//------------------------------// // Icy Breeze has joined your party! You will now get 1.5x the likes on this story with this party memeber active. // Story: The Future is....Ponies? // by TheDawsonator1 //------------------------------// As I headed west, a couple of days later, I caught a newspaper showing Manehattan’s victory. The Ponies have done well to protect themselves if I do say so myself. One question still hits me, where is the Necromancer? Is he even in Equestria? He could be in any country, anywhere on the planet at any time, he must be somewhere though. Although I suspect he won’t appear until all threats to him are gone, probably rule the world with a iron fist and turned us into his dead slaves…no thank you! But on my travels west, it was starting to snow. According to the last newspaper I saw, it’s December 18th 5015 (Or 1001 after Nightmare Moon). It’s close to Christmas now, I wish I could spend it with someone, Abigail in particular, I miss her. She honestly felt like “The One”! But now she’s 3000 years gone! Remind me to burn that scientist’s grave if I ever find it, oh and burn that damned Necormancer too if I ever find him too and maybe the Girffon, Minotaur and Changeling leaders as well, their stupidity got me in this stupid mess. If they had any sense of reason, they would of seen me as suspicious at most but not a damned automatic death warrant. But yeah, politics beside, there ain’t gonna be a fun Christmas for me. Yes, I am aware they called that Hearth’s Warming but it’s basically Christmas and it will always be Christmas and any human that pretends different is just kidding themselves. The thing though is that I am not really warm since my clothes were a more summer outfit but thankfully the lighter served a purpose of lighting a fire when I rested but I extinguished the light when sleep came so nobody would notice me. But it is a thick snow to get through, and I’d rather not be stuck in someone’s sights despite the lower visibility, of course I had my bow and my machetes at the ready in case of an attack. But as I walked through snow I suddenly felt a dropping feeling as I realized that one: I was falling through a hole Two: I had hover powers to slow down and land safely. This hole had lead to another human city…I guess I wasn’t expecting another city reunion so soon but what can you do? Okay, this is more of a town, there was only a couple of tall buildings. If the last time I entered a human city told me anything, it’s that it’s highly likely for the Necromancer’s forces to be present. If I were a bad guy base, I’d probably be around the tower, it would have a commanding view, in the center of the city and lots of room to store things. That’s where I’d put my undead army if I had one. Honestly, I am sure they must of noticed some snow or something coming from the light source and they’re around somewhere or they are waiting for me to come to them. I get out my torch and turn it on and start walking towards the tall building, why? Why not just jump out? See, I learned an ability to boost with my magic up, think of it like a jetpack sort of thing, but it drains magic quick. Anyway, I figure that maybe there’s something I could find out and send Celestia’s way or maybe some plan for the other countries. Speaking of other countries, a major city in the Minotaur lands fell, the Changeling Prince has been assassinated, but the Zebras and Griffons have defended and retaken some cities. Word is that Queen Chrysalis practically annihilated the assassins with so much malice that it could of woken Discord up were he in his stone prison. The Prince was no immortal but he was still a child of the queen and a leader and naturally Chrysalis was pissed. But, in this snowy place, it’d be a decent place to hide something wouldn’t you say? There weren’t any towns nearby and the hole was covered by snow, so you can understand that fact that a look around wouldn’t go amiss. I pulled a machete out, you never know when a surprise attack will come and I like to be prepared for things, I would say anything but then I’ll miss something and it will kill me. Some may call it paranoia, I call it being sensible with fear. This town like the last one is really giving a horror movie vibe, there are so many places to hide a waiting monster that if I put a flare for everyone, the city would be too bright. But I walked and walked and walked and walked, but nothing came out yet, this only raised the caution meter within me and the suspicion too. I kid you not, the place is dead quiet and my footsteps were like atom bombs going off to me despite me attempting to at least walk quietly. Part of me wished my magic had some form of night vision, then I wouldn’t be giving away my position in the dark. I arrived close to the building and still nothing, if I were going to attack, I’d do it now, there are two exits beside the building which are narrow and easy to trap in. But my attention was focused away from the building when I heard a pony-like scream happening not too far away. I literally made Rainbow Dash jealous at the speed I ran to there, thankfully the screams silenced my footsteps as I found a cage, lit up by light and it was filled with dead ponies, or bones and bots of flesh hanging off the ponies…it was so disgusting too, I almost wanted to vomit. But the mare that screamed had ceased as I saw her now dead by the minions eating her flesh, she looked very middle aged from her death. I looked in the cage to find what looked a teenage filly, a Pegasus at that with a Ice blue coat and a much lighter blue mane and tail. She had a ice in some sort of wind for a cutie mark. That filly was the only one left in the cage and there were 5 of them…are they going to eat her? HELL FUCKING NO! I shoot an arrow at the closest one, which drew their attention to me. “Wassup assholes? Ponies are not food! Got that?” I say to them Their charging was answer enough. “Wrong answer, and your punishment shall be death, consider yourself lucky” I saw as I drew the other machete out. Unfortunately for them, they didn’t have any weapons on them so I sliced them with ease and turned to that Teenage filly. “You okay over there?” I say as I cut the lock on the cage “No…they’re g-gone” The filly says weakly, looking towards the remains “I’m sorry, had I came to this place sooner, they would have been saved, I assume they are your parents?” I ask A nod was all I got. “Those monsters, snacking on innocent ponies, especially while they are still alive. We must get out of here before more inevitably show up” I say to her “O-Okay” She says as she leaves the cage “What’s your name?” I ask her “Icy Breeze” She says “Fits the colour is suppose, my name is Joel and quite frankly, I’m surprised you haven’t thought me as the Necromancer yet” I introduce myself. “If you were, you wouldn’t have saved me or sliced those monsters and that mean Necromancer wouldn’t show their face to anypony” She explains “Very perceptive, I’ll give you that one. But when we run, you better behind me, if I tell you to run, you run, if I tell you to hide, you hide, got that?” I say to her “Yes” She answers Icy Breeze must be scared out of her mind, I won’t deny I am too but courage is not the absence of fear, but acting in the face of it. “Follow me” I order I went around the building again and down the street before I heard an alarm, they must of fixed some systems down here, but this ain’t good. “INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! ALL MINIONS INITIATE SECRUITY PROTOCOOL 12455!” A voice rang over the P.A “Shit! Now they know we’re here, we gotta run towards that hole in the distance” I order The Pegasus could fly and I could run fast with my magic, but minions were rising everywhere as we took a left and then a right to dodge the hordes. Five minutes of dodging the hordes, we make it to the hole as Icy Breeze flies up in the hole and I concentrate my magic to my hands to propel me up in the air and out of the hole. Breeze was on the ground panting, so was I in that matter, running away from huge hordes can be annoying and tiresome. “That was close” I say “Y-Yeah” She just says “I say we leave before something happens” I suggest “Good idea” She agrees I start walking off in the opposite direction from whence I came, the snow tracks were still there from when I “dropped” in. Icy Breeze was also following me too, I have no idea what to do with her but if she was coming with me, she needs to know a few rules. “Okay Breeze, if you’re coming along with me, I hope you know that the guards will see you as an accomplice and think you’re evil too, so you sure you wanna come with me?” I ask “Yes, I kinda have nowhere else to go” she says sadly “Only if you’re sure, cause there won’t be any opportunities to come into towns and chances are we’ll bump into more of the Necromancer’s minions out here. And also, we’ll need some ground rules too” I look at her seriously “I’m sure” She says with a brave face I can’t help but admire the way she goes through this, although it makes me wonder just how long she was down there. If the whole town was eaten and she was the last one, it must have been a while. “Okay, first rule: What I say goes, if I tell you to run for your life, you do it! If I tell you to hide, you damn well better hide! If I tell you to go and save yourself and leave me, you will run and not look back, that clear?” I say “Yes, Joel” she answers “Second Rule, if you see anything that might hint a guard or those Necro-Minions, you tell me straight away. And we better be quiet during that whole duration while we’re in danger” I say She merely nodded as her understanding of the rule “Thirdly, If we are in danger, for the love of all that is holy, do not give us away or kill anyone unless I say we can. I might have sliced four of them in front of you but they were unarmed, if they had weapons, it would have been much harder” I say “Okay” She says “That’s it for rules so far, I say we go forward and in a few hours we find shelter, hmm?” I finish “Y-Yeah, it’s a bit cold here” she says as she floats in the air “You’re lucky you have fur Breezy, humans don’t have fur, all we have to keep warm are these clothes and these are made for summer. Although if I control my magic, I can use it as a heater” I reply with a chuckle What I wouldn’t give for being back home at Christmas and spending it with the family, opening the presents and the food. Maybe this is how the soldiers felt during those wars, they really wanted no reason to be there during Christmas. I hope the Pegasus I brought with me doesn’t turn out to be dead weight, but she would be the only company over the Christmas, I know because I know this shit ain’t anywhere near over…