HyperBlitz took his stride out of the ally. He stared around the dull city. Ponies were awake now, and tending to themselves and their own needs. Hyper knew he would have to eat some of his vegtables soon, but he had no urge to eat anything. He glared at the walls of apartments. Many ponies must have took the rooms inside already.
He watched a white unicorn tap his hooves on a outside air-conditioning unite. He pulled his pink and purple hair away with his hooves to get a better look at the machine. Hyper knew that it could get hot in Los Pegasus, and very humid, even with the sun blocked out by dust clouds.
The unicorn's magic lifted tools to the box, and opened up the small metal door. He probably had to fix it, then run it on pure energy. He snapped some of the wires out, and looked carefully at the plugs. Hyper didn't know much about fix-it stuff, but he wanted to show the ponies his hooves were willing to assist them.
"Would you like any help?" Hyper asked.
"What? Huh, no, no I'm fine." The white pony muttered.
"Are you sure? Do you have energy around? I can always give you parts and tools-"
"I have magic for that! But I guess that not being a unicorn, you wouldn't understand how magic works." The unicorn grumbled.
"Well... alright. Is there any ponies you know that would need help? Even with cleaning up? Or just organizing? I might not be a unicorn, but I have wings; I can carry things." Hyper spoke,
"Dude, I don't know. I don't ever talk to anypony." The pony's lavender eyes only glanced at Hyper momentarily
"Fine!" Hyper waved his right forehoof. "Nopony seems to take my help." He started to trot away slowly. "But this is small stuff. I don't need to work with small things. I can show that I can be a BIG help, and that I can change things for you ponies." But he seemed to only be talking with himself, though he meant for some other to find his words.
He glanced over again, and spotted a young orange colt. He had a spotted back, and a brown mane. He struggled while pulling a wagon, with a rope in his mouth. He backed up, and passed by Hyper.
Hyper watched him, and when his blue eye opened, Hyper spoke. "Hey there, need some help carrying that?"
"N-no.." The colt looked up with fear, dropping the rope. He then quickly bit it again,l and backed up, even faster.
"Wait." Hyper called out, a bit louder the he meant to. As the colt scrambled to get away, Hyper snatched the rope from his mouth. "You shouldn't be holding this in mouth, that's not good. Here, Tie it to your leg or something."
After Hyper swirled the rope around the young ponies back leg, he stood up, and stared with huge eyes. He spun around and walked forward now. Hyper sighed, and slugged down.
"You're welcome." He muttered, his voice again raised. "Like you don't care. Like any pony cares. Nopony cares for anypony in this world now."
"Are you sure of that?" A brown mare muttered,"Lots of ponies still have familes to care for."
"I wasn't talking to you!" Hyper snapped, but then loosened. "I.. I know, it's just that I try to help, but no one takes anything from me. And no pony listens. Also, I've seen so many ponies alone, by themselves."
"Ah, I see. But you seem to be so bothered."
HyperBlitz shook his head. "In the end, it doesn't even matter." He took steps away from the mare, and staring in another direction.
"I thought that voice was familiar."
Hyper spun around and saw a pegasus come around the corner. He was a sandy colored stallion with a short dark brown and orange mane. His eyes seemed to be weary of stress and struggles.
"SharpSound?" Hyper gagged.
"I didn't expect to see you any time soon, HyperBlitz." The stallion nodded.
"And I'm surprised to see you!" He replied. "Have you been here since... that start?"
"Eh, I've been going all around the place, but I don't go too far." SharpSound shrugged.
Hyper watched his eyes, and how they seemed to almost be lifeless. "'Its good to still see you're here, not getting to the Hybrids. Have you been doing good?"
SharpSound gazed toward the ground and spoke slowly. "My brother was killed."
Hyper's heart sank with sorrow. "I... I'm sorry." He took a deep breath. "I guess you really can't be Stone Temple Pegasi with one Pegasus."
"Not unless you want to come back with us." SharpSound mumbled.
"No... I'm staying with my boys. Its just we've been through so much."
The other pegasus raised his head to Hyper. "How are all of them? And where are you guys at?"
"Thankfully we are all still together. We have a place just north of Los Pegasus, in a base camp. We actually set up that building before the total change. We knew that things were going downhill, and we couldn't stop it." HyperBlitz explained.
"But I hear that there are plenty of Rebellion Teams working to bring the world back with pure energy. I also heard that there is a heading team, many ponies say that they are a group of really smart stallions, who use to make music. I was think 'What about the Linkin Ponies' but I really didn't want to exagerate."
"Actually, yes I am a part of the heading team. CharmingRhythm is the main leader." Hyper retorted.
"Really? Thats amazing. Do you do a lot of work?" SharpSound seemed to be brightened up a bit.
"Sometimes... but lately, there's been nothing. That's why I came here, to see if anypony wanted my help." Hyper trailed off a bit, he didn't know if he should had told the whole story.
He noticed that the stallion was studying his metal wing. "Oh, this... My wing was ripped off from a Hybrid. But I had a new one made. It has energy in it." SharpSound extended his hoof towards the wing and Hyper shot backwards and growled . "Hey, no touching! I want to save my energy."
"I... I'm sorry."
"No... I shouldn't have yelled." Hyper's brown gaze stared towards the ground. He was silent for a while, and the sandy pegasus scanned him.
"Is everything alright. You don't seem yourself... well, I guess nopony is their self anymore after the change."
"Its nothing SharpSound." Hyper replied. He looked over to some of the ponies that worked their ways through the street. "Is there any pony you know that needs some help? Anything, really, I can help."
"No... not really. I haven't spoke to any pony in so long, not since..." His pale eyes became lifeless again, consumed by bad memories.
"Its alright." Hyper placed his tattooed hoof on SharpSound's left shoulder. "I just came here... really to find somepony I could help. No pony wants my help anymore, and they don't listen."
"At least you have your friends together. And you have plenty of ponies to trust, and they trust you."
Hyper gave out a sigh. "Yeah..." He thought a little bit more, trying to change the subject as always. "Have you seen any Hybrids out here?"
"Not many. If any, they are more towards the outer parts of the city. I think I heard of a Hybrid attack the other day at a park... I'm not sure. Why do you ask?"
"Eh, just wondering. That was one of the ways I could help, take down some Hybrids, disable Energy Nodes..." Hyper took a few steps backwards. "But never mind."
There was a few moments of silence, SharpSound still seemed to be in deep thought. But many ponies were in this world now, thinking of the past.
The stallion spoke to Hyper. "I bet if you keep looking, somepony will take your help."
"I guess so." HyperBlitz nodded. "All I ever want to do is make sure others are happy, to make sure they are doing fine. I don't like when ponies are... like how you are."
"There's nothing you can do... But I can't find any happiness in the world now, its just changed too much.
Hyper tilted his head. "But remember, happiness is overrated, joy is infinite."
SharpSound gave a little smirk and nodded.