Chapter 1: Enter Apocalypse

"I want your new role as bodyguard to take place effective immediately are we clear soldier." The orange southern spoken mare commanded.

"Yes ma'am I'll protect her with my life"

"Good Rarity would kill me if I let her sister die to some two bit assassin." Applejack dug through her desk, pulling out a file and handed it over to me. " These are your new credentials, congratulations you are now an employee of Stable-tec."

I took the file, thanked her, and left. On the way back to my home I decided to take a look at the file to make sure all of the information was correct. The file read:

Strike

Pegasus

Titles include: Strike Silvertongue, Chaos Strike, and the Storm Bringer

Storm cloud grey coat, short messy yellow and eerie black mane

Hmm doesn't give my size, guess she like to hear of other ponies reaction to my size I'm just a little bit bigger than Big Macintosh, so basicly not normal pegasus size

Two years as a Royal Guard, one year soldier under the Ministry of Wartime Technology

Two adopted children a purple bat pony filly and a blue unicorn colt

While reading the files an old burning pain on my flank returned. I look back at my poor distorted cutie mark to see the weird symbol glowing again. My cutie mark was originally a simple shield with an upward pointing arrow (the arrow is a symbol of order) but now there is a red circle with eight outwardly pointing arrows surrounding it. Several years ago before i joined the Royal Guard I had enjoyed studying old chaos artifacts. These artifacts were remnants of an old civilization that used chaos magic similar to what Discord uses. I had stumbled upon an old temple in which they had performed rituals centuries ago. I, of course, I just had to go treasure hunting, couldn't give up this opportunity. My searches came up short until I found a huge room with four pillars surrounding a pedestal with a single rounded bloodstone with weird markings in a language that were alien to me. Overjoyed that I finally found something I charged to get the stone not giving a second thought about what it did or if there were any traps. That was a big mistake. The moment my teeth touched the stones strange tendrils shot from it covering my body. I was stunned for a few second but once i regained composer I attempted to escaped the tendrils, to no avail. I thrash and jerked trying to escape the grasp of this creature. All I could see was darkness the thing covered me completely and I started to lose hope. I thought this was my end, but something started to turn inside of me a strange feeling they turned from a sick feeling into strength. I tried to flap my wings pulling myself out of the beast it held on but it couldn't compete with my newfound strength and blasted out with speed I didn't know i could physically achieve. I shot from the temple like a bullet, I had to get away from that Celestia damned hellhole. I had to move faster, faster than I've ever flown fear overtook my reason I knew i was safe but i kept flying faster and faster. Then suddenly from behind me I heard a loud boom and i looked back to see a huge shockwave that looked sorta like a sonic rainb… My eyes widen with shock and awe, "Did I just…" Slam! I should of look where I was going whatever I hit knocked me out and I woke on a hospital bed.

From what the doctor told me I was lucky to be alive and that I had slammed head first into one of the skyscrapers in Manehatten at high speeds and came out with only a fractured skull and a sprained neck. I got up to the burning pain in my flank to see the weird symbol circling my cutie mark. I explained to the doctor what happened and after several examinations the doctors found out that my body had been filled with strange stagnant chaos magic. They assured that it wasn't doing any damage to me in any way

other than the occasional burning rump, but the magic had somehow increased the speed at which I fly exponentially. They told me I'd be fine but to tell them if anything else started happening.

Recollecting on old memories had distracted my thoughts and I collided with a white unicorn mare. She looked elegant but kinda stressed out like someone who is always trying to keep everything from crumbling down around here. "Applejack said she was sending me one of her best but she never told me you were such a clutz."

I now realized who I had bumped into, one of my new bosses, Sweetie Belle.

"Mis...Miss Belle I'm terribly sorry, I guess this ain't the greatest first impression." Mentally kick myself for not paying attention and possible botching my chances of my new job.

"Don't worry about it we've all had a lot on our minds recently due to the war and the threat of the megaspell."

"Megaspell?" I've never heard of anything like that, it sounds intimidating I hope that, whatever it is, the zebras never get their hooves on it.

"We have a lot to explain but for now, Welcome to Stable-Tec!"

Sometime has passed now since I started working at Stable-Tec. A while back I had convinced my bosses to let me make my own stables in my off time. I had wanted to test which class of citizens could survive in a Stable and outside after the megaspells, if it comes to that. I was authorized to create three stables with the help of the provided robot assistance. Strike's Special Stable One, or the SSS-1, was high class being filled with a plethora of food, gardens with robots to maintain it, every instrument I could think of, exercise equipment, spas, an armory, and whatever else i could think of for high class pony.

My first project was in the finishing stage the only thing left was inspection from my bosses and if they approve I could start work on the SSS-2, Middle class. I was flying to Panamare City, the site of the SSS-1, I know my inspection was 12 hours away but i was so nervous I had to go to make sure everything was perfect.

Things have really start going to shit recently with the attempted assassination of Applejack, which hit close to home with one of my bosses, and it was clear the zebras were planning something big but nopony knew what. From what I gather overhearing a conversation while on guard duty the Mare of the Ministry of Arcane Science, Twilight Sparkle, was working on a projects which should push the odds in our favor but nopony has heard from her in quite some time. Worried about what might happen I sent my children to stay in Stable 99 for safety. After my inspection I'll call them on this new Pipbuck 3000 my bosses gave me, it's quite a strange contraption but I'm sure I can find a way to improve its design after I finish with my stables.

I landed on a hill overlooking Panamare City taking in the sight of such a beautiful beachside city. Taking a deep breath I thought to myself. "It'll all turn out well in the end, history shows it always does there is wartime and then there is peacetime. We just have to grit our teeth and fight until it's time to enjoy the quiet tranquility of peace. War will end it always does because war, war never changes."

Suddenly everything I saw was a blinding light, a loud crash explosion sound, like a thunderclap time 100 ripped its way into my ears. The pain was immense I felt drip from my ears only to realize it was my own blood. When my vision came back all I could see over Panamare City was a mushroom cloud.

"NO NO DAMMIT TO HELL NO!" I screamed tears pouring down my face, "THE ZEBRAS DID IT THEY ACTUALLY FUCKING DID IT THEY USE THE FUCKING MEGASPELLS!" I could tell that I was in range by how big the cloud looked. I quickly called Sweetie Belle with my pipbuck.

"Sweetie Belle get to a stable now!"

" Strike what's wrong!?"

"No time get your damn flank to the stable now, the zebras did it they dropped the fucking megaspells."

"What about you?"

" Don't worry about me I'll be fine." I knew I was lying.

"But…"

"No buts get to the stable, stay safe!" Then I cut the call, there was no time for arguments.

Sweet Celestia! I could see the spell coming full force toward me like fire overtaking a forest. Then it hit me. I should of been knocked out from the force of the explosion but no such luck no easy painless death would come my way. My mane burnt off, the skin burned and ripped of my body, my eyes felt like they were melting. The pain was unbearable it was as if Celestia banished me to the moon but missed and sent me into the sun. I begged for death or at the very least a loss in consciousness, but it would not happen. It was if some cruel weaver of fate wanted me to experience every second of the experience. I was now feeling the full force of Armageddon, the end of the world.