The four humans walked off the pelican to find a crowd of ponies waiting for them, "Well this is oddly pleasant." Rider said.
"Shut it." Maria barked causing the closer ponies to back away slightly, "They are curious. Let them look, but do not do anything stupid. Rider."
Rider slumped at Maria's words. John stepped forward, "Who is the one in charge around here?"
"That would be us." Celestia said as Luna, Twilight, Dinok, Sky, Void, and herself moved through the crowd, "I hope this time you don't run off without an explanation."
"That was hopefully a one time thing Princess Celestia. These two are the reason we ran off." Maria said motioning towards the still armored John and Qi'meen, "I saw their ship fly over and had to go check it out."
"You could have said that you needed to go do something without just running off." a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail said getting into Maria's face causing every human to draw their weapons except for Maria.
Maria motioned for them to lower their weapons, "I don't know who you are, and quite frankly I don't care. Get out of my face."
"I don't have to listen to you." the pegasus remarked.
"Qi'meen can you remove her from my face. Without hurting her." Maria ordered.
"Yes ma'am." Qi'meen raised her hand and drug it slowly to the side.
"What are you doing?!" the pegasus cried as an invisible force moved her away from Maria.
"Thank you." Maria stepped closer to Celestia, but looked at Luna, "You remember what I said before. About what I was going to do once I was out of my armor right." Luna nodded, "Good don't let anyone here stop me because she deserves this." Maria brought her fist back and then swung it forward at an unimaginable speed into Celestia's jaw causing the alicorn to stumble back and fall into a sitting position, "I feel better no-" Maria was cut off as a rainbow blur slammed into her.
"How dare you hit Princess Celestia! What did she do to you?!" the cyan pegasus yelled as she started to repeatedly punch Maria.
"Should we stop them?" John asked.
"It would be better for all if we let Maria handle this. The last time I sopped her from fighting back against something she threw me through a couple houses." Rider said worried they wouldn't listen to him.
Suddenly the cyan pegasus slid on the ground towards the alicorns making a trail as she slid, "Don't. You. Ever. Hit. Me." Maria panted, "I will not hold back next time."
John took off his helmet and walked towards Maria, "Calm down Maria."
Maria suddenly punched him in the gut, denting his armor and bloodying her fist, and walked back into the pelican and closed the hatch, "Be glad she hit your armor John. That was almost her full strength. It would have killed you if she hit your head." Rider said walking over to the trooper, "Just let her cool off and she will be saying sorry for hitting you latter. I shave no idea if she will tell miss rainbow mane over there sorry though."
"What the hay!" Twilight yelled having her mind just process what Maria did to both Celestia and the cyan mare, "Why did she punch Celestia and Rainbow Dash?"
"Celestia because it is her fault that we are here, and Rainbow Dash because she attacked Maria." Rider said slightly annoyed at how innocent these ponies are, "Now if you will excuse me I shall go and establish a perimeter."
"But we defeated the dragons. Why would we need to secure the town?"
"I'm not worried about the dragons. I'm worried that when we came here others that won't try and coexist with you ponies came with us." Rider explained as he knocked on the pelican's hatch, "Maria!" he called, "I need to get something out of the pelican. Please open it and I will leave you be until you want to talk." the hatch opened and Rider walked in.
"What in tarnation is going on here?" an orange pony with a cowboy hat asked.
"We have visitors from another planet Applejack." Twilight said.
"Why is Rainbow on the ground?" Applejack asked looking down at Rainbow.
"One of them punched her after she talked and started to punch her."
Applejack looked towards the pelican and looked at the two standing outside, "Are these the aliens Twi?"
"Two of them yes. The other two are in their ship."
Rider walked out the pelican and the hatch closed back up, "Hey John want to join me? I think that Maria needs another girl to talk to not us guys."
"If Qi'meen doesn't mind being left here with the ponies I don't see why not." John said.
"It's fine. I want to learn more about them so you two go have fun." Qi'meen said.
"Ok. We will be back later." John and Rider both walked towards the edge of the town.
"I am sorry for how they acted. I want you all to know that we are not here by choice and wish to live peacefully with you." Qi’meen said.
"If that is true then why did one of you hit the Princess?" a pony in the crowed yelled.
"I don't know, but I feel it has something to do with how we got here and the fact that she is used to being able to punch her problems away."
"What gives her the right to do that?" another pony yelled.
The pelican's hatch opened and an armored Maria walked out, "What gives me the right you ask. I have spent over a year of near constant combat. Before that she," Maria points the long katana at Celestia, "ripped me away from those I loved and cared about. The only reason I am even remotely sain is because one of my friends had to be frozen so that a cure for a disease he had could be found. That cure was to become a monster. To become so much stronger than everyone around you that to them you were only a threat and a piece of hardware. So tell me why I don't have the right to hit the one that put me through that torment." Maria was breathing hard when she finished. There was silence as everyone present thought about what she said, "if anyone else wants to make me feel any worse I'll be hunting." Maria sheathed the katana and started sprinting towards the Everfree Forest.
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John and Rider watched as Maria ran into the forest, "I wonder what the rush is." John said.
"No telling but with her mood I feel bad for anything that attacks her." they both chuckled a bit.
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"Why does everyone have to be against me? Why can't anyone ever understand what I am going through? I did not want to leave my family. I hate everything in this world!" as she finished her sentence she used all of her momentum to push her fist through a row of trees and stopped, "I just want to be liked again. All of my friends are scared of me." Maria threw her helmet onto the ground and started to cry, "Why did this have to happen to me?" she dropped herself against one of the still intact trees, "This is what I have become. I am a monster, and nothing is going to change that." A low growl came from the bushes in front of Maria causing her to jump. Slowly a small pack of wolves made from wood came out of the shadows, "Go away." Maria said hoping that they would leave, but they did not. The wolves slowly moved forward getting closer to Maria, "Please, just go away!" she yelled, "I am tired of killing!" when she finished an even louder growl came from behind her and a large actual grey wolf jumped on top of the closest timbre wolf. Crushing it underneath. The wolf barked and growled at the remaining timbre wolves causing them to whimper and start to back away. After they backed away for a moment they turned and ran, "Thank you." Maria said smiling as the wolf got close and nuzzled her cheek.