Death City

I'm finally back again. Sadly, the NJ ASK is almost around the corner for me and, like I said before, I'm getting my laptop confiscated for the week of testing. Thus meaning I won't be able to update the story for the remainder of the week. Also, I have gone forth with putting the entire endgame album into this story, but not all at once. I will have songs placed here and their that will interfere with the order. Besides that, I have also decided to focus this chapter on the gang traveling through the Everfree forest. The next chapter will most likely focus on Dusk and life in the Ark. That will lead up to the big rescue, as well as stopping Discord. Now onto the story.

Chapter 8 – Revelations (favorite word ever)

Lost Jungle - Sonic Heroes (open link in new tab)

“ugg, ah just can't stand this place, no matter how many times ahve been through it.” Applejack complained. The gang was currently in none other that the dark jungle of the Everfree forest.

“Wow, I've heard stories of this place containing all sorts of creatures.” Thunder Ice mentioned. “Some of them able to devour a pony whole.”

“Y-yall must be j-joking about that.” Applejack asked, a little scared by what Thunder Ice had just said.

“I don't know for sure.” Thunder replied. “The books I've read about this place never mentioned if it was really true or not. In my opinion, I think the creatures are real.”

All of a sudden, Seamus had just stepped on a branch, causing a loud crunching sound beneath him. This startled everypony as they thought they were being followed by one of the mystical creatures that lured in this forest.

“Even in the daytime, this place is dark as hay.” Rainbow Dash said, walking along with the group. She had still kept her bet against Applejack on not flying through the Everfree forest, rather sticking with the group and trotting along with them.

The entire time Fluttershy kept to the back of the group. Thoughts of her and Dusk as kids flashed through her mind. She couldn't help but think about him the entire time. This was until a loud, ear piercing screech came from the deps of the forest.

“What was that?” Pinkie pie asked quickly, while still holding the unconscious Rarity on her back.

“I don't know.” Twilight responded. “Come on, lets go check it out.”

“Are yall crazy or some'in!” Applejack yelled. “When yall hear a loud sound comin from a deep dark place, ya don't just go ovar there and check it out”

“Come on, Applejack” Rainbow Dash said, nuzzling closer to Applejacks side. “Are you chicken.” Rainbow soon began to impersonate a chicken by making chicken noises. “Bock bock bock.”

“Come on, Twilight.” Applejack said, slightly ticked off by Rainbow Dash. “She doesn't know what she's talkin bout.”

“Hold on Applejack, I actually want to see where that sound came from.” Twilight responded. “You never know what could be down there.” And with that, Twilight was off, along with the rest of the gang, leaving Applejack and Fluttershy behind them.

“Don't worry, Applejack.” Fluttershy said, trying to cheer up her southern friend. “We'll get through this. And believe me, we will find Dusk.” Fluttershy began trotting by her. “I know so. I can feel it”

“Heh, yall might be right about this.” Applejack said, a small smile emerging on her face as she began galloping over to the rest of the gang.

“Sometimes I don't know if my soul has been damned or God just plain hates me.” Snake mumbled to himself as he began trotting towards Twilights library. As he reached the front steps of the library, he heard a loud shattering noise come from the upstairs of Twilights library. “Wait, didn't everypony leave Twilights library already, including Spike.” HE said aloud. “Wait a minute, SPECTRUM!”

Snake began darting into Twilight's library and up the stairs to only be stopped by another voice in Twilights room.

“You know what your mission is, eh” An Australian style voice echoed through the room.

“Yeah, cause if you mess this up, the boss will take it out on us” A Spanish voice then added.

Snake was extremely tempted to take a peak at what was happening inside Twilights room, but didn't want to be detected. Being very advanced at the art of stealth, he made up his mind and decided to take a peak. Snake slowly leaned his head towards the door, with his body being implanted on the wall beside it, standing on his back two hooves. Snake could not understand what he was seeing, and yet didn't want to see it at all.

In the corner of Twilight's room sat Spectrum, his back turned to Snake. But what Snake did not understand was who he was talking to. On the floor, in front of Spectrum was a thin, metallic chip that produced a transparent, two-dimensional hologram in front of  Spectrum. In the hologram were two earth pony like creatures, except they were messed up here and there. The one to the left had a bite mark around his left ear as well as a scar around his right eye. The one to the right had not only an eye-patch over his right eye, but also a small cut right between his nose and mouth.

All Spectrum did was nod his head to what the two earth ponies in the hologram said, not aware that Snake was right behind him, observing his every move.

Suddenly, a large, heavy sound ran through the air in the hologram. It took a while for Snake to realize that the two pony like creatures were actually in the middle of a battlefield and that a bomb had just gone off.

“Gotta go, Spectrum.” The one with the Spanish voice said. “And remember, what ever you do, don't let anypony find out about your cover. If they do, our whole company will be in grave danger.” He said before pushing a button below him, causing the hologram to evaporate into thin air, then to be sucked into the chip on the floor. Once the conversation was over, Spectrum reached his metallic hoof over to the chip and picked it up. He then placed it in an empty slot in which his chest should have been, blending in with his ruby red paint coating. Spectrum the slowly began turning around and trotting out of Twilights room.

“Shit!” Snake mumbled under his breath. He had to get out of there before Spectrum found him eavesdropping. Celestia knows what he would do if Spectrum found him. Without even thinking, Snake darted up against the wall and began climbing upwards.

As Spectrum left the room, he analyzed the area to see if anypony had been stalking him. After a brief moment of searching, he found nothing and resumed his morning duties for the day. Who knows when Twilight and the gang would come back.

Up above the entrance of Twilight room was none other that Snake, framed against the ceiling of the library, holding on for dear life trying not to slip or fall. The ceiling wasn't in the best condition at the time. Splinters were hanging out as well as some of the boards were tilted, making it nearly impossible for Snake to hold on any longer.

As Spectrum finished scanning the area and found that he was the only one in the library, he began trotting down the stairs. As Snake saw this, he let out a small, quiet sigh, relieved that Spectrum was leaving. Apparently, Spectrum was able to hear this and quickly turned his head around, expecting to see another pony in the room. Awkwardly, he did not see another pony in the room. It was empty except for him. Spectrum then realized that he must have been hearing things. He soon began resuming his walk down the stairs, keeping in mind that he needed a quick little tune-up for his hearing.

This whole time Snake was hidden on the opposing side of Twilights library, against the wall of the left side of the entrance. Realizing that Spectrum was gone already, Snake began searching Twilights room for a way out. Luckily, he spotted one of the windows in Twilights room that he could fit through. It was slightly damaged with a few cracks here and there from the  massacre the other day. Knowing that Spectrum could come up to Twilights room at any minute, Snake opened the window quickly and dove right through it. Unfolding his wings, Snake began slowly descending towards the ground till his hooves were touching it,

“I've got to warn Twilight and the gang.” Snake said to himself “Before it's too late.” With that, Snake was off towards the Everfree forest , where he would soon tell the rest of the gang the tragic and shocking truth he had just experienced moments ago.  How Spectrum was part of this, how he was the one really behind all of this misfortune.

Quite sad how someone as loving and loyal as Spectrum could actually be so cruel and evil as to go against the gang this entire time. As always, I am still expecting new OC's as well as songs. I've already got some song requests as well as some OC's too. Speaking of music, the song used in this chapter was Lost Jungle theme from Sonic Heroes. This was my first instrumental piece and certainly won't be my last. You will often find me using Sonic songs through the story since they are so entertaining and add a lot of feeling. Sadly, the time has come to tell you the bad news. I am running low on chapters to post and if it comes to this, I will have to start updating every 2 days instead of one. With chapters as long as this, it takes a while to write them. With that said, I salute you as well as command you to review. I am also surprised on how many people have added not only this story to their favorites, but also me as an author to their favorites. I am widely impressed by that, truly.