Chapter 4: Explanations Required
EQUESTRIA
It took a couple hours to find the dinning hall because Celestia kept getting off track but when they finally arrived, it was set up as a party function with a small group of equines chilling. Legion's vision was assaulted by pink while his nose lost it's war against the cotton candy smell. "I threw you a party? Like it?" The bubbly voice asked.
"Pinkie!" Multiple voices cried at once. The pink equine stepped back a few steps.
"I'm sorry for scaring you before." She said while kicking a invisible rock.
"No harm right?" He said. "Don't worry. It's a party right?" That made the pink equine's ears perk up before she started jumping in place.
"Yay! We're friends!" She wrapped into a bone crushing hug, then she suddenly disappeared along with Vinyl. He looked for the Dj equine qnd soon found her with her purple reflective shades and giant speakers with a DJ set up.
"How did she do that?" He asked only to receive a southern voice laughing.
"That's Pinkie pie for ya." Applejack said behind him as bass started thumping through the speakers. "Breaking all natural rules and such."
'I see. A pary animal huh?" Applejack laughed at the bad joke. "Thanks that joke was horrible."
"No problem partner." After that the conversation died for a bit as the music started to shake the room. "So Legion, ya know how to dance?"
"I don't dance." He simply said but Celestia came up.
"Then it is time to learn no?" Gold aura slowly put him onto his feet and before he could protest was taken out onto the small area being used for dancing. "Follow my lead." She said as she started to danced. She pulled him gently as she lead him through the dance. "See? It's not too hard."
"Yeah I guess your right." He said with a laugh.
"I usually am." She said with a glint in her eye.
"My, my. Aren't we modest?" Celestia gave him a smirk.
"I said usually. I think that's the extent of my modesty." He gave a laugh then put on a thoughtful look.
"Why is there a party anyway? There was a fight yesterday, and the moon is still there, And how did I stop blee-" He was stopped by a hoof being placed over his mouth.
"The moon will be dealt with tomorrow, today is a party for you and if it will satisfy you, I used a spell to heal you." He gave her a dumb look.
"It was that easy?" He asked. Celestia was quite for a bit remembering the hell she, Luna and Twilight went through to not only stop the bleeding but to also restore the chunks of flesh missing.
"Yep. You'd be surprised what Equestrian magic can accomplish." She finally said and when she saw him opening his mouth again she cut him off before he even began. "So how do you know Vinyl already?" She asked. The question threw him off guard but he answered nonetheless.
"I ran into her after walking up from a nap. She brought me to her house..." He clutched his head as pain shot acrossed his skull.
"Legion, what is it?" Celestia said voice full of concern.
"It's just a headache." His skull still throbbed but it wasn't anything he couldn't handle.
"You were put through a lot yesterday. I suppose it's my fault for pushing you to much already." Celestia spoke while guiding him to a nearby chair. Vinyl noticed and immediately left her post at the DJ table to check on him.
"Hey, is he ok?" Vinyl asked Celestia.
"I fear I may have over did it with the dancing." Celestia responded. What bothered Legion the most was how they talked like he wasn't here. He was going to cut in when the air around him started to warp. He heard low snickering all around him. Shadows started to form in front of him. A fox eared white eyed shadow stared him down for a few seconds before opening it's maw and let out a horrible distorted scream at him. He fell through the floor and started falling into darkness. Pain shot through his entire body as he fell. It felt like he was changing somehow. He heard both Celestia and Vinyl shouting his name but he couldn't see them anywhere. "Help...please." He croaked out as he reach out his hand but it wasn't a hand anymore. "Wha-?" Was all he got out before the darkness consumed him.
/time skip\
"He's starting to wake up!" Legion heard a voice.
"Alright girls, everypony out. This needs to be handled with extreme caution." He picked out Celestia's voice.
"I'm staying." He heard Vinyl said.
"Very well. Everypony else out." There was a chorus of clopping of hooves as what had to be at least eight or nine equines leaving. "You can open your eyes now, their gone." He heard the Princess say as soon as the door was closed behind them. Legion open eyes to see Princess Celestia standing over to his right while Vinyl sat on his left side. He blinked a few times .before realizing his vision was sharper as was his hearing. He started to stretch out when he felt something attached to his back. "Legion. Something happened...we don't know what but your no longer human..." She said calmly as she could.
"What do you mean?" He asked but he already found out when he suddenly yawned. He started to take his hand away only to see it wasn't a hand but a grey furry hoof. He stopped dead in tracks as his mouth dropped and his pupils shrunk to pinprincks.
"Don't freak out." Vinyl said as she put her hoof on his. He pulled himself together so he wouldn't freak. "You good?" He nodded while Celestia approach him.
"We don't understand our own magic sometimes." Celestia started to explain. "We must get you back into your world to regain your human form back. Do you remember which portal you used?"
"Yeah I used the one in Poland." Legion said after putting a hoof to his chin in thought.
"Poland? What is that? I thought the country was America." Celestia thought for a moment. "Luna...I must go. Vinyl tend to him, I must go speak with my sister." She said as she left. There was an extended silence before Legion broke.
"Nice music at the party." He said.
"Yeah I am pretty awesome as a DJ huh?" Legion smiled at her boasting immediately.
"Why do you wear those purple shades so much?" He said while motioning to the shades still on her.
"Other ponies don't like my eye color ya know? Think I'm some sort of bad luc-HEY!" Vinyl shouted as Legion took the shades off her. She immediately started trying to reach for them. "Give me back my shades!" She shouted at him while nearly grabbing them before Legion moved them away more. Vinyl tried to lean over more but ending up falling into the bed. She looked up to find their faces inches from eachother. She started to lean in a bit more before the door swung open.
"I'm sorry but the Princess-oh my." The timid voice squeaked. Vinyl snatched the shades from his hoof then returned to her original position with a visibly redder face.
"He took my shades." She tried to save it as she put them on.
"Oh, I see." Legion gave the butter colored pegasus a glance at the fact she believed it. "Hello. I'm Fluttershy, I helped the Princess and Twilight help stop the bleeding." She greeted.
"Well thanks for helping patch me up and my name is-"
"Legion I know, oh I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off." She started to shrink behind her mane and wings. He just waved it off. "Well since you were a different creature before, the Princess asked me to look you over before you leave."
"I'm leaving already?" He asked while pushing himself into a sitting position which was now uncomfortable to him. He got out of the bed immediately ate the floor.
"I think walking lessons are a must as well." Vinyl said while laughing.
"Tough words for the equine that was leaning in to-mmmmmphf?" A white hoof was shoved into his mouth.
"To grab my shades back." She finished. Fluttershy gave them both a wierd look but tried to continue to do what the Princess asked. She gave him a quick look over and noticed his cuite mark. It was a blood red moon surrounded by dark energy. She shivered at the chill it was sending out but it seemed like Vinyl wasn't affected at all. The two continued to argue while she continued to look him over for any damage. Thankfully there was none so she moved on to his mannerisms. His movement was fluid, but without care, he spoke blunt truth, yet lied when it came to himself. She heard what happened from Vinyl and Celestia. He downplayed it as a minor headache then was on the ground thrashing about and changing into a pony the next second. 'He's a very kind person.' She thought. Legion yelped and jumped a bit. His wings beat at irregular intervals causing him to gain more air before crashing back to the ground.
"What was that?" Vinyl asked.
"My ass vibrated." He said while looking at his rear.
"Do you have anything in your pockets?" The DJ asked and when he gave her a dumb look, she reached just below his cutie mark. As soon as her hoof made contact a pocket open and she reached in.
"Holy shit! I have pockets!" Legion shouted. Vinyl just rolled her eyes as she pulled out a rectangular object. It had a screen on it that took up most of the front. It had a picture of a red hair, green eyed female of his species on it with the words incoming call.
"Your getting a call." She said suddenly angry but why was she angry? She had already assumed somepony like him would have a marefriend...but then why was she mad that the assumption was true? She put it aside as he grabbed the phone awkwardly with his hooves. He dropped it, but continued trying answering it. After finally being able to hit the right button he hit another
"Legion you son of a bitch! When I get my hands on you I will choke you the fuck out! Do you have any idea where I am? I'm suddenly in fucking Japan with giant monsters trying to destroy the world!" Vinyl and Fluttershy pressed their ears against their head due to the screeching of the phone trying to pick up Jess' s screaming voice.
"Jess?"
"No! I'm not done yet! Then a fucking space ship lands with some asshole with a fucking giant gun says he's looking the two travelers. Later I figure out he means you and me. Now he's already found me, so where the fuck are you?" Red flags started popping in his head. Jess never swore this much. She had to be pissed so time was of the essence.
"Vinyl, where am I?" He asked the DJ
"Uhhh Canterlot in Equestria." Vinyl said like it was obvious.
"Did you hear? I'm in a place called Canterlot. In the continent of Equestria!" He shouted into the phone. There was an extended period of silence before a electronic voice popped it.
"Hold on I'm getting your exact coordinates." There was another minute of silence. "Your locked. We'll be there as fast as we can." Then the call ended.
"How was she even able to call me?" He asked in confusion.
"Hey at least your leaving soon." Vinyl said while leaving the room. Legion gave a confused look at Fluttershy before trying to go after her. It end with Legion tripping over his over his own hooves and he fell forward with enough momentum to start rolling and crashed in front of the DJ.
"What's wrong?" He said as swirls danced in his eyes. Vinyl just started laughing. She did feel stupid for being mad at him. She used her magic to put him onto his hooves.
"Nothing. You knucklehead. Now we've got to teach you to walk before you hurt yourself." Vinyl said while slowly walking to show him. He tried to follow her example and got a good portion down the hallway before tripping again but Vinyl caught him before he hit the floor. They both stopped when they saw something out a window. It was a large dark hazy cloud with a large orb in the middle discharging electricity. The orb collapsed in on itself and the dark cloud pulsed out as a angular ship came through. It sat for a minute before swooping down as high speeds. It passed so closely overhead the hallway rumbled a bit. Two beings were reconstructed in front of them. Fluttershy, who was following close behind the two of them, immediately ran off to go get Twilight and the others. One one had a weird helmet and clothing but the one thing he did recognize was the ridiculous large handgun it was holding and the other one was Jess. They all blankly at eachother for a few minutes until a new voice inturrupted the stareoff.
"Hello, we're from a different world. We're looking for the traveler that came here." The weird looking machine said before a grid like patterned appeared on both him and Vinyl.
"Hey! I feel violated here!" Vinyl shouted at it. The grid pattern disappeared immediately.
"The one she's holding is our target." The being pointed gun at Vinyl and fired. The air unfolded infront of him and the bullet slammed into a wall of black that appeared. Vinyl looked over to see Legion holding a hoof out. He jerked the hoof out and spikes shot out of the wall causing the unknown person to grab Jess and charged into a room as the spikes pulsed out.
"Legion!" He turned to see familiar figures running down the hallway with the Solar Princess leading the charge.
"What going on?" She shouted.
"They starte-." Her voice died as the wall of shadows slowly started to rip into pieces. A large dome of purple was on the other side ripping everything into its center. Several guards came running down the hallway but several explosions rang out and in a spurt of blood, the guards dropped one by one. The figurr tossed a purple orb over their heads. When orb impacted the ground, it sent out a pulse, catching two more guards. The orb split into two before flying towards them. It attached itself to them before detonating in a large cloud of purple. The figure aimed the pistol at Vinyl.
'NO!' Legion screamed in his mind. Celestia's sun started to become darker and darker, until the sun was completely blocked off from the planet. The singled edged jagged sword returned and when the hoof reached for it, it turned back into a hand. Legion gripped the sword as he became human again. Darkness swirled around his nude body creating the same clothes he saw the oranged hair teen wearing. He pushed Vinyl away gently so he could stand on his own. Dark energy erupted from both him and the sword. He swung the sword forward and an giant tidal wave of the dark engery shot towards the figure while the figure threw a large purple orb back. A pink shield formed between the two attacks but the attacks tried their best to break the shield but ended up giving up and slowly dissipating. Legion looked behind to see a white male unicorn with the aura around his horn and sweat pouring fron his face. He closed his eyes and spikes shot out from the pink shield. The figure grabbed Sam and the angular ship flew back over head. They both disappeared in a flash off light and the ship took off back into space as the spikes finally hit the end of the hallway.
"Come now. There is no time to waste." Celestia said as the ship reappeared in a very steep angle of descent. Celestia's horn started to glow before a small circle appeared under both Legion and Vinyl and all three of the disappeared in a flash yellow.
/Line\
"They're on the move! We have to hurry!" The voice shouted from all around him. Instead of shouting back Raptor angled the ship more to where now was straight down. "Damn they jumped, I got some scattered coordinates. Activating Vex drive!" A large Vex network shot up from the ground. "Three, two, one, drive active!" The world around them shattered and the network got brighter and brighter until they winked out of existence and they reappeared in front of Earth in the same second. "Earth? Why would they come her-wait. This is a different Earth...but the same." Ghost said in awe. "I lost them in North America, Mid-West region."
"Well at least we have something. It's better than nothing." Raptor said before pulling the ship into a nice orbiting state.
/line\
Mark sat down after a long day at work. It was a bad week. The police came two days ago to tell him that his son who completely disappeared several weeks ago died while discovering the fabled Die Glocke. That had been a mighty blow to the middle age man. He felt horrible for driving Legion away but that kid was just so damn much like- the door bell sounded. "Hold on!" He called while getting back up and slowly lumbered towards the front door. He opened the door as horses shoved their way in. They were very multicolored for horses and the larger pure white one had a unconscious grey winged horse on it's back. He started as the bigger horses horn glowed an golden yellow color and the door slammed behide them.
"Uhhh hey." Mark looked for the voice before finding a another white furred horse with a horn in front of him hold out its hoof. "You must be Legion's father. I'm Vinyl." The fact that it talked and had a feminine edge to it was enough to freak him out but the mention of his sons name he kept himself together.
"Legion? You know my son?" Mark asked.
"Very limited. He has his mother's spirit and I hopefully will get to know him better soon." Mark looked that the larger horse dumbfounded.
"So where is he and how did you know Feather?" He asked. None of this was adding up.
"So that was her name after she came here. Her original name Swift Feather . A wonderful friend of mine only she disappeared one day. I mourned for her until I saw your son take his pony form. There's only one ash grey pegasus I know and it's Swift Feather." The large horse said while putting the unconscious horse on the couch.
"Pony form? So your not horses?' This got a laugh out of the larger pony.
"I am Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria." Celestia introduced herself. "And the one on the couch is your son, Legion." Mark stared at the unconscious form on the couch while slowly moving towards it. He gently shook it and it rolled while muttering incoherently but the voice did match Legion.
"Alright since I'm desperate, I'll play along but the minute he's up I'm going find out for sure whether or not he's my son or not but until then make yourselves at home. I need to go to sleep since I have work tomorrow." He stormed off to bed. "Guest room is directly left from the kitchen!" He called back before a door closed and the small house descended into silence. Vinyl walked towards the bed but Celestia stayed and continued to watch over the pony.
"You lived a hard life already. I know it's unfair of me to ask for more but I am." She said to what she thought was just her.
"Ask away." She jumped at the noise while looking at the large brown eyes.
"The multiverse needs you. The Moon and the Blade chose you. You are the one to finally cast the dark away using its own power against itself. I'm sorry to ask such a large task when I know-" She was cut off by a pair of lips pressing up against hers. Her eyes widened before slowly closing. Legion pulled away after a while to lay back down on the couch. 'W-what brought that on?" She said thankful that night and her mane were hiding her increasing blush.
"Seemed like a good way stop you and to answer your question. I'll be happy to help." His answer floored her.
"Just like that?" He chuckled.
"Yeah. After all my mom always said I was meant for great things. I didn't believe her too much until now. All my life I was a fuck up but my mom always believed in me. I never understood until now. I felt like I was always disappointing her and now I wouldn't be surprised if she w-" Celestia had walked over and nuzzled against him, effectively cutting him off. "What are you doing?" He asked with a growing blush.
"Seemed like a good way to stop you." She giggled through the answer. "You must rest, now." She said while getting up but a hoof stop her.
"Please stay. I don't want to be tormented by the shadows tonight." He said. She smiled as she sat down next to the couch.
"Of course...my sunshine." Whether he heard it or not she wasn't sure as he fell into a deep sleep. "I will shine my light on you even after the stars flicker and die out." She said as she leaned into the couch to make herself comfortable as possible before she too fell asleep.