Author's Notes:
Thanks to Deadinlight for beta-reading and helping me edit
Post Common Era Chapter Six/War of Stars Chapter Two: An Attack At Home
The human grunted as he was thrown into a room with a thud before he was levitated right ways up and Masao walked in with two ESIS officers at his side.
“Tell me, has the human race finished fighting themselves over petty things?” asked the immortal as he pulled the bag off of the soldier’s head.
“Private George Smith, Serial Number—”
“I don’t have time for this, I am not bound by the Geneva Convention soldier, and unlike Celestia, I am not adverse to far more distasteful ways of obtaining information. Though I will admit I would prefer not to use them. Besides I do believe the information I want won’t affect your troop movements anymore than if you don’t tell us”
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“Shoot them down! They’re only beasts!”
“For Equestria!”
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Masao just stared at the soldier who glared at him as the two ESIS agents, on a unicorn, the other a pegasus, were busy attaching what, to the soldier, seemed to be electrodes.
“It would be so much easier if you would talk, all I want to know is why the US felt the need to not only attack a peaceful species, but do so without a formal declar—nevermind they haven’t declared war since World War II from what I remember”
“Why would we declare war on a bunch of animals?” asked the soldier and Masao frowned, wasn’t it obvious? they aren’t a ‘bunch of animals’ they were highly intelligent alien species, so far as the human race was concerned, “I mean some of them have these hideous mutations like this one-” the soldier motioned to the pegasus, “-I mean no horse should have wings, pegasus don’t exist”
“Pegasi” corrected Masao before sighing, “It seems to me you have been lied to, these ponies” said Masao stressing the word ‘ponies,’ “are highly intelligent, I have been here for several millennia, and—”
“Not possible, no human lives to be a thousand, not even in the fiction that the group that called themselves christian, whatever they were, read”
“Ah, yes, the Holy Bible, according to that the oldest recorded living man lived to be nine hundred ninety-eight years of age. That aside, I have had some serious help in living as long as I have, I am Prince Masao Darkheart, one of four rulers of Equestria, the country that you have attacked, I am also a the head of ESIS, the Equestrian equivalent of the CIA, though in my opinion, far more effective. So tell me, what has changed in the last several years, last thing I remember we, that is to say the US, was still fighting in the middle-east”
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“That bucking fool!” said Masao as he and the two ESIS agents left the room, a private by the name of Windy Shears had burst in to report that there was an attack on a human camp, ordered by a fool of a captain, Foolish Luck. Masao’s eyes seemed to pour out dark magic as he had ripped the table that had literally been built into the room off the floor, the soldier had clammed up after that, saying that there was no way he was talking to a psyker, another call back to a video game he used to play. That was fine, he had gotten the information he needed, now he needed to get suited up, he was going to take this fight to… But he couldn’t he promised Luna he wouldn’t go fighting anymore, not since they got married…
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Willow Leaf sat in her room watching some old television show on the holoviewer when Luna walked in her face carefully neutral.
“I heard about your little adventure in our room, Willow Leaf” said Luna and Willow Leaf swallowed, she hadn’t talked to Luna about her gift to Masao, hopefully she wasn’t going to die. Luna’s face then broke into a large grin, “So tell me, what made you change your mind?” Willow Leaf groaned, she was not looking forwards to this conversation…
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Willow Leaf was walking down the hall, she had just gotten away from the princess of the night, Luna, it seems, was bound and determined to make her pass out from too much blood to her head. she didn’t like that at all…
Suddenly there was the sound of boots, not unlike Masao’s running down the hall, there were multiple of them, all at the same time, so she fell back into her old routine, she hid, and hid very well she did, and she saw a half a dozen human troops rushing through the hall.
“Sir, something doesn’t feel right after those first guards I was sure we’d run into more, but we haven’t, it’s almost too easy.” said one of the humans though he got no answer as Masao turned the corner and his eyes flashed angrily.
“You come into my home, you have killed my guards, and now you have the audacity to disturb the night?” said Masao as the very wind seemed to wrap around him something that alerted Luna to the predicament as she teleported herself right beside him and her eyes narrowed.
“It seems we have some uninvited guests, love”
“Indeed” said Masao as he picked up the cylinder from his side and activated it causing a beam of light to raise out of it, “If any of you have any knowledge of old Earth cinema, you might know what this is” and with that he lunged forwards only to disappear and reappear behind them before cutting down the commanding officer.
“G̵̩͇͉͉̠̽͂̒͋̒e̲͈̬̼ͯ̔̈ͤt͉̹̲̊́ͧ̌ͅͅ ̹͇͉͓͐͑̇̿r͇̠͗ͬͥ͋e̵̠̰̥̥ͭȁ́҉d͙̖̙̳̣̹̟̍̊y̱̙̹̻̤͕͑ͭ̒̒̀̍̎,̻͆͗̈́͋̍̌̚ ̷̆̄͗͗͑h̶̻̩̏ͦu͛̊̍̔ͬͮ̉͏̞̱̗̭͙m̫̹̗ͮͯͬa̬͎̱̳̦͒n͐ͨ̇ͥ̾̃,̏̇ ͙͎͕̱͢t͎̖̥͇̗̆ͩͤ̃h̙͓̍ͧ̅͐ͯĕ̂ͧ̅ͧ̈́̆͏̘̮y̩̥̲͌ͭ͑̎̎͞ ̟̈́̈̋ͧ͞a̻̳͟ṛ̶̰̯ͦ̄ę̩̼̣̗̩̼̥̌ͣ̆̄̚ ̂͐̄͊̍͏͇̖̱̞̯̜ṋ̳̱͇͉͍͓̿̊͗̓̆ͤo̹̲̞͚ͤ͑̅͟ẗ͆̀̓̌̊҉̱͕̤̮̦ͅ ̧͖̠̪̗̤͖ͬ͑̏̑̐ģ̯̈́͑̾̽ͣo͙̺͆͘i̦ͫ͌ͧ͟n̗̜̗͕͗ͥͥ̃̈ͧ̚g̣͕͙̼ͭ̔ͫ̑̉̈́ ̷̱͎̞̘͍̎͐͑̾̐ẗ̨̝̥̠̺͍̌̅ͫ̿o͚̻̜̗̝̟ͮ͗ ̳̔͐͊̑̚l̬͙̰̲e̘͈̟ͬ̉ṫͯ̅̽ͪ t̫̘̬̼̱̠̅h͍̦ͬ̅̒a̴̼̦ţ̱̞̥̱͕̼̟̍ ̵̳̞̜͖͚̲̓̈ͮ̇ͬ̌s̙̜̥̽͑̋̎̾̏ͮt͈͆̀̉ͫͦa̘̮̳̹̼͂̈́ͣ̂͆n̖̯̲̪̿ͯͅd̨̙̭͙̟̟̓̂”
“You have one chance to stand down—” Masao threw up a dark portal just in time for several bullets to fly through it and out into the wall beside him. “Then your choice is made” at that Luna flew into the middle of them and with a burst of light knocked them all into the walls or down the hall.
“You attacked my husband, now feel the fury of the night!” with that Luna used her magic to summon waves of light and darkness to trample the surviving humans nearly killing them as Masao used his dark magic to grab one and hold him in the air with telekinetic magic.
“You are coming with me, I have some questions” said the dark mage before leaving as his wife continued to thrash the remaining humans within an inch of their lives. It was only after Luna had calmed down that Willow Leaf crawled out of hiding.
“Oh! Willow Leaf! Are you alright?” asked the night princess and Willow Leaf just stared in shock at the devastation the princess had caused, and at that moment several of the palace guards ran up to the princess and the earth pony.
“Mi’ ladies are you alright?” asked a bat pony and Luna nodded, Willow Leaf following her example…
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“So you thought you could attack my home did you?” asked Masao before tossing the human into a chair, a rather comfortable one, but she didn’t care at the moment.
“Why are you fighting with these creatures?” challenged the captured human and Masao stopped mid-rant and smiled at her.
“Now that is a question that I can answer”
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“I want those humans locked in the dungeons, strip them of everything except their undergarments! I don’t want to risk them escaping” snarled Luna as she then used her magic to slam the humans against a wall once more for good measure.