//------------------------------// // Who am I? // Story: What Defines A Soul? // by The Joeker //------------------------------// Not long after I left both Princesses the letter, I kept delivering them the supplies until they left me a letter saying they didn't need anymore, I had also set up camp outside of the base but had it hidden. I also learned of their plan to overthrow Discord, not long after and I planned to join in. SInce Discord had lost most of his support they decided to attack, they left me a letter saying they would like to see me after the attack. Little did they know they would see me much sooner... I waited for them to begin the march and walked beside them in camo as they did, we marched across a checkered landscape with flying fish... I would be surprised but hey, I learned about flying ponies and unicorn yesterday and spent last night staring at the wall trying to contemplate this change of events, I went from school kid to cyborg ninja, damn my life took a u-turn and landed in the wrong place. They seemed to be without any humans, they must be meeting the leaders there. I walked next to two Alicorns, and suddenly: "ATTACK!" and we were swarmed by crazies. The two Alicorns at the front were swarmed. "Charlie Alpha November November Oscar November!" I shouted and jumped in front of the Princesses like Ray McCall and shot my cannon. I took out about 8 ponies with my cannon. I landed and pumped the top like a shotgun and got ready for more. I blasted more ponies away with it before it let out a 'click' to signify it's out of ammo. I clamped my mask shut and retracted my cannon and pulled my sword out and got into a fighting stance, I could imagine my name coming up MG style with awesome dramatic music or some awesome dialogue. As the horde ran at us I sliced my blade through the air, only the sound of the blade cutting through air was heard and about 5 ponies fell dead, I backflipped as a magic blot sailed under me and I landed beside the Princesses, not that they knew because of my stealth camouflage. I deflected magic bolts as they were thrown at me and I Jumped and front flipped into the crowd before swinging in a circle with my blade extended, cleaving flesh from bone with each pass, I stopped and was dizzy, and an enemy took advantage and headbutted my stomach sending me a few feet away. I opened the bottom of my mask and spat some blood out before resealing it. I jumped up, but as he moved to block the sword I opted to land on his head and crush his skull. I went to return to battle but saw a bad sign. I noticed they had ambushed and outflanked the army who were getting their asses kicked. I noticed the two Alicorns were leggin- err hoofing it, to the forest I couldn't blame them, these soldiers knew what they were getting into, but now I had a choice, go with the Alicorns, or help the soldiers... I decided to do the former and ran into the forest, leaping the trees, keeping up with the Alicorns, admittedly they were walking but they already had a head start. -Meanwhile, Celestia and Luna's POV- "Sister, we just left our soldiers, was that wise?" asked Luna. "They can handle themselves, even so, we have to get to our objective." said Celestia. Suddenly a crazed pony jumped at Luna and she fell over, trying to crawl away from the beast that was about to pounce. It was about to bite her neck and Celestia couldn't react quick enough. "LUNA!" yelled Celestia as her little sister was about to be bled to death when suddenly a blur was seen go flying by and the crazed pony ceased movement before his head fell off and Luna was motionless. "Luna... are you ok?" asked Celestia. "I... I was almost..." she said before shaking her head, truth be told they were both new to killing, they had been taught the complete opposite at birth and still had trouble coping. "Come on Luna, get up." smiled Celestia and helped her sister up. "What was that?" groaned Luna as she got up "I think that was our friend, our helper who destroyed Discord's towns... come little sister, we mustn't dwell, we need to move, the cave is just yonder, we must get there verily." said Celestia and they continued walking. -In the trees ahead- "I see a massive energy signature up ahead." said the computer, I asked it where it was likely they were headed. "Ok, thanks." I said and jumped a few trees ahead, I saw a group of ponies awaiting the Princesses and decided to give them a surprise... -Meanwhile, just outside the entrance to the cave... Celestia's POV- "Come Luna, we mu-" I started before a pony came flying into the brush with a yell and he hit a tree beside us, smashing his face and killing him. We heard intense magic use ahead and peered into the clearing, we saw a pony getting smashed against the right cliff wall, killing him and we saw static as a unicorn attempted to shoot where he;d seen the static but was picked up seemingly and thrown into the wall beside him on the left, suddenly we saw another static outline and one got his chest sliced before also getting smashed into the wall on the right, another static showed the thing simply walking down the road toward the unicorns for a split second and the group of crazed unicorns concentrated fire there but no magic was hitting it. And then one flew into the wall and kept getting smashed into it repeatedly, blood splattering the wall on the third smash, by then the 'crazies' abandoned their friend and fired at him, only to just hit his corpse as it was thrown at them and broke one of their necks, suddenly this... thing landed in a crouch after seemingly staticing into existence, facing the last unicorn and jumping behind him before tripping him and cutting him in half! Luna and I were gagging at the blood and the smell of blood, but we saw a unicorn laying on the floor who'd survived their friend being thrown at them, it shot rapid magic at him but it was deflected almost too fast for the eyes to see but we were ALicorns so we could, but even we couldn't actually see his hand moving, it seemed as if some other entity was deflecting it, but there wasn't, the unicorns horn fizzed and getting up, prepared their horn to impale. "Take this!" he shouted but the thing grabbed his horn and did the impossible... it tore his horn off with a claw and sliced his chest open, everything going quiet as the corpse hit the floor. We saw the entrance to the cave was blocked as we burst into the clearing, and we saw the last unicorn impaled on his blade that was pointed at the sky and the thing was facing us, but the unicorn in the blade was facing his assailant. "It- it's a... ghost..." He said before the thing did a 180* and kicked him(roundhouse kick) through the rocks blocking the cave, killing him and mashing the rocks out of the way, he then static'd out of existence again, the only evidence being the corpses left to rot. "Sister... did thou see that...?" asked Luna in disbelief at the scene. "Yes... we have made a dangerous ally Luna." I said. We walked into the cave, unaware of the static outline sparking next to us for a second before disappearing again. Suddenly we saw it! "The Tree of Harmony..." said Luna, suddenly a pony was thrown from behind the tree and landed in front of us, dead upon impact, and there was now a bloodstain in front of us, what followed was a masked thing, in a black and orange metal suit. It landed with a thud in front of us. We were silent for a second.. unsure of what to say... Before...