War

Blue, a sad color, and also a happy one. Blue is the color that makes the sky, the oceans, and our blood without oxygen. Blue is a feeling of being sad, or depressed. Blue is what it is...blue.

I wake up, my chest felt a lot better. How long was I out, I didn't know, but when I opened my eyes, I saw two ponies talking.

"Congratulations on capturing a human alive this time Trick Pony." A lavender pony said with wings and a horn. "You can go now, I want to see if it's awake."

"Thank you princess!" The unicorn said, bowing.

'Princess?' I thought.

When the unicorn left the lavender pony princess opened the cage, I was in. I quickly sat up, and tried to reach for my athame. When I grabbed nothing but air, I realized they disarmed me. I sat back in realization with a sigh.

"Do you speak?" She asked softly.

I nodded, not wanting to talk.

"What is your name?" She asked. "If you have one."

I stared into her eyes angerly. I was honestly pissed. I lost my gun, oh my lovely gun, and my family athame. I didn't want to talk.

"Sir, the pony infront of you is establishing a mental link!"

"Stay out of my head!" I shouted.

"How?" She asked. "Can you read minds with magic?"

"No, I've got the best AI on earth, and Equestria!" I replied. "A prince deserves the best!"

The lavender pony stepped back in shock, her eyes opened wide as two large basket balls. I heard a clang, and looked at my leg. It seemed like there was a chain attached to my leg, but wasn't any more.

"What's your name?" She asked again.

"My name is Vector James Pryton. I'm the prince of earth." I said. "Why did you let me go? I know how to kill with my hands."

"We understand." The white pony said walking into the room she was a tall pegasus with a sun on her flank covered over with a cloud.

"Sir extreme surges of energy coming from the new pony."

"You are?" I asked.

"I'm the ambassador of the princesses." She replied. "Twilight, you may leave us be."

"Yes." The lavender princess walking off.

"And how come the big white pony with a horn and wings ain't here?" I asked.

"You saw her?" She asked. "I wasn't aware of this..."

"What's your name?" I asked. "I should at least know who captured me."

"We didn't capture you. Trick Pony did. We know your camp is outside of Ponyville in the Everfree forest. Our spy Zecora told us." She said. "My name anyways is Tia, and I would like to ask you why you didn't kill Trick and his son when you had the chance?"

I looked away from Tia, I wanted to tell the truth. "I missed..." I lied.

"There weren't any bullet holes, don't lie to me." She replied.

I sighed. "He had a family..." I said. "Two children, a wife, a life..."

"Countless humans have killed married ponies, how come you didn't?"

"What will you do if I answer you?" I ask. "Why do you ask me such a question? I don't even know why..." I curled up into a ball, sitting on a hard wood bench. "When will I leave?"

"Answer me!" She ordered, stopping her hoof onto the ground. "Out of all the humans, you must have a reason for your hesitation!"

       "No...I can't answer a question that I don't know how to answer." I said. "I only asked that unicorn if he was married. He said 'yes' and...I dropped my rifle."

       "And you dropped your weapon? That's it?!" She asked as a glowing light surrounded her. When the light was gone, there stood the large white horned pegasus with the sun on her flank. "Shining Armor!"

       "Yes princess?!"

       "I want to know where more camps are so we can get rid of those humans. I am ordering you to do what ever is possible to get such information from his human." She said. "I want him alive, we don't want to cause an even larger war."

       "Princess, may I use the chamber of old?"

       "This once you may. I'm off to discuss about the new prisoner to my sister."

       The princess flashed away in a single moment. I thought that my troubles had ended. I didn't think my attitude helped either. I could of just said why, but I didn't know why I couldn't tell her. It wasn't like I didn't want to, I wanted to know why I didn't first. She did say the unicorn was named Trick.

       I thought for a moment as the other unicorn in the room stood infront of me, thinking with his hoof to his chin. We both thought. Thinking, wondering, I didn't know what he was thinking, but that name for a room, 'old', it made me worry a bit.

         "What is the room of the old?" I asked. "If I'm to be tortured, should I at least know what the device is held?"

       "I'm not allowed to speak of what's inside, but I will tell you, yes you are going to be broken." He answered. "I'm allowing you to feel this moment."

         "Of?" I ask.

       "That pony was married, those ponies you didn't kill, they were a real family." He said with a smile. "I like you human, I'll go easy on you. Why you may ask? I'm a father too, and a softy at that. Honestly, I didn't think Celestia would've let actually let me torture you."

       "I'm guessing you're a prince too?" I asked.

       "King, not of this land, but another, more glorious empire. We've been living in a fully functional utopian society."

          "Lucky you..." I said scarcastly.

         "Haha, funny. Time to get going." He said as my chains unlocked on their own. "I'll let you walk as fast as you want. I'm in no rush."

         "Thanks, I feel better already."

           It wasn't long before we got there. The door was made of metal, wasn't sure what it was, and it didn't help when my AI shutdown when I got near it. I looked at the unicorn as he elected me up in the air with a strange sure flowing from his horn. Something was in his eye that changed his whole look over me. Because of a failure, it was my luck to be living.

         The door opened, I nearly vomited at the incoming smell of old iron filled blood, and dead bodies. I walked in at Shining Armor's command as he nudged my back. The more I walked in the more I wanted to vomit. It was like standing in a slaughter house as I saw dead human bodies, a few dead ponies, all looked like they were only days old. Looking at the bodies I could solve the two dozen missing soldier reports right then and there. I wanted to see if by brother Shawn was in here.

          I fell to the ground at the sight of him. Out of the little hope he'd been alive, there he was, dead, his body paler than a Irish guy in winter. "Shawn!!!" I screamed, nearly cried. I wasn't the one for crying.

         When my mom died six years ago, I went to her funeral. There many people cried, I wasn't one. But this was my brother, he was twenty-three when I last saw him, and twenty-four just a week later, dead. My brother helped teach me how to fight. First fist to fist, then he taught me how to fence. He knew so much, and did equal.

        The unicorn stared at me for a moment, confused for a moment then not, realizing I was related to the other red headed human in the room as the rest were black or brown haired. He sighed heavely as he lifted my body to a nearby machine.

        "You won't die, can't let you." He grunted as he pulled a lever. A large device came from the ceiling. it looked like a large guillotine, and covered in smaller blades.

        He trotted over to a note pad nearby, and a large feather floated to him. "I'm a stallion of my word, but I'm also a stallion of results. I want to know how this makes you feel." He said as if he were quoting a movie. He pulled it again then the little blades started to fly around me randomly on their own.

         It wasn't long before I felt the blades glide sharply onto my skin as it cut my arms, and legs, swiftly destroying my armor. I couldn't hide the pain much longer after that. The blades cut my skin, making me bleed. I screamed, couldn't do anything else.

       "Interesting...Oh do you need those fingers? That thumb looks useless." He said, and went to pull out a sword with his mouth. Slowly he walked up to me. Smiled. That's all he did was smile as I hung on the wall next to my dead brother. I saw his grab my right thumb.

"Well?" I asked him. "Are you going to cut it off?"

He put away his sword. "No, you screamed loud enough. My ears are still ringing." He answered. "Besides I haven't even asked you where those camps are."

"My father knows, he's the commander of the army." I said.

"Thought you were a prince?"

"I am, my real father left me for dead when he found out I was a runt."

Shining armor stood there in shock. His eyes showed me the only thing I had to see to know ponies had hearts. Pain, as if he felt it before, knowing what its like to be the smallest. He turned off the sworming blades, and walked over to the clip board.

"So, the Everfree forest, and the Dangerback Mountains?" He asked. "Don't need to answer, my sister showed me how to read minds."

"So that lavender horned pegasus is your sister?" I asked, ready to think of a plan to escape. The idea was to trick him into thinking that I set a device on her with her knowing. 'The device should activate in two hours.' I thought with an evil smile.

He shot back, looking at me. "What device!?" He asked.

"Is the lavender horned pegasus your sister?" I asked.

"Yes!" He answered in a yell. "Answer me!"

"It's a new micro-bomb. It attacks the host's brain, and destroys it in two minutes. Subjects experence extreme pain." I replied. "Your sister has it in her head right now, and I know the key phrase to stop it."

"How!"

"You care about her alot don't you?" I asked. "Make you a deal. You let me go, I shut down the device."

Worry in his face showed more than ever. He sighed heavily as I dropped to the ground. "What is it?" He asked.

"Calling Monkey!" I said. I waited for a moment. His expression on his face changed from worry to confusion.

"Calling...Monkey?" He asked.

I nodded. "Sir....ride...left." AI said, her voice sounded like stadic. "Yep, any ways. Good luck keeping your job. I think you'd make a better king anyways." I said jumping through the wall.

I landed on my bike as it hovered over to stop me from falling. 'Thank you Monkey!' I thought. I was glad the guy was my friend, but I had to now warn my camp of the in comming attack on our camp.