Moving On
After I had Destroyed my memory orbs. I felt a weight lift off of my shoulders. My squad just stared at me with a confused expression.
"What are you looking at ." I grunted. They just resumed what they were doing. I just sat in the corner with my eyes closed thinking about Spector. the pony that had betrayed us and locked us in cryogenic sleep. I'll never forget what he said.
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"Gunner, you have to understand. I am doing this for your own good. this war was just a mistake but I will make it better."
"NO". I shouted as he closed the blast door locking me and my team in the cryo tubes. Then the world just faded away.
When I awoke to Ghost shaking me. I looked up at the light grey mare with a silver mane. I always wondered why they called her Ghost.
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"What is wrong". I asked she just stared at me with a concerned look on her face. Longeye said from the corner of the room "You started thrashing and yelling while you were sleeping...Sir."
" I was." I asked in confusion. I was not aware I had fallen asleep. I looked to Backblast who just nodded. I then noticed he was out of his armor on a chair with Longeye wrapping his shoulder and chest with bandages. Did he get injured while I had fell asleep.
"Backblast" I said worried. He looked towards me with a small smile.
" Its nothing Gunner just a scratch, Ill be fine what were you dreaming about." He said in his drawl. I looked over to my friend who has been with me for years. He was a a deep shade of grey that looked almost black with a white mane with red stripes through it. He always loved explosives and things that caused them.
" I was dreaming about the day that Spector had betrayed us." I told him my voice dripping with venom at the mere mention of his name. "Why were you thinking about what happened that day Gunner." Ghost asked in a hushed tone.
"Trying to figure out what he meant by I will fix it." I replied.
We needed to find Wellington. According to Stardancer's note he knows where Spector is. I asked everyone what we should do and we decided that now was the time for us to move towards the armory. There has to be something there for us to use.
According to the map the armory is one level above us . As we were walking through the hallways. I noticed that the security robots were nowhere to be found. They had to have been disabled or destroyed. I knew I shouldn't have thought that because as soon as I got around a corner a bright pink flash flew past my face signaling that I had found a active turret.
"Damn."
I stumbled and fell backwards into Ghost who eeped. Longeye laughed at us while Backblast just destroyed the turret with a missile. While I was untangling myself from Ghost, Longeye snatched my keycard and tossed it to Backblast who was opening the door the turret was guarding. It was the security office.
"Sorry about that Ghost." I said sheepishly
"Its fine Gunner. im okay and so are you that's all that matters." she said with a small blush on her cheeks.
as I looked through the room I noticed it had a bank of monitors along the back wall and a group of lockers lining the left wall and a desk next to the right wall with a terminal on it and a few stacks of paper.
Longeye went straight for the monitors. Ghost helped Backblast with the lockers while I walked over to the desk. The terminal was in standby and was logged on. On it were a few security reports about some rats. Another log had my name put on it. The author was Spector. I decided to open it up and found a message for me saying.
"Gunner, I know you will find this when you wake up. The reason I left the turret on was to keep undesirables out of the office you are in for two reasons. One so you can find this and two to give you something. In the locker by the door is a map and my assault rifle Punishment.and several clips of ammunition for it but I suspect you already know what it shoots if you forgot it's .308 rounds and has an incendiary enchantment and a scope. With much luck Spector"
"Damn it." I smacked the terminal and the locker by the door opened revealing a map and Punishment. Ghost walked silently over to the locker and examined it for booby traps. When it was clear I grabbed the map and gave it to Ghost so she could look it over. then she put it in her pocket. I picked up Punishment and looked it over. This was the rifle Spector had shot me with. It brought back the terrible feeling of pain in my shoulder. I reached up and felt my shoulder just to have my hoof grabbed by Ghost who gave me a knowing smile. Then she hugged me much to my surprise. Then she whispered in my ear
"Everything will be okay as long as we are together nothing will stand in our way."
She has such a sweet voice I wish she would talk more often. We then continued on the way to the armory just to encounter more of the giggling ponies covered in blood wielding crude weapons. They were easy to dispatch. They just don't know when to quit these ponies were sloppy and unorganized. They cant even take down one mare by herself. By that I mean is Longeye is an expert in close quarters combat. A few well placed bucks and they were either killed or knocked unconscious. then I heard the sound of muffled crying in a closet after the little altercation with them we had to use one of the medkits on a mare they had captured and had their way with.poor thing she would only let either Ghost or Longeye touch her which I could understand. must have been terrifying...never did ask for her name. She just up and run off after the girls had finished helping her. We then continued our journey to the armory my pipbuck indicated that I was running low on ammunition for my light machine gun. So I just slung it over my back and equipped Punishment. My shoulder gave off the burning sensation again just to remind me whose gun this was.
Hallway after hallway we walked killing more of the giggling ponies.
Did I mention that the giggling gets annoying after awhile.