Mass Effect: New Beginnings

by Sleepyted


Chapter 8: Long Fall

We entered her cloud house, the inside was just like the outside, white a fluffy. We headed up stairs and we arrived in her bed room, the bed like everything else was made out of clouds. I looked around, there were posters of the Wonderbolts and on a bedside table there was a picture of her, Twilight, that pink pony and 3 others, an orange one with blond hair and a cowboy hat, a yellow Pegasus with pink are and finally there was one with a white coat and purple hair. I guess she saw I was looking at the picture because she started to talk about it.
“Those are my friends, you know Twilight and Pinkie, the orange on is Applejack, the yellow one is Fluttershy and the white one is Rarity.” She walked up to my side.
All my friends are most likely dead, if I was still with them they would be alive, how could I leave them? I let a stray tear roll down my face.
“What’s wrong?” Dam, I hoped she didn’t see that.
“*Sigh* Never take your friends for granted, because you don’t realized how much you need them till it’s too late.” I enjoyed the company of my crew, helping them with personal problems, I was always there for them.
“Don’t worry, I’m here.” She took me into a hug.
I leaned my head back to look her in the eyes. We store into each other’s eyes, we just stood there for some time till we slowing began to approach our muzzles together. I closed my eyes, and tilted my head a little bit to the side. I opened my mouth and felt her lips touch mine.
I opened my mouth a little bit more so I don’t hurt her like last time. I felt her tongue rub up ageist mine, the warmth of her breath sent chills down my spine. I slowly ran my hoof threw her hair, it was as soft as the cloud’s we’re standing on.
I felt a hoof on my chest. I broke the kiss and looked into her eyes.
“Save it till tonight, I need to get to the weather station, I need to catch up on my work.” Weather station?
I blushed a bit and stepped back.
“Don’t worry about me, what time will you be getting back?” I feel embarrassed for some reason.
“I’ll be back by about 5, I’ll see you then.” She went down the stairs towards the door.

I just sat there reading some books I found on a shelf called ‘Daring Do’, it was an okay adventure novel, once you’ve lived it you don’t find it as impressive anymore. God, this is boring, I want to do something else, I could use my biotics to get down and I could then walk around town. Yea I’ll do that.
I hopped off the cloud couch and headed to the front door. I’ll just wait under the house till Dash comes back.
I got to the ledge of the house and jumped off. The air rushing through my mane, the sound of the wind through the air, it was perfect. The ground was rapidly approaching, okay I’ll use my charge attack to get to the ground, it’ll make a little crater but it won’t hurt me much.
I used my biotics when I was about 20 meters from the ground. The blur as everything went by was a little off putting. I opened my eyes and relied I wasn’t on the path, I was in a cart full of apples, what?
I looked around as the smoke was clearing, I think I might need to apologize to someone.
“Ya’ll Okay?” I heard an accent, I really strong accent.
“Yea, sorry, I’ll pay for the damage.” I started climbing out of the cart.
“Just wha happened?” I climbed out and saw that orange pony from the picture.
“Oh, you’re Applejack, Dash told me about you.” I started dusting myself off.
“How ya’ll know Dash?”
“I’m her marefriend.” I looked at her, she looked confused.
“Ah didn’t know she had a marefriend.”
“We met at Manehattan.”
“Well that explains it, I haven’t seen her science she left….. Also why where ya’ll falling?”
“I wanted to go to town.” I pointed to the cloud house above us.
“Really? Couldn’t ya’ll get her to carry ya’ll down?”
“She isn’t home.”
“Oh, well Ah’ll see you later.” And with that she left with her what is now chunky apple juice.

That was awkward. I walked into town, all the ponies walking around doing what they normally do. Wow, this place is peaceful, I never saw this when I was a human. I was walking down the peaceful street until I heard what sounded like glass braking. I turned my head and saw a black pony with a ski beanie running away from a store vendor.
“What happened?” I ran up to the vendor.
“HE STOLE MY MONEY!” She broke down into tears.
“I’ll get it back, don’t worry.” Finally, some action.
I started to run after the robber, wow, for someone who robbed a store he’s really unfit. He turned his head and looked at me, his eyes widened and he went faster. I was still faster, I was approaching him until he stopped where he was. I stopped soon after.
“Just hand over the money and no on-pony needs to get hurt.” I knew he wasn’t going to give up easily.
He pulled out a pocket knife and started to swing it around trying to scare me. Many civilians started to come to see what the commotion was.
I got into a fighting stance, and all he did was looked a little worried.
“I don’t want to hurt you but if you don’t I won’t have a choice.” Wow, I can easily kick his ass.
“So be it.” And with that I charged.
He went for a gut stab but I just stepped to the side letting his arm go past me, I grabbed his arm and threw it down. When his arm was on the ground I stepped on it and gave him a hard punch to the face. He went flying for about meter, he slowly got up and grabbed his knife. He went for another charge but this time he went for a overhead slash instead of a stab. I put up my arm for a block and my forearm met his. The knife dropped from his hoof and fell to the ground. As he was looking at the knife I gave him a punch to the side of the head. When he was on the ground I went up and pinned him to the ground by putting my hoof on the side of his head. I grabbed the bag of money from the robber and threw it toward the vendor it was stolen from.
“Time to turn you in.”
“W-who are you?” the robber asked.
“My names Shepard.”