Elements of Nature - Fall Of Equestria

The cries of the ponies hit him like a sack of bricks. He still had his senses up to detect any incoming threats, but that also kept him open to any and all vibrations that reached him, to include audio vibrations from the throat of a screaming pony. As he neared Manehattan he saw, around the skyscrapers and various buildings, different hues of color. One was multi-faceted and dispersed, the other was brown and concentrated. His eyes narrowed, and he steered toward one of the many concentrations of brown.

As he landed, the brown mass of Caribou stopped their assault on the group of ponies they'd been chasing and looked at the newcomer oddly - and the small crater his impact created. This group was lightly armed and had little in the way of mages, mostly consisting of light infantry and a few officers. The biggest one with the biggest antlers stepped forward, his sword drawn. "Who are you to dare to stand in the way of the might of the Caribou? We shall smite you in the name of King Dai-" his speech was cut off as a white, blurry after-image whizzed past, the human now standing behind him in a fighting position. David straightened up and smoothed out the wrinkles in his coat, then looked at the speaker to watch him slowly crumble to the ground as his neck spurted blood.

The rest of the company of soldiers took a step back as one, brandishing their short swords. There was no armor, clothes or other weaponry upon them, letting their disgusting junk hang free, just as the group in Ponyville did. They obviously were the light cleanup crew. David looked around calmly. That meant there was something bigger and badder around, handling the bigger threats. As he was searching with his eyes, a fireball impacted a skyscraper a few hundred meters away from them. From the now-burning skyscraper fell some unicorn mages and earth ponies with crossbows.

There it is.

"Haaaaaa!" screamed the group in front of him. As the caribou charged, David swept right with his arm and all of them were thrown into a nearby wall and swallowed by the now-liquefied stone of the building. "I don't have time for you," he said as the last helplessly reaching, grasping brown-furred hand disappeared into the slowly solidifying wall. He rocketed up and toward the burning building, looking for the source of the fireball. He heard another scream, this one a filly. His head snapped in that direction, then back in the direction of his primary objective. He narrowed his eyes, frustrated as he now had to make a decision. He gritted his teeth and scoffed then disappeared in a burst of air.

~~~///***\~~~

Golden Gleam was crying, holding tight to her Celestia plush as the lone Caribou approached her, cackling lowly. "Come on, little one," the soldier said. "I ain't gonna hurt ya. Just wanna have some fun." Golden's parents lay on the cold kitchen floor. The glow of her father's horn faded slowly and her mother, an earth pony held a blood-covered rolling pin in a death grip. Blood pooled out from under both, and the light had left both their eyes. The only pony left was Golden, scooting behind their couch in the living room, her clothes bloody and torn from trying to hold onto her parents as they fought to protect their child. On the floor behind the invader lay three of his comrades. Two were scorched to a crisp and one had a deep, cylinder-shaped indent on the side of his head. But alas, despite the valiant effort to protect their child, a cowardly assailant attacked them from behind once they thought the fight was over. This coward was now preying on Golden.

Golden shut her eyes tightly and buried her face in Celestia's cotton belly, a whimper escaping her lips just as the brown-furred hand grabbed her mane. "C'mere, bitch! Suck me good!" The worst possible scenarios flashed across her mind. Her life flashed before her eyes as more tears threatened to soak her stuffed animal yet again. "Please, Celestia, help," she whimpered.

As quickly as it happened, she felt the grip go slack. She heard the same male voice say, "What the...? Who are-" followed by a crunch, then a whoosh and a male scream departing into the distance. After a minute or two of shivering and staying put, she dared to look up and saw a male creature clothed in all white lowering its hood and crouching down to her height. He clasped his hands together and closed his eyes, then stood and looked to the kitchen. Golden heard coughing come from the kitchen and saw her mom and dad slowly getting up. She screamed in joy and bum-rushed her parents, crushing them both in a bear hug. "Mommy! Daddy! You won't believe it! There was this stallion, and he saved me, and..." she turned to show them, but he was gone. She looked in confusion, trying to find her savior, then turned back and continued rambling the last few minutes' events to her newly revived parents. Meanwhile, a white-clothed, maneless creature looked in from the balcony window of their apartment, his steel-blue eyes twinkling as he smiled softly. He turned back to his original target, the smile vanishing from his face as he flew off. As he went, his breathing became slightly labored.

Captain Steel Hoof was walking through the Manehattan streets, holding onto two female ponies by their hair as he drug them through the streets, his company behind him. They had just ransacked a supermarket and killed everypony except for two beautiful cashiers, whom he had claimed as his personal sluts. His men would get theirs soon. He, being senior came first. He stopped his walking and turned when he heard his Lieutenant say, "Wait...what's that?" He was pointing up and Steel Hoof turned to see a brown speck sailing through the air, hit a few walls on its way down, then hit the street and slide to a stop just before the Caribou captain.

"It's a caribou!!" The group screamed almost in unison and a few rushed forward to look at him. Steel hoof silently dropped his captives, they whimpering as their bodies hit the pavement, squirming in pain, begging for him to just kill them and end their suffering. One grasped his ankle, to which he kicked her in the snout, breaking her muzzle in the process. "Don't touch me, bitch!!!" He said loudly and growled, then stepped forward to examine their fallen comrade more closely. "Step aside!" he bellowed and his men complied, leaving an opening for him. He knelt down, looking at the scrapes, bruises and right arm missing a hand. He pointed. "This happened earlier," he said calmly. "This was broken and torn off violently."

"By what?" the lieutenant asked.

Steel hoof looked up from the direction they saw him fly from. "Definitely not a pony," he said angrily. He stood and turned to his mage. "Send a message to the other companies in the city. We have an unknown variant in the mix."

"Yes, captain!" the young caribou said, whose eyes then glowed green and he lowered his head, bringing two fingers to his lips.

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As David weaved around the skyscrapers, he could tell he was getting closer to his objective. His chest hurt, and he shook his head. He really needed to stop exerting his Chi to heal the fallen, or he wouldn't have any energy to stop the invaders. He scoffed in frustration once again and prayed as he flew. "Lord, I need your help. Give me wisdom and discretion to help those who need it most. Restore my Chi. In Jesus name, Amen."

As he finished his prayer, a giant fireball flew right in front of him. "Fuck!" he yelled, stopping quickly. He had let himself get distracted by his own second-guessing and almost died. He turned in the direction from which the fireball came and saw several blimp-style airships hovering just outside the city limits over the water. Without them, the ground forces wouldn't stand a chance against the guardsponies and others who fought back. David saw the water partially surrounding the city and nodded his head. He knew just how to take them down.

He landed on top of a particularly tall skyscraper that had a twin next to it, taller than most of the others directly around them. David bowed his head, respecting the memory from his world surrounding these twin towers, which gave him even more of a fire to stop the attackers. He would NOT let them fall again. Freedom would ring. He took in a breath, closed and opened his eyes, and breathed a few more times. "Jesus, help me," he said before lifting his hands.

He could almost hear the song he sung in school as the water began to concentrate underneath each of the ships. The water bubbled and hardened into form, watery tendrils slowly coming out of the depths. Once complete, each one shot up, wrapping around the ships as they hovered over the water shooting their flame. The crews screamed in terror as their vehicles were rocked back and forth, some slammed into each other, exploding into flame as their lava-mages' mana stores became unstable from the impact. Down below, Ponies and Caribou looked on in awe and horror at the beautiful display. Rockets shot out into the sky, exploding like a show of fireworks, signaling that the oppression from the airships was no more.

The ponies cheered at the unknown ally coming to their aid and rallied together, their courage burning once again. They caught the shocked caribou by surprise, striking them down by the droves. Battle mages stood together, pooling their magic and scorching entire companies to ash. Guardsponies formed up once again, their battle tactics overcoming the numerous invaders as they burned with the fire of freedom, fueled by the watery serpents that aided them against their foe.

As the sun set, a lone silhouette stood on one of two towers, lowering his hands as the tide was now turned against those who would take freedom away.