Prologue

In the years of man before they even reached past heaven to the stars above there was one man, name is unknown even to this day, who believed that they were created by a chemical reaction from apes. He did not have much evidence other than seeing how man and ape were distant relatives that there was actually an explanation that man was not created by some mythical gods that created the planets, life, and man. Many people did not believe his theory nor the evidence he has as it sounded ridiculous, but there were other people that had heard of this man’s theory and began to spread the word of ancient alien artifacts. This sounded unbelievable as people or even a small group wanting this man’s theory to be true. The ancient alien artifacts that they spread were true, but they were not on the surface no they were hidden in caves with special locks to be only opened by the bright minds of Mercy.

The devices of alien tech were what the man, who believed they were chemical biogenetic DNA mutation, had as evidence being a key in a shape of a small three-dimensional kite for it unlocks a vault buried beneath Mercy’s crust. Man did not know this as the vault had been hidden from long as history dates back farther back before man existed, but it goes farther back. They created to help the inhabitants of the planet to travel their own solar system, but what it did has given humanity an early evolution of science from primitive bows and knights in shining armor to advance weapons able to fire small projectiles through sixteen lays of steel and colonies living on the moon. Science has never been this advance to the human race in just a short amount of time, but this was not the Lenian Galaxy where man still believe that one only one God had created everything alive and where science is slowly advancing in decades.

The year of the first discovery of alien tech was the 900’s where a man had uncovered the first vault hidden beneath an empire. This empire was a different race of humans as they resemble the Chinese, but they had more land and lived in the south; however, the name they gave themselves were the Nama. These people were seen as Vikings and Chinese warriors mixed together having the tradition of Chinese and boldness as Vikings if they ever exist on Earth in Lenian’s milky way. They never knew what the vault held as they didn’t have the key. Years went by to the 931st where three kingdoms united together and had invaded the Nama’s lands causing havoc and destruction.

After years of fighting the first kingdom that united had the key to unlock their first vault. This kingdom was thought to be the hands of gods but in truth, it was actually the group of people that had believed there were no gods. They had the key to open the vault and show the world that there was no such thing as gods, but everything came at a price.

As years went by after the discovery of the first vault another country far away had opened theirs before, but they had a goal to bring peace to all those they met as their weaponry were a bit advanced. This country was named Numeri by its inhabitants. A country like would have been a threat to all if they did not wish peace for all of mankind to be under a single flag for their planet Mercy.

The first meeting did not bold well with the native of the other country as there was bloodshed from a misfire of a warning shot. A war had broken out and those they fought against each other primitive against the advance. This war would have been quick and simple, but the first kingdom to open the vault on their country had learned ways of giving their knights better armor and swords. The T-31 was the first power armor in history to be remembered as it was a combination of a knight’s full steel armor and alien tech, and the same goes for the broadswords.

This fighting had come to a standstill for over a hundred years. Both sides grew more advanced from the past hundred of years, around 56.2 million of people had died in this war, including those who did not partake in this war. So much death and destruction had caused more than enough havoc that it causes two secret groups within the separate countries to unite and stop this before it is the end of man.

The two groups were seen as the founding fathers of a single union named The Syndicates. They had ended the fight through tactics and speech how this war was tearing humanity apart, how they would soon destroy each other if they don’t stop fighting. During this time there was no such thing as freedom of speech during this war those who talked about the enemy would face the charge of death, but when two of the group’s member spoken out everyone had stopped and finally listen.

“Why was there alien tech in great vaults, were they supposed to be a secret weapon stash for invading alien!? Do we not know what could have happened if we continue this war!? Will these builders of the vault come back while we’re busy fighting our own human race, if so then we must be prepared for an alien invasion just in case!” Both of the speakers had brought commend sense to the people in both countries causing riots in both countries. These riots had caused the leaders to create a peace treaty to prevent more and more riots within their lands or else they would have to fight their own people. This treaty had made the world a better place for both countries, but they weren’t the only one as there were six other countries with their own people.

These people did not want to partake in this fight, so they watch from the sidelines as all six did not unlock their own vaults because of what they feared that they would be targeted. The vaults they held within their lands were valuable to the people living on Mercy, but one was not meant to be open. Before I start to explain why it wasn’t meant to be open let us go to the program of how one homunculus was created.

In the year 1192, a Cosmian had been making theories that they can construct new life make humans better. This Cosmian’s name was Ike, a scientist who believes in genetic slicing; biogenetic DNA combining. He had performed countless experiments of creating chimeras where those who study alchemy of transmuting a human and animal together but at the cost of the creature living a short life and feeling agonizing pain. This brilliant scientist wanted a man to become gods of a newly created race where they would put them in slavery where they are sold to the highest bidder. These experiments weren’t heard of for twenty years until the very first Furvors (furry race) had been created and discovered by a Syndicate agent. Ike had used human semen and animal together to impregnate various types of animals there were many failures until about sixteen separate species had been able to give birth thirty-nine animals with baby human features. Ike could have injected animal DNA in humans to make them stronger, but ever since the first thirty fails he had given up on as each had negative effects and horrible results that ended in disfigurement and death.

News of this created race had spread like wildfire causing an uproar of inhumane experiments that must head, but it was too take. Furvors were already sold and were nothing more than a slave. All of this slavery business had caused the people under the flag of Syndicate to demand the freedom to this new race.

The government where Ike lives under feared the power of the Syndicate and have asked for a peaceful negotiation to prevent a war between the planet’s advanced countries. The negotiation of handing over Professor Ike and free the Furvors had gone smoothly with no vile words spoken to provoke a war and a grudge. After news of the Furvors being freed from slavery and Ike being handed over to the Syndicates and put in jail. People under the united flag had thought there would be no more trouble, but they were wrong.

Forty years later after the freed Furvors, their race began to expand from thirty-nine to sixty hundred twenty-nine thousand. Riots began to start as the Furvors were not fully seen as citizens in some eyes, they were rejected or had to pay a higher price. Schools with the kids have a higher rate of bullying on this species. The Syndicates did not want any more fights even if they have a good amount of law enforcement there were higher death rates from criminals fighting back. Over twenty thousands of law enforcers were killed in the forty years causing the Syndicates to release Ike and ask for a way to create new law enforcement where they do not die easily and have a better chance of taking out a whole gang without breaking a sweat. This was promising to Ike as he had something in a plan but it would take time to let them grow as injecting a human egg with lizard DNA strand of its regenerative abilities. “It would take over five years for a homunculus to grown into an adult as they grow much faster and live longer than a normal human or even live forever if possible.” These were the words said by the scientist has he had done over five hundred human eggs before waiting for five years. Only six had made it, but these six were the only ones that the Syndicate needed. After the six Peacekeepers were made riots and crime had been kept below forty percent in separate countries.

Three years after the project Peacekeeper one of the other countries had finally opened their vault, but what they didn’t expect was a virus meant to kills all humans on the planet. This virus had spread over the years without the whole planet knowing what was unleashed on them. After a year two hundred thousands plus were dead, doctors began to question what had caused the death. Another year passed over four hundred thousand dead, doctors and scientists began to investigate these unknown cause of death across Mercy. The finale year had passed over 32.1 million people had died which had caused panic and people in the Syndicate began to blame the Furvors that they had caused this death, but after the blame doctors and scientists finally found the virus. They had tried to create a vaccine to prevent any more being infected with this virus, though the virus mutates every time it is introduced with a type of cure changing its genetic code to prevent the vaccine to give the human body’s immune system to work against it.

By this year Ike had begun to develop four hundred projects of the homunculus to prepare a war against the Furvors as another began to work on a machine to give humanity mechanical parts and machine to live through the virus. Before man could launch this attack almost three quarter of humanity had died from the virus leaving those who were genetically immune to the virus, scientist were too busy trying to find a cure they didn’t pay attention to the immune, but by the time the fifth year of the virus it began to mutate again where the dead would come to life and those infected have a genetic mutation and the plants inside the vault grew into a grave mind. The machine had been done before its own inventor had died, it had studied the human’s corpse and began its own project where life on this planet would be the machine like it. The Peacekeepers managed to survive but only two out of six survived becoming the main survivors of the Syndicate. As for the war homunculus, only three managed to grow into human forms. Furvors had moved out after discovering the infected they all scattered around different parts of ruin cities or new land they made colonies.

As this day after another a hundred fifty years in space out of Mercy solar system was the only surviving homunculus. Why was this the only survivor of his race? He had killed his own surviving brothers and sister to give them peace. This man was not alone as he has a friend or two, but his journey won’t end until he wants to.

Statis: system malfunction due to electric storm in unexplored galaxy.

Cause for the storm is unknown

Damaged caused by electric storm fried manual control flight, thruster four disconnected from Savian Energy

Planet detected

creatures inhabiting is unknown

Planet able to be habitable by Arien?

Scanning

Planet’s surface has plant life similar to Mercy’s

Coordinating safe area to land

Done...warning Manual control flight broken.

“I know that Ceria, set the ship to autopilot, land us on that planet, I can’t fly anymore.” An AI that goes by the name of Rios Thomason, he was different than the AI built into the Autumn, a carrier that could be easily be recognized as an Imperial Star Carrier. Why Rios is different compared to the ship’s AI was how he was created by a species called Furvors, a different name to furries on the planet Mercy where Humanity had created the furry species of once digital and imaginary to realistic life coexistence with them. He was in charge of keeping one out of the nine created alive, a creature that man had used the science of alchemy and splicing DNA with others to see the outcome of their creation of making man better than itself and a chance for new security to keep the peace.

“Setting coordinates to land on planet’s surface,” The ship’s AI said as the screen flashed tabs of the ship’s status. Rios was glad the ship was doing what he had asked it to do but he needed to check up on the creature in the cryo chamber. Instead of using the ship’s AI’s hologram displays, set in separate rooms, to appear where the creature was kept he walked his way there to the captain’s quarters where the creature in cryo sleep stayed at. Every room Rios entered the ship's hall holograms would project his anthropomorphic fox form, even going so far as to add detail to what Rios is wearing, a lab coat and pants.

After several minutes of walking through halls to the ship’s elevator, Rios took the elevator to the captain’s quarters. The was made for humanity’s first exploration of space but they never got the chance to venture out of their own solar system due to unfortunate events that happened on Mercy. When the elevator reached the top quarters and the doors open Rios exited out the elevator and unlocked a bio-scanner Palium Crystonian metal, why so much security was needed to keep those wanting in out of the room, how is Rios afraid of Arien, afraid that his amnesia would give someone the advantage of controlling him?

‘What am I kidding you can’t easily control someone, you are not a human Arien…’ When the doors finally opened Rio entered inside the room not paying any mind that the captain’s quarters was not what people would expect it to be, there was no furniture in the room only the cryo chamber across the room with power wires connecting to it and separate monitors that showed different status about the chamber. ‘...You’re a homunculus, one that was seen as a useless project that doesn’t have the abilities to manipulate their own gravity or change their skin to the material they touch, but that what made you special, you did the impossible of fighting species that not even one wearing power armor would go up against.’

Rios laid both his furry cover hologram hands on the glass of the cryo chamber and slid his hands away from each other removing the fog with the heat radiating off of his hologram self. The spot he wiped away revealed a German male behind the glass in a cryo-sleep. The male had dark brown hair that reached down to back of his neck and nearly covered both his eyes if not combed back, fair skin tone, his slim figure could tell everyone who looks at him that he didn’t have many muscles in his body, and the man could easily be sized around six foot and no higher above. This male was the homunculus Rios had been worried about because of this man’s amnesia; a total loss of memory. The AI let out a sigh of relief and sat down beside the chamber his hologram flickered a bit as he looked over his shoulder up at the male. All this was for him to keep him safe, but safe from what exactly is still unknown to him.

The for detail of the man could be explained in small detail of his background, personality, and name. Arien was the project name for war as the human race had feared that the six other security homunculus created for peacekeeping not for war, the two out of the three super soldiers, he wasn’t special other than being the first to be created for war to be nothing more than a hard to kill homunculus having the ability to regenerate anything, but at a cost of some blood. When he dies one of the gem shards would break down into microscopic cells to help regenerate a missing limb, organ, and brain if ever one would take critical damage. He was the only one similar to the first that didn’t have any special ability than his regenerative ability.

An echoing boom filled the halls and caused Rios to stand up, he knew something wrong had happened. Rios reappeared in the pilot’s cockpit through the hologram projector and began to check the monitor of what had happened. One of the ship’s right-wing thruster had blown up and caused a miniature EMP shutting off power in the right side of the ship cutting off life support and disabling the ship’s Flash Space Core (FSC). The last thrust wasn’t enough to help prevent them from crashing into the planet’s continental crust; however, Rios had a plan.

“Ceria sent landing zone on a snowy region and prepare to reserve all power to the captain’s quarters.” Rios glanced out the window to see the planet they would crash land in, it was different than Mercy most of the planet looked as if about sixty-three percent of it was covered in water as the rest was land. His plan for the changing landing zone to a snowy region was because how it won’t inflict much damage to the ship’s hall and wings, but the gamble of not having one of the wings tore off when they enter the atmosphere of the planet. Turning his gaze away from the window Rios sat in the pilot’s seat and gaze at the monitors by him.

Coordinates changed

Detected Tundra region full of snow in the Northern Hemisphere

Auto-Pilot now heading to new coordinates

Just like that, the ship changed its course changed, the main thrusting tilted down a bit so that the ship would be at the perfect angle for when they reach the planet’s atmosphere. The metal the ship was made out of would survive the immense heat, but the wind pressure would find a way to tear off a wing of the disabled thruster before they even make it through the atmosphere. Ceria was now the only thing that can pilot the ship due to her being the ship’s AI than Rios and having more knowledge in flying and landing than him.

While all of this was happening in space inside the mind of Arien was him staring off at the storm clouds above him but he wasn’t German, instead, he was a British soldier. The planet his mind was set on was Earth, in the galaxy’s Milky Way, he doesn’t know why he was like this nor does he know he’s a German, to begin with. His amnesia had made him forget everything about himself when he was created, race, language, and his own name; all was forgotten.

Arien was afraid, why was he afraid was because of the gunfire he hears around him; his own battalion and the German soldiers. This man doesn’t know anything about killing or knows how to use his own Lee-Enfield .303 rifle. Tears formed in his eyes as a man, shot dead by a German soldier, landed in front of him with his lifeless eyes staring at Arien’s, again he did not know what it is like to kill or see something die in front of him all of this was alien to him. The man began to cry for the loss of the soldier’s life.

“Private!” Arien snapped his full attention to a British Lieutenant. The man’s face was blurry with no face, why it was like that was because how Arien’s memory blurred out everyone’s face. “Get your ass into gear!”

The private just sat there shaking in his boots, he couldn’t move his body from how the emotional breakdown he was having. Arien’s lieutenant calmly walked over to him like the war was nothing but an ordinary day for him. He clamps both his on Arien’s shoulder and forced the man to look at him the eyes despite them being blurry Arien could make out the lieutenant's green eyes.

“Listen private, I know you did not expect so many of our friends to die in the past and are still dying today as you sit here allowing, you and others had volunteered to protect our country from these German bastards!” He yells at him. Arien was still unsure if he even had the will to fight for Britain, but the man’s words caused the young man to nod his head. “Good, now listen here this may be your last time on Earth but I want to make sure all my men under “my” command knows this…” The Lieutenant retracted his hands and stood tall with seriousness shining within his eyes. “...If you do not stand and fight then more people will die because of your actions, and soon it may be the entire Kingdom because of you being scared of war, do you want that to be the one thing that everyone in Britain to remember?”

“No sir!” Arien didn’t say that he didn’t even think of saying that it just blurted out like he someone else speaking for him. Rising up from the mud and standing strong with his rifle in hand Arien stared at his lieutenant.

“Then go out there and help win this war for the United Kingdom, revenging every soul that had died here!” With that Arien bolted off, running through the trenches to the front lines where riflemen and machine gunners held their post from any invading infantry. Every negative emotion that ran through the mind of this man was all gone like magic. This war Arien found himself needed him, he doesn’t know why but it was beckoning him to stand and fight for these men as if the words of the lieutenant gave him the courage to kill any German that dares tries to make a charge to the Britain’s trenches and also the preparations to die for his Country.

‘What is happening to me!? Why am I...why am I no longer scared?’ Arien thought as he made it to the frontlines behind a pile of sandbags with the rifle’s barrel slightly centimeters above them. His hands were trembling, was it from the adrenaline coursing through his body or was it because of shock when a bullet wits past his head mere inches away from killing him. The next thing he knew every soldier in the front line fired like cannons boom in the distance when shot. Screams of men in agony and gunshots filling the atmosphere of the battle happening now, Arien didn’t know what to do next his finger rested on the trigger as a German soldier was charging towards him.

The other men around firing at the wave of German soldiers didn’t pay any attention to the one charging through the mud to Arien, not a single one paid attention to that one man as if they were doing this on purpose to force Arien to kill. Twenty meters away from the trench Arien fumbles with his rifle’s bolt before aiming down his sights at the man. Pulling the trigger the gun recoils back slamming against his right shoulder and lifting the rifle up in the air, but it was a miss. Arien lifted up the bolt and pulled back emptying the chamber of the used bullet then pushed the bolt forward loading in a new bullet before pulling down the bolt into safety. He aimed again trying to get the iron sights lined up with the soldier’s body and fired. The soldier tumbled from the impact of the bullet and fell in the mud.

At first, Arien thought the soldier he shot was dead but when he got back to his feet he reloaded his rifle again and aimed down the sights. He didn’t know where else to shoot, the body was the second shot he made and the results were the German surviving the hit, so he aimed lower around the waist. Firing the third shot it connected with the soldier’s hip and lodged itself in his hip bone. The agonizing scream coming from the down German, he held the side of his hips with both of his hands. His screams send a shiver down Arien’s spine of how that man’s screaming would give him nightmares as long as he lives.

“Please, just stop…” Arien’s grip on the gun tightens as the man continues to scream his lungs out. “...STOP SCREAMING!!!” Taking aim and firing without any hesitation he ended the man’s life in a split second. All was silent everything was frozen as if time has been stopped. This war that Arien does not know of was starting to take more effect than hearing the screams and seeing soldiers in the trench, his first time taking a life from someone, killing that one man he doesn’t know of.

“W-what have I done?” The man dropped his rifle and dropped to his knees all the emotions of taking a life of another. He turned his head to the left and saw something surprising that made him question his sanity, a true blue coated horse with wings and a horn. Both of them stared at each other one filled with emotions as the other total shock of what they witnessed.

Soon the lieutenant came around the corner of the trench and pulled Arien up to his feet with a smile on his lips, or what looked like one from how blurry his face was. “Good work private,” He said sounding delighted of seeing one of the many volunteers finally killed an enemy of the Kingdom and did what he was supposed to do. “The charge they did won’t happen again for a while.” Arien smiled knowing that he won’t have to kill anyone soon, but he still feels shaken up by taking a life.

Without anything else to say the Lieutenant left him there having multiple negative emotions happening at once, but why he didn’t break down in crying again or curled up is that blue horse he saw was still staring at him. At first, he thought the others could see the horse until one of the soldiers ran through her like she wasn’t there at all. Now curious about what the horse was Arien walked towards it but stopped as his vision began to darken and his eyes felt heavy. He leaned up against the mud wall struggling to stay awake before falling forward.

Luna galloped to the fallen man and looked over at him, she pushed him over onto his back to have the better look at him. This man was the first she saw that the face wasn’t blurred out like the others around, but she noticed something happening in front of her the man began to faint before disappearing in front of her. With the man no longer there the whole dream began to fade into white as well flattening the land and erasing everything around. Luna sigh in disappointment as for how the man was now awake and no longer dreaming to show her more of the experience he had in this war, but she didn’t know that he did not take part of this war at all. She wanted to know the reason for this dream was it a disagreement between two kingdoms or was it something else that she did not know of?

“Hmmm,” Luna sat down and placed a hoof under her chin as she began to think. “This Private, we do not believe I have ever seen this species before or even known about a war that as many lives lost. The weapons they used, if they could truly kill somepony from a distance and so quick then we must find the Private and talk with him, but we could not find where he slept; however, he has to be close to Three Tribes’ border in order for us to visit his dreams.” With that thought she stands up on all fours and opened a door to the dream realm seeing how she visited this man’s dream she could find him again and try to have a word with him, but could she try and find out where he was at in land? Closing the door behind her Luna continued her duties of keeping everypony’s dream safe from nightmares, though she would have to notify her sister of the presence of the man’s species and how dangerous they could be.

Author's Note

This is my first time writing a story. I hope you enjoy, but if you find some mistakes then comment down below and have the sentence highlighted so I know where to find that mistake.

(Art is still being worked on)