Chapters A plane zooms through the clouds as it travels at immense speeds. After flying for almost two hours, they finally reached their destination. In the distance, there was an abandoned facility at the top of the mountains that was meant to be top-secret from both kingdoms. Strangely enough, one side of the facility looked like nature had taken over it all and the other half of the facility was covered in sand and dust. Even worse, there was a huge rift in the sky just on the top of the facility. It is said that this facility was run by both alpha and omega kingdoms as they worked on experimenting with radianite. Until an incident happened that caused the whole facility to tear itself apart killing every scientist in the facility and also leaving a large blue crack in the middle of the two facilities that seems to stretch on forever with one side many trees were growing and on the other large canyons stood proud and tall. As they approach the facility the pilot then grabs the radio to contact the passengers about their arrival.
“10 minutes away from destination, get ready.” The pilot says over the radio. There in the passenger seats, 5 agents ready themselves for the landing and what's to come. Sova checks his bow and pulls its string back to test its strength. Satisfied, he then checks his bolts making sure to separate the shock bolts and recon bolts from each other. Beside him, Killjoy checks her gear and tools. making sure everything was working perfectly and no errors were found. On the other side of the plane, Phoenix straightens out his white coat as it releases sparks of fire and checks his phantom making sure it was loaded. Next to him, Skye, the new agent to join the team readies her totems and takes a deep breath. She was invited by Sage to join the valorant protocol for her unique powers of weaving life into things through her willpower. At first, she declined saying that she had to protect her land from any more of those rifts, but after hearing about many more rifts opening around the world, she accepted Sage’s offer. Then there was Jett, the young South Korean was playing with one of her throwing knives making it twirl and dance in the air with her wind powers. The trip mainly had been uneventful so she can't wait to finally get out of this plane and, in Phoenix's words, “stretch her wings”. Suddenly a ringing sound was heard.
The noise was coming from Killjoy as she tried to reach out her phone from one of her pockets. Once she had found her phone she quickly checked to see who was calling her. “It's Brimstone,” she said to the other 4 agents. She then accepted the call and projected it into the middle of the room for the rest to see. There, Brimstone sat in what appeared to be his office, the room was a bit dark but enough to see what was around him. Behind him was a shelf with many items he had collected over the years of being in the military. Even in his 50s, the old veteran refuses to retire from the line of duty. Brimstone quickly cleared his throat before speaking.
“Listen up! You are all about to enter an unknown facility that both kingdoms had hidden. Your task is to help Killjoy gather the necessary data from both sides of the facility and try to find out what happened to this place. And watch out for your counterparts, this place may look abandoned but we might not be the only ones exploring this place. Have each other's backs out there and you will all come back in one piece. Over and out.” Brimstone finishes as Killjoy’s screen stop projecting and the call ends. Then the pilot's voice came up on the radio.
“We can't seem to find a landing zone around this place. We are going to have to drop you off here.” The pilot says as the plane finally makes a stop. The 5 agents quickly got up from their seats and were now by the doorway preparing for the jump. Phoenix and Jett were the first in line while the others were at the back. Once the plane doors had opened they all immediately jumped out of the plane and landed on the ground guns raised, locked, and loaded.
“Valorant team has landed. We will be back in 25 minutes same location good luck.” The pilot says one last time before taking off. The 5 agents then checked their surroundings, they were met with two choices. One leads to the forest side of the facility and the other to the sandy plains with the middle of what appeared to be the one that had torn this place apart, to begin with. The radian collider was the machine that both kingdoms had been working on. It was meant to research more advanced studies for radianite particles further and now it was the very thing that had killed every one of them in the facility.
“Alright guys listen up,” Killjoy calls the other agents who were scanning their surroundings. “There are two ways we could choose, it's either we split up or go together on one of the ways.”
“I’d say we split up,” Phoenix says after checking the radian collider and what was left of it. “Me and Jett will go this way,” Phoenix points towards the desert part of the facility. “While the rest of you will go that way.” then points towards the forest side of the facility.
“But what if you both were to be attacked?” Killjoy asks with worry.
“Don't worry, will be fine ain't I right Jett?“ Phoenix says in his usual British accent as he puts his arm around Jett's shoulders earning a chuckle from her.
“Yeah, don't worry kj will be fine,” Jett assures killjoy.
“Ok. Just call us on the radio whenever something dangerous happens alright?” Killjoy says as she holds a radio that the agents had been provided to communicate with each other if things like this would happen.
“Of course Kj, come on Phoenix race you!” Jett says cheerfully as she starts running towards the entrance of the desert facility with the help of her wind powers causing phoenix to be caught off guard.
“Wha~ HEY! I wasn't ready!” Phoenix shouted to Jett as he began to start running as well trying to catch up to his friend. The rest of the agents stared at them for a while seeing them play with each other until they were out of view.
“Are they always like this?” Skye asks in confusion, earning a slight chuckle from Sova.
“Hehe, well yes but you'll get used to it,” Sova replies with his Russian accent as they started moving toward the forest side of the facility. What greeted them first was a sign that says “Everett-Linde Research Lab Alpha Sector Restricted Area.” And then another barely visible that said “Robotics Department..” there was going to be a lot of ground that needed to be covered and it was here.
After running out of a long corridor Jett was the first to exit followed by phoenix who was taking heavy breaths from the little race they had, Jett, however, didn't even break a sweat as she was still pumped up feeling like she could take on the world and the dangers it brings to her. She looks over to Phoenix who had his head down and his hands on his knees still taking deep breaths.
“You….Cheated.” Was Phoenix could say from his tried breathing which made Jett smile, She always loved not being fair when it comes to hanging out with Phoenix.
“Aw don't be such a baby pretty boy.” Jett teases as she grabs phoenix’s chin raising it up to meet her eyes which he gave an angry expression but quickly brushed off.
“Fine, you win this one Jett. Now come on let's see what we can find from…this…place.” Phoenix stopped as he looked over to where he and Jett currently were. Jett soon followed where phoenix was looking, to her horror many bodies littered the area some were wearing hazmat suits whilst others were wearing white coats and goggles. Their bodies have been in this facility for quite some time. The site made Jett want to puke it all out as she covered her mouth, it was horrible! Then Killjoy’s voice was heard over the radio
“Jett, Phoenix what have you found?” Killjoy says over the radio.
“Bodies… Lots of them.” Phoenix answered back as he moves closer to one of the bodies. No flesh was left of it other than the bones of the scientist. How long has it been since the incident happened?
“We found some as well, Try to find anything you can on your side phoenix, and be cautious.”
“Roger that kj, we’ll call you when we find anything interesting.” Phoenix then puts down the radio and returns back to where Jett was standing.
“You alright there Jett?” Phoenix asked concerned about his friend as her eyes darted around the area looking at all the bodies that lie motionless. But once her name was called her eyes were pointed at phoenix and she quickly responded.
“Of course I'm alright, it's just that this place gives me the creeps,” Jett says quickly brushing off the nervousness in her.
“Alright let's split up then, I’ll continue exploring this side of the facility while you explore the rooms in that corridor we just ran through. Sound good?” If his friend wasn’t comfortable around this part of the facility then it was best if they would split up.
“Yeah that sounds great, after all, I think I saw something pretty interesting back there. I’ll make sure to radio you when I find something cool.”
Then they departed with Phoenix heading further into the facility while Jett heads back to where they came. It was stupid of her to act all afraid in front of Phoenix, he clearly saw it through her. She had fought many battles before and showed no fear and this had to be the perfect time to finally, let it all out. She stumbled upon a window and as she looked through it she saw what appeared to be a teleporter terminal as one portal was the entrance and one was the exit possibly towards omega earth. Looking above her she saw the destinations, times, the number of the specific portal to go to, and status which they were all delayed. Realizing it was a dead end she went back to the area where she and phoenix had split up.
She scanned the area trying to ignore the dead bodies all around her. She noticed that the radianite boxes, which usually have a light green color to them, had a dark orange color instead. She immediately contacted killjoy.
“Hey killjoy, aren't the boxes that store radianite colored light green?”
“Yes, why do you ask?”
“Well, Over on omega’s side of the facility, the radianite boxes have a dark orange color to them,” Jett says as she touches one of the boxes. Bit dusty.
“Interesting…. Take a picture of one of those boxes and send them to me.”
Jett then grabs her phone and was about to take a photo of the boxes when something caught her attention. A door that was underneath the strange platform placement suddenly opened and the sound of broken glass could be heard. Jett immediately raised her rifle at the door and slowly approached it. Once she made it to the door she quickly opened and scanned around the area with her rifle. The room was pitch black and she couldn't see a damn thing, a light switch was by the doorway and with a flick the room was bright.
She saw many broken glasses on the ground, a chalkboard with multiple equations that didn't seem to be solved, and tables and chairs that were tumbled and looked like they were thrown around the room. What really caught her attention was the little blood trail that led toward a pile of chairs stacked against each other. By the looks of it, they still seemed to be fresh as Jett took a closer look at the trail, It almost looked like.
“Hooves?” Jett thought to herself.
Sudden noise then came from the pile of chairs as chairs began to fall off the mountain pile. Jett quickly raised her rifle pointing towards the chairs. She could see something pop out underneath the chairs and then it came to view. It was a pony…or rather a filly as it was relatively much smaller than a normal pony. Her coat was light blue and her mane had a light teal as well. It stared at Jett with her rather big green eyes something that Jett had not seen before in a normal pony before. What was a filly doing in a place like this? If Jett wasn’t surprised enough she took a closer look at the filly which made her jaw drop. She had wings behind her. WINGS. How is that even possible?! She was a pegasus like in one of those cartoon shows for kids. But they can't be real? How is this pegasus real?!
Jett saw that the filly was all dirty from the dust and…whimpering as her eyes were tearing up, she had her foreleg raised for Jett to see, and sure enough. There was blood around the hoof, it seemed that she had stepped on one of the glass shards. Jett had to think of something fast as the filly was sniffling trying her best not to cry but the tears were already pouring from her cheeks. Jett quickly holstered her gun and slowly approaches the filly making sure to not step on the broken glass herself. The filly panics and tries to back away with her foreleg up.
“Hey, it's alright I'm not gonna hurt you,” Jett says in a calming tone. The filly seemed to understand what Jett was talking about as it stopped panicking and continued to stare at Jett. Once she had passed the broken glass she bends down in a squatting position and held out her hands to the filly. Jett then grabbed the filly and tucked her in her arms making sure her injured foreleg was out. The filly looked down and seemed to be panicking again as Jett could see the fear in her big eyes. Jett then tried to scratch her ear with her right arm as the filly was now looking straight into Jett’s eyes.
“Don't worry you're going to be ok,” Jett says trying to calm the filly down which worked. The filly then rested her head in Jett’s arms and was fast asleep. Poor thing, she must haven't gotten enough sleep in this place. Jett then exits the room as she tries to look for Phoenix and the others about her finding. Just as Jett leaves the room Phoenix approaches Jett.
“Well, I mostly found some broken crap behind the facility but nothing really interesting. What about you…Jett.” Phoenix paused trying to figure out what his friend was holding in her arms and was asleep.
“Not just a pony, look.” Jett then shows the wings to Phoenix who had his mouth wide open upon seeing the wings.
“A pegasus?! Where in the world did you find her?!”
“I found her in one of those rooms over there.” Jett point to the door with her head.
“It looks like she's bleeding, we should find Skye she’ll know what to do.” just then the radio comes to life again as it makes a few static noises before the voice was properly heard.
“Jett, Phoenix we got the data. Found anything interesting in the omega sector?” Killjoy questions over the radio.
“Oh yeah, and you will not believe what we have just found here,” Phoenix said
“Excellent! Meet us back at the rendezvous point, the pilot should return any minute now.”
“Alright, we're coming.” Phoenix then looks at Jett, who was looking at the sleeping filly.
“Well, what are we going to do now?” Phoenix asked as they started walking back toward where they came from to meet the rest of the agents.
“I don't know… this is something everyone needs to know about.”
“What do you think those two had found Killjoy?” Skye asks curiously.
The rest of the agents were back where they had departed and were waiting for Phoenix and Jett to come back with what they had found. Killjoy was overlooking the view below her seeing the blue crack separating the two biomes from each other, She can't help but wonder how did something like this happen if everything was already working fine from the beginning. She had discovered much more about the facility, its history, and what they had been researching and experimenting with. Apparently, they were more advanced in their work than she had thought. They could have learned more from them and their projects even if some of the work failed. But she wasn't able to find the cause of the incident. She clenched her hand tight as in her hand was a USB and a blueprint for making interdimensional portals. The scientist weren't the ones who caused the incident here, it was done by someone else, someone that didn't want the radian collider to see the light of day. She’ll find out one day but she will have to put it behind her for now, there were more important things to be finished. And it starts by traveling to omega earth.
Killjoy was taken aback as she felt something touch her right shoulder snapping her out of her thinking. She quickly turned her head to find Skye looking at her with worried eyes. The two stared at each other for a while until Skye broke the awkward silence.
“Um…You alright their mate?” Skye asks worriedly.
“I'm fine Skye,” Killjoy lies as she continued to stare off into the distance. Skye could tell that she was lying, with the stressed look in her eyes she could tell that she was hiding something but decides not to press on it.
“Alright, ill leave you be then.” Skye then leaves killjoy with her thoughts as she approaches Sova who was inspecting one of his bolts. Sova noticed Skye slowly approaching him, the worriedness still plastered on her face.
“Something on your mind Skye?” Sova asks placing back the bolt he had onto his quiver.
“It’s Killjoy Sova,” Skye says almost in a whisper as if she didn't want killjoy to hear it. “Somethings bothering her but I don't know what.”
“Isn't it obvious?” Sova says in a normal tone, he didn't think the whispering was necessary considering the fact they were both far away enough from killjoy to talk normally. It was rather rude to him.
“What do you mean?” Skye asks confused.
“Were you not bothered by the bodies at all when we explored the facility?”
Skye paused, trying to remember their exploration moments ago. She had mostly kept her guard up considering the fact that this place was hidden from the world and was in her forest concerned her. She wasn't bothered by the bodies around her, it was their fault that they tried to create something dangerous especially when they were working with their mirrored selves from another earth. Now, this is where they lay, this facility is their tombstone now but she can't help but feel saddened a bit. Their families won't know about their sons or daughters passing unless kingdom had already dealt with that problem when the facility went down. She often took a few glances behind to see her teammates following her as if they would simply run off and leave her in this place. She was never really used to working with humans nor trusted them enough, she never even wanted to work with kingdom to begin with. since their tech had been mostly harming mother nature and the animals living in it. But when the earth is in danger from these rifts she will do what she can to help stop this rising problem. That's when she saw that Killjoy was slowing down her pace and was taking constant glances herself, mostly staring at the remains of the scientists than the surroundings. Her body was shaking at the sight if not for her gun to vibrate intensely. Then she had her head down and in a few seconds wiped her right eye recomposing herself before catching up with Skye and Sova. Skye knew what Sova had meant as she now had a face of guilt.
“Oh… it's that isn't it?” Skye asks feeling ashamed that she had not seen it from the beginning.
“Da, killjoy had mostly been working on the lab, leaving her with little combat experience than us,” Sova says looking over at killjoy who had her head down and her left arm atop her green beanie.
Skye hated killjoy, not only she uses technology and creates miniature robot companions for herself, she had hated her constant bragging about how smart she was than everyone. You don't have to keep telling people how smart you are, otherwise, you would just be plain annoying. Even though she hated her she still cares for her well-being, Skye was still relatively new to joining the Valorant Protocol so she never really got to know much about the rest of her team members. Maybe it was time to open up a bit.
“YO!” A new voice was heard causing the three agents to look towards the sudden noise. There Phoenix stood outside of the omega facility panting once again as he bent down trying to catch his breath. The questions then came flowing in.
“Phoenix! Perfect you're here what have you found in the omega sector?” Killjoy asks in anticipation, as she rushed toward him.
“Why were you running? And where is Jett?” Skye questions.
“Were you both chased down by yourselves?” Sova asks readying his bow. Phoenix finally gathered enough air to speak again, standing up straight and looking at his teammates.
“To be honest with ya’ll, I have no idea what we have found,” he says as he gestured his hand to the front entrance of the omega sector. “ But maybe Jett can.”
“You didn't have to run y’know,” Jett says exiting the omega sector and right next to Phoenix.
“I was still pissed about that little race of ours earlier.” phoenix says crossing his arms as he turned away from Jett.
“Really? Still?” Jett says in surprise and in disbelief as she could hear the hate in Phoenix’s statement. What a baby.
The two didn't realize that the rest of the agents all looked at Jett with wide eyes and their mouths agape as they continued to stare at Jett, or rather what she held in her arms. Sleeping in Jett's arms was a tiny pony…no wait pegasi as its body was slowly rising up and down meaning it was alive, the filly’s head was buried in Jett’s arms with probably rather the biggest eye that the agents had seen in a pony before ever. Then they focused on the injured hoof, it was covered up and tied by a white cloth to prevent more blood from flowing out. Jett noticed that the rest of the agents were still staring at the filly, she shook her arms a bit to wake the filly up, and it did. The filly opened her emerald green eyes a bit before raising her head fully releasing a tiny yawn, first, the filly looked at Jett tilting her head, giving her a confused look before lowering her head down to see the many eyes staring back at her. Her wide eyes turned to pinpricks as she lowered her head and tried to bury herself in Jett's arms. It didn't take long for the questions to come flooding back yet again.
“Where have you found this specimen?!” Killjoy shouted at Jett causing the filly to lower her ears from the loud noise.
“Awwww ain't she a beauty,” Skye asks as she took a closer look at the filly.
“Why does this horse have wi~ “Guys let me explain!” Jett cuts off Sova’s question as the 2 agents finally stopped with their questioning.
“Now, I found this pegasus just right next to the orange radianite boxes I told you about Kj, as for how this thing was made. I have no idea. And no Sova this is not a horse it's a pony pegasus." Sova shrugged before Jett continued. "I noticed it was hurt so I carried the filly out of the room she was staying in and tore a piece of fabric from Phoenix’s coat to patch it up.”
“You owe me a coat,” Phoenix adds before Jett continued.
“Right, So Skye if you please.” Jett points towards Skye’s healing trinket.
“Hm? Oh right.” Skye then grabs the healing trinket from her waist and proceeds to channel it. The filly’s hoof started glowing bright green as the filly stared at her hoof with awe, soon the bright green light faded and Jett slowly removed the bandage around the filly to find the once injured hoof good as new. The filly smiled giving her healed hoof a few test stomps on Jett’s arm.
“You're welcome,” Skye says happily, as Killjoy stares at the filly with her hand on her chin.
“Fascinating. This pony is able to display emotions as if it were a human.”
“That's what I thought as well,” Jett says.
“Didn't you say that you found this filly in a room? anything else you might have missed?”
“Other than broken flasks and unsolved equations, there was nothing.”
“hmm. Well, it appears that I'm going to have to run some tests on this filly,” Jett and Skye tensed up a bit when she said that which Killjoy quickly added.
“Oh unharmful tests, geez I'm not a psychopath you guys. Just give her here and ill make sure she will be treated well.” Killjoy says as she stretched out her arms waiting. As much as Jett didn't want to do it, she knew that she couldn't take care of this filly herself. She will just have to rely on Skye and Killjoy to take care of the filly. Sighing she looked at the filly as if to say goodbye, the filly stared back at her with the biggest smile she could muster.
“Well little buddy, I guess it's time to say goodbye,” Jett says as she grabbed the filly with both of her arms and placed her on the ground. The filly sat on the ground and continued to stare at Jett unaware of what was happening. Jett only took two steps back as she saw the little filly begin to worry, she too stood up from the ground and slowly walked toward Jett.
“Alright little filly, time to do some little testing,” Killjoy says as she approached the filly and was about to grab her. Fortunately, the filly was quick to act as she sprinted towards Jett and hid behind her ankle doing her best to not be seen by the rest of the agents. All of the agents were left stunned by the filly’s actions including Jett. Had this filly formed a bond with Jett already?
“Well, I guess that's a no,” Killjoy says in defeat as she stood up from her squatting position and looked toward Jett with a smile. “Looks like you will be the one to take care of this filly Jett!”
“What?! N-no! I can't take care of this filly!” Jett cried out while Phoenix laughed.
“Sure you can Jett! After all, I think the filly thinks you are her mother!” Phoenix continued to laugh as he points to the filly who was holding onto her with her forelegs for dear life.
“That's not funny Phoenix!” Jett shouts in anger pointing a finger toward Phoenix.
“Don't worry mate, You won't be alone on this one. We will help ya with the best we can ay?” Skye says reassuringly as she gestured her hand toward the other two agents. Killjoy gave a thumbs up whilst Sova wasn't sure of himself. Releasing a heavy sigh Jett looked at Skye and gave her a single nod.
“Let's hope Brim’s ok with the tiny pony running around headquarters,” Phoenix says as he sees the plane coming towards them. “actually scratch that, let's hope that the rest of the fam are ok with this filly here.”
Jett released a groan as she picked up the filly behind her, and place her back onto her arms. The filly seemed to be happy to be back in Jett’s arms as it positioned itself for another nap. This will surely open a new adventure for our duelist here.
To Raise And Care part 1 of 2
The flight back to headquarters was rather smooth and so was the mission, Although the disturbing site of dead bodies around the facility made the agents on edge. They had found what they were looking for and they hadn't encountered anything dangerous or their mirrored selves in the abandoned facility. Plus they found probably the most adorable-looking pony they had seen in all their lives. though the huge rift was still on top of the sky and over the facility, it was stable for now as Killjoy analyzed. In the passenger side of the plane, Killjoy and Skye tend to the filly, playing with her and even making funny faces for the filly on Jett’s lap. As for Jett herself, She stared off into the plane’s ceiling thinking over what and how she could take care of the filly. Skye was kind enough to lend her the basics of taking care of an animal which she accepted wholeheartedly. On the other side of the plane, Phoenix tried his best to cover up his smile as he stared at Jett’s bewildered face as she thought over her life choices and Sova had slept during the whole trip back. After 2 hours of being in the air, they had finally made it back to headquarters. The headquarters itself was hidden on a remote island with a volcano in the middle. As soon as the plane had gotten closer to the ground, the ground itself opened up revealing a landing dock at the very bottom of a huge cave where other planes were parked.
“And touchdown.” The pilot says as the plane had made a landing. “ Welcome home agents, I hope you enjoyed our flight and we hope to see you soon.” The pilot joked as the 5 agents got up from their seats and exited the plane. The 5 agents stuck close to one another as Killjoy and Skye continued to play with the filly, the filly refused to leave Jett’s arms so Killjoy and Skye had to go so close to Jett up to the point where they were squeezing her entire body as they continued walking. Jett cleared her throat grabbing the attention of Skye and Killjoy.
“Uh, you guys, I appreciate you two playing with the filly and all that, but could you give me some space?” Jett asked calmly, as Killjoy and Skye quickly backed away from Jett but were still relatively close enough to the filly.
“I'm sorry Jett, but this is rather something I had not seen in… well ever!” Killjoy says excitedly before continuing. “ I mean just look at this pony, it has wings!” Killjoy couldn’t help but release a little squeal as if she were a little girl again much to Jett’s surprise.
“She’s right Jett, I had encountered every single animal I could think of… but never have I seen anything like this little bugger,” Skye says scratching the little filly’s ears, The filly lays her head onto Skye’s hand enjoying the sensation while Jett stared at her actions taking mental notes for later usage. Then both the filly and Jett made contact with Phoenix’s back.
“Ow Phoenix, why did you..” Jett paused, as she looked ahead of Phoenix. There standing and crossing his arms by the entrance of the headquarters was Brimstone, his face was stoic as ever as he watched his agents slowly approach him. He saw his agents were quite nervous for some reason, the 3 female agents' eyes were darting everywhere other than to look on Brim's way and Phoenix simply whistled a tune. Only Sova was different because of how the way he stared at them confused. The next thing that came was silence. A long silence. The agents didn't know what to say or do a matter of fact. Brimstone had a strict rule to not bring any animals of any kind into headquarters and he was very specific about it, It was the number one rule and they had just broken it. Brimstone had a way to deal with rule breakers which the agents didn't want at the slightest as old memories came crashing in. The only one that didn't seem to be bothered was Sova, as when he makes a mistake he took those harsh punishments with honor. He was fine with it, but the rest aren't willing to relive it.
The filly, (after seeing her mother's nervous face) decided to peek over Phoenix's shoulder as she slowly rose from Jett’s arms but was quickly stopped by Skye as she gently pushed her back down into a sitting position. Brimstone, however, saw Skye’s actions but not the filly, he raised an eyebrow he’s stoic face still intact as he started light stomping his right booth into the ground as he grew more and more impatient.
Phoenix was the first to break the silence as he cleared his throat profusely before speaking. “Hey, Brimstone…uh… I know you said not to bring…um..uh. Any animals in headquarters.” He briefly paused as Phoenix waited to see how Brim had reacted so far. Nothing. “And I know that Skye was an exception considering her abilities. But.” He moved to the side for Jett to be completely visible to Brimstone. “We had found something else in that facility.”
There the filly came to full view for Brimstone to see, in a second the filly covered her eyes with both of her hooves as she was shaking immensely as she got a good look at Brimstone. If looks could kill then that filly might as well be dead, actually, all of them would be dead. Brimstone pinched the bridges of his noes and released a heavy groan causing the agents to shiver a bit along with the filly. Sweat came down on Phoenix’s face but quickly evaporated as he and the rest of the agents waited for Brim to decide the little filly's fate. After what felt like minutes of silence, Brimstone finally spoke.
“If you're saying that this…pony came from the top-secret facility.” He paused letting those words linger on his agents. “Then this filly won't be going anywhere... So I will let this filly stay, But this will be the last time! Don't come bringing any more animals into headquarters. This ain't no zoo agents.” Brimstone could hear the sighs of relief of the agents as he turns to leave. “I hope you five know what you are doing.” He says in finality as he started walking back deeper into the base.
“Good job Phoenix!” Killjoy says with joy, light punching Phoenix’s shoulder. “ I was actually having some doubts when you started talking to Brimstone. But hey! It went well.” Killjoy could see Phoenix was a bit hurt by her statement but brushed it off. As she turns to Jett, She saw the filly was still shaking in fear while Jett continued to stare at the filly not sure what to do.
“Jett…” Killjoy started.”Why aren’t you comforting the filly? You can clearly see she is in distress.” Killjoy lightly scolded Jett.
“Look... Kj I'm not good at that kind of stuff. Never was the caring type for animals. Hell, never had one to begin with.” Jett admitted with a sigh.
“Then think of this Jett,” Killjoy says whilst pointing a finger at the cowering filly.“Think as if this was some child who had lost her parents recently, and you were so kind enough to adopt her and bring her to your home. And here she was now, probably having the time to reflect on a painful memory of when her parents died. What would you do?”
“...geez, Killjoy that was kind of..dark..even for you.”
“Yeah, but that was the first thing that came to mind so, answer the question.”
“Well… I’d make sure that she was alright.”
“Uh-huh.” Killjoy nods.
“Then I’d tell her that everything was alright and…. I would be there for her.”
“Good..keep going.”
“Then…Then I would comfort her the best that I could?”
“So why aren't you doing it?” Killjoy questioned, Jett, didn't need to answer it as she continued to stare at the little filly with worried eyes. The shaking had died down but she still had her hooves over her face, too afraid to look back as images of Brimstone's menacing face came to her mind. Jett slowly but surely scratched the filly’s left ear in hopes that it would give her some comfort. Slowly the filly removed the hooves from her face as she felt the same sensation again from the other human, only this time it was coming from her carer. The feeling was rather different than the other human had petted her, it was soft, slow, and warm in a way. She rubbed her head against Jett’s palm feeling every inch of it, A small smile came to the filly’s face as she felt the familiar warmth of her caretaker. her mother . Soon she drifted off to sleep in Jett’s palm, the smile never faded from the filly. Jett was utterly lost for words as the filly slept in her hand peacefully in a matter of seconds. Jett lowered her hand so that the filly was rested in her arms again as a smile came from her face.
“Good work,” Killjoy says in a whisper, as the two quietly laughed together.
“Hate to break the moment but um, you guys coming in or?” Phoenix says pointing towards the door that Skye and Sova had left through.
“Sorry, had to comfort the little guy y’know,” Jett says as she started walking toward the entrance of the base. Jett didn't know how far she would go to take care of this filly but in her mind, She would do it till the end. As the remaining agents walked through the door and into a long hallway, they finally made it to the armory and training room where they would drop off their weapons before heading back to their quarters.
Of course, the place wasn’t empty, as of now among Sova and Skye, 4 new agents starred at Jett. they had looks of confusion and shock as to what she was holding, she couldn't tell all of their reactions though for one was a war machine who doesn't display emotion at all, this was going to be a long day but she couldn't care anymore.
To Raise And Care part 2 of 2
Never in my life have I felt so humiliated before.
While in the armory, I introduced everyone to the filly and told them everything about how I found her in the facility. Raze, like Killjoy, was the first to take a closer look at the filly with star-filled eyes and started booping her snoot countless times, causing the filly to release an ill have to admit, the cutest sneeze I had heard as her tiny wings flared up at the force. I couldn't help but release a small aww at the sight, but luckily it was drowned out by the even louder awws from Raze, Killjoy, and Skye. the boys however weren't amused in the slightest as they continued on what they were doing. Sage, the 3rd in command of Headquarters and our healer gestured for the female agents to be quiet as she took a closer look at the filly herself.
Raze took a step back to give room for Sage to see the filly in all its cuteness and glory. But mostly her eyes were more focused on the wings that were now resting on her sides. Her wings were really tiny, obviously not ready to be used for flight yet, Sage looked like she was deep in her thoughts, I had not seen her blink for… um, about 30 seconds or so?
They continue to stare at one another in a rather awkward silence, the filly was the first to move, tilting her head slightly whilst flapping one of her ears in confusion, which seemed to have done the trick as Sage was rapidly blinking her eyes, before giving a small smile.
“She’s beautiful,” Sage says as she gently rubbed the filly's head, messing her mane up a bit, but the filly didn't mind.
“She is sooooo adorable! I'm so glad this little potranca is going to be living with us!” Raze chirped out.
“Ehh, I do not like how it stares at me with those big eyes,” Cypher remarked. “but she's alright I guess.”
“As long as this pony isn't a hassle,well-trained, and is on a leash at all times, then I'm fine with her staying,” Kay/o says as he finishes assembling his shotgun, not bothering to look at the tiny filly.
Everything was going swell, they all seemed to be ok with her staying around, albeit with some ground rules which I could hopefully manage well enough. I sighed as I cuddled the filly, happy that she would be staying with us and with me for who knows how long, maybe when the time is right I could even help her learn how to fly. Hmm… But first a name. While I was pondering in my mind, thinking of a suitable name for the filly, he came in.
I turned to see the door of the armory opened, revealing the blue spiky-haired, rift-walking, arrogant prick, Yoru. he was playing with his butterfly knife comb, fidgeting around with it before combing the right side of his spikey hair with an unamused look. Right as he entered the room, he looked around with a questioning gaze until his eyes laid on me, and his questioning look grew into a smirk. that painful annoying smirk of his.
“Wow Jett, Never knew you were into animals,” he says with a fake surprised look. I rolled my eyes.
“Aren't you supposed to be somewhere in the world Yoru? You know, somewhere far away from here.” I said, trying not to release my anger.
“Actually I was, just came back with my findings from the cold north.” He paused, staring at the filly in my arms to which the filly stared back with a curious look.
“And I'm guessing you found yours? Aren't you supposed to find like a… tch, I don't know, a blueprint of sorts and not some horse .” his smirk grew even bigger after he had said that.
“For your information, I found this one in a laboratory, barely surviving on its own with an injured hoof, I couldn't just leave her,” I said through gritted teeth, he was really getting on my nerves.
“Oh, so you're taking care of the horse?” he laughed. “No, no, no, I think you should let flower girl over here take care of it instead of you.” he gestures to Skye on the sideline with Phoenix, to which she gave a disapproving look.
The rest of the agents were spectating the scene before them, they had stopped what they were doing, genuinely interested in what was about to come down. They knew Jett and Yoru. both were arrogant, overconfident, and very toxic. That was Jett’s personality when she first joined the valorant protocol, but after getting to know her teammates for months of working together, she had a drastic change of personality and was opening up, Although her toxic personality is still there, she mostly uses it in battle instead to her team.
Yoru however is a different story, He was a bit late to join the valorant protocol than Jett but his personality is similar to hers, albeit slightly different. He was that typical cool kid in your classroom and focuses a lot on his looks, thus the butterfly comb he carries around with him. But unlike Jett, His personality stayed the same over the months, refusing to share anything about his past and being toxic to his teammates, but not as much as how he is toxic to his enemies.
So seeing these two together, they knew there would always be a fight between them, one that they had gotten used to over the months of knowing them.
“You think I can't handle this filly on my own?!” my voice raised up a bit. the filly covered her ears with her front hooves, if her mother was going to get angry, she didn't want to hear any of it. Yoru raised a brow, his smirk never leaving his face.
“100 creds say otherwise.” that was the final straw. just as I was about to lose it, Sage got between the two of us with a look that no one would dare to fight in an argument.
“Enough you too.” her voice was strict but she maintained her calm expression as she turned to look at me. “Jett, take the filly to your room.”
“But~”
“Now.” she warned. I looked at her contemplating whether I should stay, before eventually following her orders, and leaving the armory, but not before shoving Yoru’s shoulder.
“Ouch, what was that for?” Yoru faked hurt, rubbing his hit shoulder. But after looking at Sage’s glare, he knew he had done enough.
“You, Room, Now,” She ordered, her glare never fading. Yoru released a grunt of approval as he too stormed off the armory as well. Once he left, Sage released a heavy sigh.
These two were never going to get along.
Here I was walking down the endless halls to my room, with a filly in my arms, thinking about the recent event.
‘When did he have the fucking right mind to simply say those things to me like that? Just because I wanted to take care of some filly?! It's not like it was my choice to do so. I never wanted this!’
I paused, rethinking my thoughts before shaking my head. what was I saying? I just wanted to help the filly get back up in her hooves and maybe even find a shelter for her to stay in until someone would want to raise her and she would be in a loving family. I didn't actually think that I would be the one to take care of her.
I lightly laughed to myself. ‘Out of all people, it had to be me to handle that responsibility.’ I sighed. ‘Yoru was right, there was no way I could take care of her on my own.’ As much as I hated it, it was the truth, no matter how many times I tell myself that I can do it. The filly must have noticed my distraught state as she pulled on my hoodie with her mouth drawing my attention to her.
There she was, right in front of my face as she used her hind legs to stand up straight in my arms and her front hooves were pressed against my chest so she could maintain balance. We were really close to each other but I never looked away. Sometimes I questioned her acts from time to time, they were so random, and yet it was somehow adorable. Then she did something that caught me off guard.
She licked the tip of my nose. It was short but it was something that I thought she would never do. She then gave me a reassuring smile, it was weird to see her emotions so clearly, she really did have a look of a human but at the same time, she was a pony. But that lick had said it all. She trusted me, a complete stranger that rescued her hours ago, to be her carer for the rest of her pony life. And I sure wasn't going to fail her now.
I smiled as we finally reached my room, opening it I dropped the filly on my bed, and quickly discarded the remaining of my things, before joining her. The filly did quick turns around my bed before finding a good spot to rest. I was pretty tired myself after the whole mission. Before sleeping, however, I reminded myself that I had people that were willing to support me in raising her. And who knows? I might just prove Yoru wrong and get that free 100 cred easily.
And with that, I fell asleep.
*Knock* *Knock*
“Jett? Jett you in there?” Phoenix says over the doorway, Jett hadn't left her room for some time now after the little fight with Yoru. Worried for his friend, he came to check up on her to see if she was alright. He was greeted with silence, he pressed his head against the door to check for any noises on the other side.
He heard water running on the other side of the room, sighing to himself, he assumed Jett was just taking a shower. Just as he was about to leave however he heard a voice by the doorway.
“Phoenix? Phoenix is that you?!” The voice was muffled, but he knew it was Jett, and she sounded panicked.
“Jett you alright?” phoenix asked one more time.
“Help me.” her voice sounded desperate making him worried even more, he pressed a button by the doorway to see if it would open, fortunately, it did and the door quickly opened as Phoenix got inside. He checked around the room, not seeing his friend until his eyes focused on another door leading to the bathroom.
“Jett?! Jett open the door!” Phoenix yelled as he tried to use his shoulder to bust open the door.
The door was flicked open as Phoenix busted in without a moment's notice, as soon as he got in however he was greeted with a splash of water right into his face and clothing. The bathroom was a mess, conditioners lay on the floor as some were floating in the bathtub, curtains were torn apart and there lay the duelist staring at Phoenix with a shocked expression. Jett was a watery mess, her bun was gone, her long white hair was wet and so were her clothes. The now wet filly was on top of a rack as she stared at the running water with a terrified expression. Jett sighed with relief.
“Phoenix! Thank god you are here! You have to help me!” Jett pleaded to his friend as he wiped the water from his face.
“Jett… what are you trying to do?” Phoenix deadpanned, Jett lightly chuckled while scratching the back of her head.
“Well... When I woke up, I realized that the filly was still dirty and she made quite a mess in my bed so I thought it would be best for… you know… for her to take a bath and…” Her voice trailed off as she stared at Phoenix's unamused expression. She sighs in defeat.
“Jett, you had me worried back there, I thought you were in trouble.” Phoenix scolded as Jett stood up straight to properly face his friend.
“I panicked ok, sorry for making you worry… and for wetting your coat.” Jett points to Phoenix’s now wet white coat to which he hummed in response.
“It's fine.” with a snap of a finger, Phoenix’s body glowed bright orange as sparks of flames were circling around him, eventually it stopped and Phoenix’s coat and jeans were as good as new.
“You know, I'm sometimes jealous of your powers.” Jett smiled.
“You're the one to talk… so um, are you done here?”
“Why’s that?” Jett’s smile faded as she took a towel and started whipping her wet hair.
“Brim needs us in his office, it's about the mission,” Phoenix says as he started walking out of the bathroom.
“Hey, phoenix wait up! What about the filly?” Jett exited the bathroom carrying the wet filly in her hands as it struggled to fight the towel rubbing against her mane and fur.
“Leave her, she won't go far.”
“Are you sure?” Jett says in worry as the filly finally dried up but rather preferred to stay in her mother's arms as the filly stared at Phoenix with a smile.
“One hundred, now come on, ill be waiting for you outside,” Phoenix reassures Jett as he leaves through the door.
Jett was hesitant, this was the first time in these few hours that she would be leaving the filly on her own for a while. Plus she didn't trust her being alone, she didn't know how long she would be gone but she wanted to return to her room, not expecting it to become a huge mess that was caused by one simple filly. So, with a serious look growing on her face, she placed the filly on her bed before locking her eyes with hers as they intensely stared at one another.
“Listen filly, I'm going to be gone for a while and when I come back, I better not find any of my things scattered around the floor. I want you to be on your best behavior until I get back, you got that?” Jett tried to sound intimidating toward the filly. it was hard, considering how she was failing to keep her serious expression whilst she kept looking at the filly's bewildered face.
It broke even more when the filly decided to raise her right forehoof and saluted to Jett, having her own serious look, but more adorable. Jett could have sworn butterflies were flying around her stomach right now, because, yet again, she had fallen right into the trap of the filly’s cuteness.
“Gosh, why are you so adorable,” Jett muttered as she had her head down in defeat. Then she heard snickering, it was small but it didn't go unnoticed by her. She quickly rose her head up as she stared at the filly, only to find her smiling at her.
“Did you just-” Before she could question the filly, someone knocked on the door.
“Jett hurry up! We're gonna be late!” Phoenix shouts on the other side.
“Oh shit!” Jett quickly changed into her outfit and used her wind powers to dry her hair quicker. She quickly grabbed her bun that was lying on her workbench before heading out as both she and Phoenix rush towards Brimstone's office, Little did she know however she had left her door unlocked.
Brimstone sat on his office chair as he waited for the last two agents to arrive so that they could start discussing the mission and how it had gone. Sova, Killjoy, and Skye sat on the other side of Brimstone, not sure of what to do other than to wait for their teammates. These awkward tensions intend to go frequently around headquarters for some reason. It wasn't long however as the door was suddenly opened revealing the two duelists in cold sweats.
“Ah Phoenix, Jett. Glad you could join us today. I suppose you didn't forget about our meeting?” Brimstone says half threateningly.
“It's my fault, Brim, I'm sorry. I was just cleaning the filly up.” Jett says as she and Phoenix take a seat with the rest of the agents. Brim sighs.
“Well, since you two are here now. Care to explain your findings on the omega side of the facility?”
“There wasn't much brimstone, I had checked every nook and cranny around that place. Nothing worth the trouble.” Phoenix says, shaking his head.
“Aside from the filly I found, I found some room where they used to travel to our world, but it looked like it had died along with this place.”
“From what Killjoy told me, Jett, you said the radianite boxes over at the omega side were a dark orange. Correct?” Brimstone questioned to which Jett nodded. “We believed that this was their very own type of radianite back in their world, the orange radianite just works as similar as ours except for its color difference.”
“So if they have their own radianite, why steal ours?” Phoenix asks, confused.
“it's because they have depleted theirs.” the four agents turned to Killjoy, and as she finally realized what they have been fighting for this whole time, Brimstone nodded in confirmation.
“Correct, we have heavily relied on radianite, it's what powers almost everything we had made today and it will continue to do so. But if we were to run out of it.” He paused letting his agents finish the sentence.
“We would be desperate,” Killjoy finishes, shocked by the revelation. “That is why their tech is more advanced than ours!”
The room went silent as the agents took in all the information that was given, it all made sense. To think that all the destruction that was made around the world by their mirrored selves was just to get the simple green radianite boxes that were stored there. How many lives were lost when the spike would engulf and violently destroy its surroundings, as the people who got hit by the radius of the explosion disintegrate into nothing but ashes.
“Son of a bitch.” phoenix muttered under his breath.
“Son of a bitch is right, The spike not only destroys the environment but is also a way of transport for the radianite.” Brimstone says aloud, snapping the agents from their thoughts.
“That is why we fight agents. We fight to protect the citizens, we fight to protect what is ours, and We will not let some clones steal it from us. This is why we travel to Omega Earth. If they want war, then we will give them hell.” Brimstone stood up from his chair and looked over at his agents. After hearing those words, the agents who were stunned now had faces of determination, ready to take back what was lost. One step at a time. Then Killjoy cleared her throat.
“Well..as much as traveling to another earth goes, I'm afraid it might not be possible.”
“What do you mean kid?” brimstone raised an eyebrow.
“The blueprint that I took was only a part of the actual portal brimstone,” Killjoy says sadly. “It is like the scientist took every single thing they could get before escaping. I was lucky enough to even find one of the pieces.”
“Could you make use of it?”
“I could try,” Killjoy says, chuckling sadly. Brimstone groaned heavily knowing that it could take even more time for Killjoy to finish building it. he took a seat in his chair, thinking of a plan.
“I'll try to send another batch of agents into that facility to have a recheck, for now, you agents get some rest, you've earned it.”
With that, all the agents left Brimstone's office as they went on their separate ways to do their own activities. Jett was about to run back to her room to check up on the filly, hoping that the filly had listened when suddenly she was stopped by Phoenix.
“Hey Jett, wanna shoot some robot dummies in the training room?” Phoenix asked eagerly.
“Phoenix not now, I have to check up on her, plus I thought Raze said she was still fixing up the robots?”
“Meh, your right on that but come on! Let's hang out! Please?” Phoenix begged, bringing his hands together and shaking them for emphasis.
“Phoenix, I can-” Jett was cut off by the sounds of ringing. Picking her phone up, she took a look to find a message from Raze. Her eyes widened when she read the message.
[ GUYS, I NEED HELP!]
[THE LITTLE POTRANCA GOT INTO THE TRAINING ROOM! ]
[ I CANT OPEN THE DOOR!]
More messages started to come up from the other agents, texting their own shocks and concerns.
“Huh? Whos texting now?” As Phoenix reached out for his phone, Jett ran in a dead sprint, leaving her friend in a daze.
What happened?
25 Minutes Ago
As soon as Jett had left the door, the filly’s smile quickly faded. She wasn't sure what to do now that her mother was gone. She could go for another nap, but she felt like she had enough rest so she was pretty active. She continued to sit on the bed as she looked around the room, it was pretty big for a small filly like her to be in that's for sure. Nothing seemed to have caught her interest however as she sighed, she could really go for a scratch in the ear right about now, these creatures really did know where to hit the right spot.
But as she looked down to the carpet floor, something caught her eye. A blue ball was lying underneath the wooden desk as she stood up from the bed, it looked like the right size for her as she stared at it with sparkling eyes. Maybe she could-
No! Her mother gave her a task, and she was going to behave until she came back. The filly sat back on the bed and turned away from the ball with her head up as she closed her eyes, trying not to think of the round object. Surely her mother would come back soon, right?
Ten minutes later
The filly now laid face first in the bed, she couldn't tell how much had passed since her mother left but she was sure it had been long now. She mainly had been walking in circles around the bed and occasionally interact with a plushie that was with her in the bed. but since her mother said that none of her stuff was to be on the ground, she had carefully played with the plushie. Making sure it wouldn't fall on the edges of the bed.
It quickly became a boring routine as the filly succumbed to boredom. She brought her head up as she stared at the carpet floor again and sure enough, the blue ball was still there. She couldn't turn away as she stared at it, thinking what her mother would say if she were to disobey.
“Bad filly, I told you to not mess with my stuff! Ugh, I should have left you in that facility!” She cringed, She didn't know what a facility was, but she assumed it was that scary place where her mom had found her. rapidly shaking those thoughts away, she stared at the ball, thinking really hard about her choices. Then she tried to remember what her mother had said before she left.
“I'm going to be gone for a while and when I come back, I better not find any of my things scattered around the floor. ” It echoed around the filly’s mind. It was already on the floor, would she get upset if she found it laying there? If she does then she could simply pick it up and hide it somewhere. yeah, hide it…. After she was done playing with it that is.
The filly smiled as she got off the bed and headed toward the blue ball. Once she was close enough, she picked it up with her mouth and brought it to the middle of the room. She dropped the ball and immediately went into a stance with a playful smirk, ready to strike the bouncy object and for the fun to begin. She pounced, taking off into the air as she aims directly at the ball.
Once landing on the ball, the ball responded with a powerful fling toward a wall and then around the room as it bounced rapidly. The filly, now losing her smirk, quickly ducked and covered underneath the bed as the ball continued to bounce around the room. The ball did one more bounce on the wall until it was heading toward the doorway, it opened and shuttered immediately as it passed through.
The filly quickly got out underneath the bed terrified as she checked around the room again. Luckily enough, the room was still intact and nothing seemed to be out of place or in a worse case, broken. Then she turned towards the door panicking. The ball had gotten out of the room, and if her mother finds out that one of her things was missing then she was surely going to be in trouble. She ran towards the door until she got in front of it, she really hoped that the ball was just outside of it. She took one step, and the door suddenly opened as she flinched. Her mom didn't say that she could leave the room, did she?
Peaking out of the doorway, she turned her head around the endless halls, trying to find the ball. Unfortunately, she didn't find it anywhere. Taking one last look behind her, She took a deep breath and exited the room. Determined to find that ball and return to the room as quickly as possible.
Five minutes later
To say that the filly was scared was an understatement, she was terrified as she continued to walk down the endless hallways with only her hooves echoing around the halls. She still hadn't found where that ball went. Maybe she took a wrong turn?
She turned her head, only to be greeted with the same endless hallway. It was too late to turn back now, she didn't know how far she was from the room but couldn't think about it now. She had to find that ball no matter what.
Once she turned around another corner for the 5th time, she saw something different other than an endless hallway. There were multiple doors next to each other as she took a closer look at them. Recalling what she had done last time, the filly raised her hoof to the door. This time however it didn't open. Not sure of what to do now, she was about to turn and leave when a door suddenly opened behind her.
When she turned her head around she paused. As the filly stared at the tall thing with wide eyes. There stood one of the creatures that had saved her, but this one had an eerie feeling to it.
Its body was covered in grey metal as it wore black pants, the arms around him were covered in bandages refusing to reveal any skin underneath, and it wore a purple hooded cape covering most of its face. But once the creature turned its head and was locking eyes with the filly, she was even more terrified. It didn't even have a face as the only thing that was present was three bright blue slits staring back at her.
The creature lightly growled at the small filly, but she already had seen enough as she screamed at the top of her lungs in fright. She quickly ran the opposite way of the terrifying beast wanting to get away from it as fast as her little legs can go and took a sharp turn around the corner.
Omen however didn't even follow the filly, as he was left confused as to what he had witnessed.
Five more minutes later.
The poor filly was panting as she finally stopped her running, thankful that the scary creature didn't follow her. She needed to find her mom, she didn't care anymore about the ball, she shouldn't even have left the comfort of her mother's room. Then she heard shouting down the hallway as another one of the tall creatures walked passed her.
“I'm taking a break guys! No one enters the training room!” She recognized the creature's voice was Raze, maybe she could help her get back to the room. But before she could follow her, her ears shot up. Something was coming towards her, and it was coming fast.
She heard the buzzing noise from behind as she quickly turned around to stare at one of the tall creatures again. Only to be met with nothing. The buzzing had stopped, but no one was behind her. That is until she looked down did she find something rather interesting. There, staring at the filly with one eye, was a tiny white robot that was much smaller than her. It had 3 legs that were on wheels and it had… the filly gasped.
On top of the robot's head was the blue ball that she had been looking for. It was held with the robot's two arms as it continued to stare at the filly, not moving for some time now. She reached out for the ball, only for the robot to move slightly away, confusing the filly. She reached out for again, only for the robot to move away again.
The filly narrowed her eyes at the robot as it did the same, as if to challenge her to do it again. She leaped towards the robot, only for it to zoom past her jump in response. She chased after the robot, her determination of getting back the ball returned.
The filly was hot on the robot's trail, just a few feet away from it as she gave it her all. Eventually, they both ran into a familiar room as the filly continued to chase the robot down. Sharp turns were made left and right around the room, as the filly got ever so closer and closer. Then in a last-ditch effort, the tiny robot ran straight toward a door. Just as it got in, however, the filly leaped one more time into the robot, As she caught it with both of her hooves and stood on top of it, making sure it wouldn't run again.
The filly smiles in victory, as she finally caught the thief that stole one of her mother's things. if only she could see her now. She took the ball out of the robot's metal claws and was about to head out when the door suddenly closed right in front of her.
Confused, the filly raised her hoof towards the door only for it to not open. Then she started scratching her hoof on the door, but soon a robot voice echoed around the room as the filly did a quick turn around to find the source of the voice.
Anomaly detected, Commencing training mode. Hard difficulty setting enabled, rearranging platforms engaged, Activating hard bots……. 45 bots online. scoreboard set to 0, timer enabled. all systems online.
She didn't know what was happening, but how the room suddenly became alive, the floors around her suddenly rose from the ground and some were levitating in the air wasn't a good sign. Then she heard a muffled voice by the door.
“Little pony?! What are you doing in there!” she turned her head to find Raze looking at her, terrified. She was equally as terrified as her.
Just as she turns back to face the now new room, however, she saw five tall creatures made entirely of grey with a bright red dot for eyes in the middle of it, carrying black and long boxes in their arms as they stared at her, slowly lifting them up.
“Radiant, Detected.”
Author's Note
I wanted to continue, but I felt like it was best to leave it here for now so never the less, thanks for reading! and see you all in the final chapter!
