Login

Look to the Past

by Evilhumour

Chapter 1: Chapter One

Load Full Story Next Chapter

Chapter One

There are times when the realm is a calm, peaceful place with little strife and conflict weighing down on the ponies, when they can live full lives with their families in peace and happiness and when all of the alicorns of the tribes are happy with each other.

These were not those times, as evidenced by the several squads of Speed and Electric ponies that were currently doing their best to hold the line along the mountain ridge in the pouring rain. The odds were against them as it was pitch black and their enemies were an alliance of Bat and Flutter ponies. Flutter ponies were a joke in single combat, too small and too easily scared to be warriors, but Bat ponies were another matter altogether. Their ability to see clearly in the night put the squad at a clear disadvantage despite their own powers being very tough to counter.

Lightning Shot, a Speed unicorn, looked at the small camp that included her younger sister Quick Shot, two other Speed ponies and a single Electric unicorn mare. Who was reading a book, of all things, at this dangerous time and place.

“You can stop glaring at me, Lady Shot,” the Electric mare said, flicking the rubberized page without so much as looking up at her. “We’re on the outermost flank of this battle, and it is raining.” The mare, a something something Sparks or Sparkle or whatever, huffed in annoyance. Shaking her two toned mane out of her face, she leaned in close to the minor noble. “Even with how insane those Bat ponies can be, even they wouldn’t be out in a storm like th-” Her eyes bulged out suddenly and started to shake. Her last words were lost as she spat out blood, falling onto her face with a crossbow bolt sticking out of her back.

“ALARM!” Lightning yelled, jumping into a battle stance with her head whipping around as she unleashed bolts of fire into the sky, hoping to catch several ponies above them. It didn’t matter if she was just tossed here with her sister as a token show of force from their parents, few things could outpace a Speed pony’s magic. One of the two other Speed ponies, an earth pony and thus a messenger, had already taken off to alert the other encampments while the other whipped out their crossbow and fired wildly into the air.

They were put down by a bolt straight into their chest, annoying Lightning as the fool had panicked and wasted their entire supply in five seconds. Gritting her teeth, she knew that their encampment was already lost, so she began to create a shield for Quick and her to escape and fall back behind.

“Let’s get out of here Quick, it’s,” she frowned, realizing she’d never heard or seen her sister shoot her magic into the sky. Turning her head, she saw her sister was in her death throes, a Bat pony pegasus plunging a short blade into her chest. “NO!” she shouted, watching her little sister die by the hooves of the masked pony. She, her figure was too slender and curved to be anything but a mare, was wearing a detailed mask with a fierce snarling face on it that was connected to the light body armor she was wearing. A crossbow was slung across her back, two bolts missing thus labeling her the killer of Lightning Shot’s squad.

With a hiss, the mare stalked her way towards Lightning to kill her too and Lightning knew she had the advantage of her quick magic, but she was no fool. She was just a prompted up squad leader - kicked upstairs, she’d heard some calling it in hushed whispers - and this was a trained member of an assault squad. If she tried to take the other mare down, she would be dead quicker than she could move - a fact that insulted her very core as a Speed pony!

With a growl in her mouth, she used her magic to increase her own speed and fell back to the central command for this flank, leaving the Bat pegasus slowly bringing the crossbow up and firing at the same time. If she had been anypony but a Speed pony, she would have been dead on the spot.

As she looked over at her sister’s killer, she made a vow to get revenge no matter what.


Huffing angrily, the mare of the Terror Mask squad slung her crossbow onto her back as she watched the coward Speed pony run away.

With a twitch of her ear, she heard her squad leader land beside her with the rest of the assault squad returning from their targets.

“Good work,” Sharp Claw, their leader, said with a short nod of approval. “All targets are eliminated with minimal screw ups.”

The mare gave an annoyed snort at that - she figured that the Electric pony would be the greater danger due to all the water as per their orders from the higher up - but a glare from Sharp Claw made her straighten up. “We’re clear to move ahead, so let’s go ladies!” he shouted, the squad already leaping into the sky. “Not you Snarling Fang,” he snapped, startling the mare as she started to take off. “Return to base to get patched up.”

“For what?” she snapped, snapping her wings once to show how angry she was with this order.

“Your rear right leg, it’s bleeding.” Claw towered over her, narrowing his eyes, which were just barely visible behind his mask.

Turning her head, she saw it was indeed cut but it was a superficial cut if anything. “I can fly and fight just fine, I don’t need to return for this!”

“The red will give you and the squad away despite this blasted rain, so do as I say and return to base now and maybe you will be quick enough to rejoin the fight,” he snorted heavily in her face, daring her to strike back. “Am I understood?”

“Yes, sir,” she snarled back, taking to the air and flying away from her squad and back to base. Anger was building in her at being forced to leave the battle, her face twisting to match her mask. Fang was also angry as Claw was more right than he knew, the leg causing her pain as she had landed on that Speed pony base. That Speed pony unicorn bitch had clipped her and she was mad at herself that she’d killed the wrong pony and the other one had escaped.

Shaking her head, Fang forced herself to focus that anger for the coming battle as she hovered over the camouflaged base, spotting the medic tent. The quicker she got a bandage for her leg, the quicker she could rejoin her squad.

Flying inside, she saw that it was a madhouse under the control of several Flutter unicorns barking out orders, although they were probably only listening due to their Bat earth pony body guards. With a tilt of a head from one of them, she was directed to a Flutter unicorn medic that was alone for the moment. He was a bit taller then most, three quarters of her height instead of half, and seemed to be focused instead of a near panicked mess.

Landing in front of him and giving him a snort, she leaned into his face. “My leg has been cut. Heal it so I can go fight.”

Surprisingly, he ignored her commands and sent out a probe of magic that encompassed her entire body. His eyes went wide as he learned of her injuries and shot her a look of disbelief from his half covered face. “Are you mad? Your leg is the least of my concerns, you have a host of minor wounds that if pushed too hard will cause you to bleed out! You are staying here!”

Surprised at his loud tone and his outright boldness, she blinked behind her mask before shaking her head. “I need to get back out and you will do as say, you tiny little ball of fluff!”

“You are mad as well as a fool, you damn mare!” he shouted back, jabbing a hoof into her chest which caused her to wince loudly as he hit directly on a piercing shot that the Speed pony had hit her with before - more than likely on purpose by the medic to prove his point.

With a loud snort, Fang left the medic and flew towards another Flutter medic to get the treatment she wanted. He started to chase after her but a crash of voices dragged his attention away as several injured Bat ponies were brought in.

Fang would later return to the battle after her leg was healed and the medic did his best to save as many of his allies as he could, the meeting between the two pushed to the back of their minds.

But fate was mindful of the chance encounter, smiling in approval of the future parents of the alicorns who would one day raise the sun and moon.

Author's Notes:

This is meant to be a prequel, of sorts, of a new series I am planning to write in the future as well as a way to get myself back into the flow of writing.

Some details of this world may be confusing but rest assured that all will be explained in time.

Next Chapter: Chapter Two Estimated time remaining: 53 Minutes
Return to Story Description

Login

Facebook
Login with
Facebook:
FiMFetch