Of Beauty And Rage

Chaos. Everything had gone to hell with their mission. What was supposed to be a simple cargo shipment had turned into a hellish nightmare.

Seth Connors and Tyler Graves were the pilots aboard the U.S.C Arc Nova,the most high-tech air ship in history. They were supposed to deliver ten nuclear warheads to a military base on a U.S owned island, far away from civilization. The creators of the ship had been so confident in its construction that they had said in could withstand any weather, though they were soon proved wrong.

"Hey, Seth. Looks like there's a hurricane ahead,check with base if we should go around." Tyler said as he checked the radar monitor aboard the ship.

"Will do," Seth said and pulled a old school phone down from the roof.

"Base, this is Arc Nova,we're approaching a class five hurricane and requesting a change of course." Seth said into the phone.

"... Arc Nova, this is base tower, continue in your current route, over." The man on the other end of the line said.

"Aww, shit. I hate storms." Seth complained and put the phone back in place.

"So?" Tyler asked.

"We're going straight ahead. Full speed, we don't want the upwinds to catch us." Seth said, and Tyler increased the throttle.

"It's going to be a bumpy ride."

Everything was going well, they came across the hurricane, but the ship seemed to hold together nicely. Though at the back edge of their cabin, just where the engine were,a strange rustle began. At first the pilots paid it no mind, but as they came further and further into the hurricane, the louder it became. Lightning flashed and whirled along with the rapidly spinning cloud. Though one stray bolt reached out and struck the cabin. The pilots were only taken aback, but the engines didn't do as well. Because the rustle had been seven inches long loose screw, and the lightning bolt had made its way in through the small gap and terminated the engines.

"Seth, we're loosing power." Tyler said as the energy bar in front of him quickly depleted.

"What? I knew this was a bad idea. Okay, we'll make a turn to the right." He said, planning to get out of the storm while they still could.

But as the ship turned a sudden wind came from the opposite direction, pushing the powerless ship further into the storm.

"Seth, the upwinds will tear the ship apart if we don't get the power back on." Tyler said.

"I know, just keep the gas in and keep trying to get the engines going." Seth said as he stood up. He hurried to the back of the cabin and opened a small locker. He pulled a parachute out and his windsurfer.

"Here, put this on." He said and threw the parachute to Tyler.

"What ,why?" Tyler asked and looked at Seth with fearful eyes.

"Just in case."

The ship was flung around at at least sixty miles per hour, but it was only built to go around forty. So far the ship had held together, but as a upwind got hold of it loud cracking noises came from the metal frame.

They had somehow managed to get in the middle between up and down drafts, which put a pressure of several hundreds tons on the thin frame, and the ship broke apart; clean in the middle.

Seth saw Tyler's mouth open, but he couldn't hear him after he was sucked out through the large hole that had formed in the cabin, which in itself was just flying around separately from the rest of the ship.

"Ty!" Seth shouted as he saw his best friend disappear into the chaotic storm winds. He didn't hesitate a second before jumping after his friend. He put his feet on the windsurfer, and the tall sail shot up inches from his face. The four meter sail spread out, and he was sucked along with the rotating storm.

The noise was deafening as Seth rode his surfer through the storm. The lightning bolts flashed everywhere, and they looked to be stretching out towards him, but he couldn't see Tyler anywhere. He had a small rocket engine installed at the bottom of his surfer, but it would only last a few minutes against the winds in the hurricane, he had to be smart to survive this, but Seth was never known as the smart type. He activated the rocket thrusters and sped forward in close to a hundred miles per hour. He felt the extreme speed and intense winds tear the skin off of his arms and face, but he didn't care. His comfort was far less worth than his best friend's life.

After a minute off agonizing super surfing he saw the bright orange cloth the parachute was made off. He turned the rockets off and let the wind take him towards the parachute, and with winds at one hundred and fifty miles per hour it didn't take long. He was only a hundred meters away from the chute as he was sucked to the side. He looked around in wonder, and he was amazed at what his eyes showed him. The sun shone brightly in through a hole in the storm, the lightning followed the rotating clouds as they swirled around Tyler as he hung in the center of the storm's eye.

Tyler just stared as he saw his friend ride his windsurfer along the electric edges of the storm that circled him. Seth used all his power to tilt the surfer towards the eye,and activated the thrusters. He was quickly flew in towards Tyler, who hung helplessly in the air, several thousand meters over the ground.

"Man, am I glad to see you." Tyler yelled, trying to make himself heard over the raging winds and loud lightning bolts.

Seth didn't say anything, because he felt something was wrong. He looked up and saw that the lightning above them had turned bright blue and swirled around in a perfect circle. He wanted to say something but before he could,ten simultaneous lightning bolts struck down into their bodies, and the world disappeared with a bright flash.

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A lot later:

Seth couldn't tell how long he had been out, but he felt the sun shine in his face, so he assumed long enough for the storm to pass.

His vision was blurry and his body was numb. He saw Tyler in the corner of his eye, but he didn't move. For minutes Seth laid there, hoping his body would wake up. He managed to bend his fingers slightly and his breathing became easier. His arms were filled with warm blood and slowly sat up as he felt more and more of his body. He looked at Tyler,and saw he was still breathing, which he was grateful for.

But no matter how long he looked, he couldn't get the environment to make sense. A thick dark forest towered over them at the left, even though they had been flying over a open field.

Seth was snapped out of his stupor as he saw a group of small armored ponies run towards them.

"What in the actual fuck?" Seth asked himself as the ponies reached them. Seth stood up and pushed his chest out, making the ponies recoil,but only for a mere second before he was surrounded in a strange aura and the world slipped away again.

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Canterlot castle's dungeon:

Seth felt his back ache and his head felt like a rhino had come and parked a bus in it only to smash it with a monster truck inspired tank.

He laid on a cold wooden bench in a room made out of large chunks of rock. Metal bars covered one edge of the square room, and it didn't take long for Seth to realize he was in a prison.

"T-Ty?" He asked, hoping his friend was in a cell nearby.

"Seth? Man, am I glad you're awake." He heard Tyler's voice.

"Where are we?" Seth asked.

"I don't know, I haven't seen any guards." Tyler said. At the very same moment the loud sound of a metal door opening echoed in the dungeon, and strange steps approached; sounding almost as if they were made by hoofs.

Seth sat silently as a shadow grew larger and larger through the small entrance to the dungeon. And sure enough, it was a hoofed animal that came through. At first sight Seth assumed they had a small pony to carry the keys around, but he soon realized that wasn't the case.

The armored pony looked exactly like a drawing Tyler had made a few weeks earlier, if he didn't remember completely wrong,it was from a kids show called My Little Pony. Seth knew Tyler was a fan of the show, a so called brony, since Tyler always talked about wanting to go to their land, but never in a million years had he expected to actually see a living unicorn guard, but here it was.

"Oh... My god." Tyler said as he laid eyes on the unicorn.

"You have got to be kidding me." Seth said, who had always been a little of a pony anti-christ.

More hoofs became audible and another unicorn came into the dungeon. It had a more refined armor, so Seth assumed it was of a higher rank than the first one.

"Greetings, my name is Captain Shining Armor, who and what are you?" The unicorn stallion asked.

"Oh my god, Shining Armor." Tyler said slowly. As a smile became more and more visible on his face. Though before he could say anything Seth rose to his feet and walked closer to the bars.

"Who the fuck do you think you are,attacking us out of nowhere like that, huh?" He asked angrily.

"I am terribly sorry about that... misunderstanding, but due to you superior size the guards felt intimidated and decided to bring you here for questioning instead of taking it out there." Shining said. Seth sighed deeply and leaned against the rock wall.

"Well, as long as you won't hurt us we'll not hurt you." Seth said, trying to sound diplomatic.

"Well, that's a great relief. And of course I believe you and I will have you released as soon as possible." Shining Armor said.

"... Fair enough,"

The guards led the two humans towards the throne room. Meanwhile Seth and Shining began to talk, discovering they had a lot in common, and they got along nicely. Tyler was too hyped to talk. His biggest dream had just become reality, and his mind was in a euphoric state.

It didn't take long before they reached the throne room, and the guards opened the large doors the moment they saw Shining.

"Your highnesses, here they are." Shining said and backed away. Tyler stared at the two obviously powerful ponies in front of him, even Seth was impressed by the powerful aura that seemed to emit from them. One was dark blue with a moon tattoo on its butt, and the other was slightly larger and white with a sun tattoo on its butt. Both had manes that blew gently in a non-existent breeze.

"Holy... My princesses." Tyler said and bowed deeply.

"Uhh, hi." Seth said reluctantly,but nodded his head in a bowing manner simply to show he had a slight amount of respect for the two.

"I can't believe I actually get to meet you." Tyler said with tear-filled eyes. Seth looked at the two ponies, he would've preferred to call them horses with their size, but Shining had made it clear that they were all to be referred to as ponies, no matter size.

"Greetings, my name is Celestia. And this is my sister, Luna. Together we are the rulers of Equestria." The large white pony said.

Tyler was prepared to just die at the spot,and Seth noticed this. And hit him lightly with his elbow.

"If I may ask, what are your names?" Celestia asked. Tyler was still mesmerized by the solar goddess's appearance that Seth had to introduce them both.

"Forgive my friend, he's a big fan of yours. My name is Seth, and this is Tyler. I apologize for intruding in your land like this, we honestly have no idea of how we got here." Seth said.

"You don't know?" Luna asked as she stepped forward,giving Seth a lightly unsettling look.

"We were flying in our airship through a hurricane, when suddenly it broke apart. And after many unsettling events, we woke up here." Seth explained.

Seth could tell Celestia had troubles with believing his story,but eventually she looked into his eyes and sighed.

"Well, if that's the case then we shall do everything we can to help you back. As for the most immediate future you may stay here in the castle, if you do not wish otherwise." Celestia said.

"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" Tyler said excitedly, and Seth just nodded towards the princess.

"Shining, can you show them to their rooms, please?" Celestia asked.

"Yes of course, princess." Shining said,and the two humans had little choice but to follow the stallion.

"So I was standing there with full armor on, having just told the most heroic speech ever to the mare, and my subordinate comes and tells me it was a false alarm, I didn't dare to show my face in public for weeks."

"Ha ha ha!"

Seth and Shining was having a goofy conversation about embarrassing stuff they had done, when suddenly a guard pegasus came running towards them.

"Captain, Changelings have attacked in the city." The guard said.

"What? I will be there in a moment." Shining said and turned to Seth.

"I have to go, your room is just up ahead." He said.

"Are you kidding me. I'm a fucking soldier, I can't sit on my ass all day." Seth said and followed Shining as he ran towards the gate.

"Seth! God dammit!" Tyler complained before running after the two, forcing the lats unicorn guard to follow as well.

They ran through the city until they saw three changelings harass a civil pony. Seth was slightly disgusted by the sight of them. Bug-like ponies with wings, horns and holes in their limbs.

"Stop right there!" Shining said; gaining their attention. The changeling quickly looked at each other and all fired bursts of green magic at the same time towards the unicorn captain, who easily blocked their weak magic with his own.

He shot a bright bolt of purple magic, hitting and knocking out one of the changelings. But afterwards there were only one left. He didn't have time to think about that though, since the changeling in front of him sped towards him. He side stepped and the changeling crashed into the ground. Shining prepared a sleep spell, but the changeling suddenly turned around and flashed a bright spell in his eyes, blinding him. He stumbled backwards, and didn't see the changeling that wa sabout to pierce him with its horn from the side.

Everything after that happened in a moment. Seth saw the changeling prepare to slash its horn straight through him, and the other one maintained its spell to keep his eyes disfunctional. Seth ran towards them, reaching his right arm out towards Shining Armor. He felt all his energy deplete from his legs,and a single spark of electrcity danced across his arm. It quickly made its way to his hand and swriled around his fingers, until it reached the edge of his middle finger, and something indescribable happened.

It looked like a single bolt of lightining. But it was several meters in diameter and it had a light blue tint,and it looked almsot pixelated.

The spark on his arm had turned into several hundred thousands volt that surged out from his body and swirled across his entire body.

The world became brighter and brighter, before it flashed white and everything turned black.