Arcadia

Thus my dream of my farther chasing me through the lush green fields of Arcadia took and slightly odd turn when he threw a wet napkin at my face and shouted

"Wake up you waste of fur!" at me considering my farther was the most loving Stallion in all of Arcadia, a guard stood at my cell gates with a rather uncomforting sneer on his face but quickly broke the silence by bellowing at the top of his voice

"THE PRINCESS WILL BE JUDGING YOU IN A FEW MINUTES!" with a quick shaking of all the bricks and plaster in the wall from sound vibration. Walking down the hallways of the castle dungeon was not the most spirit raising sight for somepony who is clearly guilty for bringing war to a lovely green country and it's also not very good to know they send the loudest bloody guard in the business to wake you because trust me they don't deploy that guy lightly seeing as how it takes forever to shut his damn gob. As the bright lights of the courtroom filled my eyes and the sounds of screaming and hate in my ears I was instantly reminded of my home land or for better words how I was kicked out of my homeland. I could feel a great and pure presence as the Princess closed in on the threshold of the doorway, but that only made me feel more sick in guilt,

*SMACK SMACK SMACK!* "ORDER IN THE ROYAL COURT" shouted Celestia in the "Royal Canterlot Voice" which made all the crowd cower in silence, nopony had ever seen Celestia so mad or use the Royal Canterlot Voice.

"Dark Aurora! You have been charged with the crimes of bringing Shadows to our country of Equestria! How do you judge?" shouted the Princess with a expression that blatantly says "I'm really pissed off", I couldn't say anything, my body was frozen in terror but I let out a whimper as I had finally built up all my courage and I knew I will speak the words that will truly seal my fate, those words are..."I'm boned". All the ponies had just face hoofed as the Princess decreed that I be banned from Equestria in hope the Shadows will follow.

It was a true walk of shame through all of Canterlot, silence filled the streets as I trotted in dishonor down the streets, peering into the green lands of Equestria for the last time I saw Ponyville half destroyed with explosions going off left and right, the guard who had just led me to the Pegusis drawn carriage asked me if I had anything to say before I left, I threw my head upwards with the look of pride and preached to the crowd

"I will return" and stepped down and with nothing else to say we departed to Arcadia.As the pounding heat of the Arcadian deserts pelted my coat I knew that I was near what I used to call home but that was a very long time ago, a time when I was renowned as the greatest inventor in all of the land but either way I was dirt to that country now. My choices of places to go were the lush green fields of Arcadia...Or the Screaming Sands...Well I couldn't go back into the gates of Arcadia so the Screaming Sands it is! What  the heck could go wrong? Well, by night there are creatures dragged straight from Hell up to the surface world by witches in the sandy mountains oh and it's also the time when Shadows can creep out from the caves and not be burned to the soul by the sun.

After starting my journey to a new home seeing as how I've just been taken to the other side of the damn planet to bait my worst nightmare away from the only country that has good ponies in it...for the most part, I could feel my head getting soaked with sweat with every rock I needed to climb over feeling like a frying pan that's been on the stove from hell for 16 years but nothing too new or interesting because for the longest time I have not felt any kind of happiness for years but that wouldn't stop me, I could see something creeping in over the horizon

"It's an Equestrian military base...Damn" I whispered to myself as I could see that was the only salvation for miles, I had suspected I'd walked at least 13 miles by this point but no matter, I could see the base growing over the hills and I felt the sweat rushing down my neck as I sprinted towards it and before I knew it, my mouth was full of sand, I'd instantly passed out mid sprint, So much for bloody salvation then eh? Well it wasn't over yet, after about 6 hours I could see a green pony closing in on me talking to another pony wearing cameo, I couldn't make out what they were saying because everything sounded blurry to me and with no other option I past out.

My only assumption of what happened is that they rescued me, I'd just woken and the first thing I saw was piping and metal wires tangled across the roof of the room I was in. I made a attempt to lean up but I just bumped my nose on the hard glass of a cryopod, so the way I see it is I'm either burning in the desert or freezing in a cryopod? Well it's not like it mattered, I was alive and ready to greet my heroes who are just as happy to see me by aiming a fully loaded Colt .42 at my face.

"Where in Equestria am I?!" I shouted in a rather perplexed tone

"In Equestria? Keep dreaming, We're a long LONG way away from Equestria right now." calmly said one of the Marines putting away the fully loaded pistol.

"We're a small scavenger unit sent to the Arcadian deserts to recover artifacts left by the precursors of these sands" explained the green commander of the base who was taking her sweet bloody time to unlock the cryopod. I was startled by the crackle of the commanders Radio

"Excuse me Miss, we just got a Radio transmission from scavenger team Delta reading "A large diamond sandstorm heading towards the base, raise shields"" stuttered a voice on a radio strapped to the commanders green hoof, "For f... CPL Greenleaf, report to the tech tower and tell them to get off there asses and raise the shields!" yelled the commander pointing her hoof to the Marine. Soon after she pulled my out of the cryopod we walked to the observation deck of the base where she pointed out all the parts of the base, In the technology department I saw some scientist trying to attach a new Model IV plasma lobber to the underail of a Assault Rifle,

"Give it here you berk" I said grabbing it from his hoofs and it looked like he had something to say before I handed it back to him with lots of bits of it taken off and it fully attached to the Assault Rifles underail, the commander looked impressed and so did the scientist. we stood looking into the glistening storm in the moonlight of the Arcadian desert, whilst being highly deadly it was strangely beautiful, it was a whole storm consisting of Diamond, sand and wind. I jolted as a crackling of the commanders Radio flickered, she giggled and quickly turned back to the window,

"Commander Sharphorn reading you loud and clear tech wing, go ahead" she said smiling into the moon with the light shining off her eyes,

"The shields! There not responding! The power is shot on the plasma generator!" Cried the engineer over the Radio, "Dammit! I gotta get down there! Stay here OK?" Said the Commander as she ran out the room. Seeing as how I've got nothing to lose I ran down there to see what was wrong, on my way I saw Marines running into the barracks with one of them almost knocking my glasses off and a quick moral boosting comment of "WATCH IT FOUR-EYES!". After bursting into the Engineering I saw the scientist on the ground with the commander knocked out, walking in with a rather uneasy expression the door slammed behind me with a sound of a crank turning.

"Who's there?!" I muttered to myself whilst turning around to meet the creepy culprate, although it was kind of pointless seeing as how it was pitch black, I used my hoof to feel the objects around me and felt something screen like with a button on the side of it, I pushed the button but there was no result,

"Well great" I whispered to myself with anger. I pulled out the cable connected to the screen with the wire responding with a flicker, The wire flickered every few seconds, around the fifth flash I saw a shadow of a pony standing directly in front of me but the second flicker revealed nopody there. I was now shaking with fear as my head flooded with ideas of what this creature could possibly be, as I stumbled round the corner I turned around to notice a glowing blue plasma battery,

"Ah, Looks like my lucks turning around" I said ironically, but no for it would seem this plasma battery has mastered the art of floating,

"What the f-" I stuttered and dived as the battery started hurling towards me, with a lucky dodge it would seem this battery had no intention of sticking around as it climbed up a ladder and made is departure through a emergency hatch, I sprinted and climbed up the ladder and saw the glow of the plasma battery but my attention was quickly drawn off by the sound of glass shattering and wind blowing, my head snapped to the left and there it was, It was literally 60 yards away and I had so little time to activate the plasma shields so with no further delay I sprinted off to attempt to recover that battery. As I was sprinted across the roof tops of the base I heard a voice on the base megaphone

"Storm primed to hit in T-20 seconds" and this gave me a instant burst of speed in my hooves, with the wind in my mane and the target in my sights I lept forward and knocked down the shadow that was making off with the plasma battery. All of a sudden I couldn't breathe, It felt like somepony was choking me and I was right, I tried to push the shadow off me but the shadow continued to grasp at my throte, eventually I kicked him off so hard he flew off into the sky and I quickly dived onto the plasma battery placed the flickery wire into the plasma battery which produced a huge energy field around the base that catches the shadow, as the storm hit the energy field I fell down on the metal roof and right after that I heard the shadow scream as the flesh was torn from his very bones.

"Ew" I said in slight disgust.