What in the fuck!
I rolled with the slide, putting my hooves against the legs of the table to stop myself from hitting it with my back.
Alarms blared as Amber scrambled out from beneath my bunk, “Are we crashing!?” she asked, eyes wide.
The ship rocked beneath us and then tipped back to level. I rolled onto my hooves but stayed down, “...I don’t think so. But something just went horribly wrong.”
The ship didn’t seem like it wanted to throw me across the room again and I very carefully got onto my hooves again, wings half spread for balance just in case.
“I don’t like this!” Amber said and her eyes darted around the room.
“Not a huge fan either,” I admitted over the sound of the blaring alarm, keeping on my hooves when the ship rocked slightly by using my wings, “Let’s find out what happened.”
I moved over and slid the door open, exiting my cabin. No smoke in the air and it didn’t feel like we were falling. But I also didn’t hear the engines anymore.
That’s… bad.
An engineering pony came galloping the corridor and I quickly got out of her way. As much as I wanted to ask the earth pony what happened, she likely had way more important things to do than informing me.
She passed us at a full gallop towards the rear of the ship, tools clanking in her tool belt at every step.
But I needed to know what was going on. I glanced back at Amber, “Come on, let’s go to the bridge.”
Amber nodded, her eyes wide and her side firmly pressed against the wall of the corridor, her legs slightly bent.
I shifted and touched my wing to her side, “Come on.”
She nodded again and then started to move.
It didn’t take us long to get to the bridge but after dodging another five ponies galloping through the corridors on their way to their stations or duties.
The door to the bridge was already open and I entered, looking around.
“No power, Captain!” The unicorn by the wheel called back to the Captain, keeping a firm grip of the wheel with his hooves while working one of the levers with his magic, “Engines not responding.”
A earth pony galloped past me and Amber directly to Captain Jetstream, “Captain! Report from the engine room.”
“Well, speak up!” Jetstream said, barely sparing amber and myself a glance.
“Port engine is gone, we had a direct hit! The mana capacitor is cracked and it brought down the starboard engine with it. Engineer Sparkgap thinks she can get it working again, but it’ll take days to fix the capacitor.”
Jetstream nodded, “Can we siphon power from the lift system?”
The earth pony nodded, “Yes, but only for a couple of minutes before we start to lose altitude. Ten, fifteen at most.”
“Captain!” The helms pony said, “It’s getting mighty tricky keeping her into the wind without power!”
Jetstream stomped his hoof on the deck before he nodded once, turning back to the messenger, “Tell Sparkgap to get us hooked up for cross power transfer. If we start to drift, we might hit a mountain or get pulled into an airstream that can rip us apart. We have to land.”
The messenger nodded and saluted before turning and galloping out from the bridge.
Jetstream spared us a glance now, “Lord Page, this might be a rough landing, we’re well over the jungle by now, we have had a strong headwind. If you want to make yourself useful, alert Princess Midnight and the rest of the passengers.”
I nodded, “That we can do. Midnight might have some ideas on how to keep us going.”
“Find her.”
I nodded again and looked to Amber, “We have to move fast. Think you can keep up?”
She pulled herself up straight and gave me a firm nod, “Yes sir!”
I shot her a smile and then I galopped out of the bridge. We had to find Midnight, if nothing else she would be able to teleport everypony down to the ground safely if it looks like we’re about to crash. Moon Dancer too, she might have some good ideas about what we could do.
If you’re on a crashing airship, make sure to do it with the smartest ponies you can onboard to help figure out a way out of it.
I was only a couple of meters away from the bridge when I literally ran into Midnight and we went into a pile on the deck.
“Page!” Midnight exclaimed as we unentangled ourselves, “What’s going on!?”
“Engines took a hit!” I said, “One engine gone, one down with the mana capacitor damaged. Engineer is going to cross feed from the lift system!”
Midnight's eyes widened before she looked determined, “I’ll help,” she said and disappeared in a flash of a teleport.
I am so envious of that filly’s skill at teleporting.
I swear if right now another ship will appear XD
"Attention! This is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we'll be landing immediately. The bad news is... we're crash landing."
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It's called "properly paranoid".
Who else thinks the thestrals did it?
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Could also be the unicorns that made them
Meanwhile...this is what is happening to Amber at this moment!
...I don't think Amber's trust issues towards the flight crew are going to be resolved any time soon..
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When it comes to air travel, we know you have no choice.
But thanks for choosing Storm King’s Mistake.
Now which we are renaming Page's Mistake
XD
“Somepony shut off that damn noise!”
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well I cant always be right... *shrugs* but we do know now that shes going down...
*Glaring at Midnight and Tempest*
Cadance: Stop that ship!
Discord: On it!
*The engines explode and the airship starts falling*
Cadance: WRONG SHIP!
"Mana engine looks mostly intact, but it's impossible to get out there to make repairs with the storm while we're in the air."
"We lose one more engine, we won't be. Someone's got to get outside and patch that engine!"
"Page don't even think about it"
"On it."
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Awwww that was good! I am proud of you~!
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Senpai noticed me!
... didn't this thing belong to the storm king, previously? You'd think he'd have figured to include some protections against exactly this sort of shit. I mean, if your flagship suddenly falls out of the sky mid-evil-gloat when that lightning strike intended for spooky effect goes of... it kinda gives the wrong impression, doesn't it?
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With his name he probably controlled all the storms that headed his way
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Backups of backups of backups. You don't leave shit like that to chance.
...
Then again, this is Equestria, where even the good guys leave shit up to chance all the fucking time...
Teleporting in a fast moving, rocking airship in the middle of a severe thunderstorm sounds recklessly stupid to do.
Very strange...
No comments from me I the past on this chapter?
Anyway remember folks:
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Probably was to cheap for it... Or that was exactly the reason he didn't use the ship himself!
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Something like this?
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Every landing you can walk away from is a good landing
Something that hit me yesterday: Everypony should know Fluttershy is a testral.
One of the developments from the changeling invasuon was that the guard would scan everyone thay goes in the palace, with Page making sure they did it to anyone that was not the Princesses and even them if needed.
As such when Fluttershy was yo the palace for the wedding she should have been scanned and revealed as a testral.
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Assuming that the scan did reveal that and wasn't a specialized scan for Changelings