Moving around through many corridors and tunnels, armored Ponies are making their way throughout a giant complex.

Some carrying weapons to be given out to new trainees, while others are just wandering about because they can (and because there are always someone moving throughout tunnels, and corridors in military complexes).

From the secret backdoor entrance, a knock is heard. One of the many supervisors, in charge of monitoring outer security in his section, presses a button on his control panel, before he begins to speak, talking to the units that can reach that door.

‘’All units report to Backdoor 3 to investigate an occurrence!’’ The voice echoes around every corridor closest to Backdoor 3. Those who are wandering through those specific corridors are caught by surprise as the message is delivered, stopping in place, as the start listening to the rest of the supervisors’ voice inform them. ‘’Visuals have been lost, but the scanners are picking up an organic lifeform. It is moving around at random, taking alternate paths-…’’ Suddenly, the voice over the intercom is interrupted, halted for a bit. ‘’No, wait! I just picked up a secondary reading in quick pursuit of the first lifeform.’’

Outside the complex’s walls, a medium sized figure is running for its life through the caverns, and canyons of the mountains surrounding her at every turn, as she tries desperately to escape away from a giant beast that is pursuing her. Its jaw full with ragged teeth and sharp claws which desires to do nothing more but sink themselves into her flesh, and then devour her once she is bleed to death.

Her clothes are torn, and her body having several scrapes and bruises from other encounters, which have taken their toll on her small body. Scaring her. While she may have survived those that survival was not without its consequences, and unspeakable memories that will never leave her mind.

The only memory from her past days of living with her family was a small necklace, which had a small locket which inside was a lone picture of her family. A family that had been killed when the Invaders first started bombing entire continents, disabling Equestria’s defense to fight back at them. Having been on a visit to her grandmother in Manehattan at the time, she had managed to survive the terrible onslaught. However, when the city turned control of the city over to the Invaders, she ran away, fleeing into the wild. Where many hardships were forced upon someone of her age, she overcame them, but having grown to learn that she could no longer trust her own kin in this battle against the Invaders, whom she had learned, while visiting several villages, and making a few acquaintances along the way, were now labelling themselves ‘’Sontarans’’. To her it was nothing but a weird name, and nothing else.

While she did find some friends, she never kept the connection for very long, as she did not know if they were completely trustworthy, and frankly, she did not care to find out. She left them, and the village, the next day that followed, disappearing into the wild like a Spector.

As she grew older, her body started growing into a more mature state, but still, she was nowhere near to being an adult. Young adult was a better word to describe her, for while it was true that she was not a mature adult, she was becoming a young adult, a teenager in other words.

Growing rebellious, and witnessing death, and destruction, at the hoof of the Sontarans, she began growing hungry to strike back against them, and liberate – At least a small part of – her world from the Sontarans’ grasp.

That’s when, while aiding in a one-instance raid on a Sontaran transport, that she learned, while interrogating a Sontaran, of the Resistance, a group of Equestrians who had band together, and were organizing calculated strikes against the Sontaran regime, weakening their hold in certain regions of the world.

She did not have much to go on, but from what she managed to learn, and what she managed to piece together by her own, she came to the one, of many possible, conclusions that the Resistance were hiding in the Northern Mountains of Equestria. It was worth a shoot, and while time was scarce, and there were Sontaran patrols everywhere searching for Ponies, she could still slip under their watchful sight, and get to these other parts of the world virtually undetected. Her being on her own would also prove a much better chance to evade the patrols, and travel lighter and faster at the same time.

After a long journey, evading patrols, and a couple other small bands of hostile Ponies, she reached the mountains, and began her long search of them. She was determined to find this Resistance, and even if it took years of her life, she could still try and make a contribution in the powerful buck against the Sontaran’s chest, as all Equestrians declared in one voice ‘’Get off our planet!’’

At first, it was going great, and she was doing as well as she could.

Gathering some clues that pointed towards potential Resistance Headquarters’ locations, but these places were all abandoned, and were now the new housing for foul creatures that had once been small and insignificant, but due to the Sontaran regime change, these creatures had become a threat in their own right against the rebellious groups of Ponies that tried to defy the Sontarans…

While searching through one of these potential Resistance Headquarters’ locations, she got a little too un-careful, and accidentally, awoke something in the depths of the rock. Unlike earlier instances where she could out-run it, this creature was quick enough to keep up with her, putting her in a rather dangerous spot.

Now, she was running through the gorges, and jumping from cliff to cliff, as she tried her best to escape from this seemingly inescapable creature.

The creature that was chasing after her, it’s skin was coal-black, with cracks in it’s skin, where bursts of fiery light shone out, it had dreadful, long, demon, wings, it’s face was unrecognizable as belonging to any of Equestria’s normal beasts, and it had, and there were two curving horns on either side of its head, with two glowing, holes, for eyes, and a breath that had the same feeling of being pleasant, as standing close to a raging inferno. A long tail hung down behind it. It’s legs were cloven hooves, and it’s back had a long streak of fire that ran down over it’s back, starting at the top of it’s head, which, the head portion was much lighter than the what was down on the back, which was mostly darker flames. Finally, in its clawed paws, it grasped, tightly, around the handle, which was metal, but it’s blade was a long form of fire, with an end tip that morphed into itself into a long whip that swung towards her, whenever it brought it’s arm back, preparing to swing, the blade transformed into a whip before the swing was thrown towards it’s target. One other means of attack that it had, though, it was not quite as efficient as the sword, or the whip, was firing concentrated energy blasts towards her. But as stated, that attack proved to not be quite as efficient as the other two.

Following her for a long multitude of days, the flaming beast hunted her down. She did not even get many moments to sleep, as the beast was always so hot on her tail, and could strike at any moment.

Now, at the present, she was beginning to be on the verge of having all her energy drained from her body, resistance was becoming more difficult, and evading it’s many strikes, and swings, whether it being the sword or whip, she could still evade it, but she was being inflicted injuries in the process, due to the lack of energy, and rest.

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Raising its arm, the fire beast held out its paw, aiming its palm towards her. In its paw, a form of energy started to form, spherical in shape. Not wasting too much on charging its attack, it thrust its arm forward, sending the blast flying towards her.

Hearing and catching a quick glimpse of it preparing to fire the energy ball towards her, she was too slow, and too late, to realize that she had just made a mistake in looking back behind her.

Firing its beam, the fire beast had managed to draw her attention away from where she was going to jump, and was instead caught off-guard by its attack.

The moment she had turned her head, was the same moment as when she had jumped from her spot, and because of its distraction, she did not get too good of a glimpse at where she was going, leaping instead towards the mountainside wall.

With a speed far surpassing that of her own, the ball of energy that the fire beast fired towards her shot past her. Crashing into the mountainside, the ball of energy exploded, causing the wall to explode, and many rocks, and bits and pieces to be sent flying in all manner of directions. While not being in direct contact with it, the aftershock of the explosion did send her crashing down towards the ground.

Creating a trail behind her, her body crashed down into the ground.

Groaning, she lifted her head. Opening her eyes, though, its speed was somewhat reduced, as she had suffered quite a beating from the explosion, and crashing into the ground like that was not something that did anything to fix her.

In front of her, she heard something touch down a small length away from her position, it was standing hunched, it’s right arm was outstretched, touching against the ground. Raising it’s head to look, it’s flaming eyes fell upon her, while her own widened, as she noticed it seeing her, and in such a terrible state of defending her.

It stood itself up, then, with one step after another, it started to approach her. It’s paw at first did not hold anything, but using it’s arm, it reached towards something that resembled a belt, grabbing hold of a hilt.

Frightened she tried to move, only to groan, exclaiming with a loud voice, as her body ached from simple movement such as moving her leg.

As it drew closer towards her motionless form, its cloven hooves stomped on the ground, leaving a burn mark, as it moved the leg forward, leaving another mark. It folded its wings back, resting them against its back. It held the hilt in its grip, the fiery blade automatically started to flow out into long, sharp, shape.

Coming to a stop five inches away from her, it lowered it’s head, looking down towards the battered, and beaten, Pony in front of it. All it received back from her, were several angered glares.

‘’Do your worst…’’ She lowered her head back down against the earth, turning it to look away. ‘’The world will only be helped with my passing. I have already given it my all.’’ She inhaled sharply, letting it out softly.

With her words spoken and her mind free from the strain of still lusting to keep fighting on, she could finally accept her death, and just die. Finally, she would be re-united with her family after all this time of suffering through the hardships of the Sontaran Regime. She just hoped, that one day it would all end, and the Invaders would be brought down, and finally destroyed once and for all.

But towering over her, the fire beast did nothing to her. Just remained motionless in place, as it looked down towards her. It raised its left arm, opening its claws, and holding them outstretched, as it reached down towards her.

‘’Peace…’’ Slowly, her eyes closed themselves shut, and her breath drew to a slow, but steady pace. ‘’At last.’’

While her dying body could not see it, physically, it did hear the fire beast growling, groaning in its native tongue, as it reached out for her.

*WHOSH*

Suddenly, before another second passed, she slowly opened her eyes again, looking out at what had just happened.

From what little she was able to see, she could see tell that she was atop one of the cliffs, and from what she felt, she could have said that someone was holding her, lifting her up with their arms, or hooves, since she was unable to see the identity of the creature that was lifting her up.

Her head turned, looking in direction of whoever was holding her. However, with her losing consciousness, it was impossible to get a good enough fix on her saviors’ identity.

All she was able to get, to get a glimmer of who had saved her was this creature’s voice. But it, like her grip on reality, was distorted.

‘’Don’t worry, you’ll be al-…’’ Her head fell back, hanging down, as her eyes closed, and everything became dark.

Gaining a nervous expression fixed to it’s face, her rescuer raised it’s head, looking back down towards the figure, that moved underneath the mountainside it stood on.

Turning it’s head, the flaming beast turned it’s head, looking around, furiously, for any hint of where the thief had to run off to. It’s nostrils flared, as it started sniffing around the air. Slowly, it’s head was guided upwards, and without any hesitation, or attempts to prevent it from doing so, it looked up towards the mountainside. Narrowing it’s eyes, as they looked closely at the figure, which stood at the end of a small standable side of the mountain.

Staring back towards it’s fiery eyes, the rescuer of it’s prey frowned, as it meet the beasts’ gaze.

Throwing it’s arms back, and shooting it’s head up, the creature’s jaw dropped. A loud roar sounded from the flaming chasms of the magma inside it’s internal body.

It clenched a fist around it’s handle tip, and retracted it from it’s belt. Raising the arm up, clenching harder against the handle. Instantly, a long, fiery, form, moved out of the handle. Not until it stopped, at what was a long sword made of nothing but pure fire.

With an almighty swing, it thrust it’s arm upwards, throwing the sword up at the mountainside.

His eyes widened as he saw it do this.

With no time to react, the blade tip shot into the side of the mountain wall, exploding into a violent inferno, scattering huge, or small, fragments of rocks, and boulders, everywhere, as it all fell down towards the ground. Shattering upon impact.