(Warning: Displaced Story) Allen was just a normal guy before he went to a convention cos-playing as Gaige from borderlands. Nothing wrong there right? Everything was fine until he made the mistake of buying from a shady merchant. Nice going Allen.
Allen Heartworthy just wanted to cos-play as his favorite character form borderlands, Gaige the Mechromancer. Things were going well at first, but he just had to buy from that merchant. Welp, now 'SHE' is stuck in the land of talking, technicolored, magical ponies in the middle of a war with an x gryphon commander for a companion. Nice going Allen, well Len now. "Hmm, why do I feel the sudden urge to Shoot, kill, or fuck something? Great, must be another damned Gaige thing... or a woman thing..."
[This is a Displaced story. All credit goes to whoever it belongs to. Picture by Deathbyhill. Be warned, the language can get more than a little bad in this story. You have been warned.]
'Ugh, why does my head hurt?' Allen, thought, staggering to her feet. He rested against a tree barely able to stand on his own as he held his head.
"What the hell?! Why am I a girl?!" He er... she screamed as she looked herself over.
Last thing Allen remembered was buying an ECHO communicator from some shady merchant at the convention and now he was stumbling about in a forest with his manly bits missing. He groaned as his yelling brought about more pain as he held his head. 'Well ain't this some shiz.'
The man turned woman slid to the ground and waited for the pain to die out before he tried to think out his next move. 'Ok, I'm in some kind of forest as Gaige, powers and all if this big blue menu is anything to go bye, and I have no idea where I am. Great, just what I needed in my life.'
She groaned as she stood grabbing a shotgun that was laying where she had been when she arrived here and looked around trying to decide what to do. A sudden yell decided for her as what looked like a bearded pony ran out of of bush halting in its tracks when it caught sight of her.
"Um... Hi?" Allen said nervously. She never was one for conversation.
The bearded pony garbed in a wizard hat and cape stared at her with great intrigue as it watched her before a yell jolted him back to the present.
“HE WENT THIS WAY! COME ON, WE CAN’T LET’EM ESCAPE!”
“Oh no!” the pony spoke before frantically looking this way and that. He darted off into a seemingly random direction, stopping before he got more than a few feet from the nearest bush to look at the human. “Quickly, we must escape these blasted gryphons before they find us!”
‘Us? I have no part in all this! This ain't even my fight damn it!’ she thought as she ran after him. Allen could barely keep up with the pony as they made their way. Well, keeping up was a strong word, more like going fast enough that he didn’t completely outrun her but he was still slowly getting further and further ahead. She managed to quicken her step as she heard more shouting from their pursuers, this time sounding much closer. ‘Ugh, knew I should have never stopped running track.’
“Gocha now pony!” yelled a gryphon form over head as it tried to swoop down on him. Allen took one moment to hesitate before pure instinct and fear took over. In the span of half a second, Allen took a chance and blew the gryphon out of the sky with one shot. The gryphon’s limp, headless body fell to ground tumbling, missing a large portion of the top of its chest as well as its head in a bloody spray in the wind.
“You bastard! I’ll kill-”Looking up, Allen barely had a enough time to shoot down a second gryphon that had turned its attention to her after seeing his comrade get iced. ‘Alright, two down, probably like 10 more to-Oh fuck!’ Not paying full attention to where she was going Allen tripped on a large root and went tumbling right into a tree. She groaned in pure pain as she shakily stood before two more gryphons landed in front of her, both looking totally pissed off and glaring at her in pure rage.
One gryphon, a female by the looks of it, stepped forward drawing her sword. She tightened her grip and the obsidian blade burst into green flames as she eyed the human before her.
“I don’t know who you are nor what you are, but those were some of my best men, my best friends...” her expression softened as a single tear fell down her feathered face before her gaze suddenly turned even more fierce than before, “ and you just killed them like it was the most simple thing in the world!”
Allen shivered, the rage the gryphon felt was so strong even a human could sense it. if looks could kill, Allen was sure she’d be dead a thousand times over.
‘Awe fuck nuggets, what the hell did I get myself into this time?!’
“Jus tell me one thing before you die...,” the gryphon said snapping Allen out of his thoughts, “Why?”
Her question, rather than being filled with rage and promise of death, was saturated in sadness... with a hint of a promise of death to anyone who watched enough drama T.V. shows like Dare Devil to catch it.
Len was honestly caught off guard by the question, but didn’t make the mistake of taking to long to answer. “Well, in all honesty, I just got transported into the everfree forest from another world, First guy I meet urged me to run because your guys would probably kill me if I didn’t go with him, saw them try to end him and the rest from there was more like just fear and instinct driven.”
She looked more thoughtful than angry like Allen had been expecting, but still held a glare. before she could speak Allen decided to ask a question of her own while she still had a chance. “So, why re you guys after that pony in the first place?”
The gryphon looked at her like she was crazy before remembering what she had said. “You really are from another world if you don’t know who Starswirl the bearded is. Long story short, the gryphon kingdom of Gryphonia wants to conquer Equestria. him being a pony and close to the pony Princesses, capturing him could help us to make a big impact in the war. If anything we’d be taking out a very powerful piece in this game.”
Allen nodded seeing the reasoning behind it all to be pretty sound, ya know, except for the whole “Conquer Equestria because we can” part. Allen looked around not really sure she would get far at all if she tried to run now, so, she resigned herself to her fate, not that she would go down without at least trying to go down fighting. With a heavy sigh she looked back to the gryphon, gun in hand, and steeled herself for whatever came next.
“For what it’s worth, I’m sorry about killing your friends. I’m sure they were great people. Don’t know which of us is gonna come out of this alive, but you seem like a pretty great person as well. Guess it’ll be an honor to either be killed by you, assuming I don’t end up putting you down first.”
“Still going to fight for the damn ponies?” she questioned taking a fighting stance. her wings flared out like a bird trying to make itself seem more intimidating.
“Let’s be honest, you’re not about to just let me go and leave me alone, not after all this, so what choice do I have.” Allen asked with a raised brow.
“If you walk away now, I may consider not ripping you to shreds.”
“Considering that you’re the big bad guys moving in and beating down the little guys, yeah, no, I kind of need to be able to live with myself and look at myself in the mirror when I wake up the next day. looks like I’m gonna have to play the hero today.”
The gryphon sighed, obviously now hoping to avoid killing the human. The two began to circle each other slowly, the other gryphons giving them space knowing full well what would happen if they interfered. “Shame, I had honestly hoped you would have taken me up on ym rare show of mercy. You have my respect brave warrior.”
“Actually, I've never really fought before today. Good Start though, right?”
“Yeah, not bad, just don’t lose. don’t die here. I need you to go off and become an amazing warrior now so that we can at least rest easy knowing we were taken out by someone who was truly a natural born war machine.”
‘Honor and pride, gotta respect that.’ She sighed before the gryphon suddenly lunged forward. Allen tried to get a shot off but her the gryphon was not only more prepared than the first two, she was faster, much faster. Allen barely managed to duck under a blade swipe before she bashed the gryphon in the gut with but of her gun and knock her away.
“Names, Gilda by the way. Gilda Stormheart.” Gilda quickly recovered and moved out of the way expecting another blast from her opponents strange weapon.
Allen paled as he pulled the trigger only to see it needed to be reloaded. With this fact being made clear she had to roll out of the way of yet another strike from the flaming sword before quickly reloading. Gilda never let up the whole time she was reloading and it was sheer luck that she managed it with nothing less than a few direct hits on her metal arm.
“Len, call me, Len! Len Heartworthy!” Len fired off another shot at the gryphon, and unfortunate new recruit to Gilda’s squad being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In flurry of feathers and blood, the others got the message and decided watching from behind the trees would hopefully prove far more safe. “Sorry!”
Gilda grinned as she charged again, this time managing to actually cut her non metal arm messing up her opponent and causing Len to drop her gun. No way Gilda was about to let her get it back either. Len barely managed to pull off a trick and get behind the fierce war bird, dropping to a roll and coming up ready to fight. As strange as it was, she was actually loving every second of it, even the pain only made the fight that much more enjoyable.
Len waited, a plan in mind for the gryphon that would hopefully get her off the defensive. Things weren't exactly looking good for her at the moment and everyone watching, including Starswirl, knew the fight was almost over, pretty quickly to. Gilda prepared to finish this, dashing forward knowing this would be the deciding blow. She was right, in a way, just not the way she expected.
Len grinned as Gilda got in range, ready to pull off her plan, assuming she was fast enough. Mid swing, len shot forward with a solid punch to the gryphon’s face strong enough to send the gryphon flying a good 6 feet. ‘Man this arm totally rocks!’
Gilda stood uneasily as she got up disoriented from the attack. Len made a quick call, grabbing the sword and rushing forward while her opponent was left wide open. Gilda tried to sober up and get out of the way, but she snapped back into focus just a second too late dodge the attack, a searing pain shooting through her chest and out her back. Looking down slowly with wide eyes, she could see her own flaming sword plunged into her chest. She coughed up blood before the world around her started to spin. She managed to focus her vision just barely enough to make out a slightly saddened and remorseful Len standing above her. ‘So, this is how it ends hugh, well, at least I went out fighting.’
The world slowly faded to black and she happily drifted off into a deep sleep, one she would never awake from. She was actually happy to die, at least she was dying honorably and not attacking dying at the hands of a pony, a race that her people were wronging simply because of the will of some greedy bastard of a king. “Thank you... Len.”
Gilda groaned, blinking away the darkness as she tried to sit up, a sudden jet of fresh pain made sure she didn't try that again. “Argh! Damn, what the hell?!” She clutched at her chest with deep ragged breaths before her breathing slowly calmed back down to a more manageable since. Looking around, she could make out a hospital room, as well as she the sun slowly setting through a window.
Gilda sighed, she always did loved to watch the sun set. it was always so beautiful. ‘Wait a sec!’ her eyes shot open going wide as she frantically looked around before settling on her chest to notice a recently closed up wound on her chest. ‘I’m... alive?’ She immediately went from shock to suspicion as she kept a wary eye out.
A thought soon crossed her mind as she awaited somepony, anypony to come waltzing in through the door. She had been happy to die, thankful even. She never liked this war, and never would, it was wrong and went against everything she ever believed in. She had honestly lost all pride with the great gryphon kingdom. A second thought crossed her mind, one she would normally rather die than even entertain for more than second, yet this time she actually gave it a bit of thought. Join the ponies, or help out in some kind of way. More than likely The gryphons thought her dead and she honestly wished they were right.
Before she could continue her current thought process the door swung open revealing a familiar yawning human. Len’s tired gaze lit up like fireworks when she saw the gryphon awake and she rushed over setting down her breakfast before gentle hugging the war bird.
“Welcome back to the land of the living Gilda! Gave us quite the scare there.” Her smile and proximity brought a blush to the gryphon’s face, thankfully she managed to keep it hidden for the most part.
“Y-yeah, I’m back, but why am I still alive? I thought you ran me through, right through my heart?” She asked in slight frustration, angry that she couldn’t sit up without pain.
Len looked over to her breakfast and smiled when she notice a hungry gryphon staring at it now. “Hungry G? Here, special ordered and cooked by yours truly, bacon.” Gilda’s mouth watered at the smell of the delicious looking strip of meat. Her stomach growled fiercely seeming to echo her thoughts. She greedily scarfed down the piece of bacon in seconds. Some would even say that her tiny heart grew three sizes that day.
Len giggled, before catching herself and groaning. “I take it the kitty likes the bacon?” Gilda nodded fiercely, or at least tried to before a sharp struck her chest forcing her to calm it down a bit. Gilda only blushed harder than before when Len started absently stroking her chest. Despite the pain she couldn’t help but poke and fluff her chest out a bit, a strange feeling coming over her, that is until a thought shot through her mind.
“Um, hey, Len, what happened after you ran me through?” Len stopped immediately genuinely thinking. As she stood, Gilda could see her sword strapped to the side of the human.
“Well..”
...
Len watched as most of the other gryphons flew off without a word, just simple nods in acknowledgment of her dead and nothing more. The ones that stayed were young and stupid, simple staring at her in a mix of fear and anger. Eventually, one of the emotions took hold, and it wasn’t the one that would have kept them alive.
Len wasted no time dispatching of at least two gryphons before Starswirl fired off three bolts of magic hitting at least two of the others square in their chest. The last three didn’t even see it coming as an pink blur with blades coming streaking in taking out two of them with the final getting the short end of the stick and begin blown apart by both magic and the blasts of a shotgun.
“Agh, firefly, how nice of you to finally join us.” Starswirl said with a bit of sarcasm. The mare grinned as she fluttered over to him.
“Yeah, I know, you wouldn’t last-”
“Hey, you two, shut the hell up and help me save this gryphon already!” Yelled Len as she removed the sword and was trying her best to keep her fellow combatant from bleeding out. The other two looked at her like she was crazy until a solid glare told them pain was promised if aid was not given. Frantically the two went to work trying to save the gryphon. Before but it was almost all for nothing, that is until a second human figure rushed out from the brush with a red vial in her hand. Without skipping a beat she injected the gryphon and, to Len’s relief, effectively healed up the gryphon.
Looking over to the human, Len noted she was dressed up like Maya, granted she had a different head than the default, but that wasn’t exactly important, really. Len was never one to look a gift horse in the mouth also rather than question anything she simply ordered the three of them to get the gryphon and move her to a hospital.
...
“Oh, and, I got a sweet book filled with magic spells from Starswirl, even tells me how I, a non magical being, can learn to use magic in order to actually cast the dang spells. Awesome right?”
Gilda had to admit, that was awesome, especially the part where Len got two ponies to save her life and take her to the castle of the two sisters. She whistled hearing all of this. “Some first day in a new world, right?” Len just nodded with a slight giggle, once again catching herself.
“Yeah, totally. Anyways, I’m joining the ponies in the war. Was wondering what you were going to be doing. Just so you know, I convinced them to let you go free.” Gilda blinked a couple times before smiling. She knew exactly what she was going to do.
“Think my ties with the gryphons died when you put my sword through my chest.” She chuckled, grinning up at her savior before clenching her chest in pain. “Guess I’ll stick around for a bit, maybe see what my fellow gryphons are capable of on the battlefield, y’know?”
Len admittedly liked the sound of that. She grinned as she gave the gryphon another gentle hug before getting up to leave. “Oh, before I forget, you’ve been out for about almost two days now, but I hear you’ll be free to actually leave the hospital in like one more day. Till then, try not to scare the poor ponies too much. See ya around G!” Gilda couldn’t help a light chuckle as she watched the crazy girl go. Ashvatha knows what kind of craziness she was in for running around with that one. Only time would tell.
“Still gonna kick her ass though, no way I’m going to just let her beat me and get away with it so long as I have breath in my body.”
“That can be fixed y'know.”
“Ahh! Um,... Heh heh, w-what are you talking about? I didn't even say anything.”
Len glared at her with her head just barely poked in enough to see her eyes. She slowly retreated through the door before it closed. Gilda sighed, deciding against saying anything else for fear of been heard by the crazy human.
“Still gonna kick her ass though, no way I’m going to just let her beat me and get away with it so long as I have breath in my body.”
“That can be fixed y'know.”
“Ahh! Um,...," she laughed nervously, "W-what are you talking about? I didn't even say anything.”
Len glared at her with her head just barely poked in enough to see her eyes. She slowly retreated through the door before it closed. Gilda sighed, deciding against saying anything else for fear of been heard by the crazy human.
Jax, a human sent to Equestria after purchasing a relic and a ECHO communicator form some merchant at a cosplay convention, sat idle outside of a hospital room, or whatever you called the place you wne to to get healed back in the dark ages. She shot a glare at a passing castle maid, the white maid immediately looking like she was going to wet herself before picking up her pace and walking as fast as she could down the hallway.
The human had spent the last month with her friends trying to shove a similar show back home about talking, technicolored ponies down her throat and when she finally give in and tried it she hated it twice as much. Now she was stuck in the magical pony world and her hatred seem to overflow more and more with each passing minute she spent there. Another passing maid got the same glare the first had, only this time Jax jumped at her and the mare yelped and took off down the hallway in fear.
“Stupid, colorful little bitches, I hope the gryphons conquer them.” she spat in disgust.
Two guards suddenly came down the hall before taking up positions on either side of the door. Soon after to more guards popped the corner, followed by a tall, regal looking whit horse with both wings and horns and a crown, as well as two more pair of guards. It stopped right in front of the door, took one look at Jax, then turned back to the door wordlessly and pushed them open with her magic.
Len turned to see the regal figure standing before her, everypony except Starswirl and Firefly bowing before their leader.
The human put on a more friendly demeanor but kept close to the unconscious gryphon. “Your highness, it’s a pleasure to meet you.” She did a quick bow in respect before waiting for the princess to speak. SHe couldn’t deny she was a bit nervous, if anything starswirl said was true this princess could very well kill her before she even had the chance to reach for her gun.
The princess looked past the human to look upon the silent form of the injured gryphon and sighed before refocusing on Len. “The pleasure is mine, I assure you.”
“I’d like to thank you for saving my friend. Starswirl is very valuable to our cause. Without him we’d lose a major advantage in our war against the gryphons.” She motioned to a guard and he left the room. “We’d like to show our gratitude for your deeds this day. I hope this will do for a reward.” The guard returned with two other carrying a large chest. The dropped it at Len’s feet before a golden aura surrounded it and opened it. Len’s eyes nearly bulged out of her head, stumbling forward like a zombie only to drop to her knees at the chest.
She quickly snapped herself out of whatever kind of trance the gold and jewels has put her under and took a deep breath before speaking. “I-I didn’t save him for any kind of reward, but, I do love gold.” She almost couldn't resist the call of the gold, her mind clouding over again.
Celestia noticed this weird behavior and closed the chest, to Len’s relief as her mind immediately cleared. The princess observed the human as she stood, shaking a little as she stepped away from the chest trying to play it all off. “I can see your love for gold is great. Perhaps we could make some sort of an arrangement. Gold and jewels in exchange for your continued service to Equestria?”
This immediately caught Len’s attention as she sat on the edge of the bed Gilda lay upon. ‘Shit ton of gold in exchange for me constantly risking my ass for these ponies, or just grab G and leave when she’s all better?’ She crossed her arms in deep thought as she looked from the chest to Gilda repeatedly. ‘Man, why am I all of a sudden really tempted by gold. This can’t be a gaige thing can it? Hell, and it’s getting hard to think with all these crazy thoughts of random mechanical nonsense running through my head.’ She took one more look at her options before letting out a loud groan.
“Alright your highness, I’ll stand with you and your little ponies, just keep the gold flowing and I want you to promise me you’ll let Gilda go free when she heals up, no funny business alright?” Celestia nodded smiling gently. That was good enough for Len, she didn’t see a reason not to trust her.
“Now, if I may ask, what are you exactly?”
“A human of course.” Len answered as if it was obvious. FOr some reason that didn’t feel right, almost like a lie.
“I see, and are there any others like you and your friend outside?” she asked.
Len shook her head in response. “Nah, think we’re the only two, or at least that I know off.”
Celestia nodded her head saigely before turning to a guard. “Take miss,... um... “
“Len.”
“Miss Len to my personal chambers till the maids finish preparing her room.”
The guard saluted and said what you’d expect a guard to say, “Yes your highness.” before motion for me to follow him and leading me straight to the princesses room.
Celestia turned her attention to her two top ponies. “Starswirl, would you mind keeping an eye on our new allie while firefly watches over our injured adversary?” The unicorn nodded furiously, already getting out parchment and quill before running off after his charge. Both Firefly and Celestia couldn’t help but snicker as their friend rushed off in hopes of gaining more knowledge. She already pitied the poor mare.
Firefly saluted her princess as she took position by the bed. “Don’t worry, nothing bad is gonna happen on my watch your highness, thats a Firefly guarantee!” She chirped happily. Three of the guards that had arrived with the princess took up positions as well, grinning from Firefly’s usual display of enthusiasm. Even Celestia found herself feeling more energized and eager to perform her daily duties.
“I know I can always count on you Firefly. be sure to alert me should she wake.” With that the solar princess departed, taking a final look at Jax before leaving to consult her sister.
...
A dark shadow moved through the castle, stopping as it watched princess of the sun leave before looking to the source of darkness sitting by the door the princess had just came out of. Silently it worked it’s way over the strange being and before anything could be said it latched itself to her shadow.
The creature began to sturr, first just scratching a n itch, then another, then another, soon feeling tingly all over her body before she hunched over in sudden pain. SHe couldn’t even scream from the intensity of ehr pain before she fell back unconscious, appearing to have just fallen asleep. Inside her head, though, a battle was being waged between her mind and will against the darkness that threatened to overtake her. Thankfully she never had been one to go down easy, but it was only matter of time before her will would break and the darkness would take over.
...
Jax struggled to free herself , her mind lashing out at the intruder. “W-what are you?” she asked as she struggled to defend herself.
The darkness laugh darkly, its voice echoing through her mind. “I am the darkness that corrupts absolutely, the evil that has plagued this world for centuries. and I am the the one that shall forge you a new and use you to enact my final acts of revenge upon these good for nothing ponies.”
Jax struggled harder to free her mind as the darkness spread further. “Why are you doing this? Please stop!” She cried out.
The darkness got right in her face and grinned as two red eyes appeared. “Because, soon, within the next few days, I shall finally perish, but before I go, I’ll give these ponies one final gift, you, my final plague to be let loose upon these fools. You shall cause much chaos and destruction, pain and fear shall grip the hearts of even their most powerful, and death shall reign supreme upon these ponies, if only for a little while. Now, I believe it's time to begin my final plans. Got a world to burn and not a whole lot of time to do it so time to get to work.”
With that the darkens poured down her throat, her screams of agony made silent as she choked on the darkness as it fully corrupted her. In the waking world outside her mind her eyes shot open revealing misty purple eyes with two glowing red orbs.
“The nightmare... has begun.”
...
Len groaned as she flopped on the bed. She was tired, her head hurt, and things were just moving a little to fast for her. Five. Hours. Five, that's how long she had been here and it only took a minute for thing to get crazy. She was already exhausted from all this craziness, if anything else happened right now, she might just kill over. Still, she did enjoy it all for some strange reason.
"Uuughh!" Came her groan as the full weight of everything that had happened so far hit her. She was in another world, a man turn ed into a teenage girl, had already fought for her life, and to top it all off, she just agreed to mercenary work for a princess.
She stiffened as she remembered the feeling she got when she saw all that gold. A powerful sense of greed, an almost overpowering desire to obtain everything she could, a voice in the back of her head telling her to take it all. It frightened her to think she was even capable of feeling such a way.
Her hands met her face as she tried to calm herself down. 'Now is not the time to have a panic attack. Just stay calm and go with it.' her mental reassurance wouldn't actually help much but for some reason she felt a new urge, followed closely by a flood of thoughts of this and that, all of it having something to do with building something. The question was, what? She didn't actually know but whatever it was, if it helped clear her head, she didn't mind putting forth the work.
"Ok, just need to build something, no biggie, i can do that.... I think."
Len sat up ready to explode with thoughts when her babysitter returned, no doubt with more questions. The bearded smiled lightly when he saw she was still awake, trotting right over to her and, just as she had done, flopped onto the bed.
"So, has it hit yet?" He asked, knowing full well what Len must have been going through.
She sighed flopping back down and making him bounce up for a second. "Yeah, it's hitting me now. My family, my friends, I may never see them again. " A tear rolled down the side of her face as she stared up at the ceiling. "I just need a distraction, something to calm the storm inside me right now. Like building things, I've never built anything before, not like this, but I have this intense urge to build something, do something with my mind other than thinking about all of...well...this." She gestured to the whole room, no, the world, as her eyes began to sting while her thoughts drifted back to her family.
"Then... go build something then. No one's stopping you, heck, I can lead you to the royal forge and maybe we can start there." he suggested.
Len looked over to him for a moment, just staring blankly at him with the sting to her eyes slowly faded away. A small smile soon played across her face, one Starswirl did not mind sharing.
Len got to her feet and reached out her hand, the pony taking it gladly as she helped him up. "So, what are we waiting for my friend, let's go build some shit."
Len dove back behind cover to reload her new rifle. She groaned as she heard the tell-tale scream of a psycho rushing her.
“You’ll make the best meat bicycle!” Yelled the bloodshot bandit as he ran up the hill with buzzsaw axe. She couldn't help but grin when she jumped up and punched him in the face, his mask breaking from the impact. She really enjoyed kicking him over the edge into a deep cavern with spikes all over the floor beneath.
“Have a nice fall Asshat!” yelled a happy Len before popping two more shots and blowing the heads off of two more bandits before diving back behind cover.
‘How did this shit even happen again? The day started out so pleasant too.’
...
Blood Wing, a thestral and Luna’s personal assistant(or whatever you call her position.), panted heavily as her body twitched uncontrollably. Len rose from her knees licking her lips. “Thanks for the fun. I’ll be back after I return from scouting some gryphon camps, then we do this a couple more times.” Blood Wing couldn't even reply as she just nodded with a goofy grin on her face.
“Good girl, see ya around.” She strode out into the hallway happy with herself as she looked at her EXP bar seeing it flash before emptying as she got the classic LVL UP with a big golden 15 popping up into her face. Checking her skill tree, she added a point into one of her more weird trees that had nothing to do with the character Gaige from Borderlands, instead they dealt with her use of magic and... well the last one of the three new trees was a bit of a mystery but she still liked the sound of it.
“Hey, Len, got a mission for us!” Came an excited Firefly zooming down the hallway to land beside her, Gilda right behind her and landing to her other side. “We get to go fuck up some more dodos and maybe even get some pie on the way back! Fun right!”
Len chuckled as she scratched behind Firefly’s ear. The mare practically looked orgasmic as from the scratch, her eyes seeming to glaze over. ‘Who would have thought ponies like it behind the ears just as much as dogs do?’
“Sure does Fly. Let’s get on the move already, we’re wasting precious killing time.” Len said with glee as she ran down the hallway eager to get started. She had just finished upgrading her goggles yesterday as well as found some new gear by killing the local skags. Something she didn't even know existed here.
“Alright boss lady, let’s go kick some ass!” Fly cheered before we left the castle.
...
Boom!
“Ha, ya skaglit!” She screamed as she killed another gryphon, blowing his head off and turning it into chunks.
Gilda grinned madly as she slashed through two more with her sword before shooting a third one in the face with her pistol. Firefly just laughed like a maniac as she down through any that tried to flee.
“I love my job!” Yelled Gilda as she plunged her sword into a goliath gryphon centurion, the massive gryphon twice the size of a normal gryphon. Gilda’s grin fell as the huge gryphon just seemed to be a bit more pissed than in pain and got bitch smacked into a tree.
Firefly yelled out a battle cry as she shot forward at blinding speeds and delivered a solid buck to the gryphons jaw, the sickening sound of bones breaking filling the air as she used his face as a springboard to tackle another gryphon out of the air and brutally bash his skull in.
The massive gryphon stumbled about still recovering from the surprising brutality of the pegasus. Len, being one of opportunity, ran up behind him and grinned with malicious intent before giving him a solid robot nut check. If the gryphon thought he was in pain before, now he was pure, unfathomable agony the likes of which no one had ever known.
“Say ‘ahh! ’ Shit for brains!” Len pulled out a triple barreled shotgun and fired it into the gryphon’s face, blowing his head off and blighting his body on fire.
Len looked pretty satisfied with herself as she watched the gryphon start dropping their weapons in fear and surrendering. “Good choice, We would have been happy to slaughter you all but, y’know what, this works to.”
“Hey G, you alright over there?” asked a concerned Firefly. GIlda gave a thumbs up before proceeding to rest up against the tree.
“My head is spinning but I’ll be fine after a few minutes.” She said as her eyes spun around comically.
Firefly and Len relaxed as they tied up their captives. Satisfied, the trio started to loot the area fro any valuables.
“Wow, its good thing we have you on our side. To bad you came in near the end of the war. the gryphon’s are almost beaten. Sadly that means less violence for us.” Firefly deflated at the revelation, actually saddened.
“Be careful what you wish for Fly. fighting the gryphons amy be fun, but an even worse enemy could show up and it won't be so fun then.” Len warned. After finding out that skags existed in Equestria she had been worried how many other things for the game existed in this world.
As if to simply answer her thoughts in the most bull shit way possible, a massive metal structure boomed out of a portal in the sky, the object zooming overhead before crashing some ways away.
“I got a bad feeling about this one guys. Lets check it out.” Len ordered before taking off in its direction.
Len ducked behind a rock as she looked on in both mild shock and horror at the occupants of the object, a ship from the looks of it. Anthropomorphic ponies all wearing varying items of clothing such as masks, helmet, goggles blood stained pants and blood stained wraps, usually on their arms and or chest. Each one looked to be well armed and few didn't even have guns, just carrying around a buzzsaw axe.
“Hey, it’s a vault hunter! Let’s get em!” yelled a bandit. Said bandit received two shots, one to his nuts and the last to his face.
“Fuck you skag breath, you sons a bitches ain't gonna take me down, no way, no how!” Len shouted back. before popping off into two more bandits taking them down.
‘And thus you now understand just how quickly things went to shit. What was supposed to be a simply, yet very fun killing spree elevated into a shootout with a bunch damn bandits. Just great. Well, at least I can do some real looten, borderlands style.’
Gilda flew overhead unloading a full three clips into the bandits racking up six kills before she landed to avoid being shot out of the sky. Firefly, being even crazier and headstrong than both of us combined, fly straight into the heat of things slashing away and dismembering at least a dozen of them before sheathing her swords, instead picking up two buzzsaw axes before dashing from behind piece of ship wreckage and continuing her slaughter spree. After making a full two dozen in total kills she landed beside a stunned Len and Gilda.
“Are...are you the god of death?” Asked Gilda in a state of complete awe.
“Not bad, but let’s see if I can't do better.” said Len before doing what was even seen as crazy by Firefly and probably even Discord, she jumped over the rock ran down the hill firing and reloading her shotgun over and over. The two didn't understand at first, it soon became apparent as she went about blasting bandits apart left and right, half the time her shots missed but somehow ricocheted of objects and still managed to find a cozy home inside of bandit skaglits, incinerating them.
The biggest surprise came when Len unleashed a secret weapon, one she had kept secret for the last two weeks. A massive, floating machine was soon digistructed into existence before booming in mechanical sound before immediately going about slash and beating bandits into a fine paste of blood and guts.
“Third place... third place... I can’t believe those judges gave you third place! I mean, just look at how badass you are Death trap!” Len raved.
“Thank you master. DIE!” boomed a deep mechanical voice as the machine known as Death Trap ripped a bandit in half. A much large bandit walked out into the battle, one arm being freakishly huge and the other freakishly small. GIlda made sure to picked up a new, better weapon before rushing in and unloading both of her guns at the overgrown monstrosity from the sky while Firefly rushed in taking care of any other bandits that were in the area.
“We got ourselves a badass, be careful!:” Len shouted before Death Trap went to work fighting the badass bandit. Though DT was strong, the bandit was equally so and demonstrated this by back handing the robot to the ground. As it raised its weapon to strike the downed machine, DT fired a laser from its one eye burning the bastard alive as Len unleashed her wrath on him with a new weapon she picked up,a four barreled corrosive shotgun, and Gilda hovered behind him reloading and firing off in his back. Dt managed to get up before taking one last great slash and decapitating the badass.
Len sighed as she looked around to see that everyone was either dead or had managed to escape into the forest. Checking her map, however, revealed one last red dot. Len, being a bit of completionist as of late, marched over to the last dot shotgun in hand.
“Ya should have ran like the rest of your friends ass hat, cause now I’m gonna-” She stopped, lowering her weapon seeing a wounded little filly, probably no older than 12. Her left arm and right leg were mangled beyond repair and hanging by bits of flesh, not even fully connected in all honesty. Two long cuts went over her left eye and the other eye, though still there, didn't look to be in too much of a better state than the other.
Gilda was about to ask what was going on when she halted at the sight of the girl and her heart sank seeing what she knew had to be a child in such critical condition. The poor thing barely looked alive at all, the only sign she still was, was the rising and falling of her chest but it was more than obvious she was fading fast.
“Um,... Gilda, Firefly, watch over her for a sec, try and keep her alive till I get back.” She ordered. Neither of them protested as Firefly got a good look at the horrible condition of her charge.
Len searched frantically through the wreckage. “Come on, come on, it's got to be here! Where is it?!”
Tossing a side piece of debris she found a crate and opened it to find exactly what she had been looking for. “Yes! I”m coming guys!”
She sprinted over to them, sliding under a fallen rail and sliding to halt just a mere inch away. Without hesitation she injected the mare with one of the vials. “Get her to the castle, i need to scavenge for a few things around here to help the poor kid out.”
Her words left no room for question as she rushed off leaving her two companions to tend to their part and get the young filly to the castle for treatment. All the while, form watched them from the shadows. a pair of teal eyes narrowing before the form sunk into the shadows, with a sick grin it watched Len closely before disappearing all together.
“Yes, fight, get stronger, yes. Prepare your body for you shall be truly useful to me...Miss Heartworthy.”
Blood Wing groaned as she walked the castle halls trying her hardest to keep her composure. Her nethers had been aching all morning and now as the sun reach the pinnacle of it journey across the sky, she wasn't sure how much longer she could last like this. She could already feel something wet traveling down her legs and kept her eyes forward avoiding the looks of everypony else as no doubt could take just one sniff and know.
“Damn that insufferable human. Tricking me into eating her heat inducing pie.” she grumbled.
“Ah, Blood, there you are! Perfect timing as usual.”Came the sweet voice of the lunar princess. Blood silently cursed her luck before turning and bowing to her majesty.
“Please, no need to be so formal old friend. I do, however, have a meeting with nobles and would like-” Luna cut herself off as she sniffed the air around her before her teal eyes landed upon her advisor and her face turned beat red. “O-oh my, nevermind Blood, it would seem you’re busy with more... um...stressful matters. I had thought the suffering you had described earlier this morning to have passed.”
Blood, a mare who was never embarrassed, always strong, well composed, and incorruptible, blushed even harder than the princess and made a mental note to cave in the skull of the one responsible for her current predicament.
“I apologize your highness, I...I just need to find her and handle this and i shall be right with you.” she assured.
“Now may not be the best of times.” Upon seeing the curious look on her advisor’s face, Luna decided to help her understand a little better. “Go to the healing chambers and you shall no doubt find all the answers you shall require.”
With a nod and a bow, Blood carefully made her way to the healing chambers, eager to see what could be so important that she couldn't use the human to get herself off again.
“Could something have happened to her?” she wondered aloud. Blood couldn't understand why, but for some reason the thought actually brought her fear as she quickened her step, soon delving into a full sprint.
Blood Wing burst through the doors to the chambers only to go silent as she found her intended target taking sharp tools and to some...Pony? somepony's eyes. The human looked to her in surprise before a small smile made its way onto her face. With her eyes, and everyone else that sat in the room working, Blood felt more than a little uncomfortable, even more so when, not only all the non humans smelled the air before staring at her, Len had done so as well despite her less than static sense of smell showing just how strong of scent she was leaving at the moment. The look of lustful hunger that splayed across Len’s face did not help either.
“Sorry love, I’ll have to attend to you later on tonight. I’m a little busy at the moment.” Len stated as she got back to work, gingerly working on the mare’s eyes.
“O-of course, my apologies, I... If I may, what happened to her? Assuming it’s a her.”
Len brought up a holographic chart on her arm and began to list out a few things. “Looks like brutal rape and mutilation, her eyes clawed out, her arm and leg torn from her body, and to top it all off, something clawed up the rest of her body as well. Long story short, it wasn't pretty.”
Blood couldn't believe what she had just heard.How could somepony do such things? it was just...just...wrong, even by her standards.
“So, we good to go later tonight?” Len asked as she apparently finished up with the eyes.
Blood, huffed and pointed her nose into the air as she took a seat next to the human. “As much as I loath the idea, yes.”
“Awesome, was worried I wouldn't be able to have seconds. Or is it technically fiths?” Len’s mischievous and lust filled grin was enough to quiet any form of verbal retaliation as she attempted to avoid the gaze at all cost.
“Well, if you two are done flirting, how about we get back to problem at hand?” Gilda strode over to the young mare and sighed.
“She’s right, we need to figure out what were going to do with her. I mean we can’t just kill her after we spent hours trying to save her, at least not right away.” quipped Firefly as she eyed the mare in a wary manner.
Blood looked around the room before taking a chance and adding her opinion into the mix. “M-maybe we should wait until she wakes up and explain the situation, then we take it from there.”
Len smiled at the thestral and pulled her a little closer. “Great idea, lets go with that. If she turns out to be to hostile, we terminate her. Otherwise, I don’t think the princess will mind another warrior added to our ranks, right team?” Everyone looked at her strangely.
“Since when are we a team?” asked the gryphon as she eyed everyone in the room in a seemingly new light.
“Yeah, a team? I don’t really like the whole team thing, but if it has you guys in it then thats awesome!” Cheered the crazy pegasus. “Wait, who’s the leader then?”
Gilda grinned and stepped forward. “I nominate Len for leader of Psycho Squad.” she pronounced with great pride. “She’s the greatest warrior here, and that's with only two actual weeks of training.”
“I second that notion, seeing how she’s the whole reason this team exists.” added Firefly.
“I’m casting my vote for Len as well, but only because if I don’t she might not show me that tongue trick again tonight.” Blood blushed profusely at her own statement. it had been an attempt at payback, so you can imagine how much more hot and bothered she was when Len made a certain gesture between a v shape to her mouth before licking her lips with a predatory grin.
“So,” Len looked at everyone present once more, “now we just need to wait for our current pending member here and then we can deliver a more detailed report to the princesses. Sound good Psycho Squad?”
“HELL YEAH!” came the resounding reply.
“Nice job on the name by the way.” Gilda nodded and smiled proudly.
A sudden knock another door claimed their attention as they turned to see Celestia in the doorway. To her surprise and, somewhat, relief no one made a move to bow. If anything, they just stood their shooting her an annoyed look the longer she stood there.
“I trust you have the situation under control miss Heartworthy?” Len nodded and looked over the unconscious mare before returning her gaze back to the solar monarch.
“Situation is being handled, but if you don’t mind, all of my friends just call em Len...so call me len your majesty.” Len smiled receiving an even warmer smile in return.
“I see, well then, from this moment forward you shall all address me as Tia or Celestia.” she declared.
“Fine by me. Does this include Lulu as well?” Celestia nodded and Len beamed. “Great, tell her the whole friends call me Len thing as well please.”
Celestia's grin widened a bit. “I think she’d love to hear such. Oh, and, do be gentle with her advisor, we still need her to be able to perform her duties, not be trapped in bed unable to walk.” she said with a wink. If blood could get any redder than she was now, she’d have to change her name to Red Wing or find a new job.
Not even Celestia could refrain from enjoying the poor mare’s misery as she laughed. Just when Blood looked to be getting pissed off Len grabbed her and sat Blood in her lap before nipping up her neck and ears. Though she looked just as flustered, she her anger was completely replaced by desire as she feebly tried to struggle out of Len’s grasp. She would later swear she nearly died when she moaned out in front of the princesses and her friends.
“Alright, guys, enough messing around, we do have some bandits to catch. Hows about we get to work finding them and introduce them to psycho Squad and their badass leader.” barked Gilda gaining a round of cheers and relief for a certain thestral, if only for a moment. She gulped at what came next.
“Now if you’ll excuse me, this little filly ain’t gonna wake up for a couple of hours and I have a mare to escort to my bedroom. Anyone who wants to join is free to join. Yes even you Tia.” The amount of grins that came her way, especially from the princess of all ponies, was enough to make even Blood Wing whimper as Len carried her off followed by the princess and the other two members of the team. “One mare orgy coming right up, Don't worry Blood, we’re gonna have loads of fun, buckets full from the looks of it.” And thus Blood managed to get redder.
Jax growled as she struggled with her restraints. The shadowy chains holding strong as she pulled on them. Though it had been nearly a month since she was captured by this darkness, she hadn’t given up hope, not even in the slightest. She glared as Nightmare laughed her vain attempts at freeing herself and pulled the chains making her grunt in pain.
“I will admit, your will seems to be unconquerable. Even I am having trouble keeping my hold on you for so long.” The nightmare stepped forward cupping Jax’s chin in her hand and forcing the girl to look her in the eyes.
“Don’t worry though, I’ll try and make our relationship as short as possible. Soon enough, your friend, Len, shall be my new body, and with her, I shall get close to my true target and cover the world in darkness.” Jax’s glare seemed to get stronger. A light dimly shining from her tattoos and weakening the chains. It quickly faded though and Nightmare simply wrote it off as a flash of her rage.
“My, my, such a feisty one. I like that about you. getting so angry about me hurting someone you practically gave the coldest of shoulders to after you met her. They’ll believe you to be the evil one. They won’t believe your crap story about being possessed and you know it.”
“Then you don’t know Len apparently. We’ve been watching her all this time but you still haven't learned a damn thing.” She growled. “I was a bit upset over being sent to another world. I was a bit bitchy to her at first, but if you hadn’t pulled this shit i would have made up for that. I’m going to destroy you, just remember that demon.”
“Ooh, I’m shaking in my metaphorical boots.” taunted Nightmare before laughing madly. “Please, stop being so funny. Seriously, you’re gonna kill us with this hilarious performance of yours.”
“Wow, this coming from the bitch who's just stalking a girl. Didn’t know you were such a perverted child loving bitch Nightmare. Staring at her in the showers, and even watching her mess around bed like that. Bet you wish it was your ass she was tying up and spanking don’t you you horny slut.” Jax grinned as she saw the shadow faints glow red.
“S-shut your damn mouth! I watch her because she is the one I need in order to get to Luna! I’m just not strong enough yet!” Jax only laughed harder as she watched Nightmare get redder.
“Oh wow, you didn’t even really deny that you wanted it! You really are just a horny little spirit to afraid to just go and get her some sweet, young ass!” Jax laughed hysterically as she watched Nightmare get more frustrated only to notice the spirit made no attempts to deny any of it.
“This, Len shall be useful to me regardless of my desires.” ‘wait did she just admit it?’ “I will reign my wrath upon these lands and with this warrior at my side I shall be unstoppable.” ‘Holy shit, she totally is!’
“Hey, when she beats you, and she will beat you, maybe you should tell her how you feel and try another route with her, if you’re not dead or destroyed.”
Nightmare looked her quizzically, before finally shaking her head and leaving Jax to herself. “It’s too damn early in the morning for this shit. I’m going to go masturbate our body now. have fun watching it.”
And what are we doing after that?” Jax questioned.
Nightmare grinned at that. “After that, we have a certain royal gryphon to go pay a visit to. Should be fun really.”
...
Blood yawned as she awoke. She wiggled her way from between Gilda and Firefly and followed the scent of food over to the balcony of Len’s room to find said human happily munching away on her breakfast.
“Hey Blood, I’ve been meaning to ask you something.” Blood took a seat as she grabbed a hay waffle and some bacon.
“Ask away, not like I got much to hide really.” Blood started to chug down a glass of orange juice.
“Can I be the father of your next changeling brood?” Blood immediately spat out her juice and fumbled with the glass before clumsily letting it fall off the edge. The sound of shattering glass and an alarmed guard screaming out, probably a rookie, soon followed. Her entire face was red when she finally looked back to Len to see the women simply eating as if nothing had just happened, obviously patiently waiting for a reply.
“I-I, what? W-what the hell is a changeling?!” Len gave her a look along the lines of ‘I know so cut the bullshit’ and Blood gulped.
“You’re hive doing well, or are you here because they’re all dead or something?” Len inquired as she sipped from her glass.
Blood glared as she calmly grabbed her knife. “How long have you known?” It was a simple question and possibly the only thing she could ask seeing that she would get no where trying to lie to the human.
“From the moment I met you Blood Wing, or would your prefer Queen Dread Wing, the changeling allegedly responsible for the genocide of the frost trolls and slayer of the dragons, Terror Claw and, this one I find kinda funny for some reason, Blood wing.” Len answered.
Blood seemed stunned by how much she knew and hesitated to attack, a hesitation Len took advantage of to discourage her. “You know I wouldn’t mind killing you if you tried to kill me, right? I mean honestly, i figured you wouldn’t like this whole situation but I refrained from letting Deathtrap jump you because I actually like you, no, I think you genuinely mean a lot to me. How much do I mean to you?” The question in and of itself hit Blood hard. Before long though, she made her decision, gently putting the knife down and looking apologetic.
“I apologize, you have grown on me greatly, and to find out the love I feel from you has been directed towards me even knowing what I am. To know that your love was directed at the true me, it does bring about a certain..well...longing for a mate.” Blood blushed deeply as she thought over her earlier question.
“My hive is very small and fragile. Those dragons required the entirety of our strength and even then, it was almost too much for us. We few that survived barely managed to do such.” She nervously gulped as her body was engulfed in green flames. In place of the thestral Len had grown accustomed to seeing, a tall, thick, black frame now sat in her place, her long, faintly glowing, illuminating mane seemed to be riddled with holes just like her hooves and legs. Her long Crooked horn Looked sharp enough to cut through steel with such ease that it would be almost as if someone wasn’t even wearing armor or had drawn a blade against her. Her eyes luminescent green eyes seemed to speak of great intelligence, compassion, pride, and even authority. As if only to add to her overall beauty, her well polished carapace gleamed on the light with only three large scars running across her chest, likely from being clawed by something big.
“If my form truly does please you, then, perhaps you would consider becoming my... Grand Duchess? Yes, we shall stick with that title for now.”
Lene nodded with a grin liking the sound of ‘Grand Duchess Len Heartworthy’ very much. “Wow, that does sound like a nice title. Though, and this is if my studies on your culture are accurate, Empress Len and Empress Dread Wing sounds so much better.” Blood’s eyes widened as she understood what Len was suggesting, before narrowing as predatory grin slowly grew on her muzzle.
“Empress Dread Wing? I do like the sound of that, and all the power that comes with such a title. The other hives would have to bow to me then. It would seem my bride to be is just as ambitious as I am, if not more so.” Len only grinned as she finished her breakfast and swayed into the room.
“And possibly more lustful than you as well my dear. Now then, I’m going to go take a shower. Care to show me how a changeling queen plays with her mate in water?” A blush and the quick scramble of hooves was all she got in reply. Gilda and Firefly, who had heard the entire conversation having been awaken when Blood got out of the bed, were quick to get the door.
“Sweet mercy of Ashvatha, why didn’t I get stabbed by some strange creature from another world sooner? My body hasn’t felt this good in years!” Firefly nodded vigorously as she bit her lip watching her new found leader walk through the door followed quickly by Blood in her true form, herself, and Gilda.
...
“Your highness, you have a strange visitor here to speak with you. She claims to be able to help us in our war with Equestria.” announced a gryphon guard. With simple nod from the large warrior gryphon king, the doors opened to reveal a certain human shrouded by her dark purple cloak. Amethyst spikes jutted from her shoulders and from the back of her hand curving forward. She grinned as she saw her desired prize.
“Speak creature, and if I don’t like your words I shall have our head.” boomed the gryphon king. His hard, deep voice seeming carry on far beyond the throne room.
“My name is Nightmare Siren, and I,” she lifted a hand and suddenly her tattoos glowed before every guard near her was suddenly impaled by spears made entirely of shadows with dark sphere forming around the gryphon king as he was lifted into the air, “am your new queen.” With that, she clenched her fist and the sphere suddenly began to shrink with the king still inside. His screams were like music to her ears, as well as the sound of his crunching bones as she made the sphere the size of a large hoofball. She tossed the sphere out the window and let it spray its contents on the crowd of angry gryphon citizens outside the castle, many of which quickly recognized scent of blood and pieces of crushed royal attire that fell with it. Many either screamed or emptied their stomachs, but the most common thing among them was but one thing, the cries of “The king is dead!”
Len panted as she pressed on running through the cave. A glance behind her revealed the tale-tail sign that the the overgrown bugs were still after her. A particularly massive spider ant rolling past its companions and catching up at an unsettling rate. She just barely managed to dodge a shot of string and another shot of fire from another massive spider ant. With exit so close Len just had to make it, so she took a risk. With a decent jump off a stalactite she jumped onto the head of the first massive bug and used it as a launchpad to springboard herself ahead tumbling just outside cave.
She ducked as another shot of web fly over her head before growling at them. “Damn things don’t know when they’re beat.” Her growl soon turned into a sadistic grin and laugh. “I think I’ll fix that for you abominations.” With her grin widening she pulled out her new E-tech pistol and fired red shards into their heads, shards than soon exploded and killed most of the young ones before the biggest spider ant bashed her away. Changing up tactics Len decided to put her magic lessons to good use firing off a ball of fire that exploded heavily against the skull of the first before shooting a large shard of ice at the fire spider ant, freezing that bastard solid. It wouldn't last long but it would at least put him out of the fight for a few seconds, more than she needed honestly. Pulling out a rocket launcher and pumping raw elemental magic into it, she let loose a barrage of fire/slash corrosive rockets into the the , spider knight from the looks of it, disorienting it before pulling a master chief and spring boarding off its head to get behind it and let out another barrage into its soft, exposed, vulnerable abdomen effectively killing it. Its cries of death were like a sweet symphony to Len’s ears.
Being in the air offered little maneuverability, so it was no surprise when she bashed by the flame spider ant and lit on fire. What did surprises her was the ground shaking violently before the ground behind her gave way allowing a certain massive spider ant to rise out of the ground with her knights, the queen herself. One thought crossed Len’s mind as she greeted her teeth through pain of the fire. ‘This is just might hurt.’
The spider ant queen smacked her into the air before a knight tackled her to the ground hard, she could swear by the pain of it all, one of her now broken ribs was now threatening to puncture her lung or heart, either being a bad thing. She growled as her eyes flashed a violent green before she punched a magic infused fist into the mouth of the knight before it spontaneously exploded. A second knight tried to rush her only to be gripped her emerald might and crushed before exploding violently in a fiery and corrosive explosion.
Len picked up a vial of red liquid and injected herself, she roared in pain as her ribs reset themselves and her punctured lung patched itself back together, good as new. She panted as she struggled to stand. Looking at her HUD, she could see Deathtrap had finally recharged. Quickly she released her robot of death upon the monsters and let him get to work. She grinned in satisfaction as three knights screamed in agony as they were lit on fire and died. The queen seemed to look to be trying to escape, ‘nope.’
“Hey, where you going?! The party isn’t over just yet your majesty!” Her sadistic grin returned in full as she pulled out an old favorite, a torque shotgun, and fired off the explosive ice rounds into the queen's abdomen. Her scream elicited a purr of pleasure from Len before she took another shot blowing off one of the slowed queens back leg. One could honestly not tell the difference between a wild monster and Len at the moment as she charged ahead blowing off another two legs. With Deathtrap dealing with the others she took her sweet precious time beating the queen to death with her metal fist. She took great pleasure in the feel of her fist finally bashing through her tough head exoskeleton and into its skull. With an almost feral predatory grin, Len turned her gaze onto the remaining knights and elemental spider ants, even spying a few badass spider ants. A chill seemed to wash over them as she did so, a few actually shaking and running off into the cave with no intentions of coming back out till she was gone.
“So...” her gaze washed over the few brave ants, “whose next?” A knight in the back released its excrement onto the ground to Len’s satisfaction. With her blood thirst growing with every passing second, she charged into the group with a loud war cry, Deathtrap following his master’s example and charging headlong into the battle.
...
“And that's why that spider ant head has a hole in it.” Said a cheery Len as she two pegasus guards paused as they finished hanging the massive trophy above the fireplace in said human’s room. Luna and Celestia both looked on in amazement, wonder, and a bit of fear, or in Luna’s case, something far more entertaining.
“Will... will you marry me?”
“What?!” Luna quickly realized she had spoken out load and froze in fear now.
“Well, I was kind of think me, what with her being a madly in love changeling Queen and all, I’d propose to Blood on our on our two month anniversary, but I don’t see why I can't have you both.” Len tapped her chin in thought before smiling warmly. “Yes, I will, I shall have you a ring in three to four days. Sound good?” Her smile slowly faltered as she noticed Luna wasn’t speaking, hell, she wasn't even breathing. “Um, Luna? You alright there sugarcube?” Getting no reply, Celestia poked her sister worried for her health. Luna responded by slowly falling over like some kind of statue.
“... I think she agrees to your terms.” Celestia said absently as she gazed down upon her love struck sister statue. “I’m reasonably certain that she’ll be fine in a few minutes... I hope.”
Len giggled, something she had been doing increasingly around her friends. At first she had paled every time she caught herself, but now she didn’t even pay it much attention, hell, she thought her giggle was so damn cute she’d fuck herself if her male and female half ever separated.
“I’m sure she’ll be fine your Tia, Lu is a strong one.” Her smile quickly faded as she got back to the discussion form before she began her epic tale. “besides, we have much more important matters to attend to, such as this recent reports from our spies in the gryphonia saying that Jax has killed the king and taken over the empire. Not to mention the fact that she is amassing more power with each passing day at an alarming rate and will soon be making a strike against Equestria, a final play to win this war and probably kill you and your sister.” Celestia got serious as well as she looked over the reports again.
“Yes, its unsettling to think of how this might all turn out. From these reports I’d say we have about another two months before she finally has enough power to rival both I and my sister.”
Len frowned as she looked over another report for a third time. “And what about this rumor that she is possessed by a spirit of darkness that seeks to bring about eternal knight. Think ti could be what cause Lu to change?”
Celestia nodded with anger, her mane briefly bursting into flames. Ever since she Len had warned her about Luna’s possible future, she had taken to making sure to treat her sister far better and spend as much time with her as she could. “Yes, but I’d sooner die than let that...THING take my sister away from me.”
“Yeah, same, I’m not letting that happen to her. We have to save Jax as well, she was a bit of an as that first day, but we barely got to know her before that thing took her from us. She doesn't deserve this, she doesn't deserve to die because some bastard darkness decided to go body snatching. This nightmare is skag bait!” Len slammed her fist into the table for emphasis, cracking the table in half with her rage. WIth as simple spell, Celestia repaired the table... before smashing it to pieces with her bare hooves and fixing it again. She looked visibly more relaxed.
Len groaned in pain as her mouth continued to be sore with pain, though something felt...off in her mouth. She grabbed a silver platter and gasped as she took in the sight of her teeth, her new fangs in particular. Her eyes had also changed it seemed, taking on a more dragonic look while glowing in blue luminescent beauty with trials of circuitry in her irises like some kind of motherboard, energy pulsing and surging through each little individual circuit. The final change she notice was her now robotic looking tongue. Looked like something you’d expect some kind of transformer to have, even pulsing with blue energy between the individual grooves.
“I thought that was normal for you honestly.” Celestia spoke, interrupting Len’s thoughts. “I must admit I rather like these changes.”
Len grinned a little, hearing that honestly calmed her down a bit, and she had to admit she did look more badass. “Well, this is probably a result of my recent research into techno organic tech. Its mutating me a bit it seems.” Len sighed as she prodded a fang with her still fully organic hand and looked to the slowly rising now comfortable yet flustered Luna on the ground with a her cheeks burning in as they were a deep shade of crimson.
“Hey, Lulu, what do you think about the changes.” Len asked opening her mouth and sticking her tongue out, noticing it extended at least three times her normal tongue length before she mentally stopped it. She didn’t really feel like finding out how far it could actuely go, at least not right now. ‘Giggity’.
“Luna only blushed deeper seeing signs that the tongue could go even further. “I’m gonna avoid saying words, words are bad right now.” was her only reply as she stared wide eyed at Len, Celestia couldn’t help but mimic her sister as she too seemed now very hot and bothered as she stared at the abnormally long oral appendage.
“T-that was an accident, I swear.” Len stuttered out nervously as she retracted her tongue. “So,... who's hungry?” Desperate to get the conversation, hell, the whole situation behind them, both princess shot a hoof into the air. Being just as eager as the two royal sisters, Len simply nodded before Celestia lead the way to the dining room, sending a maid to go and collect the others for lunch.
...
Blood beamed with pure joy. She felt sick but couldn't be happier. She knew she would find some juicy info if she spied on Len’s conversation with the princesses, but to find out the human had already planned to propose?! Granted, changelings usually did things much faster, being paired by the end of the first month of their relationship, but no matter, Blood was just so bubbly and happy, she had, as they say, butterflies in her stomach, both literally and figuratively.
She quickly ported out the moment Len and the others had left, going with her alibi of being in the bathroom admiring herself for an hour. “I can’t wait, I just can’t wait. Oh thank the great high mother Ashvatha herself, this the happiest day of my life thus far!”
Blood happily skipped out of the bathroom, not even caring enough to put her disguise back on as she bounced through the halls, her happiness was so infectious guards and servants alike didn’t even fear the sight of her, being swept up in her powerful emotions and actually smiling and waving. Some even looked envious knowing a mare in a happy really great relationship when they saw one. This was only just the beginning, soon she’d be giving Len the good news, though she had been feeling rather nervous, terrified even, she now felt as if life couldn’t get any better and today was the best time to do it, the best time to tell Len she was pregnant with their brood and would be setting up their new hive very soon. Literally nothing short of Len dying could bring her down now.
Gilda hummed as she fluttered up to the second floor of the forge to land next to her partner in crime, her best amigo, her senpai...wait wrong thing. Peaking over the humanas shoulder she observed the amazing show of technological genius the Len was demonstrating so easily. To Len a world without advanced technology was like a fish being a in a world without water.
“...Annnd there, that should fix the your joint problems, well, most of them anyways.” Len furrowed her brow as she grabbed a... what was it called again? Oh yeah, a plasma torch! The mare before her, Gun Storm, was patiently waiting for Len to finish the adjustment and repairs to her new limbs, humming the exact same song Gilda was, heck, even Len was humming now though Gilda highly doubted she was aware of it.
Storm flinched as a rush of pain washed over her before being replaced by nothing but soothing bliss. “There, all done Strom. Go ahead, give them a try and tell me if anything feels off.” Storm did as commanded and flex her limbs. She gave a big, toothy grin as she noted that everything felt in place and, before Len could even protest it, SHe grabbed her savior in a bone crushing hug. ‘Thank you so much! I mean it, for everything. I should be dead right now but you, you took pity on me and helped this poor bandit out. I promise I will never betray you master.”
“Woah there sugar cube, I’m no one's master.” Despite her protest, which storm ignored completely, the mare simply got smiled and got to work, picking up her corrosive assault rifle and putting a bit of distance between her and Len before standing guard. With the mask she pulled over her face she actually looked very imposing, even more so than the royal guard, though that wasn't to hard in all honesty.
Gilda snickered at her friend who was sighing heavily in exasperation. “Hey, cheer up boss, she makes for a good pony ward. Doubt they’d go bothering someone with a guard like that following her around.” Len only gave an even heavier sigh as she turned to get back to her to her projects such as a good means for transportation. She always did like the bandit technical, it had a certain feel of character to it... or maybe that was just the way it looked like it belonged to a bunch of homicidal psychopaths.
Just as Len was about to pull up the schematics to study them a guard flew in and landed a respectable distance away from her. She couldn’t tell if it was because of her delight in kill-no, slaughtering or if it was just a respect thing. In all honesty she believed it to be a bit of both but mostly the former.
“Miss Heartworthy, you seem to have a visitor in your private chambers.” Len groaned as she stood from her workstation.
“Please tell me its not another perverted noble that simply demanded to see me. I thought I made it clear that I’m a very violent women when I deck the last one.”
“I believe you'll need to see this one for yourself m’lady, though I can assure you that it isn’t another noble.” This honestly got Len’s attention and made her very curious to see who else could possibly want to see her. She hopped up and sighed as Storm was immediately at her side. She shot a powerful glare at Gilda who did the same, a cheeky grin set upon her face.
...
Len kicked open her doors uncaringly and strode in... onyl to do a double take at the sight of her geust before shooting him a bit of a glare. “You?! You're my surprise visitor?!” She growld as she looked upon the very man who had sold her the ECHO communicator in the first place.only this time instead of a stand he had a huge furry beast.
“Yeah, that would be me. So, what’ll be kid? I got items from all across the multiverse, just name it and I’ve probably got it.” He said.
Len stopped her train of thought realizing something. “Wait, you’re one of the actual merchants from League of Legends aren’t you?” Her jaw tried its best to hit the floor as he nodded. Then the possibilities of what she could buy firm this guy kicked in. “Well, in that case, I think I have a few ideas of what I can buy. How about, just for starters, a sparrow from Destiny and an uncursed Frostmourne capable of channeling and enhancing my magical capabilities.”
The merchant only laughed. “Is that all? Easy as pie.” with the snap of his fingers her requested items sat in her room, the sparrow by the bed and the frostmourne on the bed. “Speaking of pie, a little birdy told me you make some great pie, ya know, if one were to be having trouble, y’know, sealing the deal with a girl or two?”
Len smirked at the merchant, producing a magically preserved pie from her inventory. “You mean this bad boy? Slip me a 20% discount and I’ll sell you the recipe. I actually had the mind to have it recorded so everything i did can be repeated till I learned it on my own. Been saving this one since yesterday to give to my marefriend.”
“Ah, great minds do think alike. Hmm, you know what, I’m feeling generous and my adventures life in the bedroom isn't going so well at the moment.” The merchant thought it over for a few more seconds before beaming a huge smile at his customer. “Very well then, settle for a 15% discount and you’ve got yourself a deal. Heck, i’ll even throw in one item for free. ANy time you want my friend.”
“Deal, and I think I know what I want that free item to be. I need to build a new robot, but not just any robot, a robot with an AI. So how about hooking me up with an AI? That or some form of metal stronger than titanium cause this robot has to be tough.”
The merchant grinned before snapping his fingers again. “There, a new AI ANNND some special alloids stronger than titanium, magic resistant to. Consider it a gift my friend.” Len beamed a thankful smile to the merchant as she went to say something only to be interrupted.
“Hey, I noticed that you haven’t had any Displaced encounters yet, well, other than the other one living in your world. Haven’t found any token yet I assume.” He questioned with a raised brow.
Len shot the merchant a confused look, not a clue of what he could be talking about until it finally hit her speeding simmie. “Wait, you mean there are others besides me and Jax. And what, I suppose they live in alternate universes across the multiverse?” The merchant nodded with a smile. “Oh.... wow, thats pretty awesome actually.”
“Yes, it is. Now then, a token is an item sent out into the multiverse by a displaced that allows other displaced to summon them to their world. Sort of like that one shout in skyrim, call of valor, except more precise with who you’re bringing. Here are some examples of tokens right here.” He pulled out a few tokens, all of them unique in their own way, such as a unitrix core, a plumbers badge, and a photo of some girl taking a selfie.
“These are so cool. And you said each of them can summon another displaced to my world? Thats badass dude.”
“Yeah, I know right, and it's good for my business to. So, what will your calling card be, huh?” Len tapped her chin in thought, she honestly didn’t know what to use. Whatever is was, it had to be unique, useful even, and totally show off who she was. A glance at herself in the mirror gave her just that.
“Well, I always did love these type of things for style purposes. Fashionable and functional makes a great combo.” She strode over to her nightstand and pulled out a pair of oggels identical to the ones on top of her head. “Theses are perfect for this.” She quickly made her way back tot eh merchant with a wide grin. “So, now what?”
“Now, you chant your oath into them and send them on their way. Trust me, It’ll just come to ya.”
Len looked a little nervous now, and a bit unsure of herself. What could she possibly say, she wasn’t very good with speeches and public speaking, not to mention the fact that she only gets the one chance to get this right. WIth a calming breath she did what she had been doing since the moment t she got here, what she always did when she didn’t know what to do or how to handle something, she winged it.
Len closed her eyes as she spoke, immediately putting her more at ease with herself as the words flowed from her lips.
“I, am the Equestrian Badass. If you’re a good guy(relatively speaking) and need a partner to shoot and loot the hell out of your enemies, give me a call and we’ll have them shitting themselves by nightfall. I also like to hang and explore too, and no I’m not crazy....ok maybe a tiny bit psychotic but only a tiny bit....relatively speaking.
~Len out~”
As she finished her big oath, which was probably a bit lengthy in all honesty, her goggles floated into the air before disappearing a flash of light. The merchant clapped at her, which she couldn’t tell if it was genuine or him mocking her a little. “Not bad kid, not bad. Now, lets get back to business. That’ll be....hmm... 1,627,321 bits.” He waited patiently for her to procure said bits with a grin at her dropped jaw.
“W-wow, thats a lot of bits, well, good thing I have plenty of cash to spare.” A display of her purchase popped up in front of her before she accepted and the exact amount was withdrawn from her personal stash of bits, considering how well she was paid by the Celestia and Luna, not to mention all the recent psycho bandit activity, she could easily spare the amount of coin he was asking for. She even transferred him a few hundred more just because she was pleased with the service.
“Ooh, a tip? I’m liking you more and more already. Plus the video, I think you’re going to be my best customer yet.” He grinned happily at her, more than pleased to do business with her. Len was happy for him when a voice spoke out from her arm., startling her.
“Oh, so you're the generous kind of person. Well it is a pleasure to meet you master.”
“What the? Oh hell no, I’m tired of people calling me master! This ain't going down like this!” Len shouted.
Her arm whimpered, as strange as that sounds, before replying in a saddened tone that nearly broke Len’s heart. “B-but I like calling you master.” Len groaned, trying hard to choke back the feels that her AI’s sudden sadness brought upon her.
“Ugh, fine, but I’m more like a mother don’t you think?”
Silence, that's what filled the room as they waited for the AI to process this information. A silence that was broken by an all too familiar gasp that Len hadn't expected to hear for another thousand years. The famous Pinkie Pie gasp, in fact, now that she thought about it the AI sounded oddly similar to the pink party mare that had yet to be born. For some reason a chill ran down her spine and Len couldn't tell it was a good sign or a bad one which worried her a little.
"I have a mommy?! Yay, I have a mommy!" Her next words she not a chill down even the merchants spine and Luna on the other side of the castle.
"This calls for a party!" The words to echo through the very halls themselves spreading realization and a feeling of unease.
"Holy Ashvatha, what have we made?" The merchant asked in a complete stupor. The moment he came to his séances he packed his thing and hopped on his large and wooly ride. "Good luck, I feel that you're gonna need it." Those were his parting words before he fled through a portal leaving Own with her new 'daughter'.
"Well, now now that he's gone what's your name kid?" Len asked as she picked up her new sword and strapped it to her side and hopped on her sparrow.
"I don't have one yet mommy. You haven't given me my name yet." The AI answered in gleeful anticipation.
Len thought for a moment. She Age anted to give her a badass name, one that would sound good baking out on the battlefield whenever she finally made a body for her AI. She grinned as a name came to her. "Desolation, that shall be your name. Now come along Desolation, we have much to do. Plus, I think you need to meet your other mother." A second Pinkie worthy gasp sounded out as they prepared to take off, Storm hopping on as well, only to be interrupted by a panting guard.
“Attack...oh Celestia,...Need help....Bandits and... oh sweet Celestia my lungs are burning...Gryphons working together....why didn’t I just teleport here, damn it?” The guard wheezed out before collapsing. I gave him a nod before sighing.
“These sons of bitches just had to attack the day I’m busy getting caught up on all my projects. Come on girls, we got some bandit ass to kick.” It was disturbingly cute when Desolation Cheered like a happy pinkie as we took off to go kill a few people. The cuteness obviously outweighed the disturbing...ness. Whelp, at least this’ll be fun.
Len laughed happily as she rode down the road at high speeds on her supped up sparrow, her ponytails flowing in the wind as she drove without a care in the world. Even she had to to admit she was having so much fun just riding around with Blood Wing on her back in an anthrofied form.
“This is so much fun Len! Can it go any faster?” she yelled over the wind. Not an easy feat obviously, yet Len could hear her perfectly.Len grinned and kicked it up another 20 MPH in response eliciting happy laughter and cheers from Blood.
“Len’s heart raced a mile a minute, not because of their crazy fast speeds, but because of the beautiful mare wrapped around her. The two were just so happy and it almost made no sense but Len couldn’t question it, or wouldn’t not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth. Sadly their fun was not meant to last it would seem.
Suddenly the bike disappeared as Len suddenly went tumbling down the road at a over 200 MPH, not a fun experience though she could also tell it didn’t hurt as much as it should have. As she came to a halt she noticed the world around her changing and fading to black.
By the time she had managed to get back to her feet she was surrounded by nothing but darkness. Her fearful eyes desperately scanned around for anything in panic. The fact that she found nothing seemed to seemed her further into panic mode. Whatever was going on she did not like it one bit and wish for it to end.
Len shot around in fear at the sound of sudden laughter to see nothing. Another bout of laughter had her frantically searching for its source, fear growing and overtaking her. That is until her more rational, machine like side kicked in and reminded her that she was, in fact, dreaming right now.
“It’s just a dream, Len, get your act together.” she told herself trying to calm herself down. “Nothing can actually hurt you here because none of it is real.”
“You sure about that Len?” The red headed girl shot around only to come face to face with the last person she had expected to see.
“Gaige.” she whispered out in shock.
Gaige only laughed as she strode closer to the girl. “You don’t even sound surprised. Guess you sort of knew this was coming.” Gaige slowly circled around around Len like some kind of predator complete with an amused grin.
“L-listen, I don’t know why you’re here, but I-” Len was silence by a finger gently being placed to her lips. her fear was evident and, no matter how badly she wanted to dismiss this as just a part of her weird dream, deep down she knew this was the real deal. That alone was enough to send her fear into overdrive. After all, what would you do if someone had kind of stolen your body, your life, everything.
Gaige’s grin widened at sight of pure fear in Len’s eyes before bursting out in a fit of laughter. Once she calmed down again she placed a reassuring hand on Len’s shoulder. “Relax shit for brains, I’m not here to take my body back or anything like that.” she reassured her. “I’ve actually been here the whole time but I’ve been too busy trying to keep your mind intact.”
“Wait what?” Len questioned, curious as to why her mind would be in danger of falling apart. “What are you talking about? Am I really going crazy?”
“Fraid so, and that little techno organic experiment you’ve been testing on yourself has been making it worse.” Len looked as though she was going to start hyperventilating right then and there, that is until Gaige got a hold of her helped her calm down. “Don’t worry so much, i got a plan to deal with it numb skull. All we have to do is finish that experiment. A perfected dose will fix everything, for the most part.”
Len’s eye twitched. “Are you serious! Do you know how hard it’ll be to finish that?” she raged at Gaige.
“Judging by your most recent notes you aren’t to far off from figuring it out, and with me by your side i know will fix this.” Gaige said with confidence. “Besides, I actually came up with a few new formulas and such for you to try. Here, take a look.” she said as she brought up a few formula’s. Len immediately took interest in one in particular.
“Wow, this is amazing! Especially this one. If I change a few things I should be able to make techno organic limps for myself to replace my arm or just in case something happens and I need to replace any more lost limbs.”
Gaige took a look as well noting the same. “Hugh, would you look at that. You really are just as brilliant as I am.” Gaige commented.
“Why thank you.” Len said with a bow before taking a better look at the others. “These could work in theory, but the materials for them either don’t exist here on Equestria or are very rare and hard to obtain.”
“Not to worry, we can always find a suitable substitute. Oh, and I also took the liberty of drawing up some design plans for a body for Desolation. You should think about renaming her by the way. Desolation is a bit weird. Maybe you should just give her my name instead.”
Len pondered the thought for moment. “Maybe, it's definitely something to consider I guess. For now, I think ti might be time for me to wake up. I can already hear the birds chirping.” Len replied as faint chirping could be heard.
Gaige nodded with a grin. “Yeah, sure. I’ll be a bit more active in conversing with you, both in your sleep and while you’re awake. Just until we fix this problem and fix your mind. Should be fun right?”
“Yeah, it should, but do me a favor and speak through the coms out loud so people don’t think i’m crazy or something... Well, more so than they already do.”
Gaige nodded before extending her hand to Len. Len grinned and grabbed her by the arm, Gaige doing the same before they both shook as everything faded to white.
...
Len slowly opened her eyes before yawning and stretching. Then, the memories of her conversation with Gaige suddenly hit her like a freight train. She would have shot up and gotten right to work, after breakfast of course, but a glance down revealed two role figures wrapped around her, nuzzling her in their sleep. My life may be in danger but come on, who could really leave from this.
Len sighed knowing she’d have to slip out of this somehow and get started soon. After doing so she quietly made her way out and to her forge to begin working. Desolation looked over them as well wondering when her mother had drawn this up.
“Um, mom? Where did you get these plans?” she asked as she eyed some plans for a body for her.
“Don’t worry D, just know these experiments are now much more important. just search up viable substitutes for anything in these formula’s that might not exist in Equestria.”
“Alright mom, if you say so.” Desolation said before getting to work. She was still worried about her mother but she trusted her and knew that whatever she was hiding she hid for a good reason.
Len sighed, she knew she shouldn’t hide things from Desolation. She didn’t want to get into that habit or be like those stupid superheroes who keep secrets in hopes of protecting those close to them.
“If we can’t get this experiment right then my mind will be lost forever and I’ll turn into a psychopathic killer.” Len paused to allow Desolation time to process that. The silence showed that it wasn’t easy for the AI to process at all. “If we fail i’ll need you to kill me, alright. Don’t let me hurt anyone we care about.”
More silence. Not a good sign in Len’s opinion, not when it came to Desolation. “I understand mom.” The AI finally said. “Failure is not an option.” Len had to grin at that. Desolation always was optimistic.
“hey, by the way, I want to change your name. Is that alright?” Len asked as she began working on the designs for Desolation’s new body.
“Oh, and what did you have in mind?” D asked in her usual cheery voice, though it sounded a bit more forced.
Len grinned as she worked. There was one name in particular that held a lot of meaning for her that she was sure D would love. “Vanessa. Vanessa Heartworthy.”
A pause of silence as D considered the name. “I like it.”
Len’s grin grew at her reply. “It’s my mother’s name. And if we ever get a chance, I’ll take you to meet her.”
“I’d like that mommy. Now, let’s get back to work on this body of mine so I can start hugging the crap out of both you and my other mommies.” Len chuckled and nodded.
Len grinned as she heard yet another blood sucking parasite fry after trying to take a bit at her through her shields only to be set ablaze. “God I love shields like these.” The mechromancer may have been having a really hard time finding the materials she was searching for but at least the bugs couldn’t get to her.
“Mother, I’m detecting another source of arcanium nearby, as well as some other strange form of wildlife we have not yet encountered. I am unable to tell whether they are hostile or not, so tread carefully” Vanessa stated as she put up a waypoint on my HUD.
“No promises V” Len replied before taking off in its direction. She was very eager to get out of this god forsaken forest as soon as possible. She had already been attacked by three massive wild boars and a pack of stalkers of all things.
As she worked her way through the thick forest she began to notice what looked like holes in the ground. For some reason she was getting a bad feeling about it, as if she knew what made them but just couldn’t remember what.
Len sighed knowing damn well something was about to go down. “This is gonna suck ass" she said in a deathly serious tone. "I can already feel it.”
“Unfortunately, it would seem that the feeling is mutual, momzy” Vanessa added as she kept an extra watchful eye out for the unknown creatures. Neither of them enjoyed being fucked over, and today was not a good day to test them, animal conservationist opinion be damned.
Len noticed a decrease in holes as she neared her target, but for some reason that just made her even more paranoid. Suddenly, Len remembered something, the last time she felt like this she was playing Borderlands 2 and got jumpedby...
“Oh fuck me!” she yelled as she jumped out of the way of a spike being hurled in her direction, before getting shit whipped by a tentacle that flung her into a nearby clearing. Len held her stomach in pain as she heard the thresher roar in pain from being lit on fire before disappearing underground.
“Mother, are you okay?!” Vanessa asked in deep concern.
“Yeah, I’m fine" Len replied honestly, a bit winded from the surprise hit. "just watch out for anymore of these bastards.” Before she could even get to her feet again she noticed a red dot rapidly approaching on her map. With little time to react, she rolled to the side just as another popped out of the ground. Before it could get back underground, Len fired her explosive shot gun at it while it roared at her. She enjoyed her momentary satisfaction of blowing the thresher's head to chunks.
Len jumped up and started running, stumbling as she ran. A look back showed three threshers chasing her. A look at her map, however, showed that even more where coming from all around her. She growled before tossing a grenade at a spiky thresher attempting to pull her in with its damn singularity, she always did hate them the most.
“Damn it all! Why do I always end up dealing with this shit!” She complained before firing another shot at a thresher and blowing off one of its tentacles.
She stopped running suddenly and clutching her eyes shut. She screamed in pain as she fell to the ground curling up from the pain. “N-no, not now” she whimpered in agony. She howled in pain again as a thresher whipped her into a nearby tree.
The threshers roared as they got ready to go in for the kill and finish her off, when she suddenly began to stand. Even the threshers could tell something was off about their prey now.
When she opened her eyes they were...different. Her eyes looked more like machine optics with a bright green glow. Her robotic tongue lolled out with a toxic green saliva dripping out, a manic grin spread across her face as she looked over them all. “M-mommy?” V asked, one of the threshers actually quivered before dipping into his hole a bit.
The sudden movement was like some kind of trigger as Len launched out into the clearing with a newfound speed the worms hadn’t been expecting at all. Before any of them could get away she had already sliced one clean in half, before shooting two more almost point blank with her shotgun. “Mom, what's wrong with you?!”
The rest dove underground and attempted to surround her. She shot the first one point blank, before being whipped by a tentacle, and suddenly whipped again and sent flying by a much larger thresher that had shown up.
She continued to ignore Vanessa, wasting no time getting up she opened fire on the damn worms. She took two more down before the large one popped out behind her and whipped her before she could even react, only this time before she could hit the ground it grabbed her and slammed her into the ground. It then followed up with a barrage of tentacles, whipping at her as more threshers joined in.
A sudden magical burst knocked them back, electrifying most of them to death. Wasting little time, Len jumped up on top of the large thresher's head before firing a continuous stream of lighting into it.
Another tentacle grabbed her and flung her off, airborne she pulled out a rocket launcher and let loose two rockets before hitting the ground. The threshers wailed in pain and anger before disappearing underground again. “Mom, snap out of it! You're acting like some kind of psycho!”
Though she was actually having fun, Len was honestly starting to get bored with the fight now. Ready to end it she charged at the red dots, her manic grin spreading wider than ever before as she lunged forward just as the huge thresher surfaced to attack her again, just barely missing her with its tentacles as she flew into its mouth.
The next thing the thresher knew holes were being blown out of its body before a final explosion blew it into chunks. Len stepped out with her shield burning off the blood as bits and pieces of the thresher rained down around her. She had a manic and happy grin as she noticed that she’d taken care of all the red dots in the area, before her eyes suddenly shut tight. When she opened them again they were back to normal.
“W-what... Oh no, it happened again. Damn it, it's getting worse!" She looked around her at all the dead threshers, at all the carnage she had caused. Granted it wasn’t near as much carnage and destruction as the one time she fought the spiderants but it was still bad.
“...So, I’m assuming this is the reason you’ve been stressing over this project?” V asked a bit unsure if everything was alright now.
Lena took a deep breath before looking for the direction of the marker before noticing it was in the center of the clearing. “Y-yeah, thats the reason. Kind of want to fix it as soon as possible” Len admitted a bit sheepishly as she tapped in a few commands into her arm before digistructing a few loaders and pointing at the ground.
“I can see why. Let’s hurry this little trip up so we can repair you.”
As the bots dug and collected the material Len left them instructions to redeploy at the castle and unload their harvest when they were done before walking off in search of the rest of her materials. Judging from the size of the deposit from the scans it would be more than enough for her to finish her projects.
She still needed a very rare plant and to find enough of it to perform multiple experiments till she gets it right. What a pain all this shit has turned out to be.
She sighed in exasperation while keeping an eye out for the plant with a name she couldn’t pronounce. This day honestly hadn't started out to well and in all fairness wasn’t going all that well either. At least she was finding what she need, even if it was taking her forever to find it.
“So, all we have to do is find this super rare flower that may or may not have already died out right? Sounds pretty easy to me.”
Len stopped, her eye twitching as she struggled to contain her rage. “You said that the flower would be here, that it wasn't extinct! Now you’re telling me I might be still out here for no fucking reason at all?!” She failed a bit as it would seem.
“U-um, well, I was just trying to be positive and... I’m joking with you mom. What can’t you take a joke?” Len glared at her arm seething with rage. “Heh heh, now lets not do anything we might regret or take any- Aah, stop shaking me! You know I don’t like to be shaken!”
“When we get home I’m finishing your body just so I can dismantle it!” She raged at her.
“That is but counterproductive and a waist of time in more than one way!” Vanessa shouted.
“Bet it’ll still fuck you won’t it baby girl!”
“Aah, stop shaking me damn you!” V screamed as Len shook her arm again. Len didn’t know why the AI didn’t like the needless action, but it worked for a great punishment till she could physically punish her.
“Ugh, this damn flower had better be in this place, or so help me Ashvatha I will tie you to a vibrating tube for a month!”
“I-it will! It will!” Vanessa cried out. The fear was evident in her voice at the thought of the cruel and unusual punishment.
“Good, now lets get a move on and find this...this... god damn it all! What is this shit munchin plant’s name anyways?!”
“Metalicanophine" V stated as she readjusted a few systems to better locate the plants biosignature. She was glad she could get her hands on a sample before they left, but the fact that she had yet to locate any right now seemed to bring great fear to her heart.
“Excuse me miss, but I couldn’t help overhearing that you are looking for the Meta plant?” said a strange young stallion wearing an explorer's hat with a magic eye patch covering his left eye. He had a tan colored coat and a forest green mane and tail with light green highlights, his goatee was the same color as well. He also had a pistol strapped to his side, fire elemental weapon by the looks of it.
Len got a relatively bad vibe about the guy. Not that he was bad, just that he was gonna lead her into a proverbial shit storm before the day was over. “Yeah, I am, but what's it to you skag bait?”
“Mom, don’t be so rude!” V chiddded. “Excuse me sir, but you wouldn’t happen to know where we can find some would you?”
The stallion grinned and sauntered up next to us. “Why yes I do. In fact, I just recently picked a few. But if you want to know where to find them you’ll need to help me first.” Len sighed mentally. She figured that the guy would want something in return.
“Fine, whatever, let’s get this over with so we can get our flowers and go home. I’m taking a hot bubble bath and don’t care who sees me, cause I refuse to wear a towel afterwards.” she ranted as they followed the stallion. “Oh, by the way, I’m Len and this is my daughter slash creation vanessa.”
“heyo!”
“My name is Indiana Doo. Its a pleasure to make your acquaintances.” He said taking a small bow as they walked.
Len grinned catching the last part of his name and knowing full well who his future decedent was. They conversed lightly of their adventures as they walked. Neither of them truly letting their guard down though. This forest did have a pretty bad reputation for wild monsters popping out the wazoo. Everblight Forest was one of the worst places to end up in it seemed.
As they talked they soon crossed over to Terror Bog, a terrible swamp like place that was crawling with even more monsters than any other place in equestria. Few dared to enter and even fewer ever left. Even the natives were listed in the book of monsters being depicted as feral cannibals with a love for ambushes.
“So, how much further till we get there?” Len asked checking her guns to make sure they were fully loaded and ready to put down anything dumb enough to step up.
“Not much farther now. Though I must warn you, the area we are heading into is said be crawling with hydras, so be on the look out for any hydras rising from the muck.” He said before glaring at a few bubbles as they passed.
“Hydras? Great, why can't it ever just be puppies? I have no problem kicking a puppy.” Len groaned out before shooting said bubbles, only for some kind of fish like creature holding a spear to float up with a hole in its chest.
“Unfortunately no one's that lucky.” He sighed out.
The two continued to walk in silence as they kept on edge ready to fight at a moments notice until they came upon a cave entrance. Indiana grinned as he galloped off to the entrance but stopped as a sudden rumbling shook the ground.
Len groaned as she watched the heads of a massive hydra rise from the muck. It looked down at the two of them before all four heads boomed out a thunderous roar as toxic looking green gas trailed down from the top of each head down to the back. Globs of its spit dripped to the ground and landed on a fleeing rabbit before corroding the thing into practically nothing. A Green boss animation popped up behind it as well, as if shit wasn’t bad enough.
Bleak’Maw
Dear god that stench!
“Awe fuck nuggets.” was all she said before pulling out her shotgun and firing at the massive lizard until she was forced to jump out of the way as one of its heads tried to take a bite out of her. Indiana did the same before pulling out his pistol and holding it in his green magical grip and shot the head in the eye before it pulled away.
The head roared in pain drawing attention to the stallion, but before they could really make him pay a homing grenade impacted with the hurt head before spawning many more grenades upon explosion and covering the head in fire making it explode into large chunks of hydra. The roar the other heads gave suddenly had Len thinking that might have been a slightly bad idea.
With a single swipe of its claws it broke her shields and flung her not into but through a tree before spewing acid like corrosive globs at her. Thankfully its aim wasn’t the best at the moment and just barely missed Len,even with the splash damage.
Indian took another shot hitting a second head in the eye before quickly shooting it in its other eye and lunging out of the way of a corrosive glob. Though he was good, he wasn’t fast enough to react as another glob shot towards him.
He let out a breath he didn't realize he’d been holding as the acid just rolled off a emerald green magical shield. He didn’t even have time to thank Len before she rushed back in firing off three fireball spells in a spiraling in a cone.
The hydra dodged it before slamming another head at Len only for her to jump on its head and fire a powerful fireball spell creating a huge explosion and tossing her back to land beside Indian.
“Well you’re certainly a tough one.” he said as he admired her fighting.
“Yeah, just stay back and let me handle this.” she said before sprinting off dodgin heads left and right. The hydra roared in anger before taking another swipe at her and flinging her into the side of the cave denting the mountain it was in.
“Len!” Indian shouted before a glob of acid shot over his head heading for Len. With a shield she blocked the attack before jetting off again, pulling out a rocket launcher and firing off both rounds of spiraling rockets at the hydra’s last two heads. If it wasn't for the health bar on her HUD she would have sworn it didn't even do any damage.
She wasn’t really given any breathing room as it tried to snap her up in its jaws. She was barely out maneuvering the beast before its tail suddenly came out of nowhere and smacked her through another tree. The hydra roared as it struck at her only to stumble back as electricity shot through it.
“Ha, glad I changed out my shields!” She shouted in glee as she injected herself with a vial of red fluid. “alright guys, time to end this.” She said before summoning up her faithful robot partner, Death Trap. She also pulled out some kind of strange looking gun before firing off what looked like grenades from it that exploded in fire.
“Fire is its weakness so lets burn the hell outta this bitch!” She cheered before charging back into battle just as the hydra regained its senses and attacked. DT beeped before firing a laser. The moment it made contact with it the gas on one of the heads the head exploded raining chunks of flesh and blood. The final head roared out before suddenly growing. Len sighed as she watched its health bar go up as one of its heads reformed.
“You fucking asshole. Just die already!” She shouted before mustering an incredible amount of magic and attempted to end it with a volley of fireballs, thought what actually happened was something much more badass. Rather than fireballs she fired one huge stream of fire completely obliterating both heads and half the body.
Indian gawked at the sheer magical power Len had just shown in killing the hydra. Len was doing the same before a gun landed on her head as well as a new shield. “Wow, sweet, new guns!” she cheered before equipping her new gear.
“Alright, lets get in there and finish this.” She said as she ran by grabbing the stallion and sprinting into the cave.
“Woah there Len, we have to be careful about traps in here, or whatever is guarding this place.” Indiana warned just before they narrowly dodged spears flying at them.
Len groaned and pulled out her new pistol, The Icer, and returning fire hearing hissing coming from further into the cavern they had ran into. “great, just had to jinx us didn’t you.” She groaned out before tossing a grenade down the cavern.
After the multiple explosions she wasted no time running in guns blazing with her electric assault rifle. She screamed out her battle cry as she launched herself off the wall before slamming the blade at the end of her gun into one of the snake heads. now able to get a better look at the enemy and could see they were like tribal anthro versions of the hydra’s she’d seen in this land, which looked nothing like the hydra from the show. but with multiple heads. Hydra people it seemed.
She brought up a shield just as one massive hydraman slammed a huge sword down on her in an attempt to cleave her through. She electrified the shield sending a jolt through the sword and through the badass hydraman.
“Great, those tattoos look just like the symbol that's usually associated with the vault. just fucking great.” she said noticing the borderlands symbol on its face and shoulders.”better conserve ammo because I know there's gonna be a boss at the end of this guarding, what is probably a piece of the vault key.”
“Yeah, more than likely.” Indiana admitted as he shot a few rounds of his gun turning one of them into ashes before Len put away her weapons and ran forward coating her arm in magical fire and shoving her fist through a hydraman’s chest.
Len crossed her arms gathering up magic before releasing the power in a wave of fire incinerating most of them. The only thing left standing was a badass and a hydraman marauder holding decent looking corrosive assault rifle.
Not wanting to risk it with some unprotected stallion with her, Len grabbed the Marauder in her magical grip before crushing it. She would have done the same to the badass but she knew that it wouldn't even work.
“Time to die dumb ass!” she shouted as the badass tossed a spear at her breaking her shield. A burst of electricity shot out shocking both him and Indiana giving Len enough time to rush in deliver furry of magical punches, each one shocking the badass and leaving scorch marks on its tough hide. Len roared out before slamming her palm onto its chest and shooting a blast of lightning through its chest and out its back.
She panted and leaned against the wall before slowly sliding down tot eh ground. “Oh shit, this is really draining me. Death Trap finally managed to get into the cavern and made his way over to his master before booming out in a deep robotic voice. “More hostile units incoming. This unit would like to eviscerate them for unit master Len.”
Len nodded and smiled. “Thanks buddy, I Just need a minute to catch my breath and replenish my energy before we press on. Clear a path to the artifact if you can though.” Len said weakly before injecting herself with a vial of green fluid as her body soon began to glow with a green aura surrounding her.
“And what exactly was that ?” Indiana asked as he strode up to take a seat as well watching her with great intrigue.
Len grinned and held up a second vial. “Its a little invention of mine. it replenishes energy and can replace your need for food. Not that I’d recommend it, it's still a prototype but thankfully has been tested to make sure its at least not gonna kill me.” she answered. it was easy to tell it was working by the amount of energy in her voice. “just takes a few seconds to really kick in and bring you back to full, or as close as the dose can get you.”
“I see, how interesting.” Indian continued to observe the strange inventor he was sure was not sane but definitely a load of fun from the looks of it.
“hey, look, this next part might get too dangerous for you to be here. I’m going to leave Death Trap to guard you while I go and clear out things up ahead. I’ll come back for you once I’ve secured the area, alright?”
The stallion sighed. “I’m afraid i can’t in allow you to face this alone. After all, i’m the one who brought you into all this.”
“Yeah, but I’m the one who can take a serious licking and keep on kicking.” Len pointed out as she got to her feet. “Besides, you’ll be too big of a distraction while I’m taking down this boss.”
Though he hated to do so, he had to admit Len was right. he likely wasn’t going to do much but get in the way if the previous battle was anything to go by. With a heavy sigh he gave light rain and nodded. “Just don’t go and get yourself killed alright?” he said a she extended a hoof to her.
Len grinned and took his hoof in hand and shook it firmly. “No promises there but I can assure you i’ll do my best to not end up as hydra turd or something.”
“Good enough for me.”
“Preparing battle boss battle music.” Vanessa stated as she searched through Len’s files once more.
Len took turned and walked down the cavern, sending DT back to guard Indiana. She wasn't to sure what to expect from this place but she knew whatever it was she would need to expect the worst and be ready for anything.
DT had cleared out most of the Hydramen judging by the number of bodies and chunks of flesh and blood. After fighting off the rest she soon made it into a passageway with water that was just barely above Len’s ankle covering the floor. Walking for a bit longer she came across a massive room with single spot of dry land in the center. in the middle of the patch of land, surrounded by the very flower she had come for, sat the vault key covered in its alien writing.
Well sat was a relative term as it actually float in a beam of light. Multiple holes in the ceiling brought down beams of light to light the room, but the size of the room told Len all she need to know. Whatever she was about to fight was going to be big.
“Well, there goes the flowers. how convenient.” Vanessa said enthusiastically.
“Yeah, too convenient. Get ready for a fight Vanessa, shits about to get real in this bitch.” Len stated as she got her gun ready. After getting a few feet into the room the room began to shake. Suddenly the water began to bubble and glow before massive heads rose up from the water slowly looking down upon Len as they growled menacingly. Once at full height, the burning hydra rose up and roared out as a dark orange boss animation sprung up behind it.
Big Mama
Ya done fucked up now son!
Len quickly dodged out of the way as the massive five headed hydra lit up a ring of fire around the room as one of its heads shot a stream of fire at Len. She barely had time to react as another head tried to take a bite out of her before another spat a fireball at her. Thankfully Len’s new shield was much more resilient to fire damage than her others or else she would have been turned into an extra crispy snack for the hydra.
She pulled out The Icer and fired a burst round from her cold based gun. Another had tried to take a bite out of her again only this time she was ready and put up an electrified shield giving the hydra a nasty shock causing it to roar in pain before launching a volley of fireballs which Len narrowly escaped.
With a burst of speed from a speed spell Len dodged a second volley and unloaded two clips of her electric assault rifle. Noticing her gun doing critical damage near its eyes and underbelly she grinned before being forced against the wall from a truly powerful slash that almost dropped her shield and did damage to her health through her shield.
Bringing out her corrosive Rocket launcher she fired off two rockets into its underbelly, a third rocket catching the hydra in the face just as its tail whipped around and smashed Len into the wall destroying her shield and bringing her health down to half as she coughed up blood with severe burns all over her body. Taking another medi-vial, as she like to call them, she sprung out of the way of another blast of fire with her burns healed and her health back to near full.
She laughed as she pulled out an explosive machine gun and fired off into its faces, every other shot hitting it in the eyes. She couldn’t help but laugh as she ducked under another slash and swing of its tail before continuing her assault on its ugly mug. She could already see its health bar taking a beating from all the damage she was dealing.
A flaming head fired off a stream of flames which Len barely managed to pull her shield up in time to block before letting loose a stream of lighting into its face making it roar out in pain. Len didn’t even waste any time firing off another bolt of lighting into a second head that thought it could get the jump on her knocking it back.
Len pulled out a corrosive grenade and a slag pistol but was knocked into the air before she could use them. She fired off another bolt of lighting into a head that was about to chomp on her, flinging the grenade into its mouth before another head head-butted her into the wall.
It hurt like a bitch to get up with her health barely existent after such a powerful strike and she was already running low on medi-vials to begin with. She only had two left. Feeling a loud thud brought her hope as she looked up to see the head she had thrown the grenade into had corroded away.
She stood up and inject another health vial before lighting up a striking head with lightning causing it to miss its strike by just a few feet. Taking advantage of the stunned head she ran up with a grenade, jumped high into the air before punching her metal fist into its eye with the grenade in hand. The head waved around roaring in pain as Len left the grande inside and jumped off onto another head as it attempted to bite her off just before the grenade went off corroding both heads.
She was more than happy to pull out her sword and fire an enhanced lighting bolt into one of the two remaining heads powerful enough to leave it wailing in pure agony. As it wailed she did the same to the other head as the neck of the dead head hit the ground sending her tumbling off.
She quickly got back to her feet and pulled out a corrosive sniper rifle before dodging a blast of fire as the enraged and hurt heads just spewed fire as they continued to wail in pain with electricity still arching over them. Taking aim, she fired off a lucky shot, missing and hitting the wall only for it to ricochet off and shoot the hydra in the eye at the perfect angle. The head dropped dead leaving the sole head up and ready to burn the world with its pure fury over its lost heads.
Len barely managed to dodged a massive blast of fire, using her speed spell to get out of the way only to be caught by the shock wave and flung just under the hydra’s final head. The hydra was almost defeated and was making its final stand. The hydra’s claw light up in a powerful inferno as it rose it high in the air. Len knew just what it was trying to do and wasn’t having any of it.
Pulling out her electrified sniper rifle Len charged it with her magic adding even more power to it before firing a final shot into its last head leaving a gaping hole straight through its head as loot fell to the ground before her. The body collapsed to the ground in a lifeless heap as its flesh disintegrated leaving nothing but steaming bones in its wake.Len sighed in relief, happy that it was finally over
“Man, that was tough.” she sighed out tiredly.
“Yeah, now nothing's between us and our prize.” Vanessa said as she stopped the music.
Hissing suddenly could be heard coming from the room entrance causing Len to deadpan at her arm. “Vanessa,you must really want to be vibrated for a month don’t you.” Len droned out in annoyance.
“S-sorry.” Was all she said before the hydramen entered. they immediately stopped at the sight of their master’s remains before looking to Len. Len was prepared for a fight, not what happened next.
“All hail the slayer of Big Mama!” A badass cheered wearing a skull on each of its heads and a chest piece of bones covering its chest. It sounded female and even had a bit of a feminine curve to it. I believe the best way to describe the hydra was voluptuous with a bit of a muscular feel to her. She even had breasts and wore a loincloth decorated with animal fangs hanging around her waist, though Len could tell it only covered up her front half,not so much the back, like at all.
The seven foot tall hydra ran over with the others following suit and bowed before Len repeatedly. “We are not worthy oh great and powerful warrior.” She said as she continued bowing. Len blushed, not being used to such praise and partially from the amount of trucking cleavage this big bitch had. Her teal hide looked like it was well taken care of, especially for what she would have assumed were practically savages, for lack of a better word.
“U-um, You may rise?” Len said with great uncertainty.
The deep orange hydraman badass stood along with the others towering over her. “Oh great one, please, is there anything we can do for our new mistress?”
‘Damn, even the way she talks is hot as fuck.’ Len thought before gulping with a her cheeks burning red. “Um, you could pack up those flowers and grab that artifact for me?” She suggested more than stated.
The massive badass was quick to order the others to hop to it as Len pulled out the containment modules that she had designed for the plants. her wishes were carried out in little over a minute. Len was left with her jaw trying its best to hit the ground just how fast they got it done.
“Is there anything else we may do for you mistress?” Came the electrifying voice again. Len’s hair stood on end as she looked back to see the gaze she was receiving from the hydra.
“Um, that's all, I think.” she said, seeming to have lost her voice a bit as she looked between the multiple emerald eyes that stared at her in anticipation.
“I know I may be overstepping, my mistress, but if I may make a bold request?”
“S-sure, go right ahead.” Lens aid with gulp. as the hydra got closer, her wide child birthing hips swaying a from side to side as the hydra took on a bashful stance. Len was sure she was about to have an actual anime nose bleed just from glancing at the hydra that was so close to her.
“Please, mistress, bless me by allowing this humble servant to bare your brood.” Len paled as she played the words over and over in her head. It didn’t help that the hydra had took to bashfully pawing the ground with her cheeks tinged with red and her eyes shut as she awaited Len’s answer. ‘Dear god this chick's gonna kill someone just with her raw sex appeal.’
“U-um, I ugh, I’m a female...You're a female...” Len just trailed off with her entire face turning red.
“Magic can fix that problem if I am not mistaken.” ‘Ashvatha, I’m trying to be faithful here, give me break and do something here.’ No help came but Len could of sworn she heard a woman's voice in her head giggling at her lucky misfortune.
“W-well, I do know a spell for that, yes.” Len admitted.
“As do I.” ‘Whelp, I tried girls. Sorry Luna and Blood, you’re just gonna have be pissed off about this one.’
“Whelp, where’s the nearest bed?” Len asked in defeat, knowing she wasn't getting out of this one.
“Y-you mean it? Oh thank you great one! On this day i am the happiest hydraksian alive!” She cheered. ‘Oh shit, is this chick a virgin? Wouldn't be too surprised honestly. Even compared to her people she looks like a pretty intimidating woman.’
Len gulped as she was picked up bridal style and carried over to the dry land, likely to deposit clothes somewhere dry before she had t try and wreck this girl. Emphasis on try. This was going to be a long day.
“Rraaghh!” Len screamed as she tossed the empty vial only for it hit the wall just as Gilda was entering giving her pause. She honestly considered backing right out the room at that but sighed as she instead ventured forth to see if there was anything she could do to aid her friend.
“Hey Len, You alright in here?” The gryphon asked as her eyes wondered over the mess that was Len’s forge. Holographic notes floated about the room, broken glass had already been put in a pile while more littered the area. She was almost certain a mad mare had been living here by the state of everything.
An agitated grunt lead her straight to her friend as working in some kind of lab, chemicals strowed about and bubbling away. GIlda hesitated to actually take a step further into this madness. With a nervous gulp she attempted to speak and gain len’s attention. “L-Len, you’ve been in here ever since you got back from that other Equestria. That was like three days ago. A-are you alright?” She asked with a quivering voice showcasing her fear. it didn’t help she saw a dismembered bandit strapped to a table with a buzzsaw axe laying next to him and his chest cut wide open.
“Mom, Gilda is here.” Came a voice Gilda recognized as Len’s AI, Vanessa, except more mature sounding, but why wasn’t it coming from Len’s arm like usual rather than from behind her. Gilada turned to investigate only to go wide-eyed as she watched a tall, curvy, bipedal robotic alicorn with a dragon tail calmly swaying behind her.
The alicorn’s mane was made of some kind of hot pink smoke that faded into purple near the base of her head. Her deep violet metal hide shimmered in the light, only made that much more interesting by her silver stripes that reminded Gilda of zebra stripes. Despite all the curviness, which even Gilda had to admit made this robot look like some kind of goddess, it was also just as easy to see the power behind all the beauty, the danger that threatened to consume any who got in the robot’s way.
The alicorn wore a black shirt that tightly hugged her frame with its thick straps falling off the shoulders and a skull with a mohawk and some kind of black eyewear sitting on the front, a short ice blue skirt, and pink stockings that disappeared under the skirt with purple stripes. Her metal hooves were covered in black leather boots with mint green laces and her eyes, sweet Ashvatha those eyes, they shone with a dangerous amethyst glow that struck fear into one’s very heart and soul but drew them closer as if her gaze beckoned them forward. Gilda just stood there with a blush as her eyes followed the alicorn that held a worried expression as she focused on Len, who eventually answered.
“What? O-oh, right, sorry, I’ve just been really focused.” Said the obviously stressed mechromancer as she swiveled around in her floating chair made of entirely glowing sapphire gems. It would have looked uncomfortable were it not it not for the cushioning on the chair. Len gave a rather tired smile as she beckoned her friend closer while summoning up another chair. “Please, have a seat.” she said gesturing to the seat beside her.
GIlda was still a bit hesitant to enter the area but didn’t want to refuse her friends hospitality and did as asked, she noted that large alicorn bot summoned up a seat as well siting on behind them with one leg crossed over the other as she silently observed her Len.
“So, I take it that the project hasn’t been going as well as you hopped.” said Gilda as she looked over the table.
Len sighed as she turned to look over the reminders of her failed attempts thus far. “Yeah, but I’m sure I’ll get it soon, I know it. I just have to.” Gilda could not only see but hear the worry mixed in with all the stress that was eating at Len. “But let’s forget about that for a minute. I could use a break from this right now.” She said with a weak smile.
“Yeah, I can tell. You look like shit Len.” Gilda said jokingly earning a laugh from Len. It felt good to hear her laugh again. Three days without Len laughing, cracking a joke to lighten the otherwise serious mood, or groaning about something honestly had everyone feeling a bit awkward. Even the hydraksions felt it by the middle of the third day.
“Hey, I’ve been working my ass off for three days straight bitch, what’s your excuse.” Len retorted with a much more sincere smile.
Gilda grinned and gave Len a hard, yet playful punch in the arm. “Oh fuck you. I’m the hottest damn gryphon ever born.” Said Gilda as she spun in her chair.
“Oh don’t I know it.” Len said with an almost predatory grin. Len tried hard to contain her laughter, she really did, but the look Gilda gave her was just too much and she rolled over onto the floor laughing hard.
Gilda puffed up in embarrassment before a grin found its way back onto her face. Taking advantage of len’s current position she hopped on top of her pinning ehr to floor as she straddled her waist staring into Len’s eyes with her own predatory gaze.
“Ooh, you like it rough I see. Good, that's another thing we have in common.” Len said in her seductive tone with half lidded eyes. Gilda immediately got worried seeing her plan fail miserably and looked ready to run until Len started laughing ehr asss off again. “Damn you're to easy, Gilda!”She hollered out through her fit of laughter.
Gilda unstraddled her friend and helped the mechromancer to her feet as well before they both retook their seats as Len’s laughter calmed down. “Thank you Gilda, I really needed that. You have no idea just how stressed I've been lately.” Len said with big grin on her face.
“Yeah, I don’t think its that hard to imagine!” Gilda said with a sigh of relief. She was happy she could do something to help her friend. Feeling useless never sat well with the gryphon warrior and with Len being as badass as she was she rarely actually need her help. It felt great to be useful to her for once.
“Hey, I don’t usually drink much, but I feel like I could use a little something to sip on,. How about u G, want to share a drink with me?” Len asked as she stood stretching with light moans. Gilda blushed unable to tell whether she was doing it on purpose or not.
Gilda shrugged with a faint blush and got out of her surprisingly comfy chair as well. “Well, so long as your treating I suppose I’ll have a drink or two.” she said as she followed a grinning Len over to a bar in the back of the forge, Vanessa close behind.
Len stepped back behind the bar and mixed up aa few drinks Gilda had never seen nor heard of before as well as some hard cider before pouring three glasses. GIlda looked at the glass weirdly before taking a small sip. Her eyes widened from the amazing flavor of the drink before pulled it away from her face staring at it. “Welp, thanks a lot len, you’ve just ruined every other drink out there for me.” Gilda said glaring at the drink before downing it one shot.it was an almsot imidiet reaction as she flet her self gettign tipsy already.
Len giggled as she sat beside her tipsy friend slowly sipping from her shot. “This is one of those drinks you drink over time not all in one go sweetheart. Three of these will put you on your ass faster than can scream “fuck.”” Said the mechromancer as she sat her drink down. “Don’t worry, I’ll give you a watered down version next time.” She added with a light chuckle at the gryphon’s expense.
“Not sure if you’re joking or not but I think that would be a great idea.” Gilda said. Len just leaned back against the bar with her eyes closed for a bit, her smile seeming to by trying to make a permanent home on the stressed inventor’s face. The gryphon let out a relaxed sigh before jumping a little at the touch of something warm yet metal. A lookdown revealed it to be Vanessa’s tail poking her. Following the tail she slowly looked up to see Vanessa staring at her with a look of hunger on her face, and not the one you’d want a foal to see either, a banana in hand as she slowly peeled it before slipping her lips around it. The alicorn slowly stuffed more than half of the banana in her mouth before pulling it back out just as slow, her eyes never leaving Gilda the entire time.
If Gilda ever wanted to know how far her jaw could drop she now had her wish along with a wingboner so stiff you’d need a damn huge boulder just to force them back down. As if the the whole thing had been planned out exactly she stook a bite and happily swallowed it just as Len reopened her eyes. The look in her eyes now translated into one thing, “Don’t say a thing to Len and that could be you next time.”.
“Hey, you alright there Gilda? You’ve got that “Holy shit thats one hot bitch!” look on your face.” Len asked as she waved a hand in front of Gilda’s face not really acknowledging her daughters horrible attempts at holding back her laughter. The gryphon shook her head with her entire face being red. She quickly grabbed Len’s drink and downed the rest of it just as she had done with hers earlier, though this time she took extra care to avoid looking at Vanessa.
Gilda coughed in a poor attempt to act as if nothing was wrong. “Wow, ya know its pretty awesome how you can take a few completely different drinks, mix them together to make something so much better and works so well.”She said with a somewhat shaky voice. Len laughed a bit before a realization slowly came upon her.
“Sweet Ashvatha Gilda, you’re a genius!” Len grabbed Gilda by the face and kissed her deeply before shooting off towards her lab area. Gilda was stunned by the surprise kiss. She hadn't been expecting that at all, but she quickly snapped out of it with a furious blush.
“D-damn it Len! Why do you like fuckign with me?!” She yelled after the human waving an angry fist at her. She sighed before hopping off her stool and heading for the exit. Ash she walked she had this uneasy feeling, like something was stalking her.
The gryphon warrior simply shrugged it off and continued on a bit further before remembering she;d also come to borrow something from Len. She simply jogged down to Len’s storage unit near the back and began searching, that is, until the door suddenly slammed shut and the lights turned off. A strange giggling echoed through the room and suddenly she wished she’d paid more attention to that feeling from just a few minutes ago.
Len felt a shiver run up her spine for some unexplainable reason. She simply shrugged it off and continued to work.
After a full five hours of nonstop work Len ran a virtual test of the serum she had created. Thanks to Gilda she had seen the answer that had been sitting right in her face the whole time. Len stood there praying as she watched the holo screen for what seemed like eternity until it beeped and droned out in a feminine monotone voice. “Test complete. Serum 015 100% successful.”
“Yes! I’ve done it! I’ve successfully created a serum that’ll turn my body techno-organic and and stop me from going completely insane!” She cheered as she hopped up and down in happiness. She stopped her celebration and quickly grabbed the vial of blue liquid and injected it straight into her bloodstream before she eagerly waited for it to take effect.
Len suddenly reeled in pain letting out a silent scream as she fell to her knees, her veins became visible through her skin, glowing as the serum passed through them. Her skin started to shift from form her normal pale human color to a silverish blue color as it gained its metallic luster. her eyes fully turned into their robotic state shining Green as the changes continued down to her hand becoming more like robotic claws. Even her robotic arm changed to be more like her other arm. Her hair changed into a luminescent blue mist in the form of ponytails that stopped just above her waist and started to fade into green half way down.
Though outside Len looked to be on the verge of dying as she collapsed over onto the floor unconscious, inside a different story was unfolding. Len groaned as she stood on shaking legs. “W-wha... what happened?” She asked as she looked around the empty void.
“Well, I guess its that time hugh.” came a familiar voice from behind. She whipped around to find Gaige standing behind her with her shotgun up and ready. “The darkness within you isn’t going to go quietly so we’re going to have to drag her ass to the slag pit kicking and screaming.” Gaige finished as she cocked her gun.
Len gave out a sigh of frustration as she rubbed at her temples. “Of course she wouldn’t. Why in Ashvatha’s name would shit be that simple and easy for once.” She groaned out. “Just ... jsut... FML man, FML.”
“Dude, you are literally preaching to the choir here.” Gaige sighed out as she got ready.
“So, why do we have to fight her anyways, I mean, she's part of me so why can’t we all just, I don’t know, be friends or something?” Len asked. She honestly was not looking forward to the battle against herself but just wanted to get all of this over with as soon as possible.
A low sadistic chuckle suddenly rang out seemingly from every direction.
“How pathetic, a psychotic little machinist wannabe and a gender swapped loser destined to fail. Is this really the what I have to deal with? I honestly feel insulted.” Gaige immediately tensed up, ready to fight for her life inside Len’s mind. Len simply stared around in amazement at s a an entire facility slowly formed around her until they found themselves in a poorly lit rusty looking hallway. It reminded her of the bandit fort from the game except without the bandits.
“Gotta get the number of your interior decorator, he really knows how get that ‘bandit’ theme on point.’ Len stated sarcastically as she peaked around a corner seeing a badass loader just standing there with its back turned.
“Oh sure, her name is Len Heartworthy, ring any bells? I actually plan to ‘fire’ her. The bandit look is about as played out as the punk rock vault hunter look. I feel a more futuristic, robotic, and organic free theme would look just perfect.” The voice quipped in response. Gaige growled as she checked around another corner to find even more Loaders idly patrolling down another hallway as the two conversed.
“Nah, I think organics and robots should be together. It brings a much more friendly feel to it.” Len countered. “Besides, in the end neither can truly live without the other anymore. So why split them up when they’re all equally important?” She added as she slowly opened a door. She sighed in relief as she saw nothing inside and motioned for gaige to follow.
“Organics and machines? Eww! Now that’s just disgusting. Organics are too imperfect to ever hope to be equals to machines.” The voice retorted in disgust as len Quietly shut the door they had came through before the two girls made their way through another door leading them into another hallway. “Oh, and it's the organics that need machines, not the other way around.”
“You seem a bit too closed minded. You speak as if machines can be alive without organics. They can’t. Now a days the same can be said for organics as well. Separate they are weak and doomed to failure, but together, they are an unstoppable force with a chance to become so much more.” Clarified Len. She quickly grabbed Gaige and ducked into another room, closing the door silently just as a group of loaders came around the corner.
“Len is right you know. And you should know that hatred isn’t going to bring about anything but your own destruction.” Sadi Gaige as she peaked out into a hallway.
“Oh, so you wish for me to prove you wrong then? Very well, I accept your challenge.”Came the voice.
Len sighed as she peaked around a corner to see three loaders guarding a door. “We’re not challenging you to do anything, but if you let me, maybe we can come up with something that works for both sides. All of this is pretty unnecessary don’t you think?” She hopefully asked. In response The loaders suddenly started charging in their direction. Lne Quickly pulled out her electric sniper rifle, The Zap, and unloaded two rounds each into the single red optics of the first two before gaige unloaded a full clip of a corrosive smg into the third one, melting right through its hull.
“Guess she’s done talking.” Said gaige as she kicked the remains of one of the bots.
Len nodded as she stepped over them and made her way to the door. “Looks like it. Oh well, guess we’ll just have to find little miss sunshine and try beating some sense into her since taking obviously isn’t going to get us very far with her it seems.” Len added in a rather annoyed manner. She had really been hoping they could just talk things out and be done with all this. This was what she got for thinking things could just be simple,and quick.
(Gryphon Kingdom)
Jax grinned as she silently strode through the training yards watching her warriors’ viscous training. After securing guns from bandit attacks that she personally put down she had her gryphon soldiers trian their buts off. They were no where near ready to go into combat and finish this war, but all in good time.
Jax could just taste victory as she watched the creation of her new badass gryphon soldiers. Sure it required that they sacrifice their intelligence and free will, but that was a small price to pay for the power she was giving them. With a few more months of training her army would be ready and well equipped to take over Equestria and get her what she desired. Soon the world would be covered in eternal night, ehr eternal night. And nothing would be able to stop her, not even that blasted mechromancer.
(back in Len’s Mind)
Len quickly shut the door behind her before melting the lock and panting. “W-why the fuck is there a tentacle room in my mind?!” She raved to no one in particular. Gaige just shrugged with a slight shudder as she looked at her torn skirt and stockings.
“Don’t know, just not going back in that place ever again.”
“Well, Atleast I think we’ve finally made it.” Len said through her heavy breathing.
“What makes you so sure.” asked Gaige. In response Len just pointed to the unamused looking robo Len standing on the other side of the room near a console. “Oh, that bitch, right.”
“You honestly think you can take me. I’d laugh if that wasn’t such a terrible joke.” She said narrowed eyes.
Len shrugged and pulled out a bottle of hard apple cider and chugged a bit of it before handing it to Gaige who promptly did the same as she rested on the floor. “Nah, won’t have to. I just had this little realization that this,” She gestured to the whole room. “is my mind. And you, my dear, are nothing more than a piece of it. But I’ve still got all the power.”
Gear glared even harder at her, growling before charging at her. Len yawned as she sidestepped the charge, leaving her foot out to trip the girl and send her face first into the door. SHe fell to the ground in pain holding her face.
“I also realized that I’m the better fighter. And you honestly never had a chance to begin with.” Gear just snarled as she shot up and landed a punch to Len’s gut, following it up with a knee to the face. She hadn’t been expecting Len to be able to fight back so quickly though and wa staken by surprise as Len headbutted her before stomping the side of her knee effectively breaking the leg. Gear jumped back allowing herself time for her leg to auto repair itself as she pushed it back in place despite the pain it caused.
“You wretched bitch, you think I’ll just slip back into the void, back into nonexistence that easily?! Well think again you little shit! I’m running things now, and I’ll be damned If I let you just waltz in here and take me ou-” SHe was cut off by sudden magical force tossing her into the monitor before slamming her into a wall and then the opposite wall. As the magical force left her she looked up just in time to see Lem airborne and about to deliver one magically enhanced kick to the face. She caught it at the last second and flung Len into the monitor to be electrocuted.
Gear grinned smugly as she prepared to press her advantage only to have hand grab the side of her head before slamming her head into the wall and being stomped by Gaige.
A pulse of electricity was enough to deal gaige long enough for Gear kick her in the stomach and send her into the opposite wall. Gear roared out an enraged cry as she got to her feet and charged at Gaige. She whaled on ehr with all her rage beating the mechromancer unconscious before she dispersed into nothing. WIth her taken care of she turned her attention to gaige,only a moment too late though as len Drop kicked her through the door ehr and Gaige and came through.
“Have fun yall. Tyr to have her back before nine alright?” Len shouted after her but being wary to mentally close the hole now that she had time to process and think clearly. Gaige reformed right behind her looking around furiously.
“Calm down pigtails, I just drop kicked her ass into a world of porn the likes no one has ever wanted to actually see.” Said Len as she pointed to the door. Gaige shuddered actually feeling a bit sad for the poor girl.
“So what now, she’ll just come back eventually and then we’ll be doing this again.” Gaige asked.
Len grinned at her before making her way to the door. “No she won’t. She’s been defeated, bested in fair combat. Now, we can move on to the next phase, absorbing her and fixing this fractured piece.”
“Guess that means I got to be absorbed to?” Gaige asked with a big smile.
Len just looked at her like she was crazy, well, crazier than usual. “What, why would I absorb you? Youre not causing any problems here.”
“Yeah, but your mind won’t be truly fixed until you absorb both of us. Besides, I’ve been waiting for this day for a while now, It's finally time for me to become one with you and together the three of us will be made a new, something better than the sum of our parts.” Replied Gaige as she stepped up to Len. Her now half lidded eyes locked with len’s before she suddenly kissed ehr and ehr body began to glow and turn into mist that flowed into len. It was sort of like when the dragonborn absorbed a dragon’s soul except into burning nor badass shouting. Len blushed as Gaige disappeared into her just as Gear broke through the door, sealing it behind her.
“Why the fuck is this even hear!” Raved Gear as she panted and glared at the offending door. Something felt off though and she slowly turned to see len with a small smile on her face and a hand extended out to her.
Gear sighed as she begrudgingly accepted it and groaned as she stood to face len one last time. “You know you’re still going to go insane right? This doesn’t change much.” She stated.her metal cheeks suddenly became red hot as Len gently wrapped her arms around her with bedroom eyes on full blast, or at least that was the only way gear was able to see them after coming through the room.
“Yeah, but it changed enough. And now we both get to exist, together, as it should be.” Just as Len was about to seal the deal Dear stopped her.
“Wait, I should warn you. Ever since that battle with the hydera there has been a new power inside of you, lying dormant. I imagine this shall not be the last time you have to have a mental battle with your own mind. It will, however, take a lot more work to fully unlock this power to get to that point.” gear warned.
“Don’t you mean, we? We’re about to become something more than what we were separate. Together I know we’ll be ready for whatever this new owner is and We’ll become so much stronger because of it. Now then, I think the others are waiting on us outside.” Said Len with an even bigger smile.
Gear blushed even more as Leaned took her time finishing things up. Soon she was gone, sjtu like Gaige, Leaving len’s body to change to match her new outward appearance. She grinned as everything faded back into an empty void before being replaced by a massive pristine ship. She sighed as she felt herself waking up, ready to get out of here as and back tot eh real world having had her fill of mental bull shit for a while.
“I’m glad you all could make it.” Said Celestia as took a seat at a round crystal table inside her meeting room. The others each took their respective seats as pre-designated and nodded to the ruler of the sun. “I wish this meeting could be held on better terms than this but unfortunately our spies have not reported back with anything good.”
Len groaned, already annoyed with all this. “Great, what is it this time? Please tell me it doesn’t involve bandits. I’ve had enough of the bandits to last a lifetime.” She growled out. She had already had to fight off two attacks since she woke up no more than nine hours ago. If it wasn’t for the fact that her upgraded body didn’t really require sleep as much as it used to she wouldn’t even still be conscious after all that. She was still pissed that a damn nomad stole some of her loot during the last attack.
“Unfortunately, it does.” Said Celestia in an apologetic tone. her horn sparked up and golden hologram of the gryphon kingdom appeared in the middle of the table. A single section was highlighted before Celestia spoke again. “Several bandit camps have been wiped out in the last 48 hours, there weapons and ammunition taken by the gryphon empire. Our spies believe them to be training their forces in utilizing such weapons to be used against us.”
Len glared at the map, a sense of unease at the thought of trained gryphons with corrosive guns. Luna, on the other hand, er... hoof, was busy fiddling with a green crystal she had found in Len room, something Len, for whatever reason, still hadn't noticed.
“Great, so the gryphons are getting stronger by the second and jax is probably twice as strong as me right now, meanwhile Our forces are just sitting around getting fat and weak with nothing but sticks and stone to fight with.” Said a sarcastic Len.
Luna nearly jumped out of her skin when the crystal suddenly began to talk to her, soon realized it was only a pre recorded message playing into her mind. Her interest in the crystal was doubled as she had a crazy thought. Her horn lights up as she prodded it with magic.
A portal opens above the large table and two beings landed on it. One was a pink dragoness wearing what looked like a yellow combat vest and shorts. The other being was someone Len has met before, it was Asphyxious the half human/half dragon standing on the crystal table with a cutlass in one hand and his shotgun in the other.
“Who the hell try to pull me from my world without telling me what they WANT!” He yelled but stopped once he saw Len. However he was more confused by her new appearance. “Len…” He asked as his eye widen at her form. However the pink dragoness run over and tackles Len to the floor. “It good to see you hoard mate!” The Pink dragon said with joy in her voice.
A set of low growls could be heard from the back of the room as the Kor, Thar, Rath, the anthro hydra badass glared daggers at the dragoness currently latched around Len. Everyone else simply stopped and stared in mix of anger, and confusion. Asphyxious then get in between them and let off a deep growl of his own.
“Ugh, hey Sister, good to see you to.” Said Len as she waved off the others letting them know it was ok. Though they all eased up a bit, the Hydraksin leader was having a stare down with Asphyxious who looked like he was doing the same.
“It lovely to see you again to, oh by the way I’m two months along now!” Sister said as she rubs her belly.
Len gasped before hugging the dragoness, careful not to harm the babies. “Glorious Ashvatha, that’s great news!” Len cheered, not even paying the two staredowns any mind. “So how far along is Chrissy, Ax?” It now that both Len and Sister see that unless they do something soon a fight may break out.
Sister quickly went to Asphyxious to push him away from the Hydra. As Len was trying to do the same to the three headed female. Only she was too big for that to work. She then opted to simply levitate her away instead.
“Guys, chill out, this isn't the time.” She pleaded more than ordered as she struggled to hold her third mate.
“Len why does she have your scent on her.” Asphyxious asked as he puts his weapons away then crossed his arms. The look in his eye was mixed as if he was not sure how to act. Lucky Sister was doing a good job of blocking his path. Knowing full well he would not hurt her.
Len simply deadpanned at her otherworldly friend. “Really, are you that clueless? This is my third mate. And my second and first are in here aswell so try and behave yourself will ya.”
“No, just trying to control myself from trying to kill everything in this room.” He growled until Sister hit him up side the head. “Stop it, we are guests here beside this just means you have more to add to your hoard.” Said Sister as she cuddles him. Asphyxious stop and thinks about this before his face turns into a huge blush.
“Umm… I don’t think I’m ready for that…” He said putting a hand over his face to hide his blushing face. “Well okay so since I’m here how about names. I’m Asphyxious and I’ve just started my path to becoming a dragon.” Asphyxious said calmly.
A grin soon spread across all three of the hydra’s heads before she was suddenly looming over the human, dragon hybrid. “We are Kor, Thar, and Ragh. It is a pleasure to meet more of the great one’s mates. We trust you understand what must happen to you now?” They said with lustful grin.
Asphyxious looked at each head as he slowly said this .”Are you asking to be apart of my hoard?” The look on his face was clear. “I really wanted some alone time with Len and Sister, but if Len okay with it.” He asked looking at Len.
Len put up her hands defensively. “Woah there tiger, don’t get em involved. I usually don’t go against whatever she says. Not like she’ll give you a choice either. Best to just enjoy that ride if you catch my drift.”
Asphyxious then gave Len a lustful grin. “Want your other mates to join in Len~.” Asphyxious purred at Len as his tail wages.
“As if she has a say in the matter.” Came an insectoid like voice. “I am called Dread Wing by the way.” She stopped to take a whiff of the air before snarling at Asphyxious. “Why do you smell of the sadistic bitch, Chrysalis?”
“Well in my world her hive was wiped out and she was my first not only that but her daughter see me as her dad. I’m also the father of 20 changelings back at the den.” Asphyxious said calmly with a soft smile. “I’ve never seen Pupa so happy before.”
Len nearly choked as she was drinking a glass of water a servant had brought in when she heard. “Say what now!” She asked in shock. “When the hell were you planning on letting me know of this shit?!” She demanded.
“I told you about her eggs before you left remember?” Asphyxious said as he held up both hands in the small hope it would keep him safe.
Len paused in her aggressive march to the half dragon man as she vaguely remembered such. “Oh yeah, I must have really been out of it after that visit to your pub. Oh well.” She shrugged it off and settled with hugging Ax instead. He smiled at her then gave Len a soft kiss on the lips. “Better?” He asked as he wrapped his tail around her waist.
Len was about to answer when she was interrupted by a cough by the solar princess herself whose cheeks were now noticeably a deep shade of crimson. Luna simply sat there her eyes trained on one thing in particular, and it wasn’t Ax’s face. A certain hunger could be seen in her eyes.
“If we can, I’d like to actually get back to the matter at hand?” She asked, not fully sure about the situation that had unfolded before her.
“Oh, right! Sorry about that Celestia, won’t happen again... I think.” Len said as she pushed Ax into her seat before sitting in his lap with a single arm draped around his neck and her legs crossed. “You were about to explain something else of vital importance to the war?”
Asphyxious just smiled as he wrapped one arm around Len and his tail around Sister waist as she stands next to them with a smile. As the pink dragoness put one hand on Ax other shoulder.
Celestia cleared her throat before speaking again. “As I was saying, we believe jax is preparing her army, having withdrawn most gryphon forces from our lands and begun hunting down bandit camps to raid for weapons. Luckily, we haven’t exactly not been building up quite the storage of bandit loot ourselves.” She said as she played a image of len and her team dominating a few bandits and looting them.
“Good thing Jack not here or he would be going nuts over this.” Said Asphyxious as Sister leaned down and gave him a kiss on the head.
“Yeah, no kidding.” Len agreed as she looked over the map of the gryphon empire. “Oh yeah, speaking of which, where’s my copy of our night together I order from Jack?”
Asphyxious blushed at this before slowly reaching for his echo and pulled out what looked like a small DVD. “I don’t know why but F.A.U.S.T. made a bonus part on the thing at the end of someone with a Black Dragoness.” He said as he held it out to Len.
A wide grin spread across Len’s face as she eagerly took the dvd and stored it in her echo. “We are so watching this before you leave. Might even set up a good mood for yet another little orgy, right?” Asphyxious smiled at her as she said that.
“Not without Chrysalis~.” He purred at Len as Ax kisses her again. “Oh stop it you two are making me feel left out.” Complains Sister as she hugs Asphyxious from behind. The hydra couldn’t resist the urge as her heads nuzzled the three of them with a fierce hunger in her eyes.
Another cough from a now completely red faced Celestia caught their attention once again. “I was wondering if you had any ideas on how to counteract all of this Len? maybe you could train our forces to be as skilled as you are?” Len grinned nodded. “Sure thing, I’ll have them whipped into shape in no time.”
Asphyxious looked at Sister with a wide eye after hearing that and saw the grin on her face. “Len would you mind if I helped?” Sister asked timidly as she plays with the end of her tail.
Len shrugged as she tossed the dragoness a Legendary weapon. “Sure, And keep a hold of that for me will ya. It feels like your type of weapon form what I saw last time.”
Sister eyes went wide at the weapon she was now had in her claws. Asphyxious slowly looked at Len with a huge smile on his face. “You have no idea what you just did, did you?” He said as he leans back into the set.
Len stared blankly, a look of confusion clear on her face. Sister then jumped Len kissing her deeply before saying. “Yes I will marry you!” Asphyxious then bust out laughing at that.
Everyone else, including Len, just stared at Sister with jaws threatening to hit the floor at what she just said. Len was the first to recover, or at least she would have if not for a sudden very surprised and slightly angry new fembot digistrucing into the room. The tall Alicorn dragon hybrid stared at Sister as if she was debating her worth.
“This machine is strange but acceptable. Just don’t go thinking I’ll be calling you mom or anything.” Her eyes soon shifted to Asphyxious as a lustful grin overtook her slight scowl. “But we’d be more than willing to call you daddy~” She cooed at the other human.
“Len… Am I her dad?” He asked with his voice full of worry and fear. “I’m feeling a little uncomfortable about this.”
Len sighed as she quickly got between Ax and her daughter, Vanessa. “No, I’m her mother though. Oh, also, avoid dark areas or places no one can hear the initial scream. The scream usually only gets about half a second before its silenced.”
Sister gets up and give Vanessa a almost deadly look. “Try and hurt him and I will reprogram you so fast you’ll think you're a claptrap.” Said Sister giving off her magic like a raging waterfall.
Vanessa actually gave a genuine, if dark and sadistic sounding, laugh in response. “Oh my, the little VI thinks she can handle a superior AI. Don’t make me laugh little one. I would devour you same as any other.”
“Maybe but I know mother can devour you.” Sister said as she sent Vanessa some date. “Also I have some new toys I’m willing to test out on you. I’ve only ever used them on Asphyxious when it time for his training.” Asphyxious slowly hide behind Len as the pink dragoness said that.
“Ooh, new toys hugh? You must feel pretty special don’t you child?” She spat out with venom in her voice.
“Not really I’m just the test model. Let just say I have more to fear from mother then anything else… Say now that I look at you how was you built?” Asked Sister as she moves closer and Looks Vanessa up and down doing some scans.
“I am a techno-organic creation built to evolve and adapt. By the way, your hardware seems to be quite unique. I may desire to devour them alter.” She growled out with a grin as she circled her like a wolf and its prey.
“You are not eating my EGGS!” Sister yelled and then Asphyxious appeared from out of no where with his cutlass to Vanessa’s throat. “Len, control your daughter or I can not be held accountable for what she plans to do to my kids.” Asphyxious said slowly.
Len laughed as she watched them all. “Oh relax Ax, V’s just messing with ya. I wish she didn’t have such a sadistic sense of humor but she does. If anything, you have more to worry about than sister. You are the only organic male in this room after all.”
Asphyxious looked at Vanessa as he slowly pulled the sword away from her neck and backed away slowly. Sister just sighed in relief and put away, what looked like a huge cannon. Where did she even get that!?
“I do however wish to explore this, ‘Sister’s’ body if you wouldn’t mind. Certain pieces of hardware seem most beneficial. That, and It's fun to toy with others in privacy if you catch my drift.”
Sister think about this as she put an arm around Vanessa. “I have some data I think you’ll need to look into not only that but I have eggs so I can’t have fun with you. But I can help you enjoy yourself if that is alright.” The Pink dragoness said with a smile as she leads the Alicorn dragon out of the room.
“Is it a bad thing I fear more for myself then her right now?” Asked Asphyxious still hiding behind Len.
“No, you should be afraid. Gilda still hasn’t regained her ability to walk after Vanessa caught her in a dark room three days ago. You will likely not fair much better.” She walked over and patted his shoulder. “Good luck though.”
“Not only that but I have your other mates to see to as well… By the way you said you had three who the third?” Asked Asphyxious looking around the room.
“That would be me.” Said Luna as she continued to stare him down expressionless, except for that still growing hunger in her eyes. “Is the meeting over with?” She asked without looking away for a second.
Asphyxious eye went wide at all three of them well five if we’re counting heads. “Len don’t leave me alone with them. I don’t know if I can control myself.”
Len whistles as she steps out just as he says that and closes the door behind her. All three of Len’s mates had Ax surrounded before he could even blink. “Well, she didn’t waste any time leaving you to our mercy did she?” Came the alluring insectoid voice of Dread.
Asphyxious sighed as he looks at all three of them then smiles softly. “How about we take this somewhere we can get to know each other.” He asked as he wraps his tail around Luna waist and a arm around the hydra.
“Maybe, I belive Len has already gone to prepare the room. Shall we join her there?” Suggested Luna. Asphyxious purred as he start to walk to the doors. “Then let follow her~.” He said as he give each and everyone of them a kiss on the check.
“Yes, we shall.” Said the hydra before she simply wrapped her arms around them all and hauled them off with ease. “But we call dibs on you first little meat.” She said as she passed by a few blushing guards.
“Want me to be in my dragon form~.” He purrs up at her as he put an arm around both Luna and Dread. “Just to warn you I don’t have full control in that form yet. So I’ll stick with as I am.” Asphyxious said as the hydra could feel his tail rubbing one of her necks.
“No control needed. This is a primal ritual that is meant for your emotions to run wild. Control has no place in its delicious acts of debauchery.” She stated with a grin. “Besides, we believe the four of us are more than enough to handle you no matter the form you take.” She added in a playful manner.
“Let find out what Len as planned before we get any ideas.” Asphyxious asked with a playful smile.
“If I know Len, impulsive sex might as well be her slogan by this point. Besides, she usually bends to our will anyways. That said she is still not one to be crossed.” Luna replied.
Once they enter Len’s room they all see Chrysalis sitting on the bed with a smile. “Len called me and I had Sister open a portal to get here. I hope you didn’t forget me~.” The Changeling Queen said with a lustful smile on her face.
“Doubt he’d do something as stupid as that Chrissy. I mean, you were his first after all.” Len said with a grin as Sister and Vanessa flanked to either side of the door as they entered.
“I don’t know how this happened but I have this overwhelming need to have you all right now.” Asphyxious said as he licks the side of Dreads neck and Lunas.
Len giggled, a rare thing for her, at Ax’s words. “Oh Asphyxious. You continue to act as if it would end any other way. Its honestly funny as hell. Now get your ass in the bed fuck toy.” Len demanded. However Asphyxious let out a playful growl as he let go.
Len grinned as she let Sister and Vanessa toss the man onto the bed before they all had him surrounded and the doors suddenly slammed shut. From that point all throughout the night Ponyville trembled in fear at the sounds of what was a dragon roaring throughout the night.
Asphyxious yawned as he stretches in the bed as he wakes up. He then slowly gets out of bed looking for his shorts and a shirt once he put them on he slowly makes his way through the dark of the room till he finds the door and opens it. Then walks outside looking for breakfast.
However the light coming from the open door show Luna, Len, Chrysalis, Sister, Vanessa, Dread, the hydra, Gilda and Celestia all gasping for air laying all about the room in sweat and content.
Meanwhile Asphyxious was walking down the hall tell he remembers something. “Crap… I don’t know where the food hall is?!” He calls out in fear as he run down the halls. Not noticing the guards all with ill looks on their faces. Muttering something about all night long.
Len huffed as she ran, ducking under yet another rocket as it whizzed overhead hitting building in front of her. Even with her speed spell she wasn’t going to be outrunning her pursuers anytime soon. She knew she’d have to stop and deal with them eventually but for now she kept running. Another rocket impacted in front of her nearly knocking her down from the shock wave alone. She quickly ducked into a back alley.
“You’re doing pretty good so far mom, just wish you wouldn’t toy around with your food on the battlefield like this.” Said a slightly impatient Vanessa. “Oh hush, let mommy have her fun for a bit. I’ve been really busy lately and need a bit more fun in my life.” Len replied grinning as she saw three gryphons on either side of the alley way flying towards her at top speed. “Too easy.” She muttered.
She waited till they were in just the right spot then rocket jumped up onto a balcony hearing the satisfying sounds of both gryphons slamming into each other. She grinned down at the heap below her before dropping a grenade on top of them and rocket jumping onto the roof hearing multiple explosions going off below her.
“Seriously, you should try this out later sweetie, its totally awwwesome.” She said to her daughter as she took of running once more using her rockets to jump from roof top to roof top as she dodged more rockets and bullets. “Maybe, but first we still have to finish Project Anthro and prepare for the possible repercussions from the princesses remember?”
“Yeah, I haven't forgotten V.” She said as she pulled out a burst fire sniper and let three rounds fly free into one of the rocket gryphon’s gun causing it to explode killing three gryphons and leaving Len with only four more pursuers to kill. “And I’m sure Celestia won’t be to mad. Speaking of which, how goes the deployment?” She asked as she reflected a rocket with her shield spell into an oncoming group killing them.
“So far deployment is at 97%. Only The Crystal empire, Dragon nesting Grounds and Zebrica remain. Estimated time till deployment complete: three minutes fifteen seconds startiiinnng... now.”
Len grinned dropping down in the center of town pulling out her sword as she awaited the gryphons to land as well. “Excellent, in that case, I suppose I should hurry this up then. Give me like two minutes and I should be out.” She turned to the gryphons as they put away their guns and drew their own swords and axes. “Alright boys, let’s make this quick.” They growled and roared their battle cry as they charged at her all at once.
...
*Hiss*
The pod door opened allowing a grinning Len to step out feeling pretty happy with herself. “The simulation seems to work beautifully V, though I did notice a few bugs I’ll have to fix before you get your turn with it.” She stated as she stepped up to the console Vanessa was in front of.
“Fine by me, I prefer reality anyways.” V replied as she typed in a few commands bringing up a holographic image of planet Equis with red dots covering the planet. “The last few bombs have been placed and armed. We are officially ready to go on your command.”
“Good, and what of the secondary deployment?” She asked.
Vanessa punched in a few more commands and the red dots were replaced with purple dots. “The crates and Loaders are almost in position. in another three hours we should be fully ready to go.”
“One last thing, do you think Reaver is ready for phase two?”
Vanessa thought for a moment before sighing heavily. “Yeah, He’s ready, though are you sure about this? He seems way too shy and fragile of an AI. I doubt he’ll be of much use to us.” Vanessa complained. Len just giggled a bit putting a hand on her daughter’s shoulder.
“You’re worrying way to much V, besides, he’ll have his big sister to look after him. I’m sure he’ll do just fine.” Len smiled as she saw a small smile form on Vanessa’s lips. She was happy things were running so smoothly today and hoped that they’d continue to do so. “Now then, time to wake up your brother, today’s his big day and I just know he’ll be super excited.” Vanessa may not of believed the same but her mother’s enthusiasm was infectious and she just couldn’t help a genuine smile.
Len grabbed the AI from his housing station and made her way to her new lab station, a metal body already laying on the table. Unlike Vanessa’s this body had digitigrade legs and a milky brown coat color. Replacing the pony part of Vanessa’s design with diamond dog, he was almost completely identical to his sister excluding his head, body colors and wings choosing to go with dragon wings instead. It wore a similar attire to Vanessa with black wraps wrapped around its feet leaving its pads free rather than shoes and a shorter skirt. Len placed the AI into its new body before grinning as Reaver’s eyes opened for the first time.
“Good morning Reaver. How do you like your new body?” Len asked hopefully awaiting his answer but with all the patience of a proud mother. She was overly happy and excited but had to keep a much calmer demeanor than she wanted so badly to show.
“It’s... it feels... strange. Is that good?” He asked innocently with his light almost feminine sounding voice.
“Well, that's what your big sister said when she first got her new body so I’d assume so.” Len replied to the best of her ability. She had no idea what it must've been like to not have a body then suddenly have one.
“It feels like a good kind of strange though... I like it.” The urge to grin completely overtook her as she helped him off the table and onto his feet.
“Okay, you should adjust as we go along with your tests. We have to make sure you get all the functions down before we move on to evaluating your combat performance.” Len said as she pulled up a holo panel beside her monitoring him. “Now, first things first, walking. Let’s start with a lap around the lab and we’ll go from there, okay?” Reaver nodded before taking his first wobbly step, the first of many.
<Gryphon Territory, location: unknown>
Jax practically purred in delight as she slit another bandit’s throat before cleaving through another with her shadow scythe. “Keep searching, I must have those iridium shards no matter the cost.” She ordered to her troops. Gryphon soldiers tore the place apart in search of the shards while dealing with the occasional psycho.
Jax Strode over the bodies of her fallen enemies and her fallen soldiers without a care in the world. Another psycho ran up to her screaming and shooting wildly before being silenced with a single swing of her scythe. She stopped as she noticed an entrance in the distance that no one had stepped into yet. She could feel it, the shards were in there, calling out to her to come and claim them.
She grinned as she turned into her shadow form and slipped inside. Upon entering it was clear this would not be as easy as she had thought. badasses strolled around everywhere along with goliaths of all things and Nomads. She growled, furious with this new revelation. No matter what she threw at this she would fail in any attempt to clear this place, but her prize tempted her to try anyways.
In the very back surrounded by three super badasses sat her prize. a massive pile of iridium. If she could get her claws on that she would increase her power three times as much as she currently had. It would be necessary if she hoped to defeat the steadily growing strength of Len. Her spies reported back that the girl had suddenly become almost twice as powerful and had strange allies form other worlds to aid her.
Jax slowly creeped out of the cave before turning back into her solid state and growling as she walked back to join her troops. “We must leave, this place has what I want but it would be futile, not to mention suicidal to try and obtain it right now. I’m ordering a full retreat, for now at least.” She growled out.
A lone gryphon stepped to her holding a bag and handing it to her. She snatched it away from him before opening it to reveal a few shards of iridium. Her grin slowly returned before she placed the bag away. “Good work Captain. I believe a promotion is in order for all of your recent success. For now, we must still flee, before the enemy decides to come to us rather than continue to wait for us.” She said as she sprouted dark wings and took to the skies followed by her soldiers just as half of the badasses in the cave decided they were bored of waiting.
Jax looked at the bag in her inventory and grinned maliciously. At least it wasn’t all for nothing and with the few shards she had gotten she would at least stand a much better chance against Len should she have to fight her before she managed to obtain the cash of iridium at the bandit camp.
“Oh what a wonderful day for a slaughter and scheming. Those fools don’t even realize what they're up against but they shall soon find out. yes, in the end darkness always wins.”
<Castle of the Two Sisters>
Blood hummed as she looked over the colorful pendent Len had given her. It was meant to be a symbol of their love and, most importantly, a sign of their engagement. Of Course the others had one as well but that only made it that much more special to her. She was so happy that she didn’t even bother with her disguise and pranced down the hall with her head held high and a song in her heart.
“Morning Tia, Lulu.” She greeted warmly as she stepped into the dining hall for lunch. The two princesses immediately smiled and greeted her back letting a wave of love wash over the changeling causing her make an odd but cute screech and clicking sound as she fed. Blood could feel her mood skyrocketing from the wave of delicious emotions.
Both Princess let out a light giggle at their friend/mate’s behavior just as their food arrived. “Nice to see you’re doing so well today.” Said the princess of the night before taking her first bite.
“Yes you seem to be in a really good mood today. Still feeling the all light and bubbly form Len finally proposing to you I assume?” Celestia Inquired before doing the same. Blood sat beside Luna and took a bite of her own food as well before replying. “Oh yes, it is absolutely wonderful. I can’t seem to calm down now, I’m just too happy and spoiled with love.”
“I must agree, I have been feeling strangely happy ever since she proposed and it hasn’t died down in slightest ever since. It is simply far too much for me to handle alone. i do wish that Len wasn’t always so busy with her work so she could help us.” Luna purred out dreamily.
“Len’s work is usually very important, in fact, I believe she is working on something really big as we speak. Though what that is she wouldn’t say. She simply told me I’d know it when I see it.” Stated the changeling queen.
“Hmm, I wonder what she could have meant by that.” Celestia said taking another bite of her food before purring in delight. “Mmm, today’s meal is even better than ever before. I simply must give my regards to the cooks after this.” She happily declared. The others agreed and decided they’d do the same after they finished their meals.
<Len’s Secret Lab, Location: Unnamed Mountain 500 miles from the Everfree.>
Len smiled as she watched her personal bodyguard, Gun Storm, laying in a bed, her entire body changed by the same serum that made Len techno-organic. She had only been out for about an hour but Len could tell she wouldn’t be out for nearly as long as she had when she dosed herself.
“Great one, the final preparations are complete. We await your command and your presence oh great one.” Said a hydraksian. The anthro hydra awaited patiently kneeling before Len. Though she normally hated being treated so highly she had grown used to it when ti came to her hydra followers and just went with it when addressing them.
“Thank you, Minx. Watch over my friend here and alert em the moment their is a change in her condition. I shall head to the main labs and begin phase 2.” Len replied. Minx rose and and took up position guarding Gun Storm.Once Len made it to the main Labs she found her hydraksian fiance waiting to greet her at the door. She had recently learned that her people stopped using their three names once they were set to official forever bond with their life mate, as such, the hydraksian had chosen her new name already and was still feeling bubbly from being proposed to only yesterday.
“Hello Kara, glad to see you could join us.” Len said to her. All three heads simply smiled dreamily and wordlessly nodded. Len noted her change in attire, going from loincloths and bones to Leather, loincloths and bones, though where she had gotten the massive skull that sat on her right shoulder was beyond her. She also had to note that her clothing seemed to cover even less of her breasts. To top it all off and add to her already imposing yet alluring figure she now had a massive blade made from the bone of some very large animal with a serrated metal edge strapped to her back.
Len soon settled up next to Vanessa at the console form before overlooking a spinning hologram of Equis with Kara standing right behind them keeping a respectful distance. “Alright, it's finally time. Let's get everything in motion shall we.”
“Sure thing, Mother, just one moment.” Vanessa Punched in a few commands before a timer pulled up counting down from ten. Everyone eagerly waited as the seconds passed. Len felt a little bubbly herself as her little project was that much closer to to finishing. She had been planning this ever since she had been tasked with training the Equestrian soldiers almost two weeks ago. She would have taken less time to do this were not for the slowed production rate of the bombs after initial testing. Oh well, that was just the way things went for her. There was always some slight oversight or miscalculation to her plans, usually nothing too big but it was still annoying as shit for her.
The timer hit zero and a series of energy waves were suddenly emitted from the bombs covering the entire globe. The bombs themselves exploded into small singularities just too because Len didn’t like leaving her tech lying around for others to play with. After all, if anyone was gonna burn the world with her tech it was going to be Len herself giving out the orders.
Back with the princesses and Blood, they were trying their best to keep their heads about the whole thing, or at least Celestia was. They all knew who to blame for this incident but in all honesty even Celestia soon found herself a bit too engrossed and admiring her new body. She actually debated even being upset with Len as she touched her exceedingly thick ass, the results of her cake addiction she had recently obtained.
“Okay, I have to admit, this is by far Len’s best work yet.” Said a happy changeling queen as she gave toothy grin and caressed herself. “I mean, seriously, can’t even get mad with her with a body like this.”
Celestia had to tear herself away from her jiggly ass long enough to give a slight pout and voice her own opinions, a truly difficult task it would seem. “I’m still going to have a few choice words with her about this when she returns from wherever she has been for the last two weeks.” Despite how much she wanted to be mad she couldn’t help herself and soon found herself admiring her body once more. “Damn you cake, why did you have to curse me with such a thick frame.”
