MickeyAdaptus

"I guess, but in end, it did turn alright because I had the solution of switching her soul between bodies. I wish i could compare it with Maple's infection, but this is far more severe, i have seen things that made me question our existance back in some of the most disturbing places. everyone is acting so calm about the whole conversion process like it is nothing, i have seen some among us walking with a smile on their faces as they where about to blow up a conversion center, yet showed no form of sympathy when they incinerate all those people who are being held in those conversion centers. Luna was the only one who showed her distress when we were in the first conversion centre of Equestria, but everyone else there? Nothing, they talk so much about this friendship, but where is the friendship towards those who really need it? Some may say i am reckless, but you know what? At least i acknowledge on how i feel bad about what is happening, that is what my old group never lacked, i could relate with them because they felt the same thing i did. They say things they have experienced are so bad, but what about us? Are we so insignificant to not be mentioned? Do they think we are all having fun living like this? Are we so unimportant that they see Equestria as a master race?! That is my problem, all the constant boasting, all the stories on how everything was so great! At this point it feels like mockery having to hear that over and over again. Everyone wonders why i am so distant? There is my answer, it has been bothering me for so long.." Jack said as he was starting to get a bit emotional in his words. "I have been carrying these feelings for so long, and now i feel like i have to voice them."

"Heh, I might make for a pretty good lawyer but in Equestria, it won't really work out that well with such a job, they are alot more about the whole prospect of friendship and stuff, i was not really raised in such a society in the first place, I guess I should perhaps become a treasure hunter, or rather a artefact hunter at this rate, its one of the things I know a pretty good deal at." Jack said with a smile He then started to frown. "I guess i might not have shown my emotions properly for what we are going to be doing soon, but i can say without a doubt that i am dreading about the thing that we are going to witness. It comes to the conclusion that should we be able to save my sister from there, she is going to turn regardless in the end, which will come to the conclusion that we will be forced to kill her if she ends up turning completely, only then i will have to see her suffer as she is stuck in some disformed body that is clutched together from all sorts of living beings into one whole thing.." Jack said with bitterness

"It is alright, it shows that you do truly care. if it weren't for you and the others, I would have either died long ago or I would have been living as a lone scavenger and a forgotten martyr. Funny, i always expected myself to become those 2 last things, with everything going on i only had the choice of fight through everything until i would die, because i was aware i was not going to last long back then. I just wonder if i have done the right thing, i just not have a particular future in mind, even once i am going to settle down from all the fighting, i just don't have a objective, or a focus." Jack said

"That is understandable, Some have these moments where they don't want to do something but do it anyway because someone they look up to does it, it's going with the flow, perhaps you brother has been feeling like this the entire time? Who knows, just because someone tends to join missions or fights alot doesn't mean they feel like they need to or enjoy it, its a common thing where people tend to hide things so others won't get upset, perhaps you should just ask him if he truly feels like fighting, because that could clear alot of your doubts. And even if he would blame you for yourself wanting to fight, you are a born warrior, i can see it in your personality. About him it still remains a mystery, that is all the advice i can offer, hope it cleared up some of your worries." Betamor said as he walked ahead. "It was more meant as a half-joke, I don't know really, I am not very good at the joking department. Guess i should be grateful i feel like making jokes in the first place despite the situation we are in. Speaking of wich, we might want to start flying now Evelyn, they are getting pretty far ahead." Jack told her.

"There is a slight difference between rescuing and wanting to see that person again, does he want to take it upon herself to save Fluttershy or does he want to see her again? This might be an odd question but there are some things that are important here, wouldn't he be satisfied if you were the one to save her? Does Woody enjoy the rush of battle and the glory that follows afterwards? These are unique questions that define one's reason for battle. Where do you think his personality would be in these categories? If you know these, then it might actually solve your answer in some ways." Betamor said. "But your suspicion regarding the DNA part might be right, but I do have to mention something here. Inserting someone's DNA does not grant any form of the originator's powers or abilities. It tends to carry over personality traits and occasionally magic, but that doesn't mean it can be used in any way unless the user's body is capable of doing it. While your brother might get captured, I doubt they are after his DNA or anyone else's in particular, all that matters to them is that they can find any other types of DNA, which explains your mother's capture in a way, she was not captured for her DNA but because they saw an opportunity and happened to find her. I don't know a whole lot about this curse thing, but I do know how the conversion process goes in work, it's like a *everything we find we will use* type of situation, for all we know they might as well capture anyone else and use their DNA instead." Betamor mentioned as he was walking. "Alright, we should hurry, please don't accendently drop me." He said with a small smile.

"You haven't doubted even once to voice your opinion in things, just tell him. Tell him that you really worry about him. If need be, just stop him from going, might sound a bit harsh but there are moments when words and emotions are not enough to fix the situation. Saving his life is alot more important then some arguments, even if he would get mad at you, is someone getting mad at you worse then costing it someone's life down the road? You need to remember, he is your brother, family is one of the only things that keep someone going on these times." Betamor said. Jack looked up. "I am not sure honestly, someone told me he will be having a talk with me soon or something, but i don't even know who the voice belonged to, it just came and then disappeared.." Jack said, not really sure what to make of it.

"I guess you are right but don't let that prevent you from voicing your opinion about it, sometimes people make one choice but end up regretting in the end, wondering why they even made it in the first place, the ones among us who bear more emotions look for someone that can guide them through the hardest of paths, I think he looks to you for that in particular, it is a good thing to remember that should you ask him about it." Betamor said. Jack sat down as he stared a bit at the ground. "I am glad we managed to kill that thing, though I have to admit it is going to be nothing compared to what we will all be facing soon." Jack admitted. 'No kidding, this might become one of your more bigger achievements.' The voice suddenly said in his thoughts. 'Wait, who are you?' Jack thought back with confusion. 'Don't worry, I will tell you later, we are going to have some time and talk things trough, I will let you know when just keep focused.' The voice said back.

"Hmmm, that is really going to depend. Did he make it back to Karthspire and everyone else? If he did, then he is safe without a doubt, unless you didn't see him arrive back at the city gates when you arrived from relaying the news to them? But you could perhaps be right about them needing his DNA, from what I have heard there aren't any of his race except for his father, that makes his DNA unique as well. If this is truly at play, you will need to keep the following, Will you allow it that he is going to fight with the fact that they will be trying to obtain his DNA one way or another, and at any given time at that, or keep him in the city, where he will be safer but we will miss out his magic and his strength." Betamor asked her. "I don't think its fair me to have such a big input in it, i am not particularly good with family-related matters as i have no family, so i can't really relate. You might have to let this question sink in for a few moments. Will you allow your brother to fight in this particular battle so we do get this extra manpower, but he will be at more risk, or do you care more for his overall safety and want to keep him between safe walls so it will become very unlikely that he will get captured, but at the cost of less manpower? Its a choice between strenght in the overall fight or the well being of your brother, you need to feel out what your heart wants. You are his sister, you are the best when it comes to knowing what is best for your own brother compared to any of us who are currently here." Betamor said to Maple. "You are probably right, give a moment, i can't see very well at the moment, with this current migraine going.." Jack said as stood still and rubbed his eyes.

The creature eventually roared out as its heart got hit, and it then fell down until it exploded completely after it had started to overheat. Jack groaned as he rubbed the sides of his head. "That thing was trying to enter my mind, when i was shooting those shockwaves towards the sword, the creature must have gotten desperate and tried to enter mine since my mental barriers are among the weakest of us 4 after everything that has happened." He said as he panted a bit. "I really can't deny that it actually was hurting alot, alot more then i would normally feel from such mind powers." Jack said, not knowing why it was so much more stronger then usual againts him. The fight down on the ground was getting at its climax, tough now that they no longer had to the creature worry about, Betamor was sounding the retreat order. "Everyone fall back! We are done here." He said as he and his troops started to fight their way out of that place, telling the others to leave now as well.

As Jack was firing his shockwaves when Evelyn was hovering, it was getting close to the sword getting fully in, but it was then that the creature was pushing its physic powers to a further level as Jack suddenly started screaming as the creature was entering his mind, using that earlier brain malfunction to an advantage as it had not yet healed completely. "Ember, i can't- Do it more further, you need to act with this now!" Jack said loudly as he gripping the sides of his head, hoping she would do it without any delay's.

"Actually Ember's method was effective because now are together, it didn't damage the create a whole lot but just follow my lead on this action ok? What Ember just did might actually kill the creature in a way, but only if we participate further into this moment." Jack said as he used most of his remaining magic left to do some sort of shockwave that he had before, but it was not meant to damage, rather, it was aimed specifically in the under the handle of the sword. Because of the shockwave, the sword was now moving further into the already created wound, making it go deeper and deeper." Jack said. "When it is at its deepest, I need you to grab the handle of that sword and slice towards the middle of that creature with all the strength you have, it will reach his heart, and then, its dead," Jack said. "Maple, you keep on firing to keep the creature busy, Evelyn, try to freeze it a bit with your ice breath, but be ready to move once it starts firing at us." He said as he started firing more shockwaves straight at the blade handle as it went deeper and deeper.

Jack started firing magical blast from the air, the combined attack caused the creature to raise a shield around himself and divert his attention. "Ember, now!!" Jack said loudly as the creature turned to them. Tough suddenly Jack felt something entering in the back of his mind, but he ignored it as he kept attacking. The creature started firing its magical blast at Maple and the others above, though not on a specific target, rather switching occasionally between the 3.

"Should not take more than a minute, after all, we are not installing something into your body, I am essentially just fastening a machine gun to your body with some grips, all you have to do is aim it rotate it around with a hoof." Jack said as he gave Evelyn a thankful nod. He started clipping the machine gun on Maple's back, noticing that she already had some sort of clipping parts on the top of her body. 'Damn the one who made this body was smart to also to including something so simple yet very efficient.' Jack thought as he was fastening the gun. When he was done, he was reloading the machine gun and pulled the bolt back on it when the bullet chain was inserted. "That should do it, tough I don't think you can really reload it yourself at the moment, so I think Caerson would have to implement something look that for you once we get back to Equestria, for now, this should do, just don't waste all of that ammo in a sea of bullets but try to do occasional short burst." Jack advised as he used Maple's body for a moment to use as support for climbing back in the saddle. "Shall we?" He asked Evelyn.

"I do have a plan, but it might not sound as effective as first. Melee attacks are not the most effective against this type of creature because the closer you get the faster their physic powers will reach you, i haven't encountered these creatures alot but i know that ranged attacks work better on them, but we need to overwhelm it with ranged attacks, it is capable of conjuring physical barriers around itself. We just need alot of firepower and overwhelm the creature to a point where it is incapable of fighting back." Jack said. "Tough like Evelyn said, you are steaming with heat at the moment Maple, i think that attack caused a bit of overheating in your body, perhaps not to a point where you will stop to function, but its really something you will have to keep in mind now. Do you have any type of ranged attacks?" Jack asked her, but then he suddenly got an idea. "Wait, we just would have to mount a machine gun to you! Sadly you cannot control it like vehicles normally would, but still to a point where you can fire it, as I am seeing down at the battlefield they still have a spare machine gun. How about that? Ember knows how to handle guns, Festus it seems now even knows how to handle a sniper rifle, much to my amazement, and I and Evelyn have ranged attacks, we can complete the bunch this way." He said. The creature was hovering over the battlefield, and it started to fire the same type of blast before that it used against Maple, but now it was firing at Ember's position, it was not hitting her because she was behind cover, but it was trying to draw her out as it seemed to be targetting her cover specifically.

"Yes, if that creature escape it will cause alot of trouble, they might be low in numbers but they are incredibly strong, and it makes the enemies near it even more dangerous with its presence." Jack said. The creature crashed straight into the ground when Maple on it. When it had crashed to the ground, it started to roar as it started firing some form of a blast, while it looked similar to magic, it was an entirely different type of power. It started to fire straight at Maple's underside, while it didn't blow Maple off, it was doing a critical amount to her underplating as such blast where enough to incinerate any normal person, it was thanks to her body that she could survive those blast, but not be impervious to them, it was not helping that those soldiers where still firing towards Ember and Maple, which was making it both difficult while trying to battle this creature at the same time. "She is going to get really damaged if she is going to try and sustain against more of those blasts, and Ember is being forced back to cover by them. We need to get Maple out of their reach of firing range for just a moment, can you scoop her up real fast? Doesn't have to be long, so she can get behind cover for a moment, then we should fly up really high to get ourselves out of their reach so Maple and Ember can attack again without this amount of attacks being rained upon them." Jack told Evelyn "You ready?" He asked her.

The creature got hit by Maple's kick but it didn't force the creature very far because of its weight, but it was enough to move him a bit down, though it didn't have the desired effect as it caused the creature to get moved away from Ember's sword attack. It started to use its telekinesis to grab a hold of Maple's body, because she was in a robot body, he was lifting it like any other object, and threw her straight into Ember, when the 2 got forced straight back, the creature started to send signals straight to the enemy soldiers, which caused a large group of them to enter their focus straight on Maple and Ember, driving them back with their gunfire. Jack suddenly got in a big panic as he saw the creature suddenly free. 'Oh no... This is bad, really bad. They shouldn't have let that creature out near the enemy forces, now it's going to redirect them!' Jack thought.

"We have been more waiting for a better opportunity to kill it without all these enemies around, have you never used this method before? It's a common military tactic." Betamor said, a bit surprised how she didn't see that. "But anyways, Yes, that does sound good, though we can't let it escape at any cost or else all this fighting was pointless." He said as he started walking to the container. "Get ready, this is going to get messy." He said as he unlocked the door, in which only a moment later a creature which looked like to have 4 metal type of tentacles attached to itself, and 6 golden eyes and pretty big mouth with razor-sharp teeth. The creature shot out of the tank and flew straight into the air above the battlefield, it seemed to capable of some sort of levitation as it was flying in the air without any form of wings or jet engines, only small machinery attached to its body.

"You heard about Death seekers before? If you haven't, they are creatures who act as a commanding strain, using its physic and telepathic powers to control and steer those who are part of the physic link, they are valuable because they are smaller versions of a hive mind in a sense, but you will never find them on the battlefield, only in the main towers and sometimes in Conversion centers, and while it is important to them, its this creature who is calling them all via its own will." Betamor explained. "We have been trying to make sure we could kill the creature undisturbed, but the moment we came near the enemy was already trying to swarm us, it was why we let your friends go ahead in the first place because we didn't to risk getting hurt from this thing, because it can enter anyone's mind, those who are not mentally strong enough can be driven mad, or even mind controlled if the person has a strong exposure to the energies of the demon realm. They must have been trying to relocate this one, but it seemed to have been attacked early on and driven the enemy away until we found it." He said with a grimace as he was looking at the battle.

Jack was laying on his belly to make sure with staying as low as possible for just in case. And the sniper was now aiming at Festus, seeing as he was getting closer by, he was firing at him with good accuracy, but Festus was behind his shield, which made the bullets clang loudly against it, though the impacts did give a bit of force. Betamor was moving a bit back to think better at Maple's question. "Good question, We can't do anything specific to the link, only to the creature creating these links, but it's too dangerous to let it go out of that container, especially with the still fighting going on, and lifting is no use, these things are magic proof, and we can't really lift it, it's too heavy for that. We are in a tight spot with this situation, all i can currently think off is fighting our enemies until they stop coming, but that hope is not guaranteed, let alone that releasing the creature will make our efforts for nothing as we have trying to keep it sealed since the moment we found it." He said.

Ajax looked at the situation with concern. 'Have they gone mad? Why are they blaming Zecora for this, she would never do something like that!' Ajax though. 'This needs to stop.' He tought with determination as looked at the crowd. "Hold it everypony, what is going on here? Why is everyone blaming Zecora for this?" He asked everypony.

Ajax was a little startled by the sudden noise that sounded like a crowd, he did not expect to hear it in a forest. 'Just what is that noise? Out of all the places, what would a crowd be doing in the Everfree forest?' He tought with confusion. 'You know what, instead of thinking about that, i should inspect the source of that sound.' He thought. Seeming satisfied with his answer, Ajax was heading towards the source of the sound, his claws from his gloves extending as he walked.

"Festus! Its great to see you, I really am in your debt for that one!" Jack said with a smile. He then looked around and tried to locate the sniper who had tried to shoot him, and found him. "Evelyn, could you take out that sniper on that roof? Your armour makes you very resistant to their attacks but i can still die from those." Jack asked her. As they where fighting, one of the soldiers got shot in the arm and fell to the ground, and was about to be shot to death, but before that would happen, Betamor slashed straight at the assailant, the enemy getting brutally murdered by Betamor's rage. "Curse this! That thing in the container is calling them with its physic link..." Betamor said as he helped the soldier up and drew his rifle again, firing at the enemies.

"I am alright, just a bit fatigued from all that magic drain, but I should do fine." Jack said as he readjusted himself in the saddle from the sudden recoil. He then looked down. "This one was even bigger than last time! Interesting to see how you can unleash such a massive blast where mine would be puny compared to that, with the same amount of magic at that." Jack said. "Tough I wonder as well with the ice part, but I would be draining myself empty if tried to give you more magic at the moment. I just hope Ember and the others show up soon, I know for a fact that the thing inside that container is drawing our enemies to its location." Jack noted. "I can feel some form of power emanating from that container, hence why i noticed, and i think Betamor realized what is inside that thing, or else he would not go this far to deny them a single cargo package." The explosion has created a big decrease in their ranks, but they where starting to attack from behind now as well thanks to the newly arrived troops that came from the dropships. "Enemies from the south! Re-engage formation!" Betamor shouted out as an order to his soldiers as some they started to defend the container from all 4 directions.

"Good." Betamor said, he then yelled orders to some of his soldiers who started to spread a bit out. As the battle was going on, it did seem things were looking better, but they were in need of more fighters. Jack smiled as he remembered the trick they had used before. "Good plan, it should do incredible damage among their groups! Here it goes!" Jack said as he started draining his own magic into Evelyn.

"Really not in the mood of your accusations right now! We are in a deep situation and the last thing I need is being reminded of something I didn't do!! All we can hope to do now is fight!!!" Betamor roared to Maple as he cleaved an enemy apart in his irritation. "Can you do some Firebreath strafing runs Evelyn? We need to take it up the next level if we want to fend off these many attackers." Jack said as he quickly ducked as a bullet almost hit him in the head from the mass amount of attacks that the enemies were doing, their guns razing over the place as they were firing at their attackers. But their numbers didn't seem to falter that much, Dropships where coming all over the place as they where sheer determined to take their cargo back.