//------------------------------// // 2-follow me my good mare-Edited // Story: Eternal Shadows // by Chaotic Flier //------------------------------// The freezing wind grabbed at us as we walked through the snow and mountains of the frozen tundra of the north toward the Crystal Empire. Fix It was quiet for quite a while as we traveled I continuously watched the horizon trying to spot the empire but still no sign of it. For what I assume was two hours that we walked so I decided on trying to strike up a conversation with Fix It, “Hey, um I’ve been wondering…what can you tell me about the Forgotten Knights? I don’t remember much about them,” I asked looking at her.   “Umm sure I guess, but why didn’t you ask me when I mentioned them when we were talking two hours ago?” she asked with a skeptical look.   “It kinda slipped my mind when we were talking, and I just remembered you mentioned them before,” I answered with a sheepish smile.   “Okay so where to begin well I should start with how the group started. They were formed hundreds of years before Princess Celestia and Princess Luna ruled Equestria well before Equestria was called Equestria by four ponies.” Fix It started as she kept walking. “Those ponies were Chancellor Puddinghead leader of the earth ponies, Princess Platinum the ruler of the unicorns, Commander Hurricane the commander of the pegasi.”   “Who was the fourth founder of the Forgotten Knights?” I asked curious to learn more about the Forgotten Knights, which maybe will jumpstart my memory so I can figure out how I ended up in that freezer.   “Oh that would be Live Wire the last knight of harmony who wielded the Elements of Harmony before they were found by Celestia and Luna,” Fix It explained before she stopped to take a look around before continuing. “Anyway The tribe leaders and the Harmony knight decided that certain things should not be known to the public so they formed the Forgotten Knights to cover up those things and they even covered up how Equestria was really founded.” “Wow I did not expect them to be like that,” I stated in surprise, “um on a completely unrelated note why did you stop and look around before saying that?”   “Because I thought I heard something,” Fix It answered.   “Okay and why didn’t you say something?” I asked before I too took a look around only seeing snow covered land as far as I can see.   “I just did, anyway let’s make camp for the night,” Fix It said using her magic to clear away some snow to make it level.   I looked toward the sun seeing it was about to set, “But there is still daylight out so there is no need to make camp yet.”   “It is currently another day till we get to the Empire, so we need to get some sleep so we can get to the Crystal Empire tomorrow without freezing to death.” Fix It explained as she used her magic to materialize a large silver tent. “Come on in we need to get out of the cold,” with that and a smile she went inside the tent.   I was surprised to see her materialize the tent since she did say she was a mechanic, but I just wrote it off as her being a unicorn. I shook my head before following her into the tent and took off the bag I have been carrying for the last couple hours setting it in a corner. When I looked at Fix It she was already passed out and snoring softly with a smile I laid down sleep soon claimed me. I was screaming and crying as I stared at the blood on my hooves. Why would I hurt somepony? I thought as tears flowed down my face I was crying so hard I didn’t hear a group of soldiers surround me until I looked up and saw them. The soldiers wore large bulky armor, “Who are you?” I choked out between sobs.       “We are the Forgotten Knights and we were sent by our superior to terminate this facility which you have completely decimated,” A knight answered, shocked to hear that I turned around and saw the remains of what used to be where I was experimented on. I then felt an armored hoof on my shoulder, “Miss we need you to come with us,”  I was awoken by a soft thud in the snow outside looking at Fix It to see if she was still asleep to my relief she was. So getting up quietly I walked out of the door and quickly spotted something pure white struggling in the snow. When I got closer my fur stood on end the creature in the snow was a large white vampire bat it was the biggest bat I have ever seen easily bigger than a house. It soon spotted me and hissed but it was too tired to move its head to try and bite me. I looked in its eyes they showed fear and pain so I decided I will help this magnificent creature. “Shhh it’s ok I am not going to hurt you,” I tried to calm the large bat as I approached it slowly the bat stopped hissing and allowed me to approach it. I then began to examine it looking to see what hurt it and found several bullet wounds along its massive body, “Who did this to you?” I placed my hooves on one of the wounds and the bats body began to glow as it began shrink, it continued to shrink until it was the size of a small fruit bat. The now little bat seemed to be absent of the injuries that it had when it was larger because it flew in happy circles before flying off. Once the bat was gone I felt incredibly weak possibly from the bat somehow. Then I heard something that sounded like a gun firing not very far away, I quickly ran to the tent and woke up Fix It. “Wake up I heard gunshots they are too close we need to get moving again,” I informed her as I grabbed my bag and strapped it on.   “come on just chill out we don’t know if they are dangerous or just some rangers patrolling the area so just give me a few more minutes of sleep please.” Fix it said before she went back to sleep but I wasn’t going to let her as I walked outside and gathered some snow, when inside I dropped the snow on her causing her to bolt upright. “AHHH FUCK! I’m up! I’m up! that was freezing cold.”   “Come on something in my gut tells me they are not friendly and we need to get out of here before they get here,” I urged trotting in place.   “Okay just calm down let me pick up my bags and we will be on our way,” Fix It said as she walked over to her bag.   “okay I will be outside,” I said before I exit the tent and ran into a mountain of fur that felt like wool then everything went dark as something large struck me.    400 years ago northern Equestria   Today is the day when I finally join the fight against the Yaks who have declared war on Equestria, and I can’t wait to actually start helping others. Two years ago the Knights found me outside a destroyed lab after locating all survivors one of the unicorn Knights used her magic to erase their memories of the events that transpired there and gathered all surviving test subjects which there were only five other than myself. Of the survivors was a purple unicorn who stared at me with confusion after her memories were erased, days later I learned she used a forbidden spell in her experiments or whatever they never really figured out what she was actually doing. “Pay Attention rookies!” our commander yelled snapping me out of my internal monologue and Startled a pale yellow pegasus with Short Bubblegum pink mane and yellow eyes. "Seven, Ten. You will be airdropped from six hundred meters via sky chariot. Your mission is to eliminate yak cannons that block Equestrian main way of advance so ground forces may pass through. Any enemy personnel should be taken out swiftly and silently. On the success of the operation you will receive additional orders and you next target. You must not, I repeat, must NOT draw attention to yourselves. Here's the Intel on the situation. Memorize it. Questions?" “um if you don’t mind me asking but why were we chosen for this mission?” Ten asked in a light voice that I could barely hear. “You two were chosen for your unique abilities,” He explained as I raised my hoof, “Yes Seven?” “Why isn’t One here she is the only one of us that is good with machines?” I asked our commander. “She suffered a major injury in her last mission so she is now being assigned to the science team of our outpost, so you girls will be using C4 to blow up their cannons, now you two head to the armory where Nine will give you girls your equipment,” with that me and Ten saluted then we left and headed toward the armory to see Nine.   Once at the armory we were greeted by a large orange earth pony mare with a long black mane and light green eyes, “Hey Nine we were sent here to get our equipment for the upcoming mission,” I said to Nine whose face lit up upon seeing us.   “Hey girls I heard you two are going on you first mission so me and One made some unique gear for you two,” Nine said as she grabbed two small boxes from behind her and put them on a table. Opening one box she pulled out a black cloak, “This is a shadow cloak for you Ten it allows you to turn invisible for about twenty minutes so you can transform without worrying about others seeing you.”   “Oh thank you Nine this will help a lot,” Ten said giving Nine a hug.   “Okay now for you Seven,” Nine said as she pulled a red and black revolver out of the other box. “This is the Outcast Revolver it’s a specially made weapon for you, One is actually proud of this weapon she stated that it is the greatest thing created combining magic and technology. Okay so here is what it does it takes your radiation that you have stored in your body and uses it to fire explosive magic rounds it also can use any ammunition so you can reserve the magic rounds for when you absolutely need to cause serious damage.”   “Wow that is just awesome when I come back I have to thank you two!” I exclaimed happily.   “I look forward to it now to your mission gear Ten you will have a Rabbit's Foot stealth sniper you will be lookout for Seven you will also be given thirty explosive rounds.” Nine said as she pulled out a large electric blue sniper rifle and handed it to Nine.   “Hi Angel did you miss mama,” Ten said caressing the gun like it was her baby.   “I keep forgetting you call your sniper Angel why is that?” Nine asked in wonder to our friend’s odd behavior.   “It was the first thing I thought of when we were in training when Sixteen suggested I should name it,” Ten said with a blush.   “Well I like it Sixteen had a pretty cool idea about naming your gun maybe after this mission I will give my revolver a proper name.” I said happily   “Okay, Seven you will have six packs of C4, a Star metal blade, and  you will also be given your customized D.D.M rifle and you will also be receiving the standard issue magic knight armor,” Nine said as she handed me an old styled single shot rifle me and One customized to fire special ammo we created for it.   “Thanks Nines,” I said looking over the black rifle.   “Alright you two are ready for you mission go to the Sky Chariot launch area where the pilot is waiting to take you to Yakyakistan for your mission,” Nine said pushing us out of the armory with our bags of ammo and armor then everything blurred to white.      Present “YAK SAID WAKE UP!!!” A booming voice yelled at me waking me up. Once awake I found myself tied up and in front of me was a large yak, “You are Yak’s prisoner now Pony!”