//------------------------------// // Chapter 10: Not So Silent Night // Story: Foreknowledge 2 // by Mr_Hippopotomonstroses //------------------------------// Chapter 10: Not So Silent Night It's been three days since I had that awkward conversation with Twilight about humanity. I haven't seen her since. I think she is afraid of me now. I couldn't sleep so I went for a fly. I had this fusion of my nano band and I down. I could control it pretty easily now. The others didn't know though. Anyway's I was flying around. I landed on a cloud near the everfree and looked at the sky. I heard a rustle, but thought nothing of it. Then I heard foot steps. Two steps at a time. I looked down. What I saw stunned me. I saw a human running. A male. How did he get here? I saw him see the town but he kept running along side the everfree. He must be scared. Wait no... I studied how he was running. I saw it. He wasn't running away from something. He was running to something. I decided to follow. After an hour I saw where we where going. This guy is heading to the castle. What are you up to? I followed him as I had to go invisible to stay hidden. He was climbing the mountain to get to the castle. I could see it in his face that he was determined to do something. He had a cloak and a hood covering some of his face. He got to the castle but it was in a magic shield. Guess you did all this for nothing bro. He took out a small knife and cut his hand. Blood slowly came out as he pressed his hand against the shield. The shield started to sizzle as steam rose. After a few seconds the spot had a hole. He used his hand to make a bigger hole in the shield. He kicked it as a part of the shield broke. He walked in and the shield started to repair itself. I followed him. He is up to something. He made his way into the castle. He was pulling some serious ninja moves avoiding the lunar guards. He was making his way through the castle. He pulled out what looked like a big phone with a map. The hall way was empty as he ran quietly through it. On his map there was a red dot. He was the small moving blue dot. After a few he got to a hall way that intersecting with another that led to a big door with a sun. There where two lunar guards in front of the door. He grabbed something from his pocket, hid behind a near by plant, and threw it down the hall way. The guards went to see what had caused the noise. They passed him and he walked out and went into Celestias room. He entered and barricaded the door. I could hear him speaking to himself in a different language. Then he spoke English. "At last I have found you Celestia. I will be famous for my heroic act." He pulled out a gun and aimed it at her. That's it! I flew and rammed into him as he shot. The shot woke Celestia up. I was no longer invisible. The other guy was definitely surprised by my attack. Without even looking at me he began to shoot randomly. "Filthy Eternal following me! I'll kill you!" "The fuck are you talking about!?" "That voice..." He looked at me. I was flapping my wings staying in the air. His eyes widind a little as his face looked like one of fear. "You're The Dewin!" "The fuck are you talking about!?" The guards where banging the door. I looked back but in my moment of distraction he ran toward celestia. I flew toward him but he beat me to her. He grabbed her and pointed the hand gun to her head. "Stay back Dewin! Come closer and i'll kill her!" Celestia was just paralyzed in fear and shock at what was happening. I was just trying to make sense of the situation. "Dude just calm down! You don't have to kill her!" "Yes I do! And I will be famous for killing both of you!" "I don't even know you!" "Oh you will. Or at least would have. But not anymore. I'm ending you right now!" He moved his gun from his position. He switched from pointing it her head to me. He shot my chest as I fell to the ground bleeding. Celestia could only watch in horror as my life was slowly leaving my body. I have to reverse time... Wind slowly began to blow around me as the world around me turned into a blur. I focused to when I needed to go. I went back a few seconds. "...I'm ending you right now!" I moved out of the way and flew toward him. I summoned my gun from my VPD and used the handle to hit his head in order for his grip on Celestia to loosen. I threw him back. He had his gun tossed out of his hand and my gun flew in the other direction. We began to wrestle and threw some punches. We where starting to beat the shit out of each other. He kicked me off and lunged for his gun. He pointed it at Celestia and almost shot when I grabbed my gun and shot him. It was a fatal shot, I didn't exactly want him dead. I needed some answers. I ran to him. "Lets take you to a hospital." "I'd never accept help from an Eternal!" "I don't know what the fuck you are saying. Whats an Eternal and why did you call me The Dewin?" "I'll never tell you anything." "Dude cmon your dying!" "And I died helping my race...for the better..." That was the last thing before he went limp. I just let him go. He fell to the ground. I looked at my blood stained hands. I had killed him. No, now is not the time to panic. I took his cloak off and searched him for any clues. He had an army like uniform. Instead of a flag he had a black rectangle and a red hand in the middle. He had a name tag. Erick. I looked at his phone type thing. It had a message. It read; Target Name: Celestia Rank: Princess Threat: Medium Mission: Kill "What the fuck is this shit?" Just then a red mesage popped up. 'Mission Failed'. The thing then began to count down from twenty. This thing is going to explode. I crashed through the window and flew straight up into the sky. I didn't know how big an explosion this would be, so I wanted to go as high as I could. I flew about six hundred feet into the air as the count down reached ten. I flew another eighty feet until it said five. I flew until it said three and threw it as high as I could into the air. I faced down and went into a dive. The thing exploded behind me. That was a big explosion. The blast messed up my left wing and I began to free fall back to the ground. I was falling, trying to fly with my right wing. I couldn't do anything. I reached a hundred feet from where I had began to fly as I passed out. I woke up in a room. I was in a giant bed, it wasn't a hospital. I quickly sat up. Mistake, my wing began to hurt. I winced at the pain and fell into a sitting position. I heard hoof steps. I turned and saw Celestia with a worried face. I looked around and saw we where in her room. The other guy was no longer there. "Are you okay Night Wing?" "I am fine. I should be asking you. You almost got killed." "And you where blown up. Thank you for saving me." "No problem." "How did he get in?" "Into the castle, by that device that just exploded. It had a map. By the magic shield, he broke a piece of it and made a way through. I had followed him from ponyville. I still have no idea how he came here, into Equestria." "He looked like a soldier." "He was. That device said his mission was to kill you. But he kept talking nonsense." "He had called you an Eternal and The Dewin" "I have no idea about what an Eternal is. But Dewin is another language. In English it translates to magician. Why would he call me The Magician?" "I do not know. But he certainly knew you." "Yeah well I didn't know him. Where is he?" "The guards took him to study his body." "Why?" "The scientist requested that the body be tested so they could learn about your species." We kept talking for a while about this crazy situation. I had decided to just go home. Celestia gave me a flying carriage to take me home. I accepted the offer, as I did not know how healing would happen now that I was fused with my nano band. I got home and went to the balcony. I couldn't stop thinking about what had happened. I was up until the sun came out. Then I went to bed and tried to get some sleep.