To choose... To take a life, or save it.
I can't believe how I died... I mean, I knew it could happen, but I never thought it really would. I thought I would die from old age, I was very healthy, and I never had any real enemies... I still can't believe my luck.
I was walking home from my little brothers school, I had to go and pick him up and walk him home because my parents couldn't.
It was a normal sunny day, we were just going home, walking on the sidewalk in silence, that is, until a man with a gun jumped out of nowhere and pointed it at me and my little brother, I immediately put him behind me, away from the man.
"Give me all your money! NOW!"
I hold my hands up at the man, "Look, we got nothing, we don't have any money on us."
He gets closer and starts to check my pockets, he pulls out my wallet and starts checking it, he pulls out my school ID, and throws it to the ground, then keeps looking until throwing it to the ground, he checks the rest of my pockets.
Finding nothing, he snatches my little brothers backpack and starts checking it, he turns around to check it all, and that's when my mind had the idea of fighting him.
I run and jump onto him, hitting him with my fists, I yell at my brother to run, to which he does. The man tries to throw me off, but I keep beating on him, until he gets smart and drops onto his back, right on the concrete, I hit the ground, cushioning his fall with my body, he gets up out of my grasp as I try to get back my breath back, when I do, I look to see the gun pointed right at my head.
"Stupid kid, shouldn't have done that." That's when he pulled the trigger, and darkness came over me in an instant.
-Unknown amount of time later-
So, here I am, in a plain of Darkness... Floating, with no purpose whatsoever... Can't believe I died... I'm happy my brother got away, his life was younger then mine, so he deserved to live more then I did. When people say they should live more then a child should, I want to smack them, if someone is younger, they deserve to live more then you do, in my opinion, that is.
So, I feel nothing right now, no arms, no legs, no mouth, no nothing... I'm surprised I'm not freaking out right now... I just died, and I'm fine with it... Weird...
Well, time to think about my life... I had a great family, we had are fights and arguments, but in the end, everything was alright, I had an alright job, gave me a good amount of money, even if it is part time, I had a great hobbie, Warhammer 40k, I like Dark Angels, Grey Knights, Blood Angels, and Space Wolves. I even made my own Chapter, it's an alright one, nothing too great... Wish I had been able to play it more though.
So... I guess that's all I can really think of without boring myself... Wow... Boring life...
So, I guess this is death... I thought I'd meet The Grim Reaper or something, but I guess not.
Wait... Is that light? Oh, great, I'm going to the light, so I really am dead... Fantastic...
I start towards it, it feels like it took longer then I thought, but now I'm right in front of it, just a bit more, aaaand what the?
Instead of a gate to heaven or something, I find a white horse with a horn and wings, with a red mane and tail, pacing back and forth, with a upset look. She stops when I walk into the light, and she turns to look at me with wide eyes.
"A Human?! How... you shouldn't even be here!"
She stares at me a bit longer before shaking her head.
"Oh... I guess it shouldn't really matter... Nothing matters now..." She sits down and hangs her head in a defeated posture.
"Um... What do you mean nothing matters anymore?" I walk closer to her.
She sighs before answering, "My ponies... They're all going to die... And I can't help them."
I now stand a few feet from her with a cocked head, I think for a minute before I say fuck it and try what I always try when someone. "Is there anyway I could help?"
She looks up at me before shaking her head, "No, thank you for asking, but there is nothing you could do... Unless you have the Ability to fight off an army..."
I stand there, before she gasps and looks up at me with a hopeful smile, "Wait... If I give you enough power... Maybe you can save them and my daughters!" She jumps up and starts circling me, inspecting me closely until she stops in front of me.
"Yes, yes! It could work, but only once... You must not waste my power human." Her horn glows, then gets brighter, and brighter, until it blinks out, and I'm in darkness once more.
After a few seconds, I get the feeling of arms, and legs, and a mouth! I open my eyes to see words scrolling in front of my face, I look at them and I also see symbols. After a few seconds, I shake my head before my eyes finally focus, and I look to my left arm to see bone white armor on, with a huge fist with a small chainsaw attached to it, wait, THATS A CHAINFIST!
I look to my right to see an Assault Cannon in my other arm, I look to see where it's pointing, and my eyes widen, at the end of the barrel is a white horse, she has a horn and tail like the other one, but she has a different mane and tail, these ones are different colors, and they look to be floating in a breeze, she also looks tired, and haggard, her eyes are filled with fear as she looks at me straight in my eyes.
"Kill the Xeno filth brother!"
I turn around to see a Deathwing Terminator standing there with a storm bolter, he has his gun pointed at seven other horses, all different colors, ones purple with a horn, another is white with a horn, two have wings, and ones yellow while the other is blue with a rainbow mane, two other ones have nothing, ones orange and ones pink, they're all looking at me, awhile a large midnight blue one is glaring at the Terminator with a look of pure hatred.
I turn back to the white horse that's still in front of me, she's still terrified looking. I don't know what to do! The one horse said she gave me some of her power, and she gave me back life! But, I'm a Deathwing Terminator right now! What should I do?! After a few seconds, I look back into her eyes, so full of fear, and that's when I knew I wouldn't kill her, I turn fully back to the other Terminator, he isn't looking.
And I open fire on him, I watch as he goes stumbling to the side, his arm getting riddled with bolts from the Assault Cannon, after a few seconds of unrelenting fire from the gun, I see his armor being torn and dented, I then charge at him, he turns to have a chainfist go through his helmet and face, I watch as blood spatters everywhere, and I keep at it until the chainfist hits his chest, I then pull it out and step back, as he stands there, before falling to the ground in a heap.
I stand there, glaring at him, before turning back to the horse, she's looking at me with eyes still full of fear, but also a glimmer of hope. And I walk towards her, she immediately scoots back only to hit a wall, she still stares at me, as I get closer, and as I finally stand over her, I grab ahold of her neck with my gianthand, she gulps as I lift her up, and she closes her eyes, only to open them up immediately as I drop her on her hooves.
She looks down at the floor before looking back up at me, with a look of confusion on her face, I decide to finally speak.
"You're lucky I had died in my world, for I wouldn't be here then." I flinch at my deep voice, it sounded pretty loud and menacing, and made for good authority. She only stares at me with wide eyes.
"W-What do you mean you died?" She asked with a haggard voice, and I sigh before shaking my head.
"It does not matter right now, another like you sent me here, she had a red mane and tail, with horns and wings as well... Do you know who she is?" I rumble, her eyes go wider and look to pop out of her skull.
"M-My mother sent you?!" Ah, so she's one of the daughters. I only nod my head, and look back at the other horses who are still staying where they, except the midnight blue one, who is currently hurrying towards us.
"Sister, is what I heard true?!? Are mother sent... It?" She points at me and I roll my eyes.
"It seems so Luna, he may have saved us, but for how long, I do not know." As she said that, I feel the ground shake, and I turn to the doors of the room, they were broken down and I see two more Terminators coming, I look back to see that the rest of the horses were now around the two bigger ones. I look back at the doors, and I make my way to them, the two Terminators have storm bolters, and I stop to wait for them, until I open fire on them, the first one I shot at takes a face full of bolts and goes down, the second one raises his weapon at me.
"TRAITOR!!!" He yells, and opens fire on me, I turn to him as he comes at me, and fire back at him, after a few seconds of this, he crashes into me, and I get pushed back, before I raise my chainfist and shove it into his chest, I hear it rev up, and watch as blood sprays forth dromedary his wound, he looks down, at his chest, before looking up, I glare at him through my helmet, and I pull the chainfist back, before standing back and shoving it into his face.
Blood sprays everywhere, with brain matter as well, and I yank back the fist before shoving him back, he falls to the ground, dead.
I turn back to the horses.
"How many are there?"I rumble and they look at me before the small purple one steps forward.
"T-There were six, you k-killed three, but the last two look much better then the ones you did fight, one of them even has blue armor.
I curse my luck, I have to deal with a librarian, that won't be easy. And the last one must be a Sargent, he'll be a problem as well.
I look back the way through the door, and start out the door, the horses don't try to stop me, but I think I heard the big white one say in a whisper.
"Good luck"
-An hour later-
After about an hour, I could now see the corpses of other horses lying about, dead, some were even fried looking, as in, burnt to a crisp.
I continue my walk until I find the Sargent, he's standing over a now twitching corpse of one of the horses, he looks like a noble, he was a blond mane and tail, with some expensive clothes on. The Sargent turns to me as I walk up.
"What happened on you're end Brother? All has been silent on the Vox." He has no helmet on, good, it'll be easy.
I only look at him before raising my assault cannon at him and opening fire, his eyes widen and he lifts up his storm shield which I hadn't seen before, great, it just got harder.
"Brother! What do you think you are doing!?!" He yells at me, but I ignore him, and keep pouring bolts on him, that is, until I hear it click dry, I look down at it before trying to reload it, only for him to charge at me. I lift my chainfist and get in a defensive stance, and he hits me with his shield, pushing me back, I stand my ground as he pushes me back, until I hit a wall. He then steps back quickly before swinging his thunder hammer at me, to which I grab the part just under the hammer with my chain fist, we now currently have a stalemate.
"Have you lost you're mind Brother?! Why are you doing this?!" He yells, to which I only step forward before leaning my head back, and headbutting him with all my might, he staggers back and I let go over his weapon and punch him with the chainfist, I then shove it into his lower abdomen, and rev it up, before tearing it out, and aiming for his head, he only moves and I miss, before he shoves my forward and I hit the ground.
He puts his foot on my back and raises his thunder hammer, "You shall die like the traitor you are!" And I take the moment to push up with all my might. He loses his balance and falls onto his back, and I get up. I stand over him and lift my boot, and bring it down on his head, I hear a loud crunch and I look down to see blood and brains all over the floor, I turn and walk away, in search of the librarian.
-Another hour later-
I've looked for some time, and I finally find him, he was in the royal archives, I walk into them and look around, I see him looking through a book, he doesn't even look up as I enter.
"So, the corrupt one is here... A Traitor to his Brothers and his Chapter... And you're here to kill me."
I remain silent as I look at him, I had long since reloaded my Assault Cannon, and it was aimed at him.
"Not a word? Nothing to say? Well, I didn't want to hear anything even if you had something to say Traitor." He puts the book away and looks at me, his eyes start to glow, and he raises his storm bolter and opens fire, to which I open fire as well.
So after us Both firing at each other for a good amount of time, and also moving from the spray of bolts, we both run out of ammo in the clips. I now find myself charging at him with my chainfist raised, only for his left hand to come up and hit me with lightning, I stop as I'm being electrocuted, my mind feels as if it's one fire and I can't move.
After seconds pass, I start walking towards him, I can barely walk, but I'm getting closer, while he starts putting more power to the Lightning, I get closer, and closer, until finally, I stand in front of him, I throw out my chainfist, and it hits him straight in the face, he stumbles back, before picking up a blade and stabbing it right through me.
I stand there, agony coming from my stomach, I look up at him, he has a smirk on his face, as he twists the blade deeper. I look up at him before grabbing the blade, and getting closer to him, slowly, but surely, until I'm close enough to lift my chainfist and throw it at his face, he bring up his hand just as fast, and places it on my helmets surface, and I feel the electricity going through my skull, I feel my brain burning, and I roar in anger and pain, and I plunge the chainfist into his skull, before reving it up, blood flys once more, and he lets go, falling to the ground.
I stand over his fallen body, and glance down at the blade in my stomach, it was also sticking right through, coming out of my back, he had been precise, and he had cut my spine, I couldn't really feel my legs, and I fall back onto the ground.
So, here I am once more, death now coming to claim me again, I bet you're thinking, wait! A Terminator couldn't go down that easily, well, I ain't a Terminator... So, right now, I'd rather it just end cause I'm tired of this crap already...
I watch the darkness creep into my vision, and then I hear footsteps, wait, no, hoofsteps, as I look up, I can see the white horse galloping towards me, when she sees me, her eyes widen and she stops next to me.
"I... Came to help you but... I see you have won..."
I laugh at that and shake my head, "I wish I wasn't dying a second time..." I watch the darkness creep in even more, covering most of my vision now, I see a sad look in her eyes, and that's the last thing I see before darkness takes me once more.
