//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: Let's Take a Field Trip // Story: A New World, a New Terror // by TroWolf15 //------------------------------// “I’m coming! Hold on!!” I was panting harder than I ever had, my heart felt like it would jump out of my chest into the hands of those freaks. “Hurry, Matt, they’re getting in!!” I kept shooting my way through. There was no easy, or quiet way to do this. The shit had already hit the fan, I needed to get to her. BOOM *click click* BOOM *click click* I made my way upstairs to the room, but all I heard was her screaming, and the door had been broken down. “GAH” I fell out of bed, another nightmare, same house, same voice. But it went farther than usual… “Ugh these need to stop. These nightmares are going to kill me” “Well that isn’t a good way to look at them, given the situation” said a voice from the door. I turn to see Shadow, fully dressed for the day and hands in his pockets, looking kind of shy and worried. “He-he, maybe. You ok? You look…. Stiff.” “Well, I wanted to ask you something…” he averted his gaze from mine, directing his sight towards the floor. “Yes..? You know you can ask anything, man. Nothing is too weird or insane.” I tried to say as sympathetically and genuine as I could. I think it got him to relax a bit. “Well, I was wondering, think I can come with you scouting today?” “Is that what got you all tight and worried?” I questioned whether or not this was serious or if he was leaving something out. “No, it isn’t. Think we can bring Applejack with us?” “BAHAHAHAHAHA you got the hots for her don’t ya?” though I couldn’t be a bigger hypocrite right now, it was more comforting knowing I wasn’t the only one. “Shut up!! Like you don’t have a thing for the multi-colored hair girl!” Shit, he caught me. “Ok ok ok shut up. Well do you think it would be smart to bring them out?” I didn’t know what to think of that. Part of me wanted them to get used to it, but it might be too much. “I don’t know actually. I had hoped you would have an answer for that.” Shadow flatly said, chuckling. “Ok how bout we ask the girls? We can have a group discussion on it.” “Yeah, sounds good, I like that” “Good, everyone up?” Our voices were beginning to perk at the idea of things moving forward. “Yeah, you’re the last one lazy butt” Shadow joked. “Aight, round up our group and let’s meet in the office room. I will be down in a bit. Let me get dressed and I will meet you all in the living room.” Shadow nodded and walked out. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************ I got downstairs to find the girls in the living room chatting, they seemed a bit more cheery, I wonder how long that would last in this world. Rarity and Flutterhsy were still wearing their flowing dresses/outfits. “Good morning Matt” Twilight greeted me. “Morning Twilight, girls” giving a nod to the rest, which they gave back “How you all doing?” “Well we’d like to know why you’re all meeting without us in the other room” Twilight asked, placing her hands on her hips Heh, she’s already acting like a regular teenage girl. “Uhm, it’s important stuff regarding you girls. Don’t worry, it isn’t anything bad. Just, how to go about a few things.” I done goofed. “What kind of stuff, huh, buster?” Rainbow came in, obviously annoyed from my response. “You going to try something funny? Cause if so let’s go, right here!” putting her fists up. God I wanted to hug her from that. “Rainbow Dash, we shouldn’t act like towards them.” Fluttershy jumped in. “We should be thanking them for letting us stay here and giving us food. Thank you Matt” she softly said, seemingly a bit more comfortable with me. “You’re welcome Fluttershy. Now, if you all excuse me, I must meet with the others.” Waving them off as I walked towards the office room. “Ok fools,” I said once I entered the room, “so there’s this matter of pony-girls in our home who don’t know a thing about their bodies. On top of that we are living in a deadly, terrifying zombie apocalyptic world.” “I’ve heard worse.” Beans deadpanned. “Yeah, your voice” Pancho commented, getting a laugh out of us all. “Ok, seriously, Shadow brought up the idea of taking them out. As much as I agree with that, we shouldn’t take them all at once, nor should it be extreme either. It should be mainly working on running, then later on defense. Does this work?” I asked, hoping for a decent response. They all nodded in agreement. “Cool, so today, Me and Shadow can take AJ and RD out. Pancho and Xoch can take Pinkie and Rarity. Mig and Beans can take Twi and Fluttershy. Sound good?” “Damn, me and thee girls. I don’t know man” Pancho sarcastically remarked. “Oh you’ll live. Well, unless anyone has anything else to say, let’s head out.” “Wait, so where are we going to go?” Xoch brought up. Good point. “Ok, so let’s square that away now, so we all know where each other are. Shadow and I can take them to the baseball field.” He liked that idea. “Xoch and I will take them to the movie theatre plaza” Chris excitedly said. “Where should we take them, Beans?” Mig asked. “Shit, I don’t really know. How about the local university?” “Better than what I had in mind. Sounds good.” Mig agreed. “Ok so we all know.” I took command again. “Be back here by 4pm. If you’re not back we will search frantically for your asses so be back in time.” Everyone nodded. We went out and told the girls the situation. They seemed quite reluctant to it, but could’ve taken it worse. They eventually agreed to it and we went into our groups. Shadow seemed happy as a clam, which i haven't seen him, hell, any of us truly happy in a while. Was a pleasant surprise. We all went outside in full gear, and went our separate ways for the day. Hopefully we will see them all come back. A/N: I felt like this was a short chapter, though word wise it isn't too far off. Well if it is short I apologize. See it as a set up for some (hopefully) good chapters in the future? Yes. Please rate and comment as you see fit! Thanks all :D