> A Cyborgs life in Equestria > by proudtobeabrony667 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > GREY > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY Hi my name is ... Well I really don't know due to the fact that I was never given a name except for "the boy" or "prisoner 36-566-B79" so for now let's stick with "the boy". I was born into a world where people like me; people who weren't classified as human, aren't exactly accepted among the regular people of earth rather we're hunted, captured, or killed. I am what is called a Nephilim, and from what I've been told I am not your typical Nephilim, rather I am a cross between an angel and demon. However more often than not I am referred to as an abomination or a freak. Sometimes I have to remember that simple fact before anytime I attempt to talk to a guard before I get beaten that day, that simple fact being; that is how they see me. Oh and yes I do get beaten on a daily basis, I have since I was only 6, why I have no real clue. I am also what one might call a cyborg among the human population. Now after hearing that I bet you’re wondering how I came to be that way? Well, it happened a few years ago around when I think I was sixteen, I had unintentionally made the guard on shift especially angry that day. So he just kept wailing on me, and wailing on me, it got so bad that the next shift of guards were sent to restrain him. When they finally got him out of the room I was sent to the infirmary immediately, I don't remember much of what happened while I was barely conscious, but when I woke up a few days later I was told some terrible news... I was told that I had lost the use of my entire right arm and in to the middle of my thigh on my left leg along with the lower halves of the other two limbs (my forearm and from the knee down) and they had to be replaced, they even had to replace the left side of my head due to irreparable damage. Today is my 19th birthday, It also is the anniversary of my parents deaths, so I've been told. So today is the day I will escape this living nightmare... Here's the plan... As the guards come in to take me to the interrogation room I play the act of being asleep... "Hey Boy get up" says one of the guards but I don't respond, thus my plan is going perfectly. After not responding he decides to try and kick me and just as he does I catch his foot and trip him and while still holding his ankle I swing him into the wall and knock him out leaving me alone with the other guard. As I turn towards the other one as he tries to stun me by stock-shotting me with his rifle, I've had enough of the beatings at this point, therefore I caught the rifle and ripped it from his grasp. I could tell that he was scared out of his mind because he was struggling at getting his handgun out of its holster. for a split second I felt a pinch of sympathy for the man but the moment passed and the sympathy faded. I had no remorse for the people who decided it was a good idea to beat me for most of my life, so using the rifle I stole from him I shot him then turned to the one guard and shot him repeatedly. Afterwards I placed their corpses by one another and after searching their pockets I took a matchbox off one of them and set it on fire in between them, then I left the room leaving their rotting corpses to burn. The shots I fired must've alerted the guards in the other sections of the facility and the alarm was sounded and I was surrounded by nearly all of the guards who had been on duty that day. I didn't think much of the fact that I had been followed but just as I reached the door I felt a pain like no other and it was then I realized I had been shot in the back three times, any normal person would have died from that but I wasn't a regular person, however it was still enough to make me fall to my knees. My collapse to the ground caused me to turn around and see who shot me. It was the captain who had personally told me a few days earlier that she would kill me if I didn't cooperate, and since I wasn't about to let her have her way with me so I did the only thing wishing logical reasoning that I could. I attacked her and the army of soldiers who were shaking in their boots, I pulled out two swords from a secret compartment in both of my arms; which held a small pocket universe where I was able to store them, and started to put to use the skills from the martial arts books that the librarian at the facility smuggled into my cell. I had sharpened the blades to the point that they could slice the thickest of trees with the ease of a hot butter knife in a stick of butter. The guards fell one after the other spraying their blood all over the place and their guts on the floor. But just as I was getting to the captain I saw that she had fled, probably for reinforcements, so in knowing I wouldn't be able to stand up to them forever I ran for the exit. I didn't waist any time trying to rub the blood from of my hands, I just ran out the door and into the forest next-door and just kept running, I didn't rest anywhere for too long and I never did anything to the wounds I had sustained so I was bleeding from the bullet holes in my back and chest, luckily for me she never hit any of my major organs and the bullets went clean through so I could keep running. I ran for three days straight and only slept for a couple of hours at a time as I was accustomed I felt in the clear until I came face to face with the captain and this time she brought a whole new army that was twice as large and twice as powerful as the last one. I didn't want to stop, so with my swords in hand I sliced through the ranks for as long as I could being tired and malnourished to begin with that along with the blood loss I collapsed in front of a massive pit that seemed to have no bottom, I could tell that many of them would kill me If I so much as twitched the wrong way, so I cut the ropes on my back holding my wings together ( yes I have wings) I fell backwards and spread my wings diving into the pit hoping to find the bottom and shoot into the sky. I must have blacked out somewhere while falling because before I knew it I was falling from the sky towards a place I've never seen I felt weak and tired, my eyes shut and I blacked out again this time into unconsciousness. > RAINBOW > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINBOW Hi I'm Rainbow Dash and I'm the self proclaimed fastest flier in Equestria. Today was just like any other day In Pony-Ville, I was tasked with clearing the sky so that it was just a little bit cloudy, Rarity was making clothes for an important client, Fluttershy was tending to some animals who were scared or something, Applejack was in the middle of apple-bucking season, Pinkie Pie was throwing a birthday party for Octavia, the towns resident cellist and Twilight was running the library with Spike. Then it happened, an extremely loud sound pierced the air and I'm pretty sure it made everyone's ears ring, the sound itself caused several windows in town shatter, when I looked up I saw a large ball of fire coming down from the sky breaking the sound barrier multiple times, then I realized that it wasn't a meteor as meteors break up in the atmosphere upon entry (damn I'm starting to sound like twilight.) it looked like it was a person! Many people have landed in Equestria over the years; accidentally or otherwise, but none have ever been consumed in a ball of fire before. Also the last time someone came through we sent them back, erased there memory, and supposedly closed the way they were coming in through for good. When everyone else noticed it some ran into their houses and hid while others grabbed weapons (or rather any farm tools they could find) and got ready to head out to were it would land. I joined up with the rest of the girls and noticed that they all had their saddle bags and were prepared to head out as well, I turned to go home and grab mine when Twilight tossed it over my back. (Weird how did she get it so fast, she must be prepared for anything) That's when it hit the ground causing the entire earth shake and heaved upwards, all of a sudden a giant mount of earth was sent flying our way, luckily Twilight was able to stop it using somekind anti-earthquake spell. Once the ground stopped shaking all the apples in sweet apple acres fell from their trees and into the baskets (Luck strikes AJ again... Woop-dee doo). Once we all got our balance again we headed out with the rest of the ponies who had grabbed weapons to defend themselves, but as we followed the direction where the smoke was coming from we reached the entrance to the Everfree forest and they all turned tail and ran back to town. We however decided to stop at Zecora's and ask if she knew where it landed, all she told us was (and I quote) was to follow the fire and smoke but be sure not to choke that is no Joke,(obvious) so we did we followed the smoke when we could see it through the thick canopy. For the most part we maintained the same direction, but then we came to a place were it seemed it had started it's landing a small crevice that grew into a small canyon, the whole area around it was ablaze fires were everywhere and the canyon seemed to go on forever, we ended following it for about three miles were it seemed to end. What we saw was no meteor nor was it human, or a pony, it seemed to have one bird wing and one bat wing so we assumed that the humans tried to mix one of their own with such creatures. We didn't see what it was exactly, because it looked like the pit from a pear and it had been made from it's own wings must be the reason why it was so fast, when they unraveled after what felt like an hour they revealed a boy who was unconscious, covered in blood and holding two swords caked in blood, after a few minutes, some rope, water and pry-bars we managed to pry them from his hands. We tried to tie him up using ropes, but he just pulled them out of the wall when he rolled over, then we tried chains and that seemed to work for the most part. We waited for about three hours before he began to stir, once he did he noticed the chains and started to freak out pulling on the chains. We all saw the same thing, the chains were breaking, link by link so Twilight in a panic shot a spell that was meant to stun him, but instead what actually came out was a spell far more powerful and it was meant to kill him (seeing as how Twilight didn't know much offensive magic it was understandable). He seemed to know what it was and he shielded himself with his wings. The impact of the shot caused a large puff of smoke to cover the area. When the smoke cleared he had broken his chains and was lifting off into the sky, once he did I immediately followed suit and chased him. "GET BACK HERE!!!" I yelled at him, "NO!! Not if your just going to chain me up and use me as some experiment," Was his response to me meaning he could talk at least Then suddenly something wet hit me in the face, I thought it had started to rain, I looked up and the sky was still clear, I looked back and saw a trail of water droplets coming from in front of him, it was then I realized that he was crying, so I sped up and tackled him to the ground with a loud crash. When I tried to get up afterwards I felt a sharp pain in my wing, when I looked I found that my wing had been broken in the fall and badly too, when I looked back at him he seemed to notice my pain, and instead of running away he reached his left hand out at me. I flinched expecting him to hit me and knock me unconscious. The flinch caused him to pull away a bit, but then continued slowly, until he was able to reach my wing. His hands were gentle and careful but they were rough I could feel the calluses though my wings, still he was gentle almost as if he was trying not to hurt me though it still stung when he moved my wing, I then noticed a green sort of light come out of his left hand, then the pain was gone, he healed my wing but it was still sprained so if he were to run I could not fly after him. As he turned to fly away I jumped and tackled him again this time his back was to the ground and I could see his eyes, when I looked into them I could see fear, sadness, and dread, I felt his fear and when I got off of him he just got up and jumped into the nearest tree and stayed there. The rest of the girls caught up about five minutes later and noticed my wing. "What happened to you and were did he go?" asked twilight, I told them exactly what happened and were he was. They were surprised especially Fluttershy, since she could hardly believe that he just healed my wing. I could tell that they weren't going to let up when twilight was about to shoot a beam into the tree, she never got the chance because I tackled her taking the breath out of her lungs. Then Just when Apple Jack was about to buck the tree he dropped out of the tree with tears flowing down one side of his face and his arms out almost as if he was expecting us to shackle him. Instead Twilight shot at him again this time managing to hit him in the side of the head, when the smoke from the blast cleared he didn't move but the side of the head were she hit was completely bear of skin, however we all noticed at the same time, a few of us covering our mouths at the fact that his face was made of metal. Then almost instantaneously as if on reflex his face began to regrow skin to cover up the metallic appearance. Just when we were about to take him back to town, out of nowhere a large dragon landed behind all of us. It was probably pissed at all the commotion we were causing, it was about to burn all of us to a crisp, and we were all prepared to die. Then just like some kind of angle he jumped in front of us and used his bat like wing as a shield he grabbed his swords from AJ when the flames had stopped and swung at the dragon getting close to it made it back off and ready another attack. The dragon took aim at the boy in front of us and fired another blast of its fire in our direction the boy defended again though this time he blocked the fire with his swords splitting the fire around us. The air around us get really warm but the boy stood in front of us unwilling to move, but he wasn't about to just wait for the dragon to attack again he lunged at the creature slicing a large gauche in the dragons chest smearing his sword in the dragon's blood making Fluttershy faint. The dragon reeled back from the pain then took a lunge of its own biting the boys right arm, once it got a hold of this boy it lifted him up and threw him through a few trees then turned his attention to us licking its lips with a gluttonous look on its face. The dragon lunged at us but we were all terrified and couldn't move, and just when we thought we had met our end out of the woods the boy jumped inbetween us and the teeth of the fire breathing beast grabbing onto its open jaws with his bare hands. we found the strength to move and we retreated to a safe distance and watched as this stranger from another world fought to defend us. The dragon was the fist to strike slashing at the boy who defended with his arms, the cuts revealed more metal from our place of safety we couldn't be certain though. Again the dragon struck and kept striking as if not to let the boy get a shot in, then with ought warning the boy faltered and fell and again the dragon tried to take a bite of the boy. the boy once also caught the dragon by the jaws but this time he kept a hold of the bottom jaw as he reached for his sword behind him. he went to take a swing and was knocked off the dragon by its tail. The boy was losing ground in this fight but he still stood his ground. We couldn't help since we knew we were no match for this foe, we could only watch helplessly as our defender got beaten down again and again. Again he stood up sword in hand and ran at the dragon faster now The dragon set another fireball at the boy who simply cut straight through it keeping his pace. The Dragon started to panic and began firing a large stream of fire at the boy who stopped and sheilded himself with his wing. The stream was nonstop and the boy was sliding back until he started walking forward towards the dragon. Once he got close he released his shield and punched; and I'm not joking, he punched the Dragon in the chest before getting ahold of it's horns once he had a hold he twisted the Dragon's neck and from where we were we could hear the bones crunch as the boy broke the Dragons neck. After the Dragon was dead the boy went one step further and I personally think this was unnessisary, he tore the dragons head off and left it on the ground. The ground became drenched with the dragons blood, when blood stopped he turned back to the Dragon's corpse, raised his right hand and shot a blue flame from his arm and burned the dragon's corpse to a steaming pile of ash. Afterwards he gave the swords back to AJ, grabbed the chains from her bag and tied them around his hands then after locking them he gave Twilight the key and waited for her next action. > GREY > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY After I gave the purple talking horse thing the key to the chains she unlocked them looked past me to the remains of the dragon I had fought earlier and told me to follow her, I followed them for about an hour constantly staring at anything and everything but them the moon had the craters in the shape of a black unicorn, the ground changed from dark and mossy to light and clean, the trees changed from old, dead and creepy to new and vibrant. Then we came to a town, it wasn't a regular town but it's the only town I've ever been in so it's alright. We stopped in front of a giant oak tree and they all went inside, which I found strange, I followed because I wasn't told I could stop following even though I wanted to run but they seemed kind (kinder than anyone I knew). Once inside I followed the purple pony to a room up the stairs and to the left, when I got into that room there was a real bed one that I probably would never be able to sleep on. She told me to make myself comfy, so I got down on the floor grabbed a piece of cloth and fell asleep. I slept for about two days which seemed perfectly reasonable considering what happened in the past few days, and then when I got up I heard voices coming from downstairs. "What do you mean he slept on the floor?" came a voice which I'm pretty sure came from the blue pony who was caring enough to let me go. "Exactly how it sounds Rainbow, when we got into that room that night I told him to get comfortable and he got down on the floor grabbed a piece of cloth and fell asleep." came another voice and this time I think it came from the purple pony. "Why in the world would he do such a thing?" Asked the white pony, by this time I was already downstairs so I answered " I lived in a prison cell for all of my life and I didn't even get a cot." They all turned around so fast and the purple on even shot another beam at me but I just dodged it by leaning to the side, and then I walked behind her and towards the kitchen table were a large white horse thing with colorful hair (that seemed to blow in the wind even though there was none) was sitting. When I sat down the other white pony said "no,no,no this won't do at all. your hair is far to long for you to have, I mean really it's all the way to the floor, not to mention singed from dragon fire, do you mind if I give you a haircut while you talk to the princess." I gave her permission but asked her if she could keep it in a short ponytail not to be offensive or anything, she agreed but before she started I got up from my chair and gave the princess my best polite bow and addressed her as "your highness" to which she replied "please sit ...and call me Celestia." As I was getting a haircut all of the ponies introduced themselves the purple one who's house I assumed I was in was Twilight Sparkle, the white one giving me the haircut was Rarity, The cream coloured one with pink hair who had some way of making me feel guilty about killing that dragon was Fluttershy, the pink one with the cotton candy looking hair, and who was constantly asking questions was Pinkie Pie, The orange-ish Texan speaking one was Apple Jack, and the blue one was Rainbow dash, then the little dragon was known as Spike I could tell he was skeptical of me probably had something to do with the crusty dragon blood on my hands. Then the princess asked me of my state and I told her all about how I came to be this way which led her to the question of what I was to which I replied "I am a Nephilim." When I said this Twilight nearly chocked on her coffee and Apple Jack got ready to kick me in the face and she was about to before the princess told her to stop and Rarity dropped the scissors. I questioned their reaction and I was told about how Nephilim were a legend were I was and how people feared the legend. I was still a little sore from being feared that I told them If they even thought about trying to experiment on me I would kill everyone that so much as touched me. I was told to calm down and I was able to but not enough to keep the chair from smoking. Once Rarity finished with my haircut she gave me a quick shave and left a small goatee. I was looked over without a shirt, pants, or the skin that covered the metal of my limbs and face, and it was quite uncomfortable to bear with about seven girls watching my every motion. Once it was all over Rarity had finished making me some new clothes and I put them on with a little difficulty because I never had nice clothes to wear. After I finally got them on I walked towards the door but was stopped almost instantaneously when Apple Jack lassoed my legs and tripped me. I told them I was only going for a walk and it wasn't like I could run away seeing as I don't even know how I got here. I left but not without being followed and I knew who they sent.......... It was Rainbow dash. > RAINBOW > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINBOW After he left Twilight's I was told to follow him and keep out of sight whilst keeping him out of trouble; which for the most part was easy because he walked back to the crater where we had originally found him. While he was walking there he looked up to the sky multiple times and I thought he noticed me so I hid amongst the clouds. But when I looked back he was gone, I turned around to start searching for him, not paying any attention to what was ahead of me rather I was paying more attention to where he was before. Without realizing it I bumped into something looking up I realized what or more accurately who I ran into. Turns out he did notice me and after I hid he flew up into the clouds and was hovering above a cloud right behind me. I was so startled by this sudden appearance that I lost my balance and started to fall off the cloud I was standing on. Now as an experienced flyer I knew that if you fall off of a cloud backwards It is very hard to regain control and land safely. I with my slightly sprained wing I wouldn't be able to do it so I just fell. But I didn't fall very far because he caught me before I was completely off the cloud. " You should be more careful it's a long way down." he said as he pulled me to within a few inches of his chest. I could feel the blush flowing through my face as I heard his strong heart echo through the air around us. Carefully he carried me to the ground, I asked how he knew I was following him, he just said with a non-convincing tone that he saw my shadow on the forest floor as I passed between clouds. Looking at the path ahead he invited me to walk with him which I thought was quite an enjoyable Idea but I was quite shy and the thought of being beside the boy that saved my life twice now seemed to take the words from my mouth, so I stayed quiet and involuntarily nodded in response. Once we started walking we turned back onto the path to PonyVille. On our way back he started to ask questions about the world that he was now currently stuck on, I answered all the questions; which some seemed better fitted to be answered by Twilight, to the best of my abilities. Much to my surprise he took what I knew without asking to many more questions maybe he knew that I couldn't answer some of those questions or maybe he thought the answers I gave were enough I never did solve that mystery. After about ten minutes of walking (give or take two or three) a huge adult Manticore; roughly three or four feet taller than the boy jumped out of the bushes ahead of us and began running towards us. The boy didn't waist anytime getting me out of the way, he threw me onto his back, and shot into the air. After he dropped me onto a cloud, I watched as he flew down stopped the Manticore in it's tracks, the Manticore was stunned for a moment and just looked at the boy not as a snack but instead as a challenger, the two of them circled each episode other for a few moments before the boy took the first swing making excellent contact. After he dropped the animal to the ground he swiftly moved to back of the Manticore and grabbed it's tail before swinging it around in circles, I'm not sure if he let go or if he slipped either way he caused the Manticore to fly down the path, off a cliff and into a large river. The boy must've felt sympathy or remorse for the beast because not five seconds after I heard the splash he sped over to the cliff jumped into the river after after it. He struggled to catch up to it as the water swept them both away, yet he still managed to grab hold of the drowning manticore and carry it ashore. After he dried the exhausted creature off, he dove back in, five minutes passed and he still hadn't surfaced I started to get worried and glided down to the shoreline to see if I could find him. Another minute passed and he surfaced using his wings to get ashore he walked out of the water with an armful of fish. He dropped in front of the animal and started to pet the creature as it ate, It really must've been hungry then, it explained why it attacked us. After the Manticore ate it's fill it headed back into the woods, after the Manticore was out of sight the boy shook himself off creating a fine mist that looked as if it was grey-ish color as the sun hit it. After that we continued on our way and when we finally got back to Twilight's I told them the whole story as he went upstairs to change and they just looked at me as if I was crazy. I reassured them that it was the truth as the boy went into the shower when he came out twenty minutes later all he had on was his pair of jeans, his socks and his shoes, his hair was still wet and his back and wings were almost as wet as his hair, he gave a quick shake and created the exact same mist as he did before while he was on the shore, but everyone was to busy staring at his scared torso to notice. "See anything you like?" he said jokingly as he put his shirt back on and put his hair back into what he called a ponytail, we all blushed even Celestial was blushing as he turned towards his room. I turned to the rest of the girls and told them that I thought he deserved a name, They all questioned my reasoning, was it because I hadn't stopped wanting to keep an eye on him or was it because he saved my life, I told them it was neither although those reasons were accurate. I told them that it was because of the color of the mist he created, that and I don't think it was appropriate to keep calling him boy. I decided that the name I wanted to call him would be Strife Grey-Mist or Grey for short. The rest of the girls including the princess seemed to think it fit him thus it became official, Princess Celestial would do up the paperwork when she got back to Canterlot. However when I went into his room to tell him he was gone, the window was open so I looked outside to try and see if he was within eyeshot and heard a rustling of leaves from above, Thinking he wanted to be alone I told the girls a lie saying I thought I saw him fly out into the night. The rest of them wondered were he was and while they searched for clues around the house I leisurely glided out the window and lifted myself to the top of the tree were he was sitting on top of the branches staring at the sky, "I wonder if they'll come here trying to find me?" he asked to himself. "Who?" I said startling him "Oh... Just the people I escaped from. They beat on me like some poor excuse for a punching bag, it cost me a whole lot more than my pride." "Your arms and legs... And even your face?" I asked with a worried look "Yeah" He replied with a voice that said he was holding it all in "I hope they don't come here," I replied, "I would hate to watch them tear this whole world apart searching for you." He looked at me a little bit startled to say the least then he said angrily " They wouldn't just tear the world apart they would take all of the ponies in this world, lock them into small cells, they'd use you to do some nasty experiments either to create new weapons or something a lot worse, then they would beat you to find out how long you could last before you died, mapping out your weaknesses." He looked so angry, I could even see a small heat outline starting to form around him, so to make sure that the tree wouldn't catch fire I leaned into the increasing temperature and gave him a long caring embrace. He was so startled by the suddenness of it that his body cooled close to the temperature of ice and unable to find words he just hugged me back, I felt something wet hit my back as well as something running down my cheek, we were both crying although I was unsure why I was crying I wasn't sad or maybe I was. After a few seconds of sitting there I removed myself from his embrace and told him what I came up there to tell him. After thinking about it for a few minutes he looked up and said he actually liked the name and agreed to keep it as something that no one, not even God could take from him. > GREY > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY I just couldn't believe that she actually gave me a hug, It was such a new yet unusual experience I couldn't help crying, but that all happened three days ago, today on what seemed to be a Thursday, I'm trying to get a Job. Now over the past three days I've had some various opportunities however due to my untrusting nature when it came to loud or unexpected noises anytime something even dropped and hit the floor I threw something sharp at it and pinned it to the wall, be it a can, a pot, or the squeaking of a mouse in the corner; nonetheless I would usually get fired after that. This morning the mayor came up to me unexpectedly and awkwardly told me that she had a position in need of filling on the weather committee to "control" the weather; whatever that means. She also mentioned that after witnessing my exceptional, albeit lethal skills she referenced me to them. Then after some careful consideration I was granted a chance to work for them on the condition of being trained by their most experienced flyer. So now here I am in the most awkward position I could possibly imagine, working alongside Rainbow Dash. "OK, the boss wants me to train you but I don't train just anyone. I train the best!" she said boosting her ego "Alright then lets see how you can handle some clouds created by Discord, shall we." she boasted with the most coy look on her face I've ever seen She then called this thing called a draconequus by the name of Discord and asked him to bring some clouds from the ever-free forest. So Discord went into the forest and made some black clouds with blue ice-like spikes appear in the area in front of us, after he did that Rainbow Dash told me to destroy all of them as fast as I could, so as if on instinct I pulled one of my swords out of my left arm and got ready to slice through them. When she said "Go!" I lept forward moving so fast I could hardly feel the wind on my face. I kept swinging even as the clouds began to multiply I sliced through every cloud and started to feel an uncontrollable bloodlust that seemed to only increase my speed as well as the ferocity of my attacks. The clouds seemed to have a mind of their own as they moved together forming larger clouds that could attack. They shot their spikes at me trying to stop my progress but I just kept pressing ahead. The bloodlust made It feet so good to slice through things without consequences that I started to laugh uncontrollably, then without warning I blacked out. When I came to my senses I sliced through the last cloud, and I unintentionally turned my blade on RD but thankfully I stopped before my sword made contact with her neck. I felt sick and dropped my sword to the ground. Thinking about what I had almost done I shot up into the sky in a blast of heated rage, not at anyone but myself I headed up and straight through what seemed like the barrier between worlds through the hole in the ground and towards the base were they kept me. When I got there I landed with such a crash that a small platoon of soldiers came out to see what caused the commotion and soon enough after realizing what it was everyone was aiming at me, I felt the fingers in my right hand start to tense up and warp. When I looked I saw the areas where my fingernails used to be and I noticed that they had grown into razor sharp metallic claws. One of the guards came towards me with a stun rod designed to drop a full grown elephant. However I wasn't there to return to my cell, so when he got close enough I shoved my hand through his chest cavity. The rest of the soldiers were stunned, while they were scrambling to get a solid aim on me I grabbed hold of the combat knife on his belt, pushed him off my arm and started towards the rest of them. I stopped momentarily when I thought I heard RD calling my name, I thought it was just a delusion and continued on my way slicing through the armour and Kevlar on these soldiers covering myself in their blood. I cut them with the knife, tore them apart with my claws, and once I had just about killed the last one of this small platoon the commander came out of the bushes holding a gun at the back of RD's head. I left the knife embedded in the final soldiers skull and taunted her. I said "fight me like the big shot you thought you are, or run like the coward you claimed you aren't" The taunt worked better than I expected, because she threw RD to the side and ran towards me unloading her clip as she ran, using what strength I had left I dodged the bullets as they flew at me, then when I was close enough I grabbed the arm holding the gun and threw her over my shoulder and to the ground knocking the wind from her lungs. As she struggled to gain a breath I jumped on top of her restricting her movement and began punching her in the face over and over again. I kept punching her until RD grabbed my shoulder and pulled me back screaming that I had done enough. I got up and started to walk away, we were about at the tree line when I heard the click of a gun I turned around to see that the commander had reloaded her gun and pointed the barrel at the back of Rainbow Dash's head. Her hands were shakey and she could hardly keep her aim straight let alone her eyesight so I jumped in front of RD just as the gun went off and let the first bullet hit me in the chest about two inches from the middle, it went off again while I was still reeling from the first shot. This time it took out my left shoulder, while I was holding my hand over the wound the gun went off a third time taking out my knee. The COmander was still conscious so in a last ditch effort to end this I picked a nearby gun off one of the corpses laying on the ground and shot her in the head unloading the clip. I felt at ease as we waked back to the pit I could just see it before I collapsed. I woke up on the top of Twilight's house buried in twigs and leaves as though I landed from a fall. Thinking about what I saw I searched my body and found that I had no holes in my body, it then became clear to me that it was all a messed up dream. I thought about what happened earlier and shot up and started looking for Rainbow Dash, I looked everywhere before I headed out to the last place I remember seeing her. When I got back to the testing area RD was sitting on one of the many clouds crying. Remembering that today was supposed to be a clear day I started clearing up all of the clouds except hers then once that was done I went up to talk to her. "Whats wrong RD?" I asked, she looked up and was more than a little shocked to see me and as she started to shiver in fear, I noticed right away that she was scared of me, that's when it became apparent to me that before I seemed to enter the other world in my dream I was really awake and I really had almost killed her. I felt in my heart that I should just leave so I turned to go and finish up my work, but I never got off the cloud before she tackled me and said, "You blacked out and fell into Twilight's after you finished off that last cloud and came at me! I honestly thought you wouldn't wake up!! You scared me to death." Then she got up and poked me on the cheek with her hoof as a sign to make sure I knew that she still cared for me. Since then we continued to work together every day although I was told to keep the swords in my arms. THREE MONTHS LATER Today I went to work by myself, RD said she had some stuff to do at home so I took a little longer to finish allowing myself a leisurely pace. I just couldn't get her out of my head, It's so weird, I know she has a colt-friend of her own but I just can't understand these feelings going through my head right now, I decided to go and ask the princesses about it, after all they likely have a better understanding of how the heart works better than I ever could. I left after I was finished but when I got there the castle was so busy I had to wait for about an hour till I could speak with them. However as I asked around it turned out that the Princesses weren't busy at all but rather they were being held captive and no one could help even if they wanted to because their captor was none other than the infamous Queen Chrysalis. In an effort to rescue the princesses the captain of the guard was hit in the head and knocked out and the royal guard was powerless against her magic. I was getting annoyed from the waves of the frantic screaming and constant chaos, so much so, that I shouted for everypony to stop what they were doing and shut up. They were startled which was a natural response when the sound of a fully grown humanoid screams at the top of their lungs reverberating the soundwaves off the walls. They froze which was good and once the room was silent I started to give commands to maintain what little order I managed to create. "You guards over their get the civilians away from this area, you by the captain get him to the infermary as for the rest of you get some doctors and emergency response teams up to her ASAP. As for me I am going in" I barked making everyone hastily follow what commands I gave "But no one can get in sir, those doors are barred from the inside" said one of the guards "I said to get the paramedics! Now go!!!" I screamed and they hurried off I walked right up to the door to the throne room and kicked it open sending splinters of wood all over the floor of the room. I looked around the room and noticed that vines were appearing out of thin air, and using this magic was a black Pony across the room who clearly noticed my presence she was about Celestia's height, At a glance she looked like an insect-pony cross, she clearly had holes throughout her legs and bug like wings adding to the insect look. The vines she was producing had already taken hold of the princesses and suspended them in mid air while more appeared over the entrance to the room I just created. I looked back at the now vine covered door then back at the pony in front of me, we stared at eachother for a few moments before I spoke up. "Chrysalis I presume?" I asked knowing full well who it was "I told everyone out there, that no one was to enter!!" she hissed using her magic to wrap some vines around the princesses necks and sending more vines in my direction, I cut a few of them before she managed to get a hold of my wrist and start tightening the vines around it. They tightened to the point it started to bend the metal in my arm the pain was great but I had endured worse I grabbed the Vines and pulled on them ripping a chunk of stone out of the wall. While the dust was still settling I tossed my sword like a throwing star making it cut down the vines about to hang Celestia and her sister. But before I could help them up I was tossed to the side with a wave of energy, Chrysalis looked like she wanted to talk and she wasn't about to let me move she created vines that pinned me to the wall before she started to speak to me. "You nearly killed me there, was that your plan?" She asked impatiently "No... But it might not' expectations been a bad idea" I snapped back "You can't stop me even if you are a human, your kind is so weak" She turned her attention back to Celestia and started asking if this was the saviour she was hoping for. While her attention was focused on them I broke one of my arms free and began tearing at the vines holding me to the wall. When she turned her attention back to me I was free of the wall and lunging at her, she tried to move but I hopped on her back and held her horn before pulling her to the floor. While she struggled to get back up I grabbed hold of her tail and flung her through the hole in the ceiling. While the stupid ass queen of the changelings flew back to her country to plan her next attack I went over to the princesses and began by asking if they were okay, after that I continued with why I came to Canterlot in the first place. Over the course of twenty minutes it became apparent to both me and the princesses that I had gone to the wrong city. So off I flew towards the crystal empire using a map given to me by Celestia, once there I requested an audience to talk to the princess of love and compassion, she of course confirmed my suspicion that I had in fact fallen in love with Rainbow Dash. Once I believed it for myself I flew back to PonyVille as fast as I could to see her. However when I got to her house there was something unimaginable happening, Rainbow Dash was under attack from her colt-friend......... Like hell I was about to let him lay a hand on her her. > RAINBOW > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINBOW Today was like any regular day for me, However I had some chores to do at home since Soarin left a complete mess of the place while I was gone. He always makes me clean it up, it really gets on my nerves me how he doesn't seem care about me at all and how he just uses me as a maid rather than being his mare-friend. Today was going to be different, I really wanted to call Grey over but he had already finished his job early and went up to Canterlot to see the princesses for a bit, I guess he had his reasons. "UGH, why can't I get him out of my head? Its so irritating that I can't figure out why," I groaned to myself "...I Know! Maybe Twilight can help I'm sure she's dealt with this kind of thing before; being the student of Celestia, or at least she'll have the knowledge or some book to tell me what it is." I said in my head because if Soarin heard me talk about some other boy I'm sure he would beat me again. He would always hit me for just thinking about another guy, If I talked to another boy outside work it was worse. I hated how he was like that and I was also scared of him. So I went to Twilights after cleaning up and who would you guess was there (not Soarin that's for sure)... it was AJ. It was almost awkward to see her again after what happened a few days earlier when we ran into each other and ended up in a lip lock. "err hi AJ" I said turning my blue coat into a vibrant pink "Hey RD sorry about what happened earlier it was a clumsy mistake can you forgive me?" whose face was almost as red as the hair and she tied her hair with "I was going to apologize to you that day but you ran off so fast that I couldn't even get a word out" "I thought you were going to scream at me, and honestly you'd have every right to" "Nah I wasn't watching were I was going and neither were you so really neither of us are truely at fault in this. Say on another note is Twilight around?" "Yeah she's up stairs g'luck, though she's in another one of her moods." she said nodding towards the tree behind her "In that case I'll talk to you." afraid to step into an angry Twilight zone "What do you need sugar cube?" "I was wondering if you knew what the feeling is called when you can't get someone out of you head, and your heart throbs every time you think of them. When you want to hold someone in your arms without letting go out of fear of losing them" "Awe. sugar cube yer in love and you got it bad... Real bad" said AJ flicking me in the forehead "LOVE!!! What do you mean?" I said surprised by the near mention of the word "Don't you think we haven't noticed the way you blush when someone talks about grey. You like him and I think he likes you to." "How do you know?" "He looks at you the same way you look at him. "You know what your right, I can't stop thinking about how compassionate he's been acting for the past three months. I can't even get the image of him without his shirt off out of my head." "Believe me Dash... Neither can I," AJ said blushing more than earlier "I've made my decision I'm kicking Soarin out. He's used me long enough" I said to AJ before heading back to my house Twenty Minutes Later "LIKE HELL!!!!! This is because of that Grey character Isn't it" "How Could you possibly come to that conclusion?" "I followed you to Twilight's after you left without making my lunch and I overheard your conversation with AJ" "Look I've made my decision, I'm leaving you! Now get out of my house." "You bitch! You think that just because you live here, and pay all the bills that It's still "your" house? Well your wrong, This is my house and your still my woman now get over here, I'm going to make sure that no one looks at you but me." He said grabbing one of the kitchen knifes out of the Knife block and lunged at me. He pushed me up against the counter and swung the knife down at me. Scared as I was I still held his arm back for as long as could but he was so much stronger than me and the knife kept inching closer and closer towards my chest. Then I heard a knock at the door and I screamed for help. Almost instantaneously Grey broke open the door, ran across the house to the kitchen and punched Soarin square in the face sending him flying into the counter across the room. He helped me up and pushed me behind him as he turned towards Soarin and started towards the door making sure to keep himself between me and the knife weilding lunatic. Just as we turned the corner towards the main entrance hall a knife flew past my head and into the wall ahead of me. Grey turned to me and shook me, trying to bring me back to my senses. " Run" he said as I stood there shocked After a moment of trying to bring me back to my senses he told me to hide and he shot a beam out of his hand that gave off a blinding light, when I opened my eyes I was in a closet close to the front door I could hear all that was going on. Grey was confronting Soarin and was trying to talk him down for a moment before I heard a sound like a hoof down a chalkboard. I knew what it was and I just listened on as the sound of scraping metal against metal hit my ears over and over again. My initial thought was that Soarin must of put his steel horseshoes on to cut through the weaker metal of Grey's limbs (He'd been saving up to get replacements) after a few minutes I heard words coming from the kitchen. "What makes you think you could have defeated me in the first place? I mean, seriously I'm far faster than you'll ever be" questioned Soarin "What made you think that was my intention" Grey said with a condescending tone "Listen here you little prick she's mine, I own her!" Soarin barked "I don't care what you think there's no way that little knife will do enough damage to me to stop me from protecting her" said Grey confirming that Soaring did not have his steel horseshoes on. "I don't need to stop you for long, I just need you to lie still while I tend to my woman" "Your woman?" questioned Grey "Yes my woman she was so much of a tomboy no one would so much as look at her until I started dating her" "You sorry excuse for a man, she's far to good for you. I don't think you deserve her!!" Grey barked back with a hint of passion in his voice "What did you say?" questioned Soarin angrily "I said you don't deserve her she is far too kind and caring a person for some dick head ass-wipe like you to have!!" Grey spat back sending chills up and down my spine "And I suppose you do" "She has free will and seems like she made one hell of a choice, hell she deserves far better than someone like me" "You of all people, HA!! your a human lab rat for Celestia's sake." "Your wrong about that in fact I'm far from human. I'm a Nephilim" "Then you can't possibly exist. Because Nephilim aren't real, their just a story foals are told by their parents to keep them from getting out of bed at night" Soarin said walking away from Grey "Rainbow Dash if you can hear me run!" Grey screamed I hopped out of the closet and ran for the door but didn't make more than a few feet to the door before Soarin grabbed me by the throat, pinned me to the wall and started to strangle the life out of me. I was so close to passing out that Started to see things in slow motion. First a knife flew past Soarins back clipping one of his wings before landing in the wall. Though that didn't weaken his grip on my throat but the next thing that came flying over was one of Grey's legs. It came flying out of nowhere and struck the right side of his face sending him flying towards the wall. I fell to the floor and started to pass out from the lack of oxygen nevertheless I could still hear everything that was going on. "If you ever think about touching her again you sick bastard I will personally make sure you never fly again." said Grey through heavy breaths "How are you moving? I crippled you." hissed Soarin through cracked teeth "Uh, hello! I do have wings, these things aren't just for show you know" Replied Grey condesendingly "Well, whatever I'll touch her if I want to, after all she's still my woman" "NO...You...Won't, and no she's not... Not anymore" Grey declared passionatly "How are you going to stop me from making her mine? If you move at all you'll electrocute yourself. I can see sparks coming out of your arms and legs" Then I heard Grey set himself down on the floor and start hopping towards Soarin who was still reeling from the shock of being hit in the hear with a flying leg. After he hoped past me as I lie on the floor he picked up his leg, reattached it with a small amount of audible pain and began walking towards Soarin with electricity visibly surging through his whole body the next thing managed to see when I opened my eyes was a vibrant blue flame with a clear red spiral form in his left hand. he clenched his hand into a fist around the flame coating it in the magic flame. Still walking to Soarin he said something but my hearing had already gone. After he said that inaudible sentence he punched Soarin with enough force to send him flying through the outside wall to the ground were the cops were waiting seemed someone heard the composition and called them. Once they captured Soarin they arrested him and sent someone in to patch us up, however I blacked out before they arrived. Shortly after I woke up on the couch with a bandage and cooling pad wrapped snugly around my neck and as I looked around I found Grey was still paralyzed from the earlier fight. I kept trying to think of someway to thank him, and when I figured it out I decided to make a call. > GREY > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY I must of passed out after that fight with Soarin, I woke up sometime near dawn and found myself in one of RD's spare rooms. A few minutes of lying there motionless passed before I turned my head and saw the outline of a figure that I was pretty sure was RD but it was too dark to see clearly, I guess that was because it was still dark outside, not to mention Soarin busted up my eye. More time passed and my vision began to adjust to the darkness of the room, my good eye was still focused on Rainbow. As the light came in she was all I could see for some time, then I noticed the wet spot under her face so I assumed she had been crying......Or drooling? A few minutes later she woke up and wiped both her eyes and her mouth (ok so she was crying AND drooling) anyways she got up and noticed that I was awake and looking at her. She was ecstatic to see I was awake and she tackled me with a semi-graceful hug, the only thing that truly sucked at that moment is that I couldn't hug her back, especially since my limbs were almost destroyed. She got off and told me that I had been out for roughly a day and a half, She also mentioned that she had a mechanic take a look at my limbs. She said he was here about a day ago and that he said he would come back with a brand new set of limbs made from a stronger metal and a replacement for my busted eye. She said that when he was leaving earlier he'd said that he would come back in roughly four days so I should be able to walk again in a couple of days. I spent two days in bed telling Rainbow Dash how I felt, what happened in Canterlot and The Crystal empire, and we talked about where our relationship would go from there. She told me how she had fallen in love with me and how she found out that I had gone to Canterlot, as well as what led to Soarin going off the handle like that. I got to spend all that time with her and learn about her and what her family was like, although I found it slightly strange how she didn't talk to much about her father. I assumed that he died when she was young and left that subject alone. The two days passed like that and they went by quickly and just when we were expecting the mechanic Twilight came in looking like she just saw a ghost and she called Rainbow out into the hallway were she started to whisper, having near super human hearing I could still make out what they were saying. "Whats wrong twilight you look terrible?" Said Rainbow Dash concerned about her freind "It's Soarin." Replied Twilight with a hint of fear "What about him?" she said with a displeased tone "He's escaped from prison he's coming this way like a freight train." Twilight responded slightly increasing her Volume "Your joking right?.........Oh shit your serious," Said Rainbow Dash expressing her fear and concern "I think he may be after you." Twilight said with a shakey voice "He would be here by now If he was coming for me, no!... He must be after somethi*..... The mechanic, he's after the mechanic." "He's on his way and he'll be here at first light, which is in twenty minutes." "That's going to take to long, Soarin will great to him first. I have to go find him." Rainbow Dash said with a strong hint of worry in her voice "HELL NO!" Twilight screamed "Why not?" "Because I've already sent him a message by Pinkie Pie, and knowing her I should get a reply any second now." "Anyway Is there someone you can send to make sure he gets here faster?" "He Is here." Came a bubbly voice which could only come from one pony " Pinkie Pie!! When?!? What!!... What do you mean?" Said Rainbow Dash with an audibly surprised tone "We arrived a few seconds ago." said Pinkie Pie with a giggle Just as the conversation died the door opened to my room and the "mechanic" walked in with a large bag full of metallic human limbs and replacement link points. First he put me out with some really strong sleeping gas and removed the old link points and attached the new to the places were my limbs were amputated. I woke up as he was placing the limbs to their rightful positions, applejack was sitting on top of me, and everyone else was holding the devices that connected my nerves to the limbs giving them mobility, "Oh sweet Celestia this is going to hurt lik a son of a bitch" I thought to myself. He had everyone reconnect the nerves simultaneously to "lessen the pain" as he put it but instead it only made it worse I couldn't move to express the amount of pain I was in if I wanted to I could only scream at the top of my lungs. The pain left almost as quickly as it came and after a few minutes of lying there I got up off of the bed and gave Rainbow a grateful hug. I turned to the mechanic and asked how much I owed for the replacements, but instead of giving me an amount he simply shook his head and said it was on the house for saving his daughter. It took a few seconds for me to realize I was talking to Rainbow Dash's father; a burly pony with a similar build to Big Macintosh named Lightning Stride. I offered my hand out as a sign of respect, he looked at my hand before he offered out his hoof in a similar fashion I grabbed It softly and gave a quick shake. "My name is Grey-mist." I said "I know RD told me. Though I am a bit sceptical about her dating a human it's at least better than the other boy" he said audibly voicing his concern "Dad!!" "You have a lovely daughter sir." "Thank you but as I said I'm sceptical of you. So I'll allow it for now, but you hurt her like her ex and I'll make sure you regret it" "Noted" Just when everything was getting to be normal Soarin Jumped through the window sending glass shards everywhere. I managed to stop them using one of the magic spells Twilight taught me. Though all the glass fell to the ground as Soarin kicked me into the hallway. He pulled out a knife and just as Rainbow was about to tackle Soarin I shut the door using telekinesis and told them to stay there. Soarin started to say something but my head was still ringing I asked him to repeat what he said when my head stopped ringing. "You think I'm just going to let you take her away from me? I'm going to make you regret it" He said pointing his knife at me "I didn't take her from you SHE left YOU!!!" I screamed back I got up and he stabbed at me but I moved just in the nick of time and he just managed to tear a hole in the shoulder of my shirt. Out of necessity to keep the others safe I jumped out the window and he followed, I flew out of town and landed In a Clearing on the outskirts of the Everfree Forest. He landed in a tree on the other side of the clearing I said "If you want her back your going to have to kill me" to which he replied "And if you want to keep her alive you'll have to kill me" I didn't want to ever have to kill again but if I didn't do something it meant I would risk her life so I quickly thought of a plan, I was going to use a spell twilight taught me in case Discord went back to his old self. But I would have to stun him first and find an opening. He struck first by swinging his knife in the motion that would catch any normal person off guard, but not me. He hit me in the leg and I vaulted over him kicking him into the dirt. I attacked next while he was covering one of the cuts made on his face, I punched him in the gut, then kneed him in the face as he bent over from the first strike I turned to get at a safe distance for the spell but I dropped my guard and he stabbed me in the left shoulder right through the back and out the front (this wasn't some pocket knife it was a kitchen knife stolen from someone's house) I bent the blade and Kicked him back to the other side of the clearing then hastily cast the spell causing a blinding light to show itself for miles > RAINBOW > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINBOW Grey led Soarin out of the house roughly three hours ago and I was starting to get worried, earlier there was a large explosion of power that came from the Everfree forest about ten minutes after they left and I haven't seen either of them come out of it. I was just about to go after them but before I could open the door Grey fell through it with Soarin's knife through his shoulder, his shirt was completely soaked in his blood down the left side of his back and he just fell to the floor were blood just kept pouring out. My dad was a licensed doctor so he pulled the blade of the knife out of Grey's shoulder and patched him up then when he woke up we asked him what happened to Soarin, he just replied "He's not going to be a... Problem... anymore " before passing out from heavy blood loss. We contacted the Princess to see if Soarin made it back to the maximum security ward in the Canterlot prison for dangerous criminals (CPDC, for short.). She replied a few minutes later saying that Soarin had never come to the prison in the first place, and that she was coming to question Grey about his answer to our question of what happened. Grey woke up a few hours after the princess arrived and told us and the princess that he'd imprisoned Soarin in stone out in the forest and that the only person able to undo that spell on him was the princess. The princess was furious, when she stormed out of the room we all followed and explained what happened to start this whole ordeal, she calmed down after that. But it wasn't enough she still intended to punish Grey. "Even so I can't let this slide he has to pay for his actions." She said sternly I begged the princess to give him a warning and she agreed but he was to stay on house arrest for a week or two to make sure he is of no harm to anypony else in Ponyville. When we went into the room to tell Grey the relatively good news he was gone we searched everywhere to find him but it got dark out and we had to stop searching for the day, when I went home I noticed that I had mail, everyone was at Twilight's figuring out who would search were in the morning so none of them could have left it. I opened the mailbox and found a single letter made out of a drawing Grey made in his spare time on it was my name and a feather from his wing and just that. I took the letter to Twilight's to show every pony but no one believed what I thought, however after a DNA test or what ever it was that Twilight did to a sample of the feather from the letter it turned out I was right and Grey used his feather to say who sent it, I hadn't opened the letter yet so that's what I did, and this is what it said: Dear Rainbow Dash I've come to the realization that what I am is a monster in both our worlds so I've decided to go back to my old one and stay there were they can hunt me on there own ground and not yours. I've left all of the money I've earned in my room at Twilights, you can have it. As I write this I've planned to tear off my wings and burn them, so I've packed my bags and I'm leaving. You deserve much better than me, so I plan to severe the link between our worlds permanently and once I do that I will have saved you from making an attempt on following me. I will always love you ~Goodbye forever~ GREY-MIST. My father searched for days hoping to find him on his scanners praying to find the tracking beacons in his arms and legs, Twilight searched the stars every night to see if the portal was still there, both of them continued to find nothing. one evening I decided to unfold the envelope, hoping to find some clue about where he went. When I did I saw the drawing was a recreation of Mare-kelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Vatican palace in Bridle-ville. However It showed a Nephilim pointing towards the ground rather than our depictation of God and a pony pointing towards the heavens in the middle of both of them was an small cross that looked as if it were the North Star. I came to think that the portal was in the place of the north star and could only be accessed during the night when we could see the stars. I told Twilight the Princess of my irrational theory and they seemed to agree that it made some logical sense, since all the humans that have come here in the past have all come through the same place in the sky. I told them I planned to go through the portal myself and find Grey to bring him home. All my friends told me that no one has ever been able to fly that high let alone me since I had refused to eat or sleep since he left, then I told them that we could send Soarin to go and get him in my place, my friends were appalled at the idea of sending Soarin to go and get him. I pulled out a highly modified version of a dog collar, I told the girls that my father had attached a wireless tazer to its inside so if he were to betray our trust at any time we could shock him I also told them we could attach a few extra appliances to make all of our efforts worth it. We attached a camera to allow Twilight to observe the humans and a radar display so that my father could find Grey while Soarin was there, and then we'll bring him home. > GREY > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY I woke up a few hours after leaving Equestria, looking around I realized I was in the bottom of the pit I once fell through to escape this world, I found it kind of ironic how I did the exact opposite to run away from the world I now called home. Knowing I never could go back I reached over my shoulders and grabbed hold of my wings and started pulling, suffering through the pain as I popped them out of their sockets and tore them off of my back. After it was over I bandaged up my back, put my sweater on and raised the hood over my head to cover my small yet noticeable horns. I got my bearings and started to head towards the building were I was held captive for the first 19 years of my life, I was moving slower because of the pain and I decided to walk rather than run. I got there about a week later and found the building to be condemned and abandoned, I looked around for any soldiers or guards, finding no one around I looked for and found the chemical shed and poured all the flammable chemicals I could find around the outside of the building then set it all ablaze. Once the fire had started to burn the building I tossed my wings into the flames and watched them burn. When the wings were nothing but ash I left, and went towards the hospital, when I got there I asked around to seen if I could learn about a family that was killed over 19 years ago, they gave me their names when I said I was a family member and told me were to find them in the town graveyard. The plot was R17 C8, but when I found their graves there were no names engraved on their tombstones I used one of my claws and etched their names into their tombstones: Draco Necroven 2345-2375 beloved father,husband and friend R.I.P Nadea Necroven 2347-2375 Beloved mother, wife, and friend R.I.P After putting their names on their graves I placed a smaller tombstone in between them and wrote on it: Draven Necroven 2375-2394 loving son R.I.P My real name..... The name my parents gave me was supposed to be Draven but he died 4 months ago when he entered Equestria. I decided to go after the commander who killed my parents the day I was born, It shouldn't be very difficult I do know how to do some tracking, I went back to the hospital and told them I wanted to see the video tapes of the night the Necrovens were killed, I had to be quick judging by the expressions on their faces that they were becoming suspicious. I watched the tape then zoomed in on the name tag of the officer who shot them It was the same commander who was the warden at the prison I was in...….Commander Senguin Hellraiser. Later that night I was sleeping in a box somewhere in a back alley when a police officer came up to me and asked who I was, I ignored him and continued trying to sleep, but then he kicked me in the head to get my attention. I had gotten pretty annoyed with this idiot and I answered him I told him my name was grey and that I was just trying to get some sleep. He walked away and I could hear him talking on his radio. "Dispatch...come in dispatch?" "Yes this is dispatch state your name and your issue." "This is officer hellraiser"~ hellraiser? isn't that the name of the officer who killed my family " [sigh] what is it son." "look dad what was the name of the prisoner mom never wants to talk about anymore?" "I think the boy didn't have a name.......Why?" "There is a boy calling himself Grey here with me and I think he's one of.....One of Them!" "Stay were you are your mother and I are coming to get you. Don't go near him, and whatever you do, Don't provoke him......You already did didn't you?" "Uhhhhh yeah I think I did." "RUN just run don't look back and for god's sake DO NOT attempt to attack him."*CLICK* The kid started to run and I followed close behind moving as silently as I could, the man was wrong about me I wouldn't kill him.....yet. I wanted to do it right in front of her,.... The bitch who killed my family, I was going to fucking rip him to shreds then make her watch as I do the same the rest of her family. A car pulled up on the street in front of the boy I ran fast enough to grab the boy, pull him out of the way and put him in a headlock before the people in the car opened their doors. First came a man then out of the other side came the person I had been looking for. "No.....Not you.... your supposed to be dead" said the commander "Well I'm not and this time I am going to finish what we started....Commander" I growled digging my claws into the boys shoulder, causing him to yelp in pain "Put my son down Draven.... Please this is between you and I" she pleaded "Not this time" I said as I bore my hand through his chest and used my other to tear him in half sending bits of his flesh straight at her face. The shocked expression on her face as she wiped her son off it was priceless I moved from where I was standing she looked at her husband but it was to late I had already ripped off his head and dropped it in front of her. Then the front passenger door opened and out came a girl screaming for help. I could tell immediately that it was a ruse and I moved in, broke the chains on her shackled hands and told her to run, but instead she put her arm around my neck and tried to strangle me, I quickly flipped her off my shoulders where she had rested herself and knocked her out on the pavement, she was not one of my targets. I told the commander that this was the price she had to pay for killing my family she replied "I killed them for a good reason It was so that they wouldn't get arrested.......dear nephew." "Nephew?!?....You killed them in cold blood and took me away you aren't my family....Only you would think of something so callous to buy more time" Nephew was a lie I new that, she was in no way related to me she was trying to get into my head, she was crying so out of pity I took the gun out of the holster on her hip placed it in her hand and told her that whatever she chooses be it aim at me or at herself, either way She will die. So she pointed the gun at my head with shaky hands trying to pull the trigger, moments passed like this as I waited for the gun to fire. Instead she put it in her mouth and pulled the trigger, splattering what little brain matter she had all over the road. After I had finished what I came to do I heard a voice coming from the nearby ally calling my name, I went over to investigate and was pulled in and slammed against one of the walls. Stars flew across my vision, and my ears rang. When I regained my vision I saw Soarin sitting in front of me holding me against the wall. "What are you doing here Soarin?" I asked sternly "I'm came to get you." he spat back "Why?" I asked spitefully "Because Of what you have caused by leaving without a reason, and because I was asked to by Rainbow Dash" he said letting me go surprising me more than the statement of being asked by RD "I left for a reason" I said looking him in the eyes "Why?" "because I am just a danger to everyone around me, I also left to protect the ponies of Equestria from myself." I muttered "Look no one thinks you are a danger. No one but me at least" he said wincing at the thought "I don't care about you, I came here to escape from hurting anypony else... You I'd gladly beat down any day" I growled "You are hurting them right now." he barked "What?" "Let me show you." Soarin pulled out a crystal ball and smashed it against the ground were a blue cloud of smoke came out and created a circle forming a picture. The picture showed Rainbow dash in a hospital bed and everyone circling around her. "What is this?" "This is what is happening right now, RD went into a coma from lack of nutrition. She stopped eating after you left and according to the doctors......she's dying of a broken heart." "Other people can fix this besides me." "Yes, that's true... But you may be the only person (sort of thing) that can stop... This!" Soarin said sliding his hoof across the image showing me another image of a huge and massive army heading towards Ponyville and then vanishing. "they have infiltrated Ponyville and I have the slightest feeling that everyone except those inside Rd's room have been captured and replaced." "Fine I'll go back, to help save Pony-Ville, Nothing more... But after I'm leaving and I won't go back again." "Fine with me." > RAINBOW > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINBOW After Grey left I felt as if it were my fault, I wouldn't eat, I wouldn't sleep, I couldn't do anything because of the guilt and because of my decision I ended up in an anorexic coma. I could hear everyone coming and going but I couldn't see or move for that matter. They talked about how Soarin was doing on earth, a sudden change in the staff, and something about wings that I couldn't quite make out, all the while my thoughts drifted to Grey and what he must've been doing, and what he thought of me when he left. It only made my condition worse, the doctors said that If something didn't change my heart could literally break, though it felt as if it had already. Until next chapter > GREY > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY I went to the portal with Soarin but when I got there I noticed another familiar image was sitting there waiting for us, it was pinkie pie but something was off she had this evil grin and green eyes. I told Soarin to go through the portal ahead of me, but he said he would do no such thing, as he was afraid I wouldn't follow. Pinkie turned to me, spontaneously burst into green flames, and started to change. She grew substantially larger, holes formed in her legs, bug-like wings sprouted on her back, her coat turned black, her mane turned a seaweed green, and a large jagged horn grew from her head. Pinkie Pie had turned into Chrysalis, the queen of the changeling kingdom, she stared at me with a toothy grin and started a conversation with me. "Hello Grey or should I say you experimental failure." she casually said "Chrysalis" I greeted back with an audible growl in my voice "Yes It is I, and I came here to tell you what I plan to do with your friends in Ponyville. I plan to kill them right in front of you, and I'll have the pleasure of watching you lose your mind." She turned and jumped through the portal, and on instinct I grabbed Soarin and Jumped in after her, yelling at Soarin to spread his wings and fly down to warn everyone in RD's room. Meanwhile I fell like a missile, closing the gap between Chrysalis and I, She thought I couldn't fly without my wings...…..She was only half right. She turned, let me pass her, and hovered in the air, watching and waiting for me to hit the hospital but I rose up behind her using a levitation spell, and tackled her to the ground. As we fell she jabbed at my wounds where my wings once were trying to loosen my grip, instead of releasing her I instead spun mid-air and threw her straight at the ground, the impact caused blood to spew from her mouth. When she came to, I had lowered myself to the ground. I looked at her, spat in her face and ran towards the hospital entrance. When I got there all hell broke loose, the changelings had revealed themselves and were trying to get into RD's room. At that moment I broke the vow I had made on earth to never kill again and ripped every single one of them to pieces with my bare hands. I knocked on the door but nobody dared to open it, then without warning I was hit from behind by a green flare, I was slightly immobilized but nowhere near enough to stop be from guarding the door. the flare came from chrysalis, she ran up and kicked me in the abdomen again and again but I would not move in the slightest. Then, growing desperate, she took out a buzz saw used for cutting bone from a drawer in the corner, and sliced down the left side of my face disabling my sight for a mere few seconds. The injury caused a great deal of pain, plummeting me to the floor, when my sight had returned she had moved into the room, and was walking towards everyone the buzz saw held in her magic. By then the pain in my eye had subsided and I lunged at her she swung around and sliced me across the chest in the shape of an "X" I didn't stop my assault however. I swung my right leg up getting some contact on her shoulder, she lit up her horn and retaliated with an electric attack. The lightning hit my arms, my legs and my face, I used the lightning and redirected it back at her, but it took a lot out of me. I attacked her by jumping on her back placing a wire in her mouth and pulling back. While riding her like a cowboy rides a bucking bronco I grabbed her horn, and back flipped foreword off of her back, landed bringing her horn to the ground slamming her head to the floor.When she got up she stabbed me in the side with her horn, I screamed in pain and hit her in the top of the head with my elbow, causing her to remove her horn from my side and stagger backwards. She collapsed by the window, and I walked up grabbed her ears and kneed her in the bottom of her jaw making her land on her back. I hopped on top of her and started to wail on her face saying a word between every punch. "I *punch* Will *PUNCH* Never *PUNCH* Let *PUNCH* You *Punch* Hurt *PUNCH* Them!!!!!!!!!!" Then she hoofed me in the wound were she stabbed me and sent me reeling backwards spraying blood from the wound onto the floor. Then she cracked me in the face putting me on my back hopped on top of me and changed into RD, one of the only people I was unwilling to harm. "You can't hit me can you Grey," she said with a pouty, mocking tone "He can't but I can" Said Soarin as he hoofed RD's face off of her head I didn't waist time waiting for the shock to pass, I got up, and I let my rage control me. I kicked her across the room and walking slowly towards her, letting the blood pour out of my body as I grabbed a sharpened piece of metal off the side of one of the tables. I Started to gain a sense of pleasure beating the shit out of this bitch, the one who thought it was a good idea to use my fears against me. The look of fear was undeniable as I got right up close and personal with her, I told her that if at any point she ever decided it was a good idea to try and take over Equestria again, I would rip off her horn and brutally dissect her with it. After that she got up and flew as fast as she could away from Ponyville releasing all of the captured ponies as quickly as she released the contents of her bowels and taking what was left of her army with her. I couldn't feel my legs and I collapsed on the floor. Darkness took me and even though I could hear everyone calling my name, I couldn't respond. My mind went blank and I slipped into unconsciousness. > RAINBOW > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINBOW From what I heard I woke up a week after Grey returned, I asked were he was and everyone looked a little hesitant to answer then soarin stepped out from behind all of them and I was ready to run at a moments notice, But instead of yelling at me he calmly told me that Grey was in intensive care. I tried to sit up in excitement but I was strapped to the bed, I asked why I was and twilight stepped forward telling me that with the news they expected me to be running towards his room, so they tied me to the bed until they could tell that he was ready for visitors. "What do you mean?" "[sigh] Rainbow he's nearly on the verge of dying" "What happened, please someone tell me what the FUCK happened!!!" "The changelings attacked and he protected us, even if it meant losing his life." I was a little surprised, so much that I fainted back onto my pillow. A few days later I woke up and I was untied from my bed, I got up silently and headed towards intensive care when I got there Grey was lying unconscious in his bed while everyone crowded around him. I entered the room but everyone noticed me and blocked him from my view. Twilight took me out into the hallway and told me that he had asked for them to remove all his memories from his past except how he got into Equestria. I couldn't tell for a few seconds but I was crying, He had asked to forget me so it really was my fault that he left. "IT WAS NOT YOUR FAULT" Twilight said after she slapped me across the face. "Why?" "He told us that he left to make sure that his past would not catch up with him, here" "He left to protect us?" "Yes, and he asked us to get rid of his memories so that he could start over with a whole new life, also he asked us to bury his memories were no one would find them, I have just the place." So that's how it went I went with twilight and she explained the whole situation after we left the hospital and headed into the forest. We walked for a long while and eventually stopped at a cliff overhanging a large river that ended up in the ocean 2000 miles away. Twilight turned to me and handed me a small wooden chest and told me to toss it into the river, I did as instructed and tossed the chest into the river letting go of all the memories I had once had with him. Grey woke up shortly after that with a lot of questions. "Ugh....*.... where am I?" "Your in Equestria, your home remember?" twilight said "No, I don't remember anything, Who am I again.... And who are all of you?" "Your name is Strife Grey-Mist but most people call you grey my name is twilight and these are my friends." "I'm Rarity and I think it's time I give you another haircut." "I'm Apple-jack I run sweet apple acres." "I'm Pinkie Pie and once you get out of the hospital I'm going to be throwing a party you should come" "I'll be sure to" grey said with more happiness than I've ever seen him with before. "I-I'm Fluttershy and it would be nice to get to know you ..... again" "I- I-I-I, I can't do this I'm sorry" I said as I ran out of the room crying. I sat in the hallway for about five minutes before I felt a hand fall lightly on my shoulder, I looked up and I saw Grey standing there holding his side, he sat down beside me and we talked for a good twenty minutes before the nurses found him and took him back to his room. he stayed in the hospital for about a week before the let him out when they did we all were there to pick him up, of coarse I was a little bit shy to see him because he didn't even remember the feelings he had for me or the feelings I had towards him. We took him to Twilight's house were he stayed for a long time afterwards I would go to see him at least two times a week And we eventually started to regain the lost sense of compassion we had for each other, that is until he went away for a four year training scholarship for the military arts given to him by Twilight's brother. For the most part of two full years he would stay secluded in his studies as a military arts student so I hardly got to see him very often then unexpectedly he just came home with a Eye patch across the eye that chrysalis cut and a lot of medals on his uniform (damn he looks good in that uniform). He walked through the front door and saw all of us waiting for him, I asked what happened to his eye and he told us that something was bothering his eye and he tried to rub his eye but realized it was made of metal as were many parts of his body, he then told us that he went to see Lightning stride the military engineer and HE told him that it would take some time to get the parts for a new eye so he had to wear the eye patch. After that he stayed and got a job Helping Fluttershy as a part-time veterinarian, I went over there to see how he was doing and he was curled up with all the animals sleeping. "Awe he looks so adorable I'm surprised he hasn't been claimed by you there Fluttershy." "Oh-no I-I couldn't he belongs with you and I don't think it's my place to take him" "I'm surprised he hasn't taken a liking to you as well." "He doesn't want to make any advances to me, it's as if he has someone else in mind for him to make his advances towards." "Yeah I guess your right...... Well I guess I should be leaving before he wakes up." "Don't you want to say hello to him?" "no, I think He's forgotten me, I think It's time I said goodbye." > FLUTTERSHY > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FLUTTERSHY I have to admit I was a little scared that Grey wouldn't wake up but then he did, and when he did he was a whole new person.To be completely honest I didn't even expect him to pick a job helping me out with the animals when he came back from his military scholarship. At first the animals feared him because of his "clankyness" and bulky form, and it remained that way for the remainder of the first week and a half then little by little they began to like him. First it was the bear he just walked up to grey picked him up and nearly broke his arm with the bear hug he gave him. One day grey came over when the animals were especially routy, noticing this he sat in the middle of the floor and began to let off this peaceful and welcoming aura that calmed all the animals including me and drew us in were we made a circle around him and fell asleep. I woke up to the sound of Rainbow Dash knocking on my door when I got up Grey had fallen asleep with the rest of the animals and he just lay there not even budging as I got up and walked to the door, I opened the door and instantaneously Rainbow dash asked why my house was surrounded by sleeping animals. I told her to come in and that I would explain. "So what happened exactly?" "Grey sorta let off this aura that calmed all of the animals in my house and put them to sleep" "I'm guessing that it affected you as well?" "Well....Um..., I don't really...Um Know how to explain that." "Look I Don't care if it affected you, I just came to check on grey and it seems he's fine so I'll just leave" "Don't you want to say hello?" "He's forgotten me remember, I think it's time I let go and said goodbye "Don't you even think about it!!!" I yelled at her as loud as I could which wasn't very loud "Why not?" "I've talked to him about you." I confessed shyly "Oh And what did he say?" "I told him about how you felt and I kinda revealed a little bit of your past together" "YOU WHAT!!!!!" "SHHHH, you don't want to wake him" "Again, you did what?" "Look I told him everything he needed to know about you and since then I've seen him holding his head thinking. I think he's trying to remember you" "I don't care what you did but why you did it" "I did it to find out if he still cared for you" "And what did you find out?" "He does care for you" We spent a little while taking further about what our future would be like with grey and it seemed almost as if we were being watched, it took a little while for us to clue in but Grey had woken up. We turned to see that grey was not sleeping, in fact he had already walked around the house talking with some of the animals that had also woken up. We knew that this was a bad thing for both of us so we went to find grey but instead RD had left. > RAINBOW > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINBOW I got so caught up in the conversation with Fluttershy that I had no Idea that Grey had woken up and was walking around the cottage which was a problem as we got up I saw him and he struck up a conversation with Fluttershy which made me sad then he said "so what were you two talking about?" "Oh. that?" "Of course, I've been told I used to be her boyfriend." "Yes you were but you left and when she woke up you were back, in a coma, and with no memories" I started to cry and I ran out of Fluttershy's cottage a fast as I could not even thinking about turning around I ran all the way to the Ever-free forest and just collapsed at its edge Grey caught up to me but without talking to me he walked a few feet forward then collapsed before getting up and running into the forest, he disappeared a few seconds later. I searched countless hours for him then thought of the one place he would go if he was having a memory relapse; the place he originally landed when he first came to Equestria. I ran there as fast as I could, when I got there He was at the end were we found him placing something in the dirt I caught up to him and found that he had placed his Swords in the dirt in the form of an "X". "I can't do this Rainbow." he said as tears streamed down his right cheek "Can't do what?" "I can't life a happy life, I just can't" "Yes you can. And I'll help you do that." We went back to my place and we stayed there until the sun rose over the hills the next day. I woke up with him cuddled around me on the couch, there was a blanket over both of our backsides I looked underneath it and realized that he was naked and that we had done "it" the thought sent me stirring. My head hit the pillow and I woke up Grey he looked at me and put his hand on my cheek, he smiled then pulled my head towards his, our lips touched and my hormones went crazy then I went in for the main course I locked lips with him and struggled to keep control over his tongue, we stayed on the couch for about twenty minutes then went out to get some dinner at sugarcube corner. > GREY > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY THREE YEARS EARLIER "OK I'm leaving for Canterlot." "What for?" asked twilight. "Oh nothing really just a military scholarship sent to me by your brother." "Shining armor?" "Yeah, oh and he says hi by the way." "OK then just be careful. How long is the scholarship again?" "Four years I think." So that's how the last conversation with twilight went before I left but what the hay I'm in military school and I'm loving it I've even gone on an few expeditions with my team this was how the last one went. "Were are we heading again?" "To the changeling castle." My head started to hurt and I collapse to the ground in pain,I can hear them talking above me wondering what triggered this and I get up shake my head and continue to walk forward. The beads of sweat are falling down my face like a faucet, We've been walking for about three months and we've nearly ran out of food I can see a nearby town and I contemplate suggesting a stop there for resupply. But then I realize that I have been stupid enough to over look the canyon in front of the towns border. I grab the only ponies that cant fly up in my arms and jump as far as I can before starting my decent, as I fall I toss all of the ponies onto the ledge and dive towards the nearest place to grab onto the ledge. Even as I grab the wall I continue to fall then I dig my claws into the side and begin to climb up the far side of the canyon. When I got up I noticed that all of my companions had disappeared and were missing, there was a trail of their hoof prints heading towards the town I followed and found that the tracks trailed off into the supply shop and stayed in there I walked around just to be sure that they hadn't left then I went in. "Grey!! We thought you were dead." "Sorry to disappoint. Were are we with the supplies?" "We got all the necessities and a little extra for you." "What you get for me?" "these." He turned and reached for something in his saddlebag than pulled out a pair of dual wield swords; the old ones I swore to never use again. "Were did you get these?" "From your house in Ponyville when we picked you up" "Why did you grab these? I swore to never use them again." "Don't worry to much about it my friend." "Tell me again Why we're going there?" "We heard that they had a friend of yours imprisoned." Of course that is what had to set me off, I ran out of the shop in a blind rage and ran through the barrier that separated the changelings from the city. I was so blind that when I got there I was knocked out and dragged into a prison cell were I stayed for a few hours. I woke up chained to the wall, I pulled on them but only managed to separate a single link, that was enough to save me from the confines of the chains. I broke the shackles holding me and kicked open the door to my cell, were upon leaving I was struck again, then dragged towards the throne room and chained to the floor. I sat there for a long ten minutes then the only person who could enrage me more than ever, showed up and spoke to me..............................Queen Chrysalis. "Oh grey you look so much better chained to my floor." Said Chrysalis Who looked like...... a Human? "And you look so much better as a walking block of Swiss cheese." "I took A sample of your blood after our last encounter, and created a serum that allows ponies to become human; save for their extremities." "Well I guess that makes you a good person." I said skeptically "Not quite. you see I plan on making thousands of bottles and fill them with poison then say it's the serum." She said with an evil chuckle "You're a monster." I hissed "So it is true, you have lost your memories." "Yes I did. But it was on my own terms." "Well you should probably know that I was the one who found you when you were born and was among the people who killed your parents. You killed the person I had doubled as from time to time." "I don't remember that, in fact I don't remember killing anyone." "Fine then, since you Don't remember the fight we had in a previous life what's say we finish this Human to human?" "I thought you'd never ask." I broke the chains and grabbed my swords from the changeling to my right and kicked the guard to my left at the same time, Chrysalis pulled out a sword of her own creation, it was shaped like her horn. She lunged and swung at me, having no prior experience being a human made her unsteady and off balance. But she still had one advantage, she had wings, I knew I had wings at one point because of the evident scars on my back, I knew also that they were gone; she jumped up and flew at me with more speed than I could counter and she clipped my left shoulder,(the one made of flesh). I was thrown to the ground and nearly stabbed, but luckily I moved out of the way just in time. I had just about enough; this bitch had to die, but I knew that this had not been the first nor the last time I will see her. So I jumped up, grabbed her out of the air, and threw her to the ground in attempts to stun her and escape; it worked but before I left I took the last bit of the serum that she had and set her castle on fire. But just as I was about to jump out of the window I was hit in the back with her sword I looked down and saw that it went clean through my chest. I fell right down towards the ground but was caught by my companions, taken back to Canterlot and put into the ICU before I could die. That's the story; I don't know what happened to the serum but after that I started seeing ponies in Canterlot turn into humans, and it moved to Ponyville and all over Equestria then the world. I went back home the next month after I graduated but I was still healing So I couldn't take any hugs from my friends, in fact I kept to myself for a few months after that. PRESENT DAY I woke up beside Rainbow Dash with a pounding headache, We'd been drinking the night before and now I was on the couch with her, I was naked and she was looking at me with the blanket over her breasts. It had been a while since she had turned into a human and when she did she was more beautiful than she had ever been before, I place my hand on her cheek and pulled her in for a kiss. Then she attempted to take control but instead we just lay there for about twenty minutes then got up and got ready for a nice dinner at sugar cube corner. My new life had just begun little did I know that it was about to collide with my old one. > RAINBOW > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINBOW Grey got ready after his shower and when he came out of the bathroom all he had on himself was everything below his waist. I could see the scars that were all over his torso and I walked up to him and felt over every single line, then on his back I noticed the scars were his wings used to be and I started to cry. "Oh Grey your beautiful mismatched wings." "It's OK I didn't need them." "I think you do. I know a guy who can help you get them back, I'll call him after dinner." "OK" The walk to sugar cube corner was a long and uneventful one but as long as I had grey by my side I felt as if the whole town of Ponyville had disappeared.........Wait what!?!?! I looked around only to notice that the streets were empty and almost everyone had went to sugarcube corner. We kept walking and ran into twilight. "Jeez can you watch were your going." "Twilight, what's going on?" "Oh shit Rainbow Dash I'm so sorry are you okay?" "We're fine do you know what all the commotion is about?" "Yeah all the prince--" "Twilight....run home and pretend you didn't see us." Grey said with a solemn look on his face, his gaze directed at SugarCube corner "But..." Twilight started to protest but was cut off "Just do as I say something's not right about all the princesses in equestria being here." "What do you mean?" "Let me see the invitation." Grey looked over the invitation intently then tore it up sending a large cloud of smoke spewing out of the letter. "TWILIGHT! RUN!" he screamed ~~~~A FEW MILES AWAY~~~~ "Shit he's Discovered our plans, what should we do?" "Continue just wait until the job is finished until we go after the other princess." said another man keeping his eyes directed on Grey ~~~~~~~~~ "What was that grey?" "It was a death trap waiting to happen." "What do you mean?" "If twilight failed to make it to the meeting the note would have exploded sending her and anyone in her house into the abyss" "We've got to save the princesses!!" "Yes we do... c'mon" We ran straight towards sugarcube corner were we looked inside, when we did we noticed that the princesses were all knocked out and that everyone else was taken hostage, grey stood up and headed towards the door, I grabbed the sleeve to his jacket to stop him and he turned around. "Don't worry I'll be fine I need you to go around back and untie the princesses and Shining armor...Kay" "Okay." > GREY > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY I walked into sugarcube corner only to be grabbed by a few of the thugs holding the place hostage. "Woah-ho there guys I don't want any trouble I just want some food and then you can have your fun." Their leader looked at me and whispered to the thug on his left, the thug took a swing at me and with sheer luck I pulled his comrade into the way before the stock of his rifle hit me. I swung the other guy off of me and it was then I noticed Pinkie Pie giving first aid to a small girl. I didn't recognize her at first but I took another look, and it turned out to be Scootaloo. she was badly beaten with one bullet wound in her shoulder. "Who did this pinkie?" I said. she turned her head to me and I noticed that she had also been hit, her eye was swollen and there was a few cuts on her smiling face. She then motioned for the leader of a group of 27 men all holding their rifles towards me. "People think I'm a monster," I started to say the growl in my voice becoming more apparent as my body heated up to the temperature of fire "but I think it is you people that are the monsters! That was an innocent child and you hurt her, real bad too...... Why would you do this." "We did it to get at the princesses. that little brat tried to be brave and bit my hand and got what she deserved. Also we did this to get you." "Well now that you have what you want let the rest of these people go." "Fine. Let them go." "Now that's out of the way what possible reason do you have to stop me from killing you?" All the people left and left the place to me, even rainbow dash left with the crowd signaling to me that she had completed her task. I turned to the leader of the group and walked towards him fully enraged, I was stopped by all of the men in the building before I could get close. Using a simple spell of magnetism I pulled all their guns apart leaving them with nothing but a handle, then they started to attack me one by one. swearing to god that I would never kill proved quite the challenge "After this I swear I will never kill again" I thought to myself as I plunged my fist through the first guys chest. "Who are you?" said one of the thugs surprised by the sudden strength "I......Am Grey-Mist......and I am the last person you'll see...........NOW DIE!!!!!" I swung at them and took off a few of their heads in succession. I then noticed that these people didn't bleed but turn to ashes instead. Less of a clean up I guess, I cut through about 17 of them before I took a single hit. It was from a gunshot from the leaders gun, I forgot that I have to see the gun for the spell to work, and he hit me in the non-metallic shoulder to.......fuck that hurt. On a sudden burst of adrenaline I twisted my body an took about 7 of them down with my tail.(yes I have a tail, what you think I'm going to be half demon and NOT have a tail.) The last three of them weren't as easy to slay but It got done a fist through the skull a Ripping off of the head and a roar of fire to finish off the third. "Now it's just you and me" "Yes it is. isn't it?" "Why do this?" "To ask YOU to join my army." "Never." "Then I guess I have no choice " He drew his gun and fired, having near super human speed and agility I managed to doge the bullet and kick the gun out of his hands. next he pulled out two swords and tossed one across the room to me. "Swords? You really underestimate me." He lunged at me and I moved by flipping over him, next he swung at me, by putting the sword at my side I caused him to flip me over the blade. Now it was my turn to attack; not wanting this battle to end quickly I just tripped him from behind, next I let him constantly attack me blocking every single blow. After about five minutes he blew a whistle and six men came down from the rafters and pinned my arms, legs, head, and tail to the ground their boss went over and picked up his gun then shot me in all the wrong places(all the metal places), I thought about what he might do if he found out for a split second then faked a scream of pain. "Awe did that hurt?" "Yes!! of course it did you fucking shot me!!" "Well I think it will hurt much more when I shoot your little girlfriend here." he said as he motioned for someone to come in, then someone dragged Rainbow Dash into the building and knelt her down in front of me. The boss of these thugs put the end of his gun to the side of Rainbow's head and asked me to join his army again. Of course I had to think about it; I looked at her and gave a wink as a sign to trust me then I refused his offer and threw all six of the guys off of me killed them and the one holding Rainbow the motioned towards the door for Her to run. "What are you!?!" "I am a Nephilim." "Impossible they are only legends." "And what do they say?" "That a Nephilim will come from the sky to either protect or destroy this world." "Well I came from the sky and I am choosing to protect this world from scum like you!" I said as I swung around and lopped his head off with my tail. I went outside carrying all of the princesses on my shoulders and levitating shining armor with my magic; once I set them down I walked over a few steps and collapsed from blood loss. I woke up in the hospital a few days later and realized that there was a new weight added to my back; I looked only to see that I had new wings almost the same as before only they were metal and extremely light I tried to move them and they did, slowly at first but once I got the hang of it I was able to flex them without any hassle or strain of any kind. I spent the next week and a half doing nothing but wing-ups. When it was time for me to leave the hospital I got on everything except my shirt because I needed Rare's to modify them. Was the one who picked me up from the hospital and once I had left I asked her if she would like to go flying with me. She looked at me with surprise, happiness, and excitement then said" YES!!!!" and took off > RAINBOW > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINBOW He started off slow first by crouching to the ground then unfurling his wings; they were massive almost as wide as ten ponies standing flank to flank. He lifted them in the form of a take off then suddenly he did a sonic rainboom off of the ground; no-one's ever been able to do that before not even me, he caught up to me within a second; I looked at the ground were he lifted off and realized that it wasn't a Sonic Rainboom but rather a Sonic Hell Shot something that has never been perfected in all of the years in Equestria. Not even the bat ponies could pull this off; legends told that only ponies that have been through hell and back could do this without practice. This made me both happy and sad after the inertia of his speed wore down I caught up to him and asked him if he would like to see what his life was like before he came to equestria. He looked at me with a shocked expression and only replied with a "No" before looking at the ground were his Eyes went wide and He sped towards what looked like Scootaloo running from a bunch of bullies. Scootaloo was a good twenty feet ahead of the bullies, as we got closer we heard what the bullies were saying to her. "Come one we just want to teach you how to fly" Said one of them. "Yeah come on why don't you fly away to your mommy." said another This made Scootaloo stop and break into tears, seeing this Grey shot to the ground swooped up and grabbed Scootaloo, brought her to me and went back to the ground; I thought I could see smoke coming from his eye, and it looked like king Sombra's. I took her to rarity's and told her to stay there while I went to get grey, when I got there I saw something I thought I would never see again....... a changeling. A changeling was standing over greys body While it sucked the feeling of love out of him; I got there just in time cause the changeling only just started. I did a flying kick and took out the changeling before he even had a chance to turn I helped grey up and he took the changeling by the horn swung it over his shoulder and slammed it into the ground were he proceeded to jab his hands through it's chest and tear him in half. I couldn't believe what I just saw, the worst part of it was he was smiling as he did it. Afterwards he just collapsed and woke up ten minutes later he asked what happened then realized what he had done and screamed afterwards he said to me "Kill me." "what" "Kill me, I am a danger to everyone" "No" "please" "No, your not a danger to everyone as a matter of fact you just saved everyone from being turned into slaves." "I don't want to kill anymore." He just cried there for about five minutes then got up and flew away, not to earth but to the Ever-free forest. I told twilight what happened and she told me that he has an inner desire to destroy anything that hurts the people he care about as well as himself then told me to go after him. I flew to the crater and saw that he had built a small cottage from the trees around the forest and was inside. I knocked on the door and went inside were he was sitting on a chair with a gun beside him. I grabbed the gun before he could do something bad with it and explained the situation to him then told him that I wanted to go out with him in a few weeks but I wanted him to forget that the past events ever happened and go to rarities for a while and that there was someone wanting to meet him. > GREY > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY I saw rainbow fly away with Scootaloo in her arms than I went down to confront the bullies I hit the ground causing all of them to fall on their asses. "Why were you chasing her? And you; you should know that she's an orphan why would you say something like that." "We were just poking fun man." "Well you can tell your explanation to your parents when I tell them What you've done" "Like hell you'll tell my dad" "I actually think I will and I won't fight a kid." "Fine and the next time we see her well apologize. happy?" "actually yes." The kids went home and I sent a message to all of their parents then began to head to Rarity's. Without warning I was tackled to the ground and my sight went black, when it finally came back I saw what I had done.... and I guess you know the story from there. ~~~~~~~PRESENT~~~~~~~~ I went over to Rarity's because of what RD said when I got there Scootaloo was waiting by the door when she saw me she ran over and wrapped her arms around my waist. She stayed like that for about five minutes than she let go and said "Thanks mister for doing that for me and for saving everyone in sugarcube corner that day." "Awe it's no problem and please call me grey" "Well I better be getting back to the orphanage but can I ask for a ride?" "Yeah sure I'll give you a lift." ~~~~~~~~THREE DAYS LATER~~~~~~~~ Today I went to the orphanage and asked to see the matron. she came downstairs and asked why I was here I told her that I had come to make an adoption. she nodded then went behind a door, after about ten minutes she brought out ten children only one of who I recognised... Scootaloo. I walked around talking to all of the kids then I came to Scootaloo. "Hey." I said "H-hi" she replied "How would you like to come home with me?" "Why... Why me I'm no good." "you see that's were you're wrong, I think your great" "I-I would like to come home with you." "OK go get your things and meet me down here I have a surprise for you." When she came down I pulled out a small box and opened it, inside it held a small ring behind me stood rainbow dash and she did not see the ring. "I'm going to propose to her tonight and I want you to bring the ring in to dinner...think you can do that" I whispered She nodded closed the box and put it in her pocket. We walked out of the orphanage and went home were we showed Scootaloo her new room she unpacked and got ready for the dinner we were going to have. we were going to sugarcube corner were pinkie had a surprise when I popped the question or rather Scootaloo popped the question. ~~~~~DINNER~~~~~ Scootaloo was waiting patiently for the signal I was going to give her while we all ate I tapped my glass and got everyone's attention. "If I have everyone's attention; My daughter and I would like to say something." I said as I gave Scootaloo the signal to which she turned to Rainbow dash and pulled out the box with the ring saying "please be my mom" Rainbow looked at me with tears of joy in her eyes and said "y-y-YES!!" then jumped up and kissed me. pinkie pie saw this and put her plan into action a banner dropped from above our table saying "CONGRATULATION'S GREY AND RAINBOW" people from around the diner cheered and screamed their congratulations then rainbow chimed in and said "I actually had something to say to." "What's that?" "I don't know how to put this so I'll just say it.......I'm pregnant." That was the last thing I heard before I felt a searing pain in my side and fainted; when I woke up I got a huge talking to. > RAINBOW > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINBOW "What the hell was that grey?!?" "I-I don't know I just fainted" "I know that I'm asking why" "I don't know I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my side then I blacked out." "Let me see your side" I said with a tone that made me sound as if I didn't believe him. "O-ok" grey lifted up his shirt and what I saw nearly brought tears to my eyes; what I saw was a large black ring circling the spot were chrysalis had stabbed him with her horn. I took him to the doctor and they took an X-ray of it revealing what they believed to be a few fragment's of her horn inching towards his spine. They acted fast and removed the fragments but the result was not what they expected ; Grey started to go berserk after the surgeries completion. He got up off his bed and started to run out of the hospital, they all tackled him but in his enraged state he was to strong. Once out of the hospital he took off towards The changeling kingdom I got in front of him only to see that his eyes had turned a shade of green that I've only seen once; it was at Cadence and Shining Armors wedding when Chrysalis managed to control Shining Armor's mind. This only meant one thing that chrysalis has taken control of grey, I had to get him back before she used him to take Equestria for herself. I went to Canterlot and spoke to Celestia; she granted me the use of the armory and I took advantage of this fact. I went in and Put on an armor designed especially for me and I noticed that there was one for the rest of my friends as well. I took a few weapons and loaded up on explosives, it was then I realized that I was not alone in the room. I turned to see my friends putting on their armor as well. "what are you guys doing here!?" "Awe shucks Rainbow ya' didn't think that we were gonna letcha go alone did ya?" "Yes rainbow were your friends and were all friends with grey." "Twilight?" "Yes I'm coming is that a problem" "kinda your a princess." "that doesn't mean anything I am going to help save my friend." "yippie let's go kick some changeling but" "actually they have thorax's because their more like bugs." "TWILIGHT!!" we all said in unison "Oh sorry" "R-r-rainbow?" "Yes Fluttershy?" "Why are you going, isn't it dangerous for your baby?" "well yeah but that's not the point I'm doing this to save my fiance " "That's great and all dear but I simply can't let you go." "Guy's please we already tried this once with Twilight, remember it didn't turn out well" "She's right. Rainbow just promise me one thing keep that baby safe." "I promise." We left after that with haist, arriving at the castle of the changelings within a matter of hours. ~~~~~MEANWHILE~~~~~ "GET OUT OF MY HEAD" said Grey as he continued to resist the magic of chrysalis coursing through his mind "Hmmm you are more resistant than the other Nephelim that I captured during my time on earth. and yes that means I captured you and Kept an eye on you while disguised as a soldier." "You bitch, why would you do this to me?" "To take Equestria for my own personal gain" Said Chrysalis as a changeling scout burst into the room. "YOUR MAJESTY" "Yes what is it?" "I saw six figures coming to view over the ridge." "Ah I see looks like your friends have come to save you grey. I'm going to enjoy this" "What are you going to do?" "I order you to kill rainbow dash and her friends" "NO!!" screamed grey trying to resist the magic controlling his body; but it was no use chrysalis's magic had takin full control of his body's motion receptors forcing him to walk out the doors towards them. ~~~BACK OUT SIDE~~~ "Rainbow are you sure about this?" asked twilight "Of course, I love him and I'm not about to let some hideous bug use him as a toy." "B-But it's going to be pretty dangerous in there I'm sure I can reason with them." "Fluttershy don't you remember what happened in Canterlot?" "O'course she does dash, it's just I'm also a'bit scared." "You guys don't have to do this I can do this on my own if I need to." "Um......" "What is it twilight?" "I-I-I-I-I-I....." "Spit it out twilight." "I think you going to need all the help you can get...I think it's time I call in a favor." Twilight whipped out a scroll and used her magic to send it away, meanwhile we all looked towards the castle entrance and saw Grey walking resiliently towards us. Without thinking I flew towards him, but about halfway towards him he screamed..... "STAY AWAY!!!!!! Please... I don't want to hurt you." "What?" "She-she's or-ordered me to-to-to......TO KILL YOU!!!" By now Chrysalis had full control over his arms and legs and she was making him run towards me, I was so petrified by his words I couldn't move. Suddenly the tree beside the beginning of the bridge opened like a door and a figure walked through; noticing I was in danger he let his hand glow and a tree swooped me up and brought me back to where he was standing. The tree blocked greys path but it wouldn't hold for long, I turned toward Twilight and asked who the man was who saved me. "Oh silly me I forgot to introduce you. Everyone this is Dusk he is a cross-breed between a man and a wolf." "Well thank Celestia you arrived just now otherwise Dash wouldn't be standing here" "It was nothing. But I have a feeling that he is special to you guys so I'll do what I can to stall him" "Thank you ...... Dusk was it?" "Please call me Wolfie" "OK enough chit-chat D- Wolfie we need you to distract Grey while we go and take care of chrysalis." "OK ......Who's, who again?" "*sigh* Grey is the one you just saved rainbow from and chrysalis is the one who is taking control of his mind" "Oh...Okay" Dusk went first while we all went around Grey while he was distracted as I passed him I saw the flow of constant tears coming from his right eye I went back and got beside him whispered something in his ear and hurried back to my friends. The castle was infested with changelings and it took a bloody mess and a whole buck tonne of bug guts to get to Chrysalis's chambers; once thee we really wanted to use the elements of harmony but we all remembered what was required to save Equestria from disaster several years ago. Instead I challenged her to one on one combat the wager; If i won she would let grey go and submit to execution, If I lost She could have my life. Dusk was still keeping Grey occupied using his shield to keep Grey's attacks from killing him, and I was fighting chrysalis so I could have My boyfriend back instead of her using him as a puppet. ~~~~~MEANWHILE~~~~~ "Grey listen to me you have to fight it, otherwise Rainbow is going to die up there." "I'm trying, Please kill me" Suddenly grey remembered what Rainbow had told him "You Are Not Her Puppet Grey" "I am not her puppet." Grey repeated feeling a little more control over his body "I am not her puppet." Grey repeated again still getting more control "I am not her puppet." "I am not her puppet." "I am not her puppet." "I am not her puppet." "I am not her puppet." "I am not her puppet." he kept repeating until he had just a bit of control over his limbs allowing him to move himself using all the effort he could muster up he asked dusk to help him get up to Chrysalis's chambers. ~~~~BACK IN CHRYSALIS'S CHAMBERS~~~~ "You don't own him!!!" screamed Rainbow "Yes.....I do you conniving Bitch" Chrysalis screamed back as she punched her in the face We were still going at it for five minutes and when she punched me, I had exhausted my energy and I couldn't get back up to defend myself; I had lost "So now I get your life.......and I decide to end it." "You can't end my life without ending the one of my child." "You're pregnant.... Oh this will make his life a living nightmare." She swung at me and the blade had come so lose to the side of my throat *CLANG* was the next sound I heard before opening my eyes and looking to my left. On her blade was a metallic hand that I new only one person had......Grey. He had stopped the blade and protected me even though chrysalis had taken control of his body and forced him to try and kill me. "Do Not Hurt My Girl or my friends" "How is this possible I have control over you" "No You don't" "*sniff* Ah can you smell that, of course you don't. It's the love that you feel for them I can get so much from you that it will turn me into an even more powerful person than even Celestia herself." "I...Will.....Never....let...that .....happen" He said as he was forced to the ground by Chrysalis "Yes you will" "I... Said... NO I WON'T!!!!!!!!!" Said grey bursting into a black flame When he got up the flames only consumed his body then they moved away and rested on his wings leaving an armor like no other an armor that could put fear into Cerberus himself and it worked Chrysalis was petrified with fear so much so that she pissed herself. Chrysalis composed herself and walked up to grey and looked into his eyes then attempted to use her magic on him; as soon as she did she was forced back and thrown to the ground. "Chrysalis, I was never your puppet and you toyed with me and almost made me kill the person I love. I can never forgive you for that, but I can punish you." "How!?! are you going to kill me, if you are then do it." "No I am going to do the exact opposite....I'm going to let you live. Also I will put this on you and send you to the Canterlot prison for the criminally insane" he said holing up a magic inhibitor designed especially for Chrysalis "No I won't let you take me alive" she said pulling out a dagger and swinging it towards her stomach *ZAP*, "ow......wait what" she said not noticing that grey had turned the dagger into a syringe of a sedative. she was out instantaneously The walk back to Canterlot took longer but was shorter for some reason, grey told us that by using his magic dusk created a magic inhibitor out of a few scraps of metal before he went home....Wherever that is? We got to Canterlot and dropped Chrysalis off there. Unknowingly Grey scared the shit out of the princesses guards when we walked into the city with Chrysalis in tow when got to the palace and went in to see the princesses of course we all had our armor on and Grey scared the hell out of them and they turned him to stone, then released him after we explained. We got back to Ponyville that evening and just as myself and grey got into the door of our home we collapsed from exhaustion, I blacked out but grey stayed awake. I woke up in the hospital three days later with grey sleeping with his head on my bedside. > GREY > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY I woke up at Rainbow's bedside, I looked up and saw her looking at me contently with a smile on her face I got up and looked away to hide my blushing face but she saw it and giggled. We talked about a lot of things during her time in the hospital but that didn't stop us from talking about our unborn child. "Grey?" "Yeah, what is it?" "I was wondering if we could come up with a name for our child in advance." "OK what did you have in mind?" "if it is a colt...I mean a boy I wonder if his name could be what your name used to be?" "Draven?" "Yeah, and if it is a girl .......well what do you think?" "Rose.....Rose-Petal Dash." "I love it." "Me too" "What would you like for a boys name?" "Light-speed dash." "No!!!" "What's wrong." "That's... It's nothing....I just never thought I'd hear that name again." "O I get it.....Draven is fine." The next day Grey and rainbow went to the hospital to see how their child was doing, as it turned out it was going to be a girl and the doctor believed she was going to be a Nephelim as well. After hearing the news they went to tell their friends about the new addition to their family, they also asked each of them to be a god-mother to the child and although their responses varied the answer was all the same. "Why I would love to be a godmother to your child darling" said rarity "Awe shucks I don't know what to dash..........sure it'd be an honor to be your daughters godmother" replied AJ "*gasp* Yay" said pinkie "I-I i'd love to" said Fluttershy "I'd be happy to be your daughter's godmother...... on one condition." "what's that?" "Spike becomes her godfather" " I don't see any problems with that." After all of their confirmations we started to plan for the wedding, which was to be in less than a month. We had Pinkie pie take care of the Bachelorette party then I gave dusk a call to hold the bachelor party and to be my best-man. I asked spike to be the ring bearer while Rainbow dash asked sweetie-belle to be the flower-girl, then she asked all the girls to be her brides-maids including Bcootaloo as the maid of honor. We both agreed that Celestia was the best person to do the ceremony, And using my magical abilities I designed a dress that fit her perfectly and to her specifications (Not to frilly and Not to Eye drawing) rarity was a little awe-struck at my work and had to ask what spell I used I just told her that I imagined in my head and put the fabrics together just like she did, but I added a few speculations that was all. The ceremony was going to take place in Cloudsdale, and don't get me wrong it did but after a few events transpired. The ceremony was just days away and we had made plans to stay in separate hotels for the week( A method I learned about on earth watching television.) I was about to go down to the bar for the bachelor party when a letter came through the bottom of the door I opened the letter and recognized the handwriting immediately it was Twilight's. the letter read: Grey bad things are happening Rainbow's father has escaped prison and is gunning for both you and her if he's caught wind of the ceremony he is going to try and ruin it that is why were going to let him...…..I know what your thinking; it is a crazy idea but there's more and if he tries to hurt her you will do whatever it takes to protect her and that is what will make you the perfect father. do what you can Twilight I ran Twilight's room and she opened the door, pulled me in, explained everything, and told me not to tell Rainbow. I swore not to and ran back to my room and prepared for the battle that was to come and that included making plans to protect Rainbow. The day of the ceremony came and I looked calm but underneath I was so scared of what was about to happen that it started to f**k with my head a little but none the less I could feel a presence of pure evil watching me. Especially since I was in the audience and Soarin was taking my place and every line he said was all a lie. (I know I'm not supposed to "see" Rainbow till the actual ceremony so I bet your wondering why I'm here and how this isn't going to kill me. Well I'm actually wearing a blind fold and having near super-human hearing I can almost see a clear picture around me also this is a rehearsal and whenever I rehears I practice with Fluttershy so that we don't see each other till the ceremony.) "Grey do you take Rainbow Elizabeth Dash to be your lawfully wedded wife through sickness and health till death do you part?" "I do" "Any objections speak now or forever hold your peace." "I object" came an unfamiliar voice to most but to Rainbow Dash it was all to familiar. "Light-speed?" "Hello sweetheart. Excuse me but Isn't the father of the bride supposed to give his blessing to the groom before he marries her, and isn't it also the father's job to give away his daughter?" "That would be the case if said father wasn't a criminal offender!!" screamed Rainbow Dash "I think it's time you were punished Rainbow Dash? "Oh you mean like how you punished mom?!?" "Exactly." he said as he lunged towards her with a knife The knife drew blood but not from Rainbow but instead from Soarin as the knife was stabbed into his arm and was now being pulled out. "So...you're the one who has become my daughters new boyfriend that's too bad looks like she has to watch you die!!" he said as he attempted to plunge the knife through his hand which was guarding his chest. The knife chipped and I was so glad that I lent him a spare hand. it was then i stood up in the back of the aisle and screamed at him...."Hey douche bag" he turned to face me "you got the wrong one!!" he ran towards me and I moved out of the way and told everyone to get into the Gazebo. Once they did I managed to create a force field before he tackled me from behind and stabbed me in the shoulder dislocating my left arm. I ripped off my jacket and revealed a near arsenal knowing I could not use most of it now that my arm was messed up I removed it all save for two swords. I tossed one to him and he threw away the knife; he lunged first and all I did was move out of the way and knocked him him on top of the head with the side of the blade, that was when he got really pissed he swung to my right and clipped my side. I tripped him then roundhouse kicked him into the table he got up and started to speed up I will admit he was strong and fast but I had taken worse beatings than this and he was doing nothing but swinging through rage I I kicked him away and I saw something in his eyes almost like a spark I couldn't tell what he was thinking. I saw him smile in a way I only see in the criminally insane he ran at me and I got ready to block instead he slid under me taking out my knee. I realized what he was going to the force field and in one swipe he destroyed it I would never let him hurt the people I care so dearly about he jabbed at RD but at the last second I jumped in between her and the life ending blade and caught the blade in my hands and screamed at him. "Do you really want to end three lives?" "what the huh" "Your going to have a granddaughter" "have you forgotten something?" "huh" "I'm a murdering psychopath" "then I have no reason to hold back " "Huh" I kicked him off and away with my good leg and stood up weakly using what strength I had left I grabbed my sword and asked princess Celestia If I could kill this son of a bitch. "Of course he was next on death row when he escaped" I lunged and used my wings to my advantage, being much bigger my wings allowed me much more speed than necessary. He saw me coming and I could swear he pissed himself with fear I stopped in front of him and pulled out a gun from my belt and pointed it directly at his forehead and said "any last words ?" "yeah rainbow you've got yourself a fine man here and I hope you're willing to watch him die" He jabbed at my gut and using a lot of adrenaline I stopped it with my left hand then I pulled the trigger sending him to oblivion. My vision became blurred and I collapsed I could hear Rainbow and Scootaloo calling out to me but I was to weak to answer....then everything went black. > RAINBOW > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINBOW I don't know what happened, once Grey put down that bastard he just collapsed, of course I found out after we got to the hospital that he had just suffered a small overdose of adrenaline and all he needed was a good night's rest good thing we were just practicing. the real wedding was in two more days. I went back to my room with Scootaloo who was still holding onto my dress so tightly that her knuckles were white, she had been crying most of the time we were at the hospital and Fluttershy was continuously trying to calm her down and cheer her up. Once we got there I sat her down on the bathroom counter and cleaned the smeared makeup off her face then hugged her and sang her a soft song (I know sappy but I'm a mom what am I supposed to do) to calm her down. Later we watched a movie and went to bed, but during the course of the night she startled me by crawling into my bed. "What's wrong honey?" "I had a nightmare." "Awe man I remember when I used to get them all the time my dad used to scold me for wetting the bed so much." "But didn't G-D-G-D ... didn't Dad kill him today?" "That wasn't my dad he was a monster." "So who was your dad in that situation?" "You saw him today he was the man who walked me up the aisle in today's practice ceremony." "Oh Uncle Stride" "Yeah he is actually the one who raised me to be the woman I am today. Now why don't you tell me what your night-mare was about?" "Well I start in the hallway leading to Dad's room in the hospital, I can't move only look around all of a sudden all these nurses and doctors come running out of there next you come flying out hitting the wall spattering blood everywhere........ the next thing you know your eyes shut and Dad bursts out of his room taking most of the door way with him and he sees what he's done and smiles then he turned towards me and ran, I'm petrified I still can't move he grabs me by the throat and tosses me straight at the nearest wall and that's when I woke up." I was terrified by her story that I nearly pissed the bed but I composed myself and told her that would never happen she calmed down right away and we ended up cuddled together for the remainder of the night sound asleep. We woke up and we all decided to take the day off before the wedding so we all stayed in our rooms and rested for the day. The next day was the wedding that a lot of people were anticipating and just as I expected Grey, the man I loved was standing at the altar with a sling on his left arm waiting patiently for me to walk up the aisle, what I wasn't expecting was the fact that there was a small amount of Celestia's guards protecting the wedding but in reality I really didn't care, today is my day and I am going to enjoy it. I got to the pedestal and I saw Grey he was clean shaven had a nice suit on and was more handsome than ever. The wedding proceeded with any interruptions or mistakes just like I had always dreamed and during the after party we all celebrated till we could hardly stand and then we went back to our room (and by our room I of course mean Mine,Grey's, and Scootaloo's) and we stayed there till morning all in the same bed comfortably asleep. The next morning I woke up alone wondering were everyone was I walked into the kitchen only to see Grey and Scootaloo playing a board game by the time they noticed I was watching I had already grabbed my coffee and was leaning on the door frame smiling. "Oh hey Rainbow how long have you been up?" It had been nearly nine months scince I had learned I was pregnant and I was about three days along when I found out that grey was the father and five days when I told him. It took eight and a hald months to set up the wedding and ten days to practice and finnaly the due date was just about here. "Oh not long just abou -- Oh no!" "Oh no what?!?" "The baby..... It's coming." "How do you.......Never mind. Scootaloo call the hospital and tell them we're on our way." "Ok." Grey picked me up and flew out the nearest window and straight towards the hospital calling everyone as we went with written messages sending them to all our freinds and flying faster than I could of with the way I was at the moment but slow enough that it was still safe for the baby. We got tho the hospital and got straight towards the maternity ward. I wont go into great detail of the process I had to go through to get the baby out of me I'll just say it hurt and leave it at that. Grey stood by me the whole time letting me clench his hand, the girls and scootaloo waited outside as it happened and when it was over they all came in and saw the newly born part of our family. "Oh dear Celestia she is so cute Rainbow what's her name?" "Rose... Rose-Pettal Dash." "Awe shuks Rainbow she sure is a cutie." "Yeah Dashie and holding her makes you look sappy as you would say it." "Pinkie how rude!" said Rarity "It's okay guys she's right but now that I think about it I'm a mother and I'm sure I'm still going to be as awesome as ever...... Maybe even better." "Woohoo" said Fluttershy shyly "I love the name dear." came a familiar voice "Dad I thought you weren't coming?" "You think I'm going to miss this I have a grandchild and a beautiful one at that she looks like her mother..... and her father I mean look she has his wings and his horns, and she also has your hair and your eyes as well as your nose and your smile. She's beautiful sweetheart." "Thanks dad." "I guess your lifes going to be quite difficult from now on" "I wouln't day difficult but different things are going to be very different......." Meanwhile off in the distance a lone cloaked figure stood with a evil grin on his face as he was joined by two others. "It seems that the proficy has begun..."