StarChaser knew this dream, he had experienced it several times before, and he knew what was going to happen…
He was returning home from the R and D department like he had several times before, maybe this time he could convince his family that they should move due to the increasing tension between the three tribes...
The trip started like any of the other times he had made this trip, but this time something was different. The normally calming sky only seemed to fill him with dread. The clouds that were normally comforting only held fear.
Upon nearing his home town he saw plumbs of smoke rising in the distance. Speeding up he soon discovered that the smoke was coming from the burning buildings of his home town.
“Nononononononononono,” he felt himself mutter as he landed in front of the smoldering ruins of his house, for in this dream he could only watch, as this was more memory than imagination…
“MOM!!! DAD!!! ANYONE!!!” he shouted.
“They have been purged, as will you,” a sinister voice said from behind him.
Turning around he saw a unicorn in the uniform of the Purist cult, his hooves covered in blood. Behind him were the bloody corpses of his family.
It was normally at this point that he woke up, but something kept him in the dream.
“WHY WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS?!?!?!?” Chaser shouted, tears streaming down his face, “ALL THEY WANTED TO DO WAS LIVE IN PEACE!!! THEY NEVER DID ANYTHING TO YOU!!!”
It was at this point that everything seemed to stand still, as it always did whenever he reached this point in the dream. Then his view lifted up, giving him a bird’s eye view of the destruction.
All across the town, slaughtered families lay nearby the ruins of their houses, the Purists had made no distinction between them, everypony was slaughtered, even the unicorns who believed that the three tribes could live in harmony…
Fortunately it was at this point that StarChaser was able to wake up.
The first thing he noticed was that he was alive, then that he couldn’t hear the sounds of battle, nor could he feel the familiar weight of his armor…
Opening his eyes, he quickly took stock of his situation. He had no idea where his armor was, he was in a room that he didn’t recognize, the air smelled… cleaner, he had no idea how long he was out, and judging from the light coming from the window, he wasn’t in a cave anymore…
His observations were brought to a halt when a Unicorn that he didn’t recognize stepped through the door to his room. His mind immediately went into overdrive.
’I’m in an unknown location, without my armor or the weapons built in, we were being attacked by Unicorns, am I a prisoner? No, they wouldn’t have left me alive. Maybe because they want to know what I know about the armor? No, they would have just ripped it from my mind while I was asleep. Are these Unicorns friendlies? WHERE THE HELL AM I?!?!?!??!?!?!? WHERE THE HELL IS STARLIGHT?!?!?!?!?’ His thoughts continued spiraling around until the Unicorn backed away slowly out the door and then closed it.
Chaser suddenly realized that he had gotten up and assumed an aggressive stance. Dropping back down onto the bed he cleared his mind and started working through what he knew about his current situation.
‘That Unicorn was wearing some sort of coat… maybe a doctor or a nurse? There are no bars on the window so that rules out being in a dungeon, of course this bed is WAY too comfortable to be a prison bed… I also didn’t see any hate on that face, not that I was looking for it…’ as he was working through his situation, he was also calming down. ‘Okay, freaking out won’t get me anywhere… I REALLY hope that I’m in friendly territory…’
When Nurse Soothing Touch first heard that a pony who was from the far past would be taken care of at Canterlot General Hospital, she was obviously excited. However, as weeks passed with the strange Pegasus only sleeping, the novelty slowly wore off.
She opened the door to check to see how he was doing when she stopped. Not only was the Pegasus awake, but it seemed that he was frightened of her! It was then that she remembered what Princess Twilight had said, “Now, we have reason to believe that this Pegasus was last conscious in a time when the three tribes were at war with each other, so I would recommend any early contact with him would be done through another Pegasus.”
Deciding that the best course of action would be to back away slowly, she did so and closed the door before running to get a Pegasus doctor.
StarChaser was out of bed and exploring the room he was in.
It was a simple room, four walls, a ceiling, a floor, a door on one of those walls, a window opposite the door, and a bed with a small table beside it along wall number 3. The window had shades drawn and tied shut, but there was enough of a gap near the top to let light in.
He was about to peak out through the window to see just how much trouble he was in when he heard the door open again.
Quickly turning around and dropping into a fighting stance on instinct, he was surprised not to see the Unicorn from earlier, but a Pegasus.
‘Either they’ve got a Pegasus as a slave or I AM in friendly territory. I really hope it’s the later…’ StarChaser thought to himself.
“Where am I?” he asked while coming out of his fighting stance.
The other Pegasus just looked at him in confusion before saying something that sounded like a different language. StarChaser sighed; this could be a problem…