Vengeance

Meanwhile in Equestria, Twilight Sparkle, Spike, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Rarity were sitting around the Cutie Map in the Friendship Castle in Ponyville, their home town. Suddenly, a red outline was marked onto the northern Equestria, just behind Mount Everhoof.

‘Um. Twilight, do you see this?’ Spike said.

Twilight looked onto the red marked area on the map.

‘What is that? What does this supposed to mean?’ Twilight said.

‘I have no idea,’ Fluttershy said shyly, ‘it’s behind the mountain, how can there be an issue.’

‘I guess that some ponies are doing something bad here.’ Rainbow Dash said.

‘I ain’t have a clue what is doing down there.’ Applejack said.

‘Maybe somepony is having a party in here.’ Pinkie Pie said.

‘Obviously it should be cold down there, it’s must be some kind of error with this map or something.’ Rarity said.

The Mane 6 was left wondering of what the red outline means.

‘Should we contact Celestia about this?’ Spike said.

‘I think so. Everypony, we’ll be going to see Celestia.’ Twilight said.

The Mane 6 then got off their seats, exited the Friendship Castle and went on to a journey to Canterlot to see Celestia about the issue with the Cutie Map. Spike was left in the castle to look after it.

The Mane 6 were able to arrive to Canterlot a few hours later. They rushed into the throne room where Celestia is currently in.

‘Princess Celestia, we have something to tell you!’ Twilight said.

‘What is it, Twilight?’ Celestia said.

‘There’s something wrong with the Cutie Map,’ Twilight said before adding, ‘the map started to show a red outline to the north, behind Mount Everhoof. Is this normal for the map?’

After Twilight Sparkle told her about the issue, Images of a man. A man wielding a sword, a crown and a brown fur coat, killing off the ponies with his human soldiers battling against the pony soldiers. It was chaos, the entire castle of Canterlot was burning with fire and huge messes of rubble. The man then can towards Celestia and raised his left arm to her, before a purple bright light followed. Celestia then snapped out of the images she’s seen, gasping in shock before stepping a few feet backwards. Twilight grew concerned about her as Celestia was staring at her blankly while she was flashed with those images.

‘Is there something wrong, Celestia?’ Twilight asked.

‘Twilight, there was something that I forgot to mention about.’ Celestia said.

‘What was it?’ Twilight said.

‘It’s that...the ponies are not the only intelligent life that is still out there today, there are referred to as “humans”. They have a different belief than ours, they say that they were created first before us by what they call the “Gods” and the Sun, Moon and universe were created by them. In my opinion, I dismiss their claims as being false. They have their own nation, they called it “Magni”. Long time ago, us and the humans went to war because the humans wouldn’t stop killing our ponies for our ‘meat’ as they call it, I tried to tell them to stop but it continued. Of course we ended up victorious and we sealed the humans off of Equestria by creating a barrier from our magic, hiding them from plain sight to the world.’ Celestia said.

‘And what does that do with the map, could it mean something?’ Twilight said.

‘It could mean that something is going on there,’ Celestia said, ‘All of you need to go to the north of Equestria. If all of you find something down there, report it to me. I have a feeling that they might come back.’

Twilight turned her head towards her gang.

‘Should we do this or not?’ Twilight asked.

The five ponies began nodding each other. They were even more curious, Humans? There are humans in Equestria? the ponies thought to themselves.

‘Yes, I think we should do this.’ Rainbow Dash said punching both of her hooves together while hovering their her wings flapping.

Twilight then turned her head back to Celestia.

‘We’re ready, Princess Celestia.’ Twilight said.

‘Great, I hope you have some great results.’ Celestia said.

The Mane 6 then left the throne room and are onto the stairs going downwards.

‘Humans? I didn’t know there were more races than ponies.’ Rarity said.

‘Me neither.’ Applejack said.

‘I wonder if Humans care about animals...’ Fluttershy said.

‘Wait, what if humans are against us? What if they have some kind of defence against us?’ Rainbow Dash said.

Rainbow Dash’s words caught the attention of Twilight.

‘Great idea, Rainbow Dash. If they’re against us, how can we go through their defences?’ Twilight said.

‘Do you have a plan for that?’ Rarity said.

‘I have a plan, we need to got a look of it far away from us so that they can’t see us.’ Twilight said.

‘Do you think they couldn’t see us far away, and how do we get a closer look at it?’ Rainbow Dash said.

‘I will use my telescope to get a closer look.’ Twilight said.

Twilight and the rest of the gang then reached down the stairs and went to go back to the Friendship Castle to get prepared to go to the Northern Equestria.

The Mane 6 had came back to Friendship Castle, Spike was waiting at the front door.

‘Did you get anything, Twilight?’ Spike said.

‘Spike, we’re going to the Northern parts of Equestria.’ Twilight said.

‘For what?’ Spike said.

‘We’re not the only ones that live beyond the lands of Equestria.’ Twilight said.

‘What do you mean?’ Spike said confusingly.

‘There is a new race in Equestria, they’re called humans.’ Twilight said before rushing off to go to her room.

‘What are the “humans”?’ Spike said.

‘I’ll explain when we I get more information on them.’ Twilight said.

Twilight and the rest then get to their rooms to pack their things up in their backpacks, Twilight packed her diary to record about the humans or something other than them, food, water, telescope and other things. After Twilight was done packing her things. She got out of the room to find the gang already packed up.

‘We are ready, Twilight.’ Rarity said.

‘Alright everpony. We will use the Friendship Express to go to the Crystal Empire, go around Mount Everhoof and there...we’ll see what’s there.’ Twilight said. ‘Everypony, got it?’

‘Got it.’ Everypony said.

‘Then let’s go!” Twilight said.

The Mane 6 then leave Friendship Castle to the Friendship Express in the Train Station. Once they have placed their luggage in the train, the Friendship Express started and went onto it’s journey to the Crystal Empire.

After an hour, the Friendship Express have arrived at the Crystal Empire, the Mane 6 then have to walk for three hours around Mount Everhoof and occasionally taking breaks during the walk. After those three hours of walking, they reached behind Mount Everhoof and what they saw was shocking, a large metropolis city guarded by a large stone wall. Overlooking the city was a large building in the back resembling both a castle and a tower. There were a lot of lights in the city, as the sky is getting darker. There were factories in the right side of the ponies’ view and there are suburban houses in the right of the ponies’ view, also guarded by a wall connecting to the factories and the city. They also see a large river in the city. The landscape of the land was grassy and having mountains behind the city. They look to the right to see the Celestial Sea going more right.

‘So, this is Magni. A nation run by humans.’ Rainbow Dash said.

‘Alright everypony, don’t mess around, don’t shout or scream, and no flying around while I look at the city.’ Twilight said.

Twilight Sparkle got her backpack off from her back and opened it to take out the binoculars by using her levitation magic. She looks through the binoculars to see three gates that serve as checkpoints to enter the city. They were guarded by two humans wearing grey greatcoats with black shoulder boards with a red outline, black leather belt, black gloves, black trousers and boots, steel helmets, a black mask with it’s two rectangular eyes glowing red and two rectangular parts on their cheeks. The rectangular parts are filters, making the mask act like a respirator. The guards seem to carry a metal or steel object that fires bullets, they are weapons that humans call a “firearm” or “gun”, the weapon the guards are carrying is called a “assault rifle” or “machine gun”. The gates also seemed to have spotlights to illuminate the individual who is crossing through the gate at night. The gates are also guarded by two cannons and two machine gun turrets that move by it’s own. There are these towers on the walls with humans that have the same greatcoat, black belt, black gloves, black trousers and boots. But it was not wearing the mask and helmet, they have grey peaked caps, their black shoulder boards have a white outline and a device on his left ear to communicate with someone and is wearing a red armband on his left arm, the towers also have another same guard and they have binoculars and spotlights. There is also a large flag above the gate and two poles holding the same flags, the flag had a black background, three olive horizontal stripes on the middle, in the centre of the flag is a red eagle on top of a red oak wreath with a symbol in the wreath’s centre, the symbol has two straight lines going through curved bars.

Twilight Sparkle also sees that the wall are also guarded by a two moving object with wheels and lights on the front that has no door but a grey metal wire frame around it and a motor on the back. That is what they’re called “buggies” and those kind of objects known as “vehicles”. The buggies seemed to be driven by two humans wearing black shirts, black trousers and black boots, one is driving the buggy and one is carrying a form of firearm called a “submachine gun” or “SMG” for short, the gun the human was carrying had it’s magazine at the back instead of the front and had a foldable fore grip. The driver is driving it on the right side of the vehicle. The buggies seem to go around the walls from side to side.

Twilight then tries to look through the walls to see a street that is twenty blocks towards the city and ten blocks to the suburban and factory walls, the walls of the archaic buildings in the street (”Vetus Street” as it’s officially named by Magni Imperium but some citizens refer to it as “Old Blackheart”) have those posters with negative views on ponies such as one that has Celestia’s face in it with the text “THIS IS THE ENEMY” and the other one depicting a face of a pony skeleton with the caption “DEATH TO EQUESTRIA”. There are these posters that is made to recruit soldiers for the army. There are these poles that had fours speakers on the top and four cameras and a four faced square that reads out “FOR YOUR PROTECTION”. Twilight then looked at the city. Medium and large sized building filled both sides of the river, there were even bridges being made onto the large buildings for humans to cross.

‘Twilight, can we go into that place?’ Fluttershy said.

‘Fluttershy, are you serious? We can’t go there, there are humans here. They might kill us or something.” Rainbow Dash said.

‘Yeah, we came here to look what was going on here, not going inside here.’ Twilight said.

‘Oh, I’m sorry.’ Fluttershy said softly.

Twilight then pulls out her diary, a bottle of ink and a quill and writes everything she saw on the binoculars including the city, the guards, the posters, the weapons, the defences, the vehicles and the factories. Twilight leaves the book open for the ink to dry and then looks back at the city overview. She begins to imagine living there but since there are humans there, it is impossible for a pony to live there. Ponies could be captured or killed if spotted trying to cross through the gates, the ponies that were captured could be sent to a concentration camp to do force labour or left to die from hunger and thirst.

After five minutes, Twilight sees a bright light coming from a left tower in the wall. She picks up the binoculars using magic and looks through it, she sees the peaked capped human holding and looking though his binoculars and then proceed to grab what looks like a receiver from a phone, the humans starts to talk on the receiver, she sees the human’s mouth moving but could not hear him speak. The human then puts the receiver down and looks at her direction, Twilight then turns to a buggy on the left side of the wall turn and drive to their direction. Twilight think that the human talking through the phone may have spotted her and had sent the buggy after her. The headlamps from the buggy begins to flash onto the ponies as it comes closer to them.

‘Holy Celestia! Is that thing coming for us?” Rarity said in shock.

‘I’m sure they’re here for a party!’ Pinkie Pie excitedly said.

‘Pinkie, it’s no time to be excited. We need to get out of here!’ Twilight said.

Twilight begins to close the diary with the ink that has dried and put the diary, quill, bottle of ink and the binoculars into her backpack. She then puts the backpack on her back and the Mane 6 proceed to jump over a large hill they have been standing at. As they were jumping, the buggy got close enough and drifts to the left side of the buggy, a human with brown hair and the black uniform Twilight had seen them being wearing and carrying the submachine gun comes out of the buggy from the left seat, unfolded his fore grip, clicked his gun and begins to open fire at the ponies. Luckily the bullets got to the ground and the ponies were able to jump over a large hill and roll over. The human then looks over the hill to see the ponies gone. According to protocol, he mustn’t go through the edge of the Equestrian-Magni border as he will be rendered a defect. The brown haired human then approaches back to the buggy. A black haired man then comes out of the right seat of the buggy.

‘Did you get ‘em?’ The black haired man said.

‘No, they got away.’ The brown haired man replied.

‘Damn.’ The black haired man said.

The black haired man then goes to the buggy and takes a radio out from the buggy. The radio is black and had a rectangular shape with curved edges and an antenna on the top right with a screen. When the man pushed and hold a button on the radio, a short static noise was heard.

‘This is Jack Taylor, the ponies have escaped. We fired at them but we didn’t seem to hit them.’ The black haired man said.

‘Rodger that, Taylor. Continue your job as normal, over.’ The person from the radio said.

As the black haired man, named Jack Taylor, puts back his radio onto the buggy. Twilight Sparkle sprung out of the hill flying and fired a laser beam at the buggy, blowing it up. The humans proceeded to drive away from the exploding buggy. The humans then got up, brown haired human then proceeded to aim his gun at Twilight Sparkle but she was able to grab his SMG off from him with her magic and proceeds to hit him on the nose with the stock of the SMG, knocking him out.

‘Daniel!’ Jack shouted.

Twilight then took notice of Jack trying to take his handgun out of his holster and then proceed to hit him in the gut first before hitting on his head with the gun Twilight was using magic on, also knocking him out. Twilight then drops the submachine gun and then hears a voice coming from the radio.

‘What happened here? Answer!’

Twilight then flies over to the ponies who were hiding behind a large rock.

‘They’re gone.’ Twilight said.

‘Shouldn’t it be best if we get outta’ here.’ Applejack said.

‘Yes.’ Twilight said.

The ponies then got out of the rock and then walk out of the human territory. Twilight looked back, the buggy was burning still, Twilight got to the ground and joined in with the others on their way back to Canterlot to speak to Princess Celestia about the situation going on.

A loud knocking sound was heard from the other side, Johnathan closes his hardcover book and puts it back on the large bookshelf. He goes towards the door to see who it is, he opens the sliding front door to see an officer, the great-coated peaked-capped man, holding a black folder. The officer was a commander, as identified by the earpiece on his left ear.

‘Leader, I need to show you something. May I come in?’ Said the officer.

‘Of course.’ Johnathan said.

Johnathan lets the officer through his apartment in the Palatium building, the building that looked like a castle and a tower. The living room was quite wide and more across and has red coloured walls with dark red leaf-like patterns and a maroon carpet floors, the door framing was gold. On the side of the front door, there is an oak coat hanger pole hanging his black trench coat and a scabbard belt that is carrying the ancient sword with it, the bottom part of the coat hanger has his two leather fingerless gauntlets. On the middle of the room, there was a large table with holograms in it. At the end of the living room has a large window overlooking the entire city of Blackheart and a large brown mahogany desk. The window shows that it it night time by the dark sky and the lights on the buildings. Johnathan sits at the black chair behind the desk and the officer is now in front of Johnathan.

‘Leader, the Magni Imperium Border Security have spotted a group of six ponies by the Equestrian-Magni border.’ The officer said.

‘Right, what were they doing?’ Johnathan said.

The officer then pulled out a picture of the Mane 6 with Twilight looking through her binoculars.

‘The guard from one of the watchtowers have said that a purple pony was looking at the city through binoculars while the other ponies were talking to each other.’ The officer said.

‘Did you send someone after them?’ Johnathan asked.

‘Yes, we sent one of the buggies guarding the walls after to arrest the ponies.’ The officer replied.

‘Did they capture the ponies?’ Johnathan said.

The officer then sighed in disbelief and then pulled out a picture with the burning buggy and Twilight hovering in front of it with the two humans knocked out.

‘One of the ponies had destroyed the buggy and knocked out all of the crew.’ The officer said.

Johnathan then took the picture and looked at the purple pony with wings.

‘Did you scan the pony?’ Johnathan said.

‘One of the guards on the other watchtower before we took the picture was able to scan the pony, the pony was not any pony but was an “Alicorn”, a rarest type of ponies, and the name she goes by the name of “Twilight Sparkle”.’ The officer said.

Johnathan then places the picture down. Twilight Sparkle, the name he has never heard off. Some say that she is another princess of Equestria while some said that she is a professional unicorn.

‘Does this mean that it means war?’ Johnathan asked.

‘I respect your opinion, my leader. I believe so,’ The officer replied. ‘two races attacking each other.’

‘Is that all you need?’ Johnathan said.

‘Yes, that is all I have to say.’ The officer said.

The officer then picked up the two pictures and put them into the black folder. Johnathan followed him to the front door and opened the sliding door. The officer then proceeded to salute at Johnathan

‘Hail Magni.’ The officer said.

‘Hail Magni.’ Johnathan said back and also saluting to the officer.

The officer then left the apartment followed by Johnathan closing the door. “Hail Magni” was another form of greeting or a goodbye adopted by Magni Imperium. It is supposed to mean that the person saying this is proud to live in Magni, humans are not strictly enforced to use that line but it’s always good to use that line. Johnathan goes to another room at the right side of the living room and grabs a remote from the red sofa before turning the large television on to see if news about the ponies are already there. It turns out there aren’t any news about the ponies. Johnathan then turns the television off and places the remote back at the sofa. Johnathan goes back into the living room and approaches to a large silver box that has a microphone in it. He picks up the microphone and holds it over his mouth. He pushes the orange button that begins to light up and two low pitched beeps then filled the entire building.

‘Attention all generals. Come to the Operations Room by tomorrow in 1 PM. I repeat, come to the Operations Room by tomorrow in 1 PM.’ Johnathan spoke.

His voice filled the entire building and to him, it sounded like it was echoing. Johnathan let go of the button and placed the microphone back in. By tomorrow, it is now the time for an invasion.