The Protector

by Freakxander

Chapter 9- This Is War

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Aiden awoke to the sound of a explosion outside of the castle, he listened to his instincts and grabbed his pistol he had beside him.

Twilight awoke with panic "Aiden! What was that?!?" She said, obviously frightened.

Aiden quickly slipped on his clothes and looked at her "I don't know... Follow me, and you need to stay close, you're safest with me." He told her before crouching and cracking open the door only slightly. He looked out into the halls and noticed all of the guards were no where in sight. Aiden wore a worried look before turning to Twilight "Follow me." He said before slowly proceeding into the hallway.

Twilight whispered "W-what about the others? What about Spike?" She said to him with concern.

Aiden cursed under his breath "Spike..." He inched towards Spike's room before opening it.

Spike threw a book at Aiden "Stay away!" He screamed with pure fear.

Aiden spoke out "It's me! Aiden!" He said, instantly calming the dragon down.

Spike was relieved "Thank Celestia... Are you gonna help?" He asked Aiden.

Aiden nodded "Yes... You and Twilight are gonna stay here." He informed the dragon.

Spike got worried again "H-how will that protect us?!? We're safe with you!" He told Aiden.

Aiden sighed before observing the room "I'm gonna put you two into the wall." He told them.

Twilight looked at him with confusion "How?" She asked him.

Aiden stretched his limbs "Like this," he said before tackling into the wall, making a huge hole into the wall.

The mare and the dragon stared at him with shock.

Aiden stood up before popping his neck "Get in, I'm gonna block you two in with a dresser." He told them.

Spike and Twilight looked at each other before entering the hole in the wall.

Aiden looked out the window and saw buildings burning "Shit!" He said out loud.

Twilight looked at him "What is it?" She asked with worry.

Aiden shook his head "Nothing, everything will be fine." He said before crouching down in front of them.

Twilight took nervous breaths "What are you going to do?" She asked him.

Aiden sighed "I'm gonna go and help." He rubbed his head "I love you." He said to her.

Twilight smiled gently "I love you too." She said with love.

Aiden kissed her deeply before standing up "I'll be back for you two. I promise I won't let anything happen to you guys." He said before positioning himself to push the dresser.

Twilight nodded "Be safe!" She said before being enclosed into the wall.

Aiden stood straight up before pulling out his gun and exiting the room. Aiden gasped when he noticed a few guards were laying on the floors dead, they were massacred, their blood had made it onto the floors and walls. Aiden crouched "How the hell did I not hear anything?" He said while making his way to the stairs. He quickly ran down the stairs before making it onto the bottom floor, he saw the princess standing their with a look of horror and shock "Celestia!" He called out to her.

Celestia slowly looked at him "He's immune... Aiden, he's immune to magic!" She paused for a second "But he can use it." She said with fear.

Aiden sighed "Where is he?" He asked her.

Celestia swallowed before pointing outside "Killing my little ponies." She said with tears reaching her eyes.

The look of sadness motivated and angered Aiden "Don't you worry Celestia, I'll do what my name says." He told her.

Celestia nodded and sniffled "Please, save them Aiden." She begged him.

Aiden nodded before bolting out of the main doors. Aiden was horrified to see the city in flames, it was filled with screams and cries of help, he also heard some ponies shouting the name everypony calls him.

Aiden was pushed to his limit as far as anger. He bolted down the streets and saw the guards of John messing with a few families. Aiden approached one group and raised his gun, this instantly grabbed the attention of the guards and the families. Aiden aimed and started firing off shots into the guards that charged at him, he landed every single shot, most of them being head shots. He noticed the families were giving him a short praise before running away from the battle. Aiden pulled out a knife that he kept on him at all times just so he could reserve some ammo. A few guards charged at him but they would meet with Aiden disarming them and getting stabbed in important areas of the body. Aiden got sliced on the back by a guard and he snapped with rage, he snatched the guard by the throat and lifted him off of the ground, he thrusted his knife into his stomach and disemboweled the guard, letting his internals spill out onto the ground.

The other guards watched with horror before running away with pure fear in them.

Aiden ran down the streets, hoping to find the man that was all behind this, John. Aiden paused when he saw a Royal guard get thrown through a wall, shortly after seeing John step out, about to finish killing the guard. Aiden called out "Hey! You fucking pussy! Fight me little bitch! Or am I just too much for you!" He said with anger.

John snapped towards Aiden, this slight pause let the guard run away. He revealed a red glow coming from his hand, he tried shooting Aiden with magic, but he then saw him absorb the magic. John was shocked "So you're tougher than the others..." He said out loud.

Aiden pulled out his gun "And more deadly, bitch." He said before aiming at him. He was about to pull the trigger before seeing a red mist fly out of John's mouth, leaving John to collapse on the ground. Aiden saw the mist become its own form, a creature that had yellow eyes and was dark red.

Aiden fired at it but saw it catch the bullets, he was slightly shocked but realized he needed to have hand to hand combat.

The creature charged at Aiden and was going to hit him, but it only got to have its arm restrained and its head smashed into a nearby brick wall by Aiden. It whirled around and threw the human a good thirty feet away.

Aiden flew through the air and hit the ground hard, he recovered in seconds before seeing the red creature charging at him again, he acted quickly and picked up the creature by the waist and slammed it onto the ground with power in every movement. He mounted the creature and started to hit it as hard as he could with punches to the face, he was eventually kicked off and hit a wall.

The creature moved as quick as a blink towards Aiden, it grabbed his knife and rammed it into his shoulder, Aiden yelled with rage before snatching the creature by its arms and ripping them off, having black blood spew out of the place where the limbs used to be.

The creature stared at him with what appeared to be confusion before turning back into a mist and flying off into the sky.

Aiden breathed heavily and looked down at his hands "H-how did I do that?" He asked himself. His attention was grabbed by the remaining guards of the creature sprinting out of the city. Aiden looked down at the arms he ripped off and saw they were still oozing out the black blood "What the fuck was that thing?" He said before noticing the knife in his shoulder, he sighed "it could've been worse." He said. Aiden walked over to Johns body and felt his pulse, his heart was still beating, he sighed with relief before picking up the human.

The two princesses flew down from the sky "You did it!" Celestia said.

Aiden raised a eyebrow "What'd I do?" He asked.

Luna stared at him "You scared them away! It must be because you got their leader!" She indicated John on his shoulder.

Aiden shook his head "We need to have a meeting ASAP, there are a lot of new things I've found out tonight." He said before walking past them with his friend on his shoulder.

The two princesses looked at each other with confusion before flying back to the castle.


Aiden pushed the dresser, freeing Twilight and Spike.

Twilight hugged him "Thank goodness your safe! I heard ponies yelling your name outside while sitting in there." She told him.

Aiden sighed "Yeah... I had to do few things that no pony should do." He told her.

Spike noticed the the bandages on his shoulder "What happened to you?" He asked him.

Aiden shook his head "Nothing much, just got cut up." He lied some.

Twilight kissed him "I'm just glad you're okay." She said before hugging him tight. She looked at him "How did you resolve it all so quickly? You were only gone for a few hours." She told him.

Aiden sighed "I went for their leader, it turns out after getting rid of their leader they turn around and run away." He told her.

Twilights ears flattened on her head "So you killed him..." She said with pity.

Aiden shook his head "No, I'll explain everything at the next meeting." Be told her.

Twilight was confused "What happened to John?" She asked.

Aiden sighed "I got him, he's recovering in a room near ours." He told her.

Twilight sat down "I'm so confused right now..." She said while thinking.

Aiden rubbed his head "I know, just come with me. We're holding the meeting now since it's a emergency." He told her before exiting the room.

Twilight followed behind him and observed him "You seem... Angry." She said.

Aiden looked down at her "I'm fucking furious." He told her with slight anger in his tone.

Twilight slowly nodded "How many died?" She asked him.

Aiden shook his head "I don't know, I just know that a lot of families have been lost tonight." He said to her.

Twilight flattened her ears "I see...." She said before entering the meeting room with Aiden.

All of the ponies from before were there, but many of the generals had injuries.

Celestia nodded to the two "Okay, everypony. Aiden has received valuable information." She said to have them all focus on Aiden.

Aiden sighed "John is innocent. Our enemy is something that I have never thought I would ever see... This creature awoke something inside of me, something powerful." He walked over to a cart in the corner of the room and pulled off the cover on it. Inside of the cart was the creatures arms that he ripped off. Aiden picked up both arms and showed them to everypony "I had the strength to tear the limbs off of this thing. This thing pissed me off to where I just lost it, all I wanted and still to do is kill every single one of those bastards." Aiden threw the arms onto the table, letting some of the left over black blood squirt out onto the table "If this makes you queasy then raise your hoof." He instructed them.

Rarity and Fluttershy raised their hoofs.

Aiden picked up one of the arms and walked over to the both of them to only stick it into their faces "You might not want to come with me, I'm gonna be doing things that'll make you question my sanity. I'd like to rip off their fucking heads if I could." He told them.

The two of them swallowed before nodding.

Rarity let out a nervous breath "I-I'll help you Aiden, just as long as you protect us." She told him.

Aiden pulled the arm away "Good, just don't throw up on me in battle." He said before walking back to the end of the table. Aiden looked at the arm, he thought more about the massacre and got more pissed off "I'll show you all only a small bit of what you'll see." He quickly grabbed a finger on the arm and ripped it right off of the hand.

All of the ponies watched in horror, a few of them almost throwing up at the sight.

Aiden wore a look of murder on his face "We leave in the morning." He told them all.

Celestia was pale "B-but we only have a limited amount of supplies!" She told him.

Aiden looked at her with anger "I'll make do with what I've got! I gave you time, and look at where it fucking got us! They wanted some attention, well now they fucking have it, except it's my attention!" He progressively got louder with every statement.

Celestia was about to speak but decided to only nod.

Aiden realized he was getting too pissed off "You all meet me at the entrance of the castle at five in the morning." He said before rushing out of the room.

Twilight got up "U-umm, sorry for his anger, but he really does care about you guys. Aiden just feels like he's failed us." She said before running after him.

Aiden walked down the hallway with anger in every step.

Twilight ran after him "What was that, Aiden!?!" She asked him with a annoyed tone.

Aiden stopped and looked at her "You need to know what you're gonna be seeing Twi! I honestly don't know if I want you guys going, but I need your help." He said before passing their room.

Twilight followed him "Are you going to be this mad the whole time?" She asked him.

Aiden sighed "I've never been this pissed in my whole life. All I need right now is for that thing to be dead, and I want its blood on my hands." He said before approaching the room that John was recovering in.

Twilight stopped him from opening the door to the room "You didn't fail protecting us Aiden, you stopped that thing. Some lives were lost tonight, but you did a good job on getting vengeance. All you need to worry about is ending this war, worry about what matters most. Protect the living Aiden." She told him.

Aiden stared at her for a few seconds before nodding "I will." He said before opening the door, leaving Twilight outside. Aiden stepped into the room and saw a nurse taking care of John, which was awake finally.

John saw Aiden "Oh. My. God." He said with a shocked expression.

Aiden laughed lightly "You've been gone for a while buddy." He said to John.

John sighed "I heard. You don't even have to ask." He told Aiden.

Aiden wore a confused expression "Ask for what?" He asked him.

John chuckled "I'm going to fight with you in this war." He told Aiden.

Aiden was surprised "Just like that? I suppose you want vengeance?" He asked John.

John nodded "You know it. That bitch isn't just gonna use my body and not be punished for it." He said.

Aiden smiled "I'm glad you're the same John I know." He said.

John smirked "Besides, I know these ponies only mean good. You oughta know that I'm gonna fight for the right thing." He said with courage.

The nurse looked at Aiden "He sounds just like you Protector." She said to him.

John looked at Aiden oddly "You're The Protector?" He asked him.

Aiden nodded "It's my duty to make sure the ponies of Equestria are safe." He told John.

John smiled "I guess death can't even take away your good heart." He said to Aiden.

Aiden smiled "You know it." He walked to the door "If you still want to still help in the morning then meet me at the entrance of the castle at five in the morning." He told John.

John nodded "Get a good rest Aiden, I can tell that you need it." He told his fellow human.

Aiden nodded "You too." He said before leaving the room.

Twilight had waited for him in the hallway the whole time "Is he okay?" She asked Aiden.

Aiden sighed "I think so, he said he's joining us in this war." He informed her.

Twilight perked her ears up "Really? So we'll have two humans with advance military training?" She asked him.

Aiden nodded "Yup, this will hopefully give us a better chance at winning." He told her.

Twilight smiled "If you're on our side then we're gonna win this war Aiden." She told him.

Aiden raised an eyebrow "What makes you say that?" He asked her.

Twilight smiled wide "You're The Protector, you're called that for a reason. You're a good leader too." She said to him.

"But you've never seen me lead." He told her.

Twilight giggled "You're more of a leader at the meetings than the princess is." She said before walking towards their room.

Aiden followed "So you have all of your faith in me?" He asked her.

Twilight looked back at him "You know it, you're my special somepony anyways." She said before opening the door to their room.

Aiden followed her into their room "Well, I promise you that I won't let you down." He said to her.

Twilight smiled "Good." She pushed him onto the bed "You better not let me down now either!" She said before kissing him deeply.

Aiden chuckled "You know that I never do!" He said before kissing her back with all of his love.


Author's Note

Oh man, shits about to hit the fan.

I know that this story is far from over, but would you guys be interested in seeing me write stories in the future?

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