> A Displaced Spectrobes Master
>  by The Dark Brony
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> Chapter 1
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“Jack! You're up!” Called a girl with Pink dyed hair to a boy wearing white armor and dyed red hair.

   

The red haired boy then took a deep breath as he whispered "Let do this, Iku ze!” He then walked over to the girl then said, “wish me luck.”

“Good luck.” The pink haired girl said as she kissed the boy on the cheek before skipping off.

He then smirked and said, “I’m gonna need it.”

“Contestants, please come to the stage!” The announcer said.

The red haired boy then walked onto the stage and stood behind one of the consoles. 

“Now here we have our two remaining contestants! who will win the final match? Which Spectrobes will they use this round? Well, let's find out! BEGIN!” The announcer said before the projector lit up, showing the virtual arena with the two contestants and there Spectrobes.

Jack had a Windora and a Pinorska whilst the opponent had a Naguzoro and a Vilanox.

Instantly Jack had his Windora and Pinorska charge towards the Naguzora hoping on disabling one enemy quickly to improve his chances, and almost instantly managing to dispatch it with ease.

The opponent though was not going to go down without a fight and used his sword and Vilanox to attack Jacks Windora, taking it out before he could charge up his special, but in the process, he lost his Vilanox. “Crap…”

Jack then smiled as he decided to end it with fire and chose to use the ultimate form Spectrobe Tindera to finish the job. Within seconds a cutscene appeared as Tindera flew away from a large, black sphere, then stopped, stared for a second, and then used its blades to create a ball of fire. It then used its tail to launch a fireball that exploded soon after. Once the screen returned to normal Jack saw that his opponent was defeated.

“And that's game over! Winner of this year's Spectrobes championship is Jack!” The announcer said as Jack was now shown on the screen as cheering came from the audience.

Jack was presented the prize for this year which looked like a Komainu fossil replica before being led off the stage.

Even as he walked off the stage he was surprised at what had happened, he had never expected to win the first round never mind the whole completion.

“You did it!” The girl with the pink hair said as she tackled Jack into a hug.

He then began to blush and said, “I can’t believe that I did manage it, I feel like this is just a dream… someone pinch me this can’t be real.”

The girl gave him an impish smile before pecking him on the arm. “Did that feel real enough?” She asked.

Jack then smirked and said “yep, So what do we do now?”

“Hello, young champion.” Said a voice from behind Jack.

He then quickly turned around in surprise to see a man in a blue cloak standing behind him, Jack then asked the man “Oh hello, umm sorry did you want to ask me something?”

“This is for you.” The man in the cloak said before handing Jack an envelope.

Jack then looks at him suspiciously then says, “what’s in it?”

“A crossroads in your fate.” The man said mysteriously before vanishing into a puff of smoke.

Jack looked around and said, “Did I just see that or am I going crazy?”

“If I sing it also means anything, then you aren't going crazy…” The pink haired girl said.

Jack then looks at the envelope and then says, “what’s the worst that can happen?” He then carefully opens the envelope and pulls out a small golden ticket then read it aloud.




    	Hello there,
 
        	If you are reading this you have been chosen to be sent to another land where your actions will either help or destroy those you find there.

                                                                            	Good luck!




“Jack?” The pink haired girl says, nervously clinging to the back of her boyfriend's shirt.

“What's wrong Jen?” asks Jack.

“Do you think it's real?” Jen asks nervously.

“I hope not, although two of my cousins disappeared? maybe something similar happened to them” Jack says

“Would you like to see them again?” Came a voice.

Jack then spun around and said, “who are you.”

“Look in your hands.” The voice said.

He then looks down, sees the ticket glowing, and says “oh you have got to be kidding me” 

“I am not joking.” The ticket said in a casual tone, causing Jen to faint.

Jack then kneels down and shouts, “Jen wake up!” whilst shaking her.

“Talking ticket… Not… Possible…” Jen mutters in her sleep.

“Do you wish to take my offer or not?” The ticket said.

Jack look at Jen and says, “what did you mean about seeing my cousins again?”

“I can send you to a world where you will have powers and eventually see your cousins again if you wish.” The ticket said.

“Prove it… prove that they are in the same position as I will be”

Jen then mutters “Jack... don’t”

“Your wish is my command.” The ticket says as a golden glow envelops Jack and Jen before they vanished.





“Agent Sweetie Drops, have you found the source of the disturbance?” Came a voice over a communication device in the ear of a cream colored anthro earth pony.

“This is Agent Sweetie Drops to headquarters, there seems to be a pair of strange looking pods here. Permission to investigate further?” Sweetie Drops said.

“Permission granted, bring them to base for safety measures.” The voice replied.

“OK Headquarters.” Sweetie Drops then walks up the first pod. “Huh? HQ, there is a body in one of the pods. What are your orders?”

“What!? Stand by for a pickup team to arrive, if what's in those pods is alive we need to take extra precaution!” The voice over the com said before cutting off. A short while later a spaceship landed a few meters away before a hazmat team filed off and approached the pods.

“Agent sweetie Drops.” One of the hazmat team members said as he saluted the mare. “We are the team sent by HQ to assist you in the acquisition of the unknown pods.”

“OK it seems that whatever is in these pods may be alive, but there reading don’t seem to tell us much else.”

“We’ll be careful, do you mind waiting for us in the loading bay?” The hazmat pony said before motioning for his team to go carry the pods into the ship.

Sweetie Drops then saluted the hazmat pony and says “no problem”

After a few minutes of clearing space and moving the pods, the hazmat ponies eventually had the two pods set down in a corner of the loading bay by themselves. “Now to head back to HQ.” Said the hazmat pony from earlier before he went to the cockpit to let the pilot know that everything was ready.

A few moments later the ship shook violently, causing the pods to bounce and activate with a hiss. The pods then began to slowly open as the ship shook again.

Sweetie Drops the rapidly turned around to hear the sound of groaning coming from the pods and then a voice say “what just happened”

“Ouch… My head…” Said another voice coming from the other pod.

The first voice then sat up and said, “Jen is that you?”

“Yeah… But My head hurts and I think I’m seeing things…” Jen replied.

The first creature the turned and looked towards Sweetie Drops and said “are you seeing a beige colored creature in front of you?”

“Yeah… and some anthropomorphic horses in hazmat suits…” Jen replied, poking her head out of the pod slowly.

Sweetie Drops then looks towards the two creatures and say, “are you ok?”

The first of the creatures then continued to say “Apart from waking up in this thing I’m fine, although my friend here seems to have a headache.”

“Jack... Am I imagining this?” Jen stammered.

Jack then shakes his head and says “no, no you're not I can see it to”

Jen then decides to faint, causing her to fall out of the pod.

Jack then proceeded to climb out of the pod and attempt to support her as she shook her once again and said “Jen you need to wake up.”

“Talking… Anthro… Horses… Not… Possible…” Jen mumbled as smoke came from her ears.

Jack then smiled and said “well the impossible just became possible” He then looked towards the beige pony and said “we’re sorry about that, my names Jack and this is my friend Jen. What’s your name?”

Sweetie Drops then looks at them in shock and says “my name is Agent Sweetie Drops, I am a member or the PPP or the Pony Planetary patrol”

“Mam! The ship is being attacked by strange blob like creatures!” A hazmat pony shouts after having gone to the cockpit to see what was going on with the ship.

Jack then looks at the pony and says, “what do you mean strange blob like creatures?”

“They are red with black stripes and have two tentacle-like arms, why do you ask?” The panicking hazmat pony asked.

Jack then looks towards Jen and then says “but that's the description of the...”

“Krawl…” Jen gasped.

Jack then looks back to the pony and says, “it’s a race called the Krawl, there a strange race that grow stronger in darkness.” He then looks to Jen then nods his head and says, “you need to land this ship if we have any chance of winning this fight.”

“Do you know how to fight them?” Another hazmat pony asked.

“We know how to… But we have no actual experience fighting them…” Jen said nervously.

Jack then looks at the pony and says, “The only chance we would have is if we had some sort of weapons and I doubt you would trust someone you don’t know with a sword or gun.”

“We don't have any weapons onboard! this is a science vessel, not a military one!” One of the hazmat ponies shouted as the ship shook violently again.

Jack then looked to his wrist and said, “If only I had my Spectrobes from my game I could have done something”.

Sweetie belle then looked at him in confusion and says “a what?”

“Spectrobes are creatures of light, and the only thing known to be able to defeat the Krawl.” Jen explained. “And are you sure? Because I don't remember you having a prismod!” She then said to Jack, pointing at his arm.

Jack then looked at her and said, “Like I’d now have a…” He then looks at his arm and then said, “you have got to be kidding me” as he realised that there was indeed a Prismoid attached to his arm. He then looks and sees that he indeed has Windora and Pinorska, He then looks at the ponies and says “I may be able to fight them if we land.”

Sweetie Drops then looks at us and says “Why should we trust you” Seconds later the ship shakes again.

“Do you really have a choice right now!?” Jen shouts.

Sweetie Drops thought about it for a moment then shouted “Bring us down” before turning to Jack and saying “you better know what you’re doing, otherwise you are risking the lives of everyone on this ship.”

Jack then looks at her and says, “Like we have much choice than to do it, you have no way of fighting them as it is.”

The ship then lands on the ground as the doors slowly open and Jack runs out to see three Swar attached to the ship. 



Jack then turns around as both Windora and Pinorska appear next to him, seconds later Windora shot whirlwinds at the Swar knocking them off the ship while Pinorska Struck then with its spiked tail before they could land.

“Jack! Behind you!” Jen called from the ship.

Jack then quickly turned around to see one of the Swar about to hit him with his head until a spiked tail knocked it back and destroyed it. “thanks for the warning Jan!” Jack shouted. He then looks back to Windora to see it crush the second Swar as Pinorska destroys the other one with its tail. 

Once all the Krawl have been defeated Jack turns to Sweetie Drops and says “All hostiles eliminated” as both Pinorka and Windora disappear back into his Prismod. He then walks back onto the ship as the door closes behind him.

“That… was… AWESOME!” Jen cheered as she talked Jack into a hug.

Jack then smiles at her and says, “that was pretty amazing wasn’t it?” His legs then gave way as he collapsed into Jen's arms. “and absolutely terrifying at the same time...” He added.

Sweetie Drops then walks over to him and says, “Looks like I was wrong about you.”

Jack then sighs and says, “I just hope that those were all there was if this is the same a what I think this was only the tip of the iceberg.”

Sweetie Drops then looks at him and asks, “what do you mean?”

“The Krawl are a species of shadow creatures that not much is known about. But in the stories about Krawl that we know of they had a ruler named Krux.” Jen told Sweetie Drops, giving the best explanation she could come up with. “And if he’s here I may know why we were sent here…” She said as she turned to Jack.

Sweetie Drops then looks at Jan and asks her “and where did you come from exactly?”

“Well, were from a planet called earth…” Jen said before freezing. “Oh… My… GOSH! WERE IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE! I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THIS IS AMAZING!” She squealed, looking like a child who had been told Christmas came early.

Jack then shook his head and says, “Jen calm down and take deep breaths.”

“Calm down? CALM DOWN!? WERE ON A SPACESHIP WITH ALIENS! HOW CAN I POSSIBLY BE CALM!?” Jen shouted at Jack, her breathing was now starting to grow ragged and her face began to flush. A few moments later she passed out on the floor from hyperventilating and was gasping for breath in her unconscious state.

Jack sighs as he says “Sorry Mis. Drops, I'll get back to you in a minute” before kneeling down next to Jan and lifting her up bridal style. He then carries her over to one of the pods and sets her down in it. 

Jack then turned back to Sweetie Drops and says, “could you please tell me more about where we are?”

Sweetie Drops then looks at him and then says “you are on Daipon the first planet in The Lucena System”

Jack then looks at her in surprise and says, “we really are in a new universe. The universe we can from was called the Milky Way”

Sweetie drops then looked at in confusion and continued to say “The closest known system is the Milky Nay. I never heard of where you are from.” 

“Not surprising really it’s likely it could be named differently to what we named it” admitted Jack

“We are now entering equestrian airspace!” The pilot called over the ship intercom.

“Equestrian airspace? is it another planet?” Asked Jack

“Were arriving at our home planet Equis, the second planet of our system, and Equestria is the main continent. So we should be arriving at PPP HQ any minute now.” Sweetie Drops said.

Jack then smiles and says “Jen’s gonna find this weird”

“I’m going to find what weird?” Jen asked as she started to wake up.

“we’re on another planet, and I think this is going to get a lot weirder” admits Jack

“Wait, so I wasn't dreaming?” Jen asked with a blank expression, she then looked over and saw Sweetie Drops. “I Wasn't Dreaming…” she mumbled before she fell backwards with a goofy grin on her face.

Jack then smiled and told her “unless this is my dream, then no this all happened.”

Jen then had a suspicious glint in her eye. “Well, this is obviously not your dream if it is one… and were surrounded by futuristic technology...” She said as the gears in her head started to turn.

“well we are in a spaceship that travelled in space in a matter of seconds from when you collapsed, what do you think” He then realises what she is thinking about and says “and no messing around with anything electronic or god help me I will set a Spectrobe on you.”

“But-” Jen pleads.

“No buts Jen, if you break anything here who know what will happen” argues Jack.

“Fine…” Jen pouted.

“Look it’s for our own good, I don’t really want either of us in a jail.”

“Hey! that was just one time! ONE! TIME!” Jen defended.

“Once is enough Jen. I don’t want to be the one to bail you out again!” argues Jack

“Fine… But I will eventually get my hands on some of their tech…” Jen mumbled.

“If they give it you then I have no problem with it” admitted Jack

“What did she do?” Sweetie Drops asked.

Jack then scratched his head and said “it’s better she tells you herself”

“Urgh, fine... I may have accidentally blown up a city block when one of my inventions... Backfired…” Jen confessed.

“you killed 3 people and injured about 30 others, Jen.” Admits Jack.

“I-I K-killed S-someone?” Jen stammered, her eyes shrinking to pinpricks.

“yes Jen, you did… it’s why we had to keep you from tinkering with technology, it was part of the deal we made to get you out of jail.”

Jen curled into a ball inside her pod and started to rock back and forth. “I-I K-killed S-someone…” She started muttering to herself like a broken record.

Jack then climbed into the pod with her and said, “I was told never to tell you, but I can’t keep the lie going any longer… you weren’t the only one who got pulled into the mess… when I tried to repair the problem I caused the mistake to repeat and injured twenty people and killed one policeman, it’s why I was never around for almost a year I was stuck doing community service to help pay for the repairs for the damage we caused.”

Jen didn't respond, but she slowly reached out and grabbed his hand and clung to it like her life depended on it.

“This is awkward…” One of the hazmat ponies said while rubbing the pack of his head.

Jack then shouts out “You say anything about this to anyone you will meet one of my Spectrobes!”

“Yes, sir!” The hazmat ponies say in unison, absolutely terrified.

Jack then smirked and said, “It's so easy to manipulate people.” He then carefully embraced Jen in a hug and said, “we will sort this out, I promise you that.” With that, he kissed her on the forehead.

“The ship has landed!” The leader of the hazmat ponies said as he re-entered the room from the cockpit. “Ok, what have I missed?” He added when he noticed Jack and Jen.

> Chapter 2
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“Where are we going?” Jen asked as she and Jack followed Sweetie Drops out of the ship and onto the Pony Planetary Patrol HQ. She was still clinging to Jack like her life depended on it, but at least she wasn't still curled into a ball and refusing to move from her pod anymore.

Jack then smiled at her and says “Do I look like I know?”

Sweetie Drops then looks at them and says “you are at the PPP headquarters on the planet Equis, I was asked to search for a disturbance on Daipon and that's when I found the pods you were in.”

“Wait, were at your HQ?” Jen said as her eyes grew the size of dinner plates.

“Jen, don’t push it” warned Jack

Sweetie Drops then smiles and says “Our commander wanted to debrief me on what happened and I decided it would be easier to have you help me explain to him what happened. We know little about that Krawl that attacked the ship and you both seem to have experience with their kind.”

“Is your commander's name Grant by any chance?” Jen asked, stopping suddenly.
Sweetie drops then looked at her and said “How? How did you know that?”

“Jack… Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” Jen said, starting to hyperventilate again.

“that this is similar to the first game… Yeah” admits Jack

Sweetie Drops then looked at them and then asked “game? what game?”

“Nothing!” Jen shouted before continuing to follow Sweetie Drops.

Sweetie Drops then looks at her and says “I could reveal your secret if you don’t tell me.”

Jack then glares at her and says “and I could set Pinorska on you if you did.”

A look of terror then appears in her eyes as she say “I would prefer not to, I’ll keep quiet.”

Jen gained a depressed expression as she started to walk behind Jack as she clung to his shirt. “I dont want to remember…” She sniffed.

Jack then kneeled down next to Sweetie drops and whispered “Could you get her some sort of tech to try, it may calm her down”

She then smiles and says “I can try and get her something after we meet with the commander.”

Jack then smiles and says “or her own prismod. That would distract her.”

“My own prismod?” Jen asked, her mood doing a complete 180.

Jack then smiles and says “If we can find one.” as they stop in front of a pair of large double doors with the PPP symbol on it.

Sweetie Drops then looks at them and says “This is Grant's office, don’t say anything stupid, and don’t touch anything.”

Jack then smiles and say “I hear you Sweetie.”

“Darn it…” Jen groaned.

Jack then smiled and said “Jen behave and we will find you some tech to tinker with later.”

“Fine…” Jen said.

Sweetie Drops then nods to a guard in front of her before the doors begin to open. As they look around the room there are many ornate pieces of art and along the walls there was large copies of the PPP logo spread around the room. In the center of the room there was a large desk that covered the majority of the front of the room with what looked like an elderly anthro gryphon sitting behind it. 

But out of all those things the griffin was what drew the most attention, His feathers were faded, grey and he had a short down pointed beak like an owl.

Jack then looks towards Jen and says “Is it just me or is this Commander Grant even less human looking than the ponies we’ve met?”

“Rallen, were not in kansas anymore…” Jen said as her eye began to twitch.

“Without a shadow of a doubt” agrees Jack.

Sweetie Drops then looks at Jack and says “He’s a Griffin, so don’t annoy him, the last pony who did that didn’t last long after”

Jack then smiles and says “what did he do? Outstare someone to death?”

Sweetie Drops then looks at him and whispered “Umm no he… cut an artery in the poor mare hooves she bled to death.”

“He WHAT!?” Jen said in disbelief.

“WHat rumors are you spreading about me this time?” Commander Grant asked from his desk, sending Sweetie Drops a ice cold glare.

Sweetie Drops then tries to walk away as she mutters “sorry sir, won’t happen again.”

“You're not getting off the hook so easily this time young lady, now report.” Commander Grant says as he stands up.

Sweetie drops then takes a deep breath and they say “Okey sir, well after i arrived near the site of the disturbance i found two strange pods crashed into the ground. Once we got them back onto the ship we were attacked and the pods opened releasing the creatures you see behind me from the pods.”

“I see… Tell me, what attacked your ship?” Commander Grant asked.

Sweetie Drops then says “We were told they are called the Krawl, from what we were told conventional weapons won’t do much to them.”

“So it was the Krawl…” Commander Grant mutters, too quiet for anyone to actually hear. “Then we will need to get the research and development team working with whoever was able to repel them.” He told Sweetie Drops.

Sweetie drops then looks at him and says “actually, Jack here said that only creatures called Spectrobes are able to defeat them.”

“Oh?” Commander grant says before he turns to Jack. “Are you certain of this young one?” He then asked the human.

Jack then looks at him and says “as sure as I can be sir.”

“Actually, there are some types of weapons that work on the Krawl. there just not as effective as using spectrobes.” Jen said, reminding Jack and informing the Commander at the same time.

“Oh yeah, guess I forgot that, never used the sword or guns much during the game.” replies Jack.

“Game?” Commander Grant asked, raising an eyebrow.

“You really don’t want to know” replies Jack.

“It's a secret.” Jen says as she grins at Commander Grant.

“Well, we all have them." Commander Grant chuckled.

Jack then says “Thank you for being so considerate.” 

“Your welcome, now back to business...” Commander Grant said, returning to his serious expression. “Agent Drops, in light of the current situation I want you to accompany these two humans and help them with whatever they need. If we are to get through the coming challenges, were going to need all the help we can get.”

Jack then looked to Commander Grant and says “If you need our help you have it.”

“Good, then I want the three of you to go to planet Neyssa. our outpost there has gone dark and our last report mentioned creatures that I believe may be Krawl.” Commander grant said.

Jack then looks at him and says “One problem with that, we have no way of getting there.” 

“You have Agent Drop’s ship do you not?” Commander Grant asked with a smirk.

“And we didn’t know about that, but may we ask for one request.” asks Jack.

“Im listening.” Commander Grant said as he interlocked his fingers before placing his elbows on his desk and resting his head on his hands.

“If we are going to try to fight the Krawl, both me and Jen are going to need to be armed in some way. If my spectrobes get taken out, i’d be a sitting duck.” says Jack

“You have a point, what would you suggest then?” Commander Grant asked.

“well from what I remember, some effective weapons were swords and guns.” says Jack

“Then I will see about getting her a sword then.” Commander Grant said before he dismissed the trio.

Jack smiles and says “Thank you sir.” as he leaves the commander's office.





“So which ship is yours?” Jen asked as the trio exited HQ.

Sweetie Drops then smiles at them and says “You’ll see”

“Come on! Tell me!” Jen whined as she looked at all the different spaceships that were docked around the entrance to PPP HQ.

Jack then smiles and says “Jen we’ll know it when we see it”

“Fine…” Jen grumbled as she took out the energy lance that she had been given shortly after they had left the commander's office before starting to tinker with it.

Jack then smiles and says “I did say i’d get you some tech Jen.”

Jen stopped tinkering as she blinked owlishly at Jack. “Wait… You got me this sword for that reason?” She asked, her mouth hanging open from shock.

Jack then smiles and says “well that was one reason but it was because I knew we’d need some weapons to defend ourselves”

“Uh Huh… whatever you say~” Jen said with a smirk before kissing his cheek and running off to try and find Sweetie Drops’s ship.

Jak then turns to Sweetie Drops and says “Should we shout her and tell her she’s gone too far?”

“Well I think it’s for the best the ship is right here.” Sweetie Drops says whilst pointing to a ship along the dock we were next to.

Jack then smiles and shouts “Jen the ships over here!”

In the blink of an eye Jen was standing in front of Jack and Sweetie Drops again. “Where?” She asked looking around.

Jack and Sweetie Drops then points towards a nearby ship and as Sweetie Drops says “this is my ship”

Jack then smiles and says “looks like the Marine Cruiser fr-” before being cut off by Jen elbowing him in the gut.

“Yes, its a very nice ship.” She said, eye twitching as she tries to keep herself from fangirling.

Jack then looked up at her then muttered “what the hell Jen.”

“Do you really want them to start asking us questions that could enact Murphy’s law?” Jen hissed at Jack, quiet enough to not be heard by Sweetie Drops who was walking toward  the ship.

“Not really, that's sort of what got us into this mess” admits Jack

“Good.” Jen replied before walking into Sweetie Drops spaceship.

Jack then looked up and muttered “what have I gotten myself into?” With that he followed Jen and Sweetie Drops into the ship.





As soon as everyone gets onto the ship Sweetie Drops turns around toward them and asks “right before we head off to Neyssa is there anything you need?”

“Do you have any fossil excavation gear and quantum electronics?” Jen asked.

Sweetie drops then looks at her in confusion and asks her “what? Why would we need those?”

“It's… Complicated…” Jen said fidgeting slightly.

Jack then sighs and says “The gear will be for minerals and fossils to help train our spectrobes. The electronics serve another purpose, but it still has to do with the spectrobes.”

Sweetie drops then looks at them and asks Jen “Wait fossils? What’s so important about them?”

“When child form spectrobes feel threatened, they go into a hibernation like state where they turn into fossils. But they can be revived by a spectrobes master if said master has the right equipment.” Jen explained while shrugging.

Sweetie Drops then looks at her and says “Wait back up a bit, did you say you can bring these Spectrobes back from the dead?”

“They aren't dead, just sleeping. I think… I don't really understand it myself honestly.” Jen replied.

Jack then sighed and said “but let's just ignore the whole confusion about how it work just leave it at if we have the equipment we may stand more of a chance against the Krawl.”

Sweetie Drops then sighs and says “Okay, I will try to get you what you need, but how will you find those minerals?”

“That's what we need a child spectrobe for they are capable of finding fossils and minerals” replies Jack


Sweetie Drops then looks at Jack and asks him “and do you have a child Spectrobe?” 

“He does.” Said a voice.

Jack then looks around and then realises something “that voice, You're the one who sent us here.”

“So you remember, good job.” The voice laughed.

Jack then reaches for his sword and shouts “who and where are you? Come out here!”

“You don't need to know my name just yet… But as to where I am? Its simple, I’m everywhere.” The voice laughed from all directions.

Jack then shouts “I think we should know the monster who forced us away from our families!”

“I am no monster. And it's not my fault you accidentally accepted the ticket.” The voice snapped.

“I said I wanted proof my cousins were a similar situation and instead you sent us here”

Sweetie Drops then looks at me and says “what's going on, what do you mean forced away from your families?”

“They were sent to this dimension to be its guardians after that one asked about his family. And you will see your cousins, you just have to find their tokens.” The voice replied.

“you're acting as if you know who they are, if that is the case what are their names?” asks Jack

“Craig, Daniel, and Helen. Although the last two now go by Kirito and Asuna.” The voice replied.

Jack then looked at Jen and then said “he’s right and my aunt's here as well”

“They aren't actually in this dimension though, that's why I said you need to find their tokens.” The voice added.

Jack then looks around in confusion and says “What even are these Tokens?”

“You will have to find out yourself, I have reached the limit of how long I am allowed to interact with mortals for now.” The voice said.

Jack then turned to Jen and says “do you want to get back?”

“Back where?” Jen asked as she stops trying to find where the voice was coming from, her hair slightly disheveled.

“Back to our real reality, you didn’t want this life, you were forced into it. Do you want to go back home” replies Jack.

“To be honest? I don't care, as long as I’m with you.” Jen sheepishly replied.

Jack then looked at her in surprise and then says “Wait really?”

“Yeah. after all, all I had back there besides you was my uncle… And I hadn't heard from him since the accident…” Jen said sadly.

Jack then looked at her and said “I thought we’d agreed never to mention that accident, but I thought he had contacted since?” 

Sweetie Drops then looks at us and asks “what accident? What happened”

Jack then looks at her and says “I don’t want to talk about it, Not again”

She then looks at Jen and asks “are you gonna tell me about it?”

“You already know what we are talking about…” Jen said as a tear ran down her face. “Send the supplies below deck when you get them…” she added before she disappeared below deck through the elevator.

Jack then sighed and says “Miss Drops from here on out if you ever ask us to talk about our past I will be sending a spectrobe on you.”

She then gulps and says “I understand”

He then shouts “and to whoever you are, when we hear from you again we want answers.”
> Chapter 3
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	“Jack, come down here! I Got the lab system set up.” Jen a called over the ship intercom as they approached planet Nessa.

Jack then turns to Sweetie Drops and says, “looks like Jen’s sorted it.”

Sweetie drops then says, “Do you think it will work?”

“Who knows? But she’s basically a technical genius if anyone can get it working she can,” replies Jack

“Let’s see if your right” replies Sweetie Drops as she sets the Ship to Autopilot and then begins to walk towards the lower decks of the ship with Jack in tow.





As Jack and Sweetie Drops walked into the room, they saw Jen standing by a large computer like device with an almost liquid like holographic screen. Once they get closer Jack says “So you think you got it working?”

“Well, let's find out,” Jen said as she pulled out the Komainu fossil Jack had gotten from the game competition as a trophy.

“and you’re sure this will work?” asks Jack

“There's only one way to know,” Jen responded as she handed Jack the fossil before stepping aside.

Jack takes a deep breath and then says “Well let's hope this works”  He then places the fossil onto the machine and it quickly moves forwards until it rests in the centre as three coloured beams make contact with it. He then looks at Jen and asks “So what do I do now?”

“Well, what do you normally do to awaken one?” Jen said while smirking.

“From what I remember, you spoke to them.” He then turns to the machine and says “wake up, wake up, Wake up!” Seconds later there was a flash as a small dog like creature appeared in front of them.





Seconds later it jumped out of the screen and jumped towards Jen, causing her to squeak as she was knocked to the ground.

Jack then laughs and says “I think it likes you.”

“Bark!” Komainu said as it started to lick Jen’s face.

“Ack! stop, that tickles! Help!” Jen cried as she was tickled by the Spectrobe.

Jack then smiles and says “Komainu stop” It then looks back to him and walks towards his side. Jack then kneels down, rubs the back of his head and then says “that's a good boy”

Sweetie drops then begins to smirk and then says “what wrong Jen can’t deal with a dog?”

Jack then looks at Sweetie Drops and says “Komainu”

Komainu then runs up to Sweetie Drops and tackles her as Jack just smiles as he helps Jen up.

“It’s not my fault it pinned me to the ground and started to tickle me! I’m defenseless when being tickled!” Jen said sheepishly while blushing.

“Although a dog looks good with you Jen. Good work,” smirks Jack.

Sweetie Drops then shouts “Please get it off me, I give, I give” As Komainu licked her face.

Jack then smiles and says “Komainu stop.”

“Arf,” Komainu said as it hopped off of Sweetie Drops.

“Not so easy is it?” Jen quipped as she sent Sweetie Drops a small smirk.

Sweetie Drops then looks at her and mutters “So what I didn’t look cute when it licked me.”

Jack and Jen then smile at each other as jack says “well actually you did look quite cute.” Causing Sweetie Drops to blush.

“well, we should go see if we can find any fossils or minerals,” Jen said as she started to head for the elevator.

Jack then smiled as he walked over to Sweetie Drops and helped her up and said “I’ve changed my mind on your punishment if you ask about our past. I’ll have Komainu lick you again.”

Sweetie Drops then mutters, “Please don’t.”

“Hurry up! Or is the ship going to land itself?” Jen called from next to the elevator.

Sweetie drops then sighs as she runs out the room and whispers “this is only going to get stranger.”

Jack then kneels down beside Komainu and says “welcome to the family little guy” while stroking it on the back of the head. They the walk out of the room, towards the elevator and head to the cockpit.





Once the ship lands on Neyssa, Jack and Komainu step out onto what looks to be a landing pad in the middle of the desert. He then says through a communicator to Jen and Sweetie Drops “Okay then what's our target here?” 

“Do you see a building or camp of some sort? or possibly an entrance to what might be a cave?” Jen asked over the communicator.

Jack then looks around to see what appears to be a small brown tent in the distance he then says “I can see what appears to be a single tent nearby, moving in to investigate.”

“Ok, and make sure to see if you can find any fossils or minerals while you're out there!” Jen said over the communicator.

“I’ll do my best, but finding them was never really the issue was it.” says Jack

“Just try and bring them back in one piece.” Jen chuckled.

Jack then turned to Komainu and said “can you see anything buddy?” To this, he just shakes his head as jack sighs and says “if you find anything just shout up”

With that, they begin to walk towards the tent in the distance.

As they got closer Jack realised that the tent that he saw was less than one solitary tent and more like a whole research colony. As he walked around he felt like the whole location was a ghost town. Jack then says “Jen the place feels dead, there’s nobody here. Are there any records of a research colony around here?”

The only response Jack got was static before the communicator went dead.

“Jen, Jen come in” he shouts

“Yip!” Komainu squeaked as he nervously stepped closer to Jack.

Jack then reaches towards his sword and says “stay close, we’ll see what we can find then check on the others, Jen should be fine.” He then looks around to see a dark tornado coming towards him as he says “Dammit the Krawl are here”. Seconds later he gets caught in the tornado as it engulfed him.

As soon as Jack looks around him he sees that he is surrounded by three Krawl, these consisted of one Swar and two Swatrap.





Seconds later both Windora and Pinorska appeared beside Jack as Komainu disappeared. Jack then quickly grabbed his sword as one of the Swartrap lashes what appeared to be vines at him causing Jack to step back and dodge it by a hair.

Seconds later Windora launches two tornados towards the two Swartrap’s launching them into the air as Pinorska crushed one of them with its tail as the second one landed back on the ground.

Seconds later I turned to see the Swar looming over me and pulling its head back ready to strike him, Jack then slashes his sword in an upwards motion catching it below the neck knocking it back, the then smiles and says “I knew messing around with them toy lightsabers would come in handy one day” Seconds later the Swar was crushed by Pinorska’s tail. He then looked back towards the remaining Swartrap to see it explode into a purples mist as Windora rams into it.

Seconds later the tornado began to dissipate as Windora and Pinorska disappeared and Komainu reappeared near Jack’s legs cowering in fear.

“J-ck! Ja-k! Ca-n you hear me!” Came Jen’s voice over the communicator as the static began to clear.

Jack then grabbed his communicator and said “Jen, you okay?” 

“I picked up a Krawl on the scanners just as your communicator went out! are you ok!?” Jen shouted through the device.

“Mostly, I just took a group of them out, just avoided a Swartrap’s tendrils from almost hitting me. I have got to thank Commander Grant when we get back,” says Jack

“What the buck!?” Yelled a voice from behind Jack.

Jack then quickly turned around to see a purple unicorn in a lab coat and then asks “what is wrong?”

“How!? How did you destroy it!?” The purple unicorn asked as she walked over from where she was hiding.

“Sorry Miss I'm afraid I can’t reveal that information,” says Jack. He then looks around and says “I’m with the PPP and for your own safety we need to get anyone in this camp out of here.”

“I'm the only survivor officer, and before I leave I need my notes as well as the artifacts me and my team found.” The purple unicorn huffed as she crossed her arms over her chest.

Jack then nodded and then says, “Okay then miss I will request my team to bring the ship in closer to speed up the extraction, please collect up any equipment you need in the meantime.”

“Ok, but I’m going to need help with one of the artifacts because my magic isn't strong enough to levitate it.”

Jack then looks at her in confusion and says “magic? Isn’t that all Smoke and mirrors?”

“What world are you from? everyone knows how magic works in this system!” The unicorn said as she started to walk towards one of the tents.

Jack then smiles and says “likely not this one” He then opens his communicator and says “Jen could you please bring the ship in closer, we have one survivor for exfil, she will need some help bringing her research on board.”

“Roger that,” Jen replied before the communicator cut off again.

Jack then walks over to the tent that the mare went into to see mountains of research papers piled up on desks, along with multiple fossils and minerals laid out on shelves, which considering they were in a tent in the middle of the desert, it struck him as odd that everything was kept so organised.

“You might want to step to the side.” The unicorn said to Jack, who was standing in front of a pair of bookshelves.

Jack then looks at her and says, “umm if you're sure.” He then walks backward until he is standing just in front of the doorway.

“Thank you.” the unicorn said before her horn began to glow. Moments later the pair of bookshelves Jack had been standing in front of started to faintly glow purple before sliding away from each other to reveal a sandstone staircase. “the thing I need help with is right down here.” She said as she descended the steps.

Jack then looks at the staircase in confusion and says “why would something be down there?” with that he follows the mare down the stairs.

When Jack reached the bottom of the staircase He saw the unicorn standing in a room that was empty all except for a large crystal in the center of the room. But what caught his attention was what was inside the crystal, a small white Krawl.

Jack then looks at the are and says “Be careful whatever that thing is, it’s likely to be dangerous, It’s similar to one of the creatures I fought earlier.”

“Interesting, can you help me lift it? I’m going to bring it back to base to analyze it so we can make more effective weapons against these things.” The unicorn said as she walked over to the crystal.

Jack then looks at her and says “We will need to contact the commander and get authorization to bring it back, It’s a risk if it was to escape being that we have little that can harm them”

“Sure, but let's get this on the ship first so that we can drop it in the sun if we don’t get clearance, just to be safe.” The unicorn said as she started to try and lift the crystal.

Jack then sighs and says “Miss I can not move a Krawl without complete knowledge that we have somewhere to contain it back at base… For now, we will move the rest of your equipment and once we have clearance we will return and collect it” 

“Fine…” The unicorn pouted, releasing her grip on the crystal and following Jack back upstairs.

As they walk back up the stars Jack gets back out his communicator and then says “Jen, Jen come in.”

“Yes, Jack? We're just landing.” Jen said over the communicator as the ship landed in front of the tent.

“OK, Jen I need you to get in contact with the Commander. We have a frozen white Krawl in here and the researcher wishes to bring it back to base. Could you get authorisation for us to transport it?”

“got it… And request has been sent.” Jen said through the communicator. moments later Sweetie Drops stepped out of the ship.

“Why hello agent, long time no see.” The unicorn said to Sweetie Drops.

Sweetie Drops then smiles and says “Hello to you to Twilight, it’s been a while.”

“Indeed, it has, hows your girlfriend?” The unicorn, now identified as ‘Twilight’, said.

“Oh, Lyra… She’s doing well mostly, still searching for something different, I don’t think she’ll ever stop searching for that missing link.” jokes Sweetie Drops.

“Yeah! I mean, humans? really? they couldn't possibly exist!” Twilight laughed.

Jack then walked towards them carrying a stack of papers then says “Oh, hi what's this about humans?”

“Oh, it's nothing… we were just talking about Sweetie’s girlfriend. She’s a Cryptozoologist.” Twilight replied while shaking her head.

Jack then looks at her in confusion and says “a what now?”

“Someone who researches mythical creatures,” Jen said as she exited the spaceship.

Jack then laughs and says, “funny how us humans thought that unicorns and pegasi were mythical till today.”

“Wait, what?” Twilight said before pulling out glasses and putting them on. “Holy buck! what are you!?”

“Me and Jen are Humans or Homo sapiens is the scientific term for us,” Jack replies whilst walking into the ship putting the papers on the side and then walking back towards them.

“I... what… How…” Twilight stammered before fainting.

“I’ll go take a look at that crystal I heard you two talking about over the communicator,” Jen said as she walked down the hidden staircase.

“Let me just take her back to the ship and then I’ll take you there. Don’t want it breaking free and attacking you” says Jack whilst he carefully picks up Twilight and carries her into the ship before walking back out seconds later. He then walks back towards the stair and begins to follow her down them.





Once Jack reaches the bottom of the steps he finds Jen poking around the crystal. Once he gets closer he looks at her then says “I don’t recognise this one? Do you know anything about it?”

“Ep! don’t sneak up on me like that!” Jen scolded as she turned to face Jack. “And yes I do recognize it.”

“Sorry about that… Ok, what exactly is it? I can guess it’s Krawl but what type?” asks Jack.

“Its an artificial krawl, or also known as a pure or typeless,” Jen responded as she turned back to the crystal.

“typeless… must have been from origins.” He then laughs then says  “I really should have got that but you never think playing games like that will be beneficial to your future.” admits Jack.

“Well, then I won't tell you what happens in that game.” Jen chuckles mischievously.

Jack then smiles and says “Well if it ever comes to pass that I will need that knowledge you better be ready to pass the information over.”

“If I get the chance to tell you when it becomes necessary I will,” Jen said as she walked to the other side of the crystal. “Now help me get this thing onto the ship, I got clearance to examine it from the commander.”

“Ok, then it will be best to wait for Twilight to help move this thing” He then smiles and says “I’ve got an idea.” He then pulls out a communicator and says “Agent Drops, we need to wake up Twilight, tell her we have clearance to move her crystal. If she still out you have permission to use cold water.”

She then laughs and says, “Ok I will get her moving… Once she is set I will join you as well, just wait for us.”

“Ok then see you soon” With that Jack shuts off his communicator. He then turns to Jen and says “Twilight and Agent Sweetie Drops will be with us soon.”

“ARGH!”

“Sounds like someone got the cold water.” Jen giggled.

“yeah, reminds me of all the pranks I used to play on my sister.” jokes Jack.

Seconds later both Sweetie Drops and a soaked Twilight walked down the stairs. 

“I will get you back for that… both of you…” Twilight said as she pointed at Jack and Sweetie Drops. “Now let's get this thing on the ship!”

Jack then puts two hands up and says “It had nothing to with me Twilight and yes let's get this thing out of here”

Jen rolled her eyes at Jack with a slight smirk before she and the others got into position around the crystal and started to lift it. after a while, the four of them had managed to carry the crystal up the stairs and over to the ship before they put it into a container Jen had rigged up, and pushed it into the lab space that had been set up in the cargo bay.

Jack then looks at Twilight and says, “hey where did you find that crystal Twilight?”

“It was right where I had shown you, but it had an energy barrier around it also. Though the barrier gave out while I was examining it before you arrived.” Twilight explained.

“Good thing there aren't any cracks in the crystal then,” Jen said as she started to secure the container that they had put the crystal into so that it would stay in place.

Jack then sighs and says “If it had, we would all have been in danger the moment. be thankful that it didn’t.”

“Ok, shoo shoo! we can handle it from here!” Twilight said as she chased Jack and Sweetie Drops out of the cargo bay.

Jack then sighs and says “No rest for the soldiers.”

Sweetie Drops then sighs and says, “she’s always like that. You get used to it after a while.”

With that, they both walk towards the ship's cockpit and prepare for liftoff. Unknown to them, though, they were being watched.

> Chapter 4
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	“Hey, Jen! How's everything going down here?” Sweetie Drops called over the intercom.

“Everything is secure!” Jen replied through her communicator before a small gold coin appears out of nowhere and hits her in the face. “What the heck!?”

“Everything ok?” Sweetie Drops asked.

“Yeah… Just got hit in the face by a coin that appeared out of thin air!” Jen complained before picking up the offending coin.

“Do you want me to come down and help you? Someone probably hit you with some sort of bit or-.” Twilight said as she came to check out what the fuss was about, but stopped speaking as she looked at the “coin” before looking at Jen. “That is no bit I can tell you that. For all that I know of, that’s too big to be a bit. I think you just found a medallion, Jen.”

“Then what kind of medallion is it? Better yet, where did it come from!?” Jen wondered as she examined the coin.

“Maybe it’s a relic of sorts. We should ask Sweetie about it. Something tells me that she might know what this thing is.” Twilight said just as the earth pony was coming into the room.

“Hey! Sweetie Drops, do you know where this came from?” Jen asked.

“That's strange, I didn't have anything like that onboard.” Sweetie drops replied as she looked at the medallion.

“I wonder…” Jen thought as she stared at the coin in confusion before flipping it into the air and catching it out of boredom. She personally didn’t expect anything to happen. But from the single coin toss, something unexpectedly plummeted in the middle of the cargo bay, crashing into the floor with a loud ‘thud’.

“What!? where did that crashing noise come from!?” Twilight said spinning around to find the source of the noise, only to see a boot sticking out of a pile of crates.

The only thing that all three of them weren’t expecting was to hear a voice that none of them knew. “Okay, seriously!? That hurt!!!”

“Hey! Who are you!” Sweetie Drops demanded pulling out her laser pistol.

“You tell me, I can’t see a damn thing with these crates all over me! I think they’re crushing my ribs.”

“Twilight, you mind helping Jen move the boxes while I make sure this pony doesn't try anything?” Sweetie Drops said.

“Pony? Heh, that’s a good one,” The voice chuckled. After a few of the shipping crates were moved out of the way, whoever was speaking then said something else. “Okay, that helps. You might want to backup first, rather not hit you three.” 

“Hang on… you can see us?”

“More of a sense thing, but that’s not the point,” The crates were then seen flying in all directions and from underneath was something that caught Jen by surprise. It was a human like figure, but it had red gauntlets on his forearms and a blond monkey tail to match with his hair. He wore a black jacket and cargo shorts of the same color and soon, turned around to notice the three of them, with Jen holding the coin. “What’s up?”

“Who… Wha… How…” Jen stammered before passing out.

“Aw, crap…” The stranger cursed, noticing the coin on the ground. “Was she the one who summoned me?”

“Summoned?” Twilight asked.

“That’s my token,” he said, pointing at the golden medallion. “Nevermind that, I forgot to introduce myself. Name’s Sun Wukong and… where exactly are we?”

“You're aboard my ship.” Sweetie Drops said.

“Ship?” He replied, looking around at where he was before sighing. “Maybe I should let you guys be a little more specific on that. Because right now, this feels like I’m on a ship in Star Wars.”

“I’ll go get Jack.” Sweetie drops groaned before walking away. All Sun did was sit down, watching the mare walk away for a little bit. Twilight, on the other hand, noticed Sun’s tail moving a little. Almost getting close to tickling Jen’s head.

Second later Jack walked into the room and saw Sun then said “Who’s the Saiyan?”

“That’s Faunus. God, I already have one person calling me that, I don’t need a second one.” Sun sighed, facepalming himself as he looked towards Jack.

Jack then laughed and said, “Oh sorry just saw the tail, anyway my name's Jack what's yours?”

“Sun Wukong. Trust me, I already had my Twilight mistake me as Son Goku when I first ran into her.”

Jack then laughed and said “I just caused our Twilight to have a breakdown after I told her that me and Jen are humans. We’re supposedly mythical creature here.”

“When I first met Fluttershy and I told her that I was a Faunus, she thought I was a Fawn. Like a deer.”

“How’d she get that I don’t see any antlers?” asks Jack

The Faunus shrugged. “My tail was on the couch and she did hear the us part of it. Had to take a little bit of explaining to help her… Speaking of which, is your friend going to be alright? She passed out upon seeing me and it was her I think that found my token.”

Jack then smirks and says “She will be in a minute” He then walks over to the corner of the room and grabs a bucket of water and throws it over Jen then says “Jen wake up, or do you want me to get Komainu to lick you again?”

“Gah! what was that for!” Jen yelped before glaring at Jack.

Jack then laughed and said, “Don’t want you being anti-social with our guest do we?”

“Whatever…” Jen grumbled before sulking off to tinker with some stuff.

At the mentioning of Komainu, Sun tilted his head at Jack, puzzled. “Who’s Komainu?”

Jack then smiles and points towards the ground as a small dog like creature appears near his feet, He then smiles and says “This is Komainu”

“... Okay, that’s new. I honestly never expected that to happen.” The Faunus replied as Komainu looked back up at Jack like an eager puppy.

Jack then smiles and says “You wouldn’t have seen one before, he’s a Spectrobe.”

“Never heard of that one before. Then again, I’ve met a lot of other Displaced so to each their own right? Besides, where I’m from, I have to worry about Grimm.”

“Grimm? What are they?” asks Jack.

“Grimm are vicious creatures that are mostly black and red, formed by raw negative emotions such as suffering, hate, anger, and primarily, Fear. They take on many forms and attack anypony on sight… Are you familiar with RWBY by any chance?” He asked Jack, wanting to see what his answer would be.

“RWBY… um not really heard of it” admits Jack.

“Well, it’s a web series by RoosterTeeth, the guys behind Red Vs. Blue. I’m based off of one in the characters in the series named Sun Wukong… Hey Jack, can I ask you something?”

“Fire away”

“Have you met any other Displaced before?” Sun asked him, hoping that the topic would somehow ring a bell. Unfortunately… things didn’t turn out the way he hoped when he asked that question.

“Sadly not, we only got sent here earlier today… you're the first other ‘displaced’ that we have met… in fact, we don’t actually know a lot about other displaced.”

“Well, to put it in basic terms, Displaced is short for Dimensionally misplaced. Meaning that someone that either dresses up as a certain person or character can wake up to find themselves in their own version of Equestria. Mine has the Grimm and some other things where a few Displaced from the same web series ended up there. Besides them, though, I’ve been summoned by a variety of different people. You with me so far?”

“Yeah I think so… in fact, I'm wondering have you come across anyone who was displaced as Kirito and Asuna?” Asks Jack hopefully.

The Faunus scratched his chin, thinking to himself a little before replying. “Now that you said that, I actually saw those two once. One Displaced was holding a huge holiday celebration in his realm and they were two of the hundreds of guests that were there. Didn’t get the chance to talk to them, though, which was a bummer.”

“So whoever sent us here didn’t lie about that… still they may not know about Craig yet,” said Jack sadly.

“Are those guys like family to you or something?” The Faunus asked, folding his arms as he waited for a reply. Komainu was even looking at Jack with a worried expression as he pouted a little.

He then looks down and says “Craig and Kirito are my cousins, Asuna is my aunty but I haven't seen them in years they all disappeared, I know know they were displaced.”

“Wow… Never thought your family would get pulled into it. Ironically, though, that’s the same thing for me.” He explained, getting out a few pictures in his pockets. “My cousin Lance got Displaced as Gunvolt from Azure Striker Gunvolt and ended up in a world where Twilight and her friends are basically Superheroes. Same thing happened to my mother, who is in the same world. But… she hasn’t been the same as when I last saw her.”

“What happened to her?”

“That… I don’t know. She’s with another Displaced named Miles Upshur and she was relieved to see me after being separated from each other. But she’s just… different now.” He said, looking down a little. “Given the fact that my father died when I was a child, I had to look after her most of my life. So seeing that change just makes me… worried, you know?”

Jack then smiles and says “I understand you completely, but sometimes you need to embrace that change otherwise you will just get yourself stuck where you are.”

“I don't understand any of what you two just said…” Twilight groaned before walking off to resume working on her research. Sun noticed the Unicorn as she was walking away, noticing that she was different than when he last saw his Twilight.

“I understand that. Maybe we should focus more on the here and now,” The Faunus suggested. “Do either of you have any questions for me?”

Jack then looks at the Faunus and says “Well we heard about token from some sort of voice before we met you... but we have no idea how to make one.”

“I can help with that later. It would sound complicated in talking about it, but maybe showing you guys later can help you out a little.” He offered, his tail catching what looked like a pair of nunchaku that fell out of the back of his jacket.

“Ok, I think that's all the maintenance my sword needs for now…” Jen said to herself as she walked back over while holding a gauntlet looking device.

Jack then looked at the weapon in sun’s tail and asks “hey what's that you're holding?”

“This?” The Faunus asked, picking the red nunchucks up with his hands as he flipped them around. “These are my weapons. Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang.” Shortly after that, he had both weapons collapse into a bo staff that he held with his right hand.

“What does it do?” Jen asked as a glint appeared in her eye.

“Well, they’re a gunchaku/staff weapon-”

“Whats a gunchaku?” Jen asked as she started to reach for Sun’s staff.

Sun, noticing this, collapsed the staff down and had them be nunchaku again. Only now did Jen see that she was staring down the length of a barrel. “Gunchaku. They’re Nunchaku that also serve as shotguns. Because where I’m from, almost every weapon… is also a gun.”

“Cool! can I dissect one!” Jen asked with a smile that said ‘I’m a mad scientist’.

“I’m not sure if you can dissect metal. Plus, most of the people that have them are either clingy to their stuff or just don’t want their stuff getting taken apart. One girl has a Scythe that’s a combat action sniper rifle and she’s the other one that calls me Saiyan… mostly because she’s… well, Ruby.”

“Now I really want to know where you came from!” Jen squealed as she started to gain ideas for a few new inventions.

“...... Wow… That’s a first?”

“Now all that's missing is an automaton and I think I would be in heaven!” Jen giggled.

Sun turned to Jack for a moment at everything that Jen was saying. “I’m going out on a limb here and say that she’s new to the whole Displaced thing?”

“We both are, although I remember my cousin saying he wrote sorites about this before he disappeared” Admits Jack.

“Displaced? What were you two talking about while I was doing maintenance on my sword?” Jen asked as she held up her gauntlet before putting it on.

“We talked about what his world is like… oh and our families, turns out he knows about my cousins and their mother,” replies Jack.

“I saw them, but didn’t speak to them,” Sun added on.

“So that weird guy in the blue cloak wasn’t crazy?” Jen said while raising an eyebrow.

“Well, you guys and myself aren’t the only ones in this situation. The possibility is hundreds to possibly thousands of people. Just as vast as the Multiverse itself. Just meeting me is only the tip of the iceberg for you two.” The faunus told them. “One thing to keep in mind, though… Many people when Displaced would not be the type to follow the rules and instead say Screw the Rules, I do what I want. So just be careful.”

“And they are where?” Jen asked.

Jack then sighs and says “In separate realities Jen, we use tokens to travel between them, that's what you found to bring Sun here.” causing her to faint again.

“We could have just said Multiverse theory… Geez, this just makes me think of when I was explaining it to Lauren Faust.”

Komainu then waddled over to Jen and started to lick her face causing her to bolt back awake. “Dang it Komainu!” She shouted as she ran from the Spectrobe in an attempt to avoid being tickled.

Jack then started laughing and says “I did tell you that would happen, Jen.”

“Heh… He just reminds me of Grif.” Sun chuckled. “Grif is a wolf pup that I’m helping my friend Fluttershy raise. Though… for being very young… he’s also very lazy.”

“Everyone hold tight! were now approaching Equis and will be arriving at HQ soon.” Sweetie Drops called over the ship intercom.

Sun then looked at Jack and Jen, surprised but also a bit confused. He only had time to ask one question. “If this is the part where I should hold onto something?”

“Were exiting warp not entering, did you not hear the approaching Equis part of what she said?” Jen said rolling her eyes.

“Hey, no one told me that this was a freaking spaceship! I thought it was an airship- OW!” Sun’s sentence was cut off just as the ship made a violent stop, throwing him into another stack of crates. “Dammit, NOT AGAIN!! That’s twice now!!”

“Problem monkey boy?” Jen laughed as she just stood there.

“Oh HAHA!” He said, getting himself out and pushing a crate to where it flew into Jen’s face. 

“Jen stop laughing at other people's misfortune… that's my job for you” jokes Jack. As Sun hopped out, the cargo bay doors were beginning to open as the three of them noticed both Sweetie Drops and Twilight outside. But the first thing they noticed was the mess of crates scattered all over the place.

“Okay, what the BUCK-!?”

“You hit my face!” Jen yelled at Sun as the crate he threw at her fell off her face.

“Hey, that’s not my fault! You forgot to dodge!!”

“Oh? And how was I supposed to do that?” Jen asked as she pulled out a massive wrench and gave Sun a slightly strained smile as her eye twitched.

Jack then laughed and says “Jen do I need to treat you like Piccolo treated Gohan?”

“Try it and I will have you be the guinea pig for one of my experiments again.” Jen deadpanned.

Jack then sighs and says “I was joking Jen… you really need to get a sense of humour.”

“Sic em Komainu,” Jen said to the Spectrobe while pointing at Jack.

“Woof!” Komainu replied as he gained a glint in his eye before tackling Jack to the ground. he then proceeded to lick Jack the same way he had when tickling Jen and Sweetie Drops.

“Go for it boy, I don’t mind,” Jack said before he started laughing and said “You will feel my wrath in the future, Jen. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but someday when you least expect it.”

“Save it for the wedding, Romeo,” Jen said with a smirk as she calmed down.

“Let's go see the commander.” Sweetie drops said to Twilight while facehooved herself before the two ponies left the humans to their shenanigans.

Jack then looks towards Jen and says “Let me find a ring and we’ll see.”

Sun just sighed to himself as he followed Jack, Jen, and the other ponies out to go see this “Commander” that they were referring too. He was a tad bit curious on who this was as he stepped out of the vehicle. But as soon as he stepped out of the ship, though… all eyes were directly on them.

Sun just stayed quiet, thinking that saying anything would attract attention that he rather not have, thinking that Jack and Jen might be able to clear up any fear or confusion that they might have of him.

Jack then places a hand on his shoulder and says “Calm down Sun, what are you worried about?”

“Hey, I was unsure what they would think of me because I’m different from you. Fear can cause many ponies to resort to extreme measures if you get what I’m saying.”

“I get what you're saying but they all have more to fear as it is… to them, you are only a small problem in comparison to the Krawl… trust me I know.” sighs Jack. Sun understood what he meant and right now, he just tried his best to keep his cool and not stress out over anything, letting Sweetie Drops guide them to meet this… commander that they had mentioned before.

Jack then looks at Sun and says “Look if the commander is willing to trust us with little to no proof I’m sure he won't do anything… but if Sweetie Drops say anything about him take it with a pinch of salt.”

Sun nodded his head as the doors for the command center parted ways, allowing for Sweetie Drops and Twilight to enter first, followed by the Spectrobes Masters and the Faunus that were following them. “Hey, Jack. Is there anything I should know about your commander before we go meet him?” He asked as they made their way to his office.

“Oh yeah unlike most of the ponies you see here, he’s a griffon.” says Jack 

That, though, didn’t help Sun. “Yeah… when I first arrived in my world, a griffon locked me up in a cage. Hopefully, things will be better this time around.”

“I will promise you that he won’t harm you… if he tries he won’t get far,” says Jack whilst tapping his Prizmod.

“Yeah… You never exactly told me what that does. Is it like a holster for something?”

“Well you have seen Komainu, this is basically home for my other Spectrobes… although I only have two other at the moment I need to go out to find fossils to find others,” replies Jack.

“Ah okay. That makes sense.” Sun replied back. He was beginning to understand things little by little, but at least, he was actually understanding what was going on around him.

“Anyhow the main threat for everyone in the reality is the Krawl. They are creatures of darkness that have devoured multiple solar systems… the only creatures able to fight then are Spectrobes as they are creatures of light. As I am the only person who can control them it is my burden to stop them.” sighs Jack.

“And your Spectrobes come from Fossils?”

“Yeah… Fossils like this one” he then holds up a fossil that looked like a sword.

“Hey, now that you mentioned that, I found this shortly before your friend found me,” Sun told him, getting one out of his coat pocket and handing it to him. “Can you make heads or tails of what this is by any chance?”

Jack then looks at the fossil and says “Yeah, it’s a fossil for one of the Spectrobes… Leo if I remember correctly.”

“Wow… I honestly did not expect that to be a Spectrobe.” Sun said, before noticing Sweetie Drops by the door. “Oh, I think Sweetie Drops needs us now.”

“Probably The commander needs to debrief me, I was the only agent on the ground for the last mission… I’m really not looking forward to this” sighed Jack.

“Should I wait out here while you get debriefed? I rather not pull the pin on that grenade if I just walk in there without a reason.”

Jack then sighed and says “Look, I really can’t blame you… but if you think about what I’ve been through today this is like a piece of fresh air… no Krawl attacking us and a bit of time to relax.”

“Yeah… I’ll take your word for it.” Sun sighed, not telling Jack that before being summoned, he was chased off of a cliff by a pack of Grimm that savagely brutalized his Queen Chrysalis. Sweetie Drops held the door open for both of them as they soon walked inside.

“I take it the mission was a success?” Commander Grant asked.

Jack then sighed and says “well, mostly… if only I’d got there earlier I may have been able to save the others and not just Twilight… I feel like I failed them.”

“It's alright, you did what you could and they knew the risks…” The commander sighed. “Tell me what you were able to recover, and who’s that boy with the monkey tail outside?”

“Well Commander, we didn’t really find much it was more Twilight who found the Crystal that held the white Krawl as for the man behind us it may be better if he explains it to you.”

“Um… Hello?” Sun replied, walking in. “You must be the commander I was told about.”

“Yes, I’m Commander Grant. What's your name?” The Commander asked.

“Sun Wukong, sir,” He replied, trying to show him respect.

“Well, it's nice to meet you Mr. Wukong.” Commander Grant said with a smile. “Now back to business, we need to go through the data that Professor Sparkle and see what she found. But we also need to find more Spectrobes also.”

“The fossil I gave Jack could be a start,” The Faunus told him, showing the fossil that he gave Jack. “Also, Sun is fine, sir.”

“And Twilight seemed to have found a fair few as well” adds Jack. Catching the Faunus by surprise based on these newfound details. The commander Though just smirked as he stood.

“Then what are you waiting for? Go find a few more and start training the ones Professor Sparkle found.” The commander said before dismissing everyone and leaving for the research and development wing.

Jack then turned to Jen and Sun and said “Well let's get started, we're in this for the long run.”

“Race you to the ship!” Jen shouted before running off.

Jack then sighed and said “I’ll be last place again won’t I?” as both him and Sun try to catch up with Jen and later, tried getting past Jack





“Alright, so Jen… How many fossils do we have in total? Besides, the one that I showed Jack?” Sun asked her as he set the Leo fossil down on a nearby table after they entered the place she called her “laboratory”, which in turn made the Faunus think of when he watched Dexter’s Laboratory as a kid.

“Well, not counting the ones that Twilight kept for her research, we have four fossils,” Jen replied as she pulled out a pair of fossils and set them on the table with the Leo fossil. Jack then pulled out the sword-shaped fossil and placed it on the table as well.

“Okay, which ones are those? I’m getting a feeling that they’re more than just one type, right? I already saw Komainu earlier and Jack told me this one was Leo.” The Faunus said, noticing the sword-shaped one that Jack placed on the table as he pointed at the one he found before arriving here.

Jack then smiles and says “The fossil I found is for Shakin… but this third one, I don’t know, it looks familiar but I can’t remember what it is.”



“Any ideas?” The Faunus asked him

“It's a Torga.” Jen said.

“Okay, and what is a Torga? I’m really new to this.” He said, causing Jen to sigh deeply.

“Torga is a child Spectrobe, that from what I remember was a Corona type, and as you can see from the fossil it looks like a toy RC car.” Jack then looks to Jen and says “Have I missed anything?”

“It’s also a fire type if you go by elements, but that should be it.” Jen said with a shrug.

“Elements? That must have been a origins thing.” replies Jack.

“I would ask… but I think it would be easier if I just let you guys do the explaining.” He said, rolling up the sleeves on his jacket and showing the red armguards that he was wearing.

Jack then looks around to check that nobody else was around then says “Spectrobe was a game that had three separate games related to it, the one I was referring to was the third one released and sadly the last one I know of.”

“And I’m the only one between the two of us to have played it.” Jen said with a slight smirk.

“Well, the more we know about this the better. One question, though… Is it normal for fossils to be shaped like weapons.” The Faunus asked, pointing to the one that Jack set down that resembled a sword.

“To be fair there’s such a large amount that I can’t remember all of them. So it is possible that there could be” admits Jack.

“As far as I can remember that's the only one that looks like a weapon.” Jen said before she Picked up the Torga fossil and walked over to one of the computers. The Faunus was also a little bit curious about some other things that Jack and Jen were telling him earlier, but since they mentioned the possibility of Krawl and Spectrobes being in different dimensions, there was a possibility that it might show up one day in his. If that were to happen, then he needed to be ready somehow besides calling for the two of them. Having him sit on the sidelines when he could be doing something just always got under his skin

Jack and Jen then looked towards Sun as Jack asks him “What was it we had to do for our token?”

“Well, do you two have an item that represents yourselves? Like a badge or something?” He asked.

Jack then looks to his wrist and says “well for me there’s the Prizmod… is it possible to have a shared token?”

“It is possible, but it would mean that sometimes both of you would be summoned together unless otherwise specified. I’m not an expert in how it works.” The Faunus shrugged.

Jack then turns to Jen and says “What do you think… this does affect us both after all.”

“Might as well, I can't replicate the Prizmod though.” Jen said with a shrug.

“That may cause a problem… Sun is there anything else about it that would mean we wouldn’t lose the original?”

“You two are able to keep the original. When the token is sent out into the void, the void makes copies of the token you choose, allowing you to keep the real one.”

“How does it do that?” Jen asked as she put down the fossil and pulled out a notepad and pencil.

“Honestly, I don’t know how. Remember, we’re dealing with the Multiverse,” Sun added on as he continued to speak. “Not everything has the answer you’re looking for or could be easily explained.”

“Sadly Jen you will have to learn to accept that” mutters, Jack, as he removes his Prizmod from his arm. He then turns back to Sun then continues to say “so what would we need to do next?”

“Well, what kind of message would you like to say about you guys?” He asked. “Most tokens usually let you hear a message from the person you summoned, so what would you two like to say to them.” He gave them some time to think of a collective response from Jen and Jack. But it was a little sooner than expected that they had the answer they were looking for.

Jack then smiled then said “Hi, we are Jack and Jen, The Spectrobe Masters. If you are in a position that is too big for you to handle alone or simply want to talk, just hold this token in the air and call on us and we will come to your aid.”

Sun smirked a little. “Okay, I can help from here.” Having Jack pass what they were going to use as a token, Sun used his coin to open up a tear in the void. Tossing the token in, it floated inside the rift as it multiplied. Before closing it, he grabbed the token again, handing it back to him. “There. All finished. Now, maybe we should get back to those Fossils?”

Jack then smiles and says “Did you grab an extra one for yourself?” Jack’s question was answered when he saw an extra token being held by the Faunus’ tail before going into his coat pocket.

“Does that answer your question?”

Jack then smiled and said “Yes… you know, would you like to awaken Torga as your own Spectrobe?”

“Hmm… What about the one I found that I showed you. Leo?” The Faunus suggested, holding the fossil that he showed Jack before meeting his commanding officer.

“Honestly, I don't see it as a proper fit for you.” Jen said, “You seem more of a speed type than a defence type, that's why Jack recommended Torga.”

“Right, but when it comes to that, I’m more speed and strength combined. How else do you think I whack grimm with my staff?”

“No idea… probably out maneuver them using speed? To be fair we have never seen you fight” admits Jack 

“Perhaps it’s best that I give you two a demonstration then before making any big decisions.” He offered. “Mostly, I’m a martial artist who is skilled with Hand to Hand combat and using my staff and gunchaku in battle. Besides that and my semblance, my only problem is when an opponent catches me off guard or attacks me from my blindspot.”

“Well by the sound of it, you would be definitely more suited to a speed based Spectrobe” Admits Jack.

“You guys are the experts, not me.” The Faunus sighed, looking back. “Let’s get started.”

Jack then smiled and said, “I’d never call me an expert besides we just started on this trainwreck of a life.” He then walks towards one of the machines and says “First place your Prizmod on your arm.”

Sun did what he was hold, placing it on his right gauntlet as it changed to the color of his medallion. Gold with bits of red along the exterior.

Jack then smiles then says “That looks good on you… Okay, the next step to simply wake up the Spectrobe with your voice.”

“Okay um… Hello?” He said, unsure if there was something specific he needed to say. “Torga?”

“There is bit extra to that, the main thing is that it needs to fit a certain tone that resonates with the Spectrobe, For example when I woke Komainu I had to say wake up three times at different volumes before he woke up,” says Jack.

Sun thought that through, then thought of something. Switching his weapons mode, he took out the ammunition that was in there, replacing the live rounds with something different before looking at Jack. “Does it have to be me or loud noises in general. If it’s the second one, then cover your ears.”

He then looked up then said “I’d say any noise would do, but you would need to sustain the noise for a few seconds.” replies Jack before he and Jen both covered their ears.

Sun nodded, firing three loud shots that just left a dent in the ceiling, but echoed loudly throughout the room as the sound bounced everywhere. Luckily, nothing was broken. But it seemed to do just the trick. Soon, a light emerged from the fossil on the screen, before jumping out and almost knocking the Faunus onto the ground.



Jack then smiles and says “well I think he likes you.”

“G-good to know…” The Faunus chuckled, looking at the Spectrobe for a moment before looking back at Jack. “What happens next?”

“Well at this stage he is just a child Spectrobe… they can help search for fossils, minerals and some other things however they can’t fight like this.” replies Jack. Sun assumed that when it came to this, Spectrobes needed to be cared for before they grow to become full-on adults. How though was another story as le looked back at Jack again. Who continued where he left off. “To evolve a child to an adult requires it to eat a certain amount of minerals for Torga it was five of them” Jack then walks over to the table then passes Sun fives different coloured gems, he then says “once you feed him these in the incubator he will shimmer and then once and then seconds later he will change shape into the next evolution in that Spectrobes chain.”

“I’m going to assume that I can’t feed him all five at once or something like that?”

Jack then smiles and says “Actually... once he’s in the incubator, you just slide in the minerals and he’ll eat them.” Sun, taking his advice, did so and slide them in one at a time, not trying to rush Torga or anything like that. Soon, though, he slipped the fifth one in and watch the Spectrobe eat the final gem that Jack gave him.

“Once you finish this, he will change from Torga to his adult form, I don’t think you can go back after, but this is the first time we’ve actually evolved a Spectrobe so this is all guesswork at the moment” admits Jack.

“And I just call him out if I need his help right?” Sun asked, trying to make sure he wasn’t forgetting anything.

“Once you're sorted I'll show you how to call him” replies Jack. They then looked back to Torga to see him shimmering as Jack say “See the button on the screen?”

“Yes?”

“Once you press that the process will begin.” Replies Jack. Sun then nodded, pressing the button that Jack told him too  and seconds later Torga was surrounded by what looked to be a cocoon as he says “use this, trace a line down the centre of the cocoon and the process will be complete.” Replies Jack as he passes Sun what looked like a pen. The Faunus nodded, tracing the line like Jack told him too, and seconds later a new creature appeared.



“Okay, that I honestly did not expect at all.”

“This is Torgazar, there is one more state after this, however, this can’t be attained by using minerals alone, you will need to train him a lot along with lots of mineral and a ton of actual fights.” Seconds later, Torgazar faded away as Jack said, “He is now back in your Prizmod, ready to fight if he is needed.”

“Thanks. That helps a lot.” The Faunus complimented him. “Maybe we should get to those other fossils and see what else can be uncovered.”

“First things first” Jack then turns to Jen then says “This is for you.” He then hands her a Prizmod and says “I did say that I'd get you your own.”

“Wha… When did you get another prizmod!?” Jen asked as she accepted the device in Jack’s hand.

“What you think I wasn’t going to keep my promise?” jokes Jack

“N-no I just didn't expect it so soon… I was thinking you were going to give me one of the origin Prizmod's when we got to that point in the timeline…” Jen muttered as she fixed the prizmod to her left gauntlet.

Jack then laughs and says “You know what, screw the timeline, this is a replacement for that ring.” causing Jen to blush.

“W-well then…” Jen stammered as she hid behind her pink hair while fidgeting.

“sort yourself out your first Spectrobe, Leo, Vilar, or Shakin, it’s your choice.” says Jack

“I think I will start out with Shakin… Leo is too powerful for a beginner like me, and I honestly don't like bugs that much…” Jen said with a nervous chuckle before retrieving the Shakin fossil and loading it into the lab computer. Jen then proceeded to sing for a bit until the Spectrobe she had chosen awoke.

“That should do it I think.” Jen said as she picked up the Shakin, “I think I’ll name you Swift.”



Jack then smiles and says “well, Swift seems to fit you quite well Jen.”

“I second that.” Sun added on to the conversation, seeing how Jen strangely reminded him of his marefriend back home.

“What are you thinking about?” Jen asked as she noticed Sun’s contemplative look.

“Oh you just remind me of somepony I know back in my world,” He replied. “My marefriend, Fluttershy.”

“Fluttershy? Does her name fit her or something?” asks Jack.

“Nah, it’s just that you two have similar personalities in some aspects. Nervous and only comfortable around certain people.” Sun explained.

“Does she also have the same hairstyle?” Jen asked out of pure curiosity.

“Same mane color, that’s for sure.” He said, showing a photograph that he had taken with her and her friends.

“I have a weird feeling like I'm looking at myself through one of those funhouse mirrors…” Jen muttered as she looked at the photo, “Well, at least, my theory was correct.”

“wow, looks like you two make a good couple.” admits Jack

“Thanks. I think this would work better than the last relationship I had. I had to end it because of a family emergency and now in my world, my ex is there and she has a handbag that can turn into a minigun.” The faunus sighed, causing Jen to stare at him in awe over the description of Coco’s weapon.

“Never piss her off, It would be the end of you.” says Jack.

“Trust me, I know. She told me that she drank over seventy shots before going on a bit of a drunken rampage. Coco even insulted my mother… in front of her face.” The Faunus sighed, facepalming himself.

“Was she really that hammered?” asks Jack

“You tell me when she picks a fight with a battalion of royal guards and causes almost a million bits in property damage. Along with the fact that she referred to my mother as little boob lady.”

Jack then shakes his head and says “Yeah she went over the point of no return but never mention any damage to me and Jen we ain't exactly clean, so to say.”

“Don't remind me.” Jen said as she started to shake a bit.

“Is something wrong, Jen? You look nervous-.” Sun said before he was cut off by an ominous roar that shook the ship.

The single roar left Sun on edge as he formed his staff. “Okay, that’s not good is it?”

“Not good…” Jen muttered as she started to shake even more. Looking at Jack, Sun went to the door to try and see what it was. Only to get surprised by something out of the ordinary.

“Jack, we got company”

“Jen what’s wro… Oh, you have got to be kidding me!” He then turns to Sun then says “Well, you get to test out Torgazar”

“Let me guess… It’s those Krawl freaks you were talking about?”

“We have to save the commander!” Jen said as she dismissed Swift into her Prizmod before activating her sword.

“yes, yes they are Sun, and right now we need to get rid of them… but in such quantities, I’ve not seen in such a large group before.” replies Jack 

“They must be moving in as a swarm. Try to beat us with overwhelming force.” The faunus stated, looking at his Prizmod. “I’m ready when you are.”

Jack then smiles and says “prepare to see what these idiots are like.” With that, he walked out of the swiftly followed by Sun and Jen.

> Chapter 5
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	The moment that the doors opened, Sun swiftly leaped out of the room and onto the walkway where Jack and Jen was. And from what they could tell, the situation looked… Really bad considering the amount of Krawl that were waiting outside. 

“Well this is just great.” mutters Jack.

“Well, at least, it’s just like in the game?” Jen offered with a dry chuckle. Unfortunately, when that was said, all the Krawl that were outside were now looking in her direction. Slowly inching towards her...

“You just had to say that, did you?” Sun grumbled. “Alright, looks like there's only one thing to do now,” He said, preparing his Prizmod, “Kill ‘em with fire.”

Jack then smiles as he raises his Prizmod before Windora and Pinorska appear beside him. Copying the same motions, Sun raised his up in the air as Torgazar appeared by his side ready for combat.

Jack then turns to Jen and says “You need to sort yourself out an adult Spectrobe Jen, we’ll hold them off until you're prepared.”

“Smart alek,” Jen replied before running back into the ship.

Jack then smiles and says “better to be smart than dead.” As soon as Jen went into the ship the door closed behind her and the Krawl surrounded Jack and Sun.

Jack continued to smile as he turned to Sun and said “Well you ready?”

“I was going to ask you the same thing.” The Faunus smirked. “Let’s trample these guys.”

Jack then glared towards the Krawl then said “Windora, Blow them away” seconds later two tornado flew into the group of Krawl launching them into the air.

“Torgazar, let’s go!” The Faunus said, preparing his weapons for combat as he and his Spectrobe began to attack the Krawl that were falling for the ground while also trying to assist Jack with any Krawl that his Spectrobe missed.

Jack then turned around and Pinorska crushed a group of them with his spiked tail as he rolled out of the way of a group of Swar. The two of them and their spectrobes were defeating Krawl left and right, but Sun soon noticed something crawling around nearby. “Jack… On the roof.”

Jack then looks up and says “Oh fuck my life, I can’t deal with these things right now.” as he see’s a group of Rach appear behind him.

Jack then turns around and says “We really could use some backup right now.”

“Yeah, no kidding… Wait… How long does it take Jen to get ready?” Sun said, looking at Jack.

“Depends when you mean?” jokes Jack.

“Like right now…” He said.

Jack then looks around and says “It would depend on the Spectrobe she picks.”

“Fire in the hole!” Jen shouted before a canon shot is heard and something crashes into the middle of the group of Rach. when the dust cleared there was a creature that looked like half rhinoceros beetle and half samurai standing in the middle of the group of reach.



“Jesus Christ! Who called in the calvary!?” Sun cursed, the sudden crash landing of the new Spectrobe catching him off guard.

“That would be Jen’s new Spectrobe, Vilamasta… you think this is dangerous you should see it’s final form.” replies Jack.

“When you say that, you make me think of Frieza.” Sun snickered. “Let’s just stick with what we got for right now and clean up this mess before these guys get anywhere else.”

“I’m with you on that. Windora, Pinorska. End this.” shouts Jack.

“Torgazar, let’s kick it up a notch!” Sun roared as Torgazar and the two other Spectrobes prepared for one last attack to finish off the remaining Krawl.

“Don’t forget me!” Jen said. “Give Jack some cover Tank!” she then told the Vilamasta.

Sun just looked at Jen with a raised eyebrow. “You named your Spectrobe Tank?”

“You would understand if you saw his final form. anyway, take cover!” Jen called over to Sun from on top of the spaceship. Listening to Jen, Sun used his weapon to launch himself upward to where Jen was while Torgazar began to channel rings of fire to prevent the remaining Krawl from running away.

Jack then shouts up to Jen “Jen let's end them!”

“Then use your combo move already!” Jen shouted back.

Jack then smirks and says “That's all you needed to say” with that  both Windora and Pinorska are surrounded in a silver glow before a giant tornado appeared in the middle of the Krawl that threw them around the battlefield until they turned into purple smoke.

“Well… That was something… Just curious though… How much do you think the extent of the damage is in collateral?” The Faunus asked, looking at all the devastation that was left behind by the attack.

“It depends on what spectrobes you use and their level.” Jen explained. “If you end up using spectrobes in your world you might want to see about having me and Jack teach a class on them.” She added with a slight giggle at Sun’s stunned expression.

The word class though… got Sun thinking. “Actually… you just gave me an idea.”

“Oh? And what pray tell would that be?” Jen asked as Jack recalled his spectrobes and went into the ship to heal them.

“In the series RWBY, there’s a special academy named Beacon Academy. Think Hogwarts for Huntsmen and Huntresses like the people in my world,” He said, recalling Torgazar as he spoke. “Right now, we’re in the process of building our own Beacon and with what you just said, I was thinking of making it more than just a school for the ponies in my world, but also a school for Displaced. If you want… I can have the both of you be teachers and you can establish a Spectrobes Lab in the Academy. I really like you guys and if what you say is true about the Krawl and Spectrobes, then some ponies can learn to use them for good purposes.”

“Sure, although I hope you don't mind if I accidentally tinker with a few things… Hehe… I’m worse than Ruby when it comes to machines I haven’t seen before…” Jen said nervously.

“Well, you will definitely like meeting Raven then. She’s a blacksmith and weapon maker. Made a few weapons for friends of mine. I bet that if you ask her nicely and not pester her, than she might teach you a thing or two about them.”

“Sounds fun! But no promises about the pestering her thing…” Jen said as she recalled Tank and let Swift out.

“I’ll keep that in mind,” Sun replied back to her. “We should check and see if everypony is okay after that. I’m sure that Sweetie Drops could take care of herself, but we should check with Twilight and Commander Grant.”

“Crap! I almost forgot about the commander! We need to hurry!” Jen shouted before radioing Jack to catch up with them once he was done and running off towards the commander's office.

Jack then said over the communicator “Sun you catch up with her i’ll meet up with you soon, just need to heal everyone up.”

“Don’t have to tell me twice… or at all actually... WAIT UP!!” Sun yelled, running after Jen.





By the time Jen and Sun finally reached the commander's office Jack had caught up with them.

“OK, So are we going to charge in or think of a battle plan?” Jen asked as she stood in front of the doors to Commander Grants office.

“Jen, we already cleared out all the Krawl that tried to attack us outside. Are you sure there would be any inside because I thought that this place would have some high tech security.”

“No we didn’t this is almost a copy of a mission in the game, there a boss behind these doors” explains Jack

“... Well, I’ll take your word for it.”

“Well, Might as well Just go in then.” Jen said before pushing open the doors and running into the room. But what the three of them found though, caught them by surprise.

“Okay… I might be the first to say this… but this guy is seriously ugly.”

“That's Gyforma, the first boss Spectrobe in the game, he attacks by charging your Spectrobes when he’s next to Gyreel and Gyroll. we just need to dodge him when thats happens,” explains Jack.

“Its uglier than in the game though….” Jen said before vomiting.

“anyone else up for the tactic, hit it until it dies?” jokes Jack.

“No seriously don’t try that, Jen we need to use Combination attacks on it, You and Sun work together and i’ll do the same.”

“Got it… we’ll be the bait…” Jen said as she managed to stop herself from being sick from merely looking at the Krawl Boss.

Only to find Sun enacting a different strategy as he was trying to get up close and hit the Gyforma. Followed up by him getting thrown backwards. “Well, there goes me trying to be bait.”

Jack then sighs and says “Time for a new plan.” He then Throws his arm up as Windora and Leopuba appear beside him.





“You arent going to…” Jen asked with a horrified expression, “Are you CRAZY!? This is a confined space!” She then brought out Tank to use as a shield.

“Run for cover!!” Sun hollered, leaping behind the commander's desk and trying to protect himself from what came next.

“Bout time Backup arrived.” Commander Grant grumbled from next to sun under the desk.

“Leo, Windora!” Seconds later Leo charges forwards and rams Gyforma followed by Windora charging into Gyreel.

“Grah!” Gyforma roared as it prepared to charge Jacks spectrobes.

“Ah hell, I don’t have that much of a lifespan anyway.” Sun muttered before running out of cover. “Torgazar! Give Jack some backup!!”

“Thank you… You both need to cover me, I’m going for a combination attack but I need to charge it!” shouts Jack.

“Got it,” The Faunus replied, getting his weapons ready before looking at Torgazar. “Buy Jack some time!” The Spectrobe nodded, charging in and ramming into the Krawl in front of them to provide Jack as much time as possible. Using its flames and forward charges to damage the opponent and distract it as the redhead began to charge up one final move. 

“Jen, I could use your help!” The Faunus called out. “The more people that are distracting these guys, the more time we can buy for Jack!”

“Tank isnt fast enough for that so I'm a bit busy using him to block any attacks that come me and jacks way… along with the fact that this attack could harm him just as much as it will harm this Boss monster!” Jen called over as Her spectrobe took a sumo stance and prepared to shield Jack and Jen from anything that came their way.

Jack then shouts “One of you get the commander out of the room!”

“On it!” Sun yelled, having Torgazar retrieve Commander Grant as he looked back at the two of them. “We’ll leave this to you so we can get him out of harm's way.”

“Okey Sun, Jen get out of room! Now.” Shouts Jack.

“Don't need to tell me twice!” Jen panicked as she ran out the room behind Sun and the Commander.

Jack then turns back around as both Windora and Leo are surrounded in a white glow and the ground area around them began to glow red as a wall of flames surrounds Gyforma and then knocks it back, only to find it survived the attack. 

Jack then looked around then muttered “I guess i’ve got no choice.” Windora then disappeared as a massive a golden beetle that’s horn had been replaced by a cannon appeared as he shouted “Vilakroma, Jamcannon.”

Seconds latter Vilakroma charged forwards before its cannon fired from just in front of Gyforma, obliterating it on contact.

“Is it safe yet?” Jen asked as she peeked into the room.

“Yeah, it’s safe… just look what's in front of you and what isn’t,” replies Jack

“Very funny.” Jen says before coming back into the room with Sun and the Commander right behind her.

“And it looks like collateral has reached… an all time high.”

Jack then looks down then mutters “yeah sorry about that.”

“Not to worry. Something tells me that the repairs might be easier to fix than appear,” Sun tried to lighten the mood, putting a hand on Jack’s shoulder. “Hell, unicorns are almost capable of a lot of things these days. I’m sure a bit of magic will get this place to look good as new again.”

Jack then looks around then says “We’ve got to hope that’s the case.”

“Yeah. Trust me, there are a lot of unknowns when dealing with certain things,” The Faunus told him, remembering the situation with the Grimm back in his world. “But if you look on the bright side, you can always persevere and overcome any obstacle. Heck, Jen and Twilight can probably find a way to have a defense system for the city if they put their heads together… not literally of course.”

“Yeah I suppose… even then, it’s a longshot. The Krawl are relentless, they literally devour entire solar systems… how could we design weaponry to combat that. No our only weapon is the Spectrobes themselves.” Admits Jack

“Hey, lets not see them as weapons… I would see Torgazar as more of a… companion so to speak.”

“I didn’t mean it that way… I meant it more like they are the only creatures that can harm them… my sword does nothing but annoy them, so what are civilians going to be able to do.”

“That’s where you step up… You find a way to provide shelter for them… Hell, I know for a fact that you two can help Sweetie Drops and some other agents here by teaching them about Spectrobes and showing them how to fight with one. You must adapt to the enemy that you are facing and the best way to do that is what you are doing now.” Sun finished, looking at Leopuba and smiling a little before petting it on the head. “I see what you did Jack… This was my fossil that I showed you right?”

“Yeah… look I’m sorry about grabbing it, I didn’t have much choice I couldn’t combat that Krawl with-.”

“I’m not mad, Jack. Sure I was surprised when I first noticed it, but I am actually glad that you did.” He said to him as he turned back around to look at him. To Jack’s surprise, Sun was actually glad instead of angry. “You did what was right. In fact, I think Leo here is better with you than me. Leo is a lion and your pride is like a lion… You don’t back down from anything you face.”

Jack then smiles and says “I suppose you're right and besides… if I hadn’t I wouldn’t have found Vilakroma in my Prizmod.” He then looks back toward the damage he caused then says “but even then, is it worth the damage I caused to stop just one enemy?”

“It doesn’t matter the damage on the outside,” The Faunus told him, his tail coming around and poking Jack with his tail. “Just don’t let them damage what’s important. What makes you who you are. Your pride can guide you, but it means that you can’t turn and run whenever you feel like it. You need to stand up and stand strong against whatever you face.”

“You know Sun… you are an amazing motivational speaker, I may not be able to defend everyone but I can’t just give up and let them win.” He then looks up to the sky through the hole in the wall Vilakroma made then says “Once Beacon is made, I would be honoured to teach people there, but I’d probably leave the theory to Jen, books always did my head in.”

“No worries… I was going to leave the science part to Jen… I was thinking that Combat Instructor would suit you better.” He said, looking at his Spectrobes and Jack. “You clearly know how to fight as a team. Some of the students there, once they pass their entrance exams, are paired up into groups of four. With a team of them being formed based on their initials. For example, RWBY is made up of Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladona, and Yang Xiao Long. Four… other people I know.”

“I was always a solo fighter back home, in team sports I’d always be the person to tried to take people on by myself… until one of my cousins help me understand the benefits of working as a team.” admits Jack.

“Both Solo and Team instructor then. Works for me…” The Stray Faunus said, smiling a little. “It may not be my place to say this… but if Kirito, Asuna or Craig were here… I think they would be proud of you for what you were able to achieve.” He then looked back in his pocket to find his token and sighed a little. “Even though I would like to stick around and chat, I need to get back to my world. I can’t ignore my own responsibilities.”

Jack then smiles and says “Well then good luck back home, I know you will be able to help everyone, heck you helped us both more than anyone else has in years.”

“Good to hear. Oh and also, you can use my token to stop by where I am anytime. If you just want to chat or start setting up once the school is ready. I’ll let you know when that day comes.” He assured them, taking his token as he created a rift using a little bit of his energy before stepping through. Leaving Jack and Jen with their Spectrobes, the Commander…

“JACK!!!”

And an angry Twilight.

“And time to face the consequences for my actions, I’ll see you around Sun, Spectrobe Trainer.” Before waving him off.

“I think you might want to go deal with that.” Commander Grant told Jack as he watched Sun disappear.

Jack then sighed and says “I suppose you're right.” He then turns around then asks Twilight “what’s wrong?”

“You are coming with me right now.” Twilight said as she grabbed Jack's ear and started to drag him away.

“I guess that leaves me to debrief the commander on what happened.” Jen sighed.

“Sorry Jen, I make it up to you eventually,” Says Jack as his Spectrobes disappear back into his Prizmod.

“I honestly feel bad for him.” Commander grant sighed, “So what can you tell me about what just happened?”

“Well, It all started when…” Jen started.

> Chapter 6
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“And where were you all night?” Jen asked Jack as he entered Sweetie Drops ship.

“With Twilight, Arguing about me messing up the headquarters” moaned Jack. “She also was asking me about Vilakroma and Leo.”

“Well, that makes me feel better.” Jen chuckled as she walked to the cockpit where Sweetie Drops was waiting.

“Anyhow Jen, Sun mention about us finding a way to train other to use Spectrobes, but I know we’d need more Prizmod and we can’t just give our token to everyone… we need to find a way to create them? Maybe get a copy of a Prizmod and you reverse engineer it?”

“I actually have already gotten started on that.” Jen said as she sat down in the chair next to Sweetie Drops, “But first, let's go fossil hunting. since we have some free time before our next mission.”

Jack then looks at Sweetie Drops and says “But where would you recommend we go to find the most fossils and minerals?”

“Well, people rarely go to Daipon so we would have the best luck starting there.” Sweetie Drops said as she prepped her ship for launch.

“Okey then Sweetie Drops, set course for Daipon.” says Jack.

She then smiles and says “Who’s the captain here?”

“yeah, sorry, got caught up in the moment” admits Jack as Jen giggled at his antics.

Seconds later Sweetie Drops smiled and said “No harm done, let's face it we’ve got to be ready for anything.” 

“You have no idea,” Jen said as she pulled Jack into the seat next to her before Sweetie Drops started the launch sequence.

Jack then smiles and says “let's get this party started.”

Sweetie Drops rolled her eyes at jack before she returned to looking at the controls and launched into space. a short flight later, via warp drive, and they were in orbit around planet Daipon.

“So what are we mainly searching for here, Fossils, Minerals or cubes?” asks Jack.

“Cubes?” Sweetie Drops said.

“The cubes aren't important right now, and I don't know if they exist here,” Jen said, “But we're here for fossils and minerals.”

“Okay so if any cube’s appear and I lose them it’s no big loss then. Got ya,” replies Jack.

“Seeing as there are practically hundreds of each version, yes,” Jen confirmed as the ship landed.

Jack then smiled and asks Jen “so what's the plan? stick to together or go our separate ways?”

“Well, we're obviously going to stick together,” Jen said.

“Okey then so where do you want to check first?” 

“Well, where's the best place to find stuff?” Jen said, “The mountains.”

“sounds like an idea” Jack then turns to Sweetie Drops then says “we will be back later if the commander calls just raise us on the communicator.”

She then smiles at us then says “If anything comes up, I'll contact you, just find what you can.”

“Alright, let's go!” Jen said as she walked out of the ship and onto the grassy plains of Daipon.

Once Jack got outside he turned to Jen and said, “Let's use Leo to make a beeline straight to the mountains, might as well get as much as we can from this venture.”

“It would be fun to ride an actual Spectrobe.” Jen muttered to herself, “Alright, But if we come across another mount type Spectrobe it's mine!”

“That's fair. let's face it, I have two teams as it is,” admits Jack.

Jen nodded in agreement before turning to face the mountains in the distance. “You ready Swift?” Jen asked her Apectrobe as it floated beside her.

Jack’s Prizmod then opened as Leo appeared next to him and he lowered his head as Jack says “you ready Jen?”

“whenever you are,” Jen replied as she crawls onto Leo’s back.

Jack then rubs the back of Leo’s head then says “Thanks, buddy” Jack then sits just in front of Jen then says “Leo can you take us to those mountains in the distance?”

Leo then nods his head as he begins to slowly move forwards as Jack says “You may want to hold on tight Jen.” causing her to hug him from behind. 

Jack blushed before saying “Leo, whenever you're ready” which caused the Spectrobe to bolt forwards, covering multiple metres faster than he could run with ease.





Once the group reached the mountains Jack and Jen crawled off of Leo before he went back into Jack's prizmod.

“Ok, let's start searching!” Jen said as she and Swift wandered off.

“Ok then, Let's hope there something around here” Seconds later Komainu appeared by Jack's side as he said “can you find any fossils around here buddy”

Komainu then stared at Jack before he ran towards the edge of the cliff and then started clawing at the ground. As Jack began to dig around the area where Komainu indicated and dug further into the ground he found what looked like a three-headed dragon, a fossil for the Spectrobe Grilda.

Jack then looked back to Komainu then said “good work, can you feel anything else around” He then quickly looked back down and carefully excavated the fossil.

Once I get it free I look around to see that there were multiple small holes in the ground with Komainu already digging another one.

As I walked towards another one of the holes I noticed that he’d already dug up to another fossil this one looking almost like a small beetle wearing platebody. As I began to dig more of it out I realised exactly what it was a fossil for a Samukabu.

I then pulled out my communicator then said “Jen you there?”

“Yes?” Jen replied over the communicator.

“Just checking up, you found much up to yet?” asks Jack.

“Um… I’ll let you see when we return to the ship. Just remember to store your fossils in your prizmod so that they don't weigh you down.” Jen said with a nervous chuckle before she turned off her communicator.

Jack then turns back to Komainu and says “we’re going to be in this for the long haul, best keep focused.” he then knelt back down and carefully removed the fossil he just uncovered from the ground before storing it in his Prizmod and moving on to the next hole.

After repeating the process multiple times, Jack had found a multitude of minerals, a few other fossils and by luck two cubes. However just before Jack left he saw two rectangular shaped objects resting against some rocks. as Jack picked them up he noticed that they were two input cards that contained Geos!

“Jack! What's taking you so long?” Jen said as she walked over.

“well, I’ve just found what looks to be Input cards.” replies Jack before saying “when would you like to meet” 

“I just finished. And I think we should start heading back to the ship.” Jen said as she looked towards the horizon to see abnormally large storm clouds heading in their direction.

“that can’t be good,” says jack before Leo appears beside him and he says “Leo we need to get back to the ship quickly.” 

Leo then nodded his head before lowering it as Jen and Jack climbed onto his back. Once they were seated, Leo started running back in the direction they came from earlier.

“Once we get to the ship we need to take off immediately, otherwise, we're going to have to wait that storm out!” Jen said as she contacted Sweetie Drops over her communicator and relayed the situation to her.

Sweetie Drops then shouted over the communicator “well you better be quick or we won’t be able to get away in time.”

“Were trying!” Jen shouted back as she turned her communicator back off before they reached the ship.

As they reached the ship Leo quickly jolted to a stop as Jen and Jack jumped off and Leo disappeared back into Jack’s Prizmod before they run onto the ship.

“I’ll go put away what we gathered, You go help Sweetie Drops get us out of here!” Jen said before running off to the lab with the fossils and minerals she and jack had collected.





“Wheres Jen?” Sweetie Drops asked.

“Dropping off everything, we found out there. She asked me to help you get us out of here,” replies Jack.

“Do you know how to fly?” Sweetie Drops asked.

“I wish I could say yes, for as smart as Jen is she doesn’t always think everything through.” admits Jack.

“Then I guess I will have to teach you. This would be a good time to practice seeing as I won't be with you guys all the time anymore once we get back.” Sweetie Drops Said as she moved to the copilot seat.

Jack then took a deep breath before sitting in the pilot seat then saying “Ok what do I need to do?”

“Have you driven any kind of vehicle before?” Sweetie Drops asked.

“Umm does learning to drive a car count?” asks Jack hopefully.

“If cars from where you come from are anything like our cars, then yes.” Sweetie Drops said before pushing some buttons that caused a steering wheel appear out of the control panel with a few buttons on the sides. She then proceeded to tell Jack what buttons do what. “Any questions?” she asked after her quick tutorial.

“Not about operating the ship.” replies Jack as he follows the instruction he was told to do to the letter as he manages to get the ship off the ground seconds before the storm hit the ship.

“You sure you have never flown one of these before?” Sweetie Drops asked as Jack managed to expertly maneuver the ship away from the planet with no problems.

“A ship… not a real ship no, in computer games, a lot.” jokes Jack.

“Then I’m impressed, you're a natural!” Sweetie Drops laughed as she pressed a few buttons causing the autopilot kick in, “Now let's go check on Jen.”

Jack smiles then says “That's probably a good idea.”

There was then the sound of an explosion as the ship shook.

Jack then fell to the floor as he said “What the? What just happened?”

“I don't know… It sounded like it came from-” Sweetie Drops started to say but was interrupted by a blood-curdling scream that sounded like Jen.

Jack then shot up and then began to run towards the lab following the scream.

“Crap! I'm going to have to take over from the autopilot.” Sweetie Drops said as she ran back to the cockpit and took the controls just in time before the autopilot failed from the internal ship damage.





As Jack reached the lab he saw that the place was trashed, there were fossils and minerals everywhere! and in the middle of the room was Jen, lying on the floor. He quickly ran over to her then began to shake her whilst saying “Jen, Jen wake up!” 

“J-jack? W-what… H-happened?” Jen said as she tried to get up, but winced in pain instead.

“Jen, just relax, you’re injured, don’t push yourself,” Jack said clearly worried for her wellbeing.

“I-I can't… F-feel the l-left half... Of m-my body…” Jen said as she gasped for breath.

“Just rest, Jen, we’ll get back to Equis and get you to a hospital, can you remember what happened here… anything at all?”

“The white Krawl… It escaped… But I think I defeated it…” Jen said before passing out again.

Jack then quickly grabbed his communicator then say “Sweetie Drops, we need to get back to Equis now… Jen is down and in critical condition, and we need to get her to a hospital. Now!” 

“What!? Ok, hold on tight!” Sweetie Drops Replied before activating the warp drive. A few moments later the ship warped right above PPP HQ and Sweetie Drops made a crash landing in front of the entrance.

Seconds after landing Jack shouted over the communicator “Where is the nearest hospital!”

“I'm contacting the commander!” Sweetie Drops replied. Moments later, an emergency response team arrived and put Jen on a stretcher before taking her to the medical wing of PPP HQ.

Jack then collapsed in the corner of the lab muttering “She can’t die… She can’t.”
> Chapter 7
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	“Sir? Are you Jack Burgin?” A female unicorn in a nurse outfit asked.

Jack then looks up then said, “Yes, Is she okay?”

“She was just let out of surgery, and the commander told us of you and her situation... so you have been permitted to see her.” The nurse said before leading Jack to Jen’s room.

Jack then took a deep breath and said “thank you” before he entered the room.

“Jack?” Jen called from the bed she was in.

“I’m here Jen, are you feeling better?” Jack asked warily. 

“I… Don't know…” Jen said nervously. The entire left half of her body, except for her leg, was covered in a cast. “Everything itches… And the doctors said there was something in me they couldn't remove…” She said as she scratched at the cast with her right hand.

“Did they have any idea what it could have been?" Jack asked before he continued to say "and Jen don’t bother scratching at it, it’ll just make it worse.” 

“They don’t know what it was,” Jen said as she gave up on scratching at the cast.

“I’m sorry Jen if I had gone and took everything back, you wouldn’t be like this… it’s my fault you're in this mess.” Jack muttered whilst looking towards the ground ashamed at what he had caused.

“It's not your fault, I’m actually glad I was the one who went to the lab instead of you… Otherwise, you would be in this bed right now, and I would probably be in a coma from you being hurt. Also, you are the better fighter and the Krawl won’t just sit and wait for you to get better.” Jen said as she placed her hand on Jack's cheek to comfort him.

“I know but… You are the part of me that gives me the courage to fight on, without you I’m just the little kid you met who was scared and alone.”

“But you have grown up since then, and become the fighter I rely upon to keep me going. I believe in you… I'm like the princess in the tower being guarded by a dragon and you are my prince. I will always be here for you, or waiting for you to come get me.” Jen said as she smiled weakly.

Jack then looks up and then asked Jen “Did you finish that prizmod you started on?”

“Just before the Krawl got out…” Jen chuckled as she grabbed her gauntlet off the nightstand and Showed off the pink custom prizmod that she had installed.

“So you managed to get yours upgraded as well… Jen, for now, I need you to stay here and rest, I’m going to get authorisation from the commander to let Sweetie Drops support me until you are better, then I’m going after the Krawl and obliterating them.” Jack said with anger in his voice.

“Don't rush in head first. Remember what happens when the hero does that?” Jen said as she booped Jack on the nose.

Jack then smiled before he muttered “they don’t normally survive long”

“Exactly,” Jen said, “Now go see the commander. I hear that he has something to tell you.”

Jack then sighs then says “Okay then.” He begins to walk back towards the door before turning around to say “Oh and Jen, I promise I’ll be back later.”

“Get going already so I can sleep!” Jen laughed/shouted as she threw a pillow at Jack.

Jack then laughed as he threw the pillow back at her then said “just get some rest” before he disappeared out the door.





As Jack walked down the hall he began to worry about what he could do, realising that he was now alone to fight the Krawl and had little hope of getting a partner to help him.

Once he got to Commander Grant’s office he slowly knocked on the door then walked in to see the commander sitting behind his desk, amazingly the room looked near perfect after the damage he caused earlier. Jack then looked towards the Commander then said “you wanted to see me.”

“Yes, I did.” Commander Grant said as he put down the papers he was going through, “First off, let me say that I’m glad that both you and Jen are ok. Now to the reason I called you here, Agent Sweetie Drops will not be able to attend to the two of you now because of the extra work caused by the Krawl recently. But I have good news, you will be instated your own ship upon Agent Sweetie Drops request.”

Jack then looked up and said “Thank you, although it’s going to feel weird being in that ship by myself… Jen isn’t in a state to move anywhere… I was going to request that I had some support until Jen gets better but I understand with how everything is at the moment that is impossible.”

“Well, according to the doctors, Jen should be fully recovered by the time you return from your next mission, Agent Jack.” Commander grant said with a smile as he handed Jack a pair of badges.

“You’re really trusting me, to be part of the team? Ain’t I a bit of a liability. Just look what I ending up doing to the headquarters?”

“If it weren't for you I wouldn't be here and there wouldn't be a PPP anymore.” Commander grant said, “If I didn't have to follow the rule book I would have already promoted you to captain and given you the badge of honor.” 

Jack then rubs his hands through his hair then admitted “I didn’t think I earned anything like that, all I was thinking about was the risk of more lives being ended, I don’t do this for my own gain, I do this to help those who can’t help themselves.”

“And that's exactly why you deserve this. No one in the PPP does it for themselves, we all do this to make our solar system a safe place for others to live in.” Commander Grant said with a sagely nod, “Now for your next mission, I want you to go to planet Zeba with Professor Sparkle. There is a dig site that was shut down for unknown reasons that she wants to investigate and with the Krawl going about she needs an escort.”

I then looked at the commander before saying “If I find any Krawl in gems from here on out I am destroying them… I don’t want anyone else suffering the same fate as Jen.”

“I agree with your opinion and will allow it, no matter how much Professor Sparkle will chew me out for it later.” Commander Grant agreed before dismissing Jack.

Jack then saluted the commander before walking out of the room to begin to find his new ship.





As Jack walked out of the headquarters he began to wonder what the new ship was going to be like.

As he walked towards the docking station he looked around all the ship, and as he walked by Sweetie Drops ship he began to think It’s going to feel weird not having her around.

“Oh, hey Jack.” Sweetie Drops said as she came out of her ship.

Jack then looked up then smiled before saying “Hi Sweetie, how you feeling.”

“I’m fine, I’m more worried about you and Jen!” Sweetie Drops said.

“Don’t be worried about me… I’m not the one in a half-body cast,” muttered Jack.

“yeah… Hey, I got most of your equipment, fossils and stuff that I could salvage from my wrecked ship and put them in your ship for you.” Sweetie Drops said as she walked over.

“Thank you… although I'm still trying to find the ship… and I've got the job of protecting Twilight for my next mission.” admitted Jack.

“Ouch, that's going to be difficult… Want me to look after Jen while you're gone?” Sweetie Drops asked as she chuckled at the memory of the last bodyguard mission she had done for the unicorn scientist.

“Got any pointers for me when dealing with her?” asked Jack hopefully.

“Don't let her leave your sight for a moment and don't get between her and a discovery. that's the best advice I can give ya.” Sweetie Drops replied as she rubbed the back of her head.

“Any advice is better than nothing… i’m not the best person alone and if she find another Krawl trapped in a crystal i’m destroying it and she can go and do one for all I care.” argued Jack.

“Yeash, what parasprite crawled under your skin?” Sweetie Drops said before leading Jack over to a ship, “And here's your ship.”





“thank you… and i’m sorry for being in such a bad mood, it’s just seeing Jen like that… scares me, she’s all I have left and I fear for her life.” admitted Jack.

“I’ll make sure to take real good care of her then loverboy.” Sweetie Drops laughed as she walked away.

Jack then looks over to her and shouted “Wait! Did you find a prizmod in your ship when you were moving everything?”

“Yeah, I left it in your ship's lab!” Sweetie Drops called back before she disappeared through the entrance to the PPP HQ.

Jack then turned back toward the ship as he walked inside and attempted to find the new lab.





“This should be the right place… I think?” Said twilight as she walked into Jack’s ship with a ton of equipment floating in her magical grasp behind her.

Seconds later Jack pops his head from behind a door and said “oh, hi Twilight” causing her to lose control of her magic momentarily and drop some of her equipment. He then walked over towards her and said “oops sorry about that.”

“Can you NOT do that! You almost gave me a heart attack!” Twilight shouted as she tried to re compose herself before gathering up what she droped.

“I could, but it’s not exactly easy for me to be happy with you right now” admits Jack.

“What did I do!?” Twilight said as she threw her arms into the air while glaring at Jack.

“The White Krawl you had us bring on the ship is the reason Jen was almost killed… so sorry if I’m a bit angry” explained Jack.

“Wait… Jen’s was almost killed? And the White Krawl has something to do with it?” Twilight asked.

“Yes we were on our way back from finding fossils when there was an explosion in the lab, when I got down she was lying in the centre of the room, she told me that White Krawl attacked her.” explained Jack before he said “I almost lost her… the one person I have left to care about, and if I had chose to destroy that Krawl when we found it, the whole thing would have never happened!”

“I’m sorry, I never thought this would happen… But that Krawl shouldn't have been able to escape without outside help…” Twilight explained as she donned a concerned expression.

Jack then sighed before he said “I’m sorry, I know it’s not your fault… it’s just I know I can’t blame anyone but I just felt like…. well if I didn’t I’d keep blaming myself.” I then realise what she said then continued to say “wait… did you say it couldn’t escape by itself?”

“The Krawl was completely immobilized by the crystal, so unless someone cracked it it shouldn't have been able to move. that and the crystal was so thick it couldn't use brute force to shatter it from inside… Why do you ask?” Twilight said.

“Because if the Krawl couldn’t get out someone else was on the ship that or Sweetie Drops or Jen did it themselves.”

“Well, having known Sweetie Drops for many years I can guarantee it wasn't her… And Jen seems like a very bright girl, so I can't see her doing something that stupid… Which leaves it to a third party that somehow got on the ship without Agent Drops knowing or setting off any of her ship's security systems.” Twilight said with a concerned tone as she set down her stuff.

“But even then to get past without triggering any alarms… they must have been recognised by the PPP database… right.”

“Not exactly, the security systems would have still reacted passively if someone it recognized had entered by alerting Sweetie Drops to their presence.” Twilight said.

Jack then sighed then says “I suppose for now we best get moving and make our way to Zeba.”

“We can bring this up with Sweetie Drops and the Commander when we get back, don't worry.” Twilight said before picking up her stuff again, “Now where's the lab? I have equipment to set up!”

“The lab is where I was before I scared you… once again sorry for that” replied Jack whilst he scratched the back of his head.

“I forgive you,” Twilight said before going onto the Lab to set up her equipment.

“Thanks… I’ve just thought we’re the only ones on the ship during this mission, right?” says Jack.

“Yeah? what about it?” Twilight asked as she started installing some of her equipment and repaired some of Jen's old equipment that had been damaged in the explosion.

“Well if someone snuck in before, they could do it again and this time, there's nobody around to notice.” admitted Jack.

“Hmm, that would be a problem… I’ll see what I can do.” Twilight said as she continued working.

Jack turned and looked at the Prizmod Jen made as a prototype for her own, then said “Twilight, if you're traveling with me, i’d like you to have this” as he reached for the Prizmod on the table.

“Hm? what is it?” Twilight asked as she finished installing her equipment.

Jack then smiles and says “A Prizmod, we need all the help we can get.”

“You mean the device you use to summon those creatures you use to fight?” Twilight asked as she gained a glint in her eye.

“Don’t think of the Spectrobes are creatures, they are companions. But yes it is that device,” explained Jack.

“Cool…” Twilight said as she walked over, “So am I going to end up having to fight?”

“In the end that’s up to you… but I would be glad to have a friend by my side.” admitted Jack

“Then I will try my best… Do you mind if I keep this to try and make more for the rest of the PPP officers?” Twilight said as accepted the prizmod from Jack.

“To be honest with you this is the prototype Jen made before… ‘it’ happened, and for the moment I want them just going to people we trust; that being you and Sweetie Drops.”

“Fine…” Twilight relented as she attached the prototype prizmod to her wristband.

“well… before we head off shall we sort you out a Spectrobe of your own?” asked Jack.

“Wait, I get one already?” Twilight asked, confused on how this works.

“Not much point in having a Prizmod without a Spectrobe is there.” Jack said whist smiling as he walked towards the computer. 

“Well, what Spectrobe would you recommend for me then? I heard a bit from Sweetie Drops about how this stuff works so no need for a tutorial.” Twilight said as she approached one of the lab computers she had repaired.

“Well… we normally work with what you are like… for example with Sun he’s fast so we gave him a Spectrobe that could keep up with him.” explained Jack.

“Oh, um… then do you have any Spectrobes that are good at maneuvering around?” Twilight asked, trying to think of what would be most compatible with her magic.

Jack then looked through the fossils that they found then says “well we do have Aoi… I’d say he’s quite maneuverable.” Jack then opens his prizmod as a small bird appears beside him, He then smiled and said “this is an Aoi” as it perched on his shoulder.





“So… Cute!” Twilight gushed as she looked at the small bird spectrobe.

“Yeah, this little guy would possibly be a good fit for you,” admitted Jack whist pulling out a fossil that looked similar to Aoi and handing it to Twilight.

“So… I just put it in here…” Twilight muttered as she put the fossil into the computer before calling out to it three times and awakening it, “Woah… I so wish I could find out how they do that!”

“It’s a mystery to me as well Twilight… oh by the way the Prizmod you have only allows you to have one spectrobe out at a time,” explained Jack.

“That's fine with me, I don't plan on doing combat anyway. And if I ever do convince you to let me reproduce them then it would make a good limiter should they fall into the wrong hands.” Twilight said as she hugged her Aoi.

“Well then Twilight… Should start to make our way to Zeba?” asked Jack calmly.

“Oh! I almost forgot about that! Yes, let's go.” Twilight chuckled nervously before running off to the cockpit.

“well, this is going to be an interesting mission.” admited Jack before following Twilight towards the Cockpit.
> Chapter 8
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	As Jack and Twilight approached the planet Jack noticed that the whole planet was split in half straight through the middle and the two halves were far enough apart to fly a small ship through. this is more impressive looking than in the game! He thought before turning to Twilight and saying “this is different to what I expected.”

“Same, it's more impressive in person than in the photographs…” Twilight agreed as she stared at the planet in awe.

“So seeing that I’m your chauffeur, for now, where do you want to go?” asked Jack.

“Well, first stop would be the mines. Might as well get work out of the way before we go exploring.” Twilight said as she teleported a bag full of scrolls of paper to her.

“I thought the job was to explore?” said Jack in confusion.

“Explore and find out what happened at the mine.” Twilight corrected.

“Okay then so land on the main planet first… Do you know where the main colony is?” asked Jack hopefully.

“It should be on one of these maps…” Twilight said as she rummaged through the bag of scrolls until she finally pulled one out. “It should be right around here…” she said as she pointed to a point on the map.

As soon as Jack looked at the map he grabbed hold of the wheel then began to head towards the colony shown on the map.





Once they landed on the planet Jack turned to Twilight then said “Okay then what exactly do we need to do whilst we're here?”

“First we need to see if we can find any trace of the workers or what happened to them, and then we need to see if we can find the artifact they uncovered,” Twilight said as she stuffed the map back into her bag.

“Okay then” replied Jack as Aoi appears beside him and he says “can you scout around and look for the workers, buddy?”

Jack’s Aoi then flew high into the air and disappeared as he began searching around.

“You ready to go searching around?” Twilight asked.

“Just wait a second for Aoi to come back then we'll have at least some idea of what's going on around here” replied Jack as he heard Aoi overhead before it landed on his shoulder.

“So what did he find then?” Twilight asked impatiently.

Jack then looked towards Aoi and then said “seems there're a few people around but they're all in one location… everything seems dead for some reason.” Jack explains to Twilight.

“That… Can't be good…” Twilight said with a shudder.

“let's not think about that for now… we’ll just focus on finding out what happened,” admitted Jack.

“Yeah… Let's do that…” Twilight said as she tried to compose herself.

Jack then nods his head before saying “Okay then let's move”

As they walked they stopped occasionally to excavate a few fossils and minerals for a while until they reached the mine. But the scene that they found at the mine… Let's just say, it wasn't pleasant...

“Who could do something like this…” Twilight said in horror before throwing up at the pile of dead ponies in the center of the town where the miners lived.

“Twilight stay close… whatever did this isn’t any Krawl that I know of they wouldn’t pile the bodies up like that.” said Jack… “that makes this either done by a clean up crew after an attack or by a group of survivors for some reason I don’t know off.” 

“Clean up crew? What kind of clean up crew would pile up dead bodies!?” Twilight asked.

“Back in the middle ages it was common for bodies to be left like that… it’s not pretty but it happened.” admitted Jack. He then continues to say “What do you think happened Twilight?”

“I-I don't know… this is the first time something like this has been seen in our solar system…” Twilight said as she averted her eyes, “I-I’m going to go search the houses… C-can you bury them in the meantime?”

“I’ll do my best Twilight… but if you find anything… or something happens, get in contact with me.” Jack said as Komainu and Leo appeared by him. He then looked at Twilight and says “and take my sword… at least you’ll be able to defend yourself if something happens.”

“I’m good, I have my blaster,” Twilight said as she pulled out what looks like some kind of laser pistol before wandering into the first house.

Jack then sighed then said “Well then guys we need to get some burials done… Let's get started.” With that Leo and Komainu began to dig a large hole as Jack began to look over the bodies and try to see what cause the deaths.

Once Leo and Komainu had finished digging a few holes I walked over to the pile of dead bodies and then began to carefully lowered the bodies into the graves one by one. 

Once the graves had been filled he grabbed his communicator and then said “how are things on your end Twilight?”

“I have managed to search half the houses but I couldn't find much, but most of the houses are wrecked so there was certainly a struggle,” Twilight replied over the communicator, “Wait… I think I found something!”

“What have you found Twilight?” askedJack

“It might be part of the artifact they found… I’m coming back.” Twilight responded over the communicator.

“Okay then I'll see you soon.” Jack replied as the communicator went silent and he recalled Leo.

A short while later Twilight came back and she was holding what looked like a tablet with three empty slots in it. “So now that we have the artifact, and we have a vague idea of what happened what do we do now?” She asked as her Aoi flew beside her.

“Well I'd say we head to one of the moons and see if we can find anything there or we report back to Equis, but I'm just the escort here I'm just following your orders.” admitted Jack

“Well, We can check out the moons if you want. But it might be dangerous because of the appearance of the Krawl… That and the absurd levels of gravity on the moon's.” Twilight explained.

Jack then looked up and said “well… I think we should contact the commander and get new orders then… don’t really want to crash this ship on the first day of having it.”

“Ok then.” Twilight said before turning around and heading back to the ship with Jack in tow.





As Jack and Twilight reached the ship they sat down in the cockpit and contacted the commander.

“Hows your progress on the mission?” Commander grant asked over the communicator.

“Well… it’s completed but… well.” Jack said hesitantly.

“You can make your report when you get back if you feel uncomfortable, for now just return to base.” Commander Grant said.

“It’s not that commander… when we got there it was quiet… we did find the miners but… they were all dead. They were put in a pile and left to rot.” admitted Jack.

“... That… Is troubling… There seems to be an entity other than just the Krawl for us to worry about now it seems... “ Commander Grant said, “Get back to base as soon as possible then, we will decide our next move when you return.”

“Okay commander we will be back soon,” said Jack before the feed cuts.

“Alright, let's get out of here. I don't want to be seen by whatever did that to the miners.” Twilight said as she sat in the copilot seat.

Jack then smiled as he started prepare the ship for launch and then began to fly away from the planet. But to both him and Twilight's surprise a wormhole opened in their path and they were sucked though.





As Jack and Twilight exited the wormhole they looked towards each other in confusion. Jack asked, “Twilight, what just happened?”

Twilight shook her head and replied, “We were just pulled through a wormhole of some sort- by all rights we should be dead right about now.”

Jack looked out the window to see what looked like a destroyed town along with what appeared to be the remains of a large structure of some kind. Jack then looked back to Twilight with a worried look, “Whatever happened here, it must have been big… This definitely isn’t our world.”

Twilight stared back at Jack in surprise then shouted, “How is this not our world!?”  

“I think we were just pulled to another Displaced’s world, similar to what happened with Sun when he came to ours,” answered Jack.

“So we’re in another world, with no way to get back?” Twilight asked fearfully.

Jack smiled, “There will be a way back… but we may need whoever it was that Displaced us to help.”

“So land the ship so we can find them and get home!” Twilight hastily shouted.

“I’m on it, just relax and I’ll get us down,” Jack muttered as he slowly brought the ship to land near the remains of the large structure.

As the ship finally landed and the ramp extended the purple anthro-unicorn was the first to step out of the ship. “This place looks like a warzone… Jack have your Prizmod on standby, we don’t want to be ambushed!” she called back towards the ship.

“I’m already ahead of you Twilight.” Jack replied as he carefully surveyed the area around them.

Wreckage. Nothing more than smoldering wreckage with the occasional lump of misshapen, somehow unburned rubble to round out the collection. Far in the distance lay a vast swathe of billowing white fabric- likely a camp of some sort. Behind the ship lay the ruins of what appeared to be a crystal castle, great chunks of material still flaking and sloughing off from the larger mass.

Jack then turned to Twilight and said “I think our best bet to figure out what happened would be to go to whatever those tents are for over there… there maybe some people there who can help.”

Just then, a pair of beings slid to a halt before Twilight and Jack, both feminine, one with red armor, the other with blue. The female in red had a horn much like a rhinoceros beetle while her blue companion wore the horns of a stag beetle.

“Who are you, and what are your intentions?” the red one asked, smoothly moving into a defensive crouch. The blue one remained silent, mirroring her companion’s position.

“I’m Jack and this is Twilight, I am a Displaced, we think someone found my token and called us here.” Jack said calmly.

“Oh my gosh! an unknown species of alien!” Twilight gushed.

The blue one tilted her head, “Token? Displaced? The hell is that?”

“Haruka!” the red one snapped, smacking her companion on the shoulder.

“Ow! What’s your problem, Natsumelon!?” Haruka hissed, rubbing her shoulder.

“Stop calling me that!”

“Do you want us to wait for you to deal with whatever argument you are having?” inquired Jack.

Natsumi halted, “Oh, shit, right, sorry. Um…. Wait, you said her name is Twilight?” She pointed at Twilight hesitantly, not quite sure what to make of an lavender anthro-unicorn.

“Yes, my name is Twilight. Why do you ask?” Twilight said, snapping out of her excitement.

Natsumi shook her head, “Because there’s already a Twilight living in the refugee camp past the wreckage… and she’s a three foot tall lavender unicorn with wings.”

“My sister here was just wondering why you didn’t have wings,” Haruka spoke up.

“No I wasn’t!” Natsumi insisted, stomping her foot in a fit of petulance.

Jack sighed then grabbed his Prizmod from his arm and asked, “Did you find an object that looks like this?”

Natsumi held up her own Prizmod and gave it a little shake, “Yeah, just fell out of the air. What is this anyway?”

“My Token, it’s basically a calling card for Displaced, we’re humans who were send to another reality.” explains Jack.

“Ooohhhhh,” Haruka made a noise of realization, then elbowed Natsumi. “Hey, we’re humans too. What happened to you? We got dropped two thousand years ago after buying some shit from a convention.”

Natsumi nodded, “It really, really sucked.”

“Well... I went to a gaming convention, and then once I won the tournament that was based on Spectrobes I was given a letter by a strange man. Next thing I know, me and my girlfriend got sent to our reality,” explained Jack.

Haruka tapped her chin, “.... Maybe I’m just looking at a ridiculously small sample size here… but do most Displaced end up being Displaced at a convention of some kind….?”

Jack shrugged his shoulders then replied, “To be fair I don’t know I’ve only met one other Displaced and I think he was Displaced at a convention.”

Natsumi nodded, then rolled her neck as the metal beetle on her belt flew away. As her armor dissolved into shards and flecks of energy, she extended a hand. “Well, regardless, it’s nice to meet you anyway.”

“Darn… they're just humans... maybe I can learn more about their species?” Twilight silently muttered to herself.

Haruka’s armor did likewise, the blue stag beetle flying off to join its red rhinoceros beetle companion in the distance. “Say….” she muttered, “How the hell does one actually make a Token anyway?”

“Well if I remember correctly you need to find an object that relates to you, with me it was my Prizmod, and then you’d usually add a message for anyone who finds your token to identify it as yours,” explained Jack.

Natsumi sighed, “That might be a problem…”

“We have like nothing to us except our transformation items, our clothes, and our phones,” Haruka finished.

“You won’t need to worry about that when you go to send your tokens out you keep the original… you think I would have chosen my Prizmod if I didn’t get it back?” replied Jack.

“Why don't they try making something that represents them?” Twilight suggested.

Haruka snapped her fingers, “I was just about to say that myself!”

“No, you weren’t,” Natsumi back-sassed.

“Shut up I totally was!” Haruka protested.

“Guys focus, you’re acting like a pair of spoilt children.” sighed Jack disappointedly.

Haruka rolled her eyes, “Well excuse me for having an annoying twat for a sister.”

“Pot, meet kettle,” Natsumi muttered.

“I’ll be on the ship if you need me...” Twilight sighed before putting up her notebook and walking back into the ship.

“She seems disappointed,” Natsumi noted.

Haruka shrugged, “Maybe she needs to use the bathroom? Anyway, what do you think we should make, Natsumelon?”

“Your guess is as good as mine.”

“No, she’s disappointed… human’s are myths where I come from, we’re supposed to be smart and then she sees the opposite… would you be any different?” asked Jack sadly.

“.... So you think we’re not intelligent because we argue like normal sisters….?” Natsumi stared coolly at Jack, an odd twitch coming to her eye.

Haruka shook her head, speaking in a dramatic tone with her hand pressed to her forehead, “No no, of course, the beings you’ve known for less than ten minutes can’t be at all smart because they squabble with each other.”

“That's not what I meant… she’s comparing you to my girlfriend who reverse engineered a Prizmod in less than a day… she expected that we were smart, creative and mostly above acting like children. As I said she expected the myths to be accurate for every human, which I know isn’t right, but she doesn’t.” Jack explained.

“Wow, your Twilight is kind of an idiot,” Haruka muttered.

“Be polite, Haruka,” Natsumi sighed.

“She more or less implied that we’re idiots- wait, did it ever occur to her that she’s in a separate fucking dimension, so the myths don’t fucking apply?” Haruka’s face contorted into a delightful mix of indignation and confusion, along with a heaping mix of condescension and surprise.

Natsumi was silent for a few telling moments until, “.... Yeah, she kind of is an idiot if she didn’t take that into account.”

“You do realize she thought that the whole thing was impossible… we came through a wormhole and she’s a scientist. She didn’t think it was 	possible to survive that, at most she thinks we’re in a separate solar system, where the myth would still apply,” admitted Jack.

“..... Idiot purple one aside, Haruka, what should we make?” Natsumi poked Haruka in the shoulder, prompting a shrug and a quick noise of indecision from Haruka.

“How the hell should I know?” Haruka asked.

Natsumi tapped her chin, “Hey, how about the Kamen Rider Scouts medal?”

“... I barely even remember what that looks like,” Haruka muttered.

“Well, we could- Duck!” Natsumi shouted suddenly, dragging Haruka and Jack down as numerous explosions went off around them, throwing up a wave of dust and smoke.

“The fuck was that!?” Haruka coughed, trying to peer through the dust clogging the air.

“Those bastards from yesterday must have had backup!” Natsumi answered, finally spotting their assailant through the dust.

Jack then look towards the assailant nervously before asking Haruka, “Friends of yours?”

Haruka looked over and groaned, “The fuck do you think?”

“Shit, that’s Tiger-Roid…” Natsumi whispered, staring at the tiger-man with shock.

“WHO CAUSED THAT EXPLOSION!?” Twilight screamed as she hurried out of the ship.

“Get the fuck back now!” Natsumi shouted, covering her head as more explosions rang out, courtesy of the massive cannon growing out of Tiger-Roid’s back.

“Gwahahahaha!” the tiger-man cyborg cackled, launching more explosive bullets from his artillery.

“Oh? You think scaring me half to death is FUNNY!?” Twilight shouted at Tiger-Roid, her eye twitching.

“Only half? I’ll have to fix that!” Tiger-Roid cackled, bending over and aiming his cannon right at Twilight, its barrel filling with an ominous crimson light.

“Pathetic insect, you messed with the wrong scientist,” Twilight hissed as she teleported into the ship before whirring and clanking noises began sounding out. Moments later, two panels folded away from the top of the ship before a turret rose out of the hole and turned to aim at Tiger-Roid.

Jack then glared angrily at Tiger-Roid before shouting, “You will not shoot my ship!” His Prizmod opened and a large creature that looked like a samurai wearing purple and red armor appeared beside him.

Tiger-Roid simply roared out his challenge and made to fire, that is until an arcing bolt of blue energy slammed into the ship from behind the rubble.

“Oh what the fuck now!?” Haruka screamed, slamming down her Gatack Zecter and transforming.

Natsumi paused halfway through preparing her own transformation, “Wait… was that a…. Rider… Shooting…?” With a panicked look upon her face, she rushed through her own transformation, leaving her and Haruka back in the same armor they had come in.

The turret fired a shot at Tiger-Roid before spinning around to see who fired on the ship and prepared to fire on them also.

There stood a figure in blue and white armor, distinctively dragonfly themed, with a very odd gun leveled at the ship. With a palpable smirk, the figure pulled back the pull tab on the back of his gun and, strangely enough, disappeared as soon as it slapped a button attached to the side of its hip.

Moments later, an explosion went off inside the barrel of the turret, as the same figure appeared atop the cockpit of the ship.

“Shit, it actually is Drake!” Natsumi shouted, turning to Haruka and rushing off with a blur of red and vanishing.

Haruka cursed and shook her head, until she too vanished with a, “Clock up!”

Hissing angrily, Tiger-Roid began firing his own barrage at Jack, having easily dodged the plasma shot and uncaring that his backup had gotten into a brutal two-on-one fistfight at lightspeed.

Jack then began to flinch away, however just before the barrage hit him the samurai jumped in front of Jack protecting him from the blast before running towards Tiger-Roid.

“Graaah! Die die die!” Tiger-Roid roared, his barrage becoming more and more intense, with each bullet becoming larger with each shot.

Exceed Charge

A quiet, mechanical voice rang out as a purple bolt of energy raced out from behind a pile of still smoking rubble, directly at Jack.

Jack then quickly turned around, but only noticed the bolt seconds before it struck him whilst being unable to avoid it in time. Immediately, a massive purple cone of energy formed around the impact point, holding him in place and allowing Tiger-Roid to walk up behind Jack and jam the barrel of his cannon right into the middle of Jack’s back, a loud whine building up as the tiger-man charged a shot.

“Well well well… another human….” a new voice called out, a man in black and white, delta themed armor stalking into view. “Too bad you were just a momentary distraction before I take out those two bitches currently giving my partner a hard time.”

“Get away from Jack!” Twilight shouted as she stepped out of the ship, covered in soot and her hair all over the place, before she started firing her blaster at Tiger-Roid and the new guy.

“Hmph!” the new man darted back behind cover while Tiger-Roid released the massive bolt of energy he had charged up at Twilight, running away as the cone sticking out of Jack dissipated into harmless sparkles and faded away.

Jack then quickly grabbed his sword from his side and spun backward as he struck one of Tiger-Roids cannons before he shouted, “Samurite now!” Jack jumped out the way as the Spectrobe struck him three times with the blades on it’s arms.

Tiger-Roid stumbled, sparks flying as Samurite slashed him, then tucked into a sideways roll and leapt behind a pile of rubble. Immediately after, Kamen Rider Drake all but flew out of thin air and slammed into the ground, sparking wildly with crackles of electricity until he exploded, his gun and Drake Zecter flying into Haruka’s outstretched arms.

“Score!” she crowed, holding up her loot with utmost victorious joy.

Natsumi slid to a halt beside Haruka and looked to where Delta and Tiger-Roid had disappeared behind the rubble, “We’re not done yet, sis. We still have two more to go.”

“Damn, I know Tiger bastard’s still there, who else?” Haruka slipped both items into the peculiar Rider Hammerspace behind her back, then searched around for any signs of movement.

“Delta,” Natsumi muttered, eyes narrowed behind the lenses of her helmet.

“Shiiiit….” Haruka sighed.

Natsumi turned to Jack, “Hey, you alright?”

“Thanks to Twilight,” Jack then pointed towards Delta, “Is that other guy one of you?”

Natsumi shook her head, “If he tried to kill you, no. The only time Kamen Riders attack innocents for any reason is if they’re brainwashed or evil. Well that, or if said innocent is another Kamen Rider… funny how that always happens….”

“Well do you want to deal with him and we’ll handle the Tiger?” Jack joked.

Haruka nodded, “That’d probably be for the best. Kamen Riders are best fought by other Riders.”

“Be careful,” Natsumi warned as both of them sped away to search for the errant gunman, leaving Jack and Twilight to deal with Tiger-Roid.
> Chapter 9
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	“Well, this should be interesting?” Twilight said as she limped over to Jack.

“Twilight I know I said we’d do this, but pass me your gun and then stay in the ship. You're injured and won’t be able to dodge his blasts,” ordered Jack.

“I’m not leaving, I have a dissection lined up for that insect!” Twilight all but screamed before going into a coughing fit.

“You try to fight him, he will kill you Twilight. Get into the ship, that’s an order! If you want to help, use the turrets, but trying to fight him will get you killed!” shouted Jack.

“The main turret is offline, remember?” Twilight deadpanned as she grudgingly gave Jack her blaster and started to limp back in the direction of the ship.

Jack then turns around to look for Tiger-Roid and muttered “Now then, let's do this.” Seconds later Windora appeared beside Samurite as he held his sword in his right hand whilst holding Twilight's blaster in his left before he shouted, “Windora, blow away the rubble!” Seconds later small tornadoes appeared in front of Windora and headed towards two separate piles of rubble blowing the pile away instantly before turning towards a separate set.

Immediately, Tiger-Roid popped out from behind a still intact pile of rubble and fired a barrage of energy projectiles into the air, causing them to rain down around Jack while Tiger-Roid himself ran in for close combat.

Jack then shouted “Samurite!” before the Spectrobe charged towards Tiger-Roid once again before attempting to slash at him, whilst this happened Jack’s hand that was holding the gun began to shake uncontrollably as he attempted to hold it level.

Tiger-Roid took the hits, each slash resulting in a spray of sparks, then returned with a set of fierce slashes with his claws, all the while charging a massive attack in his back artillery.

Jack then noticed this and yelled, “Windora Voltronica!” With that, Windora turned around then proceeded to charge towards Tiger-Roid using the jets on its arms to quickly propel itself forwards before hitting Tiger-Roid head on.

“Gwargh!” Tiger-Roid roared, releasing its attack early and sending a massive ball of energy into the air, along with shredding its back cannon. As the energy ball reached its apex, it exploded, raining burning plasma down upon the wreckage of the town.

Jack then glared at Tiger-Roid before Samurite charged towards Tiger-Roid. The Spectrobe swung both its blades towards Tiger-Roid at the same time.

Tiger-Roid stumbled back from the blow, sparking intensely until he finally fell backwards and exploded, roaring one final time as he died.

“Hey, you alright?” Natsumi called out to Jack, sliding to a halt in front of him.

“I’ll live,” admitted Jack before slowly standing up, “He was a bit of a pain to deal with, though.”

Haruka rolled her shoulders, “Kamen Rider villains tend to be like that every once in a while.”

Natsumi nodded, “So, that’s done with minimal property damage to what’s left. Now, what?

“Well, I don’t know… maybe check that everyone in the camp is okay?” proposed Jack.

“Makes sense. Let’s go, Haruka,” Natsumi waved Haruka over and the both of them sped off, leaving a trail of dust behind them.

“Bye~!” Haruka called back as she left.

Jack then sighed as he recalled Windora and Samurite before shouting, “Twilight, you want to head to the camp?”

“Cant! Fixing the ship!” Twilight called back in a slightly annoyed tone.

Jack sighed before walking into the ship and placing her blaster on the side, saying, “Thank you for letting me borrow it.” Jack then turned around and walked back out of the ship as Leo appeared beside him, bowing his head.

Jack walked over to him, “Let's go to the camp, buddy.”

Leo nodded his head as they ran towards the camp in the distance.

Seconds later, Jack arrived in front of everyone before he jumped off Leo’s back while asking, “Was everyone here okay?”

“Yeah, they’re all okay,” Natsumi replied, then waved over at Twilight. “Twilight, meet Jack. Jack, Twilight.”

Haruka chuckled, “Play nice.”

Jack then sighed before saying, “It’s a pleasure to meet you Twilight.”

Twilight stuck out her hoof and smiled up at Jack, “The pleasure is all mine, Jack. So, you’re from another dimension, correct? I’d love to know what that’s like- would you mind me asking a few questions?”

“Yes, that is correct. And I’ll answer your questions depending on what you ask,” replied Jack inquisitively as he wondered what she wanted to know.

“Excellent! Come with me, please!” Twilight smiled brightly and began walking away towards one of the larger tents in the camp.

Jack then recalled his Spectrobe before slowly following Twilight.

Twilight levitated a clipboard in front of her as she prepared to take notes, “Alright, please state your full name, gender, age, species, and occupation, please.”

“Jack Burgin, male, eighteen, human and I’m a patrol officer for the PPP,” Jack replied calmly.

“Excellent! So, what’s your dimension like? Is there an Equestria? Are all of the inhabitants there like you or are there ponies as well?” Twilight began rattling off questions with abandon, clearly already having prepared a checklist beforehand.

“Well, yes there is an Equestria but it’s not like this; from what I’ve seen of it since my arrival it mainly consists of the headquarters for the PPP, all of the inhabitants look similar to me but I haven’t seen any ponies that look similar to you… although I have met my version of you,” explained Jack.

“You keep saying PPP…. what exactly is the PPP?” Twilight questioned, arching a brow with interest.

“The PPP stands for ‘The Pony Planetary Patrol’ were basically a police force that looks after the civilians in our solar system,” Jack replied calmly whilst trying to remember the required information.

Twilight blinked, “Your dimension has colonized your solar system!? Amazing! What level of technology do you have?”

“Well did you see the ship that was in the sky earlier on?” asked Jack hopefully.

Twilight stared, “.... There was a ship?” Then she shook her head, “Never mind that, what was this about an alternate version of myself?”

“Ah yes, The alternate version of you is a Unicorn and is one of the top scientists in the PPP,” clarified Jack.

“So she’s still a unicorn…” Twilight muttered, scribbling down notes at a feverish pace. “Describe to me everything you can about your ship, please.”

Jack then smiled and says “it would probably be easier to show you.” He then grabs his communicator before saying “Twilight would you be able to bring the ship nearer to the camp?”

“You sure? We don't want any civilians to panic.” Professor Sparkle responded over the communicator.

“well considering they saw the explosions from the fight and I'm guessing the ruins we are parked by was their town… I doubt it could be much worse.” admits Jack.

“Fine, but any panicking civilians will be blamed on you!” Professor Sparkle replied before the communicator shut off.

Jack turned to Twilight, “Once we’re finished with the interview my ship should be nearby, I’ll show you around it.”

“Really!?” Twilight’s eyes sparkled with manic scientific glee, her mind already running wild with thoughts of what could be on the ship.

“Shall we continue with the interview?” asked Jack hopefully.

Twilight shook her head, “Right, yes, um, next question…”





“Hey, Haruka?”

“Yeah, Natsumi?”

“Why’s Jack’s ship coming over here?”

“Probably because Twilight wants to see it.”

“Good point.”

“Always.”

The pair watched Jack’s ship slowly rise and settle down near the edge of camp, prompting curious and suspicious looks from many of the townsponies, but not much else other than a general air of tension.

Twilight had poked her head out when the sound of the ship’s engines reached her ears and was currently rushing towards the ship, dragging Jack behind her.

Natsumi and Haruka, both being curious, decided to examine the ship as well.

Once everyone got inside the ship, Twilight let Jack go as he muttered, “You didn’t have to drag me here, I can walk.”

“Yes, but you were being too slow and- ooh, what’s this?” Twilight immediately darted over to the nearest piece of technology she didn’t recognize and began poking at it to see what it was.

Behind her, Natsumi and Haruka giggled and walked up to Jack. “Hey, how do we even make Tokens? We have an idea of what we wanna make,” Natsumi asked, quirking an eyebrow at Jack.

Jack sighed before muttering, “One second.” He then pulled out his communicator before saying “Twilight, would you mind looking after this world's Twilight for me.”

“Coming!” Professor Sparkle shouted as she ran over, “Where is she? I have so many questions for her!”

Jack then smiles as he points towards one of the machines near the wall before chuckling “over there… play nice.”

Twilight then ran over to her winged counterpart and shut the door behind her.

Jack then turned back to Natsumi and Haruka before saying “Sorry about that… anyway, what do you have in mind to use as your Token?”

Natsumi held up two wooden fragments, “Well, we were planning on carving these into little tablets with our symbols on them.”

Haruka nodded, “Sort of like a club pin or whatever. It’s cooler than it sounds.”

“I bet it does, anyway, once you’ve got them ready you need to add a message or phrase into it to tell others who you are and how to activate it,” explained Jack.

“Right… Hmm….” Haruka shot a sneaky look over to Natsumi, who grinned back and snickered.

“Oh yeah, there’s a really good phrase that we’re using….” Natsumi barely held back full blown laughter as she and Haruka wandered away into the depths of the ship for a bit of privacy.

Jack then shook his head in disappointment before saying, “If you’re willing to joke about her not knowing what to say, you’d better have a phrase planned already.” 





As they got into the lab Jack walked towards a nearby computer before Jack said “This is the ship's main lab, I don't really stay here much if I'm honest, but we basically use this area for awakening our Spectrobes.”

“Fascinating…” Natsumi murmured, looking around at the lab with awe on her face.

Haruka tapped her chin, “Y’know, you keep mentioning Spectrobes n’ stuff, but like… what even really is a Spectrobe?”

Jack then tapped his chin and asked, “Well do you remember the creatures that I was fighting alongside earlier?”

“Not particularly,” Natsumi admitted, “We were a little busy with our own thing.”

“Yeah, apparently fighting at lightspeed gives you hella tunnel vision,” Haruka chimed in.

“Okay then, fair point,” Jack admitted as a small, yellow and blue bird appeared on his right shoulder as he continued, “This is a Aoi, he’s one of my child level Spectrobes.”

Natsumi blinked, “.... It’s a yellow and blue bird-”

“-And it’s name is Aoi?” Haruka finished. “That literally translates-”

“-To ‘Blue’....” Natsumi stared at the Aoi with a frown. “.... Did you name these things or…?”

“No, Aoi was the name he was dubbed in the English version of the game, I chose not to change it because it was simple to remember,” conceded Jack.

Natsumi and Haruka made faces of realization and spoke in unison, “Ohhh… that makes sense.”

Jack walked over to the side of the room before returning with a fossil in his hands, “This is a fossil of a Spectrobe… specifically Ryza.” He placed the fossil into a nearby screen that it disappeared into almost like the screen was made of water.

“So… what’re you doing with it right now?” Natsumi asked. Haruka was leaning in closer to see just what Jack was doing.

“Well, this is the process to awaken a Spectrobe,” He explained before a low pitch whistle could be heard and until seconds later when a small blue cat like creature appeared in a flash of light from where the fossil was only seconds before.

“Whoa!” Haruka exclaimed, rushing over to the creature and examining it from all angles.

Natsumi chuckled, “Don’t smother it, Haruka.”

Jack smiled as he walked back towards the other side of the room. He returned carrying four green rectangular minerals, saying, “I need to feed him these minerals, then he’ll grow into his next evolution.” Jack slowly fed Ryza the four minerals and the Spectrobe began to shine before being surrounded by what seemed like an egg. A moment later he pulled out something that resembled a pen.

“Eh? What’s that?” Natsumi asked.

Jack asked inquisitively, “Are you referring to the egg or the pen?” as he carefully placed egg back in the computer.

“The pen,” Natsumi answered.

“The egg,” Haruka piped in at the same time.

“.... Both, I suppose,” Natsumi acquiesced.

“Okay. The egg is the form Spectrobes go to whenever they evolve. There are three stages: child, adult, and evolved. The pen is used when they are in the computer to open the egg and complete the transformation.” Jack explained as he traced a line down the centre of the egg, causing it break open as a large blue panther with large black metal wings that pointed backwards appeared on the screen before disappearing only seconds later.

“Huh. That explains that.” Natsumi nodded resolutely and went back to looking around the lab.

Haruka, meanwhile, checked her watch and stifled a curse, “Oi, Natsumi, the camp is gonna be moving soon. Didn’t Twilight say she wanted us to help with that?”

“Oh yeah, we gotta do that…” Natsumi muttered.

“Well, then it sounds like we’ll need to cut the tour short… anyway it was a pleasure to meet you guys,” declared Jack whilst he held one of his hands out.

Natsumi and Haruka shook Jack’s hands, then, as Haruka left to go drag Twilight back to camp, Natsumi asked, “.... Wait, how the hell are we supposed to send you back to your home?”

“Well the only other Displaced I met just opened portal himself so I’m not really sure,” admitted Jack.

“.... Great…. hey, I wonder what’ll happen if I…” Natsumi fished the Prizmod Token out of her pocket, then tapped her chin. “Hmm….”

“What are you thinking?” inquired Jack.

“.... What would happen if I just asked for you to go home?” Natsumi inquired, holding up the Prizmod as if it contained all the secrets of the multiverse.

A moment later the wormhole appeared in the blink of an eye and consumed Jack, the ship, and Professor Sparkle while leaving Natumi, Haruka, and Princess Twilight standing where it had been before vanishing.





As Jack’s ship and its crew exited the wormhole to return home they found themselves appearing above PPP HQ.

Jack then slowly turned to Twilight before saying with a hint of regret in his voice “well Twilight I guess this is it for a while”

“Mhm…” Twilight said as she went over the notes and objects they had gotten during their little trip to another dimension. “Oh, I hope you don't mind if I analyze these for a bit before giving them to Jen do you?” She asked as she collected her equipment as the ship started to land.

“Not at all, just don't go trying to mass produce them,” said Jack.

“Yeah yeah…” Twilight responded while rolling her eyes before walking out of the ship as it finished landing.

With that, Jack left the ship and then made his way towards the hospital.





“Jack? where have you been? Jen has been freaking out ever since you disappeared!” Sweetie Drops scolded in front of the room Jen was staying in.

“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you,” Jack said as he reached for the handle to the door.

“Try me.” Sweetie Drops huffed as she followed jack into the room where Jen was.

“Another Reality.”

“So you went dimension hopping like that sun guy you met?” Sweetie Drops asked.

“yeah, Twilight got dragged along as well… that was not a fun trip.”

“Well, I think both me and Jen can let this one slide then.” Sweetie drops chuckled as Jack was tackled from behind by a worried girlfriend.

“Don’t do that to me again! If you get summoned take me with you!” Jen wailed as she weakly started beating on his chest.

“And risk you getting killed? you really want that to happen to either of us?”

“... No… But I was worried about you…” Jen sniffed, tears were running down her face and her hair looked like it hadn't been brushed in weeks.

Jack then embraced her in a hug before saying “during the whole time I was away you were all I was thinking about” he then began to smirk before continuing to say “well after not being blown up by a weird tiger with a cannon on his back, so you were the second thing on my mind.” 

“I’m going to ignore that second bit and just be glad your back…” Jen said as she chuckled weakly before embracing him in a bone-crushing hug.

Jack then laughed before saying “at least your back to normal, anyway what happened to your cast?”

“As normal as I’m going to be…” Jen mumbled before jumping up, “It got taken off earlier today, now give me a moment to get changed and you can show me the ship the commander gave you!”

“Well, I'm going to go and give my report to the commander… you can meet me outside his office or outside the building, it’s up to you.” admits Jack.

“Ok, I’ll meet you in front of HQ,” Jen called from behind the curtain around her bed.

Jack then smiled before he said “see you later” before walking out the room.

“I’ll inform the commander that your back unless Twilight already has… see you later Jack.” Sweetie Drops said as Jack left.
> Chapter 10
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	“So you went to another universe…” Commander Grant said, “And that's why you disappeared for a few days?”

“Well, yes but I didn't realise that it was a few days… for me it was a few hours,” explained Jack.

“I see, I’ll document this in case you ever disappear like that again so we don't have any mass panic like we did when you disappeared again… This is going to be a lot of paperwork…” Commander Grant sighed as he pinched the bridge of his beak with a talon.

“Sorry about that,” Jack admitted. 

“It’s fine, making allies with powerful beings from other worlds will probably be more of a boon to us than a hindrance so don't worry about it…” Commander Grant commented, “Anyway, Professor Sparkle has already submitted a fully detailed report on the events that had transpired so you are dismissed. Jen could really use some time with you now that your back.”

“I’m sure we both do, thank you commander” Jack replied before he saluted him and walked out of the room.





As Jack got out the building he looked around to search for Jen, only for her jump him from behind and pull him into a kiss.

Once Jack was released from the kiss he began to smile before saying “you couldn’t help yourself could you Jen?” 

“Nope!” Jen giggled, “I haven't seen you for about a week so I couldn't resist. I’m glad that these ponies have healing magic, otherwise, I would have been hospitalized for months!”

“So am I… So you wanted to see our ship?” replies Jack

“Lead the way,” Jen said with a wide grin.

Jack then smiled before placing his hand out saying “shall we?”

Jen took Jack's hand and proceeded to follow him until they reached his ship, where she proceeded to freeze mid-stride and begin to drool at the sight of the advanced spaceship.

Jack then began to laugh before saying “so what do you think?”

“Y-you should know my opinion already.” Jen stuttered as she wiped the drool from her face while blushing in embarrassment.

“That I do Jen… that I do… so want to go for a ride?” Jack asked cheekily already knowing the answer.

“Yes!” Jen squeaked before running onto the ship with childish glee.

“Well then let’s head in,”

As soon as Jack arrived in the cockpit he sees Jen already in the pilot's seat before he says “however, I'm keeping the ship under my control… for now.” as he sits in the co-pilot's chair.

“Did you think I would try to pilot this?” Jen joked, “I'm just checking out the controls, I fully plan on leaving the piloting to the expert.”

“Oh is Sweetie Drops with us again?” Asked Jack.

“I was talking about you silly,” Jen said as she punched Jack in the shoulder before getting up and wandering off, “I’m going to check out the new lab space, I will be back after takeoff!”

“Okay then… oh and just so you know Twilight has the prototype Prizmod,” admitted Jack.

“I would have given it to her anyway. I don't need it anymore!” Jen called back before the sound of the door to the lab closing was heard.

Jack then smiled before he began to prep the Ship for takeoff. Once ready, he slowly began to move it from the docking platform and out into space.

“Ok. everything is prepped, accounted for, and organized!” Jen said as she came out of the lab before entering the cockpit and sitting in the copilot seat.

“So where do you want to go. it’s your choice?”

“Well, let's just fly around for a bit. I just want to spend some time with you wandering about to make up for you disappearing on me.” Jen said as she batted her eyes at him with a sly smile.

At that moment, a wormhole decided to appear in front of Jack's ship.

“Well then Jen, looks like we're going to another reality.” with that Jack flies directly into the wormhole.

“Wha…” Jen said as she stared at the wormhole in confusion before the ship passed through it.





As the ship exited the wormhole Jen just stared at the lush forest below them for a few seconds before spotting a clearing, Jack noticed the clearing also and proceeded to land in it.

“Where are we? And what just happened?” Jen asked jack as he made his way to exit the ship.

“Well Jen, it appears we are in someone's reality and being I saw someone with some lights guide us in, I can imagine they’ll be able to tell us more about why they needed us.” explained Jack as he exited the ship.

“So we were summoned? but by who?” Jen said as she followed jack out of the ship,

“I’d guess the guy in front us, Jen… maybe it would be better to ask him?” Jack replied.

“Jack? I think I know who that is…” Jen said as she stared at Cruger with bugged out eyes.

Jack then looked towards Cruger before saying “I’m sorry she going to be fangirling for a while… sorry in advance.”

“Not a problem,” Cruger replied, “she won’t be any worse than the last fan I met.”

“And now we need to worry about Murphy’s Law” moans Jack whilst pinching the bridge of his nose.

Cruger merely grinned, “The last one was an emo chick who called SPD a cheap knockoff, I don’t think even Murphy could beat that.”

“You really are going to wish you hadn’t said that” admitted Jack.

“Probably,” said Cruger, “now, mind helping me with this?” Cruger held up his fossil.

“Cruger just asked us… to help him…” Jen muttered with a grin that could rival Pinkie Pie’s before fainting.

Jack then sighed before picking her up bridal style, “Sorry about that… yes, we can help you, follow me.” With that, he turns back around gesturing for Cruger to follow him back into the ship.

“I can slightly relate,” Cruger replied as he followed, “before this happened to me, I was an engineer. Tinkering helps me keep in touch with my old self, as well as a way to give me and my allies an edge. I wouldn’t mind showing her my private workshop when we’re done here.”

Jack then smiled before saying “that it does, and I bet she would be likely to lose it.”

“What happened?” Jen asked groggily as she started to wake up from fainting.

“You fainted because Cruger asked us to help him with a fossil he found... please don’t say you found it in your universe,” Jack muttered hopefully.

“Maybe?” Cruger said sheepishly, “I did find it beside your token, it could have just hitched a ride?”

“Let’s hope that’s the case, we don’t want too many people dealing with the Krawl.” admits Jack

“Nothing personal,” said Cruger, “but I don’t think they’ll be a match for my giant robots.”

“Krawl can assimilate machines… and some can be as big as a Megazord if given time to grow…” Jen said while blushing at her current situation, “Jack? you can put me down now, I’m starting to get embarrassed…”

Jack then smiled before saying “What? I thought you wanted to spend time with me.” before putting her back on the ground

“If you don’t mind me asking,” Cruger interjected, “the relationship between you two is…”

“He’s my boyfriend…” Jen said before trying to act as professional as possible, “Sorry about earlier… I’m a huge fan of Power Rangers…”

“As am I,” said Cruger, “how do you think I got stuck with this handsome mug?”

“I would say muzzle but that would probably end with a bad pun.” Jen giggled, “So you found a fossil? which one?”

Cruger held up his fossil, “It's been a long time since I’ve played, but I think it's called a Seg...something.”

Jack then looked at it before saying “I think it’s the fossil for Segu… would you want to take it as your Spectrobe?”

“I wouldn’t mind,” said Cruger, “I already met someone who’s gonna help me get a Pokemon, why limit myself?”

“This displaced thing just gets more and more fascinating!” Jen giggled to herself before hurrying off. “I’ll prep the lab!” She called back from a room she went into.

“If you don’t mind me saying,” Cruger said to Jack, “she's crazy. That said, I’ve met crazier.”

“She may be crazy… but heck she’s the only one I need,” admits Jack

“Gah! get back here!” Jen shouted from the lab as explosions and other miscellaneous noises could be heard.

Jack then sighed before muttering “we better get in there before she hurts herself… again.”

A small chimera like creature then flew out of the lab and past Jack and Cruger’s heads while holding something as it laughed.

Cruger frowned, “Hello Discord, long time.”

“Hey pally,” Discord replied, “you’re not still mad about that little joke all those years ago, are ya?”

“Yes,” Cruger said before he punched him so hard that he left a few teeth behind as he went flying out the hatch. Cruger turned to Jack, “Sorry if I scared ya, bad blood, long story.”

“I’m not going to question anything in your personal life” admitted Jack.

“It’s nothing too terrible, let’s just say that he’s one of the few beings that can get me truly mad.” Cruger grinned, “Now, let’s see what he did to your girl.”

“That's probably a good idea” replied Jack before walking into the lab.

“Can someone get me the number of that chimera so I can beat the stuffing out of him?” Said a pissed looking pink mare that was sprawled on the ground in the lab as it tried to keep on some clothes that Jen had been wearing.

Cruger chuckled, “Uh dude, question, it wasn’t Jen’s body that you’re interested in, was it?”

Jack then glared angrily at Cruger then shouted “You ever even think that's all I care about her and you will regret it!”

“Jack, he’s joking. Though I would appreciate being turned back now.” Jen deadpanned.

“Standby,” Cruger said as he opened a portal, reaching in and pulling out a bruised looking Discord. “Now, what did we say about changing people into whatever you want?”

Discord humphed, “Well I see no reason to turn her back, she looks cuter this way.”

Cruger frowned, “I’m giving you one chance to change your mind on this subject.”

Discord grinned, “Or what, you gonna put me in one of those card thingies? I could use a vacation.”

Cruger grinned too, “No, I’m gonna let her figure out how to change herself back, by examining you,” Cruger turned to Jen, “think you’re up to being the first scientist in the Multiverse to figure out how this guy ticks?”

“I never dissected a living thing before… But I think it would be interesting to find out how that jerk ticks.” Jen replied with an evil grin of her own.

Jack then grinned sadistically before saying “I bet Swift would love to help.”

“Oh yes~” Jen purred before she tapped her prizmod, bringing out the sword-shaped Spectrobe.

“Last chance,” Cruger said as Discord literally turned white, “turn the mad scientist back, and leave in one piece, or become her new project, and leave in several pieces. either way, no one will notice the difference.”

Discord just screamed, “UNCLE!!!” as he snapped his fingers, changing Jen back and disappearing.

“Shame, I wanted to try firing him out of a cannon,” admitted Jack.

“I’m just glad to be human again… I will never part with my hands and legs!” Jen said as she hugged herself, before noticing that some of her clothes were on her the wrong way… “I’ll be right back...” She said while blushing before running off to another part of the ship to reorient herself.

Cruger just sighed, “Vengeance feels good. By the way, didn’t anyone warn you about the lord of chaos?”

“The lord of what now? Never came across him back home,” admitted Jack with a shrug.

“Lucky duck,” Cruger pouted, “well, we might as well hatch this thing, assuming, of course, there are no further interruptions.”

“I’m back… Sorry about that…” Jen chuckled nervously as she ran back into the lab, “Now let's revive that Spectrobe!”

“Finally,” Cruger said as he handed Jen the fossil, “well, you’re the mad scientist, where do we start?”

“Well, first we awaken it,” Jen said as she put the fossil into the computer through the liquid screen as if it was a portal to a pocket dimension.

“I remember this bit, just didn’t know which machine it was,” Cruger said, “Now assuming we follow the method in Beyond the Portals, I have to do this.” Cruger started whistling a steady note.

“Yep… you’ve got the idea,” agreed Jack.

As Cruger whistled, the fossil started glowing. Once it was a bright as it could get, it burst open, revealing a green seed looking creature with little wheels for feet.





As it leapt out of the screen, it started wheeling around, trying to stay between Cruger and Jack and Jen. Cruger chuckled, “Stand down, they’re friendlies.” The Segu stopped moving, but it kept on giving Jack the gimlet eye. “Protective little guy, isn’t he?” Cruger said as he picked it up, “think I’ll call you Bunker.”

“The defence classes usually are.” Jen giggled before she reached over and patted Bunker, “You want to keep him as a child form? or would you like to evolve him?”

“Well, he is useful for finding things right now and cute in an armored badass kind of way, but I think he’ll be even more useful when he’s a bit more grown up.” As Cruger said that Bunker spun his wheels, apparently in agreement.

Jack then walked towards a nearby desk before picking up four minerals and saying “you may need these to evolve him to his adult form.” Before passing the minerals over to Cruger.

Cruger set Bunker on the ground, “I know how this works, ready for some munchies Bunker?” Bunker spun around, which Cruger took as a yes. One at a time, he gently tossed the minerals to Bunker, who snapped them up. After eating the last one, Bunker started sparkling. “Mind giving me a hand triggering this?” Cruger asked.

Jack then smiled before flipping a small pen-like object in his hands before passing it to Cruger and saying “just put him in the incubator system in the computer and then it’s the same process as in the games.”

Cruger nodded, “Got ya, ready to grow up Bunker?” Bunker simply leapt into the screen. Cruger chuckled as he used the pen to trigger his evolution, turning him into a much larger being, looking like a floating wooden ball with a pair of shields attached by branches.





As Bunker floated out, Cruger rapped one of his shields with a knuckle, “Ready for some action buddy?” Bunker just did a one-two punch with his shields in the air. Cruger nodded and turned to Jack, “So, why don’t we continue this at my base? I’m pretty sure we can fit this on one of the airship docks.”

Jack then laughed before saying “Well, if that's where you feel the most comfortable, Jen is there anything else you want to sort first?”

“NO! SPD BASE! NOW!” Jen said with a crazed look like she had just consumed a mountain of caffeine before running off to the spaceship’s cockpit.

“Okay then, Cruger would you like to join us in the cockpit?” Asked Jack calmly.

“Don’t see why not,” Cruger said, “you’ll need me to get landing clearance anyway.”

“That we do... come on, we best get moving.” Jack says as he walks towards the Cockpit. “oh, and keep a close eye on Jen when we're in your base.”

“Don’t worry,” Cruger replied, “I can deal with Pinkie Pie, Jen will be easy in comparison.”

“I’ll hold you to that” laughs Jack as he continues to walk to the pilot's seat.

“COME ON, COME ON, COME ON!!! YOU TWO ARE GOING TOO SLOW!” Jen said as she bounced around the cockpit.

Jack them sighed before saying “we’re coming Jen, we’re coming.”

Cruger chuckled as he punched some coordinates into the computer, “Delta Command, course laid in, we may depart whenever you’re ready.”

“Ok then… You may want to get seated, this may be a bumpy ride… I'm still new to this” admits Jack before preparing the ship for take off.

“Well, this should be interesting,” said Cruger as he took his seat. Bunker nodded before going into Anubis’s Prizmod.

“Okay then heading towards Delta Command” announced Jack before the ship begins to head towards the pre-entered coordinates.





As they arrived at one of the airship docks, Cruger beamed with pride at the opportunity to show off his hard work. A crew of technicians awaited them, even if they were unsure how to service the vessel. When the ship touched down, Cruger simply said, “Welcome, to Space Patrol Delta.”

Jack slowly got up from his seat before saying “I will admit this place looks amazing… and if the ride here was a bit bumpy I apologize.”

“Not a problem,” Cruger said, pointing at Jen, “though you may want to open the hatch before she pops.”

Jack then laughed before saying “yeah… probably a good idea” as the doors slowly began to open.

“When does the tour start?” Jen asked eagerly, barely containing her excitement.

“That depends... if you want the public tour, there's one every half hour. but if you’d prefer, the Displaced Special starts as soon as your friend here opens the hatch.”

Jack then laughs before saying “I’d better get the hatch open faster then.” as the hatch hits the floor of the hanger.

“Well, follow me,” Cruger said, “where do you want to start? The gym? Short term holding? R&D?”

“Did you say, R&D?” Jen asked with a twinkle in her eye.

“That I did,” Cruger replied as they approached an elevator, “so, Runner Bay, central lab, or my personal workshop?”

“Let's go in that order.” Jen said, internally fangirling.

“Sounds like a plan,” Cruger said, “Runner Bay.” With a lurch, the elevator started downwards. After a minute, the doors opened to a large, dark, cavernous room. With a mighty thunk, the lights turned on, revealing something that caused Jen to immediately start salivating.

“Oh… My… GOD! THE SPD ZORDS!” Jen squealed with all the enthusiasm of a legion of pink party ponies hyped up on sugar before running off in their direction.

“Um, you might wanna,” before Cruger could finish, a beam of light hit Jen, encasing her in a bubble of energy and rendering her immobile. Cruger chuckled as he walked towards her, “Sorry, you didn’t give me a chance to mention our security systems.”

“Fascinating…” Jen muttered as she observed the technological wonders around her.

“Told you I could keep her out of trouble,” Cruger said as he pressed a button on a console, releasing Jen, “now, no more running off.”

Jack then smiled before saying “I guess I was wrong… you can handle her”

“You know it,” Cruger said before turning to Jen, “so, want a look under the hood of one of these?”

“YES! YES! YES!” Jen cheered as she bounced in place.

Cruger grinned as he brought them towards Delta Runner 4, which was in a minor state of disassembly. “What do you think? We’re in the middle of upgrading them from a mark 4 mana reactor to a mark 5, but the primary drive system’s intact.”

“Whats a mana reactor? and why aren't you using fusion reactors?” Jen asked as she started rummaging through the zord and analyzing its systems.

Cruger grinned, “Mana reactors tap into the planet’s natural magical field to generate energy. While admittedly they don’t generate quite as much power as a fusion reactor of the same size, they’re cleaner, safer, cheaper to build, and you don’t have to worry about running out of fuel.”

“If you say so.” Jen said as she finished examining the zords mechanisms, “Also, I can make a list of things you can do to improve its performance and durability.”

Cruger passed her a tablet, “Here, put your ideas on this, I’ll take it back before you leave.”

“Thanks.” Jen said before grabbing the tablet and starting to jot down notes upon notes for Cruger to use.

“So,” Cruger continued, “ready for our next stop?”

“Yup!” Jen said as she followed Cruger while still jotting down notes.

They re-entered the elevator, arriving at a good sized laboratory, with various scientists and engineers working on various projects.

“So,” Cruger said, “see anything that strikes your fancy?”

Jen then wandered in and started looking around like a kid in a candy store.

“I’m going to look around for a bit…” Jen said before disappearing from view.

Jack then looked at Jen as she disappeared before saying “She really is one in a million.”

Cruger shrugged, “She’s your girlfriend. By the way, mind if I ask what other Displaced you’ve met?”

“We met a guy called Sun who was displaced as Sun Wukong from RWBY and we met two Kamen Riders called Natsumi and Haruka.” said Jack.

Cruger nodded, “I’ve met a Kamen Rider myself, I’m working on something for him that I’ll show ya when we get to my lab. I’ve also met a female Overlord named Umbra, a female Majin Bu named Eriba, a half Salamance named Zinnia, a Monkey D Luffy Displaced named Sean and his wife Ashley, there’s Black Alice, she’s that emo fangirl I mentioned earlier, oh and I almost forgot this guy called Aaron, he’s an interdimensional salesman. Oh, and that Kamen Rider I met is named Katsuo.”

“you’ve met a pretty large variety of us, although we’ve only been around for a few days… although during my last displacement Jen was injured and time worked differently so a few hours turned into a week for her.” explained Jack

“Yeah, that happens sometimes,” Cruger said sagely, “by the way, watch out if you meet Zinnia, the only reason she won’t want to sleep with you, is if she wants to have a threesome with you and your girl. She’ll understand if you say no, but still.”

“So in short if we meet her be prepared for a bit of ‘fun’” Jack replied cheekily.

“When you’re not fighting evil mind-controlled Pokemon, yeah.”

“Sound’s like we’d have a ton of fun if that happened.”

Cruger shrugged, “To each his own, I like a good spar, but I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t like starting fights, ending them on the other hand...”

Jack then sighed before saying “Sometimes though you can’t avoid starting a fight… when that happens you need to accept whatever happens.”

“Wise words,” Cruger said, “now, what has your girlfriend been up...” Before he could continue, he was interrupted by an explosion.
> Chapter 11
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	“I dread to think what she’s just done,” Jack admits before a small bird appears beside him and he says “Go see if Jen’s okay would you Aoi?” with that the bird began to fly around the room.

“To be honest, this shouldn’t be too bad,” said Cruger, “it came from the direction of the weapons lab, and the alarms haven’t gone off.”

“apart from the fact that she loves to mess around with any technology… as helpful as it is, she has caused damage in the past,” admit Jack.

“Good thing the firing range is about as durable as a Vault then,” Cruger said as they arrived, “what’s the damage, Fetch?”

“Good morning sir,” said Fetch, the head of research, “Good news, that Displaced you brought us managed to fix the bugs we’ve been having with the sonic breach charges.”

“And the bad news?” asked Cruger.

“We’re going to need a new firing range,” Fetch admitted sheepishly.

“I’m ok!” Jen called from inside the ruins of the firing range.

Cruger stared, “Remember how I said I met a Majin Bu Displaced?”

“yeah,” replied Jack.

“Your girlfriend’s scarier,” Cruger deadpanned.

“well, I did warn you,” Jack replied whilst rubbing the back of his neck.

“That you did,” said Cruger before crying out to Jen, “hey, ready to see my personal workshop?” a second after he said that she was standing next to him.

“Sure!” Jen replied, “Hey Fetch, thanks for sharing some of your designs with me. Let me know if you have any bugs you need to be fixed in the future.”

“No problem,” said Fetch, “just try not to destroy the testing facilities next time.”

“Hey! It’s not my fault that the testing facility was so weak!” Jen defended, puffing her cheeks and crossing her arms.

Jack then sighs before saying “Jen, manners.” He then looks towards Fetch before saying “I’m sorry about her.”

“Don’t be, she helped us figure out something faster than any of us projected it would take, we can replace the range with the remaining budget,” Fetch replied offhandedly.

“Well, why don’t we go before she completes another weapon project shall we?” said Cruger.

“Oh, and I think that combination weapon you wanted to test for the rangers should be in working order now,” Jen said to Fetch before pulling back out the tablet from earlier and proceeding to make more notes, this time on things that could be done to improve the base.

“OK, moving on,” Cruger said as they moved to the elevator. A while later they arrived at a rather thick looking door, “Watch your step when entering, there is a time dilation field in effect.”

Jack then sighs before saying “why is that not a surprise?”

“Because you know me.” Jen teased as she followed Cruger into the room.

“Hey,” Cruger said, “I’m a master of Dimensional Magic, and the Runner Bay we were in earlier was actually in a pocket dimension, slowing down time in a relatively small area is child’s play. So, want to indulge in a second fandom?”

“Which one would that be?” Jen asked.

Cruger just picked up a grey and white can from a workbench, “Tell, have you ever watched Kamen Rider OOO?”

“Not really… I usually tried to avoid Kamen Rider… Too many bugs…” Jen shuddered.

“And I never heard of it until I was summoned to a Kamen Rider Displaced’s world,” admits Jack.

“Well, I think you’ll like this,” Cruger said. As he popped the top, the can transformed into a rhino with tank treads instead of feet, “Meet the Sai Candroid.”

“That's from Kamen Rider!? I didn't know they had cool non-bug related tech!” Jen said as she stared at the Candroid.

“If you think this is cool,” Cruger said, “in Kamen Rider Fourze, they had little robots that transformed into fast food. Hey, got something I can load video files onto?”

“Wait… Food? seriously?” Jen asked with an unamused look as she handed the commander an object that looked like an Iphone.

“In other word Power rangers beat them to the normal choices” Jokes Jack.

“You’d be surprised,” Cruger said as he started transferring files to the device, “there’s this one season of Super Sentai, which is actually what Power Rangers was based on and is basically Kamen Rider’s brother, that has a camera that turns into a gun, and a pair of binoculars that turns into a sword.” With a beep, the files finished downloading, “Here, Kamen Rider Drive, my personal favorite, and reasonably bug-free.”

“Thanks,” Jen said as Cruger handed her device back to her, “I’m going to look into this and see if I can use any of it for my designs.” she then stuffed the device in her pocket.

“As long as you show me the results,” said Cruger, “that’s the only project I’m currently working on, how about we grab some lunch?”

“Sure, and maybe we can meet the rangers?” Jen said hopefully.

“It is lunchtime,” Cruger said shrugging.

“I’m with you on that one, I could use a bite to eat.” agrees Jack.

“Well, what are we waiting for then? lead the way!” Jen said.

“Nothing really,” Cruger said as they headed back towards the library, “I think it’s tacos in the cafeteria today.”

“Nothing like good old Taco Tuesday’s back home,” Jack said whilst laughed uncontrollably.

“Today’s Thursday actually,” Cruger chuckled as they entered the elevator. After a bit, the elevator opened to reveal a modest sized cafeteria. “Hey, Dash.”

“How ya doing boss,” said Rainbow Dash, “Who’re the guests, more Displaced?”

“Yep, meet Jack and Jen,” Cruger replied, “Jack, Jen, meet my SPD, Pearl Spark, Hammer Fist, Evil Breaker, Night Stalker, and you probably recognize Rainbow Dash.” As Cruger said their names, each of the Rangers either nodded or waved in greeting.

“Nice to meet you all,” Jen said. “And what do you mean by recognize Rainbow Dash?” She said specifically to Cruger.

Cruger raised an eyebrow, “Really? OK, I’m going to list off a few names, you let me know if they sound familiar, Rarity.”

“Not ringing a bell.” admits Jack.

“Applejack?”

“Nope.” Jen shrugged.

“Fluttershy?”

“Whats a Fluttershy? It sounds adorable.” Jen said.

“Pinkamena Diane Pie? She also goes by Pinkie”

Jack then looked up before saying “That does sound familiar, but I haven't met anybody by that name.”

“Twilight Sparkle?”

“Professor Sparkle? She’s a unicorn that is the head scientist of the PPP back in our dimension.” Jen commented raising an eyebrow herself.

Cruger sighed, “Man oh man, you guys have a problem. Dash, I’m gonna grab a bite for me and our guests, mind explaining to these guys why they should find the rest of the girls?”

“No problem boss,” Dash replied, giving a mock salute as Cruger walked off.

“I don't get it… What's going on? Is there some kind of reason he mentioned You, Twilight, and four other people’s names?” Jen asked Dash.

“Well, it looks like good old Rainbow Dash needs to educate ya on the pure awesomeness of the Elements of Harmony,” Rainbow said proudly. “Okay, there’s these magic jewel type things called the Elements of Harmony, each one chooses their own wielder, and together they can do some pretty awesome stuff. I’m the bearer of the Element of Loyalty, at least, I was until some stupid stuff that Discord did came to bite us in the butt and we had to give them up, but that’s not important. Anyway, AJ’s Honesty, Rarity’s Generosity, Fluttershy’s Kindness, Pinkie’s Laughter, and Twilight’s Magic, together we’ve saved Equestria, at least, a dozen times, with and without the Elements. Pretty cool huh?”

Jen just sat there, her eye twitching before she began to massage her temples. “I’m going to see if my communicator works…” She said before messing with something and a holographic screen appeared above her palm, “Sweetie Drops? you there?”

“Jen? Is that you? what's going on?” Came a reply as the image of sweetie drops head appeared on the screen.

“Cool! The communicators work across dimensions! Anyway, I need to ask you something.” Jen said, “Can you check for any records on some ponies named Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkamena Diane Pie? As well as for anything called the Elements of Harmony?”

“Sure, just give me a minute… Lyra! Get away from that!” Sweetie Drops replied before the communicator cut off.

“Man, how did those two get so important?” Rainbow asked, “Here they’re just a musician and a candymaker, good ones, but still.

“I don't know about Lyra, besides the fact that she’s Sweetie's girlfriend, But Sweetie Drops is actually one of the patrol officers of the PPP. She’s also the one who found us when we appeared in their solar system.” Jen said with a shrug.

“Wait, solar system?” Rainbow asked, “as in, you go to other planets?”

“Yeah, why?” Jen replied.

“What else would we have our massive spaceship for?” asks Jack.

“That’s, so, awesome,” Rainbow squeaked before Night Stalker stuffed a taco in her face to calm her down.

“I don't get it, SPD stands for Space Patrol Delta… Don't you go into space to deal with alien criminals?” Jen asked.

“You didn’t,” Cruger said as he returned, tacos in hand, “did you just invoke Murphy?”

“I… Crap…” Jen said facepalming, “Well, at least, you won't have to deal with the Krawl.”

Jack then sighs before saying “we better get out Spectrobes ready Jen because I bet you’ve just screwed us all over.”

“What’s a Spectrobe?” asked Pearl Spark.

Jack then turns to Jen before saying “do you want to show them or should I?”

“Let's start with just the child forms unless a fight breaks out…” Jen groaned, “Swift, come meet some new friends.” A moment later a ball of light came out of the pink hexagon on Jen’s arm before forming into a half fish half sword like creature that floated by her shoulder. “Everyone, meet Swift,” Jen said as the Spectrobe flew around for a bit before returning to hovering by her shoulder.

Jack then smiled before a similar light appeared from his Prizmod and a red, yellow, and blue bird appeared on his shoulder before he said “And this is Aoi.”

“Huh, I bet Flutters would love to see those,” Rainbow Dash commented.

Jen’s communicator then came back on and Sweetie Drops head appeared on the screen again.

“Hey Jen, I looked into what you asked and those five ponies and these ‘Elements of Harmony’ don't exist in our solar system.” Sweetie Drops said.

“Thanks, Sweetie, talk to you when we get back,” Jen said before turning her communicator back off.

“I don’t exist?” Rainbow said, a look of disbelief, “but that’s…”

Cruger held up a hand, “In their solar system Dash.”

“At least, it just makes you that much more unique?” Jen offered.

Cruger frowned, “Well, this could be a potential problem, if your travels take you to other systems, which they probably will, trying to locate them should be one of your highest priorities, they will come in handy, even if they don’t seem like it at first.”

“I doubt we will find them, they sound as fictional as that Discord thing from when we first got here. I say fictional because I know he doesn't exist back where we come from.” Jen said shaking her head in frustration.

Cruger chuckled, “Fictional you say, and I just suppose gaining the abilities of characters from a fictional game, and being sent to a world based on a fictional TV show, is impossible as well?”

“I… Um… Uh…” Jen stuttered as steam began to come out of her ears and her eyes started to gloss over.

“Wait back up a second…. Fictional TV show… did I hear that right?” asked Jack in disbelief.

“That’s right,” Cruger said, pulling up a video on his tablet, “take a look.”

“Uh,” said Rainbow Dash, “I’m leaving before I have another, what did Twilight call it, essential crisis.”

“Existential,” corrected Cruger, “I was gonna ask you to leave anyway.”

“What did we do wrong?” asked Jack in confusion.

Cruger chuckled as he shook Jen awake, “Just watch the video, you’ll see.”

“Wha?” Jen said as her mind rebooted.

As soon as Jen got her bearings they started the video, and after it finished the two Spectrobe Masters just sat there stunned until Jen asked a specific question.

“There are princesses?” Jen said with slight confusion.

“Well I understand about the Princesses, I met a Twilight from another reality who was a Princess for crying out loud,” admits Jack.

“I can't imagine Twi being a princess,” Jen said.

“well, it exists and she was well… a royal pain,” admits Jack.

“That pun was bad and you should feel bad,” Cruger deadpanned, “besides, she just needs some experience.”

“But seriously, who is this Celestia and Luna!?” Jen asked, “There are no princesses back where we come from.”

Cruger sighed, “Well, I’ll say this much, you two have earned the title of ‘Most Divergent Universe’.”

“I still don't get it…” Jen grumbled, not liking that her question was being left unanswered.

“Let’s just say they’re basically demigods and leave it at that,” Cruger responded.

“That's quite the simple answer for such a complicated question,” joked a voice that seemed to come from out of nowhere.

“I try,” said Cruger, “now, come on out before I show you why one of my nicknames back in the day was ‘The Blue Wolf’.”

“What fun would that be?” The voice asked as Jen froze before her eye began to twitch.

“No… No, no, no… That's not possible… How is HE here!?” Jen said as she started looking all around her, even checking above and below her.	

“I warned you,” said Cruger. With a flourish, he surrounded his hand with a blue glow, then reached out and grabbed something in midair, “The reason I was called ‘The Blue Wolf’, was that I always got my prey.”

“Do you even know what you just grabbed kid?” The voice asked.

Cruger frowned, “You just pulled a substitution, didn’t you?”

“Woop~ Woop, Woop, Woop, Woop~” The voice said, imitating a certain alien lobster from Futurama.

Cruger opened his hand to reveal a note that said ‘Nice Try’, “Been a long time since I’ve had a challenge.”

Jack then sighs before saying “So I'm going to ask you the same thing as last time we heard you… who are you.”

“You can call me Crux.” Said the voice as a mysterious being wearing a blue cloak materialized next to Cruger.

“Pleasure to meet you,” replied Cruger, “mind explaining why your dimensional signature is so complex?”

“Dimensional signature? I still have one?” Crux said with mock astonishment, “Just kidding, it’s from my Displaced’s universes. Two of whom are here with you.”

“Really, you’re a Displacer, that changes things,” Cruger said as he dropped the paper, “I have a question for you, and a proposition depending on your answer.”

“Go ahead.” Crux laughed.

Cruger pointed at Jen and Jack, “Did you give them a choice?”

“Kinda? It was more of an offer.” Crux said with a shrug.

It took Jen a moment to get over the shock of what just transpired, but once she did she had to vouch for the guy, he did keep his promise… even if it hasn't happened yet. “He offered to reunite Jack with his relatives and I got dragged along…” She said, explaining what happened.

“But my words at the time was prove it and instead he pulled us into our reality.” admits Jack

Cruger sighed “Well, at least, you are relatively decent. Now my proposition actually is for all three of you, if you’re interested of course.”

“Proposition?” Jen asked.

“Nothing too crazy,” Cruger said, “it’s more like an invitation. I’m creating a group with the goal of discovering everything there is to know about Displacement, and I’d like you three in it.”

Jack then looks towards Cruger before saying “wait back up, you want us to help you with a subject we know so little about ourselves?”

“Well, that’s the whole point,” Cruger said, “no one Displaced knows a whole lot about Displacement, but if a lot of Displaced from a lot of different universes with a lot of different skills all work together, we can figure out the truth.” Cruger looked thoughtful for a second, “Truth, catchy, looks like I figured out what to call this little group.”

“Well, it sounds interesting… though, how would I be of help? and how could this benefit me and my displaced?” Crux asked.

“Well,” Cruger said, taking out a Candroid he had in his pocket, “I was thinking of expanding Truth’s mission from just exchanging information to support as well, for example, I’m developing equipment for one Displaced that his base has but he doesn’t, and I’m helping another with accessing a plane of existence that holds equipment she needs to save her verse but is unable to access normally, just waiting for the right alignment on that last one.”

“Sounds interesting, You piqued my interest so I guess I could hang around for that… Besides, I could use some new entertainment.” Crux said, “Well, I don't want to destabilize your dimension, so ta-ta for now!” He then disappeared in a puff of smoke.

“Did he just call us entertainment?” Jen asked.

“yes he did and I am not pleased about it.” admits Jack.

“We’re gonna be doing crazy stuff anyway by dint of our situation,” Cruger said, “it doesn’t make too much difference whether or not he’s watching.”

“Oh, and you have aliens incoming!” Crux said, popping back just to say that before disappearing again.

Cruger sighed, “Case in point.” Cruger opened a portal and grabbed his sword, “Red Alert, Authorization Sierra Romeo Delta Montreal Dash One Zero Zero.” As he said that, alarms started blaring and people started running to their posts.

“Jack?” Jen said turning to her boyfriend.

“Jen, what's wrong?” asked Jack calmly

“Your plan?” Jen deadpanned.

Jack then smiled before saying “Well… I’d say we let Cruger decide where he needs us and help them repel the aliens.”

“A wise decision,” Cruger said as he opened his Morpher, “what we got Rush?”

“Sir, we’ve got incoming,” a voice sounded from the Morpher, “we don’t know what they are,  but they’re big. We’ve determined three main variants: one looks like a green spider with black stripes, the second is a blue humanoid with black stripes and two heads, the third is a red blob with arm-like tentacles and black stripes. Standard defenses are having minimal effect.”

Jack then looks towards Jen before saying “Krawl… they are in this universe as well.”

“Hopefully, they just piggybacked off your arrival,” Cruger said, “have all units stand down Rush, I’ll take care of it with the aid of two specialists.”

‘Understood sir, good hunting,” Rush replied before communications ended with a click.

“Cruger, Do you want us to help you stop them?” asks Jack

“I think that's what he meant by two specialists.” Jen sighed.

“Rule of Leadership 32,” Cruger said as he opened a portal to the battle, “nothing trumps experience.”

“He’s right, you can’t beat an expert at his own game… unless you cheat that is.” Jen said as she returned Swift to her pink prizmod.

“True enough,” Cruger said as they walked through the portal, “well, looks like it’s time for some fun, eh Bunker?” Cruger tapped his Prismod, allowing Bunker to emerge.

“Time to deal with some nuances Tank,” Jen said before a red Spectrobe that looked like a cross between a samurai and a rhinoceros beetle appeared next to her.

Jack then nodded his head before he said “When you're ready get everyone that's being deployed to our ship.”

“Everyone who’s being deployed is already here,” Cruger said, “by the way, got any Flash?”

“I’m prepped for that” replied Jack as a Spectrobe that looked like a samurai appeared beside him and said “I’ve got Samurite by my side.”

“Good,” Cruger said, “I’ll get the blue ones, you get the red ones, Jen, you get the green ones, got it?”

“Ok and if either of you gets overwhelmed I've got a backup of each type of Spectrobe.” replied Jack calmly.

“Good,” Cruger said, “let’s roll.”

“See you guys in a bit then,” Jen said while jumping on her Spectrobes back before he charged off towards where the green Krawl were.

“Time to roll Bunker,” Cruger said as he ran towards the blue Krawl, Bunker floating close behind.

Jack then shouted “good luck both you!” with that he jumped onto the back of Samurite as they charged towards the group of red Krawl.






-Jen's Perspective-


As soon as Jen and her Spectrobe arrived near the Vizepi she hopped off his back.

“Ok Tank, Smash them!” Jen said as she drew her sword before charging into the fray. A moment later her Spectrobe followed her as it smashed Krawl left and right with its horn.

Seconds later Jen looked behind her to see that she was slowly being surrounded by a small group of Vizepi with Tank being held back from reaching her by the rest of them.

“Not good, Grilden! I need backup!” Jen shouted, calling out her second adult form Spectrobe. As soon as she said that a Spectrobe that looked like a blue two-headed dragon appeared next to her, causing the Krawl to begin slowly backing away.

Seconds later Grilden fires off three blasts of energy the destroyed three of the Vizepi instantly before it turned around firing continuously at them at intervals.

“Great job Grilden, Now let's go give Tank some backup!” Jen said before she and Grilden charged to Tank’s side while annihilating a few Krawl along the way. While this was happening Jens pulse began to race causing bits of white stuff with black stripes to form on the back of her left shoulder.

As soon as the remainder of the Krawl she was tasked with stopping were destroyed Jen looked around to see that she was alone before recalling Tank and Grilden.

Seconds later Jen vision began to drift as she began to fall towards the ground, however, she managed to regain her composure. “Crap… It’s happening faster than I thought…” She said before stumbling back over to the others while covering her shoulder with her right hand.






-Cruger's Perspective-


“Well, Bunker,” Cruger asked, “ready to go?”

Bunker clashed his shields together in agreement.

Cruger nodded while making an adjustment to his Morpher, “Got it, I’ll call the targets, hunker down and watch my back.” Cruger pushed a button, causing his battle music to play.

Cruger and Bunker then started mowing through the Krawl, though each in their own way. Cruger used hit and run tactics to hit stragglers and draw them in close, where Bunker used his heavy shields to knock down large groups of foes while blocking their attacks. Eventually, all the Krawl were grouped up around them.

“Ready to end this Bunker?”

Bunker clashed his shields together again.

Cruger placed his hands on one of Bunker’s shields, causing both of them to glow. Bunker then started spinning, tearing through the remaining Krawl as electricity arced across his surface.

“Well, that’s what I call serving Judgement,” Cruger said as explosions flared up behind him and Bunker.






-Jack's Perspective- 


As Jack approached the group of Krawl he realised that they all consisted of Swar, causing him to smile before saying, “Swar seriously, man I drew the short straw.”

Seconds later a large golden beetle appeared beside him before he said “Vilakroma, Covering fire.” Within second of him ordering the command a bright white burst of energy erupted from its cannon slamming into a large group of Swar instantly obliterating them whilst causing some of the others Swar to turn and look towards him before they began charging the Spectrobes.

Jack then looked towards Vilakroma before saying, “keep eliminating any large groups once you're charged, Samurite you focus on keeping them off of Vilakroma.”

Seconds later another group of them were destroyed by Vilakroma whilst Samurite sliced any Swar that got close. However, seconds later a blast from Vilakroma changed direction and fired two volleys of energy off into the distance, before turning back towards the remaining Krawl.

Seconds later both he and Samurite began to glow causing before Jack smiled before shouting “combination attack” before what appeared to be meteorite began to appear to fall towards the remaining Krawl before obliterating them.

As soon as the flames began to die down Jack looked around to see that there was no Krawl left as he recalled Samurite and Vilakroma before Leo appeared beside him before he said “Let's find the others, Leo”

Within seconds, Leo lowered its head before Jack jumped on before the began to head towards the others.





“So how did you do for your first fight?” Jen asked Cruger as she limped over to the two other displaced already waiting at the rondevu point.

“You think this was my first fight?” Cruger asked.

“Against Krawl, and using a Spectrobe.” Jen clarified as she leaned against a tree for support.

“Not, bad, Bunker’s pretty good for someone born today,” Cruger said while dodging a swing from Bunker, “by the way, you feeling alright?”

“Spectrobes are creatures of light that exist to fight against the shadows of evil like the Krawl.” Jen chuckled, “And I’m just exhausted, it’s nothing for you to worry about.”

Jack then sighs before saying “Jen you're holding your shoulder, what happened?”

“Like I said, nothing for you to worry about,” Jen grumbled.

“Jen… I know you better than anyone, you know you can’t lie to me… what happened.” Jack asked clearly worried.

“I can’t tell you,” Jen replied before wincing.

“Jen… you realise how worried I was when you were injured before… I don’t want to lose you.”

“And that's why I can't tell you, I can't let you worry over something like this… You wouldn't be able to do your job if I did.” Jen snapped before wincing again.

“I’d be less able to if I wasn’t focusing on trying to understand what’s wrong… Jen, please let me help you.” Jack asked clearly scared for her.

“Jack, I love you… But you can't handle the truth of what's going on!” Jen shouted.

“Jen, I’ve stood by you through every mistake we’ve ever made… I'm sure this can’t be as bad as all the experiments that went wrong.”

“The accident is nothing compared to the implications of what's going on, please don't force my hand here.” Jen pleaded.

“Jen… you already know my answer… don’t make me worry, about you… not again, you know what I’d be like.”

“Can we just save it for when we get back to our dimension?” Jen asked.

Jack then sighed before saying “As long as you promise that you will explain once we’re home.”

“Fine…” Jen said sadly.

“Not to get in between a couple with problems,” Cruger said, turning to Jen “but there’s something that I need to talk to you about.”

“What do you need?” Jen asked with a weary smile.

Cruger lightly smacked her on the head, “That’s for bringing down the wrath of Murphy on us.”

“Sorry…” Jen chuckled as she rubbed her head with her left hand.

“Just don’t do it again,” Cruger said as he opened a portal back to Jack’s ship.

“Well, It's been nice meeting you, Cruger. And maybe next time it can be a simple, stress-free, get together.” Jen chuckled dryly before she wobbled through the portal and went to the ship's lab.

Jack the sighed before saying “well Cruger… thank you for everything… do you want anything before we head back”

Cruger shook his head, “Nothing off the top of my head, but here,” Cruger tossed him a copy of his token, “It comes with communication capabilities, and it’ll spread to the rest of your tokens.”

Jack then smiled as he caught the token before saying “thank you If you ever need help again don’t hesitate to give us a call.”

Cruger smiled back, “No problem, I’ll need to call anyway when Bunker’s ready to evolve,” Cruger stuck out his hand, “seek the truth, my friend.”

“You too my friend” replied Jack as he shook Cruger’s hand before slowly walking towards the portal. Jack the turned around before saluting him and walking through the portal to the ship.

“Our contract is complete, tell your Dash when you find her that I said hi,” Cruger said before closing the portal.

As soon as the portal closed the wormhole returned, consuming Jack’s ship and its two crew members before spitting them back out in their dimension.

“We should let the commander know we're back,” Jen said.

Jack then stared at her before saying “first you're telling me what’s wrong… I’m sorry, but it’s all I can think about right now.” 

Jen sighed. “There's no avoiding this landmine is there?” She asked.

“Nope, there is no way I'm not pulling the pin on this grenade.” admitted Jack

Jen chuckled dryly for a moment about how they were joking about bombs of all things before she composed herself. “Then you better not say anything about this to anyone, not even Sweetie drops or the commander,” Jen said as she turned so that her left side was facing him.

Jack then places a hand on his chest before saying “I swear on the memory of my family.”

“If you say so,” Jen said sadly as she removed her right hand from her left shoulder, revealing the partially Krawlified body part.

“Jen, is that what I think it is?” Jack asked once again worried.

“I warned you that it wasn't going to be pretty...” Jen sighed, “Yes Jack, I’m infected.”

Jack then sighs and says “You thought this would worry me?”

“I became infected the same way as Krux from the games.” Jen elaborated.

“But you're not Krux Jen.”

“I’m similar enough…” Jen said as tears began to form in her eyes.

“No your not… You are the most kind, strong hearted, amazing person I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.”

“That's what they said about Krux when he was a Spectrobe master.” Jen muttered to herself before limping off to the lab to be alone
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> Chapter 12
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	“So how was your trip?” Sweetie Drops asked as she approached Jack’s ship after it landed.

“It was different that Jen expected I bet” admitted Jack.

“Where is she by the way?” Sweetie Drops asked as she approached the ship’s entrance.

“probably in the lab, trying to imitate what she saw whilst we were gone,” replied Jack calmly.

“Oh? and what happened this time exactly?” Sweetie Drops asked as she stopped in front of Jack.

“Let's just say that we think there are some very important mares that aren’t recorded in our record that may be important and it seems the Krawl are not just limited to our reality.” 

“You sure? we picked up some unusual wormhole activity while you were gone.” Sweetie drops said, alarmed.

“Unusual how?” asked Jack.

“Well, it was as if portals were forming to random other solar systems before closing.” Sweetie Drops explained.

“Almost like the Krawl were being sent through in small burst to attack other realities before shutting it to ensure we couldn’t go after them to help anyone on the other side,” muttered Jack.

“You speak as if you had seen this happen before.” Sweetie Drops commented as she began to step around him.

“you think I've had a chance to see this before?” replied Jack as he followed her into the ship.

“I don't know, you're from somewhere far far away. for all I know you could have seen things we never even dreamed of.” Sweetie Drops pointed out.

“A world where our technology is less advanced than yours, though,” added Jack.

“Yet you know how to deal with a threat that renders our technology useless.” Sweetie Drops countered as she approached the door to Jen’s lab.

“I suppose you're right… but even then I hate to say this but up yet I think I've got by due to sheer luck,” admitted Jack.

“Luck? I don't believe what you accomplished could ever be accounted to luck... Why is the door locked?” Sweetie drops said as she tried to get the door to open.

“Huh? Wait, what?” Jack then walked closer before he said “Jen you okay?”

There were a few banging and clattering noises before footsteps could be heard coming in the direction of the door. “Don't come in!” Jen scratched.

“Jen are you okay?” repeated Jack before continuing to say “What's happened.”

“It's nothing! Just don’t come in!” Jen shouted as the sound of her hurrying around and doing stuff echoed through the door.

Jack then looked towards Sweetie Drops before he said “You think she’s okay?”

“I don't know… Think it's her time of the month?” Sweetie Drops teased.

“Maybe, maybe… still she sounds like she busy, though like she trying to make or upgrade something,” replied Jack.

“I don't hear any parts being assembled, it sounds more like she’s trying to sow something.” Sweetie Drops said as her ears twitched a bit.

“What would she be sowing?” muttered Jack.

“I have no clue.” Sweetie Drops said before a snapping sound was heard.

“Dang it! that's the third bra this week!” Jen wailed from the other side of the door.

“Oh… Oh… yeah I'm not going in there” said Jack whilst he walked away from the door.

“Looks like she’s going through a growth spurt.” Sweetie Drops giggled.

“Sounds like I’ll need to go” Jack then shuddered before he continued, “Shopping… god, save me.”

“I’ll go let the commander know you're going to be a while.” Sweetie Drops said before jogging off.

“Thank you!” shouted Jack just before she left the ship.

“Is she gone?” Jen asked as she peeked through the door, having opened it up just enough for her to see.

“Yeah, she’s gone… I persuaded her that we were going shopping to get you some new clothes,” explained Jack.

“Well, we just might… I actually do need a new bra…” Jen said, blushing a little.

“Well then… We might as well make a day of it and this place could use… how would you say a few home touches.” admitted Jack.

“Ok, let me go put on something decent then,” Jen said before slowly closing the door.

“I’ll wait for you outside” Jack shouted before he walked out of the ship.





“That was a lot more fun than I thought it would be!” Jen giggled as she danced into the ship, she was wearing a long sleeved yellow sundress that she had just bought.

“It would be fun for you” muttered Jack as he carried multiple bags in his hands before placing them down and shaking his hands as they cramped up.

“No need to be a party pooper! I know you think I look cute in the new clothes I got while we were out.” Jen said as she crossed her arms under her bust and made a pouty face.

“I’m not arguing that point, more the fact that I was the one carrying everything.” explained Jack

“But it’s a gentleman's job to carry what a woman buy’s for her.” Jen teased, “So should we go see the commander or do you want to try something?” she then asked as her eyes turned from blue to pink and back again.

“umm, what were you thinking and were you aware that you eyes changed colour,” asked Jack

“My eyes what?” Jen asked shaking her head as if she had snapped out of a trance, “Nevermind, let's go give the commander our report…”

“Okay then” replied Jack as they both made their way towards the headquarters.





“This is quite interesting… Next time you see this commander Cruger I would like to meet him.” Commander Grant said as Jack and Jen finished their report though they left out the detail about Jen becoming part Krawl.

“Yeah, it would be interesting.” Jen chuckled as she rubbed her left shoulder, imagining Grant with his own command center Megazord.

Jack then smirked before he said “Definitely interesting, I'll agree with you on that”

“What? is there something funny?” Commander grant asked, confused by Jack and Jen’s reactions.

“Oh it’s nothing” replied Jack.

“I get it, It’s an inside joke isn't it. Well, how do you two feel about going to explore Zeba’s two moons?” Commander Grant said, changing the subject.

“Hmm, intriguing. What do you think Jack?” Jen commented.

“I was there with Twilight, but won’t the ship need and upgrade to withstand the increased Gravitational pull from the moons?”

“Why don't you go down to the R&D department and talk to Twilight now then? She’s been preparing something ever since we picked up an unknown signal from the moon Celoshi while you were gone.” Commander Grant said smugly.

“Great… now I need to deal with Twilight again, this is going to be so fun” muttered Jack.

“What's wrong? can't handle there being more than one person like me?” Jen teased.

“Why would I want anyone else like you?” joked Jack, “you’re the only one I need.”

Jen giggled before she kissed Jack on the cheek and skipped out of the commanders office.

“You two have quite the interesting relationship.” Commander Grant chuckled.

“yeah… I just hope nothing happens to change that.” agrees Jack.

“While it’s true not all change is good it can’t be avoided, the best you can do is go with the flow.” The commander said sagely.

“I know” muttered Jack, whilst thinking about the Krawl that she was infected by.

“What's taking you so long? come on!” Jen called from outside the commander's office.

“Coming” Jack shouted back then turned to the Commander and said “good luck on your end as well commander,” before running after Jen.





As Jack and Jen approached the R&D wing of the headquarters, they were able to see to a muridae of different weapons and armour ranging from basic gloves to cosmo blasters, that were laid out against the walls. 

Jack then looked at Jen before whispering to her “This a Jen wants moment?”

“Me-gusta…” Jen said in agreement.

“Oh, you two finally arrived,” Twilight said as she walked over from one of the many desks scattered throughout the room.

“Yeah. Sorry about taking so long Twilight” admitted Jack.

“It’s alright, now follow me. I have something to show you two.” Twilight giggled as she walked away.

Jen shrugged before following the unicorn scientist.

Jack then sighed as he began to follow them both.

Twilight led them over to a section of the room where there were two suits and a strange device sitting next to a desk before she stopped and handed the suits to Jack and Jen. “These are special suits I designed to decrease the gravitational effects of Celoshi and Lunoshi on their wearers, I want you to have them.” She said.

Jack then looked at her cautiously before he said “are you sure Twilight?”

“I made these two for the both of you specifically, as well as this gravity modification module for your ship,” Twilight said patting the device that was next to the suits with a smug grin.

"Well then, If you made these specifically for us, it would be disrespectful for us to refuse,” admitted Jack, whilst he slowly pick up one of the suits.

“Thanks, Twi,” Jen said as she walked over and tried to pick up the gravity modification module and failed. “Dang this is heavy…”

Jack then looked at her before walking over Gravity Modification Module before easily picking to up before looking at Jen before he said with a worried voice “Jen you sure you’re okay… maybe you should rest whilst we’re flying?”

“I guess…” Jen sighed before she headed back to the ship with Jack.





As soon as Jack and Jen returned to the ship they set down the new equipment and headed into the room that they had set up as a bedroom.

“I think I’ll rest now… like you suggested…” Jen yawned as she took off her dress and crawled onto her bed.

“Okay then, I’ll wake you up once we get near to the moons… which one would you want to head to first?”

“Celoshi, we should check out that unknown signal they picked up…” Jen said as she fell asleep. Once she was asleep she rolled onto her left side exposing her left shoulder to Jack. The Krawl infection on her shoulder had now spread one-fourth of the way down her arm and neck, it even had spread over part of the upper left side of her chest.

Jack then began to blush before he quickly turned around and walked out of the room with a strange feeling of dread as he began to contemplate on the progression of the Krawl infection that was rapidly spreading through Jen’s body, which led him to start thinking about what had happened to Krux and he began to wish he had listened to Jen when she told him about the third game.

He then slowly began to walk to the ship’s cockpit before he sat down and began to prep the ship for taking off for the trip to Celoshi.





As the ship approached Celoshi Jen stumbled into the cockpit of the ship, “Sorry, just woke up and managed to install the gravity device.” She said while trying to get into her gravity suit.

“Don’t worry about it… Would you take the wheel while I get sorted,” asked Jack calmly? 

“Sure…” Jen replied as she finally managed to get her suit on before grabbing the controls from Jack so that he could go put his suit on.

“Thanks” replied Jack as he stood up before walking into a room near the back of the ship.

A few bumpy minutes later Jack had his suit on and Jen eagerly handed back the ship controls to him.

“I am never doing that again… I almost crashed into an asteroid!” Jen said while shuddering.

“I doubt you were that bad,” said jack calmly as if nothing had happened.

“Just land the ship so that we can go see what we can find…” Jen pouted.

“Fine, just calm down and I’ll land” replies Jack as the ship slowly begins to land on Celoshi.

Once the ship touched down Jen huffed and walked out of the ship and started smirking once she was outside. “You know, I think I’ll let you handle any Krawl while were here.” She called back to Jack.

“Worried about the Krawl reacting to you?” asked Jack as he followed her out the ship.

“Possibly…” Jen admitted before three Swar appeared. “Aaand I’m somehow attracting Krawl now…”

“Maybe there resonating with the infection, trying to find a new leader… maybe there’s more to them than we realised” replied Jack as Vilakroma appeared in front of them before firing his cannon and quickly destroying all three Swar in front of it.

Jack then looked back at Jen as Vilakroma disappeared before he said “but I don’t want to find out if that's the case.”

“yeah, I agree,” Jen said as she shivered. “Come on, let's go look around and see if we can find the source of the signal.”

“yeah, that's probably a good idea, sooner we find that signal sooner we can get you away from the Krawl.”

Jen then pulled out a tracking device she had made and held it up. “According to my readings, the signal came from over… There!” Jen said pointing at a nearby mountain.

“Okay then” replied Jack as Leo appeared in front of him before slowly backing away from Jen, causing Jack to look at him in confusion before he asked Leo “what’s wrong buddy?”

He then glared at Jen before lowering himself as if he was ready to pounce.

Jen tensed at Leo’s actions and started backing away. “Calm down now buddy, it’s me, Jen. Remember?” She said nervously.

“Leo, calm down, it’s just Jen,” Jack said in a calm voice as Leo began to walk towards Jen slowly before tilting his head sideways before lowering his head towards the ground.

Jen reached over to pet Leo on the head but then quickly retracted her hand, images of Spectrobes tearing her to pieces flooded her mind. “Just great… Now I’m afraid of Spectrobes…” Jen sighed as she shivered in fear.

“Jen, I think they're reacting to you, in the same manner, they react to the Krawl… Leo must have thought you were going to attack me and went to protect me.” Jack said, trying to calm Jen down.

“This sucks…” Jen muttered. “I guess I’ll walk, see you at the mountain.”

“Nah… We’ll walk together” replies Jack as Leo disappears before he continued to say “besides… you can’t call your Spectrobes if you're scared of them and that would leave you defenseless.”

“I… Oh yeah…” Jen said as she realized her predicament. “Today couldn't possibly get worse…” She sighed while starting to walk towards the mountain.

“Murphy’s Law… Jen what will you cause today,” muttered Jack as he followed Jen towards the mountain.

> Chapter 13
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

        As Jack and Jen arrived at the mountain, Jen decided to sit down out of exhaustion.

“I officially hate walking…” Jen wheezed.

“Well, seeing as you've already invoked Murphy’s Law, things are bound to get worse,” moaned Jack.

“I hate it when I do that…” Jen said, facepalming over her screw up.

“Relax… if something was going to happen, it would have by now,” admitted Jack.

No sooner had he finished his sentence than a swirling rift appeared above both of their heads. With a sound like the enraged honking of a goose, something flew from the portal, landing smack dab on Jack’s face with enough force to tackle him to the ground. 

With a cry of surprise, Jack pushed the object that hit him off of him, before he said, “When did I call Komainu?”

“Komainu? Ooh. Sound like waifu material.” The voice was high pitched and erratic.

“What the?” Jack then looked beside him to see a creature unlike any he’d encountered before. It was small and quadrupedal and covered in white fur, like a little dog. It had large white ears on either side of its head… and then another set of catlike ears poking up from its gray head of hair. Its face consisted of two black dots and a catlike mouth; it basically epitomized the word “derp.” If derp was even a real word, that is.

“Hoi!” the little thing said, grinning like a college student on payday. “I’m Temmie!”

Jack looked to Jen before saying, “Wasn’t Temmie that thing from that game? What was it called, Undertale?”

“Undertale? Temmie no heard of said game,” Temmie replied. “Temmie… one of a kind!”

“I have no clue but I think she’s a Displaced,” Jen said to Jack as she resisted the urge to giggle at the small creature's antics.

“Well then, being that there are Krawl around, I think you should look after it until we know everything’s safe,” said Jack.

“Crawl? Temmie know how to crawl!” Temmie cried, her voice filled with excitement. “Temmie crawl really well! Temmie show you!” The odd little thing proceeded to crouch low to the rocky ground, before crawling away, straight up one of the mountain’s cliffs. The mountain’s vertical cliffs...

“Okay… I am not keeping an eye on that thing,” Jen said as she got back up.

“It’s either that or you having to fight the Krawl. Besides, it’s too, well, weak to fight them,” argued Jack.

“Fine…” Jen sighed, giving in to Jack’s request. She gave a second glance at Temmie, who had now managed to scale at least half the cliff. “But how am I supposed to keep up with her?”

“I’m sure you’ll figure something out,” joked Jack.

Jen just shook her head before calling out to Temmie. “Hey, can you get back down here? We’re on a mission and leaving you alone isn't safe!” 

Temmie stopped crawling up the mountain. Instead, she tucked her legs into her stomach and rolled down the slope like an armadillo, slowing to a stop at Jen’s foot. Temmie’s head popped out of her curled-up body. “Aww. Tem knew you cared.”

“You know, you’re actually pretty cute,” Jen giggled as she picked up Temmie.

“You too! Humans… too cute! Tem pet.” Tem’s foreleg stretched out like taffy, reaching up to stroke Jen’s head.

Jen’s eye twitched. “I don't know how you're doing that, but I’ll just go with it and not try and comprehend it,” she said while trying to keep her mind from crashing.

Suddenly, Tem’s head swerved sharply, glancing off further into the mountains. “Tem smell… actions! Tem watch!” Temmie cried. With a few wiggles, she squirmed out of Jen’s grip, before scampering away, making motorcycle noises as she went.

“Wait! Come back!” Jen shouted before running after Temmie.

Jack then sighed, before muttering, “This can only end in disaster,” as he followed the duo.





Temmie whirred on through the rocky terrain, sounding for all the world like a Mad Max movie. She let her nose guide her like a bloodhound, zipping through the valleys and peaks. Jen and Jack were hard pressed to keep up with her, especially given their space suits and the moon’s stronger gravity.        

“Wait, back up a moment,” Temmie said, making a noise like searing rubber as she skidded to a stop. “Moon? Stronger gravity?” 

“Huff… huff… yeah,” Jack panted as Jen and him finally managed to catch up to the little monster. “We’re- huff- on the moon. Its gravity is far greater than any regular planet, which is why we need these special suits.”

“Huh. Temmie just thought Tem was back in cheese dimension.” 

“I’m… Huff… Not even… Huff… Going to ask…” Jen panted before collapsing onto her back. As she impacted the ground, spiderweb-like cracks began to spread through the ground, all around the trio, with a sound like crumbling rock.

“Jen! Freeze!” Jack cried. “The ground here is unstable! The slightest movement could lead to our dooms!”

“No,” Temmie said. “This where actions is, and Tem have fresh popcorn!” With that, Temmie proceeded to leap into the air and land with a crunch on the ground. This was the Tem that broke the camel's back; the ground gave way below them, Jen, Jack, and Temmie falling away into the dark world beneath the mountain.

A single sigh echoed up from the hole, followed by a frustrated scream. “God dammit Temmie!” Jack and Jen yelled in unison.

It was dark, and the ground was damp against Jack’s face. He ached all over, but it was, at least, proof that he was alive. However, as he attempted to move around, he felt a weight upon him. “Mpph!” he groaned, trying to shake it off.

“Wha- oh! Sorry Jack,” Jen said, prying herself up from the ground and off of Jack. Jack gave a nod of gratitude before getting up himself.

“Don’t worry about it,” replied Jack, as he looked around. Given the arching roof, the hole above them being the only light source, and the plentiful stalactites and stalagmites, they appeared to be in a cave- although, it wasn’t a normal cave. No, this was a cave on the moon: it was a Space Cave! Jack gave a small chuckle, before saying, “Now where is Temmie?”

Just as he said it, the little creature came into view, drifting slowly into the cave as she held tight to a large, black umbrella. Jack and Jen glanced at Temmie, then at each other, then back at Temmie. “Yaya! Let’s do it again!” the monster cheered.

“NO. We are not doing that again,” Jen said, before wincing and grabbing her side.

“Aww,” Tem whined, giving Jen a look of sympathy as she stuffed the umbrella back into her messy grey hair. “Are yous hurt?”

“It’s… Fine…” Jen said, staggering to her feet. 

“Oh. OK!” Temmie said with glee, her face resuming its usual carefree expression.

“Well, Temmie said that action was down here,” Jack said. “Now we just need to find out where.” He took another glance around, his expression becoming less and less enthused as he saw how the interior of the cave got darker and darker the farther away they went from the hole in the roof. It seemed that their overhead light was the only bright spot in the cavern. “How’re we going to see, though.”

“Tem has an answer!” Temmie cried. Temmie vibrated intensely for a few seconds before she suddenly lit up with a blue glow. “Follow Tem!” she said, dashing off into the cave, lighting the way as she went.

“Slow down!” Jen shouted as she walked after Temmie, still clutching her side. Jack followed closely after.

“What is Temmie, some sort of Minion?” asked Jack

“Paint her yellow and put some overalls on her and then maybe,” Jen chuckled.

Temmie froze in her tracks. Slowly, her head rotated 180 degrees like an owl, glaring at Jack and Jen. “Overalls?” she whispered, her eyes flashing red. “Overalls… not cute.”

“Minions are cute and they wear overalls,” Jen said, backing away from Temmie nervously.

“Overalls… farm-wear. Farmers… muscley. Muscles are not cute!”

“Ok, ok! Calm down!” Jen said, starting to get creeped out.

“OK!” Temmie said, her tail wagging as she returned to her smiling self. She continued onwards, sniffing the air, searching for action.

“Well… that’s a strange reaction,” admitted Jack.

The cave shook suddenly, chunks of stalactites raining from above, as things began to stir in the shadows. “Well this can’t be good,” Jack said as he reached for his sword.

Jen cried out suddenly as she doubled over, clutching her head.

Jack instantly ran over to her, before he shouted, “Jen, are you okay?!”

“I'm fine! Just make them stop screaming!” Jen shouted. As soon as she said that, Krawl began to emerge from the shadows, surrounding the three of them.

Jack slowly turned around, summoning Samurite and Leo. The Krawl didn't even flinch as they surrounded Jen and Temmie in the shape of a triangle. Jack sighed, before he said, “It’s a shame this place is weakened as much as it is; otherwise I could use Vilakroma, but I don’t want to cause a cave-in.”

Jen then cried out again, before fainting. The majority of the Krawl turned their attention to Jack and moved to get between Jen and him as the others began to swarm her.

Jack spun back around, shouting, “Leo! Keep them safe!” Seconds later, Leo jumped in front of Jen and Temmie, bearing his teeth towards the oncoming army of Krawl.

Jack looked back towards the group in front of him, before saying, “Samurite… let's do this.” They both charged towards the approaching Krawl. Samurite began slicing through a small group of Krawl. He was pounded by multiple tendrils from some of the surrounding Krawl, before the group surrounding him disappeared and turned into purple smoke. Just as the Krawl were eliminated, Samurite collapsed onto the ground, forcing Jack to recall him.

Jack looked back towards Leo to see him holding his own, better than Samurite did. Better try him out, Jack thought as his Rygazelle appeared next to him.



Jack shouted, “Ryan, Thunder Dash,” within seconds the Spectrobe was surrounded by what looked to be a water coating that sparkled as bright white sparks flew across his body before he charged forwards into the Krawl. A massive electrical charge flew between each of the Krawl in the group, before they exploded into purple smoke, leaving the immediate area clear of any hostiles.

Temmie turned her little head towards Jen’s unconscious body, looking confused. “Human,” she said, her voice, inquisitive. “Human. Get up.” 

In the background, Ryan clawed through a horde Krawl, lighting shooting off in all directions. 

“Human. Now not bedtime,” Temmie said, giving Jen a poke. Her head stirred a little, then dropped back to the ground. “Sleeping on floor… not good. May need to consult chiropractitioner.” 

In the background, a larger Krawl wrapped its tendrils around Ryan, holding it tight as it thrashed to escape.

“Fine then. Don’t blame Tem when human wakes up with moderate to severe back pain.”

In the background, Ryan broke free, before charging through the enormous Krawl, electricity blasting the alien into cinders and smoke. A stray lightning bolt flew over Temmie’s head. Temmie ignored it, choosing instead to curl up next to Jen and take a nap.

“Dammit!” shouted Jack as one of the tendrils collided with his body, sending him tumbling towards Jen and Temmie before both Leo and Ryan appeared in front of them, protectively. They both began to glow in a white light.

Jack smiled, and proceeded to pick up both Jen and Temmie as he ran towards the opening that Ryan made, before he screamed, “Leo, Ryan, go for it!” With that, the area was surrounded by a green light as a large tornado appeared in the middle of the room, sucking the remaining Krawl towards it. The tornado soon became purple, filled with the smoky remains of the Krawl. 

Seconds later the tornado dissipated, leaving the room clear. A trapdoor opened on the floor in the middle of the room.

Jack then turned to Temmie, before he calmly said, “Look after Jen till I get back… I need to check this out.”

Temmie gave a salute, and some trumpets played in the background. Crashes and bangs echoed through the cavern, a twenty-one gun salute. The sound of fighter jets screamed by, soaring through the air. The earth rumbled with the force of explosions. A woman cried out for her children. Screams of pain sounded across the rock, along with the hail of bulletfire. A chorus sang, “God Bless America.” 

Jack then stared at Temmie in disbelief before he slowly walked towards the centre of the room holding his left hand in a fist, vertically in the air. As he reached the staircase, he could see that it was a large spiral staircase that appeared to be made of some sort of carved white stone… almost like it was some type of tomb. Jack took a deep breath before he lowered his hand and cautiously began to walk down the long winding staircase, into the unknown. 





As Jack reached the bottom of the stairs, he looked around to see what appeared to be an open room apart from a large black door that appeared to have an intricate design that flowed out from near the middle, where there was a symbol that looked like a six-pointed star on some sort of disk, a small green circular gem being the only other coloured symbol in room.

As Jack got closer to the door, he placed a hand on it, before slowly pushing it away from him as a loud creaking noise echoed throughout the room. As he slowly crept into the next room, he realised that it was pitch black, before a multitude of torches lit up around the room, glowing with bright green flames.

Jack looked towards the centre of the room to see a large multicoloured Krawl looming threateningly before him. It had a green body with shards of rubble sticking out of it, two blue legs on its right and two more green ones on its left, and carried what appeared to be a light column from the side of a temple in the large yellow arm that stuck out from its body.



Flanking the hulking beast were two smaller ones. They appeared to lack legs entirely, instead being shaped like a slug that had a few bad rumbles in the fight pit. It was brown, flecked with spots of green, and a few knobby features stood out from its head.


Seconds later, Windora and Ryan appeared by Jack’s side before Windora launched two tornados towards one of the slug-like creatures. One vortex lifted the Krawl up into the air using one whilst Ryan used the second to propel itself towards the Krawl and speared it with his blade, before landing on the ground and charging towards the second slug before proceeding to spear it using the blade on the opposite side of his body, before both of the slugs remains exploded into purple smoke.

Jack turned towards the large Spectrobe just in time to notice that it was preparing to swing the column down to strike him.If that hits me I’m as good as dead, he thought.

Seconds later, the Krawl faltered as Jack noticed that Ryan had smashed into its side. As the Krawl turned to strike him, Windora rammed him from the other direction. The Krawl turned around again, switching targets between the two Spectrobes and, in turn, ignoring Jack.

This continued for a minute until both Windora and Ryan began to glow. Jack smiled, before electricity began sparking around the room. A massive bolt of lightning struck the Krawl and it exploded into a purple mist.

Seconds later, the ground began to shake once again, before a small white pedestal rose from the ground and a small door opened on the other side of the room. Once Jack got closer to the pedestal, he could see an object that appeared to look like the symbol that was on the door.

Jack slowly reached his hand towards the object. Carefully, he lifted it from the pedestal, which slowly disappeared back into the floor where it had come from before. Jack turned back around before slowly walking back out the room and up the stairs.





There was a loud hissing sound as the shadows around Jen and Temmie began to stir again. The Krawl were regrouping and preparing for an attack.

“Uh oh,” Temmie muttered, glancing at the Krawl as they slowly spread out, encircling the two. She turned back to her companion. “Human! Wake, wake! Pink squishies attempting counteroffensive.”

“Errgh… huh?” Jen murmured.

“Counteroffensive! Return fire! Mirror coat! Send more waifus at them!” Temmie screamed.

Jen blinked a few times as she started to wake up. “Wha… What’s going on?” she said before noticing they were surrounded. “Oh no…”

“Waifus!” Temmie ordered. “You have waifus, right? Everything has waifus. Call upon the power! Vanquish squishy evil!”

“Waifu’s? You mean my… S-spectrobes?” Jen asked a tinge of fear in her voice.

“What’s the difference?” Temmie cried. “No time for questionings! Why you questionings?”

“I… Nevermind…” Jen said, before shakily getting to her feet and activating her Prizmod. “Tank, Grilden, I need your help… Please?”

Seconds later both Tank and Grilden appeared beside her, looking around in confusion before spotting Jen. Instead of attacking the Krawl, Tank loomed forwards and lowered his horn towards her, looking as if it was going to charge her.

“No!” Jen screamed as she backed away from Tank. She tripped over a loose stone or Temmie Flake and fell over backwards.

However before Tank could charge, Grilden quickly uses her tail to knock Tank off-balance before turning back around and firing off three large balls of energy into the group of oncoming Krawl.

“T-thank you…” Jen whimpered as she looked at Grilden.

Grilden nodded one of its heads towards her before looking back towards the Krawl.  Both heads fired what appeared to be blades of air towards the Krawl that began to slice them in half. Meanwhile, Tank returned to his feet and shot a glare towards Jen, before charging towards the Krawl and smashing into them with its horn.

Temmie raised her head. Her right ear twitched. A single strand of hair poked up. She sneezed.

“Human,” she barked, tapping Jen. “Tem hear sound like beating heart.”

“Huh? what are you talking about?” Jen asked, glancing away from the battle, where Tank was wrestling with a large Krawl, each fighting to knock the other over.

Temmie sneezed again. A few puffs of smoke poured out of her mouth. “Wait,” she murmured. “Beating stopped.” 

“I still have no clue what you're going on about…” Jen sighed before a Krawl jumped towards them. Jen, on a split-second decision, kicked Temmie away from where the Krawl was going to land before jumping in the opposite direction. Temmie bounced a couple times like a rubber ball, before rolling to a stop against a rock.

In the middle of the room, the earth exploded upwards. Tank was sent flying while the Krawl slammed against the rock wall. A slab of wood, the remains of a trapdoor, clattered to the ground.

“What was that!?” Jen said, distracted by the unknown explosion.

Seconds later, a small green creature appeared from the trapdoor, before it launched a tornado towards the oncoming Krawl, launching it into the air. The familiar image of Jack appeared from the hole in the ground, riding on a blue Spectrobe with his sword raised above his head.

“Oh…” Jen said smartly as she stared at the odd sight. Suddenly, she felt herself being grabbed from behind. She tried to call out, but something smothered her mouth. “Mph!”

Jack, glancing in the right direction, caught sight of Jen being dragged off. “No! Ryan, quickly!” he shouted before the Spectrobe ran towards Jen. Jack reached down quickly grabbed hold of Temmie as he passed her lying on the ground.

“Human?” Temmie asked, glancing up at Jack. “Where you come from? Where we going?”

“From the hole, and something's dragging Jen away… we’re going after her… I refuse to lose her,” explained Jack.

There was then a loud roar as something fell from the ceiling and landed on Rygazelle, allowing the Krawl that had grabbed Jen to scurry away. Jack quickly leapt from his Spectrobe and rolled away from the object, holding Temmie near his chest. He called Ryan back at the sight of a familiar looking Krawl... It was a tall, vaguely humanoid creature. Its arms and joints stuck out at sharp angles, making it look like chiseled rock or splintered wood, and it was black with red streaks covering its body. It had an arm made of some kind of stone rubble.



“Dammit, not this guy… what was his name, Gigagorga? What were his attributes?” muttered Jack.

Gigagorga then roared as he jumped towards jack, swinging his stone arm in front of him to try and land a hit.

Jack then quickly rolled to the side still holding Temmie. He placed her on the floor before he shouted, “Temmie get out of here!”

“Defeat that… whatever it is,” Temmie said, her parting words as she turned and burrowed into the rock, digging away like a mole.

Jack, nodded before shouting, “Try to find where they took Jen.” He turned to look back towards Gigagorga.

Gigagorga used the momentary distraction of the conversation to run towards Jack, and just as the Spectrobe Master turned back towards him he began to spin rapidly in an attempt to smash the tiny human.

Jack flinched back in shock as the Krawl’s fist got closer and closer to striking him and ending his life; however, seconds before his fist collided, Windora charged in front of the strike taking the full force of the blow to protect Jack as it was launched backwards into a nearby wall, before collapsing into a heap.

Jack quickly recalled Windora, before muttering, “Just three Spectrobes left.” He looked up as Leo and Pinorska appeared, flanking him.

Gigagorga raised its stone arm to strike at Leo and Pinorska but was tackled to the ground before he could attack by Tank and Grilden.

Jack looked toward Tank and Grilden and nodded, before he said, “All four of you buy as much time as possible,” to which each of them nodded.

Gigagorga flung Tank and Grilden off of him before charging at Jack. Jack glared towards Gigagorga as Pinorska swung its tail towards the gargantuan Krawl, causing it to stumble.  Leo charged towards it, spinning its body like a drill before colliding with the Krawl, sending it stumbling backwards.

Gigagorga roared after it regained its balance and spun into Leo, flinging him to the other side of the cavern. He then turned towards Tank and smashed his stone arm down on him, hitting the spectrobe with mortal damage, making it return to its prizmod.

Jack then looked towards the spot Tank had occupied only seconds ago, before turning to Leo to see him limping back towards him before collapsing to the ground in pain. Jack quickly recalled him, before he muttered, “Just Vilakroma, Pinorska and Grilden left…. this is bad. We could cause a cave-in at this rate.”

Gigagorga’s stone arm shattered, raining bits of rock on his surroundings. Grilden had done his own spin attack on Gigagorga and ended up destroying the stone arm, but in the process he ended up getting backhanded by the Krawl crashing into some stalagmites, causing him to have taken too much damage and return automatically to his prizmod. Gigagorga roared a third time out of pure rage and jumped at Jack, preparing to bring his remaining arm down on the human’s head.

Jack looked to his side to see a faint glow in his pocket. He remembered the object he’d picked up, hidden on that pedestal underground. As he grabbed it, the glow intensified, before a strange creature appeared above him. It looked like a strange cross between a squid and a hydra appeared above him and shone almost las if it was made of gold. It had what appeared to be black and green light going along the side of each of its ten heads. 



Seconds later, what appeared to be green light appeared near each of its heads. The glow slowly began to grow in intensity by the second before all of the beams fused into one enormous beam of energy that flew towards Gigagorga at high speed before colliding with it.

https://youtu.be/-LVqAqXLb_I?t=45s (please watch from 0:45 to 0:56 for full animation)

Gigagorga screeched as he was smashed into the wall by the beam. He was now partially embedded in the rock and unable to pull himself free as he flailed.

Jack glared at Gigagorga before Vilakroma appeared behind him and he shouted, “Vilakroma, end this!” 

Seconds later, Vilakroma lined up his cannon with the immobilized Krawl before he fired off multiple bursts of energy towards Gigagorga, raining attacks on the enormous creature until it exploded into purple mist. As the mist disappeared, the cavern began rumbling and shaking as stalactites started falling from the roof. There was then a clinking sound as something landed next to Jack’s foot.

Jack looked down to see the familiar image of Jen’s Prizmod resting against his foot. As he reached down and grabbed it, one of the stalactites came down upon him.  Jack froze at the sight of the enormous rock crashing down towards him, fear surging through his veins. Pinorska slammed into him, pushing him under Vilakroma before the Spectrobe was crushed by the falling stalactite and returned to Jack’s Prizmod.

“Human!” Jack turned, and among the falling rocks and clouds of dust, he spotted a familiar little monster. 

“Temmie?” Jack asked. The creature in question raced towards him, stalactites still crashing all around the cavern. 

“Human! Pick Temmie up!” Temmie ordered.

“What? Why?” Jack gaped, stupefied at Temmie’s odd request. “How is that supposed to solve anything?” 

“Temmie is invincible!” Tem cried, a wide smile coming to her face. “Stalactites ignore Tem. If Tem held above you, you no get skewered!”

Jack spent a second or so just staring at the furry little thing. This was insane, she had to be insane. “I don’t think-”

“Pick. Up. Tem!” Temmie screeched, the force of her voice legitimately sending Jack stumbling. 

The ground gave another rumble, and Jack fell over. As he tried to lift himself up, another boulder nearly crushed him, before being blasted by Vilakroma. The room was almost completely covered in dust, and falling rocks knitted together made the terrain nearly unnavigable. Jack gave a sigh, before recalling Vilakroma, grabbing Temmie, and rushing towards the bright spot that was the exit.

All around them, more stalactites crashed into the ground, sending shards of rock flying. The floor wobbled, shaking as if it were a faultline as Jack sprinted by, stumbling over large stones and crags. A stalactite landed right next to him, creating a sound so thunderous that his ears rang like church bells. Another landed about ten meters in front of him, forcing him to stop quickly and work his way around it.  

Jack had almost fought his way to the exit when a sharp crack echoed through the room. He skidded to a stop and glanced towards the room’s center. His eyes widened as he saw the ground all but collapsing in on itself, cracks snaking out through the ground before it gave way and broke apart, chunks of earth falling into a widening sinkhole.

“Flee! Sprint! Escape! Abscond! RUN!” Jack took Temmie’s advice and dashed away, sprinting as fast as his legs would carry him. His lungs burned for breath and his thighs felt as if they were slowly coming apart, but every time he glanced backwards, the collapsing ground had only gotten closer. He gave it another push, another shot of adrenaline, and soon they had reached the cave where the three of them had originally fallen down. A spotlight still poured in from the ceiling, where a small hole meant their only chance at escape. Temmie reached her little leg upwards, and it stretched out, extending up towards the light. Jack didn’t even question how Temmie’s leg extended like rubber; he just stood there, trembling as he heard the sounds of collapsing rock get ever closer. 

“Temmie,” he said, worry infused in his voice. “Hurry it up.”

“Tem’s trying,” Temmie responded.

“Temmie!” Jack cried as the tunnel they’d just came from gave way, and the cavern they were currently in rumbled and shook.

“Almost there,” Temmie responded.

“TEMMIE!” Jack screamed as cracks snaked under his feet and he could feel the ground below begin to give in.

“Just a few more seconds!” Jack shut his eyes, waiting to feel nothing but air beneath him…

The feeling didn’t come. Jack opened his eyes. The sinkhole had stopped centimeters from his feet, a few slabs of rock all that separated him from a drop into endless darkness. “Wha-”

“Got it!” Temmie’s extending leg grabbed the ledge far above their heads, and slowly began to retract, pulling Temmie up with it. Jack clung to the little monster for dear life as he gradually began rising out of the cave. As soon as his feet left the ground, the floor beneath gave way, and the entire cavern collapsed.

Tem pulled herself over the lip of the hole, dragging herself onto solid ground. Jack followed soon after; he stood for a moment, then wobbled and flopped over, embracing the sturdy mountainside. 

After a few seconds, he turned and glanced at Temmie. “...What the hell was that? The ground literally stopped collapsing until we could escape.”

Temmie looked pensive for a few seconds, a foreleg on her chin. “Tem will document phenomenon for good of science,” she said. “And Tem will call it… PLOT ARMOR.”

Before Jack could give a proper response, a random wormhole appeared next to Temmie and she was dragged into it by a cane. “Bye human. Your befuddlement was amusing,” she managed to say before the portal closed behind her.

Jack then lowered his head before looking at Jen’s prizmod that he still held in his hand before muttering “I’m a failure… I couldn’t protect you.” He then looked forwards to see the ship in the distance before slowly walking towards it with both of his hands in his pockets.





Once he reached the ship he slowly walked into it before he made his way towards cockpit before sitting down in his seat before resting his head in his lap before looking at his Prizmod and whispered “I’m no hero… I can’t even protect the woman I love never mind the innocent people in the universe.”

Suddenly Jack’s communicator turned on. “Jack? Jack! whats going on! ...” Sweetie Drops said as her face appeared on the holoscreen.


> Chapter 14
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	“I’m sorry for your loss Jack… We’ll keep a lookout to see if anyone can find clues as to what happened to her. But you can't spend your time moping around like this, we still need you in order to fight the Krawl.” Commander Grant sighed as he sat next to Jack.

“It’s not just that… I met her after I lost my cousins before they disappeared, she helped me to keep myself together while I came to terms with what happened… and now I’ve lost her as well,” Jack admitted while reaching down and rubbing the back of Komainu’s head.

“I see…” Commander Grant said, “Well, know that you have friends here to help you get through this.” He said patting Jack on the back before getting up.

Jack then looked forwards before saying, “Thanks Commander… I needed that.”

“What are friends for?” The commander replied as he walked out of the break room.

Jack then thought yeah what are friends for. He then stood up before saying to himself, “Why am I sitting here acting like I can’t do anything… the longer I sit here the longer I’m not looking for her.” He then jumped up before continuing to say to Komainu “Let's move, we have people to save,” before running towards his ship.





As Jack reached the ship, he slowly walked through the halls thinking time to sort this mess out.

Once he reached the cockpit he began to prepare the ship for takeoff. Once he finished all of the flight checks he slowly he slowly eased the ship forwards towards the hangar doors as they slowly opened.

The communicator then turned on, “Mission control to agent Jack! I repeat mission control to agent Jack! There has been a Krawl sighting around the vicinity of the orbital research center, we request your assistance in subduing the threat and assuring the safety of Professor Sparkle!”

Twilight Jack thought before he quickly said, “Send me the coordinates of the research station… I’ve got a friend to save.” The coordinates of the space station then began to scrawl across the communicator's screen before he started to input them into the ship’s guidance system.

Once the coordinates had been accepted, Jack then said, “Let her know I’m on my way,” before quickly getting the ship airborne and flew towards the coordinates.





As the ship slowly approached the Orbital Space Station, Jack could easily see multiple Krawl swarms moving in onto the station as he thought this place is going to be swarming with these things… and Vilakroma is definitely not an option here, can’t risk blowing the station up as the ship slowly docked with one of the numerous landing pads along the exterior of the station.

As soon as the ship docked he made his way to the back of the ship before he said “If this is following beyond the portals they will know my tricks from before… I need to come up with new techniques,” before he quickly went into the lab.

As he entered the lab he noticed Jen’s Prizmod resting against the table before muttering “I will find you… even if you can’t hear me, I swear I will get you back.”

He then walked towards the computer before Leo appeared on the screen. He then hectically grabbed multiple minerals from around the room before feeding them to Leo.

After a few minutes, Leo began to glow before a pen like object appeared in Jack’s hands before he clicked on a small button that appeared on the screen before Leo was surrounded by a white shell. He then quickly sliced it in a vertical pattern as the shell broke and a large red lion appeared where the egg was moments before.



Seconds later Leo disappeared before he was replaced by Ryan. Jack then repeated the same process as he had previously as the image of Ryan disappeared, before a six legged creature that looked similar to him appeared on the screen before disappearing. 



Jack then turned away from the Lab before grabbing Jen’s Prizmod and saying “I’m keeping this with me… when I find her I’m going to make sure this is returned.” He then placed it on his left arm as it snapped into place like his own. He then walked out of the lab and opened the ship's door ready to fight his way to Twilight.





Once Jack got out of his ship the hanger seemed deathly quiet… too quiet. This led him to think this place was supposed to be crawling with Krawl… so why is it so quiet?

As he slowly walked out of the ship with his sword drawn both Ryan and Leo appeared beside him before Leo walked forwards almost as if he was scouting the area ahead of him out. After a few seconds, he nodded his head towards him to tell him the coast was clear.

With that Jack walked off the ship swiftly followed by Ryan before walking to the nearest door as Leo got ready to attack any waiting Krawl once Jack opened the door.

Once Jack opened the door he saw that the corridor was swarming with Krawl. He then quietly nodded towards Leo before he fired off a red beam of energy that instantly disintegrated all the Krawl in the hallway excluding a small few that Ryan instantly speared with the blades on his wings.

Ryan then quickly charged to the end of the corridor before stopping at another pair of doors before Jack ran through the hallway flanked by Leo.

Jack then cracked the door open and scanned the room to make sure it was clear of Krawl, before slowly opening the door the rest of the way to find desks full of schematics and prototype devices that looked eerily familiar to him somehow.

”Who’s there!” Shouted a voice from behind one of the desks as a prototype blaster was lifted into the air by a purple aura and aimed at the entryway where Jack was standing.

“Relax Twilight it’s me, I came to get you out of here” Jack replied calmly as Ryan and Leo were keeping an eye on the door at the other end of the hall.

“Jack?” Twilight said in confusion as she popped up from behind the desk she was hiding under. “Oh thank goodness it's you!” She sighed before walking over to him.

“Yep… you feeling okay?” 

“Mostly… I haven't eaten in over a day…” Twilight chuckled nervously.

“Well then once we get back to the ship you can eat what you want. Better to get you out of here, grab anything you need and we’ll move, but make sure you can carry it easily by yourself,” replied Jack calmly, thinking back to when they first met.

“All I need is this disc,” Twilight said holding up a CD with Jen’s signature on it. “I can't let these designs fall into the wrong hands, especially those of the Krawl.”

“I doubt they need it now Twilight, let's get moving.”

“Just let me destroy the paper copies.” Twilight said before casting a spell on the lab causing it to catch fire, “Now let's get out of here!”

“I’m with you. Ryan, Leo you ready?”

Leo then lowered it's head before Jack said, “Jump on,” as he climbed onto Leo’s back. Twilight did as told and climbed onto Leo’s back before holding onto Jack so that she didn't fall off.

Jack then calmly said “Leo, get us back to the ship. Ryan, clear the way, Twilight… hold on tight.” They then began to head back towards the ship.





Once they got onto the ship Jack asked, “Okay Twilight, were there anyone else on the station?”

“The others were able to evacuate in the escape pods before the Krawl arrived, but I ended up trapped because I went back for Jen’s designs,” Twilight replied. 

”Right then, let's get out of here, ” Jack said as he recalled Leo and Ryan before they made their way to the ship's cockpit before they made their way back towards Equis.





Once the ship landed back safely at the spaceport in Equestria Jack turned to Twilight before he said, “And we’re back. Twilight, you know the Krawl won’t need your information, they do have Jen now.”

“Just because they have her doesn't mean that she will cooperate with them if they decided to keep her alive for some reason that is…” Twilight said as she walked out of the ship. “I’ll report to the commander, you take a few days off. You look like you could use some alone time.”

“I guess you're right, I just worry for her. Anyway thanks, Twilight… a break will do me some good, anything you’d recommend doing in town?”

“Well, I would recommend going to the shopping district. They have some interesting stuff there that you might find useful.” Twilight said before teleporting away.

Jack then chuckled before asking himself, “Whats with women and shopping?” as he made his way towards the shopping District.





Once Jack reached the shopping District he saw multiple shops that appeared to be working out of some old patrol ships.

The first was selling what seemed to be some potions of some kind, the second tons of minerals but the ones that Jack was the wariest of were some strange black minerals that seemed out of place with the rest of them, the third store sold what appeared to be some sort of badges of some kind which led him to think maybe something I could start collecting when I'm not busy.

When he reached the fourth ship he saw what looked to a lot of different mining equipment ranging from drills to what looked like a hairdryer of some kind, but what interested him the most was and object that looked like a scanner which he recognised as the Giga tool which he brought in a heartbeat. He also brought two new drills, one which was red, and another that was blue but strangely looked like it had a shower head attached to it. 

Once he finished buying the equipment he needed from the stores he began to walk through towards the nearby streets. As he was walking along he saw a small store that had a sign which looked like a feather with what looked to be a sofa of some kind.

As Jack walked inside he saw what appeared to be a tan earth pony with a brown mane and green eyes, he also wore what appeared to be a blue suit. As he got closer he also saw that the pony was wearing two cufflinks one in the shape of a feather and the second in the shape of a chair. He also had what appeared to be nameplate engraved with the name ‘Davenport.’

“Hello there! How may I help you today sir?” Davenport said to Jack as he approached the shop.

“Well, to be honest, I was actually wondering what you actually have here?” Jack asked calmly.

“Well, we mainly sell writing utensils and furniture. Would you like to buy some?” Davenport said excitedly.

“Actually, furniture may be a good idea, my ship does seem to be missing a few home touches and I am living there more often than not… sure what you got?”

Davenport led Jack into the shop. As he saw that the inside of the ship had what appeared to be stone supports that appeared to be holding up carved arches around the room. There were also what looked to beds around the room and different coloured pillows set out on shelves. But what surprised Jack the most was a strange lack of furniture that he expected as the shop seemed to only be selling bedding.

“I was expecting more furniture” Jack admitted.

“Well… due to the recent attacks I haven’t been getting any new wares in, so I’m working with what I have left.” Davenport sighed.

“Uh, the Krawl are making it hell for everyone. I guess I forgot how they are affecting local businesses” Jack admitted.

“Well… I'm sure the PPP are doing their best it’s not like it’s easy for them to deal with those things.”

“It’s not easy without some special friends”

“You're acting like you survived them before.”

“I’m the one who’s been dealing with them. When I next go out I'll see if I can pick up any of your shipments.”

“You would!? Thank you, that would be very helpful!” Davenport then said excitedly as he took Jack’s hand and shook it in gratitude.

“Where do you get your wares from, I might struggle to get them for you without knowing that.”

“Oh, I think they come from a small community on Daipon. When you get there ask for someone named Braeburn, he can help you find the people who make the furniture.” Davenport said as he released Jack from the handshake.

“Well, then I’ll go get your shipments and once I do I'll buy some of them off you,” Jack said calmly

“Thank you, I’ll repay you for this someday!” Davenport said as Jack left the shop.





Once Jack got out of the shop he heard someone shout, “Hey! You, your that Jack kid, the only person who’s capable of getting minerals safely with those alien creatures around!”

Jack then turned around to see a brown unicorn that had a yellow mane that was pulled back and cut short so it looked ended just behind his head. He then said “I’m sorry sir… is there something you need?”

“It’s not what I need from you… it’s what I can do for you.” The Unicorn said.

“Sorry, and you are?”

“The names Cyrus, mineral expert and information broker, you need information I'm your guy”

Jack the groaned as he thought Oh this guy is as bad as in the game… I actually want to punch him through a wall

“And I want to offer you a job, you’ll be paid of course”

“Right… umm, Cyrus… I need to ask what is it you actually want of me, I can’t be your little slave.”

“I never called you a slave… you’ll need to bring me any minerals you find and I’ll pay you with information or bits depending on the rarity of the mineral in question, you won’t get a better deal in the whole system.” Cyrus shouted.

“So I bring you my minerals and you pay me for what you think it’s worth.”

“Exactly kid”

“So you rip me off and pay me the worst price of the planet,” Jack argued

“No I'd never rip off an honest member of the PPP, especially one who would be working with me,” Cyrus replied

“Forgive me for being sceptical, but your kind are all the same. You lie your way into power and then cheat hard working citizens out of their money to buy yourself more rings and fancy clothes while the rest of us struggle to make enough to survive the week.”

“Hmm, you think me to bad of a guy. But fine if that's your opinion of me I’ll leave you be, but you will regret your choice one day,” he replied as he walked past Jack, punching him in the ribs with brass covered knuckles.

Jack collapsed to the floor while holding his side in pain before muttering, “I doubt that”. He then thought I could get him for assaulting a government official… but I ain’t that petty before slowly getting up and making his way back towards the ship.





Once Jack reached Daipon he began to skim the treeline with the cruiser looking for any hints of civilisation only to find that there was no way to see through the dense treeline from above. “I’ll need to land the ship and search for it on foot… not a desirable outcome,” he muttered to himself before he saw a nearby clearing that looked just big enough for the ship to land in. 

Once the ship landed Jack slowly walked out before he said “Leo will stick out here, better use Ryan to search for the town.” Before Ryan appeared just outside the ship with his head lowered waiting for Jack to jump on.

Jack then chuckled before saying, “You couldn’t wait could you buddy?” As he slowly walked off the ship and climbed onto Ryan’s back before the ship's hatch began to close behind him. They then began to search the forest floor.

As they travelled through the forest, Jack realised that the trees seemed to begin separating slightly, as if the area was organised. Jack then looked up as he noticed that the trees were bearing some sort of familiar fruit. As he reached towards it he realised that it was an apple and therefore meant he was most likely in an apple orchard.

“Whatcha doin?” Came a gravelly voice from behind Jack.

Jack then quickly spun around to see a tall red earth pony that had orange hair that who wearing blue overalls and a stetson. He then shook his head before he said “Sorry I was looking for somebody who goes by the name Braeburn, I was asked to pick up a delivery for Davenport from here,” Jack admitted before recalling Ryan back to his Prizmod.

“I see, so why are you reaching for one of my apples?” The pony asked, crossing his arms.

“I’m sorry about that, I didn’t actually realise I was on a farm I been wandering through the forest and wandered here, If you would prefer I could pay for the apple as a lot extra for me trespassing on your property,” Jack admitted.

“Anyone is allowed to walk around here, it's just the fruit that people have to be careful of.” The pony snorted as he waved the subject off.

“Ah well sorry… how much do you need me to pay for the apple?”

“Two bits an apple for off-worlders.” The pony said, “Now, you said you were looking for Braeburn?”

“Yes I did” Jack replied as he passed three bits to the pony and said “I was sent by one of his clients he hadn't been getting his shipments due to all the attacks. I came to collect it for him.” Jack explained.

“I see, I’ll take you straight to him then.” The pony said as he accepted the bits before walking off, indicating for Jack to follow him.

“Okay then” Jack calmly replied as he followed the pony.

After a while of wandering through the forest like orchard with the earth pony they eventually, exited the forest into what looked like a small town. “Welcome to Appleloosa, Braeburn house is the second one to your left once you enter town via the main road.” He said before walking off.

“Ah, thank you for you help,” Jack replied before following the directions he was given by the pony.





Once Jack had reached the house that the pony had directed him to he saw that in front of him was what appeared to be a small cottage. The outside looked to have been painted red, and near the top appeared to have a symbol in the shape of an apple carved into the wood on the door, as well as a second that seemed to painted into the wood in what seemed to be pink paint.

As he approached the house he notices a small red mailbox in the shape of what appeared to be a barn that had the name ‘Braeburn’ spelt out underneath it.Well can’t say it isn’t clear who lives here, Jack thought to himself.

He then slowly began to walk towards the door before he knocked on it as he heard the sound of someone moving on the other side.

“I’m coming!” Someone shouted from inside before the sound of hooves approaching the door was heard and the door was pulled open from the inside.

As the door opened Jack could see a tall earth pony stallion that had yellow coat along with orange mane and tail, he was wearing a brown vest along with some blue jeans and a brown stetson. 

“Sorry, but are you Braeburn?” Jack asked the pony.

“The one and only, do you need something?” Braeburn asked politely.

“Ah yes, I was asked by one of your clients to come and get his next shipment of furniture. He hasn’t received anything thanks to all the attacks.”

“Oh, I see,” Braeburn said as he motioned for Jack to come inside before leading him into what looked like a living room and sitting down. “So what would you like me to do about it?”

“I was wondering if it was possible for me to collect Davenport’s next shipment for him and take it back to Equis,” Jack explained.

“Oh? Is that all?” Breyburn asked quizzically, raising an eyebrow at Jack.

“Why are you so sceptical about why I’m here… I’m not here to lie I'm here to help everyone, it is my job as a member of the PPP,” Jack admitted.

“If you say so, can't be too sure nowadays.” Braeburn sighed.

“You don’t really seem to trust people do you,” Jack pointed out.

“We don't really trust outsiders that much nowadays, you can blame Cyrus for that.” Braeburn said, “Now how do you plan on transporting all Davenport's supplies?”

“I was going to bring my ship around once I found you, It would take a while to get to it and I didn’t know where to find you he only told me you were on the planet,” Jack explained.

“Well, that's because Davenport, even if he is a good friend of mine, has never been to this here town before. He only knows what I told him back in the day. Now go get your ship and land it in the clearing at the center of town, we’ll meet you there with the cargo.”

“Okay then, I’ll be back soon,” Jack replied as he walked out the house as Ryan appeared outside the door with his head lowered towards Jack. Jack quickly climbed onto it’s back before he made his way back to his ship.





Once Jack had brought his ship towards the location that Braeburn had directed him to, he slowly began to dock the ship in the clearing.

Once the ship landed he opened the hanger's door to see multiple ponies some of them waiting nearby and order holding multiple pieces of cargo.

“Took ya long enough,” Braeburn said with a sly grin.

“Well I’m sorry, it’s not like I had to travel on the back of a Spectrobe or anything for about an hour before even reaching my ship,” Jack muttered. 

“Take it easy, I was just teasing.” Braeburn chuckled, “Now, where do you want us to put all of Davenport's cargo?”

“The best place from be to place it inside and tie it down, we had an issue in the past when some cargo wasn’t and… someone I knew got a bit of a shock as we made our way around the ship once it was on autopilot.” 

“I see… Alright, let's get this cargo ready to go, everyone!” Breyburn said before shouting as he and some of the other villagers began loading the stuff meant to go to davenport into Jack’s ship.

Jack then looked back to Braeburn before saying “Thank you for helping me with this. I was also wondering what did Cyrus do to make you wary of outsiders?”

“It's no problem, though as for what Cyrus did… It's best if we don't talk about that. Many of us are still sore about the incident.” Braeburn replied

“Fair enough, and you are not the only ones who are sore because of him,” Jack admitted as he remembered his encounter with Cyrus earlier. “I feel like what I said to him will cause problems in the near future.”

“I know how you feel, we refused to go along with one of his harebrained schemes and there hasn't been a shipment crew or merchant here since.” Braeburn chuckled nervously as the last of the goods were loaded onto Jack’s ship.

“Well… I’ll make sure to fix what he did you all and get trade back to your town, you have my word,” Jack promised.

“Thanks, your generosity is appreciated,” Braeburn said before saying goodbye and leaving along with the rest of the bystanders.

“And it’s a promise I aim to keep,” muttered Jack and he slowly walked back to his ship as the door shut behind him. He then carefully checked that each piece of cargo was tied down correctly before making his way back to the cockpit before he prepped the ship for takeoff and made his way back to Equis.





Shortly after Jack delivered the cargo to Davenport he received a letter that seemed to materialise out of thin air, inviting him to come to Beacon academy where Sun was awaiting his arrival. He smiled weakly before accepting the invitation and preparing for the dimension jump.

> Side Story 1
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


-At Beacon Academy-


A portal then opened in the sky as a spaceship came through and landed next to the group. As soon as it landed a door opened near the back and lowered a ramp which a redhead wearing white armour walked out of. 

“Sorry I’m late…” He sighed as he walked over to Sun.

“Glad you can make it Jack,” Sun replied, noticing an outstretched hand from Coco of team CFVY. “Yes Coco?”

“What are we doing?” Coco asked, slightly annoyed.

“Simple… Like in the initiation exam, Nicko has a collection of Relics where he would be. However, he only gives out the relics to those who beat him in combat.”

“Why do we have to do this?” Coco questioned. “I’m not part of your pet project school.”

“We are doing this so the professors can analyze your skills both on your own and in teams. Asphy just thought that you would want the chance to shoot some stuff without being chewed out by the guards.”

“What the hell, count me in.” Coco shrugged. Fox massaged his temples in annoyance. “There any time limits?”

“Right now, it is only an hour before noon. I’m giving you all the way til Sundown and a little afterwards to get this done. So in total… 8 hours. How you make your approach is entirely up to you.” With that, the faunus took one of his weapons and aimed it into the air. “This begins… now-.”

“Why am I here?” Reese asked, glaring at Sun. “I never wanted to help you... Or be near any of you idiots.”

“Technically… you’re students… not fugitives.” He fired off the shot, signaling the start of the exercise as Reese raced past him, almost knocking him over in the process as everyone else ran straight out the gate. Leo herself thought that flying would give her a head start. But upon entering the everfree, something warm began to glow under her feet.

“Clever…” Leo muttered before being flung into the outer atmosphere by an explosion. Rena, the Renamon that was there soon realized what was happening once she stepped on one.

“Oh… Landmines… Wait LAND-!?” She shouted before being launched backwards into Sugarcube Corner.

“Holy Sh*t, he planted landmines!!”

Somewhere in the distance, the Rune Slayer smirked as he laid back at the old ruins in the Everfree. “Well, looks like they found the landmines.”

“Oh my god, HE PLANTED LANDMINES!?!” Sun reacted as he, Asphyxious and Fluttershy all saw what was happening. With the only response being nearby from one of the others that was with him.

“Don’t you walk your dogs out there?” Jack asked, staring at the explosions in surprise.

Fluttershy whined in response to Jack’s comment, realizing the kind of danger that her animals would be in.. “Oh Angel Bunny… Please be okay.”

“Huh, landmines. I’ll have to use that idea for my next lesson.”  Asphyxious said eating some popcorn. Only causing Sun to facepalm as the thought of possible safety lectures for the Beacon staff lingered in his head.

Reese just hovered over the field with her board, giving everyone behind her the middle finger. “Later losers!”

Coco picked Fox up by the collar of his shirt. “Go long!”

“Wait! Coco, think abou-” Fox was cut off as he was thrown across ninety feet, which she repeated with the rest of her team.

As for Reese though, her ride was short lived when a wire that she cut with her board lead to a tree branch smacking her in the face. Nicko himself, noticing Coco’s attempt to throw her friends towards the goal just smirked a little. “Is it just me or did they forget the huge basin gap with the bridge?”

Coco jumped on one of the mines and used it to propel herself into her team, sending them farther. Only for a series of Aquamarine swords to fly past them while they were airborne. Sun saw this and then looked back at Asphyxious and Jack as he sighed.

“No offense to Nicko, but he’s being awfully casual about this… I mean as casual as usual, but isn’t he dealing with an initiation exam mixed together with overwhelming odds and possible Angry birds scenarios given Coco’s approach?”

“It all depends on who he fights first and who can last long enough for there team mates to show up. But they're not fighting as a team, Nicko planned this all out from the start.” Asphyxious said calmly.

“True. He was possibly for them to plan some kind of tactical assault, but instead had to deal with a frontal attack with a bunch of idiots walking into enemy territory,” Sun replied as he took some popcorn with his tail.

“Who knows what kinds of traps and other plans he’s laid ahead of them” Asphyxious replied eating some popcorn to. “Attacking mindless like that won’t get them anywhere.”

“Um… if it makes him feel any better…” Fluttershy momentarily squeaked as he looked up in the sky. “There’s a giant meteor in the sky.” That caused both Sun and Asphyxious to look at each other and for the Faunus to almost choke on his popcorn as he saw what she was talking about.

“Did we put a limit on what the students could use?” Asphyxious asked Sun. 

“I…… don’t think so… Wait a second…” Sun said, using Asphyxious’ spyglass to look at the falling meteorite. “Holy sh*t, that’s Leona.” 





Back with Nicko and Sun, the Faunus was showing them around Campus, introducing them to the members of the faculty as he stopped by one of the other rooms. “And this is Jack. He and his partner Jen are both instructors here, but I don’t know where Jen is. Is she at the lab?”	

Jack then slowly looked up before saying “No… she’s not here… I don’t know where she is.”

“Oh my god, is she okay?” Sun then asked.

“Wish I knew she was taken… by the Krawl.” Sun’s expression changed a little as he put his hand on Jack’s shoulder.

“We’ll help find her man. I promise.” He assured him, Nicko adding on as he said that he would do anything in order to help him out.

“Thanks… I just wish I was quicker when it happened.” added Jack “maybe she wouldn't have been captured”

“Hey… Let’s just focus on right now-.” Sun replied, before Nicko noticed something out of the corner of his eye. 

“Uh… I hate to interrupt… but is that Penny chasing Coco with a chainsaw?”

It was indeed. Coco used her weapon to block the chainsaw as Penny cackled and ran after her like she was Leatherface.

“ …… I’m getting a bad vibe that this is going to turn into Ponyville Chainsaw Massacre if we don’t do something.” Nicko told the other two as they watched several different ponies fleeing the area.

Penny then threw it to hug Coco. “I want beans! Haha~!”

“O…… kay. Jack, how good are you with robotics?” Sun then asked him as he turned around. “Something tells me the glitches in Penny’s system would get somepony hurt if we don’t do something.”

“Sandy shore, splendid, I want a hug… I’m so lonely!” Penny started crying while cackling.

“I’m afraid I’m not the techie of our group… that was Jen not me,” Jack admitted. It was then though that Nicko actually did something that startled both of them. He walked towards Penny… and gave her a hug.

“There there… There’s nothing to be scared of…”

“...... Holy crap, Nicko is the Penny whisperer.”

“What’s going on out here?” Asphyxious asked walking up to them. “It sounds like all kinds of crazy out here.”

“I think Penny needs some help… and comfort.” The Rune Slayer said, surprised to find her curled up and purring in Nicko’s lap like a kitten.

Oh, I see.” Asphyxious said was he walked up to them. “Hey there you okay?” 

“She doesn’t seem like it.” says a voice from behind him. As they both turned around, they were greeted by a new figure that neither of them recognized.

“Hello… And you’re?” Asphyxious asked.

“Seriously you don’t remember me… my names Craig… we met at that christmas party awhile back.”

“A lot of things happened at that party I don’t remember them all.” Asphyxious replied. 

“... Have no strings…” Penny mumbled. “You’re all puppets…”

“Do you mind if I try and help her?” Craig asked as a yellow AI that looked like a Halo spartan  appeared on his right shoulder.

When Sun heard the words, red flags appeared in his mind. “Oh sh*t…” yanking something out of his pocket, he shouted something as someone new soon arrived. “Lance, get out here!! This is an emergency!” Lightning crackled around them as the Adept named Lance Walker soon arrived. However, the first thing that he saw was Penny… and how she was freaking out.

“Oh crap, Hi Lance…” Asphyxious said nervously waving awkwardly.

“Hello to you too, Asphy.” He said, redirecting focus back to Penny. “Everyone back away… She’s corrupted.” He said as he rummaged through his bag and grabbed something

“S-s-so…” Penny said, grinning. “You finally arrived. You know, I was wondering if Sun would chicken out and call his cousin for help…”

“Kerrigan… What the hell did you do to Penny?!” Lance snarled, now showing a gem in his hand.

“Oh, nothing much. I just show-sho-sho-showed her my point of view. I don’t think she handled it well…” Penny said, her body jittering.

“You’re hurting her, dammit!” He snarled. “But I do know one way to remove you from the picture.” With his wristband active, he then said something that would surprise anyone we knew. “Aurora, help Penny!”

Craig then jumped down before saying “You to Lambda.”

“Impossible.” Aurora said. “I don’t work like that Lance, I’d rather not… Mess with her.”

“I’m not letting her DIE!!” Lance said, realizing something. “Where’s her power core…? I think I might have a trick… Kerrigan is Ultron…” It was then that Nicko noticed a yellow gem in his hand and his eyes widened. “So we need a Vision.”

“Neither of us are.” added Craig.

“Holy sh*t, he has a mind stone!”

“I never hurt Penny.” Kerrigan said.

“Kerrigan, you’re not bullsh*ting anyone.” Lance told her. “If you weren’t hurting her, than you would leave her alone. But you overstepped your boundaries… Now you’re going to pay the price.” He said as he looked at Craig and Nicko. “Hold her down.”

“On it” replied Craig before he continued to saying “Sorry Penny this will only hurt for a minute.”

“I haven’t hurt Penny whatsoever. I-I-I just took control over her body for a short time. I’ll even leave Penny if that’s what you want. This body has too many strings for my tastes.” Kerrigan said.

“Lambda… shut her up would you?” asked Craig before the AI saluted him and disappeared. 

“You think a simple AI can stop me? I’m more than an Artificial Intelligence.”

“Try a merge of two of the Alpha AI units.” argued Craig. 

“Hmmm, I thought it was you Sandy.” Asphyxious said as he walked up to Penny. “I didn’t think you was into body jacking.”

“I am not Sandy. My designation is Kerrigan.”

“But you sound like her and I miss her a lot.” Asphyxious said as he pulls Penny into a hug.

“You could consider me her sister. I used to be called Sandy Five.”

"Then come back with me~” Asphyxious purred at her. “We’ll get you your own body and I can take you home~”

“What’s going on?” Leona asked as she floated over with a bucket of soapy water and a sponge in her mouth. Nicko himself couldn’t make heads or tails about what was actually happening. But soon, he saw Asphyxious disappear into Penny’s head, just as another familiar face walked up next to him.

“Uncle Nicko, what’s up with all the racket-?” Nicko turned around to see his niece Faith, who had stopped mid sentence upon seeing Penny lying on the ground. “Oh my god, is she okay?”

“I-i don’t know… Penny been acting… weird.” The Rune Slayer explained, taking the time to tell her what happened all the way up to this point. Faith herself was surprised to see that Penny was similar to herself. But it also gave her an idea as she set herself down next to Penny.

“Moby, Remy… Link me up with Penny’s mind… I’m going in.”

“A-are you crazy-!?” The Adept Striker tried to protest, only to watch as the Mind Stone he had and it’s energy were absorbed through Faith as the circuits that were her veins glowed briefly.

“I wasn’t asking.” She said, just as she closed her eyes and let the process begin. “I’m doing this for her sake.”






-Half an hour later-


As Jack sat in the party alone as everyone had filtered off as the day progressed, he just sat there thinking about what had happened or was happening to Jen.

Cruger walked through a portal arriving at the party, “Hey Jack, how’s things?”

“Not great… I’m missing a few things… one of them more than others.” Jack said sadly.

“I noticed,” Cruger replied, “where is my favorite mad scientist?”

Jack then noticeably cringed before saying “Taken… by the Krawl… She’s gone.”

Cruger palled, “Man, my most sincere and heartfelt condolences, how?”

“We were overwhelmed during a mission by the Krawl… She was captured whist I was checking something farther in that looked to be a temple of some kind and when I got back up I saw her getting dragged away… I couldn't reach her in time.”

“Man, brutal, let us change the subject before this gets any more depressing, got any idea what you’ll be teaching?”

“If I remember correctly I was a combat instructor,” Jack replied.

“Huh, I was going to do a few myself,” Cruger replied. “Tactics, engineering, and possibly marksmanship.”

“Fair enough I think those suit you… you know there’s one student I heard about that got me thinking.” 

Cruger whistled, “Must be good if they caught your eye, who is?”

“Not for that reason… He looked familiar… The way he acted, it felt like I knew him.”

“Maybe you do,” Cruger said, “at least, from before.”

“What are you getting at?” Jack asked curiously.

“You had friends before you were Displaced right? Maybe he’s one of them.”

“Maybe… but it felt like it ran deeper than a friend, it felt closer to what it was like being near my family… but if it was them they would have been experienced by now, there we be no need for him to be a student.” 

“You’re assuming they arrived in their Equestria at the same point in time you arrived in yours,” Cruger said. “The main reason I’m as good as I am is that I arrived 30 years or so before Luna’s fall. Plus there’s the fact that time moves faster or slower in different verses. Long story short, you can’t judge when a person was Displaced by their experience.”

“I guess you're right… I just don’t know… he seemed like he was preoccupied, like he had his own reasons for being here though.”

“Either way, you should talk with him."

“That’s if I can find him again… he seems to keep disappearing.”

“Speaking of which,” Cruger said, “why don’t we mingle? The only people I know here are you and Sun.”

“Probably a good idea… although I heard that people are avoiding the staff room… don’t know why though.” admitted Jack.

“Judging by a few Displaced I’ve met, I don’t want to.”

“Probably a good idea… shall we stick together for a while?”

“Don’t see why not,” Cruger said, “never enter unknown territory alone if you can avoid it.”

“Well policemen rarely travel alone.” joked Jack.

“Well,” Cruger said, “let’s walk the beat.”

“Well then, you lead the way.”

“First things first,” Cruger said, “to the buffet! Think they have donuts?”

“Maybe… maybe” admitted Jack.

As they approached the serving station, they spotted a woman with long black hair, draconic purple wings folded against her back. Turning around, Zinnia smiled, waving to them both. “Hey Cruger!” she called. “Long time no see!”

“Hey Zinnia,” Cruger said, “Jack meet Zinna, the multiverse biggest nymphomaniac. Zinna meet Jack, play nice, he’s dealing with grade A problems right now.”

“Hey, I’ve calmed down!” the Draconid cried with joking indignation. “I’m actually engaged. But it’s nice to meet you Jack, hope everything works out for you.” Shaking Jack’s hand, Zinnia smiled warmly at them. “So what are you guys doing here? You teaching too?”

“Yep,” Cruger said, “don’t take this the wrong way, but I didn’t picture you as a teacher, for anything other than sex-ed anyway.”

Zinnia giggled slightly, shaking her head. “Nah, I’m a combat instructor. I do own an adult film studio in my world now though, so that fills the void for eighteen-plus jobs.”

“How many combat instructors do we need?” asked Jack.

“Displaced generally get in fights,” Cruger said, “by the way, what’s with the Nick Fury look Z?”

“What, this?” Zinnia asked, pointing to her eyepatch. “Oh, a fight with a genetic abomination went wrong. Fucker managed to get my eye.” To prove her point, Zinnia lifted the eyepatch, showing the large scar running across her eye, the colour having drained to leave a pure, milky white. The scar even seemed to cross the eyeball itself.

“Man,” Cruger said, “something tells me you’re gonna win a lot of barroom bets with that thing. By the way, how goes the struggle?”

“Everything’s done with now, thank god,” the Draconid said with a glad sigh. “Has been for a while.”

Cruger frowned, “Question, did you forget about me when it came time to cure Luna, or are time travel mechanics at play?”

Zinnia frowned in response, scratching her head in confusion. “No, you were there… You were the one who held Luna down until I could release everyone. Has that not happened for you yet?”

Cruger sighed, “Time travel, gives me a headache every time. If you don’t mind, stop talking about it before you make a paradox. Oh, how’s the little guy?”

“Haha, which one!?” the Draconid laughed. “I’m up to four kids now, Anubis! I’ll assume you’re talking about Stryker though, he’s great. Managed to evolve all the way up to a Salamence, and even saved a few lives all by himself.”

“Good for him,” Cruger said, “I’m guessing that at you had at least two of the other three though.”

“Well you met me when I was pregnant,” Zinnia shrugged. “And I actually had all three, the other two were twins. Rita, Johnny and Shauntel.”

“I said ‘at least’,” Cruger said, “by the way, heads up, there’s a Deadpool Displaced running around. I needed 3 therapy sessions before I could even take my helmet off after meeting him.”

“Sounds like a fun guy,” the Draconid chuckled. “So what else is new with Shadow Ranger Anubis Cruger, hmm?”

“Let’s see, I’m going to be teaching here but you probably could already guess that, met a couple of Kamen Riders, my bleed over is officially real, and I fought the Smooze.”

“Purple Smooze or Green Smooze?” Zinnia asked. “Because I looked the series up, and it turns out they’re two different creatures and the Green Smooze is kinda nice.”

“Purple,” Cruger said, “Deadpool beat it with pure randomness, but it was unnecessary.”

“Fu-!” Jubilee popped out of a portal and hit her face.

“Hey Jube!” Zinnia called with a laugh. “Come meet my friend Cruger!”

Jubilee got up and brushed herself off. “Zinnia? Why are you here?”

“Teaching, hun,” the Draconid chuckled. “And no, it’s not sex-ed. But seriously, come on over here! Cruger, this is Jubilee, a good friend of mine. Jubilee, this is Anubis Cruger, the SPD Shadow Ranger.”

“Nice to meet you…” Jubilee said tentatively.

“Likewise,” Cruger said, “X-Men Jubilee?”

“Yep. Vampire, Mutant, awesome all around.” Jubilee said, putting some gum in her mouth.

“What ya teaching?” Cruger asked.

“Me?” Jubilee asked. “Teaching? Where the hell am I?” 

“You’re at the Beacon Academy, Jube,” Zinnia told her. “It’s a school for newer Displaced who want to learn stuff before they start… well, you know, chaos.”

“Huh… Sounds useful. Think I heard Time talk ‘bout it.” Jubilee said through her gum. “I’m not here for that though. I’m looking for two Displaced. Think you can help?”

“Who are they?”

“Hatsune Miku, a Vocaloid. She’s pregnant, so… Yeah.” Jubilee shrugged. “Then there’s Justine Sparkle. She looks like a human Twilight most of the time.”

“Haven’t seen them myself,” Cruger said, “but you might want to keep an eye out for a Kamen Rider Decade Displaced by the name of Wyatt. He’s wandering the multiverse, he might have seen them.”

“They’re in this universe outside the orders of Time Spinner... They also stole my iPod.” Jubilee pouted.

“It’s ironic you’ve got two cops here isn’t it?” said Jack.

“Whatever, I’m supposed to find them and return them home. There were two others that were supposed to help. Sandy, and Sylar.” Jubilee said. “Also, do you have any drinks? I’m parched.”

Jack then looks towards Cruger before saying “There is the punch if that interests you?”

Disembodied snickering could be heard as soon as Jack mentioned the punch.

“Sure.” Jubilee said.

Zinnia frowned suspiciously, reaching out and placing a hand on Jubilee’s shoulder. “I wouldn’t,” she warned the mutant.

“It’s just punch.” Jubilee said.

“That has a disembodied voice giggling when you mention it?”

“Let me check,” Cruger said. He pulled his tricorder from his pocket and scanned the punch. “Woah, well, I can state with absolute certainty that drinking that would be classified as a very bad idea.”

“Why?” Jubilee asked.

“Because it contains enough alcohol to inebriate an Apatosaurus.”

Miku came out of nowhere drinking a large cup of punch which was almost gone.

“Miku! Slow down! Are you trying to tempt fate to repeat the Christmas party!?” Said a tall silver and gold robot that was chasing after the vocaloid.

“What!? It’s not like someone spiked this punch too!” Miku snorted.

“Dear god…” Jubilee trailed off.

“I know a shield spell that can withstand a nuke,” Cruger said, “and I’m terrified for some reason.”

“Hi Miku!” Zinnia called out, waving politely. “Just so ya know, Murphy kinda hates you right now!”

“Wh-why?” Miku said as she started laughing stupidly.

“Damn it!” The robot shouted before grabbing Miku as she started wobbling. “I just knew it!”

“I’m… flhggaine…” Miku hiccuped. “Wow… This is nowhere near as arousing as the last one… Heheh…”

“She’s already a moron when she’s not high!” Jubilee groaned.

“Hey! Don’t talk about my fiancee like that!” The robot said to Jubilee before picking Miku up bridal style.

“She’s kinda right!” Miku continued laughing. “This stuff is awesome!” She drank some more.

“I'm going to turn whoever spiked the punch this time into a toad…” the robot grumbled.

“Hey, it’s not that bad, at least Kae isn’t here~” Miku giggled and snorted. “Come on Arthur, this is kinda funny…”

“Please don’t… I don’t want to think about her at the moment.” Arthur sighed as he walked over to the group, “So I know who Jube is, but who are you three?”

“This is Zinnia, Cruger and Jack.” “Jubilee said. “I think. I know Zi, but...”

“You are correct,” Cruger said, “so, giant robot?”

“He’s Arthur...” Miku said, yawning and cuddling into Arthur.

“She really has no luck at parties, does she?” Zinnia sighed, shaking her head.

“Sadly… And no I’m actually a mask.” Arthur said as he chuckled at Miku’s cat like behavior.

Cruger snapped his fingers, “Ah yes, now I remember, Toa Mata Nui, Mask of Life am I right?”

“Toa Ignika actually, but yes I am the mask of life.” Arthur replied.

“Not bad, where’s Click?”

“I feel hot!” Miku groaned, causing Arthur’s mask to turn red.

“Um I meant Toa Ignika as in before Mata Nui was put in the mask… Now if you’ll excuse me…” Arthur said before walking off with Miku.

“He seemed nice,” Cruger said, “well, I hate to do this, but I’ve gotta get back, grade-A trouble brewing at home.”

“Thats fair enough… good luck dealing with whatever’s happening on your end” replied Jack.

“Thank’s” Cruger said as he opened a portal, “odds are I’ll need it. If you need any help rescuing Jen, I’m just a call away.”

“I have one of those feelings that I’m going to need all the help I can get.” 

“Odds are you will,” Cruger said as he stepped through the portal.

“Sadly… I get the feeling the next time me and Jen meet… things may not be the same.” Jack muttered before beginning to make his way out of the room to begin searching for Craig to get some much needed answers.





As Jack began to walk around the campus he began to think about what he was going to do, before a small blue bird like creature landed on his shoulder before he said “any luck buddy?” To which it just shook its head before he rubbed the back of it’s neck and said “Well you tried… we’ll find him,”

“Find who?” Justine asked, appearing out of nowhere.

Jack then looked up to before saying “Oh sorry… I’m looking for a student… goes by the name of Craig.”

“Never met ‘em. I’m new to the teaching role here.” Justine replied. “I’m a magic teacher.”

“I guess I am as well, I’m one of the combat instructors here, I’m here to teach everyone how to work as a team… I’ve taught a few Displaced about the Spectrobes but that’s all the experience as a teacher I have. ”

“I simply assist in all forms of magic. Maybe we can collaborate on a lesson.” Justine shrugged. “Who’s this Craig? I feel I’ve heard of him.”

“Well he’s one of the students… I saw him help Penny earlier on and he seemed familiar like I knew him from before I was displaced… I want to check that he’s who I think he is,” Jack explained.

“Okay… I could use a locator spell.” Justine said. “Shouldn’t be too hard. What’s his full name?”

“It was Craig Jordan Rhodes.”

“If he’s in this universe, I can locate him.” Her eyes went white and she sat down cross legged. “He’s directly above us…”

“What… Aoi, look again.” The Spectrobe then nodded it’s head before flying off again. Jack then turned back to Justine and said “Is there anyway you can be more specific about his location?”

“Try the roof.” Justine stated.

“Great… that’s going to be fun to reach… I really need a Spectrobe who can fly.” He then looked back to Justine before saying “Would you like to see what it’s like to awaken a Spectrobe?”

“Sure.” Justine said.

“Well then… would you like to follow me, we only have the facilities on my ship right now.” Jack admitted whilst rubbing the back of his neck.

“I thought you wanted to see Craig, not offer a date.” Justine said teasingly.

“Kind of difficult to reach him on the roof without a Spectrobe big enough to carry me up there also it will make it easier for me to move around.”

“Okay…” Justine trailed off. “Who are you?”

“As in Displaced as or my name?” Jack checked.

“Name.” Justine added.

“Ahh sorry, my name's Jack.” He replied while placing his hand out.

She took it. “I’m Justine.”

“Well then Justine… would you like to follow me.” Asked Jack before producing a small white hexagonal shaped item before passing it to Justine.

“Sure.” Justine replied.

“I recommend putting that on your arm.” explained Jack.

She did so, and it changed to purple. “Ready.”

Jack then smiled before saying “Okay then and now all you will need is a Spectrobe and you’ll have yourself a companion like I have Aoi and the others.” He the whistles before Aoi flew back to him before disappearing.

“What now?” Justine asked.

“Well you just need to follow me and I’ll take you to the ship and sort you out with a Spectrobe of your own… I have plenty of fossils on the ship.” Jack said as he began to walk down the path before motioning for Justine to follow him.

Once they reached the ships lab Justine did as told, curiosity consuming her. “So how does this work?”

“Well in the lab there is a computer… we can use that to awaken a Spectrobe in a child form… I’ll be using an fossil that links to Aoi and i’ll be evolving the Aoi I have already.”

“Okay… Just show me what to do.” Justine stated.

“Well firstly i’ll be evolving the Aoi I already have for this specific Spectrobe I need three minerals.” Jack explained whilst walking towards one of the walls before carrying over three green rectangular gems.

“Okay…” Justine said, not understanding.

“Sorry if this doesn't make sense.” Jack admitted before Aoi appeared on his shoulder before flying through the screen of the computer's screen that began to ripple almost like the screen was made of water before Jack pushed the three minerals through the window.

Justine waited.

“Once Aoi has eaten the minerals he will become encased in what will look like an egg which I will break with this” jack said before a small pen like object appeared in his hands, before he quickly sliced downwards in a vertical motion before saying “take a look.” Before showing her a large bird like creature.



“Wow… What is that?”

“That is the Spectrobe called Aoba… it’s the adult stage of Aoi’s evolution” Jack explained before it disappeared. “Anyway next I’ll show you how to awaken a fossil.” Jack explained whist pulling out a small fossil that was shaped similar to the what Aoi had looked like before, as he pushed it into the computer's screen.

“To awaken a spectrobe you simply need to a certain pitch of sound for a few seconds.” Jack explained before he began to whistle before a bright light flashed before a creature that looked exactly like Aoi appeared in the screen before flying onto Jack’s head.  

“Awww~” Justine cooed.

Jack then placed a hand in front of him as Aoi flew down onto his arm before he said “Hold your arm out straight in front of you.” Justine did so.

Jack then carefully brought his arm next to hers before Aoi stepped onto her arm and looked towards Justine’s eyes before Jack said “and that is how you awaken a Spectrobe.”

“That’s it?” Justine asked.

“Yeah… that's all there is to it for awakening and evolving Spectrobes… all you need is a fossil, minerals and the equipment we have here, and you're set,” explained Jack. “Right then… Do you want to sort yourself out a Spectrobe of your own?” Before he recalled Aoi.

“Uh… Let’s just focus on getting to Craig.” Justine stated.

“Okay then,” Jack said before walking back out of the ship, as he motioned for Justine to follow him, and she did so.

Once they got outside the ship Jack placed his arm in the air before a Aoba appeared in front of him but looked a lot bigger than before, as it lowered its head before Jack jumped on before saying “Justine… fancy going for a flight?”

“Of course.” Justine nodded.

“Well then, jump on” Jack replied whilst Aoba lowered one of it’s wings to allow Justine to climb onto it’s back. Once she was on, she pointed forward.

“Go!” Justine laughed.

“Well then, it would be wrong for me to refuse,” replied Jack before Aoba began to flap it wings before gaining altitude before slowly having towards the roof.

“Whoa!” Justine yelped, almost losing her grip.

“Be careful you don’t want to fall off… a bit slower buddy we’ve got a passenger today” Aoba then nodded before slowing down a bit as they reached side of the roof, before Aoba slowly began to rest against the tiles.

Jack then jumped off before slowly placing a hand forwards as he said “need some help?”

“I’ve got it.” Justine said, using her magic to steady herself. “Why am I coming again?”

“I don’t actually know… I guess i’m just use to travelling with my girlfriend.”

“Okay… There he is.” Justine pointed to where Craig was.

“So… I guess it’s time to get some answers… I hope it is him and not someone who looks similar.” Jack said before walking towards Craig.

As Jack got closer Craig turned his head before saying “dammit… i’m not supposed to be up here am I.”

“No Craig… that’s not why i’m here… I want to talk with you.”

“I’ll be going now…” Justine said, before teleporting away.

“Who was she your girlfriend?” Craig joked.

“Don’t go there… and no… she is another teacher.”

“Okay then so what was it you wanted to talk about Professor.”

“Craig… I want to be sure… are you… why is this so hard.”

“Take your time.”

“Craig I think we may be cousins.”

“What… why do you think that?”

“Craig… it’s me Jack… Jack Burgin.”

Craig then stopped before saying “sorry come again… did you just say Jack Burgin.”

“Yes.”

“How… how did you get here?” Asked Craig.

“I won a contest at a gaming convention… got displaced as Rallen from Spectrobes.”

“Well” Craig then gave Jack a hug before saying “It’s great to see you again… even though it only been just over two months for me.”

“Just two months!” Shouted Jack… “Try over six years… we had a funeral for you all... Daniel, your mum and dad, you all went missing.”

“Yikes… umm sorry… In our defence, we didn’t have much of a choice in the matter.”

Jack then stepped back before saying “It’s just good to have you back.

“You to” Craig then smiled before saying “So is the ship over there yours?”

“Yeah… I used to own it with my girlfriend Jen… we met after you disappeared.”

“Oh and where is she?” Craig asked curiously.

“She was taken by my enemy.”

“The Krawl I presume.” Craig answered.

“What how did you know that?”

“Remember how much Spectrobes I played back home? I remember a fair bit even now,” explained Craig.

Jack then smiled before saying “You know…  You're different to when you left, I assumed you wasn’t you… I thought you would be a teacher, not a student… why are you here?”

“I… well I recently got beaten badly, had almost every bone in my body broken and had a certain prince of chaos ripped from my soul and lost a will to fight… I’m here to rebuild myself so I can help people again.”

“So you’re here to get stronger.”

“Well yes… but I’m also here because I feel like somethings going to happen and everyone's going to need help,” admitted Craig.

“Well maybe you need a partner to help you.” Jack replied before a Prizmod fell into his hand.

“Well I do have, Bii and Lambda… are you saying you want to give me a Spectrobe?”

“Well… I need all the help I can get and think of this as a welcome back present.” Jack added before passing Craig the Prizmod.

Craig then smiled before he took the Prizmod, before placing it on his arm as its colour changed from white to navy, before saying “I guess we need to go to your ship then.”

“I suppose you're right” Jack replied as Aoba landed in front of him causing a few tiles to become loose causing him to stumble before Craig caught him.

Craig then smiled before saying “be careful” before leading him over to Aoba before Jack climbed onto Aoba back before saying “how did you get up here anyway?”

Craig then smiled before saying “I flew… well floated up here.” Before he began to hover above the roof  before floating towards the side of Aoba.

“Well thats a suprise… you don’t even need wings.” Jack admitted

“No… I use my Ki allow me to fly around… although I mainly float right now though. Last time I actually few at full speed would have been over a month ago.”

“Well… why don’t we fly back to the ship?” Asked Jack

“I guess there’s no harm in it,” Craig said before continuing so say “Race ya.” Before flying off. 

Jack then laughed before saying “Aoba… let's go” before they flew after Craig at full speed.

Once they reached the ship Jack jumped off Aoba before seeing Craig sitting on the ground looking up into the sky before saying “What took you so long?”

“How are you that fast?” Jack said in surprise before recalling Aoba as the ship's hatch on the ship slowly opened.

“What can I say… My Ki is powerful.” Admitted Craig as the hatch hit the ground.

Jack then smiled and said “Well then, let's get you set up with a Spectrobe.” Before walking onto the ship as Craig followed behind him to the lab.

Once they got into the ship’s lab Jack looked around some shelves before saying “what would suit you… not a Samukabu, you're already a swordsman... not a Vilar, you need a faster spectrobe to work with you… what would work?”

Craig then looks towards a separate shelf that strangely had some fossils that actually looked purple in colour unlike the ones Jack was near that were brown. He then reached towards one of the fossils that almost looked like the creature was a small dog of some kind.

“Unauthorized access detected.” Said a female voice that sounded like a recording before a forcefield came over the fossils Craig had been reaching for.

“Yikes… I wasn’t expecting that.” Craig muttered

Jack then laughed before saying “Well this is a police cruiser… did you really expect that we wouldn’t keep all our equipment safe.”

“I suppose you're right… but this fossil… it looks different to the ones you were looking through… is it a different version to normal?” Asked Craig.

“Well yes, that’s a Dark Spectrobe… it was genetically modified by the Krawl,” Jack then looked at the fossil that Craig reached for before saying “you know… this one may suit you.” He then rubbed the bottom of his chin before saying “Although I wonder how these fossils were made to become Dark Spectrobes?”

“Who knows maybe the unawoken  fossils were doused in water that was infected by a Krawl virus or they use some tech or a mineral to change them, but even then we don’t know,” admitted Craig.

“I guess you're right” Jack says whilst he carefully grabbed the fossil Craig had tried to take before passing it to him and as he said “Do you remember the normal process for awakening a Spectrobe?”

“If it’s the same as the games then I should be good,” Craig admitted before placing the fossil into the Lab before beginning to whistle at a very low pitch as the fossil begin to glow before a blue Spectrobe that looked identical to Komainu appeared in front of him before leaping out the screen before landing in Craig’s arms.

“The little guy fits you quite well…”

“Girl… Little Girl… if I remember this ones normally called Makanui… I think I’ll call it Maka.” replied Craig before rubbing Maka behind her ear.

Jack then smiled before saying “she does fit you… but do you want her like this or as her Adult form?”

“I think she’ll be better as an adult… so how many minerals for her?” Craig asked Jack.

“Well Komainu normally needed four and the Dark Spectrobes are clones of them so these should be enough” Jack said whist passing Craig four purple minerals two shaped like a pyramid and two that looked to be shaped like a crescent moon.

Craig then smiled before saying “Maka… you hungry?” Before lowering minerals to her one by one which she greedily ate. Once she had eaten the fourth mineral she began to glow before Craig said “Okay… Time for you to grow up” before he picked her up before placing her back in the screen, before she was surrounded by a purple shell.

Jack then threw him a small pen and said “Works like the stylus on the game… use it to crack open the shell on Maka.”

Craig then nodded his head before he quickly sliced the shell in a downward arc before it broke open showing a large blue and almost white dog like creature, that quickly disappeared.



Jack then smiled at Craig before saying “and now you have your own Spectrobe.”

“Well lets hope we don’t need to use him” joked Craig

“Dammit Craig… Murphy’s going to have a blast soon thanks to you,” moaned Jack.

“You worry too much” replied Craig. “Shouldn’t you get back to the party?”

“I guess I should… but if anything happens today it’s on you.” Argued Jack.

“Fine just get back to the rest of the teachers, I’ll be on the roof in the event that Murphy’s called me out.” Replied Craig before they both began to walk out of the ship.





As Jack walked down the narrow hallway, looking down thinking about a myriad of things from who his students could be to his job back home he chuckled to himself before he looked up before he saw Sun and Asphyxious walking towards him.

“Ah, just the guy I was looking for. What’s up?” He asked.

“Just reunited with one of my cousins, talked and gave him a Spectrobe… oh and he might of called the wrath of Murphy on us,” admitted Jack

“Don’t jinx it.” He chuckled, looking back at him. “Oh, that reminds me, I was in the lab earlier and I got a surprise for you.”

“What have you done now?” Muttered Jack.

“I have a second Spectrobe,” He said, looking around a little bit before looking back at him. “We should step outside though just in case.”

“Okay then… if we’re lucky, Craig may just take watch of what we’re doing.” Sun then chuckled as they walked outside. Once they were outside, Sun held out his hand with the prizmod attached and called upon the new Spectrobe.

“Come on out, Rygazelle.” There was a flash of light and after the smoke cleared, a new Spectrobes stood beside Sun.

	

“I want one.” Asphyxious said smiling from ear to ear.

Jack then smirked before saying “Looks like you got a new teammate… maybe I should show you what you have to look forwards to” admitted Jack as he held up his arm before a similar Spectrobe appeared behind him before saying “This is Ryan.”



“...... Son of a bitch, you just had to make me jealous didn't you?”

“Nah, I just picked him up a while back and he saved my back a few times,” admitted Jack.

“Well I seriously am considering searching for some more fossils in my spare time… if I have any.” He deeply sighed.

“I’m sure you’ll have plenty of time” Said a voice from above them. Sun looked up, only to see a certain individual above him.

“Wait I know that guy” Asphyxious said.

“My cousin… You know Craig you’ve got a habit of sneaking up on people,” said Jack.

“I bet he also has a habit of surprising others,” Sun snickered, looking back at the two of them.

“You’re one to talk Sun,” replied Craig as he floated to the ground.

“Oh? Care to give me an example then?”

“When we met and you surprised us when hiding behind boxes and launched them around the ship.” Jack commented.

“That’s because Jen summoned me when I was jumping off of a cliff to get away from Grimm-.”

“Well you were going to surprise Jack with that third Spectrobe you have wasn’t you?” Argued Craig.

“ …… You seriously had to ruin the surprise, did you?” Sun facepalmed, looking back at him.

“You asked for an example.” retorted Craig.

“Seriously… You have a third spectrobe!” Shouted Jack.

“Yeah, but I only just evolved it an hour or so ago.” He replied as he brought it out after recalling Rygazelle.



“Meet Sabogar.” Sun introduced the Spectrobe, “I get a feeling you already know a bit about him?”

“Actually no… this is from Origins… I actually don’t know a thing about him” admitted Jack.

“Plant type, adult form and uses the thorns on it’s body for defense and offense.”

“There’s a joke there somewhere but I can’t for the life of me think of one.” Admitted Craig.

“Ten bucks Asphyxious would say it.” Sun guessed, looking towards the Lich. Nearby, he noticed Ken with both of the tiny dragon ponies that were his kids, walking out to see what all the commotion was about as he saw Sun and Jack with their Spectrobes out.






-Half an hour later-


Asphyxious was back in his lab looking over spells, warjack parts and other things. But he didn’t care, one thing was on his mind and he didn’t like it. Why did the grimm attack? Asphyxious asked himself as he pick up the warjack head and attached it to it body. Right now he didn’t care, He just wanted to work and be left alone. 

“I do not like intruders in my lab.” Asphyxious said looking up from his work, as the three Iron Lichs in his Lab keep an eye on the displaced that entered his workplace. “What is your name?”

“Well sorry… It’s just me Jack,” said the intruder calmly.

“You wish to ask me something?” Asphyxious asked looking to his Iron Lich’s as two of them go to close door.

“Well when me and Sun was showing off our Spectrobes you said you wanted one of your own… I came to offer you one.” Explained Jack.

“Interesting, And what did you have in mind?” Asphyxious said running his hands over a number of pages of books.

“Well it all comes down to what you need and what suits you… we have a lot of them who need awakening on my ship… although I did have in mind an Adult Spectrobe called Anubos.”

“Hmmmm, and what do you want in return?” Asphyxious asked reading a book. “I’d like to meet this Anubos.”

“Why would I want anything in return?” Asked Jack before saying “No I just want to make sure if Craig has screwed us all over there are enough Displaced with Spectrobes on call to protect everyone.”

“Hmm not a bad plan.” Asphyxious replied closing a book and looks at Jack. “Go on, I’d like to meet it.”

“Well before we go you’ll need this” Jack said as he opened his hand as a white Prizmod fell into his hand. “These are what we use to store and look after our Spectrobes.”

“I see.” Asphyxious said looking it over. “How do I wake it up. Or is it male or female?” 

“This isn’t a Spectrobe… This is a Prizmod it’s a portable home for Spectrobes… Anubos still needs to be awoken from its fossil.”

“Well how do I do that?” Asphyxious asked.

“We have to use the equipment on my ship… we was going to have the equipment on site but that was Jen’s forte and she’s MIA so we can’t get a working machine running yet.”

“Can I look at it?” Asphyxious asked holding out his hand.

“The Prizmod… Sure it is yours after all.” Admitted Jack as he passed Asphyxious the Prizmod. The lich looked it over in his hands.

“It almost like it alive and dead at the same time…” Asphyxious said looking the Prizmod over.

“Well it is a machine that can have spectrobes in it so it does have the capabilities to support life inside it… also when you place it on your arm it will change colour to suit you, it’s also my token if you need me.” Asphyxious looks at it then placed it on his arm, the colours changed to a dark blue and black. It even lined up with his gauntlets. 

“So what do you think?” Asked Jack 

“Nice, Small don’t take up a lot of space I like it.” Asphyxious replied.

“Well then shall we get you your new partner?” 

“Sure, Death Ripper, Fire Bane and Frostbite. Keep an eye on things while I’m away?” Asphyxious asked as he got up.

“Okay then would you mind following me back to my ship” Jack said as he began to walk out of the Lab.

“Lead the way.” Asphyxious said smiling as they walk out of the lab.

Once they Reached Jack’s ship the hatch at the back began to open before they slowly walked in as Jack motioned for Asphyxious to follow him into a room just inside. Once they got inside they could see that the room was surrounded by shelves that had what looked like fossils on them along with some coloured stones in cabinets near the ground.

“Interesting, So which one is Anubos?” Asphyxious asked looking them over one by one.

“None of them… Anubos is the adult form of the Spectrobe, the one you’ll awaken is Anubi it’s child form.” Explained Jack as he reached towards a fossil that seemed to look almost like a Jackal like creature, before picking it up and passing it to Asphyxious.

Asphyxious slowly took it and looked at it in his hand. “Funny… It feels, cool to me.” He said running his fingers over it head.

“Well then… Shall we awaken it… you just need to place it in the computer just put the fossil through the screen don’t worry you won’t break it.” Explained Jack. Asphyxious did as Jack said and put the Aunbi fossil into the computer screen.

“Well now you just need to awaken it using your voice in other words you need to hold a certain note or say something to it so it recognises you as it’s master.”

“I am Asphyxious Hellbringer. And I seek your aid.” Asphyxious said calmly looking at it. Within seconds the fossil began to glow before a new creature appeared on the screen.



“Oh…. Pupa is going to love you.” Asphyxious said smiling at it be it jumped and landed next to him using it’s tail to stand up.

“That is Anubi… you could give it a Nickname if you like and you could also evolve it to the Spectrobe I told you about earlier.

“I think’ll take my time.” Asphyxious said holding it in his arms. “Now then what should I call you?” 

“Well it was based of Anubis the Egyptian god of death.” 

“Aunbis is nice and all. But I think I’ll call you, Antubis.” Asphyxious said smiling at Antubis.

“Antubis… I think you have a good friend… look after him won’t you.” Jack said calmly before continuing “He isn’t capable of fighting however he is able to search for other fossils and minerals.”

“That alright, there no need to rush these things.” Asphyxious said petting Antubis.

“True… I just hope we don’t need to rush into combat against any enemies.” Jack then realised what he said before moaning “Dammit what did I just say, I’m as bad as Craig.”

“Relax, you’ve seen my work. There nothing to worry about.” Asphyxious said as he start to walk off.

“You know the Krawl get stronger by merging with things around them… it’s why I worry because most weaponry does nothing to them, the only effective things I have are the Spectrobes,” admitted Jack.

“I don’t know what a Krawl are but I’m sure they’ll fall to my dragonblight like anything else.” Asphyxious replied. “It’ll either turn them or kill them, I can handle myself.”

“Let's hope so.” Jack replied hopefully before they walked out the lab.





A few minutes after they left Jacks lab Asphyxious had decided to go back to his lab as Jack roamed the gardens of the school looking to the sky calmly before he saw what looked to be a black portal opened above them before a swarm of familiar back tornados appeared in the sky above as he shouted “Dammit Murphy!”

He then saw multiple bright blue lights fire from the roofs before a figure flew towards the oncoming Krawl almost as if he knew what they were.

Jack then turned a corner a hand on his sword even though he knew it was less than useless against the Krawl before he saw Asphyxious with a the particles of destroyed Krawl behind him. He then walked over to Asphyxious before saying “Remember what I told you earlier, you don’t want to make them more powerful.” Asphyxious just growled, and changed into his dragon form.

“Fine then, I’ll just eat them!” Asphyxious growled before flying off, before taking a bite out of a Krawl in mid air. 

“Ew.” Jubilee said.

“That is just nasty!” A random voice said. “You just spoiled my Dinner.”

“Can we all just focus on killing these things” shouted Craig, and somehow being heard.

“That is a good idea…….”

“Also that thing that fell isn’t a normal Krawl I need someone to back me up,” Craig said.

“So…..No one can hear me.”

“I’ll help.” Jubilee said.

Jack then nodded his head as two Spectrobes appeared behind him as he said “Aoba give him support” to which the Spectrobe nodded before flying off as Jack climbed onto the the other Spectrobes back before saying “Jubilee, want a lift?”

“Sure.” Jubilee hopped on and lit her hand with multicolored sparks.

Jack then tapped the Spectrobes head before saying “Ryan let’s move” before it nodded it’s head and began to run towards where Craig was. Asphyxious roared breathing fire on anything that tried to attack him, as well as eat anything stupid enough to attack him.





As Jack and Jubilee approached the area where Craig had requested help from they saw a massive stone bipedal, humanoid mass, it had a face with spreading yellow lines as its only features, a Krawl of which Jack hadn’t seen before.

As Jack got closer to the fight he saw Sun nearby flanked by two of his Spectrobes and Nicko attacking the creature with Craig before he heard him yell “I believe that the beast is weakening! Can’t you see the fear in it’s eyes!?” Soon the beast looked like it was going to move… until a well placed spell caused it to fall over. “TAKE THAT!!”

“...He’s going to die isn’t he?” Asphyxious deadpanned at everyone.

“Uh… Is it just me or did it just fall over?”

“...”

“ATTACK!” Asphyxious yelled before running over to help Nicko.

“WHAT HE SAID!!”

“CHARGE!!!” The single order caused all of them to race towards Nicko’s location as they began to attack the exposed core with everything they had.

“Caustic Mist.” Asphyxious said as he casted the spell on the core as a green mist start to eat away at it. “Back off guys that a cloud of acid. Even if it get up again, that will keep eating away at it until it wear off.”

Everyone listened, but when the beast got up, it’s counterattack sent him flying into a nearby cave in the mountainside. “This is bad…” Asphyxious said to himself lying in the cave.

“Hey are you ok?” Nick asked while flying in the air.

“I’m fan fucking tastic, nothing but gumdrops and Ice cream in here...” Asphyxious replied. Only to realize that Nicko actually said the same thing.

“Well never mind then.” Nick said in a angry voice. Only to hear Twilight’s assistant Spike actually respond to that.

“Oh boy, can I come in there?”

“...... I’m surrounded by idiots…”

“I agree…” Asphyxious added.

“Oh can it!” Nick said.

“Aww… I thought you said you were surrounded by gumdrops and Ice cream.” They heard Spike say, only to hear Nicko scream so loud that the small cavern he was in began to break apart as it pissed off the Rune Slayer.

“THAT’S IT!! THAT GOLEM DIES!!!”

Jack then looked towards everyone and said “Everyone back up… i’m bringing in the heavy artillery.” Before a large golden Spectrobe that looked like a beetle that seemed to have a cannon for a face appeared behind him.

“Can’t in a hole…” Asphyxious replied still in the cave, or what left of it. “Also the rocks are crushing me…”

“What’s happening?” Jubilee asked.

“Some heavy weaponry Jubilee.” Jack replied

“I’m still in a hole, why is nobody helping me?” Asphyxious called out.

Craig then reaches into the hole before saying “need a hand?”

“I have broken bones, the only reason I’m not screaming in pain is that things not a displaced.” Asphyxious replied as one of his legs was facing the wrong way, and an arm… “Think you can heal me please?”

“Easily… kind of became my job.” Replied Craig as his hand began to glow, before Asphyxious bones began to move back into place and heal instantly.

“God damn… That stings!” The lich said as he get back up. “So, what the plan now?”

Jack then shouted “Vilakroma, Fire in the hole!” before the Spectrobe fired a blast of energy from its cannon directly at the Krawl’s face.

“Oh shi-!”

“Son of a Bi-” 

“Everyone keep attacking!” Jack ordered.

“Release the Kraken!” Asphyxious yelled as his Kraken walked out of a hole in the ground by beacon. Then started to open fire on the Krawl.

“Everyone back up!!” Nicko yelled as he unleashed his hyperactive skill as dozens of swords and runes appeared around the core of the Galgore. “Shining… RUNE… BUSTER!!!”

“Holy shit, Nicko! That was insane!” Yelled Jack.

“FINISH IT OFF, YOU BLUBBERING OAF!!!”

“MY KILL!” Asphyxious shouted as he run over then drives his cutlass into it core, causing it to shatter and turn the rest of the giant Krawl turn to dust.

“Well, guess that’s done.” Nicko said as he left the vicinity and ran back to the academy.

“Well, I feel like a badass. Anyone else?” Asphyxious asked as he walks back covered in dust. As Antubis crawls out of his hood and looks around.

“I have a feeling that Spectrobe does,” Craig replied pointing to Vilakroma.

“Probably” Jack replied before Vilakroma disappeared.

“Well I’m going back and getting cleaned up, laters.” Asphyxious told them walking back to Beacon.

“Well then we’ll see you later” Both Craig and Jack replied.

“Well that was like a circus act…… well you could say it was “Intents”.” Nick said before cracking up at his own joke. “That was puntastic!”

“Nick you make anymore of those dreadful puns and i will ground you.”

“WOW…...Just WOW this is a bad crowd. So it wasn’t…….Pu…..”

“Nick,” Craig replied calmly.

“Fine as long as you don’t send me home.”

“Well while you two talk i’m going to head back to my ship, I’ll see you both later,” Jack replied

“Ok see you later…….Wait who are you?” Nick asked.

“Craig’s cousin, your uncle” he simply replied as he walked off.

“Oh. Ok well bye!” 





Once they reached the ship Craig shouted “Jack you here?!”

A voice then shouted back “yeah, come on in, I’m in the lab!”

Craig then turned to nick before saying “You ready?”

“Of course let’s go.”

“Well then, follow me” Craig said as they walked onto the ship.

Once they stepped into the lab Jack turned around before saying “Hey Craig, you feeling okay after that Krawl attack?”

“yeah, i’m fine but i’d like you to meet my son Nick.”

“Hi.”

“Well” Jack said as he knelt down in front of Nick before he said “It a pleasure to meet you, Nick.” he said as he ruffled Nick’s hair.

“Thank’s.”

“Really Jack? Was that really necessary.” Asked Craig

“Well do you have a problem with it?” Nick asked.

“Not a problem… just memories and i remember you used to hate it when it was done to you Jack.”

“Shut up Craig” Jack groaned.

“It’s nothing you need to worry about Nick.” Jack and Craig admitted in unison.

“So anyway, Nick here’s a gift for you” Jack said as he handed him a small white hexagonal piece of metal.

“Ummm….. What is that?”

“Well you saw the Spectrobe Craig had earlier right” Jack said as a small dog like creature appeared by his leg.

“Yes.”

“Well that is a Prizmod basicly there home when you become a spectrobe master and also my token… you saw Craig’s I bet,” He then reached down and picked up the dog like creature before saying “this is Komainu one of mine.”

“Umm….. why would I need a spectrobe Just asking.”Nick asked.

“Well simple answer this world has the Krawl and Spectrobes are one of the few creatures that can fight them, I give a Spectrobe to every displaced that fancies one also they make amazing companion for their master.” Jack explained.

“Oh, ok”

“In the end it’s all goes on if you would like a Spectrobe, if you don’t it’s no problem.” Craig explained.

“So……. I think I have no idea what I am doing.So what now?”

“Well what sort of Spectrobe would you like?” Jack asked.

“Well what types are there?”

“Well there are multiple types I more mean what sort of things do you do, like your powers and stuff like that, i’ll be able to match you with a suitable Spectrobe from that information.”

“I kind of an archangel so……I mostly store energy. And in combat I am a defencive type.”

“Hmm well there is Spectrobe that may suit you,” Jack said as he walked towards one of  the shelves.

“Ok…… only if it’s not scary like Nora.”

“Nothing is as scary as Nora,” Craig added.

“Ok….If you say so…..”

“Oh and you’ll want to place the Prizmod you were given on your arm,” Craig added.

“Ok…...Then?” He replied as he attached the Prizmod to his arm.

“Then Jack will explain the rest once he find you the fossil that relates to a Spectrobe for you.”

“Ok”

It was then that a familiar face walked in as he heard the commotion from upstairs. “Hey guys… Getting Nick a spectrobes?” It was Sun, but instead of exposing his chest like with his other choice of clothes, this time his outfit mostly resembled that of Noctis from Final Fantasy XV.”

“Do you ever not sneak up on people Sun?”

“Hey, If I were sneaking up on you, I would’ve climbed the tree outside the window… This time I just used the front door.”

Jack then said “Well Nick this…” he then notices Sun in the room and says “oh hello Sun, did you need something?”

“Nah, I just heard some people in here and I was curious to see what you were up too. How’s Nick liking the place?” He asked, noticing his newfound prizmod as Nick could see the one attached to his gauntlet.

“They have a…..Nevermind.”

“So what kind of Spectrobe do you have for Nick?”

“Well I was planning on Zappi and then having us get him it’s adult form Zappira.” Jack explained as he handed Nick the fossil.

“This feels weird.”

“Weird in what way?” Craig asked Nick.

“Just the feeling of Death.”

“Well they aren’t dead as such, it’s actually just sleeping, hence why we refer to this as awakening a Spectrobe.” Jack explained.

“No, the presence of another person.”

“You mean besides me? Because I know that the only other guy that has a Spectrobe is the Lich Asphyxious and he’s in the laboratory he constructed in the basement.” He said as he began to walk back out the door. “Once you guys are done, call me and we can do a training session. I’ll be outside when you’re ready.”

“Ok, let’s a go it’s a me Mario!!!!!!! Oh by the way does anyone want to duel me?”

Sun smirked. “Why do you think I’ll be waiting outside?”

“I meant duel me, my physical being. Like in a weapons duel. I need to gauge my power.”

“That’s what he meant Nick, it includes training our Spectrobes and ourselves,” Craig admitted.

“I must warn you I need you to put a shield up, I have tons of power stored up!!”

“Yeah, I know you do… I struggle to forget after you moved,” Craig groaned

“Hey, it wasn’t that bad.”Nick said as he started to pout. 

“Never said it was, you need to stop assuming that's what I meant.”

“I know what you were thinking.”

Jack then began laughing before he said “are you two always like this?”

“No, not normally.”Nick said.

“This is very rare us acting like this” Craig admitted

“Fine anyway shall we sort you out with your Spectrobe Nick?” Jack asked

“Ok, let’s do this.”

“Right then first you need to put the fossil I gave you in this computer,” Jack said as he touched the screen causing it to ripple.

“Ok like this.” Nick said as he did what he was told.

“Yep now you just need to speak to it and it will awaken,” Jack explained. 

“Ummm……..” Nick was confused.

“He means you’ll need to say something so it recognizes and listens to your voice, so basically something like your name or ever hold a whistle for a few seconds.” Craig explained

“Any random thing?”

“Near enough” Jack admitted.

“Well…… Let’s have fun together.” With that there was a white flash from inside the computer before a small lizard like creature appeared in the screen before jumping out of it towards Nick.



“Aaaaaahhhhh………”

“And there’s your child class Spectrobe, Zappi, it’s up to you if you want to nickname it.” Jack explained.

“I think the name 'Armure' would be nice.”

Jack then said “Well then now it’s down to if you want to train it to an adult.” 

“Of course I do.”

“Well then, you’ll need to give him a few of these” Jack said as he passed Nick five purple pyramid shaped gems.

“Ok what now?”

“After he eats them he’ll begin to shine, you’ll need to put him back into the computer and he’ll evolve to an adult, it’s why you needed a Prizmod.”

“Ok?” Nick gives Armure the gems before he began to shine. Nick covered his eyes.

“Ow, my eyes.”

“It’s not that bright Nick” Craig chuckled.

“Sorry I am just tired.”

“Don’t worry, anyway you need to place him back in the computer.” Jack explained

“On it.” As Nick puts Armure in the computer.

“Right, now you’ll want this” Jack said as he passed Nick a small pen as Armure was surround in what looked to be a shell, he then said “you’ll need to use this to open the shell just move you hand down vertically with then pen in it.”

“Ok.”As Nick does what Jack says before the shell around Armure opened as a new Spectrobe appeared on the screen.



“Oh, Hi.”Nick said as Armure nodded and disappeared into the prizmod.

“Congratulations now you have your own Spectrobe” Jack said.

“YAY!!!!!!”

“Right then now I guess we head out and train” Craig admitted.

“Yeah, you’ll be training with me and Sun .” Jack admitted

“Ok lets go.”

“I’ll meet you both outside, i just need to sort something and i’ll catch you up.” Jack replied

“Okay we’ll meet you outside,” Craig replied as both him and Nick walked off the ship.

As they walked off, they found the monkey faunus that they were looking for relaxing next to a yellow pegasus with a pink mane as she lifted her head up and noticed the two of them.

Nick walks outside and says “Hello everybody, how’s it going?”

Sun shrugged, “Just fine. Waiting on-. What the?”

Craig and Nick then heard a voice shout “Amazingly, she’s so awesome!” As Maka ran past with Scootaloo on her back.

“Oops” craig muttered, “I think I forget about Scootaloo and Maka earlier.”

“You did, she’s been after you since… she’s very protective isn’t she!” Scootaloo shouted as Maka skidded to a stop before she lay down.

“Hey Scootaloo do you want to see something?”Nick asked.

“Dad what has he done now!” Groaned Scootaloo as she jumped of Maka.

“I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING!!!!!!!”Nick shouted.

“For once he hasn’t Scoots I think there’s someone he wants to show you,” Craig said as Maka disappeared, and Armure came out of nowhere and laid down next to Nick. 

“See I did nothing wrong.”Nick said.

“Oh… sorry Nick kind of expected something to happen, so we have two of these guys now?” Scootaloo asked as she looked curiously at Armure.

“Do you know what his name is?”Nick asked.

“Nope... but I’m wishing I had one as well.” Scootaloo admitted.

“His name is Armure and do you know what that means?”

“No idea,” Scootaloo admitted as she crossed her front hooves and sat down.

“It means “armor” because it looks like he is wearing armor.”Nick stated.

“I should have guessed that,” moaned Scootaloo.

“I don’t think anyone would have known that.”

Jack then walked out from behind them and said “handbags away ladies.”

“Hey!”

“Jack that's not fair, it would more likely be swords away for those two,” Craig joked.

“Dad, that’s not funny!” Screeched Scootaloo.

“It really was,” Jack admitted 

“NO……..NO…….NO…...just no.”Nick said “My humor just died.” Asphyxious teleported outside working on a note, with Antubis on his shoulder. Watching him work.

“I think I’m just done.” 

“What's wrong now Nick?” Craig asked.

“My humor is just dead.”

Asphyxious then looked up at the ship and waved.

“Asphyxious, it’s good to see you again!” Jack shouted.

“What up.” Asphyxious called over.

“Just gave my grandson here a Spectrobe” Jack said as he gestured to Nick

“Didn’t know you had kids. Say is he seeing anyone? I think Pupa might like him.” He asked walking over.

“I will send you to the moon with a portal gun if you try!” Shouted Craig.

“Try what, seeing if Pupa likes him or not? What the big deal?” The Lich asked.

“Don’t try marrying my son off,” pointed out Craig.

“Fine, I was just asking anyway.” Asphyxious replied waving it off. “Besides up to him anyway.”

Craig then teleported over to Asphyxious before whispering “Just wait till he’s older.”

“Older? How old is he?” The Lich asked.

“Six.” Craig pointed out, Asphyxious did a double take on this before agreeing with Craig.

“So what are you all doing now?” He asked as Antubis waved.

“We were going for some training being me and Nick here are new to our Spectrobes,” Craig said as he gestured to Armure.

“I see, well have fun with that. I need to head home and make sure Ditto didn’t get into trouble again.” Asphyxious said as he start to walk off.

“Wait……..What? Who is……..?”

“A pokemon, Also Mawile… I’m not really sure, likes me I guess? Always trying to bite me.” Asphyxious replied walking off. “Anyway have fun guys.”

“You to Asphyxious!” Shouted Craig.

“Well let’s do this.”

“And I was beginning to wait for when everything was calmer…” Sun replied as he leaped up onto his feet. “Nice Spectrobe by the way, Nick.”

“Thanks!”

“Your welcome,” The Faunus commented. “So, is there any specific way you want to do this or do we just let our Spectrobes duke it out in a brawl?”

“I guess it’s up to how we want to do this,” Jack admitted.

“Well, since Nick only has one Spectrobe, it’ll be unfair to go all out with all of ours,” Sun thought this out loud.

“You mean both me and Nick” Craig pointed out.

“To be honest, I thought you had one already… Guess I was mistaken. Anyways though, we should all pick one and then we can get to the training session. For those who have more than one like Jack and I, we won’t switch out our Spectrobes. That was it won’t be seen as cheating.”

“Seems fine to me, and I can imagine it will just be the spectrobes and not us as well.” Craig added

“We’ll start with just the Spectrobes first. We’ll save hand to hand combat for afterwards.” Sun informed them. “Now, come on out Sabogar!”

“I’ll go first, let Nick see how it’s done” Craig admitted before Maka appeared behind him. “So who will go first?”

“To start things off? I’m game.” Sun confidently replied.

Jack then walked in between and says “This will be a one on one battle between Sun Wukong and Craig, as decided Sun will attack first… begin.” 

“Sabogar, Spiny Storm!”

“Maka, Dodge to the right and the charge towards Sabogar.”

Sabogar noticed the motions as soon as Maka dodged to the right and whipped its tail around, the spiky side of it striking along the side as it pushed Maka back a few feet.

“Maka, let's go for it, Chawjaw” Craig called to the Spectrobe as it spat a fireball towards Sabogar what struck it head on.

This only caused Sun to chuckle a little though in the process. “Hit reflect!” Sabogar snarled, sending part of the fireball back in Craig and Maka’s general direction as the Spectrobe got back on it’s feet.

“Roll to the right then attack from the left,” Craig ordered before whispering something as Maka began following his orders. Sun watched his opponent in anticipation to see what Maka would do, having Sabogar go on the defensive as a precaution.

Craig then smiled before he shouted “Maka, go for the tail” as within seconds he charged behind Sabogar before biting his tail and throwing it into the air before quickly firing off a fireball towards it. However, Sabogar in midair flipped forward and slammed its tail into the ground, charging with the spines on it’s tail and the new spines that were outstretched on it’s tail.

Craig then smiled before saying “Burning Strike,” as Maka surrounded herself in flames as she ran towards Sabogar before spinning causing herself to spin into Sabogar like a drill burning it with the flames surrounding its body.

“Sabogar, back up!” Sun called to his spectrobe, which was damaged by the attack but able to get some space.

Craig then nodded before he said “Maka fireball barrage.” before the Spectrobe pointed its head upwards as multiple fireballs rained down from above them and fragmented multiple times creating a shower of them then cascaded towards Sabogar.

“Sabogar, run!” Sun commanded, having his spectrobe run at Maka before lunging when it got close enough.

“Maka fire cloak!” Craig shouted as flames erupted from her mouth and covered her body.

“Spiny storm!” Sun then said, having Sabogar spin around and send needles flying. The spinning of the Spectrobes body also coughed up a cloud of dust in Maka’s face, altering her vision as he spun faster.

Craig then looked to Maka before he said “Make keep the flames around you fire a fireball at the ground,” The spectrobe as she was asked before the fire hit the ground in front of Sabogar causing the fireball to separate and created burns along Sabogar’s body. However, Sabogar still hold it’s ground.

“Go for the face!” Sun said as Sabogar then headbutted Maka before smacking her backwards with it’s tail, getting some space as to prepared to launch more spines at her.

Craig realised what was about to happen before he said “Maka, firewall.” he said before she spat multiple fireballs in front of her be it created a small wall that concealed her. Making it a problem for Sabogar given that the firewall would cause any spines thrown at it to disintegrate.

However, with some quick thinking, Sun found a way to bypass it. Pointing out a target, he had Sabogar fire at a steel pole that was in the middle at the side of the arena. However, the angle that the spine hit the pole caused the spike itself to ricochet and race towards Maka. Who had her right side open and exposed as the spike impaled her along the shoulder..

The spectrobe collapsed onto the ground before Jack said “And that's the game, the win goes to Sun and Sabogar.”

“Wow… I can’t believe that actually worked.” He smiled, falling backwards on the ground. “Man was that exhausting.”

“Yeah it was,” Craig said as he made his way towards Maka as he slowly removed the spine from the Spectrobe as it began to whimper in pain as the spine was removed. Craig then rubbed the spectrobes side before he said “Don’t worry girl you’ll be fine,” as his hand glowed and the wound in the Spectrobes side healed over.

“You were pretty good. Had to have me think outside the box and take a gamble on that last attack,” Sun smiled. “You’re a good fighter!”

“You pretty good yourself,” Craig replied

“Thanks… I’m still kind of new to this though. I just only woke up Sabogar recently.”

“Same here, I woke Maka up just earlier today with Jack.”

Sun smirked as he had Sabogar return to him as he looked back at Craig. “Alright, I’m guessing it’s time for someone else to have a turn then.”

“We’ll then I guess it’s time for the real Spectrobe Master to show us all how it’s done,” Craig said with a smirk.

“I’m not that good,” Jack admitted while he rubbed the back of his neck.

“Well you do train with your guys almost daily… you should be better than us,” Craig pointed out.

Jack then smiled before he looked to Nick before he said “So you ready or is there anything you want to know?”

“So…… how does this work?” Nick asked.

“Well, we’ll both summon the Spectrobes we will use and then either Craig or Sun will call the beginning and end of the fight,” Jack explained. 

“Ok, that sounds simple enough!”

Craig then looked over at Nick then Jack before he said “Call your chosen spectrobe when ready.”

Jack then nodded his head before he said “Samurite, let's do this” as a large purple spectrobe appeared behind him.



“Oh god…. Umm Armure……..” Nick said as Armure appeared behind him.

“Being your new to this, I will let you attack first” Jack added.

Craig then walked in between the two of them before and says “This will be a one on one battle between Nick and Jack, as decided Nick will attack first… begin.” 

“Wait what?” Nick said giving Jack a look of confusion.

“Now you have Armure spar with Samurite, and once one Spectrobe is unable to continue Craig will call the fight,” Jack explained.

“Like pokemon?”

“Exactly,” Craig added.

“Is mind link allowed?

“Between you and Armure…. Yeah why not,” Jack admitted.

“Yay! Mind link set!” Nick said.

“Well then,” Jack nodded to Craig.

“Continue,” Craig replied before teleporting out of the way. 

Armure made the first move, a defensive move. As Armure did that Nick disappeared.

Jack then looked towards Samurite before just nodding his head as he charged towards Armure before beginning to swing his arms Armure three times consecutively before moving off behind Armure ready to attack again.

Armure turned around and as that happened Armure’s right eye turned white.

“Well that's different, Samurite be careful” Jack said before Samurite charged towards the side of Armure slicing it as he past.

It healed almost instantly. Then Armures other eye turned black.

Jack then looked for Nick before saying “You are actually going to attack instead of just blocking… right?”

Samurite suddenly turned completely green. “So your turn……” Nick said.

Jack then looked at Samurite before he said “You okay there buddy?” to which the Spectrobes slowly looked back towards him and nodded weakly before preparing for another attack.

“Now……?” Nick says.

Jack then looked back towards Armure as he saw a cross appear behind Armure.

“So you see the seal then?” Nick said.

“What the heck I thought we wasn’t supposed to buff our Spectrobes” groaned Jack.

“It’s not a boost it dampens power.” Nick said before saying “Shall I release the seal?”

Jack then looks to Craig before saying “I’ll allow it, but I have a feeling things are about to get heated.”

“I am right now one with Armure. That is why I put the seal there.” Nick said.

“Well then… will you agree to me using Two spectrobes instead of just one?” Jack asked

“Ok!” Nick said a ghost like form appearing above Armure looking fired up.

“No group attacks or Geo’s” Craig ordered.

“That’s fine by me reduces collateral damage.” Jack answered as Windora appeared next to him



“Ok let’s a go!!!!!!” Nick says before casting a spell.

“Windora, let's get Armure moving” Jack ordered him before multiple tornadoes made their way towards Armure.

“Not a chance!!!” Nick said as Armure disappeared.

“Windora, Samurite, get ready,” Jack replied as they both went back to back with each other.

“Thanks for making a bigger target!” Nick said as the ground turned blue.

Jack then looked at the ground before samurite ran it to the tornado being launched into the air as Windora used it jets to get airborne as Samurite landed on its back.

“You saw it crap!” Nick said “Explosion now, Air mines now!” As the ground and the air explode.

“Well that was unexpected,” Jack replied looking up to see Windora hovering unaffected by the explosion.

“Rust….. Bucket…….oh…….god…….” Nick says as he collapses.

“Windora, Samurite stand down!” Jack orders as he runs over to Nick. He then knelt down before saying “Is anyone here a doctor?”

“Doctor not certified, but i can help,” Craig said as he ran towards them.

“.........Ow…..” Nick said his body had bruises everywhere. “ I didn’t take into account that I also take damage.”

Craig then sighed before saying “I give the win to Jack, due to the fact the opposing Spectrobe master is unable to continue.” 

“Hey…. Craig……” Nick says between breaths.

“You okay Nick,” 

“Sure…… Do you have any S.A.O. healing potions on you?” Nick said with a determined look.

Craig then smiled before a small screen appeared in front of him as he muttered “Thank you Kirito.” as a small red vial of liquid appeared in front of him which he instantly passed to Nick.

Jack then looked to Craig before saying “couldn’t you just use healing magic like you did for Asphyxious Craig?”

“You see I can’t be healed on the outside but on the inside it’s different.” Nick said that as he drank it.

“I need to get more of these things made for you Nick, i’ve only got three left.” Craig admitted

“Don’t worry I have an inventory just couldn’t open it at the moment.” Nick replied.

“Yeah but it seemed i always end up handing you mine when you need it,” Craig groaned.

“And I will repay you.” Nick says as he hands Craig ten more potions.

“I know you will, you always do, but it doesn’t mean i can’t sort myself out a few extra from time to time,” Craig admitted as potions Nick gave him disappeared.

“Now here you go…..” Nick says as one hundred and fifty gold appeared in front of Jack.

“Nick, i’m not taking your money.”

“Not my money….. A boss’s money that I don’t need.” Nick says.

“Nick, I don’t need any money from you, i get paid enough by the PPP for my work, you keep it,”

“Take another look at it.” Nick says as it transforms.

Jack then takes another look as he see’s bricks of Adamantium. He then looks back at Nick before he said “And this is?”

“Adamantium.” Nick replied. “Oh and some vibranium.

“Wait… adamantium and how would I use a metal that harder than anything I could could get back home?” 

“Well I was doing some experimenting and…….” Nick said as  some armor appeared on Nick.

“So you’ve got, adamantium armour?” Jack asked

“Yes…..” Nick replied. “Here…..” Nick hands him some armor but it’s really light.

“Are you sure you want to give this to me? This is your work after all.”

“What am I going to use it for?” Nick asked.

“Extra armour when you fight, this stuff is stronger and more durable than most conventional metals,” Jack pointed out.

“Well I also have this…” Nick says before pulling out another set of armor.

“How many sets have you made?” Jack asked Nick.

“Over Nine thousand.” Nick said.

“Fair enough then, I honestly thought i was taking your only set.” Jack said.

“No, but take this.” Nick replied and handed him a chest plate. “Wear this, it has certain properties…..”

“Whats sort of properties are we talking about?” Jack asked inquisitively. 

“This kind….” Nick as he stabs Jack. The wounds heal instantly.

“Now that I like,” Jack replied before saying “If only it was in black and white instead of silver.”

“It change’s colour.” Nick said as it changes colour to fit Jack’s uniform as it almost seemed to blend into his uniform.

“That’s actually pretty amazing,” Jack admitted. 

“Now just avoid head shots to your head and you’re good.” Nick said.

“I should really get some better gear made back home when i get time,” Craig muttered.

“You getting jelly?” Nick said.

“Nah, just realized how unequipped I am in terms of armour,” Craig admitted.

“Oh Scootaloo has the same armor.” Nick said just remembering.

“You gave her anything else you didn’t tell me about?” Craig asked.

“Maybe…….” Nick said slowly being very careful.

“Great… well, I’ll just be surprised later when we next train won’t I.”

“Well me too she got into my closet.” Nick replied.

Jack then smiled before saying “We really are a weird family ain’t we,”

“Trust me we’re tame in comparison to other displaced’s families.” Craig admitted.

“I guess.” Jack admitted before saying “When you're ready meet me back at my ship, I want to upgrade your Prizmods.”

“You sure you want us being able to control multiple of Spectrobes?” Craig asked Jack.

“Yeah, are you sure?” Nick also said to Jack.

“Your family, I trust you more than I actually trust my commander back home,” Jack admitted.

“You should be able to trust him, it’s not like he’s tried to trick you is it,” Craig admitted.

“No but let's face it he isn’t exactly the most upfront about his feeling.” 

“You know I trust you Jack,” Craig said as he removed his prizmod from his arm before continuing to say “Just don’t break it.”

“.............” Nick said nothing.

“Something wrong Nick?” Jack asked him.

“No just keep in mind what element I am Craig.” Nick said.

“Why is that a problem, Nick?” Craig replied

“Just reminding you…..” Nick said as he disappeared.

“Oh well, shall we?” Craig asked Jack before they made their way back into the ship.





Twenty minutes later Craig left the ship with a smile on his face and a small black cat like Spectrobe sitting on his shoulders.

He then looked towards the cockpit before he thought I guess I need to head back soon, hopefully no Krawl have appeared while I was gone.

He then walked up to the cockpit before sitting down as he said “Let’s head home,” before shouting “Anyone on the ship who shouldn’t be has two minutes to leave!”

After those two minutes past with nobody replying or leaving the hangar door closed before Jack prepared the ship for liftoff before opening a portal in front of it as he flew through back to his own universe.