//------------------------------// // Season Four: Chapter Seven: Rainbow Cloud Escapes: Elmenets vs the Counter arc: Ride of the final battle arc // Story: Project Harmony One. // by Megaskullmon //------------------------------// I told you, my friend, we would get close to the final battle and I will tell you my friend we will never see it. We have to fight the counters of Disharmony. I wish to say to you if we could win, my friend. But we know full well that fate will let this go. We will fight the counter of us and not only lose but we will destroy what we can of our counter. I know full well what will happen when I see Muffin again. She will find a way to make a cure for whatever I cause and whatever she does she will help me finally move on. Element of Sickness.  I open my eyes when I see strange aliens looking down at me. They chatter and click. I look around quickly to see they have removed a hoof and are poking it and I look around to see a lot of parts of me have been removed from me including one of my wings. One of the aliens notices I am awake and quickly comes to me. “Shhhh don’t panic. We are doing everything we can to get you back together. You’re in an old Shadow Vessel and we were asked to torture you. We couldn’t learn more about you and when we took parts of you away we learned you’re the element of Forgiveness. Let us get you back together. You will feel younger. We did much to you to make you stronger than your counter. But I warn you when the war is over your body will start getting older since you only have twenty years left.” A frown forms on my face. I groan, feeling some pain as they fix my metal wing and I feel something strange about it. I notice they added flesh and feathers to it. Wait, they’re making me whole again? “You’re making me whole again, why?” The alien sighs. “Look after what we learned before we left the old universe. The war ended with both sides leaving and no one won. The battle ended because the younger races got tired of being treated like children and told what to do. You need to do the same… when the time comes. You need to force Disharmony and Harmony to admit they’re what they are warmongers.” I groan grunting from the pain of parts of my body getting attached again. They slowly let me up and they make sure I am alright and the alien looks towards the door. “You’re heading to one of our worlds. You’re being sent to your counter to fight him and…we aren’t going to make it when we come out of hyperspace. The ship is going to lose its ability to fly thanks to how old it is. We will get you to a pod and help you escape, I warn you. The pod will crash land and when you get out you might not have enough time till you fight your counter.” I grunt, groaning deeply, feeling my body in pain. They help me off the bed and they quickly arm themselves. I quickly grab my element, my hat and when I put it on I feel my body heal quickly and they lead me through the old ship. While I am led through the old ship I see what the creatures who used to run this type of ship look like. I see them turn around and look at me. They see me but they don’t seem to care about me.  “Don’t worry about them, this universe is not the same as theirs and they don’t feel they have anything of value here. They are kind of prisoners in their vessel. Disharmony is so desperate to win this war that it’s causing any planet that joins them to get weaker and weaker. If Harmony attacks like the Vorlons did, half the universe could get destroyed.” I chuckle weakly “I see um so how am I expected to get off this ship in a pod if the pod will fall apart along with the ship itself?” The Alien shrugs his shoulders. “I don’t know, just warn you when the pod is released they will know and you will be fired upon. The world has had a civil war for so long that…there is a vision of you in this world with a sniper rifle and you fire at something. The one you fire on is the counter.” I remember this vision of my friends where maybe it will happen but without them there. As we get closer. I am being watched more by the inside of the ship including whatever is powering this ship. We get to the pod and before we could get it going I tossed a sniper rifle the same one I use in the vision. I feel the vision hit me again and I fire on Unforgiving the counter of my element. Then I come back out of the vision. The vision over there is gunshots and I lift the sniper rifle. It shapes into my jaw and my hooves. I look into the scope and fire a bullet. This is not a pony-made weapon when I fire the bullet that destroys the body of the creature coming at me. I look at the weapon. ‘Made by Earth-Gov.’ Earth-Gov? Wait I remember them they’re the ones who created Babylon Four the station we turned into Project Harmony. Many of the aliens protecting me get shot and I get to the pod. The alien I spoke to has many wounds all over his body and he hits the button the pod flies out of the old shadow ship. The shadow ship turns quickly firing on me and it hits me as the pod falls to the planet below. Thanks to the inside of the vessel I don’t feel the tumbling I just feel the heat. I close my eyes knowing when I crash I will either live or die. I hit the ground and I fly around the pod smashing my head on the metal and my world goes dark.