PL Ch 3
Abigail walked out of her room to be greeted by her friends. Three Stallions and four mares. They all the colts wore blue ceremonial military suits and the mares were in elegant evening gowns. Abigail smiled at them all and hugged each of them.
"Thank you all for coming." She said with a small smile.
A tall stallion with a green coat and red mane placed his hoof on her shoulder.
"Anything for our friend; Abby." He smiled. She blushed slightly and she pushed him off playfully. "Alright then Matt, let's go."
Lt. Matthew Cloverleaf an earth pony, his cutie mark is a arrow in a four leaf clover; Abigail's closest and oldest friend. They played since they were foals to graduating from the military academy in the same year. He was a strong minded pony with little room for doubt. But he felt that orders were absolute and anything else was wrong or not worth consideration.
The other ponies were Private Ruby a young white unicorn colt who just finished basic training. Opalescent Tide a pink pegasus; she a well known writer in the STABLE and experience rock climber. RedWall a solid red earth pony that had a special skill to never let anything get past him. The twins Anna and Stashia both cream color pegasuses sisters they had one pink eye and one green eye but on opposite sides to tell them apart. They were the pranksters of the group but we're very pleasant to talk to. Finally a brown unicorn named Lemmlock; he is the maintenance worker on the STABLE' main water supply.
They all walked down to Lemay's in the main rotunda. They sat down at the bar and ordered their drinks.
"I want a hard cider." Abigail ordered.
"A Haymarry for me" Matt said and the others ordered too. After a few minutes their drinks arrived and they held their glasses up.
"To Abby. A great comrade and a dear friend." Matt said letting their glasses.
"Abby!!" They all cried out and Abigail smiled but the moment was gone.
"Well well well..." Came a oily voice. They all turned to see two unicorns in well polished uniforms with very crude looking smiles.
"If it isn't little miss pinnwreck." They chuckled "Here to moron over your worthless parents."
Abigail growled dangerously low as she continued to drink. Matt and the other Stallions scowled the mares ignored the asswipes.
"What do you want Jerry Royal, Fancyshorts?" Matt asked getting between them and Abby.
Fancyshorts was a jackass of a pony. He made the rank of Lt. Commander a sort time ago but he relishes in it's power. Putting others down and bullying them for favors. Jerry Royal wasn't much better but he at least helped out whenever he was in a team.
"Watch yourself Lt. You don't want to lose your stripes now do you?" Fancyshorts snorted taking his drink. Matt growled but didn't reacted.
"Heeheehee Loser."
'Bang!!'
The glass shattered by the bullet startling everypony. They all turned to see a beautiful coffee cream pony With a violet mane in a bun. She an eye patch over her left eye. It was former Marine Sniper Specialist Muffin Lemay the owner of the bar. She was well know sharp shooter that had the highest record in the academy but she had to be retired after a judge took away her gold medal on a technical foul 'mysteriously' went missing afterwards. She held a revolver pointing at the Lt Commanders.
"I suggest that you find yourselves scarce before you become scarce." she said calmly with a fire in her eye. The two commanders turned tail and ran with fear for their lives.
Lemay walked over to Abby with a worried face. "Abigail?"
Abigail try to smile; any other day she could have but today she couldn't. Tears slow trailed down her cheeks try to hold back the sobs. Lemay pulled her into a tight but lovingly. She always looked out for others even if she hardly knew them. But to Abby she was like a second mother to her. One year ago today Abigail's parents died from Radiance exposure. They were to examine a river to see if it was contaminated or usable. According to their report the ledge which they stood collapsed and they were dragged down the river for miles upon miles. It took them seven days just to get back which was suppose to be impossible; But they survived. Medics tried to help but the damage was done. Their internal organs were too far gone. It was a terrible loss but Abby had it bad. She had just made Lt in the military and they celebrated it the day before they left. Plus other Lt questioned if they were trying to leave the STABLE or conducting unauthorized experiments on water supplies. Although the STABLE's council found no evidence of these accusations their reputation was in pieces.
"You should take her home now." Lemay sighed as Abigail cried slowly to sleep.
Matt nodded and placed her on his back. He turned and strolled out of the bar back to Abby's place. Everypony sighed and decided to call it a night.
The next morning Abigail stirred rolling over on her bed. She opened her eyes starring at the ceiling for what seemed like hours. She turned to her clock '9:43 am.'
She got up and took a nice long shower. Gearing in up she gathered everything to go out and find the voice and figure out what it wanted and why it wanted to help her. Abigail left her room to find Matt also geared up for travel.
"What do would want?" She said tiredly
"I am going with you wherever you are going."
"Thanks but no thanks." She replied
"Too bad I'm going with."
Abby strolled up the catwalk double checking her equipment and her ammo stock.
"Listen it's not that I don't want you to come but..." She stopped at the rotunda wondering if the voice old come if she was accompanied.
"I don't know what you do out there but I will help you any way I can."
She turned to see him smiling down at her. She smiled to hand hugged him tight. "Thank you."
They left the rotunda and up the mile catwalk to the gate. The guard saluted them and punch in the code. The gears clanked and steam hissed as the large door swings open to the dessert hell before them.
They trailed on for hours. The sun baked high above and the wind whipped across the sand. Before long they came up to old castle Ruins. Abby turned to Matt redoing her googles and mussel mask.
"I going in. Stay here and be my look out for me okay?" She asked. Matt nodded and set up his Browning M2 along a stone wall. "Just take care of yourself." He called back.
Abigail nodded and entered the castle. She took out her Johnson 1941 LMG and looked around.
"OK I here. So what do you want with me."
"Heeheeheee!" The voice came at last. "Well you did come back."
Abby raised her gun in anticipation "Yes I did."
"Did you bring you most priced possession I asked for?"
Abby grind her teeth but lowered her weapon and pulled out her picture of her and her family. She raised it high wondering if they could see it.
"Right here."
Then out from the shadows a creature unlike anything she and seen before stepped out. It had a long gray body that had a dragons tail an a pony head, a dragon right foot, a goat left foot, a lion right paw and a eagle talon for a left arm. It had an deer antler and a weird horn and two kinds of wings a bat and a bird's. But the eye were what stucked her most. They were yellow with gray irises; it was blind.
"Who are you?"
"Heehee I am Discord; Former Master of Chaos."
"How do you see me? Your blind."
He walked around her like an animal that caught it's prey "I can sense magic and you have a very special kind of magic. Similar to some pony I use to know."
"Who's??"
He didn't answer but jester her to follow him. They walked down a hall to a throne room of some kind. There were seven thrones around a round table.
"Come and see..."
Abigail trotted over and stared at the table. It glowed and a map of Equestria appeared. At first she didn't know what it was but the Missing Peak was dead center of the map.
"That's Missing Peak" she said out loud.
"That use to be the mountain that held the greatest city in all of Equestria; Canterlot."
The map changed; trees, rivers, and many towns and cities were all over the country life of Equestria before the war.
"A long time ago that was Equestria; a land of harmony and friendship. Ruled by the alicorns. Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Twilight Sparkle, and Prince Ashton."
The images of each said pony stood on the map. Abby could only stare in awe.
"The Broken King..." She whispered
"Yes Ashton was a great leader. But he had lost so much to be called that." Discord voice faltered. The map changed again, this time a funeral in the rain.So many ponies and other manner of creatures were gathered there. Everything looked old in this vision. There being carried down the middle were four coffins three were beautiful but the biggest on was stunning beyond words. Decorated with jewels and platinum. On top a pink six point star as if to tell the sky who it was. Ash stood next to the coffins and muttered something and slowly cried over them. A song began to play as they were lowered into the ground.
I'm so tired of being here, suppressed by all my childish fears.
And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave.
Your presence still lingers here and it won't leave me alone.
These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real!
There's just too much that time cannot erase!
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears.
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears.
And I held your hand through all of these years.
But you still have all of me.
You used to captivate me by your resonating light.
Now, I'm bound by the life you left behind.
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams.
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me.
These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real!
There's just too much that time cannot erase!
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears.
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears.
And I held your hand through all of these years.
But you still have all of me.
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone!
But though you're still with me, I've been alone all along!
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears.
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears.
And I held your hand through all of these years.
But you still have all of me, me, me.
"You mean..."
"Yes, Twilight Sparkle was his wife. They had two children and another on the way but they were killed in a bombing of this very castle. This devastated him. But that wasn't the end of his pain. Months later the first MegaSpell was cast destroying the city of Manehatten and hundreds of thousands of ponies but it also took the life of Princess Luna; Ashton' sister."
An image of a MegaSpell in a metropolis probably Manehatten. It's black and orange smoke darkened the sky leaving it a cover for destruction and death.
"After Luna Celestia passed away from a broken heart. First losing her favorite student and now her sister once again. It is too much for anyone to bare."
Abigail wanted to ask what he meant by again but she didn't. Discord continued "Then want you call the War or the Final War began. For over ten years the SS fought Equestria and any other country that sided with them. Soon everyone he ever cared for was gone. In a final act as King he took all of the Alicorn Magic he had left and destroyed the army of the wolfs. But in turn destroyed Canterlot and himself as well. The rest you know."
The map returned to being a lonely table in a hollow room.
"How can anyone live like that." She muttered holding back tears.
"He lost too much. He always wanted a real family and friends but all that was. Taken away leaving him with nothing else to live for." Discord pulled the young unicorn up to his eyes thou blind still felt the intensity of his stare.
"You must go to the past and prevent this from happening as long as the Alicorns royals live there is still a chance of Equestria."
"How?? I There is no way to travel back in time."
Discord smiled like a mad man "This might..." And ran down the hall to a lone door. He opened it and set the pony down. Abigail looked into the room and gazed curiously. The only thing in the room was a large purple mirror.
Motors hummed as two jeeps ran across the countryside. Six large gray wolfs in battle armor armed with machine guns and rocket launchers blazed down a beaten trail towards a familiar ruin castle.
Sorry for not posting in a while but Life what do you do. I don't own Mlp or Ash Ketchum character.
I do not own 'My Immortal' That song belongs to EVANESCENCE. Very sad song.
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