MLP: Wars Legacy chapter 1
"Your squad is being deployed to the North Gamage weapon facility. There you will engage all hostile US troops and secure the prototype weapon, from there you will deploy the BOAR, a powerful bomb that will incinerate the base destroying all the research and weapons there." Finishing his speech the major retreated to the cockpit to converse with the pilot.
Mentally nodding to myself I pulled out a neural interface suit and started kitting up. The neural interface suit (or NIS) was similar to a thermal suit for scuba divers, It was the skin tight suit you put on before wearing the actual tank and equipment, or in this case a 12 ton 15 ft tall war machine.
The NIS connected the driver to the suit so instead of the wearer's arm moving, the mech's arm would move instead. Unfortunately the suit was heavy and using the mech required years of special training. Since mech users were so few it allowed us to customize ours slightly to tell them apart from each other. Mine simply had two white stripes across the left eye.
I was a corporal, the highest rank a mech driver could achieve, I had been driving a mech for 6 years now and I was one of the best in my field. I had joined the army when I was 19 and had been with the army for 9 years now. The war with America had broken out fourteen years ago over the dwindling amount of Oil, weapons as well as growing conflicts.
The year the war began was in 2064 and Britain was now the leading power in weapon and, surprisingly, medical production this is what sparked the war. Britain had refused to share blueprints on how to make particle weapons, an invention that revolutionized the world as we know it, and America had gotten greedy with the oil supply. Both sides feared the other turning on them and since there wasn't really anyone to blame both sides were equally guilty in this situation.
My reminiscing was cut short by a whack and a searing pain in my skull. Whipping round I spied my Best friend and fellow mech user John, smiling haughtily holding a rolled up magazine. John was from Ireland and had moved to England to join the army. John had been recently promoted to Lance Corporal only having been with the British Army for 3 years and in the mech division for around a year.
"Rick Were you listening to a single word I said?" He asked, his voice holding traces of amusement at the glare I was sending his way.
"No sorry I was actually doing something productive." I said sardonically smirking at the affronted look plastered on his face.
"Bollix you were miles away there, having an erotic fantasy about your mech again?" John laughed patting me roughly on the back. Shaking my head I shrugged him off, smiling as I made the final checks to my equipment. The equipment that mech users had was very basic a combat knife, a standard pistol, and 3 days worth of rations and the NIS.
"ETA two minutes." a gruff Voice barked from the front.
"Let's do this!" John shouted whooping as he climbed onto the back of his mech before lowering himself into the cockpit. Following suit, I climbed into the cockpit of my mech.
The Mech hummed as it came to life and the lid shut leaving me in darkness before the Central HUD and cameras came to life showing my shield, weapons and ammunition count. The standard Mech came with a targeting system, radar, Infrared, night vision, and 2 nano bots.
The nano bots each had a different function one would repair the mech and the other was for basic medical aid to the human driver. I felt the familiar gust of cold air as the mech sealed itself. Sighing I got into position, my large mechanical hand gripping the side of the plane as we descended. With a soft clunk the plane landed shuddering slightly as it quickly came to a stop.
In sync the small team moved out ignoring the heat that tore into them with a vengeance.
1 Hour Later
After an hour long trek we arrived at the destination following our orders John and I laid down cover fire tearing into US tanks and troopers whilst the foot soldiers rushed forward to secure the weapon. The mech's particle cannon and 90mm rail gun wreaked havoc on the enemy forces literally tearing the men and women apart as the particle cannon incinerated tanks and other armoured vehicles. Things were going well at first then as the enemy continued to swarm out like fire ants we were forced to slowly retreat as the horde of soldiers increased to near overwhelming odds we had a couple of minutes before we would be overrun with US troops. Activating the comm. Link "WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GUYS?!" I roared into the mic my voice shaking in frustration.
"Plan ... Bomb ... rece ... package ... ETA ... 1" the comm. went dead and my feeling of dread rose.
"John fire a M2XA6!" I shouted panic slipping into my mind as the fate of my team remained unanswered.
"Got it boss man." John answered his voice remaining up beat despite the situation.
A M2XA6 was a 0.2 megaton missile that could clear most small battle zones and was perfect for this situation. Each mech suit was loaded with around 126 of these making the suit lethal in all situations. I watched with satisfaction as the Swarm of Enemy Troops came to a grinding halt as the missile destroyed most of their infantry and vehicles the Yanks started to pull back as they continue losing more and more troops to the combined destructive weapons of John and I. I see my squad sprinting out of an emergency exit heading for the extraction point, tearing after them shouting back to John to move his ass.
Sprinting for the last 2 minutes that is all I had done towards LZ as I leap into the hanger of the Y230 and watched as John and the group flooded in one of the men shouting
"Floor it!" a young recruit shouted resulting in a few half hearted chuckles at the tacky movie quote. As the plane elevation reached the 10,000 feet mark, the alarm in my mech starts going haywire the alarms warning me of lethal amounts of radiation that seem to be almost oozing from the weird weapon. The weapon starts to vibrate horribly as we watch it in a stunned silence.
"Fuck has that thing armed itself!" A soldier cried from the back causing the others to panic as they desperately searched for a way to turn the device off. The weapon we had retrieved starts to glow the strange alien like symbols flashing a murky green rapidly.
"WHAT THE FU!" I yell panicked,
BOOM
The device releases a strange gold energy as the noise causes us to grip our ears in pain one man crying as blood dripped from his ears. We yell in panic as the planes power goes dead. Rapidly the plane starts losing altitude, spiraling out of control as several men are flung out the open bay door as the rest of us hang on for dear life. I see the flashing weapon flying towards me and as a reflex I moronically grab it.
There is a Blinding flash of white then pitch Black For a few seconds next thing I know I'm falling Panicking I activate the suits lock down mechanism in the small miracle that it stops me from dying when the suit hits the ground. As I near the ground I feel the suit smash into thick branches and then finally with a thud the suit crashes into the ground.
Moaning I activate the emergency release valve which cause the chest piece to pop open. Sluggishly I flump forward falling out of the mech, I land on the cold hard ground and slowly drag my bruised, broken frame a few feet before losing consciousness.
End flash back
I moan in pain as I lift my head to get an idea of where I had actually crashed. Stretching my neck I discovered to my growing horror that I was in a near pitch black forest, the small beams of light that shot though the towering tress illuminated patches of my body and the surrounding floor bed. I see, to my horror, that the ground is coated in dry blood looking down I see to my delight that the medical nano bot had been activate having survived the fall. Speaking of survival I marshalled my limbs into a semblance of control and hauled myself to my feet shakily the blood loss and pain that shot though my body was a major inconvenience for body coordination. Cursing I stumbled around like a local drunk muttering an assortment of highly colourful swear words as I trudged towards my mech hopping that she was still in one piece. The mech had several dents and gashes in it the most noticeable being the one on the mech's head a large gorge that starts at the top of the right eye and ends at the bottom of the chin. Shakily I climbed into the suit keeping my fingers crossed as I started the ignition button.
I sighed in relief as the Mech came to life humming as the power grid came online. Warning signals flashed across the HUD as the systems came on line.
Armor 78% seek repair when possible
Pilot health 61% WARNING seek medical attention
Shield 0% WARNING SEEK IMIDEATE REPAIR
Weapon systems: online
Radar: online
Missiles cargo hold: intact
Warning GPS: offline
Global systems: offline
Thermal scanner: offline
Night vision: online
Missile tracking system: online
After reading the damage report I allowed a ghost of a smile to form, sighing in relief I thanked the stars that the damage bearable and giving the circumstance was amazing that the mech was still active after the fall. Getting my barring I slowly start to scout the area to regroup with any other survivors. The Mech's high beam UV lights cut though the darkness illuminating my path as I continue the desperate search for my lost comrades. As I continued down my path I noticed that the vines were thinning the tress weren't as tightly packed and the light of day was gleaming more brightly though the tree tops.
My thoughts raced back to my friend was he alright did he survive the crash landing was he stranded somewhere hurt, lost... dead I grimaced at the last thought.
Pressing on I broke into a sprint the machine easily reaching 55 miles an hour as trees became shadowy blurs. The forest slowly became more visible stronger light piercing the smaller trees soon allowing me to shut of the mech's UAV lights. A few really fucked up wolfs that looked like wood were all that I encountered in my mad dash. The dim forest felt alien, even to me the plants and several of the trees not match any recorded species at home and looked plain creepy. I swore at some point some of the trees even had faces horrible twisted faces showing agony or hatred. I brushed it off as the after effect of the crash. I had to admit even though the sheer silence was eerie I was enjoying it no sounds of gun fire or bombs or screams of the dying nice, peace and quiet.
To damn quite, as it turned out I was easily bored unless it evolved the army. I longed for someone anyone Christ a squad of US marines was bearable anything to kill the boredom that comes from walking though a deserted forest. I had decided that there was no point running a while back and was now walking at a brisk pace looking for any signs that could lead me to an exit or at the very least a clearing. Luck was on my side as a faint glow could be seen to my left breaking the pattern of never ending trees.
I charge forward hoping to get an idea of where I am. I crash through the exit of the depraved forest and am assaulted by the warm glow of the sun in all its glory. I slow to a brisk pace seeing a small town up ahead I ventured forward checking my radar for any hostiles. The Radar picked up light movement but had marked them as white meaning potentially dangerous. This was troubling for they could be ally or foe.
Now that I looked closer I realized that the houses were slightly smaller than normal housing and that the theme was quite old fashion resembling Victorian styled cottages. What happened next caused me to stop dead in my tracks There not a hundred feet away from me was a creature that caused me to do a double take focusing I zoomed in with the camera to be sure that I saw right. There in front of me was a Pegasus a light yellow colored Pegasus with pink hair.
"I have finally lost it! My mind must be in a state of severe delusion or I'm dead." These were the two most reasonable and likely conclusions that sprung to mind. The yellow Pegasus turned; a gentle smile adorned its face it hummed as it turned its freakishly large eyes landing on me as the gentle smile quickly slipped from her face as a look of shock and terror. It's comically sized eyes widening in horror as it dropped the small basket had been in its mouth.
I gently put my hands up to the Pegasus to show it that I wasn't a threat, bad move! Faster than what should of been possible the Pegasus took of screaming; actually SCREAMING, towards the town leaving me standing there confused and questioning my own eye and rapidly depleting sanity.
Furiously rubbing my own eyes I looked back at the Camera display, my Harlequin green eyes reflecting faintly off the glowing screen as I grumbled in frustration the stress of the situation fouling my relatively cheerful mood. Sighing heavily I headed towards the small town. In the hopes of making contact with someone who didn't look like a something from a kids' TV show. As I reached the edge of town I discovered to my horror that the Pegasus I had seen hadn't just been a figment of my imagination before me was an brightly colored town, an brightly colored town of small horses! I found myself questioning my eyes rubbing furiouslt as I tried to rid myself of the obvious hallucination before me. As I watched in a fixed state of horror as the small horses went about their lives oblivious to my presence.
I found myself slowly backing away in a hopeful attempt to stay hidden which proved to be a challenge considering the size and noise of my mech. My prayers of not alerting the residents of this small town were quickly dashed by a gut wrenching scream that pierced the air all around.
"MONSTER!" a voice wailed out in fear causing everything to go deathly silent as I froze in fear at having been caught.
A small White pony with pink and blue hair was pointing at me a look of fear plastered on her face as my presence quickly attracted the attention of the others whose facial expressions swiftly changed to match the first. Panic ensued as the horses dived for cover or the safety of one of the buildings this only caused more of them to panic resulting in pandemonium. I slowly backed away not wishing to frighten or enrage the horses any more than they already were into attacking. I continued to back away until I reached a safe distance then like a cheetah on acid took off for the safety of the dark woods small trails of dust being the only evidence that I had stood mere moments ago.
"This can't be happening." I said to myself Fear creeping into my voice talking ponies don't exist. My mind filled with dread at the realization that the Experimental weapon might not have been a weapon after all. But that couldn't be true he must still be on earth. "This is just a dream right yeah just a dream" my thoughts failed to reassure me and I sighed heavily. As I traveled through the woods I tried to find a location where I could set up camp.
Exhaustion finally caught up me with me and I found myself stopping in a small clearing. Deciding that sleeping outside the mech was suicide in a new environment, I prop myself so that my legs are stretched out giving me some comfort I lethargically switch the mech to standby mode, causing it to lower itself to the ground, making it harder to fall over whilst not moving. My eyes slowly close and I know no more.
Twilight's pov:
"Is that everything Spike?" I ask as I mentally go though my checklist to make sure that I haven't forgotten anything
"Yep that's everything Twi." The small purple dragon says ticking off the last box on our weekly shopping list, nodding my head we head for the old oak door. As spike turns the handle the door suddenly seems to explode inwards and a yellow blur shots past us with such a speed that scrolls literally go flying.
"WHAT WAS THAT?" The young dragon shouts his arms held out in front of him, trying to protect himself from the mysterious yellow blur.
"Fluttershy" I sigh quietly contemplating what had scared her this time. Trotting slowly upstairs I find Fluttershy cowering under my bed. My cynical thoughts of what loud noise scared her leave immediately as soon as I see her face. A look of pure terror etched onto her face as she whimpers something about a giant monster.
"Fluttershy Its okay I'm here" I say softy as I hold out my hoof to her. Slowly Fluttershy grasps my hoof and lets me pull her up from under the bed. "Now what is wrong what this is about a monster?"
Fluttershy sobs into my legs and I listen as she fills me in on the monster.
After Fluttershy had described this monster to me I immediately sent spike out to get the rest of the gang. Passing back and forward my mind desperately tries to recount if there were any monsters like Fluttershy described in the library books. Groaning as my mind came p with nothing I watched Fluttershy as she shakily drank her tea her hoofs trembling from the experience. Surprisingly Rainbow Dash is the first to arrive followed by Applejack. Pinkie pie and Rarity arrive minutes later, all of them wearing the same worried look. After I retold Fluttershy's encounter with the monster, unsurprisingly, it was rainbow dash that spoke out first
"Well lets go already and give this monster a pounding of a life time!" her enthusiastic tone ever present
"Naw hold on suggercube ahm as eager as y'all to git this thang but we all can't just go after it not knowin what or where its at" Applejack added, her tone relaxed, which helped keep things calm.
"Maybe it's an alien I wonder if aliens have parties or if they like parties we should have a party what kind of party would it want maybe a 'Welcome to Equestria please don't eat us' or maybe a mhphhnm" Pinkie's enthusiastic voice was cut off by Rainbow Dash shoving a hoof in her mouth a look of annoyance on her face.
"No pinkie we're not throwing it a party were going to kick its but." Rainbow said her voice holding tints of anger.
"Now darling we have no idea where this appalling beast is, how we can see it off if we don't even know where to look?" Rarity added her calm composed voice seeming to get though to dash for her grin dropped quickly only to be replaced with a frown.
"Um, excuse me I would just like to add, I mean, if that is alright, that Um I saw the monster come from the ev- ever...free f- f-forest" Fluttershy squeaked as she hides behind her mane.
"Well we know where to start looking lets go girls!" I shout enthusiastically the girls shout in agreement
1 hour later
"UH this place is filthy." Rarity whined as we trudged though forest. Vines, thorns, rotten vegetation, mud, and a close encounter with poison joke were all that we had encountered so far, Spike had decided to stay behind and "Watch the library in case the creature decides to show up." smiling at his excuses I stayed vigilant.
We continued down the dimly lit path. I could feel the ancient magic that seemed to surround this forest. I saw Dash darting of in random directions looking in search of any clues as where our mystery monster was. I had the weirdest feeling that we are being watched but I don't detect any movement or noise so I ignore it.
"Over here girls I found it I found it!" I hear Pinkie's bubbly voice cry out in excitement rushing forward I smash though the bushes blocking my path and stop dead in my tracks. Me and the girls are stunned this beast in front of us is huge the size of a manticore easily. Rainbow dash flew up to the creature a frown on her face and started berating the beast.
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE COMING INTO PONYVILLE AND SCARING MY FRIEND AND THE PONIES THERE, WELL YOUR ABOUT TO GET A FLANK KICKING!" she proclaimed puffing out her chest, spreading her wings to look intimidating.
Which I had to note was kind of pointless giving the size and the look of the monster. A silence descended around the forest as they waited for the monster to do something. Rainbow Dash's look went from belligerent to confused, when it didn't respond.
"Y'all, maybe this things asleep?" Applejack whispered, not wanting to wake the creature up despite the fact that Dash's rant hadn't seemed to have awoken it.
"IGNORE ME WILL YOU!" Dash shouted and pivoting in the air, ignoring the cries of protest from me, Rainbow Dash, drew her two hind hooves back and bucked with all her might. Her legs slammed into the monsters face a loud metallic bang echoed around the woods causing the girls ears to vibrate painfully as their breaths caught in there throat. After a tense moment Rainbow Dash laughed whilst she tried to discreetly fan her sore hoof the key word being, tried.
"See it's too scared to mess with me." This laugh was quickly silenced when she noticed the looks of horror on her friend's faces. Turning she found herself staring into two large scarlet eyes.
"Oh pony feathers."
Richard's pov:
I awoke to the sound of something shouting
"AND SCARED MY FRIEND!"
Was all I made out as I yawned, my mind taking a moment to click that someone was shouting at me. I turned on the cameras and found myself looking at six little horses.
"So it wasn't a dream." I said my next thought was cut off by the rainbow haired horse shouting
"IGNORE ME WILL YOU!" I winced at the sound as its hooves made contact with the mech's head causing my ears to ring, growling I turned the mech on and rose to my feet. I heard the same horse mutter something that sounded like
"Sony feathers" whatever the fuck that meant. The small Pegasus darted back to the safety of its friends as the weapons that the mech stored came to life with a hum.
The mech had two modes for weapon related use. It was equipped with large claw like hands to grab and throw items or could use the weapons equipped on it. I watched with confusion as a small lavender colored horse with a horn on its head stepped forward, fear evident in its eyes, and glared at me. I had to give the now identified unicorn some credit it had some major fucking balls. So from what I could understand there were small talking horses some that had horns and wings. My thoughts were cut off as the unicorn's horn started to glow. Next thing I know a ball of fire is heading directly towards me.
"THE FUCK!" I roar as I leap to the side barely missing the spiral of flames that appeared from nowhere. I watch as her horn glows again and I come to a horrible realization
"Magic! This little bastard can use magic!" Deciding that killing a potential sentient creature would look bad I decided to do what any man or woman would do giving my circumstances, I ran.
Taking off in the opposite direction I noticed that I had briefly stunned the little horses before they gave chase. I easily outran the running horses but skittles was fast given its wings and was easily able to keep pace with me.
Ducking and weaving I had some difficulty getting though the mass of trees, vines, and bushes but my pace didn't falter. The Reactive Circuits function had never been so useful and I used them to their full extent. The circuits increased my senses allowing for better reaction time. This was useful when avoiding enemy fire, but in a forest helped me avoid hitting things like the black warped trees in my path.
As I run I notice that the surrounding area is starting to become more swamp like, trees spreading out and thick green mud soon replacing the forest debris. I stop in my tracks realizing that I'm not going to be able to g away from the 6 persistent horses. The rainbow one stops and glares at me as its 5 friends (?) come into sight. I get myself into a position so I can avoid any of the lavender ones magic tricks. I watch as they stop dead fear creeping onto their faces. Had they finally realized that they were chasing a massive machine that could kill them by steeping on them.
This smug notion was quickly discarded by a low menacing hiss that sounded behind me. Turning I found myself face to, well knee with what looked like a massive lizard-snake thing.
The creature dwarfed me and the mech, its many heads glaring at me, hunger evident in its eyes. With lightning speed the creature smashed one of its mighty horned heads into me sending me flying a few hundred feet before smashing into an old tree. A great crack was heard as the tree shattered from the impact leaving me entrapped in the trees remains. My vision blurred as I blacked out.
Main 6 pov:
The six ponies watched in horror as the monster was smashed aside by a very angry and very hungry hydra the creatures many mouths opened showing hundreds of razor sharp teeth.
Rainbow Dash darts forward bucking one of the hydras in the head nimbly dogging the other three heads that snapped at her with murderous intent. Applejack and Pinkie pie both focus on the legs, working together to try and trip the massive foe avoiding its colossal clawed feet as it tries to crush them.
Rarity and twilight focus on firing spells at it trying to make it leave or injure it enough so they can get away. Their team effort does little more than annoy the hydra as it continues to try and devour the elusive, annoying prey.
Fluttershy cowers behind Twilight having tried to use the stare on it only to find that the creature was too enraged and famished for it to have any effect. She watches as Applejack and Pinkie are sent flying, landing beside a panting Rarity who is struggling to keep up with Twilight's spell casting. Rainbow's right wing was burning the hydra had gotten a lucky swing and one of its claws had clipped her causing her flight to be wobbly and slow Retreating she placed herself in front of her friends fearing that this was the end of them. The hydra lunges at them each gaping maw aiming for a different pony. Twilight was to stunned to throw up a shield and the hydra wasn't even hurt. This was the end for them.
Rainbow Dash closed her eyes waiting for the agonising pain of its jaws.
BOOM!
Dash's eyes tore themselves open as she watched in confusion and horror as the hydra roared in pain as two of its heads disintegrated.
Turning she saw the cause, the monster was back up and its weird hooves were pointing at the hydra. A loud masculine voice roared its challenge to the Hydra
"ITS GO TIME BITCH!"
Richards dream state:
Looking around I found myself back in the school yard, the place that haunted my darkest nightmares, moaning I backed away hoping to escape the horror that was to come. Children of all ages stood where there had been only empty space seconds ago. Raising their hands they pointed at me their dead bodies and lifeless eyes searching my very soul as I remembered that day, the day that I was ordered to launch a missile at a suspected US Silo location. Everything went well except the targeting locater went haywire firing the missile at a random location.
When I found out that I had hit a school I remember screaming and for hours that was all I did. Sixty four children were killed hundreds injured. The report horrified me while I was assured that it wasn't my fault I lived with the guilt knowing that these children died by my hands.
"Your fault." the raspy voices whispered repeating those two words that I believed to be true.
"IM SO SORRY!" I sobbed tears leaking down my face, as I looked at the small frail corpses of what were once full of so much life and promise now nothing more than empty husks.
I awoke with a gasp as I sprang forward smacking my head off the screen resulting in a crack and a muffled curse. Looking around I realized that the creature that had hit me was attacking the small horses. This could be my chance to get away I thought. This idea was crushed as I saw the dread on their face as the monster closed in one even putting itself in front of the others, loyalty was all I could call it. Next thing I knew I was charging up the particle cannon and aiming at the fuckers heads. The cannon fired, smashing into the creature resulting in two of its heads being incinerated. The monster wailed in pain as I roared
"ITS GO TIME BITCH!" The mech's speakers amplifying my voice, making me sound braver than I felt. The creature responded in turn and lunged at me claws extended and its jaws spread wide. Leaping aside I activated the rail gun and listened as it hummed for a brief moment before releasing a monstrous roar as bullets sprayed forth slamming into the scaly hide of the attacking beast. The beast heads snapped at my armor leaving large gorges and scratches as my weapons wreaked havoc on its body.
Jumping back I noticed that the two stumps where the two heads had once been where now sprouting four new heads.
"FUCK IT'S A HYDRA HOW I COULD BE SO BLIND!" I shouted at myself in frustration. The only way to supposedly kill these beasts is to destroy the original head and then burn the neck or some crap that's how the myth goes. Deciding that I needed to end this quickly I decided to use one of the X38s a 0.6 megatonne missile that rather than exploding, implodes causing minimal damage to the surrounding area but not so much for the area inside the bomb. My hand slammed down on the Crimson red button that fired the missile and watched as the port on my left opened revealing, six deadly X38 missiles.
A blaring Warning boomed thought the HUD screen as the missile was launched. Warnings showed as the safety protocol warned me to evacuate the area within 20 seconds or risk being damaged or killed by the speeding missile. The missile in question was now tens of thousands of feet in the air, descended on the doomed target with a precise aim. 20 seconds was a long time when something was trying to kill you. Turning I was torn from the ground as the Hydras serrated blade like claws soon had me pinned against an old but sturdy tree.
Struggling I tried to shift the monstrous weight that was causing the mech to creak and grown in protest retracting the rail gun, I used the mech's clawed hand as a make shift knife stabbing the hydra in the wrist bone resulting in a growl of annoyance. It increased its pressure causing hazard lights to flare all over the monitor as I desperately tried to get this thing off me.
Using what little strength I had left I raised the particle cannon so it was lined up with the hydras stomach charging it up. The weapon lagged for a few seconds before discharging, resulting in a horrendous roar then a sickly crack as the hydra was literally thrown off of me. Groaning I tried to move, but my body refused to cooperate with me.
I heard it before a caught sight of the sleek missile heading straight for the hydra. The hydra only had time to turn to face the flying object before it struck.
BOOM!!!
The hydra seemed to disappear as the missile crashed into its body; a blinding light filling the murky swamp before imploding resulting in a smaller explosion briefly silencing the surrounding area. The hydra, or what little was left of it, was dead its heads and most of its body was gone the rest of the beast was scattered across the foggy swamp, blood and large chunks of flesh coating the surrounding grimy trees and rocks.
I collapse my body unable to deal with the pressure and injury from the fight my thoughts briefly flick to the fate of the horses and if they had survived, before losing consciousness.
Twilight's pov:
I watched with unsuppressed horror as the two monsters fought viciously this was a fight that only one was walking away from as the creatures fought to the death I noticed that the creature seemed to be using some kind of magic in both its hooves. One fired a bolt of lightning while the other fired large pieces of metal both seemed to have a better effect on the hydra than what they had been doing. What shocked her was when a large piece of metal fired from the things back and shot up into the air
"Maybe that was a distress signal or something" I wondered as the creature was pinned by the hydra. I froze as I saw the metal cylinder heading towards the hydra what happened next would result in many sleepless nights and several nightmares the thing slammed into the hydra before exploding I had to cover my eyes as the girls screamed in fright.
I opened my eyes slowly the blinding flash causing my eyes to be sensitive and blurry. What I saw caused me to gasp in horror; the hydra or what was left of it, had been ripped apart, avocado green blood leaked from the remaining mutilated limbs of the hydra.
"WHAT IN THE NAME OF TARTARUS WAS THAT?" Applejack shouted her face contorted with revulsion and disgust.
"That thing did all that by itself?" Rainbow dash asked her usual cocky attitude long forgotten. Pinkie pies hair lay limp and straight at her side the art of killing was long forgotten by ponies and seeing it had scared her more than anything. Rarity had fainted when she had seen the hydras bloody remains and was now being seen to by Fluttershy whose face was a sickly shade of green.
"It saved us." I said, my voice quivering from the horrible experience.
"It could have gotten away but it stayed and protected us." I said not knowing why the creature would help us. Creeping over to the monster I saw that the thing wasn't moving.
"Twi you're gon' have to teleport us outa here." Applejack stated. I nodded in agreement.
"Um what about the um monster it did save us after all." Fluttershy said her gentle voice quivering yet still held concern for the monster that had defended them.
"I'm not sure I can teleport all of us and something that size to Ponyville in one go so we will have to teleport it there first." I said not at all happy with the idea of sending a creature that can kill a hydra to a town of defenceless ponies.
"Here goes nothing." I whispered as I allow my magic to flow into my horn with a loud crack the creature disappeared.
When I and the rest of the main six arrived at Ponyville we found a small group of ponies looking at the monster, unease and inquisitively shared by most of the group. Walking sluggishly I pushed past the small crowd and looked to where the monster lay. Despite my exhaustion I couldn't help but study the creature in front of me.
I noticed that the monster seemed to be made of metal. Was this thing wearing armor or was it natural? The monster released a loud hiss and its chest opened revealing a weird sight inside.
There was a creature inside. Judging from the position the creature was bipedal. The thing itself had pale Caucasian colored skin and lacked any fur other than a small shaggy patch of raven black fur on its head, probably its mane. Its body seemed to be in some kind of metal armor that covered most of its body. Its eyes were comically small and it seemed to have claws like spikes rather than hooves. It was a very strange creature indeed and in my opinion very interesting.
The creature fell forward landing with a soft thud on the ground. A soft grown escaped the creatures lips as blood slowly pooled around his head. Wait, BLOOD! Panicking I cried out for a doctor.
Richard's pov:
Slowly I felt consciousness return to me my eyes cried in protest as they forced themselves apart groaning in pain I lifted my severely bruised torso. I remembered flashes of what happened being chased by horses then being attacked by a fucking Hydra. The horses set a fucking hydra on me. Looking around I found myself in a hospital. Rising shakily to my feet I looked around for my equipment. I found that my NIS is in one piece as are my rations and weapons grabbing them I suit up, granted slowly my battered limbs crying in protest as I put the awkward armor on, luckily the suit isn't incredibly heavy only weighing around 15kg (30 pounds) strapping my knife to my chest and slipping my gun into my holster.
Moving towards the conveniently open window my legs are half way out when I hear a gasp behind me. Turning I see a pure white pony with a light pink hair gaping at me, panicking I throw the rest of my body out the window and take off sprinting ignoring her shouts of protest. My legs feel like they are burning and my lungs struggle to draw a proper breath I have no idea where I'm going. Panicking I race around a corner and I slam into an unknown figure and stumble slightly. Cursing at my sloppiness I nearly miss the figure give a lady like scream and fall landing on its back. On closer inspection I see that it's the lavender unicorn from earlier.
"What are you doing here?"The Female unicorn asks her tone confused and cautious.
"Wha?" I say half delusional as I pull out my gun and clumsily point it at her slowly backing away. "Stay the fuck away from me!" I yell as I awkwardly back away, trying not to fall and aim a gun at the same time proving to be a challenge. Unfortunately her friends turn up giving them the advantage of numbers
"The Princess is on," the orange horse stops talking looking at me in shock which is quickly replaced with anger her body getting into an aggressive position.
"Stay away or I will open fire!" I shout my mind clouded with panic unable to think logically.
"Open fire how do you ope-." the rainbow colored Pegasus jumps back yelping in fright as I pull the trigger firing off a warning shot centimetres away from where she had been standing.
The lavender horse slowly approaches her body tense as she gently holds one of her hoofs out showing me that she is unarmed "It's okay where not going to hurt you." Her voice holds a calm gentle tone to it and it helps me regain some control enough so I lower the gun slightly. I keep my gun at the ready though I had seen her throwing that magic shit about.
"Where am I and Who or what are you?" I ask my body still on edge as the unicorn stopped looking at me with curiosity.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle you are in the land of Equestria and we are we're equines or ponies" with that new information I feel my stomach drop I really was in another world, with that realization I feel all the power in my legs leave me causing me to fall on my back. My gun lay discarded at my side as I desperately tried to contemplate the fact that I was in a land of talking ponies and mythological creatures. I lean forward retching as I feel nauseated at the thought of being stuck on a fucking planet with; Technicolor, magic, talking ponies.
I felt a small firm weight on my shoulder; looking up defensively I see that the purple one had placed her hoof on me as a sign of trust or stupidity, probably both. A snarl works its way onto my face as I roughly push my shoulder away causing her smile to drop as she retreats her friends tensing as the orange one restrains the moronic blue one with skittles for hair. These morons thought that a nice pat on the shoulder would win my trust. I wouldn't hurt them and would try and act civil if I was to be stranded here but I refused to do anything more than what was expected of a decent human.
"Let's make one thing clear I am not here to make nice, okay I don't trust any of you nor do I particularly like you but i see that the only way that I will survive is if I cooperate. I will make this clear though try and double cross me or even have a notion of betraying me then I will end you" I growled causing them to cow under my steely glare as they nod the red neck and tomboy glaring at me as I smirked daring them to do something. Twilight trudged past me her head low as she mumbled for me to follow her. I felt slightly bad for being so cruel but I didn't survive all these years playing dress up and being best friends with people I don't know and even then I never trusted anyone more than I had to.
My thoughts were cut off by one of the ponies gasping slightly I notice that I had drawn quite a crowd but that wasn't what caught my attention it was the large white pony at the back. This one was different it was far larger than the others; its head coming up to my nose, what caught my attention was that it had a horn and wings. My eyes meet hers and I prepare myself for the worst.
Grabbing my gun I hold it at my side trigger finger ready.