Fallout Equestria-Fallen Prince

by Akky-wolf

Rating: mature
Tags: Non-consensual, Adventure, Violence, Princess Celestia, Crossover, Sex, Fallout, Profanity, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Death, Alternate Universe, Romance, Princess Luna, Original Character
Length: 33045

Prince of a country named Maraston, rebuilding his country, one pony at a time.

Midnight Sky The Black Alicorn of Sky, Son of Celestia, A alicorn who is unafraid to face down villains. An alicorn whose magic is based on the Sky and stealth, a killer but a pony who sees the light at the end of the tunnel.

Big thanks to Somber and Kkat, while this does not take place in Equestria it does or may have some similarities to the story.

Published 2021-10-05 00:00:02 UTC
Last updated 2022-01-06 22:35:13 UTC

Pre-Prologue

10 Months till balefire bombs

Prince P.O.V.

"Young Prince wake up, please!! IT'S AROUND 12 O'CLOCK!! You should have awoken up by now!!." The prince looks at the Maid and blinks the sleep from his eyes. I really hate Mondays, the nobles always say the same thing. "half breed!" or " Failure!" I get pissed when they don't shut the fuck up, so I asked Mother Celestia if I could get a custom model 5 shot revolver. Boy does it shut those pompous nobles up. They take one look at Judgement and run away screaming. Oh, and you heard that right I'm a half-breed. Not half zebra, buffalo, Diamond dog, Deer, Changeling, or Seapony. No, I'm half Lost Dog. You wanna know what that is. That's simple. I'm a half bloody wolf, And not those damn Timberwolves. No, I'm a Flesh and blood wolf with Certain special magic, which includes guess what Minor transformation, and Foresight. I can see the future and I hate what I see.'

'More death, pain, rape, and Assault. Also, new things, that I hate more. Slavery. fucking slavery! I vow to enter this wasteland and fix it the best I can. To do that though I need friends and allies. Most importantly I need a team that will become my family.'

Walking down the Castles walls. 'I use my transformation magic to cover my wolf paws causing my body to look exactly like a pony. Now time for the fun part. I use the last scraps of my Lost Dog magic to cause my wings to disappear. Now I look like a Black pony with a blue and green striped mane and tail. Oh fuck I forgot my eyes. looks in my mirror with blazing red eyes staring back at me. Luna Dammit!! Shit, Aunt Luna will not be happy with that. I just hope they didn't hear that.'

With those final thoughts, the Prince walks into the throne room to see, Blueblood. Oh how much he hated the False Prince. Everyone in the public eye had no idea the True prince was a Half Wolf hybrid, hell even the Ministry mares are clueless about his existence. He was kept extremely secret. Nopony knew he even existed. He was proud of this fact, they only knew. 'Sir' Oblivion Destruction, or what he liked to be called O, D. So he could Kill targets to try to stop the war. Yes, that's right most officials who died in battle were actually assassinated. All in a way that made it look like they were killed by zebras. As you can tell this failed when the ponies found the bodies, this just made the ponies even more furious with the zebras. So he failed, and he's a retard. yep. He didn't wanna kill anyone, but he did.

Now back to this asshole Blueblood, "Mister Oblivion Destruction if you would kindly-"

"If you say anything I will have you ripped apart inside My blackholes. Mister Prince-", I grab him by his mane and pull him to my face, " -I don't like you Hell I never will. You can try so hard to make me like you, But the way you treat those mares. If I had my way I would put you in a public execution. So count your self lucky-", My eyes begin to burn " Because if I ever find you torturing another mare. I will shove my Sky god Sword right up your ass and twist!!" I then throw him into a wall hard, Fucking Asshat. He is so lucky he is needed. I don't let anypony get hurt if I can help it.

HE shoves the big wooden doors out of the way. I hate Canterlot I'm gonna ask mother if I can get moved to Maraston. After all I Rule that territory. If I cant be transferred there ill make it there anyway. I just wish I had more time!!

He then sees his mother Princess Celestia, "Mother, Can you transfer me to Maraston please I'm sick of these nobles. If you don't allow me to ill make my way there anyway. Mom, I'm 18 years old now."

"Please don't Honey, I can't handle what my sister is doing!! I just need more time and I will fix it."

" No mom you know the zebras are superstitious, They see Luna as a Villain they need to defeat. And the Ministry mares as her guards. There is no more talk just action. I'm Preparing for the End Game. and that means I need a team strong enough to wake up whatever is left of the world when it ends. Zebras, Changelings, Buffalo, Lost-dogs, Ponies, Griffins. I need them all, but I need a Stasis Bunker. It will take months for it to be done. So please mother I Beg you, allow me to fix this world one pony at a time."

Celestia has that one look that says 'you're tearing my heart apart, and the only thing I can do is look away. " Fine Just leave, But promise me not to fall off your path. My son, I love you I just hope we will meet before the end." So do I, mother so do I.

Time to travel by paw, I look at my illusion hooves. I need to get to Maraston without issues. I teleport out of the castle and land on top of the Canterlot train station. Bloody hell so many ponies. I put my Cloak of shadows over my head. my body becomes invisible. I then cancel my Lost dog magic, I jump off the roof and land on the hard tile floor. Time to get busy. I Must not fail!! I start to Run down the halls absolutely silent. My paws make little to no noise. Perfect for assassinations and stealth missions. I use my Pony magic to unclip my Pistol Holster. A suppressed 9mm Hallow point FMJ. It is one of the Most deadly pistols I own. Silent as a mouse and enough power to blast holes into ponies' light armored heads.

Now though it's useless unless I get into a fight. I just hope- He runs directly into a pony when he was thinking. His invisibility fails. Showing a Dark cloaked figure with blazing red eyes. Needless to say, the pony screamed, then the prince just booked it out of there leaving a black blur. That's when he heard the guards shout," HALT!!" He just ignored them. He ran straight for the train deck then he heard what he didn't wanna hear. " ALL ABOARD", Fuck he had to miss the train. Wait no he can still catch it. He pushed his legs harder. FASTER FASTER FASTER!!! He makes it to the train platform and launch over every pony in his way, and barely lands on the caboose. So lucky.

Sneaking forward he heard one of the guards say," We have a stowaway!!" He looked around and saw no one, so they were not talking about him. Odd, He entered the caboose, and saw something he hates. A Stallion guard beating a Young Zony mare. The Prince launches forward and grabs the guard's neck. "Let go of her, or ill end your pathetic life", Both were shocked a pony would defend a zebra. "DID I STUTTER!!"

" NO SIR!!" The guard let go of the Zony. Before he could blink or rethink, my suppressed 9mm pistol gets shoved down his throat surrounded by my blood-red flame magic field.

"I Would let you live, but you see-" I take off my cloak showing my wings, causing both of their eyes to go wide "You made the True Prince angry." I pull the trigger as the pistol kicks back. Blood splatters all over the wall. " Dumbass" Then he remembers the Zony, "Hey you okay what's your name mine is Midnight Sky." I smile as I use my magic to burn the pony's body to ash. No evidence.

" My name is Zextra I came here to find my parents, But they do not live in this hell hole," Zextra said, her parents?

" OH, Not a bad name and mine could have been worse. So Zextra do you wanna stay with me at least until you find your parents. Well no that's a bad idea, I forgot I'm going to Maraston" That name caused her ears to perk up.

" Maraston!! That was my location to go!! I will follow you, just don't kill more ponies please." She Shutters. Oh, I forgot most have a problem with death. I shake my head.

" Anything that makes you happy." I Unload my Lethal rounds and load in Rubber bullets. "See anything you need just ask. I forget sometimes others have issues with death. Sadly I Cant feel remorse for killing certain ponies. "

We sit in silence for a few hours. Then the train starts to slow down. I look at my map. Ponyville really? Damn Maraston is a day's journey by train! I sit next to Zextra and wrap my cloak around her. This startles her awake, I just smile at her. "Don't worry I'll make sure your safe. I don't break promises ever."

After what felt like a year, but what was really 4 hours. We reach the edge of the Equestria border. Las Pegasus, or Sin City. The Place my next target of travel, Airship. I smirk remembering my time flying one of Equestrian's old Airships. I tap Zextra awake. "Time to move out, time to highjack an Airship." She gives me the look that just screams 'are you serious. I chuckle and nod.

Sneaking through the city is not easy with this many lights, but luckily for Zextra, she has my cloak. Me on the other paw. I'm bare with all my weapons and holders showing. I probably look like an infiltrator. I along with Zextra reach The Landing pads. I whistle a Raptor class Airship. I blink and shake my head. Impossible I cannot pilot this ship. Not without a crew at least of around 20 ponies, and the only crew I have is a young Zony mare. So that's a bust. I look behind the Raptor and see. I squeal like a filly who got what she asked for on Hearts Warming. "A Class 7 Sky tank!! Prime condition. No issues! I think I found a winner!!"

I get inside and get strapped into the flight harness. " Get inside a protection harness." Using my magic to strap Zextra into the seats. Truth be told I deactivated the weapon systems and activated my own stealth systems. So poor systems will hopefully be used next time. I smirk and spread my wings. I'm not the strongest flyer Or the fastest...Yet. I Flap my wings in the strongest push I can manage. The sky-tank gets lifted off the ground, and instantly the radio activates. " Commander Mocha Skies why are you lifting off during a Sky raid!?!?"

I then use my best voice change making my voice become deep and intent on murder, "I AM THE FALLEN PRINCE". I then cut the radio systems with my magic. I look at Zextra and smile, that's when I hear the sirens. Oops, I then push my wings to their limits on speed, 0 to 200 in seconds. 'FASTER FASTER FASTER!!' a Mach cone forms in front of the Sky-tank. Don't let up FASTER, FASTER, FASTER, FASTER, FASTER!!

KABOOM!!

We broke the sound barrier leaving behind a black shockwave, Holy shit I just did it!! I just did a Sonic Sky Boom. "WOWEE I JUST DID A SONIC SKY BOOM!! MOMMY CELESTIA SAID I COULD DO IT IF I JUST PUSHED MYSELF!!" Zextra looks at me with a surprised expression that on its own says 'he is kidding right, son of the Goddesses?!'

" THAT'S RIGHT ZEXTRA I'M SON OF CELESTIA AND PRINCE OF MARASTON!!" I smile, " And your now part of my team."

"Fallen Prince, that wasn't just a joke huh?" Zextra stares at my wings and horn, I just smile. " I am at your service your highness"

"Don't call me that I'm your friend." I grab my Royal seal, Now that I have this I can do anything.

It took us hours to reach the edge of Maraston, and when we did we saw a Tiny Village. I tilt my head when I saw the ponies surrounding a Woodend platform. "Hang on tight Zextra!" then I point the nose of the Sky-tank into a dive.

WOOSH!!

I pull up at the last possible second. The wheels of the sky-tank roll on the ground startling everypony in the village, I activate the Weapon systems and Deactivating the Stealth systems.

I unlatch the harness and jump out of the sky-tank in an instant, but also cloaking my wings, getting surprised looks from everypony in the Village, "Hello my ponies what is happening" Then I see the Pegasus with metal wings on the platform with a noose around her neck. I acted on instinct, my Sky God sword forms in my magic. Lightning and clouds form into a sword, I slice the noose in half with ease. This angered the ponies, But then they saw my rage and recoiled. "ANIMALS YOU ARE ALL ANIMALS I SHOULD EXECUTE YOU ALL NOW AND MAKE A NEW TOWN IN THIS AREA!!"

"YOUR LUCKY I DONT JUST KILL YOU ALL" I take a deep breath, and I pull out my Royal seal. " BY THE ORDER OF THE PRINCE OF MARASTON I ORDER YOU TO RELEASE THAT PRISONER TO ME FOR MY OWN JUDGEMENT!"

"Now wait here 'at isn't your responsibility, we don't listen to anypony, but the princesses, not some phony prince!!" That response made me see red.

" Phony!?!?! FALSE PRINCE!!!" I pull out Celestia dual swords, they have pictures of both Celestia and Lunas Swords. "You expect me to sit down and let ponies insult my name." The sheriff and her deputies come out all pointing their guns at me. "This is your final chance I don't wanna kill a whole village but I will-" Stop it midnight these are just innocent ponies, not murderers.

" Okay then fine then. I am here from orders from Celestia." This makes everypony look at me in disgust.

"We don't really care who you are, but So what is your name sir." I Uncloak my wings spreading them wide.

"I am Prince Midnight Sky Ruler of Maraston. Son of Celestia and the Lost dogs' Clan leader!!"

The pony's jaws drop including the Pegasus who just now woke up from near death. "My Judgement of this pony should be sufficient. The reason non of you know of me is because I chose to be secret, unlike my mom and aunt I am the lord of Sky and Death. My very existence is a secret I just ruined. FUCK I JUST RUINED MY LIFES SECRET."

" Anyway, I'm taking that Pegasus If you want me or not. So just give her to me", That's when the sheriff speaks up.

"Sorry 'Prince' she is being executed for being a murderer as well as a member of the bandits' group down the road. We caught her trying to steal some food", This makes me face-paw hard.

"First do you have evidence she killed somepony!? And second If she did stole who's to say she wasn't starving and begging for food. I mean just look at her its obvious she hasn't eaten well in months!! SHE IS LITERALLY SKIN AND BONES!!!" My shout makes the sheriff recoil. "I DON'T CARE IF YOU 'SUSPECT' HER OF KILLING PRINCESS LUNA OR MY MOTHER. SHE STARVING AND IT IS OBVIOUS YOU ASSHOLES MISTREATED HER. JUST LOOK AT THOSE SCARS AND CUTS!!" Wait these ain't normal ponies. Normal ponies have rules to prevent mistreatment until true evidence shows up, they are bandits. In an instant, I pull out my Suppressed Ponychester 44. mag, and my 50.cal revolver

"HANDS UP NOW BANDITS!! YOUR GLORY DAYS ARE OVER!!" Before anypony can open fire I inject my body with straight dash. Time slows to a crawl, I open fire on the closest pony the Bandit Leader/Sherriff, her head gets blasted into a bloody mist. I ejected the spent shell, and load and fresh one. As the Sky-tank Plasma cannons open fire, I rush to the Pegasus and jump in front of one bullet meant for her. Oh, fuck that bullet penetrated my armor, right through the chest also. I get the breath knocked out my lungs, 'Don't let her get hurt not once!! I won't forgive myself if I let her get hurt!!'

"I got ya Girl I won't let ya get hurt!" I wrap a magic shield around her and guide her to the Sky-tank. I get shot multiple times but just ignore them.

I shove her inside the Sky-tank and jump inside next to her. I shut and lock the hatch. Time to escape, I get the flight harness on and fly into the sky.

" ZEXTRA CHECK HER FOR INJURIES AND IF NEEDED USE A HEALING POTION, THEN GET HER SOME OF MY FOOD IT HAS MORE CALORIES THEN ANYTHING SHE ATE FOR AWHILE", Damn bandits I thought the cops and military erased those guys a long time ago!! I have to ignore them, after all, they should be leaving now since a military Sky-tank reached their Base of operations killed half their ponies, and killed their boss

" She's stable, your highness", Zextra says interrupting my internal monologue. "Also what's with you and picking up mares", I just blush and look away.

"I uh don't know, Maybe some cosmic creator is toying with us and trying me to get a pony pregnant" (Maybe is right you stud) "Anyway how is she doing honestly"

" she hasn't eaten anything for weeks, She has internal bruising, broken left leg, oh and some external vaginal damage. Really though it looked like they shoved nails up her-", I cut off where that was going.

"Too much information, Will she have kids?", then a thought hits me. "How the fuck can you know internal bruising without a horn, and are you a doctor!?"

" Yes she will have kids it's just will take time before she can fuck without pain, and for your second question yes I am a doctor and a Zebra Shaman." Great I have a DOCTOR ON MY TEAM!!

I whistle, "Good to know also when she wakes up inform me I think I threw her too hard."

After a few hours, I hear somepony groan as I land the sky tank on a Cliffside. I unharness myself and look at the pegasus. Then I felt a twinge of pain erupt in my chest and try hard to hide it.

" So I should have said this earlier before I kinda threw you inside my Sky tank. Hello, I'm Midnight Sky and you are?"

"I don't have a name anymore the old me died when those bandits attacked and killed my husband and child. I don't wanna be the old me anymore." I look into her broken near-emotionless eyes. Then I started coughing up blood.

"PRINCE!!" Zextra launches off the ground and tries to take off my armor and holsters. Only to find out it's impossible. I use the last of my pony magic to deactivate the fusion magic my holsters and armor have. This causes my armor to fall off with my holsters. Blood leaks down my sides right where my lungs are. I fall over groaning in pain, the armor applied pressure to the injuries automatically.

' you see my armor called smart armor, it looks like an airtight spacesuit. But it isn't its nanotech. Something special, it can tell the wearer's condition and apply medical needs if needed I just have that ability off currently. Since I lack medical equipment '

"How bad?" I groan out, this isn't the first time I got shot just maybe the worse

"Bad bad!! Why didn't you say anything sooner!!?"

" I didn't want her to think she owed me anything!! I just saved her life because I thought it was wrong-" I cough up more blood. The fuck did they shoot me with, though I didn't have time to think when Zextra answered my question.

".308 rounds FMJ AP. Hum, they really tried to kill ya. Heh, luckily they failed." Dammit, I hate .308 rounds! those are the only other round besides 50. cal that can puncture my armor!

I then felt a med-x in my leg and pass out.

Author's Note

Okay truth be told this gonna be actual Fallen-Prince story. The first one was a failure sadly, I just wish this one does better.

Prologue

Midnight sky slowly wakes up and groans in pain. It feels like his entire body is on fire. "What the fuck it feels like I got torn in half!"

"That's because I had to do field surgery on you, Pfft you only had 3 healing potions really!?! I thought you would have more." I gulp, "Also what's with the paws and Those sharp teeth?" Oh shit.

"Well, you see my father was a Lost-dog." Zextra looks confused, " Huh? Oh fuck you never heard of a Lost-dog. I'm half wolf half Alicorn", She gets a shocked look.

"Yeah that's right I'm half-wolf, Just deal with it. Now how long was I out?"

"Around 2 days,-" I gawk at her, "-the truth is suspected you would sleep longer. You nearly died from blood loss, So now prince where are we going next?"

"My body regenerates slightly faster than a Pony, kinda part of being half-wolf. Oh and where is that Pegasus. I need to give her a name." Then I look over to see her flying the Sky-tank. "Oh never mind."

"I'm gonna name you Metal Wing. I hope you like that name miss", Metal Wing nods.

"Good, I hope you like it. Now land I need to put my armor back on." Zextra looks concerned and expresses it

"But Prince we cant have your armor disturbing those stitches, we don't want you getting infected."

"My armor is smart armor it assists in healing and recovering by filling wounds with healing foams. Also assisted by my natural regenerating abilities. So you see my armor will assist in healing me. Now, where is my armor." Zextra opens a compartment showing my armor in pristine condition, with no holes in it or anything. Nice it already repaired itself

I slip my armor on and use my fusion magic to fuse the armor to my skin. I breathe happily as my body goes numb, I mentally activate the healing systems. "Now unbuckle I'm flying us." Metal wing decides to speak up

"Um, Boss I can't unbuckle myself. I don't have magic and this isn't easy to unbuckle on your first try!!" Okay fair point, I use my magic to unbuckle her and levitate her into a lying position. While I get into the harness, I strap myself in. I flap my wings hard launching off the ground. Leans my body and forward flaps, Which in turn propels the Sky tank forward fast.

We reach the capital city of Maraston, Mannalus, by midnight. I activate the sky-tanks Stealth systems. Time to search for my castle. Looking around I see it, I only wish I visited more. I activate my radio systems and instantly get questioned.

"Who is over Mannalus During No Fly hours!?!? You better have A DAMN GOOD REASON!!! I'M ABOUT TO SHOOT YOU DOWN!!"

"Oh relax you scared ponies, What would mother Celestia and aunt luna think if I died by my own ponies. Hum? I doubt they would be very happy. The truth is I'd expect Celestia would put Your head on a pike and call ya traitors." I was answered by silence for a few long minutes. They knew who was by my voice, even if has been 2 years since my last visit.

"Prince we were not expecting you please forgive us, We didn't know you would visit us."

"Nor should you General Lucky Star I came on my own accord, I am here Permanently. Don't expect me to lave again I'm here for my ponies now." I can hear Lucky star Gulp.

"Prince the nobles don't like you. maybe you should-"

" They will either like me or be executed. There is no in-between. They either support me or will be punished by my own blade. I am no longer dealing with these children!!" I land in my Royal gardens. I activate my helmet and cause my armor to become invisible. I hide my Weapons and holsters in my saddlebags. I open the hatch to greet the face of Miss General Lucky star one of the top 10 Generals and a part of my Order of Midnight. "Hello, Lucky star how has it been since I left 2 years ago."

She bows, "Well Prince We have had some issues with these damn nobles, But does warrant an execution."

" You wanna know why I'm having some executed?!?" She nods, "Metal wing get out of here!!" Metal wing appears next to me surprising both me and Lucky, "Damn, and here I thought I was the extremely sneaky one, anyway This is Metal wing her village was attacked by bandits that are on the edge of Equestria and Maraston. I only just rescued her just before her own execution by hanging. " I spit in rage, "Those nobles' jobs are to protect the ponies in our kingdom!! NOT SIT ON THEIR ASS AND PISS ON THE PONIES POORER THAN THEM!!"

Lucky stars back up, she knows nothing can stop him when he is pissed. "Alright sir I'll gather the Order of midnight and the 10 Generals by tomorrow, Then we will call all nobles possible to the castle. Then after tomorrow, we will put bounties on each Noble family you disagree with." I nod satisfied, I hate nobles. What they did though reaches over my limit of tolerance.

"Now if you excuse me I'm going to one house, in particular, No pony follows me. And if the guards hear screaming tell them to ignore it."

I land on the roof of the Dragon claw Estate. These assholes were the ruler of that village, they will pay. I take off my cloak and kick through the master bedrooms window. You know I'm not gonna mention his name he's a pointless and nameless fool who dares defy me. I look at the startled awake pony who literally wet the bed.

I though use my angered sharp tone," HELLO MY LITTLE PONY YOU READY TO DIE SCREAMING?!?!?!" He jumps out of a bed and grabs his pistol. He tries to shoot me in the head but I block the bullet with my armored paw.

"You wasted your life when you had my subjects killed, YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS WOULD HAPPEN." The pony had other ideas

" GUARDS ARREST HIM,"

"tsk tsk tsk" I slice his front right hoove off causing him to scream. "If only I was a necromancer. Then I would kill you as many times as needed until you died exactly the same number of times as the ponies in that village you had killed. I'm not like you though I saved ONE!!" His expression turns to shock, I slice his other hoove causing him to scream. I force a healing potion on his lips. " Now do you have anything you wanna confess to!?!?"

"FUCK YOU!!" I didn't like the answer and cut his back left hoove off.

And that started the night of screams, nopony would know he died until the next morning. In the end, he admitted to every little crime he had ever done. From stealing from the cookie jar his mom had to, in fact killing his mother. The one I was most interested in though, he held one mare in his basement. I slowly crept through the house and reached the basement. pulled out my AR120 with suppresser and Flashlight attachment. I kick the door down, causing a very loud audible KABOOM.

I do a military sweep of the room in seconds and detected the poor mare. she was tied to a foul bed covered in blood and other things 'EW'. She was a Gold yellow unicorn mare with a Silvery white mane and tail with sky blue eyes. her body was soaked with blood and semen. The thing that caught my eye was her cutie mark, A Golden sky behind mountains. All the blood was her own. But what actually disturbed me was her eyes, Emotionless and cold. I felt my rage burn and I was happy with what I did to that fucker. Nopony deserved this kinda treatment. I just hope I can save her mind. I reach her side and give her a healing potion. She actually looked surprised, 'I can save her mind!! It will just take a while but I can save this one!! I will do anything to save this one she deserves to be happy after what happened to her'

"Okay love I am Prince Midnight skies." I see her recoil slightly. "Don't worry that bastard is dead now he won't hurt you again." I cut her from the bed. "Just stay with me-" Then her body went limp. she fainted, didn't she? "FUCK I pick her up and lie her on my back, Time to arrest most of these nobles and Hope to Mother I Can find Aster.

Sneaking through the house I reach the door to the outside, and instantly get stopped by guards.

"HALT CRIMINAL SCUM YOU WILL PUT THAT CAPTIVE DOWN AND GIVE ME ALL YOU STOLE!!" I get pissed off and show my Royal seal

"OH SHUT THE FUCK UP IM IN A BAD MOOD THIS BASTARD NOBLE ENSLAVED THIS INNOCENT PONY" I get face to face with his shocked face " JOIN ME IN THE CASTLE TOMORROW IF YOU WANNA HELP DEAL WITH THESE SCUMBAGS." His face hardens and nods. "Well follow me", and so we made our way to the castle

When we reach the castle the guards take one look at my blazing red eyes and bow. Good they remember my eye color "Take this mare to the Royal hospital I will not allow anyone hurting her and inform me when she wakes up understand!!" They nod as I put her on their backs. Then they run to the east side of the castle.

"METAL WING!!" All of a sudden she appears next to me and the guard. We both jump startled. I chuckle, and the guard looks pissed off.

"Okay metal wing we are preparing a civil war on the Nobles. Get ready for war it will last all of one day I'll ensure it!!" I walk to the War room

"Well, Well, Well, General Rose light, General Caramel Frosting, oh and M-Council member Dusty Skies. Tsk Tsk Tsk. WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU WHEN THAT VILLAGE NEEDED HELP!?!? THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE PROTECTED TERRITORY!! HELL, YOU WERE ASSIGNED IN THAT LOCATION UNTIL I WAS READY TO RULE THE NATION!!"

"But Sir we were all relocated when the zebras broke past the front lines" Do what!?!? That can't be a coincidence. They did it on purpose to loosen the guards at the border to attack a Single village. Unlikely a small village of around 20-30 ponies. Why kill them without purpose. I can understand the bandits, But the nobles what would they gain for attacking a village?!?

"Does anyone have reports of the village's inventory?" Everypony shakes their heads. Of course not, my life is never that simple. What would my nobles gain? Fame...no, Reputation but with who? then it clicks. 'Zebras of course they wanted to gain territory in Maraston for years but our army is slightly stronger than equestrians. Since we have an equal number of ponies and less than half the land to protect'

"Zebras wanted to take over some land even if it was just temporary, Then the Nobles used that as an excuse to send the Guards of the village to the war front. Then attacked it for their own gain maybe they would get extra gold for something that village had. Hum interesting possibly very unlikely but possible.

"Enough though prepare for a Civil war tomorrow. I want that mare I sent here in my room she when wakes."

The next morning was hectic Chaos inside the castle as the ponies, One heard I was here to stray and two, We are having a civil war. Mind you it's the first in centuries. Nopony ever bothered Disobeying the Princesses rule. They didn't want to, But with the Prince, ponies know stuff will get done fast as possible. he loves his subjects and always does what's best for them. That is why he left, He suspected the Nobles would actually start a Civil war so he decided he didn't want ponies hurt and left. He never wants to see ponies hurt so then he had a great idea, If the nobles are the problem find a way to remove them. Peacefully if possible if not, let's just say public executions would be preferable.

Now though he realized he didn't fuck up when ordering a Civil war. They intentionally Committed Treason to the crown and several counts of murder and bribery. He didn't think twice now. They will get a judgment for their actions.

He hears the murmurs of the Nobles asking what the purpose of this could be. Oh if they only knew they wouldn't sound so happy. Stepping on the platform the murmurs become silent when the nobles see him.

"Now I'm not one for rash actions I research what my actions entail and I even ensure my actions don't do unnecessary harm, But you ponies I saw your actions first hoof!!" I hear angry mutters but ignored them. "So I will ask you only once does anypony have anything they will confess!?!" Then an idea hits me, I smirked with malicious intent. "Also the Dragon Claws won't be joining us, You see I ordered their execution for imprisoning an innocent female inside his basement. Used her as a sex and torture doll. "

" HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT ISNT FALSE" I look at the noble and can't help but laugh.

"Because I'm the one who killed the Dragon claw leader after what I saw what he did to his village and the mare I was happy to do so." All the nobles looked traumatized, I glared at them causing my eyes to glow. "And your all next. I ORDER THE EXECUTION FOR ALL NOBLES IN THIS ROOM AND NEW CLAN LEADERS TO BE SELECTED." I walk away hearing the nobles scream and beg for their lives. Time to fix this mess, I walk to my throne and sit on it. "I AM ORDERING LEGALIZATION OF ALL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE NOBLES HOMES. WE MUST GAIN ALL THE EVIDENCE WE NEED TO SUPPLY TO THE PUBLIC WITH THIS ATROCITY. I WANT TO ENSURE THOSE PONIES IN OTHER VILLAGES ARE SAFE SO ALL GUARDS REINFORCE NEW VILLAGES AND I WANT A MILITARY DETACHMENT INSIDE THAT DESTROYED VILLAGE YESTERDAY!! I WANT THOSE THUGS BROUGHT TO JUSTICE FOR THEIR ACTIONS!!" I cough up blood, still not healed fully yet.

"PRINCE SHE IS AWAKE, ROOM 12!!" I launch off my throne and fly to the Medical wing.

Reaching the Medical wing I open the door to be greeted with rushing nurses, "STATUS REPORT!" Ponies notice my entrance then one nurse walks to me.

"Sir she is begging for you. I don't think she notices she's in a hospital" I nod and gallop to room 12 and knock on the door. Almost instantly the exact mare I'm wanting to see opens the door. She tackle hugs me, which takes me by surprise.

" Well Hello to you also. My name is Midnight Sky I am the Prince of this castle. But please do not fear me-" I didn't get to finish when she kissed me. I hear the mares near me gasp. I just roll my eyes not like they had a chance with me. Then we break the kiss.

" THANK YOU SO MUCH!!" I smile at her, how could I forget.

"Your name is?" This question knocked some sense in her.

" I am Golden Skies daughter of the Golden Clan" The Golden Clan is one of few clans I respect and have requested all members to be pardoned.

"Good now Golden, I sentenced all Nobles in clans 1-24 to executions luckily all clans 25-50 are pardoned. I detected that those other nobles have committed atrocities, and Treason to the crown. Also just FYI The Dragon Claw clan leader is dead." This shocked her.

" But my husband " I twitch when I hear that. That asshole Brainwashed her, or she was a Political move. I hated both options. So I went with brainwash, better safe than sorry.

"Nope he kidnapped you, I did research and you went missing 2 months ago. He tortured and rapped you." I look at her hum that will work. "I'm courting you" I hear the mares gasp again and some faint, I just stick my tongue out at them. "So Golden what do you say?"

" YES!!" I feel bad for her but I get the feeling speeding eternity with her will be worth it. She has special energy only Mother and luna have. Like no matter what happens she will stay happy. I want to protect that happiness. I smile at her someone I will protect.

We are preparing for Operation Balefire. Creating stasis bunkers inside the nearest mountain, we are also hiding 3 Raptors inside Underground Hangars. Also adding thousands of Stasis pods inside the bunkers. These will be our secret weapons. These bunkers will remain hidden and closed until I reach them. So we are preparing for the end of the world.

Author's Note

Lucky, Midnight sky finds his future wife and Best friend, Only thing is how will the story continue.

#1-The End is Where We Begin

Maraston: 3 hours till Balefire Armageddon.

Operation Balefire was a success, we had some complications but most were minor. Except one, One of the newly selected nobles tried to perform a coup. Only to find out, My head can resist low-caliber bullets. Oh, the look on his face when he noticed I wasn't bleeding was priceless. Hah man, I just wish I had a camera for that!! Oh, I didn't mention we threw him into the dungeon. Fun no? Still, I'm not a pony, somepony wants to mess with. Also, my Nano-tech armor got a minor upgrade also. I intergraded a Magic shield around my armor to help slow down .308 and 50. cal rounds. It doesn't work all the time but it will be a lifesaver.

Waking up with 3 mares in my bed,'That's right three I kinda maybe courted Both Metal wing, and Zextra. I didn't mean to just sorta happened.' I shake my head. "Hey, Mares wake up its morning, and it's that day!" All three groan unhappily, of course, they don't wanna wake up on their most important day. When does any girl wanna go out to eat? I just roll my eyes, "Wake up Loves, we have ponies to please and then date later tonight." That's when I get a loud answer from Golden Skies.

"But midnight it's Thursday, We requested no public court!!" I just blink and look at my calendar, 'oh the date is tomorrow'. Oops, I forget stuff so easily when things seem to be repetitive, I snort loudly. Then I look at my clock. When the doors burst open.

I instantly knew something was wrong, One The ponies don't bother us during our sleep unless an emergency. Two This pony had armor on that was covered in bullet holes. Oh fuck she's bleeding, Then I notice who she is General Lucky Star. " STAR!!" I launch off the bed and land by her side, " WHAT HAPPENED!?!"

"Prince I am glad you are alright, we have a code red!!" Oh, shit code red, Enemy forced invaded the castle, intent on murdering the prince and all high officials.

"Activate Operation Balefire, I don't want a single official without an armed escort. If one pony dies we will have to struggle to recover!!" Now time for some fun, I walk over to my lever and which causes the wall to open showing all my weapons and a Metal ring, and I put on the ring. It slides on my first to with ease. "Armor on", when those words exit my mouth my armor formed over my body but when it covered my head I felt like I got kicked hard. I fall over in shock, I didn't expect my armor to save my life so quickly!

I felt the air rush as I heard metal scratching metal, and looked up just to see Metal wing cleave the armored ponies' head from his neck. Her blood-soaked metal wings glisten in the light. "I'm alright lucky me, heh I would have died just then." That's when all four of them look at me in disgust only, but only Lucky star speaks up.

" YOU SHOULDN'T TALK LIKE THAT, EVEN IF IT IS JUST A JOKE. WHAT WOULD WE DO WITH YOU DEAD HUH!?! I'LL TELL YOU OUR NATION WOULD CRUMBLE NOW THAT YOU ARE BACK!!" My ears pin back, dammit they are right.

"I'm sorry, I just don't wanna seem weak when ponies need me. I just hope we can finish this-" I didn't get to finish my sentence when I heard a sound I only wish I would never have to hear. A raid siren, my blood runs cold. No, they wouldn't!! WHY WOULD THEY MEGA-SPELL A SMALL NATION!! WE WEREN'T EVEN IN THE WAR!! ALL WE EVER DID WAS PROTECT OUR HOME, HELL I NEVER ORDERED A FORWARD MARCH.

" no No NO!!, It's over DECLARE OPERATION BALEFIRE CODE BLACK!!" Lucky star turns pale but nods, I just hope we have enough time

" YES SIR!!" I turn to Metal wing, Zextra, and Golden skies.

" We have to get to the bunker! Now!!" The 3 girls nod. I won't let a single one die! I Grab my AR120, my ponychester repeater, 50. cal fanned revolver, and my 9mm suppressed pistol. No time to screw around. Sadly Non of the girls had any weapons, It's not like they didn't want any. We are just low on available firearms. You see we don't have craft-ponies near here with enough skill to craft military class firearms.

Huh, I get sidetracked easily, Anyway, we need to get to the bunker safely. We start to gallop to the stairs 30 feet away and run down 4 flights of stairs. Then I hear it screaming and gunfire. I look around the corner to see 4 ponies bloody on the ground with small holes in their heads, The 2 ponies standing over them, are all unicorns. Nobles, carrying scrap weapons easily a minor annoyance. Likely shooting .38 calibers rounds. My eyes burn behind my helmet.

I pull out my mothers' duel swords, And I launch forward silently. My swords 'swoosh' and slice through the noble's weak armor. The Nobles let out a blood-filled gurgle. Keep moving Midnight. We reach the bottom floor in seconds. Then I see all my ponies dead on the floor. Guards all dead, Most of my Midnight order beside Lucky star dead. A small part of mind chuckles, 'wow she really is lucky aye!' I beat that part up and throw it in the trash, Asshole no respect. I pull out my AR120 and equip my suppressor, inside my magic levitation.

" Did you hear something?" I hear from around the corner, slowly I press my back to the wall and pull out my pistol and dual wield my pistol and AR120.

"Nah I'm pretty sure everyone inside the castle is empty. You heard the CEO from Four-Stars, I would repeat but I think you get the idea."

Four-Stars that stupid company, I knew they were bad when I heard their name! A Story from Nightmare moon the Four stars will aid in her escape. I jump from around the corner much to the surprise of the Nobles.

" Prince you should be dead we sent-" His sentence was cut off with a soft -Pfft-. As his head was cracked open as blood was splattered on the wall behind him, joined with all the blood of my ponies he killed. I thought it was a fitting end, but his friend didn't.

My pistol swirls around just after I hear a gunshot that was joined with a sharp pain in my chest. I pull my pistol trigger twice, Pfft...Pfft. His skull was shattered as chunks flew in different directions. I was not a happy hybrid.

I use my magic to turn my dead ponies bodied to ash. That was their final loss, I just hope they find peace in eternity. We continue our travel the castle was unusually quiet. It is never this quiet, it's either busy with guards or ponies. Now though it's almost silent. Then the Raid sirens get cut off. No that means balefire bombs hit!! We all look at each other and nod, The group started to move fast as possible to the bunker location. If we get there the turrets will protect us while we get inside.

Then we make it just in time to hear ponies rushing to our location, "Let's get inside I'll cover you just set the doors to close and lock them!" They nod as we get into our positions. I brace my body for the Hail of Bullets.

The first ponies to make it to the lobby only to not be the traitors? That's when I knew something was wrong they didn't say 'Sir Midnight' or 'Prince' just silent. Then their Disguises disappear to show changelings. I whistle behind my armor, Not the first time I have seen changelings, and I kinda like them. Unlike my Aunt and Cadence, I didn't have a negative experience with changelings. Truth is one of my best friends was a changeling.

"So question enemy or ally?" They look between each other and shrug, I toke that as an ally since they didn't attack. "Get inside now we are under attack by both traitors and the balefire mega-spells. I Support changelings I'm not the kinda pony who is scared by what I can't understand." The changelings look at me in surprise and nod. Good, I'm happy we came to an understanding. I don't want any misunderstandings, I just hope these are allies and not enemies.

" Who is it, Love!? I don't hear any gunshots" I look back to see Zextra standing at the terminal tapping at the keys, Metal wing checking the supply depot, And Golden Sky looking at me, that's when she notices the changelings. I look around for Lucky star. "Hey, where is Lucky star?"

"Over here", I look at where the voice came from, to see a changeling. She looked scared of my reaction, I just smile. This reaction confuses the shit out of her. I just chuckle slightly. "So half of my staff were changelings, Hah! I just wished I knew earlier I would have used your talents for infiltration and assassinations sooner. I'm not mad or scared of ya'll just Fyi." This relaxed the Changelings, "Oh by the way where is your hive? I would hate for your queen to die." Then I remember the young, "The nymph, we have to get them inside the bunker!!"

"There is no need for that" I do a one 180 to see the queen face to face with me, she has to lean down to reach my height. I stumble back startled, "We already placed the Eggs in some Hibernation chambers, but the nymphs. We don't have current locations for their safe keeping" I nod, we didn't expect extra numbers when we built the Cryo-stasis wing.

"I'm sorry I didn't suspect a changeling hive near my castle let alone my country. After all, we are 300 miles from the badlands."

"True that but after what my few sisters witnessed That wretched 'queen' Chrysalis did to those innocent ponies we split off, and hid in the mountains inside a deep cave. The very cave you connected your bunker into" My helmet retracts as my jaw drops. Oh no, you're telling me we connected to a Changeling hive no wonder they're so numerous here, I just wished I knew. I could have expanded the bunker to meet the requirements for the changeling hive.

"It was our fault, Sir Prince, We were hesitant to communicate with you or any other ponies. After what that evil Queen did we knew ponies would fear us and beg for our extermination."

"Well one of my friends was a changeling, So I'm not the kinda pony to suspect the worse. Now get inside the bunker all of you and shut the doors." They all nod and walk into the bunker.

'BEEP BEEEP BEEP DOORS CLOSING OPERATION BALEFIRE IN AFFECT!!'

"GET INSIDE NOW!!" I jump through the closing door and use my magic to grab every changeling I can. I failed to grab one though, The Queen. The door shuts in our faces and is locked in place, DAMMIT NO!! "FUCK WHY DID I FORGET TO GRAB HER!! I'M SUPPOSED TO GET EVERYONE OUT OF THIS ALIVE!!" I try to open the doors only for Lucky star to stop me

"It's okay sir she can enter through the cave entry-" 'KABOOM' The screens show green fire from the center of the city, I then hear the screaming of our Geiger counters, and I know the queen just died, 30,000 rads per second that are past lethal levels. Just instant death, We can't even open the doors, we can feel the radiation in the room. "GET OUT OF HERE AND SEAL THE RADIATION SHIELDING DOORS!!" Most ponies and changelings rush to the radiation shielding doors, except Lucky star.

"YOU ARE COMING WITH ME LUCKY STAR!!!" I grab her tail and drag her through the radiation shielding. ' I'm not leaving anyone, not again!!' I shut and lock the radiation shielding door. "Get everyone inside the Stasis-pods we must revive ourselves in 180 years. that should be sufficient time for the radiation to die away and to be able to reclaim our castle." Everyone nods except Lucky star, I just look at her and hug her. " I'm sorry you lost her, but you have to live for her." she looks half broken. I won't let her break I need everyone.

I put her on my back, and carry her to the stasis pods, most already filled beside 20 pods just barely enough. Sadly this location has only 50 ponies. Yes only 50 ponies, I slowly place Lucky star into the Stasis-pod. "Don't worry when you wake up I promise it will be in a better time. I never break my promises, And if it isn't better." My eyes glow with power, "I'll make it better for you and everyone here." I then close the hatch to the Stasis pod and hear the pod get filled with the stasis liquid. "Goodnight."

It had been 190 Years, 4 months, 9 hours, and 42 minutes since the bombs fallen all systems are on backup Only awake pony is Prince Midnight sky he hasn't even entered stasis in all those years. He is still trying to detect any signs of habitation on the surface but His sensors of the surface are destroyed all but one. The camera to the entrance of the Bunker, And all it shows is grey skies with a faint green hue. Whatever was used as a bomb wasn't pure balefire it had to have something special. Possibly a new form of mega-spell because that green hue is toxic and highly dangerous. He tried to enter the Decontamination room only to feel like his entire body was on fire, so he left.

' Prince's Log #3025: I think I found What those damn Zebras put into their mega-spells. Chaos magic, BLOODY CHAOS MAGIC. They enchanted their balefire bomb WITH CHAOS MAGIC. I hope that I can find a fix for it, I don't know how they got Chaos magic but they did!! Only discord Could Use Chaos magic I believe, so Only discord could give it. Discord was still stone though.

' Prince's Log #3120: So it had been 2 weeks, since my last true update and not just senseless rambling. I have detected a way to purify chaos magic inside a subject it will take me few weeks to know for sure.

' Princes Log #3121: It has been 4 Fucking YEARS since my last report I had issues with the Cleansing potion. Then I had to mass-produce around 120 potions for chemical replication. That's when I noticed a major problem, the bunker is being drained of power. I don't know by what or who, but our power levels are reaching critical levels so I activated the main reactors to recharge the batteries. Later I have to open a few stasis-pods, I can't stay alone any longer. I'm starting to hear voices, but that's not the scary part I'm hallucinating. I've been alone longer than ponies can stay alive. So how come I'm not completely insane!? I keep remembering my 3 mares and those promises. I always keep my promises!!

' Princes Log #3122: I guess it's time I can't handle being alone any longer!! I HAVE BEEN ALONE FOR 200 YEARS SINCE THE BOMBS FALLEN!! The good news though heh I finally, Finally, found a cure for chaos exposure. I just hope my pain and suffering actually mean something. I want my life to be successful. The good news about me though is, heh, I just a look a couple of years older than I did. I'm probably around 20 years old or so physically, So yeah my aging process is still slowed. I thought what my mother and aunt did to me was permanent. I just hoped it wouldn't...

Prince Midnight Sky P.O.V.

I just stare at my terminal, my last log. I look at my paws. I have to wake Golden Sky, Metal wing, and Zextra. I need to cry, I haven't felt emotions in 200 years, and now they are rushing back to me in force. I felt like shit, I lived for 200 years in a hell hole all alone. No pony to talk to, my thoughts screaming in my head. I just wished I could have awakened everyone sooner. I look back at my terminal screen the words 'Activate code green' I stare at those words. It's time Midnight, time to wake everypony and fix the world. I look at the camera of Mannalus. We can't stay here while we prepare to fix this destroyed shattered world I look at my new pip-buck I check the map feature and I see all the undiscovered location tags of our 10 secret underground bunkers, and then the 2 separate underground hangars. We have to find all these locations to get all the ponies required to pilot these raptors.

I stare at my terminal and sigh. I push the Enter key of my terminal.

WARNING CODE GREEN IN EFFECT ALL PODS ARE REVIVING PATIENTS. NO SIGNS OF SYSTEM FAILURE IN ANY POD. PONIES BE WARNED WE HAVE CHANGELING INFILTRATORS!! KILL PATIENTS Y/N?

'I tap N obviously. Cant kill my new friends... Friends, I guess they are friends.' I smile, and I felt happy.. happy? I haven't felt that in a long time.

ALL SYSTEMS ONLINE OUTSIDE CONTAMINANT LEVELS REACH ABNORMAL RATES. DO YOU STILL WISH TO REVIVE ALL PATIENTS Y/N?

'Y'

CONFIRMED REVIVING ALL PATIENTS!!

I hear the sound of liquids being flushed away and pods hissing open. That's when I hear the groans of displeasure, none are dead I hope!! I trot out of my control room. Then I see some pods failed at activating. The pods didn't kill the ponies for say just they didn't get the message to release the occupants. The only ponies I see awake are the Lucky star, Metal wing, Zextra, and Golden star.

"Your all alive!! I'm so happy!" I start crying, I'm not alone anymore. I feel their cold wet bodies on my warm fur. "I was so lonely!!"

"You know love you could have woken one of us up every now and then." I look at Zextra and curse internally. Why didn't I do that!?

"I'm an idiot." I face-paw hard.

"Yes you are love, yes you are." I can't help but laugh and cry.

#2- Escape

Metal Wing P.O.V.

Midnight sky curls up against Golden sky continuing to cry, he doesn't act like a prince. He acts more like a scared colt, but he has his reasons too, 200 years!? All alone how is he not broken yet?. "We have to find out what's happening on the surface." That's when Midnight wipes the tears from his eyes and speaks up.

"We cannot reclaim Mannalus!! It's a lost cause without our numbers and equipment! We need allies, subjects, and soldiers. We need to protect any and all creatures. We need an army of scientists to reclaim what was once ours!" He then curls up and falls asleep next to Golden sky. Lucky star looks at Midnight and nods.

"By your orders, my prince. First, we need to prepare." That's when I decide to speak up. "We need a way out from what the Prince's Logs explain, we need a new way to escape this prison, So Zextra!!" The Zony was just standing being silent like she normally does. She looks at me and tilts her head.

"Can you repair any of these systems if you can't, We will come back soon when we have the ponies to repair the systems" She just stares at me, I get the point she's a hacker, not a repair pony. "Sorry, Zextra I forget your not the best at repairing." She smiles and nods, at least she's still humble. "We need to get ready to, leave weapons and armor. We need to find the prince's 4 Weapons!!" Lucky star nods and runs to the armory. While Zextra, just stares at midnight. "Zextra I know you are concerned, so am I, but we need to get ready to leave and put the systems in this location to Pod life support. Can you do that?"

she nods dumbly, "Yes Heavy Metal I will do what I can, to be helpful". I nod, I walk to my stasis pod. I take a quick look at the Wingblades. Crafted from Starmetal, made exactly for her. Oh, this was the best gift she ever got from Midnight. She could protect him now, while he protected her. I smile, I quickly equip The Wingblades. I Flap my wings experimentally, Perfectly equipped.

That's when Lucky star rushes in screaming, I look behind her and freeze. GIANT BLOODY ROACHES!?! IS THIS WHAT RADIATION DOES!?! THE FUCK!

One of the roaches tries to jump on Lucky stars back, only to be blasted into disgusting bug blood. Zextra moves swiftly and obliterates each roach leaving a crater in the steel floor. I knew she had Fallen-Ceaser martial arts training because she taught Midnight how to, But DAMN! I shake my head, "Good job Zextra, I'm just confused about what these are. Giant Roaches? Whatever they are, we have to be careful not to get swarmed they are aggressive. Just hope there are no more." I shudder in disgust, Gold, Lucky, and Zextra nod. Midnight groans in his sleep and hugs golden tighter. I feel bad for him, it must have been hell for him.

I hold Midnights Suppressed 9mm pistol in my mouth. Lucky holds His Ponychester and his 50. cal revolver in her changeling magic, while Zextra holds one of his swords in her mouth. Then Golden Sky grabs Midnight AR120 and the second sword all in her magic field. I strap Midnight to Goldens back, then we all step to the doors that lead to the tunnels. "We ready?" All 3 nod, and I nod and shove the green button on the door panel. The door opens slowly and creaking loudly, we all feel a shiver at what the new world will be like.

Behind the door is pure darkness until Golden Sky activates the flashlight attachment. We all gasp in surprise. Hundreds of changeling corpses, All inside the cave way, we all thought the Changeling hive would be safe. I hear Luck start to cry, "I'm sorry Lucky if we knew we would have let them in."

"It's not your fault...We didn't know the war would end like this we just suspected. It was all just theories, we had no idea this would truly happen." We nod and start moving forward. Golden and Lucky do Sweeps of each room, Not quite military class but close enough. Then we enter the main Hives room, That's when we smelt it. Decay, Fresh decay. Like something died recently. We look around and see some moving Figures. That's when all our pip-bucks flash a hostile red mark on all our E.F.S. Whatever they are they are not friendly.

That's when we get a good look at them, Rotten Deceased changelings. Their Chitin is Missing in some places, Maybe missing some eyes fangs, or ears. Whatever they are they aren't changelings anymore. So we open fire on the near Hundred walking corpses. We all activate S.A.T.S almost at one, target our own targets via Pip-bucks informing of our allies target. All headshots, then we release the spell as time slows down for each of us.

'PFFT, PFFT, PFFT, PFFT,' ' BOOM BOOM BOOM'

We keep Shooting, reloading, and shooting some more. They just keep coming undeterred by the 10s of hundreds of their fellows dead on the ground. Fuck even some eat the dead, Right before us!! " THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE RETREAT OUT OF THE CAVE" They nod, that's when Midnight's eyes shoot open. The look in his eyes tells me he is pissed. " COVER YOUR EARS!!" They all fall to the ground hooves over their ears as Midnight Screams in an inequine roar. The rope used to strap midnight down snap.

Red flames engulf Midnight's body as he transforms into a full Bloody wolf. His eyes though there was no sign of the old him in them. He didn't even recognize us, but somehow he knew to protect us? Midnight howls and rushes forward like a rabid animal. He uses his teeth, claws, and strength to tear through the undead like paper. We just stare dumbfounded. Soon as it started... it went deafly quiet. Nopony made any sound, it felt like hours. It was just minutes, we heard Midnight groan.

"What the bloody happened!?! It feels like I drank 30 gallons of Vodka!!" He gets up and shakes the blood from his body, "Gross It smells rotten... where is my armor?" Oh fuck we left it

" Sorry-" I didn't get to finish When Lucky spoke up.

"Here it is Prince, I just hope it works." She pulls out a neatly wrapped bag, Midnight opens it and squeals like a filly. He then levitates a silvery ring around his horn. Then he lets out a pained grunt, that's when the screaming started. It sounded like he was being tortured. We all tried to rush to help him but Lucky stops us.

" WHAT THE FUCK HE IS IN PAIN!!" All 3 of us shout in unison. She just calmly looks at us and states.

" This model requires being connected to the nervous system, but the process is similar to torture. It will end soon, Just be patient." As if on cue the screaming stopped, we all just stared at his eyes. Cold and calculating, he didn't look like he had emotions currently.

He notices us all staring at his eyes, "What? Is something wrong? We have a job to do." We all nod confused, "Keep my weapons for now we need as many armed ponies as possible."

He starts to lead us down the empty cave, with the smell of death. We were reaching our limits on holding down what food we had inside us. It was disgusting, we need to clean this place out when we return. We continue walking even though we all wanted to stop, that's when we see it. A huge underground city completely abandoned. No bones, corpses, or undead anywhere. That fact unnerved me, but the next even more so. It was clean, it had no signs of wear or tear like it was just cleaned today. I hear midnight whistle, "Impressive this the Changeling hive, I expected it to look like an actual hive, not a massive underground city. It is easily half a mile in each direction, the skyscrapers are actually acting like pillars to support the ceiling. Impressive architecture must have taken years to construct. The thing that concerns me Is the work looks fresh, But where did the occupants move to?"

He gets the look like he had an epiphany when he sees a working light post, "They were using the Bunkers power systems? No wonder the power drained 20,000,000,000 volts per day, This place requires tons of energy. Luckily they didn't drain only the power to the bunker but the city power grid also. The bunker didn't have enough electricity in its batteries for that level of energy rate." He shrugs and starts walking down the street. It was completely abandoned, not a soul in sight. That's when Zextra speaks up startling all of us, she didn't mean to of course but she did.

"Isn't this eerie? Not a single life form insight, but this place can hold hundreds of anything. It's just empty... no signs of battle or mass death. I just look like they up and left a perfectly good city." We all get startled when we hear Midnight's voice.

"Doesn't matter yet, we have to escape and survive for as long as we can. Then come back and save our ponies" We all nod in agreement.

Walking through the empty city, All of us stay silent. No one dares to speak, But we stay on edge ready for any attack that might come.

When we pass a street block we see it. Natural Lights, but it's darker than normal must be a cloudy day. The group starts moving in that direction. When we reach the entrance of the cave, we stare at everything. It looks like the world is ruined. Clouds everywhere only faint specks of sunlight, and the City was covered in a thick cloud of Green haze.

Golden Sky P.O.V.

"Uhh Midnight what am I looking at? I though you said the surface was habitable. Then what the fuck is that!!" i point at the city. This shouldn't have happened.

"Like I said in the bunker, Mannalus is covered in a literal Chaos haze. Filled with chaotic energy. No non-chaos creatures can survive that. It's so dense it can almost get past the Hazard shielding, That's not even the worse. Somehow the chaos energy fused with the balefire radiation and created some weird hybrid I call Chaos Radiation. We don't have the supplies to reform Mannalus yet or maybe ever. Its so far gone I might just use that underground city as the new capitol." My jaw drops he wants to Abandon The Silent City?! No one would like that!!

"Whatever these are issues for later, we have to survive. Make allies fix our country one town at a time!!" He acts and sounds like the old him but his eyes. It's like he's lying to himself. I shake my head, Then all our pip-bucks beep

Mission 'Escape' Successful
New Mission: Reviving The Lost world 0%
New Mission: Hope returns 0%
New Mission: Saving Bottom Creek 0/4

We look at each other confused, Save Bottom creek? Then I Notice a marker off to the left, "Uhh, guys let's follow that marker?" They nod as we start walking in that direction.

A few minutes later (maybe 1 and a half miles away from the cave entrance) in silence we reach an overlook to a small village with around 10 houses, but the thing that catches all of our attention is the fires. The entire village was on fire, and we could hear screaming. I look at Midnight and he gets the idea. "Let's see what's happening but be careful. I'll Stealth my way inside." He pulls his cloak cover over his head and disappears. I look at Metal wing then.

"Huh what? …. what do you want me to do?" Then she catches the drift, "Ohh I get it okay move out!!" We start to move towards the village.

Prince Midnight Sky P.O.V.

I land on the ceiling of the City hall. 'Think Midnight your weaponless, Combat isn't easy without a force multiplier I need to think like an assassin.' I see some ponies but they show up red on my E.F.S. 'Hostiles Odd so this town is under attack' then he gets a good look at the ponies. Blood-soaked, weak trashy handcrafted firearms, Low caliber resistant Armor. that armor is made with spikes and rubber? The fuck that isn't even moderately good armor, Hell even the weakest armor would work better than this shit!!

I decide 'Fuck it' they can't hurt me with these weak-ass weapons. So I deactivate my cloak and clear my throat. "So um what do you think you are doing?" The ponies jump startled and look around not seeing him. Clearly, either high, idiots...or both, I snort in disgust how can they invade a properly defended town?

I launch off the roof and land on one of the ponies' back with a sickening crack. The other pony looks at his partner in surprise when he falls over, with his spine poking out his skin. " TSK TSK TSK"

'BANG!' I feel a bullet bounce off my armored helmet, 'BANG' again in the head. "Well, I'll give you one choice surrender or die" 'BANG' This time right in the visor. I use my magic to grab the dead ponies .38cal automatic pipe pistol. Trash but it is lethal.

I point the pistol at the Pony And pull the trigger. 'BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!!!' I blink at it huh smooth rapid-fire receiver. Then I look at the blank space where a head should be, not bad. Still trash though, then the body catches on fire. I just stare confused, I'm shooting regular rounds. So why is it spewing fire? Meh questions for later, I hear gunfire and run towards it.

'It came from inside this house.' I kick the door open and what I see makes me see red. My armor automatically retracts, My fur bristles as lightning arcs across my body. My body starts to become engulfed in fire. What I see is a Brutally Beaten, Traumatized, and Raped mare and filly. " MONSTERS!!" This shocks everypony but the one I target is the big stallion over the filly. I launch off my back-paws and front flip kick him through the shattered brick wall. Using my forward momentum to roll back to my paws. I Run towards the next stallion he Blocks expecting me to hit him, but it was just a faint. My automatic pistol shoves my pistol barrel into His ball sack and open fire. The response was pleasing, he screamed like someone being torn limb from limb. I hear/feel hoove step behind me and turn 360 and kick him square in the jaw. I smile triumphantly when I hear the bones shatter, but I wasn't done yet. I grab both stallions by their necks and twist hard. Shattering multiple vertebrae. That's when I hear chuckling, "Not bad you killed two ponies and nearly me in seconds. You're a good assassin... can I hire ya?"

I look and see that giant stallion I threw through a brick wall standing covered in blood, and retract my armored helmet. "That depends-", the ponies on the ground suddenly looked terrified, I just wink at them. "My price is so steep it would be one-sided."

"Just name your-" He didn't get to finish as I launch forward and dig my razor-sharp K9s into his neck. He gives a surprised gurgle, But I'm not gonna kill him yet.

"Your soul and life is my price you FOOL, Now Ladies' go outside I have ponies coming to look for any survivors." This scares them even worse. The mare seems like she wanted to respond, but I cut her off before she can "Then don't if you are scared. I'm not forcing anypony, Now want to explain to me what happened here?"

The Young mare speaks up, "Well mister me and my sister here were waiting for mother to come home when these brutes invaded and woke me from my sleep and tried to ...to" I take off my cloak and hand her a healing potion. She looks happy but confused. "You sure mister? These are expensive and no one just hands these out." I smile and nod, this calms her even more, she takes the cork out drinks half, and gives the rest to her sister.

"Tell me what these ponies are Bandits?" She gets the expression that explains 'worse'. Worse than bandits?

"They are raiders, Rape, steal, eat, torture, or enslave ponies. They are the scum of the wasteland mister. You don't look like a stable-dweller, and your eyes show you've seen your fair share of loss. So how come you don't know what raiders are." She then gets a good look at my horn and her eyes go wide. My horn had one black ring 2 white rings and a ruby ring. The rings of the prince the nobles called it I smile at her expression, I shake my head playfully.

"Who do you think I am?" My smile grows when she bows to me. "Oh please don't do that I have fallen, I no longer have a position of power young ones." Then the little filly speaks up startling me.

" Big sis Moonlight? Who is this?" I lean my head down to her level.

"I am Midnight sky, it's a pleasure to meet you, miss?" This irks the filly.

" BUT MIDNIGHT SKY WAS A PRINCE YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE ONE!!" I laugh this filly is a sharp one. I slowly undo my wing protectors I spread my black wings with red secondary feathers. The looks I got from both ponies were all I needed.

" I am The Black Prince. I am here to serve milady's" Cover my wings again and spread them inside the wing protectors. Perfect, "Okay ponies just follow me I will find your mother-" I got cut off by the bulky stallion I nearly killed. I thought I cut out his tongue!!

"HAHA, YOU WON'T FIND HER HERE! MOST OF THE PONIES ARE AT OUR BASE LIKELY BEING IMPALED ON POLES AS WE SPEAK!! HAHAHA-" His Laughter was cut off by gurgling as I slit his throat with my claws. His body falls over dead leaving a slowly spreading blood puddle.

" ASSHOLE THEY TOKE INNOCENT PONIES!!" I take a deep breath, "I'm sorry girl-" I hear the filly burst out crying, I shutter in anger.

"WE need mommy and daddy!!" The filly starts bawling, and my heartaches. I haven't had a child yet but I never wanna hear a child cry like that again. I want it, I won't let this family be broken and if they are dead. I'll take care of these two on my own if I have to.

"I promise I will Save your mommy and daddy little on. If I cant though you have to promise to stay strong okay?" She nods.

Time to go save some ponies and kill some scumbags!!

#3 Raiders

Midnight wasn't a happy Hybrid, Then again when is he ever happy anymore. He used to be all happy and focused now with a world like this. He just wanted to fix it, He knew there was hardly any chance. He would do it even if it killed him. Midnight was flying over and looking down at the raider base. The base was an old Maraston military bunker mant for surviving the last days, sadly it isn't the bunker they need. Its a military bunker that normally held firearms and bombs, This one though has been empty for 200 years. He did know though that this bunker, had a secret storage station. On the outside was disgusting though. It enraged him to see this. Poles with heads at the end, but each one had terrified expressions. One though made him see red, A small fillies head. He wasn't gonna hold back now, No one should kill children. He threw the .38 pistol to the ground, he wasn't thinking straight it was obvious. His magic though was like flaming like the sun, His rage fueled his magic. This caused his normally pale red flames to become blazing red, and the scary part his magic was actually too hot to physically touch. He then spotted one raider with a bladed shovel, He stopped flapping his wings and plummeted down to the surface. his armor forms over his body just in time to land on the ponies skull.

'CRACK'

He grabbed the shovel in his magic, His armored legs covered in blood spray. He looked around, mostly empty so either they didn't make it back yet or- He didn't get to think of the possibilities because he heard ponies screaming. He just shrugs, crouching down his cloak covered his legs. Moving shadow to shadows trying to hide from anypony who might be watching. That's when entered the building, floors soaked with blood. Bodies hanging from walls or the ceiling. He saw what he hated, freshly bloodied ponies in cages. He ignored them for now, Gotta kill all hostiles first. Dashing shadow to shadow, He pulls out his combat knife, Stealth is key here no attacks that would expose him.

Turning the corner, he saw the perfect target a Stallion holding a shotgun... That's one glorious shotgun. IF-88 is impressive, I want it. sneaking up behind the pony was easy apparently he was literally pissing on a restraint mare. Midnight slipped his knife against his neck and pulled hard. The stallion gurgled and fell over, twitching. He looked at the mare. Why is his life filled with females!? IS HE THE ONLY MALE IN THE UNIVERSE? Never mind he looked at the stallion. Not the only male just the only one with a brain.

"You okay miss?" she backs when she hears my voice. Right rape victim. Then he hears another scream. He grabbed the IF-88 and floated it in his magic. Grabbing one of his suppressors he screwed it onto the barrel, No noise. he sneaks forward leaving the mare restrained. Looking around he heard the scream again only it was becoming weaker. Hurry up!! dashing forward He entered where the scream came from, Only to be met with the smell of cooking meat, blood, and semen. They were eating this filly, literally. He gagged in disgust, "Monsters" his voice was quiet but filled with Murderous rage. The 'Chef' looked at who entered while he worked and froze. Staring back at him was a creature straight from hell. Razor-sharp teeth and claws, But the thing that caught his attention. Rage-filled red eyes, A Literal Hell hound. Not those fake Mutated Diamond dogs they looked like puppies compared to this Hell Hound. No a literal Wolf straight from hell. He didn't get a chance to act when the feeling in his body was missing. His head rolling on the ground, his last thought was 'Death has come for me in the form of a Hell Hound'. Midnight looked away from the 'chef' and at the poor filly and closed her wounds on her body with magic. She was unconscious, he would make her survive. He untied the filly she only had one leg, her front right leg.

Laying the filly on his back, he turned around to get a face full of a shaking 10mm pistol. He smirked sadistically when the Raider mare pissed herself. These ponies made him happy to hurt, They weren't ponies just animals. Wild crazed animals, that needed to be put down. This one thought he would make suffer, He headbutted her hard knocking her out. grabbing the pistol in a dual wield form. That's when he spotted it, the knife that took the fillies legs. His jaw drops, a Starmetal...Scythe. Something a few officers used in melee combat. When I say a few I only mean 1, Second Lieutenant Corn Bash. He got this weapon from Midnight when he solved How bandits escaped from justice for so long. The zebras called him Sir Death of the Maraston military. He enjoyed the title, Now the scythe has returned to its creator. Grabbing the Sacred weapon in his magic field.

"Now where is the rest of the raid-" A he exited the Kitchen he gets a face full of guns again. The only thing different, that there were a lot of guns. I had to act, so I did. Dashing forward, I spin the scythe in my magic field. I land beside a raider mare and slice her in half. Blood trailing the scythe, jumping over her body I flip mid-air and twist my body around and 'slice' 3 stallions heads get separated from their bodies. I start laughing like a maniac, moving forward I spot the last target a fragile-looking mare. I slam's her into the wall she cries out in pain. Then I slice the scythe into the wall, just next to the mare's neck. He speaks but his voice is demonic and serious, "I spare you, slave, you have one choice bow or die." The mare nods and Midnight smelt the fear. He attaches a shock collar around the mare's neck and quickly pulled out the scythe. His body dripping with fresh blood, 'BANG' turns 180 he spotted an earth pony stallion with huge muscles, holding a minigun and missile launcher battle saddle. The minigun was terrifying on its own but add a missile launcher. Midnight would be screwed, except. "leave little slave but if you leave 200 meters from me your head will turn to mist." The threat shocked and mare and she ran, Midnight put the filly on his back into a magic shield.

"So you are the one who killed my ponies and took my property!?!?!" Property!!! Oh, he was gonna be tortured!! Dashing faster than ever before he moved like a blur. This surprised the stallion by the time he had to react, He felt a sharp pain between his legs. He roared in pain, he bit the battle saddle bit launching missiles and minigun rounds straight ahead. Shrapnel hit midnight, he shrugged it off. His scythe trailing beside him covered in blood, "How do you wanna die?" He expected an answer but not the one he got. The stallion Full power bucked him, The surprised midnight hit a wall feeling ribs crack. Midnight spits up blood and gasped for air. In an instant, the Buff stallion was on top of Midnight and kicked him again full power. Midnight spits up a tooth as he was sent through the brick steel hybrid wall. Midnight rolled on the ground, he groaned in pain. Damn this dude was strong, 'I'm gonna enjoy ripping him apart.' Het gets back to his paws shaking.

"Your a tough little stallion arn't chu? Most that I kick gets splattered on the wall, but You just injured. Tough pony, HAHA I'm Gonna enjoy making you scream-" His comment was cut off from a slash of the scythe. We both could hear something bang on the ground and roll, followed by a liquid dripping. The stallion fell over from imbalance, blood pooling from his missing left leg. Midnight grinned showing his razor-sharp K9s, "You talk too much and don't pay attention. How did you even survive this long?" The stallion growled, he wanted to kill this punk now!!

Midnight spun his scythe around and smacked The stallion with the handle of the long-handled scythe, "Let's see how much screaming for mercy you can make?!?" He then slowly and carefully sliced the stallion's other legs off, he enjoyed hearing him scream in pain and rage. Half an hour later The stallion was pinned to a wall with no legs and slowly bleeding out from his stomach.

"Hum, you didn't last very long, Sad." He used his fire magic to clean his body from blood. "Time to check how many ponies need to be recused." Walking away he found the terrified mare with the collar around her neck, "Follow or do you wanna end up like your boss!?!?" She shook her head in hear, "Good it would be a waste I would hate to have to kill more." He walked over to the wide-eyed filly, his eyes soften and relaxed. "You okay kid" That was a dumb question, she was just cannibalized, raped, and or tortured. "You know what never mind." He turned to the unconscious raider on the floor and wrapped a shock collar around her neck. I hate treating ponies like animals, but Raiders aren't ponies. "WAKE UP!!" The blue unicorn mare jumps to her hooves and starts shaking, "Now then WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU TWO THINK WOULD HAPPEN!!" Midnight starts to cough up blood, "Fuck a ruptured lung, That's not... That's not good at all." The blue mare just shook, but the other one I'm naming Number 1 spoke up.

"The boss promised/threatened that he would Protect us while we give....b-birth." Her voice was shaky and terrified, all because Midnights expression showed his murderous rage. He wasn't mad at the mares anymore. No, he was mad at these ponies. That's when Blue spoke up and what she said caused Midnight's blood to run cold. "Ugh, where is Raspberry?" Midnight started to shake, he looked at the mare he sliced in half. Now known as raspberry, she died of blood loss minutes ago. Her cold blank eyes stared at the missing bottom half, he fucked up again.

He cants keep fucking up, EVERYTHING HE DOES END IN FAILURE!! NOTHING EVER GOES RIGHT ANYMORE" Midnight was too angry at himself he failed to notice the Blackmagic forming at the end of his horn. This spell in particular was the worse Blackmagic to ever exist...Necromancy. When he did notice it was too late, his horn send a chill through his brain and an orb of black lightning arced from his horn. The lightning hit the body causing the lower and upper half to fuse back together. That's when it happened, the mare's eyes open showing red pupils with black Sclera. A clear sign of black magic, he just made the ultimate mistake...He just copied King Sombra, and the Zebras!!!! No pony preforms Necromancy, It takes part of your soul each time it is used. And he just did...He made a big mistake.

"Ugh what happened the last thing I remember is... pain?" she spots Midnight and backs up terrified, "I DONT WANNA DIE!!" Midnight wakes up from his internal monologue, Damnit it will take a lot of magic to completely revive ponies, magic he doesn't have. "Dammit Im sorry Reasberry I might have made two ultimate mistakes, I need to be more careful now. Only sad thing is raspberry if you leave my magic source you will die, so you have to stay with me for eternity I suppose."

"I'm sorry but I need to save these slaves, I cant just save everypony all at once. I need a team..." He groans, 'why did I leave the girls behind?!?'

Sometimes he is a complete idiot, he just left everyone alone in a village infested with Raiders. He really need to learn to grow up, " I just hope I can help everysingle slave in this Ancient bunker."

Freedom #4

Author's Note

This story isn't finished yet Kiddos, It will be published once a week! Enjoy Fallen Prince, and welcome to the Lucky Verse. The home to my Stories and ideas of others.

Freedom #4

Metal Wing P.O.V.

Golden Sky was looking at Lucky star and asked. "So he left us again!?" Lucky star just nodded, " He is such a fool! Does he not think we can protect ourselves!?" Then Zextra speaks up, "Maybe it isn't he doesn't think we can maybe it's just he wants to ensure our safety." Golden sky snorts, "HE SHOULDNT LEAVE WITHOUT SAYING SOMETHING!!" I just looked at all three of them and face hooved, why does Golden Sky act like he never does this?! She does it almost all the time, but I guess that's what we like about her. She keeps us all in check.

"So should go after him?" Lucky Star just shrugged, "Fine I'll go You girls just try to fix this mess. " She opened her chitin wings and flew off in the direction of Midnight Sky.

Zextra just sighed, "Look we have a job to do he did say ensure the safety of the ponies in the town." Golden and I just sighed, she was right and they knew it.

"Well I suppose you are right Zextra, that was his exact words. So let's go, and stay focused" I nearly shouted, She didn't want either of them to die.

I pointed Midnight's pistol at the horizon and flew above. While Zextra used his Revolver Justice that Lucky levitated to herein her mouth, and Golden Sky levitated the AR120 to any building that might have Sniper's inside of. Then they heard a door open to expose a scared Moonlight and a filly.

"Hey look he wasn't lying? I suppose there are ponies in this town just got to ensure we keep them safe now and heal their-" That's when I noticed the bruises, cuts, and semen from each of their backsides and wanted to kill some ponies. " Who did this to you two!" The young mare and filly shrank back from my angered expression, they knew I was angry from what happened to them but my expression was one of murder.

Moonlight pointed inside the house, and I rushed inside smelling blood, and the thing I saw confirmed it. Midnight was here I know his handy work anywhere, he likes to make his targets suffer to an extreme level. He is a sadist when someone hurts those he sees he needs to protect. "Where did he go kids?" The answered surprised me because the filly answered me.

"He went to the Raider base miss, it has around 10 ponies in that base he won't survive." Did I try hard not to laugh 10? "Just 10?" The filly nodded, "He will be fine then" The two ponies look at me in surprise, 'What do you expect him to be weak? he's just different. He can destroy most ponies when he wants to, he just likes to make ponies suffer" The two Ponies flinched, So they saw it and still trust him. Odd ones these are, whatever. "Anyway, so what are we going to do about the big issue of an empty town?" Golden smiles and waves her hooves in the air, I sighed "Yes Golden?"

"I wanna Adopt these fillies!!" We all stare at her with shock.

"First off they have to have parents because you know Midnight left them. So they have to have parents he wouldn't leave innocent ponies. Also, they have to be okay with it" I sighed, "They are cute though." They blushed slightly.

"Anyway, Where were we?" Then I face-hooved, "Right, we need to find any more ponies-" Then I was cut off by a cough and we all spun around and looked at the bleeding stallion on the ground, "nvm found one." I get down and pour a healing potion down his throat.

"So what is your name mister?" The stallion just growls out.

"My name is Somber Shadow, it matched my personality!" we just stare at him and I answer, "Of course! i knew that " I roll my eyes. "So what the bloody hell happened to you" He grumbled, "Some stupid raiders. Is what happened!" The ponies just shrugged.

Midnight Sky P.O.V.

Meanwhile, in the Raider base, I was staring at the poor mare he killed, Reasberry, "WHY AM I SUCH AN IDIOT!" My outburst shocked the ponies, "WHY DO I TRY HARD TO FIX THINGS AN ONLY MAKE THINGS WORSE GRAH! IT"S LIKE SOME DEMON IS MAKING MY LIFE HELL."

I take a deep breath, "I'm sorry I wonder if I could revive a pony after a repeated experience of dark magic." Then he remembers a single line, the road to Tartus is paved with good intentions. He decided to fuck it. "I'll Revive you Reasberry it won't be soon but it will happen that I can promise."

Reasberry just stared at him, He just spits out blood. Injuries suck ass, "Uh anyway these are or were my friends... Somber Night husband to that abusive asshole in the town," She pointed to number one "and this is Quick Draw, she was the sheriff until she found out she was pregnant. She tried hard to fight back, but after they threatened to rip her womb out she stopped.

"So simple question for you three where are all the stallions?" That question darkened their features, "Oh no...please no"

"Most males either joined them after they threatened to execute their families or are currently rotting on poles." Midnight's heart fell, those poor poor fillies. Then the righteous flames of Venegence flared up inside him, his magic exploded from his body engulfing him. The Swirling red flames cause the already dim lights of the Raider base to get blocked out. He was pissed, and everyone from a mile away could feel the extreme magical pressure. It was like getting hit by a truck, everyone who felt that knew someone very powerful was pissed.

He quickly got his demon under control, "Let's get you three out of here" The mares just nod and follow Midnight. when he gets to the pins rips the metal door off the hinges surprising every pony in the cage, His blazing red eyes showed his rage.

"Get home now Each of you mares at going to follow me to a save location." he slowly left and walked to the mare he left tied up and sliced her down with his Sky God sword. "Get to the other group." She ran as quickly as possible.

Then he heard a pop of magic, "Hello Lucky star, knew you would be the one to follow me." And she Slapped him.

"YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD US!!" He snorted, "Could've but didn't " Again slap, "WE NEED YOU DUMBASS!!"

He sighed, "Sorry I got lost in my rage again just like old times huh?" She just stared at him and gawked, and spoke softly.

"I though I was doing a good job at hiding it" Midnight just smirked and looked away, "You still have that scar on your carapace, Kinda a dead giveaway."

"Asshole!" She starts to beat his check half-heartedly. He just chuckles, "When I saw your carapace I knew it was you just didn't wanna say anything."

"Observant asshole!"

" I am both things aren't I" he looked at the ponies grabbing random things. " I wish I was better, faster, and stronger. Then others wouldn't have to suffer. "

Ruby and Ocean #5

Author's Note

I think for the next week I will be focusing solo on this story, then Lucky heart, the whatever story. Also expect this to be better than before, once I get back in tune with the story, I like this story. Also, this will not include the main characters, yet it will have a new character, so sorry! Welcome to the Maraston wasteland, the place where nightmares come to life, and just as dangerous as the main Equestria wasteland.

Who likes tanks, oh you do, Good because some raiders have them. Have fun creatures of the wasteland, and don't die.

Ruby and Ocean #5

2 weeks before the Prince woke up

Emergency Override: System Malfunction detected in Stasis Pod, Alpha, Minor, Omega, #5572. Malfunction detected in power station Bravo, report to engineer wing.

"Welcome back to the living, Ruby Shield of the Order of Midnight, we are glad to have you staying with us. Sadly you won't be alive much longer." Insane laughter was the last thing I heard, who was that? That voice wasn't familiar, it sounded crazed, they did get something right. her world quickly fell to black when her body hit the hard cold steel floor

Ruby shield, One of the youngest members of the Midnight Order, was the once critically injured military commander, who was believed to have died on the battlefield. This is all a coverup, honestly, she was never even touched by military service, She was in fact. A random Pony was chosen from a vast majority, her special talent is Defense magic, similar to Prince Shining armor. Unlike him, though she was cursed from a young age with a disease that had caused her bones to become little more than glass, and her organs slowly started to fail her. She caught the eye of both Prince Midnight, and Director of the Midnight Order, her magic shields were not just perfect for defense but also an offense. She was deemed too important to lose, the Midnight order chose to vote and the result was an answer of yes of 20/6. Her body failed her before the Midnight order could find a replacement to her body, they put her corpse in Cyrostasis, for a month. When they removed her, they took out her brain and placed it inside a suitable vessel. A project deemed too dangerous was used, Project Steel Pony, Project Chimera, and also a new project that formed a year before the bombs fell, only one large-scale project Maraston undertook. Named Project Fallen Skies, a project that would save all military leaders, and important figureheads.

This project is the real reason Ruby is alive, they placed her brain into a machine organic Hybrid, Created by none other than the Prince. She was saved from the project and quickly vowed to use the life that was given to her for the ponies that inhabited it. While she wasn't happy at first to be alive she soon found out, that the project if the war was solved, would be used to help ponies all across Maraston.

Ruby was awoken by the blaring of alarms, she was covered in cold liquid, her body was shivering. Her vision was filled with multiple medical alarms, she didn't need them to tell her what was wrong, she was close to dying again. As somepony who already died once, she was familiar with the feeling of death. She slowly and weakly got to her hooves, her normally steady legs were shakey, it was obvious she had multiple medical issues. Her metal skeleton activated the servos and pistons steadied her body.

Her eyes changed from their original, pink lavender, to blazing orange. A state she was told that meany her physical body was weakened to a state of uselessness. Then her mechanical body would take over for it, still, it wouldn't last long. she was her power cells were blinking red, she only had an hour to find Gems or food. So she started to move through the hall of empty pods, her orange eyes showing the way, there was something though, on the ground was a wrench. She attempted to pick the wrench up with her magic only to have magic backfire, she sighed and rubbed her now aching horn. She picked the wrench up in her mouth, though her metal softening talisam, formed the wrench handle into the perfect fit for her teeth.

She moved forward slowly, she looked at her image on her Pipbuck that was connected to her Nervous system and also synthetic components, her jaw dropped at her own image. Her metal bones were all cracked, from some unknown pressure, she suddenly felt odd. Like something deep inside her was trying to escape, but that wasn't the worse part, she noticed hr power cells started to drain. She had no idea why though she had less than an hour to find power cells, and her time was draining fast. She was racing against the clock, she started to gallop through the hallways. The alarms all but forgotten to her mind, she needed power cells now.

Otherside of Order of Midnight Bunker #443, a mud cover raider-looking Sea green mare, was leading a group of raider scum through the bunker, Unknown to the raiders. She had awoken Ruby Shield and may have to lie to the poor mare to get her to rush to the security terminal. She was one of the Order's newest ponies, but she was not prewar. In fact, she was the descendant, His name was General Brust Star. One of the Few earth ponies in the Order of Midnight, one that specialized with explosives and military tactics. Brust star named his first Grand-daughter after their grandmother and himself. Ocean Star was born that day and should live up to her grandparent's legacy of protecting Equestria, Her faded green eyes, looked at her surroundings. She tried to convince these raiders to stand down, but they have gotten confident after ransacking an entire town, they may have used their tanks but their numbers were actually quite low. Even though they had tanks, they couldn't hurt her easily, she learned The Earth pony magic arts from her Grandfather, something he learned from a different nation and wasn't native to either Equestria or Maraston.

She could control the ground she was standing on, even now she could erase these raiders from existence, the only thing she wanted to test out was her Grandfathers observations of Ruby shield, she heard her skeleton was replaced with metal, and her magic was near limitless, when at full power. sadly she won't be in full power after she pulled the cord to Rubies Stasis pod. 'I wouldn't be surprised if I had to break my cover, I can't let her die. Father told me Grandfather was insane, but I have to believe what he told me, there are ponies who want to help others. I have to find these ponies and get them to help me, Maybe I will even find the Prince Grandfather talked so highly about?' She nearly squealed at the idea, but remained calm, 'Grandfather said The Prince is half Lostdog, so he is an omnivore. maybe he has some sort of magic that can really impress me.'

Elsewhere inside a bunker under the city of Mannalus a certain Black alicorn sneezed, and looked at his work he nearly made a breakthrough, just so close! He also felt an entity looking for him, he just couldn't decide whether he liked that or not. His Blazing red eyes glares at his paper, then an idea popped into his head, "Perfect now I can wake the others! I can also, prepare for war."

Ocean Star smiled, she was proud of something, she wasn't sure why though.

Ruby shield quickly made it to the power center. She had to get power before she can even think of fighting, her insides felt like they blow up, whatever was inside her was growing in power. Once she saw the Recharge center, she launched forward and connected the cord to her spine, she felt a sharp pain but ignored it. Her power cells started to skyrocket, no she was wrong, they started to skyrocket. Instead, her power cells reached halfway, and stopped going higher, whatever was inside her was eating power like the prince on his birthday. It was eating 2 million volts of electricity per second, Her jaw dropped, she was amazed at the power, this creature whatever it was, consumed it was truly amazing. As quickly as her power cells stalled they starts to recharge with even greater vigor, Though even at full power her energy was still lower, than what it showed. Unknown to her, a powerful electric and gravitational charge formed around her, but the main noticeable thing was the tentacles that formed from her shadow. The tentacled grew in size and length with the more power she consumed, then the tentacles reached their max and they disappeared from her shadow.

Ruby unconnected herself from the Recharge machine feeling complete again, Though her Physical body was running empty. She saw an old full water bottle, something normally didn't bother looking twice at, she walked forward and sat next to the item and picked it up and twisted the cap off with her teeth. She took a swallow of the water and couldn't resist anymore. She started to chug the water like it was the only thing keeping her alive, when the bottle was empty she was sad.

She got up and sighed, she needed water and food, but first. Her eyes narrowed at the alarms. Someone was gonna get hurt, for waking her, She was Unarmed and mage, she doesn't use weapons. She walked down the halls with an air of confidence, behind her the tentacles formed on the ground writhing in rage. That's when she saw them, a group of ponies with Sea green mare leading them when their eyes connected, the Sea green mare's eyes widened in surprise. that look of surprise shifted to shock then horror. The normally invisible tentacles appeared the Sea green mare wasn't the only one surprised, Ruby was equally surprised and horrified, the tentacles launched forward aiming at the ponies surrounding the Sea green mare. Oddly enough they did not even try to harm the Sea green mare.

Thee Sea green mare just smirked, and looked at Ruby, "Grandpa said the Midnight order was tough but wow, in split seconds all these dumbasses are dead. You also seemed to completely ignore me, meaning you can feel killing intent. My name is Ocean Star." That name shot alarms inside Rubie's head, Star that name seemed familiar, Oh the General Brust Star.

"Why are you working with these ponies, they seem bad, why would a son or daughter of a Member of the Midnight orders. follow them, they seem awful, the worse ponies on the earth."

"To find you silly." That made Ruby's jaw drop, she wasn't very important.

"Why me?"

"Simple" Her eyes became hard, a trait a skilled, something that reminded ruby of The Prince. "We need to fix our country it is broken and shattered, with the Midnight order, we can fix what is broken. I wanna find the Prince, Grandpa said the Prince would wanna do exactly what I wish to do. The only thing he said was he might not agree with my methods."

"And those methods are?"

"Form an Army and take back our country, then we need to take back the capital." Ruby thought she had a good idea if the world was as bad as she said, we need an army.

Ruby smiled and nodded, "I think sir Midnight will like your idea, he's very accepting. Even if he doesn't like how you do it, he will allow you to do it anyway. As long as you don't use random civilians, he should be happy with the idea." Ocean Star looked horrified, she would never.

"Why would I use civilians as military?!" To her surprise, Ruby looked disgusted, And murmured something along the lines of, 'Wouldnt be the first time.' 'That actually happened, I thought Grandpa was losing in his old age, maybe the other stories he told me are all true or at least have some truth to them.'

Ruby looked at, Ocean with a pleading expression, "Do you have anything to drink or eat, you won't believe how hungry I am."

"Yeah not eating or drinking does that to ponies, seriously why it take you so long to find us. We were walking around for half an hour."

Ruby blinked, "Why did tentacles exit my body, and where are they?" nothing happened, "Anyway I was recharging, my systems. And it seemed something was draining my power at an extra rate, so I feared I would power down and be powerless. "

Ocean smiled and nodded, it made sense, "Do you have any weapons or armor?" Ruby shook her head, it seems the rumors of her skill set are true, she is a berserker and a Martial artist. She can move faster without armor and weapons slowing her down, also her tentacles only activate when she is in a life or death situation. Because when she called on them they didn't respond and only respond to killing intent, also it seems her tentacles run on her power cells. This should be interesting. They both made their way to the food storage, all the while Ruby was glancing at Ocean in suspicion.

She may have acted kind and friendly but she didn't trust her, not in the slightest, only time will tell if she was right or wrong about her.

Project Skylines #6

Ruby continued to take looks at Ocean star, she did not trust her, not in the slightest. Something about her made Ruby feel uncomfortable, something just didn't feel right, Brust star was gay. He just never had a relationship with a female, but yet Ocean said he had a wife. She had a feeling Ocean was either lying to her, or it really happened. Ruby relaxed her guard, as they entered the cafeteria, her mind went blank with the smell of rotting flesh. 'Odd' She continued forward, then her EFS picked up one single hostile marker, and before Ocean's eyes, Ruby disappeared.

Not like she, went invisible no, she moved so fast her after-image was the only thing left, and a nanosecond after ruby disappeared. The door to the kitchen got shot open with one powerful move, both heavy steel doors had an inch thick dent in the metal. Ocean's jaw dropped, 'This pony is scary strong, and this is without her physical enhancement magic, What can she do with them. She also hasn't even touched her magic, if she can do this what-' Any further thought was cut off when Ruby got thrown out of the doorway and lands on her front hooves, blood running down her muzzle. Ocean was in shock, what the fuck just happened. That's when Ocean was a Hellhound claw mark on Ruby's stomach, she took a Hellhound claw to the stomach and still fighting. The tentacles formed on Ruby's back, and Ruby glared at Ocean.

"YOU NEED TO INFORM ME WHAT THE FUCK THAT THING IS! IT SNUCK UP ON ME AND HERE I THOUGHT THAT I WAS SNEAKY!" Ruby full screamed at Ocean causing Ocean to pin her ears back, man Ruby has a loud voice, why did she run in there alone, without getting an idea of what she may face.

"Ruby, that was a Hellhound, and one that only exists here. A Corrupted Hellhound, it is unlike most creatures and even more, unlike its cousins. It is a Stealth animal completely, it is virtually undetectable, well unless you use SATS, I heard some stable ponies encountered one and caught it by surprise by using SATS. Didn't kill the damn thing though, only wounded it, but it left all the same. So what you just did, might end up killing us, they are even faster than their cousins and unlike them, they prefer to actually torture their prey. Ponies, weaker Hellhounds, Dragons, hell I even heard one killed a hydra. I don't believe it though, Hydra are-" Ocean was cut off by a animalistic roar, and her blood froze, oh no.

Ruby looked between, Ocean and the door, "Ocean what was that, it wasn't like the 'Hellhound' to roar if its focuses on stealth, So just was it." she started to move forward, but then she froze when she felt teeth bite into her tail, she looked back to see Ocean eyes filled with terror. 'If she is scared, then I don't wanna know what it is, I'm not stupid, I understand this is a foreign environment for me.' In a fraction of a second, a Dark form got thrown out of the doorway, completely covered in blood, when it hit the ground Ruby recognized the Hellhound.

It was a Predator, but Its skin instead of being covered in fur, was covered in scales. Its normal claws that were once glowing with arcane energy, were now dull and cracked. The main thing she noticed was the face of the Hellhound had been caved in, In one single punch, something crushed its skull-like a cracker. Rubies stomach rumbled, in the silent room, it sounded a roar. Both Rubies and Oceans eyes shot open and started to back up slowly, what they felt couldn't be explained easily. They felt focused bloodlust, but that was easy to explain what wasn't, was the feeling of absolute fear. Its was something, neither Ruby nor Ocean control, It was like everything that scared them was happening all at once.

Ocean knew what this was, One of the most dangerous creatures in Maraston, Equestria had their damn alicorns we had these. One of these creatures could easily destroy a town with ease, the wasteland calls them, Nightmares. As if summoned by its name, a Half mechanical, Dragon. The Dragon was completely black, only its eyes showed any light, and said eyes were white, showing it was blind. A Nightmare, Was either A Cyborg Dragon or what Cyborg Elder Dragons. Unlike the Ponies Zebras and griffins. The Dragon homelands did not see war or even Nuclear bombardment, and their normal scales are highly resistant to radiation and were only able to be penetrated by powerful rifles, but Elder Dragons are worse, it is near impossible to penetrate their scales with common firearms, one must either use a Large scale Railgun or direct Megaspell bombardment. No single Raptor has a Railgun large enough, and sadly a Dragon killer Raptor would just anger an Elder Dragon. Luckily both Equestria and Maraston were safe from such threats, so we came up with a project, Project Skylines, one giant ship capable to killing an Elder Dragon.

The ship is named Mss Sky, It is one of a kind, not even equestria put this much effort into one project. The ship will require a crew of at min 1 thousand.

They both looked at the dragon and ran away screaming, as fast as possible. Neither of them could even scratch that dragon, it was an elder dragon. So they ran, and ran fast, luckily the bunker was small so the dragon had to destroy parts of the bunker before it could follow them. Ruby looked at it and bawked, that is one large dragon.

'How did it even get in here?! This place should be secret, noone should know about it beside, other midnight members. Well dont forget about the loyal workers, it made no sense, so how does a random elder dragon know about this bunker.

#8 Protocol Return

Project Skyfall, One of the few projects Maraston enacted in case of Balefire Armageddon, This project Has actually three side projects that all fall under the same project. Project Lunamoon, Project Morning Star, and Project Lone Sky. Each project had a Ship capable of flight, a ship prepared for balefire wasteland, each ship could stand one vs one with a Pegasi raptor, Though they needed a crew. Something Midnight prepared for, he put Hundreds If not thousands of ponies inside Stasis pods all across the nation months before the bomb hit. He was preparing to save as many lives as possible, and he made sure they had their families also in stasis, well as many as he could. They didn't have hundreds of Empty stasis pods, So he made a choice he put as many as possible nonessential personnel away as possible.

Midnight looked at the families he saved and smiled, Though inside he cringed, he used Black magic and the worse kind. Necromancy His cutie mark has cursed him with Necromancy, other black magics are not as bad as Necromancy, Hell even soul magic is better. He looked at his sword, shield, and wing cutie mark, and sighed, The sword and shield are for Offensive and Defensive magics. His wings mean Freedom, though combined with the sword and shield, it means freedom in combat. His special talent is Freedom in killing others, he always hated it, Unlike Shining Armor of Ruby Shield who's magic is used to defend. His special talent is to do just about anything, Black magic he did it, he felt disgusted with himself.

One of Midnight's lines went something like this, 'Heroes are not born they are made, Heroes make choices that hurt others, Heroes take beating and fall. Those few ponies who try to change the world for the better and ask for nothing return is Heroes. Those failed ponies who wanted to be heroes but couldn't make the cut are weak. Honestly, they shouldn't be breathing. Anyone can be a hero, not to the world, but to the children or the ponies around you. Life is unfair we lose things friends, family, and loved ones, Heroes don't let this shit bother them and push on. Selfish ponies disgust me, ANYONE can take things for themself, It takes a strong pony to become a hero. Not so much physical strength but mental strength, This is why I have the Order of Midnight. To Be the Hero for others, to defeat those who wish us harm, and their objective is to protect those hearing this message.'

He always loved that speech, now though he was disgusted at himself, using Random ponies in a pointless war. Why did he join in that damn war that was for sure would end in Balefire Armageddon, His mother asked for it, By why did he attack with the nation and not go in the battle alone?! His mother would understand, She didn't want the war, to begin with, she only wanted her son to help end the war, not cause a new war. He was angry at himself, living 200 years alone did this, it made you rethink your life. He would not fall to the same mistakes again, He will protect everyone he can and prevent stupid wars unless! The war was needed.

Ruby Shield ran as fast as possible, that scary dragon was right on her heels, and Ocean star was not helping. She quickly realized if she had to sprint Ocean Star would not be able to catch up, So she had to carry the damn unicorn, and while Ruby was a cyborg she was not as physically fit as she should be. As she was still undergoing training when the bombs hit and she had to hide in a stasis pod and not to mention she was starving and dehydrated. She was in a bad state, while sprinting away from the Dragon she saw one sign on the wall. Project Lunamoon, Her jaw dropped, and decided to take her chances with the project. She uses her magic to float out her Master Keycard and gaped at the slash that went through the Chips data. "Damn Hellhound, why did I have to get hit in my coat of all places my stuff was there." She murmured in rage.

She made her choice so she had to commit to it, she kept charging the way of the Project door, made of a foot-thick steel door, well it was more like a bank vault, She prepared for the pain and rammed the door with all her might. The floor under her hooves where she launched off, dented with the incredible force behind her hooves. The vault door did fare better but only slightly the dent was smaller and made the steel more compact. Ruby sighed in anger, Why is her life never easy? She looked at the door and flashed her broken keycard, she expected it to reject the card, But the door opened. She was confused But didn't look a Gift horse in the mouth. She jumped inside the secure room and slammed the door shut with all her power, The door latched closed, She had maybe 15 or so minutes before that Dragon enters this room. She had to act fast!

They were inside the room that can only be explained as a normal office, though the Big window to the outside did not show the outside what it did show was a Medium-sized Skyship, while it was not the size of a raptor it had more firepower than one. It was possibly 200 feet long and 40 feet wide, With two large cannons at the side of the Ship, This was an experimental ship, Self-repairing, a crew of only 5 ponies at max, mostly ran off a large mainframe. This ship would have saved hundreds of lives because the Control center was like an Escape pod, It detached from the main ship and flew off most likely into safe territory for retrieval. This Ship would have made it into the frontlines if it wasn't for the Sheer amount of power to keep it running This ship ran through more power than most ships its size, though that is expected with a self-repairing vessel. So instead of making Multiple, they had a new idea, it would be an emergency vessel, prepared to save lives. Like an Ambulance or a Police Wagon, It had the firepower to destroy enemy troops but also self-repairing to enter burning buildings. In the end, it never saw service, well until now.

Ruby and Ocean smirked at the vessel, Ruby looked at Ocean she had her idea, "Ocean you man the turrets, I have Flying Practice in just not as good as pegasi, but I know how to make that vessel dance." Ocean nodded, and they opened the flimsy wooden door. Before Ruby left she saw a terminal, and walked to it, and connected her Pipbuck to it, Data Flashed into her hud as she downloaded the information. She saw one command she needed,

Open the Gate to Hell Y/N?

Hell? Why would anypony type that title for hangar doors? She pressed Y.

The doors screeched in protest as the hydraulics that was covered in rust pushed into motion once more, The door let in fresh dying air. Ruby gasped at the sigh, hills, and plains once covered in green grass now brown and dead. Dead trees covered the ground, It was cloudy so she didn't get to see it in true beauty. She was mesmerized for a second before she shook it off and ran into the Lunamoon. Entering she was amazed, the ship was really meant for a crew of 20 or less. Though she knew this ship can function on only one crew, Luckily she had a gunner. She smiled and flipped a couple of switches all the while Ocean Star looked at her confused, She had never seen one of these babies before? That is to be expected, we are in a wasteland, after all, She looked at the Reactor output and whistled. 3 thousand amps of magic, that's enough to sustain a small town. Most ships require about 4 houses worth of magic amps, well besides raptors they have an equal number of magical inputs as this ship and they are larger.

The Ship roared to life, expected as it hasn't been used in 200 years, so this ship would be burning dust and grime for a while. Which made the engine loud, and just as expected after a minute the ship's engine hummed softly. She smiled, time to escape.

Ocean tapped Ruby on the shoulder, "So why are we just sitting here?"

"Letting this baby warm-up, She hasn't been used in 200 years, she's grumpy and not very happy. She's just like a newborn foal, though with more firepower, and armored." Ocean was completely confused, So Ruby decided to clear the air.

'The ship requires its systems to be clean and it's hard when it has just been inactive for 200 years, otherwise, the ship would stall and fall to the ground killing its occupants. We had to warm up some other ships but this is just extreme." Lunamoon whimpered as if ready for battle, Ruby smiled, "Perfect!" She slammed her hooves on the accelerator, That's when two things happened at once. One The door to the hangar shot open and the metal door crumpled like paper as a Huge dragon stuck His head out the room. He was confused That was an odd reaction maybe he isn't as bad as I assumed, though if he isn't after her then he must be after Ocean, Her suspicion grew. And two The Ships engines roared, Though the turrets detected the new threat and opened fire with both Bolts of Laser and plasma fire. The ship shot out of the hanger like a bat out of hell, It left behind a streak of silver in its wake. The Dragon who had been shot multiple times, snarled, he sighed.

"Boss please forgive me I couldn't save Miss Ruby shield from that liar, you have to do a more subtle approach, Order of Midnight #124 Lost Dragon Signing out. I will be looking for Mister Midnight and assist the prince in any possible way." Lost looked in the direction of the Ship and sighed, 'Maybe I shouldn't have charged them, but that was my order, Midnight will be disappointed if Ruby was killed just know that M.M, He will need all the help he can acquire.' He looked in the direction of Mannalus, 'You won't know me, Boss, I'm new to the Order.' He chuckled now, he's old but not part of the Midnight order before the war. His main question was why did the turrets attack him? He held no hostile intent to anyone but...Ah, she took over the turrets and overridden their systems. That bitch will mind control, anyone, if she sees it's needed.

"Maybe I should follow?" He shook his head "Foolish we will meet again soon, as either friends or enemies, Though I hope we can be friends or allies at least." The Dragon activated his Stealth Dragon and disappeared.

The Report from Lost came to a Mainframe in the Middle of a heavy wooded area A base so secure and secret only Midnight knew for sure where it laid, as he was the one who built it. A completely white pony floating in a void of Screens and data, Her voice was mechanical with no emotion inside them. "It seems Lost Dragon has failed." A multitude of voices spoke from the empty abyss all not happy.

"We should have sent Someone more subtle a Dragon would put ponies on edge." One voice spoke a mare (#2)

"True #2 we should have sent the Zebra, he is good at subtle." A Stallion's voice spoke (#4)

"No #4 We should have sent a pony at least, someone more honest and less prone to lying, Lies are good but not to our own" (#3)

"Yes #3 I see your point, maybe we should have sent General Fresh Sky, he is a pegasus so he would have possibly taken down Ocean. " (#5)

"Number One, What choice should we take?" A filly's voice spoke through the chaos silencing the others (#7)

"I think Number 8 and Number 9 should put a tail on the Lunamoon Possibly the Griffin and the Hellhound, But also send The Knight of Chaos to talk to Ruby." The voices all gasped.

A pompous voice spoke from the darkness, "But Ma'am he is a Trickster and a chronic liar!"

The White mare was motionless as she spoke. "I understand Number 8, though we have an issue Ocean has seen everyone BUT him, she will not expect him. To her he's an unknown that makes him powerful, He was the Secret weapon and also one of Rubies closest friends, She will listen to him. If she doesn't I will have to report to Midnight we have a Fallen Knight and to either exterminate her or Purify her" The voices again gasped, but this time in horror.

"Number 1 We haven't Purified anyone in decades! But I see your point we do not wish to kill her only to purify whatever corruption Ocean placed on her." The Voices all said 'Agreed'

Number One looked at the screen from Mannalus station and sighed, "Please forgive me, Boss, May have to sacrifice myself for others." She smiled softly, "Rule 1 never kill Anyone unless there is no other option." She stared at Saw Zextra the Zony, Golden Sky The X Nobel, Metal Wing The Subject-0, and Knight Lucky Star who was carrying a Sleeping Black alicorn. A tear came to the Artificial Life forms eyes, and she smiled brightly it caused the dark abyss to glow in radiance. It was Time.

"Time to activate Protocol Return, I repeat the prince has returned!" She screamed over all the Order devices, tears running down her face. She can finally finish what she started. Saving the nation. Emotions rushed into her voice and choices once more.

Ruby kept an eye on Ocean, She really didn't trust her now, it was clear that the dragon was friendly. Her pipbuck labeled it that, which would be odd for a rampaging monster, Friendly when it only wanted things to die? It was after Ocean, She was not going to sleep with this pony around. She had to be careful.

Ocean knew she would not be able to even take over Rubie's mind, her synthetics are immune to that magic and would purity her magic, and fighting her would be pointless. So she had one choice, RUN! She literally jumped out of the moving Airship, much to Ruby's surprise.

"It seems you are not stupid Ocean Star if that is even your name, I was planning on killing you while you sleep, damn bitch. Now Boss I need to find you Mannalus it is, and when I do you owe me some bits! I WAS RIGHT BOSS SOME BITCH WOULD TRY AND LIE TO ME." she laughed while flying the Lunamoon.

The Changeling named Ocean Star hit the ground with a soft graceful thump, "Fucking hell, Why is it so hard to To get these Order nuts to obey me? Queen Chrysalis the 4th will be disappointed in me, I even tried to play the NIce Pony return, I didn't think that dragon would follow me all the way from Ponyville! Seriously 1 thousand miles and still on my trail?! I thought I lost him in Canterlot!" She sighed and hissed in pain suddenly, She looked down and saw a knife in her chest. "Oh you're good Ruby, I didn't even see it coming." She spits up green blood, "Fuck! When I meet this Prince you hold in such high esteem, I will kill him slowly!" She rips the knife out and chugs down a healing potion, "Bastard!"

"Number one It seems that the message from Lost is actually 6 days and 2 hours Inaccurate. Someone is slowing down our messages and this is worrying."

Number one gulped, which means we will have a late response to everything. No one else will get their orders until a week late. "Send out orders to all informing them of the late messages! So they are ordered to act independently! Also inform them that Lunamoon is Active and to keep an eye out for it, If they spot it Send an Order SOS signal. That would gain Ruby's attention"

A week later

A One-eyed Zebra walked down the streets of one of few Cities not hit by a megaspells, named The Globe, for the Globe Centerpiece. The Zebra walked with confidence and sway of swag, He was Knight of Shadows, Named Zalcoon, His sway and confidence didn't fade even as he was cornered in a alleyway surrounded by Burn scar-covered ponies.

Zaloon looked around him with a smug expression, the cocky Zebra was one zebra you did not wish to fuck with. A master in almost all zebra martial arts, She saw one pony that caught his eyes a Blue suit-wearing Gang boss.

When Zaloon spoke it was a tough and confident voice, "So Ash Pyre Why are you headed after little old me?"

Ash Pyre snarled, "You didn't pay the toll, instead you beat the fuck out of my ponies, we had a deal! You pay the toll and I won't drown your stripped ass!" He smirked now Zebra didn't understand anything.

"Oh that deal, yeah that was never really a thing." He waved his hoove with dismissal, Ash Pyre growled. "That deal was made so I could use your goons as bullet shields while I entered the Order hiding place in peace. Fucking hate those Equestrian robots, honestly you push around shop ponies and Military groups. You made a mistake fucking with me, Your little gang I was ordered to erase from history." A huge wave of murderous intent erupted from his body like a tsunami, he was still relaxed. This tipped Ash pyre to his breaking point.

He looked at his crew and screamed "KILL THE ZEBRA!" Only to look back and see no zebra. He blinked in confusion, he backed up, likely saving his life as a Zebra hoof hit the ground where his head once was. His jaw dropped, he nearly got killed, and it was so fast no one could have helped him! When the Zebra hoof hit the concrete cracked under the power, Ash was suprised he heard stories of Zebra warriors punching through Power Armor but this was insane?! How did we not lose to zebra?! The zebra moved at such a blinding speed, no one could keep up, though he was not poerfect getting shot a few times. In less than 15 minutes his entire gang lay on the ground dying, and Zaloon had left leaving a shocked Ash Pyre.

Zaloon's watch chriped, and when he raises his leg, his eyes widened. Protcol Return has been in affect for a week?! Who is jamming the siginal to the HUB?! His eyes narrowed, He tapped his watch.

New mission: Hub In trouble
Objectice: Detect what is jamming the signal to the Hub.
Notes: While The hub location is unknown I can trace the Hub signal. to a general area and possibly find the location of the jammer.

Main Mission: Protcol Return
Objective: Find The Prince and assist in any possible way.
Notes: Midnight had been last seen in the Bottom Creek Village, He will require all possible assistance for all his mission. Though Hub is more important as Only Midnight knows its true location.

He sighed, "Wow My life has got so much more interesting, I hope I can do what they promised, save ponies." He started walking in the general direction of the Hub leaving the city.

A Hellhound was sitting at his shop, Preparing for lunch, He looked over at his Pegasus pony. That's right she is his! "Sparrow are we ready for some relaxation?" His dark and deep voice basically shook the ground, Sparrow smirked and nodded.

"So Did you get any new missions Orfeo?" He shook his head and she smiled, They were partners. Even if she is nowhere near his level she is a sniper and good at it.

The Lavender grey coated, Silver pink maned pegasus with Ruby red eyes. Her cutie mark was a crossed gun and a pony skull, she was once enclave and was one of the best Similar to a Buck she noted to be named Dead Shot Calamity. Though this was before she left, Orfeo smiled.

Though his smile didn't last long, as his Order ring beeped and a hologram showed exposing his new orders. His eyes widened at the protocol, 'Oh shit its happening'. That was his only thought.

Mission: Ghost of the Past
Objective: Assist The Prince
Notes: Keep a low profile please dear Orfeo, While Midnight is acceptive he does not know you like me-With Hope to the future Number 9

"We can still go have dinner love, it seems My mission is the Big one." Sparrow's eyes shot wide open, her jaw worked but no sound escaped. Orfeo just smiled, adorable pegasus is adorable.

Looking over a mountain all alone and surrounded by dead raiders walked an earth pony, wearing nothing but basic clothing, even the freezing cold air seemed to be ignored by him. He walked with a bored lanky style, he seemed to be so bored and tired. "Why is it always Raider? I want someone that can actually make my heart pump." The stallion sighed and walked away, As he was not an Order pony he did not receive the order. That someone power did show up, and they would meet and one would die.

#9 Jammer

Zaloon the Zebra of Many Stripes as the order has come to know him, he was the ordered info broker and also a heavy hitter similar in form to Orfeo, and that Lost Dog. Though the Lost Dog has since been lost and forgotten, by most but not him, he knew this Lo.Do personally. If he remembers he Told the HUb that he will be in contact but may not report for any action. Unless they required his attention, It seemed the order needed him now.

Zaloon saw a building that he knew all too well military storage, though if the File was correct, this was no mere military storage building. It was in truth a storage location for Experimental Items, meant to keep them secure. Sadly he doesn't have the clearance to enter there without getting trapped and killed If the file was correct. The security system ran on a mainframe in the basement and told all systems that anyone without clearance was hostile and to eliminate them. He did not want to die so young, after all, he is only 15 years old.

He continued forwards towards the general direction of the Hub.

Two Number one seeing one of their agents heard straight for the hub would normally be concerning, but she had an idea why this was happening. Someone or something was jamming her signal and Zoms wished to assist, sadly she couldn't assist him in his endeavors so she had to do what she would normally do. Sit in the blank void, alone, in silence. She had no choice but to sit and wait until she could actually be of assistance, she couldn't even send a message to the Prince because of this, She looked at Lost Dragon's Tag. He was also heading this way, though his mission was different to defend the Hub.

Unlike the rest, she actually informed the Dragon of her exact location, she had faith in him.

Zaloon had been walking for days until he hit a still living forest, unlike main Equestria this was actually common and not rare. Though this forest was no forest, it was a jungle, a wild untamed jungle. He gulped, 'So this is why no one can attack the hub? It's in the middle of a jungle someone would have to burn the forest to get an army to the base, and a small force would stand no chance. This location does not have the common defence, The Mainframe is actually sentient so it can enact in Strategy. Imagine being sent to investigate a location when the turrets pop out of the ceiling than when you take cover they retreat back into storage and repair themselves.' He had to investigate one location like that, it was to gain more processing power for the hub. He had to be smart and quick, his hooves did little to a ceiling-mounted gun he couldn't reach. So he had to use a pistol, though he wasn't after the base, he was after the jammer so he could get a perfect signal.

He entered the jungle and shivered, This was place was actually unnatural, It wasn't like Zebrican jungles. No place had this weird aura around it, it caused fear to enter his heart, Though he shook it off. 'I see why you placed the Hub here Midnight, most ponies would flee, even most zebra. This place will wear you down until you flee, it is like it wants to save you, but is unsure how to.' He smiled and snorted and kept walking, but he came face-first into a magical shield. "What the?! This is not normal pony magic? So what is it?" The shield was purple, a color he knew all too well. "Alicorns?! What the fuck does the Goddess want here?!" He looked at his watch and typed an SOS signal to all surrounding Order members. Though most were too far to receive these messages two got it.

Zaloon groaned and rubbed his head as he left the jungle and made camp at the edge of the jungle.

Ruby was having a peaceful day investigating all locations where her prince could be located flying the Lunamoon, when Lunamoons systems exploded in alerts, not danger warnings but an SOS signal. She located the signal and pointed the ship in that direction to see what the hubba was about.

Lost Dragon, flew across the sky as he looked at his order PipDragon then his P`ipdragon exploded in alerts, and they were coming from the direction of the hub. His eyes widened and shot forward with all his strength, his body became a blur as he was no longer just going for some routine, This was an emergency! His wings beat again and he went faster and faster until he was a streak in the sky.

"Don't worry M.M I will be there soon! Whatever the problem is I will help!" The wind blocked out his voice, it was just a whisper to his ears, even though he was shouting.

Ruby was headed in the direction of the SOS marker, though his radar picked up a large winged flying object, labeled as a dragon. She kept an eye on it, but it was listed as nonhostile and seemed to be headed for the marker also. That irked her, a dragon with Midnight level clearance, someone must be issuing these labels. Who though the only ones who can do that is Midnight who she hasn't heard anything from, and the Director. The Director was a pony who Midnight specifically used as a Commander of sorts, the Director was never a combat entity. It was meant to guide and inform, Like a military CO, though with a faster decision process. So how did He/She survive two hundred years?

She shook her head questions for later, she needs to assist in any Order business. Her mind went blank as she saw the jungle in front of her, though that wasn't what Actually caught her attention. The huge fucking purple shield, one she knew as Shining Armor Shield spell, also used by Twilight Sparkle. She also saw a Zebra on the ground next to a campfire, so this is who sent the SOS it seems, a Zebra!

Zaloon looked up when he heard the roaring of the engine, and his jaw dropped, Ruby Shield came to him?! The Lunamoon was a beautiful ship made from titanium and it was pointing its guns directly at him. He just shrugged, he knew he would die if those things fired. But those cannons point away from him he looked at where they pointed. Right at the Alicorn shield, the boom that shattered the silence of the jungle would have been heard for miles around, but the sound didn't end there was a secondary explosion as the Cannon rounds hit the shield exploding in smaller Balefire explosions. The shield actually cracked but quickly repaired, so it seems they are not perfect, The ship's engines suddenly cut off and it landed softly behind him. He jumped at the sound of the ship hitting the ground, the thump could have been the last thing he ever heard. He sighed and looked behind him only be face to face with pretty lavender-pink eyes, he felt his warning senses ignite. So he acted on instinct and backflipped and landed on his front hooves, into a hoove-stand, he twisted his body around spinning around he lost his balance on purpose and landed on his hooves. A wrench hit the air where his head just was, that could have killed him.

"Whoa whoa, Miss we are on the same side, You see that shield?" Ruby sighed and nodded, "Well I'm here to stop whatever is happening inside that thing, it may help others, and mainly, It will help the order."He looked at her and smiled, "You must be Ruby Shield, The Prewar Magic Shield specialist, Similar to Shining armor, but your shields are said to be twice as powerful as his. Not sure if I believe that or not it seems far-fetched, and while you have the cutie mark, not sure if your skills follow." He was expecting her to be angry or at the very least miffed, to his surprise she blushed and looked away.

"Some stories may be overexaggerated, while my magic is powerful it is not on par with Shining Armor." She looks at the shield, "Or Twilight Sparkle, That shield is made by Ministry mare Twilight Sparkle, that magic has her name all over it. I mean who else overlays two of the exact same spells over each other? It takes tons of power to sustain that. So how is it so stable?"

Zaloon nodded in agreement, "I may not be a unicorn but I know how much magic is used to sustain that!"

"So how are we going to destroy it?" Zaloon was taken aback at the words 'We', She seemed to notice and clarified further. "You are part of the Order it seems and I am here to assist in the order any way possible so yes, We, even if I hate Zebra."

"That's fine you can hate me, it's not like I can say you ponies don't deserve to hate some of us, I mean look at what we have done. We both destroyed the world, Ponies and Zebra are the most hated species, on the planet. Dragons didn't blow things to shit, Hellhound didn't, not even Griffins. We did!" The words caused Ruby to flinch, but he was right, we caused this we have to fix it.

"The only good thing is Only 3 cities were bombed, so a couple of million ponies survived the bombs, after all unlike Equestria. Maraston was devoted to protection, so you set up Anti Missile protection all across the country, Only big hit was the capital city. Which similar to Canterlot was hit with a more devastating kind of bomb than most of the country, I believe they called it The Discord Bomb, if that's not correct well just what the ponies in Maraston called it."

"Discord bomb?"

"Yeah, it contains Chaos magic, ponies who enter Mannalus change permanently some grow new limbs, organs, eyes, you name it. I once saw a pony who had tentacles that functioned perfectly, and a weird foreleg with claw-like appendages, though they were not claws. Most ponies who gain these things commit suicide and their bodies are gained by the order for experiments, we wanna know how to remove it, We haven't found anything." Zalooon explained and ruby gagged.

"Why are we even talking about this?" Zaloon smirked and pointed behind Ruby.

Ruby turned around and came face to face with an Orange dragon with blood-red spikes, his eyes were piercing green. She gasped and noticed who this was, she meet him in the bunker.

Then the Dragon spoke in a low dangerous voice, that made the ground shake in its intensity, "So you ditched that changeling?" Ruby nodded in fear, and the Dragon smiled softly. "Good" He looked to Zaloon, then towards the shield. "So this is what is blocking out messages?" Zaloon sighed and nodded, "Great have you tried your Reality Shredder yet?" Zaloon looked horrified then he looked at the knife in a case that was on his belt. The Dragon noticed and sighed, "It doesn't actually shatter reality you know it's just the name." Zaloon nodded.

"I did not wish to use the blade for something like this unless we had no choice, as it would break it, and it would be pointless after the blade is broken."

"Break?! That thing is made of Starmetal, it takes a lot to break Starmetal. So how are we gonna do this?"

Ruby looked at the shield and sighed, "I won't be much help, my magic is defensive, and my only weapon is a wrench!"

Zaloon sighed, "I wasn't prepared to fight alicorns, so I may be underequipped, my hoove to hoove combat is only good if I can actually get close. My pistol is only 10mm, it won't do much against a shield, also my knife may be Starmetal, but I am unsure if it will actually dispel this shield. This shield has an Anti-Magic repel in place, so Starmetal would be useless, mostly." Those last words rang in Rubie's head, Starmetal is Antimagic, She smirked.

"I may a way to destroy this shield." Rubies words made both Zaloon and Lost look at her in surprise.

"Oh yeah, how?"

"Starmetal jacketed 20mm cannon shell." Zaloon jaw dropped. Ruby smiled with confidence

"That might just work, but sadly that would be so expensive, we would have to find the shell or at least the Starmetal."

Lost looked thoughtful and sighed. "Leave the finding of the shell to me, it would allow me to repay you for allowing access into the Hub.

Zaloon looked thoughtful and he had to ask, "How many Antimagic shells do you have?"

Rubies ears flattened, "One." That's all she needed to say, that word make them all grimace, she had one shot and the target was small. She also would need to hit one of the alicorns to ensure the shield weakened enough, this was something she was not trained for!

She walked into the ship, and gulped nervously, luckily this ship would do most of the work for her. She sat into the pilot seat and groaned, 'I only have one shot, maybe I will get my answers after this, like where is Prince Midnight?' She flipped the switch that literally said start then the engines roared to life, she plugged in her pipbuck and the ship hummed. She looked at her pipbuck and saw the entire ship diagram, and to her surprise, the ship had two Starmetal shells, but one was the incorrect caliber. 'That is one huge shell, it seems like it would be fit inside a raptor, so why is it inside this ship. This ship is more a Vertibuck class or Skytank, it isn't supposed to hold such heavy weapons, Skytanks are assault vessels. A vertibucks are Air Personel Carrier, Lunamoon was a ship devoted for direct combat similar to the skytank but with less life loss.'

The ship's targeting system auto-locked, but before she could push the button, the ship's warning systems activated. The ship activated autopilot and swerved out of the way of an incoming magical blast, A dark purple magical blast. Ruby almost instantly recovered and jumped into the ship's joystick with her hooves, and pushed the ship's pedals with her rear hooves. She pulled the joystick backward as hard as possible, the ship reacted almost instantly, the nose of the ship pointed almost ninety degrees into the sky. The ship's gyro systems were acting on overcharge, when Ruby slammed the pedal down the ship lurched into motion, reaching three hundred miles an hour in 10 seconds flat. The ship passed the cloud layer in 2 minutes, all the way dark purple magic beams passed the ship causing Ruby to enact defensive maneuvers. The ship started swaying from side to side or doing small loops, when ruby reaches high enough she cut off the acceleration, the ship quickly quite moved upwards and instead of falling to the ground below. She grabbed the joystick and pulled the stick as hard as she can, the ship flipped around causing Ruby's nose to bleed from the G force. She pointed the nose towards the magic shield, all the while she was analyzing the shield matrix, she could in fact replicate the shield, though it would only last for a few brief seconds, those seconds could be very important.

She spits out some blood into a bag, she saw a flash of purp[le on the ground than a magic beam nearly struck the ship, she had to find out where that was coming from! This ship couldn't take on of those hits, it would spread the Lunamoon! Her magic can protect the ship and herself for a few brief seconds, but after that she will have to wait for her magic to recharge for a minute, or risk magical burnout. She growled, 'I suppose I have little choice, let's hope this shield falls!'

She targeted one shot at where the light flashed, and she also activated SATS to help assist the targeting system, the left cannon hummed to life then roared. It sounded like thunder and could have been heard miles away the shell ripped through the alicorn shield like it was paper. She could also see a spray of blood where the shell hit, whatever was hit is dead now, nothing can survive a direct shot from that. The Ship shuttered as if in pain, and she looked at her pipbuck and nearly screamed, The left wing of the ship was shot clean off from the recoil of the shell, luckily the damage was able to be repaired by the repair talisman but it would take power time and supplies, the time she would not have as the ship was about to crash! The ship started to spiral out of control, she tried with all her might and magical power to pull the ship out of the death dive. The ship was pointed to the shield, she couldn't escape the death dive and it was scaring her, then the shield fizzled and faded away. 'It seems she hit the correct pony after all' Was her last thoughts as her world went dark with the sound of metal tearing and ripping from the hull.

Zaloon started in shock as he saw the ship crash into the ground, he saw everything perfectly. she the ship fired that round it seemed it hard such a powerful recoil it ripped the cannon and a minority of the wing from the ship, not enough so the ship could not repair itself, but enough that the ship had no airflow around its wings. She majority of the wings flaps and airflow systems had been dusted in the recoil of the shell, Zaloon can see why those shells were dangerous. Lost was almost just as surprised when the shield fell, Zaloon still couldn't figure this dragon out, or why he was named Lost Dragon and not an actual name! It couldn't be his name, while his own name Zaloon, that may not be his name but it was his code name. He tells everyone his name is Zaloon, his real name is something he doesn't like to talk about very much.

Zaloon slapped the Dragon hard, "Focus" The Dragon sputtered but nodded, They both moved forward and Zaloon pulled out his pistol and held it in his mouth. They both knew their priority, ensure the safety of Ruby and the Hub, all others come last. They froze when they heard voices, The zebra was more silent than the dragon but they both were unnoticed.

"What does the Goddess want with this location sister? I mean we lost contact after we crossed the border and into this land, this place is almost free of radiation, though it holds more potent dangers than even the Hoofington!" they both heard a mare groan this one pompous and cheeky.

"Well sister we have nothing to worry about, we are the goddess after all! Nothing can harm us." They heard a face hoove, and Zaloon smirked, it seemed they were not being controlled by the goddess, but instead freed from her influence. He frowned in confusion, but why? His eyes narrowed and he sighed, whatever reason can come later, they need to either be sure they were no true threat or a hostile force, Also were they not concerned by the loss of the shield, and why was no one after Ruby?

"What are to do with the intruder Pony, and that ship, it makes my bone shiver just looking at it! Also, That mare makes me cringe when I look at her, something about both of them is not normal! Though Azure Blare wants to interrogate the mare! She should be killed after killing Sparkle Star, she deserved better than that!" Zaloon looked at Lost, and Zaloon moved slightly, and Lost shook his head. 'So do not kill? okay, boss.'

Zaloon body blurred into motion moving silently through the brush, he jumped into the branches on a tree and jumped from tree to tree, he saw a light in the darkness and targeted it. He landed on a tree overlooking 4 Alicorns inside a light purple shield, he grimaced, so much for a stealth approach. He looked around looking for any chance to attack in a frontal assault seeing...none. This won't do, that shield sparkled with similar power to the shield that covered the jungle, in the daytime, it would be so faint to see it would be invisible. Though at night, it was like a spotlight, he pulled out a magical energy grenade and sighed. Won't do shit! I'm useless without my supplies! That's when all the Alicorn's froze in place and looked right at him, his mane tingled in fear, and he backflipped away just in time as a beam of pure magic flew through where his chest just was. If it hit it wouldn't have been lethal it seemed they were not trying to kill, he had no choice.

"PLAN B!" That sentence made Lost launch from the shadows and surprise the Alicorns, They were confused now seeing a Cyber Dragon. It just confused them completely, "ATTACK TO DISABLE!" Zaloon roared and Lost nodded, they both blurred into motion, the Alicorn shield falling from their surprise. That was all the chance the Order creatures needed, Zaloon struck on alicorn in the jaw, with his rear hooves, cracking it before he twisted and landed on one hoove. He rolled forward and landed on all four much to the surprise of the alicorns, he just took one of their sisters. Lost body-slammed an alicorn into a three cracking a few bones and knocking the Alicorn out. The last two Alicorns backed up and activated their magic shields, they were angry, but they both disappeared in a flash of purple magic. Leaving their two other sisters, Zaloon and Lost stood in a combat stance for a few seconds before relaxing. Zaloon looked at Lost cooly, Though the dragon snarled.

"Zaloon! We should have used stealth, and not attacked we got lucky they were so surprised that they dropped their shield!" Zaloon sighed but Lost kept on. "Now the Alicorns will know we are coming! We may be powerful but alicorns are on a whole nother level! I mear I heard one of them attack an Enclave Raptor and shredded it to dust! What can we do!"

"I am thinking! We don't have to kill or hurt them just get them to leave, maybe we should instead of attacking them propose they leave, I suspect they are only here for safety and nothing else." Then his eyes hardened, "If They are after the hub we have to eliminate them all though." Lost nodded, Better plan than winging it.

They waited for the Alicorns to wake up.

Ruby groaned as she woke up, her body was covered in pain, it felt like she had been hit by a train! She also realized she was not inside her ship, she was on a bed chained down with bronze chains. She had been captured by the hostile force? These chains while strong won't last against her might, steel would hold a better chance, after all her metal skeleton was capable of bending foot thick steel. She just had to play good girl for as long as possible, and when they expected to either kill or hurt her she will break free and kill all she can before dying, or escape. She looked around but the room was completely black she could not see anything, even her pipbuck was offline.

Then a Pink Alicorn entered the darkroom letting light enter the room causing Ruby to squint in pain, the alicorn looked familiar, she had a blue heart on her flank, her mane and tail had red, blue, and purple stripes across them. Ruby's eyes opened wide in shock, fear, surprise and, awe. Princess Cadence Of The Crystal Empire, The kingdom that was not bombed in the slightest as Cadence made peace with the zebra and allowed them to use her territory for the war. Also when the war got bad she was the one who told Midnight to stop the senseless fighting, Though he agreed he should. He said it would have no point to stop as the war was nearing its end. She remembers this because she was sent with midnight as a guard, it was a few months from the end of the world. Cadence looked ragged and nothing like the same naive princess she once was, her body had scars and her expression was less than pure happy. Though she seemed to still have that happiness and joy she always has, I suppose that's the trait for the princess of love.

When Cadence looked at ruby she frowned but not at her, "I told them not to attack outsiders they are so foolish! They still have that same foolishness as the 'Goddess' had, assuming everything needs to die beside alicorns! How are you doing after all these 200 years Ruby You don't look like a ghoul? So how did you survive?" She asked as she removed the chains on Ruby's leg.

Ruby smiled, "Well I heard Midnights alive and also why are you in this location?" Cadence sighed and looked away, she looked tired and angry?

"Well for starters, there is this Alicorn hivemind in Equestria had to flee, they kept targeting me! Attempting to either kill or capture me to make me join their little demon cult! I wanted no part of it so I took the Alicorns and ponies that saw me as a true God and took them far away mainly to Maraston, because well it seemed the Goddess lost alicorns after sending them to ...Midnights country. Wait you said he is alive?! I assumed he died when that awful mega spell hit Mannalus! It destroyed everything, not just alive! I heard it turned the clouds into cotton candy and the roads into soap similar to what discord did but it was all highly radioactive! They say it is a literal deathtrap, Luckily it's not all bad, I heard some changelings and ponies actually turned into Mannalus ghouls. They were saved from the worse of the fallout though, they were permanently changed. So how did midnight survive?!

"Not sure, I just got a message from the hub earlier explaining the situation with Midnight! maybe we should go find him soon?"

'The HUb? That wouldn't be the building that is covered in trees, it had a huge sign with the word HUb on it would it?"

"I suppose it would? But from what I heard the alicorn shield was blocking the signal from the hub." Her pipbuck chirped as a new objective showed, this one made both Cadence and ruby's eyes widen.

Mission: Oh no the Nexus is in trouble!
Objective: Protect the Nexus 0/200
Notes: It seems raiders have found the Nexus and wish to kill all who call it home! Protect the Nexus and gain the admiration of Nexus! Doing so will add Plus twenty to the national integrity!

The Fuck?!

Name: Ruby Shield / Code name :Unbreakable Shield
Race: Cyber Unicorn
Perks!
Str: 10
Per: 8
End: 10
Char: 2
Int: 2
Agi: 5
Luck: 1

Traits: Cyber Pony You are a Cyberpony you gain plus 10 to strength and 5 to agility! Don't expect this to save you always!

Name: [Data Expunged]/Code name: Zaloon
Race: Odd Zebra
Perks?
Str: 10
per: 10
End: 10
Char: 10
Int: 10
Agi: 10
Luck: -120

Traits: Odd Zebra "Am I Just the unluckiest thing you ever saw?!" For some odd reason unlike most, you have negative luck, it seems something in the world wants you to suffer.

Name: Bronza Moltex /Code name: Lost Dragon
Race: Pony Dragon Hybrid
Perks: [Data expunged]

Traits: Dragon Pony Hybrid You have a mind similar to ponies in a body of a Dragon. You also love ponies/ +10 charisma talking to pony characters.

Name: Midnight Sun/ Code Name: Midnight Sky
Race: Alicorn Wolf Hybrid
Bio: You may not look like Celestia but you are her soon, have the eyes of your grandmother and the Coat as your grandfather. Your mane is similar to your mother, You have a smaller horn than most Unicorns and Alicorns so you can easily pass as a Pegasus.
Trait: Assassin, You exceed in stealth needed situations +20 to stealth but -20 to Big Guns and Heavy Hitter.
Trait: Magical Prodigue, you have skills only available to High-level mages and you can teleport tons over a long distance. Your magic is powerful but it can be a drawback! +20 to all magic but -10 to Strenght.
Perks: [data expunged]

Midnight was looking at the town of Bottom Creek and smiled slightly, it had been a week since the raiders, they rebuilt quickly. He told those mares to stay here and protect the town as best they could, while he looked for something capable of reviving the dead. He hated this, He was the one who caused pain in their lives, he owed them a lot for the trouble he caused. He looked over to Zextra, Who was cleaning her new Pipe Rifle that one raider had, She took it from the raider and customized it with an actual pretty finish. Now the Gun looks more like a Military issue firearm and less like a handcrafted piece of shit. Metal wing chose to stay with her wings and Golden Sky had a 10mm pistol, and Lucky Star, well she had a Minigun and Missile Launcher battle saddle. Midnight was just confused on why he had a feeling like something bad was happening somewhere else,

Author's Note

Next Chapter: The City of Lamark

I hope people like how I explained things near the end I had a couple plot holes with midnight so I chose to clear 'em up, also did people like how I added Princess Cadence, seriously though The princess of LOVE in a WAR?! That just dumb, so I chose to make it so she and the Crystal empire stood out of the war, As in The Crystal Empire is its own seperate nation similiar to Maraston. I hope its to other peoples liking I know its weird and confusing, but I explained it best as I could.

#10 City of Lamark

Author's Note

Chapter 11 Maraston history lesson, because this country had a rich history.

Okay Midnight may he powerful but he is not in the slighestly overpowered, Just when he is angry his magic becomes raw and brutal. So oops

10 City of Lamark

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Midnight was looking at the small village of Bottom Creek and he sighed, he had to get this country running again! These poor ponies needed a powerful wise leader, So what was he supposed to do? Create an army? Ponies would fear him and possibly resist him. Maybe he should create a...Democracy? The ponies would appreciate the nation more and would be more willing to join, they would just need an army to defend them selfs from raiders. The New Maraston Community? Yeah, that sounds good, Now the only t6hing he would need...caps. You can't create a nation poor after all, you need some money. Normally he would use the gold he had in the capital, sadly he cannot enter that death trap. So what would he do? He's not afraid of getting his hooves bloody or even exposing his true nature. He just doesn't want free money, he wants to work for it! He loves struggling and thrashing about. He just needs to make money quickly so how?

He blinked and smirked, though Metal Wing caught his expression, she knew it all to all. It was the expression he wore when dealing with those nobles and also when he started up Operation Balefire, he had a huge plan forming in his head, and Metal Wing was prepared for this. She flexed her organic metal wings and sighed before she looked at the cloud layer, dumb pegasi. She needs a plan on what to do with that stupid cloud layer, she would Sonic boom it, but she suspects the 'Enclave' would come down in force if she did that. While if the nation was at full power, They could easily trump any enclave ships heading their way, After all, Sky Fall had 5 small Cruiser class chips and 2 Large Pony o' War classes, this class of ship would have been able to destroy The Zebra. If that's what they were intended to be used for, they were meant to enforce Maraston law and order. While midnight thought of plans to create an army, Metal was busy thinking of ways to advance the Airforce.

Lucky star sighed, They were planning when they had nothing, Zextra, and Golden Sky both looked confused at both Midnight and Metal wing. Golden sky was the peacemaker it seems. Zextra was a medic and Zebra negotiator. An Lucky star was the Order Leader for now Until Midnight found The Hub. He looked at his map and sighed at the diagram of The closest city, Lamark, the city he hated the most. The City was full of Gangs and drugs, he would need some mint-als if he wasn't going to kill every single pony he saw. Those drugs kept him calm and kept his mind running slower. Most ponies have the opposite effect, making their mind more focused, and quick thinking. Midnight sighed he had two choices.

"Look guys we have two options I see, Option one, We go to an Order Bunker and grab all the supplies and ponies we can, Option two we go somewhere I bloody hate and I suffer, City of Lamark, while if we go to one bunker we may find ponies in cryo-stasis. Or we can go to the one place I never visited, The Lamark Bunker, under the City of Lamark who would have ponies one hundred percent chance of someone at least being there. Though again I hate that option."

Golden sky looked hopeful and smiled, "let's go to Lamark!" Midnight groaned but nodded, I hope the city changed some for 200 years and hopefully for the better.

"Oh, oh no" Everyponies's jaw dropped after they exited Bottom creek, each one staring at Midnight's map, "How the hell do we get there?! That is at least 70 miles to walk! A week's travel?! That cant be I would rather get shot at!" Lucky star groaned, Midnight didn't like it either. To much room to get ambushed or killed, and no one would be the wiser. He had to think of a separate chance than Metal wing's eyes widened.

"Hey, Midnight remember the Raider Nest?" Midnight nodded after his disgust faded, "Well I saw a Skywagon!" Midnight smiled, "I can fly us!" But this time midnight shook his head.

"I will fly us." The way he said it made it an order, it wasn't a request, he was ordering we all allow him to fly or else! Metal wing nodded, though inside she was concerned, it was rare for him to use his Order Tone with anyone. He never really ordered the Midnight order that was M.M job, he was just there as a figurehead, though he had absolute power. He never used his power often, "Let's go to Military base, and grab that stupid cart so we can finally get to that damn dumbass city."

The girls both looked concerned and confused, Midnight seemed Scared and angry, he hated Lamark. They just had to wonder why? Lucky Star pulled out her scoped pipe revolver and looked at her ammo count on her Pipbuck, .38:39 rounds. She sighed, "Look Midnight I understand you hate that city, we are just worried for you, you have been acting weird. You have been through so much, and you haven't even slowed down in the slightest, Hell when was the last time even slept?!" Midnight looked away, which caused Lucky Star's eyes to widen, he only did that when he was trying hard not to snap. "You haven't slept in a month right?!" Midnight grunted, he was pushing himself, and Lucky star's eyes narrowed. "When we get to Lamark You Will Sleep Understand!!" Midnight yelped and glared at L.S, He hated being ordered around but she was right, he won't be any help if he can't think properly.

"Fine you win I will get some sleep Lucky but you have to protect me, I may have taken a nap in the bunker but that wasn't real sleep was it?" Lucky shook her head, and Midnight sighed. "Fine, I will sleep! I haven't actually slept well in a year. Too many nightmares." Nightmares? Why was he having nightmares, Lucky frowned.

When they made it to the raider base, it was still a mess, well of course it was a raider base. Raiders are not very good at keeping it nice and tidy, seriously who uses bodies as decoration. Midnight sighed and looked at the broken wreck of a Skywagon, he groaned at how bad it was, his meager skills in repair would be insufficient. The thing needed a flux capacitor and also a magic converter because Maratson Skywagsons actually halfway relied on electricity. So unlike Equestria, Maraston didn't need to fight the zebra's for coal, we got our energy from the Dragon lands. I mean seriously, the Dragons had coal, and they would be happy to give some if we gave them gold.

Midnight shook his head, "Sorry but this baby will not fly unless we repair it, it seems the Raiders were not very kind to the ship, I mean seriously who removes the Magic converter! Those things are so fucking common the Flux capacitor I can understand." he sighed, "I can bypass the need of a Magic converter, after all, it just recharges the spark battery. Though the Flux capacitor is needed, after all, what would Skywagon be without the Sky." He sighed.

Metal Wing also sighed, "Where would we find a Flux capacitor Midnight?"

Midnight rubbed his chin with a wingtip, 'Good question, I may own the country but, I don't know everything. I am just well knowledged, and I have tons of information stored in my Pipbuck.' I looked at my Pipbuck and searched Flux capacitor, and nearly screamed, It was inside Lamark! 'The hell I tried to store supplies all across the country, who took my supplies?'

"Bad news, my supplies have been stolen, that means we are royally screwed." He sighed, I suppose it could happen, but it would use 5 times the amount of energy. "Let's use a normal wagon, I can modify it with parts from the Skywagon and parts from a Magic Beam Weapon, or plasma weapon. Sadly we have neither and Maraston was in short supply for those weapons as it were, Mainly because we did not produce those weapons, we mostly created pipe weapons and melee. Not many military class weapons, and very few Magic weapons, So what are we supposed to do?" He spoke as he walked over to the normal wagon, and uses his magic to remove the wheels and place a flight harness with makeshift flight rails. He uses his magic to wrap around the wagon with red flames, the flames being melded with the wagon changing its shape. He was careful and patient, he needed to do this perfectly, if not it would likely actually hurt him during flight. He released the Wagon and looked impressed. The old moldy wood had changed into a clean ebony wood, with a wing sword and shield insignia the Mark of the Midnight order, and also his cutie mark. He smiled with pride, now that the looks are done he needs to actually transfer the flight talisman, he sighed. This would be the hardest part and he knew it, it was not easy moving parts to a new wagon, it normally takes weeks or months.

He looked at his Pipbuck and opened a file on the Skywagon schematics, and when he was it, he just gaped. "What the hell I thought this was going to be at least simple, but this?! How do they create these things?! It's absurd!" The schematics were not simple, in fact, they were difficult. Not the process of making them, no that was easy, it was the parts! "I don't understand why they didn't just shorten down the creation list, I understand safety and all but this is just absurd! Do they need to have 5 lightning rods, 2 transfusers, and 10 fucking Flight talismans?! It's just dumb! To get this thing off the ground you only really need one talisman, one Lightning rod, and also well you get the point. Why do they need to have so many?" He grumbled as Zextra looked at the schematics from over his shoulder and blinded.

"That is honestly absurd, why do they need so many parts for one vessel?" Metal Wing sighed and glared playfully at Zextra, the zony smiled softly and shrunk back. "Well, I suppose I could try to look at what we have inside the Skywagon. I may not be as smart as Midnight when it comes to parts but my Pipbuck should tell me what each part is, If that doesn't work why not just travel inside that?" She pointed at a L.A.S.V. the Car had a Cannon on top of it, the only thing odd about it was it had scrap armor. Midnight looked at it and squealed, The girl's eyes widened, Was he excited?

"Oh, my dream came true! A Military class L.A.S.V or Land Air and Sea vehicle was the only kind of vehicle that could levitate well for a short period of time. It can only truly levitate for a few minutes but that is still amazing! It can allow itself to float to the ground So it would be perfect for All-terrain missions!" he took a good look at it and frowned, "Huh it is covered in scrap armor which is sad because the actual armor it used was waterproof, so we have to take the sea out of the name on this one. It would sink like a rock, not even the floating talisman would be able to carry it." He walked over to the car and gasped, "So they used the Skywagon for parts? Maybe these raiders are not a stupid as I fear, it seems this LASV had seen hundreds of battles." He activated S.a.t.s and turned on the scanner. "The original parts have all been removed and new ones have been placed inside, I can tell because the parts all have different numbers. We have good news though, it works, well mostly. The only part that seems broken is the cannon, and that is because some raider put a smaller shell inside the cannon and it exploded inside." He sighed and looked away, how are we going to use this? He doesn't know how to drive.

Golden Sky smiled and looked at the ship, "Hey love? Can I drive it I may not have been the best but I can keep the thing pointed in the right direction!" Midnight sighed and nodded, Golden got inside the ship and grunted, "Does anyone have a magic core?" They all face hooved, well except for midnight who face pawed, they are stupid.

It took them a day to find the core and a few hours to drive to Lamark, the travel was boring, nothing happened So midnight turned on his Game system on his Pipbuck.

Game start! Welcome to The Reaper and the Woods!

A Brown unicorn with a grey mane and tail looked at his double-barrel shotgun, his yellow-orange eyes looked tired. On his flank was the very same shotgun that he was looking at but this one golden, Say hello to Reaper. The unicorn was in the middle of a grassy plain, his own farm, He smiled. Then he heard something and frowned, 'Damn those varmints! If I see 'em! I swear I'll blast those to igits to the moon!' He picked up his shotgun and loaded two shells inside it, and slipped his shotgun into his holster.

Midnight had been playing his game for a few hours and Metal wing was watching him play smiling, Golden sky was Driving as best she could, Lucky star was in the machine turret, and Zextra was attempting to fix the cannon. Metal wing was only good at lockpicking and combat, after all, she didn't need a weapon, she was the weapon.

The trip lasted until noon, then Golden sky gasped, the city in front of them was just short of amazing. It was likely the second-largest city behind Mannalus, meaning it was huge, it was possibly 20-30 miles wide, and And used to have around 1.30 million ponies, but the main thing that gave this city an ominous feel was the countless number of bones surrounding the city. Midnight sighed in disappointment, "They didn't listen to me it seemed" The girls all stopped doing what they were doing well except for golden who kept driving but listened, They looked at midnight in confusion. "Zebra put a siege on this city, before the end, and as you can see they all died. The city defenses were just so powerful that they fired hundreds of beams of magic and bolts of plasma, they killed hundreds but they lost thousands. That is why in the end they had no choice but to use balefire bombs, Equestria will say we had the zebra on the run, but in reality, we forced the zebra into a corner. As everyone knows, you don't corner an animal, it causes animals to do things they wouldn't want to do." His eyes narrowed, "If I ever meet again my aunt I will personally execute her, she was too militaristic to lead a country, she had too much pride, that was her sin. She leads a whole nation into war for what?! To destroy terrified zebra, ponies wish to blame the zebra but I will blame us. If anyone else was in control, This wouldn't have happened!" The girls stared at him in shock, he was angry and he was hiding it, his rage was building. They needed to do something to release his anger, or else he will transform into the Angel of Death. Every Alicorn has a magic form, Luna it was Nightmare Moon, Celestia was Suns Vengence, Cadence was Loves Hatred. For midnight it was Angel of Death, his magic and eyes burned with such amazing force that it caused a wave of dread for anyone who was deserving of death.

Midnight sighed and looked at the city, "I hope it changed, or else I will have to use Justice." He spun out his Revolver, and fliped out the cylinder, and grunted. "I only have 2 rounds?!" The City was similar to Mannalus, it had skyscrapers and it also had hundreds if not thousands of business buildings. The sight of the city was ugly, it looked like it got hit by a direct balefire blast, but in reality, it had not been hit. It just always looked ugly. The LASV slowly rolled stopped, and the smell hit them instantly when they opened the doors. The smell of sex, death, and smoke, and they haven't even made it into the city yet?! "I knew it, I will hate this." Midnight huffed.

Lucky Star tapped Midnight on his hip making him jump, "So why do you hate this city?"

Midnight looked away "Bad memories." And his tone implies making him speak would end in someone getting blasted with magic. So they dropped the subject, "Just know slavery will be common in this city and also be careful about kidnappers, this city was never nice, Not even to the prince. So be on your guard and we take shifts in sleeping, I'm first, Lucky second, Metal third, Zextra fourth, and Golden is fifth. Do not be afraid to shoot to kill some ponies understand, They will likely kill you first if they could." He used his Magic and his Transformation magic to hide his horn and he looked like an Earthpony because he covered his wings with his magic cloak, which normally covered his guns and armor. He looked like an unarmored, and unarmed pony.

He used his magic to cause the LASV to become invisible well as best he would then they started walking towards the city. It took them an hour to get to the city gates, The smell had become stronger and stronger to the point where it was almost overwhelming. The closer they got the more Midnight's mood soured, by the time they reached the gate he was so close to just killing anyone who stood in his way.

A voice screamed at them, "Halt this is Lamark city entrance you have at least 200 caps to enter." Oh, midnight snapped.

He growled dangerously, "Do you wish to perish?" The guard pony seems to have got the message and yelped and the gate slowly opened, Midnight would not be bribed into opening a door that opens for anyone. The girls looked at him with a slight touch of fear, that voice he used was The Angel of Deaths. Magic flames leaked from his eyes though hardly anyone noticed mostly because Midnight kept them hidden with the little restraint he had left. a voice spoke out from behind them causing everyone but midnight to flinch, he just had to control himself

"Look pal don't threaten my guards, I don't know you honestly don't care who you are, just don't threate-" His words were cut off by a look from Midnight's blazing red eyes, But it wasn't the color that made the pony shut up, it was the pupils, They had transformed into vertical slits. To the Pony, he saw how he would die, and it was painful. He whimpered and ran off, Ponies do not know but the eyes of Wrath as the Alicorns call them, showed lesser ponies what would happen if you anger the pony using the eyes. Midnight grunted as his rage become suppressed, he smiled softly.

"Sorry mate but I had to push some of my rage into you, otherwise I would have exploded after all this is the wasteland." Lucky star sighed, he did something bad but at least, no one died.

When the gates opened fully the ponies all saw the horror that was Lamark, a city of slavery, rape, murder, and abuse. Because the first thing Midnight saw was an Old buck raping a filly and his vision turned red. His Magic erupted, and the buck seemed to just disappear, there was no flash no scream, just one second he was there the next nothing. "Be banished foul mortal, may hell seek their vengeance, because when you appear again you will be a broken pony wishing for only death. I never allow others to hurt the young."

#11 Parts of History

2 weeks before Balefire Armageddon

Midnight looked at the Textbook and sighed, Maraston the Nation he rules, The nation in war with Zebra. A nation that didn't wish to go to war, we refused to go to war with the zebra nation, it was the Equestrians war, not ours. Unlike Equestria, Maraston did not want coal or gemstones, we wanted peace and happiness. That was until 4 years ago when A zebra attempted to blow up one of Midnight's Schools, Lucky for the fillies and colts, The prince himself was there that day. The Zebra and the Prince talked, though the zebra had no wish in communication He was sent on a mission to kill the prince and only the prince.

4 years in the past

Lunamoon's School in Mannalus, Midnight looked over a dark blue unicorn with green mane with a single red stripe, "Lunamoon what is the meaning of this?! We are trying to Stay out of the war with the zebra not join it! I don't care what Equestria says this is my country NOT LUNAS. If I have to I will join the Zebra side! Fighting the zebra will just end badly! I don't wish to see my ponies die in a pointless war!" Lunamoon a unicorn that was part of the Midnight order, who was convinced that joining in the Equestrian war would be the best thing possible. Midnight knew better, he saw the future. Joining the war would end up with ponies dying pointlessly, but the choice was made for him.

Lunamoon sighed and looked at him in disappointment, "Look prince, you may know how to rule a nation but you are stupid when it comes to politics, joining the war would allow Maraston to flourish, I also think it would help the Nobles. Those pathetic nobles need to learn their place, they keep causing issues for the ponies under them." Midnight sighed, he knew it was over now, it was time for plan B to restart Maraston in the wasteland it was time, he learn combat and also learn all the schematics in Equestria. He had 4 years to prepare.

"f-Fine I s-suppose i-it w-would b-be g-good for ma-mar-Maraston." He hated himself for those words, he never wanted to say them, he knew now the country was on a countdown. He had to be perfect, he had to be the best he could be, The country will need him. "I will prepare the nation for w-war" He was so young and naive then, he didn't understand he could have prevented this! he could have said, 'No The nation will not go to war under any situation! We have a perfect nation We do not need to ruin it!' but no he submitted, he was so submissive back then, if somepony told him to do something he did it. Now he was better.

Midnight sighed and floated out his Custom Revolver, He knew about what would happen soon. He hid his revolver in his suit and walked outside the room to be face to face with a zebra. This zebra was pissed, "Well hello my good zebra." The zebra growled.

"You dare support that demon! Nightmare moon will destroy the planet!" Midnight sighed and shook his head.

"Sadly you are incorrect, You will destroy the planet." His words made the zebra stumble back and his eyes widened. The Zebra collected himself and growled and punched Midnight through the door he just walked through. Midnight spits up blood, and he heard the zebra gasp.

"DEMON!" Red flames leaked from Midnight's horn, Midnight's eyes became vertical slits, "Possessed! I must purify this nation!" Lunamoon looked at the zebra and growled and launched over the desk and attempted to kick the zebra, only to kick the wall. The zebra was gone?!

Luna moon sighed and looked at midnight, "Are you, okay sir?" Midnight grunted and nodded, in reality, he was not his Pipbuck was flashing with a red warning. Broken ribs, Injured muscles, and a punctured lung. Luckily he can heal quicker than most, Midnight sighed and had made a choice.

"I am going to Equestria I need to learn how to fight."

And that is how he came to be in Equestria.

Maraston was Territory of Equestria for nearly 100 years ago, Maraston was owned by Luna, But when she fell to her sister Celestia took over. When Luna returned she refused to take Marston as Celestia made it better, So Celestia Made a choice, a Plan B.

Celestia looked at her sister and smiled, She had to thank Twilight all the time for returning her sister back to her, though it seems Maraston was wanting a Princess to rule them. The Nobles were just begging for some form of a ruler, There was no other Princess or princes. Prince Blueblood did not deserve a country, And Luna just wanted To stay with Celestia. Her thoughts seemed to move somewhere else, 'What about if I had a child?' Celestia blushed, and Luna caught it.

Luna giggled and looked at Celestia, "Sister you look interested in something hum?" Celestia blushed again, Then they heard a knock at their door.

"Princesses We have a meeting with the Elder of the Lost dogs. He says he wants to meet you for a peace treaty, it seems ponies have been attacking their homes and they fear they will slowly die if the ponies continue this." Both Celestia and Luna snorted in rage. They both walked into the throne room and saw an old black wolf with pale eyes, it was obvious he was blind. Though the young wolf beside him looked powerful and fearless, he was calm and patient.

The Old wolf spoke first in a sad weak voice, "Princess of Sun, it seems ponies do not respect the order, as thou do. I just wished I had a chance to Fix this issue personally. My kind is slowly dying, but your ponies are making us die faster. Please Princess do something to fix this." Celestia looked at the young wolf and smiled softly, She had two ideas.

The Young wolf spoke, "Also Princess we have an idea that may help you, we give you some magic we can create, that way ponies will not see us as monsters."

Project Steel Wings: Patient #0/ Name: Fire Breeze
Race: Pegasus
Gender: F
Color scheme: Coat: Steel grey
Mane and tail: Red, Orange, and Yellow.

Eyecolor is Pale grey.

Fire Breeze seems to have adapted to the Project fairly well, it seems her body, though her personality changed drastically. Where she used to be shy and calm she is now fearless and brazen, she even got into fights with the other subjects. Though she was unlike other pegasi, her wings were shot off my flak shells from a Zebra cannon. We have come to name her Metal Wing. The project has also seemed to have destroyed her color scheme she is now pure grey, just different shades of grey, it is actually terrifying to see her colors slowly fade to grey. ~Doctor Cross Stitch

PS. Keep Metal Wing as a military project, she seems to be happy to kill anyone, though she is incapable of learning things that do not involve fighting.

Project Skyfall, Location Unknown, Director M.M In charge with Prince Midnight Overseeing.

"Are you sure about this M.M? This ship will be one too many if the Enclave seems to find this ship. The whole entire planet will fall into chaos!"

"I have checked all possible outcomes Prince, If the enclave does find out about this ship, I will find a way to either destroy them or the ship. The country is more important than one superweapon."

"You are right M.M but this superweapon is just that a superweapon, something capable of putting the nation back on track and also settling any form of conflict. While The Lunamoon and Morning star and Lone star are capable battleships, and the Lunamoon is the smallest and the weakest, but the Justice Sun will be the Mothership. Will we have enough occupants? I mean this ship will be capable of dusting the entire Enclave!"

"Midnight the Enclave isn't a thing yet, and also we have more than this project in effect."

"W-what are you talking about I only heard we have done Project Skyfall?"

"I hope you never have to find out Prince because even I fear this project and I created it."

The terminal cut out and Midnight looked out of the window to see, the largest ship ponykind ever made, the MAS Justice Sun.