The human code named Haze stood at the edges of Ponyville, along with Sithjjf and Dragon. The sky was ablaze above the three figures and anyone would have thought fireworks were launching, but the truth was that the UNOSE members, along with most of humanity, were sitting in their little one man jets shooting at the Equestrian army, who also sat in, either improvised, stolen or repaired jets of their own. The fire was either explosions or hits. The fight had been going on for hours, but the ground battle had been won and humanity was retreating. Haze looked to his two friends and smiled a bit. Sithjjf, still raw with the blood of the fighting, turned to Haze and nodded, as did Dragon. It had been a bloody, but gainful victory. Haze held his sledge hammer in one hand and the still slightly over heated pistol in the other. Sithjjf had come with his double barreled shotgun along with a small semi automatic machine gun. Whilst Dragon just held his heavy bolt gun in both hands. Smoke still rising from the long barrel which shot the bullets. The three stood silent staring into the waste land of Equestria for a moment until a building somewhere in the distance collapsed onto itself.
Haze was a young man in his mid thirties, short, scruffy brown hair and emerald green eyes, a small scar on his left check from a knife wound, he wore a white top underneath a leather jacket, plated by some black-brown coloured Equestrian metal. Haze was originally from Britain but had moved to America for a better life, the USA hadn't been affected as much with overpopulation, due to all the underground cities it had built with the war in 2088 with the Arab states to protect the people from bombings.
Sithjjf was a younger lad, well, late twenties, with brown-black hair and brown eyes. He held a picture of Celestia on his person at all times and openly had a crash on the Alicorn. The man held his shotgun loosely over his shoulder as he looked onto the land in silence. He had been born and raised in the great land of Australia and hadn't moved from there, well, until all the bronies were forced to move to Equestria on the giant transport ship named 'Celestia'.
Finally at the end of the line stood Dragon. He was a German man of about thirty-two, the German had been almost entirely all around the world and had a Pegasister girlfriend somewhere in the town. He was nearly two metres tall, average body size, lots of arm muscles and medium length straw-blonde hair, grey-blue eyes and a fully grown, masterly trimmed beard and held his nano saber to his side. The blade was much like any other sword, except it allowed the wielder the chance to easily deflect bullets as the blade itself was weightless. A small buzz of light shone from it if activated and it put up a small shield like object to protect Dragon. It was a good weapon, one only just brought in from Earth for UNOSE troops, but Dragon had found it and named it Nick for whatever reason. The three stood together in silence, just staring. Sithjjf twitched and moved his shotgun to a lower position at his side and Haze let in a deep, calm breathe.
"We won." Was all Haze said, it was all Haze had to say. It was true, all this time in slavery. All this time in the dark from the rest of humanity, not just Earth, Mars too, and the moon base. All of humanity had shunned the bronies, pegasisters and ponies out in the dark and cold. But no more.
"This is our doing." Sithjjf added. They were men of the age, leaders to everyone and everypony still enslaved. There would be liberty, there would be death. But hell, they would have their victory.
"We are leaders Sithjjf, leaders who will free Equestria." Dragon said. The other two men nodded. An explosion sounded as a jet was hit and fell in a ball of fire somewhere in the distance.
"Come on, let's get back into Ponyville." Haze said, they all nodded and turned to walk back into the town.
Only a few of the buildings remained standing, many were still on fire and the dead still lined the streets. Equestrian artillery had been encumbered in the cobble roads and were firing into the sky at the overhanging jets. Ponies and humans alike dotted the streets, doing their best to clean up. It would of been late afternoon, but with the two princesses also imprisoned in Canterlot, the magical sun and moon which they create had been put off so a person, or pony, was never sure what time or day it was. It was wonderful how the planet had been able to create life which then was knocked away from the sun and allowed the alicorn ponies to create their own star and moon. Giving more life to the planet. It was magnificent how it worked. Just by luck.
Dragons girlfriend, Flutterdash, ran up to the man and hugged him tightly, Dragon was so shocked by the embrace that he nearly dropped his nano saber. Sithjjf let a small laugh when he saw this and Haze also gave a smile. The sledge hammer becoming unbalanced and heavy suddenly.
"We did it." She said. The girl had long blonde hair, the same shade as Dragon's, she was slightly smaller than him and she had a good figure, blue sparkling eyes and long legs to make up her height. Flutterdash held a small machine pistol in her hand and had taken the clip out.
"Yes Flutterdash, we did." Dragon knew her real name, as did everyone around, each of the four knew their real names, they were just so used to the code calls that it came natural to them now. Dragon held on tight to Flutterdash for a few more moments before a coughing noise from Rainbow Dash sounded. Dragon looked down at the pony and his face went as red as Flutterdash's lips.
"We won guys, you saved us all." Rainbow Dash said. Her voice was hoarse from shouting and she had some blood in her mane.
"Not all of us. We still have a lot of ground to take before Equestria is free. I mean, look at the sky, that isn't no victory." Haze replied, pausing when an artillery cannon fired. Rainbow Dash looked sad for a moment but then brightened up again.
"Come on." Rainbow said, trotting away. Everyone looked to her. "What?" She said. "I need a damn drink." She added, Haze shuddered suddenly, he hated that the ponies had been learning human swears. Hated the fact that humans swore around them all together. Yet he was probably the worst at swearing. After an akward moment of still silence Sithjjf stepped forward to join Dashie.
"A drink might cool me down." He said. Haze nodded and laughed.
"Heck, not like we gotta get up tomorrow." Haze said. He had begun sounding very American since his travels there, that was, before the UNOSE decided to kick all bronies out. Haze looked to Dragon and Flutterdash before they too decided to come for a drink in what was left of the human built bar.
On the way everything in Ponyville were cheering for the five. One pony in the crowd shouted something Haze couldn't ignore.
"Speech!" The pony shouted. Haze did a small bow toward the pony and Sithjjf laughed. The five of them, despite everything in the past were grinning ear to ear. It had been a glorious day. Haze stepped up the wooden platform which was the stage outside the town hall. He looked to the faces of the ponies and people. Before he began there was a huge explosion in the sky, everything looked up to see the UNOSE flagship in flames, its fighters retreating and the pony forces running any stragglers behind. The radio just next to Haze buzzed to life.
"Ground forces, this is captain Twilight Sparkle, we have defeated the human- I mean, UNOSE flagship and they are retreating. Victory in the sky people. Also Rainbow, wish you was with us today. We won!" The radio buzzed aloud and everything roared up in victory again. Gunshots were fired and cheers bellowed from the crowd. Haze touched his arm wound a little and felt a damp patch. He would have to see Fluttershy, who was one of the revolts doctors. She was a good pony, one of legend, both here and the Brony religion. Suddenly everyone quieted down for Haze to speak. The human cleared his throat a little before placing his sledge hammer down to rest on the wood stall in front of him.
"Bronies, Pegasisters, Ponies. I am not a man of many words, but I can say a few things quickly. We won a great victory today over the rest of humanity. Many good people, and ponies died to get us here, but we have done it. Ponyville is a free town once more." Haze said, there was another huge roar from the crowd which only stopped when Haze raised his hand to say more. "But we are not finished in our quest for freedom. This is but one town. Equestrian UNOSE Central is based in Canterlot. That must fall before we are able to push them back. Many of you will question why we don't just attack it now. I shall tell you. UNOSE has far better technology in weaponry and jets. If we attack they would have an advantage in almost every way. We must gather more people, free more towns, so that the UNOSE learn that we are not just a bunch of rebels, we are a revolt. A revolt against everything UNOSE stands for and everything they put us down for. They think us second grade citizens, slaves to be used in Earth's technology and expansion. Well, soon they shall see. Soon they will see that we, we are Equestrians and we will stand, we will fight. And by Celestia we will fucking win!" Haze shouted, but before the crowd could launch a final uproar, a single gunshot sounded, and the hammer Haze had so openly balanced, fell to the floor. Sithjjf, Dragon, Flutterdash and Rainbow all gasped and let out a cry. Rainbow Dash ran over to Haze, people and ponies alike were looking for the shooter, after a moment another gunshot fired and a man somewhere near the back fell, gun in hand, the shooter had shot himself. Haze lay on his back gasping. He coughed up some blood and Rainbow tilted his head up. Flutterdash looked to Haze's breast. There was a lot of blood.
"Haze." Sithjjf said.
"Yeah buddy?" Haze replied quietly, slowly. Coughing more.
"Your be okay. Remember, you gotta for fill your damn speech, about us being Equestrians, and about kicking the UNOSE out. You have to Haze. Don't die." Sithjjf said. Watching his friend close his eyes. "Don't you fucking die!" Sithjjf shouted, holding back tears, he saw Dragon was as well.
"DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT FUCKING DYING ON ME!" Sithjjf bellowed at Haze. Looking to Flutterdash as she held down her jumper on Haze's wound. "Do something!" Sithjjf shouted. Dragon gave a glare at Sithjjf, something like "Don't talk to my girlfriend like that." But Dragon was too shocked to speak, Dragon actually fell to his knees next to Haze and stared.
"I'm a vet, not a doctor, I never treated gunshot wounds. Anyway, he. He's. He's dead. The blood flow stopped, his heart has stopped. I'm sorry Sith, he drowned in his own blood, the wound was too bad. He's dead." Flutterdash said, releasing the pressure on his breast line. Dragon shoved his face into his hands and shook his head. Sithjjf just stared, coldly, calmly. Muttering one phrase over and over.
"Haze is dead."
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Haze, Dragon and Sithjjf all sat around in a bar. It was dark outside, and snowing. They had all met up in New York for christmas and were now sitting on some bar stools drinking together. They were the only three people in the whole bar talking, all the other people were sitting, heads down, staring into their beers and alcohol.
"I may be in America now, but I still spell words right." Haze joked after Sithjjf made a remark. The three gave a short laugh and spoke some more.
After a moment or two a man in a huge coat ran in. He had a rainbow tattooed to his face, so he was part of Bronydom and he was panting a little so he had been running, the guy had a short dark brown beard shaven a bit to show the tattoo which made his face look weird. The man was in his late forties and had denim jeans on.
"Quick!" The stranger said. "Put the news on about Keplar 51!" He added, the waitress quickly put the TV on. It was no secret that humanity had launched another expansion onto Keplar 51, already terraforming Mars and setting up a moon base, well more of a moon city. The TV came on with a flash and the images that were shown was everything any Brony wanted to see.
There had been a team of five sent to Keplar in a terraforming attempt to expand humanities galactic borders. However Haze wouldn't call it and expansion. Mars was just a mining colony. Being slowly torn apart for its resources and Terran profit, and the moon was just a hotel and a huge base complex. Keplar was supposedly being targeted for expansion only for human colonisation, but that is what was said for Mars, and nowadays there are more mining machines then people.
The news broadcast was showing a complete live broadcast of the astronauts landing on Keplar. There was a camera attached to each person and the film was showing one; Martyn Bush. A middle aged man who was one of the most famous brony's of all time for his work in the resurrection of the work of bronies of old. The camera was apparently taped to the side of his helmet and had the words "CAM4" typed at the top of it. There was the shuttle door in front of him and an arm slowly appeared. Dragon muttered something.
"Wow, the most famous Brony of all time being the first man on Keplar. Now give it twenty years and we will be up there." Dragon said. Haze and Sithjjf both looked at their friend in shock and confused feelings.
"Didn't you here, UNOSE declared it to be terraformed for human colonization only."
"Yeah well its what they said about Mars." Sithjjf replied.
"Just watch the damn TV." Haze groaned. Sipping his whiskey.
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Rainbow Dash was flying around the sky minding her own business when suddenly there was a strange red dot appear on a cloud in front of her. The Pegasus looked at it in wonder. Floating above the cloud looking at the dot. She inched closer to get a better look at it and to touch it. Then there was a strange woosh sound and a hole in the cloud appeared, Rainbow could see something falling and she dashed after it. She was going super fast, heading straight for the ground following this weird object. A sun ray hit the object and the light reflected into Dashie's eyes and she slowed her flight as her vision was temporarily impaired. When she could finally see again there was a quiet thud as the object hit the ground, the cyan Pegasus went to inspect the object and could just see a small metallic box with a bit of wire attached heading up into the sky. Rainbow Dash, despite her worry, decided to investigate the metal string. She began to flap her wings and gave her neck a little click before she shot up into the Equestrian sky to follow the string.
As she flow Rainbow began to here something, a strange sound, something she had never heard before. Rainbow looked up and saw that the sky was on fire! There was a huge cloud with fire and smoke coming from it falling rapidly. Rainbow shot out of the way and caught sight of something on top of the cloud. It was alien, nothing ever seen on Equestria before. The thing was a fairly large metal circle. Falling to the ground rapidly. Rainbow was unsure as to what to do. Her heart was beating rapidly and she could hear the beats in her ears. Air shot up from the falling device and pushed Rainbow's mane back, messing it up. She shook of any feeling of dazelment and finally decided to fly back down after it. The object flow at incredible speeds and Rainbow had trouble keeping up, only did she fly up when the two got close to the ground, then the object smashed into the ground. And there. It stayed. Rainbow flow to Ponyville as fast as her wings would carry her.
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General Travis Grey stood staring at the huge computer screen set up to broadcast news from the expansion planets. The main screen was focusing on Martyn Bush's helmet camera at the moment and had smaller screens for the other astronauts on the left. Travis was a middle aged man with short, army cut brown hair, he had a natural red face approach on him and was a few pounds overweight. He wore his adges showing off all the deeds he had done in various runs for wars and such, the coat he wore was his grandfathers and had a worn green colour to it, battered with the various bullet wholes or burns it had had received over the long time of service. The general had a metal arm, from the shoulder down. It was very human like, a mixture of nanobot technology and robotics. So far the arm still felt a bit stiff but Travis was learning. After a few more moments of staring at the screen, Travis grunted and the man next to him, Commander Leroy Jenkins heard.
Leroy was a slightly younger man, around his late thirties, he had a beard on the verge of growing and also worn numerous badges of valor. Before becoming a commander he had been involved in the Seventh brigade Honour Guard, when in he would protect members of VIP and government officials. The commander wore his trench coat which wasn't as battered as Travis's but still had some damage. Leroy had two fingers missing in his left hand and also had a metal foot. Whilst on patrol he had stepped on a landmine and put his hand down to shield himself from any blast, unfortunately he had been internally affected rather than outside his body. So the commander had needed a lung transplant, major blood transfusion and surgical heart repairing in nanobot experimentation.
"General?" Leroy asked. "Anything the problem?"
"You know what the damn problem is." Travis replied. Pissed.
"Ah, the same old."
"Yes the same old!" Travis shouted, every sound in the room died down. All eyes on the general.
"Those fucking bronies!" He screamed at his commander. "They are God damn everywhere! First world leaders allow them to form their own damn religion and now they will have one of their own to be the first man to step foot on Keplar! They have been around for over one hundred years. Why can't they just die out!" Travis shouted.
"Look, sir, this isn't my fault, the council has spoken that Martyn was the best man for this job therefore he was sent up to be first man. What is it about the bronies you hate sir?"
"Everything." He replied, quieter now. "They are not a real religion and have been corrupting the people with their 'love and tolerate' bullshit for a hundred years. They disrespect God and his creations and have completely taken over, they are a virus, commander. Now excuse me, I have a meeting with the council. Again." The general said. Storming out, everyone was still silent and still, just before he reached the automatic door he turned to everyone.
"Get back to fucking work." He grunted and noise came back into the room as the general left.
