Bloody Awakening

Limbo

My life flashed before my eyes, everything was going by in blur of memories starting from when I was born which I only saw a bright ass light and an ugly ass doctor. Than me getting a fist to the face by one of the street urchins from a rival gang on Luna Colony. Me stealing an omni-tool than later altering to be only usable for myself. The time I purchased my first gun than using it to shoot the urchin that punched me in the face with it. First time getting arrested and thrown into a police car.

Canterlot Palace, Royal Gardens, Afternoon

"Keep pressure around the wound, make sure he doesn't lose any more blood than he already has!"

"Princess Celestia, we need to get you out of the gardens and back into the palace before all of Canterlot goes into a lockdown. We do not know if there are anymore assassins waiting in the shadows out here."

"I am not leaving my savior's side for a moment, if it wasn't for him that assassin could have killed me with that weapon of his...it tore right through Roran's armor...he gave his life to save mine and I will repay that debt to save his. Just get him to the medical wing now."

I let out the weakest groan I can come up with as my body began to shut down from blood loss and from the gaping hole in my chest.

Limbo

The first time I met Alaria and the time we shared our first kiss. The complete anhiliation of both our gang and the rival's along with our both of our 18th birthday...our first time. The joining of the Alliance military than the recruitment training along with my first mission which led to the lose of both my arms and legs. My 21st birthday which ended in a complete clusterfuck which ended up with me waking up next to a krogan with my lower half feeling like it was crushed by a tank. Me and the asari sniper. Me getting both of my eyes ripped out by a pissed off krogan warlord and in return I kicked him out of an open airlock while we were in orbit. Quitting the Alliance than getting quickly recruited by Cerberus and trained under Miranda Lawson, and later leaving when Kei Leng tried to kill me on our last mission together.

Canterlot Palace, Solar Wing, Night

"We got a pulse but it is very weak, we need to seal this wound and repair any internal injuries that he has received. Shining Armor give me the pieces of the ribcage that you have recovered from the attack so we can reattach it to the piece that was shot out of."

"Nurse Feather, get the anti-biotics, stiching needle and silk threading. Nurse Redheart...get the other doctors in here, this is going to be a long day for all of us."

My eyes were barely open as I saw them move some of my organs back into my chest forcing a loud groan to come out of my mouth, my fists clenching from the pain as my eyes roll to the back of my head, and pass out from feeling my organs get re-arranged by ponies in medical outfits.

Limbo

The first time I met Hilo'Jaa on her journey of proving along with seeing what she looks like under her helmet by placing a hidden camera in her room. My 23rd birthday which ended in the greatest night of my life by waking up with Hilo in my bed, both of us drunk out of our minds and completely exhausted, and later that next morning having her chasing me with a combat drone shooting rockets at me while we both were laughing our asses off. Our first mission together which ended with us getting the hell out of dodge by a band of overly pissed off batarian pirates and their varren. The creation of our squad when Admiral Hackett forced me back into the Alliance when Shepard bit the bullet and got spaced. The meeting of Shepard on the Citadel which nearly ended with me being dickless and almost most likely dead by being filled with heated metal and possibly biotic energy.

Canterlot Palace, Solar Wing, Morning

"The patient is stable but it appears to be that he is in a comatose of sorts...not responding to external stimuli or internal stimuli...with the amount of blood the patient has lost it is short of a blessing that he is still alive. Princess Celestia you may see him now but be cautious because everytime we operate on him he seems to wake up and only whisper out words."

"And what has he said?"

"Well...so far I only got 'Death before Dishoner'...'War is fear cloaked in courage'."

As the two talked I let out another groan, slowly trying to get up only to be knocked back down from the pain in my chest and sides, the stiffness in my legs was enough to tell me that my sorry body went to hell after getting shot in the back.

"Doctor...you said that he is in a comatose."

"I guess he is fighting to wake up...whatever he is dreaming of must be haunting him to his very core."

Limbo

The battle of Horizon was one that I will never forget, the Collecters came to harvest the colony for whatever purpose they had for us. I was on my break from the missions and from the bullshit that Hackett sends me but when the Collecters arrived I knew my time off went to hell. The swarms of bugs the size of softballs was enough to tell me that those things are shootable and will go splat when shot with heat rounds. Large swarms of seeker bugs flew everywhere stinging colonists and militia alike, none was spared from the assult as they were being packed into floating coffins and sent to the ship that landed in the fields. I was one of the few the swarms missed but being the few that are not captured meant to them that we are not worthy and must be eliminated, I fought back until Shepard came and got the defense cannons online and forced them to leave. The piles of dead Husks and Collecters was enough to snap me out of my delusions that a war is coming and death will be on a massive scale.

Canterlot Palace, Solar Wing, Afternoon

"Anything new from him Nurse Redheart?"

"No princess, he is still unconscious but he has been groaning and saying whispers, we do not know what he is saying but whatever it is it has to be from whatever he is dreaming. His dreams must be of his past or some traumatic experience that he has endured."

"Private Estoc, go get my sister, rouse her from her slumber and tell her to come to Roran's medical room. I need to know what he is going through."

"Right away your majesty."

A few moments later I groaned again, trying to rise my arms and legs but was strapped to the table, not even being able to move a muscle, even my head was strapped down. The blood slowly moving in my body was still taking its toll on me by making me sluggish and lead heavy.

"Yes dear Sister...what is it that you need of us?"

"I need to see into his dreams...I must know everything he is seeing right now."

Limbo

My final mission with my squad before me and Hilo are put into a small N7 squad, just the two of us when Shepard blew up the batarian relay and killed around 300,000 batarians in the process. Exactly six months later the Reapers showed up on Earth's doorstep and the cycle of harvest has begun. I spent a month on Eden Prime with my partner when Cerberus invaded it to find a Proeathian artifact which turned out to be a real live Proeathian, I lost 500 credits that day. Spent many days at Benning when Cerberus began to take people away, many weeks later we forced them off world before the Reapers arrived. The attack on the Citadel by Cerberus, that sneaky move was used to get the Human Council member to kill off the Asari, Turian and Salarian members, it ended in failure when Shepard arrived to assist with the rescue and defence of the Council, at the death of many Cerberus soldiers and Council member Udina.

Canterlot Palace, Solar Wing, Morning

"The princesses has not moved an inch or made a breath while looking into his mind...Princess Cadence if I may be so bold to ask, what do you see in this dying creature?"

"I see a being that is out of his time and thrown into one that he should not be in...a loyal soldier that almost lost his life in the defense of Celly...and a troublemaker that might almost rival that of Discord's pranks and antics."

Limbo

Humanities Final Stand began with the siege of Cerberus HQ, the Illusive Man's home, and I was one of the many insertion squads that was sent in to disable or cripple the defenses in and around the base, it was also the final battle me and Kei Leng had before he retreated with a bullet to his leg and a small stab wound to my neck. Shepard killed Kei Leng, found out that the Catalyst was the Citadel and that it was moved to Earth to be protected by the Reapers, and we all gathered for one last battle that will determine the fate of the galaxy. I spent that last night free from death with Hilo'Jaa, and we made that night count, the following day we were put into our Kodiak and shipped off to land at London...the battle for our very lives and our very existence began...and we lost...and I lost everyone.

I lost...everything.

Canterlot Palace, Solar Wing, Night

The first thing I noticed when my eyes openned up was that everything had a red tint to it, and that the ceiling looked like it was hot pink and that it probably tasted like cotton candy. As I slowly rotated my head to my left I saw a heart monitor hooked up to me along with a bag of probable medical fluids, slowly scanning my left I saw an old fashioned blood-pressure machine, an oxygen machine, even a glass filled with hopefully hard cider. Turning my head to my right I saw something that I thought I would never hope to see in my life, someone actually waiting by my bedside asleep while resting on my shoulder as if it was a pillow.

At first I was just seeing things since my eyes are a bit fucked up and need to be calibrated again or just plain replaced with something workable and that fits in my eye-sockets. But sadly to say that the pony in question looks pink as well and I have only two guesses as who it could be, the small cotton-candy maned pony with the energy capacity to power the Normandy five times over, or the winged unicorn that I now know to call them as 'alicorns' Cadence...and if it was the first option I would try to get out of bed, get to the nearest window, and try to scale down the wall and get the hell away from the demon that can defy the laws of the universe. If it was Cadence I would just pray that she would wake up and leave me alone since she has to tend to a blood covered Celestia...which reminds me I should probably tell her to give me back my blood so I can think coherently.

Slowly undoing my straps on my hands I even slower lift the pony in question head off of my shoulder, I untie the straps on my feet and just now noticed that the hole in my chest is gone but the bandages around my chest is dark red and feels like that I juat got my bell rung, than smashed and hastily put back together with duct tape and silly string. Lazily getting to my feet I stagger to the door way, openning the door slowly I noticed the lack of guards or the lack of servants roaming the halls to do their daily tasks, which is unnerving to me when the few times I saw any of the ponies up and about as if their jobs was like clock-work. Looking out the door and taking a few tentative steps out I had the feeling that someone was watching me or was waiting for me to leave the safety of my med-room, either way I am getting out of here with my armor to go back to my home to repair myself and my armor.

Only 18 steps out of my room I felt a small prick on my right shoulder, looking over to see that it was a syringe and that it was completely empty, pulled all the way down injecting me with whatever was in it, the feeling of dizziness and weakness slowly began to creep up onto me but I yanked it off my shoudler and kept on moving toward my room. About half way to my room I felt two more go into my other shoulder but when I yanked those two out, my left arm went numb and I could not even lift my head, the sounds of someone giggling got my attention but when I turned around I felt four more go into my chest around the hole and that feeling you get when your body just says 'fuck you' and quits, well mine is trying to say it but I am fighting back. Now running to my room, I was clearly on the verge of just keeling over from all the sedatives in my system and going face first into the floor, upon openning my door to my room I saw a figure waiting in the shadows and another syringe went into my neck and all I can let out before I fell asleep was "Heeyyyyyyy" going face first into the foot of my bed before bouncing off and going head first to the floor.

Six Hours Later

"Bleeeegh.....oh god....the fuck was in those shots...." turning my head again I saw that their was a guard looking right at me with a frown on his face, just looking right at me as my mind drifts off to some random spot in the room until I looked up...

..Oh look a red feathered bird...that smells of smoke and ash.

The red bird that smells of ash and smoke was something I would never expect to see in a castle but now that I am looking at it, it seems to be looking right at me, than a the pony on my shoulder, than back to me before it let out a screech that sounds like a parrot, taking off into the air before flying off to do god knows what. In mid-flight it bursts into flames and just falls to the floor in a pile of ashes and feathers, I start to laugh my ass off but the instant that pain in my chest hits me like a bottle to the dome I start coughing haggeredly before feeling a needle get jammed into my neck and feel my world go quiet and clear, my eyes following the direction of the needle, than looking to see that the pony on my shoulder had a horn and it was glowing a golden aura, than my eyes rolled up a bit to see that an owl was directly above me before I lose consciousness again.

Two Hours Later

My eyes slowly flicker open, the bright light that was the sun, looking over to the window I saw that the sun was glaring right at me and it was a bright red orb, next to the window and the sun was Celestia, who was levitating another syringe in her magical grip and as it flew right at me, my reflexs kicked in as my hands shot up to catch it, snatching the thing out of the air and shattering it in my grip.

"No more sleeping for me...I had enough sleep...just let me stay awake for a few hours...." my voice groggy and flimsy since taking 9 needles in a single day was enough for me to feel like shit.

"Alright, but promise us that you will stay in this room till you are better." that made me raise a brow but the sight of another fully loaded syringe was enough to tell me to just agree and go with it. "Good." she put it down and came over to my bed with a grin.

"You were the one that stabbed me with all those syringes yesterday or however long I was out..." she nodded while trying not to laugh, "If that was you than who was the pony in my room with the other syringe?" she looked away for some reason before I felt another presence behind me. "It was Luna wasn't it?" no response. "Cap. Armor?" still nothing, "His wife?" she nodded and as I turned to look I saw something I did not like, my armor with a large ass hole in the middle of my chest and that it was still stained with my blood.

Looking at my armor I noticed that they tried to clean it up but the hole was still blood crusted, the dents were gone, the carbon scars were missing, all the claw marks and scratchs also gone, most of my armor was polished to a high mirror shine and the seal of Celestia was stamped into the right shoulder guard, right over the Alliance insignia.

"Armor clean...hole still present and accounted for, an insignia that I did not want...but is acceptable, shiny plating...and you managed to get rid of the damages? Amazing but odd....hmm, thank you ponies...but why is she still looking at me as if I am some deranged criminal?" Cadence was just looking at me without even blinking until I realized that I owe her a talk of sorts that I had forgotten or just didn't care at the moment. "You wanted a talk to me about something didn't you...well lets hear it, don't care if its offensive or wrong, I had listen to so many things while I was alive, stoned, petrified, and near dead so just lay it on me."

After a while Estoc was signalled to leave the room as he acknowledged it and closed the door behind him, the window was closed, the blinds lowered and the room was encased in a golden and pink glow that I thought was pretty awesome since it looked like I was inside of a bubble until I actually realized I was in a bubble with two immortal ponies while I was helpless in a bed...a situation I didn't like.

"Roran, we need to know who that person was in that room back underground when you first left the castle." Cadence had to ask that dreaded question...

I sigh explosively, rubbing my temples with my favorite hand Lefty before speaking up, "That person made of ashes was my old girl-friend...she killed herself when I wasn't there to protect her...." I look over at my right hand, flicking on my omni-tool which they have failed to remove I switched, tapping the small screen I went to my photo collection which was partially corrupted until I came upon a picture of me and Alaria. As I grabbed the screen and turned it for them see, Celestia blinked before making a remark while Cadence simply just stared, amazed that my omni-tool is so many things except I can't make it turn into a motorcycle....or can I?

"Why did you kiss me two days ago?" Celestia was lightly blushing when she asked that, Cadence was busy trying to figure out what she just said while I was stumbling a bit on my words before I pulled myself together to come up with a mildly proper response.

"Well..erm...uhh...oh well Celly because I can...and maybe because it looked like you needed it." trying hard not to embaress myself further until I saw Cadence looking at me like she knows some big secret or something.

"I also want to know why you put yourself between me and the assassin."

"Because it is my duty as a soldier to put my life down to protect the innocent and that if you died than this world my destablize and fall apart...from what I learned from your people and from the only book I managed to read, you control the sun so I theorized that if you died than the sun might vanish or well explode."

Both of them looked at each other before shaking their head dismissing my words.

"Since you are the last of your kind alive, what do you intend to do?"

"In all honesty I have no bloody idea...maybe travel the world, see what has changed, meet the beings that now inhabit my world...all I do know is that the one thing I do want can never happen...and so far it came back twice to bite me in the ass. First and so far still going is you Cadence, the second was the little fillies and colts that I saw at the garden." flicking my hand back onto my omni-tool, going to my music section and I enter my favorites, scrolling down until I came upon my song and pressed play.

"Initiating Favorites Soundtrack Number 3"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBN1rAE8sdo

At one point in the song I decide to sing with it, my voice adding a much deeper tone to it.

"We come from distant lands we travel so far Can you see the bleeding scar? The prizes of life we fail to win Cause we doubt the power within" I said while keeping and wearing a solemn mask not letting it betray any conflicting emotions that the song causes to rise up within me since that song is old it also manages to have a voice that can be translated to so many thing that I thought was foolish at the time.

As they looked at me while I sang that segment I just stare at them letting a single manly tear slide down my face as a picture of me and Alaria came up, and as appeared that song kept playing except it was our voices doing the singing and that it was a video of us. When it was just the last few seconds I begin to shut it down and let it rest as I layed back down onto my bed, gingerly tapping my chest to see if the hole was there but lucky it was just my ribs keeping everything in.

"So anything else ladies or can I go back to sleep...or is there anything you want me to know or vice versa." looking at the window to see that it was mid-afternoon and that hopefully lunch would be served since I haven't eaten any real food in three weeks.

"Actually friend there is something you can do for us." Friend? When the hell did that happen?

I stare at Celestia for a fraction of a second before sitting back up to listen to what she had to offer me.

"When you are fully recovered from your injuries, I need you to go to Ponyville..."

'Oh god there is a place here called Ponyville? Who the hell thought of that name for a town?'

"...and go with my student Twilight Sparkle and assist her with..."

'My lord...Sparkle? That obvious closet bookworm that needs to go outside and get laid? How the hell is she going to help me?'

"...the rescue the ponies that have been ponyknapped by the local Diamond Dog gang..."

'Ponyknapped? I swear to the new and old gods that my life is gonna be one horrible existence in hell.' "and to bring them back home safely, do you understand?"

"Oh yea I understand, this isn't the first rescue mission I have done before, since the enemy is not advanced as I am, I can simply just slice right through their defenses like a hot knife into butter. But I do have a few questions though before I completely agree with this whole plan of yours." Celestia was sitting on her haunchs, waiting for me to speak up my mind.

"And what are your questions friend?" she is gonna get an ear-full of my mind alright.

"First off, how am I going to get to Ponyville, second off what is to stop me from just hiding out and avoiding getting killed again in the defense of your people, third, wouldn't your ponies just run in terror on the sight of me? I mean come on with my armor they thought I was just a giant D-Dog in metal armor...so what are you going to do about that? And lastly, when the hell did you start calling me friend?" I honestly wanted to know how I can get from A to B, not scare the shit out the local populous, get in and out with the objective, and also the whole 'friend' thing.

It took a minute for Celestia to think of a reasonable response to my questions which surprised me since from what I am told she has an answer right on the spot, but this was a shocker to me since my superior officers always had a response and so far she was acting like my CO.

"Well...you are going to get there by chariot ride."

'Awesome...wait what?'

"Second, that if you do run and hide than I will go out and find you, and besides I placed a tracking spell on you when we first met."

'Oh fuck...I need that removed like the plague.'

"Thirdly, Yes they will run in terror just by looking at you, so that is why I came up with a solution to that problem."

'At least that problem is solved...hopefully.'

"And you do not need to worry about armor this time."

'Wait what? Not worry about armor? If I was not wearing armor that time and was not trained I would have been spit-roasted and be served as a meal to the dogs or just as bad be a slave to them.'

"Lastly you became my friend when you treated me like one instead of royalty."

'Well duh, because I think royalty blows and that they hold to much power...like the Citadel Council and my fist.'

Looking at Cadence I saw that she was half way out the door, talking to some pony that was waiting outside until a servant came in with a doctor behind him, in the servant's mouth which I may say is being expertly held up with just his teeth, and on that plate was hopefully apple juice not cider, some toast, what looks like pills of sorts and lastly jelly...grape.

"Please tell me that is jelly...and are those pills? Please let them just be muscle relaxers because I can use the rest..." grabbing the toast and destroying it in seconds I took the pills than downed it with the juice before swallowing whole the jelly and in seconds I passed out, being drugged is one thing but to be drugged by ponies is just fucking sad.

Being poked twice Celestia nods at Luna who was hiding in the shadows of the room walks over to her levitating a bottle in a midnight blue aura and taking it from her sister, Celestia than poured the contents into my mouth while I unconsciouslly drank it without tasting or knowing what it was, just guzzled that thing down without a second thought or else I would have drowned.

"Please let this work on him..."

I don't know what it is but I do know that it partially tastes like crap and shame.

Canterlot Palace, Solar Wing, Morning

Yawning quietly I open my eyes to see that the sun was just rising over the horizon, knowing that Celestia is raising the sun or that the sun is rising on its own but when I went to stretch everything felt off and not balanced. As my eyes adjusted to the light I saw that it was back to normal and that I now had a larger field of vision and that my hearing was better than before...

'Was that the pills? And how the hell can I see that lamp? My eyes can never see that lamp when I am facing forward? What the hell is going on?'

Raising my right hand to my forehead I heard a slight clop sound, which I knew was impossible since that was a hoof and last time I checked human hands aren't hooves. Taking a glance at it my heart skipped a beat.

"What...THE FUCK!"

My day just went from bad to total shitstorm.