2012: The End

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CHAPTER 3

FIRE ON ASH

Date: December 21, 20██

███████ Fire

████ 120623 hrs

Age: ██

███████ Human

Location: Undisclosed

Current Status: ████

Found █████ ██████████

████ ██ ███ EIA

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“Ow, my head!” I said out loud, “Wait a second... What’s this?”

I was looking back at the wreckage of the hind.

“My God,” I said as I got up off the ground. I quickly ran over to the  disemboweled wreckage. I did not see Dragon in the helicopter.  I took a swift glance to my left, looking everywhere for my comrade Blitz. He was supposedly piloting the huge helicopter, he needed to be there.  He wasn’t neither in the hind or outside the hind...

“Where is he?” I asked myself as I continued searching the crashed helicopter.

I found Dragon’s shotgun on the passengers’ seat. I quickly grabbed it, getting a little suspicious at the fact that neither of my two comrades were inside the mortalized helicopter. I immediately knew that Blitz and Dragon were taken away, they wouldn’t leave here alone... someone or something must’ve taken them away while I was knocked down.

 I took a glimpse to my surroundings. The only thing that I saw was a vast expanse of desert at my 12 and a lot of sand dunes behind me. Even more sand to my left and to the right,  some mountains in the horizon. The mountains seemed to be about thirty kilometers from my current position, it would be impossible to reach that destination, knowing where I exactly was.  I  continued walking around the  wreckage some more to see if I missed anything, and it so happens that I found weird markings on the sand.

I started to follow the strange markings. They had a oval shape and they had some kind of bump on the sides of them. So I continued the search until the desert winds had blown the prints away.

“Fuck it,  I should’ve missed something...''

I decided to go back to the wreckage, for the last time.

I slided the door to the side, throwing a gust of sand on my head. I took various looks around at the already destroyed apparatus. Ignoring the heavy and sandy wind behind me, I noticed that the weird looking machine that was on the back of the helicopter, before we teleported into a huge wormhole,  was no longer there. Apparently, Blitz never talked to me nor Dragon according to exactly what that machine was. I immediately remembered that I should be in Equestria right now. I tried to celebrate the fact, but no happiness came to my mind, knowing that my two best friends were gone. This time, I found a little container with a door in it. I opened it, hoping to find something useful.

What I found nearly amazed me. There was a diary accompanied with various pictures and what seemed to be, a map. I snatched the diary and hid it in one of my various pockets.

I found myself opening that small map, revealing what I could tell, a map of the land of Equestria.

I took various looks into the burnt map. I quickly recognized two specific locations on it: Ponyville and Canterlot. A spark of cheer fired inside my body, already knowing those two locations. I took a look into the map again, revealing my current location. I was on the deserts of Appaloosa.

“Damn,” I said, while taking off my heavy helmet, revealing my face into the world. I then decided to take the Juggernaut suit off. I did a stupid thing though, that suit was like fucking invincible armor with a lot of layers of kevlar, and a layer of steel in it.

 In the hind, I found a new suit. It was a camouflaged vest and pants with the elbow and knee pads. Luckily it was desert storm camo and it had the same color as the dull sand surrounding me.

 I then decided to exit the helicopter and start to follow my new destination: Canterlot. I started to have a thought that maybe Celestia kidnapped my comrades and took them for experimentation or interrogation. Many thoughts came to my dark mind, but I tried to have only one in mind: Find my friends.

I finally stepped out of the chopper with Dragon’s shotgun in hand. I immediately came in contact with the hot sand. It sure was hot on that day, as I remember.

 The radiant sun began to strike my body from almost every angle possible. Good thing I took Desert BWE goggles and The Boonie hat that came with it in the hind.

I continued my way onto Canterlot, still on the desert, many visions of my past home came to mind. Why am I here? Where is Blitz and Dragon? Did the world really end? Those were some of the questions I asked to myself, trying to make the time fly by.

About two hours after I left the hind, I was completely in middle of nowhere. Only sand, sand, and more fucking sand came to my line of sight. I looked to the left, more fucking sand , to the right, sand, in front... more sand. I even took a glance behind me, to see if I was close or far away from the crash, but, even more fucking sand to be seen. I quickly took out the map to see if I actually was going the right way. I decoded my current position and it seemed that I still was on the endless desert. I sighed and continued on my way...

The endless heat striked me and it continued to do  until I finally found a place to hold back and relax for a while.

The location that I arrived at,  was literally in the middle of nowhere. I took my map out and I quickly decoded that I was still in the desert. I still had to arrive to the nearest location possible: Appaloosa.

The building itself, was very desolated and eroded. It was practically some pile of ancient  ruins in the middle of the desert.

There was a wooden door on the outside, blocking my path. I then remembered that I had Dragon’s shotgun and I quickly shot the rusty lock. I then proceeded to kick the door open, throwing gusts of wind inside the building.

The next thing that I saw left me with my mouth agape... The building, which I once thought that it was desolated, it was once converted into some kind of base in the endless desert.

Scrolls with weird inscriptions filled the room, maps with ‘hoof’ markings covered the iron walls. The floor was still composed of sand, which it annoyed me a bit.

I started to search the room for anything useful, but I only saw scrolls with some kind of symbols that I couldn’t encrypt, but there was one thing that I rather found useful.

I found, what I remember to be , Blitz’s golden revolver. Though he never used it back on Earth, he had it on one of his pockets (gun sheath). I inspected it, and on the side of the gun, it clearly had a marking on it; it said the following:  EIA.

My senses went dark as I remembered Blitz mentioning the EIA back on Earth. “Ugh, he said it was some kind of Intelligence Service?” It was a service that he told us, but I didn’t remember it too well back then. I decided to keep the revolver for something that may be useful in the future.

I then found several maps with hoof prints on them. The marks indicated a anonymous spot that was close to Canterlot.

Most of the documents that I found there,  were blacked out in ink and marked secret.

I noticed one document in particular. It was not marked secret and what I could tell, it was written in a hurry.

The letter consisted of the following,

“Fire... we’re  being taken captive by Celestia's royal guards. Don’t  worry about us though,  we can easily handle it. Hell,  I could even take out a  whole battalion of guards without being seen, they have no idea that they are dealing with their future military commander. I left a Mongoose in the garage and maps about the future EIA bases. Celestia’s going to hold us captive in the castle’s dungeons under Canterlot. The cell’s number could possibly be 11█... Just make it to the castle as soon as possi-’’

As weird as it sounded, the rest of the document was blacked out completely in ink.

 I put the document in my pocket and looked for the garage that Blitz was talking about.

I found a door but it was locked, so I grabbed Dragon’s shotgun and shot it several times. It opened without a problem. I found the Mongoose and I quickly opened the garage door and rode off into the sunset.

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