Date: 6/02/2014
Three months, and twenty two days until 'Endgame'
Sonata was a simple siren, she didn't want much out of her immortal life. She had likes and dislikes just like any other person... or siren. But of course, there are a few things she's learned to hate. Mostly four in particular, all of them from this world... well except for one, but the only comfort in that thought is that he's long gone now.
These things included.
Four: Closed spaces.
Three: This world.
Two: Cats...
and One: Heights.
It was a natural thing really. Once you've spent a couple hundred years living in cold clear waters, you learn to fear what's above you. Not because you really are scared, it's just instinct
So, come to her surprise when she wakes up with her face against a window. And that window is superseded in mid-air. By about one thousand feet.
Her mind scrambles awake, her body tensed, and her eyes were reduced to the size of pinpricks. All in a matter of a few milliseconds. Her worst fears realized, she immediately gripped her seat. Except she wasn't sitting in a regular seat, her fingers seemed to dig into flesh. When she turned around, guess who she was pleasantly surprised/not surprised to see.
It was Aria, but she was wearing an aviator helmet with goggles. She was looking out the same window as Sonata, a clearly different facial expression to hers.
Upon looking around, Sonata noticed another thing. This place was quite... cramped. Her breathing became short as well once she realized how close to her sister she was. She realized she was attached to her by a harness that was strapped around her by a skin tight suit. Kinda like those harnesses you see mothers carry their babies with.
Then she could hear a collective band of squeaking. She noticed, lined on the back walls, were opossums in cages. That's when she realized.
She wasn't in a standard plane, she was in a cargo plane filled with possi
Or was it possums?
Possmeese?
She began to squirm in her... seat?
"Get me off! Get me off!! GET ME OFF!!" she started to struggle more, but the restraints on her harness proved too much.
She saw the enter the cargo bay, he was a large man, and he a stick of pepperoni in his mouth, a large rope was slung on his shoulder.
"How are you gals!" he screamed.
"HOW ARE YOU DRIVING THIS THING!?"
"What do you think this rope is for?! See!" the man grabbed the rope, and pulled against it, forcing the plane to lurch to the left. The loss in balance forced Aria to stand and stumble forward, luckily, Sonata's legs were already tucked in, so she didn't worry about tripping on her legs. She was screaming the entire process.
Sonata stared at the man, with nothing but pure terror. "WHY ARE ALL THESE POSSI HERE!?" Sonata screamed.
"Yeah, I was kinda wondering the same myself!" Aria shouted back.
"These possums are going to Japony! Possi are the most popular pets there, now!" he pulled the pepperoni stick out of his mouth and offered it to Sonata. "Here! Hold my pepperoni!"
"OH MAY I?!" Sonata shouted.
"Yes!" before Sonata could object, the man had forced her fingers open and put the pepperoni in her palm. He walked back towards the cockpit and took a seat by the controls.
"Isn't this insane?!" Aria asked.
"I'M FLYING IN A PLANE GOING TO JAPONY SURROUNDED BY POSSI!?"
"Possi?"
"IT'S THE PLURAL OF POSSUM!"
"No it's not!"
"YEAH IT IS! ONE POSSUM, MANY POSSI!"
"That's so stupid!"
"NO IT'S NOT!"
"You like Freight Dog?" Aria asked.
"HE GAVE ME HIS PEPPERONI!"
Suddenly, Freight Dog got out of the cockpit. Sonata took the opportunity to address the fact she wanted to get off this mad house!
"I WANNA GET OFF!"
Then Freight Dog walked towards the main door before forcefully opening it. The thing dangled there with one hinge!
"This is where you jump! I recommend using a parachute!"
"Whatever you say!" Sonata could just barely hear Aria's voice over the roaring winds. It was cold up here.
Sonata could feel movement as she was lifted up, and now without her limbs instructing her, she was now facing the open door.
"NO! NO! NO! NOT LIKE THAT!" she started batting at her sisters head, but at the angle her arms were going, she just feebly slapped at Aria's helmet.
Freight Dog looked at Aria and shook his head. "This what you got to put up with!?" he asked.
"Yeah, look on the bright side! I get to finally push her off a plane!" she responded.
"WHY AREN'T WE GETTING OFF YET!? WHY!? WHY ARE WE STILL GOING UP!?" Sonata shrieked.
"We're not high enough yet!" Freight Dog said.
"NOT HIGH ENOUGH!? THIS IS REALLY HIGH! THIS IS WAY TOO HIGH!" she continued screaming. She was breathing heavily from all the screaming and lack of oxygen in these tight spaces. "HOW DID YOU EVEN DO THIS!?" she screamed to her sister.
"Remember how I've been disappearing for the past few months?!" she shouted.
"YOU DIDN'T!?"
"Every cent went to this moment!" Aria shouted.
"We're here!" Freight Dig shouted.
"Thanks for the tip Dog!" Aria started to move towards the open door. Sonata trying her darn hardest to move against it, whimpering sadly.
Freight Dog moved out of the way, allowing Aria to replace that spot, and to grab onto the rim of the plane. Her back was fully outside. Sonata went wide eyed at the sights before her. Everything was laid bare in front of her. She could see patches of squared land in different shades of the same color. She could barely see any trees, and the ones that were there, were only tiny black sticks.
"TOO MUCH SPACE! TOO MUCH SPACE!" she started to push back with all her might, trying to turn around in her babies harness.
"Wait!" she heard a voice scream from behind.
At first Sonata was ecstatic, she thought she could stay on the plane and land in a nice quiet lake in Japony.
Oh how she was wrong...
Aria turned to face Freight Dog and Sonata could feel something being forced on her, she instinctively wrapped her arms around it. It felt furry.
"Take that one! He's my favorite!"
Sonata looked down and saw she was holding one of these possi which had begun to eat Freight Dog's pepperoni.
"You need to jump! NOW!" Freight Dog screamed.
"CAN WE COUNT DOWN FROM THREE?!" Sonata asked.
Aria answered her first. "No! Just scream!" she immediately let go. "GERONIMOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Freight Dog looked down out of the plane, he could see a silhouette that continued to get smaller and smaller.
"GOOD JOB!"
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Sonata was terrified, the only thing that held her in place was what she felt like a thin strap of fabric. She was screaming in a perfect crescendo. The whipping wind was no match for her perfect lungs, and if it weren't for the fact that they were currently descending at a pace of a hundred miles per hour, she would have shattered the eardrums of any human within a ten mile radius, probably more.
She was whipping around one arm in every direction in blind panic. Her other arm was holding onto the opossum which had started playing dead.
As a game, Aria decided to mess with her little sister. Even more so than throwing her out of a moving plane.
She waited.
She didn't care how long it would take in all honesty, no doubt it'd happen soon.
And she felt it.
Sonata's arm had smacked her on the head, albeit it wasn't painful in the slightest, but she didn't have to know that did she?
She went limp.
Both their bodies began to somersault in the air, flipping in random directions. Sonata's screamed somehow doubled in intensity.
'That poor possum...' Aria thought.
Her screaming was the best part. They couldn't feed of each other, but sometimes, you just really want to hear your siblings screaming for their life in a controlled situation. Their was a morbid sense of accomplishment in that.
Or as controlled as falling out of the sky is...
The ground was rapidly approaching terrifyingly fast actually. Their speed did increase a good twenty miles back there.
And suddenly, deciding she didn't want to die as well. Aria sprang to life and pulled the cord. Sonata's skin crawled with the sudden movement. Heck, she thought she killed her with that slap. The possum was still in her arms.
She nearly dropped the poor thing when the sudden stop kicked in. The parachute opened up, forcing them to slow down at a very fast rate. Going from 120 to 10 in a matter of seconds.
Her organs felt like they continued to fall, the continues momentum forcing her skeleton to shift out of place. But she didn't care. She could see her descent slowing down and now she was screaming while breathing heavily, this came out as shaking breaths with fits of screaming madness.
"Are we falling!?" she asked through this.
"No, we're not falling we're floating!" Aria answered.
"Don't like! Do not like! Get me down!" she begged.
"Just gotta wait it out," Aria said.
Sonata was still breathing shakily, the possum in her arms had come back to life and was gnawing at her nylon suit.
After another three minutes of floating, they finally reached the ground. Aria began undoing the strap and moment Sonata's harness was loosened, she immediately collapsed to the ground. She was kissing the ground as the possum continued to eat the pepperoni stick in her hand.
"I need two new sisters..." she mumbled.
"Hey, look on the bright side!" Aria said, forcing Sonata to her knees.
"What bright side?"
"We have a possum now!"
"It's opossum," she mumbled.
"Oh come on, who cares about that!"
"I do!" Sonata got up, the opossum was still wrapped in her arms.
"New question," Aria started.
"What?" Sonata asked.
"How do we get home?" she asked.
The two of them looked around, noticing there was nothing but clear ground and open sky's.
It was gonna be a long walk to Canterlot.