Project New Genesis

After one hour walk, Jacob, Main 6 and Princess Celestia were at Canterlot Train Station. There were a lot of ponies, mostly unicorns. Some of them had golden armors and were standing in line. They were Canterlot Royal Guards, waiting for their princess' arrival.

"It looks like Luna is already worried about me..." Celestia said.

One of the soldiers walked to Jacob and started to study him. "Is this... some kind of monkey, Your Majesty?" Royal guardian asked. Jacob was bored of being called a monkey, all the time.

"It's a human, major. His name is Jacob Dracons. He's an emissary from the other planet." Celestia corrected. "Did my sister send you to escort me?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. Some wild creature appeared in Canterlot and kills everypony, what it sees."

"Let me guess... It had my posture, armor and screamed, like reprobate?" Jacob described this potential danger.

"That... is correct..." Major said. "Those ponies are waiting for a train to leave Canterlot, as soon as possible."

"They're gonna wait pretty long. Tracks are blocked by my ship's wreck."

"For now, let's head back to my castle."

Ponies and human were walking across the streets of Canterlot. This place was completely abandoned. Ponies were at the train station or locked tight in their homes.

"Mr. Dracons, what can you tell me about this armor?" Celestia asked, knowing that Jacob is her biggest hope in this situation.

"'APH v.3.2.0' is the most advanced space suit in M.S.T.F. It was created specially for soldiers, what take part in Project New Genesis. It's light and comfortable, yet very durable. To destroy this armor, we need 10 KN or 5000 K."

"So, it's technically... indestructible?" Twilight asked.

"Well, we had a weapon, what can create that big temperature. Sniper Rifle 'CSR-2 Paladin'. I'm afraid, it left in Athena's armory what left in space or landed on the other end of the planet. So, we're boned..."

"Can it get any worse?" Rarity lamented.

"Well, if it's Marcus, you better find a new capital..." Jacob knew every implants in himself and Athena's crew. Marcus was the most wired from them all. Even Jacob didn't have that much implants."He has every special implant. Grasshopper, Bull, Armadillo... He's gonna turn as all into atoms."

"Then, I guess, I have no other choice..." Celestia said with dramatic tone. "I've never thought about saying those words, but... I'm going to do something about this." Everyone gasped, except Jacob. "Anypony, who will say word about it gets one way ticket to the Moon."

"It's surprising, because Celestia didn't do anything in 7 years." Pinkie whispered to Jacob. "She always used us. You don't know that from me."

"Now, I'm going to say that. CAN IT GET ANY FUCKING WORSE!?" Jacob cried out, knowing, this is the worst day of his entire existence. Like out of spite, is started raining. "I hate this planet..."

"Um, it was me. I wanted to cool you down." Rainbow Dash said from above the cloud. "We, pegasi ponies, control the weather."

"Excellent. Now, I'm pissed off, tired, hungry and wet. SOMETHING ELSE, YOU GOT THERE, UNIVERSE!?" Jacob was hit by the thunder.

"I'm sorry, sir." Said a gray pegasus with squint. "I just don't know, what went wrong."

"Derpy, could you leave us and grub a muffin?" Rainbow asked.

"I love muffins." Derpy said and left.

"Can we finally get to this castle, before I'll be hit by a meteor?" Jacob had enough of this day.

Ponies and human arrived to Celestia's Castle, without meeting 'monster'. On the stairs was dark blue alicorn with mane like night sky and dark turquoise eyes. It was Princess Luna, Celestia's younger sister and second Equestria's ruler.

"It's good, that you arrived all save, sister." Princess Luna welcomed her sister. Her eyes quickly turned on Jacob. "I guess, that you are Jacob Dracons, a comer from the space? It is a real honor to me."

"For me, either. We, younger siblings, have to keep together." Jacob said, walking to her and embracing Luna's neck with right arm.

"Take your... limb... of the Princess, human!" One of the guards screamed.

"It is okay." Luna said with calm smile. "Our guest is quite right. Also, I have a very surprise for you, Jacob Dracons." Engineer was confused. "It's waiting in my bed chambers." Now, Jacob was completely out of his mind. She just met him and already drags him to bed?

"LUNA!" Celestia screamed.

"I-It's not, what you think, sister!" Luna said with blush, realizing how this sounded. "I don't want to copulate with our guest." Jacob and Celestia sighed with relief. "Follow me, Jacob Dracons."

Jacob followed Princess Luna thought the castle's corridors. Jacob was thinking, what surprise Princess Luna prepared for him.

"How is your right arm?" Luna asked.

Jacob checked it. "No black veins, so... I guess, it's okay." Jacob answered. "So, you can help me with my little... problem."

"Indeed. My sister doesn't know about Dark Magic as much as me. We are the opposites. She is the day, I am the night. She controls the Sun, I control the Moon. She is light. I am darkness."

"I guess, I don't want to see, when you two are arguing..."

"When I was arguing with my sister, 1000 years ago, I ended on the Moon, because I couldn't control my negative emotions."

"And you became Nightmare Moon?" Jacob asked. "Twilight told me about this. How did you feel, when you became it?"

"I felt only negative emotions. Sadness, anger, planting... jealousy. I don't want anypony else to feel my pain."

"Well, the worst arguing with my brother ended up with one year in military prison. For me, of course. I just asked for a permit to visit my dad's grave. Older siblings are sometimes..."

"Unfair." Luna finished. "I just wanted an hour or two for my night. I wanted my subjects to see beauty of my night. Was it a crime?"

"Well, on my planet, day and night are variable. It's not a big deal, if day or night would last a hour or two longer. Why she couldn't agree on that?"

"I... don't know. She just disagreed with my idea. I thought, that she wants all authority for herself at day, when at night everypony was sleeping and not bothering about anything. I started to lose control on my emotions and... Dark Magic took the lead...."

"If you don't want to talk, don't." Jacob sighed. "I know, how does it feel, when older siblings gets all the fame for themselves. When I was in high school, Raymond was fighting with rebels in New Washington, our capital. When I finished education, he became national hero. I wanted to equal him, so I joined M.S.T.F., studying in the same time. I was engineer there, fixing our vehicles and bionic implants of our soldiers."

"Like your mechanic limb?"

"Yes, like my arm."

"You liked this?"

"It runs in our family. We always fix stuff. My great-grandfather had watchmaker workshop on Earth, later it was my grandfather's. My dad became famous bionics specialist. He created even some of his own, like Memory Resonator or Shield Matrix."

"What does the second one? The first one probably saves more memories and knowledge in brain."

"Exactly. Shield Matrix is an arm implant what creates, well, shield made of light. It works on basically the same like those magic bubbles."

"Fascinating. I see, that your father left the great legacy. Did you made implants by your own?"

"Actually, I'm working on a new special implant. It's called Eagle. It suppose to sharpen eyesight about 10 times. It could be used by people, who have problems with eyes or people, who work with very precise things. But I can't get requested materials, since I live here. I wanted to take care of it after mission, but... you see."

"It's a shame. I think, that you could help many people on your homeland."

"Yeah, like it would change anything. Mankind is so stupid, that they destroyed their own planet. I joined this mission to grab some rest from my kind. We still judge people with different skin color, breed animals to eat them and use so much energy, that we could power the whole Solar System. Sometimes, I hate humanity for what they did to their planet and might to do with the next ones." Jacob felt much better, telling this to someone. Luna didn't say a word about it. She was too disturbed, hearing about species, who destroyed their own homeland.

"Then, why do you still help your kind?"

"Because, I hope that they will start to think about something more than themselves but it's only kid's daydream."

Until they reached Luna's bedroom, Jacob and Luna remained silent.

"So, what do you have for me? I hope it's nothing weird."

"I found the member of your crew." Princess Luna said, opening the door. On her bed was unconscious human in blue armor, covered in blood, oil and dust. Jacob recognized this armor, immediately.

"RAY!" He screamed and ran to his brother. "Is he alive?"

"He's just unconscious, but in bad condition. I tried to heal him with my magic, but I couldn't take off his armor."

"It's genetic lock-down. Only armor's proper user can wear it and take it off. We have to wait, until he wakes up. Anyways, thank you for saving him and doing the best."

Luna smiled. "You are welcome, Jacob Dracons."

"Just Jacob." Jacob checked Ray's arm interface. "60 beats per minute. Pretty normal, but still weak." Jacob looked closer at the armor. It had only some scratches. Jacob thought, that he got hit by something but, before that, he was fighting. "I don't think, it's his blood. He could fight with something. Or someone... Did he have any weapon? Like mine?" Jacob asked, showing his plasma pistol.

"I found some kind of spear and crossbow without arms. They are in this chest." Luna pointed the chest in front of the bed.

Jacob opened it. "Assault rifle MR-8 and sniper rifle CSR-2 Paladin. You were pretty well armed, big brother." Jacob grabbed both rifles and closed the chest. "You know that monster, outside?"

"Yes, I've heard of it."

"This might be part of my crew, cursed by King Sombra. With this sniper rifle, we can take care of him."

"How do you know, that he might be cursed by King Sombra?" Luna asked confused.

"I've killed member of my crew, changed by Sombra. He might be in the same condition."

"I could help him." Luna proposed.

"If your healing magic couldn't help my brother, then any magic can't help him as well."

"Trust me, I'm more powerful, than Sombra."

Jacob started to see sense in this. If Sombra's Dark Magic could curse his crew-mates, then Luna's Dark Magic can cure them as well.

"Fine." Jacob agreed. "But, just in case, I'll keep sniper rifle prepared." Jacob made a step, but he fell on the ground, feeling huge pain in his legs. "Fuck..."

"Are you okay?" Luna asked.

"2 hours of peace and now they are reminding about rest. This is side effect of using one of the special implants. Fuck, it hurts, like someone was riping skin off my bones!" Jacob cried out.

Luna's horn started to glow in deep blue color. Princess pointed her horn on Jacob's legs and the pain disappeared.

"Can you stand up?" Luna asked with hopeful smile.

"Can I stand up?" Jacob stood up like spring. "I feel, like I can run for the rest of my life!" Jacob's legs never felt better. "It's like..."

"Magic?" Luna finished.

"You called it."

"Now, let's handle our 'monster'."

Jacob was watching on castle's tower with sniper rifle on spyglass' tripod. Princess Luna was searching for a feral Athena's crew member. She created a telepathic bond between them, to communicate.

Jacob never used a sniper rifle, earlier. He usually uses assault rifles, pistols and shotguns. He never had weapon, like that, in hands, so he placed it on tripod, where earlier was Celestia's spyglass, to keep it more stable.

"Mr. Dracons?" Celestia said. Jacob jumped, hearing her voice from nowhere. He gasped and grabbed his chest.

"You want me to die on heart attack?" Jacob asked, scared.

"I-I'm sorry. What are you doing with my... where's my spyglass?"

"I... think, that I left him..." Jacob searched his backpack, still on his back, and found the meant object. "...here." He said, giving spyglass to Celestia. Princess grabbed it with her magic and put it aside.

"What are you even doing on my observation tower?"

"I'm searching the city with your sister, looking for 'monster', what attacks your citizens." Jacob said, returning to sniper rifle. "Remember the sniper rifle, what I told you about?"

"I guess..." Celestia gave an unsure answer.

"Well, your sister found it. With my brother."

"I'm happy to hear this but... where's Luna?"

"I see, that on some kind of... market or square... Looks like, she's in mood for shopping."

"Very funny, Jacob." Luna said in Jacob's mind.

"I have my moments, Luna." Jacob said.

"You two created a telepathic bond?" Celestia asked surprised. "It's impossible, if bonded aren't siblings."

"Yeah, Luna broke some rules and used Dark Magic."

"I banned her this, since Nightmare Moon's defeat." Celestia said, very angry.

"We have a saying on our planet. 'There's no rules on war.' And now, Sombra declared war to you and Mars. Deal with it or hate it, we will not judge you."

"You're right..." Princess Celestia sighed. "If Sombra wins, Equestria will fall. I should have send Luna, instead of Twilight. I was so stupid..."

"What do you mean?" Jacob inquired.

Celestia sighed. "When Sombra returned, Luna begged me to send her, instead of Twilight. I didn't listen, because I wanted to make sure, that Twilight is ready to become an alicorn. It was stupid decision."

"Why she requested it?"

"Dark Sorcerer can be destroyed permanently only by the other Dark Sorcerer." Celestia explained. "Luna is the only pony, who can control her emotions enough to not fall into the abyss of darkness. But, I'm not sure about this, since Nightmare Moon incident and the beginning of the Sun Era."

"Sun Age... it lasted like... 1000 years?"

"Indeed. Now, it's the 7th year of the Harmony Era. Let's not change the topic..."

"Anyways, it's kinda your fault, that she changed into Nightmare Moon."

"I know..." Celestia said, feeling guilty. "Since the day, I banished her, I've been blaming myself for causing this..."

"I'm sorry, that I recalled it."

"It's... nothing..." Celestia assured, cleaning tears of her eyes.

Jacob found the feral human, after a few minutes. He was massacring one of ponies. His armor was orange and red from blood. He took of the helmet and started to eat pony's guts and meat. "Oh God... It's Oz..." Jacob whispered, trying not to throw up. "Sombra, you're so dead... Luna, I found him. He's nearby... clothing shop?"

"It's Rarity's boutique." Celestia explained.

"I hope, that bloody red is now on top..."

"There's no time for jokes, Mr. Dracons."

Jacob sighed and prepared the rifle to shot. "Okay, Luna. I'm giving you 2 minutes. After that... you know the rest."

Luna walked to the feral human. Luna felt sick, seeing a human, eating a blue unicorn with orange/yellow/purple mane. Oscar noticed her and rushed on her. Luna stopped him with her magic. Her eyes glowed greenly and mantled with dark, purple mist.

"DARK POWERS OF KING SOMBRA! LEAVE THIS HUMAN'S BODY AND RETURN TO YOUR DARK LORD! I ORDER YOU TO BEGONE! BEGONE!!!" From Oscar's mouth and eyes flowed dark energy. His skin and eyes returned to normal colors. After the process, Oz fell on the ground and Luna's eyes stopped glowing. "It is done." Luna said to Jacob.

"SUCK IT, SOMBRERO!" Jacob screamed and started screaming of joy. It didn't last long, because, in his head, he felt the same pain as always, when Sombra was sending him messages.

"Beware of the Moon, kid. You chose the wrong teacher." After hearing those words, Jacob fell on the ground, unconscious...