Chapter 2- A Weird Wake Up Call

*Kyoto - Meiji Restoration*

(Start Song : Bad Company by Five finger death punch)

Kenshin was running with his sword drawn and at the ready in the dead of night. As he ran down the streets of Kyoto which were bathed in red with blood, over half of the city was engulfed in flames which lit up the entire night sky with an orange and red hue. Kenshin could hear the screams and battle cries of all of the warriors in the city along with the ringing of swords and occasional gunshot off in the distance. The red headed swordsman was tense and on edged from the battle that was raging on, his sword dripping blood from his previous encounters with the enemy a few minutes before.

As Kenshin ran down an alley way, he saw a squad of ten shinsengumi soldiers. Eight of them enlisted and two of them clearly officers, Lieutenants by the looks of it. He dashed towards them without stopping or pausing for an instant without giving his presence away. By the time they realized they weren’t alone, Kenshin already launched himself at the two lieutenants and slashed straight through both of their throats sending a mist of crimson red blood spraying through the air causing the other shinsengumi to panic at the sight of both of their leaders deaths. Kenshin did not hesitate for a second as he moved on to his next opponent. He carved through the next enemy’s stomach before he could even react.

“STOP, IN THE NAME OF THE SHINSENGUMI!” screamed one of the soldiers as he charged Kenshin at full speed, taking a swing at Kenshin’s neck, trying to take his head off only to be blocked by Kenshin’s sword. As Kenshin blocked the attack he slammed his elbow into his attacker’s face then stabbed the stabbed him center of mass and twisting the blade of his katana, severing his opponents spine which caused a sickening crack to be heard. As he slid the blade of his katana out of the now dead soldier, he saw the remaining six all charge at him while screaming battle cries.

Kenshin leaped over all six of them, as he landed behind them in a crouching position he launched himself at the shinsengumi who was now standing in front of him, stabbing him in the back and ending his life. As the other shinsengumi turned around, Kenshin slashed his next opponent straight down the middle from his head down to his stomach. The other swordsman looked to the assassin that was now drenched in his victims blood. Two of the four remaining swordsman lunged at Kenshin as he was sheathing his sword. One attacked high while the other attacked low, Kenshin jumped between both sword strikes and rolled into one-knee kneeling position behind them as he drew his sword at lightning and slashing them both deeply across their backs, slicing their lungs open.

As they both collapse in bloody heaps on the ground Kenshin turns around and slowly walks toward the last two shinsengumi who were quivering in fear to the point that they were barely able to hold onto their swords.

“P-p-please s-spare us. W-we surrender!” said one of the trembling warriors with tears in his eyes. While Kenshin continued slowly walking towards the two remaining shinsengumi silently.

“I CAN’T DIE HERE!!! AHHH!!!” Screamed the other soldier as he charged Kenshin in panic and desperation. Kenshin simply ducked under his slash and stabbed his katana straight through the shinsengumi’s skull, the blade entering from under the chin and exiting through the top of the skull. As Kenshin removed the blade from the soldier now turned corpse. He turned to the last shinsengumi who fell backwards in shock from the ruthless massacre that he just witnessed at the hands of the red headed assassin that stood infront of him, staring at him with cold and empty eyes.

“WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!!!, I SAID WE GIVE U-GAHH!!!” screamed the last soldier in panic and desperation as his sentence was cut short along with his life by Kenshin’s blade as he slashed him across the chest so deep that it slashed his aorta in two, causing a fountain of blood to spurt out of the dying shinsengumi’s chest. Kenshin just looked at the dying man as he was gripping at the dirt from both the pain and the convulsions that were being caused from both the strike and the blood loss. Kenshin knew that there was no way that this man was going to survive, so he decided that it would be more merciful to end his suffering. Kenshin walked up to the dying man and raised his blade his blade ready to end the man’s suffering until he saw the dying man’s eyes which were pleading with Kenshin to not kill him, causing him to pause….for a second.

*SHINK*

That was the only sound that was heard as Kenshin slid the blade between the man’s eyes and piercing his brain thus ending his suffering along with his life. Kenshin slid the blade out of the man’s skull and slung the blood off of his katana right before he sheathed his sword.

(End Song)

As Kenshin was about to take off to find more enemies in the city he noticed that everything was dead quiet. No screams, no battle cries, no sounds of swords clashing. Just…. Nothing.

“Maybe the battle is over… But no, that can’t be right; I would have heard cheering of victory or something… Something’s not right.” Kenshin thought to himself as he began to walk. Only to notice that his footsteps did not make a sound, normally this wouldn't mean a thing to Kenshin, he was an assassin after all which required him to be quiet and stealthy most of the time. But what caused him to find this disturbing is that when he took a step his foot landed on an old piece of wood on the ground which caused it to snap in half. But yet it made no sound at all. Kenshin began to wonder what was going on until he heard something behind him. As he turned around quickly he saw the corpse of the man that he just killed start to stand up.

“Murderer.” It said in a low raspy voice as it was now standing up and slowly walking towards Kenshin.

Kenshin slashed the walking corpse with his drawing strike only to see it did nothing. As he went wide eyed at what he was witnessing, he was snapped out of his state of shock by the sound of movement. As he turned around to see what was behind him, his blood ran cold to see the corpses of the nine other shinsengumi begin to shuffle towards him. As Kenshin tried to fight off the oncoming corpses he came to another horrifying realization, he couldn’t move a single muscle no matter how hard he tried, he was completely defenseless.

“Murderer…..Murderer…..Murderer.” Was all the corpses said as they continued to shuffle towards Kenshin. As they encircled him, the corpse of the shinsengumi that begged for his life limped up to Kenshin with his in one hand.

“You can’t escape what you are Battōsai.” It said as it raised its sword above its head ready to end the red head’s life.

“You are nothing….but…..a….MURDERER!” The corpse bellowed as it brought its sword down on the now defenseless and immobile Kenshin. As Kenshin saw the blade come down on him everything went black.

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*Ponyville Hospital – Present Time*

Kenshin’s eyes shot open as he woke up in a cold sweat.

”*HUFF*…*HUFF*…..*HUFF*…Just…a nightmare.” Kenshin said as he shot up in his bed, immediately regretting it. Kenshin felt a huge surge of pain course through his body as he tried to sit up in bed.

“I feel like I just went ten rounds with Saito.” Kenshin grunted in pain.

As Kenshin managed to sit up, he realized that he wasn’t in the forest anymore. Kenshin turned his gaze to see a strange machine that kept making a beeping sound that had long thick cords that were stuck to his chest and weird little thing that was gently clamping on to his index finger and was connected to said machine.

“What is this? Better yet, where am I?” Kenshin said as he looked around the white room that was filled with weird devices that he has never seen in his life. Kenshin looked at his body to see that his clothes were gone and all he was covered in were bandages.

“I can barely move, I have no I idea where I’m even at, and I don’t even have my sword. This cannot get any worse.” The bedridden swordsman thought to himself as he closed his eyes to rest them for a few seconds. As Kenshin opened his eyes, he could feel only one thing and one thing only at what he saw. Terror, nothing but pure terror, far worse than what he could ever fathom, far worse than what he experienced during his days as an assassin.

Lying on his chest was what appeared to be a strange looking pink woman with beautiful light blue eyes with wild and pink poofy hair that looked like it has never seen a comb in her entire life. What caught him off guard the most was the girls feature, her ears were pointy and on the top of her head and they would flick every now and then. Her pink skin turned out to be a pink coat of fur that covered her entire body, and her face appeared to resemble that of a horse’s muzzle, along with that, instead of feet she had hoofs. Overall she resembled some type of horse like woman. She was nose to nose, or in this case muzzle to nose with Kenshin, and she had a grin that went from ear to ear.

“Hi I’m Pinkie Pie, what’s your name, do you wanna be friends, what’s your favorite type of cupcake, ooh do you like cupcakes, how did you take on all those manticores you were like nobody messes with my friends and they were like roar I’m gonna eat you and then you were like pow pow slash and snickety slice and then you had the blue glowy thingy and beat them all Mr. Red Swordsman!”

“Apparently it can.” Kenshin thought to himself.

To Kenshin’s horror and amazement she said all of this in one single breath without pause or stopping for air, and she said it so fast that he could not understand half of what she even said. As Kenshin was awe struck at what he just witnessed, the pink mare asked one last question that sent him over the edge.

“Oh oh oh do you like parties!?” she said as she pressed her face closer to his pinning him against the backrest of the bed.

”AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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*Ponyville Hospital, Outside Kenshin’s Room – Present Time*

“I have never seen anything like it, this is an entire new species just waiting to be documented and studied! Just think, we will be the first to make contact with this new intelligent species that has just appeared in Equestria for the first time in Equestrian his. Just think of what he could teach us.” Twilight squeeled.

“What makes you think he’s intelligent, Twi?” Rainbow laughed

“From the little that he spoke I could tell that he is able to speak and form full sentences.” Twilight said as she shot a glare towards Rainbow.

“He’s mighty strong and fast for someone so scrawny, if ya ask me.” Applejack stated while adjusting the hat on her head.

“Pff, not as fast as me, I’m not impressed.” Rainbow Dash scoffed

“Say’s the mare that got a wing boner jus’ from watchin him fight.” Applejack said with a sarcastic smile.

“….”

“That’s what I thought.” Applejack said with a triumphant smile.

“He’s very kind and sweet and he did save us.” Fluttershy said in soft tone while her face grew a slight shade of red.

“The power it has is amazing; it looked like he’s well trained in the use of swords, definitely not any style that the royal guard uses, that’s for sure.” Twilight said with her hand on her chin while lost in thought.

“He certainly is dashing, but his fashion sense is simply HORRID! Did you see the rags he was wearing!?” Rarity cried with her hand on her forehead for dramatic effect.

“I’ve seen that style of clothing before in a history book before. I think it’s called a kimono, an eastern style of clothing from Neighpon, and his sword looked like that of a katana.” Twilight stated in a matter of fact tone.

“I think he might be a samurai, they haven’t been seen for thousands of years! A new species and an ancient warrior race all in one day! Oh I can’t wait to find out what he knows!” Twilight squealed while jumping up and down in place while clapping her hands.

“Darling you should take it easy on the poor stallion, he hasn’t even woken up yet and the doctors said that he was lucky to be alive. Also, what in Equestria is a samurai?” The white fashionista asked the lavender mare with curiosity.

“Samurai are an ancient type of warrior from neighpon, very similar to the knight. Their sword skills are said to be so legendary that a single samurai could take on whole entire battalion of the most elite royal guards. They followed a code of honor known as Bushido.”

“What’s that?” Rainbow Dash interrupted the lavender mare.

“It means Way of the Warrior which basically conducted everything from how they fought on the battle field to how they lived their everyday lives even to how they died. It’s sort of like how a knight follows a code of chivalry.” Twilight stated which caused Rarity’s eyes to light up with wonder and delight at hearing this.

“Are you saying that he’s some manner of knight and is possibly of nobility?” Rarity squealed.

“Yes actually, most samurai were of nobility.” Twilight answered.

“Oh finally, my knight in shining armor has arrived!” The white mare said with joy.

“Oh great, another Blue Blood.” Rainbow Dash scoffed.

“Actually Dash your wrong, most samurai had no problem with getting down and dirty when the situation called for it. When they weren’t fighting they spent their free time honing their skills with intense physical training and martial arts, but at the same time they made sure to stay well educated. They skills were in such high demand that they were often used as elite bodyguards for royalty and Elite infantry for militaries. A good example is his sword, while the royal guards swords are made mainly for intimidation and show, his is made for constant use and durability and its design allows him to have a much wider and almost infinite variety of techniques at his disposal.” Twilight informed.

“What happened to them?” Fluttershy asked in soft tone that was barely audible.

“Nobody really knows, they just up and vanished. From the look of him, I think he’s a Ronin.” Twilight replied.

“What’s that?” The cream colored mare asked.

“A Ronin is a master less samurai who has no one to serve; he’s basically a wandering swordsman-for-hire.”

“So he’s a bum.” The cyan Pegasus stated with a deadpan look.

“Rainbow! You shouldn’t say things like that!” Fluttershy said softly while hiding her behind her pink mane while nervously moving in her seat.

“Hey it’s been awefully quiet, has anyone seen Pinkie Pie?” Applejack asked with concern in her voice. But before anyone could respond to her question, it was answered with an ear shattering scream.

”AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Author's Note

Sorry for the short chapter everyone, I'm going to try to make most chapters at least 4000 words long. Anyway, I have already decided on which other Rurouni Kenshin character will be joining Kenshin, and I have decided to keep it a secret for now, unless of course any of you answer a simple question to which I will PM the answer to you.

Also I am making a new story soon which will be called "Death's Apprentice", which will be a crossover. The main character will be a former apprentice to a famous assassin. if you can figure out who the assassin is then I will PM to you who will be joining Kenshin, but only to the first 3 who get it. Here are the hints

Terminator, DC

Those are your hints, Happy Thanks Giving everyone, sorry for taking so long.