The Tale Of A Lost Wolf

by Solaris Night


Prologue: Escape From One World To Another; The Wolf Has Descended

"C'mon Spike pick up the pace, we have no time to loose!"

"Ugh, coming."

Twilight and Spike were making their way out of the town and were heading towards the edge of Everfree Forest. The mare was carrying a backpack full of books and various magical items, while her dragon assistant was draging his own, filled with numerous parchments, ink canisters and quills, along the ground.

"Why in the name of Celestia did we have to wake up so early anyway?" the young drake moaned.

"I already told you yesterday, that I wanted to practice some new spells, as well as a few I already know, just to brush up my skills." Twilght explained. "The reason why we got up so early is, because the number of spells I want to practice is enormous and if we hurry we might be able to also get a decent lunch, before we head back to the library."

Spike just gave her a deadpanned look. "Okay, I get that, but what I don't get is why you can't preform them at the library, or hell in the town, like you used to?"

The mare glanced over her shoulder at her companion. "Because some of these spells are rather high level and dangerous if preformed poorly. I don't want to accidentally set the library abalze or hurt anypony."

The dragon nodded and continued to follow her step-sister in silence.


Several hours later

Twilight was resting on a nearby tree as she was catching her breath. Around her was such devastation that one of her friends would have fainted at the mess she made, while a certain spirit of chaos would give her a medal for a job well done. In numerous places the grass was either burned, frozen or there wasn't any left. Some trees were were uprooted, twisted, different color and much more. Spike could only watch in awe at what the mare was able to accomplish in only a few hours.

"You weren't kidding when you said this might be dangerous, if somepony were to accidentally stumble here while you were going at it ..." He shivered at the mere thought of something like this happening.

Twilight couldn't reply as she was still breathing heavily from her recent trasfiguration spell, which she used to turn a rock into a glass of water. She only nodded laid her head back aginst the tree.

"Maybe we should finish this Twi, I don't think you can do any more. Besides we went through more than half of the spells on your list and we found countless ways on how to improve most of them." Said the drake while holding up several parchments filled to the brim with notes and formulas.

Twilght, after finally catching her breath, began to rise to her hooves. "Yeah, I guess you're right." she said. "But before we leave, there is just one more spell I want to try."

Spike gave her a glare and wanted to protest, but decided against it, seeing as she will do it no matter if he said anything or not.

"Fine, but just this one and then we're finished for today."

Twilight thanked and gave him a hug. The teenager blushed as she pressed her chest against his head and quickly tore away from the hug.

"Anyway," he coughed. "what is this spell you want to practice?"

"Oh it's just something I came up with." she gloated. "By using the knowledge of space formulas we use in teleportation spells and combining it with the formulas of the time spell I learnt while we were in Canterlot and adding it to a truesight spell, I should be able to create a window with which I should be able to see anywhere and anywhen I wish."

Spike couldn't say anything as he was still processing what she told him. After getting out of his stupor, he shook his head and fear fell onto his features. "Woah, woah, woah Twilight let me get this straight. You want to use a brand new spell, which you created not a while ago, by using three different spells, one of which made you create a time loop, and without knowing what might happen if it goes wrong?" he asked flabergasted.

The mare gave him a sheepish look and nodded.

"Are you fucking crazy?" yelled the drake.

"Watch your language young man, and no I am not crazy, just curious." she rebuted.

"Well what if your curiosity gets somepony hurt or worse the whole town?"

Twilight gave him a victorious smile. "Not likely. You see, when we arrived here I placed numerous wards around here, so they will contain anything dangerous. And as for the spell going awry, I conducted countless test and small scale experiments and they all showed that nothing could go wrong."

Spike wanted to argue further, but in the end hang his head in defeat. "If this does go wrong, don't come to me when Celestia comes to chew your flank off for doing something so dangerous."

"I won't and what did I say about watching your mouth?"

The drake grumbled and began to distance himself from the unicorn mare. While he was walking Twilight began to concentrate her magic in her horn for the spell. As her horn began to glow brighter, the air around began to grow colder and even the light from the Sun began to dim. When her magic reached its peak she began to lift off the ground and when she opened her eyes they were glowing with pure power. Soon she began to mold her magic, adding different elements and formulas that she memorized.

Even from far away Spike could feel the power Twilight was giving off and he continued to watch in amazment, the sense of danger completley vanishing. After a few minutes, a bright light began to form in front of the mare and began to stretch into four corners. Soon a window formed, but it was blank.

"Alright the frame is done, now to fill it in." Twilight said under her breath.

As she continued to progress her spell, exhaustion begining to crawl across her entire body, but despite that she pushed forward. Soon colors began to form in the frame, followed by shapes and quickly a clear picture could be seen.

When the mare laid her eyes on her work she smiled.

"I've done it." she whispered.

"I've done it Spike. Come and see." Twilight called out to her assistant.

Spike, after hearing her calls began to slowly walk towards his friend. After a few steps however the window began to ripple and soon began to twist wildly.

The mare and dragon looked at it with shock, subconsciously backing off.

"T-this... This shouldn't be happening." Twilight muttered.

"What's happening Twi?" screamed panicked Spike.

She looked between her and the window, as it also began to grow bigger. The unicorn tried to stop, fix or even cancel the spell, but it was no use. The spell was already way out of control.

She turned around and began to flee. "Get out of here!" she yelled to her friend. Spike heeded her words and began to run as fast as his feet could carry him. Soon they passed the wards that protected the place.

The spell in the meantime grew to the size of a small house and began to violently pulsate. Before anypony could even blink, the window shattered and imploded, sucking in nearby objects. Afterwards it created a flash powerful enough to be seen from Canterlot.

When things settled, Twilight and Spike looked at the destruction the spell created. The area that the wards covered was gone, only a crater remained. They continued to look at it until they heard screams heading their way. When they turned around they saw their friends as well as half of Ponyville heading their way.

The first to reach them was Rainbow Dash.

"Hey, guys what in Tartarus was that fl... Holy shit, what happened here?" she yelled when she saw the crater. Quickly the rest of the rally arrived at the scene asking questions to the duo responsible for the mess.

"W-well y-you see we-" the unicorn stammered until Spike bumped her with his elbow. "I mean I was trying out a new spell, that I made and it, well, you see how it went." She began to fidget and hung her head. "I am so sorry for the trouble I caused you."

Everypony looked between the duo and the crater, obviously stunned at the destruction. After a while of staring, the rest of Twilights friends surrounded the two and began to console them.

"It's alright darling, we are just glad both of you are fine." said the fashionista.

"That's right, I can't even think what we would do if something terrible happened if you were caught in that explosion." stressed Fluttershy.

The rest just nodded, as did the rest of Ponyville citizens. Twilght looked at all of them and gave a teary smile.

"Thank you."

Applejack decided, however it would still be beneficial to scold the unicorn. "However, it'd be mighty fine if y'all wouldn't go and do somethin so stupid again sugarcube. Next time ya might not be so lucky."

Twilight just nodded and sank into the embrace once again. The everypony looked heard a loud belch and turned thier gaze towards the young dragon.

He held a letter in his hand and was reading it.

"What does it say Spike?"

"It's from Princess Celestia and she, uhmmmm, saw the flash and is wondering what happened, she is worried if another evil force decided to attack Ponyville."

Twilights eyes turned to pinpricks and her blood turned cold. "I'm so fucked."

"Told you so." Spike said, then a grin streched across his face. "And watch your tounge young lady there are foals present, you know."

He began to chuckle, but soon stopped when he saw the glare the mare gave him.


Meanwhile in a galaxy far far away

A small group of masked people was running through alleyways trying to get away from their pursuers.

"Freeze or we will shoot." yelled one of the chasing guards.

The group responded by firing at them with their own pistols. They managed to hit one of them in the shoulder, while the rest simply bounced off the guards armor.

"Pffft, they say that right after they shoot down two of our own. They are so thoughtful." said one of the men with dark brown hair.

"Fucking hell, these pea shooters aren't doing anything to them." Said a short woman with a raspy voice and blonde hair. "Why the hell did the HQ gave us these damn pistols against those guys." She continued as she shot two more shots at the purusers.

"Well, for one there were only supposed to be low class guard with minimal armor." Replied another man, this one towering over the rest. "And also this was supposed to be a stealth mission, so big guns were out of the question."

"Yeah, go in, set the bombs, get out and watch the fireworks." Agreed the brown haired man. "But thanks to someones temper this turned into a race to survive." He said while he glared at the last member of their group. This one unlike the rest wore a helmet which covered his entire head.

They continued to run, until they turned around a corner and began climbing a ladder that was there. As soon as the last one got to the top the guards came around the corner. They realised they lost sight of their targets and the one in charge told the rest to spread out and search for them. Meanwhile the group was sneaking across the roofs until they stopped at a nearby watertower. There they stopped to rest for a little.

"Seems like we got away from them, for now at least." The tall one said.

"Yeah, thank god I know these streets like the back of my hand." Breathed out the girl.

The brown haired man however was only staring daggers at the helmet man. The helmet man didn't even turn to look at him and got the other guy angry. The tall one saw this and got in between the two.

"Johnny stop, this isn't the time to start a fight and also you know you can't take him head on."

Johnny turned his gaze at him. "I know, but that doesn't mean I can't give him a piece of my mind." he looked at the helmet man again and continued. "It's because of him that we lost Jenny and Eugene, and that this mission was a total failure."

The helmet man finally turned his head to look at him, but still said nothing.

"Yeah I'm talking to you fang-face. All of this is your fault, if you hadn't jumped at that guard just, because he was 'an easy target' we wouldn't be in this mess."

The girl decided to intervene before the things escalated too much. "Guys please can't we settle this when we get back to the base."

"No Celly it can't." Said Johnny. "I knew this would happen. After all we are in the presence of The Heartless Wolf."

At the mention of the nickname everyone flinched and the helmet man stood up. "What did you call me?" he asked.

"Johnny stop this." Whispered the tall guy.

"Zack don't interfere, if no one else has the guts to tell him, what has to be said, then I will." He said. "We all know what you are like, you say all about how all Kanisars should be freed from the humans clutch. We think so too, but you don't care about how many humans have to die to achieve this."

"Why should I?" asked the helmet man. "All of this is happening because of your kind, you are the reason my people suffer so it's only natural that you should die for what you did."

They stared at him in shock.

"You're right."

Their gaze shifted to Zack as he continued. "Humans are to blame for what happened to your planet and your people.

However, that doesn't mean you can just go around and do reckless things that you know will get them into trouble or worse killed. You should at least respect those who try and fix the mistakes the rest did. As you act now you are no better than the humans who brought your kind this suffering."

Before anyone could react a punch connected to the humans jaw and he fell to the floor.

"Trider, you son of a bitch what was that for?" yelled Johnny as he turned to the helmet man and got into a stance.

"Don't you dare compare me to the human trash like that. Because of you we lost everything. Our homes, our families, friends. Our freedom. You sacrificing yourselves is only reasonable." Trider said in a murderous tone. "And if you have a problem with how I act, I will show you how heartless I can really be."

"Why you-" is all Johnny could say before a bullet went through his head. As soon as his lifeless body fell to the floor the rest dropped to the floor as well to shield themselves from the gunfire.

Celly could only barely hold back her tears as she looked at the cold eyes of her dead friend.

"Goddammit they found us." yelled Zack.

"What do we do now?" asked Trider.

As Zack looked at his teammates he made up his mind.

"I'll be a decoy while you two run."

"No, we can't loose you too. Please there has to be another way." she pleaded.

Zack only got into a crouching position. "When I leave, wait five seconds then make a run for it."

Trider nodded, while Celly could only let her tears flow at the thought of loosing another one of her friends. Then without warning, Zack stood up and began to run and shoot at the guards.

"There they are, after them!" yelled one of them and they gave chase.

Meanwhile the two made a run for it in the opposite direction.

"Which way should we go?" asked Trider.

Wiping away her tears Celly pointed forward. "Up ahead are the are the train tracks, if we make it we can get on one of them and escape."

Trider nodded and picked up his pace leaving the girl behind. Soon they saw the station ahead of them and began to run even faster. Then a shot echoed and Celly screamed. Trider stopped and looked back seeing the guards on their backs once again.

"Guess Zack failed to distract them. Should've figured." he thought.

He then looked at Celly who was grabbing her bleeding shoulder, but was still running. Without second thought Trider also began to run again. The guards were still about hundred feet behind them so their aim wasn't so good, with exception of that one lucky shot that got the girl. They continued their way across the roofs, however on one of her jumps Celly slipped and fell short of the rooftop, but she managed to grab onto the ledge.

"Help. Trider, please help." she called out to her teammate.

Trider stopped and turned his head around. He wasn't that far away from the girl and the guards were still a long way from them. Celly looked at him with hope in her eyes, but that hope vanished when he turned his head back forwards and began to run.

With the last of her strength leaving her, she let go of the ledge and fell to the bottom of the six-story building.

Trider was almost at the last building separating him from the train tracks, he just hoped there was a train stationed right now. And luck was aparently on his side. Right now there was a freight train preparing for departure. Just as he was about to reach the edge he stopped.

There on the edge was another group guards waiting for him and in front was the man Trider only heard rumors of. The man who hunts down the stray Kanisars and enslaved or killed, the man who is said to have no soul or compassion for others, the man simply known as Deadlock.

As they stared at each other the chasing guards caught up and were preparing to take the Kanisar down. However Deadlock stopped them before they could act and smirked at the wolf boy.

"Well, well what do we have here? A stray mutt, who left his pack behind." he said with chill in his voice, devoid of any emotion. "I have only heard tales from those who I captured, about a Kanisar who hates humans so much that he will gladly leave them to deaths hands, than to help them even if it means succeding in a mission.

I belive the name they used was The Heartless Wolf, though to me and my men you are better known as Mad Fang." At the mention of the name the guards began to murmur between each other.

"That's Mad Fang, the one who singlehandedly killed a squad of high class guards."

"This runt? No way, he probably had help to defeat those men."

"I heard the reason he got that name was because, if you get him angry he can't be stopped. Not even by the other Kanisars."

"That's quite enough lads." Shouted Deadlock. "Yes, this is that same mutt you heard so much about, but you don't need to worry." He paused to look around himself.

"Because no matter how strong he is, he is still just a lowly dog and he can't take all of us at once. So prepare yourself Mad Fang cause you're about to be taken down."

The guards once again got into their shooting position and took aim of their target.

Trider just looked around himself, seeing there was no hope of getting out of this one. He smiled under his helmet.

"Well, if I'm going down," he said while lowering his stance. "then I'm taking as many of you with me as I can."

Suddenly a black aura began to encircle him as he pounced forward. The guards instinctivly pulled their triggers. As the bullets were leaving their barrles a flash of light enveloped the Kanisars.

"What the-" was all Trider could say before he vanished.


Somewhere over a dessert

In the clear sky somewhere near Dodge City there was a flash of light, then a portal opened up and out of it only a single object fell. As the object was falling towards the ground, anypony who was nearby could hear a strange sound as it was falling.

"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-"

And it stopped as it hit the ground.

When Trider regained his conscience, he noticed he was lying in quite a deep hole in the ground. He tried to get up, but pain flared all over his body.

"Bloody hell, that hurts like a bitch."

He pushed through the pain and finally got up. As he was standing he looked around himself to see what happened and where he landed. The place was desolate, no animals or plants as far as the eye could see, only rocks and sand.

"Well wherever I am, at least I got away from those dumbasses. Though I would've loved to land at least a few blows, before I was literally thrown into this place. What happened anyway?"

Again he looked around himself to get a better bearing on the situation.

"Ah, who cares how I got here, all I need to know is where I am and how to get back to the HQ." he said to no one.

"Though I've never seen such a place anywhere nearby the capital." he thought. "Meh, just choose a direction and stick to it and you should get somewhere."

With those final thoughts he headed in the direction he was facing, towards oncoming adventures, not noticing smoke in the distance behind him or the railway tracks that were just a few yards to his left.