Author's Notes:
Thanks to Deadinlight for beta-reading and helping me edit
Post Common Era Chapter Twenty-seven/War of Stars Chapter Twenty-three: Earth Part Four, An Escape Nearly Foiled
Shadow Eyes blasted Masao back the sound travelled quickly as she stood in front of her mare friend her unseeing eyes narrowed at the human, as he stood up the he wavered, literally, it seemed almost as if a holoemitter almost gave out.
“What the hell, Shadow Eyes?” asked Masao as Sunrise narrowed her eyes, that waver in his looks… That wasn’t right…
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Luna and Willow Leaf were talking to each other something about getting Masao a gift, when they heard the blast rushing out of their room, they saw Shadow Eyes and Sunrise Lily glaring at… Was that their husband?
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“Hell? I haven’t heard of that before, who are you? You aren’t my teacher!” said Shadow Eyes her horn glowing black and green as she channeled dark magic again, only for that human that had been stalking them to walk up and with a well placed grab and twist pulled a wire out of Masao’s neck, wait… What? The image of Masao wavered and flickered as if it—the image of Masao was replaced with a robot.
“Sorry about this, but I must insist that you gather your loved ones quickly, some of the council see it wise to rescinded on their word. General Harmon sent me” said the man and Willow Leaf nodded before she trotted off to get Masao who was there within moments Willow Leaf calmly trotting behind him.
“So, I was right that you have horrid espionage skills” said Masao with a frown on his face, the hallway was getting cramped with all of them in the area.
“While I would like to discuss my apparent lack of skill with you, we don’t have much longer before this hall is filled with troops that possibly not loyal to the general” at that Masao nodded and they made their way to the entrance where there was a trio of vehicles sitting out front, MPs filing out as soon as they stepped out of the building.
“The sun is shining hard today” said the man that had taken care of the robotic agent.
“Don’t worry the forecast is cloudy” said the lead MP who ordered his men to stand down. “We don’t have long, the ones on the council pulling these strings to get you out safely are currently being held up, but General Harmon said to get you out and that we will, have any of you rode in an UEC hover APC? No? Well then here is a quick overview, if we say we are going down, likelihood is that we are going down, and not by our own power, so brace for impact, other than that, just stay seated and stay quiet” Willow Leaf and the ponies nodded while Masao frown and opened a dark portal intending on just walking through when a bullet flew past him causing him to lose concentration, when he looked up he saw the MPs under cover as were his wives, his student, and her marefriend. Growling slightly Masao took aim with a finger and let loose a bolt of dark magic lightning which flew and struck the side of a building that the enemy was firing from, soon he noticed that it wasn’t actually bullets being fired at them but tranquilizers, he only noticed because he managed to catch the sight of one before it crashed into the earth.
“I think it is time we get on board” said Masao calmly as he caught several of the tranqs in a telekinetic field and threw them back at the soldiers that were attempting to capture them. The students were the first ones into the APC, as they buckled into the seats Masao’s wives were next, followed finally by Masao himself, ‘This isn’t as bad as I thought’, there was the occasional ping of something hitting the side of the APC near the front, almost as if… ‘They’re trying to tranq the driver!’ Masao thought his eyes wide as a tranquilizer dart made it through the slit that made up the passenger side window and stuck the driver with a grunt. Thinking fast Masao tore the wheel out of the driver’s hands with magic, and held it steady as he literally drove from the back seat, the APC started to rapidly gain speed as the soldier’s heavy boot pushed down on the gas pedal weaving through the streets Masao was relieved of his job as a second soldier muttered an apology to the driver before kicking him out of the APC where the soldier survived the tumble to the earth and the skidding to a stop sliding up to a building, sealing the window with the blast shades, the soldier got them to the portal house, a large two structured building that held the portal between the worlds open between it, almost like an eye itself.
“I hope you are worth all of this, the council seems bound and determined to force you to stay” said the soldier as a few soldiers armed with rifles walked up to the APC and knocked on the window.
“Open the blast shades, that’s an order” said a voice and Masao readied himself to make a portal of dark magic, the portal itself.
“Do it, if things go south I need to get my family out of here, but I’ll be back for you.” whispered Masao and the soldier nodded before pressing the button causing the APC’s blast shades wit retract.
“The sun is shining hard today” said the soldier hoping that these were soldiers loyal to the general.
“I don’t care soldier, you know that regs prohibit the blast shades anywhere but in combat zones, you and your passen—” Masao didn’t hear the rest because he forced a portal open underneath them and the soldier that was in the APC and they fell in front of the Portal Between Worlds or the PBW, and being used to portaling around Masao recovered first and gave a shrill whistle that caught the attention of the ponies on the other side of the portal and they rushed through.
“Cover our escape, only fire if fired upon, some of the council is trying to go back on their word” said Masao and the four ponies, a unicorn, an earth pony, and two pegasi took places that maximized their ability to protect the royal family and the apprentices, as well as have the least amount of distance from the PBW for their own escape. No sooner did they get into position did shots begin to be fired upon the royal family, as soon as the first shot was fired, all hell broke loose...