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// Chapter 6: The Rescue 
// Story: The Darkened Past: Alex’s Past History in Ponyville 
// by captinalex1 
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As I'm getting tossed around, Star Dust barely opens his eyes and looks around. What catches his eyes is my wrist device that Light Bringer gave me. Dust slowly gets up and limps over to take a closer look. He picks it up and sees it was crushed but still has the location of the dig site. "Oh no! This is Alex's. Something must have happened to him. Nopony simply crushes his hoof. Something must have surprised captured him. Grr, in my condition at the moment I can't do anything. I have to go warn somepony." Dust gasps and tells himself.


So Dust limps back to the Speeder Bike and gets on. He turns it on and speeds through the forest heading to the shield that splits the Everfree from Ponyville. At his arrival, he looks and sees the KG units attacking Ponyville. The Wonderbolts are trying to fight back but only time will tell who survives this one. The Changeling touches the shield but it shocks him. "Damn, no way in."


Then a Wonderbolt sees the Changeling and trots up to him. "What do u want?"


"Um, do you know Alex?" Star Dust asks him.


"Yes and we could certainly use the help right about now!" The Wonderbolt tells Dust as he continues fighting.


"That's what I'm here for. See, Alex has been captured and Veger is gonna test the new weapon on him first. The Precursor weapon they have dug up." Dust explains.


"Whoa, what?!?!" The Wonderbolt yells in shock.


"Please I beg to set our differences aside and let me in. I have the location and everything." Dust begs.


The Wonderbolt grabs a KG unit that's charging at him and punches a hole through the chest area shutting him down. He then hits a button on the force-field and it generates a small opening for Dust to trot in through.


“Thank you so much.” Dust happily speaks as he trots in.


“No problem, but we must hurry to save Alex in time.” The Wonderbolt speaks back.


“Alright, but who do i give this info too?” Dust asks.


“Hm, Spitfire or another Commanding Officer in Cloudsdale.” The Wonderbolt answers. “Also, I must escort you over their just in-case.” He adds.


“Alright now lets go.” Dust jumps inpatient.


“Oh, and one more thing. Take this.” The guard hands a pistol to Dust. “As you can see, Ponyville is being overrun by KG’s so you must have something to defend yourself.


“Got it.” Dust takes it and flies ahead of the Wonderbolt.


“H-hey wait up!” The Wonderbolt catches up.


As the two ponies fly, the KG units notice and send flying KG drones after them. The drones take a few shots but miss. When the first shot passes Dust, he aims backwards and shoots back, destroying one.


“Nice one Dust.”


“Hey thanks.”


But more close in and take frenzy shots. The Wonderbolt gets hit, but takes no damage. “Sucker! I've got armor on.” He mocks. He then loads a machine gun and fires away, taking out a few of the drones. However, more chase after them. To make matters worse, some KG units on the ground begin to set up AA guns.


They throw shots into the air and explode near Dust’s and the Wonderbolt’s path. They take maneuvers to dodge, but one explodes to close and Dust is effected and begins to lose altitude. The Wonderbolt flies after him, catches Dust and lands him safely.


“Dust, you alright buddy?” He worryingly asks.


Dust then gets out of the Wonderbolts hooves ready. “Yeah, I’m good.”


“Good. Um, i think we have to trot till safe territory. Because this whole area isn’t under our control and has been captured, including the sky.” The Wonderbolt explains.


“I see.” Dust looks around.


So the Wonderbolt and the Changeling quietly trot through the shadows. As they move along, a KG-tank spots their position and takes warning shots before chasing them. Dust hears the shots and warns the Wonderbolt. They then begin to gallop the path they were going, however the Tank cuts them off, so they turn around and gallop another way.


“Is their anyway to destroy this thing!?” Dust shouts.


“With us running like this and only having pistols and an assault rifle, um lets just say no!”


Then a Wonderbolt air raid led by Lighting fires there cannons, that are strapped to their backs, and the bullets penetrate destroying the heavily armed vehicle.


“Thanks! We needed that!” Both Dust and the Wonderbolt thank for the air raid.


“No problem.” Lightning acknowledges as she flies by with her squad.


Then the two ponies get back to their path and continue trotting. As the action gets less and less, they decide to take flight thinking it is safe. Luckily it is, so they are able to fly the rest of the way. Dust and the Wonderbolt land and locate Spitfire.


“Spitfire.” The Wonderbolt calls out.


“What is it this time, Thunder?” Spitfire asks.


“This Changeling right here knows what the hell is going on around here and most importantly where Alex is.” Thunder answers as he points at Dust.


“You do. Well what are we waiting for, show me.” Spitfire commands.


“Yes ma'am.” Dust salutes.


The Changeling unfolds the wrist device and shows the location and everything they need to know. Including the area, who is behind all this and what the weapon is gonna be used for.


“This is gold given right into my hooves.” Spitfire excites a little. “Anyways, Light Bringer come in this is Spitfire do you read, over.” She radios.


“This is Light reporting, what is it?” Light Bringer responds.


“Are you finished with your personal mission you had a while back, first?” Spitfire asks.


“Yes… Why?” Light asks, interestingly.


“Well, you know how we are against the KGs?”


“Yes I do, but what about them?”


“Well, they have captured Alex, luckily a Changeling that was platooning with him, was able to save the wrist device Alex had on him and it has told us everything. The location of the weapon, who is behind all this and much more. Do you care to go with the Changeling and rescue Alex for our main attack I’m gonna start planning?” Spitfire answers.


“Sure, I’m in.” Then Light Bringer appears right behind all of them, from a teleportation method.
“Alright lets go.”


All surprised, Dust and Light Bringer arm up and board a scout-craft. Light Bringer gets driver seat as Dust sits shotgun and they take off.


As they fly to rescue me, I look around to only find us, Veger, Razor and I, in a golden tube traveling at light speeds. The car finally comes to a complete stop and i look around. Nothing much is seen. All i see is a huge weapon, Dark energy on one side and Light energy on the other.


“Well, knowing I’m gonna die here, you two can at least explain how this  weapon is gonna work.” I state, hoping the explanation will be long enough to serve as a stalling on my execution.


Veger and Razor look at each other then back at me. Finally they show they do have a heart, in saying, “You know what, why not. Also it’ll refresh our brains on how to operate it again.”


The two power hungry leaders trot next to the weapon and have me face it. Veger begins the explanation. “So, how this weapon works is that we feed it with Light and Dark energy. The energy is then taken and concentrated in this chamber,” -he points- “then all that energy is combined and it travels down the barrel and travels to the muzzle. The X looking muzzle strengthens the bond of Light and Dark.”


Razor concludes, “Now you may be thinking, why does it have such a high cutting power? Well let me answer that. The combination of the Light and Dark hitting an object at the same time not only cut, but the hole that is created slowly disintegrates due to the Dark matter inside the Dark energy. The Light energy just makes the Dark matter stronger due to the Light matter the Light energy has.”


“Question, will it kill me instantly, or will i see my body slowly disappear due to the Dark matter?” I ask trying to keep the conversation going.


“Upon impact, if you're strong enough, you will live, but you will also feel the pain and see that your body is disappearing to the Dark matter. If you're not strong enough, you could die due to the power. So it depends on you and not on the weapon when survival is spoken of." Razor answers.


Veger then adds, "We will be kind enough to let you keep your armor on as we test the weapon on you. We just want to see exactly how and what the power is and what it would do to a strong material."



"So now that we have the questions out of the way," -Veger and Razor look at each other, grinning- "Now on too the plan." They then pick me up and trot me to a platform then strap me down. Razor and Veger then go to the controls and take aim.


"Hehe, you're lucky the weapon needs two minutes to cool down. We were testing to see if it worked after all these years, which surprisingly it works nicely." Razor tells me.


"Oh? So then what are we gonna do to pass the time?" I speak but have my hooves crossed for otherwise to happen.


"Well it was impressive as how you destroyed the Precursors Robot." Veger congratulates.


"I saw bomb carts over his head so I simply dropped them on his head slowly peeling away on his armor till the third one fractured and destroyed his energy core. Then he just went boom." I answer the method I used.


"Interesting." Razor then checks the weapon and it has a minute till ready. Razor then looks at me and I'm just holding my head up hardly smiling knowing this could be the end. "30 seconds left." He announces as time moves on.


"Sigh, looks like you two finally get what you wanted..." I say trying to unleash pain into their hearts on purpose.


After me saying that, Razor's memories of fighting me in the past when I was with Echo appear. I notice as he changes to the feeling of those memories and I whisper to myself, "Gotcha."


Razor starts to blurt out, "Hey w-what if Alex joined us!?"


Veger, surprised and suspicious, asks, "Wait what? Did your feelings for him finally get to you?"


Razor embarrassed trots to the weapon and says, "Never mind, let's test this on him." As he wipes a tear.


Veger tries to hold in a laugh as he sees I made Razor tear. "You're pathetic and you know that Razor. He, an enemy that you deeply hate, has made you cry and have feelings for him. That's an embarrassment."


Razor agitated yells, "Shut the hell up or I'll point this at you!" He threatens.


"Whoa! Not a wise decision. Now let's fire the damn thing so we don't have to listen to his kindness or we'll all fall under his spell." Veger jumps.


My ears twitch as I hear a ship land near by and the Light tunnels activate. I also see Veger and Razor look around in interest. "What and why are the tunnels activated? And who is using the Light car?" Veger questions.


Then in a flash, two ponies jump out of the vehicle as it flies out of control and crashes near Razor and explodes. "Back away from the weapon, NOW!" Light Bringer orders.
"Pfft, or what? Razor laughs, as he aims towards Light Bringer.


Light Bringer then eye-signals Star Dust to sneakily trot over and free me. So, he does trot over and gets to work as Light Bringer distracts.


Tired of waiting, Razor turns the weapon on and it begins to charge the beam aimed at Light. "Light move!" I yell.


Razor looks at me as I shout and then aims towards me. "F**k not what I meant!"


The weapon charges a little more and it fires. The beam travels towards me, but luckily i feel the rope loosen. I dive just dodging the beam as it hits the wall i was strapped to. Star Dust also does the same in ducking and barely getting hit. I then crawl away from the beam, get up and gallop after Razor.


Razor calm, he turns the weapon for me and now i find myself galloping away from the beam. Light Bringer sees this so she gets a Thermal Detonator and throws it at Razor. It explodes damaging the weapon and shutting it down, also making Razor jump back as he gets injured from the explosion.


Veger calls in heavy KG units to fight us as he looks for an escape plan. The three of us, Light Bringer, Star Dust and I, duke it out with the KGs and break through the enemy defense. I then grab a pistol off the ground and point at Veger. “Hold, you mongrel. You aren't going anywhere!”


“Funny you think that.” Veger grins revealing a red button.


“You wouldn't dare!” Dust pitches in.


“Try me!” Veger pressures.


Light Bringer looks at Dust and I and says, “We best do what he wants.”


“Sigh, you're probably right.” I agree.


So Light, Dust and I drop our weapons. Veger seeing this enlightens with power. “Good~ hehehe.”


A few more KGs walk over from behind us and they mercilessly grab our hooves and hold us down, in place. Veger pulls out a laser-beam pistol and looks at us grinning. “Looks like I win again. Now who to shoot first?”


I struggle to try and escape but I feel a cold barrel get aimed to my back so I stop. “No, d-don't do this V-Veger.” Razor struggles to speak finally, slowly, turning good.


Veger annoyed with Razor, whips around and shoots him in the hoof. Watching this, me and my platoon gasp in the betrayal we just saw.


“Nothing personal Razor.” Veger tells him, then turns around to face us. He then looks back at Razor slightly, “Oh yeah, and i got a replacement to take your place.” Veger then presses a button on his wrist and a huge red Mech hovers down and lands.


“Say WHAT?! How are you still alive?” Light Bringer explodes.


“Who is or i mean what is this Mech or who or you know what I’m asking.” I stutter in shock of the appearance of the robot.


“Its Errol He was a power hungry Krimzon like Veger.” Light tells me.


“Hehehe, but i live, thanks to the KGs I’m still alive. Also thanks to Veger for finding me to be able to take over with him.” Errol speaks in a mechanical voice.


As Veger and Errol get ready to kill me and my friends, Razor slowly pulls out a 20 mm scoped pistol and takes aim. “Nothing personal.” Razor mocks. He pulls the trigger and the bullet leaves the barrel.


Veger looks at me and aims. “We’ll start with y…” Then he collapses.


Errol hearing where the shot came from, goes after Razor. Dust, Light and I backwards headbutt the KGs and they let us go. I whip around punching the first one and knifing the second with my blade. Dust, goes for the third and breaks its head as Dust stabs the gun he found and destroys the first.


I then look over at Razor and Errol to find that they are brawling each other. Errol puts Razor into a fist lock and a weapon appears from his back. Errol then locks on and the weapon fires a hole right through Razors head killing him.


I gasp in shock of what I just saw. Seconds later, I grab a sniper rifle, take aim and fire at Errol The bullet hits but he is unaffected. I take another shot and it ricochets off. Errol laughs at our struggle, then he turns on a portal and jumps through it.


"Let's go after him." Dust yells.


Light Bringer puts her hoof on Dust's shoulder. "No, let's not."


"Well why not..." Dust begins but is cut off by the place shaking.


"We must leave, NOW!" Light orders.


So we are scrambling on our hooves and looking for an exit. We go to get on the light track but it collapses.


Light Bringer then grabs me and Dust by our hooves and teleports us out of their. We appear above the base near the bushes I first was before capture. When we look back towards the light tunnel, it collapses into itself and disappears. All we see now is nothing but broken ground and dirt everywhere.
"Thanks, that was, um close." I begin.


"Sure was." Dust agrees.


"Yeah, but this is not over yet. Alex, Spitfire would like to speak to you about the plan she has in mind. Our only target left is Errol When he gets killed, the construction and attack of the KG units will hopefully stop." Light tells us.


"Didn't we figure that their was a floating base making all these robots?" I ask.


"Yes and I have just confirmed it. Look up and you'll see it." Light tells me.


So I do and like Light Bringer told me, she is correct. There is a KG factory up their. "Alright let's get back to Cloudsdale." I tell them looking back at my team.


"Alright, climb aboard." Light tells us as she starts the scout-craft up. So Dust and I get inside and strap down. Light takes us into the air and heads for Cloudsdale.