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// Prologue - Without Any Warning 
// Story: Greed and Power 
// by TheStoryMaker 
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	Run.

The only word in my head.

Run for your life. 

Run if you want to live.

Run if you want to see another day.

So I did.

I ran for my life through the battlegrounds of the war. The flags, the dead bodies, the abandoned trenches that were fought from close-quarter combat. As I ran toward the closing of the dome of magic ready to seal on its own, I had to get closer.

At first, I ran on the trench maze not even attempting to get lost in it. It also didn't help with the mud and wood boards on the ground of the trench maze. My heart was beating fast, my feet felt like sticks. I was ready to die.

Then when I just jumped over a trench in mid-air I saw my shadow, it was a bright flash... Brighter than the Sun. Brighter than anything I have ever seen before, but this very very important.

Sometimes that mushroom cloud can come, without any warning.

The shake of the ground was powerful so powerful enough, that once I had landed on the other side of the trench, the mud and wood collapsed into the trenches. So really I was caught in it, as I struggled to get to the ground my foot stepped on a wooden surface bringing me to support my struggle. After that, nothing but god-forsaken barbwire and spiked wood covering almost everything I see. Now the trenches were just almost completely covered with mud. Now all I wanted was a shower, literally, my feet was rotting away.

As I continued to run to live and see my future, the barbwire was cutting away my clothes, and skin with a huge amount of blood all over my body, dripping away. Now, remember, I wasn't going through complete metal, the shake helped the barbwire to break to small pieces. All now sunken into the trenches.

"Hurry!" A very similar pony asked. "Before it gets here!"

Now I was running, bleeding and almost collapsing on the mud with nothing to go through but countless dead bodies. Of Humans and Ponies. Guns and grenades ready to shoot or explode.

As I ran toward the 'Dome', it was already closing. Now all I really had to do is run over the mud.

Now I really think it's not even considered mud, it's mostly damp water. To the point where grass can't grow over it, I was crossing a sea trying my hardest to now fall down.

"Run! Before the... shockwave gets here!" The pony said.

"I'm coming! I'm coming!"

I look behind me as I run toward her, seeing the shockwave getting closer and closer.

As I see the water rising with the wind and the barbwire making all different sounds as it turned and screech. I jumped and slid under the glass dome just before the shockwave hit us. Looking the pony who called for me.

"Ugh!" As she stopped her magic closing the glass dome as much as the rest of the ponies.

Breathing heavily, as I collapsed to the ground. Taking a minute or so until I got up.

"Don't tell me you're ready to die are you?." She asked.

"I'm good Trixie," As I swallowed, breathing lightly-heavy.

"Wow! That was a big one!" Trixie said as I faced towards Ground Zero.

"I'm just surprised that I'm not dead yet," I replied. As the mushroom cloud got bigger and bigger, "Who knew an explosive that big can happen with just magic!"

"After three days it should be gone,"

"That's true," I said walking away to Appleloosa with the rest of the unicorns unrested with the strength of the magic they had.

"Do you know where the others are at now?" I asked.

"Who knows? The only thing I can take a guess from is that Twilight is at the Crystal Empire and Rarity is at Los Pegasus." Trixie replied.

As I watched that mushroom cloud, well inside the now sealed glass dome. I saw the sky now taking the dust making an orange-grey color in the sky.

The glass held its place. No radiation passed the Glass Dome it was only a matter of time before they would surrender or at least. That's what we would think would happen...

Now what? We sit and wait for them? We basically planted the 'Dome' of where our territory is at.

"Trixie, can I see the map of Equestria for a second?" I asked her.

"Sure," She replied with ease but stressed from the project of the dome, then showed a map of Equestria. "Ok, this was Equestria before the war,"

"Ok,"

"And the red is where the glass dome is placed. It's our shield to prevent us from losing more land."

"What about the blue?" 

"The blue dot is when those... those..."

She didn't felt like talking about them, they were just so... horrible.

"When those 'things' showed up," She then let out a sigh.

"Ok, I see, too bad we lost a lot of territories,"

We basically lost about a 50-60% of the land the ponies have conquered of Equestria.



Should all of this ever happen?

Should we just stop and protect ourselves from the dome? And just sit down to let them take over the land all around us?

To be honest I don't know.

"Wow. Just like you said, the dome worked."

"Well, the Great and Powerful Trixie does what she can to help the ponies around her," As Trixie pointed to herself then using her horn to teleport her magician clothes on herself. "Besides I did it before a long time ago."

Here let me show you how all of this really happened. As of right now, we are protected by the dome, and which Humans are starting to take over us and pushing us more and more inland. All of us resulting in thousands, millions, or just put into simplifying, a shit-ton of deaths. This war might change the world forever, even if we got along ponies might be slaves, like the Slave Trade. Resulting in the American Civil War,  after the Great War came to a World War. Literally.

Besides you know what that Mushroom Cloud was...

Right?