Book 1 The wolf and the magic

Chapter 5: Order and Fear

As we walked through the streets of Canterlot, towards the castle, I received looks from ponies that seemed like rich snobs.

I overheard some comments from them and just kept walking; I looked around and saw cloaked figures. I slowed my pace and went beside Twilight.

"Cloaked figures. At 3 O'clock, 8 O' clock and 11 O' clock. Don't look at them, just keep walking. Be ready for anything." I looked over and saw a bakery. "In there, I didn't have breakfast anyways."

Twilight gave an affirmative nod. I changed direction towards the bakery and the cloaked figures changed position.

I removed my hood and turned to the group and pointed to the bakery. "Let's stop by this bakery. I'm starving." I turned and went in, the others fallowed.

I let them get what they wanted and paid for it, it only cost a few bits.  We sat at a table right outside and I scanned the area using my Kuwashii visor, I marked the cloaked figures as enemies and ate some of the bread I got.

"Where did you get the money to pay for this, Dunmore?" Twilight's question broke me out of the thought process I had going on to figure out different scenarios.

"I helped ponies that got lost or had a broken wheel on their cart. I kept my name a secret; I went by the name of 'Order'." I finished up my bread and got up to continue to look for the cloaked figures and spotted a few more. I checked my thermal clip supply.

I had only a few thermal clips left; about 3 per weapon. Glad I still have my claymore.

I looked around again and noticed more cloaked figures, they had increased in numbers.

I went back to the table. "They have us surrounded. Stay calm, and don't look like you're looking for them."  I pulled my hood over my head and continued to look around. The other finished there food after a bit of small talk, we continued down the street to the castle. But now there were more of those cloaked figures.

"We got more contacts. Stay alert. And be ready for a fight." We watched the cloaked figures surround us and we slowed to a stop.

"D-Dunmore...umm...What do theses ponies' w-want from us" Fluttershy stayed behind Rainbow Dash and shook with fear.

"They want a fight. Let's give them one." Rainbow Dash Flared out her wings, ready to fight.

"They want a' fight? They picked the wrong group to mess with" Applejack also got ready to fight.

"Calm down, don't do anything to hasty. We don't know what type of weapons they have." I slowly pulled out my M-3 pistol and held my claymore in the other hand. "But, be ready to fight."

As the cloaked figures approached us, I tightened my grip on my sword. "Be ready. Be focused. And be accurate." I Charged forwarded into the crowed of cloaked figures and dogged incoming daggers and other swords. I whacked one of them in the head with my pistol and stabbed another.

The others joined in and dust flew up from the ground and the fight got more out of hand. I lost count of how many of them I had killed already. Twilight blasted a few behind me with her magic and Rainbow Dash told Fluttershy to go get help from the Guards.

Rarity did what she could in the fight but mostly just kept a defense role

A blast of magic knocked my sword from my hand and it fell to the ground behind me. I shot the area where it came from and hit a few of the cloaked figures. I saw a one of the larger cloaked figures attempt to pick of my sword but to only fail. To him my sword was too heavy for him to pick up. I ran over and shot him in the head, quickly grabbed the sword and swing it around to kill a few of these assailants.

We got back to the center and looked around "Damn it! There are still more of them! It's like a never ending hoard." We were exhausted and had a few cuts and bruises.

I noticed some of the attackers looked the same. I finally clicked.

"Twilight, is it possible that some or almost all of them could be an illusion of some sort?" I turned my head to face her.

She thought about it for a moment. "That is a possibility. But, an illusion spell of this size cannot be done by one unicorn easily."

I looked around and scanned the opponents for energy signatures. "There are multiple sources of power coming from a number of these enemies. I am tracking the energy source now." I noticed the invisible beams, that my visor made visible, went onto a few roofs.

"I count 5 sources on those roofs. If I could get up there, I can disable them and weed out the real enemies. We can end this." I pulled out a 4 grenades and tossed them into the group in front of me. "Let's go! Come on!" We charged through the clearing of enemies the grenades had made. No matter how much of an illusion these assailants were, they still hit as if they were real.

But, we were surrounded again. "Damn it! That's cheating. If I have to take down every single one of you, I will!" My eyes glowed a golden color and my sword became covered in a blue magic. I swung my sword and a pulse wave of blue went out. And it collided with a large group in front. I ran forward into the fray once more. This time I took out groups of enemies.

They tried to surround me, but that was a mistake. I jumped up to a roof. Using the powers I had to boost me up. I jumped to another; the first caster of this illusion was there. Doing this drained me slightly.

"Hello there, time to die." I raised my pistol up to the casters face and pulled the trigger. As I did this, a chunk of the illusions disappeared "This is going to be tedious." I jumped roof to roof, taking out casters as I found them.

The illusions finally fell and reveled that I only killed a few real opponents.  "Damn, I thought I killed more then that" I said as I jumped back down to the others.  "Okay, looks like we have the real enemies to deal with now. I count about 17 in total. Let's finish this"

Fluttershy ran towards us. "I...I got some g-..Guards to come and help."

I looked at her. "Good, there might be only a few left but, I'm tired. My powers took a lot of energy out of me. The help will be needed" As we talked, the remaining cloaked figures charged with daggers and small swords. I raised my sword to block, but my arm burned with pain. A dagger found its way into my arm and the attacker twisted it, causing more pain. I raised my other arm and bought up a punch that got the bastard off of me.

"Damn it.  I'm hit! Shit, that hurts." I looked at my arm as blood flowed from it. I grabbed the knife and ripped it out. I gritted my teeth in pain as I tore the blade from my flesh. I stood up; I saw an energy shield of blue. I looked back and the guards running up to give support.  The one in the front of the group, I recognized as Captain Armor.

"About damn time, thought we were going to have to do this our selves" I let out a small laugh. I used my sword to give me support as I stood up. I noticed the cloaked figures run away as the Royal guard came to the area.

"Twily! Are you okay" Captain Armor ran up to Twilight and looked her over for injuries.

"I am fine, don't worry. What took you so long to get here anyway?"  Twilight gave him a questioning look. Captain Armor scrambled to find an answer.

As this was going on, I walked up. I was using my sword as a walking stick, of sorts. "Hello again Captain. What did take you so long? I thought we would have to take care of everything." I let out a loud laugh.

Twilight noticed my arm. "Dunmore! You're arm!" She quickly came over and inspected the wound.

"I am fine, just a scratch. Are you and the others okay?" I pulled my hood off and looked around.

The area only had slight damage to the buildings and the road.

A medic came up and put bandages on my arm and used a bit of healing magic. I gave him my thanks and he went off to check the others.

Captain Armor turned to me and shook my hand. "Good to see you again Dunmore. I wish the setting was better for a 'meet & greet' but, anyways. We need to head to the castle, the Princesses are expecting you. I suggest you hurry up, this will be one of the many topics they want to talk to you about."

I gave an affirmative nod. "Roger that, we will head out now." I put my sword on my back in its sheath. "Alright, let's get the castle! Double-time!" With that we set off towards the castle again.

---- About 14 minutes later---

We arrived at the castle entrance and went in; a few guards escorted us, mostly me, to the throne room. When we got in there, I saw what I did not expect. Next to the throne was Chrysalis.

I pulled out my sniper rifle and aimed it at her. "Oi! What's she doing here!?" The guards tensed up and formed a defensive formation in front of her. Princess Celestia stepped forward.

"Calm you're self Dunmore. She is no longer our enemy." Celestia told the truth, yet I still did not trust her judgment.

"Okay, but tell me why she is not our enemy? Last we met, I almost killed her. So why is she her now?" My tine was of anger and questioning. I put my rifle away on my back.

"She is here because she is no longer the Changeling leader; she can tell you the specifics." Celestia went over to a door and signaled us to fallow as well telling the guards to stand-down

"So, what did you and Princess Luna need to tell me. I must be important for me to come out of hiding, and stop what I am seeing in my dreams." I walked next to Celestia.

"We have discovered a truth among a myth. That is why you are here Dunmore. Fallow me to the Royal archives." She led us to the Archives room and it was huge, documents and books and other items of knowledge covered the shelves.

"Why am I so important? I am just another soldier, with unknown powers." We stopped at a large book that was on a desk.

Celestia used her magic to open up to a page near the end. "This book talks about the Elements of Harmony and some of chaos. But at the end, it tells of a different type of element holder. One who holds both an element of harmony and chaos." I looked at the book and noticed an image of a sword.

I pulled out my sword and set it next to the image. "The same sword, this dose seems important. But why would this concern me?" I continued to look at some of the text in the book. I noticed it talked about how the holder of these two elements was not Pony, Griffon, Zebra or anything of this world. "Interesting, this is truly interesting" I returned my sword to my sheath and Celestia closed the book.

"We shall return to the throne room so you may tell us what you promised."  She walked off and the others fallowed her. I stood there, staring at the book. Twilight was still there as well.

"Dunmore, what's wrong? Are you okay?" She asked with concern in her voice,

"I am fine; I am just worried that if I am what this book says. Can I keep one of the largest promises I will ever make?  But only time will give that answer. For now, we wait to see what happens" I walked off, I felt the pressure of the coming situations. As a soldier, I will carry on.

I entered the throne room; I stepped in front of the throne and gave a quick bow. "My story is a long one. Get comfy." I opened up my Omni-tool and pulled up the projector to give a slide show of my history.

"I shall start with a little family history and then the start with my powers." I started the slide show and projected it on to a wall. "I lived with my uncle in America, he was a nice person, and He loved working on vehicles. I never truly knew who my real parents where. But, that dose not matter anymore." I changed the slide to show to some military photos.

"I joined the Alliance marines at the age of 19. I went to collage before hand, so I got a few ranks up due to my education. I got through boot camp with the code-name of 'silent wolf'. I was given that nickname due to always being the silent one and always hitting my target. I noticed I had some sort of powers in boot camp, due to when ever I got angry, my eyes would glow a faint red or gold.  I got through boot camp and went through officer training and showed great skill. I became a squad commander and worked along side humanities hero. Commander Shepard, he was sort of an idol. Before my first deployment, my uncle gave me this Claymore Sword. He said it was my fathers." I changed the slide again.

The picture showed me on graduation day, in uniform, with my uncle. "My uncle told me as well that he was not genetically my uncle but, that he was such a good friend to my father that he was like a brother. I took the sword on deployment and fought along side Shepard. But, when he saved the universe the third time, he gave up his life to take control of the reapers." I showed an image of a reaper.

"I continued with my own squad after that. I became an N7. That is one of the highest honors in the Alliance. But, after a few hunt-down missions. The council saw my potential and made me the 3rd human specter, I another high honor." I changed the image again to an image of a space station. "This is where I recruited my squad. There was Jericho, explosives expert. We never saw his face. He always hid it no matter what. Then there is Chris. 'Lights' was is call-sign, he was the Heavy weapons specialist. And finally, Drake, A crazy blade loving Irish man. Knew him since High school, same with Chris." I changed the image to the Cerberus symbol the projection program after I showed pictures of my squad.

I gave heavy sigh. "On our last mission. We were hunting down a terrorist leader who was gathering the parts of Cerberus into a new group. My squad was killed in front of me; I watched them slit their throats. The guy who was there had a portal device of some sort. When I went to attack him, he moved and I went through the portal. I put a bullet in his head before I fell through." I turned off the projector and closed my Omni-tool.

"And that's me in a nutshell. A bit depressing, but oh well. I'll live." I relaxed and loosened up a bit.

Princess Celestia had a face of slight confusion and understanding. Fluttershy was surprisingly the first to speak. "T-that's so sad. Not knowing you're parents. Also loosing you're friends." Her voice carried sadness.

My voice was emotionless. "Do not worry about me. I am fine; I will prevail where others might not. I will not let deaths hold me down." The tone of my voice shocked Princess Luna.

(Yeah, she is there. always was) "You feel no pains for the loss of you're friends? You do not feel pain for not knowing who you're parents where? How could someone have such feelings?" What Princess Luna said agitated me.

"I am a soldier; I learned how to control my emotions in such situations." My voice was has empty as before.

Celestia now spoke her mind. "Training or not. One can not suppress such emotions Luna told me of the grief and sadness she felt in you're dreams. You bottle up you're emotions and you become a heartless killer." What she said ticked me off.

"I am no heartless killer. Don't EVER call me that again." My vexation for what she said was viable as a few sparks of magical energy moved around me, slightly burning the floor.

I stood there with my head down and an empty stare to the floor. "Why so many...my friends...my allies...I will see none of them ever again. I am alone and I will never see anyone I knew ever again, I won't even be at my squad's funerals...." I let out a single tear and it stained the floor.

"I am alone....no one I knew will ever see me again.  What am I to do now then?" I questioned my self.  I felt a hoof on my arm; I looked up and saw Twilight.

"You are not alone Dunmore. You have us, you have Ponyville." I thought about what she said, she was right. I gave a smile.

"But...what do I do? I can't get back to my universe." Her smile grew and she pointed towards the others.

"You might not be able to get back to where you're from Dunmore, but you have a new home. With us" What Twilight said reminded me of what Drake once told me.

'If I die, carry on. I'll see you in hell after I take it over. So don't worry, we got this. And if you loose us. Keep fighting, for us.' He was one of my best friends, trusted him with everything.

"You're right. I can't forget about my past friends. I will keep fighting for them. Even in this new world." I got up and Twilight stepped back. I took out my sword and touched it to the ground letting some energy floe to the floor, repairing the cracked floor.

"Yes, I will Pledge my allegiance and service to Equestria. Semper Fidelis." I went to position of attention and gave a quick salute.

My voice became stern and solid. "You're Majesty. What are you orders?"

She gave a small smile. "You're orders Commander, are to take on the role of the element of Oder and Fear. Is that understood?"

I gave another salute and held it. "Yes Ma'm." I pulled out my sword and bowed like a knight from the medieval ages (or dark ages as some call them)

"You may rise Commander, but before you go. We must discuss what happened with Chrysalis. While you where gone"

I gave a small laugh. "I almost forgot about that." I listened intently.

"After you defeated Chrysalis, she returned to her hive. But she was banished due to her failure to take over Ponyville. She came out of the forest with cuts and deep wounds. She came to us for help and we aided her." As Celestia spoke, Chrysalis came back out from her hiding spot, where she hid when I had that burst of anger, She sat next to the others.

"She still has a small number of changelings that are loyal to her.  But, they are few. And now that's out of the way. Let's talk about the small fight that happened out in town." Celestia's tone was serious.

"Yes, the fight that happened. I am going to guess they where Lunar Republic fanatics of some sort. The illusion magic they used was impressive, I must say" I noticed that Luna's face showed worry when I said the name of the group.

"Is something wrong Princess Luna? What do you know of this group?" I questioned.

Luna let out a sigh. "They are a group who want to bring back Nightmare Moon." I raised an eyebrow.

"I read about that. Pretty bad thing that seemed to be" I opened up my Omni-tool and looked through some of the notes I had copied from the books.

"Yes, it says her Nightmare moon wanted eternal night. That doesn't sound like fun" I looked over some other notes.

"Yes that is correct Dunmore. But they will never happen again." Celestia sounded sure that it would not happen again.

"You seem confident about that. Are you sure that they don't have any magic that can change her back." Before we could continue, there was an explosion from outside the throne room doors.

We all looked to the door in worry and wonder. "What the hell was that!? Let's stay back for now and wait to see what happens." Twilight was already at the door, about to open it. "No! Don't open that doo-" before I could finish my sentence, the entrance exploded. Twilight was thrown back and landed next to me. "Twilight? You okay?" She slowly got up.

"I'm good. What's going on?" Before I could answer, explosions destroyed the pillars and part of the wall around the room.  The roof began to cave in.

"Look out!" I grabbed Twilight and rolled to the side to dodge a bit of falling roof. It cut us off from the others.

I could hear the others on the other side. "Dunmore, Get you and Twilight out of here! I and Luna will teleport the rest of us out along with some guards. Hurry! The roof won't hold for long!"

I looked around and saw that some of the wall was gone.  I looked to Twilight. "Can you teleport us to that room over there?" I pointed across the way to a room with an open window.

"Yes, get close and we'll be there." With a flash of light, we were out of the crumbling throne room and in a room of some wealthy or important individual.

"Wonder who owns this room, a bit too lavish if you ask me." I looked around and laughed at the fancy decor.

I heard someone enter the room. "Who is in my room!? I am Prince Blueblood! Who are you brutes!?" I stared at this guy with a deathly glare.

"Twilight, why do I really want to punch this guy in the face really hard?"   Twilight shrugged as she left the room. I tried to fallow but was blocked by the idiot.  "Mind getting out of my damn way you idiot?"

Prince Blueblood scoffed at my insult. "You dare insult me? I am prince Blueblood, Princess Celestia will know about you insulting me! You will stay here while I go and get Princ-oof!"

I shoved the ignorant idiot out of the way. "Always one of those idiots, no matter where I go" I met up with Twilight in the hallway and we made our way to the others. It took a few minutes because we did not know were the other where.

We met up outside the castle and looked at the destruction of the Throne room. "Wow, no more throne room I guess" I joked but no one laughed.

Celestia turned to me. "I want you to go back to Ponyville with the others. Please stay safe." With that, I gave a quick salute. I and the others went to the train station to catch a ride home.

---Ponyville----

When we arrived back at town, we went our separate ways. I went with Twilight back to her house so we could continue some old research.

We discussed things and did research late into the night. Staying quite as possible to not awake Spike. He would not be happy if we woke him, trust me.

As we looked over a large table of notes, Twilight fell asleep on my shoulder. I thought to my self. 'Wow, I guess not even she can stay up all night doing research' I carefully picked her up and put her in her bed upstairs. "Goodnight Twilight."  I took some time to clean up and organize the mess of research we had out.

After that, I left for my house and turned in for the night. I thought about what happened today. I am now under the service of Equestria, and I will help keep it safe, No matter what.