We are Many

by Mr Dorito

Too much pain

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Darkness

Where am I?

Where is the Merchant sending me?

I heard him say he was sending each one of us to different places.

Is that light ahead of me?

Please be salvation.

I was blinded by the light and when it all cleared, I was falling towards the ground.

"FFUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCC-OOF!"

I shook my head and stood up, shaking dirt and grass off of my body.

"Ugh, where the fuck am I?"

I looked around and I was standing in a clearing within what's most likely a forest.

No shit Captain Obvious.

"Wait, didn't the Merchant say I would gain my character's powers? Then why do I still sound like myself if Ermac sounded like a bunch of voices talking at the same time?"

Looking at a rock, I stretched my hand towards it trying to make it levitate, but nothing happened.

"FUCK YOU MERCHANT YOU FUCKING LIAR!"

In the distance within the treeline, I saw a small glowing green orb floating towards me.

"What the hell is that?"

I saw another one appear near the first one.

Then I saw another, and another, and another until the entire treeline surrounding the clearing was full of these orbs.

Oh shit

Without warning, they all flew towards me.

I tried to swat them away with my hands, but they all seem to bypass them and went into my chest.

By the thousands, they all went into my chest and I started getting a huge headache and a burning sensation from my chest.

Visions started appearing. I saw Humans, where rags, in chains in what appears to be an auction house. The people selling them and in the audience appear to be equines? They all have different colors. Some had wings, some had horns, and some had neither.

Another vision showed a bunch of humans lifting cinder blocks and were forming a wall, while a white equine in golden armor was supervising them.

Each vision was worse than the last.

I even saw some showing humans being eaten by dog-like and bird-like creatures.

My headache increased as I heard voices in my head.

Kill them all

We must free our brethren

Avenge those who have died

Show them no mercy

The pain increased and I screamed, but my voice sound different. More like, multiple voices screaming at once.

Ponyville

Twilight was heading home with her human, Osiris, after getting some groceries.

"So what's the plan for the rest of the day Twilight", asked Osiris.

Twilight looked at him and answered, "Nothing much, the girls are gonna come by later with their humans. Rainbow has been trying to get me put a cloud walking spell on a human so she can keep it. I kept telling her that spell doesn't last very long on a human."

"RAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

Every pony and human jumped at that demonic scream. Twilight was shaking like a leaf and said, "Wha-what was that scream?"

She looked around and saw all of the humans clutching their heads in pain.

"Osiris, what's wrong?"

Osiris was clutching his head in pain and then all of the humans chanted, "Our savior is here."

Twilight observed the humans chanting the same thing over and over again. After chanting for about a minute, the humans got up and roared, while attacking every nearby pony.

Twilight stared in horror as ponies were being killed or beaten up by the rebellious humans. She looked behind her and saw Osiris with a horrified look.

He picked her up and ran to the library.

"We need to inform the princesses quickly!"

Everfree Forest

The voices won't stop talking, all of them telling me to kill.

Then, all of a sudden, one of the voices yelled, SILENCE!

The voices stopped and the pain was gone.

"Who are you", I asked.

"I am Horus. Emperor of what used to be the United Terran Empire. I see our savior has finally arrived.

"Wait, savior? What are you talking about?"

Thousands of years ago, the United Terran Empire used to be the strongest nation on the planet. Surrounding nations waged wars with us to conquer us, and have failed many times. Then one day, the Equestrian princesses Celestia and Luna gathered the leaders of these nations and formed an alliance to defeat us. For years, we fought against impossible odds and we made them pay dearly for every inch of ground, but alas, we did not have the manpower like the allied nations. Everytime we killed one enemy, ten replace them. It all came down to me alone against the world leaders and many soldiers within my throne room. I took down as many as I could until Princess Celestia stabbed me on my back. Heh, good thing I ordered the entire palace to be primed with explosives. As I was on the ground, dying, I pressed the detonator and blew up my palace. Everyone was killed instantly, but unfortunately, it looks like Celestia and Luna survived.

"Wow, nice history lesson, but that doesn't explain why you called me "savior".

"Simple, before the allied armies mad their final push into the capital city, every human, including myself saw a vision of a dark hooded human with green eyes standing on top of a pile of dead ponies, griffons, minotaurs, etc.

"I don't have green eyes, you must be mistaken."

Oh really, go check that pond over there.

I walked over to a nearby pond and looked at my reflection. My eyes widened in shock as I saw Ermac staring back at me complete with the green eyes and mummy-like skin.

Do you believe me now? Now what is your plan of action?

For a moment, I stared at my glowing hands. I spotted a rock and stretched my left hands levitating it. Without realizing it, I crushed the rock into dust when I formed my hand into a fist.

Walking to a nearby tree, I punched it causing green energy to flash where I punched it. The punch caused the tree to buckle and topple to wards my direction. I quickly floated out of the way.

Wait, did I just float?

I looked at the ground and I realized I was floating in the air.

Chuckling, I forgot that Ermac floated in the air almost all the time.

"So, Horus, you know any nearby pony civilizations?"


Author's Note

So yeah, here's the 2nd out of 5 Displaced I'm writing on. All of them set in alternate universes like this one which is set on the Your Human and You universe. Anyway, if you want to know how Ermac got here, then check out the first chapter of my story Thunder Take You! Can't post link cause I'm not home and I'm on my cellphone. 2nd chapter may come next week.

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