A/N Chapter 21 here, enjoy. End A/N
Klade's POV
I was currently standing right next to the magical barrier surrounding Canterlot, along with nine other clones. Unfortunately, they couldn't use magic, but they would still be useful. Along with the fact they all had my personality. "Alright doucebags. I'm going to give each one of you a cap with a number on it, so we won't get confused on who is who." I proceeded to create ten baseball caps. Mine had a 1 on it, the other had a 2, etc. I proceeded to hand them out to everyone. "Alright, since none of you can use magic, I'm going to give you all backpacks filled with ammo and guns that I made earlier." I proceeded to levitate everyone the backpacks. "Now I'm going to be giving you all your primary gun, which is going to be the M4A1. Ammo for that should be packed inside your backpacks. No explosives because we don't want to make a mess of this place. This is the Canterlot Castle. We're only going to be killing everything inside, making sure none are left, not blowing up walls and breaking windows. Alright, lets get this started." I gave everyone the M4A1's I created, then proceeded to pull out a radio. "Alright Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, you can take down the barrier." I said into it. The whole barrier began to glow, slowly beginning to diminish. Within a few minutes the whole barrier had disappeared. "Lets go." I stated, activating the physical strength boosting spell and creating a M60. We all proceeded to run inside.
As expected, the first room was filled with changlings. "Alright, kill them all before they can transform." I stated. The whole room instantly lighted up, as changlings fell down and died. Within a few seconds the whole room was cleared. "God damn that was fast. Everyone reload and we'll move into the next room." I stated. Everyone did so, and proceeded to run into the next room.
Duston's POV
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna had just taken down the magical barrier surrounding Canterlot. "Alright. Now all we need to do is get to Ponyville. How do we get there?" I asked. "I can teleport everypony there." Princess Celestia responded. "That works." I replied. In an instant we all teleported.
We appeared outside of Ponyville. "Alright. Be on your guard. There might be monsters here." I stated, creating a M16. We all proceeded to head into the town.
As expected, buildings were upside down and the grass was off colored. However, there were no ponies anywhere. 'They must all be hiding somewhere.' "What has happened to my house!?" Rarity asked, looking at her house which was currently upside down. "I can fix that." Princess Celestia responded. Her horn began to glow. Within a few seconds, the house and the ground surrounding it returned to normal. "Wow! How did you do that?" Twilight asked. "This particular spell negates any type of magical spell. In doing so, the spell that was keeping Rarity's house upside down was discharged. Perhaps in my spare time I can teach you it." Princess Celestia answered. Twilight began to mumble a bunch of excited words that I couldn't understand. We proceeded to continue on and fix other houses and such.
Klade's POV
We had cleared multiple rooms, and were basically just going in circles. "I think we've done most of the ground level. Where to next?" I asked. "We can go up some of the stairs, or, I'm pretty sure I saw some stairs leading into the basement in the other room. Maybe we can check the basement area, then go on to some of the towers and upper level shit." One of my clones responded. "Alright. Lets go to the basement floors then." I replied. We all proceeded to go down the stairs.
The underground areas seemed to be the dungeons. Not like they really needed them. Most of the prison cells were empty. "Alright. This place seems to be deserted." One of my clones stated. "There is one more hallway we haven't checked." Another one responded. "Then lets check that one, then go to the upper levels." I replied. We proceeded to go to the hallway. However, upon reaching it, it was sealed. "You think we should open it?" One of my clones asked. "Might as well. If there's anything bad in there we could handle it." I responded. I proceeded to create a pack of C4. "Alright, everyone get back." I stated. We all got a safe distance away. I proceeded to detonate it, making a whole through the seal. "Alright we can get through." I said. We all proceeded to go inside.
As we stepped inside, we noticed a manticore not that far ahead of us. This one head the usual red eyes. He stared at us across the hall, as if trying to inflict fear into us. It seemed to be bloodthirsty, as it slowly began to walk forward.
"Shoot it."
Three shots was heard, and it fell to the ground dead. "Alright. Check these cells. This room must've been sealed off for a reason." I stated. We all began to run forward.
Upon reaching the last cell, I started to hear voices. "Wait, I hear something." I checked the last prison cell to see a bunch of Royal Guards. 'I was wondering where they went.' "Who are you?" One of them asked. "I'm Klade, and I'm here to get you out of here." I responded. "How? The cell door is locked and the key was destroyed." One of the other ones said. I aimed at the lock and shot, breaking it and causing it to fall to the ground. I proceeded to open the door. "Everyone get out and stay by us. There could still be enemies around." I stated as they began to flood out. Finally I saw one I recognized. "You must be Shining Armor, right?" I asked. "Yes. Princess Celestia has told me about you and Duston. I have to ask though, what happened? Is Everypony alright?" He responded. "Everypony is fine. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, along with everypony else managed to escape, and are currently in Ponyville." I answered. "What about Princess Cadance? Is she alright?" He asked. "Don't know. So far you guys were the only ones we found. However, we haven't explored the upper levels yet." I replied. "We have to find her!" He responded. "We will. Alright looks like everyone is out. Lets get out of here." I stated. We all proceeded to run out.
"Alright Shining Armor, you live here. You should know this place a lot better then me. Do you have any idea where Cadance might be?" I asked. "We can check her bedchambers. She might be there. I can lead you all to them." Shining Armor responded. "Alright. We'll follow you then." I replied. We all proceeded to run after him through rooms.
We eventually arrived at a semi-big door. "Her bedchambers are beyond here." Shining Armor stated, pointing at the door. I proceeded to walk over to it. "Stand back, there might be something inside." I said. I then kicked open the door. Inside was a huge manticore, with the usual glowing red eyes. I shot once at the head. It proceeded to fall to the ground, dead. 'I feel like those gods in Call of Duty.'
"Cadance!" Shining Armor called out as he ran inside. "Shining Armor!" I heard from the other side of the room. They both ran up to each other and hugged. "I was so worried! I thought you'd never come." Cadance said as they embraced. "I'm here now. And I won't leave your side." Shining Armor replied. A few more seconds passed, before they both headed over to us. "Alright, this isn't over yet. There could be more ponies trapped. Lets split up and search the whole place thoroughly. Because after this, I'm going to notify the princesses that Canterlot is under control, and I don't want any monsters hiding somewhere." I stated. "Understood." Shining Armor responded. "Lets go then." I replied. We proceeded to head out of the room.
Duston's POV
We had fixed about half of Ponyville by now. We had also rescued some ponies that were hiding inside of their houses. Princess Celestia was just finishing up another plot of land. "Ok, so far we've done around half of Ponyville. At this rate we should have the whole place fixed within the next ten minutes." I stated. "Finally! It's boring around here. Plus I hope Klade is ok..." Rainbow responded, the last part being barely audible. I was about to say something about that, but decided to let it go.
"Finally, somepony." I heard. I looked over to see a pony walk over to us. "Ok, we got another one. Are you alright?" I asked, looking at him. "Yeah, I'm fine." He responded. I was pretty sure it was just me, but it seemed like something was up with him. I decided to ignore it and look around for anyone else.
A few minutes passed. Something kept bugging me about that pony. I looked at him. He seemed to be staring at Celestia pretty often. I proceeded to walk over to him. "Hey, are you-" "Ah!" He interrupted, jumping and looking at me. "Whoa, hey. I'm just talking to you. Are you alright? You don't seem to be." I replied. "Y-Yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry about me." He answered. I eyed him suspiciously. "Are you sure?" I asked. "Y-yeah! I'm sure." He responded, darting his eyes around. I sighed and finally just shrugged it off as him being really shy. I proceeded to walk away. "Looks like we only have a few more houses left." Twilight stated. "Good." Was all I responded with.
Again I felt something off with that pony. I looked at him again. He was still looking at Celestia pretty often. I saw him dart his eyes around, then slowly move a little closer to her. 'What the hell is he doing.' I slowly began to raise my gun. He moved even closer, being only a couple feet away from her. He then darted his eyes around again, before stalking closer to her. I proceeded to aim at him. I noticed a tiny glint of something in one of his hooves. I looked closer to see it was a knife. 'Oh shit!' "Celestia look out!" Twilight yelled. Celestia turned around right as the pony lunged after her. I proceeded to shoot the pony, causing him to miss and fall to the ground. "What's goin on!?" Applejack asked. The pony's dead body then turned into a changling. "Looks like a changling managed to sneak in here and almost attack Princess Celestia." I responded. "We need to be more careful! If it wasn't for Duston..." Twilight trailed off. "I agree with Twilight Sparkle. And as for Duston, I thank you for saving my life." Princess Celestia stated, looking at me. "Ok." I responded, a little blown that I had just saved Princess Celestia's life.
"Me and the Royal guards have secured Canterlot." I heard through a radio. "Just in time. There is only one more house I have to fix." Princess Celestia responded. "Alright, the Royal Guards should be waiting for you to arrive." The radio replied. "Ok then. It seems everything has worked out." I said, just as Princess Celestia was finishing up the last house. "Ponyville is now back to normal." Princess Celestia stated. There were a few cheers. "Me and Luna are now heading back to Canterlot to search for Discord. We'll let you know when we find anything." Princess Celestia said. "Alright." I responded. They both proceeded to disappear in a flash of light.
"Well, Ah'm goin ta go back ta the farm. Ah have work ta catch up on." Applejack stated, as her and her family began to walk off in the direction of the farm. "And I have animals that need to be fed." Fluttershy responded, walking off. "And I have to make a super duper huge party!" Pinkie practically yelled as she ran off. Slowly the rest of the ponies began to walk off, until it was just me and Twilight.
"Well, I should probably get back to the library to check on Spike. He's been there ever since we left." Twilight stated. "Ok then. See you some other time." I responded. She began to walk off. I looked around to see that Ponyville was back to its usual self. Ponies walking around, doing whatever they were doing. I also noticed that it was already late afternoon. I eventually decided on just going back to my house. I proceeded to walk in that direction.
Within a few minutes I arrived. I opened the front door and stepped inside. 'Haven't been in here for a long time.' I figured on just taking it easy and playing games for the rest of the day.
Klade's POV
I had just returned all the clones back to where I had been keeping them. Being I had nothing else to do, I figured on just going back to my house. I proceeded to head in that direction.
"Hey Klade!" I heard a familiar voice call out. I looked in the direction to see Rainbow Dash flying over to me. "Hey Rainbow." I responded.
"What was it like in Canterlot?" She asked.
"It was fun. There were a lot of changlings though. Almost too much to be just leftovers."
"So you think something else might be going on?"
"It could be. Either that or Discord spent time on collecting them all. But I don't see him doing something like that though. But then again, Discord can be random, so It could be anything. Either way, what was it like in Ponyville?"
"It was just like last time. Expect this time Princess Celestia did all the work. Oh, and there was this changling who managed to sneak in. He tried to attack Celestia, but Duston beat him to the punch. Other then that it was pretty boring."
"Hmm, well. I have nothing else to do. Maybe I could help you practice tricks for the Wonderbolts?"
"That would be awesome! I heard while we were fixing Ponyville that they're having a performance in the next couple days. I could show them all the new tricks I've been doing!"
"Well then what are we waiting for? Let's go."
We both proceeded to head off.
A/N Chapter 21 over. Hope you enjoyed. Ponyville and Canterlot are back under control. Next chapter should be in 1-2 weeks. End A/N