A devaster belands in Equestria. Can he adapt from the horrors of his past home and start a new life in this peaceful land?
Crossover with Devast.io Written during the update V0.30.17.19 - Alpha (I know, that this is a dying game, but i still hope that i find someone who has interest.) (Violence is present, but i plan to keep it minimal.)
Dis is my first story and i don’t know how good or bad it will turn out. Please leave a comment and tell me how i can improve by telling me what to change and what not. A dislike alone won’t tell me.
Hello, my name is Charlie and i am a devaster. I can’t recall what exactly happened, but i somehow landed in this strangely colorful world. This place seems all rainbow and sunshine, but life has thought me that you quickly get backstabbed when your not careful. Luckily i still got my stuff, meaning that i don’t have to start from zero. I wonder if the colorful creatures in this place are peaceful. Better keep the gun ready...
Charlie was running. He didn’t look back, but the sound was telling him that the armored ghoul was close behind him.
“Come on, almost there.“
His side was stinging and he breathed heavily, but he pushed further.
There! He could see the light from the base.
“Once i am back at the base, the others can help me to take down the ghoul.“ he thought.
But he wasn’t there yet, he still wasn’t save. He dashed through the bushes, jumped over rocks always following the light. He gathered his last strength, before he finally arrived at clearing...
...And halted abruptly.
The light in front of him wasn’t the base. No it wasn’t even a structure. It looked more like a hole that someone had ripped in space. It gave of an unnatural light and seemed to be floating in the air, while being surrounded by something that vaguely resembled... Numbers?
“What is that? It looks like those glitches that the computers of the research benches sometimes have. I better get the rest of the team so that we-“ his thoughts where cut short by a powerful punch in to his back.
“The ghoul...“ Charlie realized while he was send flying towards the strange light-hole.
Then everything went black.
Pain, pain was the first thing Charlie could feel. His senses where telling him that he was laying on grass, while his ears took up the sounds of birds singing-
“Wait! Birds usually don’t sing...“
Charlie opened his eyes, and immediately closed them again after being assaulted by bright sunlight. After a while he slowly opened them back again. He blinked a few times to get used to the light before looking around, immediately knowing that he wasn’t in devast anymore. The world was just way to colorful. He looked around in awe taking in the landscape that was not radiated, but unbelievable colorful, something he only saw in the few books found in abandon houses that showed the world before the meteorstorm that changed the world in to a radioaktive deadzone.
After a while he carefully stood up groaning as his body protested. Nothing he hadn’t dealt with before. When you live in the devasted land, pain was something you where constantly dealing with. You didn’t have much choice, as the other option was dead, what brought him to the next question.
“Am i dead? No that can’t be, my body is hurting way to much. So what exactly happened?“ Charlie thought, trying to recall his latest memories. “Right, i fell trough that glitch-vortex or whatever that was, so where am i now?“
The second thing he could feel was how hungry he was.
Charlie looked around in panic before sighting in relief after finding out that he was still wearing his backpack. He quickly checked what food he had left, finding one cooked steak, two tomato soups and a handful of rotten tomatoes. He threw the last mentioned away and eat the steak, leaving the longer lasting soup‘s for later. After his stomach stopped complaining he checked what else he still had.
“My tools are all there, that is good.“ Charlie immediately holstered his desert eagle. He had lost his MP5 to the ghoul. “Munition i should have sufficient. A few bandages, leader and string from the deer i found this morning, wood, stone, a bit of metal and sulfur, six energy cell, the radiation mask, my camouflage gear and when i am already at it the chapka i am wearing.“
After the quick check he desided to start moving. “Maybe i find a house that can tell me where i am. I really wish i had a map of this place.“
Charlie looked surprised at a giant field that he discovered after arriving at the top of a hill, filled completely with the same type of tree, all carrying a lot of round red fruits. And there where a lot of them. He once read about these types of fruit. „Are those apples?“ he wondered not shure what to think. He once heard about them, but never saw them. A lot of food was destroyed by the radiation, leaving only a few wild plants that where eatable.
Charlie quickly climbed over the fence that separated him from his goal. “Not very effektiv. Even low walls are designed to not allow people to climb over them.“
He quickly forgot about the fence after taking a bait from one of the apples he picked from a tree.
It was the best thing he tasted since... he never tasted something this good before! It was incredibly sweet and neither to soft nor to hard. He had quickly devoured the entire apple including the core, before picking another one. He was so busy with his newfound food of heaven that he didn’t notice sunset until the first stars showed up. That’s when he froze, half eaten core still in his hand.
Charlie cursed under his breath. “How could i be so inattentive?“ he pulled his gun. “I will never be able to build shelter in time and there is no base to return to. Not good, not good, not good.“ he started panicking while having visions of Ghouls killing him, tearing him apart while nobody came to help, eating his body while his screams faded in to the night, explosive ghouls crippling him leaving him defenseless for dead to pick him up and dark angles finding him and doing things with him that his darkest imagination couldn’t even think of.
“OK, Charlie calm down.“ he ordered himself taking a deep breath. “You are armed and still not dead. You know how to survive.“
He slowly continued walking gun ready while listening to the slightest noise. That’s when he found it. It was hidden between the trees but in his high alert state he could make it out.
It was some kind of house build in a tree. It was a bit further away from the apple trees, some kind of platform leading up to the front door.
“That will work.“
Charlie slowly went up to the door gun ready for the slightest sign of danger. He checked the door, (It wasn’t locked) before opening it gun ready to fire at anything or anyone that could be dangerous.
The room that greeted him had a platform on the opposite end of the room. It had different kinds of furniture standing around and even more tools and craftmaterials laying with no clear sign of order. The walls where covered with posters and different pictures and there was a target painted on the floor for some reason. After that he climbed up to the second floor finding it proved to also be empty from anyone who could have owned the house.
“Guess it’s abandon. Probably better that way.“ he thought before showing a heavy chair over the trapdoor to prevent anyone from entering the second floor.
He placed the bagpack with his things down him and used it as a pillow before gently drifting in to sleep, his dessert eagle next to him, ready and loaded.
“I don’t know Apple Bloom. Sweetie Belle poke it again.“
Charlie groaned. “I don’t have guarding shift thoday, let me sleep.“
“...“
“You can talk?“
“What are you talking about why wouldn’t be able to...“ Charlie froze as the memory’s from the previous day came back to him. He wasn’t at the base and those weren’t his teammates talking, probably not even other devasters.
That’s when he panicked.
Pang!
Charlie was now standing upright, the desert eagle still smoking from the shot.
It was then that he noticed how small the creatures where that he was facing.
The where only a third of his size, what was the main reason that he his shot didn’t hit them and shattered a window behind them instead. He studied the three creatures closer. They looked like remotely like deers, only without the antler and a different snoutform. The closest to him had white fur with a purple and pink mane and tail. It also had a horn on it's forehead. The second one was orange with a red-purple mane and tail. It had two wings that where surprisingly small wings compared to it's body. The final one was jellow with a red mane. It had no remarcable bodyparts, and instead wore a red bow, something that surprised Charlie. The bow seemed to serve no practical purpuse and seemed to be only worn for looks. He hasn't seen that in a long time. The devasted land had no place for something like that.
Then he noticed the looks in the eyes of the creatures. Not the usual hostility that he was used from anyone that wasn't ally, but pure terror.
"They're affraid of me." he realised. "And they have all reason for that. They didn't even attack me. I am the bad guy here."
He lowered his weapon, feeling guilty wich soon proved itself to be a mistake. With the sice difference still there, the barrel was now pointing at them instead of as planned to the ground.
The white one shrieked and stumbled back. Seconds later the three fell one over the other as they fleed from him escaping trough the trapdoor. Charlie noticed in surprise that the chair he had shoven over the trapdoor had been pushed aside.
"Those creatures are pretty strong for they're size." he realised while watching them running away still trough the now broken window, still wheeling guilty about his actions. "I should leave before things get worse." he thought while picking up his bagpack and heading for the exit.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Applejack looked surprised up seing three the Cutie Mark Crussaders pursting out of the orchade all three in fullblown panik. "What in tarnation is goin on with you?" she asked grapping Apple Bloom when she was about to run past her.
"Clubhouse, this morning, discovery, jellow guy, attack, stange weapon, running" Apple Bloom replied getting a confused look from her sister.
"OK sugurcube, calm down and tell me from the beginning what happend."
"Are ye shure that this really happend?" AJ asked in disbelief after the fillies had calmed down enaugh to talk and explained the situation. The three fillies nodded.
Applejack wasn't shure what to make from the story but could tell from the look in the CMC's eyes that something had happened. "Alright, ah will get the other. Whatever it is that that scared you, i will teach it that nobody messes with mah little sister."
"A jellow monster composed out of only a head and four limps with no body? Are you shure?" Twilight asked not shure to make from the story Applejack told her.
"It's what the girl told me, and even when the the discription is wrong there is still something that attacked them. They where in complete panik."
"Whatever monster it is, we gone kick it's but. Even if it dosn't have one." Rainbow Dash said full determination.
"Shouldn't we try to talk to it first?" Fluttershy suggested.
"The girls already tried that. You know what happened after that. Ah don't think that thing is something you can reason with."
"I could try to trow it a party." Pinkie suggested bouncy as always.
"Darling we are talking about a monster here, please take it serioux." Rarity lectured her.
"I am taking this serioux, but the auther doesn't." was the relply, gaining Pinkie Pie confused looks. No one desided to question, all knowing to well that it would only cause more confusion.
"Carefull kow, we are there." all six ponies where now looking at the treehouse.
"So, here is the plane." Twilight said. "We need to-" Rainbow Dash flew of heading at high speed to the cluphouse.
Twilight groaned frustrated hurrying after Rainbow. The rest followed slightly after.
"You can't just run of like that!" Twilight shouted/whispered angrily. "That thing could be dangeroux!"
"Pff, i could handle him." she replied whilr hovering next to the ladder that lead to the second floor. Then she dissapeared trought the trapdoor. The rest quickly followed.
Twillight looked around ones arrived finding the room empty from every any kind of monster. "That's weird, there is nothing here. You thing the girls imagined it afterall?"
"No, something happened here." Applejack pointed at the broken window. "Whatever was here is now gone."
"Look around, maybe we find a clue what it was
It turnt out to be a bust. The six searched on the inside and oudside, but there was any sign what had happened. Twilight was about to suggest to give up when she was interrupted by Rainbow Dash.
"I found something."
The other five came running to here after the call.
"This was stuck in a tree oposite of the window. I think this is what broke it." she explained holding out a small jellow/bronze collered piece of mettal. It had the form of a paraboloid and seemed to be made of mettal.
"It was stuck bretty deep in the wood, i only saw it because of the reflecting sunlight."
"For something like that to get stuck in the wood, it needs to fly at an immense velocity. Whatever attcked the fillies has to be either very stong or in possess of to me unknown magic or technology." Twilight said taking objekt from Rainbow and studying it in her magic.
"Ah don't like the sound of that." Applejack said concerned. "That monster is running around freely and seems more and more dangeroux the more we find out about it. We need to stop it!"
"I know." Twilight replied. "But first we need to find out where it is."
Charlie took a step back and looked at his new base feeling slightly proud of himself.
"No more surprises when i wake up." he said to himself while walking inside. "What's next? Right the research bench."
He went to the crafting workbench and took the needed materials from his bag. Then he froze. He looked in his bag again. Then he cursed under his breath. "I don't have an electronic part."
He started pacing. "This is not good, i need a reasearch bench if i want to survive on the long term." Then he stopped remembering the house he saw in the middle of the forest of appletrees when he searched for a good place for his base. "That place might have the things i need."
He looked at the sun that was currently setting. It was to late to go, so he went to his sleeping bag to get a good nights rest. "Tomorrow i got my research bench" was the last thing he thought before drifting to sleep.
“What yah mean ah can’t go crusading? Ah dit nothing wrong!“ Apple Bloom exclaimed.
“Ah am sorry sugarcube, but that monster is still out there. Ah just want to keep you save.“ Applejack said to her sulking sister. “It’s an agreement ah made with the others. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo won’t go out either.“
Apple Bloom snorted and want to her room. A bit later a the sound of a door getting slammed shut was heard trough the house.
Applejack winced, she didn’t like her sister doing so, but because of the current situation she decided to not be mad at her.
“It’s only until we catched the monster. It’s not a punishment, but to keep yah save.“ she said going after her.
“...“
“So please promise me to not sneak away while i am with my friends.“
“Fine. Ah promise to stay here.“
“Thanks sugarcube. We will catch that monster and then you and the girls will be crusading again in no time. You see.“
Not getting an answer Applejack left the house wondering if Apple Bloom would keep her promise.
“Ah really hope she keeps her promise. She will be save as long as she stays in the house.“ Applejack though while heading to her friends.
Charlie arrived on top of the hill seeing the farmhouse he was planning to go to. Hopefully there would be electronic parts.
“Sorry for being late, ah needed to convince Apple Bloom to stay at home where she would be save. That took a while.“
“No probably Darling, i had the same with Sweetie Belle. It’s not a problem.“
“I already talked with Mayor Mare about the yellow monster. The residents of Ponyville are informed and we have more guards patrolling.“ Twilight explained.
“The royal guard?“ Rainbow Dash laughed “You really think they can help? They suck at they’re job.“
“Rainbow! How can you say something that offending about them? They deserve some respect.“ Rarity lectured the pegasus.
“Pfff, whatever.“
“Anyway.“ Twilight said after a moment of silence. “Whe need to find that monster and chase it away before it seriously hurts somepony.“
“Shouldn’t we talk to it first?“ Fluttershy suggested. “I might be all a misunderstanding that we can solve if we listen one to another.“
“That thing attacked mah sister.“ Applejack said with a frown. “I don’t think that that will work.“
“We dit reform Discord.“
“That’s true.“ Twilight said thinking. “We should at last try to talk, but first we need to find it. If we would only know where it was...“
Charlie had watched the house for a while now.
“No movement and no light. Should be save.“
He first went to the barn nest to the house. He found some nails and a hammer. He took both and left the other tools there, not having a use for them.
“Now the house.“
He walked up to the door to find it unlocked and carefully entered. He looked around and landed in something that looked like a living room.
“Wood.“ he murmured to himself giving the furniture a look. “Useless. Hopefully there is also something from leather or metal. All i get from these is wood and maybe some nails. Not worth it.“
He continued and landed in the kitchen. His gaze went trough the kitchen finding quickly interest in the different things available. “Fridge and sink, both good for metal. A loot of lockers. It’s likely that i find something interesting. Microwave, long since i seen one of those before. Some food.- Wait.“ His look snapped back to the microwave. “If that doesn’t have an electronic part i will eat a tree.“ he said while a smile appeared on his face.
Crash*
Apple Bloom jumped, interrupting her sulking. She was about to call out when the noise continued.
Clang* clang* clang*
Applejack was still on monsterhunt and Big Mack and Granny Smith where in Manehattan helping her cousin and her parents with some financial problems.
She had stayed in Ponyville because of school and Applejack to watch over her, meaning that she was home alone.
She carefully sneaked down the stairs and peaked in to the livingroom.
Clang* clang* clang*
“The sound comes from the kitchen.“ Apple Bloom thought while picking up a broom to defend herself.
Crash*
She carefully sneaked closer broom fiercely held between her teeth.
It was then that she noticed that the sound stopped. “He comes out.“ she realized and quickly dove in to the old grandfather clock.
She peaked out and saw the last thing she expected. The yellow monster was walking past her hiding spot, causing her to let out a surprised gaps, before quickly covering her mouth with a hove.
The intruder froze and quickly whirled around, holding a shining axe in his hand. His eyes glanced around the room before resting on the old clock Apple Bloom was hiding in. He took his weapon on both hands and slowly walked towards her.
“No, no, no! Please don’t look! Go away! Ignore me.“ she prayed at the edge of panicking her heartbeat so loud she was almost shure that that was the reason that he was coming for her.
When he was almost there she closed her eyes and counted down her chances, fearing the worst.
“OK whoever you are. I could hear you.“ she could her him say. “Now let’s see who you are.“
Apple Bloom was already picturing the horrible things he would do when he would get her and prepared herself to defend her life with a broom, but nothing happened.
“Huch, guess i was wrong, nothing behind this clock after all. I was shure i heard something.“
Apple Bloom slowly opened her eyes, noticing that the monster was now standing next to her hiding spot. After a while he turned around and walked away.
“Usually i don’t make that kind of mistakes.“ he murmured to himself. “Well, there is a first time for everything. Let’s see what this place has upstairs.“ He disappeared trough the door in direction the stairs.
Apple Bloom stayed in the clock for a some time, trying to understand what miracle just saved her, before noticing that she was still holding her breath.
She let it out and carfully left from her hiding place.
“Thanks Celestia. That was to close for comfort.“ she tought to herself. She could still here the monster upstairs, whatever that was. She was not planning to find out. Not wanting to take any more risk, she opened a window and jumped out. Once outside she started running.
“I need to tell Applejack!“ she said to herself while galloping to Twilight’s castle.
“Where is that guy?“ Rainbow Dash thought in frustration, while soaring trough the breezes of the morning wind.
Something she usually appreciated, but today was not one of those days. She would rather be asleep then trying to find some yellows monster. She already lost a lot of time in that affair that she could have used in other more useful things.
Things like sleeping, spending time with Tank or Scootaloo and more sleeping.
“Yellow, yellow, yellow... Searching something yellow...“ she sang to herself while her gaze went over the landscape.
Than she spotted something. A yellow blur heading at high speed towards Ponyville.
“Yellow!“ she said and dove towards the blur. When she was getting closer she noticed that the yellow was mixed with red, but then showe the thought aside, concentrating on the task at hand.
The thing let out an “Eeep.“ when they collided. “Don’t kill me.“
“Ha, now i got you- Apple Bloom? What are you doing here? I thought that you where supposed to stay at your home?“ Rainbow Dash sad surprised, before noticing how much the little filly was shivering. “Sorry, i thought you where the... thing i was searching.“ She helped her up. “Let me bring you home.“ she said, filling guilty for startling Apple Bloom like that. “I won’t tell your sister about it.“
“NOOO!“ Apple Bloom shivered even more. “That yeyellow monster is in mah house!“
“Sorry? Can you repeat that?“ Rainbow Dash asked shure that her ears where playing tricks on here.
Apple Bloom started telling her the entire story, with wild leg gestures and at an impressive fast speed. RD could barley follow, but she got the rough story and could imagine what was going on.
“We need to warn the others.“ she said when the filly was finished, before picking her up and flying towards town with a dusttrail.
“...and that is what happened.“ Rainbow Dash finished, filling her friends in on the situation.
After Rainbow Dash had arrived with Apple Bloom, they had left the filly with Spike and where now running towards Sweet Apple Acres.
“So that thing broke in in mah house?“ Applejack asked furiously. “And it tried to hurt mah sister?“
“Quiet girl’s, we are almost there and still got the moment of surprise.“
Crash*
“That came from upstairs.“ Rarity noticed.
The six slowly sneaked up the stairs.
“The beds are completely destroyed.“ Fluttershy said looking in to one of the rooms. “Why would anycreature do that.“
Twilight suddenly stopped and held a hoof in front of her mouth as sign to be quiet, before pointing at one of the rooms.
“It is in there.“ she whispered.
Applejack peaked inside, seeing the monster standing in the room next to a broken bed while looking in the different drawers, taking out different items, inspecting them, before either putting them back or in his bagpack.
“He attacked mah sister and her friends, demolished mah house and now he steals things?“ that was to much for Applejack. Before any of her friends could stop her she charged the thief.
When she dit so, the said thief froze, before he quickly picked up the axe and whirled around hitting AJ at the side of the head with the far side of the axe. Her charge was redirected and she crashed headfirst in to the wall, leaving her eyes spinning.
Before he could do anything else, he was hit by a rainbow colored blur, sending him to in to a wall.
"Uff, what in the name of Lapa? Your not a devaster." he said pulling his gun and aiming at Rainbow, but another punch from her caused his shot to miss and hit the wall behind her.
"Devaster? Is that what you are?" Rainbow Dash asked, before charging him again.
The devaster jumped to the side this time and took aim before he felt something hiting his side and sending his aim of again. He angrily whirled around and noticed the rest of the main six standing in the doorway, while Twilight was aiming her stil glowing horn at him.
Noticing that it was one against six, the now less confidence devaster backed away. A grunt to his left told him that Applejack was getting back up.
"Give up, you can't win!" Twilight said taking a step forward, while Fluttershy hurried forwards to help Applejack.
The devaster took another step backwards, before jumping out of the window, shattering it in the process.
Twilight looked at it in shock, trying to process the moment, before running to the window looking after the fleeing attacker, who was surprisingly healthy for somecreature that just jumped out of the second floor.
“Oh i get that guy!“ Rainbow said, dashing out of the window, after the fleeing shape in the distance.
“Rainbow wait! It’s better to confront him together.“ Twilight cried after her, but she was already gone.
Rainbow dash heard Twilight‘s call to stop, but ignored it. Instead she concentrated on her target ahead, currently fleeing in to the forest. It led out an uff after Rainbow slammed in to him with her hoofs sending them both to the ground.
Rainbow was the first to recover. She got back to her hoofs and punched the devaster who was getting up himself in the face. Not that she had much of a choice since her enemy seemed to nothing but a head with limps attached. He looked somewhat like a yellow octopus.
She charged again when the octopus suddenly pulled a wooden spear out of his bag and flung it towards her.
“How dit it even fit in there?“ she wondered avoiding the spear by flying a 90° angle upwards. She heard the spear hit the tree somewhere behind here.
“Miss!“ she mocked, looking at the devaster below. “Not surprising, i am the fastes flyer in Equestia after all.“
“So?“ the being replied replied looking unimpressed. “Never heard of you.“
“Seriously! Rainbow Dash? Element of loyalty? The most awesome mare in existence? Those that ring a bell.“
“No.“ he went to the tree and pulled out his spear. “I thought this was a battle, but if you want to hold a tee party, my name is Charlie.“
“You asked for it!“ Rainbow Dash snarled going in again. Charlie stood there waiting for her axe in hand. Rainbow expected him to try to hit her with his weapon, but he when they almost collided, he jumped to the side instead.
“What the ha- uff.“ was all she could say, before she face planted herself in to the ground.
Rainbow Dash stood back up to her feet, her head ringing, when suddenly a blistering burst of pain shot trough her wing.
She angrily whirled around, or at last tried to, but the pain exploded as something held her back, causing black spots to appear in her vision. As she turned her head to see the problem her heart froze. The wooden spear from stuck fiercely in the ground next to her, but that wasn’t what she was paying attention to. It was her wing that the weapon had pierced before getting stuck in the ground red fluid dripping down from it.
“That can’t be...“ she whispered starring at the image her mind refused to accept. She had been in a lot of battles before, but she could always rely on her wing. Now...
Klick*
Her head whirled around at the sound sporting Charlie in front of her, the barrel of his gun pointed at her.
Charlie took a step back looking at his work. After a while of comparing the contraption on the research bench with the blueprint on the computer of he shock his head and continued hammering it in to form. He looked at it again, this time satisfied before trying on his new welding mask.
“I used up most of my metal for this, but it should be worth it.“ he thought, recalling the events from the previous day. The creatures he fought yesterday, ponies if he recalled how they called themselves correctly, where melee fighters.
“Start up complete. All systems online.“
He shove those thoughts aside and turned to the LapaBot he had made earlier. They took a while to be ready, but once they where, you could leave your base without being afraid that it would be destroyed during your absence. Currently only one, but he planned to make more in the future.
Charlie walked past his orange farm, made of some oranges he found in the house he was in to the smelter that had been happily humming in the background and took some alloys from it. It was a decent amount, but he needed more iron. Most of what he had went in the welding mask and now he was running low.
“I need to go back to where these ponies live.“ he realized. If still remembered the village he had seen from a distance, but quickly decided against it. “To risky.“ he thought. “What i need is a small house or hut that is standing alone.“
He picked up the welding mask before heading for the door. At last this time he was prepared.
Twilight looked at the yellow/golden colored piece of metal, that she was holding in her magic. It looked exactly like the one Rainbow Dash found inside the tree... only that this one was covered in blood and was found inside of Rainbow. Twilight shivered. “How can such a small thing cause this much harm?“
A while ago she had been beaming to finding out how to get an object to such a high speed that it would cause lethal impact, but now that she saw what it could do... she wasn’t so sure anymore.
“Twilight? You have been staring at that thing for a while now. Are you ok?“
Twilight turned around to Rarity, who gave her a worried look.
“How can i be ok?“ she answered, a tear streaming down her face. “Rainbow is... She’s...“
“It’s not your fault Darling, please don’t cry.“
“I could have prevented it.“
“You dit all you could. Rainbow can be stubborn sometimes. You know that.“
“I had clear shot on that... thing, but i didn’t stop it. I could have prevented it, but it escaped.“
“You chased it away when you arrived. It could have hurt more ponies.“ Rarity shuddered, remembering the moment when they found the Rainbow Dash. The bloody memories seemed like a dream to her now that she thought back to them. She pushed them aside.
“Without you he might have killed her.“
“That might still happen!“ Twilight almost screamed. “She is deadly hurt, and even if she survives she might be crippled for the rest of her life.“
Rarity gasped. “Twilight! How can you think so negative! Rainbow Dash is strong, and she will make it. I never want to hear that from you again.“
Twilight didn’t reply and hung her head. It was uncomfortable silent for a while. Twilight opened her mouth to say something, but Rarity would never know what it was when Scootaloo burst in to the room, scooter included.
“I got news from Rainbow Dash! She is awake. She wants to see you and send me!“ she half shouted in excitement. “I already got the others, they are now heading to the hospital.“ In a blink of an eye she was gone.
Twilight and Rarity gave the situation a surprised look, before the massage arrived at them and hurried to the hospital.
The two mares arrived a bit later getting greeted by Nurse Redheart.
“Hello Twilight, hello Rarity. I already expected you. Rainbow Dash is in room 109. Your friends are already there.“ she said to them. “Also, go easy on her. She is still recovering.“
“We keep that in mind.“ Twilight said before heading in the direction shown to them.
“This has to be it.“ Rarety said after a while, heading to a door where a very familiar scooter was lying on the ground, wheels still slowly spinning.
They both slowly entered, finding the rest of the main six and the crusaders where already in the room.
“Oh hello.“ Rainbow Dash said. “I was already wondering when you two would show up.“
Twilight gave her friend a closer look. She was wearing a bandage around her wing and chest. She was connected to a few machines that controlled her pulse and had an infusion. She was overall in a better state than when Twilight found her after the fight.
“Hello Darling, how are you doing?“ Rarity asked.
“A lot better, i will be out of here in no time, and than that yellow melon will be the one in hospital.“ she said bumping her hoof in the air, before wincing as pain shot trough her chest. “Ok, it might be not that good after all.“ she admitted with a grimace.
“What dit the doctor say?“ Twilight asked.
“I am lucky. No vital organs where hit, but i have some serious injuries in my muscles. Also my wing had a hole and has been operated. I really hope that i can fly when this is all over.“ Rainbow Dash suddenly looked a lot more tired and sighted.
“Aww, don’t worry Dashy, it will be fine, you see.“ Pinkie Pie said. “If you can’t, we will find a way that you can.“
“You think so?“ Rainbow asked, with a slight hint of hope.
“Of corse. That is what friends are for, also you still got a trophy from your fight with that big meany.“
“Wait i have a trophy?“
“Of corse silly.“ Pinkie Pie said pulling a wooden object out of her mane and dropping it on Rainbows bed. “You don’t remember that you got this?“
Everypony looked completely stunned at the wooden spear. The blood had been washed of, but it was still recognized as the weapon that the devaster used to attack Rainbow.
“What? It’s still a trophy.“ Pinkie said after a moment of acward silence.
“Riiight.“ Rainbow quickly pushed the spear of her bed.
“Sorry, but the wisiting times are over. You need to go now.“ Nurse Redheart said entered the room.
“Alright see you tomorrow.“
Rainbow Dash sighted as she watched her friends leave, before tacking a Daring Doo book from under her pillow.
Rainbow Dash turned back to the door ash she heard it open and catched a glimpse of a familiar orange pegasus filly disappearing back trough the door, while holding a wooden spear in her mouth.
“Finally! It took long enough.“ Charlie thought, looking at a small cottage that lay on the outskirts of the ponytown. It was far enough away for his satisfaction. It had for some reason a lot of birdhouses and was grown over by grass and plants. Not in a chaotic way, but like it was intended. The grass was trimmet and looked actually pretty need.
Charlie walked up to the door, crossing a bridge on his way while he watched the huge variety of animals. Some watched him with interest while others where fleeing from his sight.
He was about to open the door when he stopped himself, remembering the last time that he just entered a house. “Maybe i should try a different approach.“ he thought to himself. He quickly switched his Welding Helmet for his Chapka to look les treating and stored his Desert Eagle so that he could easily reach it, while also not being visible.
He took a deep breath and knocked the door the door.
“Comming.“ he could hear a voice from the other side of the door before steps approached.
A short moment later a yellow pony with pink main opened the door. “Sorry.“ it said. “I hope i didn’t keep you waAAAAAA!“
WHAM!
“ITS THE MONSTER!“ it screamed. “ANGEL, GET IN THE PANIC ROOM!“
“Auuu.“ Charlie groaned before picking himself up after receiving a door to the face.
“I admit.“ he murmured to himself while rubbing his head. “I wasn’t prepared for that.“
“Soo, what do i do now?“ he said, thinking.
He looked in his bag and his eyes fell on a special piece of clothing.
A half hour later Fluttershy carefully opened the door a split, peaking out.
“Hello? Anypony there?“ she half expected the monster to launch at her, but nothing happened. She opened the door fully and looked around for the devaster but he was nowhere to be faund.
“I need to tell Twilight.“ she thought to herself, and started heading in direction of town, past a weird shaped bush.
“I see you calmed down. Sorry for scaring you.“ an unknown voice suddenly said.
Fluttershy froze, before slowly turning around.
Standing a few meters behind her, the devaster who was butting some weird contraption out of leafs and twigs in to his bagpack. (camouflage gear for those that don’t play the game.)
“P-p-please don’t h-hurt me.“ Fluttershy stuttered wanting to run away, but her legs didn’t obey her.
The devasters face shifted to confusion. “What makes you think that i want to hurt you?“ he asked. “I only wanted to know if you had some iron to spare.“
“What? But, but you...“ Fluttershy stoppt herself mid sentience, realizing that it might be better not to mention the incident with Rainbow Dash.
She put up a fake smile. “What kind of iron do you need?“
“Doesn’t really matter, iron bars or iron ore it would be optional, but i am not picky. Old tools would also work, i can just refine it in to shaped metal.
“I have some old pots and cooking utilities if that’s fine whit you.“ she carefully started hoping that he would find it sufficient and not get angry.
“That will work just fine.“ he replied, causing Fluttershy to let out her breath she didn’t know she had been holding. “Thank you very much miss...“ he froze. “Where are my manners? I haven’t even properly introduced myself. My name is Charlie, what is yours?“ he hold out his yellow hand.
She starred at his hand for a moment before carefully shaking it. “Fluttershy.“
“Maybe he isn’t that bad after all.“ she thought, losing part of her fear. “But he still hurt Rainbow Dash...“
Her thoughts went in a circle for a while before she noticed Charlies looking at her.
“Sorry, i was lost in thoughts.“ she quickly apologized and headed back to her house. “Come in.“
Fluttershy headed to the kitchen to get the old kitchen utilities while Charlie looked around.
After a while she came back. “Here, will dis work?“ she asked placing the things she got in front of her, while her fear that he would be unsatisfied and hurt her resurfaced.
But luckily it didn’t happen.
“Yes, this will work.“ came the reply before he somehow stored all the things in his bag.
“Is that thing bigger on the inside?“ Fluttershy wondered while observing Charlie packing in.
“Thank you miss Fluttershy.“ he finally said, shouldering the backpack. “If you need my help tell me, i own you one.“
“No problem.“ Fluttershy lied while Charlie headed to the door.
She headed to the window watching him disappear between the trees before collapsing on the couch. Twilight could wait, first she needed some rest to calm down.
“So he just came knocking on yah door and asking for metal?“ Applejack asked in disbelief.
The main six where by Rainbow Dash at hospital so she could join the conservation.
“Yes?“ Fluttershy replied carefully to her friend’s outburst.
“So that Charlie didn’t treat or hurt you? I don’t know if that is a good or bad thing. That he wants metal concerns me, he seems to be building something.“
“Well, at last your ok darling.“ Rarity added.
“I will write a letter to Celestia about this. Who knows where he will show up next. For now you should stay with Applejack. Charlie seems to stay to only show up if you are alone.“
They said goodbye to Rainbow Dash and left the hospital.
Fluttershy was still thinking about the incident, when suddenly a spear impaled itself in the ground next to her.
She shrieked jumping back while looking around in panic expecting to see Charlie.
“Sorry Fluttershy.“ she turned around to the familiar voice of Scootaloo, who was standing next to Apple Bloom and Sweetie Bell the later holding her hoves over her mouth in shock at the close call.
“Ah told yah that your idea wouldn’t work.“ Apple Bloom said.
“So Cutie Mark Crusader spear thrower won’t work?“ Scootaloo asked with a look at her flank.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders where currently in the Everfree Forest on they’re way back from Zecora. Scootaloo pulling her scooter, while Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle where sitting in the wagon attached to it.
“Can you go a bit faster Scoot? It’s almost nighttime.“ Apple Bloom said, looking around nervously.
“That’s your own foult, you shouldn’t have talked that much.“ Scootaloo answered.
“Hey, we could have arrived at Zecora a lot earlier if yah would have been there in time.“
“I wasn’t that late.“
“You where.“
“Even if i was late, you where still talking that much that it wouldn’t have mattered in the end.“
“Not true, ah-“
“EYES ON THE ROAD!“ Sweetie Belle shouted with a panicked edge in her voice.
Scootaloo whirled around from her discussion with Apple Bloom to notice that they where heading full speed towards a sharp turn in the road.
Scootaloo gasped, before she quickly tried to take the turn, but she was not fast enough.
The scooter, wagon and passengers where send flying out of the curve and seemingly floated in the air for a moment before gravity took over followed by a loud crash.
The fillies groaned, picking themselves up. Sweetie Belle was the first to speak.
“Let’s stop arguing and get back on the road.“
The other two agreed silently and proceeded to move the card and scooter back when they made a terrible discovery.
“The scooter is broken.“ Scootaloo half screamed. “Now we have to walk, we will never be home in time.“
She turned to Apple Bloom. “Why dit you have to distract me? Now we are in even bigger problems.“
“You where the one driving. Don’t blame me!“
Sweetie Belle saw another fight coming, and was about to interrupt, but a low growl beat her in the race.
The CMC froze death track before slowly turning to the source of the noise and looking straight in the eyes of a manticore.
“Oh, oh.“
The fillies gave each other a look, before like on command ran of. The manticore quickly followed.
The crusaders where now running blindly trough the forest not daring to look around while still trying to stick together.
After a while Sweetie Belle dared to look around and quickly regretted it. Not because the manticore was close by, but because she ran head first in to a stone wall. Beside her her friends to came to a stop.
The quickly looked around for an escape route, but the wall stretched itself a fair amount in both sides and was to high to fly over. A quick look back told them that they’re pursuer was to close for running away to be an option. They huddled together, trembling.
“Hey! What are you doing here again? I told you to stay away.“
The manticore froze, growling at something left from the crusaders.
They looked around spotting a strange creatures who was looking angrily at the manticore. It had a gray skin that shimmered metallic and seemed to have no facial expression with the exception of one of his eyes that glared angrily, while the other was covered by some sort of eye patch out of the same color as his skin. It lacked any sort of hair except for three red one’s that seemed to come out of his forehead and disappeared behind his head. It’s mouth seemed to be made out of seven cubes, six grey and one in red. It lacked any kind of torso and it’s arms and legs seemed to be directly connected to it’s weird head. It’s arms and legs seemed to be made out of three thin limbs each, wrapped around each other in a spiral manner two gray and one red. It’s claws seemed to have only two fingers bend towards each other forming grippers. Finally there was some weird stick growing out of it’s head. (Author note: I never thought that a LapaBot description would sound like it came straight out of a horror movie.)
“What are you waiting for shoo!“ it said taking a step towards the manticore.
The manticore gave the crusaders a final look before it turned around and fled.
“And it’s gone.“ the thing sighted. “At last it didn’t destroy anything this time. Why did it come back? It has nothing to gain here.“ It was then that it spotted the crusaders, who where looking at him with awe.
Sweetie Belle was the first to move, as she slowly walked towards they’re rescuer who took in a defense position. He was however not prepared for her to hug his leg.
“Thank you mister, you saved our life.“ she said, not willing to let go. “Without you whe would have been manticore food.“
“How dit you even do that?“ Scootaloo added. “You chased that manticore away without even attacking it. All you dit was looking at it and it and it ran away.“
“Well, i met it bevor, and i won the fight-“
“You beat a manticore on your own? Not even Rainbow Dash has done that.“
“Yes?“
The crusaders looked at him with awe.
“Anyway, my turn to ask. What are you doing this deep in the forest?“ it asked, regaining himself.
“Scootaloo‘s scooter broke, when we flew out of a sharp turn in the road. When we... discussed how to continue whe where attacked by the manticore.“ Apple Bloom answered.
There was a moment of silence as the crusaders watched they’re savior thinking for a minute.
“Can i give a look at it, i might be able to fix your scooter.“
“Really!“ Scootaloo started to bounce in excitement. “Thank you so much mister...“
She stopped bouncing. “You never told us your name.“
“I don’t have a name. Most people just refer to me as LapaBot.“
“Well we can’t have that.“ Apple Bloom said. “What do yah think of Lapa?“
“Already taken.“
“Lapy?“
The robot was silent for a minute.
“I can life with that.“
The tree fillies looked excitingly on they’re flanks for a moment before sighting.
“Guess it’s not Cutie Mark Crusaders Name givers either?“
“What is that?“
The tree fillies now started all talking one trough the other leaving Lapy even more confused when the explanation was finished.
“You know what, why don’t you show me the way to your scooter and explain on the way.“
“Here you go.“ Lapy took a step back from the now repaired scooter. “Fixed and ready.“
In the blink of an eye Scootaloo was standing next to him. “Thankyouthankyouthankyou.“ She jumped up and startet driving around.
“How dit yah do it without tools?“ Apple Bloom asked while Sweetie Belle was trying to calm Scootaloo down enough to put on the wagon.
“I was more or less build for that.“
Lapy watched the CMC get ready for departure.
Scootaloo was about to dash of, but turned around one final time. “You should come to visit us in Ponyville, i am shure our sisters are eager to meet you.“
Lapy thought about it for a moment. He had a base to keep up, and needed to protect it in case of an attack. But he wasn’t in the devasted lands, so there where almost no attackers.
“I see what i can do.“
The CMC gave him an exited smile before heading of.
“You want to do what?!“ Charlie stared at his LapaBot who came to him with an unusual request.
“Go visiting that pony town...“ Lapy said unsure, already regretting his question. “It’s not a problem if that won’t work, i know that i have work here to do.“ he added with a hint of disappointment in his voice.
“Wait, i never said that. Your not a slave after all. I am just surprised since i never had a LapaBot request something before.“
“The devasted lands are not really a place where visiting other places is an option.“
“True, at last not for the fun.“ Charlie replied with a laugh, before becoming serious again. “Just try to be careful. I didn’t always have to most pleasant memories with those ponies. Not as bad as with the ghouls and dark angels and not all of them seem bad, but it’s still risky. We have no idea what to expect.“
“I keep that in mind.“
“Good, be carful and have fun? I guess? Never expected to say that.“
Lapy arrived at the edge of the forest looking at down at the town that spread out beneath him. His eyes darted across the buildings taking in the colorful settlements and ponies that where even more colorful. His eyes finally rested on an apple orchard where the clubhouse of the Cutie Mark Crusaders should be, if he remembered correctly from they’re talk the day earlier.
He started walking in that direction, avoiding the town for now, remembering Charlie‘s advice. After a while he noticed how big the orchard was.
“How am i supposed to find that clubhouse in this place? It’s ginormous.“ he thought, while looking around in the hope of finding clues.
After a while he heard a noise from nearby, that sounded like someone was punching wood, although it was only a single punch.
“Weird, normally there are always multiple punches.“ he thought to himself following the sound until he reached an orange pony with a cowboy hat that was aligning some buckets under an apple tree. “Wonder what it is doing?“ he thought to himself watching the mare turn around and buck the tree. To Lapy‘s surprise the apples fell out and landed in the buckets.
“Well that’s one way to pick apples.“ Lapy said, stepping in to view.
The orange pony whirled around, before taking in a defense position.
“Back of monster!“ she hissed.
Lapy gave her a surprised look and stumbled back, before regaining himself.
“Have you ever meet my kind?“
“No?“ she said surprised.
“So because you never met someone like me i am automatically a monster to you?“
“Well yes... no, ah mean yes, no wait no, ah mean... ah...“
Lapy crossed his arm in disapproval.
“Sorry.“ the mare said, her ears folding back in shame. “I shouldn’t have come to a conclusion so fast, it’s just that i had a monster breaking in to my house not to long ago. She took of her hat. “Please forgive me.“
“I forgive easily. Let’s try this again shall we.“ he held a Hand towards the mare. “I am Lapy, what is your name?“
“You can call me Applejack. Sorry again for the misunderstanding.“ she said, shaking unsurely his hand.
“As i said, i forgive easily.“ Lapy replied with a laugh.
“Applejack, where dit i heard that name before?“ he thought to himself.
“Can ah help yah in some way?“ she asked.
Snapping back to attention Lapy turned towards the mare. “Yes, i am looking for three fillies called Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. They told me i should visit them.“
“Yah know mah sister?“
“Oh, so that’s why i had the feeling i heard you name before. he thought, before replying. “Yes, she shoved up with her friends at my doorstep while being chased by a manticore.“
“A manticore?!“
“Yes, but i chased it away.“
“YOU CHASED AWAY A MANTICORE?!“
Lapy turned around to Applejack. “...You say it like that would be something difficult...“ he finally said confusion in his tone.
Applejack‘s eye twitch and her mouth opened a few times as if to say something, before she cleared her throat, getting herself together. “So-“
Lapy never got to know what she was about to say, as he was suddenly surrounded by overexcited fillies.
“You actually came!/Can you teach us how to beat a manticore?/You really got to meet Rainbow Dash!/Want to see Ponyville?/Pinkie Pie will be eager to meet you!/Let us show you our clubhouse!Can you-“
“STOOOP!“
The crusaders all shut they’re mouths looking at him.
“One after the other please.“
The crusaders didn’t came to answer.
“What is this entire affair?“ Applejack asked.
The crusaders looked at each other before glancing at Lapy.
“She already knows about the manticore.“
The crusaders sighted.
A long explanation later.
“Well i guess i have to thank you for helping out mah sister and her friends back there.“ Applejack said, having gained a certain degree of respect from the robot. “It’s nice to meet some friendly creatures after the entire monster affair not to long ago.“
“It was nothing. I kind of saved them by accident to be honest.“
“You repaired my scooter. That was not an accident.“ Scootaloo objected.
“OK, i can’t counter that.“ Lapy said with a laugh.
“Can yah show us how yah dit it without tools? Maybe we can get our repair Cutie Marks?“ Apple Bloom suggested.
“CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS REPAIRERS YAAAAY!“
The fillies stormed off.
Lapy stared at them for a moment, his ears rebooting. Finally he turned towards Applejack.
“How do you deal with them?“
“Don’t ask.“ Applejack replied. “Let’s catch them before they destroy something so that they got something to repair.“
Applejack, Lapy and the Crusaders where heading to Ponyville, to introduce the robot to the rest of the main 6.
“Couldn’t we have tried to get our Cutie Marks in repairing first?“ Scootaloo pounded.
“From what i heard, you should get the chance right after your next crusade.“ Lapy replied with a laugh.
“Hey, there are also times that we have a crusade without breaking something!“ Scootaloo objected.
“Stop arguing.“ Applejack said. “We are there.“ She turned to Lapy.
Princess Celestia and princess Luna looked up in surprise as a guard came storming in.
“Your highness, there is some kind if yellow octopus that insists on seeing you.“ he said towards princess Luna, panting.
Celestia looked confused. “Let me get this straight, there is a unknown creature that wishes to see my sister?“
“No, he insists to seeing her! The guards can barely hold him back and he hasn’t used any violence yet.“
As if on command a yellow creature came in. It was wearing a yellow/white suit and was holding a golden hammer. He was followed by a few guards, who where panting.
“Sorry your highness, we couldn’t stop me.“ one of them said.
Celestia stood up while Luna took in a defensive position.
“WHO ARE YOU CREATURE TO FORCE YOUR WAY IN TO MY CASTLE LIKE THIS?“ she boomed in her equestrian voice.
“You really don’t remember me anymore?“ the creature asked with a chuckle. “I know that i am standing in the shadow of my brother, but it has only been 1003 years since we saw each other last time.“ he made a gesture with his hand and the suit disappeared.
“Mauve?“ Luna asked surprised, her mouth hanging open.
“You know him?“ Celestia asked in surprise.
“Yes, he is a friend of mine that comes from another dimension. I met him around 1200 years ago and was about to introduce you to him when the dark virus showed up.“
“1200 years ago, how can he still life?“ Celestia interrupted.
“Your not the only Leader that is immortal.“ Mauve replied. “While our subjects have a rather short live, me and my brother Lapa have been living for multiple thousand years already.
“Anyway, as i said, he and his brother asked me to assist them in the fight against a virus called the dark virus. Everyone infected by it turns in to a dark being called dark angles. Unfortunately i was infected myself and was slowly but shurly consumed by darkness causing me in to Nightmare Moon.“
“You never told me that...“ Celestia said with a mix of anger and pain.
“Sorry sister, but i didn’t wanted to remember.“ she replied, before turning towards Mauve. “How dit it went by the way, assuming from the fact that you are standing here i guess that you won?“
Mauve sighted. “No, sadly we never defeated the virus, instead our immune systems learned how to deal with it. But the virus gets stronger by negative emotions, so dark angels are still very well present and our world has been turned in to an apocalyptic jungle where everyone is fighting for survival.“
Luna gasped. “No.“
“Why dit you come here by the way?“ Celestia asked. “I assume you need our help?“
“No.“ Mauve turned serious. “I am here to warn you. Me and my brother discovered a breach in our dimension that leads to your world. My brother is guarding it and trying to find a way to close it, but we discovered that a few things have come trough. We already send back most of the people, some are still here.“
“You mean that the virus has gotten in to our world?!“ Luna asked, panick in her voice.
“Yes, that is exactly what i mean.“
If you read until here i have only one thing to say: Happy April fools day!
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Princess Celestia and princess Luna looked up in surprise as a guard came storming in.
“Your highness, there is some kind if yellow octopus that insists on seeing you.“ he said towards princess Luna, panting.
Celestia looked confused. “Let me get this straight, there is a unknown creature that wishes to see my sister?“
“No, he insists to seeing her! The guards can barely hold him back and he hasn’t used any violence yet.“
As if on command a yellow creature came in. It was wearing a yellow/white suit and was holding a golden hammer. He was followed by a few guards, who where panting.
“Sorry your highness, we couldn’t stop me.“ one of them said.
Celestia stood up while Luna took in a defensive position.
“WHO ARE YOU CREATURE TO FORCE YOUR WAY IN TO MY CASTLE LIKE THIS?“ she boomed in her equestrian voice.
“You really don’t remember me anymore?“ the creature asked with a chuckle. “I know that i am standing in the shadow of my brother, but it has only been 1003 years since we saw each other last time.“ he made a gesture with his hand and the suit disappeared.
“Mauve?“ Luna asked surprised, her mouth hanging open.
“You know him?“ Celestia asked in surprise.
“Yes, he is a friend of mine that comes from another dimension. I met him around 1200 years ago and was about to introduce you to him when the dark virus showed up.“
“1200 years ago, how can he still life?“ Celestia interrupted.
“Your not the only Leader that is immortal.“ Mauve replied. “While our subjects have a rather short live, me and my brother Lapa have been living for multiple thousand years already.
“Anyway, as i said, he and his brother asked me to assist them in the fight against a virus called the dark virus. Everyone infected by it turns in to a dark being called dark angles. Unfortunately i was infected myself and was slowly but shurly consumed by darkness causing me in to Nightmare Moon.“
“You never told me that...“ Celestia said with a mix of anger and pain.
“Sorry sister, but i didn’t wanted to remember.“ she replied, before turning towards Mauve. “How dit it went by the way, assuming from the fact that you are standing here i guess that you won?“
Mauve sighted. “No, sadly we never defeated the virus, instead our immune systems learned how to deal with it. But the virus gets stronger by negative emotions, so dark angels are still very well present and our world has been turned in to an apocalyptic jungle where everyone is fighting for survival.“
Luna gasped. “No.“
“Why dit you come here by the way?“ Celestia asked. “I assume you need our help?“
“No.“ Mauve turned serious. “I am here to warn you. Me and my brother discovered a breach in our dimension that leads to your world. My brother is guarding it and trying to find a way to close it, but we discovered that a few things have come trough. We already send back most of the people, some are still here.“
“You mean that the virus has gotten in to our world?!“ Luna asked, panick in her voice.
“Yes, that is exactly what i mean.“
If you read until here i have only one thing to say: Happy April fools day!
Lapy was inspecting a round building. “So this is where you live?“ he asked Sweetie Belle.
“Yes, this is the carousel boutique. Me and my sister life here.“ she replied, before knocking the door.
A few moments later door opened, and white unicorn that had quite some resemblance to Sweetie Belle came in to view. She noticed Lapy, her eyes resting on him for a moment before turning back to Sweetie Belle.
“No Sweetie, you can’t keep him.“ she finally said. “Bring him back where you found him.“
Lapy chuckled. “I wasn’t planning to stay anyway.“ he commented, earning a surprised look from the unicorn. “I assume you’re miss Rarity?“
“You can ta... I am terrible sorry, i didn’t realize that you where...“ she replied, clearly embarrassed.
“Not a problem.“ He offered her a claw. “You can call me Lapy.“
The mare unsurely shook it. “I am Rarity.“ She looked over him. “What brings you here? I have never seen someone like you before.“
“The Crusaders invited me over, after i helped them fix they’re broken scooter.“
“You dit?“ Sweetie Belle nodded. “That’s very friendly of you darling. Where are my manners? Come in.“ she said, inviting him in, what Lapy greatly accepted.
A bit later they where sitting at the table with a some cake and tee. While Rarity was sipping at hers, Lapy hadn’t touched anything yet.
“Do you not like apple pie?“ Rarity finally asked.
“I don’t feed on pie or tee. My system can’t process them.“
“So you’re a carnivore?“
“No, i don’t eat at all.“
“That’s ridiculous. Everycreature has to eat.“
“I am not a creature, i’m a bot. Bots don’t even have a digestive system.“
“But how could you live without one?“
“Well technically i’m not alive.“
Rarity looked at him with surprise and horror. “But if you’re not alive, then you’re... death?“ She fainted on a couch that came from... somewhere.
“I get the smelling salts.“ Sweetie Belle said with a sight.
A few minutes later...
“So you’re a sentient machine?“ Rarity asked in disbelief.
Lapy nodded.
“But how-“ She didn’t get further as the door of the boutique flew open.
“I know that you are here somewhere mysterious newcomer.“ a familiar voice said. “You can’t hide from my Pinky sense.“
A bit later a pink pony was standing in front of Lapy.
“Uuuh, what are you, i haven’t seen anyone like you before. A robot? A walking radio? A robot that is a walking radio? “
Lapy chuckled, not startled, as quick reaction was important in the devasted lands. “No, i’m only a robot. Who do i have the pleasure of meeting?“
“I’m Pinkie Pie. It’s a pleasure to meet you.“
“Pinkie!“ Rarity scolded, finally having recovered from the shock when the party pony had her entrance. “That was quite a rude interruption from you. Me and Lapy have been talking just now.“
“His name is Lapy? That’s great, now i can hold him a “Welcome to Ponyville“ party.“ she replied, bouncing out of the door. “I need to prepare, see you later.“ Was heard, before she was gone again.
“That Pinkie Pie is an interesting individual.“
“You’re putting it lightly.“ Rarity sighted.
After that incident Rarity decided to introduce Lapy to her friends, the Crusaders following close behind.
“I never seen a building this impressive.“ Lapy nodded, with a look at Twilight‘s castle. “I can’t identify the material, and the architecture is unknown to me. It’s almost as if it’s made by magic.“
They entered the castle, the guards giving Lapy curious looks, but finally shrugged it off as another saturday.
Soon they arrived in a room holding a big map with six chairs around it. Five mares turned towards them when they entered. Lapy recognized Applejack and Pinkie, but the rest was unknown to him.
“So you’re Lapy?“ a purple unicorn with both horn and wings greeted him. “It’s nice to finally meet you, i’m Twilight Sparkle, princess of friendship, and that are Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. You already know Applejack and Pinkie Pie.“
“Affirmative, that’s me.“
“Where do you come from?“ Twilight asked curiously.
“I’m from the...“WHAM!
Everyone whirled around, looking at a guard who had slammed open the door.
“An unknown monster is attacking the market place.“ he said, a panicked look on his face. “We tried stopping it, but injuries caused by our spears seemed to only anger it.“
The mane six looked at each other. “You think it’s back?“ Fluttershy nervously asked.
“Sounds like he is.“ Rainbow Dash replied. “And this time he-AAK!“
“Easy sugarcube, you’re still recovering from the last fight.“ Applejack said, hurrying towards her friend. “I suggest you stay here.“
“No way, he still owns me a rematch.“ she complained.
“Sorry Rainbow Dash, but i have to agree with Applejack here. You’re to hurt to fight off a monster.“ Twilight replied. “Fluttershy, can you take care of Rainbow?“
A few minutes and a handful of Rainbow Dash‘s complaints later the mane six minus Fluttershy and Rainbow arrived together with Lapy on the market place.
They quickly realized that they where not dealing with the same creature that they where fighting last time, although it had a similar body structure. It’s body was brown instead of yellow, and was bulkier in general. It’s teath where visible, sticking out of its disfigured mouth and it carried no weapons. Instead it used it’s fists to destroy everything that came in it’s path.
“A ghoul.“ Lapy realized gaining the attention of mares that accompanied him.
“You know what that is?“ Twilight asked in surprise.
“Affirmative. That creature is called a ghoul and comes from my home world. They’re mutated by radioactivity and run purely on instincts. Highly dangerous so be careful.“
“Have you tried taking to it?“ Fluttershy suggested.
“That won’t work. They’ve lost their intelligence and...“ he paused, realizing in horror that the ghoul had noticed them. Then it charged.
Lapy quickly got in between it and his friends, taking the charge head on.
An ugly *crunch* was heard as Lapy‘s armor bend under the punishment. The ghoul gave him a punch to the head, but he didn’t stumble back, catching the other arm as it swingend again, and cutting of its hand with his claw, that had taken the form of cutting pliers.
The ghoul growled in anger, biting in Lapy‘s arm, causing electricity to spark.
Now Lapy did stumble back, looking at the damaged arm.
“Busted. No way that’s still operational...“ he realized, inspecting the damaged arm.
The ghoul charged again, and Lapy quickly turned his arm in to a drill holding it in front of him. The ghoul ran straight in to it and let out a loud shriek as green blood flew trough the air, iron cutting trough flesh like butter.
Then came silence.
Lapy looked up and noticed the death ghoul hanging on his arm, the drill deep inside it’s body. He quickly shook it of and the ghoul slowly dissolved, having lost it’s extreme regeneration with it’s life, and the radiation finally took hold of him, turning it in to a puddle.
The second thing Lapy noticed was the shocked look of his friends.
“Are you ok?“ Fluttershy finally asked, looking at his damaged arm.
“Not really, but i can wix it once i’m home.“
That snapped the others out of their trance.
“Did you just kill it?“ Twilight asked.
“I had to, or it would have killed us...“
“That’s understandable... i think...“
“Someone should take care of your arm.“ Rarity noted.
“I will return to my home to deal with that.“
There was an awkward silence.
“Bye i guess.“
“Bye.“ The LapaBot slowly walked away until he disappeared in the Everfree Forest.
“And that’s what happened.“ Lapy finished his explanation towards Charlie.
“That’s not good.“ Charlie realized. “The creatures of this world are easily dealt with, but if ghouls have followed us we might not be as safe as i originally thought...“
“So what will you do?“
Charlie walked towards the research bench, pulling up the blueprint of the HAL Bot.
“Let’s just say that you’re about to get a brother.“
Charlie watched the HAL Bot that he had crafted a while ago and had currently deployed.
“I currently only have enough resources for one. Let’s hope that’s enough...“
“Don‘t worry Charlie.“ Lapy said, currently repairing a wall from a previous Hydra attack. “We haven’t spotted any other Ghouls jet, if we’re lucky, it might have been the only one that followed us from the devasted lands...“
“It’s easily noticeable that you’re not that long online jet. Something always goes wrong.“
“Have you ever tried being optimistic jet?“
“I am optimistic.“ Charlie replied flatly. “But I’m also realistic.“
It was silent for a moment, before it was interrupted by a new voice.
“All systems online.“
Both Charlie and Lapy turned towards the HAL Bot that was currently inspecting it’s surrounding.
“Where are we?“ it finally asked. “This location doesn’t match any place i know from my data files about the devasted lands...“
Charlie turned towards Lapy. “Care to fill your new brother in on the situation? I need to gather some resources.“
“Brother?“ the HAL Both asked in a confused tone.
Twilight carefully followed the Cutie Mark Crusaders trough the Everfree Forest.
“How did you convince me to let you come with me in to the Everfree Forest again?“ Twilight asked, nervously looking around.
“Because we’re the only ones that know where Lapy lives and desperately want to know more about him?“ Scootaloo replied.
“True.“ she replied with a sight. “Your sisters are going to kill me...“
“Psst, i hear something.“ Sweetie Belle informed them.
“...telling me that we landed heretrough some kind of glitch?“ an unknown voice asked.
That’s what he told me... a more familiar voice replied.
The three fillets looked at each other, excitement written on their faces.
“LAAPYYY!“ the shouted in an at the same time in a bundle of happiness, before storming on to the clearing Lapy was on.
The new bot turned towards them, and Twilight felt a shudder running down her spine for some reason when she spotted it. It resembled an iron ball with two legs and arms sticking out of it. It had heavy armor, and was leaking any kind of facial expression. Instead it had a glowing red eye.
It hadn’t noticed Twilight jet, and was instead inspecting the crusaders who where excitingly hugging Lapy.
“Individuals identified as Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom.“ it said. “Status: Companion.“
Twilight followed the crusaders, on to the clearing, and the new bot‘s head shot up, looking at her.
“Individual identified as... Error, unknown individual detected.“ The bot‘s eye started to glow brighter. “Termination directive initiated!“
Charlie was bringing his pickaxe down a final time, shattering the rock he had been mining.
“Still no iron.“ he sighted. “The rocks here look so different. How am i supposed to find iron deposits this way...“ He looked around, realizing that he had minnend down every rock in the perimeter. “I’m getting the feeling that there aren’t any ore deposits at all... That would be bad, very bad.“
He continued his way,searching for more possible ore veins. Most creatures had learned by now to not mess with him, but he chaised away a particularly stubborn Timberwolf with his crossbow. He kept his gun for emergency’s, since he couldn’t craft any more bullets without sulfur.
He started mining down another rock that hopefully was an iron deposit. He hadn’t been able to find any iron since he came to this world, with the exception of his trips to the locals, and if that wouldn’t change anytime soon he might need to switch from crossbow to bow, something he wanted to avoid if possible.
The rock broke, again without giving him any iron. Charlie sighted, dropping some the stone he gathered. He wouldn’t need this much anyway.
He was about to continue with the next one when he noticed a light shining between the trees. That immediately coughed his interest, causing him to carefully approach it.
“Light? Does any other intelligent creature live in these woods? The locals i meet until now are afraid of this place, so what could it be?“
He glanced from behind a tree, spotting the source... and froze. I few meters away from him a... “How did i call them again?...“ A glitch was floating in the air, similar to the one that brought him to Equestria.
He starred at it for a moment, before he smiled. “This is it. With this i can go back ho...“ He stopped again, reconsidering his thoughts. Did he really wanted to go back to the devasted lands? Yes, he was born there, but surviving there was a constant struggle for survival. Here however he had it easier, no radiation at all, food didn’t expire as fast, and most of the wildlife was easy to deal with. So why would he want to go back?
“The team is still there.“ he realized. “They are your friends Charlie, don’t be selfish. Why would you get a life in paradise if they can’t... Wait a minute...“ He paused once again. “They can have this life. What if i could bring them over here? I just need a way to prevent the glitch from closing while I’m going trough but how?“
He didn’t get to far with his thinking as suddenly the glitch started shifting, glowing a bit, before finally... something popped trough.
It was a small brown creature that looked around a bit, before it turned towards Charlie, revealing an ugly disformed face.
“Fast ghoul!“ the devaster realized, as it dashed towards him, clearly with the intention to kill.
Charlie instinctively equipped his Desert Eagle, firing a shot... and another one... until it finally was death, dissolving in to a puddle of green ghoul blood.
“Al last i know now where the ghouls come from...“
The glitch collapsed in to itself, disappearing as if it never was there.
“Great. So much for getting the team back...“
Twilight stared at the HAL Bot that was coming for her, with the clear intention to kill. Her entire mind was screaming at her to run, to teleport away, but neither her legs, nor her magic was willing to listen.
All she could do was watch as the terrifying bot quickly closed the distance between them. She closed her eyes.
“Stop that HAL-1!“ a voice suddenly shouted.
The bot’s fist stopped a few centimeters from her face. Twilight‘s eyes darted to the speaker, no daring to move.
“She’s a friend and ally.“ Lapy said. “We’re not in the devasted lands anymore. You don’t need to attack every living being that you don’t recognize. We life somewhere where not everything that you see tries to kill us.“
HAL-1 lowered his fist, looking embarrassed, although it was hard to tell without any facial expressions. “Oh, right... Uhm... sorry. I guess...“
He walked back to Lapy and the Crusaders, the later not having noticed anything of the little incident.
“Sorry about him.“ Lapy said, walking over to Twilight. “He‘s a nice guy, but a bit... protective. I’m sure you will become good friends once you learn to know him.“
“Do i want to know him?“ Twilight unsurely asked.
Lapy thought for a moment. “His personality yes, his job no.“
Charlie was lying in his sleeping, recovering from a mining trip from the day prior. He still hadn’t found any iron.
*BOUM!*
Charlie looked up, blinking the sleep out of his eyes.
“Explosive ghoul?“ he guessed, slightly annoyed.
“Affirmative.“ HAL-1 said, stumbling in to the base. He had some dents and his lense was cracked but he was fine overall.
“The ghoul attacks are getting more frequently.“ the devaster realized. “This is the 3 one this week.“
“The ponies are having the same problem. They are currently building a wall around their village.“ Lapy said.
“I can’t believe that we’re building a wall around our village...“ Rarity said, looking at the workers that where assembling the construction. Multiple guards where there, keeping an eye on the Everfree forest, the place where the monsters had come from.
“True.“ Applejack replied, standing next to her. “We never had problems with monsters, at last not at this scale, and suddenly we have there... things. Lapy called them Ghouls if ah remember correctly?“
“That’s correct darling. He said that they where from the place he come from. I was shocked at first when he killed that one on the market place, but now that i seen what they can do I can actually understand his motivation back then...“
“Does Twilight already know more about what’s going on?“
“Not really... Now that there are so many Ghouls running around, she decided that it might be better to not go back to his house. She’s currently waiting for him to come to us, but he’s quite busy himself.“
“At last the wall‘s almost done. That way we can sleep safely again.“
“True. Those things seem to get stronger at night.“ she shuddered. “It’s almost as if black magic is involved, even trough Twilight already confirmed that that’s not the case...“
“Princess Celestia is currently trying to keep the Ghouls hidden from the press to avoid mass panic, but it can’t be kept hidden forever... What do yah think will happen once the public finds out?“
“It might go well since they currently only showed up in the Everfree forest.“
“Let’s hope it stays that way.“
“Don’t be so negativ. Even if they would, we can deal with them. We always do. We’re not dealing with some major supervillain after all, but with some monsters that got lost in the wrong world.“
Somewhere in the Everfree forest.
A glitch was floating in the air, humming softly. The numbers around it where constantly switching around the pixel vortex.
Suddenly it rippled, and an entity stumbled trough.
It was completely black with the exception of its blood-red eyes. It looked up from under his leather jacket, before picking up the AK-47 it dropped.
“Strange place.“ he mumbled. “But clean... Wonder if there’s anything of interest here.“
He started looking around, noticing the glitch behind him. “Need to prevent that from closing on me.“ He took a stick placing it in a way that it was halfway trough.
“That should work for now...“
He continued it’s walk trough the forest, making sure that he remembered the way back to the glitch. On it’s way he spotting some animals and sometimes even monsters, but they all avoided him.
“Could get used to that…“ he said with a snicker.
After a while he left the forest, arriving on a field. He looked around and suddenly picked up a sound. A humming to be precise.
When he peaked trough the undergrowth he saw something rather strange. It was a dark blue harbevor that was collecting flowers for some reason, putting them in a basket. It looked around regularly, clearly nervous.
Then it suddenly spoke. “OK, I need to calm down. Twilight said that the ghouls are only dangerous at night, and very slow at day, meaning that i can escape them easily if i see them. She’s princess Celesta‘s student, she won’t make mistakes… right?“
“It can talk? Interesting…“ he thought.
“OK, i should have enough.“ the equine said. “Poor Daisy, Lily and Rose... They’re way to afraid to collect flowers themselves with all these ghouls running around. Well, I’m happy to help them.“
“Oh, ghouls are not that bad…“ the unknown entity said, stepping out of the undergrowth. “There are other things that you should worry about.“
The mare whirled around spotting him, and her eyes went wide. A moment later she had dropped the basket and was running away as fast as she could.
The entity‘s hunting instincts kicked in, and he draw his AK to kill the fleeing mare, but he stopped himself. He still wanted to know more about what she was and where the glitch had brought him.
“Stop right there!“ he shouted, firing a warning shot at her legs instead.
Blood splashed to the ground, and the mare collapsed with a scream of agony.
“Only one bullet and already down?“ the entity though surprised. ““I never seen something so weak and fragile before.““ A smile crept on to his lips. “I like that…“
“Please, don’t kill me.“ the mare begged, “I didn’t do anything to you.“
“Don’t worry, i won’t kill you jet. What are you by the way? I never seen a being like you before…“
“I’m a p-pony.“
“Pony? Where you you come from.“
“From P-ponyville. Please don’t k-kill me…“
“Ponyville?“ The entity chuckled. “Funny name. I assume that more ponies live there?“
She carefully nodded.
“That’s great. If your kind isn’t that rare i don’t need to bring you with me for research.“
“R-really?“ she asked, a hint of hope in her voice. Maybe she would be able to get out of this after all.
“Yes.“ the entity replied, before an evil grin appeared on his lips, before he suddenly pointed his weapon at the injured pony. “Now let’s see what you drop…“
The mares eyes went wide in horror, and she desperately tried to crawl away.
“SOMEPONY HEE-“
*PANG!*
Charlie snapped out of his sleep with a panicked expression. He had a bad omen, a subconscious feeling of danger, something he hadn’t had in a long time, but he still knew exactly what it was.
“Are you ok?“ Lapy asked him with a worried tone.
“No…“ he replied, pulling open a mental map. He still hoped that he was wrong, but the lingering feeling was still there, pointing him to a specific location on the map.
This is not a story chapter but only some author notes…
First of all I want to apologize for not being able to bring you a new chapter.
I must admit that I never planned past this point, and that i reached the end of my script since I didn’t think that I would get here so fast.
I’m currently working on continuing the script to so that i have guidance again. Once that’s done I will continue here. Not sure how long I will need for that.
(PS: If you have any ideas you want to see in the story, now is the moment to say them, and there’s a decent chance that I implement them in the story.)
Another factor is that I’m nearing the end of the school year, something that reduces my writing time.
Anyway, this is my „weekly“ post and I will be back on keyboard next time…
I really hoped that it wouldn’t come to this when I started this story, but I will cancel the story.
There has been a lot going on in my life, and I generally haven’t been on this website for multiple months now.
I promised you that I would inform you if I would leave, so yea, here we are…
I‘m not very good at this, so I’m not sure what to say right now, but I don’t think that I return to this anytime soon, maybe even forever. While I might still show up to read other peoples content, I probably won’t resume to writing anything.
Steamer cautiously looked out of the window of the friendship express as it was racing along the tracks, aiming for ponyville.
While he usually didn’t have any problems with his job, it had changed as of lately.
It started with rumors of monsters appearing from the everfree forest, then it became facts as they made the frontpage of the newspapers and finally he had actually seen one of these… things.
Strange, misshapen entities that walked on two legs and had arms to long for their body, being overall bulky and out for blood.
If it hadn’t been for the guards, it could‘ve ended a lot worse with these… what where they called again?
Oh, right. Ghouls, these monsters were named ghouls…
He took a deep breath.
“Alright, calm down Steamer. Just keep the train moving. As long as you’re moving, these things can’t get to you.“
As if on cue, one of the ghouls suddenly appeared on the traintracks, looking at the approaching train.
Instinctively Steamer reached out for the breaks, but halted.
This was a monster, not a pony. Stopping would only endanger himself and the passengers, so he had no other choice then to run over that thing.
Getting closer he saw that this type of ghoul was red-ish, instead of the usual yellow/brown he was used to.
“Never seen this variant before…“ he mumbled before the train crashed into it, sending an explosion echoing across the landscape followed by the sounds of screams and a train derailing…
The train conductor sends a Pegasus to ponyville in order to get help, and the main 6 along with some guards depart towards the derailed train.
When they arrive, they fail to find any survivors, except for the conductor, who tells them that they were attacked by a black entity wielding strange weapons that shot thunder and fire.
Deciding to bring the injured conductor back to ponyville, they fail to notice that they’re being observed by the very same entity who attacked the train.
Unexpected friendship
Twilight reaches out towards Lapy in the hopes of finding more about the mysterious ghouls invading the Everfree forest. There she comes across Charlie who has successfully gathered enough resources to craft a gladiator armor.
Wearing that full body armor, the devaster is mistaken for a robot and gets accepted into the circle of friendship.
HAL-1 gets to know and trust the rest of the main 6 and together with Charlie he tells them all they need to know about the different ghoul types.
In return Charlie informs Twilight about the strange portals she discovered, and she promises to look into it in the hopes of finding a solution towards the ghoul invasion.
Fight of the market
The scavenger breeches the wall that protects Ponyville from the ghouls and runs into Charlie. A fight starts and eventually ends in a stalemate. The scavenger retreats and Charlie is left injured.
The search
Twilight and Charlie talk to eachother, and Twilight reveals to have found a possible way to close the portals between the world and ensure that no new ones will show up.
In a different world, some devasters are looking for Charlie in the hopes or reuniting with their lost teammate. They discover a portal and secure it with a small outpost and one of the devasters discovers that the portal can be stabilized using electricity.
After ensuring that it won’t close, a team is sent trough, who started building a second base on the other side of the portal. Using their inner senses they discover that Charlie is still alive using their inner mini-map.
Reunited
Charles has also discovered his teammates, and heads out to reunite with his team.
They’re happy to see each other, but don’t realize that Rainbow Dash who has by now recovered has seen them and returns to ponyville to tell the others about Charlie‘s “betrayal“.
Fights with words and weapons
Charlies is confronted by the main6 about his meeting with his teammates and he reveals that he was a devaster himself, taking off his armor.
In shock and fear he‘s thrown into a prison
The dark angel meanwhile has rounded up his team and is marching clan to ponyville in order to take it over.
Judegment of a child
The attack started suddenly and unexpectedly, and casualties start to form.
Charlie convinces the CMC to free him, and together they go to his team to start a counterattack.
All or nothing
Final fight occurs, and the dark angels and Charlie‘s team get into a fight.
Trough the use of a Tesla bot that Lapy constructed, they managed to turn the tide and slay the dark angels.
To a new home
The main 6 forgive the Devasters, and after all friendly devasters were evacuated from the devasted lands, Twilight uses a spell to sloe the portals between dimensions, ensuring that no more horrors will cross.
After a final party from Pinkie, the devasters and the bots say goodbye, and with a promise to keep connected deciding to leave and look for unclaimed lands beyond Equestrian to make their new home.
