I do not own My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic nor the charters as they are owned by Hasbro
The character Murphy Chaos, and any other unfamiliar cast maybe my creation
It's been a week since Fire Rush was defeated and after all the chaos that was brought was fixed, and during that week Murphy decided to get a job, considering he had nothing to do, it didn't work out well, first he tried serving at a restraint and got fired a half hour later after being hired from all the damage he did from the constant 'acidents' that happend.
He then tried working at quills and sofa's, and du to the highly hazardous work(the sofa's kept on falling on him as he moved them) he quit for somthing less life threatnig.
He tried working at Sugar Cube Corner by pinkies request, and almost was killed when the oven blew up when he tried to get the pilot light on, how he had no clue how it did that, so he quite for his safety and the safety of the Cake's home/work place.
In short, each job he took after that day went the same, fallowed by disaster after disaster, after disaster during the week.
The next morning Twilight made her way to the table for breakfast, as Spike had gone down ahead of her and made her something, as she was eating she took a glance at where Murphy was.
He was still out cold, and didn't look like he would want to wake up, but didn't have a voice on the matter, as a book some how slipped off the shelf and bonked him on the head waking him up.
She still didn't know how those things happened to him, but they did.
"morning Twi" he said drowsily, yawning again "good morning Murphy" she returned returning to her breakfast as he continued to stretch in different ways and after doing so, seamed more awake like he was awake for hours.
"that's better" he said looking around, then at the table then seated himself away from the bookshelf, and just stared into space.
There was silence in the room for a time before Spike came in with his own food "morning Murphy" he said sitting down "morni'n" he said back, lost in thought.
"I think I'll go for a walk, not like I have anything better to do, want to join me Twilight, Spike?" Murphy asked getting up walking to the door "you go on, I've got chores to do" Spike said "and I have some research to do, maybe I can find something more about the Elements of Discord" Twilight said turning a page in a book he didn't see earlier.
"huh…well if that's what you want to do, I'll just go off and explore, maybe go see if I can visit Applejack…or somepony else?" he began to ramble as he trotted out, closing the door.
there was a sound of somthing falling ans crashing, but they payed no mind to it.
"so, Twilight what are you reading anyways?" Spike asked taking another bite of his food "legions of Discord, I thought if what Murphy said was true that Discord did make the Elements of Discord then this might have something about them" she explained turning to the next page still not finding what she was looking for.
===Chaos and Harmony===
"what to do, what to do…" Murphy mumbled as he trotted along, keeping an eye out for any 'accidents' that could come his way, he really didn't want to be put into pain so early in the morning like that tree branch that tried to attack him…or was it after noon? He never really paid any head to time, it's all relived to him, it goes and goes, no stopping it.
Then he stopped in his tracks.
"or maybe it can" he thought getting an idea and rushing off to maybe find Rainbow Dash, and if she could not be found he could just go on and try out is idea.
===Chaos and Harmony===
Murphy checked his 34th cloud, and still no sign of that Pegasus, during that time he was thinking over his idea.
"stopping all of time would drain me on energy, but so did my first Shadow Hands…but after using them a few times It got less taxing…and those walls didn't tier me…well that was till they got hit or destroyed, then it taxed my body"
Murphy being so deep in thought didn't see the tree that was 'put' in his way as he hit it full force "GAH!" he began to rub his face from the pain as he looked at what he hit, then got bonked on the head by something.
He was going to investigate, but then he was buried by one thing he normally wouldn't mind being under, but right now it was painful.
As he groaned in pain as he has for the last eleven or so days since he got here, somepony began to investigate what happened "Wha' in tarnation was tha?" Applejack asked going to the pile of Apples with her older brother "ay, Mac, you see wha happened?" she asked the large red pony "Nope" was all he said once they reached the pile "~oh the irony~" a voice said from the pile, getting the two to move the Apples aside to find Murphy who looked up and gave a happy smile "thank you" he said rubbing his head.
"Merff…what'cha all do'in here?" Applejack asked flatly "oh, don't mind me…was looking for Dash and got so lost in my thoughts I forget to keep my eyes on where I was going" he said getting up and looking about "how'd I ge' here?" he said more southerly "if'en I be wrong, I'd say I be in, Sweet Apple Acers" he continued with the suthern slang, getting a few laughs.
===Chaos and Harmony===
"all righ, le' me ge' this straight" Applejack said bucking another tree "you wan' ta stop time?" she asked giving Murphy a strange look.
"not stop time, per say, more like…give the look that I did, I don't really have to stop time, maybe move my molecules at a fast rate of speed to move me faster then anything, but the idea's the close to the same" Murphy said nodding as Applejack just kept a confused stair up "mala-cube's?"
Murphy shook his head as Big Mac gave him an equal look of confusion as his sister "ok…um…" Murphy began looking around for a way to explain.
"oh! I know!" he exclaimed going to a bucket of apples "ok, molicules, there small alright, really, really small, now the idea is to make them move very fast, the faster they move in you, the faster you move…in theory or other…I don't know all the science behind it" *Murphy take's big breath in* "imagine these apples as the molecules, the more faster they move the faster it all goes, right now mine arnt moving fast, but if I were to get them to move at the right speed I could move to the point that time would appear still, when in reality I'm moving more faster then anypony can go, this speed would make me faster then Dash in a way" Murphy suddenly stopped gasping for air at his little fast talk and after a few breaths began once more "the idea is that if I can get this to work, we'll have something else to work for us, I just need some help to test the idea, understand?"
During this time the two Apples stood there, trying to understand what Murphy was talking about "nope" Mac said having no clue.
Murphy shook his head and came up with a new idea "okay, let me put it this way, I'm going to see if this Chaos Gem can let me stop things from moving" they shook there heads at his more then simple idea.
===Chaos and Harmony===
Three loops with four barrel rolls after diving at a hundred feet with high speeds.
At the moment Rainbow Dash was trying to see how fast she could pull off different moves in a certain distance, and feeling the spur of the moment.
She began to feel a little on the hungry side and decided to go visit Applejack, who might spare a few apples.
But she didn't expect to see what she did when she got near one of the tree's "what the hay?" she zoomed to the tree with still falling Apples, that were falling very slowly.
"I see you've found my experiment"
She looked to her right and found Murphy next to a slack jaw Applejack "s-so this is wha' ya meant?" AJ asked looking at the Apples "yep, but I was trying to get myself to move faster, not get things to slow down…wonder why that happened…ah who cares! I got'z a new move to use! Time slow!" as Murphy was caught in his 'moment' Dash made her way to Applejack who was still looking at the Apples in there slow fall "AJ…what's going on?" she asked sitting next to Applejack "Merff said he whan' ta ge' Time ta slow, er…somthin"
"slow time?" AJ nodded "and he did it?" nodded again "can he undo it?" she shook her head.
"opp! There we go!" Murphy said with the Apples finally falling "isn't this cool or what! I got Time Stop! This is really cool, oh what if I try to make wings! Or maybe Minions! Or, or portal! Oh that would be awesome!" Murphy was on a hay of a day with his ideas shooting off in his head "I need to test this out more, care to join?" he asked about to walk off.
They shrugged and fallowed behind him wondering what he would come up with next.
===Chaos and Harmony===
"maybe this one" Twilight told herself picking up another book after throwing the last one behind in a ever building pile "it's got to be here some where" she assured herself scanning the pages one by one but still not finding a thing.
With a sigh she set the book down and went over what she did find…which was nothing.
"maybe I just need some air" Twilight said getting up and going out the door for a walk as she thought about Murphy, who was very…hard to understand.
Then she switched over to the Element he used, and it's possible purpose "as of yet, it can work on its own and can work with any feeling…but why is it around?" she could only jumble the information around, considering she didn't have enough to make any salutations.
She soon stopped at Sugar Cube Corner and decided to go in and have something there, that might calm her state of mind.
She soon took a seat and ordered just a cupcake, and as she ate she saw something that was not normal.
There was a black spiral hanging in the air, as of yet nothing has happened, but it was scaring the other ponies that were standing about, it scared them further when something began to come out of the hazy smoke like shadows.
"The horror! The horror!" panicked Lily, close to Daisy and Rose in the corner.
Twilight braced herself for what might come from it as well, nothing good comes from dark shadowy things.
It was then Applejack popped out landing on her back "tha…hurt" she said getting up as a rainbow flew past her and into the wall "ow…" said Dash who was sliding down the wall "wai…where's Merff?" Applejack asked looking about, just to see the said Stallion rocket out of the "Shadow Door" as she recalled him calling it, and hitting the wall, face first before bouncing back (in pain) and landing on the edge of a table, flipping it over and getting it to fall on him.
As soon as he was thru, the black portal dissipated into nothing and Twilight went to Applejack for an explanation "Applejack, what just…happened?" she asked looking at where Lily, Rose and Daisy were helping Murphy up, only for a lamp on the ceiling to fall and bonk him on the head putting him out for the 12th time that week.
"well Twi, Merff's been test'en, his…limits" Applejack said as Twilight gave a questioned look then a reply "well, let's get Murphy back to the Library…then you and Dash can tell me what you've learn"
===Chaos and Harmony===
back at Twilights Library and after a long explanation with Murphy awake now putting things in a more then needed simple term "so in short, I've learned a total of eight moves, with there own special use, but there made so they can be flexible to a great extent, for example Shadow Crawl and Smoke Cloud are the same in speed and movement, but here's the difference, Shadow Crawl can be used as a way to be safe from harm, and is very stealthy in any time of the day, it can let me get in places I wouldn't fit like a vent or a crack in the window, up a wall"
Twilight nodded writhing all he was saying on a notepad.
"but as for Smoke Cloud, it can be used as a means of escape or a way to get to places I cant, or even a distraction during the day-" "what makes them different?" Dash cut in, from being board inside.
"well to put it simple, Shadow Crawl makes me, stealthy, fast, invulnerable and stick to any surface or get thru small spaces"
"as for Smoke Cloud it lets me fly, go fast if i dive down, make a smoke screen, transport a few at a time via flight, and make smoke bombs to skewer ones vision" Murphy said enjoying the feel of sharing his finds and how something worked, it was also expiating to be able to use them almost at will, he still needed to tweak the bugs out of some moves, but besides that he was able to adapt to any situation!
*CRASH!*
Suddenly a barrel of water broke thru the window and dumped on Murphy, getting him a little trapped inside, for it wasn't a normal wooden one, it was made with what seemed to be very heavy steel.
"please tell me I'm not stuck in here" echoed Murphy's voice from inside it "cant you dark door or soothing out?" Dash asked hovering above Twilight now soaked floor, that thankfully had no books on at the moment.
"no, no…I don't want to use that till I get it down to the point where I don't get turned into a cannonball, when using it" echoed his reply from inside and added "and it's called Shadow Door" Dash just rolled her eyes "whatever"
"sorry" said a voice from outside to which held Derpy and a few embarrassed Pegasus's "we lost grip" said one of them as Murphy's echoing voice from inside his metal trap "hey, these hooves aren't made to hold stuff, I don't blame you" he then added in his thoughts "I partially blame Hasbro for making everything into ponies, where there aren't hands!…but it couldn't be helped it's is suppose to be a girls show…one I just happen to like because it's more better then what I normally find" and as he began to rant in his head Twilight began to lift the barrel off him, how these things happen to him, was like asking how Derpy could cause a problem just by touching the ground.
(The two would make a great couple, don't you think?)
Once the Steel Barrel was removed showing a very wet Murphy with soaked hat and scarf, Twilight then pulled up what water she could, put it in the barrel and put it outside "Merff…your like a mag'nught for trouble, ya know tha?" Applejack said making her way to him thru a few remaining puddles "why do you think I named myself after Murphy's Law?" he said rather dryly, even if he was soaked.
And so began the task of getting the floor water free, and for Murphy to dry off to.
He was able to get most of the work done using Shadow Hands, to which he was very good at using, but still had troubles now and then, at one point whacking himself with a mop, and by the time all the water was cleaned up, it was nearing Dinner.
"so" Murphy started clapping two hands together, and rubbing them together "do you think they should stay for dinner?" he asked Twilight who was putting some stuff away "sure, why not, would you both like to stay" she said heading to the kitchen "I'm game, how bout you AJ?" Dash said about to go help Twilight "sure, I don' have noth'en, ta do ta'mara" Applejack said fallowing close behind leaving Murphy to his own device, that was to say, nothing but sit and think.
"best if I leave them be, no need for me to get in the way" he thought deciding to just go to the balcony and watch the Moon rise for the fresh new night.
===Chaos and Harmony===
Giggles, laughs and screams of fun echoed from down the stairs as Murphy looked at the Stars and Moon that hung in the sky, along with Spike who had decided himself to see what Murphy was doing almost walking past him, and soon found himself standing next to him looking at the sky as if it was a portrait (which it was for Luna)
Spike often wonder why this pony just sat here looking up at it the way he did.
He didn't bother speaking or moving, he just sat there looking at the sky.
"hey Murphy?" Spike spoke, getting his attention, but not moving his eyes away "yes?"
"why do you come out here? I mean the others are downstairs having fun and all, don't you want to join in?" Spike asked the ever so still Stallion "naw…I feel it best to leave them to themselves…no need for me to be in the way, besides I don't think they'll miss me"
Spike shrugged, not really knowing what to say or do at this point and headed down the stairs, missing the tear rolling down Murphy's face as he kept his eyes on the sky "I wonder…what does it feel like…to really belong?"
He didn't know the answer, and probably wouldn't if he stayed away from the rest, but he didn't feel like he did belong, he knew they still were wary of him, even if it's slightly, he knows there scared to a small point of what he was and could do.
He wouldn't belong until they showed him he did, but when was that?
"is this what it felt like for you?" he asked towards the Moon "when you got free?"
===Chaos and Harmony===
Once Spike got down the stairs he glanced about seeing Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow Dash, all around the table enjoying one another's company "hey guys" he greeted walking to the table for something to eat as they greeted the young Dragon in turn, and continued there talk.
After a few more minutes of there talking, Spike decided to bring up something "you know where Murphy is right?" he asked, getting them to look around for the Stallion "now that you motioned it…no, that guy is just so quiet" Dash said still looking "he be, mighty more quiet then Flutter Shy" Applejack agreed not seeing Murphy in sight "do you know where he is Spike?" Twilight asked he assistant who nodded.
"yep, he's on the balcony, like he was last night…and the night before that…and the one before that…he goes there a lot" he said looking up the stairs.
"I wonder why I don't see him there?" she mused to herself "don't know, he sort of blends in, I almost walked past him earlier" Spike shrugged not knowing the real reason himself.
With the time Murphy did spend with them, he was never part of there conversations unless they asked him something or if he pointed something out, he kept to himself and very secretive about almost everything but the big things.
Twilight got up and headed for the stairs "we'r ya go'in Twi?" Applejack asked "I'm going to get Murphy to come down here to have some fun" this seemed to catch them all of guard, Rainbow Dash soon flew to her side and Applejack joined up to Twilight.
she wasn't going to have him spend time alone like she did, everypony needed to spend time with there friends.
As soon as they reached the balcony they found Murphy just sitting there looking at the sky, blissfully unaware of there prescience, or they thought so.
"yes?" he questioned not moving, and for a moment they didn't know what to say "Murphy…why are you here alone?" Twilight asked, approaching him with the others in tow "you know, didn't want to be in the way, thought I come out for some air, think some things over…you really didn't need to check up on me" he said still not moving "sounds boring" Dash commented crossing her hooves.
"only if you think of the boring stuff" he countered, retuning things back to an awkward silence.
"did we do som'then Merff?" he turned his head to Applejack who looked a bit sad after saying it "ah mean…did we do som'then ta get ya'll to-" "No" he quickly cut her off "no, you didn't do anything, I-I well…it's…i-it's just in my nature…" he tried to explain hoping there wouldn't be another crying session like the one back at the castile, where Dash refused to admit she shed a single tear.
They gave him a surprised and confused look as he sighed not liking what he was going to do next, and that was explain why he was acting like this.
"you see…I'm not the social type, I was sort'a…" he felt very uncountable with talking about this, it wasnt like talking to Celestia who was more of a mother like figure, but he had to push thru it this "I wasn't liked by others, I was practically made a loner because others found me to strange, I was that one enigma that they didn't want around them, I didn't fit in any specific group…I just find it better to stay alone rather get in another's way" he blurted out all at once "I don't need your pity or sorrow, you can give it, but it wont do me any good…because I think your still unsure if I should be let in with you, with what I can do that is" at this the Stallion looked at them a little harder.
Twilight didn't think he was this observant about how unsure she was having him around when he had some kind of Element of Discord with him that he could use on them at any time, nor did she think anypony could be so cold to another to push them away to a point where they preferred to be alone rather then be with those who let him into there home.
Calculating, Clever, Alone, these are what came to mind when she thought of him right now, he almost had things planed out, but she knew he was just that good at improvising, thats one thing she learnd from him over the week he spent here.
"what are you talking about, your welcome with us!" Dash almost crackled at how he thought they didn't trust him "yea, wha' are ya talk'en about Merff? From wha I see here, you act just as Loyal as Dash at times" Applejack agreed.
This gave Twilight to pitch in to "you've done more then you needed to get us to trust you Murphy, you charged in to rescue two others that you didn't know, you asked to bring Octavia for her protection, you moved Applejack away from danger when Fire Rush attacked us, you went and helped Princess Luna fight off the same pony, and used yourself as a shield when Fire Rush charged us before we could use the Elements"
Murphy looked a little taken back by all this, did they really have this much Faith in him? Was he really worrying over nothing? Do they actually care that much for him?
"please, come down and join us, you never got any dinner" Twilight soon added and as if on cue his stomach growled at him for forgetting such a thing "well, from what I can tell I'm out numbered on the subject…I'll come down" he said chuckling in his very strange defeat.
Rainbow Dash flew down the Stairs with Twilight close by as Murphy slowly made his to the stairs by stopped short and looked to Applejack who was behind him "hey AJ" he said catching her attention "I should thank you for having Faith in me" with that he went down the stairs thinking up on another subject.
"Faith…I almost lost it with the way I was thinking…it's a good thing they reminded me of such a thing, I don't intend to forget"
===Chaos and Harmony===
Arthers Notes:
sorry for those who waited a long (few day) pireod of time for this, but i have been in a slight writers block, it shold pass sooner or latter
i may just slow this down to a story per week, so i can come up with some good stuff
