“What happened?” David asked, looking at the scene in front of him.

He saw a couple cars torn apart with bits of blood splattered around the street. Feeling uneasy, he reached behind his back and grabbed ahold of something metal. Pulling it out, he saw a pair of guns, one black and one white. On one side of each gun, it said “Ebony & Ivory” with a design of piano keys next to it. On the other sides, another note said “For Tony Redgrave, By .45 Art Works”.

“Good. I have these. At least I already know how to use them.” David muttered to himself, gripping the guns firmly in case anything attacked him.

Feeling a little more secure, he continued walking, following the carnage.

‘Sure, follow the clearly dangerous trail. That’s the smart thing to do!’ David thought to himself sarcastically.

He sighed, annoyed that he made such a stupid decision, but refused to stop. He continued walking for a few minutes until he heard a small noise. When he stopped and focused on it, he discovered that it sounded like crying. After a moment of hesitation, he started walking towards the noise, until he approached a car with a smashed window. He looked into the car, and saw a small figure with red hair, curled up and crying.

“You okay?” David asked.

The small figure stopped and looked up at him which shocked David. Its face looked somewhat like a cartoon horse, including ears on the upper part of its head, along with fur that looked like a mix between orange and brown, and finally green eyes.

Before he can properly process all that however, the creature screamed and crawled away until its back hit the other side of the car.

“S-stay back!” It shouted, with a thick Manhatten accent, and youthful tomboyish yet feminine voice.

David blinked before shaking his head, “Calm down, I’m not gonna hurt you.”

“And how do I know you ain’t lying?” she asked, with a tone laced in suspicion.

David shrugged in a casual manner. “Would I even bother talking to you if I just wanted to kill you?” The girl remained silent for a moment, thinking it over.

After almost a minute of silence, David asked, “What’s your name?”

“Babs. Babs Seed,” she answered.

“David,” He greeted her, then his expression changed to one of confusion. “Now, I don’t mean to be rude, but what are you?”

Babs then gave him a look matching his own, “Really? You don’t know?”

“Well in case you haven’t noticed, I’m not from around here. Heck, I only showed up here a few minutes ago.”

“Imma pony,” Babs said. “What’re you?”

“I’m a…” David paused, before looking himself over, remembering his situation. “I’m half human.”

“Hoo-man?” Babs asked, with an unsure expression, “Whadat?”

David rolled his eyes and shook his head. “Human. As for what those are, it’s kinda hard to explain, besides the fact that a lot of people say we’re just highly evolved apes.”

“Like gorillas?”

“Kinda. Except smarter and sapient,” David then shook his head again. “I’m getting off track. Do you know where is everyone?”

Babs’ ears dropped and she looked away. “Those things attacked.”

“What things?” David asked, though he suspected he already knew the answer.

“Demons,” She stated, her expression turning sad, “They showed up and killed a few ponies. Everypony ran, and I got separated from my aunt. So, I hid in here, and you found me.”

David sighed. ‘Great. Not only does Noah send me to some world that gets demon attacks regularly, but she sends me somewhere during one such attack. Some friend.’ He shook the thought away from his head and looked back at Babs. “Can you tell me what these demons looked like?”

“They looked like they had burlap sacks over their heads. Actually, they look like their whole bodies were covered in sacks, and they all had blades for one of their limbs, either as an arm or a leg.”

David recognized that description instantly and pushed for more details, “Did they look like demented scarecrows?”

“Kinda...” Babs eyes then widened. “Wait, you know about those?”

David nodded. “Scarecrows. A basic demon, but still quite dangerous to people who aren’t prepared.”

“Basic?” she asked as her eyes seemed to widen further. “You mean ta tell me that there are worse demons out there?”

David looked down at his guns. “If there are demons like the ones I know about, much worse.” He then tightened his grip. “Well, I guess I’m going hunting,” he states as he turns around.

“Wait, what do you mean by that?” She asked, looking at him with worry.

“I was put in this world to kill demons,” David said, not turning around. “And as much as I don't want to, I might as well try to help deal with these things.”

“What? Are you nuts?!” Babs asked in shock.

David shrugged before looking over his shoulder at her. “Probably. To be honest, I'm still debating on whether or not Noah spiked my dinner last night and this is all some sorta drug induced hallucination. But on the possibility it isn't, I might as well be useful.”

Before she replied, Babs saw something ahead of him and gasped. When David looked forward, he saw a few scarecrows sauntering towards him from the distance.

“Babs, stay in the car,” David said, then thought to himself. ‘Let's see if that thing Noah said about this body is true…’

As the scarecrows came closer, David directed Ebony and Ivory forwards and fired several times, all the bullets hitting the closest scarecrow in the chest which caused it to spill out a liquid substance, with the last bullet killing it. The demon disappeared without a trace. David couldn’t focus on that for much longer, due to the other three having reached and surrounded him.

One of them lunged toward David, swinging its blade at him randomly, not focusing on accuracy, simply wanting to attack him. David quickly jumped back, narrowing dodging the blade. He then immediately pointed his guns at the scarecrow and fired a few times, killing it as well. The other two then attacked him in unison and he quickly rolled under their swings to evade. After he stood back up, he turned around and killed the scarecrow to his left.

Before he can react however, the last scarecrow attacked again and landed a hit on him across his chest, causing him to be knocked back a couple a feet. He ran two fingers to the affected area and saw his blood, but the wound was healing fairly quickly, both on his skin and his clothes, the latter to his surprise.

‘Well, glad that's in effect,’ he thought to himself. ‘Still hurt though.’

Pushing the thought away, he looked at the scarecrow as it slumped towards him. As it leaped to perform another attack, he aimed Ebony right next to where the blade met the arm and shot at it, causing the scarecrow to become unbalanced during the jump. David quickly ducked as it sailed over him. After it landed, David immediately shot at it a few times, killing it.

“Nice work, Davy-boy~!” A singsong voice cooed. The owner, Noah, appeared sitting on a toppled car, munching on popcorn casually. “You’re a natural! Or was that my doing…?”

“You know, it's one thing to send me here,” David said, not bothering to ask where she came from. “But did you have to send me here during a demon attack?”

“There’s almost always a demon attack… I can’t see the future, you overestimate my powers.” Noah said in a teasing manner. “I mean, would you rather I send you after the kid died?”

David stood silent for a bit, before saying, “Could've at least given me a heads up. I'm just lucky that scarecrows are weak demons. Otherwise, it would've been much more difficult.” He then touched the spot that the last scarecrow landed its hit. “Well that, and this body's healing.”

“What does that have to do with me? Besides, demons aren’t the only things you have to deal with.” Noah hopped off the car she was sitting on and began pacing. While she was doing this, a purple sword flew passed David's head, only missing him by a couple of inches.

Turning towards the direction the sword came from, David saw a female standing a few yards away from him, wearing a long purple trench coat, with a scarf covering the lower half of her face, the only things unobscured were her grey face, black hair, and purple eyes that glared at him. The final part he noticed was that she held a pair of silver bayonets.

She then took a single step forward before swinging one of her bayonets and pointing it at him with the other resting on her shoulder. As she did that, she said, “A new demon, hmm? Well this should be interesting.” She then lowered both bayonets and took a fighting stance. “Nevertheless, you're gonna pay for the destruction you and your friends have caused.”

As David processed that, he only had a single thought come to mind.

'This is gonna suck…’

Noah spoke up in an overly excited tone, “This is gonna be good~!”

Author's Note

And done. Made this after over a month on being stuck on how to start. Hope it's worth the wait. Sorry if it isn't.