Through the Night Sky

Written by JamestheLeet AKA Vine

        Somewhere in the sky above Equestria, Four Coriolis fighter ships streaked through a meteor shower, Each one flown by an experienced fighter pilot,  a unicorn, two pegasi, and an earth pony.  The four ponies rolled the ships over, dropping lower into the meteor shower.  Suddenly, The unicorn’s communication system crackled to life.

        “Greyhex, you see those lights down there?”

        “Yes, Midnight, I see them, does this mean this planet might be civilized?”

        “Yes, it does, tell Chara and Lenx to follow me down to the surface, I want to check this place out.

        “Alright, sir”

        Just then, an explosive round slammed into Midnight’s Coriolis.  The fighter exploded into thousands of pieces of sharp metal.  Several pieces were deflected off the armor on Greyhex’ Coriolis, but some made it to the engine, damaging it beyond repair.

        Greyhex screamed into his communication system, “CHARA, LENX, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE, THIS PLANET IS FULL OF HOSTILES! MY ENGINE HAS BEEN DAMAGED, I’M GOING DOWN!”

        Chara and Lenx both responded by flying back out of the meteor shower.  Greyhex tried to save the falling craft with the directional jets to no avail.  Giving that up, he pointed the nose into a downward trajectory, trying to glide.  If he was able to land, he might just have a chance of getting back to the Mothership.

Back on the ground, Rainbow Dash looked absolutely amazed at the explosion she had seen in the night sky.  It had been full of color and had sent streaks of orange away from the center of it.

“OhmygoshOhmygoshOhmygosh, did you just see that, Applejack, that was awesome!” the overexcited light blue pony let out.

“Yep,” Applejack replied.

“Hey Twilight, what was that?” Pinkie Pie said.

“I don’t know, but I saw some debris moving toward the Everfree forest.” Twilight said back.

“Ooh, maybe we’ll get to see a meteor that landed!” Pinkie Pie replied.

“I doubt that, it looks like it was headed deep into the forest.” Twilight said.

“Aww,” Pinkie Pie said.

At about 10,000 feet, Greyhex angled his ship further downward, into a spiral towards a dark green field he saw below.  He continued downward, to just over the field, and then turned straight.  He then attempted to put out his landing gear.  They refused to come out.

        “Shit,” Greyhex said, “I’m gonna have to land on the stomach of my craft.”

He then angled downwards towards the field. Just before he hit the ground, he flared, to slow down his craft even further.  Just as he was expecting to feel a jolt, his craft passed through the “ground.”

“The fuck?” Greyhex said just before the trunks of nearby trees started ripping the wings off his craft.

Greyhex tried to roll the craft, but to no avail, as he continued crashing through the trees.  The craft suddenly plowed into the ground, knocking Greyhex unconscious as the craft skidded to a halt.

        When Greyhex woke up, hours later, light was already filtering through the leaves.  He unstrapped himself from the cockpit and decided to look at the state of his craft.  When he attempted to get out, his front left leg was extremely painful to move, and he had to levitate himself out.

When he was on his legs, he reached down into the cockpit and grabbed his saddlebag and put it on his back.  This caused him to cry out in pain.  He then decided to start taking out the non-vital supplies he was taking, to lighten his load.

Communication system

Check.

Granola bars

Check.

Medical kit

Check.

Water

Check.

Ammunition

Check.

Hey, where’s my gun?

Greyhex climbed back into the cockpit, searching for his assault rifle.

Where did I put that damn thing?

Greyhex climbed further into the cockpit.

Oh yeah, I put it in the storage compartment.

Greyhex opened the storage compartment, and several pictures and a flashlight tumbled out.  He picked up the flashlight with his magic and turned it on.  He then crammed his head into the compartment, and searched for his gun.

Aha, there it is.

Greyhex pulled out a dark grey metal vest, with a gun that had orange streaks that matched the streak in his mane.

“Awwwww yeah, now I have some defense,” Greyhex said.

Greyhex put the flashlight in his bag and was about to leave when he remembered the pictures that fell out of his storage compartment.  He went back inside his cockpit and

retrieved the four pictures.  He looked at the first one and saw himself, Midnight, Chara and Lenx on it.

If only I could have seen that missle coming, We wouldn’t be in this damn situation.

With that, Greyhex put on his armored suit and gun combination and walked away from his battered craft.

        I’ll miss that Coriolis, she was a good ship.  It sucks I didn’t name her, though.

        Wait, my communications device has a built in GPS system, I’ll mark the location in it and see if I can come back later to fix her up.

        Greyhex walked south, towards the light he had seen before his ship crashed into the ground.

        That missile didn’t come from this continent, from the direction it came in.  Maybe the people here are friendly.

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The next morning, Twilight walked in the door to Sugarcube Corner and up to Pinkie Pie.

        “Hey, Pinkie, remember that comet we were watching?” Twilight asked.

        “Yeah, why?”  Pinkie responded.

        “I was talking to Zecora when she said that a grey pony had walked up to her house in the middle of the night, limping.  He said that his ‘coriolis’ had crashed, and he was wondering if people here had any way of repairing it.  She said she didn’t and she told him to go to Ponyville.  He then walked out of the house and thanked her.”  Twilight answered.

        “I didn’t see him this morning, and I didn’t see him on the trail either.”  Twilight said.

        “Oooh, so that meteor we saw was one of those ‘coriolis spaceship things’?”  Pinkie questioned.

        “I’m assuming that’s what he meant by landing, I guess.”  Twilight answered.

        “Well, lets get all the others and see if we can find him!”  Pinkie responded.

        “Ok, Pin-”  Twilight said before the pink pony rushed up the stairs.

        “Go get your stuff ready!” Pinkie shouted down.

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        Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy all stood at the entrance to the Everfree forest.

        “Alright, which one of us wants to go in first?” Applejack asked.

        “Um, I’ll go in first, that is if you don’t mind,” Fluttershy replied

        Greyhex was roused from his sleep when he heard voices coming from the path below the branch he was sleeping on.  He slowly began to roll off of the branch, preparing to get the jump on what was down there.  He jumped off of the branch, looking for the source of the voices.

There.  Pink pony.

        Greyhex rotated to face the pink pony in midair, and landed with a thud on the hard earth.

        “Who the are you?”  Greyhex asked.

        “I’m Pinkie Pie,” The pink pony answered.

“Hey, what’s this metal thing on the side of your vest?” Pinkie Pie asked, rushing over to Greyhex and prodding the weapon with her nose.

        Pinkie continued prodding the weapon with her nose.  When she pressed an orange wire into Greyhex’ side, an explosion simultaneously occurred at both a nearby tree and the muzzle of the gun.  The recoil forced Greyhex to the ground, and right onto his injured leg.

“I shouldn’t have been using this damn 1 caliber ammo,” Greyhex said, trying to get up, and failing miserably.

“Fuck, you’re going to have to help me up.  Grab onto the metal handle on top of my suit,” Greyhex said.

Pinkie hopped over to the injured pony and grabbed onto the handle, and tried to lift him.

“I can’t lift you, you’re too heavy,” Pinkie said through the metal handle.

“I’ve got an idea, but you’ll need to step back a bit, I’m gonna be using a modified version of my healing spell to fix whatever the fuck it is.  It shouldn’t take much magic,” Greyhex said.

With that, Pinkie stepped back a bit, and Greyhex began working the spell.  First, magic began to glow around his horn and onto his front left leg.  Then he began to work with it, sliding the bone back into place, and fusing it into the other bone.

“Alright, that should do it,” Greyhex said as a purple pony emerged from the woods.

“What was that you just did?” Twilight asked.

“Healing spell.  It’s easy,” Greyhex replied, “And I have yet to know who both of you are.”

“I’m Twilight Sparkle, and this is my friend, Pinkie Pie,” Twilight answered, “And who are you, And can you teach me that spell?”

“I’m Greyhex, and yeah, All you really have to do is force whatever you’re trying to heal together with a levitation spell, and then dump a lot of magic onto it so it fuses them together, then a transfiguration spell.  Let me show you,” and with that, Greyhex grabbed a sharp stone with his magic, and ran it along his right front leg.

He then proceeded to do exactly what he said, healing the small cut.

“Now you try it, Twilight,” Greyhex said.

He grabbed another stone, and ran it along Twilight’s front left leg, creating a small gash. Twilight attempted the spell, and ran out of magic very quickly.

“I can’t do it, Greyhex, can you help me,” Twilight said.

“Uh, sure,” Greyhex said, reaching his magic out.

Greyhex was halfway done, when twilight decided to see deeper inside of this mysterious pony, reaching out her magic for his.

“Stop it, touching my magic with yours can and will cause you harm,” Greyhex said

Twilight continued, just barely touching his magic, and was flooded with a massive amout of emotions.  Sadness, despair, anger, and a touch of happiness.  And then she felt just how much magic he had.  She had only felt somewhere near that amount of magic when she touched Celestia’s magic.  This Grey pony had at least twice that amount.  And then she felt large amounts of pain coming from where she had touched Greyhex’ magic.  That was then she passed out.

“Oh shit, oh shit, ohshit, I told her not to touch it.  Fuck, this is bad, Pinkie, get some help,“ Greyhex said.

“What ha-,” Pinkie said

“Get some help right now, damnit, this is serious,” Greyhex yelled.

With that, Pinkie ran off as fast as she could to gather all the other ponies.  Greyhex reached out to Twilight with his magic, shielding most of his emotions from her.  Greyhex found her, deep inside her conscious, shivering.

Twilight, you passed out.

Why did I pass out?

I told you not to touch my magic, it’s dangerous to do that.

But why is it not hurting me any more?

Because, I’ve shielded most of my emotions from you.  Look, you have to fight the urge to give up and die.

I can’t.

Try harder.

I CAN’T.

TRY HARDER DAMNIT.

And with that, Twilight awoke with a start, to find Greyhex staring at her with a worried expression.

“Congratulations, that would be the third time I’ve had to get someone out of that,” Greyhex said.

After he said that, five ponies burst from the forest.

“Don’t touch her,” the light blue pony said.

“Twi, did he hurt you?” The orange pony said.

“No, I hurt myself, and he saved me, “ Twilight said.

Twilight then explained the previous events to the 4 ponies that hadn’t witnessed them.

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        “Alright, so where are you from?” Rainbow Dash asked as they were walking back to Ponyville.

        “I’m not really from a place, I mean I lived my first year on this planet, but from there on out I’ve been jumping dimensions with the mothership, and this is 2,000 years since I was born, according to the computer I have,” Greyhex said.

“I’ve been on the ship since I was one, and only 13 years have passed, I’m only 14 years old,” Greyhex said.

“14?  Isn’t that a bit young to be in a military force?” Fluttershy asked.

“Yeah, but that’s like the minimum age for entering ReconDef,” Greyhex answered, “And I matured a lot faster than most ponies, besides, there’s nothing left for me, my parents stayed behind to defend the ship from the oncoming horde of mechs.  We lost my two sisters to a catastrophic failure in a dropship’s engine, they were somewhere on this planet, a couple of years after we had left the planet, but I was 10 years old, because we decided to return to this planet a few years after we left to see what had happened.”

“Wait, you had sisters?” Rarity asked.

“Yeah, Rarity, I had sisters, one younger than me, and one older than me.  Luna and Celestia, Luna being a pegasus, and Celestia being an earth pony,” Greyhex said.

“How does that work, you being a unicorn and all? Also, Celestia and Luna are the leaders of our country,” Applejack questioned.

“I don’t really know how it works, People were saying that my parents were alicorns or some shit.  As for them being named Celestia and Luna, coincedence?” Greyhex answered.

“And we’re here,” Twilight said.