MARES IN BLACK

CHAPTER 6: BLUE SKY’S.

YAWN! I woke up at the brink of dawn still in the v-tol hovering about 500ft above ground. I was stretching in my seat I musta fallen asleep I said to myself. I wonder how the others are doing, they must be worried sick. I looked out of the windshield I was clear outside, a sunny day. I fell back into my char and smiled. That bitch survived. I looked around all of the spare cabinets but there was no emergency food packs. Hmmm I’ll have to go down and get some breakfast. So I hit the big green button and the rear hatch opened. Before I left the air craft I grabbed a pistol off one of the weapon racks next to the seats.

Being a Pegasus, free falling is an everyday sort of thing but not normally under these circumstances. So I just fell out backwards and did a flip or two then curved my wings to stabilize myself before I got to 30ft. Once I landed it was instantly clear that there were no hostiles within 200 miles of here. There was just a small reservoir surrounded by palm trees and a HAMMOCK!! As soon as I saw it I reached for my gun. I had my hoof on it ready to shoot whatever decided to make the worst decision of its life, but nothing came.

I trotted up to the hammock and put a hoof on it, it instantly dissipated into dust making it clear that whatever was here was either dead or gone. I lowered my guard to the normal place then got a drink. This place is so peaceful, almost like a private resort. I suddenly felt woozy and tipsy almost as if I just drunk 40 shots of vodka. It past after about 2 minutes but I didn’t notice really, I was too busy trying to buck coconuts out of a palm tree but I kept on missing. Eventually I hit it with about four coconuts smashing me in the head. Im a solder, I’ve taken bullets but that still fucking hurt so bad. After getting my marbles back I say a yellow flash behind a tree. I got onto my hind legs like the doctor did when he first arrived here and walked over to the tree it occurred behind.

There was nothing there but a bright white note on the ground. I picked it up and examined it aloud. Friends beyond the stars collide to form one nation. Dimensions to universes we all have secrets beyond comprehension. Knowing somepony else is one thing, but knowing yourself is key to survival. – An old friend
PS: don’t screw this one up, make the right choice.

I was baffled and had to read it again just to be Shure. I folded it up and put it in the same pouch as my gun. I then flew back up to the v-tol with some coconuts and fresh water shell fish. I got back to the v-tol and sorted the food out. I cracked open a coconut by shooting it then got a drink. Honestly im not a big fan of coconuts but I’ll take what I can get. I sat down in one of the seats across from the food and looked out the back exit.

Clear sky’s for miles. But then something unexpected happened. The v-tol’s radio turned on and I could hear a voice. HELLO? Is any pony out there? Repeat, is any pony out there still alive. The voice started to talk to others in the backround. I walked up to the pilot’s seat and sat down. I seriously don’t think there’s anypony out there who survived guys. Ahh shit another voice in the backround said. I hesitantly put my hoof on the intercom witch made a loud megaphone kind of noise on both ends. There was a silence on the other end; I hear somepony grab their speaker franticly. HELLO!?! If anypony’s there PLEASE respond! Hello bon bon I said hesitantly. Zero, is that really you? Yhea, it’s me. Your alive HA you’re alive. I heard cheering in the backround. Hey, it’s not time to celebrate yet. She was panting when she came back, are- are the others with you? No. oh I heard a now depressed bon say. But there not dead either. Suddenly her voice turned as high and exited as pinkies. So Lyra’s ok!?! Yup.

Ohhhh thank god. Ok bon now it’s my turn to ask some questions, who are you with? Some others from oversight. Storm fury, sig or sigma protocol and this really hyper dude named kilowatt hour. Seriously I think he snorted something before we came under attack. No, that’s just the way he is said sig. Heh, sounds allot like pinkie I said. Anyway, where are you guy’s ill pick you up? In what bon asked. You’ll see when I get there now send me your qowardinats. Ok. A blue light showed up on the dash board and some other stuff on the mini screen. Ok I’ll be there in about 13 minutes. Jesus fucking Christ man, what in equestria are you driving? What part of you’ll see when I get there didn’t you get? She grunted, fine.

ABOUT 8 MINUTES AFTER LEAVEING TO GET BON AND THE GANG.

I was sitting in the pilots chair while the v-tol was on auto pilot. It was about 6 or 7 minutes after I left to get bon and her squad. I was looking out the window when something on the desert ground below caught my eye. There was a small red dot on the ground so out of curiosity I switched off auto pilot and swerved back to take a look at what it was. I didn’t want to get too low in case it was hostile so I grabbed the gauss rifle witch was leaning against the cockpit door and looked at it through the scope. Immediately I realised this wasn’t a hostile, it was a civilian. I strapped the rifle on my back, grabbed a med pack and jumped out the back.

One I got to the ground I was about 20 meters away from the red Pegasus with a brown mane. You all right mate? He was only just breathing. I went abit closer to find that he had passed out from dehydration. There were four or five trees within 6 meters of me and I studied all of them for movement. Then I noticed clouds, there were only about 7 of them but I tried to keep an eye on them. Still staying sharp I walked over to the unconches colt. I lowered my head to look at him and when I did a shoot was fired and a 50 calibre hole was made right next to me. I looked around franticly for a bullet trail but there was nothing.

I was about to bend back down to give him some water when I heard something whisper: shit! My head shot up and then I saw it, a huge 50 calibre bullet falling from the 3rd cloud on the left flank. In less than a second I flicked the gauss rifle ford with one hoof and fired at the cloud. Once fired there were a yell of pain and then a brown and white Pegasus falling off the side of the cloud. Once the body was on the ground I frowned at it. Why the heck it a sniper out here trying to kill me? I thought to myself while slumping the other Pegasus over my shoulder. Once he was in a safe position I flew him up to the VTOL and strapped him in a seat. I decided to go back down to the sniper to get some ammo from his body and cloud.