Storm chaser

Yep, just as you expected, the sun has not moved in over 12 hours. You’ve created a makeshift sundial out of a peace of cardboard with a pencil jammed through it, you’ve also marked where the shadow was and it has not moved in 3 hours, and after ease dropping you’ve found out the residence of klugetown have noticed the sun being out for longer than usual. It’s very confusing as to why the sun is now stationary and you can’t even begin to understand why this has happened. Whatever the reasoning was, it was not good for the environment, although it’s a desert and it’s naturally hot, The town is starting to sport heat ripples from the sun blasting its heat down for more that a day now. You’ve been in you ally that you’ve claimed as your temporary home, when you notice a anthropomorphic tan brown cat with a red tattered coat, Emerald green eyes, and on top of his head is a large tuft of dark blue hair. Why did he catch your eye? well this cat is, like, the only resident that doesn’t make you gag from the sight of them. Behind him are 6 creatures that caught your attention, mostly because they don’t match the aesthetic of klugetown.

There were 6 horses, rather small, pony would probably be a better term, but not anthro pony’s, they walked on four legs, that and they consisted of two Pegasi, one unicorn, two that had no horns or wings and one that had both a horn and wings. One of the Pegasi was yellow with a long pink mane, the other one had a cyan color with a rainbow mane. The two that had nothing extra on them consisted of a rust orange pony with a cowboy hat and gold mane, and a nothing but pink poofy haired pony. The one unicorn had very nicely done up purple mane and a pristine Ice white coat, and the one with both a horn and wings was a couple of inches taller that the other five mostly purple, light purple coat and dark purple mane with another different shade of purple and pink striping down her mane, and you didn’t see him at first but what you could only assume is a small dragon was with the pony’s as well his body was purple with large green plates on its back like a tuojiangosaurus.

The cat leads them into the building the ally way is tucked beside, and he whispers something to a raccoon then meets the pony’s as they get raised up by a giant wooden spinning wheel.

“Wonder what those pony’s are here for?” You ask yourself, because well, you’ve never seen any thing like those pony’s before, only in myth, then they Wander into a town that, for a lack of a better term, is populated by furries, it hard not to wonder why they appeared here. Then a thought comes to mind “maybe they’re here to fix, the sun!” You announce to no one in particular, it’s a long shot but you’ll believe anything at this point. Just then you hear a familiar noise, the same noise that brought you to klugetown, the buzzing of propellers on a small plane, you look up and see the same massive airship coming in to park itself on the top of klugetown. A small part of your brain tells you that the pony’s and that air ship are connected somehow, but you brush that thought off considering you don’t have enough evidence to support that claim nor have seen the two thing interacted with each other from what you have seen.

it’s been an hour or so later and you buying some more food at a stand, when suddenly down the road you see a dark purple pony with a red Mohock that falls to one side launch a fish man into the fucking air, jump up grab it’s tail, and throw back to the ground.

“Damn... probably best I don’t start going and fucking with her.” You say in astonishment and a bit of fear from the strength shown from that pony down the road. You start to walk away back to your ally when you stop in confusion at what’s outside of the hotel next to your ally, there was a mole with a big wagon out front that could hold, rough estimate, 8 people, it looked like a prison wagon with chains hanging off the sides. There were other chains inside of the wagon, seemingly connected to the floor that looked like cuffs, it made you uncomfortable just looking at it, it looked to you like A slave transport wagon more than a prison wagon. You spot the mole walk down the road leading up to the building he parked his slave wagon out in front of, you’re not gonna get involved, it’s not worth the trouble, you’re sure of it. As you start to head back to your ally you what sounds like Jabba the Hutt, calling at you? You turn around and see these two giant, scary gorilla like bodyguard approach you, they are accompanied by a small, fat hedgehog, and the pony that beat the tar out of that fish man.

Upon closer inspection, you notice this pony is a unicorn, or... was at one point in her life, the horn has been cracked off leaving behind a sharp jagged mess of a stump up on the top of her head, she also sported a scar on her right eye, judging off of the fact that what used to be a horn is angled towards the scar, you can deduce that whatever caused her horn to be broken also gave her that scar. Another interesting thing about her that catches your eye is the fact she’s wearing clothes, The other 6 ponies you saw were not wearing clothes, it was a black jumpsuit with Metal armor plating, and on her haunches was the same symbol you saw on the airships, so she’s definitely connected to the airships, that much is clear.

“Excuse me, eh... creature? But have you seen any other pony’s walking around here? We need to have a little, hehehe... ‘chat’ with them.” The pony says menacingly, having her brute guards emphasize then I can I have a “just a chat,” from there thunderous chuckles when the pony ended her statement. At least you now know your little suspicious was correct, the pony’s and airship crew are related Somehow, but they don’t seem nice, and you don’t know what they’re going to do with those pony’s, but whatever it is, it’s not going to be nice.

“Nope, you’re the only pony I’ve seen around here.” You lie to the pony’s face, who doesn’t buy it.

“Really?” She says sarcastically “then why did you scurry off so fast, uh?” She says with a smug grin.

“Because I didn’t want to mess with you.” You answer with what was in your defense, not a total lie.

“Because you Know that you have information that I want to know... isn’t that right?” She say stepping close with a evil looking smile, looking like she’s just about to attack you if you lie to her one more time. You wouldn’t say it to her face, but Her doing this makes her really hot to you.

“I, uh... fuck, yeah I think I know where they are.” You say finally caving in to this very intimidating, yet cute pony.

“Good answer,” she says stepping back “now come with us, and DONT... try anything stupid.” She orders.

“Wha-why?” You asked confused as to why she decided you need to be with her now.

“Oh!” She exclaims in a sarcastic, and angry tone “ would you rather prefer my guards publicly execute you where are you stand, for misinformation against a commanding officer, that has direct authority under the storm kings commands,” she threatened you making her self larger as she spoke “or... you can come fight for me, under MY command, and maybe I won’t order my guards to kill you,” she announces with a growl.

“Yeah, I think I’m coming with you.” You say in a nervous panic.

“Good,” she says giving you a smile, then turns and to her guard and stomp her hoof on the ground to get there attention “Arm him.” She orders.

The guards then take you wrists and clamp some sort of thick bracelets on them, they both had a metal stick that traveled down the inside of your arm to the Crease of your elbow. The left one was just the bracelet and the metal pole with a few buttons, the right one had many tools that were compressed and attached to the brim of the bracelet, they included things like, a screwdriver, what resembles a key to something, and situated on the back of your hand was metal disk of some sort. Each bracelet had button scared about, on the right one you could tell the buttons erected the tools from the bracelet on the left one, well you’re not sure what they do just yet.

“What’s all this crap for?” You ask slightly annoying that you now have two deadly weapons attached to your person without a say on the matter.

The pony commander roles her eyes in annoyance “it obscure tactical weaponry,”

“Or O.T.W!” Butts in the tiny hedgehog that, now that you’re lookin at him, is perfect punting size.

“Grubber,” the pony says rather calmly “what have I said about this blurted out?” She says staring down at grubber knowing the answer already.

“Sorry commander tempest.” Grubber says in an apologetic tone of voice.

Tempest lets out a sigh “anyways, show us the way, mr-?” She says holding out a hoof to you to shake and to introduce yourself.

“Anon.” You say as you get on one knee to be eye level with tempest and shake her head.

“Commander Tempest shadow,” She says shaking your hand “but, just call me tempest for now.” She says with a genuine smile.

“Ok... tempest.” You say a bit flirty, you don’t know why, just felt a bit risky you guess. She notices and rolls her eyes at you, but she kept on a smile and you swear you saw a little blush on her. But before you can get the chance to confirm, tempest interrupts “so, lead the way anon.” She says ushering you to walk ahead of the group.

you approach to where you’re pretty sure is the location of the pony’s tempest is after, as you approach you hear voices cry out.

“You Were going to sell us!?” Yells one voice, in an offended tone.

“I knew it!” Yells a second.

Tempest grows a devious grin on her face as you approach the door.

“We gotta get out of here!” the second voice said again. But before they could go anywhere tempest interrupts there departure with a devious laugh.

“Silly little pony’s,” she says with a intimidating stare as she and one other guard walks in front of the doorway. You decide to join them and introduce yourself.

“Tempest!” The purple unicorn and pegasus pony said in shock at tempest arrival.

“W-what the fuck is that!?” The rainbow Pegasus yells, pointing at you.

“Hello, I’m anon, the only one of my kind, come with us, and no harm will befall upon you, refuse and, well I can’t guarantee you’ll be unarmed.” You announce to the pony’s standing before you, attempting to wrap this up quickly. Tempest was a little impressed at your forward attitude, but shakes it off for now and continues with her monologue.

“Trusting strangers? Hehe, big mistake. BIG.” She says slowly entering the room with you close behind. when suddenly that mole from earlier came up to tempest.

“Oh ooh, my goodness,” the mole says before forcefully grabbing tempests face “Well look at YOU, with your scary broken horn, and your scowling eyes. What tricks to YOU know, my little pony wony.”

Ok this is getting creepy, you step in before tempest could “already you creepy slave trader, time for you BACK OFF!” You yell has you push him back with your left hand, when suddenly your O.T.W springs to life, the metal rod that trailed down your arm ejected out and into the moles eye and launched out the back of his skull, bouncing off the floor boards and embedding itself as a now revealed to be sword above the open window the pony’s you’re after are climbing out of now as the moles lifeless body falls to the ground.

The purple pony yelps in surprise at the sharp weapon that got thrown against the wall just above her, then jumped out of window onto the windmill outside of it.

The bracelet that shot out the sword starts to vibrate and so does the sword and get yanked out of the wall and retracts the blade and holsters itself back on to the bracelet, scaring you about as much as when it launched out of your wrist.

“Get her, NOW!” Tempest yells as you and another guard silently comply and run for the window. The other guard smashes the rest of the window away and hold the windmill still says something to you, that you have what it was for the fact he tempests goons sound like Jabba the Hutt. If you had to guess it would be something like ‘shoot that sword at them again,’ which was a safe bet. You lean out the window and aim your arm at the pony’s, and try to shoot it again, on command this time. You hilt your wrist back as a guess and

*BWAM*

The sword shoots back out and Wizzes past the rainbow one close enough to make her wince, you think you nicked her at least. But it doesn’t stop her from pushing the windmill against the guard holding it still. As the sword comes hurdling back towards You noticed the axis the windmill rotate on starts to crack and tear away. Once the sword reattaches itself to your wrist, you duck inside just as the wing the guard was pushing against gives away and gets cracked across the head multiple times by the other wings of the windmill causing blunt force trauma and killing the guard.

The windmill then breaks Loose and bounces down the alleyway until it slams into some scaffolding for a building under construction, causing the entire thing to collapse. The pony’s mean while still are alive somehow and running down to the docks. They make it down to the docks by ether pure skill or dumb luck and become voluntary stowaways on an airship heading out. You watch all that happen from out the window they jumped out of, you turn back to tempest a give the obvious but still necessary bad news.

“They, uh... got away.” You say to tempest, hoping she doesn’t shoot the Messenger.

“That’s fine. guard!” She says getting the one remaining guards attention “ take the cat, and follow me.” She orders. The guard grunts and proceeds to grab the cat hard and drag him out of his own house with the fresh corpse lying on the floor, left there to rot.

you, tempest, Grubber, and the guard holding the cat who’s name you’ve learned is capper, reach the port and the guard shoves capper to the ground forcefully. Capper notices tempest and your shadows cast over him, he looks up with a face of worry as his ears Matt themselves to his head.

“Where are they going?” Tempest asks as her shattered horn sparks with an intimidating Array of what looked like Lightning bolts of electricity in a threatening fashion. This causes capper to panic briefly and get up off the ground.

“Oh-ok, hey. No need for violence,” capper pleads “they’re heading-“ he Pauses for a second and looks down at his coat, which you remember not looking so good earlier, your exact recollection of his coat was that it had a hole by the sleeve and those gold buttons weren’t there before.

“They’re headin east, yeah, to black skull island!” He exclaims with enthusiasm pointing eastward. You and tempest give each other doubtful glances, but capper interrupts by walking by and announcing “so, uh, glad I could be of Service to his majesty, the storm king, but I really should be on my way now-“ capper is cut off by the guard standing in his way, making cappers fur stand on end in fear.

“When I get my princess,” tempest say in a low voice “your fate is still... up in the air.” She said with smirk. Grubber said something stupid to capper, which you’ve learned very quickly is something he does a lot. You follow tempest on to her airship followed by Grubber, than capper escorted on by the guard.

Seeing all this and looking down at your hands you think about what just happened, you killed someone, by accident yes but you still killed someone. Not only that but you were probably going to do it again if you didn’t miss that rainbow Pegasus. Where you really that desperate to get this over with and go back to living in an alleyway? Is that life worth going back too? Is what you are doing right now better in anyway? You don’t know the answer to those questions yet, but maybe while you’re on this ship you can get to know tempest a little bit more or get her to warm up to you more, maybe you can get tempest to open up as to why she’s chasing these pony’s, who they are and why they’re so important to her and the storm king. That and try to understand how these O.T.W things on your wrists work completely, and figure out your most burning question, literally and figuratively why the sun hasn’t moved in so long.