Hello everybody! I'm back after Savior, which I personally think was not too good, but that's just my opinion. Also, for those of you that aren't familiar with my other stories, you need to read Reaper, Savior and Waking The Fallen before you can understand this story. Sorry, but this is a crossover between Reaper/Savior and Waking The Fallen. Anyway, this story is going to be very different from other stories, because I'm purposefully using a kind of conflict that not many people use. It's also going to have… you guessed it… CHALLENGES!

Challenges:

Every chapter must be named in reference to a song (it can be a loose reference to the name)

A total of 25,000 words in the story (17,500 has been accomplished, so why not shoot for the stars, eh?)

Those are my challenges for this story. I will list the song title at the end of the chapter as always, and for the record, the name of the story comes from an album by The Offspring (not a band I listen to frequently, but they do have good punk music). Also, don't expect these chapters to be out once a week or anything like I normally have it because these chapters are long compared to normal... not this one, but for example, the chapter I'm working on right now, Chapter 3, needs to be over 4 thousand words long. I think you get the picture. Now… ONWARD!

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The Rumors of Our Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

POV: John Jack

I had lost track of the days eventually. Reaper and I were forced to live with each other for what seemed like forever. This guy's life story was a lot more complex than mine, but neither of us cared about who was better than the other in any way. We both knew that if we had any of those kinds of conflicts, there would be a problem when we had to work together. Regardless, we still had differences as well as similarities. We were the best of friends eventually, which felt good because we were locked in… what was it called? Conservation, I think. Whatever… we were isolated and it was good to have someone to talk too; end of story! Eventually we both knew just about everything about each other. I knew his real name and he knew about the entire "Mr. Jack" thing.

It was still a mystery of why I was put in conservation. Reaper obviously knew that there was something that Equestria still needed us for, but both of us couldn't guess what. Also, the entire "memories will return when we get back thing" confused me. This Savior guy was apparently very close to Twilight, so how come I never heard about him… I guess I wasn't that close to Twilight myself. Meh; whoever this Savior guy is, he wasn't an impact on my life in Equestria, so I guess it doesn't matter that much to me.

I wish I could have known how long it had been when that guy came to us. Not Savior, but some other guy. He was a blonde angel in a long white robe and his name was apparently Bo. Bo appeared to us one day… evening… fuck it… Bo appeared to us after a while, let's leave it at that! His eyes were lit up with excitement as he told us what was happening. "We've finally found out why you need to go back!" he yelled, directing his words at Reaper. "There's going to be a death soon. It won't be an accident, and it won't be regarded as murder unless you guys figure out what happened!"

"That's all you can tell us?" Reaper snorted angrily.

"Well, I can tell you who will die, and I could tell you that there's an entire party responsible for the murder, but other than that, I can't help you." He was standing there with a puzzled look on his face as he tried to think of anything else.

"That's enough to go on" I butted in. "We don't need to know who dies right now, we'll obviously figure it out later."

"This would almost be like Minority Report if we didn't have to investigate" Reaper added in an indifferent tone.

"True, true" I agreed.

"Well, you guys'll be put back onto Equestrian ground as soon as the death happens" Bo continued. "It'll take a day or two for the word to spread around to Ponyville but at least that gives you guys some time to settle in, catch up on past events and just generally get used to your old lives again."

"Well, at least we get to leave" Reaper shrugged. It's been too long since I've seen Fluttershy and Savior, and I'm assuming you're itching to see Luna, right John?"

"You betcha" I nodded. It took another time of sleeping (can't really call it night since we couldn't tell) before we were woken up by Bo again. Without any words he teleported us into two different places. He teleported me to Canterlot and Reaper to Ponyville. We were both where we wanted to be. I didn't really need to be in Ponyville, because I knew that Connor, Discord and Afanasai could handle things themselves. What I really wanted was to see Luna, and what Reaper really wanted was to see Fluttershy.

I was plopped onto the front steps of the castle without hardly any warning. I got up, dusted off and proceeded inside the large castle. I wondered what was going on with both Luna and Fluttershy at this moment. All of their memories of me and Reaper had returned at the moment we were re-incarnated in Equestria (Reaper for the second time). I'm assuming that both of them instantly began to cry oceans. I guess I would find out about Luna's reaction in a moment.

I had reached the throne room after I was done contemplating the possibilities. There was a faint crying sound coming from the other end of the room. I looked over to see Luna sobbing uncontrollably next to her sister who was attempting to comfort her, but was apparently doing a pretty shitty job. It was hard to keep myself from laughing when Princess Celestia looked up to see me because her jaw dropped so wide open that I swear I could see into her stomach. Luna could tell that something was up because she could hear nothing coming from her sister, so she looked up at her, and then looked over the way that her sister was looking; she looked over at me.

Instantly, her eyes perked up and her crying stopped as she leaped over to me… well, she more of tackled me. I laughed uncontrollably as she practically constricted me in a tight hug. She pushed up a little to look at my face and said "what art thou laughing about?"

"My apologies, Princess" I chuckled. "I just didn't expect to be attacked by something as cute as thou."

Luna giggled and blushed a little as she stepped off of me. "Thy words are too kind."

"Ah, but they are true!" I retaliated, making her laugh more. I noticed Princess Celesta was raising an eyebrow while laughing a little herself. "Oh, I'm sorry, Celestia. Anything happen while I was gone?"

"No, no, but there was a very strange rush of memory that happened just a little less than an hour ago" Celestia told me. "I remembered everything about you as well as somepony you may not know named Reaper."

"Don't worry, I'm very well acquainted with Reaper" I interrupted.

"I wonder where he is" she thought out loud.

POV: Reaper

I was in Ponyville, obviously! Where else would I be, Ontario? Anyway, I was spat onto Fluttershy's front doorstep, where I got up, dusted off (like I would assume John did) and quietly rapped on her front door. Instead of Fluttershy herself answering the door, the door swung open to reveal… nothing… I looked down. It was Angel. The little white fur ball was starting to freak out at the sight of who he thought was dead and probably also thought was now a zombie. I laughed and walked past him to see where Fluttershy was. Sure enough, Fluttershy was sitting on the sofa, crying her adorable little eyes out. I decided to try and lighten the mood. "Your problem has been solved!"

She sniffed and looked up at me before jumping over to me and practically breaking my spine with a practically Pinkie Pie Pony-power hug. "Reaper! I don't know how you're still alive, but I'm so glad you are!"

"I won't be for very long if you keep hugging me like this" I choked.

"Sorry" 'Shy withdrew quickly.

"What's happened since I…" I hesitated to spit out the last few words, "died."

"Nothing really" she said really happily. She suddenly frowned as she continued, "all except for me remembering you dying. I just remembered it a little while ago. It's strange, because I suddenly remembered hearing about this pony named John Jack, too."

"Well, it doesn't seem like I missed much, then" I interrupted sitting down next to her. "At least we get to be together again." Angel hopped up onto the sofa and sat down beside me. "Hiya, Angel!" I greeted him. "How's my favorite little white fluff ball with anger issues doing?" He scowled at me. "I'll take that as "I'm fine. Shut the fuck up."" He seemed to laugh a little as he hopped straight over my head and landed on Fluttershy, who pulled him into a hug.

For the next several days, both me and John remained where we were. John had a good time in Canterlot (I know because he told me a little later), him, Luna and… the last one surprised me a little, but you'll figure that out later. As for me, I spent pretty much all my time with Fluttershy (duh), but I also spent a little time helping out at Sweet Apple Acres considering it was harvesting season and I used to live next to an apple orchard. Applejack and her brother insisted that I get paid for it, but I attempted to decline. Obviously they wouldn't take no for an answer so after about 5 minutes, I gave in and took the 20 bits. Apparently in American money, that's jack shit.

After a day or two I decided to go give that poor bastard Savior a visit, so I headed over to Twilights tree. It was quite a surprise to me when nopony opened the door. I just got impatient after a little while, so I let myself inside to find… no-one… WHAT?! I raced back to Fluttershy's cottage and asked her what happened to Savior and Twilight. She began to tell me about something that happened while I was gone…

So, apparently Twilight was going to be in Canterlot for quite a while along with Savior, Spike and Owlowiscious. The reason why was because for some random, fuck-all logic reason Twilight became an Alicorn Princess. Regardless of how stupid it seemed to me, I guessed it didn't matter too much. As a matter of fact, I felt kind of happy for Savior, since Twilight was now a Princess.

It was about two or three days later when I was just walking around the town and I found the CMC crying… but Scootaloo was missing… I went to get John…

I had a bad feeling about this.

Chapter name based off of the song "Rumors of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated" by Rise Against.