A Hero's Legend

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There is tell of a legend in Equestria... one that you will not find in any book... one that tells of a hero, one of a royal bloodline long forgotten, an Alicorn of noble birth. They will be Equestria's hope for continued harmony when the dark king shrouds the land darkness, they will be the light in the darkness.

This pony will not be alone however... they will have friends to aid them in their battle against the dark king. One of these friends, will be a strange creature from a realm of war, one that is skilled and talented. A warrior with a pure heart, and a tactful mind.

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"Well... that's foreshadowing if I ever read some." I mused, looking at the transcript Twilight held in front of me. the purple pony of purpleness brought me here to her castle, away from my bed mind you to read a transcript she had found in the Canterlot Archives after a brief visit last week. At first, when she called me over I contemplated just staying asleep... but then she just teleported me into her castle... in my underwear no less.

Don't get me wrong, I have no problem walking around in my underwear, I do so normally when I'm home alone, or around guests... because I do not care at all. So here I am... standing in my underwear, reading something Twilight threw at me. I had no idea why she wanted me here though, I was still trying to wake up but I did manage to read the crap.

Scratching my stomach and yawning wide, I asked. "Why show me this rock, Twi Twi?" I asked her, I was genuinely curious, and also a bit peeved I was denied sleep. The words were printed on a really old rock, like something you'd see in Skyrim or something, it was interesting, if the last bit wasn't worn off. How convenient, screw you story mechanics.

Twilight, being the ever so adorkable nerd she is, squeed silently and pointed to the warrior bit on the transcript. "One of these friends, will be a strange creature from a land of war, one that is skilled and talented. A warrior with a pure heart, and a tactful mind. Do you know what this means?!"

"... it means... that whoever this warrior guy is... is... strange?" I asked, squinting my eyes and tilting my head. I wasn't too keen on the guessing game, I already do that with Pinkie Pie, and it is annoying as balls. I love the girl but holy crap.

Twilight sighed heavily, facehoofing before saying. "No! It means this warrior, could very well be you, Lee!" She told me, much to my shock. "A warrior with a pure heart, and a tactful mind. You possess these traits! And from what you told me of your world, there are always some wars and battles going on, and I've seen you fight Lee!"

I could only sigh, was she really going down this road? "Look Twilight, I'm not a warrior. My dad was something like that, he was a soldier, I didn't go down that route in life." I cracked my knuckles, relieving them of the stiffness. "If I did, I probably wouldn't be here today. And as for Tact," I pointed a finger up in a know it all manner. "I am about as tactful as a blind bat."

Twilight just giggled, saying, "Some bats that are blind are pretty tactiful ya know~"

"Anyway," I continued, poking her nose. "I am not pure of heart, I mean, come on. Have you met me Twilight? I'm about as pure as a Russian prostitute infected with gangrene, herpes, and a bad case of skin disease." I explained to her, waving my hand around in a general, You know, fashion.

"But it mentions a strange creature! Lee, you were pretty strange when you first came here until you managed to explain what you were! And like I said, we've all seen you fight!"

"Twilight, you could kick my ass in hand to hoof combat, and you're a lovable nerd who's kinda pudgy." I retorted, poking her side. She was only a little pudgy, but that just make her more huggable if you asked me. Of course, Twilight didn't think as much.

I spotted her looking down at her body, brows furrowing in concern. "Am I really pudgy?" She questioned, poking her stomach with a hoof. "I must be eating too many of Pinkie's Pies."

That sounds... weird... Shaking my head, I looked down at Twilight. "You're not pudgy Twilight, at least, not a lot." I quickly picked her up, making her squeak. "You're just pudgy enough to be huggable, like a teddy bear~"

Suddenly, I heard a crash from upstairs, followed the sweet sounding voice of a tomboy. "I'm good!"

Oh Rainbow, silly crashing pony.

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A Night With: Rainbow Dash 2
Written by: Dustchu.
MLP:FIM belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust.
I own only my OC's and certain elements.

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"Oh hey! Its Rainbow!" Chuckling, I started upstairs, Twilight however didn't seem too keen on me carrying her upstairs with Rainbow around. I could feel her struggle against my hold. Now, I was no strongman, but I had a significant strength over ponies. They were practically powerless one I picked them up.

"Lee! Rainbow's not going to like this, let me down!" She ordered me, poking and prodding my arms and chest. Her hooves felt kinda rough, yet a bit soft. Weird.

"Mmm, naw."

"Lee, come on!"

"Nope."

"Please?"

"Mmmmm, no."

"Come on, Lee, really?!"

"Yeah, really."

"I am a Princess! of Equestria no less!"

"Well I am the king of nacho tacos... so I win." I retorted smugly, holding her tighter as I walked up the stairs. Twilight was actually pretty light for a Alicorn, of course her struggling didn't help matters any. Eventually I arrived upstairs and, with the elegant grace of a Russian ballerina, I roundhouse kicked the door open, sending it flying open as I eyed my girl Rainbow. "Hiya Rainbow!" I greeted, waving one hand while my arm was wrapped around Twilight, who was now blushing.

Rainbow Dash turned around, her mane flopping s she did so. She had grown it out quite a bit after a whole year of us being together, her tail was longer as well, making her all the more fluffy. I loved it, and she seemed to as well, giving how much she show it off, along with that little tuft of fur sticking out on her chest, she doesn't show that off but she does make a big deal out of it. Not sure what it means though, must be some pony thing.

Dash arched an eyebrow at me as she saw who I was carrying. "Why are you carrying Twilight?" She asked, poking a hoof towards the mare in question. "Secondly, why are you in your underwear?"

"Well, Twilight agreed to a three way, we were just waiting for you." I smiled innocently as Twilight no doubt froze, I could literally smell her eyes widening as she sputtered out a reply.

Twilight managed to get out of my grasp (IE I dropped her) and she quickly got to her hooves and waved her forelegs around. "No I did not! I just wanted to show Lee something really interesting I thought he would be intrigued by!"

"Her luscious looking flank, obviously."

Twilight used her magic to zip my mouth shut, much to Rainbow's apparent glee. "NO! No no no no no! I just wanted to show him this!" She teleported again, eventually coming back with the rock she showed me earlier. "See?" he floated it over to Dash who eyed it, before shrugging.

"Its a rock, with scribbles on it... so?"

"So? SO?!" Throwing her hooves up into the air, she fell onto her haunches as her wings drooped to her sides. "This rock tells of a legendary hero with royal blood who fights alongside a strange warrior from a different realm!! MEANING! This warrior could be you, Lee!" She practically yelled, pointing at me. "And this hero is an Alicorn! And you know there's only four!"

Again, I was lost. I loved history a much as the next guy, but, again, I just woke up. "Mm mm m mm mmm mmmmm mmph." I told her, waggling my finger as her in a know it all manner, obviously I knew what I was talking about... I went to college!

She seemed confused for a second before looking sheepish. Quickly casting a spell, she got rid of the zipper on my mouth and gestured for me to repeat.

I hate repeating myself.

"I said, yeah I know there are four Alicorns. I'm good friends with them, herp derp." I yawned again. "And I really don't believe I am a warrior, yeah I can fight but that's only because I'm a dumbass and have a black belt in Jujitsu or some shit." I decided to sit down on the couch, leaning back and feeling of the fabric against my bareback. It felt amazing, so cold and just oh so right.

Rainbow seemed content to fly over to me and sit next to me, leaning against me and nuzzling her muzzle into my neck before laying her head on my shoulder. "I don't know Lee, you look like warrior material to me." She commented, her eyes flicking down to my chest.

I was in pretty decent shape for my size, having worked all over Ponyville and running errands for everyone I had gained quite a bit of muscle. Enough to make me look healthy and bat a few eyes maybe, but not enough that I looked like a fucking monster. I was average, and I liked it. Exercising with Rainbow kept me in top shape, I could actually keep up with her in a sprint race, which is quite a feat everyone tells me. Also my training in Jujitsu kept me in good shape as well, and eating right of course.

"Whatever you say Dashie but still... I'm no warrior." I told her, my hand draping around her and my hand finding its way to the top of her head where I absentmindedly scratched the area between her ears. Much to her delight as she cooed softly, leaning into my touch. Ever since that day one year ago, she's gotten more affectionate, of course she's still her hardheaded brash self, but after some time together I found she had a soft side to her. I liked both sides to her. "I mean, seriously. I'm flattered you guys think I'm some badass, but eh, I'm just a guy, nothing special."

It was true, I am nothing special, despite what they all think of me, just an ordinary guy. Rainbow didn't think so however, she thought I was the best human ever, even though I am the only human in Equestria ever. I felt her move a bit, pressing more of herself up against me and saying. "I think you'd make a pretty damn good warrior."

I heard a throat clearing next to me, and both Rainbow and I looked over to see Twilight looking at us both with a smile. Rainbow saw fit to quickly pull away, she had an image to keep after all. Ah! The rock, I need to know more about it. "So why did you want to show me that rock again?" I questioned her.

"Because it also tells of a dark king... and there's only one king we all know about." She explained, trotting over to some books.

I thought for a moment, thinking about Equestria's kings. There weren't many male rulers in this part of the world... save for... My eyes widened. No way... she couldn't mean. "Are you talking about King Sombra?!" I asked her, she couldn't mean him! My slight outburst got Dash's attention, she perked up and looked over at me at the mention of Sombra. "The King Sombra?"

"Sombra?" Dash looked at me, then Twilight. Her own eyes reflecting what I was thinking.

Twilight nodded, confirming my suspicions. "Yes, this transcript is talking about Sombra." She reached with her magic, pulling out a book from somewhere and opening it up. "King Sombra... is going to make a comeback."

Now see, that didn't make any sense to me. I know for a fact Sombra was dead, Celestia and Luna told me all about it when Cadence visited the castle the one time I was there, such a sweet mare. Anyway, she told me that Sombra was defeated by Cadence and the elements, and Spike of course, somehow. Sombra was dead...

Right?

"But, he's dead." I said, looking at Rainbow, seeing her nod as my eyes flicked back to Twilight's. "Right? I remember what Princess Celestia told me about him, and how Spike kicked his ass or something. He's supposed to be dead, how is he making a comeback? How could he?! He was blasted by magic!"

She could only sigh in response, levitating the book down with a tired expression. "I don't know how, but... most legends in Equestria tend to come true... maybe this is all a hoax, but the Princess seemed very adamant about this happening... and... all I can do is just hope she's mistaken for once." She looked at the rock before putting it down, eventually turning around and walking over to the door, leaving the room.

Rainbow and I remained, contemplating what she told us. I just sat on the couch, leaning forward and staring at the floor. I held my hands together, my thoughts turning to Sombra. Long ago, he was an evil king who ruled over the Crystal Empire over three or four thousand years ago, and the empire suddenly vanished for some reason only to return. This was like, four or five years ago of course before I came here. From what I understand, Sombra was defeated by Cadence who used the Crystal Heart, some weird funky magical object of great power.

Sounds like some cliche magic thing you get in Skyrim or something from a cartoon.

I could only sigh, if he's coming back...

My thoughts were stopped when I felt Rainbow's arms encircle me from behind. I felt her pull me closer to her, I let her. "You thinking about Sombra?"

I nodded, pulling back slightly to put my arms around her. "Yea, I hope Twilight is wrong though. That guy is not an easy dude to deal with, if what I read about him is true that is." He was said to be really powerful, and skilled in dark magic... what a cliche bad guy. "If he is coming back... we're going to kick his ass." I grinned, looking Rainbow in the eyes as she smirked back at me.

"Glad you weren't being all depressed about this, I wasn't really keen on playing the pony that had to reassure you." She told me, poking my bare chest with a hoof.

Grinning still, I brought my hand up and cupped her cheek. "I'm not one to get depressed easily Dashie," I told her, leaning towards her ever so slightly. "As long as I got you guys, ain't nothing going to stop me. Warrior or no warrior, Sombra will get his ass kicked if he thinks he can take us on." I chuckled before Dash cut me off with a kiss, her foreleg wrapped around the back of my neck and pulling me in close.

I'm also dating Rainbow Dash, did I mention that? Alllllllrighty then~

We pulled away once more, her magenta eyes staring into my blue ones before she laid her head on my chest. I held her close, leaning back and laying my head on the couch arm rest. She laid in my lap with her upper body across my chest, her head resting just below my chin. I passed the time by running my fingers through her silky mane, despite its shaggy and messed up appearance, it was quite soft and smelled incredible. I could feel her heartbeat, it was slow, and relaxed.

We laid there for a while, just listening to each other's breathing. I couldn't tell what Rainbow was thinking, but whatever it was had her eyes staring off into space. I kept running my hand through her mane, occasionally scratching one of her favorite spots and eliciting a sigh from her and a smile. These were the kind of moments I enjoyed, just the two of us relaxing... I loved it.

"Hey Dash," I kept watching her for a while, and she was looking like she was thinking about some serious. Despite being together only a year, I knew most of her signs. "You alright?" I asked as she looked up at me.

She smiled in response, reaching up to peck me on the lips. "Nothing you need to worry about Stretch, not yet anyways." With another smile worthy of Discord she shot up and flew out of the window she came through, leaving me alone before coming back. "See you later!"

"You too Dashie," I winked at her, flashing a pose as I stood up and watched her leave. After watching my prismatic girlfriend dash off into the skies, I turned around and walked out of the room. As I felt a breeze pass by me, I was suddenly reminded of my being half naked. "Eh, oh well." I murmured as I strutted down the stairs, past some cute mare guards who blushed from the sight of me, past a furiously writing Twilight, and outside where I was basked in the glory that is Celestia's sunlight.

And it seemed I had a few onlookers.

"Bask in the glory that is a half naked me!" I demanded, striking a pose. Out of the corner of my eyes, I saw a few mares raise an eyebrow at me, whether it was because they were starstruck by my amazing looks, or because I looked like a total goob. I wasn't know for my smarts, I was known for my idiocy!

I could hear giggling coming from nearby, and when I looked I saw a familiar mint green pony, followed by a flash of light. "Well~ It looks like I have something occupy myself with tonight~" She said, smiling pervertedly as always.

"Glad to have given you something to fap to Lyra." I smiled in return before strutting away, swinging my arms about. I heard Lyra quickly gallop away, no doubt to get her picture developed. Oh Lyra, you're such a perv. I grinned, she was a good kind of perv. The kind of perv you wanted as a friend, well... the kind I wanted for a friend, anyway.

Today was a lovely day.

A Message of Love

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It was a bit after I had left the castle, and I was currently in the middle of something very important... something every man does when alone, something the human race has done since the beginning of time and space itself. So important, it was blasphemy to anyone who did not do it...

I was on the couch... eating Ice Cream, dressed in my underpants, watching a cartoon about talking candy canes. You know, the usual sunday thing that I do. It was not boring, and I had a friend with me! Looking over to my left, I saw a large white spider with a red marking on its back, it sat on the top of the couch's backrest munching on a small bug it found. It was a spider that Bon Bon and Lyra had named Scary, Bon Bon was in my kitchen with Lyra, both needing to borrow it for something and they brought along the spider, not wanting to leave it alone.

He was pretty fun.

"Mmm... Ice Creamy goodness~" I murmured as I jammed a spoonful of it into my mouth, tasting the delectable dairy concoction. Scary nodded in agreement, however he probably thought I was talking about the show, it was good too it not a bit cheesy. But I was too busy eating my munchies, so... yeah... But, like always, all good things must come to an end, as Twilight interrupted my manly ice cream time by transporting into my living room, in front of my TV no less. The smell of ozone and a sharp pop accompanied her as she appeared before me like a fairy.

"Hey Lee! I hav-" She stopped short when she saw me reclining on the couch and her eyes drifted downwards, then a massive blush appeared on her face before she coughed awkwardly and turned away. Now, maybe you're wondering, why is she blushing? Well, for one thing I'm still in my underwear, and the next reason is probably because my legs are spread out quite a bit and I'm wearing my loose boxers instead of my tightie whities. So I guess my junk was on display or something. "Umm..."

"Admiring me Twily?" I asked, grinning idiotically. "I know, I am such a sight, amirite?" When she blushed and said nothing, I laughed, "Okay okay, what are you doing here, got another rock to show me?" I inquired, maybe she found what was worn off somewhere? I hate never finding out the ending.

Shaking her head, she produced a letter from... somewhere, and held it up in front of me, still looking away. I snatched it out of the air and looked it over, spotting the royal seal and the cursive writing of Princess Cadence. I felt one of my eyebrows rise up gloriously in question.

"Hmm... why show me this?" I asked, opening it up.

Twilight cleared her throat, grabbing the blanket I had on my couch and throwing it over my lap before making eye contact. "She sent this letter just this morning and I forgot to show it to you!" She giggled happily as Bon Bon and Lyra came into the living room, spotting Twilight they pranced over to her.

As they talked about, whatever, I opened up the letter. It was strange to see a letter when usually the royalty sent scrolls, guess Cadence works differently? I wouldn't know, we haven't talked much aside from the odd scroll sent back and forth between ourselves. I started to read it, even though I had a hard time reading cursive, stop being so damn fancy people.

Hi Twilight! Its me Cadence, but you probably already knew that from the seal, silly me.
Anyway, I just wanted to tell you me and Shiny's anniversary is coming up soon, and I wanted to invite you and Aunty Celly and Luna, and your friends to spend the week with us in the Crystal Empire! Oh! And be sure to bring Lee along, I miss him a lot, if you see him, tell him we need to hang out some more.
I hope you decide to come Twily!
With Love.
Princess Mi Amora Cadenza

My eyes widened, seeing Cadence again would be awesome! I turned to ask Twilight if she was going to, but I instead found my eyes were locked on my empty tub of Ice Cream I had placed to the side... the entire thing was licked clean... I had at least half of that still left! Furrowing my brows in confusion, I looked around for the culprit, only to spot Scary... a little bit of Ice Cream stuck on his mandibles.

"... I don't even want to know how you did that." I said as I stood up, tossing my cover back onto the couch.

*uuuuuurrrrrrp*

I facepalmed.

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A Night With: Rainbow Dash 2
Written by: Dustchu.
MLP:FIM belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust.
I own only my OC's and certain elements.

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After talking with Twilight, Bonny and Lyra, Twilight and I had set out to find the girls while Lyra and Bonny stayed at my house. I trusted Bonny, to not wreck everything, but Lyra... not so much, she's a bro, much like Dashie, but she can be a bit... wonky sometimes, hehe. They were still messing round with my stove, why is that? Anywho... The two of us walked along the dirt path into Ponyville, the air was blowing slightly and the sun was shining brightly like always. Oh, before I left, I decided to dress myself in some duds that brought a sense of nostalgia to me. My clothes I wore when I first appeared in this lovely realm.

It consisted of my Rainbow Dash shirt, my jacket which I wore over my shirt, it was black and made of one hundred percent awesome, of course. My jeans, which were a bit torn up but still fit like a glove~ A pair of suspenders which hung off of said jeans, my wallet and chain, and my sneakers. I also had on my backpack that I wore during my collage days, I had it with me that day in the bar to hold some books, one of which happened to be my Zombie Survival Guide that Twilight has been obsessing over for quite some time.

This was my look in Collage, course I was always picked on because of my looks, I didn't care. Rainbow was my bae, and she's my girlfriend, so ha! Suck on that, haters. She's the best kind of girlfriend a guy could have, loyal, awesome, has a caring side under all the arrogance, and she is blue. What's not to love? Hehehe, man... who would have thought I would end up with a blue colored rainbow maned pegasus? No one, that's who. I could only sigh as I thought of all the time me and Dash shared in this world.

We've done a lot, faced down some baddies, gotten into some epic races and even broken a few bones together.

Awesome times.

"Heeeeeeeeeeeey STRETCH!" I heard, prompting me to whip around and catch the culprit about to blast into me. I felt the object collide into me almost at full speed causing me to dig my heels into the ground, I felt myself get pushed back as dirt was kicked up and somehow I managed to keep standing despite being hit by almost a hundred pounds of pure muscle and fluff. But, I eventually fell onto the ground, dragging the culprit with me.

"Sup Dashie? To what do I owe the pleasure of you almost killing me?" I asked with a smile as I glanced down at Rainbow, who had her arms wrapped around me. Her eyes looking up into my own.

"What? I can't crash into my coltfrend?" She asked, quickly pecking me on the cheek before leaning away to look at me. "Hey, aren't those your old clothes?" She asked, poking at my shirt.

"Eeyup." I smiled, tugging my shirt collar forward and letting it snap back. "I wish my shirt wasn't faded though," I looked down at it, seeing only bits and pieces of Rainbow's mane on my shirt. the last three years in this world had really worn it down a bit, so only Rainbow's mane, cutie mark and name remained.

Rainbow could only smile as she saw her name and mark on my shirt, no doubt liking the fact I was wearing what I wore when we first met. "You could probably get Rarity to fix it up if you wanted to," she commented, tapping my shirt with a small smile. "She'd probably jump at the chance to fix up something of yours."

I hummed in thought, maybe I should ask her. "I might, anyway." I looked over at Twilight, who was smiling towards me and Dash. "Were you doing a trick or something? Or just decided to crash into me?" I asked with a smirk.

My rainbow maned girl said nothing at first, instead looking away. "Urrm..."

"Are you too overcome by my awesome to say anything?" I wondered, poking her muzzle.

"I just... uh, wanted to crash into ya, duh." She slugged my arm...

Fucking ow... just ow... that hurts more then you think, but I'll let it slide. I rubbed my arm, wincing. "Anyway. Twi got a letter from Cadence, inviting us to the Crystal Empire." I told her, ruffling her mane much to her delight. "So we were looking for the girls to round up and ask if they were free, I'm going so here I am ask-"

"Of course I'll go with ya!" She practically yelled, waving her hooves around. I recoiled slightly from her outburst as she blushed slightly. "I mean, uh... sure, I'll go, if that's cool with you dude." Rainbow agreed, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.

Jeez, I've never seen her like that before, hehe. I wonder what prompted that? Well she was going, that was good enough for me. I shrugged. "Cool, now we just need to get the other girls." As I started to get up, I caught Rainbow give me a half saddened look as I let her go. But she suddenly perked up, her wings standing at attention.

"I know, I'll go get them for you." Dash flapped her wings once, taking flight in the air above me. "I'll round em up in ten seconds flat!" Without another word she took off at speeds only she could do.

A sigh. "Hey Twi," I looked over at Twilight, who was scratching her chin in thought. "Does Dash seem... a bit off to you?" I asked, dusting off my pants. I needed to get these fixed, maybe I'll take Rainbow's advice to heart and ask Rarity to help me out. She did owe me after all all the times I tasted wine with her, granted I like wine as much as the next guy but sheesh. Give a guy a break, my tolerance ain't that high, unlike some people *cough*

The mare next to me only hummed in thought. "I guess she is acting a bit odd, has been for a couple of months now... you've never noticed until now?" She questioned, I could only shake my head. I didn't know that, but then again I don't notice things like that often even though I am quite observant... from time to time, anyway. "Hmm... maybe you should ask her when she gets back?"

I nodded, now that I think about it, she has been acting kinda weird. Sometimes I'd catch her glancing my way, only to shy away when I look towards her... kind of like when I took her out to the Green Dragon, she was acting weird because she really liked me. But... why is she acting like this now? Doesn't make any sense to me, I should ask her.

Speaking of which.

"WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"OH MY!"

"SLOW DOWN RAINBOW, CONSARN IT!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Speak of the devil, and... oh shit. She brought them all... oh lordy.

"LOOK OUT BELOW!"

*CRAAAAAAASH*

I could only watch as Rainbow, along with the rest of the elements crash into Twilight. How she carried them all here I'll never know, she's got some super strength or some shit. My eyebrows twitched as the dust settled, and all my favorite elements all sat in a pile on the ground rubbing their sore flanks.

"Gosh darn it Rainbow!" AJ chided, poking the blue pegasus in the head. "Why did ya have ta snatch me up from th' farm like that?"

Rarity, meanwhile coughed up dirt and fanned the air around her. "My stars Rainbow Dash, whatever prompted you to foalnap me from my home?"

"That was fun!" Pinkie cried, hopping up and down before somehow leaping into the air and landing on my shoulder... like a parrot. I had to struggle to keep standing.

Fluttershy, bless her heart looked scared out of her mind. Deciding to stand in, I said. "Uhh, well Rainbow brought you here," I shot her a look, which she returned with a sheepish smile. "So Twi could tell you something." As I said that, every one of them looked over at Twilight who took that as her cue to pull out the letter.

"Ahem," Twilight cleared her throat. "Princess Cadence, has invited all of us to spend the weekend in the Crystal Empire!" She cheered, pulling out seven train tickets out of nowhere. A closer look would show the date stamp and such, but I wasn't paying attention to that, I was too busy wondering when I was going to get something to eat.

Ice Cream only does so much for my belly.

Looking over at the girls, I could see they were excited, Rarity in particular. "Oh my stars!" She swooned, "The Crystal Empire? Do tell me this is not a prank!"

Twilight could only chuckle. "Nope! Its the truth, she's invited us, the princesses and Lee to the Empire for the weekend."

"Its going to be awesome," I chimed in, I had never been there, so obviously I wanted to go. I've been told its hecka bright and made out of pure crystal, and the ponies were the same. Funky delicious if you ask me, hehehe. "I've always heard such good things about it, so being able to go there for the first time ought to be awesome!" A laugh escaped me as Pinkie dropped from my shoulder and landed on the ground in a weird pose. "Anyway, Twilight and I were hoping you'd all want to come with us, Rainbow's in. Are you guys?"

AJ stood up, tilting her hat back with a grin. "Well sure Ah am! Going back ta th' Empire oughtta be fun!"

"You are right my dear," Rarity piped up, nodding. "I am in as well."

"You can count me in! TO PARTY!" Pinkie Pie bounced around us with a smile on her face, I laughed at her silliness.

"I guess, I'm in also, if that's okay that is." Fluttershy agreed, hiding behind her mane as always, poking the ground shyly.

I could only smile, "This is going to be awesome!" Whipping around and pointing forward I yelled. "To the Crystal Empire!"

...

Silence...

"Crystal Empire's the other way, Lee." Rainbow told me, chuckling as the other girls giggled at my expense. "Fluttershy's house is that way."

I sweatdropped. "I knew that!" I pouted, crossing my arms as Pinkie slugged me in the arm.

"You're silly!"

"... so are you balloon butt!"

Laughter rang out from the girls and I threw up my arms.

"RAAAAHHGEEGEEGEEHOOOOO!"

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After our little get together, we each had gone home to pack some things. We had to be quick though, the tickets were dated today, and that meant the train was leaving in about an hour or so. I had sprinted home while everyone else split up, Rainbow had darted off to her house faster then anyone could see, that girl could move fast, that's for sure...

Get your mind out of the DAVID GUTTA! Anyway, I had barged into my abode and... got lost, somehow. I didn't have much I could take with me, and my backpack was empty. Now maybe you're wondering why I was carrying around an empty pack... what good hero doesn't? I might find some neat shit on the ground, and I'll need the room, duh! But, maybe I could pack some essentials...

SNACKS!

Rushing into my kitchen and yanking open my cupboard, I was deftly made aware of the fact I had no food. "Damn it." I cursed, shaking my head. I needed to restock when I got back home... home... that word, for me had a double meaning. My home was here, in Ponyville, where my friends were, where I had been living for the past three years, (I spent the first year with Luna and Celly in the castle)... but my real home, was back on earth, in New York, in my apartment flat on 32nd street on the fifteenth floor next door to a guy who was obsessed with the Apocalypse, Nacho Cheese Doritos and Pokemon.

Back home on earth was... harsh if i was being honest. While I was close to finishing collage, I still had a job and it was far from being the best kind. I was working in a subway, not Subway the delicious food place, but a nasty ass subway filled with every disease known to mankind. Trust me, look hard enough and you'll come across them somewhere down in that cesspool of disease. It was... moderately decent pay, that and coupled with my art that I sold online and what small venues I played with my violin kept me from becoming homeless. Yeah I was pretty, decently talented in a lot of fields. I had too much free time on my hands and I could stay up for hours learning something.

So I ended up learning the violin, drawing and painting, and a bit of other stuff too. Anything that could help me make money, and it turned out well in the end. But when I wasn't doing all that, I worked in the subway as a janitor... a fucking janitor of all things. I didn't qualify to operate the trains, I was deemed unfit... how the hell can one be fit to drive a train? I know how to work the danged switches, not my fault I almost ended up killing like sixty people during the training thing.

Jeez.

Turning away from my kitchen I rushed into my bedroom and went to my closet, and opening it up I saw... absolutely nothing. What can I say? I had nothing to my name except this house and the clothes on my back, and pile of dirty clothes sitting on the floor of my closet. "Eh, better then nothing." I mused as I grabbed a shirt, some other pants and a pair of boots Rarity made me for when she and I traveled into the mountains for some gemstones.

After throwing them into my backpack, I grabbed my sketchpad, some pencils and erasers, and my camera. Putting those away, I smiled to myself, got... well... everything actually. Hell my house is empty as fuck, I have nothing in this place, jeez. Like I said before, I need to get some stuff when I get back. Turning on my heel I started out the door, all of us were going to meet at the train station in a few minutes.

Here's hoping I can get there without running into anythi-

*MURPHY'S LAW*

Goddamn it.

"Hey Lee!" Three happy young squeaky voices cried in joy.

Ooooo lordy...

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Rainbow's Perspective

Buuuuuuuuck I'm going to end up being late because of this. I scolded myself as I threw one of my Daring Do books into my bag, along with a small box. I took a quick moment to look at myself in the mirror of my room, my mane had grown out quite a bit in the last few months, mostly because I let it grow out. I remember Lee saying how much he liked it and well... this ended up happening. I chuckled. I can't believe myself... I end up with a stallio-err... human, and I end up changing myself to please him... what's happened to me?

It was true, I did change myself a bit, mostly my looks. My name and tail grew out longer, my wings were a tad fluffier, and I had that tuft of fur growing out on my chest. Looking down at it, I prodded it with a hoof and smiled softly.

I should tell Lee what that means, among other things. With a sigh I took a look back at the small box I had thrown into my bag. That was something I was going to give him... something that I wanted to give him to really show how much I love him. Soon Dash, soon... Zipping over to my bag I closed it up and threw it over my back, after making sure it was going to stay I flapped my wings and took flight and out my window, as I eyed the train station I could make out Twilight's form standing around waiting. "Leave it to the egghead to make it there first." Without another word I dashed on over.

I loved the feeling of the wind as I flew as fast as I could, it was... an amazing feeling tat I couldn't describe perfectly if you asked me. You just have to feel it for yourself, its just... that feeling of being free, without bounds... its beautiful in a sense. I'm no poet but, come on.

Eventually - actually ten seconds flat! - I arrived at the terminal and landed next to Twilight who looked at me with a smile. "Hi Dash, glad you could make it. Now if only the others would arrive." She muttered, hopping in place.

I had to stifle a laugh before setting a hoof on her shoulder to calm her down. "Jeez, calm down Twilight, they'll be here, not everypony has to be right on time like you, egghead." I laughed, getting an eyeroll in response.

Twilight sighed before pulling out, much to my surprise, a notepad with a checklist. "Rainbow, check."

I facehoofed. "Really?"

"Yes really, being orderly is essential to a healthy life."

I thought about that for a moment, shaking my head and saying. "... is not!"

She gave me a look. "Is so!"

I shot one back. "Is not!"

Twilight stepped up to me, getting in my face. "Is so!"

I stepped forward as well, meeting her halfway. "Is not!"

She got in my face, her snout pressed up against my own. "Is so!"

I pushed back, baring my teeth. "Is not!"

"How is it not?" Twilight questioned, shooting me a look once more.

"I'm never orderly, and look how I turned out!" I told her, stepped back and showing off. "Look at my body, I'm toned to perfection!" I told her, flexing my forelegs like Lee does with his arms. "Look at these muscles! I'm the epitome of sexy, I could be a model if I wanted to!"

"I dare say Rainbow Dash, I might be able to help you with that." A rather sophisticated voice from behind us said with an amused tone.

Looking behind myself, I saw Fancy Pants standing next to his wife with an amused expression on his face, his wife having a similar one on hers. I suddenly felt like my face was on fire. Moving quickly I got back down onto all fours and coughed. "Hey there Fancy, how are you doing?" Asked, smiling as i puffed out my chest, my face still felt hot. Hehehe... oi.

Fancy Pants laughed kindheartedly and looked over at Twilight. "Greetings Princess Twilight," He bowed a curtsy bow. "And I'm doing quite fine Miss Dash, how are you two doing?" He eyed our bags, and hummed. "Going somewhere on a trip?"

Twilight nodded. "Yes we are actually, Princess Cadence sent us an invitation to the Crystal Empire! So me and the girls are heading down to spend the week with them."

Fancy nodded as Fleur came over to me. "That does sound quite fun, say, is Lee going with you?" I guess he wanted to know how he was doing.

"Yes he is, he should be here in a bit." Twilight answered as Fleur asked me something.

"Hello Rainbow Dash, how are you doing mon ami?" She greeted me, giving me a quick hug which I returned. You probably didn't know this, but me and Fleur were actually pretty good friends... don't ask how, or why. We just are.

"I'm doing well, thanks for asking." I smiled as Twilight and Fancy Pants got into a deep conversation involving bananas and socks... Oh goddess why even? "How about you?"

"Oh I am doing well, Fancy and I are heading to zee Crystal Empire as well, it will be a fun trip for us all, no?" She smiled that pretty smile of hers.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not into fillies (not a whole lot, I'm bi, but Lee doesn't know that) but Fleur had such a beautiful smile, and a damn good body. I would say I'm jealous, but I'm pretty damn good looking, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten Lee. "Yeah, I'm sure it will be pretty exciting." Then, suddenly, the conversation in the train station ceased to a halt as a scream broke out. Everypony looked over to where it came from and to my shock and slight amusement I saw Lee hogtied, in the crusader's wagon, being pulled by the three a speeds that shouldn't have been possible. "Oh buck."

*CRASH*

Lee made a noise akin to a cat whining. "My face! My beautiful face!" Lee cried.

I saw Apple Bloom stand up from the cart, looking at my human with a giggle. "Your face ain't beautiful Lee!" A filly laughed.

"You're just jealous!" Lee retorted.

Laughter rang out from the three as the rest of the girls came up, eyeing the crash with different expressions. "What in tarnation?"

A gasp. "Its our sisters! CODE BLACK! CODE BLACK!" Apple Bloom cried, hiding behind Lee's form with the other two.

Lee looked over at the girls looking at him with amused expressions, his face having a bit of blood on it as he was still tied up. "Your sisters broke my handsome manly man face."

Sweetie peaked out from behind him. "We were just trying to get our hog tying cutie marks." She squeaked.

Lee groaned. "I am neither a hog nor a person to be tied up! You're lucky you three are absolutely cute and snuggable, otherwise I'd punt you half way cross the country." Lee pouted, struggling to get out of his bindings. "Halp meh!"

I sighed, trotting over to him. What a day.

"Be gentle! Scootaloo broke my butt muscles, I cannot, for the life of me, flex them appropriately."

"Well, you shouldn't be so fat!" Said pegasus filly retorted as she poked him with her hoof, pouting.

"I am not fat! I am festively plump!" Lee bit back, frowning in her direction before licking her face, causing her to squeal in disgust and blush.

"Ewwww! Human cooties!"

Sweetie and Apple Bloom looked to each other as I undid one of the ropes and together, they yelled. "CUTIE MARK CRUSADER COOTIE DOCTORS YAY!" Then pulled out... doctors tools?

Scootaloo looked between them both. "Uh oh."

"Run Scoots run!" Lee cackled as the two fillies chased after her, the pegasus screaming as the two tried to 'operate' on her.

Crystal Empire, here we come.

Author's Notes:

Once more, this episode has been brought to you by SHITE ROMANCE Studios and TL;DR Productions.

Yeah... I went there, Scary made an appearance... if you all have read anything, you'll know exactly who he is. I DON'T OWN HIM! I just had to throw him in for shits, hehehe eue. He is owned by Pusspuss, that fabulous author who has both the writing skills and art skills to create awesomeness... ugh! D'x so fabu.

SCARY THE SPIDER IS OWNED BY: Pusspuss

Also thanks to everyone who reviewed last chapter, I'm so glad you're all loving how this is going. I am having fun writing this out, and... well, who knows, maybe it'll hit the feature box 8D

PFFFFFFFT, sure...

Anywho, glad you read this far, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Upvote, downvote , throw a lemon, kick a rock, leave a comment or two, go for it!

Till next time fellow bronies, peace out!

All Aboard the Doom Train

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"So... we're on a train." I commented, sitting snugly in my seat as Rainbow Dash was leaning against me while the girls talked. At a last minute decision, we had decided to bring the Crusaders along with us. Rarity wanted to because her sister had wanted to go for the longest time, Apple Bloom came along so AJ could keep an eye on her, and Scoots, well, she wanted to see Rainbow fly past some of the crystal towers. So here we were, all gathered together on the train, awaiting the arrival to the Crystal Empire.

"You're a genius!" Scootaloo gasped, holding both hooves to her face in mock shock. "How did you figure that out?"

Little turd picked up my sarcasm tenfold, thief! "Cause I'm an all knowing badass with more swag then you can imagine." I poked Rainbow's nose, much to her annoyance. "I'm like, forty percent cooler then Rainbow is." That earned me a fake gasp from Scootaloo and an amused glare from Rainbow.

"Oh really?" Dashie asked me, her colorful eyes that I always got lost in locked on mine. I could see a sparkle of something in them, mischievousness. "Is that so?"

I glared back at her, the corners of my mouth stretching into a grin. "Oh yeah." We inched closer and closer until I could taste her breath, a hint of something spicy like always. And I was about to close the distance, but a hacking noise next to me made both of us turn, and I saw Scootaloo with her hoof in her mouth, trying to gag herself.

"Grooooooosssss!" She groaned, eyeing me with disgust.

I could only chuckle before I turned back around and surprised Dash by kissing her anyway, my tongue licking her lips before I pulled back and said, "You're one to talk, I've seen how you look at Rumble during recess Scoots whenever I'm asked to come pick you up, with that lovey dovey look in your eyes." I put both hands under my chin, making a kissy kissy face, then in a falsetto, I said. "Ooooh Rumble, come and sweep me off my dainty orange hooves~" I said, making a kissing noise as Scootaloo just looked at me like I was crazy... in her defense, I probably was.

But, I did manage to get a laugh from of Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow Dash, plus both of her friends as they laughed when she was blushing up a storm. I swear I think her whole body was turning red! "I don't even like Rumble!" Sscootaloo yelled, making some of us laugh harder. She huffed, crossing her arms and saying, "I lik-" Her eyes widened before she shut her mouth. Judging from the looks and laughs, I was the only one who caught that little snippet.

Oooooh, interesting, I wonder who she likes? Secrets on top of secrets~ I chuckled, leaning back as I looked out of the window at the snowy lands beyond. Welcome to the Crystal Empire. I mused, eyes drifting across the snowy landscape.

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A Night With: Rainbow Dash 2
Written by: Dustchu.
MLP:FIM belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust.
I own only my OC's and certain elements.

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"So, anyone up for a game, or are we... IE, am I, going to have to sit here for... how long is this ride?" I asked, leaning back as Rainbow read her Daring Do book. "One, two hours?"

"Its only another hour, Lee." Twilight informed me, to which I made a humming noise. I heard Twilight rummaging around her bag and when i looked, I saw her pull out a book from her bag, and I recognized it as my Zombie Survival Guide. "You can have this back, I forgot to return it." She floated it over to me, and I noted it looked more worn then it usually was, making me raise an eyebrow.

I looked my book over, tilting my head at the purple aura surrounding it. "I take it you enjoyed it?" I asked, plucking it out of her magical grasp and opening it up. I saw several of the pages were also a bit worn, with the remnants of notes written with a pencil erased away. Did she write in my book? I wondered, eyeballing the notes.

Undead weak point - Head? Reason - for moving and functioning

Awww, that's so cute, Twilight's becoming a prepper. I chuckled.

Twilight shrugged, hiding a smile. "It was an interesting read, though, I don't know why your people need such a book." She told me, looking through her saddle bag for somethign else. "You told me zombies are not real, and yet there's a survival guide about it... why is that?"

"Well, some people - myself included - believe that there might be a zombie apocalypse at some point, so there's this book and about a hundred different other ones." I explained. "Heck, we have media for all kinds of apocalypse scenarios, this is just one of them. We can be a paranoid race Twi Twi." I admitted, remembering that World War III scare that had my family call me back from New York so I could go hide in their bunker... worst week of my life, no food, barely any toilet paper... and worst of all...

No fucking internet.

Twilight hummed in thought about that, her wings ruffling ever so slightly. "Odd..." I guess the conversation ended there because she went back to her bag, leaving me to look through my zombie book and refresh my memory on how to handle zombie apocalypses effectively. I knew how to kill one, but my memory isn't all that good sometimes and I tend to forget how to deal with some things.

A thud from the train car jolting to the left and the right made me look up from my book, the others seemed to have felt it as well. Everyone in the car started murmuring to themselves and I saw Rainbow give me a look. "What was that?" She asked me, looking out the window past me. I followed her line of sight and I saw the land moving by faster and faster, and I felt the G-Forces of the train car moving me back slightly.

"Uhhh... why is the train moving faster?" I asked, a hint of nervousness creeping into my voice. The train isn't supposed to go this fast, I'm all for speed but this wasn't my cup of tea right now. My cup of tea involved a cold ass pillow and my snuggle buddy, Dash.

Twilight got up from her seat and started towards the train engine while AJ got up and watched her. "Twilight?" She called out as Twilight left the train car, leaving all of us behind.

"I'll be right back, I'm going to see what's going on." Twilight called back to us, disappearing into the other car ahead of us.

I could only sit there for a few seconds, waiting. Everyone else just sat there, no longer buried in their conversations or books. The tracks below us shuddered and the car shook as we continued speeding down the metal railways through the snow outside. This was insane, why would we suddenly pick up speed? It was only another hour like Twilight said, now I would say, maybe she was wrong, but she's hardly ever wrong when it comes to numbers. That's like, one of her things.

Fuck it. I stood up and made my way over to the door, Rainbow trailing behind me. "We'll go and see whats up, you guys hang back." I informed the others. They all nodded and Rainbow and I left the train car, heading up the engine. The door was opened already and we quickly got into the connected car and to my shock I found it was empty, the seats devoid of passengers and luggage. It was odd, but maybe we were the only passengers? Wait, wasn't Fancy on this train with his wife? if so, where were they? Probably up ahead in the first class car?

I heard Rainbow make a tsk sound, clicking her teeth and saying, "something isn't right here Lee." Rainbow seemed to be uneasy as much as I was. The whole car was dark and the skies outside were quickly overshadowed by clouds, making the car even darker. "I don't like this." She said, standing taller as her eyes glanced around the cabin. No doubt looking for threats, I was likewise doing the same thing.

My instincts were telling me something was off... mostly because Twilight just came into this car, so where was she at? "Twilight?" I called out, in hopes of her answering... I got no such response. I got myself into a fighter's stance as I made my way forward Rainbow following behind me, her hooves silent against the carpeted floor. We both moved silently, keeping close to one another should something go wrong... which, if Murphy's Law is anything to go by, it most certainly will within a few minutes.

I spotted the door at the end of the car and moved towards it, trying to shake the feeling of whatever was going on. But not matter how much or how hard I tried I couldn't shake the feeling of the cold, it was like someone had gone and left the window open on a cold icy night and turned the ac on full blast. Rainbow seemed to have felt it to, her fur was standing on end, her ears standing at attention and pointed forward and her eyes set in a hard stare. It was almost comical, but right now I was in no laughing mood.

Once we reached the door, I put my hand on it, almost retracting it for how cold it felt. I felt fear well up in my gut, my body shaking and my eyes growing wide as everything seemed to get blurry.

"~Soooo... this is the one?~" I heard in the air around me, a dark air around me as the voice coolly said. "~I expected a challenge, this one is so scared he's about to faint!~"

"Lee!" I heard to my right, but I couldn't turn, or even move for that matter. So it was pointless to try.

Rainbow, help a nigga out would ya!

"~She cannot help you, my precious little human~"

Goes to show what you think asshole! Who are you?!

"~Why, I'm the one you were sent to this world to stop~" The voice chuckled darkly, making my body shiver in fear. "~Were you not told?~"

Told what you asshole?! How much of a massive flappy elephant dick you are? And you didn't answer my question!

Another bone chilling laugh. "~HAHAHAHAHAHA! She didn't tell you?~" The voice asked, suddenly I found my head looking up and at the window. There I saw the eyes, the red eyes staring into my own. "~I am surprised she did not tell you~"

Tell me what?!

Before I could even get an answer the vision went away and I found myself on the floor, Rainbow's arms wrapped around the back of my head and her lips planted again mine in a deep kiss. Her eyes were closed and a few tears were squeezing out and trailing down her cheeks, I returned the kiss and she pulled back, gasping in air and looking more relieved than I've ever seen her. "Lee, are you okay?!"

I rubbed my head, the feeling of the cold gone from my body as I looked into Rainbow's eyes. They were filled with worry and relief. "Y-yeah I'm okay... I'm okay." I then asked, "why'd you kiss me? While not unwelcome..."

She looked down at my chest before saying, "I kept yelling your name and you didn't move, blink, nothing!" She yelled, throwing up her hooves as she added, "you scared me... Lee..."

I pulled Rainbow close and held her, wiping the tears from her eyes. "I'm okay Dashie, don't worry bout me."

We sat there for a few seconds before she asked, "what happened to you, Lee?"

Looking up at the window, I recalled what that voice said to me. She didn't tell me... who didn't tell me what? You're going to have to be specific ghost guy, I know a lot of she's. I shook my head, standing up and saying, "Later, let's go find Twilight and figure out why this train is going faster than Oprah when she finds out there's an all you can eat cake buffet going on in upstate New York during Summer." I told her, getting a confused and amused look from her as I opened the door and went inside.

Inside I saw nothing, yet again. More empty seats, but at the end I saw Twilight standing stock still by the open door to the other car. I rose an eyebrow, why was she just standing there? Rainbow likewise looked confused, she trotted out ahead of me and flew over Twilight's head. "Hey Egghead, you alright?" She asked, waving a hoof in front of her as I came over. "Yoohoo~?"

I walked up to Twilight. "Twi Twi?" I asked, leaning down and poking her flank. "Sparkle butt?" Still nothing, I turned her towards me, her face stuck in perpetual shock. She looked like one of those weird dolls you'd find in an old lady's house.

"..."

"Starbutt?"

Nothing.

"Sparklebutt?"

Still nothing.

"Purplebutt?"

Nothing, yet.

"Buttbutt?"

A twitch.

"Shinybutt? Nah, that's Shining's nickname I think, or is it Shieldbutt?"

Another twitch and a laugh from Rainbow.

"Daintybutt? Believe me I can go on all day, I got like ten more to throw at ya."

Finally she looked at me and said three words that sucked all of the humor out of my system. "There's another human." She told me, pointing into the other car with her expression of shock still on her face.

I joined her look, along with Rainbow. Another human was... was here in Equestria?! My eyes widened, how could there be another human? Did he come here like I did, or did he appear on this train just now? Was he friendly? Where did he come from? Did he even speak my language? Was it a dude to begin with? I had too many damn questions. "A-another human... is here?" I asked her, Twilight nodded slowly.

I could barely breath, standing up I looked past Rainbow who also looked into the other car, and I saw him. He was standing in the middle of the empty car, the seats likewise devoid of ponies and other creatures. The other human wore dark clothes, a t-shirt colored dark brown, a pair of torn up jeans and... no shoes? Jeez what had this guy been through?

I walked into the car, suddenly feeling that cold sensation once again. I ignored it, walking over to the human as Twilight and Rainbow trailed behind me closely. Rainbow's wing flaps and Twilight's hooves blocked out by the sounds of my heart beating heavily against my chest. I couldn't believe it, I had nearly forgotten what another human looked like, and to see another one after nearly four years... I was weirdly happy right now. I walked up to the human and tapped him on the shoulder. "Dude! For reals, how did you get he-" I was stopped as the human turned around, my voice was gone in a flash and a pained squeak came out as I looked into his eye... his eyeball... the only one left in his skull... the one eyeball...

I was about to say what it was, but Twilight beat me to the punch.

"ZAMBIE!" She screamed.

Everything went silent, me, the zombie, and Rainbow all looked at her. The zombie actually looked perturbed that she messed up the word, I was too, considering she was such a perfectionist.

"Oh... uh... I mean... ZOMBIE!"

Okay... NOW WE CAN PANIC!

"Shit fuckity fuck!" I cursed as I kicked the zombie back, making it stumble back over a seat with a groan, it smashed into the other seat and laid still for a few seconds, twitching before it slowly got back up, a moan escaping its throat as the door behind us closed and locked shut. Looking back at the zombie, I could just barely make out a shirt that had a faded logo on it, what it was I had no clue but it looked familiar. His face was torn up, his left eye gone and the skin below it chewed off, blood and mucus flowed freely from his gaping mouth through jagged teeth. A raspy groan escaped him as he stumbled around the seat and back into the aisle, standing there with his eye glaring at me.

God I can smell him from here! I covered my nose, he smelled horrible.

"~Do you like? He was like you ya know.~" The voice returned, Twilight and Rainbow both heard him judging from their faces, one being confusion and the other rage. "~He's another one that was said to be the chosen one~"

"Sombra?!" Twilight yelled, flaring her magic as Rainbow got into a combat stance, standing beside me as I eyeballed the zombie. About a hundred different thought running through my head, the one being the most prominent, how do I kill it fast!? My first thought was the head, that was obviously the target, but he had some weird swirling blackness surrounding him...

Black magic?

"~Why, hello Twilight~ Hehehe, it has been a while since we last met, hasn't it? How is the dragon doing, the one who I plan on destroying the next time I see?~" He asked, his cackles in the air around us. The undead in front of us hadn't moved an inch, instead it's glowing orange eye was locked on my own, body twitching and shaking, as if he were struggling to function.

Twilight only growled under her breath, still trying to find him. "How are you back Sombra?! What are you doing here!?"

Another laugh, did this guy laugh all the time? Jeeeeesus. "~I am here, to exact my revenge upon you, your friends, that damnedable drake and the pathetic princess sitting on my throne!~" He yelled at us, the undead moving and twitching to match his anger. "~I think... I'll start with you three~ Especially the human, enjoy my little creation.~" He said, chuckling before vanishing from the air.

"Oh... balls..."

*ROAR*

The zombie roared, like something out of Black Ops Zombies and charged at us, he came at me and I instinctively blocked his beatdown, each hit was like being hit with a fleshy stick. His arms were stiff and his fingernails jagged as they swiped at me. I growled and punched back, throwing right hooks and haymakers, he took them like a champ, so I added in a uppercut, my fist connecting with his jaw and crushing his teeth further into his gums.

I then rose my leg up and quickly kicked him in the stomach with my heel, sending him back as Twilight blasted a spell at him. I recognized it as one she recently learned from a combat spell book she bought from a vendor, the rippling purple hues and the jagged outlines of the magical blast told me it was a blast force spell, one meant to sent a target staggering back. But this one was bigger and I could feel it raze my arm as it hit the undead, sending it flying back.

"Alright! Good going Twilight!" Rainbow cried, pumping her hooves into the air as the undead smacked into the back wall and slid down.

For a moment I thought that was it, his head had snapped to the side and his body was broken. Hell that would kill me if Twilight used it on me, so I had no doubts he was dead... at least, that was my hope. To my shock, he slowly got up, Twilight muttering something about how that wasn't possible, I only mouthed one thing.

"Undead."

I watched as the zombie grabbed his head and snapped it back into place with a bone crunching noise, his one eye locked on me as his mouth opened. He raised an arm, one broke finger pointing at me as a gurgle came out of his mouth. "~Lee~" he growled, his voice a cross between a hiss and a gurgle. "~Kill~"

Twilight stood by my side, flaring her magic once again and preparing a spell as Rainbow got into a fighting stance mid flight, one I had seen in a Pegasi combat book. I got into my own stance, my arms held outward and my right foot in front of the other with my body facing sideways. Llisten bub, zombie or no zombie, I'm still going to kick your ass!" I grinned toothily, cracking my knuckles.

"~You must die~" He replied, stumbling forward.

I scoffed, "Cliche statement, I say, you must suck my dick... wait, no... no no no..." I shook my head. "You must... suck a dick!" I yelled, running forward and jumping up. My leg spinning out in a jumpkick that I aimed towards his head. Yeah, I'm Asian and I know Jujitsu... stereotyping much? Maybe, but I needed ways to kick ass.

My kick made contact with his head, I quickly followed up with a leg sweep as Twilight sent another force blast the second my leg made contact and knocking him off his feet. The blast hitting him in the chest and sending him flying back, Rainbow flew forward and spun her body around before she kicked out her hind legs and smacked him in the head, a sickening crack sounding as he smashed into a window. Dash quickly flew back to us and I wondered, when did we suddenly get really good at team fighting?

The zombie wasn't through yet, he removed his head from the window, whipping winds and whistling air sounded as he grabbed a piece of glass, one that was conveniently shaped something like a knife and charged at me suddenly, faster then a zombie should be allowed to move. Great, it was a dungeon style zombie. I ducked under his hay-maker swipe, the glass nearly missing my hair as I tackled his chest, the smell of blood and gunk filling my nose and making me cough up my lungs.

Sweet buttery fucks it was horrid.

"Jesus Christ!" I gagged, staggering back as his gut opened up and spilled out his insides onto the floor before me. I could just picture Twilight's face going green and Rainbow staring in both awe and disgust. I stumbled back and mistimed my footing, this gave the undead the chance to move again. He dashed forward, grabbing my shoulder and plunging the glass into my shoulder, the piercing pain as it sliced open flesh. "AHHHHH FUCK!" I yelled, punching the zombie in the head and trying to hold him back as he grabbed onto me. Jagged teeth coming dangerously close to biting me.

"Lee!" Rainbow and Twilight screamed, running over to me and trying to get the undead off. The bastard proved to be tough, his nails were digging into my shoulders and his grip was made of iron it felt like. Coupled with the glass in my shoulder, I was hurting bad, and my strength was being sapped away. "Get off of him you bastard!" Rainbow yelled, punching him in the head and trying to yank him off but it was proving to be too much for her.

Twilight tried using her magic, but for some reason her grip was slipping. "I can't get a grip on him!" Twilight yelled, moving to my side and trying to push him off.

"~Kill~" He growled, his ghostly voice echoing in my ears as he inched closer and closer. I could feel his breath on my neck and I kept pushing back, but the bastard must have had super strength or something! I could feel the teeth grazing my neck, my fear, anger and pure strength keeping him from sinking his jagged teeth into my neck. If I didn't get him off of me...

Luckily, rescue came in the form of a cyan blue pegasus. "GET OFF OF MY HUMAN YOU UNDEAD FREAK!" Rainbow screamed, holding up a jagged piece of glass in her hooves before plunging it with all her might into the undead's head, she pulled it out and stabbed it multiple times, yelling at the top of her lungs as I saw both red blood and black goop fly high. She eventually buried the glass into his head, flying back.

She flew back a bit more, falling onto the floor as the undead stopped moving. His eye had stopped glowing, returning to a greenish color as he fell to his knees. A raspy death rattle escaped him as he fell back, the glass pushed deeper as the back of his head hit the floor making the glass go deeper into his head and out through the eye socket. I stepped over to him and quickly over to Dash as Twilight followed, I fell to my knees in front of her as she she held her hooves outward, both of her fetlocks were covered in deep scratches and blood pumped out, flowing down her fetlocks and onto the floor creating a pool of blood.

"Goddamn it! Twilight do you know any healing spells?!" I asked her, my fear returning as I took off my backpack and unzipped it.

She shook her head, to my growing horror. "No I don't!"

"Damn it," I muttered as I pulled out several bandages, I laid them out and gently took Rainbow's hooves making her wince. "Sorry sorry." I murmured as I picked up one of the bandages and wrapped them around her fetlocks to stop the bleeding. "When we get tot the Crystal Empire you're learning one." I told her, getting a shaky nod as the door behind us opened up.

I heard Applejack's country drawl sound out. "We heard yellin' and fussin' what in tarnation is go-" She stopped short, no doubt seeing the blood, body and both me and Twilight tending to Rainbow. "What in th'-"

"Oh good heavens!" Rarity gasped, seeing the body. "Is... is that another human?"

"It was." I nodded, still wrapping Rainbow's fetlocks. Rainbow winced every couple of seconds and it made me cringe, damn it all to hell.

The rest of the girls came into the room, every one of them avoiding the body save for Fluttershy who looked like she was about to cry. Rarity's normally white face was even more pale than usual, Pinkie Pie's mane had deflated a bit and she looked scared, and Applejack, while on the outside she looked stone faced, I could tell even she was disgusted and scared right now as she looked at Rainbow. "What happened in here?" Applejack asked me, trotting over to us.

Twilight turned away from the undead and said, "I was trying to find out why the train was moving faster than it should when I came into this car and I saw the other human, Lee and Rainbow came up behind me and..." She closed her eyes. "Sombra is back."

"What?!" the girls collectively yelled, well... except Fluttershy, she was quiet as a mouse.

"He's dead!" Applejack retoted, stomping a hoof onto the ground. "There's no way he could be back, Princess Cadance blasted him ta kingdom come!"

"Its true though, he's back and he wants revenge." I told them, finishing up with Rainbow's hooves and turning to face them. "He sent that thing after me, Twi and Dash." I told them, pointing to the body that Fluttershy was inspecting closely, much too closely for my tastes.

Fluttershy spoke up, "Um..." She started pointing to his shirt, what was left of the tattered thing anyway.

I rose an eyebrow, wondering why she was looking at him. Rarity spoke up, "what's wrong?" Rarity asked her, fighting her disgust to look herself. "Oh my."

"What is it?" I questioned the two of them, walking over and looking at the shirt. I kneeled down as the others came over, Rainbow hobbling until she ended up leaning on me for support. When I looked at the shirt earlier I couldn't make out the text, but Twilight fixed that by shining a light spell. What I saw, made me gasp.

On the shirt, I could make out the faded letters of F, L, U, T and T. The rest was blotted out by blood, and just below that, was a faded image of Fluttershy's face and the word Kindness.

Something Sombra said came back to me again. He was like me... I could only stare at the body of what was a fellow fan of this world and its characters. He was like me, a fanboy and a brony. Did he get sent here like me, and Sombra did something to him? Sombra also mentioned that, he was said to be the chosen one... I feel like someone's hiding something from me. I wondered who this guy was, he looked about my age. Steeling myself, I started going through his pockets, getting a look from Rarity.

"What are you doing?" She looked disgusted I would willingly stick my hand into a dead body's pocket, but I had to see if he had a wallet or something. After all I kept my own.

After rummaging through his pocket, I managed to pull out his wallet. "Wallet." I said, holding it up before opening it and looking inside. I found a twenty dollar bill, a credit card, a coupon for Wal-Mart mayo, and a driver's license from the state of Georgia. I pulled it out of its sleeve, holding it up to Twilight's light so we could all see it. He didn't look anything like this corpse, sandy blonde hair that was upswept, nice looking green eyes and a smile on his face as he looked into the camera. "Lucas Dunwoody... eighteen... he was just a kid..."

"He looks..." Twilight started, but Rarity finished.

"Very handsome," she said, eyeing the picture. I could only sigh sadly as Rarity remember the situation. "Oh..."

I looked at the body. "He was like me..." I muttered. "Just a normal guy pulled into this world, probably hoping he could have met one of you." I put the wallet down as the girls looked down sadly, and the driver's license. "Instead he was somehow fucked up by Sombra..." Looking at the license once again I put it back into the wallet and put it into my own pocket. I could do something with it maybe.

*THUD THUD THUD THUD*

We all looked up and behind as the cars started making a weird noise, oh yeah, this thing was still going full blast down the rails wasn't it? Standing up I started towards the engine followed by everyone else, Rainbow taking flight and hovering next to me. I made my way over to the door and tried the knob, it was unlocked. "Get ready guys, we don't know what might be waiting up there." I got some murmurs of agreement, and I opened the door.

I quickly made my way inside, finding the car before the engine to be empty, this was first class and yet... Fancy Pants and his wife were not on board. "Where are the other passengers?" Fluttershy asked, hiding behind her mane as always. That was a damn good question, where were they?

"I don't know." Twilight shook her head, making me nervous. Where the hell is everyone?!

I moved across the car, keeping my eyes trained for anything that may hop out at us. I hope he didn't have any more zombies, dealing with one was bad enough, having to deal with others won't be easy. Looking around, I saw the windows were frosted over with ice, and the snowfall outside was passing us by the faster we went. We needed to slow this thing down, or else. The door at the end of this car was shut, like the others but this time I saw a lock. "Damn it, there's a damn lock on the door!" I cursed, kicking the door and making it shudder.

Looking back, I saw Applejack tilt her hat forward. "Leave it ta me!" She cried, galloping forward and turning on her front hooves, smashed her hind legs into the wooden door... and to our surprise, it didn't budge. "Consarn it!" She bucked the door again, and I had to admit, I have a massive respect for AJ's leg power. She may not look muscular, but you just have to look hard enough and you'll see the toned muscles in her legs, from years of bucking trees~

As Applejack went to work on the door, I looked out window towards the snow, and what looked like the Empire coming in fast. It was still a massive bright glow on the horizon, but I could tell we were closing in on it... if we didn't slow this train down, it would probably end in a lot of hurt people, we had to stop it! Running over to the door, I kicked it with as much force as I could muster as AJ kicked it with me. It still held under our combined assault, which pissed me off a great deal.

"To fucking hell with this shit!" I yelled, running over to one of the windows. It was a big window, large and could easily be opened. I messed with the lock for it, finding it shut tight and locked. "Punk." I kicked the window, bashing it open and making cold air rush in like a wave of pinpricks.

"What are you doing?!" Twilight yelled over the gale force winds, putting up a minor shield spell to block out the cold air.

I grabbed kicked the remaining glass aside, shoving it off to the side before answering. "I'm going to the engine damn it! Maybe I can stop it!" I yelled back, climbing out of the window and onto the side railing. Holy fucking shit this was fucking scary! The railing was small, but there was one above me I could use to hold onto. Rainbow flew over to me and was about to come out but I put a hand on her chest, my fingers running through the chest fluff she had. "No, you stay here!"

She shook her head furiously. "No, I'm coming with you!"

"You're hurt Dash!" I yelled at her, my jacket flapping in the wind. "Stay here with Twilight while I try and get the door open from the other side!" I gave her a quick kiss on the lips before I gently pushed her back into the car, I saw her nodding to me before I started climbing to the right. Jeezus what was I thinking coming out here?! The wind was cold enough that my man nips started getting hard, probably hard enough to cut diamonds... where did that come from anyway, did someone actually cut diamonds with their nips once?

Focus Lee! Focus, no time to be thinking about nipples and the like.

I made my way to the right carefully, my feet struggling to gain traction and my hands having slight trouble hanging onto the railing above. Looking back into the car from the window I was in front of, I could see the girls, sans AJ giving, me worried looks. I only nodded sheepishly and gave em all a smile as I continued moving. The cold air was harsh and I kept getting pelted with snow, which may have been fun if I wasn't currently in a situation that, if I fucked up, meant absolute cold unforgiving death.

Squinting my eyes I could see the engine up ahead, chugging up a storm as it blasted through small snow piles that had accumulated on the tracks, the black smoke filled the skies from the pipe. I had to get the door open and stop this train! I moved several more feet across the railing until I came to the end at last, on the outside I could barely make out the sounds of AJ banging on the door with her hind hooves. Steeling myself, I counted to three before I had to jump, seeing how the railing was bent awkwardly and missing a length.

One. The snow had started coming down harder.

...

Two. My palms started getting sweaty.

...

Three, I jumped!

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Rainbow's Perspective

I hovered above the ground, watching as Lee had jumped off of the rail and to the front. Disappearing from my sight, I couldn't stop my heart from pounding in my chest nor the gasp that escaped my mouth. My hooves ached and I could feel them throbbing from the cuts, and I felt lightheaded as I kept flight. Lee better be alright or I'll freaking kill him! I landed on the floor and tried my best not to put too much pressure on my front hooves, they hurt like all tartarus.

"He'll be alright Dash." Twilight told me, coming up to me and draping a wing over my back. "You'll see." She whispered to me, patting me on the back.

I nodded, I knew he would be, but that didn't stop me from worrying about that damned human. Suddenly I heard a thud from the other side of the door, AJ stopped hitting the door because she got tired, and a curse from the other side made me sigh in relief. He's okay, he's the only one I know of who curses up a storm like that.

"Ahhh!" Somepony screamed from behind us.

I heard next, Scootaloo? "What's going on?!"

Turning around I saw the crusaders standing at the end of the car, having passed by the body that Sweetie was staring at with fear in her eyes. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo having the same looks on their faces. Applejack ran over to me, rounding them up and bringing them over to us. "What are you three doing in here?! You were supposed to wait for us in the car back there!"

"There was something in the back car trying to get in!" Sweetie cried, tears threatening to leave her eyes. "It sounded really scary!"

Apple Bloom nodded fiercely. "T'was all loud and ornery sounding, Sis!" AB told us. "It kept trying ta break through th' door!"

*CRASH*

The door behind us broke down, and in came Lee, his shirt covered in snow and his face locked in what looked like a state of pure terror. "Guys, we got a big ass problem!" He yelled at us, just now I noticed a twisted level in his hand.

Twilight looked alarmed, as did the other girls, so I asked, "What is it?!"

He looked to me, an expression of fear on his face I had never seen before. "The breaks are gone, and the conductor is dead, and we're headed towards a rather sharp turn that may or may not derail this train sending it into a ravine nearby..." He said, his voice going from a low bass kind of sound to a high pitch squeak near the end.

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*Mood Music*

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"WE'RE GOING TO CRASH!" Everypony screamed, Lee stumbled back and I held my hooves over my ears.

"Yes!" Lee yelled back, holding onto the door frame. "We have to get off of this damn thing, now!"

*SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-CRASH THUD THUD THUD*

The rails screeched loudly as something in the far back broke down. Turning around I saw something stumble out of the car, it was... "Another zombie!" I yelled, flapping my wings and flying up and away. Rarity and AJ grabbed their sisters while I grabbed Scoots, ignoring the pain in my fetlocks as Lee got in front of us, wielding a broken lever.

The zombie wasn't alone, two more came out from behind him. All of them wearing tattered clothing and missing body parts, blood and ooze flowed out of them as their growls filled the car. The train shook and everypony had trouble staying up, the undead had no problems however as they moved towards us, arms outstretched and moans escaping their gaping maws.

This is bucking unbelievable! I cursed, keeping Scootaloo out of reach as Lee twirled the lever. It was a damn pain taking on that one, and now... now there's three of them! We won't be able to take them on if they're as strong as the other one. We all ended up outside as the undead moved towards us at a slow pace. I was trying to pllan out what to do, when suddenly the engine made a weird noise, followed by an explosion that sent me flying forward, smashing into a seat headfirst as Scootaloo flew from my arms, laning somewhere out of sight.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" I heard screams from behind me, along with Lee's cursing.

"Rarity!" Twilight yelled.

Lee screamed as well. "Fucking fuck!"

Everypony screamed, shaking my head and looking back I saw the engine had exploded and was moving faster then ever, flames quickly started spreading and I saw everypony had been blown off save for Twilight, Lee, Scootaloo and I. "Scootaloo!" I screamed turning back to see her dodging the undead, yelling for help. Suddenly I found myself being picked up by Lee. "Lee, Scootaloo!" I yelled at him, pointing to her.

He nodded, moving me outside quickly before going back into the car, yelling at one of the undead and smashing his lever into one of their heads. "Come at me you goddamn freaks and leave her alone! I'm tastier looking!"

I struggled to my hooves, every part of my body screaming out in pain. My body shook, I could feel blood running down the back of my head and my fetlocks, my breathing had become ragged and I couldn't see straight. The undead surrounded Lee as he picked up Scootaloo, holding her back while being forced further back into the car. He was going to get himself cornered! "Lee!" I yelled, trying to move before I felt Twilight grab me, pulling me back. What was she fucking doing!? "Let me go! Lee is still in there!"

I saw her shake her head. "The train is about to crash Rainbow! We have to get off!" She yelled, her magic starting to gather in her horn.

"Just go Dash! Get off now! GET THE FUCK OFF!" Lee screamed along with the sounds of Scootaloo crying. "GET OFF FUCKING RIGHT NOW!"

I tried fighting back, but it was useless against Twilight's magic. Everything was a blur from there, my vision started to go black, I heard Twilight flaring her magic and soon, we both teleported off of the train and I suddenly found myself falling through the air. I then hit something soft and cold, freezing before I looked up, blood trickled down my face as I looked towards the train as it barreled down the tracks towards the turn. I felt my blood run cold, coldler then it ever has before. I didn't see Lee jump off, he was still inside! No no no no no, Lee get off. I tried to get myself up and moving but my body was too weak, frozen from the cold and my injuries, I couldn't move. The train reached the turn, and I watched as it leaned to the side before it flew off the tracks. "LEE! NO!" I cried, watching in horror as the train flew off of the tracks and onto the snow.

It flew through the air before turning onto its side, the sound of metal screeching against metal sounding as the entire train twisted and turned in the air like a roller coaster. Glass borke and showered the ground below. More fires erupted from the engine, another explosion sounded, and it the first class car caught fire as it soared into the ravine Lee told us about, crashing into it and disappearing down below. It only took a few seconds before I heard the crash, and the explosion that followed.

I sat frozen on the ground... my eyes locked on where the train disappeared to... I saw the smoke rise up. I felt my heart stop, my body quivered, I felt sick to my stomach and I felt my eyes burn with fresh tears. My voice was lost, I couldn't move... Scootaloo... Lee... More tears flowed down my face, I felt sick to my stomach.

I heard hooves something coming up to me... along with Twilight's voice as she plopped down. "L-Lee?" She breathed, not believing what we just watched. My mouth hung open... "Scootaloo..." she breathed, tears brimming at the edges of her eyes.

Lee... Scootaloo... they... they were...

...

Gone...

I fell onto the ground, throwing my arms over my face as more tears poured out of my eyes. My breaths coming in shaky heaving drawls as I cried, he can't be gone! This wasn't supposed to happen, this was suppsoed to be a fun trip to the empire! Not a Celestia damned fight on a damned train! "LEEEEEEEEEE, SCOOTALOOOOO!" I cried, Twilight likewise crying softly. This was supposed to be a fun week for us all, this was supposed to be the week I gave Lee my gift to him...

This... this is all wrong.

Behind us I heard more hooves, no doubt the other girls coming over to us. I didn't pay any attention to them, I could only cry.

Everything was silent save for the sounds of us crying.

I couldn't believe it... I didn't want to believe it. My coltfriend, my baby sister, they were both gone! This can't be happening to me, this can't be happening to me, please tell me its all a dream and I'll wake up. I begged the gods and goddesses above, I got nothing except whistling winds and snowfall.

Silence passed over us, sniffling and crying before I heard Pinkie yell, "Wait, look!" She cried, I looked up and saw her pointing towards the ravine.

I looked back over, and I saw nothing at first... but then I heard a loud groan in the air and I almost broke out cursing. I saw a hand rise up and claw at the dirt, before along came a body, dragging itself up the hill and onto level ground. Another zombie... My coltfriend is gone, yet one of those damned things survived!? I was about to try getting up and kicking its flank once it got onto its knees, before I saw something in its arm, a small orange soot covered body... Scootaloo? I looked over the zombie and looked closely, the jacket, the shirt... those eyes...

"L-Lee?" I whimpered, praying it was him.

The human looked over at us before openign his mouth. "MY FUCKING ASS!" He yelled before falling onto his side, gently pulling Scootaloo out and putting her down next to him. "Also... HELP!" Lee cried... it was Lee.

I struggled to get up, pushing past the pain and hobbling over to him, my legs burned and my chest hurt, my eyes stung and I couldn't fight back the tears or the smile as I saw Lee still alive. My heart hurt and my vision swam as I made my way over to him. He was still alive! I ended up falling next to him, right in front of his chest where a beaten and slightly dirty Scootaloo lay unconscious. Everything hurt when I laid eyes on my human. "Lee." I cried, reaching out and placing my hoof on his chest.

He smiled and held my hoof. "I see you got off the train alright... lucky asshat."

I stared at him... before I laughed, my head falling into the snow as I felt my vision darken. "Buc...king... ass...hole..." Everything went black as I heard wings flapping in the air above, and Lee pulling me close to his body. He was still alive...

Still alive... Lee... was my last thought before I apssed out, darkness taking me into the void.

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Beep...beep...beep...beep...beep...

I heard that noise before, when I was in the hospital after I had broken my wing. Was I back there again? My mind was swimming, and I couldn't think straight. Bright lights shone in through the window, nearly blinding me with sunlight. As much as I wanted to get up, my body felt too damn sore, my legs hurt, and on top of that all I had a headache. My mouth also felt dry and my mane was sticky, my fur also felt weird to the touch.

I needed to get a bath, I think I still have blood on my fur, ew.

Suddenly, I became aware of another presence in the room. I was abotu to question who it was, but they already beat me to the punch. "Bout damn time, Cloudbutt." A familiar voice next to me chuckled, "I was wondering if you were going to wake up at all, jeez."

I looked for the source, my eyes still adjusting to the light. "L-Lee?" I croaked, goddess I sounded terrible, and felt terrible. I could make out a dark blob sitting nearby, I tried sitting up but the blob came over to me and gently pushed me back down.

"Don't move around so much, you got really fucked up." He told me in a soft voice, kneeling down next to the bed I was lying in. "You lost a lot of blood from those cuts on your fetlocks." Lee's voice was talking, but I barely heard anything he said, I was too happy he was alive. The overwhelming feeling I had in my chest was too much.

Using what little energy I had left in my body, I threw my arms around him and pulled him closer to me, I had to feel him against my body, hear his heartbeating in his chest, feel his warmth against my own. I held him tight as he wrapped his own arms around me, his hands stroking my mane and back, it felt nice and it was one of the many things I enjoyed about him. Hooves rubbing your back wasn't comfortable, having hands rub your back felt... soothing, it was a pleasant feeling that I loved and Lee knew it.

A few tears left my eyes, my ears folding back as I croaked out, "I thought I lost you, Lee." I wrenched my eyes shut, I wasn't a sap but... having Lee in my life changed that. I felt things for him that I have never felt for anypony else, a lot of things.

He chuckled softly, his breath tickling my ear. "You're not going to lose me Dashie," His voice whispered to me, his lips brushing up against the tip my ear. "I'm too awesome for that."

I could only chuckle right back at him, it felt good to laugh after everything that had happened. Everything that happened on that train wore me out, and just thinking of what happened made me sick to my stomach. Suddenly my thoughts turned to Scootaloo, and I was about to ask about her before an orange blur shot out from behind Lee and into my stomach, taking what little air I had in me out.

"You're Awake and Alive!" Scootaloo cheered, hugging onto my like her life depended on it, I could only hug the little squirt back with one arm, the other wrapped around Lee and pulling them both closer to me.

A part of me felt something just then, I felt... happy, not the normal kind of happy but... something else. I wasn't sure what...

Oh well, I'm sure I'll figure out what it is at some point... for now, I got my coltfriend and my number one fan with me.

And that's all I care about right now.

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A Night With: Rainbow Dash 2
Written by: Dustchu.
MLP:FIM belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust.
I own only my OC's and certain elements.

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Lee's Perspective

Man am I glad right now. Rainbow's awake and from what the weird shiny unicorn dude told me she'll be out of bed in a week or so. I'm just really glad she's okay, I don't know what I would have done if Rainbow had... no no no no, don't think about that. I told myself, walking through the crystal castle. I winced with most of my steps, my clothes were battered and covered in blood, and I had yet to actually change them. My head, shoulder, and arms were covered in bandages, and from what the docs told me, I had a few burns, cuts, an that hole in my shoulder was going to leave a nasty scar.

Scar? I prefer badge of awesomenss.

Looking around, I have to say that this castle, hell this entire city was... really... in a word, shiny. The walls, the ground, the trees, hell even the ponies were all shiny. Like someone took a bucket of glitter and snorted it, climbed up to the highest point in this pace, and just sneezed aggressively for the next two hours. I heard this place was crystal themed but I think this is taking it a step too far. Eh, what do I know? I barely remember the empire from the show, and actually seeing it in person confused me a bit, but I'm used to it by now. Walking through the castle was pretty fun, if not slightly painful for my legs and on my eyes, the light coming in from outside shone into the castle and bounced off of the walls intensifying the light and... it hurt... like, a lot.

I don't see how these guards stand it.

I had left Rainbow so she could get some rest, her using up what strength she had to hug me took it out of her and she collapsed. The doctor assured me she'll be alright though, which I am glad for. Scootaloo stayed with Dash, I had some business with the princess I had to attend to. Princess Celestia and Luna had arrived a few hours ago after the train crash both of them along with Cadence having seen the crash from the Empire and sending out some help.

While I am grateful, I needed to now some things... specifically about what Sombra said to us... about what she didn't tell me. I can only think of one she that might be hiding something, and that she was Celestia. I trusted Celestia, she gave me a home, food, money and other aid when I was confused and lost in this world. That and with help from the elements, Cadence, and Luna, I had made many friends and lived a good life for the past four years, eventually becoming Rainbow's boyfriend and having a decent well paying job. Celestia and I were friends after all, and friends don't keep secrets from each other...

Right?

Obviously.

As I walked through the castle, I noticed that, despite there being a massive snowy landscape, it was relatively warm here in the city. Not by much, it still had a pleasant chill, but still warm... I liked it. I wouldn't want to live here though, while I enjoyed the weather, my home was in PV, in that old cottage I fixed up with everyone's help, and haven't furnished with shit. Gawd, I need to get some junk for it.

"I'm just saying this is rather odd," I stopped walking, my ears tuning into a conversation being had nearby in the throne room. Was that Cadence's voice? "How could Sombra have returned, he was destroyed wasn't he?" She asked. I crouched down, sneaking up to the door leading to the throne room and listening in.

I heard two other voices, Luna and Celestia were in the room. I contemplated going in there, but my curiosity got the better of me, so I just stayed crouched down as I listened in.

"Yes he was," Celestia had said, sighing sadly. "But as the tablet Twilight had said, he was going to return... though it seems he had come back sooner than expected."

"You... you knew he was coming back?" Candy asked her, seemingly shocked, so was I.

I assumed Celestia nodded before saying, "yes..." peaking out through the door I was hiding behind, I could see her looked towards Candy, one of her lecturing looks on her face. "I have expected for this to happen for years, when the Empire appeared for the first time in thousands of years and Sombra sought to take it back. I thought the prophecy had come true, but there was no warrior involved in his banishment. It was you and Spike who banished him, and now he's back to exact his revenge on you, Spike, and the Elements..."

Silence, then Candy asked. "What about Lee? Is he..."

The princess of the night sighed sadly, looking towards Candy. "He is also in danger here," Luna added, looking towards her sister. "He is not ready to combat a threat such as Sombra if he is not the warrior from the prophecy."

What are they talking about? I could totally kick his ass. Rainbow and I could totally take him on! if a baby dragon could kick his ass then so can I! I mean come on, I was trained in Jujitsu and other asian stereotypes, like Karate, and Tai Jitsu, and how to make damn good tea, and some minor fencing... tehe.

But then I saw Celly nod her head, her eyes locking onto Candy's. "I fear we might have t-"

I had enough, standing up and barging into the room I made my presence know. To my surprise I found the other Elements were in the room as well, their conversation cut short as I came into the room. "Do what Celly?" I asked, crossing my arms and fixing her with a glare. "Do what, exactly." If there's one thing I can't stand, its being treated like a baby who can't fend for itself.

The three alicorns stared at me, Luna looked at me with slight annoyance for barging in unannounced, Candy looked happy to see me, but also sad from what I may have overheard, and Celly... was stoic faced as always whenever something serious was being discussed. She stepped forward, returning my glare with a soft look, she said, "I fear we may have to hide you Lee, we can't risk Sombra getting his hooves on you." Celestia told me.

"Hide me?" I asked, I couldn't stop the slightly hurt tone from entering my voice. Looking over at the Elements I saw them trot over to me, Twilight leading them. "You mean you're going to hide me while Sombra comes to the Empire and tries to kill my friends?" I asked, getting a slight flush from Candy. "You really think you can just do that?"

Luna stepped forward as well, her eyes finding mine. She kept her face neutral, and her voice even. "Lee, Sombra is a dangerous foe, he is not to be taken lightly." She told me, her look softened and her voice pleading as she said, "we simply do not wish to see you hurt."

"She's right, Lee." Twilight came in and stood tall, I noticed she had gotten pretty taller now that she was an Alicorn. At least half a foot taller than everyone else. "Sombra imprisoned all six of us and we couldn't do anything to fight back, we were helpless." Twilight's eyes held mine, and I recognized the tone she was using as one who was trying to convey something really important, as if stressing it. "You don't have any magic, you would be destroyed by him, don't you remember the train?"

I thought back to the train, and the zombie... the eighteen year old I had barely fought off. Damn it she had a point, that thing was powered up by Sombra's dark magic and it took the three of us to hold it off, and even then it almost bit me. Damn it, I refuse to hide! I shook my head hard. "I'm not hiding Twilight." I told her, pointing a finger at her, then to the others before looking at Celestia. "Magic or no magic, I'm not hiding like some kind of fucking coward." I stepped up to the solar princess, my face getting up close to hers. "I've never backed down from a fight, eer in myentire life. Not on my own world, not in Ponyville when the Ursa Major came barreling through, or the Hydra attack in the woods, or even when the crusaders got snatched up by that damned Voidling!" I yelled, my voice echoing off of the walls. "I ain't backing down."

"You can't fight him though!" Applejack told me, coming and facing me. "Sure ya can fight off a Ursa and some of th' other small critters, but Sombra's a whole nother hoofball game."

I looked at the country mare. "I couldn't fight a lot of things AJ," I told her, rounding on her and making her back away. "But that didn't stop me from trying to protect my friends now did it?" I looked to each of them, my eyes looking into each of theirs. I saw worry, and slight fear. "My father was a United States Marine Corps Sniper, you know what that is? One of the deadliest fucking warriors on my world," I turned back to Celly. "He could take off your head from ten thousand yards away, in complete and total darkness, covered in injuries head to toe, during a goddamn hurricane, and you wouldn't even know it until it was too late." I backed up, standing tall and adding, "You know what he told me? Never give up, never give in, never back down and never surrender! That's my creed, something I lived with all my life..." I looked down as I thought about my dad, those final words he told me before he was killed in Iraq. "I've never backed down from any threat, past or present." Looking back up, I felt a fire in my chest I've never felt before, clinching my fists and staring the princess down, I said, "I am not going to hide Celestia, if Sombra wants my friends... he's going to have to fucking go through me and my fist!" I finished.

The throne room was silent, I felt my anger steadily rising and I had to fight to keep it down. I always had anger issues, but I had managed to keep most of it under control over the past four years of being here, I think this world mellowed me out a tad. But I was still angry, Sombra thinks he can threaten me and my friends? I'd like to see him try to come after me.

"Look..." I started, sighing. "I appreciate you guys wanting to keep me safe... but I'm not a baby," I told them, getting a few ashamed looks from the princesses and Elements. "I'm old enough to take care of myself, I've managed to survive after all the shit I've been through while here, right?" I asked with a slight smile, getting some nods and a smile from Pinkie. "Besides, Sombra... well, it put it into nice words, he's a dick monkey slathered in ass sauce, as long as I have you guys-" I gestured to them all "-my friends, we can take him on. You got the Elements of Harmony, four alicorns and one dashing and roguishly good looking human who knows how to fight with his body. We got this." I chuckled, finally getting some good natured chuckles and nods from the others.

Celestia only looked at me with a smile, shaking her head and saying. "Lee, you are by far the most interesting beings I've met." She looked me in the eyes, no longer did I see any intentions of hiding me. All I saw was unconditional love and caring for one of her friends. "You are told you can't possibly defeat a foe beyond your power, and yet you persist on fighting against him, alongside your friends to protect them." She chuckled as Luna and Candy smiled. "It is very admirable, and noble of you Lee."

I shrugged. "It ain't admirable or noble, I'm just doing what's right." I told her, walking over to Cadence and wrapping her up in a surprise hug. "Douchey mcgooberson is after mah buddy Candybutt and the Elements, and he ain't getting to them... these butts-" I gestured to Candy's flank and the Element's flanks. "-are my butts, and my butts alone!"

...

"Uhh..." Cadence blushed, coughing awkwardly.

"Don't deny it, ya'lls butts are my butts alongside Rainbow's butt." I smiled happily.

"Her butt is actually my butt, Lee." I heard from behind me, turning I saw Shining standing there with an eyebrow raised as he leaned against the door frame.

I smiled toothily. "Maaaaaaaaybe, but if Rainbow's up for it, it can be both our butts!"

... silence...

"Nope." he said, shaking his head adamantly.

"Aww, come on Shieldbutt." I pleaded, quivering my lower lip. "Double the butt, more cushin' for the pushin'!"

I got some snickers from Luna and a blush from everyone else as Shiny said, "Don't call me that."

"You know you love it!" I cried, propelling myself towards him like a rabid raccoon and grappling him in a hug, "TICKLE-GEDDON" I yelled, running my fingers across his back and belly at light speed as he tried to fight me off.

"Ahh! hahaah! Ahh! Candy! H-h-help m-me!" Shiny yelled towards his wife who watched on with an amused expression.

"I want in!" She cried suddenly, giggling and galloping over before joining, running her hooves over his body and tickling him.

"Traitor!"

Laughes filled the air around us, the tension from eariler long gone.

It was nice.

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An Hour Later

An hour had passed since my declaration on not hiding, seriously, I was not going to hide like a wuss. Everyone had split up and went about doing their own things, I had stayed with Celly because I still had something I needed to talk to her about. We both had started walking, I guess she sensed I wanted to talk to her cause once everyone had left her expression had changed from happy to neutral, and she led me across the castle to... where, I had no idea.

Okay, ask her about what Sombra meant, then show her the wallet... she must know about him... afterwards, I have to find a way to fight decently if I came up against Sombra. I listed off, mentally counting off some random numbers as Celly led me to a balcony. Looking out I could see the city in all its shiny glory, and it was magnificent. Ponies could create some pretty amazing sights, and it was truly beautiful.

Celestia sighed as she looked out into the city. "This city is very old, Lee." She said suddenly, cutting off any chance of me talking to her. "Older than me even..."

I rose an eyebrow. "Older then you? That's a surprise, actually." I commented, hands in my jacket pocket fiddling with the kid's wallet. "Didn't you practically create this world?" I asked, wondering if the canon that she's practically a god is true. I never did learn of any god like figures in the history books.

However I only got a laugh, her chortles making me sigh. She had a nice laugh, one that I found endearing, actually. "Oh Lee, no, no no, I am not the creator of Equus." She told me, so it is Equus eh? Interesting. "The creator of Equus was an alicorn named Faust."

Well well well Faust is actually a legit Alicorn in this world? Hmm... I thought about that as Celestia continued.

"She created this world and everypony in it alongside the others, Odin, Sen, and Hest. The four of them combined their great powers and created this world and everything in it, and created us, ponies, griffons, minotaurs, dragons and so on." She smiled, her eyes shining from the sun. "They filled this world with many amazing things, but also a few terrible, things meant to test us all... Ponies were created in the image of Faust, while Griffons, Minotaurs and Dragons were created in the images of the others."

I leaned forward, propping my elbows on the balcony railing. "Back on my world, this one was created by a woman named Lauren Faust... she isn't an Alicorn though, she's a human like me." I looked towards Celestia, who likewise was looking towards me. "Our world was said to have been created by a massive explosion in the cosmos, just exploded into being and we evolved from like, nature and shit... others think there was a figure called God who created our world and everything in it, along with us, creating us in his image... To be honest I don't know which is actually true, we don't have any actual proof of the matter." I shook my head, religion isn't my thing, I'm neutral when it comes to that. "As interesting as it is to talk about how our worlds came into being, that isn't why I wanted to talk to you."

"... I know." She responded, sitting down and turning her body to face me.

I turned and faced her, sitting down myself and pulling out the wallet I kept on me from the body. I looked at it, then handed it to Celestia who took it in her magic, giving me a look that suggested she didn't know what it was. "Its a wallet, humans carry them around to hold their money and some other important documents like a driver's license, and some other stuff..." I looked her in the eyes. "Twilight told you about what happened on the train, right?"

"Yes, you and Rainbow were attacked by a creatrue Sombra conjured up... I believe she called it a zambie." Celestia giggled before she scowled. "Necromancy is a forbidden magic, to know Sombra is using such... creatures to do his bidding sickens me."

I nodded, they were pretty gross, but oh so fun to kill~ "Yeah... but after Rainbow managed to kill it... I looked around its pockets and found that..." She gave me a shocked look, probably wondering why I would do such a thing. "I also found something else."

"... what?" She asked, opening the wallet.

"... he was a brony." I told her, looking down at the floor. "He was like me, Celestia... Lucas Dunwoody, eighteen years old from Georgia... I didn't know him but..." I looked back up, her look saddened and upset. "He was like me, he ended up in this world somehow and he..." I looked away, clinching my fist and beating it into the floor. I let out a huff of air, then turned back to her. "Sombra talked to me during the fight..."

Celestia sat down the wallet, her hoof tracing the picture wthin before asking. "What about?"

I narrowed my eyes, as much as any asian could... anyway, and replied, "he said, she didn't tell you? I'm surprised." I unclenched my fists, laying both hands in my lap and crossing my arms. "That kid was like me, and he came to this world..." I pointed to the wallet and the picture within. "Did you know him?"

I waited for an answer, but she stayed silent, looking down at the picture with a saddened look. Eventually she nodded, "Yes... I did know him." She sighed heavily. "He came to this world thirty years ago, I found him wandering the castle with a candle stick held in his hands as a weapon."

Thirty years ago?! Jesus Christ... I sat silently and listened to her tale.

"When I confronted him, he looked shocked, yet happy for some odd reason. Before I could do anything he jumped at me and hugged me," She smiled fondly at the memory. "To say I was disturbed was an understatement, the guards had detained him and he tried fighting them off, but it only ended with him being thrown into the dungeon until I could figure out exactly what just happened." She enunciated with a sigh. "A few days later I had a talk with him, and he told me how much of a fan he was of me and this world, and was wondering if he could meet my sister Luna... I was shocked that a strange creature I had never heard of knowing about my sister, I told him she was gone."

"Let me guess, he asked about the Elements next?" I inquired, to which she nodded.

"Yes, that also perturbed me, about how a creature could know of my sister and the elements... The way he went about things, was vastly different form how you did it, Lee." She told me, smiling ever so slightly as she looked up at me. "You were, well... a bit scared, but you kept yourself calm and answered all of my questions as a diplomat would."

I couldn't help but laugh a little at that statement, getting a look from her. "Celly, I know I looked calm, but I was scared shitless," I told her, scratching my chest. "I was scared you'd send me to the sun if I said the wrong thing."

She only smiled. "Even if you didn't answer correctly, I would have done no such thing."

I found myself thinking back to that day, when Rainbow and her friends brought me to Canterlot for the first time. "Wait... was that why you looked so shocked when you saw me?" I asked her, looking down at the wallet. "Did... did I remind you of him?"

Celestia nodded. "Yes, I thought you were him for a moment, but you eyes, the smile on your face," she grinned, looking down, "your vulgar language," I snickered. "It was all wrong, you are vastly different from Lucas." With a sigh, she continued her tale. "Back to what I was saying, I had known of the tablet back then, and as I learned more of this human, I wondered if he was the warrior foretold from the prophecy..." She looked up at me, and to my surprise I saw tears collected at the edge of her eyes. "He was not."

"... Celestia... what happened to him?" I asked, scooting closer to her.

She sniffled, wiping at her eyes with a wing tip. "We had found an object within a cave to the far north," She looked out towards the snowy wastes. "Fifty miles from the empire, Lucas and I had figured it was what could be used to fight off Sombra... but we could not get to it." She bowed her head, the tears leaving her eyes and flowing down her face. "I had lost Lucas after we were attacked by a local Yeti tribe... I looked for Lucas for days after I managed to escape, scouring the forests and snow for him... but I did not find any trace of him..." She looked towards the wallet, frowning. "But you brought this to me... now I know what happened to him..." The alicorn choked back a sob, clearing her throat.

I looked down at the wallet and the picture... "Were you close to him?" I waited, then looked up to see another nod was my answer.

"He was like a son to me, Lee." She admitted, smiling at some distant memory. "He knew how to make me smile and cheer me up..." her eyes then looked up at me. "Like you do..."

I sighed, getting up and moving to sit next to Celestia, she looked like she was about to ask but I cut her off by wrapping my arms around her and pulling her in for a hug. I felt her flinch but she slowly relaxed and wrapped her own wins around me in a hug of her own, the soft downy warming my body as I patted her on the back. "Listen Celly," I said, moving my head to look at her as I stroked her back, my fingers running through her soft fur. "I know that what I'm wanting to do is dangerous... but you have to understand that this is how humans like me are... we protect our own, even if it might cost us our life." I gave her a sad smile, patting her on the back gently. "That's just who I am, I have to protect my friends," I poked my finger into her chest. "That means I have to protect you, your sister, my girlfriend, and the other girls... I can't let anything bad happen to you guys, no matter the cost to myself."

Ceelstia sniffled once more before returning my smile, pulling her wings back she nodded at me. "You truly are a brave and selfless individual Lee... I don't think I've ever met anypony as noble as you."

I scoffed, people need to stop making me out to be the hero. "Pfft, that's cause I ain't a pony, I'm just someone who's doing what's right." I winked, letting her go and sitting back with a grin. "I'm an asskicking human with more swag than Shining Armor when he crossdresses when he thinks no one is looking."

She just stared. "..."

"... I'm not kidding, I seriously just saw him like a few minutes ago in Cadence's dress making kissy faces in the mirror."

...

"He actually looked pretty good." I said with a straight face, eventually Celestia laughed, a real laugh this time and I smiled, chuckling along with her. "Heeheheehehehe."

Eventually we both stopped laughing after a bit, getting a good laugh in after crying is good for you. I should know. As I leaned back I kept my eyes locked on the sky, the beautiful blue colored awesomeness. I wish Rainbow was better, I want to race her around the city.

"Lee."

I looked over at Celly, noticing her with a thinking pose. "Yeah Celly?"

She smiled, her eyes glimmering in the sunlight. "... I think I may have a way to help you, should you choose to fight Sombra head on..."

I rose an eyebrow, oh really?

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Rainbow's Perspective

I watched as several birds flew by my window, the blue jays and red jays soaring by with a few chirps before disappearing into the city's skyline out of my line of sight. I wish I was better, I want to fly so badly right now, because being bedridden sucks ass. A sigh escaped me as I turned to look at myself, my fur was sticky, my mane felt shaggy and gross, and I felt horrible all over. The doctors said I would be out in a week, but that felt like a lifetime of waiting, waiting I didn't want to do. I could be eating food, or hanging out with my friends... or hanging out with Lee.

But nope... I was stuck in this damned room, confined to the this stupid bed without anything to do. I was bored out of my mind, and my damned feathers itched, I needed to preen them or something. My eyes widened in alarm as my thoughts turned to feathers, feathers... damn it! I bashed my head against the back of my headboard and let out a groan of frustration, my damn bag was still on the train when it crashed... what I was going to give Lee is still on it... "Damn it damn it damn it!" I cursed, bashing my head again.

A deep chuckle brought me from my reverie. "Keep that up and you'll end up getting brain damage." I heard a voice say from the door, looking over I saw Applejack standing there with a smirk on her face, hat tilted back and her eyes locked on my own. "Howdy, Dash."

I sighed, sitting up and waving, returning the smirk to the best of my abilities, despite how I felt. "Hey AJ." I greeted her, beckoning her into the room with my hoof, she cantered over to me as I asked, "How are you and the others?"

"Well," AJ sat down on a chair next to the bed, the one Lee had sat in a few hours ago prior to leaving. "Rarity was pretty shaken up, fussin' bout her mane and all," she chuckled, I joined her with my own laugh. That was something about AJ I liked, her laugh was pretty adorable, andh er accent was enjoyable to listen to at times. "Fluttershy, Ah swear Ah thought th' poor thing was gunna faint, but she's doing alright. Pinkie Pie is... well..."

"Pinkie Pie." We both finished, nodding.

I stifled a chuckle, thinking about Rarity's messed up mane. "How about the crusaders?"

"Bloom is alright, she sprained her hoof but she's toughening it out, just like an Apple." AJ smiled. "Sweetie's scared outta her mind, th' poor thing. But she's still being tough for a little filly, Scootaloo is too busy bein' worried bout ya, wondering if yer're ever going to fly again."

A laugh escaped my mouth, "hehehehe, I'll be able to fly again, can't keep me down." I smiled, coughing slightly as I felt my throat and how dry it was. Now that I thought about it I hadn't drank anything yet. "Man, I'm thirsty."

AJ chuckled again, making me smile as she got up. "Ah'll see if Ah can't get ya some water, be right back!" She called out, cantering out of the room with a smile.

I could only sit back and sigh, my thoughts turning back to my bag... was it gone? Burned to ashes and lost in the snow forever? I hoped not, I kinda needed something out of it. Shaking my head, I thought, guess I'll find out whenever I get better. I closed my eyes, deciding to daydream a little.

Sadly, it was not gonna happen.

Suddenly, my eyes opened wide and my vision went white and I froze. I couldn't see, move, or even speak. "~Well, how about you find out now?~" The ghostly voice of a mare suggested, it sounded very... if I had to be honest... hot.

Quickly I found I had regained control of my voice. "~What?! WHO ARE YOU?!~" I questioned, trying to move my body but found I couldn't still, damn it!

"~Me? I'm... no one... really, no one you would know anyway.~" She replied as my body felt light, followed by me feelling a warmth wash over me, a sharp gasp escaped me as I felt the weird warm feeling go over... certain parts. "~Whoops! My mistake, didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable~"

"~What did you do to me?!~" I asked, fighting the feeling to groan slightly. The feeling had gone from the outside, but it traveled through the outside of my body and had gone inside... it got inside through a certain entrance and warmed the inside of my body quite a bit.

"~What did I do? Why don't you find out, Rainbow Dash~" She told me, my vision returning and I was back in the hospital room. My body finally back in my control.

I looked around me for the origin of the voice, but found nothing. I shook my head, my body feeling... better actually, I didn't feel like crap and... I flared my wings, no pain? I smiled as I checked my body, all the dirt, grime, blood and everything else was gone. My body was healed! I didn't even have any wounds on me, the bandages were gone and I felt great! Better than great actually!

"No-hohoho way!" I cheered, taking flight and soaring up, my body was all better! What did you do to me? I called out, but I got nothing... that was weird, why would she just heal me then leave? I shrugged. "This is great!" I then remembered the train and grinned. "Time to check for my bag!" I then zoomed out of the window, heading for the train wreckage.

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Ten Seconds Later, actually a few minutes later

I flew through the skies above until I spotted the crash of the train, and I couldn't help but remember the other night when Lee was still on it when it flew into the ravine. I'm surprised he survived it, if I was being honest with myself, the train was completely messed up, the cars were mangled and the engine was scorched metal and steel. The snow around it had melted, and smaller piles of snow had accumulated from last night, but it wasn't very much. The car that we were all in looked fairly intact, so I flew down towards it, landing on the outside and looking for a way inside.

After looking around I found my way inside through a broken window, the glass was gone but the frame was crunched together. But I squeezed my way inside nonetheless and landed on the side of the wall. The car was tipped over, the glass lying in shards on the ground and the seats burned slightly from the fire that had spread throughout the train. I looked around on the ground for the bags, most of the ones above me had slipped out and fallen onto the ground in a pile. Thankfully they were all in good condition, at least. I rummaged through them, looking for my light blue duffle bag.

While I did that, I thought about that voice I heard, and what she did to me. Why did she heal me, and for what purpose? Was she a unicorn doctor I didn't know about? Or did she sneak into my room when I wasn't looking? Who was she, is she still around? looked up, my ears swiveling to pick up any noises that I may be not be hearing... ten seconds passed and I was convinced I was alone. I don't know of any doctors in the Empire who know any spells that could help me, but then again I didn't exactly look, I don't know jack about spells, only that Twilight knows a lot of them... did she? No, the voice wasn't hers, it was... older, more... regal and yet... I shook my head, I didn't know what to think about this.

I was healed, that was all I knew, as for why... well... I'd find out at some point I'm sure.

Suddenly a blot of blue caught my eyes and I smiled, "Gotcha!" Reaching out I grabbed the bag, my duffle was amazingly untouched, while covered in soot and being crinkled, it was undamaged and in perfect condition. I unzipped it, rooting around until I found the small wooden box that contained what I was going to give to Lee. It was small, maybe half a foot long and made of smoothed out oak wood. On the top of it was an insignia of two thunder bolts, this belonged to an ancestor of mine from the pre-discordian era. Opening it up, I saw the item I placed inside was still on the soft violet colored pillow.

A single cyan blue feather, and not just any feather... one of my primaries.

I smiled as I ran my hoof across it, to some it may not be very important, or even a good gift... but this was something that every pegasus did in ancient times, the tradition died out but my family - among others - kept it alive ot this day. I closed the box back up, putting it back into the bag and throwing it over my back before looking at the other bags. "Hmm..."

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Lee's Perspective

"Soooooo..." I commented, hands in my pockets as Celestia and I walked through the halls of Canterlot... yeah, we're back in Canterlot, don't ask... She just up and teleported the two of us after the end of our conversation, needless to say we scared a few guards with our sudden appearance and my not so many shriek of terror, but they calmed down right quick when they saw who we were. Now I found myself walking through the halls with Celestia as she trotted rather quickly down a dark ass hall that looked like it lead to something epic. "Where're we going?"

"The Vault."

... wait what? "The Vault? Like, where you kept the Elements of Harmony vault? That one?" I asked, why would she bring me there? I knew she said something about helping me, but what could the elements do for me?

"Yes." Was all she said, why is she being so cryptic?

I sighed and shook my head keeping my eyes facing forward. The hall was very... shiny? I guess would be the word, not as shiny as the Crystal Empire though, while that was shiny as fuck, this hall had nothing on the Empire. Suits of pony armor was standing on either side, unused and collecting dust no doubt. I saw some really big windows like you'd see in a church, the kind that have pictures on them. I saw one of Discord being defeated by the Elements, one where all the girls got the Elements of Harmony, another one with Tirek being defeated and several countless others.

I wonder if I'll get up there? I wondered, laughing slightly at the ridiculous notion. I doubt I'd get up there, pfft.

Suddenly we stopped, Celestia stopping by a massive wall with a small hole in the middle. She bowed her head, and to both my amusement and confusion she stuck her horn into said hole. I was this close to laughing my ass off, if the lines near the hole hadn't lit up and started flying across the wall in a brilliant ray of light like something out of Final Fantasy. My jaw went slack as I heard several gears turning and the wall split into two pieces before sliding open, revealing a room with a chest sitting in it.

Wait a minute... how did I forget this, and aren't the elements in the Castle where Twilight lives? So this vault shouldn't be used anymore, right? What would she be keeping in here? I watched as she went inside, her magic grabbing me by the collar and dragging me inside. "Whoa whoa whoa calm down some." I said, chuckling nervously, what was she up to? Oh gawd I hope she isn't turning in Molestia, I NEED AN ADULT!

She flared her magic again, a look of pure concentration on her face as a tendril of magic snaked out of her horn like a tentacle and hit the wall behind the chest. It wasn't in the chest? Welp, there goes any Zelda references I could have used. I watched as the wall started glowing, and it too, started shaking. The wall glew with a reddish hue, a rather ominous color choice in a castle where there was nothing but happy shit. The wall then went down into the floor, and I was greeted with... a sight that made me think of King Arthur and that episode of Stargate SG-1.

I was looking at a cave, vines grew inside from a small opening on the far side with light snaking in through holes in the ceiling. I heard water dripping from an unknown water source, and in the middle, was a stone, and in that stone... was a sword.

My gawd, the Zelda reference is saved!

"Wat?" Was the only logical sound that could escape my mouth.

Celestia brushed past me and walked into the room, followed by me. I took in the room, it was big, a few old bits lay strewn about and around some chests I saw made of really old wood. A few other swords sat about, rusted with age and useless from the water. I saw claymores, shortswords, a few Roman Gladius'. But my eyes centered in on the sword within the stone, I stepped up to it, the light from the hole nearby shining directly on it as if pointing to it.

If that doesn't scream important, I don't know what does... and this feels a little bit like a cliche.

I looked back to Celestia, giving her a questioning look. She saw fit to answer by stepping up to the stone herself, eyeing the hilt with the slightest bit of disdain and sorrow. "This sword is what I think might help you Lee." She told me, looking at me with nothing but confidence in her eyes.

I looked to her, then back to the sword... then back to her... then the sword, her, sword, her, sword, her, sword, my pants, her face, sword, my foot, her again, back to the sword, up above, to the back, her again, the sword, then finally entered back on her... I summed up my predicament quite nicely if you ask me.

"... wat?" I questioned again in the most logical tone I could muster.

Celestia sighed, but I saw the smile on her face. "Lee, I said I would help you fight Sombra... I wish I could teach you a spell to defend yourself," a sad sigh left her maw as her eyes went elsewhere, escaping into a plume of white smoke. "But you lack the magical conduit all creatures on Equus possess, so the only thing I can give you, is a weapon... this sword." She looked up at me, her eyes searching my own for something. "Assuming you can free it, that is."

I looked to the sword, the hilt looked off... every time I had seen the sword Excalibur in like books and on TV, it was a great sword or something. But this one looked more like a katana, the hilt was colored red, black, and orange all twisting up along to the guard which looked like a ninja star knife jutting out at four points, the metal being black as balls. The blade itself was black as night, with a streak of dark orange going down it and disappearing into the rock.

In short, it looked pretty fucking awesome, and evil, but awesome!

"So you want me... to pull this thing out of the rock?" I asked, thumping the hilt with my finger and making a weird resonating sound throughout the cave. Trippy.

The Princess of the Sun nodded. "Yes, this sword has been down here for centuries," she started, trotting away to look around the cave. She would stop and look at some of the old bits and treasures lying around, occasionally sifting through some of it. "It was placed there by Faust herself, during the darkest era of our world..." She continued, opening up a chest and finding a rather ornate looking dagger within on top of gold bits. "This sword is said to be extremely difficult to retrieve, yet I know of three who have actually managed to wield it." She walked towards another chest after closing the other, saying, "Luna was the first to wield it, she used it quite well, thus giving the sword its appearance as your world's Katana."

That is so cool I can't even fathom the awesome awesomeness of such awesomery. I thought with glee as I wrapped my hand around the sword's hilt. It felt hot to the touch, and I felt a slight shocking sensation going up my arm but I ignored it.

"What is this?" I heard from somewhere.

Wat? I asked intelligently, looking around for the source of the voice.

"The second to use it was a pony named Heartlock, she was an earth pony hailing from Stalliongrad. She was vulgar, obsessed with finding treasures and hard to get along with. But she proved to be a very good ally in battle," Celestia smiled. "And eventually a good friend, she used this sword to protect her family and what friends she made, giving the sword its strength."

I didn't find the voice, so I shrugged and thought about this Heartlock character. She sounds pretty cool, Heartlock... hmm... sounds like someone that should be scavving Vaults from like, a Fallout story or something. I chuckled quietly, wrapping my other hand around the hilt. Another shock, I had to fight off a yelp.

"A new wielder?" The voice asked again, almost ammused.

For some odd reason, I tasted the flavor of orange. "And who might you be attractive sounding stranger?" I questioned the voice, feeling a weird hot sensation coursing up my arms, it was like, touching a hot piece of toast after a half of a minute.

Silence, then I heard a ghostly, "I am... here..."

"...I'm here too, doesn't esplain who you is though, now does it?" I retorted to the voice, pulling on the sword. I felt it budge ever so slightly.

"The third, was myself." Celestia finally added, stopping by a broken mirror and looking into its shattered remains. "I used it... to face my sister..."

I looked away from the sword and to the princess, this sword... "You mean, when Luna..."

"Yes... when she became Nightmare moon. I used it to defeat her in battle, making the sword turn into a twisted form of its usual self..." She closed her eyes from what I could see. "All of my hate and anger for what I did went into the sword, changing and twisting it into what you see now."

Then, suddenly, the voice came back. "Finally..."

I took that as my cue, pulling on the sword as Celstia sat down, sighing. "So now, I can only ho-" Celestia was cut off by a noise in the air around us, one I distinctly knew by heart~ "What is th-"

"Got it!" I cried, pulling out the sword and holding it up high like Link did. Celestia turned towards me in shock I think, if her face was anything to go by. The four foot blackened blade shining from the sunlight above, the resonating noise grew a bit louder but I ignored it. The sword was pretty heavy, but it was perfectly balanced and felt awesome. "This thing is pretty tits, hard to get my butt, Celly I think you were just over dramatizing it." I chuckled, holding the sword down and away from me as I smirked at Celly.

Celestia just stared at me with a gobsmacked expression on her face, her jaw slack and eyes wide. "You... you just, pulled it out, just like that?!" She asked, her voice half yelling, half what the hell even.

"Uhh... yeah... was it supposed to be harder?" I asked, holding the sword still as I looked down at it. "It actually slid out pretty easy... I'd make a dirty joke but... it slid out like a dick does... after fun times." I cackled, getting a look from Celly as she facehoofed, hard. "What?"

"Nothing Lee... nothing at all." She sighed, shaking her head and looking to me with a smile. "It would appear the sword has chosen you to be its new wielder." She informed me, much to my shock. "Let's all hope it will be enough."

I looked at the sword, suddenly it started glowing a bright white before I felt it gain a bit of weight. When the light went away I saw it had a sheath on it now and a strap I could use, "Sweet, that's convenient." I smiled, undoing the buckle the kept it closed and wrapping the strap around my back before snapping the buckle closed with a sigh. "Fits well around me," I said, doing a quick twirl and flashing a pose. "How do I look Celly~" I asked, leaning back, crossing my arms and raising an eyebrow.

"Quite dashing," She giggled, looking towards the rock with a thoughtful gaze before turning to me. "Now we should see if you can actually use it." She said, trotting past me with me in tow.

"Wait, is this one of those swords that the wielder has to believe in some kind of shit to make it work right and treat it as an extension of their body and not as a tool, otherwise the sword will not work right and it'll basically be a really cool looking belt accessory?" I asked in one breath, heaving in some air as Celly gave me a look.

Silence for a few seconds, before she said, "um..."

"... I'm right aren't I? I've seen this movie lots of times."

"... I'm not saying a word." She said, huffing and turning up her nose as she cantered away.

I could only sigh as I followed her, hands in my jacket pocket as the sword dangled from my back. I wonder what will be in store for me next, and what was with that voice?

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Rainbow's Perspective

I had flown back to my room with the final bag, breathing a sigh of relief as I put down AJ's bag onto the floor next to everypony else's. It had taken me about... ten, twenty minutes to gather them all from the train car and bring them here. I noticed the cup of water sitting on my nightstand and shrugged, guess AJ brought it after all. Moving over to it I grabbed it and gulped it down completely. Heaving a sigh and placing the cup down. I wonder where AJ had gone to?

"Ah swear Twilight, she was right in thar one minute, then th' next she was gone!" AJ cried from outside my room.

"How could she be gone? She's injured and can't even fly!" I heard Twilight's voice reply, confused.

I could only chuckle, trotting over to the door and placing my hoof on it. I twisted the knob and opened it just as Twilight tried to grab it in her magic, she stumbled forward but caught herself and looked at me, her violent eyes wide in disbelief. "Sup Twilight?"

"H-how could you be up?" She asked me, the other girls behind her and looking just as perplexed. "You're supposed to be bed ridden for the whole week!" Twilight yelled, her eye twitching... uh oh.

I held up a hoof, backing away slightly. "I don't know what happened Twilight, one minute I'm in bed complaining about not having anything to do, and the next thing I know some weird voice is talking to me, I can't see, move or even speak and then suddenly, poof." I said, making an poof expression with my hooves. "I'm all better, and I don't even know why."

Twilight's horn suddenly lit up as she galloped into my room, flaring her magic and looking around. "Are you sure you heard a voice talking to you?" She asked me as the others came into the room, standing next to me as Twilight scanned my room for, whatever.

"Uhh... yeah, I did, why?" I asked, tilting my head. "She seemed nice enough, considering."

"She?" Rarity asked. "The voice is a mare?"

"The voice sounded like a mare's but maybe it was a weird sounding stallion." I shrugged, gesturing to the bags over in the floor with a jerk of my head. "I decided to go get our bags from the train, you're all welcome by the way~" I winked, flapping my wings and hovering above the girls as they went and looked through their bags.

Fluttershy turned to me, flashing me a smile. "Thank you for getting our bags Rainbow," She told me, hoisting her bag over her back. "I had some things in here for the animals in the Empire that I don't think I could have replaced easily." She smiled sheepishly and quietly.

I only nodded. "No problem, what are friends for?" I floated back down as I was suddenly picked up and nearly squeezed to death. "Gack!"

"Its a miracle! You've been healed to full capacity!" Lee cried from behind me, spinning in place faster then I thought he could, crap he was like a fucking spin top!

"Shit!" I yelled, "I'm going to hurl damn it!" I yelled at him as he stopped suddenly, holy crap!

He fell to his knees, still holding me as he said, "I have healed you!"

"Uhh, no yo-"

"My magical pantaloons curing disease has cured you of your sneezing predicament!"

"I didn't have a sne-"

"YOU'RE BUTT IS FABULOUS~" He suddenly yelled as his hands smacked both sides of my flank, letting me go he pumped a fist into the air. "I got the power!" He then stood up and started doing a weird dance as music started playing from his jacket, making me raise an eyebrow.

Ooookay... Lee has lost his mind... or did he even have it in the first place? I wondered with a smile as Lee did his weird dance all over the room, somehow perfectly moving past everypony and not hitting anything in his path. Suddenly Pinkie Pie joined him, moving in perfect synchronization and matching his movements step for step. I could only shake my head, wondering what even.

My watching the two dance was broken when I heard a gasp from beside me. "Princess Celestia!" Twilight cried, casting my gaze towards her I saw Celestia had entered the room. Behind her trailed her sister and Cadence, along with Shining Armor. Twilight then pointed at me, much like a foal would when blaming somepony... Hey! "Rainbow is all better!" She said, "Don't get me wrong I'm happy but I don't understand!"

The Princess slowly walked into the room, her eyes locked on mine. there was no malicious intent in her eyes, just curiosity. "This is interesting..." she hummed in that melodic voice of hers. "Tell me Rainbow Dash... how did this happen?"

"Um..." I gulped, suddenly feeling very small for whatever reason. "I was just sitting on my bed, wishing I had something to do and wondering if my stuff on the train was still alright, when suddenly my vision went white, then I heard a voice call out to me, telling me I why don't I go find out." I explained, shifting from side to side. "I then started feeling really warm all over, and uhh..." I blushed, I wasn't going to tell them about certain places feeling warm, nor the uhhh... okay. "My vision returned and... I was all better, I don't know why she healed me though, but I ain't complaining." I shrugged, sitting down as Lee and Pinkie Pie finished their dance, sweating and panting.

"Nothing?" Lee asked, "not even a clap for us?"

"We worked so hard on that~" Pinkie whined, tossing off her hat in anger.

"I know!" Lee fell down, clutching onto Pinkie as she sobbed loudly into his shoulder. "All of our hard work is so underappreciated! The humanity!" He sobbed, his cries obviously fake along with Pinks.

I sighed as those two continued their crying, turning to Celestia as she lowered her head down to my level, then her horn started glowing. "Uhh."

"Don't worry," She said in a soothing voice. "I'm just scanning you for any unusual magic, just remain still." She told me, I breathed out a couple of times and nodded as she checked me. The warmth of her magic cascading across my body, it felt nice, really warm and soothing.

Everypony watched with growing anxiety, Lee and Pinkie coming over to watch as well to see if I was going to be alright. Lee had dropped his comedy act to focus on me, his eyes locked on my own with a smile on his face. I returned it with one of my own as Celestia finished, moving back with a thoughtful expression on her face. "Well?" I asked, wondering if I should be worried or not.

"What's the prognosis doc?" Lee stood up, his eyes finding the princess's.

The solar diarch hummed in thought as Luna and the others entered the room, standing by her on either side. "I'm not sure... there's an unusually high amount of magic coursing through your body right now," she told me, getting a fearful look from Twilight and Lee. "Its strange..."

Lee stepped forward. "Its not dangerous it is?" The tone in his voice was scared, scared for me. "Itsn ot like one of those things where she'll have all that and like... explode or anything, right?"

Thankfully the princess shook her head, getting a sigh of relief from Lee. "No it is not, as far as I can tell... I'll need to look into this some more." She announced, turning around and trotting out of the room. "I'm sorry to leave so suddenly but... I think I shall busy myself with trying to figure out this strange magic," she looked towards me, giving me a smile. "Don't worry, I'm sure it's nothing to be worrisome about, enjoy your time in the Crystal Empire, Cadence will help you all out however you need."

Said pink princess smiled and bounced in place. "You're right about that!" She said as Shining smiled. "Lee I have so much to show you now that you're finally here!" She said, bounding over to him and hitting his sword with a wing... sword?

I got up and walked over to him, poking the long sword dangling from his back. "Lee, what's this?" I asked him, the other girls noticed it as well and came over to inspect the blade. The sheath it was in was colored jet black with a molten glowing red color going across it, it almost looking like a lava and giving it a menacing appearance.

"Oh, this thing?" He asked, pointing to the sword before sucking in a breath. "It's a really old sword that was thrown onto this world by a really old god called Faust who thought ya'll needed a swaggy sword that changes appearance and gains power depending on who uses it and is really hard to get like that one sword from my world that no one can find, but when I pulled it out of that rock it was really easy and now I have a badass sword to fight off Som-" He coughed and hacked before sucking in another breath. "-bra's ass with."

...

"AWESOME!" Pinkie cried, latching onto his back and looking at the sword. "Its so cool looking!"

Rarity hummed in thought. "It is very ghastly looking, but I dare say it fits with your clothing and compliments your jacket rather well darling." She said, nodding. "Maybe I could look into making you something to fit with that sword... IDEEEEEEEEEAAAAAA~" She giggled, running over to her bag.

"its.. um... really scary looking, but it looks nice on you Lee." Fluttershy said, hiding behind her mane as Lee patted her on the head, much to her delight.

"Its a mighty fine weapon Lee," AJ nodded. "Ah'm more of a hammer mare myself, if Ah have ta say anythang on the matter." She chuckled, getting a strange look from Rarity before the alabaster mare went back to her bag.

"Well, I have something to fight with now," Lee said, holding the bottom part of the sword and fingering the tip of the sheath. "If Sombra wants a piece of me, he'll have to go through this sword first."

With a smile, I nodded. Damn straight.

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One Hour Later

I had waited until was Lee was alone before I asked him to come with me, it took a bit, but now we were standing on a balcony overlooking the city. The small box containing my feather tucked under my wing, firmly kept in place. Today was the day... with everything going on, I needed to do this while I still had the chance.

Who knows what'll happen tomorrow?

Lee sat silently, patiently waiting for me to do whatever it was I was going to do. I could only sigh shakily. "Lee?" I asked, getting his attention. Goddess I was so nervous.

He nodded. "Sup cloudbutt?" Lee asked in his adorable voice, one leg folded while the other was up, his arm dangling off of it as he leaned on the other arm.

I chuckled, shaking my head. "We've been together for two years, right?" I questioned him, already knowing the answer. He nodded though, a questioning look on his face. "These past two years have been... a real blast ya know?" I added, then his face started getting more confused, with a slight inkling of horror in his eyes. "And... I loved the time we spent together, and I just... I..."

Suddenly Lee's eyes grew wide. "Rainbow..." His voice was quiet... "Are you giving me a break up speech?" he asked, a growing amount of horror and hurt in his voice.

I gave him a look, then my eyes shot wide open. "NO no no no no no no!" I yelled, rushing over to him. "I'm not breaking up with you!"

Lee scoffed slightly, gulping. "It sure sounded like a break up speech... just like..." He shut up, turning away.

I sat back, geyeing his body. His posture was rigid and his eyes closed, I also saw his hand was clinched into a tight fist. "Lee?" I asked, putting my hoof on his knee.

He sighed, turning to look at me with a hurt expression. "How you said that, it reminded me of when my old girlfriend broke up with me... back on earth."

I stared at him. "You... you had a girlfriend before me?" I wondered, searching his eyes for some truth. I never knew that.

Lee nodded his head, sitting cross legged and saying, "This happened like... six years before I met you Dash..." He started, "I was dating this girl I had met in college, her name was Rebecca Richards... she was my age, cute, had a brain on her, and was pretty damn nice." Lee folded his hands in his lap as I got up and sat next to him, listening intently. "We met during a class, I had bumped into her and made her drop her books... typical boy meets girl situation. I helped her pick up her books, we touched hands, shit like that you know?" He chuckled. "Its really stupid now that I think about it, freaking meeting this cute girl after bumping into her, so damn stupid."

I extended one of my wings, draping it over his back. "What happened next?" I wondered who this human mare was, and what she did to my human to make him feel this way. Nopony makes my human sad, nopony.

"To cut this short... I ended up asking her out after I-" He held up his hands, "-bumped into her yet again for the third time that week." Lee explained, enunciating each word with an air quote. "She agreed, and she was my girlfriend for like, two years... same as you, and... she gave me that same exact speech you did, word for word before she broke up with me..." Lee looked down, his face defeated and his shoulders sagging. "I thought you wer-" I cut him off, moving so I was in his lap and my face was in his. I pulled his face towards mine and wrapped my lips around his in a kiss.

I pulled away and stared at him. "Lee, I'm not breaking up with you," I touched the side of his face, my eyes firmly locked on his. "It'll be a cold day in tartarus before that happens."

He stared at me before smiling, placing his forehead against my own. "Just... next time you think about telling me something, don't give me that speech..."

"Hehehe," I chuckled, "I just... this is really important to me Lee... I just wanted to say something profound." A scoff escaped me and I leaned back. "Look how that turned out."

Slowly, I felt Lee's hand on my shoulder and saw him giving me a smile. "It was a long time ago Dash, she was a bitch anyway and you're ten times better then she was..." He leaned in closer. "Besides you can fly, you're blue, and you'e the Element of Loyalty."

Lee... time to show him. I unfurled my wing slowly, pulling out the small box and holding it gingerly in front of me. "Lee, I want you to have this." I told him, holding it out to him.

Lee looked at the box before taking it from me slowly, holding it as if it were about to break. I almost laughed, but I held my tongue as he opened the box. I saw his eyes grow a bit wider as he gingerly picked up the feather and holding it in his hands. I sat in his lap still, holding my hooves to my chest and waiting to see what he would do, my wings were slightly extended and my heart was beating fast, pounding against my ribcage like a jackhammer as he ran his fingers across the feather gently.

I watched as he slowly smiled, feeling of the feather in his fingers. "This is really neat looking," he said, my expression not changing. "I love it Rainbow but... why give me a feather?"

Finally I tapped the fur on my chest, specifically the tuft I had grown out. "You've seen this right?"

Lee nodded. "Yeah, its cute actually." He giggled, moving his hand over to my chest and running his fingers through the tuft. I love how his fingers just glided across my chest, it felt... right. I suppressed the urge to shudder, grab his hand and assault his mouth with my tongue.

Looking into his eyes, I said, "Well... it's a thing some ponies do when they're with somepony they really, really... love, you know?" I put my hoof on his hand, pushing his hand further into the tuft. "We grow out the fur on our chest to show we're taken by somepony. So whenever a stallion or a mare looks at me they'll see this, and know I'm not up for grabs."

He slowly pulled his hand back, snapping a finger and saying, "So it's kind of like a promise ring?"

I tilted my head. "A what?"

"Uh, it's this human thing where two people, when they love each other a lot, they get these special rings to wear on their finger that they wear until their married or some crap like that." He said, waving a hand around.

Married... I shook my head, I didn't need to be thinking about that now, thanks a lot Lee. "I guess so? Anyway, this means," I put my hoof on his chest, pushing slightly. "That I'm your marefriend, Lee... and everypony will know it." I smiled at him as he looked at the feather. "And that feather, its one of my primaries, and its special... its an old pegasus tredition that my family has kept alive... I didnt think I would ever be able to do it, until I met you Lee..."

He held the feather in his hands, looking it over with a smile. "What does it mean though?"

I moved forward, inching ever so closely. "It means I'm your mare Lee..." I kissed him, he returned it, going a step forward and wrapping his arm around me and pulling me in closer. He deepened the kiss before pulling back, and I was allowed to finish. "It means that I really love you Lee, you're the only stallion for me..." I closed my eyes, leaning against his chest as he moved the box and kept the feather close. "I love you Lee..."

He kissed the top of my head, nuzzling me as he said, "I love you too Rainbow... thank you..."

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Lee's perspective - Two Hours later

I had expected a lot of things... having Rainbow proclaim I'm the stallion for her and she was my mare was not one of them... I thought us being in a relationship was good enough but. From what she told me about the feather, this was important to her, and I was going to honor that. I think I'll ask Twilight what else it means, cause I had never seen Rainbow like this before. We had left the castle and were walking through the streets, her and Cadence showing me around. Rainbow was skipping along with a big smile on her face, she hummed a very lovely tune and cantered next to me.

Cadence knew why she was like this, her having whispered to me Rainbow is just really happy to have finally given me that feather, she blushed when I showed it to her. I seriously need to know the exact significance behind this thing. I looked up at the feather I had tied to the hilt of my sword, it blew gently with the wind and shimmered like a beautiful cyan colored crystal, it truly was a beautiful feather and I found myself growing more and more thankful Rainbow actually trusted me with one of hers to keep on me.

I feel like this week is actually going to be awesome. I smiled, walking forward as Cadence showed me some of the sights.

"And there is a very nice shop that sells a lot of nice flowers," She said, pointing at a small shop with a cute looking mare running the front, she waved at us and we waved back. The mare looking rather startled by me but she smiled and waved regardless.

This place was so nice!

Sadly, it was not to last.

"Hahaha! You got to be bucking kidding me with this right now!" Someone laughed, why does that voice sound so damn familiar, and annoying? Looking down I saw Dash's ears perk up, her smile gone and replaced with a shocked look.

I likewise shared that look as we both turned around, Cadence turning as well. Rainbow and I came face to face with someone I never thought we would see again. Goddamn it.

"If it ain't the monkey!"

Rainbow growled, flaring her wings. "You?!!"

The stallion smiled a toothy smile. "How are my two favorite assholes?"

Thank you, gods above... for making my day go from good, to shit.

"Who is that?"

I growled, "Its Firespin."

Author's Notes:

As always, this episode was brought to you by SHITE ROMANCE Studios and TL;DR Productions.

So errybody~ Nice to see you all again 8D I hope you enjoyed this chapter and the fluffiness I wrote, gawd I hope it was good ;v; I love romance and fluff, but I feel that I am terrible at it Dx I hope I did that feather bit alright, and the chest fluffers, I love chest fluffers.

Firespin's Return, Luna's Surprise, and Magma Blast

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You have got to be kidding me, of all the days to run into someone I don't like and it had to be today and this idiot of all ponies? I couldn't suppress the groan as I smacked my face several times. Firespin is in this city? I thought he was in jail, damn it all to hell, what's going on with life?!

Firespin laughed, his orange eyes looking between me and Dash as I wished with every fiber of my being he would implode. "Didn't think I'd see the monkey and his bitch anytime soon, hehehe."

Rainbow stomped her hoof into the pathway, hard enough to actually crack it. "What the hell are you doing here Firespin!?" She demanded, I was curious myself.

The stallion only smirked, "None of your business you bitch, I'm here to talk to your pet monkey!" He cackled as I saw several more stallions come up from behind him, it was just then I noticed them all wearing fire red suits.

Next to me Rainbow bristled, eyes wide as she snorted. "...Monkey? You're still calling me monkey?" I sighed sadly, shaking my head from side to side. "You need some better material dude, serisouly, I've been called monkey by every pony in this place. You calling me it is not going to hurt my feelings."

"Am I missing something?" Cadence asked, eyes narrowed as she looked between me, Firespin and Dash.

I could only sigh, turning to face Candy I said, "Firespin is an asshole that Dash and I met when we went out to a bar together one night before we started actually going out together, he tried hitting on a mare in the back area who didn't want anything to do with him, so I stepped in." I groaned, remembering that night I had lost my shit, rubbing my eyes. "Me and Dash stopped him, but he ended up punching me, and then Dash came up, they argued and he hit her in the face and I... I lost it." I looked down, shaking my head and adding. "He's an asshole ex-Wonderbolt who needs his ass kicked again, I thought he was in jail." I scowled, looking towards the stallion as he kept that smirk on his face, talking to his cronies in uniform. "I don't know how he's out, he's supposed to be in there for another year."

Firespin looked at me, his eyes sizing me up. "Why are you here? Here to get your ass kicked by me again?" He wondered, snickering as his friens joined in.

I rose an eyebrow. "I'm sorry?" I asked, did he seriously just say that to me?

"Our captain kicked your ass in a bar called The Green Dragon!" One of his lackies behind him chirped, laughing afterwards. "Or do you not remember cause you're a smelly monkey!"

I stared at him, then coughed. "... Uh yeah, that's not what happened," I said as a chuckle escaped me. "Nigga!" I looked at Firespin, grinning, "I threw your ass out of a window, and you screamed like a little bitch when you crashed onto the ground, screaming for your mama!" I laughed, getting a laugh from Rainbow. No doubt remembering and cherishing that night.

"That's all a lie!" Firespin yelled, stomping his hoof into the ground several times. "You know I ki-"

"Oooh!" Candy suddenly chimed in, her voice a pleasant and lovely relief from Firespin's whiny Blueblood-esque voice. "You're the one Aunty Celestia told me about, the really whiny prisoner who wouldn't stop calling for his daddy to come save him."

...

"Omg." I chuckled, Rainbow joined me and before you knew it we were both laughing our asses, Firespin's face was rapidly growing a lovely shade of crimson as his boys suddenly looked intimidated. Probably cause Candy mentioned she was the niece of Celestia.

"She knows the princess?!"

"No way, she's her niece!?"

"You cry for you dad?"

"BANANA!"

Firespin rounded on them, turning on his hoof and glaring at each of them. "I do not call for my daddy! They're lying!" He turned around again, quickly flying up to Cadence and glaring at her. "Just who do you think you are?" He looked at her wings, his eyes flicking from her horn to her wings and back to her eyes again. "Some kind of alicorn wannabe, some reject the Princess made?" He raised his hoof, "I oughtta kick your a-!"

He was about to strike, and Candy ducked back, Rainbow taking flight to intervene, but she stopped... everyone stopped when they saw me. I stood stock still, my sword out and the blade inches from his throat. His eyes were wide as he looked down at the black katana in my hand, everyone stopped to stare at me, some of the bystanders on the street as well had stopped what they were doing to gawk at this strange creature holding a black - and albeit a slightly evil looking - blade to some pony's throat.

I won't lie, I may have looked really evil just now. My eyes were wide, set in a vicious glare directed straight at Firespin, my mouth curled into a frown and my hand gripped onto the katana. I felt both awesome and slightly tired as I growled at Firespin. "You don't touch her..." I told him, moving forward as my blade came closer, he retreated, keeping the blade from touching him. Sweat trailed down his forehead, and he looked about ready to piss himself. "Her name is Princess Mi Amora Cadenza of the Crystal Empire, she's my friend... you fuck with her, you fuck with me, and believe me when I say you don't want that." I growled, baring my teeth.

The rest of his crew backed away, no doubt wondering who the hell I was, also it was probably the fear of being stabbed up the butt by my sword.

"Sh-she's a bucking princess?!" One of his lackeys, a pegasus with a brown mane gulped. "I thought you said we would be dealing with some loser who took Rainbow away from ya!? Not a friend to the princess!" He cried, turning tail and running. "I'm out!"

"Me too!" Another one yelled, running after his buddy.

"Don't leave me!" Firespin cried, watching as his team left and disappeared around a corner, he turned back to me then spit at my shoes before zipping off faster than I could do anything. "I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU JUST YET HUMAN, MARK MY WORDS!" He screamed before flying off after his team. "GET BACK HERE YOU PLOT SUCKING MAGGOTS!"

Rainbow growled next to me, flapping her wings and glaring at here he ran off to. "You little punk!" Rainbow cried, but I stopped her by holding out my arm. "He jus-"

"Leave him, he ain't worth it Dashie." I told her, he wasn't worth two shakes of a boar's ass. "Damn scumbag." I muttered as I put my sword back into its sheath, getting some sighs of relief from the ponies around me.

Dash gave me a slightly peeved look before sighing as well. "You're right," She agreed, standing next to me. "But if he comes back again..."

I clapped my hands together, looking at Dash. "Then I give you full permission to beat his ass into the ground." I smiled, kneeling down patting my marefriend on the head.

That got her to smile, "Good, you couldn't stop me otherwise." She said turning up her nose and nodding.

"I know, I know." I chuckled, standing back up as she started flying next to me. Looking over at Candy I saw her smiling in our direction. "Wha?"

She made a hmm sound, then giggled. "Its just, you two..." She started, trotting next to us as I started walking. "I've seen many relationships bloom and flourish, but every time I think about yours, I'm amazed." Candy chucked again.

"Why's that?" I asked, rather curiously. What was so amazing about our awesomeness?

"Its just, you two have such a wonderful loving relationship and it makes me really happy." Candy told us, I could practically feel the happiness radiating off of her. "You two squabble, argue, and fight even, and poke fun, yet you two manage to still love each other with all your hearts... its inspiring really."

I smiled, looking over at Dash as she nuzzled me, I returned it and kept walking. "Its nothing special really, that's just how we are Candy." I told her in a 'eh' sort of tone. "I've been like this since I was a kid, and I'm sure Rainbow was too." I looked into Dash's eyes, her own reflecting what I thought. "We're just..."

"Awesome." She finished with a genuine smile.

I returned her smile with one of my own. "Exactly." I looked back over at Candy who was giving us one of those looks one would do when they saw something cute. I only shrugged, keeping my stride. "Sooo... anything else to show us?"

"Oh yes! Over there is a nice little donut shop, and over there is a-"

Does she know every place in the city? I wondered with a chuckle as we walked, Dash sneaking me a kiss and flashing me a smile before going back to walking by my side, brushing up against my leg.

This is a good day.

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A Night With: Rainbow Dash 2
Written by: Dustchu.
MLP:FIM belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust.
I own only my OC's and certain elements.

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Good golly what a day, what a day. I sighed, sitting outside at one of the restaurants in the empire. I had taken my sword off and had it placed to my side, leaning against the chair with the hilt facing me. Rainbow had gone to the little fillies room and Cadence was sitting across from me sipping a cup of coffee. A bit late in the afternoon if you ask me, but who am I to judge? I myself had a can of coke... well... the pony equivalent, tasted like butt and salt but it got you going...

...

... to the bathroom for the runs that is, OH!

"So Lee," Cadence started, sighing once she sat her cup down, something told me I should have gotten a cup of coffee instead of this nasty ass soda, that delicious black liquid that tastes like ass unless you add creamer.

I looked up at her, nodding. "Yeah?"

"About Sombra..."

A sigh left me, somehow I shoud have seen this coming. "Look, Candy... I'm not going to run, I said that before."

She nodded quickly. "I know I know... its just..." She looked away, towards the ground before sighing. "Sombra is really dangerous, you've see how powerful his magic is first hand with that..." She looked around, as if afraid someone was listening in before saying. "Zombie."

"In my defense, I had no weapon." I told her, my hands drifting to my sword. "If I had this sword back then, or even a gun then I would have been able to handle myself." I told her, reaching into my pocket and pulling out my wallet before sifting through my membership card, "Aha!" I found them, pulling two cards out, I handed them to Cadence who took them in her magic.

She squinted her eyes to read it, it took a few moments as she sped read through it. "National Rifle Association of America? Annnd," She looked at the other. "Certified Firearms Instructor?"

I nodded with a smile. "Yep, I was trained by my dad and a few of his Marine buddies in how to operate firearms and stuff. I became a member of the NRA shortly after, mostly for some of their cool stuff." I leaned back, thinking about the gun safe I had back home in Southern Texas... yeah, I'm from Texas, it's where I was raised after my mom moved us both to America from Tokyo. I had a lot of neat guns, a pang of sadness hit my heart as I thought about one firearm I had in my personal safe under my bed. A glorious Heckler & Koch USP Match with a Compensator, it was a nice gun and my dad bought it for me on my birthday one year.

It fired like a boss, I've fired bigger and older guns, but the H&K USP is my all time favorite. Easy to hide in a coat, fires a good amount of ammo, and packs a decent punch. I wish I had had it when I was on the train, maybe then I wouldn't have been so damn useless during that fight.

"So," I nodded. "Yeah, I know how to use most of my world's most dangerous weapons."

Cadence nodded slowly, a thoughtful look blooming in her eyes. "What exactly is a firearm. I've heard of them from Princess Luna when you told her about your world's... umm..."

"Our outrageous violent history throughout time and space where we pretty much killed each other?"

"... yeah, pretty much..."

I laughed nervously. "Ehehehe yeah," I agreed as Rainbow came back, sitting down at the table with a snack she picked up from one of the shelves and paid for. "My world is a pretty dangerous place, we don't have magic so we had to improvise with technology. What we lack in the arcane arts, we make up for it with the power of invention. We've come a long way in the past, two, three thousand years?" I murmured, I can't seem to remember. "We've got a lot of dangerous weapons, including some that could end the world ten times over and kill all life." I added nonchalantly, leaning back with a sigh.

I only got silence as my answer... for a bit actually, everything was quiet actually.

I tilted my head, looking back up at Candy's shocked face and Rainbow's eyebrow raise. "What?" I asked, wondering why they were staring at me. Did I have a boogie?

Before I could even think of picking my nose in the most manliest display ever, Candy interrupted me. "You... you have weapons that could potentially end your world?" She asked, shock lacing every one of her words.

"No no no," She looked relieved, but I ruined that as I said, "they absolutely can end the world, kill millions, destroy everything that was built, all in a few seconds I think... complete destruction." I told her, making her eyes widen. "Didn't I tell you guys this already when Celly asked me about my world?"

"You didn't tell us your world had weapons that can destroy an entire bucking planet!" Rainbow hissed, looking around as a few patrons around us looked our way. Guess they heard?

I thought about that for a moment, I didn't? "I honestly thought I covered everything... eh, I forget things." Admitting my mistake, I sighed again and took a sip from my nasty ass soda before putting it back down. "Anyway, a firearm... uh, picture a handle," I said, holding up a bottle of ketchup. "Then picture that handle having a tube on top," I then held a water bottle off of the ground on top of the ketchup bottle, the hole facing forward. "Now imagine me clicking a small lever where my index finger is, and a small metal projectile," I put both bottles down, holding up my fingers several inches apart from each other, "this big, hurtling towards you at like, seven hundred miles per hour and blasting a hole through your body that's hotter then a lit match."

Both Rainbow and Candy looked horrified at that explanation, Cadence more so as she was reaching over to touch her side. "Why would your world need such weapons?" She asked, rubbing her side.

"Simple." I leaned forward on my elbows, cupping my hands together and saying, "for war." In my mind flashed hundreds of pictures and films about war, World War 2, the Iraq war, Operation: Desert Storm and several other all the way up to ISIS. "There are a lot of bad people on my world, some that'll take your life without even thinking about it just for a few bucks or just to kill you for looking at them funny." I tapped the table a few times. "My world may seem horrible from what I've said," I said, catching their looks. "But we're not all bad, there are millions of good people. Like me for example, I tried helping out where I could, but I could only do so much, after all I'm only one guy..."

Rainbow leaned over to me, planting a kiss on my cheek. "I'm sure you did some pretty awesome things back on your world."

I smiled. "Yep."

"You ever miss it?" Candy asked me, I fell silent... I guess she thought she said something wrong because her eyes widened and she waved her hooves in the air. "I'm so sorry, I did-"

I stopped her. "I miss it everyday." I admitted truthfully. "My mom, my dad, my friends, what little I had anyway, and my stuff... good lord do I miss my stuff!" I sobbed, planting my hands into my face and sobbing loudly and dramatically, like any man should. How would you feel if you had an entire season of Fairy Tail on your laptop and couldn't get to it because you were billions of miles away in a different solar system. "I want to watch my favorite shows, damn it." I moaned, wiping my tears away.

Rainbow just slugged me in the arm as Candy shook her head, bemused.

I reeled back from the hit, "Um, ouch." I said, rubbing my arm.

"Get used to it you big baby." Rainbow cooed, nuzzling my neck.

I'll try Dashie. As i thought that, a pop sounded and a small scroll appeared above the table near Cadence who grabbed i in her magical grasp, that still weirded me out even after enduring it for four years. I watched as Cadence unrolled it, reading it at light speed as she always did, I wondered who read faster, Candy or Twi... I need to pit them against each other and see who reads faster. hehehe, that would be pretty fun I think.

"Oh, this is interesting." Candy chimed, handing the scroll over to me. "Its from Luna, it's for you, Lee."

Tilting my head, I grabbed said scroll and read it aloud.

To my human friend, Lee.
I hope this letter finds you well, as I have an offer for you. Given your stubbornness regarding your fight with the Dark King Sombra, I have taken it upon myself to find ways to help you with your fight. I know you have been granted Faust's Blade, the blade having chosen you as its next wielder. I speak with experience when I say this blade is no normal one, it is very difficult to use, even for one such as myself.
As such, I am offering you a chance to practice with the blade in a secluded and protected area within the castle, it is an old training area my sister and I used in the old days of war with Griffonia before the empire disappeared. It shall serve you well.
Also, I have a bit of a surprise for you once you arrive at the castle. It is something that will hopefully aid you well in your battle with Sombra. We expect you soon, and hope you remember the way back to the castle.
From your friend, Princess Luna.
PS. Game Night is still on, don't think you can chicken out Lee~

A chuckle escaped me as I finished the letter. "Well then."

"What is it?" Rainbow asked, looking at the letter herself.

"Luna wants me to come back to the castle to train with the sword, which is apparently called Faust's Blade, catchy." I told her, looking down at the blade. The shimmering orange colors across the sheath pulsed like a heart beat almost, that's weird. "And she has a surprise for me, something that'll probably help me in the battle... truth is, I'm going to need all the help I can get."

That was very true, I'll need all the help I can get, cause I have a feeling this fight... will not be an easy one.

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Rainbow's Perspective - One Hour Later

After our conversation, Cadence had escorted us back to the castle. Lee had given me a hug before leaving to go see Princess Luna about training with his sword, something that I knew, deep down in my heart he would do well at. Cadence had left us to go talk to Princess Celestia, I'm not sure about what however. That just left me, alone in the castle halls to wander. I'd go watch Lee train, but I think he needs to be alone for this, and besides... I had my own agenda to attend to.

Lee was learning how to fight, he was going to fight against Sombra, and so are me and the Elements. But I felt like we needed an edge, while we each had our own abilities and strengths, something told me that wouldn't be enough. We have the Elements of Harmony, but they might not be enough for this.

I sighed, stepping outside and taking flight. I soared up into the sky and just floated for a bit, my eyes taking in the scenery. Guards moved about, doing their patrols and keeping an eye out for dangers. I saw Flash Sentry walking among the guards, one of the few guards who wasn't a Crystal Pony, he was a regular orange pony. I didn't know him well, but I knew Twilight was weird about him, saying he was like that human she had met in the Mirror world of this one where everypony was a human.

Weird as fuck.

I flapped my wings, deciding to do a fly around of the castle. The crystal structure was almost like the castle Twilight had back in Ponyville, albeit a lot smaller and more... purple? It was a big castle though, had a lot of rooms, hallways, stairs and crystals... lot of those. The Castle of Friendship it was called, where me and the other girls conducted Friendship Business, mostly involving the map. Whenever we need to do something, our cutie marks start... uh... vibrating and its... weird... but, it happens and we have to do our friendhisp solving stuff.

Hasn't happened in a while actually, ever since Gilda, nothing bad has happened.

I wonder how she's doing? I wondered, thinking back to my friend Gilda the Griffon. She was a bit of an arrogant griffon, like most of them are, and a bitch when she started douching around when she first came to Ponyville, but she changed for the better. Which I'm glad for...

She was my first friend.

Looking around the skies, I settlled on a spire nearby. Flapping over to it and doing a once around, I perched myself on top, wings extended as the wind blew past me. My eyes scanned the skies north of here, to the mountains, the clouds, and the distant city of Skyspire. As I stood up here, my thoughts turned back to how I was going to help Lee. I knew he was intent on fighting Sombra, and if he was, then so was I... this was not something he was going to do alone while I cower on the sidelines. He's my stallion, I'm his mare, we stick together, though all the good and the bad.

So... how can I help fight? I know several Pegasi fighting manuvers, I can fly faster then any pegasus, and I'm the Element of Loyalty... I furrowed my brows, frowning. And none of that helped me during the first fight with him... now did it? I groaned, hanging my head as the wind blew my mane out of my face. I need something... but what?

"~I can help you with that, Rainbow Dash.~" I heard the voice say, coming back for another round it seemed. I looked around for the voice, once more finding nothing except myself, along with the sky and clouds.

"~Who are you?~" I asked, keeping my grasp on the spire tight. This time I was in control, at least. I hope if I found myself losing control of my body, somepony would catch me if I fell from up so high.

"~If you wish for a name, call me... Faith.~" She told me as a breeze blew by, flicking several strands of my mane into my face.

"~Faith huh?~" I asked, raising an eyebrow in question. An odd name for a ghost. "~Okay... next question, why did you heal me?~" I looked up into the sky, my thoughts turning back to when the voice decided to heal me for whatever reason. "~I'm not hating it or anything like that, I'm just wondering, why?~"

"~I have my reasons.~" She told me, before I could ask anything else she cut me off. "~If you wish to help your human lover,~" I blushed at that, but said nothing. "~Head north, past the mountain and into the gorge below.~"

I looked to the north, spotting the mountains I was looking at previously and seeing the clouds, and what looked like a massive crack in the earth. "~Why are you helping me?~"

A moment of silence, then, "~Again... I have my reasons... now go.~" She told me, disappearing.

I could only sigh as I kept my eyes on the mountains to the north... If I want to help Lee... I have to go north, and into the gorge... but why? I could only shake my head before taking flight and flying back down, I circled around the tower once before heading down to one of the small towers where me and Lee were staying. Cadence was nice enough to let us have our own room, I think a part of her did that out of a sort of dark perversion of hers to have me and Lee... uh... do things. I was still looking for any hidden cameras or recording crystals. I wouldn't put it past her.

I loved Cadence like a sister, but sometimes she could be a bit... perverted, even more then Lee sometimes... I think they compare notes or something, might explain why she's like that sometimes. I shook my head as I landed on the balcony and went inside, and cantering over to a desk I quickly grabbed some parchment and a quill before dipping it in ink and writing out a quick note. Once I was satisfied, I rolled it up and put it on the bed and flew back outside, my destination.

The Wispy Mountains.

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Lee's Perspective - One Hour Later

"Uhh..." I could only gape at the four fluffy bat pones in front of me, the ponies of Luna's Night Guard were all lined side by side. four from her night guard were all fully clothed in their guard uniforms, manes neatly done in their own style and expressions stoic as Luna and I walked around them, inspecting them.

The first one was a deep charcoal black with an ebony colored mane and tail, and brightly colored gold eyes narrowed into slits. She donned her armor, which was a pretty standard form of armor for the night guard, colored a midnight blue to match Luna's coat color, and had the slitted eye on the front, the mark of the guard. On her side I saw a short sword with a small dagger near the hilt, and in her hoof I saw a long spear pointed up, like the other two. Neat looking leathery wings were folded to her sides and she nodded to me as I passed by her.

The second guard was more colorful, almost having the same colors as my sword. Her coat was a striking silverish/black color with streaks of crimson red and a darker orange color in her mane and tail that was spiked backwards, and her eyes were a cheerful red color that held a youthful innocence that I didn't expect from a guard belonging to Luna. I saw two small blade devices hanging off of her armor that could be attached to her hoof armor, I had no idea what they were though. And her armor was blackened and was fixed over what looked like a robe. She smiled at me as I passed her.

The third guard was... really big, probably bigger than the other two guards and only slightly smaller than Big Macintosh. She, yes she - I could tell because of her eyes and a not so innocent glance at certain part of her body on one pass around - was a bat pony as well, with massive leather wings, and she was carrying a hammer that was hanging off of her back. Her coat was a jet black color, with bits of fluff sticking out in tufts out from under her thick and heavy as balls looking black armor. She wore a helmet over her head that covered a curled three tone purple, pink and silver colored mane that hung in front of bright pink eyes. The mare gave me a nod as I passed by, along with a smirk.

The final mare was a more sleek built one, she had a body that reminded me of Rainbow's. Built for speed and agility, and also, for stealth it seemed given her attire. She wore a light armor made out of a shiny black metal with overlapping plates, and a bandoleer that held small shiny things that looked like bullets. Hanging off of her back, was something that made my eyes widen, it was a rifle! Or something resembling one anyway. It was long, made of wood and metal and made me think of something out of steampunk. Bolt action, a long scope and a large trigger and a small clip that was on the side. She wore a hood also, covering neon blue bangs that was swept back like her tail, her eyes gleamed in the darkness, a bright blue color that contrasted nicely with her silver coat. She winked at me as I passed.

"Do you approve, Lee?" Luna asked me as we stopped in front of them, admiring the four guards.

I crossed my arms. "Umm... well, they're decently armed, I'll give you that." I gestured to the third mare, and her giant frame. "She's massive, but still oh so adorable~" I cackled, getting a snort from her. "But I'll stop there cause I'm pretty sure can can crush my chest if she bucked me with those legs of hers." I added, getting a satisfied smirk from the mare as I looked at said legs, She could probably give Big Mac a run for his money. "But... I'm not sure what you want me to say, who are they anyhow?"

"Lee," She trotted forward, going up behind the four and standing tall as she gesturing to them. "These are your personal guard, as of now." She smiled, getting an eyebrow raise from me. "As of now, I have assigned them to guard you and aid you in your right against Sombra." She said proudly, getting the mares to stand up tall and face me.

I looked at each of them, they looked like capable fighters. So the surprise, was that she got me some backup?

"I understand that, you may be," Luna waved a hoof in a circle. "Hesitant, in accepting these four as your guards, bu-"

I shrugged, hands in my pockets. "I'll take em," I said finally, getting a shocked look from Luna.

"You... you do not oppose?" She asked me, tilting her head as the guards remained stoic.

I nodded, they looked neat! "Heck yeah, I like em!" I walked up to the cheery looking mare in the middle, the one wearing the robe and knelt down to get a good look at her. "And what is your name?" I asked, holding out my hand. "If Luna hasn't told ya, I'm Lee."

The mare smiled and took my hand, somehow giving me a firm yet gentle grip. "I am Lieutenant Gentle Breeze," She introduced, her voice reminiscent of someone of Canterlot birth, basically she sounded british which was awesome. "I am, like Princess Luna said, one of your guards, and I have sworn an oath of fealty to you and your marefriend, Rainbow Dash." She bowed her head, closing her eyes.

Whoa, that's some serious shit. I remarked mentally as I sat down in front of the four, my eyes going over GB's face. I had picked up some minor investigative interrogative skills from Law & Order, and I could tell from ho her face was relaxed and the tone in her voice she was serious about this. I looked towards the other two mares, who likewise bowed their heads. "Um, the whole fealty thing, isn't that something you do to Royals?" I chirped, looking up a Luna as I puffed out my cheeks.

The princess walked around to me, sitting down and saying, "That's something for another time Lee, for now, these four will do as you say." She told me as a smirk started to grow on my face.

"Do as I say, eh?" I asked, my smiling growing as Luna facehoofed.

"Oh no."

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Celestia's Perspective - A Few Minutes Later

I wonder how Lee is handling his little gift Luna has given him? I wondered as I cantered to the training room in the castle, passing by several guardsponies and crystal pony workers. I gave each one a smile and a nod as they passed by me, going about their duties. The light from the sun peering in through the windows seemed to bounce off of the crystals, the light radiating off of them and creating a beautiful lighting that filled the halls and the castle itself with a beautiful sight.

I couldn't help but smile...

Sadly that smile quickly faded as I heard something coming from the training room.

"This is ridiculous!" I heard from inside.

"Come on, lemme ride ya!" I heard Lee whine.

"No way!"

"Well you did swear an oath to me, so I do believe I am allowed to ride you whenever I please."

"Yes sir, I did, but not to be ridden!" A mare cried in a rather tomboyish voice.

Oh sweet Faust. I groaned, what was Lee doing? And should I be concerned?

"~its Lee, of course you should be concerned.~" A little voice told me in the back of my head.

"Touche." I remarked, shaking my head as I trotted over to the door and flicking my head to the right, I opened the door. I expected to see... something unsavory, after all, Lee - along with Cadence - is a bit of a perverted mess. I expected... something disgusting, something that would have violated Lee's relationship with Rainbow Dash...

Instead I found Lee sitting precariously on a large bat mare's back, his sword held outward as he cried. "Onward to battle my steed!"

I swore I heard something crack within the mare's mind, her eye twitching. "Princess Luna, permission to buck him off."

"Hmm..." Luna hummed in thought, before nodding. "Granted."

"Wait, wha-" The mare reared up, stomping onto her front hoofs and launching Lee off of her as she kicked her legs out and sent him flying across the room. "ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!"

*CRASH-BANG-THUD*

I walked into the room, my hooves announcing my presence, all four guards turned to me and bowed. "Princess." They bowed as I came in.

I nodded, "Rise." They did so as I turned to Luna, who was smiling my way. "I take it these four are the ones you have chosen to acompany Lee?"

My sister nodded, pointing to the four as they stood in a neat line. "Yes," She pointed to the one donning a robe under armored plates. "This is First Lieutenant Gentle Breeze, of the Mages." Said mare bowed her head my way, her eyes glowing for the briefest of seconds.

A Thestral Magic user? I have not seen one of them for centuries. It was not unheard of for creatures who were not natural born magic users to find a way to wield the arcane forces, I remember a thousand years ago there was a university built in Hollow Shades that taught many Thestrals there how to wield the darker forces of magic. I do not know what happened to it though, but it seems it is still teaching to this day if a Thestral is here and can wield a magicka.

"The larger mare Lee attempted to ride-" Luna started as said mare snorted, flicking her ears. "-is Captain Breaking Dawn, of the Berserkers."

Captain Dawn looked pleased with the announcement that she was a part of the Berserkers. She was a very well built mare, plenty of muscle and carrying a large hammer, possibly too large for any normal pony to wield.

The next was the pony that had the strange long pole on her back and wearing a hood, she winked in my direction, making me raise an eyebrow. "This is Second Lieutenant Sharp Sight, of my newly established Rifle Corps." Luna told me proudly, the mare likewise looking proud of herself for being a part of such a division.

Rifle Corps? I looked the mare over from where I stood, she looked like she had a fast flyer's body and could very easily blend in with a crowd should the need arise. I looked at the weapon on her back, no doubt a concoction created by one of Luna's researchers after she learned of Lee's world and their unique weapons. That must be a rifle, judging from the length and the scope... long range perhaps?

My thoughts were cut off as Luna pointed to the final Thestral, the one who was looking my way with a small smile. I could see a small badge on her armor that labeled her as a Major, she must be the leader given her rank and stature. "And finally, we have Major Black Heart, from the 33rd Armored Division."

The Major stepped forward as Lee attempted to climb out of the armor pile he fell into, she looked at me with a smile and bowed her head. "We will do our best to protect both Lee and the Element of Loyalty, your highness."

I nodded to her as Lee sauntered over, a newly formed bruise on his forehead and a dumb smile on his face. "I have no doubt that you will do your best." I told her, smiling in return.

"So..." Lee looked toward Luna, a smirk on his face as he asked, "I believe you said we would be doing some training... care ta explain?"

I stood to the side and watched as my sister's eyes started glowing purple, the four guards took to either side of me, all watching as my sister conjured a pair of blades to flank her on either side. The magic from her horn engulfing the ghastly looking blades of the night matron.

Lee's smirk fell, "oh my..."

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Rainbow's Perspective

"Jeez it's cold up here, and I'm a pegasus for crying out loud!" I grumbled as I flapped my wings and soared through the mountains. I had left the castle and entered into the mountain range, and now I was freezing my tail off, crap! I was used to such high altitudes, more so than any most pegasi were capable of, and as such I was used to the cold. But the cold in this mountain, it felt different. Almost constricting, it got up under my fur and nipped at my flesh, making me shiver.

Somehow I had flown into a stretch of unknown territory, a part of Equestria that was completely off the map. I felt it when I passed by the mountain... I wasn't in Equestria anymore, I was somewhere else entirely. The snowfall was intense, the winds strong and my vision surprisingly little to zero. I had extremely good vision, all pegasi did, but now that counted for jack shit in this blizzard, speaking of which, where did this even come from?! I don't remember any storms of blizzards scheduled for today.

"~You're getting closer~" I heard the voice speak to me, seemingly echoing off of the winds surrounding me.

"What do you mean I'm close?!" I called out, I had no idea if she could hear me or not.

"~Look down, Rainbow Dash.~"

I shook my head, knocking off a small pile of snow as I peered down through the harsh winds, down below I could make out a chasm I hadn't seen before. She told me there was one, but I didn't think I would come up on it so soon. I had expected to fly for a while longer before finding it. it went down far, but if I wanted to help out Lee, and save everypony, then I had to go down there. "Alright then, bring it on!" I yelled, folding my wings to my sides as I dived down, flying down hard and fast, soaring past wisps of snow and whatever clouds were down here.

I kept falling, and at the last moment when I entered the chasm I flared out my wings, slowly my descent and leveling out. I felt the wind rush past me and I felt my wings strain against the g-forces, eventually I stopped and I managed to get a look around. The rock walls looked like every other rock wall, but these were covered in ice and snow. Small ice creatures scurried away as I landed on the ground, the cold chill somehow even worse down here then it was up above.

I started forward, my eyes adjusting to the darkness surrounding me. I could hear some small critters scurrying around in the dark, knocking over pebbles as I intruded on their territory. What was down here that could help me?

"~There are plenty of things down here Rainbow,~" the voice told me. "~Most are hidden, but for you, the light will show you the way.~"

"~What light?~" I asked, it was pitch black down here! The sunlight was barely giving me anything to work with, and it was rapidly getting aggravating. But then, I started seeing a glint of light from up ahead, "Oh." I murmured, trotting towards it. Only to end up slipping and falling down, away from the light. "Fuck!" I screamed, flaring out my wings and trying to stop falling, but it failed as it felt like I was being pulled down by some unseen force...

Of course it was unseen, it was once again, pitch black down here! I couldn't see shit!

"Damn it damn it damn it!" I cursed as I fell into the blackness.

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Lee's Perspective - One Hour Later

"Not cool not cool not cool!" I yelled as I ducked under a swing Luna threw at me, I felt the top part of my hairs being singed off by her blade's flame. "Jesus Christ!" I cursed as I rolled to the side, barely blocking Luna's downward slash. She was going all out!

"Put your back into it!" Luna yelled as she swung again, the sheer force of her attacks nearly snapping my arm.

"I thought you said training, not MURDERING!" I cried as I did a leg sweep and somehow knocked her off of her hooves before getting up and running away, heading towards the wall.

"And where do you think you are running to?!" Luna yelled as she gave chase, her hooves stomping behind me as she cackled.

I bit my lip as I sprinted faster, as soon as I reached the wall I jumped at it, trying to scramble up the wall and do an epic backflip... only to fuck it up and fall down onto my ass. "I meant to do that!"

A sigh and I saw Luna behind me, before both swords came crashing down. I instinctivly closed my eyes as both of them went into the floor next to my head on either side. I could feel the intensive icy hot sensation next to my ears. I opened my eyes and msiled sheepishly, as Luna peered down at me with a disappointed expression. "Lee," The princess started. "How do you expect to fight Sombra if all you do is run away?"

I frowned, "I have a plan for attack."

"And that is?"

"Juke."

"Juke?"

"Juke."

"Prey tell, what is a juke?" Luna asked me, tilting her head.

I facepalmed, "seriously? Luna, a Juke is that thing you're always doing to me in that knock off of Call of Duty you guys have. Call of Colt, or something like that."

Luna made a face of recognition, eyes widening as she smiled brightly. "Ah, you mean the move that I utilize that involves stabbing you when you come around a corner!" She cheered, laughing like a school filly.

I only gave her a flat look, one that told her I was not amused. "That is called Juking, it is a move that some people use to troll others, IE, that you use to troll me. The ever so lovable human, Lee Jacobson!" I yelled, shakig my fist at the princess.

"Your last name is Jacobson?" Celestia asked from where she was sitting, the four guards of mine were conversing with each other, over what, I wasn't sure.

"Yeah, why?" I asked, sitting up as Luna yanked her swords out of the floor and swirled them about like a pro. I looked over at Celly, only to see her look down, her eyes closed and a frown on her face. "Uh, Celly?"

She looked up, eyes wide before she composed herself. "It is nothing," She said, standing up and trotting over to the door. "I shall return shortly, continue with your training Lee." She told me, disappearing out of the door and down the hall. The sound of her hooves fading away into nothing.

I watched her leave, my sword resting on my shoulder as I turned to Luna. "You know what that was about?" I asked, raising an eyebrow in her direction. Was she weirded out by my last name? Yeah, while it's may not the best name in the world, its still my name.

Luna, however said nothing about the matter, only turning to me and lifting up her sword to point at me. "We shall continue with your training Lee, now..." She held her swords away from her, blades pointed to either side as she sent a glare in my direction. "Hold your sword up," I did as instructed, holding it with two hands. Proper Katana etiquette required two hands. That one Wolverine movie taught me that. "Good, now defend!" She cried as she suddenly swung one of her swords at me, I barely got my blade up in time to block it.

But thankfully I did, and the sword clashed with mine sending a wave of sparks flying. I held under her attack, my instincts kicking in and telling me to push back, and push back I did! I pushed back against her blade, Luna smirking lightly as her other blade came around making me duck. I felt the sword nearly clip my hair again and I scowled, jeez, this is training, no need to try and actually kill me Luna!

Looking towards Luna's legs, I smirked as I realized I could do something here. Pushing back on her sword I moved my legs to the side and rolling on my hip I swept them under Luna's hooves, but she just reared up. And in that split second she did, I shot up and grabbed her by the barrel, pushing against her. Before I knew it, she fell back, her swords falling from her grasp and landing to the floor, Luna fell onto her back, and dragged me with her, and before you knew it, we ended up in a comical situation with me on top of her.

...

I stared into bright blue orbs... "Sup." I smirked, and I was then rewarded with a punch to the face and sent flying back. I skidded across the floor where I hit the wall, my eyes spinning and my head swimming. "Ouchy."

Luna merely sighed, standing up but not without a blush adorning her face. She grabbed both of her swords and made them disappear. "We shall continue again later, for now I wish to see what my sister is up to." Without another word she turned towards the door and left, leaving me alone with the guards.

I looked over at them, shrugging as I stood up and sheathing my sword. "So... anything you guys want to do?" I asked, I wonder if they did anything fun?

I got a collective headshake.

"Balls." I groaned, slumping my shoulders as I felt a weird heat sensation from my back. Shaking my shoulders I started for the door, the guards falling in step behind me.

We stepped out into the halls, walking through them with nary a bit of conversation. Breaking Dawn trailed behind me, Black Heart was in front, with both Sharp Sight and Gentle Breeze on either side of me. They walked in formation, a nice easy formation. I took the time to look at the walls, my thoughts turning back to the training session. It was only an hour of slashing and getting my ass handed to me, and I cursed my lack of decent sword fighting abilities. You think I would have some good sword skills...

Yeah, I'm actually for some stereotypes, but unfortunately those did not apply to me at all.

Luna taught me how to wield one properly, and some stances she knew... but those mostly applied to ponies and minotaurs, and they barely fit me. I had to show her a few human stances, one that I nearly laughed at when she tried to mimic them. Most of the ones I used were from movies and games, while accurate to a degree, didn't help me any with fighting off Luna's insane style of fighting. She was fast, brutal and unforgiving in her attacks, hell I think she got lost in her own little world there for a minute.

If I can't fight her, what good can I do if I do go up against Sombra? I shook my head.

I need to stay strong and keep my head in the game... not only does my life depend on me being able to fight well, but my friends also. I had to train with Luna, she said she could help me, and I was going to do it!

"~I may help you as well, if you so wish for it.~" I head a voice in the back of my head say, making me stop.

"Did you guys hear that?" I asked my guards as they stopped to look at me, I cupped a hand to my ear and listened.

"~You won't find me, not that easily.~" I heard the voice say again.

Seriously? Voices in my head... not sure how I feel about this! I looked around again, my guards doing the same.

"Are you sure you hear something sir?" Gentle Breeze asked me, her slitted eyes scanning the area.

I nodded back. "Oh yeah I do." Looking up at the ceiling. "Alright, come on out ghosty!"

"~As you wish, Lee.~"

Suddenly the air in front of me felt super hot and I yelped, falling back as my sword shook. My guards came to my sides, instantly pulling out their weapons as something flashed into being in front of us. The air around me felt hot, like... really fucking hot. Beads of sweat trailed down my brow as I saw the hall in front of me was covered in a wall of white, my eyes burned from just looking at it. But in the middle of it, I saw the silhouette of something... a pony from the shape and size.

The figure stepped forward, the white fading into nothing. The floors behind the pony were on fire, parts of the curtains and even a few vases melting into slags of flaming piles. The pony before me was... hot... and I mean that in both a metaphorical and literal sense. She was a mare, judging by the... uh... curves and eyelashes, and a pegasus pony. Fire red eyes pierced into my own, making me sweat profusely.

Who is this?

"Hello Lee," she spoke, her very words carrying over like flames. "My name... is Magma Blast."

Author's Notes:

Whew, this episode was brought to you by SHITE ROMANCE Studios and TL;DR Productions.

Hey... hey... hey... you know what Lee and Rainbow are doing? They're askin' for fan art! those sneakin' twerps! Hey. hey what are you two-AHHH

*tosses me out*

Rainbow: You guys should totally draw fan art for this story, come on!

Lee: I don't know Rainbow, I don't think they're up to the task.

Rainbow: Why wouldn't they be?

Lee: *shrugs* I don't know, I think they might be a bit... overwhelmed to draw the awesomeness that is the two of us.

Gentle Breeze: Hey, what about us?

Breaking Dawn: Don't we get any love?

Lee: *hugs them both* Of course you do! If the audience loves us enough, they might~

Dustchu: Dang it! Stop stealing my spotlight! Anyway, thanks for reading guys and I hope you enjoyed this chapter, also, Fanart is appreciated, but you don't hav- *gets decked*

Shia Labeouf: JUST DO IT!

Dustchu: *whimpers* till next time *falls down*

Flaming Repercussions, Prism, and a New Ally

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Eyes wide, hands clammy, hair sweaty, butthole firmly puckered up... this was terrifying in more ways then I could possibly imagine. I mean... I've seen plenty of crazy looking ponies, but this Magma chick was by far, the most scary looking. She looked like something out of a fucking demon movie, staring the devil as a main character. She was, relatively tall, maybe a foot or so taller then Rainbow Dash. She had scary looking fire red eyes narrowed into slits, and a red/orange mane and tail that reminded me of lava, her body was red, like... fire red, she was a lot of red. The bottom of her hooves and her fetlocks, to my surprise were blackened, with deep gashes glowing red/orange, pulsating like a heartbeat.

She was... shockingly attractive. I shook my head, Rainbow was my girl, not this, pony? Was she a pony?

The four guards of mine got into a defensive position in front of me, wielding their weapons without a second thought. Breaking Dawn drug me back, grabbing my shirt in her teeth and yanking me back. "Shit!" I cursed, getting up and yanking out my sword.

Magma just eyed the five of us, her eyes locked on my own. "Are you not well?" She asked me, her very words carried something and it scared me.

The fuck is she?! I wondered as breaking Dawn looked about ready to break some shit. I held my blade in a defensive position, eyeing the mare. If i got into a fight with her, would I even win this shit?! She was practically melting the hallway with her heat, or power or whatever the fuck it was she was doing.

"Who are you!?" The Major questioned as she lifted her spear, pointing it at the mare who eyed the instrument with an eyebrow raise. "State your business!"

Magma's right wing twitched, and i felt a breeze of hot air rush over me before I heard a yelp of pain. Looking towards the Major I saw her hooves were on fire and her spear tip had melted. Rushing over I ripped of my jacket and covered her hooves in them, putting out the fire and raising my blade towards the mare. "Back off! Who are you and what do you want!"

"I say, this is now what I expected to see when I came back to the training room." I heard Luna say from behind Magma. Looking over behind the mare I saw the princess of the night looking at Magma with a tired look in her eyes. "Would you mind?" She asked.

Magma bowed her head, "My deepest apologies your majesty." she said, her flames dissipating and the room going back to its normal temperature. "I seem to be a bit rusty..."

My eyebrows twitched dangerously, teeth grinding as I fell to my knees... the sword dropped to my side, I held my hands up high, throwing my head back and yelling two words that fully expressed my full and uncensored feelings unto the others...

"BUCK FUTT!"

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A Night With: Rainbow Dash 2
Written by: Dustchu.
MLP:FIM belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust.
I own only my OC's and certain elements.

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Rainbow's Perspective

"Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow," I moaned, getting up and dusting off my wings, I shook my head next, regretting the action instantly as I opened my eyes...

Darkness.

This is absolute shit! I cursed inwardly, trying to see in the darkness. I could't, however... there was no light to be seen anywhere. Just my luck, stupid voice made me go down here and no I'm trapped in the darkness with no way out!

"~There is light, you just have to look hard enough~"

"~I am going to punch you in the teeth~" I told the voice, growling as I tried to feel around for anymore holes leading to more impending darkness.

"~I know you are angry right now, but I am not tricking you,~" She told me, making me frown anyways. "~Look ahead.~"

I shook my head, trying to look forward, I saw nothing at first. But squinting my eyes, I could make out a faint sparkling light, I growled under my breath, taking a shaky step forward and heading for the light. As I did, I thought about Lee, how was he doing with his thing with Luna? I hope he was learning something good, we need to be prepared if Sombra's going to attack us all. So do I. I noted, I still needed a better way to fight, everypony did. Twilight had her magic, she was pretty much good in terms of that department.

Applejack was strong, and could crack somepony's head open if she wanted to with her applebucking skills. Fluttershy had her stare, and Discord to back her in any combat situations, Rarity was a good sort and had some fighting skills, her eye for detail and her ability at multitasking outshines even Twilight.

And Pinkie Pie... well... she's Pinkie Pie, she always has some weird thing to help out with.

I had my speed and agility, and I was really good at Hurricane Style combat. Being a master of it like my mom and dad are, and... well... most of the pegasi who've come out of the training camps I went to. Everypony had to learn Hurricane Style, it was another pegasi tradition that's slowly dying out. So many things were dying out that were pegasi pride...

"~Teach your foals, when you have them of course.~" The voice told me, making me stop in my tracks.

"What?!" I screamed, my voice echoing around the cave. F-foals?! "I'm not having foals!"

"~Maybe not as of this very moment, Rainbow Dash,~" The voice told me once again, making me shiver. "~But someday you will.~"

My head shook, and I spoke before I could think. "I can't... not with Lee." Another head shake. "But it doesn't matter, we're not exactly planning on having any to begin with, we're still young and... I have the Wonderbolts, and he doesn't want to... Why am I talking about this?!" I fumed, walking towards the light, why was I talking or even thinking about this to begin with? I'm only twenty two for crying out loud, I'm barely at that point in life to start thinking about wanting kids...

I mean... at some point I... I might but...

Just stop thinking about it. I told myself, this was ridiculous.

The journey through the cavern was long, and it annoyed me, not knowing whether or not I was going to fall into another hole or even water. Lee had told me in excruciating detail on how much he hated being in dark places trapped in water, he had it happen to him once back on Earth and it nearly killed his confidence of going into places. Of course he's better now, but still. I don't know what that would be like, but thinking about it made me shiver.

I was a born flyer, I loved flying and being in dark confining places was not my cup of tea.

Nope.

Up ahead I could see the light getting brighter and brighter, and it made the path in front of me visible. I smiled, speeding up and making my way over to it. Now that I was closer, I could see it was an entrance, where it led I didn't know. But I guess I would be finding out. Making my way over to it, I slipped in through the entrance, and I saw...

"Holy shit."

Yep, that's pretty accurate.

The entire, room, I guess you could call it, was huge and well lit from whatever light source was down here. Looking closer, I could see the room was pure crystal, a sort of crystal that was brighter than a torch and filled the room with a rainbow hued brilliant light. Arches of crystal grew within, jutting out of the walls and the ceiling, colored every hue of the rainbow. I could see a bridge made of crystal formed in the middle, I was standing on it actually. But in the middle of this place, I saw a tower of rainbow colored crystal, and next to it... stood a single pony.

A pony with a rainbow mane.

"Hello Rainbow Dash." She greeted me, smiling.

I just stared.

"The feck?"

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Lee's Perspective

"..." I just stared at the two alicorns and the smouldering pegasus in between then.

"..." Luna was quiet.

"..." Celestia was as well.

"..." As was Magma.

"... The ever living fuck, I hate secrets." I told them, crossing my arms. I wanted them all to know I hate secrets with a bloody passion, especially when they are kept from deliberatly. "Seriously?"

Celly nodded her head. "Yes, I am quite serious."

"You knew this entire time?"

"Yes."

"... a part of me wants to punch your teeth down your throat," I told her pointedly, poking my finger at her. "For reals, I quite literally told you to stahp keeping secrets from me, especially if they were a Type Three!"

Sharp Sight raised her hoof beside me. "What's that?"

Luna sighed. "Lee has a list of various things to not keep from him, this is classified as a type three." She told the mare as I fished out my journal which I carried with me everywhere. Inside was a lot of shit I've written down, stuff that is very important.

I flipped through it, looking for the page I had the thing written on. When I found it, I stabbed my finger at the ink and recited what was written. "Type Three - spectral beings, the knowledge of spirits, beings, souls, etc, trapped, possessed or enchanted within a weapon, object, clothing, etc, shall not be kept secret from one: Lee Jacobson. The punishment for breaking said rule is cake withdrawal." I leveled my gaze at Celly, eyeballing the princess of the day as she heaved a sigh. Her horn glowed a bright golden color and then I heard a pop sound, and floating in front of me was one of her cakes. "Gimme!" I said, snatching said cake and devouring it in front of her slowly.

Celestia only sighed. "Anyway, both Luna and I both knew of her existence ever since the blade was discovered centuries ago." Celestia looked at Magma, making me raised an eyebrow. "She is... was one of Faust's original Elements of Harmony."

That made me cough, holy shit! After managing not to choke to death on the cake I devoured, I asked, "Wait wait wait, she was an Element of Harmony?" I pointed right at Magma, and she didn't even seem perturbed, only stone faced like always...

I wonder if she's related to Maud somehow?

"Yes she was, Lee," Luna started, looking at the mare herself. "She represented the Element of Laughter."

I found my eyes locked with Magma, the mare doing the same. This pegasus was the same element as Pinkie Pie!? Oh... ohoho... oh lordy, the Irony of this is astoundingly large. But she was with Faust? The second I heard about Faust being a legit thing in this world, I had to learn a little more about her. Turns out she had the Elements of Harmony with her, but I didn't know they were actual ponies, I thought she used the like Celly and Luna did. In crystal form or whatever.

But if Magma was an element, then... who were the other five?

"So Magma was Laughter?" I chuckled, the mare nodding to what I said. "Oh the irony... okay, I can roll with that information, but why is she..." I waved my fingers about, getting some looks from my guards. "What's the word?"

"Out?" Sharp Sight threw out hopefully with a smile.

"Mmm, nope." I said, making her pout cutely. Oh gawd don't do that.

"Escaped?" Breaking Dawn wondered.

"Uh uh." I shook my head, making her snort.

"Manifested?" Major Black Heart asked.

I snapped my fingers, "Something like that," I shrugged.

"I think the word you are looking for is, why has Magma appeared now?" Celestia asked, again I shrugged. Celestia just gestured to Magma. "Magma is... centuries old, Lee... older then me and Luna even, she is a warrior that knows no equal, and has been forever faithful to Equestria since Faust's reign." Finally, Celly's eyes locked on my own, and for a brief moment I felt a bit scared. "She has appeared, to fight alongside you much like she has done for Luna and I."

I found my head tilting at an angle, and it kept going until my head was almost sideways. No seriously, if it kept going I'd probably snap my neck. "So... Magma is..."

"I am here to be your guardian, young Lee." Magma told me, her voice still as hot as ever... I mean it, I was sweating just listening to her, Jesus fucking Christ! "My blade is yours to command." She bowed her head, the heat in the room cooling down considerably.

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Rainbow's Perspective

I stared at the pony next to the crystal tower, she was... whoa. She had a pure white coat, almost as white as Princess Celestia's and just as shiny, her eyes... her eyes were crazy, both of them were colored like both of our manes, rainbow hues. It was, strange but... it fit somehow. And her mane was almost a mock of mine, but hers was longer, and the colors were more prominent then my own.

The mare was beautiful... very.

"Rainbow Dash?" She asked, melodic tones shocking me from my stare.

"Uh... who are you?" I asked, the sight of her drew me in somehow, making me step closer. Who was she?

The mare smiled, then I heard "~I am Faith~" She said, her voice sounding much clearer then before.

"Wait..." I stopped moving, my eyes locking on hers. "You're... you'e the voice i my head?"

She nodded. "Yes, I apologize if you expected something... else." The mare smiled once more, beckoning me closer. I decided why not? If she tried anything, I could always punch her teeth in.

Moving closer, I asked, "Okay, if you're the voice in my head... then what's your real name?" My eyes narrowed at her, and she seemed amused. "Cause I doubt your name is actually Faith."

Another smile. "You are right, my name is not Faith... is it... Prism." Craning her head towards the tower, she asked. "Do you know what this place is?"

I gave the area another look around, nothing came to mind. "Uh, no... my history lessons are a bit lacking." I deadpanned, turning to face her as she sat down, I joined her and found both of us to be of similar height, but she was a bit taller then me by a few inches.

"This place, is not know by many save for the Princesses, the Queen, and a few others who have been trusted with this place's location." She told me sagely, "This cave, this tower, everything you see here." Rainbow eyes locked on magenta ones, and she said, "it is the birthplace of the Elements of Harmony."

"..." My eyes widened, mouth falling open. "Wait... that can't be, the Tree of Harmony..."

"Is where they were kept safe," She told me, I could only sit and listen as she started her tale. "Eons ago, before Queen Faust's rule, there was a period of darkness that engulfed this world..." Her voice sounded distant as she recalled the memories, a few crystals next to us sprouted up, and I saw flashes of images, some that showed a white earth pony foal with a small body. "This poor soul was born an Earth Pony, a gaunt little thing with barely any strange in her body. Sickly, really."

Faust? I wondered, who was that?

Turned her attention to a crystal, she continued. "Nopony thought she was going to survive for very long, given her poor health and weak body, but somehow, through force of will she lived. years later," Another crystal popped up, one showing the same filly, only grown up. "She grew sick and tired of her life within her village, and had left on a journey, for what no pony knew." The crystal switched to show the filly trotting down a dark road, the filly covered in dirt and grime. "As it turns out, the filly had a vision when she was younger, six objects of great power that called to her."

"What did she do?" I wondered.

"She sough them out, of course." Prism said, looking down at the filly in the crystal. "She wanted to change Equestria, and she would do anything, even if it meant traversing across a dangerous land to get them." Another image popped up, showing the filly grown up a bit more, but still rather sickly looking, however... she wasn't alone. "Along the way, she encountered another Earth pony, a stallion whom she befriended and joined her journey, seeking an honest life for himself." More crystals grew, and I wondered if she was an Alicorn with a hidden horn or something. "But, the longer her journey took her, the more comrades she encountered... five others joined her."

When I saw the image, I saw the filly had grown even more, and her traveling buddies all looked different. Two of them were unicorns, one was darkened brown color and had a messy mane, the second unicorn was blue and was wearing an eyepatch. The other two were earth ponies, and the others pegasi. One of the pegasi... looked strangely familar.

"Hey... is that..." I whispered, looking at the pegasi in the picture in the image.

"That pony was an odd one, the only one in all of Equestria with a pure white body and a rainbow colored mane, and eyes." She giggled.

I looked at Prism... "That's you isn't it..."

She nodded. "Yes... it is me." Her smile had waned now, and looked more... sad, then it was before. "And those ponies are my friends... were... my friends... anyway." A sigh. "To cut the story short... the Elements were found within this cave, and by found... I mean they were grown," Looking around at the crystals, Prism held out her hoof to one of the and touched it, a faint sound could be heard, like humming. "That filly, and her friends came to this place, finding it deep within their hearts they represented something Equestria would need..."

"And what is that?"

She looked at me, her smile returning. "Friendship." Another humming noise. "They found friendship within their hearts, and each one of them used a special part of themselves to create six powerful objects..." She looked down at her chest, her hoof reaching up and rubbing the place where a small tuft of fur stuck out. "The Elements of Harmony."

My mind felt... overwhelmed by all of this. "You're one of the original Elements... aren't you?" I asked her, seeing her nod, I cursed Lee and Twilight... they were making me smart.

"I was your element," She looked up at me. "Loyalty, through thick and thin, all of the hardships my friends endured, I stuck by their sides through it all." her eyes seemed downcast, and misty. "It was hard to find friendship and loyalty in Old Equestria... if was everypony for themselves." Sitting up straight and wiping her eyes, she cleared her throat. "But, that's in the past... and this is now." Looking towards the tower, she asked, "Do you truly wish to help your coltfriend, Lee?"

I stood up, nodding my head. "Of course I am, otherwise I wouldn't have fallen down a fucking hole to begin with." I frowned, narrowing one eye at her.

Another smile. "Well then... I hope you're ready." Her hoof touched the crystal tower, and everything went white.

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Lee's Perspective - Two Hours Later

"BALLS!" I yelled, standing outside in the city, my lips puckered, my butt cheeks clenched tightly enough to crack a walnut, and my arms limp like soggy ass noodles. Several ponies looked at me, including Celestia who was walking by my side, Magma couldn't give a bigger shit it seemed as she kept walking with her eyes forward. My guards were likewise the same, Sharp sight flying overhead and the others off to one side.

"Problems Lee?" Celly asked me, raising an eyebrow.

"Tired... very tried." I admitted, the thought of this upcoming battle wearing me out.

"MONKEY!" I heard.

I replied in the way a gentleman always replies. "GODDAMN IT!" I screamed, whipping around and facing the assnugget who I should bake into a cupcake. Standing behind me, with more ponies then before, was Firespin. "Seriously? New Insult I command it!"

"Screw you monkey boy!" He yelled, flying in my face and apparently the sight of a giant white Alicorn, four bat pony guards and a smoldering pegasus were off his radar at the moment. "I've got backup this time!" He laughed, turning around to get his boys to attack me, only they were all frozen. "Let's beat down this fool!"

"..."

Firespin just narrowed his eyes at them. "What are you waiting for!? Your mama to tell you what to do?!"

"B-b-boss! Its th-"

"Th-th-th-th-th what you idiot!"

"Ahem." A dainty voice to my right cleared.

Northern Horizon Hay bales, 35 bits.

Sweet Apple Acres Apple pie, 12 bits.

Pinkie Pie's Cupcakes, 4 bits.

Firespin's reaction to Celestia... priceless.

"Pr-pri-pri-" He couldn't even finish, I'm pretty sure he was about so shit himself.

That... might explain the smell I'm smelling right now.

Celestia narrowed her eyes. "I remember you, Firespin, son of Wind Rider."

I almost coughed on my spit again. He's the son ofthat asshole?! I looked at Firespin and narrowed my own eyes at him, you have to be kidding me.

"Pri-Pri-Princess Celestia!?" He choked, he was sweating quite a bit.

"I heard from my friend Lee here... you attacked my niece." She snorted, steam leaving her nostrils.

Uh oh, she mad.

"Uh, well... you see, um..." Firespin laughed nervously, looking to both sides.

Nigga trying ta escape?!

"Well?" Celestia stepped closer, making him flap his wings a bit to retreat. My guards had landed now and were advancing from behind on all sides, and Magma was standing to one side, blocking any escape route. I joined in on the fun, effectively boxing him in. His friends had did the smart thing and ran away, leaving behind a smoke trail.

Firespin gulped, beads of seat trailing down his head as his eyes darted all around. "Screw you all!" He screamed, bolting up.

Fuck.

Firepin shot off into the sky faster then I thought he could and, to the audacity of most of us, shot off at speeds close to Rainbow Dash and disappeared... what the ever living fuck? I decided to make my thoughts known. "What the fuck?!" I yelled, "fucking coward!" I bellowed as his orange blur disappeared off into the horizon. I was about to scream some more profanities, but Celestia put a hoof on my shoulder.

"Let him go."

"Are you cereal right now?" I asked her, turning to face the princess. She couldn't be serious?!

She nodded, much to my disdain. "I believe you and Cadence when you both told me what happened, and I'm sure the bystanders can couch for you both. As of now, he is a criminal, and will be hunted down so do not worry yourself."

I could only sigh, shoulders slumping. "I should have punched him in the nutsack." I muttered, crossing my arms. I should have done something, but nope...

"Don't sweat it!" Sharp Sight said, her light form landing on my back as she looped her arms around my neck in a sort of hug, something Rainbow Dash did. "We'll find that prick! No biggie!"

The others nodded their heads, Breaking Dawn stepped forward with a stony expression. "if he tires anything against you or you marefriend, we'll stop him."

Major Black Heart and Lieutenant Gentle Breeze saluted. "We'll guard you."

I smiled and returned their salute. "Right on guys."

*CRACK BOOM*

That was a sound I knew well. I turned around at the sound, looking into the sky above, I could barely make out the mountains from here, but I could see the tale tale sign of Rainbow's Sonic Rainboom. The explosion was massive and took over the whole sky, what little clouds that remained in the skies were blown away by the blast as the rainboom took over. I could make out a very small speck heading towards the city, and I watched as it soared overhead with a thunderous boom and circled the castle twice before coming overhead once again and stopping, I was about to greet said sky colored blob when I inspected her a bit more closely, my eyes widened as she landed in front of us.

Rainbow smiled at me, whipping her mane back. "Sup Lee?"

I stared... "Wat?"

Could this day get any weirder?

Suddenly, my question was answered.

"Muahahahahaha!" Dark shadowy laughter sounded.

I facepalmed. "Taint nuggets."

The King of Darkness: Round One

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"Muahaha?" I groaned, I feel like I'm doing this too much. "Seriously? You didn't even spare on the over-pronunciation of mua? You went all out didn't you?" I asked the evil voice as I turned around and looked into the sky. I felt Rainbow stand beside me with Celestia on my right. "Sombra?" I asked as my guards looked around and Magma was standing stock still.

Another evil laugh, followed by a hiss. "You must be Lee~" He said, making me bite my cheek and suck on it. "The Princesses boy toy~" He taunted.

I held up a finger and tut tutted. "No no no, I am everyone's boy toy~" I corrected, I mean, come on... I'm too sexy for just one pony. Of course, Dash just gave me a look that said she was going to have some choice words with me later, I responded with a wink. "Anyways, whaddya want Somby poo?"

I heard a snicker from behind me as Sombra replied, "I've come here to tell you," I suddenly felt a presence next to my ear, and I shivered. "You are going to die very soon~"

...

"That's all?" I asked as the presence disappeared. "Dude, stop being so damn cliche, I mean come on, be original or something, for Christ's sake." I told him, shaking my head. I mean, seriously, Sombra was reeking of the cliche vibe. "That's what all you bad guys say."

"Well I-"

I cut him off, apparently much to the shock of several bystanders, "And furthermore, why are you hissing? What are you? A snake?" I asked him, I don't remember much hissing. "I mean I get you're a dark unicorn who pulled an Anakin Skywalker and all that, but can you not steal copyrighted content?"

"I-"

"Are you going to start breathing like Darth Vader next?"

"ARE YOU QUITE DONE YET?!"

"... yes." I nodded, smiling. I love being an asshole. All around me I saw a few crystal ponies looking at me like I was crazy, I was, no doubt about it. I mean, I am pissing off a dark unicorn that can summon the dead, I was way outta my gourd doing that.

Rainbow Dash liked it though, she was snickering. "Oh man."

I heard a growl from Sombra. "Make ya angry yet?" I asked the unicorn as the air around me grew cold. Princess Celestia stood next to me protectively, wings flared outwards in a show of dominance as her horn started to glow. I decided to join in and pulled out my sword, a sweet sounding shing could be heard as I drew the blackened blade. "Oh Somby poo~"

"You will rue the day you set foot onto this world young human," Sombra growled as the ground began to shake, making a few ponies standing around, fall onto their bums. Suddenly the ground in front of us cracked open, and I cursed.

Uh oh.

Rainbow Dash, Celestia, along with my guards and I watched as the ground split open, I stumbled back and we had to split up so we didn't topple into each other. The tremors stopped as soon as they started, a minute passed, then another... then I saw a clawed hand snake its way out of the crevice, followed by a hiss.

Great, what now? I wondered, first those zombies on the train, now whatever this thing was? I watched as the beast crawled out of the hole, looking at me with beady black eyes, the mouth opened like that thing on Halo and it was just butt ugly. "Holee shit." I cursed as I backed away, every one of the ponies in the street had run for it, smart ones they are. "Guys, we might be in a spot o trouble."

Celestia flared her magic as my bat pony guards took on defensive positions, sending a bolt of something flying towards the mutant creature that I swore I saw somewhere before. The bolt hit the thing, sending it flying back down the hole with a screech... but... like all good stories...

It brought friends.

"Bugger me!" I yelled as more of those things popped up out of the hole, both Dash and Celestia took flight, Magma's body quite literally exploding beside me as my bat pony guards spread out. Well, except for Dawn, she just took out her hammer and charged into the growing horde of muties with a battlecry. "Oh lordy." I growled as my hand clenched aroudn my blade's handle. I wasn't exactly expecting a fight, but I should have expected something like this.

For once my logic has failed me.

I shook my head, getting into a fighting position as one of those things spotted me, I only smirked. "Come on sucka!" I growled, baring my teeth as I ran at it. The thing growled, lunging at me with a roar of challenge. It swung its claws at me and I blocked them with my sword, my reflexes were decent enough, I mean, I am a black belt after all. But this thing was hella strong, and managed to push me away with only one arm. "Shit!"

In the air I saw Rainbow looping around, her armor shining brightly... oh yeah, I may have forgotten to mention that little tidbit. When Rainbow landed in front of us last chapt - I mean... a few minutes ago, she was wearing armor... now, I have no idea where she got it, or what it was made of but it was shiny as fuck. It was a striking bright silver color that covered her whole body, and it was a light looking armor with holes for her wings to stick out, and some small plates that went across her wing joints.

It was pretty awesome looking.

I watched as she flew through the sky, zooming faster than I've ever seen her move and striking at those muties with blows, swiping and jabbing like a pro. I knew she had trained in some kind of pegasi fighting style, but I didn't know what it was, I needed to ask at some point.

Celestia meanwhile, was dealing with a horde of those things, drawing them away from the crowd of ponies who had hidden inside of the shops. She burned them with her fire, setting them ablaze with a flick of her horn. It was terrifying.

Oh wait... wasn't I fighting too?

"Well shit!" I cursed as the mutant slashed at me, my arms moved of their own accord, and I found my sword coming back around swiftly to block the mutant's claw as it swiped at my side. Claw met blade in a clang noise, and getting an idea, I gripped my sword and in one swift movement, yanked the sword up and in a show of crimson... cut off the thing's hand/claw thing. Black/crimson blood shot out of the thing's wrist, staining my pants as it gave off a screech. I didn't stop there, I swung the blade around again for another hit, his time cutting off its head.

My blade went through the tough looking skin with ease, leaving behind a burn and a smoky trail as its head fell off, falling to the ground. I held my blade up, gripping it with both hands as I eyed the next one.

"Batter up!"

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Rainbow's Perspective

This armor is so light! I cackled as I flew to the ground, landing on my front hooves and spinning. I kicked out my hind legs in both directions, I landed a blow on one of those creatures, my hind hoof slamming into its gut and sending it stumbling back, my other hoof hit one of the smaller ones in the head, snapping it as I leveled out and took flight again.

I hovered in the air, looking down at the street. Those things were coming out of the hole, whenever one was taken down, another would pop up and take its place! Celestia had her hooves full with dozens of those things, but she was handling herself pretty well, setting the majority of them on fire and turning some to stone. Those bat ponies I saw were also taking care of the ones near Lee, who were they?

Wait... where was that other pegasus I saw before?

A sudden explosion from an alleyway caught my attention, and I felt an intense heat wave as something shot up into the sky and hovered near me. The fires I saw down below were raging, quickly eating away at the mutants who screamed and shrieked in terror as the flesh from their bodies was burned away, shit I saw it melting away!

I looked over at the pegasus, seeing fire... with wings. "What the heck?!" I yelled as flames dripped off of the pony like water, falling onto the mutants and setting them ablaze.

She turned to face me, eyes blazing. "The mutants are moving further into the city... we need to stop them." She told me, her voice blazing with such intensity I felt myself starting to sweat.

I blinked. "Uh, right." I told her, nodding as she fell to the ground hooves first, creating a small explosion and sending mutants flying. Damn you Sombra! Ponies were going to be seriously hurt... maybe even killed! I looked around on the ground for Lee, eventually spotting him slashing and hacking away at the mutants with a furious expression on his face, his yells and cries I could hear from up here, along with his curses. This fight was going to be a tough one, we needed to finish this!

I was having fun, but still, lives were at stake here!

Pulling my wings close I started descending to the ground, and seconds before hitting I flared my wings out and landed, on a mutant cracking its neck and making it fall to the ground. I leapt off of the thing, soaring through the air for a short time before landing next to Lee. He really needed armor or something! His clothes were getting ripped!

He spun around, cutting into one of the mutants as his eyes found my own. "Having fun~?" He asked me, thrusting his sword forward and stabbing another mutant.

I ducked a swipe from one of the thing's coming at me, and spun kicked it in the legs. "Heck yeah!" I yelled as I threw an uppercut at the mutant, sending it stumbling back with a snarl. I quickly followed up with a series of jabs to its chest and head, it retaliated with several swipes, and tried to bite me. I managed to fend it off with a good swift punch to the face, cracking something. "You?"

Lee swung his sword in a downward arc, slashing off the arm of one mutant, he followed up with a stab, burying the sword up to the hilt. Once the monster snapped its jaws at him, he brought up his sneaker, and kicked the beast away, causing it to stumble back as blood gushed from its open wounds. "Ain't nothing better!"

As I kicked at a smaller mutant, I asked, "how did your training go?"

"Pretty good, considering I was fighting against Luna!" Lee replied, throwing a kick and slash as an explosion of fire happened nearby. Sending muties flying. Who was that pegasus?! And how was she doing that?

I wonder... I shook my head, time for questions is over! "We gotta stop these things before they head into the city!"

"How?!" Lee asked me.

I didn't have an answer to that. How could we stop these things?! They just kept coming! Another explosion shook me from my thoughts, making me look over at a small shop that was on fire, mutants ran out screaming as they were on fire. I saw the pegasus from before standing amidst the flames, the fire surrounding her body like an intense aura. It was devastating to witness. The mutants all burned, flesh falling from their bodies as the pegasus threw fireballs...

What the fuck?

"Sombra!" Lee bellowed over the roars. "Stop this fucking shit and come out!" He slashed at an infected with his sword, growling as the mutants started to split up. "Shit! They're running!"

"We have to stop them!" Celestia cried as she flapped her wings and took flight. I also took flight, flying above Lee as he flicked his blade, sending blood droplets flying onto the ground.

Lee turned to the bat ponies, "Can you guys handle this?!" He asked them.

The biggest bat pony looked, smashing her hammer into one of the mutants with a gleeful expression on her face. "Breeze! Sharp Sight! Go with Lee and cover him! Me and the Major have got this in the bag!" She cried, smashing her hammer into another.

The Major, who I guess was her, nodded her head towards us. "Go stop those things! We'll handle things here with Magma!"

With a nod, Lee turned around and flashed me a wink and we both started down the road. Two of the bat guards trailing behind us as we pursued the mutants. The bat ponies above us were on either side, and one of them held a long pole in her hooves. She looked down the pole, and she pulled something on it before the end of it exploded and one of the mutants ahead of us fell with a screech. I looked shocked, what was that?!

"She's got a gun!" Lee told me as we ran, jumping over a table. "Don't ask how, I'm not sure sure myself!"

I nodded. I wasn't really going to ask anyway. Maybe later, but not now. Instead I focused on chasing down one of those mutants, and it just turned left! "Damn it!" I turned left, following it and splitting off from Lee.

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Lee's Perspective

"Rainbow split off down the alley!" Sharp Sight told me as we chased after some of the mutants, and to my shock I saw another one run off. "Damn it!"

"Go after it!" I told her, vaulting over a small wall. "Breeze and I got this!" She nodded hesitantly and flew off after the other mutant. Breeze glided down next to me, her blade devices were hooked onto her hooves and I could see the blades glinting from the sun. She looked up at me, red eyes locked on my own. "We got this!" I told her with a smile, she returned it with a nod.

We chased the mutant across the street, ponies of all types ran into their homes, a few of them dodging swipes of the beast as we trailed it to the castle... Wait, why was it headed there? I could see the Crystal Heart glowing from here, were they after the heart? I knew Sombra was after the heart before, to... what was he wanting to do with it? I couldn't remember, but it wasn't good.

Shit! I cursed as I pushed my legs to go faster. "I think they're after the heart!" I told Breeze, getting a shocked look from her. "Can you stop it! I can't run fast enough!" That thing was so damned stupid looking, how was it moving so fast?! Shit, I wasn't going to catch the thing at his rate! Breeze sped up ahead of me, flapping her wings and catching up to the thing. Before I knew it, Breeze had gotten into a fight with the thing, I slowed down, stopping to catch my breath. Shit, this is insane! We managed to catch these, and I have no doubt Sharp Sight and Dash got theirs done... now what?

"Now you die~" Sombra's voice whispered to me.

I gasped, my blade flying up in a block just as something swiped at me from the side. I was sent skidding across the ground with a grunt.

"You got lucky." Sombra told me, his shadowy body appearing next to me. I held my blade up, facing him.

"Stop this shit, or I will-"

"Stop me? Please, I've heard it many time before."

"...actually I was going to say Skullfuck you senseless, but that works to." I smirked, eyeing the shadow in front of me, green eyes locked on my own. Nasty fuck.

"I can hear your thoughts, you know."

Stupid fat motherfucking goat turd sucking shit stain ass burger poopypants nipple clampin-

A loud roar cut me off, blowing my hair back. "CEASE YOUR INFERNAL THOUGHT PROCESS!"

"Hehehehe, probably shouldn't have told me that~" I chuckled, waving my blade around. "Haven't you heard? I'm the guy in that prophecy thing, that means I'm going to kick your ass. So how about your surrender now?"

"Hahahahaha, that's what you think little human." He cackled before tendrils of shadow snaked their way towards me.

This'll be fun. I told myself as the tendrils attacked me. One of them came from the right, and moving to the right I slashed at it, dispelling it as another came at me from the left, shit he's moving faster than I thought he would. I ducked the attack, thrusting my blade upwards and stabbing into the shadow tendril, drawing a roar of anger from Sombra. Hehehe.

My victory was short lived however by a massive shadow ball hitting me in the stomach. I couldn't stifle the yelp as I was thrown back, when did this turn into Pokemon?! I flew back pretty far, hitting a table outside of a food place and rolling onto the ground. I managed to recover, somewhat. My back hurt something fierce, and my stomach felt like it was on fire...

Oh wait... it was.

"AHHHHHHHHHH MY GUT'S ON FIRE!" I screamed, rolling on the ground and flailing. Fucking fuck it burned! And my shirt! That bitch! "I'ma stab you!" I yelled, bolting up onto my feet and charging at the shadow blob, sword held above my shoulder and blade pointed forward. Once I got close enough, I thrusted my sword forward, I moved really fast, faster then he probably thought I could move. My blade suddenly burst into flames as it connected with him, and he screamed.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOR!"

Then boom, I was sent flying back again as a blast of dark magic hit me head on. I flew through the air, and hit something that smashed before hitting something else. My vision went white and I felt weightless, then everything stopped as I hit a wall, my head smacking into it like pumpkin and leaving a nice indent no doubt.

"THIS ISN'T OVER!" Sombra bellowed before all went silent.

I just let my head hit the wall, gargling what tasted like blood in my mouth. Tasty. I murmured as a minty green figure came into view.

"Lee?!" I heard.

"Who dat?" I asked, spitting out blood, oooooh that was a big glob of blood.

"It's me Lyra!" I heard, oh joy! "Bonnie! Go get help!"

"Right!" The sounds of hooves leaving and a door opening sounded, than Lyra came over to me.

I felt her hooves on my shoulder, and she snaked her arm under my neck and helped me up. "Are you alright?" She asked, her horn glowing to give her light.

I nodded weakly. "Just peachy..." I muttered, I heard growling coming from somewhere.

"Crap, one of those things is in here!" Lyra told me, pushing me back. "Stay back you, thing!" She yelled.

"Lyra... run..." I told her before everything went black.

Fuck...

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Rainbow's Perspective

"We got the last one!" I heard one of Lee's bat pony guards yell out. "The city's clear from what we can tell," One of the bat ponies flew up to me, the one with the firearm... the one that was with Lee.

"Wait, where's Lee?" I asked her, I cast my eyes down to the city below. I didn't see him anywhere! "Lee!" I yelled, he wasn't in the streets.

"Shit!" The bat pony cursed, looking down as well. "He was with Breeze a while ago!"

"Heeeeeeeeeeeeelp! Somepony Help!" I heard somepony scream, was that Lyra?

A massive earth shattering explosion from nearby caught my attention, looking down into the street where I heard the scream I saw an entire block go up in flames and send debris flying everywhere Holy shit!. I heard the screeches of those things and cursed, some of them must still be alive! I dashed off towards the smoke, the batpony following close behind me. I saw ponies running from the scene, and a few braver ones headed towards the smoke, what happened?!

Another explosion once I came into sight of the shop, the entire front end of the store exploded outward, sending glass shards and crystal pieces flying along with a few mutants. Inside I saw a huge golden fire, wait... gold? The inside of the shop was encased in a golden aura, and the ground shook as the mutants practically cowered from whoever was doing it. Inside I saw a pony, a unicorn with glowing white eyes, mane and tail whipping around from the intense magical power being thrown around.

Jeez! Even if I didn't know much about magic, even I could tell this was powerful! It felt on par with Twilight just about, I could feel the magic coursing through my body as several pulses of energy blasted out of the shop's ruins with the force of a griffon artillery cannon, parts of the shop caught fire and disintegrated into ash, and the mutants, they were blasted into nothing, and the ones who weren't hit directly were sent flying away, smashing into buildings and crushed by the pure and raw magical pressure.

Thankfully the magical attack ended, maybe they knew where Lyra and Lee were! Turning towards the shop, I could make out a mint green unicorn... "Lyra!" That was her magical pressure?! I flapped my wings and flew into the shop, being mindful of the scorching hot crystal she had somehow melted, I thought that stuff was... I don't know, magic proof! She fucking blasted the city block apart!

Lyra was standing in the middle or the room, she was covered in blood and she held up her front leg, a closer look showed it was hurt bad, her mane and tail was covered in debris and pieces of crystal had formed around her in spikes, jutting forward in a form of protective barrier laced with golden fire. The poor mare's eyes were bloodshot, and I saw tears running down her cheeks.

I slowly approached her, reaching out and touching her shoulder. "Lyra," I whispered as I heard ponies behind me, I heard the leathery flap of the bat ponies as they landed, and started towards me. "What happened?"

Lyra was breathing heavily, her eyes were blinking erratically. "Lee," she started, her voice a tiny whimper. "He's hurt, bad." She told me as more tears started to fall from her eyes, my own eyes went wide. "Help... him." Was the last thing she said before she fell forward, I managed to catch her before she hit the floor, she felt hot to the touch and feverish.

Behind her, surrounded by more of those golden flames I saw Lee, he was leaned up against the wall, his eyes closed and sword by his side. Wounds covered him and he looked like he had been beaten severely. "Lee!" I cried as one of the bat ponies came over and took Lyra from me. I dashed over to my human, checking him head to toe, I became aware I was stepping in the gold fire, but it didn't harm me. "Lee, Lee, come on talk to me." I begged, putting a hoof on the side of his face.

A tiny moan of pain, followed by blinking eyes and I saw those beautiful bright blue eyes of his looking at my own. "Ello D-Dashie." He cracked a smile.

I couldn't help it, it might have hurt a little for him but, I kissed him. He weakly returned it and it lasted for a few seconds before I pulled away. "Lee, what happened?" I asked him, he looked like shit.

But he's my shit.

"Fought Sombra head on," He told me, making me fume. Sombra did this!? That... ugh! "Bad idea on my part, but..." He held up a fist, arm shaking. "I managed to get plenty of hits in, stabbed him right in the chest." He chuckled as blood flowed from his mouth, "he fucked me up pretty good though, shit." He looked like he just realized something, his eyes went wide and he looked around the shop, "Where's Lyra? Is she-"

One of the bat ponies cut him off, "she is alright my liege, injured and exhausted her magic, but well."

My human sighed in relief as his eyes landed on Lyra's form, then he looked around the shop, one eyebrow rising as he saw the destruction. He looked shocked, and slightly amused. "Did... Lyra..."

I nodded my head, "yeah, she..." I looked back towards the unicorn, I still couldn't believe she had such raw power within her, I felt Twilight at her highest before, and Lyra...

I think she may be at her level...

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Lee's Perspective
One hour later

Ow, ow, ow, ow. I mentally complained as I limped out of the shop, I'm surprised I can still stand after I was sent flying. I was half expecting to be sent back to the hospital and put in a bed, but... eh, the most I got was a sprain, several dozen cuts, and from what I was told from the doctors and Twilight, I had Dark Magic poisoning and had to get it purged. Oh I was in the hospital, but not confined to a bed, thank god.

I was too sexy for beds.

I was sitting in one of the rooms, Rainbow on my right with a wing wrapped around my back protectively. She was in full pegasus protective mode, like an angry mama bird or something. My sword was sitting on the bed beside me, and I was glad I had it, the thing really helped out in that battle. Granted I suck at fighting, I was still able to kick some major ass.

But my thoughts right now, were on Lyra Heartstrings. I wondered what had happened to her, I didn't know she was so fucking strong in the magic department, and what I saw... that was way out of her league, it looked like Celestia walked into the shop and exploded or something!

"Hey," I heard Twilight's oh so innocent and adorable nerdy voice greet us as she came into the room.

I gave her a nod, then I asked, "How is Lyra doing?"

She gave me a deep sigh, rubbing the bridge of her nose with a hoof. "She's stable for now, but..."

Uh oh, there's a but, I don't like BUTS! "What, what is it?" I questioned, damn it I told her to run, why did she stay!?

"She's exhausted all of her magic with, whatever it was she did," She sat down, I knew the look of frustration when I saw one. She was seriously confused and frustrate right now. "Are you certain she was using magic, and it wasn't one of those things?" She asked Rainbow Dash.

"I told you before Twi, it was her!" My girlfriend said, a defensive tone to her voice. "She was... I don't know, full on magic mode or something, she blasted half of the block away!"

I believed it, as hard as it might be to believe something so cute and tiny could have such power.

However, Twilight shook her head. "I scanned the area, and it was magic, but... it was beyond anything I've ever seen!" She threw her hooves into the air, groaning. "I don't understand how she could do such a thing!"

Suddenly, a harmonious voice chimed in. "I do, Twilight."

Looking towards the door I saw Celly standing there, Luna by her side. "Princess?" I asked, tilting my head and raising an eyebrow. I demand an-sores!

Celestia nodded towards me, then said, "Lyra Heartstrings, I remember her fondly back during the school." She had the look of fond remembrance on her face, no doubt thinking of a more simpler time. "She was a pony with superb magical talent, I dare say, she was almost near Twilight's level."

"What Type was she?" Twilght asked her, a curious tone to her voice.

Wait...

Types? Like... Pokemon?

"If I remember correctly, she was a Type Three unicorn." Princess Celestia replied, "only three lower then you Twilight."

"Wait wait wait... hold up," I waved my hands in front of me, getting everyone's attention. "Types? WTF bro?"

"Oh that's right, nopony has told you, Lee?" Celly asked me, when I shook my head, she hummed. "Unicorns come in several different Types, zero being the lowest with six being the highest on the Alicornia Scale of Magical Power," I nodded, following so far. "Twilight herself is a level six, which is two levels higher then what she used to be."

"Hmm, let me guess..." I thought back to every game I've ever played. "If I'm guessing right, then Type Five's are like super rare?" Celestia nodded her head. "So Twilight is a level six, that's basically Alicorn status right? So... which is Lyra?"

Celestia, to my shock actually looked nervous. "Lyra, when I first met the mare, as a young filly she displayed a talent for extraordinary manipulation control and focus, she was... very good at multitasking her spells, and her control far out rivaled Twilight's"

Whoa, Lyra's got more control then Twilight? I looked over at my bookworm friend, who looked shocked at what her former mentor was telling her. I guess anybody would be shocked when your teacher tells you that one of your classmates has abilities that make yours suck in comparison. I chuckled inwardly.

"Lyra was a Type four, the same Type as Twilight." Celestia continued. "While uncommon, it wasn't unheard of for more then a few Type four's to appear..."

Wait... "You said was... that's past tense! What happened?"

I regretted asking when a sad frown crossed my friend's face, "an incident at the graduation ceremony."

I saw Twilight's face change from interest to horror, I forgot she went to the same school... she must have seen whatever happened. "I'm... probably going to regret asking this, but... this incident..."

Celestia looked away, and I could tell the very memory of whatever happened was making her sad. Twilight stepped in as Luna hugged her sister. "The incident, not a lot of ponies talk about it..." Twilight's eyes looked towards the floor, "it... it was about eight years ago, all of the ponies were attending the ceremony, it was a wonderful day." She smiled, "everypony's dreams were coming true that day. But... but then everything changed."

Oh the suspense, I know this is horrible but why must she do this to me!?

"Wendigos attacked the school," Twilight said at last, I could see Celestia flinch out of the corner of my eye, and I felt for her. "None of us were ready for it, not even the guards could stop them... a lot of ponies were seriously hurt that day... and Lyra... she was one of the ones hurt."

I found this all oh so interesting, but I was sick of the build up. "What did the Wendigos do though, how does this tie into her magic Type?"

"The Wendigos zapped her with some sort of dark magic spell," Twilight recalled, rubbing her head. "It infused with her horn, and affected her mana and her body... it broke her Lee." She whispered, as I slowly tried putting the pieces together.

Zapped with dark magic, hit her horn and fucked up her mana and her body... wait... did... did it affect her Type somehow? I turned towards the alicorn being comforted by her sister. "Celestia... the spell... it screwed up her magic didn't it?" I got several nods from my friends, Rainbow was just sitting quietly beside me, slowly absorbing everything being said.

"She almost died that day..." Celestia told me, "it took a massive amount of my magic to keep her and the others alive... however, she never recovered."

Wait, she... she can still use magic though! "But, she can use magic, I've seen her levitate shit! You can't tell me she lost her magic."

Twilight nodded her head though, shutting me up. "Levitation is the most basic of spells... its the only one she was able to do, along with some minor light casting spells... other then that, she was powerless."

That doesn't make any sense! I've seen her do other spells! "What about just today! She fucking destroyed an entire city block for fucks sake, you can't tell me that was just a load of bullshit."

There was silence in the room for some time, and I was silently fuming. Lyra wasn't no fucking slouch! Whatever she did... she saved my life, and while I'm a bit pissed she ignored me, I can forgive her for it. But if what they're saying is true... then how did she use so much magic? My mind hurts... like, it is crying out in pain cause of this bullshit happening right now.

"I am not sure what happened... but when I checked Lyra..." Celestia turned towards me, her eyes having a sort of light to them. "She's... I don't know how to put it, but somehow she has her magic back..."

I sighed in relief, well shit, got me worried all for nothing. "Well... that's good right?" I asked her, Twilight turned towards her former mentor as well, wondering the same question as me I bet.

Celestia, however gave me a serious look. Uh oh, what did I do?

"I am not sure how this happened, Lee but... she is no longer a Type Four..." The alicorn started, so what... she's a Type Three then?

"Okay, stop with all of this suspense shit and just fucking tell me." I groaned, facepalming. This was getting old, really fast.

"Lee, Lyra has somehow become a Type Five... bordering on Type Six..."

My brows furrowed as Twilight gawked along with Luna, I looked down at the floor in thought. Twilight was a Type Four before becoming an alicorn... she was zapped into dust and turned into an alicorn thanks to Celly, she completely bypassed Type Five... so, Lyra... I looked up at the alicorns. "Lyra... she's almost at the level of an alicorn?" I said slowly, getting a nod from Celestia.

"Something like this... hasn't happened in a several millennium... Type Five unicorns... there are none that I know of, and if they do exist they are hiding somewhere, but as far as I know... Lyra is the only Type Five in all of Equestria." Celestia told us all.

...

I only had one thing to say about this...

"Awesome..."

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After that, little talk, I found myself standing outside of Lyra's room, looking in through one of the windows. She had been moved into an ICU after they found her tainted by some of Sombra's magic, she was being purged as I was thinking. She looked so weak, her color had dimmed, and she was hooked up to so many machines she looked like she was being turned into a fucking robot.

Sombra... you did this to my friend... I put my hand on the glass, staring at the injured form of Lyra. I'm going to hurt you very severely for this you ass hat.

"She'll be alright, Lee." I heard Rainbow speak up from beside me, patting my back with her wing. "She's tough, always has been."

A smile hit my face, and I nodded. "I know..." I sighed, thinking. "I never knew she was... fucked up like that," I said quietly, I took Rainbow's silence as a means to continue. "She was always so cheerful and loony, and she had to deal with this for the past eight years... she never told me, and it kinda hurts, Dash," I said, watching the slow rise of Lyra's body as she breathed through a fucking tube of all things. "I'm going to fuck up Sombra for this."

I felt Rainbow stand up on her hind legs, hugging me from the side. "She's my friend too, I want to kick his ass as much as you do." She said, leaning her head against my arm as she sighed through her nose.

I wrapped my arm around her as we stood in silence, just watching through the window at our friend. My sword was on my back, and I felt a tickle of something against the side of my head, my eyes darted to the right and I saw Rainbow's feather hanging from the hilt next to my head. The light seemed to reflect off of it, and it was moving ever so slightly, and it was pointing at Lyra's room. Why was it doing that?

A quiet gasp, then Rainbow poked me. "Lee, look."

Turning, I looked back into the room, and I saw Lyra's eyes opening slowly, golden irises looking around the room before looking our way, landing on me in particular. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she looked so tired. I turned towards the door, gripping the knob as Rainbow let me go and followed me. I opened the door and went inside as I heard someone trot up to me.

"Sir, you're not supposed to go in there!" I heard a nurse tell me, in a scolding voice.

I ain't a child!

"Try and stop me." I responded, heading into the room as the nurse galloped off, no doubt to tell one me. I went into the room, and was hit by several smells, and the sounds of equipment functioning. Lotta beeping noises, freaking hospitals I swear. I saw Lyra was watching me with a tired smile, Rainbow had jogged over to her before I could do anything.

"Hey Lyra," Rainbow greeted, carefully nuzzling Lyra on the cheek before pulling away.

Aww that was sweet... wait... what is this sorcery? I wondered, Rainbow and Lyra were friends, but I didn't think they were like, nuzzle buddies or something.

The mint green unicorn smiled softly, "I'm fine, just... tired." She said.

No kidding. I noted, looking at Lyra's condition. She was covered in bandages around her hooves and fetlocks, her mane was still a bit dirty, and her fur was singed in some places. But the weirdest thing was on her horn, it was a tad bit longer then I remember, and there were crystal growths on it. "Jeez, Lyra... you look like shit." I chuckled, getting a bigger smile from her.

"I've noticed, if I had known you were creeping, o-outside my room I would have gotten cleaned up." She grinned, before breaking out into a coughing fit.

Shit, I came over to her side. "Need anything?" I asked as Rainbow eyed her with concern.

Lyra shook her head. "Can you get me out of this bed?" She asked.

I cracked a smile, "and all this time I remember you asking me to get you into bed, that fight must have changed you." I chuckled as Lyra joined in, Rainbow soon after. The three of us shard a tiny laugh, but that was broken when the door opened up and in stepped Princess Celestia and one of the doctors.

"You're not supposed to be in here!" The doctor yelled, before being shushed by Celestia. Behind her I saw Cadence looking in with a smile, shrugging her shoulders.

"It is alright," Celestia said, gesturing for him to leave, he didn't look so happy but he did it anyway, leaving only me, Celestia and Lyra in the room. "How are you feeling, Lyra?"

Lyra coughed softly, struggling to sit up but my pushing her back down gently made her stay put. "I'm fine... just really tired, and my horn hurts." She said, shaking.

The princess nodded her head, smiling a gentle smile. Then she turned to me. "Lee, may I speak with you for a moment?"

I gave her a questioning look, but nodded. I turned back towards my girlfriend and Lyra. "I'll be back in a bit, you two girls catch up~" I told them as I turned about face, flashing both a wink as I strutted out of the room, hand on hip and hand held outward.

I had to look fabulous of course.

Now to see what good ol Celly wanted.

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Rainbow's Perspective

I watched as Lee walked out of the room in that weird way as the princess followed with a shake of her head. Me and Lyra only laughed at it, he was so silly sometimes, but I loved that about him. Turning back towards Lyra, I saw her eyes lingering on the door, and I saw something in her eyes that looked strangely familiar. "Lyra... are you okay?" I asked her.

She gulped, her breathing becoming heavy as her eyes misted over, oh jeez. "Rainbow..." She whimpered, turning to look at me. "I'm scared." She choked, tears flowing from her eyes as she started to cry.

I hopped onto the hospital bed, thankfully the bed was pretty big so I didn't fall off. I laid down next to her and wrapped a wing around her, "Hey hey hey, don't cry, what's going on, what's wrong?"

I don't think I've ever seen Lyra so scared, I could see it in her tear filled eyes. Something was scaring her, and I needed to know what. I wiped away the tears with the tip of my wing and held her close, Lyra was another exception to close hugs and stuff like that, like Lee, so I could be like that around her, heck, we're close friends.

I actually contemplated dating her once, never worked out.

"Lyra, come on talk to me, what's wrong?" I asked her, trying to coax something out of my friend. What had her so scared?

I saw her gulp, and felt her shudder against me, I tightened my hold against her. "I thought he was go-going to die, Rainbow." She told me.

She's talking about Lee... "He's okay, he's alive because of you, I can't thank you enough for keeping him safe." I whispered to her, nuzzling the top of her head softly.

"He told me to run... he told me to run..." She cried softly, burying her head against my chest. "I couldn't run! I didn't, I couldn't!"

"Lyra, its okay, don't worry abo-" what she said next... I couldn't have expected...

"I love him, Dash!" She sobbed, clutching onto me as my eyes went wide. "I love him so much."

...What?

Why?

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Rainbow's Perspective

I sat frozen on the bed next to my friend, who only trembled against me as I processed what she had just said.

"I love him, Dash!" She sobbed, clutching onto me as my eyes went wide. "I love him so much."

She... she loves him? I played it over and over again in my head as Lyra cried against me softly, her tears staining my coat. I never knew that Lyra had those kind of feelings for him, but then again I never gave it much thought. I was always too focused on the Wonderbolts, hanging out with Lee, or saving Equestria from some doomsday plot. Did Lee know about this?

Did other mares feel this way about my coltfriend?

I mean, I can see why so many like him. He's friendly, helpful, and he has something about him that just... it draws you in, I'm not sure what it is though. I think some of my friends liked him, I've seen Rarity give him a few looks every now and then back when we weren't dating, but now, she had gotten a bit distant from him. I've seen some mares give him looks, but one look at me and they looked away. You never mess with a pegasus and her stallion, it can be dangerous.

Even though a part of me wanted to reprimand her for what she was saying, I couldn't help but think of how she said it... I could hear how scared she was, she was terrified, and I bet it had to do with the fact that pegasi tend to be overprotective of their mates. She was scared of how I was going to react...

I was scared...

I forced back my instincts and asked, "Lyra..." I heard her breathing hitch, "why... why do you love him?" I had to know, when did she start loving him?

... how long has she loved him, was the bigger question.

She never moved her head up, but she did answer my question. "I... since... since he spent the night with me that one time." She said, shivering fiercely. "You know I can't use my magic all that good... right?" I nodded my head, "I've been... been having nightmares ever since I graduated, I'm... I'm trapped in the dark and I try to use my magic to light up the dark but I can't! I always wake up terrified, and I've been scared of the dark ever since..." I heard her swallow, coughing before she continued. "Lee, he spent the night with me when I invited him over to watch a movie, before you two had started dating... I had fallen asleep watching a movie and... I had a really bad nightmare, when I woke up the house was covered in darkness..." she held onto me, "I was scared, Rainbow..."

I could understand that, I wasn't scared of the dark however, but, I knew Lyra was terrified of it. It felt so odd seeing Lyra like this, she was my friend, goofy and nuts, seeing her so scared... I didn't like it, I wanted to comfort her, tell her everything was okay, that I wasn't mad at her. But I was still frozen in indifference, fighting against my instincts and feelings on what to do.

"There was a storm outside, the power had gone out and... and everything was dark, so dark," Lyra continued, unaware of what I was going through at the moment. "Lee... he... he heard me screaming and helped me..." A sniffle, "Lee kept me safe, he held me in his arms and told me everything was going to be okay." Suddenly, Lyra pulled away and I finally got to look into her eyes. I saw only terror, longing, fear... "He didn't make fun of me like other ponies did... he just... he just hugged me and told me it was okay."

Lee... why are you so sweet? I wondered, even though I already knew why. Lee was unlike anypony I've ever met, caring, a jerk, loving, helpful... He's everything you want in a guy... and more...

"I started feeling... like this since that day..." Lyra had an ashamed look in her eyes, turning away to bury her face in her pillow. "I'm sorry, Rainbow... please don't hate me for this." She cried.

Lyra... Could I hate her for loving my coltfriend? I haven't met anypony who felt this way about him before, not before or after I started dating him, and laid claim to him... and now that I was faced with this, I didn't know what to do...

"~Follow your heart~"

I heard Prism's voice ring out in my head, follow my heart... I thought... Follow my heart. I gave one look at Lyra, then put my hoof on her shoulder. "I'm not mad at you, Lyra..." I told her, speaking from the heart as I added, "confused, maybe, but mad... no, never."

The mare turned her head ever so slightly towards me, one of her golden eyes glancing at me with a tiny bit of hope in them. "Y-you're not?"

I shook my head, "I'm not." I told her, I wasn't mad, confused, and possibly a bit curious, but not mad. She's my friend, how could I be mad at her for liking Lee? I didn't want to be one of those jealous mares... I wasn't going to hate her, I couldn't. "Its just... weird, I guess." When Lyra didn't say anything, I continued. "I'm going to be honest, I thought you were with Bonny, at first."

Lyra shook her head no, "Bonny... she's... she's not into mares." Lyra said, wiping her eyes. "She's dating Dr. Whooves, she's actually hoping to get into his herd." She admitted.

"Herds..." The word crossed my mind, pegasi and earth bound ponies had different words for that, unicorns called it a Coven, earth ponies referred to it as a Herd, and pegasi called it a Flock. Basically, when ponies, specially when two ponies loved one another, they sometimes ended up liking another pony and decided to bring them into the mix. It balanced out the gender issues in Equestria, where there's about four mares to one stallion. Sometimes it worked out, sometimes it didn't.

Lee, in the first few months when he was telling us about his world, he said there wasn't any herds, as the majority of the population frowned on such a thing, and stuck with one male and one female. Their gender balance is pretty even, and the roles were pretty weird. but he also said there were a few exceptions, but they were few and far in between. And the reason humans didn't do it was because of jealously, and it was considered a social taboo.

I was snapped out of my thoughts when Lyra asked me, "Rainbow..." she started, looking even more fearful, and maybe a tad embarrassed. "Do... do you think... maybe... that I could..."

I gestured for her to continue, could what?

"Join your flock?"

"... my... my flock?" I gasped out, did... what!?

She nodded, her cheeks turning a hint of red. "Yeah, I... you and Lee seem so happy together... and..." She wiped her eyes again, brushing aside some of her mane and saying, "I wish I could have that..."

I gulped, my gut twisting into a knot, she wants to join my flock?! "Lyra, I... my flock? I mean... I haven't, Lee and I haven't even, we..." I was confused, it was such a simple yes or no question, and here I am stuttering like an idiot. Now that she asked, my mind went straight towards Lee and I and... and our... We haven't even had sex yet!

Lyra seemed to pick up on that, I was no doubt a blushing mess. "Rainbow... haven't you and Lee... ya know." She clapped her hooves together a couple of times. Quiet, yet subtle way of asking if we've had sex or not. I shook my head, growing more embarrassed. "I thought..."

I sighed, I might as well tell her. "Lee and I... I mean... its not that I don't want to, its... I'm not sure if he'd want to." I admitted, I know that's a stupid reason but... I was actually rally scared to talk to him about that.

"Why would he not want to?" Lyra asked me, giving me a confused look. "He loves you, Rainbow Dash, you're not giving him enough credit." She touched my fetlock, giving it a caring squeeze. "You two should talk about that, I'm sure he wants to as much as you do."

I stared at Lyra for a moment, sighing. She's right... "I'll... I'll talk to him..."

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Lee's Perspective

"Wait, hold up." I said, staring at my alicorn friend. "You... you want me to... do what again? The perspective change threw me for a loop."

Celestia looked confused, extremely confuzzled! "What? Perspective change?"

"I said you want me to what now?" I repeated, crossing my arms as my bat pony guards and Magma trotted into the hospital single file.

"Lee, I want you to take Lyra under your care," she told me, her tone serious yet caring. "She's... she going to need somepony close to her to help her through this drastic change."

Bonnie could do that, couldn't she? I was about to ask, but Celly beat me to it.

"Bon Bon can't do it alone, she is one pony..." Celestia informed me as I just blinked, "Lyra is good friends with both you and Rainbow Dash, I am asking that you help her through this."

I sighed deeply, clasping my hands in front of me and asking, "You told us she's gone from being magicless, to being on par with fucking Twilight Sparkle in terms of magic, how can Dash and me even help? I'm not magical, and Dash isn't either! Not in the sense I'm thinking of." I wasn't against helping Lyra at all! Don't get me wrong, but how can we be expected to help her with this? She's gone form being handicapped in the magic department to almost crossing the threshold and becoming an Alicorn!

I felt a wing on my back, and saw Luna appear. "We trust in you and Rainbow, you two have been able to do some amazing things when confronted with a problem." Luna chirped in a soft happy voice, patting my back before moving to stand by Celestia's side. I just sighed.

"I'll... talk with Rainbow about it, but stahp dropping shit into my lap like this, jeez!" I threw my hands into the air, I swear they do this just cause they can. Shaking my head, I turned around and started back towards the room where Lyra and Rainbow were. "I'll see you guys later." I said, sighing as I made my way down the hall.

Taking care of Lyra... that'll be interesting, assuming Rainbow is up for it. I don't doubt she'll say yes to helping her, I wanted to help her to. She... she risked her life staying behind to help me, when I told her to run... why did she stay? I told her to run, to get out of there, but she stayed and almost died...

I'm not ungrateful, I'm... ugh, I don't fucking know.

After making a left turn, I saw Rainbow up ahead exiting the room, closing the door behind her before turning to face me. She gave a smile, and I returned it. "Lyra doing alright?"

"Yeah... she... she's alright, she just wanted to be alone for a bit." Rainbow quickly said, smiling nervously as she turned around, heading towards the exit of the hospital.

I tilted my head as I followed her, giving a quick look inside of Lyra's room to see her turned around with her back facing the window. I sighed as I followed the cyan mare, a tad bit worried. I smell something off. "Hey, Rainbow." I called out to her, she kept moving, in fact it looked like she was speeding up. Okay, if I didn't know something was wrong, I do know, I know plot devices when I see one! I gave chase after the mare, following her through the exit and outside just in time to watch as she flew away. "Dash, what's gotten into you?" I saw her fly towards the castle and bit my lip. "The Chase it is then." I told myself as I started running down the streets, grabbing my sword sheath to keep it down while I ran.

I followed the cyan blue line as she flew over the rooftops, and eventually out of my sight. I cursed, turning and running down an alleyway, after passing by a pony selling cabbages, unfortunately for him, I ended up knocking over the stand.

"My cabbages!" He cried.

"My bad!" I called, reaching into my pocket and tossing a small bag of bits his way before resuming my chase after my girlfriend. The cool air rushed by me as I darted down the alleyway, and emerged out onto another one of the streets, and I managed to look up in time to see Rainbow fly right into our room at the castle. I turned towards the castle, and started for it as I heard wing flaps.

"Sir?" I heard Breeze call me, looking back I saw her land before me. "I... I have to apologize."

I stopped, turning around to face her. "For what?" Why was she apologizing?

She looked ashamed, wings slouching and her eyes looking at the ground. "I should have stayed with you during the battle, and I didn't, you were injured because I left your side... I am not fit to be your guard." She told me as she reached into her robes and pulled off a small badge, and hoofed it to me.

I stared at her, was she seriously doing this? I sighed softly, eventually I knelt down and took it from her. She winced, probably expecting me to agree, but instead I took the badge and clipped it back onto the front of her robe. "I'm the one who told you to go and fight, and I'm glad you did." Breeze gave me a shocked look, I continued, "because of what you and the others did, a lot of people were kept safe from those mutant freaks... and I'm thankful for that."

"B-but, I... I-" I shushed her, shaking my head.

"No butts, unless you're getting laid." I told her with a grin. "I want you to tell the other guards what I said, because you guys are damn good guards... and don't let anyone tell you any differently." I gave her a serious look, "Understand, Gentle Breeze?"

She seemed to be taking my words in, and eventually she nodded. "I'm... yes, sir I understand..." She bowed her head. "Thank you for sparing me your wraith."

I chuckled, much to her confusion. "The most wraith you're going to see from me involves cheese, a pillow and one liners from a bad movie." I told her, laughing softly. I then turned towards the castle, looking up at the tower. "I have to go see about Rainbow, methinks it'll be a bit personal, so if anyone asks where I am, I'm with Rainbow Dash." I told her, getting a wing salute in response. "Till later~" I sang, dashing off towards the road.

Whew, I never thought running could be so tired... half the time I've joked about asking Twilight to find a spell to turn me into a pegasus so I could fly. That'd be tits, but I doubt it exists.

Then again... magic.

I made my way to the castle, rushing towards the stairs and past the guards who gave me nods and salutes. Why salute me? I'm not military or anything, unless Celly gave me some title I wasn't aware of behind my back. I didn't deserve any titles, I'm awesome enough as it is, I mean, adding anything more and the world would be fucked up!

I made my way into the castle, passing by a few maids and trying my bestest to not be blinded by the fucking crystal abomination that is this castle. I know you wanna be flashy but this is too much! Feels like I walked into a bad Twilight movie... oh wait, all Twilight movies are bad.

Sparkly fucking Vampires, they're supposed to be terrifying monsters, not sparkly little shits! I cursed, shaking my head as I made my way up the stairs.

What could be wrong with Rainbow? Why wouldn't she talk to me, and why did she leave so suddenly? Did Lyra say something? Or did Rainbow... Ugh, sometimes I wonder how I've made it this far in life without dying from frustration or some shit like that. I hope those two didn't have a fight, if that's the case then it'll make what I'm wanting to talk to her about even harder.

Oi.

I stopped for a moment at the floor where me and Rainbow were staying with our friends, after taking in a few breaths I made my way over to our room and grasped the doorknob, briefly stopped by the wonderment of why ponies, creatures with hooves in general, use door knobs to begin with. Seemed counterproductive, but that was just me.

After turning the knob, I opened the door and went inside, spotting Rainbow sitting on the bed. I stopped for a moment, thinking of what to say. "Rainbow?" I started, fucking brilliant way to start this off... IM-BEE-CILE!

She didn't move, only blinking as she looked down at something in her lap.

I sighed softly, moving into the room and closing the door behind me, closing it with a soft click before making my way over to Rainbow. I took my sword off, placing it at the foot of the bed as I sat down net to Rainbow. "Dashie?"

I saw her eyes flick towards me, and I saw something in her eyes, I saw a tiny bit of fear in her eyes. "Lee..." She put whatever it was in her hooves away before turning to look at me, her eyes locked on my own. "Do... do you love me as much as you say?"

My eyes blinked, and I just stared at her for the longest time. Why was she asking something like that? I did love her, what brought this on? I reached out to touch her face, placing my hand against her cheek and gently brushing aside her mane, I stared into her eyes before leaning in close, keeping eye contact before I kissed her. Not an intense kiss, but a gentle kiss, one that expressed what words couldn't. Rainbow returned the kiss, her lips parting as she deepened the kiss. She moaned quietly, and it lasted a few seconds before I pulled away.

"Rainbow... I love you, so fucking much." I told her, climbing down off of the bed and settling down on my knees in front of Rainbow, looking up into her eyes. "As cheesy as this is all going to sound... just listen to me." I took her hooves in my hands, our eyes locked when she gave me a nod, a faint red tint on her cheeks. "When I told you that I love you, I meant it, I still mean it every day I say it to you." I started, rubbing her fetlocks with my thumb and feeling of the fur around them. "Ever since my girlfriend left me... I never thought I would find someone to fill that void in my chest, and I never thought I would meet someone so... amazing, awesome, and beautiful as you are." I told her, I could feel my heart beating faster in my chest, I ignored it. "You help me day by day, and you're the main reason I get up every morning, just so I can see that wonderful smile of yours... you stayed by my side for four years, and we've even fought side by side against some pretty dark shit." I took a shaky breath, staring at the girl I loved more then life itself. "I don't ever want to lose you Rainbow, I love you... and nothing will ever change that."

The room was silent, save for our breathing. I never broke eye contact with Rainbow, I still didn't. I really did love her, far more then I could ever express to her. Everything I've ever experienced with her, everything we've done together, they were all times that I'll cherish till the day I die. I loved her...

Rainbow took her hooves away from me, I was scared for a second cause i thought she may have thought I was lying, but instead she slid off of the bed and into my lap, straddling me before she put her arms around me and placed her lips on my own as she closed her eyes, my own following shortly. Her lips parted and I felt her tongue running across my mouth, begging for entry. I didn't hesitate to let her in, the spicy taste of Rainbow soon filled my taste buds as she deepened the kiss as much as she could.

I fought against her with my own tongue, battling her, and despite her tongue being slightly bigger them mine I won out. I leaned her back against the bed, cupping her face with my hands as she groaned a little bit, her arms wrapped around the back of my head and pulling me closer. She tasted so spicy, but not enough to the point of pulling away. I wished the kiss could have lasted for a bit longer, but I had to break away to breath.

Our eyes opened, and I stared into those magenta eyes I loved so much. Both of us were breathing heavily, and I saw something in Rainbow's eyes that she no doubt saw in my own. Her eyes were half lidded, her wings were halfway extended and I could smell something musky in the air, and a little bit of wetness on my pants...

"Lee..." Rainbow gasped, swallowing as her hips started moving against my lap...

Oh my...

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Third Person Perspective

Both mare and human stared into each other's eyes, Rainbow Dash grinding her hips against the human she loved as Lee caressed her face. The mare's wings were growing stiff, painfully so as her marehood started to grow hotter against the human's pants, she gave him a pleading look, desperately hoping he'd understand just how much she wanted this to happen.

"Rainbow," Lee started, cupping her face. "Are... are you sure y-" Rainbow stopped him from speaking, smashing her mouth against his in a passionate kiss, snaking her tongue past his lips and invading his mouth as she flapped her wings, flew up and deposited them both onto the bed with her on top. He didn't fight it, only deepening the kiss as she struggled to take off his jacket. he helped her along, grabbing his jacket and quickly pulling it off and throwing it to the floor.

Rainbow pulled away for only scant seconds, staring at his shirt before she grabbed the collar in her teeth and tried to yank it off. "You and your damn clothes!" She growled as Lee stopped her, the human taking off his shirt and kicking off his shoes as she started on his pants. He was wearing a belt, and she cursed as the human started working on it, she busied herself with kissing his neck. We're doing it, we're actually doing this! She had thought of going further with her coltfriend, but couldn't bring herself to say anything.

But now, now they were going further, and she was going to enjoy every second of it.

Rainbow moved to the side so he could take off his jeans, and she felt her face growing hotter as he pulled them off... and she saw even more clothes. A tiny whine escaped her. "Lee, you're killing me here." She said as she stared at the boxers covering his hardening cock.

"Eh, you know why I wear clothes." He told her with a shaky grin and a shrug as the mare sat on his legs, "as cliché as this might sound, my junk is probably going to look a lot different then... uh... well, what some of ya'll are used to?" He told her, an uncharacteristically nervous tone to his voice.

Crawling up to the human, Rainbow kissed him again, lingering on his lips before saying, "I don't care." She whispered to him, her voice having a husky drawl to it as she moved down to his boxers. Rainbow stared at the dark colored cloth before grabbing the edges with her teeth, and in one swift movement yanked them off, tossing them to the side with a jerk of her head before turning back to him. her eye caught sight of his member, and she grinned. "Hmm..."

Lee chuckled to himself nervously, "Yeah, I know I ain't a monster like most stallions or stuff, but... uh..."

A giggle from Rainbow Dash, "it looks like its wearing a little helmet." She told him as she watched it stand, throbbing before her. She reached out to it, and tapped it, getting a quiet grunt from Lee. "It's cute."

... I'm not sure how to react to this. Lee thought, his junk was never called cute, nor told it looked like it was wearing a helmet. He pondered if that was taken form somewhere else. Shrugging, he sat up, leaning back against the head board as Rainbow leaned in closer.

Rainbow could tell Lee was, in a word, big, she wasn't sure how big humans were but he seemed to be a decent size. The fleshy seven inch member throbbing as she touched it, licking her lips she buried her nose at the base of his shaft and inhaled his scent, she shuddered as she felt herself getting wet. Instead of pulling away completely, she stuck out her tongue and dragged it from base to the tip of Lee's cock, savoring the tangy flavor. She stopped at the top, half lidded eyes looking up at her human as she kissed it, giving the tip a tiny lick.

"Ahhh jeez!" Lee groaned, watching as his marefriend gave him a sultry look while she teased him. Ahhh the teasing, shit! He cursed as she opened her mouth and took in the tip of his dick, her tongue wrapping around it as she bobbed her head ever so slightly. The human just leaned back, deciding to let her do her thing. He only had this done once in his whole life, and it was by his old girlfriend Rebecca, however, she wasn't as skilled as Rainbow. What his marefriend was doing to him right now, was blowing him away.

While she worked his shaft, her free hoof had made its way down to in between her legs, the tip of her hoof found her already dampening entrance, keeping one hoof busy stroking Lee's shaft, while the other was rubbing her at her dripping sex, slicking her hoof in her juices. The room was slowly but surely starting to smell of the other's musk, and neither one minded it at all. Rainbow's legs clenched together, flexing and relaxing ever so often as she slowed herself.

This continued for some time, Lee's body shivering from the pegasus' ministrations. Getting an Idea, Lee said, "Hey Rainbow." he gasped out, making her slow to look at him. He scooted forward a bit and she pulled off of him, "Let me... help you out." He said, getting an eyebrow raise from her.

"You mean... uh..." Her eyes flicked down to where her hoof was, then she looked back up at him. I didn't know he was into that.

Lee nodded his head, "Yeah, I mean... why not?" He shrugged, smiling sheepishly. Now that he looked, Rainbow was pretty big, and not in a fat sense, but more in a she wasn't exactly a My Little Pony pony. To him, Rainbow was about as big as a full grown pitbull. Her wings were extended outward, and her mane fell in front of part of her face, it only made her look even more enticing to the human.

Biting her lip, Rainbow thought about it for a moment, she had... shamelessly been with a few stallions in her time, but none of them had offered to do such an action. But here Lee was, offering to help her out while she sucked him off. She slowly pushed Lee down onto the bed and turned around, putting herself into a position so that she could continue her treatment, and so Lee could get a good view of her cunt. Rainbow moved her tail to the side, and went back to bobbing her head up and down Lee's shaft as she felt her human's hands grab her flanks, giving them a loving squeeze.

She smells spicy. Lee noted as he stared at Rainbow's already glistening lips, a trail of her pre ran trailed down and fell onto his bare chest. He had never exactly paid much attention to his marefriend and her exposed sex, as surprising as that may sound, it was true. But now that he had a good look at it, he could see she was really smooth, save for a tiny tuft of fur above her clit that was soaked in her own juices and led up to her small but ample sized breasts. She's really wet, the human leaned in closer, the scent of Rainbow's dripping arousal filling his senses and causing his already throbbing erection to twitch in his marefriend's mouth. Not wanting to wait any longer, he stuck out his tongue and gave her a nice long lick.

"Mmm~" Rainbow moaned, her wings giving an involuntary flap as she took in more of Lee's cock. To the mare, he was different from stallions, he lacked the flared tip that most seemed to possess, the massive length and girth, but she didn't care. She wanted to take their relationship to the next level, and she was going to do just that. Rainbow kept taking in Lee until she hit his base, the tip of his member poking the back of her throat and making her gag. She hummed, making a vibrating sensation that caused Lee to groan, she smiled at that sound and swirled her tongue around, combining it with her bobbing. She would pull away, almost letting his dick fall from her mouth, only to keep the tip secured to her lips before quickly moving back down.

"Shit!" Lee hissed under his breath as he licked Rainbow's cunt, trying to match her. He dragged his tongue up and down her slit, causing more of her honey to flow forth and coat his mouth and chin, some of it trailed down his neck to his chest as the mare above him moaned her approval. He had only done this once before, so he knew what he was doing... somewhat, porn was actually pretty useful for something. He brought up his hand and used it to spread the darker cyan colored lips apart to get at her pink folds. She winked at him before he dug in deeper, the mare tasting ever spicier somehow. Hehehe.

The two kept up their treatments, the room smelling more and more like sex, and the sound of moans, heavy breathing and filling it. But like most hot and heavy things, it had to end soon... sorta.

"Mmmm, Lee~" Rainbow shuddered around Lee's rod, feeling something building up inside of her. The pegasus' mare bits throbbing against Lee's mouth. A few whimpers escaped her as he sped up, her heavy breathing and moans were pretty much vibrations against his cock, and it was enough to push him over the edge. "Lee, I'm gunna...!"

"Same!" He groaned in reply, thrusting once into Rainbow's mouth before she pulled away with a cry.

The mare trembled, and she clenched her lips against her human's tongue as she went over the edge. "Ahhhh!" She cried as she came, covering the human in her love. her eyes clenched shut in pleasure as she finished off Lee, the human grunting hard as she shot off his load with a growl. She swallowed it all with a moan, determined to not let a single drop be wasted until he was spent, the same was said for Lee, however he did miss some of it, he didn't mind however.

Eventually they were both spent, Rainbow falling to her side with a cough. She wiped her mouth as Lee's head fell back, hitting the headboard. Both were tired...

But it ain't ending yet...

I lied.

Rainbow crawled up to her human, licking his face as she flicked her tail. Neither said anything as Rainbow licked her cum off of his face, her own spicy taste filling her mouth and joining Lee's tangy flavor. Eventually she stopped, staring into her human's clearly pleased eyes. "I take it you enjoyed that?" She asked, kissing his cheek.

Lee nodded, "oh, believe me I did, hehe." He told her, when he searched for her, he wasn't expecting this to happen. That wasn't to say he wasn't enjoying himself, he was happy, more than happy to do something more with the mare. "I guess, I just wasn't expecting it."

Rainbow rubbed his chest, the cold of her hoof feeling quite nice against his skin. "Me either, to be honest." She said, still breathing heavily, she could smell her scent on Lee's breath, and it was intoxicating enough to get her ready to go again. "Shame you can't go again, I was hoping we could have rutted." She said, a bit of disappointment in her tone.

Lee surprised her however, waggling his eyebrows and saying, "Rainbow, just how much do you know about humans?" he asked.

"Just what you told me," She said, laying her head on his chest and kissing his chin, following it up with a lick.

A chuckle. "Well I may have forgotten something," He said as he lifted up his marefriend, dragging her over to lay on top of him. Once he put his arms around her, he kissed the tip of her nose. "Humans, last longer."

She blinked. "Wait, I... I thought all stallions only lasted once?" She wondered, head tilting in confusion. Her coltfriend lifted her up further so he could kiss her, holding it for a few seconds before letting her go.

"Rainbow," He leaned in again, this time to her ear. "I'm not a pony." He told her, nibbling on her ear and making her gasp slightly.

She was about to ask how, before she felt Lil' Lee poke her stomach. She sat up, looking down at his member which had begun to harden again. "No way." She breathed, she thought all stallions only lasted once, the ones she had been with had only lasted one time before falling asleep, leaving her to take care of her own needs.

"Yes way." Lee told her, kissing her once more, running his hands along her wings, making her moan her approval. "You up for this?" He wondered.

She nodded, licking the side of his cheek before kissing him once more. "Let's do this," She told him, grinding her soaked marehood against his dick, rubbing it and getting it nice and wet for what was about to come. She stood up, balancing on three legs before grabbing him, positioning herself above his member. She lowered herself until her slit kissed his tip, and a shiver ran down her spine. Without waiting, perhaps a bit impatiently so, she slammed herself down on him.

Both cried out, both holding onto each other as the feeling washed over them, a pleasurable sensation that made them feel... complete. Rainbow felt her coltfriend inside of her, the warm tingling feeling making her body tense and relax. He was smaller than a stallion, that much was obvious, but it felt... better somehow, for her. She held onto Lee, a tiny moan leaving her as she kissed his neck, lips lingering on his skin as her human held her lovingly. They did nothing for a few moments, enjoying the feeling of being closer then they've ever been before.

Rainbow pulled away from him, hesitantly so before looking into his blue eyes, Lee doing the same. They saw only one thing in the other's eyes, something that they've felt for each other for years, and only now did it feel stronger then ever. Their hearts beat together, and they shared another kiss, eyes closing. This one different from every other kiss they've ever had. It was filled with raw unbridled passion, adoration and love, something they both wanted and needed from each other, something they couldn't bare to live without.

"Lee," Rainbow whispered as she ended the kiss, reluctantly, and said with as much love in her voice as possible, "I love you... so much."

"I know." Lee replied, smiling warmly as he added, "I love you too."

Rainbow kissed him again, this time moving her hips around in a way she knew he would like. She flexed and relaxed her walls around his cock, groaning as she started to slowly bounce atop him. Keeping the kiss going for as long as she could, she darted her tongue into his mouth, tasting herself from before. The odd combination of her spice and Lee's smoky taste, it was delicious, and it only made her heart beat quicker.

The two had a routine already, when Rainbow would move up, she would almost pull off completely, only to fall back down with a moan. Lee added onto this, having timed it so that when she came crashing down, he would thrust up and force himself deeper into the mare. The two kept it up, the lewd sounds of Rainbow bouncing on top of Lee could be heard in the room, along with her groans. Lee's hands traveled down to Rainbow's flanks, gripping onto them above her cutie mark and helping her move up and down. Rainbow had her arms wrapped around the human, the hard edges of her hooves digging into his skin but he said nothing.

The two kept this up for some time, the feeling of their climax building up inside of themselves. Minutes, hours passed them by, time was nothing to the two as they kept up their lovemaking. This point in their life, it was something they would cherish for as long as they lived. Everything they've ever experienced with one another, was nothing compared to right now. Rainbow was growing louder to the point where she was biting her fetlock to keep from screaming, and Lee buried his face in Rainbow's neck, teeth biting onto her skin. They had started moving faster, and harder, and soon enough they both went over the edge... again.

"Ahhhhh! I'm com-ahhhh!" Rainbow tried to tell him, only her climax stopped her. She cried out, pulling the human closer to her as she slammed herself down onto Lee several times, hard and fast as her walls clenched around his member like a vice, her cum gushing forth and covering them both and the bed. The mare rode out her shuddering orgasm as Lee exploded inside of her, the warm feeling of his spunk shooting inside of her, filling her and causing her to have another tiny orgasm that she was more than happy to ride out atop her colt as he bit her neck, canines digging into her skin.

After what felt like an eternity, Lee fell back, dragging the mare with him. Rainbow fell atop him, wings still extended as she struggled to get up. She didn't move much however, still wanting to keep him inside of her. She breathed heavily as she looked up at her man, the latter's eyes closed as he breathed heavily, a fresh sheen of sweat covering his naked body. She moved her head up to his face, giving him one last soft loving kiss on the lips before lying atop him, nuzzling her head under his chin as he wrapped his arms around her.

They laid there for some time, before eventually falling asleep as the sun died outside, being replaced with the moon soon after...

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Rainbow's Perspective
The Next Morning

A groan escaped me as I woke up to Celestia's sun burning my eyelids. I turned to the side, trying to block out the sun as I felt one of Lee's arms fall off of my back... wait... what? My eyes opened, and I saw the bottom of Lee's chin, the tell tell brown stubble growing back. Slowly getting up, I saw I was on Lee's bare chest, and my filly bits were sitting on a certain part of him. He was naked, and I could detect the distinct smell of sex in the air.

I was also covered in sticky stuff, my tits and my filly bits especially.

Did... did Lee and I? I looked over at the human, eyeing his sleeping form before a smile broke out on my face. We did... I can't believe it... I had... I had always thought of us doing this, I mean... I know relationships aren't all about sex.. but its a nice bonus. And now that we actually did it, I felt...

"I smell... sexy times." I heard Lee grunt, clearing his throat and smacking his lips before his eyes locked on my own. "Morning, Dashie." He smiled, I couldn't help but smile back at him.

I felt my heart flutter as I locked eyes with him, I remember feeling like this when I first started liking him. I leaned down to kiss my human, Lee happily meeting me halfway and returning the gesture. The kiss lasted for a few seconds before we pulled away, Lee giving me a grin.

"So... judging from the fact I am balls to the walls naked, and you're on top of me, and it smells like sweat and sex in here..." At my nod, he said, "awesome." He leaned back, smiling as I flapped my wings, looking at my feathers with a careful gaze.

I'd need to preen them later, they're all messed up.

I gave Lee another nod, agreeing with what he said. "Yeah..." What in the heck do I even say now? We've... we've gone the extra mile, we've done something that I've only ever thought of, I'm not sure if Lee was thinking of it though. "We finally did it." I whispered, smiling faintly to myself as I looked down at Lee's chest.

A chuckle came from him. "Were... were you really wanting this that much?" He asked me, I gave him a sheepish nod as he sat up. "Why... why didn't you say anything earlier?"

I sighed, looking away. "I... I know its going to sound stupid but..." I shook my head, "I thought that... maybe you wouldn't have wanted to do that with me..." I admitted, I... I was scared, I was scared that he would... he'd be afraid or, or maybe even disgusted but... he wasn't.

He only proved me wrong when he kissed me again, this time on the cheek. "Rainbow, we just did the bedroom dance," He said, leaning back on his elbows and giving me a smile. "Most people back on my world, they would be disgusted with me if they knew what we just did, mostly with me cause of taboos and shit." He shrugged, "but... I don't care about any of that," He sat up again, wrapping his arms around me and pulling me close to his chest. He kissed the top of my head, nuzzling me and saying, "I love you Rainbow Dash, shit, you know I'd do just about anything with you... well... mostly, hehe."

I nodded softly, nuzzling him back with a sigh. "I know, I was being stupid..." I wrapped my own arms around him, along with my wings. "I'm just happy I was wrong."

"When it comes to things like that," Lee said, "you will always be wrong."

I smiled... how did I ever get so damn lucky? Suddenly... my thoughts turned back to Lyra, and what she had said to me before... My flock... I thought about that for a few seconds. Lee's world didn't do that, and he said it was a taboo among his kind. But, Lee has been pretty accepting of everything so far...

Maybe...maybe, I could talk to him about this... I wasn't sure myself but...

It wouldn't hurt to talk to him...

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Lee's Perspective

After our little cuddle session, we both took a shower to wash off the smell of one another. Now... while I wasn't against smelling like my girlfriend, I didn't want everyone in a thirty mile radius to smell our funky funk. The shower felt good, I'll tell you that much, Rainbow of course joined and I wasn't against that either. We both cleaned one another off, getting into hard to reach places, like her wings or my back. It was a glorious shower, and afterwards when we dried off... I felt...

I wasn't sure, I felt good, great even. We both had left our room and were walking down one of the halls, big freaking smiles on our faces. I swear, never in my whole life have I ever felt so frigging good. I felt happy before, sure, cause I was with my friends and had a good life in this world, but... now... now it felt better somehow. And I was loving it like nobody's business, I could tell Rainbow was the same. She had a skip in her step and a big smile on her face.

Some of the guards we passed by gave us smiles and nods, we responded with the same.

Today was a good day, I can already tell its going to be great.

"Lee!" I heard Applejack call my name, looking out ahead I saw her trotting towards us. When she saw us however, she looked confused, "What are you two so happy about?" She asked us, hehe.

"Ooooh..." I flashed Rainbow a cheeky look, she giggled to herself, pfft. She sounded like a school girl caught talking to her crush or something. "Not much, just..." I gave AJ a bigger smile, "just happy I guess, what's up?" I decided to ask her. Hehehe, I can only wonder how the others would react if they knew what just happened in our room.

For fuck's sake, you could probably smell it. Ha!

"Celestia called on th' elements, an' you as well. She said she needed our help," Applejack said, turning on her heel. "Not sure what for though."

"I'm sure its nothing too serious," I told her, a reassuring tone to my voice. I mean, Sombra was totally fucked up... sorta when I stabbed him, I'm sure he's holding back somewhere, licking his wounds.

In the Main Chamber

I was wrong... I was oh so fucking wrong.

"Do you recognize this?" Celestia asked me, holding an object towards me. A camcorder, something that to anyone else would be a simple little camcorder... if it didn't have a little keychain attached to it of a hazard symbol... colored black, with a red trim.

"Where did you find that?!" I demanded, I didn't mean to sound so... so... well, loud! But, where even did she find that?!

Celestia gave a small worried look before levitating it over to me. I took it from her, checking it over. "A group of students found it on a nature hike, not too far away from Fillydelphia." Celestia informed me, "Lee..."

I felt my heart catch in my throat when I saw some dried red stains on the end of it, "I know this camcorder," I said...

"Camcorder?" Twilight asked, giving me a puzzled look along with everyone else.

I blinked a few times, shaking my head and saying, "Its like your cameras, only smaller and not... so... grainy." I told them, getting some ahhs. "This... this was my friend's Camera." I added, how... how did it get here?! Unless...

"Lee... who's your friend that owned this device?" Celestia questioned me, I looked up and saw her give me a concerned gaze. Everyone did, even Rainbow.

I sat down on one of the chairs nearby, "Back... four, five years ago... I met this guy during my collage days, he was someone who helped me get through some tough times." I thought about him, I hadn't seen him since the night I ended up in this world after leaving that bar. He had come with me and helped me fight against those dudes... I never found out what happened to him. "He was with me through thick and thin, just like Ann..." I whispered, those two were my best friends back on earth.

I think some of them were a bit worried about me... they had every right to, I didn't know how to feel about this... in my hands was one of the things belonging to one of the best fucking friends I've ever had, and it had dried blood on it.

Alex... what happened to you? I wondered.

"Lee, are you... okay?" Rainbow asked me, coming up to my side and sitting by me.

I sighed, I don't think I ever told them all about my human friends... "Before I came here," I started, getting their attention as they all sat near me. Luna and Celly side by side in front of me, with the elements on either side of them with their sisters, and Spike. "I had two friends... two very good friends." I thought of them, both, one a childhood friend and the other, a complete stranger who helped me through collage and stayed my friend for some time. "Alex and Ann, I'll never forget them for sticking with me throughout life." Looking at them, I held the camera up, "This is Alex's camera... and if its here..."

"Then Alex might be too." Rainbow finished for me, I gave her a nod.

"I've sent out several of the Royal Guard to investigate the area where the camera was found," Celestia explained to me, "If he is indeed out there... we will find him, Lee... I promise." She told me, giving me a smile.

I returned her smile, I hoped he was okay, assuming he was here, that is. I looked at the camera, it was scratched up, but it looked to be in good working order. I opened up the flip screen, and when I held the on button... it buzzed to life.

"Whoa," Scootaloo Ooo'd from my shoulder, how did she... never mind. "Can you show us something cool!"

I smiled, "let's see what's on it." I hit one of the videos, looking through them. I found three on here, so I clicked the bottom one. It buzzed and crackled before the video came through, and I saw it was a snowy landscape. Oh lord. I moaned in thought, I know this one all too well. Everyone crowded around me, and before I could say anything Twilight's horn lit up before a beam of purple hit the camcorder. The light made the camera glow before I saw the video cut out, and then it appeared in the middle of the air above a crystal. I rose an eyebrow, "Uhh..."

"Magic~" Twilight told me with a smile.

"Oh... right, hehe." I set the camera down in my lap, watching the video being shown on the crystal. Somehow the crystal was projecting what was on the camera, and manifesting it above it like a sort of holoprojecter... star wars much?

I saw the snowy landscape of the alps, the frost covered trees and then... I saw myself, six years earlier. Damn I looked like such a kid, I remember Alex had brought me and Ann up into the mountains, for a weekend after completing some crap at school. He had a rich dad and he pretty much got whatever he wanted, but he wasn't one of those rich people who flaunted it about everywhere and was a dick about it.

He was pretty cool about it, never bragged or anything like that.

"Its fucking cold up here!" I heard myself yell, my voice was a bit more high pitched, not as deep as it was now. Man, looking back, I was such a kid back then... kinda, more of an ass too. "Jeez, Alex!"

I heard a couple of laughs, "Is that you talking, Lee?" Rainbow asked me, I ruffled her mane.

"Oh yeah, prepare for the asshole version of yours truly, I wasn't always so mellow back then as I am now." I stuck my tongue out, watching as Alex pointed to a girl... Ann. "That's my friend, Ann."

Everyone leaned in a little closer, looking at my friend. Ann was a pretty girl, only two years younger then myself, a redhead with straight hair, green eyes and a well toned body. She was wearing some winter wear like the rest of us, colored a bright red and black color. "Man up, Lee!" She told me, grabbing onto me and making us both fall into the snow with a yelp.

Alex just laughed, the jerk! Hehehe.

"Come on you guys!" Alex yelled in the video, gripping his snowboard and camera before turning to us. "Let's shred this mountain!"

I saw Luna turn to me and give me a surprised look. "You never told me your kind climbed mountains to shred them."

I gave her a laugh, "that's just an expression, people say that when they go snow boarding or skiing," I explained, getting a face of realization from her. "We went snowboarding up in the alps that day, six years ago. It was a little bit before I met my... last girlfriend." Welp, probably shouldn't have said that, I got me a lotta looks from everyone, Luna and Celly gave me a couple of looks, "Yeah yeah I know, I'll explain later."

I watched the video as we sailed down the snow, Ann was out ahead of us, and Alex was staying behind so he could film the two of us. Our hoots and hollers filled the air, and I smiled... that day was pretty fun, we did so much... more then we have in a long time. I missed those two a lot more then I realized, I wonder...

Suddenly, the video cut out, and was replaced with the next one. Wait, why did tha-

"Shit shit shit!" I heard Alex's voice curse, the camera was on and I could see that he was running across something. "This is bad bad bad, so bad bad bad!"

I leaned forward, worry etching up in my gut. Alex, what's going on buddy? I didn't have the heart to say anything, I could only watch. What was happening?

I saw Alex turn turn the camera towards himself, and I saw he was much different. He had a small beard for one thing, his eyes filled with terror and knowing. "I knew it, I fucking knew this was going to happen!" He yelled as gunfire sounded...

Oh my god what is happening?

"Alex!" I heard Ann's panicked voice screaming, "They're coming!"

"I know!" Alex yelled back to her before turning around, he caught sight of Ann, and I saw she was different too. Her hair was longer, and she was wearing a harness with gun magazines attached to it. And she was holding an Springfield Armory M21 with a scope and bipod, she looked frantic. "Shit!" I saw Alex run over and grab something, and from the view it looked a lot like an AK-47. I saw him run over to Ann as people screamed, he knelt down and then turned the camera to himself. "Lee... I don't know where you are, or if you're even alive right now..." He gulped, looking up into the smoke filled sky. "But... where ever you are... don't come home... " He had to be on top of a building to get that kind of look into the sky... where were they? And why were they armed?!

He then stood up, turning the camera to the city... New York...

But when I saw it... it was in flames... My eyes widened, alongside everyone else's as I saw the flames engulfing buildings, jets flew over bombing several distant areas, and people screamed... but only one sound sent chills down my spine... moaning. The camera was angled down off the building they were on top of, and I saw them...

Filling the streets of my home city...

Were hundreds of undead...

"Oh my god..."

And to make things... possibly even worse... I heard Sombra's laugh echoing throughout the chamber as the doors burst open, and I saw my bat pony guards rush in.

"Sombra's back!" Breeze yelled, getting everyone's attention.

The undead... they were on my world... in my city... my friends... were surrounded by them...

I stood up, Dash falling to her hooves and looking up at me as I pulled out my sword and ran out of the room. I yelled out one thing, and there was nothing... but pure... anger... in my heart right now...

"SOOOOOOOMBRAAAAAAAAA!"

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Lee's Perspective

There was nothing but anger filling my heart right now, my very soul felt like it was on fire! What did that fucker do to my home! My friends! My family! "SOOOOOOMBRAAAAAAA! YOU MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!" I bellowed, rushing through the halls towards the voice laughing at me, behind me I heard hooves galloping after me, but I didn't care, I wanted answers, goddamn it! I ran through the halls, blasintg past rooms and other guards before turning down another hall.

There were hundreds, if not thousands of undead in that video! All of them, looking just like that one I killed on the train! All of them had that sickly glow in their eyes, how did Sombra even get to my homeworld? How! Celestia tried for years, but she couldn't find a way back for me, but I gave up.

Sombra...

You're going to die.

Eventually I blasted into the main throne room of the castle, skidding to a stop as I felt the cold chill of that demonic bastard floating about... I saw him... sitting in physical form on Cadence's throne, he sat there... looking smug, as two undead, rotted beyond recognition stood on either side below the steps, staring off into nothing.

I held my sword's tip toward him. "What did you do!" I needed to know, i needed to know before I cut his dick off!

Sombra just laughed at me as my friends all crowded in behind me, standing side by side with my guards and Magma, and the princesses. They were all no doubt glaring at him, so far he had done nothing but be a complete bitch...

Well, now he's about to be a dead bitch.

"Me? You mean besides the fact, I cleansed your world of the... filth, it was covered in?" He asked me, his voice sounding like a pretentious asshole. "Nothing, except steal Candy's seat, which I might add is my seat originally before she came into my castle and stole it from me."

Rainbow stood by my side, suddenly donning the armor she was wearing a while ago as she glared at him. "This is Cadence's castle you prick! Now answer Lee! What did you do!"

Sombra scoffed, only making me angry as he replied, "I did the only thing I could do... you attack me Lee..." He narrowed his eyes at me, giving me an evil grin. "I kill the ones you love most~"

My blood began boiling as I glared at him, hands clenched around my sword as I shook. He... attacked my homeworld... infesting it with magical undead... because I attacked him? "You bastard..." I hissed, cracking my neck before sprinting at him, dashing past the slow undead befoe slashing at him. "YOU FUCKER!"

However, I missed, as he vanished in a puff of smoke and reappeared above me. "Hahahaha, too slow human." He chided me, thrusting his hoof out as the undead suddenly lurched forward after my friends.

"Defensive formation!" The major cried, as she and the other three drew their weapons, standing ready as the elements and princesses got ready to attack. Outside of the room, I saw several royal and crystal guards, as well as Shiny standing outside, moving in with their own weapons. They all moved into the room, about forty each armed with swords and spears as they got into a defensive formation as the two undead attack.

They were quickly cut down, however, by Magma who set them aflame with a mere bat of her eyebrow. "There are more coming... prepare yourselves." She warned everyone, as the walls on either side of the throne busted open, sending debris flying as, to my shock, more undead poured out. All looking like old diseased corpses from an old Tomb Raider game, donning tattered robes and armor, wielding weapons.

"Shit fuck! Sombra you asshole!" i cursed, slashing at him again only to miss as he darted away.

"Hahaha!"

"Buttlicking coward!"

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Rainbow's Perspective

I could only watch as the monsters poured into the throne room, all of them filling it with growls, snarls and moans as they surged after us. "Get ready!" I called out to my friends, they all nodded and did as such. This was going to be a different fight then before, these things... were tough, probably tougher now that we had to fight a whole Celestia damned horde of them!

The guards quickly moved in front of us, armed with spears and shields as they formed a protective barrier around us, tight formations and strong muscle... I hoped it would be enough. As one, the wave of undead smashed against the shields, slamming into them and pushing them back. I dashed up front to help push back, and so did my friends, using either brute strength or magic. Cries and grunts of effort left the us, these things were strong! Clawed hands reached out to grab onto whatever they could, manes, armor, loose objects.

They wanted something, and they were doing their damnedest to get it!

I saw Lee was trying to hit Sombra, but the Mad King was staying well out of reach of Lee's hitting range, taunting him, baiting him almost. Damn it! We were all having such a good morning, and then this bastard had to come along and ruin everything! I just wanted to speand the day with my coltfriend, but no! This bastard had to come along and mess with my day!

"Soooooombra! Stop running you coward!" Lee bellowed, his tone one of pure unbrideled anger. I had never seen him this angry, not even when Firespin had punched me, his eyes were wide, vains pulsating as he swung madly at the Mad King, trying to down him for what he did. I wanted to beat down on him as well, for making this happen!

"Push back!" Shining yelled, pushing against the ponies and throwing out spells to hit the undead, but they were no use, they didn't even flinch from his magic attack! "Damn it! My spells are useless against these things!"

"Use a stronger one then! KIll them!" I yelled at him, getting a shocked look from Fluttershy, and some of the others.

"K-kill them?" Flutteshy meekly asked, even over the snarls i heard her.

"Yes kill them! They're dead already!" I yelled back, smashing my hoof into one of their arms that tried to snake around my neck, HE WASN'T GOING TO GET THAT SATISFACTION! "It doesn't matter!"

The others seemed hesitant, all except for Lee's guards who charged out, swinging their weapons at the heads and bodies with deadly precision, lopping off body parts and sending blood flying onto the floor nad the guards. Shining seemed shocked that something like that just happened, but swallowed whatever regrets he may have had and yelled, "Switch to offensive spells! Take them down!"

It was a bloodbath...

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Lee's Perspective

I slashed, and hacked away towards Sombra, but the fucker kept staying out of my reach, much to my chagran. I wanted to kill this fucker, its time I ended this fucking shit once and for all! I chanced a look over ath the others and saw the undead that were attackoing them slowly get killed by the guards, and the elements surprisingly enough. Rainbow was still in her gleaming armor, as she bucked and slashed at the undead with her wing blades, which I must say, looked fucking awesome.

I however, turned my attention back to Sombra, trying to find a way to hit the sumbitch. He kept flying out of my reach, turning into that misty black smoke shit and ultimately pissing me off to no end. I chased after him, slamming into undead and sending them sprawling to the ground or slashing at them with my sword.

Why was this happening to me? What did I do to deserve this punishment? I just... wanted to live my life, live with Rainbow, be a at peace and all that shit. But no... it seemed fate wanted to fuck around with me and make my life a miserable hell! Well guess what fate?

You're not making me quit! You're just giving me a reason to skull fuck this asshole!

Sprinting after Sombra, as he paused to laugh near a statue, I jumped up onto the lip of the statue's podium, and rocketed myself off of it before slashing vertically at the ghosty form of the Mad King. My attack bore fruit, as he bellowed in pain before disappearing, reappearing nearby with a scowl.

"It seems I'll have to keep a closer eye on you, human~" He growled, as his undead started to surge forward with renewed strength, attacking some of the guards with greater speed.

"Stop this shit Sombra! I'm your enemy here, not them!" I cried, gripping my sword as I felt the muscles in my body tense up.

The unicorn laughed, madly before sending a bolt of magic m yway, slamming into my chest and sending me flying backwards. I skidded across the ground, as Rainbow cried my name. "You are all my enemy, and I will not stop until I destroy you all and reclaim my throne!"

I graoned as my chest felt icy, Rainbow abandoned the fight and landed by my side to check on me. I sat up, still gripping my blade as I felt something graze my chest. Looking down, I saw Rainbow's feather against my bare skin, my shirt having been slashed open and revealing my chest. I tenderly touched the feather Rainbow gave me, seeing it sparkle slightly before turning to look up at the Mad King.

"Hahahaha," He laughed, before his eyes narrowed at my chest, he grinned. "So... i see you have one of these pony's feathers? Does that mean what I think it means?"

I stood up, shakily before standing by Rainbow's side. "Fuck you." I told him flatly, scowling. What me and Rainbow have going on, is none of his business.

He only laughed, before throwing several magic bolts our way, this time we were ready. Rainbow dodged left and I ducked under them before bolting at the mad king, I slashed at him again, only nicking the tail end of his black smoke, but it was enough to make him cringe. And the chase began again, with me and Rainbow chasing after the bastard, Rainbow flew by me as I ran, keeping speed with me as we both charged at him. I gave her a look, and she nodded before splitting off, both of us going two different directions.

Let's flank this bastard.

I darted left, heading towards another one of those statues before jumping onto it, Rainbow had gone a different direction, moving above as Sombra tried to strike her, forgetting about me entirely. Or was it a trick? I'll soon find out.

And find out I did.

As soon as I made contact with Sombra, he ended up hitting me in the chest with a blast of magic, sending me flying back against the wall and hitting it with a yelp. Rainbow had moved in to strike, but was likewise hit, sent hitting the wall. Her scream of pain filled the air, as I heard a snap. "My wing!" She cried, as she slid down the wall. I saw her wing was bent at an awkward angle, no doubt broken from the hit.

I tried to get up, but Sombra stopped me by slashing at my chest, making me cry out as he moved towards Rainbow. I fell back, struggling to stand as the icy feeling overtook me, forced to watch as Sombra picked up my girlfriend, holding her in his tainted grasp.

"So you're the one he loves so much?" Sombra commented, turning her over in his magical hold, the bastard! What was he playing at!

"Let her go you asshat!" I yelled at him, finalyl able to stand as the icy feeling dissapated.

I knew I shouldn't have said that... cause Sombra smiled.

"As you wish."

And then he chucked her...

Through the wall...

Sending her falling down, unable to fly.

"Shit, Rainbow!" I yelled, dashing towards her. With her wing broke, she couldn't fly! The others tried to get loose, to save Rainbow, but I was the only one who got to the hole first...

I didn't hesitate...

I jumped...

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Rainbow's Perspective

My whole body felt numb as I fell through the chilling air of the Empire, my eyes locked on the skies above as the air wipped past me. I couldn't move my wings, my back felt funny and I could barely breath. Up above, near the hole i was sent crashing through, I saw the blurry form of somepony jump out.

"Rainbow!" They cried.

Lee? I wondered, as the blur suddenly crashed into me, holding onto my body as we fell.

"Rainbow..."

It was Lee... "You... idiot." I croaked out... I couldn't fly... he couldn't fly, and the throne room was overrun with undead. Speaking of which, I saw the entire tower above us, explode, flames exploding outward from the windows and holes in a great blast. "We're both gonna die..." I told him, as he held onto me tighter.

SIlence...

Until he said...

"Better to die with you... then alone..."

I weakly put my own arms around him, holding onto my human as we fell... to what would no doubt be our death...

I suddenly felt a great warmth envelop my body, and then...

Everything went white...

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Rainbow's Perspective

Around me... I felt hot... I smelled smoke, something was burning., I knew not what however. My body ached, my breathing was slow, and I felt my heart slowly beating... wait...

I was alive?

I must be... if I can still feel and smell... and hear. I groaned lightly, my eyes fluttering open to see up the sky above me. It was stormy, and I saw flames erupting from the crystal castle, massive red billowing flames shooting up into the sky, smoke covering it in a thick cloud cover of blackened smog. Ponies all around me screamed in terror, as Sombra's wicked laugh filled the air, sending shivers down my spine.

"Your champion is now dead!" The unicorn laughed madly, "WHERE IS YOUR SAVIOR NOW!"

I felt tears sting my eyes as I realized what he was talking about, Lee... Lee was...

Dead...

And yet I lived...

"No... no no no..." I whimpered on the ground, turning my head to try and find the human I loved so much. I didn't see him,. all I saw were the undead in the city lumbering about, trying to catch running crystal ponies but failing. Turning my head to my left, I saw a pony lying on the ground next to me, who in the heck was this? I don't remember him falling down with me and Lee...

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Sombra cackled, as thunder struck nearby, followed by a scream.

"Get into formation!" A guard captain cried, as guards in armor ran by me, after the undead hordes.

However, I was too busy being focused on the stallion next to me. His baby blue fur and wings, the black mane and tail and lean body, he looked like a racer, but I also noticed he had scars on his body. By his side, I saw Lee's sword, stuck in the stone as if it had fallen. The stallion was still breathing, I suppose that's a good sign, where did he come from?

"R-Rainbow." The stallion suddenly groaned, eyes opening slowly to reveal a pair of icy blue eyes...

H-how does he know me? Who is he? I tried getting up, but a severe pain in my hind leg made me stop. I hissed in pain, managing to dsit up slowly before looking at my legs, they looked alright... aside from the shard of stone jutting from my hip. "Oh jeez." I grit my teeth, hissing in pain once more as the stallion managed to sit up. I turned to him, asking, "Hey buddy, you alright?"

The stallion nodded his head, muttering, "Yeah... my head hurts like a beeeeeeeatch though." He chuckled, shaking his head before turning to look at me. "You alright?"

I nodded, gesturing to my hindleg. "I'm alright, cept for that." I pointed out.

"Shit, lemme he-" He started to get up, only to fall down flat on his face. "Ow fuck! What the shit?" He yelled in a familar tone, making my eyes slowly widen.

No... no way, he sounds just like Lee... There was no way, Lee... Lee must have just gotten up and wandered off... but if he did, why did he leave me alone with this guy? Did...

Did Lee turn into a pony?

There was no way...

"Oooooo my nose, my beatiful handsome manly man nose, my one defining feature!" He complained, holding it in his hooves as he cursed in Lee's voice and using his weird curses. "My hands feel funny to! What the fuck!" He yelled, opening his eyes once more to look at his hooves... then his eyes grew wide as a strained squeaking noise escaped him. "What. The. Fuck."

"L-Lee...?" I asked, tears leaving my eyes as i looked at him. DId Lee turn into a pony? How!

He turned to look at me, shock and slight fear in his eyes. "R-Rainbow... what happened to me?" He questioned me, fear evident in his tone as he shook.

It is him... nopony else has that kind of voice. I knew Lee's voice well, it may seem silly to some, but his voice was one of a kind. It was smooth, soft, but at the same time, commanding and present when he spoke, powerful like a storm.

But right now, he was scared...

And so was I.

"Lee..." I was overwhelmed that he was alive, but scared... why did he turn into a pony? There was just no way, but here he was... it had to be him. The way he spoke, how he looked at me... those eyes, filled with so much terror...

I wanted to tell him it was okay... but I wasn't so sure if it was...

"Rainbow!" i heard Twilight scream from above, I chanced a look above, spotting Twilight flying down covered in both blood and soot. She landed down on the ground next to me, and I could see she was covered in scratches, her mane was a mess and she looked messed up. The alicorn looked me over, worry etched on her face. "A-are you okay?" She asked me, grappling me me into a hug, minding my leg. "Aside from the obvious, I mean."

I nodded, unable to properly respond as Lee continued to shake. "T-Twilight, Lee..." I tried to say, but the shock of everything was just now setting in.

"Where is Lee?" Twilight asked me, looking around for him, only seeing the pegasus next to me. "Who are you?"

Lee tried to say something, anything, "T-Twilight... help me..." He begged, as an explosion sounded nearby, shaking the ground.

Twilight looked shocked, no doubt realizing the same thing I have. "L-Lee? But... but this isn't possible, who are you, a Changeling!" Twilight demanded, quickly zapping Lee with a spell. i was too slow to stop her, as Lee cried out, cowering on the ground in front of Twilight as his body shook from the spell.

"I'm no-not a changeling!" Lee yelled out, covering his head. "I don't know what happened! Stop!"

Twilight backpedaled as I crawled over to Lee, the human turned pegasus quickly latching onto me and buryinbg his muzzling into my neck. I hesitantly put on arm around him, as Sombra continued his rampage across the city. A quick look into the sky and I saw the princesses flying through the skies towards Sombra, launching spell after spell at the blackened smoke that flew through the skies. Ponies all around us cowered in fear, running for their lives from the undead, and Sombra's attacks.

We were so screwed...

Suddenly, i heard cracks of lightning nearby, followed by thunder striking the ground somewhere in the city. Someone yelled, before more lighting cracked... or was it lightning? It sounded strange, sporadic cracks of something sounded, and more ponies were running away from ther south part of the city as the tower above us burned.

"What the fuck!" I heard someone screamed, before more cracks sounded. "Is this..."

Turning my head, I saw...

I saw...

"Holy shit..."

Another human...

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I wasn't sure what to make of this... one minute I was leading a convoy south of Star City to Warren, where there was a holdout. Then all of a sudden, I'm hit by a truck, and I end up here... at first I didn't believe it, I... I thought I had lost it, finsally lost it after what happened to my world. But here I was, standing in the Crystal Empire, a place that shouldn't technically exist.

"Goddamn, they're here too?" I muttered, running through the streets past crystal ponies that galloped away, they were... bigger then I expected. I growled as I saw several undead trying to climb up after some foals, I aimed my M1 Carbine before firing in rapid sucession, their necks snapping to the side as holes appeared in their heads, bodies falling to the ground as the kids screamed. "Someone get them to safety, now!" I bellowed, sprinting down the street as I holstered my rifle, pulling out my machete before bolting to where I saw the castle.

I needed answers.

Ponies were running all around, along with undead who tried to get to them, thankfully the ponies were either too fast, or just bucked them in the legs before bolting off. I helped as I ran forward, slashing at an undead and lopping its head off before vaulting over a cart, landing on the other side before throwing my machete, watching it impale an undead in the head. I ran over to yank it out before continuing. Eventually I pulled out my pistol, a Beretta 92FS before firing off several rounds at a pair of fat undead clawing their way into a shop, nailing headshots as I arrived at the tower.

However... I saw quite a sight.

"What the fuck! Is this..." I wondered, as I saw Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, and some other on the ground in front of me. "Holy shit..."

"A-another human!" Twilight cried, horn flaring up as my mind quickly latched onto what she said.

Another human? "Wait what, what's going!" I questioned, the shock of seeing and actually being in this world had kinda... worn off, I had been here for about a few minutes now, witnessing the empire in such a state was the only real shock. Before Twilight could say anything, I saw one of the undead lurch after her from behind, and in a flash I pulled out one of my hunting knives before gripping the blade, and throwing it right over her head, nailing it in the neck as Twilight yelped, turning to look behind her.

Twilight blasted it with her magic, sending it flying into a wall as I checked my pistol, nine rounds left.

Good. I noted, I had plenty of ammo left, with some spares in my backpack. "What's going on? Why's the city on fire?" I questioned, my eyes glancing over the cityscape before landing on Rainbow Dash and the stallion she was holding onto.

Did she have a boyfriend or something?

Twilight turned to me, giving me a lookover before saying, "Sombra... he did this, he summoned these... these... monsters somehow, and sent them to both your world, and ours." She explained.

I stopped, my jaw dropped as I looked at the princess. "S-Sombra... he... he did..." My eyes turned to look at the undead, no one had any information on these things other then they were not of earth origin. Some kind of strange virus had infected people, and turned them into these things... Sombra... some... fictional character, was at the center of this? "Son of a bitch!"

"I know, but right now we need to stop him!" Twilight told me, sending a glare my way. "Can you help us?"

I didn't need a moment to think, i nodded my head. That bastard did this to my world... and he thought he could do the same here?

Not on my watch.

As I holstered my weapons, and pulled out my Carbine and started to run off to help... Twilight asked, "Wait... can you tell me your name?"

I stopped... turning before giving her a smirk. "Just call me Hunter." I then ran off, intent on killing the undead and protecting who I could.

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Rainbow's Perspective

I watched as Hunter ran off, Twilight quickly firing off a spell to let the guards know we had some help. It was a red flare of magic, shot into the sky as a signal, like Lee and his world's flare guns or whatever. I turned to look at Lee, my coltfriend... my human... still breathing heavily, but he was calming down. We couldn't stay on the ground long, we had to get back into this.

"Lee..." I started, holding his face and making him look at me. "Lee... we gotta get back into this fight, we can't just stay here." I told him, wincing from the pain in my hindleg as Twilight came over to me and used some magic to try and fix it.

Lee nodded slowly, slowly starting to shak his head against my chest before pulling himself up. "I... I don't think I'll be much help in this state," he noted, pulling away to try and stand. "I can't use my sword like this..."

I nodded as Twilight used her magic to heal my wounds, as she did so I decided to take a closer look at Lee. He was... really tall, maybe a bit shorter then Big Mac, and was nicely built for a pegasus. He looked... well... pretty handsome for a pony, of course I was used to his human form, but that's not to say I wasn't liking this form. But... was... would he not be able to turn back into a human again?

"Damn it this is so weird." Le complained, walking over to his sword as the doors to the castle burst open, and my friends came running out, along with Lee's guards and Magma. They all rushed over to us, while the other royal and crystal guards joined their brothers in the fight, throwing offensieve spells and spears, while the ones armed with crossbows fired bolts with deadly accuracy.

"Rainbow, are you okay?" Applejack rushed over to me, checking me over as the other girls did the same, all worried no doubt.

"I'm... I'm fine, just a little shaken... Lee... he's... uhh..." I started, only for Lee to butt in.

"HOOVES, WHY YOU NO WORK!" He yelled, trying to yank his sword out of the ground, only to fail horribly as he fell backwards. "Goddamn it!"

Considering just a few seconds ago he was freaking out... he was taking this pretty well.

"Wait a consarn minute... Lee, he... what?" Applejack shook her head, as the others looked just as confused, even freaked out.

I sighed, this was going to take some explaining...

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Lyra's Perspective

I don't know how long it had been since... since... these things arrived in the hospital. The doctors and staff could only do their best to protect the sick and injured, but a few of them had fallen, screams sounding before falling silent. It had become a bloodbath, and I had to get out, which I had done. I was outside, and i realized maybe I was safer in my own room, when I saw the streets of the empire filled with these things... everywhere.

My horn burned, and I had no idea why. It felt like there was an intense pressure in my skull, inkling its way up to my horn and making it throb. Ever since the cafe, my body just ached, I felt like I had to release something but I had no idea what! The ponies everywhere just ran and ran, galloping past the mare in hospital fatigues, with bandages covering her body, IE: me. I needed to find Lee, and Rainbow, what if they were hurt, or worse?

One of these things!

Suddenly I heard a scream from nearby, and when I limped closer to the source, I saw a mare trying to keep her foal back form one of the creatures.

"Help! Somepony help us!" She screamed, as the creature lunged forward with a howl.

I don't know what happened to me in that moment, and I probably never would for a long while. But I felt something build up in my horn, my body shook as I felt a rage unlike any other. Sombra was behind this, I knew it was from what Lee told me when he first came to this world so many years ago. He was responsible for almost getting Lee killed. Suddenly, my vision turned gold, as something exploded from my horn, aimed right at the creature.

And I saw it evaporate into dust, disappearing into nothingness as both mother and foal turned to stare at me, their looks one of both horror and gratitude. My horn didn't ache as much now, but it was still there...

Did... did i just use magic?

"T-thank you." The mother cried, grabbing her foal before running off.

I... I just used magic, and not just any, an offensive spell! How did... how did I do that? That doesn't make any sense, I was only able to use basic levitation spells and a light spell, anything other then that was beyond my ability because... of what happened to me.

Another scream sounded, and I wasted no time in limping out to fight, if I had the power...

If I had the ability...

Then I was going to fight back...

For Bonnie.

For Rainbow Dash.

... and for Lee...

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Lee's Perspective

I had no idea what was going on with me... one minute I'm prepared to die, alongside my girlfriend, the next I'm waking up next to Rainbow Dash, and I'm a pony... a pegasus to be exact.

Oh, and the Empire is being attacked by hundreds of undead, and there's another human in Equestria that is fighting back.

What a day, what a day...

Its Monday isn't it?

Fuck.

I tried once more to grip my sword, kinda like how other ponies do with their hooves, however, I was failing horribly as my hooves could not get a grip... mostly cause I couldn't figure out how to fucking grip a sword... with hooves, goddamn it! They make it look so easy! Its like they have magnets or something in their hooves, and now I was wondering how one would... turn that on.

Fucking fuck.

"And... well... that's what happened, while you giuys were still inside." Rainbow finished explaining, as hundreds, if not thousands of Crystal Guards fought against the undead. On occassion I heard gunfire from that Hunter guy, his carbine popping off heads no doubt. I had to admit, he was skilled with that thing, among the other weapons he carried on his person. I wondered who he was exactly, and what his story was... but for now we needed to end this fight, and save the Empire.

But I could not do that, unless I could fight, and use my sword...

Which, apparently, I'm not allowed to do.

"Son of a bitch!" I cursed once more, as I felt someone trot up next to me, when I looked I saw Aoplejack give me a soft smile, before she reached over to my sword, biting down on the hilt and yanking it out with little to no problem at all.

Overpowered Apple Pony, ftw.

She hoofed it back to me, and I nodded as I tried to grab it, only to fail, having it clatter to the ground. I sighed, giving up. "Screw it, 'll jsut... kick shit, I GUESS." I huffed, as Applejack chuckled, before giving me a quick hug.

"Was worried sick bout you sugarcube." SHe whispered to me, giving me a squeeze before pulling away, tilting her hat back.

"Sorry bout that but..." I sighed, turning towards my friends, along with my guards. "Guys... I suggest we get to fighting, these things are going to kill everyone if we don't do something." I looked around the area, seeing that most ponies have managed ot hide, as the undead roamed around in search of them, knocking over stalls and trying to bash down doors. "Let's go!" I told them, dashing off...

Only to fall head first into the ground.

"Fuck me and fuck you legs!"

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Hunter's Perspective

I sprinted through the city, pistol in one hand and my machete in the other, I hacked away at some undead and shot at the others, dodging swipes and tripping up others as pony guards flew overhead, throwing spears into the undead, most of which hit their chest. I hel[ped out as best as I could, grabbing the spears and throwing them at their heads, or using them like a staff and knocking them away, stabbing and smacking as best as I could.

Ponies stared as I darted past them, ducking past attacks from the undead and retaliating with my own, throwing knives, firing my gun and either capping their knees or popping skulls, throwing punches and kicks, and the occasional object like chairs or bricks lying nearby.

Why the Crystal Empire had bricks, I'd never know.

I ducked into an alleyway to rest for a quick few seconds, and reload my handgun. Ejecting the clip and putting into my back pocket, I pulled another fresh one out of my backpack before loading it in. I took a look around the city, seeing most of the undead being wiped out by Celestia and Luna who had left the castle, and were blasting them with as much power as they could spare it seemed like. I gotta say... those two are terrifying, and Twilight's stronger then both.

That just made me more nervous.

"You there!" I heard, whipping my head around, I saw a few guards galloping down the alleyway towards me. "You that human the Princess needed us to team up with?" I heard the female crystal guard pony question me, and I nodded.

She moves fast that one. I noted, Twilight's spell or whatever it was she shot off must have told them somehow I was on their side... not sure how though. "Yeah, name's Hunter, what do you need me to do?" I asked over an explosion nearby, which sent tremors through the ground.

"We need you to help us take these... these... things down, you seem to know how to take em out." The guard told me, then added, "I'm captain Morning Glory, help us out."

I nodded. "Well, first off..." I held my gun up, and pulled the slide back, chambering a new round. "Go for the head."

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Lee's Perspective

I had managed to start running... or galloping, or whatever and managed to get back into the fight, and by that I mean I was tackling the undead and smashing my hooves into their faces, screaming profanity that made a distant deity blush. Rainbow was still behind me, having been healed by a spell Twilight learned after perusing the library for a bit, as the other girls did the best to fight back. I felt so sorry for Fluttershy, she wasn't mean to fight against monsters like these, she's a pony that needs to be held back in safety or something.

But we all can't get what we want... now can we?

I had managed to take down one of the things, snapping its neck and smashing in its head with a slab of rock I found. With a yell I smashed in his head, several times and splattering my coat with blood and brain bits, there were so many of these things, it pissed me off! What did I ever do to Sombra to make him attack my own world?

...if Hunter was alive... how many more were still left?

A billion?

Two million?

Only a thousand!

I didn't know, and it scared me with each second that passed me by... as I thought about my family and my friends... what was their fate? Death?

One of these damned things!

I pray I don't find one of my family stumbling around here...

"Lee, behind you!" I heard Rainbow cry, and when I whipped around I saw one of the things lunge at me, arms held out with jagged claws.

I growled as my wings flared on instinct, and I flapped them back, sending me flying back and doing a backflip before I landed on the ground hard, on my hooves making a loud clop sound...

Shut it!

"Come on you nasty fuck!" I yelled at it, the thing missing one of its arms and half its jaw. I thought sbout how much I wished I was human again, so I could use my sword, and potentially judo kick this motherfuck in the face! Suddenly... I felt my stomach lurch before my vision went white, and an explosion of white escaped me in a brillant blast, before I felt myself standing tall, bipedal...

I looked down at myself... seeing, to my shock, my clothes were back on, and... I was human again...?

Wait...

Um...

Lee.exe has failed, please be to reboot.

"Lee!" Twilight yelled to me, and I saw her toss my sword to me, which I grabbed before unsheathing it in one swift movement, and I slashed at the undead's neck, lopping off his head and sending it flying.

Seems I'm still awesome!

I didn't waste time however questioning things, as I quickly got back into the fight. My sword, I felt something coursing through it, and into my arms up to my chest. I felt power... some kind of power flowing through me from the sword, and something else...

Something around my neck.

I looked down, and I saw Rainbow's feather still on the necklace, but it was glowing brightly, shining like the sun almost. My eyes were wide from that, why was it doing that? I knew that the pegasi feathers had some sort of... what, latent magic in them, but this was new. Never seen them shine before, not at all.

All around me, I heard the undead suddenly parish in flames, as Celestia unleashed the mother of all spells on them, Luna backing her up with one almost as strong. I had to shield my eyes from the blast, it felt like a fucking nuke had pone off, the heat was so intense it hurt a little bit. Everyone cried out from the sudden flash, with me grabbing onto a nearby Rainbow Dash and shielding her with my body, she returned my hold as we waited for the burning hell fires surrounding us to fade.

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Lyra's Perspective

I had managed to blast many of those undead monsters with my magic, my body feeling much better with each blast, as if I were releasing a great pressure from within my own body that had been building up for years. Undead were either sent flying, smacking into walls and breaking every bone in their body from my weaker blasts, or turned to dust from my stronger ones. I felt sweat covering my body, as my bandages and my patiant gown had been burned off.

My injuries, I didn't know why they weren't hurting, but I paid them no mind as I continued to fight back, I had to find Lee and Rainbow before... before something! I knew they could fight, I knew they could handle theirselves... but I couldn't stop my heart from worrying about them both. It pounded in my chest, every beat sending an image of Rainbow or Lee into my mind, every undead I saw I feared it may have been Lee somehow, I would not let that happen!

They would NOT TOUCH HIM!

Before I could find him however, a sudden flash of light overtook me, and my body felt an intense shockwave of heat wash over me as I cast some spell. I covered myself with my hooves, as the flames sudden engulfed whatever had surrounded me, protecting me. I could not see what was protecting me, the bright light keeping me from opening my eyes.

I could only stand and wait, until it passed.

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Hunter's Perspective

I was expecting this fight to end a lot of ways... seeing Celestia set of a fucking magical nuke was not one of them. Me and the guard squad had gotten seperated after a horde of undead came out of nowhere. And so, me and the captain had managed to barricade ourselves inside of one of the shops, we stuck together were attacking as best as we could, me firing my guns and her firing off spell after spell into their heads, making quite a few pop open like zits.

Then, all of a sudden, the ground shook and the undead suddenly caught fire as a wave of fire washed over them like a wave of inferno. I had grabbed Morning Glory and held her down as the fires blasted through the windows, nearly taking our heads off if I hadn't ducked us both down. I could feel her shaking and yelling out as the fires roared above us, setting fire to the shelves and tables.

The ground shook, the fires raged and the undead roared as I heard something in the air growl. The fires died down after a few minutes, or maybe an hour, I had no idea how long it had been before I pulled away from Morning Gkory, I looked down at the crystal white mare, and into her pink eyes, before asking, "You alright?"

She gave me a shaky nod, breathing hitching as she muttered, "Y-you saved me."

I shrugged, giving her a half smile. "No worry, come on,. let's see what happened eh?" I told her, standing up and holding out my hand to take her hoof, which she took as I pulled her to her hooves. We both looked out into the city, and I could see them, the undead were still here but... they weren't moving for some reason. Hesitantly moving away from our barricade, I proceeded to try and climb out the window, only once I grabbed onto wood I burned my hand. "Ahh fuck!" I pulled away with a cry, as I looked down at the ground outside, I could see it was cracked and steam was rising up.

Holy shit that fire... was hot...

"What... happened?" Morning Glory questioned, taking her helmet off and revealing a long flowing mane of cherry red hair.

I tore my gaze away from her, as I looked back out into the city, seeing the steamy looking charred slabs of ash that were the undead. Whatever Celestia had done, it had burned the undead so fiercely, it turned them into ash where they stood. I shook slightly, she was fucking powerful, maybe too powerful. Then again, I recalled she could move the sun so... it made sense for her to have that much power. She controlled a fucking ball of pure plasma.

"I... I think we won..." I told her... not entirely sure... as a somewhat familar demon sounding voice rang out across the city... in rage.

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Lee's Perspective

I stood in the middle of the castle courtyard... place, looking at the scorched bodies of the undead standing still, being nothing more then charred bits of flesh and ash. The ponies of the city that were hiding were slowly coming out, one by one, hissing at the hot ground below them, as one of the hunks fell over, smashing into a pile of ash and charred bones. I just gasped, from how intense that fire was. Back home there were plenty of fires, oddly enough, but this one... Jesus...

"Lee..." I turned and saw Rainbow looking up at me, and she suddenly jumped up and grabbed onto my body, making me fall to the ground with a yelp, as her lips wrapped around mine in a deep kiss, which I was more than happy to return. It did not last long, before she pulled away and giving me a questioning look, which I bet was directed at my sudden... transformation...

I didn't know either, give me a break life.

"Uurrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!" I heard someone yell...

"Seems Somby poo is is on his period." I muttered, eyes rolling to the side as Rainbow hugged me. I returned her hug, as I heard Sombra speak one again.

"This is not over you damnedable human scum!" He bellowed, before he vanished, and all of the undead in the city, their burned husks, collapsed into piles of ash, leaving nothing behind except burned bones and a bad smell.

I just sighed in relief...

We had won the battle...

But the war, had only just begun...

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A few hours had passed since our fight began in the city streets, and I was sitting outside, leaning against the wall as ponies went about cleaning up everything, the dust and rubble, piles of ash and bones, it was gross but they were happy to do it. Celestia and Luna had landed, Celestia looking winded which had worried me quite a bit, but she assured me she was fine. Hunter had come back with that pretty looking Guard Captain, and looked shocked by my presence, but after informing him of who I was and what happened, he accepted it, hesitantly.

Right now, we were all sitting outside, trying to get our barings on what to do next.

"Now what do we do?" Fluttershy questioned, sitting nest to Pinkie Pie who lookd depressed, hr poofy mane deflated and straight. It made my heart break, but I couldn't bring myself to get up... I was too tired, emotionally and physically.

"I'm not sure Flutters." I told her, as Dashie sat to my side, my arm around her shoulder and keeping her close. She had shed her armor, setting it to the side. "I do know we have to stop him somehow..."

Hunter spoke up, from where he was standing next to Morning. "Simple, we find the fucker and kill him!" He growled, hand on his gun holster. He looked angry, and he didn't need to justify his reason for being so...

I was angry.

"We already tried using the Crystal Heart on him, and the Elements of Harmony are not designed to kill." Twilight explained, looking tired and battered. "And finding him would be extremely difficult, we don't know where he's hiding... for one thing."

Hunter seemed angry from the reply, but sighed heavily before sliding back against the wall, sitting on the ground. "All this fucking time... it was a fucking... cartoon unicorn that attacked my world..." He laughed, bitterly so. "Oh my god... four fucking years of fighing these things and its all because of a cartoon unicorn from a world filled with tiny magical ponies..."

When he said it like that, I can see how ridiculous it sounded...

But sadly it was true.

"So many people have died because of him..." Hunter told us, and we all listened, the elements, myself and the princesses paid attention to him. "Millions were killed in the first few attacks, with more dying or turning as the months went by." He shuddered, as if remembering a horrible memory of sorts, he probably was... poor guy.

"How many are left..." I felt myself gulp when I asked that, I had to know... "New York... is it..."

"You from there?" Hunter asked me, to which I nodded, he gave me a look I didn't want to see. "New York was nuked... shortly after the President was killed, and the White House blew up."

My eyes went wide, The... the White House? "The President's dead... and New York is gone?"

The man nodded, sighing sadly. "Lee... so many places are gone, the entire middle east had gone dark after so much infighting with each other, France, the UK, Russia, fucking North Korea and South Korea, Africa... the US was all that was left." Hunter looked down, before asaying, "Arkansas... Texas, Lousiana, Florida and Georgia. Was all that was left, we managed to build up walls, keep them out as we tried to find a way to fight back effectively, nukes were launched all over... there's nothing left Lee..."

I just took it all in... everything was gone... my family and friends... dead... my world tainted by his magic and destroyed by our own weapons of mass destruction, and there were barely any people left. My heart felt heavy, and I felt my hearing starting to go, as my eyes felt hazy. I think I heard Rainbow say my name, but I didn't hear her as I stood up and walked away.

"My family... my friends... are dead because of that bastard..." Hunter spoke, which I heard before I left...

"I am so sorry for your loss, Hunter." Celestia told him, bowing her head as the others did the same, Morning patting his back in consolation. "If there is anything we can do..." Celestia

The man looked up at her, his eyes determined and deadly, like a warrior's. "You can help me kill the bastard, for what he's done."

There was silence for a time... even I had stopped moving to hear what she had to say.

"I do not condone murder..." Celestia said, before she added. "But Genocide... is something I cannot stand for..."

...

"We shall all fight back against the mad king..." Luna spoke, sounding angry and determined to get revenge. "And destroy him... for what he has done..."

I nodded my head slowly as I walked away...

Sombra... this war is going to end, with your blood flowing like a river... and I will be the one to crush you beneath my boot... even if its the last thing i do.

Lyra's Confession

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Rainbow's Perspective

I followed Lee as he walked away, worry growing in my chest as he seemed to fume, I didn't blame him. After what Hunter told us, about their world... and how so few of them were left, and it was all because of... of someone like Sombra, I couldn't blame either one of them for being so angry right now. They had lost their homes, their families, their friends... because of a monster that didn't physically exist on their world. It was heartbreaking to see my coltfriend like this.

"Lee," I called out to him, but he kept moving. I trotted a bit faster after him, passing by several guards as we entered the castle from the side. "Lee!"

He still didn't answer me, as we entered the castle and he continued to wander up the stairs.

"Lee... you're scaring me, talk to me!" I begged him as we ventured up the stairs, he actually was scaring me, Lee, please...

Eventually we ended up back upstairs, near the guest bedrooms. There was plenty of damage in the castle, but not a lot, and when we got to our room, he went inside and took off his sword before tossing it aside without a care as to where it landed before sitting down on the floor. His knees were pulled up to his chest, with one of his hands on his forehead.

I stepped into the room carefully, wings held at my sides as my armor shifted against my body ever so slightly. I had no doubt he heard me, as his head turned a little, but he didn't face me.

He just sat there...

"Lee..." I started, looking at my human as he sighed gently.

"What?" He asked, as I sat near his side.

"Talk to me." I replied to him, speaking softly as my wing went around his back. He looked up at me, and gave me a look I've never seen before...

Defeat.

"Lee..."

"Billions... Rainbow... billions." He told me, a shaky sigh escaping him. "Billions of innocent people... killed by a fucking cartoon character!" He yelled, punching his fist into the floor, I just held onto him, throwing my arms around him and holding him tight. "My family is gone... my friends..." Lee spoke softly, in a near whisper. "They're all gone..."

It hurt to see him like this, and I had no doubt he was hurting on the inside... I would be too, if someone told me my family was gone, my home destroyed, and billions of my own kind were killed by something that shouldn't have been real to begin with. It brought a tear to my eye to see him hurting, to feel him hurting, his voice had so much pain in it, it hurt me in turn. "Lee... I'm so sorry." Was all I could tell him, holding onto my human, hoping that I could ease his pain... somehow, someway.

Knocking on the door brought our attention away, as I saw Hunter standing by the door.

"Can I talk to Lee?" Hunter asked, I didn't exactly feel right about leaving Lee alone...

"Its fine Dashie, I'll be fine..." Lee told me, giving me a tight hug.

A heavy sigh was my answer, as I returned it before kissing him on the cheek. "I'll be outide." I told him, as I started to the room's door, and left down the hallway. Sombra's going to pay for this...

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Lee's Perspective

I stood up with a sigh, smoothing out my pants as I gave Hunter a look over. He was pretty rugged looking, pale skin, scraggly goatee and hazal eyes, and a mop of dark brown hair that was tied into a ponytail. He was wearing a tight black shirt with a jacket over it, black gloves with the fingers cut off, a pair of combat pants and boots. He was also wearing a backpack, his M14 rifle on his back, along with a bandoleer filled with knives and ammo clips, on his hip I saw a Beretta 92FS, Police standard issue.

"You a cop or something?" I asked him, as he came into the room.

He shook his head. "No, I was with one after everythign went to shit... Arkansas got hit hard." He chuckled, wiping his mouth. "Sombra seriously did this..."

"Yeah," I told him, shaking my head as I thought about how insane that must have sounded. "Sombra... The Mad King, a cartoon character, did all of this..."

"When they first came..." Hunter started, as I listened. "No one could believe it, they tried to find the source, preppers got the hang of things and ran for bunkers and hideaways, military mobilized," He waved his hand and I nodded.

"Typical response to a pandemic?"

"Yeah," Hunter nodded. "It was hard, those first few months... lost a lot of my group."

"Your group?" I didn't know he was leading a group.

Hunter went over to a chair and sat down, with me sitting on the bed nearby. "Me, my family, neighbors, some randoms, a few police officers and Ex-military, lead them away from the hot zone and into Star City, capital of Arkansas..." The young man chuckled darkly, looking down. "We started out as thirty strong... by the time we got to Star City... we were only two."

"Your family?" I asked.

"... No..." He gave me a shaky sigh, leaning down on his knees and propping his chin up with his hands. "I had to put them down when they turned." That made me go wide eyed, and he nodded. "I know... I killed my own family, and trust me it wasn't easy... my sister, mother, little brother..." Hunter then reached into his pocket, pulling out three shell casings for a 9mm bullet. "One to the head each... I keep these to remind me everyday, about who I failed..."

Jeez... no man should have to do that. I didn't know how to respond to that, I rubbed my eyes, and replied, "I don't think I could do that to my own family..."

The man nodded his head, and said, "No one should have to... I've lost my entire family, in just three days, and every one of my friends are gone... I have nothing left."

There was silence between us both, with me just thinking about how hard it must have been for him, how hard this is just hitting me. It hurt, but it had to have hurt him more, I never saw my family after leaving four years ago, and I'd never see them again. He saw his family turn, saw them get bit, and turn into flesh hungry monsters created by another worse monster.

"How do you keep going?" I asked him finally, how could anyone?

It took him a few moments, my fellow human sucking in hi cheek before saying, "I don't..." I rose an eyebrow to that, as he continued. "I've come close to biting the bullet each day... now that I know who's done it..." He looked up at me, "I'm going to kill him... before I'm done..."

"You... you mean you're..."

"Yep... no point in going on."

"How can you say that?" I asked him, standing up. "You're just going to... kill yourself?"

"What's left for me?" Hunter questioned in return, I didn't have anything for that. "The holdouts, long before I left, I heard rumors the far eastern walls fell to over a million infected... there were maybe fifty thousand live people out that way... and now they're steadily moving westward, devouring everything in their path..."

"I know how you feel... losing your family, friends..." I shook my head, sighing shakily. "But I don't plan on killing myself, you know why?" I asked him, stepping forward. "Cause I made a shit ton of new friends here, in Equestria and beyond..." I told him, before shaking my head again, grinning, "No... not friends... family, is what they all are to me. They took me in, some random human, who knew jack all about how to survive in a world filled with magic... and they helped me live, they helped me grow... they took me in..." I saw I had Hunter's attention, and I went closer over to him, kneeling down and saying, "I know for a fact... everyone here, is willing to help you move on... if all is really lost on our world... then we kill Sombra, make him pay... and we start over..."

Hunter seemed to be thinking for a few, and I stood up and let him. Eventually, after a few minutes, he nodded, sighing as he also stood up. "I know It ain't right for me to think it... but that's all that's been on my mind..."

"Would your family want you to kill yourself? Instead of killing Sombra and denying him one less human life he's taken?" I quipped, smirking as Hunter added his own smirk.

"You're right... maybe I can start over..." With that said, he gave me a sigh before turning around and walking towards the open door. "I'll... see you later, maybe we can plan on finding Sombra... he's going to pay for what he's done." He uttered, and I gave him a nod.

"You're damn straight." I replied, as he left the room, leaving me alone with my thoughts. I went over to the bed, sitting down and running a hand through my hair, and noting it had grown longer. I'd need to get it cut, or grow it out... probably cut it, or get a ponytail, I wonder what Rainbow would think of that hairstyle? Hehehe, she'd probably find it funny, or love it... who knows. I sighed, looking up at the ceiling as I heard hoofsteps, followed by a familiar voice.

"L-Lyra? How are you up!" Rainbow cried, followed by an 'Oof' sound, as Lyra herself spoke.

"I t-thought you and Lee were goners!" She cried, as I soon saw her and Rainbow being pushed into rainbow and I's room. I noticed her gown was gone, and her body looked... different, she looked more healthy, that's not to say she was always unhealthy, but she looked better.

"Lyra? What's wrong, why'd you-" I wasn't able to finish that comment, as I was suddenly tackled by 70 pounds of minty green pony and knocked back with a cry. Crap! Was not expecting that in the slightest.

"Lee!" Lyra yelped, as Rainbow shook herself, before flying over to us, landing on the bed.

"Lyra, what happened to you? How... how are you better?" She asked, with me giving a questioning look to Lyra as well. She looked way better, way way better, like she wasn't even hurt to begin with!

Lyra's shiny golden eyes looked up into my own, and i saw a fear in them that I've only see in a few others...

Ones who's seen death.

"Lee... t-they attacked the hospital!" Lyra whimpered, holding onto me tightly and I couldn't help but return the hold. "They came in and killed everyone, a-and I barely got out alive." She told Dash and me, and I winced from the tight hold. I couldn't imagine being in her weak state, and all alone in the hospital with hundreds of those things... she must have been terrified.

"Lyra." I started, running my fingers through her mane. "How did you get out... exactly?" I asked, I had a sneaking suspicion of course, something that had to do with what Celly told me about Lyra's magic.

Looking up at me again, Lyra whimpered out, "I can use my magic again..." She said, and I saw her horn glow before several things in the room levitated up into the air... which mostly included the bed we were on, the dresser, another table, a few chairs and judging from the terrified yelps outside the room, probably whoever was walking by.

"Whoah whoah whoah." I said, feeling the bed buckle slightly efore we were set down with a thud. Lyra's horn gave out, an she coughed a few times, which ended with blood getting on my shirt. "Lyra? Lyra are you okay?"

She gave me a weak nod in reply, still holding onto me. Rainbow did the same, wing wrapped around my back as we all just sat on the bed, thoughts whirling. My thoughts anyway, Lyra looked better, sounded better and didn't look like she was blown up, which made me happy. But turning back to what Celly told me... meant that Lyra's power levels were, quite literally over 9000. As poor as that joke is, I had to make it, so don't blame me you jerks!

Time passed us by, the sunt outside eventually setting as the smoke from the destruction continued to rise into the sky. I heard ponies outside running out, names were yelled into the night and I felt my heart skip a few beats... how many ponies were killed because of Sombra's rampage? How many families torn apart because of that bastard? I had no fucking idea, but I raged internally because of it... I had plenty I wanted to do to him.

"Did you ask him?" Lyra's soft and sweet voice broke me out of my internal rampage, and I found my gaze had drifted to the window, whee I could see the smoky filled skies of the Crystal Empire.

Ask me what? I wondered, deciding to play along and not pay attention.

"Ask him...?" Rainbow mirrored, and I imagined her eyes going wide. "Oh... no I... I forgot, with everything going on I..."

Ehh, nuff playing around. Turning to look down at the ponies, i asked, "Ask the oh so delicious Lee what?"

Both mares looked up at me, Rainbow coughed into her hooves and Lyra was blushing up a storm... like, she wasn't minty green anymore, she was more like blood r-holy crap is Lyra dying?

"Uuuuh, Lee..." Rainbow turned to me, eyes locking with my own. "There's... something I was gonna ask you but... with Sombra and everything else I kinda never got the chance." She told me somewhat nervously, as Lyra righted herself in my lap.

I rose an eyebrow at her behavior, what's she got to be nervous about? "Uhm... kay...? Ask me what?"

Rainbow poked Lyra in the ribs, causing Lyra to squeak as she made a head gesture toward me. Lyra shook her head, but Rainbow nodded firmly and gestured to me again...

GIrls are so weird.

With a huff and a puff of her cheeks, Lyra looked up at me from where she was straddling my lap, golden eyes shining slightly as her ears folded back. "L-Lee... I uh..." She gulped, and I patted her on the head. "I asked Rainbow... and she said we had to talk to you about it and... this is kinda important and a really super big decision that... that I want to make and... I wanted to ask this for a long time..."

Jeez, Lyra's getting all flustered and shit, what could she have to tell me that's s-

"Can I join your herd and be your marefriend?" Lyra finished.

...

Lee.EXE has crashed, plz press up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, a, b, a, b, start to reboot system...

"Uhh... Lee?" I think I heard Rainbow's voice. "Lee?"

Authorization code needed, please type in password.

"I think you broke him, Lyra."

A sputtering noise. "I didn't think he would go catatonic!"

**********, please wait... password accepted, Welcome Lee Jacobson.

I blinked my eyes. "Uhhhh... did I hear you right?"

Lyra turned back to me with a almost dejected look in her eyes. "I... Lee..." Instead of words... Lyra shot forward, and she did something that completely shocked me, and left Rainbow speecheless...

She kissed me...

Before I could even react, she said, "I love you Lee..."

Lee.EXE has crashed once again, rebooting... 1%.............. 2%..............

"Oh jeez." Rainbow facehoofed.

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A Shitty Timeskip Later

I laid outside on the balcony... staring off into the vast endless expanse of space itself as I tried to gather my thoughts on what happened with Lyra. She kissed me... Lyra, a pony that I, 100% originally thought was with Bonny, kissed me, locked lips and went the whole ten yards. And... I liked it... Rainbow was shocked, but she didn't look like she was going to kill Lyra or anything, if anything she looked a bit... accepting? Of the entire ordeal, I honestly don't know...

But Lyra's question of wanting to join my herd, and her confession of love for me really... caused me to crash and burn.

I needed some time alone after that, so I left Dashie and Lyra alone so they could... talk I guess.

Herd... i mirrored the word Lyra asked me... Join my herd, both Dashie and Lyra? Could I even handle that? I know all about herds and shit, how they work and stuff... I know that Thunderlane had one with the twins in Ponyville, and there were some others scattered around the world but... the thought of it weirded me out, I wasn't against it or anything I was just... confused I guess, that after all of this, Lyra wants to be my girlfriend alongside Dashie.

Could I handle that? I mean, could I really handle the world's fastest pegasus and a unicorn who's level with Twilight in terms of raw magical power and control?

...

I have no idea.

Sighing, I looked up into the starry sky, noticing a black puff of smoke hovering above before it turned into Sombra. He smiled smugly down at me as I shot up, and I cursed myself for not bringing my sword with me.

We had a stare off... before he disappeared.

Goddamn the friendship beam of harmony... cause when I get my hands on him...

Sombra...

Will...

Die.

Author's Notes:

And thus... ends our journey in ANW:RD2.

Yeah I know right? You all waited this fucking long for this short chapter that is the conclusion to this story... and there's so many questions unanswered, such as Lyra's asking to join Lee's herd, why Celestia didn't burn fucking Sombra to the ground with her immense sun powers, and some involving dear Hunter.

Well, I am sorry if this ending disappoints you...

But do not fret, the saga does not end here forever... for there will be more to the tale of awesomery that is Lee and Rainbow Dash, now with Lyra and Hunter!

So... to you all... I just wanted to say thanks for sticking with me, thanks for reading and thank you for all of the likes, comments and favorites. I also apologize for the crap updating schedule I have had over the... year? I've started writing this? Regardless...

Stay tuned...

Love you all.

Peace out my little goobers.