Well things have certainly not gone according to plan huh?

Don't worry, we're just getting started.

Now we shift our focus to someone very, very special. Someone who shouldn't be inside the city.

He lived on the very outskirts of Manehattan. He could very well walk outside and not die from the cold but he choses not to. He wants to keep up appearances.

He wants to live in peace.

RRIIIING! RIIING!

Or not...

He sighs and picks up the cellphone, showing the date:

Monday April 16 2077

10:35 AM

He checks the caller ID and responds.

"What the fuck do you want Vida"

"Heeeyyyy Dogi, we going to fuck someone up later and we got some new blood to help. Wanna join us" Said Vida through his cellphone.

"Dogi" as his friends called him or his real name, "Whitewaters". Is a dark green 'pegasus' with blavk stripes on it's hooves. it's wings were oversized for a pegasus and were webbed like a bat's. It's fur was also oversized. It's mane and tail were light blue with pink-ish tips. He was using glasses and a beanie.

"Ugh, Vida... I kinda want to be left alone right now..." Whitewaters responded laying down on the ground"

"Eh, I understand. Later faggot" Vida hangs up.

"You okay?" Said someone on another room of his 'house'.

'House' as in... an abandoned shack that was hard to find due to it not being lit up with any neon bars.

"No... I've had this strange feeling since early this morning... I feel the presence of something..." Whitewaters explained. Getting up and walking towards the main entrance.

"And what could this be?" Said the voice in another room.

"I think someone from... my home is h-"

CRASH!

The main entrance was torn down by the sudden arrival of a shadowy figure. Whitewaters gets blown away towards a wall.

"I knew I would find you somewhere around here" Said a very excited female voice.

Whitewaters looks at the shadowy figure and feels a familiar aura surround this... this thing. "Ow... Well that's just bloody great. The fuck's this bloke doing here." Whitewaters' accent changes.

"What happened?! Dogi are you okay?!" A door opens to reveal a stallion with white facepaint and a jester outfit. He helps him up. "Who's that? Why are you in our home?!"

Light shines from behind to reveal the figure to be an anthro black furred bunny with purple eyes and black clothing.

"Ya blow up my walls, attack me at my own home, an' didn't even bring a housewarming gift. Now I'm just insulted" Exclaims Whitewaters

"Sup!" The bunny says with excitement.

"Axiom, the fuck do you want" Said Whitewaters. He somehow know's the bunny's name.

"I came here looking for help from an old friend, I know you have something that could be of use on my quest" She looks at his chest. "That key! What are you hidin-"

"Tri-"

Whitewaters only had to mutter that single syllabe and the bunny was gone in an instant.

"Huh?!" The jester looked at the blown off door and back at Whitewaters. "Do i need to know?"

"Nope"

Chapter 2: Axioms speak louder than words

Jack wakes up lying on a table. He was out cold for a few hours after being mindfucked by his faulty memory. He notices most of the ponies there have left the building. Only 3 were in the same room with him. He stands up and looks around. He no longer had his armor on him. He was a blankflank. His eyes met a creepy pony doll on the opposite side of where he was standing.

"O-Oh! He's awake!" Said the young mare who brought him there.

"Ah, sleeping beauty finally wakes up" Chuckled a green earth pony with purple eyes and yellow mane. He was drinking on a table far away.

"It's about time, the guy must be really hungry if he was asleep that much" Said a voice on another room.

The slight sound of buzzing is heard which startles Jack, thinking it's a fly, but he was surprised to discover a green ball with wings and a bowler hat hover around the young mare. "Ugh, I can't believe you made me stay to watch over some autistic weirdo who only has mental breakdowns, Tuna" Said the green ball.

"Step! Be nice to our new guest! He just got here!" Said the young mare to the flying green thing, apparently her name is Tuna?... Would make sense considering her cutiemark. "This is Step, he's a parasprite"

Not long after she said that the Barrel's main door was torn down by the arrival of 'Axiom' who made a beeline towards Jack. She looked terrified. "Oh Jack! Thank goodness you're here!" She suddenly hugs Jack. "It was horrible! Like, I went to meet an old friend and he started acting all weird and..." Her hug began getting tighter. "And... and... He told me something nobody should know! Ooh Jack.. you always know how to calm me down" She keep hugging Jack. Who had difficulty breathing. She looked at Tuna and Step who were surprised by her arrival. "Oh, hey"

"Ugh, you again. How many doors have you destroyed now? 10?" Tuna said with concern over the broken entrance.

"At least 35! I've been counting" Axiom says, finally letting go off Jack who falls to the ground face first.

"Ugh... Do... do i know you?" Jack asked, struggling to get up.

"Oh Jack, silly pony, of course you do! We are best friends!" Axiom said with excitement.

"Wait, you know this faggot? Said Step, buzzing near the bunny.

"Oh yeah! We've known each other for a whiillleeeeeeeee!" Axiom says while kicking Jack's face.

"You... know her?" Jack said, finally getting Axiom's bunny foot away from him.

"She's a regular, but not part of our group. She only comes here to eat" Said Tuna.

"Oh yeah, I forgot. Is Baiji cooking right now?" Axiom asked.

"Mmhmm!" Tuna responds.

"Righteous"

A dark grey pegasus came out of what appears to be the kitchen with a couple of bowls filled with various kinds of food. From the hole in the wall Axiom made entered a grey unicorn.

"Hey guys, I'm not gonna pay for this one this t-" He froze when his eye met Jack who just stared at him back confused. The unicorn turns around and leaves the place immediately.

"Who the fuck am I... why am I so famous?" Jack asked.

"We all are Jack... we all are" Grinned Axiom, messing with Jack's mane.

Let's go back a bit...

Monday 5:32 AM

"Jaaack!" Screamed Inklord as he and Sky hovered over the city and saw Jack's body quickly plummet to the ground thanks to his heavy armor.

"Damnit, he fell down so fast I lost him!" Sky said.

"Wait, we can find him with the tracker in his suit... but I think my GPS was lost with the Queenbreaker" Said Inklord as he saw the remnants of the once proud flagship burn in the air.

"Maybe they have one in this cities' HQ" Reassured Sky.

VRRRZOOOOOM!

Sky and Inklord barely dodged the massive beam of death of a railgun fired at them.

"Okay, we better get the fuck outta here"

Monday 10:45 AM

"So, you're having memory loss Jack? Nothing good ol' Axiom can't fix" Axiom says as she starts patting Jack in the head. "My mere presence alone should kickstart your memory" She smiles.

"Uh... no?" Jack turns to Tuna. "By the way, where's my clothes?"

"Oh" She looks around. "Over there mister!" She points to a table on the other side of the room.

Jack walks over there and finds his armor placed around the table and chairs. A blue stallion was standing next to it. "Sir.. are you rich?" He said. He had glasses, a white shirt lit up with neon red stripes and a white hat which had a single neon red ball on top. His cutiemark was a red scythe.

"I don't remember, maybe looking at it will help me" Jack said as he began to put on his armor back piece by piece. He stopped at a shoulder pad which had a symbol covered in dirt, he scrubs it off to reveal the cutiemark of Nightmare Moon and a single word. His name.

"I've never seen this type of clothing before, I hope you don't get in trouble with Mayor Rarity over this" Said the blue stallion.

"Huh?"

"Oh, yeah, as a refresher. She prohibits certain types of clothing during certain times of the day, offenders are put in jail" The blue stallion explained.

Ja9ck finishes putting on his armor and looks at one final item on the table. The Alicorn Amulet. Jack holds it in front of him with his magic, feeling a familiar aura surround it.

"Oooh... what's that?" Asked the blue stallion.

"The Alicorn Amulet" Jack somehow knew the answer.

"The what?" Said the blue stallion surprised. "Didn't you say you couldn't remember a thing?"

"I don't know... I just know what it's called..." Jack held it closer... he could hear something... it muttered a long.. slow... whisper...

"Xacjk"

"JACK! THERE YOU ARE!"

Jack turns his attention to the entrance to find Sky and Inklord running towards him. The blue stallion jumped away in surprise. The duo carried Jack out of TOTB. Everyone in the room watched as he was carried away by the guards.

"Aw... Good-bye Jack..." Axiom whimpered.

"Jack! What happened?! Why were you there?!" Inklord started to ask many questions to Jack. Sky was concerned at how worried Inklord got.

"Who... who even are you two?" Jack asked confused.

"Jack this is no time for your stupid jokes, we lost the Queenbreaker and most of our equipment, luckily the Royal Guard HQ of this city has managed to find replacements for most of it-" Sky explained.

"Whoa whoa whoa, you're going too fast buddy! I literally just woke up in an alleyway without recollection of what happened and suddenly i end up in.. a bar? And then you two came bursting in claiming you know me" Jack recapped recent events.

"Man, he must've hit his head hard" Said Sky.

"It doesn't matter, we'll make him remember everything at the HQ" Said Inklord.

"Will another hit in the head make him remember?" Sky suggested.

"Sky..."

SMACK!

?

Jack was laying on the ground. It felt.. wet... It was raining...

He stood up to find himself in a dimly lit place. No sounds. Nothing. Only a light coming from the sky. He looked down to find himself standing in a pool of blood, he jumps away from it in surprise.

AAAAHHHHH!

Jack is startled by the sound of a foal screaming. He turns to the origin of the sound to find Axiom eating a cookie while standing on a pile of cotton and a severed limb. She points at him.

He began to step away but he tripped and fell down, only to find out he didn't have a front left... and a front right.. and... He lost all his hooves. He laid on the ground as the rain poured on his face. Slowly losing consciousness due to blood loss. Above him he could see a familiar shadow... a purple alicorn.

"...Jack?" It said. "Jack!" The alicorn descended on him as his life began to escape his body. "Jack! Don't let i-"

Jack died.

"GAAAAAH!" Jack wakes up laying on a bed. "Huh...?!" He turns to the right to see Inklord sitting next to him. "In...k...Inky?"

"About time you woke up Jack, looks like Sky was right about that" Inklord grinned.

"Right about what?"

"It doesn't matter" Inklord began typing on a PDA with his wings.

"W-where are we?"

Manehattan: 'Rarity's Diamonds' HQ

Monday 12:34 PM

Jack steps outside the room to find the place to be a bit smaller than the Canterlor HQ, he looked around to see many guards as you would expect. Jack noted the lack of Unicorn guards as Jack always saw Manehattan as a city where his ilk thrived. Inklord flew past him and guided him to where they needed to be. All the guards in the room began to follow them, some exchanging words of excitement and determination.

Inklord opened a door to a large conference room where Sky was already in, having friendly chats with other guards, probably telling them stories of how they handle things in Canterlot.

After a few minutes the room fills up with all the Manehattan force. Jack, Sky and Inky stood tall in the podium in front of everyone. An Orange pegasus in green fatigues and black sunglasses entered the room and began to talk:

"Alright fuckers, meet our new LNO with Empress Moon's finest. These three are not to be underestimated. These stallions can kick your ass all the way to Las Pegasus AND then some. Threat them with respect or you'll become their dinner" The pegasus exclaimed into a mic.

"Sir Yes Sir!" The guards screamed in unison.

"That massive ship you all saw explode early this morning? These three came out of it unscathed. They don't give two flying fucks about pain" The pegasus recapped. He turned to look at them. "Gentlecolts, it's a damn honor to work with you. I'm General Kick" He shook hooves with the trio.

Inklord stepped forward. "We came here to finally put an end to this rebel scum once and for all. To do that we will need all your cooperation to locate and capture the individual who sparked this very rebellion. Vida Palabra."

Some minutes later after the conference. The trio and the General entered a planning room with a big map of Manehattan and it's surrounding districts.

"You three couldn't have come at a better time, we heard you three wiped out all rebel groups in Canterlot" The trio nooded. "Well, in this city there are 8 rebel groups from all the intel we've gathered" General Kick taps in the map to show a list and each groups's possible locations.

Capricorns

Estellaris

Les Miserals

Escalation Protocol

Silver Lining

Top of the Barrel

54 Inmortals

Ascension

"While there may be smaller ones, these 8 are the main big bad of this city, they even have some rogue guards from our corp" General Kick puts down an envelope filled with pictures of many guards who have defected and joined the rebellion.

Jack saw one that seemed familiar to him. A unicorn named "Gamepad". He remembers seeing that face somewhere...

"This is a fair warning, your stories have spread far and wide in most of Equestria. These guys will no doubt recognize you on sight, so be prepared" General Kick explained.

"Please tell me you got at least one of these places in deadlock" Questioned Inklord, looking at the map.

"We do, in fact. The one we currently have cornered is the one that shot down your ship. Les Miserals" General Kick tapped the name on the list, which caused the map to move and focus on the location of the rebels. "One of our patrol squads got into skirmish with these guys as soon as the railgun was fired"

"Send us there, NOW" Sky exclaimed. "We can turn the tides in our favor"

"Damn son, you three truly laugh at the face of death, wish my guys were like you" Said General Kick as he began to prepare transport for the trio.

"Let's see if this place is anything like Canterlot" Said Sky as he prepared his weapon.

Manehattan: Happytown district

Monday 2:56 PM

A truck came bursting through the warzone. Bullets bouncing off harmlessly on it's armored cover. The battle had started since the early morning and both sides were even.

"This is 1-9, deploying our 'diamonds in the rough'. That's right motherfuckers, we got 'em" Said the driver as he dodged bullets, lasers and rockets.

"Time for some actions gents, Inky, drop the notepad. Write one of your fucking poems after we finish this" Chuckled Jack as he watched Inklord quickly drop his PDA and blush.

"Alright you three as soon as I open the door you're welcome to join our party, sorry we couldn't prepare the place" Said the driver as he was nearing their destination. "One... Two... SHIT!" The driver opened the door and saw a rocket coming straight at them.

"Pfft" Jack stopped the rocket mid-air with his magic, he flips it around and let's it go back to where it came from on it's own. Blowing their far away ambushers into a bloody mess. Jack and the others quickly jumped out and ducked on cover. They were able to get a good look at what they were dealing with.

"Our objective is the green building" Sky points towards thier 'objective'.

What stood between them was a full-blown No Man's Land. Bullets and rockets being traded left and right. Corpses littered the ground, guards, rebels and even civilians.

"Why don't we just blow the whole thing down?" Said Jack as he levitated his assault rifle, readying it's under-barrel grenade launcher.

"Jack..." Inklord poked him.

Jack fires a grenade directly at the building... but a rebel pegasus for some reason decides to fly up in the middle of it's arc. Blowing up into red mist.

"JACK!" Inklord screamed.

"Okay... I got it in this next one!" Jack reloads and fires a second one... it bounces off harmlessly. "Wha... a... DUD?!" Jack can not believe what just happened. He is slapped by Inklord. "OOF"

"JACK FOR FUCKS SAKE! THERE IS INTEL INSIDE THAT FUCKING PLACE" Inklord almost jumped out of cover in his rage. A hail of bullets passed by.

"Let me guess, you want me to do it the usual way" Jack said in a bored tone.

"What do you think? The faster we finish this stupid battle the faster we get close to Vida, they must know where he is" Said Inklord.

"Ugh... you're no fun Inky" Jack casted a bubble shield around them and began walking towards the orange building. Inklord and Sky followed close behind.

"Man, I was ready for some action" Said Sky while looking at all the bullets and attacks bouncing off harmlessly.

"It's why we have Jack, with him the resistence will be gone by next week" Said Inklord with a smile as they almost got to the entrance. A squad of panicked earth pony rebels kept firing at the shield. None of them being unicorns who could dispel it. Even then, Unicorns wouldn't be able to dispel it. Jack would just suck their energy and create a new bubble. As soon as they came to contact with the bubble they were zapped far into the air and crashed down. Killing them.

Les Miserals HQ, Floor 3

"Quick! Get this to anyone! Fucking any group really! Just get the fuck out of here!" Said a white pegasus. He had an eyepatch and was wearing some worn down armor. He gave a box to a unicorn who was on the street way below him. He threw it down and the unicorn quickly catched it with his magic and began to run.

KNOCK KNOCK... CRASH!

The door to this room was torn down by the trio. Jack dispelled his bubble shield and everyone drew their guns ar the white pegasus.

"End of the road you miserable waste of a pony" Insulted Inklord as the white pegasus pulled out something from it's pocket. It was a lighter.

"Les Miserals may die today. But the revolution will live on!" The pegasus drops the lighter on the desk behind him. Lighting everything on fire. He opens a similar box to the one he threw.

"Nooo!" Inklord screamed in frustration. All the intel was being burned in front of him! "Son of a-"

"And you three will rot in hell with us!" The white pegasus pulls out a weapon from the box. It looked incomplete. It began to charge up.

"Is that a... OH SHIT! Jack! Create a shield!" Sky screamed, ducking behind his friends.

Jack creates a shield and the Leader of the rebel group fires it's weapon.

FFFZZOOOOM!

A loud screech is heard throughout the building as the weapon fires a literal lightning strike to Jack's shield. The gun's recoil pushes the white pegasus to the fiery desk behind him, lighting his wings on fire.

The lightning strike shatters Jack's shield like glass! The trio are knocked to the ground by the hit but are unharmed.

"DIE!" The leader said as he prepared a second shot while his fur and flesh burned.

Jack scrambled, if the shot is strong enough to break the shield... he needs more power... more... MORE. It called to him.

Jack puts the Alicorn Amulet on.

FFFZZZOOOOOOOM!

Jack slaps the lightning strike away. His eyes were a even darker shade of red and had a red aura surrounding it.

"J-Jack..?" Said Inklord surprised at Jack's sudden power increase. "How did you.."

Jack grabbed the rebel leader and decimates his body before he could say anything. Roasted guts flew everywhere. The prototype weapon dropped to the ground. Jack looked at Inklord with a menacing glare.

"One is getting away" Jack blows the wall down with his touch and goes after the unicorn.

Alleyways of Happytown

"Damnit! Why did i have to take the courier job this time?!" The unicorn was running as fast as he could while carrying the box given to him. "What's even in this damn box anyway?!"

"Where are you going?" Said a voice behind him. He looks back to see Jack flying towards him at high speeds.

"Aaaahhh!" The unicorn screams in horror as he is tackled by Jack. They look face to face. "Aaahhh Shit! It's you! I knew you would go after me!" The unicorn recognizes Jack.

"Of course, you're that unicorn from the bar. Gamepad, was it?" Said Jack in a voice which wasn't his anymore.

"How do you know my name?!" Said Gamepad, he never said his name in the short moment he was inside the TOTB. "Hell, why do I ask. They probably told everything about me to you all!" He closes his eyes. "G-go on! Fucking kill me then!"

"A pleasure" Jack like with all unicorns was about to suck his magic and cripple him forever and with the Amulet controlling him it was sure to be an even more painful experience... Except it wasn't working... "Huh?!" He wasn't sucking anything!

"What are you waiting for?" Said Gamepad while shaking in terror. "Playing with your food? Now that's fucking great"

Jack kept focusing his magic to start absorbing his magic but nothing was happening. In this moment of confusion Gamepad kicks him away and runs once again. Jack bounces off the wall and chases him again.

"FINE! I'LL JUST KILL YOU" His Alicorn Amulet did the talking again. "YOU'RE WORTHLESS ANY-"

CRASH!

Jack crashes into a conveniently placed lamppost in the way, instantly knocking him out.

Gamepad escapes.

"Jack! Take if off! Take it off before it corrupts you more!" Said a voice.

Jack was being grabbed by many red hooves around him, getting lost in a sea of ponies that look exactly like him. They all tried to pull him down to unknown depths.

"JACK! I DIDN'T RAISE YOU TO DIE ON ME LIKE THIS!"

"aaaaAAAAHHHHH!" Jack wakes up and pulls the Amulet away, it pulled out some skin off him too. He looks at what he has done. He is weak. He rolls to his right to see Axiom leaning on a wall.

"So, Jack thinks he can call a power of which he cannot understand to even stand a chance? How does it feel? Great? Horrible?" She laughs. "Hell if I know!"

Jack stands up. "Who are you?!"

"I already told you, I'm your best friend" She walks up to him. "Or did you FORGET again?" Jack tries to pull out his pistol but Axiom kicks it away and holds his mouth shut. "Now thats just rude. Trying to kill me? I would love to see you try" She punches Jack in the face. "Not like you can" She keeps punching him. "But i shouldn't get too ahead of myself" She stops, dropping Jack to the ground. "...Just one more" She kicks him which causes him to crash against the lamppost again. Cracking his armor badly.

Jack is knocked out again. Axiom leaves him there, fading away into darkness. Inklord and Sky arrive shortly after along with the protoype weapon.

"Shit! What the hell happened?!" Inklord hurries to Jack's aid. "Damn, whoever did this to him surely did a number to him. We have to get him to medical, NOW" Inklord carries Jack on his back.

Sky finds and picks up the Alicorn Amulet. "Hmm, nice amulet, Jack" He puts the amulet on a pocket in Jack's armor.

Behind them the last remains of Les Miserals burnt down. One down, 7 to go

Chapter 3: Axioms that shape us