Stealth
Flash Sentry didn't know what he was thinking.
Well, that wasn't exactly true. He could have known what he was thinking, but that would have defeated the whole purpose of the doing. After all, avoiding thoughts was what brought him through the mirror to Equestria to begin with. Now, as he flew away from High Paw... away from the shadow of the Midnight Oil... and towards a lonesome mountain peak to the southeast that housed a curious reflective sheen...
...he could tell that it took no thought whatsoever. Perhaps that was the explanation for the mischievous smirk adorning his muzzle. In a way, it was almost heroic, but the mystery of the matter clouded everything.
All Flash knew was that he was going to be okay so long as someone or something didn't spontaneously force him to confront those forsaken thoughts—
"Dude, what the hay?!" Soarin' hissed in his ear.
"Whoah!" Flash nearly lost the wind in his wings. He jolted slightly, then resumed a southeast glide. "Whew! Heheh!" He smirked aside. "Somebody should put a bell on you."
"Have you completely lost your mind?!" Soarin' exclaimed through clenched teeth.
Flash shrugged. "Wouldn't be the first time."
"This isn't funny!" Soarin' frowned. "You picked a lousy time to sneak off!"
"I'm not sneaking!" Flash insisted. He rolled his eyes at himself. "Okay, so I am sneaking, but 'sneaking off' implies that I'm abandoning the party—"
"Aren't you?"
"Hell no!" Flash squeaked, then glided lower through the stone ravine they were in. "I'm too jazzed by this whole experience to call it quits! What ever gave you idea!"
"Well... I mean..." Soarin' fidgeted adorably in mid-air. "From all the stuff you just got off your chest about yourself... I figured—"
"Just chillax, man." Flash gestured while gliding lower. "Just because I was being emo doesn't mean I'm emo... erm... you know what I mean."
"No, I don't. Brad—"
"'Flash Sentry,' remember?"
"Whatever! Look! I can't just let you fly off on your own in canine-controlled wilderness! You're my responsibility as much as the other ponies and—" The Wonderbolt blinked stupidly at the rock walls closing in all around them. "... ... ...why are we flying so low?"
"Because..." Flash pointed at the peaks looming above them to the southeast. "...I want to get a jump on whoever's camped out in those hills."
"Camped out?!" Soarin' grimaced. "Br—Flash... what exactly did you see?"
"Something reflecting the setting sun," Flash answered. "It was moving. I bet it's something glass. Or metal."
"What?!" Soarin's eyes widened as he glanced up at the peaks growing closer, looming. "Someone's camped up there?"
"Sure looks like it. Unless—of course—I imagined things. But I'm not crazy." Flash giggled out the side of his muzzle. "Not yet, at least."
"No canine or pony is supposed to be out in these hills surrounding High Paw!" Soarin' exclaimed.
"Yeah. That's what I figured."
"Come with me!" Soarin' hissed, adjusting his wings to turn about-face. "We have to alert the others—"
"Whoah there!" Flash threw a hoof out and anchored Soarin' in place. "Bad idea, buddy!"
"This is a potential security risk!" Soarin' insisted. "Spitfire has to know—"
"What for?!" Flash frowned. "You want that tryhard goin' all Colonel Killgore on the mountains?!" He shook his head. "Bad timing, dude. You heard how tense things were back there! If either Blueblood's gang or the mutts from High Paw get startled, who knows how many spears could fly!"
"But... but procedure..."
"Man, buck procedure," Flash said. He smirked. "That's the proper euphemism in this universe, right? 'Buck-it-all?'"
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh—"
"This situation calls for a delicate touch. And—dude—that ain't Miss Ginger McBitchface back there. This calls for you."
"I..." Soarin' chewed on his bottom lip as the southeast peak overshadowed them. "I dunno..."
"Look, will it make it easier if you tell Spitfire and Company later that you flew out here to save my stupid ass?" Flash remarked. "I just want to see if there's anything up there for us to be concerned with. For all we know, this might be the answer to what's stuck in the diamond dogs' craw."
Soarin' took a deep breath. "Luna spare me..."
"Heck, perhaps she has, dude."
Soarin' frown at him. "But you must let me take charge if something dangerous rears its head."
Flash shrugged. "Situation's all yours, Master Chief. But I suggest we try and observe before poking our adorable pony heads out in the open."
"Agreed."
"And thanks, by the way," Flash said.
Soarin' glanced aside. "For what?"
Flash smirked ahead of them. "For not going nuclear on my butt after the whole 'I'm a human being in pony's clothing' confession."
"I... still don't quite know what to make of that revelation," Soarin' muttered. "I've never heard of a 'human being.'"
"It could be worse," Flash said. "At least I'm not from some tentacle monster dimension. I'm certain that wouldn't bode well for your tender squishy pony bodies."
"I still don't understand."
"Ah. You don't spend much time on the Internet, do you?"
"What's an Internet?"
"Ugh..." Flash face-hoofed. "You know what? Let's just check this shit out. I'll continue opening my big mouth later."
Soarin' nodded. "Very well."
And the two gently glided up the edge of the cliff-face and towards the source of the glinting light.
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Since the whole "I'm a human" thing's gotten (so casually) out of the bag, this just got a lot more amusing.
No idea what to make of that reflective object up in the mountains, though. Could be a trap either by the Diamond Dogs or something else completely. (To be honest though, I wouldn't credit the Diamond Dogs with having enough strategic capacity to establish something like a set of reflective signals...)
The whole "dog eating carnivore ponies" thing is just too weird to be entirely believable. I'm guessing that's just a cover for whatever else is going on, maybe a planned ambush by this dissenting clan or something like that.
Its either Daring Do, or the Grand Vizier.
One needs escorting off the mountain, the other need throwing off.
7964977 What if that light is actually a weak point in the space-time continuum that's threatening to collapse both the human world and Equestria together?! Or maybe an undiscovered species that happens to live in isolation from the diamond dogs?
What if it's the targeting system for Flufflepuff's pillow doom cannon?!
7964977 Which is which?
Flash, how do YOU know about...
Never mind.
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I thought it was a communication system until Flash saw it move. Now it's sounding a lot more like an ambush. Either the disagreeing clan is going being the backs of the rest, or all the Dogs are in on this and the "unanimous decision" stuff was all a lie.
*spittake*
Next chapter: Flash Sentry meets Enforcer Shell.
Luna: THY CAKE FLANK! WE ARE NOT!
Ooooo, a mystery to unravel! Exciting. I also loved how Flash called Spitfire there
It light reflecting off gems stolen by a theif. Who upon being captured by flash allows the final clan to agree to trade.
Flash really doesn't get the whole "different universe means different pop culture" thing, does he? In any case, acting without thinking's gotten him this far. With some luck, it may get him farther still. Hopefully in a helpful direction.
Hmmm, I have to agree with others here, likely this is an ambush of some kind. If it's not I have no idea what could be happening.
I call sniper! >.<
It's Indiana Jones up there, scoping things out with his binoculars.
And for some reason he's with a talking manticore named Kepler.
HAHAAA!
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I call HawkPaw sniper who's gonna kill the prince and cause everlasting war between the two nations.
...i'm getting a sense of dejavu here...
Flash's openness and lack of pretense is so funny.
Don't open your mouth that flash is a human, soarin!