A certain human made his way into the land of Equestria.
A human who goes by the of Thomas Belinski is lucky enough to have his guns with him when he did, as now he's in a plagued version of Equestria. With his experience behind firearms and variety of them, will he survive and save Equestria? ...most likely. (Comments are welcome encouraged)
Thomas had awoken on a path covered in dirt “Where the hell am I?” He reached for his Scar-H “okay Thomas, deep breaths” His eyes started to fall from tiredness “Damn I better get some rest” he ran over to a tree and started to climb it “An apple tree wouldn’t be my first pick, but I better stay off the ground. God knows what’s down there” he started to drift off.
A rooster crowed as he looked to the east to see a sunrise, Thomas put the Scar-H back on his back and withdrew a .45 handgun. He jumped down onto a road “well I guess I might as well follow this road” he was walking for a few hours until he ended up in a destroyed city a large sign read: Welcome to Ponyvi---, he walked over to wipe the dust from the sign, as soon as he put his forearm on it to clean the dust away, a diseased looking pony had just jumped at him from out of the bushes. He lined the sights on the pistol with the head of the pony he pulled the trigger. He was shocked by what had just happened, “Um, excuse me?” Thomas spun completely around, “Wait don’t shoot!” he lowered the pistol “A talking pony? A FUCKING talking pony? I thought my dreams were a little more creative than this” “I'm going to have to ask you to trust me and follow me, oh by the way my name’s Twilight Sparkle” Thomas followed the purple unicorn to what seemed to be a large tree making small conversation, “Sweet mother of god you live in this thing?” “Yes and my friends are living here too”
Twilight and Thomas had entered her library. He noticed another five ponies who were talking, the yellow Pegasus spoke up “Um, Twilight what is that thing? Where did it come from?” He felt insulted by what the yellow one had just said “Well to answer your question yellow pony” “Um... my name is Fluttershy, but you know you don’t have to call me that” he felt guilty by what he had just said “Well my name is Thomas Belinski. But I have two questions” Then Twilight asked “what are they?” “One: Where the hell am I? Two: How did I get here?” The orange pony came forward “mah name’s Applejack and this is the beautiful land of Equestria... well it was until ‘IT’ came” “Might I ask what ‘it’ is?” Twilight came forth “we are not quite sure of what ‘it’ is, it is some kind of virus that takes over the body, destroying everything that kept us social. Beyond that we don’t know and I was hoping that you could help shed some light on this situation” The blue Pegasus came flying over “I don’t trust him Twilight he seems shifty, I reckon that he’s the whole reason that we’re in this mess” “Rainbow Dash can you stop accusing anypony for three minutes?” “That’s just it Twilight, he’s not a pony, he’s a... what are you?” “I’m a human” “Thomas why don’t you go upstairs and have a sleep it’s the third door on the right” he walked up to the room Twilight had told him to go to. “How can you trust him Twilight?” “I don’t know” Applejack walked over “He seemed like a decent enough type Rainbow” “AJ, looks don’t count for anything anymore. Twilight what type of thing did he say he was?” Thomas yelled from upstairs “A HUMAN” Rainbow Dash continued “Twilight I want every book you have on humans” Twilight went over to look for books on humans “I only have one on humans” “That’s all” “Most of my books are on magic and the history of equestria. Even this book has limited information about humans” Pinkie walked over “Are they as mean as griffons like Gilda?” Twilight responded “I haven’t read it in years Pinkie so I don’t know” Rarity cut in “I hate to interrupt but we do need to barricade the windows and doors so that those who have ‘it’ get in” the ponies barricaded the doors and windows and went to their bedrooms.
Thomas had woken up to find Rainbow Dash flying over the top of him, he jumped back “bloody hell, how long have you been watching me sleep?” “Just long enough to not trust you. I reckon you caused all this” “well I didn’t. Now if you don’t mind I’m going to go downstairs”
Thomas got up and walked downstairs to see the ponies removing planks of wood from the doors and windows “Good mornin’ Thomas, wasn’t it?” “Yes it is, and to you too Applejack” Twilight had walked over “Good you’re up” “Yeah, why?” “I need you to help me with something” Thomas rubbed his eyes “Sure, what do you need help with?” “I need you to confirm that you exist” He was confused “what do you mean? Of course I exist” “No, no that’s not what I mean. I need you to tell my princess that you exist” Thomas started to understand what Twilight was saying “oh, well can we leave that for tomorrow?” “Why have you got something to do today?” Thomas looked at Applejack and blushed “Well, I just wanna get used to your world” Applejack walked over “Do ya wanna me help out at Sweet Apple Acres do ya?” He nodded his head “Yeah, by the name I’m guessing it has something to do with apples” “We buck apples off the tree” “Sounds easy enough” “Well come on ah’ll show you the way”
Thomas had followed Applejack for about an hour, Applejack showed him how to buck the apples “see it’s that easy” “Umm.... Applejack in case you haven’t noticed, I don’t walk like a pony...or have hooves, so I can’t buck” “Oh right, well you might as well just pick them then” Thomas was getting the apples off the trees along with Applejack, he felt like he was there for a few minutes “come on time to take the apples in” “What why?” “Well we’ve been out here for hours” “Really? I guess it was being with you that made time go a lot quicker” {Do you realize what you just said?} “Maybe, you head back to Twilights’ ah’ll catch up” “I’m not gonna let you stay around alone, I'm staying with you” he spent at least five minutes walking, but he didn’t care just as long as Applejack was safe “Come on it’s about to get dark quickly” they ran back to Twilights’ library, they got there before dusk had even hit.
I'm Sure Queen Elizabeth 2nd Is Still Older Than Tia
Twilight was walking around in circles, very worried for her friend: she said “He couldn’t have, could he? No, he wouldn’t, would he?” Thomas and Applejack had just walked in the door Thomas had a forced smile on his face “Hey Twilight” he said to her retaining his cool She showed a sign of relief on her face “So I guess you’re gonna help me tomorrow?” “I don’t go back on my words” Thomas had helped board up the library and went to the bedroom with the three double beds and the one single. He looked around, everypony was in bed, and the only spare bed was with Applejack. He crawled into bed and went out like a light.
Thomas woke up early in the morning, he got up and realised that everypony was still sleeping. He killed time downstairs by un-barricading the doors and windows, by the time he had finished everypony was up “Good morning Rainbow Dash” he said with a shit-eating grin She flew over to look him dead in the eye “What are you up to?” she hatefully asked him He started grinning even more “Nothing I just slept well last night, next to your best friend” Rainbow Dash started to get angry “Simmer down Rainbow he’s just tryin’ ta stir ya up” Applejack told her as she walked down the staircase The human gathered Twi’s attention “Twilight, I’m ready to do that thing involving the princess” “Good! Here’s a scroll for you to write on” “Okay, but why a scroll?” he asked confusedly “We use them to write on that’s why” Twilight barked After writing on the scrolls Twilight called Spike over and he exhaled fire, burning the scroll “why did you do that?”Thomas asked pissed off, he noticed green smoke come from the paper “See? Now Princess Celestia will get that note soon, then she’ll send us a reply letter” He noticed that Spike had belched up another scroll “that was awfully quick” Spike commented, then he handed the scroll to Twilight, Twilight used her magic to grab it from him “What does it say Twilight?” the dragon asked “It says: Dear my faithful student Twilight, if this letter I have received is true and I believe that it is. I will have a chariot sent to pick your friends and this human called Thomas up and bring you all to see me in Canterlot, sincerely Princess Celestia” Thomas sat down “Well I guess I’ll meet the princess, by the way did she say what time she’d pick us up?” he asked pondering whether he should sleep or not Twilight re-examined the letter “It’ll be getting dark by the time that the chariot arrives” The human smiled “I’m okay with that” the hours slowly passed and finally the chariot arrived, it was large enough for them all to fit in with six guards at the front and six at the back “Damn that’s big, who else is coming?” Thomas chuckled at his own joke, he allowed the ponies to get on first then he followed, as the hours passed they finally reached Canterlot.
Thomas had woken the ponies up and told them they had arrived in Canterlot “Hey guys, wake up” Rainbow Dash was the first to get up then followed by Applejack, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie. They got out of the chariot and walked into the castle where upon the arrival Thomas was held at spear point “Bow to princess Celestia, show some respect” a hostile guard shouted Twilight was concerned “you better do what they say Thomas, they are armed” she would be terrified in that position He laughed at the guards “I don’t have to do shit for you, and empty threats are no way to get me to do something nor are they scary” the guards moved the spears in towards Thomas’ throat, he jumped pulling the spears up on his shoulders “you’re never gonna be able to kill me” A platinum guard walked over to Thomas “Huh? Why isn’t he in gold like the rest of you?” “He is a general, but I shouldn’t be talking to scum like you” the same guard informed Thomas {Stop right there criminal scum} Thomas joked inside his head The platinum guard spoke “Welcoming her royal highness, Princess Celestia” the guard directed his attention to Thomas “Why is he not bowing down?” The hostile guard saluted “He has refused to cooperate general” said ‘Sir kiss-ass’ “I demand that he be thrown into the dungeon for the rest of his life” {Little harsh don’t ya think?} The guards approached Thomas, a female voice called out “Halt” it was princess Celestia “It’s okay general he doesn’t have to bow, he’s not from here” “But princess...” Thomas nodded his head at Celestia “No excuses general you and your men may leave now” “I will leave at least three” “Very well” the platinum guard gave Thomas a hateful look in his eyes “so you are Thomas” “Yes your highness” “Please, you can be less formal than that, you can call me Tia” “Okay Tia” he acknowledged “Thomas I’d like to talk to these girls in private if you don’t mind” the princess told him “What should I do in the time between, Tia?” he asked feeling like an oddity “Feel free to walk around, I’ll send someone to get you when I need you again” Thomas started to leave “Oh by the way, Thomas” “Yeah Tia?” he asked as he turned back to her “Don’t piss off the general” “Will do, well won’t do” Thomas left the room. Twilight was the first to speak “Princess?” “Twilight, I requested this time so that I may ask you and your friends a few questions” “What are they?” Twilight was nervous, as if she felt she might be harbouring a criminal, those feelings stemmed from the scene earlier “I have faith in your judgement, but do you really trust this stranger. We don’t even know whose side he’s on” “Princess I have faith in him and I have no reason not to” “Very well then. If you don’t mind I would like to hear your friends’ opinions on him” Rainbow Dash got up “I don’t trust him” Celestia responded “would you care to explain why Rainbow Dash?” “He seems shifty, just that kind you can’t trust” “What about you Applejack? You have been awfully quiet and from what I have heard you spent a whole day with him” “Ah did, an’ he just seemed to be so nice to me” “Would you say you trust him Applejack?” “With mah life” Celestia turned her head away from directly at Applejack.
Thomas had been walking through the castle for a while. He was walking past a door and heard a soft lonely crying. He pushed the door open a bit so he could see who was crying, he walked into the room and saw a greyish purple Alicorn who had a light blue mane “hey, why are you crying?” “I never get to talk to anypony because most of the time I’m awake when they’re asleep or I’m asleep when they’re awake” Thomas walked over to her bed that she was on “if you like, I’ll talk to you. Would you like that?” “Yeah, I would, I’m Luna by the way” Thomas sat on the bed next to Luna “Nice to meet you Luna, I’m Thomas” “So I guess from the looks of you that you’re not from here” “Yeah, I’m not. So why are you only up at night?” “Because I raise the moon every night” “Hence your name being Luna?” “Yeah it’s kinda like a pun” she laughed An hour had passed and a guard came into the room “Princess Celestia wishes to see you Thomas” Thomas nodded at the guard and turned his head towards Luna “Hey Luna, wanna come with me?” She nodded her head and got up to walk with him.
The guard stopped at a large wooden door “Through this door” “Thank you” said Luna Thomas entered the room that he had first met Celestia in. Luna continued to walk and sat on the throne next to Celestia, Celestia spoke “I see you’ve met my sister Luna” Thomas shared a stare with Twilight, most likely Thomas’ saying: ‘I had no who she was’ before returning to Celestia “So Tia what did you want?” She directed her attention at him “Do you have any idea what ‘it’ may be?” “Well not really, although where I come from this sort of stuff is in the movies” “Do you have any idea how it’s spreading from the bite?” “Well if one film is correct, and I believe it is, it probably spreads in the blood. Contamination from the inside” “Have these films had a cure?” “Not any that I’ve seen. Unless you count bullets as a cure I don’t think there would be one” Time slowly passed as Celestia questioned Thomas “Umm... Tia?” Thomas yawned out “Yes? What is it?” the white Alicorn asked the human “I’m getting really tired, so may I go home. Well...by home I mean Twilights’ library” She nodded “Of course, you’ll have a chariot awaiting you outside. But I will most likely call for you again” Thomas, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie walked out of Canterlot and into the chariot held by the same six Pegasi.
Thomas, Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie arrived in Ponyville in the middle of the night. They got out of the chariot and started to walk back to the library, suddenly a zombie pony started to walk towards them, it started running, Thomas pulled out his Scar-H and aimed, he pulled the trigger “Boom! Headshot” the body fell over. They continued walking but more zombie ponies started to show up, Thomas spoke in a calm yet commanding voice “Run now, before they get you” all the ponies started running except Twilight, the zombie ponies started to swarm Thomas, he pulled out a trench knife and started to punch and stab the undead “TWILIGHT GET THE FUCK BACK TO THE TREE!” she started running fast enough and caught up with the others, he was out of her sight, she couldn’t see what was happening anymore.
There was a loud banging at the door, Twilight walked over and used the peephole and she saw Thomas. She opened the door as he crawled in with cuts bleeding, clothes torn and ripped, she felt his pulse and he had a low heartbeat rate. Thomas fell to the floor and blacked out.
Thomas awoke the next morning, nude in a strange room under some bed sheets. He stood up tying the sheets around his waist and started walking around the room. He walked over to the window and had a look outside “everything’s calmer than last night” he continued to stare outside “Good morning” said Twilight after creeping up on him He jumped “Oh it’s you Twilight. I got a question about last night” “You showed up almost dead, without Fluttershy you would be. It’s thanks to her that you survived. In case you’re hungry I made you some lunch, it’s downstairs on the table and your clothes are in the cupboard over there” she told him as she pointed to the cupboard “Thanks again Twilight” Twilight left the room. Thomas was getting dressed and noticed some wounds that looked serious, slowly regenerate.
Thomas walked down the stairs. Twilight pointed him to his lunch that she made from him “What are those things?” “They’re called hay fries” His stomach turned “Sorry Twilight but I can’t eat those, it’s not that I don’t want to it’s that I would get sick eating them, but thanks anyway” “It’s okay” she said eating them herself He walked outside “I’m gunna go walk around for a while”
Thomas stomach started growling “Thomas is ‘tat you?” it was Applejack Thomas turned around “Hey Applejack what’re ya doin?” “Ah’m about to take you to Sweet Apple Acres that’s what, I thought Twilight left you food” They started walking together “She did, it was just that I couldn’t eat what she left” They had arrived at Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack opened the door for Thomas, she walked over and opened the oven which had a freshly made apple pie in it. An exhausted crimson horse who had an orange mane entered the room, Applejack put the pie on the table “Uh AJ, who’s he?” “That’s Thomas, Thomas this is mah brother Big Macintosh” Thomas’s attention was drawn to a filly with a brilliant rose mane and pale olive coat, who was acting very shy around him. Thomas walked over to her “Hey, what’s your name?” she hid behind Big Macintosh, Thomas squatted down near her “I’m Thomas, who are you?” she hid again, Applejack spoke “That’s mah little sister, Applebloom. She’s been through a lot” “I noticed that most of you have apple related name” He started eating the pie, he finished it in a few minutes “Thanks for that, but I need to get back before it gets dark” Applejack walked over to him “Ah better come with ya” He shook his head towards the door “Alright, come on we gotta leave now other wise it’ll be dark”
Darkness had hit and they weren’t even half way there, suddenly there was a rustle in the bushes. Zombie ponies started coming out of the bushes outnumbering Thomas and Applejack thirty to two “Thank god I brought a gun” he pulled out a suppressed MP5, he lined up the shots to the heads of the ponies taking out ten. Thomas and Applejack started sprinting towards Ponyville, the twenty that remained disappeared into the fog “Be careful Applejack, one of those bastards could hit us from any direction” within seconds of saying that a unicorn zombie came charging at him, horn first using it to the effects of a spear. “Look out!” Thomas pushed Applejack out of the way of the unicorn, grabbing his trench knife he dived head first into the unicorn and pushed it onto its back, using the brass knuckles he bashed the pony to death. Four more infected ponies appeared surrounding him, pulling out his MP5 he shot each pony within a millisecond of each other. Thomas looked at Applejack and noticed her becoming sick from seeing all the blood and gore, he decided that he’d run instead of staying in the bloodbath occurring in front of Applejack. He got up and ran with Applejack from the place where dead bodies littered. An infected Pegasus had gripped him on the back of his shirt “No you fucking don’t” he spun around and punched the Pegasus with his trench knife, he managed to get away unharmed but no longer had a shirt. Thomas turned his head towards Applejack “come on just a bit further”
They had both reached Twilight’s library, AJ shouted “Open up!” the door opened they walked in. Applejack got curious “Hey Thomas, What are those markings on your back?” “They’re my tattoos” the tattoos read each of the four horses of the apocalypse: War, Death, Famine and Pestilence forming a triangle. He looked over in the corner and saw Fluttershy quivering. As he walked over to her she put her hooves on her head trying to hide under her legs, he wiped the blood from his face and gave her a comforting hug “Hey they’re just marking, kinda like your cutie mark” he told her trying to calm her down Twilight walked over to him “The four horses of the apocalypse are now know as the four horses who cursed us and caused this mess” Rainbow Dash went over to him “Come on I’ll fight ya, I ain’t scared of you” Applejack pulled her tail “You don’t wanna do that Rainbow, not after what ah saw tonight” Applejack whispered the rest “He basically slaughtered them all, ah’m not sure but ah think ah saw him smile” Twilight handed him a book on Equestria “It’s got information about Equestria in it, in case you’re curious” Rarity came down the stares with Spike, she noticed a terrified look on Rainbow Dash’s face “Good heavens darling, what ever is that matter” the white unicorn asked Rainbow replied in a terrified tone “You don’t want to know” Thomas walked up to Rainbow Dash’s ear and whispered “And I could do it again” in a teasing voice, he then walked up to the room he was in the previous night.
He started to read the book Twilight had just given him, he read a section called The Ever-Free Forest which he soon after he made plans to visit the next day, a few minutes later Twilight walked into the room and got into the bed across from him the rest of the ponies followed her in with Rarity and Applejack in one and Twilight and Rainbow Dash in the other, he heard a soft voice not going louder than a squeak “um... do you think you could... oh dear” He looked over and saw Fluttershy and moved over welcoming her into the bed “come on I won’t hurt you” she crawled in slowly as he patted her mane.
After a few hours of sleep he heard a knock at one of the windows he gripped his trench knife and locked the door and walked through, just as he thought there were zombie ponies at the window, but it was these pony zombies that was odd, where had he seen these ones before, it came to him, these were the zombies from earlier all 15 surviving zombie ponies he knew he couldn’t take them all with his trench knife he was glad they were outside. One of them smashed through the window one of the Thomas’ cuts opened up again the zombie pony’s eye glowed red instead of yellow. He knew now all he could use is his knife and stealth, he heard a demonic voice say “jump on the bookcase” he jumped on the bookcase and the voice replied “I have little time to explain I’m going to help you but not forever” all the ponies were in the tree, the demonic voice told him “See that pony down there I want you jump down and slit it’s throat on my mark. NOW!” at that same second he jumped down and killed it “very good” the voice complimented him “now get behind that cover over there. Or you may die!” he ran over behind cover, “now stay as quiet as possible, there is one coming your way I want you to grab it and kill it” he heard the footsteps of a zombie pony he grabbed the unicorn zombie’s horn and stuck his knife through its skull killing it. {Ok two down 13 to go} he thought to himself. The demonic voice came back to him “two zombies coming you way you need to disappear” he ran up the wall clinging onto the stairs, pulling himself up the voice said “quicker they’re one meter away”, Thomas pulled himself up fully, the demonic voice asked “do you see that book?”, “I want you to throw it over there” he threw the book and the ponies were distracted, the voice said “Now punch the one closest to you and stab the other one” and in one motion he jumped and punched the closest zombie dead and stuck his knife in the other one’s chest going though to it heart. “I need you to take one more out and I can finish the rest of them off”, patient but still a little pissed off he replied “Who? Which one is it?” The demonic voice told him “Don’t get cocky. Don’t get distracted. And for the sake of these ponies, Don’t get killed.”, Still confused he quickly realised the voice wanted him to kill the red eyed one, he asked the voice if it was still there, it was clear he was now alone with these zombies. The red eyed zombie pony came charging at him, he jumped to the side and the zombie pony rammed right into a bookcase knocking a pair off razor sharp kitchen knives which dug straight into the pony’s skin, but it got up to charge at him, he started running but the zombie pony was gaining on him, he started to run for the window he sheathed his trench knife and dived out the window, the zombie pony rammed into the area just below the window, turning around Thomas pulled out the kitchen knives and jumped back in through the window, a flash of the way Big Macintosh used his leg flashed right before his eyes he decided that to use that motion with the knives and killed the zombie, Just as promised all the other zombie ponies were dead. The demonic voice came back “I was watching you, you are a quick learner” Pissed off he replied “WHAT THE FUCK WAS ALL THAT ABOUT?!!” The voice replied “I was testing you. You passed.” Laughing the voice was gone looking out the window he saw the sun rising picking up the dead bodies he moved them outside and it took him an hour but he cleaned the room where the massacre had just occurred the previous night.
Twilight had just opened the door and noticed Thomas just sitting there in the blood. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw Rainbow Dash and said to her “Told you I could do it again” Twilight, horrified at the capabilities of Thomas, she asked if anything had happened to him, “Yeah, last night I heard a voice. It sounded kind of demonic”, After a minute of thinking she came to a conclusion “From what you’ve told me it was one of the four horses of the apocalypse, probably Death” Applejack showed a look of distrust of him he ran up the walls to go to her but he was stopped by Twilight, pushing her aside and apologising at the same time he went into the room, he explained to Applejack “Look I had little to no choice, if didn’t do what he said I would have died, he saved my life” she still had didn’t return any form of understanding, he decided that he’d leave her alone. He jumped down from the top of the stairs leaving behind his trench knife and his guns only keeping the two kitchen knives from the previous night.
He ran into the Ever-free Forest and sat around waiting for the pony zombies to appear, within seconds of waiting a horde of about 50 zombie ponies, he unsheathed the twin knives and the demonic voice was back “Get lost did we? I’ll save you” as soon as he said that Thomas was becoming possessed, no longer did he have mercy or show honour, he was now just a creature of hate and destruction, taking on 30 of the pony zombies with his fists alone stabbing the remaining zombie ponies.
He heard a familiar southern accent calling his name, he started to overcome the rage inside, one of the royal guards was flying over the top of the forest, as Thomas saw Applejack out of the corner of his eye. Death still eager for a body overcame the human’s will, the royal guard saw Applejack and he manhandled her, Applejack screamed in a cry for help she saw him coming but something was different this wasn’t who she knew, she noticed his eyes there weren’t the colour they were meant to be, Thomas started to beat the Pegasus guard to death, he saw Applejack start to cry in fear to which he screamed “FUCK OFF!” he continued with “GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HEAD!” Death losing power over the Thomas’ mind Death’s rage had no effect on him anymore. Thomas crying gave Applejack his final farewell “I’m sorry Applejack I just can’t do this anymore, I guess this is the last you’ll see of me”, He felt a hoof on his leg stopping him from leaving, to which she said “I understand now. Not entirely, but I understand” To which he picked up the Pegasus guard and had him over his back and looked at Applejack and asked “so do you forgive me?” she nodded “well are going to get this guy to Fluttershy?” they started running after a while there were more zombies knowing what she would say without her even speaking they just ran faster.
Reaching Twilight’s library he put down the royal guard on a table, Applejack placing down a quilt, Thomas laid the guard down on the quilt. Twilight had a surprised look on her face, “Twilight where’s Fluttershy?” To which she replied “I think she’s out, and by the way what happened to this guy? He looks almost dead.” Then Thomas responded “that’s why we need Fluttershy, we think maybe she can help him” Twilight examined the royal guard closer and said “you’re going to need Fluttershy” with that he ran out the door in search of Fluttershy. He came across Fluttershy “thank god I found you, I need you” “What do you need me for Thomas?” “Well technically it’s not me who needs you” “What do you mean?” “Well if you come with me I can show you”
They left for Twilight's library then Fluttershy saw the royal guard on the table “oh my goodness what happened to him” “Well...I’ll tell you when you have finished operating on him” “What I have only ever helped animals” “Fluttershy you are an animal, of some extent” “What do you mean by that?” “Where I come from horses are considered animals and a Pegasus is just a mythological version of a horse with wings” She was confused but returned to royal guard “I guess I’ll leave now, I haven’t been able to do anything right. I’ve just fucked everything up” He left for the door, Applejack stopped him “No, ya haven’t” Thomas turned around “really Applejack? Look at everything I’ve done here, I killed countless ponies, I let Death take control of me, he almost made me kill you, that's something I don’t want to do. I almost killed a royal guard. How can you still trust me when I can’t even trust myself?” Applejack took a deep breath “Look they were infected ponies so ya had every right to kill them, it’s like you were getting ‘it’ out of their systems. Sure y’all let Death take over you but everypony has their inner demons, turns out yours really are demons, and ah forgive you, ah know that you’re strong enough to not let him make you do something you don’t want to do. It wasn’t you who almost killed the guard that was Death who almost killed the guard” Thomas started to cheer up “I guess you’re right but it feels like I’ve been cursed” Applejack responded “maybe you’ve been blessed with a curse” “How does that even work?” Fluttershy spoke “umm... I need you to help me... that is if you don’t mind” “Sure, I don’t have much medical training, but I think I could help this guy. The only medical training I have is diagnostics and solutions, the solutions part I can’t do, but I can try” “Well umm... what has he got?” quizzed the yellow Pegasus “From the looks of him minor internal bleeding and broken bones” Fluttershy asked “how would we fix it?” “First step we’d want to stop the internal bleeding but we would need to open him up to stop it, but the broken bones are going to make that a bitch of a task. After we stop the bleeding we can put him back together and the bones will hopefully fix themselves quickly, but they may grow back slowly” Fluttershy nodded understanding “so how do we open him up” Thomas looked around before asking “anyone got a scalpel?” Rainbow Dash replied “no, but the closest medical station would” “Great, how far is it?” he asked with a slight piece of hope intact “Ten minutes or more” she said It was instantly crushed “Fuck! We’ll need to improvise” he pulled out his butterfly knife and opened it up “looks like we’ll have to use this” Thomas started making the cut, Twilight screamed “Wait! He’ll scream” Thomas nonchalantly responded “Twilight, he’s knocked out cold he won’t feel a damn thing” Thomas returned to the guard “Alright we found where he’s bleeding pretty damn fast, so Fluttershy do your stuff” Rainbow Dash looked at the organs in the guard “there goes my lunch”
An hour had slowly passed since the first cut was made and Thomas was stitching up the guard “Thank god. That went better than I had thought it would on such limited supplies” Twilight spoke “How long would it take for the bones take to heal at the least?” “It’s hard to say, in fact they may never heal but I’d put my money on a few months” the sun started setting.
Twilight walked over to Thomas “hey Thomas” “Yeah, what is it?” “Those ‘guns’ of yours take up an awful lot of space” “Yeah...sorry about that” Twilights’ face lit up in excitement “well don’t be because it gave me an idea” What Twilight had just said got him interested “really? What were you thinking?” “I was thinking of a device which could hold your guns. A dial at the back of your waist which would have your guns downloaded to it” “Sounds interesting. Who’s gonna make it?” Twilight lost some excitement “well the thing is that there is no longer anypony in Ponyville who could make it” “So where would we go?” Thomas asked Twilight had to look him in the eyes for the next part “Canterlot” “Well I wouldn’t mind seeing Luna again” he laughed “Well it’s settled, we’ll leave on a ride in two days times” He got up from his seat and started walking to the bedroom. He pulled the door open, walked in and jumped on a bed. He’d fallen asleep before the ponies had walked in.
Thomas had gotten out of bed to find his guns and blades lying on the ground, he collected them and put them in a duffle bag Rarity had recently made for him. Thomas put his shirt and jeans on and went down stairs, he saw Spike and Twilight, Spike had just breathed upon the scroll “To the princesses” Twilight turned to Thomas “Good you’re up, could you go back up and wake the girls?” He nodded “Sure” he back-flipped grabbing onto the ledge with his feet he pulled himself up, he retained balance and opened the door, he woke all the rest. He began thinking {maybe these girls are some main ponies, ha-ha mane ponies} “Come on girls out of bed, we’re leaving for Canterlot today” Rarity was the first out at the mere mention of Canterlot “Well I know what gets you up of a morning” Thomas jumped down the stairs, Spike had belched up a scroll, Thomas asked “Letter from Tia?” Twilight took the scroll and read it “She wishes to see us, today”
The hours has quickly passed since the letter was received, Thomas took a glance out the window as their ride pulled up “come on girls we are out” Thomas called out, he ran up to his gun and grabbed them while Applejack threw the rest of the blanket over the royal guard Thomas injured the previous day, they both walked outside as Thomas placed his bag of guns in the cart, then he went back inside to place the guard inside the cart. Thomas had picked his seat out and sat down, on the way to Canterlot all that was going though Thomas's mind was why The Princess wanted to see him {Why does Tia wanna see me? Has she found out something from my past? What my job was? No I don’t think so, but that’s still a possibility. Well I hope they understand why I did everything I did} They had arrived in Canterlot Castle this time, all six ponies followed by Thomas, he took a deep breath and hoped for the best. They continued until they reached the gathering hall, all of them were stoped by the General, his attention was drawn to Thomas “Oh Celestia you, you a-fucking-gain” he muttered under his breath “The Princesses will see you in a moment” Thomas nodded “Thank you General” {You know I can hear you, right?} the General only responded with a confused look {Oh god how I would go for a bottle of vodka right now. I’m as dry as a bone......HERE’S JOHNNY.......Damn you Stephen King} the doors parted as Luna and Celestia welcomed them in, Thomas carried in the guard whilst Applejack carried his guns, he laid the guard down “I’m so sorry Tia, you too Luna” Luna questioned him “What has thou do to seek our forgiveness?” he looked at Luna’s mane “You do something to your hair Luna?” She was unimpressed “Thou shalt divert the topic of conversation” He pulled the blanket back showing the guard with the stiches and bruises “I’m really sorry. I am! I just couldn’t control myself” Luna walked closer to them, she inspected the guard’s armour “Sister come look at this!” Luna called. Celestia walked over and inspected the armour number “General! Run a number search with #30-04” The General left for the files but returned with nothing “Nothing to report on that number your majesty!” Thomas was puzzled “Thirty Zero-Four...Thirtieth and Fourth....” he shook his head, Celestia turned her head to Luna “Do you suppose he’s from the other faction?” Luna returned the glance “It’s quite possible” Thomas interjected “Excuse me but what do you mean other faction? I thought you two were the only leaders of sort” Tia looked at him “We are, but there is another. They call themselves: The army of ‘Freedom’. But pretty much all their soldiers are slaves, they also often pretend they are some of our soldiers and take hostage of anypony” Thomas was shocked by what he was just told “So what do we do with this one?” {We cut him open and leave the bastard to die} he shook the thought out of his head, Luna called “General! Take this soldier to out our rehabilitation centre. He has been brainwashed to believe bad things” the General had the body removed from the room.
Thomas remembered that he was called by Tia “Hey Tia, why did you call for me?” She returned to her seat “I called you, so I could get to know you a bit better. And your history” {FUCK! FUCK!! FUCK!!! What did she find out?} She continued “I wanted to know about your history” he took a deep breath “What was it like growing up for you?” “It was alright, not that many fights. Unfortunately both my parents died when I was six and my older sister was twelve. We found someone willing enough to take us in and raise us as their own, my sister and I tried not to argue seeing as we were the only members of our family left” Luna had shed a tear “Are you okay?” she nodded, Celestia continued to ask “What was your occupation?” {Cold blooded-killer, murderer of millions. An assassin, in a group of them} “umm...my job? I don’t think it’s that important.” She replied “If we are to trust you Thomas, we need to know about your history” He swallowed “I don’t agree with the things I did. Yuki, my sister, she and I were assassins. Paid vast sums of money to kill someone, we were rarely told what the target did or why our employer wanted them dead. I once had to kill two children purely because they were a witness” he sighed and almost began to cry {they were just like Yuki and I} Celestia and Luna were pissed at him “GET OUT!! NOW OR I WILL CALL THE GUARDS!! I DO NOT WISH TO BE IN THE PRESENCE OF SOMEONE WHO MURDERS YOUNGER THINGS THEN THEY ARE!!!!!!” Thomas picked up his guns “LEAVE THEM THERE!!” he abided “I couldn’t bring myself to pull the trigger” Luna called “What did thou just say?” He turned around “I said I couldn’t bring myself to pull the trigger!” Tia had calmed “So your sister killed them?” He shook his head “No I was in a group of about eight, and Brick the strong guy killed them with his bare hands” “Why did thou not stop this Brick?” Thomas was calming himself “Brick was the strongest one in the group, he made fun of me” Tia asked “What did he do to you?” “He looked like my father. So to be a dick he called me ‘son’ it pissed me off, so one day I put him against the wall and beat him until my hands hurt. He put on something to make his punches hurt more. He struck me once making me in no condition to fight, but stupidly enough I got back up to hit him again, Yuki pulled me back walked up to him and said ‘you are nothing like my father now stop calling Thomas, son’ he didn’t listen even worse he replied ‘I’m so sorry sweetheart, now run along while I fuck your mother’ she grabbed his arms, dislocated them, broke them along with his legs. She beat him senseless and just before she killed him she screamed ‘This is for those children you fucking arsehole!’ then bam...dead” Luna and Tia were horrified {I want to kill everybody in the world} the girls backed away from him “So I didn’t have a pretty history, unless you’re into that sort of stuff” {Cupcakes...All you gotta do is add a dash of rainbow} Chills went down his spine “I’m feeling a little woozy and we came here to do something. So I hope you don’t mind” Luna looked at Celestia and nodded “Of course. We respect your wishes” he nodded. Thomas and the ponies had left Canterlot’s Castle and gone to downtown Canterlot
They had found an odd half destroyed building {Jesus, this place looks like it was by a nuke} they had entered. Thomas called out “Hello? Anybody home?” Applejack looked at him “ah think ya mean anypony” At that moment a beige colt walked out “Is there something I can help you with?” Thomas directed his attention to this colt “you run this place?” “Of course, name’s Swifty and I make things swiftly” Thomas thought for a second “Could you possibly make these?” he handed Swifty blueprints to Twilight’s idea “Seems complex” Thomas stared at him “Think you could do it?” Swifty looked up at Thomas “Without a doubt” Twilight asked “So how much will this cost?” Swifty stared at Applejack with interest “well for...” Thomas cut him off “No! We’re not giving you AJ” Swifty looked pissed off “My price is half a million bits...for one” {If only there was some way to get that money} “Fine, we’ll pay you. For two” Swifty put his hoof out, Thomas grabbed it and shook it Swifty spoke “They’ll be ready in month or so” Thomas left the store and noticed a poster, he walked up to it and it read ‘Live: DJ Pon-3’ {these ponies are in the middle of an apocalypse! How do they have time for a concert?}.
They all walked back through Canterlot Castle, all the ponies had been in the chariot, Thomas punched one of the walls just before he left “How am I supposed to get that money?” he looked through the crack and noticed Celestia “Sorry Tia” she exited the door to her room. She looked at him and spoke “What was all of that about?” He sighed knowing she may be his only help “I need about a million bits. I know I haven’t been here long enough to ask you of this so nevermind” he turned to walk away “Done, but may I ask what for?” He looked back at her “you’re serious?” she nodded “well, Twilight had an idea to have my guns stored in a device so they don’t take up as much room” he opened his arms and closed them in on the princess “You’re quite welcome, I believe my sister has something for you” He opened the door to the girls “I’ll be five minutes” he then proceeded to Luna’s room at full speed. He opened the door to Luna “Your sister told me you had something for me” Her mane was back to how it was when he first met her “Ah yes, I wanted to know what music you like” He tilted his head “pardon?” Luna repeated herself “What music are you in to?” He waited a bit before responding “Uh...Dubstep and rock, I guess. Why?” She opened her draw and got out a ticket from inside of it “I was going to go to this, DJ Pon-3 but I can’t attend. She may be someone you’d like.” Thomas hugged her for longer than he did Tia “I thought that you could use some insight into our culture” {YES! Some time to relax...even if it is only a day} he broke away from the hug “So when is it?” She checked the date “in about a year” {I knew it was too good to be true} “I think you should hold onto it Princess, I’ll just loose it” she nodded as Thomas ran out to Applejack and the rest {This would be a lot easier if I were a dog} he finally reached the doors exhausted and opened them, he climbed into the cart and they left for Ponyville.
Thomas spoke up “I’m gonna jump out here, I’ll see you at the station” at that moment he jumped out twenty meters above ground rolling as hit the ground, the guards continued to the station they were ordered to be their only stop, most of the ponies just forgot about it and stared at the beauty of Luna's full moon. As they arrived all of the mares stepped out as the guards flew back to Canterlot, Twilight asked “Where’s Thomas? He said he’d meet us here” moans and groans were heard in the distance, Pinkie Pie screamed “AHHHHH! Zombie ponies!” as soon as she spoke the zombie ponies started charging towards them. Just before the zombie ponies were visible a howl was heard and out of the mist came a black coated wolf, it barked loud enough to bring the ponies faster, the wolf then charged at the attackers mauling them, biting them and tearing them apart with its claws, Rarity spoke up “Ugh! Look at its coat simply atrocious. I’ve never seen one dirtier” its head looked back at her then charged and jumped over them attacking another zombie pony. The black wolf then ran into the thick fog and out ran a black and white Husky with two eye colours she barked at them, Fluttershy told everypony “I think she wants us to follow her” she then ran forwards occasionally turning, she eventually left them behind.
Thomas was out the front of Twilight’s library and met the girls wandering around in the fog “Over here” he called out, They looked at him and ran towards him, Applejack spoke “Thomas ya wouldn’t believe what just happened ta us” He turned his head “What? No wait tell me when we get inside” Twilight unlocked the door and they all walked in, Thomas picked up some boards and nailed them into the walls fully barricading all the entries, he sat down in a chair “now tell me, what happened” Rarity had nearly vomited “Did you that things coat, absolutely atrocious. It’s like it hadn’t washed once in its life” Thomas shook his head “No, I didn’t” Applejack continued “Well this black coated dog thing, kinda like a wolf came outta nowhere an saved us, then this dog told us where to find you” Pinkie walked over to him “You said you were going to meet us at the station, where were you?” Her head was right in front of his “I was here, I couldn’t see a damn thing through the fog. I barely saw you guys” Pinkie tore her face away from his “Listen I’m sure we’re all tired, now why don’t we get some sleep?” he got up from his chair and sighed as he walked up the stairs, he opened the door and just fell on the bed and slept.
It was in the middle of the night as Thomas sat on top of the tallest building in the city, soaking wet in the rain and thunder “Hiding out here are ya?” a familiarly soft voice called out, he turned to see a woman in a leather jacket, white shirt and jeans “Oh, hey Yuki” she jumped down onto the ledge beside him and offered him a sausage roll “Hungry?” he nodded and took it, she spoke again “So...that new girl” He took a bite and swallowed knowing what was coming “What about her?” he tilted his head towards her “You two, I reckon, you’d be a great couple” He took another bite of the roll “You know we’re not supposed to get involved in relationships” She laughed and simply told him “We’re best of the best’s finest fighters, how are they supposed to stop us” she got up “If you won’t listen to me, I’ll try her” Thomas got up “Sis don’t!” she turned back to him and grinned “There’s no way I can stop you is there?” She giggled “Nope” he walked over to her and simply hugged her.
Thomas woke up to hear his stomach growling at him {You know you won’t last much longer without meat. But how are you going to get it? They don’t eat meat here} he got out of bed and stared directly at the house across the street, he turned away from it and picked up his rifle as he walked out side as silently as possible, “Ever-Free forest seems like fair game” he cocked the bolt on the rifle then walked into the Ever-Free forest.
Thomas had been waiting for about an hour and finally a deer crossed his sights, he pulled his rifle off his back and aimed at the deer as another, smaller deer came next to what appeared to be it mother, he gripped the rifle tighter and pulled the trigger splattering the blood and brains everywhere, the thing he both missed the most and least “Aww, poor wittle Bambi just wost his movver” {That was amazing, Vlad is impressed} he walked over to the dead body where the young deer was trembling in fear {Look at what you’ve done! I don’t care!} He sighed and kneed down near the baby no bigger than two feet “I’ll help you find your father” picking up the body and with the fawn at his legs he began walking until he came across a large stag, the fawn ran over to it’s side and cowered, the stag spoke in a deep voice “You kill my wife, scar my child mentally and expect me to let you leave alive?” it got into an aggressive stance, Thomas replied in a voice much deeper than his own “You’re lucky that’s all I did, the most horrifying monsters you’ve seen are cute little bunnies compared to me. I live in the nightmares of demons” his normal tone returned “Sorry, about your wife, but I need meat to make that voice shut up” flames started to circle around him, but he simply walked out of them, The stag replied “Leave and never return” Thomas turned away and began to walk back to what he had so quickly called home “I’ll be back whether we like it or not” a tear rolled down the fawns cheek.
Rainbow Dash had awoken to a slightly arousing smell, she went down the stairs to see Thomas cooking something in a frying pan “Smells good” she complimented “Thanks, want some?” She nodded as he got a small piece and laid it on Dash’s tongue, she chewed and swallowed “That’s really nice, but it feels like I shouldn’t have it. What is it?” Thomas ate a piece than answered “don’t hate me but-” She interrupted “I already do” He nodded “It’s deer, not nearly as good as lamb, cow or pig, but I reckon it’s still decent” She spat everything out of her mouth “WHAT!?” the rest of the ponies had awoken at Dash’s scream, He repeated “It’s deer meat” Rainbow was shocked “I am part of an omnivorous species, which means to survive we need both fruits and vegetables and meat” Twilight had walked out the door to the bedroom “Twilight you’ll never guess what he’s eating, deer, one that was alive a while ago” Twilight looked disgusted yet curious “Is this true?” he merely nodded chewing then swallowing what remaining meat there was, The deep voice returned “Oh the innocent always taste the best, right next to virgins” his voice returned to normal “Sorry, I don’t mean that” A demonic voice spoke to all of them but aimed at Thomas “What do you think you’re doing? You know that you’ll never be stronger than me no matter how much meat you devour Thomas” The deep voice returned “Please what you do to him is mere child play compared to what I can do. I can destroy you before I raise a claw” “Please you two are pathetic” “No! I’m feared by the Grim Reaper himself and act like Vlad the motherfucking impaler. Your skull will rest on my pike” Deaths’ voice had stopped responding “What in ta’ hell was that?” Applejack walked down to Thomas “Oh don’t act so stupid woman, it’s not like you’ve never seen anger before in your life” Applejack snapped at him “WHAT DID YA JUS SAY TA’ ME?” He shook his head “Sorry I didn’t mean it, I just find it hard adjusting thinking if I get angry enough I’ll be more comfortable” he walked over to the doors as the sounds of multiple zombie ponies moaned, he turned to Applejack “I'm insane, I am smart, all it takes, is a spark, to ignite my bad intentions, and do what I do best to your heart, don't be fooled I was raised by the wolves, now the moon hangs in full, so you know I won't play by the rules” the kitchen knives spawned as he sung to Applejack “What does that mean?” He opened the door and replied “The words to a song” he started charging as the knives disappeared {Need help master?} “I’m fine” he ripped two grenades out of his jeans and shoved them down the throats of some zombie ponies “Ka-boom” the heads exploded sending blood everywhere, he dragged his finger across his face collecting blood on it, he wiped the finger on his shirt “yuck” he spotted a sledge hammer “I am about to have so much fun” he said squealing like a little girl, he walked over and picking it up he slammed a zombie pony’s skull into a wall with the sledge hammer. A large horde charged towards him, he raised his arms and shouted “STOP!” one ran towards him, he brought the hammer down on the crushing it into the ground “Hammer time” this sort of stuff happened for a few more minutes, he then let the hammer go and walked back inside victorious.
He bowed to all the ponies in front of him “Is that what you do after you eat meat?” He shook his head “no, it’s not” he walked over to a map on the wall and started laughing, Twilight looked at him “What’s so funny?” He turned around “The names: Cloudsdale, Stalliongrad, Appleloosa, Brismane. Where I come from these are puns on horses and places: Clydesdale, Stalingrad, Appaloosa and Brisbane” Spike walked pass holding onto his stomach and belched a scroll. Twilight picked it up with her magic and unravelled it, “It’s from the princess” Thomas looked at her with a stupid look on his face “You don’t say” it read:
‘My faithful student Twilight, it has come to my attention that we do not know much about the human as I’m sure you’re aware, they were always considered fictional until now. I know that I have brought you to and from Canterlot since Thomas’ arrival and will need to bring you all, but this may wait for next week. Sincerely Princess Celestia – PS: notify Thomas that his is assigned town defender and will be paid, although due to our situation he will only receive 30 bits a week’
Twilight lifted her head from the scroll “It seems the princess wants you to protect the town” Thomas asked her “Pay?” Twilight was confused “Huh?” “Am I getting paid? And if so how much?” “Oh she said thirty bits a week, but that’s not much. She sent you ten already” Thomas grabbed the coins “come on, we’re going to the bar” Applejack tapped his leg “Ah hate tah tell ya, but tat’d only really get you one drink” His face became upset “Oh well I’ll be at the pub” he ran out the door excited for some alcohol to touch his lips.
He reached the pub and walked in, he found a seat near the counter “What can I get for ya?” a light tan mare asked him “I’ll have a bottle of vodka, thanks” he said as he positioned himself in a seat She tilted her head “Are you sure you can handle it?” he nodded to her, she lifted a bottle from under the counter “Here you go, one bottle of vodka. That’ll be nine bits” he handed her the gold coins “You’re kinda funny shaped what are you?” Thomas’s concentration broke from his drink “I’m not entirely sure myself, but I go under the race of Humans, even though I can do what actual humans can’t” he twisted the lid off the bottle and began drinking “So what can you do that others can’t?” quizzed the barmare He focused on the bottle mere centimetres away from his lips “Well I can speak, read and write in any language in existence. Even if I never heard it, I automatically know it” he had nearly finished his bottle and extended his arm to her “Name’s Thomas, Thomas Belinski” She quickly picked up on the gesture and put her hoof in his hand and shook it “Galley Gutters, it’s not the nicest name for a girl like me, but what can you do” The connection between the two broke “We’ll I’ll be off then” She nodded at him “Come back soon” His eyebrow arched, it was something in her voice “Why you have a problem?” She was quiet for a moment “Well my ex-coltfriend is an alcoholic and he comes and beats me until I feed his addiction” {Well I'm one too, I can just control it much better} Thomas’ jaw dropped “Anything else?” A tear rolled down her cheek as she nodded “Those things come in once a week and I don’t think I’ll last another night here” {Well Vlad you may just get your fill of violence} “You can come stay with me, if you want” “But what about my Ex?” His voice deepened “Oh, silly girl let me worry about that” She bobbed her head “Thank you” just as she put her head on his shoulder a drunken Pegasus walked in. He swung his hoof directly at Galleys’ face, Thomas grabbed it and tossed the drunk at a post smacking it square on “You-you-you’ll be sorry you did that” screamed the brown maned Pegasus behind a screen of alcoholism Thomas broke Galley off softly “Excuse me, but we were talking before you came in” the slurred speech was hard to make out what he was threatening Thomas with, before he could react the Pegasus came at Thomas with his smashed bottle “THAT STILL HAD VODKA IN IT!!” attempting to stab the human he was met with a shoe up the side of the face, forcing him to land on his back “I want you to leave and never return or so help me Celestia I WILL MURDER YOU!! And it’s not like I’ve never done it before” for a split second the drunk saw some kind of wolf with tendrils coming out of its back, Thomas and Galley left the pub and locked it up with the drunk bleeding and running for his life.
There was a call for him from a mare in a house “You’re a male right?” “Yeah I am” “Don’t you have a field to be attending?” she and a few other mares were laughing, Thomas’ voice deepened “You’re a woman right?” she nodded while laughing “then don’t you have a kitchen to be attending? Actually what are you doing out of it?” She stomped her hoof at the ground “I am a mare you WILL LISTEN TO ME!!” Thomas’ deep voice screamed “I WILL NEVER LISTEN TO YOU, ONLY EVER MY MASTER” his voice returned “I must be going now” Thomas made his way back to Twilight’s.
Thomas knocked on the door the times before entering “Twi? Jackie? Dash?” he entered the door with Galley “They might be out. If you head up the stairs, open the door and that’s the bedroom, around the corner of here is the kitchen and that’s about all of this place” she nodded and trotted up the stairs to get some rest. The minutes passed and Pinkie Pie energetically entered the room “HIYA THOMAS” He quietly ran over to Pinkie with a finger covering her lips “Pinkie shh I got someone sleeping upstairs and she’s been through a lot” Twilight ran past Pinkie “YOU DID WHA—” Thomas’ hands grabbed Twilights’ muzzle and forced it shut, then let her go “I thought I had to protect this town” She nodded “You do, but you don’t bring strange ponies home with you” Thomas pushed Twilights’ chest area “Listen, her bar was a complete fuckin’ wreck. Not to mention the fact that she has an alcoholic ex who beats her, and that those that have ‘it’ break in” Rainbow cut in “What was that about her ex?” Thomas looked at Dash “What do you mean?” She hatefully eyed him “I mean what did he look like?” Thomas clenched his head as Isabelle sent peaceful but mean messages through his mind “He was a Pegasus about an inch or two bigger that you, dark brown mane which was quite jagged and a darker colour than you” She gasped “Did you kill him?” she flew on Thomas’ chest forcing him on his back “What? NO!” Dash hit him across the face then flew up to the bedroom, Applejack helped him to his feet “Is she always angry about drunks like that?” Pinkie kicked the ground with her hoof “That was her father, he made her fillyhood a really bad time. He’s the only pony she’s ever wanted dead” Thomas started to regret not finishing what he started {Master listen to me, you don’t have any right to take someone or something else’s life. Izzy SHUT IT! Oh hoo seems like Master doesn’t like you. VLAD YOU TOO!! } “life is hard enough with those two, how am I supposed to deal with this?”
The weeks slowly passed as Thomas was occasionally shouted drinks by Galley, he eventually bought a guitar. Thomas was walking down the not yet abandoned streets of Ponyville and saw a music store, he pushed the door open “Hey” called somepony from behind the counter “Can I help...ahhhh” the colt ran in fear at the sight of Thomas, He sighed then walked over to the synthesizer and keyboard and started play a techno song “Test your might, test your might MORTAL KOMBAT!!” he got about 15 seconds through then walked away due to laughter, he walked over to the counter and hit the bell a couple of times, A small colt walked out trembling at the sight of Thomas “What do you want with me? I haven’t done anything, I swear, it was all Starry” Thomas tried to show that he didn’t have anything on him “I’m not gonna hurt you nor do I wish to” {Not yet, anyway} “I was wondering if I could get a guitar” The colt shook not at Thomas but what was inside him “I can try to get you one, JUST PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF CELESTIA DON’T KILL ME!!” Thomas threw 90 bits on the table “I hope that can pay for it” the colt trembled into the back of his store. Thomas walked over to the keyboard and started playing the Vice City theme song “Now I’ve got an urge to go mass murder something, most likely zombies, hopefully zombies” he walked out of the store then ran into the Ever-Free Forest, he came across some more animals ripe for the slaughter NO! Picking, yes ripe for the picking. Thomas slowly evolved into some vicious predator, like a hunter he stalked his prey for a long time then when it was alone he crept out of the shadows, snatched it, and ran back into the shadow in the blink of an eye, the predators’ arm changed into a blade which it rammed through the preys’ stomach, its razor teeth showed themselves as the predator feasted on the dead body {Must shake urges away, must not kill more, must not eat} All the black hair coming from him went back in as he was approached by some strange pony like creature but with a horn and some bug like wings and holes in it foot, fangs popped out of its mouth, so Thomas did the same, it spoke “My queen has been quite impressed by you, but she says you lack one vital ingredient” He walked away “Ppffftt. Whatever” he started mimicking ‘Doomsday by Nero’ as he made his way back to Ponyville.
Thomas changed songs to ‘Killer (12th planet remix) by 360’ “They don’t know what our illness is, so we’re left to just kill this shit” he kept walking while singing “Take a look and see the armies forming, hear the steps as we marching forward, fight back and just ask for more blood” he slowed down as he reached Ponyville “Murder the streets in a way it’s never been done, who said this ain’t meant to be fun? Pray to Jesus coz he’s your saviour, right now not even he will save ya. But at least you gonna meet your maker. Tell him Tommy said hi I’ll see ya, later” *wub* *wub* he started laughing at himself doing the bass drop.
Outside Twilight’s library was another cart to Canterlot, he ran to it and got in with everyone else. “Thomas good you arrived. We were waiting for you” Twilight looked over to the guards “You can take off now” the Pegasus guards took off “Now don’t leave us in this thing a second time, okay?” said Twilight, Thomas just chuckled and nodded.
Celestia was in the main room while Luna paced backwards and forwards waiting for the examination of Thomas “Do you think he’ll be okay with this?” she asked her older sister, unsure how things may turn out “He knows that it’s for our safety, right?” At that moment Thomas smacked through the door more smug and smartass than ever “Sup’ Tia?” Luna looked at him “Hi Lulu” he pulled out a metal flask but shook his head and put it away “Are you alright to proceed?” asked Celestia “Yes” Thomas began walking towards them and fell over in a drunken stupor “Gimmie a minute” he ran into the toilets and threw up. He came out knocking over a few barrels of some liquid “Barrels! What are you up to?” He continued walking towards Celestia “So, you wanted me?” Tia looked at him “Just take a seat” Thomas walked to a seat which had a switch, he flipped it “Chairmode activate” Celestia looked at Luna with a weird look on her face “Do you know what we’re going to do, Thomas?” asked Tia “Nope” said Thomas “We are going to examine you so we can have a better understanding of the human body and how it works” Thomas cracked up laughing “Human? You think I’m human? HA!” Everypony was confused “You said you are human” said Dash angrily at him “True, true but I’m really a step up from human. Even then I’m still not one hundred percent human” he began writing all the different terms for himself in Latin: dimidium sanguinem, homo melius, and so on. “So what you’re saying is you’re half alien?” asked Twilight “No. I said I’m half human and two quarters alien” said Thomas “But two quarters is one half” Thomas started to rub his temples “I’ll say it one more time: two quarters alien. Because they were two different breeds of alien” Twilight couldn’t understand “But I suppose I look like a human on the outside” One of the guards said something “My sister is going to be disappointed” Thomas looked at the guard “Oh, and why is that?” he asked “She is obsessed with human mythology. By that I meant human existence” said the guard in reply “That wouldn’t be Lyra would it?” Dash asked “Aye” he said.
“I told you Bon-Bon. I said they existed” said the happy green pony “I KNOW. You’ve been talking about it for the past few weeks. Ever since it arrived” said her roommate “It? IT? I’m sure that he has a name?” rebutted the green pony “If you’re so excited about him here, how come you’ve never even seen him?” asked the roommate “I have so seen him...once or twice”
Thomas slowly put his clothes back on after the science ponies ‘studied’ him “That was more awkward than when Yuke kissed me” “Yuke?” asked Celestia “My sister Yuki, I sometimes call her Yuke. Just like she sometimes calls me Tommy” Celestia nodded in understanding “Well I think that’s all we’ll need for now” Thomas picked up a set of Spanish armour, a reddish breastplate with two golden intertwined dragons “Really? Alright Vlad” he said to himself “Girls, I’ll walk back. Okay, run back. No wait! I’ll jump” “That’s a stupid idea, you’ll hurt yourself” Thomas shook his ‘anime’ like hair “You obviously didn’t listen to me Twi” Thomas ran the length of the hallway in his Spanish armour while it jingled and as he reached the end of the corridor he lifted his left foot up and bounced off his right foot which send him flying off into the distance.
A zombie pony trotted around the Ever-Free forest looking for prey, it saw a squirrel run past and the pony brought the hoof down on it, the pony began feasting on the corpse of the squirrel. Later, satisfied with what is had, the pony began walking along again, it wasn’t too long until the zombie’s face was squashed into the ground and killed.
Thomas walked off the thing that he landed on “This stain is gonna be a royal bitch to get out” he said as he examined his shoes which were stained with blood “I hope that was sufficient enough exercise for you two” Thomas looked around, There was a voice behind him “My queen doesn’t like the way you are progressing, give yourself to her and she shall save you” Thomas put his hand towards the creature and closed his hand up and within a second there was a rapier in his hand, but it obviously wasn’t the ordinary shape for one with its somewhat velvety red interior and basket hilt “Fuck off, I don’t care” Thomas’ hair grew black and he dragged the sword across the left eye of the creature “Tell your queen if she comes to bother me again, I will murder her and all her subjects” the creature whimpered away. Thomas’ hair went back to the casual brown it normally was, fire surrounded Thomas once again “gahhh, damn it” The deer from before walked to him “I thought I told you to never come back” the buck charged at him Thomas threw his trench knife away and then the buck stopped suddenly “What are you doing to me?” he asked, Thomas got up and looked at the deer “I’m not doing a thing, Eva is. She ordinarily shapes herself as a trench knife, but can change into razor-sharp wires” Thomas ran his hand diagonally as if he were slicing someone down, The buck’s antlers were sliced open “What black evil magic do you possess? ANSWER ME HUMAN!” Thomas walked off through the flames, but the deer remained. All the creatures in the shadow were in awe, “HOW DARE HE!” some of those creatures in awe tried to attack him but they were burned to ash “To harm the spirit of the Ever-Free forest is impossible. I must wait till he is at his weakest then will devour him and his power” the spirit stomped the ground which brought up his the body of his ‘child’ which he began eating.
Death began talking to Thomas “Oh human...I want to ask something of you” Thomas was annoyed “WHAT!?” he screamed in irritation “Easy you sack of shit, did you know who that was you just hurt?” asked Death, Thomas smug as normal replied “lemme guess, your master?” Death was unamused “No, I would be his master...that was the spirit of the Ever-Free forest, or the Ever-Free Spirit, he is one of seven powerful forces, the rest of the horses and myself are of those seven” Thomas didn’t see this information going anywhere “So.....?” Death, surprised by this human obliviousness, though beneficial to him later, to this information replied “Those seven powers are indestructible, immune to harm or any form of damage. So what I’m telling you is you have broken the truth, you broke the unbreakable....you must be awfully powerful to do that” Thomas wasn’t too impressed with himself “Well, it seems that you are no more fun to play with...from now on I will no longer do the occasional help, be marked from this date, WE, Thomas Dexter Belinski, ARE ENEMIES!”
Meanwhile in Stalliongrad Faulty Mask, the leader of the army of ‘Freedom’, the second fraction in this world was giving as speech, hypnotizing his audience “And I’m sure you have all heard about his human, now this is a little known fact: He wants you to all be slaves, unlike myself who wants you to all be free, so unless you hate freedom: Join me and my army. I’ll tell you fabulous fillies and gentlecolts a few more facts about this horrible human: He has teamed up with Celestia and Luna who are the sole reason we have such a disastrous plague over our beautiful land, this human WORSHIPS and I mean WORSHIPS the four horses of the apocalypse, he used to kill for money so that is evidence you can’t trust him, I have eye witness accounts of him beating undeserving ponies. So fillies and gentlecolts, if you want to stop this monster, JOIN ME and STOP HIM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!” countless ponies cheered Faulty Mask on.
Back at the Ponyville library Galley passed Thomas a drink of whiskey as he was reading a new book he found ‘Fallout: Equestria’ “Cheers” he said without looking away from that novel for even a second “Good book?” she asked, AJ came over to them and pushed Galley away “Okay, that’s enough talk time. Don’t you have a bar to be at?” she asked, Galley shook her head “Closed today” AJ still didn’t like this “Well, go find something to do” Thomas slid his bookmark inside of it and left.
Applejack and Galley were still arguing minutes later, they didn’t notice until one particular point where Galley asked “Oh yeah?” “Yeah!” replied an agitated Applejack, They simultaneously asked “Well, what do you think Thomas?” They both noticed his absence “Your arguing must have driven him away!” Applejack told Galley, Galley gasped and replied angry “My arguing? If it was anypony’s it was yours” they continued arguing for hours.
Meanwhile on the roof of a random house Thomas sat upside down drinking his whiskey and reading his book between one of his sips he said “Those two need to loosen up around one another. Jesus, it’s not like I’m some prize in some competition. It’s possible that they could be arguing over my favour-slash-affection. Provided that’s true, I’d deduce that AJ thinks she’s my girlfriend, while Galley sees me a best friend” he slid his bookmark inside his book and jumped towards Galley’s pub.
A zombie pony, one who seemed like he was in charge of this group, there was the sound of a door opening, some foreign creature entered through the door, the head pony roared and many zombie ponies tried to kill that creature who stood upright, different shaped hooves, and wires behind each little extension from his hoof, the head zombie roared again and sent more ponies to get him. The wires went away, maybe this creature used up all his power, then something happened, this creature’s right front leg became covered in fur, and its hoof emitted flames and burnt everypony it commanded. The creature walked up to the lonely zombie and pierced the pony’s heart, everything from there went black.
Thomas cleared out the ashes in Galley’s pub “Well I must say that I never expected you to help me, since it involves killing, Isabelle” A female voice came from Thomas’ lips “They were already dead long ago” The deep voice returned “Don’t let the woman fool you Master, she wants you dead for what you do while I respect you for what you do” Then Thomas spoke “You know...I don’t really care” he left and jumped away.
Galley and Applejack were looking throughout the library for Thomas, they were unable to find him. Galley left to go to her pub and see if Thomas was there.
In Canterlot Luna and Celestia were watching Faulty Mask’s speech in Stalliongrad and were preparing a counter-argument speech, Luna looked towards her sister “Well, we were told that Thomas never liked killing for money. Could we bring that up?” the moon controlling Alicorn asked, Celestia turned to her sister “No, I don’t think we should bring anything up like that” Luna looked back at Faulty in hate “Why not?” Luna demanded, Her older sister replied “If we say that, it only confirms something Mask has said. We want ponies thinking he’s wrong about everything”, Luna looked back at her sister, the one who wised over time “What about his actual race? There was nothing Faulty said about that. It’s perfect, an attack he can’t block” Luna said victorious, Her sister shook her head “No, we need an ace up our sleeve. Nopony will ever find out” Luna understood, but she hated everything about Faulty.
Thomas slept on one of the roofs of Ponyville’s many homes and had a dream.
Thomas was back in his snowy hometown, he looked to his left and saw the new girl “Hi Thomas” she said nervously “I read a little about you before I got to join this particular group of assassins, they didn’t make you out to be as handsome as you really are” He looked away “They’re not supposed to, besides my looks don’t affect how I do my job” Caroline felt crushed, she was being talked down by someone she found attractive, she began crying, Thomas spoke to her “Don’t cry. This weather makes it hurt” She cheered up “Oh yeah, I forgot this was your hometown” He got up and walked away from the bench that he and Caroline were sitting on “I have to go check something” Caroline saw him disappear into the falling snow.
On the roof a tile came loose and as Thomas fell, his arm caught on the gutter and the flesh tore open “GAHHHH!” he screamed out in pain, he lit a small flame in his palms and dragged it up the cut, searing the wounds shut “Thanks Isabelle” he told her, he got up slowly and looked around, metres away in the mist was another zombie “Bloody hell, there is no end to these things” he ran up and as his foot was one inch away he noticed the familiar face and stopped it “What are you doing out this late?” he asked as he pulled his leg back “I thought you might get hurt, so I brought these bandages with me” she said as she passed them to him, He wrapped them around his burnt arm “Thanks Shy” he told her {I seem to be thanking a lot of women today} multiple moans were heard behind him, Fluttershy saw a mound of shadows approaching “Oh no” she squeaked “This is bad” she cried, Thomas grinned “Good, I’ve been wanting a challenge” the Scar-H was ripped from his back and held by his right arm, he turned the gun sideways and emptied his magazine in their direction “Don’t doubt a mercenary” then the gun was put on his back “Let’s go” he told Fluttershy.
Fluttershy and Thomas quietly crawled into the library, after Thomas was in Fluttershy was nowhere to be found, he went upstairs to the bedroom, where he found her sleeping, almost as if she hadn’t been awake in hours. Thomas fell asleep on the floor and began to dream again.
Thomas was thrown against the wall by Craig, or more commonly called Brick, Caroline had a bloody nose “sterben” he told the German, Thomas got back up and ran at him, Thomas smacked his elbow into Brick’s face “Stop it Thomas!” his sister yelled, he didn’t listen, Brick slid a set of knuckle dusters on, two hits connected one to the stomach and the other to the face, blood forced itself from Thomas’ mouth, Yuki dragged him away before Brick’s third hit connected “Craig, you should be able to restrain yourself” she said as she set down her helpless little brother, Craig snapped at her “SHUT UP YOU SLANTY EYED FUCKING SLUT!” Yuki was proud of her Japanese heritage, she wasn’t going to let this asshole degrade it, calm as ever she stood up, her fingers became claws which were razor sharp, her hair grew and became white, her teeth were just as sharp as her claws “I was willing to forgive you beating my brother up. But when you disrespect my heritage...” it took a mere millisecond for her to be in front of him “...prepare to die” she dragged her claws across his stomach, blood poured out, she shoved her hand through his stomach and grabbed his spine and crushed certain vertebrae which forced his arms to be outstretched sideways “your punishment is crucifixion and I am the one to carry it out” Craig looked into her eyes the purple iris became a violent red, as she pulled her hand out she cut one of his veins, Yuki put a hand on one side of his face, her mouth came up next to his ears then let out the howl of a banshee. Yuki became her regular self as she walked away from Craig, everyone was unconscious from the scream, she walked over to Caroline and picked her up then placed her next to Thomas, Caroline was hugging him.
Thomas woke up on the floor, his wounds were gone “Heh, regeneration ain’t half bad” his stomach grumbled, he left the room and jumped down the stairs, he heard mixed reactions from the ponies, his stomach growled out of hunger “Oh, shut up would you?” he said to his stomach, Pinkie was quite hyperactive, she bounced around the room before landing on Thomas’ ribs, pushing him to the ground “Hey, guess where we’re going” Pinkie said, still hyped up, Thomas shoved her off “Just tell me” he replied groaning out in pain, his ribs began healing “Neigh Zealand” said Twilight, Thomas wasn’t fond of finding out if it was actually like Kiwi-Land. “Hey Pinkie” he said trying to grab her attention, She looked back “Yeah?” she asked, Thomas looked at her, “Break my ribs again, and I’ll kill you” Rainbow Dash flew right up to Thomas, up in his face she said “Kill her, and you’ll have me to deal with” Thomas quickly grabbed his Kukri and Rainbow’s throat then shoved her to the ground and sliced his hand which was protecting her throat, he let go of her then licked up his blood as it dripped “Don’t forget whose side I’m on” he said as he left Rainbow thinking and headed for the door.
Galley was in her pub, sitting all alone, she heard a creak of the floorboards, she looked up and saw the image of Starry Blaze, she screamed out for help, something familiar grabbed her “Galley!” was all she heard before she opened her eyes after being slapped across the face “Cut it out, will ya? You scared me” she regained her composure, Thomas sat her down next to him on a stool “I’ll be gone for a while” he grabbed the bottle of whiskey he forgot about last time and took a swig of it “I don’t know how long I’ll be gone” Galley looked at him “What if I-” She was cut off “You can’t come along, it’s too dangerous for you” he left her crying “I’m sorry” he said.
On the chariot halfway to Neigh Zealand Thomas asked “Tell me, why are we going” Twilight looked at him “I honestly don’t know” he didn’t take it well “YOU’RE SAYING WE GO HALF WAY ACROSS THIS COUNTRY AND YOU CAN’T FUCKING TELL ME WHY!” he screamed, he pulled out his 1911 and held it right against his temple “Sometimes, I swear, you think I’m some fucking prize mule” a zombie Pegasus came for them, Thomas shoved the barrel down its throat and shot and shot and shot until he was settle “I’m fine, it’s fine” he sat back down and sighed.
Faulty Mask was looking over all his ‘willing’ soldiers, one of them screamed “OH SOMEPONY PLEASE HELP! HELP ME!” Faulty lifted his sword and struck the pony across the face “Nopony can hear you, nopony will help, you will become loyal to me” the pony was injected with a needle.
After arriving in Neigh Zealand, the ponies spoke like the Kiwi people do, Rainbow Dash was laughing her arse off, he grabbed her by the scruff of the neck and dragged her away “Don’t laugh at these pony’s accents or my hand won’t be there next time” he could tell that Rainbow just gulped “Now come on” he said as he walked off.
Minutes later they had reached the house they were told to meet at, there was a note on the door ‘Thomas, although this may bring up bad memories, I need you to find out who is responsible for this, Celestia’ Thomas pushed the door open, he walked inside, he looked around to see ponies gutted, torn open, shredded. Blood painted the walls, the girls almost threw up, but held it back because it would ruin the evidence, Applejack walked up to the human who took in the sights without trouble “How ain’t ya disgusted by this?” she asked, Twilight commented “It’s sickening”, He never took his eyes off the bodies “I know, but for me this is just another day at the office” Rainbow Dash didn’t understand “Huh?” His eyes moved to messages written in blood “Paperwork if you will” he said nonchalantly, Pinkie Pie looked around “I still don’t get it” He walked towards a pony whose intestines were hung out like streamers “I’m used to seeing a lot of blood, because of when I was a merc” he touched the organs “Oh, and give Fluttershy some attention, she passed out when I opened the door” they all turned around and noticed he was right, “Twi, take Rarity and Fluttershy somewhere nice. I’ll stay here and deduce” he walked upstairs into another room.
Fluttershy and Rarity were at a cafe drinking “Ugh! How barbaric that house was, when we get back to Ponyville I am changing the colour of my curtains” Twilight and the rest came over “I didn’t think anypony would ever do that” she said shaking, Most of them were shaking in fear until Applejack said “Ah’m sure Thomas will take care of us” they all jumped when a newspaper landed on the table, Twilight started reading the article about Faulty Mask, it praised him as a god, if not something better.
Thomas was at the local library, he rang a bell and almost instantly a pony was there “I want everything on forms of worship, evil powers, sacrificing, a city layout throughout the ages and anything else along those lines” the pony was gone but came back fairly quickly, to his fortune and dismay she didn’t come back with many books only about ten, She looked at him “This is all we have, and may I ask why you need these?” He walked away but before leaving said “Doing this city a favour” he walked back to the slaughterhouse.
Thomas stared at the map and one of the messages which would come off as a normal demonic worshiping message, but when there was a nail and organs on part of it, something seemed off, the nail was ripped out, and it all made sense. Thomas flipped through the book, the message took a similar shape to the way the town was two hundred years ago, once the nail was pulled out the crack made the shape of an ‘X’ when compared to now the cross was over another home. He examined the magazine of his 1911, “Come on Sasha” he left the house with his gun cocked and map in his pocket.
Fluttershy noticed Thomas walking across town with his gun out “Oh dear” Twilight looked at him, she felt just a little safer “I think he found who did it” she told her nervous friend.
Once Thomas reached the house where the map predicted, he cracked the door open slightly, then once he raised his pistol he swung the door wide open, there was a body hanging, but differently than before, similar techniques but in total they were different “FUCKING COCKSUCKING WHORE!” he screamed in anger for being too late.
Minutes later the ponies he came with showed up at the door which he was leaning against, he kept repeating “How could there be no clues? This was a chase case” he heard a yelp from inside, he went in to check it out. Freshly written in blood was a challenge, one for the human, ‘To catch a maniac, you must become a maniac’ a grin formed across his face “I’m gonna find you, and I’m gonna do this to you” Pinkie Pie backed away, he ran his hand across his face “But the joke’s on you, I already am” all of the ponies were just a little bit scared.
Thomas sat down at a table and over looked every book as he cross examined the most recent sacrifice, his eyelids began to drop, he looked over at the purple pony “Yo, Twilight, can you get me a coffee?” he asked, She nodded a little too quickly “Sure” she said as she ran out as quick as she could, He looked over to the Pegasus not enjoying herself “Shy, can you go out and get a record of all mental asylums within a five hundred kilometre radius? This is quite important” she hadn’t opened her eyes for at least an hour, she nodded and bolted for the door. He looked towards Pinkie and Rarity, they seemed quite depressed by all this, he walked over to them “You two just get out, go down the street or something, I don’t care what it is, just stop being upset. I’ll get whoever did this” he said reassuring them, as soon as they left he walked up to Dash “I want you to ask around, find out if anyone know anything about this” he told her, She cocked an eyebrow “What’s in it for me?” He looked her in the eyes “I’ll help you track down your dad and put an end to his life” Dash needed nothing further and she was out the door. A few minutes passed, Twilight wasn’t back and Thomas look at Applejack “What do ya want me ta do?” she asked him, he moved away from the table and over to her, he kneeled down in front of her, as his hand stretched out towards her face, in an instant he had locked lips with her, She broke away and nearly vomited “That’s sickening” He whispered in her ear “Ignore your morality, just this once” he wiped the puke away from her mouth and she was all over him, he ripped his shirt off as they kissed.
About an hour passed, Thomas put his shirt back on as Applejack cleaned herself up, as soon as she came out of the bathroom Twilight came through the door “I’m so, so, so sorry about the wait, there was this crazy big line and-” Thomas cut her off “It’s okay, stop stressing” he grabbed the cup and took a sip, Twilight eyed the way Applejack walked funnily “Are you okay Applejack?” she asked, as Applejack waddled back over “Ah’m okay” she told Twilight, then Rarity and Pinkie came in, they looked around “Something is different, really different” said Pinkie, Rarity gasped “What did you do to her you brute?” she exclaimed as she attempted beating Thomas, Fluttershy came inside with a scroll inside her mouth, she put it on the table “I thought it might save you time if I got the names of only crazy ponies...but that’s fine if you don’t want that” she told him as she kicked the ground, he walked over and ruffled her hair.
Another hour had passed “Rainbow ain’t back yet, ah’ll go look for her” said the orange southerner, Thomas shook his head “Stay, I’ll go looking for her” he pushed the door open, he saw a note written in blood ‘Will you decrypt my riddle before your friend dies’ Thomas was broken “He’s got me, I can’t do anything, he’s too good for me” he sighed in defeat, a deep voice laughed then spoke “Master, it seems you’ll need me, but I demand to be in full control” Thomas nodded, the deep velvety voice laughed again, Thomas began changing, his ruffled brown hair became long black hair, his blue eyes turned dirt brown, his teal t-shirt was replaced by a white trench coat and finally his jeans were turned to leather leg armour.
Vlad was in control and he loved it, “So they took Rainbow? They won’t make it very far once I find them” he drew his rapier, he kicked a pony on its back and held it there by holding his foot against its throat “What do you know about demons? What do you know about their rituals?” he questioned the light brown pony, pointing the tip of his blade towards its face “Freak! Die!” he replied, Vlad’s expression had completely changed “You’ll wish you never said that” he barked as he held the pony by one leg, a pike had come out of the ground and impaled the pony from ass through to mouth.
Behind him there was nearly a small forest of impaled dead bodies “Stop! Please!” cried Pinkie, Vlad turned around and looked Pinkie dead in the eye “Is Rainbow Dash a friend? Wouldn’t you do anything to save her?” Rarity replied “There is never need for such barbaric displays” he turned his attention to her “She’s an element of harmony, you all are, and I know for a fact that you are all needed alive for it work. My Master won’t waste his time on a lost cause, and if he does it’ll be without my power” he barked “Well maybe that’ll be a good thing” Twilight replied, Vlad ripped his sword out and cut a line in the dirt with them on one side and him on the other “Unless you want to see Dash alive again, STAY ON THAT SIDE!” he screamed, sick of arguing. Fluttershy was the first to walk over line, she shut her eyes as Rarity tried talking her out of it “Darling, this path will only lead you to destruction” Fluttershy squealed “You all mean enough to me to be willing to do what it takes, and you’ll have to accept that! Besides, Thomas and destruction have been the best thing to happen to us since this all started” she began to cry, Vlad snickered “Any other takers?” Applejack took a deep breath then stook her hoof over the line, “Ah cain’t sit around while ah got a friend gonna die unless ah help” the others showed no signs of budging, Vlad sheathed his sword “I hope you said your goodbyes before you went shopping and went to get coffee” with that he turned around and walked away continuing his method of interrogation, just as Twilight, Pinkie and Rarity thought he would kill the pony, he pulled them up and ran off in a direction the pony pointed to.
Vlad’s head was racing with thoughts, some about Rainbow Dash, some not. He stopped at a door, it was a mental institution, he kicked the door down and walked in. Vlad checked the counter and saw a book of all the patients, there was only one name in the book “Room three thousand and four” he looked over at a map, the room was on the third floor, he started to run off in the direction of the cell. Once he reached the cell he looked inside and saw torture devises like an iron maiden, a Judas cradle and a few others. Vlad sniffed at the iron maiden, it was used recently, nothing harmed inside of it though “why would it be operated if it isn’t being used for its purpose?” he asked himself, he suddenly came up with a theory “Oh, I get it. He assumed that my Master would have given up, or at least not up to this stage yet” he shook his head in disappointment, he wrote up a note which read ‘I already found you. Move your location, I want to play this game of yours’ he ran downstairs and spoke to the two with him “I couldn’t find anything, it’s hopeless searching here” just as they turned around and left, he smirked.
Hours had passed since Vlad found the place where Rainbow Dash was going to be killed, Fluttershy approached the tall black haired figure in the white trench coat “Umm...Vlad, do you think Rainbow is hurt?” she asked as she shied away, he wasn’t as warm with his response as Thomas would have “It’s possible, I don’t know” he replied irritated, he began walking away when Applejack said “We want Thomas back” Vlad laughed “He doesn’t want to come out” the black haired figure walked away.
Rainbow regained her consciousness and found herself strapped to a device with spikes at her back and some in front of her, a TV had changed from static to a masked pony “Hello Rainbow Dash” it spoke calmly “You’re in what is called an iron maiden, but I slightly modified it” it looked to each side then looked back to her “I made it so that your friends are on a timer and with each passing moment it will draw closer” she could tell behind that mask he was wearing that his face had just become crazy “Eventually towards the end it’ll run you through” it was only after the TV went back to static that she began to cry.
Thomas was sitting on the ground in his inner world when he was approached by a Husky “What do you want?” he asked her, she looked at him “You know what Vlad’s doing, don’t you?” it asked, Thomas nodded “Yeah, I let him” he told her back, her head turned “You let him leave Rainbow in the hands of that maniac? You let him warn that filthy creature that he was coming?” she barked out in anger, Thomas looked at her “He what?” he asked her, she walked away “He let Dash’s captor loose, he teased him and provoked a location change” Thomas stood up and turned the dog over on to her back and soon he noticed that she was holding a woman by the front of her clothing “Why didn’t you tell me earlier?!” he screamed at her, she had lit a flame in her hand and put it to Thomas’ chest and pushed him away “Master, I think you need to give control to me” he shook his head “No, I will be in control. I’ve had enough of you two for now” the Hispanic lady sighed “I don’t know why you punish me for things he does” at that moment Thomas pulled out his trench knife.
Vlad stopped walking in the middle of the street, he spoke to nobody “What are you doing?” he asked worriedly “Master I’ve nearly found the captor” he tried to assure, Thomas’ voice left his lips “Isabelle told me everything! I won’t have you in control anymore. I’m taking over again” the dark haired man gulped then began screaming, Fluttershy went to approach him but was stopped by Applejack “Stay back sugarcube” Vlad curled into a ball still screaming, when he pulled back his hair was replaced by Thomas’ hair, the back of the trench coat was ripped off and thrown away, the leather leggings were replaced by denim jeans and his shoes were back as well, then the screaming stopped.
Thomas stood in the middle of the street shirtless “What in tha hay just happened?” Applejack asked him, Thomas crouched down to Applejack’s level “I’m in control” he got up and screamed at the world “I’m back bitches” he began walking back to the second murder house.
Once he was inside he searched all around for a shirt, eventually he found one, it wasn’t teal but the colour didn’t matter anymore, he slid it on as Rarity came out “I’m glad that you’re back instead of that monster” she said with a smile on her face, he returned it to her and looked back at Applejack and Fluttershy “I want you two to stay here. You don’t need to witness what I’ll do” Applejack was angry at him “We cain’t let ya go out there without somepony watching yur back” he pulled his trench knife out “I’ve got Eva here” he told them, indicating his knife, Rarity spoke to him “Darling, you know that’s a knife, not a living thing, right?” she asked him making sure he was sane, he pulled the blade away “She heard that, she does so exist” he said as he tossed it away, it glimmered in the sun and disappeared with an instant “She’s standing next to me now” he told them as he motioned towards a woman in a Greek dress, nopony could see her, Eva walked over to Thomas and whispered “They aren’t able to see me” he turned to her “Why not?” he asked, to which she walked towards the door “No Masitki blood in them, now come on” he followed her outside and ran after her.
Eva walked down the streets with Thomas dragged behind “With the pure stupidity of the creature, he’ll likely say that the location moved, when really he’s just using a different part of the building” he suggested to her, She turned around “I don’t know anything about your fancy degree in murder psychology, I’m not much help sweetie” He shared a gaze with her “I asked you to come because I can rely on you for help” She gracefully turned towards him “Oh how so?” He looked over to her and said “Because you won’t make a decision based on morality like my Aura and Chakra. You’ll make it on what’s best for all involved” She turned away and ran towards the mental hospital “Well in that case, you had best hurry up and get to Rainbow” he ran after her, when he found who was responsible he was going to make them pay.
Rainbow had fallen asleep in the iron maiden, but she had woken up again and she immediately noticed how much closer the spikes were “Celestia, I’m going to die. There’s no way any of the girls will find this place” she wept, a while later she screamed at the top of her lungs. Every time she screamed it just reminded her that nopony was coming to save her, there was no way to find her.
Thomas looked up at the massive towering building ‘Neigh Zealand Mental Institution’ was written in either gold or brass on a sign above the door, it was too dark to tell which one it was {It makes no difference} he thought and entered the building “Where the fuck would he use?” Thomas asked himself, Eva walked over to the reception “You might want to check over here Thomas” he rushed over to the reception desk and look through a book of patients, there was only one name written down in it, level thirty room four, three thousand and four, 30-04, that number! The same one as the soldier he beat senselessly, his number: 30-04. He finally realised why it was so significant to him, why when he heard it about the guard it bugged him...his parents, Vladimir and Jessica Belinski... the thirtieth of April...the day that, the day they died.
In Thomas’ inner world Vlad and Isabelle sat with their swords over their laps waiting for their Master to give them a command “Why did you do that Vlad?” asked the Spanish woman, The black haired man who had been staring at his unique blade raised an eye at her “What do you mean? Do what?” he asked, he always got on her nerves “You know full fucking well what I mean” she snapped at him “Why you left her in the hands of that maniac! Why you thought our Master would be stupid enough to let you save everything at the last minute! Even you know you fuck things up every now and then!” she screamed letting him have everything she could throw at him, He smirked and looked at her through one eye “Oh that?” he asked playing stupid “I thought I’d make the chase a bit more exciting. Have some fun, you know” he was testing her, and she failed, as she unsheathed her sword and swung her two-handed claymore at him, he brought his rapier up and blocked her attack completely “Temper, temper” he mocked. They fought for hours but no matter how much she tried she was no match for him “Isabelle, don’t draw your blade unless you intend to kill me” She was breathless but between pants he thought he heard her say “Fuck you” he swung his rapier at her claymore that she was using to hold herself up, she fell as intended and then he turned his sword around and just like a wooden stake would, he pierced her body, but instead of her heart, he went with the shoulder, the right shoulder.
Thomas had Eva in her wire form and ripped every door from its place, the doors fell on top of one another and he walked on top of each of them checking each room from the corner of his eyes. He looked for traps, torture devices or anything really. He saw nothing, in any room “Fuck” he muttered “By nightfall I have to find her, it’s dusk now. I’m fucked, Rainbow’s fucked, everyone’s fucked” he shouted out to the other side “Eva! Find anything?” no reply from her “Ahh cunt!” he picked up a sledgehammer and went to town on the walls, destroying everything but the pillars holding the next floor up. Thomas unable to contain his rage at himself destroyed everything up to the thirtieth level, he looked in room four and saw a standard room.
He cried in front of room 30-04 and then after he pulled himself together at the last second he vented his energy out by beating the door, eventually it gave way. Noise entered his ears, the sound of machines, he looked back and saw an iron maiden, a Judas cradle and a few other things, one of those was Rainbow Dash. Smoke rose as Vlad’s rapier was in Thomas’ hand and he spoke through his Master’s lips “Save her. Now!” He ran to the iron maiden and over a set of speakers he heard “You realise Ms. Rainbow Dash that the human was too stupid to solve a riddle that is child play in the eyes of Faulty Mask!” Rainbow stared only at the ground as she wept, the speakers spoke as Thomas ran “Now the iron maiden will come to a speedy close” and just as the door began to ram shut Dash heard the crumble of concrete, she looked up and saw the one she least wanted to “It seems you need a hand Rainbow” he held his left hand out and with a flame in his palm he slashed it across the air and pulled a massive claymore from the blaze. With Vlad’s rapier in his right hand and Isabelle’s claymore in his left, holding onto the rapier he took a full crescent swing of the Scottish sword and two of the four bars that pulled half of the iron maiden backwards, into ponies, Thomas felt a bit cocky and swapped the hands for swords and spun around as he swung Isabelle’s claymore again taking the final two bars with it.
The video seemed to be a live feed, “What are you?” asked the voice, Thomas didn’t even look back in the direction of the of the screen “Your worst fucking nightmare” four black tendrils emerged from his back and moved the door of the torture device. Thomas walked over to the camera feeding the video to somewhere in Equestria, he picked it up and shoved his face in the view “Remember this face, because you ought to know what you’ll be running from” then he cut the feed by smashing the recording device into the ground with a single throw.
Thomas walked back over to Dash “Hey, Dash?” he smiled hoping for a response “Dashie? I’m gonna get you out of this, okay?” she passed out {Poor thing. I can’t fathom why they did this, but it cannot be forgiven. I can’t even guess what she went through, well I could, but how it was for her} he untied the straps on each of her legs holding her down, he then slung her over his back and walked back to the murder house without much of a resistance from zombie ponies.
In Thomas’ inner world Vlad and Isabelle sat opposite each other in their animal forms, a large black male wolf and a medium-sized white husky with bits of brown on it, the wolf grinned and the husky asked “What’s so funny?” The wolf shook its head “This was exactly how I planned it out, every last detail. Even the camera smashing” The husky tried to call his bluff “Yeah right, our Master is smart, that’s all. You didn’t plan any of it” The wolf raised an eyebrow “At the moment of Mrs. Dash’s safety Master used tendrils to move the devise. My tendrils, proving he’ll need me if he wants to defeat any one of these ponies.” He walked past the husky as her jaw dropped and he whispered “Sister, I have this whole affair already planned out. Nothing you do will alter that from now on” she growled at Vlad “He’s mine, Sister. You lost” he walked away as she sat there and she dropped.
Thomas walked through the door and just like in stories from his world, the group waited for the return of the hero “Bitches ain’t shit but hoes and tricks” were the first words to leave his mouth and he took Dash from over his shoulder, They all quietly cheered at the safe return of their friend and a fellow Element of Harmony, Twilight asked him “Thomas? What could we do to pay you back?” but he backed up and waved his palm around trying to say he was happy to help “No. We simply MUST pay you back somehow” he looked down at a slightly bloodstained shirt and tossed it to Rarity “She’s not the only one who can wash clothes” As he left he said “Brown just isn’t my colour, you think you could make them teal instead?” as Rarity looked up to reply he was gone.
Thomas walked around Neigh Zealand and heard Kiwi accents, there was something about them that just made him laugh, probably the fact that he’s always found them amusing compared to the Australian accent he had, the thought that two close countries have two very distinct accents. He must have gained a hobby of sleeping on roofs since he came to Equestria and he was at it again.
Caroline and Thomas were in a hotel room, two separate beds, she’d pushed them together {Doesn’t she get it? I don’t want her companionship} she crawled through her blankets and into his side, a storm of lightning and thunder raged outside, rain pelted the window like a suicide bomber, Caroline whispered “Thomas, I can call you Thomas, right?” He answered back “I can’t stop you” She smiled, he was talking to her, “Thomas, can I ask you a question?” He smirked and replied “But you just did” she didn’t laugh back “About what?” She answered him “About you” He didn’t like where it was going, he told her “Just leave my childhood out of it, okay?” She had heard about what happened to him and his sister, she put her hand on her chest “Cross my heart, hope to die” she moved in closer to him and she whispered, “What was that? Speak up” She moved in a bit closer and said “I asked: how do you feel when I say ‘I love you’?” Thomas’ face became stone, he was struck for words {Why would she do this? One of the fundamental rules of Private Authority is ‘Love is forbidden in all forms’. Say something} he stuttered a bit “I-I d-d-don’t have any negative feelings towards the statement” She sighed with relief “Ahh, well that’s good” she wrapped her arms around him “I love you Thomas Belinski” the storm continued and Thomas tried to comprehend what just happened.
As Thomas awoke he found a red set of headphones on his head while a French song played “Non, rien de rien. Non, je ne regrette rien. Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait. Ni le mal; tout ça m'est bien égal!” he sang along in the language, he looked over at a table with files on it, he opened the paper folders and found a form for him to fill in. He continued with filling the form out, he read a part which read ‘side comments’ “We need to go deeper” he said as he wrote it. He slid his Beats down and rested them on his neck, “Oh good, you’ve done it” he looked back and saw Twilight, she sighed “Celestia is making Dash fill one out too, but I don’t think even Celestia would be able to convince Rainbow to remember back to something so horrible. It would be scarring for her, I don’t know that I’d be able to do that myself” Thomas nodded and walked over, he placed his right hand on Twilight’s head “She’ll be fine. You’ll all be fine under my eye” and with that said he left the room.
He picked up the books he borrowed from the library “Better take these back” he noticed Applejack drinking coffee and having breakfast “Morning Agent Orange” he said She looked over, seeming more tired than normal “Thomas, ain’t ya gonna have yur breakfast?” she asked him, He shook his head “Nah, not hungry...and if you’ll remember I told you I can’t eat hay or grass or flowers” he moved to the door “Anything you wanted while I was down the street?” she shook her head and went back to her food, he walked outside.
He reached the library and rang the bell and the same pony from before was there “Are you here to borrow or return?” He handed the stack of books over “They helped” he said to her, She put them under the counter “May I ask what the favour that you did the city was?” He weighed the scales about telling her “I was investigating the set of ritualistic murders” The pony seemed unsurprised “Oh, a lot of ponies have been looking into that. I suppose that you gave up then?” Thomas laughed “Give up? Quit? I was here on orders from Celestia herself, I was only allowed to leave if I solved it” The pony changed her mood as if she was talking to a celebrity “Wow! Celestia? I guess I’ll see you around town then” Once again Thomas laughed “You would...if I had failed. No, they took Ms. Rainbow Dash, she went outside because I asked her to do something, during that time she was kidnapped. Once she was gone...well, lets put it that from then on, failure was not an option” The librarian had that face again “You know Ms. Rainbow Dash? Wow, you must know a lot of famous ponies then” Thomas was intrigued but saw the time “As much as I’d like to continue this conversation I gotta go” She called out as he left “Wait, what is your name?” He shouted back “Thomas” she realised that he was the one Faulty Mask was demonising all the time.
In Canterlot Celestia was startled as a letter came from above and disturbed her nap, “What could this be?” she read over Thomas’ file taking it very seriously, she gasped as she read a line “Faulty?” she grabbed one of her guards’ attention “Run to Princess Luna and tell her I demand an audience with her” she read over Thomas’ report a few more times. Luna arrived “Sister, why hast thou summoned us?” the night princess asked, Celestia passed the form to her sister “Thomas reported on the kidnapping of Ms. Rainbow Dash and the sacrificial murders of ponies in Neigh Zealand. Would you care to read out the shock?” asked the older white Alicorn, The blue one read aloud “From words spoken, I can assume that the one responsible for these attacks is Faulty Mask. It also seems that he and his underlings have plans for me, they seemingly knew nothing about me as I appeared and the one on the screen who tormented Dash, seemed to wear a bull skull as a mask. With your permission I wish to start a personal eradication of all those in ‘The Army of Freedom’ and destroy this Stalin. I will not allow Ms. Dash’s suffering to go unavenged” Luna’s mouth gaped open “Surely you jest sister. Thou hast not called us to be a second opinion on giving him this right?” Celestia looked at her sister “You know as well as I do that this is a necessity. For him to be able to take the lives of high ranking officers of Faulty’s order without being held down by our legal system, would no doubt be beneficial to both parties by Thomas paying back the debt and by our opposition being reduced. But your input remains vital, you need to agree with me too for this to be passed” Princess Luna shook her head “Nopony should have their life taken, no matter what the reason. That was one of the things thou has taught us upon our return from the moon” Celestia tried to reason with her sister “That referred to other ponies, our citizens, technically Thomas isn’t a citizen of Equestria” Luna understood finally, but she didn’t like it “Even if he obtained the right to do so, what could we even call it that wouldn’t make us appear corrupt or make him appear like a criminal?” Celestia showed her sister the document outline titled ‘The Right for Safety Under The Sun and Moon’ it said restrictions Thomas would have such as having to be attacked before he can retaliate and how he can only fight those who have attacked or attempted to attack him. Luna read over the document as she asked her sister for clarifications and suggestions.
Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie discussed how they’d get Rainbow into the chariot “How could we get her into it? She isn’t strong enough to move on her own” Thomas waltzed into the place, merry for one reason or another “What’s this?” he asked as he joined them, Twilight informed “How we’ll get Rainbow into the chariot” Thomas looked at them as if they missed the most obvious option “I can carry her, I did it before” they all realised it was a sound option {Jeez, Darwin would be baffled about how these ponies survived. I reckon if I die all hope will be lost} he played an air guitar as he walked into the building and as he approached the bed he was nearly scared to death as he realised that he slept outside and woke up back inside “Yo, sleepyhead” he said to Dash, no response, he continued “Fine, I’ll carry you downstairs” he walked over to her and picked her up and wrapped the bed sheet around her “Ugh, I guess being a lazy bones is why you’re this heavy” he said to her on the stairs. He stopped at the door “Now listen Dash, this secret must remain ours. That means only you and I know it, okay? I don’t give two damns what Celestia and Luna say in the end, I’m gonna kill every last one of those arseholes that tried to hurt us, and I will not stop until I personally oversee Faulty Mask’s death, I will make him whimper and squirm and plead for me to stop killing him for a whole week. I promise you” he opened the door and walked to the cart, he placed her down with a gentleness unseen before by the group, he smiled and then turned to the group with grimace and tire of the place “Alright, let’s just hurry up and leave this place. I just...never mind” he sighed and climbed in himself {So long Kiwi-land, but we both know I’ll be back} he thought in despair.