Ace finally trotted outside of what was a large, columned building. Ponies outside cantered casually, all wearing the same blue clothing. There was a gigantic tower in the distance. It was disgusting to him. He felt so invaded, having a microchip injected into him and his magic restricted. He decided he was going to do something about it. He went down an alley deliberately. He looked for a rock or something heavy, finding a bit of concrete. He picked it up with both hooves and slammed it on the horn brace. After a few hits, it started sparking. He kept pounding on the brace with the rock. Eventually, it started to make a loud, shriek-like tone. Suddenly, another tone came from the tower played an alarm. A door opened in the alleyway, a orange-coated mare with a purple mane signaled him in.
"Hurry, get in here! They're looking for you." She called.
"What..?" He asked.
She pulled him in with her hooves and shut the door behind them.
"You almost got seen!" She whispered.
She pushed him to a flight of stairs.
"Go, I can't be seen with you, they'll kill me. The Resistance will need you." She called after him.
Ace was still quite confused about what just happened.
He kept climbing, set after set, until he got to the rooftops. A helicopter was flying just overhead. He needed a weapon if he were to be a fugitive. He used his magic to pull a pipe from it's place on the side of a wall. He trotted until he came to the end of the roof he was on. He backed up a bit, then took a galloping start and jumped across the gap between buildings. The helicopter landed and several cops jumped out of it. They made chase, making the same jump as Ace. They unsheathed metal rods with flared tops, they pressed buttons and the rods sparked. Ace wielded the pipe, a confident grin on his face. He stared them down. They closed in on him. As soon as one got close, Ace swung the pipe with all his might, hitting the cop, the cop falling. Another came too close and Ace did the same. One knocked the pipe out of Ace's magic. Ace charged at the cop, bucking and knocking him off the building. The last one galloped at Ace, hitting him with the rod, a wave of electricity overcame Ace. Despite the watts of electricity in Aces body, Ace tore the rod from the cop's grip with magic. He beat the cop senseless until he fell unconscious.
He galloped to the end of the building and started down a fire escape staircase. Suddenly, another helicopter flew in front of the stairs. A sound of energy charging flared out among the whirring of the blades, a strong draft came from the chopper. Suddenly it fired at least a thousand bullets, the staircase held up only by a few bolts at most. Ace dashed down the stairs while they still held together, a loud screeching of metal reverberated through the streets as he was on the last flight. He jumped off at the last second, galloping to avoid the now collapsing fire escape.
The flights started catching up to him, he looked behind and started to gallop even faster than he thought possible. The final flight fell just short of his tail. He galloped on, the helicopter was chasing him down still. It started charging yet again as Ace turned suddenly into a narrow space in between two buildings. The chopper lost chase and flew to the other side of the alley in wait. A door opened to Ace's left, another pony signalling him in.
"Ace, in here!" He called over the gun's energy charging and the whirring rotors.
He had a very dark blue mane, a light grey coat, and purple eyes.
Without hesitation, Ace galloped into the doorway.
"That chopper could've easily shot you down." He stated.
"What's your name, and why are you helping me, anyway?" Ace interrogated, confused and now a bit annoyed.
"Name's Rumble, I'm part of the Resistance, you seem to be pretty wanted, so I'm assuming you are too, right?" Rumble answered.
"...I don't even know what you're talking about." Ace replied.
"Look, I don't even know what's going on here, I just came out of nowhere, it's almost an entirely different world! One moment, I was working at Black Forest, then I'm in some strange dystopia."
"Black forest is long gone, it was destroyed at least twenty years ago." He said, confused.