Author's Note

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Where All the Stories End

Where All the Stories End.

Isaac and the girls traveled to the Crystal Empire to visit Princess Cadence and Shining Armor. Upon arrival, Isaac starts exploring and meets Cadence who is disguised by an illusion spell so she won’t get hounded by the paparazzi. When the two part ways, Isaac makes his way into the nearest bar and see’s Skull, the stallion that Blueblood hired to kill him sitting at a table. Isaac discretely has him at gun point and the two start talking.

Isaac learns that Skull was once in the Royal guard, but left after receiving an order from above that resulted in his squad getting massacred. Isaac relates to Skull and tell him about his old teammates that died under his watch and that the two are like wolves among sheep. The two bond over drinks until Isaac gets called to meet up at the castle. Upon arrival, he is mistaken for a threat and is attacked when he tries to go through. This results in a 3 on 1 fight between him and three crystal guards. Soon, Shining Armor breaks up the scuffle and is impressed with the human’s fighting style.

The human then joins the group for lunch and learns of Cadence’s and Shining’s identities. Twilight then asks what became of Scootaloo after the scuffle at the school yard. He explains to them what transpired between the foals. It is learned that Pip’s father, Orion Shield, is an old friend of Shining’s from his days in the Royal Guard Academy and promises to look into the matter personally.

Later that night, Twilight goes to Shining and tells him of Isaac’s reluctance to open up to her or her friends about his past. Shining deduces that he is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and suggests to leave him be and not force anything, else it could have a serious backlash. Shining also explains that Isaac’s reluctance is rightly placed, much to Twilight’s surprise. He explains that most soldiers shut down their emotions to do their jobs and to prevent that life from haunting them when their tour is over.

The next day, Isaac and Rarity decide to talk to Spike face to face about their fling. Isaac is attempting to remain calm as Spike starts yelling and threatening him, even after Rarity and Isaac both admit their guilt. Isaac now at the end of his patience with the drake and says that loss is a part of life and that Spike needs to accept it and grow up. This makes the dragon furious and is about to light the man on fire when the castle is starting to come under attack.

The group meets in Cadence’s safe house, a room in the castle that is made to be some sort of fall out shelter. The attackers are revealed to be former servants of King Sombra. Several of the attackers fight their way into the safe room and hold them captive. Isaac is stabbed in the shoulder upon trying to fight his way out and is left for dead. Isaac then receives another visit from Catalyst who explains that the power Isaac needs is buried within him, but does not have the spine to use it.

Isaac and his darker half then fuse, becoming one personality with the help of Catalyst who decides to move into Isaac’s body as payment for the fusion and heals his stab wound. This makes Isaac more blood thirsty and merciless. The human then manages to make his way towards the tallest tower, where the girls and dragon are being held. Isaac kills several of the attackers in the process, via gun or telekinesis. The human meets up with Armor and the two clear out the armory before going to the tower. Shining leaves with the guards he and the human freed to retake the castle, while Isaac goes in search of more soldiers.

Shining and his men are ambushed by more of the extremists. They take heavy losses before withdrawing. Shining gets a report that the East wing had been cleared by an unknown figure. As they try for another assault they find that the enemy has apparently been wiped out and their wounds suggest telekinetic blades. Shining quickly makes his way to the tower and kicks open the door to see Twilight being held by one of the extremists with a sword to her throat. Shining immediately backs off and drops his weapons.

The group then sees another one of the attackers running through the door screaming in fear. An unseen force then drags the stallion back out into the hallway and group hears a gut churning scream before the sound of bones snapping. A blood soaked Isaac then walks through the door with a gun in his right hand.

Isaac points the gun at the stallion and says that he’s going to count to ten and either the stallion’s sword or brains would be on the ground. The stallion calls his bluff and Isaac begins to count. After counting to two, he jumps ahead to ten before pulling the trigger and killing the stallion without any harm coming to Twilight. The scholar faints after looking at the dead body of her attacker. The girls all crowd around the scholar and didn’t notice the man exiting the room.

After Twilight wakes back up, the group goes in search for the human. Shining see’s one of his men outside the throne room with a spear in hand. He reports to him that Isaac had captured a number of the extremists and is interrogating them. Shining enters the room to see Isaac questioning the captives. The two then do a ‘good cop bad cop’ routine. At first none of the attackers will talk.

Isaac becomes impatient and storms off. He comes back a few minutes later with a dead body in hand and making it look like its still alive and starts questioning it before sticking his gun in it’s mouth. He counts to three and fires a bullet into the already dead body. Isaac then looks at the soldier Shining is questioning and says he’s next. Out of pure fear of the man, the soldier begins to tell Armor every detail of their assault.

Isaac leaves and heads off to take a shower, leaving a speechless Cadence and elements of Harmony. Hours later, Princess Celestia and Luna arrive to check on the elements. Twilight tells them of the man’s actions. The group goes to confront the man who is calmly relaxing on the bed he was using the night before.

Celestia is outraged by his carnage and threatens to banish him from Equestria, should such an incident occur again. Isaac simply replies by saying that he did what he had to do. Later that night, Cadence tells Twilight that when he came in to save her that the others gave off the love pulse, a pulse that ponies give off when they are near somepony they love, but felt nothing coming from the man. Fed up with all of the mystery, Twilight sneaks into Isaac’s room and enters his mind while he’s sleeping.

Isaac realizes this and kicks her out of his mind. Not before Twilight sees a much younger looking Isaac happily chatting with a beautiful human woman with dark red hair and wearing the ring Twilight and Rarity found in his uniform. After snapping back to reality, Isaac berates Twilight for going into his mind. The mare yells that its a mystery to her how anypony could ever love a monster like him.

The next day, Isaac catches Twilight alone and explains that what Twilight said had no affect on him, because she’s still a child. He explains that she hasn’t the faintest idea of what he’s had to do to survive. He admits that before coming to Equestria that he was due to be married to his girlfriend of three years, but she died when she lost control of the car she was driving and went off a bridge into a frozen river. Her body was most likely swept away by the current.

He then says that if Twilight ever tries to go into his head again then there will be hell to pay. The other girls overheard their conversation and they all agree to end their ‘relationship’ with him. Isaac accepts this with a nod and wishes them the best. By the end of his rant he says that all his life he thought he was a survivor, now he decides that he’s a winner and a symbol of humanity’s strength. As he makes his way to the train station, he spies Armor with a large squad. Armor explains that he is going after Pip’s father.

Not wanting Shining to end up like him, Isaac pleads with the stallion to stays with Cadence and not go after him. Shining states that he can’t leave his friends to waste away in a prison. Isaac understands and gives him one of his hand guns for good measure and wishes him the best in his mission. The man heads back to Ponyville alone and enters his house. Later that night, he hears a knocking at his door.

He finds a battered Isis at his doorstep begging for his help. Isaac learns that Isis had escaped a Changeling slave camp and needed someone to help her spring her captives. Isaac explains to her that he is no longer involved with the Elements or the Princesses, but agrees to help her. He packs a few weapons and teaches Isis how to shoot before going off.

The two spend the next month on the road tracking the slavers. The two encounter Skull who reluctantly agrees to helping them. Isaac learns that it was Skull that had cleared out one of the wings during the battle at the castle. One of the lunatics was a target that he’d been assigned to kill. Skull manages to kidnap one of the slavers and get info on what their next destinations are.

Skull falls back to get reinforcements from his assassin’s guild, while Isaac and Isis continue to make their way to the ports. Over time the two become closer and Isaac opens up to the Changeling about his past. Isis then reveals that it was her older sister, Chrysalis who attacked Canterlot and Isis is trying to start a new life for herself and her captive friends. The two then catch up to the slavers and Isaac gets a video recording of Blueblood making a deal with the slavers. After the Prince leaves, Skull returns with a handful of loyal guild members.

The group descend upon the slavers and free the captive Changelings. Skull admits that he and his friends grow tired of all the killing for coin. Isaac gives them the suggestion of staying with the Changelings, for protection. The night before Isaac plans on making the return trip to Ponyville, Isis approaches him and says that she has to repay him for all he’s done for her. Isis reveals that despite feeding off love, that she is still a virgin and wants Isaac to be her first. The two have sex under the moonlight.

Isis asks Isaac why he won’t stay with her and the group. He says that he has to set things right with some old friends, but he promises her that they will see each other again. The Changeling’s give him a magical ring that makes him look like a stallion as a thank you for freeing them from slavery. After a long and hard trek, The human then makes his way back into Ponyville wearing the illusion ring.

He observes the group of mares from afar and sees that Spike is forming his own herd with the CMC and are happy together. A lot of the towns folk are dressed in costumes for Nightmare Night. Isaac is then discretely approached by Discord who could easily see through his illusion and has been keeping an eye on Isaac, but has not reported it to the Princesses or the elements. He will continue to do so, if he helps Discord pull off a huge prank on the local populace.

The human agrees with enthusiasm and the two recreate a zombie scenario by projecting the man’s thoughts and making it look like that they are attacking. The duo are interrupted by Luna who sees through Isaac’s disguise. Isaac looses his concentration and the zombies vanish. The six mares see Luna and Discord conversing with the stallion they each met earlier. Isaac removed his ring and reveals himself to the mares.

The group begins to question him on where he’s been. Isaac just tells them that he’s been traveling around Equestria. He wisely leaves the incidents involving Isis. The human then states that he’s only there for a short while before he goes back out again. Twilight is refusing to talk to him and he learns that after Shining went out on his rescue mission that he too has gone missing, which she blames him for.

Luna apologizes for Celestia’s behavior in the empire and agrees that what Isaac did was the best course of action. The alicorn then uses the bet that she won over him to be her ‘escort’ to the Grand Galloping Gala. Isaac agrees and comes up with an idea which he enlists the help of Discord with. The six girls and one dragon get invitations to the gala and they reluctantly go par Celestia’s request. The group is shocked when Isaac shows up as Luna’s date wearing his dress Uniform.

Halfway through the night, Isaac sees Blueblood and plays the recording for everyone to see. Celestia and Luna are in utter shock at their nephew’s activities and call a guard squad to arrest him. Blueblood challenges Isaac to a duel for his freedom, a right reserved for royal family members and nobles. If Isaac wins then he will decide Blueblood’s punishment and if Blueblood wins then he will banish Isaac from Equestria forever. Isaac agrees and violently shakes his hand. During the shake, Isaac signals Discord to use the ancient spell ‘Ties of Death’ should one of them try to get out of their punishment, no matter the outcome, then the coward will die.

The two agree that they will fight at the Equestria Games that is three months away. Blueblood leaves in a fit of rage and Isaac is looking forward to the fight. Celestia ponders why Isaac did not come to her with the tape before broadcasting it. Isaac states that he knew that Blueblood would try to sweep it under the rug and deny everything. Celestia suggests that Isaac be taught in Equestrian combat for the up coming fight.

Isaac turns Luna’s offer down and states that she has more important things to do than train him. Twilight offers her assistance, but Isaac rejects her saying that he couldn’t learn anything from her teaching style. He suggests that Discord train him much to everyone’s shock, including the Chaos lord. He manages to convince both Princesses to let Discord tutor him, stating that Twilight and the others can handle him if he gets out of hand.

Isaac and Discord start training, under Twilight’s supervision for only a week before Isaac drugs Twilight’s tea and the two leave Ponyville while she’s napping. Discord then decides to ‘get into the mood’ by transforming himself into a human. When he looks at his reflection it jogs a memory loose. He remembers transforming into this form 1,000 years ago before he was over thrown. Isaac then receives a message from Isis stating that she once again needs his help.

Isis and Skull had since formed a large resistance to fight Chrysalis’s rule. At first Isaac wants no part in the rebellion and only to focus on his training. He then hears that the empire recently captured a VIP and plan to use it as leverage on Equestria. He reluctantly agrees and asks Discord to keep the Princesses’ watchful eyes off him.

Isaac lets himself get captured by the Changeling and gets thrown in a cell with a battered Shining Armor. Shining is pushed to the limit and thinks about taking his own life when Isaac reminds him of Cadence and Twilight. The two then start a riot as a distraction for the rebellion to swarm in and attack. Chrysalis herself makes an appearance and plays cat and mouse with the human. The two lock horns with Isaac coming out on top as her main army arrives.

He ends up decapitating the Queen and is ready to take on the army. The Changelings instead take a knee and swear loyalty to the human and admit that they were forced into attacking Canterlot. Isis states that in the Changeling culture ‘you keep what you kill.’ Isaac orders the release of all the captives and their wounds be treated.

One month later, Cadence is in Ponyville to Hearths Warming Eve with Twilight. The group hears a knock at the door and Cadence opens it to see a bandaged Shining. As the group is rejoicing, Orion makes his way towards Rumble’s home. Orion uses a communication gem to talk with Isaac and asks if there’s anything he can do to repay the man. Isaac only says that he should live for those that he loves.

Twilight and Cadence then learn that Shining found his way back via the compass that Twilight gave Isaac in the ruins. Another month goes by and the news of the fight had spread all across the globe. Isaac and Discord appear before Blueblood at the last second and the two begin to fight.

Discord then tells the group that Isaac spent all of his time on his psychokinetic abilities. The group is amazed as they see Isaac use his powers to increase his strength, speed along with telekinetic flight, and making a forcefield. The fight winds down when the two fighters had exhausted all of their magic. As Isaac delivers the final blow, Blueblood is knocked out and his body armor breaks open to show that it is not Blueblood, but a guard who Blueblood blackmailed into fighting for him. It is revealed that Blueblood was hiding underground since before the human arrived.

He then traps Isaac in an illusion where he is back on Earth where his friends and fiance are still with him. Isaac makes the choice of returning to reality by shooting himself in the head. The human attacks the Prince and shows no mercy while he pounds him into the ground with his bare hands. Isaac regains his sanity and stops himself from killing Blueblood.

He then states that Blueblood will live, but his rank of Prince will be stripped, his assets will be seized and that he is forever banished from Equestria. As Isaac walks away, Blueblood summons a spear and attempts to stab Isaac in the back. Catalyst takes possession of Isaac’s body and says that Blueblood is unworthy of his life. Catalyst grabs Blueblood and snaps his horn off before making his eyes glow. When he releases Blueblood Catalyst explains that he has removed all of Blueblood’s magical abilities and has taken them for his own.

The Prince does not believe him and tries to cast a lethal spell at him, but nothing comes out. Now in control, Catalyst summons six familiars that look similar to Isaac’s old squad. After regaining his senses, Isaac collapses from exhaustion and is caught by the familiar that resembles Doc. The royal guard arrive to take Blueblood away and start to approach Isaac before a group of Changelings rush out from the stands and surround the human in defensive positions.

Before another fight can start, Isaac pulls out his weapon and fires it into the air in order to get the crowds attention. The Elements recognize Isis among the Changelings, who reveals herself to be the new Queen and that Isaac is her personal advisor. Celestia tries to intervene but is stopped when she sees that Changelings are holding modified versions of Isaac’s weaponry. The two call a cease fire until Isaac regains his strength. While Doc is tending to Isaac’s injuries he tell the girls that he killed the ponies in the Crystal Empire months ago for their benefit, before he and the other five men vanish.

Isis then reveals that it was Isaac who killed Chrysalis, but gave her the title of Queen by fighting her and he surrendered after she had weakly punched him. The Changeling then goes into vivid detail how Isaac had removed the Changelings’ need to feed off of emotion. The powerful spirit of the first Changeling was locked away in an orb, deep inside the Changeling royal castle. The spirit demanded to be fed emotion so that it can one day return to the world of the living.

Using it’s collective power, it makes the new ‘batch’ of Changelings into mindless slaves bent on destruction. Isaac intervenes and tells his allied Changelings to give the emotion’s they’ve collected all at once in order to overload the spirit. Isaac then says that the spirit can have his memories. After they have deposited all of their strength into the orb. The orb shatters revealing that the first Changeling is actually a human. The man had stayed there over two thousand years by consuming the energy from the Changelings collected. Isaac attempts to talk to him, but he has lost his mind and goes on a rampage.

Isaac is forced to put him down by stabbing him through the heart. In his dying breath the man asks Isaac to find the truth about what happened to the other human that he met there. The man then dies in Isaac’s arms and Isaac uses the hive mind to tell all the Changelings to return to their home and gives them all free will and that they no longer need to sacrifice their happiness. Isis wisely leaves out the part about the other human’s wish to the Princesses.

Celestia is shocked when she hears about the other human and Isaac wakes up. The human then explains that the Changelings want peace with Equestria along with equal rights. Celestia and Luna agree to peace talks after Isaac recovers. During his recovery the six mares question him why he agrees to help the Changelings. Isaac explains that they were only doing what was necessary to survive as a species.

After Isaac is discharged, Twilight apologizes to him about what she said before he left the empire and thanks him for saving Shining who is back in his position as Guard Captain and that Orion has been promoted to the head guard stationed at Ponyville. Isaac arrives at the peace talks with Isis along with Celestia and Luna. The three agree upon a peace treaty between their nations and open up a trade settlement.

Isaac returns to Ponyville just in time for the yearly heatwave to hit the mares of Ponyville. After escaping the ‘whord’ he is pulled down into the sewer system by Thunderlane along with the other stallions and one drake. The group of stallions quietly made their way towards the man’s home that they would use as a check point before hightailing it to the Everfree. During the trek they loose a few members of the group.

Isaac barricades his home and tells the guys to man up and make a stand. They quickly forget the idea when they hear the whord at his door step. Isaac makes a gut decision to lead the group away and distracts them with some knock out bombs which he got from the Changelings. He keeps the mares busy long enough for them to escape into the dark forest. After narrowly escaping the DJ, Isaac climbs into Twilight’s tree house in an effort to escape them. The man hides under the scholar’s bed and is about to leave, but Twilight walks in and starts to masturbate.

The human can’t help but get aroused and is surprised when Twilight calls out his name when she reaches her climax. The mare leaves her room and Isaac is about to go out the window he came in, when Twilight teleports back in her room and sees the man. Isaac begs the mare to keep his location a secret. Twilight agrees, but only if he helps her relieve her of her heat. Isaac refuses, but agrees when Twilight threatens to let every mare know his location and throw him to the whored. For the safety of his pelvic bone he agrees and the two have sex. After they’re done, Twilight tell Isaac that she notified the other five mares via telepathic link.

The mares then each have a turn with the human and he escapes when the mares fall asleep. He makes it back to his home with the mares hot on his heels. He grabs a few smoke bombs, for a diversion as he escapes into the dark forest.

He makes it into the dark forest and most of the mares give up the chase. Isaac knows that they’ll be back and starts to dig in and sets up a perimeter with a few pit traps. He climbs into a tree and sets up camp. Hours later one of the traps goes off and Zecora is caught in the net. Isaac cuts her down and apologizes and explains his situation to the zebra. Before Zecora can try to seduce him, he is saved by Discord who ‘just so happened to be in the area’ and drops him off at the castle.

Isaac begins to wander and find the place as empty as a ghost town. A guard grabs him and explains that despite being an immortal Goddess, Celestia goes through heat once every 100 years and becomes a different mare entirely. The human then dubs her ‘Molestia’ and the group is discovered by the sex crazed Princess. While attempting to escape, Isaac is rescued by Luna who knows of her sister’s condition and teleports them both to a fallout shelter that had been created in case of a castle attack.

Luna also reveals that Celestia’s heat period will last two weeks, due to her lifespan. The fallout shelter is complete with Luna’s X-Box and games. Isaac introduces her to the Mass Effect series and the two bond over the week and find that they both have much more in common then either of them thought. The two start sneaking out to get food and supplies. One night they press their luck and decide to draw on Tia’s face while she sleeps.

This back fires when she wakes up halfway through and the two hightail it back to their lair. At the end of the two weeks, the human then tells Luna that he does care about her deeply and the two make love. During one night, Isaac is greeted by Catalyst who leads him down into the Canterlot Archives. He unknowingly trips an alarm and Celestia’s forces, along with the Princesses go to investigate. They find the human at their parent’s stone coffins and their bodies were preserved by magic. It is then revealed that Celestia and Luna’s mother was in fact a human woman.

More specifically, Isaac’s believed to be dead fiance Scarlet. Through a series of memories displayed by Catalyst, it is revealed that before Scarlet swerved off the road and into the river a time gap opened up, like the one Isaac came through and dropped her in Equestria, which is really Earth after the human race had died out over the course of billions of years. Celestia and Luna’s father, Solaris took pity on her and allowed her to stay, keeping her a secret from the public.

Scarlet eventually learned how to use magic and watched Isaac through a rift, never allowed to interfere. Scarlet also disguised herself as an Alicorn like Solaris. Eventually a relationship formed between them and they had children. Scarlet died after Luna’s birth and with the last of her magical energy opened up a rift in order to save Isaac’s life from the wolves back on Earth. Before she died, and with Solaris’s help, the two crafted the Element’s of Harmony and an item known as the ‘Prophet’s Stone, which is revealed to be Catalyst and was given instructions by Scarlet to lead Isaac to her grave and show him the truth when he arrived.

Isaac is at first outraged at the info, but settles down after Catalyst shows him a recording of Scarlet giving him a final farewell. She let him know that she lived well and was treated with kindness and that he had to find something in life he loved just as much as her. He watches Scarlet’s figure vanish into light and finally forgives himself for not being able to protect her or his friends.

After explaining things to Twilight and the others he meets with the Doctor and tells him. The Doctor says he knew but couldn’t tell him, because he was not yet ready. Isaac is outraged and threatens the time lord before being calmed down by the mares. The Doctor states that he cannot bring Isaac back to Earth during the time of humans and he sympathizes with him knowing how it feels to be the last of his kind.

The group is then made aware of an odd virus circulating through Equestria. At first it only seems to be effecting ponies, but soon spreads to dragons, Changelings and griffins. Even Luna and Celestia are suffering from the symptoms, while Isaac and Discord remain immune. Further research shows that something buried in the Crystal Empire was breached and is the source of the virus. Isaac is tasked with discovering it’s origin and sets off with Discord.

The two find that the cause is actually an ancient human vessel that was carrying disease samples from the human time. Through a series of flashbacks that are triggered by a few head injuries, Discord remembers meeting Scarlet before his imprisonment and that she was his first real friend.

Isaac sets the thoughts aside as he continues to search for records of the virus within the ship. It was engineered to wipe out anything other than human DNA during a time of war with another alien race that had long since died out over the course of millions of years. Isaac and Discord race back to Canterlot and tell the Princesses of their findings to see all the world leaders, including Isis all suffering from the illness. After explaining the nature of the illness all hope seems lost. A sickly Isis then says that there may be one option. She reminds them of when Isaac got in the way of the Changeling’s transfer stage and fused his own DNA with the new batch of Changelings who are only suffering minor symptoms. They come up with a plan to transfer bits of Isaac’s DNA using the Hive Mind of the Changelings.

To use something on a massive scale would require every being in Equestria to be linked and to use a massive amount of magic to make everyone immune. Celestia orders Twilight and the other five mares to help with their elements and Isis opens up a connection to the rest of the world boosted by their power. As Isaac is about to use the magic it is revealed that he will not survive. The Elements are hesitant to go through with the plan after learning this, but they agree that there is no other way.

Only Dash isn’t convinced and Isaac holds up the feather that she gave him so long ago and tells her to trust him. The man absorbs the magic and adds his DNA into the different species. The ponies still have their horns, wings and tails, but are missing their fur and the virus is now gone. Isaac does not survive the ordeal despite their best efforts. In the man’s last moments he thanks them all for their kindness and says that they were the best friend’s he’d ever had. A large funeral is held and he is remembered as a hero.

Three years later, Luna is in front of the man’s grave with a little Alicorn girl with blue hair, pale skin, without a tail. She tells her daughter that her father was a great man and eventually found the peace he had been looking for.http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/292885/finding-peace