"I was AppleBloom, fearless adventurer seeking her cutie mark, but what was I kidding, death was only a bullet away. "How will I get through this", I thought, but then I remembered that i was doing this for Big Mac, and for my cousin Braeburn. I needed to remain strong. I needed to push on. I needed to for Big Mac and for Braeburn."
Immediately, I ran out of the shop, seeking help for my injured and dying brother, and for my poor injured cousin, Braeburn. As soon as I got to the door, I slowly propped it open to see what awaited me outside. I pulled the door shut with an earth-shattering quickness because as I opened the door, a red, glowing plasma bolt crashed into the side of the door where my head just was. I realized how close death was. I almost was going to go sit down in the corner, and cry my heart out, but, I didn't, I didn't cry my heart out because I knew that I had to save my brother and cousin. I, at least, had to try. I slowly regained my courage, and again crept up to the door. Pushing it open, more cautiously this time, I looked outside, and had to shield my eyes from the blinding Equestrian sun. I looked out to see what was going on. I saw, practically within two seconds, two enemy fighter aircraft of one of the empires fly by being pursued by four other enemy fighters. BOOM! One of the four enemy fighters blew apart one of the aircraft they were pursuing. The plane then went down in a heap of molten, hot metal and crashed into the nearby library. I gasped as I realized that Twilight's house had just been hit, and was now burning to the ground. All of those precious books were burning in a fury of flame. It was kind of selfish, though. I mean, while books were burning, there were billions of Armonians dying by the hands of these ruthless empires. Not only that, my brother was bleeding to death, and my cousin was knocked out. My sister also, and her friends were all being tortured. I realized how selfish this was. I was caring about a few books, whilst millions were dying. War does this to you, I guess, makes you forget about the world, about people, and think only of yourself. Then, I rethought about it. At the same time, war also brings you closer to together. I concluded I would forget the books, and just think that war was ironic. I decided to leave it at that.
Turning to my right, I saw a huge Black creature. I later found it to be a beast used by the Bloodthirsters. The creature was fighting a huge, robotic droid, which belonged to the Rogue. The Black creature hit the robot very hard, and the robot stumbled backward. The Black creature then fired from a horn on top of its head a huge, green ball of acid which not only started to corrode the robot, but parts of the projectile hit other areas of the battle. The huge robot then came into the stomach of the black Bloodthirster creature, and fired a volley of its rockets from the inside. The Black creature started to spew green acid everywhere. Apparently, the Bloodthirsters had an acid-like blood substance. The big black creature fell to its knees before the huge robot droid sliced off its head with its huge energy dagger like weapon. The big black thing fell to the ground, acidic blood spewing every which way, melting the very ground that it landed on. The droid robot started to walk away, when it was hit by a stray missile. The droid blew up in a mess of shrapnel, and crashed into Twist's house, collapsing the whole structure underneath. I was worried for Twist, when I remembered that she went on a vacation to Changelore, but then I thought, "What if Changelore was under attack?". I had to put this thought aside from me, and move on.
I knew that I should not go the way of where those two monstrous things just were, so I instead went left. I started to gallop as fast as I could to anywhere where there might be help. Turning down one alleyway, I realized that I truly did not know who to trust. I mean it seemed so far that all of these empires were trying to kill every last one of us, except for that random one who came out of a pod at the beginning. I was frustrated. My brother was dying, and my cousin was knocked out. I couldn't do anything. I almost was going to scream. I did. I screamed and screamed until I ran out of breath. I took another gulp of air, and started screaming again. I stopped. Tears started to overpower my eyes. I was just screaming, and crying. I collapsed. I was just lying there now. Not screaming anymore, but only crying. Crying at the loss of AppleJack, of Granny Smith, of my cousins, my friends, my everything. I was angry. I hated everything, and everyone. I couldn't stand it anymore. I began to scream again. I screamed so loud that I couldn't even hear the battlefield anymore. I couldn't hear myself think. I couldn't hear anything but screaming. Then, as I was screaming, I heard another scream. Only the other scream I heard was getting louder and louder. I stopped screaming thinking maybe it was just me going crazy. It wasn't. The scream continued, and then it was within two feet from me. And then, I went out...Cold.
Slowly, my eyes started to open. I looked all around, dazed, confused. Then, I found myself on some sort of carrying thing. It was a stretcher. We learned about those once with Mrs. Cheerilee. She told us that they were used during the Equestrian Civil War to carry out Celestia's wounded royal soldiers. This one was different from the ones Cheerilee described though. It was metal, and it had blue glowing wires coming into my arms and legs. I cocked my head to my left, my eyes still coming in and out of reality, and I found myself staring into about five, six, or seven things in armor. I quickly realized that they were from the empire called the True Mafia/ Black Market. Braeburn had told me once that the True Mafia/Black Market was one of the top choices to come to Ponyville because of what they believed and fought for. Even though Big Mac had told me that the True Mafia/Black Market was most likely going to be friendly, I still thought they were going to kill me. I realized quickly, though, that they were trying to help me. If they wanted to kill me, they would have done that already. I came back to my full senses about two minutes later, and remembered Big Mac and Braeburn. I sprung up.
"Wait!!!", I yelled, "My brother, my brother you have to go rescue him!", I screamed in a fit of tears and sorrow.
"What are you talking about?" the sergeant asked realizing I was awake.
"My brother, my brother...you have to save him, and my cousin they are both wounded in this department store... Please, we need to go back and rescue them...Please?", I pleaded.
"Ok men", the sergeant started to speak to his men, "We will get this little girl's brother." He then turned to his right, and told one of his men to go and fetch a Capone Squad and a Kilo squad who were held up on some street corner. They left and we waited. While we waited, the sergeant started to ask me questions.
"What's your name, little one?", the sergeant questioned.
"I'm Apple Bloom."
"Okay, listen I need to ask you only a few questions to make sure you're alright? Is that okay?"
"Yes...umm... what is your name?"
"You can just call me Sergeant Linello, Now how old are you in Armonian years?"
"I'm 15, sir" The sergeant turned to a medic, and told him to check my vitals, and check the age. The Medic responded instantaneously. He put a little metal device to where my heart was. Next, he stuck a small needle into the back of my neck. It stung. Finally, he gave me this little pill. I was wary at first, but decided to trust them. We waited about 30 seconds before the Medic got a little ding on his little device. He turned to Sergeant Linello.
"She checks out fine sir", the Medic confirmed I was alright to his sergeant.
"Okay!" the sergeant said, and he turned back to me., "Alright, you check out filly. That's good. Alright, listen to me. We will get your brother, but we need you to be our guide. Now listen, We aren't going to lie to you... You have to understand that if we go back out there, there is a risk that you can be killed or someone else. Do you understand this?"
"I-- I do sir, but I want to go out! I have to save my brother!!"
"Okay, Thanks for cooperating. We will head out when those guys I sent out come back, Okay?"
"Okay sir." Our conversation finished after that, at least until the two squads got back.
A few minutes later, the squadmate who the sergeant sent out returned. He came back with two more squads. My guess was that one was Capone Squad and the other was Kilo squad.
"Okay!", snapped the sergeant, "We will follow this filly, get her brother and cousin, and then we will proceed to get them to a secure base of operations... You (he shouted to one of his men), Go and fetch us a radioman, and tell him to get us a transport out of here...tell him... tell him, we got civilians over here who need rescuing." With that the sergeant finished. The man replied a "yes sir!" to him, and left to go and get a transport. The sergeant then turned to me, and again asked me to guide his squads. I gave him a loud "Yes Sir!", to which some of the other soldiers laughed. Besides that, we were off to save my brother and cousin.
We started to sprint to where I last was, when I got knocked out by the shell blast. On our way, we came to an obstruction. Somewhere during this battle, a huge spaceship, apparently Macaranian Wolf, had crashed into Laredo Square and Unicorn Avenue. This obstruction meant that we had to go around. This, in turn, meant a much longer journey to find Big Mac and Braeburn. This in turn meant that they could bleed out before we got there. I was again getting frustrated, but realized that I had to keep my cool. Otherwise, the True Mafia/ Black Market might think I was going insane, and would bring me back for sure. Basically, for now, I held in my anger.
"We have to go a different route. Its going to take a little longer, but its the only way", I mentioned this to the squad.
"Why?" the sergeant chimed in for his squads.
"Well, this whatever it is wasn't here earlier, so the only other way is around. Unless we cut through Harmony Mall?", I chimed back. I also realized that Harmony Mall could be a great place to cut through. It offered a perfect little shortcut.
"Alright, well listen, that transport is on its way so we have to take the quicker route! Can you get us through that Harmony Mall?" the sergeant questioned.
"Yes, but I will need you to protect me.", I said this with a little laughter, knowing that the troops would obviously protect me.
"Okay", said the sergeant, "You take us there, and we will think about protecting you", the sergeant retorted with a little laughter. I must admit that I did like this empire already. They seemed kind, and they were funny. I truly thought we would have it good.
"Okay, follow me this way! The mall is just over this hill!". I ran up the hill, and saw one of the most truly amazing spectacles that I would ever see. In front of me, I saw smoke billowing and rising in various distances. I saw cannons, set up in the fields of Sweet Apple Acres, firing and volleying away their thunderous applause, before their respective artillery fire came raining down on unsuspecting enemies. I also beheld all manners of tanks, vehicles, and aircraft whizzing, firing, and just burning every which way. I saw lakes and rivers of red, which I came to realize was blood spilled, and being spilled by all manner of God's creatures. I beheld bullets going everywhere like a severe thunderstorm. I beheld destruction, death, suffering, pain, and many other harsh words everywhere in Ponyville, and my only wonder at that moment was: Who was dead? and Was Ponyville the only battlefield? I was interrupted.
"Are you alright, Apple Bloom?" the sergeant woke me to the fact that I was leading people somewhere.
"Oh--a--ya I just got lost in the moment. Okay, lets go over here, and cut through the mall", I started to head down, but then I heard some soldier say something.
"Dude, this place looks deserted. Sure hope there aren't any Fear Stalkers or Bloodthirsters in there or anything stealthy for that matter". The soldier was just having conversation with his buddy, but I wondered why he would be so worried about whatever he mentioned. Truthfully, I put it away because I honestly didn't care. I just wanted my brother.
We came into the vicinity of the parking lots, and started to creep down. I saw all manner of creature and machine dead, destroyed, burning out, and whatever other words describe death and destruction. I was starting to get a little frightened at all the death I was seeing. It was starting to play on my mind. For example, at one point I looked over and saw a, I believe it was a Knight soldier, who was torn in half, his entrails leaking out of his ripped apart stomach. He had blood all over his body. He was practically a sea of red. Next to him was a thirteen foot Trierg creature who's face was half gashed out. The creature was just lying there looking into an empty vastness. These images played on my mind. I also saw tanks, and vehicles which had bullets hole strafed across them. Some were still sizzling away, their metal hotter than an Equestrian summer. I even saw one tank which had a Psychic burning apart. The Psychic thing was literally melting away. I turned my face, unable to bear the site. Anyway, we finally made it the mall's entrance. We couldn't get the door open, so one of the squad members just kicked right through the glass. We entered the mall.