Upon arriving in Canterlot, I strangely felt less welcome than I did in Ponyville. I shook it off as anxiety, as we ran through the streets heading to the castle. Many Canterlot ponies watched us running through the streets, but most the attention was on me. I ignored them and kept on running. A couple times, I swear I heard a rasp voice calling me, but I ignored it and kept on running with the rest of the ponies. When we arrived in Canterlot, the guards immediately let us in. We stopped running and turned it into a leisure jog. I caught up to Twilight and leaned down.
“Being Celestia’s student really has its perks, huh?” I smiled, and she blushed. I laughed shortly as we entered the area where my bedroom was. I looked over to where the guard had his spear pointing at me, trying to either kill me or capture me, and I smiled at the memory. Why I smiled at this sort of thing, I have NO idea. Twilight took a turn down the same hallway Celestia took me in, and she stopped at the study door. She slowly opened it with her magic, as she poked her head in, and motioned us to follow. There, in all her glory, sat Princess Celestia.
“Welcome, my little ponies,” She smiled, and looked up at me. “Oh, and Jeff,” she added. I smiled as I took a seat in the same spot as before. I stretched a little bit before settling myself into my chair, and looking at Celestia, waiting.
“Well, you all know why you are here, correct?” She asked us, and we all nodded. “I need you to explain all of it to me. I know very little, only that you needed to see me about something ‘urgent’,” she sighed. She looked up at me, and I cleared my throat.
“… and Discord’s statue started breaking up, and now we are here,” I finished. I mentally smiled. I’ve been using the phrase ‘are here’ a lot since I came to Equestria. I sat back down, staring at the Princess, while she just frowned, closing her eyes shut. She opened them, as I saw a flare of anger in them. She stood up and started pacing through the study.
“But how could a regular unicorn like him use such a black magic spell? I also would like to know his motive!” She stomped her hoof on the ground, and the ground shook. I flung backwards as the chair perked up when she stomped. I grunted and slowly stood up and looked at her. She was breathing heavily, apparently angry at the circumstances.
“I don’t know, but what I do know, and it’s pretty apparent, is that Shadows isn’t a normal pony. He’s something much more than that,” I scrunched up my face into a thinking expression, as the rest of the ponies stared at the ground. I slammed my hand on the desk nearest me, as they all jumped. “Damn it, I don’t know who is doing this, but I swear on my life that I WILL stop them!” I shot my hand upward to add a little dramatic effect. Rainbow Dash shot another cocky grin, as she stared at the rest of the ponies. Lightning flew up to me, and grinned.
“I agree, I will bring hell to this pony if it’s the last thing I do!” He stomped his hoof on the ground as me and him stared at the ponies, with grins on our faces. The mane 6 grinned, and walked up to us and stood beside us. I looked at the Princess, who just smiled at us.
“Well what are you waiting for? Go,” she smiled at us, before the ground shook violently. We fell to the ground, all flailing around as the ground shook. I quickly regained my balance as I crawled over to the window. There, I saw a huge black coated pony, giving an evil grin at me. He laughed madly.
“So, this is the human? What a pathetic piece of-“ he started before he was hit by a something. He stumbled a little to the left, before staring at the thing that hit him.
It was Green Cloud.
Lightning grinned at Green as he shot another laser out of his horn, aiming towards the pony’s head. He missed, as the giant black pony laughed, and picked Green up. He squealed as the black pony laughed again, and threw him at the window where I was. Before I had time to react, he collided with me as I got shot backward a few feet. I felt small amounts of blood trickle down my face from my lip. I scowled as I stood up, and growled at the pony. I stopped, as I looked at Celestia.
“What can I do? I can’t fly or use magic!” I yelled over the commotion the giant was making.
“Jeff, I know for a fact there is a gun in your bedroom! You always keep it in there for safety reasons!” She yelled back.
“Oh yeah. Right,” I murmured, as I took off down the hallway, not even thinking about the fact that Celestia knew I had a gun in my room. I ran blindly through the hallways before I came up to the door I knew was my room. I entered it, and ran through the door. I quickly opened my closet door, searching for the gun in there. After searching for a while, I finally found it.
The M16A2 my Dad gave me before he died as a birthday gift. I grinned madly. I took a belt full of ammo clips for the gun as I strapped it to my waist. I took a clip, shoved it into the M16, and turned the safety off. I run back into the study, aiming the gun at the pony’s giant muzzle. I shoot a few bullets, and hear the bullets collide with him. He stumbled a few steps back as blood trickled down his muzzle. Small amounts, but there was blood. I grinned, and took fire again, this time in short, 3 round bursts. He didn’t even stumble this time, as he swiped at the study.
“Oh shi-“ I exclaimed as his giant hoof smashed through the study, sending us all flying. I broke through a castle window, and fell to the ground. I closed me eyes, as my life slowly flashed before then. Wait. The air was horizontal now, not vertical. I opened my eyes, to see a yellow and cyan trail behind me, and I looked down slightly to see Lightning carrying me.
“Oh no, you are NOT dying on me! Not today!” He yelled at me, as I smiled. He closed his eyes, as he teleported us to some sort of cave. I looked around to see everypony else there, too. I looked around.
“Where are we?” I asked quietly.
“A bunker. After Nightmare Moon, I had this built under the ground to bring cover to ponies incase something like that happened again,” Celestia explained. I nodded as I looked at the gun still strapped around my shoulder. I took it off as I made it lean against the walls of the bunker. I noticed Green Cloud was still here, shaking slightly.
“What’s the matter with him?” I asked. Twilight shrugged.
“I don’t know. He’s muttering something, but I can’t tell what he is muttering,” She shook her head. I walked over to Green and shook him.
“White… White Rose… Rosey…” he muttered. I squinted my eyes.
“What? What does White Rose mean?” I asked. Lightning punched my hip.
“His marefriend, I told you that yesterday, smart one,” he smirked, as I kicked his hind leg back. He teleported away, and he smirked. I stuck my tongue out at him as I looked back at Green.
“What about White Rose?” I murmured to him.
“She… She is still in Ponyville. We can’t let her get hurt. Please save her, PLEASE!” He pleaded. My eyes bulged as I stared at the rest of the ponies. They looked up at me eagerly. I gulped.
“White Rose is still in Ponyville. Green here wants us to go and save her,” I explained. Twilight snorted.
“Why? So he can harass her again?” she gave a bitter laugh. Lightning growled.
“Twilight! That was NOT HIM!” He yelled at her. “I’ll explain it later, but now, we need to go get White Rose!” Twilight looked at him, before nodding.
“Right. C’mon, Lightning, Jeff. We have a pony to save!” she struck a dramatic pose. I grinned as I threw my M16A2 back onto my shoulder, and cocked it. Lightning grabbed us, and readied his magic once more. He teleported, and we ended up in a field… somewhere. Lightning swore.
“Damn it, I overshot it! Looks like we’re walking from here to Ponyville, which I believe is… That a-way!” He pointed south. Twilight and I nodded before starting to walk, Lightning closely following us. We stopped as we heard a pop behind us. We looked to see Green Cloud standing there, staring at us. Lightning grinned.
“What, do you expect me to just sit there while you save my… ex-marefriend?” he stuttered the last words, before grinning. I walked up to him, slapped him on the back, as we started heading towards Ponyville.
This was going to be fun.