Froggy Bottom Bog
After running for almost half an hour straight, Dempsey started to feel too tired to keep running. His legs were burning, he was panting and he was all wet because of the huge amounts of sweat.
He turned his head back and, after seeing nopony was chasing him, stopped and sat on a rock. He cleaned the sweat from his forehead with his hand and smiled as he was looking at the fruity pie. He was about to give it the first bite when he felt he was being watched. He looked around carefully, but saw no one or no pony. He shrugged and looked at his food again. He opened his mouth and got the meal closer to him; when he was about to bite it, suddenly a wild manticore appeared among the woods in front of him.
“The hell is that thing?” he said. The creature used his nose to smell for a moment and then it turned to the human. When it growled, Dempsey tried to stand up, but stumbled with the rock and fell. While he has still holding the meal with his right hand, he rubbed his head with his left hand.
He then pulled out his M1911 handgun and aimed at the beast. After he said “eat this, you freak”, he pulled the trigger. All he heard was the familiar click sound which means only one thing: he was out of ammunition.
“Damn it, my gun’s outta juice!” he said angrily, threw the weapon and searched on his pockets; he was doing all this while he was crawling away from the manticore.
“I must have at least a grenade” he thought. After he realized he wasn’t carrying any explosives, he said “all right, this is definitely not my day” and pulled out his combat knife.
“Bring it on, you hellish creature!” he yelled at it “dare to get closer and I’m gonna rip your guts out!” He pointed his knife at the creature while he stood up slowly. The manticore approached to it menacingly; he showed his teeth and prepared his scorpion tail to strike at any moment.
When both were a few yards away from each other, suddenly a black cloud was formed above the manticore. Before it could even notice it, it struck a lightning bolt on its back. The creature howled in pain and fled while Dempsey was just looking at the scene with his mouth opened.
“What the hell?” he wondered. He then heard a female voice and he turned his head to its source.
“You got lucky Trixie found you, creature” the azure unicorn said with arrogance and with her head lifted up. As she approached to him, she kept talking. “If it wasn’t for the Great and Powerful Trixie, you would’ve been his chew toy right now”
“Cut the bullshit” he replied while he put his knife back in his pocket “what do you want?”
“Nikolai”
“What?” he said with a tone of surprise.
“Don’t play fool with Trixie. She knows he’s with you” she got closer and stood in front of him “now, tell Trixie where he is”
“I ain’t gonna say anything to a jerkish unicorn” he replied as he looked at her eyes “you don’t wanna see what happens when you annoy a marine. You better change your tone or else...”
“Or else what?” she interrupted as her horn glowed and lifted her pointed magician hat.
“Or else you’ll be looking for that fat bastard blindly”
The azure unicorn stared at him while he grinned mockingly. She sighed and her horn stopped glowing. “Fine” she said with a calmed tone “now can you tell me where Nikolai is?”
“Heh, much better; it wasn’t that hard, isn’t it?” Trixie tried to keep herself calm “honestly, I don’t know where he is. But if something may help you, then it’s the fact he’s not in the apple farm”
“How helpful” she said sarcastically and thought for a moment “what about the other two creatures?”
“The insane nazi and the jap?”
“I guess so”
Dempsey was about to answer when both heard a voice coming from a short distance. “There he is!” they listened; it was a male voice. It came from an earth pony with cream caramel coat and cream brown mane named Caramel Apple.
“Uh oh” Dempsey mumbled and then turned to Trixie “I tell you something: you help me and I help you”
“Trixie already saved your life” she said and she raised an eyebrow.
“You want to find the fat Russian?”
“Mmph, fine. What do you want?”
The human pointed at the direction where the voice was heard “don’t let those ponbitches take me. I’m not in the mood to have a nice talk” he said sarcastically.
The azure unicorn thought for a moment, but before she could make a decision, she felt the ground shaking. In just a few moments, various ponies were surrounding Dempsey and Trixie.
“Well, fuck” he thought.
“Ah told ya Dempsey” Applejack said “ya’re gonna pay for makin’ the fillies talk like ya do”
“Yeah!” Rainbow Dash said “and don’t forget you owe me one more for hurting my wings”
“Did I tell you to crash like an idiot?” Dempsey replied “no? Then shut the fuck up”
“Enough!” Granny smith interrupted “burn him down!”
“Erm, Granny” Big Macintosh, another colt present, whispered on her ears “but it’s illegal to do that”
“Since when?” she said loudly.
“Since the Princesses begun to rule”
As the Apple Family was complaining, Trixie looked at them without understanding what was happening. She coughed and raised her hoof.
“Excuse Trixie if she interrupts you in such important matters, but what did this creature do?” she pointed at Dempsey
“Who are ya?” Applejack asked her
“The Great and Powerful Trixie” she said as she lifted her head up.
“I think I remember her” Rainbow Dash said “oh, that’s right, she was drinking with another one of the strangers”
The azure unicorn blushed and said upset “It’s surprising you remember that. You seemed too busy having fun with him...” she pointed again at Dempsey “...and her” she pointed at Applejack.
“How the...?” the orange pony was surprised; the azure unicorn teleported between Applejack and Rainbow Dash.
“It’s time for a deal” she said with a low tone, ensuring that only both mares could hear her “let Trixie take the creature and she will not tell everypony what happened between you two and him”
“What?” the rainbow mane Pegasus said while she blushed “but we did nothing”
“Dashie” Applejack said “we better consider this. Ah don’t want anypony t’find out that”
“Me neither” Dash replied.
“So, we have a deal?” the unicorn said with a mischievous smile
“Ah have no choice anyway” the orange pony then turned to her family and yelled “All right everypony! Time to go home!”
“What?” Caramel Apple yelled “but he...!”
“Ah know perfectly that” she interrupted and put a hoof on Trixie’s shoulder “but this pony will ensure he won’t get away without getting punished”
“Will she burn the nasty creature?” Granny Smith asked.
Applejack was about to answer when Trixie interrupted her “Trixie promises to burn him to crisp and then use his rests as fertilizer”
“I like the idea. Come on everypony, no need to be an angry mob anymore” the old mare walked away and the others followed her except for Rainbow Dash and Applejack.
“What do you want now?” the azure unicorn asked with arrogance.
“Why did you help him?” Dash said upset “is it because you’re a friend of them?”
“Of course not, don’t be a fool. Trixie has her own plans”
“Ah don’t fully trust you, but ah guess it’s easier t’leave you with him rather than with us” Applejack then turned around “come on, Dashie. We still have t’teach the fillies t’not to say those words”
The two mares walked away as Trixie looked at them going. She then grinned and turned to Dempsey.
“Trixie did her part, now you do yours” her horn glowed “now, where are the others?”