Chapter Three: Getting to Know Each Other
Written by: Dustchu
I own nothing but my OC, the location, the plot and story and certain elements.

The two survivors Rainbow Dash and Jake walked long the road back to where they met, Rainbow leading the way. Their mission, find some clues that could possibly tell them, what is going on.

The roads were clear of undead, but that didn't mean the two could relax. Jake held his gun with a nervous grip, as he counted the bullets he had left and knew he had to get more, or he and Rainbow were screwed.

The Cyan Pegasus walked along the road, her hooves making a light clacking sound against the pavement as she lead Jake to where she woke up.

"So," Jake spoke after several minutes of silence, "What is it like?" he asked, eyeing Rainbow Dash in front of him as they walked.

She looked back at him, her bright violet eyes gleaming with curiosity, "What?"

"Requestira, what is it like there?" Jake asked, unknowingly saying the name wrong, "I'm curious about the place you came from."

Rainbow laughed quietly to herself, "Well first of all its 'Equestira' not Requestira and secondly, its a totally awesome place!" she exclaimed, jumping up into the air before doing a loop.

"Well, how awesome," Jake asked, "what goes on there? what do ya'll do for fun?"

The Cyan Pony suddenly flew into Jake's face, her violet eyes glaring into his Hazel ones, "Why do you wanna know huh, are you a Spy!?" she questioned the human before her.

Jake sweatdropped, "Uh, last time I checked I wasn't a spy." stepping back a few inches from her face, why would she ask him that?

The Pegasus narrowed her eyes at him, wondering if he was telling the truth or not. Fluttering her wings she landed with a clack of her hooves and kept moving forward, followed by the now confused human.

The path they took was long, very long. Jake decided to pass the time taking in the sights of the surrounding buildings, and wondering what their next plan of action should be. So far, they haven't learned of anything significant about one another, except Rainbow can fly, but that was obvious form her wings. He hoped there would be something to help them at Rainbow's awakening site.

"Why did this happen to us, and more importantly why is she here," The human pondered, "this doesn't make any sense to me."

After some walking the pair made it to the Mail truck where the Cyan pony first awoke in this strange world, the truck was large, and colored a dark brown and lay on its side. The windshield was broken and blood covered the driver's seat and the ground in front of the window. The back doors were opened and mail such as packages and letters littered the road around it.

"This is it." Rainbow looked around, remembering the truck's dark color and the blood on the walls, she looked to Jake as he looked around the area, "so."

"So..." Jake peered at the truck, something didn't seem right. While it was on its side the placement of the blood and the contents of the back are messed up, the blood is pooled on the concrete a few feet away from the window and the packages as well are in the wrong place, "hmm... something is off here," Jake chided, looking at the side of the truck with a keen eye.

"What do you mean?" Rainbow questioned, walking up next to him and tiling her head.

Jake put his rifle on the ground for a second before running up to the truck's side and running up it, he quickly latched his hands onto the top and shimmed up until he was now standing on the top. Jake was staring at something as Rainbow gawked.

"Whoa," the Pegasus flapped her wings and hovered up until she was on top as well, she saw what he was staring at and her eyes widened.

The side of the truck was burned to a crisp, the metal singed from an intense flame and warped and dented in places. Protruding from the metal was what caught both of their, sticking out of the truck was the hilt of a sword.

"What the heck?" Jake walked over to minding his step as he touched it, and as he did a jolt of electricity shot through his arm with such force it rocked his body back and caused him to fall, "AAAAAHHHHH!" he yelled, hitting the side of the truck with a thud.

Rainbow couldn't help it, "Bwahahahahahaahha!" she laughed, falling onto her side laughing away at Jake's misfortune. her sides felt like they were about to split and tears fell from her eye.

Jake convulsed for a few seconds before managing to sit up right, "The hell man!" Jake yelled, holding his aching hand that started to twitch, pins and needles.

The Cyan Pony couldn't stop laughing as the human shot a glare her way, "hehehee, that was great."

"Well how about you try grabbing it!" he told her gesturing to the sword as he backed away, his hand still hurt and he wasn't keen on grabbing the sword again less he get shocked once more.

Rainbow Huffed as she trotted over to the golden blade, getting a good look at it the blade she noticed, albiet just barely several glowing runes etched into the handle and the blade itself, the handle was golden and the blade a bright silver... runes of Equestira! "I know those runes." she murmured, her eyes widened as she recognized the blade now... it was her blade!

"Well?" Jake asked, his arms crossed as he awaited for her to grab the blade.

Without thinking Rainbow reached out and touched the handle, her ears picked up a faint humming noise as she to the great surprise of Jake, pulled the sword out of the vehicle's side and held it... somehow.

"...How... are you... holding that?" he asked, seemingly befuddled at how a pony could be holding a sword. Now that it was pulled out It was massive! the blade itself must have been at least five feet long, "it's huge!" Rainbow giggled and Jake wondered why but then he got the gist, "oh shut up."

"Hehehehee, you said it, not me~" she sung, looking at the blade she somehow could hold in her hooves despite not having fingers.

Jake shook his head, so much has happened in the past three days that was just outrageously weird, and now he has for a partner, a talking Pegasus that can somehow hold a gigantic sword that shocked the crap out of him..."Okay, I guess that sword counts as the first clue..."

"Cool!" she said before looking his way, "does that mean we're one step closer to getting out of here?"

Jake shrugged, "possibly, I mean you have a way to protect yourself now, assuming you know how to use that thing that is."

"I do know how to use it," she frowned as the sword started to glow, "whoa!"

Jake backed away as he saw the glow, it was bright and only lasted for a few seconds before disappearing only now the sword was shortened to about two feet. and on her flank a sheath for the weapon made of simple leather appeared.

"Hey, neat!" She said before depositing the blade in the sheath with a smirk. she flapped her wings and glided off the vehicle followed by the human who picked up his rifle, "so... now what?"

Jake looked to the north, and started that way, "let's head that way, I think there may be a store or something where we can get some supplies, and maybe some ammo for my gun. Man I'm hungry."

Dash nodded and the two set out north, and along the way she figured why not learn a little more about her human companion, "So Jake."

"Yeah?"

"Where did you learn how to shoot your gun?" she asked, eyeing the firearm in question.

Jake was keeping an eye on the storefronts and apartments that littered the area as he thought up a good answer, "well, back where I'm from we're always doing stupid things like firing off guns or blowing up stuff in the woods for shits and giggles, I learned how to shoot from my granddad, he took me out back one day with a hunting rifle and we shot some old tin cans off the fences." He told her, remembering the good old days when he would go out back and shoot random junk he set up, "good times... good times. How about you? what do you do for fun in your town or... whatever."

"Well," she started, "when I'm not clearing the sky of clouds I'm either pranking Applejack by replacing the apples on the trees with red balloons of Paint with Pinkie or I'm hanging out with Twi and trying to understand what the heck she's talking about whole she does her magic stuff."

"Magic?" Jake asked skeptically, "you have Magic in your world?"

"Yeah, why?"

"We don't have Magic in my world," he said, a pang of disappointment in his voice, "its nothing more then something you see on TV or in video games and books, it doesn't exist."

Rainbow Dash looked stunned by that, her face confused, "You don't have magic in your world?"

"No, its... depressing really." Jake told her, shouldering his rifle, "I've always been intrigued by it, but its not real. Just something in games, movies and so on, like I said." He sighed as a gust of wind blew towards them, the smell of death was strong. he threw his hands over his nose in disgust, "oh god that is bad!" he coughed, he never smelled anything that bad before.

Looking ahead Rainbow saw smoke rising up into the sky from one of the intersections, "I see smoke." she said, "could be someone in trouble!" the pony coughed as well, biting back the bile as her human companion stood behind her.

Jake coughed once again and fought back the urge to vomit, "Maybe, but then again," another cough, "I think we should take a detour or something." the human suggested as he took a turn down an alleyway, followed closely by Rainbow.

The alleyway they ventured down was like most of the alleys, dark and filled with trash, and the occasional dead body. So far most of the bodies Rainbow saw were clean, as in their flesh was eaten away completely, with only bits of gristle and dried blood left over. It was sickening to look at, and she would have thrown up again, if her stomach wasn't currently devoid of food. That was another thing, she was starving. She hoped they would get some food soon.

Eventually they made their way around the smoke Rainbow spotted, and found a nice place to scout out the area. Jake climbed up onto a dumpster situated near a fence, and shouldering his rifle he peered over. HIs eyes widened when he saw what was down there, "holy shit... you're gunna want to see this."

With eyebrows raised Dash flapped her wings and flew up to get a better look, once she was hovering above her jaw dropped.

Author's Note

I am so so so so sorry for the late update, I forgot (again) the site existed ^^;;

Well, I hope you all enjoyed this... shortish chapter... heeh... I sucjk //sobs in dark hole