Chapter 1

Once upon a time in the magical land of Equestria there was peace and harmony throughout the land. This was created by the two goddesses Celestia and Luna who brought out the sun to begin the day and the moon to start the night. But one day all of this changed. The day the humans descended upon Equestria. At first the ponies offered friendship to the humans; this was the wrong thing to do. The humans had advanced technology that quickly and brutally conquered all of Equestria with such speed that their efforts were met with little resistance.

The proud land fell in just over a month. Both the goddesses saw that this was a losing battle and in a last ditch attempt had all of the ponies they could gather leave the land. Thousands fled to the zebra home lands over the seas, Luna and the elements of harmony chose to stay behind and hold off the army till the ponies had made it to safety. But as powerful as they were even the elements of harmony could not stop an army. Hope was fleeting and the future looked bleak.

Despite how evil the humans were not all of them conformed to their leaders’ greed filled ideals. Small groups of humans stepped out of the shadows of their rulers, risking their own safety, to help the ponies escape the bloodshed. The group of humans were calling themselves ‘The Ascended’. Swiftly ‘The Ascended’ arrived and helped with the evacuation. With the help of ‘The Ascended’ the ponies of Equestria made it safely to the zebra lands. When they got to the shore Celestia put up a shield of protection over the entire land. The humans did not attempt a full invasion because the ponies had one advantage; the land which they now called home was rich with magnetic rocks. The rocks created a magnetic field preventing the humans from using most of their technology. To this day the humans have not invaded new home of the Equestrian ponies, allowing the ponies to enjoy peace once more.

The end.

The book closed with a dull thump. Turning to see all the fillies sound asleep, Lucas pulled himself up to leave. As he made his way out of the room, Lucas paused, he heard a little noise. Looking round to see where the noise had originated from he spotted one of the filly’s mumbling lightly in her sleep.
“Thank you Celestia” Lucas could not help but crack a little smile at this. Leaving the room he came into the all too familiar hallway. The wall paper was starting to peel and the lights flickered on and off but this was to be expected of a youth home. The maintenance ponies did their best to keep the place looking presentable, but everyone had to make sacrifices in the new Equestria. As he started to walk down the hall he saw a familiar unicorn. She had a light blue coat with a dark blue mane and her cutey mark was three pills

“Hi Heartbeat,” he said giving the pony a wave.

“Hi Lucas, are the filly's asleep?” she asked.

“Yes I was reading them the Equestrian invasion” she shuttered a bit at hearing this.

“Don't you think there a bit too young for something like that,” she asked, not really wanting to hear any answer except for 'I guess so'.

“It's not like we can deny it, although some days I wish it was just a legend, they should know the truth.”

“It must have been hard for you being a human an-” she was cut off.

“Don't call me that!” He was not yelling but it was evident that he was angry. “Sorry it’s just that when the invasion happened I gave up being human. I am an ‘Ascended’ and proud of it.”

“I’m sorry it's just that...”

“No, it’s not your fault.”

“But it must have been hard I wouldn’t know being born here” she just stared at her hoofs.

“It's a good thing you where, no pony should have to go through what I did.”

“Do you want to tell me about it?”

“Not right now,” and with that he slowly started to walk past her. “Another time maybe,” at this Heartbeat perked up a bit.

“OK, I’ll see you later then,” she walked on down the hallway, “oh but before I go, I’ve got to tell you Celestia wants to see you.”

“What for?” A wave of nerves washed over him, Lucas did well to hide them. Celestia did not want to see him often, but when she did it was usually important.

She just shrugged “I don't know.”

As Lucas entered the throne room he was immediately greeted by a sight that was very different from the rest of the buildings he had seen. The walls were a prestigious white, as were the floor and ceiling. A large throne adorned with gold trim dominated the middle of the. There, upon the awe inspiring throne, sat a majestic white Alucorn with a flowing multi-coloured mane and tail.

“You called princess?” He spoke up, more to announce his presence than actually asking a question, giving a bow.

“Please it is just Celestia, I don't deserve the title of princess” she lowered her head a bit, “at least not after what happened to Equestria.”

“It was not your fault and you know that.”

“I know but as the princess, it was my duty to protect my little ponies, I failed.”

“No you saw that the humans were too strong, you made the right decision to evacuate. You got as many ponies to safety as you could.”

“No I made the wrong decision if it was not for you and the other ascended showing up when you did we would have been captured or killed,” now her head was hanging very low.

“Celestia you had to evacuate otherwise every last pony would have been slaughtered anyway, you saved as many as you could,” she seemed to perk up a bit at this.

“I guess you’re right, any way down to business, the reason I called you here was that I discovered some type of anomaly north of this land.”

“What type of anomaly,” this grabbed Lucas’ interest

“We don't know but I want you to be on the recon team that investigates, your special ability will be very handy on this mission.”

“Do you what us to bring it back?”

“No, your mission is just to gather information. I want to know if this is dangerous or not.”

“As you wish,” with that Lucas left the room.

A/N
This is my first fan-fiction so constructive criticism is welcome, I will add tags for characters as they come in to the story. Also thanks to my brother, and ‘Craig at Black-Dragon’ (his fanfiction.net username) for proof reading.

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