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// Shot with the rubber band of doom! Oh and some things are sorted out... 
// Story: The Battle For Equestria (book 1) 
// by StarBlitz 
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Hero Perspective
Euestria 
StarBlitz's POV


We must of been out of sight or blurred by their cacoons because as soon as we set our captured friends free, all of them jumped into a fighting stance, except for Pinkie, who just merrily hopped after a nearby butterfly.
"HALT!"
We whipped around to see two unicorn guards in mid spell. As soon as we tried to defend, they fired a glowing ring that looked like a lot like a giant rubber band. It bounded us down for a few seconds, then it fell to the floor and dissipated.
Celestia sighed in relief."So it really is you."
"Wait, what just happened?" Badger asked.
"We tested to see if you were changlings," The princess replied, "You would've shriveled into dust if that touched you."
"Okay..." Badger looked terrified.
After everypony settled down, we began to discuss the war and what we had missed. The war had started when the villains first attacked, but it was when they first found the weapon that they had planned the war. The mysterious villains were ponies we already knew about because of the show. Celestia described Queen Chrysalis, a creature with the ability to morph into anypony or anything, ruling over a massive legion of abominations just like her and they feed on the most precious of things, love. She told us of King Sombra, a unicorn who's power is beyond compare, but is wasted as he would rule over and empire of slaves with cruelty and misery. He was punished for his crimes with banishment to barren tundras in the Antarctic, but returned to join leagues with the changlings and take over the world as we knew it. 
Although we've seen them before in the show, the way Celestia described what they did and how they looked, it would give me nightmares just to think about them.
Speaking of the show, we accidentally caused suspicion when we knew well about the things that happened when we were gone. It got to the point where we ended up admitting that there was a show that was about Equestria. As it turned out, all three seasons had really happened, so the start of the war and the end of the series must have been linked.
"So you know all about our adventures," Rainbow asked, "Cool!"
"Wait, What do you mean, show?" Twilight asked
"Because of the more advanced technologies on earth, we have created a moving picture box, kind of like a taking a million pictures of something really fast, and then looking through them really fast" I answered.
"You sound like Twilight when she talks about magic" Rainbow Dash snickered
"Hey!" Twilight and I retorted in unison.
"Yeah, yeah. But why would we exist in your world?" she asked. 
"I can explain my theory to that later but why would it show recent events?" Celestia asked.
"Dunno, but I'm sure the answer will turn up eventually" Luna followed up.
"Now that we're all caught up, what exactly is this 'weapon'" Badger asked.
To which the princess replied, "The weapon you possess is known as the M.E.G.A.; Manual, Engaged, Group, Arsenal. The object itself was made by your kind a long, long time ago and was used in a war as well.
The MEGA was used in a group of 3 beings which would be the holders of its dangerous power."
"So than why do you have it if humans originally made it?", Badger interrupted.
"Well we were in a war with your kind as well at the time, though the cause is still uncertain, and it happened in an age when humans used to be one of the most advanced races in the universe but lost everything in the war, thus restarting the evolutionary cycle-"
"English please", Badger interrupted again. 
"The human race lost the war and was so destroyed, that it resorted back to stone age technologies like cave men, or something." I answered. "So can we let her finish now?"
"Yes"
"So as I was saying," Celestia continued,"the MEGA was a nano-cloud, like a gas made of nano bots that were inhaled or surgically placed inside a host and would provide unlimited psychic and telekinetic power. Because of a poor decision of the human race, generals believed that the MEGA was completely functional so they left it as a defense, and sent in their defensive troops to battle. But unknown to them, the MEGA had still been in testing leaving their bases temporarily vulnerable. So we sent in a team to 'Hack' the MEGA in a way that it would rebel against the users, rejected it's host through later internal confliction, and then deserted the host.
Our kind recovered the MEGA after the other disappeared, and locked it away. Without the MEGA, the humans began conflicting within themselves,which eventually led to their own demise in civil wars. 
Millennia later, you three went out to the gardens when you found it filled with a strange mist, which has now been confirmed as the MEGA, and started showing its traits not only a year or so after."
"Wait a second, when did all this happen?" I asked
"You found the MEGA 2,000 years or so after the war and were sent to earth a short while after, around 18,000 years ago." Luna replied
*PSTHSP* "WHAT?!" I screamed after I spat out my drink. "But we were only 18 back on earth! We couldn't possibly been gone that long!"
"There could be a serious time difference. That could be a major problem later..." Luna started.
"And why would you try to find us after all these millennia, if by normal standards, we would already have long since died?"
"The MEGA itself has shown to increase the lifespan of it's host a hundred fold since Chrysaliswould have died at a least a few hundred years after the first war and its already known ability of immunity to most physical and magical attacks."Celestia replied, "So we hoped that you would still be alive and able to return..."
"But-"
"Well now that that's settled." Badger interrupted, trying to stop what could be a possibly long discussion that could be dealt with later, "What about the MEGA the villains have?" 
"That, is still unknown, but until then, we must work with the one we have" she replied. 
"So what makes you think that we'll be able to control it?" Badger asked.
"I don't"
"What do you mean, you don't?"
"I said I don't think you will be able to control or even USE the MEGA, that's why training starts immediately."