> Rising: Return Of A Phoenix Mare. > by Neutral Boy > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prologue: Revival of a victim's death. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many years ago, before Equestria made landfall on Earth, a terrifying discovery arises. The alicorn ruler of her pony subjects, Princess Celestia, discovered it during Nightmare Moon's imprisonment. If this discovery isn't resolved soon, then all of Equestria and sentient life would be gone forever. In response to prevent it from coming true, Princess Celestia needed to make some drastic plans. Something in the future that can save her beloved ponies against this crisis. Which is why she hired any available staff & scientists for any solutions to help her out. What Princess Celestia doesn't know is that this would lead her to a dangerous dark time road ahead. Ones where her own decisions and actions cannot hope to stop it or take them back. Upon finding the notes of Starswirl the Bearded, Celestia obtained the knowledge of Crossing Dimensions. Worlds of different planets filled with many different species than her pony race. Some look very peaceful, others seem a bit more hostile, and many weren't a good place to arrive in or visit. So she sent in some of her soldiers to scout in each worlds, only she received negative results. All of them either went missing in action, didn't survive the physical laws of those universes, or perhaps they were killed by unknown powerful creatures that they didn't even stand a chance against. Despite the losses of her soldiers and many family ponies leaving her lands since they lost trust in her "questionable" rulings, Celestia hasn't given up on searching a perfection planet for the pony survival. Many days, weeks, and months passed as she didn't find a suitable world. Until one night, she has possibly found the right one. A few days later, Princess Celestia has given her protégé student, Sunset Shimmer, a task mission to go in the portal world and scout the area to see if the place is right on setting up for another town or city. At first Sunset didn't think it was a good idea, but her mentor has reassured her that this secret mission is important for the pony race and to extend Harmony across many lands should they accept the offer of friendship. Begrudgingly, Sunset accepts the mission, though in her head she has some doubts and suspicion. So she goes to gear up for traveling in the wilds and stock up on potions in case she needs an escape plan. After grabbing everything to take in, Sunset glances to her mentor before jumping into the portal. On the other side of the portal, Sunset has made it through and saw no signs of sentient life yet. The only thing she sees is a strange jungle filled with some harmless wild life & insects. Taking the first steps to this world, Sunset walks around while taking notes of these interesting life. In each ones, she writes down every insects, mammals, fish, snakes, monkeys, birds, and many life that weren't discovered in her world yet. Except for some who were documented in the Canterlot library. She also wrote in her notes of seeing a few beautiful sceneries of waterfalls and animals in groups being very peaceful of eating, but a few getting chased by predators looking for meats of fresh livestock. Shuddering on a couple downed animals eaten by them, she quickly walked away from the nature scene. From walking further around, Sunset did wonder on where exactly are the sentient docile intelligence. Maybe they have died off a long time ago? If they left anything behind? Any village, town, or city left? So many questions in her head, but just ignore them for now as she needed to finish up. Hours have passed and she got everything down in her notes while she waits for the portal to open. Although, what Sunset doesn't know is that she's being watched for some time. When the portal opens again, Princess Celestia sees her student still in one piece and sighed in relief. Sunset told her mentor that she has everything wrote down and ready to head back to give her the news. Unaware that neither of them didn't realize the next few moments of horror. As Sunset takes a few steps upon coming on closer to the portal, time has seem to stop. Her mentor's eyes widen of seeing a spear piercing through her student's front left leg. Sunset felt the pain and cried in agony. She looked around to see who threw the spearing, only she felt a sudden fear on seeing more than 30 native humanoid evolved monkeys appearing out of the jungle. Sunset notices a few more spears thrown and barely manages to dodge them. Teleporting away with her magic, she bucked a few natives out and uses her potions for a smokescreen escape. Despite managing to knock each of them while trying to heal up her leg, there's too many of the native to deal with and her notes where being torn up by them. She needed to escape and head back to the portal now. Having to use the last potions to stun the natives, she made a break for it and head to the portal. However, she was so close as another spear throws at her hips and one close to her heart. Sunset's body fell as blood drips out of her mouth. She had trouble breathing as she slowly crawls over to the portal, but felt another pain when a native's feet steps on her body. Her eyes look to see the spear pointing at her as the vision is fading. The last thing she heard before everything went blank is her mentor calling out to her. [Unknown years later. . .] Darkness. Endless darkness. Sunset's soul didn't know on how she slept in pitch black of nothingness. ". . . . . .se." She heard a faint sound, but doesn't know on where it's at. "Rise and shine Ms. Sunset Shimmer. Rise and shine. . ." The sounding voice she hears is growing louder. "Wake up Ms. Sunset, wake up and smell the ashes." A voice grows louder and she stirs of wanting to go to sleep more. "Oh for the love of inter conflicts-WAKE UP YOU STUPID BACON MARE!!!" Hearing a sudden loud voice, Sunset gasps in awake and looks around, only the area's mostly dark. She has tried to move her body, but yet for some reason it's very hard to move. "W-W-Wh-. . .ere am I. . . . . . w-why c-c*cough* *cough*can't I. . . ." "Easy there, don't talk too much. Sorry if I woke you up, but lie still and save your strength, okay?" Her head slowly moves to see who this mysterious unknown voice is talking to her. Then her eyes were focused on a figure merely not far from her merely waving a hand. "Good evening Ms. Shimmer. If you must know, you're in the deepest depths of Tartarus. Don't worry though, I'm not here to harm you in any way. I only came here to have a one-on-one talk with you." Sunset coughed a bit, but calms down and wonders on who this person is and why is she here. "W-W-Who are. . ." "Wondering on who I am? Well, I don't get any visitors since then, but I can introduce myself. Some sentients say that I'm a strange wanderer, others like most foolish soldiers fear in calling me a slithering mercenary killer. Few however who came across me and lived, called me a silent death walker. Anyways, my name is Culver the 5th." "Cul. . . . v-ver. . . W-Why *cough* a-am I. . ." Culver knows her question and sighs looking down. "Here in Tartarus? I hate it to break it to you, but years ago, a native clan ambushed and killed you." Sunset paused at this sudden news, but her memories did register of the pain she felt. "I r-rem. . . . ber I was am-ambush. . . . . a-and my h-home & m-ment. . ." "You remember back then and wanted to know on what happen after your death. That however, is very difficult to explain. Given after you died for over 100 years and many changes have passed, especially the darkest time of a bloodshed war." Sunset's eyes slowly widen of this informational shocking news to her. "Y-Y-Years?. . . . W-War?" "Sadly yes, I'm afraid your old home is no longer on what it use to be. The harmony lands that you remember back when you were still alive is now a depressing chaotic war grounds. Many pony kind and evolved intelligent humanoid monkey race have battled and died, including humans converted into mindless newfoals of ponies. The one who started this war was none other than your former mentor, Princess Celestia." Sunset's mind froze from hearing it. Her home gone? Ponies dying in battle? Conversion? Her own mentor started this? Why cause many chaos of endless blood of slain innocents? Why in Harmony would Princess Celestia do this? What was going on after her death? "I know you must have many questions and I'll get to them shortly. Before I do that, I need you to focus for once Sunset cause this history information I'm about to give you will decide on what happens next after that." Both of Culver's hands channel a red glowing magic to create a big image circle. When that was done, the big circle shows a image space of a ruined planet with no sun or moon. "This all started before your death, the destruction of a peaceful planet, and all the way to the Conversion War." [Meanwhile. . .] A group of human soldiers has met up with a unicorn who's tending to the wounded humans & ponies. "Commander Lyra Heartstrings, names Sergeant Xavier Baker of Bravo team." "At ease Sergeant, what did you come here for?" "Our intel has found something and they need you to be brought in." "Can it wait a bit longer? I'm in the middle of patching up medicine for the patients." "Sorry ma'am, but we have our orders. They need you at once and it's very important for you to look at." "(sigh). . . Alright, this better be important. Give me a minute to have someone take over the wounded." "Understood." > Chapter 1: Dark sun's past, a lost soul's decision. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Every different sentient species would one day have a mental breakdown or a breaking point in their life Sunset. Including those, like the princesses, can have one when ruling a country or two among the citizens." The image below the shattered planet shows two Alicorns mourning for the deceased ponies. Sunset saw the two familiar figures, but she's sadden to see many ponies has passed away. Note to readers: Ignore the cutie mark elements on the tombstones. Those ones on the tombstones were from the past ponies that Celestia and Luna made friends with long before the celestial sisters saw the Tree of Harmony for the first time. Just wanted to give you the heads up, notice, eh you get what I mean. "Ever since your former mentor, Princess Celestia, has lost her parents and her friends when they've grown old or killed off, she and her sister, Princess Luna, struggled to help bring peace among the lands while also dealing with moving on from the past. Despite being young and not much experienced, the two sisters needed to stay strong together and learn much along the way." The next image shows the two sisters and there allies fighting off the evil forces across the lands. "Although, it would be a tough time to bringing Harmony as the conflicts of Chaos have spread in every places. From the three pony tribes to the Ram Lord Grogar, Storm King, their former friend Discord, centaur Lord Tirek, leaders of changelings, shadows of Umbra King Sombra, Dragons, Griffons, nobles, thieves, scoundrel's, conquerors, and many more." "Yet what Celestia didn't realize was that in time, she would also face a difficult challenge of facing up against her own flesh & blood sister who became Nightmare Moon. The cause of it was because of the relationship problems, including her subjects praising for her over Luna, making her little sister bitter jealous." The third image shows a lone Alicorn watching over both the sun and the moon. Which it also shows the alicorn crying all alone at the torn up Elements of Harmony room. "That, is where her next pains and grief began in her long life. When banishing her sister to the moon, she felt a lot of negative emotions building up inside. Regrets of her bad decisions and wanting to change back the times on being with her beloved sister back. Nevertheless, she had to keep it together and rule her own country alone without Luna, but this presents another problem." "Months after banishing her sister, Celestia sensed something was wrong with the sun and moon. Looking at them more clearly, she was horrified of the result that both of them would die out one day in the future, causing a massive extinction around the world. Having an idea, she then went to hiring many scientists and researchers for any solutions of preventing the disaster. Sadly however, there isn't any good news of preventing it." Another image is shown with Celestia researching and some of her loyal subjects leaving. Many were showing in grief, anger, sadness, and mouthing hurtful words at there former princess. "Desperate of finding another way out of this, Celestia began to create portals from reading Starswirl the Bearded's notes & research. After creating the portals, she has sent some of her guards inside them to report back to her, only it left disastrously negative results. The unknown worlds have slaughtered every guards she has sent in her test portals. Victims either have melted, burned alive, shot dead, bombarded, decapitated, torn in half, balls chopped off, marehoods. . . . . I-I don't want to go in the gruesome detail, dog pile of being eaten alive, tortured to death, stomped on as a bloody cupcake, you name it." "Stubborn as a mare, despite losing her guards and some ponies leaving her country because of her questionable & suspicious ruling, she hasn't given up on her original plans of preventing the future extinction. Until she has caught a glimpse of a lonely little foal of a mare, am I correct Sunset Shimmer?" The image shows of Celestia lending a hoof to the filly Sunset and taking her in Canterlot. Showing little Sunset growing up, all the way towards her death by the native humans. Deep down inside, Sunset had never expect a hurt of betrayal and felt tears dripping down her eyes. Not from any pony friends she has tried to make, but to a close mother figure of her own mentor. "Sad, isn't it? The only princess in Equestria that's given you a purpose of being a mother figure and teaching you Harmony life, never even act like a true blood mother when she spent so much time on research and meetings over you. No matter how much you want to deny it, she lied to you about her true intentions the entire time in your grown up life." Culver shook his head in disappointment of Celestia's lies before continuing on. "Anyways, when Celestia saw your death by the natives, she felt so broken and collapse in tears. Both from sadness of losing you, but also boiling in grudging rage of the native humans. Needless to say, she didn't take your death very well. Many years after the tragedy, she has kept her plans on hold and vows one day of justice to slaughter every foreign natives who've killed her deceased student. Celestia's deep hateful grudge against the humans wouldn't go away for a very, very, very long time." "However, in the years passing by, a new opportunity solution has come with her added secret plans." A Rainbow colored wave appears in the image of Cloudsdale, spreading across Equestria. "The birth of the first Sonic Rainboom and the next Elements of Harmony bearers." {Meanwhile. . .} In the woods north of Georgia, a human team of Beacon members were hold up here to rest. The leading member captain Cruger, checks up on medic Docks who is healing Jacob's leg. "Docks, any sign of the infection?" Cruger said, watching Jacob's face having a fever. "Not one drop captain, we've manage to chop off his right leg before the potion could spread further up his whole body. I've given up enough morphine and medicine to cure his wound, but I don't have enough to help heal him back up. He needs to go at a hospital for better treatment." "Dammit, at least the potion didn't turn him into a newfoal. Any signals yet from Reaper team, Alex?" Alex glances to his captain before inspecting his radio to try on getting a signal. "No dice captain, radio is still jammed in this area. Last message I heard from Celina is that her squad members are heading up to an enemy supply post, but got ambushed by the ESS guards so they took a detour split route." "Capitaine, vous voudrez peut-être jeter un œil à ça!" (Captain, you may want to take a look at this!) Cruger heard his squad member calling to him and walks off to his teammate. He sees her with the SVD (Dragunov Sniper Rifle) scoping the perimeters. "What do you got Charlotte?" The sniper girl named Charotte zoomed out and point her finger out to a locationin the woods. "J'ai repéré un soldat loup solitaire pas trop loin d'ici sur le sol près d'un bois tombé. Je calcule que depuis l'est, il est à moins de deux mille pieds, mais je ne peux pas vraiment dire s'il est vivant ou non." (I spotted a lone wolf human soldier not too far from here on the ground by a fallen wood. I calculate that from the east, he's less than two thousand feet away, but can't really say if he's alive or not.) "Are you sure?" "Positif, en plus il y a une chance que son petit camp ait des munitions de rechange, des kits médicaux ou quelque chose du genre. C'est votre appel capitaine." (Postive, plus there is a chance his small camp has some spare ammo, medkits, or something. It's your call captain.) Cruger lowers his head a bit and taps his foot on the dirt. Sighing, he walks back. "Okay, you're with me Charlotte." She nods and follows her leader in which they joined up with their group. "Got new orders now from me for a scouting mission. Charlotte has spotted a body nearby east and thinks there might be a small camp outpost. Razor, Ellie, you're with me and Charlotte on the scout party. Mable, your in charge of holding this position until we come back. Nathan, Terrance, Waker, Keith, keep an eye out for any enemies. Stay frosty people, we're not out of the enemy's territory yet and I don't want to see any of you turn. Understood?" "Yes sir!" "When the Summer Sun Celebration has come and the return of Nightmare Moon, the Elements were awakened again and chose the next bearers to defeat her, thus restoring princess Luna." Six elements have appeared, choosing the next figure bearers of Harmony. "Each bearer gifted by Harmony representing the element symbols to them. Applejack, wielder of Honesty. Rainbow Dash, wielder of Loyalty. Rarity Belle, wielder of Generosity. Fluttershy, wielder of Kindness. Pinkamena Diane Pie aka Pinkie Pie, wielder of Laughter. Finally there's Twilight Sparkle, wielder of Magic and also Celestia's. . . . . new student." Sunset's body shook up, knowing that her own teacher had replaced her. "Yes, Celestia has gained a new student when Twilight saw the Rainboom during her exam and she passed by hatching an egg named Spike. Don't dwell on that news for now Sunset, it'll mess your brain up. Okay where was I? Ah yes, so after the Elements of Harmony defeated Nightmare Moon and freed Princess Luna, Celestia congratulated the mares as the new element bearers." "Since then, each of the six bearers were tasked of staying in Ponyville and learning lessons along the way. Encountering various ponies & non-ponies like Gilda, Zecora, dragons except for Spike, Cranky, changelings, crystal ponies, buffalos, and so on. Plus there's also challenges when they had to face up against hydras, rock crocs, timberwolves, diamond dogs, bandits, mercenaries, Discord, Queen Chrysalis, King Sombra, Lord Tirek, and Starlight Glimmer." "Yet what neither of them know is that Celestia's grooming them for the next part of her secret plans. In her time, she has created numberous parts & pieces of vehicles while conducting an organization alliance with the nobles, despite them having some doubts about her plans. The only thing missing for her is she doesn't have enough strong magic for the plans to work, until a thought occured in her mind." A figure image shows a 4th new alicorn born in Equestria. "When Twilight Sparkle ascended to an alicorn princess from dealing with an issue of Starswirl the Bearded's journal spell book, it was also Celestia's two last opportunity plans to be completed soon. The ascendance of her student to alicornhood and a mirror portal she has found from Starswirl's findings in Canterlot." "This, is the next event moments when Equestria history would change forever. Where Celestia teleported her Equestria home to Earth, leaving every creature left behind to die as the Conversion Bureau and the human-pony war would start." {Meanwhile at the Wonderbolts Academy. . .} The leader of the Wonderbolts, Captain Spitfire, is training up the new cadets for a battle against the humans while Soarin, Steel Wing, Fleetfoot, and Wind Streamer watching them. "Alright you mule maggots, I want every pony in tip top shape for our next sessions! If we're going to go up against the dirty human apes, we'll need to increase our strengths and wing speed to either convert them or kill them all and then we go home in one piece! Am I right cadets?!" Spitfire shouted to them, readying for an answer. "SIR YES SIR?!" All of the cadets replied back with a salute to her. "Mmmmhmmmm, damn right I am. Now move it out, double time!" The cadets run off to go gear up and train in with their flying skills and fighting tecniques. "All you rookie pegasi foals who wanted to see filthy apes up close! This is gonna be your lucky day!" Up above the Academy, a Canterlot pegasi guard named Flash Sentry is seen holding a bag with him. A concern nervous look is shown on his face, remember his talk from a resistance spy weeks ago. "If you really want to defect, then there's a few objective missions just for you." "W-What kind of missions?" "Nothing bloody or major to be concerned about. Only the ones to prove that you, Flash Sentry, can fully complete and to rendezvous at the coordinates without alerting the bitch's guards. Complete these tasks I've given you and you'll be welcomed to the resistance." Flash inhales and exhales, lessening his nerves and shakiness. 'Okay, no turning back now Flash. Just get the job done and get out of here.' He reminds himself. Flash flies down on the Academy grounds and hides behind the walls. Peeking out, he spots a young mare figure watching the cadets training while the officers evaluate them. "Pssst! Hey over here, I need to talk to you!" The mare glances her eyes to Flash, hearing him to come over. Recognizing him, the young cadet mare runs off to go talk with him. "Hey there Scootaloo, how's it going being as a cadet?" He greets her. "Oh hi Flash Sentry, everything going as great as can be! Oh you wouldn't believe the look on Rainbow Dash's face when I've officially got accepted into the Wonderbolts Academy! Plus I'll be going with her along with Captain Spitfire! So how about you?" Flash sheepishly smiles, a part of him fear for Scootaloo go into a bloody battle for the first time. "G-G-Good I guess. . . . u-um Scootaloo? T-There's something I wanted to discuss with you and uh-" "Oh that's wonderful! You see, my friends at first thought it was crazy of me going to the Academy due to my condition. Although, Rainbow did reasured them I'll be going into some treatment and then we-" While Scootaloo is busy with her talk, Flash knows the clock is ticking and doesn't want to waste time. 'Oh ponyfeathers. . . . . . . . . I'm going to regret this if I get caught by them.' Sighing, Flash Sentry frowns and looks at Scootaloo, his small tear flowing down his face. "I'm sorry, Scootaloo." He says in a sad tone. "Wait, what was that Fl-" 'Thwack!' Flash knocks her out cold with a hoof to the back of her head before picking her up. He glances to both the Wonderbolts Academy, Ponyville, Crystal Empire, and Canterlot. "Forgive me, Rainbow Dash and to you the most, Princess Twilight Sparkle." Looking around, he backs up and sneaks off to the Wonderbolts offices. "Okay, one objective down, four more to go." An image shows Princess Celestia and her subjects greeting the sentient humans. "In the several years passing since teleporting to Earth using the mirror portal experiment, Celestia and her subjects has greeted the humans of coming in peace, which I know is a complete lie from her voice when a part of her is still holding a grudge of looking at the monsters. You can clearly see it underneath her fake smile, behind the ruling face glaring death threats at every human apes she has seen." "Anyway, from the months of time when ponies gotten to know human histories & technology, Celestia meanwhile has created a Conversion Bureau system by giving a speech to the humans of a cure from their chaotic nature and violence to becoming a cured better pony before the barrier would destroy the human body. Obviously to me it's not a good idea on lying to the humans of her hidden true motives." "Newfoals were made, but the scientist ponies forgot to mention about the side effects to the humans. This sudden confusion and suspicion didn't go unnoticed when people started getting letters about every newfoals talking so much about Equestria without remembering of what they left behind at their human birth homes and having weird smiles that didn't look normal at all. Things took a dark turn later on after a defective scientist pony revealed the whole truth inside the walls of every Bureau systems and Equestria's plans." "Furious and pissed off at this betrayal behind there backs, the human leaders have ordered all of the Bureaus to be destroyed. Though they didn't work alone, some of the ponies from Equestria didn't know about the truth and also agreed to join forces led by Lyra Heartstrings to take down every conversion systems, preventing any more human volunteers to be converted next." "In response, an outrage of Earth and Equestria world blaming each other, yet it was clear when the leaders of Equestria were responsible of this whole mess and deaths to happen in the first place. A strain peace of broken trust shattered as all communication between humanity and Equestria is silenced, meaning that later on humans would declare war." "So began the Conversion War. Your former mentor realizes the humans aren't worth saving from themselves. She then expands the barrier to multiple locations and I do mean multiple locations of every human history grounds, erasing them to form a tainted pieces of Equestria's new grounds." No offense to the Newgrounds site. "There you have it, the war has gotten out of control Sunset. Celestia, before the war began, also created a ESS organization. The ESS arrested ponies on defying Equestria's rules, capturing escapees, beating them, torturing them, or even executing them. The element bearers still blindly follow her rules, not knowing of the consequences. It's. . . . . I-It's a mess out there." "Humans dying, ponies dying, newfoals killed, more injured victims in hospitals, deaths of bodies flung on lands & seas, and families losing family members due to the war. Everything is gone to a shit of hellfire because Celestia wouldn't let go of her dark past, making a terrible future of Equestria's false peace." Culver gives a long sigh and stands up, looking down at Sunset with a sad face. "I know this is a lot to take in, knowing your former mentor has lost mostly of her sane mind, not caring if her subjects died in her portals and for saying her name in prayers for morale support, killing all the humans. That is exactly why I need your help to make a decision. Either stay her for a long time to watch everything burn, or at least get a second chance to live and fight for humans & ponies against your own birth home." Sunset hasn't said anything, but thinks to herself on the whole dark recap of news of Equestria's downfall. "I'll let you take your time to make a decision, be right back." Culver walks off not too far as a voice spoken in the shadow above him. "You sure this is a good idea?" "Not sure entirely, though my dreams drift off to the deceased. For the newfoals however, I can hear the struggle of control. Every human minds in chains screaming & crying for the pony side to stop while the other side ignores them and continues to serve blindly under the delusional tyrant's rules." "Yeah, I can hear them too, but I don't know if Sunset can handle of seeing her again." "It's her choice if she does want a second chance, otherwise a dangerous force will destroy both the human & pony race for good without any hesitation nor mercy. That I cannot allow to happen and you know it." "Then what is your plan if Sunset descends to Earth? She can't defend herself since she lost her magic." "I know, that's why I'm going to make a few gears and plans. Just trust me on this one, okay." ". . . . . Understood sir, just don't let her chance be wasted so soon." "Don't worry, I'll pull up a list of familiar deceased warriors to help her out when she arrives on Earth." {Elsewhere. . .} The battle in New York City continues, human soldiers and guard ponies shooting at one another. However, the guards were falling back when they spotted tanks appear, giving the humans a morale boost. While the shots & explosions continue on, a medic soldier is dragging an injured guard who's bleeding. "Help! Help me! I'm being foalnapped! Oh sweet Celestia my back hooves they bucking hurt!" "Hold still man, I'm trying to help ease up the wounds! It's bad enough if you stop struggling!" Despite encountering an injured enemy stallion of Equestria bleeding to death, the medic doesn't want him to die. It's always a medic's duty to help save the injured victims, even if the ones are your enemy sometimes. "GET DOWN!" A voice was heard as a bombing occurred nearby, the medic covered wounded guard when the dust flown in. The medic could barely hear from his ringing sounds, only to see he's surrounded by multiple pony guards. "Get down on the ground filthy monkey!" Just before having his own hands up in surrender, another guard steps in front of him. "What are you doing Water Leaf?! Get out of the way! That filthy ape is an enemy to Equestria!" "The sentient ape maybe our enemy, but he's willing to help save our guard cadet." "You do realize this is a violation to the princess's rules, right?! So step aside or we'll arrest you for-" "Buck Equestria's sick & twisted rules of peace, I'm tired of fighting for my former princess's lost cause. I've already lost many friends and family members to a war the tyrant has started before the bureau and I'm not about to lose another comrade childhood friend of mine. So go ahead arrest me or shoot me if it makes you feel better because I'm done with the old order of Equestria and your tyrant princess, can go straight to Tartarus." A magical field has formed in shielding the three in the center. The traitor's former allies tries to break through, but with no effect. "Break this damn barrier you fools! Kill the ape and arrest the traitor!" The stallion looks up to seeing a mare he hasn't seen for a long time. "W-Water Leaf?" He whispers. The unicorn mare Water Leaf glances to smile at her friend, then to the human medic. "Go, take him for the treatment! I'll hold my former guards off for as long as I can!" Slowly nodding, the medic picks up the stallion. "Thank you, unicorn pony Water Leaf." He heads off away from the battle with the stallion and throws smoke on the ground, making an escape. "WATER LEAF! LET GO OF ME! I NEED TO HELP HER!" "I hate to break it to you, but we're outmatched by your former guards wanting to kill me and don't care if you died here! Your friend Water did the right thing of buying us some time to escape! Don't let her sacrifice be in vain man, we'll find her again if she's still alive in the other world!" The stallion pauses of hearing the human before looking at the smoke. His friend lowering the barrier and holding off the pony guards, hearing her scream & in pain. ". . . . WATER LEAF! ONE DAY I'LL FIND YOU AGAIN, I SWEAR IT! JUST DON'T DIE TILL THEN!" So the human medic while carrying the injured stallion runs off to a nearest medical building. {Elsewhere in Ponyville, Twilight's house. . .} A purple dragon named Spike is busy checking the list of negotiations, peace, and wounded ponies. "Okay, so roughly 90 more are wounded today. I'll need to check with the equipment for Twilight." Just then, he hears a loud knock on the door. "Alright, just give me a second to get it." Putting the paper on the desk, he goes to check on who it was, only to be surprised it's Pinkie Pie. "Pinkie? I thought you were busy rounding up the wounded." "No time Spike, there's trouble at the bar!" Spike rolling his eyes on who the pair of ponies were. "You mean with Applejack and Rainbow Dash out drinking again?" "It's not them Spike, it's Twilight! She's out drinking again and gotten into a fight! The guards did there best to hold her down before knocking her out! They took her to the hospital!" He eyes widen in shock, never knowing that his sister is out drinking and gotten into a messy fight. "Take me to Twilight, I need to know on what happened to her." Pinkie nods and takes off with Spike on her back. > Chapter 2: The fools of misguidance. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset ponders on what to do next, now knowing of the long information she has learned. Her death, her mentor's lost sanity, the old world gone, invasion conversion on Earth, it's all wrong. In her mind, everything has gone to total shit and out of control, literally. "So much has happened while I was dead. . . . . why?" She wondered. "It's obvious when you think about it." Startled of hearing another voice, she looks up to see somepony beside her. Or rather, an imaginary pony that looks very similar from looking in a mirror. "Our own 'honest pretty princess' didn't even bother of putting in a statue of you in Canterlot, sending her own student to her death without knowing what's beyond the portal that she herself created. Heh, mother of the year, right? Or at least, that's what she intends to be when flocking around too much in her royalties of 'business duties' rather than spending time with us. I'm surprised she didn't tell us about her biological parents, they probably won't look at their own daughter's face again from all of the biggest mistakes and deaths she had on her own hooves." She blinks a few times, but still sees her reflection actually talking to her. "Wait a sec, are you. . ." "Wondering on who I am? Why, I'm your fairy god neglectful mother." Her mirror self said sarcastically. Her real self frowns. "That's not funny." "Awwww I'm hurt, the foolish dumbass didn't like her own joke. What, you want a medal of honor for being a puppet of sunbutt's playful little pawn? I can decorate one carved out of her mentor's anal hole inside and-" She kept her mouth shut to not want of hearing the rest to make her puke. "Ewwww I'll pass, so then who are you anyway? You kind of look like me." "Yes and no, I'm actually your conscious self. It's sort of complicated, but I don't want to get into a lot of details. Yes, I'm an image conscious of you as a pony. Before and after of getting killed by native humans in a brutal way. I have no idea on how long I was awake while you were still sleeping. The other explanation, well. . ." "Well what?" ". . . I'll let Culver tell you instead of me." "Wait, what do you me-" "Can't talk right now, leave a message and then I'll return your call. Tootles!" Her imaginary pony waved a hoof to her before disappearing out of sight. A few minutes later, Culver came back and sees her looking around. "Hey there Sunset, were you talking to someone or somepony?" "Uhhh, it's hard to explain, but I think that I was talking to my imaginary self." "Yourself? Oh, you mean the dead spirit of your conscious?" Sunset blinked in pause for the moment. "My what?" "Your dead spirit conscious. They only appear when anyone, anypony, or any sentient creature is near death from anything or when they did passed away. I know it may seem confusing to you, but I'll try to summarize it. First off, do you know why any light or sun reflect off of our shadows on the ground or walls?" "N-No?" "Well, everything in life has a balance. Our shadows for example, is a part of us that reflects from any light and forms a shadow from any solid objects, including living beings. You see, without the shadow reflecting off the light, it can lead to some huge consequences. Living beings can become undead and structures like buildings or something built from past history, can lead to a total collapse of ruins lost to time." Sunset felt shocked of this, never in the books she has read didn't mention those important ones. "So you're saying, my own men. . . . . C-Celestia is unbalancing all life of humans and ponies?" "No, that's just one of the important ones she's ruining in her entire years. Because of those past events from her life growing up towards the present war, she has now become the very monster than neither any fallen hero nor villain. She's tainted the balance of the orders of Harmony and Chaos in the universe. Whether if she does live or die, Celestia cannot be gone scot-free from these vile acts and must be punished." Culver then walks over to Sunset. "In the meantime, why don't we get you up from the floor and show your new appearance?" "Wait, what?" He picks up her body and stands her up straight. "Why does my body seem so um, sluggish?" "Just wait a sec Sunset, I'll show you." Snapping his fingers, a mirror is presented towards them. "Tada!" Sunset is more likely stunned on her new appearance. "What do you think of your new body Sunset?" She didn't say anything as she was more focused on her new looks. Her own hooves are no longer there, replaced by her hands and feet. Her muzzle is gone, but only shown with a nose and mouth. She still does have her usual eye colors and body color of her pony form, but the difference is her now form also has an oval gem on her forehead, the unfurled pegasus wings on her back, and a pony tail by her upper butt. Other than her unusual form, the worst part however, is her form's exposed naked with no fur covering her. Her whole face went red in embarrassment. "I-I'm a hu. . . . . h-h-huuu. . . ." Her whole sane mind was too much to think before fainting down on the ground. Culver was surprised by this when Sunset fainted like that, probably should've mention this to her first. "Uh whoops." "Nice going jackass, you've just turned Sunset into the ones responsible for killing & eating her." "Shut up, at least I didn't transform her into a lamia, harpy, spider, dragon, undead caster, cat, slime, etc." "Hee hee hee, giggidy~." {Meanwhile. . .} The four Beacon members are trekking through the woods towards the downed human soldier. Ellie's the rifle woman covered for them in the back. Razor, the shotgun man and Charlotte, the sniper girl is keeping watch from left to right while there captain Cruger is walking carefully to look for any hidden traps. "Anyone get the feeling like we're being watched?" Razor says, gripping his weapon. "Not in the slightest Razor, all of us know the enemy is clearly testing us humans of our tactics." Ellie replied. "Yes, but look at how well it turned out when they first invaded our planet. We have tried to make peace with these weird ponies, but in the end, they were the ones who has lied to us the whole time. Now it just feels like another war again, but it's closing in the casualty count to both world war 1 and 2. Including the added bonus of potion corruption. I mean, have you seen of what the newfoals can done when they don't have control of their heat cycle? I can't even unsee it from my dream & nightmare!" "Nous comprenons Razor, ces anciens humains sont similaires à certains animaux dans des régions éloignées, mais beaucoup plus fous que les gouvernements russe et asiatique réunis." (We get it Razor, these former humans are similar to some animals in remote areas, but much more crazier than the Russia and Asia government combined together.) Charlotte says, rolling her eyes. "Oh how would you miss expertise French girl? Did you study it in class science like I don't know, wanting to experiment by making anatomy contact with newfoal stallion or mare than with males or women?" "Pourquoi tu ne viens pas d'embrasser mon cul, espèce de bite noire, en train de sucer, de répandre la maladie, fa-" (Why don't you just kiss my ass, you black cock, sucking, disease spreading, fa-) Captain Culver stops and turns around, staring sternly mad at the two and they immediately shut up. "Cut the chattering you two, we're out here for a reason and it's us staying alive. I don't want any of your caused bickering to jeopardize seeing a life die right in front of your own guilty watch. You have two options; Either A: Continue to bicker and leave everyone to die. Or B: Keep your emotions in check and stay focus by saving Earth's humanity against the invaders." Ellie glances to see her two members really screwed by pissing off their captain. "B." They both said, earning a bitter lesson. "That's what I thought. Now keep moving." He says in a harsh tone. The three have followed him to stay close. 'Nice going jackasses.' Ellie's mind thought, shaking her head to the idiots. The four kept quiet and trek through, making sure to keep an eye out at all angles. Eventually, they were close to their destination. "Razor, check the body if they're alive or not. We'll keep watch and cover you." Cruger ordered him. "I'm on it captain." Razor goes to check on the downed body while Cruger, Charlotte, and Ellie keep watch. He looks over the body, noticing a symbol on the back. Wiping the leaves & grass off, he is shocked on what he's discovered. "H.L.F." The three soldiers heard him, surprised of this sudden news. "H.L.F. As in, the Human Liberation Front?" Ellie said in confusion. "Je pensais que ces connards racistes s'étaient dissous il y a des années." Charlotte says, gritting her teeth from remembering them. (I thought these racist assholes disbanded years ago.) Captain Cruger looks at the symbol and asks Razor a question. "Can you tell where the track lead Razor?" "Approximately north west from here, I see some fresh blood on the ground." "Is the HLF dead or alive?" Razor checks for a pulse, but can tell that this male soldier is still alive." "He's alive, but in bad shape. He needs some bandage to cover his wounded right torso." "Okay then, now keep quiet. I got a signal from Mable." He goes to his comm on an ear piece from his right ear. "What is it?" "Captain, Waker has spotted multiple bogeys of more than one hundred & twenty ponies heading to our position with a few prototype heavy walkers. He calculates it's less than twelve minutes before they find us. Your orders?" Cruger rubs his face with his hand, not expecting these stubborn ponies to give up. "You know what to do with our little surprise packages. Get Terrance and Keith to carefully place them on each of the tree's roots. Wait for one of the packages to trigger, then light the bastards up with a couple of grenade & rocket launchers. Order Nathan to carry Jacob away from the fight. Hold your position until I give the signal to retreat." "Roger that, over and out." The transmission is cut off as he turns to his comrades. "Mable's team has spotted the enemy heading to our position in less than twelve minutes. I've ordered her to hold the line until I give the signal to retreat. Ellie, Razor, make sure this HLF member is kept alive. We need to know everything and what has happened. Charlotte, your with me to finding the soldier's camp site. If there's no further question, then let's move out." Captain Cruger and Charlotte follow the footprints while Razor & Ellie keep watch, healing the HLF soldier. Charlotte is surprisingly quiet and her captain can tell it's not good. "Capitaine Cruger?" She asks him. (Um captain Cruger?) "I know what you're gonna say without Razor or Ellie so I'm all ears." ". . . Es-tu sûr qu'il est sage de le garder en vie ? Même après ce que le HLF et le PER ont fait pour que tout le monde s'oppose?" (. . .Are you sure it's wise to keep him alive? Even after what the HLF and the PER have done to cause everyone going against each other?) Her captain sighs, knowing the both of them have fought against the HLF & PER before. "I hate them too, you had a bad history with them longer than I do. Even if we did put him down, we'd be no better than acting like the xenophobic racist people or ponies. I won't let it consume me and making it a repeat to my future generation children. My own parents didn't teach me to become a xenophobic, they taught me to being a grown youth and make my own career down the line. This isn't who we are Charlotte, we have to make better judgement & difficult choices for the future of humanity. No matter if they do come back to haunt us or weigh us down, we'll always have the will to get back up again." Charlotte looks down a bit, thinking he does have a point and to become better. 'Je garderai cela à l'esprit, capitaine.' She reminded herself. (I'll keep that in mind, captain.) The two Beacon soldiers closed in and found the camp site, but it's not what they were expecting. "What in the hell?" Cruger said in shock. He and Charlotte saw a massacre of HLF deceased bodies of more than 50 not moving. Most of the vehicles were damaged while others were flipped over or smashed up. Crows and Vultures were eating the deceased bodies and missing limbs exposed. Charlotte felt a tap on her right shoulder. "Let's go find any supplies available for our team." She slowly nodded and follows him, still shocked and horrified of many HLF members gone. Who or what could have done this much damage? More importantly, is the person or thing still out there? They looked around while not trying to throw up from the dismembered bodies. Captain Cruger looks around the camp, seeing a couple of jeeps and helicopter still intact. The two walk in the station, finding some supplies of weapons & medic. "You were right Charlotte, he did have some supplies in this camp." He says, grabbing a bag to put them in. His comrade looks around and finds a radio system intact. "J'ai trouvé une radio capitaine non endommagée." (I found a radio not damaged captain.) "Alright, let me get a signal." He changes the frequency to his comrades comm channels. "Razor, do you hear?" "Yes sir." "I found the camp site, but it looks like a slaughter house up here. We checked around and it seems safe for now. I found a couple of vehicles and a heli to help us out. Both of you get the HLF member to the jeep and give him morphine." "Understood captain." The two heard the sounds of booming in the distance, thinking the fight has already started. "Il faut qu'ils les aient trouvés monsieur." She says, worried for her teammates. (It must be they found them sir.) "Yeah, I heard it too." He changes another frequency to Mable's position. "Mable? Are you there?" "The enemy now knows our position sir! We're still holding, but can't stay here forever! Nathan got his chest injured by one of the pegasi's spears! He's okay, but no longer to fight since he can't hold his weapon!" "Hold your position a little longer. I'm coming over to give them a surprise present. Once I catch them off-guard, pop in some smokes and fallback to these coordinates here. Take both the injured and undamaged soldiers with you, leave no one behind." "Yes sir-agh! Dammit, eat this you freaks!" When the communication went off, he goes to grab some gears for the helicopter. "Charlotte, stay here and help out our two comrades with the HLF member. I'll go prepare to start up the helicopter to assist our teammates, taking the enemy by surprise." "Oui capitaine Cruger." (Yes captain Cruger.) After the captain left, she notices a device behind the communication radio. "Hein?" (Huh?) She reaches her left hand out, grabbing on what looks to be a strange circle device. "Hmmmmmm, je verrai si le capitaine peut y jeter un œil plus tard. Peut-être que ses amis scientifiques découvriront cette chose." (Hmmmmmm, I'll see if the captain can take a look at it later. Maybe his scientist friends will find out about this thing.) Lyra Heartstrings is walking with the human soldiers Bravo team. They soon get inside the base of a few commanders. "Lyra Heartstrings, it's nice to meet you." One of them spoke to her. "Mine too Mr. Halper, so what intel did you find me for?" "It's in between Europe and Africa, but I'll give you the rest of the details once we join the others." "Fair enough." The group and Bravo team go in as the gate closes shut outside. {Elsewhere. . .} The draconequus spirit of chaos and disharmony is seen alone, playing some card games. His white rabbit hair friend eyeing him carefully of not cheating rules. "Three of a kind sevens, beat that." He smiled. The white rabbit shockingly gasp, but smirk when he revealed four tens. ". . . You win this round white devil of wonderland." He grumbles. He watches the rabbit cheers and got his carrots back. 'Oh sure mister Discord, you can make friends with Angel bunny by playing some games and grow a bond of bro colts. Hmph, I'll remind her by exposing the dark secrets of the spa where Rarity often goes to-" "Discord!" He thoughts were interrupted when his yellow pegasi friend has returned. "I'm all packed up now." She said. "Fluttershy, you came back. Are you honestly sure you made the right call?" His feathered friend's ears flop down of making a tough choice. "Yes, as much as a part of me wanted to reject it, Lyra was right. The once good peaceful Equestria I've known for so long is no longer a symbol for peace. Thanks to Celestia, every pony has changed, even my own five friends that I've grown close to has grew distant away from me. I don't want to keep fighting for my own princess's blind justice, I just want to make peace with humanity and healing the injured who didn't deserve to be caught in the middle of the war, even if they do hate me forever." Her tall chaos friend smiles, thinking that she made the right decision. "Alrighty Fluttershy, shall we head off in a little bit?" "I'm all set and not turning back." "Great, just let me grab a few things and I'll portal us in with Lyra's allies." He turns away, but pauses when he remembers something back long ago. The fillies he has heard were the young students of Celestia, Twilight and another pony. He frowns in sadness, thinking he couldn't do anything to help them while stuck in stone. 'I really wish I could've done something for the fillies. Maybe help them get prepared in case Celestia did something stupid and stop it from happening, but it wouldn't matter now. One is gone and the other controlled by sunbutt. If only there was a way to change things up.' "Discord?" He shakes his head and sees his friend tilting her head. "Are you going to get your things or not?" "Oh uh, r-right. I'll be back Fluttershy." He snapped his claw fingers and teleports out, leaving Fluttershy and Angel looks at each other. "Did he seem off or what Angel?" Her bunny shrugs and eats his carrot while Fluttershy looked concerned for her chaos friend. A PER (Ponification for Earth's Rebirth) member is walking on two hooves towards his camp site. The stallion's body is covered in blood and dragging a deceased body of a PER member. "She lied, eheheheheheh. The false sun bitch has lied to us all. I tried to warn you my marefriend Vollina, haaaaaaa, but you didn't listen to me~. Now that I have found a new salvation for us, I must slay these infestation. Don't worry though my former lover, for I will let these whorses join you soon and make my wish come true. No strings on us, alllllllllll~." The stallion's echoes in the woods with his hums and broken laughter.