> GTA: Released > by primeoetgrunn > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > prologue: FRRRRRRREEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sand... sand as far as the eye could see. A gold colored pegasus with a grey mane and tail had her last drop of water a few hours ago. The Deadlands were not her first choice to find an ancient temple that would predate ponykind. In her saddlebags rested a metal tablet she found a few weeks ago underneath the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters in the Everfree forest. The odd thing about this tablet was the engraving on it: a capital letter R with a five pointed star at its bottom. On the back were coordinates to somewhere, apperantly in the Deadlands. When she finally saw something other than sand in front of her, she got excited. This should be the correct location for the temple. It was indeed a temple. The same symbol as her tablet was engraved above its entrance. The building was huge compared to other temples she found. It was built entirely out of sandstone and had a long, wide ramp coming from the entrance. It was a simple looking building, almost modern. The moment the pegasus had entered the large gate to the inside of the temple, she noticed two extraordinary things different from any other ancient building she had come across: one, the almost impossibly smooth floor, and two, the atrificial lake on the other side. Not thinking straight from dehydration, she took off towards the lake, diving right in. The moment she got up though, she noticed four suprised wild cats and her worst enemy. "Well, well, well. Miss Daring Do." It clapped its hands while slowly walking towards the pegasus. "Ahuizotl..." Daring clenched her teeth while saying her enemy's name. Ahuizotl picked her up while the hand on his tail grabbed her saddlebags. "It appears our paths cross again. Tell me, why are you here, Miss Do?" He asked while idly looking for whatever the pegasus was forced to bring to the temple. And then he found the tablet with the same symbol that could bee seeen throughout the entire temple, before Daring could anwer. "Ah, the final piece of the door." Ahuizotl threw the saddlebags on the floor while grabbing Daring Do by her waist with his tail, taking the metal tablet in his hands. "Can you read these ancient runes, Miss Do?" he asked while pointing at a wall filled with them. "Because I can. Long story short, they tell about a powerful army. So powerful, in fact, that nothing could control them, not even death itself." Ahuizotl put the tablet inside a mirror image of itself. "I plan to change that." He smiled. The gigantic stone door opened and revealed a bipedal creature with a dark skin, wearing a white tank top, saggy blue jeans, a cap with the stylized words of Los Santos on the front, white sneakers and a neutral expression on its face. It stared at Ahuizotl in while walking towards him. "I am Ahuizotl, your new master!" Ahuizotl practically screamed at the creature. The creature responded by pulling a strange two barreled, pink object out of nowhere and aimed it at its 'master'. It pulled the trigger and Ahuizotl dropped to the ground, lying in a puddle of his own insides, dead. Daring could barely evade the falling Ahuizotl and flew to the exit of the temple. 'If this is only one of the creatures that are supposed to be an entire army... I shudder at the thought what they could do to the entire world.' > A change of perspective > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm sorry, but even I find your story a little bit far fetched." Princess Celestia sat on her large golden throne in the throne room of canterlot Castle. Daring Do had just explained what happened in the Deathlands, including the sudden death of Ahuizotl and his feline minions. Celestia, however, had never heard of any ancient army in that wasteland and found it a little bit strange. She was intrigued by the story, but to not raise any panic, she couldn't let it go out in any way, shape or form. Meanwhile in the Deathlands alot more creatures emerged from the doorway. All of them appeared to be the same species, but differed in skin color, hair color and gender. Wearing clothes that fit their personal sense of fashion, some even wearing masks ranging from hockey masks with different drawings to animal based masks, like pigs and apes. Threir mouths moved, but no one other than them could hear what they were saying. For your conveniance, we shall shift from the ponies perspective to one of the creatures. "Well I'll be fucked." I said to no one in particular. "We are actually free from that hellhole of a city." My name is primeoetgrunn, or at least that what my bankaccount says. I am a citizen of the city of Los Santos... or I used to be. I got a message on my cellphone from some dude named Ahuizotl. It said the gate had opened. Me, having no clue what gate was being meant, started searching for open gates. I wasn't the only one, apperantly others got the same message because nobody was killing eachother on the streets, instead they were driving around the city in mostly Zentorno's, searching every nook and cranny, every corner, backyard, swimming pool and garage door. A few got killed by others at the various air vehicle spawns over who got the vehicle that spawned. I was starting to believe they had the right idea, so I called Pegasus for my own Swift helicopter and took to the sky. Once up, I couldn't believe what I saw: a huge black opening in reality, located right on top of Chilliad. I (usually) am not the fighting type, but fuck everyone who didn't let me through the exit of this prison! Evading numerous missiles from various Lazers and Buzzards, I got to the hole... only to be stopped by a forcefield, exploding my helicopter and respawning me in Paleto Bay. I stole the first car that I found: a blue Vapid Minivan. With that piece of junk and all the willpower in the world, I made it to the top once again. I was about to go in full throttle, but then I remembered my helicopter and got out of the car. Running with my Special Carbine clutched in both hands, I shot everyone who so much as aimed at me and ran through the gate. > On the road again. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- So there I stood amongst my fellow murderers, dealers, thieves and crime bosses. This building looking ancient and filled with way more than the sixteen people that I shared my prison with, all of them asking eachother on what to do next. I already got the urge to call my Duneloader and leave these mindless killers for a better life. I didn't know where I would find this better life, but it shure as fuck ain't gonna be amongst these assholes. So I called my mechanic, asked for my personal vehicle of choice: the Bravado Duneloader, and I waited for the truck to spawn. When I got into the drivers seat, a few others moved towards me and lightly knocked on my window. "Yeah?" I asked the blonde female next to my car after I rolled down the window. "Where are you going?" she asked. "Dunno, just lookin' for a peaceful life, I guess." I answered while leaning in the opening in my door. "Can I come with? I'm kinda sick of killing and being killed." she told me while spinning a basic pistol around her slender finger. "Promise not to kill me?" shit, if I was gonna take someone with me, better make sure I keep alive. "Killing isn't exactly what I like to do." the woman now leaned on the edge of my front bumper, admiring the chrome paintjob on the fenders. "Hop in. Let's leave these fuckers." I motioned to the seat beside me. While she got inside my truck, I decided a little bit of music was in order an turned on my radio. To my suprise, however, there were no available signals. Not even Rebel Radio, and they had by far the biggest radio tower in the state. The girl inside my truck was wearing a crimson cropped biker jacket, black cropped jeans and a PRB cropped top. Her figure just like any other female I have ever met, so nothing new there. Her face, however, was the most beautiful I have ever seen on another... well... I don't exactly know what we are. The first thing I cab remember is looking down from a plane entering LS. I don't know where I come from, why I got to the city in the first place or how I got to know this Lamar dude, I have no clue. He said something about us being pen palls on LiveInvader, but everytime I try to get onto LiveInvader, the website is having maintenance. But I digress. The point is that she is pretty, in my car and that we are moving away from all other people who came through the gate. I don't know where we are going, what we are going to do when we get there and how friendly the people over there are. I do know, however, that I am done with killing for no good reason and that I want to leave the criminal life behind to never catch up with me again. "Where are we going again?" the girl asked me again. "No clue. I just want to leave my past behind and start a bright future, away from theft and murder." I smiled while trying to keep the truck on track. "Name's primeoetgrunn, by the way." i tried to start a little bit of conversation to make up for the lack of music. "I am melanie247, nice to meet ya." she extended her hand, I gave her a firm handshake and focused on a line of mountains far away, but in front of us. "Ya see those mountains?" I asked my passenger. "I was thinking of going up there and go look for civilisation." "We got noting better to do, so... " She looked me right in the eyes and threw her hands up. "Why the fuck not?" > The Lost and the Damned > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Celestia has told her younger sister Luna what Daring Do had found shortly after Daring had left the castle. "So, what do you think we should do? Ask Twilight to help us, or solve this ourselves?" The Solar goddess asked the younger Lunar goddess. "We think that nopony may know what has transpired in the Deathlands, and recalling what thine former student has a tendency to, We believe she shoud be left in the dark aswell." Luna decided. "After all, having a powerful alicorn panic could only worsen the situation." "Indeed, we should stay calm and collected." Celestia agreed "We do not know if those creatures can understand us, or how they will react in any situation. It'd be best to strike fast, thorough and with force. To make sure our little ponies will not be in harms way. Who knows how many of those beings have already left the portal." "Then we should leave, post haste!" Luna preparing to take off. Meanwhile, Celestia had already left to the sky. "Race ya there?" The princess of the sun yelled over her shoulder. "Prepare for defeat, sister dearest!" Luna, now also in the air, just passed her sister saying that. When the two princesses finally remembered they were royalty, they were already nearing the temple Daring Do told Celestia about. The odd thing was that the temple was deserted: no living being present. The moment the alicorn sisters touched the sand on the ground, Luna noticed something. "Sister, behold." The dark blue princess pointed her hoof at unnatural grooves in the sand. There were many of those grooves and they all seemed to point at the same direction. "What could have made this?" Luna asked her sister. "I do not know of any creature this numerous or big." The large white alicorn said while looking in the direction the trail was going. "Listen, Tia. I hear something." Luna heard a low rumbling noise coming from the temple. "It is emanating from inside. Let me scout forward." Luna was nearing the entrance to the temple and at the same time a large green and purple drove out tires screeching and its horn playing a happy tune while moving towards Celestia without slowing down or diverting from its course. The white alicorn only just dodged it and shot a beam of her magic at it, blowing up the odd vehicle. Meanwhile, a scroll appeared in front of her. "passive mode, b1tsh!! :D LOL YOLO SWAG!!!!!" Celestia read the text on the scroll out loud. When she looked once more at the burning wreck of the vehicle a bipedal creature in strange clothes and a pig mask was humping the air in front of itself. Luna was losing her temper at the creatures antics: first it tried to kill her sister and then it taunted them by surviving a huge explosion and making lewd movements. "Why art thou here?!" Luna lifted the masked being with her magic and making it look her straight in her eyes. Another scroll appeared in front of the night princess. When she opened it, it said: "i b like YOLO n evry1 doin it, only want rp 4 kil" "Are you taunting us, beast?!" Luna yelled at the creature. To wich it only responded by staring at her with a dumb look in its eyes and lifting its shoulders. "Luna, that is enough. Maybe it would be more willing to talk if it didn't feel threatened?" Celestia gave a warm smile towards the odd pig- man. "Are you lost, little one?" Another scroll materialised in front of her and it read:"Dafuq u sayin? i ant no fukin biker, bitsh! i b MrYOLO69!" The moment Celestia looked up, she had a stare down with a musket. Luna noticed that her sister was in danger and threw the creature on the ground with a hard thud. The rifle fell out of its hands and went off right in its own direction, killing the only lead as to what was going on and how they were going to stop it. "Well..." Celestia looked at the dead body. "What do we do now?" Let us venture off again to the P.O.V. of our Duneloader driving hero! "Come ooooon!" I yelled at the truck as I pushed the gas pedal as deep as I could. "Move, you piece of rusty shit!" We were almost at the top of the mountain range until the mountain decided it would be too much for my car and we made alot of wheelspin trying to conquer it. "Maybe we could use the already made path over there?" the chick next to me pointed her thumb over her shoulder to a dirt road going though the mountain. "God-fucking-dammit!" I said to her. "When did you notice the path?" "Right before you started climbing." she said with a sweet smile. Right after she finished that scentence, I let my head fall on the horn, my foot off of the gas pedal and my hands off the gear shifter. > Takin' names. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Finally, we are at the top!" I was leaning against the grille of the Duneloader, halfway through a can of Sprunk. The chick was tanning in the truck bed. How you could tan with your clothes on, I have no idea. "Lets discuss a next course of action." I threw my empty can on the ground and flattened it with my shiny black Oxford shoe. "I was thinking of finding a place to call home." "We gonna need some green first, hun." miss hotness pointed out, still lying in the back of the truck. "And I'm all out since buying a pink paintjob for my Issy." "How about some new names? Our current ones are kinda difficult to pronounce." I suggested while opening an Egochaser candy bar. Shit, I wasn't gonna tell her all my cash is in the Maze Bank. "Fuck, I don' even remember yours." I could hear her smile while she said that. "My pointh hath been proven." I let out a small giggle, my mouth filled with whatever they made these bars out of. "You look like a Chris to me." she lasily stated. "Close with the C. But I like Clyde a bit more, m'lady. It has some much needed class to it." I rolled up the wrapper of my candy bar and threw it over the edge of the platform we were on. "You look to me like a Bernadette." "Nah, let's go with Bonnie. Sounds sexy and dangerous." 'Bonnie' almost purred. "Huh, Bonnie and Clyde. I know it from somewhere. It has a ring to it, though." I pulled out my Antique Cavalry Dagger and examined it because I had nothing better to do. "Lets find some civilisation." I stood up. "We need cash and I only have candy, smokes, beer and cans of soda." "Fuck, I kinda forgot we actually need to eat today." Bonnie climbed from de truck bed and removed my Aviator shades from her head. "What, with all the driving and talking." "I have seen some buildings on a mountain side. They are that way." I pointed with my thumb. "Even if it is abandoned, we could still loot the place." "Lead the way 'Clyde'. Bonnie wants some new shoes." She smiled as she hopped in the passenger seat and closed the rusty door of the Duneloader. "Just because we are travel buddies, don't mean we're together." I got in the truck myself. "You can get your own shoes." I closed my door and started the engine. I made a burnout leaving red tiresmoke behind as I steered into the direction of the buildings, falling off of the plateau we were standing on and into the forest beneath us. After landing on all four wheels without a scratch, I sounded the horn of the truck (wich was the factory fitted one) and speeded on avoiding trees and rocks. "Remind me to also get a map." Bonnie said while searching the dashboard for anything usefull. "Don't wanna get lost, again." "I made a picture of a map of San Andreas in my secondary apartment. It should be on my phone." I said as I evaded the umpteenth boulder. "I'm not even sure we are in San Andreas anymore." she turned on the radio. Of course, we only got static. Bonnie turned the dials to get at least a hint of a signal, and to our great suprise, we got a female voice comin' out of the speakers. "...and this concludes our polka hour, here at Equestria Music Radio. As it is time for the news, take it away Stormcloud!" "Thank you Vinyl." a posh male voice stated. "Last night there was a magical distortion all over the lands. Princesses Celestia, Luna and Cadence are keeping quiet about it." "At least we know there is civilisation near us now." Bonnie stated. "And at least advanced enough for radio." "No shit." I said absentmindedly, thinking of how anything could survive a whole hour of polka. These people must be Rockstar in the flesh. I could feel the truck drice over something big on the road. "Didn't you see that beast you just ran over? The thing had bat wings and a scorpion tail!" I kept on driving, paying my hot copilot no heed. I knew women could be annoying, but she takes the platinum medal. I don't care if we just killed a fucking beast, it's not like it will haunt me for the rest of my life. I have enough Mercenary, redneck, police and military blood on my hands to fill the gas tanks of a customised Sandking XL. I have long since stopped caring about the lives I take, just about the cash Madrazo, Trevor or Lester gave me for taking them. The only crime I haven't commited is picking up hookers, and I ain't planning to pick them up anytime soon. A waste of money, women. I spend my cash on cars, guns and suits. Much more reliable than a woman. I own a car in every category: Adder, Injection, Coquette Classic, Felon GT, Tailgater (stolen from some poor bastard at the golf course), Gauntlet, Dubsta (The one with four wheels) and I take excessive pride in my matte white Z-Type with chrome trim. I take a personal dislike on Zentorno's, the car of choice for high voiced low-levels who give away sticky's like it's Christmas and they are Santa. Same case with Sultans and blue Intruders. You know, the kind that is used by the lowest of low that think they are hot shit because they drive a sedan with a spoiler and yellow or red rims? Immature morons is what all of them are! I'm surrounded by idiots who have NO FUCKING RESPECT FOR ANOTHER'S FUCKING LIFE! ...I felt Bonnies hand on my lower arm. "You alright, Clyde? You look upset." she looked at me with concern in her eyes. Those beautiful brown eyes of hers... "I was just thinking of the life I left behind. No more looking for Zentorno's to blow up, no more evading the wrath of owners of said Zentorno's... No more killing for money." my eyes started to let go a tear at the last sentence. "A bright future for the two of us, Bonnie, a bright future." > Nope, nope, nope. Soooo much nope! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On our way to the building on the mountain, we encountered the ruins of another building in the forest. Not planning on traversing the forest through the night or sleeping in the truck bed of my Duneloader, Bonnie decided that it would be a good idea to park the truck and find a room to sleep inside of the clearly ancient building. "Looks like a fairytale castle..." Bonnie concluded. "... if a bit needing of a little tlc." "It would be a chore to find a place to sleep in there." I looked a her. "You sure you want to leave the car for a clearly ancient and ruined castle that could fall apart at any moment?" "Yes." she said with confidence. "What level were you again?" I asked, doubting her a bit. "Pretty high, actually." Again with the confidence. "Level 24." "Level 135." I stuck out my hand. "Nice to meet ya." The look on her face was priceless after I said what my level was. I mean, seriously. You would be in stitches and on the ground just looking at that face. "You have a Zentorno?" she asked, still dumbstruck. "No, I don't have a Zentorno." I answered. "I do own all four Tornado variants, that has to count for something." "Everyone I know has a Zentorno, why don't you?" "Zentorno's have built up a rep of being owned by douchebags and triggerhappy nutjobs. I don't want to be classified as one of those, that is why I drive a JB 700 instead of a Sultan." I tried to clarify. I was met with a soft "Oh, ok." With nothing left to talk about, we entered the ruins of a once huge castle. What we saw inside, I did not expect: Large pieces of cloth hanging from rusted bars on the walls and what was left of the ceiling, small craters in the floor and fancy but damaged statues of horses with both wings and a horn. "How much would those banners cost?" I whispered in Bonnies ear. "You plannin' to loot the place?" she asked back. "We need cash and by the looks of it, this place ain't been looked after in quite some time." I explained. "It looks fancy enough to conjure up a bit of bread." "Nah, you're right." she admitted "But we need to find a place to sleep first. Let's move." Moving through the old castle, we encountered many old artifacts, most of it rendered useless by rust and corrosion. And then we hit the jackpot. Bonnie leaned against a wall in what looks to be an old library and opened a secret doorway to a nice bedroom, complete with sheets on the bed and a nightstand with a pair of gold-framed glasses on it. "Dibs on the left side." Bonnie immediatly jumped on the bed, resulting in it blowing up a huge amount of dust making the both of us cough. "Ai'ght. Sure *cough* it's yours. *cough*" I cleared my throat and waved some of the dust away with my hand. "Just, don't talk while I try to sleep." "Honey, there ain't no thinkin' of sleeping in my head." she said in a sultry tone and moved to all fours on the purple bed sheets. I just stood there, staring at her while trying to process what she just said. When I finally did get what my companion tried to tell me, a look of horror appeared on her face. "D-d-d-dude..." Bonnie pointed a slender finger towards me "Behind you!" Without thinking, I pulled out my golfclub and turned around within a milisecond, trying to hit whatever spooked my travel buddy so much. This kind of reaction speed is required in a city like Los Santos, where everyone with a personality tries to kill you. I hit nothing... but I did see what scared Bonnie: a shadowy figure in the same shape as the statues, its glowing yellow eyes looking at me like I was some sort of prey. I could hear it laugh in a way Überman would in the Impotent Rage cartoon, starting subdued but gaining volume as it went on. "Motherfucker..." I switched my golfclub for a Special Carbine and emptied four magazines into the ghostly creature, ony to hit the wall behind it. Damn, what a waste of ammo! "Foals, you cannot kill the night!" it blurted out in a clearly feminine and presence demanding voice. "Fuck you..." I flipped it off. "Oh, so much spirit and anger inside the both of you." it walked towards us "I simply cannot choose." I got the feeling we were in something we weren't supposed to, balls deep and no way to kill the problem like usual. "Clyde, what is goin' on?" Bonnie looked at me with pleading eyes "I am scared." "You think I am not shitting my jeans right now? We need to leave this joint!" I bailed for the exit of the library, running to whatever the way back to my car was, hoping Bonnie would be smart enough to do the same. When I got to the truck while taking as much hopefully valuable shit as I could find on the way, I finally grew the balls to look back the way I came. I saw Bonnie running towards me and I let go a breath I didn't know I held in and started the engine. When she got into the car, I pushed the pedal to the metal and sped off into the direction we were originally going. "I once heard some guy say: 'You forget a thousand things ev'ry day, better make sure this is one of them.' Want to join me in that?" I said when we were a bit further away from the castle. "Fuck yes." Bonnie nodded her head.