"Prince" Blue Blood was in his office in the secret facility in Canterlot Castle as usual. He had a clean white coat, the northern star cutie mark and a recently cut blond mane, thus it was short.
Usually, if he had to make any sort of appearance, he would have to style his mane is the most "snobby" style, as he would put it, with a strand of hair on each side of his head, but since he was on duty, he was aloud to keep his casual mane.
In his office, a large oak desk sat with a few necessities on it, which included quills, paper, notes and file cabinets. Oh, and a disassembled pistol that sat in the middle.
Blue Blood was cleaning out his fire arm. Engraved on the side of the pistol where the bolt part pulled back when fired, the words "Solar Angel" where imprinted on the side. Blue Blood was proceeding to clean his firearm using his magic to levitate a rag to clean the inner body of it when he heard the alarm go off.
Flashes of red illuminated his office, and the alarm went off. Then he heard the intercom.
"Code Red!" the voice he knew as Q said through the intercom. "Canterlot is under attack. Changelings have broken the kinetic field. You must secure the package!" By the time she was done talking, Blood had already assembled and loaded his pistol, and proceeded to suit up.
He trotted to his locker in the office. When he opened the steel doors of it, a collection of body armors, gadgets and firearms hung from the locker's inner stands. He took one of the longer firearms and examined it. He knew it as the 'Solar Flare' shotgun, semi automatic with an effective range of 80 meters using concentrated scattershots. Equine ingenuity and technology at its finest, he thought.
R, the technician and scientist of the department, had practically invented the firearm, so knew weapons inside out. Blueblood continued to gear up, putting on black armor vests and pads. He grabbed about 40 rounds of ammunition for his primary. He usually reloaded using his magic to put the shell in the chamber. He then put a black ski mask over his face to keep his identity. The right arm of Celestia should never show his face.
He proceeded out of his office and ran down the narrow corridor, his shotgun hanging from a sling on his side. He was greeted by Q at the end of the hall, with the big entrance door behind her.
"Blood, get a move on! We haven't got much time. You know the drill, protect the elements at all costs." Blue Blood retorted with a simple "Yes, ma'am".
Q nodded, and the steel doors opened. The corridor was directly linked to the Royal Hall, where Celestia's throne sat. Blue Blood ran for the Royal balcony to get a birds eye view of the situation in canterlot. He opened the balcony doors and trotted outside.
The carnage that he saw outside made him froze. Half of canterlot was on Fire, changelings infested the streets and where attacking civilians, and the royal guards where defeated. Blueblood saw in the distance 6 young mares running towards the Harmony Vault.
His objective was to protect them at all costs. But then he looked back at the near crumbling city and the civilians in danger. Did they need his help more then the elements? Could they fend for themselves?
No, his objective is to protect them. No matter what. The rest wasn't his concern.
But Morally, it wasn't right leaving the people in danger for the people not in danger.
Scenarios rushed into his head, as he tried to set his priorities straight. He looked at the wielders, who where getting close to the vault. It was now or never.
"Balls to this" he said to himself, as he teleported down from the balcony, and ran towards the city in need. He'll probably regret his decision, but right now is no time to think, but a time to act.
He ran towards town square and got into his 2 feet fighting stance, Shotgun at hand, ready for anything to pounce.
When he got to the town square, he saw people running for dear life, changelings hungrily chasing them and a lot of green blasts left and right. How lovely.
In the corner of his eye, he saw a changeling approaching to his left around 10 o'clock. It just pounced, and was close, so his first reaction was to use his left arm as a block, and bring his shotgun around under his left arm. He pulled his right hoof back, a loud blast was heard, and the changeling was blasted back.
Another changeling came hissing from behind him at full speeds. Before Blueblood realized it, he was on the ground, being tackled by an angry changeling. He spun around on the ground and just as the Changeling was about to pounce him once more, he sent a blast of the shell directly to his head, blood being visible in the air.
He got to his feet. He noticed many people that where in need, but didn't know where to start. Then he saw in an alley, a stallion protecting a mare and a small filly. This family looked terrified as about 5 changelings cornered them. Blueblood had to step in.
He began to run into the alley on 2 feet, shotgun held in his hands. The farthest one at the back of the changeling group was on the ground, so it would be easier to take him out first. Blueblood took his right hoof and held the stock of the weapon, and his left on the end of the barrel. He brought the shotgun over the changelings head, down to his neck, and pulled the shotgun so it was chocking him around his neck.
With a simple jerk to the right with his arms, the changeling body was then motionless. Quiet kills always tend to be easier to deal with.
The other four changelings where slowly advancing on the family of ponies. Since they where all earth ponies, they had no chance of escape. Blueblood saw that 2 of the changelings where on foot and the other 2 where slowly hovering towards the family.
He took his right hind leg and stomped on one of the ones on the ground, sending the changeling down. He took his weapon and aimed it at the hovering one to his right and shot him out of the sky. He kept his right hoof pinned on the changeling under him, and shot the next flying one to the left.
To the right of him was the changeling on foot, he had already began to run at Blueblood. Blood took the butt end of the shotgun and slammed it into the beasts head hard, send him back. He took his right hind foot off of the changeling and shot the other while he was stumbling back, then finished the one on the ground with a blast to the head.
The family was petrified, and he couldn't blame them. They where all shaking, even the father. He didn't have time to check on them, so he ran out of the alley to help the next batch of civilians in need.
He saw a group of pegasi flying towards him away from a mob of flying changelings. This one was simple enough. Bluebloods horn began to glow, and as soon as the group of pegasi passed him, he sent a wave of wind to the flying changeling squadron, sending them to the ground. There where about 4 changelings, so a clean 4 shots did the trick.
He began to reload his weapon since he fired 8 rounds. The blue magic aura around the bullets helped them float into the chamber of the weapon. After 8 of them filled the weapon, Blood to his hoof and slammed it into the weapons side, cocking the firearm.
"Come at me, foul beasts!" Blueblood heard to his rear. He turned around to see a Royal guard officer who had a brown coat and a grey mane cornered at a wall of a store, waving his spear left and right to keep a group of changelings away from him. Blue Blood saw an opportunity to help the officer and ran towards him.
He saw 3 changelings surround the officer. He approached the farthest one to the right, then fired a shot at his back sending him towards the ground. The officer saw Blood's approach and took the opportunity while the changelings where distracted, and drove his spear into the middle one's chest. The last one was about to charge into Blueblood, but a shotgun shell to his face changed his mind. And kind of disassembled it.
The officer greeted Blood. "Major Driller, second in command of the royal guards company. Thanks for your help." He said calmly.
Wait a minute. He thought,Sergeant Driller? He's a major now? He thought to himself. He quickly came back out of his thought words.
"Uhh…don't mention it." He said. Not only was he facing his fatherly figure he had not seen in over 4 years and couldn't tell who he is, he wasn't used to people thanking him.
Driller Spoke "Wait a sec, are you one of those secret agents working for Celestia I've heard rumors about?" he said as if that wasn't a stupid question.
Blue Blood gave him an irritated face. "If I was, I wouldn't tell you, and now isn't the time is it?" He said, which urgency in his voice.
"Right, priorities." Driller said. "I was trying to rally up Guards to fight these beasts off, but we're too scattered. I got to get back to the HQ, see if anyone has rallied." He yelled over the sound of explosions.
"Alright, I have to make my way to the Vault, bring your men over to the east side of Canterlot and work from there, that's where there is the most concentration of Changelings." Blueblood told him, as he saw larger groups on the east side of Canterlot.
Driller nodded, then ran to his destination. Which left Blue Blood alone. He started to make his way to the vault. When the vault came into sight, he saw the mane six being escorted by a large group of changelings. They have been captured.
"Dammit!" blood cursed as he pounded the ground with his hoof. He once again failed to do his duty. He had to save them. He began to run at them until something popped into his head.
Wait a minute, he thought, If they are being escorted back to the Wedding hall, I'm sure Celestia or somebody will be able to make their move then! But there are way to many Changelings, it would be impossible. I have to defend the hall entrance, make sure not to many changelings get there. Lets hope for the best.
He silently followed them in the palace with his invisibility spell. He knew that changelings always had a queen, and that if she was defeated, the rest of the hive would fall. They continued to walk until they where escorted into the Wedding Hall room. Blueblood saw a large number of changelings swarm into the palace behind him. He ran for the door, his invisibility fading, and Closed it shut. He spun around, got on 2 legs. He didn't see anything, but he heard bug like sounds around the corner. A storm was coming.
From around the corner, a swarm of beasts flooded the hall coming towards the doors he was defending. He gripped his shotgun. This is it.
The changeling swarm stopped about 10 feet away from him. There where about maybe 40 to 50 changelings. Some where on the ground, others where on the walls, and a lot where hovering all over the place.
"This is going to end bad" With a flash it was over.