I am Nox, the strongest Xelor, or Time mage alive. Or rather, I became him. Like him, I lost my family, but unlike him THEY weren't taken from me, I was taken from them. I will find my home or I'll make a new one and change this world.
I believe introductions are in order: I am or rather was Leon Ghost, a great engineer and family man with my loving wife Jasmine and my three kids, two sons and a daughter, but I'll give more detail on them in another time. I somehow ended up in another world, likely another universe entirely after buying an Eliacube replica from a strange looking merchant at comic con. I have become the character I was dress as which was Nox from Wakfu, but these days I am known as Nox(imilien) Chronos. I have been trapped in a time stasis for exactly 1126 years, 7 months, 2 weeks, 1 day, etc....being a wielder of time gives you a ridiculous ability to near perfectly keep track of any time. I was trapped because of these xenophobic ponies and their idiotic, hothead, paranoid, xenophobic rulers. These ponies are also foolish, they believe me to be frozen forever and set me up like a trophy in a garden. How I was trapped is a story to be told at a later time. Soon I will be released and I will find my family, and I swear on the name of Xelor that I WILL be free and NO ONE will stop me this time. I went easy on them the first time trying to be the good guy or neutral guy by taking only enough wakfu so they wouldn't suffer any ill side effects.....I am a patience and fair man and they are really pushing my merciful limit.
My name is Leon Ghost and today was a great day for me, I was finally able to get time off work for the month and finish my costume. Sure a month might sound like it’s too much time off just to make a costume and go to comic con, but this month is also my daughter’s birthday. See I’m a loving father and I want to be there for my kids no matter what, my employers know this and they agree to it since I’m one of their head inventors and I’m already rich enough to buy their company. There’s also the fact that I’m a bit of a genius and I alone make them millions from one of my inventions.
Enough about work, like I was saying before going of on a tangent, I want to always be there for my kids and I can’t forget my awesome wife Jasmine (she would take my Lego(Lego is plural and singular) if I did also no sexy fun time for us). My daughter’s name is Star and she was turning 16 soon so I decided to use my wicked engineering skills and and design her a custom car, granted I may be rich and could have just been generic and buy her a Porsche or something but I hate being normal or common, so I made it look really futuristic and add modifications for her. Her tastes are similar to mine, well you know what they say, “like father, like daughter!” There’s also my eldest son/child, Kaiser and my youngest son/child, Prime, sure the names of my kids may sound a bit strange but they’re unique and pretty cool when you think about them.
Last but certainly not least is my amazing wife, Jasmine, she changed my life for the better as far as I’ve seen and is an awesome mother. The two of us kind of influenced our by showing them anime play some rock metal and EDM for them thus making them semi music addicts like myself; Music is something I CAN NOT LIVE WITHOUT.
Now to keep this story rolling, I went to comic con with some of my friends and coworker friends. There were four of us in total, including myself there was also Jamal, Catherine, and Zion.
My height was 6’1 and Jamal was 6’0 Catherine was 5’11 while Zion was 5’9. We were dressed up as pretty awesome characters, Jamal as the Master of the undead legion, Dage the evil, Catherine dressed as the S-Class mage, also known as Titania, Erza Scarlet, Zion as the wacky and awesome Gatchaman, Hajime Ichinose, and finally myself as the infamous and feared Xelor wielder of time, Nox. I must admit that we looked pretty badass, and Zion agreed with my unspoken thought by saying “Man we look so fucking awesome! Thanks again Leon for helping us make these costumes.” As she looked at me with what I’m assuming is a smile since we can’t exactly see her face.
“No problem Zion, you guys are my closest friends, there’s no way I wouldn’t at least try to help.” I replied while feeling a bit of happiness from doing such a good job on their outfits. Pride is still a bit of a new concept to me after all these years, after all I never even valued my own life back in my teen years.
“Dude, you basically made these all by yourself using your own time and money, I mean sure you’re rich but still I would’ve liked to help a lot more than just have you take my measurements” Jamal spoke up since he felt a little guilty that he couldn't have helped me more. He's had issues with not help others enough ever since his friend, Tara, committed suicide. He blamed himself for not being there enough for her and helping her through the depression.
“Like I said you guys I didn’t mind making them for you, it was great practicing for my designing and crafting skills, sometimes I can’t help but be generous and helpful it’s just part of my nature.” I replied honestly. “Now let's check this place out and see what we can do.” With that said we kept walking through Comic con, I also really wanted to go this year because there were rumors of people just randomly disappearing without a trace, how no one noticed I have no idea but I was curious about this and would plan to avoid anything that looked really weird….unless I couldn’t help myself. I’ve been mature since I was a child so I believe that deserve the right to be stupid and silly from time to time.
[Fast forward(so we can get to the good stuff)]
“I gotta say you completely proved me wrong and I shan’t doubt your skills again.” Jamal told Catherine with a dumbfounded look on his mug, even though he’s wearing his helmet right now we could just tell.
“I may be a girl but that doesn’t mean I’m girly” Catherine replied with pride in her voice and puffing her chest out, I try not to be a perv but she had a daunting chest like Erza but the appetite of Luffy from one piece. She was always a bit of a dude, wearing comfy clothes and pants,so I never really noticed much. After watching the entertaining show of her eating ten plates of food we got up and walked around. We we were just checking out what people were selling and since I had money to blow I was planning on buy a lot of stuff and anything that the others couldn’t afford or overpriced.
That was when Zion spotted a merchant that just so happened to be selling something related to our characters. For Jamal, he was selling a Ceremonial Legion Blade For Catherine he was selling a pantherlily plush For Zion he had a gatchaman note And finally, for me he had an Eliacube We just had to buy them “HOW MUCH FOR ALL FOUR OF THESE!” we shouted in perfect unison as if we choreographed it. We really wanted these since they all looked ridiculously real, I could swear I saw that Pantherlily blink when we shouted but I’ve seen weird things before and I just thought I was seeing things.
The merchant was dressed as Chaser John Doe from Dream eater Merry and I gotta say he looked pretty badass. He stood still for a moment and looked like he just recovered from our outburst, then I could swear he had a glint in his eye as he stated his price with a devilish looking smile. “I gotta say kids I really like that enthusiasm of yours and your costumes are pretty damn accurate and realistic so I’ll give you all a group discount for buying these four items, I’d say a fair price would be $190, don’t you agree?” Honestly we were a bit surprised at the price, looking at the quality of everything he was selling like the legion blade being perfectly made of metal and exquisitely crafted, I’d say the sword itself would have to be custom made and would probably cost at the very least $300 so a price like that for all four of these in total was a bit too good to be true. Well that’s what I though in my mind.
“Only $190? That’s pretty cheap considering the quality of these, so what’s the catch?” I stopped myself from getting over excited since I developed trust issues in my life. I remember back in elementary school, I trusted a "friend" to borrow my gameboy, the next day he turned into a complete asshole and said it was his now. I never got it back and I'm still feeling salty about that to this very day.
He gave a small laugh that made me feel uneasy, though you couldn't see it behind the mask.
“No catch, I’m just in a good mood and these items go perfectly with your cosplay and from the hard work that went into them I thought that you deserved these at a discount. I would also hope that you would put them to good use.” He said sounding genuine as far as I could tell.
“Good enough for me!” Zion said as she took out some money and the rest of our group followed.
“Pleasure doing business with you and I hope we can meet again at some point.” The merchant said in a mysterious tone as he took our money and handed us our items. We walked away giving our thanks, while we were walking the others were chattering about how awesome the stuff we brought was among the sound of the convention when suddenly it all came to a stop.
I paused because I knew this was in no way normal, “Guys, did it suddenly get really q...” I trailed off as I was frozen in shock at see my friends and well everything frozen in time. I looked down to my hand as the Eliacube I just brought glowed with a furious power and only three thoughts came to my mind at that moment, “What the hell have I gotten myself into”, “My family..." and "I fucking called it” after those passing thoughts the cube’s glow took my vision and it was at that moment I felt as it my body was being erased yet it was still there. Realization struck as I remembered the rumors and cursed my luck.
I slowly stirred to consciousness as I rose of the grass and questioned why I’m on the grass and realize that’s a stupid question since I could bet that I’m in another world now, since old anime cliche where I’m blinded and/or pass out and wake up in an unknown location.
“Ok, so first I need to figure out where the hell I am and find a way to get home as soon as I ca-why do I see pairs of glowing green eyes?”
Slowly a pack of timberwolves came crawling out of the bushes and trees with a sap like substance dripping from their maws. It was at that moment I noticed I was in the middle of a clearing in an unknown forest with wooden dogs that looked hungry for a taste of Leon flesh….the innuendos to be made. I search for a way out but that’s when the wolves pounced.
“SHIT!” was all the time I had to say when they all stopped in midair. “Wha?” I inspected my hand and it was moving at normal speed and that was when I saw the glow of the Eliacube and realised “I’m Nox...” I muttered under my breath, even my voice sounded like his, well the english dubbed anyway, which I personally think sounded much better.
“So if I have his powers I wonder what else I got.” With that statement I punched the near timberwolf which was about 7 inches from my face and watched as it turned to firewood. “Awesome, but that doesn’t mean I have his "I can punch a fucking dragon into a mountain"strength since that wolf was just made of tinder” And with that I repeated the process with the others, there were 6 in total, after taking care of them I felt a little tired. “Ok, I either stopped time or sped up my time either way I got a lot of work to do.” With that being said a thought came to my mind as I saw the pieces of firewood moving again. As I was about to question how my vision changed showing me some kind of energy flowing through them and once again I realised that I’m Nox and he could detect and absorb Wakfu. So my body reacted on instinct and I reached out with one hand holding the Eliacube“Oh HELL NO!” with that being said the Eliacube glowed and absorbed the energy from them, allowing the wood they were made of to fall inanimate and to remain that way.
“Huh, so I can absorb Wakfu too or whatever that was. Hmm, looking back those wolves seem familiar” I put the cube down to look at the piles of wood that are scattered about and I try to scour my brain but I never did have the greatest of memories.
So deciding to move on I walk through this dark forest, there’s hardly any sunlight so it’s either sunset or this is just some really thick foliage. "Man wish I could see through this crap" as if the mask heard my plead it activated night vision. "WHOA!" the shock factor was real, "I was just talking to myself but this works too." after the sudden surprise of finding out how tricked out this mask is, it dawned on me,"uhh, hey mask, what other things can you do?"
I felt like an idiot for talking to the mask, but lo and behold it springs up a neat list of its different modes and functions. It was kind of like an Iron man HUD display.
"Sweet" I spy with my little eye a life form scanner option, "hmm, activate life form scanner" With that command the lenses displayed a map that showed the various life forms around. Mostly woodland creatures around so I went with something else, "Can you detected the closest form of civilization?" Out popped a semi formed map that looks like it still needs to be filled up and had a blue dot, which I'm assuming represents me, and a circle about a mile and a half south east which must be the civilization I was looking for. With my best attempt at a dramatic voice, "And so I make my trek towards the unknown." Kind of a cheesy line but this moment was to perfect to pass up.
The days continue to pass by so slowly as I remain frozen in place due to this time stasis I’ve been trapped in for over a thousand years. That sudden blast from the elements of harmony by those damn princesses caught me off guard, I didn’t properly adjust the wakfu fluctuations to counter the blast of so called “harmony” magic and speed up my time so I could escape but luckily they were able to escape the wrath of these accursed pony princesses.
Even though I am/was a brony I never did like Celestia, and after our first encounter I’d say I was right on the bit.
Everyday my anger grows and so does my power, if it wasn’t for the music player modifications I made to my Nox mask I might have gone crazy….well crazier, I can’t say I was sane to begin with what with my earlier life experience and all the jazz. It’s funny when I think about it, I was trapped by my own powers and the elements to be frozen in time “forever” yet every passing day I absorb the wakfu that I am still generating everyday and it only increases my own limits and my prison gets weaker. My powers have already completely trumped the combined might of the Co-rulers of Equestria.
I’ve been planning what I would do once I escape with as many contingencies that I could work in since being trapped for a millennium gives you a lot of time to think. I’m extremely thankful for my hindsight or paranoia that I made my mask immune to time related effects without my intention, because of this my mask was fully functional allowing me to use the computer to analyze the energy properties of the elements.
It’s been easier to do this ever since Discord suffered his second defeat by the elements and kept his mouth shut from depression, I did advise him to change his plan since his original Idea was to throw a never ending amount of pies at them. All I did was tell him to split up the new bearers of harmony and corrupt the element they represent, true I may have been doing this to keep the storyline intact but it’s not a bad plan when you think about it, but his moping was starting to affect me, “Hey Discord, you want to hear a song?”
“...”
“I know it’ll cheer you up so I’m gonna play it anyways it is a song aboutyouafter all” I had a smirk in my mind as I could feel him getting happier, it is an awesome song after all, as soon as the song ended a pony tour group came to our little spot in the garden, but this wasn’t any regular tour group, this one was being led by none other than Celestia’s little teacher’s pet Twilight Sparkle and her friends, sans Spike.
“Girls I’m tell you there’s something wrong with Cadance.” Twilight sounded pretty upset….Cadance? OH! It’s the wedding invasion, and such perfect timing too since I was ending this stasis today.
“Now sugarcube are ya sure you just ain’t lookin too deep into this?” Ah, the country twang of Applejack.
“I have to agree with Applejack on this dear, after all wedding days are so emotionally exhausting for the bride and groom” Rarity just backing up Applejack’s claim
“Yea, I’m sure Cadance just has her nerves rattled, not everypony can be as fearless as The Rainbow Dash!” Rainbow dash striking a pose while boasting, how Rainbow dash of her, I seriously can’t stand her because of her personality! This of course earns an eyeroll from everyone.
And from there just keep on talking while I zone them out until Fluttershy notices me on my pedestal and jumps about two feet in the air from freight. This catches the attention of all the mares and once she landed back do she pointed a shaky hoof at me while hiding behind her mane.
“W-w-w-what i-is that.” She’s even quieter than I thought, with that said all eyes are pointed toward me and Twilight goes into her infamous lecture mode.
“This is Nox or Noximilien Chronos, one of the greatest and most powerful magic users to have existed. With powers so great it was said that he could bend time to his will, and with knowledge so vast he was capable of creating great marvels without the use of magic and they could do things we’ve never heard of.” There were stars in her eyes as she spoke about me, hmm I could use this to my advantage later in the future, but they soon disappeared when she continued.
“It was said that he was a ruthless monster of an unknown species that appeared out of nowhere and attacked anypony in sight and was trying to take over Equestria by stealing the magic of everypony and was able to fight the princesses to a standstill until he was stopped by them using the elements of harmony.”
That is some grade A bullshit that’s tainting my ears, I NEVER attacked unless it was in self defence or the protection of others, those ponies were so damn xenophobic they would think their own shadows are monsters and I never ruthlessly stole their magic, I just absorbed some of the ambient magic from the air and the energy that the ponies release from a distance and only the minimum so they wouldn’t feel any after effects from it.
*Gasp* “Such an uncivilized brute!” Rarity is such a drama queen, or such I say princess since queens hardly exist in Equestria.
“Pfff, that freak doesn’t look that tough. I bet I could beat him with two hooves tied behind my back and with my eyes close.” Rainbow dash’s arrogance always gets on my nerves, I can’t wait to teach her humility later on.
“So he was a meany pants” awww Pinkie Pie is so adorable when she pouts.
“Well he don’t sound like the most pleasant o’ fellows does he?” Applejack just decides to throw her two bits in.
“Oh my.” was all Fluttershy could say.
“Well there were some good effects from Nox, after studying one of his designs we were able to create trains, ovens, and even streetlights!” After Twilight said that they moved on, but while they moved on my mind was stuck on one thing…..those fuckers stole my designs…...THEY STOLE MY MOTHER FUCKING DESIGNS AND CLAIMED IT AS THEIR OWN!
One of the things I hate is when people steal from me, I remember when that one asshole took my 3ds from me and held a knife at my throat, he wasn’t planning on killing me, just trying to scare me. Lets just say I gave him nightmares and he took three years of therapy and I had to take more anger management classes. I can’t believe they took my designs….yes I can, Celestia and Luna(mostly Celestia) would do whatever it takes to make life better for her little ponies, like all the little secrets she's kept from her ponies that I discovered thanks to my Noxines and they probably kept up their spying and have been keeping track of the dirty little secrets she’s made while I was trapped.
[1 hour later]
*Tick tock* Hahahaha that’s the sound I’ve been waiting to hear for a thousand years, the time stasis is finally gone and with great timing, the changelings are breaking through the shield, I wonder if they still remember me.
“Oooooooooh my god that feels so good!” stretching can feel so orgasmic sometimes I see why cats love it. “Hey Discord, I’ll see you later dude, you’ll be free in due time, I promise you that.” with that said I begin my trek out of the garden “Now that I’m free I believe it’s time to get a bit serious.”
I’ve been walking for 5 minutes and 28 seconds without seeing a single pony in sight, I made sure to keep my true base hidden along with all my weapons and the Eliacube so there was no need to go to the vault, not yet anyways.
“Finally, made it to the street.” the main road was full of changelings attacking ponies, smoking craters, destroyed builds, just a lot of chaos in general. I sigh in sadness thinking back “I could’ve prevented all this, if only I was better...” I look at the swarm of changelings overrunning the pony capital, holes in every single one of them. Holes on a changeling means they’ve been starving for quite sometime.
“I will amend my failures” I whispered to myself at I walk towards the castle.
As I’m walking the changelings and ponies pause as they see my tall figure that surpasses Celestia, the mouths of what I’m assuming to be every changeling dropped as they all whispered the same thing in disbelief “savior”,
“it’s the savior”,
“I thought he was a myth”,
“the queen needs to know”,
“what’s he going to do now?”
After hearing that last one I decided to make a call. “Connect to base.” [Attempting connection…….connection established] “I don’t believe” spoke a female voice on the other end that was just filled with so much sarcasm I could choke on it, “what took you so long to get free, I’ve been dying of boredom here and I’m an A.I.!”
“You know, I’m actually so happy right now that I’m glad to hear your voice and your pain in the ass sarcasm.” I replied in an equal level tone “but it’s nice to know you care anyways could you send over my clock airship?”
“Done, it’ll pinpoint your location and be there in a few minutes anything else you need?”
“Hmmm, food, for myself and an army of changelings”
“It’ll increase the eta but I can have the lab synthesize some love based wakfu”
“Perfect! I’ll be waiting”
“By the way…...welcome back Leon.”
I made a gentle smile under my mask that I couldn’t help after hearing that heartwarming sentiment “Thanks V.” [Connection End] with that finished I make a direct march to the castle, “I guess I’ll have to mess with the timeline now if I want to make a better future for everyone.”
(Canterlot Castle)
[Chrysalis POV]
Finally, after so many years revenge will be mine, years of fear, isolation, starvation, and pain. Celestia has been decrowned and is hung up like a trophy in her cocoon, Shining’s love for Cadence has amplified my strength, the elements have been captured, the day, and soon all over Equestria will be ours!
“My love will give you strength” Cadence is still desperately clinging to hope that their love will prevail.
“Hahaha, what a lovely but absolutely ridiculous sentiment” It’s so ironic watching them suffer like we did. Unfortunately for me I should’ve taken it seriously since their love energy was amplifying their power. No, it can’t end like this.They were reaching their peak I was about to lose after all this work all the planning, for nothing, when suddenly a familiar ball of blue energy about the size of a gumball shot pass my vision and stopped in between the two lover.
“Wha” was all they could say before it expanded instantly and blew them away from each other.
“Tsk tsk, I’ve told you not to underestimate others Chrissy.”
I stood there trembling in disbelief, it just isn’t possible, everyone turned their heads toward the source of the voice and eyes were popping out of heads at who was standing there. The shock was wearing off for me and all I was feeling were tears of joy ready to spill over and a warmth in my chest something I haven’t felt in centuries, happiness“Grandad?”
[Celestia’s POV]
I can’t believe what my eyes are seeing, I pray to Faust that this is just a horrible nightmare, but plain as day standing there with power flowing out of him was “Nox.” Equestria just might be doomed if he is truly enrage after being trapped for over a millennium, I truly hope he’ll be merciful.
[Nox POV]
“Grandad” as soon as Chrysalis said those words I felt a twinge in my old heart at see those tears on her face threatening to spill.
“Sorry I’m late Chrissy, so can this old man get a hug from his granddaughter?” as I went on one knee she was a black and green blur as she slammed into my chest crying her eyes out, so I just started stroking her mane telling her I won’t be leaving her again so soon.
“N-n-n-n-nnn-Nox?” Twilight must’ve been having a hard time thinking straight after all that’s happened.
So I glared at her “Could you wait like 2 more minutes, we’re having a moment here.” that shut her up quite nicely. Soon enough Chrissy lets go of me. “So what’d I miss” you can just feel the cheesy grin on my face even with this mask.
“Oh you know, we’ve just been starving for a few centuries after you were taken from us, rejected from pony society at times hunted and killed for being the monsters we are, plotted revenge so we could make them suffer like we did and take over Equestria, nothing too big”, she did not skip a beat on that.
“Huh, it must be a wednesday.” she just chuckled at my lame reply “Well Chrissy it’s time for us to go.” She looked at me with confusion all over her face
“Go? But we’re winning and we can’t lose now that you’re here! Why should we stop now when we’ve come so close?” She was definitely confused and without a doubt upset that I forcing her to leave.
“Well for one, if I didn’t show up you and every changeling in the city would’ve been blasted away by Shining and Cadence’s love” she looked away with an embarrassed blush after that “and two, I have plans for the future and I still need Equestria. I’m not going to talk about them now”
After that she conceded “Fine.” I pat her head earning a small giggle from her. She’s still a child at heart,
“Good now tell everyling to get ready to board my airship and they better have an appetite.” That earned an ear to ear grin from her, then she was gone in faster than a blink. As I turned to walk out I heard an annoying voice that grinded my nerves.
“HEY! Do you really think we’re just gonna let you get away with destroying Canterlot?!” Rainbow dash should really learn to shut up. “You and your monsters came out of nowhere and started ruining everypony’s lives!” Something snapped in me but I didn’t show it.
“Hey Rainbow dash, how about I make you an offer” this surprised all the ponies.
“What kind of offer?” I knew she would be curious, and I know she can’t resist a challenge.
“A fight between me and you, you said you could beat me with two hooves tied behind your back, but let's not do that, I win we leave and you’ll stop being so cocky, you win and I’ll order the changelings to surrender to the one and only Rainbow dash. So what do you say?” Judging from the stars in her eyes and the cocky grin on her face she thought she could beat me and be the hero that stopped the Canterlot invasion
“DEAL!”
“Rainbow Dash NO!” all her friends and Celestia shout in worry, she’s just too easy to bait.
“Don’t worry you guys I can handle this freak” Rainbow dash puffed out her chest with pride as she said that, I was just going to humiliate her, now I’m going to break her.
“The first move is yours Rainbow CRASH.” That did its job of pissing her off and charging in blindly, she rushed me so fast she was starting to form her mach cone, but she was still too slow to me. All I did was side step and she crashed into the wall hard.
“RAINBOW!” her friends just scream her name in horror. I think I heard some crunching, so I just laughed
“Hahahaha well the ‘Crash’ part of your name is very fitting”
“Cheapshot! Why don't you stand still and fight me like a stallion!” man she was pissed, once she climbed out her impression in the wall I scanned her with my mask and saw she had 3 broken ribs and her left hind leg was fractured. I’m surprised she got out of that with so little injury. Like the hothead she is she rushed me again, this time I wasn’t going to move. She flew as fast as she could forming another cone and aimed her right hoof at me, so I just stood there and caught it in my left hand. The shockwave that followed knocked all the ponies off their hooves, and I caught it without so much as a flinch. Rainbows dropped jaw was so worth it then she saw the bored look on my face since my mask has movable eyelids and started getting angry.
“Are you done throwing your punches yet? I think it’s my turn now” the look of fear on her face was priceless. So I crushed her hoof in my hand and she let out a horrible scream of pain, my next target was her jaw which connected with my right hook.
She went silent after that but she was still conscious, so I brought her up to eye level and told her “I am not ruthless unless you make me, your cocky, brash, hotheaded, ignorant, and arrogant nature may get you and/or your friends killed and you’ve never considered that. Could you really handle it if your friends died because you thought you were the best and started talking a big game? You are not the fastest, you’re not the strongest, and you sure as hell aren’t fearless” This brought tears to her eyes, and I poked a certain spot in between her wings and gently put her down, I could’ve thrown her but I think I’ve broken her enough.
“You MONSTER!”
“You’re a super duper meany pants!”
“How could you?”
“QUIET!” with that I silenced the room. “She agreed to the fight and she lost. You ponies just love calling others different from you freaks and monsters don’t you? Well I have one word for you ‘Perspective’. You all aren’t as kind hearted as you lead yourselves to believe, besides she’ll live. I may be a quote, unquote ‘monster’ to you ponies, but I am not heartless.” I spoke my peace and left the room but not before I told Celestia with a voice so cold it could give nightmare moon chills “I haven’t forgotten about you Solar Tyrant.” As I made my way outside I saw that the changeling swarm had gathered together behind Chrissy and they all watched me with eager eyes.
“I gathered the swarm like you wanted grandad, now what?”
My smile may have went unseen but it was there “Now look up.” As I pointed upwards they followed my finger’s direction and their jaws dropped for what was it the second or third time now, the same could be said for the ponies that remained or the royal guard that were still trying to fight the changelings off. They were all stupefied at the sight of my airship. “Well is everyone ready to go home and have their bellies fed” Their cheers were all I needed for confirmation. “Beam us up V”
“Booooooooo!”
“Oh hush you.” And so we continue with the next step of my plan.
The Changelings are in awe at seeing the interior of my airship since it’s about half the size of Canterlot and can easily fit their swarm. We were currently in the hangar section of my airship, the inside was massive but currently empty, that is a problem I plan on taking care of in the future. The ceiling was lined with multiple electrical lights, enough to light up the whole area and leave few shadows. It stretched up to twenty meters in height which is enough room to fit even a full grown dragon and the width was nearly 200 meters. I wanted to have space for my ships and other machinery….or a changeling army, either way it still completes its task of supplying an adequate about of room. Near the end of the hanger are two separate stair cases leading up to the higher levels and behind those stair is a lift for transporting the heavier/larger objects.
I mean sure are was enjoying their looks of awe on their muzzles but I need to keep my plans rolling “So I take it you’re all impressed” I asked in a deadpan tone. They simply nodded their heads in unison to signify their agreement, that unison thing can get seriously creepy.
I decided to gain their attention in a reasonable manner. “V, please activate play thewake up call”
And with that done I had their undivided attention “even I think that was a little mean” Victoria trying to scold me for scaring them.
“Ok, I’ll admit that was probably...” a glare from Chrissy told me of my mistake “that was definitely overkill but at least I have your attention….well most of you” honestly I think that a good thirty of them fainted from shock. I feel it might have been wrong of me to chuckle but it was pretty damn funny.
I cleared my throat before I spoke“*ahem*So moving on to why we’re here, we’ll be heading off to one of my bases, this one is located near your hive in the badlands” there was some chatter among them, most likely they never discovered it
Chrysalis spoke up about what everyling was thinking “Granddad, I didn’t know you had a base in the badlands, why didn’t you tell me?” she gave me an adorable pout that warmed my old heart a bit, but that was also taken away by some guilt I felt from hearing the sad undertone in her voice.
“I’m sorry Chrissy, but I feel like I should always have an ace up my sleeve just in case.” she then looks at me with a puzzled expression “There’s a saying back from my home; ‘never underestimate your enemy, always overestimate.’ Remember back at the castle Chrissy? You got cocky and overconfident thinking you had already won and they couldn’t do anything to stop you.” At this she gave a flinch likely from the embarrassing memory from her gloating or the pointed tone in my voice.
I sigh “Sorry Chrissy, I’m just a bit irritated. Seeing the solar bitch is always a quick way to piss me off.”
“Granddad, you harbor so much hate for the pony princess, I can feel it gushing out of you, why not just destroy them all?” Chrysalis’s voiced her thoughts with concern but switching to venom towards the end.
“Chrissy, I don’t seek to mindlessly destroy, especially those that are innocent. For the most part” I muttered that last statement under my breath hoping she didn’t hear me. “You see Chrysalis, I do plan on removing Celestia from power, this world has been encumbered by her long enough. For now she has her roles to play in this game before I dispose her.” I can see the burning desire to know more about my plans, but I want to tease her a bit “I’ll tell you about my plans later”
The deadpan look of frustration on her muzzle is priceless. I can’t help but laugh. After my chuckles were had I decided to get back on track “Now who’s hungry” I shouted to the changelings. The roaring sounds of their approval was expected, but seem to be amplified by the acoustics of the hanger. “V, if you would so kind” I directed to my A.I. companion
With that said she opened up some panels in the ceiling and from out of those came floating silver colored metallic cylinders, totaling in all 18. The cylinders landed around the swarm and in various areas in the middle and once they all landed they panels on their sides slid open and in their place out came blue orbs that could be mistaken for crystal balls. Confusion was on the face of every changeling as they wondered what these strange devices would do.
“Well it’s time to dig in everyone!” With my exclamation the orbs attached to the cylinders began to glow a pink color that was beginning to cover the whole hanger. They were once again confused by what was happening until once random changeling decided to be take charge
“IT’S LOVE!” Sometimes all it takes is for one voice to be heard. After that one statement they didn’t show any hesitation to start eating the love energy I had synthesized.
Hundreds of horns were lit and they all had a smile on their face and that wasn’t even the best part. The holes that were caused by their starvation were closing up at a rapid pace and after around 2 minutes they no longer kept their swiss cheese like appearance, now they were whole and they were pretty damn ecstatic about it if they tears of joy and hug each other was anything to go by.
“Granddad...” I heard Chrysalis call me with her voice breaking at times and all I could see when I saw her were tears of joy and solid legs. She walked up to me and gave me a hug filled with such passion even I could feel the love coming from it. “Thank you” her voice was barely a whisper but as soon as she said those words the whole hanger went silent.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you so much…..” her body wouldn’t stop quivering and the dams broke as her tears came flooding. I only remember one other time she was like this, when her mother, Silk Moth died. So by instinct I did the only thing I could, I held her close and stroked her mane gently.
“It’s alright Chrissy, I’m here, you don’t have to worry.” I do my best to soothe her while the swarm looks on in awed silence; they’ve probably never since their strong-willed and unbreaking queen cry let alone break down like this. So we just stayed in that position for a few minutes. Once her tears stopped dimmed down to a trickle, I had to ask her a question that’s been on my mind for a while now since my release.
“Chrysalis, I know this may be difficult but I need you to tell me what happened after I was imprisoned.” She looked me straight in the eyes for a moment and then released a sad sigh.
“Bad things Granddad, but I’m guessing you want details?” I gave a simple nod, I need to know what happened so I can fix the damage that damn alicorn has done. She seemed to be reserved in telling the story, but it’s better to get it out of the way now.
At my unmoving resolve to hear this story she relented “Ok Granddad, but you won’t like it.”
“After you were trapped and the death of the previous queen, my mother, many changelings went through despair and depression. You were and still are, probably more so now than ever, seen as our savior and hero. If that wasn’t bad enough Celestia decreed us as evil monsters and ordered her guards to hunt us down and remove us from their land. She even said it was with absolute conviction that ‘equestria was meant for ponies and you changelings will destroy our harmony’.”
That really started to get my blood boiling, evil is a perspective but to declare an entire race as vile monsters….I’m going to have to teach her a painful lesson. As my thoughts raged on how I was going to make her pay, Chrysalis continued with her story.
“And since her ponies look up to her as their ‘goddess who is never wrong and can do no wrong’ they obeyed without question.” Chrysalis started shaking from the emotions that were beginning to overwhelm her, and I’m pretty sure these weren’t from my emotions. “So they came after us wherever we went. The guards always made sure when we were found there was blood to be shed. Not even the nymphs were spared.” She started breaking down into tears at that point. “I-I saw...so many of my subjects….speared through their bodies, leaving gaping holes or burned and roasted alive in their own chitin by lightning from thunderclouds or fireballs from the unicorns.”
She was starting to sob uncontrollably so I just held her tight within my arms. We stayed in this position for three minutes till her cries began to die down. “Thank you for holding me Granddad.” her voice was so quiet and a bit hoarse.
“I’m here for you Chrissy, I’m sorry that I made you remember those past horrors.” I could feel the rage inside me growing in intensity, I’m not sure if Chrysalis could sense my growing emotions since she made no indication.
“Granddad, I’m going to finish this story.” She told me with her voice regaining its strength and looked me in the eyes.
“Ok Chrissy, you don’t have to strain yourself.” I couldn’t argue against those eyes and I needed this information. And so she continued
“We had to keep running from the ponies, our race was weak, starving, and on the verge of extinction. We escaped to the newly formed badlands thinking they wouldn’t follow us there after what you did there.”
When she mentioned that...incident I felt a twinge of shame or guilt, those two emotions always seemed the same to me, but Jasmine would disagree. One of the few times I lost control, in hindsight that would explain my ‘ruthless’ title, I am the reason why the badlands exist.
“By some miracle we were able to make our hive there but we were still starving. So we sent out scouts and collectors to the other nations to collect love, but then they came back with grave news.” She paused and took a deep breathe and just held it there. I swear this girl can be over dramatic sometimes.
I just deadpanned at her “Really? Are we pausing for intermission now?”
She giggled when I finished “I was just pausing for dramatic effect.” And she just gave me a coy smile, I swear I shouldn’t have told her and her mother about trollin.
“Anyways” And the mood is suddenly serious again, “The scouts and collectors came back from the other nations and apparently news of us reached the other nations and they began looking for us. Luckily they didn’t know the equestrian’s method to find us so our changelings that were hiding there were relatively safe.” and then she was scowling.
“When word of us spread we were made out as monsters, heartless, savage, MONSTERS!!” She was screaming at the end of that sentence, I could literally see the steam coming of her.
“But then I remember what you told me about that card game you use to play, yogi-something”
“Yu-Gi-Oh” I had to correct her, I loved my cards, my friend Logan raged all the time when he played against my yosenju deck, good times.
“Yeah that. You said every move counts no matter how small or meaningless it seems in the end. So I had my changelings spread out and remove or obscure any information about us. From newspapers to library books even street rumors and bedtime stories. It took almost two centuries, but eventually changelings faded from the history of Equus.” She had a smug look on her muzzle when she finished.
“So you manipulated history so changelings would remain unknown?” her smugness was gone after hearing my monotone response and she hesitantly nodded her head
“I am so proud of you!” I glomped down on her and began to nuzzle her. She began to blush and adorable shade of green when she her some of the changelings in the swarm snickering.
“You erased yourself from history so you would remain unknown and could infiltrate without anyone thinking you’re not what you seem to be and would always have the element of surprise.” I ended our glomp session and stood up.
“Granddad, what happens now?” Chrissy’s timing was perfect.
“I do have a plan I would like to accomplish.” so I turned to the swarm and hoped I could give a decent speech.
“Changelings, allow me to introduce myself. I am the Xelor Nox. I have finally been freed after been trapped for over a 1000 years, some of you many be wondering what I’m going to do next. Allow me to enlighten you; I intend to make changes to this world, but alas there’s only so much one man can do alone.” That raised some brows a being of my power and legend couldn’t do something by himself, those legends were probably exaggerated, but it definitely had their undivided attention.
“From what I’ve learned you all have suffered for a long time, so much that you can’t even go out in your own skins. That’s not fair to you all over the years this world has hardly changed. My plan is to change the perspective of the citizens of this world, open new paths for new ideas unheard of to flow. I want to help the people evolve, to grow and learn, to no longer hate or judge because of what you are. This will not be a simple task, blood, sweat, and tears will most likely be shed. I need your help, would you be willing to help to old man accomplish this goal?” The hanger was deadly silent, then one voice broke through it.
“You always have my support Granddad” Chrysalis tells me with a smile that seems to be contagious since I begin to smile myself. Then the cheering starts.
“I’ll stand with the savoir” “It’s time for change!” “Nox, Nox, Nox, Nox, Nox, Nox!”
I wasn’t expecting them to start cheering my name but I’m positive having Chrissy on my side persuaded them...and giving them food, food can persuade a lot of people.
“Thank you! We should be arriving in the badlands soon enough so please eat and relax, you’ve earned it.” More cheers were heard.
“Chrissy, why don’t you stay here and watch over your subjects while I go to the pilot’s seat.”
“Yes Granddad, and thank you. I’ve never seen them so happy before.” Tear were forming in her eyes, unlike the last ones these were tears of joy.
With her confirmation I teleported straight to the command deck and thinking back on my speech I realized that I can’t do it alone.
I have been trudging through this foreboding atmospheric forest for a good 3 minutes now and I can fairly say I’m quite annoyed at the moment. I’m unsure why but this forest just constantly dark, the canopy provided no indication of whether it was day or night so along the way I tried climbing up a tree to at least see the sky. I basically had to fight the branches and vines, It was as if they were sentient and refused to let me see the sky and after my irritation reached a certain point I just fired a blast of wakfu energy, in hindsight that probably would’ve been easier in the first place.
It was definitely daytime. The shot tore through the canopy and the sun was shining bright, so why was there no shred of light coming through, alast that is to be questioned another day I’m already three quarters of the way there so I better mentally prepare myself because it’s almost time to meet the locals. After walking for another 2 minutes of walking I could finally see light.
“Looks like I’m finally out of this place.”
I checked my map and I was finally at my destination. Thinking about It I somehow walked a mile and a half in 5 minutes, so that has me thinking if my sense of time is distorted or some form of time manipulation from myself or the forest again this is to be questioned for another time. Arriving at the edge I took my first confident step outward where I hoped I could obtain some information on where I am am and wouldn’t terrify the locals.
“What the fuck.” I whisper to myself in no small amounts of horror as I stared at the blindingly bright colors of small equine like creatures that seemed to come in every color my eyes were capable of perceiving and I was never a fan of bright colors.
The equines were the first thing I noticed the second was the architecture, the roads they were using unpaved and made of trampled dirt from probable years of use a few of the equines were pulling carts while some stopped to chat. Most of the homes that I was seeing appeared to have their walls made of wood while the roofing was made from thatching. The few places that didn’t appear to be as flammable were some large homes that were made of stone and assumable the home of the wealthier class and some smaller buildings that I was inferring to be stores. A main detail that I should remember to note is that further in the distance was what appeared to be a castle so these equine have some a form of royalty. but among all this there was an itching in my mind that I just couldn’t scratch and it was fucking IRRITATING.
“Why the hell do these things look so familiar” I feel like I’ve seen them or something but my memories just fade in and out. It wasn’t until I saw a pegasus flying in the distance that I remembered.
“Is that a pegasus? Wha…...no…..I can’t be in Equestria” I simply refused to accept the fact I was in magical ponyland. I was a fan of the show and I’ve seen all the way up to season 5 then I just kind of stopped and judging from all that I’ve seen so far it’s not a far fetched guess to say I’m pretty far in the past of equestria, how far, I’ll find out later for now I need to get back to the shadows. I remember how in the show they were terrified of a zebra just because they were different so I know for a fact my appearance would cause some kind of panic. The real problem will be dealing with Celestia and Luna if they decide to deem me a threat to their subjects. But this also posted question what era am I in and have they found the elements of harmony yet? I need to fall back and make some plans and figure out with in the name of Xelor am I going to do now.
“Mask, do know if there's a suitable location where I can create a work shop? And some place I could train my new abilities?”
[There is a large cavern that could serve the purposes you requested. It is 3 miles from our current position, is this acceptable?]
I may be falling in love with this mask...and I mean that in the ‘guy loves his car that he's been working on for years’ type of love. “You mask, are freaking awesome. Lead on….also how soon could we get there if I ran?”
[I thank you for the compliment master. Using your abilities you should be able to arrive to your destination in under a minute in real world time.]
“Could explain to me how my said abilities work? Mainly for speed and movement for now.” Real world time?
[As you wish. You are a Xelor, Xelor's disciples are created in the image of their god, and like their master, their favorite tactic involves messing about with ticks and tocks. For you, time is your toy and you are capable of playing with it in many ways. Using time control or Xelor’s dial will allow you rapid movement, It can also be used in conjunction with many of your other Xelor abilities granting additional effects. Using Xelor’s dial will allow you to defy the laws of time, and move around the area the dial has been set in with ease, it could be considered to be one of your forms of teleportation. Time control will allow you to place a distortion on someone or something either speeding up their time, slowing it down, or altering their perception of time.]
...“when you put it that way you make Xelors sound overly OP.” Well looking back on Nox he was seriously strong, and I don’t think he could go all out on Yugo in their fight, he probably saw bit of his children in him; in the end Nox was just a broken man after succeeding in reversing time, but not by enough. All his plans, hopes and dreams, shattered, turned to dust and pointless in the end, you could just never really hate the guy. “So how far does my dial extend?” It’d be nice to know what my current limits are and to know whether I can surpass them or not.
[Currently your dial has a max diameter of 100 feet]
Only a 100 feet? That’ll still be useful in quite a few situations, more so if it’s possible to extend that distance.
“Is it possible for me to say increase that distance permanently and maybe do similar to my other abilities?” If my limits are locked and unchangeable that’ll just suck donkey balls. Yeah, I’ll still be pretty freaking OP, but if I can’t get stronger it’s only a matter of time before I meet someone or something that’s even more OP than me and they won’t want to be friends.
[Analyzing...Your powers are capable of growth and evolution. Yes, it is possible for you to increase your powers. It is also within the realm of possibility for the creation of new techniques.]
“Well then, it looks like I’m gonna have my work cut out for me.” I wonder how far I can take these abilities, maybe I can even do a true time freeze without needing the Eliacube.
“All right then so Mask, I really need to give you a name later, how exactly do I activate these abilities” Is it like the green lantern rings? Do I need my emotions to control my powers like Starfire? Please don’t tell me I need voice activation, because that’s just stupid and gives my enemies a warning of what to expect.
[There are a few ways to access your abilities, if you focus on your skills a few hot bars will appear presenting what skills are in your arsenal. By mentally selecting that skill it can then be performed should you have enough energy. Another choice of access is by willing the desired effect if it is within your skill set.]
I can work with this “So I just kind of need to feel the effect I want huh?”
[Correct.]
Ok, just gotta feel it. So I close my eyes and take a breath. Time control, I want my time to move at a faster pace. I need to go faster than this present time. I can feel a strange sensation within myself, it’s like a pulse going through my whole being. It seems to have a specific Rhythm to its pulsations, like the ticks of a watch...this is it, it has to be so how am I going to do this. The pulse is coming from myself so I’m just going to say that’s my own sort of…(I need a coolish sound name for it) Chrono Tempo, yeah that’ll work for now. I’m trying to speed up my own time, so I should speed up the tempo. I’m focusing on that tempo and willing it to go faster, I can feel it.
One beat per second—Three beats per second—12 beats per second—87 beats per second—202 beats per second.
I opened my eyes the world around me seemed strange, it was silent in a way. “Mask, am I performing time control?” If I’m not then I probably should’ve asked what I should’ve been doing.
[Congratulations Master, you have successfully performed time control on your first try. Most Xelors have difficulty with this ability during their time developing their skills. You are currently moving at a faster time than the rest of the area.]
“Doesn’t feel too different. Why is it so silent.”
[You are moving in a separate time than compared to the time around the area. As long as you stay stationary sound will eventually reach you, but it will be slow and distorted.]
“So what’s the difference between this and super speed?”
[With super speed, no matter how fast you are, you'll never truly be going faster than time itself. Time will always be passing by, even if it's infinitesimally slowly. If you're stopping time, everything around you has stopped. With super speed senses are placed in a hyper mode. Speed can not overcome time because a true time stop will stop everything, no matter how fast it is. Those with super speed can be fast whenever they want but time manipulation typically has some caveats to it such as limited range or duration. Also, time manipulation rarely changes the abilities of the manipulator. They can't actually move, react, or think faster, they just compress everything around them until they, at their base level, are the fast one.]
Interesting. Time manipulation is so OP “So to others it’ll look like I’m moving at super speed but I’m just within a separate realm of time.”
[Correct.]
“Well I think it’s time we head to that cave, directions please.” A map of the area then appeared on my HUD with a path highlighted for me. “Thanks.” And with that I am on my way.
Equestria: Kingdom of the two sisters
[Celestia POV]
It's been a long day, my little ponies have been coming in court asking for help and making requests. It hasn’t been long since the unification of the tribes, for a near immortal being a few decades is a relatively short period but we’ve been making due. The Everfree has an abundance of resources that we desperately need, but now is a difficult time with more beasts of the Everfree appearing and endangering my ponies. Just last week a young filly was turned to stone by a cockatrice, she probably thought it was just an unusually looking chicken. She was lucky the guards heard her screams and ended the monstrosity’s life. I truly wish I was as powerful as this goddess they seem to view me as, how I wish I had enough power to give me dear ponies the peace they strive for. There has to be anoth—my thoughts are interrupted by the coming of the doors to my office.
“Thy highness I've cometh to bringeth thee the guard and surveyor reports” it’s Quill page, he a chestnut coated unicorn with a caramel colored mane and bright blue eyes.
“What doth thou has't to report Quill page?” I hope it’s good news this time, or at least non horrible this time, lately the reports have been telling of more timber wolves attacking and causalities ensuing. My subjects are already terrified and our kingdom continues to expand we need more land and resources to sustain our growing numbers. Or some new invention or discovery that can make life easier for them. I take a breath to prepare myself.
“Please start with the worst one” If feels easier to bare when to bad news is given first so it doesn’t overshadow the good news as much. Quill pages shift a bit, in discomfort most likely, before he starts.
“As thee wish thy highness. A squadron of guards encountered a manticore a few hundred feet out from the town's perimeter, those gents wast successful in slaying the beast but those gents hath taken five casualties unfortunately.” This severely darkened my mood. Five brave guards lost, five heartbroken families to inform of said tragedy. I braced myself to receive their names as I asked Quill who they were.
"Red Steel: a single father of two, his former wife hath kicked the bucket of heart complications. Star Hope: a wife who wast planning to has't children. Diamond Edge: the lady wast the eldest daughter in that lady family with three siblings. Solid Shield: married and father of a single son. And lastly we has't Emerald Gaze: the lady wast the one whom spotted the manticore and landed the killing blow but wast stung by the beast's tail; married and a mother of two."
I couldn’t keep the tears away as they began to swiftly flow down my face. I personally knew Star Hope, her talk of children always gave me hope for a brighter future, she said if she had a daughter she wanted to name her Twilight, she was one of the few that would talk so openly in my presence. My sun suddenly seems to have dulled, but I can’t break down now, I must be the pillar for my ponies.
“Princess do you want me to continue? The reports can be read and given later.” I am grateful for Quill’s concern but I need to hear this, I need to stay strong...for Star.
“Aye please continueth with the reports.” he hesitates for a moment and continues
“The surveyors has't reported thither is suitable land near the base of Mount Canterhorn. And I would has't to trust their judgement, the area around thither is suitable for agriculture, enough flat lands to buildeth villages, near a water source, hence from the forest, and an untold number of potential ores to beest mined.”
Finally! Good news. “This is an opportunity that can't beest missed, telleth those folk should those gents needeth more resources that those gents shalt has't the supporteth of the crown in their endeavor.”
“As thee command thy majesty. The rest of the details and other reports art writ within these documents. I would thee a valorous evening.” And with that he summoned the documents in his magic and exited the room.
Maybe thing are finally starting to go my way maybe I’ll finally be able to become the one of the leaders my ponies deserve. *shivers* I feel something...powerful and foreign. It feels stronger than me and that frightens me too the core. Just as suddenly as it appeared it disappeared just as quickly. What if this thing is a threat to my little ponies, what if I don’t have enough power to stop. Why did I have to tempt the fates with that thought. *BANG* And suddenly my doors are no longer on their hinges and have become well acquainted with the floor.
“Sister! Didst thee feeleth that disturbance in the world, t hath felt as though a powerful foreign presence hath entered our lands.” My darling baby sister Luna, I love her truly I do, but she needs to not be so excitable. At least I know that power wasn’t my imagination. Which is all the more reason why we shouldn’t take any chances, either send an inspection team or go myself. I refuse to lose more lives of our subjects. Luna seemed to be reading my thoughts.
“For the short amount of time that twas thither t hath felt as though t cameth from the direction of the Everfree. I shalt taketh a squad of night guards with me anon to investigate.” I doubt I could dissuade, she has the gleam in her eyes for when she gets excited or curious about something.
I walked over to her and gave her a bit of a tight hug with my forelegs and wings“Please beest safe Luna” she returned the gesture with even more force and a nuzzle.
“Of course dearest sister. I'll leaveth thee alone for now so thee can returneth to thy worketh.” I cringe at the mention of work, we part from each other and she beings to walk out of the now doorless hole in the wall, I’ve gotten so use to her doing that that I seem to filter it out.
“Would thee care to fix the door on thy way out?”
“What door? I don’t see a door that needs to be fixed.” She just keeps walking through the hole without looking back, I can just feel the cheeky grin on her face. But this is one of the reasons I love Luna so much, she gives me a sense of peace in times like these, I don’t know what’d I do without her and I hope I never have to find out. I take a look out my window and look towards the Everfree.
“Please don’t be a threat to my ponies.”
Equestria: Everfree forest
[Leon POV]
So I’ve been on a light jog towards the cave for about a minute when I see first hand how the rest of the world looks. Along the way I pass what a manticore pouncing on a bunny, sure some people would save the bunny but the thing is that this isn’t an unnatural event. It’s the circle of life and for all I know I could set off some kind of butterfly effect. Save the bunny the manticore goes hungry and looks for prey somewhere else, runs into helpless/weak pony, attacks and there one less pony in the world. Maybe it’s paranoia but it’s also a decent enough probability that I would rather not take that chance. Not yet anyways. We, yes I’m counting the A.I. as an individual, arrived at the cave and I have to say I wasn’t as impressed as the mask lead me to be, or what I assumed. The cave was roughly I’d say 30 meters by 25 meters maybe, with some stalagmites and stalactites coming up from the floor and out the ceiling respectively. It was a bit humid in here but it’ll work. This was when I searched myself for that Tempo and just slowed it down to normal levels, it’s easier to turn off than to turn on.
“So this is the place?” It may sound stupid asking that since she’s the one that lead me here but I am a man that likes to have clarification, less bullshit to deal with from ‘assumed or implied.’ I make sure of that after that incident with the trap, I don’t want to think about that right now.
[Correct. The cavern is located underneath this one.]
….I fucking called it. “So how do I get in there?” I see no entrances or holes in the wall besides the one we entered.
[There is a hollow area near the left wall that leads to the larger cavern.]
“So how am I gonna get in? Break the wall down or teleport inside, can I teleport without have an visual or prior knowledge to that location?” I shall not become one with the wall.
[You can teleport anywhere within the range of your dial. As long as this requirement is met you can teleport with little restriction. The other option is to use your skills to break this wall down. Such as Line of fire, The Xelor combines Firepower with his knowledge of temporal flux to create a flaming rift which deals damage in a line. This is a strong attack for dealing with enemies or obstacles that stand directly in front of you. There is also the option of firing a ball of wakfu towards a target. This is a basic technique that can vary in power and effect depending on how you manipulate it. The main focus of the Xelor is to disable the opponent by continuous removal or their AP(Action Points)preventing them from using their skills and abilities.]
AP huh, so here it’s like stealing their energy to perform actions. “So this dial, it’s similar to a giant clock on the floor centered around me right?” I got know what to shoot for.
[Correct.]
“So my limit is 100 feet, does that mean I can extend and shrink it at will?”
[I do believe that is within your capabilities.]
Alright. I take a breath and close my eyes. I imagine a clock face on the floor and I’m in the center of it, it’s coming from my core. It feels like I’m expanding, like I’m bigger than this body, bigger than these bones, it’s as though I’m an omnipresent force. This dial, is my zone I can move anywhere within this zone, the zone comes from me, I am the zone. Continue with repetitive thoughts.
When I started getting a headache or just plain tired of saying that mantra I opened my eyes and the world seemed...different. I looked down and I could see a clock face at my feet, I could also see outlines of it on the other side of the wall So I just I just will myself ther-WHOA! And suddenly I’m in darkness, oh there’s the night vision. Just thinking about it actually teleported me to the spot. Teleporting that way felt like I went through a wall of water. Yeah I think I can work with this, better than have a nauseating effect afterwards. Looking around this hollow it seems more rocky than the entrance and to the right a some kind of tunnel that leads further below. “So we’re going down here?”
[Yes.] And so I make my way into the bowels of the world, which makes me think ‘aren’t volcanos like a planet’s ani(plural of anus)’ why do I have these random thoughts in my head all the time. I’m still not sure how I lead one subject into another unrelated matter and this is a long path. I’ve been walking down this, I’m going to say 37° incline a few twists and turns. “So how much further till we get there?” Been walking for like four minutes and I need to take a freaking nap. As well ‘adjusted’ as I’ve been taking to this situation this has been more mentally taxing than studying for my college chemistry finals. The tears that stained my textbook that week...
[We have arrived.] lo and behold, I just exited the tunnel into a cavern that’s the size of a commercial airplane hanger. It was strangely flat in here and looking along the walls there were quite a few more tunnels that lead somewhere, explore later, wanna sleep now.
“So Mask, do you have any protection from say, I don’t know, mental invasion for example?” I don’t want Luna finding me here.
[Yes. I possess a high level integration system that allows me to communicate with you directly and without the need of vocal commands. Should the be an attempt at mental penetration I shall notify you immediately and depending on the severity, run neural or physical interference such as waking you should there be an attempt that was too close to success in invading your dreams. Or invasion during active consciousness.] The Luck is real with this one.
Impressive “You’re like my own guardian angel, kind of like my pseudo sister back home.” Flashbacks, and there’s the depression coming in, all the more reason I need to sleep so I can pass over this. They were both quite similar in ways, like how they were so willing to help me. “Would you like a name?”
[A name?] There was hesitation for a split second and for the first time what could be defined as confusion for her.
“Yeah. It’s more like a form of association or identification of an individual”
[If that is what you wish mas-]
“Please stop with the master, I would prefer it if you called me Leon instead. And I’m not forcing the name on you, I was just asking if you would like one because it’ll probably get old and annoying for the both of us if I only called you mask. You may just be an A.I. but in a way you’re still alive.”
[...Thank you...Leon. I would be grateful to be given a name by you.] I feel like she’s smiling even without having a mouth, face, any physical representation that would describe emotions or body language. That got a smile out of me too.
“How about Victoria? With some hypocorism thrown in over time like Vicky.”
[Victoria...I like it.] My smile only grew wider.
“Great! Now if you’ll excuse me, I am going to collapse and sleep for at least four hours. Please safeguard my dreams” I didn’t even wait for a reply, I walked over to a smooth looking spot, dropped, and passed out after 20 seconds.
