Chapter 13

"Ugh, my head." I groaned, holding my head.
"I should probably put that stuff away." I chuckled, grabbing my belongings and stuffing them in the rift.
Eptic must have fallen asleep at Vinyl's.
"Great. I have to venture there to get him." I said to myself.
I walked outside, towards Vinyl's house.
I felt some sort of quake.
"What the heck?" I said to myself (Again.).
A crowd of screaming ponies came galloping down the street.
"In gods name?"
I flew up to avoid the crowd of ponies, only to be knocked down by fleeing Pegasi.
I did my best to avoid them, and passed the crowd.
"Oh my god." I said quietly.
I was overlooking a giant crater, at least five times the size of the one I found Jackie in.
Smoke covered the whole thing, and spread out a little farther.
"Impact!" I heard Rainbow call from behind me.
I turned around to see Rainbow and Fluttershy flying above the rest of the girls.
"What happened?" Twilight asked.
"I don't know. I felt a quake or something and flew through a crowd of fleeing ponies." I said, suddenly serious.
"Sweet Celestia, this one is bigger than the one Jackie made!" Applejack exclaimed.
"I'll get him!" Rainbow said, flying towards the crater.
"Hold up there, suagrcube! Your still recouperatin' from your injury from the last feller!" Applejack said, grabbing Rainbow's tail.
Suddenly, there was an evil laughter coming from the crater.
"Jackie... I've missed you..." The laughter repeated itself.
"Let me do this." I said, holding a hoof towards the ponies.
"But Impact, we're a team. We're the elements of harmony. We have to do this together." Twilight reasoned.
I sighed. "Fine. Just don't die."
I flew into the smoke, expecting something to jump out at me at any moment.
"Ah... You must be the one Jackie thinks so highly about." I heard an evil voice say.
"How do you know about Jackie?" I said, not knowing where the voice was.
"Well, I am her father, after all. Am I not allowed to know of my own daughter's feelings?"
"Jackie's father?" Twilight said.
"Maybe he came to Equestria to come and see her!" I heard Pinkie's voice say.
"Pinkie?" Fluttershy's panicked voice said.
"Hold on! Just calm down, and follow my vo-" I was interrupted by a sharp claw across my face.
I screamed in agony as pain seared across my face.
"Chris!" I heard Twilight's voice yell.
"I'm fine! Just... stay away from him." I tried to yell, but the pain that was etched across my face kept me from saying much.
"Oh, boo hoo, little lavender horse can't find Little 'Impact' can she? It's fine, I'll send you to her as a pile of flesh!" He said, sending another swipe my way.
I barely threw my head out of the way for him to only scratch my snout.
He growled in annoyance.
"This is gonna make me look really nerdy." I said to myself, opening a mini-rift and jumping in just in time to dodge another attack.
"Okay, armor, armor, armor..." I repeated, searching the piles of stuff I had in the long, never ending, void.
"Ah ha!" I said proudly, holding up a large, black leather chest piece.
I grabbed my necklace and turned into a human again.
"Man, I forgot how young I was." I said, fitting into the armor.
"Now, where's that gauntlet..." I said, searching for the other pieces.

Third Person POV

"You tiny, pathetic, horses!" The griffon yelled, swiping at Rainbow Dash.
"Too slow!" She taunted.
The griffon only stood there in a defensive stance.
"He's smarter than that, Rainbow." Twilight said, her horn glowing because of the spell she was using to clear the fog.
"You are clever, aren't you?"
Twilight only glared daggers at him.
"You cannot break me, for whatever reason you would want to." The griffon continued to stand there, only in no defensive stance.
"You!" Jackie's voice called, and slammed into her father, at top speed.
"Jackie!" The griffon laughed. "I have missed you so!"
Jackie responded with several swipes at her father's face.
"You've been getting stronger I see! Well, maybe we can destroy these pathetic ponies together, eh?"
"You can go straight to hell!" Jackie yelled, and pure hatred came with each word.
"What has gotten into you?" Jackie's father said, throwing the enraged griffon off his chest.
Jackie didn't respond, and only stood up.
"No daughter of mine does that." Her father said menacingly.
"I'm not your daughter! Your not my father!" Jackie yelled angrily.
"Do not speak to me that way!"
"I'm not your daughter anymore. I don't have to listen to you. Your just Robby Sares to me."
"You are forcing me to do this." He threw himself at his daughter.
Jackie flew out of the way, leaving Robby dazed against the hard, cold earth.
A rift opened right above Robby, and Chris's armored human form jumped out, landing on Robby.
"Ack!" Robby grabbed his ankle, and threw him to the ground.
Chris pulled out a blade from a sheath on his waist.
"Nightingale blade, Boy!" He slammed the blade towards Robby's head, and he barely avoided it.

Chris's POV

I stood up in my Nightingale armor.(Look it up. It has to do with Skyrim.)
"What in gods name are you wearing?" The griffon asked.
"Just some Nightingale armor. Pretty cool looking if you ask me. So does this thing." I held up the blade.
"Not bad." The griffon said, charging at me.
I held up my blade, and braced myself.
He slammed me to the ground, and I struggled to keep the blade from slicing my neck.
"Who the heck are you anyway?" I said between breaths.
"I am Jackie's father. She is too ignorant to think of me as so."
"Name please."
"Robby. Robby Sares. I was in the mafia before I came here to be with my daughter."
"Well, doesn't look like that's happening." I said, enraging him, and he threw himself off me.
I pulled my hood over my head, and my cowl over my nose, barely leaving room for me to see.
"Well, your one for bada-" I interrupted him with a blade to the side.
He screamed in pain and I pulled my blade out of his side.
Robby stumbled back, holding his side.
"You little..." He flew forward, grabbing by the shoulders with his front claws.
"Chris!" Twilight shouted, and Rainbow and Fluttershy shot after us.
"Hey jerk!" I shouted.
"What?" He said annoyed.
"Nut Shot!" I yelled, throwing my foot up, my whole body, a little close for comfort, and my boot collided with his... Griffon-hood?
He let out a high pitched yelp and dropped my, holding his groin.
That wasn't the smartest thing I had done.
I landed smack dab on a roof, bursting through the hay structure.
I rubbed my head, and looked around.
It was my house. Great.
Chances are, this thing is going up in flames.
Robby burst through a wall(Like a boss.), and threw himself at me.
I grabbed my blade from the ground and held it up.
I heard a sickening slice sound, and Robby's face stopped inches from my face.
His eyes were wide open, either from shock, or from dieing quickly.
"Well now, that went better than expected." I said to myself.
"So you think." Robby whispered, and pulled himself off my blade.
"I need some help with this I guess."
I opened a mini-rift and pulled out a flat stone, with some type of rune on it.
"Now, let's see here..." I began rubbing the top of the stone.
Robby swiped the stone from me, and began doing the same.
"What do you expect to do with that?"
"This." he sopped rubbing the stone, and grew slightly larger.
His fur darkened, and he let out a huge roar.
"Calm your beans, bro." I said.
He grabbed me by the ankle and held me up, upside down.
"You underestimate me, fool." He said, growling.
"Underestimate? You just stole my freakin' rune stone. You don't have to be such a plothole all the time." I crossed my arms.
he growled again, and threw me against a wall, breaking it.
"This is my frickin' house man!" I shouted, getting up.
He pulled me back inside, by the ankle yet again, and began spinning in a circle.
So that's what stone tastes like.
I was literally, tearing away the walls, as I spun around, I was removing the walls.
After a complete, 360, Robby slammed me into the ground.
He shrunk back to his normal size, and looked exhausted.
"What's the matter? Hey, stay here for a sec. I need to test out my new moon cannon." I said, limping quickly to the kitchen.
I opened the fridge and pulled out a banana.
"Hey, Robby. You like bananas?" I asked him.
"No, you fool."
"Oh, so your a mare that doesn't like bananas?"
"No! I'm a man that doesn't like bananas."
"Oh, well that's good," I began, flipping a panel up that protected a button.
"What?"
"Cause you ain't finding any bananas, on the !" I screamed, pressing the button, and a cannon shot out of the ground right from under Robby, so he became the cannon ball.
"What? You fool. I'm not defeated yet."
"Sure. Whatever, Mr. Cliche."
The cannon shot him so high in the air, I think I saw a spark where he flew away to.
The problem was, I hadn't installed a roof door, so the cannon shot through the roof.
Another problem I had, was that I had gotten the wrong types of hinges.
The cannon fell down towards the only part of unbroken wall left.
"Come on!" I said, and the house's walls fell to the ground, barely hitting me.
I sighed. This was going to be a long night.
I twisted my necklace, and turned back into a pony, with a ponified version of the Nightingale armor, and my Nightingale Blade sheathed on my side.
"Chris! What happened?" Twilight asked, running into the ruins of what used to be my house.
"Well, I shot Robby out of a cannon and caused my house to collapse. You know." I chuckled, but a searing pain shot through my head and ribs.
"Chris! Are you okay?" Twilight said, holding me stable.
"Yeah, Just get me to a hospital. Please and thank you." I said, gripping my sides.
Twilight lifted me up with magic and rushed to the hospital.
She burst through the doors, and other nurses moved me to a gurney.
"Is he breathing?" A nurse asked.
"Yes, but it's heavy and slow!" Another nurse said.
"Get him an I.V.!"
I felt something in my wrist.
"Perfect!"
I felt myself falling asleep.
"He's going out!"
I couldn't hear anything from that point.

"He's coming back." I heard a male's voice say.
"Is that I.V. Working?"
"Yes."
"Thank Celestia."
"Did you give him morphine?"
"Yes."
I opened my eyes to a bright light.
I think I'm having Deejay-Vu.
"Sir?" A nurse said.
"Yeah, I just... Wow! Look at all the colors, man!" I exclaimed.
"I think I gave him too much morphine."
"Probably."
The nurse sighed.
"I'll leave you to wear off the effects." She said, leaving.
I began rocking my head slightly.

"Imagine in your mind A posh country club The stuffy old money where the poor get snubbed"

"The spread is bland sauerkraut and boiled goose There's no way these people will ever cut loose!
But then I walk in the room hold my Boombox high And what happens next, will blow your mind!"

"Everything got outta control
The music was so entrancing
Everyone got out on the floor
it was a bunch of white people dancing"

"Now picture if you will a bunch of business men Stuffed in the boardroom Like pigs in a pen The ties around their necks are like a hangman's noose"

"In the middle of the table there's a Boiled goose!
The old people smell makes you wanna puke in the sink These dudes will never dance, yeah that's what you think!"

"I stride in the room all young and hip Hold up my boombox and say listen to this!"

"Then everyone started to move!
People rejoiced instead of financing
Your preconceived notions were shattered
by the super old white people dancing!"

I fell asleep then. Just stopped singing and fell asleep instantly.

"Is he waking up?" I heard an inaudible voice ask.
I panicked slightly, and threw my head up.
My forehead slammed into another, and my instincts made me hold my forehead, and I did that so quickly, my hooves hit something else.
I opened my eyes to see Rainbow holding her forehead and snout.
"Rainbow! Are you okay?" I said.
She moaned, and didn't take her hooves off her snout and forehead.
"Sorry."
"Chris!" Twilight shouted, carefully hugging me.
"Twi!" I said, hugging her back.
"You had five broken ribs, a concussion, a broken hoof, and a fractured little toe." She said.
"That jerk re-fractured my toe?"
"Re-fractured?"
"Yeah, I fractured it this one time when I was answering the door. Slammed it right onto the slim part." I chuckled.
"Well, That's Chris for ya." She giggled.
"Morning Chris." I heard Olivia say.
"Morning? About flippin' time!" I joked.
The ponies all giggled, except for Rainbow, who continued to hold her snout.
"I guess I don't know my own strength."
"Well, you did use Robby's strength and your head to collapse your whole house." Olivia joked.
"Oh, yeah. I knew I had a thick skull." I chuckled, but stopped when I felt a sharp pain through my head and ribs again.
Twilight held me stable again.
"I'm fine, just..." I sighed and lied down.
"I... I have some... Cupcakes in the oven! Yeah, I have to go!" Pinkie said, shooting out the door.
"I also have some dresses I need to make, so I must be going." She said politely, and left.
"Uh, yeah I have some things to do at the orchard. So... yeah." She cantered out.
Rainbow said nothing and hovered out.
Fluttershy had a large smile on her face.
Twilight looked at her, and where I was lying, I couldn't see her expresion.
Fluttershy's eyes widened.
"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to... I'll go." She said, and left.
(Guess what. Cliff hanger.)