Twilight opened her eyes, she found herself lying down, surrounded by bamboo chutes. Strange noises surrounding her, breathing heavily, the purple unicorns' mane and left flank were speckled with blood. Twilight heard something approaching her through the forest, she prepared her horn with an attack spell. Out from the brush came a pure white cat with deep purple eyes, purring, happily as ever, Twilight giggled softly, patting the lovable creature. The small cat plunged back into the jungle, abandoning the unicorn once again.
“Wait!” Twilight called out, as she moved foward to do so she felt an awful pang in her side. It was too late, the strange cat was long gone by now. As Twilight popped up on her hooves she heard a loud revving noise in the distance, followed by what looked like a thick, black smoke. Twilight’s instincts kicked in, she ran incessantly out of the heavy bamboo jungle, she heard the revving getting closer to her she saw a single white horseshoe in the distance, using it as a guide to what survivors there might be, upon reaching the object she saw a blaze shoot up into the sky, followed by the sound of one of the zeppelin's’ support beams basket breaking in half, she sped up even more.
Twilight reached the beach, out of breath, and stunned, she saw the burners and propane tanks spewing flames like orange tongues into the gloomy sky. Her remorse over the only way off the island's demise was interrupted by the sound of a colt screaming out, his hooves trapped under one of the rows of seats. Twilight and another mare helped pull the debris off of the helpless pony.
The colts flanks bled as the massive row of chairs were removed from them, twilight ripped a piece of cloth of of the the giant aircraft , and tied the colts wound shut. A mare lay unconscious next to her as a young colt desperately tried to revive her. Across the beach twilight saw a pink with bright pink hair pony laying on the ground, her balloon cutie marks almost too dirty to make out. She appeared to be pregnant. Twilight scurried across the sand to aid struggling pony.
“Im having contractions.” The pink mare said, solemnly.
“How many months pregnant are you?” Twilight quizzed the mare as she helped her get comfortable of a nearby log.
“Almost eight months.” She was crying softly as she spoke
“How far apart are they?” Twilight was persistent, taking all necessary data before worrying about comforting the distraught mare. An older colt got sucked into the slipstream of flames still shooting into the balloon, the chute charring as the fire stirred. Twilight tried to pay little attention to what was going on behind her.
“I don't know” the pony tried to stabilize her voice. “a few of them just happened.
“Listen, Listen to me, you are going to be ok. Just lie absolutely sti--”
“Oh, oh GOD, there’s a big one!” The pink mare interjected with yet another contraction.
“YOU!” Twilight Sparkle called over to a yellow pegasus pony with butterfly cutie marks, clearly kind hearted, obviously capable of watching over this pink mess. The yellow pegasus looked around her, contemplating wether the purple pony was talking to her or another member of the crowd.
“Come here!” Twilight called to her again.
“Th-The balloon crashed.” The yellow pony responded, dazed.
“I need you to get this mare and her filly away from these fumes!”
“you gotta be kidding me” The pegasus’s hooves were shaking, how she hated this kind of pressure.
“ Take her over there! Then stay with her! Don't let her move! If her contractions occur closer than three minutes apart, call out for me!” Twilight ignored the Pegasus' confused manner.
“I'll be back soon,” twilight assured the bloated pink earth pony.
“Thank you.” The pink pony placed her hoof on the pegasus’s shoulder.
Twilight was already galloping away.
“Hey!” The pegasus called to Twilight, who momentarily stopped and turned her head toward the yellow splotch in the distance “What’s your name?”
“Twilight! Twilight Sparkle!” She continued running.
A peach colored earth pony lay on the ground, unconscious, a large red earth pony was performing CPR on the lifeless body.
“Stop, her head isn’t tilted back far enough; you’re blowing air right into her stomach.” Twilight scolded.
“Are ya’ sure?” The deep voice asked “I’m a lifeguard, im licenced.”
“I would seriously consider giving that licence back.” Twilight said before beginning to perform CPR herself, Breath...Breath...pump... pump.. pump..
“THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS DOIN’!” The earth pony was now slightly embarrassed, that was most certainly not what he was doing.
Twilight continued her attempt to rescue the poor pony, breath....breath... pump..pump...pump...
“Hey she’s still ain’t breathin’!”
Twilight didn’t respond, trying to keep her rhythm.
“Maybe we need to do one of those hole things; where you stick the pen in her throat?”
“Ye- Yeah! Good idea, you go get me a pen!” Twilight responded, eager to get the annoyance to leave her alone.
As the large red pony galloped off, a small whine started from the inner workings of the Zepplin,
“Shit.” Twilight mumbled to herself, bracing her hooves into the sand, covering her ears.
One of the ship's support beams snapped in half with a loud cracking noise, whipping downward and tearing a large gouge in the aluminum shell.
Twilight picked up her pace; breath. breath. pumppumpumppump. breath. breath. pump. pump.
A menacing screech came from the support beam, a piece of it was beginning to break off.
“Come on!” Twilight yelled, adrenaline rushing through her like a river.
Another screech, louder this time.
Breath.. Breath.. pump. pump. pump. *GASP*. The peach colored pony looked around, dazed.
“Thank Y--” The pony looked around to see nopony, just a purple unicorn running in the distance.
-END ACT ONE- Pilot.
Authors note:
(first off, I will have a note after i complete each chapter, dont feel inclined to read it, this is for me.)
This is my first go at fimfic (or any fan fiction at that.) so please PLEASE be a total meany pants when it comes to critique, I need to be told what i'm muffing up. Anyway, I really hope I did well at replicating LOST's signature feel and please stay tuned as more updates come!
-Peace Love and Ponies.
~MCS.
