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// Getting answers 
// Story: Totally Vanquished 
// by Gorgie 
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Wow, what a day it had been for Sam. Not only had he been blown to bits by the very thing he was trying to recapture, he'd been bucked by a certain orange equine. His bad luck was starting to change however as he now had said equines throat in his hand. He could snap her neck right here if he wanted to, but something was compelling him not too. "Dammit. Why can't I just kill this thing and be done with it? It did kick me into a tree after all." Before he could come out of his thoughts, the orange one tried to kick him again, except this attempt failed. It was still shaking and trying to get out of his grasp.

"Let me go ya damn vermin!" Sam paid no attention to its words as he was still trying to get his brain around how it could talk, let alone fight. After a few more seconds of it's squirming, he noticed the other 5 equines running towards him. That is, 4, as one was flying. 

"Oh wow. First I see an orange coloured horse with a cowboy hat on and now I see a horse with wings. Zaitsev better not have drugged me before I got to the escape pod..."  He suddenly felt a quick sharp pain in his head, which he soon realised to be a hoof being forced into his face, hard. He stumbled back a bit before he regained his balance, dropping the orange equine in the process. 

"That's how you wanna play? Alright then. I'm game." He got his weapon, changed it to its rocket launcher form, and fired at the group of techno coloured ponies that where heading straight for him. The result of the explosion favored Sam more then it did the 6 horses, as it sent each one flying in a different direction. He saw one go flying into a tree, one flying into a bush and the others just fell backwards and hit their heads on the ground. After the dust cleared, he was surprised to see one still standing. It was a lavender/purple type of colour and had a horn pierced through it's head where the brain was. It seemed to have created a sort of bubble which he guessed protected it from the explosion.

"Holy shit. How did it do that?" His thought was cut short as a blast of what looked like a laser hit him in the chest, sending him flying backwards. The next thing he knew, he was laid flat out on the grass. "Ow! That stung like a bitch!"





To the others, this creature seemed evil. To Twilight Sparkle however, it seemed that it was just defending itself. She still had to make sure it didn't hurt any of her friends any further though. So she charged up her laser and shot it, hitting the creature straight in the chest, sending it flying backwards. Once it was on the ground, it started to get up almost instantly. "How did it recover from my magic that fast?! I've never seen anything get up so fast from that spell!" It suddenly charged at her with furious speed. Luckily however, she still had the bubble spell she conjured up around. 

"I shouldn't worry. Nothing can penetrate this bubble, except from powerful magic." She was proven wrong as the creature punched the bubble incredibly fast, bursting it in the process. Twilight stumbled and fell backwards. She crawled away from the creature, only to back up against a tree. The creature was preparing to attack again, but before it's fist could connect with Twilight's face, a rope suddenly swung around the creature and pulled it backwards. Well, tried to. Only to have it snap the rope and swing the rope away, making Applejack fly off with it into the distance. "Applejack!" As soon as she shouted her friends name, he looked straight at her. "Oh, so you have names then? Pretty strange for a horse." 

Twilight now had her mouth hung open in shock and fear. "Did that thing just talk?" Before she could ask it a question, such as why was it doing this, Rainbow Dash jumped onto the back of the creature and started trying to punch it in the back of the neck. This didn't seem to work as the monster just squirmed, trying to get Rainbow off of it and threw her over his head, causing her to go crashing head first into a tree. She then heard it mutter something. 

"These fucking horses are starting to really grate on my nerves."

"Ponies."





"What?" Sam just looked at the lavender coloured horse in confusion. It then started talking again.

"We're ponies. You called us horses. Just correcting you is all." 

"So let me get this straight. You're correcting me, who just tried to retaliate against your attacks. I thought you'd be trying to rip my guts out by now." He noticed it stand up and walk over to him. Getting cautious, he changed his BLADE weapon to its shotgun form and placed it in the direction of the horse....ponies head.

"Please put that down. I'm trying to talk to you peacefully. I don't want to fight you" Sam was nervous to put the weapon down at first, but he agreed with her. He'd been fighting robots and a specific Russian all day and he really didn't have the strength to keep fighting. So he changed the BLADE form into a stick like black line and made it go into his arm. Well, the suit to be specific. The pony looked at him with a mixture of confusion and amazement.  "What is that thing?"

Sam looked at where the weapon had just disappeared into his suit and looked back at the pony. "It's called BLADE. It's basically a weapon what I use to fight and protect myself." He looked towards where the orange pony had landed and remembered this one shouted to it with what he guessed was it's name. "I noticed after I threw that orange pony over there with the rope it tried to tie on me that you shouted at it? I'm guessing Applejack is its name right?" The lavender pony nodded.

"Yes, that is correct. Do you have a name?"

"Yeah, I'm Sam. Sam Gideon."

"Nice to meet you Sam." The pony held its hoof out towards him, which he guessed was supposed to be a form of a handshake. So he wrapped his hand around the pony's hoof and shook it, causing it to shake a bit. He withdrew his hand and looked around him, noticing that all the other ponies had gotten up and were walking towards him. Suddenly, the lavender one spoke up.

"Girls, it's alright! It was just a misunderstanding! This...creature is called Sam Gideon. He just wanted to protect himself against us!" The pony looked at him and blushed. "Oh my! I'm so sorry! I haven't even told you my name yet. I am Twilight Sparkle. These 5 other ponies are my friends. Let me introduce them to you." Sam just looked at them all and noticed they still looked like they wanted him dead. He wasn't trusting any of these things until he knew they'd calmed down a bit. Getting jumped by a techno coloured pony isn't something he'd ever experienced and he didn't want to experience it ever again.

Twilight pointed at the orange one had tried to kick him earlier. She was still glaring at him. "This is Applejack. The element of honesty. She also lives on the Apple family farm, Sweet Apple Acres." 

I could bore you with all the introductions, but I'm too nice to do that so lets skip ahead shall we?

After Sam had learned all of the ponies names, Sam was ready to ask her some questions. "So, Twilight was it?" She nodded. "What's this place called?"

"This is Equestria. How do you not know that already?"

"Because I've never heard of Equestria. I'm from some where called Earth. I have no idea whether this is heaven or this is just a random planet in a different universe, but there's one thing I'm sure about. I don't fucking know how I got here in the first place." Twilight just looked at him with a confused look on her face. 

"Well, what were you doing before you ended up here?"

"I was fighting a war on a colony in space. I was trying to escape after defeating the bastard who caused said war, and I got blew up in the process of escaping. I figured this was heaven and I was dead but...I don't think it is somehow." Twilight looked shock. "He fought in a war? Wow. Must have been hard for him...better not question him about it until I get back to Ponyville though." After that thought had gone out of her head, Sam and the 6 ponies starting walking out of the forest.

"So, where are we going exactly?" She looked up at him and smiled. 

"We're going to a town called Ponyville, where I live. I'll explain more when we get there. And also, when we get there, you can explain why there was a dead Manticore next to you."

Sam shrugged and sighed. He had no idea what a "Manticore" was, but he certainly knew one thing which was pretty obvious by now. "This is turning out to be a long ass day..."