> The Perfect Warrior > by Night Music > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was a pretty normal day for the party pony of Ponyville. Throw a couple of parties, bake some sweets. Meet her friends. But nothing would prepare her for the what she was about to feel. Her friends and her were all gathered in the crystal castle of Ponyville, discussing the town and the daily happenings. Nothing bad had really happened in a long time so everything was cal and peaceful for the small town. "So, on the topic of happiness. How is the town, Pinkie?" Twilight asked. Looking across the table to see her friend simply smiling and looking at the magical map. "Everypony is doing super! I got to host a birthday for the twins and I even got to bake the cake!" She shouted as she jumped in the air with joy. Before slowly floating back down.Her friends all giggled at her antics. The moment she sat back down, her body began to violently shake. Everypony began to look at their friend with worry in their eyes. The shaking stopped as soon as it began. "What the hay was that?!" Rainbow Dash all but screamed. An eyebrow raised on her face. She began to flap her wings and fly just above her seat. "Are you alright dear?" Rarity asked. Concerned for her friend. The pink pony sat quietly before giving out a shrill gasp and darting towards the door. Everypony gave questioning glances at each other before getting up and following her. She flew out of the room and down the hallway to her friend. She caught up to her and "Pinkie!" She shouted. "What was that back there?" "There's somepony new in town, and they were a doozy!" She replied. Rainbow Dash stopped. A confused look on her face. A pony was the doozy? Rainbow was snapped out of her daze as she was passed up by the rest of her friends. She began to fly again catching up to them. "What's going on Pinkie? Where are you going?" Twilight asked as she trotted alongside Pinkie. "Going to greet the new pony, duh! My Pinkie sense told me that there was somepony new in town and that they were a doozy! So I just had to go meet them!" She replied in a cheery tone. "How do you even know where they are?" Twilight asked, the moment she did so, she began to mentally berate herself. Telling herself not to question it. "My Pinkie sense said they would be right around this corner!" As her and the rest turned the corner, all they saw was an empty road. Nopony was around, all but something that was lying on the ground. Pinkie began to gallop to it and so did the rest of them. As they got closer and closer, they saw their friend visibly sadden, they all looked to the figure laying in the road and knew why. There. In the middle of the road. Was a strange creature with what seemed like a knife in its chest. The creature was laying in a small pool of its own blood. They all froze at the sight. Applejack took off her hat and covered the cowering Fluttershy with it. Rainbow Dash looked away. Rarity caught one sight of the blood and fainted. The only ponies that were still looking at the creature were, Pinkie, and Twilight. "What pony could so such a thing?" Pinkie asked, her mirth lost along with the curls of her hair. Twilight couldn't answer. She just walked forward to the dead creature and inspected it. It was wearing a dark blue shirt that had short sleeves. It was also wearing a pair of light brown pants that had various pockets, what was in them, she didn't know. She looked at its face. It was relatively hairless, besides the large patch of it on its head and a beard on its face. She looked at the poor creature. And then she noticed the knife that had been stuck in its chest. The thing seemed to be made out of stone, intricately carved, it seemed to be more of an artifact than a knife. As she stared at the creature, she reached a hoof to touch the knife, but flinched away as a pined grunt escaped the questionably dead creature. The knife she had touched began to glow a bright, neon blue. Twilight looked back to her friends who had stopped mourning and were now looking on with slight fear in their eyes. As she looked back to the creature, its hand shot towards her suddenly, grabbing her hoof and pulling her close. She screamed as the creature lifted her up with it as it got off of the ground. It tossed her up in the air before catching her again and silenced her, before using the other to pull the knife from its chest. A wet schlick, and a grunt was all that came from the creature. Rarity wasn't the only one to be unconscious this time as Fluttershy joined her on the ground. Fear prevented Twilight from focusing her magic and teleporting away. And the creature only added to that fear as it raised the bloody stone knife to her throat. (Third person on Jason Brody) "What the fuck is this?!" He asked, yelling at the brightly colored horses in front of him. They all flinched at the language. His eyes darted between the buildings and the ponies in front of him. He was confused. But confused was only one of the things he was feeling right now. He held one of them in his arm as he covered her mouth with the palm of his hand. "Put her down! Freak!" The rainbow pony yelled at him. Raising a hoof to him. "Answer the fucking question!" "Yer in Equestria!" Applejack yelled, afraid what would happen to Twilight if they didn't answer. It seems though that the creature didn't even register the answer as he began to mutter to himself. "This is for all those... people. Oh. What. The. Fuck! I'm in hell?!" Jason said aloud as he looked at his surroundings. "No, no, I ain't dead, this is just some weird drug trip... Yeah, that's it." "Freak! I said, put her down! Or else!" Rainbow threatened. Jason looked at Rainbow Dash with a raised eyebrow. "What the fuck are you going to do? Throw candy at me?" He chuckled as he back away with the pony in his grip. Before he could react, the pony flew at him and collided her hooves into the arm that was holding the knife. He dropped the pony and shouted in pain as the knife dropped from his hand and saw that his elbow had been pushed out of its socket. Rainbow Dash grabbed Twilight and carried her back over to the rest of her friends. As she set Twilight down, she looked back at the creature with a smirk, before seeing that the creature didn't pay anymore attention to his arm, but was giving her a look of pure rage. She looked at his arm and saw that she had pushed a bone out of place as it hung limply at his side. The creature used his good arm to grab the other and raise it in front of him. Where he pulled it away from himself and she saw the bone set back in with a sickening crunch and a couple of pops.Oh Celestia she was going to be sick. "That all you got?!" Jason yelled as he picked the knife back up, swinging it in his now fixed hand. "I'll fucking gut you like a pirate bitch!" Rainbow Dash felt a hoof on her shoulder and she looked back to see Twilight who stared with a straight face. "Don't worry Rainbow, I'll handle this." "You sure Twi?" "I'm sure." She replied as her horn began to glow. Rainbow looked over to the creature as a magical bubble formed around him. "What the fuck?!" He pounded at the bubble. "This is horseshit!" They all cringed. "Fight me you fuck!" He continued to pound away at the bubble. "Can you get Spike to message the Princesses?" Twilight said as she focused her magic to detain the violent creature. Rainbow looked at the monster before replying. "Y—Yeah." She flew off towards the crystal castle. The princesses would know what to do. > Chapter 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason was not a happy person. Waking up in a strange place was something that he didn't really like. Not after his time on the Rook Islands. So after he woke up in a place he didn't recognize, of course he was going to be hostile. Wouldn't you? "Let me the fuck out!" Jason was still pounding away at the bubble. "No! You attacked me and held a knife to my throat!" "That's right I did you fucking animal!" He pounded on the bubble once more. "Why can't you be civil?! What did I ever do to you?" Twilight walked closer to the bubble, inspecting the trapped creature. His face was filled with grief. Or... something that looked like grief. "...Can you at least make this thing bigger?" He asked, his tone more calm than before. "My damn legs are cramping up." "Promise me you won't keep hitting the shield? It's giving me a headache." "I won't hit it unless you try to pull something funny." She nodded at this and focused her magic to make the bubble more accommodating for the creature. She watched him sit down in the dirt and proceeded to pull the stone knife from his side, he inspected it. After what seemed like hours, but was more likely minutes, Twilight decided to speak up. "My name's Twilight Sparkle. What's yours?" She said in a friendly tone, but was not smiling. Jason put the stone knife back in to his belt and looked at Twilight. "...Jason. Jason Brody." He looked down at his belt and spotted something that brought a smile to his face. He pulled out an L shaped object and examined it. He flicked a small switch on the side of it and pulled something from the bottom if it. He looked at the object and placed it in his lap. He placed his hand on the top of the object and pulled back, letting a small shiny object pop out. He put the metal thing down and picked up the tiny object and put it in the thing that slid out of the whole. "What is that?" Twilight asked, curious about the thing in the creatures hands. "Nothing to worry about." Jason replied. Twilight's ears splayed back slightly at the reply, but she thought nothing of it. She continued to watch Jason fiddle with the tiny object before he put it back in its respective place. That was when she noticed the thing on his arm. A bunch of black marks decorating a good chunk of him. "Is that your cutie mark?" Twilight asked as she stared at the marks. "What?" Jason asked, confused as to what a cutie mark even was. "Those marks on your arm..." Jason looked at this Tatau. "Is that your cutie mark?" "What the hell is a cutie mark?" He asked, looking back and forth from his Tatau to the purple pony. "A cutie mark is the representation of your talent!" She showed him hers. "Mine is magic. Everypony who has one found out what they were good at." "No this isn't a cutie mark... Well. It's something like it... I guess." He looked at his forearm, the design signifying the many skills he picked up over his time on the islands. "What do they mean?" She asked, genuinely curious about what they meant. "You don't want to know." He said grimly. And it was the truth, she really wouldn't. Twilight was about to say something before she heard the sound of wings flapping behind her. She turned and saw both Celestia, Luna, and a plethora of royal guards flying down to them. "Celestia! Luna! I'm so glad you could make it in such a short time." "We came as soon as we received the letter! Are you alright?!" Celestia said in a panicked tone. Unlike her at all. "Yeah I'm alright." Twilight reassured. "After I captured him, he calmed down." "Is that him?" Luna asked. "Is that the one that assaulted thou?" She pointed to Jason with a hoof. Twilight nodded, unsure of what to do. Luna began to march to the bubble and shot a beam of magic, dispelling the bubble entirely and used her magic to lift Jason into the air. He stared at her with a stony face. "THOU ASSAULTED A PRINCESS OF EQUESTRIA, DEMON! WHY SHOULD WE NOT BANISH YOU TO THE DEPTHS OF TARTARUS?!" "Fuck you! That's why!" Jason said, before coughing something up and spitting it at her. Luna shrieked as the thick substance splattered all across her muzzle. She dropped Jason who fell to a knee. She used her magic to wipe away the thick spit and turned to kick Jason square in the chest, but she was off and kicked his knee out of place. A crunch and a pained yell filled the air as the human fell to the ground. Luna smirked as the human writhed on the ground. "Take that!" She taunted. Celestia and Twilight watched as Luna's eyes went wide when the human got to his feet, his leg bent at an unnatural angle. And with one swift motion and a scream of pain, the leg was back in place. What was he?! "I'll fucking stab you for that!" Jason pulled the stone knife. It was glowing slightly with the same blue aura it had earlier. "Enough!" Celestia shouted and created another bubble around the human, this one a golden yellow instead of Twilight's lavender. A rabid look on the humans face as he looked at Luna, pounding away at the bubble. "Stop that, you're not escaping." She calmly stated as she trotted forward. "Sister, why did you have to anger him more? He may have threatened ponies, but he did not bring harm to anypony." "Are thou crazy sister!? Can you not see that he is out for blood?!" "Yeah! Yours! I'll skin you and wear you like a coat!" He threatened as he continued his assault on the bubble. Twilight watched as the two sister conversed about the trapped creature named Jason. But she noticed something, the more he pounded on the magic bubble, the more angry he got. And the more angry he got, the knife seemed to glow brighter and brighter. Before becoming engulfed in blue flames. He stopped pounding at the bubble and looked at the knife. "Uhm... Princess?" Twilight said, trying to get the attention of Celestia. "Yes Twilight?" She asked, turning her head to her fellow princess. "Look." Twilight pointed a hoof at Jason. She was shaking in fear at the sight. Celestia turned to look where she was pointing, and what she saw surprised her. Inside the bubble was a now flaming Jason. He writhed as the blue fires consumed him. As soon as all eyes were on him he thrust the knife into the bubble. The knife slicing through the magic like a heated knife through butter. He swung the knife upwards, slicing the bubble in two, canceling the spell. Twilight noticed the cutie mark on his arm was still visible, even through the intense flames. "IT BURNS!" He screamed in agony. "AND I LOVE IT!" He laughed like a madman before lunging at Luna. Jason's memories coursing though his mind, all of the pirates he had killed, all the things he had done. His life on Rook Island was not an easy one, not even close, but it was one that he had come to enjoy as his once stable mind slipped into the insanity of it all. Luna raised a shield and blocked Jason from coming any further. Celestia casted a sleep spell on the frenzied Jason. He fell to the ground in an instant. "What was that?!" Twilight screamed. Scared beyond reason at what she just saw. "I don't know. But we know now that he is certainly a threat." Celestia conjured magical shackles around the wrists of the human and levitated the knife away. Well... she tried to at least. As she tried to grasp the burning knife in her magic, she gasped in pain as an invisible force burned at her horn. She looked at Jason with a furrowed brow. "Luna... Can you go into his mind and found out what you can? I can handle everything out here." Luna nodded and a white tendril of magic snaked its way from her horn, to Jason's forehead. She laid down as she felt her sisters magic levitate her from her place. "Let us go to the castle Twilight." Celestia said as she brought Jason and Luna up in her magic. "What is this place?" Luna asked nopony in particular as she looked around. There were large hills of dirt with grass growing on the top of them. As she looked around she noticed Jason underneath a tree holding a strange object. She trotted up next to him. Well, it wasn't really him, more of a shadow. Looked like him but it wasn't... him. As she stopped next to him she looked to what he was looking at. Down below them, was a field of tiny bushes and bunch of creatures that looked the same as Jason, they were everywhere. There were hundreds of them! She looked back to Jason as he moved. He grabbed a handle on the strange object and pulled, a hissing noise was heard. Not a moment later, Jason muttered only a few words. "That's alotta weed." > Chapter 3: Rampage > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- While Luna was in the mind of the monster. Celestia had begun to discuss what she learned from it beforehoof. They sat in a guest room of the Castle of Harmony talking about the creature and what had happened before they arrived. "Well... then he said his name was Jason Brody. But that's all he really told me. He has a weird looking cutie mark on his arm. But he said it wasn't a cutie mark." "That is all he told you?" Twilight nodded in response. She looked over to Luna and Jason with a worried look on her face. She looked back to Celestia, her face still contorted in worry. "Are you sure its safe to send Luna into his head like that? Jason doesn't really seem like the most stable of ponies—er, what ever he is." "Luna is an expert at this, it is not far from what she does every night. But do not doubt that I do worry for her." Not a moment later, everypony's attention was focused on Luna as she bolted upright from her slumber and screamed. She got up from the couch to only get a view of Jason's sleeping form. She visibly gagged and backed away from him. "Luna, sister. What is wrong? What did you see?" Luna shuddered and gave out a strangled whine as she looked to her sister. "It was horrible! So many of them! Dead! Burned alive!" Twilight could see the color drain from her mentors white face as she embraced her sister. "Luna..." She whispered. "What happened?" A single tear rolled down Luna's face. "It started off so serene." She paused. "I was in a place I didn't recognize, most likely the creatures home world. It was beautiful, hills of grass as green as emeralds. So lush with life." She paused again. "That is when I saw him." Luna pointed a hoof to Jason. "He was standing underneath a tree with an odd looking device. I trotted over to him and he looked calm, peaceful even. I looked to what he was staring at and I saw them." "Them?" Twilight asked in a hushed tone. "There were hundreds of them. Creatures just like him. They all carried there own devices. Not a minute later he began his trek down the hill and towards the others." Luna whimpered as her face dug into her sisters coat. "What did he do?" Celestia hugged her sister tighter. "They began to... do things. The things in their hands were loud. Like lightning going off right next to you. And they were throwing things... I couldn't see them but some of them hit him." She shivered. "There was so much blood..." "... But he just shrugged them off like they were nothing, that's when he charged them and used the device in his hands." "The thing spat fire not unlike a dragon. But this fire was different... It stuck to them. It burned them they... they wouldn't stop screaming." She shook her head, the smell of burning weed and roasting flesh still fresh in her mind. "He was laughing, Tia. He was like a foal in a candy shop. He just kept laughing..." "After some time, he ran out of whatever was fueling that damned device. But that didn't stop him... He picked up another device from one of the corpses and used it." "That's enough Luna, you don't need to say anymore." Celestia said, trying to calm her sister down. Luna just whimpered into her coat. Celestia's face contorted in deep thought. Was this creature, Jason, that twisted as to kill so many? "Who the fuck is making so much noise?!" A familiar voice shouted. They all turned to see Jason rise from his slumber, hand to his head. He swung his legs off of the large couch to let them hit the floor. As he was about to stand, a magical force pushed him back down. "Stay down monster!" Luna shouted. Shoving Jason back into the couch. "Don't fucking touch me with that weird ass shit!" "You killed all of those ponies!" Luna got up from the ground and trotted to the couch Jason was sitting in. "Ponies? What the hell are you talking about?!" "I saw your memories! You just killed all of them!" Jason's face went dark. "What the fuck did you just say?" He muttered barely audible, but they all heard him. "I went into your memories and saw the things you did!" Jason launched himself from the couch and grabbed Luna by the throat. "What gives you the fucking right! To even go in there!? I should fucking skin you right now! In front of your sister and purple over there! You think I had a choice!? You think that's what I wanted to do?! I HAD TO SAVE MY FRIENDS! AND THERE WAS THE CHOICE! IT WAS EITHER THEM OR ME, ME OR THEM!" Jason reeled back at his realization. He was just like him. The one that made him who he is now. He was just like Vaas. As he stood there among the ponies, he looked at his surroundings. He spotted a window in the corner of his eye, he could see the top of trees. He'd take that chance. As he calmed his breathing he got ready to run. Everypony gasped sharply as Jason darted towards the window. He raised his arms and braced for impact. For the ponies. Time seemed to slow down as the creature named Jason crashed through the window. Body hurling into the world outside, the glass following him. As the world sped up they watched Jason plummet out of their view. They all ran to the window to see a tree just below them, with Jason climbing down the branches. How could things get any worse? "I gotta get the fuck out of here." Jason muttered. As he ran, Jason looked at his forearm which still had a shard of colored glass in it. He pulled it out with a grunt and threw it to the ground where it shattered even more. He reached for a pocket and grabbed a roll of cloth and wrapped his arm. Nodding and putting the roll back he continued his sprint to, hopefully, would be the edge of town. Until that is, he felt something collide with his back and all of the air was forced out of his lungs. He landed on the ground and with a quick motion, he rolled over to see the rainbow pony standing just a couple feet away, giving him an enraged look. "You!" She said with spite in her voice. It took Jason only a moment to get back up to his feet and in a ready stance. "I'll break your fucking wings!" Jason shouted, annoyed with this pony. The corners of his vision darkened and it was only him and Rainbow Dash. Jason shook his head, bringing himself back to reality. "No. Not here. I can't do that here." He said to himself. A memory of the last time he had done that rushing through his mind. "You attacked my friend! Get ready to hurt!" She taunted. Jason really hated this pony. A group of ponies gathered around to watch the spectacle. Rainbow Dash leapt into the air and dove at Jason. He dodged to the side only to be clipped by a hoof in the hand. He held it close to and looked to Rainbow Dash who smirked. "What? You afraid or something?" Jason shook his hand and the pain faded as his attention was focused on the pony he was fighting. He felt something connect with the back of his knee and he fell back to the ground. He tilted his head up to see an orange pony with a stetson hat. She had the same smirk as the rainbow one. "You cheating fucks!" "Ain't nopony messin' with my friends." He as he looked at the country hic, he looked behind her to see the princesses that he was with earlier. "I'll kill both of you with my bare hands!" Rainbow Dash trotted over and bucked him in the stomach, he felt something like a rib break. "Applejack! Rainbow! No don't!" Twilight shouted, but it was too late. Twilight watched as her friends stood over the still body of Jason with shit-eating grins on their faces. "That'll teach ya!" Rainbow Dash taunted. Twilight looked to Jason and saw his eyes glass over and a look of pure, unadulterated, rage adorned his face. This was bad. Really bad. To Jason, it was just him, and the two mares. Nobody else. He was going to kill them. He wanted to see badly. They fought dirty. So he had to fight dirty too. He reached a hand to the back leg of the rainbow mare and pulled it close to him. "You broke my leg! An eye for an eye as they say!" He laughed. He opened his mouth as wide as he could and bit down on the appendage, he tasted the warm blood rush into his mouth and spill out as he couldn't swallow it all. Rainbow gave a scream of bloody murder as Jason bit down harder and harder, trying to rip the thing clean off. He was unsuccessful as he felt hooves scrape the back of his head. He loosened his grip and rolled over to get away from the ponies. Jason got up from the ground to see the faces of his adversaries. The country pony looked at him as if he was insane. He looked to the rainbow mare to see her trying to stay off the leg. She was looking at him still, but not at him. Jason limped over to the ponies who were frozen with fear. He lifted his bad leg and kicked the country mare out of the way. He brought his hand to the back of Rainbow's head and grabbed a fistful of hair. He pushed her face into the dirt. "EAT THE DAMN DIRT!" Rainbow did nothing but cry. Jason let go and stood back up, he brought a foot up and brought it back down on her jaw. Jason bent back down. "I SAID, EAT IT!" He grabbed a fist full of the earth and shoved it into her mouth. She pitifully tried to cough it out. But she choked as more was shoved in. Everypony was to afraid to do anything. They couldn't move, they couldn't speak, they couldn't even cry as they watched the beast force their once over-the-top friend, to— "STOP FUCKING CRYING!" A dirt muffled scream came in reply. "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" —To the lowest point imaginable.