I groaned out in pain as I felt a wetness going down my face. I could tell it was blood from what I could smell. I opened my right eye since my left eye was covered with blood. I looked around to find I was tied to the middle support beam to the barn. My arms were next to my pockets thankfully as I quickly looked around to see if I could find who knocked me out. Finding nothing I started to wiggle my right arm into my pocket as I soon pulled out a boy scout pocket knife. I always carried it with me.
I carefully pulled it open as I began to rub against my bindings until I heard movement at the door to the upstairs to my right. Quickly I hid my knife in my jacket as the door opened. I was able to cut the rope at least enough where I would have to use a little bit of strength to break out of here so I could use that surprise to my advantage. But I wasn't prepared for who... what... came out of it. A blue pony with wings and a horn along with a light blue mane and tail. I stared in shock as two more ponies walked in. these ones appeared to be wearing armor as they were both gray and had bat-like wings. "so you are awake human?"
"you're the creatures the people were talking about..." I said in a lone tone.
"correct. I do not approve of your kind killing off my subjects for something they don't understand. And if they are not killed they are sent someplace different. I wish to know where..." the two ponies in armor got on either side of me while the blue pony stood in front of me. "where are they?"
"you got the wrong person for information." she simply raised an eyebrow as the pony to my left turned around and bucked me in my stomach. Stomach acid filled my mouth a little as I quickly swallowed it back down. " I don't know anything..." this time I was bucked in my right leg as I grit my teeth in pain.
This proceeded for maybe an hour as I felt pain all over my body but it wasn't enough to impede me when I make my move. "princess I don't think he knows anything." the pony to my right said.
"perhaps... or maybe we just aren't doing enough pain to him..." before I could speak my eyes widened as I heard a loud yell.
"Mark!" no... no.. no. no no no! "Mark are you here?" the blue pony obviously saw my distress.
"grab the one yelling..." the two ponies moved away from me as they stood in an ambush at the door.
"don't you dare touch her!" I yelled as she simply stared at me impassively before turning around and looking at the door.
"huh? Why are his keys still in the door? Maybe he just forgot to take them out again..." the doorknob turned as I began to struggled against my binds. "big brot- ah!" as soon as the door was opened the two ponies grabbed her. She struggled as I broke from my bindings, slipped my knife out of my sleeve and tackled the blue pony to the floor. Before anything could happen I had my knees on her wings, hand on horn, and my knife at her throat.
"let her go!" the ponies only stared in shock as the blue pony under me struggled. I simply pushed my knife further into her neck as a small line of blood leaked from a small cut. "or she dies!" the ponies simply let her go and backed away from her slowly. "Sabrina... go to the trailer..."
"b-big b-brother?" I gave her a kind smile.
"its alright sis... big brother simply needs to do a few things is all... go on." she looked reluctant until she ran out the door. "close the door..." the pony closest to the door closed it. "now then... I have no fucking idea about what is going on right now! But you are going to answer my own questions... before I get pissed off enough my hand slips." I glared at the two ponies as they remained on edge. "now who the hell are you?" I asked looking at the pony under me.
"i... am Princess Luna Faust... princess of the night and co-ruler of Equestria."
"was that so hard to say in the first place?" she simply growled."now why are you here?"
"we are not here by choice human. A rift opened up during a rift disaster and was pulled into it. We were evacuating the town the rift had opened up in and were almost done when a smaller rift opened up and pulled me and two of my guards in with me." I looked away for a moment as I contemplated what she told me. "who are you human?"
"Mark, Mark Welson." I told her. "and as I told you before I don't know anything. You're too far away from anyone who actually would have anything."
"yet you expertly escaped from your bindings and take me down. Holding onto my horn to prevent me from using magic." she let out a small gasp as I gripped her horn tighter. I could see a small tint of red on her cheeks.
"there is no such thing as magic."
"then how was I able to use magic to assist me in knocking you out?" she then said. That is true... before I blacked out my snow shovel was glowing blue and there was no one holding it.
"fine so there's magic. But why did you knock me out then?" I then asked her.
"humans are not to be trusted. We met with the leader of your race but was denied a treaty. Instead, your kind did something to result in rifts starting to open in our world pulling our subjects and the subjects of many others into them." so... the president met her and her sister.
"why didn't he accept the treaty?" I then asked her.
"he believed we were beneath the human race... a fact that has been proven untrue as you are beneath us!" I narrowed my eyes. "we can manipulate the weather, use magic, enhance crop growth! All your kind can do is create technology to do what you cannot do without help!"
"you are really making me want to just slit your throat. But I want to make a deal..." she narrowed her eyes. "you can do whatever you want to me... hurt me... dismember me... break me... kill me!" I yelled as her ears flinched at my loudness. "but I want you to stay away from my sister." her eyes widened in shock. "she doesn't deserve anything that you would probably do to her. She is innocent of my races flaws. Do we have a deal?" I asked her.
"very well... I give you my word as a princess..." slowly I pulled my hand from her horn and began to slowly sit up. As soon as my knife left her throat I was tackled from on top of her. I closed my eyes as I dropped my knife to brace my face as punches were delivered to my body. "cease your actions!" the incoming pain stopped as the lasting pain continued. "get off of him." the ponies quickly heeded her words as I slowly opened my eyes. Finding the blue pony standing above me. "do you truly know nothing?" she then asked.
"I know enough to allow myself to live an average life..." I then said. "other than that whatever information you are probably looking for..." I grunted in pain as I sat up. "I don't know it..."
"then I shall trust your words... where could I possibly learn the information I desire?" she then asked.
"if your... guards, will allow me to stand up I can grab a map to show you a few places." she nodded as the ponies back away from me. I struggled to stand for a moment but was eventually able to. I walked with a slight limp over to the workbench as I began to push through all the junk until I found a large map. I wiped it off before I turned around and went on to my knees causing a slight flinch in pain as I laid it out in front of me onto the cold dirt floor. The three ponies came to my side as I grabbed a marker. "this is where we are." I marked the general area we were in. if you want information the best place would possibly be the capital of my country."
I circled Washington DC. "that big an area?" I nodded at her confusion.
"it's a large city and its where the president lives. Meaning he has his secret service agents all over the city. Ever since he came into office everyone knew he was a bastard." I said with slight venom in my tone. "but I don't really know anywhere else. You could go to the more massive cities..." I circled New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. "but you would risk being found very easily."
"what would you suggest?" I was surprised as well as her two guards.
"well if I was an other-worlder who was hunted down I would probably go to a terrorist group and help them out a little bit until I got an opening to be able to get home. But I wouldn't suggest that to anyone else. I would do it just to be able to get back to my sister by any means necessary."
"may I ask why?" she then asked.
"they kill innocents regardless of age. Who knows what they might do to an entirely separate race." I answered.
"what would you do if you couldn't do it?" she then asked me.
"I would find a place to hide out. Maybe find someone who was willing to hide me for the time being and hopefully find others like me. Build up our forces before attempting to do anything."
"well then thank you for volunteering." she then said in a happy tone as I froze.
"wait... WHAT?!"