//------------------------------// // RAINBOW // Story: A Cyborgs life in Equestria // by proudtobeabrony667 //------------------------------// RAINBOW Hi I'm Rainbow Dash and I'm the self proclaimed fastest flier in Equestria. Today was just like any other day In Pony-Ville, I was tasked with clearing the sky so that it was just a little bit cloudy, Rarity was making clothes for an important client, Fluttershy was tending to some animals who were scared or something, Applejack was in the middle of apple-bucking season, Pinkie Pie was throwing a birthday party for Octavia, the towns resident cellist and Twilight was running the library with Spike. Then it happened, an extremely loud sound pierced the air and I'm pretty sure it made everyone's ears ring, the sound itself caused several windows in town shatter, when I looked up I saw a large ball of fire coming down from the sky breaking the sound barrier multiple times, then I realized that it wasn't a meteor as meteors break up in the atmosphere upon entry (damn I'm starting to sound like twilight.) it looked like it was a person! Many people have landed in Equestria over the years; accidentally or otherwise, but none have ever been consumed in a ball of fire before. Also the last time someone came through we sent them back, erased there memory, and supposedly closed the way they were coming in through for good. When everyone else noticed it some ran into their houses and hid while others grabbed weapons (or rather any farm tools they could find) and got ready to head out to were it would land. I joined up with the rest of the girls and noticed that they all had their saddle bags and were prepared to head out as well, I turned to go home and grab mine when Twilight tossed it over my back. (Weird how did she get it so fast, she must be prepared for anything) That's when it hit the ground causing the entire earth shake and heaved upwards, all of a sudden a giant mount of earth was sent flying our way, luckily Twilight was able to stop it using somekind anti-earthquake spell. Once the ground stopped shaking all the apples in sweet apple acres fell from their trees and into the baskets (Luck strikes AJ again... Woop-dee doo). Once we all got our balance again we headed out with the rest of the ponies who had grabbed weapons to defend themselves, but as we followed the direction where the smoke was coming from we reached the entrance to the Everfree forest and they all turned tail and ran back to town. We however decided to stop at Zecora's and ask if she knew where it landed, all she told us was (and I quote) was to follow the fire and smoke but be sure not to choke that is no Joke,(obvious) so we did we followed the smoke when we could see it through the thick canopy. For the most part we maintained the same direction, but then we came to a place were it seemed it had started it's landing a small crevice that grew into a small canyon, the whole area around it was ablaze fires were everywhere and the canyon seemed to go on forever, we ended following it for about three miles were it seemed to end. What we saw was no meteor nor was it human, or a pony, it seemed to have one bird wing and one bat wing so we assumed that the humans tried to mix one of their own with such creatures. We didn't see what it was exactly, because it looked like the pit from a pear and it had been made from it's own wings must be the reason why it was so fast, when they unraveled after what felt like an hour they revealed a boy who was unconscious, covered in blood and holding two swords caked in blood, after a few minutes, some rope, water and pry-bars we managed to pry them from his hands. We tried to tie him up using ropes, but he just pulled them out of the wall when he rolled over, then we tried chains and that seemed to work for the most part. We waited for about three hours before he began to stir, once he did he noticed the chains and started to freak out pulling on the chains. We all saw the same thing, the chains were breaking, link by link so Twilight in a panic shot a spell that was meant to stun him, but instead what actually came out was a spell far more powerful and it was meant to kill him (seeing as how Twilight didn't know much offensive magic it was understandable). He seemed to know what it was and he shielded himself with his wings. The impact of the shot caused a large puff of smoke to cover the area. When the smoke cleared he had broken his chains and was lifting off into the sky, once he did I immediately followed suit and chased him. "GET BACK HERE!!!" I yelled at him, "NO!! Not if your just going to chain me up and use me as some experiment," Was his response to me meaning he could talk at least Then suddenly something wet hit me in the face, I thought it had started to rain, I looked up and the sky was still clear, I looked back and saw a trail of water droplets coming from in front of him, it was then I realized that he was crying, so I sped up and tackled him to the ground with a loud crash. When I tried to get up afterwards I felt a sharp pain in my wing, when I looked I found that my wing had been broken in the fall and badly too, when I looked back at him he seemed to notice my pain, and instead of running away he reached his left hand out at me. I flinched expecting him to hit me and knock me unconscious. The flinch caused him to pull away a bit, but then continued slowly, until he was able to reach my wing. His hands were gentle and careful but they were rough I could feel the calluses though my wings, still he was gentle almost as if he was trying not to hurt me though it still stung when he moved my wing, I then noticed a green sort of light come out of his left hand, then the pain was gone, he healed my wing but it was still sprained so if he were to run I could not fly after him. As he turned to fly away I jumped and tackled him again this time his back was to the ground and I could see his eyes, when I looked into them I could see fear, sadness, and dread, I felt his fear and when I got off of him he just got up and jumped into the nearest tree and stayed there. The rest of the girls caught up about five minutes later and noticed my wing. "What happened to you and were did he go?" asked twilight, I told them exactly what happened and were he was. They were surprised especially Fluttershy, since she could hardly believe that he just healed my wing. I could tell that they weren't going to let up when twilight was about to shoot a beam into the tree, she never got the chance because I tackled her taking the breath out of her lungs. Then Just when Apple Jack was about to buck the tree he dropped out of the tree with tears flowing down one side of his face and his arms out almost as if he was expecting us to shackle him. Instead Twilight shot at him again this time managing to hit him in the side of the head, when the smoke from the blast cleared he didn't move but the side of the head were she hit was completely bear of skin, however we all noticed at the same time, a few of us covering our mouths at the fact that his face was made of metal. Then almost instantaneously as if on reflex his face began to regrow skin to cover up the metallic appearance. Just when we were about to take him back to town, out of nowhere a large dragon landed behind all of us. It was probably pissed at all the commotion we were causing, it was about to burn all of us to a crisp, and we were all prepared to die. Then just like some kind of angle he jumped in front of us and used his bat like wing as a shield he grabbed his swords from AJ when the flames had stopped and swung at the dragon getting close to it made it back off and ready another attack. The dragon took aim at the boy in front of us and fired another blast of its fire in our direction the boy defended again though this time he blocked the fire with his swords splitting the fire around us. The air around us get really warm but the boy stood in front of us unwilling to move, but he wasn't about to just wait for the dragon to attack again he lunged at the creature slicing a large gauche in the dragons chest smearing his sword in the dragon's blood making Fluttershy faint. The dragon reeled back from the pain then took a lunge of its own biting the boys right arm, once it got a hold of this boy it lifted him up and threw him through a few trees then turned his attention to us licking its lips with a gluttonous look on its face. The dragon lunged at us but we were all terrified and couldn't move, and just when we thought we had met our end out of the woods the boy jumped inbetween us and the teeth of the fire breathing beast grabbing onto its open jaws with his bare hands. we found the strength to move and we retreated to a safe distance and watched as this stranger from another world fought to defend us. The dragon was the fist to strike slashing at the boy who defended with his arms, the cuts revealed more metal from our place of safety we couldn't be certain though. Again the dragon struck and kept striking as if not to let the boy get a shot in, then with ought warning the boy faltered and fell and again the dragon tried to take a bite of the boy. the boy once also caught the dragon by the jaws but this time he kept a hold of the bottom jaw as he reached for his sword behind him. he went to take a swing and was knocked off the dragon by its tail. The boy was losing ground in this fight but he still stood his ground. We couldn't help since we knew we were no match for this foe, we could only watch helplessly as our defender got beaten down again and again. Again he stood up sword in hand and ran at the dragon faster now The dragon set another fireball at the boy who simply cut straight through it keeping his pace. The Dragon started to panic and began firing a large stream of fire at the boy who stopped and sheilded himself with his wing. The stream was nonstop and the boy was sliding back until he started walking forward towards the dragon. Once he got close he released his shield and punched; and I'm not joking, he punched the Dragon in the chest before getting ahold of it's horns once he had a hold he twisted the Dragon's neck and from where we were we could hear the bones crunch as the boy broke the Dragons neck. After the Dragon was dead the boy went one step further and I personally think this was unnessisary, he tore the dragons head off and left it on the ground. The ground became drenched with the dragons blood, when blood stopped he turned back to the Dragon's corpse, raised his right hand and shot a blue flame from his arm and burned the dragon's corpse to a steaming pile of ash. Afterwards he gave the swords back to AJ, grabbed the chains from her bag and tied them around his hands then after locking them he gave Twilight the key and waited for her next action.