Blacklight Retribution: Ondra's Fall

I was walking in darkness, not sure of where I was going. I kept walking until I saw a silhouette of a person that was slumped to a wall. As I got closer I noticed he was bloody, a little closer and I could make up some specifications about him... Freddie?

“Why did you do it, Ryman?” he coughed.

“What? What do you mean?”

Freddie chuckled, and continued coughing, “You should have died instead of Poet, you know. She was a better leader than you’ll ever be...” he continued coughing, then wheezed to a motionless state.

“Freddie. Freddie? Freddie!” I tried to run towards him, then the infected were running after me. Everything was moving fast around me, the infected were faster than me, this was my end.

The infected just ignored me, still running towards Stranger.

“Freddie! FREDDIE! GET OUT OF THERE! STRANGER!” I called towards him, but he didn’t move. As the infected were tearing his limbs piece by piece, black smoke was emitting from his broken parts...

“What? What is this?! What is happening!” I called out to the sky, this was super-natural. The sky started making a hole, a very interesting hole.

I continued to look up, and noticed three forms coming down from the sky.

A male, and two females... As I got close they were... Oh my god.

“Tanny? Raven? POET?!” they all just had blank expressions staring at me, with their cold eyes. Just... Staring at me.

“Guys, Stranger needs help! He’s-”

“He’s dead, all because of you,” Poet stated flatly.

“What? I tried all I could why are you saying this?!”

“You were always the most useless one, Ryman,” Tanny said.

Something brushed past me... It was Freddie, his body was eaten, wasted away. He had become one of them, the infected. His armor showing torn tissue, and blood spurting out from those said areas, it was something of a horror movie. I needed to keep calm, or else they would win. I could not let that happen, these people... They are not my friends, they’re something else.

“Why did you leave us, Ondra?” they all said in unison.

“I didn’t leave you guys! I did what I had to!”

They still had those blank expressions on their faces, then smiles were slowly forming on each of them.

“What’s goin-?”

“Thank you for your answer, Ondra,” Linda [Poet] said, her face becoming more maniacal, “Now... Time join us!”

Poet and the others had sinister smiles on their faces before Stranger lunged at me with bestial cries of an infected.

“NO! Get the fuck off me!” I manage to push him off without him biting me.

“Resistance is pointless,” Linda chimed. Stranger was growling at me like an animal, backing away from me slowly, keeping his glare on me. There was more screaming, more infected.

I look around me, the walls were being climbed by multiple infected, this was going to be the end of me.

“I’m sorry... I’m so... Sorry,” I let out a tear. The infected still running after me.

“I just don’t know what went wrong...” I pull out a grenade from my pouch, unfortunately Freddie grabbed it from my hands and, “AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH! What the fuck?!” ripped some flesh off my arm, I grab my pistol and shoot Stranger in the skull.

“I’m sorry, Freddie,” the grenade was damaged, and one infected got to me. I put one last sad smile to my face, “I tried.”

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Train Ride: Arrival

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I got up from the floor with a bolt and yell of fear, breathing was ragged. And the six mares were staring at me. Oh shit.

“Are you ok? You sleep on the floor and you were talking in your sleep,” Twilight was the first to speak among the expressionless group.

“So he’s a pervert, AND he’s crazy,” Rainbow Dash said, rolling her eyes.

“I’m FINE,” I snapped back at her, realising my tone of voice, I calm down, “I’m... Fine.”

Twilight gave me a concerned look, but I dismissed it with a hoof, “Where to for the Crystal Empire? Or Kingdom or whatever?” I asked.

“According to Celestia, the Empire is just two miles northeast of us, my brother will meet us half-way,” I didn’t care to know who her brother was, knowing these six was already enough.

“Then let’s get moving,” I said.

“Wait! You forgot your things in the train,” Twilight pointed at the train, it still had cargo that Celestia sent for.

“I’ll check it out, go on ahead. I’ll catch up,” I said, waving a hoof.

“Understood,” Twilight responded, “Let’s go girls, this empire won’t help itself.”

Rarity was then squealing with joy rambling on about how elegant this Empire was, considering it was ‘Crystal’.

“Rarity, ya need to focus on the task at hand. We got to help these people out, and we’re the selected to do so. Do you know ye’re doing this? You don’t seem like it.”

Rarity them ‘hmph’ed and bolted her head up to the sky with indignation.

I continued towards the train’s cargo hold, where my things were held. It was a mystery: what she gave me for this mission. Most likely there was winter gear to survive the bitter cold of the North.

Arriving to my cargo, I opened it, and there was a black box with Luna’s mark on it. There was some winter gear, as I was clearing out the box, there was a letter on the black box inside the box. [BOXEPTION]. I open the letter revealing these words:

Dear Midnight Flame,

As I remember, you didn’t want that old thing of your repaired. Maybe I understood why, but I’m not risking giving you a wrong answer on paper. What is inside my box carries magic powers even beyond Twilight’s I hope that you will use it in correct judgement. Consider this as another part of my thanks for saving me from Nightmare Moon.

Sincere Regards,

Princess Luna (of the Night)

P.S. Don’t tell Celestia, I gave you this.

I place the letter back in the envelope, about to open what surprise was in the box.

“Luna, you stubborn bitch,” I chuckled, as I took out a once-broken machete, my machete. I have to admit, I was impressed on how she found it. The blade now sported a polished black look, almost looks tougher than the normal alloy that the Blacklight Agency uses.

I lifted it with my telekinesis, and I felt that it was lighter than before, was this the magic she was talking about? Reducing the weight of the blade? This was cool in a lack of other good words to describe this phenomenon. I also found a sheath for it in it’s box, so I strapped it around me and I placed the machete inside the sheath, noticing the words on it:

“For there will be darkness, when there is light; but knowing their differences, you’re one to be bright,” I assumed that being bright referred to intelligence. I grabbed my winter gear and started my way Northeast, I could see the six still moving so I move fast to catch up with them.

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Two Minutes Later

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I thanked whatever non-living deity that the snow wasn’t too thick, or else I would never catch up.

“Being a little slow there, Flame,” Rainbow Dash taunted, “Maybe if you could use your wings-”

“Oh piss off, Rainbow,” I said tiredly, “at least I can use them in more ways than flying!” I continued my ragged breath.

“I see somepony!” Twilight said lighting up her horn to get through the fog.

Sometime was spent by that pony to move towards us.

“Twily!” well shit, it was that bastard Shining Armor. He glared at me, pointed a hostile hoof, “What is HE doing here?” I gave him a bored look.

“I’m here, under Celestia’s request, to protect these six,” I stated flatly, keeping eye contact with the stallion that doesn’t like my wings. He probably thought I was some sort of medical experiment that gone wrong and wants to kill everyone.

“Well you’d best not do anything stupid,” He responded cold-heartedly. I was getting tired of this hostility towards me because of my physical state, my wings, and ability to use telekinesis and what not.

“You got something to say to me? Say it now you fucking coward, or else just stay out of my way and let me do my fucking job,” I snapped back at him with a cold face. Shining Armor started walking towards me, then Twilight stopped him.

“Stop! Just please don’t do anything bad!” Twilight pleaded, then took a deep breath, “We need to get to the Crystal Empire and we haven’t got there yet!”

“It’s just that way, it’s not too long,” Shining Armor pointed... Northeast, the way we were headed, but why did it feel like it was closer than Celestia said it would? I was not going to bother with it.

“Then let’s get going,” I advance beyond the group, it was a calm walk in a mild blizzard.

“Guys,” but Shining fucking Armor had to ruin that, “We have to move fast, NOW!”

“Why?” then I saw what he was talking about. A black cloud was advancing towards us, I looked at it with with widened eyes. This must be the ancient evil Celestia was talking about, I started walking slowly towards it.

“What are you doing?!” Twilight called out for me, I ignored her as I unsheathed my machete, not feeling like it has anti-evil magic or something. I was confident that I could take care of it for these six to ‘restore’ the empire. I gave my blade a few testing swings, there was a blue trail? This must be another addition Luna added to the magic, very impressive, and hopefully it could over power this cloud. Of ‘ancient evil’

“Bring it!” I yell at the top of my lungs, I gave the cloud a good swing. It did split the cloud, but did one of the strangest things a cloud could do... I think it howled in pain? Eh, this is a magical world; I gave it more swings. After some more, it engulfed me in darkness.

“My my, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen your kind, obviously they advanced more since I last visited,” a voice hissed from the darkness... That voice, it sounds like-

“Ah! And I see you remember me! How amusing, and I thought I had to activate the chemical I placed on you,” no... No fucking way.

“Show yourself, YOU BASTARD!”

“Oh, I will be doing a lot of that in due time. Right now, you just need to learn your place,” there was an ominous pause, “You’re mine, and there is not a thing you can do to change that. Not the elements, nor your abilities will change that.”

There was the wind again, but there was a lot of cutting involve, I could only grunt in pain after the first five cuts were inflicted on me. This was the time I had enough.

“You will not win! You fucking hear me?! I will END you for ALL you have DONE!” I felt a same surge of power as I fought Nightmare Moon... It felt... Good!

“Hm, seems your power has become more powerful than before,” I’m starting to pinpoint the source of that voice, “No matter, you will die here and now, it’s a minor setback really. I’ll just find anoth-”

I crash into a thicker part of the cloud, it felt like a body. I hit him! I did it, it’s over! The blade, as I’m sure, has ended his lif-

“Nice try, Flame. I’ll take care of you next time,” Goddamnit, “but remember. You will not be so lucky to land another hit like that,” we’ll see about that.

The cloud was showing a shiver of light, I started my way in a full sprint, ready to punch through the wall with the flaming wings.

As I got to the end, I was getting cut all over me. I had to get through the wall, this damn cloud shall not be the end of me... Not yet...

“See you next time,” were the last words of the voice as I punched through the cloud. Rolling through the blizzard for some time since there was some extra force from the cloud, I tried to protect my face from getting too much snow. The rolling stops and I see seven ponies staring at me.

I pushed myself back up, “What?”

“That,” Rainbow Dash said, probably going to call me stupid, “Was,” here is comes, “Awesome!” What?

“What?” I repeated after my mind

“You came crashing through that cloud like it was nothing with wings of fire, how can that not be cool!” Rainbow Dash punched me in the shoulder, I flinched because there was a cut there. Rainbow Dash smiled sheepishly after she noticed I was in pain.

“I still think you’re a pervert though,” heh, good to have her back.

“That took a lot of guts,” Shining Armor said, “I got to say, no normal stallion would do that kind of thing for our safety,” I just closed my eyes an stiffly nodded in fast succession.

“The crystal Empire is this way, we’re not too far,” He continued.

And we walked.

“So what did you see?” for a solid three minutes before Twilight asked.

“Nothing,” I responded flatly.

“I know for a fact you still can’t control that power of yours,” Twilight accused quietly.

“Heh, you win. I didn’t see anything, but a voice was talking to me,” I might as well spill the beans, “it sounded like the voice that killed my squad mates and possible the entire reason I’m in this strange world.” Twilight nodded in curiousity.

“I plan to find him,” I started, “and kill him.” I tested my machete, then placed it back in my sheath. Twilight looked at me with mouth agape.

“You can’t just kill ponies!” Twilight hissed, pleading me to not think that.

“And why can’t I, because what we’re dealing with is another immortal god?” I mocked.

“No! Because it’s wrong,” oh good god in heaven.

I just stare at her with a blank expression and looked back at our group and path.

“Are you still going to kill?” really?

“That thing ended the lives of my squad mates right in front of me,” I snapped, “sent me to this world, and is probably going to kill me IF I don’t kill HIM first!” I took a deep breath. Twilight having a worried look on her face.

“I am not going to let him live after what he has done,”

“How do you know it’s him?” Twilight asked.

“I don’t, but he tried kill me and is still going to try. I’ll kill him before he succeeds, and I’ll find out whether he was responsible or not, it will be a ‘hitting two birds with one stone’ kind of thing.

“Let’s just go,” Twilight groaned in submission, “BUT!” oh boy.

“Only in one condition,”

“Name it,”

“Have fun and be happy,” are you serious, “I’m not going to be able to complete this assignment if not everypony’s happy. Including you.”

I face-hoofed, “Do we have a deal?”

I groaned in submission, “We have a deal.”

“Good,” Twilight beamed, having a smug look on her face, “Race you to the group!”

I continued walking at my own pace, Twilight not noticing that she has a large ass lead. I noticed her... Oh god I’m being sexually attracted to these ponies again... Gotta pull myself together, I have that god to kill...