Author's Note

Hi. Well. This is my first story on this site and I hope you enjoy it. I apologise in advance for my English. If anyone catches mistakes it would be appreciated and I will correct it.

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Someone's end is the beginning of others

Year 2100 - Half an hour before Operation Ragnarok

"The human mind is capable of creating and comprehending truths that cannot be decided by any mechanical procedure."

This was a sentence once said by the famous Austrian scientist Kurt Godel. However, I do not know if I am able to agree with him although I should. I am a robot, a mechanism that should not feel anything.... but it does. I feel immense sadness and grief. Humanity is collapsing, monsters from outer space are killing them every last one. Every time one dies two more come in its place. We cannot fight something that is practically impossible to even defend against. These creatures are capable of possessing others. They are literally living shadows that look like mythical werewolves by default. It is not known where they come from but it was known that they would carry out invasions of our galaxy for a long time.

Humanity and the allied races prepared for their arrival but their attack was far more powerful than expected. Already in the first days of the invasion they literally brought the so-called Greys living at Alpha Centauri to their knees, later the Orans, Guddans, Qazers and so on fell. Humanity was attacked at the latest and as they had defended themselves the longest the largest horde was sent, along with the mothership, which obscured the sun and the shadowy creatures blocked the possibility of escape from the planet. Right now a handful of survivors are fleeing to the Last within miles of an undestroyed bunker that is the best protected. Humanity doesn't stand a chance and the sight I see ... of creatures killing everything that moves against a red sky as if from an apocalypse that is now taking place only confirms this to me. It's over.

"042. 042!" I heard a shout from the general who was helping panicked people enter the shelter. This shout made him gain my attentions "Where is Sasha?! He was supposed to be here ten minutes ago!"

"I don't know General." I replied honestly not knowing how you can get lost during an apocalypse and your only point of reference is an intact fortified military base" I know only that he ran to look for his friend."

"What was that kid thinking! 042 I'll run for him and you try to accommodate as many people as possible!"

The general ran for his son trying to avoid as much as he could the omnipresent explosions and monsters People tried to run towards us so that the last barrier that provided protection from the aliens would protect them but it did not always work. Once a child and his parent tried to run but failed. It was kidnapped and the distraught mother went beyond the barrier without a second thought, perishing herself. In that moment, I felt something more than the software and uploaded artificial intelligence told me to feel. I felt sadness. I looked into the pieces of glass that were still in place.

I saw myself. I am just a medium-sized motorised flying robot created with nanotechnology so I could change my body to a small degree, although the default was a round drone whose head was slightly open backwards with tentacles at the bottom. Sasha, or my creator, said himself that he was inspired by a robot from his favourite film called Wild Robot. Vontra because that was the name of my prototype was bad but I was supposed to be good and I'm honestly not sure I'm doing it right. I was programmed as a research robot so sometimes I have an unhealthy habit of scanning and investigating everything. Sasha jokes that I'm about to get interested in lobotomy because of this curiosity. I was honestly curious about it but this is probably not the time for those thoughts. I see the general and Sasha running towards us. Very hard for them through the chaos but they make it. Oh no...

"DAD!" Shouted my creator as one blast reached them but the general pushed his son away and himself flew into the air and fell practically a dozen metres from the barrier. Sasha ran up to him and tried to pick him up but alas. He is a skinny nineteen-year-old boy with little muscle. He never wanted to join the army. He wanted to be more of a scientist like his mother. He can't cope. "Dad get up! It's close!" The boy continued to try even though he understood it was impossible "I'M BEGGING!"

"Young one." Whispered the general quietly but I was able to hear him. "You have to go. You will make it through. You will rebuild the world. You can do it."

"I won't walk away from you! I won't let you die!"

"You will cope. I know that."

Those were his last words before his hand fell from the boy's freckled face to the ground and his son, in his torn jacket, trousers and already soiled T-shirt, cried into his chest. I felt once again that feeling that people would call sadness. I tried to understand it but I don't think I had time. At that time I noticed that one of the shadow monsters was running straight at him. I couldn't run there. I was given a clear command that I have to stay here and help other people. But this is my friend. My creator. But the command. A creator in danger, a command.... A friend in danger. But a command... But... The friend who gave me the ability to think abstractly is in danger....

"Damn the orders." Thanks to nanotechnology, I created a blaster for myself and flew at tremendous speed to Sasha, who only realised the creature was trying to kill him. He wouldn't have had time to react but I flew in time so I managed to shoot it down and kill it. Unfortunately a whole horde of other monsters came running from our direction. "Sasha we have to go." I wanted to take his hand but he rejected it. "If you stay here, you will die." I said.

"At least there will be an end to all this madness." He replied with tears in his eyes. "I just want it all to be over, I want to see the sun again. I haven't seen it for a two years. My mum died three months ago and now my dad. Go to the shelter yourself Kit. I want to die here."

"You are my friend. I don't want to feel sad again like I did with your father." He looked at me in shock. "I was surprised too but listen. I don't think your father would want you to die in vain. Come with me. The shelter's almost full and there's not much to save anyway. You will go to sleep and when you wake up it will be you and the other people who will rebuild civilisation anew."

In the turmoil of the chaos, he had time to still think about the things I had said to him. Meanwhile, I was trying to stop the aliens from attacking us. "Good." He finally said. "I want my father to be proud of me" I nodded to him and a smiling face appeared on my screen where a face should have been but Sasha when he looked at me looked scared. "BEWARE KIT!"

He pushed me away covering himself with his hand. Seconds later he lost that hand when a creature with a blade instead of a hand cut him. With shock in his eyes, Sasha looked once at the creature and then at the stump that was left behind. I reacted as quickly as I could by putting the blaster to his face, with which I killed the monster. The boy fell to his knees and I picked him up, and with the greatest speed I could achieve I flew into the barrier and into the lift that took us several kilometres underground. This base is not specialised in medicine but it could be. It is one of three left and between them you can teleport but there is too much danger now. When we arrived I flew with him straight to the hospital wing. On the way I heard the higher-ups saying something about some kind of Ragnarok operation. I didn't have time for that.

I put Sashe on the table where a snake-like Eir medical unit started scanning him. To stop the bleeding he anaesthetised my creature and burned the stump due to very little supplies. I moved away to not disturb and took one last look at the screen of probably the last camera still out there. I have ... hope that this is not the end. I hope that the people will return and with them a rebirth and not the destruction they almost wrought on the earth....

Current times - Canterlot

To be completely honest, being a princess is boring. Even very boring when, like me, by day you have to deal with the boring affairs of boring nobles who think they can do anything. Eh how much I would give to be Luna. Practically no one would come to me, the nobles wouldn't bother me and I could fight nightmares. Yes. That would be interesting and so I have to sit and listen to complaints. As much as I enjoy helping my dear ponies it is tiring. Fortunately, the day is coming to an end and I can leave the sunshine soon and let Luna take over. Unfortunately, since Twilight defeated Tirek not much has been happening. It is quiet. Too calm.

Maybe it's just the calm before the storm or some paranoid thoughts of mine but it feels like something might happen. "Princesses!" I heard one of my guards shout. So I was right.

"What's going on?" Asked my sister who had just woken up. "I know it's my time but there was no need to shout like that."

"It wasn't me sister. Apparently the guard has detected something." We looked at the panicked guard, who is quite terrified. "What's the matter? What happened?"

"Princesses. There. The monster. Glowing eyes. It attacked me with a spell and it didn't look like any species I know!" He shouted practically on one breath shaking all over.

"Calm down. Where was it?" I asked him. "Did it follow you?"

"I found him under the castle." We looked at him crookedly. "I went on my rounds and that's when I noticed the hidden door. I opened it and there was a cave. I went in and saw strange symbols that I couldn't read and then there was a monster!"

I looked at my sister and she looked at me. So it was this cave that our parents had told us about. Supposedly there were some caves under the castle but even they didn't want to go in there. If these are the caves our parents told us about then I guess it's high time to check if it's true. "Lead the way."

The guard went and we followed him. We said we would be gone a while. He led us a good few minutes because it was right downstairs but he finally got to the door he was talking about. He was afraid to open it so I did. He was right. It is the entrance to quite a large cave. I walked in and the first thing I felt was that the ground was not stone but metal. Luna also noticed this and did not understand it as I did. So I went first and the further I went, the cave expanded and there were strange symbols and paintings on the walls. One of the paintings depicted a strange creature. It looks like a hairless monkey wearing clothes. I'm guessing it's upper body because its what I'm guessing are upper limbs similar to those of minotaurs. One of his limbs is attached to his body and the other salutes his forehead. Judging by the medals on his chest he must have been some kind of hero.

"Do you recognise these creatures sister?" My sister asked. Wanted to answer her but was unable to when she saw another image. "Sister... By all creation..."

Apparently she also saw what I saw i.e. small versions of that creature what I had seen before without eyes, ears, noses and mouth giving what looked like bows to another unknown but terrifying creature or rather just its white smile with sharpened teeth, red eyes on so many creatures that looked like shadows. I stepped back slightly but then I hit something. It wasn't a wall because the wall was a little further away. I turned around to see something metal. Nothing happened after a few moments this thing opened its eyes. The guard hid behind me and Luna activated the horn with me. A couple of strange sounds came from the metal monster, it straightened a large limb similar to the creature in the painting and wanted to approach us but just as quickly as if it had activated its eyes those eyes disappeared and the thing all but fell inertly to the ground.

"------------."

The creature spoke? I couldn't understand but I'm sure it spoke. Luna was the first to dare and touch the monster but nothing happened. I approached as well. I wanted to try to talk to it but nothing. The dark eyes did not move. I looked at Luna and at the huge wall as if divided in half in front of us. It must be a door. So what my parents had told me was true. Twilight also said she was researching an ancient civilisation she had stumbled upon recently but had come to a standstill. Well. I guess it's a lucky day for her. I don't know where this will lead us but one thing is certain. Whatever created this guardian must have been defending itself against the monsters in the painting....