//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: The Battle of Ponyville // Story: Equestria’s White Fang // by Garnet Naturea //------------------------------// Slowly coming to, I can feel the wind on the sides of my face, my mask obscuring my vision slightly from being crooked. Opening my eyes, I immediately regret it as I am getting the sun’s ray directly into my retina’s. Quickly raising my gloved hand to block there infernal ball of fire, I regain my sight, but what greets me is confusing. Looking around, I appear to be in some sort of forest. There are a ton of trees, grass, rocks and some flowers scattered around. I carefully get to my feet, my head pounding with the remnants of a headache. Looking down at myself, aside from some grass stains, my outfit is still perfect, the new addition secured to my side. I don’t have long to contemplate my predicament as I get a sudden wiff of something bad. Smoke. Quickly looking above the canopy, I can clearly see a few smoke stacks rising into the air. I can tell from the smell, it isn’t factory smoke. There is a fire nearby. Normally I would run and call for the fire department, but quickly checking my phone shows no signal and that the GPS is not working. So against all logic I begin to run through the forest to the source of the fires. It takes maybe ten minutes but eventually I get outside the forest, and onto what looked to be a farm of apple trees. Looking past the farm, what I see is not encouraging. There is a little town a few minutes down the path. A few of the houses having blazes raging in or on them. I don’t even have a chance to think before I hear something that chills me to the bone. Howls and roars. But they are ones that I recognize. Looking to the town, my blood runs cold at what I see. Creatures made of complete blackness, wearing masks similar to mine, red eyes glowing and leaving a slight trail behind them. “Grimm...” I say in disbelief, oddly noting my voice sounds different. Looking into town, it looks to be in the middle of an attack by a pack of Beowolves, some Ursas, and a couple of Boarbatusks. Looking at the large pack of Grimm from behind a tree, I notice a few wolves heads rising and looking a bit into the orchard to the right of me. I think back to the show and the one thing everyone should know about Grimm is that they are attracted to negativity. Anger, hatred, loneliness, envy and most of all: fear. A trio of Beowolves and an Ursa separate from the pack heading a bit into the orchard. I quickly follow them, having a bad idea on what I am going to find. After tailing them for a bit, I heard what sounded like a trio of girls screaming. Picking up the pace I see the Grimm circleing an old tree house, the voices whimpering from inside the house. ‘Oh man, now what! I can’t fight these things!’ I think to myself in a panic, before looking down to my left and seeing my sword. ‘Or maybe I can.’ I quietly take my sword out of the sheath, and unhook the shotgun, holding it in my left hand. ‘Ok, I can do this, I can do this.’ “Hey, you stupid mutts!” I call out getting the Grimm’s attention. At that point something I don’t understand happens. I calm down. Staring down the Grimm, I feel at peace, not panic. And I know exactly what I have to do. ‘Here goes.’ With that thought I rush forward surprising the lead Beowolf and slicing through its head, cleanly decapitating it. I quickly jump back and dodge a swipe from one of the other wolves. Loading my sword back into its sheath, I shoot the sword, handle first into the wolfs head causing it to kick back. Quickly jumping off its shoulders, I shoot down straight into the wolfs head before spinning in mid air and kicking my sword into the last wolfs head. Retrieving my sword, I look left at the lone remaining Grimm. It looks to be a young Ursa, lacking any scars or spikes and being around the same size as me. I stare down the beast, crouched slightly, hand on my sword. After a second the Ursa roars and charges, before leaping at me. I quickly roll forward, under the Grimm, before jumping up and onto is back, and stabbing it in the back multiple times. I stay on its back until it falls to the ground. Getting off, I sheath my sword and go to the treehouse. I was about to knock on the door before pausing and taking my Grimm mask off, and then knocking. “Hey are you ok in there?” I ask to the girls in the treehouse. I hear a couple on whimpers and gasps. “Don’t worry, I took care of the Grimm.” I say. After a second I hear a response. “Are ya sure they are gone?” A girl asks in a young southern drawl. “Yeah, I took care of them. But more could be on the way. We have to get you lot to safety.” I say. After a minute the door opens and my eyes widen in shock as a trio of girls come out, but they don’t look like humans. The look to be a mix between a horse and a human, each with human like bodies, arms ending in hands, but with legs ending in hooves and muzzles. The four of us just stare at each other. Each of them look unique. One has orange fur, and a purple unkempt mane and purple eyes. She is wearing a pair of green cargo shorts a purple tank top and a denim jacket. I can also barely see a pair of small wings of her back. ‘A Pegasus I guess?’ Next to her was another girl with pearly white fur, a pinkish purple two toned mane and pale green eyes. She was wearing a pink and white striped shirts, a pink jacket and a yellow skirt. She also had a small horn atop her head. ‘A unicorn too?’ The last...filly I guess? Anyways she had yellow fur and a red mane and freckles. She was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a dirty red t-shirt. Also she had a large pink bow in her mane, but seemed to lack wings or a horn. ‘So a normal horse I guess? Wait, are they...Faunus?’ “Um, thank you mister.” The unicorn says shyly. I nod to them, and help the trio down the tree, the fillies looking shocked at the disintegrating Grimm corpses. “Wha-what happened?” She asks again. “Like I said, I took care of the Grimm, but that can wait. We need to get out of here before more show up.” I tell them, putting my mask back on, the girls tensing somewhat. “But where are we going to go? These things are all over the place!” The Pegasus says, clearly trying to stay calm. I look at them, quickly lifting my mask to look eye to eye. “What are your names?” I ask calmly, crouching to be on the same level as them. The look at one another, silently asking each other what to do. The yellow one walks up to me with a determined expression. “Mah names Applebloom.” I nod to her and smile, looking back to the other two, the Pegasus walking up first followed by the unicorn. “My name is Scootaloo.” The Pegasus introduces herself. “And I’m Sweetie Belle.” The unicorn says before the trio bunch together. “And we’re... The Cutie Mark Crusaders!” The shout together. I cover my ears at the volume of the three fillies. It takes a second for my hearing to come back, but I look and see the three of them looking at me with sheepish smile, I just chuckle at them. I instantly decide to go by my character since we have the same first name. “Nice to meet you three. My name is Adam. Adam Taurus.” I smile at the three before looking up and getting an idea. “Hold on a sec you three.” Before they could respond I jump up the tree to get a birds eye view of the town. Looking into the town I see what looks like a purple energy dome over one of the larger building near the center. ‘The citizens must be holding up in that building, meaning all the Grimm would be converging there.’ I jump down to the CMC and look to them. “It looks like there is some sort of purple dome over one of the larger building in town. You three have any ideas on what that means?” I ask the three fillies, their eyes widening “That’s Twilights shield! The town must be hiding in town hall for the monsters to pass or for the royal guard to arrive.” Sweetie says exited. I look back at the town, a plan coming together. “Alright, here is the plan. The four of us are going to sneak into town to get you three into the shield to be with your families, while I take out the Grimm.” The girls look at me like I have grown a second head. “Are you nuts!?! If Rainbow Dash couldn’t beat these monsters, there is no way you can!” Scootaloo yells in shock and worry, the other two also looking extremely worried. I just look to them and smile. “There is a difference between me and normal people.” I look to the three of them with a determined grin. “I am a huntsmen, we are trained specifically to fight the Grimm. And I will not allow these monsters to do as they please.” I reach into my coat and pull out the picture of myself, Lex and Nat with a smile. “Besides, I have a few friends I have to find, so I can’t afford to die just yet.” The trio look at me in awe and nod to me. With no other words needed to be said we venture into the burning town, myself intent on keeping these girls safe. While walking through town I see the reflection of my maskless face, internally freaking out seeing that my eyes have changed. Gone were the hazel eyes I was born with and in were the eyes of RWBY legends. The same as a certain family of roses. Silver. We make our way around a couple building, me taking out the lone Beowolf and Creep here or there, until we can get a clear view of the town hall. It doesn’t look pretty. There are at lease half a dozen Creeps and Beowolves, maybe three Ursas and two Boarbatusks, just wandering around the building. Looking at the shield itself, it seems to be holding strong, but I don’t want to put it to the test. “Not good, looks like the town hall is surrounded.” I say aloud, the girls looking past me and seeing the amount of Grimm between the four of us and safety. “Well that is just great! Now what do we do?” Scootaloo asks looking at me. I begin to think, using all the knowledge I have of Grimm to try and think of a plan. “Well, it won’t be easy, but if we put our heads together we might be able to think of something.” I say looking at the trio, the four of us in a little circle. “Ok. Grimm are naturally attracted to negativity, particularly fear. There doesn’t appear to be an alpha in the group, just a bunch of younger Grimm. That is good, they will be mostly fighting on instinct and be pretty predictable.” The girls look around the area near us, looking for anything useful when Applebloom notices something by a fruit cart nearby. “Hey Scoots! Look! Your scooter!” She says the rest of us looking, seeing a red scooter with a cart parked next to the stand. Looking past that I see what looks to be an apple stand with a long coil of rope on the top. Slowly I begin to have a plan. “Hey Scootaloo?” She turns to me. “How fast are you on your scooter?” After a few minute we are prepped, Scootaloo on her scooter. But she is shaking like a leaf in a cyclone. I walk up to her and place a hand on her shoulder. “Hey, you’ll be fine.” “I-I-I can’t! There are too many, I’ll get killed!” She says panicking. I carefully place my hand beneath her chin and lift it up, wiping away some of her tears. “Listen I know your scared. I am too. But you have to be brave.” She is still shaking but a little less so. I decide to something potentially dangerous, but necessary. Taking my sword out of its sheath, I give the young pegasus Blush, showing her how to hold the gun. “Keep this with you, the open end away from anyone you don’t want to shoot. The kickback is a pain so be careful.” I look her straight in the eyes. “Only use this is absolutely necessary. It isn’t a toy. One shot can kill.” Scootaloo looks at the shotgun in her hand in fear and confusion. “Why are you giving this to me?” She asks. I just smile and rub her head. “Because, it is a tool to attack and to protect. For yourself and others. I know you can do this Scoots. You have a brave aura.” I tell her, hand firmly on her shoulder. She looks at me and then to Blush for a bit, before getting a determined expression on her face and nodding. “Alright Adam, I’ll make sure to be careful.” She says giving me a quick hug, before getting on her scooter, clipping her helmet on and beating her wings quickly, taking off to the Grimm. I smile in pride at the little pegasus. Quickly looking back at the other two, I see they have determined faces of their own as well, finishing up a few of the traps. “Alright, lets get ready.” After Scoot leaves the alley they were hiding in, she quickly zooms by, careful of the Grimm, making sure to be as quiet and quick as possible. ‘All I have to do is get to the shield and alert the others.’ She looks back at the Grimm before looking down at the shotgun attached to her side. ‘I got this. I got this.’ Looking around the area she sees a spot in the shield not being guarded by the Grimm and waits for a second looking back and forth, before zooming as fast as she can into the shield, getting though without a problem. She takes a breath realizing she was safe for a bit. “Ok step one down.” Quickly righting herself, Scootaloo rushes to the front door and knocks. “Who’s there?” A bubbly voice asks. “It’s Scoots!” She answers quietly as to not attract the Grimms attention. “Scoot’s who?” Came the reply, despite the situation Scootaloo giggled a bit before answering. “Scoots with a plan to beat the Grimm!” She says. The response was immediate, a pair of cyan hand coming through and pulling her into a bone crushing hug, Blush falling to the ground. “Scoots! Your okay!” Came a scratchy female voice. This voice belonged to Scootaloo’s surrogate sister, Rainbow Dash. The older mares cyan fur and rainbow hair tickling Scootaloo, causing her to giggle. “Rainbow! Stop! Too tight and tickley!” She says the older pegasus releasing her number one fan. Rainbow quickly readjusts her blank tank top and running shorts befor helping Scootaloo up. “Heh, sorry Scoots, but we have been worried sick about you and th-“ she pauses looking around Scootaloo, and in a worried voice she asks, “wh-where are Sweetie and AB?” The others that came by begin to worry and cry, before looking at Scootaloo and seeing her cocky smile, confusing a majority of them. “Don’t worry, they are alive. AB, Sweetie and Adam are setting up some traps around the area for the Grimm.” Scootaloo answers, carefully picking up Blush. The surrounding group of ponies confused by both the name Adam and the object Scootaloo was carrying, which looked like a metal sword sheath of some kind. “Traps? And who is Adam?” A southern voice came from her left. Turning Scootaloo saw Applebloom’s older sister AppleJack and big brother Macintosh. The duo both wearing overalls and plaid shirts, AppleJack with her trademark Stetson on. “Adam is this cool guy who came by and saved the three of use from some Grimm when we were hiding in our treehouse. He is the reason the three of us are still alive at this point.” She says, the majority of the ponies having this being shocked that one stallion could beat some of these monsters. “Anyways, I can’t talk long. Like I said, the four of us have set up some traps for these things, so I just came by to tell everypony to prepare for things to get loud.” Scootaloo says before turning back to the door and beginning to walk away. The others are not shocked for long before a yellow pegasus in a green jumper and a pink skirt, flutters up to her in worry. “Y-you are going back out to fight those things are you?” Fluttershy asks, her friends immediately standing in front of the young pegasus. “NO WAY! You are staying here young filly!” a purple unicorn in a white t-shirt, black skirt and violet vest says with authority, her horn glowing to keep up the shield. Unfortunately her authority that was lost on Scootaloo. “Relax, I am not going to be fighting, I just need to signal Adam to start and then these Grimm are toast.” Scootaloo says full of faith for her new friend. The gathered group was worried but the last pony they expected spoke up. “Let her go.” a pink mare with a mane that looked like cotton candy says, a serious expression on her face, slightly unnerving her friends. “Pinkie Pie?” Twilight asked worried. “I can tell, this Adam guy is going to kick these monster meanies butts! The fact he has this much faith in Scootaloo says a lot.” Pinkie says looking at the young pegasus with a smile. Her friends just look to each other before relenting and letting Scootaloo past, but they choose to follow, to make sure she will be safe. Once outside, Scootaloo goes to her wagon and pulls out a blue gemstone and flashlight. Looking to the correct house he shines the light through the gem, shining a blue light around the area. ‘Good luck Adam.’ After waiting for a few minutes, I see the refracted blue light from Scootaloo’s gemstone, a smile etching itself on my face. “Good job Scoots.” Looking down from my perch on a house I get a clear view of the town and the Grimm just wandering near the town hall. “Showtime.” Quickly jumping down, I immediately get the attention of a few Grimm, particularly one of the Ursas. Looking around I keep their attention on me before turning a sprinting down an alley, the Grimm giving chase. Looking behind me, I see one of the Ursas, three Creeps and two Beowolves behind me. “Perfect.” I say with a smirk. After passing a certain point a set of intertwined rope raise up from below the Grimm, getting them stuck. I don’t waste a second and pounce on the Grimm one by one, stabbing or slicing until they evaporate into their black smoke. At the town hall, the group of girls are sitting on the top by the bell and see the smoke beginning to rise into the air. “What in tarnation is happenin over there?” AppleJack asks aloud, not expecting an answer. She got one anyways. “Looks like Adam killed a couple of the Grimm. When they die they evaporate into some wierd black smoke.” Scootaloo says, earning everyponies attention. “He killed them? How? Is he a soldier or something? Perhaps a knight?” A posh white furred and curly purple maned mare asks. She is wearing a rather simple blue t-shirt and a pair of skinny blue jeans. “Not sure. He is pretty good with his sword but I don’t know if he is a soldier or knight. I do know he is one tough S.O.B.” Scootaloo responds. “Scootaloo! Where did you hear that acronym?” Rarity asks appalled by the language the filly just uttered. Scootaloo just blankly points to Rainbow, the older pegasus beginning to sweat at the glares of her friends. “Crap.” After taking care of the first group of Grimm, I prepare to take down the Boarbatusks, as they have the most armour of any oth the Grimm here. Finding one of them, I quickly get its attention. By throwing a flower pot at its head. Anyways it immediately sees me and rushes forward myself running through a few alleys before hiding in a side alley, my black clothing coming in hand as the Grimm runs by. The Grimm is confused as to where I could have gone but before it can backtrack it hears someone whistling. Looking down an alley it sees Applebloom, standing with her back to a wall with a confident smirk on her face. “Well? Ya’ll wanna go or what?” She asks the Grimm, who’s only response was to curl up into a ball and start speeding toward the earth pony. As it was getting closer, Applebloom was quickly covered by a pale green aura and lifted into the air, the Boarbatusk hitting the solid brick wall behind her. It gets out of the new hole in a daze, and before it could react, Applebloom appears beside it and gives it a hard buck to the side, sending the Grimm tumbling and even cracking some of its armour. Taking this opportunity, while the Grimm is on its back I quickly jump down from my spot above it and stab it directly in where its heart is. It squirms for a second before going limp and evaporating. Getting up and looking at the two ponies, I give a proud smile at the two fillies. “Great teamwork you two.” I say as we go for a three way high five. Quickly climbing up to the roofs again, I see that the numbers of Grimm are now lowered to a more manageable amount for me. “Ok, that’s good for now. Let’s get you two to the shield.” At town hall, Scootaloo is telling the girls about how they met Adam and what the plan was. “So let me get this straight. This ‘Adam Taurus’ person, not pony, person, comes out of nowhere, saves the three of you, takes you into town while killing these ‘Grimm’ whenever he can, before coming up with the idea to make some traps around town, while you come by to warn us of the coming battle and to act as a last line of defence, while he kills all the Grimm he can before coming here and getting his weapon, which you hold in your hands, back and introducing himself to the townsfolk?” Twilight asks the young pegasus is disbelief. “Yup” Scootaloo says simply. At this point Twilight’s eye begins to twitch and her hair seems to fray in utter confusion and disbelief. Before she could go out on a tangent though, she was interrupted by Pinkie pointing down a nearby alley. “Hey! What’s that?” She asks, gaining everyponies attention. Down the alley there was green glow emanating from around a corner. “It’s Adam! The green glow means mission accomplished for now. I am supposed to use my green gem to tell him he and the others to come into the shield.” She says taking out said gem. The girls look at each other, Twilight and Fluttershy with worry, Rarity and AppleJack with curiousity and Pinkie and Rainbow Dash in exitment. I can see Scootaloo using the green gem I gave her, telling us it is safe to come in. I turn look around making sure there were no Grimm around, “Ok, go go go!” I tell the girls rushing, them into the shield before me. We make it in no problems and take a breath of relief. “Sweetie Belle/Applebloom!” I heard two voices shout before a white and an orange blur go by me. I look back and see Sweetie and AB being hugged by two other...mares I guess? Anyways they are getting hugged to death by the older mare, who I would presume are their sisters they told me about. “Adam!” I hear Scootaloo call before getting tackled by said young pegasus, almost sending us to the ground. I smile, lifting my mask and hug her to my chest. “Hey Scoots! Great job getting here. I knew you could do it. I am proud of you.” I tell her, the orange filly blushing from the praise. “Eh, it was nothing. You just gave me the courage to get here. Oh! Also here is your weapon back.” She says handing me Blush after we end our hug. I take the shotgun sheath and loop it into my pants before twirling Wilt and putting it into the sheath. I look to Scootaloo with a smile. “I am proud you didn’t need to use it. It shows that you didn’t take any unnecessary risks in getting here. You played it safe. Good job.” I tell her, crouching and putting my hand on her shoulder. She smile warmly before giving me anoth quick hug and going to Sweetie and AB. “Wow. I have never seen Scootaloo so proud like that.” I turn to the one talking and find a blue pegasus with a rainbow mane just hovering there next to me with an indeterminate expression on her face looking at Scoots. I quickly snap my fingers in her face, causing her attention to shift to me. “So your Adam huh?” She asks, almost in a challenging tone. I don’t fall for it. “Yes I am, and you are Rainbow Dash right?” I say as three other mares come by. Rainbow gains a cocky grin, looking at me. “Oh, you heard of me have you? Well the rumour are true. I am Rainbow Dash, the only pony to preform the Sonic Rainboom, Element of Loyalty and th-“ I cut her off by covering her mouth with my hand, an unamused expression on my face. “Actually, Scootaloo just said you were like her big sister. I don’t know about anything other than that.” I tell her, the rainbow maned pegasus falling onto her butt is shock. I just ignore her and turn to the others. “There will be time for introductions later. Right now I have a few Grimm to take down.” Without waiting for a response, I walk out of the shield and to the front of the town hall, seeing that the remaining Grimm are preparing for a final charge to break the shield. I note in my mind that one of the Ursas is missing, before seeing it running into the forest on the edge of down. ‘Huh, must have gotten bored.’ I decided to start us off, shooting Blush into the air, the bang getting the attention of the Grimm and the ponies in the building. A few of the ponies come out to see what the noise was seeing me in the middle of the road staring down the Grimm. “What are you doing?!? Get in the shield!” Big Mac yells to me, surprising some of the other that he said more than ‘Eyup’ and ‘Enope’. “You won’t last a minute against them! Come back!” Berry Punch says, some jokingly surprised she is still sober right now. “Don’t worry everypony.” The gathered ponies turn to see Scootaloo with a confidence smile on her face. “Adam is going to turn those Grimm into mincemeat.” This description slightly disturbed some of the ponies, but most were suprised by Scootaloo’s confidence in somepony other than Rainbow Dash. Looking at the Grimm, they begin to encircle me one Creeps and one Beowolf each on the left and right of me, the Boarbatusk and Ursa staying in front of me with the last two Beowolves acting like guards for the two of them. The ponies continue to shout in worry. ‘Ok here we go again.’ I think as both the Creeps jump at me. I quickly unsheathed my sword and spin in a circle slicing both the Grimm in half from the head through. Not giving it a second thought I rush through towards the Beowolves. They conveniently line up for me. As I rush past them I slash through them from the pit to opposite shoulder. After slashing the fourth one, I do as Adam did in his trailer, and re-sheath my sword, the Grimm falling to pieces behind me. I quickly dodge back to avoid the swipe from the Ursa, this one being slightly bigger than the one I faced before. As it rears up to slash me I raise my weapon, the sword midway out of the sheath, blocking the strike. I quickly pull the trigger to my shotgun, the blow pushing the Ursa back. Before it can recover I shoot it three times in the chest before running up impaling it and pulling up, slicing it from the mid chest through the head. As it falls I don’t get a chance to react as the Boarbatusk comes barreling though, slamming into me. Oddly it didn’t hurt that mush, despite being sent into a nearby cart. Probably my aura protecting me. “No! My cabbages!” A pony yells out loud, and I am barely able to hold in a laugh at the absurd reference I just took part in. I quickly recover, both from the blow and my barely contained laughing fit, before I dodge left to avoid the Grimm as it rolls towards me. I quickly get at least a dozen feet away from it. The Grimm tries once more to do as a certain blue hedgehog does and tries to bowl me over. As it gets close I raise my weapon again. The Grimm rolls straight into the waiting sword, continually rolling into the immobile weapon as I hold my position. The ponies watching could only stare in shock as I take on the Grimm, the group of six mare and CMC in particular. They watch in awe as I hold my own against the monsters they were afraid of. “How is he doing this?!? These monsters are nothing like we have seen before, yet he taking them down no problem.” Twilight asks in shock, unaware that she lowered the shield and is taking notes on the fight. It was at that moment that Rarity noticed something odd about me. “Hey, is it just me, or are the red parts of his outfit...glowing?” She asks, everypony looking to me and seeing that all the red parts of my outfit, the rose on my back, the marks on my mask and gloves, even my hair are gaining a glow the longer I hold off the Boarbatusk. ‘What is going on with this guy?’ Twilight and Rainbow think in unison. Back to me, I managed to angle the blade of my weapon so the Grimm uses it like a ramp, being sent into the air. As it is airborne I fire shots at it, cracking its armour. Once it lands it has many crack and looks tired. Not giving it a chance to rest I run straight for it and tackle its side, sending it onto its back before thrusting into one last stab, ending the threat. I turn to the other, about to speak when I get a strong feeling of dread. Like all my instincts are telling me to run. Looking to the gathered ponies I can tell, they feel it too. Lowering myself down and taking my glove off, I feel the earth and focus. Subtlety, I can feel six sets of feet running this way, and judging by the level of vibrations, it both big and close. I look to the forest that one of the Ursas ran to earlier and think maybe it went to get reinforcements. I was unfortunately proven right in that though when a loud screech echoed through the air causing all present to cover their ears. “No...” Just after I utter those words the trees burst forth, revealing one of the Grimm I was afraid of seeing. The same one that team JNPR had to fight during their entrance exam. “A DEATHSTALKER!” I scream out, the ponies frozen in fear of the giant scorpion Grimm coming through out of the forest towards the town. ‘Damnit! It just had to be a Deathstalker! The one Grimm you should never fight alone, right here, because screw me!’ I think to myself in a panic, shaking. I suddenly stop when I feel a hand wrap around my own. Looking down I see non other than Scootaloo, looking up at me with a smile. “Hey now. What are you so scared for? You told me I had to be brave before, I can’t do that with you freaking out.” She tells me. I look back and see most of the townsfolk panicking or giving up, hugging their loved ones. I look at the approaching Grimm and think. ‘I will NOT allow it to tear these families apart. I just have to think. What can I do?’ I begin to think back to everything I know about Adam and this Grimm. It takes a minute but I think of something. The final opponent in the black trailer. My eyes widen at the idea. ‘Well, its better than nothing.’ “Hey!” I yell, getting everyponies attention, “who was the one holding up that shield before I arrived?” All eyes travel to the purple unicorn I saw its the CMC’s sisters earlier, who cautiously walks forward. “That was me. Why do you ask?” She asks politely confused. I look back to the Grimm as it just entered the towns perimeter. “Do you have a way to blast the energy you generate into a condensed beam?” I ask, earning a confused look from all but the purple mare. “You mean if I can cast a magical energy blast? Yes, of course I can.” She replies, not seeing where I am going with this. ‘So this world has magic then? Is it like magic from RWBY or is it unique.’ I think before being brought back to the issue at hand. “Alright, this is going to sound crazy, but I need you to blast me with the strongest blast you can before the Deathstalker gets here.” I tell her, everyone looking at me like I had a death wise. “Are you nuts?!? If I do that your turn to dust! Are you trying to kill yourself?!?” She yells in shock. I was about to respond, but Scootaloo beat me to the punch. “He knows what he is asking Twilight. Adam has to find his lost friends after this, so he can’t afford to die yet.” She looks to me, “right?” I just smile at the young filly. “Right. Also you don’t need to worry, I can absorb incoming energy through my sword, increasing my strength and speed.” I tell her, the group remembering when the red on me was glowing. She doesn’t get a chance to argue or question it as the Grimm is only a dozen blocks away. Looking to the Grimm then to me she sighs and backs up, levitating Scootaloo back to the group. “If you die, I am going to kill you.” She says, not caring how stupid it sounds. I just nod and get ready. She begins to charge her spell, a small orb appearing at the tip of her horn before growing. The Deathstalker notices and charges at us, intent of ending us all in one fell swoop. Once it is four blocks away, Twilight fires, the beam being condensed till it is the size of my torso. ‘Perfect.’ I raise my weapon like with the Boarbatusk, blocking the beam. The energy is clearly being absorbed into my blade and me, as the red in my appearance changes. Once over the reds of my outfit and hair are now white with red outlines. Twilight fall to the ground, exhausted, but conscious. She looks to me to see the change in my appearance. ‘Incredible.’ I had to time this perfectly. As the Deathstalker cleared the last block between us, it decided to crunch me by jumping onto me. Time seemed to slow for all that were watching. Then in an instant, I pull Wilt out of Blush and slash through the beast, straight down the center. The Grimm’s momentum was reversed, it beginning to fall the other direction and as it does it begins to rapidly disintegrate, not into smoke, but into red and black flower pedals which begin to circle me. One of the kids watching, a colt named Featherweight. Sees this and quickly takes out his camera, taking a picture of the pedals dancing around me with me still sword our in the slashing position. Getting up I look at the pedal dancing around me, seeming like they were happy. I just smile and look to the forest that the Grimm came from. ‘Who’s next?’