Accidental Warriors
Chapter 1 (First Impressions)
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-Canterlot dungeons, third person-
Soft moonlight flooded the mostly barren cell holding five figures new to Equestria. Each one was bipedal in stature and wore singed clothing. Two of the figures had feathery wings while a third had leathery bat-like wings. The other two were taller than the others but lacked the wings they had. All five of the figures were held up by shackles that restricted their hands. Each figure lacked the amount of hair that ponies had, only having a mane and having nearly no hair on the rest of their bodies. All the figures were human males, unconscious to the world as they remained completely motionless.
On the far left was a tall and thin human with a moderate muscle build that had a height of 6 foot 2 inches, nearly reaching the ground as he dangled from his shackles, his dirty blond hair hanging limply down his face to cover his closed eyes. His grey T-shirt and blue jeans sported a number of holes burnt into them, as did the others clothes, giving them all the impression of having just gotten out of a fire, though his red sneakers had melted slightly and looked warped. On the second most left was a slightly shorter human with slightly more muscle than the first and had a height of 5 foot 11 inches, his brown hair also hanging limply to cover his face, but reached slightly further to also cover half of his nose. His shirt was covered by a thicker tan jacket, that while was still covered in burn marks, was still more in tact than anyone else's clothing but bulged out slightly due to his hidden bat like wings, while his blue jeans and grey sneakers were more heavily burnt. In the middle was a human with an average muscle build and with height of 5 foot 11 inches, his face unobscured by his spiky brown hair. His black T-shirt and red hooded jacket were heavily burned, allowing one of his silvery feathered wings to hang out limply, while his blue jeans and black sneakers were just as damaged as the others. The human second most to the right was fairly muscular and had a height of 5 foot 10 inches, his dark brown hair reaching half way down his eyelids. The front of his shirt and jacket were fairly untouched, though the backs were nearly non existent and allowed both shadow black feathered wings to hang limply, reaching past his blue jeans and red sneakers. To the very right was an evenly set human with the second largest height of 6 foot, his tight-knit Afro leaving his face completely uncovered. His light yellow hoodie was missing its hood and the left sleeve, both burnt off, as the rest of the hoodie and his blue jeans were littered with burn marks and his white sneakers were melted, though he seemed to have no damages to his actual skin. All but one of the humans were white, with the one furthest to the right being African-American.
The cell they were in was empty of all but the people in them, with a single door on the other side of the room and two cell bar windows being all that allowed light into the room. The humans shifted, finally awakening as the sound of the cell door being unlocked rang out through the room. Slowly the door opened as three figures walked in, two unicorn royal guards and Princess Celestia herself. The door closed behind the three after they entered the room. The two unicorns filled the cell with light as a ball of light went to either side of the room from their horns. After a few moments the Humans began to realize their predicament, becoming slightly frantic and struggling to get free. "I wouldn't try escaping if I were you, followers of Nightmare Moon," Celestia said, her voice calm but strict, causing the humans to stop struggling.
"Where are we?" The human in the middle asked, his voice scratchy as he realized that it hurt to speak.
"You are in the Canterlot dungeons, and you will be held here until Nightmare moon is dealt with," The unicorn to Celestia's left answered. Slowly the humans each looked up and opened their eyes to look at their captors. All but two of them wore looks of shock at what they saw, but those two who didn't had realized where they were at the first mention of Nightmare Moon.
"Is your Armor really gold? I was hoping that wasn't a fact but that is just so stupid," The human second most to the left commented, his voice also scratchy from lack of hydration.
"Not the time Paddie, listen we aren't with Nightmare Moon, and we'd be willing to prove it," The middle human spoke.
With a questioning look The Princess asked him, "And how will you prove to me that you don't work for her?"
"Hold up a minute, Nate, Paddie, how the hell do you know what's going on here?" The human second most to the right asked.
"Because we do, now let us do the talking Theo," Paddie answered as he rolled his eyes.
"Ask us to do something to prove it and we'll do it," Nate responded to the Princess, ignoring his two friend as they began arguing next to him.
"How about you start by telling us who and what you are," The princess suggested.
Before Nate could answer The human to the farthest left answered, "I'm Jacob, to my right is Paddie, then Nate, Theo, and Wesley, we're humans,".
"I have never heard of your kind before, I can't help but wonder where Nightmare Moon found you,"
"Alright I'm getting real sick of this shit, someone tell me, who the fuck is Nightmare Moon?" Theo demanded.
"Princess Luna, she was corrupted by her jealousy towards her sister, upset that the night she worked so hard on was ignored while Princess Celestia's sun was worshiped, After her corruption she was banished to the moon with the use of the elements of harmony, with legend saying that on the 1000th summer sun celebration she would return to plunge the world into eternal night," Nate explained. The three ponies were looking at him in shock while Theo just shut his eyes and muttered about furries and ponies and how much he hated them.
After a few moments the Princess finally asked with a glare, "If you don't work for Nightmare Moon then how do you know so much about her?"
"I would say to hide the truth, but because you're being such an untrusting bitch, you should know that where we come from you're world is a cartoon, a fantasy world meant to entertain the human race with the fantastical idea of land where peace and the powers of friendship fucking exist," Nate answered again, a sharp edge entering his clearing voice.
"Holy shit man, I thought you actually liked Celestia," Paddie said in surprise.
"It's really hard to like someone when they FUCKING CHAIN YOU UP!" Nate shouted in anger.
"Calm down Nate, Things could be worse," Wesley finally spoke up, trying to calm his angry friend. Taking a few deep breaths Nate nodded and calmed back down.
"Wait, we don't exist?" One of the guards asked quietly.
"You obviously do, and besides, in the show you all weren't anthropomorphic, it all falls into the multiverse theory," Nate explained, feeling slightly calmer. What he said was true, each of the ponies was anthropomorphic, standing on their two back hooves and having hands instead of having forehooves. They even wore clothes, the guards wearing golden armor, and the Princess wearing a flowing white dress to go along with her regalia.
"Speaking of that, how about you send us home so we don't have to stay in some stupid pony land," Theo suggested.
With a sigh, out of either annoyance or regret, the Princess said, "I'm sorry but there is no known way to travel through dimensions, there may be some day, but there isn't now."
"Actually Starswirl the Bearded did make a way to another world, but there's no way to know if it would work to find our world, though I would like to bring my family here at least," Paddie responded.
Yet again the Princess was shocked by how much the humans knew. "How did you know about that?" The princess demanded.
"It was talked about in the show," Nate answered. "though that knowledge still doesn't do any good when the portal only opens every thirty moons."
"Um, not to be bother or anything, but how long are you gonna leave us chained up here?" Jacob asked, moving his arms slightly to rattle his chains and make his point.
"Until I'm sure you aren't a threat," the Princess answered.
"Right, the alicorn princess of the sun has to have five tired humans chained up when they're all both hungry and dehydrated, especially when said princess is one of the strongest magic users to ever exist," Paddie said sarcastically. Both of the guards glared at him, but the princess finally relented as she used her magic to lift the five humans and set them on their feet. Upon being set down they all almost buckled, though they also all managed not to fall.
"Guards, one of you go and bring back some water and some food for our guests," The princess ordered. Both seemed hesitant, but the one to her right finally gave a small salute and rushed out of the door, obviously uncomfortable with the idea of leaving his princess with only one guard.
"So we're guests, does that mean we get to lose the cuffs?" Nate asked as he weakly held up his arms.
"Those shall stay on until I'm sure you can be trusted enough not to be dangerous," was her response.
"Humans are always dangerous, but we only grow violent when threatened," Nate responded.
"Then the cuffs will be removed after I'm sure you're not a threat to my subjects," Celestia spoke with a pointed glare at Nate.
"And how will you do that exactly?" Jacob asked as he stretched slightly.
"Guard, prepare four other cells and send Captain Gleaming Shield and three guards of her choosing to each one to talk to our guests one on one," Celestia ordered.
"Are you sure that's wise Princess?"
"Yes, I will be in no danger for the time being, just be quick about it, and also tell the other guard to send some of the food and water to this cell as well as the other four," and with that the guard was out the door and searching for the captain. For twenty-five minutes there was silence, with nothing to say nothing was said.
Finally the guard opened the door and said, "Captain Gleaming shield is here, as well as her chosen guards, and they are waiting in a different cell each."
"Good, Take all but the middle one out and place each one into one of those cells, tell the captain and the others to just talk until they are sure if these humans are a threat or not," With a nod they were then led out one by one until all that was left was one.
Author's Note
Alright, so this is how shit starts, already hitting the fan. I really hope that this goes better than the first and that more people like it. If you see anyway for me to improve the story or characters, feel free to mention it in the comments. Just be constructive instead of telling me how much I suck, constructive criticism goes a lot farther to help instead of just being a dick.
And yes the descriptions were in a long ass paragraph, but at least they didn't take up most of a chapter this time. Hope you enjoy, and I'll be keeping as strict of a weekly upload schedule as possible from the moment this story gets added.
