//------------------------------// // Season Four: Chapter one: The zebra hero Savannah part three final. Zebra arc final // Story: Project Harmony One. // by Megaskullmon //------------------------------// A zebra will never learn when it comes to the battle ahead. Most zebras focus on a hero. Many forgot what it means to be one after the worlds broke away from Equestria or the tribes. Most zebras never work together anymore. It’s what causes those like Glyph to rise and gain power over the others. Written by Unknown. I don’t know how long it’s been. I don't even know why. When I open my eyes I am locked and chained to the floor. I can’t move at all I see though in this room is pure darkness. The cell door opens up and a zebra stallion walks into the room. He turns to look at the guard. “I will be fine on my own. I doubt she will do anything to harm me.” I keep silent waiting to see what this stallion does. The guard nods and the stallion turns to look at me waiting for the cell door to close. The stallion comes over to me and before I could do anything he puts his hoof to my mouth. “Shhh, Savannah it’s me.” The head of the stallion shifts to Discord. My eyes go wide for a second. I have a feeling he knew I would try to break out by attacking him. I wonder if he has a good reason to be one of my kind. I sigh at least I am allowed to with the mouth over my mouth. He moves the hoof from my mouth. “Discord, why are you here, and why are you one of my species?’ Discord sighs shifting back to the stallion fully. His stripes are a strange blue and his eyes are one black and one red. I knew this stallion was in Glyphs court. One of Glyphs second in command. “Savannah, it's been almost four weeks. They kept you in a coma to look through your body looking for your element. When they learned you didn’t bring it with you. They injected something awful inside you. I don’t fully know what it is, it’s attached to your pain receptors and if it’s turned on you will wrath in awful pain.” I wanted to speak about how awful this is. Even so, my father still uses this type of tech. It’s an old tech we used to handle slaves and it’s why we broke off from Equss so long ago. I think I know why I am here though. “I am going to be used as an example to make sure Glyph never loses his power. Am I correct?’ Discord sighs nodding. “First though he wants to see you break. When the time comes to Savannah. I want you to scream and if you don’t scream he will kill you. Will you please scream for me? I will do what I can to help. Just you need to hang in there my friend.” I shake my head. I have too much pride to scream. It might be a good idea to scream and not allow myself to die. “I can’t promise anything Discord. Just please do what you can.” Discord stands on his hooves fully tapping on the door. The door opens up and before he fully leaves the guard laughs. “Are you coming back for the show Star Catcher?” Discord nods. “I wouldn’t miss seeing the traitor what she deserves. If it’s the only way to break her father and get the power our leader deserves.” The guard smirks, lifting a strange device that I know full well is pony-made. It’s one of those video cameras that Muffin introduced to me. I try to move, all I can do is stand just a bit. Discord glanced behind me, a smirk forming on his face. “So you wish to record this on that device of pony make? I would say do this and send on a shuttle and make more to show it around the galaxy.” The guard shakes his head. “It’s mostly for Glyph to use when he wants to force her father to give up his power. Of course, I doubt we fully understand how he lives in this new world we have heard about. I am starting to wonder if our allies of Disharmony even are telling the truth about this new world.” They know about the planet then. I wonder if we have some spies in our ranks if they know about this new world. Unless harmony those we have been working with are our enemy as well. I worry about my family. I wonder if they’re searching for me. I don’t know and worry so much about all this.  “Before I leave, good sir. What do we know about her family and friends are they searching for her?” The guard shakes his head. “No, we learned that she told them that it may be months before she returns. I wonder if she knew this would happen. I am unsure and I don’t know what is in the mind of this mare. All I know is that she believes the lies that disharmony is the evil side.” Discord turns his head to look at me mouthing ‘scream’ He leaves. I am left in the room of darkness. I have been asleep for almost four weeks and they placed old torture devices in my body. I hope I get free before they become a natural part of my body.  I lay down to at least try to sleep if I am allowed to. I close my eyes wondering what the others are thinking hoping they will either find me or I will get out before something bad happens. _______ Discord I went back to the office of the one known as Star Catcher. I hate what I had to do to the former Star Catcher to make sure I can get in the middle of what is going on. I glanced at what he was working on. He was helping Glyph get a tighter iron hoof on the many zebra worlds. He even tried to kill some of the leadership of the other worlds. I sit down sighing using my powers to write many letters and notes to all the leaders and the resistance I learned about ages ago on these worlds. Using my powers to send them I groan stroking my head.  It’s getting harder to use these powers. I am getting weaker. I worry that I could be dying. I know full well what is going to happen to me when it’s my time. After this battle is fully over. I will be heading to the darkness between galaxies, I lay my head on the desk feeling so weak from what Twilight and her minions did to me. I need to rest a lot now and I can’t just go crazy like I used to and use the power of chaos anymore. Just little bouts of chaos don’t even keep me from getting weak. I hear a knock on the door. The door opens up and a mare trots in rushing to me giving me a deep kiss. She breaks the kiss staring at me. “You aren’t my husband, you can kiss better than. Who are you.” She locks the door to make sure no one comes in and sits in front of me staring into my eyes. She looks at the fact that I couldn’t change the eye color of my eyes. She sighs, shaking her head. I think she knows., “Sir I don’t know who you are but why are you pretending to be my husband?’ I sigh, shifting back to my true form. Her eyes open wide and she stays calm though putting her hoof on my shoulder. She can tell I am weak, very weak. She tries her best not to get upset or angry at me. “I am sorry I didn’t kill your husband. He is in another reality for the time being till whatever is going on here is over. When everything is said and done I will bring him back to you.” The mare sighs. “I will say my husband is many things but he is a good stallion. He did what he could to help the other worlds. Even if most of what he put into law in the name of Glyph did harm. I won’t tell the others who you are. I will do what I can to help you. “ I smile weakly. “So you and your husband found your ways into Glyph’s good graces? Has he always been like this and always wanting power?” The mare shakes her head. “He didn’t always use to be this way. He met so many from this disharmony and after we learned so much of what they followed he felt he had the right to get the power he deserves. I have a feeling it’s going to lead our worlds and our kind into death more than anything.” I was about to say something and there was a knock on the door. I turn back quickly into the zebra body and the door opens. “Glyph wonders if you wish to watch the punishment of Savannah.” I glance at the mare. Then back at the Guard. “Yes, I would love to see the punishment of the betrayer and the fake hero.”  The guard smirks, closing the door and I lean back, sighing and shaking my head. “You have a big heart like my husband. I am happy you did what you did. I have a feeling when things or if things go south they would try to harm him. I worry about myself as well. So please Discord promise me you will protect me and his children when the time comes.” I nod quickly. Getting up to head to the area they will be torturing the poor mare. ________________ Savannah  I open my eyes from a good long sleep. I hear the door open and many guards coming in to remove my chains from the floor. They unhook and carry them while I am led through the halls of this prison. I hear screams and children crying and since I can’t look into any of the doors. I have a feeling they have many here. I am brought into a dark cold room where the light shines on a pole. I am lifted onto my back hooves. I glance behind me seeing Glyph, Discord, and many guards. Glyph smirks, taking a cloth to wipe his mouth from the show of his hunger for my pain. “Now miss Savannah with all the pain and problems you and your family caused me so long ago. I wish to give it back to you tenfold. Many in this room wish to do the same. Now I will count each time the whip hit’s you. If you don’t scream I will kill you.” His face turns to a dark evil grin. I was scared to see the whip they will be using. It’s the whip that is used too much on me. It will fuse that torture tech in my body and make it so every time I move wrong I will get endless pain. “I think it’s amazing these old creations your father made so long ago. Your father did so much to us and your family. I have no issues with you at all Savannah but it’s only fair to give the pain to you that your father gave me. Now please inject the needles into her body to make the pain increase tenfold.” The guards come over with the needles. I bite my teeth together hard feeling the needles digging into my flesh. I gasp deeply in pain feeling every inch of my body scream in pain. The needles now connect to the machine already in my body.  “Is that wise to do this to her Glyph?” Glyph laughs. “Oh, my dear Star Catcher always has a weak stomach. This is the only way that she will learn. If she screams she will survive to see the future. Now please guard, take the whip, and if she screams. Hmm, then she will get to survive.” A large stallion guard stands close to me holding a glowing whip. The needle tips on my back start glowing. I know that I will never be the same after many strikes. Many of these will fuse into my body.  The stallion smacks the whip into my back and the needles glow with adding pain to my body. I bite down hard feeling the pain filling my body. I feel the flesh being ripped on my pain. “One” Whip “Two” I glance back at Discord who is in the form of the stallion I keep getting whipped and Glyph is now on five he keeps mouthing scream. Whip “Six.” The stallion starts to whip me harder. The needles start to glow and burn into my flesh and fuse. I feel my heart beating from the pain and I can no longer hear the voices. All I can do now is scream. Oh please let me scream. I felt the whip tear into me one more time. I open my mouth and all I can. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHH” I let out a scream and the whipping stops. I shiver and sob.  “Hmm, what wonderful pain. Hmm, she will survive for now. But I have much I need to do to break her. To break her spirit and to make sure she becomes the example of those that question my rule.” ___________________ Discord I watch while the guards remove Savannah from the post and he puts his hooves on her face. She opens her eyes showing her hate and anger for him. “Hmm, those eyes, those beautiful eyes, and that beautiful face. Do me a favor, remove one, and destroy part of her beautiful face. I do hope you learn my dear you will never be free. You’re a pawn in my board here.” I let out a deep sigh. I wish I could stop him now. I just need to get everything I can ready before I can do so. “Now StarCatcher I think you should go home to your family and relax. We will do more to help the good creatures of our worlds. I hope you’re ready to put the threat of our world to the sword.” I nod quickly leaving the room walking by the cell holding Savannah. I hear her screaming in pain. I wish I could help her. I feel my heart beating in so much anger. Savannah reminds me so much of Fluttershy but I can not do anything about it but all I can do is get ready to start an uprising. I sit at my desk and Star Catcher's wife. I haven't got the name of her yet. I shake my head smiling at her. “I am sorry that I am not your husband. But could you do me a big favor? Do you know any of the resistance leaders in the zebra worlds?” She nods. “Give me a moment.” I sit down to write something using my powers to summon more of the note, setting them down infront of her. “They need to get ready. There is no way Savannah can survive for too long. We need to be ready. Before I left they were getting ready for the beginning of the end. The beginning of the End with the war between harmony and Disharmony.” The mare nods. “So what should I tell them other than the letter?’ I think hard about what should be said. “Tell them the war is coming to an end and whatever happens whoever becomes connected to Disharmony or harmony will be dangerous.” She nods, putting on a robe and quickly taking the notes. She bows her head to me quickly leaving as I lean back in the chair closing my eyes. “Oh, Fluttershy you wouldn’t love this future. This future would have killed you and I couldn’t allow that. I am so sorry for what happened to you. I wish I could have stopped it.” I lift off the chair looking down at the broken zebras below. The city is barely keeping itself together as I watch Glyph’s minions hit other zebras with a baton and I feel I can’t do a thing. I sit back in the chair to rest. Closing my eyes to dream of ways to help poor Savannah. So much has happened over the last few years of these creatures’ lives that the war is about to end and the battle for Equestria is about to start. Welcome to Season four of Project harmony one.