“It happened too fast to truly remember you know. It was like… An explosion, of pure hate and disregard. It was an awful feeling, all my friends just being engulfed. I-I just flew you know, flew as fast I could. Flew so fast I couldn’t see… But it wasn’t enough, he found me, and he made me… See unthinkable things. I’m not the Stallion I once was, but I can still fight ma’am. Please, give me a chance… It’s all I ask.”
The blue stallion stood and looked up at the princess of the night, she was laying atop her throne looking down.
“Rainbow… Blitz correct?”
“Yes, your highness”
“Tell me everything, about your world… Night Terror I believe it was. He is the equivalent of my Nightmare Moon phase?”
“Yes ma’am”
“You are definitely the male equivalent of our Rainbow Dash, now this is truly intriguing. Tell me everything you can remember.”
Blitz took off his helmet and his mane flopped out as he looked up at her, where his eyes were once white were now Black and the magenta now red.
“From the beginning, it must have been as it was exactly here… Maybe a few differences.”
Blitz looks up at the night sky through the glass ceiling, telling his tale.
“Blitz!” He turns around only to be glomped by the pink stallion.
“Berry! What are you doing here?” Blitz sets down his duffle bag as he straightens his cap as he smiles.
“Gosh you sure got big, it’s been four years since I’ve seen you!” Berry walks around him looking at the uniform.
“Well, the military does kinda do that… But really, I thought Elusive was supposed to meet me here? Don’t really see why though… I could have flown.” He smirks following Berry with his head. “Hey hey, you’re making me dizzy man.”
“Oh! Sorry, hah come onnnnn the others are waiting at Dusk Shine’s place!” Berry pushes on him from behind barely budging him.
Blitz huffed as he picked the duffle bag up in his mouth and tossed it over his back, he walked over to the exit and chatted with Berry about his tour throughout the Airborne division of the Royal Military of Equestria.
“So why’d you come back Blitzy?” Berry walked beside him smiling.
“I served my tour, I wanted to come home.” Blitz looked over at the Apple farm. “Home sweet home..”
“Did you kill anyone… Blitz?” Berry looked over at him.
“People die in war, Berry. Not everyone can be friends.” Blitz looked over at his shoulder at the combat patch.
“So you were a ground person? I thought you would have been a flier.” Berry tried to change the subject quickly, his happy heart not wanting to talk of death.
“I was both, I was a hero. At least I was told that, doesn’t feel like I did much though.”
“Blitzy what does that say on your shoulder?”
“Follow me.”
“Follow you where?”
“I’m either breaking through hells gates or breaking out of them, follow me and I’ll get you through.”
“And you were a hero? Did you save lives?”
“All the time, it was my job, I loved that part… Nothing can make you smile more when you pull a kid from a crumbled building and bring them to the safety of their parents. I lived for that feeling.”
“So why did you say you don’t feel like much of a hero then..?”
“Because Berry, I ended more lives than I saved…”
Blitz kept walking as Berry stopped looking at him with a frown.
“Hey keep up, I don’t remember where Dusk lives!”
“Coming!” Berry exclaimed as he dashed up next to him.
“I’ll be okay Berry, I’m home now. No more fighting, well aside from the occasional town problem hehe”
“Noooow, all we have to do is find you a nice girl!”
“Slow down, Berry. I just got home man, I wanna kick back before I go back to war hah”
Luna sits listening to Blitz recall feeling deeply from his heart, dread and loss floated from his very essence.
“It sounds life was really good for you, so how did you end up here?”
“We were summoned by King Solaris not to long afterwards… I didn’t complain, I was loyal to him anyways, one last assignment couldn’t hurt I thought… But it was hard… We got there and, King Solaris was dead.”
“Oh my…”
“Lunar had lost control once again, and took him off guard… He’d become so powerful, he demolished us all, Dusk was no match for him even as an alicorn. We were beaten down, and he had some guards coming out, putting cuffs on us… Dusk screamed at me. “Fly… Fly Blitz… Get out of here… Hurry… You can out run them… You can save us…” So I took off, such power went through my wings I was in a rainboom within a second shattering the windows… I flew so far, only to be caught. I was tortured for days, branded, flayed, beaten… You name it, it was done to me… And when they brought me back, all of my friends were lined up in front of me, hanging from the gallows… My life was spared… But my soul was not.”
“What do you mean?”
“I’m dark… I feel the need to fight, and ruin. I want to destroy happiness, and love, but… Something in me fights, day and night and it grows stronger..”
“I see… So what happened next?”
“Lunar… Was gone, all that was there was the dreaded Night Terror… The sun never shined, and the plant like became twisted, evil and corrupted, feeding off the moonlight instead. Food became scarce soon and fighting envolped. By then, I was a play toy, Night Terror was a god. He could mutilate my body and make It normal again… Once he cut my stomach open and shoved my bowels down my mouth… The pain, it was unbearable, no matter how many times I died, he brought me back… Punishment for running he said, I was never able to run away now. But, he saw purpose in me. He gave me an option… Become his general, and serve as his personal hoof licking brown nose, or continue being his torture toy. I chose the obvious… I didn’t know it had a price.”
“What was the price?”
“Me, he ripped my soul to shreds. Making me nothing but pure loyalty, I did anything he commanded… Anything, weather it was slit the throat of a child or rape their mother in front of them.. Sick bastard.”
“So what changed? In you I mean.”
“I-I really don’t know.. One day I began to feel again… Regret, shame… For everything I had done…”
“It wasn’t your fault”
“They were my actions… But I began to dis-obey orders, punishments were cruel, and painful… But I saved a few people… Doomed some.”
“What do you mean?”
“I refused to behead a farmer once… I was placed under a boulder that barely allowed me to live as I watched him be lowered into molten metal slowly…”
Luna stands and walks down to him to place her wing around him, he has tears leaking out from his eyes.
“And here, how did you end up here...?”
“Night Terror got sick of me… And I guess he messed up on a spell..”
“Tell me about it..”
RainbowBlitz sighed as he looked at her, and spoke his next tale.