Harry Osborn: Rebirth

Without loosing a moment, I ran to Sunset. I could barely move. The battle with the Equalizer sucked me dry. Step after step, I came closer to her. I could hear screaming and shouting around. The screams of cry and pain. The death and war spread over the Canterlot. Step after step.

Using my wings, I flew onto the roof where Sunset laid. With no more energy left, I collapsed by her. She had bruises and scars all over her, but nothing serious. I put my head on her chest, worried. A peaceful heartbeat filled my ears. Bum-bum-bum. And her breath started taking me away.

"Sir are you okay?" A pony stood to my left. He was tall middle aged unicorn. His face was familiar, but I couldn't remember where I've seen him.

But something didn't feel right. How did he get up here? I would've heard the hoof steps on the stairs, but there was no exit onto the roof...

A hiss reached me. I looked closer to this pony and saw how his teeth morphed into sharp fangs. Saliva fell from them as madness filled his eyes.

Bugger! But what? How?

I was slow to react. He threw itself on me, but a beam of orange light flew past me, slightly burning my fur. But it reached its target. Bugger laid on a ground, twitching and bleeding. Next second it stopped. The green blood pool was surrounding the lifeless body of bugger.

A soft warm hoof touched my shoulder.

"Morning, sleeping beauty." Sunset's voice like a warm spring rain washed me over.

"The only beauty here is you, Suny."

I turned around and...

My mouth met a warm Sunset's lips.

I was taken by surprise, but so far I liked it. Harry you are kissing a horse! Shut up, common sense! I'm the horse myself!

Slowly, need for air took its role. We parted and at the first time I saw how beautiful Sunset really is! Her bright red mane mixed with dirt was clumsy but never the less dashing. Her fur was dirty. All the scratches and bruises were somehow gone.

"Sunset..." I tried to say, but she just threw herself into one more kiss.

This time it was longer and more passionate. The taste of hers sent my head spinning down into the abyss of love.

Her warmth filled me within, becoming a part of me.

When we finally parted I could barely speak..

"...I'm sorry..."

"Oh, shut up!" She said, all blushing, but smiling.

"But next time I promise I'll do better!" I said, replying with a smile.

"You truly are an idiot!" Sunset poked me playfully.

I held her closer in a hug, kissing her one more time.

"Getting there, but needs more practice." Sunset parted, making it clear that the time for joy has come to end.

"Roger that, milady!" I lowered myself in an obeisance.

She hit me lightly on a shoulder, blushing again.

But the war wasn't finished. An explosion from a war machine in the sky put some worry in my heart.

"Peter and Celestia are there..." I spoke. "I have to help them."

"No way you're leaving without me." Sunset replied harshly, putting an end to this discussion.

I felt tired, but this feeling was leaving quickly.

"Okay then. But you stay safe!" I tried to trade with her, without much of the success whatsoever.

"Huh! A guy that blanked out about four times in a weak." She mentioned coldly.

"It was worth! If I didn't pass out, you would not ki..." I didn't finish my sentence. Shimmer knocked my blackhead quite strongly this time.

"Shut up."

A sudden idea came to my head. I didn't feel perfect, but I think I could do this.

"Hold on!"

I dived under Sunset in such a way, so she appeared on my back and opening my wings I jumped.

"HAAARRRYYYYY!!!!!" She screamed as we flew higher and higher.

"Hold on!" I said. I felt her tight on my back, as she squeezed my neck harder with each move I made.

A loud voice pushed into my head.

"I WILL KILL YOU!!!"

Sunset screamed loudly, putting a smile on my face.

"I'm fine with that as long as it is you." I replied.

It seemed to cool her. A little. Very little.

"You're an idiot."

"Enjoy the view."

I flew higher and higher, but the machine didn't to seem to come any closer. But a danger was getting dense.

Some buggers with chaotic look on their faces and their tongues out were on my tail. And in front there was a plane. It didn't look any friendlier.

"Hold on." I told Sunset mentally.

"Harry! What's going on?" Sunset asked desperately.

"Don't you see?" I was surprised.

"I'm afraid of heights! I closed my eyes and I can't see anything!" She sounded annoyed and scared.

Of course! She would already shoot these things if she could see them.

"Just hold me tight. It will be rough." I said, feeling Sunset's suspicion.

No time for that. The buggers were closing in and the plane was getting closer. It was very similar to the planes people used in First World War. It was funny to see it a museum, but here it was another story. A massive slow and loud machine was getting closer.

I dove, predicting the possible machine fire and I was right. Bullets swirled high above me, hitting the buggers that were slower with a reaction.

Well, it was getting a bit easier.

"HARRY!! Was that a machine fire?!" The poor girl pony screamed on me. I felt how she shivered.

"Later!" I replied, exiting the dive and with it a line of machine gun bullets.

"HARRY!!!" Sunset screamed, this time out loud.

But it was impossible to hear her over the wind flowing through my ears.

A line of bullets swirled right next to me. Closer than I'd like it to be. And the plane was getting on my nerves.

Shifting the angle of my wings, wind carried me upwards. The weight on my back and laws of physics did its job, making me do the loop.

Now, the plane was under me and the next moment, in front. Time to take it down.

Pulsation in my eyes. It didn't hurt as much as it did before. I felt the heat from my eyes in my face. When I heard an explosion, I knew the airplane was no more.

"Harry! Watch out!" Shimmer's scream went through my head. I reopened my eyes, this time so they didn't shoot lasers, and saw how a wing from a plane flew into me. It must have been thrown away by an explosion.

"You ok over there?" I asked Sunset, worried.

"Despite the fact it's freezing and I'm afraid of heights, everything is perfect!" She said annoyed. By her voice I knew she wasn't perfect at all.

"Hold on, Sunny! We're almost there."

It seemed to work. She calmed down, but the shivering if hers made me to hurry.

With a several turns around I tried to find out where was this machine. But then the shadow fell over me, blackening a huge area. Astonished,

I looked up and saw a huge black airship over my head. It was huge enough for its shadow to cover the whole Canterlot. It was close. In na few swings of my wing I finally got on it. A small trap had its door inside broken to pieces.

Without hesitation I flew inside. A warm air washed over me as I landed in a long corridor with many doors in a line.

"We have landed, baby. You can climb down now." I told Sunset softly and dropped to the floor, closing the gap between the floor and myself as much as possible, making it easier for Sunset to climb down. I felt how she softly let her blacklegs slide from me, but still not letting my neck go. I looked at her and she had her eyes still closed, but tears running down her cheeks.

"Hooooo baby. It's okay... We landed and its all good... " I hushed at Sunset taking her into my embrace.

Her hair was punk styled and stood under a weird 90 degree angle.

She held me even tighter, and I felt how my fur got wet. I didn't mind. I held her tighter, hushing and calming her down.

"Why.? Harry, why?" She asked into my coat.

"There was no other way of getting up here. And there is no way I would let you use teleportation because its too far and you would use to much energy."

She sobbed and cried for a minute more, calming down softly. When we finally parted, a strong hit in my jaw almost sent me flying.

Not that I couldn't predict that, but I let it happen. Sunset was calm but in her eyes i saw fury.

"You deserved it." She said, turning her back on me.

I felt a pain in a chest. I knew I deserved it, but it still hit me kinda hard. Pain jaw left the very next moment, but the other pain was there.

But now it was no time for a love games. We were on enemy's territory. And as I thought that, I heard a fight.

"Peter..." I sighed and switching into speed mode, I took Sunset into my hooves and ran towards it. When I came closer, the following scene was in front of me: Celestia was aside with a bleeding wound, while Peter was fighting five buggers and one of them seemed to be the Quinn. She was an alicorn, taller than Celestia and seemed to be much more powerful. She held a weapon with her magic. It was a long, green sword which seemed to be like a fang. Other four buggers were usual soldiers, but they wore a light black armor, guaranteeing some protection. Peter in other hand, had strange gloves in his front hooves. They gleamed with blue light. Not bad.

I left Sunset near Celestia, healing her wound a little, so there was no danger of any disease or fatality. And then I joined Peter. I came to the fang sword and used my claws to pierce it to pieces.

When I did, I exited my speed mode, slashing the most annoying from my point of view buggers throat.

"Arrghhh.. Ble..." The monster tried to say something, but green blood poured from his mouth and throat as his lifeless body fell on ground.

"What took you so long?!" Screamed Peter, dodging the attack of the other buggers, as I took the Quinn on  me.

"Long story!" I replied dodging the pieces of the shattered sword.

The Quinn didn't quite seemed to enjoy the change of situation. With a scream, she attacked me with everything she had. Fangs, short daggers, her legs and magic. I dodged every single attack swiftly and quickly. But a moment I felt magic around me, I used my speed to shift away. And just in time because the very next moment the area in front of me exploded in poisonous green flames.

"Is that all you've got, lady?" I laughed, seeing that this made her almost mad.

She laughed, as the air around me started warming. I ran again, as the area exploded.

"You can't run forever, fool." She laughed, sending series of pulse energy into me. I dodged and dodged, but tiredness came again. It was time she started to become annoying.

"You won't be able to make magic forever!" I screamed and with it, closing the gap between me and her.

Flames burned my body, but I hit my target. Her horn, in peaches fell on ground, as the green blood and energy escaped from it.

A high pitched scream pierced my ears, as I fell, my nose bleeding and eyes out of focus.

When they finally came back into focus and the ringing in my ears stopped, I looked around. All buggers were gone with their Quinn. Peter, Sunset and Celestia laid around me, unconscious. It was all good, until the floor shifted down.

"Oh no..." I murmured, as the explosion faded at the back.

The airship was falling to pieces. And  my friends were immobilized.

The floor turned to a bigger angle. It was time to get out of here!

Struggling, I stood up and switched into y speed mode. I had an idea how to get them out of here, but was risky. Very risky.

Using my speed I carried my friends to the tramp through which me and Sunset entered earlier. When all of my friends were close to the exit, I did what I will never forgive myself.

The pegasi guards were just few meters away from the airship and, when they finally saw me, I passed my friends into their hands.

"Get them to the ground!!" I shouted.

It seemed like they understood, because next moment they were flying to the castle.

But the other problem appeared. The airship was falling on the city.