Chapter fourteen
“Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, who in the hoof is that!?”
“Diamond?”
My mind snapped back to the present. I shook my head, then glanced at my sister.
“Are you OK, sis?”
I nodded, noticing the tears leaking out of my eyes, “I was just thinking about dad.”
She frowned and nodded slightly.
“I miss him too, Diamond. He was the best father a pony could ask for.”
Winter walked up and sat next to Blossom, eyeing the chess board. She seemed to be playing out the game in her head, like a computer. She stopped and looked in my direction. She noticed that my eyes were still wet.
“Are you alright, Darling? You look like you’ve been crying.”
“I was. Eleven years ago today, my father was murdered.” I replied.” There was a coup, and a bunch of crazy ponies tried to take over the stable. My dad had tried to expose the ponies behind it, but they killed him.”
She nodded
“Still, they got sloppy, and because my dad was murdered, their leader was almost caught, but she escaped somehow. She just disappeared.”
Chip barged in frantically.
“Everypony grab a gun, 'cause we’ve got a whole mess 'o raiders comin’!”
Shit.
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Raiders, I really, really, really, and so many more reallys, hated raiders. After all they where just...Evil. The only reason, it seemed, they did the things they did, was because they enjoyed it. It made me wanna kill them all! I could here the sounds of raiders. Obscenities drifted from them, that I didn’t even know existed.
Unfortunately, We couldn’t see them, but they could see us. I hadn’t had any military training, but I knew this was a massive tactical disadvantage. An older stallion with a crossbow walked beside up me.
“I am called Arrow Dash” he said, with a quick grin “ I am the leader of this town, and I must thank you for what you have done. But I must also ask of you one more thing; will you stay and fight for us? “
I grinned in return, “Hell yeah!”
The gold colored earth pony nodded.
“I assure you, we will be grateful... Even if we all die.”
Winter trotted up carrying... A big frigging gun! I had never seen her carry a weapon of any kind, In fact she even seemed disgusted by them. But now she was levitating a gun bigger than Chip’s. I gave her a shocked look.
“What? Can’t a girl enjoy a big gun?” she said, rubbing the gun affectionately, “I think I’ll call him Tom.”
“Him?”
Suddenly the night was lit up by arcane fire. The raiders were cast in eerie green light. Chit, you genius!
He landed next to me, a huge grin painted on his face.
“look’s like the raiders have a little something in their eyes.” He glance at Winter, ”Umm...”
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We took positions on the walls, ready to fire. Chip and Lead were standing on either side of me, weapons primed. Lead leaned in close.
“ If I kill the most, you buy me a drink. And you get the most, I’ll buy you one.”
I chuckled. “I prefer apple whiskey.”
He laughed hard.
“Well, I hope you have enough caps for that and my hard lemonade.”
In reply, I fired my rifle, killing a raider.
“one.”
After that, a hell broke loose, the air was filled with more bullets than I’d ever seen. The wall of lead slammed into the raiders, instantly breaking morale. At least I thought it had, the raiders quickly continued their almost suicidal charge. I heard a very loud boom, then there was a big yellow cloud of plasma. Looks like Winter had fired Tom. I heard the unified ‘Holy Shit!’ of everypony.
I looked over at Winter, she had a big evil grin on her face. Then Tom started shaking violently. Lead’s eyes widened to almost twice as big as they’d already been widened.
“She just overloaded it!”
“Is that bad?” I asked
“BAD? Of course it's bad! The damn thing’s gonna explode!”
Winter yelped, and hurled the weapon into the raiders.
“Look out, here comes Tom!”.
Then, the whole world exploded in a sun-like yellow cloud . I lost consciousness a few seconds later
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I was standing in a massive green field. Tall grass was waving in the soft, cool breeze. Was this heaven?
“Your still alive, Diamond.” a warm voice spoke from behind me.
Turning, I saw the same princess from before. This time I did not bow.
“Who the hay are you?” I demanded.
She frowned, glancing off to the sky.
“Of course those three ponies from Stable-Tec forgot about me in their ‘history’ books.” She rolled her eyes, and then looked at me “My name is Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, please, call me Cadence.”
My eyes widened, and I fell to my knees.Then, after a few seconds, got back to my hooves.
“You’re Cadence?” I asked, excitedly “ I read how you defeated the queen of the changelings.”
Her face turned serious.
“I didn’t defeat her my self, it was mostly my husband, Shinning Armor.”
The Princess looked like she was about to cry. I gave her a hug, which she gladly accepted. She needed it. She turned toward me, smiling
“Thank you, Diamond.”
“So, Cadence, Who was Star Swirl the bearded?” I asked
She chuckled.
“Only the father of the amniomorphic spell and the most important conjurer of the pre-classical era. Not to mention the ancestor of a certain pony named Twilight Sparkle, my sister-in-law, and the most powerful unicorn I have ever met.”
My eye’s widened more. I was related to Twilight Sparkle? The bearer of the Element of Magic? Who saved Equestria from both Nightmare Moon, and Discord?
“Your lying.”
Cadence smiled.
“No, I’m not. That is the true story.”
I paused. This was a lot to think about. not only was I related to somepony I had no clue who was, I was also related to Twilight Sparkle. And I was also the ‘unsung hero of Equestria’.
Cadence interrupted my thoughts.
“I have a little task for when you wake up. If you don’t mind that is.”