Evolution of a Gentleman

*Note to all readers, this story is kind of violent. Some blood but nothing too descriptive.

“It’s flippin’ FREEZING out here!” I said pulling the strings on my jacket. I looked around, nothing but snow and darkness everywhere. The wind was blowing so hard it caused the falling snow to move sideways. I looked to Morning who was only wearing a scarf atop of all her armor, “Do you know where we’re going?” I asked.

“Of course I do… Moon Hunt, which way?” Morning asked the grey coated pony in front of her.

“According to the coordinates I got from you, it’s about another 12 miles before we get there… in that direction!” Hunt said pointing out with a hoof while looking at a map and old fashion compass.

I sighed wishing I was back in the Crystal Empire or even Miami; Miami is good, it’s hot and humid. As we trotted along, Icy Dusk started to move in closer until her side touched me, then she moved in closer causing me to almost stummble. It was odd for Icy to be so close to me, but I normally caught her doing nice things for me when she thought I wasn’t looking. Icy was so warm I could feel her through my jacket, her body trying to press against mine as we walked through the snow, that was until I noticed a strange smell in the air.

A two hours later, while walking through the snow and ice Moon Hunt yelled, “Five more miles!”

“You okay?” Icy asked out loud. She was avoiding eye contact, like she wanted to talk to me, but she wouldn’t let herself.

Then I caught the smell again, it was a mix of musk and something else. Wait, musk? I thought to myself, nopony should be in heat right now except… I looked over to Icy Dusk, who was still avoiding my eyes, but sticking even closer to me. “Oh no…” Then I caught the smell of something else,… blood? No! It was oxidized iron and sulfur!

4 hours ago… In a large room under the Crystal Palace.

“Alright mares and gentleman; the next mission is to remove a Diamond Dog base out in the middle of the Frozen North. It is believed that they have tunnels, leading to and from the Crystal Empire. There is also rumor that all those kidnapped Crystal Ponies could be in there, so be on the lookout. So our objective is to close the tunnels and force the Diamond Dogs out of there. Is that understood?”

“Yes Ma’am!” Everypony shouted.

I walked over to Morning, “Hey you know what, I think I am gonna go with you guys. I would feel better, rather than staying here and waiting for you and everypony else to come back.” I said as I placed a heavy jacket over my armor.

“Well if you’re coming, go help everypony armor up.” Morning ordered.

“Yes Ma’am!” Morning grabbed my shoulder before I ran off.

“I was feeling okay about this mission, a little worried but now that you’re coming along… I don’t know, I just feel a whole lot better.” Morning said with a smile and then tapped my ass with her hoof. “Now move along there.”

Now that I look back I’m glad I came along, but Dark Morning has horrible intuition.

I grabbed Icy Dusk and pushed her to the ground, “Everybody, get DOWN!” I heard a low pitch whistle before my upper back and right lung started to burn. I looked down to find red colored snow, I had been shot. I quickly turned and then I rushed for the head of the line, pushing everypony to the side and onto the ground. The last pony I pushed was Morning before yelling out, “Silver, shie…” Another zing, this time I felt a hot burning sensation in my throat, red liquid spraying out in front of me.

“Silver, shield NOW!” Morning yelled. A large yellow transparent glowing dome shield appeared around Morning and the others, sadly I was outside Silver Rose’s shield. I held my throat to prevent the others from watching me regenerate. Then in the distance I started to hear something with a whirling sound.

“Silver, what’s wrong with you, get Blaze in here!” Morning yelled.

“I can’t, I have to bring down the shield and bring it back up.” Silver Rose responded.

“Do IT!” Morning yelled with tears in her eyes. Silver pointed towards the front at me, Morning’s eyes followed. I was mouthing and gesturing with my hands telling them to keep the shield up. Then the shield in front of me turned red, I could no longer feel my left shoulder or arm. Morning started to slam against the shield while the others were either too much in shock to stand up or unable to react. I could no longer hear her screams, all I could hear were the Gatling gun rounds bouncing off the shield. Then it stopped. My body or what was left of it slowly fell to my knees. Now that they stopped shooting I could hear what was going on in the shield.

“Silver, teleport us out of here! All of us, even Blaze!” Morning yelled.

“I can’t cast two spells at the same time. I need at least a few seconds…” Silver sobbed.

“Captain, you saw what happened to Blaze, nopony can survive that. We need a distraction if we all want to get out of here alive.” Dark Eclipse said. “And if you can’t think straight I will take over!”

A distraction… I can do something better… I turned and stood up lifting my right hand, I don’t know if I lost too much blood or was in so much pain that my brain stopped working right. Still I am glad I was able to do something for the ponies I cared about. I stared out into the distance with my fingers stretched out. “Burn… BURN!” The air around me and in front of me started to get hotter, then a spark. Fire exploded out from my hand towards the direction the bullets came from, a wall of blue and white fire started to burn around the shield. All of the ponies inside the shield stared in awe at the flame wall that seemed to be protecting them. I turned and slammed on the magical shield; Morning quickly turned around and looked at me. I mouthed the word ‘NOW’.

“Silver, get us all out of here!” Morning yelled.

“Yeah!” Silver yelled back.

The shield quickly dissolved and a magic circle lit up the ground, I fell back onto my knees but this time Morning caught me. Tears in her eyes and her yelling out something, I was too focused on keeping my fire wall up. Then each of the ponies started to magically pop away, my consciousness started to waver but I stayed awake unit I felt Silver’s magic engulf me. Then I passed out.

“Is he going to be okay, Morning?”

“He’ll be fine, Poison Heart.”

“You didn’t seem to think so; I’ve never seen you so scared before. You forced me to start using healing magic before we even set up the tent.”

“Yeah sorry, I just don’t know how he works yet.”

“So… what is he?”

“A monster.” I said, slowly opening my eyes. The bright light flooded my vision causing me pain, “Argh… what happened, where are we?” I continued placing my left bandage covered hand over my eyes.

“A MONS...” Poison started to yell before Morning hooved her mouth shut.

“He’s lying; he’s not a monster, just… different. Right, Blaze?” Morning said with an angry look upon her face and tears in her eyes.

I nodded too tired to keep talking.

“It’s okay, Blaze, we’re almost back to where we started, and you’re in our medical tent.” Morning said walking over to me.

I looked around; it was really roomy in here, and very bright.

“Okay. So do humans have magical powers or something, because I have only seen dragons and lizards heal like this, and it takes time with them. You did it in a few minutes, and have been asleep ever since.” Poison asked.

I looked over to Morning, a worried look in my eyes. “Do the others…”

“No Blaze, I only told Poison because I thought you were going to die.” Morning said as she laid down next to me.

I sighed with relief and looked up at Poison Heart, a dark purple coated unicorn with a yellow-green mane. “Please don’t tell the others.”

“Why?” They would be so relieved to hear that you’re alright.

“Because in the human world, his kind is hunted down, studied, and if they are deemed too dangerous… locked up forever.” Morning said laying her head on my chest. “And all you need is one rumor to be spread. Then they come and take him away in the middle of the night. Right, Blaze?” I looked over to Morning; she had bags under her eyes from all the crying. I reached up and ran my fingers through her mane and just nodded.

“Okay, so now that I don’t have Morning screaming at me to get you better. What were those things that tore through you Blaze?” Poison asked.

Morning’s eyes opened and looked at me. “In all my years as a guard I have never seen anything like that.”

“Guns.” I said.

“Guns?! How do you know it was a guns, Blaze?” Poison asked.

“I am guessing you don’t know what those are yet? A gun is a weapon designed and built by humans to kill things. It uses a small piece of metal launched out of a barrel at incredible speed. The small piece of metal is called a bullet, and the launching device is called a gun.”

Morning already knew what a gun was, but had never seen it in action. Guns, from what I was aware of, weren’t allowed here in this world unless carried in by military officers.

“Why would you humans create such a thing?” Poison asked.

I looked down at Morning, her ears twitching in my direction. “Originally I think it was for hunting and defending ourselves from dangerous animals. Then it was to defend ourselves from each other… and then they were used to kill and attack other humans. For stuff they wanted or a point of view that they could not agree on.”

“Wow… but why?” Poison asked again.

“All humans are greedy, and our greed takes different forms. For example, I am greedy; with all of you.”

Morning looked worried, and Poison had a scared look on her face. “I’m greedy because I want you girls to be here with me, so I won’t be lonely and because of that I don’t want anything bad to happen to any of you. So I will pick up a gun… or set the world on fire.”

Morning looked up in shock, “So that blue fire, it was you doing that.”

Suddenly Poison hugged me tightly. “I’m greedy too then.”

Then Morning moved in closer, “Me too, Blaze.”

We stayed like that for a few minutes before Eclipse busted in, “What in blazes are we gonna do? Huh?!”

Both Morning and Poison turned to Eclipse, all of them with a blank look in their faces; I on the other hand had closed my eyes.

“So is he dead?” Eclipse asked pointing a hoof at me.

“No, he’ll live. He’ll just be out for a while.” Poison said.

“HE IS ALIVE?! Great, now we have an extra baggage. If we never would have brought him along none of this would have happened.” Eclipse said as Icy Dusk and Night Star walked in. “If this human wasn’t here we could have done something!”

“You’re right, Eclipse, we all could have died!” Morning barked back at her sister. “Those Diamond Dogs were using guns, human weapons. If it wasn’t for Blaze, we all would be dead in the snow out there!” Morning said confronting her younger sister snout to snout.

Eclipse started to back down when some thought fueled her fight, “Human guns, even more reason not to have them around.”

Poison then quickly walked over to Eclipse and hoof-slapped her, Eclipse stood there in shock. “What do you…”

“Get out! This is a medical tent, and I have a patient who barely survived protecting us. Human, pony or whatever, I am treating him and I need you to step out so I can continue to care for my patient. Is that understood, Second in Command?” Poison said standing her ground. “Now, Icy, can you watch him, while we all decide what are plan should be?”

“But you said he needed more attention?” Icy said, slowly backing away.

“He needs to rest, and he’s completely out of it. He won’t be waking up for a while, so could you, Icy, watch him till I get back?” Poison said as she dragged the two sisters and Dark Star out of there. Then a yellow-green glow surrounded the lights, dimming them. Poison then stuck her head back into the tent, “Make sure he stays warm, okay.” Then she disappeared as quickly as she reappeared.

Icy walked over to me and placed a hoof on my head, and then on my chest which was covered in bandages. She grabbed the blanket which lay at my knees with her teeth and pulled it up, and as she did I felt her snout slightly graze my member. She lay down next to me, “Thank you.” She whispered.

As I laid there I could hear a heated discussion going on outside, I could hear the wind blowing, I could smell the herbs that Poison had out, the smell of my blood coming from the bandages, and then the smell of a very wet and musky pony. I opened my eyes to find that Icy had laid down next to me with her marehood next to my face. I looked down across my body to notice that her head was resting on my thigh and she was staring at my bulge. Her steamy breath began rolling across my member, and a slight amount of drool running down her mouth.

She looked back at me, my eyes already closed, and then back at my member. “He won’t wake up, right?” She whispered. “But maybe he’s too hurt… then again maybe he’s not.” She slowly got up and moved the blanket only exposing part of my hip and crotch. Her hooves and mouth went to work trying to undo my belt and pants, her wings extended and twitching. As I looked at her struggling with my belt I couldn’t help but find the lustful expression and confused look on her face adorable. “Why are clothes so difficult?” Icy said with frustration in her voice. Then I heard a click. “Got it.” A smile ran across her face, and her mouth dove into my crotch. Her tongue search through the folds of my underwear until out it popped, fully erect. I could feel her tongue running up and down the length of my erection; globs of drool collecting on my underwear. Then her lips locked around the tip of my erection before she began bobbing her head up and down. Normally I was the quiet type during sex, almost no noise, but she managed to get a few grunts out of me. With each grunt she would stop, look up at me and then continue. Then with a loud pop she released my erection from her mouth and proceeded to mount me.

“Gotta keep him warm, and you always find it warm in here.” Icy murmured, as she raised her marehood above my erection. “It might be a little tight, but you don’t mind.” Slowly she lowered herself onto me sliding my erection deep into her; it was so tight, so hot… so familiar. I looked up at Icy who had her back to me, moaning as she slowly lowered herself onto me. I was sort of in shock, this dark purple coated pegasus with a dark blue mane who always stood so proud, was riding my erection while I slept. Then it hit me, she said ‘always find it warm in here… and it’s tight but I don’t mind’ plus this familiar sensation… she’s been screwing me in my sleep, when she was in heat. It all made sense, the keeping close but distant, never making eye contact with me, she feels guilty. My thoughts were derailed when she started moving, her hips bouncing above mine, her marehood only engulfing the top half of my erection. Icy wasn’t tucking to get herself off, but to relieve the phase, she was trying to get me off.

As a man I could not let this go, and more so as a Gentleman. Icy was going to orgasm even if it meant I had to play dirty. As I watched her ride the tip of my shaft, I watched her marehood; globs of her mare juices were pouring out, but no orgasm came. So when her marehood was pulling away around the tip, I moved my hips away causing my erection to slip out. She looked down and quickly moved my shaft back inside her, this time moving a little lower yet keeping the tip inside. Once again as she pulled away so did I, my erection slipping out.

“Oh Celestia! Don’t tease me!” Icy reached back down and readjusted my shaft back inside her. This time she moved about three fourth of the way down, and almost all the way back up. Her breathing started to get heavier, and her movements faster, this is what I was waiting for. As she continued sliding up and down my shaft, I watched her marehood again, the folds of her nether region wrapping around me, sucking me in. Then as she pushed down, I pushed up, my full erection deep inside her. She let out a small yelp, and paused, moving her hoof in her mouth trying to keep her voice from escaping. The walls inside of her were pulsing and squeezing me tightly. She came and she came hard, then she slowly turned her head to look at my face. I lay unmoved, my eyes closed and my mouth open.

“Still out, but Oh Celestia what was that? I felt so good… no, that was just awesome.” Icy said. Wait, ‘it felt awesome’ I thought to myself, had Icy never had an orgasm before. “That is what Poison and Star are always talking about, an orgasm.”

Seriously this poor pony had never had an orgasm; inside my head stood a little version of myself facepalming himself.

Icy then began moving again, this time taking me all the way in. “More! I want more of those!” She began murmuring to herself this little chant. Somehow with this renewed sense of self pleasure she was riding my shaft at a different angle, the tip of erection was rubbing against something bumping inside of her. “That spot! It feels real good there!” Icy whispered. My erection was inside rubbing her g-spot, her marehood was getting wetter, tighter and hotter by the second. I had no idea how long I was going to last inside of this mare’s tight hot hole.

“OH Celestia! Here comes another one!” Icy whimpered, she shuttered violently as she took me as deep as she could. Her wet walls clinging tightly to me squeezing and sucking on me as hard as they could. It was too much; I clenched my teeth as I orgasmed, pouring my seed inside of her. Once again her body shuttered and her wings fluttered, she had another orgasm as I came inside of her. “Oh Luna’s stars! That last one was good.” She said to herself out load. Icy then raised her hips pulling her marehood off my dying erection. She then went to work cleaning me up with her long tongue. I almost squealed when her mouth engulfed my shaft and balls, her tongue working them over. As she was thoroughly cleaning my shaft in her mouth I easily came again, Icy did not move, instead I just heard a loud swallow when I was done. She then slowly let me out of her mouth one ball at a time, and then my shaft with another loud pop.

Icy then closed my pants and covered me up, and then laid down right beside me again, this time her head lying down across my chest. “Thank you for saving me, and always helping me out. Even if you don’t know it, I promise to protect you, Blaze.” She said before she nodded off to sleep.

As she slept I began to run my fingers through her fur and mane. Suddenly the lights inside dimly lit up. “Hey Blaze, is she out?” Poison said as she entered the tent, followed by Morning who looked shocked to see Icy asleep on me.

“Yeah she is, but if you keep talking you’ll wake her.” I whispered.

Poison smiled, “No, I won’t, and I normally have to sneak into your room and carry her big ass out of your bed every month.” She said magically lifting Icy to the other side of the tent.

“Wait, you knew?” I asked.

“Oh of course I did, I was the one who would drug you with a sleeping potion so she could do it.” Poison said lifting a small flask into the air.

“Okay, did you know about this, Morning?” I asked as I sat up.

“Sort of, I knew she was, but I didn’t know how or when.” Morning said sitting on the floor of the tent.

“So what are you guys going to do about the guns and Diamond Dogs?” I asked as I walked over to my backpack.

Morning looked away, “Scrub the mission, it’s too dangerous for us.”

“You mean too dangerous with all those guns, right?” I said as I opened my backpack, “What if there were no guns?”

“Then we could bust in there and kick their tails… Blaze, what are you doing?” Morning asked as I began removing my clothes. Morning raised her hooves to her eyes, slightly peeking out of the corner. “We don’t have time for that, we have… to… wow.”

“Oh my, I am liking the look Blaze.” Poison said as she looked over my body.

I was wearing a thin snow patterned military vest, with a skin tight body suit that covered everything but my eyes. I then pulled out a pair of black goggles with white lenses and a pair of walkie talkies. I turned them on and tossed one over to Morning, “I’m going over there, see what they’re doing, destroy all the guns and then call you in.”

“Wait, but if they see you, they’ll kill you!” Morning said clinging to the walkie, “And how are you going to call us, and what is this thing?!”
Suddenly the little round device that Morning held gave a small amount of static and came to life, “Like this and are you forgetting who you’re talking to?” I said speaking into the walkie talkie.

“Wow! Are these those cell phone things?” Morning asked and Poison walked over poking the thing with her hoof.

“Sort of, they’re short range communication devices. When you squeeze the rubber side, you can talk into it and I can hear you, and vice versa, but it won’t work if we both press down on it at the same time. So don’t use it to talk to me, unless you really have to, you could miss something important I have to tell you, okay?” I said placing the device into my vest.

“Wait, you’re serious?” Morning said.

“Yeah, of course I am.”

“But this is crazy, why?” Morning said placing her hooves onto my shoulders trying to force me down.

“Because you said the reason you wanted me on your team was to make sure you would never have to abandon another mission again.” I said gently grapping her hooves and lifting them above my shoulders, causing Morning to slide forward onto me. My arms wrapped around her and my head buried in her white furry chest. “Also I don’t want to see you sad.” I gently moved my arms and lifted her hooves again placing them on the ground. “So yeah… later.” Poof a veil of thick fog filled the room and then disappeared along with myself.

Morning ran out of the tent and looked around, squinting her eyes searching for me. Then the walkie spoke, “Don’t worry, I can see you and you can’t see me. So that means they can’t see me. See you later, Dark Morning.”

It was about 40 minute run to get to the Diamond Dog base; I took out a pair of binoculars from my vest and looked at the icy fortress that lay in front of me. What caught me by surprise was not the Diamond Dogs keeping a look out, but the humans walking with them. I put the binoculars back, and slid down the snow hill I was laying on. Oh yeah, now I was freezing my ass off, luckily I was controlling the hydrogen cell inside my body, to keep me from freezing over (Yeah, my second mutant ability was to control any Hydrogen cells, just in case you didn’t catch that).

I slowly walked over to the large icy wall that stood between me and them; I raised my hand over a small portion of the wall and made a grabbing motion with my hands. A small opening appeared and I moved through it, I repeated this process again but replacing the hole with ice this time. A tall metal wall stood in front of me, I place my ear against it only to hear crying on the other side. I placed a finger against the metal wall and began to raise the temperature by vibrating the hydrogen molecules in the metal. I burned a small finger sized hole into the metal wall and then looked through it. What I saw made me want to kill every single human in this damn frozen hole. I saw Diamond Dog women and children, Crystal mares and fillies all locked up in cages.

“So how many do we got in here?” One of the human said to another.

“About 45 ponies in here, Sir.”

“45 Ponies huh? That’s good.”

“Wait! What are you going to do with us?” A yellow coated Crystal earth pony asked.

The human in charge slightly bent over and placed a hand on the cage, the pony inside slowly backed up. “Why sell you ponies to the highest bidder of course.”

“And what about us?” One of the Diamond Dog females asked.

“Well, your male counterparts do such of good job, we want them to keep working for us. Now of course if one of them has a change of heart…” He pulls out a gun and lifts it into the air. “I will introduce one of these into one of you, is that clear? So why don’t you all shut up and enjoy living in each other’s company while you still can.” The man said holstering his gun and walking out the door; the soldier who was with him then hung a clipboard on the wall and followed the other man out.

“You’re all dead… Now call down James…No, calm down Blaze Drifter.” I thought as I placed a hand on hole and concaved the opening so I could look around the metal room, looking for cameras or alarms. I backed away from the metal wall and then with a strong ball of fire I created a tunnel leading away from the fortress back the way I came. I then placed my hands on the metal wall, and melted out a circle, grabbing the metal circle before it fell.

As the ponies and Diamond Dogs turned, I said. “Shhhhh!” while placing a finger on my mouth.

“Who are you and what are you doing here?” asked one of the Crystal ponies who was shaking in her cage.

“My name is Blaze Drifter; I’m here to get you out. Now stay quiet.” I said placing my hands on one of the locks melting it down till it poured out of my hand like water. I opened one of the cages and pointed to the opening in the metal wall. “Go through the wall and down the tunnel, once you get there, wait.” I turned to the Diamond Dogs that were there, “I promise to get your partners free okay.”

“What are you?” asked one of the Crystal ponies.”

“Why I work for Equestria Royal Night Division, under Princess Luna’s command.” I said as I broke the last lock. “Now get out of here, at the end of the tunnel are Royal Guard ponies, tell them what is going on.”

As the last prisoner fled down the ice tunnel I walked over to the door and picked up the clipboard, as I flipped through the pages I found a detailed map of the fort. A smile ran across my face, well this is going to make my life a whole lot easier. As I headed back to the hole in the wall, a human escorting a Crystal Pony walked in; he quickly pointed his gun at me while I lifted my right hand at him.

The door closed behind him, “Who are you? What are you doing here? Where are all the prisoners?” The gunman asked, the gun shaking in his arms.

“You dumb shit, I freed the prisoners. What the hell else does it look like I am doing.” I said keeping my hand aimed at him.

“You’re what? And what are you doing with your hand? Have you been here so long that you forgot that you’re nothing but a useless piece of trash without one of these?” He said pointing his gun at me.

“Well fuck you bro!” I said trying to egg him on. Thank Celestia it worked, his anger and nervousness caused him to pull the trigger. Shooting me in the chest, blood and cotton spilled out as he hit my vest. I slowly backed up my left hand clinging to my chest, while my right hand still extended outward. “Oh… Oh it hurts. I’m dying… Not.” I stood up the wound already closing up.

“What are you?” The soldier said lowering his rifle.

“Her Majesty’s Royal Guard!” I said flicking my fingers deforming the gun with extreme heat.

“Wha..urgh!” I quickly ran up and punched him in the gut. He threw up some bile and passed out.

“Huh? What’s going on?” said the pink Crystal pony the soldier had escorted in.

“Don’t worry, everything is fine.” I said removing the blindfold the pony had on her face. “See, all better. Now why don’t you go down that hole and get out of here. It’s about to get very hot in here.”

She nodded and disappeared down into the hole. The man on the floor started to regain consciousness, and as I walked by I kicked him in the face knocking him back out. I opened the door and stepped outside; several men were walking back around and a bunch of Diamond Dogs looking around or sitting around waiting for something to happen. I walked up to one of the Diamond Dogs and squatted down in front of him, “So do they have your family locked up, too?”

“Huh? Yes they do. Little sister and mother locked up in cold cage.” The Diamond Dog said as he looked angrily at me. “Why you ask? Are you going hurt them now?”

“Not anymore.” I said. “They’re all probably half-way to the Crystal Empire by now.”

“What you mean?” The Diamond Dog said confused.

“I mean, I broke in and set them free. Now you and your kind better get out of here. This place is gonna burn.” I said patting the Diamond Dog on the head.

He smiled and ran off telling the other dogs; I watched as one by one they disappeared into the ground and out of the fort. As I continued to walk around I spotted an ammo and weapons storage unit, and counted about 8 Gatling gun turrets. Suddenly I caught a glimpse of the man who I saw earlier in the holding cell.

As I began walking over to him I was cut off by two men holding assault rifles, “Can we help you?” One of them asked.

“Not really, just wanted to talk to that guy over there.” I said in a polite manner.

One of the soldiers noticed the blood on my vest, “Hey you’re hurt, why don’t you go see the doc first.”

I looked down at the hole in my vest and smiled. “Oh no I’m fine; I just got shot at in the holding cell for breaking the prisoners free.”

The two men laughed, “Yeah, that’s a new one. Setting the prisoners free…”

A loud alarm went off, the two men in front of me looked around, “Attention, Intruder Alert! Prisoners have escaped! Warning, Intruder Considered Armed and Dangerous. Intruder was shot in the chest and is wearing an all-white outfit.”

The two men looked at each other and then at me, their guns quickly rose up and placed directly in my face. I reached up and grabbed the barrel of each gun melting them off in an instance. I surrounded my hands with fire, “Welcome to Hell!” I said with a devilish smile on my face.

3 hours later…

The base was half melted, and all the men involved were being thrown into the back of reinforced carriages. Dark Morning and her team were being interviewed by humans and ponies alike. Me on the other hand, I was sitting somewhere away from the crowd trying to enjoy a job well done. Then out of the sky Princess Celestia showed up and began talking to Morning, their conversation seemed very interesting from a distance, that is, until she pointed at me. Princess Celestia gracefully walked over to me, and as I tried to fall to one knee she stopped me with her hoof upon my chest.

“So you are the one known as Blaze Drifter, or is it James Mishkin?” Celestia asked standing in front of me.

“I prefer Blaze Drifter, your royal highness.” I said keeping my head down.

“Well then, Blaze Drifter, would you please lift your mask and show me your face? I would like to see the face of the human that has saved many of my ponies today. I am in your debt.” Celestia said lowering her head.

I began to panic, quickly pulling off my mask. “Please don’t bow, I am a simple man who really doesn’t want much out of life; I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if one of you Princesses bowed to me.”

“Oh! What nice hair you have.” She said fluffing my hair with her hoof. “Then let me grant you a reward for your valiant efforts.” Celestia said.

“It’s not necessary, Princess Celestia.” I said shaking my hands in front of me.

Then we looked at each other in surprise as we heard a commotion coming from the carriages. We both turn to see what was going on. It seemed that the man in charge of the whole ponies’ abduction incident was fighting to get loose before they tossed him into the carriage. As he struggled with the UN soldiers he managed to grab one of their guns.

“If I am going down, so will the rest of humanity!” He said pointing the gun at Princess Celestia.

Two shots were fired, and I quickly jumped into their way creating a shield of white fire, which melted the rounds down in less than a second. Then as quickly as I put up the shield, I put it out. As the flame dissipated I quickly noticed that the crazed gunman grabbed a white coated pony. It was Dark Morning.

“I knew it was you. Alright, if you want this precious little pony to live I want a free ride out of here on one of those flying carriages.” He said burying the gun deeper into Morning’s head.

“Tell them how much you don’t want to die. Tell them!” He yelled.

Tears started to run down Morning’s face as she looked up at the gunman, “As they say in your world; Up yours!” Morning said smiling.

The gunman raised his gun quickly and smacked Morning in the face, and put the gun right back to her head. “Now, now you little bitch, why don’t you behave.”

As he started to back up I looked at Morning, a small amount of blood dripped down and off her face. I had finally found what made me lose control, suddenly the man’s right arm turned in to soot and burning ash. His hand and gun fell to the ground, his wrist was torched, and he quickly grabbed the stub of his right arm with his left hand. He was screaming in pain, he then quickly dove for the gun with his left hand; I burned that one off as well. I had no sense of remorse at the moment, this crazy son of a bitch was selling ponies, killing Diamond Dogs, and was about to kill the most important mare in my life… He then stood up and rushed at me screaming and swearing that he was going to kill me. I slowly raised my left hand and with a flick of my wrist his body turned to soot and burning ash. Everyone and everypony was staring at me, with either a look of shock or terror on their face.

The silence was broken when one of the UN soldiers yelled, “Mutant!” In a flash, several red dots lined my chest and head, several soldiers surrounded me in a circle. Still, the only thing I could think of was what I just did. I was staring at my hand when one of the soldiers yelled, “Put your hands down or we will open fire!” My eyes widened as I fell to my knees screaming, my hands falling to the side, and all I could think of was, “Why didn’t I stop…”

Morning ran up to one of the soldiers who were pointing a gun at me. “Hey wait! What are you doing? He saved me and our Princess!”

“You don’t understand, these things can’t be left to roam around, especially one this strong.” The soldier said tightening his grip on his rifle.

“What is the meaning of this?!” Celestia exclaimed her voice booming through the area, as she moved through the soldiers and stood beside me. “How dare you treat someone who just saved so many lives like this!”

A grey haired man with a face like stone walked up to Celestia. “I’m sorry Miss Princess Celestia, but our government has strict laws when dealing with his kind.” The old man stared down at me, who was unmoved, and slightly twitching. “He is a threat to not only himself but others. He will be locked up until we deem that he is worthy of being released into the free world again.” The man said as he reached for my hands with a pair of handcuffs.

Princess Celestia interjected with her hoof and looked at the man, “How dare you treat a citizen of Equestria like this!”

“Equestria, Ma’am, this mutant is from Earth, and if you try to stop me…” The old man was interrupted mid-sentence.

“He wears the armor of the Royal Guard, an honor only reserved for citizen of Equestria.” Celestia said as she rose her head up above the UN soldier.

“But?! He’s… argh. Put your guns down!” The old man yelled.

Hesitation was felt before the old man yelled again, “Put your guns down, or do you want to start a war with Equestria!” All the soldiers lowered their weapons, and Dark Morning rushed to my side.

“Blaze! Blaze! Are you okay?” She said running up to me and hugging me. “You see I am okay! You saved me, I am okay! Do you understand?” She said as she looked into my eyes.

I broke down in tears, rubbing my face into Morning’s neck. “I’m sorry… I’m so sorry!” She gently patted my back with her hoof, while making a hushing noise.

“Don’t worry, Blaze, nothing is going to happen to you as long as I’m here, okay?” Morning said. I clung to her fur holding her tighter, my sobs muffled by her furry neck.

Celestia and the old man looked at each other, “This isn’t going to be easy to explain.” The old man said.

“I know what you mean.” Princess Celestia said as she looked over the sight in front of her. “But things are different now than they were before; it is time to move forward. Don’t you think?” She said smiling at the old man.

“Hmph!” The old man murmured crossing his arms, a smile slowly crawling across his face.