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Blood Red Shadows

by The Destoyer

Chapter 25: Act I, Chapter 24: Act Of Vengeance

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BOOM!!!

An explosion shook the ground beneath him and gave in under the pressure, Alex falling like a rock to the ground below.

He took the sniper rifle and loaded in the grappling hook attachment to the barrel.

Aiming above the second floor window, he fired the gun, the hook reeling over to his target, a strong steel cord trailing behind it. Using it in tandem with the jump jets, he swung hard, quickly moving to his destination.

That is, until he hit the wall of the building. On the ground floor, no less. Alex knew he should have aimed higher, but there wasn't very much he could do.

"Hold it right there!" A voice sounded behind him.

Alex slowly turned around, meeting the gaze of a few security guards, all bearing standard issue M4 Carbines or, it's equivalent, the RPX-998 Atlean Battle Rifle.

"You're coming with us!" One of the guards yelled.

"What if I say no?" Alex asked smugly.

He grabbed Electric Fury from his sheath, converting it from it's sword form to it's .499 Kaiser Revolver. Firing four shots at the guards, one for each, he ran away.

Only to find several of his comrades fighting against the guards, Task Force Crimson, the Royal Guard, everyone!

Zera leaped from the fray and pinned Alex against the wall of the building, impressive given her small structure.

"What do you think you're doing?!" Zera scolded.

"Killing Winchester! That's out mission, isn't it?!" Alex retorted.

"Not like this! We go as a team!" Zera ordered.

Alex shoved Zera off of him.

"Zera, I'm sorry, but this is personal business." He walked away as Zera tried to recover.

Alex encountered a few more Crimson soldiers, one of them bearing a Remington 870 shotgun.

Perfect.

He grabbed a soldier's P226 pistol, shooting him in the head and using the gun to bash in the shotgunner's face.

Grabbing the shotgun, he killed the remaining two with the Electric Fury's saw mode attachment, slicing through them like butter.

The main entrance was not to far off, he only needed to go a few more feet-

A cyan blur knocked him on his back and flew back into it's spot near the entrance.

Looking up, he saw Twilight, Rainbow, AJ, and Rarity. All of them looked really pissed.

"So good to -ack!- see you guys again! I figured you would be back in Ponyville by now!" Alex taunted.

"Can it, can-head!" Rainbow yelled.

"Do any of you know where I can find Winchester?" Alex asked scathingly.

"He's in the medical bay, along with Sigma, that is, if you can get through us!" Rarity threatened.

"A 4-on-1 match, eh? Where are the other two?"

"Fluttershy's with Sigma and Pinkie...well, I don't know.." Applejack looked around for the pink horse, only to find air whistling around them. Along with the sounds of battle.

"You had one chance to make a normal life for yourself, and you didn't take it. Instead you chose to kill and destroy everything in your path. That ends here!" Twilight yelled as the others charged into battle.

Alex was going to have to plan here, Rainbow's specialty was obviously speed, Applejack's was her strength, Twilight her magic, what about Rarity?

Said white unicorn threw a punch, Alex gripped the hoof with his gauntlet before it could hit his...area.

How hadn't he seen it before? Rarity knew precisely where to hit him, and had he not blocked, he would've been in serious trouble.

He shoved Rarity back, leaping to the air to dodge Rainbow's attack. She had attempted to tackle him, which would've given the others a chance to attack. Instead, the Pegasus met solid ground.

Applejack kicked Alex with her hind legs, sending him flying back at least 10 feet, and leaving a massive concave in his armor where the hooves met.

Trying to recuperate, he rolled to his side, aiming a blow specifically for Twilight.

The punch met Rainbow instead, and she went down like a fly, skidding against the ground.

Twilight sent a powerful blast in his direction, having similar effects to Applejack's attack.

Alex realized he couldn't just throw punches and be done with it, he needed a strategy.

Looking around, he saw Rarity levitating numerous sewing needles, all pointed at him. Rainbow had gotten up, rearing up for a vicious barrage about 3 feet behind Rarity.

Applejack was roughly 5 feet away from Twilight, her...back facing him, ready to buck as if she was back at that orchard. Twilight was nearest the entrance, charging her horn for a devastatingly powerful attack.

He had his plan.

Rainbow leaped at him, flying at him scarily fast.

Alex redirected Dash to Rarity's sewing needle barrage, all of them sinking rather painfully into the Pegasus.

Sliding over to Rarity, he picked her up with his free arm, and threw her at Applejack, who wasn't looking at all, and Applejack kicked her hard across the battlefield, crashing into a battalion of Royal Guards.

Alex threw Rainbow at Twilight, Rainbow receiving the entirety of her attack, suffering a similar fate as Rarity, crashing into a nearby tank.

The smoke cleared, and Alex leapt through the veil, punching Twilight hard in the nose.

Twilight, as expected after a brutal attack like that, held her bloodied nose, and Alex grabbed her by the horn, usually torturously painful to unicorns.

What the heck?!

Twilight's horn glowed brightly, burning the gauntlet to the point where it started to melt, and meet Alex's skin underneath.

Alex grasped his burnt hand in agony as Twilight hit him with a powerful spell, knocking him to the earth below.

"This is your last chance. Surrender." Twilight ordered.

Alex, in his rage, pounded the ground, red-violet lightning spewing out from underneath Twilight and shocking her badly.

"H-How is that possible?! Abilities like that are forbidden!" Twilight groaned in pain.

"I just learned how to do this a little while ago, nice to have you test it out for me. Where's Winchester?" Alex asked.

"He's in the medical hall! Downstairs, then take the third left!" Twilight held both hooves defensively.

Alex entered the building, ready to end this. Once and for all.

Running into the building, Alex noticed several people in nobility trying to escape. One in particular ran into him.

"A Huntsman! Can you help me? I have a family!" One pleaded.

"Do you believe anything Agent Winchester told you about a Mr. Walker?" Alex asked him, he had his helmet and mask on, so the ambassador couldn't see his face.

"He made a pretty convincing case, but I can see right through him, what he wants with the kid, I have no idea!" He said.

So he wasn't against him.

"Find a Huntress named Ruby Rose, she should help you get out of here alive!" Alex instructed.

The Ambassador grasped his gauntlet with both hands.

"Bless you, son!" He said as he ran towards the entrance.

Alex continued his walk inside the building, then a battalion of Crimson soldiers ran at him, firing their Assault Rifles at him.

The bullets bounced off his armor as Alex spam-fired the shotgun, killing most of them, only one lay wounded on the ground.

"Please...have mercy." He groaned.

"All out." Alex said as he blew his head off with the shotgun. Blood and brain matter everywhere.

The medical office was not that far off. Third door to the left...

Alex received a hard fist to the helmet, knocking it off of him.

Winchester, holding in a devastating wound, stood in horror at Alex.

"You?! I remember you! You were the armored soldier at the castle?!" Winchester asked in fear.

"So you didn't know all this time. Pathetic, couldn't discern the identity of the man who stole his own files." Alex mocked.

"Thought you could outrun the CIA? You're the pathetic one!" Winchester defended.

"All this time I thought I was running from you and your sad excuses for soldiers." Alex began his lecture, shoving the Agent on a chair.

"All this time, you thought you were the one following me."

Alex grabbed a scalpel from one of the drawers, and he walked towards Winchester.

"No. I was following you. You constantly tried to destroy me, my reputation, my friendships! Because you knew that one day, I would have my revenge for what you did to me in that damned cell."

Alex gripped Winchester, raising the scalpel.

Ruby, Kat, Vanoss and Twilight ran outside the door, looking at him in horror and trying to break it down.

"My name is Alex Gabriel Walker! And that day is TODAY!!!" Alex yelled as the three friends and one enemy broke down the door.

"Alex! Stop!"

"What the hell are you doing?!"

"Stand down, NOW!"

"You don't know what you're doing!"

Alex flicked the scalpel sharply to the right, slitting Winchester's throat wide open, spraying red blood all over the room as Winchester tried to no avail to stop it.

Winchester held his throat as he fell to the floor, gasping and sputtering as the very life drained out of him, until his body spasmed one last time as he released his final breath.

Agent Winchester was dead, he would torment him no longer.

As for his allies, they rushed on him as they tried fruitlessly to stop him, Alex had stabbed Kat in the side and Ruby held him down.

Ruby had the bloodied scalpel in her hand, that was when Alex threw a hard punch that was supposed to knock her off of him.

The blow did not do it's intended job, and Ruby gripped Alex's Electric Fury by the barrel, and hit him in the head.

Alex didn't hear much after that.

"I'm fine! Check Winchester!"

"He's dead."

That was all he heard as his vision faded to black.

"I'm fine! Check Winchester!" Kat gasped, holding the stab wound.

Vanoss ran up to the Agent.

"He's dead." Vanoss said.

"That idiot! He just went in and killed him!" Twilight said angrily.

"Calm down. There was no way he would've known." Ruby tried to calm her down.

"Ruby's right, the Ambassador told us as soon as he got out of the building. He must not have told Alex." Kat grunted as she rummaged around the med room, looking for something to disinfect the wound.

"You could have told him yourself, little miss 'double-agent'! You already knew everything!" Vanoss scolded.

"I had to keep up the act or else my whole plan would've fallen apart!" Twilight retorted.

"Which was?" Ruby asked, confused.

"Get as much information about this as possible so I could help him. I don't think Winchester himself would've done this if there was no other way out of it." Twilight informed.

"I have to admit, his whole act was impressive, even I didn't see through it." Kat complimented.

"In any sense, this may be the beginning of the end." Ruby sighed, defeated.

"The prologue to The Great War has ended. This is where the real story begins." Twilight said.

"Hoodini have mercy." Vanoss muttered solemnly.

Author's Notes:

Well, as much as I like/don't necessarily mind/ hate (depends on what you guys think of the story) there is a whole lot more to this story.
What do you think? Should I keep this all in one story and separate this into Acts? Or write this in a sequel? Tell me what you think in the comments below!

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