"Acoustic, since when did you become such a murderous maniac?" Lightning asked in shock. He was not expecting that kind of an onslaught from his formerly harmless and docile friend.
"I don't know. I just----I just got carried away. I was bluffing originally. I just sensed danger and started fighting," Acoustic replied with the same amount of shock.
"Don't do that again, you could've been killed," Lightning warned.
"Ponies are like trotters. The only difference is ponies have brains, and trotters eat them," Acoustic retorted.
"Those ponies from the camp are gonna try and kill us now. I hope you're aware of that," Bursting spoke up.
"I don't give a flying fuck. If they want my head, they'll have to come and get it," Acoustic smirked.
"CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!" a gruff voice shouted.
"So, you guys aren't so dumb after all?" Acoustic replied.
"I WANT THEM DEAD! ATTACK THOSE 3 STALLIONS!" the orange stallion with a dark brown mane and tail barked out his orders.
"GET READY TO FIGHT, FELLAS!" Acoustic yelled.
The trio was strongly outnumbered, and out-armed. Lightning snapped three necks and gauged a stallion's eyes out.
"Shit! You work fast, Lightning!" Bursting gasped.
Acoustic was locked in a heated sword duel with the new leader of the camp. The clashing of metal could be heard all over the place. The orange stallion clips Acoustic's eye.
"AGHHHHHHHH, MY MOTHERFUCKING EYE! I'LL KILL YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Acoustic shouted in pain as blood began to pour from his eye socket.
"ACOUSTIC! YOU ALRIGHT?" Lightning asks.
"TOTALLY! THE FACT THAT I'M HALF BLIND IS COMPLETELY FUCKING IRRELEVANT!" he replied sarcastically.
"WE'LL NEED TO STOP THE BLEEDING SOMEHOW! TRY TO HOLD ON AND KILL THAT GUY!" Bursting shouted.
Acoustic sliced the leader's forelegs off and the orange stallion dropped to the ground as he writhed in pain.
"D-don't kill me, please!" he begged.
"I won't. I'll let the trotters do that for me," Acoustic replied.
"IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU, YOU'LL RUN AWAY!" Acoustic warned, he was becoming tired from blood loss.
He took an eyepatch from a dead pony.
'Great, now I'm the One-Eyed Ass Kicker,' he thought.
He fainted. The blood loss was too much for him to handle.
"Come on, we have to get him out of here! His head is bleeding too. Get a piece of cloth and tie it around his head," Bursting said to Lightning.
"I got the cloth off of a dead stallion's shirt. This should work temporarily," Lightning said.
Day turned to night. Trotters had trampled through the area and were eating the dead bodies. The trio was lucky to be alive.
Acoustic finally regained consciousness. He fainted from blood loss after he lost his eye in a sword duel.
"Agh, god, my head. It's throbbing. And my eye is gone! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!" Acoustic was panicking and half blind, but alive.
"Your eye was cut out in a duel. You're lucky to be alive, you crazy bastard," Lightning retorted.
"You look badass now," Bursting tried to lighten the mood.
"At least I'm only half blind," Acoustic laughed.
"We need rest. Let's find somewhere to sleep. We'll need food too, but that can wait until dawn," Lightning yawned.
"He's right," Bursting added.
The three stallions went to sleep. They had a long day and definitely needed it.
Lightning was the first one up. Some trotters were wandering near their camp.
"Acoustic, Bursting, get up. Trotters are coming," he said, nudging the two brothers.
"I'm up," Acoustic sighed. He was still in pain.
"Let's go," Bursting said when he got up.
The stallions picked up their swords and moved on.
"We need food. We'll die without it," Lightning said.
"We're vegetarian. Just eat grass," Acoustic facehoofed.
"Water?" Lightning continued.
"We'll find it. Let's go get some. We need containers to hold it though," Bursting retorted.
"Get down," Acoustic whispered.
A herd of trotters wandered by. They seemed to be following something.
"What do you reckon they're after?" Lightning asked.
"Probably another camp," Bursting sighed.
"Ready to check it out?" Acoustic asked.
"So you can lose another eye?" Lightning scoffed.
"No, so we can find water. That's the reason we left our area," Acoustic looked as if he were about bitch slap Lightning.
"Can't argue with that," Lightning shrugged.
The stallions had been wandering through a wooden area for a while now. They were too far from Ponyville for it to have been the Everfree Forest. They used these trees as a cover and followed the path of the Trotters.
They eventually stumbled upon an encampment. Approximately twenty mares and stallions were wandering around the perimeter, picking off trotters. Acoustic had an idea.
"Let's see if they're friendly. I'll try not to be an asshole this time," he said.
"We'll also go with you this time," Bursting replied, and Lightning nodded.
"Let's wait for them to finish killing those trotters, so they'll lower their guard," Acoustic ordered.
The last trotter was slain and the trio slowly approached the camp.
"We've got company. They seem friendly," a mare said.
"Stand your ground," another mare replied.
"Relax, we're friendly. We just need water. Food would be nice too, but we're good on food for now," Acoustic said.
"Would you mind if we spoke to y'all's leader?" Lightning asked.
"We'll need you to drop your swords and we'll let you see her," one of the mares said.
"You heard her. Put them down. We want them back after this though," Bursting said.
The trio, followed by the two mares, trotted towards a large tent.
A white mare with a royal blue mane stood up and trotted towards the group.
"Who are you all?" she asked them.
"I'm Acoustic Pulse. This is my brother, Bursting Atom, and my friend, Lightning Strike. Who are you?" Acoustic answered her question with a question.
"My name's Gleamy. Those are my friends, Rose Bud and Acrylic Splash," the mare replied.
"Nice to meet y'all," Lightning greeted. The two brothers nodded.
"Likewise," Gleamy replied.
"These guys came here looking for a water source. They said they're good on food," Rose explained.
"We've got water, but we're low on food," Gleamy replied.
"Well, eat the grass. That's how we survived," Acoustic sighed.
"That's what we were doing. The grass is dying," Gleamy retorted.
"The grass is greener in the forest," Bursting pointed out.
"SHIT, I CAN'T BELIEVE WE DIDN'T THINK OF THAT!" Gleamy facehoofed.
"Well, that solves our food problem," Acrylic said.
"Maybe they can help us with the trotters," Rose replied.
"Why not? More fighters means less trotters," Gleamy agreed.
"Well, fellas, looks like we're staying here for a while. Respect these folks, they're nice enough to let us drink their water," Acoustic briefed.
"No problem," Bursting replied.
"Thanks for letting us stay. We'd still be fighting for our lives in that forest otherwise," Lightning added.
END OF CHAPTER 2!