"What if I told you that the dead could live again, fight like they did in life, and make others truly dead. They can hunt down their enemies and defend who they love. It is possible that they could never die. I should know, I'm one of them.
"You have questions? Well answers are gonna take a while longer. So lets start with the basics, my name. I just tell you what my friends and soon to be dead enemies call me, Ghost. Thats all you need to know, for now. You'll find out everything else after I tell you my story. It began a few weeks ago..........
"I'll get you roach hang on." I screamed as Roach fell to the ground. They were there to find a man named Makaroth and take him into custody. What they found was not Makaroth but vidle information on his plans. "Thunder Two-One. I've popped red smoke in the treeline! Stand by to engage on my mark!" We were going to make it home. "Thunder Two-One clear HOT!" I dragged roach to were the Chopper was landing while he shot the Russian forces tailing us. Then the chopper came and rained fire on the Russians with two gatling guns on each side. We were safe. "Come on get up. UP, UP. We're almost there." I carried him to the chopper and I saw Shepherd step out to greet us. I found this odd, but figured he wanted to congratulate use on a good find.
"Do you have the DSA?" asked Shepherd.
"We got it sir" I said calmly
"Good, thats one less loose end." I was about to question what he meant by that when I saw a streak of silver and a fountain of blood come out of roach.
"NO." I screamed, but I was to late. As I turned to fire at the traitor I also took a bullet. I faded out for a time after that and awoke by roach's body with a wet sensation on me. I was about to scream "Gasoline" but I was to drained of energy to muster it. Then I saw the flames as they swallowed up roach. They walked away and left us to burn. When they got on the plane I got a burst of adrenaline. I rolled out of the fire and since it was a liquid fire it soon ran out of energy to stay on. Roach was not so lucky. He was badly burned when I got to him. When I checked the pulse, nothing. The only reason I lived was because they didn't pour to much gasoline on me and the mask let me breath without fumes getting in my lungs.
"You'r wondering how I survived the bullet to the head right. Well it didn't get shot in the head. The moron missed and hit me in the shoulder. He wasn't a soldier, couldn't even make his mark at point blank. Even the gasoline missed me and mainly hit Roach. Only a bit of it got on me and they quickly died. After that I vowed the same would happen to Shepherd, but a lot slower."
"As I walked off with Roaches dog tags. "I'll make sure his family gets these" he thought. "I won't tell them how he was betrayed by his own men.". Then came the light. That blinding light that sucked me downward. Then black.
"Are you okay?" said a scared voice.
"Yeah, what happened?" I looked up to see a crowed, of ponies. When I got up I saw them retreat to safety.
"Halt, you are under arrest." said a approaching royal like guard.
"Are you kidding me. You'r a pony, how can you talk." he approached him when the guard attacked with a sword. I sidestepped him and punched him in the back of the head, he was out cold. The crowd screamed," Oh my you killed him.". Then the rest came. The guards circled around me. Ready to take me down.
"They charged at me, aiming to kill. The first one that came close to me didn't stand a chance. I took away his sword and knocked him out like his friend. Now I was armed with a sword, hopefully I wouldn't have to kill them with it. I couldn't waste the ammo from my pistols or my other weapons on them. He just kept going at them with his sword and fists. Soon there was a group of silent ponies around him, all out cold. There was only one left, sadly he was also the biggest. He charged at me ready to strike. We met in a moment of furious combat."
"We don't take kindly to aliens invading our land." said the raging guard.
"Who's invading, I just got here a few moments ago.".
"Don't worry, you won't be here much longer.".
"Looks like we were thinking the same thing.".
We fought for what seemed like a hour. I was starting to lose stamina. He would disarm me soon. I couldn't hold back anymore. I stabbed his leg, which caused him to scream in pain. The sword dropped out of his mouth and I knocked him to the ground.
"I'll kill you." said the downed guard.
"Well, first you have to get up. Then I'll nock you down again. Soon you'll learn to stay down." I then stomped on his head. not enough to kill, but enough to give him a massive headache when he wakes up.
"Now it's time for the most annoying part of a fight, running away."
I had just reached a lush forest when I realized something. THERE WERE TALKING PONIES. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE. "Wait, I get it, the blood loss from the battle. Its creating illusions of talking horses. It's probably the Russians or more of Shepherds men. That would explain why they tried to kill me, but then why did they call me a alien. Probably from me being a Brit.
"Well, maybe if I get out of here I can find some help. As soon as I stop seeing ponies the better.". That's when I saw the cottage. Oddly enough, it was made in a tree.
I approached the home, ready to blow off someones head. I needed a outlet for my frustration, and Shepherd wasn't around to help with that. So this guy will do, unless he can help me with my hallucinations. I was outside the door when heard a voice inside. A sweet voice, calm and pleasant. I couldn't hear what she said though.
"Could be just another illusion.". Then as he put his ear at the door, he heard her conversation.
"Oh bunny, why do you have to be so finicky about eating." She said. Thats when my ears were violated by a crash inside. Years of military training took control of my body. I knocked down the door and pointed my pistol at a yellow coated hoarse, who then preceded to scream. For someone with such a quite pleasant voice, she could scream like a banshie.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH, MONSTER!".
I felt something repeatedly hitting my foot, and as I looked down I saw a furious looking rabbit going to town on my steel toed boots. To be frank, it hurt him more than me. At that point, I realized these were no regular dilutions. Either this was real, or I'm on a bad LSD trip.
"Hold on there, I'm no threat. I just need some help." I said with a calm tone. As you guessed she didn't believe me.
"Oh no, I heard about you. You took down a entire squadron of Celestia's guards on your own. I know what you are capable of you monster." She said with more gusto in her voice.
"Then you should know that none of them were killed. If I were a real monster they'ed have all been dead.".
"Well, ok, But if you make any sudden moves I wont hold back on taking you down.".
"Of coarse, but make sure to use something stronger then that rabbit. He's not a guard dog, if you know what I mean.".
"Well, I plan one using Fluffy, if I need to.".
"Fluffy, whats that, your puppy?" I laughed.
"Follow me." she said as she turned the corner. A followed her in and found Fluffy waiting in its cage. Fluffy turned out to be a *adorable* brown bear. Inside was a unmistakably bloodied food bowl with a sparkly pink name tag ,Fluffy.
"Well, I'll make sure not to piss you off." I said as I followed her into a white room.
"Well, first thing I want to do is fix that shoulder of yours. Your, bleeding everywhere and my carnivorous animals are getting a bit frisky." she said a bit nicer then I would have liked. That made things only more creepy.
"Well, judging by your guards, you haven't seen a injury like this.".
"What do you mean by that." she said ever so silently.
"This is what we call a bullet wound, similar to shrapnel. What you need to do is pull the bullet out, and then cauterize the wound.".
"Cauterize?".
"You get a hot peace of metal and put it on the wound. That will stop the bleeding.
"Ok, thats probably gonna hurt a bit, so let me get some something to knock you out.".
"No, I want to make sure you dont do any funny business. Besides thats for wanks and yanks. I can take it.".
"Wanks and ya....".
"No time to explain, just hurry.".
"Ok, just let me get your mask off.".
"Why?".
"So you can breath properly. If you won't take it off I can't help you.".
"Fine." I said as I reached for my face.I pulled the mask off. ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ I'm not gonna tell you how I looked either. That would ruin the mystery, and that means fear. That is a good weapon to have on enemies and I'm not sure what to put you under yet. ........................................................................................................................................................................................................
She started out afraid of hurting me to bad, she kept looking up at me searching for any signs of pain. I didn't let it show. This was pleasant compared to what I've been through.
"Well, you've been through some tuff stuff. Most ponies would have passed out from shock by now.".
"Well, no wonder you're guards were so easy to take down.".
She shut up after that for a while.
"I'm sorry, Its just that I have a sort of wall between me and other people. I need to be. Since people always die, and I couldn't help them.".
"Well, it happened a weeks ago........ ........................................................................................................................................................................................................
I had just come back from the Crystal Empire, There had been a incident with a mare named Sunset Shimmer. I stayed there a few days waiting for Twilight to return from the other realm. I was worried for my pets. Angel could take care of them, but I felt safer with them in my care. When I walked to the door I saw it ajar, this freaked me out more then you know. I didn't know what would be on the other side of the door.
As I opened the door I was met with a horrible site. Angel was in the middle of the room, unconscious with a lump on her head. I rushed over to her side and checked her pulse. She was still alive, and as I looked around I saw that everything was untouched. The animals were still here, even the one in the bloody mess.
Thats when I realized " OH MY GOD A BLOODY MESS.". I checked for the pulse. Nothing. I began to cry, and when I looked closer I noticed something. There was no hide. The organs were green. It was a baby dragon.
"Oh god no, not you, not you.". I began to cry even more.
" Spike, my pore Spike. You were trying to protect them weren't you. Why? Why didn't you just leave? You went ahead of me, said you had something important to do. Why could you just go home?". Thats when I heard a noise behind me. "Who's there?".
I turned to look at those huge green eyes staring back at me. "Spike"
"Fluttershy, whathappenedYouscaredmesomuchISTHATYOURBLOOD!" he said in one one breath.
"I thought you were dead.".
"I thought the same.". ........................................................................................................................................................................................................
She was smiling giddily.
"Are you kidding me?" I thought. "That was a terrible story. That wasn't sad, it even ended happily. The story itself was told in a terrible pace. Well, what did I expect.".
"What about you? What happened to make you act like this?".
"Why should I tell?".
"Well, I told you my tragic story.".
"Yes, and that was a very sad tale. I almost cried, but the thing is I don't know if I can trust you?".
"Why can't you, I've been very open with you?".
"Sorry, but the last time I let someone get to close to me, I was almost brutally murdered. So forgive me if I don't want to pour my heart out.".
She was quite for the rest of the procedure. Not even looking up anymore to see if I was ok. Not that I needed it, I was quite resilient to pain. She was almost done when there was a pounding on the door.
"Open up! We have orders from the Princess to search the premiss for a harbored criminal.".
"I'm coming, just give me a minute." she said calmly." Follow me." she said with a whisper. She then lead him to the middle of the hall.
"Um, not much of a hiding spot.".
"Just watch, I impressed even myself coming up with this". She proceeded to tap the wall in a odd pattern. Then came up a numbered keyboard. She then tipped in 42-42-564. That then slid away behind the wall. Now there was a arrow pad in its place.
"How many codes are there"I thought. The next sequence was then added. up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right. "Brought to you by Konami.".
"Who?".
"Never mind.". The floor began to slip open and all I could see were some steps leading downward.
"Down there and quickly before they get suspicious.".
"To late for that.". The floor began to rumble with the vibrations of fists hitting the door.
"MISS OPEN UP OR WE WILL BE FORCED TO BRAKE DOWN THE DOOR!
"I'm coming!" she said as she pushed me down the stairs.
"No consideration at all." I thought.
The floor, now ceiling, closed above me. A small light turned on in the middle of the room. I could barley stand in there the roof was so low. The walls were old and cracked with the colour of grass green. Or at least the paint was once that colour. Now it was to faded to tell.
"What a nice place, reminds me of those drug dealer dens I raided in my early years. I could barley hear what was happening upstairs.
"We would like to search the house for anything you may wish to hide. If thats ok with you.".
"That would be fine.". As you might guess, I have some trust issues. So just in case this didn't work, I placed a C4 charge at the entrance. For my own safety of coarse. Thats when I heard it, CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP. They were right on top of me now. The search lasted a few minutes before they were right over me again.
"Well miss, everything seems to be in order. We apologize for the inconvenience.".
"Dont worry about it. You need to search every nook and cranny for that pony.".
"She was a good lier. She even remembered not to call me a human.". Then, out of nowhere, tragedy struck.
"Hold on whats that?" said a soldier. He then began to tap the floor. clop-clop. clop-clop. CLOP!
When the smoke cleared I saw they were all on the ground. Including Fluttershy.
"NO.". I ran over to her. She was on the ground possibly dead." Oh god.".
"You mean Celestia.".
"Great, you'r alive.".
"Cant kill me that easily.".
"Sorry, but I have to run.".
"Just stay alive, don't want my sacrifice to be in vain.".
"Before I go let me tell you something.".
"What?".
"My name, its Simon.". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Well, as you can guess, I was fucking pissed" He said with his English accent. "The only kind person in this world who hasn't tried to kill me and now she's out cold. I had had enough, time to take this up to higher management.". I checked my inventory, 2 semtexes, a cube of C4, my magnum with 20 rounds of ammo, and my lmg with 300 rounds of ammo. "Well, I guess I can make a slingshot. I might be able to make some fire charges."
"I had only enough firepower to take out a platoon or so. I was in way over my head. I was not ready for the fight you guys would put up. You were so brave and strong. It was like I was fighting your best, supermodels."
"That's it were done." the interrogator moaned while he left the room. Simon could just see the look of dread on his face as left the building realizing he'll have to do this again tomorrow.f.
"WHAT DO YOU MEEN YOU'RE DONE!!!!!!!"
"Great, miss Sparkle Butt." Simon could here the lecture going on in the other room. He could here the man crying, poor bastard didn't stand a chance.
"THIS MAN BROKE INTO THE CASTLE AND YOU JUST GIVE UP ON QUESTIONING HIS MOTIVES! HE PUT THE PRINCESS IN A COMA AND ALL THAT STOPPED HIM WAS ED'S ALCHEMY! YOU PUSSY PEACE OF SHI... oh Ed."
The door opened with a SLAM! and a midget in a red coat. His blonde hair bounced and his blue eyes looked red as he starred down on Simon. "How did this pint sized brat beet me" Simon thought.
"DONT CALL ME PINT SIZED!!!"
"How did you...... Never mind."
"NOW, LISTEN TO ME YOU BARBARISH BASTARD--"
"Oh, such big words. How long did it take you to prepare this speech. I bet your mommy had you practice all nigh---" SMACK!
Ed punched him the face right there and then. He could taste blood in his mouth.
"ARE YOU DONE WITH YOUR QUIPS, GOOD." Ed calmed down a minute and began to talk normally. "Now, who are you"
"Well, I don't like telling people my life story, but my names Ash Williams, and that( nods head over to his SMG) is my BOOMSTICK!!"
"CRUNCH!!
The sound of Simons nose breaking echo's in the room. Blood flows through his nostrils. His mask was off so the blood fell to his shirt. His hooves was very strong. It felt like he was hit by a metal bat. After the room stopped spinning, he got back to the matter in hand. He knew that it would take more then that to break him. He was trained to be tough, he would not back down to the enemy.
Edward was surprised that he recovered so easily. Most people take at least a minute or so.
"Is that all you got, looks like your talk is more than your bite. Your just like a Chihuahua."
"DON'T CALL ME SHO-"
A visitor strutted in the room and interrupted Ed mid-rage "SHUT UP" he said, "Both of you." He looked over to Ed with a sturn look in his eyes. "I have been sent to assist you in your "Interview"."
