Another week passed and nothing noteworthy happened…well, that’s only slightly true-
~Flash back about three days ago~
We were just now crossing the threshold of Equestria and into the area known as the volcanic waste; the area was covered with steep/sharp looking rocks coming out from the planet and in the distance active volcanoes could be seen. Fortunately we didn’t have to go deeper into the area because let me tell ya volcanoes are hot…and they have lava that could easily burn your skin...but mostly because it’s hot and I didn’t have enough fire tunics to spread around amongst the group.
That and I didn’t want to get sweaty or get ash all over my coat. Oh, you may be laughing now, but it’s not as easy as it looks to keep up your appearance here and also I’m now going to bitch and whine for the next couple of hours about
*Whack*.
Sorry guys that was Derange thought pattern up there not mine. See this is the reason why I don’t allow you to talk, because it’d be filled with adult images/content and you complaining about everything.
Anyways we were just climbing up a steep hill and rather than walking there I decided to fly up to the top much to the complaining of Minuette, but hey it’s not my fault that someone was afraid of heights. Yeah, because of a little fear of heights our traveling time was cut back by a lot, but a small price to pay in the long run I suppose. Plus I can’t in all good faith complain since I fear spiders…well maybe not fear spiders more like I want to gather every single one, burn them to a crisp, dump the ashes into the center of the world, and piss on their dead bodies, but other than that me and spiders are tight.
As I idly stood on top of the hill waiting for the other to catch up I noticed the most beautiful and majestic looking skywhale thing a majig ever to soar through the sky. Which is close to zero and none since I’m pretty sure flying whales don’t exist back home. The skywhale thing had a deep blueish scale coat--whatever whales have for skin--with a light blue underbelly. It had bright yellow whisker like eyebrows and a grayish looking beard set beard remind me of a cloud. “Hey guys, come check out these…what whale...yeah I’ll go with that. A what whale.” I hollered as I continued to watch the majestic creature soar through the sky.
“Huh, would you look at that.” Silver said as she got to the top looking at the whales in surprise. “And here I thought you were going nuts.”
“Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence.” I replied back sarcastically. I may or may not have told Silver one night that I felt like I was slowly losing my mind and bless her kind heart decided to be such a caring and loving individual…and by that I mean she constantly teases me about it and second guess everything I do.
“My pleasure.” She said with a small grin. Just as the rest of our group was about to join us the most bizarre/terrible thing happened. Three slaver ships appeared from out of the clouds and harpooned the living shit out of it. We watched in horror, well more like I had my mouth agape in shock/surprise while Silver watched with little to no interest, as the majestic creature was brought to nothing more than a giant meal for those mangy mutts. Then as quick as they came they left hauling their newly acquired meal.
“Where is it?” Dinky asked as they finally join us scouring the sky for any signs of the creature. “I don’t see any what whales.” She continued squinting her eyes trying to locate it.
“Exactly.” Silver deadpanned and continued walking right past me as I still looked at the spot where the whale were moments ago.
“See, told ya Derange. You owe me twenty bits.” Minuette said and walked passed me as well.
“So there isn’t any What whales, mommy?” Dinky asked as she now rested on her mother’s back.
“It doesn’t look like it muffin.” Derpy said as she walked by me.
“But…no. Wait…this is all your fault.” Derange said, smacked me upside my head, and flew after them. “Wait Colga…I mean Minuette, can’t we work something out?”
I stood there for a while staring up into the sky and finally said, “But…Wait…what…Why?” And then made my way towards the others still flabbergasted at the events that took place.
~Flashback over~
‘Those poor What whales…Oh well, moving on.’ I thought as we continued on our journey which wasn’t very exciting to say the least. The only exciting parts were when we stop along the way at a couple of small towns and spread some Chaos/Order, but other than that nothing. Granted that was before we even arrived in the Volcanic waste and it was like three small towns that we stopped in to ask for supplies...and a place to stay...and the latest news...and I’m rambling great just great…moving on.
“First mate Dinky, do ye see anything?” Derange asked in a pirate accent as he sat on the end of my tail while wearing a pirate get up and I’m referring to cheesy blackbeard, pirate hat, small parrot on his shoulder, and a peg leg kind of get up.
“Nothing yet, Captain.” Dinky responded as she sat on top of my head using my horns as a resting/holding place as she kept a vigilant eye out for, well, pretty much anything really.
“I see what about ye first wench Colgate?” Derange asked.
“First off, I’m not a wench, second, it’s not Colgate you little fuzz ball.” She snapped and tried to smack him, but Derange just lazily floated away from her reach. “And thirdly, I answered you five minutes ago. Rocks, rocks and big surprise more rocks.”
“Excusssseeeee me, princess, for trying to make this trip somewhat enjoyable/entertaining.” He responded back with a huff.
“*Sigh* You're right. Sorry for snapping at you.” She said with an apologetic look.
“Yeah, well, sorry for calling you a wench.” He half assed said.
‘…well, it’s a start.’ I thought.
“And?” She said.
“And what?” He asked, she just responded with an annoyed glared and huffed.
‘You do that just to piss her off don’t you?’ I thought to him.
‘Eeyup.’ He thought back and flew towards my head and rested on Dinky’s head. “Wake me up when something happens.” He said and curled up into a crown like shape on her head…we’re apparently flexible enough to form a crown and sleep comfortably…seems legit.
After another agonizing ten minutes of complete silence I turned towards Silver and asked, “So how are your supplies doing?” Since I could literally summon most things, without them blowing up, I never really needed to carry any food related items, that and being able to eat pretty much anything helps.
“They’re fine. We have enough supplies to last us another week or two depends on the environment/situation.” Silver monotone.
“Hey Derpy, you see anything up there?” I hollered up to her.
“No, I don’t see anyth-Wait, I think I see somepony, but it’s hard to tell.” She responded back.
Curious, and not completely bored out of my mind, I decided to join her up in the air to get a look. “Hold on tight, Dinky.” I told her as I flexed my wings real quick. I got an ‘ok’ response from her and felt her hooves grab onto my horns.
‘Mental note to self: If I see Twilight again ask her how ponies hold things with hooves.’ I thought and with a powerful flap of my wings joined Derpy in the sky. Scanning the area I could see active volcanoes which were thankfully a good thousands miles away give or take, green hills and or pastures in the distance, and the flat terrain we had entered which was void of anything living and or life, just a shit load of rocks and dead tree shrub things.
“I think I saw something over there, but I’m not sure.” She said as she pointed towards the area while scrunching her eyes.
As I looked towards the flat plains that connected towards the rocky field that we were in, seeing nothing, I heard the familiar sound of wings flapping near my left side. “You see…anything…” I turned and asked my counterpart only to stop and raise one eyebrow. “Really? You just had to use that joke.” I said while shaking my head.
“Hey, I’m dressed as a pirate, so I obviously have to make a pirate joke at some point.” He said as he looked through a telescope that was about five feet long, set telescope somehow managing to stay in one piece and surprisingly not breaking under its own weight.
“So do you see anything?” I asked straining my eyes to see the pony and or individual that’d be dumb enough to travel near volcanoes…Hey, don’t look at me like that, we’re about a thousand miles, away totally different.
“Pffft, no.” He said and chucked the telescope away. “That thing was defective or something. Kept on showing me weird, but pretty cool looking triangles and other colorful shapes. And there was glitter, Lots and lots of glitter.” He said with a reminiscent smile.
I facepalmed. “That was a kaleidoscope wasn’t it?”
“Ow. Who the hey threw this telescope down here!” Minuette yelled now sporting a small bump on her head.
“Apparently it’s a kaleido-something and that’d be yours truly.” He responded with a bow only to dodge a well thrown kaleidoscope to the face. “Hey, hey, hey, watch the face. How else am I going to pick up the mares.” He hollered.
“Sometimes, I don’t even know why I bother asking you stuff.” I told him while resuming my search for the individual.
“Because you love me/yourself.” He said while fluttering his eyes and continued, “And for the lulz…ok, mostly for the lulz.”
I snorted as a response and continued my search. ‘And still nothing though then again it is rather unbelievable that Derpy could see anything that far away to begin with.’ I thought and no I’m not making fun of her eyes it really is rather a long distance like maybe twenty miles give or take and the farthest a human can see, and be able to clearly make out an object/individual, is about 2.9 miles. ‘So for her to be mistaken or to see some sort of mirage is rather like-’ I thought until I was brought out of my musing.
“Oh, there it is. Can you hoof me a binocular?” She asked.
“Yeah, uh huh.” I replied half listening as I handed her one.
‘Now where was I…ah, yes. So the human eye, or in this case equine, could easily be fooled…wait what?’ I thought.
“Ah, ha. I knew I saw something.” She said triumphantly and pointed at the area. Looking towards the direction she was pointing at I could definitely see some sort of movement, but it was too hard to make out who and or what it was. “Should we go check it out?” She asked me.
“It’d probably be in our best interest to go see considering we’re lost.” Silver said as she flew right next to me.
‘….HOLY MOTHER OF NINJA RAPTOR JESUS!’ I thought and jumped.
“Don’t do that, Silver, you scared the…heck out of me.” I said and calmed my heart beat down. “Also were not lost, I know exactly where we’re going.”
“You were taking too long.” She replied with a wing shrug, which by the way doesn’t even make sense since she’s flying. Though that’s coming from the guy who just jumped in the air…Draconquai, why do you make no sense. “Also keep telling yourself that.” She responded with a smirk.
‘Troll.’
“Hey, what’s going on up there?” Minuette yelled.
“We’re making a group decision.” Ditzy yelled back.
“Wait, how can it be a group decision if I’m not a part of it.” Minuette yelled back confused.
“I don’t know. Hey Drake, how can it be a group decision if Minuette not here to help?” Ditzy yelled right into my ear.
“Ow Derpy, I’m right next to you.” I said back to her and yelled to Minuette, “And it’s not a group decision since it’s already decided that we’re going that way anyways that we might as well see what’s going on.”
“Geez guys, why don’t we just put up a big sign saying, ‘Hey we're on our way to kick your ass’.” Silver yelled sarcastically.
“Don’t worry, I’m way ahead of you.” Derange responded as he moved a cloud above us and placed five signs each basically saying where we were, what we were going to do, and some sort of insult about their mother.
“Were the insult to their mother's necessary?” I asked my other half.
He just responded with a shrug.
“I’m surrounded by idiots.” Silver muttered to herself, face hoofed, and then took off leaving a silver trail in her wake.
“*sigh* Why can’t things ever be simple.” I said out loud.
“Because you’re a Draconequus.” Minuette yelled.
“Because we didn’t pack enough muffins.” Derpy stated.
“Because we’re the most sexiest thing in the world and the gods are jealous of us.” Derange answered.
“Because we’re kind.” Dinky chimed in.
I just chuckled at Dinky’s response and then glared at Derange. “You are a bad influence.” I stated.
“Or the greatest foalsitter to ever exist.” He proclaimed to the heavens while posing.
“Doubt it.” Yelled Minuette.
“Sorry Colgate, can’t hear you over the sound of nobody caring.” Derange yelled, but then quickly changed to a sly grin as he gently floated Dinky over towards her mother’s back. “So why don’t we change that.” He said as he prepped his fingers to snap.
“Don’t you even thi*snap*-” Minuette said with a panicked look, but didn’t get to finish her sentence as she poofed away in a violet cloud of smoke.
And then there was screaming, lots and lots of screaming. Oh and choking, can’t forget about the choking. “Minuette. Can’t. Breath.” I managed to choke out.
“Put me down. Put me down. Please, put me down.” Minuette cried as she seemed to squeeze my lungs even tighter.
“OK. Just. Loosen. Grip. Please.” I choked out as I flew to the ground. The moment I reached the surface of Equis, Minuette was off me faster than a June bug doing something…What? I was almost choked to death by an adorable pony. You know, blood circulation and what not and wow, did I just say she was adorable?
…Derange is influencing me everyday… Lauren help me and my sanity.
“Oh sweet mother of Celestia, I missed you.” Minuette said as she hug the earth and gave it a few quick pecks on the cheek, or in this case the ground. She then quickly turned towards the sky and pointed a hoof at Derange. “Don’t you ever do that again or so help me I don’t know what I’ll do.” She threatened.
“Gonna have to get over your phobia at some point, Colgate.” He responded back with a shrug.
“So you just dump somepony in the sky and let them free fall!” She retorted angrily.
“Didn’t say it was the smartest way to go about it.” He responded back with another shrug.
Minuette was about to say something but Derpy interrupted their little squabble. “Shouldn’t we go after Silver, before she gets hurt?”
“Ha, we should be more concerned with the schmucks then Silver.” Derange said.
“True, but we should probably try the diplomacy route first and Silver tends to let her blade do the talking.” I said and closed my eyes to help me think.
‘Okay, it’s about twenty or thirty miles--give or take--and Silver already has a few minute lead on us. We can’t fly because of Minuette and even if we could, we wouldn’t be able to catch up with her since Derpy can’t fly that fast. To the best of my knowledge, I can’t just summon a Ferrari/v-zero, so that’s out. Teleporting out of the question since I don’t know where I’m going which doesn’t make sense since I shouldn’t have to follow the rules, but you know Draconquai are confusing. This only leaves one option.’ I thought and reopened my eyes looking towards the area where we were heading to.
“Were going to have to run aren’t we?” Derange asked as he snapped his fingers and grew to the same size as myself.
“Looks like it.” I stated while turning to look at him and asked, “You thinking what I’m thinking?”
“That running sucks and that we should just leave Colgate behind?” He asked hopefully.
“Excuse me?” Minuette said as she shot a glare towards Derange.
“OK, wow, totally on different thought patterns.” I said shaking my head. “Nope now pick your shoes I choose-” I started to say, but Derange beat me to it.
“Dibs on the white, black, and red colored jet shoes.” Derange said and grabbed the pair before I could.
“But...you're an asshole, you know that.” I said as I glared at him.
“Snooze you lose.” He responded back as he slipped on the pair of sneakers
“Fine then, but I call carrying Ditzy and Dinky.” I replied back while putting on a pair of red and white sneakers.
“What about us?” Ditzy asked.
“Yeah, you mind filling us in on the plan.” Minuette said.
“Well, thanks to you my mademoiselle, we are now forced to run to our destination and since you girls run to slow him and I have to carry you there.” Derange answered and beckoned Minuette over. “Come here.”
“Uh, no.” Minuette said flatly.
“I don’t like the arrangements either, poppet, but you have to honor the sacred rule of dibs.” Derange responded back while Me, Ditzy, and Dinky--who were now on my back--nodded sagely towards Minuette.
“What…but…him!” Minuette said as she pointed at Derange.
“You know what.” Derange began and looked at Minuette. “Screw formalities.” He said and as quick as a snake’s strike grabbed her and placed her on his back.
“What the hay!? Put me down!” She yelled and tried to get off, but was somehow magnetized to Derange’s back.
“SoSinceWereAllSetLet’sHaveARace.LoserHasToBuyIceCreamForEveryone.Ready.Set.GO!” Derange said at Pinkie Pie speed and ran off towards a sea of jagged spikes poking out from the world. The second he left two things happened: one a familiar song started to play and two-
“OH YOU DIRTY CHEATER!” I yelled and dashed off after him.
The world around me exploded into a blur of fast moving obstacles. Demonic, twisted, and any other descriptive word for, ‘holy crap this looks evil/creepy’ whizzed by me as I chased after Derange. The pathway--or track I guess--split into two: the right path lead to a chasm while the left path lead to a pathway that ran alongside it. Derange at first went to the right, but not even halfway up the path he did a 180 and sent a raspberry my way.
My response was to give him the good old one finger salute, but it didn’t seem to even faze him as he turned his body back around to land neatly allowing him to continue running. I decided to go with the right path and pushed my legs as hard as I could to catch up with him. It didn’t take long to catch up with him as we were now neck and neck in this so called race.
“Well, look who decided to join us.” Derange said as he flashed me a smile while running backwards.
‘Show Off.’ I thought. I noticed that Minuette seemed to be screaming her lungs off and frantically beating Derange, yet not even a peep was coming out of her lungs. Though I should count him lucky in that department because my passengers felt the opposite about the current situation.
“WHHHHEEEEEEEEE~” Derpy and Dinky yelled out excitedly while waving their hooves in the air as if they were on a roller coaster. How they were still attached to my back and not falling off, I’ll never know.
“You’re a cheater, you know that.” I yelled towards my counterpart.
“Sorry, I’d love to stay and chat about this, but I have a race to win so-” He said as he flipped himself back around while he grabbed a green looking emerald from his feathery coat. “Later, Chaos Control.” He yelled and in the blink of an eye he was gone.
“I call hax!” I cried out loud to no one in particular. “Well two can play that game.” I said with a sinister smirk and scanned through my Pip-Boy inventory until I found a red emerald. As I selected set item it appeared a few feet in front “Chaos-” I started to say as I grasped the emerald in my claw. “-Lance” I yelled.
A few seconds later I was rewarded with a loud explosion followed by, “OH, IT. IS. ON.”
“Well you’re going to have to catch up with me first.” I yelled as I passed by a small meteor like indent in the ground were a charcoaled looking Derange was poking his head out. Then I ran, ran as fast as I could. Straining each and every muscle in my leg to outrun the evil little devil that was after me. The course/track we were on seemed to become a jungle of spikes as I was now forced to run in figure eight like patterns.
“Yo, what up?” Derange said from the left of me. Taking a glance I could see him not running beside me, but was instead jumping from spike to spike.
‘Goddamn show off.’ I thought to myself.
“Homing Attack!” He yelled as he scrunched himself into a small ball.
“No, no, no, no!” I screamed as I quickly ran towards a spike just barely passing it by as Derange boulder on right through it, which forced him out of his little ball and to continue his wall/spike jumping to catch back up. As the first song in our race came to a close a new melody started to play.
We’d just existed the minefield of spikes to enter a steep hill. My speed increased by ten folds and I wouldn’t be surprised if I broke the speed barrier anytime soon. Derange was right beside me, neck and neck, as we continued our way down the hill. A cave seemed to present itself at the end and with no other choice we entered the dark cave.
It was pitch black for not even a second as the cave’s crystal gave off an unnatural lime green glow illuminating the cave just barely enough to see a few feet ahead of us. We then began to figure eight one another and if we weren’t racing it would have been a pretty cool stunt to show off. The cave then descended into a small underground passage where we were forced to run along the side of the cave-- think of a spiral effect-- to give us enough room to fit through the passage and out into an underwater cavern.
Luckily the water wasn’t too deep because it would have sucked to have an underwater race. I shuddered at the memoires of the levels that involved water. Yet it would have been deep enough to hinder our movement, would have being the keyword. Because of how fast we were moving, we were literally running on top of the water. I cannot even begin to describe how awesome it felt to be doing this.
Oh wait, I can. It was bucking amazing! It felt like flying, only you were running, a sense of freedom that you could never really get back home. No responsibility. No care in the world. Just you and the wind under your wings. It’s an amazing feeling to feel one that I will never truly forget.
Back to the race, the underwater cavern didn’t last long as we speed on by and back into a normal dry cavern. The cavern was just like the one before the only difference being that there were more stalagmites--Yes I looked up the differences sue me--sticking out from the ground of the cave.
“We must kung fu fight.” Derange said as he tried to high jump kick me.
I easily dodged out of the way and kept my momentum up. “What the hell is wrong with you?” I hollered.
“Less talking and more fighting.” He said as he close the gap between us and started to swipe at me with his claws. I was then left with no choice but to dodge, block, and counterattack Derange since he seemed to have gone crazy…Ok, crazier. Man the way we were fighting reminded me of DBZ the only difference being that I was in a world of magical talking ponies and I’m currently fighting myself, but other than that I felt like by the end of the day I was going to question everything that happened so far *Spoiler alert he doesn’t*. Wait a tick. If this world exists then it’s possible that DBZ does….or a universe with MLP characters in the fighting universe of DBZ…by the Gods there could be a universe with MLP characters in the fighting universe of DBZ while there’s a chess game going on…my brain hurts.
Anyways back to the fighting. We were trading blow after blow in succession giving neither side room to breathe. Minuette was still the same screaming in panic, with no sound coming out, while Ditzy and Dinky were happily cheering me on. We then grasped one another’s hands trying to see if we could overpower the other. Side note we were still running while doing set action. I stared into Derange eyes while he stared back into mine. He had a friendly smirk on his face which I returned full hardly. We were like this for no longer than a minute until, “Look at!” Derpy cried out as she pointed towards a giant pillar sized stalagmite.
At the last second we broke apart only for the cave to split off. ‘Crap! I can’t turn around now and that was the way out of here.’ I thought and how did I know that? Because there was a little sign above my head saying, ‘You’re going the wrong way’. The cave went into a steep climb as I continued my running, sections of the wall opened up towards the outside giving me a clear view of the layout. I could see Derange making his way out of the cave and into the second to final stretch of the track…which had loops lots and lots of loops. That and deadly spikes, pitfalls, pitfalls with deadly spikes, random mechanized looking creatures, and explosions. But yeah, nothing totally out of the ordinary.
Back to the problem at hand...or is it claw...whatever you get the idea.
I had to find a way to get back onto the right path and to also make sure I didn't lose to Derange, because if I do lose I’d never hear the end of it. That and I don’t have any type of currency on me so how would I pay for set ice cream. Oh and I know what you’re thinking, but you can just summon food. Yeah well I like the feeling of spending money every once and awhile so get off my back. Getting over my little rant, I took notice that the cave would split off into three different directions in about a minute or two giving me plenty of time to think this carefully.
“Drake…Drake…Use the force.” Said the strange yet familiar voice.
“Morgan Freeman?” I asked with hope because let’s be honest, if I had Morgan goddamn Freeman in my head telling me what to do or giving me advice that would be the most epic thing of all times.
“What? No this is Lauren.” She said confused.
“Oh.” I replied back disappointed.
“Did I do something wrong? Did you not get the joke?” She asked uncertainly.
“No, no I got the reference and yes that totally helps.” I said sarcastically and continued, “So any particular reason as to why you’re calling me?”
“Hmmmm, no, not really. Just wanting to check in is all. Oh and I must apologize, but it appears that I distracted you and now you’re going towards a dead-end…Oh dear, it appears I forgot to turn off my tea kettle. We should really talk again soon, toodles.” She said and ended the…wait what!?
And just like she said, I was so distracted by our conversation that I unintentionally went towards the left path. Which I might add lead to another sharp skyward climb that had a dead-end sign…perfect. The dead-end was nothing more than a bunch of shoddy looking wood hammered in a crisscross pattern that was done by an amateur. I mean a ten year old could have done a better job than whoever did this monstrosity.
Which lead me to a brilliant idea. ‘If I could just gain enough speed it should work.’ I thought to myself as I took a hold of my red emerald once more. “Chaos-” I began already pushing my body to its limits. Knowing that this would be the last time I’d be able to get away with using my gem’s power and that I’d have to rely on my own strength afterwards. “-Boost!” I yelled and shot forward merely moments away from crashing into the blockade, but I still wasn’t going fast enough.
‘Come on, just a bit-’ I didn’t even get to finish that thought as I was suddenly deafened by a ‘Boom’ sound followed by me shooting forward at even insaner speeds…wait. Does that even make sense….oh wait, Draconequus. Daring to take a glance behind me, I was surprised to see a rainbow trail following me in my wake. Ignoring the strange phenomenon--and the cheers from Derpy and Dinky--, I turned back just in time to burst through the blockade and to shoot out of set cave. And just like that we were now soaring over the track. It had the same feeling as flying only there was also the feeling of falling.
“What the buck?” Said a familiar dark coated Pegasus.
“HI, Silver!” Derpy cried out while chewing on a muffin--don’t ask how, where, or why. She’s Derpy, enough said--and waved at her at the same time. “Bye, Silve!r” She cried out once more while waving since we were going sonic speed + rainboom speed and I’m no mathematician, but I can only assume we were going really really fast. Taking a look back I could barely see Silver anymore either too flabbergasted by the events that she had to stop or she stopped to facehoof or we were going that fast, but I felt the first two were the more plausible ones. Looking down now I could see that I was right above Derange as the former was just existing his final loop before the area to turned into a flat spot for miles.
Right before we were about to crash land into Derange I yelled, “Look at below~.” The latter skillfully dodging out of the way and by that I mean he ducked and rolled out of the way. While I rolled myself into a ball, making sure that Dinky and Derpy were safe, and bounced against the ground a few times before I retracted myself out of ball form and resumed my run once more.
“And here I thought I was the cheater.” Derange yelled a few feet behind me.
“Hey, at least I gave you a warning.” I retorted only to feel a shove from the left of me Derange just now catching up with me. “Oh two can play that game.” I said and returned the shove sending Derange a few feet away. He then charged me once more, but I was prepared this time as I charged towards him effectively cancelling out his shove. We were now pushing against one another, trying to see who could overpower the other. Our heads were pushed against one another and our eyes lined up not even paying attention to where we were going.
“LOOK OUT!” Minuette said as she forced her way in-between us-- wait does that count as a threesome?--and pointed towards a steep cliff. Too late to stop or change our course we ran straight off the cliff and we were now free falling. One thought passed through my head as we plummeted to our doom, ‘If two mind readers read each other’s minds, who's mind are they reading?’
What? Who said all my thoughts had to make sense.