Years of War

Chapter 2

"W-who are you?" Rainbow Dash questioned, he was tall, covered head to toe in body armor, which gave him a slightly threatening look. He took off his Helmet to reveal a blonde buzz cut and bright blue eyes. he keeps a straight face.

"Pvt Vita, B.R.O.N.I.E.S. Jet-pack division, Ma'am" he smiles and quickly loses his composer, "Oh my god, Rainbow Dash, I'm actually fucking talking to her, wow!" It wasn't like Rainbow Dash wanted interrupt this guys nerdgasm, She just wanted to get out of this hellhole.

"That's great Private, but We really have to go, like now," interrupted Rainbow Dash. She didn't know if she should trust this guy, but it was her only chance of escape. He quietly shuffles over Unlatching the many Straps that held her down.  Rainbow Dash jumps out of her chair, them lets out a small whimper. Her wounds had made almost impossible to walk, let alone be quiet.

"Alright you're kinda loud, so I'm going to go ahead and check each hallway before you run up. We have a guard by the exit that is on our side." The Private ran up to the door leaning his shoulder on the wall, then peaked into the hallway. He put his helmet on and said: "Alright it's clear, lets go," he shuffled down the hallway and began to check out the next, but he realized he was missing someone.

"Hey *pant* could you slow down a little" Rainbow Dash complained. She managed to limp about 4 feet before getting light headed, from lack of blood. Vita ran back over, picked her up, and put her on his back. she was surprisingly light, he could imagine just how difficult it would be to hold her if she was an earth pony.

"Alright hang on do you think you can fly, once we reach the exit?" Vita grunted, readjusting the where the cyan Pegasus was sitting. She had her front hooves, wrapped around his neck, her one back hoof perched on pack of his backpack, the other dangling uselessly below her.

"I-I think so..." Her wooziness was giving her a pounding headache. Vita Ran as softly he could, he didn't want to hurt Dash even more than she already was. They made it up to the next corner, but the second he peaked his head out he heard someone shouting, before he could sound an alarm, Vita shot twice, the first bullet ricocheted off the Guards body Armour, the next going straight through the Helmets visor, killing the wearer instantly.

"Oh Shit!" silently shouted Vita. Rainbow Dash Grimaced behind Vita's shoulder. he held the gun as if it were a smoldering heap of metal. he dropped the gun on the floor, thoughts invading his head on what kind of family the poor guy had, but before his thoughts made him feel anymore guilty, Rainbow Dash jumped down, and looked him straight in the eyes.

"Hey listen, Private, Doing this was unavoidable, let's be honest, I've had to kill people, I've never liked it, and I certainly never will" Dash put a hoof on his shoulder comfortingly. "If you let that death stay with you, let that guilt eat you up, we're not going to get out of here alive." Having ended her little speech, an alarm went off, apparently someone heard the commotion and went to investigate. The alarm was soon met by a whole lot of bullets whizzing by Vita and Dash's heads.

Vita quickly returned to cover. not letting any thoughts invade his head, except for the ones that involved getting Rainbow Dash out of here. "Get on my back! I'll get us out of here!" As soon as Rainbow Dash jumped on, Vita pulled out a Orange unicorn horn with a little gadget at the bottom with three big red buttons. causing dash to cringe a little at the sight, and Vita to mentally apologize for the life given up for the horn, before he quickly thumbed the middle button, creating a large force field in front of them. Vita made a dash for the door, it opening just as he reached it and a black gloved hand reached in and yanked him out of the camp's main building.

"What the hell, man, this was supposed to been quick and clean, what happened!" Shouted Pvt Imperium. looked over Vita's shoulder to see a heavily injured Rainbow Dash. "Alright never mind! we need to get her to Canterlot As quickly as possible!" Imperium shouted over the sounds of Alarms wailing.

"Alright!" Vita shouted back, he turned to Dash, "No offense Dash, but there is no way you can fly in your condition, and since I don't want the exhaust from my jet-pack to burn you. I'm just gonna hold you till we get there!" as he went scoop her up, she took a step back, looking at him questioningly.

"Jet-packs?"

"Remember, jet-pack division, we have magically powered jet-packs, we can fly like jets, with the maneuverability of a Pegasus" Vita grimaced before he could continue. "I just wish that we didn't have to forcefully take the magic, but it's the only thing we've got to survive with." Said Vita, putting the horn back into it's holster on the jet-pack, which now glowed a soft orange color, matching the color of the Unicorn horn.

"Your doing this to some poor unicorns?"

"No our satanic government is, this is what they gave us when we rebelled, it's all we had!"

"What are you talking about?"

"look, I-" Vita looked to his left noticing, a group of soldiers, marching towards them. "I can't explain right now, you just have to trust us on this!"

Rainbow Dash thought for a moment, it was either die here or possibly die later, the latter seemed like the better choice.

It wasn't long until the camp faded out of sight, the sounds soon silencing with it's disappearance. They where about two thousand feet in the air until shells began to explode near them.

"Flak!" Imperium managed to shout, before being ripped to shreds by the anti-air weapons.

"Shit! Rainbow, I'm going to try and land-" his shouting was interrupted by the roar of a shell, exploding very close to them, making Vita lose his grip, and causing her to plummet to the earth. Without any hesitation, Vita quickly followed pursuit. "Hang on!" his visor began to scream a whole bunch of different warnings to him before he grabbed Dash. Just above the treeline, with no time to pull up or slow down. Vita twisted his body with his back facing the ground. he braced as hard as he could clutching rainbow dash in his arms. before slamming into ground with the heavily injured pony, behind enemy lines.