WARM DARKNESS COLD LIGHT
CHAPTER THREE
Me: *panting* we got… the freaking… pony.
Quintus: How? How did you generate so much fire?
Pinkie: HAPPINESS!
General Kay and Team iNSaNiTY: Then how does she pull it… never mind.
kaijudude1000: Hey, no worries! Megami has an important role here!
Speed the Hedgehog: *Flies away underdog style* Keep up the good wooooooooork *crashes into clock*
Quintus: So everyone is here on Bazitral?
Me: Everyone who's going to be. If anyone else wants to come in, well, the people on Mobius and Equestria would certainly be shitting themselves about everyone disappearing, wouldn't they? They would need help to stop them from starting riots and stuff.
Quintus: No! No more fire! We just chased Pinkie across half the damn continent!
Pinkie: FRIENDSHIIIIIIIIIP!
Me: START THE CHAPTER! START IT NOW!
Quintus kneeled over, panting as the glove on his left hand disappeared. He had never felt that tired. This wasn't supposed to happen, he shouldn't feel this spent! Then the fox appeared. Followed by a blue hedgehog, a green hedgehog, a brown hedgehog, a black hedgehog, a red echidna, and then a lighter green hedgehog. At that second, the purple Alicorn appeared, followed by six other ponies, another Alicorn, and a doll made to look like a pony. Luckily all were unconscious.
A knock at the door before Joe peeked in.
"Uhh, did something go wrong?" He asked. Quintus took a few seconds to catch his breath before standing up and nodding.
"Yes, but this is better than summoning nothing." He said.
"So what do we do?" asked the Toonhog. Quintus looked around at the… 1 2 3 4… seven Mobians and… nine Equestrians. Fourteen freaking extra summons! No wonder he was tired!
"We'll take the Mobians and Equestrians to two separate rooms, so when they wake up they will at least be with each other. Have a guard or two outside each room, and make sure I'm alerted if anything happens. Good?" Asked Quintus. Joe nodded and ran off. After a bit a few LD officers walked in and bit the unconscious onto stretchers to take them to two highly secure (though recently refurnished) rooms. Quintus walked to the room he slept in whenever he stayed at the HQ to do so, and plopped onto his bed, falling asleep in seconds.
It seemed like only minutes later that he woke to frantic banging on his door. He opened it to see a panicked officer standing there.
"One of the Alicorns escaped! She broke out and she's trashing everything in sight! We've evacuated the are she's in, but we do have valuable equipment in that area." He said.
"And the other Equestrians?" Quintus asked.
"She tried to wake them up, but apparently waking up from a summoning has to be natural. So she just waved a hoof and the door collapsed." Answered the officer.
"Where is she now?" Quintus asked, opening his wings.
"The cameras show her making her way down hallway 6 in the C sector, sir." They answered. Quintus shot off, a yellow and blue blur.
IN THE HALLWAY THE OFFICER HAD JUST DESCRIBED…
Megami was pissed. She had been relaxing in the perfect weather (You have no idea how much the Pegasai take for bribes) and suddenly she found herself in a white room with Twilight Pinkie AJ RD Rarity Fluttershy Lightning and Teddy. She had tried to wake them up, but none of them did, so she walked over to the door and opened it using her elemental power. She had been surprised when two bipedal guards had jumped up and told her that she was on Bazi-
She had stopped listening at that point. She had kicked one of them and thrown the other down the hall with her magic. She had met about six more of the up-standing guards and dispatched them all. She kept going down all the hallways, getting more and more frustrated at each dead end.
Guess how upset she got when a flying hedgehog tackled her.
Aaand the correct answer is… very. Very, very upset.
Quintus jumped away and took out a glowing blue sword. He leaned against it calmly.
"Excuse me ma'am, but I think you're trashing my house." He said. Megami's horn lit up, and a chunk of the wall broke off and hurtled towards Quintus. The Godhog held out a hand and caught the projectile, then shoved it towards the wall it had come from, and it more or less fell back into place.
"That means you're the one who kidnapped my friends." Megami said angrily.
"Now, 'kidnapped' is a strong word." Quintus said as he lifted his sword.
"Well what would you say then, bipedal freak?" Megami asked angrily. Quintus paused and thought about it.
"…I guess I would say kidnapped. I'm just pointing out that it's a nasty accusation. And either way, I didn't mean to bring all of your friends. I didn't even mean to bring you, no offense intended." He said. Megami jumped forwards, swinging a hoof at him, which he dodged and swung his sword down. It passed through her without a mark, though when Megami landed, ice began forming around her middle where he had struck.
"Hey!" She exclaimed, and after a moment the ice shattered.
"I'm not trying to hurt you if you'll notice. I'm using a sword that will only neutralize you if it works, and you didn't exactly wake up in a torture chamber. None of my friends have tried to stop you simply because I told them not to. And whether or not you believe me, I need the help of your friend Twilight." Quintus said as he dodged swing after swing and kick after kick.
Just as Quintus dodged a particularly nasty kick, a wave of confetti blasted into him, knocking him aside. He rolled and jumped back up to see the pink pony standing there, holding a canon.
"HitheremynameisPinkamenaDianePiebutyoucancallmePinkiePie! You'reattackingmyfriendMegamisoIthinkIhavetoblowyouup!" It said in a cheery voice. A Rainbow blur rushed from around the corner and hit Quintus in the stomach, sending him into a wall.
"Back away from my friends, you weirdo!" Shouted Rainbow Dash. Quintus pulled himself out of the wall and stood up.
"I'm not… trying to hurt you. I'm just trying…to save… my friend." He said slowly. He looked up.
"But if you fully require me to show you that I won't hurt you, then I'm going to catch that knife and hand it back to the doll." He said. Suddenly, a knife came flying over. He caught it and walked over to Teddy, who had been around the corner. Handing her the knife, he said,
"Do I have proof enough yet?"
Teddy answered by swinging the blade at him. He opened his wings and flew backwards, then hovered up into the air.
"Please stop. I just need your help." He said. Pinkie and Rainbow looked at each other, but Megami had already flown up.
"You just snatched all of my friends and I away without anything! No warning, no asking for permission, and you expect us to just except your apology and help you?" She asked. She spun around and aimed a buck at his chest, which hit home, sending him back to the ground. Megami flew downwards, landing next to him. He was stuck in a crater, three feet into the concrete. He looked up.
"I'm sorry." He said.
"You'd better be." Teddy said.
"No, I'm sorry about this." Quintus said. He snapped his fingers. In the blink of an eye, the four of them found themselves on the ground, Pinkie's canon was gone as was Teddy's knife, and Megami had glowing rings around her hooves. Quintus leaned against a wall.
"Once again, I've caused you all no harm. I'm defending myself and disarming you. Excellent blade though, Teddy. I haven't seen something this sharp for a while." He said, tossing it into the air. Teddy growled and stood up, but Quintus threw the knife towards her, and it buried itself in the wall behind her, a few strings stuck to it.
"I assure you I can be a much better shot. Now, I'm going to let you all up, and we're going to go back your other friends. Can I do so without any of you trying to kill me?" He asked. Megami glared defiantly up at him.
"I guess not. I am going to be tired as hell tonight." He said. He started glowing, and everyone disappeared, including himself.
They reappeared back in the Equestrian's room, where the others were awake and trying to decide what to do. They all turned when they saw Quintus standing over their disarmed friends, and Megami disabled.
"Hey!" AJ shouted, walking up to the Godhog. She looked up at him,
"What're yawl doing with our friends, you whatever you are?" She asked.
"Applejack, calm down! He might not be trouble!" Twilight said. Quintus looked over, and he laughed.
"Ha! Trouble! Me! Miss Princess Twilight Sparkle, I assure you that I am far more trouble than any of you can deal with, but I also assure you I don't want any of you to get hurt. Apparently a few of your friends can't say the same to me." He said, gesturing to the four on the ground.
"Well I do believe you should let them up." Rarity said.
"I don't. Because when I do, the doll and the Alicorn are both going to jump up and tackle me. I'll let Rainbow and Pinkie up though." He said. He snapped his fingers and the two warped over to the other side of the room.
"Let the others up!" Lightning said.
"Can I be assured that NO ONE here will try to hurt me?" Asked Quintus. He looked everyone in the eye, stopping at Megami.
Nopony answered.
"Well then. I'm going to let them up anyway, and I will tell you why I brought you all here." He said. He picked Teddy up and undid the enchantments on Megami. The second he did, he jumped backwards and a pink bubble formed around him. After a few seconds of neither of them attacking him, it disappeared and he fell backwards onto the chair behind him.
"Where to start? Well, I suppose I should tell you my name. I'm Quintus. Quintus the Godhog. I was created about, eh, Five hundred and… thirteen years now? Yes, well I was made because a demon was destroying all of everything, basically. After my initial awakening, I was trained to use my abilities to the best of the power I had been given. During that time, I was also taught assorted history, reading math and the like by a girl, a human girl, named Jessica. Long story short, we liked each other after a while, and then, the demon I had been created to fight, Pento, showed up." Quintus paused, as if deciding whether to continue. Seeming to choose that he should, he went on,
"He destroyed most of my home, the labs I had been created in, and killed most of the scientists in front of me. But he made sure I witnessed the death of Jessica. She died while I was incapable of doing anything, stuck. Later I beat Pento and he left to 'Celestia knows where' as I suppose you would say. So I was left with most of my friends gone, and fast-forward five hundred and twelve and a half years, I find a cave. A cave with… I suppose you wouldn't know about computers. A cave with a device that could speak. It gave me a special card and a box on the other side of the room. I put the card into the box, and it folded open and… Jessica appeared. But she was different. She was more like the animal-like people Megami saw as she trashed my base. But even from us she was different. She isn't fully alive. Her mind is exactly like that of her human self all those years ago, but she's an android. A robot, if Twilight understands. She can think, talk, all the things living beings can do. But she has a sort of disease. It's part technology, part magic. The disease appeared on a screen and called itself Pento. Jessica sort of fell asleep, and she can't wake up. So I thought. And thought. And I decided that the abilities of the people here are insufficient to get rid of Pento. So, I decided to find people who could. I found Tails- he's not from Equestria- and then you, Twilight. A master Technician and apparently a top five magician of Mobius and Equestria." He said. He looked at all of them.
"I didn't mean to summon all of you. I just needed Twilight's help. But something went wrong. All of you popped up here, along with Tails and several other Mobians, so I had you nine brought here so I could talk when you woke up. Megami woke up first, as you can tell, and I stopped her along with Pinkie Teddy and Rainbow from destroying my HQ and hurting any…more… of my friends." He said.
"So long story short, I need your help to fix my friend." He said.
"Of course we'll help!" Twilight said immediately.
"Really darling do you think we would just make you figure this out on your own after hearing your story?" Rarity asked.
"Yeah! We'll help you Quintus!" Fluttershy said in a surprisingly energetic tone. The Godhog nodded.
"Thanks. I can get you all access to the outside, and your own rooms if you want them." He said. He stepped outside the room and pushed a button.
"This is Quintus. All hostility neutralized. They say they plan to help, and I've said they're allowed outside and their own rooms. Send a guard to escort them to their rooms if they want them and outside if they choose to. I'm going to check on the Mobians." He said.
"None of them have tried to exit the room, though they're all awake. All of them have weapons. Good luck, sir." A voice said. Quintus sighed. He was going to be really tired.
Everyone stood waiting by the door.
"Who do you think it is? Eggman? Scourge?" Asked Speed.
"What, you mean who brought us here? Obviously they can work with Chaos, so I don't doubt either of those." Shadow said.
"Shut up, some one is coming." Kay said, aiming her pistol. Everyone got ready to ambush whoever it would be. Shadow got a chaos spear, Blade took a deep breath, Knuckles held up a chair, Speed held up his emerald, Sonic crouched so he could charge a spin dash, and Tails prepped his arm canon.
Knock knock knock. Went the door.
"Look, I know all of you are waiting to blow me off the face of this planet, but I've had a bit of a rough day, OK? My summoning malfunctioned and I had a bunch of Ponies tried to beat the crap out of me. There's a good chance my friend might die along with everyone from every world if I don't get the help of the fox who has an IQ of three hundred who's aiming a laser canon at where my head is going to be. So drop your weapons or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll knock each and every one of you unconscious." Said a voice outside the door. Everyone looked at each other.
"How do we know you aren't going to come in and blow us all up even if we do disarm ourselves?" Asked Kay. The voice sighed.
"Well then that means it's pointless, doesn't it? But then, what if I can just push a button and make this room close like a trash compactor and kill all of you? If so, why haven't I done so already? I told you: I need Tails' help. I've seen some of the mechanic and computer stuff he's done. My friend is sick, and I need his help." It said.
"And if you're just letting us out to walk into something worse, like roboticizing or enslavement?" Shadow asked.
"Shadow the Hedgehog, Ultimate life form. You're either going to hate me or be my trusted friend, I can tell. You'll let Tails help me because if Maria came back alive but with a fatal injury, I would let one of my friends help." Said the voice. Shadow blinked.
"And don't you go out on a trip down memory lane, buster. I don't exactly have all day here. Does anyone else want me to tell him or her something personal?" There was a pause as Speed prepared to say something.
"Put your hand down Speed. I know as much about your past as you do. So, zero. Tails, you'll help because you'll also be getting rid of a bully, though he's worse than the ones who teased you about your namesakes. Knuckles, I think I know you the best. Y'see, I got a chunk of your precious master emerald- oh calm down, it's from way before you were born- and I've always been able to see what's on the other end. All things considered, you do your job well, man. Apologies that I never came over to visit. Kay, I'm just going to keep my mouth shut about you, mostly because I want to remain in one piece. And Blade, like hell you're going to just walk out of here. Admit it, you're buddies with Sonic in spite of his bull shit."
Blade laughed at this.
"Who did I miss? Oh right, the big shot himself. Listen Sonic, I'm pretty sure I've convinced most of your friends to help me. Are you really going to just leave them?" Asked the voice. Silence.
"OK, I'll help." Tails said.
"Just one question: how the FREAKING CHAOS do you know all this?" He asked. Quintus opened the door.
"I'm a man of many talents." He said.
"No one wants to jump forward and strangle me?" He asked after a moment.
"It's tempting." Shadow said. Quintus smiled.
"Hey, I'll give you every opportunity to try. So, shall I explain the situation?" He asked. Everyone nodded. So he told them the same basic thing he had told the Ponies (only he didn't have to explain computers), and when he finished, he said,
"Welcome to Bazitral." Before leaving the room. Yes, of course he had told an officer to give them their own rooms if they so choose!
Minutes after the Godhog closed the door, the mobians began talking.
"How do we know to trust him?" Speed asked.
"He could be working for Robotnik, waiting for the chance to, I dunno, trick us into helping with the enslavement of another alien race!" He said.
"Nah, we've been monitoring the skies, nothing bigger than a soccer ball has left the atmosphere, and when something did it was my own fault." Kay said.
"For one thing, we were teleported, for another, You've been monitoring space? And what did you launch into space?" Blade asked.
"Our watching of the skies is classified, and as to what I shot off the planet, I dared Sonic to kick a football as far as he could so he'd leave me alone." Kay answered.
"Oh yeah, I remember that." Sonic said. There was silence, then Tails burst into laughter.
"What's so hilarious?" Knuckles asked.
"I just thought that if everything he said is true, then the best song for the situation is about how we're in 'his world'!" Tails explained. Shadow humphed.
"Wait, the guy with the wings isn't the 'knight of the wind'?" Sonic asked as everyone chuckled.
"No, I'M the knight of the wind. You'd think that a 'god' should be all of him." Speed said.
"Nope. If he really is five hundred and whatever years old, then he's been living and learning." Shadow said.
"Can we stop now and decide whether we trust him?" Blade asked.
"But if anything, he's been reaching for the stars." The dragonborne said.
...
"Put it to a vote?" Knuckles suggested. Everyone nodded.
"Stand for trust then." Sonic said, leaping to his feet. Blade got off his seat. Knuckles stood too.
Speed, Shadow, Kay and Tails remained seated.
"I... I'm not sure..." Tails said.
"Well apparently you and a winged unicorn are necessary for whatever this Quintus fellow has in mind, so no pressure." Sonic said. Blade smacked him upside the head.
"Ow!"
"I... I think... He seems like he's keeping something from us, but that he needs my help for his friend seems true. I'll trust him." Said the kitsune.
"You sure Tails? I mean, he dragged us here without making himself known first. Isn't that technically kidnapping?" Kay asked.
"Uhh... I guess so..." Tails said, scratching his head.
"It seemed like taking us here took a lot out of him. Would he even be able to talk tous from here?" Sonic asked.
"Holy shit... If we're actually on another planet, what happens to Mobius if Eggman strikes?" Speed asked. Silence.
"Tails, whatever it is you're going to do, do it quickly." Shadow said.
Me: Me thinks I'll end it here.
Quintus: so good to know I'm well trusted!
Me: the song Speed referenced was "I am all of me" in case that wasn't clear.
Quintus: where did we put Pinkie?
Me: I though you caught her.
*explosion outside*
Quintus: ...crap. Well, we have to survive another week of school, then well be back to updating frequently.
Me: we have to catch the bucking pony AGAIN!?
Quintus: yes. And that bucking pony is the one you have a poster of on that wall.
Me: *throws grenade* wall? What wall? We're wasting time, let's go.
QUINTUSTHEHEDGEHOG, CHAPTER COMPLETED!