You know...I just realized why that random thunderstorm was scheduled.
And why the thing had to be so damn BIG!
It was the only way to cover the approach of a AC-125 Ultra-Transport/Gunship.
Hauling an unconscious Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash on my back, I look up and through the rain and storm-clouds and see the massive aircraft coming in for a landing at the outskirts of Ponyville. I hear a short gasp and look behind me. Twilight is staring slack jawed at the metal titan slowly making it's way earthward.
"How...How can something so big FLY!"
"That's the magic of technology."
I feel one of the unconscious mares on my back shift...
And feel the impact of hooves against the back of my helmet. The now fully awake and royally pissed off Rainbow Dash jumps off my back and starts pummeling me with her hooves. I don't budge and I don't feel a damn thing.
Too bad I used my last tranq dart on her...
"Rainbow Dash." I say.
"BUCK YOU!" she screams. The other girls (Save the tranqed Fluttershy and the Hypnotized Applejack) try to get her to calm down enough to listen.
They fail miserably.
So instead of standing in the pouring rain any longer than I needed to and enduring Rainbow's less than effective and somewhat amusing assault, I decide to do a little...alternative reasoning.
I grab Rainbows arm and pull her to me. Spinning her around and wrapping my foreleg around her throat, I calmly say "Rainbow Dash, as per the Lunar Contingency panic code, I am authorized to secure the elements of harmony in any way I deem fit. My orders are to secure the Elements, not the bearers." A partial lie, I needed the girls alive but nopony besides Twilight knew that. "So listen up, either you calm down and listen or I break you're neck secure the necklace and move on to the extraction point. That goes for all of you, Give me enough problems and I can...dispatch you and take you're element." I feel Rainbows pulse quicken, but her struggles cease. Rarity gasps, and I can hear her mutter several curses directed towards myself and my mother.
That's very unladylike Rarity.
I release Rainbow, and falls to her knee's gasping for air. "Y-you bastard..." She gasps.
I know I am, but what are you?
Pinky's hair deflates (wait, what!?) and she scoots closer to Rarity.
"H-he's not serious a-about...about killing us, i-is he?" Rarity shoots me a venomous glare (Which I promptly ignore.)
"No Pinkie dear, I don't believe that he would have the stallionhood to do it!"
...Bitch
Twilight's face is still a mask of emotionless determination.
But her tear stained cheeks reveal everything. I lock eye's with her. After what felt like an eternity we look away from one another .
She's pretty cute ya know.
Shut the fuck up brain!
Suddenly, the ground beneath us shakes. It was a slight tremor, but It sends my adrenaline sky rocketing. I know what it means. It means were out of time. "GET YOU'RE ASSES IN GEAR LADY'S!" I bellow.
Another tremor.
She's getting closer...
I take off running, and the girls reluctantly follow.
The AC-125 landed several minutes ago. The cargo bay door is open, and her massive 10 inch cannon is aimed not towards us, but behind us. A Ranger is standing at the cargo bay door, motioning for us to run faster.
Another tremor.
She's here...
The cannon moves slightly, aiming at...her.
CH-CHOOM
Hey Vasili, you missed!
The girls reflexively drop to the ground. The other Ranger runs out of the plane. "Secure the elements!" I shout to him. He nods and helps the girls up, shepherding them into the relative safety of the gunship.
"Hello mortal." Says a sultry voice behind me.
Thats when I'm picked up off the ground, and a blade is forced through my midsection. I look at the crimson stained blade jutting out of my gut in anger.
Correction. Rarity's just a grouch.
THIS GIRL IS A BITCH!
The blade retracts and I'm dumped on the ground.
Ow. Now that DID hurt a little.
I look up and see the grinning face of the evil copycat of the princess of the night.
Nightmare Moon.
"Hello Moony, still sore about the ass kicking the elements gave you a few years ago?"
"Quite. Now shut up and die."
I grunt and stand back up. It's gonna take more than being impaled to kill me! Nightmare just looks at me unimpressed. I cant help but snicker.
"What are you laughing at whelp!?"
"Just at the fact that you missed the elephant in the room."
CLICK
"Or in this case, the gunship in the field." She sneers at me.
"It will take more than petty playthings to defeat me-"
That's as far as she got before the cannon fired again, this time right in front of her. Her flaming form was flung a good 20 feet away. She stood up a few seconds later, extinguished and looking more pissed than ever.
I scramble into the plane, the door slams shut behind me. The plane 8 massive engines roar and I feel us accelerate. Then there's a jerk, and we accelerate even more. I love rocket assisted take off. But i know it's not enough. were not near far enough away from her. The whole point was to escape before she arrived. That goal was a flop. Any second now she's gonna turn this thing into scrap metal.
But she didnt.
To this day, I cant figure out why she let us go. Slumping to the ground, I let the blood loss take it's toll and I pass out.