Author's Notes:

Written by Psyga315

Ding ding ding ding…

That noise had haunted my dreams for a while. Ever since I awoke in Equestria, I kept hearing that noise. It was always accompanied by the image of a girl in a train station. Guess the sound was that of an approaching train.
It was only thanks to the rumbles of the train that I was on that I could wake up from the dream before it could get to the usual conclusion of the girl jumping onto the train tracks. I panted heavily.

“Are you alright?” I looked to the earth pony in front of me. She had a baby blue coat of fur with a long blonde mane and blue eyes. She wore a simple white dress. I guess I would consider her my rival. We both learned under the same teacher in playing the violin, and yet she seemed to be better than me despite having hooves, as though she had known how to play before she even went to be taught by Octavia.

“Y-yeah… Same dream.” I said. I looked outside. I remembered how we were supposed to go to Canterlot to play for a Friendship Festival. I looked at my hands. Some dreams, when they didn’t decide to show the girl kill herself, had me somehow being with her. She would smile at me… I think we were close, but I barely know her. I remembered holding a violin for her and playing it.

I think that’s why I asked for Octavia to teach me as well. If I played violin, perhaps I would understand who that girl was and why I seemed to be good at playing the violin despite never touching it in my life.

“April…” I asked the pony in front of me. “Do you…” I tried to find the words to say to her. I wanted to ask someone this for a long time. “I wasn’t sure how to play violin until I got here in Equestria… I wasn’t sure if I subconsciously knew all along or if I gained this talent overnight. Do you think I… magically knew how to play violin?” I asked her. She just chuckled and shook her head.

“Nah, I kinda feel that same way.” She blushed and looked out the window. “It’s… silly, but I too have weird dreams. I… I think I was a human like you before. I remember playing violin as well. And… I was amazing. People applauded my talent. But I didn’t care. In my dreams, I remembered playing the violin for the sake of a boy…” She smiled. “I… I think I liked him.”
I began to wonder if she was the girl I played violin for, but that can’t be. That girl in my dream had black hair and wore glasses. Homelier than the beauty known as April Showers. She looked at me with a smile.
“You still look good in that, by the way.” I smiled. When I awoke in Equestria, I wore a black military coat with black pants. I wore it for a war gaming convention, rooting for the fictional Zetton Empire from the wargame Ultra Galaxy. It was there that I met that man in black leather with bleached, slicked back white hair and ended up blacking out after buying a replica of a Soviet submachine gun from him.

I think he had to do with why I was here.

The train stopped. We were in Canterlot now. We got up and got out of the train. Today was the day we’d put our violin skills to the test and play for the Princesses.

Or at least, that’s how it would have gone.
Before we even began to set up, dark clouds swarmed the city as warships began to come forth. An invasion.
I could see the ponies panicking and fearing for their lives. I saw Octavia and her girlfriend embrace, awaiting what may be their last moments together. I saw several ponies prepare for what I could see to be their last stand. I could see April cowering before them.

Inside, I felt something when I saw April beginning to cry. It was… an anger. An anger that I have never felt in my life before today. I merely glared at the ships and walked towards them. I could hear April call for me, but I just ignored her and glared.
They wished for revolution, and I shall bring them punishment.

In a moment, I could see many images flash by. In time, I realized that these images, that dream of the girl… They didn’t belong to me. They were from someone else. I felt as though that person took over my body as I felt my arms being pulled.
I could see swords materializing around me, swirling in a circle, blades pointed outwards to the ship, before I grabbed one of them. The submachine gun I bought soon appeared in my hand. I held it like I would my violin, the sword being my bow.
I scrapped the metal blade against the butt of the gun, creating a huge shockwave that engulfed the ships. The ships disintegrated into blue cubes as the denizens of the ships, including what appeared to be a unicorn in armor with a broken horn, fell from the sky, plummeting to their doom.

“The Ninth Movement of Cosmos: Fate Restoration. This makes the plot disappear.” I said in a deeper, more smoother tone of voice. I smirked and turned around. I saw the ponies glance to me. None of them cheered for me stopping the invasion. Some even looked in horror. One of them was April.

“… Your eyes…” She looked at me. I blinked before she pulled out a contact mirror and showed me what she meant.
My blue eyes were now engulfed by a red ring, making my iris half-red, half-blue. Not only that, but my hair became grayish white.

I just grinned. I know exactly who I’ve become.
I am their saviour.