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I woke up with a jolt. God, the nightmares are getting bad. I quickly checked my area, looking for anything out of the ordinary. Yes, most teens shouldn't have to do this but things have changed in the past couple years. We got invaded and destroyed. They came in the night and killed nearly everyone. I was lucky because I was camping back in the mountains. I was with a group of friends. There were 4 of us and we were planning on staying there for a week or so but plans changed when the explosions started. The ground shook and there was a bright flash. We all instantly knew something bad had happened. When we got back to the town, it wouldn't really be classified as a town any more. Everything was flat. Not even grass was left to grow. At this moment my group decided it was best to stay in the mountains. We gathered supplies. It was a terrible idea and everyone died because of it. I only escaped because I found a trusty AR-15. With that I survived a few more years. I've only seen a few survivors who quickly tried to steal my stuff and kill me. This has taught me to trust no one in this new world.
So I began my day like I have the past few years. Check the area around my little hide out for any of those scumbag aliens. Yeah, you would think another country would have invaded but no. they were legit aliens. So on the lookout for them I grabbed my rifle and a few extra mags. I also grabbed my armor that I got through some unconventional means. It was pretty bulky and it totally covered my whole body. Though it was alien it was without a doubt it was the coolest armor ever.
So with my armor equipped I peeked outside looking for any sort of threat. With nothing in sight, I began walking to the forest. It was my main source of food. It still held deer in it and clean water with wild vegetables. About a mile from the forest I saw a glint come off the top of some rubble. Realizing what it was and diving for some cover. The rock behind were my head was exploded and all hell broke loose. I'm pretty sure I heard an MG and a few assault rifles. I guess those aliens got sick of me picking off there scouts. I knew they knew about me because for some reason their armor translates to the wearer's language and I heard them talking about a ghost in the rubble wearing the armor off those it kills. This made me take pride in my stealth but I guess today would be one of my last. My cover was quickly depleting quickly due to the massive amount of fire power they were using. Suddenly there guns went quiet.
One of the beasts called out. "Human, come out from behind that rubble before we make you. It will make things a lot easier on both of us. We can then walk back to the base and continue what we had before." Peeking through a crack, I could see the one speaking stand on a slab of concrete. With one quick movement I whip my rifle around and put a bullet in the eye slot of the helmet. That was the only week ness in the armor that human weapons could penetrate. So after taking out, what I assumed was, the captain. Their guns unleashed again after he fell to his knees. Think I could take a few more; I foolishly leaned out of cover. Granted I took a few more out but I caught a bullet in the shoulder which threw me back into cover from the impact and made me cry out. The interesting thing about their weapons was that they shrapnel on impact so that sent a punch of shards into my chest. Knowing that I was at my end I laid back against the rubble and just thought about what went wrong in my life. Before the invasion I was basically guaranteed greatness. I was smart, athletic, and friendly. I wish I could say I was still friendly but since it began I lost that. The last two survivors that I've met tried cracking a joke behind my back. What they didn't know was that I have unnatural senses and decided quickly dispatching them would be best because they were not to be trusted.
Looking to the sky I prayed to be forgiven. Normally I'm not religious but it felt right. I began feeling the effects of blood lose. I was just about to black out when I saw a figure floating down too me. It had wings and looked kind of like a horse. I felt myself being lifted up as I blacked out.
I awoke in something I thought I would never feel again. A bed, you know that you sleep on. After realizing where I was before, I quickly scrambled to find my gear. This could be another one of those aliens' tricks. The year of the attack I fell into a trap and got captured for testing. So not wanting to go through that again, I began searching the room. It was actually a really luxurious room. It looked like one you would see in a palace. It was white with gold trim and had well-made furniture. Something I noticed about it though was that everything was a little small for me. The bed was pretty low to the ground and the door way was just above my head. After observing this I decided that I need to get a move on. So I shot over to the closet and found all of my gear. Picking up my armor I found that the bullet whole had been repaired and the suit was clean.
After getting my armor on I picked up my rifle and moved over to the door. Peeking through I saw some sort of small horse standing to the side. It was really weird because it had armor on. 'Why would somebody armor a horse and place it on a guard post?' Shrugging it off I started moving out the door. The pony thing turned to me and spoke.
"You are supposed to stay in your room till further notice. I will tell the Princesses that you are awake but they said to keep you in the room." This caused me to stumble.
"Gah! You speak!" I yelled stumbling back into my room. It then turned to me with a weird look on his face.
"Of course I do. Ponies generally do that." He tried explaining but I was already gone. I bolted past him and along the corridor my room was on. I could hear behind me the pony calling for me to stop. I just kept going, planning my every move. I came to a corner and ran into a flying one. It just bounced off me only slowing me down a fraction of a second.
"Hey, watch where you're going." It tried to scold me to only realize I was already at the other end of the hall. Then the guard came sprinting around the corner yelling for ponies to seize me but none could stop me. That's when I ran into a form of resistance for my next couple turns. A couple times I felt an invisible tug I easily broke free from with a shrug. As I ran I slung my rifle not knowing if they were friendly or not. A few tried getting in my way only to be hurdled with ease. I ran for probably 5 minutes before coming to a dead end. Not wanting to get caught I decided to hop out the window at the end. Another cool feature of the suit is that it had booster too slow down decent. So once I launched myself out the window, I heard gasps. I know they thought I would splat but I instead just slowed my decent with rocket thrusters in my boots just enough to not break any bones. I landed on a roof and rolled to lessen the impact even more. After recovering from the roll, I looked up to see Pegasus launch themselves after me. I saw other ponies and realized what the invisible tugs were. There were unicorns looking out the window. Seeing I was in a bad position I hopped off the roof down to the street and continued running. From my position I could see the outskirts of the city I was in. So aiming for the forest beyond I put every ounce of energy into running. So in other words I was running at a speed faster than the Pegasus could fly. I nearly made it to the forest but got hit from the side by some projectile. This made me stumble so I had to stop to recover. I found that a spear had been launched at me. Of course it only bounced off my armor. Though right when I stopped I got surrounded be every sort of guard pony. Looking for a none violent escape, I found that I was trapped. Knowing that I would have to use force, I slowly unslung my rifle.
"I would recommend letting me go before any one gets hurt." I said leveling my barrel on the one that threw the spear.
"I'm sorry but we have strict orders to keep you retained to the castle." One of the ponies said off to my left. Turning on it I found that it was more intricately dressed and not armored.
"Then if you don't want to release me, I will have to use force and I doubt you could stop me if I tried." I smirked.
"What could you do? You have a stick that looks like it's no more than half a pound" He said annoyed. "and you aren't even holding it in a fighting stance and do be quick. You interrupted a lunch I was having with my wife."
"You'll find out pretty quick if you don't stand down and let me through." He only shook his head than did a little nod. Knowing he meant something by that I quickly turned to find a colored ball of what looked like plasma flying at me. I dove out of the way in time for it to inly clip my armor. Standing back up I searched for what shot that to only find a unicorn standing there. Confirming that I believed magic was at use. Not wanting to risk anything I shot it in the leg. It dropped instantly with a scream. "Anybody else want a demonstration of what I can do." Turn to the captain. "Are you going to move now?" He was staring at the pony on the ground in shock. Looking at the quarter sized whole in his leg.
"Now I can't move because you are a danger too pony kind." Well I at least got the right name for the ponies. "With the power that I hold, as Prince of the Crystal Empire and previously Captain of the Guard, I decree that this creature be captured and jailed." The captain called to the guards.
"Bad move Captain." I mumbled as I sprang into action. Before any of the ponies could move I was behind the captain with the barrel of my rifle to his head. "Nobody move or his head is going to look like your comrades leg." All of the other ponies became stock still. "Good now I would like to speak to these Princesses all of you keep talking about." Before I could continue talking I heard a voice behind me.
"Well there is no need for you to wait then. What is it that you need?" spoke a very calm voice behind me. Thinking about what it is it said I realized who it was. Turning with my weapon focused on where the voice was I found a pony that was probably twice as tall and actually glowed a little bit. Its mane waved in a nonexistent wind and was multicolored with two shades of blue, a pink, and green. "Would you please lower that foul contraption? We can talk this over without any more bloodshed."
"You're going to have to deal with it for now because I don't quite trust you. So now that you are here, would you please explain why I woke up in your castle?" I asked shifting a little a better shooting position.
"We'll need to go inside to do that. If you will come with me I'll tell you everything." She turned and started walking away. "Oh, and guards go back to your post there is no danger and Shining Armor tell Cadance that I wish to speak to her before you guys go back to the north." She said only glancing back for a second. Seeing no threat in going with her I followed after her with my rifle still trained on her head.