“Well, this is a stinky pile of crud.”
Eagle Eye leaned over Josho's shoulder from where he sat in the managlider's gunner's seat. “Care to be a tad bit more specific?”
Josho pointed towards the hazy splotch of urbanity along the northern horizon. “There's a blockade surrounding the city. Looks like Filta's armada that broke off from Foxtaur.”
“What in spark's name are they all doing up here?” Eagle Eye squeaked.
“What in the Queen's left ovary are we doing here, kid?”
Eagle Eye blinked. He gazed down at the passing landscape in thought, then winced. “Pilate...”
“From the looks of it, that zebra that you have a crush on is generating a lot of flak.”
“I so do not have a crush on him!” Eagle Eye frowned. “I just want to get him safely to his beloved. You know that.”
“Hard not to,” Josho grumbled. “It's all you've been friggin' yapping on about for the past twelve hours.”
Eagle Eye's lavender ears drooped. “Erm... s-sorry,” he muttered with an embarrassed smile.
“Nothing to be sorry about, kiddo. I know you're genuinely concerned about the striped yahoo... for whatever reason...”
“And what about you, huh?” Eagle Eye glanced curiously at the obese stallion. “Are you still doing all of this just because you're fed up with the Confederacy?”
Josho let loose a long, lingering growl. “Think of it this way: I've been long overdue for a vacation.”
Eagle smiled. “You know, that vacation could last forever, so long as you have ponies to spend it with.”
“That's the lamest sort of come-on I've ever heard.”
Eagle Eye giggled. “I like this you, even if it's still a fat and slobbering 'you.'”
“Jee, thanks.”
With a sigh, Eagle gazed towards the zeppelins dotting the horizon. “Still, what are gonna do about all of these airships?”
“We could fart in their direction and hope that the warm air carries them to Xona.”
“Seriously, Josho...”
“Honestly, it looks like most of them are gathered to the east,” the stallion said. “So, like, if we take a more westerly approach, we could dismount from this thing and start a sweeping search from the street. Not sure what one and a half stallions in the middle of a huge maretropolis can hope to accomplish, though...”
“Pilate's got that mana thingy attached to his neck. Maybe we can find a way to look that up!”
“I'm a soldier, not a radar antenna.”
“I was just saying that—”
“Shhh!” Josho grunted suddenly, decelerating the vehicle. “Shut your strudel-hole!”
Eagle Eye scrunched up behind him, trembling. “What is it?” he whispered.
“Something's going down,” the stallion muttered. “I think... I think there's an air battle happening.”
“An air battle?”
“Buck me.” Josho's face contorted as he looked at his instrument panel. “It's straight ahead of us, over the city. What in the name of lacy bridles is going on with this lame-ass country?!”
“You tell me. You've fought for it.”
“So have you, kid.”
“But you have, longer.” Eagle Eye blinked. “And fatter.”
“Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh snap.” Josho's instruments blinked and beeped.
“What is it?” Eagle Eye next shrieked as several silver shapes soared past them from the south. An entire squadron of managliders was ripping its way north, northwest, towards a cluster of dense aircraft along the upper spires of Blue Nova.
“They're really in a hurry!” Josho shouted as he struggled to stabilize the vessel. “Like their plots are on fire or something!”
“Could you, for once, make an expletive that doesn't involve fire and body parts?!”
“I thought it'd be familiar territory for you!” Josho then reacted to a flickering sound stone to the top left of his instrument panel. “Wuh oh. Uhm...”
“Uhhhh...”
“I gotta take... this?” Josho zapped the sound stone with his horn. “Uhm... This is... uh... Managlider X, reporting.”
”Scrkkk! What are you doing out of formation?! We need all the help we can in engaging the intruder!”
Eagle Eye whispered with wide violet eyes. “They must think we are p-part of the blockade!”
Josho bit his lip, then spoke into the sound stone. “I am... uhm... transporting a blushing bride to her wedding in the... uh... a-azure district.”
Eagle Eye frowned. “Hey!”
“It's very important!” Josho continued. “Daughter of a major military general and all!”
”No excuses! All forces are required to engage the enemy! Rejoin formation or else!”
As if on cue, the air shook with heavy thunder. Both stallions blinked, then glanced behind them. Another squadron was flying in from patrol, heading straight towards them. The centermost aircraft's cannons heated up with precaution.
“Crud on a bitch biscuit!” Josho hissed, then gripped the controls in the crooks of his hooves. He accelerated the craft in time to fall into formation with the others. “Uhm... Copy that! The bride just f-fainted anyways! I'll drop her off once we're closer to the city!”
Whether the voice on the other end heard that or not, it mattered little. He spoke with almost robotic urgency. ”Bogey headed towards southwest wall! All vessels, prepare to intercept! Let's see if we can drive them towards the east blockade! Scrkkk!”
“Well, this isn't good!” Eagle Eye stammered. “Who in their right mind would be attacking this city?!”
“Just what are we doing here?!” Josho grumbled. “This certainly isn't a game of pool we've come to toss cigarettes at!”
“Still, we need to get out of this situation.”
“Heh. You mean fly out of formation now that they've all seen us?” Josho glanced side to side at the various managliders they were now a part of. “They'll shoot us out of the sky faster than a plagued sparrow.”
“But this isn't helping us at all in finding Pilate!”
“Kid, I wasn't born yesterday. I'm doing this right here to save our skin. If you wanna hop out at random, be my guest.”
Eagle Eye shuddered, sitting deep in his seat as he clung nervously to the gun turret. “At least find us a safer altitude f-first...”
“What we need is a plan. Whoever this 'bogey' is, they've stirred up the hornet's nest pretty bad.”
“You don't...” Eagle Eye fidgeted. “You don't think that they're related, do you?”
“Hell, we've had so much irony lately, what's another pile of crap atop the dunghill?”
“Seriously. I think you need to see a shrink about that...”
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EE and Josho have joined the party.
They're catching on.
First shot has been fired. It's going down now.
45 side-straddle hops, );(. That's four count, you wusses. Knock 'em out!
Rack 'em up, rack 'em up, rack 'em up...
Eagle Eya and Crimson/Dash might be the first reunion so far. (if IC carries this arc first)
Damn, Eagle Eye and Josho might be just what Roarke and Rainbow need to get the manaship through the blockade without it being utterly obliterated.
Oh yes. Let's have some ... chaos. Let the games begin!
And with that, all the pieces are now in Blue Nova (aren't they? Did Belle and Kera get back to the city yet?) Either way, awesome is about to happen.
Bloody hell, I feel sorry for the citizens of Blue Nova. When there's such a high concentration of important characters in one place, there's going to be one helluva explosion.
We're getting the band back together.
The next 39 chapters are gunna be a blast!
Oh look, it's those ponies! Honeytiger had totally forgotten about those ponies!
I ship them, does anyone else ship them?
Dammit, Jim!
Now that all of the pieces are in place, the game can begin. Who else expects IC to publish the last 35 chapters or so in one day like he did back in Eljunbyro?
Wow, good timing. I make a comment about not seeing these two in a previous chapter (159? 160?) and suddenly here they are.
You don't think... IC read my comment, do you?
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You just had to bring The Joker into this, didn't you?
Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
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You son of a bitch, that was brilliant...
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I find it strangely hard not to.
Besides (probably) unintended innuendo, looks like this chapter just brought the last stragglers into the fray! Finally.
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2966020 Why shipping EE with Josho when there's Ebon to be had?
IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
Huh. I feel like we haven't seen these two in forever. Anyways, all of the players are taking their final positions as we near the end of Innavedr. It'll all go down in Blue Nova...These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
Huh. I feel like we haven't seen these two in forever. Anyways, all of the players are taking their final positions as we near the end of Innavedr. It'll all go down in Blue Nova...These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
Yeah Josho, you should really go see a....psychoanalist.
...I can give him the number for mine.
Laughed harder than I probably should have. That would definitely be using your arse for something other than sitting, Josho.
Definitely using this one sometime. I'm a sucker for alliteration.
Also, seems like Josho has earned the title of: Genre Savvy. Here's to hoping they don't pay for this newfound awareness with their own flaming hides.
Ain't no way I can quit now - onward!
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Here we go. The final reunion.
-Spirit
Shit, it's a party in the sky.
good, good
It is coming together, hehehe
2966020 I've shipped/friendshipped the fuck out of them since their arc began
Gangs almost all here.
Roarke may end up accidentally shooting them down...
I know I'm commenting in a thread that is outdated way beyond relevancy, but I feel the need to mention that I've always cast Josh Holloway as Josho in my head (not because of the name similarities, actually). I can just hear Sawyer's sarcastic tone every time Josho speaks. They have the same penchant for nicknames, too.
Everything's coming together nicely. I hope, when the big climax comes, that Shell doesn't get away this time.
It's all coming together now...
2 and a half men...oh wait, not even that.
This just became a lot sadder
RD. That's what's happening the city.
It's like Doctor Who and his companions...or RD and her companions.
By Luna's hot cat, Eagle! Those are the best parts he naming!
...well, some of them.
I'm just waiting for him to say "tail raising strumpet"
Okay, headcount gentlemen!
Bogeys detected:
Rainbow Dash. Crimson. Imre. Roarke.
In pursuit:
Josho. Eagle Eye.
Fugitives in vicinity:
Pilate. Floydien.
Targets of opportunity heading for Blue Nova:
Bellesmith.
^ bruh, the gang is practically all here. Even Shell.
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I know that my reply to your comment is likewise way out of date and I have no idea if you are even on anymore to see these, but for what it's worth, I sometimes hear Josho with a slight australian accent, kind of like the character Monterey Jack from the Rescue Rangers show (both overweight, have a penchant for nicknames, and a tendency to slobber when around a vice of theirs Josho-alcohol, MJ-cheese. Or perhaps a stereotypical british accent.