Chapter 6: The Last Stand

WROOOOAAAHHH!

"Help! Me!" I screamed as I was being brought closer to the timberwolf. It opened its mouth as I shut my eye, accepting my destiny.

"Hold it right there!" A voice shouted. The timberwolf brought me away as it turned its head to see who said that. I opened my eye and saw Twilight in the far distance. She flung a rock into the timberwolf's mouth, choking it, and dismantling it.

I fell to the ground as the timberwolf fell apart. Hitting the ground, I lost my last leg, my last wing, and some more internal organs. I fell face first into the dirt, and knocked out.

"Thunder?" A voice called.

"You shouldn't have brought that thing here!" Another voice said.

"He saved my life!" The first voice said. I knew that was Twilight.

"And you almost died saving a dead one!"

"You don't understand!" Twilight exclaimed. "He's different! He doesn't think like the other ones do. He's neither living nor dead."

"Then we'll just have to make him dead, won't we!"

I opened my eyes and saw a royal guard talking to Twilight. I was in some sort of castle, the Canterlot castle I presume. The guard started walking over towards me, with Twilight being held back by two other guards. This guard was a Pegasus pony with a suit of gold armor on. They had red eyes, and a black coat. Turning their head, they summoned a unicorn guard to come into the room. This guard was white with blue eyes, wearing some faded gold armor. They came up to where I was and the table I was on tilted upwards.

"Right through him, sir?"

"Right through, private!"

They were going to stab me! I used all my strength to try and break free but was being held down by the Pegasus guard.

The horn of the unicorn pointed towards my head as the guard started backing up. Charging at me, I shut my eye and opened my mouth. Opening my eye at the right time, I shut my mouth and bit off the unicorn's horn, infecting them.

Everypony was in shock after what I had just done and the unicorn guard was quickly excommunicated. The Pegasus pony turned towards me and punched me across my face, causing a tear in my neck to appear. They tried for a second punch, but I bit into her hoof, infecting her. The two guards that were holding Twilight back fled, freeing Twilight. I was freed from the table I was on by Twilight's magic as she brought me over and set me down onto her back. She rushed out of the castle as fast as her legs would take her but I was slowing her down with my weight.

Celestia saw Twilight leaving with me and called for guards to come stop us. Twilight ran out of the castle with me on her back and we made out way towards the barred up gates. She unleashed a magic burst from her horn, hoping that it would be enough to pry open the doors.

Smoke appeared around the gates but nothing else. We were soon trapped and surrounded by guards everywhere. They opened a path for Celestia to walk through and she stopped in front of us.

"Give it up, Twilight." She started. "You're surrounded."

"No." Twilight firmly said.

"Hand that thing over, and we'll let you go!"

Twilight turned her head and looked me in the eye. "He saved my life."

"So?"

Twilight turned back and faced the Princess, her original mentor, her idol. She couldn't believe how black her heart had become as a result of these events.

"So," Twilight continued, "I have to save his life!"

She spread her wings out and just had enough strength to fly over the gates. She then ran away, back to the remains of her home back in Ponyville. The guards started going after them but were stopped by Celestia.

"Let them go." She said. "It's their loss."

Twilight ran as fast as her legs could carry us, not stopping for anything along the way.

"Thank. Twi." I said.

"You saved my life," she replied, "it was the right thing to do."

I tried smiling, but appeared to have lost the muscles that allow someone to do that. We made it to Ponyville about five minutes later. Entering what was left of my savior's house, she set me down on top of a table.

"Stay here." She told me. "I'll go see If I can create some hooves for you to walk on."

"Thank. Twi." I responded.

I looked around and saw a photo of our friends on top of the fireplace. I started weeping a little as I saw that. I dreadfully missed our friends and my dear Fluttershy. I heard footsteps coming from the kitchen and so I tried turning my head that way, but couldn't. I knew Twilight couldn't be there since she went upstairs and the kitchen was behind me.

"Who. There?" I tried asking.

I heard a door open up and heard screams thereafter. Twilight came bolting downstairs after that and went over to whoever was behind me.

"There, there..." She said. "It's alright."

"Who is that?" The voice asked.

"That's Thunder." Twilight answered. "Or, at least what's left of him is."

"Why'd you bring that here?"

I was hurt by what they had just called me. I had a name, I wasn't 'that' or 'that thing.' I was Thunder Grays, goddammit!

"He saved my life from Rainbow Dash." Twilight replied. "I had to save his from the guards in Canterlot."

"I. No. Bite." I added. "I. Friend."

"Why is he talking like that?"

"When he became one of them, his speech took a hit, as well as the structure of his body." Twilight said.

"I. No. Harm." I tried adding in.

"So where are his legs, and his tail, and his wings?"

"They all fell off or were torn off, Spike."

"Ouch," Spike said, "didn't that hurt?" He came around the table with Twilight.

"I. No. Feel. Pain."

"That's cool!" Spike replied.

Twilight smiled, knowing that her baby dragon assistant hasn't been this happy in a while. She heard thunder outside. "Help me try to find some hooves for him. I'll surgically put them on him."

"Alright, Twilight." Spike said as they started searching.

"We'll be outside if you need us, Thunder." Twilight told me.

"Thank. Twi." I responded as she shut the door.