Phantasmagoria

chapter 3

Graduation

        Friday the day I have been waiting for all year. A day that I have come to dread in the past 2 weeks. Other those 3 guys were taken out I hoped that it was all over then after the shooting at the Cafe I know I was being hunted and after those 3 trucks were taken out, I had a piece of the resuin (resumed?). I never liked the idea of destiny, that no matter what I do it’s all going to end the same way.

Author’s Note

        I have to thank anyone who continued reading to this point. It probably wasn’t that hard since I stuck to all the action. My friend Sky Stroke took his time explaining all the travel information, so here it is in quick summary: he got and got ready for the day. One hour before it was time to go he put the outfit and drive in a separate car from his family. the room they were doing even in has 8 sets of doors. 2 in the back, 2 just before the stage, 2 on the the stage, and 2 the 2nd balcony.

        We were flipping over tassel when I a sniper rifle per and just as suddenly disappear on the 2nd floor balcony. The 2 doors in the back swung open, 3 guy stepped in from the 2 open doors. They all carried the RPK-looking weapons. I was sitting middle row right side, directly to my left is 1 of the stage doors which swung open as the brother of steel… PSSS! CLANK! CLANK!

        The Steel ranger had turned to the left. On the back of the Applejack’s ranger there are 2 boxes. The one on the left side pop open as an automatic grenade launcher came out. The grenade launcher raised 135 then the qim separated from the bottom of the barrel, then the joint raised the barrel 45. On the shoulder there are  apples painted and he is standing his ground defiantly. All of the machine guns quickly opened fire. One, Two, Three, and then they ceased fire realizing that all of the bullets had either failed to penetrate or had ricocheted off. In a low gravuly (?) ton, The Applejack’s ranger said “My turn.”

FOMP! BOOM! RATATAT! and FOMP! BOOM!

        With 2 shots from his grenade launcher, he had killed all of the intruders. I reached down and pulled out my revolver. When I looked up, the door front left of the stage open with Little Pip backing through it.

“We need to go!” Little Pip said. then the back left door opened and a man with an assault rifle came running in. BLAM! The two boys in front of me Screaming their heads off as they clenched their ears. I had just killed someone. I had a lot of practice, scout camp, hunting but the most important piece of my “Training” had to be the gun range.

When my dad got his Concealed Carry Permit he went out and bought a pistol. My dad gather me and my brothers and took us out to the gun range. the pistol he bought was a colt 45. He taught us how to shoot it. We all know gun safety, so none of us got shot, but that day we learned how to shoot a target 100 feet away that’s the size of a mouse.

I look at what I had just done shocked out of my mind. Then the door to the right of the stage burst open with Velvet flying through it and landing hard on her back. She has multiple cuts and bruises. She reached down to her side, and grabbed the bottle with purple liquid in it, took off the cap, and drank greedily. Her cuts and bruises immediately started to vanish. She swang her shot gun up, as the shoor opened. BLAM! Pump! Little Pip pulled out a radio and Said “Calamity, we need you to get us out of here!”

CRASH rang out from the lobby. Suddenly someone, no wait, Xeinth shimmered into existence upon the 2nd level. She spoke in an exotice almost rhyming tone “Did the winged one just crash thee van.“ The Steel Ranger, no wait, Apple Jack’s ranger spoke in his low gravity tone, “Let’s hope not.” I finally spoke up “Well, Let’s find out.” I hung my head low, not wanting anyone to see me. I followed behind Little Pip and Steel Hooves followed me and velvet followed him. We moved at a slight sprint. Little Pip opened the door and led us into the lobby where a white van with blood on the front of it had crashed through the doors with a smudge looking Calamity at the wheel. Then little Pip started giving directions. “Velvet, go with Sky Stroke, the rest of us will take the van.” So me and Velvet went through one of the few still intact double doors and ran through the parking lot to my car and got in.

“Where to?” I said

“Your house.” and we set off towards my home.

Forward. Forward is a direction of motion. The Direction of which I am going both mentally and physically.

I pulled into the driveway. We could hear the sirens in the distance. Velvet and I climbed out of the car and walked over to the front door and asked Velvet to go downstairs and grab a suitcase or 2 while I go upstairs and get everything ready. I unlocked the door I went up the stairs as Velvet goes through the family room to the stairs, to the basement. I step into my room and got to work. I had just set down my 14 shirt when Velvet stepped in and walked over to my bed and set down the 2 suitcases.

“So are we going from hotel to hotel, or an RV” I asked

“We have and armored semi-truck,”

“So, do I need to leave my car?”

“No, we are ditching the van”

“Ok,” I pulled out a tout full of my old school stuff and pulled out all of my drawings, then I went to my desk and did the same. I put all of my drawings in a folder and then placed the folder in the smaller of the two suit cases. In the big suitcase, I pacesd (placed?) all the clothing that I had set out. I also grabbed my swim suit, then I had to figure out what else I am going to bring. I am going to bring my laptop and desktop because of all the research I had done on them. The laptop is enough to fit in the smaller of the 2 suitcase, but the desktop would have to be carried out. The bigger suitcase is full of the ecincls (essentials?) unlike the smaller one which is only a quarter of the way full, so to fill it, I grabbed my Luna plushie, and a plushie of my OC and yes, I am a Brony. Anyway, I throw in some ponies I had got from blind bags, some comic con and thats what finally filled thee suitcase. I put the plushy in last and as I pulled them out from the drawer, I keep them. Velvet spoke up. “Where…. how…. why?”

“Because, why not?” I replied.

“I recognize Luna, but who is that?” Gesturing to my OC."

"Who I would want to be if I was there.”

“O… Okay,” She helped me zip up the suit cases. Then I went into the offices and unplugged my desktop and grabbed all the wires that I am going to need.

Author’s Note

        His computer is a gaming computer, 3 video cards, a physics X card, 2 terabyte Hard Drives, an 8 core processor and a power supply to power it all. Why have I mentioned this? Because it is important for later on.

I grabbed my monitor, set it on top of my pc. Then I picked it all up and walked out to my car and put it in the trunk. Velvet brought the two suitcases down with her and she lifted it into the other side of the trunk. I asked “Can I leave a note?”

“Yes, but make it fast,” Velvet replied. I went up to my writer table, wrote the note, then went out to my car, hopped in and left with the white van close behind.

When we got to the semi an amber alert had been activated. We had to destroy the van and hide the challenger. Which, wouldn’t be hard. We have a semi.

Wait… no understatement… we have a tank that looks like a semi with a trailer. The semi with a sleeper cab with the exception of fuel tanks which have clearly visual layer of armor. The trailer has a few changes that I could see like the connection between the semi truck and trailer. The rest of the trailer looked pretty standard from my point of view, until I opened up the back. The image below shows the trailer’s rough layout.

Author’s note

        I did the sketch of the trailer for safety reason.

We shoved explosives into the van, poured gas all over it. Steelhooves taught me how to operate the mini gun turret. Then, I got some target practice.

That was quite the Hollywood except for the fact that the van was completely obliterated. I retracted the turret and we set off.

Calamity was driving, Steelhooves is looking out the window at least I think he is, Velvet is playing with the Pierlight, her pet Bellfire Phoenix and Me and Little Pip are making a plan.

“So, now that we know what parts we need, where do we go to find them?” Little Pip asked.

I responded “Well, most of these circuits we can buy online…”

“Online?”

“Never mind that… I’ll explain when we go to order the parts as for those other part eee”

“What?”

“Well, most of these parts are military grade equipment.”

“What’s the problem with that?

“Well, this stuff we are going to have to enter military bases to get,”

“Oooo,”

“Yea,”

The truck just came to a stop. Calamity said “I have a 50 cal. truck in front” (Temporary) of us.” I paused for a second then said “They're not shooting at us so don’t do anything stupid and they wouldn't notice us” I was right. We went unnoticed by everyone. They just thought we are an ordinary Semi-truck.

Upgrades. Nightfall. Calamity has been driving all day. for most people (or pony), this would be an amazing feat, but knowing Calamity, it’s nothing. We pulled in to a truck stop so that Calamity and Steel Hooves can switch. Once Calamity got out the driver’s seat, and Steel Hooves got in. Calamity then came to  the back of the Semi where I am at.

“So… how much fuel is there in the tank?”

“Well, the truck has a fuel talsmans (?)”

“Oh Well, do you have some petcherl (Petrol?) talsmans?”

“Eeyup,”

“Do you think we can could put them on my car?”

“I reckon we could,”

“Great,”

“Hey, While we are doing that, why don’t we add some armor and maybe a little bit of firepower?”

“Sure… what do we got?”

“I know, we have some extra armor and a 50 cal.”

I pulled out a piece of grid paper and the said “so, What would you recommend for making my car combat ready?”

Calamity and I stayed up most of the night designing the Defense challenger. The next morning, I showed Little Pip the concept drawing for the modifications to my car while Calamity got some much needed sleep. Little Pip agreed with the plan, but mentioned that we would have to stop somewhere to do it. I pulled out a map, figured out our location and plotted a course. 2 hours later, we had found a workshop and started modifying the car. 2 days later, we finished. The car looks like it did before except for when we want it to . But with a few noticeable differences like (Better accelerating, Faster around track. Better brakes, and never stopping to refuel.)

then there are the modifications that can be added in a moments notice such as extra armor, ram, and a 50 cal. turret which is controlled from the passenger seat. the 50 cal has the round generator and a gyro gun setup. Now its back to work, we are heading out to get the first of the parts.

Leaving the dimension. a month later we have all of the parts through buying parts of having Xenith us her stealth clock to go and get them. We had no problems getting the parts, now we need to test the device which looks like a slightly larger pitboy.As we pulled onto the highway for the first time in a month the twin minigun turret raced and the dodge challenger defender was released with Velvet Remedy at the wheel with Calamity as the gunner. The Semi is being driven by Xenith with Steel Hooves operating the semi’s 50 cal. turret and Little Pip operating the trailer’s twin mini-gun turret. My device is hooked up, ready to make the inter-dimensional jump.

“We are ready, hopefully they are not.” I said

“Is everyone ready?”

Velvet Responded “Ready Shshsh”

Steelhooves said “Ready Opp”

Little pip said in a low tone “Let’s do this.”

I activated the device. On the screen, popped up “Preparing for inter-dimensional travel” “The device is preparing to stand by.” We had 30 more seconds of peace before Calamity radioed in “Contact 6 o’clock,” Then a 50 cal. truck opened fire. then I heard another 50 cal. this one fired a 3-round burst and then both fell silent. then another burst, then another. Calamity then said “Contact eliminated” then Little Pip spoke in a concerned voice. “There’s an enemy little assault vehicle about a mile out behind us. Wait, no, there’s 2!” then I grabbed my radio and said into it “Prepare for heavier and heavier contacts,” Then I looked towards the front of the truck and yelled “Xenith! See how fast you can make this truck go!” the twin V12 diesel engines roared, the truck started gaining speed. BANG! BANG! BANG! Then the 50 cal. opened creating an unholy course of death. A jet aircraft raced overhead, Little Pip quickly rotated the turret.

the space fighter looped around not expecting the torrent of bullets that about to be unleashed. Little Pip aimed little ahead and pulled the trigger.

Change of Perspective

Perspective: Fighter Pilot

I had just finished my and was lining my crosser where the vehicle was going to be then a semi about 10 car lengths ahead unleashed 2 continuous streams of bullets. the bullets hit my fighter like asteroid. The bullet ripped the plane apart a paper, before I know it, my heads up display was telling me to eject. So I did, and I watched the aircraft separated into 3 crudl cut part which hit the ground and exploded.

Change of Perspective over

resuming of Sky Stroke’s point of view, the aircraft exploded. The formatting is nearly complete so I said into the radio “Velvet, we are almost ready, get close to the truck and prepare for us to drop the ramp.” Velvet responded “Got it.” I replied as i hit the button.

The ramp lowered as Velvet re-hovered the car into position. Something popped up on the inter dimensional device which demanded my attention. I looked over and read “formatting complete” I picked up the radio and said “We are ready, so get the car in here and let’s get out of here”

Velvet line up the car and pulled into the back of the trailer as a 10 mm round bounced off the armored hide of the trailer. I activated the inter dimensional time machine and… FLASH!

We… We reappeared in a grass field. I quickly adjusted the inter dimensional code and flash.

We reappeared on a road I gave Xenith a chance to slow down. The truck before I used the time machine again. FLASH!

We appeared on a dirt road in a forest. Xenith pulled the truck off to the side left side of the road. We prepared to go to bed for the night. A mighty crash of thunder rang out as a flash of light flashed through the glass of the cab of the truck. I was sleeping in the sleeper cab on the right. Little Pip quickly got up and drew our revolvers. I looked out the window and saw some humanoid-looking at the truck with its hands raised, I got up and moved slowly to the passenger seat. He noticed me immediately. but he just stood there with his hands raised. Little pip follow me as his pistol strapped to his side. After Little Pip had climbed out and closed the door I said “Who are you and what do you want?” The stranger replied “I am Sujuk and I am here to…”