The Four Strangers
A New Beginning
"This is not your grave, but you are welcome in it" - Gravemind and Regret (Halo 2)
It was a beautiful winter night in Equestria as everypony got into their beds for a warm slumber, only ponies awake being the night guard and Princess Luna. They were busy on the night shift, watching and working on the preparations for Hearth's Warming Eve, a holiday that brings friends and family together for the celebration of the finding of Equestria and the joining of the three pony tribes. Snow was falling on the ground for the next day so when ponies woke up they could have fun in it. But somewhere not so far away in space, a few miles away from the planet's moon was a large chunk of space debris, made out of metal, flesh, and rock. It was no normal space junk because inside the chunk layed four individuals. The survivors of a war against multiple foes, they knew they were the only ones of their kind within a fifteen thousand mile radius or they would sense it, but all they could sense the lifeforms on the planet bellow. They were members of the most hated species in existance, the Flood. Inside the debris, one of the flood forms was thinking outward towards his commrads, his brothers.
'LIfe...life is a virtue on its own timeline...a timeline of failures and achievements. The Gravemind made many achievements in his time as our ruler, but he also failed to consume and grow. We may have been his elite, but we had our doubts about the Gravemind and what happened, we were right, we knew his plans would fail, as the humans would say it, it was cliche. The villain always loses in the end and in his story he was a villain. His words were wise, but words are only as good as the one who says them, he didn't, yes he didn't follow the words "Ashes to ashes dust to dust." He should have known he wouldn't be immortal, nothing is, the Flood may live forever, but not its members or leaders. His way of living gave him many enemies, enemies that worked together to destroy him and they did. But we, the Juggernaut Elite still live, floating through space to whatever planet we land on, but we stay together, other Flood just die, but not us, we are special. We won't make the same mistakes as The Gravemind did, no, we will try to live "with" others instead of "consuming" others. The Flood will always remain, but that doesn't mean we need to remain as monsters that consume everything. A new world awaits us brothers and we will show that the Flood aren't monsters, but creatures with a will to survive.'
The chunk of flesh was taken in by the full force of the planet's gravitational pull, the Juggernauts began to decend into the atmosphere as they got into position for impact, crossing their arms to form an 'X' shape in front of them and getting into a crouch position. Each one of them huddle up into a group each one facing a corner or what could be called a corner of the air bubble in the debris. One of them could see the flesh start to boil on their side of the room while in other areas metal began to bend and rock started to break away. A large piece of the space junk broke away revealing them a sight of a castle apon a mountain side and a village not that far way from the castle. Last thing they saw before hitting the ground was smoke coming from the ground near their landing area in the forest, they heard a ear-piercing scream and then nothing.
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The eldest of the Juggernaut, whose name was Obligation, began to regain consciousness from the impact, he started to look around to see that is was dark out. He started to get into a sitting position when he heard the movement of what could be the sound of hooves moving quickly towards the opening in the now debris-made cave. He decided to be silent, he wasn't sure if these were animals or some type of sentient life and he didn't want to make a bad impression on himself or his brothers.
Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Bell were running as fast as they could from the camp they had made after getting lost in the Everfree, they had just got settled down when a pack of timberwolves came out of the forest. Shortly afterwards some large object fell from the sky, since the object came into their minds when they started to run, they went into the diection of the object. they continued to run until they ended up at the landing site, there was a huge crater with small flames coming off of it and it had the smell of burning flesh and hot molted metal. the girls didn't know what do to until Scootaloo spotted a fairly good sized hole inside. They ran into the debris-made cave and stopped to rest.
"Are they gone?" Asked a frightened Sweetie Bell.
"Ah don't see anypony or anything moving outside."
"Maybe we lost them." Stated Scootaloo.
"Well, just to be safe we should stay in hear until somepony realizes were missing." Said Sweetie Bell.
"But thats going to take forever and this place gives me the creeps."
Obligation just sat there without moving watching the three fillies talk amongst themselves. By this time Tolerance and Restraint had regained consciousness as well and thought it was wise to stay still, even if they were not in the best positions. The three began to communicate telepathically so they wouldn't be noticed.
'They are equines of some form, they may be members of the dominate race on this planet sense they can speak a language that is universal.' - Obligation
'By the looks of their features, we can truly say they are of the same genus, but not the same species, one has a horn and no wings, the other has wings and no horn, and the last one has neither a horn or wings.' - Restraint
'Also we can speculate that the three species of equines treat each other as equals by how they behave to each other.' - Tolerance
The three continued to contemplate everything thought that came into their heads until they heard one of the equines say., "Look at these flowers."
Sweetie Bell was pointing her hoof at Mercy's sensors, as he was the only one still unconsciousness the others began to worry what might happen if they tried to remove the sensors, "Are they pretty or what?"
"Ah've never any flower that looked like that." Stated Applebloom
"Maybe we found a new type of flower." Sweetie Bell replied.
"You should take on so we can so it to Zecora or Twilight."
"That sound like a good idea Scootaloo."
"Well of course, my ideas always work." Said Scootaloo as she stood up in courageous pose.
Sweetie Bell and Applebloom stared at Scootaloo with looks that said, 'ya right.' Scootaloo just shrugged it off and started to play with Tolerance's right leg by jumping back and forth over it just to pass the time. Scootaloo continued until she juped too early and tripped over the leg with a yell and fell flat on her face. Sweetie Bell and Applebloom stopped their attempts to remove a 'flower' and helped Scootaloo get back up on her hooves.
"Are yah alright Scoots?" Asked the concerned Applebloom.
"Ya, I'm okay, just tripped over that log."
Tolerance felt is pain hit is ego, making the muscles throught his body flinch at Scootaloos last statement, but none of the fillies noticed it. Suddenly, everypony and everyflood, including the now consciousness Mercy, heard the howl of a wolf nearby, Sweetie Bell looked through the opening to find two packs of timberwolves slowly sneaking towards the opening. Sweetie Bell turned around to face her friends.
"Girls, we got trouble."