Soldiers: Skyfall

Still image from side of road shows Trottingham city taxi swerving on highway at high speed with several unidentified foals inside, one behind the wheel driving.
--automatic speed camera Highway 45 western Equestria, speed clocked at 83mph in a 50 zone.

Date: August 9th, 1666 CC
Time: 23:43
Name: Sandy Petal
Location: 2 Miles Outside Appleloosa

Appaloosa had grown since its founding decades ago, well somewhat, it was still a small farming town but now there was a highway that connected it to the rest of Equestria and not just a train.

It was along this highway an old dented pickup truck sped along its headlights lighting the road ahead as it occasionally had to swerve to miss the remains of car wrecks from hours prior.

Sandy Petal kept her hoof on the pedal going as fast as she dared on the dark highway. She and her sister sped away from the town to try and make it, well…anywhere else. Somewhere had to be safe.

Beside Sandy her sister Scarlet Gem was looking at the map, they had already planned out their route but nervousness made her keep checking just to make sure.

“Are you sure Dodge Junction is a good idea to go near?” Scarlet asked.

“We don't have a choice, it's the fastest route, we will just avoid it and go around.” Sandy said.

The route they chose would eventually lead them to the coast and from there they can try to find a boat or something though both knew the trucks half a tank won't make it that far so they'd have to find gas along the route but that was a problem for later right now they were focused on escaping the town before it came under attack which was inevitable as the nearby EMSD facility was about to be attacked if all the weird planes coming from the west we any indication.

They didn't know what the rest of the town was doing as they had been lucky to avoid whatever was happening in the rest of the nation do to being small outside of a single pass by the enemy planes but the war was on their doorstep now and while they cared about their general store they weren't going to die for it.

Sandy turned the wheel to go around an abandoned tractor and a bolt of energy struck it just barely missing their truck by sheer luck.

“Shit!”

Sandy put the pedal to the floor as 2 strange vehicles tore out of the trees along the road and started chasing them.

“Faster!” Scarlet yelled as the old truck sped along as fast as it could go.

“I’m going as fast as we can!” Sandy yelled back.

One of the pursuing vehicles rammed the back of their truck and they skidded but Sandy was able to get it back under control just in time for a harder ram that caused her to skid and almost fishtail before she got it under control again, another one and she doubted she could keep control.

She had to do something before they got run off the road but what could she do….

An idea came to her, it was a terrible, stupid and dumb idea…..but it was all she had.

She hit the breaks as she cranked the wheel. “What are you doing!?” Scarlet screamed as the truck left the road and crashed through a fence entering the large orchard.

“Something stupid!” Sandy yelled back as she turned off the truck's light and sped past the trees in the dark, using only the moonlight to see by.

“Are you crazy!?!?”

“Shut up, I need to focus!”

She barely saw a cart in time to swerve to miss it by inches. She couldn't see the other vehicles and she hoped they couldn't see her as she skidded into a turn to change direction, hearing lower branches scrap the roof of the truck as she sped through the trees.

She made another turn, eyes straining to see through the dark and winced as the truck jumped a bit along with the sound of something metal going under it as she had missed something. She really hoped that it wouldn't break anything as she continued along this stupid plan.

Eventually the truck reached the other side of the orchard and crashed through another fence and skidded onto a small dirt road and started heading up it.

She looked in the rearview mirror hoping to Luna that she didn't see them come out after them.

A minute passed and nothing exited the orchard and she breathed a sigh of relief as somehow her dumbass plan worked. She still kept the lights off as she headed down the road for as far as she could till it reached the blacktop of a smaller road and turned onto it.

“Check the map, we need to change the plan a bit.” Sandy said and the shaken Scarlet did so as they passed a sign telling them where they were so they could plan a new route to the coast as the main roads were either being watched or they just ran into something related to the EMSD attack.

Either way they were getting out of here and not looking back as the truck sped down the dark road into the night.