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Ch. 5 Aftermath
Previous Chapter(Celestia)
I stood there dazed in confusion, there were ponies everywhere, most of them were getting off the ground.
"Your highness, the humans have escaped," a guard asked. "Shall we go in pursuit them?"
"No, not now, first we need to see what kind of damage we sustained here and then we will find them and take them alive because now I have more questions," Celestia said emotionally.
Another guard came running out of the castle, it was Shining Armor.
"Princess they left and it looks like they are going back to their world, Wesker stopped me and told me, to say not to follow him unless you can beat him to the portal, they aren't in the mood for violence. " Celestia looked at them, just as Twilight teleported in.
"I'm glad I found you Celestia at once, the Minotaur's have sided with the griffins and they are invading." Celestia's eyes widened. Twilight soon saw the damaged castle.
"What in the name of.... happened here?" Looking at her surroundings. "Is everypony alright?"
"Yes my dear faithful student, we are all right, but Wesker and his men found the humans in the dungeon and that's what set everything off." Celestia lowered her head. "Now we are at war with the Minotaur's and right now we are short on troops since the griffins are on their side. I know that those humans could be a huge asset if we can convince them to help and forgive us."
"Twilight, you and Shining Armor go find Wesker and his men and when you do please alert me to your position so I can explain everything to them." I walked over to my sister Luna who was already working with the guards to start mending the castle. "Thank you, Luna after we finish rebuilding the damaged portions, you take the night off and rest, no night court tonight." Celestia left.
Twilight and Shining Armor went off in search of Wesker, while Cadence was watching them from her hers and Shining s bedroom window.
"So Twili any idea if we can catch up to Wesker," Armor asked?
"I hope so, I know that their equipment looked really powerful."
"It is, believe me, I've seen them use them, no way our magic could protect ourselves. Right now all I want to do is find Wesker and then go protect my pregnant wife." Twilight's eyes widened.
"Cadence is pregnant with you.... " she was super excited jumping up and down.
They continued their quest to find Wesker and his men.
(Meanwhile with Beltway and Hitman)
The men were both still in the Hummer as Beltway was driving, Beltway stopped in an empty field and walked to the back of the vehicle and opened a few crates that was packed.
"Hitman you ready to have some fun?" Beltway took out a single shot trank gun and handed it to Hitman. "Ok, now since you agreed to help me with my little side business, I really work for Umbrella and they sent me here to grab some specimens for study. We are getting $25,000.00 per subject we take back alive, so I guess that we will have to make sure we have an even amount subjects. "
"Hmmm ok, Hitmans eyes had the money symbols on it. I guess greed comes first, he thought.
Beltway grabbed another trank gun and went back to Hitman, "How well do those EMP grenade work and last?"
"They can take out an entire city block but they only last for a few hours, I mostly use them to destroy enemy facilities surveillance systems. .... So our mission is to capture these ponies and griffins if possible, is that correct?"
"Yes, you are correct."
The two men decided what their plan was going to be and they waited for their pursuers to find them.
(Shining Armor and Twilight)
It took them a couple of hours but they finally were closing the gap between them and Wesker.
"Look, Twili there they are," he motioned to a valley where they saw Wesker and some of his men were sitting down eating lunch under a tree. "Hey there are two missing, hmmm. Twilight let's move slowly and carefully, they still might be pissed off." As they got closer and closer they saw that the two winged beast were landing next to the humans and more humans appeared from them.
(Everyone )
"WESKER, gah we finally found you guys..."said Armor.
Wesker and his men looked up and watched them. Kevin raised his sniper rifle but Wesker told him to wait. "So what brings you here ," Wesker asked. By this time Twilight and Armor were only fifteen feet away from the humans.
"Celestia told us to find you, where are the other two?" replied Armor.
Wesker raised an eyebrow, "Oh really, might I ask why? We just found some of our men hidden in your princesses dungeon and you think we would just forgive you like that?" He snapped his fingers.
Shining used his magic and sent a magical beam straight up in the air, and just as he did it Celestia teleported in.
"Wesker, I'm truly sorry about keeping your men locked up, but at the time we didn't understand anything about you and then when the changelings started to take over they came out of nowhere and started to annihilate them. " A tear started to come from her eye. "And I don't blame you for doing what you did back at the castle."
Wesker got up and walked towards her, ran his right hand through her multicolor mane.
"Ok, also there's something else on your mind, care to explain?" Twilight's mouth dropped.
"Your correct Wesker there is something else on my mind. We are being invaded by Minotaur's and they have sided with the griffins, the same ones that went to your world." Wesker raised his eyebrow.
"How do we know your telling us the truth?" Shining's eyes widened and so did Twilight's.
"Because there they are Wesker, turn around." Wesker did as Shining told him and he had a ahhh shit look on his face.
"Panzer, get into a position with your MG-42, Kevin start sniping, and Scott get on your M-60e", I climbed on the back of the Hummer and got on the mounted machine gun, "everyone hold your fire until they get closer." The men waited till the minotaur's got within 60 feet, "OPEN FIRE'". They started to shoot and watch as the minotaur's started falling down. Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom (really fast and multiple times).
Celestia, Twilight and Armor were amazed on how so few men were able to take down a small wave of Minotaur's without anyone getting hurt, Their ears were starting to hurt as the humans were firing their weapons. Twilight in particular was hiding with her head hidden behind Shining Armor but her rear was up in the air.
"Celestia we need to get some of their magical weapons," Shining said? She nodded.
After about 15 minutes all the Minotaur's were on the ground dead, riddled with holes throughout them.
"Cease fire men, we got them," Wesker said. "Reload men, I don't want to be ambushed now with half clips and belts."
"Yes sir," the men said together. They all started to put new clips and belt fed ammo into the guns.
"Wesker," said Celestia. If we are ever able to make amends, you got to teach us that magic spell, because its effective!"
"Maybe later on better terms, besides these aren't our best weapons, our most powerful weapons are locked up because of the side effects and what consequences that come with using it."
"Oh ok," Celestia said. Well this is a start, they haven't tried to kill us yet. I'm calling this success, she thought.
"Armor go back to Cadence, we will take it from here."
(Canterlot castle with Armor and Cadence)
Armor teleported back to the castle and he went to his wife who was saddened and was hugging a photo of Shining Armor. Cadence didn't see or hear him enter, so he slowly walked up behind her and put his hoof around her and she jumped off bed screaming.
"Oh Shining its only you.... SHINING, " Cadence turned around and gave him a huge hug.
"Sorry sweetie, but I couldn't help myself out when I saw you hugging that old photo." Her face turned a bright blush pink.
For the rest of the day they stayed together , doing various activities and Shining told stories to Cadence on how Wesker battle with the minotaur's.
(Luna)
"Good work my Lunar guards, after we get the castle repaired, you all deserve a good rest." Luna lowered her head as a letter from her sister apparently manifested itself in front of her. "What's this?" She opened the letter and it read.
Dear Sister Luna,
We have found Wesker and a few of his men, he thinks that the remaining two are to be considered hostile and dangerous, it's the one guy with the metal leg, Beltway and the other a accomplish calling himself Hitman.
Wesker said that if you find Beltway first don't be afraid to kill him on sight but try and capture Hitman or detain him.
Please send out your most stealthy assassin guard, or whatever you love to call them. I do think you were fond of Shadow Wing?? Anyways we need to get a set of eyes on those two men until Wesker or us can deal with them. Good news is that they promised not to attack anyone unless they attack them first.
Your loving older sister
Celestia
Luna had to read the letter twice. "Shadow Wing, report to me NOW." One of the bat ponies who was helping repair the castles ear twitched and hurried over to Princess Luna.
As Shadow Wing approached Princess Luna, he could tell that she was nervous. "What's wrong my princess? " He looked at her, stood at attention.
"At ease my assassin, I have a mission for you my young lone wolf. We need you to keep an eye on two lone humans that are somewhere in Equestria. " Luna showed Shadow Wing pictures of Hitman and Beltway. "Don't let them see you, they are extremely dangerous and they will probably kill you on site or worse, just don't kill them and signal us when you find them."
Shadow grinned, "well I best be going, now that I got a game." Shadow took off into the sky in the general direction that the two humans must of taken.
Shadow Wing flew just right under the clouds so that he wouldn't be spotted easily. High in the air he had a good view from the sky as he could see the tire marks from the Hummers and followed them.
(Wesker, his men and Celestia and Twilight.)
"Celestia anymore enemies that we should be told?" I looked at her, waiting for her response.
"Right now it's just the griffins and the Minotaur's everyone else are strong allies with us." Celesstia looked in Wesker's eyes as she said it.
"Ok, thank you and we are sorry about what happened at the castle, but hopefully we can get past our little accident?"
"Yes Wesker I already forgive you because it was my fault in all of this. If I would of just brought the humans to you when you asked none of this would of ever happened. "
"It's ok, Celestia." Put a hand on her, "We all make mistakes."
Panzer, Kevin and Scott were sitting around chatting while Celestia and Wesker were talking.
"So Scott, how do you know Kevin," Asked Panzer?
"Ah we are old friends, Panzer ," replied Kevin. "Back a few years ago back in Afghanistan, we were in the same squad, our mission was to clear out all insurgents out of a small ghost town. We had two other marines in our squad, I was squad leader. ... I would like to talk more about it but most of it is still classified, sorry Panzer."
"Hey I understand Kevin, so yea. "
While the men continued to sit around and Celestia and Wesker were talking when the sound of a motorized vehicle driving in the distance (about a mile apart), as the sound grew closer. Just in the distance the other Hummer drove out in the distance with and then all of a sudden it stopped Kevin got to his sniper rifle and looked to see what was going on.
"Hey Wesker, it looks like we found Beltway and Hitman. They have a full load in the back of their hummer and they are against the tree line."
"Ok , Kevin, thanks. Scott start the hummer and Panzer your gunner." Turing to Celestia and Twilight, " you two stay here for right now we don't need you in the crossfire." They nodded.
Scott was trying to turn the engine over, but was unsuccessful. "Wesker, it's not even trying to start."
"Kevin look at your rifle scope, it's a holographic right?"
"Yea," he looked through and noticed that it's not working. "It's out. "
"Figured they used some sort of EMP." Turning to one of the apache Choppers," are you guys dead too?" Wesker remembered that Hitman said that he had EMP grenades in his load out.
"No, our Apache's are anti EMP, so we are still good."
"Good. " Wesker went and opened the Hummers glove box pulling out a pair of binoculars. He raised them and looked at the other Hummer... "They appear to be affected the same like us. "
"So Wesker, what do you see," asked Scott.
"I think they might be capturing ... yes they are capturing ponies.... but why?" As he started to think about it, it all started to make sense...
(Meanwhile with Shadow Wing)
It had been about two hours since Shadow left the castle and flying just under the clouds in the direction that Luna told him to follow. He was hoping to find them soon, before the sun would set and would be harder for him to spot.
I was beginning to lose hope when something shiny caught my eye. I flew in closer to get a better view. "HOLY LUNA, it's them." I landed in some nearby trees and watched them. I watched them carefully as one of them started to open containers while the other was loading something into a metal box and then placing many locks on the door. "Hmmm what the Buck are they doing."
I looked around and I saw another Hummer across the field and saw multiple figures over there. That must be Wesker over there looking for them. Just as I blinked a letter with Luna's mark appeared in front of me. I opened the message and looked at it.
Attention Shadow Wing
By now I know your probably watching the two hostile humans, just wanted to remind you that the other group is in pursuit of them. Be careful my little assassin.
(The paper starts to look like she was crying as she was writing it.)
Also, Aura is missing.... She was last seen in the entry gardens tenting to her flowers. I have guards searching everywhere but she's not in her room or anywhere. I pray that I'm wrong but I think one of the two hostile humans might of got her.
Once you find them, go and find Celestia and regroup with them.
Please be careful again
Luna
(There were many tears at the bottom of the letter.)
"THEY GOT AURA......... THOSE BUCKS..." (I realized I yelled that out loud,) I was letting anger and rage start to get the best of me. I was thinking of just going straight in there and kicking their asses . I jumped out of my hiding spot and flew towards them just as I felt something hit my neck, "ouch, shit I'm tagged". I started to fly as fast as I could towards the Weskers Hummer in the distance. My wings were starting to feel heavy, I was almost there, and I was getting so sleepy. .... (Crashed 50 yards in front of Wesker.) ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
(Wesker)
"Panzer stay on the gun and cover me and Scott while we investigate the crashed pony." Panzer nodded and me and Scott walked towards the fallen pony. "He's been tranked," pulling out the needle that was in his neck, "Beltway what is your plan right now," I mumbled."
Five minutes had passed by the time they got the armored pony into the back of the Hummer.
Celestia walked over, "That's one of Luna's guards, he's an assassin, Shadow Wing I think is his name. "
"Well, Celestia he's got enough tranquilizer to keep an elephant down for a day." "He showed her the huge needle, "I'm guessing this is Beltways doing. All we can do is wait till he wakes up."
Scott handed a letter to Celestia, "this was found near him when he fell."
Celestia started to read the letter and all of a sudden tears began to appear from her eyes.
"Those monsters took Luna's daughter..... this guard Shadow Wing is her Coltfriend.... I'm slowly starting to see the picture. " She removed Wings helmet and let him sleep on the hummer after Wesker put a jacket under Wings head. "Thank you, Wesker, you are very kind."
"Kevin, what can you see through your scope?"
Kevin raised up his sniper rifle and looked at where the other Hummer was. "Yea its Beltway and Hitman, and they are loading up something I can't completely figure out what it is, but it's a dark cobalt bluish color and there's some reddish color on it too."
Celestia's eyes widened a little. "Cobalt and rose color.....that's AURA, LUNA's daughter. Wesker we need to get her before they hurt her!!"
"Celestia, we will get her back, but we have to be extremely careful. Beltway works for a company called Umbrella, they are extremely powerful corporation."
"So Wesker, Do you have a some sort of plan to rescue my subjects and my niece. I'm sorry, but those two humans need to be killed, I just don't see any other choices right now."
"Plan I do have but I'm curious what this sleeping fellow can give us information wise." Looking at the bat pony.
"I shall try an Awake Spell, " Celestia said. She lowered her head and magic soon surrounded Shadow Wing. "I pray that this works."
The Bat pony starts coughing and his eyes starts to open and looks around. Everyone stood around him and watched as him.
"Uhhh, um hello Princess Celestia, can you please explain what's going on? And why I feel like I ran into a brick wall?"
"You crashed about an hour and a half ago. What can you tell us about the men that attacked you?"
"I had orders from Princess Luna to observe them but not confront them, until I was given this." Handed Celestia the letter in which she read aloud. "After I read the letter I decided to go and check for myself but, I was hit with something and then I felt like I was getting heavy and I tried to make it towards Wesker and now here I am." He looked at one of the humans, "are you Wesker?"
"Yes, I'm Wesker," he replied. "And we are piecing a plan together to make sure we get your Aura back."
Shadow Wings eyes widened, "Aura...." looking down, "you will promise me that we can try and get her without getting her hurt?"
"That's the plan Wing," Wesker said. "Right now we are waiting for sunset so we will blend in more effectively. Scott, Kevin, Panzer and me will sneak over there using night vision, if it didn't get hurt by that EMP," pulls out cell phone and realizes it still works, "men our luck is changing, if my cell still works, our night vision must still work hehe."
They waited till it got dark and got ready for the stealthy ambush. Every man knew what their particular role was. I know Wing wasn't too happy, that I wasn't letting him go with us, but with being shot with a trank, I wasn't going to risk it, I hope he understands.
Author's Note
Sorry about the chapter being short. but it is necessary so I can start the next chapter.
enjoy
