Luna's Knight in Ballistic Armor.

“HA!”

“HA!”

“RAH!”

   The sound of flesh ripping can be vividly heard, with drops of rain against the dirt. The guards quickly presented themselves by popping out of the tree in unison, aiming their muskets at the stallion drenched in the blood one of Everfree’s most dangerous creatures: A Chimera.

   The Element Bearers followed suit, eyeing the gruesome sight. The said stallion glanced in their direction before collapsing on the ground, possibly from blood loss combined with fatigue; the the mad stalion, no, the thing gave them a wave with his fresh blood stained fingers.

Rarity had her lunch already near at her mouth, she ran to the nearest bush and let out her contents. Pinkie Pie’s mane is still straight, Fluttershy fainted and Applejack didn’t notice the body until now, due to the fact she held her little sister tight in her arms. Rainbow Dash looked away, she was clearly disgusted with the sight of blood, heck she is scared from blood spilling. Zecora entered her hut with haste, the door wide open.

   One of the guards approached the fallen stallion and picked him up from the ground, with the stallion’s arm resting on the guard’s shoulder.

The guard placed two of his fingers on the neck of the ‘stallion’, he was rewarded with small beats.

“Princess! This stallion is alive!” He shouted out, Zecora barged out of her hut holding some kind of clear blue liquid.

“It is best to take the stallion out of this forest, don’t put his stamina to the test.” She unplugged the top and poured the contents all over his wounds.

“Ugh…” The stallion grunted involuntarily. Another guard approached him and lets the “stallion’s” arm rest on his shoulders too. They dragged the body using the safest route through the forest as the rest of the guards disposed the body of the once fearful creature.

   The sound of simultaneous pounding hooves can be heard again. Not before long, they reached the clearing out of the forest. The guards were already spent from running and hauling this 120 pound stallion.

“Out of the way!” One guard yelled.

“We got wounded over here!” Another one yelled.

   The citizens did nothing but stare as the group approached the hospital. Pushing the door open steadfastly, one guard began to bark.

“Nurse! We need a Nurse! This pony is losing blood fast!” Another door flung open, Nurse Redheart and Nurse Tenderheart came out. At the other corner a trio of nurses fixed up a hospital bed. The guards laid the body on the bed as the nurses strapped the stallion in. Turning the bed around, they delivered the stallion the Emergency room.

***

   The six mares sat on the chairs in front of the room where the stallion stayed. The guards stood attention at the corner of the row of chairs. The door opened revealing the doctor who examined the so called stallion, Doctor Diagnosis.

Typical generic pony hospital doctor name.

“Princess. I think you want to see this.” said the doctor, of course the group went inside the room. Twilight felt something was off, some kind of new feeling is circling in her mind. The room was about average, a lamp shade on a small table on the side of the bed, on the other side was a heart monitor. On the other table at the door was a tray of food. On the wall, was a coat hanger with the stallion’s clothes completely spotless, no dirt and blood can be seen; the holes and the tears in the clothes were gone, by courtesy of Rarity.

Well, she couldn’t stand the eye sore. Heck, she even wanted to dye it! But the stallion might get mad.

“Princess, this is not a stallion, but it is definitely a male.” the doctor said, “The patient is likely in his late twenties. The ears are attached to the side, round shaped. I can detect only a fraction of magic in this person. What marvels me is the fact that we can detect brain patterns similar of that to a pony’s own. He has a perfect set of canines and incisors at the front. At first we though you found a meat eater in the hospital, but it had another set of teeth further in its jaw, it’s omnivorous.”

“When you found this being, you found it brutally betting a Chimera right?” The girls gave a nod, although some of them flinched for a nanosecond. “Well, he suffered major cuts all over his body. Thankfully we stopped the bleeding. He suffered three broken ribs, a fractured arm and minor concussion. Thank Celestia for the helmet he wore. He suffered a cut vertically going across his right eye, in turn making him blind with a scar.” The doctor pointed at the lying on the hospital bed, his left eye covered by an eye patch.

As one pony could think silence had befallen the group, well they are wrong.

   Another set of pounding hooves sounded out, the door opened; seven guards marched out, with them two Alicorns: Princess Celestia, the Solar Princess and Princess Mi Armore Cadenza, the Princess of Love.

   The guards stood attention as the rest of the ponies inside the room knelt down, safe for the Princess of Friendship. She eyed one of the guards, he wore a red long sleeve underneath his Gold armor lined with purple streaks, the same with his helmet, styled a kin to a roman legionnaire. Noticing this quickly, she beamed up and hugged the guard.

“Big Bro!” Twilight shouted out, tackling her brother. Her brother giggled and gave her a playful noogie whilst Celestia walked up to the center, in the front side of the bed, facing the creature.

“Rise my little ponies.” She said, all the while making a ‘rise gesture’.

   She took a deep breath and said, “Me and Cadence noticed a very powerful Magic spike, a spike that only Alicorns and ALICORNS ONLY can create.” She looked at every mare in the room before focusing her eyes on Twilight, the crowned Princess of Friendship.

“Magic spikes are pings that unicorns can feel and hear when they use magic. Spells like Levitation and illumination spells only radiate minor to small spikes, spells like attack spells and teleportation spells radiate medium to strong spikes while powerful spells like summoning spells  can radiate strong to major spikes.”

Twilight tilted her head slightly before asking, “So who made the spike?”

   The solar princess replied, “Magic spikes from unicorns are distinguishable because they leave their magical essence. When summoning spells are used, they tend to leave the Cutie mark of the one who summoned, in fact, it is also coated with their essence.” She then sets her eyes to the unconscious creature. She settles her eyes to the hand. A tattoo of some kind embedded itself on his hand, a dark blue circle was present and in the center was a half crescent moon.  She stuck her arm out and grabbed the hand of the creature. She held it up high for all the group could see.

A sudden pang of realization hit the group.

Rainbow Dash answered, coming to a conclusion. “So Princess Luna summoned Him?”

The Princess of the sun gave a nod, still keeping her remarkable poker face. "She did summon this creature."

   As for Pinkie Pie, she cared less about the conversion, going ‘Ooo’ over the peaceful creature sleeping on the bed. She giggles as she played around, putting sunglasses on him, putting party hats on his head, and some kind of goatee, but it gets replaced by a pink mustache with glitters and a tag that read “Pinkie pie’s” attached to it side. She also placed wacky glasses on him, with spring attached to plastic eyes on the frame of the glasses.

“OOOO---! What’s this button do!” She pressed a button on the wrist of the creature. A hologram sound echoed through as numerous eyes plastered themselves to the pink mare, dressing up the poor creature.

“Pinkie!” Applejack exclaimed, before she pulled her away from him.

Rainbow Dash hysterically laughed at the sight of the creature, is until a grey something popped up from the creature’s wrist. A gray screen appeared, the screen rippled for a short while before entering a text.

*** Viao Tech Individual Monitoring System Holo-pad***

The screen flashed brightly, making everypony temporarily blinded from the flash. A Text popped up.

***Entities: eighteen thermal figures***

*** Memory flare scan complete. No affiliation with New Era Org***

***Accessing Personal data***

The screen flared up again, presenting a file. On the corner of the file there was a picture of the creature. A monotone robotic voice began to read the file.

“Name: Jean Christian Riley.”

“Rank: Lieutenant.”

“Age: 29”

“Height: 6”5”

“Birth place: United Kingdom, Nottingham.”

“Birthdate: August 8, 1987”

“Relatives:”

“Annie Riley, Little sister.”

“Johansson Riley, little brother.”

“Elizabeth Smith, Aunt.”

“Bernard Smith, Uncle. (Deceased.)”

“Gerard Riley, Father. (Deceased.)”

“Natasha Riley. Mother. (Deceased.)”

“Subject Unconscious from Blood loss”

   "Born in Nottingham, Jean and his family lived an awfully quiet life. During his younger years, his father joined the British Armed Forces to fight in The Gulf War in 1991. His family has a history of their relatives joining the military, his grandfather joined World War II, and his grandfather’s father joined World War I and his grandfather’s grandfather joined the wars that came before. War runs in the family. His father died of sickness. His mother died from cancer several years later. Bearing all the burdens, he took a job in the age of 15 as a delivery boy and bought food on the table. Months later his Uncle and his Auntie found them in their predicament and took them under their roof. From there on they lived peacefully, until their crisis. Once again Jean took different types of jobs, but one job was cut out perfectly for him. He joined the military at the age of 21 years old."

***Protocol 316: Any soldier who is unconscious in battle and either found dead or breathing, are to be escorted to the military.***

Everypony looked at the screen before, Twilight got too curious and touched the screen, hitting the ‘memories’ button.

***Authorization Level: 1 Access denied***

   Well, she wanted to know what the creature wanted to do here; she flared up a powerful psychic spell, she aimed her horn at the screen and shot a purple beam of magic. The screen began to fizzle and crack before the system wrote:

***Authorization Level: 7 Access granted***

Twilight smiled in the name of victory. Well she overrides the system with her magic. Oh humanity, you so silly.

***Tapping into Cerebral Cortex, granted. Accessing Cerebellum. Showing Memory playback***

***

(First person: Jean Cristian Riley. Present age: 18yrs old)

“AHHH…” I groaned out. I rubbed my eyes and looked at the alarm clock at the side of my bed.

“MMoondaaaaaaayssss.” I groaned out again, this time more loudly.

The door clicked as it opened, I felt something sitting on my lap as I laid in bed, and it screamed very loudly.

“WAKE UP BIG BROTHER!”

“GAH!” I screamed, looking up I saw my little sister bouncing around my lap. Oh God no.

Oh lord, she is too young to know this kind of thing. Either way I hope she doesn’t notice my morning wood.

“Big bro? What’s this hard thing I’m sitting on? Ooo! Is it the remote control you hid?!”

Great. She NOTICED.

“All right! Time’s up!” I said before sitting up and carried my eight year old little sister on my shoulders. I opened the door and changed her position, carrying her bridal style.

“Bump! Bump! Bump!” She would occasionally mumble out as I placed my foot down on the steps. My Aunt looked at me with an amused look before saying, “Good morning sweetie.” I dropped my sister on her legs and sat on the table. My little brother who is in the age of 13, gave me a bro-fist.

In front of me was Pancakes and eggs. That is the stuff. I took my fork and took a chunk of it. I eyed the syrup bottle in the center of the table. Oh, I forgot about that. I took the bottle and uncapped it, I aimed at the pancake in my plate. The chuck was gone from my plate, I looked with a bemused expression and saw my sister nibbling on the tip of her fork.

   I quickly took chunk out her own and placed it in my mouth, eating the fluffy goodness. My sister looked at me before exclaiming, “Hey!” I looked at her, smirking. “What’s yours is mine Kid.” Johansson chuckled from my remark.

   She scrunches up her face, looking at me annoyed. I took my free arm and put her in a headlock. I placed my fist over her head and began massaging her with it.

“Hey! Cut it out bro!” She said, all the while giving her a noogie. My aunt popped out from the kitchen looking at me, she was smiling before she held her own platter of Fish and Chips. Man I want some.

“Alright, cut it out you two.” She said. My siblings and I looked at her as a mother figure. They found us after months of tracking us. We still lived at our house where we were raised by our parents. My Aunt and Uncle couldn’t find our home because they were distant, my relatives from us. It took a while before they gathered all the information to find us.

I just could help but shake the fact off, we were happy. Not that it was a bad thing. Normally I just shook the feeling of after days but, we found peace once again. How could this get bad?

***

(TIME SKIP: AGE IS 21)

Sigh.

   Life’s getting harder by the minute. My aunt’s problem with money got to me finally; without the money I couldn’t finish law school, my sibling can even enroll to a school! It’s still a miracle Aunt Ehli still puts food on the table.

   The money problem started when I was eavesdropping in a conversation between my aunt and the recent case involving the death of our uncle, there I knew we were also scammed. The criminal got away with the money. Almost ¾ of our money was gone. Poof! Disappeared out of thin air. “Huh, siphoning bank accounts out of thin air.” Huh, what a nice video game motto for a game someday.

   A sat up one my bed, looking down the floor.  I have been think of this for a long time now. If I join the military, the pay is good enough to cover our expenses, if we deposited in the bank in months’ time, we can even clear our debts! It’s a good thing the military is hiring men to fight.

No, it’s a death wish. You know you’ll died out their Jean. Don’t go to war!

   You know what? Fuck that. My family needs the money, its even ok for me. I got kicked out of school because of a grave violation that I did not commit. They just pegged it on me!

   I looked at the clock. 2:11 PM. I could enlist right now. This is my final decision. I took my coat from the clothes hanger in front of the door and went outside to meet my choice of work.

(Time Skip: Evening.)

   I am currently in front of my Aunt, holding up the papers right in front of her. She was shocked to say, dumfounded. “NO JEAN, you aren’t permitted to do this!” My aunt finally snapped out from shock. She looked at me, in her eyes the fury of a thousand suns. She’s very mad at me. “Why did you do this?! Is it because I don’t have enough money to feed ourselves for a month so you applied for the military?!”

“YES! We don’t have enough money! We don’t even have enough money to enroll Annie, me and Johansson for that matter!” I raised my voice higher than hers.

“You didn’t have to worry! I work every day just to feed all of the three of you! Go tell the Military to pack up, you’re going to continue schooling!” she raised her voice higher than mine previously.

   I took a deep breath before shouting higher than her own, “I just can’t stand you coming home tired and exhausted, hell it’s only a matter of time before your legs give in! I want a better future for my siblings, especially Annie. I’m about to graduate from college by know and I’ve learned so many. It time for my sibling to know more! Besides, it’s my time to join the military!”

“What will happen if you die then?! Who will feed us? Who’ll come home and play with your sibling besides me?” She said, she begged for the answer.

“If I die, the government will give you pension! There is a ton of money in that! I know money can’t buy love, but I want a better future for my sister and my brother. I don’t want them to just stare into the TV! They need knowledge. I hope they’ll understa---“

   My ears shot up as I heard rustling, my aunt also heard it. I walked over behind the counter and saw Annie holding her teddy bear, she sniffled as tears ran down her eyes. She whimpered as I knelt down. She said, “Is it true Big Bro? You’re going to go with men with guns? Just like Daddy?” I stuck my finger out and wiped her tear going down to her cheeks.

“Yes…” I mumbled out.

   She sniffles before she sticks both of her hands out, teddy bear in her hands for all the world could see. “Here, take Mister Cuddles. He helps me when he sleeps. Here let me give him to you.”

Smiling, I kissed her in the forehead.

“Auntie, this is my final decision. The truck will pick me up tomorrow in the morning.”

“I hope you made the right decision. Please just come home safe.” She said, before hugging both me and my sister. I couldn’t help but cry, I let my tears fall down my cheeks.

***

   Regaining her posture after the little "show," the Princess of the sun levitated her quill and wrote a very short message before handing it to a guard. “Guard, deliver this to the messenger of the Royal Palace. Tell him it is addressed to my sister.”

The guard stood stiff as he gave a salute, he bolted out of the door. At that moment, another video played, this one in particular saw the creature riding on what it looks like a chariot, towards a city on fire.