//------------------------------// // Island: Rescue Mission (Unedited) // Story: Ark: Equestrian Evolved // by ThePerverted1EyedBrony //------------------------------// Authors Note: Started working on this on 06/28/22. So when this does release, you all know when I started working on it, and how long it took me. Island: Rescue Mission As the group flies towards Metal mountain the girls discuss what they know. “So, whatever this “Giga” is, Cactus says it’s the strongest thing here?” Twilight asks the rest of the girls. “So that should mean getting one on our side will help when Cactus eventually betrays us,” Rainbow says cockily as she loads up her guns. “But if a Giga is the strongest thing here, what about the guardians?” Sunset asks the rest of the girls. “Maybe he categorizes them in a way we don’t know yet?” Twilight responds. Just as Twilight finishes speaking they hear Dave’s voice. “HEY! GOOD THING YOU'RE HEAR! ARRG WAS ALMOST OUT OF STAM!” Dave yells to them from outside. “GET YOUR ASS OFF ARRG, AND TAKE OVER! I’M GOING TO HOOK MYSELF OFF AND SHOOT IT!” Cactus yells. “ROGER, ROGER,” Dave replies in a robotic sounding voice before hopping of Arrrg and then getting on WASD. While Cactus falls off WASD, pulls out a crossbow, and shoots WASD with a grappling hook. As Cactus then puts his crossbow away and begins to pepper the Giga with Shotgun shots. As that happens the girls see them switch like that, and get their first look at a Giga. “That thing looks like it could eat all of us easily!?” Sunset yells in a panic as they see below them that Cactus is shooting it repeatedly, only stopping to reload. “GIRLS, MIND GIVING CACTUS A HAND! HE GAVE YOU LONGNECKS FOR A REASON!” Dave yells back to them louder than the shots Cactus is firing. “But what about the Giga, he’s shooting to kill it?” Fluttershy asks. “YES HE IS, CAUSE IF HE DOESN'T WE ALL DIE!” Dave yells at them. But as soon as she hears this, Fluttershy opens the back doors and jumps out, opening her parachute to gently fall near the Giga. “Run away Mr.Giga, they’re…” Fluttershy begins to speak but is promptly silenced by the Giga biting her, and all fall silent as twelve words appear at the top of their vision. Your Tribemember Fluttershy - lvl 25 was killed by a Giganotosaurus - lvl 5 After reading this the colour on all the girls faces just vanishes as Cactus begins to pepper the Giga with more shots. “Fluttershy…she…” Pinkie begins to cry out as Rainbow goes to jump out of the open door, but is stopped by Applejack. “LISTEN, I KNOW YOU ALL ARE PROBABLY IN PAIN, BUT RIGHT NOW IF WE DON’T KILL THIS GIGA IT WILL KILL THE REST OF US, SO GRAB SOME CROSSBOWS, HOOK THEM UP WITH GRAPPLING HOOKS AND DO WHAT CACTUS IS DOING, KILLING THE GIGA!” Dave yells from the reigns of WASD. After hearing this Rainbow escapes from Applejacks grip and does exactly that, jumping out the door, using the parachute, and then shooting the foundations of the base and begins peppering the Giga with her own longneck whilst yelling in rage. “DAVE! WHAT DO YOU AND CACTUS KNOW ABOUT THE POSSIBLE RESPAWN LOCATIONS?” Sunset yells to Dave as Applejack and Pinkie follow Rainbows lead and begin adding their firepower to killing the Giga. “SPAWN POINTS ARE ON THE OUTER PERIMETER OF THE ISLAND! SO AFTER WE KILL THIS THING HE’LL PROBABLY ORGANIZE US TO SEARCH FOR HER!” Dave yells back. But as Sunset goes to ask another question. “BUT SHE CAN ALSO RESPAWN AT THE BEDS WE HAVE AT THE BEACH SHACK, OR THE BASE AS WELL!” Dave adds to his comment. “OKAY! SO WHY NOT SPLIT UP NOW?” Twilight asks over the gunfire below them. “BECAUSE WE NEED ALL THE FIREPOWER WE CAN GET TO…” Dave begins to yell then stops. “HURRY IT UP YOU GUYS WASD’S ALMOST OUT OF STAM!” Dave yells to the group below. “WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ITS OUT OF STAM?” Rarity asks. “WE LAND IN FRONT OF THE GIGA AND ALL DIE PROBABLY!” Dave yells back, “OKAY, WE KILL THIS THING THEN TALK MORE?” Sunset asks now afraid after seeing Fluttershy die. “YES! NOW GET…” Dave begins to say until something appears at the top of their vision. Your Tribemember Pinkie Pie - lvl 30 killed Giganotosaurus - lvl 5 As they all see that and yell in celebration, WASD begins to descend. “Why did you…” Sunset begins to ask but is cut off by Dave. “Out of Stam, he’s auto landing, so when we land, let’s all grab some metal,” Dave says as he lands WASD properly and begins to go off to get some metal. “I’ll grab the loot and the Apex drop from the Giga,” Cactus says un-hooking himself with his crossbow and walking over to the Giga corpse. “I’ll…go look for Fluttershy,” Sunset says sadly as she gets off WASD and begins to look for Fluttershys corpse. As Cactus, Sunset, and Dave do their own thing, the rest of the girls stand together. Crying as they hug each other. As Cactus goes to the Giga he puts his hand on its corpse and begins to look through what it had. He sees 20 tranquilizer arrows, 10 basic arrows, a few primitive stone picks and axes, and one of the two Giga hearts he knows he needs. Which Cactus takes everything before looking a bit up the mountain and seeing Dave gathering Metal. Seeing this, Cactus walks up and joins Dave in the gathering of more metal. As Sunset looks for Fluttershys body she begins looking at the different rocks around her. Some are black, some are copper, some are a dark grey, and some have crystal’s jutting out of them. “Quite a diverse set of rock formations. Pinkies sister Maud would probably love this place,” Sunset says to herself as she continues to look for her friends body. As she looks she comes close to Dave and Cactus and listens in to their conversation. “It sucks that Fluttershy died…she had the biggest ti…” Dave begins to say before getting slapped upside the head by Cactus. “They are people too, and while she tried to do what she thought was right, she, and the rest of her friends, got to see only a sample of the danger on just THIS ark,” Cactus says as he rides Andy, destroying rocks and harvesting metal. “You’re not wrong there. But I know you, you’re already thinking of theories on what re-spawing will do to us,” Dave replies with a smirk. “You aren’t wrong Dave, but the more info we have about what happens, determines on what we do, and how we handle bosses,” Cactus says with a sigh. “Well, if she did re-spawn, she’ll probably need some help from her friends,” Dave says kindly. “Look, I’ll let them do what they want, but should they get either of us killed, I can, and WILL leave them for dead, or just kill them myself,” Cactus says coldly. “And should they be useful?” Dave asks. “Keep them with us and help them out as well,” Cactus says calmly as Sunset sees Andy moving slowly. “Looks like he’s filled with metal, let’s get everyone back to base,” Dave says as he runs past Sunsets hiding spot. Hearing all this Sunset then sneaks back to her friends. Unaware that Cactus saw her run from her hiding spot as he was unloading all the useless materials from Andy. As Cactus and Dave return to WASD and the rest of the girls Cactus yells, “Alright everyone on WASD now so we can check back at base. Once we check the base, I can divide us into a search team and one to stick around at base,” “And why should one group of us stay at base! We didn’t put you in charge!” Rainbow yells at Cactus as she marches up to him in anger. “It’s because I have the most knowledge about ARK, AND, I have the base, the materials, and the blueprints. So if you think you can lead, go nuts, but by doing so you’ll be leaving this group and be on your own,” Cactus says to Rainbow. “GRRR, fine! You lead for now!” Rainbow yells before getting on the mobile base on WASD’s back. As the rest of the girls get on, all they can think about, is what happened to Fluttershy. After a long and silent flight back Cactus lands WASD and gets off. While Dave walks Andy to the industrial forge, and the girls silently walk off and just hold one another. Not saying a word. As Cactus enters the tower he goes to the ladder near the door and climbs up it to the floor with beds in it. “Not here…I’ll have to look on the other floors,” Cactus says to himself before climbing up the ladder once more and begins searching the other floors. After checking all the floors Cactus finds hide nor hair of Fluttershy. “Looks like she isn’t in the tower,” Cactus says to himself as he now returns to the ground floor of the tower and leaves and bumps into Dave. “Sorry Dave, but she’s not in there,” Cactus tells Dave. “I wasn’t looking for her, I was going inside to repair my gear, I took a few hits from it,” Dave says with a smile as he rubs the back of his head. “Fix it up, I can’t have you dying on me,” Cactus says kindly with a pat on Dave’s back and a smirk on his face as he walks past to go look for the girls and tell them of his plan. "Looks like we're gonna split up, Rainbow, Pinkie, Applejack, and Dave will take some fliers and fly around the islands natural spawn locations," Cactus starts to say as Rainbow goes to speak Cactus cuts her off, "Natural spawn locations are on the outer ring of the Island like I heard Dave telling you, I'll take Travis and look at any cave bases I set up," He adds before walking off to Travis and flying off. "Why does he think he can lead us?" Sunset asks the others, more curious about Cactus and Dave than anything as she remembers what she overhead on the Metal Mountain. "Don't know, don't care, I say we kick his ass and take everything, and get home," Rainbow says as she pulls all her friends into a hug. "Because Dave might not like it too much?” Pinkie says calmly. “Or could there be more of a reason?” Twilight thinks aloud to her friends. “That might be the case,” Sunset says while she looks to be thinking, and her friends look at her, “Because Cactus said we saw a sample of the dangers on this ARK,” Sunset begins to think aloud, “so with that being said…how many ARKs are there?” Sunset asks her friends. “Six,” Twilight says curiously as her friends now look at her as she thinks. “The notes had six different general locations, and six different maps, so could it be six?” Twilight responds somewhat confidently. “Possible, but if he knows more he might share if we’re,” Sunset says before doing air quotes, “Useful,” she adds calmly. “But we should get to looking for Fluttershy,” Sunset says calmly as she goes to work on her and her friends home for now. A Couple Hours Later Cactus manages to finish his search for Fluttershy around each of the Cave Bases he had set up, but has found no sign of her as he lets out an annoyed sigh. “There’s only one last place I can think of…but I was hoping to keep that place a secret until we beat one of the Guardians first,” Cactus says while both thinking to himself, and riding Travis to the spot he’s thinking of. Authors Note: Well as you all probably read the blog post/ update post, you can all understand why this chapter took so long. Now, I am going to put this on hiatus, but not permanently. I do plan on coming back to this, I just need to find the spark that made me want to write this in the first place, so I’ll be playing ARK for a bit to find that spark.