"Question twenty five," Twilight said flipping through her notebook, "How long is your species' lifespan?"
"In England, where I was a few weeks ago, the average lifespan is about... Err, 78, but I might be a few years off, and around the rest of the world? I cannot remember!" I finished, answering her one hundredth question.
"Now onto twenty six, only nine more after this, so how do your species reproduce?" That was the last straw, I could not answer that, even though there were weirder ones,
"Twilight, there is no way that I am going to answer that!" I said, trying not to sound too harsh.
"But why?" Twilight moaned, "It's for science!"
"I know, it's… err… how, its… can please can we move on, maybe Rainbow Dash wants to ask some questions now?" I said, turning to the rainbow Pegasus who looks like she has been watching a blank screen for too long.
"finally!" she groaned, walking besides me, "Soo, Zach, dose your planet have anything that can fly?" She asked, stretching her wings,
"Yes, we have birds, but no dragons. Humans also invented machines that can fly. One of them even reached a speed of over 13,000 MPH before crashing into the ocean!" I replied, snickering at the ponies' low jaws.

Rainbow Dash shook her head, and looked me strait in the eyes, her eyes seemed irked and confused.
"Are you sure? Or are you just trying to make your planet sound more impressive?" She said, not sounding as calm as usual.
"No I am sure, and most commercial air rafts can reach an altitude of 35,000 feet." I continued, seeing how much Rainbow could take, but it looked like she had reached her limit,
"Twilight," she yelled, waving her hooves in the air, "please tell me that the samurai is lying!"
"Samurai?" I asked, not expecting an answer.
"Sorry Rainbow Dash, Zachary is telling the truth." She answered flatly,
"How do you know?" Rainbow replied
"I know, because I secretly put an 'lie detector' enchantment on him when he first entered the library so we could see if he was to be trusted, which he has done more than enough to prove it, sorry Zachary. And yes, Samurai, it is one of your many nicknames, I actually have a list here if you want to see it!" She answered cheerfully, giving me her notebook.

I looked down the page, seeing some odd names here and there;
Alien warrior/ Samurai/ warlord/ saver
The great destroyer/ devourer/ slayer of gods
The god of war/ blood/ death
Hero
Hairless, overdressed, ape
Ninja of gold/ blood/ death/ the blade
Bringer of death/ carnage/ blades/ conquer
A beast?
A blood thirsty animal?
'Hang on there'
Death incarnate
The apocalypse?
Equestria's downfall?
The punisher
The man of iron and gold (not that bad)
'Thats it!'
"Twilight" I said sternly, "what the hell are these?" I finished, giving her back the notebook. Twilight looked at the last the last ten or so names, her face looked irked,
"Oh, right," she said flatly, "these where from Manehatten, the Canterlot nobels, and a few more from Prince Blooblood" she finished, her, and rarity's face wore a sour expression.
"I say darling, you, Luna, Cadence, and nearly Twilight's brother, almost died to save Equestria, and other nations! and they treat you like some alie- I mean wild animal, or dirt!" Rarity yelled, hitting her hoof against the polished floor of the hospital.
"Wait, what happened to Twilights brother, Shining Armor?" I asked, seeing the lavender unicorns face of sadness.
"I can answer that!" Said a brown unicorn stallion, entering the ward, "he lost half his hind, left leg, lost four liters of blood, broke his spinal cord in two places, both near the pelvis, fractured his skull, chipped his horn, and a few teeth. And from what I heard from him, he said Theia decided to have some fun, and hit him with the flat of his larger sword, in the groin!" he finished, trying to still sound like a mixture of professionalism and insanity, with a hint of Irish.

Twilight's eyes started to well, as she heard of the injuries to her beloved brother, who lost his leg, his job, and nearly his own, and wive's life.

Theia walked down the streets of the Crystal Empire, eagerly anticipating that bloody flag to be torn from its post, and replaced with the bodies of its rulers to make sure there are no rebellions from the other nations that wanted him dead. As he walked past another street block, another horde of earth pony guards, with pointy sticks approached him,
"Stop! You have violated over seventy rules of the Crystal Empire!" Said the guard with purple tinted armour, "drop your weapons and we will go eas-gggaaarrr!" He was cut off as his throat was crushed like paper, and a thick blade dug through his intestines, like it was air.

The other pony guards where lifted in the orange and crimson aura, and with a smirk of Theia's twisted lips, the steel armour melted, the manes, tails, and flesh of guards' burst onto an array of orange flames, like Calcium to water, their screams like sweet nectar to Theia. And as the flames died down, and the scorched skeletons of the guards' set in mounds of metal, Theia continued is stroll down his burning hell, that he called 'memory lane.'

"Where exactly is he now?" I asked the doctor, he looked at the clipboard in his blue aura,
"He should be getting a replacment leg in the theatre, but I am not sure." He replied, flipping though the pages, "And by now, the princess of the night should be awake, but medical magic is hard to decifer." He finished, using his telekinesis to move the curtain slightly to the left.

What was beyond the curtain was a sight, with no way to explain in the form of text or words. On the bed, was the not-so-regal, and shattered body of Princess Luna, but most of her body, and her head, where in a thick cast, two inch of her horn was surgically attached to the rest of the bone with metal bars, her left eye, muzzle, and half her torso where all the you could see, and running down her shaved torso, was a humongous gash, held tight with stitches, stretching from shoulder blade, to rump. A thick tube from a machine, went through her mouth, exposing many of the teeth that were missing, showing off her blood-drenched gums. Her right hind leg, was held up in the air, pools of the crimson life fluid, coated the cast.

Everypony, and me, in the room looked mortified, no word to explain their faces, but a mixture of sorrow, horror, shock, and depression,
"She looks absolutly dreadfull" Rarity said, quietly, her tears welling up,
"At least you weren't there, and saw her reaction to Cad- wait how is Cadence? I forgot about her after I was nearly drowned by Theia's B+ blood, at least, that's how it tasted." I finished, seeing the Doctor's smirk.
"Well, she is fine and awake, you want to see her?" He said, already pulling the mint curtain, exposing the princess of love to me, and the mane six.

Cadence looked perfectly well, apart from the raised leg, with a cast around it, and the bandage around her chest. Beside her, on the bed-side table, was a pile of books, and a white card, with the insignia of a dark purple shield, with a lighter, almost pink, purple star cresting the centre of the shield. She was awake, but her bloodshot eyes, and her cheeks, where soaked with tears, and sorrow, and she was staring blankly at the ceiling.

Cadence sat on her crystal throne, even though she wanted to help her people with her husband. The argument still ringing through her head.

"Please, this is my kingdom as well!" Cadence pleaded to her beloved husband,
"No, it is too dangerous, he will kill you!" the armored unicorn replied, trying walking towards his wife, his spear held tightly in his purple aura.
"But he will kill you too, and, and pl-please, I want to help, and he-he has-
"Cadence, I know I might die out there, but you know what? I will die for you!" He finished, brining his alicorn wife into a passionate kiss.
"Goodbye, sweet prince," Cadence whispered, as the last trace of his husband left the throne room, her cheeks drenched with tears.
A loud *thump* irrupted the love princess from her dazed state, knowing she had to hide, she galloped towards the nearest curtain.
*thump*
"AND THIS!" yelled a deep, muffled roar, another, but less load *thump* echoed through the not-so-crystal chamber, as blood trailed underneath the door, and obsidian arteries spiraled into the room, breaking the door hinges, and a red and white blob flung into the room.
"SHINING!" Cadence cried, running to her bleeding-out husband, her face like a phantom's as she saw Shining Armor's bleeding stump
"Oh poor shining, whatever will you do now, without your GUARDS, AND YOUR HUSBAND!?!" Theia yelled, baring his dragon fangs, his red and orange aura coating his body, a blood-soaked leg in his magic
"Cadence... Run *wheese* J-just... run." Shining wheezed, as his head slumped to the floor, his breaths becoming ragged.

Cadence complied, and galloped to her throne, which is now entwined obsidian veins of corruption, and with her little magic that was left, she jerked the amethyst from the throne, the seat of the throne opening, reveling a tunnel. Cadence looked back one more glance at her dying husband, then the god that tore his leg off.
"You have a ten second head start, run little pig!" The Thestral-Alicorn said, trotting towards the throne.
"1"
"2"
'escape, and leave Shining, or fight, and die?'
"3"
"4"
'Escape?'
"5, why are you not RUNNING!"
’Fight!'
"6"
"7"
"Eig- AAARRRRRRR, MY EYES! YOU BITCH! Theia screamed, rubbing his eyes in responce of the flare Cadence shot. ’fight' Cadence's horn glowed a bright blue, two machetes, made of pure, cyan magic.
"NINE TEN! NOW DIE!" He jerked his head up, a pillar of obsidian submerging out of the ground, engulfing Cadence, and hurling her through the ceiling. Theia smirked, as he summoned jagged, spiral steps out of the pillar, and as he walked up, the muffled voices of guards could be heard through the door,
"I will NOT let the guards interfere with my fun THIS TIME!" he yelled, obsidian spikes jutting out of the ground, blocking the doors of the throne room, as Theia continued his ascend.

Cadence was spitting blood, as she crawled towards the balcony, all the feeling in her lower torso left her.
"Your suppose to crawl back to me, SO I CAN CRUSH YOUR SKULL!" Theia laughed, grabbing Cadences numb, and bleeding leg with his magic, tossing her onto the banister. As he dragged Cadenza towards him, the pink alicorn saw a black spec flying through the broken, orange forcefield,
'mother' Cadence thought, as the world slipped away from her, and she slumped into unconsciousness.

"Cadence?" Twilight said, softly, putting her lavender hoof, against the soft, light salmon-pink fur of her princess foal-sitter. Cadence instantly snapped out of her trance, and jerked her head towards Twilight, and she slowly turned her head to the rest of us,
"Twilight!"She exclaimed, wrapping her fore hooves around the unicorn, showing that her right hoof was in a cast, and several small scar-lines. Finally, our eyes met, and her crooked smile, with a light scar running through it, widened, "Thank you, you saved my life, Luna's, my love's, my people, and Equestria, I cannot express my gratitude in any way, Mr. Er... Ur-"
"Zachary, Zachary Anderson" I replied, cutting her off,
"Thank you, Zachary" she said, softly.

"Oh, where is Shining?!" Cadence blurted, franticly looking in other directions for her beloved crippled husband.
"Do not worry, princess, your husband will technically be back on all three soon." The doctor jokingly reassuring the pink alicorn.
"Wait? What do you mean!?"
"Do not worry, he is fine, and in surgery." The doctor replied, heading out of the ward.

"Hay princess?" I asked, "I have a question; when you got knocked out, why did Luna call you her 'daughter'? Wouldn't she be on the moon at that time?" I finished, everypony in the ward gawping, even Cadenza, though her expression also contained some nervous facial expression.
"I can answer that one," said a regal voice, as a white alicorn walked through the curtains,
"Princess Celesta!" Cadence and Twilight said in union,
"Yes, my little ponies, and to answer your question, Zachary, when an alicorn wishes to bare a normal foal, she must mate, but to bare an alicorn, she must make it out of magic!"
"But princess, wouldn't princess Luna still be on the moon?" Twilight asked,
"Yes, but an alicorn dose not bare an alicorn in her womb, but a cocoon, and depending on how strong you are, but at that time, when Luna, and I where nearly five hundred years old, it would take almost a thousand years, nine hundred and eighty to be exact!" The solar monarch finished, chuckling slightly at everypony's faces.
"I-it, it is true, I, I am *cough* I'm Princess Mi Amore Cadenza's mother." Wheezed a weak and tired, but regal voice, coming from the bed to my left.

Everypony looked at the battered princess of the night, unaware of her consciousness,
"And I am glad that she is awake, and thank you, Zachary for slaying my brother, he *cough* he deserves Tartarus, and everything he ge-"
"Celestia!" Moaned a rarther stuck-up voice, "Haven't you already sent that space chimp back to the zoo yet?" He continued, entering the ward.
"Blueblood!" Cadence yelled, trying to lift her hooves up at the alabaster prince
"Hay, who are you to talk to me, after I saved your flank!" I replied to Blueblood's remark,
"Me! I am prince Blueblood, nephew of princess Celestia, I can banish you in a-
"Blueblood!' Celestia barked, glaring daggers at the Prince, "how dare you act like that, and even worse, the saver of Equestria, and in front of me! I have lost almost all my family in the past month. Now please go and leave us in peace." She finished looming over Blueblood, who now has no longer a smirk on his face, but a horrified gawp.
"But auntie, it is extremely ghastly, just look at his muzzle!" Blueblood, rudely, replied. My right eye, which nothing looked hazey with, twitched,
"Listen here you little twat!" I hissed, trying to sit up,
"Auntie! Protect me!" Blueblood yelled, hiding behind a heavily sighing Celestia.
"Oh god, my back!" I yelled, slumping onto the hospital bed,
"Yes, take that you uncouth brute! Isn't that right everypony? What is it? PAY ATTENTION TO ME, SIMPLETONS, I AM YOUR PRINCE! Everypony?" Blueblood finished, looking at Celestia, who looked like she was just impaled.
"Princess?" Twilight asked, concerned, trotting towards her mentor.

"MUM!" Cadence screamed, the attention directed towards princess Luna, who was clutching her chest with her one free hoof and foam formed in her mouth
"Princess!" yelled a royal guard, galloping into the solar monarch, "Are you alright, we have urgent news from the Crystal Empire!" He said keeping the slightly shrinking princess standing, her mane now short, and light salmon pink.
"Wha- Ggghhhh what is the problem, commander!" Celestia moaned, gritting her teeth,
"There are heavy riots in the Crystal Empire." The guard answered, still holding the younger-looking princess in his hooves,
"But the empi- Nnngg the empire hast been evacuated!" Luna said, looking how she did when the elements redeemed her,
"I know princess, the riots are from the dead!"

Author's Note

This one took ages to plan, but I hope you like the flashbacks! That, and I went on a steam train, got chased by a dog that looked like it had rabies, and just couldn't be asked to do it

EDIT: I also had to take this down to rewrite many parts of it.

-Lightning