Death Cannot Die
Powerless
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAs both the regal Princess and bearers were flooded with the bright light that the spirit had blinded them with they could only cover their eyes until the madness had ended. Never would she had thought that they would later be transported into another part of HUNKS subconscious as the ponies would stand in a meadow surrounded by rolling hills of green. As the ponies finally dared to open thier eyes they became startled at the grass underneath thier hooves.
"Where are we what gives" Rainbow Dash finally spoke
"Theres so much greenary I'd say sugar" Applejack sat as she scanned accross the open pasture that stretched miles away.
"What if we don't get out and we stay in this aweful humans mind. NO, we need to get OUT. I have a photo-shoot with Fleur and i just can't miss that!! Please anypony....." Rarity whined until a reassuring hoove landed on her shoulder.
"Don't worry your head Rarity, if theres one pony who knows anything I think Princess Celestia would know. Right?" Applejack nervously answered.
"Applejack as much as I am pleased you think so highly of me I am afraid I have no clue because this is not under any normal circumstance and I can't figure out what part of Lukes mind are we in." Stood Celestia as she began to walk up towards the hill in front,
"I wonder what that spirit had meant when he said I had made a wrong assumption"
Before any pony could answer her question they began to hear neighing from across the endless fields as a strong vibration began to come near the group.
"Stampede" yelled out Applejack as a group of creatures could be seen coming in their direction. As the ponies jumped out of the way Celestia could only stare at the horror they had just witnessed. As the dust began to die down what the ponies would soon also learn that what had just ran through them were nothing more but strange equine creatures called wild horses as they endlessly continued to run across the open plains beyond.
"CELESTIA, what are those? Are those Ponies?" Twilight quickly responded as Celestia could only stare as a strange feeling was felt in the pit of her stomach.
"No Twilght what we have just encountered is one of our ancestors" eclaimed Celestia as the ponies had thier mouth wide open.
"Ancestors? You can' be serious we look nothing like them." Rarity reacted as she fell back into the hooves of Fluttershy pretendingly fainting.
"In old pony folklore, Equestrian was once under the service of Humans as we would both come to bond and share the emotions of a animal and owner. However what my father once told me and unto Luna as that humans would also come to abuse the Horses upon centuries tainting that love which led my father to cutting ties with the humans banning them from ever entering our realm. However we stand before our most oldest connection of what ponies once were as creatures existing in a another universe but what questions me is why are they all free?"
"With all due respect Princess but how can we be related to such ugly creatures?" Twilight asked expecting a mean answer but was met with a small whimper from her highness.
"I still do no know, even after my father had outlived his lifetime I would never come to also understand that." Celestia finally stopped staring at the horses from the distance turning to Rainbow Dash.
"Dear Rainbow please could you fly above and see if there is any opening to exit these plains"
"TOTALLY on it" Smiled RD as she quickly ascended and rapidly flew across the sky but strangely fell down as she smashed her head across an invisible wall in the sky.
"RAINBOW!!!" Pinkie Pie quickly sprinted as the falling figure continued it's descent. As the others followed suite.
"OW, oW,oww" held her head RD as she could only see Turtles orbiting her head.
"Son of a--" Before she could mutter that last curse. A strange boy sat across from her as he had his arms buried between his legs.
"Rainbow are you okay!" Fluttershy interrupted as the others galloped from behind but as she turned to where RD sat staring she felt a hundred shivers of ice crawl up her back as the others did the same. Celestia turned back to the commotion as she lastily reached up to the group and quickly placed herself into a battle pace charging up her charge to kill, but a voice was heard from above.
(Imagine Morgan Freeman)
"Do not be afraid little ponies he means no harm to those around him" boomed the voice above.
"He is merely a lost child buried behind the forgiving wasteland of a plain waiting, waiting for when he can get up"
"Waiting for what" Snapped Celestia. "I have had enough of you humans invading the peacefulness of my world and even if this boy is as innocent as you say he is, he is still a human and I will not..."
"SILENCE!!!!" the ponies began to huddle as Celestia continued to charge her horn.
"That is where you are wrong!"
Than as if a imaginary cloud began to beam overhead strange pictures began to burn within the cloud almost serving as a projection of the said memories that the ponies would view.
"Luke Ashford the son of both Lucia and Charles Ashford was born in 1969. He was the son of two normal classed farmers that established a horse farm in in '73 and as a child has lived what others would consider a happy normal childhood"
A picture of a house was shown above the clouds as a small boy was running across the open fields of his family farm as they were shown being one of the first British entrepreneurs that had traveled to Africa to reap across the new farm-able lands made.
"Although happyness sometimes comes to an end. In 1977 A band of armed rebels of the northern provinces had raided his family in the middle of the night as the hired ranch hands would become one of the first of murders that had died that night."
A picture of a man was sitting on his laps as a bullet tore across the piles of bodies of both men and women.
"He sadly had to witness these murders as a child and the deaths of his loved ones."
A house was burning throughout the memory of his old home.
"He was then forced into a child soldiers life in the beginning forced to fight to stay alive among st the ranks of other children that had their lives taken away from them."
Countless faces were shown of the children that had participated against their own will into the life of a solider at such a young age committing hundreds of atrocities throughout the pictures.
"Replaced with the mind of a killer, Luke would later express resentment across all the things he had once loved, the idea of friends, a home, and childhood were only in the 'back' of his mind. However one day a PMC came across his camp killing off his captors and the rest of his allies and at the end he would come to meet his father"
A charred battlefield was shown as a shaking white boy with fear spelled within his eyes coming face to face with the devils right hand... Wesker.
"A man by the name of Albert Wesker had led a counter strike under the order of the Provincial government that had payed for the many secrets that the Umbrella corporation had conducted on the many 'experiments' they had captured among st the population. Luke would be given false hope of seeing his deceased 'family' before being shoved into the surgery table underneath the Umbrella Plant."
A scream was heard from beneath the ground as the crying image of the boy began to glow bright bloodshot eyes as 'Wesker' inserted the first sample of the newly researched Progenitor syrum. The effects beginning to merge with the DNA at a successful rate.
"Luke was one of the 500 cases that had miraculously merged with the Progenitor virus, he was given enhanced sight, more strength and his success rates higher than any other Spetnatz agent deployed under the payroll. However at a price he had lost his sense of morality and his abilty to remember as Umbrella would also plant the first seeds of his sad life playing as the Toy for Umbrella to send out on thier more top secret missions."
Countless missions were being seen conducted and every time succeeding with little to now flaw. HUNK rising to the top earning the name of Mr. Death. From joining the first raid on competition infiltration to the infamous Raccoon City purge that occurred. With every mission he had succeeded he was becoming less human every time he was being controlled personally under his handler Wesker.
"What you see his his only memories he had preserved within his mind locked away by the suppressed vaccinations Umbrella had clogged him with. However it was the sight of innocent that had finally broken him."
"What was it?" Celestia calmly asked
"You"
"Why Me?"
"He had a deep love for horses, he had grown up caring to the needs of the majestic species he had come to admire for the elegance of their beauty and freedom to run wherever they choose to run to."
A current scene was shown how HUNK saved the CMC from being down from the Timber wolves as he sacrificed himself to save them from harm. The Ponies began to water there eyes at the strange armor clad human saving their little ones and in particularly Applejack holding back tears.
"He was given direct order to eliminate those who had seen his face"
HUNK was shown in the cave brandishing his gun as he walked to the bundle of ponies that restlessly slept throughout the night.
"However... he let them live."
"I look scary dont I with this mask" HUNK raised it in his hand as the CMC still back helplessly against the wall. "Look please don't be scared I am a good guy do you see" he put away the gun. "I'm sorry i scar you look my name is Luke.."
The clouds began to evaporate as the clouds began forming dark colors indicating a downpour. As the ponies could not feel the rain they saw the boy still sitting in the fields almost as if weeping.
"Man cannot come to terms alone as God had made man to overpower all of his animals, however man must also come to love and embrace them and in all their glory"
A quite horse slowly walked its way towards the boy as it finally stopped in front of him. The boy looked up and was startled at the horses face but the horse could only stare as it blinked. Luke would a finger down his crest above it's head as the horse neighed at his touch. He then hugged the horse as if it were his only friend and with a smile said
"Epona, I love you."
"Show him what is love and he will come to show that love for you too Celestia. Never judge a book by it's cover and let it happen, for both the sake of Luke and his promise to Leia"
"Who is Leia" softly asked Celestia
"His sister is still alive and he has no memory of her.
The the light was gone as the ponies lastly past out, they would then wake up in the throne room to find HUNK staring at the stained window pain as he could only mutter the simple name
"Epona?"
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