Chapter Two:
Alec Coyle, Assault Class Soldier of the Liberum Order, dedicated to the Freedom of the New World and the rebuilding of the Old, was in a goddamn dark, cartoony-looking closet with a frilly dress draped over him.
He was pretty sure that he was just about to kill another member of the Dominandi Faction, and, well now he's in a goddamn dark, cartoony-looking closet with a frilly dress draped over him.
Was he dead? Did one of the other guys sneak up behind him and take him out just when he was about to shoot his buddy?
Alec felt alive, but he had never been dead before, so he wasn't exactly sure what happened afterwards.
Okay, well, let's pretend that I actually am inside of a goddamn dark, cartoony-looking closet with a frilly dress draped over me, now what? There's probably something outside, and, based on the articles of clothing in here, it's probably a happy, pink pony.
Almost, Alec, almost.
Alec slowly slid his bag off and set it down on the floor beneath him, while constantly checking for audible signs of whatever was sleeping outside, making sure that it was still asleep.
He quietly withdrew a little device. What was it? It was a tiny little camera. Hard to get ahold of those in the apocalypse, but the Liberum Order was a pretty rich and successful...tribe? Clan? Country? Whatever you wanted to call it, it was a successful one of those.
He grasped the little cord that connected the camera to the power source and viewing screen between his thumb and forefinger and slid it under the door, careful not to drag it along the floor, and make noises.
It was hard to see at first, but the software did its magic and night-vision switched on. Well. He was right about the pony part. Since everything was green, he couldn't tell what color it was, but the face and build that it had definitely brought the word "pony" to mind.
Alec had to suppress laughter. What the hell? Where was he?
Shaking his head and withdrawing the camera, Alec put his bag back on and pondered his choices. He couldn't sneak out without waking the creature up.....gunshots would more than likely wake up anyone else in the building, as well as any neighbors (besides, it looked pretty harmless)....
Finally Alec decided: he was going to sneak out of the closet, capture the pony thing, and...well, never mind. Even more possibilities spread out after that.
Let's see....hold it captive? Knock it out? Yeah, that one is probably the best idea.
Alec, praying that the small equine didn't have very good hearing, opened the door slowly, without any creaking. Heh, it's purple. Damn.
He tiptoed towards the bed, and was about to pounce when, Christ Almighty there's a massive lizard in a basket next to the bed.
Okay. It has teeth. Bad. It also had smoke drifting from its nostrils. Also bad. Alec decided that he could probably smother it unconscious.
He crept over to the lizard and, after a few bumps and muffled cries, it could talk, by the way, why not, the creature was asleep, this time without the risk of waking up.
Okay. Now pony. Should be a bit easier.
Alec crept ever so slowly towards the slumbering creature, it was adorable, and brought his hand forward, positioning it right above the little thing's mouth. Alec wasn't sure if it could scream, but, based on what he had seen so far, it probably could.
Alec's other hand slid under the thing's head, very, very slowly, and...Alec, survivor of the apocalypse strikes!
Big mistake.
One hand brought the pony's head forward and the other hand clamped itself over it's short muzzle in an attempt to muffle any cries. Well, what Alec hadn't seen, with either the camera or his eyes was the fact that the little pony was, in fact, a unicorn.
Alec was focused on depriving the little thing from it's oxygen, so much so that it took him a while to notice a gradual build-up of light around the unicorn's horn.
There was a bolt of magic, annnnd, it missed. Alec breathed a sigh of relief. Right next to his head in the wall was a smoldering scorch mark.
Rather then let go, however, Alec pressed onward.
Well, not a great idea either.
Alec felt something slam his gut, and he was thrown into a bookcase, right below the mark of the unicorn's rage.
Alec, though dazed, could see clearly enough that he had been knocked back by the thing's wings. It had wings too.
I think that running for my life is a fantastic idea right now.
Alec just barley managed to dodge another bolt of angry unicorn, or pegasus, or whatever, and he sped down the stairs.
"Help! Help! Somepony help me!"
Well, it spoke English, and it used "pony" instead of "body." Alec would have been amused, had it not been for his imminent absolute annihilation.
He sped down the stairs, almost tripping himself up, as fast as he could with all of his gear, and into the downstairs.
Library.
No time for that, though.
Alec sped out the door.
Of course, a tree, why not?
He looked around for somewhere to hide and found one: behind the sign. Alec ducked for it and hid himself.
He expected the pony police or something to show up at any moment. Alec contemplated using his weapon, but, well when an alien creature tries to smother you in your sleep, you probably would attack it too.
He could probably use one to scare any of them that came to close though...
Okay, so far, no pony police, but...what...?
There was a blinding streak of cyan blue that soared its way through a window, probably led to the purple pony's room.
"Twilight! Twilight! Are you okay? What is it?"
Alec could just barley make out their words.
Twilight? So what is she, a vampire pony?
Alec chucked at his little joke, old movie; he hated it, and listened some more.
"Rainbow dash. Oh thank Celestia you're here...."
Celestia? Is that their God or something?
"Twi', what is it?"
"Rainbow, something just attacked me!"
"Attacked you? What? What was it?"
"I don't know! It was some sort of...monster or something!"
"Woah...did...did it hurt you?"
"Um...no...it...well, I woke up and it's...what was it? It was like a Dragon's claw, but smaller, and he didn't have any talons at the end. Well, whatever it was, I woke up to it clamped around my muzzle. I...I think he was trying to suffocate me. I fought him off though...um...hehe, he looked pretty scared..."
"Yeah, go Twilight! Where'd it go? I'll find 'im and make sure he doesn't hurt anypony else!"
"Rainbow, I think that we should just call the guards..."
"There's no time! What if he's out there, right now, smothering a little filly?"
Oh come one, I'm not like that....
"I...I guess you're right Dash. He went downstairs, but be careful!"
"Gotcha'!"
Alec heard more soaring noises and ducked behind the sign again.
"Okay mister, where are ya?"
I'm sure as hell not telling you...
He heard clinking noises as the pony looked around; he had left the door open, so the noises were audible.
"The door is open...pony feathers, he probably got outside!"
Ponyfeathers? Hehehe...
Alec ducked even further down the back of the sign, (that pony was fast! It could probably slaughter him!) and just in time too. The cyan pegasus drifted out the door, looking around.
Alec shrunk ever further. He heard the winged creature mumble to herself and fly away.
Whew...
Alec was to confident in his pony-averting capabilities and stood up far too quickly.
Alec heard an intimidated "Woaoh..."
And turned around just in time to see...cyan. That was it. All he saw was the color cyan, completely filled his vision, and he was knocked over to the ground.
Alec scrambled to get back up, but was thrown to the ground yet again. This time the pony was on top of him. Holy crap she was strong.
"Christ..."
The pegasus had him pinned down quite effectively.
"I don't know what your game is mister, but all I know is that you're not going to be hurting any more ponies!"
Sorry about this satanically strong rainbow pony, but, yes, I am going to be hurting another one.
Alec did the next thing that came to his mind: jumped at her.
He thrust his face forward, shouting rah!
The pony did exactly what he was hoping for. She started.
Alec used that small moment to surprise the pegasus again and he threw her off of him. Alec used his hand to quickly snatch up his pistol from his holster and he turned around just in time to catch the aggressive creature.
Alec quickly placed his aim, made sure that it was not a lethal shot, and pulled the trigger.
Crack!
The bullet tore through one of the pony's wings, rendering her unable to fly until healing.
The pony screamed in pain and Alec ran faster then he could have possibly thought he could, towards the forest that lay past what seemed to be a park. He reached it without being tackled or punched again.