6 YEARS LATER
In a bright and sunny day on the planet Equis, in the small town of Good Springs a small young child is happily playing tag with his friends. The young child’s name is Lightning Shimmer, a pony differently from his family and friends due to his serous 'injuries'. No fur, except a small black patch on top of his head, at the end of his legs are hooves with extra digits on them and as for his hands, unlike every other pony who had only four, he had one extra finger, making a total of five on each of his hands. His parents: Flash Lightning, a Pegasus and Spring Shimmer, a Unicorn, both told him that he had a terrible birth defect due to severe injuries from his mother, making him born differently from all of the normal, young fillies and colts. Though it may have been hard living differently than all the rest, it didn't stop Lightning from trying to make as many friends as possible. His first friend was Diamond Crush, an Earth pony colt who had bright purple coat, a short cut mane and long haired tail, Second was Swipe- a Unicorn filly with her dark blue coat, braided mane and tail, and finally, the last of his group of friends was Dawn Breaker, an orange colored Pegasus filly older then all of them by 1 year and 1 grade higher- she did not care for looks so her mane and tail are just straight. Even though Lightning was different than all of his friends and family, he was still able to make many friends due to his appearance making him the most popular in their school at Good Springs Elementary. For 6 years, Lightning was the happiest colt in the world and he wouldn't change it any other way.
On Weekends they would play catch in the fields while his parents would sit on the front porch, sipping on ice cold lemonade and looking at their foal have the time of his life. “Here, catch this Light!” shouted Dawn, throwing the ball over hand to him and making the ball land on the outskirts of the forest near his family’s farm.
“Great throw, Dawn. Who taught you? Your dad Stone Grinder?” Said DC crossing his arms and looking at Light, motioning with his head to retrieve the Ball. “Hey, it’s not my fault! My herd mothers told me they are too busy to teach me!” Said the angry filly, offended by his insult.
“Hey calm down! Light’s going to get the ball so stop fighting you two!” Swipe shouted interrupting their arguing. “Be careful, dear.” Said his mother, Spring Shimmer, concerned for his safety. “Listen to your mom son, it’s dangerous,” Flash said to his son. “Ok mom, I’ll be alright.” Said their son running toward the forest, making sure to be careful getting the ball, and leaving as soon as he can.
Crossing the wooden fence from his farm to enter the forest he heard a loud ‘BANG’ coming from the farm. Running back to his home he stopped near the forest’s edge to see what had made everything else turn silent. Miles away from his farm he could see a large, white light coming closer to Good Springs; closer to his farm. “Run! Get away from there!” He shouted at them trying to get their attention. Instead, he saw them all smile and laugh like they don’t see the imminent danger that was about to destroy them. Running faster than he ever ran before he tried to get closer to them and warn them all to run, but he was too late to even shout a single word.
The white light immediately engulfed his friends and parents right in front of him. Light’s heart stopped as he fell to the ground. Looking back up with tears in his eyes, he saw the light that steadily creeped closer to him non-stop. Light wanted to get up and run from the white light that took his loved ones, but couldn’t move his body after the initial shock. Soon the light completely engulfed him, making him see only it. Soon though, seeing the white light wasn’t enough for slowly his entire body soon began to feel like it was being burned to ash, even his bones! His vision was turning blood red now, and soon faded to black- no longer feeling anymore pain from the white light that had once incinerated him.
NIGHT TIME REAL WORLD
Screaming out of his nightmare induced death he panted with fevered breaths and took in his surroundings. Instead of the sunny day, there was a night filled sky signaling him to go back to sleep, but was too scared to revisit his dark nightmare. Light was in his room- not outside being turned to ash, nor were his parents and the farm. Hearing his bedroom door open he looked over to see both his parents still alive and unharmed. Getting out of his bed he dashed forward and lunged at them, hugging both at the same time. Tears were streaming down his happy face ‘they’re not dead!’ he thought, still hugging his mother and father tightly.
“Light, sweetie what’s wrong?” Asked his mother, showing a concerned look at her crying son, rubbing his back to try and calm him down from his nightmare. This was the 109th time he'd had these nightmares since he was able to speak. Always saying the same things all over again like ‘White light eating everything!’ or ‘Shinning metal ponies getting him’ it just seemed to never end.
“I had those dreams again!” Cried Light, hugging his parents even tighter with tears still pouring out of his young face and landing on their shoulders. Flash looked over his son’s shoulder to see the problem as to why his son is having his nightmare’s again; At end of his bed was a miniature figure with a red flag, blue outfit, and a symbol with a letter he had never before seen in Equestria.
Picking up his son, wiping off the tears from his face, he set him down on the bed and covered him with his blankets. Turning to his wife he motioned with his head for her to take the toy at the edge of the bed and give it to him. “Here’s the problem- son, you lost your dream warrior before you went to sleep.” Said Flash, handing the toy to his son and moving aside to let Shimmer sit on the bed. “Whenever you feel like bad ponies are coming to get you, just think real hard and your dream warrior will arrive to save you” Shimmer said, kissing her son on the head. “Are you sure I can’t sleep with you two tonight?” Asked Light, still frightful from his dream ordeal. “I thought you said that you’re big enough to sleep all by yourself?” Flash said with a humorous smirk. A red hue appeared on Light’s face, embarrassed that he still can’t sleep all by himself. Looking at the toy in his arms made him silent for a moment. Whenever he looked at his toy for too long, it made him feel like he has seen this before, but from where?
“Your right dad. I am too big to sleep with you and mom now so I will wish super hard for my warrior to rescue me.” Said Light, hugging the toy harder so it won’t be lost again, wishing to not have any more bad dreams and to not wake his parents in the middle of the night anymore. “Well, good night son. We will be sure to wake you in a few hours to ready for school.” Said Shimmer getting off the bed and stopping at the door to his room, waiting for Flash to join her .
Flash’s face soon turned grim by his mother’s words about school and what horrible things that awaited when him there. In his dreams he was all happy and popular, but his real life was nothing but sweet lies. He was never cool or popular because of the way he looks; instead he is the exact opposite. The citizens of Good Springs Despised him and his parents for even taking care of him, he knew he could all but forget about being popular, let alone making friends with other young foals.
Diamond Crush was not his first friend, but his first bully that made fun of his problems and how he looks. He always made sure to make Light’s life filled with harsh words and terrible beatings to which would be very memorable for Light. Not to mention that his family is of tax collectors, always demanding more money from his parents than they usually paid before they told the town about Lightning Shimmer.
Swipe was the type to hate some pony from afar and steal their belongings when they were not looking. Every time he brought money to buy lunch at the school she always stole it before he could even pay for lunch. The worst of it is that her parents are part of the schools staff, so telling one of the teachers would only make him look like he a liar and get him sent to detention. So, he decided to stop bringing money to school and started asking his dad to make him home lunches instead, but even those got stolen from him and thrown into the trash. Light once had to pick his lunch from the trash when all of the students and teachers were gone from the cafeteria because he was so hungry.
But the final 'friend' he dreamed of was the worst in real life. Dawn Breaker is indeed the oldest of Lights class and of the rest of his bullies, being held back a grade by one year in her class. Dawn is the class bully and always makes Light her personal cheat sheet. She always forces him to do her homework and any other worksheets that the teacher gives out to the rest of the class, even on major tests she makes him work on hers so she can pass and go to the grade she was supposed to be in. Light is the smartest of the class, even the entire school, but is forced to make all of his work be nothing but failures while Dawn’s school work is made to be above average, stealing all the credit and making him to be the school dunce.
“Yes, mom.” Light said emotionless, silently holding back more tears from the knowledge of the upcoming, real nightmares he knew would happen tomorrow.
“Don’t worry son, some day you can make real friends and get out of this place.” Assured Flash, patting his sons lap and getting off of the bed to the door where Shimmer was still waiting for her husband.
“Goodnight mom. Goodnight dad. I love you both.” Light said, before closing his eyes and wishing really hard for his hero to save him when his dreams become too scary to handle on his own.
10 YEARS LATER
In a calm evening, in the forest, near a quaint farm a lone figure was running left and right trying to hide from his mysterious captors. Sweat pouring down his face, blood pumping in his veins, and large panting coming from his parched lips, he had been running for hours and there seemed to be no stopping anytime soon.Taking a hard right next to a large tree he took a full heated blast to his chest, sending him flying 20 yards back, breaking trees that had tried to break his fall before hitting solid rock. His breath was caught in his throat, making it difficult for him to breathe and all the while coughing out large pints of fresh blood from his mouth. Slowly taking heavy gulps of air he looked up to see who had fired such a large chunk of energy at him. Not 10 yards away and slowly creeping closer was a large, metallic pony that looked just like him, only taller with glowing red eyes, a flat face that showed the skull, and with the same extra digits he had on his hands, not to mention a large rectangular shape attached to his right arm.
Closing his eyes shut he tried to project the one thing that helped him every time a dream became too real for him to handle alone. Something that his parents had said will always protect him when he is in trouble, and right now he is in the worst of troubles. The Chrome figure has now closed the distance with the furless biped and locked his sights to his face, lifting his right arm with odd shaped instrument he pushed his index finger to the end of the weapon to finish the weak being, before a large force of strength crumpled his head and soon his entire body before nothing was left but a flat silver pancake.
Opening his eyes, he saw the metal evildoer to be flat and beyond incapable of dong anymore harm to him. Drifting his gaze he caught sight of the hero that had saved him, and which made his mind all the more at ease. Before him was a biped, floating a few inches off the ground with rippling muscles made to crush his enemies, a red cape drifting in the air, a blue body suit with red boots and what appeared to be red underpants, and a symbol with a single letter that was unknown to any of the languages he had learned in school. “Who are you?” He questioned, before he could see his saviors face the hero became blurry, no longer taking proper shape. Soon, the mystery hero banished and as did the surrounding landscape. Leaving him into total darkness and soon in an instant he was showered by small rays of light before waking up to the real world.
REAL WORLD
With a sharp *gasp* of air, he frantically sat up and looked around to see if anymore dangers were around him. Taking only a few seconds to see that he was back in the real world ,in his real bed, did he really let his guard down and relaxed back into silent bliss. Loud banging came from the outside of his door, pulling him from his tranquil peace. “Light- get out of bed, it’s time to eat!” Shouted his father from outside his door, turning around and walking back downstairs to join his wife in the kitchen.
Getting off the bed and out of his pajamas, he took a simple, plain white t-shirt and denim jeans out of his drawer and went to his work table to pick out 2 sheets of paper and a couple of colored pencils from his lower desk drawer and started writing what he saw in his dream. Over the couple of years, his dreaming became more and more realistic as he became older and this dream was the most realistic to him yet.
“Light this is your last chance to get your pancake’s before your mother has them!” Shouted his father warning him of no breakfast to eat before going to his nightmare school to be bullied, stolen and cheated on again. “On my way dad- hold on!” Flash said before taking out two strips of tape and attaching them to the wall before getting all of his supplies and heading down toward the kitchen to start a brand new day of torture. On the wall near his bed and desk, it held two images that, unknowingly to him, would change his life for the good or the bad.
------Miles away from Good Springs in No Vac-------
No Vac is a trade post as well as the only town that is mostly made of hotel housing. Many only stayed there for trading their wares to other tourists; others stayed to have a job at any hotel openings for bits, while at night some only stay there for one night stands of pleasure and only pleasure. The most popular hotel is the No Vac Hotel, the only hotel that can do all the three things the city can by itself. The owner is Sleaze McGee; a petty Earth Stallion who always gets up early to open up his gift shop so unsuspecting ponies would spend their bits for cheap trinkets. Getting out of his room and to the courtyard he heard a loud bang coming behind him making him stop his walking. Turning to a complete 180 to see what had happened, he saw a kneeling, furless diamond dog with parts of the ground that was under him gone, leaving a circular dent. Silent for a few minutes, he picked up his wits and stepped closer to the diamond dog and told him “Hey! Get up from the ground! If you’re that cheap to buy any rooms, then get out!” Raising his fist he prepared for if the stranger decided to get violent and intended to strike him and steal anything.
Before Sleaze could even react though, the kneeling figure quickly stood up and threw his right arm to the Stallion’s throat, making him choke. Sleaze was shocked to not register how quickly the furless bipedal dog grabbed him, even more surprised to be able to be lifted up in the air making him lose what little air he had left in his lungs. “Let me go you son of a whorse!” wheezed the struggling stallion, flailing his fists in weak attempts\ to strike the attacker.
[Organic known as Equine. Give me direction to the nearest organic homosapien.] His language was confusing to Sleaze. He had never heard such a strange language from any Diamond dog, let alone from any other species traveling here. [Last warning Equine. The signature for the homosapien was near a town called Good Springs. I need to inquire more data to precede with its elimination.] He warned him, tightening his grip on the stallions throat.
“I don’t know what you are saying- dammit speak Equestrian!” Sleaze shouted, accidentally losing more of what precious little air he had left and only succeeding in speeding up his near death. The Diamond dog stayed silent for several seconds before bringing the stallions face closer to his own, showing Sleaze his emotionless, glowing red eyes. “Where is Good Springs?” he questioned the frightened stallion. Hearing his cold dead tone made Sleaze McGee all but blurt out the location.
“J-just take t-this road down here and it will t-take you there- I promise!” The timid stallion said, pointing with his right index finger to the north road before being dropped back to the ground and gulping much needed air. He looked back up and saw his naked attacker still looking at him with his soulless red eyes.
“I told you where it is, so don’t come any closer to me!” pleaded the weak earth pony, putting his hands to his face to block the emotionless gaze from the Diamond dog. The standing Biped lifted his left hind leg and smashed the stallion’s head, making the limp body gush out its crimson liquid, spraying it all on the gravel floor. Without a second thought the cold killer crouched down and undressed the stallion, stole is cloths and walked down the pointed path told by the what was now lift of the earth pony.
[I am proceeding to eliminate 1 of the humans living on this planet. When main objective complete, I will send the signal to send more drones to eliminate this planet.] said the lone killer heading down the road to his new destination to find the first target on his mission. Wearing the dead old stallion’s dirty green dress shirt and shorts with spots of wet blood still on the color, he walked down the path before him. In an early morning of the town of No Vac at 5:00, a worker found her boss on the floor with his head smashed and his clothes stolen. She quickly reported the murder to the local guard. It will be the day when the entire planet of Equis will discover that they are not alone in their world.