July 9th, 2015
Dear Journal,
Everything's been so tense these past couple days that it just feels nice to just live life normally.
We didn't have to do shopping thanks to the HPIs little "care package." (Thanks for that.)
The food wasn't poisoned or anything, it's clear they don't want us dead for now. They probably want us alive for whatever "plans" they have for us.
Either way, I still wanted to make a greenhouse and actually farm on the farm. So me and John took a quick trip to Home Depot as per usual.
There we got stuff for the green house, and things like hoes, nothing too extra. We also stopped at another store on the way back to get a couple things like plant seeds, mostly things like greens, and some fruit.
I honestly would've preferred one of those horse drawn reapers (what do you call those?) since we're ponies now but the hoes got the job done. Find the perfect soil, reap the ground, plant the seeds, yadda, yadda, boom. You're done.
I'm no gardening expert (that's Oliver's job) but it's nothing too complicated. It wasn't even that hard, especially with Blake helping us out. It's nice to have another stallion around.
Next up was the green house which also wasn't too hard. All it reall6 is putting down a couple planks, nailing them together, blah blah you get the point.
Now we have more storage. We still never made that shed though, guess we'll have to do that later…
Other than our chores we helped Alex and his group fix up his base. Looks like the HPI actually got to his a bit. We don't know if it was accidental or on purpose though.
That was also actually the first time we've got together too! I wish I brought my camera, we could've all taken a picture together… Maybe next time.
I swear to god Sky and Minnie are the same person, they got along STUPIDLY well, they even have the same eccentricities. They're birds of a feather I tell you.
Alex's cool as always. Joseph's the same stupid smug unicorn as he always is and Oliver is… Oliver.
I thought Moriah was a bit stern at first but she's not a bad person. She's a nice and strong willed mare, just the kinda person we need. (No, Alyssa doesn't count.)
Speaking of, she's doing fine. It looks like Oliver patched her up a bit like he did with Blake. Madeline's good too.
Alex wasn't lying about her being a bit more than "injured" though. Ouch… That's definitely gonna suck, especially for a unicorn.
She can walk as well as Madeline as in she can't. Or barely at least. Are we gonna have to teach every new survivor we find how to walk…? At least Blake knows how.
After we finished fixing up Alex's place with our combined strength of 11 ponies we all got together for a little "meeting".
"Personally, I think we should contact them."
"Are you stupid? They tried to kill us for pete's sake."
"I'm with Alex on this one, we need all the help we can get."
"The kids right, we should contact them even if it's a risk."
"I say we roughen em up a bit for what they did to our base."
"Yeah!"
"How are we supposed to 'roughen up' a private military force…?"
"Joe makes a good point, have you seen what they've tried to do?"
"I think we should just all calm down…"
"Umm…."
"Guys….?"
Nonstop arguing. Usually Blake would've stayed quiet during something like this but…
"EVERYONE!"
The room fell silent for a bit.
"We should all just settle down for a moment."
"That's what I was trying to say…"
"Why don't we just take a vote instead of arguing?"
"Alright, hooves up for those who want to contact them, and those who don't."
So, 1 2 3 4…. And 1 2 3 4… A tie.
"We need someone to break the tie, Sky?"
"If Alex wants to contact them then… I want to, too."
"Sky…"
"Okay, it's settled then. We'll both contact them tomorrow."
End Transcript.
As you can see that went as "well" as it should have. They just kept arguing… Thank god Blake stepped in when he did.
He might be quiet but he's really good at organizing things and public speaking, maybe he'll be a lawyer in the future…
How the heck is a group of 11 ponies supposed to fight the military? I can't believe Alyssa agreed to that. Damned Metalhead.
Things thankfully calmed down after that "debate" nobody seemed upset about the vote except for Joseph who just looked at Alex weirdly. "Are you sure about this?" Is what he said according to Alex.
He honestly was kinda right about him being insufferable, I can't believe I used to defend him.
Jokes aside, he's not THAT bad. Back during the debate it seemed like he genuinely cared about us. He probably just wanted the best for us.
Still though, the information the HPI probably has is too valuable to give up. If they know what happened to everyone, maybe they can help us fix this.
Alex suggested using the fuel both of our groups still have and Moriah's piloting skills to check on our families. It's a good idea, everyone else seemed to pretty much agree too.
Mom, I hope you're out there, wherever you are. I know you wouldn't disappear that easily, especially with how strong you are. I miss you.
You too Uncle…
Before we left I tried teaching Sky how to fly. "Watch how a master does it!" I said. Then I fell flat on the ground…
Sky just laughed at me, and I thought Alyssa was bad… At least she helped me up after that, besides she didn't mean it. She was just playing around, that's all.
I didn't take another group photo but let me do something real quick… There… I wrote "we're here" on the journal. Because we're always here, together.
Nothing much else happened today, so yeah…
Emile… It's still a good name. Bliss Flower is good too. I can't decide… Hm…
Tomorrow, we'll contact the HPI. This will go well for us, I know it.
- (Not) Bliss Flower