(Sometime in the future...)
A man was running through a war-torn town, the smouldering remains of numerous buildings surrounding him. Looking around, his left arm transformed into a neutron pulse rifle.
'Where is that trog?' he thought to himself, narrowing his eyes to focus. Behind him, he heard a telltale "Swoosh" sound. Dodging a sword, the man twisted around to face his attacker:
"MISSION OBJECTIVE NOT REACHED. SUBJECT STILL ALIVE. INITIATE ATTACK PATTERN SIGMA: PART 1." a red-furred experiment said in a computerised voice, transforming its' right hand from a gem-bladed sword into a gem-toothed chainsaw and revving it up.
"Don't you EVER run out of tricks?!" the man complained, dodging a swing from the experiment's chainsaw arm.
"INITIATE ATTACK PATTERN SIGMA: PART 2." the experiment said as its' right eye started glowing brighter.
'Ohhh... F**k!' the man thought, ducking backwards at the last second as the experiment's eye-mounted proton cannon missed his face by mere millimetres. He could feel that a few bits of facial hair were now absent, but he decided to worry about it later.
"MEEGA NALA KWEESTA, TROG!" the man shouted, firing his neutron pulse rifle straight at the experiment's face. Reeling from the blast, the experiment fell backwards, its' right arm useless and part of its' face melted off.
"Oi, silverwings; get me outta here!" the man said into a commlink hidden in his right sleeve as his left arm transformed back.
"Whatarethemagicwords?" a voice on the other end asked at high speed. The man sighed.
"Please and thank you! Just do it, will ya?!"
After a short visual distortion, the man temporarily faded from existence.
(a few seconds later, in an undisclosed location...)
"Mahalo... Haole."
"Areweevennow? YouowedmeforthatsavebackinAustralia." a silver pegasus replied. A blue pegasus cringed as she looked over the man.
"Jeez, that blast really got you good!" she said. The man snorted dismissively.
"I'm fine, I'm fine. Only thing is..." he started, running his organic hand over his face.
"What? What's wrong?" the blue pegasus asked. The man grinned.
"Am I missing... An eyebrow? I am missing an eyebrow, aren't I?" he asked. The silver pegasus groaned in disgust.
"Comeon,man! Thatshowwasn'tTHATgreat!" the silver pegasus said, shuddering.
"Besides which, your eyebrows will grow back next time you transform! Honestly though, when are you going to get tired of those references?" the blue pegasus asked. The man rolled his eyes.
"You guys just don't appreciate good TV jokes." he said. "Anyway... How's our favorite flirty gossip going with those blueprints our fallen left behind?"
The blue pegasus shrugged. "I dunno, neither of us have checked on her all day. For all we know, little miss flirts-alot could've fallen asleep on the job." she remarked. The man 'Hmm'd and made his way over to a large metal panel in one corner of the room.
"Lilo, open the lab door." The man said.
"PLEASE STATE ACCESS CODE." a feminine computerised voice told him.
"Aloha 'Oe." The man said quietly, almost reluctantly. After a few seconds of waiting, the door slid open.
"Come on; let's see how it's coming along." The man told the two pegasai. The silver pegasus shook his head rapidly.
"Thatmare'sgottendesperatelatelyandstartedflirtingwithME!" he protested. The blue pegasus and the man both rolled their eyes.
"Oh, poor diddums! Just come on, you foal!" the man teased/insisted. Grumbling, the silver pegasus followed his friends down the stairs that led to the lab.
(Meanwhile, on the moon...)
"Hurry up, fools; stop making me wait! Fix that trog now, or be condemned to an unpleasant fate!" a familiar gem-toothed dragon commanded of some androids as they rushed about, trying to fix the damaged trog. Just then, a shadowy figure slowly floated into the room unnoticed.
"Baoshi Long, my disciple... You certainly are taking your SWEET TIME with eliminating the last of the resistance on Earth, aren't you?!" the figure growled, eyes flashing a bright crimson.
"GAH! I d-didn't know y-YOU were h-here! I d-didn't th-think you'd be b-back this year!" the gem-toothed dragon known as Baoshi Long stuttered nervously, quaking in fear at the sight of his master. The dark creature frowned angrily, making Baoshi Long even more nervous.
"You TOLD me years ago that this trog, in his modified state, was impervious to all manner of weaponry... SO WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS?!" the dark creature roared, gesturing to the damaged experiment lying on the lab table. Baoshi Long whimpered, his multicolored teeth clacking together out of sheer terror. The dark creature started smiling out of the blue, unnerving the dragon and androids.
"You know... I've never had a disciple that served me quite as faithfully as you, despite constant setbacks, Baoshi Long." the dark creature said, gently touching down on the ground. Baoshi Long got a silent look of hope on his scaly face.
"HOWEVER..." the dark creature snarled, blasting Baoshi Long with a tremendous wave of black energy, reducing the dragon to nothing but ashes and a few gemstone teeth. The dark creature turned to face the androids, who were quivering with fear.
"Should the rest of you fail as miserably as that pathetic lizard did... You'll find out first-hand just how agonising it is to be slowly disentegrated, ATOM. BY. ATOM!" the dark creature shouted before flying out through the ceiling at high speed towards Earth.
(Back on Earth, in the underground lab...)
The man, the blue pegasus, and the silver pegasus had finally made it down the stairs that led to the lab. Looking around, the man spotted an orange pony exhaustedly putting some programming code into a capsule-shaped vehicle with the use of a pair of shoulder-mounted robotic arms.
Oi, Foxxy Love! You almost ready with that thing?" the man asked. The orange pony looked up with scowl.
"Wouldja stop callin' me that? Anyway, Ah just need ta input tha last few lines o' programmin' code inta tha computer." the orange pony said in a raspy voice. The man grinned, walking over and putting his hand on the outside of the vehicle.
"Once this is operational, all the damage caused by Baoshi Long and the Ancient Betrayer can be undone; rendered nothing but a bad dream." the man said. the orange pony sighed.
"Ah just hope ya'll realise that this is a one-way trip. Once ya go, ya can't come back." the orange pony reminded. The man nodded, looking around at the lab.
"Trust me, if it means a better future, one without the deaths of so many innocents, then it'll be worth it." the man said.
(Later, in what remains of a familiar front driveway...)
The orange pony was making a few final adjustments to the capsule, making sure that every little circuit was working properly.
"Thisisit." the silver pegasus said. "I'llbestuckwithherforeverifthisworks..." he complained.
The blue pegasus and the man rolled their eyes.
"IF this works, this version of the timeline will be altered to such a degree that it'll be unrecognisable to mister cyber-arm here." the blue pegasus said. A sound overhead caught their attention. Looking up, the group saw something that made their blood run cold:
"Well, well, well; if it isn't the universe's finest... Finest FOOLS, that is!" the dark creature mocked, cackling evilly as it loomed over the two pegasai, single pony, and single human.
"Tha final adjustments're done. Let US handle this evil sonovab***h!" the orange pony said, lunging at the airborne creature. "FOXXY NINETALES!"
frontflipping in the air, the orange pony released an arc of nine simultaneous energy blasts from her tail. The silver pegasus ran in next, moving at such high speeds around the creature that he trapped both it and the orange pony's attack in a tornado.
"They can't hold it off for very long. Assist them, I've got a timeline to save." the man said to the blue pegasus, stepping into the capsule, the door closing behind him.
Noticing that his friend had a look of sorrow on her face, the man couldn't help tearing up.
"We ALL know that you're the best suited for the task ahead. But... I'm still gonna miss you." the blue pegasus said as the orange pony behind her kept up continuous waves of her Foxxy Ninetails attack against the dark creature.
The man started put his hand against the window of the capsule. "I'll miss you, you... Boojiboo" he said, as the blue pegasus placed a hoof on the opposite side of the glass. The blue pegasus then turned around and flew straight at the creature, trailing a multi-colored blastwave behind her.
The man turned sadly towards the capsule's control panel and initiated its' program, knowing that this mission would be the most important of his life. After three loud booms/bright flashes, the capsule and its' sole passenger had vanished.
(Back in the present day, in the Pelekai/Kawena front driveway...)
Leroy started walking menacingly towards the two humans and three Experiments, brandishing a plasma gun in each hand.
"OBJECTIVE LOCATED. EXECUTE ORDER 1: ANNIHILATE PELEKAI/KAWENA FAMILY." Leroy said in a computerised voice, face showing no emotion whatsoever.
"Wh-what IS he?" Whirlwind asked, terror evident in his voice.
Yami was the first one to answer the question.
"I... I think he's evil now."
Without warning, three loud booms/bright flashes occurred behind Leroy, startling the assembled onlookers. A capsule-like vehicle materialised out of nowhere and opened in front of them, releasing a cloud-like vapour into the air. From out of the capsule, a 5'9" man with long brown hair and green eyes; wearing blue jeans, running shoes, a white sleeveless shirt, and a jacket with the Japanese symbol for "Flight" on the back emerged, brandishing a left arm that suddenly transformed into a neutron pulse rifle while he looked VERY enraged.
"NOW what?!" Lilo and Whirlwind asked in unison.
"Oi, stupidhead... Get away from my past self and Ohana. You're dealin' with a much stronger Whirlwind, now." the man said in a voice that betrayed his previous ordeal as he charged up his neutron rifle, two tears blowing off his face and into the wind. The others all gawked, the younger Whirlwind especially.
'Who is this guy?!' he thought, unaware of the sacrifices this man had been forced to make to get there...
(A/N: That's right, I'm takin' a page outta the good ol' Dragon Ball Z playbook! Trust me, this guy is gonna play a vital role in this story, so stay tuned for more!)
DISCLAIMER: As much as I'd love to, I sadly can't seem to get the official rights to any other characters but my own no matter how hard I try.