Richtofen Chronicles: One Last Chance

The four were now getting near to the smoke, on occasion they looked around to see if Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle were around, or the last pony from the Nine-Tailed Fox squadron. It felt like they were going in a circle but the smoke was definitely closer. The four stayed on the path until they finally reached a much smaller clearing, surrounded by yellow trees along with dead grass, the four stood in the middle of the mysterious clearing with the smoke on the other side of the trees. "Just beyond there, Nikolai and Dempsey, take point," Richtofen looked to them then points to the trees, the two looked confused at why they were picked to go forward.

Nikolai finally manned up and stepped forward with the shotgun in his right hand, "Fine, but I think Dempsey should stay with you. There were four guards in this forest, now only one." Richtofen nodded and Nikolai reached his hand to move leaves, but something grabbed his hand then dragged him into the clearing, "Dempsey!" Everything went silent as another humanoid figure appeared between two of the yellow trees, he held a samurai sword in his left hand, the blade glowed in the moonlight as he moved forward. A Japanese man was between the two trees, he was wearing a grey suit covered in leather straps, along with an empty parachute bag on his back and a brown holster for his sword.

"Who are you?" the man slowly asked, holstering his sword with Nikolai crawling out of the line of trees. Applebloom hid her head behind Richtofen's neck, afraid of the man. "I'll introduce myself, I am Takeo, a Japanese infantry soldier, I can see that the American and Soviet is also one," he moved his head to the side, staring the Nikolai's bleeding head.

"I'm Doctor Richtofen, the American is Dempsey, and the Soviet is Nikolai," Richtofen stared at Takeo's sword on his back, waiting for him to attack, "The fifriendslly is Applebloom, we are looking for her , Scootaloo and Applebloom." Nikolai finally stopped crawling, laying beside Dempsey's feet, "We need shelter and a first-aid kit," Richtofen moved to face Nikolai's bleeding head.

"I found a nuclear vault, I heard a loud, metallic screech coming from the location," Takeo turned around and walked to the line of trees then stopped, before entering the clearing, "Well, come on." He slowly walked into the huge line of trees, losing sight from the four, "Let's go!" Richtofen ran into the line, carrying Applebloom on his back. Dempsey helped Nikolai onto his feet and wrapped his right arm around him, helping him walk into the line of trees. Takeo walked out from the opposite side of the line, entering a gigantic clearing that had multicolored trees, grass, and apples on the trees, along with one gear shaped opening in the middle on the ground. "The British were building shelters in case of nuclear war," the four entered the clearing with Takeo, "Years before you kind terrorized my country." Takeo turned to look at Dempsey, then snarled. Dempsey nervously smiled then quickly frowned. "We'll have to open that hatch over there," Takeo turned to stare at the hatch, dozens of feet away from them, "We'll need to be careful, anything can be in there." Takeo ran through the sea of grass, reaching the side of the opening. In the opening, it was clear to see that some sort of intelligent life form created it, the floor was made of iron and was glowing from the inside lights. The four followed Takeo, reaching the opening in eleven seconds.

"I-I can't use my shotgun a-at this state," Nikolai coughed up blood, splattering it on his own boots.

Richtofen grabbed the shotgun from Nikolai's hand, holding it on the pump, "I'll take point." Richtofen jumped down, landing on his right foot and left knee. The room had cavern walls and the same steel floor, in front of Richtofen was another gear shaped opening, with an iron, gear shaped door on the floor, like something escaped from the vault. The vault door had an yellow number on it, the number was an specific 'Vault 113.' Richtofen looked up, seeing the four looking down, into the vault, "It's clear," he yelled out. causing Takeo to jump down. landing on his feet. Nikolai's upper-half of him was hanging down, Takeo carefully pulled him down, slowly until he fell completely. Richtofen quickly went under Nikolai's feet, grabbing them as Applebloom held onto Richtofen's arm. Takeo went onto his knees as Richtofen did the same, carefully placing Nikolai onto the floor. Nikolai quickly rolled to the right, dodging Dempsey's boots as they fell onto the floor, making a loud squeaking noise. "Be quiet, you might get us killed," an loud whipping sound is heard, coming out from the vault as an small, white, and circle shaped object flew over the vault, "Get down!" All four of them went into a crouching position, Nikolai didn't because he already was on the floor, blood dripping out of his wound. The object stopped and began to lower, hovering over the upper gap. After two minutes of hiding, the object mysteriously disappeared with the sound of the universe, everything inside of one sound wave. The four who could get up, stood, Nikolai groaned in pain as Richtofen turned to stare at him, "We can't carry him around everywhere, someone needs to stay with him."

Takeo looked at Richtofen, in one swipe he took out his sword, "I'll do it for honor," he said as he held the sword in his right hand, ready for anything, "Go on, he'll be okay." Applebloom jumped from Richtofen's shoulder and landed near Nikolai's body.

Applebloom turned to stare at Richtofen, "I could earn my cutie mark this way, now go." She made hoof movements, signaling the group of two to leave. Richtofen and Dempsey entered the gigantic, and dark hallway, too dark to see anything that isn't buttons.

"Do you have a lighter? I'm pretty sure you do," Richtofen questioned Dempsey as Richtofen pumped the shotgun, blasting a empty shell from the bottom. Dempsey took out an sliver lighter, the lighter made clicks with every turn of the gear, "Having trouble?" Dempsey did one last click, sparking the gas and lighting up the area they were in. The room had servers, two rooms on both sides, and one control panel. The main room had the yellow control panel and the walls. ceiling, and floor was green steel, along with the side rooms. The side rooms had huge servers on the inside, but the rooms were locked down for some reason.

"Something smells fishy," an loud, alarm sound ringed through the vault, causing another door to block the entrance into the actual vault, blocking off Richtofen and Dempsey from the others, "Oh no!" The lights came back on, the room glowed in a happy mood, the control panel was covered in flexible metal, and the hallway to the living quarters has opened up.

"Well, something is in here," Richtofen said as he stared at the open hallway, "Let's find out what it is." The two ran into the hallway at fast speeds, Richtofen in front and Dempsey following, scared of what's inside.