//------------------------------// // Primal Force // Story: Words From an Unknown Soldier // by carefreedude //------------------------------// The moments dragged on for a while as I regained my senses. I opened my eyes and saw everypony cheering. I had no idea what just happened. From the way everypony was cheering, I almost thought we already won. My friend Spellflash put his foreleg across my shoulders, trying to get me riled up too. He just looked upon me with a smile I knew all to well. It was the same smile that he always maintained since the day we met. That reassuring smile always helped drive away my fears, and this was no exception. I relaxed and lowered my spear finally. I personally thought the battle was over right there. That is until Spellflash looked away from me for a second and lost his grin. Without warning, he tackled me to the ground and made me drop my spear. Before I could shout at for doing that, I saw that beast again. It was much smaller this time, but that didn't lessen my fear of it. It had swooped down to where I was not a moment ago. If Spellflash hadn't of tackled me, I would of been dead right then. My friend got off of me and offered me a hoof up. I got up and retrieved my spear. I looked back at the army in front of us. They were exactly the same as before, but with one huge difference. There were hundreds of the crystallized monsters flying throughout the air, some holding the corpse of my fellow soldiers. I didn't even have time to so much as shiver before I heard our general order us to attack. The drakes flew through the air with ease. Their crystallized bodies did not hinder their ability to fly at all. They swarmed the battlefield in a matter of moments, and headed straight for Celestia's army. several of them dive bombed the foot soldiers towards the front, scooping up the ones that failed to react in time. The drakes took a few bites out of their catch before throwing the rest away. Applejack had seen enough. She turned to her troops and shouted "CHARGE!!" at the top of her lungs. The soldiers responded without question and all ran towards the changelings. With spears in position, they easily overtook the first line of changelings and proceeded to the second. With this, the changelings decided to fight back. All of them turned into various copies of the ponies in front of them. With this tactic, the changelings could get the upper hand on the ponies by confusing them. Unfortunately for them, the ponies received assistance from a zebra with knowledge about how to counter this. Each spear tip was laced with a potion that returned anything sliced with it back to its original state. With each successful slice, the changeling would change back to their original forms. This unfortunately did not help them with the Draco Crystallus flying about. The ends of the ponies spears easily broke when trying to pierce the drake’s bodies. Up in the clouds, Spitfire decided that she has had enough. “Alright troops!” she exclaimed. “We need to keep those giant paperweights busy while our main force fights! Now everypony get into positon!” All the pegasi obeyed without question, gathering into their own V formation that resembled Spitfire’s, around the edge of the cloud. “Alright everypony! DIVE!!” she shouted. With these words, all the pegasi instantly leapt from the cloud and charged straight towards the battlefield and the flying swarm of drake. While the drake where fast, the pegasi were faster, easily out maneuvering crystallized monstrosities. But just like the foot soldiers below them, their spears did nothing to these beasts. All they could do was try and keep the drakes busy while the soldiers fought on the ground. Back on the ground, the soldiers were trying their best against the legions of changelings before them. Even with the help of the potion on their spears, it became difficult at times to differentiate a friend from foe. General Applejack ordered her troops to change formations when necessary, in order to keep them from getting to confused while fighting the enemy. Back at the cannon, Pinkie Pie was busy trying to reload it with the help of several unicorns. But because of the sheer size of the cannon balls, it was taking them quite a bit of time to get it into the cannon. On top of that, the chaos of battle going on in front of them made it difficult to concentrate on levitating the cannon ball. Meanwhile, the princesses watched in horror of the battle taking place, as they pondered what their next move should be. “Princess…” Twilight said. “What do we do now? That Draco Crystallus they brought with them is hindering our troops way too much.” “We need to have faith in our soldiers Twilight.” Celestia responded. “If there is a will, there is a way. We will figure out how to destroy those creatures.” “Aren’t your friends Zecora and Fluttershy going to be here shortly to help out?” Luna asked Twilight. “They should. But at this point, I don’t see how a bunch of woodland creature will help us fight those drakes.” Twilight said with much concern on her brow. “Now my princess, is not the time for fear” said a mysterious voice behind them. “For the help of the yellow one, will soon be here.” The three princesses turned at once to see a zebra with various gold jewelry standing behind them. “It’s good to see you again Zecora.” Twilight said to the zebra. “I trust everything went well for you and Fluttershy in the Everfree Forest.” “Yes child, everything went good. We received help, like we said we would.” Zecora responded. Luna looked at Zecora with concern. “It’s good that you two did your job. But as Princess Sparkle said earlier, will a bunch of woodland creatures be enough to help us?” Zecora gave Luna a small smirk. “They will help, I’m willing to wager. For we got aid, from forces quite major.” Suddenly, a huge roar could be heard off the west side of the mountain, followed by a giant purple paw reaching onto the side of the battlefield. The paw was filled with bright stars and had extremely long claws. The paw began to pull the rest of the body up the side of the mountain, revealing it to be a green eyed bear that was equal in size to the original Draco Crystallus. Its canine teeth were so large, they stuck out below the lower jaw. Upon the bears forehead, resided a blue, eight-pointed star. On the end of the bear’s snout, a yellow pegasi with a butterfly necklace and a small bag was sitting and waiting for the bear to finish making its way to the top of the mountain. Pony and changeling alike, stopped fighting for a moment to watch this monster enter the battlefield. Rainbow Dash, Sorin, and Spitfire flew up to the yellow pegasi. “Fluttershy?” Rainbow Dash asked the yellow pegasi. “Is this an Ursa Minor?” Fluttershy responded with “oh no, I didn’t want to see the little baby Ursa get hurt. So I brought it’s mother, the Ursa Major.” “How did you manage to get this beast to help?” Sorin asked in disbelief. “Oh I just showed her a little love and understanding, and she came around to helping us.” Fluttershy responded cheerfully. “Well soldier, its good to see this thing here.” Spitfire said. “Now, do you think you can help out the rest of our troops fight off these flying dragon things?” “Why of course.” Fluttershy said with a slight smirk on her face. “It would be an honor to fight alongside all of you against these horrible meanies.” With these words, she flew to the bears ear and whispered something the other could not hear. She then sat back down on the bear’s nose as the bear quickly started to swat at the mass of crystal drakes flying about the air. At that moment, Rainbow Dash, Sorin, and Spitfire flew back into their formation, leaving Fluttershy to control the bear. On the end of the battle field, on top of his plateau, Sombra and Chrysalis witnessed the giant bear arrive. Neither of them so much as flinched at its appearance. Sombra simply smiled and said to Chrysalis “Right on time.” “It appears that everything is going just as you predicted Sombra.” Chrysalis responded. Sombra’s horn suddenly started to glow as he started to cast a spell. “Time to begin the next part of my plan.” he said.