12:01 P.M.
Train to Canterlot
Kyle's PoV
30 Minutes till Arrival
We all sat in the train. No one spoke. I gripped my sword and shield. Ben walked to the front.
"All right listen up! We are going to arrive in 30 minutes. When we get there, musket men, pick off any guards you see. When you each fire a shot, everyone charge out of the train. Based on what the time period towns look like at Ponyville, I assume they would have a castle. When we find the castle, charge in and find the Princess."
"What do they look like?"
"Based on the guards, they have both wings and a horn. They are very powerful, and are nearly impossible to kill."
"What about the elements?"
"The only two we know by physical appearance is Fluttershy and Rarity. Other than that, I don't know. So as of right now, just capture those two, but take it easy on Fluttershy, at least she stood up for us... Any other questions?" We all nodded no. "Alright, well, only one thing left to say.... Good luck to you all, we will need it..."
10 Minutes Till Arrival
Kyle's PoV
"Kyle?" I looked down at Soren.
"Aye?"
"What happens if we lose?" I sighed, seeing the fear in his eyes, I knew what would happen.
"We won't lose..."
5 Minutes Till Arrival
Kyle's PoV
I looked out the window, seeing a giant purple barrier, knowing that was the city. Ben was walking up and down the middle of the train. He was talking to as many people as he could. He reached me.
"Kyle, it was an honor to have a scout like you join us. I wish you well when we get home, and I hope God rewards you well in the afterlife if you fall in combat." I smiled.
"I wish the same to you as well." He continued walking down the middle as I looked out the window, seeing the barrier come closer and closer.
2 Minutes Till Arrival
Kyle's PoV
"Alright listen up!" I looked up at Ben. "We are about two minutes till we arrive! Remember, these guards are better trained then we are, so keep your head up and your eyes on that castle up there!" We looked up and saw the castle and nodded. "Alright, that is all, may God help us all..."
30 Seconds till Arrival
Kyle's PoV
"Get down!" We all got down under the windows as the train passed threw the barrier. Apparently, a guard checkpoint was there. But hey, we passed through the barrier, so there is a win for us, right? "Fifteen seconds till we arrive!" I gripped my sword harder, knowing I am about to use it. Today is the day, we will finally go home... "Stay down everyone!" The doors open, and none of us got out. I peeked out the window and saw guards coming towards our train. Ben stood up.
"MUSKET MEN, FIRE!" The crack of muskets filled the air as the musket men took down the guards coming at our train. Cries of panic filled the air from civilians as more guards came rushing. "EVERYONE, CHARGE!!!!" All of us pilled out of the train, charging the guards head on. I lunged my sword at a guard, sending the blade through his neck, killing him instantly.
"Ben! How many damn guards are there?!"
"Whole lot more than I thought!" He shouted as he was dueling a guard. "Just keep fighting! We waited so long for this!" I looked over at Chuck as he threw a guard through a window with ease, and as he snapped the neck of another. I looked over and stabbed a guard to my right, and kicked one to my left. Musket men were picking off guards on balcony's.
"Do not kill any civilians!" Ben shouted. Many other fellow humans also shouted it to make sure everyone could hear the order given by Ben. I pony charged up to my left and I began to duel with him. I dodged a lunge by the pony, and then stabbed him in the stomach. I looked down at him until I heard someone shout my name.
"Kyle! Watch out!" I saw a spear fly passed me and hit a guard right in the eye. I turned around and saw Soren retrieve the spear.
"Nice shot kid!" I said as I stabbed another guard.
"Than-" Before he could finish, a bright bolt struck him in the face, knocking him down. I looked at Soren lying dead, his face burned, and no pulse.
"Soren! NO!" A musket man walked over top of his body and shot the unicorn that killed him.
"Yes, he is dead, but we got to keep moving up!" The musket man told me. I knew that Soren was to young to die, He was only 15... I think... But I had to forget about it. I looked behind us and gasped.
"WE GOT MORE COMING BEHIND US!"
"WHERE THE HELL DID THEY COME FROM?"
"NO DAMN IDEA, JUST TRY TO FIGHT THEM OFF!" Our casualties were going up quick.
"RETREAT!" The fight only lasted a few minutes, and we already had to retreat, but where? We all just ran and hid where ever we could. I ducked inside a house with Ben and a few others. Many of the humans ducked in houses right beside each other. The guard was hot on our heels, and we knew this was a losing fight.
"Ben, what are we going to do?"
"I don't know, I just wonder where the guard is, they should be storming our house now..." Ben took the nerve to peek out the window, and he gasped when he did.
"Hey guys, check it out!" We all ran to a window and saw black mutated mouse rat whatever like creatures break down the barrier.
"What the hell are those?!"
"Are they friend or foe!" As soon as someone asked friend of foe, they broke down the barrier and started shooting green stuff from their horns. When the stuff hit the guards, they became stuck where they were. We all cheered loudly as one landed next to our house.
"Greetings, we heard you were going to attack around the same time we were..."
"How did you know? Ben asked.
FLASHBACK
NIGHT OF BEN'S SPEECH
3RD PERSON PoV
"This is your home. This world is your home. Have you not noticed we have no killed any of your guard until they marched into our temporary home and tried to kill us? We do not wish to fight, but if it is what we must do to get home, then it is what we will do. Now go on, enjoy yourselves." The ponies gave the scouts confused looks and left slowly, one by one. Leaving one pony just staring at the scouts, then leaving without a word. "Well, that went better than expected."
"No kidding, and your speech sucked ass too!"
"Well, sorry for not giving an presidential speech and every other word being 'UHHHHHH'"
"It's fine lad, lets just come up with a plan for the next phase of getting home." Meanwhile, that one pony began that was the last to leave began to run towards the borders or Ponyville. Spreading his wings, he took off, and when he was far enough from the crowd, a green flamed engulfed the pony revealing its true form...
PRESENT DAY
KYLE'S PoV
"So you were that one pony?!"
"No, some other one was, by the way, we are called Changelings, able to morph into anypony, griffon, and any animal on this planet. But for some reason, we are not able to morph into the shapes of you creatures..."
"Well, we got more important stuff to focus on right now, comon!" Ben and I ran to the houses, pulling out other humans and telling them not to attack black creatures with Swiss cheese legs (due to them not knowing what the Changelings were really called). We continued our fight through the city.
"There is the castle! Lets go!" As the changelings continued to fight the guard, all the humans ran into the castle where we saw a winged horn pony. An alicorn as I read. This one was purple, and had a moon on her butt. She began to speak, and damn...
"HOW DARE THEE ATTACK THY CITY AND BUTCHER MOST OF OUR GUARD, ALL OF THEE SHALL PAY THE PRICE!!!!!!" Her eyes were filled with fury, and she began to light up her horn. A black dude with dreadlocks whom I have never seen or met before budged his way to the front and began to charge at her. He swung his ax at the pony, which the alicorn dodged easily. He tried to lift up for another strike, but an energy bolt from the ponies horn hit him right in the stomach, sending him flying back into a nearby wall. There he laid, motionless. Dead.
"SURRENDER OR END UP LIKE YOUR FELLOW HUMAN!" Wait, how did she know what we were called? I looked at Ben, and he had the same thought too until he muttered...
"She is the one that brought us here....." His eyes filled with fury as he charged her, sword raised, yelling. He swung with all his mite, but the alicorn dodged, lunging her horn threw his stomach.
"BEN! NO!" I shouted. Right after I said that, one of the archers ran to her right flank (An angle of her, not the right side of her ass) and fired an arrow, hitting the alicorn right in the throat. The alicorn fell down, and I ran up, with the sword raised.
"THIS IS FOR BEN!" I shouted. I jumped up and landed, pushing my sword into the princess's side. I stabbed her in the throat. "AND THIS IS FOR SOREN!" Tears fell down my eyes. My two closest friends, dead. I looked at Ben. He lied there, no moving. The one more determined then anyone here to make it home. We all gathered around him. Heads down, in respect for the one who planned this, the one that drove us, motivated us, the one who wanted us to her home. Then it hit us, all of us, a new flame inside of us. More determination. Our wounds no longer painful, our hearts racing faster than ever before. I reached into my pocket and pulled out the bandanna Ben gave me. I put it on. I looked at the grand staircase and saw guards lining up, aiming their muskets.
"TAKE AIM!" One of them yelled. There was one thing left to do....
"CHARGE!!!!!" We all charged up the stairs as they fired their muskets. We began to drop like flies, but that was not going to stop us. As the guards began to reload their muskets, we reached the top and engaged in hand to hand combat. I lunged my sword into the throat of a guard, killing him instantly.
"KEEP PUSHING FORWARD, WE MUST FIND WHERE THEY BROUGHT US HERE!"
"MAYBE IF YOU DIDN'T KILL THAT FUCKING PRINCESS WE WOULD KNOW!" Damn, he did have a point. But something seemed off... There was another... Taller... More powerful.... The head honcho... She had a sun on her ass.... That meant that she was still out there. But how would we get to her.... We only had about 40 of us left.... We could not hold on for much longer. Suddenly, a pink light flashed. I ran to a window, and saw the Changelings being blasted away.
"Oh shit..." I looked back, and saw the guards were distracted as well, as they too were looking out the windows. I looked ahead, and saw a hallway, with big doors at the end, and saw guards running towards it, with unicorns holding hammers with their magic. Bingo!
"FOLLOW ME EVERYONE!" I yelled, and we all took off sprinting after the guards. "We gotta hurry!" I yelled. Meanwhile, the guards saw us run off, and started to fire muskets at us. I looked behind us, seeing how many of us were left. There was about 24. It was hard to believe that we had over 200 back at New Jamestown... We continued to run down the hall, slowly catching up to the guards. Finally the guards reached the end and began to open the doors. There revealed a mirror, and they began to raise their hammers.
"NO!" I shouted. As I did. The two remaining archers we had took aim and fired, hoping that the arrows would hit. One arrow hit a guard in the neck, the other in the leg. The one fell down, dead, the other lying on the ground, weak. We ran into the room, and closed the door.
"PUT OBJECTS IN FRONT OF THE DOOR, MAKE SURE THEY DO NOT GET IN!" We all moved and thing we could find. Shelves, chairs, anything! In a matter of 30 seconds, the door was blocked. We all took a sigh of relieve. We turned around, and looked at the mirror. The sign above said 'PORTAL TO EARTH.' We just stared at the sign. Chuck spoke up.
"All this fighting for a damn mirror! That even SAYS portal to Earth! What kind of portal is that?! And how did they know it would lead to Earth!"
"Who cares amigo!" said Juan. "Lets just get home!" He began to walk forward, until a purple flash blinded us, then it went away in an instant. A guard wearing purple armor used his magic to raise his flintlock pistol and shot Juan in the forehead.
"JUAN!" Yelled Chuck. Chuck ran towards the guard, and the guard raised his sword. Before the guard could kill Chuck, however, he grabbed the guard by the horn and began to deliver punches to the face to the guard. The guard flashed out, however, and kicked Chuck in the stomach.
"Get out of here guys! I will be fine!" We looked as Chuck, and heard banging on the door. "GO! NOW!" We all took a deep breath, and jumped into the mirror. A flash of light... Then.... Darkness...
Kyle's PoV
Location: ?????
Time: ?????????
I let out a loud moan. I looked up at the sky, the sun shined into my face, and birds chirped. I looked, around and saw trees and the other humans moaning and sitting up. We all just looked at each other. I took a head count. 22 of us. 250 of us began this adventure back at New Jamestown. We all stood up and looked at each other. Victoria pulled out her phone, and she smiled, a tear falling down her eye. Her phone had service. We all broke into big smiles. She then looked up where we were, and it turned out we were in the middle of a forest in Ohio. We look at a tree, however. One right in the middle of the path. One bigger than the rest. I walked up to it, and touched it, feeling it vibrate. The vibrating stopped, and I thought of Chuck. He was surly dead. I sighed. We picked up our weapons and began to walk down the dirt path. And as we did, we looked around. Trees, animals, we saw a deer, some birds, some rocks. Just like the Everfree forest... But something was different. Something we waited for a long time. We were not being chased. We were not trying to run for our lives. No one was trying to kill us. And as we reached the edge of the forest, and saw the open field. We walked out of the forest, and into the field. However, when we did, we began to drop our weapons. One by one. Soon, none of us had weapons. Just our hands by our sides. And soon, we reached the end of that open field, and began to walk up a hill. When we reached the top of the hill, we looked down, and saw a small town. We smiled. We began to walk down the hill, and as we did, we knew one thing was for sure, even though some of us may lives in different states, even though some of us still do not know each other, we knew one thing was for sure...
We were finally home.
Celestia's PoV
Canterlot Castle
"We have opened the room and captured the human your highness... However... Captain Shining Armor... Is dead...." Fury raged inside of me. First our guard, then my sister, and now Shining Armor. I trotted into the room and saw Candace and Twilight sitting beside Shining Armor's dead body, crying. I sighed. I looked down at a guard.
"Go to Ponyville, then to the Science Center in Ponyville. Find anything relating to this project, and DESTROY it. Then, throw the human in the dungeon, and make sure he does not get out. We will decide his fate later."
"Yes, your highness." The guard galloped off, and I sighed again. I went to a window and looked outside. Dead guards, humans, and Changelings were all across the roads. I sighed. The day was lost for us, and some have suffered more losses then others... I trotted over to the mirror, and charged up my horn, this was it, the battle was lost, and this project... Was lost.. And I fired my magic, destroying the mirror... Forever...