Legends of Equestria: HeroSoul

Somewhere North, present day.

"Sweet mother of Celestia I hate walking." Aeb muttered from somewhere behind me. We had been on a very fast, long march for a while now. Openly I was saying that we had to get to the Edge of the World faster. But at this point I didn't give a ahit, and was just hoping we could find a town, or. Something to stay for a couple days. This was getting harder and harder. And fuck knows we all needed a break. I looked back and saw how far spread out everyone was. The dead were much further ahead, all behind me. Fuck knows why, I needed a great much like everyone else, but had to make it look like I was still in top condition.

"Me too. But we have to get north." I replied, slowly. It was also getting a lot colder but luckily we were still close to sea levels, so it could have been worse. A couple days back we had to cross over a fairly small, and easy to cross mountain and that was ice. It didn't help that the cold is slowing down the undead among us. They seemed more annoyed about it then anything, and couldn't speak much. But no one had said anything about it. And Derpy ignored the subject if I ever brought it up. We walked north in silence and I found Spectra next to me. Flanked by Rainbow.

"Yes?" I asked, hiding how tired I was.

"Why pretend you are okay Haze. We all aren't so there is no way you are okay." Spectra said. I looked to him but kept going.

"We have to do this or we will all die." I muttered.

"How do we know we aren't already dead?" Spectra asked. I turned and stopped. He looked at me and the others slowed, but soon carried on.

"What do you mean?" I asked. Spectra looked up for a second and took a breath.

"Celestia sent us away on this final mission. The third finale mission she's sent us on I will remind you. She sent us on this mission to the edge of the world to find this Serpin. My question is. What if he isn't there? What if he's dead. What if Haze. What if after all this!" Spectra shouted a little, waving his hoof around the vast expanse of nothing we were in. "What, if. We get no help, trek all the way home to just to find everything has been burned already." Spectra added. I nodded.

"Yes, there are a lot of what ifs Spectra. But what if he is there and helps. Or what if we go home empty hooves, or handed or whatever the fuck!" I shouted. "What if we go home now. With nothing. And we die because you doubted whether we would find anything. We have to try." I added, that did shut him up. However, it didn't stop Derpy who had materialized next to me. And was gripping my hoof with her forelegs.

"What if we die anyway?" She asked quietly. I turned to her.

"We take as many of these bastards as we can." I muttered.

"Will that save Equestria Haze? Have you ever thought of that?" Derpy asked. I looked to her confused. "Say, you sacrifice yourself killing half a dozen of these Garin somethings. And that does nothing? You die a needless death because you're mad at them." Dee muttered.

"I need you all in this together. If we run out of ideas. What can we do but fight?" I asked.

"We run." Derpy muttered.

"Where? Lauren said they would destroy this world and many more. Whilst we run and survive on a barren world. Countless other lives are being lost. We defeated the Mo'ka, we can at least cripple the Garonins." I replied.

"They have the power to send ponies into the Gap! Into a worse hell than the Void. The Void is solid, we've been there. But the Gap. The gap is hell. A soul drifts forever alone, in constant pain." Derpy muttered.

"How do you know so much about the Gap? I mean, you were dead but still." I asked. Derpy paused. I began to walk again, flapping my wings. Derpy ran after me and shouted my name but I heard nothing. We needed a rest. And now.

I flew above the cloud layer away from my friends, none made a move to go after me and none but Derpy called for my name. Landing softly on a cloud I could see for miles around it. Steven was moving on again, and the small dots around him did too. Were we really that obvious? No wonder the griffons found us so far from their city. Just look for a giant blue serpent.

I searched the horizon for, something. Just a small camp or town we could rest in for a few days. The sleep deprivation was slowly getting to us. And I didn't want to hear the answer from Derpy anyway, in fear of my actions. Either to Derpy (I would hate myself forever) or against the Garonins, which wouldn't be anymore than what's already planned.

I spent around five more minutes on the cloud before spotting something. Just east of us, was. Something. Something very metal. The sun was making its descent so its colours were faded from something during the day. But there was definitely something there. Something big. I spotted Steven and saw this metal would easily cover the serpent. I felt a smile on my face and shot out of the cloud. Almost hitting a snoic boom instantly.

So landing would be fun.

"Guys! Head east! Something!" I shouted. Through wing flaps. I saw a few heads turn as I headed toward then and instead of landing shot east away from the sun. A couple of the ponies began to gallop to keep up and Spectra flew up to meet me.

"What is it!" He asked. Through air and flying.

"Fuck knows. But its big and metal. Could be anything! Its better than sleeping on rock if its a dome or something." I replied. Spectra nodded, or got hair out of his face. I don't know.

We flew at high speeds for about a minute before the metal came into view. Another more minute and I saw what it was. I began to slow, a lot. Spectra did as well and began swearing.

"Those fuckers! What the fuck did they do!" Spectra shouted. We flew down and began to read weapons.

We had found a motherfucking Terran warship. Not the size of the one they had used to send the drop pods. But definitely a large troop carrier. The ship had certainly crashed, that was obvious from the trail that it had behind it. Followed by bits of rubble. Some holes had been dug and covered over, suggesting mines or something along those lines. So the crew could still be on board. Dead or alive.

"What do we do?" I asked. Spectra grinned, his eyes flashing red and aimed his Decay Gun down. I readied my sniper. Turning quickly. I saw Aeb and Heart had caught up, everyone else was still running. The four of us entered this downed foe. And I honestly wish I never learnt about this ship, let alone what downed it.

Somewhere East of Canterlot, two days later

Twilight Sparkle, new found princess to Equestria and defender of the realm was not a pony to give up. But when the guards who currently had her locked up didn't stop pointing their guns at the pony. With her horn useless and her wings shackled, each hoof also in some sort of bondage. One meal a day and a small bucket of water, some days ago fallen at too low a level for her to reach now. She was inclined to give up. She was meant to have a cell with her friends. But currently Rarity was missing, possibly in the factories the Dwellers had build so quickly in their flying fortress, wherein she had to help the machine works or face torture, Much like Twilight had, a lot. Applejack was currently in a 'session' and would most likely be passing in and out of consciousness for a few days after this. Fluttershy was asleep, forcibly because she wouldn't stop crying. Pinkie Pie had been missing for a good while now. The only company Twilight had was Luna. Who was likewise chained up in the cell opposite, likewise in pain and bleeding. Her hair had been cut off completely and her cutie mark burned over with the Sky Dweller banner. Like Twilight's and the others had. She had a ball gag on, unlike Twilight and had a guard on either side of her, wherein Twilight's guards were on the outside. Screens had been going on and off. Not a mare's so not Applejack, but some pony's. Twilight kept trying to close her eyes to pass out into sleep, but a guard kept firing his gun into the cloud layer. Waking her up with a startle. Luna also groaned every time they did and her horn glowed blue slightly. She sat staring ahead, the only direction she could with defeat in her eyes. Most of her wounds were itchy and scabbed and many of the new ones still bled.

The screaming stopped again, followed by a muffled gunshot. Then nothing. Twilight flinched at the thought and a chain rattled slightly. But the guards didn't move, they just stared. Unmoving. One aiming at their prisoner, one at the floor in case they fall asleep. Twilight had been through a lot with Haze. Bit this. This was hell. She would happily die to save herself from this. All she wanted to do was see Spike again, to go home and rest. To cry and heal. Not this.

Around an hour passed of Twilight staring and trying to sleep, only for it to be interrupted. Screaming had started again, from a different pony now, Twilight closed her eyes but no gunshot sounded from the guards. Only quiet laughter. Tears would form but she was way to dehydrated to cry. If she did she would desperately try to drink them. She couldn't even pee anymore. She was empty. It hurt so bad.

A humming was all Twilight had that kept her sane. A small, dim, him. The guards didn't seem to notice it.

Then it clicked. Twilight closed her eyes expecting the worst as the humming grew louder, Luna looked up slightly but made no attempt to look relived, the four guards began to notice and aimed weapons at different directions. It was almost a minute more of intensive humming where a black portal sparking white lightning began to crackle into existence, the humming changed to booming and strange noises unknown to any other portal Equestria had seen. Twilight tensed up. The portal grew to a pony size and stopped. When nothing came out Twilight relaxed, the guards looked at it in awe and one went close. Only to receive a very fast ball of light blue light, almost like a small fire ball in his face. The guard's head exploded and he fell, without a sound. A gunshot went off into the portal and two more ball followed. One hitting the back wall and puncturing the cloud layer, another hitting the side of Luna's cells. Who groaned in fear.

A second passed and suddenly a pony ran out, wielding an arm sword and holding up a strange gun with magic, so must of been a unicorn. The pony had a dark purple coat and blue and purple hair, the pony wore some strange black armour on it's main body and some of it's legs. The pony charged forward and shot the gun, a small blue orb fired out like a fire ball and hit a guard. He screamed and fell, the body where the shot hit was blackened and had small flames all over it. The remaining guards readied weapons and one fired straight away, the pony simply ducked down onto all fours and fired the gun again. Another guard fell. The pony stood back up and the arm sword was released and the pony stabbed into the third guard, then stood normally. The final guard looked to the two dead guards and then the third who was choking on his own blood underneath the pony's hoof. The strange pony looked to the last guard and he ran. The pony shot him as he did. Then, the pony turned.

"Twilight Sparkle." The pony said, in a soft voice of a mare. Twilight gulped and closed her eyes. There were two sounds that followed, two shots from the strange gun. When Twilight opened her eyes finally, Both Luna's and her own cell door had been shot open. The mare stepped forward. "I'm here to rescue you." The mare said and put her gun down. Then began to untie Twilight. The mare then looked to the Night Princess. "And you Princess." The mare said, Luna just stared as she had been for a while. After a moment of shock, Twilight managed to get a few words out. In her dehydrated state, it wasn't much.

"Who- who are you?" She asked, gulping a few times. Her throat was incredibly dry. As soon as she was out. She would drink the water she'd been teased with. She needed food as well. So hungry. So. Tired. The mare looked up from her word at Twilight.

"My name is Sapphire Wish. I was sent by the one you call Faust to save you. I worried that I was too late." The mare replied. Twilight tried to nod but was still bound. No alarms had been set off yet so maybe it was only the four guards that had been tasked with guarding two Princesses of Equestria. That didn't make sense to Twilight, but the more she thought about it, and remembering the looks of the city, maybe every pony had been tasked with keeping the city afloat, or the guns ready? Who knew.

"Which side are you on?" Twilight then asked. She said she had been sent by Faust, but how. Portal magic was dead. Apparently not though. Still, this could mean a number of things.

"The stars." Was all Sapphire said. Twilight was confused but the pony said no more. The last of Twilights bonds had been undone and she fell into a heap on the floor. Then began to drink from the bucket, the water tasted vile but it was all she had. Unrefined cloud water never tasted nice.

"Stay here Twilight Sparkle." Sapphire muttered and trotted of into Luna's cell. Then began to undo her bondage. The gag came off first.

"Thank you Sapphire Wish. We, we were in dire need of assistance." Was all Luna said, then stared again. Unmoving as her ropes were cut. Twilight tested her magic out on the bucket and found she could finally cast spells again after a quick levitation test on the now empty bucket. Twilight thought about going over to Luna's cell and helping but still didn't trust this Sapphire character so stayed put. Watching closely for the gun on the floor and the arm sword on the pony's hoof.