Chapter 4: friends, fights, and royalty

The trip was quick and with out incident. As we teleported in to the hospital we saw lots of guards, Doctors, and nurses. When my feet felt ground again I made sure I still had my pants ' oh thanks god...' I thought as I felt my jeans.

"twilight!! Get away from that creature. It's Dangerous!" said a young voice say. Then twilight and fluttershy were surround by a purple aura and pulled away from me. After they were safely off me a couple of guards charged at me with spear. They're trying to kill me?! I side stepped and grabbed the spear the guard was holding it in his mouth. I slammed it against the ground. HARD. This caused the guard to become knocked out. The second guard tried again to stab me. He began to turn but, being in a small room he had limited movement. I ran up, grabbed him, then I punched him in the side of his head. This effectively disoriented him enough for me to deliver another punch knocking him out.

"enough!! I'll make quick work of you and then throw your friends in a dungeon to rot!" said the same voice. Then a guard coverd in a simple metal armor except his helmet was missing. He was a unicorn pretty tall for a pony. He mane was deep blue with two off blue strips going down it, much like Twilight's mane. His coat was bleach white.

" shining armor wait! You don't know what he is capable of!" twilight yelled but this 'shining armor' ignored her.  Her pulled out two swords with his magic.

"buddy, you just made a big mistake saying that..." I strafed over to the bed post and did something I always wanted to do. I grabbed the bedpost and pulled it off. It bent and creak as I ripped it off. I now had a 4ft metal pipe as a weapon. Then I did the simple taunt by holding out my hand and giving him the 'bring it bitch' gesture. He gladly complied and rushed towards me. The swords started to swing madly and dented the metal bar as they hit. After about ten minutes of mindelss swinging he charged me. I side steped again and hit him on the ass causing him to drop and drop the swords. As he fell I kicked the swords away and picked him up by the throat. I brought him to my eyes and said...

"if you ever.....threaten my friends again I will. Not. Hesitate to make you have a life time of agony. Got it?" he nodded and I dropped him. He fell to the floor gasping and with an angry expression. I then started towards my friends on the opposite side of the room. The guard seprated in to two rows and shivered as I walked threw them. The doctors and nurses had long left when the fighting had began. As I got to my friends I sat down next to them...

(shining's P.O.V.)

That...that monster defeated me even after I brought out my swords.they were ment to stun and weaken any ponys hit with them. Now it will roam free and hurt innocents. No..no I will not allow that even if it means..*gulp*.. Killing it..I grabbed my dagger I hid on my front foreleg. I slowly drew the blade and began walking towards it all the guards were staring at it and twiley was starting to walk toward it. Twileys curiosity is gonna get her killed! I jumped on a bed and lept at the back of monster. He turned towards me and started to talk in my direction.

" look i just wanted to say Im-HURK" I saw him flinch as I drove the blade into his chest....I saw him fall to the ground. When he hit the floor he looked at the wound in his chest......I saw tears in the monster eyes. I frowned at this. I didn't want to do it but i swore that I'd protect celestia and her subjects at any and all cost. I saw the life slipping from the monster. He looked right at me and said something.

"i...just..wanted..to..say..I..was.sorry...I didn't...want to...Hurt..anyone....I...just..want...to..to" then his body went limp.

(Deckard's P.O.V.) 30 seconds before.

Maybe I should try to apologize. I did kinda disgrace him in front of his troops. I turned around and said "look I just wanted to say I'm-HURK" I was interrupted by a blade driving its self into my chest. I fell to the ground confused. I looked to see were I got stabbed. The blade was sticking out of my chest and from what I could tell it was only a centimeter away from my heart. I started to tear up. 'even if the blade wasn't in my heart it would be if they tried to remove it.'

I looked up at shining armor and said"i...just..wanted..to..say..I..was.sorry...I didn't...want to...Hurt..anyone....I...just..want...to..to"

Then I slipped in to a black void....

(Twilight's P.O.V.)

I thought I would never have witnessed it. I had read many books on how ponies murdered other ponies, but that was long before my time. Now. Right in front of me. I just saw a act of murder. From my brother!

" come on twiley. You don't need to see this." my brothers said as he stepped towards me. I stepped away from him." twiley what's wrong?" he asked.

"what wrong? what's wrong!? YOU JUST KILLED MY FRIEND THATS WHATS WRONG!!" I screamed at him. Tears were starting to fall. The creature I brought. The one that forgave me. The one that helped spike. The one who I spent a entire night helping the doctors fix. The one who was my friend was now dead or dying.

"twilight that is a monster that could have hurt innocent ponies! Twilight it broke part of your home open!" he retorted.

" I did that! I brought him here! Any damage he did was my fault! And now you have just killed an innocent shining!" I defended. This must have hit him hard.

"twilight. He.."

"HE DID WHAT HUH?! NOTHING! HE. DID. NOTHING. WRONG. YOU RACIST FLANKHOLE, HE DID NOTHING WRONG!! HE WAS SNATCHED FROM HIS HOME AND WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY! NOW HE WILL NEVER GET TO EXPLAIN TO HIS FRIENDS WHAT HAPPENED! IN FACT THEY WILL NEVER GET TO SEE HIM WHEN THEY WAKE UP!! SHINING YOU PRETTY MUCH JUST KILLED THE BROTHER OF THESE TWO!!" I was furious right now. I could tell what I said hit shining hard. I don't now wether it was his little sister crying and yelling at him or the fact he really did kill somepony who was innocent.

"twi-" I cut him off before he could continue.

"I! AM! NOT! FINISHED!! HE HELPED ME SHINING! HE HELPED ME FIND SPIKE WHEN HE WAS HURT!! HE HELPED A COMPLETE STRANGER TO FIND HER LOVED ONE BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT THERE WAS TROUBLE!! HE WAS A NICE CREATURE SHINING!! I TRIED TO STOP YOU, YOU JUST SHRUGGED ME OFF LIKE AT THE WEDDING!!" this caused him to flinch. Even the guards were shaking at my little display. Then I heard a very familier voice.

"shining armor. Is what twilight is saying true? Did you attack without any type of waring or even try to make peace with the creature?" it was none other than princess celestia. By her side was also princess Luna. shining bowed his head and kneeled

"yes your highness. I did. I was-" the princess cut him off by holding up a hoof.

"shining armor you know we have a very low tolerance of attacking ponies or creature without reason. Killing, on the other hoof,  is completely unacceptable." the princess let out a sad sigh "You have done both. I here by decree that you shall no longer be the captain of the guard. For you actions have shown that you are unfit to command my troops. I am sorry." this caused shining's demeanor to change quickly. He was sad before now he was depressed and shamed.

"wait..." we all heard a raspy voice say. It....was deckard?! He was alive! He shouldn't be though from what little he told me about human anatomy. if he got stabbed in the heart he should be dead. I saw him lean up and coughed in to his hand. Then he wiped his hand off on his chest. Blood was smeared on his chest now.

(Deckard's P.O.V.)

I woke up for a second to hear a very sad piece of news.

"I here by decree that you shall no longer be the captain of the guard. For you actions have shown that you are unfit to command my troops. I am sorry." said a forgein voice say. 'wow, if that voice was any more caring i would almost say it was my moms!' I felt depressed after that thought. I couldn't let this guy lose his job because he was trying to defend his family and people.

"wait...." I sat up threw the excruciating pain and hacked into my hand. 'blood...aww fuck.' I wipe he blood off on my chest and looked at the new pony in the room. She was tall. Taller than shining almost as tall as me.(without the horn) I also noticed that the pony had both wings and a horn. She also wore a tiara and a big necklace with a purple diamond.

"look....he *wheeze* was...only protecting...his...family and people.....he made...a good....choice...a bit rash....but...still...good.." I said with the few breaths I had. I was feeling more and more faint. Twilight had walked up to me while I wasn't looking. I had tears in my when I saw her crying. " tw-twilight....take..ca..care...of..my...friends..please....*choke,wheeze* and...thanks.."

" for what?" she said all choked up.

"f-for....saving..my...friends.."I said with a smile. Then I looked at the tall pony again. "please...forgive....shining armor....he...only..did...what..he...thought...was..right...please.." I closed my eyes and started to go limp.

"deckard? Deckard NO! NO dec-" I again blacked out probably for good this time.

(Luna's P.O.V.)

I saw the strange creature go limp next to twilight. The poor mare was really taking this hard. I looked up at my sister and said " sister, we believe we should heed the word of the strange creature. It gave it's last breath to defend shining. We believe thou should consider revoking your previous order. Also we doth not know if thine creature is truly deceased!" I said hoping to help the sparkle siblings.

Tia looked at me then at the creature. Her horn glowed for a brief moment and her eyes shot open. "twilight. Is what you said about the creature true? Did he really help you?" She asked. I knew what she was planning.

"yes, princess he did." twilight said while still crying in to the chest of the creature.

"good that's all I wanted to hear. Guards clear the room of the medical staff and wait outside for us.You ready Luna?" she asked. I nodded both of our horns glowed bright. The energy from our horn glowed and shot into a each other creating a single beam. The beam hit the creatures chest. The blade that was stuck in his chest removed its self and caused he wound to stitch up quickly. Twilight only watched in awe as the wound was completely healed. Any internal bleeding that was left over was removed into a crimson orb outside of the creatures body. It started to harden until it was a solid mass. After it was harden it gently floated down the ground.

The energy was gone and now the only thing left was to see of it worked. I saw his claw twitch slightly...

(Deckard's P.O.V.)

'why do I feel tingly? Is death suppost to feel tingly?' I thought. This black void was getting old really fast and the weird sensation only made it more boring. I suddenly felt my senses coming back to me. I heard sniffling. 'twilight?' then I smelled the cool air were ever I was. Then I felt the floor and my finger twitch. Then I realized something. 'am I alive?' I crack open my eye slowly. I saw a now stupefied twilight, a also awestruck shining armor and two exhausted looking tall ponies. I then felt a small volt of pure feeling energy run threw my veins. My eyes shot open and all my muscles tensed.

"HOLY SHIT THAT FEELS WEIRD!!" I shouted as my muscles slowly relaxed.

"DECKARD!!" I heard twilight yell as she wrapped her forelegs around me. " I don't know how they did it, but they did! They brought you back to life!"

"who?" I said as I got up and held twilight in my arms. I also noticed a distinct lack of guards, medical staff, and a certain pink maned Pegasus.

"why, the princesses saved you ofcourse!" she used a hoof to gesture at the tall winged unicorns. There was now a blue pony exactly the same as the tall one, only she was a dark blue with a star dotted mane. Also she was noticeably shorter. I gently put twilight down and walked over to the princesses.

"Hello." she started " I am princess celestia and this is my sister princess Luna." she gestured towards the small winged unicorn. The blue one was looking at me with curiosity. I slowly approached them and kneeled down to eye level to blue one effectively making me look less threatening. "you saved my life?"

They both nodded. I almost immeditly started to tear up. I quickly grabbed both of them and gave them a HUGE hug."thank you, thank you, thank you. I am forever in your dept! Ask anything of me and it will be done!" I said as tears fell from my face.

"well for starters you can put us down." Luna said with a chuckle and a blush. I looked down to see I was standing and holding both of them off the ground. Tia was 2 inches off the ground and Luna was almost a foot of the ground.

"oh oops sorry." I gave a sheepish smile as I placed them on the ground. They both took a few steps away to get a better look of me. "it's quite alright Mr....?" "deckard your majesty." " yes, it's quite alright. You were only expressing you gratitude." celestia said.

Then we all heard a groan come from behind us. My eyes widened 'are they?'. I whiped around and saw my friends moving around a little. Twilight had backed up from the beds when she saw them moving. I saw Chris's eyes flutters open. They darted around until they met me. "deckard? Am I still dreaming or are you standing around a bunch of multi-colored ponies?"

I smiled massively with more tears running down my cheeks. "you ain't dreamin now man. We're finally safe!"I said making my way to the bed.

"what? How? You know better than me that now where is safe." he said. His eyes never left me.

"okay dude don't call me crazy, but this pony here." I said gesturing for the lavander pony to come over. She did so hesitantly. "this pony right here. Brought us to another dimension."

He looked at me for a second before bursting into laughter. "dude*snicker* how can a pony do that?"

"hey twilight you wanna introduce your self and show him?" I asked the pony in question. She nodded and walked up to the bed. She sat down in his plain sight and began. "hello. My name is twilight sparkle and I brought you to this dimension through the use of magic." she levitated a glass of water from the night stand over to him. " you looked thirsty." she said as she smiled.

He grabbed the glass and stared at it before placing it back on the night stand. "...."

"uh deckard? I think I might have broke him."she said with a small giggle. *poof* Chris had passed out.

Author's note

So sorry for the late up date. I have been trying to work on my grammar and chatching my self when I make mistakes. Anywho I think I did a little poor this chapter but meh... If it is really bad I am going to fix it.