Eli was running, and running as fast as he could, he passed numerous ponies and bolted down streets in seconds. Until he got to the Wonderbolt stadium, it looked more like a Colosseum than anything.

Same kind of style, except with clouds, "Good, not too late." He bolted up to the entrance, there was a crowd of ponies trying to get in, he had no trouble picking up ponies and throwing them to the side, lives depended on it. After a couple ponies flew, the rest got the message and stepped out of the way.

A security guard stopped him and asked.

"Pass, or no entry."

"Really? Fine here's your fucking pass." He handed the scroll from the princess.

The guard read it for a second before saying, "Okay you can go on, we'll try to get these ponies away from here."

"Good stallion." Eli ran passed the guard and ran down a long corridor.

It was a grand entrance that lead right to the bottom ground with everypony above cheering for the Wonderbolts. It was super high, but he looked around trying to find the creature, there were many creatures that fit her description.

Suddenly he heard an announcer shout.

"You've waited long enough, here they are!" The whole crowd cheered so loud Eli covered his ears, at this point he was just in the ring.

He saw five Wonderbolts fly out of holes in the stadium and fly up with trails from behind them, "Wow, I need the name of those beans." He saw Soarin, and Rainbow Dash floating on the left, with Fleetfoot and Thunderlane on the far right with Spitfire right in the middle. "This will get ugly, I can tell already."

Spitfire looked right at him with a very confused look, until a giant bird creature bigger than any known animal on Earth flew through the cloud ground, it flew up really fast, Rainbow dash, Soarin, Fleetfoot, and Thunderlane flew out of the way. But Spitfire was right above it and she had no time to fly, it swallowed her whole with a loud gulp.

"Aw fuck, it's one of those, I hate these fucking things."

(Author note: Yes it's from Resident evil, couldn't find anything better, fyi the last Resident Evil movie was just, meh)

Everypony was freaking out, running around, screaming, and the giant creature was chomping at random ponies, it wasn't getting them, but Eli yelled.

"Hey bitch! Down here!" It looked right at him, "Come and get it bird brain!" It screeched really loudly and flew right at Eli, just as it was about to get it's mouth around him Eli jumped to the left and got on it's long neck, he got on top and pulled the head to go up.

It flew up with it, Eli slid down to it's underside and got right to the gut, and shouted, "Spitfire! I'm getting you!" He took out a survival knife and stabbed it. The blade went through causing the bird the screech out in pain, Eli didn't care though.

He grabbed onto a scale and kept stabbing, making an incision, he put the knife up and grabbed the partly opened flesh and pulled, it opened up spewing a bit of yellow blood on his face, "And I thought these things smelled back deep breath on the outside."

He shoved his hand in and felt around, he felt something made out of spandex out of all the liquid and pulled, it took some work, but he saw Spitfire's leg.

He shouted, "Come on! I'm not losing anyone else today!" He pulled out her lower body, but the bird took a swing down to try and get some ponies, "Aw hell nah!" He took the knife and he cut right under the joint that connects the wing to the body, the waist is pretty small.

It screeched out in pain and flew back up, barely missing the ponies.

He got back to Spitfire, he gave one final big pull and the rest of her came out, she was breathing very heavily, and her suit had started to burn away, any longer and she would've been gone. But her zipper was down, her torso and her region were showing, and that wasn't from acid, Eli saw it, but he decided to ask about it later.

"Hang on to me!" Shouted Eli, she got on his back and held her hoofs around his neck, holding for dear life.

He pulled himself back onto the bird's back, and crawled to the head, it moved a lot, making it difficult to hang on, but thanks to the numerous spikes and blades on his metal fists, Eli stayed on.

It screeched out, Eli got his legs around it's lower head and grabbed one of the front horns, he took his right hand and just started to repeatedly punch it's head.

He shouted, "This's for my people you fucker!" He broke through the rough skin and was working on it's skull. It flipped over trying to lose him, but Eli just hung on and kept punching, "Asshole!" All the while spitfire was just holding on to him, not wanting to die.

He felt his fist go through the skull and sink into it's brain, it gave out on final screech before it started to fall out of the sky, it was way outside of Cloudsdale and right towards an empty field, "Hold on!" Was All Eli could shout before the horn he was holding broke, making Eli and Spitfire fall off.

She let go and they were just falling, Spitfire was in a panic and didn't know what to do, Eli folded his arms in and dove for the falling pegasus.

He opened his hands up and grabbed her, he held her tight and put his back towards the ground, not moments later they hit the ground, Eli bounced up with a loud crack, he bounced around rolling, but he never loosened his grip on Spitfire.

He rolled over one last time before he laid on his back, he loosened his lock on Spitfire and just let the arms drop. She looked up and saw that they were on ground, but she looked more closely at Eli, his welders mask covering his face, she pulled it off showing his bleeding face.

He was about passed out, she tapped his shoulder, getting his head to move and for him to mumble, "I got you Theo." He grabbed her barrel and just completely passed out.

Spitfire got off and looked up, Canterlot wasn't to far away, so she opened her wings up and flew back to the city.

Numerous hours later Eli started to regain consciousness again, he looked around and saw that he was in a hospital, but from the walls he could tell that he was in Canterlot. He looked around the room to find no pony around, not even a nurse, he slowly got up with a massive groan.

"What the fuck happened?" He had no wires, but he was just in underwear and bandages were around his waist, a cast on his left arm, and his back ached. He got out of the bed.

He stumbled out of the medical wing and got in a hallway, two guards saw him struggle and one of them asked, "You need help?"

"I'm fine, but where's Spitfire?"

"She's with the princesses."

"Okay, where's the princesses?"

"At the throne room."

"Thanks, I can find the way, I know this place by now." He limped his way right and the guard said.

"Throne room's left."

"Ah, thanks." He limped right passed the guards and walked off.

"How to fuck did one of those things get here? And how many got through?" He wondered, "I feel worse than my Sunday mornings, hope I don't throw up." He said out loud.

He stepped right in front of the oversized door to the throne room. He breathed in and listened, there wasn't much talking, maybe three ponies.

He opened the door to two guards in a weird model position and the third with a camera, they all just stared at Eli, as he did as well, "I'm not gonna ask nor tell the princesses what's going on, but just tell me where the fuck Spitfire is?"

The guard holding the camera said, "Um, dining room."

"Thanks, and if they aren't there I'm gonna shove my metal fist up all your asses!" He walked away leaving the guards scared, and in wonder, one asked.

"How big is his fist?"

Eli barely made it to the dining room, but right at the door he felt an intense pain in his spine, he grunted and fell on one of the walls, he sat in pain, barely able to speak, and there weren't any guards around to help.

He said, "Pain is just... Weakness leaving the body." He slowly got back up, and in the most amount pain he's felt in awhile.

But once he got up he turned the corner and saw Shining Armor and Cadence, nervously talking, they looked at Eli and smiled.

He limped over to them and asked, "What happened, I thought I was dead, please tell me I am."

"Well, no, after you fought the creature a couple guards flew you back to Canterlot and we barely managed to stabilize you, without the magic you're spine would be shattered, your arms would be gone, and there would have been a lot of brain damage, you're lucky." Said Shining Armor.

"I don't feel lucky right now, but where's Spitfire, I need to know if she's okay."

Cadence replied, "Well, I think she's at the bar."

"Of course shes at the bar, that's where I'd be if I was just ingested by a mutant bird then cut out along with falling very high next to something that looks like it should be killing her rather than saving her."

"Sure, I guess you can see it that way, but what was that thing?" Asked Cadence.

"I'll explain later, I need to know if I was too late." He started to run, but with a limp he didn't go that much faster.

He reached the bar about ten minutes later, he was getting thirsty from all the walking, "I swear if she's not here, I'm killing the nearest pony."

He entered the bar and saw Spitfire in a booth near the back, she was alone with a glass of wine, "Wouldn't take her as a wine drinker."

He walked over to her, she didn't look up and didn't hear him walk up, he asked, "Is this booth taken?" She looked at him and her eyes widened.

"You're alright, thank Celestia." Eli sat across from her, "What was that thing?"

He sighed, "It was a Flyer, a giant winged creature, it's claim to fame was the fact it made any aircraft we had useless. It's super fast, in the air, and really big, the opposite of an on the ground close up brawler such as myself. So very deadly, but luckily they like to stay away from others of their kind so there shouldn't be anymore."

"Well, that's good, but... it literally ate me, I felt the acids an everything, I was almost gone." Eli decided to go to her side and hugged her.

"I know, first time you realize how close you were to death can be very stressful, but I've gone through it as well, don't focus on how close you were, but how you survived. Trust me, after a bit you won't feel much about it, just a shiver."

She looked up at him, "I guess that's true, but still, I-" She was cut short with him running his fingers through her mane, "What're you doing?"

"Petting your mane, I heard that it soothes ponies when they're stressed."

"Alright." She closed her eyes and just accepted it, there was no pony in the whole bar, so it was just them and the bartender who tried to ignore them, being respectful if you will.

Spitfire looked up and Eli and said, "Y-you saved me. You risked your life to rescue me, why?"

He looked down and replied, "Because I'm not losing anymore of my friends nor family to those fuckers, they took my whole species, my friends, family, my home. Seven billion people gone, people I hardly knew, and those I would have meet if not for the, you know. I'm not gonna lose anyone else, not while I stand."

"That's sad, losing your whole race, I almost forgot that all of you humans are almost extinct."

"Ya, sigh, they are." The bartender floated a glass of bourbon to Eli, Eli nodded and the bartender got back to cleaning glasses. Eli wasn't in the mood to get hammered, but one or two glasses wouldn't hurt, so he took a sip and set the glass down.

Spitfire moved back a bit, not in disgust, but out of the hug, "Thanks, that was nice."

"Anything for a friend." He got up and while his back was turned Spitfire looked sad by his response, but once he sat back across from her she faked a smile.

"So, besides your dog, what family did you have?"

"Wow, that's a personal question, but I'll answer it. I had my parents, grandma and Grandpa, both on my father's side. He showed me how to fire a riffle, without him I don't think I would be alive today.

And my Dad used to be military so I learned many ways to survive, he never wanted me to be an officer in the forces. But should something happen, I have the tools I need.

I loved to run a business and I hate the military, but I love to talk and help soldiers."

"Wait, you hate military, but help the military?"

"No, I help those who went overseas and died to keep our assets protected, I help the vets, and those people are honorable, mostly. But I hate the military, all I and most people wanted was peace, but now, they're all at peace sadly."

"Wow, but you had no brothers, sisters?"

"Nope, only child, you?"

"Same."

"Cool." Eli slammed the rest of the bourbon and set the glass down, another glass floated towards Eli, he grabbed it and waved thanks to the bartender.

"Well, I hope that's the last thing to invade Equestria, well from Earth anyway."

"Heh, I hear that." They spent the night lightly drinking and just shooting the breeze.

The next morning Eli barely opened his eyes to see four yellow hoofs walking on top of his chest, "Spitfire? What time is it?"

She replied, "About seven in the morning."

"Wow, that's early, five more minutes." Spitfire walked away and he heard the door close.

He slowly rose off the ground and figured out that he was in the same guest room he was in the night he got his job.

Eli stood up and stretched, no pops, but he straightened up and walked out of the room, a guard was right outside the room, Eli said.

"That was a good five minutes."

The guard replied, "More like an hour, and I'm sorry, but this needs your attention. Another portal opened up and some creatures came out, they were fully covered, with the same kinds of weapons you have."

"Great, bandits, that's all we need."

"Well, they want to talk peace, and they seemed docile, but they're a bit trigger happy, so we can't really get to close. Maybe you could soften the tension?"

"So kill them?"

"Not so loud, but probably, they're at the throne room."

"Really, a portal's there?"

"Yup."

Eli took a deep breath and asked, "So where's my armor?"

A few minutes later Eli had his entire set of armor on, he walked right in front of the throne room door.

He took a deep breath and kicked the door open, he saw two humans, they were decked out in full gear, nothing could be seen, the suits were brown and they wore gas masks.

Eli looked a bit farther to see Celestia and Luna talking with a third. Spitfire was kind of off to the side, she didn't look that scared, but still nervous.

They turned around with their guns ready, but they lowed their weapons upon the realization that there's another human. Eli kept his Uzi ready, he was ready to fire at the drop of a pin.

"Okay who the fuck are you all, and why the fuck are you all here?!" Eli shouted, the one closest to the princesses turned around, that one had a green mask compared to the other black gas masks.

It walked shortly past the other bandits, she said in a tomboy voice, "Elius? Is that you?"

"How the fuck do you know my name?" She took off the gas mask letting her long black hair flop down to her chest, she was of Asian decent with brown eyes. She also had a small scar under her lower jaw, but just above her throat.

"It's me, Rue." Eli dropped his Uzi and threw off his welders mask, her eyes widened as did his. They ran at each other and collided in a big hug.

"It's so good to see you, I thought you were dead."

Rue replied, "I thought that too. I'm so happy you survived." They let off each other, the rest of the humans and ponies just stared in wonder.

Celestia asked, "You know this human Eli?"

"Of course I do, she's my oldest, and now my last living human friend."

One of the bandits asked, "So, do we shoot, or not, or what ma'am?"

"No, we won't shoot first, and now that we know this planet can support us, let's chat."

For the next two hours Rue, Celestia, and Luna chatted on and on about where Rue's people would live. And decided next to the crystal mines, turns out Rue's people have been stuck underground since the beginning, Eli informed her what happened on the surface.

Rue had over two hundred people all hungry, tired, and dehydrated, Celestia and Luna agreed with the mines and they shook on it, to celebrate Rue, Eli, and Spitfire were in the small bar just around the barracks.

Eli and Spitfire were sitting next to each other while Rue had a whole side to herself.

"So, how did you two meet?" Asked Spitfire.

Eli replied, "Well, I was being picked on by a second grader and she literally jumped on his back and bit him, they left us alone and we became best friends. We were even neighbors back before the outbreak."

"Ya, it was fun being next to him, Theo was always so playful I loved having him over."

"Ah, his dog." Rue looked at Eli who gave her a nod.

"Yup, his dog, cutest... Puppy ever, nicer than any dog I ever meet."

Eli said, "Well, did Anna survive?"

"Oh ya, she barely made it the first month, but she got over her fear of being underground under control. And she should be here, what's keeping her?"

Spitfire asked, "Your friend?"

"No, my wife." Spitfire blinked a couple times.

"Sorry for assuming."

"Bah, no big deal, people make to big of a deal when they assume Anna and I are just friends. It's okay."

Spitfire sat back, comforted by Rue's response, Spitfire said, "Excuse me, I need to go." She flew over Eli and to the bathroom.

"So, where's Theo?"

Eli took a deep sigh and replied, "He's dead."

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry, what happened?"

"Well, we ran into a store, we separated with me trying to get all the zombies to follow me, but I heard him scream and I hauled ass. When I finished off the zombies Theo came out of the changing room and fell into my arms, he was bit."

Rue gasped, "No, not Theo."

"Ya, it hurt a lot, and since then I've just... Survived." Eli's head hit the table with him crying.

Rue placed her hand on his shoulder, "I'm so sorry, that's horrible, you two didn't deserve that. He was too good of a kid, and you were to much of a gentleman."

"I'm a bit better, I only have nightmares about six times a week and I have a drinking problem, but don't tell Spitfire, I'm not ready I want to make sure she's my friend first, I don't need her to pity me into friendship."

"I get it, I'll stay quiet about it." Spitfire flew back over to see Eli with a post tear filled face.

"What happened?"

"Well, we caught up on some... Personal things, things that only we need to know." Said Rue.

Spitfire was about to sit down, but Eli got up and said, "I'm gonna go find Anna, this castle is easy to get lost in, trust me on that."

"I'll take your word for it." Replied Rue, Eli walked out of the bar and Spitfire sat right across from Rue, "I know you want more."

"Pardon me?" Asked Spitfire.

"I know you want something from him, now how did he save you? I need to know."

"Why?"

"To see if you should ask him out."

Spitfire blushed, "Well I.. Don't.... how'd you know?"

Rue chuckled, "It's the small things, I've seen it happen a lot, but let me help you. It's what I used to be."

"What were you?" Asked Spitfire.

"I was a matchmaker, and a really good one too, every person I set up ended up marrying each other, now how long said marriages were, I don't wanna say."

Spitfire's eyes darted around the bar before she said, "You know about flyers right?"

"Oh god I hate those, even worse for brawlers like Eli."

"Well, it... Ate me and right before I was, gone. He cut me out and while falling he took the impact saving my life twice."

"But, you're a pagasus, can't you fly?"

"Well, I was panicking, for Celestia's sake I was almost digested."

Rue raised her arms, "Whoa, no need to get defensive, just wanted to know, now how far up would you say you two were?"

"About the peak of Canterlot."

"Damn, how'd he survive that kind of fall?"

"Magic helped him heal, but his lower half was basically destroyed and a cast on his left arm, but that was just a procaution. So what do you think?"

"Hmm, magic can do that much? Damn, I need to gets me some magic. But after the battle did he day you were a good friend?"

"Yup." Sigh sighed.

"Well then you're in luck, he would be very open to a relationship." Spitfire raised her head, "He only says that because he's never been in a real relationship, Sapphire was her name, she was nothing more than a hot piece of ass. She was brutal to him, she didn't love him, she just used him.

They weren't jack shit so he doesn't know how to do this kind of thing, you need to ask him out he'll accept, and if you don't, I'll never hear the end of it. But after what happened to him, he needs something to love, and with Theo gone, he has no one to love, he's a shell of a man. I want my friend back, so when he gets back, ask him out. It's a slam dunk."

Spitfire blinked a couple of times, she took a large chug of cider and replied, "Thanks, I'll do that."

Just as she finished Eli stepped with a girl wearing the same kind of outfit, except she was white with blonde hair, and green eyes. "Anna!"

"Rue." Anna said in a high voice, they ran in for a hug, and a quick kiss. Eli smiled.

"You two weren't apart that long, come on." Eli sat back down next to Spitfire.

Rue said, "We'll get some more drinks, be back in a second." She winked at Spitfire. As they were walking away Eli asked.

"Um, she never gets the drinks, nor does she pay for them. But whatever." Eli said as he gulped the rest of his ale.

Spitfire asked, "Hey Eli, I need to ask you something."

"Sure, what is it?"

"When we get back, how about we go out for di-" Spitfire was cut off by Rue shouting.

"What do you mean you don't serve that?!"

"Oh shit, she's about to beat up the barkeep, be right back." Eli quickly got up and ran to the situation leaving Spitfire a little upset.

Eli dealt with the situation, the bar ran out of oranges, which Rue loved, so Eli had to drag her back to the table, after some time amd a lot of drinking. Eli and Rue were shitfaced, while Anna and Spitfire were moderately sober.

Eli said, "So, have you softened up since last we met?"

Rue replied, "Aw fuck no, I've only become stronger Brap, tasted as good going up as did going down."

"Prove it." They stood up and Eli let Rue punch him in the gut, he stumbled back a bit, "Not bad, here we go." Eli threw a punch right into Rue's gut, she stumbled back a bit too.

"Oh you're dead." They started to get into a major fight, Spitfire was about to stop it, but Anna held her arm up and said.

"Don't, with these two, when they're drunk ether they're hugging each other and calling each other their best friends, or this. It'll be over soon, trust me, we got kicked out of many bars back in those days."

"Well, alright, but should we cut them off?"

"Of course. Now I gotta ask, did you get the chance to ask him out?"

Spitfire blushed, "How'd you know? Rue?"

"Yep."

"Alright then, I sadly didn't, just as I was asking Rue got into a fight with the bartender."

"Oh, she actually didn't mean to do that, she meant to give you two all the time she could give, not the other way around, sorry."

"Phht, it's all good, I'll just ask him tomorrow after he takes a shower."

"That sounds like a-" Rue interjected.

"Burping challenge."

"Bring it on!" Shouted Eli, Rue got off of Eli letting him move his legs again.

Anna said, "This gets pretty loud, hold on."

Eli counted down, "3.. 2.. 1.. Burp!"

"BRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP!" She shuffled a bit. "Top that bitch."

"Just watch." Replied Eli, Rue counted.

"3... 2... 1... Belch!"

"BBBBRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!" Rue was actually pushed back a bit from the sheer sound of it. "I think I'm gonna throw up...... False alarm."

Rue replied, "Someday, I'll burp louder than the hometown champion, someday."

"Hey, you pinned me in a fight, so it's tied."

"Fair enough."

Spitfire whispered to Anna. "I think it's time to get them into bed."

"Agreed." Replied Anna, "Hey Rue, come with me and we'll have some real fun." She teased with pulling down the top zipper showing a bit of tit.

Rue replied, "Well it's been fun, but I'm not passing up on that."

"Wouldn't expect you to, I'll see you soon I hope."

"So long bro." Anna helped Rue out of the bar, Eli sat across from Spitfire and said.

"I needed that, now how about a nice nap." Eli's head banged on the table and he started to snore.

"Aw great, he passed out." Said Spitfire.

With the help of three guards she barely got him up to bed, he laid on the floor with a blanket over him, he said in his sleep. "More pancakes Theo?"

Spitfire wanted to ask, but he was to far gone, so she left him to his beer ridden rest.

Author's Note

Sorry it took an extra day to come out, was with my parents the whole day and didn't get the chance, sorry, will do better on that.

Hope that was a lot for you all, could've been two chapters, but got kinda lazy.