The Gloom and Doom Room
Somewhere, inside a dark dark corridor with rusted bulkheads…
A door hung on its hinges, covered with a slick layer of condensation. All was silent, until a tapping sound resonated on the far side. This was followed by a grinding noise, and then a rattling cacophony of tremors. Once again, all was silent. Then, just as the last echo of the previous noise had begun to settle…
Clangggg! The door blew off its hinges, collapsing somewhere in the middle of the long narrow hallway. As the vapors of dispelled mana settled, Josho’s silhouette could be seen standing against the blinding light with a glowing horn.
Eagle Eye winced from where he and Props stood behind the obese stallion. “Did you really need to get Medieval on the doorway like that?”
“This is a rescue mission,” Josho grumbled. “Not a one pony sneaking mission.”
“Speak for yourself,” Eagle Eye said with a gulp. “Who’s to know how long this ship’s been run aground on this iceberg? I don’t want to wake up anything that doesn’t need to see the light of day.”
“You’re supposed to be sassy, Princess, not paranoid.”
“Yeah, well, some old habits of the battlefield die hard.”
“Heh… that’s what she said.”
“Oh, for the love of--!”
“Shhhh…” Rainbow Dash hovered down into view, peering through the opened doorway. “Thanks for making an entrance, Josho. Let’s do this next part somewhat quietly, okay?”
“Pffft. If you insist.”
“I do. Also that I go first.”
“But you’re always taking point!”
“Josho…” Rainbow Dash clenched her eyes shut, sighed, then gestured ahead. “Fine. Be the knight in shining armor.”
“Damn straight. I was born with turtle wax.” Josho stepped over the bottom frame of the door and shuffled his way into the claustrophobic corridor. His glowing horn lit the way while he levitated a shotgun cautiously left and right, eyeing every shadow that the ship’s interior presented.
Rainbow Dash floated close behind, her wings flapping above a tight leather coat. Behind her, Props nervously trotted, sliding her goggles above a pair of wide, blinking blue eyes. Eagle Eye took up the rear, levitating his sword and shield alongside him.
The interior was somewhat disorienting, a consequence of the structure of the ship leaning at an awkward thirty-degree angle towards its dilapidated stern. Though it looked like the quartet was trotting straight down an even plane, they felt like they were moving uphill. What’s more, the cold hallway walls were slick with moisture, causing Josho to slip a few times, much to his grumbling dismay.
“Don’t worry,” Rainbow murmured, her voice echoing a lot louder than she expected. Nevertheless, she patted the stallion’s shoulder and murmured into his ear. “You at least still look like a cool guy.”
“I never cared much for ships,” Josho grumbled. “At least the ones that stuck to water.”
“Why’s that?” Eagle’s voice murmured from the rear of the procession.
“Could never handle the cramped conditions. Plus, sailors are just… friggin’ weird,” Josho grumbled back at the unicorn. “Odds are they’d either eat me alive for sustenance if we got stranded, or they’d at least try and turn me into you.”
Eagle Eye frowned. “Really? We’re going into that at a time like this?”
“Shhh!” Rainbow Dash hissed. “Save it for the honeymoon, coltfriends.” She glanced over her shoulder. “Props, any idea how we’ll know if we’re getting warm?”
“Uhm… if we get warm.”
Rainbow sighed. “Props…”
“No! For real!” she squeaked. “Notice how slick the walls and floors of this place are?”
Josho slipped again, forcing Rainbow to steady him. “It did occur to me,” he grumbled.
“I’m guessing that most of the time the arctic air has layered the walls of this place with frost.” The mare paused to run her hoof across a wall streaked with water droplets. “But something’s causing that residual frost to melt!”
Eagle Eye craned his head. “Like a heat source?”
“Yup yup! And a doozy of one too!” Props grinned brightly. “And my Uncle Prowse sure does love to light a big fire!”
“Heh…” Josho smirked. “I bet he does.”
“So, lemme guess…” Rainbow glanced over her shoulder. “We find a heat source and follow it to the pony we’re looking for?”
“Seems a safe bet to me! And if that doesn’t work, I can try and triangulate the signal that’s being broadcasted from somewhere inside this ship!”
“Well…” Eagle Eye smirked. “If you ask me, this doesn’t sound half as bad as it looked from the outside--”
Crkkkk-k-k-k-k-k…
Everypony froze as the ship groaned around them. Droplets of water fell loose from the ceiling. Josho’s glowing horn reflected off wavering bands of moisture in the distant edge of the corridor.
Props gulped and stood closer to Eagle Eye, shivering.
“Yeah, okay…” Rainbow Dash nodded, her ruby eyes darting left and right. “Let’s get this mission over with before the ship decides to fart us out.”
“Nothing but poetry,” Josho droned.
“Propsy, where do we go, girl?” Eagle asked.
“Uhm…” Props reached under her cloak and produced a metal instrument. She tapped it a few times with her other hoof, then held it over her head, squinting. After a few seconds, she smiled happily at the rest. “Down!”
“Unnngh…” Josho shook his head and stumbled forward. “I swear, if we run into any iceberg yettis down here, I’m tossing her at them first.”
“Iceberg… yettis…?” Eagle Eye blinked.
“It’s called an imagination, kid. You should try it sometime.”
“I think that’s the last thing we need right now.” Rainbow Dash motioned the other two to follow as she hovered after Josho. “Let’s go, ponies.” She looked forward. “Stay frosty--” Her eyes crossed.
Eagle Eye groaned while Props giggled.
“Yeah…” Rainbow’s nostrils flared. “Just forget I said anything.”
The group followed the bobbing light of Josho’s horn into the frozen metal intestines of the derelict ship.
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I think I'm suffering from Zaid withdrawals.
Oh my goodness, Rainbow can be ridiculously adorable.
One-liners ain't what they used to be. Except for this ship, apparently.
Wonder whats making the heat.
So, a heat source, eh? I hope it doesn't help with melting the ice on the outside. Josho's weight can't be helping.
So the ship isn't completely dead. Inb4 the iceberg yetis are real and have elected Prowse as their leader and they find him in a sauna being fanned by iceberg yeti women with fans of rusted sheet metal.
I think you're gonna be in for a long journey, Josho.
I'm loving Josho more and more. Anyone who dislikes sailors is a-okay in my book. Plus, he uses a shotgun.
Forty crunches, ):(. Knock 'em out!
This chapter quoted me, top lel.
I'm not one hundred percent sure if Prowse is the one who sent the signal. And if he was, this ship has been out here for a while. We have no idea when the last time Props saw him was, so if it's him, he's been stranded here for months, even longer, even. He could be a deranged cannibal picking the crew's bones clean for all we know.
Ah.. the classics. The Thing. Ice Station Zebra, Return to The Poseidon Adventure.
Hmm, zebra. nope, nada, nothing springs to mind. Not even girraffes.
Ill just be off in the corner slapping myself round for forgetting the primary behaviour of skystone. I mean, no balloon, so its got to be running on vented gas? This isnt Josho we talking about.
Tortoise!
Er...
Call of Cutie: Modern Warmare
do airships crewmen count as sailors?
It's great to have the good ol' banter back. I dearly missed it.
4078099 They're the flight crew, not sailors. Or they can also just be moochers if they aren't doing anything. *cough*Belle*cough* Hmm... maybe I should get that odd cough checked out,
And then a dragon bursts out of the ship and eats everyone.
The end.
4078529 Wouldn't that make Rainbow a flight attendant? Someone needs to draw that. Just not me.
I'd like to try an imagination.
I bet Uncle Prowse jumps out with a machete.
Next chapter, they're the ones needing rescue.
Take a look at this world. We wish we had freaking airships like you have.
It feels so obvious that something's going to go wrong, but I so want to see everything to be fine, if only to make future events like this less predictable.
dragon
This is when the bad things happen, but of course.
so something is alive and keeping warm on the ship. neat. ONWARDS TO ADVENTURE!
THAT'S HOW YOU GET ANTS!
Yay meltyness!
I feel as though I had some input on the chapter name. Maybe it was already decided weeks ago. Maybe IC didn't even see my comment. But I made a comment, and the next chapter had a similar title. That's good enough for me.
Also, explosions happen when heat is involved. So yeah.
I'm surprised I haven't seen the cross-eyed RD smiley posted yet.
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Yep, it's no coincidence:
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I still don't think we'll ever actually meet uncle Prowse, but we'll see.
4078691 FINALLY, the moment I've been waiting for ever since I started reading!
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IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
And we enter the ship! Fun banter...not much else. However, it's now time to find Prowse. Onwards! These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
Like you're one to talk.
Some nice banter here.
I suspect we'll get a little more action soon.
-Spirit
Enyone else think of darek zoolander when Thay read "derelict"?
If they fond Prowse, then I'd be pretty happy. But things never go according to plan . . .
Pinky, any long lost siblings we should be aware of?
The party needs to chill.
MAN I SURE HOPE THE SHIP DOESN'T IMPLODE
Finished Towering Above The Rest disk 9.
4077389 Zaid!: Healthier and more refreshing than crack, and twice as addictive!
That many puns made me Shiver
05/30/2017 00:52 UTC
I wanna die hard. I hear that's the best way to go out
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I sure hope they don't get the cold shoulder from those yettis. That would be a real hazard to their health
Under just about any other circumstances, this might have been a cool line.
I would have thought the battlefield would have taught you better than to open your mouth in that kind of fashion EE, but what do I know?
09/12/2019
19:58 UTC
Josho and me have the same idea. Any video game that tells me I'm on a sneaking mission had no idea how bad I am at them. I'm the idiot that just goes in, abilities blazing.
Also way to pun yourself Rainbow.
This made me laugh more than it should have.