The Loss of War Part 1 (Re-edited)
It was a dark, cold and stormy summer's night in New York.
The sound of thunder echoed in the distance. Under ordinary circumstances it would have been a welcome sign of the coming rain that would soon refill the cleaned cans that collected the life giving liquid. Today, however, there would be no one to receive it. Not for long anyway.
My name is Michael S. Lagan. I was a soldier once, when there was still something worth fighting for back then before the world went to a wasteland hell.
I was an orphan for most of my early childhood, never really connecting with an adult figure, until I met my foster mother, Akasuki Nakamura. She was the best mom anyone could ask for. She would put up with me and my adopted brother George Morris when we got into mischief when we were young. George was older then me and I would look to him when I needed help when mom wasn't available.
While it was subtle at first, I began to notice later on in life that I was treated differently by the others. I was taller than the others, even at an early age, which often singled me out. My foster mother simply dismissed it as good genes while George said it was a good thing for when I got older, without really showing any signs of stopping at some points of my life. Thankfully, my growth spurts did come to a stop, bringing me to an impressive 8' 11” and 450 lbs.
Naturally, I got into sports, and excelled at it. Football, Basketball, I was pretty flexible with that. I never really pushed myself to try to go pro, despite my coach and my family urging me to do so. I had bigger plans, ones that involved serving others. I had made up my mind at a young age to join the marines, or try to at least. They were the best of the best.
I was not like the rest of my race. I wasn't born like the rest of my kind. I was... different. How different you say? Well... I am much taller and stronger than any human. For some weird reason I'm extremely resistant to damage, had near immunity towards radiation, have a very strong sense of smell, and have a swift healing rate. I also had what some people say a very strange dietary preference, now most people have a weird or odd kind of food they like to eat, me on the other hand had some concerns for other people like eating things that would normally kill a person like nightshade but to be fair that one was by accident, or even eating a eucalyptus leaf Which i’d thought was a very earthy spinach.
I was always looked at as ether as a man to feared or a man with a wonderful gift that the gods have given me for unknown reasons. Sometimes both. Scientists were baffled, shocked, astonished and dumbfounded at my abilities that a normal human can never do without the help of machines or any other means. They'd tried to make humans that have the same abilities as i do, but the results would always end fatally despite how much hard work, research, and determination they put into trying to cure or improve humans as a species.
I'm a 25 year old man filled with nothing but emptiness and sorrow. I have dark yellow eyes, silver gray hair, medium-large build, I'm eight feet tall, and around 430 pounds. At the time I wore high grade, M.S.A 95 heavy infantry battle armor (nicknamed the berserker suit.) it was dark green with inward bumpy patterns,
I also carried a handful of handheld weapons, but never any firearms because it felt dishonorable to use them. My main weapons are two Claymore blades.
Which, to me, felt like two regular swords. I also had a large, custom-made Warhammer that I crafted with a titanium-steel metal mix called bug smasher.
A large rifle bow with 12 1/2inch titanium alloy bolts,
And Eight large, curved-blade saw-back bowie knives.
The rest of my attire consists of dark green boots with titanium plating that covers the entire boot, dark green gauntlet-like gloves with spiked knuckles, and titanium steel armor plating all over my torso, arms, and legs.
On the left side of my face is a big scar that starts at the top of my eyebrow and stops about halfway at my cheek from when i was in the war. And finally, around my neck are two wedding rings and a silver tear droplet. The tear droplet that held within it a photo of me with the only person I ever loved with all my heart. The love of my life, my wife Asoka.
Askoka was the love of my life, she had Brunette hair, stood at 5’8”, and a great musical voice that I could listen to all day and night but also had a somewhat of a tomboyish personality that I really loved about her. Askoka and I would do almost everything together when we were young and as adults, we started out as friends but over time and around high school we confessed our feelings towards each other and a few years after high school we got married, we even wanted a child together.
But then within two years Nightmarish monsters appeared out of what scientists labeled a Porta. Creatures called themselves Nuckelavee. I always thought that was just stuff from comics, video games, fantasy and horror movies, nothing real, but that wasn't the worst part.
What the creatures did was what put the world in the shape that it was in now. They drained what I could only describe as the life force from whoever they attacked and those who they didn't drain they would eat their victims or rape them. Their yellow eyes were the worst thing about them. Cold, lifeless eyes, almost doll like, until they started to drain a victim dry.
They were vaguely horse-like insectoid beings that have the ability to speak, their heads have more of skeleton-like appearance, they stand 5 to 6 Ft. tall, have a 3 1/2 to 4 Ft. wingspan, 6 inch horns, 3 “fingers” on each hand, 2 clawed hooves, having a bipedal stance with hinged legs, a slightly higher brain function than humans in massive numbers and work as a hive-mind, can fly at speeds up to 100 miles an hour, levitate objects with their horn-like protrusions ranging from small to massive sizes as well as cast an array of projectiles ranging from fireballs to what can only be described as a laser beam, and are covered with a thick carapace-like exoskeleton that range from pale grey to blood red and it's stronger than the strongest metals founded or created by man.
Their screams kept me up at night sometimes, I had been lucky so far to avoid them after being captured by them almost a year ago, now that I'm all alone. Bullets failed to harm them, bombs only proved to irritate them, even missiles were no use against them, and when we used napalm on the creatures they just walked through the fire as a human walks through the rain, unfazed. With all of our weapons and resources exhausted, hiding became the only option. But even that turned out to be a death sentence as they sniffed us out and cached their victims by taking them to one of their hives or by draining, eating, and worst of all raping their victims right then and there in the bunkers, bomb shelters, and sewage ways.
Ironically i was the only one that survived it all through hiding and taking whatever food i could find. But i was done hiding. More than that, I was done with this world. If there was an afterlife, I could only hope it was better than the pain and guilt and loneliness I had been sentenced to dwell in this past 5 years.
(FLASHBACK)
Japan
Ruins of Shitennoji temple, Osaka
October 22
2055
i roared at the top of my lungs, cursing at the monsters that destroyed my home, all the cities of the world and killed off all but me, my mother and friends. I went off to one of the many small hives to confront them and make them fight me only to find out that they were gone. Every last one of them, not a single trace left. It was like they just disappeared. But then i heard something that sounded strange and loud off in the distance. I got out of the hive I was in and look to see where the noise was coming from. A minute later, behind the hive there in the distance, I stood frozen as i saw a portal opening. And there, I saw the creatures entering the portal, leaving the planet for good. But what got to me was the last one, Reine Sanglante.
Reine Sanglante stood 10' tall, her rhino beetle-like horn was around 12” in height, 5 1/2' wingspan, four fingers, three claws on her hooves .
She was the matriarch of all the Nuckelavee, her and the rest of the Nuckelavee race were the reason for all of the cold-blooded murders, the heartless wholesale slaughters, and all of the unspeakable crimes against humanity and nature in general, was holding none other then a very pale and emaciated version of my wife around the neck. Reine saw me and looked at me with an evil, victorious smile, fury and rage was in my body as I ran towards her to kill with bare hands but what the bitch said were the very words that haunted me until the day I'd died.
"You've lost, Michael. You and what's left of your pathetic, weak-minded race that has now been reduced to nothing. You fought at us with all that your kind can muster, but you've failed miserably to the strength, intellect, and power of the Nuckelavee race. You humans think you're all high and mighty, but to me you are nothing more than blind, filthy, screeching, inbred, feces flinging monkeys. As for your wife, though, she and the child inside her will make a perfect meal for my children."
I was suddenly held down by a group of Nuckelavee as I was being stabbed and clawed at. My body was full of fury and agony as I knew what she was thinking.
As she said that, she looked behind her at another group of Nuckelavee goblins, hunger in their eyes, drooling with anticipation, and pacing around impatiently, then she looked back at me and said “You know my children behind me are hungry and your wife and unborn child would make a delicious meal for them." then she looked at me with that sadistic smile and then asked, "Wouldn't you agree?" and then she threw Asoka into the group. She screamed in pain and anguish as they ripped her limbs apart, pulled her guts out of her stomach, and grabbed and ate the baby right in front of my eyes. even with my strength i couldn't do anything but scream in fury, agony, and sorrow.as my vision was fading I swore on that day that if I ever found her again I would make her and the rest of her kind suffer for what they have done to us.
I woke up what felt like hours I realized that I was in huge Crater that I did not know how it came to be in, was at least 50ft deep and about a mile or more wide as I walked out to an edge and climbed my out of it to find out there was a sea of craters like the one I was in, and as I looked around all I can think of was… they blew it up, everything that we worked for, every technological achievement and historical land, just…. everything was all gone within a matter of 4 years of fighting of the Nuckelavee.
I feel on my knees and hands and shouted saying…..DAMN YOU… DAMN YOU FUCKING NUCKELAVEE PIECE OF FUCKING SHITS….FUCK ALL OF YOU TO HELL… REINE SANGLETE IF I EVER FIND YOU…. I WILL FUCKING RIP YOU APART AND FUCKING KILL ALL OF THE NUCKELAVEE YOU SADISTIC FUCKING CUNT.
After that I just collapsed on the ground crying my eyeballs out.
(FLASHBACK END)
As I was walking towards the edge of the Empire State Building my memories of my past have flooded my mind with all the good and bad times of my life on this now dead world. The memories of my life, my childhood, my mother, my friends and family, my lovely wife that was with our unborn child, and my chances at being a father.
I closed my eyes, leaned forward, felt myself free falling in the sky and hoping that by the time I hit the ground I would have lost consciousness before feeling any more pain and finally be at peace.
(Luna’s POV, Canterlot Castle)
My sister, our friend discord, and I finally got the portal spell working to transport ourselves to earth to finally meet the humans and see if they were willing to come back to their real home in Equis, they had been gone for so long that ponies and other races think of them as something of myth and legend but we knew the real reason why.
(Luna’s POV, Canterlot Castle)
My sister, our friend discord, and I finally got the portal spell working to transport ourselves to earth to finally meet the humans and see if they were willing to come back to their real home in Equis, they had been gone for so long that ponies and other races think of them as something of myth and legend but we knew the real reason why.
"you girls ready?” discord asked us as we got our royal garments on to meet with the leaders of the human race, discord already got his strange articles of clothes that look stitched together.
“Are you really going to look like that discord? We are going to meet the humans for the first time in 10,0000 years” I asked discord.
“ well yes I'm going to wear this because I think this will us more approachable…...or at least me” discord said as he chuckled
Me and my sister just rolled our eyes but we did chuckled a little at that.
“Well whatever makes you happy I guess” my sister tia said to him as we walk into the lavender portal.
(New york, Earth)
After about a few seconds into the portal we arrived on earth expecting to see a city that looked almost like manehattan but many years ahead of use only to find it in ruins.
"No this can't be, not again." my sister sadly said with a tears in her eyes as we looked at the miles upon miles of devastation, destruction, and ruin that was once what the humans called New York.
"How did this happen?" I said as we were absorbing the scene that had unfolded.
"I don't know, you two, but if you princesses think that i did all of this... then you girls seriously need to get your heads examined, because I did nothing like this at all to this but if I did do something which I would never ever ever do something like this I would at least I'd left everything intact."
We both gave the draconequus a stern look. "We know you would do no such thing, despite the fact that you have the capability to do so." Celestia said.
"But this is not the time to joke around, especially at a time like this." I finished as we three continued to look at the horizon that stood in front of us, when we heard a loud crashing sound nearby.
"What was that?" Celestia queried.
"I don't know, but let's find out." Discord suggested, wondering as well as he teleported himself and us to the sound's location.
We arrived to find a large human bleeding and unconscious on top of a smashed car, "Um... well... at least we found one of them." Discord said.
I flew towards the fallen human and used my magic to see if he was alive.
“Luna is he...?” My sister said with a worrying tone.
"No he's still alive surprisingly, but I fear he might not be alive for long. If we don't get him back to Equestria in time, from that fall and the impact of him hitting that… that machine, he will die." I said.
"It's called a car, Luna, and not just any car but a Ford Rhino pick up truck. And he should have been dead from that fall and the force of it, too.” Discord said to me with a matter of fact tone that really made me grind my teeth.
“DISCORD P. SULLIVAN! We have no time for that smart-flank mouth of yours. We have to take him with us to Equestria or he will die if we leave him here." I shouted, angry and worried.
"Ok, fine, whatever, but let's make it quick. Your outburst and this place are bumming me out."
I lifted the human up with my levitation spell and with a snap of the chaos lord's fingers the portal to Equis opened. We all went into the portal, back to Ponyville to figure out what to do with the human.
