The last human war

“Wake up, human!”

James slowly opened his eyes, squinting from the light that filled the room. He wanted to stand up, but couldn’t, because he was tied to a chair. That made his sleepiness vanish in a second. He looked around and saw a group of aliens, staring at him with open hostility and hatred.

“Finally. You humans are so fragile, and yet you still want to fight us? Probably because your brains aren’t functioning the way they should.”

The other alien, who was a leader, judging by behavior, raised a foreleg and the talking alien silenced immediately, as if losing an ability to talk.

“I’m a busy mare, so I’ll cut to the chase. Here’s the deal: you’ll answer our questions, and in return we will give you a warrior’s death during one-on-one combat. If you refuse, not only your death will be slow and painful, but also you will day as an insect that needs to be crushed. Make your choice.”

James looked at her for a couple of seconds, then grinned and said with contempt writed all around it:

“And what if I told you that you are ugly, genocidal freaks of nature that’ll soon be destroyed by humanity?”

“I suppose my answer would be simple: you are wrong. Ponies are much stronger and have a wide amount of capabilities. You have no chance.”

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Before he was able to answer, Honey Bun continued:

“You think you’re doing a good job, fighting against us? I’ll tell you that you’re wrong and you’d never be more wrong no matter what.

You, military personnel are much worse than ordinary humans. They are scum, but you’re the lowest type of scum. And especially those branches like your own -- Rangers, Marines, Delta or SEAL. You’re even more horrible than regular murderers -- those, who are called soldiers by hypocritical humanity. Apparently, if you change a title, it will make things different.

I’d rather deal with a child molester, than a ranger or marine. Heck, even if said molester raped the whole kindergarten, then set it on fire and burned all children alive, he’d still be much better than any ranger or marine. You are worst of the worst, you are the very definition of evil. And we’ll make sure that none of you survives.”

She suddenly realised that she put her hoof into the human’s mouth so he won’t interrupt her. Honey Bun pulled it out immediately, then started to wipe it with a towel.

“But I’m getting off track. The first question is -- how many war machines do you have? Like that we destroyed recently, for example.”

“Go fuck yourself. I won’t tell you anything.” He answered.

Honey Bun expected this. She wasn’t fooling herself with a hope that human will spill everything out right this instant.
The earth pony punched him in the face, knocking out a tooth.

“How about now?”

The human spat some bloody saliva and asked mockingly:
“If that’s all you’ve got, then you’re even more pathetic than I thought.”

Honey Bum shrugged.
“I can kill you with a single punch, if I wanted to. Unfortunately, I need you alive so far. But being alive doesn’t mean not being a cripple. You’re making your life harder with your stubbornness.”

“And you’re just wasting time. I won’t betray humanity and won’t tell you anything.”

The earth pony turned to her friends and said loudly:

“Just look at this example of loyalty and hypocrisy! That’s the mix you won’t see everyday. Now he’s all for humanity, but before this war he wanted all people with the skin color different than his deported from the country. Just a few months ago he didn’t want to live in one neighborhood with people who had eye shape more narrow than his.

He was the loudest among those, who thought that sending Humanitarian aid to Africa was just wasting of taxpayers’ money and called African citizens… how was that… oh, right -- ‘lazy monkey that can steal and rape, but can’t work.’ And now look at him -- he’s the protector of humanity. A humanist. How pitiful.”

She took a rusty scalpel from the surgical table and moved closer to the human.

“It was your choice, human. Hope you don’t mind-”

Before she could finish, she heard some strange noise that rapidly became louder.
“Now what? Arum, go take a look in a window.”

The pegasus Honey Bun was referring to nodded and walked to the window. But as soon as she looked at the street, she gasped and bolted out of it.

“What is it? Why did you run away?”

“There's a… I don’t know what… A… a thing...”

“What thing? Stop mumbling already!”

“You’d… better look yourself, Honey. I-I… can’t describe it.”

Honey Bun sighed and placed a scalpel on its place.
“Seems like making him talk would take longer than I estimated.”

She walked to the window herself and took a look.

And then she saw it.

A huge, metal machine with a rectangular and smaller second… floor? And there was also a long, thick metal pipe. It didn’t have wheels. Well, technically it did, but they were small and there were many of them. Some kind of metal tape was stretched up and down, connecting those small wheels.

There also were several smaller machines of that sort, but the first one seemed like the bigger threat. Also some humans walked next to the metal armada.

Honey Bun was so focused on this machine that didn’t notice how one of the humans looked up at the window she was in and shouted something.
The bigger machine suddenly stopped and moved its pipe to the point where it was looking right at the window.

The earth pony understood that something bad will happen and prepared to run away from the window. But before she was at a safe distance, the wall with the window suddenly exploded with a loud noise and a huge flash.

The shockwave was so strong that it’d have wounded every single pony in the room and killed their captive. But fortunately they were too far away from it. Unlike Honey Bun.

She crashed in the opposite wall when she was sent flying by the blast.

“Honey Bun! Hang on, we’ll help you!”
Several ponis quickly ran to their leader and dragged out her to safety.

Honey Bun was shell-shocked from the blast, but quickly came down to her senses. Luckily, the wall somehow protected her, so her wounds weren’t too bad. Shoulder dislocation, bruises and scars and stripped down skin from her back.

“What should we do now?” Arum asked, helping her leader to stand up.

“Retreat. There’s an extensive network of underground tunnels in this city. We need to hide and think of a plan.” Honey Bun answered while putting a bone into joint again.

Then she walked to a human that was gagged as soon as the machine attacked so he won’t scream and tied him to Daisy’s back so he won’t slip.

“Everypony’s ready? Move out!”

And they ran away as fast as they could.

A pony’s maximum speed on land and in the air is 60 and 120 mph respectively. But they rarely run or fly at this speed because it’s really exhausting and requires a lot of water in saddle bags to prevent dehydration. They reached max speed only in critical cases, when the life depended on it.
Now that was exactly this case.

Honey Bun didn’t choose this hospital randomly. She expected that they’d probably need to run and hide under ground and that’s why she decided to interrogate human not far from a subway station. And now it became their safe haven.

“Never… ran like… this… ugh...” Daisy said, trying to catch her breath. She untied James from her back and let him fall down.

“It’s fine. We’re safe and that’s the most important thing.” Honey Bun replied.

She pinned to the ground the tied captive and ungagged him.
“What was that thing? How many of them you have? TALK!”

“More than enough to send all of your genocidal fuckers to the place you crawled out.”

Honey Bun was about to punch him again, but suddenly changed her mind. She looked at one of her friends and smiled.

“Fluttershy, you were always good with animals. Can you tame this beast and learn his weak spots, so we won’t waste time anymore?”

The yellow pegasus grinned evilly.
“With pleasure.”

She them grabbed the human’s head and made him look at her.
“Look me in the eyes, you piece of shit.”
“Screw yo-”

Before he could finish the sentence, Fluttershy punched him in the gut.
“One more word and I will tear off your femur, rape you with it from both ends, then crush your balls and make you eat them.”

She wasn’t threatening or scaring him. She just informed him in a calm voice what she’ll do if her misbehave. She also was capable to do this. Several males learned it the hard way.
Using his stunned silence, Fluttershy looked him in the eyes and used her Stare -- the special ability that made animals obey her.
But it was a long ago. Now, with regular trainings, her ability became much more powerful and versatile.

After several seconds of staring, Fluttershy turned to Honey Bun and said:
“We’re in a big trouble if we will continue fighting on our own. According to his memories, humans have a vast amount of all kinds of war machines. And when I say ‘a vast amount’ I mean dozens of thousands. And those we encountered weren’t the strongest ones.”

All ponies, except Honey Bun, shrugged at the same time. They knew that it’s impossible to fight such power with only eleven ponies.
Honey Bun frowned and shaked head.

“For now we’ll stick to hit and run tactics. We’ll be stealthful. Our strikes will be sudden and quiet. And then we’ll leave before they understand what’s going on here.”

She turned to the others and was about to command them to follow her, when Fluttershy said:

“Perhaps, I’ve got something that would lift your spirit.”

The earth pony looked at her and saw the familiar expression of fun anticipation.

“His wife and daughter are still here, in this city. They will leave this area in an hours by a train, but it’s more than enough time for us...”

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Sarah Phillips opened her eyes slowly, cringing from pain. She didn’t remember much how all of this happened to her. It felt like they were in the train, going to safety a minute ago… and the next minute she finds herself tied, in a strange place that looked like… subway tunnels?

“Where am I..? Where’s my daughter?”

“With me.”

She looked to the side where the voice was coming from and nearly screamed from terror. There was that… alien, standing next to her tied husband with their daughter in its… foreleg?

“No, get away from her you bastard! Give me my daughter back!”

But what could a human do against a durable metallic cable? The answer is simple: not a single thing.

Honey Bun walked to the struggling woman and turned to her gagged husband.

“Allow me to demonstrate the art of purification.”

She then took a knife and stabbed the woman in her chest, enjoying her screams of pain.
The earth pony started to skin her alive, ignoring all the yelling. When reached the cable, Honey Bun just tore it apart and broke both Sarah’s legs and arms, so she couldn’t escape.

When she was about to finish, skinning the last part of already dead woman’s body, Honey Bug threw the skinless cadaver on the floor and started crushing it with her hooves.
Once all the bones were broken and turned into crumbs, the earth pony used the skin she had to gather what’s left of Sarah’s body and tied a knot so everything would stay inside.

“And for the grand finale...”

Honey Bun walked to a large cauldron with boiling water, that her friends brought here beforehoof, along with some firewood, made from human furniture.

She threw the skin bag there, enjoying the expression of horror, disgust and anger the human had.

“How do you think, would you like the soup made of your family? Let’s find out. But first...”

She grinned as she took the infant from Daisy and started to walk to the cauldron…

...Only to be stopped by Arum on the halfway.

“Why do you want to do this?”

Honey looked at her friend with surprise.

“What do you mean by that?”

Arum hesitated a little, but when she spoke out, her voice was firm.

“She’s just a baby. A newborn. Why do you need to purify her along with the others? She didn’t have the time to corrupt herself, to begin with.”

“And what do you suggest? Let her go?” The earth pony asked mockingly.

“No… I was thinking that… maybe we can take her with us? In Equestria. We’d raise her as one of us and she won’t corrupt herself at all...”

Honey Bun laughed in Arum’s face.

“You’re an idiot, Arum. Do you really want to take a human to Equestria? Do you realise what would it do to our home? I think not.”

“If we take her to save from corruption I don’t think-”

She was interrupted by a punch from Honey Bun.

Arum fell on the ground, but jumped back on her hooves the second after.

“YOU IMBECILE! How could you even think about it?! Did you forget about our sisters out there?! What’d happen to them if we bring a human to our home?! ”

Honey Bun took a deep breath then lent the infant to Arum.

“If you want to purify yourself from this… idiotic behavior, you will drop this human maggot in the water yourself.”

Arum took the baby with shaking hooves. She looked at her leader unsurely, then to the infant that was screaming from hunger, apparently.

“Well, what are you waiting for? Hearth’s Warming Eve? Destroy that human.”

The pegasus suddenly looked right into Honey’s eyes.

“No. I won’t kill her.”

Honey Bun’s face had an expression of anger and disbelief.

“...What. Did. You. Just. Say?..”

“I thought that we’re doing what’s right, that’s why I volunteered. I thought that we are heroes and eliminating the evil race by the right of the good race.
But after I saw everything myself… I understood I was wrong.

Those people on the streets… they weren’t bad. Or good. They were just people. Innocent people. And you killed them in cold blood. And I did nothing to stop you because I believed you. Believed Princess Celestia.

But now I realise everything. We’re not heroes. We are monsters.”

Arum knew what will follow immediately after her speech and wasn’t wrong.

Honey Bun forcefully took the infant from her and threw into the cauldron.

While the girl screamed from horrible pain of being boiled alive, ten ponies were beating and stomping on the eleventh that couldn’t even resist.

Finally they left her unconscious in the pool of her own blood.

“We’ll took the traitor to Princess Celestia so she could punish her. But first...”

Honey Bun untied James and pushed him so hard that he flew to the opposite wall.

“Unlike humans, we, ponies, always do what we promised. Since you told us what we needed to know… involuntarily but still… Anyways, you’ve earned a chance to die in one-on-one combat. Give him a knife!”

James took the knife that one of the aliens threw at him. He looked at Honey Bun with so much hatred, that it surprised even him.

There wasn’t a tunnel, cauldron or any other aliens. There was only that monster that took away his wife and child. And he will make her pay for that.

Honey Bun indifferently watched as he charged at her. He probably forgot that no knife could hurt her, even if 5.56 bullets can’t pierce her skin. But she also understood that he was so angry and desperate that would've fought her with bare hands, if he had to.

The earth pony just stepped back when he was close, thus making James miss her.
He turned back and started to stab the monster that made his life horrible.

Honey Bun easily dodged his every punch, every kick and every stab. She didn’t even break a sweat, while human started to pant and show other signs of tiredness.

She soon decided that enough is enough and when the human tried to stab her for who knows what time, she punched him in his shoulder. After that she watched as his severed arms with a knife was flying deeper in the tunnel.

Honey Bun grabbed his head and easily tore it off from the torso.

“You knew you have already lost even before our fight began...”

She threw the head into the cauldron and said loudly, to her friends:
“Now we can say that this soup is for the whole fami-”

She noticed that Arum was gone. There was only a pool of blood, but no bloody traces. She probably regenerated herself while Honey Bun was fighting and ran away.

Honey Bun clenched her teeth in anger. She will find the betrayer and will make her suffer more than she thought was possible!