When was the last time I saw sunlight? Ten, maybe fifteen years? I can't even remember anymore. All I've ever cared about since that day was eating, killing, and surviving. Back in the day, my name was, and I suppose still is, Rainbow Dash. But I'm not sure if I deserve that name anymore after I failed to protect them, my friends, from death.

While I can't remember the date, I can remember the day clearly. Everyone was fast asleep in my hometown of Ponyville just before something happened: a bright pillar of yellow light shone forth from the eastern mountains, waking the townsfolk up. They and all my friends stared at the light intently just before it dissipated and exploded all across our home. It leveled houses, crushed landscapes and, of course, killed hundreds upon thousands of ponies. Only those lucky enough to reach an emergency bunker survived.

The light had just gone off, and ponies everywhere in Equestria were scrambling around to try and find the bunkers. My friend Princess Twilight Sparkle, a lavender Alicorn mare with a purple mane flowing in the gust of wind the light created when it exploded, tried her best to settle the townsfolk down.

"Everypony, please, just try and stay calm!" she shouted at her subjects with a worried expression on her face "The bunker is in the town hall, just please, try to stay calm!"

"I don't think it's working, Twilight!" I flew over to her with my cyan wings, struggling to hold myself up in the harsh winds. My long rainbow-colored mane blew all around my face and got into my eyes.

"Then round up as many people as you can, okay?" she looked at me with horror in her eyes. I had never seen her like this; her expression showing genuine fear. However, I nodded and went to work immediately. Still struggling with the wind, I grabbed as many people as I could and flew them into the town hall where they could finally find safety. I looked back at the approaching explosion.

"Not much time left..." I said worryingly before turning back to Twilight "We gotta hurry this up!"

"I know, I know, just-" was all she could say before the ground shook beneath her. The building behind her began to topple onto her. My eyes widened and I rushed to go and save her, screaming her name as I tried my best to fly towards her. But the wind was too strong; I couldn't break free.

"TWILIGHT!!" I shouted at her. She saw the shadow getting darker above her, but as she turned around she had no time to teleport away. She could only watch in terror as her life was about to come to an end. Just before the building hit the ground, she closed her eyes and sighed.

"NO!!" I reached my hoof out to no avail "No..." I began feeling tears in my

"Rainbow Dash, git over 'ere now!" yelled the familiar country voice of another of my friends. I turned to see that Apple Jack, an orange mare with a blonde mane tied in a ponytail, had done her best to wrangle all the ponies up and was now waiting for me to take shelter myself. Without question, I sorrowfully flew towards her. It was then when I heard a scream from a distance away. I quickly looked over to a pink tower-shaped building with purple and gold highlights all over it. It had begun crumbling down.

"Rarity..." I whispered my friend's name before dashing off to her home and trying to save her.

As soon as I got there, I saw that most of the building had already crumbled down, and my white Unicorn friend with a messy purple mane was trapped under a pile of rubble. I flew to go and save her, tearing away brick after brick on top of her, but she soon stopped me, placing on of her free front hooves on my body.

"Rainbow Dash, darling..." she shook her head and gave a small smile "Save my sister instead."

"What?!" I shouted in disbelief "No, I'll save both of you!"

"Look around you, darling" she sighed "You and I both know you can't do it. Sweetie Belle is over there..." she pointed to a young filly with a white coat and pink mane ruffled and dirty fortunately not under debris "She's still alive. Please, for me, make sure she has a good life ahead of her..."

"...Rarity..." I couldn't stop myself from crying. All my friends had begun dying around me. Reluctantly, I nodded and picked Sweetie Belle up, flying away from the white mare. She simply smiled before a huge broken piece of wood fell on top of her and impaled her. I couldn't bear to look back at her bloody corpse, so I merely continued onward to the bunker.

But tragedy struck again. The land beneath me began to crumble away in earthquake after earthquake. The explosion of light was fast approaching Ponyville. I too wondered if I was to share the same fate as Twilight and Rarity. Just before I accepted that thought and let the light consume me, a force pushed me down into an alley way of the town.

"TAKE COVER!!" an oddly bubbly female voice shouted before it pushed me down into the alley. I had dropped Sweetie Belle, and I could only look up in horror as the explosion of light passed overhead and annihilated her body, turning it to dust. The mare and I finally hit the ground as rubble from a house collapsed on top of us, knocking us out.

I twitched a bit as I slowly woke up. My body hurt literally everywhere, but no pain was more apparent then the sharp digging feeling in my front left hoof. I looked over and saw that a metal pipe had sliced its way through my bone and out the other end of its entry. It bled out all over my hoof and on the rubble over me. I sighed in disbelief before I looked down and saw the mare that had saved me; a familiar pink Earth Pony with a darker pink, flattened out and straight mane and tail. She too was covered in blood, but no fatal injuries were apparent to me. But she was out cold. I placed my free hoof on her head and stroked it, placing a small smile on her face.

"Thank you, Pinkie Pie..." I whispered in a raspy voice. How long had I been under this debris to make me sound like that? My thoughts were interrupted when I heard loud booming noises from outside our little tent of brick and wood. Slowly, I lifted my good hoof up and cleared some of the debris to see the outside world.

What I saw I did not like at all.

The sun had gone behind the sky filled with thick grey clouds of smoke and dirt. Light still filtered through, but it was barely enough to see. Looking around me, I saw that every single house that once stood tall in the ville had crumbled down and turned to rubble and dust. It was disastrous. My attention quickly turned to the three ponies in full suits of grey armour and black helmets scavenging the city. On their sides were large black objects with different components that I didn't even want to try and count. All I knew was that they looked like they shot something out of them.

Whoever they were, I didn't like them at all. I had to get out of there fast without being noticed. Patiently, albeit reluctantly, I waited for the ponies to search somewhere else. Once they were gone, I slowly and carefully as to not attract attention got myself out of the rubble pile. The rod lodged in my hoof fortunately hadn't dug itself into the ground, or I would've been immobile. I winced in a bit of pain as I stepped on my broken hoof, but I carried forth and placed Pinkie Pie on my thankfully not broken wings. Slowly and painfully I walked away from the town.

"How...?" I asked myself, still with a raspy voice "How did this... happen?"

"You there! Get on the ground!" a male voice shouted behind me. I turned around and saw that five other ponies had tracked me down. They pointed their metal weapons at Pinkie and myself, forcing me to stop.

"Yeah, we got two mares in sector 3 that we overlooked" another armoured pony spoke into a communicator most likely in his helmet "Looks like their injured... Yes, they're unarmed... One's a pink Earth Pony and the other is cyan Pegasus... Of course, sir; it will be done" he switched off his communicator

"Sorry, ladies..." another pointed his weapon at us. Just before he was about to launch whatever came out of the weapon, a loud whirling sound emanated around the area and a bright light shone down upon the ponies, Pinkie and I.

"Dammit! Too late!" another stallion shouted before he and his troop hightailed it out of there. The whirling and the light soon followed the others, giving me a chance to escape. With all my might, I struggled to move out of the town and find a safer place. Finally, I reached a hill which hadn't been leveled, but was still covered in debris. I didn't want to look back, but something in my head forced me to do so. I turned around and saw spotlights around the area which not long ago was my home. Different ponies in different suits of armour shot their weapons at the other ponies in armour, and in turn they shot their own. It was a bloodbath.

"...R-Rain...bow?" I heard a tired voice nearby. I turned my attention to the mare on my back who was beginning to wake up. Not wanting her to see what became of the town, I began walking away from the area.

"Hey, Pinkie" I greeted "Did you have a nice nap?"

"Y-Your voice... It's so... raspy" Pinkie pointed out.

"Yeah, sorry about that" I chuckled a bit. It hurt to laugh, and not just because a rod was lodged in my hoof.

"Where... where are we?" she wondered.

"Um... Look, we'll find a nice place to live okay?" I nervously patted my friend's hoof and continued onwards. She looked down at me and gasped.

"Rainbow! Your hoof!" she pointed out "You can't be walking around on that, silly! Here, lemme walk you" she got off my back and hopped me onto her own before starting to walk in the direction I was.

"Pinkie, it's fine, rea-" I said before she placed a hoof on my mouth.

"Dashie, I got this" she smiled before continuing on her walk "So, what happened?"

"I..." I didn't know what to say to her; I didn't want to ruin her perfect and upbeat personality "L-Look, you see, there was an explosion and... and... our friends, they..." she then put her hoof up to my lips again, this time more gently. She turned her head back and gave a sad smile before nodding. She already knew. The tears I had held back for a while had once again found themselves on my cheeks, and eventually I gave my friend a hug. She soon hugged back, and while she never said anything, I could tell she too was crying.

Our lives were ruined, and we never even knew why.

"...sh..."

I was sound asleep in my hammock made of rope and feathers. It was actually more comfortable than one would think, but it was still a little harder than the bed I had before the purge, as we called it. I didn't hear the voice echoing through my head.

"...ainbo..."

There it was again, but I ignored it. I had better things to do than answer to a voice calling me. I was tired after my hunt for food last night, and dammit, I needed rest. Slowly, I drifted back into my slumbering state until...

"Rainbow Dash!" the voice finally became clear to me. I jumped out of my hammock and fell face-first onto the floor with a loud boom across the room I was in. My eyes looked up to see a pink mare with a straight dark pink mane staring right back at me with a less-than-pleased look on her face.

"P-Pinkie..." I sighed "I'm sorry... Look, I'm really tired from the search and I-"

"You better take a look at this..." she dropped a piece of paper onto my nose before she exited my room and gently closed the door behind her, telling me she wasn't cross with me. At least, anymore. I stood up and grabbed the sheet of paper with my front left hoof, now with a white bandage over it which slowly healed it. Taking my homemade reading glasses from my shelf, I read the text on the paper.

"Transientian forces conquer Eternian land" I read before taking a huge sigh "War waging closer and closer to safe-havens... Fuck... This war isn't going to end well for anyone."

"No, it won't..." Pinkie said as I stepped out of my room and into the small kitchen we built ourselves along with the house. There, Pinkie was using some of yesterday's catch to make us some breakfast.

"What do you think will happen once the Transientians reach this haven?" I asked before sitting down at our messy metal table covered in dirt "Will they cull us like they did with the other survivors?"

"Rainbow, try not to think to hard on these things" Pinkie hushed as she brought the food over to the table and sat down with me "Soup again, but I spiced it up this time."

"Pinkie, it's okay" I patted her on her back and gave her a smile "With how hungry I am, I could eat a horseshoe. Besides, it's not like we really have anything else to eat besides whatever I find."

"I know..." she sighed before taking her spoon and sipping her warm soup.

This was our life now since the purge. I don't know the full details, but before the purge and without the knowledge of even the princesses of the old age, a war between two nations known as Eternia and Transientia had fought for as long as time began. So much so, they had forgotten why they began fighting in the first place. The two nations had so far stayed within their borders, harmless to the inhabitants of old Equestria, but the day the Transientians decided to take things too far was the day the bomb went off, destroying not only their country, but Eternia, and Equestria. I had never known the reason why they took the extremes, but all I know is they made our world a living hell.

Our home was among a small village which us survivors called a haven, or simply... Haven. It wasn't much, seeing how all our houses were hovels, and junk and rusted scrap littered the ground, but it was home, and anywhere away from the war still ravaging this world was okay by us. All the houses circled around a bonfire which kept us all warm since the sun was nowhere to be seen, and a single path lead out into what we all called the Ravaged Plains. Surprisingly, many ponies living here we simply the friendliest souls you'll ever see, but I always see behind their fake emotions; all of them had given up hope that the world would be saved. And frankly, I had too.

But something happened one day to me. Something that would change me forever. But more importantly...

...Something that gave me hope again.

Author's Note

To start off, I suck at prologues, so if you've given up by this point, I promise you that Chapter 1 will be LOADS better. Don't press that dislike button until you know for sure you hate this story.

This is my first attempt at an M-Rated story that isn't all about sex. Don't fret; there will still be sex in later chapters, but I'll do something for you lot: I'll make separate chapters for a chapter with explicit content, one with and one without just to cater to people who like a good violent story but not so much sex. Sound good? Great!

I want reviews of this story! Anyone willing to review this story will be thanked immensely! Of course, you don't HAVE to review, but one would be greatly appreciated. And don't feel bad about being hard on it: I can take it.

Until then, this is SuperKamek, signing off!