More soldiers were rounding the corner, shouting expletives and brandishing guns. Shining Armor knew he should at least look away, should probably turn tail and run while that psychopathic stallion was preoccupied with the guards, but he just couldn’t tear his wide, horrified eyes away from the massacre unfolding before him. Up until now, the only creatures he’d seen who knowingly and willingly employed lethal force were humans. Nightmare Moon’s madness had inadvertently threatened the lives of countless ponies in the long run, Queen Chrysalis had impersonated his love to make him a puppet and was the ruler of a species that drained the love from their victims, and Discord had been a sadistic monster who wouldn’t have hesitated to put somepony through hell just for laughs… but none of the above had ever intentionally killed anypony. King Sombra was the only creature from his world that didn’t adhere to that unspoken rule (at least that he knew of), and even then he was remarkably slow in unleashing lethal force, and his reign, while an utter nightmare for his subjects, had a much lower death count than one would expect. And yet here this stallion was, trampling all over a line even King Sombra hesitated to cross, slitting throats and chopping off limbs and decapitating screaming guards like his special talent was bringing about the brutal slaughter of sapient, intelligent creatures.

And so Shining Armor just stood there as the eight other guards who’d joined the fray became six, then four, then two… and then, a mere handful of seconds after it had even begun, it was over, the only creatures left standing being Shining Armor, and the psychotic serial killer who’d come to rescue him.

For a long, long second, everything was still. And then…

“Shining Armor?” The former Captain of the Guard tensed as the stallion turned back toward him. He quickly found himself leaning back so much he struggled to maintain his balance, his ears going flat against his neck once again; it had just dawned on him that all the time he’d just spent trying to figure out who this stallion was and what he’d done with B.J. would probably have been better spent turning tail and getting the buck away from that stallion.

“…you… you… you killed them…” The words slipped off of Shining Armor’s tongue before he even knew what he was saying, and he ended up stumbling backwards as he tried to lean back even further. His hooves landed squarely in a particularly large pool of fresh blood, but the coppery stench flooding his nose and the sensation of the crimson fluid soaking into his fur was the absolute last thing on his mind.

But instead of getting angry or defensive, the stallion just let out a soft sigh. “Yeah, I killed them. But only because I had to.”

“…you… had to? Are you bucking kidding me!?” A tiny, cowed little piece of him was trying to warn him that maybe he shouldn’t be doing anything that might piss off a pony who’d just murdered two dozen armed, armored guards and could easily do the same to him, but the rest of him was too angered and emboldened by the way this stallion was just brushing off killing two dozen sapient, intelligent creatures when he could’ve spared their lives. “You didn’t have to kill them! You could’ve just-“

“-taken them out non-lethally. I know. That doesn’t change the fact that I had to kill them.” The stallion cut him off, his tone calling to mind a frustrated parent who knew they were in the right but felt that they didn’t have time to argue. “Look, we can argue about this all we want once your sister’s safe. Let’s go.” And with that, he turned around and began trotting off down the hallway, leaving a trail of bloody hoofprints in his wake.

For yet another long, long minute, Shining Armor just sat there, struggling to come to terms with the fact that the seemingly kind-hearted pony who’d broken him out of his cell and the remorseless murderer he just saw ripping apart a dozen humans like they were made of tissue paper were one and the same. …and to think that a pony like that actually managed to befriend Twily…

…oh. Tremors wracked Shining Armor’s body once again as a sudden realization struck him. That stallion, that cold-hearted killing machine masquerading as a regular pony, was heading toward his sister . He didn’t seem to intend to kill her— quite the opposite, if he was to be believed—but then again, he hadn’t seemed like the sort of pony who’d kill someone. And if he was wrong about that stallion again…

…oh shit. His terror returned with a vengeance, fresh panic seizing his heart. This time, that terror didn’t paralyze him. Rather, it forced him to move, spurring him to catch up with that stallion, to get to his sister before he did. If the worst happened… well, with no magic and no weapons, he stood absolutely no chance against that sociopathic Earth Pony, but maybe he could buy his sister a few seconds to escape.

The former Captain of the Guard burst into a gallop, following the trail of crimson hoofprints BJ had left behind, completely oblivious to the fact that he was leaving his own trail of bloody hoofprints in his wake.

Shining, you bloody idiot!!!!

How the hell is he the "Captain of the Royal Guard"!? If he is acting like a naive pacifist or rookie that just finished training!?

He ain't no real soldier if he is like this! Heck, the entire "royal guard" are a bunch on pansy crybabies if they're the same!!!

They all wouldn't survive seconds in a regular battlefield.

William is a goddamn American Hero!

Twilight, I can't believe I'm saying this. But you need to knock some damn sense on your brother. And get his "real soldier" persona and training to show up.

Better late than never and your german is on point.

I kinda wonder if there could be a soldier sympathizing with the ponies, or is spared by blascowitz due to being young or something. Just popped in

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There might be soldiers who sympathize with the Equestrians; the inverse is true, after all…

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Well, i am german myself, thus that thought, plus i did exactly that in my wolfenstein Story, twice.

Plus, had to think of how blascowitz spared that soldier when asking for the bike keys

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Yeah, they wouldn’t survive in a regular HUMAN battlefield, but a regular equestrian battlefield, in my headcanon, differs wildly from a human one. While Shining and the Royal Guard aren’t crybabies, they’re native to a Sugar Bowl world where the only ponies who knowingly and intentionally kill sapient beings are outright evil, and even then never do so as frequently as B.J. does. Guardsponies can fight, sure, but their training doesn’t go over how to kill, because until the Nazis showed up the Royal Guard could use magic to subdue threats non-lethally and didn’t need to kill.

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1. Good!

2. Poor Fergus. Ironic that he is the one I save first, before Wyatt in a different timeline playthrough.

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Well not anymore, due to the Nazis screwing up another world to their twisted desires.

Those ponies should man the f**k up and be like Twilight of taking down the Nazis, permanently.

Just like those familiar situations with the nasty Caribou from Fall of Equestria World. Or the villainous and diabolical versions of the Zebras from "Zebradom" Universe.

P.S. if Shining, Twilight, Spike, and the others managed to hear BJ's full story of what the Nazis truly did to his world in both World War II and the last 15 years.

I have very good feeling that hearing all of that, will not only horrify and traumatize them so much at the utter evil of the Nazi Empire.

But this might be the they need the kick they need to finally become badasses.

Maybe this would also utterly erased the potential misanthrope BS that might come to BJ's way if they know his real identity.

But after hearing that, they should realize they would be no better than the Nazis themselves for heavily discriminating the entire human race, for just a big group of evil people.

And the fact that even some of their pony "friends" become traitors themselves, so there's that.

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1. Still, it is a weird coincidence.

2. Finding it hard to believe to see the very imaginative, brilliant but very twisted mind like Deathshead that created all of those mechanical and cyborg/super soldier monstrosities for the Nazi Empire.

Is a little lazy not to come up with something that isn't a rehash to familiar places that BJ already went through?

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Well not anymore, due to the Nazis screwing up another world to their twisted desires.

Those ponies should man the f**k upand be like Twilight of taking down the Nazis, permanently.

Just like those familiar situations with the nasty Caribou from Fall of Equestria World. Or the villainous and diabolical versions of the Zebras from "Zebradom" Universe.

Yeah, they’re going to learn, and they’re going to learn fast.

Maybe this would also utterly erased the potential misanthrope BS that might come to BJ's way if they know his real identity.

But after hearing that, they should realize they would be no better than the Nazis themselves for heavily discriminating the entire human race, for just a big group of evil people.

And the fact that even some of their pony "friends" become traitorsthemselves, so there's that.

As nice as that would be, it’s also unrealistic. As B.J. points out, ponies who’ve suffered at the hands of the Nazis have only that very narrow facet to judge humanity through, and you can’t exactly blame them for assuming it applies to every human. And just like in real life, some of those ponies are going to listen to their emotions rather to reason when confronted with evidence to the contrary. That’s gonna be the case with the next member of the Mane 6 that Twilight, B.J., and co will find, unfortunately.

Finding it hard to believe to see the very imaginative, brilliant but very twisted mind like Deathshead that created all of those mechanical and cyborg/super soldier monstrosities for the Nazi Empire.

Keep in mind that Deathshead developed a lot of those things by reverse-engineering Da’at Yitude Artifacts. While he is a genius, my personal headcanon is that his genius manifests itself as a talent for understanding, utilizing, and combining existing innovations in clever and unorthodox ways rather than coming up with new stuff wholecloth.

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As nice as that would be, it’s also unrealistic. As B.J. points out, ponies who’ve suffered at the hands of the Nazis have only that very narrow facet to judge humanity through, and you can’t exactly blame them for assuming it applies to every human. And just like in real life, some of those ponies are going to listen to their emotions rather to reason when confronted with evidence to the contrary. That’s gonna be the case with the next member of the Mane 6 that Twilight, B.J., and co will find, unfortunately.

BJ's going to teach them a very hard lesson about that, and will not deal with their BS either!!!

P.S. I forgot to ask you this, but I don't think you added Twilight to ever apologize to BJ about what happened a while ago!?

Keep in mind that Deathshead developed a lot of those things by reverse-engineering Da’at Yitude Artifacts. While he is a genius, my personal headcanon is that his genius manifests itself as a talent for understanding, utilizing, and combining existing innovations in clever and unorthodox ways rather than coming up with new stuff wholecloth.

Oh yeah, most of their "new toys" did come from a ancient jewish society of all things.

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P.S. I forgot to ask you this, but I don't think you added Twilight to ever apologize to BJ about what happened a while ago!?

I'll probably work that into the rewrites of the earlier chapters.

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