickup line. It's so frustrating."

Sensing the anger emitting from her voice, I decided to drop the subject.

"So where are we?" I asked, hopeing Star would know.

"I don't know. You were knocked out by a zebra and then multiple of them jumped out and overpowered me and tied me up before blindfolding me. When the blind fold was removed from my face, we were in here. Well you weren't but they brought you in about 20 minutes after" she explained.

My hand went straight to my lower right leg pocket. Thankfully, the PDA was still in there.

-That and whatever they did to you in those 20 minutes has actually given me a boost in strength. In about a week, you should be able to transform back into your Hybrid form.-

'Are you serious?' I asked Halex as a smile grew on my lips.

-Yep. That is given that nothing happens where I need to prematurely use your abilities again.-

I sighed as I sat up against the far wall from the door.

"What are you happy about!?" Star asked in an angry tone.

I gestured for Star to come over to me and sit next to me and she did. I pulled the PDA out of my pocket.

"I'm just glad that they didn't take this thing" I told her in a hushed voice. That wasn't all, but she didn't need to know that.

She tilted her head in confusion. "What the hay is it?" she asked at the same level of volume.

"Remember how I said I wasn't going to tell you about my race and what they did?" I asked. She looked to me and nodded once. "I found this after I ran from Canterlot. It's called a personal data assistant, or PDA for short. This thing has most of the answers to the questions that your kind wants to ask me in it. And I'm glad that they didn't take it because there is things that could easily shift the balance of power against any unsuspecting country" I explained. Her eyes lit up. "And no. I'm not going to show you anything in it. I got nothing against you, but you work with the ponies that want to squeeze me for as much information as they can get from me before doing god-only-knows-what to me."

"Cant you at least tell me one small thing? please?" she begged. She tried to do the puppy do eyes thing, but it didn't work properly with cat irises. 

But I decided to throw her a bone.

"Alright fine" I said as I took a deep breath. I looked at her and my mind came to one thing that I thought would be great. "I'm guessing that by the colour of your armour that you had, you are supposed to represent the princess of the night. Luna right?" I asked and she nodded again. "I'm not going to tell you how. or even tell Luna this, but humans HAVE landed on the moon."

She just sat there with a neural expression, Not even blinking. I poked her in the shoulder and she toppled over, still not doing anything.

-I think you broke her- Halex said.

'Yeah whoops.'

I grabbed her shoulders and shook her back to consciousness. When she came to, her eyes were as wide as their sockets. Seeing this made my put my hands up and back away.

I shook my head and place the PDA back into my pocket and zipped it up again. Before looking as Star again.

She still had that look in her eyes, but at least she was blinking now.

The door to the cell we were in unlocked and Star shook her confusion before getting up and looking to the door. I just rested my eyes.

"Well you two have been busy" came a voice from the door that was all to familiar.

"Lieutenant Iron Defence sir. I can explain" Star said. I looked up and almost shat myself.

"Gah! What the fuck!" I shouted when my eyes rested upon the... thing... that stood in front of me.

"What's your problem?" the thing said looking to me. I didn't answer it. I just continued to look the thing over.

It had smooth black chitin armour, big blue eyes, a curved horn and fly-like wings. It took me a moment, but I remembered that Celon told me about these thing.

Fuck. What were they called again? I put my hand to my forehead as I racked my brain for the answer.

"Anyway. Star Wind, I want you to come with me" said the creature.

"Yes sir-"

"CHANGELING! That's what you're called. You're a damn changeling!" I said loudly while jumping to my feet.

This caused the changeling to stop in shock while Star just looked between me and her Lieutenant.

"How could you tell?" the changeling asked me.

"How could I not!? you look like a bug pony for crying out loud. It's not that hard" I said to him.

"But I pulled of a perfect disguise. How could you see through it?" asked the changeling while green flames whooshed over him for no apparent reason. This caused Star to shriek and jump behind me and use me as a shield against the changeling.

"What was the point in that green flame?" I asked.

"I just transformed back into my true from" he said in a 'Duh' sort of tone.

-Just a heads up. I think you can naturally see through their disguises.-

'Oh.'

"So what now?" I asked.

The changeling opened his mouth to speak, but before he could, another changeling entered the room. She was much larger than the other one. She also had green, cat-like eyes. Her mane and tail were a shade of blue I could not describe.

"I am Chrysalis. Queen of the changelings." The sound of her voice made me tense. It sounded weird. "And you are something that I have never seen before."

"Yeah. I get that a lot these days. It's kind of frustrating being the last of my kind" I said sighing.

Chrysalis walked up to me and placed a hoof on my face and looked me over.

"Well perhaps I could help you" she suggested while lighting up her horn and causing my vision to turn green. But my vision quickly turned back to normal after a quick jolt throughout my body.

-I'm going to say this once bitch. Stay the fuck out of my host's head!- Halex shouted.

Chrysalis quickly recoiled back from me.

"You. You have an entity living within you!" She shouted

"What!?" both the changeling and Star shouted simultaneously.

"Great. You had to just go and tell the world didn't you!" I shouted while throwing my hands up in the air.

"But how is that thing inside you without your body destroying itself?" Chrysalis asked.

-We are of one being. Without me, Orion would not be able to live. But thanks to the 'Element's of Harmony', my mind has been discontented from his and we are now two consciousnesses in one body- Halex said through my mouth. When he did, my voice even sounded darker just like his.

"Halex, will you let me do the talking?" I asked him out loud.

-Alright fine- he said in my mind again.

"Thank you" I said before turning back to Chrysalis. "So, why are we prisoners?"

"We were going to trick you and harvest love from you, but you kind of ruined that. So I guess that you are of no more use to us" she said.

She lit up her horn but I charged at her, rolled over her back while grabbing her horn and pulling her to the ground with me, still with a firm grip on her horn. and my other arm around her neck.

"You try anything, I'll break this thing off and cut you open with it" I threatened while applying a small amount of pressure to her horn by bending it slightly and the glow dissipated.

"Ok ok! Just please don't break my horn!" She begged.

"We will see" I said as I stood up, pulling her up with me. I had a good grip on her horn and I was going to use this to my defence as I walk out of here.

Every time I ever so slightly moved my hand on her horn she would gasp. I ignored her gasps and walked to the door, dragging Chrysalis with me.

"The smaller changeling was still in the doorway. "Move or I'll stab you with this horn as well" I threatened and he moved quite quickly. "Thanks."

I walked out of the doorway, but stopped when I remembered that I was forgetting someone. I looked back to Star and gestured for her to follow me and she quickly trotted up beside me.

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I had been dragging the Changeling queen through, what I presumed was her home, for about 28 minutes now, and I was beginning to get angry.

"HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET OUT OF THIS PLACE!!!" I shouted as I continued to drag her. Even Star looked frustrated at the fact that we were lost. It wasn't my fault that everywhere looked identical to another place. 

"*HISS* Just turn left here and then take another let then a right" Chrysalis said through a hiss and a pant.

"And why should I trust you?" I asked.

"Because I want you to let me go. You have no idea what this is doing to my mind" She said through clenched teeth.

I looked down to her face and saw she had a blush upon her cheeks. I turned to Star and saw that she too was blushing.

"Star? Why are you and the queen here blushing?" I asked confused.

"Um... Touching a horn is... uh... an act of... ... ... love." she squeaked out.

My eyes opened in shock as I realized where I had my hand located for the past half hour.

I let go of Chrysalis and her horn and she let out a long moan as she slumped to the floor. I then remembered that I had flicked Luna's horn as well.

I quickly spat on my hands and rubbed them together before I rubbed the vigorously on my pants. I then grabbed Star's hoof and sprinted in the directions that Chrysalis had told me to go.

And to my surprise, I was out side within a minute. Except I was in the middle of a desert.

"Star! Where the hell are we?" I asked.

"Somewhere in the bad lands. That's all I know" She said.

"Alright. Sorry for shouting" I apologized.

She turned to me. "It's alright. I understand how weird th-" She stopped for a second. "ORION! WATCH OUT!" she shouted.

I turned around and was tackled by Chrysalis who instantly had her magic around my arms and legs to hold me still.

She stood over me, still with her blush, smirking at me. She then drove her head forwards, smashing her lips against mine and forced her snake like tong into my mouth.

I could feel that tounge of hers roaming around my mouth, exploring as much as it could. and it even wend down my throat a few times.

I looked to the side and saw Star get swarmed by 4 changelings and they all started to beat her up. I wanted to help her, but I was being kissed by the queen of the changelings.

But then something started to happen.

At first, I wanted to throw up. But as the kiss from Chrysalis went on, I could feel my disgust fading away. As disturbing as it was, it actually felt nice. So I slowly began to return the gesture.

-Orion! You must resist! She is beginning to...- Halex shouted at me in my mind but I blocked him out.

I opened my eyes to look at Chrysalis. Her horn was glowing and it had little green hearts appearing for a brief moment before fading.

I felt my mind beginning to slip. I didn't have a care in the world at the moment.

"That's it Orion. Let go of all your doubts. Let me sooth your mind. Let me control it! You're mine now!" Chrysalis said in an evil voice in my head.
Next thing I know, my body goes numb.

"NO!!!"

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(Perspective change: Halex)

"NO!!!" I shouted.

I took over Orion's body for his own good. So for now, it was MY body. I knew what I was about to do was dangerous. But it had to be done.

I sent out a shadow shock wave and blew the queen off of me. I then began to try and transform into MY form.

I gritted my teeth in pain as I watched the black scales begin to slice their way through the skin of Orion's body and long claws began to protrude from the fingertips. I looked down to my legs and watched then reform into reverse joint legs and have scales cut through the skin there as well while the feet turned into paws, ripping the pants, boots and socks at the same time.

Last but not least, Orion's head.

I felt a large amount of pain rocket to my mind as I had managed to elongate the face, grow the horns and scales.

The transformation was complete.

I lay there panting for a moment. Transforming was a lot more difficult than it should have been, but I managed to get it done.

I pushed myself up off the ground and to my paws that I now had for feet while rubbing my head with the palm of my claw. I then stretched a few joint's before looking around.

I saw Chrysalis was awestruck while Star Wind look mortified.

I put my claw on my stomach and closed my eyes while taking a deep breath. I searched myself to see what abilities I could use.

Barely anything. I was still not strong enough to use my powers. Probably because I used all of it on transforming.

"Orion?"

I opened my eyes and saw Star Wind laying there on the ground, with those changelings on her. She looked scared.

I walked over to her, causing the changelings to scurry off her and back away in fear. As I reached Star, I stood above her and looked down at her. She shook in fear.

I looked to the changelings that did this and stepped over Star toward's them. I opened my claws and began to jog toward's them.

"I'm going to make you pay for this!" I shouted as I ran at them

As I reached the first of the seven, I swiped at him, severing his head clean off before I leapt at another before snapping his horn of and slitting his throat with it.

I looked behind me and spotted one of the changelings beginning to run so I threw the horn I had like a throwing knife and it stuck in the back of his head, killing him instantly while I sprinted at the last one and drove my claw down hit throat and pulled out his heart.

I turned to Chrysalis and began to walk to her, crushing the heart in my claw as I did. I stood over her and she quivered from watching her drones get destroyed.

I reached down to her and grasped her horn, pulling her up to eye level while squeezing. she had tears in her eyes.

"You brought this upon yourself" I said menacingly.

*SNAP*
> Chapter 13: Over reacting.
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Chapter 13

*SNAP*

Chrysalis fell to the ground, but her horn remained in my claw. She began to writhe in pain but I didn't care.

I turned her horn over in my hand. As I inspected it, it looked as if someone had shot it a few times with a gun years ago and it just healed wrong.

I pocketed the horn and walked over to Star. She was shaking violently so I just knelt beside her and lightly patted her on the head. This caused her to look at me and when she did, I held out my other claw for her to take.

"It's ok Star Wind" I said to her. She looked back and forth between my eyes and my claw a few times before finally and gingerly placeing her hoof in my claw. I smiled down at her and helped her up to her hooves.

"What happened to you Orion?" she asked.

"I'm not Orion. I'm Halex. Orion is still somehow being mentally influenced by Chrysalis's magic. I just have suppressed him until I can find a way to break her hold on him" I said as I turned back to look at Chrysalis. She had stopped screaming and was sitting while she had her right forehoof rubbing the stump where her horn once connected to, crying as she did so.

"Can you fly?" I asked Star.

She gave her wings a few test flaps before she attempted to take off, but her left wing cramped and she fell back down to the ground. I walked over to her and helped her back up before turning my back to her.

"Climb on" I told her.

"Why?"

"Because I'm going to carry you to Canterlot on my back."

Star looked wearily at me before she carefully climbed onto my back and wrapped her fore hooves around my shoulders.

"What about her?" Star asked while pointing to Chrysalis.

I pulled the changeling queen's horn out of the pocket of Orion's ripped pants and showed it to Star. "If she wants this back, she has to release Orion right now" I said before pocketing it again.

"I *SNIFF* I can't. I need my *SNIFF* horn to reverse the magic *SNIFF*" Chrysalis sobbed out.

"Are you serious?"I asked while facepalming. She nodded. "Well I guess you're coming too" I said as I walked over and picked her up in a headlock.

"You can't bring a changeling to Canterlot!" Star shouted to me. "For that matter, YOU can't just show up yourself. That would be like 'Hey. I wan't to be turned to stone now!'"

"Yeah well, Orion wants to have a talk to your beloved princess as it is, but he can't do that until he is no longer under this one's control" I said as I shook Chrysalis.

"What's he want to talk about?" Star asked.

"Technically, stolen property and other things" I dodged. She was better off not knowing. But it wasn't a lie either.

"Alright fine. Lets go" she groaned.

I nodded once and took off from the ground with Star on my back and Chrysalis in my arms, and flew in the direction Star pointed out.

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A few hours later, we had almost arrived at our location. I could see it in the distance.

But because I transformed prematurely, I was feeling run down and needed to land before I dropped. So I did. I touched down in a small paddock before letting Star off my back.

"Hey? Are you alright?" Star asked.

"Just feeling a bit exhausted from transforming before fighting. I wasn't supposed to use my powers yet, but I had no other choice. I had to save Orion from this one and himself" I explained while looking back down to Chrysalis. She was just sitting there with an embarrassed look on her face as I still held her in the headlock. 

"What's the matter Chrissy? I'm sure if you ask Celestia politely enough, she'll glue your horn back on" I said sarcastically.

"You don't get it. This is the most humiliating thing I have ever had to go through" she said as she began to sob.

"Aww. That's too bad" I said in a caring voice before I snarled and continued to drag her along.

We continued on foot to Canterlot. It didn't take long to reach the path that led up the mountain, but as we reached the bottom, my stomach rumbled.

Star looked to me and giggled, which actually surprised me to say the least.

"Wait here. I'll run ahead and bring back something to eat" she said before galloping off up the mountain.

I looked around as I sat down, pushing Chrysalis down next to me.

We sat there in silence for a few minutes. I was observing my surroundings and Chrysalis was just lying there, eyeing me cautiously.

I pulled Chrysalis's horn out of my pocket nd began to spin it around my claws.

"What are you?" asked Chrysalis.

"That depends. The being that you made out with is called a human. A creature that is even older than Celestia herself. He just wants to be alone, but Celestia's guards keep trying to hunt him down. He thinks that it's because they want our knowledge" I explained.

Her jaw dropped, just as I expected it would when I mentioned that he was older than Celestia.

"How is that possible? I'm sure that if there was a creature on all of Terra that was older than her, everypony would know about it" she said.

"Ok. For starters, the planet we are on was originally called Earth. Terra sound stupid" I grumbled. I too cant believe that Pelia changed the name of the planet.

"I'm pretty sure it was never called earth" Chrysalis said.

"Oh really? Then let me ask you this. What are the four different types of pony in this world?" I asked.

"Alicorn, Unicorn, Pegasus and... Earth... Pony?"

"Now where do you think that name came from? And I don't think that it's just a coincidence simply because the ponies on earth just so happened to NOT have wings or horns" I said as I looked away from her.

A few moments later, Star showed back up carrying a paper bag that looked like it was about to explode o her back.

She trotted up in front of us and dropped the bag on the ground causing it to rip and sill all the food items all over the ground.

"Jeez Star. We're only going to be here for a short duration" I scolded at her as I looked at the quantity of food.

She however didn't hear me as her face was already buried in what looked like a bag of potato chips.

Rolling my eyes, I just grabbed the closest thing. A sandwich. And I began to eat it, not caring what was on it.

"So. What were you talking about while I was gone?" Star asked.

"Just that what you know as Terra used to be known as Earth" I said.

"No it didn't" she said defensively

I sighed. "Then where did the name Earth Pony come from HMM?" I asked.

Star sat there for a moment, trying to think of an answer to my question as I just continued to eat my sandwich. We continued to sit in silence for the next 10 minutes.

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Half an hour later, I was dragging Chrysalis through the crowded streets Canterlot with Star following me. Many ponies gasped at the sight of the changeling queen, but when they saw that she was being dragged to the palace, they presumed that I was a good guy by going on their way as I left their sight.

'This is like Déjà vu' I thought to myself.

I reached the palace gate inside an hour because Chrysalis had stopped fighting against me. But when I approached, two royal guards held out their spears and denied me entry.

"Don't worry guys. I'm Sergeant Star Wind. I'm a royal night guard and this dragon wants to claim a bounty" Star said.

The two guards looked to each other before shrugging and moving their spears and granting us access. I nodded to the one on my right as I walked past, with Chrysalis and Star.

We walked up to the main building before Star took the lead and led me back to the throne room.

We stopped outside the massive double doors and I tried to listen to what was going on inside, but the doors were too thick and all I could hear were faint mumbles.

Star walked up to the guards outside the door and told them that she too was a royal guard and that I was here to deliver Queen Chrysalis so she could face justice.

They looked to me wearily, but granted both me Star access to the throne room and opened the doors with their magic.

'This is it' I thought to myself.

As me and Star entered the throne room, I noticed that basically all the ponies that I knew the names of where in the room.

From left to right, the order went: Rare Artifact, Iron Defence, Shining Armour, Cadence, Dee, Ceylon, Luna, Celestia, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity.

All the ponies were looking to Celestia while she was sitting on her throne. She seemed sad.

That is until her face filled with dread when she noticed me.

"YOU!?" Celestia yelled said in a menacing tone.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm still alive and that you thought I died, but we can get to that later. I have more important business right now." I said before tossing Chrysalis into the middle of the group and then pulling out her horn. "If you want Orion to come back, you will just shut up and listen to me. This bug here has seduced him with magic and now he seems to have fallen under some sort of spell that makes her control him. It's a good thing I'm still alive otherwise he would probably be trying to kill you right now" I said as I pointed to Celestia, causing all the ponies to gasp.

"So what do you want?" asked Celestia.

"I want you to heal her horn so she can break the spell of hers. Then I believe that Orion has a few things he would like to say to you" I said as I tossed the horn to Celestia.

She caught it in her magic and looked at it before a flash of white engulfed it and it was gone.

"There, it's back on her head" she said.

I looked to Chrysalis and walked up to her and grabbed her by the neck and lifted her up again.

"You know what I want you to do. So do it already" I growled at her. Her eyes widened and her horn began to glow as a green light engulfed me before fading away.

"There. I let Orion go" she said before I dropped her back down.

'Orion? You all good?'

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(Perspective change: Orion)

I felt tired. Like I had just run non-stop for 100 days straight.

I opened my eyes and found myself floating in a black space.

"Where the hell am I?" I asked out loud. I tried to move around, but to no prevail.

I was about to give up, but the I heard something.

-Orion? You all good?-

Halex was here.

"Halex! Damn it's good to hear your voice bro!" I shouted as I looked around for him, only to see nothing but blackness. "Where the hell am I?"

-You're inside your mind. I had to suppress you there when Chrysalis tried to take over your mind- he said.

Then it all came rushing back. Waking up in the cell, talking to Star about how humans have landed on the moon, meeting the changeling before Chrysalis, using her as a shield as I escaped, finding out horns are sensitive, getting out of the stupid cave, Then the kiss.

That kiss with the snake like tounge.

I shuddered at the thought.

"So how do I get out?" I asked.

-I'll return you to your body in a second. But I have to warn you about the fact that your body is currently in the middle of the throne room of Canterlot.-

"WHAT!!!"

-It's ok. I just told Celestia that you want to say something to her.-

I took a deep breath. "Fine."

There was a bright flash and everything went white. But as the whiteness faded slowly, I could see the looks of many concerned faces looking at me.

When I could see properly, I looked to myself and saw that I was in my human form, but my shirt was non existent along with my boots and socks while my cammo pants were looking like had tried to put the legs of them into a blender and pulled them back out again.

-Your body is yours again- Halex said in my mind again.

'What the hell happened to my pants?'

-I'll tell you later.-

"Orion?"

I looked up to the source of the voice and saw all the ponies I knew. My eyes went straight to Dee and Ceylon. Dee looked relieved to see me again and Ceylon had a grin on his beak.

Those two began to come toward's me but stopped when I stepped back, their smiles disappearing as I did.

Then Celestia began to approach me. She walked right up and sat in front of me, looking at me with a neural expression.

"The entity inside of you said you have something that you wish to talk to me about. Is that true?" she asked and I nodded. "What is it you wish to speak about?"

-Don't be stupid now Orion. I want to come out of this alive.-

I gestured for her to bring her head closer to me and she did so.

"Do you really want to know?" I asked. and she raised an eyebrow.

I turned to the right and sighed.

-NO ORION DON...-

Halex didn't get to finish what he was yelling at me before I balled my right fist and brought it up into Celestia's bottom jaw faster than anyone could blink and with enough force to actually lift her of the ground and bring her down on her back with a thud about 4 metres away.

The room went deathly silent. Even hearing a pin drop at this sound level would shatter the windows in the room.

After about 10 seconds of silence, I took one step forward and pointed at her.

"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR PLAYING GENOCIDE WITH MY RACE AND BRINGING THEM TO EXTINCTION YOU COLD... HEARTLESS... MURDERER!!!" I shouted as loud as my lungs would allow without exploding in my chest.

It didn't take long after I had finished what I was yelling for the guards to wake up and spring into action. They came at me from every direction. I just stood up straight and closed my eyes as I waited for the inevitable.

All I heard was Halex say -Why?- in my mind before I felt an extreme pain explode through my whole body before I fell unconscious for what I believed to be the last time.





But as fate would have it, I wasn't done yet.


> Author's Note: End of arc one
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Alrighty then.

Chapter 13 is like the end of arc one. Or book One. Whatever you want to call it.

This is just a heads up to any and all readers that the romance part of the story should begin to pick up now.

If you have any questions, don't be afraid to PM me or leave a comment below and I will answer as best I can.

I am still looking for cover art, so if anyone could be willing to assist, or knows someone that would be willing to assist, that would be fantastic for the development of my story.

If you have any ideas, send them to me and I might end up using them for I want this fic to have a minimum of 100 000 words. So that makes me basically just under half way.

I have begun the next chapter and it should be up later tonight/ tomorrow.

Until then

i'm going to get some dinner.
> Chapter 14: Realization
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Chapter 14

"Ugh. My head" I groaned as I put my hands up to my head. As I was rubbing my temples, a thought came to my mind. I didn't know what it was, but it made me feel as if I was missing something. I opened my eyes, and noticed two claws that looked very familiar.

I quickly looked myself over.

Claw's: check
Wings: check
Tail: check
Scales, Both black and red: check
Elongated face: check
Horn's: check.

I was in my Hybrid form. The Biped form to be precise. But how?

"Wait. Shouldn't I be dead right about now?" I asked myself out loud.

"No. You're still alive. You've just been put in a condition that won't allow you to harm anyone else." Came the voice from Halex. Only, it wasn't in my head.

I perked up at the voice and I looked around the surrounding area, trying to find the source. But all I could see was black. It's like when Halex had taken over my body and suppressed me into my own mind. Only there were two being's here as well.

...


Wait. Two being's.

I looked over to where I thought I saw the two being's a second ago. and sure enough, they were still there.

Halex's as the black Hybrid form with the black smoke emitting from him and all and next to him was...

I don't know what it was.

This guy with Halex looked like a cross breed of... of... for lack of a better term: many, animals. He had two different horns on his head, one goat horn while the other was a deer antler. He had one long fang, bushy eyebrows, a goatee and a snakes tongue. And that was just his head. Down his long neck, he had a short... mane of sorts, a red fury body, one lion arm with paw and the other arm was like a gryphon's. He had two wings, one bat and the other pegasus. His legs were also non matching. One was a lizards and the other was a goat's hind leg. And on the end of him was a dragon's tail with pink spines and a tuft of white fur on the tip.

What creeped me out the most was his eyes. They were yellow with red pupils. And said eyes were looking straight at me.


"What is he?" I asked Halex while pointing at the, what I presumed was a chimera.

"I am disco-" he began to speak, but I cut him off.

"I don't care who you are. I asked what you are" I said.

"His name is Discord. He's what the ponies call a draconequus" Halex informed me.

"Oh. I thought he was a chimera, with all the different body parts and all" I said. I looked around into the darkness again. "Where the hell are we anyway?"

"That depends" Discord said appearing next to me. "The question is, do you want to know where it is that you can see, or where you actually are?" he asked.

"Give me both answers" I said bluntly.

"Well, what you see around you is your mind. Here, you can make anything you want happen. But your body in reality is in the Cantelot gardens, now made of stone" he said as a statue of me appeared. "We could have left you to look out of the eyes of your body for however long you will be like this, but your pal Halex and I thought it would be a great idea to bring you to the party as well."

I looked to Halex and smiled to him. But that smile turned to a look of confusion as he was making his way over to me.

When he got to me, he punched me in the gut hard enough to hurt me through my scales and forcing me to keel over.

"That's what you get for being stupid! I told you not to, but you went and punched Celestia in the face anyway!" Halex shouted at me.

"Wait? He actually punched her in the face?" Discord asked before falling over into a laughing fit. "I can't believe that anyone was as stupid as me to actually go ahead and do it" he said between breaths as he just continued to laugh.


I stood up, still clutching my stomach. "Yeah well. If she and her stupid mom didn't go and kill off my race, I might have been kinder toward's her" I said.

This made Discord stop laughing instantly.

"You're a Human!?" he shouted as he flew up and inspected me closely. I tried to grab him to throw him away but he *poofed* to the other side of me each time I tried.

"Kind of. Halex here is my power but we were hit with the Element's of Harmony and it split him from my mind. I was the only human that was born with these abilities" I explained. "But that's... that's... I'm sorry how do I get back to the veiw of my body? I can't help but feel I'm being watched."

"This is your mind. Just will it and it will happen" Discord said.

I closed my eyes for a moment and concentrated. When I opened my eyes, all I saw was white.

"Mares and Gentlecolts! I am here to present a new edition to the royal gardens. Under this sheet is a creature known as a human!" Shouted Luna's voice before the sheet was removed from the statue of me. When it was, I saw a sea of ponies, all wearing either a suit or dress. Luna was standing with her back to me as she addressed the crowd. "This Human was given a chance at making a new life here in Equestria, but he instead turned this offer against us. He is not evil, just confused. But in his confusion, he has hurt my sister both physically and mentally. Henceforth, he has been turned to stone before you to protect all of our subjects and himself."

I scoffed. 'Confused? Fuck you Luna! I knew what I was doing!' I tried to shout only to remember that I was made of stone and technically not even breathing let alone being able to shout.

He was found with a device in his possession that one of my guards said contained much of his race's knowledge. As we speak, Mr Rare Artifact, Curator of the Canterlot museum is working with a team to try and unlock the secrets of said device, but it seems to be protected by some sort of security protocol and will not allow any to access it" Luna continued.

'Man am I glad that only I can unlock it' I thought to myself. I had set a long-ass password on the thing and I guarantee no one, and I mean no one aside from me and Halex in the world today would know what that password means.

Anyway.

"This Gala tonight has been hosted in hopes of raising bits to further fund the dig where the Human was originally found. We hope you consider this proposal to bring back the knowledge of a lost race to further teach younger generation. Thank you." Luna said before she was applauded and walked off the stage that was in front of me.

As Luna walked back into the palace, some of the crowd walked up onto the stage to get a better look at me.

I just concentrated and went back into my mind where Halex and Discord were playing poker.

"Ugh. They are holding this stupid gala as a fund raiser to try and find out more about humans" I groaned as I spawned a chair out of nowhere and sat down at the table.

"You want in?" Halex asked while gesturing to the cards.

"Nah." I said as I dropped my head onto the table with a thud. I looked to Discord. "Hey, If this is MY mind, how the hell are you here?"

"My statue is only a few feet from yours. I have just enough power to be able to project myself in your mind" he said.

"Oh. And what's your story?" I asked.

"Do you want to know why I'm in here for the first time or the second?" he retorted.

"Second? You have gotten out of your stone prison before?"

"Yeah. I am the god of chaos. One day some foals began to fight right outside of my statue and that gave me enough strength to crack the stone and break free." he said.

"God of chaos. You probably wouldn't like the Element's of Harmony then would you?"

"My dear boy. Without the Element's, I would not exist" he said. This caused me to lift my head back up from the table.

I looked to Halex and saw that he was as intrigued as I was.

"How so?" I asked.

"Millions of years ago. Princess Pelia and her daughter Celestia wanted 'Perfect Harmony'. They tried to use the Element's of Harmony for every little problem that presented itself. This however caused up a back build of chaotic energy, and thus I was born," Discord explained. I felt like laughing at the Princess's misfortune so I spawned a cup of tea and began to sip at it. "Soon after Luna was born, I enslaved all of pony kind and used my power to gain vengeance for the human race and tricked Celestia into killing her own mother before making her my own personal puppet."

This sentence ended up making me inhale the teacup into my mouth and I began to choke on it.

I dropped onto all fours and began to slam at my chest, trying to cough up the tea cup. Even Halex looked disgusted at the comment. And he was the guy that once ripped a kid in half just because that kid was beating me up.

I coughed up the teacup finally after about a minute of trying to dislodge it from my throat and then looked up at Discord with the darkest glare I could. Halex was doing the same.

"What?" Discord asked. "I told them that if they hadn't killed of the humans and let them actually FINISH the Harmony Device. They would have been fine."

"How do you know of the humans making the Harmony device?" I growled at him.

"I was made by pure chaotic energy from the device itself. I know all about them" Discord said as he began to back away while Halex and I moved in at a threatening pace.

Halex snarled at him in an animalistic way while he opened his claws from fists and it made that cool sound that pulling a sword from a sheath makes.

"Get out of here" Halex said in the most menacing voice I had ever heard. It even gave me the chills. Discord disappeared in a flash.

Halex then turned to glare at me. 

"Alright! I shouldn't have hit her in the face!" I yelled as I turned my back to him and sat down.

He walked over to me and slapped me upside the back of the head. "Yeah! I told you not to do anything stupid. Did you even think that there was a reason behind why she wanted to give you a chance?" He asked as he sat beside me.

"No." I said dejectedly.

"Look. I didn't know why at the time, but I knew that there was a reason for Celestia giving you a chance. I think that after she helped kill the human, at which I think that she didn't know any better at the time, she regretted it. When she looked into your mind after we were split. I sensed an overwhelming amount of emotion in her heart. She felt that, with your help, she could ease the sins of her past" Halex said to me.

I had no idea that he was capable of such scalding skills. He was guilt tripping me and it was working hardcore.

I felt a single tear escape my eye.

What had I done.

I had punched someone in the face that had only tried to right their wrongs. Celestia was just trying to be the better pony. Better than her mother at least.

Halex was right, she grew up with fighting humans, how could she have known it was wrong.

Then Discord made her kill her own mother. That is probably the worst thing she could have gone through, and I made it worse by hitting her.

I closed my eyes and tensed my body to stop it from shaking.

"Perhaps if we ever see her again, you should apologize to her. Let her know that you had no idea what she had to go through over her-" Halex began to suggest, but I cut him off.

"NO! "When" I see her again, I will make sure to say that I am sorry. No one should have to go through what she went through, no matter what she did!" I shouted

I need to get out of this prison right now. There is something I must do.

I clenched my eyes shut and returned my conciseness back to my body. I tensed every muscle in my body as much as I could. My strength felt like it was sky-rocketing.

I opened my eyes and saw a white glow, blazing from my stone body. I could see all the ponies backing up in fear as I continued to glow brighter.

"You!" one of the guards shouted while pointing to another. "Go and get the Element bearers. Tell them that they are needed NOW!"

"Yes sir!" said the other guard before galloping off into the palace.

"ARGH!" I groaned loudly as I tried even harder to move.

A few seconds later of me trying my absolute hardest to break free from the prison I was in, I felt the stone that encased me begin to crack all over. It was now or never

-Go for it Orion!- Halex shouted to me in my mind. I didn't need to be told twice.

With one final burst of strength, I exploded out of the stone that once encased me while throwing my arms out to the sides and letting out an actual roar that sounded like a lions.

A few seconds later I was still in the tensed position with my arms out to the side. I looked around and saw that I was in my Hybrid form, but my entire body was glowing a really bright white and was letting of steam.

"Over there! HURRY!" someone shouted.

I looked in the direction of the voice and saw Twilight and her friends, all with their respective Elements. 

They looked in my direction and gasped, but soon after turned and got ready.

I too changed position into a fighting stance. I knew exactly what they were going to do, even before they did.

They all levitated of the ground and... blah... blah... blah... Oh look a rainbow beam coming at me.

I threw both my arms forwards and the beam collided with my claws with enough force to cause a shock wave that sent every pony besides the Twilight and her friends back about 50 metres.

I held the beam there for about 10 seconds, but I began to feel it rip my strength out of me.

"NO!!!" I shouted as I allowed my elbows to bend beside me before I forced back with as much energy as I could.

When my arms reached their full extension, I watched as this bright white beam of light forced the rainbow one back faster than it came at me and causing a mid air explosion.Thankfully, it was in the air and no one was hurt.

But I wasn't done just yet.

I thrust my arms at Twilight and the others before turning my palms to me and pulling back to my chest and then extending my arms out to the side again.

This motion caused the Element's to fly off their owners and shoot at me.

I don't know how I knew, but as they made contact with my body, I knew what each one was.

The first one was Laughter. It collided with my right leg and encased said leg in golden armour. Generosity did the same to my left leg.

Kindness collided with my right arm and encased it in armour like honesty did with left arm.

Loyalty was the one that hit me square in the chest and covered my torso, wings and tail.

Magic was the final one. It landed right between my eyes and soon covered my head in an opened faced helmet.

I let out a yell as I felt the power the Harmony Device gave me. It felt so good but so right.

After about 20 seconds of yelling, I stopped and lowered my arms back down to my sides before looking around.

All the ponies were looking at me wide eyed. like I was a mountain of gold of something. They just didn't want to believe it.

I looked myself over and admired the cool looking armour that now adorned me. I also noticed that I had stopped glowing and was back to my normal Black scaled Hybrid form.

-Orion. We have a job to do- Halex said.

I stopped looking over myself and began to walk toward's the palace. As I entered the doors, one guard named Nova Shine (How I knew that?) stepped in my was shakily. I just looked to him and he moved out of the way.

"Thank you" I said as I walked past him.

As I was walking through the palace, I walked past Princess Luna who wore a look of shock on her face.

But then again, so did everyone else.

Princess Luna began to follow me, trying to see if I was really real. Her doing this made some of the ponies outside also follow me as I made my way through the palace. I don't know how but I just knew where I was going. I felt as if I had been here before.

I made my way up yet another flight of stairs and to a hallway with only two doors in it. One door had Princess Luna's cutie mark on it and the other had the well known sun cutie mark of Princess Celestia on it.

I stood in front of the door that led to Celestia's chambers and placed a claw on it.

'You ready for this Halex?'

-By your lead Orion.-

I pushed the door open and stepped into the room.

"Luna, I thought I told you I want to be alone" came the voice of the Alicorn that was lying on the bed. I just stood there.

After a moment, she finally turned her head in my direction and her eyes widened when she gazed upon me.

My heart sank.

Her eyes were red and she had tear stains underneath them. But thats not what my eyes locked on to.

On her lower right jaw, there was a black fist mark from where I had brought my fist into her face. I felt a tear leave my eye as I looked at the mark so I closed my eyes to catch my resolve.

I heard the sound of her scurry to her hooves and the sound of her horn lighting up. I opened my eyes and she fired a magic bolt at me, but I just knocked it away like it was nothing.

I began to walk toward's her and she fired another magic bolt at me. That one got knocked away as well.

As I made my way closer and closer, she fired bolt after bolt at me, all with none making contact.

As I made it in front of her, she drooped her head.

"Please, Just make it quick" She asked.

I looked at her for a moment longer just waiting for the right moment.

She looked up to me with a quivering lower lip. That's when I made my move.

I lifted my arms up and she clenched her eyes shut, just waiting for the blow to end it all.

She however, would not die by my hand.

I slowly wrapped my arms around her neck and she tensed. I expected her to, but I pulled her more into the hug anyway.

"I am... SO... sorry Princess."
> Chapter 15: Apologies and Stalkers
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Chapter 15

I continued to hug Princess Celestia for many minutes. She was still tensed and shaking, but she was slowly was beginning to ease up. She sat down while still in the embrace and rested her head on my shoulder while I began to stroke the back of her neck and she began to sob. I just held her tight as she did.

I heard the gasps of may ponies behind me, but I didn't care right now.

Eventually, Celestia began to pull back and I released her from the hug. My eyes fell upon the bruise that adorned her jaw and I was filled with sad emotions again.

I carefully moved my claw up to the bruise and gently covered it with my palm before focusing my energy through my claw and into Celestia the same way I did to Dee when she was injured. I felt the lump of the bruise sink back down.

When I removed my claw again, the bruise was gone and the color had returned back to its normal white color instead of being green and black.

I stood up from Celestia and pulled the helmet from my head. When it came free, it reverted back into the tiara that Twilight had on her head before. I placed it on a table in Celestia's room and began to take off the rest of the Elements of Harmony.

As I pulled of each piece of the armour, they returned back to the how they looked earlier that night and I felt the strength that they gave me leave my body as more and more of the armour came free.

After I got the final leg piece off, I felt my body convert back to my human form, but this time was painless. I could still transform back and forth now, but I didn't need to be in my Hybrid form right now. I tuned and looked to Celestia and smiled to her before looking back down to the Elements on the table.

"How did you break free of the stone?" I heard Celestia ask from behind me. I didn't answer as I just continued to look at the Elements.

She came up behind me and put a hoof on my shoulder and turned me around to face her. She still had a hurt expression on her face, but she did have a little curl in her lip now.

"I know what you did to the my race, and I must say that I was offended by the very idea of such a thought." I said, causing that little curl to vanish. "But I know now that you were only doing what your told you to do, and that you didn't know any better. Discord told me what he made you do and why. I know that you had no choice in the matter and here I come and hit you in the face, thinking that you never had been punished for your atrocities that you caused."

She lowered her head as she began to tear up again. I spotted one of the tears roll down her cheek, so I pulled her into an embrace again.

"I'm sorry. You were just trying to be different to what you were all those years ago, and I just threw back in your face. So if I learnt anything since I realized the truth, it's that I should be sorry and not been so quick to judge your intentions." I finished my speech.

I let go of Celestia, but she didn't let go of me. I didn't even realize her place her hooves around me.

"And I'm sorry too. I should have told you from the beginning what happened. And I'm *SNIFF* sorry about what I did in the past. I know I can't ask you to forgive me, but if you will allow it, I would like it if we could be friends." She said as she lifted her head from my shoulder.

"I guess we could give it a try" I said and she looked at me and smiled.

Celestia hugged me for a moment longer before she released me from the embrace and turned toward's the apparent crowd that had gathered outside of her chambers.

"My subjects. Please return to the gathering outside. I will be along momentarily." Celestia said for the crowd to hear. Soon after, they began to slowly dissipate from the overly cramped hallway.

Celestia gestured for me to follow her before she left her room and I quickly caught up to her. We walked through the castle for a few minutes until we reached the door to another room.

"This will be your room Orion" Celestia stated while opening the door with her magic. I took a step inside and my eyes opened in shock before a look of confusion washed over my features.

"Uh...Celestia? This room seem like it's fit for royalty, of which I am not." I said looking around the massive room.

The room had a bed that was bigger than my entire room that I had when I was being studied by the scientists from my time.

There was a desk that looked like it was made of well patterned Mahogany and looked really expensive, a smaller round table in the middle of the room with two couches that also looked very expensive, there was like 10 bookshelves all holding like 100 books, and finally, there were 2 doors that led to god-knows-where and another set of glass doors that led to a balcony.

"Yes. This is one of the finest guest rooms in the castle. I thought it might be nice that you have somewhere to stay, and we have enough space in this palace for you." She said.

"Yeah, It is nice. But this room is huge. Don't you have like... a closet sized room that I could use?" I asked with sarcasm.

"If it makes you feel any better, that door there leads to a closet." she stated while pointing to one of the two doors and Giggling. "Please enjoy your stay. We will talk again in the morning." She said as she shut the door to the room I was in.

"NO, Wait!" I shouted as I ran to the door and opened it, only to find and empty hallway. Sighing, I closed the door and began to explore the room.

I walked up to the door that I had no idea about and opened it.

Inside was a personal bathroom just smaller than the bedroom itself. It had a bath that was more like a swimming pool. 

I shook my head and pulled my head out of the bathroom before making my way to the door that Celestia said was a closet. I opened that door and found that it was basically another room with shelves and coat rack's all over the walls. But there was no clothing in sight anyway.

This thought made me look down to me ruined camo pants and sigh. I was going to need new clothes VERY soon.

I began to walk toward's one of the bookshelves, but was cut off by a knock at the door. I made my way to the door and opened it to find a white unicorn stallion with a black mane and wearing a waiters suit standing outside.

The unicorn jumped a bit as his eyes fell upon me before regaining his composure. "Can I take your order sir?" he asked while levitating out notepad and pen.

I looked at him in confusion. "I'm sorry?" I asked.

"Your order sir? I was informed that you had not yet had supper. Breakfast, lunch and supper are complementary in this palace, should you require them." he said.

"Oh, well I don't really know what there is." I informed him. 

"Not to worry sir." he said as he levitated out a menu to me.

-You should ask how the steak is.- Halex said.

"How is the-" I stopped myself just in time. 'You're an asshole Halex!' I shouted to him in my mind. 

He just began to laugh.

As I looked over the foods on the menu, I couldn't help but notice that it only had vegetarian foods that seemed to be suited to ponies. I guess I was going to have to ask.

"Do you have anything that dosn't have flowers, grass or hay in it?" I asked hopefully.

"You could just have the salad, sir." recommended the waiter-pony.

"That is what I shall have. Thank you." I said. I wasn't really happy about the terrible choice, but it wasn't his fault. No one knows that I'm an omnivore.

"Good. sir, I shall return with your order soon sir" He said, as he began to trot off, I called out to him.

"Wait! Can I please get a pitcher of water and a glass with that too?" I asked.

"Of course, sir." he said as he left.

I retreated into my room and closed the door behind me. I walked over to the bed and sat down on it while putting my hands over my face.

"Either things went so much better than I hoped they would, or I'm dreaming" I said to myself out loud.

-Yeah. Your apology went a little too well if you ask me.-

'I honestly don't care that much though. I more worried about the whole 'living in a palace and with royalty that I king hit not so long ago' problem. I hit the princess for crying out loud. Celestia may have forgiven me, but what about all the other ponies.'

-What do you mean?-

'They don't know why I punched her. So, to them I most likely attacked Celestia because I'm evil.' I said to Halex with a sigh.

-And now you're worried about an uprising?-

'More like an attempted assassination.-

-Well now that we are back to full strength, I will keep and eye open for you.-

'Thanks man.'

I sat there for a few minutes, just thinking to myself how comfortable the bed I was currently sitting on was. I removed my hands from my face and looked down to the bed. I placed a hand on the bed and felt the velvet like softness of the sheets.

I was disturbed from caressing the sheets by a knock at the door again. I got up and made my way to the door and opened it again.

It was the waiter-pony again, except he was levitating a silver platter and a pitcher of water with a glass off a tray. I stepped aside and let him enter.

He walked up to the table in the middle of the room and placed the items on it. He then bowed his head and backed out of the room and closed the door with his magic on his way out.

I rolled my eyes, opened the door again and said "thank you" to him before he left. I closed the door and made my way to the platter and moved the silver lid thingie and saw a salad that actually looked quite appetizing. I took a tomato slice from the plat with my hand and placed in gingerly in my mouth.

Words could not describe how good that single piece of tomato tasted, and it was just tomato.

Within a few seconds, I had managed to consume the entire plate of salad that should have been enough to feed four people my size.

'Well I suppose I am eating for two.' I thought to myself.

I poured myself a glass of water and chugged it down in one go.

"Well that was great!" I said to myself.

-I wouldn't know.-

'Alright sour puss. You can have next dinner.' I told Halex to keep him happy.

-I'm good with that. But what should we do now?-

I looked out the window.The moon was out and shinned brightly. The beautiful sky gave me an idea.

I stood up and transformed into my Hybrid form. I then began to walk to the balcony.

-What are you doing?-

'I really want to just go for a fly for a bit. It's been a while since I've done so.'

-I did.-

'When?'

-Not important. Just go for the fly already.-

I rolled my eyes at his stupid remark before opening the glass doors and stepping outside. I stretched my wings a bit before extending them to their fullest. I then relaxed my wings again before sprinting at the railing. Without stopping, I leapt up onto the railing and jumped off it as fast as I could.

I moved forwards for about 40 metres before gravity started to pull me down, causing me to free fall.

I fell for a few moments before I extended my wings again and rapidly changed direction back up. I began to flap my wings and I kept going up.

Eventually the palace was about 15, 000 feet below me while I just looked around the horizon. I closed my eyes as I took in a deep breath of the cold refreshing air before exhaling slowly out my mouth. I always felt great up at this altitude. But my relaxation was cut short by the sound of flapping wings.

I spun around and spotted a shiny blue stallion with a blue mane and tail panting as he tried to make his way up to me.

'Wait. That's not shiny blue fur. That looks like a latex skin suit.' I told myself.

The stallion looked at me with his green eyes, panting. I just laughed before dropping out of the sky.

I rolled myself over so my snout was pointing straight down as I continued to drop. I folded my wings to become a bit more aerodynamic. This resulted in me being shot to the ground, probably faster than a bullet.

I believe I reached the speed of Mach II. Judging by how fast the ground was coming toward's me, I needed to pull up soon.

Just before I did however, I activated a force field around myself so I could safely open my wings and not just just have them ripped off from the wind resistance I encountered.

I then began to maneuver my way through the streets of Canterlot a hellova lot faster than I should have been as I leveled out and pulled back up again.

As I cleared the building, I looked behind me and my eyes widened as I saw that the latex stallion was somehow keeping up.

I looked forwards again and poured more power into my speed and absolutely expolded away from the pursuer. As I was flying, I quickly changed directions multiple times to loose the pursuer around as many roofs, two-story buildings and chimneys. Eventually I lost him.

I landed and hid in an alley for a few minutes, but I ended up seeing him fly up above Canterlot and look in all directions in an attempt to find me me while he flew around. I just remained hidden as he did.

After about a minute of him trying to be a U.A.V., Another pony in a latex suit flew up to him.

As far as I could tell, the second pony was a mare with a fire orange mane and tail.

The second pony flew up and got, attention of the first and he flew over to her. If my skills at charades was any good, I'd assume she was explaining that she was explaining that she was angry about something and he was trying to explain that he saw me drop out of the sky and loose him in the buildings and he was then searching for me. The mare facehoofed. What I didn't expect was that she ended up joining in on the search.

At seeing her do this, I just facepalmed myself.

I looked around. I needed to get back to the palace before they find me.

-You can teleport you know.- Halex reminded me.

I facepalmed again. How the hell did I forget that.

'Oh, that's right! Thanks man.' I said as I began to concentrate.

"There he is!" Someone shouted.

I looked in the direction of the voice and saw that the stallion had spotted me and began to give chase once again, the mare hot on his trail.

I closed my eyes again and concentrated harder and soon I heard a *POP* and felt a large *WHOOSH* feeling before I felt normal again. I opened my eyes again and saw I was back in the room Celestia had offered to me. 

I sighed with relief.

'Those ponies didn't catch me, that's too bad.' I told myself as I began to make my way toward the bathroom.

I entered and shut the door before making my way over to the bath and turning on the water.

As the bath filled up, I took the only two remaining pieces of clothing I had and stepped into the warm, refreshing water and sighed again. I realized this was a feeling I hadn't felt in a long time.

I bathed myself for about 10 minutes. When I stepped out, and looked around for a towel, I couldn't find any!

'You know what!? Fuck this!' I yelled as I used my telekinesis to quickly dry myself off. It hurt my head, but nearly as much as when I teleported.

-Please warn me before you do that again. It does hurt me as well.-

I ignored Halex as I pulled my briefs back on before walking to the balcony doors, shutting them, and the curtains; before I made my way over to the bed.

When I reached the bed, I climbed in and relished in the comfort of the sheets.

'Hey Halex?'

-Yeah?-

'Who do you think those ponies were tonight?'

-How am I supposed to know?-

'Just a thought.'

-Well no. I dont't know who they were. But I doubt we have seen the last of them.-

'Yeah. This ponies in this place seem to have a habit of just not wanting letting me go, eh?'

-Yeah well. What are you going to do?-

...
...
...

-And don't even think about suicide. I won't let you do that.-

'Darn. You read my mind,' I rolled my eyes at his dumb suggestion. 'Well I'm going to go to sleep now. Talk to you in the morning.'

-Before you do, I just want to say that I think you made a great apology today. I'm happy.-

'Thanks man. Night.'

-Night.-

I closed my eyes and began to drift into a peaceful slumber.










Little did I know that I was being watched through someone's magic
> Chapter 16: Job offerings.
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Chapter 16

I opened my eyes from my peaceful slumber before sitting up and looking around. I was still in the guest bedroom of Canterlot palace so that was a plus.

I climbed out of the super comfortable bed and made my way to the bathroom and looked for my damaged camo pants. They were still near the bath, where I left them last night.

I picked them up and looked them over. these pants were once the most comfortable thing in the world. What I have in my hands is the last surviving pair, but they were so damaged that I was surprised that they were even still holding together.

I sighed as I began to pull the on over my briefs and look down at them again. I just shrugged before walking back out into the room. That's when I spotted a box on the table in the middle of the room that had 'For Orion' written on the side.

I walked over to said box and opened it up. Inside was a pair of black boots that were similar to my old ones, a few pairs of jeans, white shirts, socks and briefs. There was enough clothing in this box to last me a entire two weeks.

-Well, it's good to see that they think that you needed new clothes; which quite frankly, you did.-

'Hey! You were the one who destroyed the last set.'

-Yeah well, you would still be that bug's pet if I hadn't.-

I lowered my head when I heard Halex say that. He was right. I just gave up and took the easy way.

-Hey, chin up. I'll always have your back.-

'Thanks Bro.'

I began to change clothing From the ones I had on to a new set from the box. After I finished tying up my boots, I threw on a shirt and made my way for the door. But just as I was about to reach for the doorknob, there was a knock at said door.

I reached for the doorknob and opened the door slowly, Only to have it barged open and Rainbow Dash flying in.

"Woah! The room you got is huge!" she exclaimed before she flew over and landed on the bed.

The sound of hooves of me floor behind me made me turn around to see Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and last but not least, Rarity. All of them were looking around the room besides Rarity, she was looking straight at me.

"So you are wearing the clothes I made for you. I hoped that you would like them. I knew from your last set that you wern't a stallion of class, so I took the liberty of making you something more... 'Casual'." Rarity said as she looked me over. I could tell she wasn't happy about the 'Casual' part.

"So you made these?" I asked. "There great. But I have to ask, How did you get my size?"

"I managed to get my hooves on your other set of clothing on your last... visit, per say." she explained.

'Makes sense.' I said to myself.

"Orion?" I heard Twilight say. I turned to her and she was digging at the carpet with her hoof. "I- We just wanted to say that we are sorry if we offended you last time."

"It's ok. I still stand by what I said back then, but I'm aware that I did kind of overreact, and now Shining Armour will probably try to kill me." I said truthfully.

"Not quite. Cadence managed to talk him down and he said that he might forgive you if you apologize." Twilight said.

"Why would Cadence stand up for me if my anger was directed to her?" I asked.

"She said that you were just having an anger spike in your emotions. And no, she didn't read your mind to know that. She is an expert on emotions and can tell them apart just by looking." Twilight said.

-Yeah, if anyone tries something with your mind, I'll let you know.- Halex said to me.

"Ok, when do I have to apologize?" I asked.

"Right now. That is actually why we are here, we were going to take you to breakfast." Twilight said.

'Damn, that gives me little time to think of a decent apology. Looks like I'm going to have to make one on the run.' I thought to myself. "Alright, lets go and get this over with." I said. 

Rainbow Dash basically shot out the door leaving a rainbow trail while the rest of the ponies and myself just simply walked out.

As I left the bedroom, I closed the door and continued to follow the ponies to where it happened to be that they were leading me. And within a few minutes, we were in a hall with a large dining table in the middle.

Celestia and Luna were already at the table, sitting at its ends. I walked over and picked somewhere in the middle and ended up having to sit between Dash and Applejack. I swear Applejack was giving me a cold glare just because I was different.

We all sat at the table in silence for a few minutes before Shining Armour and Cadence walked in, sitting on the opposite side of the table to me, Shining now also giving me a cold stare.

I looked to Cadence and she was looking at me with a hopeful smile on her face.

'Well, I'll just get this out of the way quickly' I said to myself. "Shining Armour? Cadence?... Look Cadence, I am sorry about what I called you a few days ago. It was rude and uncalled for. But you must understand that I was only angry, and you manipulating my thoughts wasn't exactly something that I would like when I am in that sort of mood. I have a habit of just getting angry sometimes, and when I do, I just wish to be left alone. I hope that maybe we can forgive eachother and try again." I said with my best apology voice.

Cadence smile grew into one of happiness. Shining Armour however...

"I will forgive you on one condition." Shining said while placing his front hooves on the table and leaning toward's me.

-There is always a catch.- Halex said as I just rolled my eyes.

"In one month from tomorrow, I will be taking in another group of recruits to join the royal guard," he stated before he sat back down and pointed a hoof to me. "And I want to see you there as well."

I coughed. "ME!? Why the hell do you want me in the guard?" I asked.

"I have reasons." he said while he closed his eyes and levitated a small teacup to his mouth.

"Enlighten me." I said with a hint of sarcasm. He set the teacup back down and gave me an angry look.

"Lets start from the beginning. Reason one: The encounter where we discovered you. You managed to very quickly, and with precision I might add, disarm 5 of my best guards and beat them down so you could escape. Reason two: After you called my wife that name, you managed to not only evade all the guards that I had looking for you, but you even managed to escape the city unnoticed before being spotted going into the everfree that is next to Ponyville the next day. Reason three: When Princess Luna located you, you managed to escape her into the basement of the the ancient castle of the royal sisters. Then you managed to silently knock out three more guards that we posted in the basement as a precaution and almost get away again. That is if it wasn't for Star Wind spotting you and pursuing you, which leads me to reason four. You managed to escape a changeling hive, with their queen as a hostage, violently kill 4 changelings-" I cut him off there.

"That wasn't me. That was Halex." I said earning a burning glare from Shining.

"Even so, Halex was it, managed to save one of my guards and return her here still with Queen Chrysalis as his hostage." Shining finished.

"Oh yeah, what happened to her anyway?" I asked putting a hand to my chin and looking up.

"She is down in the dungeons for her crimes." Shining informed.

I looked back to Shining and he was still glaring at me.

"Oh come on man. I can't be a 'Royal Guard'." I said while moving the hand that was on my chin over my face.

"And why not?" He asked in his still angry tone.

"Well firstly, I'm a human being, It just wouldn't be right and make no sense. Secondly, I have a problem with authority of those who try and push me around. If you tried to give me an order, I would probably slap you hard enough to make you do a 360 on the spot." I said.

"I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter. I have already gotten Princess Celestia's permission to include you to the guard." he said while gesturing to the princess.

There was a moment of silence.

"Halex says no." I said quickly.

-No I didn't!-

'Just shut up and roll with it man, please.'

Halex just groaned in annoyance that I had brought him into this.

"He dosn't have a choice either." Shining said.

That made me gain a look of anger.

"So if I said no, what are you going to do to try and make me?" I asked while I glared back at him. He lost his glare and began to try and stutter out pointless excuses. I took a breath and calmed myself down. "Look Shining, I just don't think that it would be in your job's best interest to add me to the list." I said with closed eyes.

"But I can see you have so much potential. I believe that with a little training, you could become one of my finest soldiers." Shining pleaded. I looked at him and he looked like we really wanted me to join.

"You said it's in a month right?" I asked, receiving a nod from him. "I'll give it some thought. That dosn't mean yes, but maybe." He seemed satisfied with this.

A door to the room opened in in walked 11 waiter-ponies. They all walked around the table and placed a platter in front of everyone.

I looked at the food that had just been placed in front of me. It kind of looked weird, so did most of the prissy foods here. I picked up a fork and took a bite. It was nice, but still not as great as last nights salad.

"Do you like you dish Orion?" Celestia asked.

I swallowed my mouthful and began to speak. "Its nice. May I ask what it is called?"

Celestia smiled to me. "I know humans need the increased protein consumption compared to us ponies, so I took the liberty of ordering you a Quinoa citrus salad. It's protein rich." She explained and I felt my heart stop.

'Does she know of a human's natural diet?' I asked myself. She looked over to me and winked.

-Yeah, I think she does. Perhaps you should ask?-

'Uh... No.'

-Why not?-

'Dude seriously? That's asking to die. If Celestia knows, she hasn't told anyone and that's for a reason.'

We ate in silence for the next 15 minutes, although Pinkie basically flipped her pate and caught all of her food in her mouth in one bite and swallowed it without chewing, then kept trying to ask me questions the entire time.

She said something about throwing a party, but I said no and her hair seemed to deflate dramatically. All the ponies around the table angrily looked to me so I was kind of pressured into giving in.

Now that Breakfast was out of the way, all the ponies began to chat to eachother while I just sat there in silence.

"Orion?" came the voice of Luna.

"Hu? What?" I stuttered.

This caused all the ponies to Giggle.

"I asked how was your room last night. I notice that you snuck out last night and went for a flight." Luna said.

"Yeah well, I hadn't flown in ages, and I felt as if I needed it. Too bad it was short lived." I said.

"What do you mean?" Luna asked.

"I ended up being pursued by two pegasi in blue latex suits." I said before having Dash shove her face into into my own.

"You met the Wonderbolts!?" she yelled right into my face.

"I don't know. I saw a stallion with a blue mane trying to get to me at 15, 000 feet, so I just dropped and out flew him. I hid in an alley and he began to look for me before another mare in a blue suit got his attention and began to scold him for something. Then she too began to look for me so I teleported back and stayed in my room from there on." I explained.

"Oh! Oh! Pick me! I want to hang out with you today!" Dash shouted as she was hovering around the room with her hoof raised.

"Why would you wan't to hang out with me today?" I asked.

"Don't you see? I have been trying to get into that club for like... ever. If there interested in finding you, and I'm with you, the are sure to notice me."she said in a fangirl like voice.

"And who said they were going to find me again?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh come on. This could be my one chance. Pleeeeeease?" she begged while plopping on the ground, grabbing my hand and holding it tightly.

"And what if I don't"

"I will sit here punching you in the arm until you do." she said as she punched me in the arm once to prove it.

"Alright fine." I groaned.

"YES!" she just shouted while jumping up into the air and doing a hoofpump. She then grabbed my hand again and more or less dragged me away.

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Within minutes, Dash had more or less made me transform into my Hybrid form. Not too long after, we were in the sky. Dash was flying around, doing all kinds of stunts and tricks.

I however, was just floating there, watching her as she did. I tried to stand on a cloud like dash did when we first got up in the sky, but unlike her, I just sink through.

"Did you see that!?" Dash shouted at me.

"Yeah. it was great." I said sighing.

"Hey, what's the matter?" She asked as she landed on the cloud that was next to me

"I came out here so you could meet those ponies you so desperately wanted to meet. But here I am doing nothing and you are just flying around doing tricks and stunts. I mean... where are they?" I asked. Dash opened her mouth to say something, but I cut her off. "Anyway, I'm bored. You can do as you wish, I'm going for a fly myself."

Without warning, I shot up as fast as I could, actually managing to break the sound barrier as I did. And soon, I was at 15, 000 feet again.

It took dash a moment, but she soon reached the same altitude as me.

"How did you do that!?" She shouted at me.

"Do what?"

"Pull a Sonic Rainboom? Sure yours was black and red and not the color of a rainbow, but still!"

I went to explain that I've always been able to do it, but I was cut of by someone grabbing my leg.

"HAHA! I've got you now!" I looked down and saw the same stallion from last night was clinging to my leg, only he had a bruise on his face.

"Dude, what happened to your face?" I asked.

"After you teleported, I kind of... crashed where you were standing." he said as he trailed off.

"That's great, can I have my leg back now?" I asked with sarcasm.

"No! You're just going to run again. I can't let you do that until the captain has said what she wants to say to you." he said.

"Seriously dude? Let go or I'm going to make you." I warned. He just clinged harder.

I rolled my eyes and focused some of my energy to my hand and pulled him off with my telekinesis and held him up-side-down in mid air.

"HEY! Let me go!" he shouted as he thrashed against nothing.

I was about to speak to him, but was cut off by someone yelling.

"Let my lieutenant go right now!" I turned around and saw the fire color maned pegasus that was with this stallion last night. "This is no way for a future Wonderbolt to act in front of a superior." she said.

I looked to Dash and saw that she was just floating beside me. I looked back to the fire colored mare and saw that she was looking at me.

I dropped the stallion. "OH NO! I don't think so!" I shouted. I grabbed Dash and held her between myself and the mare. "This one would love to join your latex group" I said pointing at Dash.

I unexpectedly shot down and flew away as fast as I could. Remembering that these ponies could keep up, I just teleported back into the room that Celestia let me use during my stay.

I sat on one of the couches for about 10 minutes before I heard the unmistakable sound of someone crying. I walked up to the bedroom door and saw Dash running down the hall in tears.

'Oh god, what happened?'
> Chapter 17: Awkward hug day.
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Chapter 17

'Oh god, What happened?' I asked myself.

Dash just spirited past my room crying after just meeting her idols. I would guess that something bad has happened.

-Maybe you should go and ask?-

'Alright, I will!'

I stepped out of my room and began to walk in the direction that I saw Dash running. As I went, the sound of sobs steadily grew louder and louder until I was standing outside another door. The sobbing was coming from the other side.

I gripped the doorknob and tried to quietly open the door, only for the the handle go so far because of the lock.

I rolled my eyes and used my telekinesis to unlock the door from the outside before opening the door and stepping inside. Dash was lying on her bed, her head buried in her forehooves. I closed the door as quietly as I could, made my way over to her and sat on the bed beside her.

This caused her to look at me with wide eyes before she jumped up and swung a forehoof at my head, smacking me in the cheek and causing my head to snap to the side.

'Wow, its a good thing I'm still in my Hybrid form. I might have felt that otherwise.' I said to myself.

-Amen to that. Something tells me that she is angry with you.-

'Nah shit. Whatever gave you that idea?' I asked Halex with sarcasm.

"Get out! Get out of my room right now!" Dash yelled before she struck me in the head again.

'Alright, I'm going to give this a shot.' I said to myself.

Because I didnt move from my spot Dash reared back her hoof in an attempt to hit me again. But as she brought her hoof forwards, I caught it, spun her around so her back was to me and just hugged her while holding her still.

She began shouting, thrashing and cursing at the to of her lungs, but I was just going to hold her there like a little child until she calms down.

"YOU LIFE RUINING WASTE OF SPACE!!! ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!" she shouted as she continued to try and break free. "LET ME GO!!!"

I just ignored her and continued to hold her still until she wore herself out. It took about half an hour, but she eventually stopped fighting and just wept in my arms.

"I'm sorry Dash. Whatever I did, I swear I didn't mean to do it." I said.

She looked up to me with teary eyes. "Its all your *SNIFF* fault." she whimpered out.

"What did I do?" I asked.

"The Wonderbolts were looking for you, but you pushed me into the way and ran off. They basically looked past me as if I wasn't even there and they just flew away, leaving me there all alone." Dash sobbed out. I just held her tighter.

"Look Dash. I didn't mean for them to be like that." I said as I just held her. "I know that you really wanted them to notice you, and because of me, they didn't. I don't want you hating me Dash. I'm trying to make friends, not enemies. So if there is anything I can do for you, you be sure to let me know ok?" I said as I slowly relinquished my grip of her.

She however did not let go of my arms. She sat there hugging my arms for a minute before she finally spoke.

"You promise you will do anything?" she asked.

"What do you want? an I.O.U.?"

"Do it. Write up and I.O.U. for me so I can hold that promise to you." she said before she flew over to the desk, dragging me with her and passing me a piece of paper and a quill.

I sighed as I took the quill in my hand and begin to write an I.O.U. knowing full well I was going to regret this when she called upon it.

After I had written it up, I passed it to her and she placed it under her wing.

"Thank you." she said as if she had just one a bet from me.

I shook my head and made for the door, changing back to my human form as I did and with Dash walking not far behind me. I opened the door and was greeted by the rest of Dash's friends all looking at me with concerned faces.

"Hey, what's up?" I asked.

"Oh don you 'what's up' us! Where's Rainbow? What did ya do ta her in here!?" shouted Applejack who shoved her way past me, causing me to trip into the doorframe and hit my cheek on the wood.

"Hey you redneck hillbilly! Was that shove necessary!?" I shouted while holding my cheek and getting a loud gasp for everyone in earshot.

Applejack turned around slowly to face me, giving of one of the most fierce glares as she did. She was even snorting out clouds of smoke. She moved her face so it was an inch from mine.

"What did ya'll just call me now?" she asked in darkly.

I didn't answer, I just quickly got up and sprinted back to my room and locked the door behind me before quickly changing into my Hybrid form.

I heard a bang at my door.

"You just come on out now ya hear! I have somthin I wana say ta you!" I heard Applejack say before there was another bang at the door. I made for the balcony doors and stood up on the ledge.

The door to the room burst open and Applejack charged in. She looked at me for a quick moment before she began to gallop at me. I rolled my eyes and proceeded to let myself fall of he edge of the building.

After a few seconds of free fall, I felt myself suddenly stop. I looked up and saw that, somehow, me feet had been tied together and I was being slowly brought back up to my room.

I reached up and cut the rope with my claws before flaring my wings and flew up to the highest roof of the castle as sitting down upon it.


I sat up there for about an hour, just enjoying the veiw and ignoring the yelling from Applejack that I could somehow hear all the way up here.

As time went on, I ended up spotting a gryphon that looked very familiar, flying through the sky towards Dee's house.

"HEY! CEYLON!" I shouted out loudly. This caused him to stop and begin to look around frantically. "Over here ya fool!" I shouted again and this time he looked straight to me.

He began to fly at me at a really fast speed. I jumped to my feet and braced of the impact.

Ceylon flew into me with enough force to make me slide back across the entire roof before I flipped him onto his back.

"Dude, what the hell!?" I said to him.

"Orion! I need you to come with me right now!" he shouted to me.

I took my hand of his chest and he jumped back up, grabbed my arm in his talon and tried to drag me with him, but I held my footing. 

He looked back to me. "Orion, please! Dee needs you."

Him saying that made me loose my footing and allowing him to pull me from the roof that I was standing on and towards Dee's house.

When we landed, Ceylon ran inside while I just stood outside of the door for a moment.

I put one foot into the door and got tackled by a tan colored blur. I looked down to the blur that had latched itself to my torso and saw Dee there trying to squeeze the life out of me. She seemed to also be shakeing.

I tried to carefully pry her off me, but she wouldn't let go. I got one of her hooves off me and she became hysterical.

"NO! I wont let you go again!" she shouted as she shook her hoof from my grip and placed it back around me.

"Dee, I-" I began to speak, but was cut off by Dee again.

"NO! You promised that you wouldn't let anything happen to me!" she shouted at me while trying to hug me tighter. "I told you that I only felt safe when you are around! And you were not around Orion!"

That's when the reality of the situation hit me. Dee once told me that she only felt safe while I was around, and lately I haven't been there for her which must have caused her paranoia to come forth.

I placed my arms around her and began to hug her back. I didn't mean to leave her feeling so vulnerable.

Without letting her go, I stood back up and carried her inside of her house and made for the couch that I once slept on so very long ago.

I sat down and reverted back to my human form to give her something more comfortable to hug. I couldn't imagine that my scales would be more comfortable than skin. After I did, I began to stroke the back of her neck as she slowly began to stop shaking.

Soon, I was able to hear her soft snores as she had fallen asleep. Ceylon had made his way into the living room and sat on the other couch, looking directly at me.

"Look, Ceylon. I'm sorry that I haven't been around. Things just got a little out of hand for me and I did the only thing that came to mind." I said.

"I know. And I can't blame you for what happened. You were just worrying about self preservation, up until you hit the princess in the face. I would ask you how you got out of that, but that can wait. I think you should take Dee up to her room." Ceylon said.

I nodded before carefully standing, trying to not wake Dee as I carried her. She looked like she hadn't slept in a month, so this sleep should be good for her.

I carried her up the stairs of her house and into her bedroom. I made for the bed and sat down upon it before I attempted to lay her down on it, but she was still subconscious hugging me and still wouldn't let me go. 

I just sighed as I lay down on the bed myself and threw the blanket over the both of us.

'Ok, so I'm in bed with a pony that is hugging me. It still doesn't mean anything.' I tried to tell myself.

-You just keep telling yourself that.- Halex said, laughing as he did.

'Shut up man, You're not exactly helping the situation!' I shouted at him.

-But don't you see Orion? Right now, she is a lonely mare, and you are a friend that she needs close to make her feel safe. But if you play your cards right, that friendship will grow in her heart and make her want to be even closer than this.- Halex explained.

'Shut it Halex. She is a pony and I'm a human. Even if I did want that, it wouldn't work.' I said trying to defuse the situation.

-Ah-ha. You totally would get with her if you could, wouldn't you?-

'N-no.'

-Its alright, I wont tell anyone.-

'Screw you man.'

-Just remember. If she does come onto you, don't say I didn't tell you that it was coming.-

I knew that what Halex had just told me was a possibility, but I don't think that Dee was the type for interspecies relations. First: she tried to attack me. Second: zebras beat her up and tried to rape her. Third was... well I don't know how there doing now, but at first, Dee and Ceylon didn't seem to get along.

So why was Ceylon still here?

I would have to make asking him the first thing I do when I can move again. But for now, It looks like I wasn't going anywhere.

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After a her hours of being bored, I too fell asleep but ended up waking up much sooner than Dee. She slept for like 13 hours while I only slept for like 4.

And because of this, not only had it become night time, but I had to look at her peaceful... beautiful...

'No Orion! Don't do that.' I scolded myself every time I did.

Anyway, just as Dee's 13 hour long sleep was coming to an end, she began to stir. I quickly closed my eyes and pretended I was asleep.

I couldn't see with my eyes shut, but I knew she was awake when she stroked the top of my head with her hoof before, what I presume, her bring her lips to my forehead, and give a very light kiss.

'Uh-oh.'

-Told you.-

'Shut up Halex.'

I felt Dee slowly remove her lips from my forehead before she moved her head down into my chest and hugged me tighter.

"I should have never let you go Orion. I'm sorry that I didn't stand up for you." she mumbled into my chest.

I rolled my back, causing Dee to shift just so she could continue to rest her head on my chest, but she did more than that. She climbed onto my chest and continued to hug my torso with all her limbs while she began to nibble at my neck.

'This is most definitely the most awkward situation I have ever found myself in.' I said to myself.

-Uh... Orion, you have a problem.-

'And that would be?'

"Oh sweet Celestia, how I wish you were awake right now." I heard Dee say through a moan. "If you were, I would... Oh no! not now!"

Dee jumped off my body and made for the door by the sounds of her flapping wings, and if I had to guess, in quite a hurry.

I opened my eyes and looked around, confirming that I was alone in Dee's bedroom. I sat up and looked out into the hallway, seeing as it was dark, there wasn't much I could really see.

I got out of the bed and walked to the door. I heard the sound of Dee talking as she was in the shower. I quietly crept up to the bathroom door and pressed my ear up to it. She was talking to herself.

"Ok, ok. Just calm down now Dee. He's out of sight and out of mind. Oh how I wish we was in... NO! Just no. Just remain cool, and I should be fine." I heard her breath a sigh of relief. "Darn it, of all the times I could have gone into heat, it had to-"

I didn't listen to the rest. The moment I heard that one word, I backed away from the door and quietly got as far away as I could.

I ended up going outside and sitting on the roof after I climbed it in my human form, it took a moment, but I soon made it up and began to relax.

'Is this what you met by problem?' I asked Halex.

-Yep. Looks like you're screwed, literally.-

'How did you know this before she did?'

-I could smell it, that is one of the things that happen when... You get the idea.-

'I really wish I didn't. So what do you suppose I do?' 

-There are a few options here. One: Go back in there and help her out.-

'Next.-

-Option two is for you to get back to the castle as fast as you can and face Applejack again.-

'Oh god, next!'

-Stay here and just act oblivious to everything Dee does. She will either approach you about it or she will distance herself from you until she is fine again.-

'Next.'

-That's all I got.-

'Oh great.'

-So what are you going to do?-

'For now, I'm just going to sit here and think about possible outcomes of all the choices that you have given me.'

"Orion?"

'Or not.'

"Orion? are you out here?" Dee called out.

"Yeah, I'm up here." I responded. She flew up and landed next to me. 'Just act oblivious.' I told myself.

-Or take option one.-

'Please, not now Halex.'

"What are you doing up here?" Dee asked. I looked to her and noticed that she was trying to not look to me.

"Just thinking." I said.

"About?"

"I think it would be better if we avoid that subject." I said.

"Ok. Anyway, I need to talk to you about something." she said, finally looking to me.

'Oh god, here we go.'
> Chapter 18: Ceylon's confession
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Chapter 18

I woke up feeling better than I had in a long time now.

I looked down to the bed beside me and saw the sleeping form of Dee, still asleep with a smile on her face.

Last night, Dee had come to ask me if I could help her out with her... 'Problem'. It took her a lot of convincing and begging, and I was extremely hesitant at first, with her being a pony and all (That and combined with it being my first time), but from what I remember things went pretty well considering.

Surprisingly, Halex had managed to keep quiet the whole time. That would have been so weird with him trying to talk to me.

-See. It wasn't that bad now was it?-

'No, I guess it wasn't. But I can't help but wonder where this leaves me on her friendship scale. I was only just helping her out.'

-We will find out in time.-

I climbed out of Dee's bed and looked around form my clothing. Once I had spotted them, I got myself dressed and made my way for toilet and the shower.

I really needed to go.

After I had finished up in that department, I made my way down stairs and saw Ceylon sitting on the couch still.

"Hey man." I greeted him. He looked at me slowly, as if he was sad. 

"Hi" he said glumly before he looked back down again.

"Ok, what's the problem now?" I asked. Its only been a night, what could have made him depressed in that time?

"Nothing" he said in the same tone of voice. I rolled my eyes before making my over to him, sitting beside him and staring at him. "What?"

"Don't do this Ceylon, I of all people know that look. What is the problem?" I asked, causing him to look away again. "Oh come on, just out with it!"

"You have to promise me, that you will not tell another living thing that walks this planet." he said. I held out my hand. He looked at it for a moment before taking it in his talon and shaking. "Alright, I'll tell you, but not here. Lets go for a fly." he said getting up and with me following.

I transformed into my Hybrid form and we made our way outside and took to the sky's. After about 20 minutes of flying in silence, Ceylon finally opened up.

"I guess I should tell you hu?" he asked, causing me to look at him. "It's about Dee you see. I... I-I..." he stuttered out but I cut him off.

"Oh will you just out with it already?" I urged.

"I like Dee!" He shouted to me. He dropped his head and sighed. "I mean I more than like her. I know I shouldn't, but I cant help it."

"Why would that be something you have to be nervous about?" I asked.

"I know what you two did last night." he said.

"...Oh."

"I have been with her for about two months now, just taking care of her and trying to to keep her healthy for while you were gone. She wouldn't eat, sleep or even move, but I managed to convince her to do these things. I also grew fond need to protect her for while you couldn't. But now that you're back, I won't be needed anymore, and what happened last night between you two is just more proof of that fact." Ceylon said lowering his head and letting a few tears drip from his eyes.

I couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

"I don't think last night should count Ceylon." I said to him, causing him to look up to me quickly.

"Why not?"

"I shouldn't tell you this, but last night, Dee sort of entered her heat cycle. I just helped her out when she was in need." I explained.

I would say that what I had just said made his jaw drop, But being a gryphon and all, he had a beak instead of a proper jaw.

"Just remember, I didn't tell you that." I said as I reached over and pushed the bottom part of his beak back up.

"Well if that is true, you have a bit of a situation." Ceylon said.

"How so?" I asked inquisitively.

"Pony mares stay in heat for about a week, so she will want you to come back 'very' soon, depending on how desperate she is." he explained, causing me to gulp.

'Uh-oh. What kind of hole did I just dig myself?' I asked myself.

-Jeez, a week. Even I didn't think it would go for that long. And by judging how she was last night, you are in for a hell of a painful week.-

"I need to think of something." I mumbled to myself. I looked over to Ceylon and a possible idea popped into my head. "Alright Ceylon, here's what were going to do. I am going to return to the palace and stay there. I want you to tell Dee that Celestia has asked me to go and see her." I explained.

"What about us?" he asked.

"'You' should be fine. Dee will just have to wait until I return. As long as she dosn't see me, she shouldn't want me to... you know." I said.

"Alright. I'm going to head back there now. I guess I will be seeing you?" he said inquisitively.

"Yeah sure, just make sure she's ok. Oh, and good luck." I said, holding out my claw.

"You too." Ceylon responded shaking my claw with his talon.

We both flew off in different directions, Ceylon back towards Dees house and me back to the palace.

When I arrived, I landed on the path to the entrance and heard a voice calling out to me.

"Sir, Orion!" I turned to face the voice and spotted a unicorn guard running up to me. He reached me and took a moment to catch his breath before seeing me. "Princess Celestia wishes to speak with you right away." he said and I remembered my plan with Ceylon.

-Well, what a coincidence.-

I ignored Halex. "I'll just be on my way them." I said to the guard. He threw me a salute before turning and walking away.

'Why the hell did he salute me?'

-... Good question.-

I shook the thought away and began to make my way through the palace towards the throne room.

When I reached the doors that led into the throne room, the two guards outside went to salute me by I caught their hooves in my telekinesis and forced them back down slowly. I then walked in between the two and kneeled between them.

"Ok you two. Why do you feel the need to salute me?" I asked.

"We were trained to salute our superiors SIR!" one of the shouted while standing at attention.

"Quietly this time, who said I was a superior to you two?" I asked quietly.

"SIR!" he began but I cut him off with a glare. "Sorry, sir. But the order came from the Captain, sir." he said at the same level of volume.

"Final question. Where is the Captain?" I asked. the guard gestured into the throne room behind the closed doors. "Thank you." I said as I stood up and pushed open the doors and walked in.

I scanned the room for any signs of Shining Armour, and I spotted him Talking with Celestia on the other side of the room.

They looked at me when I entered and I basically stomped my way over to Shining and towered myself over him.

"Shining Armour. Why is it that your guards have been ordered to salute me?" I asked him angrily. I presumed that he was jumping to conclusions with my decision.

"I-I was hopeing that the gesture might help you with your decision on joining." he said backing away.

"Well boy, it did." I said, causing him to lift his head up and smile. "I have decided that I will 'NOT' be joining your guard." I said as I turned away from him.

"No! Please, I need your help to train my guards!" he confessed. "L-Look! Just let me show you around the compound, and at minimum, you can tell me how to make some improvements." he offered pleadingly.

"Oh that's rich. You're begging a moster to help you." I said sarcastically. I looked to Celestia and she gave me a disapproveing look, causing me to laugh. "For the record Celly, That look don't work on me, just so you know." All the ponies gasped when I called her that, but she... smiled?

"Captain Shining Armour. I will have a talk about your situation with Orion later, but for now, I wish to converse with him in private." Celestia said to Shining before turning to me. "Let us take a walk Orion."

Celestia got up from her throne and began to make her way towards the doors, I just shrugged before jogging to catch up to her.

And before I knew it, Celestia and I had managed to make our way into a secluded part of the gardens.

Celestia stopped and lay down on the grass.

"Orion, something has come up that I require your assistance with." she said. I gave her an inquisitive look. "I have received a message from the Changeling lord, King Vorzakh, that he wishes to bargain for Queen Chrysalis's life. But I fear the whole thing is a ruse." she explained.

"So, what's that got to do with me?" I asked.

"I would like it if you were to come with me. If the whole thing is a trap, I would like to have someone there I can trust with me for if I get overpowered." she said.

"But how would you get overpowered? And don't you have guards for this particular reason?" I asked.

"Well... Yes, I do have guards of the purpose of defence, but I do not wish to put them in harms way if I can help it. I would also like that the help that I bring to be as capable as me." she said as she looked up to me.

"So you want me to go with you so we can work as a team?" I asked and she nodded once. I sighed as I put a claw up to my forehead.

'What do you think Halex?' I asked in my head.

-Well I think she is telling the truth, but there must be more. She just as easily take the Harmony device of even her sister, but she seems to 'want' to have you along with her.-

'Do you think I should go along with it?'

-It's your choice.-

"Alright Celestia, I guess I will help you out. But if this is a scam... I am going to make you regret it." I warned, causing her to gulp.

"W-well. It's good that this is not a scam." she said nervously.

"So, when do we leave?" I asked.

"We are to leave tomorrow morning, but for now, let us chat. I do wish to get to know you better." she said. I rolled my eyes and sat down against a tree.

"And just what is it you wish to know. Oh, and just remember, I will not pass and technological information across..." I said but realized something anyway. "Wait, you were there, you should know all about my race and its technology anyway. You should know even more than me." I stated.

"Yes, I do. But I actually do not wish to pass that information along." she said.

"...Why?" I asked skeptically.

"I agree with what you told Twilight and Rare Artifact. Technology should be earnt and not taken from others because the ones that take do not fully understand the potential danger of what they took. I love my little ponies, but I would hate to see what would happen if they got their hooves in microscopic replicators." she explained.

"So you know of them. I had never heard of them until I found them in that PDA that Rare Artifact has. But I have to say, there are far worse things in there than replicators." I said, causing Celestia to look at me with dread.

She then activated her magic and closed her eyes. A few seconds later, the PDA appeared out of nowhere and landed softly on the grass between us.

"So what do you think I should do with this then?" Celestia asked as she levitated the PDA up.

"My recommendation? Destroy it, right now. That way, I can be sure it cant be accessed." I said as I looked to her with a serious face.

"I don't think that should be done. But I will give it back to you." she said as she levitated it over to me and placed it on my lap. She smiled to me and I gave a quick smirk back.

We sat there for a moment just looking around, until Celestia broke the silence again.

"So, tell me about yourself Orion." she said. I gave her a 'are you serious' look before I spoke.

"Shouldn't you know already? You did read my mind back when-"

"I only saw a few glimpses of your past before focusing on that major one. I want to know about all the happy moments of your life." she said.

I coughed nervously.

"I hate to say it, but the first 16 years of my life, I don't remember and great moments. Just a whole lot of pain and sadness really. And for the past 7, I was technically just a science experiment to other humans." I said.

"I have a question for you. I was just wondering if you knew how us ponies came to be? My... mother never really liked to talk about it so I never knew." she said.

I picked up he PDA from my lap and typed in the password

*SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS*

'Thank god for Mary Poppins' I thought to myself.

The PDA unlocked and I opened the video that I was shown when I first found the thing before showing it to Celly.

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"I don't know how I should react to this." Celestia said confused. "If those scientists used your blood samples to create mother, that would make you like my grandfather."

"Not true." I said as I began to load up another video.

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Video log: #1624
Date: 3rd of January, 2035. 06:22 A.M.
Location: CLASSIFIED!!!


This is just an update video log.

We have officially run out of Project Orion samples. The use of his blood samples under a microscope has rendered the samples tainted for unknown reasons and made them useless, but we have gained enough information that we are able to use molecular D.N.A. gene therapy to be able to modify and blood sample to be somewhat similar to Orion's and allow us to continue our research. We will be using these new samples on future tests, and just have to hope that these new samples will work.

So from hence forth, all subjects will not biologically be directly related to the sample donor, but yes, they technically won't have existed without him. 

I am also pleased to announce that I have been appointed team leaded as professor Logan has retired, we are all sure going to miss him around here.

END OF LOG #1624
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"I found this log after Luna left me in the Old Castle for an entire hour. So to answer your question, No, I am not technically related to you." I said.

"Thank you for showing me that Orion. I really do appreciate it." Celestia said. 

"I guess you're welcome." I said as I locked the PDA again and put it down on the grass.

"Well, I guess I am going to head back to the throne room. Care to join me?" Celestia asked as she got back up from the ground.

"Yeah sure, I got nothing better to do." I said as I got up as well, picking the PDA back up as I did.

We made our way back the throne room, only to find that it was completely void anyone besides guards. Celestia walked up to her throne and sat down upon it.

"Well, you should probably head back tot the room that I have given you and rest up. If my suspicions are true, you might need to be well rested." Celestia said to me.

"Alright, I guess I will see you later." I said as I turned and began to walk out of the room.

I made my way back to the room and saw that everything was still the the way I left it last time I was in here, aside from the fact that the bed had been made. 

I walked up to the box of clothing and pulled out a new set before making my way to the bathroom and getting changed. After I did that, I made my way back into the bedroom and looked around.

"So, what now?"
> Chapter 19: This s**t be getting old
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Chapter 19

I was being escorted by two guard unicorns down a hallway that led to the prison of the castle. I had spent all of last night reading. Just reading some of the books that were in the bookshelves of the room I was staying in here.

-I still can't believe you read that book on anatomy. I understand trying to learn the weak points on a possible enemy, but you were on that one chapter for too long.- Halex said.

'Yeah well, I was curious. Or did you just forget what I did the night before last?' I asked in my head.

-No I remember, but it's just that... You know what, never mind.- he said.

Continuing on, the guards that were escorting me stopped outside of a cell door. One of the guards opened the door with his magic and the other guard walked in. The guard that unlocked the door looked to me and gestured for me to enter.

I entered the cell door and was greeted by the sight of rows and rows of prison cells along a hallway, some occupied, others not.

I spotted Celestia about 50 metres down the hallway standing outside of a cell. I walked over to her and saw that she was talking to Chrysalis.

"... If you comply, we will be able to get through today with as little frustration as possible." Celestia said.

"I'm not your problem Princess Celestia. King Vorzakh, if I know him, will not make this whole situation easy." Chrysalis said with a smirk.

"Well, if worst comes to worst, I'll just have Halex break his horn off like he did yours." I interrupted.

-I will only intervene if you screw up again Orion.-

'Oh, thanks for the vote of confidence.'

-It's what I do.-

"Good morning Orion. Did you sleep well?" Celestia asked as I came up next to her.

"Undoubtedly." I said back in the same level of snootyness as she before I slumped over. "That bed in my room is great and all, but I feel as if something's missing with me."

"I'm sure it will pass." Celestia said as she turned back to the changeling queen. "Are you ready to depart, Queen Chrysalis?"

"Do I have a say in the mater?" Chrysalis asked back in an ungrateful tone.

Celestia opened the cage door to Chrysalis's cell. "Come now Chrysalis. All will be over soon if you co-operate with us." she said as she stood to the side for the changeling to exit the cell.

I quickly changed into my Hybrid form while no one was looking, causing Chrysalis to jump as she noticed my difference.

"Go on." I said as I tilted my head to the side as a gesture for her to pass me. She stared into my eyes as she did, but passed me none the less before turning to face me again.

"Are you ready Orion?" Celestia asked me as she came up beside me.

I sighed. "I guess I am as ready as I will ever be." I responded.

"Good. I hope you are ready." Before I could respond, my eyesight went white.

When I could see again, the first thing I noticed was that we were no longer in Celestia's palace. In fact, I didn't think that we were even in Equestria anymore.

"Where are we?" I asked.

"I have teleported us to the Changeling Badlands." Celestia said as I kept looking around.

I spotted what looked like a mountain in the distance, but at the base of the mountain was a castle, a black castle that gave me chills.

It definitely was changeling themed.

"After you Chrysalis." Celestia said, causing the changeling to 'Hrumph' before she turned around and began to walk to the castle. Celestia and I followed her, just to make sure she didn't try anything she shouldn't.

"Is it me, or is it actually getting darker with each step towards that castle?" I whispered to Celestia.

"Yes, it is. I knew that your power could not be affected by changeling magic like my subjects can. That is why I asked for you to come along instead of bringing some of my guards. It seems as if it is getting darker because of their spell that is designed to weaken anypony who does not belong." Celestia explained.

"Then why do I feel fine?" I asked.

"I would presume that it is because of the strength abilities." Celestia said.

"You think so?" I asked again.

"Yes. I can sense it, plus I can see it every time you use it because of the white hue that applies to your scales." she said.

"Wow, you're perceptive aren't you? Anyway, what do you think we should expect in there?" I asked while gesturing to the Changeling castle that was getting closer.

"I do not know. King Vorzakh normally keeps to himself, but the fact that you or... the being inside you easily disposed of a group of changeling, he will probably try to challenge you in some way of form." Celestia explained.

I let out a frustrated sigh. 'Fuck sake! I just can't have one day can I?' I asked myself in my head.

-PFFT, That would be too easy. And besides at least you're keeping fit.- Halex said.

'Fuck that and fuck you. I still am only human, I do need to have some time to myself.' I told Halex angrily, but he just laughed.

The three of us landed on a platform on the side of the castle and a group of changelings surrounded us. I tensed, just waiting for something to happen, but nothing ever did.

We were led through their castle in silence, and with a few minutes, we had come to a dark throne room.

"Ah, Queen Chrysalis. You have returned." I looked in the direction of the voice and spotted a large changeling sitting on some sort of black throne. "And we meet again Princess Celestia. How have you been?"

"King Vorzakh. We have come to negotiate for your Queen, not to make conversation." Celestia said with a short tone.

"Oh, but your highness. What kind of hospitality would that b without a little friendly conversation?" he asked.

Celestia opened her mouth to reply, but I cut her off.

"Look you cicada. Let just get this stupid business out of the way so we can all go our separate ways. I sure we all have better things to do, Like Celestia here needs to get back to running her country, I have some things that I need to do that I'm keeping to myself for the best interest of every living being, And I'm sure that you have better things to do as well." I said.

"I'm sorry,I don't think we have met before. I am.." he began but I cut him off.

"Yeah yeah, your a bug pony, Celestia is the daughter of a product of science, and I am apparently the worst thing that could have ever happened to this damn planet, so on so forth. Lets just hurry this up so I can go and be alone for a while." I said, crossing my arms and leaning against the doorway into the throne room.

"Well, it is apparent to me that not everypony wants to be here." Vorzakh said as he placed a hoof on his chest. "My my Princess Celestia. My I ask why you brought such an angry creature here with you?"

"This is my friend Orion. He is here to make sure that our exchange goes smoothly and without complications." Celestia explained.

"And since when have you had the time to make a friend? I would have figure that running a country such as yours would be somewhat time consuming." Vorzakh said with a smirk.

"So, what is it you offer for your queen?"

A bigger smirk grew over the changeling kings face, the kind of smirk that tells you that he is up to something. I stood up straight again and walked beside Celestia.

"What would you like for her?" Vorzakh asked. Celestia just glared at him.

Vorzakh got up from hit throne and walked down to Chrysalis. he gave her a kiss on her cheek, but she looked like she wanted to pull away. Vorzakh then continued past Chrysalis and stopped just in front of Celestia and myself.

"I have an Idea." he said as his smirk grew larger, causing me to get ready for anything.

But there was no way I could have been ready for what happened next, and because I did not have my force field up, Vorzakh's plan worked.

There was a bright flash, causing my eyesight to go white and make me blind. I felt something slash across both of my eyes straight after everything went white. Burning pain shot across my face as I stumbled back and fell over.

"Orion!" I heard Celestia shout out, her voice filled with panic.

"There, now that your friend is terminated blind, we can complete our business." Vorzakh said with a chuckle.

"You cannot do this! I promise that.... No, no AHHHH!!!" I heard Celestia scream as it sounded as if she was getting further and further away

"Celestia!!!" I shouted as I tried to push myself up. I tried to open my eyes, but every time I did, a wave of pain burnt across them.

I felt something hit me, hard. I was the barraged upon my something, I presumed it was changelings using magic on me, but I actually felt all of these hits because my force fields were still not up.

I tried to defend, but with being blind, it was kind of a one sided fight.

'HALEX! A little help please!' I shouted in my head.

-Listen to me! I'm just as useless as you in this condition. But I have a plan!-

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(Perspective change: Celestia)

*SMACK*

"AAHHHHH!!!" I shouted as the pain flared from my cheek.

I was magically held down onto a table and Queen Chrysalis and King Vorzakh had been beating me for about an hour purely because Chrysalis was defeated in Canterlot by my nice and her husband, Captain Shining Armour.

"So my king, what should we do with this pony princess now that we have her immobilized?" Chrysalis asked with a smug grin.

"My Queen, I thought that your mother would have taught you not to play with your food. It is uncivilized and just plain rude." Vorzakh said.

"So, you think that we should feed off her?" Chrysalis asked. "But how? She has no special somepony, and I doubt that she ever will because she is afraid of such a commitment."

"Maybe so, but she is weak here and she knows it. That is why she had brought that dragon thing with her. So all we have to do is take a peek in her mind and look for the right stallion... or mare." Vorzakh explained.

I felt myself tense as he said that. 'Who knows what would happen if they gained control of my mind. They could use me to destroy Equestria.' I felt my heart sink as that thought came to my mind. I didn't want myself to be the cause of major destruction... again. I just wouldn't have the heart for that sort of thing. I have learnt my lesson.

I opened my eyes and began to whimper as I saw King Vorzakh was looking down at me with an evil grin.

"Please, don't do this." I begged quietly, only to have both changeling begin to laugh at me.

"Did you hear that? The great and powerful Celestia is begging us. HAHAH!!!" Chrysalis said before continuing to laugh. I just whimpered as I knew that there was nothing I could do.

After a moment, their laughter died down and Vorzakh looked down to me again. He lit up his horn and slowly began to lower his head towards mine. I could only watch as...

*BANG*

"GET THE FUCK OFF OF HER!!!"

My head snapped to the side and I spotted Orion, standing in a large hole in the wall of the room that I was being tortured in.

I felt my heart soar and my lips curl into a smile as I spotted him, but those good feeling soon vanished as I noticed how hurt he was.

Not only did Orion have cuts, scratches and other damage to his scales all over his body, but his eyes. His eyes were still closed and seemed to be seeping out blood.

Orion began to walk forwards. Slowly making his way over to the table that I was bound to. Chrysalis shot a magic beam at him, but... he dodged it.

"What!?! How did you do that!?" Vorzakh shouted at Orion, but Orion did not answer. he just kept walking closer.

Both Chrysalis and Vorzakh began to rapidly shoot magic bolts at Orion, but not a single one hit him.

He kept dodging and making his way closer and closer until he was right in front of them, causing them to freeze in shock.

Even I was shocked at his ability to avoid magic while blind.

"H-how?" Vorzakh asked again, although much more quiet this time.

Orion did not answer, Instead, faster than anypony could blink, Orion had grabbed Vorzakh around the throat and lifted him off the ground.

Chrysalis ran over to try to get Orion to let go, but she was met with a hard kick to the head, knocking her out instantly.

Orion the turned back to Vorzakh and grinned before leaning in to whisper into the changelings ear.

"You damaged my eyes. So karma must be a bitch for you." Orion said quietly.

"Please Don't kill me." Vorzakh begged. I could not help but think that this was ironic.

Orion let out a sigh before dropping the changeling, but he also put a foot on Vorzakh's head.

"I am not the type to kill you damn monster, but if we ever meet again, I wont be so generous next time." Orion said 

Orion the lifted his foot off of Vorzakh head and began to walk towards me. When he got to me, he place a claw onto my stomach.

Next there was a bright flash of light.

When I could see again, I was back in my palace's throne room, being looked at by my sister and some of my royal guards.

"Princess Celestia! What in all of Equestria happened to you!?!" I turned and saw Shining Armour standing behind me.

"I will explain in time, but first we need to get a doctor for..." I began as I looked around, but I noticed that Orion was not here with me. "Did anypony see where Orion just went?" I asked.

"Tia, Orion did not appear with you." I head Luna say, causing me to freeze.

"WHAT!!!"

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(Perspective change: Orion)

"Damn, I thought I could do it." I said to myself as I just continued to lay there in the hot sand of the desert that surrounded the changelings castle somewhere.

Back in the castle, I focused my power into Celestia to make her teleport back to her palace. But then as I tried to port myself after her, the blood loss I was suffering caused my powers to just shut off.

I still had my powers, but I was just too tired to use any of them.

-Orion *YAWN* you cant fall asleep now or you'll die.- Halex told me, but he was just as exhausted as I was.

'I know. But I cant do anything. I can barely move.' I said.

I began to nod off, but was brought back when I felt myself being rolled over.

"Come on man, stay with me." said a male voice. I then felt a pair of arms lift me up and both of my arms go around two necks as I was lifted up.

By god, I wanted to know who was lifting me up, but I still could not use my eyes.

"Drake, What do you think happened to this guy?" asked the body on my left.

"I don't know Tank. But he sure looks like he has been to the afterlife and back, I mean, look at his eyes." said the voice on my right.

"Well, lets just get him back to the migration. Perhaps Elder could help this guy out." said the voice on my left.

And so, the two being's began to lift me off of the ground as they took flight while carrying me.


'Hey, maybe this is the end for me.' I said to myself.

-Or us.-

'Yeah yeah. What ever.'
> Chapter 20: Trust issues
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Chapter 20

My senses slowly came back to me as my body woke itself up from sleep.

The first thing I tried to do was open my eyes, but I was met with a sharp pain to both of them, causing me to hiss in pain. 

That is when I remembered everything.

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(Before: Just after I lost my sight)

'HALEX! A little help please!'

-Listen to me! I'm just as useless as you in this condition. But I have a plan!- Halex said in a rushed tone.

'Well? Come on then! I find myself very open in while in this position!' I shouted as I tried to hurry him along.

-You won't like it, but this plan will require you to drop your force field.- he said in calm voice.

'ARE YOU INSANE!?!' There was no way that I would be doing that.

-Orion, just listen to me! If you drop your force field, then quickly send out a small pulse of telekinetic energy, you can concentrate your power into scrying the surrounding area!-

'But doing that limits my movement and fighting abilities.'

-Yes, that is why you are going to have to use it ever second or so. It is just to get an idea where everything is before acting on that object.- Halex explained.

'So... what? You are trying to get me to use sonar?'

-Theoretically, yes. But consistently using this will drain your strength pretty quick, so the more times you send out a scry, the weaker you will become.

I shook my head. Its not like I had any other available options.

I pushed myself up off of the ground again. I then dropped my force field and tensed my entire being while concentrating my power, sending out a pulse of energy that pushed all of the aggressive Changeling's back. I then scried the area quickly.

Doing this, it was almost like I could feel where everything was. Its hard to explain, but I just knew where everything was as the first scry wave passed over everything.

But my heart dropped as I felt the life force of about 43 different Changeling within the same room as me.

Thinking quickly, I knew that I would not be able to take out every Changeling in this room easily, so I did the next best thing that came to my mind.

I got my baring and halted scrying before sprinting to where the throne of this throne room was situated. With great estimation of where the Changelings had been pushed back to I jumped and opened my wings and blasted my way out of the window behind the throne.

Sadly, I did not come out of this act unscathed.

Multiple changeling recovered from my pule wave and saw me running, so they decided to shoot magic at me again, with a few being lucky enough to hit.

Each bolt that hit me felt like being punched by a guy with brass knuckles on. I figured that it was supposed to hurt more, but my tough scale had taken most of the impact.

But that did not stop it from hurting like shit.

Anyway, after I flew through the window, a single blot managed to hit my wing, and caused it to cramp painfully before making me drop out of the sky.

I hit the ground, hard. But something inside of me told me to ignore the pain and to get back up, and that is just what I did.

I was about to take off again, but stopped. I don't know why, but something was makeing me. I took one step forward, but something inside of me was telling me to go back. To go back and help... Celestia

-Orion? What is the matter? Lets get the hell out of here.- Halex said hurriedly.

'We can't. Not yet.' I said before turning and facing the castle again. 'I need to go back. I can't leave her in there.'

-Who? Celestia? Man, you know as well as I do that she would not go back into there for you.-

'Yes, but what if it was Luna?' I swear that I could 'feel' Halex squirm when I told him that. 'It's ok Halex. I know.'

-Alright fine. But if we die, you are going to regret it.-

I smiled before beginning to walk back to the castle with a grin on my face before opening my wings again and flying back up to where Celestia and I had landed when we first arrived. The moment I landed, I scried the area and felt no changeling in the vicinity.

-Most of them are probably in the throne room.- Halex said.

I then pushed more power into my scry to try and locate Celestia. After a few minutes, I felt her energy signature on the far side of the castle. I sighed before beginning to make my way in that direction, trying to be stealthful and remembering to repeatedly scry.

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(1 hour later)

I pulled my claw from the Changelings torso as he fell to the ground, dead.

I scried again and felt the 6 lifeless Changeling bodies that were behind me, causing a wave of guilt to wash over me.

I had tried to get through stealthfully, and even managed to get most of the way through the castle without drawing attention to myself, but about 100 metres from where I could feel that Celestia was being held, I was spotted and therefore forced to take them out.

I took a few hits because I had never had to fight blind before, but I managed to come out as the victor.

-Orion, if you want to save Celestia, now is the time to do it.- Halex said.

I faced the direction that I needed to go and continued to walk, but as I gout outside of the door, I heard something.

I heard a whimper followed by "Please, don't do this." that sounded like it came from Celestia, only... she sounded in pain.

And scared.

I then heard the voices of both Chyrsalis and Vorzakh begin to laugh.

"Did you hear that? The great and powerful Celestia is begging us. HAHAH!!!" I heard Chrysalis saw before she continued to laugh. I then heard another whimper from Celestia, and that made my blood begin to boil.

After a moment, the laughter of both Changelings died down. I scried the room in front of me again and felt Vorzakh leaning his head towards Celestia's.

That is when I reacted.

I let out another pulse wave, but this time, focusing it all directly at the wall in front of me. the wall exploded inwards, causing it to shower debris of whatever it was made out of into the room.

"GET THE FUCK OFF OF HER!!!" I shouted as I stood in the doorway that I had just made while scrying again to find their reactions. Seeing nothing but confusion, I began to walk over while trying to look as imposing as I could.

I quickly scried again, and at the right time too. As I did I noticed a magic blot flying directly at me, but I managed twist my torso to the right and avoid it from hitting me.

"What!?! How did you do that!?" I heard Vorzakh shout at me, but I just resumed walking over while srcying much, much more commonly than I was when I made my way to that room.

As I was scrying, I noticed both Changeling light up their horns before they both began to fire magic bolts at me. But I managed to avoid each one as I slowly inched my way over to them, and within moments, I was right in their faces.

I scried them again and could tell that they were frozen with fear, that something so injured could easily walk up to them as I did.

"H-how?" Vorzakh asked. He was definitely scared.

I just grabbed him by the throat and lifted him off of the ground like the piece of trash he was. And as expected, Chrysalis ran up to me to try and help her master like a little bitch, but I had spun around and gave he a feel for the heel of my boot as it collided with her head and sent her flying.

I flashed the most intimidating grin I could before slowly moving my mouth to my prisoners ear.

"You damaged my eyes. So karma must be a bitch for you." I internally frowned at that line. I had everything going my way, and that shit line was the best I could think of?

"Please Don't kill me." Vorzakh begged.

I sighed as I let the Changeling drop back to the ground. He was all big and bad before I came into the room, but as soon as I entered...

I lifted my boot and placed it on his head, pushing his head to the ground with a bit of pressure.

"I am not the type to kill you damn monster, but if we ever meet again, I wont be so generous next time." I said while applying a bit of pressure to his skull, but eazing up and lifting my boot back off of him and placing it calmly back on the ground.

I turned to Celestia and began to walk over to her. She was bound to the table and had multiple bruises and cuts all over her body.

I knew already what I was going to do. I walked over to Celestia and placed a claw on he stomach gently, making sure to avoid any bruises.

I activated my power and flooded just enough power into Celestia's body so she would loose control just long enough for me to manipulate her magic.

When she lost control, I activated her teleport spell and sent her back to Canterlot. Back to her home. I then tried to activate the last of my power to get me back.

My body tingled a bit before I heard a 'whoosh' followed by a 'pop' noise. When I had landed, I fell over from exhaustion.

'Sand? Fuck!'

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(Back to whenever it was after I woke up)

After remembering what had happened however long it was ago, I put both of my hands on my face and sighed.

I felt that, not only was I back to my human form, but I had a bandage over both of my eyes, meaning that whoever had helped me, must have see what I am by now.

I slowly pushed myself up off of the ground and tried to listen to my surrounding area. I was no linger in my Hybrid form, so I could not just scry the area.

Besides, I felt too drained to do that any way. I felt like my energy was completely gone, leaving me to feel like I did when I had been hit with the harmony device the first time.

-Orion, Are you still with me?' Halex asked me with concern in his voice.

'*Groan* Yeah bro, I'm still here. But I don't know for how long.' I said.

-Why? what's wrong?' he asked.

'It just... *Sigh* Ever since we woke up from cryogenic sleep... How long ago was that even? Actually, I don't care. The fact is, ever since we were woken up by these ponies, all we ever seem to do is be in some sort of trouble that ends up with me getting us into shit situations, and having to rely on your help on getting us out. Maybe I should just let you take over my body and do what you want with it.' I explained dejectedly.

-Orion, don't be like that just because you lost your eyesight. When your strength returns, your natural healing will slowly bring your sight back, and you will see again, I promise.- Halex said truthfully.

'I know, but I cant help but realize that bad things keep happening to me. I should just go back to where the Cryogenic pod is and seal myself back inside. Lets face it Halex. I will never just have a peaceful day where I can sit down and enjoy myself. I don't even know how you manage to put up with staying in my mind, just to watch me make mistakes all the time.'

-Don't do this Orion. It's not your fault. You are just having a run of bad luck and need some time off with some friends.-

'I don't have any friends here.' I said darkly.

-Oh yeah? What about Ceylon... Dee? What about me? I thought that we were friends, but I guess if you are just going to complain about how bad life can be, then I have no desire to talk to you!- Halex shouted at me.

'Oh come on, don't be like that.' I said, but Halex said nothing back to me 'Halex?' Still no response. I sighed, knowing that there was no reasoning with him from that point.

A few minutes passed, and I was still just standing there. Its not like I could do much more than that. But soon, I heard heavy footsteps heading in my direction.

"Ah, human, its good to see you awake." said a deep voice a short distance away.

I tried to back up from the voice, but ended up tripping over myself and falling flat on my ass.

"Careful human, you don't need to be going and hurting yourself more than you already have." said the voice.

"Who are you!?" I demanded as I pushed myself back up.

"Yes, I am sure that trust will be difficult for you to find given your current condition, but you have nothing to fear here. My name is Elder Lyth, and I am the Elder of the dragon migration." the voice explained.

"You were right. How am I supposed believe that?" I asked, not facing away from the direction that the voice was comeing from.

"Believe me. If myself and the others dragons were not interested in finding out about you, my sons would have just left you for dead in the desert that they found you in." Lyth said truthfully.

"Yeah, right. You want to find out about me, and yet you keep calling me human. How would you even know what to call my race if you know nothing about me?" I countered.

"Calm yourself. I know what you are because Princess Celestia's guards have been searching for you for the past week and a half. They came to us to ask if we had seen a human before giving us a description that matched one such as yourself. But I told the pony guards that we had not encountered you in hopes that you would tell me a few things." he explained.

"Did you say a week and a half?" I asked in confusion.

"Ah, yes. You fell into a coma as you suffered from blood loss from your injuries. We have managed to stop the bleeding, but I am afraid we can do noting for your sight." Lyth said.

"Great. Just great." I grumbled to myself. "So, now what? You grill me for info just like the ponies tried to do before you submit me over to them?" I asked sarcastically.

"Could you please stop being so hostile towards me? It is my duty as elder to watch over and help other dragons that need assistance. And as you are part dragon..." he said trailing off.

"Seriously? You just wanted to help me?" I asked with hesitation.

"Is that so hard to believe?" he countered.

"Look sir. I am sorry for being short with you. But the first time I was met by another race other than my own, they wanted everything I knew and probably would have tried anything to get it. To further my point, my own race also experimented on me almost every day. And to make matter's even worse , I have lost my eyesight, which was probably my greatest sense as a human/dragon, and I therefore feel as if I need to be extra careful until I can see again." I explained.

"May I ask how your eyes became so?" he asked in a more quiet tone.

"*Sigh* I was with Princess Celestia when she was trying to make an exchange with the Changeling king. But the stupid prick did something that made my eyesight go white before I felt something that felt like I had something stabbed through my eyes." I said.

"What I do not understand is... How was it that we found you in the middle of the desert and how Princess Celestia is back in Canterlot perfectly fine?" Lyth asked.

"It's hard for me to explain, but it when something like this..." I said before spending the next three hours going over what had happened as I know it.

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(Three hours later)

"So, you used magic to find your way around so you could save her?" Lyth asked as I ended my story.

"I don't think its magic, but basically... yeah." I said as I thought about it.

'Could my abilities be called magic?' I asked myself. I was expecting a response from Halex, but that never came. He was still being silent.

"I personally would call it magic, but it is your power, so you can name it whatever you want. But how do you have these powers?" he asked.

"I don't know. They just kind of showed up within me one night." I said sparing the bloody details.

"That is most intrigueing." Lyth said to himself. "Let us stop these questions now. I am most certain that you are hungry, yes?"

As if on cue, my stomach rumbled.

"Hehe. Wait here, I shall return with something for you." he said before stomping off. Guessing by the sound, Lyth was quadrupedal... and big.

I sat there for a few minutes, doing nothing... again. God being blind sucks.

I was somewhat happy when I heard the sound of Lyth's footsteps as he returned. He stopped just short of me and placed something on the ground before he walked back away a short distance.

I reached forwards and carefully placed an hand where I heard Lyth place whatever it was he placed. I felt a plate, but what was on the plate confused me.

"Uh, what is this?" I asked, getting a feel for what felt like smooth stones.

"They are gems. I had to express why some of my migration had to give up a small share each, but they complied. I can be frustrating sometimes how dragons are greedy by nature." he said.

I tensed as he said that.

"Did you say gem stones?"
> Chapter 21:..
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Chapter 21

'Oh my GOD! It's so good to be able to breath fresh air again.' I thought to myself as Lyth led my outside of the cave that I was resting in for the duration I was unconscious.

I had just spent the past few hours trying to tell Lyth why I was unable to eat gem stones, but he was all like 'Any dragon can eat gems'. I considered what he said but I still ended up deciding to just go without for the time being.

Anyway, I had transformed into my Hybrid form and Lyth led me outside to get some fresh air. I had been inside that cave for a week and a half after all.

"Welcome human, to one of my domains." Lyth said. I just turned to face his direction. "Oh right, you cant see." he said to himself quietly.

"You said one of your dominions, do you have more or...?" I trailed off.

"I have four to be exact. Four locations that myself and our migration group travel between at least once a year." Lyth answered.

"Why do you keep calling yourselves a migration? Would the technical term not be a horde?" I asked.

"Normally yes. But my migration group does not follow the practices of other dragon hordes. Most dragons are greedy by nature, but we teach ourselves to share and pass on to others. Not really an easy task being peaceful when other races seem to judge us before they know us just because of what we are." he explained.

"I know that feeling. When I first awoke from my cryogenic sleep, the ponies thought that I was some un-intelligent animal that they thought that they would study. And me wanting my freedom, I ran, and that led to them trying to hunt me down." I said trying to relate.

"What is a cryogenic sleep? Is it like hibernation?"Lyth asked.

"Sort of. A living creature that is put into cryogenic sleep is basically frozen and preserved for however long they are kept asleep for. I am about 23 years old physically, but I was actually born somewhere around 17 million years ago... I think it was. In short, cryogenic sleep is like being frozen in time, so long as the power source and tank remain undisturbed." I explained. I than began to wonder how the cryo tank I was in did keep going for as long as it did. Last time I checked, no human architecture aside from the pyramids could last that long.

I shook my head to shake off the thought. It was not worth thinking about, so I just concentrated on whatever else I could hear going on around me.

"Cryogenic sleep does not sound that great." Lyth said, breaking me from my thoughts.

"Its not that bad. Its like getting drunk and passing out, but only waking up in the future. I just guess I was lucky enough to actually wake up in a time where the world still existed... or even woke up at all." I said as I looked away.

"Perhaps fate thought it was the right moment." Lyth said. I would have rolled my eyes, but they were still injured.

"I don't believe in fate." I said in a short tone.

"Why not? Perhaps it was fate that saw fit to give you your talents, meaning that there is probably a reason as to why." I just facepalmed.

"I doubt it. I think that shit just happens." I said in a grumpy tone.

"Her Elder, is the injured thing that the ponies keep looking for awake?" I heard a voice say as it made its way over.

"Easy bro. I would no annoy the human if I were you." said another voice as it also made its way over.

"Who are you two?" I asked as I tried to find out exactly where they were.

"I'm Drake, and this is my brother Tank." I heard the second voice say.

I raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Tank?"

"Yeah, my brothers real name is Tarveth, but he likes to be called Tank." Drake explained. I just nodded before shaking my head.

"So, why call himself Tank?" I asked again.

Next thing I knew, I felt a claw hand grasp my head and lift me up from the ground like I was a small dog or something. I let out a frustrated sigh as I reached up and grabbed said claws with my own, causing the one that was holding me to drop me.

"Ow, stop squeezing my claws!" Tank shouted in pain as he tried to pull his hand away from my grasp. I waited until he was pulling as hard as he could before letting go and hearing him land on is ass with a loud thud.

I heard Drake laughing his ass off as I so easily knocked his brother down and with such little effort.

"Anyway, so what is going to happen with me now?" I asked as I turned to face the direction I last heard Elder Lyth.

"Well, that depends human. What do you want to do?" Lyth countered.

"I don't know. Whatever I do choose, I guarantee that I will end up injured further or even worse. It seems to me that I have a curse or something that always ends up with me in some bad situation. I just need a holiday." I said as I faced downwards.

"Well, I would offer for you to stay with my migration, but because of the lack of trust between dragons and every other race, it would probably be better if you went back to the ponies." Lyth said.

I groaned in annoyance. "Ugh! Do I have to?" I asked sarcastically.

"Listen human, I would be honoured to have you as part of our migration. You have shown courage and selflessness when you saved the princess from the changeling lords, but the same princess obviously wishes to speak to you again, hence why she has guards scouring the land looking for you." Lyth explained.

"Yeah, maybe, but I don't know if I want to go back there. I don't belong there." I said as I sat down. "I mean seriously, all of the ponies of Canterlot look at me like I am some kind of monster. They don't say anything, but I see it."

"So, you find this a problem?" Lyth asked.

"Really?" I asked sarcastically. I got no response, so I continued. "Ok, let me ask you this? Why is is that you and your migration avoid other populations?"

"Its because we are... different, I guess. Other dragons see us as too pony for the likes of them, but to the ponies, we are just dragons. So we don't really belong with either side." Lyth explained.

"Exactly. But in my case, the princess seems to want me near her regardless of what her subjects think. If I didn't save Celestia, I might actually have become somewhat free." I said as I slowly began to rethinking my past actions. But I shook off the though as quickly as it came.

"Please, don't think like that human. You did the right thing saving another from a terrible fate." Lyth said as he came over and lay down beside me.

"Well, what would you recommend I do." I asked as I faced his direction. As if on cue, I heard what sounded like something appearing right in front of my face, causing me to recoil back from the offending sound a bit.

"Hey, look at that. Human here has a scroll." Drake said.

I felt around the area underneath where I heard the noise and sure enough, my claw came across a rolled up piece of paper.

"Hey, I don't suppose one of you could help me out?" I asked while holding out the scroll. "I still cant see." I then felt the someone else take the scroll from my hand followed by the sound of the scroll being unrolled.

"Alright human, this is what it says." Drake said before clearing his throat unnecessarily. 

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Orion, I do not know if this letter will reach you safely. I can only hope that it does manage to find its way to you. If you are reading this, it must mean that you are still alive. If that is true, than I ask... No, I beg of you. Please, come back to Canterlot.

By now, you will have noticed my guards searching all surrounding areas of the changeling castle, but you have not been found as of late, which also means that you have been deliberately keeping away and I can't help but feel as if it is my fault.

I swear, I never meant for you to be harmed. Because of recent event, I have not been able to sleep or concentrate knowing that you are out there somewhere, injured. Every time I try and sleep, my mind keeps playing the image of seeing blood flow from your eyes and you shaking violently. Every time I try to concentrate on some task that need be done, all I can think about is your safety.

Please, I will do anything. Just come back and allow me to express how sorry I am for putting you in harms way again.

Ever since you have arrived, you have been abused, treated like an animal because you are different, chased down like some sort of prisoner, imprisoned in stone and now, blinded.

Please, Please just come back and I will make everything alright.

Signed: Your friend, Tia.
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"And thats it." Drake said as he finished reading the letter. "Hu, I wonder why she called herself Tia?"

"You see human, Princess Celestia wishes to make good on all that has happened." Lyth said.

I mulled over what was said in my mind. It wasn't really Celestia's fault that I got hurt. If anything, its my fault because I should have been more careful to begin with, which also makes it my fault for her getting hurt.

A wave of guilt passed over me. Celestia had taken me along with her to defend her, that was our plan even before we left and I had failed. She still got hurt.

"So human, what do you say?" Lyth asked.

"Well, even if I was to go back, just how am I supposed to even do so?" I asked.

"All you have to do is ask. Ask and My brother and I can go and get one of the patrols that are looking for you." Drake said.

I placed a claw on my forehead and let out a sigh. "Alright fine."

"Cool. We will be back in a minute." Drake said. I then heard the sound of two sets of flapping wings as both Drake and Tank took off.

"Well, I guess I will be going soon Elder." I said with a slight hint of sadness.

"You do not seem happy. Why?" he asked.

"I may be going back to talk with Celestia, but even though I can't see, I fell more welcome here. I may not be able to see them, but I have noticed all 41 other dragons look to me and just regard me as another dragon." I explained.

"How did you know there were 41 dragons aside from myself and my sons?"

"I have my ways. Its one of the reasons Celestia seems to want to be near me." I said with a shrug. "But still."

"Come human. If there is any time that you fell the need, you are welcome to seek us out and live with us for a while. And just maybe, with you being in the land of ponies, you can help us by showing the ponies that not all dragons are bad." Lyth said. I smiled as I heard the hopefulness in his voice.

"Thank you Elder."

"If you will please excuse me, I need to go and speak with one of my followers." Lyth said before getting up and walking away.

I sat there in silence for about 10 minutes, just waiting. I took my bandage that covered my eyes off and let the warm rays of the sun shine down onto my scared face. But I was soon heard some sort of commotion that was getting closer.

"If you have had him in your custody this entire time, why did you not surrender him to us when we asked you for him!?!"

"Because our elder asked us not to. Elder just wished to have a few words with him." I heard Drake counter.

"Look captain! There he is!" Someone else shouted.

'Oh, please it not be Shining Armour.' I thought to myself with slight irritation.

"Orion!" came the voice of Shining Armour as it came closer before hearing a skidding sound right in front of me.

'Fuck.'

"Orion. Are you... Sweet Celestia! What happened to your eyes!?" Shining shouted as I felt both of his forehooves grab my head and move it around as he looked over my injuries. I knocked his hooves away before re-applying the bandage to my face.

"Don't worry about me Shining. I'll be fine." I said before pushing myself back up to my feet.

"Well, lets go. Princess Celestia has been looking for you for some time now and besides, there is no reason to be near these mosters." Shining said grumpily.

I turned and faced his direction. "Listen to me very carefully. These dragons have been nothing but kind to me and have helped me in my time in need. I never want to hear you call them mosters ever again. Am I understood?" I asked in a dark voice.

"Uh, y-yeah. Sorry."

"Good, thank you. Now, how are you going to get me back to Canterlot? I'm not exactly in the best condition for moving around myself." I said.

"Hold still a moment. I'll get us there in no time. Lieutenant! I want you to go and report to all search parties to return to Canterlot!" Shining called out.

"Yes, sir!"

"Alright, now while she does that, I can get you back." with that said, I heard Shining make his way over beside me. "Now just relax."

A few seconds later, I felt a tingling sensation engulf my body before hearing a familiar 'whoosh' followed by a 'pop' noise. Shining had just teleported us.

I waited for a moment, but I hear noting.

"Uh, Shining? Where are... Argh!" I tensed as I felt something wrap its forehooves around me and hug me tightly. "Ah, ow. Ease up a little."

"Orion, I am so sorry." 

I let out a sigh as I realized that it was Celestia hugging me tightly. the way she spoke, she sounded so... distraught. I felt Celestia wrap her wings around me and embrace me tighter.

"Please forgive me Orion. I swear that..." Celestia started up again but I cut her off.

"Yeah, I know. I got your letter." I said. I tried to struggle out of her grip, but she had basically wrapped herself around me and was not about to let me go any time soon.

"Can I see them? Your eyes, please?" She pleaded. I nodded before awkwardly freeing my arms from Celestia's hug and took off my bandage. As I was taking off my bandage, I heard Celestia gasp. "Oh no."

"Don't worry, I'll be ok. I just need some time to recover my abilities and I will heal." I said. I felt Celestia bring a hoof up and gently caress my scarred eyelids, but unlike Shining, I didn't knock her hoof away.

"Are your injuries this bad in your human form?" Celestia asked to which I nodded. "Please, show me." Celestia asked.

I reverted to my human form and faced away. But Celestia placed a hoof under my chin and moved my head to face hers gently before moving that same hoof to my cheek. Celestia continued to examine my face for a few more minutes until she finally broke the silence.

"Come with me Orion. You need to clean out those cuts." she said before walking beside me and wrapping a wing behind my back. She than began to lead me somewhere.

We walked along for a few minutes. I had no Idea where we were going, but I trusted Celestia with where we were going. Eventually, I heard a door open and we walked through it before it shut behind us.

"We are almost there, just a little further." I heard Celestia say before we continued to walk along. We soon entered a room where each of my footsteps began to echo.

"Where are we?" I asked but Celestia giggled.

"Where are in my personal bath chambers. You need a bath because you smell like you haven't done so in a week." she said.

"I haven't been conscious for the past week so it wouldn't surprise me." I said.

"Well come on then. You need to get out of those clothes, unless you plan to bath in them." Celestia said as I heard a squeak followed by the sound of rushing water.

"Haha that would be a trick." I said before I sat down and began to feel around my boots for the knot in the laces and began to undo them and take them off. I then proceeded to take off my socks before getting back up and taking off my shirt. I was about to take off my pants, but a thought came to mind. "Celestia, are you still here?" I asked.

"Hm? Oh, yes. Do you need something?" she asked.

"I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I could use some privacy." I said nervously.

"Oh, sorry. I'll just be heading out then." she said before turning off the water. I then heard her hoofteps as she exited the room followed by the sound of the door shutting.

I undid my belt and slipped out of my pants followed my my briefs before climbing into the bath that seemed to be an in ground pool and relaxed a moment. I breathed in the warm air and felt the bubbly soap that rested on the surface with my hands.

'Damn this feels good.' I thought to myself. 'Be happy Halex. We are back in the land of trouble.'

-The question is: Are you done being a bitch about life?-

'Oh hey, you are still alive.'

-Seriously? I was just talking to you this morning.-

'Yeah well. Anyway, I should probably try and clean my wounds out hey.' I said. as I felt around for a wash cloth. I found one on the edge of the bath. I could have sworn that the bath was more of a pool than a bath tub.

I soaked the cloth in the hot water before lifting it back out and bringing it to my face carefully, letting out a pained hiss as the cloth made contact with the damaged skin.

"Orion, I brought you some..." I heard Celestia begin as she opened the door again, but was cut off as I let out another hiss. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, just hurts is all." I said as I continued to carefully clean out the damaged skin. I heard Celestia walk up behind me and lay down. I then felt the cloth being pulled from my hand.

"Here, let me help you." she said. I relinquished my grip of the wash cloth and soon felt it ever so gently dab at my eyes repeatedly. It felt so much better when she did it.

I lay my head back on the edge of the bath and allowed Celestia to continue to tend to my eyes. I don't know how, but as she did it, it didn't hurt as much as when I tried to. It felt kind of nice.

After about 10 minutes, Celestia had finished her work and placed a hoof on my cheek.

"Orion, are you awake?" she asked, but I didn't respond straight away. I was too relaxed.

But because of that delay in my speech, it allowed Celestia to do something I never would have seem coming.

I was about to respond to her question, but before I could open my mouth, I felt a soft pair of lips slowly make contact with mine before caressing them ever so sensually.

In shock, I froze, which allowed Celestia to continue to caress my lips with hers.

-Pfft, you've done it now.-
> Mesage to readers.
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Alright, just letting you all know that this story will still continue eventually, but the purpose of this message is to ask...

Who would like a re-write of this story?

I figure I have gotten a bit better since I started this story and was wondering if anyone would like me to basically re-introduce the story, but slightly better written and better detailed and hopefully have more adventures and side tracking to prolonge the storys length.

What I will end up doing in making a new story that is the same, but better. When started, I will post a link in a chapter of this story so you could all find it.

Let me know how you would feel about this.