//------------------------------// // The Other Side // Story: The Equestrian Blitz // by Underpaid Carronade //------------------------------// Time To Go to the Other Side! Golden Quill, a young unicorn mare awoke from her sleep from an eardrum busting explosions, she threw the covers off her bed and made a run for the window. Grabbing the curtains with her magic she forcefully pulled them apart, a fiery orange glow filled the room. Outside, large fires raged across the city as ponies ran in random directions in panic. Before she had to question what was happening, an ear piercing whistle-like-screech rand through the air, followed by another group of explosions. Her window exploded into shards of sharp glass, a large piece cut through her right cheek as smaller shards embedded themselves into her flesh. She cried out in pain, as blood slowly began to leek from the new wounds that had made their mark. Her mind was thrown into a daze, falling on her back she covered her muzzle, this only caused the glass to sink deeper. She gave another cry in pain, tears began streaking down her bloodied cheeks. More screeches began to became audible as explosions tore through the air. Her apartment complex shook from the force of the pressure waves. Meanwhile outside, it was chaos. The once peaceful night was broken by a torrent of bombs and roaring engines of metal beast that flew through the air, dropping their metal shells of death. The shells rocketed towards the ground on their own weight before slamming into whatever had been unfortunate to be under them. Buildings were turned into rubble in a near instant, their windows shattering before fire raced out of the new found cracks in the structure. It's inhabitants would have been lucky just to have died from the shockwave itself, for if they hadn't they would have been bathed in fire or crushed by the building as it collapsed. Streets had large craters punched into them, the explosion picking up concrete and dirt before throwing it skywards. Unfortunate skyscrapers that had been in the way of the onslaught were torn from the bottom up by bomb shells, causing them to collapse under their own weight, killing those who had gone to the "Prometheus School of Running Away From Giant Falling Objects". A brown stallion that actually had some common sense ran to the side of the falling skyscraper, as he ran the ground shook as the skyscraper hit the ground, sending dust and derby everywhere. Taking cover behind a building that was (mostly) intact, the dust swarmed through the streets like water in a river. Leaving no square inch of space uncovered. As he stood there, more ponies ran down the streets, coughing up the dust that was getting sucked into their lungs. He couldn't see anything past his muzzle, his sight gone he used his ears and hooves to guide himself around the obstruction. Only a few seconds in and bombs were falling on him, as he began to run he slammed into a wall. Trying to push out of his daze he was picked up by a shockwave from an explosion before thrown across the street. Slamming against a wall his legs gave a loud crack before he fell to the ground, yelling in pain he looked back to his back legs to find them bent in a way they shouldn't. He laid their on his stomach, in pain as his nerves refused to let off the onslaught. Soon the bombardment stopped completely. Golden Quill slowly got back to her feet... er hooves, she made her way back to the window. She looked across the once proud city, only to find a ghost of one. The statue that once in the harbor of the city was gone, replaced by a flaming pile of steel. She began to sob, not out of pain, but of what they had lost. _*P*_*P*_*P*_ Princess Celestia was not having a good morning, reports had come in about the attack on Manehatten. The damage was catastrophic and death toll was high, how could she have been so blind? She had a unicorn test magic on humans while in America, his notes said they had no effect. She ignored it as a possibility that the U.S. had captured him and was feeding false information. She should have listened and took Equestria back to it's homeworld, she didn't and now she was paying the price. She would return now, if she could. The magic needed for such a feat would take days if not weeks of charging. Knowing the humans history proved that this wasn't going to be the last of the attacks, so she sent Twilight Sparkle to gather the energy needed in the Everfree, it's chaotic energy may be the only boost that they have to getting it done faster. She hoped she would be safe there, safe enough to cast the spell. You may ask, "Why does Celestia hate humans so much?" It's jealousy, humanity has been around a shorter time than ponykind and they have advanced for more quickly than any other species known to exist in this or any universe. Wherever you looked in the multiverse, you would see humanity. They were the like a plague, a vast majority of the multiverse supported them. Some more powerful than others, some more violent that others. Even the Combine feared them, targeting weaker ones than the stronger ones. Knowing that they too were only a small fish to a much bigger beast. How this came to be was a mystery, but she new one thing. She chose the wrong universe, next time she would try to convert one that actually had magic in it. That is if there will be a next time.