A Cliff Inbetween

Chapter 1- This is war
Luna, Celestia and the Ponies representing the Elements of Harmony were standing with Lone Scythe in the bright room with the big map of Equestria on the table. “How can you think that you are the one, who made all of those Ponies suffer, darling? You only delivered the message of a new found species to the EMoP, if you wouldn’t told us about the DC, there wouldn’t be any survivors!” The Pony of Generosity, Rarity, said. “I told you that we should evacuate Cottinghoof, but once again you didn’t listen, even if I had a new strange Pinkie Sense going on!” The Pony representing Happiness or ‘Laughter’ was raging. It didn’t fit into Pinkie Pies normal behaviour, but the other Elements could understand it. “I told you that you should send me there! With my Party Cannon I would have blown them out of our land!” “Uh.... Pinkie? I... uh.... hope that you don’t mind, but.....” Fluttershy, Element of Kindness, started the sentence, but was interrupted harsh and abrupt by Pinkie “WHAT? I would have saved LIVES out there!” “I don’t doubt that, but....” Fluttershy’s voice turned more and more into just a whispering and because of all the harsh comments of Pinkie she almost got to her breaking point. “Ah think you are going a bit to far there, pardner.” The pointless conversation was interrupted by the Pony of Honesty, Applejack. “Ah don’t even think your party cannon would have worked against some less haired apes, which carry sticks with ‘em, which are able to shoot little metal balls out o’ them.” “But I could have kicked their butt!” The Pony with a rainbow coloured mane, Rainbow Dash, shouted. “I would have saved thousands!” “Rainbow, we know that you could have saved many, but only by risking your life, what we couldn’t let you do, because you are important as Element of Loyalty! Also I did some research. Those metal balls are called ‘bullets’ the sticks are ‘rifles’ and those ‘hairless apes’ as you mentioned them, are called ‘Humans’. But we are not here to discuss how we could have saved someone nor are we here to put any kind of research data on the spot! We are here to prepare the other cities for war! You there, you are one of the survivors aren’t you? Please state your name, occupation and explain your cutie mark!” He, the only stallion in the room, always was fascinated by the way Twilight Sparkle tries to handle problems. But he pushed that thought away and started to talk. “My name is Lone Scythe; it was given by my mother because when I was born my elder sister and brother already moved out. Later it also matched me because I hardly had any friends at the School for little Unicorns. I had two, but I’ll come to that later. I am a Medium, who tries to develop new spells and to discover new ingredients for better medical support. My studies are probably unknown, because I only wrote one book yet, the ‘Common usable spells and crèmes’. Well for the last is something I don’t really like talking about. My cutie mark hasn’t appeared when I cut some herbs with a Scythe, which is a part of my job today, it appeared when I delivered death.” Telling the story started to let him think back to this dark day. It was a beautiful summer day and the Pegasi really did a marvellous job back then. He and his friends Red Lily and Early Dust, both were Unicorns too, played on the beach and they decided to go into the water a bit further than it normally would have been allowed for little fillies and colts. As they were playing outside he found something, a shell, a beautiful green shell. “What do you mean with that, darling? One does not simply deliver death to someone he may even know. Please tell us what happened!” Rarity had a chilling undertone in her voice it calmed him down from all the bad feelings he started to feel again. “I found something..... a green shell. It was a deadly Harpy-Snail’s shell, but I didn’t know that on that day. I grabbed it and luckily for me it was asleep. But,.....but, but, when I wanted to show it to my friend Early Dust, he, he, he..” He felt tears in his eyes. “You, uhm, don’t have to tell us everything if it isn’t, uh, comfortable for you.” He wished away the tears out of his eyes and started to talk again. “I would like to accept your offer Fluttershy, but one has to accept his fate if he can’t do anything about it. Well, the snail woke up and was scared of the hoof knocking on its shell. It stung Early Dust with its tongue and inserted its gift inside him. He screamed and I threw the shell as far in the ocean away as I could. When I looked to my friend I saw blood for my first time. I saw as his hoof started to melt and he screamed in pain. The water around me was coloured red from his blood and I tried to do something.” The screams of this horrible day started to hall in his head. “LOOONE, MY HOOF IT DISAPPEARS! IT HURTS SO TERRIBLY! AHAHAHAAAAAAA! UAAAARrrghhh.....” He shivered. “I fainted because the gore was too much for me. I saw his bones full with blood suddenly cracking and his head had already disappeared as a half. He still screamed. When I woke up in the hospital I recognized my cutie mark had appeared. This is the Scythe here. If you look close enough you can see the skull in the background. That’s the story why I decided to discover methods for the common society to prevent those actions from happening.”
They arrived in the unknown land, which just had been invaded by the military of the United Governments of Earth. Nick felt bad for all those innocent, he wanted to say people, but he couldn't because the strange talking.... Pony on TV, Ponies. There hasn't been a single war for 15 years now. The human 'races' are now united and there were people representing their countries and continents in the United Government. Everything seemed to be perfect for the whole world. Peace was spreading, the count of burglaries and other crimes decreased immideatly and everyone was accepted as human being. Racism was frowned upon and it almost had been rotted out. Until an organisation called "The Regiment" got with politicians around the world in the parliament. While 14 years ago there only was one member of "The Regiment" in the UGE, 9 years ago already half of the UGE were members. 5 years ago, when Nick attended the University and met his only two friends, they already tried to overtake the UGE, but they failed, because the remain 20 countries were those with the strongest military and they would, even if all of them attacked one at the same time, have had to give up in a war. "The Regiment" is a nationalistic movement, which "fights for the freedom of its country". They are all patriotic and, mostly, old people, who all think that "in the good ol' days" everything was better. 2 years ago the patriots in the US, China, Germany and Russia got agressiv and more agressiv, so that in the end, those three mighty countries gave up and the last five remaining countries were invaded by the regime. Those five, Austria, Swiss, India, Haiti and Ghana stood their fight, but they were beaten quickly and the countries were disowned their own grounds, which were given to the "Holy Lands" under control of "The Regiment". Now this regiment tried to claim, again, of others for themselves. And he and his friends were part of it. He felt terrible about it and he was the one, who told his friends that he would only be a scout and not someone, who really has to kill innocent. They agreed, because they have seen the report of the underground organisation "Brony". Those who worked for "Brony" discovered it as a source of freedom and as obvious opposite to the regiment. They used the banners of "Love and Tolerance" in peaceful protests and tried to convince people that they live in wrong peace. They succeeded in many ways and they organised the biggest protest in history. The protest lasted for weeks and it almost seemed as if they would have accomplished something, but then the 4th July happened. This day is called the "Banishment to the Moon" within Bronies and as "Total Verdict" for The Regiment. With this day the leaders of the Brony-Rebellion died and Bronydom was considered illegal. With this day died over a million people. With this day freedom died i on earth. And now he was wandering through the "Country of the Bronies" the magical land of Equestria, which had been called "just fictional". Because it is a land full with peace, harmony and equality, it is something The Regiment hates. It only would prove those who are against them right. That's the reason, why the land either has to be under "Total Control" or has to be rubbed out of the map. No other choices. Now he and his friends were wandering through the world of another’s to destroy it. It didn’t felt right from the beginning and it would never do. The leader of the “Whispering Sands” Scout-Troop suddenly started to talk. He was huge and one of the toughest guys you will ever see. One of the most patriotic, toughest guys. “We are ordered to attack this fucking village down there with just our scout troop. They said it is evacuated, but I don’t fucking care! Those fuckers send US a motherfucking scout troop down to attack some random fucking village to kill every”pony” down there and make it a base!” “What are we goin’ to do sir?” Luke asked kindly, he didn’t want to piss of the leader any further. “Well attack tha fuckin’ city what else private?! Get there and kill every single piece of moving shit you see or I’ll make you meet the devil himself!” Nick felt helpless. He hoped that it has been totally evacuated. If not, he would be part of a massacre. As he thought his thoughts his mindreading friend said “This is war, you can’t escape blood, but you can escape your leaders.”