A different war to fight

Wolf woke to an odd sound for Canterlot, Silence, not a bird chirping. Wolf slowly lowered himself from the tree to see a few ponies, but unlike their usual expressions they just looked annoyed, not a smile to be seen. Wolf acted like nothing was wrong, but he knew something wasn't right. As he approached the castle he heard a helmet drop around the corner. As he went to investigate he found the helmet, but no pony to wear it, although he kept searching he could not find them.

As Wolf entered the castle he heard a commotion, following the voices he entered a dark room to hear everything go silent. As the door closed behind him he was hit on the back of the head and dropped to the ground. he stumbled to his feet and heard light whispers in the dark.

One of the voice's said "there's no way they could've got Wolf, if they did, we're all goners"

Wolf heard this and said "what do you mean by got me"

the voices fell silent before saying "you don't know"

Wolf replied confused "know what"

An unicorn ignited its's horn revealing the mane 6, and a handful of royal guards.The unicorn in question was twilight, she somehow knew of the oncoming swarm.

Twilight asked "do you not know about the changeling"

Wolf looked around the room and asked "where's Raptor"

Twilight looked at Wolf and said "we haven't seen him, neither a clone, he must be safe enough"

Wolf looked around the room before he nodded and left. He had two goals now, get weapons and find Raptor.

Wolf entered his room and grabbed his equipment and donned his armour. Wolf quickly crept through the castle checking each room he went past, whilst making sure not to be seen by any guards.

after the rest of the castle turned up nothing, Wolf decided to search the throne room, but before he could open the large doors leading to the room he heard an unmistakable voice. The voice was undeniably the voice of the changelings leader, Queen Chrysalis.

Wolf backed away from the door before deciding to search the castles large labyrinth like cellar. Upon arrival Wolf could hear strange noises, yet he couldn't figure out were it was coming from. He slowly searched the room before the strange noises were loud, Wolf pulled down a set of shelves revealing a large hole. just as he revealed the hole Wolf heard the sound of hooves coming down the stone staircase, seeing no other option Wolf jumped down the hole into the dark unknown.

After Wolf safely landed upon a cold rocky floor he drew a flare from his hip pouch, upon lighting it Wolf could faintly see the edges of the caverns walls. he could also see some strange green formations which faintly glowed with the light of the flare. Wolf cautiously approached one of the strange formations, as he got closer a figure started to become clearer inside of the odd formation, the figure looked like one of the alicorn princesses.

Upon seeing this Wolf drew his kukri and sliced open the odd formation, revealing it to be a cocoon. As the cocoon was cut open Princess Luna. The princesses stumbled to her hooves before thanking Wolf, as she looked around the cavern her face turned to one of dread. Wolf instantly went to cutting open more of the cocoons to free however many ponies that were captured.

Wolf lit a second flare and dropped it in the centre of the cavern before disappearing into the darkness. As Wolf entered the next cavern he saw more cocoons and started cutting them open, once all the cocoons in the cavern were cut open Wolf directed the ponies to the rest of the group, before moving into the next cavern. Wolf kept doing this for every cavern he entered, before finding the exit.

Wolf went back to the group of ponies and led them to the exit, the sunlight felt nice after being in the cave for so long. Wolf headed back up to the castle and got the group that was hidden from the changelings. By this time Wolf was tired of hiding, and decided to deal with every false guard he came across. When Wolf returned to the group he noticed something odd, Princess Celestia was missing and there was only two hundred ponies.

Wolf went back into the cave and quickly searched it, but didn't find anything. Wolf headed back up to the throne room to deal with the bug queen. As he opened the large doors he saw a large explosive device in the centre. as he approached the bomb he heard the strange laugh of the large bug queen.

"so, you have finally found my little secret" she said approaching Wolf from out of the shadows

"where... how the fuck did you set this up, there's only two people in Equestria who know how to arm a bomb like that and I'm one of them" he said as he raised his sidearm

"oh, my new pet helped set it up" she replied as she tugged on a rope revealing Raptor

"let him go before I cut you down" Wolf said, already getting aggravated

"you know, with fire like that you would make a perfect addition to my army" she replied, before charging up her horn

Wolf jumped behind one of the tall marble pillars before unloading a his pistol at the bug queen, one of the stray bullets hitting the rope that had bound Raptor to the Changeling Queen. Raptor dashed towards the pillar Wolf was behind Whilst narrowly avoiding Chrysalis's magic bolts. As Wolf continued firing upon Chrysalis, one bullet connected to her leg, scaring her enough for her to retreat, but before she left she armed the bomb.

Raptor ran towards the bomb to attempt to disarm it

"what type of bomb are we working with" Wolf asked

"well it has the blast radius of five hundred pounds of C4, and it has a chemical agent the acts like mustard gas but lingers for as long as radiation" Raptor replied

"well what's the plan" Wolf asked

"I'm going to try and extend the bombs timer, try and make it last half and hour, your going to get what you need and get as far away as you can" Raptor replied

Wolf Took a heavy breath before saying "ok, just make sure you have enough time to get out"

Raptor nodded as Wolf fled the throne room towards the freed ponies. upon arrival he noticed that all the ponies were focused on something in the distance, Wolf pulled his rifle off of his back and peered down the scope to see that it was a large group of heavily armoured changelings flying behind the queen whilst carrying more cocoons on their backs. Wolf Loaded his rifle and shouted to the ponies to catch the falling cocoon. he then started to shoot the bugs from out of the sky, but only managed to disperse of ten.

A group of pegasi returned to the group carrying the cocoons and gently placed them at Wolf's feet. As Wolf cut open the first few cocoons he noticed that one of the cocoons was moderately larger than the others. As Wolf cut open the larger cocoon princess Celestia fell out onto the grass. Wolf held out his hand to help the Princess as she stumbled onto her hooves but she was more interested in where her other ponies were.

Celestia turned to Wolf her face red with rage "where are the rest of them"

Wolf tilted his head slightly in confusion before Asking "What, you blame me for this"

Celestia just got angrier as she shouted at Wolf "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE"

Wolf tried to defend himself but Celestia would not let him get a word so he he drew his sidearm and shot toward the ground underneath her hooves before shouting "I am not to blame, in fact I am the one who as been saving every pony so far, including yourself"

Celestia looked around to all of her remaining subjects to see that they were all more scared of her than they were of Wolf

As she looked back towards Wolf he said "now that's out of the way we have about twenty five minutes before Canterlot explodes, the changelings armed an explosive that Raptor is currently trying to disarm it. during this time we need to collect anything that could help us in the long term, food, Water, Weapons, ammo and anything that could bolster moral"

The ponies looked at one another before rushing back into Canterlot to gather anything that they could find. Wolf and Lux headed back to their room to gathe the rest of Wolf's Equipment. He grabbed his survival bag and started loaded his hammock and extra ammo.

Wolf went to the edge of the forest where he left his bag to go and help the ponies with gathering supplies. Wolf help one of the ponies attach itself to a cart of food so that it could go to the forest and wait. Wolf looked up to see Rainbow Dash rapidly moving to and from the castle armoury, leaving her signature trail in her wake.

Wolf went back up to the throne room to try and get Raptor out but it was no use, if Raptor left now the bomb would instantly detonate. Raptor Kicked a bag towards Wolf.

Wolf picked up the bag before saying "I am not leaving you behind"

Raptor turned to him and said "too bad, you have to take care of yourself Brother"

Wolf sighed before asking "are you sure you want to do this"

Raptor replied "no, but I took this job to save people, and that's exactly what I am going to do"

Wolf nodded before hugging Raptor and said "see you in the next life brother"

As Wolf get to the edge of the forest he looked back to watch as Canterlot exploded. All of the ponies started to walk down the road, leaving Wolf to stare at the ruins, hoping to watch Raptor emerge before Twilight pulled him out of his trance, the duo set off down the road quickly catching up to the group.

Twilight went to ask Wolf about Raptor but she could see by his face that he wasn't going to join the group.

As the group got closer to Ponyville Wolf read through a manifest that one of the ponies had written and checked started checking to make sure that the supplies on the list were correct. He found that Luna had decided to save discord from being crushed or destroyed, Rainbow Dash had gathered enough Weapons and Ammo to keep a small army going for months, Rarity and Applejack had gathered food and drink for the masses, Twilight raided the library for most of the books that were still present and for some odd reason, Princess Celestia had brought a mirror. Wolf decided not to ask about this to try and avoid further conflict with the princess.

As Ponyville grew nearer and nearer Wolf noticed a large amount of smoke looming in the air. As Ponyville came into view it was clear where the thick black smoke was coming from. Ponyville was burning Down...