The Electric Defender

There was a flash of light and then it was dark for awhile,"Hello?" Logan asked hoping somepony was there in the darkness.

"Hold on," the guard said, "I can't find the light switch." Logan brought some electricity to his hand and a small area became visible, "That's good enough, I think I can see the light switch." Logan heard a few hoofsteps then the room lit up. Logan had to shield his eyes from the sudden bright light, when his eyes fully adjusted to the light his jaw dropped at what he saw. The entire room that the guard had teleported them into was filled with weapons.

"Ah, Snow Fort," an elderly voice said. Logan turned around to see an old stallion grinning at Snow Fort.

"Good day Furnace," Snow said, "I need your help, this boy has the power to control lightning"

"Electricity," Logan corrected him.

"Anyways," Snow continued, "He needs a weapon, so he can defend himself,"

"Well lets find something for him," Furnace declared, the pegasus took out a measuring tape and trotted over to Logan. "Hold out your arms like a bird, or a cross," Logan did as he was told. Furnace measured his armspan, then height, then his weight. "Stand still and pull on this," Furnace indicated to a lever hanging with a scale on it. Logan pulled and Furnace mumbled something and walked out a door, "Follow me,"

Logan followed Furnace out, along with Snow Fort, into the main shop. A changeling came through the front door, and as soon as it did, there was an arrow in the changelings chest. It colapsed to the ground with out a cry of pain. Logan looked to Furnace who had a bow in his hoofs. Logan was amazed at how fast Furnace had gotten the arrow out, onto the bow, and into the changeling.

Furnace picked up a small blade attached to a string and handed it to Logan. "Try this," Furnace said, at that moment another changeling burst through the door. Logan gave it one spin then let go. The blade logded into the changeling's leg and fell out. The changeling let out a yelp of pain and dropped to the floor nursing its wound. Logan had to kill it before the other changlings were alerted.

Logan looked around and saw a plastic spoon on the ground, probably left there by a customer. Logan grabbed the spoon and ran to the changeling. He pushed the changeling over, covered its mouth, and drove the spoon into its eye. The changeling was screaming and Logan couldn't cover its mouth very well, so he shoved the spoon into the changeling's mouth in down most of the throat. Logan grabbed the bottom changeling's throat to stop the spoon then pushed the changelings head back. Logan heard the spoon snap and saw the sharp broken ends cut out of the changelings throat.

The changeling tried to scream, but only let out a gargling noise with blood blubbling out of its throat. Logan took the body by the leg and dragged it behind a shelf along with the other that Furnace had shot. "Looks like the lad can take care of himself!" Furnace bellowed.

"He still needs a weapon," Snow Fort said.

"And I think I've got it," Furnace said with confidence, and handed him a small sword, that was small enough to be a knife. Logan usheathed the blade and saw the Snow Fort with a look of awe. It was curved and small but the metal at the sharp of the blade was gleaming and the rest of it was matte black. "It's a katana, but a small one. If you ask me it's more like a large knife," Logan nodded in agreement, the blade itself was less than a foot long. The blade looked to be about eleven inches long.

"Its amazing," Snow Fort said, "But he's going to need more than that to protect himself," Logan shook his head as he got an idea.

"I'll have an electic blade on the other hand," Logan said, at that moment he heard the door open. He looked to see another guard walked in and looked at Snow Fort. The guard walked to Snow Fort and spoke.

"How are you holding up my friend?" The guard asked.

"Well enough," Snow Fort said and turned to Furnace to ask a question, Logan didn't hear the question because he heard the sound of a button being snapped open. Logan looked at the guard and saw he had a large knife in his hoof and was looking at Snow Fort with an angry glare. He remembered how Crysalis changed into Celestia and immediately Logan put up and electric shield between the guard and Snow Fort.

The guard brought the blade down and it crashed against the electric shield. The contact shocked him and he stumbled back. Snow Fort turned around to see the guard turn into a changeling. "Hey stupid," Logan said, the changeling turned, "Oh you responed to me calling you stupid; therefore your name must be stupid or it must sound stupid," The changeling lunged forward but Logan wasn't ready.

Logan had the katana backwards with the blade facing behind him, he put the blade up and was able to stop the changeling's blade from going into his chest, but it went into his shoulder. He gave a grunt of pain and used his left hand to plunge the katana into the changelings chest, he felt the push the changeling had on the blade leave as it stared forward. He pulled out the blade from the changelings chest and took the changelings blade from his shoulder holding it in his other hand.

Logan backed up and fell to his knee while the changeling slupmed forward dead and a pool of blood started to form. Now sure that the changeling was dead, Logan fell on to his back, dropped the blades in both hands, and clutched the wound on his right shoulder. "You need medical attention!" Furnace exclaimed. Logan ignored him and began healing the wound.

"He's fine," Snow Fort said, just as Logan finished healing his shoulder, he stood up and looked at the two blades. Furnace cast a spell that cleaned of the two blades. Now with a better view, Logan liked the changelings weapon. Squared sharp brass knuckles in front of the handle and the blade was the same length as the katana but the metal was thicker and the blade had a bigger width.

"Could you tune up this... uhhhh?" Logan didn't know what the blade was called.

"Bowie knife, and already did," Furnace said. Logan looked back at the blade to see it was just clean and looked like new, anything not sharpened was matte black like the katana.

"How much do I have to pay?" Logan asked realizing he knew nothing about the currency and had no money.

"I'll pay for it," Snow Fort said, "If it wasn't for you I would have that in my head," indicating to the knife in Logan's hand.

"What do I do now?" Logan asked.

"Find the Elements of Harmony," Logan raised an eyebrow, "Princess Celestia's star pupil and her friends,"

"How do I do that?" Logan asked.

Snow Fort grumbled at his own awnser, "Find a path of destruction, they're always the source of destruction." Logan nodded.

"Keep those sheaths, I'll get them after this is over," Logan said,

"Nonsense," Furnace said, and he cast a spell and a brown belt was now around Logan waist. He clipped the sheaths to his new belt and ran out the door with the bowie knife in his right hand and the katana in his left. Since he could see all attacks that would be in front, Logan wielded the blades backwards to cover his back and conceal them better.

Logan ran down the streets aimlessly hoping to find the trail of destruction Snow Fort had told him to look for. He didn't know where Twilight or the others were staying, the last one of them he saw was... Rainbow Dash! Logan never got to heal her wing, She must still be in the hospital, he thought. There was many problems though, he would probably see more changelings, he had no idea where the hospital was or how to get to it.

"Too bad I don't have a GPS," Logan mumbled as he slipped into an alley to catch his breath. As he breathed heavily, Logan peaked around the alley walls trying to notice any buildings that he had seen on the way to the hospital. Unfortunately, there were none that were familiar to him. Then he heard something familiar, a buzzing sound, "changelings," Logan cursed under his breath.

Logan looked around for cover and found it in between two dumpsters, the darkness between the two concealed him and the tight space would be a place, Logan hoped, a changeling wouldn't look. He hid and waited, the buzzing got closer and closer, then near him he heard hoofs landing on the ground and the buzzing stopped. He heard some bug-like shouting and then he heard more hoof steps getting closer to him.

Logan flipped the katana to a forehand grasp and lowered to a squat and prepared for the first changeling to him. Occupied by each others insults, the Changelings walked right into view; there were only four of them, but Logan waited to see if any of them turned their heads indicating there was more, none did. So there were only four, three of them were hurling insults at each other while one of them was looking around nervously. Logan hoped that the one changeling was to nervous to fight, he could probably injure two of the fighting ones and they hopefully would focus on the pain instead of the fight.

Logan sprinted out of his hiding spot and at the group of three. It only took a second to reach them and Logan ran between the nearest two changelings he thrust the katana into the left changelings back. The changeling on Logan's right turned to see what the other was screaming about, only to end up screaming as well from the bowie knife Logan had slashed his chest with.

Logan withdrew the katana from the changeling's back and switched his bowie knife to a forehand grasp. Now in reach of the changeling he had slashed, he thrust the knife into the changelings lower ribs. It colapsed, putting its hoof over anything that hurt. Logan looked at the third changeling that had been throwing insults, it was just standing still, shocked at what had just happened. Snapping itself out of its trance it hissed at Logan drawing a sword.

Logan wished he had seen that before, the changeling held the sword in its hoofs ready to kill. Logan stepped foreward and swung the katana to the side aiming for the changelings lower neck, but it was ready swinging the sword to its right mirroring the swing. The two blades conected but the changelings sword was heavier and Logan's katana came out of his hand clattering on the ground far behind him. Logan cursed to himself for not taking the weight of the weapon into account.

Logan had to get an opening, he swung his bowie knife mirrored to the katana swing and the changeling went to meet the blade, but Logan changed course. He backed away and the raging changeling swung past him with the heavy sword, Logan quickly flipped the knife back to the backhanded grasp and slammed the knife into the changeling's side. Filled with rage the changeling turned around holding the sword over his head standing on his rear hoofs.

Logan took the opening and kicked the changeling in the stomach, the changeling dropped the sword flailing its front hoofs to regan balance. He grabbed the changeling by the shoulder and cut in between the shoulder and neck. The changeling screamed which meant Logan hadn't cut far enough. He dislodged the bowie knife and swung again this time turning the scream into a gargle of blood. Logan looked at the other changeling to see a look of hatred in its eyes, Logan needed it to fear him.

Logan took one more swing and cut the changelings head fully off. He threw it to the ground and kicked it at the other changeling who barely caught it. The changeling turned to head around to see the face and a look of sheer horror, then blood began dripping out of changelings neck but more than just blood came out. Because Logan kicked the head it broken the bones in the head, the brain fell out. The changeling threw the head and vomited at the same time.

After a few times the changeling stopped puking and when it looked back, Logan was nowhere to be seen. It wondered where the human had gone but knew where when it felt a icey blade on his neck. "Now you're going to answer my question or you'll end up like your friend," Logan said. The changeling spoke but it sounded very buzzy.

"What is it?" The changeling asked.

"Where is the hospital?"

"Out the side of the alley behind me go right, at the second intersection go left then one more right," the changeling directed.

"Thanks sorry I had to kill your friends," Logan apologized.

"Those wern't my friends they were actually criminals the queen recruited. They were probably going to kill me, you did me a favor."

"What are you going to do when I release you?" Logan asked.

"Take a nap," the changeling casually replied, "I'm to tired to.. to..." Before he could finish his sentence he faded into sleep. Logan dragged the changelings body his previous hiding place and set off for the hospital.