One Trip We Didn't Plan
Chapter 9: What's in that head of yours?
"...This is not at all how we remember the ambassador apartments. We apologize but-" Luna looked to Doug and Kevin. They were unconscious on the floor. Kevin was twitching and Doug was drooling. "EEEEEK! GUARDS! Come quick!" Luna screamed. She didn't want to lose the only two humans in Equestria. They could be dying for all she knew.
A pair of solar guards rushed from around the corner. "What is it princess? Are you hurt?"
"Neigh! But they might be," she pointed a hoof at Doug's and Kevin's unconscious bodies. "Fetch us a doctor! And hurry!"
The two guards saluted and ran off. Luna looked back at Doug and Kevin. Maybe they are still alive... Now how do I check? She stared quizzically at the two bodies. "AHA! Lets just see if they're dreaming." She sat down and began to cast her spell. Wait- would they want me looking into their minds? She stared at the bodies again. "Feather it! We're going in." Luna closed her eyes and cast her spell. She drifted into the realm of dreams. Let us check Doug first. Not to interfere in the dream, just to make sure he's alive... and to see what he dreams about. She reasoned with herself before being overtaken by sleep.
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"Damn it!" Doug kicked the door to his cell. "We're never getting outta here!"
"Cool it Doug. Ron-boy's on the way." Kevin replied. He sounded calm and relaxed.
"That's who you found to go open up our cells? Ronny!?"
"Yeah. Ya got a problem with that?"
"Me? No. Noooo."
They were sitting on cots in opposite cells from each other.
"I hope he remembers we're in the Broadway block."
"He'll be here in a sec just hold-" All the cells in the Broadway prison block started to open. There door screeched.
"Did somebody doubt meh?" Ronny came walking down a flight of stairs at the end of the hall. His pockets were loaded with something.
"Hey! Ron-ay! Ya did it! Now just to escape the unescapable island."
"Yeah. Getting offa Alcatraz won't be a cakewalk."
"Ya. Thats why I grabbed these from the warden's office." Ronny pulled out four M1911's from his pockets.
"And that's why you're my favorite mexican!"
"...I'm not mexican..."
"Details, details..."
"You boys done yammering? I wanna get off this rock!" A girl stepped out of a cell further down the block. The guys didn't know there was anyone else here besides them. And she looked good too.
"Daaaaaaaaaamn." The three guys said together.
"Aww. Thanks. You flatter me."
"Here come get a gun. Say whats your name?"
The new girl walked over. "Call me Lulu." She took a gun. "Mag pwease?"
"S-sure..."
Ronny proceeded to pass out the guns and ammo to Doug and Kevin. No sooner had they loaded their weapons, a moaning was heard from down the hall. Everyone looked. It was just a guard.
"Who wants first shot?" Kevin asked.
"Wait a minute... His eyes are red. Anyone else notice that? and his skin... He looks like its decayed or something."
"Don't care." Lulu aimed her weapon and fired. The bullet hit the guard right in the shoulder. He barely flinched.
"What the?" She fired again. This time she hit him in the other shoulder. Lulu looked at the guys. They all nodded and proceeded to fire upon the one guard. Lulu changed her magazine.
Out of the opened cells of Broadway block came prisoners. Prisoners who hadn't been there before. They had the same red eyes and weathered skin as the guard.
"Ummm guys..." Ronny started to say.
"Yeah I know."
"Zombies." Kevin and Doug said together. One prisoner shrieked. All the zombies in the block started to run. Right for the only prisoners who were still alive.
"RUN!" Doug shouted.
"Headshots only! Make'm count!" Kevin yelled back.
Lulu ran with Doug toward a stairwell. Ronny and Kevin Both aimed and fired at the oncoming onslaught... Until they both ran out of ammunition.
"Ron, ya got an extra mag?"
"I told you I only brought two per gun!"
"Damn it! Bring more ammo next time!"
Kevin turned around to see Doug running up the stairwell with Lulu.
"Hey, Doug, wait up!"
"Kevin where you goi-AHH!" Was all Ronny could get out before zombies mauled him. It was too gruesome to go into detail.
Famous last words... Kevin thought before he followed Doug and Lulu up the stairs.
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Luna watched from above as a friend of Doug's was eaten. She knew Ronny wasn't real, but couldn't help but feel sorry for the dream character. Luna floated through the walls of the imaginary prison, following Doug. She watched as the remaining trio came to a locked office.
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"Kevin, think you can kick down Warden's door?" Doug asked as they neared the Warden's Office. The zombies they had not shot were feasting on what remained of Ronny.
"Move over." Kevin charged the door and slammed into it. The door didn't budge. "YEEEEOOOOOW!"
"Shhhh! Shut up! You want them to hear you?" Lulu asked. "Move over, let me show you how a lady gets things done." She pointed her 1911 at the lock of the door and fired. PUCHNNN-PUCHNNN-PUCHNNN. She pushed open the door. "See? No problem at all."
Kevin and Doug looked at each other. "I thought that only worked in movies." Doug said.
"Apparently not."
"You boys coming or what?"
"Y-yeah!" Both of them said together. They walked into the office, inside was a desk, some pictures, a window overlooking the prison yard, and a gun cabinet with glass doors.
"Wasn't Ronny in here earlier?" Doug asked eyeing the safe.
"Yeah."
"Why didn't he raid the safe?"
"Ya know, I have no idea."
"Wait... If Ronny was here earlier... who locked the door?"
"Ummm...."
"Boys, I think we have company!" Lulu said, closing the door. Everyone looked through the window of the door. A large zombie in armor was walking down the hall towards the office.
"Shit."
"I'm going to try and get that safe open now." Doug proceeded to bang the butt of his gun against the glass.
"You boys are all the same, move over." Lulu walked right up to the safe and fired two shots into the glass, effectively breaking it.
"Thanks Lulu."
"Don't mention it handsome." She leaned over and kissed Doug. Doug blushed.
"No fair! Why do you get the girl?" Kevin whined.
"Cuz she likes me, that's why. Now lets load up, I don't want to fight Warden with pistols."
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Luna's curiosity was peaked. What was a pistol? A gun? She assumed they were the weapons in the humans' hands, but how did they work? She decided she would have to ask them later. The humans pulled out more guns from the safe. Luna heard the words 'rifle' and 'shotgun' as the guns were passed to different people.
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"Kevin you loaded that M14 yet?"
Kevin chambered a round. Schk-Ck "Yeah, you?"
"Loaded my shells an hour ago, Lulu, what about you?"
"Ready!" No sooner had she said ready than the door was kicked in. In the open portal stood the Warden. Standing seven feet tall, and wearing body armor, he did not look like the average zombie. On top of that, he looked pissed.
"FIRE!" Kevin called out. He raised the rifle he was given and shot the Warden in the face. He looked unfazed. Doug unload his shotgun in the Warden's face while Lulu fired her and Doug's 1911's. The four guns had devastating effect on the Warden's face, but he did not go down. He walked into the room.
Chck-Chck-*click* Chck-Chck-*click* "Uh oh, I'm out." Doug barely had time to raise his shotgun in front of his face before the Warden pimp-slapped him out the window.
"Nooooo!" Kevin and Lulu cried out. Luna expected the dream to end, seeing its dreamer just got slapped out a window. Lulu and Kevin's magazines emptied out shortly after. They met fates similar to Doug's. It wasn't until Kevin hit the ground did the dream world start to fade.
Luna was perplexed by this, surely when the dreamer of a dream dies in his/her dream they wake up, right? And since she entered Doug's dream, shouldn't the dream have ended when Doug fell?