YhaY: Judgment Day

Location: ??????

In the middle of a dimly lit and gloomy room, on opposite sides of a coffee table, sat two beings in black cloaks that encompassed everything in their bodies but their heads. One was a red-eyed young woman who's wide, deep purple hair ran all the way to her heels; the other, a man with shaggy grey hair and blank, soulless eyes.

"It's been so long since I've had a choice, at all." Started the woman as she took a sip of her tea.

"I'm well aware." Said the man.

"You'd think twenty years of having no control over your body would get to you, wouldn't you? Well it would, and it did." The woman took another small sip from her cup.

"Oh, Artemis, let's not do this, the world is engulfed in enough drama as it is." The man held his hand to the bridge of his nose, annoyed.

"This is not drama, Chronos, this is the truth!" Gaia said as she put down her cup of tea, still holding it in her hand.

"Do you have any idea how I felt when I could do literally nothing but watch as a race of equines who call themselves "peaceful" and "tolerant" took turns to shove their members down my mother and father's throats?" She asked, putting pressure on her cup.

"Do you have any idea how I felt when I was branded and sold on the street like a common whore?" She put more pressure on her cup

"Do you have any idea how I felt when I was mounted and rutted by those I once called friends? And even my little brother?!" She asked, as cracks started appearing on the cup's surface.

Chronos sighed an annoyed sigh. "Yes, yes, I'm well aware of how much you hate Celes-"

"NO, YOU ARE NOT!"

She didn't quite feel or notice it happen, but the mysterious woman now found herself face to face with her colleague, hot tea dripping from her hands with which she held his cloak , breathing  at a rate not healthy for any kind of living being.

He, on the other hand, kept his neutrality-emanating look.

Gaia quickly noticed what she was doing, let her brother in arms go, and sunk back into her seat.

After two or three minutes of awkward silence, she lifted her head from her hands and spoke to the man across the room.

"Why didn't you help me out twenty years ago?" She asked with eyes that wanted to, but couldn't quite afford to cry.

The man started rubbing his temples. "You know very well why, my dear. I had more important priorities."

It was then that she broke down into tears. "What could possibly be more important than saving me from twenty years of hell?!" She advocated in between sobs.

The man stood up from his seat and went across the coffee table to wrap Gaia in a hug. "Now now, darling, you know I hate to see a lady cry." He said, almost sounding cynical. Almost. "You know what would have happened had I interfered with the spell myself."

One or two minutes of consolation later, Chronos spoke up again.

"Don't cry Gaia, it's bad for your circuitry." He said while absent-mindedly rubbing her back with one hand. "A friend of ours arrived in the Everfree recently, I'm gonna need you to take care of him."

Location: Friendship Express.

Ever been on top of a speeding train while wearing a top hat? It's pretty tragic. For the top hat, I mean.

"Relax Faustin." Said Alexander through his combat helmet. "It's only a top hat."

"Only a top hat?" Faustin blurted out. "That hat was the pinnacle of perfection that adorned my everlasting elegance! Without it I am no longer a gentleman!"

"Geez, obsessive much?" Thought Alexander out loud, to which Faustin was mature enough not to reply to.

Alexander looked around to see what everyone else was doinig. Gasman was playing five finger fillet, but with no platform to stick the knife into or keep his hand steady on; Pitka was dangling his legs over the back of the train, supposedly brooding; Faustin had his hands on his head, mourning the windy loss of his hat; and Dropbearius was ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████.

Soon enough the group noticed a trail of flying figures speeding towards the train they were stow-awaying in.

As they got closer, they started to make out the shape of pegasi in a triangular formation. Expecting conflict, the humans grabbed their respective weapons.

"They must've followed us from the city." Said Pitka.

"Should we just shoot them?" Asked Alexander.

"Let's wait and see what their intentions are." Suggested Pitka.

Eventually, the mini-fleet of thirty pegasi caught up to the train. Its leader, a cyan coated pegasus with a military shave, was the first to land, followed by the rest of the squad.

"What is it that you need?" Asked Faustin.

"Sir, should we intercept them? They're talking humans, but they don't match the descriptions." Spoke up one soldier in the front row.

"It doesn't matter if the descriptions are off. They're humans with the ability to talk, they're definetely the humans Her Majesty wants."

All 4 humans grabed their weapons, except for Dropbearius, who simply said. "Don't worry about it comrades, I'll handle this."

"Jesus fucking christ Dropbearius!" Yelled Alexander. "What the fuck is wrong with you?!"

"I'm fairly certain spatulas were never meant to be used that way." Added Pitka.

As Dropbearius rummaged through the belongings of the ponies who suffered a horrible death, he found a note and five red collars clutched inside the squad captain's saddlebag.

"I found something!" Announced Dropbearius.

Your orders are to find five specific humans, I do not know their exact wherabouts, but if the explosion at the outer wall earlier this morning was any indication, it's that they were initially in Canterlot. They probably escaped by clinging to the departing Friendship Express.

Your targets are a blond male with metallic limbs, a male clad in full white armor, a female clad in dark green armor, a male wearing a black military-like suit, and a bearded male wearing a red shirt and black pants.

Be warned, these humans are sapient and can speak. Do not kill them, instead, lock the five collars I supplied you with around their necks, that should remove their 'unique traits'.

Your payment will await you upon your return.

Signed

Princess Celestia of Equestria.