Death City

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Chapter 20 – A Final Goodbye

Getting into the space pod by himself, a question had suddenly stung Dusk that even he did not know the answer to. "Who was going to stay behind and launch all the space pods by themselves?" The question had stung harder that a queen bee. It was a very risky decision, and that meant that whoever stayed behind was most likely going to end up getting captured and loked away for the rest of their lives due to trying to escape the Ark. Fully locking himself into the space pod, Dusk knew he had to answer the question sooner or later. He knew that it was always more beneficial to do stuff first at hoof so you wouldn't get tangled up in it later on. Speaking up, Dusk had finally gotten the guts to ask his question.

"Um, guys?" Dusk asked, grabbing the attention of everypony in the room. "I have some tragic news to tell you." His voice soon began to get lower as well as quieter.

"W-what is it?" Fluttershy was the first of the group to respond.

"Well, if you haven't already realized, who is going to launch all these space pods?" Dusk began looking down at the bottom of the space pod. "They can't just launch themselves on their own. Somepony has to stay behind and." Dusk took a big gulp before finishing his statement "launch the pods on their own."

"Wait, then that means" Rainbow Dash didn't even get the chance to finish her statement before she was cut off by Dusk.

"Precisely." A more mature and sophisticated Dusk responded. "One of us won't make it out alive."

"But who would be so foolish and considerate enough to sacrifice their own life just to save the lives of countless others?" Raymond had asked the group of ponies.

"I'll do it." A voice rang from the back of the group. "I'll stay behind." The rest of the group had turned their heads to see themselves facing none other than a dark blue unicorn. A few gasps had come from the group as they looked at the unicorn in shock and disbelief.

"No, you can't be serious." Twilight had just come to Thunders aid. She had just been shocked as to what her "friend" had just said. "You just can't be serious!"

"I'm sorry Twi," A low toned Thunder began comforting Twilight. "But if I don't, all of us will have to pay the price. And who knows who will live and who won't?"

"Fine." Twilight said in response to Thunder Ice. She soon began standing her own ground. "Then if you're going to stay while everyone leaves, I will too." Twilight had soon closed her eyes afterward.

"No, Twilight." Thunder turned himself till he was right in front of Twilight. By now, Twilight had her eyes opened right after Thunder had gripped his front two hooves onto Twilights shoulder. "Celestia knows what will happen to you if they capture you. I just can't afford to take that risk. I love you too much for anything like that to happen to you." Looking directly into Twilight eyes, Thunder began speaking again. "I'd never be able to forgive myself if you were to get hurt in anyway." As Thunder Ice was inches away from Twilight, he had said his last words before ending it all. "Just trust me this once." With that, Thunder Ice had leaned in and his lips connected with Twilight. Twilight was taken aback by this sudden event and had her eyes fully open, but over time, she slowly began to close them. She knew that this would probably be their last kiss for who knows how long, so Twilight began savoring it. Every single second of it, and Twilight liked it. Knowing that this would be her final goodbye, Twilight had an urge inside of her and wanted to take this a step further. Ignoring the other ponies around her, she began moving closer to Thunder. Right now, it was just them in their own little world. Right before Twilight could do anything more, Thunder had broken away from her. Apparently he had run out of air. Twilight's first clue to this was because he was breathing heavily after they had disconnected from each other. Regaining enough air again, Thunder Ice had gotten up again and had looked at Twilight's eyes for the last time. "Just trust me this once." He had slowly whispered into Twilights ear. Shedding a slight tear, all Twilight did was nod slowly in a depressed way, confirming that she was ready to give up Thunder Ice for possibly forever. Turning back to the rest of the group of ponies, Thunder Ice had spoken up to the group for one last time. "I'm ready." Was all Thunder said.

From this, the rest of the ponies excluding Dusk since he was already in his own pod, had made their way to their own escape pods. Sealing the glass doors in front of them, Thunder looked around the room to make sure all his friends were ready to leave. Looking at them one by one, he gave them all one final goodbye. Dusk, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity who was still unconscious, Lightning Flash, Snake, Raymond, Rainbow Dash, Strife, Seamus, Blur, and everypony else. All leading up to Twilight. Thunder Ice slowly began trotting over to the control panel on the far side of the room. Everypony began watching as the moment had only become more and more dramatic.

As Thunder reached the switch, he had to stand on his hind two hoofs in order to reach the control panel. What seemed to be on it was one main switch and an array of different green buttons arranged in an ordered pair. Below each button was a number, signalizing which pod it triggered. Scanning around the room, Thunder found that Dusks pod had been the first pod. Knowing this, Thunder had pressed the corresponding button and looked at Dusk for the last time before pulling the trigger. The result of this was Dusks pod being disconnected from the Ark and being pushed by a pusher right beneath the pod. Thunder could see through the stainless glass window that Dusks pod had been flying towards Equestria, where they came from.

Pressing the second button, Thunder found that Fluttershy had been next. Looking back at Fluttershy, Thunder had noticed that Fluttershy had given him a hoof up in response that she was ready. Getting the memo, Thunder had done the same thing as he did to Dusk and had also pulled the trigger, sending Fluttershy flying towards home.

Thunder had repeated what he did for the rest of the ponies. This was until he had reached the last pony, Twilight. Thunder knew that this would be the hardest part of his life, but he had to accept the fact that if you love something , let it go. If it comes back, then it is truly yours. Keeping those words not only in mind, but also heart, Thunder Ice looked at Twilight for the last time and began saying his final goodbyes.

"Well, I guess this is it." Thunder had said with an extremely saddened voice.

"Please, don't do it." Twilight begged Thunder Ice. "We can start over, just the two of us. We can be prisoners in the Ark together forever. I don't care what happens to me just as long as I get to be with you." Twilight was now on the verge of crying.

"I'm sorry, Twi" An extremely depressed Thunder responded. "But I've already made my decision. And there's no changing what's already been made." With that, Thunder Ice had pressed the last available green button, signaling that he was ready to launch Twilights pod. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, Thunder Ice turned his head to Twilight for one last time before letting her go forever.

"Remember that I'll be with you no matter what. Love is a powerful thing and I love you more than anything ever put into this world. Promise me you will never forget that." Thunder Ices words flew out of his mouth in smooth, rhythmic beats. All Twilight did was nod her head through the glass. Tears began forming in her eyes as she knew this was the lat time she would ever see him again. Right before Thunder pulled the switch, he had said one final thing to Twilight. "Love you, Twi."

With that, Thunder Ice had pulled the trigger, sending Twilight far on her way all the way to Equestria, where they had started. Knowing that he was all alone now, Thunder Ice had banged his head against the control panel and used his front hoofs to cover around the sides of his face. Thunder had begun crying, knowing that he had lost the one most important thing in the world for him. The one thing that he care dearest for, Twilight.

Suddenly, the loud sound of clopping had come from down the hallways. The sound had begun to get louder and louder until Thunder had heard shouting behind of him.

"There he is, get him!" A guard from behind Thunders back had shouted. After this, two other guards had charged towards Thunder, who was weeping all over the damaged control panel. Thunder didn't seem to care that he would soon be taken prisoner and didn't try at any efforts to try and escape. All he did was stay where he was and would accept his fate. He knew that life couldn't get any worse for him than it had already been. As the two guards got in range of him, they had grabbed his two front hooves from around his face and began pulling him off the control panel.

"Shit!" One of the guards holding Thunders right hoof said. "Umm, sir, you better have a look at this." He said while pointing a hoof to the area to the side where all the space pods used to be.

"What the.." The general of the group looked around the room, shocked that all of the space pods were missing. "Those bastards. Why, if I ever got my hoof on one of those rascals, I'd literally ripe their spine out of their tiny little bodies."

"Well, don't get too angry, boss." The guard holding Thunders left hoof had mentioned. "We at least got one of the ass holes."

"Hm, I think you're right." The boss of the two had said. "And you know what we can do with this," The boss had used his front hoof to examine Thunders chin. "This masterpiece."

"W-what?" One of the guards had asked with fear in his voice.

"We can use this unimportant life form as a, how do you say it," The boss guard began rubbing his forehead. "A type of threat, you know, blackmail."

"Oh." The other guard said aloud, now understanding what the boss was going for. "You want to hold him hostage so we can get the escapes back up here and finally capture them."

"No shit, Sherlock!" The other guard yelled at him. "Wow, you catch on fast." He said to himself. From this, the two guards began arguing to each other. This was until the boss guard had broken them up.

"Come on, you two!" The boss had yelled at the two. "Stallion up and get a move on. We're wasting valuable time. I'm not gonna spent my entire day just watching you two go at it faster than two angry beavers." With that, the boss guard began trotting out of the room, followed by the two guards holding the still weeping Thunder Ice. Just as The guards carrying Thunder left the room, Thunder had mumbled one last thing to himself.

"Be careful, Twilight. I trust you."

Chapter 20 done. For some reason, my throat is killing me and I had one heck of a day trying to speak in class today. Still looking for new OC and song requests as always. Just to let the people who are reading this know, I know these chapters are kinda short, but for those who actually write fanfictions, they truly know how long it takes. It takes me an entire hour to write around a 1,000 words and each chapter that I write is around 2,000 words. That means I take 2 whole hours out of my day just to write for this story. That's actually a lot since I have to go to school on weekdays for about 8 hours. Also, thanks to DWhay on fanfiction and Dieter N. over at FIMfiction for checking this chapter for any errors or anything.  Still, I want you to review for all the hard work I have been doing for the past few weeks. It seriously is a lot of hard work to write a fanfiction.