War Never Changes(FanFic)

[Pr3datorTaco 169]

Chapter One:The Begining

 

 

 

War...war never changes.

Earth ponies and unicorns alike fought the massive changeling army below, while above the pegasi were having dog fights with their flying troops.

Every so often a blast of magic caused groups of changelings to fly away, or send them tumbling to the ground.

Pleased with the army she had so carefully constructed, Twilight looked at her leading generals and friends. Rainbow Dash was head of the Air-Force, Applejack led the main army and Twilight herself took the lead of special operations team.

Fighting a changeling army was no small feat, for they could turn into anypony and cause mass confusion within the ranks of the soldiers, and perhaps, if they were lucky, having them kill each other.

This only brought moral down even lower after the Canterlot incident and the capture of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.

Twilight resented the fact that she could do nothing with the shock of the death of her brother and new sister in law, immobilizing her with the fear that she was next.

“Twi?” she heard a voice near her, but it seemed so far away.

„Twilight?” It was Rainbow Dash.

Snapping out of her deep thoughts she turned to Rainbow “Hm...what?” she said a little confused.

“We’ve cleared the skies of the enemy, would you like us to aid the ground forces now?” asked Rainbow.

“Uh…yeah go ahead and do that I want this battle finished as soon as possible, understand?” Rainbow nodded in agreement. She hated it when Twilight got like this, drawn back from what matted the most, the present.

Ever since the Canterlot incident she hasn’t been the same, but she guessed that was what happened when you loose somepony so close to you.

“Well?” asked Twilight.

“Huh? Oh, sorry.”

With that Rainbow Dash flew away to give the orders to the front line of the pegasi. Twilight didn’t like being rude to her friends but she had to keep an air of authority, even among her closest friends.

An explosion shook her from her thoughts. The explosion was to close and strong to be from the other unicorns.

She scanned the battlefield from her vantage point, on top of a hill, and saw what she feared the most.

Chrysalis, Queen of the changelings, was firing bolts of magic into the ranks of the ponies Twilight commanded, sending them flying about.

Twilights mind reeled as she tried to figure out a way to save her troops and her friends.

She charged down the hill to call a retreat, when a blast of magic tore the ground in front of her into a gaping hole and sent her flying back a few feet.

A little dazed she scrabbled to her hooves looking wildly about for her attacker. She gazed up to see Chrysalis wickedly grinning at her.

Rainbow Dash heard the earth shattering explosion and was momentarily distracted, allowing the changeling she was fighting with to punch her in the muzzle.

Stunned Rainbow wiped the blood off of her muzzle and smashed the changeling in his groin with her hind hooves, then spun around and punched it back in its ugly mug, destroying its skull with sheer force.

She then spun towards the direction of the explosion and flew there with incredible speed.

When she got there she saw Chrysalis and Twilight in a deadly duel of incredibly strong magic being shot back and forth between the brood mother and the small unicorn.

Twilight saw the cyan Pegasus and flung a shield around herself, just as several large bolts of magic slammed against it.

Rainbow took the opportunity while the changeling queen was distracted, kicked her in the stomach and landed another powerful blow at her face.

Taking the opportunity Rainbow had opened; Twilight gathered all of her strength, blasting the hive queen from her hooves with the sheer force of magic, sending her flying into the back of the changeling lines.

The queen dizzily shook her head and ordered the retreat.

They had won.

Twilight couldn’t believe that her small army of five hundred fought off more than one thousand changelings and their queen!

She tackled Rainbow dash out of the air and hugged her tightly, not letting her go.

Rainbow hugged back Twilight just as tight as she was hugging her, when Applejack came walking by and stood over them, a confused look on her face.

Rainbow looked up at Applejack, blushed, and pushed Twilight off of her, face still as red as one of the apples from Sweet Apple Acres.

Twilight looked up at what Dashie was looking at, fearing it was another attack, but instead saw Applejack, hugged her too (to a lesser extent) and let go after a couple of seconds.

Usually Applejack would have hugged her back, but after the war started she was more withdrawn with the loss of her little sister at the wedding.

She remembered it all too clearly.

The day of the wedding, after Twilight came back with the real Candace, the force field broke, letting in the army of changelings.

With the capture of Celestia and Luna and the death of Shining Armor, Candace threw attack after attack at the wretched Queen, failing each time, magic bouncing off the shield the Queen had conjured up.

Tired and already weak Candace couldn’t pull a shield up fast enough to protect herself, as the hive queen shot a big blast at her.

Apple Bloom, the brave little filly, jumped in front of the attack unleashed by the queen, hoping to buy Candace some time, but ultimately failing to save Candace’s life.

Her lifeless body was blown back into Candace, knocking her over.

Taking the opportunity Chrysalis sent the final blow into Candace’s exposed chest, killing the young princess instantly.

Laughing hysterically, Chrysalis gathered up her prisoners and flew off.

Nopony knew where she took her hostages, but it wasn’t any place good for sure.

Applejack ran to her dead sister and cried profusely. Some ponies went to her; others went to Twilight, trying to comfort them.

From that point on they both swore vengeance on the horrid Queen to either kill her or die trying. Either way, they would make sure it was an honorable death, but only if they failed.

If they defeat the brood mother, they swore to themselves, they would make her suffer as much as they were on this fateful day in Canterlot.

Coming back to reality was a bitter relief for the earth pony.

The dead bodies of ponies and changelings alike were strewn across the hilly plain, some burnt by magic, some with arrows sticking out of them like pincushions, and others just plain broken by the powerful hooves of their enemies.

It was painful to think that the ponies they trained so hard and had gotten to know so well; could be taken away so easily.

Applejack could see the soldiers gathering the bodies of their fallen brethren and tears welled in her eyes.

She looked away from the awful scene and at her friends, who were checking each other’s bodies for serious injuries.

She then remembered her own wounds and flinched in pain, coming from a gash in her side. Twilight was still inspecting Rainbow Dash’s sleek muscular body, a light blush appearing on her cheeks, while tending to a bleeding cut on the mares slender flank, as she noticed Applejack flinching in pain.

Twilight pulled herself away from the mare’s flank, ending the healing spell, running over to her earth pony friend and asked Applejack if she was hurt badly.

“I…it ain’t nothin but a little scratch. I’ll have a doctor look at it. Save your magic for bigger things Sugarcube.” Applejack said in a slightly pained voice.

“Are you sure? It would only be a quick look to see if it is bad or not...”

“YOU callin ME a lier!?” Applejack shouted seething with an unknown source of rage to both her and the two mares in front of her.

Twilight looked like she was on the brink of tears and scooted back to Rainbow Dash’s side, seeking comfort from the cyan pegasus.

When she realized what she had just done, she began to apologize “Look Twi I...”

“No! Just stop!” the cyan pegasus barked at Applejack with steel in her voice and a deathly stare in her eyes.

Taken aback and still angry for some reason, she lashed out still directed at Twilight “Yah haven’t changed a bit, have yah Twilight? Still the same little weakling as before. Not even a year of war, a year of death and destruction can change a weakling like you!”

Applejack had no idea where these words were coming from. She really only wanted to apologize to her friend, but it was like the words were being put into her mouth.

Seeing the unicorn now fully crying into Rainbow Dash’s shoulder and Dash glaring at her, Applejack slowly backed away from the two mares, then turned tail, and ran towards the nearest doctors’ tent.

Around four minutes after Applejack ran off, Twilight had reduced her crying to sniffling and short sobs.

Rainbow Dash was crooning soothing words into her ear.

Words like, “Shh shh shhh. It’s gonna be ok.” “It’s ok you’re safe with me.“ and “I promise I will never ever let go.”

Twilight looked up to the mare that held her in her hooves. They held each other’s gaze nearly muzzle to muzzle.

Twilight smiled and nuzzled into Rainbows chest, blushing slightly at the affection she put into the movement.

Rainbow startled at what the lavender unicorn had just done, blushed wildly and smiled to herself and the unicorn in her lap...still not letting go.

 

 

 

Hope y'all like it I'll post chapter two soon if yah do!

-Taco

Edited November 25, 2012 by Pr3datorTaco