Between Life and Death

Half an hour later, the sun started setting in the horizon. Everyone was sound asleep, Monochrome rested his head on top of Fluttershy who was leaning on his shoulder, and his daughter was resting her head on his lap. Applejack and Twilight were leaning against each other, Red held Nyx in his arms as the two of them slept, Agony lied down on an empty row of seats, and Clockwork lied face down on the steel floor, blowing bubbles out of the puddle of drool he was laying in.

“Sir, we are 1 klick away from Iron Air sir.”

“Good, I can’t wait to get back on solid ground.” Dance Party replied. He took tape recorder out of his bag and held down button on it. “Audio log entry number twenty-two three. Operation City Storm has been completed with the acceptation of a few difficulties. During the midpoint I ran into a few…unwanted allies, hopefully I can get rid of them soon; I doubt we have enough rations. Once we enter Iron Air I’ll send them away so we can continue with our next objective, it’s going to be a tuff one, but it’ll be worth it if I can finally get rid of all these…whatever the hell they are, infected, I’ll have to talk to the base captain to get the ok on getting rid of the pest though, but I doubt that’ll be a problem. Log, out.” He released the button and put the tape recorder away.

“Why do you want to get rid of us?” Monochrome asked, Dance Party looked over at him.

“Weren’t you listening to me? Not enough rations-“

“Your lying.” He interrupted, Dance Party smiled at him.

“Yeah, I am, to be honest, I’d rather not be stuck with any of you, the only reason that I teamed up with you back in Eagleland is because I had no other choice, you dragged me with you into that stupid deathtrap of a castle.”

“It wasn’t originally like that you know.”

“…Sure it wasn’t.” Dance Party laughed at him and he looked at him angrily. “I don’t care if it was or wasn’t to be honest. When we land, you are to take your friends and get lost-“

“And since when do you command me, huh? If you haven’t notice, I’m a king, which means I command you-“

“You’re a king of a dead nation, literally.” Monochrome scalded him, he moved Fluttershy and Amber off of him and leaned forward.

“Listen, I don’t like you anymore then you like me ok? But that doesn’t give you a reason to not help my friends, they’re not as strong as me, especially Fluttershy.”

“I don’t care-“

“Sir, we have arrived in Iron air, we’ll be landing in a minute.” The pilot interrupted them.

“Just listen to me, please, I’m too weak to help my friends, I need someone to protect them, and since you control an army, you have to help-“

“Why not that blunt headed dumb ass friend of yours?”

“If I could trust him, we’d all be safe by now.” Dance Party turned around and looked at all the others.

“Alright, I’ll help your friends, but only until my next mission starts.”

“Fine” Monochrome shook his hand then woke up Fluttershy and Amber, Dance Party also woke up the others.