After Dashie had finished her story, I wrapped my arm around her.

“Truth is, Dashie,” I began, “That-“

I was interrupted by a loud explosion that jolted both the Pegasus and I to look out the window. We saw Princess Celestia, her Royal Guards, and the mane six (excluding Rainbow Dash).

“Find Rainbow Dash, and bring her to me!” Celestia ordered.

All of the ponies started advancing towards the house, but were still a few miles away. I looked back, and saw Dashie huddled in the corner, shaking with fear. I ran to my room, grabbed a backpack, as many guns and ammunition I could carry, and I ran downstairs and used the remaining room in my backpack and pockets for food and water. Holding a Karabiner 98k in hand, I ran back over to Dashie

“Quickly, let’s move before they get here!” I said to her in a hurry.

“They want me, not you. Just go without me.” Dashie replied in a sorrowful tone. I grabbed her hoof.

“No pony gets left behind.” I said as I helped her up. She smiled as we made our way downstairs and out the back door. We just made it outside, and were face-to-face with the Princess.

“Get them!” She ordered. A guard charged us, and I smacked him with the butt of my rifle, knocking him to the ground. We ran back inside, and to the front door. The remaining ponies and the mane five were waiting for us. I fired a bullet, and hit a guard, his corpse hitting the ground quickly. As I reloaded, both of us ran up the stairs and into my bedroom. We locked and barricaded the door with all the broken furniture in the room. We could hear the ponies coming up the steps, when I got an idea. I turned to Dashie and said:

“Dashie, jump out the window!”

“What?!?!” She asked me. “But we’ll die!”

“You have wings, remember?” I said, pointing to her wings. She stretched them out, and grinned.

“Oh yea. But what about you?”

“I have my own way, just jump!” I said in a hurried tone.

Dashie did as I commanded, and began running towards the window with me right behind her. When she jumped, I grabbed onto her body, and we both flew out together. I was too heavy, and we tumbled to the ground, but Dashie’s wings had slowed our fall, preventing any major damage.

“RUN!” I screamed as we both got up and began sprinting down the street, taking corners like no one’s business. I heard the sound of wings as we ran, and attached my small bayonet to the end of the gun. I turned around, and a winged guard ran his neck into the knife. He gagged, blood coming from the wound in his neck and from his mouth. Once he died, I pushed the body off the knife, and fired another bullet, it missing its target.

“DAD HURRY!” Dashie screamed as I fell behind to our chasers. I was tackled by a pony, but I quickly recovered, shoving the Stallion off me, and I continued running. We turned a corner, and there was the mane five who had cut us off. We stopped, and began running backwards, but we were stopped by the Princess and her guards. There was no way out. As I tried to comprehend what was happening, Dashie and I had gone back-to-back (Or back to flank) as we were closed in.

We were trapped.

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