TheHybrid

((Nice xD interesting Pair, an old slightly crazy southern stallion, with a young, artistic, english accented mare, traveling together in a time machine.))

Rusty looked around all wide eyed, then looked at the stallion yelling at his assistant. He frowned, "Hey, get yur hooves off of her! She did nothin' wrong." he looked at the other ponies, who now had mixed looks of surprise, and confusion. He looks around "Now listen here y'all, this here is my assistant... and she means no harm. She has nothin' against us earth pony folk... and as for our 'attire' and uhm..." e points a hoof to the machine "And this thing... it's uhm..." he nudges his unicorn friend, "Heh, go on now, tell em whats goin' on here!"

Looks over the mare for a second, and grumbles lowly. He sighs, then nods "Yeah okay, maybe you c'n make sense of this ponies crazy talk..." he continues trotting along.

((Hmm... sure, that could work. So yes, before Hearths Warming, and yes all earth ponies.))

((OOC: Trottingham = English accent, right?)) He shakes his head, "Ah... ah... no... just uhm... " they suddenly crash land, causing him to lurch forward "Whoa!" he catches himself. The lights flicker out, and the machine seems to just power-down. He looks at the energy meter, and frowns "Ah... well... all out of energy!" he grins, "But... I dunno how... but I guess we made it anyway!" he opens the door and trots out. "Well we're here! Finally, now we just gotta fix the date thing on the time machine inside of... my... house...?" he stopped as he looked around some more, quickly realizing they weren't in Dodge junction any more... but in... Ponyville. But things looked a bit different... the ponies, first of all, were wearing peasant like clothing... the houses looked much older... and there was a group of ponies surronding him, his assistant, and the time machine "Ah... ah think we went back a little further then ten years..."

He frowns, then sighs "C'mon now... follow me... let's getcha fixed up, then ya can tell me yur little story after..." he begins trotting out of the forest, thinking to himself "Ah great... a crazy pony who bought this flyin' thing... and he can't even tell me the inventors name! Ah shouldn't really be wastin' my time here, but the kid needs help. Heck, maybe he isn't crazy, maybe his brain is just all frazzeled up from that crash..."

Rusty shakes his head, "Yeap... ya got hit hard... c'mon now, quit fussin'!" he pulls him out, accidentally causing him to fall on the ground. He doesn't seem to really, notice "Can ya stand?" he asks affirmatively.

Rusty smiles manically and slams a button down, and a few moments later the machines begins whirring loudly and vibrating again, but instead of stopping it grows more and more intense. The machine floats up several feet into the air, and is soon enveloped into a white ball of energy. A message flashes on the display, "Ready for transport!" and at that Rusty smiles wide "Woo dogy! If you can ride this bull by the horns, then ya better get ready for a ride!" and pulls a leaver down. A "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW..." echos out in the now empty shop as the machine disappears, now traveling through time. Rusty grins as they travel through the time stream, "Oh, almost forgot!" he closes the door to the time machine, "Closed the door... just in case. Besides, ya don't wanta be lookin' directly into the time stream... not sure how seeing all of that would affect a ponies mind..." they travel smoothly for a few moments, until the machine thumps against something hard. The lights flicker, and warning alarms begin to blare as everything seems to be going wrong "Whoa nelly..." he looks around at the displays, trying to find what went wrong. Until... he finally finds it. He reads it out loud, "ERROR: NOT ENOUGH ENERGY TO ENTER CORRUPTED TIME SEGMENT?! Uh oh." he looks at the mare, "Hold on! I'm gonna see if I c'n fix this!" he goes at the control panel, and begins to furiously work at it.

He frowns, "Ah darn... you sound more confused then a farmer in las pegasus!" he shakes his head, "Come on now, I'll take ya to the local hospital down in Ponyville... you musta hit your head hard. Also, nex' time maybe you should learn how to use somethin' from an inventor before you buy it, ya idiot!" he clonks him lightly on the head, "And who was this colt anyway? The one who made this contraption? I Gotta meet him... he must be some sorta genius!" he attempts to pull the pony out of the wreckage.

Grins "You don't gotta do anythin'! Just sit there, and watch!" He slams his hoof on one button, and after a moment passes, the whole machine begins vibrating, and making a whirring sound. The vibrations grow more violent, and the whirring louder, as the gears outside begin turning, which causes them to spew out dust. Then, the vibrations and the whirring died down, and turned into a soft 'purr' as the lights for the buttons and machine itself flicked on, and some sparks flew from the control panel as the main display turned on. He smiles and sets the current date, then goes to set the years to travel at '10: past', then inputs the day and month on another display. He double checks the current date display, then looks at the mare "Ready to go?"

His ears perked up, "What now?" and looks at the current date display. He sighs, then facehooves "Oh for the love of Celestia, that idiot fergot to set the current date!" he laughed out loud, his voice now sounding bright and full of optimism "Ya see, when the machine tried to travel, it didn't have a date to start at! So, instead of traveling 100 years back from the current date he used it, it sent him 100 years back from every possible date and time!" he seemed excited, thinking about what this meant "So now this creates a real intrestin' paradox! It means he exists at every single point at time, but at the same time he doesn't! To put it simply, it means he's in a 'time limbo'!" he laughs again, hugging them mare "This is real easy to fix! All we gotta do is go back in time to when Scrap was about to use the time machine... and put the date in for the current time! Though... things in that moment of time may be a little... weird. You'll probably see me talkin' to somepony that doesn't even exist." he chuckles, "Should be funny to watch..."

Rusty was galloping as fast as he could to the everfree. He was in Ponyville, doing his semi-weekly part-shopping when he saw a flying machine crash in the everfree. He had tried on numerous occasions to build a flying machine himself, but failed everytime. Now, he was about to meet a pony who had actually created one! Well, it failed... but maybe he could help him out! He reaches the strange flying machine, noticing how advanced it appeared. He beamed, galloping up to the device "Well would'ya look at this thing! I havn't seen such advanced tech, in... wel... anywhere in Equestria!" he looked in the cockpit, smiling wide "Well howdy! I'm Rusty Con-Traption! I galloped in here as soon as I saw this... amazin'... flying machine crash right in the everfree! How did you make this thing? It looks so advanced!"

Nods, and smiles wide, a single tear running down his cheek "Right... o-okay!" he grabs her hoof, and shakes it hard. He thinks for moment, "Well... how 'bout you accompany while I investigate the inside of the machine? I was so upset after Scrap... well... dispeared, I didn't even want to touch this machine..." he trotted inside, ((OOC sorry for god modding)), his assistant following him. He looked around inside the machine, "Now, tell me if something looks off... you don't even hafta know why, just tell me." he continues looking around, completely missing what could be a very important clue on the control panel. There are two different mini displays on it; 'Current Date' and 'Years to travel in the past/future'. The 'Current Date' display said 'Current date not selected' while the 'Date selected' display said '100 years: Past' just as they were set when Scrap tried to time travel.

He raises a brow "Hm... never thought of trying that... sounds like a good idea.. but this machine ain't built for doing things like that..." he smiles, his voice full of warmth "Maybe, you could help make it so it does?"

Didn't react much to the mares excitement, he simply stood there "Eyep. And thats what me, and my good ol' inventor buddy Scrap Heap thought when we finally finished it." he chuckles grimly, feeling bitter nostalgia rising "Ya see, time travel already exists. Infact, there are a couple spells back in the... uh... Star-somthin' the... barded section? Of canterlots library... but those only work by bungie jumpin' ya back or forwards in time. Basically, you go to the time for a minute or two, but then hafta go back to the present." he looks at his machine, his eyes seemed slightly moist "But this here machine works by transporting you and the machine to a different time period, and then 'hooks' ya to the to the time period, so you aren't slingshot back to the present!" he frowns, "But... it... didn't work the way we hoped. My friend wanted to try it out by himself, mostly because as you can see there's hardly enough room in there for two. Me being exausted from workin' for nearly two days straight, I let 'im try it out, fully confident in our device...." he pauses for a moment, his voice becoming harder, slightly frightening "He tried it out... set the dial to 100 years in the past then pressed the button. It powered up, went through all the expected routines to prepare to travel... but... when it got to the part where it was supposed to go through time... something went wrong. He was transported, but the machine stayed put... it was supposed to go back with him. I paniced and ran in there to see what had happened... the display showed errors... errors I had hoped I would never see... my worst nightmare: 'ERROR: DEVICE FAILED TO TRANSPORT. Reason: Unknown. ERROR: OCCUPANT FAILED TO REACH DESTINATION. OCCUPANT'S CURRENT LOCATION IN TIME: Unknown. ERROR: COULD NOT ACTIVATE FAIL SAFE RETREIVAL SPELL. Reason: OCCUPANT TO BE RETREIVED DOES NOT EXIST.'" he sighed, pausing for a few moments "Not only did I accidentally kill my closest friend, I erased him completely from existence. There is no record of him ever existing in this world, the only evidence left is right here." he taps on his head, "In my memories."

He sighs, smiling "Thank ya..." he begins trotting away from the device, next to the mare, feeling releived. But then he noticed something; the farther he felt he was getting away from the device, the more guilt he began to feel. The mare unknowingly started an emotional chain of guilt-filled memories within the southern stallion, and very quickly it became too much for him to handle. He had to get it out, he had to tell somepony what had happened, he doesn't care what she will think of him afterwards, he just needs to get this off his chest, "Ahhh... buck it." he said as he galloped back to the device, "I might as well show you what it is.. and tell ya the story behind it." he pulls off the tarp, which causes a huge dust cloud to be kicked up. When it settles, the invention is clearly present. It looked like a large, metal cylinder, with gears, lights, pipes, cogs, and pistons splattered all over. On the inside, it was complete made of glass and mirrors, and had a very large complex looking control panel inside of it. He sighs, "This, is my time machine... and the source of all of my shame." he tilts his hat down, covering up his eyes.

Rusty's eyes widen, he was expecting her to ask about the tarp, and already had an answer prepared for it, but he didn't think of what to do if she just started to pull away at it! "NO! DON'T DO THAT!"

Nods, "Eyep, it ain't easy ta get all of these smells though. Took a real long time..." he thinks for a moment, then smiles nervously "How about we end this tour? It was real nice, got me to open up a bit I guess but uhm..." his eyes flash over to the tarp covered invention for a moment, then back to the mare "There's just nottin left to show, really!"

((OOC it's fine, don't worry about it)) He nods, "Sure does! If I remember rightly, some of the smells were... Cherry... Blueberry... Roses... Cinnamon... after-rain... crisp air... new wagon smell... chocolate.. mountain dew... winter... fall... summer... spring... Ponyville Park... Canterlot Park... Cloudsdale park..." he keeps going on and on, for nearly three min, simply listing smells, "Annnnnd... fresh Apple Cider! Which one do you want to smell?" he pushes a button on the device, and a very large dial with what seemed 100's of smells listed on it appeared. "Choose one, then press down on the dial to turn it on!'

Ears perked up at attention as she traveled to the new device, "Erm... hmmm..." he trotted over to the device and had a look over of it, then smiled wide "Oh yeah! This here is the Arom-o-tron 9001! Or at least, the prot-o-type for it..." he smiles, "This is a bit of a mini-success story right here... ya know when you walk inta a bakery, and ya c'n smell all of the baked stuff? Well, you are probably smellin' the baked goods, but you are also probably smellin' something outta this here machine! I've made a 100 of these things, and sold em all up!" he raises a brow, "Yes, ah know, it is a bit... man-ip-u-lative... but hey! Makes bakery's smell real good!" he smiles warmly at her, "Whats your favorite scent? I'll can produce right here, and these here fans attached to the device should spread the smell throughout the shop!"

(OOC As long as it isn't anything op) He cleared his throat as he answered the first question, "Not exactly, he had a similar fate to the apple.... heh." he rolls his eyes at the second question, "Well yeah! We'll work out the issues, no doubt!" his eyes look over the room, and suddenly widen and lock onto one invention, which was covered up with a tarp. He immediately looked away, shame flashing momentarily in his expression, but then smiled again, looking back at his assistant "So, how aboutchu? What do YOU want to look at?"

((OOC: Why didn't I think of that... that's so much simpler!)) Rusty smiled nervously, "Ehhh... well... it has worked... but it's still an early prototype." he thinks for a second "it... it does teleport simple things, such as an Apple or a Cup like it was nothin'. But sometimes.... something goes wrong and instead of teleporten... they explode." he goes off on bit of a tangent "Like I remember one time, I succesfully transported an apple three times in a row, and thought I finally worked out the kinks, so I tried to use something a bit more.. complex. A mouse, or a rat, I can't remember. Anyway, when I tried to transport it... well... uhm..." he thinks for a few moments, scratching the back of his head while he chuckles nervously, "You know uh... how about I just demonstrate how this thing works by transporting an apple?" he reaches into one of his saddle bags, and pulls out a green, shiney apple. He places it on one of the plates, then places the tube onto the device. He presses a button on the device, and takes a few steps back, guiding the mare with his hoof to do the same. The Apple soons begin to spin, first very slowly, but with in a few seconds, it began to spin so fast it looked like a green blur. It began to disassemble itself, the atoms of the apple slowly traveling to the other end of the tube, where they immediately began to reassemble themselves. And that's what it did... except... it was kind of.. inside out. He frowns, whispering to himself "Hmmm... samething happened to the mouse. Wonder why it would happen to an apple, if it never did before?.."

Smiles, "Simple! These here plates are gravity plates, you know, those fancy plates you can buy in the store that holds on to anythin' you put on it as if it was the best darned ApplePie in the world." He chuckles, "Now, here is how the work. When I press this here button, the plate wth the object on it begins to spin real fast like, so fast that object on it dematerializes into its basic elements; Atoms! After that, I switch the gravity on the plate with this here button, which makes the plate do some pushin' instead if pullin'... then the atoms travel through this tube right here..." he pulls a small u shaped tube with two open ends, each fitting snuggly over the plates, and locking into the device so the gravity plates dont affect it " it travels to the other plate, where it is pulled by its gravity, and re-a-sembles it self into an apple." He scratches his head, "Dont know how the atoms seem-ta know how to reasemble themselves back into the original object, but that dont matter."

He chuckled, clanking his tankard with hers before drinking his down as well. He smiles at her comment, "It is, ain't it?" he looked at the machine, furrowing his brow a bit "Now most pony folk may say somthin' like this here machine would make ponies lazy, but I say this machine just gives em more time to pick more..." he paused for a moment, his face changing expressions to a more frustrated look "Ya know, I wish I was a unicorn. Not fer builden my machines, no ma'am. I'm talkin' about to power them, cause right now it's an absolute nightmare to power these things... yeah..." he shook his head and looked back at his assistant, smiling weakly "Eh, let's go see my next invention..." he starts trotting towards a strange looking device, it was rather small in comparison to the rest of the inventions. The invention stood on a table, in consisted of what looked like a metal contact pad, attached to a large black box with cogs and gears jutting out of it, all turning. And next to the first contact pad, was a second one, although a different color. He grinned, and slammed his hooves down hard on the wooden table as he approached it "And this, friend, is the transportin' device! It can transport small objects, through the air, without the need of a unicorn to cast some fancy spell..." ((OOC: Sorry if this post seems bad.. very tired here.))

Nods, "Reminds me of my childhood..." he smiles to himself, thinking about how this wasnt how he imagined having an assitant would be like, "I'll tell you what, I think I havnt felt this kind of happiness in a while! Years even..." he chuckles, "Alright, you can turn off the machine, I'll go get some glasses ((OOC: I have no idea how stff like this works, as in his grape crushing works. Im just guessing xD.")) He trots off to a small side room, and returns with two glass tankards, filling them both up and hoofing one to the mare, "try it!"