everfree forest
castle of the two sisters

Firefly POV
5 minutes earlier

I was tasked with finding and bringing the three humans back to canterlot at the order of Princess Celestia. I and my squad were already at the castle of the two sisters, deep within the everfree forest. We landed and were about to enter until some sort of portal had opened up and spit out an object similar to the ones that the humans had owned that were parked nearby. I ordered two of my squad to help the human inside while the rest went in with me. One of the humans we were looking for was climbing down a column and faced us to say something. "Follow me. I can take you to the others. We gotta move fast, they're in trouble." He said to us while leading the way. We followed him and as we got closer to the throne room, we could hear what sounded like music. When we got to the throne room I was shocked by what I saw as well as sickened and kind of horrified. All around were dead changeling bodies and the other 2 humans engaged in melee combat with the other changelings. The human that led us here charged in and helped his friends. naturally, we did the same and helped them. all but queen chrysalis was left and she decided to fire a beam of energy at one of the humans, hitting him right square in the chest and throwing him back by 15 feet and knocking him down. Chrysalis was going on about how some plan of hers was ruined and she would have revenge and tried to fly away only to get blown up by the human she shot. "You can't kill me, you whore. No one can," he said before passing out.

I told one of my squad members to Inform Princess Celestia and to bring a medical team to the old castle. it was about 10 minutes later when the Princess had teleported with my squad member right into the middle of the throne room. She walked over to the downed human and proceeded to pick him up and rush him over to the old medical wing. I went with her just to be safe and make sure that this human isn’t a threat especially after what I just saw unfold.

The princess had put him in a medium sized room and proceeded use her magic to clean and fix his clothes, remove his strange helmet, and use her magic once more to make sure his condition was stable. I was about to walk away until I saw her kiss his forehead And say a quite prayer hoping that he will be ok and awaken soon.

Gerson POV

Me and Brian were in the room with Dakota waiting to see if he would wake up anytime soon. Brian said he was going to check on the 4th person that came here and that if they were awake he would be back within 10 minutes. After he left, I was left alone with Dakota’s unconscious body and my own thoughts. I was actually pretty concerned about if he would make it. Even though he survived numerous other things, I don’t know if he would be able to walk away from this one. I know that he had survived a whole lot of shit back home on earth from being caught up the crossfire of a gang war to taking a bullet to the arm after he fought with someone that tried to shoot up our school. I still remeber like it was yesterday. I was snapped out of my thoughts when I heard the door open and saw Brian walk back in with the 4th person who I thought I would never see again, My child hood freind kevin menendaz. Kevin was roughly 5 feet 10 inches tall, was from mexico city, had a gold chain on with a cross on it, was wearing a black and red sweater, a pair of blue jeans that he would always sag with a pair of under armor sweat pants on underneath, and was wearing a pair of nike air force one tennis shoes. "Gerson? How the hell did you get here?" He asked me. "Same way me, Brian, And Dakota did, through some sort of car crash. Is that how you got here?" I simply replied to him. "Yeah man. School got cancelled because the storm was only getting worse. I left almost as soon as I arrived since the RSO kept shouting through his loud speaker that the school is closed because of the storm and is going to be used as a storm shelter until the whole thing blows over." He told me. "What the hell happened to Dakota, man? did he try and chug a bottle of russian vodka again?" He asked. "Nope. You didnt see all of the bodies out there? I asked. "I did see them but im not entirely sure...WAIT A DAMN MINUTE!!! You mean to tell me that he is the one that murdered all of those wierd bug horse things out there!?" He shouted while me and brian just whinged from how loud he was. "Not just him but brian and I as well, you fucking dick." I replied "He'll be alright but as to when he wakes up, there is no telling when he will though."

2 hours later
Dakota POV

I had regained my senses after that little black out I had but I hadnt opened my eyes yet. Everything felt sore from my neck all the way down to my femur's. I could hear Brian and Gerson talking in the background as well as a very familier voice that I know but couldnt quite figure out. I turned to move my arms but they felt stiff as morning wood which was still sore and made me let a quite but audiable whince. "Oh shit, guys he's waking up!" I heard Gerson say. I finally opened my eyes and saw who the forth voice belonged to; my buddy kevin. They all helped me sit up and got me up to speed on everything that happened ever since I passed out. apparently I had only been out for 2 hours but already, Princess Celestia had found us. We would need another plan for riding out this heat season. After informing kevin about this, We started to think of an escape plan. The room we were in had a window right above the bed I was sitting on that we could use to get out of but there were guards everywhere. Getting to our vehicles would prove to be a challenge. After kevin told me that his car wasnt very damaged and would hold until we were out of the forest, We made our move. Before we exited through the window, I left a note on the bed for celestia to read in the event that she came in here.

I made sure to tell 3 idiots I that I call friends to use non lethal take downs only if they were spotted. I had a pipe that I ripped out of the wall that I could use to incappcitate any guards in my way. I would most likely still feel bad about it though because if I had to knock somepony out, chances are that I already knew them and I'm breaking some sort of moral code from back on earth that says dont hit women, Or in this case, Mares. Seeing as most of the ponies that make up the royal guard are mares, This would be extra difficult because I don't wanna branded as an asshole women beater for trying to escape a creepy as castle in the middle of a forest that has creatures living in it that are so dangerous that you would need a fucking JDAM to kill. I made sure to distract any guards in my way buy throwing rocks at areas that I wanted them to move to so we could get away. It took roughly about 20 minutes to get to the front gates where our vehicles were at. Once we were there, I noticed that Kevin's car had actually hit Gersons truck at a pretty sharp angle. There was black paint on Gersons caddilac and white paint on Kevins Chevy. Kevin drove a 2014 Chevy suburban Z71.

Once we were all back in our vehicles, I turned my key half way to turn on the electronics and grabbed the cobra CB radio I had. "Alright guys listen up and listen good. We need to be fast about this to put some distance between them and us so we all are gonna start our engines at the same time. Be sure that you're already in gear and your parking brake is disengaged before starting it up. I'll go first then Brian will follow behind me, then Gerson will follow behind Brian and finally Kevin will follow behind Gerson. We move quick and stay close until we're out of this forest, then after that, We split up, Lose any guards that might be following us, And then we regroup somewhere, Alright?" I said laying out the instructions for them. After they said yes, I gave the order to start the engines. I could see multiple guards in my mirrors turn their heads towards us as the engines roared to life, esspicially mine since I had larger exhaust stacks on my truck and I had also cut the muffler off. One of the guards ran back inside, most likely to inform celestia, While the others tried to rush towards us but they weren't fast enough. Once the engines started, We all floored it out of there, across the bridge and into the forest. I made sure to tell my fellow escapees to use low beam headlights only but switch to high beams if they cant see anything.

As we got further and further away from the old castle, The path got wider and wider. The sunlight was even able to peak throught the thick cannopy in some places. I grabbed hold of my CB once again and told them its safe to spread out a little if they want to and that we dont need to drive in a single file line. We came to a fork in the road after about 30 minutes and we were trying to decide which way to go. I had a compass in my glove box that I would use whenever I was lost in the woods and it hadnt failed me yet. Had the option of going south if we went left and north if we went right. Remebering a lot of the maps of equestria that I had seen once as fan art, I was glad I did see that and even had printed off a copy and had in my truck as well. If we were to go right and head north, we would come out of the forest close to ponyville. If we went left and headed south, We would Brexit the forest somewhere in between Dodge city and Appleoosa. After talkin it over with the others, We decided we would go south and see where we would exit.

It was about another hour or so before we finally saw an exit to the forest. I stopped us at the first sight of exit and looked towards the skies to make sure we werent followed by air. Last thing we need is for some nosey ass pegasus to report our location back to Celestia and for her to find us again. I also made sure we didnt leave any deep tire tracks behind either. There were faint tire tracks but they were not very noticable. Supprisingly, even my truck didnt leave any tire tracks either and I own a dually so thats saying something. Getting back in, I grabbed the CB one more time and told my friends to get ready to floor it and to split up once we were out. We would need to be fast so I took a moment to prime the secondary enigne I had pulled out of an abrams tank and put into the bed and proceeded to start it up for the first time after its restoration was complete. Listening to the whine of the gas turbine engine in the bed starting up was loud as hell but also signified that I am packing some monsterous amounts of horse power. Sure even though I had gotten work done to my truck before to remove the factory turbo and put some BorgWarner tripple turbos in and some larger fuel injectors amongs other things, I still wanted to be fast. With the work done to the powerstroke diesel engine in the front and the Honeywell AGT1500 gas turbine now idling in the back, this would be the first time ive run both engines together that wasnt on the dyno. The dyno results showed that I was making 4152HP and 5272FTLBS of tourqe, Which would be more than enough to get away from any pegasi guards that decided to trail me.

I gave the order to burst out of the tree line and came up with a smart idea. I told my buddies that we need to do burnouts and donuts to create tire marks that would throw off any guards that were following us because if we did it close to each other, They wouldnt be able to tell who went in which direction. They liked the idea and just like that, we tore up the terrain. We all had toyo tires so it would be very hard to tell the difference. I thought my plan was great even though im not the first one to thing of it but as we finished up, I saw 4 pegasi guards mares in my rearview mirror. We all split off into different directions. Kevin went west, Brian drove off to the southwest, Gerson broke off to the south east, And I blasted off east towards dodge city. There was only guard following me now but I could tell that she wasnt going to give up at all. I decided that I needed to do something that throw her off. I could only hope that I can lose her before I reach the city.

Author's Note

I was actually using my xbox one to write this chapter since I had installed a new browser on it since Microsoft edge is just garbage, my computer is currently broken, and I spent the majority of yesterday keeping my eyes rivet to the skies and the weather channel since there was a lot of sever storms in my area and some even produced a couple tornadoes and when my cable went out, I switched to my noaa weather radio, and when KHB36 went out, I put on my be headset and trolled some people in pavlov. enjoy this chapter. Next chapter, My persuer is taken as a hostage, celestia's crush only gets stronger, and I learn that the stuff I can pull out of my weather guard is limitless.