Legends of Equestria: HeroSoul

Equestria, six days after the war

Lauren Faust was staring dumbstruck by what the brown mare had said even though she almost saw it coming. The queen was frozen for a moment contemplating what this would mean and called out for her daughters. The two quickly arrived, Celestia stay as far away from the Derpy reincarnation as possible, giving all five evil glares.

"Mother?" Was all Luna said, tilting her head in confusion.

"This is indeed Derpy Haze and other ponies from those who fell in the war. And if this is so-" Lauren began, looking to the two sisters. Then gulped down a breath. "-we are all dead." She finished and looked to Derpy again.

"What do you mean?" Luna asked, Faust looked to the older sister with a glare, who was facing the ground in what could only be shame. She knew, but hadn't told Luna. Or Cadence most likely.

"It means, the dead have be driven out of Paradise. That's what has happened isn't it?" Lauren replied, the looked to Dee who just nodded sadly.

"Paradise is everything we imagined, peaceful, loving. Painless. All I had felt those last moments of my life just escaped me and I felt, happy. Everything looks so surreal and bright. I was with Tage, I couldn't really see anything, just, brightness. But I knew I was with my daughter, I felt her. Right here." Derpy said, putting a hoof to her heart and looking concerned when it didn't beat. "But something, happened. I don't know how long ago, let alone how long I have been-" The made paused, then continued with a deep breath. "-Dead for, but something came into Paradise and attacked us. I don't know how to explain it, but something came and ripped apart our excistance. Many ponies were thrown into the Void. Their souls will ever remain their and never find peace." The made paused a second time, and looked as if she wanted to cry, but no tears came out.

"So what you are saying is, that Paradise has fallen to some unknown enemy? But surely, if Portal Technology has been shut down, then they couldn't make the jump, especially to some place like that." Luna asked, Faust held back tears and looked to her daughter.

"Luna. Please, what I am about to tell you, tell you all." The Queen started. "May break any courage you have remaining, but please. You all have to hear this." Faust added, then continued when nopony walked away.

"Long before Equestria, before anything, there was only darkness. Darkness that controlled everything, and was foretold to control the Multiverse again. It has been said many times that the Mo’ka weren’t the only creatures of the Void, let alone the worst. This, unfortunately is true. The Mo’ka were just children compared to what will one day overtake everything, bringing an end to all things good and peaceful. The Garonin are what we should have been focusing on, yes the Mo’ka were a threat and I am not judging you all in attempts to stop them, but we should have been finding a way to escape this threat that will destroy us all. Fight them? No, you cannot fight the Garonin and we will not survive the coming times. I say to you all ponies of Equestria, put your arms down and go be at peace, I will fight them along with anypony that wishes to join me, but if you do know this: You. Will. Not. Survive." She told the story slowly, dramatically to make sure the undead, princesses and few guards were indeed listening. Silence overtook the group.

"The Garonin have awesome power and can easily level this planet. But that won't, if they have taken Paradise then they will be here soon. They will harvest this land for magic and then move on into the Abyss from which they came."

"But surely they can't be that bad to just harvest magic? We could set up a trade system to give them magic." Luna pitched in, Faust gave half a smile.

"If only it were that simple young one. Magic resides in every living thing in the Multiverse. That means the Garonins will kill every living thing in the Multiverse. You, me, that plant pot you keep in your room. Everything organic has magic in it and everything that isn't organic is stripped apart and burned to fuel their harvesters. We cannot hope to defeat them, only delay them." Faust replied, silencing the night princess.

"What do we do then?" Derpy asked. "What's the plan?" She added.

"I don't know young one, but I have a felling Dari may know, the Sirens would most likely have some way to get us out of this Universe." Faust replied.

"What do you mean?" Celestia asked.

"We cannot hope to defeat them as I have said many times, but we can run, start anew. It will be hard but we can attempt to make contact with the other nations of this world and evacuate as many as possible." Faust replied quickly.

"So here we stand, on the brink of extinction. And Equestrias greatest heroes are divided. The Void, the Grave and the Living." Luna muttered. There was silence again for a moment, until a familiar humming sound began.

"But some may be closer than we think." Celestia added with a smile. The portal began to form.

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Equestria, six days after the war

Light. I saw light. At first it was blinding, my eyes getting used to the burning after being so long in the darkness. I couldn't find my footing to start with a tripped on the soft grass. Grass! It almost felt alien to me, the uneven edges of the green stems of ground, after standing and sitting on hard stone-like flooring. I blinked a few times and realized somepony was leaning on me, helping me stand. I wasn't sure who it was, I could only presume Spectra and Heart were in a similar situation and if Nick held me up, I would know it. With a deep wound and blood flowing gently.

I blinked a few more times and saw Equestria better, a lot more bright and colourful than I remember and a lot more beautiful. I felt a genuine smile as I saw the lush green landscape of the tall hills and mountains, various flowers and bushes popping out all over, a remain of a rainbow could be seen on the side of a cliff where a silent and small waterfall fell with water droplets falling independently. I turned me head to see an unfamiliar sight of a seemingly random pony and many others looking at me with shock and excitement. The mare holding me up was a young looking one, of a bright brown coat and blue short hair and a walled eye stare. I smiled slightly, she reminded me of Dee. But she was long dead.

There were a few other ponies I didn't recognize, including a very pissed off looking mare staring at me with a half smile half glare. I looked around and saw the Queen, she was staring at me bewildered, Luna and Celestia stood either side, the older one looked out of breath and the younger blue princess was grinning from ear to ear.

"Welcome home." Was all that Faust could muster. I heard the familiar boom of giant footsteps as our Serpent friend ran toward the city. He hasn't grown as much since I'd last seen him, so I could only presume Steven had just stopped growing.  I saw Nick run toward him, I still laughed at how the tiny hand knife dwarfed the colossal beast. It was Heart Breaker who spoke first.

"Its good to be back." He said, I smiled again and looked to the others, the brown mare had stopped holding me up and had walked over to the others.

"So, erm. Who are they?" I asked, most likely missing something, all of those who I had been fighting with were here, well those still alive. The only ones I couldn't see was Crystal and the children. I looked to Spectra who hadn't even moved from the now closing portal we had created.

"Yes, about that. I know you may have had a hard time in the Void, but if you could come with us into the castle, there are important matters to discuss." Celestia replied quickly, not missing a beat.

"Great, thirty seconds back a and the world is in danger again, we just can't catch a break." Heart muttered, I smiled again, just slightly. Both annoyed that I would obviously get no rest, but also thankful that whatever this threat was meant I wouldn't have time to mourn anypony like I should have been doing in the Void, but instead thought on how I had failed my friends, which being fair, in many cases I had.

"Fine,lead the way." I said the the princesses when I noticed nopony had acknowledged her apart from Hearts little complain. The princess only nodded and turned, walking toward Canterlot, an almost ruined city once again but undergoing reconstruction. Again.

As we walked I finally looked toward the mismatched group and noticed Twilight walking awkwardly ahead. She had grown some wings? Since when, she had in the show, but I never expected her to get them here, now. Celestia had little care for marketing, so what purpose was there in creating another princess? As far as I knew Cadence was real so there were already three known ones, plus the queen. Then all those minor ones like that frence Alicorn and Blueblood. Neither I had personally met, but there was more than enough reason to believe they were real. Or had been in case they had died in the many years of war since my arrival.

"Nice wings." I found myself muttering, the brown coated mare looked at me with a glare, then looked away and breathed slowly. What did I do?

"I still don't know how to use them." Twilight replied, still walking, not looking back. What did I do?

"How long have you had them?" I asked. Between booms of Stevens feet who had caught up to every pony. How he had been left behind was beyond me.

"Not long enough. Excuse me." Twilight replied sourly and picked up her pace. What. The. Buck. Did I do?! I looked to Heart Breaker who only laughed and mutters something about kittens? Maybe. I think he said "kittens man." But thinking about it it was probably 'bitches'. I only rolled my eyes at such language, because I never swore.

"Haze." I heard a familiar male voice ask. Impossible, he's dead. I turned and only saw a bright green mare with yellow and black hair in the pattern of a bumble bee staring at me. I looked away and kept walking, concerned about the random mare from the gates.

"Haze." The voice sounded again, louder, but still quiet, as if not to alert anypony. I turned to the mare again. She only nodded slightly and slowed down.

"You hear that?" I asked. Okay, outright. Dumbest question I have ever asked. I slowed a little to keep up to the mare.

"Of course I hear it its me you asshole." The mare replied, but her voice was male. And Aeb's. But. That's impossible, yet. Hear it is.

"Why do you have my dead friend's voice?" I asked, it came out louder than I meant to it and the mare only lowered a hoof as a gesture to be quiet.

"I am Aeb. Me and others have been, kicked out, as it were, from Paradise, that's why we're going to the castle. Something attacked us. And we came back, in somepony else's body. Look." The mare-Aeb replied, then turned and gave a perfect angle to see a long gap of burnt flesh which had clearly been hit by a Decay gun and had burnt through the ponies body, a few blackened ripcages could be seen and bits of burned flesh stillhung, dead from the gap. I would have held back some sick but all this war had corrupted me from being affected by all this. Was that a good thing? Gods no. I was broken and needed help. Help I would never get. I needed Dee.

"We?" I asked, suddenly realizing he/she had said that.

"Yes we. Rainbow Speed, some professor dude I don't know, Shadow, me obviously, and Her." The mare replied, pointing a hoof at the brown coated one who was far ahead of us both now.

"Who?" I asked, already knowing the answer and preparing for the coming reply.

"Derpy. That brown coated mare with the double stare is your wife Haze. Go to her. She's missed you." I didn't need a second telling and began to trot quickly toward her, not even thinking about if this pony had been bullshiting me, but there was no way an Earth pony could manipulate somepony else's voice. Especially a long since dead Changeling. It made sense why s/he seemed so pissed early. Being reincarnated as a ligit pony, a mare, no less, without the ability to alter your looks to your own preference would tick anypony off.

"Dee!" Ishouted, the pony turned and smiled and ran toward me. Our little party stopped and turned at my shout. When I finally embraced my wife I hugged her and gave her such a kiss I never wanted it to stop. When it did however we parted, a small trail of siliver still connecting us.

"Welcome home Haze. I missed you." She said, the exact same voice as I had remembered of her. I smiled and hugged her, yptears already formed and running down her back over the gruesome wound.

"I missed you too. My Derpy." I muttered into her. She began to nuzzle my hair and whispered something that made everything right again.

"I love you too."

So she did hereme. I smiled and cried into her mane. Then she began. Little did I know, but Spectra had figured out what this meant and tried to look for his own wife. Only for her to scare him from behind by jumping out and poking him with her new found horn. Everypony was together again, all we were missing was Crystal. Crystal, Tree and Tage.

I sorely hoped Tage was alright. Wherever she may be.