Arcadia

10:39 AM, Thursday, 2009, Arcadian Science Labs

"Good Morning sir!" Greeted Neon Ponyleaf as I entered the Lab

"Ready for today's experiment?" He asked as he gave me my lab coat,

"Of course! Are the test subjects ready?" I responded looking into

the observation window whilst I got ready to start testing.

"Core charged, Moonlight based life form experiment ready to begin

on your mark sir" said Neon Ponyleaf,

"Then let us begin" I responded.

21:54 PM, Monday, 2012, Arcadian Desert outpost.

I got up and staggered a bit rubbing my throte but as soon as I looked down into the central square of the base I could see eyes twinkling in awe, In confusion I looked upwards and was amazed to an extent I could not have thought possible. Diamonds, Flickering in the storm with the glow of the plasma shield I'd just raised, It looked like thousands of shooting stars rocketing across the sky but the tension was broken by a Marine yelling

"HE DID IT!" at the top of his voice but was quickly drowned out by  the sound of the entire platoon cheering in joy. My attention was drawn off when the commander climbed out the tech wing via emergency hatch,

"You! You did it!" she joyfully sang as she sprinted towards me to wrap her arms around me and proceed to kiss me on the cheek,

"Thank you!" she whispered in my ear and quickly turned to the platoon to wave, I was frozen in...well I wasn't sure, It was something I hadn't felt in years but what I did know is that my cheeks were coloring and I was letting out a small smile,

"I-I feel..." I stuttered looking at the commander

"You feel...Happy?" the commander asked as she gave a sweet smile but I was still just standing there like a statue.

"*Yawn* Ow...My back feels like theirs a rod jammed up my-" I WOULD'VE said if I wasn't cut off by Commander Sharphorn "Morning Sweet heart!" she exclaimed lustfully, I looked around but only to notice all the soldiers had gone out the base to collect the Diamonds left over from the storm,

"Oh don't worry it's just you..." she paused and moved closer to my ear

"And me!" she whispered with what a pony from Canterlot would call "A naughty smile" I looked over her shoulder and saw she had me pinned by the arms and was slowly sliding her cheek down my neck, by this point I was sweating and blushing like hell but just as I had a thought of what she might be doing she jolted her arm backwards and a metallic crank responded.

"OW! What the hell?!" I exclaimed with great pain, The commander lept off and giggled whilst I immediately leaned up to look at what she'd done. There was a steel ring on my neck with a blue orb on the front but the ring gave of a steel wire that went down my back and IN my back, Yes I'm dead serious...IN my back but then it continued again out my chest and wrapped around my shoulders.

"GAH! Why is that in my spine?! HOW is that in my spine?!" I cried in terror,

"It's okay! Calm down! It's a plasma shielding system built into your spine and your ribcage, the blue button on your neck is used to  activate it! Try it out" Commander Sharphorn said trying to relax me whilst moving my hoof on to the blue button on the front of the ring, I pressed it with caution and a field of baby blue plasma built around me and it looked just like the one that had protected the base last night. Breakfast was rather odd like with soldiers patting me on the shielding system and questioned me about who I was or where I was from etc. but then a soldier brought up something that caught my attention,

"Did you guys hear about the Arcadian king and Princess Celestia meeting up for a peace talk?" said the grey pony with desert Cameo with his silvery dog tags,

"A peace talk?" I responded because Equestria and Arcadia have never had any quarries before so what could King Arcadia have to do with this? "Yeah! There's been a breakdown of security, Somepony got some  info that King Arcadia sent the Shadows to go kill somepony called uh...I think his name was Dark Aurora? You know anypony by that name?" said the Marine but just as he'd finished that sentence it felt like time had stopped,

"You alright buddy? You don't look so good..." asked the Marine. All I could do was get up and try to leave the base but...It didn't go as well as I planned,

"Where are you going?" Ask Commander Sharphorn at the opposite side of the corridor but I just stopped for a second before trying to sprint past her,

"*HURK*" I squealed as she grabbed me by the throte to stop me from running past her and slammed me to the ground.

"Where are you going?!" She ask looking down at me with a angry but confused expression, I lept up to make another attempt of escape but  once again she grabbed me by the tail, swung me back and pinned me by the chest holding a knife up to my throte, now she looked really angry.

"Who are you? What's your name?!" she asked with a rather furious tone

"And don't try anything! Your shields are on lock-down! They wont activate until I say so" she added as I reached for the button on my  neck. By this point I had no choice but to answer her,

"My name...I'm..." I hesitated as she got a hint of realization,

"You're...Dark Aurora?" she said as she lowered the knife, I nodded with a look of shame and tears started to well in my eyes.

"Hey...It's OK...It's OK..." she said as she raised my head by the chin to show me a comforting smile,

"*Sniff* No it's not..." I said with a tear rolling down my face,

"Don't cry...It'll all be OK" She added stroking my mane, for a military commander she sure is nice and comforting.

"But...You know you need to stop this" She said in a serious but calm tone,

"I know...I need to get back to Equestria and fix this" I responded raising my head. Later on she agreed to take me back on a Pegusis drawn carriage,

"So, You ready to go?" She asked me in the back of the Carriage,

"Huh? Oh! Yeah, I'm good..." I said nervously because...Hey I'm going into a counrty I've been exiled from and going to face my worst nightmare completely out numbered, out gunned and out of my mind. About 20 minutes in I could feel something in the air, It wasn't natural...Shadows in the air...

"Oh no...Bring the carriage down!" I shouted as I realized what was wrong, there were Dark Pterodactyls in the air also know as Terrordactyls.

"What's wro-" Commander Sharphorn asked as she was cut off by a horrifying screeching sound,

"What...on Earth...Is that?!" Commander Sharphorn asked as the Terrordactyls closed in.

"WATCH OUT!" I shouted as I could smell the horrid stench of the beast, *SMASH*! The Terrordactyls smashed into the Carriage and we rocketed towards the ground.

"Ow...Uhg...My head..." I groaned as I pushed the wreckage of the carriage off my body,

"Oh great, my glasses are gone!" I exclaimed looking around, my eyes are by no means blind as a bat, but I need glasses to see distant objects but either way they wouldn't help me now, It was muddy, wet and full of trees.

"Sharphorn? Shaaaaarphorn?" I yelled looking around for her, but then I noticed a green hoof under some reckage,

"Sharphorn!" I exclaimed running towards the her.

"HRRNNNNNGGG...GAH!" I gasped as I lifted the rubble off her body,

"Sharphorn? Commander Sharphorn, are you OK? Can you hear me?" I said crouching down to help her, She wasn't breathing, I needed to help her some how.

"Oh no" I said to myself as I realized what I needed to do, I sat down, closed my eyes and locked lips with her in a attempt to make her breathe, In my mind all I was saying way "Please breathe, Please breathe but don't wake up!" but after about 20 seconds of giving her the kiss of life I opened my eyes and saw hers looking at me lustfully,

"MAAARF!" I yelled in surprise but was still locked lips with her,

she giggled and let me go,

"GAH! I-UH...I was just-" I stammered whilst blushing like hell,

"Oh calm down!" She said whilst she picked herself up from the ground. Commander Sharphorn looked around at the Marsh and noticed that all the supplies from the carridge had been stolen.

"What were those things?" She asked me as we walked along the muddy road,

"Terrordactyls, They were probably sent by King Arcadia to stop Pegusis drawn carriages from getting out of his Desert" I responded with a slightly irritated tone but I had a perfectly good reason to be, I was told when I was...Just...Never mind. We had reached some kind of set up in these Marshes, My first though was "YES!" quickly followed by my second thought of "DAMMIT!" seeing as how this was a set up of Rogues and Vagabonds.

"Pirates!" Commander Sharphorn whispered as she took out her knife,

"Hey now, Let's try something a little less likely to get us killed hmmm?" I said lowering her weapon,

"Just follow my lead!" I calmly said as we walked down into the small set up.

"HAVE AT YE!" Yelled a Pirate holding his cutlass to my nose,

"All ye land lubbers better hand over all ye gold before I cuts you a new jaw!" Bellowed the Pirate,

"Uh...Actually we're tourists" I responded with a nervous tone as Sharphorn face hoofed in response.

"Oh...Well if ya need any directions just remember to ask ol' Bumfluff!" responded the Pirate,

"Bumfluff?" Asked Sharphorn trying to hide a wide grin,

"Yep! Ol' Captain Bumfluff's me name!" wise words from a drunk old Pirate that would probably forget his own mane if it wasn't attached to his head. As soon as Ol' Bumfluff staggered off the cobblestone street and fell face first into a sign Me and Sharphorn made our way to the docks of Mystery Port,

"There he is! The killer!" Shouted one of the locals,

"How did we get into this" I asked Sharphorn whilst all the guards aimed there rifles at us.

"No criminal scum such as yourself gets past us!" exclaimed of the guards...Well he would've done if he didn't get cut off by a knife flying through the air and into his vocal chords. Everypony gasped and ran away as fast as lightning,

"Come on!" Sharphorn yelled and quickly grabbed my hoof and ran away.

"Sorry sir, All boats are prevented from leaving port since the murders" the skipper said in a tone that made him seem rather spooked,

"The murders?" I responded in a perplexed tone,

"Eeyup, Murders takin' place in the ol' tavern but everybody still goes there anyway because there a bunch of old stupids" he said ironically. It would seem that murders had been taking place in the tavern at night, seeing as how everypony was a cider chugging moron people went there regardless of the dangers, well this killer was stopping me from leaving port and the more time I spent faffing about in this old bog the more Equestria was getting destroyed by Shadows. It was about 22:42 PM, me and Sharphorn sat at one of the tables outside the Tavern to see if we could catch this Killer,

"Oh, by the way I got you these..." said Sharphorn as she handed me a pair of fresh new glasses straight from the packet,

"Wow, Thanks! There great." I said with a smile, She acted odd when we were alone or at least with hardly anypony around,

"Y'know...You don't really smile that much..." she said with a calm voice but she saw I wasn't really listening, I felt something I'd never felt before but I only felt it around her.

"Hey, are you OK? You're blushing" she said smiling but she knew what was going on, she had that expression on her face.

"I'm...I'm fine, I just feel weird" I responded with a odd feeling in my stomach, her eyes shined in the glow on the candle light and her mane flowed in the breeze,

"You look amazing" I said gazing into her eyes, Sharphorn blushed but that struck me as odd, I realized I said that aloud, I DIDN'T MEAN TO F*CKING SAY THAT ALOUD! Not like it mattered mind you because she immediately responded with "Aw thanks". For a few more minutes Sharphorn asked me constantly why I moved to Equestria, I didn't want to tell her just to nip any possibility in the bud of her thinking I'm the cause of Armageddon but then she started talking about her life back in Equestria,

"Did you have feelings for anybody?" Sharphorn asked me twirling her  hair in her hooves,

"Nah, I was more into my experiments back in Arcadia..." I responded trying to relax. Some old drunk berk came over to us and started trying to get with Sharphorn,

"Huy babth!" the pirate said with his tongue hanging out,

"how bowth you wimp this ditch and get with a real stallion?" he said losing his balance, he fell onto her and she kicked him off

"Get away from me, freak!" she yelled but this made the drunk violent,

"OI!" he yelled as he lunged at her, she dodged his swing and took out her knife but he responded with a cutlass. The pirate swung and scratched her on the arm, I stood up and glassed him on the back of the head and knocked him out,

"Stupid bastard" I said to myself dropping the bottle and I trotted on over to assist Sharphorn,

"Are you OK?" I said holding her on the shoulders,

"Yeah, I'm..." she paused as we gazed into each others eyes, we were moving closer and blushing, she was blushing on her cheeks and moving closer to my face but I was doing the same,

"What am I doing?" I thought to myself but just as we were like...1 center meter away from each other we heard a scream,

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!", me and Sharphorn gasped and sprinted towards the origin of the scream. By the time we had got there the victim was already gone, there was just blood and a knife,

"Look! Up on the roof!" exclaimed Sharphorn pointing her hoof at the silhouette on the roof who was turning to run,

"Oh no you don't!" I yelled as I scaled the building. What is it with me and needing to run across rooftops to catch somepony? Oh well, this killer was in a hurry and in no mood to stick around so naturally I set all sails in her direction so I could punch her in her stupid bloody face, she was closing in on a huge gap and there was NO way she could make the jump but she wasn't stopping,

"Stop you idiot!" I yelled increasing my speed but that wasn't stopping her either, the killer lept off the building into the dark streets, my hoofs screeched against the roof as I tried to stop but luckily I did. Peering into the darkness I couldn't see anything, where was she? Nopony could survive a fall like that, but just as I turned away assuming she fell to her death I heard a swooshing noise, I quickly turned around to see a knife swinging towards my face,

"WOAH!" I exclaimed whilst dodging the knife, she proceeded to fly away,

"Great, She's a Pegusis!" I exclaimed, I managed to catch a glimpse of her Cutie Mark, It looked like I knife stabbing through a heart...Well it would make sense right?