Joe and Nebula: A Tale of Two Evils

Joe and nebula:a tale of two evils.

Joe fell through the air with out a sound and landed plunging a blade into the two guard ponies' skulls. Their bodies crumpled and turned into the black dust like the others. He tapped the left side of his glasses again and the thermal view of the building came up again. It revealed twelve heat signatures inside the building. He pushed open the two huge doors that led to the warehouse just enough for himself to slip inside. Luna's moon shone extr brightly tonight, no doubt to give him more light to work with. He slipped behind a set of crates. The guards had the place locked down tight. As he got closer a note appeared on the lens of the glasses.

'Whenever you get closer to someone that is lit up while using thermal view, their line of sight will appear. Good luck Joe.' As Joe approached one of the dark guards he began to see a yellow spotlight in front of the guard's face. This mu

St have been the line of sight. Joe jumped the guard from behind and clamped its mouth shut. He wrapped an arm around its throat and squeezed as hard as he could. The guard pony struggled for a moment and then went limp. It dissenting rated into the black dust in his arms and Joe kicked it up, dispersing the remains. But that was the easy part. He had to cross the warehouse where applejack was being held. The sides of the building where the shadows are were not an option due to the guards. Flying was to risky for risk of being noticed. That left one option. Joe rotated the cuff on his blade and approached the guard nearest him. He deployed the shorter blade and pricked the guard with it. He didn't even notice. Joe took a step back as the guard began to sway.

"This better work." He thought to himself. Then it happened. The guard began yelling and swinging his sword he ran out into the middle of the warehouse and chopped down one of the guards that stood there. The other dark ponies rushed over to see what was going on as the poisoned pony ran around swinging its sword. It took out another three guards before lying on the ground and turning to dust itself. That left only six guards, and they were horribly confused. They just stood there and stared at the piles of dust. Joe had just enough time to slip past the, and make it to the back room. He could see only applejack's signature in the room. He was overjoyed that he had found his mare friend, but I didn't feel right.

"Where are you Nebula." Joe said to himself. He didn't know why, but he expected an answer. But he was glad he didn't get one. He nudged the door open and readied his blade. The room was dark, with not a single light. Joe thanked Luna for the third time tonight. He saw a figure tied to a chair, gagged and scared. The pony in the chair looked at him with wide eyes and shook her head. Joe knew it was applejack and rushed over to her. Applejack shook her head faster and a tear ran down her cheek.

"Applejack, wh-" he was cut off as a searing pain bit into his back. Joe felt the warm trickle of blood seep down his back and into his shirt. He felt nebula twist the blade and Joe bit back a yelp of pain, it was a short blade. Not long enough to do anything but hurt like a bitch. Joe got his emotion under control and prepared himself for what he was about to do. He was about to end it all.

Meanwhile in ponyville, the friends of Joe and applejack sat around a small monitor along with the two princesses.

"He really is talented." Rainbowdash remarked. The rest of the ponies remained deathly silent. The watched through the screen where Luna had installed a video camera on the bridge of the glasses, that could see what he saw. They watched him as he opened the door and rushed towards applejack, and than stop.

"What happened." The small ponies asked. Luna just shook her head, she knew exactly what had happened.

"No, no it can't be. He can't be, dead." Luna said the last word weekly. The realization donned on the others and they hung their heads on silence. Then the screen started to move. Joes hands shot up, each wielding a blade. The five ponies cheered and luna smiled. Celestia just wondered why her sister had gotten so emotional. Then she figured it out. She smiled and watched the screen in awe.

That very moment in Manehatten,

Joe deployed both of his blades and moved his foot forward and brought it back and kicked nebula in the chest. His height giving him an advantage. Nebula flew across the room and smashed into the wall. Joe felt up his back for the blade and found it. He grabbed the handle and yanked it out, the wound was shallow but burned like fire. Joe sniffed the blade, relieved that it wasn't poisoned and cut applejack free. He hugged her tightly and turned back to nebula. He was beginning to stir and Joe began towards him but stopped when he heard a knock at the door. Joe turned the deadbolt on the door and placed the latch as welling kept moving towards nebula who was on his feet. Nebula looked up and saw him moving towards him and his horn began to glow. Joe watched in horror as nebula's appendages grew longer and his hooves turned to hands and feet. His coat changed to a white hoodie and a blue pair of jeans. He had strainer cut black hair and black eyes. The leather strap over his shoulder showed the crossbow and a belt of knives was at his waist.

"Now it's a fair fight." Nebula said with a smirk.

"It never was a fair fight." Joe said cracking his knuckles. Nebula came at him with one of the knives on his belt and Joe deflected it with the metal plates on the gauntlets. He unsheathed one of his own blades and gave nebula a slash up the length of his chest.  Nebula clutched his chest as his shirt welled up with blood. He tore his shirt of in fury and came at Joe. Joe tripped him, sending him tumbling to the ground. Nebula rolled over and kicked at Joe, knocking his legs out from underneath him. Joe hit the ground hard and rolled over on top of nebula and punched him in the jaw. Nebula's horn began to glow but Joe reached up and clamped it in his strong grip.

"No, no, no. No running this time." Joe said and he snapped the horn right off. Nebula screeched in agony and the banging on the door increased. Nebula kicked up at Joe throwing him off off nebula and stood up. Joe stood up as well and rotated his cuff and pointed his wrist at nebula who had his crossbow pointed at Joe's chest. Then it happened, nebula fired his crossbow, the bolt sped towards Joe with deadly intent. But it never found its mark. Because right when nebula fired the crossbow, a shimmering figure appeared in front of Joe. The bolt hit it and the figure crumpled to the ground. Joe looked down in shock to see Luna, her face screwed up in pain and a crossbow bolt it her side. Her chest heaved and she smiled weakly at Joe. With new found strength, Joe drew shadow slater and cast the scabbard aside. He charged at nebula and caught him by the hair. Nebula screamed as Joe balanced the blade on the ground. He pulled nebula back and looked into his pitiless eyes.

"Burn in hell you son of a bitch!" Joe screamed in his face. He pushed nebula's head down on the sword and the screaming was cut off. Joe released nebula And his body fell to the ground. Joe the. Rushed over to Luna.

Meanwhile in ponyville.

Celestia was hysterical. He sister was dying, she had been shot. Who could really blame her. The rest of the ponies tried to comfort her, but to no avail.

Back in Manehatten

Joe dropped to his knees and broke the fletchings off the bolt and extracted it. He then pulled his shirt off and went to tie it around the wounds, but a hoof stopped him. He looked at Luna and she smiled at him.

"Don't, it won't help." She said.

"N- no, not another pony. I won't let you die." Joe said, crying.

"Please Joe, it is my time." She said. Joe hugged her as she let out one last ragged breath and then went still. Applejack came over and and sat next to  him as he sobbed. The other five ponies appeared in the room along with the other princes. They all mourned together until the sun came up.

Three weeks later.

Joe was walking through ponyville with applejack resting her head on his shoulder. He couldn't get the events of last month last month. Celestia hasn't been the same since her sisters passing but she managed to bring up the moon as well as the sun. Applejack and Joe had lived happily together since then. Joe hadn't had a single nightmare since then and he had more energy than ever. He went down to vinyl's studio one pace a week to play the instruments and had Reid out and made a position on the ponyville symphony orchestra as the first chair trombone player. Everything was perfect, but applejack had a secret that she had neglected to tell Joe. They were meeting up at a restraunt with the rest of applejack's family for a birthday. But not applejack's birthday, his. Joe hadn't celebrated it in years but applejack insisted that he let her throw him a party. They walked into the restraunt and Joe grinned. His friends, applejack's family, twilights family and princes Celestia were all there. They all greeted him and then they sat down to eat.

The food was great and apparently everyone had felt the need to get him a gift, which he guessed was a thing he should be happy about, but he didn't feel like he deserved them. They were nice and some were pretty cool, but he left two to open last. Luna's and applejack's. he picked up Luna's and opened it with the blade in his gloves. Inside the paper was a 3 foot long blue box with a hinge. Joe popped it open to reveal shadow slayer. The sword he had used to kill nebula, and had belonged to Luna. Joe looked over to Celestia.

"She would have wanted you to have it." Celestia nodded. Joe smiled and put the sword back in the box and closed it. He then. Reached over and picked up the last parcel. He cut away the paper and opened up the box. Inside was a dark brown Stetson hat, like applejack and a note. Joe took out the hat and tried it on. It fit him perfectly. He leaned over and hugged his mare friend. He then picked up the remained note in the box and looked at applejack before reading it. She kept a perfect poker face. Joe looked down and read the two words on the paper and fainted. Big Mac reached over and picked up the note and read it aloud.

"I'm pregnant."