Daring ducked under a low hanging branch, her muscles and body screaming in protest as she increased her speed. Looking back behind her she saw the three other ponies she was running with. One was a dark blue unicorn stallion with a gray mane, a single gold coin as his cutie mark. the other two were apparent twins, both being pegasi mares with white coats and red manes. Heck, even their cute marks were the same, being that of a candy cane emerging from the clouds. All of them were running for their lives at the moment however, with Daring leading them. Looking ahead she began pacing her breathing, eager to keep up her current speed in an attempt to outrun what was chasing them. Emerging from the bushes behind them was the thing all were running from. A tall and heavily armoured human. The human raised his weapon before pulling the trigger for it, a yellow beam hitting one of the twins, causing her to drop to the ground convulsing violently as the beam continued, the human slowlyu approaching the downed mare.

"No!" The other twin shouted, stopping and sprinting back towards her sister, despite the audible protests of both her and the stallion. Sure enough another yellow beam came out of the woods from her side, quickly relegating her to the same fate as her sister.

Looking ahead let out a yelp of surprise as she quickly ducked beneath a particularly low branch, only barely missing it. The unicorn was not so likely as he also yelped before colliding with the branch, sending him quickly down to the ground. Stopping she made to turn back to get him before remembering the fate of the other two. Looking at him she silently mouthed, "I'm Sorry." Before continuing her sprint through the unfamiliar woods. She winced as the sounds of him screaming was heard, no doubt from the yellow beams these humans had.

Humans.

She didn't know why or how, but they had somehow stayed hidden on this island, and from the looks of it, advanced extremely quickly in terms of technology. Not even bothering to turn back she let out a yell of surprise as she stopped at a large drop, the bottom leading to a river. Looking back she quickly ducked as a beam flew overhead, right where she was standing just a second ago. Looking up at the beam she caught several small arcs of yellow electricity slowly circle the beam erratically. She didn't have time to continue watching however as she rolled to the side another beam hitting where she sat. Seeing no other option she continued her roll, eventually heading down the drop, spreading her wings just moments before she hit the water, flying at high speeds down the river.

This would not last however as a yellow beam suddenly made contact with her right wing, bringing a pained scream as her body was enveloped by pain, little arcs of elecrticity travelling along her wing, shocking her endlessly. The beam soon passed however as she had gained speed to pass through it. Not without conseqeunces though. She immediately plummeted, her wing having been tortured by the beam now hung limply at her side, wind rushing past ehr as she made contact with the water, the icy cold battling with the hot pain. Neither won out and so she was left with the worst of both. She soon landed fully into the water, submerging quickly, the water filling her lungs.

Panic filling her mind she moved her legs around trying to find out which way was up and down so she could escape the waters iron grip on her lungs. Her head suddenly reached the cool crisp air above the water and she immediately redirected all her efforts in that direction, being met with success as her eyes, than muzzle reemerged from the water, spitting out as much water as she could. Her relief was short lived as a yellow beam whizzed past her head, impacting the water instead.

Looking back she watched as the humans ran across the tall hill above, occasionally stopping to try and shoot at her, only missing by millimetres thanks to her frantic attempt at trying to stay above the water and dodge the beams at the same time. Basically she was flailing about. As this happened she noticed that the beams and shouts of the humans were slowly growing quieter, causing her to look back to see that the speed of the river was carrying her rather quickly. Hope flicked it's way into her eyes before dying out as sounds of what seemed like chopping pushed it's way into her ears.

Eyes widening she looked up above the humans to find the last thing that was good for her. A helicopter. She had seen many of the strange flying contraptions during her time as an operative for S.M.I.L.E, and knew what they were capable of. However she couldn't base her previous human knowledge on these ones as they were clearly different. This was further reinforced by the strange design of the helicopter, featuring two outward circles with the spinning blades that helicopters were so known for instead of being located at the top. Her gaze trailed it as it flew over her, moving far ahead before turning to the side and halting. What she assumed was a door opened up, revealing a human in the same armor as the ones chasing her, holding another one of the rifles, except this one was longer and larger.

As it raised it's weapon she reacted quickly, diving back underneath the water, just in time too, as she felt immense heat and a feeling of static, as a light blue beam pierced through the water where her head once was. Reemerging she took a deep breath of air before going back under, trying to give them the slip by going under water. This worked as multiple yellow beams began hitting the water around her, although not coming too close. She continued her underwater drift, her lungs beginning their prtoests as they began to burn. Finally, after the beams stopped coming in, she finally deigned to head back to the surface, taking the biggest gulp of air she could. Looking behind her she saw the helicopter simply hovering a sizeable distance away.

Looking around she found herself drifting down a small stream dense forest surrounding her. Seeing a small decline, she waded over to it, collapsing onto the dry dirt in relief, the pain in her legs finally cathcing up with her as the adrenaline ran out. She layed there for what seemed like hours, until the sounds of footsteps caught her attention, her ears flicking upwards at what sounded like leaves crunching. Dragging her head forward she now looked straight ahead, up the incline in front of her, her eyes slowly trailing up.

She first saw silver metal in the shape of human feet, strange glowing blue lines flowing through them. Than she saw the long legs of the same material, ther blue lines continuing their path from the feet. The humans hands held a black rifle of sorts, it's design not discernable to Daring's, tired eyes. Her eyes than locked onto the helmet the human wore, being a sort of prism, with three horizontal blue lines running across the face, separate from the intricate labyrinth of glowing blue lines running across it's body. She sighed and turned her head away from it, silently accepting her fate.

"Command, I have located the target." The distorted voice fo the human said as she heard it approach, most liekly to execute her.

What she didn't expect was a metal finger to be pressed up against her neck, checking for a pulse. THe next thing that happened was even less expected though.

"Come on, let's get you some help."

Author's Note

I had to write something so here you go.