The northern incident

by Trigger_Finger

Chapter 3: Natural love

The group entered their base, wind blowing against their backs with great force, and managed to shut the door behind them.

Reese rolled up to them in his wheelchair. “So… what did yah find?” he asked and Shining was speechless.

“Whatever happened there… happened a long time ago” Johner informed him then they all went to the mission debriefing room and downloaded their mission recordings into the main computer.

For the next several hours they looked over what they had all seen, looking for clues they may have missed and asking Chrysalis if she remembered anything. Nothing seemed to jog her memory however.

As they watched Bear’s footage of the closet incident Johner saw something that caught his attention. “Whoa… hey… wait, wait-wait. What the buck is that” Johner muttered and pointed to what looked to be a black cat on the top shelf of the closet.

Bear looked as well while Reese pressed the pause button on the recording. It was nothing really interesting so Reese pressed the play button and the recording continued. Nothing particularly eerie happened but Johner looked over to Bear.

“Guess it was the cat making all the motion” Johner muttered. “How the hay did you miss the cat?” Johner asked and Bear simply shrugged. The recording continued and Chrysalis let out a sigh of relief. She had thought something would have jumped out of the closet.

She nestled herself into Doc Hoof’s chest and Shining looked to Doc with a raised eyebrow. Doc simply shrugged.

Suddenly the cat’s head began to shake slightly and Johner looked forwards. Its eyes changed from the regular green cat eyes to a blood red. Suddenly the cat’s head cocked to one side and its mouth opened irregularly wide.

Reese scrunched his nose. “That’s one heck of a yawn” he muttered then almost gagged as the cat’s lower jaw split in two and a it began to shake violently. A long snakelike tongue ripped out of its face just as Bear and Firefly turned away.

Johner shook his hoof. “Wait-wait, no turn ba… turn back… dammit” he cursed then looked to Bear. “How the hay did you miss that?” he asked and once again Bear shrugged. The group heard sobs of fear coming from Chrysalis and they all looked over to her.

Doc Hoof did the best he could to comfort her and Shining simply sighed to himself. Weird how such a nightmarish creature could be frightened by another nightmarish creature.

The recording soon ended and Johner yawned then looked to the clock in the room. It was late in the evening and he was sort of exhausted from the day though he hadn’t done much. “Well that was sure creepy but it’s not gonna interrupt my sleep any time soon… night” Johner said then trotted off with his gear still on.

The others soon proceeded to do the same and all went about to do their own things.

Shining sat alone by himself in the parlour with a picture of Cadence and himself from the day of their marriage. How times had changed since they first met. Things were so stressful these days and the upcoming Equestria games didn’t help at all.

He opened the refrigerator with his magic and levitated over a can of soda pop. Though he didn’t care all that much for soda he did fancy a tasteful beverage every now and then but absolutely refrained from alcohol.

Elsewhere in the base Star Dust toyed with Golden Shield again. “Oh come on Goldy, you did it last night” she teased and Golden Shield blushed. It wasn’t his intention to become infatuated with the mare but his more primal side had taken the best of him the night before and he didn’t want to give into that lustful feeling again.

“No… I can’t” he told her and she giggled as she stepped closer to him. Golden Shield was stricken in shock as she began to nibble on his ear.

“Oh come on. What else are we going to do up here?” she asked seductively and he gulped. Star Dust pushed his body back and onto a bed then quickly pinned his body with her own. “I knew you couldn’t resist my feminine charm” she giggled.

In another room sat Bear with his large machete. He slowly slid the blade along a wet stone and sharpened the blade to a ridiculously sharp edge that you could literally use to shave body fur off, without even trying.

Firefly walked in and saw Bear with his machete then gulped. “Hey Bear… whatcha doing?” he asked fearfully. Bear always scared the living hay out of him.

Bear raised his machete and let the light from the overhead bulbs gleam off the precise blade. Firefly gulped. “Sharpening your… knife eh” he said as he felt goose bumps form on his body.

“Do you… mind if I sit down… Golden Shield and Dusty took my bed” Firefly asked and Bear let out a gruff grunt as his reply then nodded. Firefly nodded then sat beside the stallion who was sharpening the blade to an even greater edge, if that was even possible.

Firefly grabbed a bottle of whiskey from the fridge that stood beside the couch and popped open the cork top. “Wanna drink?” Firefly asked his bulky friend. Bear simply winced and looked away. “I’ll take that as a no… more for me, right?” Firefly chuckled then swilled back a gulp of John Doe whiskey. It had a bitterly sour taste to it that made Firefly wince a little in disgust.

Lilac had offered to play Sunburst in another game of chess but he turned down the offer, saying he had better things to do. Sunburst quickly trotted over to the computer, which wasn’t hooked up to the internet due to the fact that they had no cable or satellite connection from where they were.

Sunburst quickly turned on the computer and played a chess game against the computer AI. At first he thought he was winning. Sunburst had taken the computer’s rook, its queen, both Bishops and a knight along with numerous pawns.

However just as Sunburst thought he would win a game of chess for the first time since he could remember, the computer suddenly moved its remaining rook and the screen read ‘Checkmate, Play again: Y/N’.

Sunburst curled his lips in anger and looked over to a bottle of wine. He opened the wine bottle then poured the liquid contents into the modem. It crackled and sizzled as it short-circuited then simply died. Sunburst smiled, the computer had won the battle but he had won the war.

Lilac simply chucked from behind his steamed friend. “You could have just lowered the difficulty you know. I had it set on very hard” Lilac chuckled and Sunburst groaned. ‘And Lilac profits from the war’ Sunburst thought to himself.

Pippy was receiving more tutelage from Reese but due to the long hours of the day he soon dozed off. Reese looked over to the young stallion and smiled. He himself had never had a child but if he ever did, he hoped they would be like Pippy.

Reese picked up the young stallion in his forelegs and rolled his wheelchair out of the basement then to Pippy’s room. He set the young stallion onto his bed and covered him up as best he could.

Reese smiled as he looked both ways then leaned over and gave Pippy a kiss to the forehead. “Goodnight kid” he whispered then rolled his wheelchair out of the room and shut off the lights behind him. A tear had formed in the gruffly old stallion’s eyes which he quickly wiped away

Johner had decided to take a shower just before he went to bed. He slipped off his clothes and got into the shower but not before turning on the shower radio. However it had to play his own tapes due to it not being able to pick up radio signals.

That didn’t bother Johner however, he just figured this way there’d be less commercial interruptions between songs.

He slipped in one of his favourite tapes just as he got into the shower and cranked the radio right to its maximum volume. The musical beats of the tune echoed in the washroom as Johner washed off his body. His fur drooped down with wetness and splashed about in the bottom of the shower as water soaked into his fur

Johner smiled to himself, sometimes kick-flank music and a hot shower was a good way to just forget about life’s problems.

Johner smiled to himself. He simply let his problems drain away like it was getting washed off his body and would get sucked down the drain of the shower. He reached out of the shower and grabbed his thermos, taking a large sip of homemade cider before returning to showering.

Elsewhere sat Doctor Hoofington with the still fazed Queen Chrysalis who he kept company. She looked to him with the faintest of smiles. “Thank you… you are so kind and affectionate. Most ponies think I’m hideous” Chrysalis said. The comment made Hoofington gulp shyly and blush.

“Well maybe the others… just haven’t seen your inner beauty like I have” Hoofington replied and his comment made Chrysalis blush in return. The two stepped towards each other and in an act of sudden passion, Doc Hoof wrapped one of his forelegs around Chrysalis’ neck and began to make out with her.

Chrysalis allowed herself to fall under Hoofington’s grasp and he led their bodies over to medical table as they continued to make out. He set her body down on the table and crawled on top of her. Hoofington ran his hooves up and down Chrysalis’ sides, making her moan in sheer pleasure from the bodily contact.

Chrysalis began to run her hooves up and down Hoofington’s back. She wrapped her hindlegs firmly around Hoofington’s back as he pulled away from the kiss and began to trail sloppy wet kisses down her neck.