Full Metal Pony

Twilight was just getting to bed after reorganizing all the books ponies borrowed and didn't put back correctly. Spike was already fast asleep, but there was a knock on the door, and a frantic one at that. Twilight was walking down the stairs, when a rainbw shot through her window, down the stairs and trailed to a cyan pegasis panting in front of her. "Rainbow, what happened?" Twilight asked, trotting to the side of her freind, who was so tired that she was having trouble staying on her hoofs. "Twilight, I saw a changeling scout over Poinyville... And could hear... the ivasion force that was coming. We need to prepare some form of defence, anything! Send word to Celestia, and-" she stopped herself after hearing what she had said. The reality that their beloved Princess, whom they had all looked up to was no longer. "Send word to Luna and tell her to get 5th Platoon down here, they trained at the same boot camp we did." Twilight looked at the floor, eyes darting back and forth as if scanning an imaginary battle map. "No, we need to evacuate everypony here, you go tell the others, and then we'll move to the nearest town for refuge." she explained, calming Dash down. "Twilight, we BOTH know that that they'll still destroy Ponyville if we arent here, and when they reach Skywind they'll burn it down as well." Dash's ears popped up upon hearing the noises grow closer, and felt the ground begin to rumble, shaking every bone in her body to the core. "T-Twilight?" she asked, her eyes brimming with tears. "They... they're here..." she said, pointing out the window to where the night sky should be. The moon and stars were erased by the hundreds of thousands of changelings, dropping down from... from something floating in the sky. Rainbow was just going off to get the others, but when she turned around they were all there. And each one of them had the same pale look on their face, the color in their coats nonexistent. "Darling, this... this would be a capital time for o-one of your plans..." Rarity said, the tears flowing. Fluttershy was on Applejack's back, holding on for dear life, crying her soft cry and burying her face in Applejacks mane. They all stood there, waiting for someone to make the first move, when Rainbow Dash finally decided to take a small look and see what was going on. She saw the changelings piling back into their floating base of some sort. But something... else was dropping from it. Small specs fell from the bottom of it, and she waited ti see what happened when they hit the ground. "Maybe it's like my Rainbombs...' She thought, waiting still. They didnt land near the town, but ina feild of wild animals, who took notice and walked up carefully to the objects. Seconds later, they all exploded, releasing a small flame and some form of gas, visible from afar. The animals began choking, letting out a chorus of dry heaves and gags in an attemp to inhale air to their dying lungs, but to no avail. One by one, they dropped dead scattered around the field. "Oh no, no, no no NO! GUYS!" Dash screamed flying back down. "They have some... floating base. And they dropped something an a field near Ponyville, and all the animals near the... things started choking when the things went off, and they're moving to drop them on us, and-" Twilight put a hoof against Dash's mouth, so she could ger her word in. "Girls, we need to go and get ever single pony out of this town, do you understand me?" She asked, looking at each and every one of them. They all nodded, and started towards the door. Just before any of them could reach it, three Lunar guards bashed in the door, wearing hazmat suits. "You six need to out these on, right now. DOnt say a word, not a yes and not a no, just do it." They commanded, throwing each oif them a suit. Once they had all gotten theirs on (Fluttershy was forcefully put in against her will, and curled up in a ball again) "Okay, ill get the rest for everypony else in town, and" she was stopped by the commander of the 3 Lunar guards "No can do, we need to get to a safe spot and await extraction. We were dropped off three clicks away, but with the airship the changelings have produced, we couldnt hotdrop in. SO, we need to keep you six safe." he said, looking up. His eyes followed hundreds of objects down from the airship, all of which hit the ground with a small click.

By this time, almost everypony in Ponyville was outside looking up at the airship or down, at the small cylinders of... something that dropped from the ship. The guards Pressed a button on their chest, as well as on the Six's suits, and their masks hissed and pumped oxeygen into their breath pipes. "You may want to go inside, this wont be a pretty sight..." the commander to,d them. "Well, why don;t you tell them to go? Why let THEM die!?" Dash asked, her vioce cracking and the tears beginning to flow. Just then, all the cylinders popped, releasing a mucky yellow gas across the entire town. Everypony looked around, and one by one, they all started coughing. The Earth Ponie's lungs began to swell up, until they reached the point of breaking and popped, releasing blood into their bodies, and flowing out of their mouths and nose, all of them lying face-down on the dirt. The Unicorn's horns began to distenigrate with a small flame, until it reached the inside of their headsa. Their brains began to fry, with a burning smell and sound. Their brain stems lit like candles, and scorched the flesh from the inside, burning strong as the drop dead into the earth. The Pegasi's wings began to bloat up, and they, like the Earth Pony's lungs, popped, with waves of blood gushing out, draining them of the precious ruby fluid of life. The screams from ponies dying, and the cries and coughs of fillies mixed in their heads, combining to form a single, solitary sound, the elimination of all living. Dash had her eyes closed tight, but something forced them ooen. She looked up and saw Sweetie Belle, Scootaloom and Applebloom, just about to enter the gas feild. She fraced towards them, grabbing the spare oxeygen mask off of the back of one of the Guards and a mask, racing towards them. "DO. NOT BREATHE AT ALL, DO YOU UNDERSTAND. YOU WAIT UNTIL THIS MASK IS ON, OKAY?" She demanded, blocking their veiw of the town center, littered with the tortured bodies of freinds and family. She worked fast, and got them all in the mask, but it wouldnt last long. "Close your eyes, and get onto my back." she said, calmly as possible, the tears welling un to aa small puddle at the bottom of her mask. They nodded, and slimbed on, eys shut tight. Dash walked calmly throug the town, and to the other sidem away from the scene that would haunt her mind through day and night.

Twilight had seen everything, her unwillingness to leave her freinds had come to the unwillingness to break eye contact, as if an apoligy for not being able to do anything, for standing there, so helplessly. But there was more. Deep inside, she felt her the ends to her sanity fraying with every passing second. Applejack was brought to her knees, and sobbed relentlessly, as did all the others. None of them saw any point in holding back those walled in feelings and emotions,a nd everything from the past two weeks came out. But they all knew that this just meant that they would be sent into deeper missions, and that they, the most well trained fighting force in Equestria's history, were breaking down, tight-strung ropes of sanity being chewed away, leaving the shallow, emotionless bodies left. Those of killers, wether it's for revenge of Ponyville, or avenging the fallen Princess, they could feel the anger kicking in, overtaking all other feelings, and telling them to do what they were trained for. They knew that even through all this, that there were still missions to undertake, and if they failed in any of them, this will happen all across Equestria, turning the green, rolling hills and small towns dotting the land into mass graves, the bodies dumped into ditches dug up by the changelings, to save the effort of at least a box for each one. They had seen it happen, and they knew that this would be the first one. The town where they had called come, the wood was rotting from the gas, and even the mighty tree upon which the library was built started to crumble, leaving the sould of town, where everypony gathered to share gossip and meet freinds was blown away like a faded memory leaving one's mind, never to return.

Their chariot had arived, and they were ordered to bring the three fillies along with them, to stay at Luna's castle. And they each piled in, solemnley, still sobbing when there were no tears to be found. The fillies had practitially no choice but to see their way through the maze of death, and disease that polluted the town, and they lifted off. Bound for another hellhole, and destined to be the slaves Twilight was warned about from Derpy. She fell into a fitful sleep.In her dissapearence into the realms of the night, she saw the face again. Noah, she rememberd his name as, and he approached her just as last time.

"Twilight, you have just seen the extent that my race will go to in order to eliminate anything in their way. We were oncce known for out mercy, and were a helpful race, but... well, ive told you that story. Now, this is a rare occasion in which you can speak to me. I can make this memory never haunt your dreams, but I will no longer appear in your realm of the night. Think about the memory loing enough, and with great effort, and great pain, youy may wish me back. But I will not be able to reverse this once more. Speak." Noah commanded, the two options weighing her mind like anvils."Take the memory away, please." She tried to continue with her thoughts, but once her answer was spoken, Noah dissapeared, and she was dropped into a pit of blinding darkness. Dropped into her realm of dreams.