Mine Their Way Out

Mine Their Way Out

Chapter 4: Reunion In The First Night

After a long and awkward dinner, Joystick and Twilight got up, washed their plates and walked to the living room.

“Ok Twilight” Joystick said “See that sun out there, it’s about 20 minutes before it completely sets, i need to get you geared up by then, we’re going hunting tonight” A devilish grin formed on Joystick’s face as he said those words.

Twilight looked at him with worry “ummm… What do you mean?” she asked with fear in her words “Hunting what?”

“The monsters of course” Joy said “we can’t really let them think we’re prey, we have to show them WE are the hunters”

Twilight gulped “H-how are we going to do that?” She asked.

“Hold on a second” Joystick said “I’ll be back with the answer in a minute”

The red pegasus exited and headed for his room leaving the princess alone with her thoughts.

that is one strange pony Twilight thought I wonder how long he has been here exactly, i get the feeling it’s longer than he wants me to know, and he seems… well… lonely.

Twilight’s thoughts began to move towards the pegasus himself he is kind of cute too She thought with a small blush forming on her cheeks and i’m thankful for him letting me stay here and not letting me die out there, he’s not bad…. Twilight shaked her head I musn’t be thinking like this, he’s just a cute pony who rescued me…

Joystick entered the room at this moment and found Twilight deep in thought. “Hey you ok there Twi?” He asked snapping her out of her trance “You look as red as redstone”

Twilight turned away “Oh it’s nothing!” She quickly said “Ummm, so are you going to answer my question?”

Joy shaked his head “Oh right” he said. He reached into a saddlebag he had brought from his room and pulled out a small iron… thing..

“ummm… What is that?” Twilight asked in confusion.

“Just grab it and concentrate on it” Joystick said “I learned it a while back”

Twilight eyeballed the thing for a minute then did exactly what he had told her to do, in an instant the thing grew in her hoof and got heavier, before she knew it, Twilight was holding a full sized Iron Helmet. “Woah!” Twilight said shocked “That is amazing! How did i do that without using my magic?”

Joystick chuckled “Sweet right?” He said “I don’t know exactly how, but it helps” He took out a helmet for himself and did the same. Once he had his helmet on he took out three more things, he did the same as the helmet but this time it was a chestplate, pants, and boots. He was now in full iron battle armour.

“Pretty cool huh?” He said smiling at Twilight who was staring at him unbelievably. “now for your set.” He handed her a set of her own armour and she struggled putting it on.

“Can’t. Put. On!” She said struggling. Joystick chuckled “Need help?” he asked. “Yes please” She replied.

Joystick walked over to Twilight took her chestplate and started strapping it on. The Pegasus blushed as he was now close enough to the mare to notice her features toned body. He moved on to her pants and blushed even redder as he stared at Twilight’s plot and got a closer look at her cutie mark.

Twilight looked back and noticed him staring and blushed as bright as he did “uummm… I think i can put on the boots” She said embarrassed.

Joystick snapped out of his trance and looked up at her “oh, oh yeah ummm, yeah” He said backing up from the mare.

After a long awkward silence both ponies looked at each other and joystick broke the silence “Well um, now you need a weapon, have you ever handled a weapon of any sorts before, or used your magic as one”

“Yes, a few times before dealing with some… unwanted creatures” Twilight said remembering all her enemies.

“Well what do you think you’re good at, close range or far range battle?” Joystick asked her.

“Definitely far range” She answered with a bit of uptightness in her tone.

“Alright then” Joystick said. He reached into his bag and pulled out a small object and handed it to Twilight “Do the same as the armour on that”

Twilight did so and in no time had a bow in her hoof “Cool!” She said “Considering i can’t use magic, this will do, but where are the arrows”

Joystick pulled out another object from the bag and handed it to Twilight. A sheath full of arrows grew in her hoof. “Ok, each sheath holds exactly sixty four arrows” Joystick said “So don’t waste them, i have about two more in my bag.” Twilight nodded. Joystick reached into his bag and this time the item that grew in his hoof was a sword made of iron. “you can still use a simple levitation spell right?” He asked her.

“Yeah i can” She answered. “Ok good, use that to use the bow and arrows.” Joystick said. “You ready to go?”

Twilight nodded “Yeah.”

Joystick put on the saddlebag and opened the front door to reveal the sun had set in the sky and a beautiful moon was shining. Twilight walked out and Joy closed the door behind her holding the sword in his mouth “alright” He mumbled through the sword “from here on out keep an ear out for things”

“Right” Twilight said nodding. “So what are we hunting for specifically?”

“Anything that opposes a danger to us or the house” Joystick said

“So we’re aimlessly killing?!” She said shocked

“Not aimlessly” He said “In this world it’s kill or be killed, every creature of the night here aimlessly kill things, and they will not stop for anything”

Twilight gulped “alright” She said “I’m not sure i can do it but ok”

Joystick heard a groaning sound behind him and turned around “Just watch” He said. Twilight turned to see what he was looking at and froze as she saw a green creature with a torn up blue shirt and glowing red eyes. It was standing on two legs like humans and was walking slowly towards them.

Joystick charged forward leaped into the air, flew a few meters up and dove straight at the Zombie, slashing it in half. The Zombie turned to dust and left behind a small object which Joystick picked up and put in his bag. “see” He said “simple as that”

Twilight stared at him in amazement “wow…. That was pretty cool” She said staring at the pony.

Joystick laughed “Twas nothing my dear Twilight” He said in a funny accent causing Twilight to giggle. “come on” he said “Let’s keep going”

Twilight nodded and both ponies headed off into the woods stopping once in a while to listen to their surroundings.

After a few minutes Twilight and Joystick stopped for a quick rest and sat on a fallen log. Joystick sighed and took out a small bottle of water he had in his bag which grew into a full grown bottle of water in his hoof and took a quick swig “Want some?” He asked Twilight.

“Yes please” She said. She took a small sip of water and sighed then faced the pegasus “Joystick?”

Joystick turned to face Twilight “What is it Twi?” he asked.

“You know… I never really thanked you for… well.. taking me in even though you didn’t know me” Twilight said, her blush being hidden by the darkness of the night. “Well you don’t really need to?” Joy said “It was my pleasure helping you”

Twilight giggled and moved closer to the pegasus “Still, i feel like i haven’t showed my gratitude” She said looking at him. Joystick looked into her eyes and noticed how they sparkled in the moonlight and got the messages she was throwing out there “oh..” he said “well i mean, you don’t need to… it was just some help.”

“I know but… still” Twilight said leaning in. Joystick decided that there was no stopping what was about to come and leaned in as well.

Joystick and Twilight’s muzzles where and inch away when they suddenly heard a groan and a clank from nearby and quickly separated and stood up taking an offensive pose. “Who’s there?!” Joystick yelled.

A Zombie came out from behind a tree and started walking towards them and from the other side a Skeleton came out with an arrow loaded in his bow. “Damn it!” Joystick cursed “You take the Skeleton, I got the Zombie”

“Right!” Twilight said loading an arrow into her bow.

Joystick and Twilight were now back to back and stayed staring at the creatures in front of them for a minute.

The Skeleton made the first move and shot an arrow that nearly got Twilight and started reloading it’s bow. Twilight took this chance and released and arrow which went through the skeleton’s ribs and missed him completely.

On the other side Joystick was charging at the Zombie when he noticed it had a sword made of gold. He tried the same attack he did on the last one but this time the Zombie blocked it with his own sword. Joy sidestepped and sliced at the Zombie who blocked it and swung at him. Their swords were now clashed against each other and the two were at a stare down.

Twilight reloaded her bow and nearly missed another shot. She jumped to the side and released an arrow and the Skeleton shot one of his own. Both arrows hit each other and spiraled in different directions.

This time Twilight waited for the Skeleton to shoot it’s own arrow, once it did Twilight sidestepped to miss it, reloaded quickly and aimed down her sights. She released an arrow that pierced the Skeleton’s skull and caused it to burst into ashes and drop an item. Twilight picked up the item and it grew into three arrows in her hoof which she placed into her sheath.

Joystick was having a hard time with this Zombie, no matter where he swung their swords always met and clashed. He had and idea and waited for the Zombie to strike. When the Zombie Swung his sword Joystick ducked and the blade cut a tip of his mane “HEY!” he yelled. He jumped up while the Zombie was recovering, landed behind the creature and quickly slashed it leaving a huge gash. The Zombie burst into ashes and dropped nothing.

Both ponies were panting and walked over to each other “That was a close one” Twilight said catching her breath. “Tell me about it” Joystick responded.

Joystick put his saddlebag on his back and faced Twilight “We should move on” he said.

“But…. Alright” She said. She was disappointed that they didn’t get to finish their moment.

“So Twilight” Joystick said as they walked “how was your first battle”

Twilight sighed and panted “Brutal” She answered “But i guess it was ok”

Joystick sighed “phew, i remember my first battle” he said “I fought with nothing but my hoof, i think i knocked some sense into them” he laughed at his own joke and Twilight giggled. “anyways, i think we make a pretty good team Twilight” He said smiling at the Alicorn.

Twilight blushed “R-really? Thanks” She said smiling at him.

Joystick signaled Twilight to stop “Did you hear that?” He said looking both ways

Twilight looked at him confused “hear what?” She asked. “Listen closely” Joystick said.

Twilight looked to both sides and closed her eyes. She knew that when a sense was blocked out, another one increases, so by closing her eyes, she blocked out her sigh nad increases her hearing.

She listened closely and waited for something. For a while nothing happened until-

“AAAAAAH!!!!!”

She opened her eyes as she heard a scream in the distance. “Joy!” she said “You heard it right?!”

Joystick nodded “Yeah!” He answered “it’s a scream!”

The two ponies started running towards the source of the scream.

Twilight and Joystick arrived in an opening where they saw a crowd of Zombies gathered.

“What’s going on?!” Twilight asked in a panicked voice. Joystick looked within the crowd of Zombies and saw five ponies within them screaming. “There are ponies in there!” He yelled.

“What?!” Twilight yelled. She looked within the crowd and what she saw shocked her more than the fact that Zombies were real “GIRLS?!!” She yelled.

The five mares within the crowd of Zombies turned and looked beyond the Zombies “TWILIGHT!!” They yelled in unison.