//------------------------------// // Real Estate problems! part 2 // Story: Random Evil! // by Sweetiebellema121 //------------------------------// The Helicopter landed softly to the ground; it bounced a bit but quickly came to a stop. "Ok team..." Rumble said as he opened the door. "Move out!" One by one the ponies jumped out of the helicopter until the only two left were Rumble and Blossomforth. "Blossomforth." Rumble turned to the pilot. "I want you to wait in the Helicopter...we don't know whats in there so we might need to get out of here as quickly as we can." "Understood." The pegasus mare said with a salute.(unbeknownst to the others; Blossomforth had managed to smuggle a few...dozen bottles of gin that a certain plum-colored pony had given her as a birthday present.) Rumble dove from the chopper doing an action roll until he was in front of his team. "Ok guys." Rumble said. (Both Apple Bloom and Pip rolled their eyes at the grey pegasus' overly dramatic entrance.) "We're going to split into two teams but first..." Rumble tilted his head and picked up a large duffle bag. "Pip I want you to hold the weapon bag for us alright." Pip stared at the bag for a second. "Ok...then...tha-that actually sounds like a good idea..." "Ok...now that that's taken care of..." The pegasus turned to the massive building. "we're gonna split into two tea- "You said that already..." Apple Bloom deadpanned. "And...wouldn't it be safer to...ya know...not split up..." "Hmmm...i'll take that into account for next time..." Rumble said as he put a hoof to his chin ."Anyway...the A team will consist of myself and..." He turned to the blue stallion. "...Noteworthy." Noteworthy smiled and nodded. " ...we'll be going through the front door while the B team...." "Um..."Pipsqueak turned around as if he was searching for something."...did anypony else notice there aren't any other helis around?" "Pay attention." Rumble said quickly. "I want this to go as smoothly as possible so everypony has to listen." Pip sighed and shook his head. "Fine then..." "Anyway..." Rumble continued. "The B team will consist of Truffle shuffle,Apple Bloom and Mister Crumpet and that team wil-" "Mr...Crumpet....."Pip whispered to himself before glaring at the Captain. "Really? Like...I mean seriously...are you for real?" "What's wrong?" Rumble asked. "Is it the name? I know it's not perfect but it took me like a few hours to come up with it and I thought you'd like it cause it's British sounding." "Are you kidding me!!!" Pip narrowed his eyes. Rumble tilted his head like a lost puppy "You don't like it? I thought It fit you well." "You...I-I..." Pip put a hand to his face as blood dripped down from his nose. "Are you alright Mister biscuit?" Rumble asked quickly. "No...yeah...I mean I'm fine...just losing brain cells that's all..." Pip said as he wiped his face. "Stupidity has a habit of doing that..." "You know what I just realized?" Noteworthy said as he butted into the conversation. "That our commanding officer and a block of wood have a lot in common?" Pip said through gritted teeth . "No ." Noteworthy chuckled. "That Mister and biscuit...kinda rhyme...well I mean sort of..." Pip stared at the two for a few moments then walked to Apple Bloom "I hope you both die in a fire..." "Ok as for the B team..." "Bloody wanker..." Pip said under his breath as he continued to glare at the pegasus captain. "...that team will be going around the side..." Rumble continued. "...and maybe find a side entrance to this building." "So...Team B is goin' around the buildin'...out in the open...while you Team A goes inside...the large safe structure..." Apple Bloom turned to Pip who simply rolled his eyes. "Alright now that everypony knows..." Rumble turned to face Pip. "Pip if you wouldn't mind, would you please hand out the standard pistols to everypony." Pip nodded,lifted the duffle bag and placed it in front of himself. "Alright...then..." The pinto stallion opened the bag and peered inside. "Bloody...hell..." Pip's face went pale. "Just the pistols....Captain?" "For the time being." Rumble nodded. Pip gathered up several standard pistols from the bag and began handing them out. "Ok team...this is a rescue mission remember...so please only use your gun if there isn't any other choice understood." The ponies holstered their guns then nodded. "If we don't find anything...we'll meet back at the helicopter understood." Rumble turned and began pacing. "I don't want to lose anypony so please be careful." Rumble stopped in front of Apple Bloom; his eyes drifted to the mare's back leg. "I never noticed that before..." Rumble said slowly. "What is it?" "This is..." Apple Bloom lifted her leg up and sighed. "A present my late Granny Smith gave me..." "I see..." Rumble nodded. "...hopefully you won't have to use it." Apple Bloom returned the nod then lowered her eyes. "I doubt I'd need it...after all we got guns so I don't think I'd need a kn-..." Apple Bloom trailed off as she rested her leg back to the ground. "Ok guys." Rumble said turned to the rest of the team. "Is everyon-...I mean everypony set..." "Yes sir." The ponies said in unison. "Ok Teams A and B..." Rumble lifted up his right hoof. "Go!" his hoof shot forward giving the teams the signal to move out. Team B sprinted(well Truffle went as fast as he could anyway.) forward, they turned the corner and disappeared from sight. ~~~~~~ "Alright Noteworthy lets go." Rumble moved slowly to the door."Ready?" "Yeah...I'm ready for anything." The Blue stallion replied. "Ok on the count of three...we buck the door..." "Right...on three then." Noteworthy replied. "Ok...get ready...One...Two....THREE!!!" The two stallions pulled their legs back and bucked the door with all their might. To their surprise however the door was much sturdier then they thought it would be, and even with the two combined the door had barely budged from the impact. "Again!"Rumble called out.(Why they... never thought to use the door's handle is anyone's guess.) The Two stallions pulled their legs back again and bucked the door;this time the sides began to splinter. "One more time!!!" The stallions bucked the door one final time; breaking it off it's hinges and sending it flying across the large main hall that the two were now standing in.(Congrats guys you just broke down an unlocked door.) "Hmm..." Rumble hummed to himself as he took a few steps inside. "Seem pretty clear to me...I don't see anything out of the ordinar-" "Uh....sir...?" Noteworthy said as he tapped the pegasus on the shoulder. "Yes Noteworthy..." Rumble said as he turned his head slowly. " What is i- " The Blue stallion's shaky hoof shot past Rumble's face. "What the hell is that over there!" Rumble spun around quickly to the direction Noteworthy was pointing and what he saw made his stomach turn. 'My...God...." (To be continued..._ . . . . . (Right now!!!) ~~~~ Rumble and Noteworthy froze in place as they looked on in silent horror at pony in front of them. kneeling down in a pool of blood at the center of the room; a few feet away from a large staircase; lay a puke-green coated stallion. (Rumble must really need glasses if he missed that when they first arrived.). The stallion let out a low moan as he dropped his head downward; creating a made loud crunching noise that echoed throughout the hall as the stallion bobbed his up and down. Rumble took a step backwards but his hoof hit a squeaky floorboard which must have alerted the pony as he suddenly stopped moving. (Yeah...because all the yelling and door breaking wouldn't have alerted the obvious zombie to their position.) The stallion brought his head back up; turned and stared at Rumble and Noteworthy. The Stallion moaned loudly; blood dripping down his face; as the pony started to get up. "My goodness..." Rumble's face went pale. "That pony....is in desperate need of a Doctor." "Oh no....Captain...look..." Noteworthy said timidly. "I know...I can see the condition he's i-" ""No!" Noteworthy shook his head. "I'm not talking about the stallion..." He paused and turned his head away. "...There...there's a mare under him!" Rumble's eyes drifted downward and sure enough there was a light yellow coated,cornflower blue maned mare laying sprawled out in the center of the pool of blood. "Wait those colors...." Rumble thought grimly. "Oh God....I-I think tha-that's Officer Lemon Hearts .... " "Lemon Hearts." Rumble thought quickly. "Loo-look at the blood on his face." Noteworthy pointed to the stallion's face. "..I-I think tha-that bastard was...eating her..." "Officer Lemon Hearts!!" Rumble called out. "Are you all righ- "Her throat was ripped out for Luna sakes!" Noteworthy said as he pointed a hoof at the downed officer's heavily bleeding neck. "I'm pretty sure she's dead." Rumble bit his lip, lowered his head then sighed; as he inwardly mourned the fallen officer. "Ok..." Rumble's head shot up and he glared at the green stallion. "Stand down now! Or we will use lethal force!" The Stallion staggered forward; his cloudy eyes fixed on the officers. "He's not backing down...." Noteworthy said as turned to face Rumble. "He's not giving us much of an option then." Rumble nodded then reached for his holster."I guess there's only one way." "Understood sir..." Noteworthy reached for gun. "Alright...You take point." Rumble said slowly as he took a few steps backwards. "And I'll cover you...we have no idea what this stallion is capable of...so be careful..." "Right." Noteworthy took a few steps forward; He held his gun upward and slowly brought it down, until it was level and steady. "Don't worry, I'm right behind you Notewort-." Rumble stopped suddenly and grunted loudly as if something heavy had collided with him. "What?! Who are yo-...get off me!!!" "Captain what's goin-?" Noteworthy's voice died in his throat as he turned his head, only to see a pegasus mare wrapping her forelegs over Rumble's shoulder. "What are you...doing...." Rumble yelped as he staggered backwards. The pegasus mare let out a low moan as pressed her weight down on Rumble. "Oh shit!!!" Noteworthy's eyes widened in fear. "...Rumble!" Noteworthy jerked the gun around and pointed it at the pegasus mare. "Freeze!!!" He said firmly, but to the blue stallion's surprise; there was no reaction from the mare, no hesitation to her movements and certainly no fear of the gun."I said freeze!!!" Noteworthy shouted harshly, but still the mare didn't react. Noteworthy inched his way across the marble floor; getting a better look at the mare in the process. At fist glance the mare looked almost identical to the stallion that had killed Officer Lemon Heart (Who of course was still slowly making his way to the two stallions.), but as he drew closer he noticed there were some differences. While the stallion's coat and mane were a dark green, (the stallion's mane was a slightly lighter green but was still almost identical to his coat color.) The mare on the other hoof had patches of jasmine spread across her coat and streaks tiffany blue throughout her mane. The closer Noteworthy got to the mare, the more unnatural her green coat seemed to be. Somewhere in the back of his mind, Noteworthy couldn't help but think that the jasmine and the tiffany blue were the mare's original colors. How and why she was slowly turning green was something Noteworthy had no answer to, but there was something else about the mare that he couldn't help but feel he recognized. It was her face; there was something about her face, although bloodied,it seemed very familiar to the blue stallion, as if he had met the mare before. Noteworthy stopped suddenly. "Wait the face...the jasmine coat...the tiffany blue mane....the fact that she's a pegasus...oh no..." Noteworthy's face fell at the sudden realization of who the mare was. "Oh...God...tha-thats...Officer...Raindrops..." "What did you say Noteworthy?" Rumble said as he pushed the mare back a bit. "I said...I think that's Raindrops..." ""Raindrops!" Rumble said in surprise. Rumble tilted his head to examine the pegasus mare; who was snapping at his face. After a few seconds a smile crept across his face. "Your right it is Raindrops...I can't believe I didn't recognize her...." Rumble turned his attention back to the moaning mare. "Raindrop why didn't you say something...also...did you do something to your mane?" "I-I...It's green sir...her coat and mane are both green!" "Yes...of course...you're absolutely right Noteworthy..." Rumble paused for a second as he turned his eyes back to the mare."Raindrops...what happened to your coat..." "Sir...I think we have more pressing matters at the moment..." Noteworthy said as he pointed to the slowly approaching stallion. "Yes...yes...your right ..." Rumble took in a deep breath. "Raindrops...dear..."Rumble began. "....where's the rest of your team?" The mare moaned hungrily as she snapped her bloodstained jaws at Rumble's face. "Raindrops....I've never seen this side of you before...you're like an animal..." Rumble gave the mare a lustful smile. "Hmm.....maybe after we're done here we can go back to my place and..." "Sir!" "What! What is it Noteworthy!?" Rumble snapped at the officers. "Now I know this is going to sound crazy..." Noteworthy sighed to himself. "Really....really crazy..." "Just spit it out already!" Rumble said in an annoyed tone. " Ok....I think....Officer Raindrops and the stallion that killed Lemon Hearts...." Noteworthy paused for a second as a grimace formed across his face. "...are Zombies...." The two stallion stared at each for a few seconds. "Uh huh...O-Okay..." Rumble said slowly. "...and...how did you come to this...um...completely NOT insane revelation?" "Well lets see..." Noteworthy said in an annoyed voice, through gritted teeth. " Other then the obvious fact that the Stallion was EATING Officer Lemon Hearts..." "I'm sure...there's a reasonable...explanation..." Runble said "Like what...!?" Noteworthy scoffed. "Well..." "Then there's also Raindrops." Noteworthy continued. "I mean look at her..." He said pointing to the mare. "...her eyes are cloudly and blank....She basically changed colors and then theres that bite mar- ...oh I'm sorry...GASH on her chest!!" Runble lowered his eyes to the mare's chest. "It's...not that ba-" "I CAN SEE HER RIBS!!!" Noteworthy snarled. "There is literally a chunk of her flesh missing from her body....seriously...there is no way she should be alive....ergo Raindrops and that prick over there...." He pointed to the bloodied (still aproaching!!!!) stallion. "Are pony eatting,undead.... bucking Zombies!!!!" Rumble tilted his head slightly as if going over the information he had just recieved in his head. ' "Hmmm..." Rumble bit his lip and sighed. " Yo-"Rumble paused to dodge a lunge at his throat from the mare. "...you might be right..." ~To be continued~(for real this time!!!)