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div style="max-height: 999999px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"Chapter XV p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongWHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? Time to thank the magic of copy and paste. Before I start this story, I just want to say that Chaos' Blade might end up being the official ponification of Nathan W. Boroff's Walker. He hasn't said yet, but I can feel it. Now, before I try any other antics, THE FIC IS THE THING!/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Marshall, who had taken the name of Chain Revelation on Equestria, stumbled around the streets of Ponyville. Sombra had used a spell on him that the every time he thought to run from his task, he would have the same feeling of blood loss from his previous torture. Already, he was lightheaded from it./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""That boy, when I find him..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"His thoughts were interrupted by a flash of color in front of his eyes, blinding him. Never before had something of this brightness intruded upon his line of sight. He stumbled, knocking over a barrel of apples. "What was..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""'Scuse me, sir?" Chain turned to see the mare who own the barrel of fallen fruit. A certain orange Earth pony with a western draw. "Y'all may not be a fan of apples, bu' ya' don' have ta' buck 'em over."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Don't blame me! This...thing attacked me!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""...Pardon? Thing? If ya don' mind me sayin', there's an awful lot of 'things' in Ponyville."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Chain spat at Applejack's hooves. "Incompetent mare, what do you know? Leave me to do my business, which I would trust you stay out of."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She cocked her head to the side. "Uh...alrigh', if ya say so."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Good, now, as you-" the same bright flash of color knocked him back into a building this time. "What in the name of my ancestors? It's back!" He jumped up and bolted off into the distance. "IT'S TRYING TO KILL ME!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Applejack was not very amused by this. She looked up and cocked an eyebrow at her fruit stand sign. "Pinkie, y'all need ta learn ta stop jumpin' out at folks like tha'."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"From seemingly nowhere, Pinkie Pie's head popped out from behind the sign and turned to AJ. "Ididn'tknowhewouldgetsoscaredI'mnotthatscaryamIIjustliketosurpriseponiesnotscarethemIguesssomeponiescan'thandlethessurprisingnessofPinkiePietheParty-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""And ya' need to learn to slow down yer talkin' too."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"After a second or two, the pink mare's head, ever so slightly, began to move up and then back down. "I...said...I...did...n't...know...he...would..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Ya know wha'? Never mind."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Leaving the two mares, let's look back at Marshall for a while. He was running at top speed through the streets with a new-found vigor. The pink creature might have still been at his heels and he would have never known it...had he not at one point fell into the town square fountain. He tripped right over the side and landed, head first, into the waters, the fountain pouring right onto his tail./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I'm not cut out for this job."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I'll say."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Chain looked up and saw yet another one of Equestria's many ponies. A blue mare with a starry cape and hat was looking at him with a confused look. "Might I ask what you believe you are doing?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Carefully, he stood up, got out of the fountain, and looked her straight in the face. "What is it to you what I do in my free time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Nothing at all. But the Great and Powerful Trixie likes to know the reasoning behind you're antics."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""The Tired and Annoyed Chain Revelation doesn't need to tell you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Trixie laughed at this. "Another one? I didn't know we had to brilliant minds in Ponyville."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Brilliant minds?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""But of course. But enough of that, and since introductions are out of the way, why don't you come with me?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Why?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well, it appears that you are a pony that is fond of swimming, so I was going to go to a lake in the Everfree forest. Normally, I would swim by myself, but why don't you come?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I'm sorry, but I have work to do. I'm looking for a Stallion by the name of Jack O' Trades."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Oh, but I know him."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You do?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Of course."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Tell me where I can find him."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Trixie got right up in his face, a tempting look in her eyes. "Come swim with me first."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongMeanwhile, back at the Library.../strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""SOULS! MOVE! DAMMIT MOVE!" Even as Jack tried it for the seventeenth time, the rock was still in the same place it was to begin with. "What am I doing wrong?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Blaze, currently wearing a professor's coat and Einstein wig for no discernible reason, and Spike, wearing...well, his usual apparel, were drawing up an elaborate diagram on a chalk board. "Hmm..." Blaze said with a hoof on his chin. "It appears that the time has come to tell you, Jack."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Tell me...what?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Spike jumped turned to Blaze. "Are you sure we should tell him?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""It is only right that he knows."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""That I know what?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""But he's not ready."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""O, is a Stallion ever ready for the time upon which things are revealed to him?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Can't we wait just a few more minutes? He's already working so hard."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""He must know, for we cannot finish our work unless he knows."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""WHAT THE BUCK ARE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Jack, I want you to prepare yourself."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Okay, I'm ready!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Are you sure?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Yes."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Positive?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""TELL ME!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Blaze cleared his throat and said, "This may come to you as a bit of a shock." He flipped the chalk board over, revealing several games of tic tac toe. "But we ran out of room on this board and are in need of another one."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack stared at his friend for a second before pounding his hoof into his own forehead as hard as he could repeatedly. When he stopped, there was a small trickle of blood pouring from his forehead, in front of which a vial magically appeared./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"That's when Twilight walked up to them. "Sorry, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to run some tests on this."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When she had said this, Jack turned away, laughing hysterically. "Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead! Do you want me to cut one of my back hooves next? Or who about I just turned myself over to my grandfather, hand him the Moses Amulet, and then have him kill me? Then you can have as much of my blood as you want."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Jack...I'm-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""SHUT UP!" He spread his wings and shot up into the sky, flying as fast as he could manage and landing on a cloud far away from Ponyville. When he had finally stopped, he sunk down and began crying./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""It's not easy being special, is it?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack looked up to see Chaos standing over him, smiling tenderly. He immediately stood up, wiped away his tears, and asked, "Are you going to give me my first task now?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Chaos laughed. "Sit down, child. I know what you've been through."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He did as he was told and sat back down. "No you don't."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Jack, I know how hard it is to suddenly know that you are a powerful being. And I know it's harder trying to cope with people who want to know all about it." Chaos looked off into the distance. "I also know what it's like to be lied to."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""What do you mean?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I grew up as a simple commoner on my home planet of Pacemque Duraret. I had no idea that I was so much more. But now, it's too late. The world I knew is over two thousand years gone."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You're two thousand years old?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Two thousand twenty-two, though I have the looks of a seventeen-year-old, the mind of a fifty-year-old, and the patience of those dead and gone. But never mind my age, you and I are alike in many ways."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""How? You are amazing. You can use special powers and I've heard stories of how you fight. I'm nothing like that."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Ah, but you see, what you are is locked inside this shell you call a body. A person or pony is not made of up deeds and looks, but rather, who they are inside their mind and their heart. Some of them have really easy ways of showing who they really are."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack's hoof instantly flew to his saddle bag and brought out the potion./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Yes, Jack. That potion is the block between this form and your true form. In your true form, you will instantly know how to use your power to the fullest. But, where is the pleasure in just knowing with experience? And, you already have some power now."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""How do you figure? I spent half an hour yelling at a rock to move."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I heard, and for the record, it's not 'Souls,' it's emSoules/emem./em But that's beyond the point. I ran a test on a scrap of the pendant that came off during your visit here and discovered there was nothing special about it."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"This caught Jack off guard. "Nothing?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Nothing. The tasks were given to you through it by a spell cast by Sombra, but other than that, it's useless. It didn't have the power to transport all of you from world to world. emYou/em did that. So here is your first task: Decide whither to have instant power, instant knowledge...or to learn under me and gain this experience yourself, and not from a bottle."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack looked at the bottle. He had to decide to drink it then or to drink it later after his training. "Will I ever turn into my real self?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""The potion will permanently change your physical appearance as well as give you your full power. But that is a minor aspect to consider."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"After thinking it over for a while, Jack looked up at Chaos. "I guess it would be a waste of your time if I drink this now." He smiled as he placed it back into his saddlebag./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Chaos smirked when he did this. "Then let the training begin."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongChapter Complete. Yeah, I'm back from camp and back to writing for a while before the next big thing. And, I just want to say thank you to those people who helped me with this fic thus far. At the end, as a sort of credits thing, I'm going to type up the usernames and what that person did. So, if you want to be in the credits, give me an OC and/or task and I'll recognize you for it. Until then, RR AND ADIOS!/strong/p
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div style="max-height: 999999px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"Chapter XV p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongWHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT TIME IS IT? Time to thank the magic of copy and paste. Before I start this story, I just want to say that Chaos' Blade might end up being the official ponification of Nathan W. Boroff's Walker. He hasn't said yet, but I can feel it. Now, before I try any other antics, THE FIC IS THE THING!/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Marshall, who had taken the name of Chain Revelation on Equestria, stumbled around the streets of Ponyville. Sombra had used a spell on him that the every time he thought to run from his task, he would have the same feeling of blood loss from his previous torture. Already, he was lightheaded from it./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""That boy, when I find him..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"His thoughts were interrupted by a flash of color in front of his eyes, blinding him. Never before had something of this brightness intruded upon his line of sight. He stumbled, knocking over a barrel of apples. "What was..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""'Scuse me, sir?" Chain turned to see the mare who own the barrel of fallen fruit. A certain orange Earth pony with a western draw. "Y'all may not be a fan of apples, bu' ya' don' have ta' buck 'em over."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Don't blame me! This...thing attacked me!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""...Pardon? Thing? If ya don' mind me sayin', there's an awful lot of 'things' in Ponyville."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Chain spat at Applejack's hooves. "Incompetent mare, what do you know? Leave me to do my business, which I would trust you stay out of."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She cocked her head to the side. "Uh...alrigh', if ya say so."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Good, now, as you-" the same bright flash of color knocked him back into a building this time. "What in the name of my ancestors? It's back!" He jumped up and bolted off into the distance. "IT'S TRYING TO KILL ME!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Applejack was not very amused by this. She looked up and cocked an eyebrow at her fruit stand sign. "Pinkie, y'all need ta learn ta stop jumpin' out at folks like tha'."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"From seemingly nowhere, Pinkie Pie's head popped out from behind the sign and turned to AJ. "Ididn'tknowhewouldgetsoscaredI'mnotthatscaryamIIjustliketosurpriseponiesnotscarethemIguesssomeponiescan'thandlethessurprisingnessofPinkiePietheParty-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""And ya' need to learn to slow down yer talkin' too."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"After a second or two, the pink mare's head, ever so slightly, began to move up and then back down. "I...said...I...did...n't...know...he...would..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Ya know wha'? Never mind."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Leaving the two mares, let's look back at Marshall for a while. He was running at top speed through the streets with a new-found vigor. The pink creature might have still been at his heels and he would have never known it...had he not at one point fell into the town square fountain. He tripped right over the side and landed, head first, into the waters, the fountain pouring right onto his tail./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I'm not cut out for this job."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I'll say."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Chain looked up and saw yet another one of Equestria's many ponies. A blue mare with a starry cape and hat was looking at him with a confused look. "Might I ask what you believe you are doing?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Carefully, he stood up, got out of the fountain, and looked her straight in the face. "What is it to you what I do in my free time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Nothing at all. But the Great and Powerful Trixie likes to know the reasoning behind you're antics."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""The Tired and Annoyed Chain Revelation doesn't need to tell you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Trixie laughed at this. "Another one? I didn't know we had to brilliant minds in Ponyville."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Brilliant minds?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""But of course. But enough of that, and since introductions are out of the way, why don't you come with me?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Why?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well, it appears that you are a pony that is fond of swimming, so I was going to go to a lake in the Everfree forest. Normally, I would swim by myself, but why don't you come?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I'm sorry, but I have work to do. I'm looking for a Stallion by the name of Jack O' Trades."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Oh, but I know him."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You do?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Of course."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Tell me where I can find him."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Trixie got right up in his face, a tempting look in her eyes. "Come swim with me first."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongMeanwhile, back at the Library.../strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""SOULS! MOVE! DAMMIT MOVE!" Even as Jack tried it for the seventeenth time, the rock was still in the same place it was to begin with. "What am I doing wrong?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Blaze, currently wearing a professor's coat and Einstein wig for no discernible reason, and Spike, wearing...well, his usual apparel, were drawing up an elaborate diagram on a chalk board. "Hmm..." Blaze said with a hoof on his chin. "It appears that the time has come to tell you, Jack."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Tell me...what?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Spike jumped turned to Blaze. "Are you sure we should tell him?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""It is only right that he knows."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""That I know what?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""But he's not ready."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""O, is a Stallion ever ready for the time upon which things are revealed to him?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Can't we wait just a few more minutes? He's already working so hard."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""He must know, for we cannot finish our work unless he knows."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""WHAT THE BUCK ARE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Jack, I want you to prepare yourself."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Okay, I'm ready!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Are you sure?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Yes."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Positive?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""TELL ME!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Blaze cleared his throat and said, "This may come to you as a bit of a shock." He flipped the chalk board over, revealing several games of tic tac toe. "But we ran out of room on this board and are in need of another one."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack stared at his friend for a second before pounding his hoof into his own forehead as hard as he could repeatedly. When he stopped, there was a small trickle of blood pouring from his forehead, in front of which a vial magically appeared./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"That's when Twilight walked up to them. "Sorry, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to run some tests on this."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When she had said this, Jack turned away, laughing hysterically. "Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead! Do you want me to cut one of my back hooves next? Or who about I just turned myself over to my grandfather, hand him the Moses Amulet, and then have him kill me? Then you can have as much of my blood as you want."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Jack...I'm-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""SHUT UP!" He spread his wings and shot up into the sky, flying as fast as he could manage and landing on a cloud far away from Ponyville. When he had finally stopped, he sunk down and began crying./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""It's not easy being special, is it?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack looked up to see Chaos standing over him, smiling tenderly. He immediately stood up, wiped away his tears, and asked, "Are you going to give me my first task now?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Chaos laughed. "Sit down, child. I know what you've been through."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He did as he was told and sat back down. "No you don't."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Jack, I know how hard it is to suddenly know that you are a powerful being. And I know it's harder trying to cope with people who want to know all about it." Chaos looked off into the distance. "I also know what it's like to be lied to."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""What do you mean?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I grew up as a simple commoner on my home planet of Pacemque Duraret. I had no idea that I was so much more. But now, it's too late. The world I knew is over two thousand years gone."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You're two thousand years old?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Two thousand twenty-two, though I have the looks of a seventeen-year-old, the mind of a fifty-year-old, and the patience of those dead and gone. But never mind my age, you and I are alike in many ways."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""How? You are amazing. You can use special powers and I've heard stories of how you fight. I'm nothing like that."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Ah, but you see, what you are is locked inside this shell you call a body. A person or pony is not made of up deeds and looks, but rather, who they are inside their mind and their heart. Some of them have really easy ways of showing who they really are."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack's hoof instantly flew to his saddle bag and brought out the potion./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Yes, Jack. That potion is the block between this form and your true form. In your true form, you will instantly know how to use your power to the fullest. But, where is the pleasure in just knowing with experience? And, you already have some power now."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""How do you figure? I spent half an hour yelling at a rock to move."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I heard, and for the record, it's not 'Souls,' it's emSoules/emem./em But that's beyond the point. I ran a test on a scrap of the pendant that came off during your visit here and discovered there was nothing special about it."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"This caught Jack off guard. "Nothing?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Nothing. The tasks were given to you through it by a spell cast by Sombra, but other than that, it's useless. It didn't have the power to transport all of you from world to world. emYou/em did that. So here is your first task: Decide whither to have instant power, instant knowledge...or to learn under me and gain this experience yourself, and not from a bottle."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack looked at the bottle. He had to decide to drink it then or to drink it later after his training. "Will I ever turn into my real self?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""The potion will permanently change your physical appearance as well as give you your full power. But that is a minor aspect to consider."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"After thinking it over for a while, Jack looked up at Chaos. "I guess it would be a waste of your time if I drink this now." He smiled as he placed it back into his saddlebag./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Chaos smirked when he did this. "Then let the training begin."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongChapter Complete. Yeah, I'm back from camp and back to writing for a while before the next big thing. And, I just want to say thank you to those people who helped me with this fic thus far. At the end, as a sort of credits thing, I'm going to type up the usernames and what that person did. So, if you want to be in the credits, give me an OC and/or task and I'll recognize you for it. Until then, RR AND ADIOS!/strong/p
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