I continued sneaking around the forest that I was lost in. Fuck Shining Armor and fuck everyone else for not helping me!

[They were scared of us!]
{Scared? I imagined them capturing me and doing painful test but scared?]
<It's a trait we all have.>
{No! It's a human trait!}
~Yet your never scared. Explain that.~
{I... I don't know. Let's find shelter.}

The clouds above me started to react and storm. The lightning was terrible and the sky was dangerous. I swear someone up their has it out for me.

~There!~

Eden pointed to a small hut.

"Great!"

I ran to it quietly. I turned back to check and make sure I lost all those animals. Coast is clear. I quietly lifted up the window and climbed inside.
{This is grand! Who lives in the forest?}
[Well the only person we know that does is...] We were cut off by the sound of a vase dropping. I turned to see our favorite zebra. [...Zecora...]

"Uh... hi?" I asked her.

"Why have you come here beast? Is it me you want to feast?"

"What? No! I just need to get out of the rain!"

"Halt" She threw a cup of hot tea in my face.

"Ow!...... Why?"

"Out out out." she pushed me outside like an animal. "I knew I shouldn't have gotten a house out here. All these beast live off of fear."

"Wait!" she slammed her door in my face. The rain began to pour heavily. Than I started feeling a pain in my chest. "Ah!" I fell to my knees coughing violently. "*cough* Ow..."
[Dustin!]
<OH man! Stay down!>
"Ugh..." I put my back against the door and let the rain fall on me.
~The sword! Oh god it's broken! That's our soul! Broken!~
"And... I'm... dying..."
[Stay with me!]
I closed my eyes. They felt heavy. Too heavy. When I opened them I was still outside. I was weak and cold. Who leaves someone out in the rain? Apparently Zebras. Those rat bastards. Hold on... I reached in my vest pocket and pulled out a notebook.

'Things to get revenge on...

1. Niko.
2. David.
3. Shining Armor.
4. Zecora.'

{Heheheh...}
<Oh god... Dustin's using the evil laugh.>
{MUWAHAHAHA!}
~Who laughs in their head?~
[Dustin.]

I got up and walked along the trail to the nearest town. Shit the nearest town is Ponyville. I looked around me for cover. I could stay in the forest and go around which will take about 4 days on foot. I also found a cardboard box. Well... time to get my Solid Snake on.

<You don't have a mullet.>
~Or a headband.~
[But we do have medium shaggy hair parted very nicely. We're like Naked Snake from the beginning of MGS3.]
{Oh Naked is my favorite one! Why? He's Big Boss!}
<You win this time Beta.>
~Your just going to throw the towel in? Hey at least Solid's not dead.~
{Oh... Too soon...}
~No it not! That game happened a long time ago!~
{It's never not too soon Eden!}
~Okay okay... don't raise your voice please. It scares me.~
{Fine.}

I slept the box on after punching out some eye holes. I went around the town quietly making my way towards the road to Canterlot. I was on a home run until I got to the town square. What happened? Two words... Two dearly dreaded words that to this day still haunt me...................... Pinkie Pie.

"Hi hi hi! Who are you? Are you a cardboard box? No that's just silly! Oh oh are we having a cardboard party?" I stayed quiet because I was scared completely shit-less.
<Scarier than Tia and Luna's rape face?>
{So much more.}

I tried to go around her but she backed me up to the statue AND to make matters worse she had a crowd growing.

"Take of the box please? Please! Please please please please!"

"Pinkie!" I yelled at her harshly. "SHUT... UP!" She stopped right their. Her mane deflated (Like, I'm not shitting you, a balloon. That's exactly the sound she made.) She stopped smiling and than I heard Rainbow Dash coming. She was going to tackle me I just know it. "Oh no... Okay Pinkie?" she looked like she was going to cry. "Pinkie don't cr-"

"WAAAAAHHHH!!!!"

"-Oh boy..." I was tackled by Rainbow against the statue. She forcefully removed my cardboard cover showing me to the crowd.

"What's your problem? She's trying to be nice!"

"My problem is that your crushing my kidney." She stepped off of me. "Ah... there we are... now! I must ask of you to not be mad at me since it's her fault."

"And where were you walking to?" asked Twilight.

"Canterlot."

"Can't you humans fly?" asked Rainbow. I did a little twirl for her.

"Do I look like I can fly?"

"So your all weak creatures who can't fly? No magic or anything?" asked Twilight.

"Hmm.... Nope... not really... unless your a witch. You don't want to be a witch."

"Wow your so pathetic! Hah hah hah!" said the laughing cyan pegasus.

"Alright Rainbow. I'm about to ruin your day. You just got mad at me for yelling at Pinkie for annoying me. So you call me weak for being 'inferior' to you. Pinkie doesn't have wings or magic. So do you think she's pathetic? Hmm?"

"Uh... I... Uh..."

"Didn't think so." I patted her on the head and started walking away.

"Where are you going?" asked Fluttershy.

"I'm going to Canterlot. I need to talk to someone."

"I can teleport you."

"You know what Twilight? I don't want your help!" she looked shocked and hurt. "I'm just a 'weak' creature who's survived this long by getting help from no body. Good day." I started my run to the city. I need to get help before hunters want to ambush me. I'm still having chest pains and back pains. Now my left arm was starting to hurt.

[We could have just gotten help.]
{No. She pissed me off.}
<I'm happy that you didn't kill her.>
~What do you mean?~
{We usually kill the people that piss us off. And it's usually on the battlefield.}

14 hours later...

"Oh...*gasp* My... God..." I finally made it! Yes! Woo! Yeah!

<What are you cheering about?>
~Good job. You made it to the outskirts of a town. I'm so proud.~
[The bubble's still up.]

I walked up to it and knocked on it.

"Hello? Can someone let me in?" A bunch of guards walked up to the bubble and were amazed by the sight of me.

"Halt... creature. You are not allowed inside."

"But... why?"

"You pose a threat!"

"A threat? My good sir I swear that I..."

"Enough." they walked away. I went back to poking the bubble. I could not get inside. I tried kicking it. Headbutting didn't work and neither did asking it nicely. "Seriously stop before we have to hurt you."

"Hurt me?!" What the hell is wrong with these ponies. Then Shining Armor walked by. "Hey! Shining! Can you help me out?"

"It's you... guards..." Oh thank the heavens. He's going to let me in. I guess he's not all that bad. "Kill him." Or not.

"Oh boy." I turned and started running backwards as about 12 guards chased me through the woods. Man were they fast.

~I don't think we can outrun them!~
{I don't appreciate that kind of negativity.}
<Just don't stop.>

I stepped into a snare trap which pulled me from the ground fast. I hit my head on a boulder cutting myself.

"Ow..." My vision was a little blurry. I was bleeding that's for sure.
[Really? We stop wars and dragons and nightmares and the one thing that gets us... the one thing! Is a snare trap.]
{Shut up...}
<Okay Iron. We'll play your game.>
{Not cool...}
<You okay?>
{...No... I think I'm going to die...}

I bent up and untied the rope from my ankle. I was still a little ahead of the soldiers but it was harder to move. Then a grenade or a landmine (I really couldn't tell the difference.) went off sending me flying downhill. I went through many trees until I hit the bottom. I couldn't move my legs anymore.

~Oh my god Dustin!~

I ripped open my vest and shirt showing all the shrapnel did in fact hit me.

<Don't move!>
[Just play dead!]
{There's no time! Eden! Take the back up body and take Alpha and Beta with you.}

I removed the female body I kept in storage. Eden had her original body back and she had Alpha and Beta on her shoulders.

"Now run... please... *Cough* Hurry!"

"But they'll kill you!" she had tears in her eyes. She helped me up but I fell back down next to the tree. My right arm was missing. Like a little right above the elbow. That was what was missing.

"Eden go!" The soldiers were getting close. She had her bat wings.

"Dustin..."

"GO!" She nodded and flew away as fast as she could. She made Rainbow look like a joke. The soldiers surrounded me with swords drawn. Shining Armor was the first to walk up to me.

"So monster you think you can attack Canterlot?" I tried to talk but I ended up puking blood. "Ew... Hey. Look. We're sorry but we can't have you killing innocent-"

"I wasn't there to kill... hehehe... I was there to visit a certain pony." I just remembered something. In my vest pocket!

"We're so sorry. Any last words?" he asked. He knew that I wasn't going to attack. He wasn't sorry. Now I know where Twilight gets her ruthlessness from. I reached into my pocket to pull out my last carton of cigarettes. I remembered before I died I bought this so when I went back in time I got them back! Yes! I put one in my mouth and lit it up.

"You can have it all. My kingdom of dirt." They were a little surprised. "I will hunt you down. I will make you hurt." They all raised their swords and attacked me. But when they did I didn't feel it. I looked around me to see I was in a forest. It was a long and dark forest surrounded by mist.

"Hello." said a gruff voice behind me. I turned to see a skeleton with a cloak riding a horse.

"What?"

"I am Death. My lord wants to meet you Dustin."

"What?"

"Come on!" he patted his horse. "Off we go."

"What?"

David's POV

I was organizing the books in our study. Something just felt wrong with the world today. Then Dustin ran inside the doors in a mare's body.

"David!" he cried.

"Dustin? What do you need?"

"No I'm Eden! Listen..." she had tears running down her face. First she fell to her knees and the tears continued to fall. Something was obviously wrong.

"Eden what's wrong?"

"Dustin's dead. Your soldiers just murdered him." she cried. I pulled her in for a hug.
[David... what are we going to do?]
<Without Dustin we're nothing.>

"Don't say that guys. I'm sure we can fix this. I'll spread the bad news." I wrapped a blanket around Eden. She took the blow worse than the others.

2 hours later

I told everyone at the table. They were all shocked and hurt.

"So my soldiers did this?" asked Celestia.

"Afraid so."

"Shining Armor would never..." started Twilight.

"But I did." said the pony walking in the door. "I'm so sorry. I didn't know it was him."

"You were only doing your job?" asked Celestia.

"Yes ma'am."

"Than you and your soldiers are excused. It was our fault." The princesses went right on back to talking.

Dustin's POV

"So... Death. Where are we going?"

"To meet your god." His horse stopped walking as this white door appeared. "Go on." He pushed me off and disappeared.

"Dick." I walked inside. "Ow this is hard without my arm... Hello?" I asked around.

"Hello Dustin." said the old man.

"Oh... hi God!"

"I saw what happened. And right now he just tried to prove himself innocent."

"Is he?"

"A little. He didn't show it though... no... he definitely murdered you."

"That's comforting."

"I suppose. Listen... do you want another chance at life?"

"Sure... what's the downside?"

"You must forget your past life and everything you've done."

"...That's a little... extreme."

"Come... first you must prove yourself in the trials." He wrapped his arm around my back. "This way."

I followed him outside to the giant training course.

"Welcome! To my gauntlet!"

"...Oh boy..."