Stranger and Stranger

Luna heard a loud bellow from behind her, she turned but saw nothing but the ruins of what she assumed was once a civilization. She decided to follow the noise to investigate, she had to leap over the strange rusted frames and rocks to get there, then wished she hadn’t. There looking right at her and pointing a strange device in her direction was a biped with four arms, two of which held the device. It’s body was actually obscured by some kind of armor so Luna couldn’t tell what it really looked like.

Before she could decide weather or not to approach it, it let loos four yellow marbles of energy from the front of its device. Luna dove out of the way and the shots exploded on the rock behind where she was just standing. The creature however seemed used to this maneuver and followed with its weapon and fired again. Luna dodged and began running, the beast followed her. Luna ran through the strange landscape but soon found herself cornered. She turned and saw the creature take aim, then a thundering boom raked the air and the beast staggered foreword. It turned and Luna saw another biped, however this one was not as large, only had two arms, its armor still covered everything but it was much cleaner. The creature wore a hooded cloak over its armored shoulders and helmet, in its hands was a device of similar shape to that of what the beast carried only it was white with some grey spots. The biped braced the gun against its shoulder and triggered the automatic fire.

The beast that chased her took it this time and fired back, the other biped began to move around to avoid its fire. The bipeds weapon stopped firing so it pulled out a compartment in the bottom of the device and replaced it with an identical one and continued firing. The beast was soon on its back, and the biped approached Luna, only for the creature to shoot it in the back. The creature died, but so did her savior, Luna ran over to the biped now lying on the ground and breathing hard. The biped looked at her through its helmet, it handed her its weapon. Luna took it and set it aside and began to try and treat the bipeds wounds.

“You cant help him now.” Said a robotic voice.

Luna turned to see a small floating device hovering next to her.

“Take my gear,” The biped told her, “You have more use of it now than I do.”

Luna looked at the armored figure below her, just before it stopped breathing.

“Do it,” the device told her, “I can modify it to fit you so that you can use it.”

So the device used a light from the front of it to take the armor off the creature which turned out to be mechanical. The armors shape and size changed to fit her, and then she allowed the device to put her in it. The device then changed not one but three weapons so that she could access and pull the triggers with her hooves, one was the white and grey automatic weapon the biped used before, the second was a much longer one with what looked like a small telescope on top, the third was as long as the second but lacked a scope. It had a fat cylinder on the bottom with a chain of pointy brass canisters going into the side. The device then somehow got into her mind and gave her full knowledge of their use and how to deal with the enemies around them. So Luna was prepared to fight, and knew how.

Luna put the assault rifle, the sniper rifle, and the heavy machine gun away until they were needed, right now she needed to find a way home. Her mind full of new knowledge she called her saviors sparrow, no her sparrow, and sped across the landscape old Russia her new cloak billowing in the wind behind her.

*****

Twilight was seized by the guards the minute she got off the train and taken to the prison. She didn’t know what to expect there, but she certainly didn’t expect Princess Celestia to be there.

“Princess Celestia,” Twilight exclaimed.

“Hello twilight.” She said distractedly.

“What happened?”

“Nightmare Moon came back, but not in Luna’s body this time. She has her own body now.”

“Well no wonder the moon has been up for so long. But why aren’t your guards fighting her?”

“She threatened their families, I could see that they were torn so told them to do as she says. I was under an incapacitation spell so I could not fight her, and Luna...” She choked on the last sentence and tears welled in her eyes.

Twilight went up to her mentor whom she was now sharing a cell with and hugged her trying to calm her down. Celestia seemed to calm down a little but tears still fell.

“She was thrown, I dont know where. She was just launched into the sky.” She finished.

Twilight couldn’t believe what she heard, she thought that Luna was Nightmare Moon.

“On an even more depressing note, Luna never willingly became Nighmare Moon, she always resisted her. Nightmare said that Luna harbored no bitter feelings towards me, she was just lonely.”

“Do you believe her?”

“Yes, Luna showed no signs of hatred or anger, only sadness. If only I had seen sooner.” Celestia said tears welling up in her eyes again.

Twilight could only be there for silent support, she had known Celestia to be infallible, but to see her like this only improved her opinion of her, it made her a mare.

*****

Luna zipped across the landscape on a silent sparrow vehicle to get to her destination. Her destination was the center for intergalactic travel, It was abandoned since the collapse. She now knew the history of this world thanks to the device which she now knew as a ghost. Luna’s ghost was stored Faust knows where but still managed to tell her how to get to the CIT, which could possibly be her only way home. She came over a rise, and there was a massive building in front of her, it looked to be a few hundred stories tall and several city blocks wide. It would take forever but she still had to try and find her way home, and destroy any fallen or hive that get in her way.

Author's Note

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