What If

What if: Joe and Nebula

What if Joe hadn't survived the fight with nebula. What if applejack was left at the mercy of applejack. You wanted answers for these question that have been nagging your mind. This is The story where your questions will be answered.

The bolt flew through the air with deadly accuracy. Joe barely had time to react before the bolt hurried itself in his head. He rolled to the right and stood back up. He aimed his hidden gun and tapped the button. A loud bang echoed through the room. Nebula clutched his shoulder where a trickle of blood was now coming out. It had only grazed him but it still hurt. Joe pulled back the bolt and aimed again, this time to kill. He pointed his wrist at nebula and rested his finger on the button. But he never go the chance to fire. The bolt flew out of nebula's crossbow too fast. Joe never stood a chance. The bolt buried itself up to the fletchings in his chest. Joe clutched the bolt and fell onto his back. Applejack shrieked and started to run towards him but nebula stopped her with the crossbow.

"One more step and you end up like him." He said. Applejack looked furious but stepped back. Joe watched in horror as nebula pointed the crossbow at applejack. Using all the strength he had left, he picked up his wrist and fired off one last shot. It went wide and that's all Joe could do. He laid back down and closed his eyes, for the last time. Applejack screamed and ran over to Joe.

"No, Joe please wake up. Joe please. I need you. Joe,JOE!" She screamed shaking him by the shoulders. A strong hand grabbed her throat and picked her up. Nebula pinned her to the wall, a furious scowl on his face.

"He's dead. You hear me, dead. He isn't coming back for you. Your mine now, and you're gonna do what I say. Unless you wanna die to. Applejack gulped and nodded. Put was already forming a plan in her mind. "Now go clean up your boyfriend." He yelled throwing her to Joe's limp body. Applejack stunned by the impact,took a second to get up. picked up his crossbow and walked out of  the room, locking the door behind him. Applejack rushed over to Joe and wrapped her hooves around his neck and sobbed. She cried until she couldn't cry anymore, and just held him.

Somewhere in ponyville

The ponies where all to shocked to say anything.

"Is Joe d-dead?" Pinkie asked. Her normally kinky ,was now straight. Luna was crying in the corner while her sister tried to comfort her. Rainbowdash and rarity pace furiously. And fluttershy just stared at the monitor, stunned. None of the ponies knew what they could do.

Back in manehattan

Nebula examined the slice on his chest. It wasn't deep, but it hurt and was still bleeding. But one thing that came out of this was that he was able to get to his human form. As a matter of fact, he liked this form better. He was born a pony, but would live a pony. He heard a slam in the mane warehouse and walked out of the washroom n the back, under the room where applejack was. He peered out of the room and saw at least thirty elite guards. Nebula made a break for the stairs and burst through the door to the holding room. He snatched p applejack who was sobbing over Joe's dead body. He took both of joes hidden blades and slid them on his wrists. He tested them and slid the blade out and held it up to applejack's neck and walked out of the room with her.

"There he is!" One of the guards yelled.

"If you want her to live, you'll let us leave." Nebula said.

"You wouldn't." One of the guards said.

"Try me." Nebula said. Applejack let out a yelp of pain as he pressed the blade onto her throat. A small bit of blood ran down her cheek and her chest.  Applejack frantically looked around for a way of escape. Then she saw it. It was a black sword that had materialized on top of one of the crated. Applejack let out a cry and bit Nebula's hand. She felt the bones crunch and he released her. She made a break for the crate and climbed it. She grabbed the hilt of the sword in he mouth and pulled it free of the scabbard. She turned and faced nebula. He was running for the back room as the guards chased him. Applejack jumped off of the crate and landed on his back. She grabbed the sword and put it at his neck and sliced it open. Nebula immediately stopped and grabbed at his throat, trying to stem the flow of blood that was coming from his throat. Nebula was going to suffer the same fate as Joe, but not without taking another life. He spun around, his movements clumsy but deadly, and tackled applejack. She screamed and he shoved the blade into her throat. The guards pulled him off of her and jammed a spear into his stomach, ending his miserable life. Applejack tried to cry out but with all the blood that was flooding her mouth and throat, it came out as more of a muted gurgle. One of the guards got down on his knees next to her and began to press down on her throat where the blood was coming from. He pulled off his helmet off and his green mane fell down over his shoulders. Strange, he looked just like Joe. She began to close her eyes.

"Don't you close your eyes. Eyes on me. Eyes, on, me!" He said shaking her.  It it didn't do any good. She slid her eyes shut, for the last time.

Her eyes snapped open and she looked around. She was in a field of endless green grass with a clear blue sky above her.

"So this is heaven." She said to herself.

"Yep." A voice said next to her. She turned to see the love of her life. She wrapped him up in a hug and he kissed her cheek. He was a pony again. When they broke the hug, Joe took a step back. "Meet your son." He said smiling at her. A grey colt walked up next to her and a tear ran down applejack's cheek. The colt spread his wings and fluttered up to his mother. She wrapped him up in a hug as Joe smiled at her and his son. Life was perfect. "One last thing." He said. "Look at your back." He said. She turned around and let out a squeal of excitement. On her back were a pair if orange wings. She spread them and took off into the air. Hurricane, her son, followed her and Joe was right behind them.