Saviors of Equestria

The SWAT began yelling, trying to take the ponies to who knows where, and waking up the other three mares who were sleeping in their beds. Twilight screamed as a sharp blade connected with her hind leg, the searing pain expanding as she felt the cold metal grind through her muscles. Through a haze of pain, she heard the screams of her friends as they encountered the SWAT. "Take that, numbnuts!" Rainbow yelled as she snatched a gun from behind her and started shooting at them. Some fell, but it wasn't enough, as they started closing in once more, the sound of their marching hooves resembling thunder.

Fluttershy had crouched in a fetal position on the floor, whimpering before a soldier hauled her up and attempted to drag her away, but was very much unsuccessful as Rarity chose that moment to appear and blasted him with her blinding blue magic. "Not so fast you ruffian!"

The force was so strong, it blew up the solider. Red liquid spattered everywhere, the sickening sound of wet blood hitting the crystal-clean walls. Organs that were not completely demolished fall to the floor with a wet flop, leaking mystery juices. Fluttershy screamed in terror while AJ took a moment to try and calm the yellow pegasus down before running up to Twilight.

"Twilight?! Get up!! We can't fight them, we have to run!" AJ yelled, sending one SWAT pony flying with a powerful kick to the chest. Twilight nodded, black spots dancing in her eyes as she got to her hooves slowly.

She looked around the scene in horror: Pinkie Pie barely managing to fend them off with her party cannon, Rarity screaming curses and blowing up some more soldiers, Rainbow Dash disappearing under a mass of black camo. Seething rage boiled underneath Twilight's skin, hardening her heart till she knew no fear.

"Twi?" Applejack questioned warily, kicking in another soldier's face as he came close.

I will not let them do this.. Not to my friends, not to my family, not to my neighbors... They'll have to kill me first!

The purple alicorn let loose a battle cry as she charged into the swarming masses of SWAT ponies. She picked up her battered and bloodied friends with her magic and rushed to perform a teleportation spell, hoping she would have enough energy to do so. The room flashed with bright purple light the war-zone kitchen jarred out of focus as she and her friends began to teleport.

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They appeared at their destination, the Cutie Mark Crusader's tree house. Already, in the distance, they could hear the sound of AK-47's and sirens going off loudly.

A few miles off, seven Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters flew in formation, 30mm M230 chain guns and four hardpoints, which were most likely full of a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods, visible from where the Mane 6 stood.

"Damn, those are some big guns if you ask me!" Rainbow whistled, staring at the helicopters both in awe and fear. Rarity glowered at Rainbow and knocked her in the head sharply with her manicured hoof.

"There's no time to be gawking over the enemy's munitions! We need to find the girls! Sweetie Belle!" Rarity wailed, clambering up the steps to the door. The ponies glanced at each other, unsure of what they would find, before following suit slowly.

"Apple Bloom! Are yeh in there, sugarcube?" Applejack called out. Her voice echoed eerily, and all the other ponies all became silent, fearing another SWAT attack. Suddenly, the door swung open, and a hoof appeared from it and pulled AJ into the dark room, cutting off her indignant "Hey!"

"A-Applejack!" Fluttershy whisper-yelled, before charging in after her, pulling the other ponies in with her.

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Everything was dark. They could see the gleam of green, reddish-orange, and violet eyes. The green pair was looking around, probably hunting for the light switch before a thud and a "Ow!" penetrated the darkness. Rarity's relieved sigh came somewhere from Twilight's left as the white unicorn began to talk.

"Oh Sweetie Belle, your okay! I was worried sick about you when I realized the SWAT could be doing this to you too!"

Suddenly, a lantern started glowing brightly, uncovering the Cutie Mark Crusaders in a ghostly amber light.

The three fillies had such horrible injuries on them! A long cut ran down Apple Bloom's side, and even though it seemed to have dried over a smidge, every time the young Apple moved, she winced. Sweetie Belle carried the markings of a vicious choke-hold on her delicate neck, with bruises so dark they were visible from underneath her coat.

Scootaloo seemed to have wrenched a wing while tussling with some-pony, not to mention that her front hoof was twisted so abnormally that it made Pinkie vomit in her mouth.

"Sweet mother of Celestia! What the hell happened here?!" Rainbow shrieked, her eyes widening in shock and anger. Scootaloo sighed shakily before responding.

"They SWAT ponies came in and tried to take us, but after we fought so much they just left us. But it seemed like they were called off by whoever it was who did that.." Sweetie Belle nodded vigorously, rubbing her bruised neck softly.

"They put me in a darn choke-hold! I thought I was never going to breathe again! I actually felt like I was dying.." She trailed off, her huge green eyes watering with tears as she recounted the story mentally.

Apple Bloom cleared her throat before talking. "Well, one thing's for sure. It'll never be the same again in Equestria, will it? We have to fight back! We can't let the nobles do this to us!"

The filly groaned before talking once more. "I just still can't believe the princesses would do such a thing to us! What did we ever do to them?!"

Twilight frowned. "That just might be it, Apple Bloom. I can't believe they would go through with this either. Maybe, just maybe, they actually don't mean it? I mean, the officials and them, I can understand pulling this sort of stuff, but the princesses? Fat chance, in my opinion.."

The room became quiet as everypony mulled the thought over.

"Suppose the princesses aren't really actually evil and blood-thirsty, but are actually being controlled by the wealthy officials and nobles, and cant try anything fishy because if they do, they'll be overwhelmed then killed and so would their families and friends?!" Pinkie Pie shrieked, putting her hooves up to her face in surprise.

Fluttershy was nodding slowly. "I think you're right, Pinkie! The princesses I knew would never do anything of this sort to the citizens, much less to people they love! ...What if, some-pony's got the alicorn amulet again, or maybe some other thing and became more powerful than an alicorn to keep the princesses in check?!"

Rarity smiled warmly at the shy pegasus. "Fluttershy has a point. They could be being threatened by some unknown party and were forced to do this... but let's just wait and see."

Rainbow snorted, crossing her muddy hooves over her chest. "We can't be waiting for this to just dissipate! Cause it won't. In the meantime, we need to fight back! We need to get the hella cool weapons and shoot down those jackwagons!"

Scootaloo jumped to her hooves before almost falling down again; obviously she wasn't used to putting weight on her bent hoof. "Yeah! We should get tanks, and copters, and jets, and machine guns, and-" Twilight put a hoof over the energetic filly's mouth before responding.

"We can't just charge into battle, we'll need to prepare and stock up. I don't even know how we are on food and weaponry, but trust me. We're going to get through this, and we're going to get rid of every-pony that ever started this."