//------------------------------// // Being hunted // Story: My Little Pony: Legends of Old and New // by AlphaToothless95 //------------------------------// An abandoned garage somewhere in Equestria As Askari fixed her new bike which was now painted black and white and had her magic on the wheels, she thought back to when her parents first taught her to ride one. She was 16 at the time and yet she wanted to learn before she entered adulthood. She was always a fast learner and they took pride in that and so did she. This magic inside her though.. she was told that only a few select zebras in the past have had this magic, one that she knew she would always remember, Zecora, she had helped the old guardians, using her magic to protect herself and others.. and look how Askari turned out. Instead of using her powers to help and protect others, she used them to hurt countless innocent ponies.. she used them for revenge.. and that wasn’t what Zecora.. or her parents would’ve done if it was her who was buried right now instead of them. Her ears twitch when she hears a noise and stops what she’s doing. She slowly puts down the tool and picks up her sword which was right next to her in it’s sheath. As soon as she grabbed it, the magic inside it and her formed around it and she stood up and walked around slowly and quietly to avoid alerting any intruders if there were some. For all she knows it could’ve been an animal knocking something over. As she peaked around one corner, she noticed somepony sneaking around.. and they had a weapon, a spiked baseball bat. She ducked down and slowly walked towards the pony and readied her sword to attack. She slowly stood up and raised it and was about to slice the pony in two but then a Deathbolt smashes through the roof and tries to sting her with its mechanical tail but she dodges it, cuts it off, and kicks the Deathbolt into the other pony. Seeing that they’re right by a huge metal shelf, she quickly makes it fall on them before they can get up. She hears more ponies running towards her location and quickly grabs one of her guns out of one of many of her hiding places. She didn’t wanna kill anypony else but it was them or her. At the very least, she would try to avoid shooting them too many times or in any vital places and avoid slicing off any limbs if she could. She pointed her gun towards one entrance to where she was and shot as soon as she saw the first pony run through, hitting them in the arm. She knocks them out and uses her sword to deflect one pony's magic attack and send it back at them. A pegasus kicks her in the back and she rolls forward and onto her back, shooting the pegasus and making them fall back. She gets up and runs off, fighting her way to one of her secret doors/hiding spots. She locks the entrance and quickly grabs her armor, putting it on and grabbing as many weapons as she could carry. She had to get as far away as possible. She didn’t know who these ponies were or why they were after her.. or did she? She could figure it out later, right now she needed to get out of the room and get to her motorcycle. She breathed in and out, using her ears and her magic to pinpoint the location of everypony in the building. Their negative emotions being detected by her magic. A new trait of it that she picked up yesterday. She unlocked the door and quickly jumped up, hanging above it in a split. A few seconds later, it opens and two Deathbolts walk in and one unicorn, one pegasus and one earth pony all walk inside and she senses that there are more outside so she waits till they’re far enough before breaking the split and swinging through the doorway, kicking the ponies outside it back and then locking the door and using her magic to change the lock in a way that makes it so it locks on the outside. She then proceeds to fight the ponies that she had kicked, making quick work of them then going to where her motorcycle is and starting it up and opening the garage door. She quickly grabs a picture of her and her parents before driving out, closing the door behind her. She gets a fair distance away before the temperature starts to raise drastically and the ground starts to shake and crack. She looks confused and looks behind her to see what’s going on but all she’s sees is the garage fading away into the distance and.. a ball of fire following her? She looks even more confused until the fire dims out and she sees a unicorn.. made of lava.. on a lava bike. She’s so confused but she continues driving as fast as she can and suddenly the unicorn starts throwing fire at her and making lava jump out of the ground in front of her and she dodges all of it. Magma growls in annoyance but then smirks, getting an idea and she makes lava spew out of the ground in front of and beside Askari so she can’t move then she throws fire again, hitting her wheel and making her crash, her and her bike tumbling painfully down a hill, Askari losing weapons and armor the whole way down. By the time she stopped herself from rolling, she was between the hill and a cliff. Magma was slowly coming down the hill, setting fire to every blade of grass she walks over. Askari slowly gets up, weakened and grabs one of her pistols and points it at her. “Who.. are you..? What do you want from me?!” she yells weakly, genuinely confused about why she was attacked so suddenly and who this pony was. The unicorn giggles, ignoring Askari's question and gesturing towards the gun. “Planning to shoot me somewhere else other than my leg this time? Better make sure your shot kills me this time cause I won’t stop until you pay.. for every. Single. Life. that you stole or ruined on my island. Two days ago.” she says and Askari looks shocked as she slowly remembers the unicorn that she had shot trying to protect Sunny.. she also remembered that this same unicorn was buried in lava so.. that must be how she got like this. The unicorn blasts lava at her and Askari blasts her own magic at the lava, holding it back but she’s starting to slide back and towards the edge of the cliff. “I’m sorry ok?! For everything!! I didn’t have a choice!!” she yells, trying to appeal to the unicorn, hoping she would spare her but she freezes up when the unicorn scoffs and says the same thing she said to Sunny after Midnight captured her. “Pretending to be sorry for what you did? Have you no shame at all?!” she screams and the lava gets stronger and Askari tries stopping from sliding off but it’s no use. She was gonna die here.. but on the bright side, she would be reunited with her parents.. she closed her eyes and started to accept her fate but then an explosion knocked the unicorn through a tree and Askari stopped her magic. She fell to her knees, exhausted and looked around for what or who had caused the explosion and she sees.. an alicorn. This one looking only a few years older than Sunny and this one had a dark blue coat and a long blue mane. Askari looked and noticed that wasn’t a normal explosion.. it was an ice explosion and Magma was now weakened and one of her arms were frozen. “What are you waiting for?! Grab her and let’s go, they’re coming!” said another alicorn, this one having a dark pink mane and a pale yellow coat, her horn constantly glowing a bright yellow. They both had armor on but it wasn’t like Midnight’s. It was more.. new, advanced but at the same time it was mixed with ancient armor. The blue alicorn picked up Askari while the yellow one grabbed whatever weapons of her's had made it down the hill with her and her bike. The yellow one then readied a spell when she saw the rest of Magma's allies coming, her horn glowing way more. She released the spell, blasting it towards the ground in front of them. Literal sun rays are what the spell looked like and when the spell hit, a massive explosion knocked them all off their bikes and even made the Deathbolts crash into the ground or in trees. She then joined her friend in heading back to where they and a few others were camped. “W-who.. who are you..?” Askari asks and the blue one gently shushes her, noticing how injured and tired she was. “Don’t try to speak, you’re exhausted but to answer your question.. we’re just a couple of ponies trying to make a difference. And that starts with helping you.” she says and the other alicorn scoffs and mumbles out. “Even though you don’t deserve it.” She says, earning a zap of magic to the shoulder from her friend. Askari tried to stay awake but eventually she couldn’t help it and she passed out, more confused than anything.. but just glad to be safe.