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Staying Sane In A Peaceful World

by tranhdxrbntd

Chapter 12: Chapter 11: Nightmare Night Part 2

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Chapter 11: Nightmare Night Part 2

After Scootaloo's birthday party in my pocket dimension in my backpack, everyone, except for Scootaloo, left my pocket dimension for Nightmare Night and I magically cleaned up the remains of the party in my backpack. “Scootaloo, let’s enjoy Nightmare Night. You can try your new scooter I bought you."

"YES!!" *SNAP* I teleported the two of us out of my backpack and I picked up my backpack and placed it on my back. I took out a pillowcase and gave it to Scootaloo.

"Have fun Scootaloo." I took out my military radio and turned it on."Hey guys, are you there?"

"Yeah. What do you need?", asked Ike.

"What do you want?", asked Nick.

"Since when did I get this?", said Andy.

"Guys, you might want to carry your weapons. Usually holidays like this tend to raise crime or action. Plus, I want to show you guys how to clean and maintain them."

"All?", asked Nick.

"Yes. Even your RPG7V2. Also bring your weapon's cleaning kits that you carry." There was a silence over the radio. “Let me guess, you guys don't carry them."

"Yeah", said Ike.

"You know what, just meet me at my bunker. I moved the gear, ammo, and other things as such to the armory of my bunker. We'll just use my spare ones."

-X-X-X-

I sat in front of my bunker waiting for my friends.

"Hi Tran", said Ike.

"Hi you crazy Asian", said Nick.

"Hello brother", said Andy.

"Ok. Let’s get inside." I opened the door with my sonic screwdriver and walked inside with my friends following me. The four of us went into the first floor. “Everyone put your weapons on the ground and we can start." The four of us started to remove our weapons from where they were slung and holstered on the ground of the first floor. I went into the armory and took out several weapon kits and locked the door to the armory as I went out of it.

-X-X-X-

"Now Nick, the M60 needs a barrel change every time it has a thousand rounds through it, it needs a barrel change to maintain the weapon. Since we don't have extra barrels, I just used magic to repair and make the barrel brand new. Sooooo, how's your magic?"

"Pretty good", said Ike.

"Normal", said Nick.

"Explosions are fun", said Andy.

*Face Hoof*

"You need to remove the barrel before you repair it with your magic. If you don't you can possibly permanently fuse the barrel to the upper receiver. When you lift the barrel in the air, look down it to check if there's anything wrong with it."

-X-X-X-

"Andy, your KRISS doesn't need much maintenance. You just need to get the burnt cordite out of the barrel with one of these brushes. Just take the gun. remove the frame of it and the entire action and mechanics of the gun is exposed. After that, just take a brush and start removing the burn cordite and gunpowder."

-X-X-X-

"Ike, you have an AK47." I picked it up and started to take it apart.

"Tran, how do you know how to take this apart?", asked Ike.

"Ike my greaser friend, there are some weapons that I know how to take apart before I even hold it. I knew how to take apart a 1911 before I even held one and I mess with my uncle's S&W 1911 when I was twelve years old. Even my parents knew how to take apart some guns by the time they were my age AND THEY WERE PACIFISTS!! Although it might be due to the fact that they lived in after war communist Vietnam up until they were in their late twenties."

"After war Vietnam?"

"They were nearly fifty years old by the time they died. When they were teens, Vietnam literally ended yesterday. My grandfather from my mother's side of the family and some uncles from my father's side of the family fought in the war. My grandfather was killed in that war."

-X-X-X-

"Ok Nick. Your RPG7V2-", I started before being interrupted by loud knocking coming from the first floor. I went to the door and opened it."Star Swirl the Bearded?"

"FINALLY!!! Somepony that gets it."

"What do you need Twilight?"

"There is somepony killing others."

"WHAT!?!?! How many people have died?"

"Twelve. They were all killed in the same way so we know the same killer done it every time."

"Tran, what's going on?", asked Nick.

"There is a killer walking about and there is a holiday where kids and people are walking in costumes."

"WHAT!??!", yelled out the three of my friends.

"Put your weapons together and lets go." My friends tried to put their weapons back together and failed horribly. This went on for about fifteen minutes before I picked up there weapons and reassembled their weapons in less than five weapons. I smirked at the three of them. The three of them picked up their weapons and slung them. I went into my room and rearmed and regeared myself.

"Not one word", said Ike.

"You guys are terrible at this."

"Shut up", said the three of them.

"Twilight, where are the bodies?"

"Follow me", said Twilight.

-X-X-X-

The five of us went to Sweet Apple Acres and unlike the episode, Nightmare Night, there wasn't that many ponies there. “The bodies are in Sweet Apple Acres?", I asked.

"One of them are", replied Twilight.

The five of us walked into the farm and was approached by Applejack. “They’re over here", said Applejack. The six of us walked over to a pony's body on the ground covered with a white cloth. I walked up to the body and lifted the sheet. An earth pony mare with two small puncture wounds on her neck.

"How long ago when she died?"

"We found her about an hour ago", said Applejack.

I looked at the body and then I looked at Applejack. “Are you sure?"

"Yes. Why wouldn't I be sure?"

"For one thing, she is still breathing."

"WHAT!??!?!"

I leaned in towards the body and said, “Come on. Wake up already." I lightly kicked the body with my foot. “Wake up." I leaned in and poke the body with my finger. “Come on wake-HEILIG SCHESSA(holy shit[German])!!!" The mare on teh ground bit me in the arm and clung on as I jumped back. Fortunately, my arm was protected by hidden blades and chain maille, so I tried to shake the mare off of my arm, which failed so I took out my 1911 and pointed it at her. “Get off of my arm or I will fire. “The mare stayed on my arm so I shot one of her legs. This didn't even affect her so I shot her in the torso. This didn't affect her so I shot her in the head. “WHY *BANG* WON'T *BANG* YOU *BANG* GET *BANG* OFF!?!?!??! *BANG*" My pistol ran out of ammo and the mare still stayed on arm, even with a bullet in her arm, one in her torso, and six in the head. Nick walked up to me and pulled the mare off and threw her into a tree, impaling her on a branch. “What was that?"

"I don't know", said Nick.

"Who can survive six .45 ACP rounds to the face?", I asked. “I thought you said she was dead?"

"I thought she was dead too?", said Applejack.

"Were there any more dead bodies here?" I asked.

"Two others", said Applejack.

"Where?" Applejack started walking towards her barn and on the ground was two more white sheets, except without corpses.

"Shit. Where are they? If they are like the other one Tran just shot, there might be some trouble", said Ike.

"What are they?", asked Nick.

"VAMPIRE!!!", Andy yelled out.

"There is no possible way they are vampires", Nick said.

"Dead blokes have developed canines. If they aren't vamps, what are they?", I asked.

Out of nowhere, I was tackled and bitten on the shoulder by two ponies, one was biting me on the shoulder and the other bit me on the neck. Nick grabbed one of them and threw them it to the wall. The other one on the other hand, kept trying to bite me on the neck. Fortunately, I imbedded my chain maille armor into my robe, the entire thing. I jumped backwards and fell onto the pony, with all of my weight, including my weapons and armor. My weightless spell only made the weight seem weightless to me, but the weight was still shown to others. Seven hundred pounds of dead weight crushed her. I stood back up, without it biting me, and looked at the pony, only to see that she was still moving. I took out a grenade and placed it in her mouth. “Survive that." The grenade exploded and shredded the body to bits. I faced the other pony that tried to bite me and he was facing me too. I unslung my M4A1 and started to shoot at him. A ten round burst later and he was still standing. I unloaded the rest of the mag into him and he was still standing. I took out my kukri and stabbed him in the chest. This killed him.

"WHAT?!?!?! A HUNDRED .223 ROUNDS DON'T KILL HIM BUT A STEEL KUKRI DOES!?!?!?!?", yelled out Andy.

"In Brahm Stoker's original Dracula, Dracula was killed by steel knives. My kukri is 1060 carbon steel."

"I hate classics", said Andy.

"Choyt(damn[Russian])."

"What?", asked Ike.

"I realized something."

"What?", asked Ike.

"Twilight, you said there were twelve victims right?

"Yeah. Why would you- Oh dear Celestia."

"We have to find those other ten or we might have a disaster on our hands."

-X-X-X-

Twilight managed to get everypony to hide in their homes with any weapon they might have owned ready.

"Ok. You six need to get somewhere safe", I said, facing Twilight.

"Where should we go?"

"We could go tah mah farm", said Applejack.

*SNAP* I teleported the mane six and the four of us to Applejack's farm and into her home. Applejack  ran into a room and back out, holding a crossbow in her hooves.

"Why do you have a crossbow?", I asked.

"Ah got it after ah incident", she replied.

"What happened?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

"I'll respect that. Twilight, remember that shield spell you casted when the CMCs started gathering gossip for newspapers?"

"How did you know? Plus, why do need about it?", Twilight asked.

"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!! I want you to cast that same spell around Sweet Apple Acres after the four of us leave. Don't worry about the CMCs, they are with the cakes in Sugarcube corner."

"What are you going to do?", Twilight asked.

"We're hunting some vampires."

-X-X-X-

The four of us were standing in the center of the town and close to the town hall, weapons raised. Nick had his M60 out, Ike had his trench knife and M29 out, Andy had his KRISS out, and I had my bow out. “You guys ready for this?"

"Let’s get this over with", said Andy.

"I only have one question, where did they come from?", Ike said while performing the holy trinity.

"Well wherever they came from, they're going back", said Nick.

"Tran, why are you using a bow?", asked Ike.

"You noticed how I shot one a hundred times and it didn't die? A bow is essentially a device that shoots flying stakes."

The four of us waited and waited and waited until an hour had passed.

"Where are they? The only blood they can get for a hundred miles and they ignore it", said Ike.

"Wait a minute, that's it", I said. I extended one of my hidden blades and cut one of my wrist, making blood flow. Ten seconds passed and about a cup of blood went out. I wrapped the wound with gauze and then duct taped the wound. What most people don't know is that if you cut your wrist too deep, you impede motor movement so if you doing something like this on purpose and want to use your hand, be careful and know how deep and where to cut.

"Tran, that's pretty dangerous."

"It's something needed so it's something I can give up."

"If this doesn't attract any of them, I don't know what will", said Ike.

Exactly Five Seconds Later

"I FUCKING HATE IT WHEN I'M RIGHT!!!", yelled out Ike. He shot a vampony in the face with his M29 and stabbed it in the side with his trench knife. He saw that his knife failed and shot it three more times.

"IKE, YOUR KNIFE IS TOO SHORT TO REACH THERE HEARTS!!!", I yelled. I turned to my left and shot a pony with my bow, killing it."Gotta love archery."  I notched another arrow and shot another vampony.

"Fuck it." Ike resheathed his trench knife and drew out his python and dual wielded revolvers.

Nick was holding several vamponies at bay with his M60. The .308 FMJ rounds were barely effective against the vamponies because the only way to kill them were to completely blow off their heads, a steak to the heart, or probably silver, but we didn't test that for obvious reasons. Andy was like Nick, spraying and praying with .45 hollow points from his KRISS.

"Silly apes. Those won't kill us." I turned and shot him, which killed him.

Eventually I ran out of arrows because quivers hold a small amount of ammo."OUTTA ARROWS!!!"

"Hey Tran, will silver work?", asked Andy.

"I DON'T KNOW! MAYBE!?!" With this, Andy threw a bag of bits at me."Are these silver bits?"

"Two thousand eight hundred forty bits in silver bits."

"I'm not going to even ask how you got three thousand bits from selling bakers goods at Sugarcube corner nor I'm going to ask you why they are all silver bits", I said.

*SNAP* I teleported the four of us to Sweet Apple Acres in Applejack's house. Almost immediately I was shot in the chest by a bolt. “Oi. I'm Tran."

Applejack walked out of the corner and said, “Sorry about dat Tran."

I ripped the bolt that was sticking to my vest and handed it back to her. “No comment. It turns out there are too many vampires. Also, Andy, why did you give me your silver bits?"

"I thought you could use the silver bits to kill them", he replied.

"How could I possibly use random silver bits to kill vampires. That's like going into battle with bullets but you don't have the gun to fire them. It's just a bag of silver bits. What am I going to do with them? Throw them?"

"Brother, how am I supposed to know? Shoot them from a crossbow. Make it into a bomb. Make bullets out of silver. Throw them."

"Why would I throw tho-wait, that idea might work."

"Throwing them?"

"No. The bomb you dummkoft(idiot[German]). All I need is a container to hold the explosives and bits."

"A container? Like a box?", Ike asked.

"No something big. Like a pipe or something like that."

"I GOT IT!!! PINKIE PIE'S PARTY CANNON!!!", Nick yelled out.

"That could work", I said.

"Who needs my party cannon?", asked Pinkie Pie, popping out of a cabinet.

"Pinkie, I need your cannon to blow up some vampires."

"What are you going to do with it? I don't think parties can kill vampires", said Pinkie Pie.

"I want to make it into a bomb."

"Why would I let you make my party cannon into a bomb. It would blow up and then I can't use it anymore. If i can use it anymore, I can't make parties anymore. If I didn't make parties anymore, I wouldn't be Pinkie Pie. If I'm not Pinkie Pie, that's doesn't make sense since I'm Pinkie Pie."

"Que(what[Spanish])? Pinkie, if I blow it up, I'll get you a new party cannon. Sooo, can I use your party cannon to make a bomb?"

"Okie dokie Lokie but the new party cannon must be BETTER!!!" Pinkie Pie pulled her party cannon out of the same cabinet she was in and threw it at Nick, who caught it midair. He handed it to me and I looked at the cannon.

"This is polished cast iron right?"

"Yeppers", she replied.

I looked inside the party cannon and saw confetti. Lots and lots of confetti. I dumped the confetti out and it filled the kitchen which made us stand in three inches of confetti. “No comment." I took off my backpack and took out an electric detonator, a blasting cap, and twenty pounds of C4."Applejack, do you have any tin foil?" She walked over to a cabinet and threw me a roll of the schtuff. I took the C4 and planted in the blasting cap and detonator and wrapped it in tin foil. I placed the charge inside the cannon and suspended the charge in the center middle of the cannon. I took Andy's bits and pour it in. *SNAP* The front opening of the cannon was gone and was closed up. I took out a spring detonator and gave it to Ike."You guys ready to go back?" My three friends responded with nods. “Good." *SNAP* The four of us appeared in the center of the town again. *SNAP* A large force field surrounded the four of us. I took the bandages off where I slit my wrist and it started to bleed again. “You know, you have to be careful when you do something like this. If you cut too deep, you cut out the tendons that control your hand and that hand will barely be able to be moved."

"Do you really have to be saying stuff like that right now?", asked Ike." I mean, we are about to kill vamponies and you are talking about something like that."

I rebandaged my wrist and picked up the large cannon.

Five Seconds Later

"Wow, they are really attracted to blood." About fifty vampires surrounded the force field that was surrounding us, trying to get in. I moved the bomb to the center of the area affected by the force field. *Snap* The four of us appeared on top of the town hall and an illusion of the four of us appeared in the center of the force field."Ike, you ready?" He responded with a nod. I dropped the force field and the vamponies outside of it ran at the illusions inside.

*BOOM* After the dust of the explosion settled, the carnage showed that nearly every single one of the vampires that went inside were blown up. Any vampony outside of the kill zone of the bomb had limbs missing and were trying to crawl away with stumps.*SNAP* I teleported down to the surviving vamponies. I took out several grenades and tossed one at each surviving vampony except for one. I walked up to him and said, “I know the Nightmare is not going to win. Where is he?"

"You think you can win? He has more power than you can ever imagine."

"He will not win." I dropped a grenade where he laid. The grenade detonated and left a small crater where he was. *SNAP*

The bodies and carnage of the vamponies disappeared and the craters caused by my grenades and the party cannon bomb were refilled and repacked with dirt. The only thing left from the carnage was all the shell casings left from Nick, Andy, and Ike and my arrows sticking in the ground where their victims used to lay. I picked up the arrows and repacked them back into my quiver. By now, my three friends teleported down.

The three of them walked to me and Ike asked, “They’re gone?"

I responded with a nod. “The only thing I'm worrying about is where they came from. The Nightmare sent them."

"The what?", asked Ike.

"The Nightmare. He is basically the physical embodiment of evil. Once he took over Luna and tried to usurp the thrown and cause eternal night."

"So I take it that he's evil?"

"Eeyup. Now the only thing we have to do now is to somehow get Nightmare Night going again. It is only 0837."

"After that ordeal, even I would stay indoors", said Andy.

"Wait a minute, I know how to get Nightmare Night going again. Are any of you acquainted with Vinyl Scratch?"

-X-X-X-

I managed to persuade Vinyl Scratch and Pinkie to help get Nightmare Night back in order. Vinyl was setting up her speakers and a stage while Pinkie Pie was setting up decorations and party games for Nightmare Night because some of the previous games and decorations was destroyed by several explosions. The other five of the mane six were helping Pinkie Pie or setting up different things around the town center.

I took out a piece of paper and started writing a letter.*SNAP* The letter I wrote was sent to Canterlot.

In One Of The Royal Courts Of Canterlot

Princess Luna was sitting in a chair listening to a pony ramble about his problems when a scroll appeared and landed on her head. “What’s this?"

Dear Luna,

Can you come to Ponyville and help bring the mood up. There has been an attack on Ponyville and my three friends and I managed to repel the invaders. The aftermath caused several ponies to get scared and have not left their homes. Even though it is a holiday, there are not cheery people. If you come to Ponyville, I bet you'll enjoy the party I'm setting up. You will definitely enjoy the song.

Sincerely,

Tran

Luna ignored the stallion's claims and went in thought. After a minute or two, she said, “Blueblood, thou needs to shut up. We are going to Ponyville."

Back In Ponyville

Vinyl Scratch and Pinkie Pie finished setting up for Nightmare Night and by now, several townsponies went out of their homes. Unfortunately, there were still a large percentage of Ponyville's populace still hiding in their homes. Then Luna appeared before me. She was in her Nightmare Moon costume and was visibly larger than her normal self, most likely to accompany the costume.

"Hi Luna."

"Thou said that Ponyville was attacked. May we ask by whom?", she said.

"Vamponies from the Nightmare." Luna's eyes widened in fear and she physically shrunk down and regained her normal size. “Don’t worry, we managed to kill the vamponies. We just need to get the townspeople out from their homes and get them to enjoy Nightmare Night. I already got Pinkie Pie and the others to help set up. Vinyl Scratch is here too, ready to DJ."

"What will she be playing?"

"A song that you will enjoy but we have to get the townsponies to get out of their homes. Luna, don't try anything. I have an idea."

I walked away from her and to Ike."Hey Ike, how are you're guitar skills now?"

"I play every day in the park for tips. I make about a hundred fifty bits a day. What do you think?"

"Ike, I want you to play onstage with an electric guitar to get some of the people to get out of their homes. Once they get out, I'm going to play a song that fits the atmosphere."

"Where am I going to get an electric guitar?" I pointed to the stage and there were several instruments that would be used in a band. "Oh. I feel stupid."

"Just go up and play something awesome. We need you to only play one song."

He picked up a red electric guitar and strummed it a few times. He tuned it and began playing the beginning of Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child(obviously the guitar part only).

A few minutes in the song, ponies were actually leaving their home to listen to the music. Ike finished the song and I walked over to him."Ike, Vinyl can take over now." I walked back to Vinyl and said," I have this one song you should definitely play for Nightmare Night. Remember my IPod? Can you hook it up to your system again?"

"YEAH! That is one amazing little device. Where can I get one?", Vinyl said. I handed her my IPod and she connected it to her turn tables.

"You can get one here. They are from my world." I scrolled through my playlist until I found a song that  completely fitted the theme of the night. I played the song and waited.

Vinyl Scratch turned the volume of the music to the point that it could be heard all over town. Within a few seconds, nearly everypony went out of their homes to see the commotion. Luna walked up to me and yelled over the music, “Where did thee get a song like this? Thou hath come from a different world and thou already hath songs that describe our culture."

I yelled back, “That’s for you to find out and for me to know." By now, Nightmare Night was back in full swing. Fillies and colts were enjoying themselves. Some of the adults were getting wasted. My friends were partying about. The mane six were doing the same thing. Twilight Sparkle, still dressed as Star Swirl the bearded, was listening to the music. Pinkie Pie, dressed as a chicken, was jumping about, literally and metaphorically, partying. Fluttershy, dressed as a butterfly, was just sitting at a table eating a cupcake. Rarity, dressed as a tiny Celestia, was gathering candy with Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Applebloom. Applejack, dressed up in cowboy clothing, was running a bob an apple bucket. Lastly, Rainbow Dash, dressed up as a Wonderbolt, was scaring even more ponies with lightning.

'She never learns', I thought. I pulled out my M4 and aimed it at the cloud.*PFFTT* A 5.56 sized round flew at her at 3000 feet per second. It impacted the cloud and she sprawled about in the air before falling onto a table of treats. She stood back up covered in cupcakes, icing, and dough. I walked up to her and said, “Happy Nightmare Night Rainbow Dash."

"Tran, I will get you one day with an awesome prank that you will never see."

"Good luck."

I walked off and found Derpy, dressed in her paper bag costume, bobbing apples with Applejack. “HI Derpy."

"Hi Tran. How are you enjoying Nightmare Night?"

"Pretty good since I was one of the people that set up this party. Derpy can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"Why did you pull the plug in the bob the apple bucket at that one Nightmare Night that Luna first went to?"

"WHAT!?!? HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT!?!?"

"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!!!!"

"You can't know everything, it's impossible. Now how did you know about that?"

"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!"

"You're not going to tell met aren't you?"

"Nope."

I walked off and went to Vinyl Scratch, still playing the same song, except she was changing the tune a bit with her skill. “How’s my IPod", I shouted.

"You have to let me record some songs from your little device for me to use", she shouted back.

"Maybe another day Scratch. If I do, you must give me all rights and credit and 50% of all you make from any song I have must go to me, no matter what."

"Fine. When can I record some of those songs?"

"Tomorrow's good."

I went to Luna who was playing with a pumpkin catapult. "Hi Luna."

"Hello Tran."

"Can I try that?" Luna nodded and stepped away from the catapult that she was using. I jumped on it and the pumpkin that was launched was ten feet shy from the target and the pumpkin didn't even break. Luna started giggling. “You know what. You can stick to this and I can stick to what I stick with usually." I took a M67 grenade, pulled the pin, and lobbed it at the target. *BOOM* One of the targets meant for the pumpkins turned into a crater and left everypony with looks of awe. “And that is how I roll." I walked off and started a long walk.

The Next Day

By now, I was still walking and it had already passed eleven hours since I started my walk. I started to walk back towards where the remnants of the party was and saw that the place was cleaned up. I summoned my IPod from Vinyl's possession and placed it into a rifle magazine pouch on my vest. I looked at my watch. ‘Nine fourteen.' I walked off and started looking for my friends.

One Hour Later

First I found Andy. He was sound asleep................. in a tree............. that was on a cloud...........that was upside down.............. that was raining....................cupcakes......................upside down.

Basically, the cloud was shooting cupcakes upwards in the air, shortly falling back down after going up about forty feet. I stared at the strange feet of magic and admired how Andy of all people can do something like this. Why was he in that cloud? Who knows. Who knows? I took out my 1911 and shot the cloud. It exploded in a shower of cupcakes and the tree fell to the ground. Somehow, Andy was still asleep despite falling eighty feet inside a tree from a cloud. I walked up to him and said, “Wake up. Wake up. Wake up already. Last chance to wake up. One last chance to avoid being tased." I took out my M26, took up the barbs, and tased him in the neck.

Five Minutes Of Heavy Cursing Later

I walked around while I was talking with Andy.

"Using a bow is better to use to hunt than a gun", I said.

"No it's not. A gun would make killing easier."

"Well, bullets have a chance of ruining the meat and you would have to remove the bullet or pellets from the body. Also removing an arrow from the meat is easier."

"True but it requires less skill to use. All you have to do with a bow is point and shoot. When using a bow, you have to be more careful and it is harder to kill with."

"Yeah but if you managed to kill an animal with a bow, it is a show of skill. Kill a bird? Extreme sign of aim. Killing a bear? You are badass then."

"Hmmm. Guns have a higher range and power."

"Exactly. Guns have a higher range and power. If you shoot a wrong sized animal if a large caliber gun, you would obliterate the meat. Imagine a javelina(imagine a type of boar), if you shot it with a .308, you would basically make its body explode as if you shot it with a fifty. If you shot it with a bow, you still have meat left."

"You can fire more with a gun and ammo is cheaper and more bountiful."

"I'll give you that but you can reuse ammo with a bow."

Then out of nowhere, I was bucked in the chest. I was knocked into the side of a building and to the ground. I stood back up and pulled out my 1911 in my left hand and faced the perpetrator, only to face Applejack. Luckily, I was wearing my IOTV vest with steel plates. “WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!?!?"

"Nothin", she replied. I could obviously tell she was lying due to the fact that it was Applejack trying to lie. She charged at me again and I sidestepped. She tried again and resulted in me doing the same thing. She tried again and it resulted in the same thing but this time I sidestepped into a wall. “rap." She lunged at me and pinned me to the wall.

"Any last words Tran?", Applejack said. She brandished a knife in one hoof.

"Five words only. Forty-five colt automatic pistol round." I still had my 1911 in my left hand and I shot her in the upper leg, the same leg that held the knife. She screamed in pain and ran away before I could do anything.

Andy walked back to me and said, “WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT!?!?"

"I don't know but I do know is that Applejack doesn't lie like that."

-X-X-X-

I walked with my brother towards the park where Ike usually played at. Out of nowhere, I was blasted in the chest with what seemed like a solid mass of confetti. I stumbled back a bit and I turned around, facing Pinkie Pie. Her hair was not its usual poofiness and it was completely straight. Her eyes were that of an insane person from the apocalypse which didn't mix well with her aiming a  party cannon at me. The most noticeable of all, she wasn't smiling.

She fired again and instead of hitting me again, I sidestepped. She tried to shoot me again and I sidestepped and lunged at her. Pinkie jumped to the left and dodged my lunge.

"You missed", she said. I held up a small metal ring in front of her. “What is that?"

"My dear friend, this the safety pin to the M67 fragmentative explosive device. It should explode exactly...........now." The party cannon that was she had in her possession blew up and sent her into a wall. Fortunately, she was not severely injured and the party cannon contained the shrapnel and most of the concussive blast. She got back up and ran away.

"What's going on!?", Andy said.

"I don't know but I do know that Pinkie Pie shouldn't have a party cannon. Ike blew it up, killing those vampires" I walked off with my brother.

-X-X-X-

"Do you have any clue to what is happening?", I asked.

"I don't know but at this rate, every single of those six EOHs(element of harmonies) will attack you today", Andy said.

"That would be ridikulus."

"Why do you say it like that?"

"Like what?"

"Ridiculous."

"Ridikulus?"

"Ridiculous."

"Ridikulus."

"Why do you always say it like that? I know you can say it correctly but you keep on saying it like that."

"That's just my accent. Haven't you learned already?"

"Haven't you learned that I don't learn."

"Touche."

"It's still weird how you say ridiculous."

"Well, it's not my fault. I mean it's just the-hi Twilight, Rarity. What are you guys doing here?" The two of them didn't respond. The two of them stared at me after I spoke to them. “Hello? Why are you two-WHOA!"

Twilight shot me with a spell and nearly hit me in the chest if it wasn't for the fact that I dodged to the left. This time, Andy took out his M9. Rarity, seeing Andy taking out his pistol, levitated some rocks and tried to throw them at him. Andy dodged several times as I was being shot at by Twilight with magic bolts. I ducked behind a wall and Andy followed me shortly after. I took out my bowie knife and used it like a mirror to look at the two. Rarity looked like her normal self except her mane was a little disheveled. Twilight looked like how she did in the episode Lesson Zero after she was trying to help someone with a friendship problem.

"What's the plan Tran?" Heh heh heh, that rhymed", Andy said.

"Do you have any bean bag rounds?", I replied.

"I have a couple mags worth."

"Load them into your shotgun. Aim for their horns." I unslung my 870 and pumped it. *CHK-CHK* "Go over there and start shooting at three." I moved away from him and to the other end of the wall we were behind. “Three. Two. One." The two of us stood up and aimed our shotguns. Where they used to be were empty spaces of air. “What in the?" The two of us looked around until Andy was hit in the back of the head by a large rock. The two of us turned around and faced the two unicorns, still with their horns glowing. The two of us took aim and went in a standoff. A few seconds in, Twilight shot me in the chest with a spell and my chest started burning similar to how I was after flying for hours after the retake over of Appleloosa. I shot Twilight in the horn with a beanbag and Andy did the same to Rarity, except he needed three shots to hit her horn. Dazed from taking a bean bag round to the horn, the two of them teleported away. I spat out some blood and turned to Andy.

"What is going on?", I asked.

-X-X-X-

I walked around with Andy, shotguns raised, towards the park. A few minutes later, we made it to the park where Ike usually played. *BANG* Andy flinched a bit. I turned to him and said, “That was a .357 round being fired." The two of us ran towards where the shot came from. Upon running within the center of the park, we came upon the sight of Ike holding a smoking Colt Python and a bleeding Fluttershy. “What happened?"

"That bitch came at me with a knife and stabbed me in the chest and once in thigh and she also bucked me in the chest", replied Ike. I examined Fluttershy and she had a hole in her upper front right leg. A few feet away from her was a bloodied combat knife. Her mane was disheveled and she had the look. It was the look of evil, violence, and worst of all, insaneness. All of a sudden, she jumped up and flew away.

"Okay? Ike sit down and I can treat your leg." He sat down on a bench where a guitar case filled with some bits and his guitar laid.  He took off his pants and his wound showed. A small stab wound was on his lower thigh and was bleeding. “You’re lucky Ike. The stab missed the bones and arteries. Just a flesh wound. I'm going to disinfect it, sew it up, and bandage it." I took off my backpack and took out a medic's kit. I took out a bottle of rubbing alcohol and showed it to him. Ike understood what this meant and he took off the belt from his pants and bit onto it. I poured the rubbing alcohol onto the stab wound and Ike grunted in pain and then I poured some of the alcohol onto my hands. I took out some gauze and dried up the wound. Then I took out a needle that contained some morphine and injected it into his leg. After that, I started to stich up the wound. Lastly, I bandaged it up and poured some alcohol on my hands. He stood back up and put his pants back on.

"Thanks."

"Let’s find Nick." I took out my radio and spoke into it."Nick, where are you?"

I waited a bit before the radio came to life and Nick's voice sounded on it."Hey Tran. I'm at the Quills and Sofas store right now."

"Nick, stay there and keep out a weapon. There is something going on."

"I know. Earlier, Rainbow Dash tackled me and stabbed me in the back with a knife. My vest stopped the knife and I punched her once. After that, she flew away."

"Stay where you are Nick, we'll meet you there."

-X-X-X-

The three of us walked towards the Quills and Sofa store was and I went up to the door. I opened it up and was faced with the barrel to an M60 to my face. “Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. It's me, Tran."

"Sorry Tran. Just a bit jumpy about getting stabbed by Dash."

"We have to find the mane six."

"WHAT!??!? THEY JUST TRIED TO KILL US!!!!!", Nick yelled out.

"Are you sure that the mane six tried to kill us? Fluttershy looked like she was ready to kill someone and she was, Twilight looked like she went crazy again, Pinkie looked like her old Pinkamena Diane Pie self, Applejack tried lying, and Rarity's mane was disheveled."

"You're right. Rainbow Dash seemed different too. I couldn't tell but she seemed different."

"Let’s get to Twilight's library."

-X-X-X-

The four of us walked to the library, weapons raised. Nick had his M60 out, Ike had his magnums out, Andy had his 1216 out, and I had nothing out. A few minutes passed and the four of us made it to the library. I went to the door and tried it.'Locked.' I pulled out my 1911 and shot the lock four times. I walked inside and saw the mane six huddled together. Applejack had her crossbow out, Rainbow dash had a sword out, Twilight's and Rarity's horns were glowing, Pinkie had cupcakes in her hoof ready to be thrown, and Fluttershy was hiding in a fort of books.

Rainbow Dash slashed at me with her sword and I ended up blocking it with my arm and breaking the blade with my kukri. Applejack shot me in the chest and was hit in the side with a beanbag round. Twilight and Rarity shot spells at us and I deflected them with a magic shield. Pinkie Pie threw cupcakes at us and we just stared at her. My three friends aimed their guns at the six of them as they cowered down while I looked at them while resheathing my kukri.

"W-why?", asked Twilight.

"Why what?", I asked.

"Why are you killing us?"

"What are you talking about? You attacked us."

"What are you talking about? You attacked us", I said back.

"No. You guys attacked us. Ike attacked Applejack and I, Andy attacked Pinkie Pie and Rarity, and Nick attacked Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash."

"No. Rainbow Dash attacked Nick. Fluttershy attacked Ike. You, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie attacked Andy and I. Plus, if I attacked you, you would be dead by now."

"Oh. Then there just happens to be four humans running around that just happens to look like you four?"

"I could say the same thing with you six. Was there anything different with the four that attacked you?"

"You're right. Ike didn't have any guns and he didn't have his guitar on his back", said Twilight.

"Nick didn't have his guns and he tried to stab us", said Rainbow Dash.

"Andy didn't have his boom sticks and he wasn't smiling. He sounded like he wasserious", said Pinkie Pie

"Rainbow Dash looked like she didn't want to do anything even though she was trying to kill me."

"Pinkie looked like her crazed self from when she thought her friends were abandoning her, you looked like when you went crazy from that time you were trying to fix a friendship problem to send a letter to Celestia, Fluttershy looked like she was an insane cannibal from our world that was ready to kill, Applejack was trying to lie, and Rarity's mane was disheveled. "

"Wait, if you didn't attack us, then who did?", asked Rainbow Dash.

"Another question. If there were clones of you six and my three friends. Where was my clone?", I asked.

"Oh buck. I cannot imagine an evil version of Tran running around", said Rainbow Dash.

"Tran can easily fight the two of us and he even taught us how to fight. Nick is the only one that can fight him and that is only if he gets a lucky hit", said Ike.

"One more question. Where are those evil us?", asked Andy.

"Oh dear", said Rarity.

One Plan Thought Up Later

The ten of us planned to try to weed out the clones of us. My three friends had their guns ready in case of our evil forms of ourselves but they weren't in their hands. The ten of us decided to have a fake picnic. I was just taking apart my 1911 while the mane six and my friends were eating. I reassembled my pistol and placed it back into its holster on the back of my pants. ‘I wonder when they will come.'

"UUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH! This is taking too long. When will they come?", asked Rainbow dash.

"It's only been nine minutes", Ike said.

"They're taking forever. I bet they won't even come."

Exactly Five Seconds Later

"I hate it when I'm wrong", said Rainbow Dash.

Several shapes were walking up the hill to where we were picnicking. The ten of us stood up and saw copies of ourselves and what looked like a male Nightmare Moon.

"Nightmare", I said, greeting him.

"Tran", he replied.

"May I ask you what you are doing here for?"

"Simple. I'm here to kill you ten and take over Equestria."

"You do know that we have our weapons and these six have the elements."

"I know about the elements because I can naturally sense that and I guessed you four had your weapons due to your violent nature."

"Nice deduction my friend. I can probably guess that those ten clones of ourselves are probably evil clones?"

"Yes."

"That explains some things. There are things faulty with them. Those four clones of us don't have our guns and only our melee weapons."

"I still haven't figured those weapons out is why."

"I can see why. One of my pistols alone have over fifty-three parts and they have to be exact to a thousandth of an inch or they it explode. Just one thing faulty thing with your plan. How are you going to kill us if we have our weapons and the elements?"

The Nightmare shot a magical blast at us and succeeded. The ten of us were covered in a black aura for a few seconds before it faded. When his black aura faded off of us, all of our guns were gone and the elements that the mane six wore were gone.

"If you defeat your clones, I give you your weapons and elements back."

"Good move Nightmare, that is-", I started before Rainbow Dash interrupted.

"WHY ARE YOU TALKING AS IF YOU ARE FRIENDS!?!??! LETS JUST FIGHT ALREADY!!!", yelled Rainbow Dash.

"Fine. If you want to do it your way", said the both of us.

The eighteen of us rushed at each other and to our respectable clones.

Andy tried fighting his clone with his staff but his clone had a staff too and this resulted in each Andy hitting and blocking each other, causing a stalemate. Ike tried fighting his clone with his trench knife but every time each one slashed or stabbed at, they jumped back, resulting in a stalemate. Nick tried wrestling his clone but since they were evenly matched and skilled, this resulted in a stalemate. Applejack attempted to fight her clone with a lasso and bucking but her clone did the same thing, resulting in a stalemate. Pinkie Pie actually was the only one making what was even close to progress in the fighting but they were both the same and every time they tried to punch or kicked, they kicked and punched each other's hooves, resulting in a stalemate. Rarity and her clone were throwing rocks at each other and dodging, resulting in a stalemate. Twilight and her clone were magically dueling and sending spells at each other but were blocked by the same magical shield spell she used in the episode Ponyville Confidential to keep out the CMCs, resulting in a stalemate. Rainbow Dash and her clone were trying to punch each other but due to how I trained them resulted in a stalemate. Fluttershy's clone was trying to attack the real Fluttershy but the real Fluttershy was flying or running away each time, resulting in a cat and mouse game and a stalemate.

Then my clone and I managed to get to each other because, unlike the others, we walked instead of ran. The two of us stared at each other.

"Do you really want to fight each other?", I asked.

"Nope. It would be useless. Like the others, it would result in a complete tie that would result from nothing from either party member", my clone replied.

"Ah. You have my wit and brains right?"

"Eeyup. I'm a near perfect clone of you."

"Ah. You know the Nightmare didn't really do a good job in making you to help him take over Equestria."

"Eeyup."

"That's why you aren't really evil."

"Nope. I am actually just you when you are in one of your demented states."

"Ah. That explains why you didn't attack any of the mane six. You still have the code of ethics right?"

"Eeyup. The only reason why I didn't kill or attack anyone."

"Yeah. If you did, there would be some bodies. Want to help the others?"

"Eeyup."

"You have my melee weapons?"

"Eeyup. Kukri?"

"Eeyup", I said while the two of us pulled out our kukris.

I went over to Rarity and decapitated her while my clone did the same to Twilight. Then I went over to Fluttershy and decapitated her while my clone did the same to Rainbow Dash. Then I went to Pinkie Pie and decapitated her while my clone did the same thing to Applejack. Then I went over to Nick and decapitated him while my clone did the same to Ike. Lastly, I walked over to Andy and the both of us hacked at his face with our kukris. The eleven of us walked over to the Nightmare and stared at him.

"I'm an evil god being of my word", he said. His horn lit up and our weapons and elements were returned to us.

"You do know that the evil clone of me wasn't actually evil but a form of me that usually comes out in times of anger or when I find something that breaks my code of conduct. Ever since our coming to Equestria, that side of me has only came out once. The time when Ponyville was being taken over by the changelings. This evil Tran is essentially me, just more violent and demented. He still has the code of conduct I follow and he still acts the same. You see, I have mastered a skill that even you, Discord, Celestia, and Luna have had trouble mastering, control of one's self and the ability to resist temptation."

"That explains so much", said my three friends and the mane six.

"Oh shut it", the two of us said.

"This clone is basically the same as me. No different at all. Although, if he fights or kills, it might be a bit more gruesome. You've lost Nightmare."

"No I have not. I have one last trick up my sleeve."

"You are not wearing a shirt", I said.

"It's metaphorical."

"What's metaphorical?"

"The shirt I'm wearing."

"What about this nonexistent shirt you're wearing?"

"It's metaphorical."

"What metaphorical?"

"I'M WEARING A METAPHORICAL SHIRT!!!"

"What about a metaphorical shirt? Why would I need to know something like this?""

"ABOUT MY METAPHOR!"

"What about it?"

"AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!"

"What about argh?"

"I have one last trick up my sleeve and the sleeve is metaphorical."

"Okay? What is it?"

"This." The Nightmare's horn lit up and a black aura surrounded my three friends and me.

Third Person Point Of View

The Nightmare's horn lit up and he shot a spell at the four humans. At the sight of this, the six elements of harmony went into formation to blast the Nightmare. As the six elements of harmony and their respectable bearers shot a beam of friendship at the Nightmare, a black aura that belonged to the Nightmare started surrounding the four humans. The beam of friendship covered the Nightmare in a bright white light as the Nightmare's black aura completely surrounded the humans. The beam of harmony that shot the Nightmare disappeared in a flash of white and blinded everyone as the Nightmare's black aura stopped surrounding the humans. After the bright flash of white was gone and everypony's eyes were back to not being temporarily blinded, the Nightmare was gone.

"WE DID IT!!", yelled Twilight. The mane six started cheering but stopped. They saw black scorch marks on the ground that took place of where the humans used to be. "Oh no. We have to get Celestia."

A Few Hours Later

Princess Celestia and Luna flew to Ponyville in response of a letter sent from Twilight. The two princesses landed where the mane six were at.

"What happened?", asked Luna.

"The Nightmare came and tried to take over Equestria again", said Twilight.

"WHAT!??! WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!?!?"

"The Nightmare made evil clones of us and them and they fought us. Tran's clone wasn't evil but just his demented form of himself. Tran and his clone single handedly killed our clones. Then the Nightmare shot a spell at them as we blasted the Nightmare with the elements."

"Then where are the humans?", asked Celestia.

"We don't know. We tried looking for them but we didn't come up with anything."

Celestia's and Luna's horns lit up and they stood stationary as they tried to look for the humans. Their horns stopped glowing and the two alicorns faced the mane six with a look of sadness.

"What's wrong?", asked Twilight.

"They aren't in existent in Equestria", said Luna.

The Next Day

Hundreds of Royal guard members, the mane six, four princesses, a prince, and a blacksmith were gathered in Ponyville for a ceremony.

"Today we unveil a stature here today in Ponyville to memorialize four humans for their sacrifices to Equestria", said Celestia as she pointed to a large shape covered by a large veil. The veil was pulled and four large statues that towered over everyone except for the two solar and lunar diarchs, whom were similar in height. The four statues were carved into the exact size and shape as the humans that disappeared. “They have helped Equestria with the war with the changelings and became heroes in doing so, they have donated and taught new technologies to our protection, and more importantly, they became our friends. If it weren't for the fact that I summoned them from their dying home, we would have perished and they would have been surviving in an apocalyptic world. They have only been in Equestria for less than a month and they have done more than most ponies in their lifetimes."

A pegasus pony flew down and landed on the ground and started moving towards the princesses. When he reached the four princesses, he bow and then stood back up before handing them a letter.

"What's this?", asked Celestia. She grabbed the letter in her golden magical grasp and started reading it. As she read it, her face started becoming more negative.

"What is it sister?", asked Luna.

"The griffons", she replied.

"What about them?", asked Twilight.

"They're demanding the technologies that the humans gave to us and their weapons or-"

"Or what?", asked Luna.

"Or they're declaring war on Equestria."

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