White wings
Come shimmering down
a thundering crown
of lightning sound
SHIMMERING CROWN
"Woah!"
THUD!
Inklord was dropped on the cold floor of a different place.
"What the fuck" Said a voice he recognized immediately.
"Dr. Quantum Leap?!" Inklord was back at
Coalesence Research Center - Top Floor
2:40 PM
"Can I ask how and why are you back?" Quantum Leap helped him stand up.
"Uh... I was at Mayor Rarity's office... and then she warped me here!" Inklord scratched his head.
"Oh... oh no... I see what's up" Quantum said. "Y-you see... most of my test subjects I have here are ponies she decided to just teleport here, unless she immediately executes them, she sometimes sends them here for me to... experiment, and..."
"Oh..." Inklord took a few steps back.
"No no no no no!" Quantum reassures. "I'm not going to do that to the stallion that saved my life yesterday, Mayor Rarity never checks what I do with them so you're fine" He chuckles. "By the way, what were you doing in her office anyway?"
"She invited us to have a talk with her thanks to our succesful Rebel takedowns" Inklord responds. "Or at least that's what she wanted us to think" He looks up to the hole that Shinzo made yesterday. "Jack is still with her"
Quantum Leap freezes for a second. "Excuse me? Who again?"
"Huh? Jack...? Jack Redplay?"
Quantum's eyes grew. "Oh... fuck..."
Chapter 4: Jack to Xajck Part 3
Bites the dust
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Rarity's Diamond's
2:56 PM
Sky had taken off anything that was plugged into him and bailed, closing the door just as Plush threw her knife at him.
"Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck" He whispered to himself as he realized...
He was alone. The whole place waa deserted. Some bodies laid around dead with horrible injuries. He took a small tablet from one of the bodies and there was an unread 'important message' .
MAYOR RARITY ASKS FOR ASSITANCE IN A CRISIS
A PONYHUNT'S BEEN CALLED FOR A
GREY PEGASUS WITH A BLUE MANE AND BACON CUTIEMARK
Everyone was called.. outside... how convenient for him.
SHANK
"AAAAAHHHHH!" Plush's knife had embed itself to Sky's right hoof. He had no time to react.
slice
Plush flew at incredibly fast speeds and pushed the knife, his right hoof came off.
Streets of Manehattan
2:56 PM
Quantum Leap and Inklord were galloping as fast as they could towards the Diamond Tower, passing by a live news broadcast led by an anthro raccoon
"Hello everyone, I'm Ichabod from Citrus Quest and we're live in the streets of Manehattan with what seems to be a ponyhunt for somepony who, according to our sources, has comitted one of the worst possible crimes in the history of this city. This unidentified grey pegasus you can see on screen now had a very unfavorable opinion of Mayor Rarity's personal artist" The raccoon pointed at one of the many screen behind him that showed Fusion's face. "This suspect we've-"
BOOOOM!
The top of the Diamond Tower had an explosion.
Inside was nothing but dead emtpy husks, the smell of death instantly escaped and contaminated the air.
Nothing would survive such horrible conditions. He turned around and headed into back into the black void that was most of Equestria.
"Sir.. are you sure this is the right way?"
No response.
"How are you so sure this is where we need to go? It's nothing but darkness"
No response.
Rarity Assembly line
2:47 PM
"I'm Rarity"
"Yes, you sure fucking are" Jack was dragging himself away until he bumped into a wall, he watched as a gigantic mess of wires entered one of the many Rarity bodies, each slowly plugging themselves and activating their respective limbs. The body turned on and began to stand up, this one had the right eye missing. She smiled at Jack.
She lunged.
"MINE" Jack quickly rolls to the side and Rarity smashes through the wall, the entire city can be seen down below. "oW! thAT wasN'T prETTY!" Her voice glitched out again. "wHy DON't yOu cOMe witH Me J-j-a-a-Xajck!"
"I don't like a nuts diet! I'm oil intolerant too!" Jack ducked as Rarity smashed her way back in. Jack grabs a rusty white metal hoof and slaps Rarity with it. Rarity tries to retaliate but Jack rapidly hits her again and again with aid of his magic. Her face and neck were starting to break down and showed the mess of cables inside that "kept Rarity alive". A few spewed out and twisted themselves around the rusty hoof, slowly crushing it. Jack retaliates with a magic blast that knocks her back.
Rarity's body starts to release sparks and some screws pop out. "rEEBOOTING! rEmAIN CALM dEAR SUGARCUBE" She drops down and shakes violently as her body reboots.
Jack though of running away but then saw the perfect opportunity...
"Rebooting complete! Welcome to Nightmare OS ver. 0.935 REV 2" She said and stood up. She finds Jack accidentaly dropping another Rarity body down, his horn was glowing. "OooOOOh! How thOUghtfulL of you Jack!" Her wires abandon the beat up body and move to the next. Once again a brand new body takes over. "Generosity can be hard to understand"
"You mean hard to swallow?"
"No- I mean... What?" Rarity looked down at a red glow in her stomach. She looks at Jack who had a smug face, he lifts his real hoof
"Pow"
BOOOOOOM!
Jack's remote magic explosion blows up her entire body, blows a chunk of a wall and destroys the machinery of the Rarity assembly line.
Jack has killed the Mayor of Manehattan!
Rarity's head bounces on the ground and rolls towards Jack. He picks it up. "Good grief and alas" He gallops back to the Mayor's office and places it on her desk.
BEEEEP BOOOOP RELEASING MEMORY ARCHIVES FOR PROPER BACKUP, PLAYING MEMORY TO SURVEY FOR CORRUPTIONS
Jack was about to leave the room when the head lights up and projects something from it's eyes. He turns around to be blinded by it's light.
"What are you gonna do with her?"
Jack just heard a voice? It sounded just like Rarity's! He goes to the desk and points the head to a better corner of the room to allow the projection to be enjoyed better.
Projection 1
April 13, 2011
The projection showed a first person view from Rarity's eyes, she was standing in a rundown grey castle, watching a purple alicorn get dragged into another room, she turns to look at a much younger Empress Moon, she was dressed in light blue regal armor. "Nightmare Moon?" Wow... nobody's called her that in decades...
"She will be interrogated, we must know how to harness the magic of that 'map' of her's..." Said Nightmare Moon.
"And what are you going to do with it?" Rarity looks at her and asks.
"You'll see..." Nightmare Moon flies away. Rarity looks as the Empress disappears into the horizon. She walks out of the castle into the Everfree Forest. Her point of view focuses on a big circular stone table, she can see her reflection on it.
Static
Projection 2
April 13, 2025
It now shows Rarity putting on a scarf and looking at herself at a mirror, she looks older. She steps outside into a snowstorm. She spots Empress Moon, she was wearing armor with neon dark blue lighrs.
"Your highness.. The incoming war-" Rarity approaches her.
"I know. And i have a request for you" Empress Moon levitates a backpack and passes it to her. "Leave"
"W-what?! Your hi-"
"You've been a Loyal Assistant, but it is time for you to lead your own portion of the world" Empress Moon opens her wings, preparing for flight. "My ship is waiting for you, pack your essentials, you're going to Manehattan" Empress Moon takes flight and leave her behind.
"...Y-Yes.. your Highness.." She startes at the horizon as Empress Moon fades away.
Static
Projection 3
April 13, 2045
The static once again clears to show Rarity staring at a ceiling. A unicorn steps into view with neon sunglasses. "Are you sure about this?" Asked the unknown unicorn.
"Yes" This single yes sounded quiet and frail.
A machine roars to life and a set of lasers and robot arms aim their respective tools at Rarity.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH AAAAHH AAAHHH AAAHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Static
Projection 4
April 13, 2055
Rarity's POV now looks more like a computer screen, it has a HUD that show's her current status, her schedule and a map of the area. She was standing on a elevator.
Now arriving, Science Division - Floor 13
Thremmatology and Test Subject Wards.
Oh.
The doors slide open to reveal Empress Moon and a group of scientist unicorns monitoring some computers, the entire roon was filled with pods, big enough to fit ponies inside. Rarity walks tpwards Empress Moon. "Empress Moon, what an honor to have you here, as you can see, the CE project is going smooth as ever"
Empress Moon approached one of the scientists. "I want to know the status of previous test subjects"
"Previous two Alicorn attempts proved unsuccesful, Subject A blew up trying to cast magic, Subject B couldn't even light hmup it's horn" Said one of them who approached Empress Moon with a folder. She opens it and reads. "Hmm, What's this about the 'Twins'" She points to a pair of unicorns.
"Ah yes, the newest batch" He walks away and asks his colleagues to bring the 'Twins' in. Two unicorns levitate and place two baby unicorns in front of Empress Moon. A blue and a red unicorn, they both had the same blue and black mane, the two were bumping into each other and trying to cast magic at one another. "These two and another one came from the newest DNA sample you gave us"
"You said there was a third one?" Empress Moon asked. A third baby unicorn appeared, light brown coat and black mane. This one kept it's distance from the other two and just rolled on the groud. The red unicorn crawled towards Luna and hugged her front left hoof.
"We found it's impossible to try accelerated growth as it won't allow the subject to properly adapt to it's changing body, forcefully inserting alicorn tier magic causes the subject to be 'overwhelmed' which causes death most of time" The scientist approaches the babies. "These three show thw most promise" He gently pushes the brown unicorn. "This one, he seems to have developed... 'extremely good luck'. It sounds ridiculous but the subject always seems to make it out of anything by sheer dumb luck" The scientist looks at Empress Moon. "Dr. Franshoover would really like to know.. Where did you get that special DNA sample?"
Empress Moon kept staring at the red baby unicorn
Static
Projection 5
April 13, 2077
The projection now shows the Major's Office from her desk.
"Shhhhhhh..." Someone out of view whispered. "That's the whole plan~ You have to show Jack exactly what I say, I'll make sure he gets to this city, his 'mommy' always was dumb enough to trust me, It'll all come to back to bite her in the ass, very... very soon"
"Will I be..." Rarity talked back.
"Yes, you'll be guaranteed a spot..." The voice whispers. "Hey Jack! Look behind you!"
Static
Mayor Rarity's Office
3:00 PM
The projector on Rarity's eye shut down. Jack kept staring at the wall in utter shock.
"B-behind..." Jack was shocked from the revelations he just witnessed. He took a deep breath and...
SLASH!
Diamond Tower
2:58 PM
Inklord and Quantum entered an elevator and began to rise.
"Ok so, we got some time till we get there, can you explain whats so important about Jack?" Asked Inklord.
"Uh... I guess a short, yet, very butchered version can work" Quantum clared his throat. "He's the creation of Dr. Franshoover. Meant to be used as way to harness powers beyond our current dimension, he's one of many, actually, the most complete. I've bren told they had many others who were failures due to them mutating in wrong way, some have even managed to escape!" They were approaching Rarity's floor fast. "Each of them have Empress Moon's DNA, however, Jack was the only exception as he's the only one who got two, the Empress never told everyone where she got the other unique DNA sample"
"If Jack was just a tool... why did Empress Moon took him as her son?" Said Inklord scratching his head.
"I don't know those details, I was still studying when that happened, it's been too many years" Quantum answered.
DING!
They've reached the top floor.
SLASH!
"Jack!" Inklord and Quantum kick the doors down.
SPLASH!
Black blood was splattered around the office, all coming from a severed black furred arm. Jack had a sword made of his magic.
"Hah... hahaha... Nice one... Jack.." Axiom was waiting behind Jack the whole time! She walks backwards without a left arm, Jack had sliced it off.. "I'm surprised... you didn't... just.. turn around.. nah... It's in your nature.." She gets closer to the windows. "I guess we're almost done.. Just a liiiiiiiitle but more for... my good old pal..." She trips. "Jack"
CRASH!
She falls down, Jack looks down to see her gets smaller and smaller. Inklord and Quantum approach him.
"Jack! Are you okay?" Inklord looks at Jack's many bruises and cuts from his fight with Mayor Rarity. "What the hell happened here?!"
Quantum looks at Rarity's severed head. "She's on safe mode.. she just went through a recovery pro-"
SLAM!
Jack quickly dashes and pins him down extremely fast. "Do you have any idea what the fuck I am?!" Jack was extremely angry and confused. "Because apparently, me and many others were created on some fucking experiment in this fucking city, I knew there was something fucking fishy when my own 'mother' never talked about my birth"
"Listen! I-I-I-I-I- don't know all the details but-" Quantum stuttered.
"Jack watch out!" Inklord screamed. Jack looked behind him and rolled away.
BLAM!
Axion had come back and slammed a chunk of metal at Quantum, blowing his head into bits. "Now now, Jack doesn't need such heavy spoilers right now" She cracks her knuckles. "What Jack needs right now... Is a visit from his mother" She stylishly slides to the left.
CRASH!
Empress Moon crashed through the window.
Jack looked at her. "M-mom...?"
Rarity's Diamond's
2:58 PM
"AAAAHHHHHH FUUUUUCCK! SON OF A BITCH...!" Sky fell down and held his severed, bleeding hoof. He looked in front of him and saw the plush laughing at his suffering. Sky had to do something or else he would die. He uses his other hoof to grab a gun from the dead guard and fire it at the plush. Plush expertly dodges nearly all bullets, the bullets that do hit her just blow off a limb that immediately re-attaches itself.
"How does it feel?" The plush asks.
Sky grabs a tube made of medal shoves it on his severed arm, stopping the bleeding, he notices the tube had a claw on the other side.
"Pfff, as if that's going to help you" Plush laughs and lunges at Sky.
WACK!
Sky slaps the plush away with the claw and tries to stand up. "Now I understand how Jack feels!
"Make it double!" Plush throws her knife again.
SHANK!
It embeds on Sky's other hoof, he trips down again. "FUUUUUUUUUUU-"
slice
His other hoof comes down. "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCKKKKKKKK" Sky rolled on the floor until he bumped into a wall. Now he had lost both of his front hooves and still had a murderous plushie after his head. Flapping his bat wings he tried to quickly make his escape but crashes into another room due to blood loss. Inside he finds another metallic claw and attempts to insert it in hia other missing hoof when Plush enters the room. Sky rolls backwards in surprise and bumps into a desk that drops a bottle and a lighter in front of him, he quickly grabs the bottle and throws it at Plush, she just brushes the liquid off as it soaks her 'skin'
"Looks like this bat is running out of blood AND ideas!" Plush laughed.
Sky strikes a weak smile. "Heh... In fact... You slicing off my hooves gave me a lot of crazy ideas... like... how am I supposed to do this with hooves?" Sky lights the lighter with his claw.
"Sir, with all due respect, do you really expect this small batallion to win a war again-" His mouth is covered.
"This is not a war, I'm reclaiming something that's mine"
Ember sat alone in solitary confinement with cuffed wings, claws and feet. A small earthquake shook her roon.
Tuna fell in a trash can
Diamond Tower
3:05 PM
Jack stared at his 'mother' for a few seconds before firing a barrage of magic lasers, Empress Moon burshed them off with a simple shield. She grabs Jack's horn with her magic and pulls him close, she restrains him behind her and turns to Axiom.
"You're not taking him! No deal!" Empress Moon shouted.
Axiom smirked. "That's not up to me to decide" She points to Jack. "Let him do it"
"Huh?!" Empress Moon looks at the restrained Jack, he was crying. "What did you show him?!"
She shrugs. "I didn't show him anything, I just got here, but you just talked about a 'deal' involving him" She laughs. "You probably confirmed his fears"
Jack pushes everyone away with a magic shockwave. "So, I'm just a tool huh? I'm here to do something you've never bothered to tell me, all that magic stolen, not to become powerful, just to probably become something involving that fucking... bunny" Axiom gasped. "Are you even my real mother?! It seems I just have like 50 brothers, how the hell... why... who is the other DNA sample you gave them?!" Jack was pushing Empress Moon to a wall.
"Jack, son, calm down" Empress Moon was extremely scared, she felt a completely different aura invade Jack and fuel his rage.
"I feel we agreed to not even fucking call me that, remember? For the public.. I'm just your apprentice.. but... I'm just a tool for you" Jack takes out the Alicorn Amulet. "And this tool is going to become independent"
"JACK! NO!" Empress Moon screamed.
Jack puts on the Amulet and immediately feels his mind starting to be taken over. "And I'm just a tool for these guys too... but I can hold on to my sanity for a few more seconds to do this..."
PUUUUUNCH!
Jack just punched Empress Moon dead in the face with his powered up hoof, she goes flying, smashing through walls and getting lost in the horizon, Jack immediately takes off the Amulet and drops down tired. Inklord runs up to him.
"Jack! What the fuck?! Why... He was your own mother! Why would you that!? You know you're not a tool! She loves you! She actually does love you! I've seen it in her eyes, why do you think she picked you out of all-" Inklord covered his mouth.
"Oh, so you know too..." Jack looked at him. "Who else knows? For how long?"
"Jack, no, I just learned that too fron Quantum! But.." He looks at his corpse.
"I don't know if I can believe you... Inklord" Jack stared him down. "But you're the last pony I would ever punch in the face... get the fuck away from me..." He pushes him away with his magic.
Axiom chuckles and walks up to Jack. "It's time to go, old friend"
Jack just looks at her. "Do I have a choice?"
"No"
"... Fine"
They both vanish.
Inklord along with Empress Moon had to attempt to put together Mayor Rarity, erase some of her memories and reboot her so she could lead the city again, albeit with some minor changes.
"Your Majesty... Is Jack really-" Inklord was about to ask.
Inklord and Empress Moon enter the Rarity's Diamonds HQ to find Sky crawling to the exit.
In the first years... he was...
Soldiers find the corpse of General Kick with a bullet to his brain.
But today... he's just as important as my life..
Vida is drinking his worries away in another bar.
We're going to find him
Three hooded figures reunite with their leader.
If we don't
Citrus Quest has become the #1 news source in lesd than a day.
We'll have a million chances till we do
Axiom stands on the top of a building, her eyes shine a menacing red.
Chapter 5: Always bet on Jack