The Peacemaker

Dmitry:

I lifted the barrel of the AA12 up and pointed it at the group of soldiers, for some reason they just stood there in shock, not really knowing what to make of the situation. I held back the trigger on the AA12 and it chugged out military grade 00buckshot. The soldiers were hit by a wall of lead pellets and their bodies were knocked back by the force of the 12guage rounds as their bodies were devastated by the blasts.

At this range a shotgun was absolutely terrifying and its combat results were just as fearsome. Several of the soldiers managed to scream out in horror as I put them down the hard way. Screams echoed the hallways but were silenced by the thunderous chugging of the AA12.

I released my grip on the trigger and smoke escaped through the end of the barrel. Two ponies took defensive positions on the second floor balcony that overlooked the entrance and mounted the M240 machinegun that was mounted on the rail of the balcony.

The room was filled by the rattling gunfire of the M240 as its 7.62x51mm rounds filled the air. I lept behind the cover of the sandbags that the soldiers had set up and thankfully it held up against the barrage of gunfire but I wasn’t sure for how long. I crept along the floor and waited. Then the machinegun stopped firing, I waited to make sure they hadn’t simply just stopped firing. My ears were ringing from all the gunfire but I was able to hear the click of the machinegun as they opened up the receiver to reload the gun.

I burst up from behind the cover of the sandbags and held back the trigger on the AA12, and thanks to the recoil assembly of the gun it didn’t kick all that much. The 00buckshot tore away at the flimsy railings of the balcony and the machine gunner and his partner were annihilated by the constant stream of lead.

I ejected the drum magazine and loaded a fresh magazine into the gun. I pulled back the charging handle and released it, the receiver slammed forward and loaded a fresh shotgun shell into the chamber. “Okay if I was a tyrannical dictator where would I hid?” I asked myself out loud as I began to walk down the hallways of the building.

A lone soldier hoped out of a doorway and let off a quick burst with a G3 assault rifle, one of the rounds nicked my leg but it didn’t faze me, I turned my body to face him but he ducked back into the room, I turned my aim to the wall and held back the trigger. The 00buckshot destroyed the drywall and ripped right through and into the lone soldier. He screamed as his life drained away and I simply turned back around “Nowhere to hide” I quoted as I continued to walk down the hallways. Suddenly another man burst from a doorway, but he was different because for some reason he was dressed in a suit and had a fancy XM8 rifle with a drum magazine.

He let out a scream, well I think he was trying for a war cry but it came out more like a scream. He held down the trigger of his assault rifle and 5.56mm rounds tore through the air as I slid down to the floor and the rounds tore through the drywall behind me and it crumbled apart. Pieces of drywall debris along with dust cluttered down onto my back and I rolled behind a wall and the man blasted another burst of bullets at me.

I got to my feet and ran through the hallways as he sprayed across the walls and the 5.56mm rounds tore right through the drywall. I slid across the floor and slowed my breathing.

“Come out come out wherever you are” he taunted. I kept sneaking along through the hallways until I came into a back atrium of the building with a balcony that had a large window behind it so people could look out to the forest.

“Surprise” the man laughed just as the distinctive sound of auto fire came from his XM8, the 5.56 NATO rounds chipped away at the tiled floor beside me. I rolled to the left and as I regained my posture I took a crouched stance and pulled back the trigger on the AA12. It chugged through the remainder of its ammunition in less than two seconds.

The man’s suit was torn apart and his chest was shredded as the 12guage rounds ripped him apart, blood stained his suit. The force of the buckshot knocked the man back through the window and he fell with a scream into a large crate of explosives that for some reason exploded as his body broke through the crate. The explosion felt like it was rocking the building.

Finally the explosive shockwave stopped. I smirked “Well that hit the spot” I chuckled and looked to my left to see a security door. I dropped my emptied AA12, I would’ve liked to take it along but I no longer had any ammunition for it. I tried to open the security door but it was locked.

I reached to my chest harness and pulled out my last grenade, I pulled the pin and released the safety spoon and dropped the grenade by the base of the door as I ran from the live grenade.

The fragmentation grenade exploded violently and blew down the security door. I walked over to the blown down door and drew out my Desert Eagle handgun and walked down the stairs into what looked like a basement or perhaps it was a sublevel of some sort.

As I finally reached the bottom of the stairs I looked around, the hallways were lit by dim red lights that gave it a spooky feeling. “Figures I get the warlord with a necrosis attitude” I muttered to myself as I walked down the hallways, leading my way with the powerful handgun.

It was like a friggin maze down here, one that I wondered if I would ever get out of. Finally I reached a doorway at the end of a long hallway, it was like whoever made this place made an epically long hallway just so they could put a single room at the end of it. Pointless if you ask me, and a waste of time.

I kicked down the door and a nerdy looking man turned around and screamed. “Gah, don’t hurt me” he screamed in an almost stereotypical nerd voice. “Where the fuck is the leader?” I asked, morel like ordered him to reveal his location. “Oh well… oh I uhm… I am the leader” he said as he stood up, his frame was small and he pushed his square glasses up his nose so that he could get a better look at me.

“You can’t be serious? Really? I mean, there’s all those soldiers out there and you’re the one leading them” I replied, completely shocked that he could be leading the LBH, but then I thought to myself ‘Sometimes warlords weren’t fighters but rather smart people but I never thought in all my life that a warlord word be a nerd’.

“Why?” I asked as I pointed the Desert Eagle at his head and stepped closer so that the cold barrel touched his temple. “Gah please don’t kill me” he pleaded. “Why the fuck did you do this? Why the war? Why all the pointless killing?” I roared, almost on the verge of tears. “Because she told me to, and it wasn’t me who started the war, it was my dad and he did it for her” he informed me and I pulled the gun away from his head and stepped back but kept the handgun trained on his head.

“Who’s she?” I asked and he mumbled something but I wasn’t able to hear him. “What?” I asked and he began to say it again “Chrys… Chrysa… Chrysalis” he stammered, almost like the name was more fearsome than I was.

I remembered hearing about some infestation in Canterlot awhile back, something about some queen named Chrysalis who launched an attack with a bug army or something. “Who the bug?” I asked and he shook his head, “No the real one” he said but the fear in his voice simply made it hysterical.

But before I could say something quipy a gunshot went off and a bullet hole was placed in the side of his head and the opposite side of his head burst apart as the bullet ejected from his skull. I swung my body to where the shot had come from and saw a horrid looking creature that was levitating a smoking Colt Python. “What the fuck” I yelled as I looked at the creature before me, it released the gun from its magic aurora and the Colt clattered to the ground but I kept my Desert Eagle trained on the monster.

“Please, lower your gun” she said in an almost mesmerizing tone. I stepped back and kept the gun aimed at her. “What the fuck are you?” I asked and she smiled grimly “I was going to ask you the same thing” she replied. “Human… I’m a human, now what the fuck are you?” I asked and she took a daring step forward. “I am the one known as Queen Chrysalis, empress of the changeling army” she announced. “Yeah… weren’t you like killed or something during your attack on Canterlot?” I asked and she looked to me and raised an eyebrow.

“No, you see over a millennia ago I defeated Celestia and encased her in a magical cocoon but before I sent her away I took her body form so I could rule Equestria, the only one to see through the disguise was her sister, that retched alicorn known as Luna, so I banished her to the moon” she informed me. “Okay let me stop you right there, I know you’re lying because Celestia banned Luna to the moon because she went evil and turned into Nightmare moon” I replied and she laughed hysterically.

“NO, you silly fool. Luna knew her sister was defeated and could not aid her in battle so she encased Equestria in darkness because she knew that in darkness her powers would rise considerably but I managed to defeat her and banish her to the moon but her power rose to considerable new heights that rivaled even mine and when she returned I knew I could not defeat her new found power so I used the ones known as the element bearers to defeat her and eliminate her new powers but then I realized that the elements of harmony’s new powers were also greater than my own so I sat and waited for an opportune moment to strike. I thought I had one but I wasn’t sure so I constructed a plan and had one of my best changelings transform into a body form that looked identical to me and I allowed the attack to ensue, we would’ve won but the love of those fools Cadence and Shining Armor was our undoing so I just waited for the opportune moment to reveal itself again” she told me.

“That doesn’t explain the whole human war thingy” I told her. “Oh right. When I was in search of new love that could boost my powers I found a man on another planet who would love me willingly for who I really was, strange that someone would love me despite my regular appearance. We shared many passionate nights together and it was like” she began but I interrupted her again. “I don’t care about any of that, why the war?” I asked and she sighed. “Picky, fine I’ll tell you what you want to know” she sighed.

“So as it turned out he had connections in the earth government and together we found a way to open a transportation matrix that allowed people to come to Equestria, but I made it so that ponies couldn’t go to earth. People’s love for ponies boosted my powers considerably but when I began to demand power over the humans they demanded the exact same thing and soon war broke out. The war was filled with hate that diminished my power. The human army had considerable amounts of warfare technology that we had never even heard of. So as the second decade came around I began to hire greedy humans to reveal technology to us and eventually we defeated the human army but at a heavy cost. Now that humans were considered taboo to love I couldn’t just let them stay here but I needed their love to regain my power so I created a plan. Send all the human soldiers back but keep a percent of them to help raise my powers. And that is how everything played out” she informed me.

I yawned, the story was a long one and it did make sense but jeeze it was almost unbearably boring. I pointed to the dead nerd. “What’s his story?” I asked and Chrysalis looked to me and smiled, “He is the son of the father who helped me bring my plan into action, on a very special occasion his father and I shared a passionate night together and a few months later I gave birth to his child, he later died of old age but I promised myself to keep his blood line going” she told me and I snickered. “So much for that” I laughed and she smirked. “No… right now his seed is inside me and I am pregnant with his child, their blood line continues even though he is dead… but I need a new spouse” she said and licked her lips as she looked to me.

“Ha, no deal” I laughed as I raised my Desert Eagle, but as I lined up a shot with her ugly face it was as if she was staring into my soul. “Uhg… uhh” I grunted and it was as if I lost the will to kill her, my hands fell to my side and the Desert Eagle fell from my grasp and clattered to the floor.

“Silly humans, so easy to manipulate” she hissed as she trotted forward. It was as if my entire body was in some sort of trans, I couldn’t even move my fingers. She trotted up to me and licked my face with her slimy tongue. “You and I will have powerful children together” she whispered in my ear.

I tried to subdue her brainwash but I couldn’t, I wanted to cry. I had failed to stop the LBH and in the end I would most likely be the cause for the downfall of Equestria. A lone memory of Rainbow Dash came to my mind, “I HATE YOU” she screamed, my anger for myself burned within me. I hated myself so much that it became unbearable.

The rage broke free from her brainwash and I clenched my fists and let out a thunderous roar of pure anger. My muscles all tensed and veins surfaced as my anger continued to rise. I hated myself so much for all the pain and suffering I had caused. “No don’t hate… DON’T HATE” she screamed and something in the back of my head remembered that she needed love to feed off of, so if I was full of hate she couldn’t get a single drop of energy from me.

A whirlwind began to surround me and gusts of wind blew papers from the desk. A powerful blue aurora surrounded my entire body and began to flash brilliantly from my body. Electricity coursed around my body and crackled through the air, I continued my roar of anger and it felt as if I was stronger than ever before, my muscles nearly doubled in size as my anger rose to un-foretold levels. The ground beneath me shook and the ground around my feet crumbled apart and pushed back, creating a crater around me as I continued to let my anger flood my body.

“No stop it… STOP!” she screamed but I paid her no mind. Finally I allowed myself to settle down but my power had not left my body, I stepped up the slight incline of the crater that was created from my… whatever it was that I did that created the crater. “No… this is impossible” she stammered in fear as I stepped forward. I clenched my fists and electricity crackled around my fists.