//------------------------------// // Safe // Story: A Hero Of War (UNEDITED) // by DontWakeTheNeighbour //------------------------------// With every step the sergeant took, it brought him closer to his freedom. He limped through the forest, the bag on his back, the critically injured Pegasus’s head stuck out of the top, allowing her to breath normally. Bishop grabbed everything he could with his good arm before setting off, ammo knives food, everything he could find. He was now on his own, in the woods, his left arm hanging loosely as he staggered through the rain, every so often he’d reach back and feel Dash’s temperature. The wounded sergeant’s mind was blank, with only one mission in his powering his fatigued body, his brutal suffering with Dixon had jolted the shrapnel under his flesh, creating twice as much pain then before causing his wounds to bleed profusely, leaving a crimson trail behind him. He was growing weak, he started to pick up the pace he quickly found his vision slowly growing darker, his heart started to race he ran faster before seeing something through the trees. He continued his pace, checking again to see if Rainbow Dash was still breathing, he stumbled, looking up he saw civilisation, a small town in the distance, not only that, he saw people walking around. He was finally out of that damn forest and now he was in the clear, he laughed to himself in joy, running as fast as he could onto the field separating the forest from the town. “HEY!!” He screamed at the top of his lungs. In the distance a woman looked at him, Bishop screamed again running on the large field into the open, the woman called out to her friends, pointing at him. The sergeant slowed down, allowing himself to catch his breath before falling to his knees. He shook the bag off his shoulders accidently pulling on his dislocated arm in the process. He placed the bag in front of him, looking at the wounded Pegasus inside her eyes we bloodshot as they looked up at him. Bishop stroked her face before she rested her head on his palm. Bishop smiled, her body was still warm but her breathing was weak up to see a group of people running towards him. “It’s okay. Were here, it’s all over. …. It’s all over. As soon as the residents ran up to him he finally relaxed, letting himself collapse onto the ground, once again knocking his dislocated arm. The sergeant laid still ******** “Uuuuuhhhh. …. Owwwww. …. What happened?” Rainbow Dash looked up seeing the bright lights in the ceiling hurting her eyes. She blinked looking at herself, she covered almost head to hoof in bandages, then a nauseating throbbing feeling started to pulse in her muzzle, she reached out to tough it before she yelped loudly, the sharp pain in her back stopped her from squirming. She looked at her surroundings, it was strange, the room she was in was almost exactly how she remembered the hospital in Ponyville, she was in a bed next to the window to her left there was a closed curtain an in front of her was a door with shadows rushing by. The commotion outside was giving her a headache, she laid back down on the comfy bed, seeing the clock above her bed, then she noticed something, she felt her bruised wings there was nothing in her feathers. “My element!!” She exclaimed, trying to shuffle off the bed. The pain in her back restricted her movements, she yelled in pain again, she began to panic ‘What if someone stole it?! What if I lost it?! Is it in the forest?! How will I get it b-“ Rainbow Dash jolted as a flashback exploded in her vision, Andy, the knife, that bloody knife and Dixon’s evil eyes looking into her soul before her head smashed against the floor. She felt her head, feeling the pain slowly get worse and worse. She then remembered seeing Bishop on the floor pleading for Dixon to stop torturing her, she looked down, seeing the stitched up laceration on her chest which stretched as she breathed, causing her to wince with every breath she took. Her whole body was burning with pain she leaned forward trying not to cry as her eyes were so sore. Just then the curtain to her left opened, the sergeant was sat in the bed next to her, his face was black and blue, barely recognisable because it had swelled up so much. “B-bish?” She said faintly lifting a hoof towards him. The sergeant responded by standing up before limping towards her bed, his left arm was in a cast and his chest was completely mummified in bandages. He kneeled beside the bed, resting his arms on the duvet as he looked at her. “Rise and shine.” He smirked passing it off as a bad joke. Rainbow Dash smiled back before laying on her side, resting her head on his arm, still looking up at him. Bishop rested his hand on the only part of her body that wasn’t bruised or cut. She snuggled closer to Bishop, felling the warmth of his body once again. She closed her eyes as Bishop moved his hand to her mane, gently stroking it, calming her nerves, making her feel safe once again.