Living on a prair

by electroremix

stranded

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EVERFREE FOREST 14:12 MILITARY TIME

The sound of rushing water woke me from my sleep. Fallowed by the sound of my A.I. ROCKET talking at me. “Told you we should have waited to when you were sober to launch the pod! But noooooo you wanted to make the most of the time you had right now!” My H.U.D. display powered on and I realized I was in the middle of a forest. Laying in the middle of a muddy ditch. thankfully my golden Mjolnir armor stopped me from getting all muddy.

“W-w-what happened?” I asked no one in particular.

“You mean you don’t remember? We were in slip space and you shot us out of an energy pod!” ROCKET yelled.

“Ok but where are we?” I replied.

“I have literally no idea!”

“Ok ok stop yelling for god’s sake, or I’ll unplug you. Ok obviously we’re in some kind of forest, all my vitals look good so nothings broken or life threatening.” I looked over my

shoulder and saw the gray and white drop pod laying open about 20 feet away.

ROCKET let out a sigh of relief, “The drop pod, were saved!” he cried.

“I told you not to yell anymore!” I unpluged him from my helmet and put him in a in his “pocket” In my armor. I walked over to the smoking drop-pod. Inside was a shotgun that looked to be in full condition, two full clips for it, a pistil with 12 shots, a broken transmitter, and a canister of bio-foam. I sighed, less supplies but I could work with it. I looked around at my surroundings. Lots of trees, the ditch in which I woke up in and something that looked like a path. I couldn't think of a better option so I started walking into the forest.

After a while I came to a clearing in front of a small town with lots of small equine-like creatures walking around. I grabbed ROCKET out of his pocket and plugged him into the back of my helmet. A cool wave brushed over me as ROCKET powered back up. “I’m back did you miss me?” he said

“Actually no I didn't.” I replied, “but while you were gone I looted the drop pod and found this weird village with these horses walking everywhere.”

“They look more like ponies.”ROCKET said as-a-matter-of-factly.

“Who cares what they look like, the fact is that where stranded and they might be willing to help us.” I said impatiently.

“Well there is only one way to find out” ROCKET said.

And with that I walked right in.

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