Time Rider

"Canterlot is quiet" I whispered as I quickly walked up the track to the castle. "Even so I'll run continuous scans for the duration of the night and try and detect drops in temperatures to pinpoint any places a pony has recently been".

So I headed up to the castle and upon reaching the entrance found nobody there guarding it. "This is bad" I said before running inside. There was usually an old pony that waited on ponies coming to and fro but he was also missing. "Damn it we need to find somepony" I said as u galloped down the corridors and turning a corner that I'd remembered from the maps I burst into Luna's room, wide eyes and looking for trouble anywhere.

Then I saw her, Luna was lying face down on the floor and not moving. I ran over to her but already my entire frame shook with hopelessness. "You said it was today but never this early?" I cried as I sank to my knees. "Err Captain...". You said this mission would be easy I began sobbing like a newborn foal as I cradled her head and cried the past month and the upcoming war to the moon and the stars.

"Asimov besides you there are two people in this room!" shouted Red quite loudly. I froze and looked down at Luna, realising her breathing was slow but steady. I looked up a second too late before something hit me in the back of the head and everything went black.

I had been knocked out plenty of times before but this time was way more different, as I felt tendrils of darkness wrap around me and tighten as I fell into what could only be described as nothing. I looked at stone walls that began to smudge into view along with burning torches and a low figure bent over me as if examining me at a market. "This will never work if you aren't close to death; still at least you have established connection, now I believe you are saving someone"? I sat up immediately and looked around frantically in panic. I was alive but Luna and the assailant had gone along with Red and my belt.

"Damn it" I murmured as I made to stand up failing to notice that my hooves had been tied and I immediately fell over. I looked down at the basic knots and immidielty began to untie myself. Once I was free I assessed the situation. All weapons gone, Red gone, Luna gone and one hell of a huge headache, the only thing that would make this worse right now was if a bear came through the door.

I actually stared at the door for an entire minute as if a bear would actually come through the door. The door opened quite suddenly and I jumped back in shock, however it was just a young guard who came in looking quite frightened but upon seeing me seemed to adopt a very inquisitive look. "Where's the Princess" he asked coming over to me also taking note I'm sure that my weapons were gone and a large amount of blood was running down the left side of my head. "Listen umm... what's your name?" I asked. "Umm it's Chad" he said. "Well Chad I'm really sorry about this" I said picking up a nearby stool when his back was turned. "Sorry for wha..." I cut him off about then by smashing the stool into his face.

Picking up his sword I ran out of the door and into that gigantic hallway looking back and forward between. "Okay" I said to myself "think what would you do with some guns a hi-tech computer and a Princess"? I looked up and down the corridor and saw something I didn't expect to see. At the very end of the big hallway was the gigantic double doors which led to the gardens that were never open this time of night. This was something that I knew from the week of constant guard duty I put in here and it was the best lead I had so I ran. I ran right through the gates and onto the lawn, from there was another door open this time with some on duty guards standing too attention and looking as usual very dull.

"Did anyone come through here?" I asked them. They both looked me up and down before shaking their heads. I thought about bringing them along but in the end I doubt they could do anything but screw up my already fucked up rescue.

I ran past them and up the winding stairs of the observation tower where the Princesses like to view the day and the night usually heavily guarded which was strange considering that if I were to assassinate someone it would be done quietly. Come to think of it I thought about how they knocked me out instead of killing me same with Luna, discovering and taking my weapons belt when no one from this time should even know what it was. Finally what really scared me was how quickly and silently they took me out.

All in all as I came charging up the stairs to the balcony with four guards standing tall and one amazingly standing Princess walking to the edge I realised that the ponies behind this were not of this time. I looked at the Princess and at the guards who looked perfectly ordinary and strode out onto the balcony. I looked at the Princess and saw her movements were jerky almost as if she was a puppet and someone was holding the strings. I remembered what Red had said; somepony had shot her with a crossbow and made their escape.

I was pretty sure that the guards had no concealed crossbows and as far as I could so that meant the only other place that an assassin could shoot from this high up with a crossbow was the roof. I swung round and caught a black clad Pegasus staring down the barrel of one of the toughest looking crossbows I'd ever seen.

He also seemed to notice me because he let rip with the crossbow straight after and by the angle of the crossbow I knew it was targeted at Luna before he even pulled back the trigger. I acted fast, drawing the sword I'd taken I swung it upwards until it cleaved the crossbow in two sending the two halves of the bolt off in separate trajectories. One of these spiralled downwards rights into my flank which was like one big splinter and hurt unsurprisingly more than plasma shot which cauterised the wound after it hit you. This wound however bled freely and from what I could examine in the slit second I had while turning around to Luna then I would have a new scar by the end of this if I survived that was.

Anyway the second half of the crossbow bolt spiralled upwards above Princess Luna thankfully but it impacted on something because I heard a sudden thud and a high pitched scream as something I didn't expect came into view. A black female Pegasus who was holding little transparent strings crashed as the large piece of wood shut down her suit which by the looks of it could make her invisible. "Kill him" she cried and I spun round to see the shooter also a Pegasus leap onto me from the roof with, oh my gun it seemed. I he landed on me and immediately fired off a couple of rounds which hit the wall with dull thuds, the other guards finally reacted and came over to help but at that moment I got the shooter on his back and he began firing wild shots everywhere which hit the first three guards in the head and the fourth guards in the back legs.

The fourth guard tumbled to the floor with a whiny and knocked into the both of us sending me and the shooter sprawling across the floor. I opened my eyes and saw his crossbow lying in front of me and looked back as he began to sit up, I made a split second decision and yanked the half bolt from my flank and put it in the crossbow. I stood up to draw it but stopped at the sight of my gun barrel staring at me in a not so comforting way.

The Pegasus laughed a little and I could see a little insignia on his shoulder the insignia of the P.P.R, that was all I could think about however as I heard the gun click and... Nothing happened. He must have drained the crystal which would have made me laugh had it not been for the fact that he was still a dangerous son of a bitch who tried to kill Luna.

I pulled with all my might and pulled the string tight on the crossbow just as he charged at me; I spun round and fired aiming for the head and hoping to Celestia I didn't miss. The bolt reduced in size was still deadly and it basically smashed through his head and carried on until it lost momentum and fell from the balcony. The shooters head went everywhere, over me, over Luna and the other assassin and in general the balcony area.

I looked at the other assassin who was staring wide eyed in shock at her partner's messy ending. Suddenly she held Luna out over the balcony and I saw she also had my backpack there as well. "Not another step closer or I drop the bitch" she said, fear most evident in her voice. I looked at her and then at the unconscious Luna and believed it best if I held my ground for the time. Besides this looked like a good opportunity to get some answers. "So why would the P.P.R be all the way back here in the first place?" I asked.

The assassin looked at me and I looked at her, she seemed to smile now as she looked at me "you must be the average calibre of soldier cause your IQ seems to be shit, the P.P.R were winning the war back home and when our rat ratted that the time machine project was happening we couldn't let the U.E.R reshape the world, so we raided there base and what did we find, your transport had just shipped out, oh yes Captain Asimov we know it all, then using the technology we got sent back as well to make sure Luna dies and the civil war continues". "But how did you get sent back? I was modified genetically so I could survive the Time radiation" I said.

She looked at me now with a very evil expression "oh we had no time to breed clones so we sent back every type of pony we could find but most of them didn't turn up in there correct time , melded with each other or became salmon" she said grinning. "So you want a war that will destroy Equestria just so the Pegasus can rule a wasteland" I said in disgust. Then I thought of something else "why leave me alive"?

"I'm done talking with you, this is over you are going to get down on your knees or little miss moon here get's thrown" she said now holding Luna further away from her. I looked at her and at Luna and made once again a split second decision, "I'll just catch her" I said. "What" asked the assassin but I was already running at full place until I knocked into her pushing all three of us over the balcony. I heard the assassin cry out as I span through the air, I saw my backpack and I aimed myself at it until I caught it already the ground was worryingly close but I strapped myself in and veered to the left until I caught Luna who was rag dolling through the air still unconscious with whatever drug those P.P.R assassins had given her.

I collided with her and immediately activated my gliding jets, the engines were really struggling as they reversed the force of the fall which with just me would have been easy but with Luna's weight (not saying she was fat) the thrusters just couldn't take it, it slowed us down enough however but we still smashed into the ground. I checked myself over as the world began shaking, fore legs all good, neck fine and my back legs seem to be severely sprained possibly broken, I couldn't tell there were too many pains all over my body. I looked at Luna who looked alright considering we just fell off of a castle.

I looked at the sky and saw a black image flying away into the night exposed by the moon and sighed as I stood up. "This is not over yet" I said as I slung Luna over my back and began limping away to the sewer systems which was one of my escape routes. I took out my pistol and reloaded it, looking down at my reflection in a puddle I realised I looked really scary, but I had to shelf that thought as something happened at the wrong time, wrong place

Luna moved...

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