"now what?" i asked, slightly quickly due to the amount of raiders getting closer to us.
"we surrender!" Brightspark shouted, throwing his weapon onto the floor, i quickly followed suit and removed my battle saddle and saddlebags, "what? are you two out of your frickin minds?" shouted flowerbed.
"just a little" i brought my hooves together but left a very tiny gap.
"oh you guys are mine now! my little playthings, don't worry we'll take care of your weapons, which are ours now..." the brown buck in front of us said whilst laughing insanely. why did Brightspark surrender like that? i'm sure we could have taken them on, or perhaps not i mean this is a raider town isn't it?
the brown buck told some ponies to take us somewhere, i'm not sure where i was busy wondering why in the blue hell Brightspark did that. "ow!" i shouted rubbing my flank "what was that for?" i looked back to see a raider pointing my weapon back at me with a maniacal grin on his face, when i get outta here he is first...
"get moving you three, the cage isn't that far, thank discord" the flank poking raider grumbled, wait did he say discord, as in spirit of chaos and disharmony discord? they worship him? ok i guess that makes sense, a blue jittery buck trotted up to that brown spiky haired buck (i think he's the leader) "hey vase, that buck had some really good fire-power on him, maybe we can finally leave this shit-hole and move to somewhere like, well the concrete city?" the brown buck who's name is vase as i just overheard snapped the blue bucks neck, what the fuck?
"listen up all you fucks, we stay here, we get slaves like those three fucks in the cage, we scare them, we play with them, then we sell them... or kill them, i don't care" vase shouted then walked with a stagger into what appeared to be a shop of sorts. wait since when were we, oh forget it i never do pay attention do i?
"so do you have a cunning plan to get us out of here then?" flowerbed grumbled trying to get out of his bucktape. (they tied our hooves together with bucktape and then attached those to the wooden cage with more bucktape)
"yeah why in the blue hell did you surrender anyway? we had them... i think" i retorted unsurely oh man i gotta itch now.
"in all due time sparky" brightspark said camly, did he just call me sparky? i'm so gonna smack him for that one, sparky my ass...
"anyway if none of you two popcorn farts are going to get us out of here then perhaps i shall!" i said with pride, well sometime you must try to raise yourself up and win the day, right? "you get us out of here? hah!" flowerbed laughed "you couldn't even hold your own against a hellhound let alone a town full of raiders" he laughed again. vase started approaching us in the cage, oh shit, please don't kill us!
"hey you two, shut the fuck up! did i tell you to speak? no? then shut the fuck up!" he shouted at us whilst looking at flowerbed and brightspark, "hey what's wrong shorty you look scared, whats the matter, life out here not as good as in the stables huh? up here we rule you see, or shall i teach you this?" he stood back up as a green buck was brought over wearing a sack on his head "your friend i presume?" vase said with a smirk, right before he sliced the poor bucks head off with a machete *thump* the body fell to the ground with a meaty slap, safe to say brightspark threw up.
"not our friend" flowerbed said quietly to himself whilst staring at the floor.
"what was that? do you want me to slice you up too, like your friend? shut the fuck up! ok? i'm the one with the fucking dick, look me, look at me in the fucking eye!" vase shouted quickly at flowerbed, who looked up at vase with no emotion, that buck has a good pokerface.
"your my bitch, i rule this fucking land, shut. the. fuck .up, or you die!" vase screamed at flowerbed before looking at me with a sincere smile, he sat down next to me "what is it shorty? what is it? why aren't you laughing now like you did down there? is this not fun anymore? have i failed to entertain you? you see down there you thought you had a chance but up here... on land, it's ok, i'm gonna chill, we're gonna relax, because you (he points at me) moi (he points at himself) and *whistles* your tough guy friend (points at flowerbed) are gonna have alot of fun together tomorrow" he ranted crazily, oh sweet celestia make him stop talking and fuck off, we need to escape!
"hey boss, stop scaring the slaves! we need you to take care of the mares" a raider buck said from behind him, vase stood up and sauntered off towards him "we'll see if you two Fucks are more entertaining then our friends, ta ta" vase trotted away with the buck leaving us alone.
"holy frosted luna's panties, that buck is a psycho!" brightspark shouted struggling to get out. he really is picking up on my vocabulary. funny really, he's a unicorn who knows magic and yet he can't untie a bit of bucktape, whilst flowerbed just sits there staring at the floor again what the hell?
there was a sound of ripping as flowerbed stood up free from his bucktape imprisonment, "well come on then hero, you going to get us out of here?" he said with a smirk, how did he do that? wait bucktape not rope, idiots. i pulled my hooves out of the bucktape bringing some stinging and a resounding rip. "allright then, plan of escape, don't get seen, stay low and stick to the shadows" i said quietly whilst untying brightspark.
"decent sounding plan, but i'm going to go get my weapons back" flowerbed said and with that he ran out of the cage, what an idiot, he's definitely going to die.
"are we going to go after him?" brightspark questioned.
"fuck that! let's concentrate on getting out of here" i retorted with a laugh, i'm not crazy. we walked slowly out of the cage and hugged the walls to avoid being spotted, "so what did you mean before when you said in due time?" i asked, scratching my mane.
"um... well i can't say yet, but we will be fine when we get to either pondale or neighton." he said slowly, where? how does he know of towns when we were both born in a stable?
i threw a rock to distract a raider ahead so we could sneak into the shop next to us, "allright then, give me a hoof here" he stood underneath the window giving me room to squeeze in through it, the coast was clear no raiders so i stuck my hoof out the window to pull brightspark in but he was gone. "what? where the fuck has he gone?" i whispered to myself. i walked towards the door on the opposite side of the room but something purple caught my eye "is that... starscream? oh god what have they done to you?" the poor weapon was in bits, snapped in half by the looks of things, i guess the raiders couldn't get it to work.
i walked back to the door and peeked through the keyhole to see two raiders standing on either side of the door holding what appeared to be shotguns in shit condition. this could work, i looked around for a weapon i could use, only managing to find a couple of throwing knives i tied them to my hooves with some bucktape and slowly opened the door.
"hey did you see vase take down that flower buck?" one of the raiders said slightly amused.
"yeah, that was awesome. i'm glad i'm not him!" the other laughed.
those fuckers... he was our bodyguard, so to speak or weapons expert if you prefer. fuck! "psst" i whispered and the two raider bucks turned round for me to jam my hoof blades into their eyes. messy. i pulled my hooves out of their eyes but the blades were stuck in their heads, they fell to the floor with a wet splat. "ew.. thats gonna stain my coat, i'll take those" i said picking up their shotguns, i attached one to my arm with bucktape whilst the other i held in my mouth.
now i suppose the best thing to do would be to get out of this town, but i really want to get revenge on vase, where would he be, didn't they say something about mares? let's go further into town then. i ran across the street and ducked behind a box just as a raider having a smoke walked past. "huh, what was that?" he said stopping, shit! did he hear me... fuck! i crawled into a gap underneath the house to avoid his vision.
"nah probably radroaches again" he snorted and walked off. damn now where? somepony poked me in the shoulder from beside me, i stifled a shout of suprise... it was brightspark.
"where the hell did you run off to?" i whispered to him, trying not to alert anypony of our hiding spot.
"i went to do somethings, trying to find a radio, but then i realised your pipbuck has a broadcaster, mind if i use it?" he reached out and started pressing some buttons on my pipbuck bringing up the broadcaster tab.
"so what is this for again?"
"you'll see..." he replied, he pressed the broadcast button and i heard a radio sop playing music in the building above.
"attention pondale steel rangers, this is Head scribe Brightspark requesting immediate assistance, i repeat this is head scribe brightspark of the pondale rangers requesting immediate assistance, we have been taken hostage by raiders in hoofsville, we have located their leader broken vase, requesting immediate assistance over" he said into my pipbuck and let go of the broadcast button waiting for a reply.
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meanwhile in a bar not far from hoofsville, there were two travelling merchants sitting at the bar discussing the wares they have collected and were thinking of where they could go to sell, when one of them noticed a cyan pegasus wearing what appeared to be white segmented armour with a scorpion tail. "hey who's that guy in the corner, he looks like some sort of mercenary with an attitude problem." one of the merchants whispered, the other smacked him on the back of his head.
"you idiot, he might hear you, don't you know who that is? thats the lost pegasus!" the merchant on the left snapped.
"if i were you two i'd be quiet and change the subject" the bartender said, whilst cleaning a mug. there was a burst of static from the radio followed by a distressed voice: "attention pondale steel rangers, this is Head scribe Brightspark requesting immediate assistance, i repeat this is head scribe brightspark of the pondale rangers requesting immediate assistance, we have been taken hostage by raiders in hoofsville, we have located their leader broken vase, requesting immediate assistance over" the speech cut of and was followed with static.
the cyan pegasi sighed with annoyance "well looks like i got some work to do." he got up and cracked his neck and walked outside, not paying the barkeep.
"holy shit did you see the size of that rifle?" the merchant on the right shouted. smack!
"he might hear you, we can't talk to him, you don't want him to kill us do you?" the merchant on the right said and walked outside to watch the pegasus fly away. but he was already gone, leaving behind a scorch mark on the ground.
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Back in hoofsville
"do you think they got it? or was i on the wrong frequency?" brightspark said in worry, he grabbed his head in his hooves and started to panic. "brightspark, you just broadcasted that over the entire wasteland... someone will hear it and help, i hope." i replied calmly.
"how can you stay so calm! we are trapped in a raider encampment and vase killed flowerbed.. how do you do it?" he shouted, oh this isn't going to end well...
"shh, stay quiet we can't run the risk of being heard, if they find us we are dead, just like flowerbed..." i said calmly again.
the floorboards in the building above us creaked and a raider could be heard "he did you fucks hear that?" he shouted.
"hear what, you're para... pret... ah fuck it your hearing things you fucker!" the other raider shouted.
"i'm gonna kill all of these bastards..." i whispered, my horn started glowing black as the night, my eyes also started glowing and leaking purple mist. you see when a unicorn thinks dark thoughts or evilly and starts using magic it shows on them this is known as dark magic, similar to back in the olden times of equestria when the crystal empire was under a sombratic rule...
"uh circuit... your negatively glowing, what are you thinking?" he started to shudder when i looked at him in anger.
"i'm gonna kill every last one of them, it's these sort of ponies that invaded our stable... or should i say my stable steel ranger..." i shot daggers at him, how could i be so stupid! all ponies who belong in the stable when they turn 10 years old receive the pipbuck, how can you not want one? they are so handy. some friend...
i crawled out from under the building and stood infront of the door. "circuit what are you doing! you'll die!" he said scared now.
"not unless they go first" i growled in a voice unlike my own. my horn started glowing in a dark blue overglow as i charged up my energy, i'm gonna blow them up! "oh shit!" brightspark shouted and ran out from under the house just as i fired a beam of electricity through the building, vaporising the raiders within. i collapsed onto the street exhausted, that was too much magic i used up there.
"come on this is no time for a nap! we need to get out of here!" exclaimed brightspark pointing at the raider horde coming at us.
"just five more minutes" i groaned falling out of conciousness.
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"hoofsville should be just over that hill" said the pegasus in a gruff voice. he flew over the hill and hovered in the air to take in the surroundings. "hmm the kid was right, this is a raider encampment, wait a minute" the pegasus brought up his rifle in his hooves, similar to how a zebra would hold it on the ground and looked through the scope at a shining blue light.
"damn that kid has alot of magic..." he said in surprise just as one of the buildings lit up with blue lightning, he saw the buck fall onto the floor unconscious and noticed the horde of raiders heading his way. "damn, looks like it's time to cleanse this town" he racked the bolt of his rifle loading a .60 calibre round into the chamber, he aimed at the nearest raider to the bucks and... BOOM! the shot echoed around sounding like thunder in a storm, safe to say the raider was nothing but a stain on the floor next to some boots...
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"oh shit, oh lorn what now!" brightspark said in a panicked tone just as he heard thunder close by, "sweet celestia's flaming orgasms! what the smeg was that!" he shouted as a raider exploded behind him leaving a small crater in the street.
"oh bloody hell! i need to get out of here! Short circuit!" he ran over to short circuit and supported him on his own back.
"celestia damn you're heavy!" he complained as another raider exploded from the thunder. he started running back to the hills where we originated from but was stopped by a group of raiders blocking them off.
"oh shit..." There was a strong gust of wind and a pegasus clad in white armour landed next to brightspark holding a massive rifle on his back.
"you can stop panicking now, i'm here to help"
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Short Circuit: Status - Unconcious... Cannot level up
Brightspark: LEVEL UP!
+1 Survival
+2 Endurance
+1 Stamina
Non-Hostile Located: The Lost Pegasus
His Special:
S: 8
P: 9
E: 8
C: 5
I: 9
A: 8
L: 10
Unlockable Added: Soundtrack - Theme of the Watchful (Lost Pegasus)