Today I checked in with Star Swirl headed to the hatcheries got my first real command and headed to my designated zone. So why is everypony else in my command dead. What happened? A sharp pain in my side shook me from my shock a quick glance told me what happened. Gravel kind, and most likely from this level of carnage a mother. But that makes no sense because the only gravel kind mother is Violet Death. If she came through here why am I alive? Instead of assuming everyone was dead like I should have I went to each individual carcass to make sure if they were dead or not. Ahhh ouch what is wrong with my side. A gash was torn in my side about 4 inches deep. Looks like my armor saved me this time. I went to each pony on the field most were on recognizable though some were. By the time I was done checking the bodies dusk had already set. I was covered in blood from trying to revive some of them. Though I slipped and fell a few times into other ponies corpses. I might have some left in my mouth after that first fall but I need to focus now. I could feel something watching me the entire time but I couldn’t be bothered then. Now I realized it wasn’t just my paranoia. I was surrounded by the mothers. Black Streak, Blood Claw, Violet Death, Onyx Skull Crusher were just sitting there watching. I was terrified. I smelt fear on me which is how I say I shat myself. Each of the dragons flew down and made an even tighter circle around me. I don’t know why they did because my injury meant I couldn’t run or sneak anywhere. I could barely stand at the moment and with my healing unicorn dead I was S.O.L. One leaned down I couldn’t tell who and said in a rather intimidating voice “Are you sure you don’t want to roast the little pony here?” it said. Another voice replied “That would be a waste right now especially because it is seasoned in poop right now. So we take it back and season it properly.” At this point I was paralyzed and I felt my vision fading. At least if they kill me they’ll do it in my sleep.
When I woke up the dragons had me pinned to a table. I heard “Finally this pony wakes. The others were much quicker though they weren’t what we wanted.” Oh god I am going to die. I don’t want to die. Please don’t kill me. All these thoughts were raging in my head but all I said was quite unlike any of that. “Lovely day or night outside isn’t it? Almost makes me wish I could fly like you dragons. But I would hate to be all scaly no offense because I feel like it would be so itchy.” The look on their faces after that went from irritated to laughing hysterically at me. Good good they are laughing. Great maybe I can live a little longer. Maybe they could even laugh themselves to death. No that is a stupid thing to hope for. A thought suddenly popped in my head. Since when did the capture ponies? All we ever heard and saw was fields of half eaten and crushed ponies after battles. One of them saw my Confuse face and said “Sorry but what you said sounded so absurd and different from what we usually hear. It’s usually OMG I’m going to die or please don’t kill me, others that not as often try to threaten us. You are the first to try small talk.” Another interjected “And what a ridiculous thing to think. We are not itchy at all, quite the contrary we feel very little around our scale.” Upon hearing that I asked “So what happens from this point? Do you want to continue chatting?” at this point only giggle were left and some repeating “itchy haha itchy” I noticed that there were quite a few dragons around me more than I originally thought. My mouth unwilling fell open at that point. More laughter erupted from that, but that all died down when the great mothers entered the room. “What happens now is you tell us all you know about Horn Tower.” Violet said followed by “and any other military strong hold you have.” I was flabbergasted. And asked “So if I tell you all that you will let me live?” They looked shocked that I was even going along with them on this. “Yes we will let you live.” She continued. “And how will I know this what’s to stop you from killing me the moment you get everything you want?” To this they took great offense. “We are not the savages you take us for. We don’t just going killing ponies left and right and certainly not their kids. Unlike you we don’t hunt a species till extinction. All you see here is all the dragons that are left after your Great War” Violet Death yelled. Once again I was just utterly confused. Our King said that they hunted towns and cities full of ponies. He even had pictures and that was before the war. I was not alive before the war. So I said “I was raised with images of entire cities decimated by you and those pictures were before the war. That’s what united the ponies together to fight you. And you are called the Great Mothers, Dragons who are alive since the start of the war. Even against the horde of Ursa Majors sent to finish you.” Anger roared after that statement. I didn’t know they didn’t know that we sent the Ursa Majors to fight them. After a while it was only me and the great mothers. “You will be here until you give us all the information you know. After that you may go where ever you wish.” I could feel the hate dripping from those words. They undid my bindings and led me to a room. Here there was actually light and I could see that I was underground and at once the thought of escape entered and exited my head. The cave was lit by what looked like encapsulated stars that gave off many different colors. Every now and then a rainbow of light would shoot across the ceiling. The ground was completely smoothed out. It was so smooth the every now and then I would slip on it. When we got in the center Violet lit the room and at once I saw thousands of eggs around me. I also saw that this room was 5 times taller than Horn Tower and at least as wide as the base of a mountain. “This is our last hope of survival and it is also directly under your frontlines of war.” Once again I was absolutely shocked. I mean how many huge revelations can I go through in one day? “So this is the hatchery. It looks a lot like a treasure horde with all the eggs stacked on each other with no organization at all.” I scoffed. “Hatchery, that’s what you call our breeding ground? Also you would do well to remember that we can find other ponies to tell us what we want.” She stated. To this I couldn’t help but reply to “If that were true you wouldn’t have been shock by me going along with you in there. So my assumption is I am the only hope you have of launching a mission against the Horned Tower, but I will only offer it if I can be sure of mine and civilian ponies lives safety.” At this she grew angry “IT IS ONLY YOUR LIFE THAT WE PROMISED.” “And I never agreed” “If you want I can kill you now” “If you kill me now you will learn nothing other than we sent the Ursa Majors” at this point she settled down. I felt a smack on my head and the world went black.