//------------------------------// // The Fall of Sepiks Prime - Chapter 5.5 : A Search led Astray // Story: Destiny : Twilight Voidwalker // by BackroundVoice //------------------------------// War Date: 1,497 days since Radiance. Location: Ishtar Cliffs, Venus. Thomas record log: Entry #78. My lady Rarity and her party are still in pursuit of the Vault of Glass. A month has passed from when we departed from the Tower. The abundance of Vex has increased as we venture further into the Ishtar academy. Which would mean that we would be getting closer to our goal. But it could as easily be a trap. A false lead to our doom. My lady of course would not hear any of this. Insisting that we continue our crusade until we find a clue of some kind. As of yet, no such luck. “Come along everypony, just a little longer and we’ll take a break!” my lady spoke in such a confident voice. “You said that the last five waves of Vex Rarity!” Madam Rainbow dash complained. “An’ the five times before that!” that barbarian Applejack slurred. My fair lady’s companions have been far less then pleasant for the past three hours that I’ve counted. Blaming my lady for all their hardships and the such. I truly don’t see how she can call these foals her best friends. My lady sighed, giving heed to her friend’s complaints “I know… And I am truly sorry for dragging you all through this, this mission of mine…” Rainbow Dash and Applejack looked to one another, tilting their heads and coming to an understanding with my fair lady. “Its al’ well an’ good Rare, but Dash an’ I are startin’ ta’ wonder if the Vault really does exist” Applejack said. “And if it did, wouldn’t it be covered in Vex!” Rainbow Dash added. “It’s true, I don’t have a shred of an idea as to where it might be… But I have to try don’t I? Even if I should die trying!” Rarity asked. “My lady…” I started. “Please Tom, I understand your concerns, but there are only so few places left for us to look for Twilight and Flutter Shy… Oh, I miss them so…” Applejack obviously felt the same way, Rainbow Dash? Not so much. “Oh Rarity, we know… we know…” Applejack said as she neared Rarity and comforted my lady with a gentle hug. A moment passed, and Applejack noticed that Rainbow Dash was absent from their hug. “Um, Dash? We’re suppose ta’ be doin’ the whole friendship thing?” Applejack said a little ways away from Rainbow Dash. “Yeah… Uh… You guys know how I check on the Crucible matches every now and again right?” Rainbow Dash reminded the party. “Of course! You check the scoreboard every minute!” I vented. “And let’s not forget about the screaming after each zone is captured!” Scarecrow, Applejack’s Irish but otherwise loud Ghost. “Scare, that’s what you do…” Applejack rephrased Scarecrow’s sentence. Scarecrow was speechless, but not for long. “Forget it! Dash, what’s the score!?” Scarecrow shouted while zipping over to Rainbow Dash. Only to be stopped by Rainbow’s Ghost, Narrator. “It’s a Death Match, and the score is twenty to nothing, and don’t crowd Dashing like that!” Narrator said, pushing Scarecrow away from Rainbow Dash’s right shoulder. Forcing the rusty Ghost back a few inches. “Thems fighting words Narr!” Scarecrow roared as he was about to hit Narrator back but Applejack intervened. “That’s enough you two!” Applejack yelled to both of them. Grabbing each with one of her hooves. And after a span of ten seconds, she let them go. “Now what’s this about the Crucible Dash? Did your team not make it ta’ the play-offs?” Applejack guessed at Rainbow’s pointless dilemma. “No!” Rainbow Dash yelled “… The Wonder Bolts beat the Province of Gun a while ago…” “Than what is the problem!?” Applejack asked, annoyed. “It’s the Bonus Match…” “And what about the Bonus Match?” Rarity asked as well. “Twilight’s in it…” All of the Guardian’s were stunned, but quickly opened the Crucible interface along their Hologram-books. Seeing the Bonus Match scoreboard display read now twenty-six to nothing as a sand storm fizzled out the Hologram. “That’s Twilight…” Rarity began. “… An’ she’s fightin’…” Applejack continued. “Sunset Shimmer!” and Rainbow Dash finished. … “We need to get back to the Tower” “Hold on Rainbow!” Applejack said to Rainbow Dash before she could warp to her Jumpship “We… We can’t just…” Applejack could hardly hold herself together as she slowly looked to Rarity. Who was just as surprised, if not more so. Happy that her friend was okay, but a little lost since her previous theory had just been thrown out the window so to speak. They were all lost in thought, hearing nothing but the rumbling of the one-thousand storms above their heads in the atmosphere. “My lady… My Lady!” I shouted, waking my dearest Guardian from her own self entranced thoughts. Rarity looked around at her friends, focusing on their turned heads to her. Rarity, for a moment, nearly stopped herself from making the movement, but stuck to her idea and shooed her companions away. “Go along you two, give Twilight my best…” she finally said. “Thanks Rarity!” Rainbow Dash quickly spat before she warped. Applejack on the other hoof took her time warping. Glancing to my lady as she evaporated. “Thank you Rarity…” Those were the last words my lady heard before we were at last, alone. “How fair you my lady?” I asked her. But even with her helmet hiding her emotions, I could clearly tell from her soft sniffling that she was crying. “I am quite fine Tom… I’m just… Beyond relief” I float corrected. Not a moment passed before my lady was at it again. Continuing her search for the Glass Vault and the mysteries behind it. “Are you sure about this? We are alone again my lady” I said. “We have dealt with far worse than the Vex alone” she calmly commented. “And with Twilight back, I am now even more certain we will find it” “The whole city will be filled with joy with one of it’s Princesses now returning” I added. “Surely!” Rarity agreed. “But none would be more joyous then Lord Spike” I finished. The very mention of the Lord sent a jump of excitement up my Guardian’s spin, causing her to trot at a slower pace than before. “S- Surely…” my lady stuttered, embarrassed.