Walking the plains of Equestria... As a Spartan?

by Brother Uriel


Chapter 7, The road to Canterlot and Acid Touch

So, after I explained the plan to Serenity, I dropped off a lot of the weapons I had on me, and only take a few things, like my DMR, and a magnum with a silencer, and after I did that, me and Eclipse start are journey.

I'm hoping my plan is simple enough to go off without and hitchs, but knowing my luck, that's not gonna happen.

I bet you're wondering, 'Hey, why are you going? Can't Eclipse just go and do it?' Well, yes, she can, but I rather be there to keep her covered, not sure how Canterlot really is. I know it's full of Nobles who have they're noses so far up the clouds that they might actually find those fucks I was supposed to give, but if anything happens, I need to be there to give off a distraction or scare some pony off.

So, are journey has started, and we have only one real way to get to Canterlot... And that's train, and the only nearest train is in, you guessed it, Ponyville, cause Eclipses town doesn't have one... Great right?

-1 hour later-

So me and Eclipse are currently walking to the town where the six ponies that could actually Fight me! Are, and it's only been a few hours since I was there, sooo... Yeah, they'll be on high alert, I bet you they got those damn guards involved as well, I'd rather not fight any ponies.

"Dammit, wish I could have come up with a better idea then just trying to get past them."

Eclipse looks at me with a cocked head, "It should be really easy to get past them all, we just need to stay on the outskirts of the town."

I look over at her and shake my head, "No, they're on high alert, they'll be watching everywhere for me, and with how much Celestia hates me... She obviously sent guards faster then you could say shit."

"Well can't we sneak past them?"

I nod, "We could quite easily sneak past them, it's really no problem, I just feel worried."

"Why, it's not like it's bad if they see you, you could easily knock them out cold, and you have things that look really... Strange, that you use for weapons... What... Are they exactly?"

I continue walking while looking at her, "They're guns, things that shoot metal bullets out of the barrels of the gun, and can kill anything in an instant if you aim correctly."

She stops and looks at me with wide eyes before speaking, "Are you planning on killing somepony?!"

I look back at her as I stop walking, "Course not! Why would I shoot anyone unless in self defense!?!" I pull out my Magnum and twirl it in my hand, "I bet you're gonna say, if guns can kill someone so quickly, then they're bad! But that's a lie, guns are just tools for the means of war, the person who's pulling the trigger is the one who is either good or bad." I turn back around and start walking again, she follows
and we go into a silent walk.

After walking for a few minutes she speaks, "What was it like... In your world?"

I continue to walk as I give her my answer, "Fan fucking tastic, are government were a bunch of idiots for a good while, people literally didn't care if they littered in nature, killing planets and animals, we're constantly fighting, and pollution is pretty bad, if I remember correctly, a kid killed his mother because she took away his game... Not sure if it was true, but I wouldn't put it past us humans."

She's silent before speaking again, "Was there anything good in your world?"

I stop and think for a minute before walking again, "Yes actually, some of the people who weren't complete assholes, would do pretty good things, some people did charity to help places like hospitals and such, we're pretty technology advanced, we have vehicles that can drive themselves and all we need to do is steer them, we have giant buildings that reach the sky, we even got to the moon without the aid of magic."

I hear her literally stop and fall flat on her face, I turn back to look at her. "Hey, you alright?" I ask.

She she gets back up, shaking her head, "How... How could you get to the moon without magic?"

I shrug, "Pretty simple really, I mean, not THAT simple, but I mean we just had a lot of ambition, to the point to when we're breaking things we never thought could be broken, and I mean with some things like... Machines that can think for themselves, and have faces that can have expressions and eyes with pupils that dilate and such. We also have things that can allow us to talk to people from across the world as if they were in the same room as us."

As I look at her, I swear I can see smoke coming out from her ears, I go over and wave my hand in front of her face, she doesn't react at all, I snap my fingers, still nothing. I stand there, with my hand on my chin, After a few seconds of thinking, I get a brilliant idea.

I put my hand behind her ear and start to scratch it, and the effect is immediate. Her eyes close, and she leans into my hand, cooing. After a few seconds of that, I stop and pull my hand away, and she falls onto the ground her eyes snap open and she looks around confused.

"What... Just happened?"

"I'm pretty sure I broke you're brain for a bit, until I scratched you behind your ear, and then you started acting like a cat."

She looks at me with the most confused look before getting up and shaking her fur before looking at me again.

"Can we just go and stop talking... My brain hurts from all of the things you told me."

I chuckle while shaking my head, "Yeah, let's get moving."

I turn back around and start walking again, with her behind me, I look up at the leaves, did I forget to mention we were walking through a forest? I did, didn't I? Man I have horrible memory, but I digress.

We continue are walk until I feel something in my mind shift, I shake my head until I hear a timid female child's voice.

'D-Daddy?'

I nearly tripped when I heard Acid speak, but I regained my balance before I continue to walk, 'Um... Yes?'

'Where are we going?'

Ok, did I mention how weird it is to be talking to a voice in you're head? It's pretty fucking weird.

'We're going to a town that's only a few more minutes away.'
As I thought that, I could see Ponyville in the distance, but the problem was this, it was a large stretch of open ground, I hate open ground with a passion. If you've played enough games, you know why.

"There it is." Eclipse says, I look back at her, then back at the town.

"Damn... That's a lot of open ground... I don't think I can make it... You need to go in alone Eclipse, I'll be tailing you, just get to the train, and I'll meet you on there."

She turns back to me, and I point forward, she sighs, "Fine" she starts walking out, towards Ponyville, and I look across the stretch of open ground, then to the outskirts of the town.

The forest went a bit off to the side until it ended, and I sigh, I'm gonna have to obviously need to book it, or, try using the invisibility cloak to get past them... Ah crap...

'Daddy?'

'Yes Acid?'

'Why is that... Pony going to the town but you're not?'

'Well Acid, I'm not on very good terms with the inhabitants of this town... They actually hate me, and there is a few of them that could hurt me pretty badly.'

'Why do they hate you?'

I start walking at the outskirts of the town, still by the forest.

'Well, they think I'm evil when I'm not.'

She's silent before asking, 'Why do they think you're evil?'

Man, she is very curious isn't she?

'Because of past mistakes that were out of my hand'

I wait for her response, but it never comes, I reach the end of the forest and I look back at the town, then I get a brilliant idea. Serenity had said that she activated a few more armor abilities, a menu appears in front of my face inside of my helmet and I scroll it, don't ask how I know how to use it... I really can't explain even if I wanted to. I go through them until I see the one I wanted, Hologram, thank you Serenity!

I start running to the town as fast as I could, I get to the first building and I look past a corner, I immediately pull back, Rainbow Dash is floating right there with a few guards, I take a deep breath before I look again, they aren't looking my way. I get out it into the open more, and release the Hologram, it sprints off, passing by RD and the gaurds, they wall jump back in surprise.

"What was that?!" Says one of the guards

"I don't know!?!" Says the other one

"Wait, THATS THE THING! AFTER IT!" Rainbow flys off after the fake, and the guards run after her. I switch my armor ability to Invisibility, and I wait a few seconds before turning it on, I creep from house to house, taking breaks when the Invisibility wore off.

After a few minutes, I'm next to Raritys shop, still invisible, I look through the window to see Rarity with Spike, she looks like she's saying something, and Spikes says something back, he points to the door, and she holds a hoof to her head before nodding her head, saying something else, they then exit the place.

I look both ways until I open the window I was looking through and crawl in, I shut the window and I stand up, the invisibility turns off, and I look around. There's no one else thank god! So I walk though while looking around, that is until I saw a mannequin, it stares off into space with its empty face, I turn my back only to turn around instantly, it hadn't moved.

I glare at it with pure hatred, I know what you're thinking, 'What's the matter with mannequins?', look, I watched a certain YouTuber who hated them, so, in the name of him, I have made mannequins my enemies.

I step up to the one I'm looking at, and I bitch smack it, it falls to the ground and doesn't move. I stare at it for awhile before deeming it harmless... For now... And I walk to the other side of the place, that is, until I hear hoof steps coming from the stairs. I look back and immediately dive to cover behind some boxes. As I peek out, I see Sweetebelle and Scootaloo talking excitedly about something, Applebloom wasn't with them.

"They said he was really big! Bigger then Big Macintosh! And he ran really fast! Not as fast as Rainbow Dash, but still fast!" Says the little orange filly, I don't get why people's call her a chicken... Wait... Ok, now I get it after looking at her... Man, people are a tad bit mean about that, she can't fly, and she's orange, it doesn't make her a chicken!

"Really? Maybe we can get are cutie marks if we catch him!" I sigh at what Sweetebelle said, you can't catch a Spartan... It's nearly impossible unless you lure them into a trap, which only worked once on me! And they gave me gravity hammers and I thought, 'KILL THEM ALL!' But then I was captured.

"Yeah! I bet you we could catch him if we looked for him!"

I was so caught up in thought that I didn't hear them take a deep breath.

"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS ALIEN HUNTERS YAAAY!!!"

"GAH!!" I jump right up and hit the ceiling before coming back down and smashing through the box I was behind, why'd they have to be so flipping loud! I lift my head from the box, and I look around to see them look right at me.

We have a stare down for awhile, until I lift my hand up and wave, that set them off screaming out of the Store/Home, I wasn't that scary... Was I? I get up and pat myself down until I hear yelling, I immediately turn to a window and jump out of it right as a few guards go in, I turn invisible and crouch next to the wall.

"Where'd it go?!"

"There! It went out the window! After it!"

I hear they're hooves thunder out of the building, and through the way the window was pointing outward. I watch as they go by and I creep away.

-10 minutes later-

After awhile, I find the train station, and I board the caboose. It was uneventful after the Carousel Boutique incident, and I got a straight shot to the train station, I sit back and relax after all of that.

I really hate sneaking... It's very hard to do...

'Daddy?'

'Yes Acid?'

'Where's that one pony you were with?'

I'm about to get back up when she said that when I feel the train start moving, I look to the door to the cabins and I go over to the door when it opens revealing Eclipse, once she see's me, she sighs in relief.

"Thank Celestia you're here, I thought you were left behind or worse." She comes over and sits down.

"Well... Was there really any doubt?"

I sit next to her, and I sigh.

"So... I'm guessing you're small trip here was eventful?"

I look over to her, "Don't ask... Too much sneaking... I just need to sleep for a bit."

She nods, "You get some rest, I'll make sure to wake you if any pony is coming."

I nod my head before leaning my head back and shutting my eyes, going into my dreamless state of slumber once more.