Chapter 2: how things have changed
EQUESTRIA
The world of equestira was luscious and beautiful as ever. The grass was blowing in the wind, the sun was shining brightly, and the clouds in the sky had never looked better. It was almost hard to believe that 16 years had passed. Even though equestira still looked the same, there was something that had changed.
HILL TOP
At the top of a hill there laid a sword stabbed into the ground as a figure was sitting on the hill next to it. The figure was looking at the vast area of land as he took in he fresh air and smiled, as he looked up at the sky to admire the view he then heard a voice call to him.
"kain! Hey kain were are you!?".
Kain then responded.
"I'm up here!" he said.
Another figure then walked up the hill as he stood next to him "I should have figured that you would be up here kain" the figure said. Kain happily sighed "well I'm always up here to enjoy the view Vergil" kain said, Vergil then gently shook his head at him "geez man, ever since we were little you always had a thing for admiring views" he said.
Kain then looked at him "and is that ever a problem to you Vergil?" he asked.
Vergil scratched his head "nope, there's nothing wrong in loving the loving the view and enjoying the fresh air", kain then smiled at him until they both heard a beeping sound coming from Vergil. Vergil then pulled out what was making the noise and saw that it was his earpiece as he then placed it onto his ear and pressed the button on it.
"Vergil here" he said "Mhm...ok got it", he then took his earpiece off "we have to get back home" he said "just got word that the leaders of the wonderbolt assassins are back". Kain then closed his eyes "I see", kain then got up as he then grabbed his sword and placed it on his back.
He then looked over at the city that was a few feet away from them "ready to go?" Vergil asked him.
Kain looked at his area to see if he had forgotten anything "I think so" he said until he remembered something "oh! I almost forgot". He then walked over to a tree as he grabbed his jacket as he held it over his left arm that covered up his cloud and rainbow lighting bolt cutie mark.
"ok now I'm ready" he said, Vergil nodded at him as the two walked back home.
GRAND FREEDOM EMPIRE
The two walked down the path and into the city gates of grand freedom empire. The city was created in 2021, and it has become the main hub for all ponies. The city consist of ponyville, canterlot, and the crystal empire all into one huge city. This was an idea that princess celestia, Luna, and cadance have had on there mind for a long time and they wanted to talk it over with the mane 12 and the ponies. After they announced there idea to the mane 12, they agreed with them about combining the three into one, they all then told the citizens of there plan and to there surprise they all liked the idea. And thus grand freedom empire was born.
Kain and Vergil were walking down the west wing of the city, the city was set up into wings so that nopony or human would get lost.
The west wing was were the entrance gate was at and was were the citizens of ponyville stayed, the south wing was were the rich upper class stayed, the north wing was were the wonderbolts stayed, and the east wing was were the citizens of the crystal empire stayed. Even though the city was broken up into wings everypony treated others with respect, nopony ever thought that they were better than one another, nopony thought that there wing was better than the others. Nothing like that happened, they all saw each other as one large family.
WONDERBOLT ASSASSINS HQ
The wonderbolt assassins headquarters. The special arm forces that grand freedom has to offer. They are the last line of defense against anyone that would dare attack the city. Although the wonderbolt assassins carry the name as the wonderbolts, they aren't the same as them. They are a whole different kind of team.
The wonderbolt assassins are, well as the name implies are assassins that take on the roles of protecting the citizens of grand freedom empire and they will protect them with there life if they have to. Although they are assassins they only use there assassin skills against extreme threats, like terrorism, genocide or worse. There have been some cases that have involved this but they were never in the means of evacuating the city.
This group was created by none other then two of the mane 12's heroes Clayton and dillon.
The two boys thought about this back in 2019, at first Clayton thought that the idea of creating an organization like the wonderbolt assassins was a bit extreme. His cousin understood his decision and told him that it was his choice to continue with the idea or not, as time passed Clayton thought about it and told dillon that they should go with the idea and create the wonderbolt assassins.
They then told there idea to princess celestia. Although she was also a bit worried about there idea, she also thought that it would be a good idea to have a team such as the wonderbolt assassins around to protect not just the citizens but other ponies around the world. She gave them permission and helped fund there organization as well. The boys told the others about this, which they all thought was an alright idea. The headquarters was finished in about five months in 2019, and they have had over 4,000 members in that year and more each year.
Clayton was in his office writing down stacks and stacks of papers, he sighed as he kept placing the written reports in the stacked bin, since Clayton and dillon were the founders of the wonderbolt assassins they were also the leaders of the group. Dillon took the title of boss, as Clayton took the title of big boss. But there was a small catch to this.
Since Clayton took on the big boss rank, that meant that he had all of the paper work to do as his his cousin had to only tran new recruits.
Clayton smiled as he then finished up the last file report as be then placed it in the bin.
"whew, finally I'm done" he said as he then leaned back in his chair and looked at the celling, Clayton had changed over the years, his voice had gotten deeper, he had an x shaped scar on the right side of his face and he had a goatee and a five a clock shadow. He then looked at his desk to see a small portrait of him and his beloved rainbow dash as she and him were holding there beautiful baby boy kain.
As he looked at the photo he then got a call on his intercom that was on his desk "uh excuse me big boss sir" a voice said. Clayton then turned his attention to his intercom "yes?".
"I'm very sorry to bother you, but you have a visitor".
Clayton then smiled to himself, he knew who was here and he knew that he had to meet this visitor face to face "I'll be right down" he said as he then got up from his desk and walked to the door. Meanwhile in the lobby kain and Vergil were sitting as they waited "ugh! How long is this gonna take?" kain complained.
Vergil just looked at him and shook his head "just relax kain" he said "I'm sure he'll be down here soon", kain then sighed "I know, but I really wanna see him".
Vergil patted kain on the arm "oh come on man, you see your father every day, I mean it's not like you never ever see him".
Kain then rubbed his dark blue hair "I know Vergil I know, but I just want to see him today that's all, I mean you wanna see your dad as well", Vergil closed his eyes and smiled a bit "yea...that's right" he said "besides I look up to my parents just as much as you look up to your dad".
"you got that right! Just who the hay do you think I am!" kain said.
Vergil then facepalmed.
"oh celestia, I swear you are just like your father" he said, kain then rolled his eyes at him "whatever, besides a real man has to have something describes him, and that signature quote is what I have", he then pulled out his father's black kamina sunglasses and put them on "and these".
Vergil then looked at him with an unamused look "really? He gave you those?" he asked him.
"yup, this and the Yamato katana".
"I will never understand you sometimes kain".
Kain then placed his hands on the back of his head "that's ok, I don't understand myself either", Vergil then started smiling "so....have you talked to Sara?" he said.
This made kain turn to him with a huge blush on his face "s-shut up!" he said as Vergil continued "oh, so you did talk to her. What did you two talk about? I bet it was how much you wanted to kiss her" he said in a teasing way. Kain only looked away as he had his arms crossed "bro cut it out! Sara and I are just friends" he said.
Vergil then started making hearts with his fingers as kain started to blush more.
"really Vergil" kain said as Vergil started laughing.
"come on Vergil that's enough" a voice said, the two then turned there attention to see that it was dillon. The two then ran over to him "uncle dillon!" kain shouted.
"hey father" Vergil said.
Dillon then placed his hand on Vergil's head as he messed up his pink and black hair "hey son" dillon said, Vergil smiled a bit at him as he started to speak.
"are you finished with work father?" he asked him.
Dillon nodded at him "yup, just let me wait for your uncle to come down ok" he said, Vergil nodded at him. Kain then started to tap his feet "oh that reminds me uncle dillon" kain said, dillon looked at him "what's up?" he said.
Kain then sighed "were in the hay is my father gonna get down here!?".
As soon as he said that he then saw his father walk from behind dillon "you called?" he said.
"dad" kain said as he hugged his father "hey sport, you ready to get out of here?" he asked him, kain rubbed the back of his head "dad I'm 16" he said "you always keep calling me sport", Clayton shrugged "hey, I just think is fits you".
"fine".
The four of them then walked out of the building as they headed on there way home.
SUGERCUBE CORNNER
"hey! Can we use this in the batter pound?" pumpkin cake asked as she looked at the cook book with her brother. The cakes children had grown up into teenagers and have since then become assistant chefs in there families bakery. Pound cake placed a hoof on his chin as he thought "I don't know Sis" he said "I guess we could put it into the batter mix".
"I'll tell ya what this batter needs, some sugar!" a voice said, the twins then looked to there right to see that it was none other than pinkie pie and jack's 12 year old son axel.
The twins then looked at the batter mix "are you sure axel?" pumpkin cake said.
Axel licked his fingers "of course I'm sure! After all that's what my mama would have said", he then ran into the back of the pantry as he pulled out a large bag of sugar and placed it on the floor. The twins walked over to him "need a hand with that sugar bag axel?" pound cake asked him, axel looked at him "yea, it's kinda heavy" he said as pound cake picked it up and walked over to the table with it.
The three then heard the bell ring from the door.
"I got it!" axel said as he ran out of the kitchen and to the font desk "welcome to the sugercube cornner, how may I help you?" he said.
He then saw that it was dillon and his son Vergil.
"Vergil!" he shouted as he hopped over the counter and hugged him tightly "I am so happy to see you!", Vergil patted his friend on the head "same here pal same here". Axel then released him as he backed up a bit "so what can I do for ya?" he asked.
Dillon looked at axel with a smile on his face "well were here to pick up an order that I called in this morning" he said, axel then snapped his fingers as he ran into the kitchen and ran back out with a large pink cake that had white butterfly icing on it "this the order?" he said.
Dillon nodded at him "yup that's the one".
"okie dokie" axel said as he then placed the cake on the counter as he worked with the register "that'll be 20 bits" he said, dillon then pulled out a black sack as he then placed it on the counter and poured out the 20 bits. "there we go" dillon said as he handed axel the money.
"thank you" axel said as he glanced at the kitchen and called out to the twins "need any help in there guys?" he asked.
Pound cake and pumpkin cake then poked there heads out of the kitchen door "mhm" they both said in unison, vergil then tapped axel's shoulder "hey axel".
"yea Vergil?".
"are you guys making cake batter again?".
"yup we sure are, only this time without my party gattling gun".
Vergil then remember about his friends party gattling gun that he got from pinkie pie as a birthday present two years ago, he then started to sniker at him "I take it that you got flour jammed into the gun again?" Vergil asked him. Axel smiled at him as he placed his hands on his head "yup!" he said "and now mama and pop are getting it fixed".
Dillon then messed with one of his dreadlocks as he then looked at his watch "well tell your parents that we said hello" he said, axel then nodded at him rapidly "will do!" he said as he ran back into the kitchen. The two then left the shop as they went home.
GOLDEN OAKS LIBRARY
Twilight and max were in there room in the bed reading a book together. Max had his arm around his sweet loving mare as twilight had her head on his shoulder, since 16 years had passed the mane 12 had grown up into adults. The mane 6 were now at the boys waist as the boys had gotten taller as well, even celestia was amazed at how much her start student had grown, now she was the same height as her.
Twilight nuzzled max's cheek a bit as he stopped reading and looked at her "what was that about?" he asked.
Twilight then licked his lips "oh nothing, just enjoying our reading together" she said in a seductive tone, max then knew what she was getting at as he closed the book and placed it on the side of the bed. Then then started to unbutton his shirt as twilight then kissed him deeply. Suddenly there was a knock at there bedroom door.
"mother, papa. Are you two in there?" a voice said on the other side, the two then stopped there embrace as they Eskimo kissed each other as they turned to the door "yes were in here sweetheart" twilight said.
"may I come in? I have something to talk to you about".
They then looked at each other then at the door "sure thing Sara" max said.
The door then opened showing The daughter of twilight and max, there little 16 year old bookworm Sara. Sara walked over to them as she hugged both her mother and father as she then sat on there bed.
"so" Sara said "I have something to tell you both".
The two then looked at each other then back at there daughter "alright" twilight and max said in unison, Sara then took a deep breathe as she then thought of the words to say "well...it's about high school" she said "I know that I start first thing in the morning tomorrow". Twilight nodded at her "yes, your father and I both know that you start school tomorrow" she said.
"and you both know that I will be going with my friends as well".
Max then crossed his arms "yes, we know that as well" he said. "so why do you act so worried?" twilight said as she placed her hoof on sara's shoulder. Sara then started curling her hair with her finger "well it's just".
"yes?".
She then sighed "well it's just that were going to school with a bunch of other ponies, not that it's a big deal or anything. But were the children of legendary heroes. I mean the mane 12's own kin going to school, what if somepony starts asking us questions or something? or what if the stallions start hitting on me, megan, or raven?" she said.
Max then glanced at his wife as she glanced at him as the two stood silent before laughing. Sara then crossed her arms "this isn't funny, I mean this a really big deal" she said.
Twilight and max then stopped laughing as they then pulled her over to them.
"oh Sara" twilight said "you worried about this? Hehe, looks like max and I might have to start calling you fluttershy the second". Sara rolled her eyes "but mother".
Max then messed up her hair "now Sara just because were legendary heroes doesn't mean that you should start freaking out about it" he said "just relax and have fun, your only young once", Sara was about to protest until she then just dropped the subject.
"alright" she said "I guess l'll give it a try".
"that's our girl" max said as he then wrapped his other arm around Sara and twilight. Sara sighed in her head "papa is right, I should just relax".
CAROUSEL BOUTIQUE
Rarity was walking back and fourth as she kept pulling out clothing after clothing. She then placed them on the bed as she then carefully looked at them "what do you think of this one dear?" she said as she held it up to her daughter raven's waist, raven looked just like her mother in every way. She had her mother's hair style, her mother's sense of fashion, her mother's manners, and her mother's beauty. It was almost hard to believe that she was only 14 years old.
Raven then looked at the dress that her mother was holding up with her magic as she examined it and shook her head "no that won't do, the colors would clash with my hair" she said. "besides, I want to look my very best for school tomorrow".
Rarity smiled at her "I figured, how about this one?" she said as she levitated a dress that had a red long skirt and a blue long sleeve shirt, raven pondered a bit as she nodded at her mother "I guess that will do" she said "although I think that a scarf would go well with this outfit". Rarity nodded at her as she then laid the outfit on the bed and moved the other clothes back into the closet. Raven then moved her hair from her face showing her cutie mark that was on her cheek as she walked out of the room with rarity.
SWEET APPLE ACRES
Sam and applejack were outside int the field getting apples from the apple trees, since grand freedom empire was a very large city they were able to put in a huge mount of land in the west wing. Sure the other wings had parks and some bits of land, but the west wing was were the huge amount of land was at. Plus it was the only wing to get any of the apple families famous apple pies and other treats.
Since the mane 6 had gotten older applejack was now able to buck down a whole tree full of apples, she walked up to the last tree as she bucked it as the apples fell into the bucket. Applejack wiped her head "whew, that's the last one sam" she said. Sam then carried the bucket of apples in his arms "alright applejack" sam said, sam had gotten very muscular over the years and he has even grown a full beard too.
As the two then placed the last bucket of apples in the cart they then saw someone running toward them.
"ma, daddy!" a voice said in a southern accent. The figure stopped right in front of the cart to revile that it was Megan, sam and applejack's 13 year old daughter or little Appleseed as they called her. "you two need help with the cart?" Megan asked.
Sam and applejack looked at her as applejack rubbed her head "sure thing sugar cube" applejack said, Megan then ran to the front of the cart as she held onto one side of the cart as her father held onto the other side as they pulled it back to the house as applejack followed behind them. "so" sam said "you ready for high school tomorrow?", Megan looked at sam as she smiled at him "you bet! I know that this will be different from when we were in kindergarten" she said "but I bet it will be even better".
Sam chuckled a bit at her words "well that is true, it will be very different from when you and your friends were in kindergarden. But hey at least you get to be with them again so you'll have someone to hang around", Megan nodded "yup, I sure can't wait to start tomorrow" she said.
The three then stopped at the house as they then picked up a bucket of apples and brought them into the house one by one.
MEANWHILE BACK ON EARTH
ABANDONED NEW PORT CITY
The once thriving area known as new port city was now nothing more than an empty ghost town. The city's buildings were broken and some of it's large towering structures have lost there color, ever since night shadow had been defeated his hold on the humans was broken. They had no memories of what events that took place, but with there government building gone the city's people had no economy and thus they decided to leave there once wonderful city to be left in the dust. All of the population moved away and formed a new city that was named epsilon city, a city that is still thriving to this very day.
The long forgotten city was then under night shadow's army, the army that he created and said that he would use on equestira. But after he was killed his army was in disarray and without there master to guild them they felt truly lost.
The group of cloned alicorns all gathered around in the park as they discussed what they had to report.
"order! Order!" one alicorn said "now I know that we have been going through some rough times".
One alicorn shouted at him "rough times!? You idiot! We were once a powerful force to be reckoned with! But now we've gone from the most powerful army to only 1500! And you call this hard times!?".
The alicorn then used his magic on his brother as he flung him into a building as he then brought him to his gaze.
"you fool!" he said "you think I haven't known that! Thanks to those residents in equestira that have been hunting us for over a year now, and the fact that we have failed once again to revive our master! Has put us in a dilemma! I know that were not doing so well! But I'm doing the best that I can to help us all grasp the situation!" he said, the other alicorns then started talking to one another.
The alicorn then made a cloud of thunder roar over there heads "silence!" he said "now as leader of this group I am going to make sure that we will get though this. As long as I am in control we will make it".
The other alicorns just looked at him until a voice was heard "you really think YOU can lead this group?". The lead alicorn then had a glare on his face "who said that!? Show yourself! Unless you are not strong enough", the group of alicorns then moved out of the way as four figures wearing hoods came forward.
"so, you think that I am not able to lead my brothers?" he said.
"I think think that you will never be able to lead, let alone have the power to be in control" one voice said, the lead alicorn then made his horn glow as he summoned a large sword "you will pay for such an insult!" he said as he swung his sword at them, one of the figures then raised there hoof over there head making the sword stop in it's place.
"what! But how can that be!?" he said.
Before he could look he was then stabbed in the neck by one of the other hooded figures. The alicorn then fell to the ground as he bleed "just...just who are you four?" he asked.
One of the figures then walked up to him as they then removed the hood from there face "I am queen chrysalis" she said "and I am night shadows wife".