The Wastelands

I opened my eyes. Once again, an attack was over. Once again, I proved to be smart enough to survive. I looked at the corpse of the dead pony in front of me. The shadow ponies were the same as anypony, but their hightech equipment allowed them to surprise the Equestrian army... And capture Equestria. It is ridiculous to be even speaking of the name Equestria now, for it does not exist anymore..

I walked up to the black pony and pulled off its suit to see if he had anything useful with him. After finding nothing, I threw its suit away. Apperantly he was just a scout. They have become too careless. They've sent their scouts to die. Although, they wouldn't have know that until they've found the bodies. I looked at the unlucky pony next to him. I didn't mean to shoot a fellow survivor. I approached to pony carefully and took her backpack off. I noticed her cutiemark. It was a teapot. Making tea is nothing useful in this world, because right now, you have to be smart or strong. If you are both you have better chances to survive than the rest. I am quite smart. I learn things quickly, such as how to aim at ponies and how to shoot carefully. As well as showing no mercy to ponies because you can't take the risk of betrayal now.

I still remember when I could trust ponies. But a year after the attack, the place once called "Equestria", fell apart. Ponies started to kill each other, of course they had good reasons to kill! We need recourses to survive. Water for example. Or the guns of the shadow ponies to defend ourselves. No, I don't have any disease. I only kill ponies because I need their resources. There is a reason for every death. Killing without reason is needless.

I took the saddlebag off the pony. Some blood dripped off of it. I was scared of blood before all of this happened. Heh, it is funny how ponies change so quickly. How did they call it again? Something like the toughest surive I guess? To make clear, I, Tiger, am totally not the strongest. I was bullied when school still existed for my weaknesses. I was bullied for not making friends, so I blame myself for it. Also, I didn't care about flying at school. I can fly, but I don't like to. It just feels like I am better than every earth pony or unicorn if I am flying. But since the attack, I have been flying a lot. You need your abilities in this new country. This country - whatever those shadow ponies called it.

While I was deep in thought somepony behind me placed a gun against my head. Swiftly I turned around and knocked the gun out of the hoof of the pony.

"I'm sorry I thought you were one of them, as you are wearing one of their suits."

I looked at the grey unicorn in front of me. Her cutie mark looked like a black mask.

"What is your talent? I can't figure it out by your cutie mark," she said.

"It once was music making and I guess my star stands for my love of astronomy."

"My talent is invisibility."

"Well that makes me trust you even less," I said with a laugh.

"Your talent seems trustworthy though."

"Well I don't trust anypony but I don't see any reason to hurt you since you could've already hurt me a long time ago."

"I know but I don't like hurting anypony."

"How did you survive this long without hurting anypony?"

"Well I hid in a forest, but since the resources were running out, I had to leave."

"That's quite clever, weird that I didn't even think about it."

"There are timberwolves and other creatures there."

"Hmm, I've hurt enough ponies to know that I can survive that."

I showed her my gun and knife. Also the huge supply of food I had. And the little bit of water I still had left. I was ready to stab her or shoot her at anytime if she decided that she needed my supplies.

"So what is your name?" She asked.

"Tiger."

"Mine is Parallel."

"Interesting name, never heard something like it."

"Yeah everyone used to say that."

"So I guess we are friends since we didn't kill each other?" She asked.

"Not friends yet, companions."

"Seems fair to me."

"Follow me I'll take you to my shelter."

"Okay," she replied.