Back In Time

**PreRead by Subtle Rampage

Sureshot**

I narrowed my eyes. ‘This would be far, far simpler if I had my gun’ . . .I dodged the sword thaw was swung at me, leaping to the side.  Jumping  and turning in the air I kicked him in the unarmoured part of his face. He slashed at me with the sword again. need to get that sword away from him! I feigned like I was going to try to buck him again, voluntarily giving him an opening. Slamming a hoof on the hilt of the sword I managed to grab on to it. Chances were he was powerful, but he was also likely to give me an opening while trying to shake me off. If he’d tried to shake me off. Instead he merely pressed me against, the cold hard, stone wall with his magic.

‘’Yield.’’ he said flatly. The blade of his sword pressed into my neck.

I looked at him, then swung my hoof hard against a pressure point on his leg (surprisingly unguarded). He crumpled to the ground, unconscious. I relaxed, picking up his sword. I didn’t hesitate before cleanly decapitating him with a satisfying and moist *schluck* .

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I slumped against the wall, wondering if the hoofbeats I heard were a pony coming to interrogate me. It probably was, considering that we’d been here two days now.  They weren't luckily, it was actually- cliche as it sounds- Sureshot and Cirrus.

‘’- And I told you I COULD’VE handled it ON MY OWN, ‘Shot!’’ Said Cirrus.

‘’Whether you could handle it or not is a moot point. Do not call me Shot.’’

I just looked at them. ‘’’Can you open the cell already?’’ Sureshot awkwardly opened the cell and my chains with a key obviously meant to be used with unicorn magic.

--

‘’Our goal is to find our conventional weapons and the EoHs.’’ Said Sureshot, standing in front of the entire group.

‘’So, you don’t think there's a map?’’ Diamond’s question was met by cold glares.

‘’In case you’ve FORGOTTEN Sparkle, you’re the reason we were captured in the first place! Oh, and unicorns, use those horns on your heads to do an item finding spell!’’ Said Ampere, looking like she wanted to disembowel Diamond.

Both unicorns horns started glowing with their magical nimbuses, Nygumi’s green and Diamonds’ red.

‘’You know they look ALOT alike performing magic,’’ mused Ampere.

I looked at her. ‘’What are you saying?’’

‘’Nothing.’’

--

‘’Well, I’m pretty sure we found our weapons . . .  just not the Elements of Harmony . . . ‘’ Diamond trailed off.

Cirrus jumped into the air to be eye-level with Diamond. ‘’What do you mean you CAN’T find the FUCKIN’ ELEMENTS OF HARMONY! Their, like, the most magical  artifacts in this time!’’

‘’Yeah, Cirrus is right Diamond, how hard is it? Even I could sense their power when I was near them.’’ Snarled Ampere.

Sureshot walked in between the two ponies. ‘’It is not conductive to the mission to argue.’’ The grey earth pony said in her usual flat monotone. How does she do that? I wondered randomly. Then Nygumi jumped in the air shouting ‘’YES’’ (she hit her head on the low, and slimy looking ceiling). ‘’Ow, that hurt,’’ muttered the pink-maned unicorn. The only thing going through my mind was ( and I’m pretty sure I can speak for all of us here) is: have you gone insane?! The other guards will hear us!

‘’Of course they heard me,’’ Muttered an annoyed looking Nygumi, as seven royal guards ran into the room.

‘’ HALT! You are trespassing on royal property!’’ Yelled the royal guard that had come into the room first.

Ampere looked at me, Sureshot, Nygumi, Cirrus and Diamond. ‘’Here’s the plan- we get their swords and knock all but one out and have them take us to the EoH!’’

Sureshot shook her head. ‘’No need. I calculate a 90% chance that Nygumi found the other set of EoH, the one NOT drained of power from timetravel. Kill the guards.’’ I jumped up, wings flaring outward, the barbs, slashing out his eye. I reared upwards, striking him in the skull, a dull clang reverberating across the room.  I saw Cirrus bashing in a pony’s skull with her hooves and Sureshot slashing with a sword.

We made short work of them, I think they must have been rookies. I felt guilty and I didn’t want to kill them, but then again, all is fair in love and war. Nygumi managed to lead us (undetected, thanks to an invisibility spell) to a room with a box on a pedestal.

‘’Well THAT’S just stupid, ’’ Pointed out Ampere, and I had to agree that it WAS semi-cliche (or something).

‘’Whatever,’’ said Cirrus as she and Sureshot walked up to the box. Nervously, the rest of us followed them. It’s probably booby-trapped. Then I realized I was beyond caring.It wasn't like the events of this mission had transformemed me, but I wanted to get it over with, and go back home where I wouldn't be given those open stares because I was a dragonwing.I mean It was one thing to be a part of a minority back home but, to be in a place where your kind had been exiled by Celestia?  I walked/flew the rest of the distance, opening the box. I pulled out the element necklace of my ancestor. It glowed softly pink and I heard the sounds of faint, indistinct conversation in my head. Leftover, imprinted memories, nothing more, I reasoned to myself.

‘’Happy, happy, birthday to you and you today!’’

‘‘’Pinkie Pie, who banished fear by giggling in the face of danger, represents the spirit of...laughter!’’

I forced the thoughts out of my head, it was still nothing. Pinkie is (was?) very eccentric, maybe even borderline insane, she would leave a stronger imprint then any, normal weilder.

‘’I’m ready. Let’s go kill Princess Celestia,’’ I said, a strange smile twisting my face.