A/N. Back in 3rd person. I just thought I might share one of my recent achievements. I just finished the game Slender: The Arrival. That was a hard and creepy game with a very strange ending. Anyway, we are now back from our off topic discussion about creepy games and the Slenderman so onto the story!

Chapter 15

The sky was darkening and the day was almost over. The silence was thunderous and it dictated the mood. It was only broken by the sound of the wind moving over the grasses of the wide, open land that passed in a flash underneath the Royal Carriage. Inside this transport resided the two ruling princesses of Equestria. Dark thoughts wandered through the twisted alleys of Celestia's mind, growing in power until being dismissed for various reasons. Luna was worried for her elder sister and she knew a pony when they were at breaking point. Celestia was there, her mind wound up so tight that most thoughts were overridden by the war. Through her consciousness meandered tactics of a sickly and dark nature. Kill all of her soldiers and let the Monster come to take her and then let it be killed by her guards. That idea was discharged on the basis that it would lose her support from her subjects and she would lose the war. Luna said nothing; she only prayed that this war end and the right side would win. She had begun to question who was on the right side.

The location of the final battle was the only city still under its pony control. Cloudsdale. The actual battle would commence in the rolling hills underneath the Pegasus city and would be fought to the death; no retreats, no surrender. It would come to the royalty committing mass suicide to prevent capture. "Luna," Celestia said, "I have had a good idea. Recall all ponies left alive to fight for Me."
"As you wish, my sister," replied Luna and she sent a message to all non-vital facilities (which was all of them) telling them to send all their workers to Cloudsdale to protect their princesses. Underneath the city was a complex that had been safe until now and most ponies too injured to fight were kept here. They would all be given weapons when the time came. All Research and Development teams were being moved to this complex and the factories were no longer producing weapons but only ammunition for the weapons. There were enough weapons for everypony. Both sides had taken heavy losses and they allowed each other however long it took for Inmate 73 to start its assault on the most secure facility in Equestria. It was a masterpiece of defensive technology, allowing for all occupants to be kept safe even in the most extreme conditions. The main part of the complex was underground and it had multiple bunkers with 20 meters of earth on top and 3 meter thick walls. The whole thing was protected by an experimental energy shield that took the kinetic energy from whatever projectiles collided with it and transferred it into energy that the shield could use. It was only experimental though and so it had many flaws, one of them being that if too much kinetic energy was transferred in a short amount of time the shield generator would overload and short-circuit and thus destroying the shield. The shield was only the first line of defence and the second, the hardest to get through, were the many turrets and blast doors. The surface complex was protected by six quadruple barrelled anti-air turrets in a hexagonal formation. These turrets could be configured from the control panels in the main bunker, the one housing the princesses and all the high ranking military officers. The entire facility was covered in cameras and every single piece if floor was covered. The blast doors were almost impossible to get through without high powered explosive devices or lots of big bullets. They were about 2 feet thick and made from solid steel, the doors were all booby trapped in different ways with one containing explosives and another having a large gun pop out and kill everything that moved in the hallway.

It was two days until the final attack came and all personnel had been recalled to the facility, Rainbow Dash and Applejack were having a conversation about the rest of their friends. "I'm sure that they're all fine," said the Pegasus, "Twilight was possibly never in danger in the first place along with Rarity and Fluttershy but I can't say anything about Pinkie."
"I'm pretty sure I saw pinkie in one o' them flyin' things," said Applejack.
"Really, she was in the air?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"I'm sure of the fact."
"How sure?"
"About 95%."
"How can you be 95% sure, this is Pinkie we're talking about here."
"Oh I give up, it was Pinkie Pie Ok," Said the exasperated orange pony.
"Those things were pretty dangerous; when they went down they went down in flames," said Dash worriedly, "she would have never survived."
"And that is where you're wrong!" An Excited Pinkie was leaning on the doorframe.
"PINKIE!" exclaimed the two overjoyed ponies standing in the room.
"I thought that you wouldn't mind if I brought a friend along." Pinkie stepped aside to reveal a rather nervous Fluttershy waiting behind her. The two other ponies were too overjoyed to speak; two thirds of their friends had survived the war so far. Pinkie was bouncing around the room and the rest of the group didn't care. "We need to get some information on Twilight and Rarity," said Applejack, "To try to find out where they are."
"Agreed." The rest of the crowd confirmed. They trotted out of the room and around the corner. A few of the ponies that they knew from their old lives in Ponyville had survived, Derpy, Doctor Whooves, one of the spa ponies, Lyra and Sweetie Drops (The former was still quite badly damaged from her ordeal a week ago but she had been called to duty regardless) and Vigilance the hospital guard. Familiar faces in unfamiliar places. "I'll be back, just gimme a second I need to dump these papers!" yelled a really familiar voice. The four ponies turned around to see… the ceiling. They had all been barrelled over by a rushing Twilight Sparkle with Spike on her back holding a huge wad of paper. They were both travelling towards the double doors at the other end of the hallway. The doors were locked with an eye scanner that was supposedly used to unlock them. Twilight just charged through. "Well the lock obviously doesn't work," said Rainbow Dash jokingly.
"Well, at least we know she is alive and well," said Fluttershy, "even if she doesn't have time for her friends."
"She still hasn't got those wings sorted yet," commented the other Pegasus. There was a purple flash in front of them and Twilight appeared in front of them. She noticed their presence but her momentum was too much. "Brace yourselves!" Shouted Applejack.
"Guys," Twilight was joyful to see her friends again.
"Umm… can we get up now," Fluttershy asked.
"I don't see why not," the alicorn replied.
"maybe because we are all in an umm… big pile up on the floor and…" the yellow Pegasus stammered "You can get up, OK," The young princess confirmed, "and I have got some news on Rarity and how she is doing."
"Tell us sugarcube," insisted Applejack.
"Well, she's Ok except for a few minor injuries and some other things," stated Twilight.
"Hell yeah! This means that the entire group is still alive!" yelled an excited Rainbow Dash
"KEEP IT DOWN OVER THERE!" a pony was poking his head out of the door.
"Sorry…"

Inmate 73 paced in the temporary camp that it was staying in. Something was wrong and it could feel the… Anxiety? Excitement? The feeling of satisfaction that its crusade was almost over? It was wrong in all these cases. The place where it felt wrong was in the back streets of Falfrea Crimson's brain. All the cogs and gears for a machine were there and assembled and all it needed was a twist to kick start it (Figuratively speaking). "Begin the attack."

A/N. Sorry about the updates, I have been working outside all day and I didn't have the time to finish writing. Yesterday my time was taken up by totally filling my computer with ponies! I have a pony desktop background and a pony browser theme and pony icons and I even have the Desktop Ponies program that allows for ponies to roam around the desktop! Anyway, I think I'll sign off here.

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