In Just Two Years.

by The_Slenderstallion

Rating: mature
Tags: Dark, Adventure
Length: 1005

My OC is the leader of an Equestrian Assault Team in an Equestria tainted by corruption. Princess Celestia has gone from mischevious to malicious. And worst of all, it's rated "M" for gore.

My OC, Hyde Zinshadowz, orphaned by war and resides in a land cursed by it, he is the leader of one of the many Equestrian Assault Teams. He is about to return from a war with the griffins and when he does he discovers that a murderer is loose by Celestia's hoof, his sister Frost was killed, the griffins have made a pony-like robot, the changelings are reanimating corpses, AND THE CIDER PRICES WERE RAISED! Oh, and it's rated "M" for gore.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-07-10 07:20:05 UTC

A Prelude

               Before I tell you my story I guess I should tell you how everything got so bad.  Well here goes nothing. It all started when the griffins invaded Appleoosa. Obviously Celestia sent help, many ponies from the Protective Pony Platoons and royal guard were sent, and many of them had fallen, among them was my father. That's when Celerstia formed the assault teams. Ponies began to question Celestia's choice on the matter (after all, they had been at peace for thousands of years, I geuss I'd be pissed, too in the light that Celestia didn't even consider diplomacy, but at the time I was too young to care) then her overall leadership. Things only got worse from there.

               Not long after the invasion, the changelings attacked led by Queen Crysaslis. The assault teams helped majorly in the fight but once again many ponies lay dead or dying on the battlefield. As a result Celestia chose one pony for every town or city to search for ponies to be drafted into the newly established Elite Equine Eliminators. No matter who they were, if they were potentially useful, they would be drafted. Now nearly everypony in Equestria doubted Celestia's ability to make decisions, and feared for both their lives and that of their loved ones.

               With very few if any ponies actually believing in her, Celestia lost her sense of purpose and well...her mind. Slowly we started to see less and less of our princess of the sun, until she had locked herself away for three months, eating little. When she did come back to us something seemed...off, she didn't talk much, even to her fellow princesses, she even neglected to raise the sun. It didn't take long for Luna to accept the responsibility of daylight. After about a week of this ponies from the Doctor Loving Care's home for the Criminally Insane started to mysteriously escape. As I'm sure you've guessed by now it was Celestia whom was releasing them. Luna was forced to take the throne due to Celestia's condition.

               Luna tried to keep everything as her sister had left it but things quickly got out of hoof. Everypony was distressed by Celestia's condition (including the Element of Friendship whom is still trying to find a cure for Wartime Stress Disorder, that's not even what she suffers from). Luna (mentally drained by the ordeal and sudden responsibility) was far too busy to visit her citizens, hell she couldn't do much more than operate the sun and moon. With no government the economy slowly started to collapse, guess what's more valuable than bits now...bucking bottle caps! I mean come the buck on! Some vile ponies had taken this chance to loot and riot. It didn't take long for Ponyville to enter marshal law. The laws of almost all Equestria are now highly draconian, they give the death penalty for petty theft, they even killed homeless colts and fillies who were just trying to get something to eat. I'm just glad I wasn't there to do any of the slaughter.

               Now we're getting word of  the changelings performing a "Project Phoenix". It's some sort of reanimation operation, at least it's not a war plan involving a phoenix, but I don't like the idea of having to kill a changeling just for it to get back up. That bastard draconicus Discord is with them now for some reason, I'm surprised we're not dead yet. Not only that, our Gryphontech spies have discovered a "Subject P0n33". All they have uncovered so far is that it's some sort of spy...morons.

               I guess you should know a little about me, too. Well, my mother died in foalbirth of my sister when I was four. Five years later my father died in a battle with the griffins, leaving me to care for Frost. I started taking nightly walks in the Everfree forest, that's when I found a strange magical sword, it had a beautiful inscription on the blade, it read "You must hide to survive." It also came with a note bearing only the words "For you". I picked it up and took it, genuinely believing that this sword had been left there for me. Six years later I was drafted by the Ponyville Elite Drafter for my skill in silent movement. I trained for two years as a Sneakiller pony (oh, and if you've been doing the math, it was useless, I'm twenty-one) and was at the top of my class, for that reason I was given the option of becoming an assault team captain or an Elite Sneakiller assassin, I chose the prior. I make sure that the blood of my soldiers never hits the ground, and when it does whoever killed them had better hope that I never find them. Whenever I come back to Ponyville, I prefer to start my time off with a nice, cool cider, my friends say that I have a problem, but I don't know what they're talking about...now that I think about it they also say that I'm a very sexual drunk.

               That's when I realised just how bad the goddesses let everything get. The griffins attacked us about once a month. The diamond dogs took their shot at us too. Every once in a while, when we weren't looking, a group of soldiers was slaughtered by the Celestia damned changelings. The day didn't last nearly as long as the night. The Elements of Harmony were useless because they were either dead (in the case of Applejack and Pinkie Pie), distracted (in the case of Princess Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity), or just thought they didn't matter (in the case of Fluttershy). Discord, thinking this would be his only chance to get revenge on the ponies, abondoned his friends and all Equestria. Nearly all of Equestria is either rioting or serving in the military. Hell, our problems were even spanning all the way to the crystal empire. I just hope this all ends soon.