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// Chapter 12 
// Story: Dreams Can Be Real 
// by Flutterpoof 
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	"RUN!" I yelled to the people around me. I jumped into the bunker I plugged my hears with the palms of my hands. I could faintly hear the explosions and screams of people around me. I was...
Trapped.
Yeah, that fits the ticket. I had no where to go, only straight towards the enemy, which would be a suicide, but I ain't going to die a coward either! No way, hose. I clenched my teeth, and jumped up. I scowled and I started running ahead.
"CHARGE!" I yelled at my men. They are started yelling and screaming. I shot each bullet into the enemy, trying to kill every last one of them. I closed my eyes as I ran. I was screaming at the top of my lungs, while mindlessly shooting. I opened my eyes to see me in the middle of nowhere, somewhere completely different... In a forest? Wait... Forest? Oh crap.
"I'm back!" I heard a sing song voice say. I turned around and was tackled. I looked up to the attacker. No...
"Goodbye, Jeff. Before I kill you, I have one request," Shadows smirked at me. I whimpered under him.
"WAKE! UP!"

I yelled as I woke from my slumber to see Blue Lightning floating above me. I clutched my heart and started calming my breathing.
"What... What happened?" I asked Lightning. He sighed.
"You were yelling and screaming in your sleep," He explained. I looked down at my bed sheets while I tapped my head. Yeah, what he said DOES make sense, I guess. I shook my head to clear my thoughts. What kind of dream was that? I've honestly never had one so violent, or so... vivid. I decided to ponder about it later. Today, I should be worrying about Canterlot. It's probably being destroyed right now.
"Wait... What are we doing? Isn't Canterlot being wrecked by Shadows?" I asked Lightning. He tapped his chin, and gave a small 'oh'.
"Twilight and the rest of the fillies already went there to assist Celestia. Twi said she would write to us if anything majorly bad happened, so don't worry, bud!" Lightning reassured me and slapped me on the back. I nodded, but still thought fit to go there.
"C'mon, I'm wide awake now and have nothing better to do, lets go check on them, shall we?" I asked him. He nodded, and his began glowing the familiar cyan glow. In a split second, we were back in the bunker in Canterlot, and everypony was there, talking. I sighed.
"Don't you realize there is a huge pony war going on outside?" I said to them, sounding bored. They all looked at me, and greeted me, before Twilight began speaking.
"Yes, but we have to lay low. Nopony is leaving until Shadows shows himself," Twilight said, stomping her hoof dramatically. I grinned at her.
"Alright, well, good thing I'm not a pony," I told her as I looked for the exit. She looked at me in confusion.
"Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. What are you doing? I said nopony is leaving until Shadows show-"
"Yes, well I'm not a pony, so when you say 'nopony', it doesn't apply to me," I told her. Whether that was a loophole, contradiction, etc. etc., I don't care. I still love it. Oh, I also love the look of frustration on Twilight's face.
"But but but but but-" She tried to reason.
"No 'buts'. I am going outside, and I will find him personally," I told her. She grunted.
"Fine, but at least take this. It will let us track your motions so we can see wherever you are," Twilight told me, with a look of slight happiness in her expression. I nodded as I strapped the bracelet onto my wrist. Twilight pointed over to a stone door, which blended in quite well to the wall. I walked up to it, and slid it open, revealing a long tunnel. This'll take I while, I grunted before starting the walk.

Once I arrived at the end of the tunnel, I was POOPED. I hadn't walked that far in ages,  and I was TIRED, as the entire tunnel was up hill. Hooray.
"Whoa, this place looks... terrible, to say the least," I muttered. It was true, Canterlot looked absolutely awful. I walked outside the tunnel, and noticed I was a few miles away from Canterlot. I yelled in frustration. I hate walking long distances. I HATE IT!
About half an hour later, I arrived in Canterlot to screaming and fire, like I was expecting. I looked around the burning stores, and I was surprised by some of the stores. They had a toy store, which looked like a Wal-Mart filled with toys, a funeral home, and a fishing store. I walked into the fishing store, ducking through the door way. I gasped. There were fishing rods and fishing equipment EVERYWHERE! I looked around for a knife, and I found one. It looked like a hunting knife you would find back on Earth, except this thing was REALLY sharp and long, kind of like a machette. I cut a hole through my shirt so I could straddle it across my back, and I slid the machette through the holes. I exited the store, ducking once again. I started walking to the North East, hoping to find a forest of some sort, because it's pretty apparent that Shadows likes forests. Within a few minutes, I found a forest, covered with trees. I smiled. This would be perfect. I started walking to the center of the forest, pulling my machette out in the process. I looked around at my surroundings for Shadows, to no luck. I turned around, and saw a blue orb floating in the air. I backed off and readied the machette. Lightning appeared out of nowhere, and I mean the pony, not the electrical stuff in the sky. He flew down beside me and grinned.
"What? I wasn't going to let you fight him alone!" He said, flashing a cocky grin.
"Sweet. Thanks," I snickered. Lightning tilted his head slightly. "It's just that, I realized, you are absolutely PERFECT for Rainbow. You are both very self-centered!" I said, laughing. He rolled his eyes and continued trotting to the middle of the forest, and I followed, smiling. Cutting through branches and long grass, isn't as easy as it looks in the movies and TV shows. It actually takes precision and time, to cut through grass anyway. Branches are slightly easier, but still quite difficult. At last, we arrived at the center of the forest. We sat in the middle, and waited. Five minutes passed. Then twenty. Then thirty. An hour. Two hours. Four hours.
"Where is he? He should be here by now!" Lightning asked impatiently. We both heard a snicker from the tall grasses, and we stood up in a flash. Shadows walked out of the long grass, smirking.
"You two didn't even look! I've been sitting here for five hours!" Shadows laughed madly. We scowled. It wasn't that fun watching trees for four hours... "Anyway, you are stupid. You can't hurt me, as long as the Ceminum is safe... Oh hell, I shouldn't of said that good bye," He left in a flash, running the opposite direction. Before anyone could move, I spoke.
"Don't. All we gotta do is find this Ceminum thingy, and apparently, he becomes vulnerable," I muttered to Lightning. He snarled, but nodded.
"C'mon, let's go back to the bunker. We got some interesting news to tell them," I said to him, and we disappeared in a flash.