Rescues & Surprises
Rescues & Surprises
Dinky happily hopped and skipped along the pathway down to her house, a smile on her face and the scent of spring in her nose, as well as a small layer of smoke due to the recent, uh, mishap.
It was saturday and that only served to improve her mood more, and the fact that she ran into Applebloom on the way helped even more. The tiny unicorn couldn't help but notice that the youngest member of the Apple family seemed a bit down, with her head low, her shoulders slouched, and her legs dragging a bit as she walked.
Now what could be the problem?
"Hey Applebloom! Wait up!"
Applebloom looked back with slight surprise on her face, but relaxed when she saw Dinky.
"Oh, it's just you, Dinky," Applebloom said when Dinky caught up with her, a spring still in her step.
"Hello! I just wanted to ask what was wrong!"
"Huh? Oh, it's just that Sweetie Belle's on vacation somewhere and Scootaloo's sick today; I've got nopony to play with."
"That's not true," Dinky said, abruptly stopping.
Applebloom stopped herself and looked at Dinky, a confused look on her face.
"What do ya mean 'that's not true'?"
"You've got me!"
"Huh. Never thought about that..."
"Soooo, what'cha doin'?"
"Well, wanna play ball?"
"Sure!"
Applebloom smiled. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo may be her best friends but that doesn't mean she couldn't hang out with Dinky.
Her mood picked up considerably, Applebloom traveled along with Derpy.
"Won't your mom get worried about'cha if you don't get home soon?"
"Oh, she actually told me to make some friends today, and gave me some time to do it."
"You mean you don't have any friends?"
"Well now I have one!"
"You're sayin' that you've never had friends 'aside me before?"
"Um...no..."
"Well, I guess you'll have to meet Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle when they get back!"
"Yay!"
As soon as Dinky had finished her exclamation, they were halted by a thunderous cracking noise that came from their left.
Gasping, the two fillies looked over in the direction of the noise, and gaped as they saw the trunk of a large tree come crashing down towards them.
Applebloom suddenly felt the wind get knocked out of her, and her stomach met her heart as her vision turned into a blur.
She felt herself get deposited on the ground and then Dinky was there next to her. The massive tree-trunk smashed into the path with a massive *crash* and the two little fillies covered their ears.
"Applebloom! Dinky!"
"Applejack?"
Applebloom's sister hurried up the trail and hurried to check and see if the fillies were hurt.
"Dear Celestia, what happened?"
"Ah don't know, Dinky and ah were just on the way to th' farm when that big 'ole tree came crashing down on us... Ah thought for sure we were gonna get crushed, but then somethin' moved me, ah guess..."
Dinky only nodded, confirming that her story was identical.
"What do ya mean 'something moved ya'?"
"Well I felt all funny like, like ah was goin' real fast, and then I was over here instead of under the tree."
Dinky nodded again as she watched the ground.
"Well at least your safe. Come on, let's get you fillies home and cleaned up. Then ah can talk to somepony about that tree..."
Applebloom and Dinky beamed at Applejack as she helped them up. She wore a smile, but underneath it she was thinking about that dark blur. The one that had picked up Applebloom and her friend and moved them out of harm's way.
Princess Twilight held her head down in solemnity. The guards had just found another dead pony and another one viciously pinned to the wall with a crowbar. Both were in their youth, and the live one was in shock. Intoxicating substances had also been found in the area, as well as some sort a brass casing that smelled like smoke and sulfur.
Twilight had come when she heard about it from one of the guards, and had almost vomited when she saw what had happened to the poor colts. Celestia and Luna had been notified as well.
Twilight sighed as she entered her chambers. She was going to have to have a long talk with a lot of ponies tomorrow, and she knew it. Just what was going on?
- - -
It had since been quite long since that dark night, but Rainbow Dash still suffered nightmares on a regular basis. Visits to the counselor had helped, but...I suppose it's understandable how the cyan pegasus might be suffering.
And then this new creature. There had been rumors, as there always were, but, as they always were, none were very accurate. She heard of tentacles ended in massive scythes, needle-like teeth, among many other things, but she had no idea.
Rainbow Dash stopped and frowned. She had been walking down a dirt road, this time adjacent to the Everfree Forest. She had been doing this for a while.
The Ponyville Weather service had been kind enough to let her go for a little while so she could gather her bearings after the incident, and she typically spent her days wandering, on the ground no less, thinking about any and all things.
But that monster-thingie. Ever since that grisly murder a few nights ago, everyone had been on edge. Fortunately, it had been confirmed that the victim was a thief, and the incident at Canterlot also happened to "ruffians" but everyone couldn't help but feel that it was a bit overboard. This creature obviously meant good, but...were the Princesses going to try and stop it?
Rainbow Dash gave an amused snort. Maybe it could be in like in the Japenieghs comic book "Death Note," you know?
Rainbow shook her head away from the thought and returned back to the monster. What could it possibly looked like? Just then, she heard a rustle to her left. Rainbow suddenly jumped and landed in a defense stance a few feet away from the forest, glaring with intense eyes into the undergrowth.
Her stature fell and her jaw widened. There, poking from the bushes, was a face. Maybe.
It had two wide, perfectly circular eyes, and something else, similarly circular, jutting out from the bottom. Slowly, it stood, and It was tall.
It took a long, graceful step from the forest and showed off in all of its glory.
It was dressed completely in black, stained here and there with blood, and was grasping a long crowbar. It cocked its head curiously at the pegasus who looked up in its "eyes," veins filled with fear.
She was a long way from town...could she make it?
Her thoughts were interrupted when the creature squatted down, leveling its "eyes" with Rainbow's. It lifted up one of its limbs and put up a claw. Finger. Whatever.
The finger wagged.
Rainbow caught a blur from her side and braced herself for impact. It came, but...well, it didn't hurt.
He had smacked her upside the head, almost playfully.
The creature suddenly sprung up, launching himself a good two feet in the air, and darted away, laughing maniacally.
Rainbow stood for a while. She was processing.
"What?"
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when will they catch/see him properly?
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Secrets...
Is he... Pyro?
This is a good story. It's hard to find one like this with Pyro.
IS HE PYRO?
He hasn't burned a single thing and uses a gun, crowbars and a knife to fight, not something you see the pyro using, also he is way to fast and that spooky magic stuff he did is as far as i know not a thing pyro can do.
So i doubt he is the pyro but instead someone or something else.
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I thought that it was obvious, but some people...
He is not pyro!
Is it Gordon freeman in the pyros suit?
maybe Pyro looted the spy's corpse and found Gordon freeman's crowbar? and besides, he already has a shotgun
I want to know how he can run that bloody fast.
I've got it! It a Scout, in Pyros suit, on a randomizer server! That explains everything!
A Dishonored Assassin, perhaps? No, not Corvo, the ones that killed the Empress. Maybe that's what he LOOKS like, not what he does.
Hmm... Near instantaneous speed, uses short-ranged melee weapons and firearms, saves meek and gravely punishes any crime while wearing a gas mask. He's most likely a reformed dishonored-like assassin or a guy jacked up on similar powers, maybe a bit of both. I say like dishonored because then it would be crossover, so I'm still kinda clueless. I'll just wait 'till the next chapter and see what we get.
'' AND NO, HE'S NOT PYRO! ''
My mind is screaming scout now...
2659320 Scout
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O... Kay?
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That sounds awesome but I don't really have the art/Photoshop skills to do that.
that's the down side of being an anti hero, no one likes you some will ohters will hate you. He did good but good in bad ways as will sure he muder someone but what not to say you do the some to ohter muders? That pick on the weak for there own sick gain.
btw am loving it, am about to make a sniper and a fast one to help kill or save ponies.
If you ask me, he's a man, wearing a gasmask that just happens to have magical aura. I mean, he's in a land with dragons, unicorns and Pegasi, and Alicorns. Either he gained the powers, or he was born with them. Plus, Pyro's a girl, from Team Fortress 2...And he's not the Scout, I don't think this is a TF 2 crossover.
Was he a human that lived in a apocalyptic earth after a nuclear war?
3192851 basically fallout
So, who is this mysterious figure?
Id it Pyro?
Or is it the bastard spawn of Gordon Freeman and the COMPLETELY FEMALE Pyro?
I know who it is! It's the author, a self-insert. It's so obvious, just look at the user icon. And now if you'll excuse me, I have to buy some more tin foil to wrap my house... don't want those sneaky alicorns using their mind rays on me while I sleep.
i think it would be gordon with strealok
I understand how this person's MO is suppose to be unclear, but that scene with Dinky and Applebloom seemed dumb and contrived as hell. Besides how odd it was that the vigilantes managed to he RIGHT NEXT TO THEM during the few seconds the tree spent falling, it's even more unlikely that a random tree would fall onto a road, directly on top of two civilians. I did like the dialogue between the two, though.
Also:
You should probably change this. Since going from third to first narrative isn't something that's happening frequently in this story (IE at least once a chapter), this just comes off as a weird-looking mistake.
Wha... What just happened? I can't believe it isn't Pyro...
He had smacked her upside the head, almost playfully. ....... wait what?
Why are you trying to make me think an actual person is reading this story to me?
Can't help but feel you could have skipped AB and Dinky's dialogue and replaced it with a couple paragraphs explaining the situation. It just looks like you decided to write their dialogue and edit in more in later but forgot to do that.
Don't do that. Don't ever do that.
If this is meant to be her thinking it, I'd advise putting it in italics. Also drop the "you know" bit. Feels too personal, as if a person were saying it to me.
If this is meant to be Dash thinking, then I don't believe specific anatomy names would be the first thing on her mind here.
4583081 Maybe he is the one who made the tree fall?
If this is set a decade after Twilight Sparkles ascension shouldn't those fillies be in their late teens at the least?