Death City

Guess who's back? I'm here and more ready than ever to write this story. A little important info about me before we begin. I usually like to write each chapter a few days to a week before I post them. I do this to ensure the previous chapters play along with the future chapters so that there will be no confusion. Now let's begin our next chapter. Let's see how the ponies do in the Everefree forest. (I sense a song coming along.)

Chapter 7 – Dark and Dirty or Light and Lovely

It had been around five minutes since Twilight and the gang had left off on their journey to save Dusk from the Ark.  Since they would be battling Discord and his army of demons, the group of ponies needed all the help they could get before they could confront Discord themselves.

“Are we there yet? My hoofs are getting dirty from all the wreckage here.” Rarity complained

Sure enough, she was right. Building and stands were collapsed over each other. Some were burned to a crisp while others were scattered across the ground.

Disparity By Design - Rise Against (open link in new tab)

All the way at the bottom

Of these barrels we cry out

So ashamed of our tears that

We blame only ourselves

That's when they win

They keep us convinced

To lift up our chins

These playing fields are level

We all have a chance

With that they dismiss

The fast lanes they rode

In which access depends on who you know

Or where you came from

Whose filly are you?

Whose fortunate colt?

We're told

To stick out our hoofs

They feast from the linens

while we settle for crumbs

Ponies bodies were scattered across the ground from the other day. From the massacre.

Is this an over-reaching arm

Or is this compassion?

Is this a handout undeserved

Or a just reparation?

Everypony in the group kept their position behind one another, each of them wearing their pony-made armor and carrying their weapons close by in case of danger.

All the way from the towers

High above glass ceiling tombs

Tell themselves

That they've earned this

By working hard

Or playing by the rules

But this is only part true

A dangerous trick

Played on me and you

And so like a practical joke

We pulled on these bootstraps

So hard that they broke

The intense heat from the daytime sun was beating hard down on the group of ponies. No longer was the sun controlled by Celestia, but rather Discord.

Is this an over-reaching arm

Or is this compassion?

Is this a handout undeserved

Or a just reparation?

And like a single domino

That falls while the rest stay vertical

We're fed these empty fairy tales

Or will you believe them?

What used to be a happy, joyful town with such happy citizens, suddenly turned over to a wasteland of shattered buildings and deceased ponies brought sadness to the group.

And if there's a God

You better pray

That this sleeping giant never wakes

If we just take a step back

A bigger picture we might view

Perhaps the colt in the gutter

Is not so different from you

Come in out of the cold

Forget all that you know

Because there's always been room

By the fire for you

Come in out of the cold

Everypony could not stand nor would want to even be in an environment with such quietness and how little liveliness. It seemed as if a great pony war had happened right in Ponyville and they were loosing.

Will you believe them?

Is this an over-reaching arm

Or is this compassion?

Is this a handout undeserved

Or a just reparation?

And like a single domino

That falls while the rest stay vertical

We're fed these empty fairy tales

And I'm through believing

The group of ponies were trying as hard as possible to avoid the rotten stench of all the deceased citizens laying on the ground and buildings of what used to be Ponyville.

“Heh, hell doesn't seem so bad of a place after all.” Raymond mentioned. “At least, not compared to this place.”

“Has it ever come to your attention that your not the only pony here.” Rarity complained. “We can still hear you. So, if your going to use profanity, use it in your head. Talk to yourself for all I know.”

“Why do the white mares always have to be the biggest bitches.” Raymond mumblet to himself.”

“THAT'S IT!” Rarity screamed at the top of her lungs. Her white coat and purple mane suddenly turning as red as fire. Her own body had became more tenser than ever. A mixture of hatred and revenge scrambled through her own mind. With that said, she began charging towards Raymond as fast as her own hoofs could carry her, only to be hit in the head by a frying pan, knocking her unconscious.

“What did you do that for.” Raymond asked Snake, who had gripped a frying pan handle in his teeth. “I could of taken her on myself . By the way, It's not like mares are that strong anyway.

“Rarity? RARITY!” Twilight screamed, rushing over to Rarity's assistance. “Are you alright?” She asked.

All Rarity did was mumble to herself, indicating to Twilight that she was still alive. Twilight couldn't really make out what Rarity was saying but it was something like. “I'm going to kill him.”

“Great, we barely have made any progress so far and we already have one of our troops unconscious.” Twilight said, having a hint of anger in her voice. “Just for that, Raymond, you are going to have to carry Rarity until he awakes.”

“I'd rather commit suicide than carry that drama queen.” Raymond replied, refusing to carry Rarity on his back. “I don't want any of her makeup to get on me.”

“I'll carry her.” Said a happy, energetic voice from the back of the group. It happened to be none other than Pinkie Pie.

“You really want to carry that bitch?” Raymond asked while making fun of Raymond. “Go ahead, be my guest.”

“Let us not forget that it was YOU who had made Rarity unconscious in the first place.” Twilight yelled. “You don't even have to be part of this group. For all I care, you could go off all by yourself and get killed by one of the enemies.”

“So what your saying is that you don't want any of my expertise on fighting and defense.” Raymond replied. “Your saying that you want to go to the Ark without me and get caught trying to break Dust out and spend the rest of your days trapped in that prison!”

“EVERYPONY SHUT UP!” Rainbow Dash screamed at the top of her lungs. “Don't you see whats happening? Discord is playing with our minds. He wants us to be out of control so we won't be able to work together, meaning that we won't be able to save Equestria.”

Everypony began looking at the ground in disappointment as Rainbow Dash continued her lecture.

“Now, if we can at least GET to the Ark without any more disruptions or distractions, we might be able to rescue Dusk.” Rainbow continued. With that, she swiftly turned around and began trotting towards the Everfree forest before stopping dead in her tracks.

“Wait, where's Spectrum?” Rainbow Dash asked, looking around the group in search of a red metallic pony.”

“Oh, I forgot to tell you.” Twilight responded, lifting up her head again. “Right before we left the library, I asked if he would like to join us, but all he did was cock his head as usual then begin to look at the ground. I don't think he wanted to come with us. I'm sorry Rainbow Dash.”

“Sorry? What are you sorry for Twi.” Rainbow Dash replied. “It isn't that big of a deal to me.” After saying that, she flew up into the sky before announcing “Come on huys, we have to hurry up. We already had way too many delays already. We should have rescued Dusk hours ago, but we really are behind schedule.”

“She's right yall, let's go before anything else pops in our way.” Applejack agreed.

With that, the ponies began galloping towards the Everfree forest, with Pinkie Pie carrying the unconscious Rarity on her back.

“We'll, here we are.” Twilight said, a hint of frightfulness crafted into her voice.

“The Everfree forest?!” The remainder of the group shriveled.

“Come on guys, it's not that bad.” Rainbow Dash mentioned before taking off into the air  and soaring above the sky.

“Easy for yall to say.” Applejack responded. “Your a darn Pegasus for petes sake. How do yall think life would be if you, oh I don't know, DID'T HAVE WINGS?!”

“Hey, I can go through this entire forest without even needing to unfold my wings.” Rainbow Dash replied furiously, diving towards Applejack, being face to face with the southern earth pony.

“Oh yeah? Prove it” Applejack said, spitting on one of her front hooves and sticking it out towards Rainbow Dash.

“You're on.” Rainbow answered, also spitting on her hoof and hitting it against Applejack's hoof, accepting her challenge.

“Girls, focus.” Twilight said, breaking the bet. “Like I said before, we don't need any more distractions. We've already had enough for one day.”

“Well she started it.” Rainbow added, pointing a hoof towards Applejack, still airborne. The result of this was a buck to the face by none other than Applejack.

“Hey, watch it” Rainbow Dash yelled, rubbing her jaw with her hoof.

“What I can't understand is why each of us keep on getting tangled in these arguments with one another.” Twilight mentioned.

“What I can't understand is why Applejack has to constantly be a jack-wagon.” Rainbow Dash said, intimidating the earth pony.

“What did yall just call me!?” The furious Applejack responded.

“SHUT THE HAY UP, EVERYPONY!” Snake screamed. “I've had it up to here with all this arguing. We've barely covered any ground yet and its already noon. How in the wide, wide world of Equestria do you plan to get to the Ark at this rate.” By this point Snake was all worked up.

“Snake just calm down. We can get through this if you relax.” Twilight said soothingly, trying to calm Snake down.

“No YOU relax, I can't take it anymore with all you crazy ponies driving me nuts.” Snake yelled. “I don't even think I have any of my sanity left in me to go on any farther.”

By this point all of the ponies were shriveling in fear from Snakes ear piercing words.

“Snake, j-just s-s-stop.” Seamus said weakly, using one of his wings to hide his face.

“Stop? STOP!?” Snake hollered. “You don't get it, do you. Were never going get to the Ark, were never going to save Dusk, were never going to defeat Discord, AND WERE NEVER GOING TO SAVE OUR FUCKING WORLD AGAIN!” Snake said, loosing his temper. “So just face the facts and get over it. This is your new home. There is no way to fix it and there never will be a way to fix it.” With that, Snake turned around and began trotting east.

“Where are you going?” Rainbow Dash asked, with fear in her voice.

“Trying to go find refugee in this hellhole.” Snake responded. “It's pointless trying to save whats already doomed.”

“Snake!” Twilight wanted to call out, but the green Pegasus was already gone.

“Come on Twilight, let's go.” Thunder Ice said, putting a hoof on her shoulder. “We've already lost enough time.

“I know, but I just can't face the fact that we will need him in the future.” Twilight responded. “He carries something important within him, I can feel it.”

And with that, the group was off into the Everfree forest, with Snake heading towards the opposing direction.

This chapter actually gave me the most trouble of all the chapters I have written so far. Once I was halfway done with this chapter, by laptop had ran out of battery and I had forgot to save. This resulted in me having to start the whole chapter over. It was truly frustrating. Also, the song I used in this chapter was Disparity by Design by none other than Rise Against. At this point I think I should use the entire Endgame album before using any other kind of artist. Do you or do you not think I should use the entire album. Leave a reply in the reviews if you do or don't want me to. I don't know which chapter it will be but either the next chapter or the chapter after that will include a glimpse of how Dusk's life is in the Ark (hint: there will be a song). With that said, I am still looking for new OC's, new songs, and constructive criticism. I hope to see you all in my next update.