The Peacemaker

“Rainbow Dash, that’s absolutely absurd… yah can’t really be askin me tah join you on a wild-man hunt, ah mean yah don’t even know if he’s up there” Applejack told me as she pulled a wagon of apples behind her. “Come on AJ, I need this and I need your help to do it” I begged but she shook her head as she came to a stop in front of the barn. “Javier, come unload these apples” Applejack called out and the human known as Javier rushed out of the barn and began to grab baskets of apples and unload them off the wagon.

“Please AJ… PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE PLLLLLLEEEEEEEASSSE” I begged but Applejack simply sighed. “Ah can’t Dash, yah know as well as ah do that with cider season comin up ah can’t afford tah be runnin around with yah lookin fer some guy that yah don’t even know is alive” Applejack replied and I dropped my head down in disappointment then shot off, figuring maybe Twilight would help me.

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I sat on a bench in the streets of Ponyville and sighed to myself, Twilight was too busy doing studies that Celestia had tasked her with, Rarity was too ladylike to go hunting, Pinkie Pie would’ve gone but she had to work then watch over the cake twins tonight and Fluttershy… well Fluttershy would never even think about hunting down a living creature even if her life depended on it so I didn’t even ask her.

I sighed to myself the hoped off the bench. ‘If none of my friends have the time then I’d just have to do it myself’ I thought as I zipped up into the clouds and flew towards the mountains in hopes of finding my parent’s murderer.

I reached the bottom of the mountain and wondered, ‘Now does he live at the top of the mountain or somewhere along the bottom?’ I thought to myself then decided probably the bottom because the top of the mountain was cold and humans had now fur to keep them warm. So I began to trot sneakily through the forest below the mountain then realized that I had rushed myself and completely forgotten to bring a weapon, but how hard could it be to kill a human, like really Javier may be taller than me when I’m on all fours but he’s scrawny so other humans have to be scrawny to right?

I shrugged and looked around for a big stick that I could use to beat my parent’s killer to death with and snapped a large branch off a tree and held it with my wing, when the time came I’d just hop to my hindlegs, hold the branch with my front hooves and avenge my parents, easy.

As I snuck through the forest I became rather irritated with how long it took me to sneak so I just started trotting through the forest regularly while I looked for the human but then I realized another thing. “How the hell will I know what he looks like?” I asked myself outloud, realizing that I had no way of knowing what he looked like, ‘for all I know Javier could be my parent’s killer and Granny Smith simply wasn’t telling me so she wouldn’t have to buy a new human if I killed Javier but Granny Smith would’ve killed Javier herself because he shot her right?’ I thought to myself as I continued trotting through the forest.

“Ohh this is taking too long” I complained to myself as I continued my search. As I continued to trot along in the forest I heard voices and I stopped. “I’m telling you John, this shit is going to blow away the Equestrian military” said one of the voices and I laid down and began to crawl towards the voices.

“No way man, even if we had all this shit, we still wouldn’t be able to get enough guys to take on the horses. You know that” the other voice said, who I presumed to be John. As I crept up closer I finally saw them, there was three of them. One was black with a short mane… or whatever the hell humans called it, the other two were white but one was a darker shade of white and had more of a tan on his skin and both of them had longer human mane’s.

“I don’t care, I just sell the guns you know that” said the black one. ‘Guns… what were… oh yeah I remember one of my teachers telling me something about humans and guns and how they were bad’ I thought to myself and as I went to crawl closer my body weight crushed a twig and the trio stopped and began to looked around.

“You hear something?” asked the tanned human, “You better not have been followed” said the black one. “No way man… you aren’t a spy are you” said the white one and he pulled out some small handheld thing and pointed it at the black one. “Hey chill the fuck out man… I ain’t no pony fucker” said the black one but the white one kept his object aimed at the black one. I gripped the large stick in my front hooves and got up and charged down at them, they looked at me but were way to slow.

I cracked the stick against the tanned human’s head and he was knocked out but as I went to crack the stick against the other humans, the white guy pointed his thing at me and I saw it flash come from the end of the handheld thing as a thunderous BANG rang out and I felt something rip through my shoulder and I staggered back as blood began to bleed out of a jagged hole in my shoulder. BANG BANG, his object thing shot again and two more pains shot through my body as two objects ripped through my upper left chest and my lower stomach area.

I staggered back and collapsed against the tree and another BANG rang out but this time the tree beside me was chipped and splinters of wood shot into my face as the projectiles coming from his shooty thing put a hole in the tree beside my head. I lept to my hooves and staggered a bit but then took off. But as I flew through the air another BANG rang out and I felt a projectile rip through my wing and I spiraled down to the ground and landed with a soft THUMP.

I grunted to myself in pain as blood began to stain my fur, I tried to move my wing but it felt as if something was lodged in my bone wing and it hurt too much to move it. I heard the yelling of several voices, more than what could be made by the trio. I steadied myself then tried as hard as I could to gallop away, though I was fast the pain from my wounds slowed me down considerably.

I was galloping when suddenly I heard a horrifying buzzing sound that was awfully loud. Suddenly it seemed as if the trees around me began to explode and wood splinters shot out in all direction as the trees began to get chopped away by projectiles. I tried to run further but suddenly a larger projectile ripped through my hindleg and I tumbled to the ground as the buzzing continued.

I heard voices as the buzzing stopped, “Get that MG42 up front and kill that Pegasus before she gets away” screamed a voice. ‘An MG42? What the hell was an MG42?’ I thought to myself as I staggered up and began to limp away, blood now oozed from my hindleg and I couldn’t put weight on it or the pain would force me to fall to the ground.

As I continued to limp away I heard a voice yell “Over there” and again the buzzing started as I tried to take cover behind a tree but one of the projectiles tore through the tree and ripped through my already wounded shoulder and I was knocked to the ground from the force.

I screamed in pain and tried to crawl away and as the buzzing stopped I staggered to my hooves and began to limp away but a lone BANG, rang out and nicked my flank and I fell to the ground in pain again. As I looked to the sky and to the setting sun I felt as if I was dying, well I probably was due to all the blood loss. ‘I’m sorry mom… dad, I tried… I really did but I wasn’t expecting this’ I thought, praying that my parents could hear me in the afterlife.

As my vision began to blur and fade I saw a couple of humans surround my body and point long objects at my face. “No… I want to kill this one myself” I heard another voice say and a large looking man with scruffy facial hair stepped forward and brought out some big looking hand object and pointed it at my face. “Goodnight little Pegasus” he sneered and I closed my eyes and waited for it to be over.