//------------------------------// // Terms // Story: Fall of Liberty // by iota_epsilon //------------------------------// Chapter 2: terms Rainbow dash opened the door of Twilight's library. "Twilight? Twilight I'm taking the assignment." "Really? That's great. I can take you where you need to go." "Wait twilight. Before we go anywhere, I need to know a few things." "Perhaps I can help." Princess Luna walked from the second floor down to the first. "Where is my friend?" "You mean applejack?" "Yes, yes! Is she ok, she said she was going to help the war effort. Is she..." Rainbow dash feared Luna might report her dead. "Applejack is alive and well I assure you, and she is playing a crucial roll in the war." "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Rainbow Dash ran and hugged Genera Luna. "Both of you, it is time to go." "Right, um, sorry." Rainbow Dash and Twilight walked down the street away from the wall. "Twi, aren't I going through the wall, not away from it?" "Just keep going, we're almost to the place." Rainbow Dash kept quiet until they reached a four way intersection that was void of cars and had a manhole in the middle. "Here we are." "What? What's here that's gona get me outside of the wall?" "Your standing on it." Rainbow dash looked at her feet, she was on top of up the manhole. "You're joking." "Sorry dash, this is the only way outside wall. You'll go down and meet up with the smuggler who'll take you through the tunnels and as close to the bell tower in the center of town as they can." "But it's a sewer!" "Don't be such a little kid." "Fine. How do I find the smuggler?" "Should be waiting on you fifty meters towards the wall. Just climb down and start walking." Twilight's hand was surrounded by a purple glow, as was the sewer cover, she raised her hand, the metal disc followed, she then set it down a next to the open hole. "Down you go." Rainbow Dash stepped into the hole and grabbed hold of the ladder, just before she descended, twilight stopped her. "Here, you'll need this." The purple haired girl dropped a large black flashlight down to to her friend. Twilight recovered the sewer as soon as Rainbow Dash was inside and climbing down. "Ugh, I can't see shit." Rainbow Dash heard running water nearby, she turned on the flashlight and looked around. She started walking down the narrow, wet, gross tunnel in the direction of the wall, north. Pushed walked for a minute, then, not looking at the ground, Rainbow Dash slipped down a slick slope and slid a few meters down. She landed hard on her butt right next to a river of sewer water. She lost the flashlight in the fall, but could still see somehow. She looked around and saw a lantern providing dim light to three silhouetted figures. "Ow, who- Are you the smugglers?" "You bet partner." That voice, the accent, it only belonged to one person. "Applejack?" "In the flesh. How ya doin' Dashy?" Rainbow Dash ran up to her lost friend and hugged her tight. "I thought I might never see you again." "Rainbow Dash. Ah-" "No you don't get to talk. I'm pissed off that you just got up and left your friends, family, and me." Rainbow Dash tightened her grip. "Ah said ah was goin t' fight in the war." "You just left, no goodbye, no letters, no word from you. I didn't know if you were dead or alive, I asked so many times for information on you from the military, but you apparently didn't join like you said." "Ah was gonna, but General Celestia needed a smuggler, and ah was the best." "So you didn't even tell me, or anyone else." "Rainbow Dash, this is an incognito deal, nobody can know who we are, if the nazis find out, or intercept letters home, then they could come after me or mah family." "You could have at least let me know you were alive." Rainbow Dash let go and stepped back from Applejack. "Alright, alright, I'll break this up." One of the other silhouettes said. "Right, sorry. Dashy this is Rush and Stinger." Rush, the shorter of the two, was muscular and had very dark hair. He was dressed in all black just like the others and had a civilian class .45 rifle on his back. Stinger was taller and had dirty blonde hair, a little darker than Applejack's. He was athletically built but not very muscular, he carried a German G36, probably taken off a dead soldier's body. "Your names Rush and Stinger?" "Nah, they're just code names, can't have no one know who we really are." Stinger said, "Little miss Applejack here is Blaze." "We got a ways t' go y'all, let's get on with it." "Wow, Blaze, you're usually not so eager to start a mission." Rush looked at the girl, slightly suspicious. "Ah just want t' get the cargo t' get where it's goin," She looked at Rainbow Dash. "We have a lot a' troops dependin on us." She picked up her pack and began walking.