A New World

A New World

0000 Prologue

*Beep! *Beep! *Beep!

Something shuffled in the darkness before going quite, the being noise still continued.

*Beep! *Beep! *Beep!

A silent groan muffled out, an appendage stuck out from the shadows, grasping air before falling limp.

*Beep! *Beep! *Beep!

The groan got gruffer, and the appendage which looked more like an arm began to flail about searching for the source of the annoying noise.

“CAW!!! CAW!!! CAW!!!” the alarm device cawed before a fist smashed down on it, it made a whining sound before falling silent. A muffled voice came from under the blankets.

“Damn fucking clocks…always ruin a good sleep…curse yet praise the maker of you buggers…” the figure in the darkness sat up and yawned tiredly.

“Quit making suck a ruckus man and hurry up, commander won’t be happy.” A voice said over another device.

The said person in bed only grunted, and if it weren’t dark we would’ve saw a scowl on the said persons face. The person rolled over and tossed the sheets off, the darkness covering the figures body. He grunted as he went into the bathroom to wash up and get ready.

0000 Three minutes later…

As our protagonist comes back into view, he is seen walking through a hall, a black bandana wrapped around his head, covering most of his hair, large black cloak adorned, a grey metal chest plate glimmered as well as the armored boots. He was minding his own business with a stoic face. He walks up to a door looking at the number making sure it’s correct before opening it and entering. As he entered, there were three people already waiting.

“Took yah long enough Raiden.” His friend said with a foxy smirk on his face, the now named Raiden only rolled his eyes in response.

“Aw, don’t be such a killjoy Raiden.” His friend said again with a pout before returning back to his smirk.

“Focus Leon.” Raiden said sternly, Leon’s smirk only got wider before he nodded.

“I could be using some sleep right ‘bout now…” the other person in the room said as she yawned loudly.

“Oh quit your whining Shiki. You’ll get your sleep eventually! Don’t you sleep enough?!” her friend said with a scowl on her face.

“No I don’t, I rather get paid to sleep rather than do something productive.” Shiki replied with another yawn.

“Bakas…” Raided muttered.

“Aw is Raiden being grumpy today?” a sultry voice said from behind, he felt to arms wrap around his waist as well as someone’s body press up against him. Raiden only sighed in annoyance.

“Let go Kira…” he said, the hold just tightened as the girl behind him snuggled closer, pressing her chest loving against his back.

“Nah…I’m good, you’re so…comfy to let go.” She responded with a giggle, making Raiden sigh again.

“C’mon, you know you like this don’t you big boy?” Kira asked again with a seductive tone to it, Raiden only rolled his eyes.

“How many times are you going to do this, this is like the seventy-second time.” Raiden said as he began to move a bit to at least escape Amy’s hold.

“Not until yah go out on a date with me!” she said with a childish laugh, making Raiden groan. He was about to do a reversal-hold before someone else beat him to the punch and yanked Kira’s arms away.

“C’mon Kira, stop teasing him.” Her friend said with a hearty chuckle as she dragged Kira away from Raiden. Kira just grinned before whispering into her ear.

“What? He’s hot! Those muscles of his are perfect, I can just imagine-”

“No need to go into detail Kira!” her friend stopped her with a blush on her face. Kira only got a mischievous look on her face.

“Oh? Does Floe also have a crushy crush on Raiden?” she teased before snickering, Floe looked away to her right while tossing her hair in front to hide her blush.

“K-K-Kira!” Floe stuttered while her friend just laughed, Raiden clueless to what they were talking about since he couldn’t hear them only muttered to himself.

Raiden only sighed as he looked towards the ceiling, he was about to close his eyes until he heard someone sit next to him.

“Yah need to buck up mate. Yah been doin’ this since she died.” A voice with southern accent said, Raiden only clicked his left eye open.

“Come again?” Raiden asked curiously. The person just chuckled stiffly.

“I said yah need to buck up mate. Yah need t’ah move on, you can’t stay in the past. Remember his speech about that? “If you don’t let go of the past, then you will never see the future.” He said, Raiden only just sighed heavily.

“How can I Joseph? It’s not really that simple, I bet even he had trouble doing that.” Raiden replied as he stoically stared at the ceiling.

Joseph only sighed in response. “True, he did say it t’was difficult to. But in the end though, he was able to let the hurt and past go and move one to make a better future. Kyle always had a unique way of words.”

“Know first, then judge.” Raiden recited one.

“To heal ones heart, tears must be shed.” Joseph recited another; Raiden was in deep thought on that one.

“Choices will either bring your happiness, greatness or fame, or they shall bring sorrow, hate, and ruin.” Raiden finally said after a few moments.

“Protect those close to you, even if it’s a one way road.” His friend added.

“And lastly, “Light and Dark cannot be without one another. Wherever the light shines, there is also darkness hiding. Wherever darkness consumes, there will always be a light in the depths fighting back. ” Raiden recited again. The two were in silence after that.

“So…excited for your solo mission to the newly discovered world?” Joseph spoke to break the silence.

“I suppose…” Raiden replied.

“So…how’s FireTeam doing? How’s my ‘lil sis doing?”

“She is fine, don’t worry I will uphold my promise. And the others are healing…though I am worried for Ami…” Raiden said with a straight face.

“Do you regret what you did on that mission? I mean, it’s hard to believe that he-”

“No I don’t regret anything. He was a traitor us all, and I was the blade that silenced him. I had my suspicions on him for a very long time since he joined.” Raiden said stoically.

*Beep! *Beep! “Raiden Hōku, you’re up.” A feminine voice spoke over an intercom, Raiden grunted as he sat up and stood.

“Good luck out there pard’ner, you’re going to be alone for a long time out there.” Joseph said, Raiden only nodded in reply as he sank into the shadows like a ghost.

0000

As Raiden was walking through the halls, he had a lot of thoughts on his mind. Especially that one mission.

Flashback Start, 7 Months Ago…

“Give me one reason why you are doing this before the ground is stained with blood.” Raiden said angrily yet with a stoic face as he gazed at his opponent.

“I’m doing this because the gift of power and fame.” his opponent said plainly, Raiden only narrowed his eyes.

“Is that it? Is that the only reason you did this?” Raiden said before giving a mocking chuckle. “You really are a moron; you’re just like all other power hungry fools. An endless cycle of morons who have no brains.”

“Shut up! Don’t you dare insult me! This field will soon be stained with your blood! And I have the power to do it!” the shadowed figure shouted.

Raiden only looked from his opponent to the field, back to the sky and back to his enemy. He was silent for a few seconds before replying.

“You were always a fool. And shall remain so, a fool forever in life. You boast that you are stronger than me, but can you really back up that claim? No…no you can’t because you are nothing but a fool…an ignorant child who do anything to makes things go his way. A spoiled brat, unfit for this world.”

“SHUT UP!!! I’LL STAIN MY SWORD AND HANDS WITH YOUR BLOOD!!! AND AFTER THIS I’LL SEND YOU TO ETERNAL HELL!!!”

Flashback End, Present

Raiden shook his head of the memory, but he muttered something barely audible.

“Always will remain a fool…”

As he entered another room, there was a variety of scientist at work, a huge circle like object stood upright at the end of the room, multiple wires connected it to the thousands of super computers around in the room. Raiden had little interest as he walked to where two figures were having a small conversation; they stopped as they spotted Raiden walking towards them.

“Ah, Commander Raiden, it is good to see you again.” The first figure spoke, a male decked out with General clothing; he was holding his hand out for a shake.

“A pleasure in seeing you again sir.” Raiden said he accepted the shake. Raiden turned his head towards the other person who was a female.

“The name’s Cora, it’s a pleasure to meet you Commander Raiden.” The woman said, offering a hand.

“As well to you mistress.” Raiden replied as he too shook her hand.

“So, are you ready to depart on this newly discovered world? No re-briefings?” the general asked as the three walked down the walkway towards the machine.

“I assure you sir; I do not need a second briefing. If the mission is as simple as you told me yesterday, then I will have no problem.” Raiden assured as walked.

“Are you positive?” Cora asked, Raiden only nodded as he stood in front the machine.

“Very well, as soon as you reach the other side, head into the mountain’s and the AI controlled drones should find you as well as present you with a more variety of weapons if you need them. Remember, the natives are ponies.” The general replied.

“A knife, med-pack, a pistol and a few mags will do just fine. As well as adding my personal katana in, that makes things better.” Raiden said as he checked the pistol for any defections.

“Very well, an-oh! Another note, when we sent in some troopers earlier and when they came back, they said their forms changed to match those living there, so you might need to get used to living in a new body when you enter the other side. Also F.Y.I. there are three different types of ponies on the world, one is a Regular, one is a Unicorn that can use magic, and the other is a Pegasus that can fly, that’s all we have for now. Another thing too, one of our drones got captured, we’re hoping that you can get it out of trouble while keeping a low profile.”

Raiden only raised an eyebrow before nodding in response; the machine began to glow with power and electricity, a small blue ball formed in the center of the circle, slowly growing.

“Portal opening in 3…2…1…open!” the ball shined brightly before popping, a wall of energy formed and blurred greenery could be seen.

“Step through Raiden, and good luck.”

Raiden nodded and took one last breath of air before stepping through, the portal consuming his form before dying out.

0000 Equestria, Ponyville

It was such a peaceful day in Equestria, the birds were singing, the animals were playing and doing the sorts. The ponies in town were just minding their business, doing the daily chores and work. Twilight was in her library doing her usual work, reading, etc. While Spike was sorting out the books into the right sections. But lately there has been things happening lately, Celestia yesterday had sent her letter of her finding an unusual pony. This pony has no form of any life force in it, she had it taken into custody but before the guards could arrest the mysterious pony, it had retaliated and beat down the guards, more guards had come to suppress the pony but when one unicorn guard accidently miss-fired a fire spell, it revealed what the pony really was. It was unlike anything they seen, instead of flesh and bone, it wall all metallic. The creature tried to get away not until Celestia herself restrained it with a huge amount of focused magic. She had tasked Twilight to look up anything that could relate to this mysterious pony like creature while pony scientists’ examined it. Twilight still had no answers yet to what it could be.

“Urrgh. This is so frustrating…there nothing even about such a creature that is a pony made of metal, just doesn’t make sense.” She said loudly as she flipped another page.

“Maybe it could be an unrecorded species of ponies?” Spike suggested.

“That’s what I think, but no creature can still be alive having all of its skin burned off or in this matter, melted off. That would be too much unbearable pain. Plus the thing was said that it couldn’t even feel pain at all. It just shrugged off spells and pain like it was nothing.” She retorted.

“Maybe they have high pain tolerance and they are very resistant to magic?” Spike gave another suggestion.

“I don’t know…but for a pony to look like that must be…shameful or just sad…it’s a wonder why it must’ve worn a disguise to look like a regular pony.” Twilight said glumly, feeling pity for the pony like creature.

“Well who knows, maybe the pony will eventually talk.” Spike spoke as he placed another book in the correct section.

“Well it did…sorta…” Twilight replied.

“Well? What did she say on the letter earlier?”

“Celestia wrote to me that the creature said “We roamed once alongside with you. But we were shunned and hated, forcing us to mask our looks. We just wanted to fit in and be friends again. There are so few of us left due to the last king of Equestria who banished our kind because he saw us as monsters and abominations.” That’s all she wrote to me.”

“Wow...maybe we did rediscover a lost pony species.” Spike said, Twilight lightly nodded.

Before the conversation could continue, the whole ground began to shake violently before suddenly stopping. A loud bang erupted out of nowhere in the distance, scaring almost everyone within Ponyville. Then all was quiet again.

“W-wha-what was that Twi?!” Spike asked a bit scared, his ears rang a bit from the loud explosion.

“I-eh-uh-I don’t know! Something happened, I hope nopony is hurt!” Twilight replied as she exited the library to check on things, as she stepped out she noticed a glowing in the distance, in the direction of Everfree Forest.

“I better get the Elements to check this out.” She thought as she gazed at the beam of light.

0000 Equestria, Everfree Forest, before the explosion

In the Everfree Forest, all was quiet as usual, except maybe the occasional chirp of a unknown bird. It stayed quiet until a crackle of electricity sparked in mid-air. The sparks and crackle grew in number before a ball of energy began to slowly form, rotating in the air. The orb began to glow eerily and crackled with more electricity, it wasn’t before it pulsed it gave out a deafening explosion. As the matter flew apart it quickly halted and sped straight back compressing into a huge ball that crackled with energy, as blinked before a figure shot out of it, landing on all fours gasping for air. The ball crackled before blinking out of existence, the figure wore a black bandana, a large black coat, and an armored chest plate as well as armored back leggings. The figure could be identified as an earth pony in overall shape.

The pony lifted his head upwards searching the area while taking some deep breaths. As he finally calmed his breathing, he muttered two words.

“Mission, Start.”

0000 Prologue End

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Tell me what yah think. Anyways, Drake is out!