//------------------------------// // Las Pegasus // Story: Resurrection // by Silverstreak //------------------------------// Rain drenched the Orange Lighting as it flew through the late night sky. The small engine of the fighter had been running non stop for the past few days, and Scootaloo knew she'd spend a few days trying to get the cooling systems back to normal, but she didn't care. All Scootaloo wanted to do was hide under a rock everytime that creatures voice ran through her head. "When I find you, you'll regret it." The voice scared her alright, not as bad as what the human would or could do to her, but something was off. Scootaloo couldn't put her hoof on it, but something was off about the voice. The NavPointRadar brought Scootaloo back to her situation, Las Pegasus was about ten minutes away. "Orange Lighting to Las Pegasus, requesting permission to land." Nothing but static responded. "Orange Lighting to Las Pegasus, requesting permission to land." Static filled the silence again as Scootaloo waiting for a response. "Orange Lighting to Las Pegasus, requesting permission to land!" A chill ran down Scootaloo's spine as she continued to approach Las Pegasus. Scootaloo switched between several different comm channels, repeating the same message into each channel. Lighting streamed past the Orange Lighting as the storm worsened. Scootaloo knew something bad had happen to Las Pegasus, but she had to land or risk critical damage by the lighting. Blue lights from a landing platform above the city drew Scootaloo's attention, and as she brought the Orange Lighting down on the platform the symbol of the Lunar Forces became visible on the platform, the upside down silver crescent moon, dark blue winds on the sides, and the white star in the middle, brought an ease to Scootaloo's mind as the Orange Lighting rocked a little as it touched down. The rain continued to pumbel down unto the city. Scootaloo wished she had a helmet to keep the rain off her head not that it would drag her hair down into her eyes, like she had any, Scootaloo just didn't want rain splashing in her eyes. Lighting flashed into the top of the building closely followed by the boom of thunder. The cockpit lowered Scootaloo down to the platform, and raised back up once she had gotton off. Scootaloo ran through the rain nearly blind as she shut her eyes to keep the rain out until she ran inside. Shaking her head to get rid of the water, Scootaloo noticed how quiet it was inside the terminal, she looked back to see the doors close dampening the sound of the storm. The lights were still on, and the consels were active. Another chill ran down Scootaloo's spine. "Something bad happened." Scootaloo slowly made her way through the room closely examining everything she could see, nothing seemed damaged, or out of place, take away the missing ponies and everything is normal. Scootaloo made her way to the door leading into a locker room with the lockers partly filled with local police gear, a few helmets, some shirts, and a few boots. Scootaloo thought about putting on the different gear, but then realized that they weren't the same size, and she could only image who's hooves have been in the boots. So Scotaloo took her chances and walked back out into the terminal and walked to the stairs, where a stallion tackled her to the floor. Scootaloo tried to wriggle her way free, but his weight kept her down. "Who are you?" "Scootaloo!" "What are you doing here?" "Get off of me and I'll tell you!" "Yeah right, let you go so you can attack me? Nice try." "Why would I attack you!" "Don't play games with me! Now tell me why you're here!" Scootaloo managed to wriggle herself so that her right wing was directly under the stallion's face, and flipped it about his face. The stallion lepted back a few feet feeling his face with his hooves, and freaking out more than anypony should. Scootaloo lifted herself a few feet away from the ceiling watching the stallion finally calm down. "I knew it! You were just here to attack me!" "What no!" "Then why did you attack me!" "I only flapped my wing at you, and I did it to get you off of me!" The stallion looked around the terminal, noticed the open security locker room, and vanished inside. After a few minutes he came back outside wearing a mitch match of Lunar Forces gear, coat to long, boots to big, and a hat too small. The stallion seemed to have forgoten all about Scootaloo flying just below the ceiling as he went back down the stairs muttering to himself. "Now it can't get me, now it can't get me, now it can't get me!" Another few minutes passed without a single breath being taken as Scootaloo stayed below the ceiling, waiting for something to happen. Nothing. Scootaloo slowly lowered herself to the floor, ready to pop back up should she need to, the cold floor sucked the heat from Scootaloo's hooves as she made her way back to the door where she entered. As she approached the door it didn't move out of her way or did the light above the door turn green, it remained red. Scootaloo felt a prensence behind her, she turned to see nothing but an empty terminal room staring at her. Scootaloo wished she was as good as Apple Bloom at this electrical wiring stuff, then she wouldn't have to leave the terminal, but no she had to go and find the main control room somewhere in the floors below. "Well this aught to be fun." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scootaloo slumpt up against a wall, exhausted from searching all these floors for the main control room, she looked up at the floor number a few feet down the hall. Eighteen, the eighteth floor of this stupid building and still no control room. Scootaloo knocked her head against the wall at the huge search still left in front of her. Scootaloo decicded to take a break and head up to the twenty-second floor and grab something to eat. When Scootaloo opened the doors to the cafeteria a wave of burnt everything flooded her nose and making her eyes water. "Ugh, what happened here." Scootaloo walked into the cafeteria and started sweating from the heat radiating from the room. Black walls, and a melted kitchten were the only things that welcomed her. Scootaloo's stomached growled at the sight of all the lost food. A warm red glow started to grow from the melted kitchen, as Scootaloo approach it grew into a raging inferno consuming the kitchen, walls ceiling, everything. Scootaloo flug herself though the doors as the fire attached itself to her tail and the doors sealed themselves. Scootaloo felt the fire moving towards her as she tried to find something to help put it out, as in an answer to her needs a stallion wearing Lunar Forces armor stood facing her with a fire extinaguisher pointed at her direction. Scootaloo moved herself so that the stallion had a clear shot at the fire as it scorched her flank. After the cool feeling of the extinaguisher went away Scotaloo check the damaged done by the fire. Her tail was completely gone, nothing was left but some burn marks on her flank. "Thank you, mister." Scootaloo turned to face her saivor. He was a light grey stallion with a dark blue mane and tail, almost like luna's, and he's eyes were almost like sapphires. He wore Lunar Forces Military gear helmet, boots, jacket, and a SG on his left shoulder. "You're welcome." He threw the fire exinaguisher to the side and brought himself back onto all four of his hooves. "Are you the pilot of the Orange Lighting?" "Yes, why didn't you respond..." ''Did you let the doors close!" "Y...yes?" "Damn it!" The staillion started pacing up and down the hall. "What?" "What? What! We're trapped in this city, that's what!" Scootaloo took a step back from the stallion as he took a deep breath. "Look I'm sorry, but I'd just had a lot on my mind lately." "It's ok, now tell me what's so wrong with the doors closing up, all we need to do is just find the main control room for the building and we can get it working again." "No that won't work." "Why not." "Because the whole cities on lock down so any conventional means are useless, unless..." "Unless...?" The stallion walked down the hall and to the stairs, Scootaloo followed him as they made there way to the lower level. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Hey mister." They stopped half way down the seventh level to the next set of stairs. The stallion barely turned his head towards her. "What?" "I just wanted to know a few things." He turned around to face her, "Well what do you want to know?" "First of what's your name? I mean you can't really expect me to follow you if I don't know you, right?" "Blue Moon." "Ok, now what happened here? Isn't this the local police building, so were is everypony?" Blue Moon closed his eyes and slowly exhaled. "Have you heard about what's happening to the Imperial cities." Scootaloo didn't like the lower tone in his voice, "Yes." "Well imagine all that chaos, all that fear, but on a much lower level, no strange ships, no strange creatures, no destroyed cities, but the entire city just slowly falls into chaos. Then add small groups of changelings searching the city for something, and when you try to attack them or defend yourself that they have more powerful weapons that can punch right through our magic barriers and take us out faster than anything we've seen before, then you can get the picture of what happened here." A silence thickened in the hallway as Scootaloo took in the information. An entire city crumbling into chaos with no outside force. Scootaloo didn't know what to think, or say, she just stood there with her eyes wide open. Blue Moon turned back around and started walking down the hallway. Scootaloo shook off her shock and manage to catch up with him. "Hey listen..." "No I know you didn't mean anything by it, it's just....I can't really believe it. Luna had a plan to try and stop this, and we thought it worked." "What Luna had a plan and you didn't..." Blue Moon stopped and turned around. "Of course not! When those things attacked Canterlot everypony was confused and fearful, but Celestia and Luna knew excatly what to do to proctect the trainstation from those things. Sure everyone was confused about what just happened, but we would've been just fine if Blueblood didn't start the riot in Ponyville, and taken Celestia hostage and locked her up somewhere." Blue Moon turned to face a door, opened it, and walked in. Scootaloo entered to see a makeshift command center with maps of the city, each drawn with different colors, lines, and circles. "But that's not our biggest promblem right now." "Well what is?" "Getting control back to the city," Blue Moon pointed to a green circle on a map, ''this is the city center. With in lies the means of giving control back to the other stations which in turn, will allow us to at least get the city into a more controled state, after that I don't know." Blue Moon's voice dropped to a whisper. Scootaloo approached him and layed a comferting hoof on his shoulder. "Don't worry you'll...." Scootaloo looked past Blue Moon to see a figure in the shadow of the room lying on the floor. "Who's that?" Blue Moon turned his head to look at what Scootaloo was pointing at. "A friend of mine." Scootaloo lowered her hoof and looked back to the map. "So why does the city center have all the control again?" "It's standered protocol when an enemy has control of a city section. I know not the best system, but we never really planned on being attacked." The figured moved its head slighty as it tried to get a better view of the two voices. "If we go through section 4 we can make our way through the apartment complex, and with luck, not come across the gangs of ponies who raid our storage buildings." "Well why would we avoid ponies? Don't they want the city back in order? And why would they raid your supply buildings?" "Well Miss Scootaloo, we've trie to get the city back up and running." The figure slowly lifted itself off the ground not wanting to give itself away before it attacked. "We don't really know why ponies keep raiding our supply buildings. All the changelings left a few days ago." "Well maybe if you..." The figure jump towards Blue Moon hoping to take him with one go, but Blue Moon ducked under the figure, brought a hoof up to it's gut, and threw it into the wall. Scootaloo had barely turned to face Blue Moon when he had already thrown the figure to the wall. The figure grunted as it smacked against the wall, and struggled to stand up on it's own hooves. Scootaloo took a few steps away from Blue Mooon. "Why did you....did he....how?" "Scootaloo please calm down." "Calm down! Your friend just tried to attack you and you threw him against the wall!" The figure grunted again as it tried to stand on its own. Scootaloo moved to help it back up when the clouds parted just enough to let the moon light fill the room. Blue Moon raised it's head towards Scootaloo, opening his mouth wide open to scream at Scootaloo, trying to get her out of the shock of seeing his face, when the imposter raised a hoof and knocked Scootaloo across the room. Scootaloo looked over to see Blue Moon one place a hoof on the fallen Blue Moon. The Blue Moon on the ground stopped struggling and flopped onto the floor. Then the other Blue Moon started to walk towards Scootaloo. Scootaloo tried to crawl backwards, but a wall was blocking her. Scootaloo looked to her left, a way to the door that would lead her out this room and back to the endless maze of floors. As Scootaloo started to move a hoof grabbed her by the chest and pinned her against the floor, Scootaloo looked up to see the saphire eyes of Blue Moon morph into a pair of ruby lifeless eyes. "Section four, and through the apartments." The figure whispered to Scootaloo as it brought a hoof to Scootaloo's face, multiple stick like things morphed out and grabbed Scootaloo's head as a needle lowered itself into Scootaloo's left eye. "Section four, and through the apartments." The figure whisperes again before the world went dark.