Prologue

I remember it like it was yesterday.... all the pain, the hate, and blood. Its was a normal afternoon, just like to day but it was a bad day to be poor, you would be thrown into an area and never able to leave. But escaping was the only way to live. Living was what these ponies needed, needed to feel accepted but because of the "New Rule" that was going to be hard.

Lets start with that fateful day where it all started, My name is Braden, and this is the story of how it happened. I was walking along with my friend David. David was my best friend and we hit it off like there was no tomorrow, we were friends till the end. While we were walking we noticed that a lot of the ponies in town were all circled around two other ponies that were fighting and like the curious ponies we were we decided to go and join to what it was all the fuss was about. Upon joining the crowd i noticed that one of the ponies fighting was a Canterlot soldier and a normal town pony!

"Lets go right here right now!" Yelled the town pony.

The crowd quickly got worried for the town pony, thinking the soldier might hurt him bad, right after he said that the soldier went for a hit but the town pony dogged and struck with a counter punch to the stomach.

"Not so tough now are you!" the town pony said.

Right then and there the soldier punched the town pony in face knocking him out. His body lay there it looked dead but he was still breathing, when the soldier told everyone to leave the scene most ponies left but some stood around the town pony's body trying to revive him.

"What was that all about?" I mumbled to myself.

Another pony heard what I said and replied with

"The town pony and the soldier were fighting because the soldier was trying to enter the pony's home to see what he had inside to see if he was "Low class" or not."

" Why would that even matter!"

"Have you not heard? Princess Celestia's New Rule says that if you are not "High class" then you will be moved to a separate place then the High class people."

Just the sound of that sounded sickening to me, just the idea that if you are not what the people want you to be then you are thrown into a prison because you are different.

" This isn't right how come ponies get to decide if your not what they want you to be!" I Yelled.

" Well its going to be hard on a lot of us." the pony said while he walked off into the distance.

After that me and David walked off back to my place and on the way there we said nothing to each other, all we could think about is if we would have to leave Ponyville or not. while walking more soldiers were coming in raiding houses and families were being told to follow them to an area nopony knew where it was, most were terrified that they would never see their friends and family ever again. David and I continued to walk but a little bit faster we didn't want to talk to the soldiers or even see what was going on. When we made it to my House we sat on the couch and just sat there with nothing to say.

"What are we going to do!" shouted David.

"I don't know, I guess we might have to leave Ponyville" I whispered.

"But we cant just leave can we?"

"David I just think that there is no way to stop this, we need to accept this"

I thought about what I said but before I could I heard a knock at the door. I got up and opened the door and in front of the door was a soldier staring me down, I felt like I was powerless and i couldn't get any words out my mouth. Then the soldier took a glance inside my house and asked if he could come in.

"So what brings you here Sir?" I said.

"Just checking your house to see if your good to go." He replied

He checked everything and looked very closely making sure he wouldn't miss anything.

"Wait!" He exclaimed

"Who is that?"

He pointed to David, David looked like he was about to die from shock!

"That is David, my friend." i replied

The soldier quickly looked through a chart he had with him when he came to the door. The soldier looked up at me, then David, then back at his chart and continued to look through the pages. While he was i heard David walking across the living room, David was creeping up the stairs of my house looking like he was heading for the window. But right when he was the floor creaked and the soldier looked up and noticed him trying to escape!

"YOU STAY RIGHT THERE!"

The soldier darted passed me and went strait for David and tackled him to the ground!

"Let go of me!" David shouted.

"I'm sorry but your friend doesn't calcify as a high class resident of this town, he's going to have to come with me."

David looked me right in the eyes with a look i will never forget, he wanted to be free, but the soldier had him in his grasp.
But right then David head butted him, surprising the soldier and making him dizzy enough for David to push the soldier off of him self and make a run for it! The soldier recovered quickly and chased after him. Once David was at the top of the stairs he jumped out of the window, but the soldier followed and jumped out to catch him. I quickly ran outside to see what happened. I saw David all scraped up and the soldier putting hoof cuffs on him. I ran up to them but another soldier came up to me and started to push me away from them. David was struggling to get away but he could. The soldier got up and picked him up off the ground and started to escort him to the others that had to leave the town. But the David jerked around and Started to yell words that stay will stay with me forever.

"BRADEN , PLEASE HELP ME, SAVE ME FROM THIS AND FIGHT YOUR WAY UNTIL YOU CAN!!"

All I could do was just watch as my foalhood friend, the stallion I've known for as long as I can remember, being dragged away to somewhere I will never be able to go and ill never be able to see him again.

Author's Note

This is my first time writing a story so any positive or negative criticism is accepted