Death City

Well, I’m back, and ready than ever to start this story. With that said, let the fan fiction begin!

Chapter 1 – The Crisis Begins

Rainbow Dash's POV

When thinking of the world of Equestria, what first would come to mind is peace and harmony. Everypony playing with each other and supporting all. Ponies sharing laughter as well as love. Gumdrops falling from the clouds as rainbows soar through the blank canvas of the sky. Everything seeming so…………perfect. But that was a long time ago. It’s been years since anypony has gotten along or even laugh. Ever since the rise of, of HIM, everypony went their separate ways. It was everypony for themselves. That was a foolish mistake. The result of this was millions of lives taken away from their very own bodies. Only a few have made it out alive and they spend the rest of their days hiding in the rubble and ashes of the city of what used to be known as Ponyville. Some have even committed suicide in order to escape the feeling of torture that they knew they would be facing in the future. Nopony around here lives anymore, we just survive. And those who survive will one day find the courage to confront the very soul of torture and destruction that has caused the madness of this massacre, of the nightmare which is Death City.

My name ….. is Rainbow Dash, speed queen herself. Everypony has heard of me, and those who don’t, wish they could know me. I am one of the very few survivors who have made it this far in my life. What seems impossible to others is a cakewalk to me. Honestly, trying to survive in this hell hole isn’t that bad, not when you’ve got friends by your side whenever you need help or assistance. Sure some of them can blow their fuse at you or annoy the crap out of you, or even turn rouge and try to kill you, but they still can be trusted time after time. And it’s not just me and the other mane 5 confronting this war, we have also met some new allies along the way and have really expanded our colony. One day, when our army is big and powerful enough, and we have the strongest and toughest weapons, we will make our way into Death City and find the one who has wreaked chaos all over our beloved world. But until then, all we can do right now is fight to survive.

Right now, you might be curious as to what Death City is, and sad enough to say, I truly don’t know what it is. I’ve heard old takes of the dumbest of the dumb such as Snips and Snails mentioning that they would be the saviors of the town and stop the Supreme Being destroying our town. A few days later, it was announced that both ponies had been killed in a mysterious way. Nopony knows what happened specifically, but a Pegasus from the weather team found scraps of blood, hide, as well as internal and external organs scattered everywhere. This shocked the entire town and they knew that if nopony could stop this chaotic ruler, then they would have to pay the price of the consequence, their lives. Sure enough, this soon became true. Ponies after Ponies, falling from grace, biting the dirt, the stench of death and decay luring out of their corpses.

Survivors Guilt - Rise Against (open link in new tab)

What are you talking about? Equestria is not going to be destroyed.

Never?

Canterlot was destroyed,

Cloudsdale was destroyed,

Fillydelphia was destroyed,

Manehatten was destroyed.

All great countries are destroyed. Why not yours?

How much longer do you really think your own country will last?

Forever?

I remember one day seeing all these different kinds of monsters and demons infiltrate our own town. The force field we had put up over the town using Unicorn magic was very unstable and backfired on us, allowing the enemies to cross on to our territory. We weren’t ready to give up then. Not now, not ever.

Block the entrances

Close the doors

Seal the exits

'Cause this is war

All gave some

Some gave all

But for what

I want to know

Ponies of all shapes and sizes charged towards the enemies. This was a truly fatal mistake that the citizens had made.

Carry on

Don't mind me

All I gave was everything

And yet you ask me for more

Fought your fight

Bought your lie

And in return I lost my life

What purpose does this serve?

I don’t know how many enemies there were out there or what kind of monsters they were. There were so many species of monsters that I couldn’t keep track of, with each of them having their own special abilities.

A folded flag

A purple heart

A family all but torn apart

I fought with courage to preserve

Not my way of life, but yours

Since I was just a filly at the time, I was forced to stay in my home up in Cloudsdale as I was forced to witness my parents and siblings fight in the battle. I could hear the loud, spine-tingling shrieks and screams of the innocent ponies literally being obliterated and torn limb by limb.

Carry on

Don't mind me

All I gave was everything

And yet you ask me for more

Fought your fight

Bought your lie

And in return I lost my life

What purpose does this serve?

I couldn’t stop watching from my cloud home. I tried so hard to avert my eyes from the massacre, but my eyes had a mind of their own.

The cowards preach from pedestals

With words like courage and resolve

But what they meant was fuck them all

'Cause freedom isn't free

They send our daughters and our sons

To deserts under burning suns

A sacrificial slaughtering to fill

The pockets of the weak

An artificial enemy

Are we so easily deceived?

They carry on

Soon enough, one of the enemies had sneaked around my own father and began to raise his spikey arm covered in blood, into the air. My soul dropped dead as I soon realized what was going to happen. I screamed as loud as my throat could allow me in order to get my father’s attention, but it was already too late.

You're a shameful opportunist!

What you don't understand is that it's better to die on your hooves than to live on your knees.

You had it backwards.

It's better to live on your hooves than to die on your knees.

Don't carry on

Just walk away

How many more sent to their graves

In this lesson ignored?

The arm of the enemy had closed in on my father as it slashed against his side all the way from his neck to his back. I had closed my eyes during this moment and when I opened them, I could not believe my eyes on what I was seeing below. My father lay on the ground, blood spewing from the heavy gash of incision crafted onto his right side.

I fought your fight

Bought your lie

And in return I lost my life

What purpose does this serve?

A tear had shed from my eye after realizing I had just lost one of my closest friends in my life, my own father. I began to weep uncontrollably, everything becoming blurry as my own tears prevented me from seeing what was happening below in the war zone. This had actually been my first experience crying. I always had thought crying were for wimps and scaredy ponies like Fluttershy, but I was wrong. I never knew how much it hurt to cry, not on the outside, but on the inside.

What purpose did I serve?

The same thing had not only happened to my mother, but also to my brother too, I couldn’t help but watch and cry as I saw both of them hit the ground as well as my father. I had felt so much empathy for them that I began to think if I should go and join them, if I should really commit suicide in order to see them once more. There were a bunch of voices in my head telling me to do so that I couldn’t even think straight. Soon, I heard the sound of crunching leaves below me. Slowly and cautiously, I peered the upper half of my head outside the window. I couldn’t see anything through the tears in my eyes, so I had to wipe them away with my hoof. When my vision became clear and into focus again, I could see one of the monsters below me, but this one happened to be one of the robotic ones. Its body covered with a thin layer of steel as well as a thin coat of red ruby paint over it. Its physical form resembled to the shape of an earth pony itself. Even though the robotic pony could not see me, I could still see it from an appropriate distance. Soon, a fuzzy stench had reached my nose and began to tickle my nostril, causing me to take deep breaths in and slowly….

“ACHOO!!!”

All of a sudden, as fast as a jet, the robot below me had turned his head up towards me and looked at me with his dot green eyes. I had a feeling of terror in me suddenly and new that I was going to die. This was until I had locked eyes with him. His small, bright green eyes showing a vast array of different colors and spectrums that even outstanded me. I moment of silence was between us as we just kept looking into each other’s eyes until, the robotic pony swiftly and briskly turned around and began to slowly go back in the direction in which he came from, with one hoof in front of another. This deeply confused me. I suddenly meet a robot that I have never seen before, and then he just turns around and begins pacing himself the way he came from.

“WAIT!” I shouted. I swear, those words had just slipped out of my mouth like butter. The next thing I realized, I was airborne, face to face with the metallic pony that I had just met a few seconds ago.

“Why didn’t you kill me or even hurt me when you found me?” I questioned. My curiosity had gotten the best of me as I began to ask him questions constantly that he was unable to answer.

The robot had just shot me the same exact look as he did when we had first met, an expression that held no emotion to it.

“Huh, you don’t seem to be like the other intruders out there on the battlefield, do you?” I asked one more time

The robot still just stood there, still showing no emotion, then all of a sudden began to slowly cock his head to the right a little bit, and finally began to look down at the ground covered with not only dirt, but also blood of the nearby innocent citizens of Ponyville who had been killed by the enemies.

“You really don’t seem that bad. I’ve got some great friends that would be delighted to meet you, follow me.” I had managed to say. With that out there, I quickly grabbed the robot’s hand and began flying him in the air, dodging all the attacks made by the enemies suspended on the ground.

“First stop, the library” I mumbled as I took off for the old oak tree in the north.

Well, there you have it, my first ACTUAL chapter of this story. Seeing where this is going, I can predict this will be one hay of a story, don’t you agree. For those of you who are curious, the song I used in this chapter was Survivor’s Guilt by Rise Against. Occasionally, there will be certain chapters that will have songs in them that will add more effect to the stories theme itself. Not only am I taking OC requests, but I am also now taking song requests too. Just keep in mind that when you want a song to be featured in this story, you have to keep in mind that it has to fit in with the story. That means ABSOLUTELY NO JUSTIN BIEBER. With that said, I salute you guys and I hope you enjoy the next chapter which will be up soon.

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