> What creature is that? > by lonelywhitefox > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prologue (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prologue Discord had let out a loud sigh. The times were becoming boring. He had accomplished most of what he could think of, yet the most interesting to happen for years has been when Sunbutt and Moony had 'challenged' him. He was looking through a rift between universes, looking for anything that could relieve his boredom. His eyes soon found the planet Earth, which had given him the largest grin as the main species were almost as chaotic as himself. Even so, still found them a bit predictable. That is when something caught his eyes. One of the beings barely old enough to be thought of as an adult was passing. As the small soul was released from the being, Discord caught it. He talked softly to it. "Well what do we have here? A creature that had wished he could have done more, yet who barely got to see their own life. Well maybe I might have some use for such a little chaotic being. how about this little soul. I will make you a new body from something in your mind though in exchange you must provide some entertainment for me." The soul sat there for a minute, thinking over the offer the creature seemed to make to him. The mixture of animals didn't seem too trustworthy, but this could be one of his only chances to have a choice as to what he could be. After what Discord could have sworn felt like hours the soul finally gave a nod giving the god of chaos the form he wanted. Even now this made Discord a bit confused, as he looked over the form. Discord read of all the creatures abilities from the soul's memories and saw what it would become. With a smile Discord agreed to bring this creature into the world. As Discord worked to create the form, Celestia and Luna had gotten the elements of harmony and were starting to make their match back to defeat Discord. Discord had let out a sigh of relief as he finally finished the form though what surprised him was when he put the soul into the form. It had taken the shape of an egg. As Discord picked it up, he noticed it felt like he was lifting a block of pure iron. The egg had the light silver shine that the form would have though it was impossible it seemed for him to force it to hatch without harming the project. With a loud groan Discord deposited the egg in a pile of hay, which was all that was left of a house as he grumbled. "What a waste of time. Maybe it will hatch after a while." That is when Discord heard yelling coming from behind him. Turning around, he could see that Sunbutt and Moony had came back to play some more. He said with a smile on his face. "Well if it isn't my most favorite toys, back for another play-date. Maybe I should turn Moony's hair into cake and see how long she can last next to you with it?" Discord was so busy laughing at his ideas and rambling on about other plans that he didn't notice that the two princesses were charging up the elements. It was not until he had noticed there was a large amount of light coming from their direction that he found himself facing a large rainbow, coming straight for him. He started to scramble, some trying to get out of the way before the beam, but sadly for him it hit its mark quickly, turning him into a statue making him fall down right in front of the pile of hay he was floating next to. Celestia had let out a sigh of relief, glad that it had seemed to be finally over. She had been a bit curious as to what Discord was doing with this normal looking hay. It wasn't like him to keep something not associated with sweets or chaos. As she walked over to the hay her eyes went wide as she saw that there was a silver shining egg sitting within. "Sister get over here! There seems to have been an egg that Discord had left behind." Luna could not believe the words she had heard until she had walked over and seen the same egg. It looked nothing like any eggs they had seen before. Luna reached out to pick it up, before noticing its extreme weight, "What is this madeth of? It weighs as much as a full grown stallion!" Celestia realised the egg could be dangerous for all they knew but they couldn't just leave it here. If Discord was taking care of it they couldn't just leave it without heat. "We will bring it with us and, have StarSwirl watch over it and make sure it isn't dangerous." Celestia had gripped it in her light orange aura of magic and started to walk with her sister back into the forest toward their castle. After they had made it back to the castle the egg seemed to have started moving some though it didn't seem like it was going to hatch any time soon. Luna had used her own light blue aura to carry the Discord statue with them toward the statue garden. She went on her own, since after they had arrived Celestia had walked into the laboratory. StarSwirl and Clover had stayed in the laboratory and they were almost already on top of her as soon as she had walked in with the new item of interest. StarSwirl was lightly rubbing his beard as they examined what Celestia had brought them. That Discord apparently had it with him made it the more interesting. StarSwirl spoke lightly, "Well it seems like it is made more of metal shell than an egg shell. It could possibly be a draconequus egg but he is the only one that we know of." Clover had tried using multiple scanning spells on the egg but they couldn't find what it looked like on the inside of the shell. Clover let out a groan as she slammed her head into the table while yelling, "How is this possible? It is clearly alive but our magic can't seem to find out what is inside of it?!?!" After almost a month of trying StarSwirl and Clover couldn't find out anything about the egg it seemed harmless, but they had kept it in a warm area just in cause. It didn't seem like it had gotten any closer to hatching. They had not seen it change at all since Celestia had carried it there. They placed a heating charm on the case they had laid the egg inside, along with a spell that would have alerted any of the four of them if the egg hatched. As time passed and the dreadful day came that Celestia had to banish her own sister, they had started moving most of the items out of the old castle toward the new capital. Though the one box that was forgotten right near the Elements of Harmony, themselves now encased in stone, containing the egg still unhatched. Celestia had forgotten it in the rush to get away from the bad memories in the old castle. Unknown to them, the egg was still waiting for the number of steps required to finish its hatching. With the steps that carried it to the castle, there were just around five hundred steps left for it to hatch. Though now it was forgotten, the sleep soul waited inside for its next life to begin. The stone box with the strong charms lay there, unfazed by the passage of time, waiting for those last few steps. > Chapter 1 (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The forgotten is found. Twilight and her friends had been going through the trials that Nightmare Moon had continued setting in their path. She wondered why the only thing that could have stopped her was in the most dangerous forest of Equestria. They had finally gotten passed the challenges, walking up to the nearly decayed ruins of the Castle of Two Sisters. They were trying their best to find the Elements of Harmony, while avoiding Nightmare Moon. This proved to be pretty difficult, as Nightmare Moon seemed to be at every corner. They finally found the Elements, though unfortunately there were only five. Whilst this was enough for them, there was a sixth item that Nightmare had grabbed, thinking it had held the sixth element. Inside of the egg the being was wondering how much time had passed since he had finally felt the step meter start up again, rocking him somewhat inside of the container. Soon he could have sworn he felt his egg hit against the container he was in as if it was dropped. He had felt something try to pick him up before taking what seemed to be a third attempt before they succeeded. He felt the step meter dropping down at a quick rate, and as he got closer he could swear he heard people talking around him. The main sister was walking out of the forest with the princesses. Celestia was not sure what was in the box that Nightmare had tried to keep though it seemed to have some old charms on it that hadn't been used in centuries. That was when her eyes went wide as they exited the forest and the charms that were to warn her and Luna went off on the box. The egg had let out a mental sigh as the darkness surrounding him started brighten up Celestia had thrown open the box containing the silver egg to see that it had started to glow. She was very fearful of what it could be, as rather than cracking, to her surprise the egg started changing in shape until it had finally stopped glowing and let out a loud yawn as the light dyed down. The Main six were all looking at the strange creature with their mouths wide open, because in place of the egg there now sat a small, metallic-looking animal. It was no more than a foot tall, its head was almost the size of the creature's body and as he opened his eyes they were light red. He was enjoying his new look as he looked over his newly formed body. His legs and stomach were a pale green while his back and head looked to be mostly made of iron with two holes for his eyes and a couple of smaller holes dotting his body. The Aron was surprised though when he looked up. Rather than seeing the creature composed of a mixture of animals that had brought him here, there seemed to a bright white horse-like creature with a mane that looked more like it belonged on someone who couldn't choose what color to dye their hair. It wasn't until he looked around that he noticed that he was not only in what seemed to be in a box that was larger than himself, but many of the horse creatures towered over him. Almost instinctively the first thing he did was to use Harden, which to Celestia and the group only made it look like his metal became clearer. He was about to take in a breath to use Screech when he heard the yellow pegasus. Fluttershy spoke a motherly tone of voice, "Everyone back up you're scaring the poor thing!" which surprised most of her friends. They did as she asked, however, as Fluttershy lightly flew over lightly petting him as she said in a soft and calm voice, "It's okay little guy, come on, you must be hungry after just hatching. Let's see if we can find out what you eat," she said. This was an even bigger surprise to himself. This softly spoken pony had not only just deescalated what could have been a very bad situation, but then she had gone straight into a motherly role. Thinking it would be best to play along for now to find out where he was he gave a slight nod before he started to climb out of the box. With a soft thump his metal body hit the ground. Starting to follow the yellow pegasus' lead, he also noticed that the purple looking one was giving him what he thought was the most frightening look ever. It was the look he had seen from some very enthusiastic people who wanted to dissect frogs in high school had. "Note to self - stay as far away from the purple one as humanly possible." While Fluttershy was leading away the new creature Celestia turned to the group before moving over to Twilight and the rest of her friends. "Twilight I will need you and your friends to watch over this new creature. It is completely unknown to us and I would like you to send me letters on what you find out about it," Celestia had told the five of them in a light tone trying her best not to show that the creature worried her. "We will not let you down Princess Celestia we will be sure that everything that is needed will be learned from the new species." Twilight said with a large grin and eyes that sparkled while she thought about studying the creature. Rainbow and Applejack were rolling their eyes at Twilight's behavior, though Pinkie Pie was gone in a puff of smoke - either to go set up the party she had already planned or to add on more to it. Meanwhile the yellow pegasus had made it back to what Aron could only guess was her home. He was guessing pony was a female from the sound of her voice, and he was not too surprised to see there seemed to be more animals at this house than there might have been in his home town. That was when he saw what seemed to be a little white bunny half jumping and half walking toward them. it gave Aron a look that would rival a Mean look. He was further surprised by the chattering sound of the animal he heard of the creature as it start talking in full sentences. "Fluttershy, what did I tell you about bringing strange things home with you? You also forgot to set out the food before heading off to the celebration!" the little bunny had yelled almost loud enough to be mistaken for a Loudred rather than a small bunny. "Well at least I am not the one who is going to lose their voice from yelling." Aron mumbled to himself, and the bunny then started glaring at him. It walked over to him and did what he thought was the dumbest thing he had seen. Fluttershy was a bit sad when she saw Angel Bunny upset again. Then she heard the new animal make a long almost scratchy like cry although the pitch seemed low. Fluttershy then saw Angel going in to try and do what he usually did - he tried kicking the animal's leg, she tried to stop him, but his foot made contact. Rather than the new animal getting hurt, Angel started jumping around holding his leg. "Yeah very smart idea bunny. Try and kick the creature that is made of metal, because you know that will definitely work," Aron said, rolling his eyes Angel gave him another glare before responding with, "Well buck you too then. I at least can be held." Angel stuck out his tongue at him as he was picked up by Fluttershy, who was still a bit confused as to what the misunderstanding between the two animals could be. After Fluttershy had wrapped Angel's leg, she sat him on the couch. There was a knock on the door, and as she went to answer it Aron tried talking with the bunny again. "It seems we might have gotten off on the wrong paw here. How about we just do a back and forth seeing where it goes?" he said calmly to Angel bunny who reluctantly agreed. At the door there had been the rest of the main six. Fluttershy shutting the door behind her stepping outside to talk with her friends before lightly asking, "H-hello girls I-i didn't expect you to show up until tomorrow." "Darling we had to come and check on you after you had left with that unknown animal," Rarity said lightly giving a light smile and thinking of how the new creature had an interesting design. "Plus we needed to make sure ya had that little critter under control since it is even a mystery to the princesses," Applejack said as she was looking around to make sure the critter wasn't doing anything it shouldn't be. "Oh no, it has been perfectly fine. He just ran into Angel bunny when we showed up and Angel bunny hurt himself trying to kick him," Fluttershy said timidly, her sentence trailing off almost to a whisper. "Oh my buck I really wish I could have seen that." Rainbow Dash said between laughing and falling on her back thanking Celestia that the little demon had finally got some payback for being such a pain in the flank. Missing from the group was a certain purple unicorn who had sneaked into the cabin without Fluttershy noticing. She could see that the little Aron seemed to have some kind of chat with Angel Bunny. When Angel saw heard the door open he looked over thinking it was Fluttershy but saw it was her new friend who seemed to eyeing the little metal guy. "Hey thought I might as well give you a running start. Something big and purple just came into the house use that knowledge as you wish," Angel said in a very monotone voice as he didn't care one way or the other. The second Aron heard Angel say the word purple he had quickly turned around to see the one he was really hoping to avoid trying to tip-hoof over to him. He started running faster than he thought his little legs could go, still almost tripping over himself since he was not used to running on all fours. Right behind him was the purple pony right on his non existent tail. He quickly looped around the room before making a lunge under the couch, hoping the sound of metal hitting against wood might draw Fluttershy's attention from outside. Fluttershy had turned around with her friends as they heard the loud bang coming from inside. Her friends looked a bit worried by the sound. Fluttershy quickly ran inside to see Twilight dragging out a struggling Aron from beneath the couch with magic. "Twilight, what in Equestria are you doing to that pour dear? You put him down right now!" Fluttershy had said with a very stern voice giving her a stare that made Aron think she knew Glare. The magic that Twilight's was holding Aron with faded as he had quickly scurried under the couch to avoid the inevitable yelling that it seemed Fluttershy was just about to give to Twilight. He could see that the others behind Fluttershy were trying to calming her down, and it wasn't until they said that the Princess told them to watch him that she finally calmed down enough to stop chewing Twilight's ear off. Height:1'2 (Under average) Weight: 132 lb (Around average) Ability:Unknown Moves known:Screech, tackle, harden, and others unknown > Chapter 2(Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Start of Suspicions After what to Aron and Angel had felt like hours spent explaining since Twilight had took the long route, Aron thought "For the sake of Arceus, she could have simple said they were told to keep and eye on me by the Princesses, but no she had to explain almost every detail." Angel looked over at Aron, who was hitting his head against the wall and in doing so had been slowly starting to leave a dent. Letting out light sigh, Angel jumped over to Fluttershy and tapped her leg before pointing over to Aron. Fluttershy saw that Rainbow wasn't the only one being bored out of their mind by Twilight, since the new creature was now banging his head against the wall. "U-um Twi-twilight I don't want to interrupt, but I think it would be best for our new friends health and Rainbow's if you finished off," Fluttershy had said very timidly pointing over to Rainbow who had a puddle of drool forming around her next to Aron who continued to make a still deeper dent in the wall. Twilight looked at the two before giving a loud huff before saying, "Fine, I guess I explained enough already." Almost instantly, Rainbow Dash jumped up and yelled, "Finally, we are free from the tyranny of the boring explanation." Rainbow was out the open window before anyone could say anything else, Applejack had walked out after Twilight had started taking the long path to explain it, and Rarity was on the couch getting her beauty sleep. When Aron finally heard that the long explanation had stopped he let out an audible sigh. There then followed a loud growl, as he had yet to eat. "Oh yeah, we still haven't found out what he eats yet." Fluttershy quickly headed to the kitchen, returning with a plate containing fish, a bowl of lettuce, and an another plate with seeds. Aron was looking at the three plates wondering if he could even eat anything since the pokemon he was usually only ate metal. He thought he would at least try all of them to see if any were filling or not. He sniffed the fish before taking a bite. Though to his and the two ponies surprise when he bit into the fish he managed to bite right through both the fish and its bones. Twilight was writing down information on him they still didn't really know what to call it and she was surprised to see that the creature seemed to be able to eat mostly anything as it at some of all three plates of food. "W-well at least we don't have to worry about keeping certain things in stock for him," said Fluttershy lightly, as Angel bunny jumped over and ate some of the lettuce that Aron had left behind. Rarity had seemed to have left as Fluttershy was about to ask her if she wanted to go with her and Twilight. Fluttershy started walking with Twilight as they left get themselves something to eat. Aron smiled thinking it might be interesting to follow, them walking behind them as they walked into town. Upon arrival, the town seemed pretty empty. He knew the sun was about to set, but where was everyone? He saw they were heading toward a building that looked like it was a large gingerbread house. He made sure to stay as close to them as possible. So when they opened the door he slipped into the building behind them before the door shut he wondered why the lights were off. "SURPRISE!" Shouted Pinkie and what he could only guess were dozens of other ponies, causing him to jump and giving away his presence to Twilight and Fluttershy. "P-pinkie cou-couldn't you have warned us before you were going to thrown the party?" Fluttershy said lightly. Twilight shook her head before she headed over to get herself something to eat. "Well it wouldn't be a surprise since you two are always right next to him, so you had to be left in the dark or it wouldn't have been a surprise." Pinkie said as she was hopping around Aron, in front of whom she had set a cupcake before inhaling one herself. Aron looked a bit worried and was reticent about trying the cupcake. He had never been much of a sweets person. Hoping that his taste buds were dulled enough not to get too hyper from it. He moved his head down and tasted the cupcake curiously. Staying as still possible, he almost felt like coughing because it tasted like he just swallowed a bag of sugar. "How does that monster eat so many of these thing? It tasted like someone made cotton candy into cupcake form!" He felt his eyes twitching some as he fell over onto his side. He looked around seeing most of the ponies were busy with the party. He arose and started sneaking around the area curiously, letting out a sigh as he found a drink that wouldn't make him rot from sweetness. He started chugging what he thought looked like just some apple juice, when he was interrupted by a nearby voice. "Hey Applejack, have you seen the barrel of hard cider that you brought for us when we stopped at Nightmare party?" Pinkie asked as she looked around. "It should be right over here." Applejack said as they walked over and that it was on its side with something shiny sticking out of the barrel. "Hey Fluttershy what happens when an animal drinks hard cider? Because I believe that new critter just drank the whole bucking barrel of it!" Aron's head felt like it was spinning having never drank before, he tried to get up only to fall over rolling up into a ball. He started using Rollout without thinking about it, but being drunk he could barely gain any speed. He seemed more like a small metal ball than an animal. Fluttershy was chasing him around as Twilight observed, taking notes on the behavior of the now quite inebriated creature. "It seems to be able to compress itself into a ball-like form and roll around. I'm not sure if this is natural or if it is because the creature has consumed an entire barrel of hard cider," Twilight had written down. She gave a nod to it as Fluttershy finally caught him grunting to pick him up until Pinkie pie had came over and lift him for her. "Well, it seems this little guy is out of it for the night. You want me to help you take him to your cabin Flutters?" Pinkie said with a smile. Not really having any trouble carrying the small Aron Fluttershy gave a light nod as she and Pinkie walked out. They start heading toward Fluttershy's house. Aron had finally unrolled but seemed to be passed out from drinking that much. "For a little guy he sure can drink a lot that barrel was nearly three times his size, poor thing is going to have a large bucking headache in the morning." Meanwhile in Aron's dream his head was already pounding so hard he thought that someone had taken a jackhammer to his head. "Ugh did anyone get the number of the semi-trailer that hit me, because I think they missed a spot. Never mind it hurts there now!" He sat up some and saw he was in what used to be his room. "I guess this is my mind since no one in this world seems like they would have any technology like this." He gave a light stretch as he walked over to his computer, hitting a few keys to bring up a random villain song he liked. He started lightly humming along to the song as he walked around not able to do much since he didn't have hands. He blinked as he looked around feeling like something was watching him. He took in a deep breath before using a loud Screech until he saw a shadow fall to the floor covering its ears taking the form of one of the ponies. "What are you doing in here? Haven't they taught here there are such things as privacy? I am pretty sure that my mind is as private a place as you can find?" Aron almost growled, unsure if they could understand him in his dream, though from her surprised look he guessed she could. "We are just doing our job of watching over the dreams of our subjects we saw this one though it had a different color in the dream realm, one that we have not seen before!" The dark pony had yelled so loud that even the song and the Screech he had made earlier paled in comparison. Aron had quickly covered his non-existent ears with his metal nubs. "Okay, just stop yelling or I will become deaf I am literally less than three feet from you." After Aron said this Luna was taken back as she didn't know how the creature even hear her with no ears, or if she was that loud. "Okay, now that you are not yelling me to death, how about you tell me who the fucking hell you are and why you are in my mind?" Aron said, regaining his serious tone as he sat down even knowing the pony was already towered over him. "Well as we said we are the watching over the dreams and our name is Princess Luna. Now what about yourself, mysterious creature? You are the unknown here not me," Luna had replied in a voice which, whilst still loud, was somewhat quieter than before. "Well the only information I am willing to give up to a stranger such as yourself would be my name I guess I will just stick with 'Aron' for now until I think of one that is more fitting. Now if you wouldn't mind, I would like to relax some and want some privacy since I have had ponies around me all day?" Aron said, in his calm voice. He continued softly humming the song that was on before Luna had come in. Luna had left feeling it would not likely worth trying to push her luck any further even if it was a pain in her flank to not get a straight answer from someone. She had let out a loud sigh as she continued her duties, thinking of how this Aron acted so much like his creator not only acting as if he was just playing a game, but making a pointed effort not take her seriously. Celestia was looking over the letter her student had sent her. The creature had not seemed to be much of a threat, yet as this was a creature made by Discord it was likely to be unpredictable. She looked out at the statue of Discord, "I am not sure what he had planned for this creature but I will make sure that it does not cause any harm to my little ponies!" > Chapter 3 (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Training beings Aron woke, groaning and feeling as if someone had dropped a block of concrete onto his head. Rubbing his head somewhat with his little nub, he looked around to see that it appeared to be around midday. He walked over to a small plate that was left nearby, in doing so noticing that it had a letter on it. "Dear little guy, I have left some medicine in you food to help with any headaches you may have for when you finally wake up. Be sure to eat it all - I am off help one of my friends on her farm for the day. Signed Fluttershy". With a sigh he walked over to the plate hoping to. God that since his sense of taste was dulled he wouldn't be able to detect the medicine. He walked over and started eating the fish and carrots. He could tell there should have been more carrots on the plate, but he shrugged off his suspicions. He was thinking over what he could do looking over toward the forest guessing that it could be interesting for him to explore it for a while. He walked out the open front door, humming to himself as he went into the dimly lit forest. He looked around for something that he might find interesting, unsure how he would get to his evolution, with how little there seemed to be to battle around here. He was surprised at how dark the forest seemed to be compared to how bright those next to it were, though this did hold promise he could find some chances to train here. With a smile, he thought of how he could draw the most attention to himself. He opened his mouth toward the depths of forest before letting out a loud Screech. Now all he needed to do was wait for the predators of the forest to come thinking there was easy prey and how he would deal with them when they came. "If it is the smaller predators, I can throw my weight around with Tackle, though they are larger, I will have to use Rollout and follow a hit-and-run strategy." He was thinking whilst his small form crouched against a tree trunk. He was dragged out of his train of thought as he heard the moving of nearby brush. He got ready waiting to see what had came to try and fight him. He was a bit taken back when he saw three wooden wolves walk out of the brush. Two were around two feet tall and three feet in length, while the one leading them was the size of the other two combined. He had not expected something like this though if he was going to fight the group he had to make sure to stay on his feet. As long as they attacked his harder metal he would only sustain light injuries. He quickly used Tackle smashing against the side of the largest of the wolves the forest filling with the cracks and groans of the wood he smashed against. He seemed as lucky as hell that it knocked down the larger one as the other two were stunned that their leader was knocked down. He quickly curled up using Rollout, doing his best to injure or knock down the other two smashing into the smaller ones legs as they attempted to recover. The larger one was the first to strike he tried to snap down on the small creature but flinched as it heard its wooden teeth break on the small creature's hard exterior. The other two wolves had tried their best to claw at the creature as he continued rolling and gaining more and more speed. Before long he was starting to tire out some. Aron knew he couldn't keep this up too long not having much strength yet. He needed to finish this and quick. He launched into a Tackle straight from his speeding roll. As he smashed against the already cracked midsection of the large wolf, the sound of cracking and snapping wood blew through the forest as he had smashed through the already weakened wood. He seemed to be lucky once more, for this seemed to make the weaker wolves run away for now. With a soft sigh of relief, he got out of the now broken wooden wolf before mumbling, "Maybe next time, be made of a stronger wood - like Mahogany," he snickered to himself as he started walking out of the forest. In turning, he had failed to notice the wolf starting to reassemble itself. He only had a few scratches over his metal body but he was very tired. As he exited the forest he suddenly felt himself being picked up. He looked up to see Fluttershy, who was giving him a look that informed him that he was about to get chewed out. For the next hour of his life, he had wished he could turn off his hearing. Her lecture continued on about how it was irresponsible to go off on his own and how he should not have gone into the forest. He was really wondering if he should have just have found a way to learn Dig so he could just tunnel way from the nagging, although he was thanking the heavens that they still didn't seem to know much about his powers. He noticed the purple unicorn out in the window was watching him like a hawk now. He then mentally slapped himself - she must be suspicious that he was hiding something since, he used Screech on Luna and they most likely knew of his level of intelligence now, without them admitting as much to him. "Ugh, maybe I should have chosen a ghost type, or a psychic type at least - then I might have been able to put up mental shields. Well at least there are not many things that seem to be able to hurt me," he half complained to himself. Fluttershy finally seemed to have stopped nagging him. He let out a sigh of relief as he saw Fluttershy yawn and slowly started to make her way upstairs and the purple one seemed to have given up for the night. With a shrug he moved over to the couch get up on it before he started drifting back to sleep to rest up. Luna was glaring at the dream bubble that belonged to Aron. She knew that it would end in the same yelling match if she had tried sneaking in again. Though she had refused to ask permission to enter somepony's dream since it was her job, with a loud huff she prepared to leave when she noticed that the dream seemed to be shifting some. With a groan her curiosity won out again as she opened it much more carefully this time and used her spell to blend in with the shadows. Aron was happily humming as he had turned floor of his room into basically a touch screen game of Civilization V. He was starting out with the settled city playing as the Mongolian leader as he usually did. He was too busy sending out scouts and researching archery to notice the new shadow that had formed in his room. He was lightly humming along to the song blasting in the room as he started to hunt down the barbarians that were near his cities. He had only stopped for a minute and looked around swearing he had heard a gasp for a second. He readied his Screech though this time nothing seemed to come out of the shadows. He gave a small shrug and imagined small glowing balls of energy into his dreamscape to lighten up all the shadows just in case. Since nothing materialized or appeared to be out of order he continued his game. As the morning began the first thing he saw when he woke up was Fluttershy feeding the different animals. She had already set his bowl with some fish with a few carrots in it. With a shrug he started eating and finished before she had completed her tasks of feeding the others. Suddenly a chill ran down his spin as he looked over to the door. "Since you ran off yesterday without telling anyone, and as I need to help the little ducks through town I had asked someone to watch over you. Think it as your punishment." Fluttershy said softly as there was a knock on the door. "No, she couldn't possibly be that mad. Please to Arceus, don't let it be who I think it is," he thought, as he looked over to the door. But he soon let out a sigh of relief when he saw a blue pegasus with rainbow hair. "So this is the little thing that had finally given that demon bunny what its temper needed huh?" She gave a large smiled before lifting up the heavy guy. She was still surprised this thing weighed this much, given its size. "A-angel is not a demon bunny he just is very protective of me. Thank you for watching over him for me Ra-rainbow." Fluttershy said softly as she lightly held Angel bunny against her, whilst he glared at Rainbow Dash. As the one Aron now just called Rainbow put him on her back, she mumbled about how she might just use him for weight training as she started flying up into the clouds. He clung to her for dear life, not sure how much falling would hurt but keen not to put it to the test. He closed his eyes tightly until he heard her say "Hey G, sorry it took so long to get back I agreed to watch this guy for a friend of mine. He is great for weight training," Rainbow said calmly as Aron opened his eyes some to see some kind of quadrupled bird-lion. He knew they were mythological but their name escaped him. "Hmph that little thing looks more like it would be good for a catching challenge than weight training," G said in an arrogant tone of voice, as smile spread across Rainbow's face. "Well here how about you try holding the little guy for a minute than," Rainbow said challenging her friend as she lifted Aron off her back and held him over to her friend, his eyes wide seeing they were standing on a cloud. "Okay Rainbow challenge accepted." G said. She held out her claws wrapping them around him as Rainbow let go of him G almost fell through the cloud with a surprised squeak. "My God, what does this thing eat? It feels like I just tried to lift a set of old armor!" she exclaimed, looking at the little metal creature she now held. Having gotten herself re-balanced, she could have swore she heard snickering coming from the small thing. "Well from what my friend says he can basically eat anything he wants. When she tried feeding him fish he ate not just the meat but the bones as well," Rainbow said, as Gilda had put the little creature on her own back, guessing it would be good for weight training. She gave Rainbow a look for surprise when she'd said this thing could eat bones. It was at this point that Aron started drifting off somewhat, Firstly because he was getting bored with all the chatting, and secondly he wasn't pleased about being in the middle of the air operating as a fucking training weight. "Brain?" he asked himself, "when I have the power later, remind me to scream so loudly that they will wish it was that Luna person yelling," he continued. He made a mental note to himself to keep an eye on the Pink one, who had seemed to have joined in on the conversation,having broken several laws of physics again. He could hear that his driver was apparently getting madder and madder at the pink puffball. He was further surprised when he saw that she had sent the pink one flying off with her flying machine that she had constructed. After a while on the cloud Rainbow Dash had to head off for a bit, so G had flew down to the ground. Which he was again thanking Arceus that they were no longer in the air. G seemed what he could best call the jackass of the air, I mean stealing is not right but it's not the worse thing you could do. Though that was the lightest and calmest thing she had done. Even he thought that it was a bit harsh when the one carrying him yelled at Fluttershy, who accidentally back into G while leading the little ducks. He wondered if she even knew was he on her back any more. It seemed Pinkie and Rainbow had started playing some pranks on G, I could see that Rainbow was just having fun. Pinkie seemed to be trying to get her back or to expose her hot temper to Rainbow. Though what surprised further him was how G was reacting to a couple of pranks and why she kept seeming to blame Pinkie, until freaked out at the party at Sugar-cube Corner and she started walk out of the building about to take off when. He thought of doing an impression of her and how she got angry over the pranks, that were meant to be harmless, though what came out astonished him. "Oh boohoo I get all steamed over just a couple of pranks and new people, and rather than doing the reasonable thing and apologizing I storm off like a chick!" What had caused him such surprise was that his voice had sounded just like Gilda's he had used Mimic without even noticing, which also meant he said that out loud. He thanked his many blessings that this stopped Gilda right outside Sugar-cube Corner, though she hadn't seemed to notice where the voice had emanated from. "Oh thank Arceus she thinks that it is her own conscience, rather than me." he thought, as he smiled knowing he now knew Mimic. That will make this town so much more interesting. Gilda had faceclawed, mumbling under her breath, "Oh buck I really just acted like a bucking chick over a few pranks and Rainbow hanging out with new people." She turned to face the building before swallowing her pride and re-entering the building with her head down. Everyone - especially Rainbow - was surprised to see her come back, although even more surprised by what came out of her beak. "Rainbow and your friends I'm s-sorry I acted like a spoiled chick. I had thought that you had been trying to replace me with these other ponies though I didn't really consider what you really thought," Gilda said, still looking down on the floor. The first person that moved over to her was Fluttershy. "I-I for-forgive you Gilda i-it's understandable th-though I am sure that you will need time before w-we fully t-trust yo-you ok-okay?" Fluttershy said softly though loud enough for most ponies in the room to hear. "By the way Rainbow Dash what happened to the little guy I was having you look after?" Fluttershy asked, looking over to Rainbow Dash who had stopped thinking for a minute. She quickly flew over to Gilda, and moving her wings everypony could see Aron still sitting on her. Rainbow Dash picked Aron up as best she could. "Wait a minute, that heavy animal has been on my back this whole time? I guess we forgot about him when Pinkie show up, where did you guys find that thing any ways?" Gilda asked, looking at Aron who was sitting on the floor stretching, before sprawling on his stomach. He zoned out the conversation around him, thinking of how much he had missed being on the ground and how much fun he was going to have with Mimic. Though he knew it would most likely have its limits here, he felt sure he would have a lot of fun messing with this ability. If he could right now, he would've had the finger pyramid of evil contemplation, as he rubbed his front nub feet together, plotting. > Chapter 4 (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Begetting the aoorebtuce Aron sat there and smiled. After the party had dispersed, he had rolled up into his ball like form and slowly and silently followed his mortal enemy - the purple unicorn - to her home. He saw he would need to be cautious since he noticed the small lizard creature was also walking with her. He was unsure if it was a pet or just another species that he didn't know about. Before the small lizard could shut the door, he had rolled in and slipped under the nearby sofa. He listened to what seemed to be 'Twilight' recapping what had happened that day to the one she called Spike. She seemed to have a very close relationship with Spike but what really surprised him was when he burned the letter he had been dictating in order to send it to it's destination. With a large smile on his face Aron had used Mimic on Spike as he used the fire hoping that it would last long enough as he saw them head upstairs most likely to go to sleep. It was time for him to start a set up for what he had planned. He waited an hour making sure that they were sound asleep before he unrolled and started moving around the unlit library area. He was looking around and smiling as he started softly humming to himself. Whilst looking through the library he saw a table with papers laid out on it. "Oh my fucking Arceus is that a feather and inkwell? Why the hell do they have ovens but have not invented the pen yet?" He thought for a minute walking over and jumping up onto the chair, and from there up to the table. He had made sure the lid to the inkwell was tight, as he lifted it up in his mouth. Lightly making his way up the stairs as silently as he could, he peaked inside to see that they both seemed sound asleep. He was a bit surprised that Spike didn't have his own room and that he was sleeping in a basket like a dog or cat. He rolled his eyes as he made his way up to Twilight with a smile setting the inkwell next to her. He slowly opened the inkwell before pouring it into her mane, employing the Mimic of Spikes fire breath to dry her now black mane before she started rubbing her head with her front hooves. He moved the now empty inkwell under her bed before looking around noticing that she seemed to be exceptionally well organized. He slowly and silently started moving things around - swapped books on shelves and slightly tilted all the pictures in the house. He now had one more problem - how the hell was he going to get out of the house? He silently made his way down the stairs as he smiled. He made a small stack of books next to the door, then climbed up on top of them, using his mouth to turn the door knob. He was so lucky he didn't have many taste-buds. After slipping out of the house and closing the door behind him he quickly used Rollout and rolled towards Fluttershy's cabin. He rolled in through the open door, climbing onto the couch. Stretching a little and giving a slight yawn he closed his eyes and smiled. He had a feeling that he would have a wake up call when the morning came. Even so, he was getting bored. Maybe he could try taking a few more risks, though he was still not too sure how punishment this body could sustain. Thinking this over, he drifted off to sleep. Going back to the room he stayed in when in his mind, a smile spread across his face as he started to make a large glass box with a small city in it. Adding small replications of the anime and video game characters in the city, he saw that a good many of the heroes seemed to have been getting together, while the neutral characters went their separate ways into the city. The villains seemed to have split into groups. The more intelligent of the villains didn't seem to group together seeming to feel more comfortable being the leader of their group. He made sure not to add overly powerful villains and heroes so as to avoid breaking out and making a mess of his calm mind. His eyes started to opening as he heard screaming so loud that he could have sworn it was right next to his ear. He yawned as he sat up and looked out the window to see what he only could think was a ponyta. "Wait a minute, how is there a ponyta here and why is it running this way?" he thought as he noticed the body had a hint of purple. "Oh my holy Arceus, SHE CAN FUCKING MEGA-EVOLVE!!!" he thought. She was now stampeding toward Fluttershy's cabin. Soon there was a loud knock that he felt sure had nearly cracked the door. Fluttershy jumped up and stood there for a moment, before slowly making her way to the door. Opening the top half of it, she made a soft squeal and ducked behind the door. He guessed she had never seen her like this. "FLUTTERSHY can I borrow that little ball of metal for a moment." Twilight half yelled and half growled Fluttershy quite literally threw him to the wolf, since she was quite scared of her. "NNOOOO, Fluttershy you threw me under the bus without even asking why!!!" he thought as he was being dragged away his nubs leaving lines in the dirt. The flaming pony had a smile on her face that he thought would be more fitting on the Joker. He suddenly lifted up and he quickly curled into a ball defensively as he was thrown into the tree house. He quickly rolled and hid under the couch before heard Twilight yelled, "Spike, we are staying inside. The library is closed, we are going to be testing magic until tomorrow and making sure our new 'guest' stays here where we can see him," Twilight had said, with a degree of toxicity in her voice. The one thing going through Aron's mind was. "I'm now locked in the house with the insane ponyta who looks at me like a scientist looks at a specimen, I am so totally fucked!!!" > Chapter 5 part 1 (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Disappearing Act Begins "Day one, the purple monster is sitting right outside of my hiding hole grinning with the knowledge that I can not hide out here forever. It has even gone as far as to set a plate of food to try and lure me out. I am half tempted to go out although I am sure I will be walking straight into a trap," Aron was thinking in his mental journal before looking out as he heard Spike who had been ordered to watch over him. "Why is it I have to watch over him? I wasn't the one to scare him under the sofa. Oh well I got a ruby out of it," Spike said as he took a bite of the ruby before noticing the little creature of metal had slipped out and was almost swallowing the plate of fish and fruit. "I still don't see how something that is even smaller than me could do it, even if he is intelligent like Princess Luna says," Spike said as he lightly started petting over the little things head. Aron looked up at him, a bit surprised that he was comparing size with himself. Aron was now wondering how the hell he was going to do any training with Twilight breathing down his neck and having him watched like a hawk. At least the little lizard or dragon - he wasn't entirely sure what species Spike was - didn't seem to be as much a pain in the ass as Twilight. He was sure that he had much say in it one way or the other that Twilight was going to watch him. His eyes widen as he heard the sound of hooves coming down the stairs. He had quickly used Harden and tried to roll back under the sofa. Silently cursed as he stopped moving, finding himself covered in the purple magic again, this time being easily lifted off the ground. "Oh Arceus why do I have a feeling I am going to know how lab rats feel soon!" Aron thought, as Twilight smiled at him. She started carrying him down into the basement where she kept her lab and other scientific apparatus. "You thought you could get away with it though there were a few clues you left behind. Firstly, you left stacks of books next to everything that you needed to get to. The door to our room and the front door. Secondly, the trail of dots on the floor marking where you had been walking around the house indicated where you'd been sneaking around. Finally, I saw you follow us home yesterday night," Twilight said, as the sweat dripped down Aron's head, his perspiration becoming worse with each fact being laid before him. He tried to keep the most innocent smile on his face. "Oh I am so fucked, the only way I could be more fucked is if she had woke up when I was dying her hair," Aron thought, with the sweat going down his face. Looking up at her though, he was a bit surprised when she put him in a dog carrier cage. "You will be there until I'm ready for the test I still have some spells I am finishing up with Spike and I will be going out for the day and will be back in the evening to feed you," Twilight said as she headed upstairs. Once she shut the door he let out a sigh of relief. He thought it would be best to wait for there to be silence before trying anything. As the time passed by, he heard Spike talking about a mustache spell or something. Why is there a need for a spell like that, and why am I thinking this is not the most silly spell that she had learned? With a sigh, he heard what he could only guess were fireworks outside and then he heard the library door open and close. With a smile, he realized he now had his opportunity. He opened his jaw and slipped it between two different bars of the small wired cage. With a loud groan from the cage, there was a snap as he ate through the metal bars. "Hmm iron tastes a bit like bacon! Awesome!" he thought, now curious as to what tin and gold tasted like. He walked through the small hole and started to climb up the stairs before jumping up and grabbing the doorknob in his mouth. He turned it and slammed his body against the door. Now having a dab of sweat on his forehead, the doorknob came off in his mouth as the door flung open and sent him flying. He had forgotten he weighed a good amount more than something his size should and swallowed the copper door knob which tasted a bit like like shrimp or catfish. He saw that she had thankfully forgotten to move the books back from the door, so once more he climbed back onto the pile, opening the door lightly before slipping out. Closing the door behind him, he saw a large crowd near the middle of town and heard the shouting, most likely from a performer of some kind. When a thought came to his mind, he slipped over into his ball form, listening to the chat between the crowd and the performer as he rolled close to the stage. He knew that it was not going to end well when he heard them harassing the performer, calling her a show-off and thinking. "Do these ponies really not understand the point of a performer? To try and live bigger than life?" He guessed that with magic really existing here, performers must be few and far between. Just as he said that, he could hear who it was that was trying to pick holes in the performance. It was one of the people who had been watching over him. He shook his head knowing that they were going to take this the wrong way. Once more they started challenging the performer. After three of them embarrassed themselves and the show seemed over for now he started rolling toward the little trailer thing that the performer stayed in. He was wondering if he could do any kind of voice he knew with Mimic. He thought of one of the only two male voices he had heard since he got here. "Now to see if this works," he had whispered to himself with a smile. He was able to copy the voice of the one who had brought him here, even though he still didn't have a name to the voice yet. He sneaked over to the door and knocked on it with his head. He was a bit surprised when he heard the reply, "The Great and Powerful Trixie shall be there in a moment!" He sighed as he guessed she was really good at staying in character, or at least he hoped that this was a character to her. After a while she finally opened the door and looked around somewhat before looking down to see the little metal creature. "What is this a trick or treat for Trixie?" Aron sighed as he walked in before Trixie closed the door, watching the little creature as he sat down in a seat and looking up at her. "Well I guess I could be thought of as both, since I had thought that you were a traveler and a performer, I would make you an offer and give you some advice. What do you say?" Aron said, with a smile on his face. She didn't consider his offer, since Trixie had fallen backwards after having passed out "Huh. Maybe I should have seen that coming. I will just have to wait for her to wake up," he said. Letting out a light sigh. He lay down lightly, humming to himself as he played the waiting game. > Chapter 5: Journey Begins (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Journey Begins He was thinking whether a Screech would help or just make things worse. He shrugged jumped down and walked over to Trixie before poking her in the side with his cold metal foot making her jump up for a minute. "Oh Trixie was just dreaming the little me-", she muttered. She stopped when she looked down to see that same creature sitting next to her shaking his head. "If you are done with your beauty sleep, then shall we get back to where we left off before you fell back on your ass?" Aron said with a sigh as Trixie fell back into a sitting position. "Well she didn't pass out this time, so a little progress has been made at least," he thought as he stretched some more jumping back onto the seat. "Why should Trixie trust you? Trixie doesn't not even know what you are!" she almost shouted, as Aron almost facepawed. That she spoke about herself in the third person even when alone, was annoying. "Well I guess at least no one will believe her if I end up just leaving her," he thought as he looked at her before letting out a sigh. "First of all, I am not the one who just pissed off the most popular people in the town. Secondly, no one else knows I can really talk, and I would rather keep that fact to myself and the few I trust to keep it. Finally, I am trying to help you make more whatever the fucking currency is in this world." He said in a calm and monotone Discord voice. (Meanwhile in the Canterlot Gardens) "Hmm I could swear someone just used my voice for something that was more calming that it should have been. WHAT IS THIS MADNESS I HAVE ENCOUNTERED!!" the Discord statue yelled into the void that was his mind. He thought there was a new brand of madness, made just for him. (Back with Aron and Trixie) "Tr-trixie was just doing her act when they kept interrupting the Great and Powerful Trixie!" she almost shouted at him, as he sighed and rubbed his forehead with his front legs. He knew he had a lot of work ahead of him to get her to work with him. "Okay, first off - no third person while talking to someone outside of shows, and secondly even if they bothered you should have ignored them and moved on. Thirdly, you need to perform for a certain audience in a world that is full of magic," Aron said, doing his best to keep his voice calm. "Tri-I'm not talking in third person, Trixie does not take people doubting her skills very well, and what could performing for a certain audience do for Trixie?" She had almost growled at him as he saw that she was at least starting to show signs of listening more attentively. "Well if you perform for, say a younger audience, you can do one of two things. You can have private shows for birthdays, which usually will get you some money though not a lot, or you can set up in places like libraries or even some large stores where they will pay you for helping to attract kids or even just helping the kids stay busy as their parents shop," Aron said with a bit of a smile, if you could call it that on the little metal creature's face. "Trixie can see the benefits of doing this but won't that also shrink Trixie's audience tremendously?" she rebutted, rolling the idea around in her head. "While the audience itself shrinks in size, the amount of publicity and money will increase steadily, as long as you keep adding more tricks to your act," Aron replied. As they talked there was a large roar coming from outside. "Um Trixie please tell me that was not the sound of what you were bragging about defeating before!" Aron almost shouted. Trixie was sweating bullets at this point, as he sighed and walked towards the door. "Okay, this will be the plan for the moment. Get this thing to either to the other side of town, or outside of it while I try and distract it," Aron said as he walked out before mumbling under his breath, "Let's hope to Arceus that this thing is not strong enough to bend metal." Trixie had ran out of the door, quickly hitching her mobile home up before getting out of town on the opposite side that the roar had came from. Aron saw two little ponies running in his direction. His eyes widened as he saw the large, towering bear come out the forest. "Oh mother of Arceus that thing is larger than a Groudon. I'm going to fucking die!!!" he thought quickly using harden as he thought for a minute it could be weaker than it looks he was hoping that was the case. The bear had stopped and looked down at him tilting its head and wondering what the little creature was as it raised it's paw and swatted him around like a cat would a ball of yarn. "Ahhh this is the most horrid thing I have ever had happen to me. I am going to get sick from this," he yelled in his own tongue. Since his mimic had worn off making small yelps and and squeaks having rolled up into his ball form. He let out a loud squeak as he was sent flying, "WHY DID I THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA!!!" he yelled as he flew out of the town and ended up embedded in a tree. "Note to self - when stronger, break this tree" he mumbled to himself as he saw Trixie not too far away. He started prying himself from the tree before landing on the ground with a loud thud. He groaned a bit before walking over to where Trixie was, as she hid behind a few trees. "Well I think that is the sign for us to go, Trixie because that hurt like hell and I would rather not be around when they finish dealing with it and then turn their attention this way," Aron said. Re-using Mimic had tired him out even more, though Trixie was surprised that he had arrived here so fast. That was until she saw him collapse, noticing the round hole in the tree from which he had come. With a sigh Trixie picked him up with her magic before setting him in her mobile home laying him on the chair he was in earlier so he could rest. "Trixie guesses she is stuck with you for a while, and will have to see if his words hold true," She thought, as she went and hitched herself up to the trailer and started heading out to a new town. (Meanwhile with Twilight Sparkle and her friends) Twilight let out a sigh of relief upon discovering that her friends were not mad at her for having used her magic, so the Ursa Minor would go to sleep. Having achieved that, she had put it back into the cave before the mother noticed. She was now ready to write a report to the Princess and then start researching the 'Aron' as Luna said he was called. Hopefully he didn't get out of the house. Twilight was smiling until she opened the door, with Spike peaking around her to see why she had stopped. The door to the basement was hanging off the hinges with the door knob missing. Twilight quickly trotted down the stairs and let out an almost enraged roar - the cage was missing a section large enough for Aron to get out. (Meanwhile in Canterlot) Celestia was tilting her head as a loud scream of anger was heard and made her floating cup of tea shake. (Meanwhile in the Garden with Discord.) "What is that noise? Is that Sunbutt losing another piece of cake?" Discord asked to no one in particular. His statue was shaking from the pure anger in the scream Meanwhile in another Universe. A large Overlord was doing some paperwork at the moment the scream of anger reached him. "What is that? Oh no, is that my ex? WHAT DO YOU WANT WOMAN YOU ALREADY TOOK HALF OF MY NETHERWORLD, WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT!?!?!" (Back to Twilight.) She finally stopped screaming and took in a deep breath. She quickly trotted out of her house, her hair smoking a bit as she began her search looking in any and all spots that the little metal creature could be hiding. She even roped in Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Applejack into helping her look for him. "Come on, he couldn't have gotten that far! Where would he even go? The train didn't run today and the forest would be too dangerous for him!" Twilight was getting more and more panicked. For one thing, the creature she was watching for the Princesses has disappeared. Secondly, she was going to have to message the Princesses telling them that she lost it. "I think we might just have to give up for now girls, it's starting to get too dark outside." Twilight said with a deep sigh, as she was starting to head back to the library. Applejack had stopped for a moment as she saw Apple bloom walking over to her. "Hey Bloom ya wouldn't have happened to have seen a small, silver-like critter any time today, would ya?" Apple bloom stopped for a minute putting her hoof under her head as she thought. She had thought back to when they were all watching the show, remembering seeing what she thought was a silver ball rolling up to the edge of the crowd. Then after the show had came to a close, the ball had rolled off on its own toward the showmare's trailer. "Well now that ya mention it, ah do remember seeing what looked like a bright silver ball rolling toward that showmare's trailer not too long after her show." Applejack's eyes went wide as she quickly ran to Twilight. "Twilight, ah just found a clue as to why the little critter isn't in town any more. My little 'sis said she saw a bright silver ball rolling toward that Trixie's home before she happened to leave town," Applejack said, as soon as she burst into the library. Twilight's own eyes widened as she had continued writing her letter, adding the new information. After completing her friendship report she had started writing about Aron, "It seems Aron had gotten out of my home while I was away with my friends. From the clues my friends and I have found, we think he had ran off with the traveling showmare I had just written about," she wrote handing both letters to Spike to send to the Princess hoping that she wouldn't be mad and that she might be able to find him. > Chapter 6: The Training Begins. (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Training Begins Not long after Trixie had made her way out of town with the little Aron sound asleep in his chair, the only way she could tell the creature was male was because of his voice. She was still was thinking over the idea that he proposed still not completely sure she could trust the pile of scrap. He would be a nice attraction if she used him for her show. She let out a sigh as she was heading toward one of the newer settlements. If she remembered correctly, it was called Apple Loosa. "Having to start from the bottom again the Great and Powerful Trixie feels insulted. But if Trixie rises higher again, she will no longer need to lower herself to children's parties!" she was saying to herself as she was walking with her mobile home along the rail tracks for the train. The sun was starting to set below the trees, and with a sigh she found a spot near the forest where she hitched the trailer to a tree. Trixie had started setting up small wards to warn her if there are any intruders, when she let out a long yawn before trudging into the trailer to make her way into her room before collapsing on the bed. She was soon sound asleep. Unknown to the new partners, there were three bandits that had followed Trixie into the forest. One of them was a large unicorn that was around the size of Big Mac, along with two Griffins - one of them being almost twice the size of Gilda while the other one was a foot or two taller than Gilda. "Okay, boys, first thing we need to do is dismantle that ward spell before we try getting too close. Best for us to wait an hour or two so that mare doesn't notice. If we're lucky she is traveling alone and will be an easy target," the large unicorn had said his voice being rough sounding - as if he hadn't had anything to drink in a long time. "Couldn't we just bust in there boss? It's not like there are many travelers that carry weapons on them?" the smaller of the two Griffins asked while pounding one claw into the other. "We could, young one, but if we are discovered or leave evidence, we could have the guards coming after us, which would make it impossible to sell anything we found." the larger Griffin said shaking his head. The young ones hot-blooded ways annoyed him. The unicorn had moved in a bit closer to the trailer and started working on undoing the wards without triggering them. He signaled the two griffins to move in. Aron was finally getting back up from his close encounter with the Ursa, thinking "Why could it not be the size of a Ursaring, but NO they have to have bears that make would Groudon jealous about their height," he said. He was stretching some, though he stopped for a minute when he heard what sounded like metal scraping against metal from the door. He two thoughts - the first being that Morphy must really hate him at this point or be getting jealous about how much trouble he was getting in, and secondly he was praying it was just the wind or at least something that was not strong enough to hurt iron. He slipped under the chair he was sleeping on guessing it would be best for him to. He could then determine if he was strong enough to deal with anything that may happen, as he was still a little sore from his last attempt at charging in head first without thinking. The small Griffin gave a satisfied smile when it heard the click of the lock on the trailer, giving a nod to the larger Griffin who was now silently opening the door. The two griffins moved carefully into the trailer. Aron saw the two Griffins enter, thinking over the best way he could fight them without destroying the trailer in the process. He could use rollout - it was a rock type move and was good against flying. The problem was that only the larger of the two would be caught by surprise. He needed to think of a way to stall the other one. An idea suddenly hit him, "I should be on a high enough level by now? I might be able to use headbutt which could stun the larger one," he thought. It was a risky choice, but it was better than going straight into rollout from the start. He was thinking over the plan in his head as the larger griffin lightly whispered to the other. "Okay, now we need to grab anything valuable while the boss keeps the ward out of our way," he said softly. As the larger griffin started moving toward the chair, it noticed Aron although he thought it was nothing more than a piece of metal to sell. As the griffin bent down to reach it he was surprised and let out a loud squeak as the large piece of metal smashed against his head knocking him backwards. Aron had then quickly used rollout as soon as the large one was knocked down, speeding toward the small one who turned just in time to see that a metal sphere had knocked down her comrade. She had quickly shouted out as she quickly rolled out of the way of the metal sphere which was doing its best to turn and aim for her. "Boss, we have a problem in here there is some kind of metal sphere trying to beat the living feathers out of us. It already got a strong hit on our other comrade!" When the unicorn heard this he was surprised thinking there was no way that this travelling unicorn could possibly have a golem. They give off a large amount of magic energy and he barely sensed any in this area. "Well if you're able to catch the thing, pin it down. If it is what I am guessing it is, it should have a large rune somewhere on it." The small Griffin let out a loud squeak as the small metal creature smashed into her side surprised by the weight put behind the attack. "Celestia, damn it, why does this thing feel like I am being punched by a boulder!" Trixie was finally starting to stir on account of the screaming. As the unicorn of the group noticed the new pulse of magic, he quickly said. "Just get out, comrade, we need to retreat! The owner is waking - drag him out if you need to, but we need to go now!" The little griffin had quickly run over help the larger one, who was only just recovering from the headbutt, as they ran out to the unicorn and back into the forest. Trixie had exited her room just in time to see Aron chasing the Griffins out of the Trailer. "Trixie demands to know what is going on here Aron!" she had almost shouted at Aron, as he was closing the door. "Well it seems I just had finished dealing with some bandits that might have been about to rob you blind if I hadn't woken up, so you might want to stop trying to yell off my non-existent ears," Aron replied. This seemed to have mostly taken the steam out of Trixie as she started mulling over the new information just presented to her. "Okay, so I recommend we try and go back to sleep since it seems to almost midnight, and I would much rather we get into the forest tomorrow morning," Aron said calmly to which Trixie's only response was a yawn and a nod, as she went back into her room after closing and bolt locking the door this time. Aron gave an almost audible sigh as he knew what was going to happen the second he went to sleep. He was going to have another Arceus. The damn woman was going to try and yell him to death. Except this one made a Loudron seem quiet which he never thought was possible. He sighed as he jumped up onto the groaning chair and closed his eyes and slowly slipped into sleep. Just as he had predicted before he could even get comfortable in his nice quiet room the large dark pony burst in with cap locks on. "HOW DARE THEE LEAVETH THE PONIES WE HADST LEFT IN CHARGETH OF THEE!" Luna had yelled so loud that Aron swore he saw the room shaking, unless that was just the effect on his brain from the uproar. He did the first thing that came to his mind that he knew would shut her the hell up, he took a deep breath before letting out a loud Screech. The effect was almost instantaneous - she fell nearly head first onto the floor the steam taken right out of her just as it had the first time she had appeared in his room. "Well if you are now done acting like a spoiled brat who just got their favorite toy taken away, you can stand up and talk like a grown person or I will start spanking your ass if you are a child," Aron said with venom in his word, making Luna flinched a bit. He seemed to be nearing the end of his fuse for her. Just as Luna was about to open her mouth to make a rebuttal, she felt her nose smacked by a cold metal foot, making her quickly shut her mouth Aron said "No, I am going to talk now you are not going to enter my dreams again. I am going to go exploring and training. If you or your sister try and find me to drag me back, I will destroy sections of your railroad that no one will notice until the train hits it. Now that I have made myself clear, get your ass out of my dream area." When Luna had vanished from his dream after his empty threat, he let out a sigh of relief. "I hope to Arceus that keeps them away long enough for me to get some distance," he said to himself. He couldn't really follow through on his threats, he didn't have a heart of stone. Though he might have a heart of gold literally. Or did he even have a heart? Questions for another time he guessed. Walking over and falling down on his back, he really needed something to help with his stress. Maybe once they're on their way he could go into the forest to see if there were any creatures that he could train with, since it was going to be a long path until he was really effective. Now that he thought about it how was he going to learn dig if there were no TM's in this world? He could try and get something from the person who brought him here, but he still had no idea where the fuck the mix-up was. He thought it might be best to wake up, in case that Luna character either did something such as try and track him or chose to call his bluff. As his eyes started to open, he looked around seeing that Trixie seemed to still be asleep. He stretched some as he walked around before noticing something. He was too short to open the door to get outside. "Son of a fucking bitch, I forgot I am not even half a meter tall," he silently cursed to himself as he hit his head against the wall, stopping after he thought he might break or dent the wall more than he already had. After about an hour or two of waiting he thanked the holy Arceus that Trixie seemed to be an early bird person, because when she walked into the main area of the trailer he was happy. Though Aron immediately retracted his thought as Trixie fell over laughing at him over the fact that he couldn't open a simple door. "Trixie you know I could break down your door rather than be patient and wait for you to come and open it." Aron said with a creepy smile on his metal face. He slowly tilted his head to the side, for effect. Trixie had did something that made his face go deadpan for a moment - an actual giant sweat drop appeared on her head as she slowly moved over and opened to the door for him having shut up when he started talking. "Well at least I can say that I didn't get transported into an anime like Blood-C," he thought, as he let off a sigh of a relief before stepping outside stretching some more. He looked out wondering how badly he had made his situation. Now that he thought about it, he had run away from his 'caretakers', threatened the princess of the Night not once but twice, and then he'd did just threatened a whole train full of people. "HOLY MOTHERFUCKING ARCEUS, I just fucking wrote myself into the goddamn villain role in a world that is a kids show, where the bad guy never wins," he mentally screamed internally, whilst still managing to stand as stiff as a statue in front of the trailer. (Meanwhile with the Princesses.) Luna and Celestia were trying to find out what they could do to deal with this new threat. They were not sure what he would do - he seemed to act differently than Discord. Though he seemed to have a short temper like him, they could try and send an agent to go and spy on him until they knew they could reason with him. Who would they send? Most of their usual guards would stand out like sore thumbs if they were trying to follow him. Luna thought using one of the night guards would work, but Celestia pointed out how the bat ponies stood out even more than the regular guards. As they were looking over the guards they thought they could send the few that rarely wore their armor. The captain of the guard was one, though it would lessen the castle's defenses. But his shield magic could be useful trying to catch him, if he was deemed to be a threat to the kingdom and their little ponies. The only thing was they had to wait for one of the town guards to find any sign of them before they could even attempt to watch over him again. Hoping a more gentle touch would keep his temper from being triggered and preventing him going through with his threats. (Meanwhile back with Aron and Trixie) Trixie had continued prodding the frozen Aron. She didn't know what had caused him to freeze up and yet she felt she'd rather not know. With one last prod, he fell over sounding like a metal pan that just fell onto the floor. "Trixie wonders if she should worry that he is frozen. Then again if it comes to it, Trixie could just run from whatever is frightening him," she thought as she dragged him to the front of the wagon. She tossed a bucket of water over him. Aron let out a squeal, which Trixie giggled at as Aron quickly started rolling around in the grass to get the water off. "Trixie, please never do that again. I would rather not find out whether I will rust or not okay?" Aron said back in his Discord voice. "Fine, but Trixie says that you are pulling the wagon today since you slept all of yesterday," She replied with a smile, using those large eyes to make puppy eyes at him. "AH, the puppy eyes they are too powerful. Fine - I will pull the darn wagon," Aron said, as he was put into the harness. His only thought was that maybe this might count as training in this world, as he followed her toward the new town. > Chapter 7: Things got complicated fast. (edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aron had been starting to getting hungry according to Trixie, who had been continuously nagging him about how he was moving too slowly or how he needed to dodge potholes better. He started basically zoning out most of it, only listening to her when she was giving him directions to this town they were headed to. It was not long before the trees had vanished and they were walking across the open plain towards what he could barely tell was a town. It was still being put together. Trixie had slipped back into the mobile home once the shade had disappeared. He was guessing she didn't like the heat. She had simply said to just head towards the small town. Aron had looked around some, and was still moving slowly as he noticed what seemed to be a cloud of dust headed towards them. The one thing that came to his mind was that it was a sandstorm. Speeding up a bit, he continued pulling the mobile home towards the small town. He just seemed to beat it there , it though took him a minute to stop and notice that he's almost kicked up a sandstorm of his own from running. Aron had let a light sigh as he saw that the sandstorm that was behind him seemed to have disappeared. He was wondering why the land around here seemed to be so hard. The first thing that hit his mind was that this was the Great Plains. He saw the sign stating the name of the town and for a minute he thought his jaw had hit the ground. They grew apples here as well. What is with ponies, why were they obsessed with apples? "Well at least I pray that they do not have as much sugar in their food here as the pink pony of energy," he thought as he found a place to stop for the time being. When he had come to a stop and his focus was lost for a moment, he could hear his stomach growling. He hadn't eaten much since they had left Ponyville, Trixie had come out and unhitched him from the mobile home. "There. Now you said you had an idea for Trixie to entertain foals? Well this is one of the most out of the way places that has just recently been settled," she said, pointing out the many western-like ponies who working around the town at the time being. He thought it was a good place to get started. They were busy with work or were watching the children in the town. "Okay, we shall start at the tavern and look for the person in charge of the town. Once that is done, we can ask to set up your stage in an open area for the children to watch while their parents either have their breaks or they can finish up some work," he said softly, slipping into Discord's voice once more. "Though I will have to be silent from now on until we're alone I don't want my ability to talk to be common knowledge," He pointed out. They started to walk towards a place labeled as being a tavern. Trixie had headed inside and chosen to order one of the specials in the tavern which happened to be apple pie. She had taken half of the pie before lowering the rest of the pie tin to him. He had gingerly taken it in his mouth before he headed out of the tavern, letting her start to work on getting herself a spot to perform. While Trixie was busy talking with the sheriff seeming excited his guess being that the sheriff agreed with the idea, Aron was sitting to the side of the building eating the pie and the tin he'd been given. He couldn't really tell the two apart by taste, but at the moment he really didn't care too much. As he finished the pie tin off, the door opened and Trixie had ran out. She headed over to move the mobile home with a smile to rival that of the Jokers. "I guess that she got the job. Well off to explore and see if there is anything new in this town. You know, besides the western theme," he thought to himself. He started walking around the town lightly humming to himself as he did so. After maybe a minute or two of walking he came across a large field of apple trees. "My Arceus these ponies really like their apples," he mumbled to himself as he walked through the orchard. Aron had looked from side to side as he continued walking, still trying to find out how they kept all of them healthy. It wasn't long before he came to what looked to be just a random path running through the orchard. "A path so far in who would possible u-" He was cut off by the ground shaking underneath him. He turned and looked down the path to see a large cloud of dust heading his way. He did the first thing he could think of: run as fast as his little metal legs could carry him. It wasn't until he was nearing the edge of the orchard that it had occurred to him that he had ran along the path the cloud of dust was running down, like an idiot. He could have just dived off the path. Why wasn't he doing that rather than sitting there like a rock? After that thought he dove into what could only be considered as a very convenient bush at the edge of the orchards. He peaked out of the bushes to find out what had been running along the trail, to see that two or three large buffaloes had stopped and were looking directly at him. He choose to stand completely still. He thought that maybe if he didn't move, they would leave him alone. His luck didn't hold out, as the buffaloes walked over to the bush. Aron did the one thing he could think of - he curled into his ball form that hid his mouth and eyes, making him look like a pure ball of iron. "Chief, we have found what seems to be a ball of metal. Should we take it with us?" called a young possibly feminine voice. With his non-existing ears covered, he could only hear what sounded like grunts. He felt hooves lifting him up. He was soon set into what he could only guess was a bag, unrolling just enough to look around some. The bag was nearly empty, being shared only with a few other small stones or pieces of metal. He was now in what he presumed it was a minerals bag, and was wondering why someone would walk around with it like this. He put that thought aside for now, as he peaked his head out of the bag just enough to see what was going on and to find out who he was with. He thought this place was nutty enough, but now he seemed to be in the hooves of buffaloes that seemed to be the Indians of this world. He thought of this world as sweet and kind. They might not end up like his own, where the Indians were almost wiped out when the settlers-. His mind had just caught up with him. They were near a settlement in the plains - they must have already either turned into wanderers, been put onto reservations, or times hadn't gotten that bad yet. Noticing that the group was nearing what looked to be a small camp up, he curled back up into his ball form guessing it would be best for now to look like nothing more than what they thought he was - a ball of iron. "Well at least I know Trixie might be having as much bad luck as myself," Aron thought. He now had no idea how he was going to get out of this position without the buffalo figuring out he was intelligent. Meanwhile back with Trixie. Trixie's job entertaining children was going brilliantly. Surprisingly, her illusions and fireworks were keeping their attention along with there being few other unicorns in this settlement. With her show going so well and being paid by the hour, it was nice though she was surprised by the white unicorn who had joined the small crowd of kids. She made sure to continue her performance and keep the kids interested and entertained for their parents. Unknown to Trixie this unicorn happened to be Shining Armour who was sent to watch over the duo - though he could only find Trixie at the moment. He had not seen any sign of the little metal being that he was supposed to determine whether or not was a threat. Before he went on the mission, he'd had an argument with his marefriend who had been wanting to come with him. Of course, he could not let her. She would stand out too much. But she had taken it as a bit of an insult and as a result he had been sleeping at his parents house when he's left. Now back with Aron. He could try and sneak out of their camp, though he couldn't figure out how he would do so. It wasn't like he blended in as he was a walking pile of steel. He decided that it would most likely be best for him to wait until nightfall before he attempted to sneak out that way as most of them would be asleep. He thought it would be best to sleep for now so he wasn't tired out when he tried to sneak out later on. He closed his eyes and went to sleep, hoping to Arceus that nothing bad happened while he wasn't paying attention. In his dream this time, it seemed different. His room seemed a mess. He was disorganized from time to time, but he was sure he'd never put his bed on his ceiling. He noticed what looked to be a letter on the ground, and lifting up and he started reading it. "Dear creation, I was not able to get into your dream without drawing attention from Moonbutt, who is currently asleep. So after much more work then I thought it would take, which I blame on your thick-skull, I have left you this message. I am at the moment being stuck in place with my physical form, though my wards are crumbling with the bit of chaos you have been creating. I have left this message to tell you to do two things. The first is to create as much chaos as you can in order to weaken my wards faster. The second is that I will come and get you upon my freedom so you and I can fulfill our original deal, with maybe some extra items sent your way if you do as I ask." Signed yours truly the one and only Lord of Chaos - Discord. Just as he had finished reading, the letter had transformed into a Pokedex that show, a small progress bar. The bar went up to his next evolution though it was still a while off. The only problem was that it wasn't labeled. Along with a list of moves he currently knew he had, he sighed presumed that this was the start of this Discord's bribe to get him to do as he'd asked. He wondered why a creature that most likely had the powers of a god would need, Discord might have wanted a change from the usual. With a shrug he started to work on putting his mind back into order, since Discord had made quite a mess getting into his mind. "Well, it could have been worse, I guess. Chaos technically isn't pure evil, though from what I have seen around here they really are not good at seeing shades of grey. Maybe it's just the ponies that do that," he mumbled to himself. He was glad he didn't have to worry about the royal pain in his almost non-existent neck, as she was asleep in the morning time it seemed. Though causing chaos intentionally could get him pushed further into his villain role, with his luck he might cause it unintentionally since he was always accident prone. Also he had a feeling that Trixie would most likely be as pissed as hell when she got done searching the town only to find that he wasn't there. He felt so sorry for whatever sap she was able to rope into looking for him with her. She was most likely going to talk the poor pony's ear off. He sometimes wished he knew where his sense of hearing came from, because it would be hard to ignore someone if you can't cover your ears to block them out. She was getting better at not bragging as much over the day or two of their walking together - though he thought that was just because her pride had been hit back down to a decent level after running away from the bear and the encounter he'd had chasing the bandits out of her home. Meanwhile back with Trixie. She was almost steaming at Aron, who was nowhere to be found. It was already nearing sun set before she was able to convince the only other adult not tired out to help her look for him. Her excuse for her companion being made of metal was it was her first attempt at a golem though it tended to wander off when not watched. She thought maybe she was lucky that Shining had chosen to believe this, as the two of them searched the town up and down, looking in almost all of the buildings. They couldn't find a trace of him until they had asked the pony in charge of the orchard who told them with a large yawn. "Y'all talking about that large ball of metal? Yep, I saw it go into the orchard around evening. I think it might have been picked up by those buffalo? I saw them stop for a second before they continued on." This made Trixie and Shining's eyes widen, as Trixie still needed him to help her make her way back up to the top of the entertaining game, while Shining was more worried that this would cause aggression between the new settlement and the buffalo tribes. He knew he was intelligent but that he was creation of Discord. As such could destroy the already unstable peace of this area, since the buffaloes and the ponies in this town had been having arguments over land and the increasing size of the apple orchard. Shining was trying to find a way to get him back without them causing an all out fight between the settlers and the buffaloes. He could see if they were just willing to give him back, but they would most likely want to trade for him yet having not idea what they would ask for his return. "I think for now we should wait until morning before we try and to talk with the buffalo tribe since we would most likely put them on edge if we showed up at night," Shining said to Trixie as he walked her back into town toward her mobile home. Trixie looked like she was about to argue for a minute, before seeming to think it over. She let out a sigh of annoyance as she saw that he had a point. She gave him a nod before looking at him. "By any chance do you need a place to stay the night, because Trixie happens to have an extra room you could use, if you like?" she asked, as she was about to open the door for him. Shining stopped in place before facehoofing. He had forgotten to look for an inn when he showed up because of the rush to confirm the information that they had been spotted here. "Well, I guess one night won't be too bad I kind of forgot to look for an inn when I got here this morning. I must have gotten a bit distracted by your show," he said, rubbing a hoof behind his head as he followed her into her home. He was wondering what there was to lose, what is the worst that could happen? It was just one mission to watch a magician and a creature shorter than Spike. Trixie was internally squealing thinking that maybe her luck had turned around since Aron showed up. The problem now, though, was getting him back without herself getting in trouble. She had led Shining into a small guest room which had just enough space for the bed, large enough for somepony to stretch out and a small empty trunk for personal belongings. "If you need Trixie her room is just next door. Just give the door a knock and Trixie will do what she can to help," she said with a smile, as she made her way to her room lightly humming as she swayed her hips while she walked away. Shining had made his way into his room before letting out a sigh, thinking this was going to be more difficult than he'd originally thought it would be. He had forgetten that he needed an inn room when showed up, now he was staying with a mare who might be trying to tempt him. He also thought that this really would not help his marefriend let him back into the house if he showed up with a mare following him. > Chapter 8(Unedited.) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sun was setting over the plains the only shadow seen now were the many large tents that dotted a certain camp for the buffaloes. With the sun soon disappearing from behind the horizon a good many of the buffalo were either dropping off the materials they had gathered to the few that stayed up to watch over the camp for the night time. Of course, our main character Aron was now deposited with in the ores and metals tent luck would have it he was the last thing dumped in so he was not buried in the piles of ores. Aron had waited listening to the small talk and hooves continuously moving around the outside of the tent having woken up when he was tossed onto the pile of ore. The pile which he would consider pathetic, he took up about ten percent of the pile even knowing how small he was. He had slowly moved over towards the flap of the tent, looking through it there wasn't much light left in the plains most was coming from the few fires lit in the buffaloes camp. There seemed to be few to none of the buffaloes moving around there being some snoring already breaking the silence of the night. This was most likely one of his best chance to sneak out of the camp. The only problem was he was not in a position that could tell him which direction the town was. So the question was does he want to test his luck and hope he chose the right direction or should he search for a map of some kind. That was before he almost felt the urge to his head against something hard, all he had to do was look for the large collection of apple trees that can be seen from miles away cause it's an Arceus damned plains. All he had to do was make it toward the edges of the camp as silently as he could and not get caught, The main problem he had was how much he stood out in the dark luckily his shine was a bit dull since he had no way to polish his body. After he peeked out of the tent seeing there was next to no buffalo were nearby he slipped out and made his way along the side of the tent. His steps were mostly silent as he crouched down lightly saying to himself, "Sneak, sneak stop roll up," he soon made his way near the edge of the tents curled up in the shadows. A small patrol of buffalo had made their way by his hiding spot most of them staying silent as they had continued looking around. Aron's luck holding up that their steps cover up the small dots his own feet made in the ground. He had almost forgot that having his weight combined with the small size of his feet easily pushed through the loose and hard dirt alike. After a moment when they had passed by and soon walked out of view around the edges of the camp he had uncurled and made his way back over looking out over the plains. He let out a groan as the first thing he notice was small or well small in a relative terms mountains, he must have been on the wrong side of the camp and having to get through the camp again would be pushing his luck. He really rather not do that so the best he could think about is stay in the shadows of the camp and make his way around the edge. It didn't help with as small as he was and all the precautions he was trying to take the moon was already nearing the middle of the sky. He continued slipping from shadow to shadow though they were becoming thinner and small as the moon's light was now directly above him. With a silent groan he started rolling a bit faster along the edges of the camp trying his best to keep on watch for any more patrols hoping to Arceus that his luck held out just this once. He quickly grind to a halt before he shoot into the new shadows as a small patrol had just came around the corner. He held his breath waiting to see if they heard his quick stop waiting for them to walk past him to continue their routine then life chose that he had enough luck. They stood at the entrance to the tent he just happen to be hiding next to making him almost want to curse out the heavens if it wouldn't had got him caught. He looked around starting to slip by behind the tent they were guarding making his way a bit deep into the camp just to go around their field of vision. He finally had made his way out of the sea of tents seeing out across the plain was the large amount of trees and few buildings he was looking for. With a sigh of relief he started off by using Rollout rolling across the plain the flat land making it easy for him to gain up speed. Though he didn't think of what it would look like to the buffalo when they notice a large ball of metal had just vanished mostly not really care too much. He was starting to running out of steam as he made his way closer and closer the town it seems his move being constantly used for such distances was cause him to tire out faster than expected. Though almost before he notice he had suddenly unrolled falling down onto his stomach panting. "Note to self, don't use rollout for hour long travels unless lots of food or you will feel like someone has repeatedly hit you in the head with a hammer." Aron said to himself while face down in the grass. He was still about a mile away from the town though was not sure he would have enough energy to make it there before morning time. After an unknown amount of time later "Why did they have to live so far from town I mean, come on, they both herbivorous races could they be right next to each other!" Aron screeched out in his normal speech between panting. Not long before he face planted on the edge of the frontier town the moon was just being to hide behind the mountains in the distance. He fell face first into the ground some how sweating, having no idea how he was made of metal where was the water coming from! His eye started twitching a bit when he saw there was already ponies moving around starting up the day, if there was one thing he wasn't it was a morning person. He tends to be a night owl staying up as late of early morning before sleeping till midday. Though with no habit of sleeping formed cause of so long going off and on of resting his mind in the egg. While mostly thinking over to himself one of the ponies that was going about their morning routine had noticed him mostly face down in the ground. "Hey sheriff, isn't that the golem thing that the entertainer unicorn was looking for last night?" a brown unicorn with a hourglass cute mark had remarked. The sheriff stopped and looked over rubbing the back of his head. "Well I'll be darned it must be I don't know any other critter that looks to be metal, well if you don't mind mister Time Turner would you mind take the critter to her?" the sheriff making Time Turner blink a bit surprised. "Sure, sir but did you want me to help calibrate your new town clock first?" Time Turner respond which the sheriff's reply was. "Ah the tower clock ain't going any where plus it will only be a few minutes to carry this critter to the owner. I'll go run an errand or two meet you back at tower clock," the sheriff waves his hoof before galloping off to start the errands. Time Turner had walked over to Aron looking over the small creature having a small shrug before he tried to lift him letting out a large grunt. "Dang little guy what have you been eating I know your made of metal but you might want to lay off the Iron!" Time had comment what Aron thought to himself. "You try being made of steel or iron and see how heavy you are!" Aron grumbled back at the now laughing pony. His reply was after he finished laughing, "If I was made of steel I am sure I won't need to be carried." This made Aron stop his jaw falling open and just staring at this pony, Time Turner, who just understood his screeches since he hadn't used mimic to talk in their tongue at the moment being. Time Turner noticed the creatures silence though paid no mind now lightly smiling as he trotted with Aron on his back toward the parked wagon. Aron thought that voice sounded familiar but he couldn't put his finger on it, though it was most likely best if he stayed silent for the moment being as they were heading toward Trixie's mobile home. As soon as Time Turner went to knock on the door the door burst open knocking him down making him drop Aron. Now piled on Time was Shining Armor looking like he had just been thrown out of bed. "That is what you get for telling Trixie to shut up and let you sleep rather than waking up when you were told!" Trixie had exclaimed as she walked out seeing she had accidentally knocked over a visitor. "Trixie is sorry about that sir Trixie's guest was being-" Trixie stopping mid-sentence when she saw Aron who was cautiously waving at her with his little metal leg with a nervous smile. Instantly Trixie forgot he was made of steel and tried hitting him on the back of the head with her hooves. He had shakes his head as Trixie was now shaking her front hooves nearly looking like she was about to yell. While Time and Shining were doing their best not to laugh at Trixie's mistake though a quick glare at the two made them shut up. "Okay, now you Trixie's little metal friend are going to have to sit with the fillies and colts so you don't wonder off again!" Trixie had almost yelled out Aron, who just sat there with as innocent look as he could muster thinking if he was just a bit better a small halo would appear over his head. He knew he would have gotten in a bit of trouble but it was nothing he couldn't fix he knew things could have been worse. Such as having been melted down for his metal though he was not even sure himself if he was metal all they way through and would rather not know. Time Turner had finally gotten back on his hooves, "Well it seems that my job here is done I now must be off that clock won't set itself or I at least really hope it doesn't." Time Turner said, mumbling the last part to himself, as he went of toward the town's tower clock. > Chapter 9 (Unedited.) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- He couldn't believe he was being forced to do this. Having to sit down next to children who were continuously poking and climbing over him trying to get a better seat to see the 'oh so great and powerful Trixie'. Arceus damn he thought she had lost a good amount of that ego when the giant ass star bear had came barreling into that last town. But no, she has already got her head blown up to nearly the size of the moon. The worse part was he couldn't just fall asleep during the show since every other second there was the banging of fireworks and the squealing and shouting of the children. He could swear he was starting to form bags under his eyes, how he could never know since he was made of god damn metal! He had been awake for around twelve hours half of which was spent rolling across the plains. He then had to deal with the pony who seemed to understand his noises without him using mimic. Which was highly suspicious, he was thinking through what could possible help that earth pony understand him. It could have been something from shows since he is in talking pony land as a walking ball of metal working for a chimera who has the power to pull someone into another universe. Though as long as he didn't talk while Time was around he should be find for the moment being. While Shining Armor just couldn't believe that Trixie really made Aron sit in the crowd of foals! Not only that but it had listened to her even if it seemed reluctant to do so. He was not sure if that she had a deal with the walking ball of metal or if it was doing it just to stay in cover. For now he at least knew that as long as he was friends with the unicorn he should be able to stay close to his target. He was told to keep watch over Aron no matter what but Cadence would have him sleeping on the couch for a year if he didn't head back soon. Aron had finally passed out still sitting up as he started snoring lightly as the foals around him started poking him with the forehooves. After about the fifth poke to the head Aron fell over on his side still sound asleep the foals laughing lightly at the sleeping metal pokemon. They had turned back to watching Trixie's performance, she had added in more impressive forms of magic such as suspending the ember of the fireworks, feeding them magic to keep them from vanishing, into forms of creating multiply frames of some of the rarest creatures in Equastria. From the well known hydra and manticore to the rare one such as the Ursa and phoenix she even added in a few that were thought to be legends such the sphinx. She was glad to have such excitement from her crowd even if they were all foals, it felt great to have them cheering as she finished her act. She hid her annoyance that Aron had fell asleep during her performance though after this she was still going to have a long talk with him about where he had been! She had spent half the night searching the town for the bucking ball of iron. She smiled as the foal had started to heading off to help their parents or play some games. The only thing left of the crowd was Aron curled up with his face not visible. She saw Shining out of the corner of her eyes and smiled, "Oh Shining, Trixie requires your assistance to get her golem back to Trixie's home till it has recharged!" With a sigh Shining most likely should have seen that coming as he had walked over and enveloped the metal ball in magic. Shining had a hard time getting a grip on him in his magic it take more contraction than most objects would. After ten minutes of struggled grunts from Shining and Trixie's suppressed giggling they had made their way back to the small mobile home. Aron had finally woke back up as he stretched some and noticed he was floating in a pink aura I looked to see the unicorn from early and the main thing he thought was. 'Why the fuck is this guys magic pink I mean he has blue hair and white fur while from what I have seen their magic usually matches one of the two colors?' He chose to have a bit more fun at the expense of Shining, he had used Harden doing so made him shine some and made it take even more strength to keep him suspended in the air. The effect was nearly instant as he dropped down a bit and Aron could see sweat forming on the unicorn's forehead. He had guessed that this telekinesis had counted as a some what physic type move making him resistant to it as a steel type. After a minute Shining had dropped him on the floor as he stretched out some letting out a small yawn giving an innocent look as Trixie was laughing at the collapsed unicorn. "You really need to work on your grip there Mr. Armor if such a small amount of magic resistance was able to give you so much trouble." Trixie said between small laughing fits. "W-well I'm sorry I have trouble moving around the walking ball of metal that is about as heavy as I am!" Shining retorted, panting all while doing so. Aron respond with a hurt look before closing his eyes and turning his head away, before walking off towards Trixie's room. He wanted to be out hearing range of the unicorn before letting out a very loud metallic laugh though it would be impossible to tell it was laughter. He saw a shudder come from Shining from his laugh guessing that it didn't just feel right to him it was almost an unnatural sound. Though it made him more nervous that the creature Aron was up to something, Aron had waited in Trixie's room. Who had showed up after a minute or two, Aron had used Mimic once more to speak in Discord's voice. "It seems that you are doing much better with your show now. You have your audience the children, now in about two days we will make our way to the next closest town which is?" Aron asked, looking up to Trixie who got out her map. "The next closest city would be Dodge city or better known as Dodge Junction, it's more of a work town than here but that would mean they would be fine with me distracting their children while they are at work." Trixie said with a smile already imagining the money she could make their. Aron's eye twitched some when her eyes had literally turned into gold coins, he had no idea what to say to this. 'How?!? that is not physically possible the cartoon physics of money eyes. Though I am an Aron, I should stop questioning logic at this point.' He thought to himself before shaking his head. "So in two days we will gather up some supplies before we make our way to Dodge. Now for me I will need some scrap metal, and before you ask I don't care what kind of metal it is as long as it is metal though Iron is preferred." Aron said before making his way over to next to her bed laying down. He hoped they would leave soon, before the buffaloes, which camp he roll/walked out of, noticed a large ball of metal was missing and assumed the closest source. This town had came and stole from them, so yeah after two days they better be running out of here. He just had a horrible sense that his luck wasn't too good and they might run onto a problem that Trixie most likely forgot about. Though for now he thought it would be best to put that off for the time being, he right now was having to help Trixie plan some new tricks. Most of them involved him acting as if he was an inanimate ball of iron till she gave him a shot of magic, even know that was for the next town since people in this town already knew of him. He still didn't really trust this other unicorn cause, one his fucking name was Shining Armor, and two he just seemed like the type of goody two shoes that would do something stupid. Though if Aron was lucky Shining wouldn't be going with them, though if Shining followed them it would raise his suspicions to new heights. Though Aron wasn't that worried it since as Trixie had conformed being a steel type Pokemon has made him have some magic resistance. For now though he needed more rest as it seems using rollout to such an extent has severally drained him, he would regain his strength faster if he had metal to eat. Though Trixie had left to go and gather up supplies so he would have to wait for now, a nap might do him some good. If he was lucky his benefactor might have time now to tell him what he will get as rewards. He moved a pillow off Trixie's bed before curling up on it closing his eyes. After a few minute he was back in his mind room, though he already saw the signs that his benefactor was here, such a dancing mustached banana. "Okay, while this is random it's not too creative next time make it a singing onion that is doing opera." Aron said, before Discord had appeared taking out a cake and writing his idea down. "Oh, that is a good one, I'll have to put that in Moonbutt's room when I get loose. Though I'm guessing you are here for me to show you what your rewards will get if you help me." Discord replied as he snapped his finger three items floated above his claw. "This are the three item that you will get progressively with the more chaos you cause, for now you have planted the seeds in the town your in. Once, they are bloomed you will get your first prize." Discord said, making two disappear showing the disc which Aron immediately. "Your willing to give me the TMs I need to learn more skills?!?" Aron looked up at him hopeful. "Well, yes though it has a catch, it randomizes to the moves it will teach you from the move pool. So hope you have your lucky horseshoe when you get it." Discord replied with a large grin before pulling out a broken clock. "It seem I'm out of time I will see you once you have earned your first prize my young apprentice." He said as he exploded into confetti. He thought that was funny he was like a confetti cannon though he still couldn't see why he needed his help, if he could enter his mind without much trouble even if he was trapped. Along with able to form something as complicated as his form and the items he was barging for him to do his job. Aron knew this would be almost more trouble than it was worth with a sigh he had pulled out the Pokedex that Discord had gave him on his first trip a new bar had appeared above his level bar. Simple labeled the 'Fun meter' there were four sections to the bar. Aron's guess with each bar filled he got one of the four prizes. The first bar was only at a fourth of a way filled. He had a long way to go the bar below it though showed he was close to reach his eleventh level it seemed he was also close to unlocking a new move as well. Though with a day or so of training he should easily be able to reach this level though the only thing he could think to do for training in this little town was to hit against the trees. He then thought of an idea if he could get Trixie to let him work with who ever is harvest the apples, she would get the bits to buy the metal he wanted to eat. Along with him having free roam through the apple orchard without worry of be found by the buffalo again. For now though he choose to relax he wouldn't get to sleep long though, for almost an hour after he had fallen asleep. A loud argument had woke him, sounding as if Shining and Trixie got into a yelling match. "What do you mean you want Trixie to feed you?" Trixie yelled with enough force to give a Loudred a run for it's money. "Well it just usually common courtesy for a hostess to feed their guest!" Shining yelled back though no near with as much force. "Trixie has barely enough bit to survive on, along with bits needed to stock food and supplies for Trixie's next destination. So Trixie says go get your own food from the saloon." Trixie yelled, with the sound of the door being flung open and something hitting against the dusty ground. "Well at least that might make it difficult for this Shining to follow them if he wanted to, as one character would say 'Everything is coming up Milhouse'" Aron thought to himself getting ready for the new day as he had some work he needed to get started.