TheHybrid

Rusty looked at the pony that had essentially just abducted him, raising a brow "Ah... Ah don't think so... but one almost touched me, but he tripped and... wait." he furrowed his brow, "Wait wait wait... who the hay are you? Why'ja just grab me off the street like that?! AND WHAT HAPPENED TO MY HAT?!" he looked around frantically searching for his old tattered top hat, and upon not being able to find it, he vents his frustration upon the stallion that had taken him away "WHAT IN THE HAY IS GOING ON? First Ah come here jus' tryin' to get some parts for my latest project... then Ah see... THIS!" he points to the Gasmask ponies, "Then an elderly stallion asks if I was his ma, and now this Trottingham guy just takes me to an alley! Ya got some splainin' to do, or may Celestia help you..."

((Right, thanks! Also I edited my post so I didn't bump into him... don't want to be taken out of the RP right away.))

((Oh god yes.)) Rusty Contraption, a light brownish orange earth pony stallion, was walking through Trottingham when, he noticed that the ponies here were acting slightly more peculiar then usual, "What... what the hay?... Why're... all these ponies wearin'... gas masks?" he asks no one in particular, other then himself. One of them nearly bumped into him, but instead tripped on a rock. The pony, looked up at the now even more confused Rusty from the ground, subsequently asking, "Are you my Mummy?" in a deadpan, monotone voice. Rusty, found this odd and slightly disturbing, for multiple reasons: 1. Rusty is very obviously a male. 2. Rusty is very obviously not female. 3. The pony asking was an elderly stallion. Rusty frowned, then simply trotted away "Ah don't have time for this... Ah really don't. Ah gotta an auto-buggy to work on, and the last thing Ah need today is a bunch of crazy ponies wearin' gas masks!" he continued to trot, carefully avoiding the strange ponies as he went for the towns local scrap heap, which was bound to have quality parts for his latest project.

Blinked as he watched the ash pile slink away, scratching his head "Well... shoot..." he trotted along side the mare, going through some thoughts "You know that fake horn is also a basis for another type of horn I am developin'... a replacement one. For unicorns that lost their horn in an accident or something... it's permanent, unlike the other one. Probably one of my proudest inventions ever..." he chuckles warmly, "How'd ya expect Unicornia will receive me?"

Rusty thought for a second, "Well, I 'spose I wouldn't be too surprised if you came from another world... but still, things like this ain't commonplace, so.... we have a reason a beleive that you're a mite loco in head."

"Hm?" Rusty seems to take an intrest in the flank as well, curious at what his Cutie Mark was. Ace now had two ponies staring at his butt.

Shivers lightly for moment, still staring at the ashes in shock "Ah... Ah just... Ah..." he stammered on a few moments, the full extent of what he just did hitting him. He shook himself, refusing to finish the thought, and instead pushes it into the back his mind as he looks at Pressy, smiling... but it seemed somewhat forced "Well that takes care of that, huh? And no, I don' got any extra horns on me... but I think it'd be a mite safer for me to be walkin' in with you into Unicornia rather you walkin' in with me into Ponyville. The worst them snobby unicorns..." he catches himself, "Only referen to this time period's unicorns of course, but the worst they c'n do is give me disapproving stares, and maybe act all offended and hoity-toity!"

Raises a brow as he sees the picture as well, "Err... yeah I uhm... can't say I see what yur talkin' about..." he sighs, "Look, how about we get a doctor for ya, and we'll talk after that... deal?"

Runs for a while, "I uh... I uh..." his eyes widen as he remembers something. All of the fake unicorn horns he had made have a fail safe, an energy release spell, incase something went wrong. This would release all of the horns energy to wherever the user was pointing, and shouldn't be used if the horn's energy was still mostly full... for obvious reasons. He spins around and stops dead in his tracks, facing the wolves with a insane grin spread across his face. These wolves didn't stand a change now, and he knew it, "Come and get me ya dumb varmints, COME AND GET ME!" and at that, he activated the energy release spell on his horn, pointing it directly at the 'Dumb varmints'. The horn began to glow intensely bright, and crack, failing to contain the sudden amount of energy about to pass through. Then... it disintegrated as a large, blinding beam of magic energy shot out of the horn, completely obliterating the wolves. Rusty stood there for a moment, wide eyed, staring at the giant pile of ash on the ground that used to be several terrifying timber wolves. "Well.... uhm... that takes care of that.... I 'spose..."

Rusty goes to take a quick side glance at the bushes, thinking to himself "C'mon Rusty, just look. It'll make you sure of the fact that you and Pressy are completely safe from danger and..." as his eyes hit the wooden claw, he freezes, his bood running cold "OH SWEET MIGHTY SUN GODDESS!" he yells out, "TIMBER WOLF! RUN FER YUR LIVES!" he says as he begins running, hoping that Pressy followed after him. He was all facin' his issues head on, but not when they were a Timber Wolf. No. That's when you run. Away. Very fast.

The now even angrier stallion drops the pony onto the ground accidentally, forgetting about him "OLD TIMER!" he looked at the mare, he looked ready to explode, "WHO YOU CALLIN' OLD TIMER?!" he takes a step forward, snorting hard, he seemingly didn't hear anything she said after 'Old timer' "NOW YOU LISTEN UP, YOUNGIN'! YOU..." he suddenly stop as a pain shoots through his back "AH SWEET CELESTIA!" he falls onto the ground, "My back! Ah.... luna darn it... my back!" he lays there groaning for a few moments, then stops. He thinks about all thats happened, and then begins laughing "A... a ha.... ahah! AHA! AHAHA! *snort* HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!" he laughs as he realizes the irony in the situation, "Here... here I am.. .ahaha... tellin' you about how strong I am.. and my back goes out!" he continues with his laughing fit, any harsh feelings now washed away.

Nods, "Yeah... they might be a challenge to get... 'specially in this time. Gotta lotta crazy ponies living in the everfree durin' this time, and a lotta dangerous ones too. And I'm not exactly sure where we would find this plant anyways..." he heard some rustling in the bushes as well, and picked-up speed. "C'mon now, no use walkin' so slow. We'll get there faster..."

Rusty thought for a moment, "Well firstly we need part of the panel that is gone... secondly we need the black-smith to smith up some cogs and gears, we'll just tell 'im they're decorative pieces. Thirdly, we'll need some wires... so we'll just buy the materials we need to make em in town. I can hook up all the wires from the broken/missing mini-displays, to the main display, so all the info would be displayed on that... so all I'd have t do it repair it. And for that, we'd need alot of glass n' metal. Lastly, we'd just need him to make a few buttons and levers, maybe the parts for a few pistons as well." he thinks, "Should take... a few days... to fix."

He looked at the mare," 'scuse me?" his nostrils flare, his pride bruised "You sayin' I c'nt carry this guy all the way to the hospital? What, am I too old, too 'fragile'? Well I tell you what, I ain't that old, and I'm carryin' him just fine!" he says as he straightens up his posture, "Why would you be able to carry this guy better then me, anyways?"

Nods, "Right... now... lets test this thing out!" he focuses hard, making some grunting sounds as a magical aura flickers onto his 'horn', then envelopes his saddle bag as he opens up the main compartment. He takes his focus off of the bag, and switches it to the binder inside of it. The binder slowly, and shakily comes out of the saddle bag and flops onto the ground. Rusty pants hard, wiping off some sweat from his forhead "Phew! That was real hard... but it works!" he smiles proudly.

(An idea I had, not sure how it will pan out, but it should be interesting. Also, this does not tie into the other RP I have going in a different thread) A light brownish orange stallion sits in his basement, working on a rather large and complex looking contraption. He seems to be putting the finishing touches on it, screwing a few things in, tightening a few bolts up, polishing some gears, etc. He had been working on this device for several years with his friend, Scrap... who unfortunantly had to return to Appaloosa because of a family emergency, and so could not witness it's completion. He tightened up one more bolt on the device, and backed away, smiling wide "Finally... after all these years... it's done..." he mutters out with his unique southern draw, "Now... Ah gotta fuel 'er up... then Ah think I'll take 'er for a bit of a test run..." he picks up a large vial of a glowing pink liquid, and pours it into a hole on the device, then does this with at least five other vials. He chuckles, "If ah was a unicorn, powerin' this thing would be as easy as pie! But this'll hafta do..." he plugs up the fuel intake, and trots into the machine. The outside of the machine appeared to be a large, metallic, cylinder shaped object litered with gears and cogs and pistons... and the inside looked very similar, except for the large control panel in it. He pulls a leaver, which causes the machine to sputter, and cause the machine to start vibrating lightly. A whiring sound began to chime in, as the gears and cogs and pistons outside began to work, slowly at first, but soon began to pick up speed rapidly. The vibrations and the whirring become louder and more violent, the lights on the control panel flickering on, and number dials spin until they all reached zero (the number dials... imagine the spinning thing in slot machines, except it has numbers on them instead of pictures). Finally, the vibrations and sounds hit their climax as they abruptly die down, now becoming a steady hum. He grinned, "Everything seems to be in order... now to see if this time machine can really travel through time!" he sets one dial to the current date, then another to "5,000" then another to ''Years" then a final one to "Future". He grins, then pulls down a lever... and is quickly knocked out as the machine lurches upwards, causing him to hit his head on the control panel. The door to the machine closes, and it is quickly enveloped in a white-ball of energy as it floats up into the air. The ball of energy collapses onto the machine, and sends it into the time stream, where it travels to 5,000 years in the future. But... instead of landing nicely... it crash lands... damaging the ship greatly (sorry for rushing, just trying to get this out of the way). The stallion wakes up, his vision swimming into focus as he hear warning lights blaring, and sparks flying everywhere. He weakly pulls himself up, groaning as he pulls a lever to turn off the machine "Well... that could of gone better..." he notices how damaged it was and sighs, "Might be here for a while..." he gently taps the door, which just falls off flat into the ground. He takes a step out and looks around, "Oh... wow. THis is.... interesting." he was facing a giant sign, or well, screen sign that said "Welcome to New Ponyville!" and in the distance, he could see a collosal city with very large metallic and glass buildings. "This... should be... intrestin'..." ((This is where you guys jump in, of course you'd be future ponies ))

He grins, then laughs out loud "Well that works! Puttin' those moves on them stallions... I wouldn't of been able to do that..." he laughs more at the thought, "Ah don't think they would take too kindly to an old Stallion flirtn' with them!" he trots next to her, getting back on topic "Right right... so we need a few things... the stuff in the binder in my saddle-bag... and fuel for the machine, since it's all out. Now for fuel, we have two options: Raw liquid magic energy, which you get by extractin' the magic out of magic filled herbs, or we can use raw unicorn magic energy! The herbs are only found in the Everfree... almost killed me and my friend the first time we got them... and that was ten years ago... well... ten years ago from the time we came from, obviously. Now the second option..." he thinks for a moment, biting his lip nervously "Well... it requires a unicorn to put their raw magical energy into the time machine. A little horn-cuff things comes from the ceiling, and begins to use the unicorns magic reserves for energy..." he clears his throat, "This option... c'n be very dangerous to the unicorn doin' it..." he thinks for a moment, "But... I think I have another plan. I'll tell you it later. For now, let's just worry about the parts."

Eases up a bit, seeing how genuinely confused the pony was, "Alright... so... let me just clarify with ya... you're sayin' that you fell outta another world... and in this world there are hundreds of these flyin' machines... and that you guys aren't even ponies, you're somethin' called a 'human'? What type of creature is a 'human'? For example, us Ponies are Equine, and humans are... what? Fish, bird, feline, kanine?..." he grins, "If it's a type of monkey, or primate, that'd be hi-larious!"

He thinks for a moment, looking around "Oh... well uhm... maybe Ah should of asked somepony where the unicorn city was before Ah put on this horn... cause now nopony will be answerin' to us!" he taps the horn, then frowns "Ah gosh darn it... Ah mean, Ah have an idea on how we can do this, but Ah dont like it... cause it'll just make this whole thing take longer then it should." he looks at her hopefully, smiling nervously "You got any ideas?"

He sighed lookin' around, he hated the vibe this whole place gave him "Ah... Ah hate it here... it's freaky... it just ain't natural to be liven so divided..." he looks at the mare, "Yeah... oh wait... I think I have somethin' in my saddle-bag..." he rustles through his bag, and smiles wide when he finds what he was looking for "Eyep, there it is! My spells-to-go fake unicorn horn!" he takes it out, and shows it to her "One of my latest projects are these here unicorn horns.. don't worry, they're just ceramic... well enchanted ceramic. I got them enchanted by mixin' them with some magical herbs this Zebra lady in the Everfree gave me.... Zekory or somethin'. Anyway, the herbs make it so non-unicorn ponies can perform some spells... only for a little while of course, these things don't last too long. It doesn' make an earth-pony into a unicorn, not even close! It just makes it so we non-unicorns can preform a few very simple spells." he straps it on to his head, which causes it to flash, and fuse with it "Annnnd.... there! Should fall right off when it's used up..." he looks at her, grinin' "Ready?"

Smiles nervously, "Eh... ya sure you wanna be by yurself? These ponyfolk here seem a mite more violent then the ones we got back at home..." he thinks for a moment, "And uhm... if ya do go... give a blacksmith this binder.." he takes out a binder from his saddle bag, circling pages that had what he needed to be built on them, and taking out the ones that didn't, "This here binder contains the blueprints for all of the parts needed to build this time machine! I took the liberty to take out the ones that we already have, or ones that are too complex for this time period... I'll build those myself..." he notices the stallions by the tree, then frowns "Maybe... maybe Ah should go with you..."

Frowns as he looks inside, "Ehh... well..." he looks at the machine for a moment, " Yeah... pretty much everything in here is a rare part... hold on." he opens up a few compartments, then smiles "Eyep, there it is." He pours out a vile of a strange, glowing, pink potion "Were gonna need this to summon this up again when we need 'er..." he taps the mostly destroyed time machines console, sighing "But for now... I gotta make 'er go into emergency hiden." he presses a button, and a few moments later the machine powers back up, if only partially. A recorded voice comes on, it sounds like Rusty.... but younger "Warnin'; Emergency stealth protocols activated." the machine begins to make wurring sounds, and vibrates wildly, sparks flying everywhere from the broken consoles and displays. He casually trots out of the broken time machine, and looks at the mare "Now watch this, it'll be coo" right as he said that, the machine began to burrow itself in the ground, and after it was done it used some sort of levitation spell to cover the whole back up with dirt.

Nods, sighing "T'aint nothin'..." he shakes himself out, seemingly releasing some stress. He chuckles lightly, "Pressy huh? Cutest nickname I ever did here..." he looked back at the machine for a moment, then back at her "Now... when you said there was a display missin'... do you mean... it's broken... or do you mean it's just gone?" he smiles nervously, "Cause if it's actually just gone... well... we're in a whole heap-a-trouble... cause it would probably mean I would hafta change some things... like re-wirein some things so we can go... but it'd be fixable! It'd just take a... while."

Rust smiled nervously at the mare, shrugging. Then he looks back at the crowd, "Oh for the love of..." he sighs, "Y'all need to calm down, and git a hold of yurselves! Who says earth ponies and unicons can't be friends? The fact that I'm defended this mare right here, proves that we can be friends!" he takes a step forwards, his whole body tensing up as he snorts (the kind of snort horses make....) "I swear on my life, if you lay a single hoof on this mare, y'all gonna be in a world of hurt! I ain't usually loyal to anypony... but when it comes to my friends..." he points to his assistant, ((Forgot her name :<)) "I will defend them with my life... so all of y'all need to back off, and git on with yur day!"

Answers for the stallion, rolling is eyes "Crazy fella says he's from another world or somethin'... musta hit his head."