My next project: The Last Hope of a Fallen Nation · 3:08pm Nov 22nd, 2012
So, I said I would post it today since it is Thanksgiving in the United States and didn't want to post the next chapter of In Search of Knowledge yet. So instead, I told my editors to go to hell and decided to post my TOTALLY UNEDITED (fair warning) prologue for my next story, called The Last Hope of a Fallen Nation. Enjoy, and please don't rage at my lack of grammar.
please?
Prologue
We don’t have much time. Sit down, shut up, and for Celestia’s sake listen!
I know, Celestia’s sake, such a terrible curse in such terrible times. I hope she is safe, wherever she is.
Look, you know as well as I do what’s going to happen soon. But just in case I don’t make it out alive, you have to know the whole story.
The wedding was a disaster. Chrysalis had taken over, we Elements lay broken and defeated before her. Princess Celestia lie buried under a mound of debris, where she had fallen in battle. Luna was nowhere to be found, and Princess Cadence was too weak to use any magic for anything. Shining Armor had tried valiantly to defend us but... I'm afraid he was one of the first casualties. I miss him so much sometimes... He would be much better at this than I am.
Her victory was total and absolute. Nopony was powerful enough to question her authority. The Royal Guard fought with everything they had, but a combination of a lack of experience and the sheer overwhelming numbers of Changelings had ended any resistance there. The Night Guard put up a better fight, having dealt with their fair share of gang wars in the past, but even they were defeated. Don’t even get me started on our so-called air force. The Wonderbolts were a frickin joke in a fight. Sure, they looked awesome, but you can only be so awesome when a Changeling army is nailing your flank to the walls. Within a week, all resistance was gone.
As for us... In the initial chaos, most of us managed to flee. They went into hiding, but were found one by one.
Celestia was banished to the sun, her sister back to the moon.
They caught Pinkie Pie almost immediately. She was taken to the castle, and hasn’t been seen since. That was almost three years ago. She is presumed dead.
Fluttershy managed to hide for quite awhile, with the aid of her animal friends. She was captured in the end as well, banished to the Everfree Forest. Presumed dead.
Rainbow Dash was caught within a month, trying to poison Chrysalis in her sleep. Banished. Presumed dead.
Rarity, for all her fluff, managed to put together quite the resistance group. Her and Applejack managed to avoid capture for three years, and almost liberated Manehatten and Las Pegasus. They were captured just a few short months ago, however. Imprisoned in the Changeling lands. Presumed dead.
I...I was the worst, though. I never made it out of the castle. I stayed right there by my mentor’s side, trying to bring her back. I wasn’t lucky enough to be tortured or killed, oh no, not the protege of Princess Celestia. They locked me in a tower, with books, cursed things. I was made to research weapons of war and torture, ways to break ponies that should never have seen the light of day. I would have fought sooner, but they had Spike locked up in a tiny cell in the top of my room, and if I did something they didn’t like, they hurt him. I couldn’t stand to see that happen to him.
It is my fault that all the cities have huge walls around them, patrolled all the time by heavily armed Changelings, turning ponies into a fuel source. The whole point was to give them a semblance of a life, so they could still live and love and be comparatively happy so the Changelings could feed off it.
This whole mess is my fault, but if everything goes as planned, tomorrow it will all be made right.
On the off chance that it isn’t, take this journal. It chronicles every single painstaking step I took to get us to this point. If we fail, ponies need something to hope for. Maybe our story will inspire others to take up arms and liberate this pathetic excuse for a nation.
Hopefully, Equestria can rise again.
Basically, it will come in two parts. This one, The Last Hope of a Fallen Nation will have Twilight (the speaker, in case you missed that) trying to overthrow Queen Chrysalis. The second....is a major spoiler, so you don't get to know yet. Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving (to those who celebrate it.)
Otherwise, Happy...Thursday...?
Whatever
-thehalfelf
Looks promising!
527051
The only problem is that my editor's computer just basically shot itself and won't be back for two to three weeks. So I don't know how much is actually going to get accomplished until then. My prereader is good but I am awful with grammar and tend to get confused between what I think I type and what I actually did.
We'll have to just see what happens.
527326
Yes, we shall wait. And we shall do so patiently.
Well, I will. I can't vouch for everyone else.
527992
The way I figure, you need only speak for yourself. If my writing pleases one person other than my team and I, it is a success.
Meanwhile, In Search of Knowledge is totally done and you can bide your time with that every couple days or so until I can get something worked out.