"Is he g-going to be o-okay?" Venus asked.

"I don't know," A nurse replied, setting Luke onto a table.

"How long will it take for him to wake up?"

"I'm not sure. He's got horrible frostbite. Especially in his legs. He's lucky if he could walk again. For now, I will cast a healing spell on him as life support until he wakes from his coma."

The nurse placed a blanket over Luke, and left the room. Upon leaving, Axel, Nick, and Miranda enter.

"Damn. He trudged through the snow without taking a break?" Miranda said.

"Crazy bastard," Nick commented, a grin on his face.

"Must be taking lessons from you, Nick." Axel said.

"Shut up, Axel."

"What? That was a compliment."

Venus sits on the floor, next to Luke's bed. She looked down at the ground, and simply stayed there.

"Well, I guess we should go," Axel said, "Let Luke get his recovery rest."

"I hope I can find me some good hooch in this town," Nick said.

The humans leave. Venus looked at Luke, and sighs deeply.

"G-get better Luke." she said.

She took one last look at him, before leaving the room.

Three weeks later...

A bitter smell invaded Luke's nostrils. It was the smell of smoke. Thick smoke. He opened his eyes, and sat straight up. He was horrified to see that outside the room he was in, there was a fire going on.

"Where the hell am I? Where's Venus?!" Luke asked in a panicked tone.

He threw the blanket off himself, and put his legs on the floor. However, he had tried to stand up too soon, and he fell.

"My legs....so stiff..." he mumbled.

Using the nightstand next to him for support, he got back on his feet. Examining himself, he noticed that almost all his clothes were gone! All except for his underpants.

"I *cough cough* gotta get out of here." He said.

He pulled open one of the drawers, and found all his belongings. His clothes, and his weapon. Getting dressed, and arming himself, he stumbled out of the room, and into the halls of the smoldering building.

It was now clear to Luke that he was in a hospital. He was somewhat relieved that someone found him, but there were two things that were bugging him now. One: Venus, or anyone was nowhere to be found. Two: Obviously, the building was on fucking fire! While searching for the lobby, some of the undead came to stop Luke. All were in either hospital gowns, or nurse outfits. However, his trigger finger was fully functional, and he made easy work of the walking corpses.

With effort, he had managed to find the lobby. Upon exiting, he realized he was in Ponyville. Yay! However, something much worse than zombies was happening. Damn! Ponies were attacking! Ponies dressed in intimidating clothes: Masks, bandanas, and random gear as armor.

Luke quickly put two and two together, and began shooting at the perpetrators. Since they didn't have guns, they were easy to take down. However, when Luke's magazine ran out, he was horrified to see that he ran out of bullets. Right at that moment, a mare levitating a lead pipe in her magic charged at Luke. Before she could reach him, her head exploded, and a loud crack could be heard. So loud, it almost deafened Luke. Blood and brains splattered on his shirt. Nick then appeared, and ran to Luke holding two rifles.

"Nick!" Luke said, "What is going on?!"

"You're alive! No time to waste! Grab this rifle, and follow me!" Nick said, tossing Luke an AK.

This AK rifle had gone through some repairs over time, it seemed. The butt stock was replaced with the handle of a shovel, a few metal plates crudely placed here and there, and the words "GET SOME" were etched into the metal. Luke took the rifle, and followed Nick toward the major battle site. In the middle of town, a huge fight was taking place. Masked ponies with melee weapons were attacking regular ponies, royal guards, the remainders of Luke's friends, as well as the Princess of the Night, Luna. Luke ran into the thick of it, fighting alongside his allies. Even some unicorns were fighting with guns.

In the middle of the fight, Luke heard a violent scream somewhere behind him. He ran back, to see Milky Way getting pinned down by two stallions.

"Oh hell no," Luke said.

He lifted up his assault rifle, and pulled the trigger on the two bastards. They didn't stand a chance against hot lead to their guts.

"You okay?" Luke asked.

"Luke, you're alive! Thank you for saving me." Milky said, gratefully.

"Where's Venus?"

"I don't know! She could be anywhere!"

Luke ran back to the battlefield, and straight for Nick. He pulled him into cover, and held him by his collar.

"Nick! Where is Venus?!" he demanded.

"She got carried off into one of the carriages, along with many other mares!" Nick replied.

"Oh no. Not on my watch."

Hastily, and probably very stupidly, Luke charged into the attacking group, shooting every masked foe left and right. Cutting deep into enemy lines, he sees what he was looking for: a carriage. Sure enough, peeking back at him over the top, was Venus. They made eye contact, and Luke gave her that reassuring smile again. He then went straight for the carriage, stood inside, and shot at everyone running for him. When the last casing in his gun was spent, all the attackers were dead. Luke, panting, freed all the mares, including Venus.

"L-Luke! I-I thought you d-died." Venus said, before wrapping her forelegs around his neck.

Luke returned the hug, "Nah, it's gonna take more than a snow day to do me in."

The other humans approach them.

"Well, would you look at that? He lives!" Axel said.

"Never doubted you, Luke." Miranda said, smiling.

"So this is Luke?" an unknown voice said, "Glad to see he made it."

"Huh?" Luke said, raising an eyebrow.

He releases Venus, and turn around. Standing with his friends, was another human. He wore a dirty jacket, ripped jeans, and he had a HUGE sniper rifle in his hands.

"Who are you?" Luke asked, tilting his head.

"Let me introduce myself," the mysterious human said, "My name is William."

Author's Note

Yep, this is supposed to take place in an ALTERNATE alternate universe before Guardian From Afar 3. And yes, this Luke is a different one.