O.C. Unleashed

CHAPTER 4: The Odyssey begins

"Who says a great adventure always starts at home"

You got to me kidding me!

I facehoofed my head so hard, that it started bleeding upon contact. "You're telling me, that we're going to get help. From a species completely unknown to me and we're going straight to them!?" Screaming at the situation that I'm about to get in.

"Calm down, they sent you those halo disk to enlist the help. Besides what can hurt to make some new allies in this universe. We also need their firepower. Your race's magic might be strong but it's not suited to fight Cronos in his own game. Also, prepare for impact in 3…2…1…"

"What, oof!" My whole body jerked forward against the seat harness. I looked out the window just before I gotten knocked out from the sharp movements of the shuttle. The planet named "Earth" and its sister "Lunar Eclipse" were in beautiful view.

A screeching noise woke me back up to see the ground below. The shuttle exploded into a one big bouncy ball and scooted five times before coming to a complete stop. "You better be right!" As the door opened and a bright light pierce through the cabin. I've slowly felt my way out onto a marble sidewalk. My eye's adjusted to the light to see that we safely landed in a park.

I looked around at the beautiful scenery, never seen this type of greenery. It made me uncomfortably hungry though. But alas, I knew I wasn't alone in the park. I look around to see creatures on two legs with skin ranging from peach to a dark shade of brown. I sat at my haunches and stared back at these creatures. Then a few walked up to me in a lab coat of some sort and others in suits.

My soul is frighten on how much taller they are to me. Then a creature with long hair and sleek glasses bend down to greet me. "Hello?" The creature said in a feminine voice.

"Wait, you guys speak my vocal syntax!?" my head cocked to the left.

All the creatures jumped back in amazement, and honestly, so did I, but in fear.

"I say to the Lord above, You given us a creature that speaks our language!" "She" screamed into the heavens. Then she looked back down at me with a very big smile. "What is your name Pegasus?"

Like a shy kid, I softly spoke out, "Redbeat!"

"Well Redbeat, welcome to LUNAR ECLIPSE!" she applauded gloriously as she spread out her arms to the local area. "The finest Christian establish Colony in all of the Argonian Republic and home to the Paradigm Republic."

Then, she picked me up and escorted me around "this colony". I looked around as I was bound by this women's arms. Then a relaxing stroke came rushing down my back.

"That feels good doesn't it, you felt very tense for a good while now," She paused and looked down at me. "Where did you come from and what's that on your-"she gasped. "It's a PIPBOY, but it's been altered into a PipBuck?" She started to pick up speed and headed towards a building that looks like it has authority. "I must have permission to allow you to dwell in my household. You came from somewhere in this galaxy, and your PipBuck will give us the answer!" She explained her recent outburst that scares me half to death. She put me down on a very comfortable bench, I do say so myself. Then I looked back up and saw her pointing a finger at me. "Stay right there…please!" she added at the end.\

I look back down at my PipBuck, "I know what you're thinking, Redbeat!" My head turned to sigh of homesickness. "Your now in very trusted hands, and I'll keep them guessing until we both gain complete trust on these creatures capable of destroying worlds.

"What!?"

"Look out the window toward Earth, Redbeat!" I took his advice and looked at the…my ears and mouth seem they dropped off my face and head altogether. "During the great civil war between the Terran Covenant and the Paradigm Republic, which lasted only two years. The Paradigm Republic had enough fighting on a planet of many others like it. So in the last acts of the war, every major and minor religion abandoned Earth altogether and the Christian part of the fleet, tungsten rod the major population centers on the planet. That was, 2552 A.D, I believe. And today's star date is, 2995 A.D."

My soul dropped from its place, but at least we're on the good side of the humans and… not there. "So what's going to happen to me?"

"If you mean the both of us. The humans are going to take me off of your arm and they're going to educate you to the best of their abilities. I must plead with you, Redbeat. You must do your best, we need their help, and you better give them a reason to do so."

When my PipBuck gave it's very impressive speech, I looked back up to see a group of kids (from the looks of it) staring at me. One of them came and rubbed my back. Once again, I'm in paradise, these kids have Celestia's blessings with their awe relaxing hands. But what I didn't suspect was the group all started to rub me, or (pet me as they call it.) I didn't care, it felt good and my muscles can actually relax.

Then one of the kiddos sat in front in me. With a big smile on her face. "I saw my mom bring you inside the Ministry of Science. Is it true that you can actually talk?"

With a glee running in my veins and arteries, "Why yes, but I have one question to ask of you?"

"What is it, Redbeat?"

Little shocked that she got my name down from her mother. I shook my head out of that state and got on with the question. "What is your mother doing exactly, and what's going to be happening to me?"

The kid smiled, "You're going to be with us for a very long time I'm presumed. The council is actually pleased that you came to us, but they want to gain your trust first. And that's the first part. The second is education of your written syntax and to teach you our syntax. Lastly the longest part, experimentation. This will allow you to immigrate our technology into your world, but we need to know why you're here in the first place before the immigration part begins. So until then, keep a clear head and trust my people!"

Ok, talk about a kid that knows her stuff, and when I say know, I mean she knows a lot. But, why I had this gut feeling inside me now. Something awful is going to happen and it's not going to go down where I think it will be at. Keep a clear head.

Few good hours went by and the kids left me to sleep, well except Angelica. The caretaker's daughter I presumed. She stood by and watched over me, and made sure I got some type of sleep or a good nap. Then the metallic doors slid open and there she was. Happy as I can imagine that everything went down smoothly. "Ok, Redbeat, you're with us now for the next five to ten years, but you can leave at any time." She came and kneeled down to pat my back, "It's going to be okay, but I also don't want you getting stepped on, or ran over by a flying speeder out there… so let me carry you home."

Thank goodness she did to. I would've been Deadbeat more than likely.

The trip to the Angelica's home was very scenic. Artificial rivers roam free, until they hit the channels and canals of the town. Also if I'm not mistaken, the water can flow up a hill. I shook my head forgetting that I was being carried. "What is it, Red?" She questioned.

"Oh, my bad, just watching water go up a hill is kinda blowing my mind right now!" I explained.

"Awe!" she cooed, "Water here behaves a lot more differently on terraformed planets than the natural ones. You see-"she grasped for the right words to say. "Water here can flow up a surface since the artificial gravity generator, is pulling the moon to be like that of Earth … actually this is harder to explain than I thought it would. Maybe it doesn't want to give up its secrets all too easily."

Ah huh, I grunted in my mind. She's letting me on more than she can handle, but she maybe right. It might be hard to explain how water can up a ninety degree angle. We approached a building that looks a like their home, "our" home. She put me down so I can actually walk the rest of the way. Or, I might just spread my wings and fly around the house and gallop inside. No, wait that might be a bad idea.

We entered the home and it looked like heaven. THEY HAVE A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, or is that chocolate. I cocked my head and looked at this wonderful spectacle. Then the girls giggled at what I was doing, or it might be my tail wagging like a dog and my tongue sticking out at the fountain. "Go ahead, take a dip!" Angelica's voice rang out. So I dove on in, gulping in some delicious chocolate.

"Amazing, these creatures love the same things that humans do, and at least they can talk back. Redbeat!" she commanded. "Once your finish indulging yourself with chocolate milk, come to the kitchen so we can lay some ground rules and get that Pipboy off of you. The kitchen is going be down the hall on the right." I stuck my head out and nodded and continued spoiling myself.

After a good minute, I got out and Angelica immediately wiped me off with a towel. Went down the hallway like the caretaker said and there was a magnificent kitchen. She was sitting at a table in the far corner of the room with a screw driver ready to go. "Come on, Red, sit down and put your right forearm out!"

Like a good guess, I did what I was told, but I would love to know her name. She looked at me and knew what I'm about to say and beat me too it. "I'm Sarah Lane, but I persist you not to learn it. I want you to know Angelica's name only and-"she gasp! "Oh my God, please forgive me. I forgot to tell my husband about this. He doesn't like animals or in your case Red. Pegasai in the house." She looked around to find some logical explanation for me being here. She bumped my shoulder, "I guess we'll just have to wing it!?" she giggled. Getting her pun from my wings, I shook my head with a grin on my face.

"I guess, I'll let you have that one Mrs. Lane. But, Angelica told me that you'll need to learn my written syntax and I'll need to learn yours right?"

Yet, another mystery to why my PipBuck lured me into this. "Well, the "PipBoy 5000" is a very special trading and survival gear equipment for miners and traders. Helps organize their equipment and goods in their backpacks or pouches. Also assist in weapons combat-"explains what happened during the shootout with the bandits. "And provides medical aid. But in order for the PipBoy to work with other languages, it must have an adaptable G.U.I. to that cultures syntax. Basically what happen to you and no human has never seen this before. If we can get assistance from you, we might be able to send technology to assist your species to fight any threat." My ears popped up and she noticed. "What!?"

"Umm, that's why I came to you guys in the first place actually. You know that one criminal named Cronos?" The room's heartbeat stopped as soon as I mention the name.

"How did you, find those video holograms?" she muttered.

"They kinda flew in from space along with the beacon to let you guys know that he's there."

"Interesting," she paused to take in the new information I gave to her. "Let me go get an audio recorder so we can have this on record."

"No, need madam, I've been recording on my user's request." I look down to my PipBuck in shock.

"YOU really have to butt in do you, PIPBUCK!" I shouted in frustration.

"My apologizes everyone and pony!" I snorted as he put in "Pony last".

"I can tell that you two have some type of relationship." Sarah commented on the argument.

"I've been stuck with this guy for seven years almost and I was the only pony on the whole entire planet, until recently, to have a PipBuck/PipBoy!" Sarah looked at me with shock from the first part of the statement.

"Ok, we have some stuff to talk about tomorrow, let's get that PipBuck off of you and lay down the house rules!" Sarah smiled.

Got to remember not to fly anywhere without permission from Sarah or unless Angelica is in danger. I must stick with Angelica at all times when we're in town. Can't fly indoors, must use the restroom outside, preferably hidden from sight. Don't eat past eight P.M. until seven A.M. .Be in bed by nine O'clock P.M. "UGH!" I moaned.

I followed Sarah, as she showed me the guess bedroom. The bed itself, is embedded into the wall. Which is ok with me, I sleep like a bear anyways. The window showed the town wonderfully, and the noting that Luna Eclipse has a thirty day and night cycle. The window can simulate darkness without a curtain nor blinds. Instead, it darkens the tint to a very dark shade, making the room pitch dark. Which is very cool, almost like a unicorn casting a spell every twelve hours. When the admiration of the technology has finally left my head. I yawned and curled up in my bed and went to sleep.

(oooooO-0ooooo)

"Twilight!" A voice rang out! The voice was like that of the country folk back on my planet, but this doesn't look like anything on my planet. Hmm, then, Twilight I presumed turned her head to a mare about my age just a bit older. "Twilight!" the mare with blonde hair and tannish skin rang out once more.

"What is it Applejack!? Twilight responded in concern.

"It's my lil sis Applebloom, she's fallin ill, but the doc cn't fix it!" Applejack started to shed tears.

"Oh dear Celestia, let me see what I can do, but I have no promises, Applejack!" Twilight flew off to what looked like a hospital. With two fillies standing outside crying, and from the looks. Applejack's family as well. Twilight landed and rushed into the room in which Applebloom is getting treated. "Oh MY!" she gasped.

"Everypony stay outside and let Twilight do her best!" A very lady like mare called out to the crowd of family members.

"Thanks Rarity! Now I have faith in Celestia that I can help you with my magic, Applebloom." She took a deep breath and she enveloped the young filly with her purplish glow. Honestly, I don't know magic that well, but is it possible for unicorn's to have… wings?

I started to take note on the room we're in, even though I can't see much of it since my rider is only looking at this poor sick filly.

"Cough, Cough, Cough" in quick session. "Twi-light?" the filly's voice whimpered. "Is that you?" Now I feel like crying, but Twilight is still trying to help her. "It's no use Twi, I see Celestia waiting for me." I can't believe what I'm seeing right now. Both Twilight and Applebloom are crying. I guess Twilight knew that she going…to…"die"!

Why a fucking filly, my head exploded, but this is no pony that I knew of. Why am I caring, maybe because of Radiance and her…friends?

Twilight, let go of her magic on Applebloom. "I've failed you Applebloom, I've failed everybody as a princess tonight!" Wait one stinkin moment there Twilight, you're a fucking princess. I shook my head in disbelief and paid more attention to Applebloom. She was lifeless, not even breathing. Was the spell she cast even a healing spell. 'I don't know who you are in my head, but shut up. I know it wasn't a healing spell, she was too far gone!'

You can hear me! Wait, I'm the one dreamin here. Twilight was almost at the door and from the looks shocked. "Wait, you're asleep?" she questioned my authority.

Umm, yes. I just went to sleep not too long ago. I'm a Pegasus named Redbeat, and I'm not from your planet I believe. If you find a stallion Alicorn named Cronos. Let me know. According to my folk's legend, my herd we're called the lost. I don't know if you can find it in the Crystal Empire's library or not. Also, can you tell Celestia that I said hello.

Twilight just sat on her haunches. Shocked on the bombshell I threw at her. "Can you choose to a better time to throw that at me?"

No, not really, but what are my chances to meet you again?

"I'll look into it, Redbeat. Now get out of my head!" she screamed inside her mind.

I wish I could at the moment, but like I said, I'm asleep.

Then, I felt someone rubbing on my shoulders. It feels like heaven again.

(oooooO-Oooooo)

I propped my ears up to let them know, that I know that there their and grinned. I heard a giggle, and I knew it was Angelica. "So like a puppy," I wagged my tail in happiness. "You love those messages do you, Red?"

I nodded my head and opened up my eyes. The window has let the light into the room to show that it's daytime. The clock read seven O'clock, "well, I must had some good sleep, Angelica!"

"Yeah, I guess so, but you were muttering to yourself when I came to check on ya!" She paused for a good moment. "You said something about Twilight and Applejack. I'll be right back!" she jumped up and ran out the room.

I sat there confused as I could be. Then I heard her footsteps and barged right back into the room to a black square in the wall. She had something in her hand, but I can barely read it though. Then a flash of light in engulfed the room. Blinded me for a good two seconds. Then Angelica ran back to me and set the thing in her hand down. I can't read what it said, but I took a picture of it in my mind, "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Seasons 1-8".

She laid her head next to my stomach and held another object in her hand. From the looks, it controls the TV. A little sliver square thingy that can control something from across the room, witchcraft I say. Then the audio kicked in and a book was shown on the screen. The book was brown with gold braces on the side of the book. On the cover there was a gold unicorn with, what it looks like, a blue jewel for an eye. However, the picture began to move, like it was alive or something. Opening the book to the first cover page. It showed "Once upon a time…" and the audio kicked in reading the cover page of the book. Then a word kicked in after the narrator of the moving picture said "In the magical land of Equestria," the last word echoed in my ear for a good minute.

I shook my head in disbelief, "My elder's tales were true!" I hollered.

Angelica spooked, looked at me in question. "What do you mean your elder's tales were true?" I looked towards her and then lay my head down to think of kinder words of my old folk. Angelica picked up the witchcraft controller and the motion picture stopped. "Come on, you can tell me!" she petted me in comfort.

"Well, I can tell you the tale, then you can see why my generation didn't quite believe that Equestria didn't exist," I took a deep breath and continued on.

"Long time ago before my people came to this world that we live in today, there was a land called Equestria. Before the "sister alicorns united the land under their authority" the land was crooked and mournful. However, there was a thriving empire on the northern steppes called, 'The Crystal Empire'.

"Ruled by a faithful King Royal Blue and rightful Queen Crystalline. The duo brought great harmony to a thriving population. Wealth was everywhere, education was just, and the love of the empire was known.

"Sadly the couple never had an heir to the throne, the Queen last hopes of protecting the Empire laid in a crystal heart. The people on the outskirts of the empire had a serious doubt about this 'heart' and decided to pack up and move on.

The refugees roamed the land in a southern direction for more than a decade before they realized that the fear they ran away from, was in hot pursuit. The name of the corrupted fear was only known as King Sombra, the King of Hatred and Fear.

"The refugees had enough problems with how big they really gotten. More than a hundred thousand ponies were in the heard and not enough of them were ready to fight a fully armed army. Then one day, they met their actual fate. The herd ran into a stallion Alicorn, my people pleaded for his help, but only to get sent to this world. To both universes, our struggle was lost in time. So we kinda tagged ourselves as The Lost."

"Funny thing is Angelica, that story was told for almost one thousand four-hundred years almost and never was written down," I looked down to the marble floor.

"Well Redbeat, finally awake?" Sarah walked into what is now is my room. "We have a lot to do today, and we have a little time left until we go back to the Ministry of Peace," she waved me on to follow.

I don't appreciate having three-hundred pairs of eyes staring down at me, and Sarah was preparing for my case to stay and learn, make my argument why my people need help, or listen to whatever they want from my people. Then hopefully learn their technology.

"Red you're up to make your argument, and don't worry. They'll restate what argument they want you to debate," she smiled. I wish I had as much confidence as she does, I'm not too sure of myself at the moment.

I gulped, and made my move to the atrium of more people than I realized. The people stood up when I entered the room and sat down once I got to the podium of some sorts. Then a man with a white mane from the looks, stood up and held up his paper so he can read it.

"Redbeat, as you're called by TOP researcher of Foreign Species, Sarah Angelica Lane. Has made her argument to keep you here with the human race. She claims that your spices is under control of a master criminal master mind named, Cronos Yugotav. IN WHICH, he has committed illegal acts of science against all races and species. Stolen military equipment to foreign soil or even to an unknown location in the Northern Sector. In which we traced your projectory upon entry to Paradigm controlled space to be from that sector.

"Now on with the argument!" the man screech in a loud voice. "Now, explain to me, Redbeat, your personal reasons for coming to Paradigm Space?" as he stared into my poor soul along with hundreds of other members of the ministry.

I took a deep breath. Should I informed them our connection to this fiend or make a pointless aim of suffering. I think informing them of my peoples past with this bastard should convince them to help my people's cause. Here goes nothing, "My people, or herd I should say, are not from this world nor this universe. We we're sent here by Cronos for more than a one-thousand-four hundred years ago. From a land called Equestria. We met the Alicorn pleading for help from corruption of the nation we fled from. Instead this, FIEND, banished us from existence, to only send my herd here to your universe.

"Now, almost a century, he ruled over our people with an iron grip. Sending our parents to labor camps, and one day not seeing them again. Killing hundreds of thousands of ponies (Really only a thousand) a year in concentration camps. He does this with his army of demonic hybrid pony minions of his, with flying ships that can stretch over twelve miles. How we ever going to liberate ourselves, if we got nothing to bring down the technology that Cronos has in his disposal without outside help. My friends and I found your warrant holograms for Cronos and my PipBuck traced your signal here. Hopefully, and faithfully getting help from your people. I now rest my argument!" The man that was standing up wasn't completely buying my case from the looks on his face. Actually, he's been staring me like at that as soon I walked into the atrium.

Then the lights strobe red with a voice echoing, "RED ALERT! RED ALERT! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!" then the voice gets cut off by a very loud bass drop of an explosion. Everybody got up to three sets of doors with red lettering on them. However, the man that was standing; waved me on to follow him, and flew towards him. We ran to the doors, when the atrium main doors, the doors I entered the atrium, blasted open to see… NO!

"Sir we need to run!" I screamed out. He looked back to see what I mean, and his face horrified at sight of the cyborg ponies standing there right in front of us.

"Oh, Your defiantly getting our support now, Redbeat!" the man said in fear.

A missile flew over our heads and collapsed the wall on our left. We continued running with Gatling shells cutting the wall to Swiss cheese.

We stopped dead cold, the cyborg ponies blasted off the escape main to the outside world. I look down to see the dead delegates and puked at the sight of the dead blown away bodies.

I shook my head in disgrace for losing my lunch in front of the man. "You see why we need help now, we can't fight back. You can however!"

The man nodded his head and waited for our fates to come around the corner.

Clomp! Clomp! CLOMP! CLOMP!

Then this gut feeling is saying NO! I won't go down to what I'm fighting against. "Sir, get a good grip on my neck and hold on!" I ordered him.

"WHAT YOUR TRYING TO DO, REDBEAT!" as he grasped around my neck and crouched down. He's not that heavy, I carried a lot heavier things in the rock mines back home. I propped my wings for lift off, bent my legs and took one hell of a deep breath.

BOOM! Luckily I grabbed the man's hands with my hooves upon take off!

The hallway crumbled and collapsed killing two of the cyborg ponies in a massive explosion. I slowed down to navigate the building with my terrified passenger on my back. In doing so, I've seen that there are five cyborg ponies not three. The rest took off after me with their rocket packs.

GULP!

I looked around for a safe and quick exit, but the building would've give in to a simple request. Bullets flew passed me in quick session, followed by two pairs of dumb fire missiles. The last missile exploded way ahead of my flight path and I ducked into the opening and… I'm outside.

The man on my back told me where to drop him off if able, and told me not to fly towards the red crossed buildings. I had little time to spare before those two cyborgs figure out that I've escaped the building. The man bailed off my back and rolled onto the grass in the area he wanted to be dropped off I presumed, and circled back to the Ministry of Peace.

*****I didn't get far! *****

Just two blocks from the man's drop off point, all three cyborgs we're chasing after me. Honestly, I got no idea what to do at this point. I'm out gunned and besides, I'm got no guns. However, I can out maneuver them and I got the speed to my advantage. "Huh, it's time to play some dodgeball, but with bullets and rockets!" as I grinned with excitement. "Let's do it!"

The cyborgs were in a triangle formation, which only allowed two thirds of their weapons array to work. Only the leader can fire all his weapons. I must get in between the formation and have faith that they will shoot each other, or do a sonic bass drop, maybe both.

The cyborgs fired their weapons as I hoped for. Basic maneuvering in and out allowed me to dodge every bullet and rocket shell fired at me. But I see one problem with my plan, they got computer controlled firing systems and they won't fire at friendlies. "SHIT, why that didn't come to me before I did this. FUCK ME CELSTIA, FUCK ME!"

I'm improvised the best I could, I'm on the back of the leader kicking his armor. But no luck in killing him. He's keeping the other two from firing at me, but they seem to ignore me unless I go out of the imaginary firing box and the opening between them two can allow me to do a sonic bass drop. But if I do, it's going to break my wings.

"DAMN, WHY NOT! I got no other choices right now!" BOOM! "I forgot that they are full of ammunition and vegetable oil!"

I fell out of the sky, but didn't realized how close to the ground I was. I didn't break my wings but I felt chills running down my body. My eyes hazed and clouded up. I focused what ever might I could to slow down, but…