Death City

Back with another chapter. Finally we are almost at the end of the Ark section. So far, I am truly impressed at the direction this stories heading in. Fluttershy is now the last character before the big rescue. Not much to say right now, so I will begin.

Chapter 18 – Past Scenarios

As Fluttershy opened her eyes, she began to take in her surroundings. It suddenly had hit her on where she was. She was in one of the many long hallways of the Ark. On one side of the hallway was a steel wall covered with an assortment of metallic doors framed onto it. On the other side were the rock hard windows that were the only thing between stable ground and the everlasting space. Quick to the point, Fluttershy had gotten up and began galloping down the hall that she had been through before. The area around her had brought back devastating nightmares of her past childhood as a filly and being separated from Dusk. This was all about to change as she would first find her friends and then find Dusk and save him just like he had saved her.

Eternal Engine - (Sonic Adventure 2 (opne link in new tab)

Each hallway and door in the Ark led to more confusion. Fluttershy remembered that the Ark had been the largest prison in the entire world of Equestria. Even bigger and larger that the royal Canterlot prison found underground. Keeping her mind on task, Fluttershy for some reason had known the Ark by memory. Being trapped in it for about a good week, she had understood the complex and knew which way to go every time she had met a crossroad.

Soon, she had reached a large vault at the end of the hallway. What surprised her was that the vault was completely open. Going through the vault, she found herself in another somewhat shorter hallway that led to another vault which also happened to be opened. As Fluttershy trotted down the hallway, she saw that all sorts of guards were knocked unconscious onto the floor of the Ark. Avoiding the guards, Fluttershy had been able to maneuver around them without disturbing or even waking one up. Reaching the end of the hallway and going through the vault, Fluttershy found herself in what seemed to be a weapons facility. Locating the door at the far end of the room, she quickly trotted out the door and down the leading hallway until she saw what seemed to be a dead end in front of her. Noticing a plastic white door to the side of the hallway, she briskly went inside it to find that she was now in what seemed to be a science lab filled with different beakers and test tubes. Ignoring all the equipment, she galloped down the science lab to the other door on the far end and made her way out of the many science labs in the Ark.

Once back in the hallways again, Fluttershy had decided to go left this time. After a while of galloping, Fluttershy had found herself in front of a steel door. Choosing to go inside of it, she found herself in what seemed to be a stony room. Chains were attached to the wall as some hanged down to the floor. There was even a dried blood puddle near a pile of broken chains. Not wanting to waste any more time, Flutterhsy had galloped across the square room till she made it out through the door on the other side.

When Fluttershy was back out in the hallways again, she had gone right this time. As she neared the end of the hallway, two metallic doors had blocked her path. Going through the door, she found that she was now in a dimly lit kitchen. The smell of death and decay had flown through Fluttershys nose, but she just ignored it and moved on. Finding that there was a vent at the top that she could fit through, she extended her wings and began flying upwards into the vent.

Crawling through the vent for a while, she soon found a small little hole implanted onto the vent in which she managed to fit through. Once out of the vent, as always, Fluttershy had been stranded in a hallway. This place began to come back to her after each turn she had made and door she had opened. Going through another random door attached to the hallway, Fluttershy soon found herself in a long hallway. But this hallway was different from the others. This one had one side covered in metal with the other side being some kind of glass mixture. Ignoring the appearance of the hallway, she had galloped through the mirrored hallway as always.

After a while of galloping down the most complex prison in the world, Fluttershy was about to give up. She knew that it was impossible for even the smartest of the unicorns to have the Ark memorized by heart. Just as Fluttershy was about to call it quits, what she saw in front of her eyes gave hope to her once again.

In front of her were none other than two groups. To the left was Twilight, Thunder Ice, Seamus, Rainbow Dash, as well as two other ponies that Fluttershy didn’t recognize, with one being a colt. On the other side was Pinkie Pie carrying an unconscious Rarity, Applejack, an another pony that Fluttershy didn’t recognize. Apparently, the three groups had all been in different corners of what had seemed to be a three way intersection. The only problem was that Fluttershy was her own group.

“GUYS!” Pinkie had yelled, grabbing the attention of everypony. From there, everypony began chatting with one another. This was until Twilight had silenced the group by shouting.

“Everypony quiet!” She screamed. “Now listen, we don’t want to get detected by any other guards, do we?” The rest of the group had nodded their heads in agreement. “Alright then, what we need to do is work as a team now that we’re all together then.” Turning to Fluttershy, Twilight began asking her questions. “Fluttershy, do you have any clue as to where Dusk could be right now?”

All Fluttershy did as a response was replied to Twilight with a saddened voice. “I’m so sorry. I tried my best to find him. I searched every single inch possible of the Ark, but I just wasn’t able to find him.” With that, a tear had streamed down Fluttershys eye, signaling that she was about to burst into tears.

“Wait, who are you looking for?” A voice came from the back of the group. Everypony had turned their heads in order to see a guard pony behind them. Everypony began freaking out till Rainbow Dash had calmed the group down.

“Stop!” She had yelled. “He’s actually a neutral guard!” Rainbow began defending Blur. “If you could just listen to what he had to say!” Turning towards Blur, Rainbow dash began responding to his question earlier. “His name is Dusk, Dusk Desolstice. He was a prisoner here for quite a while. Can you help us enough as to lead us to his cell or something.

“Hmmm, Dusk.” Blur said to himself while scratching his chin with his forward hoof. “Oh wait!” He shot back at the rest of the group. “I know that guy. He sure does bring back memories. Come on follow me. I’ll take you guys too his cell.” With that, Blur led the remainder of the group down the hallway that Fluttershy had come from. Blur knew that Dusks cell was a while a trot away from where they were now, but he had decided to keep that secret.

Passing hallways and going through all different sorts of rooms, Blur had led the group halfway around the entire Ark. Everypony had gotten tired and some of them had begged Blur to stop or slow it down, but he only told the group that if they did, the other more brutal guards would catch up to them, and Celestia knows what they would do to them.

As everypony was right on the edge of passing out, everypony besides Fluttershy and Blur, Blur had just cornered another hallway until he had stopped. Everypony was extremely confused to as why he had just stopped all of a sudden. This was until they saw the sight in front of them that had shocked the entire group besides Blur and a few other ponies. A majority of the group awed in both amazement and shock at what they saw. Fluttershy had rushed to the front of the group to see what was going on, and she started to whisper thing to herself.

“Dusk.” Fluttershy had whispered to herself. “I finally found you.”

Well, what do you think? I believe that this chapter was like a reference guide to all the other chapters with the other characters in the Ark. Honestly, I didn’t actually plan for it to be like this where Fluttershy passes through all the other places that the rest of the group have been in. As always, still looking for new OC’s and songs to add into this story. The song in this chapter was Eternal Engine from Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, one of the best games ever. I actually believe most sonic songs were made by Jun Senoe or something, so I personally give him credit. Not much to say rather that review. I haven’t said this in a while, but remember that the more reviews I get, the more effort I put into this story. So far, in fanfiction, I have a total of 30 reviews while in fimfiction I only have 5. I hope the number of likes and reviews go up when I write more of this story. So far, since NJ ASK began, I haven’t been able to write much since my head has a massive headache from testing earlier so the next few chapters won’t be considered the longest (ha, sexual joke.) Now, you shall review or get killed by a giant rock!!!