"This is the end... hold your breath and count to ten."
***
The door was ajar. Not a good sign. Raising his gun, James Bond crept towards the room, apprehensive about what could lie inside. Ronson has kept radio silence for ten minutes, so something must have happened. Staring straight down the sights of his weapon, 007 burst into the room.
It was as bad as he had expected. One agent, lying dead, and Ronson, the second, sprawled out on a chair, slowly bleeding out. Quickly checking the room to check it was secure, Bond picked up the laptop, looking for the hard drive that had caused all all of this trouble. It seemed to have been torn out. "The hard drive's gone," he relayed through his earpiece.
"Are you sure?" M's cold, calculated voice came into his ear.
He picked up the computer, checking underneath. "It's gone," he said, throwing it to the side.
"Then keep moving Bond," M told him. "We can't lose him."
"One second." Picking up a towel, he walked over to the slowly dying agent. "I'm helping Ronson." He smiled at the man, before covering his wound.
"No Bond, you have to get going!"
"I have to stop the bleeding!" he snapped, making sure the towel was in place. He smiled at Ronson again, before setting off. He moved quickly through the building, making sure there were no hostiles nearby, before stepping out into the streets of Istanbul. Almost immediately, a dark grey Land Rover came screeching round the corner. The passenger door popped open, inviting him to enter, and he obliged.
Sitting in the driver's seat was his fellow agent, a young woman. He still didn't know her name, but now was not the time for introductions. As soon as he sat down, she slammed her foot on the gas pedal, roaring off in pursuit of a black car in front of them.
"He's in the black Audi," she informed him as the drove through narrow city streets. Turning a tight corner, she clipped the wall, shearing the side mirror clean off.
"It's alright, we weren't using it anyway," Bond commented, still focusing on the black sedan. Almost immediately after he had said it, they clipped a market stall, breaking off the second mirror as well.
"Wasn't using that one either," she joked, increasing her speed as pedestrians scrambled to get out of the two cars' path. The terrorist veered to the right as she tried to ram him off the road. It was unsuccessful, however, and she cursed as she had to swerve to the left to avoid a fork in the road. The Audi took the right lane, and she could only watch helplessly as their view of him was almost broken by rows and rows of market stalls.
Without a word, Bond reached over and grabbed the wheel with one hand. As the two lanes joined to form one road again, he yanked on the wheel, sending the SUV crashing into the side of the jet black car. The plan worked, and the Audi flipped onto it's side before crashing to a halt. To his horror, James saw the driver's side door open. "Get down!" he shouted, just as the terrorist opened fire on them with an SMG. Flinching as bullets whizzed past his ear, 007 clambered out of the car and returned fire.
His target moved his attention away from James as two police officers on motorcycles hastily arrived on the scene. Shooting them down swiftly, he picked up one of their bikes and roared away. James, trying to keep up, thankfully spotted a bike of his own. He hopped on and quickly gave chase, leaving his fellow agent to follow in her SUV.
The terrorist darted quickly through back alleys and side streets, barely keeping his distance from Bond. Being blocked by a large van, he decided to ride up a set of stairs, soon emerging on the rooftops of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar. This didn't deter him, however, as he kept going along the tiled rooftops, barely slowing down. Noticing 007 on his tail, he took a sharp right, crashing through a window into the hallways of the Grand Bazaar itself. Pedestrians fled as the two rode through the narrow hallways, but thankfully the terrorist led Bond back outside onto the road, heading towards a small bridge.
As they approached, Bond noticed that his fellow agent had set up a roadblock, leaving the man he was chasing nowhere to go. What he hadn't expected, however, was for him to quickly dismount his bike and leap over the fence onto a moving train below. Sighing, and silently cursing himself for what he was about to do, he opened the throttle on his bike, crashing into the side of the bridge. He was sent flying clear of the bike, landing hard on the roof of the train. He almost rolled off, but managed to grasp the side at the last second.
Pulling himself up, he noticed the terrorist was a few cars ahead of him. Between the two of them was a large construction digger, and James was forced to take cover behind it as the man opened fire on him again. He returned fire, but only got a few shots off before running out of ammo. Groaning, he threw the gun away in frustration. Peeking around, he saw that the terrorist's magazine was empty. That gives me a few seconds, he thought, quickly climbing into the seat of the digger. Turning the cab around to face forward, he flinched and grunted in pain as a bullet caught him in the shoulder, but he shrugged it off.
"Bond," came his fellow agent's voice through his earpiece. "He's decoupled the cars, hurry!"
Slamming a lever forward, he smiled the arm of the crane came crashing down on top of the car in front of him, tearing the roof off. Quickly, he hopped out of the cab and sprinted forward, leaping into the carriage at the last moment. Startled passengers could only gawk as 007 readjusted his cuffs and pushed forward. He quickly reached the front of the carriage as the train went through a tunnel. There was a ladder, so he swiftly climbed up and onto the roof of the train.
Daylight hit him again as he leaped towards the terrorist, catching him off guard. The two of them fell over, Bond desperately trying to choke the man with the lanyard that held MI6's hard drive. He was unsuccessful, and was kicked onto his back as the train entered another tunnel. Bond threw a punch, but the man blocked it and jabbed him in the ribs.
The train roared out of the second tunnel, crossing a bridge, approaching a third. The terrorist kicked Bond away and tried to run further down the train, but James grabbed him. The two grappled, trying to throw each other off the roof of the train. 007 struggled, trying to get throw a good punch, but couldn't free himself from the man's grip.
There was a loud crack that echoed through the air.
James suddenly found himself free of his assailants hold, but now instead found himself falling through the air, his chest burning with pain. He saw the bridge and train above him, quickly passing out of sight as he plunged into the raging waters below. He drifted into the depths of the river, slowly floating away. As he quickly lost consciousness, he could only make out two words from his fellow MI6 operative through his earpiece.
"Agent down."
DANIEL CRAIG
AS IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND 007 IN
What's this? A crossover with one of my favourite movie series of all time? You sir, have my interest.
MOAR I DEMAND IT
Well, you certainly have my attention. Is Bond in Equestria a theme that hasn't been drained of vitality? We shall see.
James Bond and a MLP crossover? This will be simply SMASHING!
well done good sir
Kudos for taking the effort to recap the entire opening to Skyfall!
But what are the odds? Just today I posted a My Little Pony comic and a Skyfall comic back-to-back, and now I find a fanfic that's smushed the two together!
OMG i have been waiting for this for SO LONG
The music i was listing to when i found this story
I am confused about how this got posted. Did you submit it as two chapters, because:
and this isn't (yet).
So basically, you just wrote down what happened in the intro to Skyfall.
1684531 Hey, a few people on the edges of civilisation didn't see it I suppose.
Just narrating the opening scene of Skyfall doesn't really work. Most of us already saw it and don't need/want to read through it, and for anyone who didn't, it's so absurdly brief and rushed that it wouldn't do much good anyway.
If you must lift part of the Skyfall opening, you need to show us something we didn't see before -- preferably something that pushes the strengths of written medium. I'd suggest starting it right in the middle of the fistfight on top of the train, and then use the narrative to get into Bond's head leading up to the bad shot. By focusing it down to one moment you can more effectively draw out the chaos and dread. By constraining it to his perspective you can avoid telling more of the movie than you absolutely have to while distilling the psychological elements that writing pulls off best.
If any of the Skyfall story is actually relevant to the inevitable hooray ponies, it can be dropped in bits and pieces to garnish his thoughts while under fire -- something you'd be able to do with Daniel Craig's Bond a lot more readily than any of the others -- but I get the feeling much of it wouldn't be necessary, and what would work would be more emotional impact (alas Ronson, TUNNEL, oh crap NATO operatives, mothereffer, M is telling my partner to shoot me!) than regurgitating plot details that won't be important to this story. Bond doesn't really need all that much context at the outset.
Hate to bust up the party, but there wasn't an SMG in the opening. That was a fully automatic pistol with a drum-mag. Before anyone says anything, those are indeed two completely different things. SMGs are rifles that fire pistol rounds at a "high" ROF [rate of fire], and a fully auto pistol is just that.
Twi has her books, I have my guns
Anyway, after that little nit-pick. Call me interested. Let's see where this goes.
Seeing as there are two chapters one could definitely say he lives to...
*Puts on glasses*
Die Another day.
My poor attempt at a bond joke.
Shear would be a better word to use.
Him
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I have to agree with this. I have not seen Skyfall and the narration here just confused me.
...I guess the Prolouge is okay, but you kind of just spoiled the beginning of skyfall for some readers with this chapter.. Reading it just had me remembering what I saw so yeah, spoiler. -_-;
Will continue reading though, since I'm a fan of James Bond :D
I read this in Sean Connery's voice.
Now this is interesting. Well done man. Keep it up.
Okay. So while unconscious during the intro of Skyfall, this is what happens to him meanwhile?
I reject this bond and replace it with the previous Bond!
So prologue is pretty much a rough description of the introductory scene to Skyfall. Cool I guess.
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What these guys said.
Also: Who puts a hundred round drum mag on a PISTOL?!?!
That was my thought the first time I saw the movie when the guy popped out of the car.
fuck craig im imagining lazenby throughout this story
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here's a remix of skyfall that I got to listen to while I read this, and I shall continue to listen to while this story.
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A pistol is a lot more compact than an Uzi or other similar machine guns, making it easier to maintain and carry around without suspicion. The drum just compensates for the lack of ammo a pistol usually has.
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I did not like how you outright insulted an author. Major points taken off for being a prick.
...BUCK YEAH!!! Being a person who saw the movie to Skyfall, I loved the fact that you brought the tension from the intro of the movie, describing that specific part in fine-pointed detail. My friend, you've got another follower on your hands. YOU...MUST NOT...STOP WRITING!!!
Some corrections, long overdue! Well, you were going to be eating a lot of leftovers this weekend anyway...
Prologue:
smiled as
Chapt. 5:
its, no apostrophe.
And as a side note:
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Yaaaay, implied beastiality *and* incest!
this song:
It reminded me to read this fic
I haven't watched a James Bond movie in years. I kinda miss them, truth be told.
So, who DIDN'T listen to skyfall while they read this? I certainly did...
This can't be right... a 007 crossover that is tagged teen, and no sex? Good god man, what possessed you to do such a thing?
I've already decided I'm going to read through this, but you should know you have a typo in the opening paragraph (!). Could dissuade some readers.
I think it should be "had".
I know this is movie bond, but celestia dammit if there is no Golden Gun I'm gunna find it, and jam it through the screen into his hands
DUN DUN-DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUN
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And hit opening music for this 007
oooohhhhhh, ooh, ohh, this is skyfall, that was my favorite 007 movie
Whelp, since no-one did it, allow me.