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// Chapter One. “A strange man lands on Equestria.” 
// Story: Ashes to Equestria. 
// by Pedro-Paramo 
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A big portal opens from the skies letting Ash fall into the dirt which sends instant pain to his body.

This man, all dirty , a long beard accumulating through the years. His clothes all rags like a vagabond. Despite this, he's muscular.

Trying to calm the pain. He rubs his entire head feeling his dirty, greasy, hair; grumbling, he says, "Ouch... Damn portals, they always open from the sky."

The night is coming quickly as the sun leaves room for the moon.

He regains himself and takes a look to his surroundings, "Oh, for god's sake...", as his previous summons have given him any hint. For one, it always left him far from civilizations and his summoner. Two, he falls right into action. This was really bad luck. He's in a cemetery... where the evil usually took his army. 

The fog covers the graveyards as the moon gets into its final movement. Only then, is when the tombstones begin to fly into the skies while the familiar sound of the undead starts, assuring him that he'll not be alone for the time being. He quickly turns on his hand-chainsaw. To his surprise the first deadite was not a human but a pony rotten to the core.

The dead-pony standing now in front of him, menacingly states, “I’ll chew on your soul!"

Ash takes his trusty sawn-off shotgun and points it directly to its face as he deadpans, "Chew on this."
As expected the horse's head explodes.

He puts himself in fighting stance waiting for the undead to come. 

A deadite approachs him with all the bad intentions. So, he makes a move to counterattack, 'The Bloody Tornado'. Which consists on him, to spin with the help of the blood on the floor and twist rapidly, cutting most of the heads, limbs, etc. On a one meter radio. He cuts the deadite's head instantly with a raw of the chainsaw.

Ash stops in action eyeing the monsters ahead, "Come one, let's dance." The deadites stare at him wide eyed as one of them questioned, "Who are you?"

Ash smirks, "Your worst nightmare."

Ash's patience fades away as his bloodthirst starts in a warcry which the deadites fear instantly.

Ash runs at full velocity, using a tombstone to gain altitude making a movement, 'The Hammer', (while on air as he aims at the deadite with his chainsaw to cut him on half).

Quickly, he takes out the shotgun from it's resting place as he aims for the closest deadite on sight, blowing his head off, making the corpse kneel before the king. 

Another deadite attacks Ash. So, Ash receives the deadite with a movement called, 'Slaying Neck'. Which consists on him jumping to an inclination of 45 degrees with his hand-chainsaw aiming for the neck. Ash slays it, screaming gore as he forces the chainsaw through the pony's neck with the force of his falling body. Instantly, a deadite takes advantage of his position but Ash, proving quicker, he receives the deadite with the movement, 'Stabbing Boomstick'. Which consists on Ash stabbing the chainsaw on the enemy's belly and blowing the enemies' head off with the shotgun.

The deadites start to roar in anger. There is no need to keep waiting. So, all of them charge at once. His counter attackis this movement called, 'Dancin´ Chainsaw',  a combination between the movement 'Slaying Neck, 'Bloody Tornado' and 'Stabbing Boomstick'. Needless to say, that the heads roll like marbles and no deadite lives. 

Ash twists his shotgun to the holder after the last movement shrugging at the death corpses, "How about them apples?"
After this words. A dead pegasi takes him from behind elevating him 20 feet (6 meters). The pegasi says, "I'll take you to your dead!" Ash always hates when someone sneaks behind him, it makes him feel weaker. So, he invented this counter:
'Blind Slaying' which consisted on him focusing all his strength and speed on his hand-chainsaw to spin his torso to cut an enemy. Ash falls again, but this time, he's ready land. Ash rolls on the floor compensating the weight balance.

Ash looks back but he doesn't like the sight. Before him, an army of pegasi. "Ah, yeah, that was your brother? I'm sorry." as he laughs awkwardly. There is only so much I can take, he thinks. So, he does what any man would do.

Run like a little bitch.

Ash runs like hell entering some nearby forest to hide, making sure he turns off his chainsaw on the way. He stays still on the shadows.

The pegasi look around in a frenzy for him. One of them gets close to Ash's hiding spot and it finds him. At this moment the deadite turns around his head to alert the others. But Ash, quicker then a bee,covers the deadite's mouth with his only hand, wrapping his arm around its neck, making a quick spin to break the neck. Ash, then proceeds to hide the body in the bushes.

Eventually, the pegasis left. He leaves his hiding spot allowing a breath. "Jesus! That was close one!" Ash wipes the sweat from his forehead and begins his journey to find the summoner. Maybe, if he heads towards the deadites' direction, he would find 'em.

The journey uneventfull. Except for the occasional wild-life running down the bushes, predators staring at him. 

Half an hour passes and there, at the distance, chaos, pure chaos. Buildings burning, deadites killing innocent ponies, ponies fighting back, pegasi using clouds to burn deadites... and one in particular.  A pink pony with fluffy hair using a cannon to explode deadites as support. She must be the most capable of them, he thinks. Ash makes his move and goes to help the mare. But when he's near her. She fires at him, luckily for him, he trips on a rock. Ash, face on the ground, doesn't move. Pinkie Pie approaches him, thinking he is dead and full of curiosity. Ash takes his shotgun quickly and aims at her head, "Surprise! I'm not dead... yet." Pinkie Pie gets confused, "What is that?" Ash nonchantantly explains, "Oh, this...", he chuckles looking at the gun, "This is my..." A deadite approaches behind the mare. But Ash notices as he screames at the top of his lungs, "BOOMSTICK!!" As he covers Pinkie Pie's head with his other arm. After a loud bang, Pinkie could only hear a beep on her ears. She looks behind her to look a dead pony on the floor. Pinkie then, looks back at Ash, surprise in her eyes. Ash looks at her and asks, "You ok?" She nods gratefully, "Yeah, that was a close one! But could I ask you a favor?" Ash gets confused, "Yeah?" Pinkie then replies, "Could you stop hugging me? You kinda smell funny." 

Ash then jumps back, "Yeah, sure, I was just, ah... Making sure, you ok." Lie, he was confortable, she's fluffy after all and smells like candy. The mare smiles, extends her hoof in a shake-hands fashion, "By the way, my name is Pinkie Pie!" Ash grabs her hoof and made a strong shake, "Name's Ash, pony-girl." Pinkie Pie replies coyly, "Ha-ha, I know silly. I read the introduction." Ash chuckles and lets go of her hoof, "Ah, someone is writing about me now, great..." Pinkie Pie replies playfully,"Oh, don't worry. I'm pretty sure everything is gonna be alright!"

The deadites are approaching.

Ash takes notice as he puts on his pokerface preparing his shotgun, "We'll leave introductions for later. We have unfinished business here." Pinkie nods as she gets out her pink canon. With a boom over here, a flying piece of a deadite over there. Heads explodin' making graymatter go everywhere. A massacre all over the place! I think a pony somewhere reveals the secrets of her stomach, nearby... *Searches for said pony* Oh, yeah! She is! Groooss!

Ash slashes a deadite in half, while shooting in another direction to a hellspawn! Ash stabs a deadite with his chainsaw as he boom-sticks the poor bastard! Pinkie on the other hand, delivers a present to a confused deadite who then proceeds to open it, just to find a boxing glove. Apparently, he managed to get in time before everyone got murdered or turned. The remaining ponies were confused and they were staring with horror at the massacre. Ash stares at his did. Some ponies look at him surprised as they exchanged commentaries,

"What is that thing?” Or “It has to be the responsible for this, we should get rid of it!” 

Ash patience is runing low so when the pony who said the last sentence. Ash directs his anger to the pony, yelling towards the pony, "Listen now, you little savages." Somepony in the crowd mumbles, "But you look more then a savage then us." Ash ignores the comment, "I'm here to help you whether I want it or not! You better let me handle this without trouble or..." He takes his gun, "This is your other option, so, what'll it be?"

The ponies in front of him stared at him struck dumb, scared, incredulous, some were unfazed like expecting the worse. Ash smiles and waves them goodbye, "Come one, Pinkie. Lead the way." The crowd all confused, stare as Ash leaves with Pinkie. Pinkie stares at Ash for a moment when they were in front of the library, "Did you really have to be such a meanie-pants?"

Ash didn't really like when someone questioned his judgement, "Mind your own business, cupcake. I know how to handle a crowd. It has worked many times before."

Pinkie got mad, "This is my business! These are my herd and you have no right to just be a threaten them!"

Ash smiles at her slowly coming closer to her face, "I didn't ask to be here." He deadpans at the last sentence.

Pinkie sighs, "Okay, okay. I get it! I really do! But you gotta stop being so mean. It's just not right! You know?"

Ash stares at her like thinking about it. Pinkie pressed with puppy eyes, "Pretty please with frosting on top?"

Ash shrugs and pets her mane, he couldn't keep mad at such a cute creature, "Sure, but if this happens again. I make no promises." Pinkie sighs once more, "Fine by me."

Then, Pinkie proceeds to knock the door a couple times, screaming in a cartoonish way, "Twilight! Open up, it's me, Pinkie Piiiiiie!!!"

Twilight opens the door so used to Pinkie's antics and receives her as best as she could despite her irritation, "Oh, hey Pinkie. I see you managed to keep yourself alive and…" Twilight notices Ash right beside Pinkie. Twilight stares confused, "Aaaaaaaaand... you are?" Pinkie says quickly before Ash could talk, “His name is Ash!!! He is the chosen one the book talks about when you recited the spell to summon him!”

Twilight, now in a more welcoming tone but with a suspicious way of speaking starts to introduce herself, "Oh… I see. Well, my name is Twilight Sparkle. Can you tell me what's going on? I’m a bit confused. A bunch of zombies began to attack our village!!! And well, I don't know what to do anymore."

Ash trying to calm her down tried to explain, "First of all. Calm down, Twilight. I pass through this all the time. Second of all. Where’s the book?" Twilight answers hurridly, "It’s upstairs. I’ve been studying it. Trying to get a solution and the only solution appears to be you!" Twilight looks at him pleadingly. "Please, help us."

Ash chuckles, "Yeah, sounds about right." Everytime, this answer. Ash looks at her with a carefree attitude giving up on pulling her leg,"I don’t know. Usually, when I arrive a bookworm has already the solution. I’m only here to clean up." Twilight tries so hard not to get mad but she failed after all, the fault is all hers, "No, what are we going to do!?! We are doomed!" 

Pinkie with some hope in her eyes to see her friend happy again interrupts, "Twilight, please. We have to stop this. Apparently, Ash is our only choice here. We should give him a chance."

When Twilight turned to see the floor to think about it. Pinkie immediately looked at Ash in the eye and made an expression of 'are you kidding me?!' Ash with a playful expression answered with another expression 'I was just testing her, don't you worry.' Twilight turns in frustation to see him. He quickly deadpans.

A voice in Twilight’s head said. "Come on. You are Princess Celestia’s protégé. You’re one of the most powerful unicorns on all of Equestria and you’re giving a bad show here. Let’s give a small step and see what happens.”  She cooled her temper and in the most soothing tone she says, "Okay, Ash. We have to do something. What can we do in this situation?"

Ash staring at her in a 'was about time' started to formulate, "In all my travels. I took notice that the solution usually is on the place the Necronomicon was found. So, we can always check there first."

Twilight brought a hoof to her chin as she thought for a moment. "The Everfree Forest. I found it during one of my visits to Zecora’s. I got lost and I found this particular tower. I felt some attraction, as if, it was calling me. When I entered, a book was sitting on an altar.  I barely contained my excitement because of my luck! I took it and I made my way to Ponyville to the point I forgot my meeting with Zecora." Twilight stopped for a moment to summon a glass of water which she proceeded to drink. I didn't mention it. But she is a mess. Her mane all dirty, bloody as her skin, she looks tired. Once, she gulps the last drop of water, she clears her throat. "I couldn’t understand a word at first but with a spell. I managed a translation. Apparently, it was some kind of old magic that only uses words, stimulating the magic that surrounds us. So, when I pronounced the words something really bad happened, a bunch of dead ponies started to attack the village! At first I though it to be a raid. But, when I looked at the ponies. I freaked out so I read the book as fast as I could trying to get a solution."

Twilight drops a tear, looking down and then up to Ash, she continued, "It took me about an hour to found something but only made it worse and... I had to..." Pinkie saw what was coming. She knows that Spike didn't make it. So, with all her velocity, she hugs Twilight as she starts to cry. "That’s when I found the spell to summon you and I really hope you can help us, Ash." She wipes her tears as a new fire rebirths on Twilight's heart. She stared at Ash with resolve on her face and a spark on her eyes that screams justice.

Ash is not the type to make a girl wait. Specially, when they were this passionate. Ash nods, "Okay, but we need some preparations first. This is not child’s play and we’ll need all the help we can get." He points to Twilight, "Make sure you bring your finest warriors" Twilight nods and disappears on a spark of magic. Ash stares at Pinkie and nods.Pinkie gallops out of the door closing it behind her.

Ash, all alone. He doesn't remember the last time he was left alone. Maybe, he could take a nap? Ash starts to walk on the living room taking a sit on the couch. Exhaling, Ash starts to fall asleep. Until, he hears a noise upstairs which startles him. Maybe, he isn't alone after all.

Ash begins to go upstairs as the wood squeaks each step. The room is poor lighted with a candle and the place is a mess with papers and books all over it. But what really caught Ash's attention is the Necronomicon on Twilight's bed.

Ash stares at it for what seemed like an eternity.The book starts to pass pages as fast as a money counter. Ash feels weak and his vision turns blurry. He tries to comfort the pain in his head with his only hand as he starts to have a mind-trip to god only knows where as he falls to his knees. The world spins around him and his vision blacks out.

Ash wakes up and he looks around, "Where the hell...?" Ash knows all too well this place, "Oh, gaawwd... No..." He panics, "Not here again," he's sitting on a rocking chair. "This can't be! I have to be dreaming..." A muse head stares at him, "NO!" the cabin. He's back.