Into Darkness We Ride Update: Chapter 3 Grasping For Hope · 7:45pm Aug 13th, 2014
“That’s not the only emergency,” Shining Armor said, brow furrowing.
She blinked. “Uhhh… it ain’t?”
“I wish it was that simple,” the prince said, standing again and trotting towards the center of the room. The other three followed him as he stepped into a giant circle patterned on the floor. His horn glowed, and an image of the Crystal Empire appeared in the center of the chambers.
Despite knowing it was just a hologram, Applejack felt compelled to step back and stop crushing the city.
“We just got word from our pegasus scouts that a large mass of troops is coming up from the south,” Shining Armor said, twitching his horn. A mass of black dots swarmed up from off the edges of the map, thickening the black fog that surrounded the Empire. “Judging from their number, it’s Her army reinforcing the siege.”
Shivering at the thought, Applejack looked down at the map again. Craters surrounded the walls of the Empire from the artillery barrages over the years, and there had been no snow to fill them in. Sombra’s forces sat just out of range of their far-reaching cannons.
“In a few days,” he said grimly, “there’ll be too many of them for us to hope to fight. Once they’re all mobilized, they’ll be able to attack us directly and overwhelm us through sheer numbers. Even if we killed them two-to-one, there’d just be too many of them and not enough of us...”
Rainbow frowned. “And since she’s with them, we won’t have a prayer, will we?”
The prince shook his head softly. “No…”
Silence settled over the room. A long one.
