The battle for equestria Chapter 3: ain't no rest for the wicked, a my little pony fanfic

Chapter 2

Ain't no rest for the wicked.

"WHAT. THE. FUCK?!"

It took me a moment to pull myself together, after finally having realized where I was.

I opened my mouth to ask her any one of several questions, but that just undid all my hard work. "WHAT. THE. FUCK!"

Twilight just stared at me like I was insane, and I'm sure she was wondering if I had snapped. After a minute or two of her looking at me and Alex snickering in the backround, I noticed something. "Twilight," I asked, "why do you have a horn on your head?"

She quickly responds, "I'm a unicorn, of course!"

I bet she thinks I'm stupid. Great.

Then Alex jumped in the conversation. "What's so special about unicorns again?" He asked.

She responded happily, "We cast magical spells with our horns. Don't you have magic where you came from?"

He responded, "Well, it depends on your definition of 'magic', I mean... well..."

Alex facepalmed. "You know, we'll deal with this later, ok?"

"Twilight, do you have any idea how we got here?" I asked her.

"I just got here!" She exclaimed, "I was sent here by Princess Celestia to investigate a bright flash of light from near the forest. It scared a lot of ponies, enough that the royal guard took notice."

"Oh no!" she said in a worried tone, and quickly explained that she needed to take us to Celestia.

"How the hell are you going to take us?" I ask, although my muddled, shocked mind could just barely remember something about this. "I can teleport us using a spell," she responds, and closes her eyes. My eyes are drawn to her horn, that seems to glow for a second, before the world flashes before my eyes. For that single instant, I'm flying. Soaring through the sky, supported only by the air below.

An instant later we were on the ground, and bullets were flying over our heads. Explosions shook the street, and fires could be seen throughout the city.

I turned and looked at Twilight. Tears poured down her face, and her eyes were wide. She flinched every time the ground shook, and she whimped as a house seemed to crumple in an explosion of dust. "Movement!" Alex announced and lept into an alley.

I spin around, grab Twilight, and chuck her into the alley, myself close behind.

She flies straight into Alex, who himself hits the ground with a thud.

I can hear him furiously whisper, "Dude, watch were you throw the pones! They're blasted HEAVY!" Suddenly I can hear voices from up ahead. "Hey, did you see that?" "Yeah, let's go check it out."

After hearing that I stood up, and pulled out my Combat knife. I flicked it open and readied myself. Same as when you go hunting, take your emotions, your pain and your fear. Then shove them as +deeply into the recesses of your mind as you can. Unleash the beast, let him roam free and damn the consequences. In the corner of my eye, I could see Alex doing the same thing, having pushed the stunned Twilight off of him. I heard footsteps, and saw the tip of his boot push past the corner. Then I reached around the corner, grabbed the man, a soldier clad in black gear, by the vest and pulled his neck onto my knife.

I ripped the knife out of his neck, blood flying everywhere. I started to go around the corner towards his shocked comrade, when Alex grabbed me from behind and let his knife fly. The combat knife seemed to move in slow motion as it sailed through the air right past me, before coming to rest in the second soldier's forehead. He was dead before he hit the ground, Alex's toss made sure of that.

We sprang into action. Grabbing the bodies, we quickly and efficiently drag them into the alley.

"Let's see what we have to work with," Alex mutters as he starts checking the corpses gear. I spare a second for a quick, worried glance at Twilight, before starting on my corpse.

Blood flowed from the open wound, and the man fell to his knees. He tried to breathe, but could only gurgle as he slowly drowned on his own blood. Falling to the ground, his last image was of his buddy being quickly slain, and of a small and of all things purple pony with a horn. Twilight was near the braking point, mentally. Canterlot was under attack, and ponies were being slaughtered left and right. She had just watched two creatures, humans from the legends of old, slay two of their own without even a thought.

Her horror rose unabated as she watched them almost casually rifle through the corpses' equipment, systematically stripping them bare of anything of value. From their words, weapons and food most assuredly. These, the two who were so nice to her mere moments earlier, transformed into monsters within a single frenzied moment. The larger one, named Lee by a small corner of her paniced, terrified soul, turned to look at her.

At that moment, she realized something about them. They had never changed. Just like those who they had so quickly slaughtered, they too had demons hidding within them. But they were contained, harnessed deep within them and forced into the darkness.

They fought long and hard, every day, resisting the demons. But they kept them close, kept them near even, no especially, in their chained state. For these humans knew. They knew that one day someone would threaten them or those they loved and cared. Then it would be time to release the beast. As the barren corpses lying in the blood crusted dirt showed any who look. That is what separates ponies and humans.

A pony, long accustomed to peace and security, has no inner demon. They would have abolished it, hide it so deep within their very souls that it would never see the light of day. But humans, humans kept their demons near to the surface. They would never be caught unawares, come disaster and ruin.

Twilight's eyes locked with Lee's, and something changed. The terror was still there, yes. Every fibre of her being was screaming to run, to hide from the monsters who so easily murdered their own. But she no longer feared them, and peace flowed through her. They were monsters surely, but they were the good monsters. Celestia must meet them, she realized. She must learn of them, and of the pain and suffering to come. They might be Equestria's only hope.

After we both took most of the useful gear, including a nice pair of 9mm pistols and two M4 carbines. I was a little surprized when I saw that Twilight seemed to have overcome her shock, especially in times like these. Though to be honest, I was a little glad, but that is something for later.

Then she spoke up in a shaky voice, "I-I need to take you to Princess Celestia. She n-needs to see you, what you can do."

"Alright. Lead the way," I told her. As we cut through back alley after back alley, I could smell burning flesh in the air. The bodies of dead and dying ponies littered the streets.

And the same black clad soldiers were gunning them down, easily destroying any resistance. Blackhawk gunships flew overhead and M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks filled the streets, proving just how heavily armed they were.

The convoys of Humvee's and Bradley IFVs smashing their way through the city were just overkill.

Twilight stayed quiet during our trip, and more than once I wondered how she was able to navigate while crying so hard, but navigate she did. After a good thirty minutes of maneuvering, our luck finally ran out. We walked out of an alley into plain view of the last unit of a Humvee convoy, which immediately lit us up.

We were pinned down in the alley, trying to exchange limited fire, but just praying that they wouldn't be able to get the convoy to back up for a while.

Twilight was covering her ears, and the gunfire filled the air.

"HOW FAR ARE WE FROM THE PRINCESS?" I yelled over the thunderous fire.

She pointed a large white castle, to our direct frount. I could just barely see a small force of guards exchanging fire with soldiers, and it looked to be where most of the action was.

After firing off a few rounds, I jumped over to Alex's position.

"Alex," I yelled, "here's what we're going to do. We give twilight covering fire, she is then going teleport us to the castle. Got it?"

He nodded in response.

I quickly ran back across to Twilight, narrowly getting shot and absolutely sure she must think I'm fucking INSANE.

Tears still running down her face, she nods at me.

I nod back, and flash her a thumbs up before I go back to exchanging fire at what used to be a wall. It was quickly reduced to this thigh high block when the shooting started, and I could watch it get worn away by the fire. I do a quick reload after signalling Alex to do the same, then I pop up and start to dump covering fire.

Twilight quickly charged teleport, and with a flash we disappeared.

Reappearing right behind the guard position, thankfully we were not noticed. We more or less ran inside while we still could. "Follow me!" Twilight exclaimed and took off down the corridor, turning imto the first hallway on the right. We ran after her, but she is very, very fast and the equipmemt we were wearing was fucking heavy.

We round the corner, but she was already long gone. It took us a few minutes of careful searching, and we almost got caught by guards more than once, but we finally found her.

She was standing next to Princess Celestia, and from the tail end of their conversation she was talking about us.

We finally came to a stop close-ish to her, and were breathing pretty hard.

Celestia then walked up, and took a good look at me, then Alex, then back to me.

Without warning, she threw me into the wall with her magic, and did the same to Alex. She held us there, staring at me in a hard, menacing light.

"Human, you may have convinced Twilight but you have not convinced me! I will not allow you to hurt her, or any more of my subjects." She proclaimed in a calm, cold voice.

Twilight ran in front of us to our defense. "Princess don't! They are the good ones! We NEED them! Princess please, give them a chance. I beg you."

The princess looked at us again, then at twilight.

She finally nodded at Twilight, and let us down from being pinned against the wall I fall to the floor in pain.

"Why in the FUCK did you slam me against a wall? Next time let someone FUCKING explain themselves!" I moan.

At that moment the front door exploded, and showered all nearby in a hail of deadly shards that killed more than a few guards. Princes Celestia ran in front of us, and quickly looked at Twilight. "GO!" She commanded. "I'm not leaving you!" Twilight exclaimed, but it was too late. Celestia had already charged Teleport, and we vanished in a flash of light.

She then turn to face the attackers. "What do you want? Why have you done this to my poeple?

A tall man wearing a flak jacket walked into the room and pulled a 9 mm handgun from his side.

Then a deep voice echoed thoughout the building. "You see, my royal bitch this is all..." He raised his sidearm. "...just business." The handgun barked.

Princess Luna was hiding out of sight, watching this horror unfold in front of her.

She sees her chance, and charges Teleport, vanishing from the castle.

Blood lined the streets of Canterlot, along with the bodies of ponies blown to pieces.

Some were run over by Abrams tanks when they stood their ground, and were now smears of meat and blood along the street, flattened and stretched whereever the tracks touched.

Some were shot resisting, and some were shot just because they were so garishly colored.

The survivors, were rounded up by the soldiers. Well above, the same man walked out onto the balcony, his handgun now back at his side. A soldier handed him a megaphone, and he switches it on. "LISTEN UP!" He yelled, "You are now property of the Blackwater company. You will do what we say, when we say it. If that is not understood I will have you ripped apart limb from limb, until it is. That is all." He turned off the megaphone, set it down, and walked back into the castle. He still had a long day ahead.