Two best friends are thrown apart and brought back together. In a flash of purple and white and a summoning ritual, they appear in Ponyville. What could possibly go wrong?
Where ever they are located; Aaron and Jacob were once the best work buddies you could ever hope to find; they went as far as to travel across dimensions! But that seems too far fetched, correct? their machine worked but it malfunctioned yada yada yada... They were secluded to very familiar yet very different dimensions...
Equestria; Twilight has received a new summoning book (screw originality) from the Princess, this book governs the summoning of demonic creations known as 'humans' the most chaotic ugly fiendish brutes from the other side of life. Twilight bucks up the first spell and summons two creatures instead of one.
Mayhem Ensued.
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It has been 2 years since Aaron arrived here in Tamriel, his stay was rather eventful, he managed to earn the favour of all Gods, accidentally starting an inter-realm war, as his soul was split between them all. You see, Aaron has been moved about as a puppet for some time, he sometimes wonders if it really ment anything. But nethertheless, he will now enjoy his freedom, even if he finds himself staring at the moons, Masser and Secunda, whilst he is on top of the college. His numerous adventures did not stay unnoticed, as he found himself being praised under the many factions he wished to join; Nightingale, Harbinger, Archmage. He has truly done all that has to be done here on this world...
A loud explosion erupted from the College, Aaron awoke with fright as he remembered the booming roar of a dragon; luckily, this was no dragon. But that did not occur to Aaron at the time, so he action rolled out of bed, only to misjudge the height of it and end up crashing into the floor. He cast a low power healing spell on himself and got ready to scold one of his students for botching up a highly destructive spell. He donned his standard getup, which included the flowing: Archmage Robes, Vokun's Mask and ebony gauntlets with matching ebony boots. This was all in all a pretty dark appearance, as is needed here in the rough tundra of Northern Skyrim. Aaron made his way to the student's quarters; to find absolutely nothing out of place, his students were sleeping soundly as if only he had heard it. Aaron then asked himself what sort of being could pull of such an illusion so skillfully, with only he feeling the effects. He re-entered the main hall, and found the one and only Lord Sheogorath covered in aetherial fire. And what a beautiful shade of fire it was, that perfect mixture of sky blue and royal purple.
The Prince finally doused the flames with some sort of milky concoction And then proceeded to eat the cup. "I should've known it was you Shay, yet still i have to remind you of something important: you are not allowed in the college after last time" He found himself saying. "Ah yes! I've most likely most positively found a way to get you out of this world, and once your out of the way; I can finally realize my dream and build my Cheese Empire! HaHa!" The Prince exclaimed with obvious joy. "My Banana Republic shall still triumph over your petty dairy products... But what's this about a way out of here? I'm pretty sure we've tried everything. Right?" The Archmage inquired. "Oh its simple really, I put your soul into a summons book, and threw it to not even me knows where! Its not at your home world, as that has less atmospheric magiks and the book cannot form! But its somewhere! And your finally leaving this world!" Sheogorath tried... and he managed to do it, for once; the lazy good-for-nothing madgod actually did half-good for a change.
Darkness obscured Aaron's vision, he felt a hook behind the knavel and was pulled backwards roughly...
Location- Mojave Desert time ; 16th may 2283 Jacob has now spent two years here, trying to find a way back for the first 6 months, but eventually accepting his fate as its really fun to watch a super-mutants head explode because of a one barrel shotgun. He may of lost a bit of sanity along the way. He used the rest of his time to take his bearings, and found himself outside of a town he later learned was Goodsprings. He helped out with a couple problems all over the Mojave, meeting new friends and making new enemies. He had made his way around and acumulated a grand total of 25,000 caps on the way to the Strip... Enough to get through the gates and enough to spend on slot machines. Oh those glorious pieces of machinery. Now; I won't say that Jacob has a addiction to gambling, but he is too good for his own good... He began to shine bright. He believes that he has gotten a mutation that increases his luck during the day; but that is not true. Helios just likes his glowing personality... heh...
This day began like any other for Jacob; wake up, drink from the toilet, eat 200 year old cakes then drink from said toilet again. He was currently in his penthouse apartment on The Strip and he still does not trust House. By this time; The Messiah of the Wastes has ran out of brilliant ideas to fill up his day. He just settled for travelling to meet that scientist that he met so long ago whose name still eludes him. This scientist has promised a way out of this nightmarish world via teleportation and 'Summons' book. Our loopy hero donned the armour of an NCR Desert Ranger, duster and all. And grabbed his trusty single-barrel with 500 shells, excessive, but worth it in the long run. He set out on his moderately boring journey across the wasted plane of existence this world appears to be.
Turns out, Jacob did not like having to travel across this barren wasteland, so he just fast-traveled there himself. What is fast-travel you ask? it is a mixture of ancient weyshrines of a lost civilisation and of courser technology that somehow tapped into it.
Our unknown scientist noticed the hero's arrival and started the conversation. "What a surprise, I was just about to contact you on this major breakthrough I've made on our project" The scientist exclaimed with much joy that this just couldn't be the same guy. "Finally! I was kind of waiting for this moment" Said Jacob in an unenthusiastic tone."So, what do I do?" "Nothing, I already took part of your soul and crammed it in the book over on the table. So I just need to send it to your home!" The Scientist explained. "I just wait then, right?" Jacob asked. "Indeed... oh and just in case you forget again; the name is Loki" Loki clarified.
A pure bright light obscured Jacob's vision. He felt a hook behind the navel and was forcefully thrown backwards...
Location: Equestria Time; September 1002 ANM Princess Celestia is awoken from her slumber by her loyal royal guard, Devoted Shield, as he is frantically knocking away on the door to her chambers. She groggily climbs out of her bed "its too early for this" she mumbled under her breath; and moved onto putting on her royal regalia. She refrained from shouting and put on her best Poker face and opened the door; "Princess! Sorry to disturb you at this hour but an emergency has arisen!" Devoted exclaimed in fright. "What emergency? Even I need sleep" she huffed. "Somepony had broke into the throne room and placed something on your throne." Devoted has calmed down a bit; but is still worried about the object that the guards have found. "Oh, is that all? I thought that this was an emergency..." she said in a slightly annoyed tone."Very well, I shall see to this at once; walk with me, Devoted Shield"
Then the two set off on a perilous journey through the towering white maze that is called Canterlot castle. Celestia asked the guard what the object was and he said it was a book. She was slightly ticked off, but it didn't show, and then asked why it was an emergency in the first place. The answer was intriguing to say the least; "We had called for a few members of the unicorn guard and had them scan the book, individually... it all came back with the same conclusion of high traces of both chaotic and harmonic magic. I don't know how it is possible for that to happen, your highness, but we assumed the book dangerous; and they sent me to get you."... This left Celestia thinking; she had never felt a balance of chaos and harmony since Discord first showed signs of madness, then the harmony disappeared and all that was left was the chaotic draconeqqus that was defeated a few months ago by her Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle... Is this him? Is he back and willing to do good? That is just too hopefull...
The Princess and Devoted entered the throne room to see it completely normal; apart from the Royal Guard pointing their spears at a poor defenceless book that sits upon her throne. They even appeared to have shaking knees and the utmost horror in their eyes. "Guards, stand down; it is just a book" she ordered to her Little Ponies. The Guards dropped to the floor in a bow towards their princess. She then proceeded to approach the throne to get a closer look at the book. on the spine rested two very different phrases 'Shadows hide you' and 'Praise the sun'. Celestia recognised both phrases as the first was used amongst her sisters most trusted guards as way of saying bye, and the second was used by the Sun Knights that she commanded centuries ago... She knew not what purpose they have on the book; but it has a strange powerful energy coming from it. An energy that matches a soul, yet seems to be so much more.
Celestia's eyes widened in realisation, this book was a mockery of the Ancient Summoning Tome; the book her father, Galactus, used to transport large amounts of warriors to battle at any given time, so powerful that it can pull creatures across dimensions to aid in the fight against the opposing forces. But this book was different, too different, for starters; there are only two beings here; waiting to be called to action. She sensed that these Souls are as grand as the ones that you could find in the creatures that inhabited this planet before ponykind evolved. The most devious, cunning and ugly race to ever call this world home...
Humans.
She was going through the thought of releasing them herself and teaching them of equestrian life. But she then decided that this could be a great test for her student and the ponies of Ponyville in general, the skittish lot can use a bit of hardening. She will give this book to her student; and ask her to cast the spell to free these ugly beings from the confines of this book, she anticipates that great amusement will come of it. "Guards; I deem this book as no threat, but if your judgement is so sure, I will be sending this book to my faithful student for her to deal with" Celestia declared with all the grace and smoothness that she could muster, what with it being so early in the morning an all. "As you wish; your highness" said everypony present in chorus.
Nothing obscured the Princess's vision, nothing pulled her into a portal.
Three beings sat around a large table, too large for the three of them. They eagerly await the show.
"Let the mischief, chaos and madness begin!" they cackled all at once, smiles as wide as a cheshire grin.
Location: The Golden Oaks Library Time: The Next Day
Twilight Sparkle is the one and only Librarian that works here at the Golden Oaks with her only assistant being her best friend, and slave, Spike the Dragon. Her job is to manage the income and borrowing of books here and Spike is responsible for cleaning up after her as she decides not to do any cleaning. She is a lavender unicorn with a lavender striped mane and tail; her cutie mark is of a pinkish 6 point star with 5 smaller white stars surrounding it, this signifies that her talent is magic.
In her eyes; today is special. It is the day which she receives a new personal spell book from her old mentor and princess, Celestia. She has received word that this book is a summoning tome created by the king himself and that her mentor wants her to cast a creature into existence. She is currently tidying up the place and re shelving the books as the princess is delivering this book herself for a reason unknown to either her or Spike.
30 mins later
A flash of light startles the young Twilight and she jumps upwards then clings to the ceiling as if she is a frightened cat. Spike goes to fetch a broom to pry her off but their guest does the honour and uses her magic to upright her former student and face her towards her.
"Twilight Sparkle, greetings; how are you doing today?" The princess asks. "Ah, princess" Twilight bows "sorry for the mess; I was doing pretty good until you decided to teleport here and scared me" Celestia looks around and sees that the place is spotless; "Its okay Twilight, this delivery had to be taken personally by me for fears of it falling in the wrong hooves; this book is the most powerful that I've ever collected in my time, and I believe that its time for you have it. I take it that what I want you to do is in my letter?" She asked. "Yes it is! And I'm proud to say that I wont let you down, I will summon something and I will introduce it to Equestria!" Twilight exclaimed in joy. "Good, sorry that I cannot stay for tea; But I have a meeting with the Draconian King in the next 25 minutes" the princess said in the happiest tone she could muster, she had always hated "King Paarthunaxx" and his peace preferring race. She misses the days where she would spar with her good friend Alduin back when he ruled. The princess teleported away, leaving a surprised unicorn behind her.
Twilight was sad at this but also very eager to please her princess. She let her go so she could get to work on that book as soon as possible... Her stomach growls with ferocity; having skipped breakfast to prepare for Princess Celestia. "I'll just go prepare a brunch then." Spike said quickly because he had no breakfast too.
20 more mins later
Spike has gone to help Rarity collect new jewels and he wont be back for a couple of hours; Twilight seized this opportunity to finally do what Celestia has asked and form the spell to summon the creature. She has gone through the spell several times; checking it and re checking it once more. She did not want to mess with this book. Twilights setting down the book finally and she's chanting the books phrase.
"Tainted Gods, hear my call; Bring the warriors liked by all, Praise the Sun ; the purest one, Hail the Moon ; the cured doom, Two separate sides ; Both with good tides. Tainted Gods, hear my call; Bring the warriors liked by all, Praise the Sun ; the purest one, Hail the Moon ; the cured doom, Two separate sides ; Both with good tides..."
A portal has appeared by now and its now fluctuating between a white and a purple light. It is now raising up and a black metallic claw is appearing to drag itself through. Twilight is not caring at this moment and is trying to say the chant until the being gets through; otherwise it will be stuck in the void forever. The being has fallen onto the floor, possibly unconscious, but the portal has not closed yet. Twilight has stopped chanting by now and is staring at the portal in confusion; the portal now appears as a stable white hole. Something else is trying to get through, something lighter, something calmer, something that is now also unconscious... great...
She has now approached the bodies; thinking about where she went wrong. Twilight takes close look at the supposed heroes, but there was supposed to be one? right? Looking at them; she can tell that one is clad in dark, worn robes and has a mask that looks like its made of some kind of black metal. This one also has claws and boots of the same metal, but a lot more jagged and scary looking. Around its waist lies a strange dagger and resting in his right claw is a rather large stick, which could be a staff by the amount of energy resonating off it.
The other being is a bit more modern, wearing a full helmet with bug eye lenses, some kind of flexible armour and a long coat over it. the most interesting thing about this one is that you could see fur less, smooth peach claws; rounded off on the end. On its left wrist appears to be some flickering light and it beeps erratically whenever she gets too close to the gadget. Its other claw has its grip on a long metal cylinder, with a wooden back end. If she were to guess. It may be some sort of rifle; like the designs that were never approved by the Nations.
The modern one is stirring and Twilight is backing away slowly. It finally sits up and looks at its surroundings; noticing her, shrugging and then looking around some more. It then looks towards the other creature, The modern one then proceeds to poke the dark one in the ribs. Repeatedly... The dark one then thrashes and mumbles "Go away, sleepy." just loud enough so she and the modern one could hear it. She did not expect it to speak and by judging by its voice; its a male. She then guesses that the other is also male as its build is similar to its sleepy dark counterpart. "There are waffles~" the modern one said in a sing-song voice, Twilight did not understand what he meant by that but the next part was most interesting. "Come to the dark-side, we have cookies" the dark one mumbled. Twilight then smirks as she noticed the interaction is brotherly. Plus the meme. "Just get up... there's a pony there" Modern bluntly said. she is paralysed in fear now, he knows she is here and she does not know his intentions. "Pony!?" Dark fully wakes up now and looks around excitedly. Only to set his sights on Twilight. "Heh, different world, different equines." "Can you talk? I'm pretty sure that the locals can talk. Yes?" "Uh yes, I can talk... My name is Twilight Sparkle. Who and what are you two?" Twilight asked.
The Modern one spoke first. "My name is just simply Jacob. my title is 'The Messiah of the Wasteland' and I am really lucky in the day. That is really all you need to know." The Dark one spoke next, "I am Aaron, I am the 'Archmage of the College of Winterhold' and a 'Nightingale'. My skill in the arcane arts is greater than Archmage Shalidor himself." Twilight was happy now that she knew their names and a little about them, she relaxed a bit at this and asked if they knew each other... Jacob and Aaron looked at each other in thought until they both finally recognised one another. "Holy carp... its been a long time Aaron" Jacob finally said. Aaron then replied "Yes, yes it has been."
Twilight led them both to a nearby couch and the humans sat down. She then said that she just needed to go get something; she returned with a long scroll and quill in hoof, the dreaded Q&A session begins...
"So, Aaron; Where do you come from?" Twilight asked.
"Just to say, we both hail from Earth. But our foolishness had nearly costed us our lives" Aaron answered.
"Then; What happened?" Twilight then asked.
Jacob answered this time, "This idiot managed to come up with a way to 'further science' as he put it by designing the first ever teleportation pad. The bread tests were, uh, unsuccessful but the self-testing worked; he managed to teleport through to outside the warehouse grounds. About a month later, past defending ourselves against Empress Wholegrain's mighty onslaught of grilled cheese centurions, we decided that its time to test long range teleportation. long story short; it malfunctioned and we got separated through to other dimensions. Which most likely explains why we never saw each other in the worlds we were in."
"Errr. Where did you guys end up?" Twilight cautiously asked.
"I ended up on a planet called Nirn. I woke up heading to my own execution in the province of Skyrim" Aaron said in a casual tone.
Twilight paled.
"I found myself gaining consciousness in our home world, but a nuclear version of it. I found myself bound and gagged. Then I got shot through the brain by a 9mm. I survived, like I always do" Jacob said in a self-praising tone.
Twilight paled even more... She was beginning to have doubts on if she should have casted that spell. But then the Princess would be disappointed and then she would fail, and that is worse then the pasts that these two have.
"Miss Sparkle; are you feeling okay? You look a little pale." Aaron Asked.
"I-I'm fine... just fine. M-maybe we should c-continue this another time. I-I have room here if you two w-want to stay for the n-night." Twilight replied with a stutter.
"Okay, is there anyone we should be wary of on our stay here?" Jacob inquired.
"J-just my baby dragon; Spike... But he should not bother you two that much..." Twilight said, "I-if you two would make yourselves at home; I have a few p-ponies I have to get, a-and a report to send." Twilight then rushed out the door to fetch her friends and to get spike to send her findings to Princess Celestia.
There was a silence for a few moments after her retreat, Jacob broke said silence.
"So, do you think we broke her?" Jacob asked his dark counterpart.
"Most definitely, We really need a title for this sort of thing." Aaron replied.
"We just need a vampire; then I'd have the perfect title for this." Jacob said; while rubbing the bottom of his helmet.
"Lets hear it anyways!" Aaron said in obvious anticipation.
Jacob then opened his arms up as if he had a brilliant idea. "Twilight: Breaking Dawn!"
"Perfect!" Aaron exclaimed, "wait a second; she never told us where our room is."
"Welp. Seems like we just have to wait." Jacob said in faux sadness then he switched his tone. "Or; We can go search for the guest room ourselves!" he then sped off to Loki knows where.
"Fun..." Aaron said sadly. "I'll just wait for Miss Sparkle and her pony friends."
Our heroes continue their adventures and go on to meet the Mane 6...
30 minutes of nothingness later
As you may of guessed; Aaron is a master in the arcane arts. These abilities come with shape-shifting into animate and inanimate objects, Aaron told Jacob this... They are currently playing a real life rendition of Prop-hunt, With real ammunition, and real people...
Jacob is currently a hunter as he cannot shift forms; Aaron is currently a Prop, A cup to be exact, but Jacob doesn't know that.
"Come out little pig..." Jacob said; wielding his trusty shotgun.
"Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin." Aaron replied; standing on a tabletop.
"Are you a book? Because I'm sure that's against the rules in a library" Jacob asked and stated.
"Uhhhh... No?" Aaron said, unsure of what Jacobs implying.
The front door opens and reveals Twilight and Spike. She is wondering what Jacob is up to as he is looking around cautiously with his 'rifle' in his claws. "What are you doing?" Twilight asks. Jacob proceeded to let out a totally manly scream and jumps for cover behind the couch, he then peeks up and to his relief sees Twilight.
"I-uh-we are doing nothing of utter importance to this current situation as this is obviously not me searching and shooting Aaron." Jacob says guiltily and in one breath.
"Where is Aaron exactly?" Twilight asks Jacob.
"Somewhere..." Jacob says. "I don't really know."
"I'm everywhere! heh" Aaron says with a manical chuckle for emphasis.
"To say it now. We are playing hide and seek, sort of, but with our rules and guidelines." Jacob clarifies.
"What ar-" Twilight is cut short by a cup 'jumping' behind Jacob.
"Ooh! is that Spike? the young dragon assistant I heard of?" Aaron asks exitedly.
"A game? Can I play with you guys!?" Spike asks with a wide smile.
"Sorry kiddo, this is an adults only rendition" Jacob said. Spike looks dejected now; good going Jacob.
Twilight then asks if there is a way to stop this game.
"Yes yes yes! One of us needs to give up!" a still hyper Aaron says."If he gives up, I win; I will NEVER EVER give up... EVER!"
"Could you two please just stop, my friends think it will be a good idea to meet you two." an annoyed Twilight says.
"Okay" The heroes say in unison.
Jacob then proceeded to say "I give u- wwwwhooa" He then gets slammed by a rainbow blur. At this action Aaron then goes to laugh his currently ceramic ass off.
"Who are you? Are you a Spy?" the rainbow one says, an orange pony then charges in and pulls off the rainbow maned pony.
"A-anyone get the name of that technicolour train?" a dazed Jacob asks. Aaron has stopped laughing then proceeds to jump in front of rainbow one... As a cup
"Hi there! what's your name? does it include Rainbow? By the way, I used to be a spy! Does that count?" This hyper cup kept on asking her.
"What in Tarnations are you?" the orange one asks. "ah swear I'm seeing a talkin' cup"
"Aaron, please stop doing that and become -uh- yourself." Twilight asked. Then stowed away information saying that Hyper Aaron is like Pinkie Pie.
"Awwww, Okay" the cup then jumped up onto the red couch then mumbled "Entrance time."
The cup burst into blue flames as it shifted and contorted into a much larger being. The silhouette of a bipedal being was seen as the flames died down. What was left was the form of Aaron; sitting in a cross-legged position, holding the ceramic cup he once was. "Good Afternoon" was all he said. Everyponies jaws hit the floor and The rainbow one blurted out "That. Was. Awesome!"
3 more ponies entered the room. One had a brilliant white coat with a stylish purple mane she looked on in horror and disgust; eyes focused on the duos choice of clothing. Another was pink, and bouncy; very energetic. And the third was completely different from the others, with a butterscotch yellow coat and beautifully long pink mane. She locked up at the sight of them and went to hide behind the orange pony, which curiously wore a stetson. Aaron he set the cup on the coffee table and then Twilight cleared her throat. This snapped Jacob out of his daze and he jumped up and ran over to the couch to sit on it.
"Gentlecolts; I'd like to introduce you two to my friends, or they would introduce themselves to you" Twilight looked at them with slightly pleading eyes.
Pinkie Pie started first by jumping into the duo and sitting between them. "Hiimpinkiepiebutyoucancallmepinkiedoyoulikecupcakesilikecupcakes*gasp*yourenewherethatmeansineedtoplanapartydoyoulikeparties?" Aaron answered all questions "I prefer muffins, sadly. But I LOVE parties!" The ponies present looked to Aaron in shock. "What?" Orange pony spoke "Don't tell me you can understand that!" she said. "Don't tell me you can't understand that!" Aaron replied with fake shock. Orange just glared at him.
The white one cleared her throat. "Im Rarity Belle. owner of the Carousel Boutique. I must say that those clothes look dreadful; Maybe I could make something better for both of you." she then tried to use her magic to pry off Their masks. Aaron's mask is enchanted so it cannot be pulled. Jacob used his hands to stop it then said "Don't touch the helmet!" in an annoyed tone. "Fine; But I just want to see what's underneath." Rarity Harrumphed. "Some other time." Jacob said in reply.
The orange one stepped up next. "Ahm AppleJack! Proud owner of Sweet Apple Acres; Tha best supplier of apples in all of Eqestria!" The then looked the two over. "You two look like ya got quite the bit-a muscle on ya" "Thank you for the compliment Miss AppleJack; I may just stop by sometime to see this Sweet Apple Acres." Aaron said. "We could use ta help if ya interested in it; ther will be pay" AppleJack said. "I might just be interested" Aaron mumbled.
Then his vision filled with cyan. "I'm Rainbow Dash, you used to be spy and you still could be; keep in mind, I'm watching you." She threatened. Aaron just sits completely still, un-fazed, he then smirks beneath the mask. "Really? You're going to be watching me? I bet I can take you with both my hands tied behind my back and no magic." Aaron Rebutted. "Oh its on metalhead!" She replied.
"Could you two settle your disputes later? This is important!" Twilight said with a raised voice.
"Fine" Aaron and the pegasus said in unison.
Now the Yellow one is left. Aaron decided to approach this one, leaving Jacob confused as Jacob is the gentle one. "What's your name?" Aaron asked her. "I'm F-Fluttershy" she said. "Fluttershy, a beautiful name for beautiful pony" he said. Fluttershy is very red now and stuttering like crazy. Everypony, plus Spike and Jacob, went slackjawed at the events unfurled in front of them, they never believed that he could be so smooth.
Aaron then stood up and went back to the couch. Rarity tried to pull of his mask once more as she was curious that it never moved, but found that she could not lift them through levitation. "Excuse me, but what metal is present in this alloy? It's darker than anything I've seen and I cannot move it" Rarity asked. Aaron answered with this "That metal is no alloy. It's completely natural yet difficult to find. Ebony is its name and it is one of the rarest metals found on Nirn, it is highly sought after as it is stronger than steel and highly resistant to magics both passive and agressive . The masks design is not mine; this is an ancient dragon priest mask known as Vokun, Sorrow, there are 10 masks that can be found in Skyrim; there's one wood and one bone, the other 8 are made of all metals found in the tundra." "How did you come across this then?" Rarity inquired. "Really? Do you truly want to know?" Rarity nodded, the others were curious as well.
"I got this by killing the Dragon Priest Vokun. I took great pleasure in burning that corpse to a crisp" Aaron said; with a hint of amusement. Everypony in the room paled a bit, even Rainbow Dash. "Y-you k-killed somepony?" Fluttershy said with fear and a bit of anger. "Technically; he was already dead, a smart zombie, a lich." Aaron clarified. "And evil; it was evil." "Oh... Okay then" Fluttershy said, she was a bit calmer around him knowing it was already dead. Spike is currently quaking in his non-existent boots; he has read somewhere of a powerful magic user that killed the tyrant Alduin and his Priests, but he is long dead. Right?
"Moving on!" Jacob said. "Anyone want to know anything about me?" Rarity's hoof shot up; "Yes Rarity?" "Would we ever get to see your face?" Rarity inquired, "Please." She added. Jacob thought about it, eventually deciding to do so. he took off the combat helmet first, which was connected to the red lens peices. They got to see his stormy grey eyes and a little bit of tanned skin around them. He them pulled of the balaclava, which held down his springy hair and hid his smooth, clean-ish face. His face was all tanned, with a few dirt smudges here and there. His face was rounded, making him appear boyish despite his age. The ponies were in awe at his natural beauty, even Aaron was impressed at how well he held his appearance together, as his did not.
The ponies all looked towards Aaron, expecting him to follow his friend and take off his mask and pull his hood back. Aaron stared at him, the strange eyeslits of Vokun appearing to stare into their very souls, wanting to rip them apart and then feel sorry about it afterwards. "No" was all he said, crossing his arms and leaning back in his part of the couch. The ponies pouted and begged, yet nothing came of it, yet he would not budge on his decision to keep his face a secret.
The day drew to a close after 4 hours worth of questions from the 6 ponies and a very scared dragon. They were particularly surprised to find that Aaron is a college teacher and teaches Masters level magic in Skyrim as a whole; literally the only one that's qualified he said.
Twilight then proceeded to show them their room, which was equipped with two comically small beds with oversized comforters. She then left them to their own devices; gone to get ready herself.
"Lets just get to bed; we have more days tomorrow, and I can do research on how to get home." Aaron ended it there, saying no more.
Little did they know; Twilight had written everything down and woke Spike to send it to the princess. Now she just has to prepare how she is going to introduce them to Ponyville tomorrow. 'Wait,' thought Twilight Sparkle, startled and confused, 'Where did Aaron' staff go?'
The three Gods looked down at the staff, they wanted to make changes to it but it would not take hold. The Gods were bickering about what they should do about it. 'The Staff of Magnus is too powerful for these Gods to play with' Thought the Staff, 'The Staff of Magnus will go back to his rightful master now, Soyanarra weaklings!' The three Gods heard the last two words, and stopped their arguing long enough to see the staff disappear in a swirl of blue-purple light.
And that was how the three Gods were hilariously beaten by an inanimate object.
"uh, could you wake up Mr.Jacob?" Inquired a small baby dragon in the bright sunny morning. Jacob, never one to sleep in late, woke up confused as he never slept in, not even back home. "Oh, you are awake! Breakfast is ready Sir" Spike, the dragon, announced, "Where is Mr.Aaron?" He inquired. Jacob glanced over to his lifelong friend's bed, knowing exactly where he is, "We are in a library" he said, as if that would be obvious ... Downstairs, our favorite unicorn was going over her plans for today, which consisted of going to the town hall and setting up an announcement. The announcement is to introduce our duo to the town, they would then answer questions and then they will all head to SugarCube Corner for Pinkie's Party. That is the agenda for today and she will stick to it, no matter what...
Twilight sat down, waiting for the duo to come down for their breakfast, perfectly made by Spike, as usual. Jacob and Spike were the only two to arrive to the table. "Where's Aaron?" Twilight asked. "We don't know" said Spike. "We're in a library" said Jacob, as if it were obvious. ... Aaron was sitting in the dark corner of the library, pouring over old tomes related to this worlds magic and 'theories on what ifs' which focuses on parallel worlds and the veil that separates them, written by a unicorn who's name is somehow familiar, 'Mimic Farcry'. The reason why he is doing this is because he couldn't sleep, he is plagued with nightmares concerning his time battling Alduin and everything that happened inbetween. His time in Skyrim has almost broken him, he has always had thoughts of ending it, but always held on for some reason.
His study session was interrupted, having his corner found by Twilight Sparkle."There you are, we have to get a move on!" "What?" "We need to go to town hall, I need you there to help me set up a town announcement." Twilight said. "Sure, but ho-" He was interrupted by Twilight "We will teleport, now come on!" Twilight revealed.
*POOF* they teleported.
Twilight, Aaron and Jacob suddenly found themselves in the town hall, across the desk from a beige-coloured mare with a white mane, Aaron could see some pink roots in her mane. This mare ,after she stopped screaming about monsters from the Everfree, introduced herself as Mayor Mare, and that she will help us by setting up an emergency announcement right now. Twilight agreed that would be best and she, along with Jacob and Aaron, left the office, yet not before Twilight got a warning. "Twilight Sparkle, listen carefully" she said, " You are to never teleport into my office again, I don't care if you eventually become a Princess of Equestria, I would still not allow you to do so..." said Mayor Mare, a dangerous glint in her eye.
Thirty minutes later, Mayor mare called for an emergency announcement, one which required every citizen of Ponyville to be there. The ponies all surrounded a stage that was set up in the front of town hall, whispering to eachother about what it could be.
Twilight Sparkle moved up onto the stage, a speech she prepared to ease the way for the humans. She was barged out the way by Pinkie Pie, who decided that she should be the one to introduce the humans to Ponyville. "Everypony listen here! Our brilliant friend Twilight has summoned two beings, known has humans, to Equestria. So everypony give a round of applause to Aaron and Jacob!" she announced. The ponies were confused and a little bit scared. What were these humans? Would we be eaten? Should we eat them? Jacob came out onto the stage, skipping gaily and waving to the ponies. Aaron followed behind him, standing more rigidly and appearing to be searching for threats. Jacob decided to take over the announcement.
"Good morning Ponyville! I am Jacob and that is Aaron. We have came to this realm in retirement, well, forced retirement and we plan on spending it having fun!" Jacob announced.
Aaron slapped Jacob around the back of the head and shoved him out of the way. "Well, that's what he is planning on doing" he said gruffly, "What I am planning to accomplish is the find a way back to our own realm." Aaron's head strayed towards a brown pony that looks familiar to him, "If any of you have any information on time-space mechanics, then please seek out myself as I could use all the help I can get." Aaron's head strayed to another pony, this one blue with a blonde mane with a stupid-looking goatee, "That is all I have to say, we will answer one question each, one for me first if you will."
A grey-coated, coal-maned mare got the honor of the question, Aaron said for her to speak her name and then the question. "Octavia Melody, what is that stick you have attached to that belt of yours?" Octavia asked. Aaron looked down to his toolbelt in surprise, he thought he lost the staff somewhere in the library, but no, there it is, somehow it made its way onto his toolbelt. "It is the Staff of Magnus, a side project of mine is to reseach is capabilities as they seem endless. Just now actually, I have learned that it can move itself without the knowledge of anyone, it disappeared for the entirety of yesterday" Aaron Answered.
A grey-coated blonde got chosen for the next question, Jacob followed Aaron's idea and asked for her name and then her question. She appeared to think hard about her question, then her whole appearence lit up as she thought of the perfect question to ask the strange human. Everypony leaned fowards in anticipation. "Ditzy Doo" She started, "Do you like muffins?" she asked, everypony that was leaning fowards toppled over, they weren't expecting that. Jacob smiled, it was the perfect question to asked, as such a question can define someone as being good or evil. "Yes, Yes i do like muffins." Ditzy smiled brightly, as she now knew that he was one of the good guys. After all, only those who are evil hate muffins. She swiveled her good eye towards Aaron, and saw him notice and incline his head slightly in answer. She knew for sure now, two new heroes have came to Ponyville.
The three Gods crowded the television, watching with distaste, they were expecting more chaos to happen with the announcement. "When will the action begin?" Said Chaos, "We do not know" Said Mischeif, "The future is not our forte" Said Madness, "But what of the wedding?" They said in chorus. "Brilliant" Said Chaos, "Marvelous" Said Mischeif, Glorious" Said Madness, "The fun will begin soon, you will all see" They said in chorus.
"Onwards! Towards the party!" shouted Jacob dramatically. He lead the others towards a gingerbread house in the distance, north-west of the town centre. The ponies followed behind him, Aaron bringing up the rear.
The Staff of Magnus loves a good party, though it thinks it will have to wait just a little bit longer. It casts Clairvoyance, only having it affect Aaron. He continues walking but glances sideways, it leads to an alleyway, he waits until the others are not paying attention and then casually strolls after the glowing rope.
The alleyway is dark, it does not fit with Ponyville's rustic charm. there are a few ponies in here, a mare and her colt getting harrased by what seem to be twin stallions. The stallions are buff, scruffy earth ponies and have inverted colour pallets, red and blue, and they both have purple eyes.
"Now, you just need to give us what we want and we won't harm the foal" says Red,
"Yeah, give us what we want!" parrots Blue,
"Look luv, we will even cover his eyes while we do it" says Red. The mare seems to fold, doing what she needs to do and ready to take it like a mare. She trembles, turns around and slowly lifts her tail.
It doesn't even raise half-way. Aaron, a silent observer until now, has seen enough to get the gist of what is going on. He raises his voice.
"Hey, whats going on here?" he asks sternly. The two would-be rapists look shocked and they shake at being caught. They turn around slowly, see Aaron's strange appearance and seemingly regain their confidence. The mare has a hopeful, pleading look on her face as she turns around too.
"Look, Freak, move along and you won't get hurt" says Red,
"Yeah. Freak!" parrots Blue,
Red suddenly grabs the colt, pulls a knife out of nowhere and holds it to the colt's throat.
"Button! No!" screams the mare.
Aaron has, at this point, grown tired of this random encounter. He reaches out and waves his right hand upwards, palm up. The knife comes soaring towards him, he catches it by the blade. The metal crushes between his fingers. He drops the remainders of the knife to the ground and stalks towards the twins. They are both trembling now, and as a contrast, the mare is standing tall and confident. Red drops the colt and cowers under the soul-haunting gaze of Vokun.
Aaron gets up close and goes "Boo." The two stallions squeal in fright, backing away, tripping over eachother, and eventually turning around and running without looking back.
The mare hugs Aaron, "Thank you, my name is Nursery Rhyme and my son is Button Mash, whatever can we do to repay you?" Aaron is taken back by this. In Skyrim, Nordic culture has its citizens not really acknowledging certain acts, much less those as the DragonBorn. He is speechless. The colt, Button Mash, is now hugging his thigh, "That was awesome! Thank you!".
Nursery Rhyme's gaze turns sultry as she looks at him, "No, really, anything at all," Aaron is deeply disturbed.
"Anything at all?" Nursery nods her head, "Well..." he draws out. "I could do with directions to Sugarcube Corner." Nursery Rhyme looks disappointed and slightly sad, but she nods her head anyways. She finally stops hugging Aaron and motions for her son to do the same.
"Okay then, we were heading there ourselves, we were taking this alley as a shortcut when we were ambushed by those two brutes." Nursery Rhyme motions for him to follow, her son bouncing happily along side her.
They reach Sugarcube Corner within a few minutes. They enter the building, the bell rings as the door opens, and every inhabitant becomes silent, and turns their head toward the door. The ponies seem confused, having conflicting memories about him. They remember Aaron entering the shop with his friends, but they also remember that he didn't. Jacob, seeing the Staff of Magnus pulse faintly, pieced this together. Jacob stood up and spread his arms wide and greeted his friend loudly, "Aaron! It's about time you got here! We had to start the party without you!" He went over and hugged him, Aaron stiffening in his arms. This broke the tension and the party started where it left off. Nursery Rhyme and Button Mash go off to enjoy the festivities on their own.
About half an hour later, Jacob notices a familiar brown pony beckoning to him. Jacob gets up and follows the pony out the back door of the shop. A few minutes later, he comes back in, limping heavily, covered in what appears to be green blood and a white substance and carrying a new weapon. The weapon looks like a toilet plunger attached to the end of an M1903, there are red glowing runes on it giving it a daemonic appearance, the weapon looks like its shots would pack a punch and create holes in anything it hits. There is also sand coming out of his trousers. He sits down and winces, shifting around in his seat. Aaron leans fowards and sniffs. He frowns under his mask, it smells like Falmer blood yet doesn't look like it. Either way, he unhooks a vial of concentrated healing potion from his belt and hands it to Jacob who smiles weaky in thanks, uncorks it, and drinks it. a white-gold glow swirls around Jacob, accompanied with a whirring sound. He looks better already, sitting straighter and the strain to his physical body being repaired.
"Thanks," Jacob says, "What was in that?"
"The ingredients are as follows: blisterwart, which is a mushroom, wheat and cilantro" Jacob swears he can hear Aaron's smirk.
"Cilantro?"
"Cilantro," Aaron confirms,
"Why cilantro?" asks Jacob,
"It enhances everything," said Aaron with a tinge of amusement.
"Really?" says Twilight Sparkle, having been listening in. Jacob jumps in his seat and glares at her, Aaron is as stoic as ever.
"Yes." Says Aaron, "It enhances everything, from cooking to alchemy."
Twilight is sceptical, which is shown in her expression. "I am pretty sure you are lying about that."
Aaron's shoulders sag. "Yes I am. The true effect that cilantro has is that it allows one to safely dilute potions that would normally explode... It also makes it taste better." He adds on as an afterthought.