Chapter 4
"What in the hell?" Rouge quietly asked himself as he glanced at the strange sight from behind the boulder.
The scene before him was a bizarre one, Roache's crumpled form was sitting in a pile near the edge of a cliff. Two creatures that reminded Rouge of ponies but wh much smaller than what he believed to be the normal size of one, and they were colored in unnaturally bright colors. There was a large bright red pony that stood above roach starring down at his partner, the other pony stood several feet away from the red pony. Rouge could instantly tell the smaller pony was a female due to her stance, she was a light orange color with a bright blond pony, she also had a picture of three apples sitting in a triangular shape.
"Now we need ta get the other one" The orange pony said with a thick southern accent.
"Eyup" The red pony replied simply
The red pony reached towards Roaches body and gripped his arm with its hoof (how rouge was oblivious), and began to drag his body towards a small hill that ended with a short drop off, as rouge had observed as they entered the investigation sight. The pony drug Roach several yards until he stood above the drop, he then lowered himself towards the ground and began to pull Roach off the edge until the orange pony interrupted him.
"Carful Mac we still got ta question them when we get back" The pony explained "Don't want to knock um up to bad"
'At least they don't want to kill us' Rouge thought to himself as he observed this.
Rouge heard a small *thunk* as if a rock had been dislodged from its position several meters to Rouges left, he quickly glance towards the noise only to see nothing and he shrugged it off as nothing. When he looked back towards the orange pony, and he saw that her stance had change..... almost as if she was preparing to jump.
"Besides we don't want to make the other one feel threatened" She said with a strange tone
'I don't like the sound of that' he though as heard another noise off to his left.
He sprang backwards as the cyan blur *whizzed* straight by his position seconds ago, he landed on a boulder and drew his pistol, an antique Colt 1911 pistol, he looked towards the orange pony and saw she was slowly walking towards his position. He glance over towards where he guess the cyan creature landed and saw that it was only a pony but a Pegasus with a rainbow colored mane, she was partially buried in rocks, and the red pony had disappeared from sight.
"Now yall just calm down now" The orange pony said trying to sound as soothing as possible
"What did you do to Roach!?!" Rouge nearly yells at the pony
"It's ok just calm down" she said still trying to be soothing
Rouge raised the pistol and fired a round inches from the pony's fore hooves "Take one more fucking step and its your head that's taking the next bullet"
"Buck, Fluttershy was always better with animals" The orange pony cursed to herself
"Now what are you doing with Roach?" Rouge questioned, trying not to sound offended about being called an animal.
"Look yall your friend is gonna be fine, no need to get all violent now" the orange pony soothed.
"Look you.... horse... thing, what did you do to him?!?" Rouge said while raising the pistol again
A small groan escaped the cyan Pegasus that lay crumpled on the ground, the pony slowly rose its head and then slowly stood. It turned to face Rouge who still stood atop the boulder but was now looking intently at her. He stood at least a pony length taller than her, and had strange armor that covered its entire body except its head, on the arm that was pointed towards her had the word SPARTAN painted onto a metal plate on its shoulder.
Rainbow Dashes POV
'What the buck are these things?' I think to myself 'Celestia, why do you do this to us?'
"Applejack you get it to calm down?" I tell my friend
"Shhh, rainbow we were talking about that right now" Applejack responded with a whisper
"ugh boring stuff then" I said with a small groan.
Rouge's POV
'Great the other one is awake now' I think to myself
"Both of you shut the hell up right now!" I yell at the ponies causing them to quiet down almost instantly " I want to know what you did to my friend, now!"
"Like ah said your friend is fine" the orange pony told me fort he second time
"I swear to god if you don't tell me what you did to him, ill put a bullet between your eye's" I yell at the creature "and you better not try that" I say not even looking over at the cyan pony
She looks at me with a state of disbelief written on her face, as she had closed a quarter of the original distance between us.
"How'd the buck..." The pony starts but is cut of when I whirl around to face her,I now can get a better view oft he cyan pony, it has wings, but one of them is bandaged heavily. She has a tattoo on her flank of what looks like a rainbow colored lightning bolt striking out of a cloud, the color of the lightning bolt also matches her hair with the same pattern.
"Well alright well explain it to you, but you have to come with us" The orange one said with a sigh.
"Why do I have to go with you?" I ask "and I told you to stop that" I say as I saw the cyan pony had edged closer over the past few moments
" cause we aren't able to explain it to you but our friend can." the orange one explained
I looked at her skeptically, worried that I would be ambushed.
"Look ah promise, it'll be fine" the orange one promised.
I still felt nervous about it being a trap, but I decided finding Roach was more important than worrying about it.
"Fine ill go with you but if you even breath a way I don't like ill put a bullet through you.
"We understand" the orange one said "Don't we Rainbow?"
"Yea, yea, yea..." The cyan pony responded
The orange pony glared at the one called "rainbow". , until she shied away.
"I understand" rainbow said trying to stop the glare she was receiving by her partner, this seemed to satisfy her and turned back towards me
"Now where were we?" she asked
"You were just about to lead me to my friend" I say with a ting of impatience
"Oh yea that's right" she said " ok follow me"
I stepped down from the boulder I was perched on and began to follow the pony, the cyan one ran to catch up with its partner. I stayed ten feet back from the two ponies making sure that they didn't have any tricks up they're... legs. We approached the cliff where the red pony had gone earlier. The ponies stopped and looked over the edge at something.
"Ok ya'll we're here" the orange pony told me
I just looked at the pony with a confused stare, not seeing anything around the area.
'No not there , down there" the cyan pony said with a "Duh" tone.
I looked over the edge of the cliff to see an orange oval.
"A portal?" I guessed
"yes sir 'e, just go right through and we'll meet someone who can explain it all to you."
" I don't like the, you first"
"Suit yourself" the orange pony said and jumped off the cliff straight into the portal, closely followed by the cyan pony.
"Well then" I said to myself, I look at the portal, nervous of what might be on the other side, but I pushed these worries away
'Don't be a pussy' I think to myself ' they don't let cowards be Spartans'
"Well here goes nothing" I say, and step off the edge of the cliff, into the portal, and straight into another creature, with a very familiar voice.