Pony Gustloff
Chapter 5 : The Final Stand of the Gustloff
Previous ChapterNext Chapter...The third torpedo had hit the engine room. No more electricity. Complete darkness on a sinking ship. I stood straight here, without moving, like an idiot. then I felt some ice cold water going around my hooves. So I started walking slowly, trying to know where I was going. I bumped my head on 5 walls. My ear sense said to me that the ship was capsizing. No! It was just sinking by the side... By the side I was trapped in. I thought I was doomed. But then... the lights went on. I was like " huh? ". The rescue generator was on. So I managed to escape the ship maze. When I went to the upper decks, I saw that only one lifeboat was dropped. Because I was the richest one on the ship, I had some rights that the other ones had not. So I asked an officer how many ponies was on the ship. He said that 7564 were registered. I told him that 10,000 people were counted in. He said to me "Oh really, Sherlock" and he slipped on the ice and fell in the water. I saw a completely filled lifeboat and said to myself "At least theres people who survived this." But then an Anti-Aircraft gun broke free of ice, slipped on the deck and fell on the lifeboat. The ship was really tilted now. I heard screams below me. I looked over the fence of the deck (The ship was tilted so I could see the side of the ship) and saw hundreds of ponies crying for help in the indoor promenade deck, trying to break the bullet-proof glass. I then turned my head and saw thousands of them trying to break free the lifeboats of the ice without a tool. I also saw lifeboats falling on ponies, Officers shooting their own families then shooting themselves, I saw the four captains---- on a capsized lifeboat, watching the ship sinking in horror, thousands of ponies who felt fear, desperation and helplessness as their only was question was "Will i live or die?" I saw fillies, babies, everyone was panicing, crying desperately for help. I then jumped in a lifeboat, the ice cracked, the lifeboat was not hanging on the falling side of the ship. I then started to chew the ropes, with no success. I stole an officer's Luger and shot the ropes. The ropes cracked and the lifeboat fell. I watched the boat sink in awe. the ship was completely on its side now. A captain and an officer tried to break the bulletproof indoor promenade deck glass. Then they got pushed off by wind. The ship completely disappeared, and I fell.
Just Darkness.
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