The Rising Shadow

Chapter 4

Unfamiliar territory

I could see the end of the portal up ahead the steering wheel began to loosen up the plane finally flew vertically  with both engines gone I was only a glider for now in the distance a forest came up to view if I was going to crash I know it was there. It was really unavoidable so down I went hitting one tree after another and then finally coming to a halt. I lost consciences after I hit the first tree but after my plane began to slow down and then stop, my face then met the dashboard and I was awake again. I then pulled the emergency unlock switch to the plane and the top opened up I stumbled out of the plane I tried to stand up but my legs were numb so I started crawling until I reached a tree and I could sit up. All of a sudden I felt drowsy. I then fell back asleep and started to dream.

Unlike my other dreams this was pleasant I opened my eyes, and I was floating in midair in an open area of just white. I look around and right in front of me floats the gem I got in the mail I didn’t know what to do but ask, "who are you". No answer. I try and say it again but I’m cut off half way when the object responds. (It was like talking to an angel). I am the master gem, keeper of the multiverse. I then asked it what I was doing here. The object responded "you have been chosen to be the protector of this universe. it is now your duty to protect those living in this universe from evil. Then I asked "how do, I defeat these forces". The gem answers back "you must first find the conductors staff to focus the power that you now poses the rest of your quest will be revealed to you in due time". I wanted to ask more but the dream ended.

I don’t know how long I was out for but I did know one thing I heard voices. I start thinking great someone came to help but the thought changed when I heard distinctly "quickly everypony its over here I can see the smoke". The only thought I had was to hide so I did. There were some bushes that provided the best cover for me also a great vantage point to see what was going on. All of a sudden six figures emerged from my left. My eyes opened wide as they could. I could make out 2 ponies (at least i think they were) 2 Pegasi and 2 unicorns all of them gathered around my plane. I started to think well dang it I must have woken the entire town. Another few things came to mind 1 judging by the pitch of each voice I could tell that all of those ponies were female the 2nd that came to mind was to figure out how much damage the silhouette had taken. If so was it repairable? The last thing that came to mind was WHERE THE HECK AM I???????? I still laid there silently while the ponies continued to talk about what they were looking at. One of them asked the purple unicorn to lift it up so they could get a better look at it at first I raised my left eye brow how was she going to pull that off?

I couldn’t even lift it myself. The jet had to weigh over a ton. Boy was I ever dumb founded. a bright light emanated from the unicorn’s horn I looked up in awe as I was looking at what I could only compare to was when Yoda  was lifting up luke's x wing out of the swamp, and in the exact motion, as the unicorn was doing! I was so stricken with awe that I did something stupid two words escaped my mouth as the unicorn set down my jet “HOLY CRAP” I quickly put my hand over my mouth but it was no use, all eyes were facing in my direction all of the ponies looked around trying to figure out where the sound came from I still had my body to the ground and stayed out of sight if I continued to do so I thought perhaps they would forget about it. That hope lasted about 10 seconds. When I heard some brush rustling behind me, I thought it was nothing but I turned around anyway. And boy was I shocked to see one of the ponies staring me right in the eye I was on my back trying to move away from it when the pony yelled to the others hey I found the monster logic could only predict what happened next. The next thing I know I’m on my feet and I start running.

I pass tree by tree branch by branch and bush by bush when stumbled upon a dirt road I stop for a second to listen. Yes I could still hear the sound of stampeding hooves coming towards me and they were getting closer I was a complete idiot to forget I had smoke grenades on me and I should have used them when I was still in the midst of the forest well it didn’t matter now and I wasn’t turning back so I ran along the dirt road hopefully to find something. As I continued to run a could make out a house and as I looked further an outline of a nearby town but I remembered something DANG IT I’m in the open I’m an easy target for something to spot me here so I started to look around for another place to hide at least until the ponies that were chasing ran past. There really weren’t a whole lot of options then I remember the house that I was next to I decided to hide behind it and use my cape as a way to hide in the shadows and cloaked myself. It worked the ponies bought it well at least for now they did I needed to at least get back to the Forrest take a damage report and then scavenge for anything I could use for the plane but that would all depend on the damage taken on the plane.