All things good and bad come to the same end.- Tempest Knight

NO, This can’t be happening! They would never go this far, and yet I find myself blasting these missiles out of the sky on our borders. To make matters worse it looks like the Pegasi have closed the cloud barrier and retreated, cowards this is as much their fight as ours and I could use their help taking out these mega spells! Screams from below me signal that the enemy is falling back on the ground.

As I landed in front of my army a Steel Ranger clad in white and black armor approached me, “Sir, The enemy is breaking attack and I’m getting reports that multiple cities were just hit!”

“What,” I replied in shock.

“Manehattan, Fillydelphia, Cloudsdale, Canterlot, Horseshoe City, and more sir, the casualties are off the charts but I am receiving reports that the Stables are activating!” the Steel Ranger Knight reported with a tone of fear in his voice as he looked up slightly!

“The princesses and the ministry mares?” I asked.

“We believe them to be dead sir.” the knight reported.

“No, this can’t be, n, n, no, but…” I stammered not knowing what to say when Star Paladin SteelCrusher turns to me and asked,

“General, we need to leave, where are we going, which stable?”

I replied still disorientated, “Military Stable 150 is closest, take everyone and go, I will remain here and stop more missiles, enough damage has been done this day for the next thousand years to live through!”

I have seen death, it is not a new concept for me, I am ancient compared to everypony I know aside from the princesses, born intot he world by my pegusus mother of half Cyrstal pony decent and to my mighty dragon father just in time to become a knight and serve during the last war with the Griffon Kingdom. Now the region I that I was charged to defend is falling and all I can do is watch and mourn the loss of so many, and her, no Dashy, she, she is gone. I lowered my head and inspected the ground, we had just decided to get married the last time I was in Canterlot. Luna needed to see us both for a strategy meeting as the threat of megaspell bombardment grew, if only I had at least a chance to say goodbye.

“She is gone.” I murmured aloud no pony heard me as I stood in shock and a single tear dropped from my eye and to my chin.

“Understood sir I will get them there, do you want us to wait for you?” SteelCrusher asked with a tone of both sorrow and fear.

“No, get everypony inside and go into cryo, consider these my final orders until we meet again!” I said, looking strait at her, my trusted second in command, a unicorn medic clad in Steel Ranger Armor named Applebits.

“Understood it has been an honor to serve with you!” She exclaimed, she stepped back, then nodded, getting the troops to the stable.

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It had been hours since they left for the stables, when finally the missiles were in sight, it was now dark, the cloud cover not helping for my visual below, but I was maintaining a high altitude in expectation. I went to work blasting them with balls of fire soaring from my muzzle, thrusting my dragon wings hard to gain speed. Four down and it looked like there were at least fifty more to go, I again strafed them with fire determined not to let a single one past, twenty more detonated. I stopped and turned midair and bellowed flames from my muzzle, my balefire incinerating ten more that had gotten quite close and then my shield dropped as I had gotten too close to the last of the missiles. Before I could see it a missile struck me in my ancient armors chest plate and detonated, fortunately for me it was a balefire spell and I being half dragon was immune to it, unfortunately the resulting impact coupled with the shock wave sent me hurtling towards the ground with a trail of black smoke as all of my fur burned off to reveal the scales beneath.

I hit the ground on my left wing and skidded forward tearing apart my body as I smeared blood across the hard rocky ground. Still conscious I shakily stood, but when I put pressure on my left fore leg I found that the lower bone was protruding out of the skin. Howling in pain as I shot a stream of red hot flames into the air I also took notice that I had stripped the membrane off of my left wing and it too was oddly shaped. Grimacing I looked tot he sky which now that the cloud cover was complete cast down a faint grey light as the sun set, I could only hope I stopped the majority of the missiles before I was knocked out of the sky.

Letting my tears flow freely as I turned to see the nearest settlement glow green as it burned in the distance and hearing the multitude of pained screams I realized just how far I had been blown back. Baltimare and its citizen were living through Hell right now and I couldn't do a thing as I was in no condition to even stand let alone rescue refugees from the radioactive flames. I tried to take a step towards the burning city but fell onto my face as I howled in a fresh wave of pain and looked to my flank, embedded into my right side was a large chunk of metal that had have dug deeply into me, I quickly used my talisman to surround it in a magical aura and ripped it out of me as blood gushed from the wound. My vision became fuzzy as I looked towards a cave not too far from where I was standing, I managed to stand again as I put magical pressure on my wound to stop the bleeding and ignoring the pain I shakily limped on three hooves inside. Laying down I breathed fire to cauterize the gash in my flank as I felt a warm trickle on the back of my head before passing out into a nightmare filled coma filled with screams of the innocent ponies as they burned to death and repeated images of my beloved Rainbow Dash suffering many different fates.

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I woke in a strange sphere that was obviously radiating with energy, alicorn energy. By the time I spotted them a bright blue flash erupted before my eyes.

“Tempest Knight, the last son of the Mage Dragons, finally awake I see, I am the goddess.”

I watched as unidentifiable faces rolled across her giant head unsure of just what I was looking at.

She continued, “You have been resting for two hundred years, though it doesn't really matter anymore since the stables failed and Equestria is little more than a radioactive wasteland filled with charred pony skeletons.”

I replied weakly noticing that my once midnight black coat had turned charcoal grey and that my black and red mane and tail had also faded, “What do you mean?”

She answered in a factual tone, “Indeed, all was lost in the days after the spells hit,the stables failed during the first generation they were operational for and the land became far too irradiated for life to continue.”

I once more drifted off to a nightmare filled sleep as her voice faded away, I had failed in my duties, and I was the only one left.

Author's Notes:

Okay edited for errors and expanded upon along with many modifications to allow for more of a seamless transition into the FoE universe.

To answer a few question that may come to mind such as "How he isn't dead from living all this time and why he didn't wake up sooner as I already mentioned how he is able to utilize magic to grasp things (like items or even suppress blood like he just did) He is half Dragon and as you probably know Dragons have long life spans, he spent a thousand years in the dungeon when the Crystal Empire vanished so he fought Griffons and Sombra before ending up being brought to the time period of the TV show MPL FIM as still in his late teens (16-17 years old) and as we all know dragons sleep for long periods of time to recover from bad wounds and loss of energy.

Thanks for reading and Stay Brony!