The Story of Mr Allan in Equestria

Edge of Equestria,

The Wall of the Badlands,

Guard unit six,

Five Minutes Before Impact...

The troops stood guard on the forty meter high wall, as they did every shift, a storm was growing around the Badlands border about half a mile into the distance. The Captain continued to check the Catapults for any faults while his group of fifteen troops, specially assigned for their positions, waited for the next orders to exit the Captain's mouth. A special unit was sent by Princess Celestia to Inspect the defense system along the wall and he was almost to them. The Captain finished his last checks on the Catapults turned to his troops.

"Alright you lot, this Inspection is being coordinated by Princess Celestia herself. It's been a while since she's even contacted us with anything important like an inspection so we must follow standard procedures, this may include launching some test Catapult shots to show how they work. Stand at attention, answer when spoken to, and you may just keep your jobs as members of the guard force. Here he comes now."

The Captain turned to the Inspector, who just so happened to be ShadowMere. All the troops stood at attention as he walked up to the Captain. "Are you the inspector?"

ShadowMere gave a proud look "Yes, I was sent by Princess Celestia to inspect the defense's along the Badlands border."

The Captain gave a sly grin "Well I'm sure you'll be pleased with the new Catapult mechanism and troop formations along the wall. We'll even do a demonstration if..." the Captain was interrupted as a giant purple flame fell from the sky hitting the land below the storm hard enough to make a large dust cloud.

The Captain hurried to the edge of the wall to examine the situation. "What in Celestia's name was that?!" yelled the Captain.

The Captain gave a quick glance over to ShadowMere and sighed, "Looks like the inspection is going to be a little different than we organised." he turned towards one of his troops "Go down to the barracks and alert a basic scout force to go investigate."

"YES SIR!" The guard began galloping along the wall.

ShadowMere walked up to the edge of the wall and looked at the massive dust cloud "What could possibly create such damage to the landscape?"

He turned to see Allan landing on the side of the wall "Well, do you remember that purple crystal...?"

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Ponyville

Ten minutes before impact...

I opened the door to see the cross-eyed mail mare, "Letter for Allan." She said holding out a letter. I took the letter and thanked her.

I walked into my room realizing what the letter would be about, I opened the letter and it read...

"Dear Allan, this letter is urgent, you must go to the Badlands border as quickly as possible as a large Void Shard has broken through a gap and is planning on destroying the wall. This time is different, if it gets through the wall it will devour the population and let in the monsters of the Badlands through. This can't be aloud to happen, the Shard itself is due to break through orbit soon so prepare yourself, this is gonna be a hard one."

I threw the letter into the letter draw and rushed out my room to see Twilight, "Oh hey Allan, you look rushed."

"Hey Twilight, do you know where the wall at the Badlands border is?" I asked quickly as I possible could.

She gave me a confused look "Y...yeah it's actually just North of here..."

"Thanks." Without another word I flew through the front door and began to fly north to find the Badlands wall.

It didn't take long for it to come into sight but I soon realized I didn't have long to either. I looked up to see a ginormous purple object falling towards the wall. It went faster than I was going cracking a few explosions while in the air leaving behind a trail of smoke. It was too high to make contact with the wall but instead land at the border. It flashed passed the wall and crashed creating a dust cloud equally as high as the wall. I landed onto the battlements of the wall, I saw ShadowMere staring at the dust cloud.

"What could possibly create such damage to the landscape?" He said as he turned and saw me.

"Well, do you remember that purple crystal? Times that by ten, the add a thousand."

He sighed "What are you doing here Allan?" he said in an annoyed tone.

I gave him a cold stare "Take a guess." he gave me an unamused look.

"Well don't worry, leave this to the professionals." He said as he turned to the cloud seeing the scout force approaching it.

I didn't like this "Wait, you need to pull your troops back now!" I said in a panic.

The wall Captain to me "Look we've got things under control kid. We don't need a civilian messing things up. Now get lost."

My ears pinned back as I looked down thinking of what to do. But suddenly....

*Distant Explosions*

We rushed up to the side of the wall to see what was going on.

We heard ground breaking sounds that sounded like hoofsteps as a guard exited the cloud screaming to us. The Captain pulled out a telescope to look closer, I squinted my eye's to see better. The guard appeared to be screaming "CAPTAIN! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! WE'RE UNDER ATTA...!" Suddenly the house sized head of a pony dropped onto the guard eating him whole.

The sight shocked the three of us, ShadowMere looked like he couldn't believe what he was witnessing, the Captain seemed horrified at the sight, while I showed failure on my face. The 'Colossal Void Pony' raised it head at the wall, blood dripping fro it's mouth, it took a step forward into the scout force and towards the wall.

The Captain backed up "We're under attack..." he said quietly "...we're under attack, WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!" He turned towards the Catapults "Get the guards into defensive positions, DON'T LET IT REACH THE WALL!"

I backed up, the situation had gotten far worse than I thought, The Colossal Pony began it's slaughter of the scout force one step at a time, the guards were either crushed or eaten by each the thing. I looked around I couldn't accept the events happening before my eye's. The Catapults started pelting the Goliath with flaming boulders, each hit having no effect.

The Captain was watched in horror as his troops were slaughtered "It's useless. Our weapons are useless against it."

ShadowMere had pulled out a book and was searching for some sort of spell. I saw an Catapult bomb still unused laying on the side of the wall, this might have been my chance to show what I can do. I grabbed the bomb in my hooves and started flying towards the over sized creature as it approached the wall.

I flew around to it's back and dropped the bomb. The impact generated an explosion that created a gap in it's skin which was now clearly made of more tougher material. The gap in it's body was deep enough to just see the Void Shard, I flew to the side of a cliff nearby to get a breather, the Colossus turned it's head slightly to me and stared directly at me, I also stared for a short time, it seemed different to the other Void Pony I encountered this one seemed more, intelligent. But because of this I didn't have time to notice that it was raising it's hoof, upon noticing my eye's widened. No time to move away, no time to call for help, it's hoof slammed me into the cliff with full force. I couldn't move, hay I could barely breath after the impact. I used all my strength to move but as I opened my eye's to see, a giant hoof collided with the cliff sending me into the ground. The pain had been so bad I couldn't feel my back, I looked to see the damage, I had a broken wing and a large bleeding gash along my back. I had no way of escape without making my injuries worse and before I could do anything I felt myself being lifted of the ground. I turned to see the Colossus lifting me up with it's mouth, it threw me into the air and opened it mouth wide as I fell to my doom. It was clear to me now that the Void was not something to challenge, so I waited for the horrible sensation of being eaten alive. But suddenly, the creature was blown back by an explosion from a Catapult bomb. I heard a weird noise and ShadowMere grabbed me in mid-air, I had too many injuries to bother questioning this. I saw his horn glow and in a flash we suddenly appeared back on the wall.

ShadowMere placed me down as I struggled to stand up still so I leaned on the wall. ShadowMere gave me an angry look "What in Celestia's name were you think, were you trying to get killed?!"

I turned to view the Colossal Being get hit by countless bombs "I think I just saved allot more lives than we've lost ShadowMere, I deserve a bloody medal for just surviving that!"

The wall Captain walked up to me "You should be thanking him, if he didn't see the way you fought that thing and devised the plan to save you then you'd probably be dead right now."

I turned back to ShadowMere who seemed to be expecting gratitude "Thanks ShadowMere, if you didn't save me, I'd be dead right now."

ShadowMere smiled and gave me a nudge on the shoulder, I returned the smile and turned to the over sized pony. It's Shard was constantly trying to rebuild the surface damage made to the body. After a bit it fell to the ground with only three hooves and half a head. It's eye focused it's gaze on me, I had become fearful of the creature from that day onward. It screeched into the sky as the material that created it's body began to recede into the Void Shard that made it. A large pulse wave burst out pushing everypony on the wall back, I got back up to see what was going on. It began to start glowing brightly, it got so bright that I could no longer see the Shard. I had to close my eye's and when I opened them again it was gone.

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Top of the wall

One hour after Impact

I sat still as the medic wrapped the bandage around my body to cover up the wounds "Alright, you wings should be better in about a week or so and the wound along your back will need a bit more time, I'd say about, four weeks if you keep the bandages on."

"How many injured are there?" I asked with a lifeless voice.

He gave me a bag of medications and paused "Far more than we get payed for."

After I got my treatment and medications I left the infirmary and went to find ShadowMere. I found him after he was finished talking to the Captain in the armory. "Oh your out of the infirmary, that's good." he said.

"Look Shadow, you can't tell Princess Celestia about what happened here."

He gave me a confused look "Equestria was just attacked for the first time in one thousand years and you don't expect me to tell the Princesses?"

"Do me this one favor please."

ShadowMere started walking towards his carriage and away from me "No, this is my duty and I can't lie to a Princess."

I quickly started to think if something, then I remembered "If you do this for me, I'll get you a date with Rarity."

ShadowMere froze solid and slowly turned around "One date?"

"Yeah."

He sighed and held out his hoof "You've got yourself a deal."

I shook his hoof and he walked towards his carriage "Uh....is there any chance I could get a ride back to Ponyville?"

He got into his carriage and turned to me "Fine get in."

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"Hey thanks for the ride, see ya." I waved bye to ShadowMere as he rode his carriage away.

I walked back to the Library, as I entered Twilight gasped upon seeing me. "What happened to you? Are you okay?" She asked horrified at my current state.

"I'm fine, I've just had a rough day."

She looked at the bandages "How bad is it?"

"Bad enough that you don't want to look under the bandages."

After that Twilight made me a bowl of soup and told me to stay in bed so that the wound would heal. I laid in bed trying to forget that image of the Colossal Void Pony for the rest of the night. But I think it was safe to say that those images weren't going anywhere.