Sorry if this is riddled with errors, my editor is really busy right now and I felt like you guys needed a chapter desperatally
Chapter 27
Ethan and Twilight sat across from each other in the train car which they’d gotten reserved. The man was in the middle of cleaning each and every one of his current weapons from top to bottom and a multitude of plastic and metal parts were spread out over one of the seats. His shock sword sat next to his red sword that Jonathan had given him along with the blue bladed knife. He was currently oiling his light machinegun and his Anti-Material rifle was next in line. Vengeance was already lubed up and ready to go as was his 12.7 submachine gun.
“Ethan, if Sombra and Nightmare are working together, then I doubt that there’s much that your guns can do,” Twilight told him.
“I’ve yet to see anything withstand having enough bullets or laser bolts put into it,” Ethan replied with a shrug.
“Ethan-” Twilight began but he cut her off.
“Twilight we are killing our way to your nephew, and once we get there we’re going to put down this ‘Nightmare’ and her buddy Sombra, and then I’m going to go home and have mindless sex with Cassie, got it?” He asked.
“Got it,” Twilight said with a nod. “Just to let you know, you’ll have to race me for the right to kill Sombra,” She told him with a devilish smile.
“As long as you let me have Nightmare then that’s fine with me, Sparky,” Ethan replied with a savage grin of his own.
The two companions stepped off of the train and looked out at the frozen wasteland before them. Ethan had his power armor’s heating function turned on so he was nice and warm while Rarity’s creations kept Twilight warm as well.
The man looked like a mobile armory. The red bladed bastard sword was slung across his back, his shock sword slept comfortably on his hip, and a knife in a sheath across his chest. The half assembled frame of Vengeance was also visible on his back along with its power supply and his modified anti-material rifle. His LMG clicked against the 12.7 mm submachine gun on his other hip as he walked.
To say that the man was intimidating would be an understatement.
A cold wind swept around them making Twilight’s white cloak flutter and spin as snowflakes danced around her face. The purple mare didn’t even flinch. Instead her horn began to glow slightly and the cold north wind decided that it was best not to trouble her with its embrace.
“We know where we’re going yet?” Ethan asked her.
“Yes, I can feel a huge amount of necromantic energy,” Twilight said calmly.
“English, please,” Ethan told her.
“Energy that comes is used to bring the dead back to life, the long dead in this case,” she replied.
“Well then, it’s zombie killing time,” Ethan replied as he unslung his bastard sword from his back.
“Ethan, they’re over twenty miles away, having your sword out at the moment isn’t going to help you at all,” Twilight told him frankly.
Before their conversation could get any farther a quartet of sparkling ponies in blue crystallized guard armor trotted up to them. Each had a large halberd strapped to their backs along with a short handled war hammer at their side. Every one of them was an earth pony. The guards were led by an officer wearing a white officer’s cloak gilded with gold lining and a long bladed, almost machete like sword hung at his side. He had a glistening green coat and a ruby red mane.
“Miss Sparkle, we’ve been expecting you. I’m General Falchion,” the officer said as he stepped forward.
“Sparky, why do I suddenly have the feeling that if I look to long at these guys that I’ll go blind?” Ethan asked the mare. The crystal guards and the officer glared at him and Ethan gave them an evil smirk. “Girls, I’m really not someone that you want to be glaring at right now.”
The guards however remained unperturbed and glared right back at him. “And this must be the idiotic creature who believes himself to be untouchable,” the officer said, his voice cold.
“Yes, this is Ethan,” Twilight nodded simply. “It’s good to see you again, General,”
“And the same to you Miss Sparkle,” Falchion replied with a smile.
“Excuse me?” Ethan asked, not used to being ignored.
“Yes?” Falchion asked with an annoyed tone in his voice at being distracted from his conversation with Twilight.
“What the hell makes you think that you can ignore me like that?” Ethan asked as he gripped the hilt of his sword.
“Boy, I’ve seen things that would make your soul barricade itself in a closet as it wept until its eyes were dry,” the General told Ethan harshly.
“Have you now?” Ethan asked, raising an eyebrow.
“Yes,” the general replied coldly.
“Well I-”
“I do hate to hate to cut the formalities short, but do you know where the in the hell that mass of necromantic energy is coming from?” Twilight asked interrupting the byplay.
“Unfortunately I do, in fact it is the reason that I came to meet you two myself to escort you within the Heart Shield,” the stallion answered gravely.
“I was wondering about that,” Twilight muttered as her robotic eye scanned the area around them. “It isn’t exactly normal for the general to meet ponies fresh off of the train.”
“Right then, come along. Just stay close and we’ll keep you both from harm,” the general told them. Ethan snorted at the thought.
“We hardly need the help, but it’ll be nice to have an audience,” Ethan told him. The general either didn’t hear him, or more likely simply didn’t care.
They set off towards the large glowing shield in the distance at a light trot that ate up the distance but before they could arrive a black haze descended on the group.
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t the little general,” a dark voice said with a mocking laugh. “How do you like the badge of office, boy? I hope your father didn’t leave too many stains on it when I killed him” The voice asked with a chuckle.
“Get out of our way Sombra, you have no power over us anymore,” Falchion growled.
“MWA HA HA HA HA HA, I have more power then you could ever dream of!” Sombra laughed.
“Sparky, what’s going on?” Ethan whispered quietly to Twilight.
“Ethan, this is Sombra, one of the most evil beings who’s ever walked this planet,” Twilight said softly. “He’s using an illusion of some kind to distract us. Expect an attack at any second.”
Falchion just gritted his teeth and scowled up at the black cloud. Two of the guards drew their halberds while the other two drew their warhammers. Ethan readied his red blade and prepared for anything. Falchion simply tensed.
The darkness suddenly engulfed them and from out of it charged several shadows. Ethan couldn’t see his enemy but he automatically brought his sword up to block a vicious downward stroke from a rusty axehead. The impact rocked the man backwards but with a quick flick of his wrist he sent the sword skittering off of his own. He then slashed downwards and chopped straight into something hard and metallic. The blade of his sword was stopped for a moment before it tore through the metal and into something soft and squishy. A groan reached his ears and he caught the briefest glance of pony shaped silhouette before he was forced to block another swing of the rusty axe.
A powerful blast of purple magic suddenly smashed through the black cloud revealing their opponents. They were indeed ponies, but they were far different from any that Ethan had seen before. The tufts of fur that showed from beneath rusty armor once blue armor was ragged and torn revealing petrified grey flesh. Rotten teeth gripped an aged axe in its mouth and sightless white eyes stared at Ethan. Twilight’s blast of magic seemed to have stunned the zombie soldiers.
Taking the initiative the man swept blade through the zombie pony's neck and sent it rolling to the ground. The guards had wasted no time and their halberds and warhammers had already sliced through or smashed the necks of the opponents that they faced. Falchion on the other hand had his now blood covered falchion grasped firmly between his teeth and five decapitated corpses lay at his hooves. Twilight was holding one of the zombies in her magical grip, her head was cocked to the side as she evaluated it, then with a simple flare from her horn the zombie was crushed like a tin can.
“We should go now before more appear,” Twilight said, her voice detached signifying that she had split her mind into several fragments, one of which was doing the speaking.
“Move out, now!” Falchion ordered, somehow managing to talk despite the heavy blade in his jaws.
The group took off at a sprint towards the large shimmering shield in the distance. An angry scream rose up from the black and the mist raced towards them but the group managed to keep ahead of it, just barely, and passed through the shield. The dark mist tried to smash through the shield but it was violently repulsed and sent flying backwards revealing fifteen of the zombified warriors behind. Unlike the mist the warriors were not immediately repelled but instead passed about halfway through the barrier before they disintegrated, frozen flesh spiraling away in grey strips.
Ethan sheathed his sword in one clean motion and turned to regard the general with a newfound respect.
“That was quick work,” Ethan told him. Falchion shrugged.
“Easy, they were just low level zombies, no real intelligence behind them,” Falchion replied simply. “Now come on, you’re both needed at the palace.” He and the other guards set off at a brisk pace, leaving Ethan and Twilight no choice but to hurry after them.
hmmm.......sombra's men just got owned verry quickly.
2569073
They're zombies in close proximity to a power-source that destroys them, also please don't claim first or even mention it
ZAMBIE KEELENG TYME!
2569088 all right all right..... i wont mention it :(
also, can general Falchion be a captain instead? :D
2569186HHAAAA HA HA lololol
thats fuckin funny as shit.
I'll take what I can get, but yeah, needs a few tiny tweaks. Still, badass Twilight FTW!
2569332 hell yeah brotha
*Falls from low orbit and lands perfectly on a chair on the roof of a jet traveling at mach 4* About bloody time this updated.
Ooh, zombie killing vunof my favorite hobbies....
Also....
TAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!
right zombies = gouls nothing new to ethan
Do go on, Sir.
i wonder if ethan can take Falchion to the westland to see the every fucking good days of horrur in his world 20 caps say he piss hem self 50 caps he shit hem self 10 caps to cry like a babe or all 3 will be 90 caps if he do them all at the some time whos with me!
2569073
Not exactly hard to kill basic zombies.
When this is over Ethan must make a bet with Falchion to spend a week in the wasteland. I relay would like reading about how he pisses himself.
he's seen more horrors than ethan apparently? get ethan to take him to the capital wasteland for 2 weeks. lets see him say that again. make sure ethan takes him to old olney though.
2570012 *smirk*
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2570553
Psh, I could take zem all on vith only vun Ubersaw...
>1 month wait
>1700 words
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2570464 Or the dunwich building. That place scares Ethan.
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I know, I'm sorry. The problem is that we're nearing in on the ending and my brain doesn't like writing those so it puts it off and gives me writers block
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To be completely honest they're just about at the same level as far as seeing a lot of messed up shit goes, sure Ethan's had to deal with the wasteland. But Falchion had to deal with Sombra (next chapter is going to include a bit of information about that). Anyways Falchion's not being a dick, he just doesn't respect Ethan because of what he's heard about him (not much).
2570322
Exactly. They're very basic at the moment and thus not hard to kill.
I liked Ethan better in Dark Wanderings. Less angsty, look-at-me-funny-and-i'll-kill-you mentality.
This is really annoying, your story is saying that there are two chapters that I have not read...
2584032
They're announcements that I ended up deleating, just make them as read
2584043
Now I just feel stupid... but how do I do that? I don't see any unread updates to mark as read.
Piece of shit, as usual.
2602804
Thanks man. Your comments always fill me with joy.
2603985 I know they do.
2602804 2569088 Ok so Perception Filter is a fag I just read this whole story and dark wandering in like 5 days to savor it and if any one has a problem they can take it up with me as your obviously busy with a talent that they need to get. As for the collab keep making me laugh my all time favorite story with Thomas and now I know Ethan's deal and they make a good team and I didn't think I would like this story but its probably one of the betters, it's for sure going in favorites thanks for this I have enjoyed reading it keep up the good work
2607598
Glad you've enjoyed my work. Also, PF and I are joking
2607598 If calling someone a fag (In denotation, a cigarette or a bundle of sticks; connotation, gay) is the best insult you can come up with, you need to get better material.
If you would like to take it up with my writing talents, why don't you go check out my page or a few of my stories?
EDIT: Put a few commas or periods in that giant block of words.
Very enjoyable chapter, hope to read more soon!
2640995
The problem with that is they throw all the previously established lore out of the window. Even if you overlook the "Teleporting Crew" plot hole and the fact that everyone is stuck wherever they are now that the Relays are gone. It was established before that the destruction of a Mass Relay wipes out an entire system. So Shepard didn't save the galaxy, (s)he destroyed it, probably much more efficient than the Reapers could ever hope to be... At least, that's what should have happened...
2641047 Aaaand? Maybe the Relays weren't destroyed in the normal way? Maybe they were disassembled piece by piece into tiny particles of dust?
I argue everything. It's in my nature.
2640841
I was wrong....However I can still fault it as... The only real advances were a couple of weapons, weird science tech and making cars look weird. Plus... 2077? I haven't heard any dubstep. Therefore despite my being wrong....To an extent it makes sense that sir-mix-a-lot either never existed or never became popular... And if he wasn't popular chances of salvaging one of his songs are... Less than 5% Nuff said.
2641113 My thoughts exactly. And they never evolved out of a, I think, mid-eighties culture. I'm not much on the recent past so I can't remember for sure.
2641094
Or maybe they were trying to wrap up the story as quickly as possible because they were late for lunch?
2641278 Meh, either way, I still liked the ending.
2641282
Meh, whatever.
2641282
Just found out that Mass Effect 3's ending rips off Deus Ex and Gurren Lagann.
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2660304 Heh, I haven't seen either of those . I'm new to the internet. Kind of. Maybe. Okay, not really. But I don't know many popular shows and games. And other things as well .
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Well, to begin with...
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This is the one of the first results from Google Image if you type: "Winter Planet"
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Looks familiar?
And don't even get me started on this...INSULT...
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Translation: Your commander is a legend and all that, now go buy the DLC!
2660501 I know, I just meant I haven't seen Deus Ex or Gurren Lagann.
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Seriously Ethan put this asshat in his place.
FUCKING ZOMBIES! *sigh* CARL! GRAB YER GUN! THEY'RE BACK!!!
5908144 CORAL!