In the shadows

     Shay looked for the pony who said that. She found that she was walking through the crowd. She was a white pegasus pony, with a DJ pon3-like mane, but not quite, and the mane was teal blue with a pink stripe in it. Her cutie mark was a pencil drawing a music note with 3 lines through it. She had something odd on her forehoof- something that looked like a metal bracelet with a greenish screen. She was wearing a jacket that the ponies who used to live in the stable, a long time ago, when the war was going on, used to wear- and Shay was surprised to see she had a wing missle contraption- two guns that fold into bags under the wings with a mouthpiece to fire, the bags also doubling as saddlebags. She actually looked kinda cool.

     ''Who are you?'' Shay asked. The white pegasus walked up to her and told her ''There is no time for questions now.'' The white pegasus ran out, Shay soon following her. Shay wanted answers.

     The white pegasus ran for the first building in sight. Zombies lurked in her path, and out of fear, she sprung up in the air. She was flying!!! Shay saw her wobble, aaaaaaaand..... crash. She had crashed into a tree!!! Shay had ran to that tree, and very slowly flapped her wings- and very slowly arose into the air. She finaly got to the branch the white pegasus was on- and then  realized that the white pegasus was not alone- there was a blue pegasus, wearing the same odd old style clothing and bracelet as the white pegasus. The blue one was definetely not from a stable, or at least not from stable 8. The white one finally spoke to Shay. ''Hey, I'm Pastel, and my friend here is Night Storm.''  Shay looked at Night Storm. She had the same mane style as Pastel, but it was dark blue with black on the outside, and it was a bit longer. She was also a pegasus, and had a bad scar on her eye. She had the most golden eyes, and in comparison to Pastel's, her pupils were slightly darker.

    Pastel spoke again. ''Yeah, i see you looking at our eyes. I'm near-sighted, but thats nothing to worry about. I  can see fine...''  Shay kinda felt bad now. She didn't mean to be rude. ''My names' Shay.'' she said, a bit shyly. But she couldn't bear it any longer. She had to ask. ''Why are you wearing old jackets? And what are those metal bracelets?'' she said. Night Storm spoke for the first time. '' We are wearing these because when we were together, in one stable, stable 10, they still wore these. When the stable was shut down, we were seperated as fillies. We kept contact with these.'' she was waving her hoof with the odd bracelet. Pastel spoke once more, continuing Storm's explination.''These are pipbucks, they were all destroyed exept for these two. We can't upgrade to newer technology because we would lose contact. We think they are better than any product of today though. They have many special features.''

Storm took the need again. '' I left my stable when i was 13. I've been out here for 2 years. The only reason that Pastel came out was to see me in person.'' Pastel gave a nod. Shay was silent, thinking. How did Storm survive out here for 2 years?