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Lee's Perspective

I had no idea what was going on with me... one minute I'm prepared to die, alongside my girlfriend, the next I'm waking up next to Rainbow Dash, and I'm a pony... a pegasus to be exact.

Oh, and the Empire is being attacked by hundreds of undead, and there's another human in Equestria that is fighting back.

What a day, what a day...

Its Monday isn't it?

Fuck.

I tried once more to grip my sword, kinda like how other ponies do with their hooves, however, I was failing horribly as my hooves could not get a grip... mostly cause I couldn't figure out how to fucking grip a sword... with hooves, goddamn it! They make it look so easy! Its like they have magnets or something in their hooves, and now I was wondering how one would... turn that on.

Fucking fuck.

"And... well... that's what happened, while you giuys were still inside." Rainbow finished explaining, as hundreds, if not thousands of Crystal Guards fought against the undead. On occassion I heard gunfire from that Hunter guy, his carbine popping off heads no doubt. I had to admit, he was skilled with that thing, among the other weapons he carried on his person. I wondered who he was exactly, and what his story was... but for now we needed to end this fight, and save the Empire.

But I could not do that, unless I could fight, and use my sword...

Which, apparently, I'm not allowed to do.

"Son of a bitch!" I cursed once more, as I felt someone trot up next to me, when I looked I saw Aoplejack give me a soft smile, before she reached over to my sword, biting down on the hilt and yanking it out with little to no problem at all.

Overpowered Apple Pony, ftw.

She hoofed it back to me, and I nodded as I tried to grab it, only to fail, having it clatter to the ground. I sighed, giving up. "Screw it, 'll jsut... kick shit, I GUESS." I huffed, as Applejack chuckled, before giving me a quick hug.

"Was worried sick bout you sugarcube." SHe whispered to me, giving me a squeeze before pulling away, tilting her hat back.

"Sorry bout that but..." I sighed, turning towards my friends, along with my guards. "Guys... I suggest we get to fighting, these things are going to kill everyone if we don't do something." I looked around the area, seeing that most ponies have managed ot hide, as the undead roamed around in search of them, knocking over stalls and trying to bash down doors. "Let's go!" I told them, dashing off...

Only to fall head first into the ground.

"Fuck me and fuck you legs!"

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Hunter's Perspective

I sprinted through the city, pistol in one hand and my machete in the other, I hacked away at some undead and shot at the others, dodging swipes and tripping up others as pony guards flew overhead, throwing spears into the undead, most of which hit their chest. I hel[ped out as best as I could, grabbing the spears and throwing them at their heads, or using them like a staff and knocking them away, stabbing and smacking as best as I could.

Ponies stared as I darted past them, ducking past attacks from the undead and retaliating with my own, throwing knives, firing my gun and either capping their knees or popping skulls, throwing punches and kicks, and the occasional object like chairs or bricks lying nearby.

Why the Crystal Empire had bricks, I'd never know.

I ducked into an alleyway to rest for a quick few seconds, and reload my handgun. Ejecting the clip and putting into my back pocket, I pulled another fresh one out of my backpack before loading it in. I took a look around the city, seeing most of the undead being wiped out by Celestia and Luna who had left the castle, and were blasting them with as much power as they could spare it seemed like. I gotta say... those two are terrifying, and Twilight's stronger then both.

That just made me more nervous.

"You there!" I heard, whipping my head around, I saw a few guards galloping down the alleyway towards me. "You that human the Princess needed us to team up with?" I heard the female crystal guard pony question me, and I nodded.

She moves fast that one. I noted, Twilight's spell or whatever it was she shot off must have told them somehow I was on their side... not sure how though. "Yeah, name's Hunter, what do you need me to do?" I asked over an explosion nearby, which sent tremors through the ground.

"We need you to help us take these... these... things down, you seem to know how to take em out." The guard told me, then added, "I'm captain Morning Glory, help us out."

I nodded. "Well, first off..." I held my gun up, and pulled the slide back, chambering a new round. "Go for the head."

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Lee's Perspective

I had managed to start running... or galloping, or whatever and managed to get back into the fight, and by that I mean I was tackling the undead and smashing my hooves into their faces, screaming profanity that made a distant deity blush. Rainbow was still behind me, having been healed by a spell Twilight learned after perusing the library for a bit, as the other girls did the best to fight back. I felt so sorry for Fluttershy, she wasn't mean to fight against monsters like these, she's a pony that needs to be held back in safety or something.

But we all can't get what we want... now can we?

I had managed to take down one of the things, snapping its neck and smashing in its head with a slab of rock I found. With a yell I smashed in his head, several times and splattering my coat with blood and brain bits, there were so many of these things, it pissed me off! What did I ever do to Sombra to make him attack my own world?

...if Hunter was alive... how many more were still left?

A billion?

Two million?

Only a thousand!

I didn't know, and it scared me with each second that passed me by... as I thought about my family and my friends... what was their fate? Death?

One of these damned things!

I pray I don't find one of my family stumbling around here...

"Lee, behind you!" I heard Rainbow cry, and when I whipped around I saw one of the things lunge at me, arms held out with jagged claws.

I growled as my wings flared on instinct, and I flapped them back, sending me flying back and doing a backflip before I landed on the ground hard, on my hooves making a loud clop sound...

Shut it!

"Come on you nasty fuck!" I yelled at it, the thing missing one of its arms and half its jaw. I thought sbout how much I wished I was human again, so I could use my sword, and potentially judo kick this motherfuck in the face! Suddenly... I felt my stomach lurch before my vision went white, and an explosion of white escaped me in a brillant blast, before I felt myself standing tall, bipedal...

I looked down at myself... seeing, to my shock, my clothes were back on, and... I was human again...?

Wait...

Um...

Lee.exe has failed, please be to reboot.

"Lee!" Twilight yelled to me, and I saw her toss my sword to me, which I grabbed before unsheathing it in one swift movement, and I slashed at the undead's neck, lopping off his head and sending it flying.

Seems I'm still awesome!

I didn't waste time however questioning things, as I quickly got back into the fight. My sword, I felt something coursing through it, and into my arms up to my chest. I felt power... some kind of power flowing through me from the sword, and something else...

Something around my neck.

I looked down, and I saw Rainbow's feather still on the necklace, but it was glowing brightly, shining like the sun almost. My eyes were wide from that, why was it doing that? I knew that the pegasi feathers had some sort of... what, latent magic in them, but this was new. Never seen them shine before, not at all.

All around me, I heard the undead suddenly parish in flames, as Celestia unleashed the mother of all spells on them, Luna backing her up with one almost as strong. I had to shield my eyes from the blast, it felt like a fucking nuke had pone off, the heat was so intense it hurt a little bit. Everyone cried out from the sudden flash, with me grabbing onto a nearby Rainbow Dash and shielding her with my body, she returned my hold as we waited for the burning hell fires surrounding us to fade.

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Lyra's Perspective

I had managed to blast many of those undead monsters with my magic, my body feeling much better with each blast, as if I were releasing a great pressure from within my own body that had been building up for years. Undead were either sent flying, smacking into walls and breaking every bone in their body from my weaker blasts, or turned to dust from my stronger ones. I felt sweat covering my body, as my bandages and my patiant gown had been burned off.

My injuries, I didn't know why they weren't hurting, but I paid them no mind as I continued to fight back, I had to find Lee and Rainbow before... before something! I knew they could fight, I knew they could handle theirselves... but I couldn't stop my heart from worrying about them both. It pounded in my chest, every beat sending an image of Rainbow or Lee into my mind, every undead I saw I feared it may have been Lee somehow, I would not let that happen!

They would NOT TOUCH HIM!

Before I could find him however, a sudden flash of light overtook me, and my body felt an intense shockwave of heat wash over me as I cast some spell. I covered myself with my hooves, as the flames sudden engulfed whatever had surrounded me, protecting me. I could not see what was protecting me, the bright light keeping me from opening my eyes.

I could only stand and wait, until it passed.

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Hunter's Perspective

I was expecting this fight to end a lot of ways... seeing Celestia set of a fucking magical nuke was not one of them. Me and the guard squad had gotten seperated after a horde of undead came out of nowhere. And so, me and the captain had managed to barricade ourselves inside of one of the shops, we stuck together were attacking as best as we could, me firing my guns and her firing off spell after spell into their heads, making quite a few pop open like zits.

Then, all of a sudden, the ground shook and the undead suddenly caught fire as a wave of fire washed over them like a wave of inferno. I had grabbed Morning Glory and held her down as the fires blasted through the windows, nearly taking our heads off if I hadn't ducked us both down. I could feel her shaking and yelling out as the fires roared above us, setting fire to the shelves and tables.

The ground shook, the fires raged and the undead roared as I heard something in the air growl. The fires died down after a few minutes, or maybe an hour, I had no idea how long it had been before I pulled away from Morning Gkory, I looked down at the crystal white mare, and into her pink eyes, before asking, "You alright?"

She gave me a shaky nod, breathing hitching as she muttered, "Y-you saved me."

I shrugged, giving her a half smile. "No worry, come on,. let's see what happened eh?" I told her, standing up and holding out my hand to take her hoof, which she took as I pulled her to her hooves. We both looked out into the city, and I could see them, the undead were still here but... they weren't moving for some reason. Hesitantly moving away from our barricade, I proceeded to try and climb out the window, only once I grabbed onto wood I burned my hand. "Ahh fuck!" I pulled away with a cry, as I looked down at the ground outside, I could see it was cracked and steam was rising up.

Holy shit that fire... was hot...

"What... happened?" Morning Glory questioned, taking her helmet off and revealing a long flowing mane of cherry red hair.

I tore my gaze away from her, as I looked back out into the city, seeing the steamy looking charred slabs of ash that were the undead. Whatever Celestia had done, it had burned the undead so fiercely, it turned them into ash where they stood. I shook slightly, she was fucking powerful, maybe too powerful. Then again, I recalled she could move the sun so... it made sense for her to have that much power. She controlled a fucking ball of pure plasma.

"I... I think we won..." I told her... not entirely sure... as a somewhat familar demon sounding voice rang out across the city... in rage.

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Lee's Perspective

I stood in the middle of the castle courtyard... place, looking at the scorched bodies of the undead standing still, being nothing more then charred bits of flesh and ash. The ponies of the city that were hiding were slowly coming out, one by one, hissing at the hot ground below them, as one of the hunks fell over, smashing into a pile of ash and charred bones. I just gasped, from how intense that fire was. Back home there were plenty of fires, oddly enough, but this one... Jesus...

"Lee..." I turned and saw Rainbow looking up at me, and she suddenly jumped up and grabbed onto my body, making me fall to the ground with a yelp, as her lips wrapped around mine in a deep kiss, which I was more than happy to return. It did not last long, before she pulled away and giving me a questioning look, which I bet was directed at my sudden... transformation...

I didn't know either, give me a break life.

"Uurrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!" I heard someone yell...

"Seems Somby poo is is on his period." I muttered, eyes rolling to the side as Rainbow hugged me. I returned her hug, as I heard Sombra speak one again.

"This is not over you damnedable human scum!" He bellowed, before he vanished, and all of the undead in the city, their burned husks, collapsed into piles of ash, leaving nothing behind except burned bones and a bad smell.

I just sighed in relief...

We had won the battle...

But the war, had only just begun...

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A few hours had passed since our fight began in the city streets, and I was sitting outside, leaning against the wall as ponies went about cleaning up everything, the dust and rubble, piles of ash and bones, it was gross but they were happy to do it. Celestia and Luna had landed, Celestia looking winded which had worried me quite a bit, but she assured me she was fine. Hunter had come back with that pretty looking Guard Captain, and looked shocked by my presence, but after informing him of who I was and what happened, he accepted it, hesitantly.

Right now, we were all sitting outside, trying to get our barings on what to do next.

"Now what do we do?" Fluttershy questioned, sitting nest to Pinkie Pie who lookd depressed, hr poofy mane deflated and straight. It made my heart break, but I couldn't bring myself to get up... I was too tired, emotionally and physically.

"I'm not sure Flutters." I told her, as Dashie sat to my side, my arm around her shoulder and keeping her close. She had shed her armor, setting it to the side. "I do know we have to stop him somehow..."

Hunter spoke up, from where he was standing next to Morning. "Simple, we find the fucker and kill him!" He growled, hand on his gun holster. He looked angry, and he didn't need to justify his reason for being so...

I was angry.

"We already tried using the Crystal Heart on him, and the Elements of Harmony are not designed to kill." Twilight explained, looking tired and battered. "And finding him would be extremely difficult, we don't know where he's hiding... for one thing."

Hunter seemed angry from the reply, but sighed heavily before sliding back against the wall, sitting on the ground. "All this fucking time... it was a fucking... cartoon unicorn that attacked my world..." He laughed, bitterly so. "Oh my god... four fucking years of fighing these things and its all because of a cartoon unicorn from a world filled with tiny magical ponies..."

When he said it like that, I can see how ridiculous it sounded...

But sadly it was true.

"So many people have died because of him..." Hunter told us, and we all listened, the elements, myself and the princesses paid attention to him. "Millions were killed in the first few attacks, with more dying or turning as the months went by." He shuddered, as if remembering a horrible memory of sorts, he probably was... poor guy.

"How many are left..." I felt myself gulp when I asked that, I had to know... "New York... is it..."

"You from there?" Hunter asked me, to which I nodded, he gave me a look I didn't want to see. "New York was nuked... shortly after the President was killed, and the White House blew up."

My eyes went wide, The... the White House? "The President's dead... and New York is gone?"

The man nodded, sighing sadly. "Lee... so many places are gone, the entire middle east had gone dark after so much infighting with each other, France, the UK, Russia, fucking North Korea and South Korea, Africa... the US was all that was left." Hunter looked down, before asaying, "Arkansas... Texas, Lousiana, Florida and Georgia. Was all that was left, we managed to build up walls, keep them out as we tried to find a way to fight back effectively, nukes were launched all over... there's nothing left Lee..."

I just took it all in... everything was gone... my family and friends... dead... my world tainted by his magic and destroyed by our own weapons of mass destruction, and there were barely any people left. My heart felt heavy, and I felt my hearing starting to go, as my eyes felt hazy. I think I heard Rainbow say my name, but I didn't hear her as I stood up and walked away.

"My family... my friends... are dead because of that bastard..." Hunter spoke, which I heard before I left...

"I am so sorry for your loss, Hunter." Celestia told him, bowing her head as the others did the same, Morning patting his back in consolation. "If there is anything we can do..." Celestia

The man looked up at her, his eyes determined and deadly, like a warrior's. "You can help me kill the bastard, for what he's done."

There was silence for a time... even I had stopped moving to hear what she had to say.

"I do not condone murder..." Celestia said, before she added. "But Genocide... is something I cannot stand for..."

...

"We shall all fight back against the mad king..." Luna spoke, sounding angry and determined to get revenge. "And destroy him... for what he has done..."

I nodded my head slowly as I walked away...

Sombra... this war is going to end, with your blood flowing like a river... and I will be the one to crush you beneath my boot... even if its the last thing i do.

Author's Note

The fight is over, but at what cost?

Lee finds out his world is nothing but a tomb for the dead, his family and friends dead. And he's a human again... what even is this magic?

What happened to Lyra! Is she dead?

We'll find out next time!

Stay tuned folks!