Win the Game

“What?” I said astounded. I looked down onto the yellow creature in my claws and loosened my grip around it’s chest slightly.

“Please don’t hurt me, I promise I will leave you alone” It spoke up again with tears in it’s eyes. The voice was definitely female and was a tone of pure terror.

I took my claws off it’s chest and backed away from, I spoke up.

“Hey don’t worry I won’t hurt you” I detached my claws from my hands and let them fall to the ground, a loud metal *Thunk* emanated from the metal hitting dirt, I put my now exposed hands in the air as if i was surrendering, the yellow little creature opened it’s eyes and looked up at me, It eyes had a moderate cyan color too it, it’s body was covered in light fur that was colored in a light gold color, it also sported two wings on each of it’s sides and a weird mark that depicted three butterflies on each side of it’s rear.

The little creature looked at me and slowly got back onto it’s… “hooves?” I asked as I heard the a gentle clop come from the underside of her hooves when it made contact with the dirt ground.

The little creature just looked at me with those cute eyes in confusion. I could still see that she was scared out of her mind of me so I was about too speak up until we both heard a voice in the distance.

Ugh! Why do we have to go on these lookouts? we got enough ponies to make up for one element at least. do we really need the last one? A raspy voice spoke.

A second voice appeared but this one a bit darker but just as raspy.

If we use other ponies theres a big possibility that the machine will break or it will simply not work, you got that rookie?

I didn’t catch the rest of the conversation until I heard the sound of hooves galloping away, I looked over towards where the yellow creature had been earlier and saw it running into an alleyway, I immediately sprinted into the same alleyway to hide from whatever had spoken. I came into the alleyway and saw the same creature sitting huddled in the corner.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

“Shhh” it hushed me “hide, don’t let them see you.”

”Let what see me?” I wondered.

I stuck my head out the alleyway just in time to see to hideous creatures round the corner of a building. The creatures were completely black and there were holes in their legs , they wearied what seemed to be armor that were green and had a green glow to them.

I continued watching until I heard one of the speak up..

“What’s that?” one of them asked.

I looked around to see whatever it was looking at until I realized. I looked down onto my hands and saw noting, I looked around frantically around the alleyway until I remembered, I saw my claws in the middle of the road and the weird bug creatures were almost right by them. I wasn’t sure on what to do, so I just watched as the pair of claws started levitating. I watched in amazement as the claws spun around in circles, the bug creatures seemed to be inspecting them. I kept watching when one of the bug creatures spoke up again.

“We should bring these back to base for further examination.” One of them said, the other one just nodded.

They started walking back the way they came and just as they were passing the alleyway we were hiding in, I sprung out of the darkness and kicked one of them in the head, with the help of the sharp metal piece tied to my ankle  I was able to deliver a small cut to the side of one of it’s face, green blood oozed from the wound and the bug creature backed up, It dropped one of my claws and I swiftly snatched it up and put my hand into it. I looked at the other creature and noticed a green light eminating from it’s horn, a green laser shoot out from the horn and coming towards me, I easily dodged it but I knew if I were to get hit, it would be the end of me.  As soon as the claw had fully connected to my hand I swung it at one of the creatures. The armor was tough but nothing my claws could handle, I cut through one of it’s ribcage on it’s right side, green blood splattered my face and body, guts dropped down onto the ground and made audible thuds as intesdense hit the ground along side it’s body, there wasn’t long pause until  a second laser beam headed straight for me couldn’t dodge it fully this time as it hit my arm I felt the skin and muscle sizzle as the beam hit it’s target I clenched my teeth and jumped into the air and raised my clawed arm above my head,

“YOU BIG MEANIE!!!” I yelled as I brought my hand down onto it’s head.

My claws cut though his armor and skull like butter. I jumped back and looked up just in time to see his head split open and and the two halves of it’s brain fall to the ground, It’s body following short after. I grabbed my other claw and put it on. I looked down onto the mangled corpses and scoffed at them.

“Hff! no one takes my claws.”

I turned around and looked at the alleyway, the yellow creature stood at it’s entrance.  even if it was covered in fur I could still see that it was visibly green. It just stood there and looked back and forward on me and the corpses until it suddenly collapsed. I looked down onto me and saw the blood covering my body, I sighed and made my way over towards the yellow creature and picked it up and held it snuggly in my arms, careful so she didn’t get any blood on her. The pain from the laser beam didn’t hurt much and I was sure I could manage with out any treatment. I looked down onto the little creature and smiled.

“Pegasus” I said “you’re a pegasus, I remembered stories my parents used to tell me” I felt a surge of old memories come back to me, how I used to work on these claws in the shed, how my mother and father used to tell me stories, how me and my brother used to...play. I shook my head trying not to delve on the past to much.

I made my way towards the tree house we originally encountered each other, I looked up to the sky and saw it was quickly getting dark so I quickened my pace towards the tree house and entered. due to darkness outside I could barely see anything in the room but I did find a knocked over couch. I used one of my hands to put it back how it originally were I placed the yellow pegasus on the soft material and she snuggly sank into the couch.

”cute” I thought.

I hit my my claws together and created a spark and a temporary light source, I did this over and over again until I found some candles. I found a second couch that was knocked over, it laid opposite of the couch were the pegasus lay. I put some lit candles on the ground and took my claws of I put them underneath the couch, I looked down onto myself and remembered all the blood that had was splattered on it, I sighed and stripped down naked and put  my clothes next to my claws underneath the couch. I grabbed two blankets on the floor and draped it over the sleeping Pegasus's body, I looked on it’s sleeping form and smiled. I laid down onto the bed and draped the second blanket over my naked form. closed my eyes and let my body sink into the land of unconsciousness.

“Please help us” A voice echoed “you need to help us all” I tried to locate were the voice came from but all I could see was blackness “Please whoever you are you need to help us” I continued to try and feel around the darkness for any light switch or any wall at all “My name is princess Luna and you are the only one who can save us”

my eyes shot up and flew up into a sitting position I looked around the room to see who was talking but I didn’t see anyone, I finally calmed down enough and looked over to were the pegasus lay, she was still sleeping. I reached under my couch and felt the fabric of my clothes grace my fingers, I got a good grip on them and pulled them up from under the couch. I looked around and saw a kitchen with a tap. I walked over to it bare naked and turned the tab on, water flowed out, thanks to the special fabric in my clothes the blood came right of along with any foreign substance. I submerged my clothes in the water for a few seconds and the water quickly green, I pulled them up again. the fabric became dry in a couple seconds and I threw them on.

I walked over towards the sleeping pegasus and knelt down next to her.

“Hey wake up sleepy head” I whispered.

The pegasus opened it’s eyes slowly and looked up at me, it stared at me for a few seconds until it spoke.

“Good Morning” she said, I could hear from it’s voice that it was feminine.

I smiled and responded.

“Good Morning to you too” I patted her head and got up to a standing position again. I walked over to one of the windows next to the door and pulled the curtains away, I immediately dragged the curtains back as I saw loads of those bug creatures from yesterday. I looked back at the pegasi and alerted her.

“We need to go now, theres loads of those things out there” I said in a hushed tone. I peeked out of the curtains to see what they were doing, they were going into different houses and later came out again.

“What are they doing?” A soft voice emanated behind me.

I looked for a few more seconds until I responded.

“I don’t know, I think they’re looking for something...I think they’re looking for...us” A sudden realization hit me like a tidal wave.

“We need to get out of here fast” I said

The pegasus jumped down from the couch and spoke up.

“There’s a window upstairs, we can jump down from there”

I nodded I snatched my claws up from under the couch and quickly ran up the stairs, we entered the bedroom and saw a on the far right on the room. I looked out the window and just saw a couple of bug creatures in the distance but it was nothing to worry about. I heard the door down stairs being kicked open

“search the house!!” A raspy voice called out, following the command I heard things being knocked over and hooves hotting wooden floor.

I opened the window and prompted the pegasus to jump down into the bushes below, she quickly climbed out the window and jumped out, I looked out the window and saw her using her wings to dampen the fall and fall into the bushes, I swiftly followed and jumped out the window, I landed on all four and the pegasus was looking at me. I peeked out the bushes and saw no bugs, I looked back to the pegasus and spoke.

“Get on my back, I can get out of here faster”

She looked at me nervously.

“A-are you sure?”

“Yes I’m sure, now get on!” I said in a commanding voice.

“Y-you don’t h-have to” She silently said.

I clenched my teeth.

“Get on!!” I sternly said.

“EEP” came from the pegasus and she slowly proceeded to get on my back. I peeked out of the bushes one last time and saw nothing, I ready for a sprint, I smiled.

“Of we go” I said.

I burst out the bushes on all fours. I ran for a few seconds on all fours until I heard a distant voice.

“What is that?” and a second voice “Catch it” along with loads of voices yelling after me.

I put an extra boost into my sprinting. the distant voices quickly dissipated when I exited the town, I quickly entered the forest were I had originally come from, I ran far into the forest to make sure we were safe. I exited into a small clearing and felt my legs giving out and fell on my stomach, I felt the pegasus on my back slowly get of and she sat in front me now.

“A-are you alright?” she asked in a caring voice.

“I’m fine” I simply answered. “They hide, I seek, that’s how it should be” I chuckled.

“O-okay” She responded.

I got up and sat down onto the ground I looked on the pegasus I thought this would be the best time to get some answers

“Hey” The pegasus looked at me “What’s your name?”

The pegasus looked down onto the ground and spoke,

“Oh well my name is Fluttershy.

“Excuse me?” I said

“My name is Flutter[/size]shy

“Fluttershy, alright. My name is Koshka.”

“Oh nice to meet you Koshka” Fluttershy said with a smile.

“Same to you. anyway, What are those creatures back there.”

“Oh they are called Changelings, they can turn into anypony they want and imitate their personality along with anything else the original pony can or can’t do.”

I nodded and continued my line of questioning.

“What happened to the town.”

Her ears dropped down to her head and she looked down once again.

“T-the changelings attacked Ponyville and all of Equestria” I got confused ”Equestria? Never heard of that” I thought. I was about to ask about it, but It was not the most important subject right now.

“Why did they attack?”

“They wanted my friend Twilight Sparkles machine, It was a machine that was suppoded to travel between worlds but It required a high amount of energy to do so, so she stopped the project, but when word came out about a machine that could potentially travel between worlds the changelings wanted it for some reason, I’m not sure why.” She finished.

“Where are all other ponies now?.” I decided this was gonna be the last question as I saw the line of questioning was upsetting Fluttershy.

Fluttershy was still looking down onto the ground and tears started forming in her eyes and a couple of seconds later she answered.

“I don’t know.” She simply said but she spoke up again “I don’t want to be alone anymore, I miss my animals, I miss Angle, I miss my friends.” at this point tears were flowing down her eyes and on to the ground “I don’t know where they are, I don’t know if they're dead or alive, I don’t know what will happen  if I never see them again.” I detached my claws and made my way closer to her and wrapped my arms around her.

“Don’t worry you will see them again I promise” I said in a soothing voice

“H-how do I know?” she said through sobs.

“Because I’ll make sure that happens”

We sat there for a few minutes in each others embrace until I decided to speak up.

“We should get some wood”

[size=1.5em]Location: Canterlot

Perspective: Red Fang[/size

I walked up towards the queen Chrysalis throne room, two body guards were standing in front of the throne room door and they were wearing blue body armor, they swiftly opened the doors when they caught sight of me and they saluted. I entered the throne room and walked towards Queen Chrysalis who were sitting in her throne, to her left and right were two green pods with some sort of green liquid inside of it, both pods contained Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, they both looked at Chrysalis with hatred in their eyes.

“My queen.” I said as I bowed “Requesting permission to speak”

“Granted” Chrysalis said as she looked down at a stack of paper.

rose up again to all fours and started speaking again.

“Two of our fellow brothers have been found dead in the Ponyville resident.”

Chrysalis looked up from the stack of paper and spoke.

“Do we know who did this?”

“We aren’t sure but two of our brothers said they had sighted a weird creature carrying something on it’s back” Chrysalis continued to look at me and I continued “They say that it looked like a pony where riding this creature, from what they described this pony as, it seems to match the description of the sixth element and the creature as something they had never seen before, It had extremely long appendages and it seemed to have two big ears on it’s head, that’s all they could see before it vanished into the Everfree forest.”

Chrysalis looked down the stack of paper again and spoke.

“I want you and your squad to find them and bring them to me, I will handle them personally and if you bring me both of them I will let you see your little mare once again.”

“Yes my queen.” I said. I turned and started making my way out of the throne room but a voice stopped me.

“Also,” Chrysalis spoke up “Is our new subject doing well?”

I turned and answered her.

“Yes, It’a very resilient to all our tests.”

“What is the current status?” she asked.

“Our current status of it is currently 20% done, we are following it’s exact requests and it’s making great progress.”

Chrysalis smiled and put the stack of paper down onto the table in front of her.

“We are ready for a feild test in just a few days.”

“Alright commander, Dismissed”

“Yes my queen.” I bowed once again and turned to make my way out of the throne room. The guard gave me a salute once again and I sighed.

”When will this nightmare end?”