//------------------------------// // I am Nexus // Story: My little Pushka pony // by ru771an //------------------------------// A/N: Final chapter guys, thanks for reading. Read this chapter to yourself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date:August 13th 2012. Location:Unknown. Time: 15:04. “Colonel Nexus put up a terrific fight with the remains of his battalion on the 13th August 2012 against overwhelming enemy forces. He later went missing, however we believe we is dead as his body and those of several Chinese soldiers went missing, only the burnt out remains of his tank and a few pieces of burnt clothing was recovered.”. “I believe he never found peace, someone as inhuman as Nexus will never find peace”. “Nexus never dies, he’s just missing in action”. “Daddy will you be there forever for me?, I don’t want to be alone”. When I hear your voice,its seems like your there, sitting beside me. When I look at that picture of you, I cry for hours on end. Please don’t go. I cant live without you. Please I love you too much to see you go on your own. Please stay with me. Forever in my heart. Please....don’t die. Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow together. I am the diamonds that glint on snow. I am the sun that brings life to all. I am the gentle autumn rain. I am the quiet birds that slowly sing a song. I am the soft star shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die. I am Nexus and I am the connection to multiple elements. Just a few minutes ago I was fighting in China. My battalion was getting overrun, the situation was desperate so I called in a EMP to stop the Chinese from reaching their main base. The death I can figure was in the millions as the device exploded and took out all electrical systems. It destroyed my tank, set me in fire. I clambered out and smothered the flames before falling on the ground, still burning. Desperately I tried to save myself as I rolled around in the snow. A few minutes later and there was no more snow and I was no longer burning. I stared at my broken body and found it still worked. I was in a another world, just me and some Chinese soldiers hell bent on killing. I don’t go down easily. I crawled on the ground, I couldn’t stand up since the pain was unbearable. I think I had broken a kneecap or something. My face was covered in mud and the veins on my body were a bright blue tingling with red as I bled more blood that appeared on the ground around me. I was in pain when the Chinese attacked me. A pair of them came over and prodded me, hoping to see if I was alive. I feel a the barrel of a gun being jammed into my back, I let out a small yelp of pain. They realise I am alive. I hear a gunshot and a bullet hits my thigh, I feel agonizing pain as the shrapnel destroys that part of my body. I was going to die by the hands of these bastards. And then I felt a familiar sensation flowing through my veins and reigniting my dead muscles. I feel strong again. They shoot me again and destroy my other kneecap. I didn’t feel it as I got up much to the soldiers amazement. I stand on both of my shattered legs and look down on the two men. I am much taller. I feel no emotions nor pain as I grip my hands on their throats and strangle them to death. Their eyes pop as their final moments come....and go. I say nothing because I cant, my jaw has been bruised enough and burnt too much for me to ever speak a single word again. I then let go of them and watch as their lifeless body’s crumple to the ground. I barley have time to evaluate my strange surroundings before another Chinese leaps on my back and holds my neck in place with a sharp knife. I realise he is trying to choke to death,like what I did to his comrades a few brief seconds ago. “Daddy”. I ready my shoulders but relax, luring him into a false sense of security. At first I use my head to crack his nose as I throw it backwards, then I turn round and shoulder barge him before throwing a punch that breaks his jaw line. He is still standing but releases his knife, I pick it up before it hits the ground and slam the metal blade into his ribcage and it penetrates his heart. “Daddy where are you?” Something is calling, a voice I know. But I haven’t heard it for years. I want to reply but I cant. Then I hear footsteps as what seems to be a unending horde of the enemy attacks me. With my knife in one hand and a fist readied in the other, I leap at the attacker. We clash and throw fists at each other, I keep my knife away as I wait for the moment to strike. He attacks with a backwards kick and I just avoid it as I sense the move. I grab his outstretched leg and twist it, he yelps in pain. As the moment to strike appears I launch myself onto the soldier and we grapple on the floor. He is strong as he tries to resist. But I am stronger as I push the knife deeper and deeper into his defensive guard until it rests in his throat. I let the dead Chinaman flop to the floor, I am bleeding from the gunshots. Pretty heavily. I wont last for long. “Daddy answer me”. Once again I open my mouth,once again nothing comes out. I get the fleeting sense of a thrown butchers knife hitting me in the back and piercing my lungs. I move out of the way just in time as a large knife that is used to cut open large animals is thrown in my previous direction. The object in question completely decapitates a tree and makes it fall over, the trunk of it having been sliced open like a person being cut open by a chainsaw. That almost happened to me. I turned round as I heard a twig snap. Standing before me was a massive winged creature with a beak. I didnt have anyway idea on how to engage. It was too big for me as it towered several feet above me. It started walking towards me. It flaps its massive wings and the shockwaves throw me in the ground, I start to bled heavier now as the adrenaline has disappeared. It stares at me, it is going to kill me. Quickly hopefully. I close my eyes and assume my fate. “Stop whatever you are doing in the name of Princess Celestia!” A female voice, accompanied by what sounds like swords being rattled enters my ears. I open my eyes and see something that really says I should be on drugs. A chariot pulled by two winged ponies at first,I look around as there are more winged ponies everywhere, they wear gruff expressions and a kind of body armour. The strangest of all is that a much bigger pony stands in front of me, this one is the female I heard. She has wings like the “armoured ponies” but a horn like Pushka. Pushka?. “I have a rough idea on who you are”. She says in a royal kind of voice, I guess this one is pony royalty. Since I cant talk I have to point to my mouth and use basic signing. “So you cant talk huh?”. She replies before casting a spell on that horn of hers. I am engulfed by a large blue light.I guess I was teleported. Or at least something like that as I ended up in a massive empty hallway. The royal pony is still there with me, strangely enough her guards have disappeared. I still cant speak. “The look of your jaw indicates that you cant speak, Ill fix it for you”. She says and casts another spell, this one of red light as it swirls around me and fixes my jaw. I feel it and it feels fine. “Thanks”. I mutter. “Welcome”. Comes the reply. “So what am I doing here?”. I ask. “Well, I teleported you, because I thought it was “time”. “Time for what?”. “Its the 13th August, what’s so morbid about today, what did you learn ten years ago?”. She has me stumped as I try to figure out WHAT exactly happened ten years ago. Wait.... The medical report. The heart, the papers strewn everywhere in my bedroom when Pushka left. I’m going to die today aren’t I? “My heart will stop right?”. I answer her quickly and without fear. “Indeed, but I suppose someone wants to say their goodbyes to you”. At first I don’t know what she means, then as a large door at the end of the hallway opens slowly I begin to realise who it is. “Pushka, but I thought she was gone”. I feel a little tear in my eye as I begin to remember what happened that fateful day as I came home and found she was gone forever, I remember the pain engulfing me and my frantic efforts to find her. “Yes I took her”. The royal pony admits. “Why?”. I ask the ultimate question. I see that I have her stumped. And then she smiles again. The door hasn’t opened fully yet. So I guess she has time for one more answer. “Because I saw what state she was in, I know you were trying to do your best but leaving your offspring alone for hours on end, drinking too much and coming home drunk is not the best thing you could do. I also realised that you were going to die, Rarity does not know I’m afraid about that”. I guess Rarity is Pushkas new name. The door opens and she appears with five other similar ponies in weight in size. She looks much older then before and carriers a certain grace about her“Daddy?”. I see her eyes light up as she continues trotting towards me. “Yeah ,you expecting someone else?”. I joke for the first time in years as we meet in the middle. Her friends watch as I bend down and hug her. “I missed you so much”. I remark and feel tears coming out. “I missed you too daddy”. Comes the response and I let her go. “So this...”human” ere” is ya father”One of the friends speaks with a American country accent, I suppose she is saying what they all think. “Yes, didn’t you know he found me in the barrel of a tank....I swear I have told you this hundreds of times”.Pushka deadpans. “How have you been getting on Pushka?”. I ask, content to know what she’s been doing. “Pushka.....first time I’ve heard that in ages”. She whispers to me. “They call you Rarity now, a good name. You indeed a Rarity in life Pushka”. I smile for the first time in ages, she smiles back. The wonderful smile that I always came home to. I missed that for so long and now its right infront of me. “Will you be here now?, with me?”. She asks the question that I’ve been dreading. She doesn’t know about the paper and my condition. For some strange reason I always keep that paper on me, although I haven’t read it in years. I feel nervous as I pull the paper out of a burnt pocket, surprising it isn’t burnt or damaged in anyway. I hand it to her and she reads it.. 10 minutes later and I was on my deathbed. Well to be exact I was dying on the floor. So “deathfloor”. I could see the pained expression in Pushkas eyes, Princess Celestia and the other five ponies were busy trying to calm Pushka down as she cried and cried and cried. She was really crying for me, and for herself. I hug her tightly for the last time. “Daddy don’t go....don’t go...please just don’t go, I’ve missed you so much. Every night I cry out for you to come back.”. She wails again and I stroke her head. “Shhh, listen Pushka, you have been the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. No matter what happens Daddy will be there for you. Just remember to look in the right places”. I grin and smile, she does the same. I let her go and slump back down on to the floor. I can feel my heart beat slower as my reactions slow, first I can no longer see nor hear. The feeling of touch goes soon too, but I know my Pushka is with me. A few seconds later my heart stops and I die. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am dead and yet alive at the same time. I feel like I am trapped yet free. I begin to realise where I am. I am the elements of harmony. I am the connection to multiple elements. I was once known by the name Nexus. I am now Nexus. I will always be here for Pushka whenever she needs me. I am Nexus.