The Peacemaker

Dmitry:

General Hammerhead grabbed Trixie by the collar of her combat jacket. “THAT MISSILE IS TARGETED FOR HIS CURRENT POSITION… where’s the human TRIXIE?” Hammerhead bellowed and Trixie looked over to me, we were all looking at her now. “Ohhhhhh… weeeeee can duck and cover. There’s a fallout shelter right there” Trixie began but Icarus cut her off.

“There’s no way of escaping this, YOU IDIOT!” Icarus yelled. Trixie’s eyes widened in realization of what was happening. “What if we grabbed it in a levitation spell?” Trixie asked frantically. Icarus shook his head, “No… That missile has been magically enhanced so it can’t be affected by magic or anything, only thing that can stop it is a collision” Icarus explained. “You mean we’re…” Trixie trailed off.

“All going to die Trixie, for Equestria” Hammerhead said with a small smile on his face. Trixie back pedalled in fear, obviously not wanting to die.

“Screw Equestria, I’m gonna live” Trixie yelled as she grabbed a human soldier in her levitation spell and threw him out of his military jeep. Hoping into the jeep she quickly directed the controls with her magic and drove the jeep forwards to try and get out of the town.

I stood in front of the jeep, my powers were still over flowing and the jeep rammed into my body and with a vice like grip I grabbed the jeep and lifted it into the air. Trixie screamed in fear as I slammed the jeep into the ground on its side and disabled it. Several human and pony soldiers pointed their guns at Trixie as she got out of the jeep. “Make sure she stays here, like a good soldier would” Hammerhead ordered, a missile alarm warning went off and ponies along with humans looked into the sky.

I looked around, ponies were scurrying about in fear, mares held their foals and cried. The musicians known as Lyra and Octavia began to play slow sad music while Vinyl Scratch began to provide a slow melody beat for the background base, the music was terribly depressing but it fit the moment perfectly.

“Rainbow Dash… Twilight, you can get out of here… princess… princesses, you can get out too” I muttered. “No” Luna replied and I looked back to her. “We wouldn’t be able to get everyone out… it wouldn’t be fair” Celestia told me and I looked into the air.

Even Pinkie Pie was sad, her hair had seemed to deflate and it gave her a depressing look. Soldiers tried furiously to keep ponies from panicking but they weren’t really panicking, they were crying.

I turned back to the group and saw Applejack huddling her young sister close to her, Rarity was doing the same. Rainbow Dash had a young filly close to her and she was whispering to the filly. “Shh, don’t worry squirt” Dash told the young one as tears rolled down her eyes.

I looked to the streets, ponies everywhere were getting together with friends and family, getting together and crying emotionally as the missile continued through the air. I walked over to the group and stood with them, watching the missile. “Sis… why’s this gotta happen?” Applebloom cried. “Ah don’t know sis… ah truly don’t know” Applejack replied solemnly.

I turned my head towards them and they all looked to me. I let out a saddened smile, they gave me curious looks. “What is it Dmitry? Do you have a plan or something?” Celestia asked and I lifted my view towards the missile as a lone gust of wind blew past, beautiful sparkles of blue mist from my flowing hair blew into the air. “What is it? What do you have in mind?” Luna asked and I turned my view back to them.

“Listen… there’s not much time left and there’s only one way I can think of to save everyone now” I said in a somewhat happy tone, but sadness could still be heard in my voice. “Ugh what are you talking about?” Twilight asked distressfully as she held Spike, her friend dragon, close to her.

Rainbow Dash let out a gasp, “No Dmitry I think I know what you have planned and you don’t have to do this” Rainbow Dash said through tears as she ran up to me and grabbed me tightly. I embraced her in a tight hug and waved to the others, “Goodbye… friends” I said sadly. The all gasped as they too found out what I had planned. “No please Dmitry don’t leave us… I take it back please… I don’t want you to die… I didn’t mean it” Rainbow Dash cried as she remembered what she had said when Dmitry first told her that he had killed her parents.

“Dash… I never told you this, but ever since that day I have watched over you… I’ve loved you like my family… like my daughter, I would never harm you and I’m truly sorry that I killed your parents… I love you” I cried and we embraced in one last hug. I had to break away from the hug.

“Celestia… they’re in your hooves now, take care of them” I said and gave them all a saddened wave goodbye. I looked into the air and saw the missile coursing through the air. “Dash… goodbye my daughter, I love you” I said out as tears rolled down my face, even though she wasn’t my daughter I wanted to let her know just how important she was to me. “I love you too… father” she said, the comment made me want to cry even more but I knew I needed to go. I crouched down then shot into the air, flying towards the nuclear missile.
As the missile entered orbit its thrusters gave out and came back down towards Equestria. As I neared the nuclear missile Fluttershy’s words of wisdom came back to me. ‘You are who you choose to be’ Fluttershy’s voice echoed in my head. Tears rolled down my face “The hero” I said to myself and closed my eyes. “I love you Dash” I whispered.

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Third person:

Dmitry’s body struck the missile warhead and it erupted violently, the bright explosion filled the sky. Ponies along with humans shielded their eyes from the brightness, it was like a second sun. Dash had tears rolling down her face as she watched the explosion.

General Hammerhead and Icarus both sighed, two generals who were on opposing sides gave each other and hand/hoof shake and nodded in respect for the other. Icarus removed his helmet “Alright gentlemen… pack it up, let’s go home” Icarus said in a sad depressed voice.

As everyone paid their respects to Dmitry they soon began to all depart as the night encased Equestria. All but Rainbow Dash had left the streets and Dash simply sat there and cried as she remembered the brief time they had together. Yet despite how short it was they had cared for each other despite his past

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Narrated by Rainbow Dash:

In the weeks that followed Celestia and the commanders of earth finally signed a peace agreement and after nearly four decades of war and killing, peace finally bestowed itself upon the two worlds and those who were slaves were released from captivity. Though there was tensions at first, it all settled down in the end as everyone remembered the man who had given life itself to save others, even those who would want to kill him, he gave his life for them.

Celestia informed everyone about the real occurrences in history with Chrysalis and how she had been imprisoned by the changeling queen. Finally… finally things were peaceful in Equestria.

Dmitry Petrovich, it always makes me cry. Dmitry Petrovich who gave up life itself for the better good of everyone, though it was an act of sacrifice for others I always cry when I think of him. Those of us who knew him pass talk of him often, Rarity talks about how much of a gentleman he was, Pinkie talks about how fun he was. As for me… well whenever I’m asked I simply say that he was like a father to me. The times we had together, though not many, was enough to last me a lifetime. Even though it’s painful to remember him I will always remember his smile, his gruffly smile. I guess I just miss my friend.

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Rainbow Dash:

There was a knock at the door and I quickly answered it, it was Twilight and she had a package in her hands. “Hey Dash… listen I know you are really sad but I thought this might help, the General left these on my floor and I thought you should have them” Twilight told me and handed me the box.

I took the box and opened it. Inside were all the pictures from the day that Pinkie, Dmitry and myself had played at the lake. There were pictures of us doing things like splashing in the lake and doing magic tricks but one picture took my interest over all the other pictures. It was the one were Dmitry was holding my body in his arms like I was his baby, I would treasure it for always.

“So Dash, what have you been doing lately?” Twilight asked me and I walked over to the desk I was writing at and picked up the novel I was writing. “I was just writing a book” I replied and handed it to her. “Oh what’s it about?” Twilight asked and I smiled as she looked at the book that was titled ‘The Peacemaker’.