Unexploded Future Lunar Revolution

I woke up in a cold sweat from a nightmare that ended in a grizzly end and a visceral canvas of pony parts. A shaft of light was pelting my eye through a bullet hole in the wall. A figure came through the window, unrecognized to my sleep filled eyes. Her voice pierced through the air into my ears, it was Sapphire once again! She lay her hoof on my shoulder and said with a smile widening across her face.

“Sooooo... I remembered ya from earlier. I seen some police pony about to kill ya in your sleep so I decided bashed the fuckers skull in with a pipe.” Sapphire said while laying a hoof on my shoulder and a smile across her face.

“Wow, that's some mighty impressive improvisation skills ya got there!” I said in response while my jaw hit the ground agape but with intrigue and desire to form a companionship. She then continued what she was saying in an even more excited tone as the wind brushed her mane.

“Oh! And remember when ya you wanted to save the city from these twisted fuckers, follow me, I might be able to help with that.” she made sure to say confidently while spinning the pipe on her hoof.

I immediately drifted back, crawling out the window and nodded in agreement. I yelled “Hold it! I got something for ya first.” through the window that she was closest to while searching through my room.

I went back through the window again, putting the shades in a tranquil effortless flutter aided by the dark wind blowing past the stack of homes and glass spires of the city. I grabbed the bloodstained police armor from last night. I wiped off the splattered bones and muscles and lifted it onto sapphire delicately. A shock drifted down her spine as the frosted steel grazed her shoulder emblazoned in fur.

“Stay here, I need to grab a few things before we set off if that's okay.” I said, trying to sugarcoat it out of fear of annoying my new companion.

“Ya, Of course! Take all the time you need my friend, it's the least I can do for you.” She said while patiently waiting on a ledge, slowly making her way to the top of the old metal stairs.

I tapped my hooves on the table while looking through the window. I spread my hooves around the table to find the scattered shotgun shells strewn around. After a few seconds of whirling my hooves around the wooden counter I picked up a few shells and a shotgun and placed them in my battle saddle. I grabbed the rifle that Aria gave me and put that in my saddle too just for good measure.

She stepped back through the window to see what I was up to. I recoiled back, succumbing to a realization that had been overshadowed by the last days.

“What about my work in the factory?” I said for my safety as the tension suppressed by the excitement let out its gas for a few seconds.

“Ahhh don't worry about em fuckers, I broke enough shit in there with a bomb and a few cut throats. you should be fine for a while. I stole a few machines em shitheads had too! Ya all good for me to sell em off?” She said happily after finally making her way to the edge of the stairs and hopping over the railing and then tapping on it gently.

A wave of relief came over me upon realizing this. The nightmarish factory had finally been gone, eviscerated from the planet with a bright orange flash. A liberating feel washed over me that I had never felt before, an admiration for sapphire and everything she has done. I closed my eyes and walked to Sapphire and hugged her in a gentle warm embrace. We both smiled at each other for a few moments before we both gripped each other and pretended like nothing had happened.

“Of course you can sell them, keep 'em for yourself.” I said, thankful to her service and commitment to me. I stuck my hoof out to her and she stuck it out in return.

“Even though the factory I worked in may be gone, we must bring justice for all those who died in there, and make sure that such a terrible network of places never be allowed to exist again. The flames were a symbol of a new emerging wonder, and the embers shall be the last of hate and corruption.” I said with all of the conviction and the might that I was able to muster, with a passion that I hadn't used since I was a filly. She nodded her head in agreement while a tear of a new beginning ran down my face and I continued rummaging around the corner of the cupboard

“We can bring an end to this tyranny, this whole fucking cycle of shit.” Sapphire said while bolstering up her confidence and tossing a company propaganda poster off the railing.

I paced around the room for a few seconds in a circle while tapping random things and humming a simple tune, making sure I didn't forget anything.

“Alright! I'm ready to head out there!” I said with an excited voice mixed with the curiosity of a child. I quickly grabbed the pistol under my pillow and gave it to her on the way out of the cracked opening to the torn up city. Sapphire lowered her usually loud voice with a thankful tone.

“Oh and once again, thank ya for what happened did the other day, it's the first and only time I've gotten a fragment of fucking hope in this wasteland of dreams overrun with danger and parasitic, detestable companies, you are an oasis in a desert more vast than the Sahara at high noon. Thank you.” Sapphire said while spinning her pistol and a smile ran down her face that I hadnt seen in a decade.

A blush blew up over my cheeks like a bomb “Y-your welcome” I said with a shocked stuttering voice. It was like a wave of warmth blew over my shoulders. She began to go ahead and lead ahead to wherever the hell she was taking me.

We were walking down a quiet backstreet with an alley. The curtains drawn on every house and the raindrops from smoke-mixed monsoon dripped down on an old pipe atop garbage piles and mounds.

“We will be headin’ down to the beach. None of us remember blue water like how it used to be though. Maybe if our fight succeeds, land and river will be OURS!” Sapphire said with a grit and determination that I hadnt heard since the stalemate with the Equestrian Revolutionaries and the Trinity started Three hundred and eighteen days ago.

My mouth was laid open agape in pure shock and I responded with all of the conviction I could muster “We can free our city together with the Equestrian Revolutionaries, we will never fall!” My tone fell back down towards the ground “also the ocean used to be blue? Really?!” I then tripped over a garbage bag. Out of annoyance I kicked the bag down the alleyway with needles alongside and then looked back at sapphire with an awkward expression.

A quiet yelp came out of one of the bags that were there before I kicked one in there. It clearly came from some desperate creature. Sapphire and I both locked eyes for a few brief moments and came to the conclusion that we should go down the alley and see whatever the hay is going on down there. We walked down there tapping our hooves on the stone ground lightly.

“Lets fucking go! If its dangerous we died with fucking honor unlike all those bitches!” said sapphire boldly while raising her hoof to the sky. Despite that we continued walking down before a green noxious gas flooded our faces. Breathing became harder with every step as we walked further in. The gas blasted and grazed my purple coat and yellow tail, blocking sapphire from the gas as much as I. There was a small doorway to the side of us.

“Should we go in, sapphire? I'm not too sure myself” I said with a face of neutrality covering up all of my fear. She agreed to my idea enthusiastically despite my hesitation.

Sapphire's steel armor helped us to kick down the door. We began to sit on the cold step and coughed for a few minutes while leaning forward with a questionable posture.

“I warned ya Sapphire.” I said while coughing profusely and raising a hoof to my mouth to try and lessen the noise I made, hoping that the ponies here would just be confused if they heard us.

“I know, I know, But at least we didn't die right, given the state of this shithole city, that's the most you can ask for!” She said while continuing to cough, bracing her head on her arm, elbow on her knee. Based on the color of the gas, we both considered ourselves lucky. In front of us was a spiral staircase and a pair of gas masks sat atop a mound of black industrial bags filled to the brim with garbage. We had spent all our lives at the mercy of those who held a gas mask while holding our faces towards a cloud of chlorine.

I took a moment and turned around to face Sapphire and said when the water droplet fell on my head in perfect cue and coughed one last time before shuffling back up and sitting back up in my usual posture.

“Before today, we were making a last stand against Trinity that was almost crushed by her affiliates, with endless bits and resources. Things changed today. Now, we can fight back with terror and dedication to a cause! Strike their pride and rip them of their hopes! Bring back Equestria!” I shouted with a passionate fever for the cause.

“For Equestria!” We both chanted with all our might and a passionate fever for change that had been removed from all of our lives for such a long time with our guns hitting the stairs behind us and the noise making its way up to whoever was there as a muffled cheerful sound.

My thoughts and past had all been lit up with hope and fire and sapphire cheered with all her might as her armor clinked together. After a few seconds we regained our composers and put on our newly found gas masks. There was already a filter inside of them. I turned side to side, getting accustomed to the green haze that the mask gave.

“This is fucking weird! It fits perfectly though. It's a miracle!” Sapphire Proclaimed. A rumble from above the moldy ground rocked our hooves. And we turned round and upwards to see the light above blinding us and the lights being dimmed by a pony coming down the stairs leading to a strange creaking noise from above putting us on edge.

A Stallion clothed in armor made from Glasmare steel marched down the stairs. Each hoof striking the ground with an incomparable force; it was as if the long dead King Sombra who Conquered Equestria and the mighty Changeling Lands had been embodied in this Stallion.

I swallowed my fear as my throat ran dry, I lunged forward to grab him as he came around the final corner. I held my breath as me and him slammed on the ground, with his head colliding with the concrete edge. A muffled, stifled groan came from inside the armor as I picked myself up and grabbed him from behind.

“Sapphire! Grab the fucking pipe! Crush this freaks skull!” I said, trying to make as little noise as I could while frantically trying to get her to understand my lip movements. I punched him once more in the head to ensure he remained deadlocked in this daze.

I spun around and threw the helmet off his head as sapphire readied her metal pipe ready to swing. I tightened my grip and took a tiny step back to prevent his body falling on me. She let out a scream as the radio played classical in the background and smashed the metal pipe into the stallion's brain. She whipped out her pistol and shot him in the skull Thirteen more times just to make sure that he was dead.

The pistol wasn't silenced at all. I heard the parts scraping off each other inside, not to mention the noise blasting through the stale air propelled by a ceiling fan, the next floor creaked as I assumed that they had crouched down in the corners of the rooms.

His hooves twitched as the final nerve signals ran through his body as the stallion's skin was stretched out over the stairs with tiny thin streaks of muscle poking out from underneath the flaps and blood dripped down from the guardrail onto the garbage bags like rain drops as it died the industrial beige ground red. Shards of skull clattered on the ground like pulled out teeth hitting the stone ground in a torture chamber. Their veins spewed outward the salted blood onto the ground through a dent in the head and the bullet wounds as the skin slowly started to lose its color.

After a few seconds of waiting and taking in the primal sight of our prey I began thoroughly scavenging the stallion's body. The blood leaking like a drip-feed through the barely visible parts of his armor moistened the clanging of the armor while I tore it off him to put it onto my own body. Tearing it off exposed the massive gaping dents and blood trickling down the neck and chest. It definitely wasn't a perfect fit, the cavity for the nose was far too big, but it was good enough with a bit of bending into shape with all of my strength. I handed Sapphire the sub machine gun that he was carrying inside of his saddle and also tore out all of the cybernetics I could out and also took his phone and a lone grenade which I put into my saddle.

Sapphire was taking as much of the blood as she could with her hooves and syringes, in the hope that she could use it to heal any wounds either of us had down the line while holding the syringe with one hoof while trying to lift the slider up with her mouth to lean against the wall.

“Interesting armor here.. I've never seen anything like it, but then again, I lived on the streets for so… so long.” Sapphire said, piercing the quiet silence during the examination of our body.

“Should we go explore this place or go find whatever was in those bags from earlier?” I said quietly with a flat tone of voice, trying to figure out what we should do next while not alerting anyone nearby, as I had a suspicion on what was through or in the walls.

“Let's go explore first and shoot some assholes. We will deal with whatever that fucking creature was later” She said reassuringly with a completely flat face other than a small smirk at first after the euphoria of winning a fight.

As such we chose to step over the corpse and make our way up the lifeless staircase, only decorated by the blood of the stallion. And the yellow light above and vibrant purple lights breathing in from a window at the top of the building. The stairs were paper thin, so much so that with every single step my hooves went over the ledge. Each step felt like the step was about to cave in and send up plummeting to the floor next to where we killed the stallion. Sapphire trotted alongside me. As we got closer and closer, the familiar sound of a propaganda radio station run by Trinity herself was playing in the background. Rage boiled in my face for a few moments before sapphire comforted me for a few moments.

We finally made our way up to the top of the stairs, I pulled my Luna-skinned rifle out of my saddle, and handed Sapphire some munitions I had left over. The room was a contrast to the staircase, decorated in neon lights and wires hanging down from roofs. The room was split into two parts with a doorway connecting them.

In one of them was the monotonous humming of a server room. An old Nixie tube countdown sat atop it with green, red and yellow lights surrounding the server racks. The metal was disjointed and bent in several places, the walls were all rusted over, with a tiny hatch leading up onto the antenna tower on the roof above. There was a tiny desk over in the corner with a rats nest of wires coming out from a computer, peering behind the servers. There was an array of broadcasting equipment mounted securely to the walls. Warning signs plastered the walls and a massive broadcasting rule book lay on the desk for the Baltimare Radio Service. I grabbed it and put it carefully into my saddle, as I noticed signs bearing the same name plastered on the walls, rage began to boil, hoping I could give the manual to the revolutionaries and learn their secrets.

After a few seconds I trotted my way through the other room, looking over each of my shoulders and around every broken corner of drywall, even peering through the holes in the walls, preparing for an ambush. But there was no pony there. This room was covered in desks with the same walls as the other room. Warning signs and bodies were stacked up in the corner. Sapphire gazed down on them as she followed my trail.

“What the hay is that?! What is this place!” She yelled sarcastically while she pretended her breathing sped up and face turned to a reddened panic as she took a step back around the corner, though clearly being sarcastically scared and far more scared about knowing there was a battle waiting for us here.

“The… the blood is still warm, must have killed all their own men when we arrived. We must kill those freaks..” I said with a shiver of fear running down my spine. The desks were carbon copies of each other, down to the placement of the pencils and notebooks, ancient gum was dangling from the underside with some of the outlines clearly being torn off in a haste.

We paced around the room for a few moments before a quiet shuffle of some pony leaning up against the thin walls on the other side, with a tiny reverberating noise being the output. I grabbed my saddlebag and searched around it for a simple ball-peen hammer to pierce a hole in the wall, like a witless cybernetic brain from forty years ago looking for any form of intelligence in it.

Me and Sapphire's stomachs had not eaten anything in 2 days. Emptiness lurked over every movement, becoming more and more sluggish each minute. I flipped the hammer around and smashed in the rusted over wall of the first room. I made a second, slightly larger hole to the left of it for sapphire as well.

“Saph, put the barrel of the gun in the hole and cut em down. They have no honor, and neither shall we. Shower them in ammunition through the eye, skull, throat and heart… I hope we don't get hit though..” I whispered, trying to keep my voice down to keep them from hearing again, not knowing if they had heard our search or our earlier conversation.

“Very well, if they flee down that corner, I'll widen the hole and jump through, given my smaller size than you, then I'll run after them and batter them shits with a hammer as they beg for mercy!” She replied in the same held back quiet tone and a smirk came down on her face as she lifted her gun up with one had and flipped her hammer in the other non-dominant hand.

“Woah, Saph! That's a pretty violent way of dealing with them, but I LOVE it!” I told her excitedly. A happy smile flew across her face knowing I liked her methods. I fidgeted with the glass mug on the table for about two seconds before we heard the trotting away of one pony's hooves hitting the ground through the wall and changed our stance, ready to fight.

Upon hearing that, we opened fire upon the room. Me and sapphire both lifted our head up and forward to the wall, trying to test if we heard any stifled groans of death through the walls. After a few seconds of angling our guns to the left and right and back again, a symphony of groans began to be heard. Thumping rocked the ground as their bodies hit the floor, smoke began making its way out the barrel of my gun as the friction turned the metal to molten lava.

“Got four of them down, Gamma. I threw a glass mug I found on the ground at one of em and they're unconscious. How many did you get?” Saph shouted to me while pounding the wall with a hammer to keep the enemy on their toes while we talk while smirking to them through the wall after a few seconds of eye contact.

I yelled back over the gunfire and the noises through the metal. “I got seven down, been spraying them with bullets! They haven't landed a hit on me yet!” I made sure to say while masked by the sound of Sapphire's hammer and pounded my fist once it stopped and she continued to shoot the guns through the cavity.

The moon finally fell down, making it through the only window in the first room. It hit the lunar insignia, bouncing off it and guiding my hooves to the final pony, cowering in the corner as he watched his comrades fall. I couldn't angle my gun through to reach the lone pony standing. I tossed the grenade towards the wall and shouted for Sapphire to move away.

A massive bang echoed through the rooms and the bright orange flash blew through the royal purple neon lights. Shards of metal in the shape of asbestos crystal slices the rubber wires and tipped the servers over in the room beside. Me and Saph both ran through the area and found the last remaining pony running down into a janitor's closet down a ramp with purple lighting the way down as fraying from the servers was heard behind the thin metal wall was barely audible.

We went down the ramp and the final pony stayed unarmed down in the corner. I grabbed my pistol from my saddlebag and wedged it between my teeth. Sapphire ran towards the unconscious Stallion she threw the hammer at and smashed his skull while taunting them. I stared down at the cowardly mare, a lab coat covering her beige mane and bright red body underneath. I shot her in the leg to prevent her from escaping while smirking at her tears.

“Saph don't kill her yet!” I messaged her on my phone while speeding up my typing as she started to lift her machete. trying to prevent the captives death, I typed even faster and stuck out a hoof onto her shoulder knowing the mare could be useful for intel and how trigger happy sapphire is with her weapons.

“Why should I not kill this freak?” She responded inquisitively wondering why I'd ask such a demand with a slight frown forming down her face with her eyes completely dead.

“We're using her for intel. Knock this bitch out and we'll leave her here chained to the ceiling with no food or water with video and microphone audio until she gives in.” I told her while leaning against the wall with my hooves crossed.

I never knew that I was able to type so fast, my hoof whipped across the phone screen and my heart pounded through my flesh.

“Celestia, I need a bite to eat right NOW!” Saph shouted at me while her body growled desperately for input and whined for food and energy that was deprived from her for the last few days.

“Here, have this weird candy bar I stole from one of the police officers recently, wait outside for me. and I'll get ya there. Oh, and while you're at it, go have a look at whatever the fuck was in that bag.” I told her, almost accidentally typing it. and only then grabbed it out of my pocket and stuck a hoof out and placed it in her pocket. I grabbed all of the equipment out of my saddle and used a pair of metal spikes through his sides to hold him in place as I bolted the rusted over metal cuff pieces around his hooves.

After a few moments I went down the ramp and back down that bland staircase, passing by the now cold corpse of the stallion from earlier. I looked through the doorway and took a few seconds to conceptualize what I had just seen.

A cat with its face covered in a miniature gas mask. She had a white and black spotted furry coat. Sapphire insisted that we took her with us and lifted her up to show me while it purred gently.

“Pleeease can we take her?!” She pleaded with me while holding her in her arms. I begrudgingly agreed with her. “I'm naming her Cadance! Shes so fucking adorable!” Sapphire declared with a mighty conviction with her dialated pupils and ruffled her fur with her other hoof."

“Alright, sure, whatever. You can take her if ya want, but don't let her bite me please. I don't like dogs that much… Anyways, I am desperate for a bite to eat too!” I said begrudgingly with a smile on my face knowing that I was finally about to get the food I hadnt had this morning.

“Yeah sure, let's go, I know a great place, I know I was going to explain my plan down at the beach but I'd rather explain over a juicy hayburger.” Sapphire said towards me while petting Cadance's head delicately while smiling and looking at Cadance for a few seconds then switching focus to me.

We set off and marched together, with sapphire continuing to hold Cadance in her arms. The water continued to trickle down and smoke from the towers above blocked out the sun. The rain was pouring down with puddles following the trodden path with mud dissolving in each puddle. Neon lights became a more frequent sight as we turned through the twisted narrow alleys to the outskirts of downtown where needles outnumbered ponies.

Continuing through the alleys, A building in downtown had gone up in flames as told by the vast outcry of screams and smoke going up into the mutually grey plane above. We hurried down our steps, eagerly awaiting to see if a major corporation had finally met the wrath of nature that it fought so hard to suppress. The tide was beginning to turn.

We dashed on through the slum like streets, hopping over mounds of garbage and dirt. Sprinted past windows with sight inside blocked by food scraps. We turned round the corner with dust from the ground launching off our hooves. Cadance was still being carried on sapphire's back as she took a nap.

The heat washed over us as we looked to the inferno in front of us. The building was overwhelmed by fire with no hope of saving it. Firefighters tried to use their hose atop their vehicles but to no avail.

By a stroke of luck, the food place was opposite to the tower, allowing us to watch its glass shards burn up and fall to the ground while we ate. Sapphire and I walked behind the crowd who had gathered to watch the fire and went towards the food place

“This place is called Red Ocean, it's amazing! Ya need to try it more you know! Their chips are so good compared to everything else here.” She said while walking backwards to face me while going to her seat in such a way I couldnt see her assumedly cheerful face.

The table was old and dated, with a railway green paint that was being chipped off to show the rust underneath. The chairs were rather squeaky but still in relatively good shape comparatively. The restaurant sat under a small canopy dangling from a building on one side and thin metal poles on the other. Peering into the cookware from our table through the gaps between the tills revealed all of it made through amalgamations of steel.

“Alright so, the Palace Trinity lives in is heavily guarded, we cannie ever get through. Lets get rid of the company bigwigs first then we can deal with trinity, after that though, we cant any noise. Retreat back to the countryside, we won't be hunted there. The Palace is also in Canterlot, it'll take a few days to get there by train.” She said while placing a series of maps that covered the circular table and pointing to the significant points and the problems.

“Alright, sounds good I responded, by the looks of it the first one is sorted for us. I just hope we don't get shot on the way in. Also, take the map back to my place.” I said while trying to keep my face happy with a tiny sweat drop rolling down my face. "Im sure we can do this" I said while keeping my face confident and trying to suppress the red in reality I knew how risky the plan was but I knew I had to go along with it. And stomach my fear of death that seemed to be non-existent for sapphire. The robotic waiter came along to us and gave us the food sapphire always gets.

“How did you get that so fast?” I asked sapphire, slightly chuckling a little bit while still contemplating over the plan, hoping the question would take my mind off it.

“I just ordered it on my phone while waiting for ya to come back after I found cadance.” She responded with a lovely smile and then laying a hoof on the corner while Cadance was sitting on the floor underneath the table drinking some of the water sapphire gave her.

The food was somewhat rancid, but a big upgrade from the usual and what some in the city would eat. Some resorted to eating cement, tree bark from the minuscule parks or soft grey stones or pebbles. The building burned up while our rancid hayburger lay in our hooves. My phone erupted in messages about the fire. The building belonged to the Lunar Corporation For Government Protection, Its a company that gets significant funding from Trinity and her confidants.

“I've heard all these stories about that building, much about that heinous corporation that deserved to burn up in flames. Glad to finally see all those bribes and murdering scum fall, burn, and learn what it's like for all us” Sapphire said to me while trying to restrain her glee from finally having a meal as she remembered those who had died because of them.

I took a deep breath knowing what I was about to say to sapphire while the two of us took another bite and I took a quick sip of my water.

“I… once had a family member, my father, just after I was born, he was protesting against Trinity. They found our home and killed him in my sleep. I was sitting in a tiny crib next to his bed, I heard the machete slicing the veins and arteries in his through and the skin flapping on the top of the chest with the wind. I tried to cry but my mouth was covered and suffocated by the hooves of one of their hired murderers.” I collapsed onto my legs, with a few tears running down as I remembered that day, with a newly found sense of justice coming to me as I watched them burn up in orange flames and inferno.

Sapphire got up from her chair, shaking the table a bit. She walked over to my chair and lay a hoof on my back, trying to comfort me.

“Its okay my friend, you cant change the past but, together we can stop this from ever happening again. They took your fathers eyes, they no longer deserve their fucking eyes.” Sapphire said while leaning in towards me with a warm embrace as Cadance sat down at my hooves trying to be gentle.

“I know but, its difficult to not look back on the past sometimes but, If you're wanting to help me get my revenge against those fucking deplorable ass wipers, I'm happy for you to come along. Let's get to bed after we finish watching the fire. It's the start of a new beginning after all." I responded while tears started to form and my eyes closed up, blocking my peripheral vision and only being able to see the corner of sapphire. eventually I managed to stop the tears and comfort myself down by listening to the music the Red Ocean had playing in the background.

I was watching the flames unravel as sapphire leaned onto my shoulder watching the fire unravel. As the fire traveled up it left a husk behind, held together by chance while those murderers left at the top were forced to leap off the top floors down while crowds cheered for their demise. The people gathered downtown chanted for the end to their reign of terror over our land.

“Sapphire, I know that we were gonna go to back to the home now, but I just received the signal that our captive has dropped the info. But finish what you were saying.” I whispered into sapphire's ear while smiling and chuckling a bit watching the captive squirm around.

“Okay then, who's our next piece of shit stain to target?” Sapphire said back to me while waving a hoof telling me she understood what I was saying.

“We're looking for a pony named Moonlight. She's one of the higher ups and runs the Baltimare Metro. Take her out and we can cause enough disarray to find a new target.” I responded confidently to Sapphire's question while flipping my phone over and placing it in my pocket.

“Also let's head back and kill the captive.” Me and sapphire both said in unison. We both ran down to sector B through the alleyways from earlier, this time they were even more abandoned and empty than before, as all the crowds had been drawn to the bright inferno just behind us. And the gunshots of the police rang out far in the distance. The screams and begging of the desperate rang out as we ran down to the radio station.

Once we ran back in, the faces of the dead had completely changed appearance, all the color drained away. We marched back up the stairs and readied our small pistols and reloaded them. We readied them aiming them upwards, ready to hit their eyes. Lights out in a single shot running through the steel of our pistols. Me and sapphire looked at each other and made our way up the ramp again. This time, all of the bodies had painted it a lovely rose red.

The light left above our captive shined through his dying corpse and his blood dripped down the sides of the metal spikes.

“Pl…please spare me you murderers…” the captive said, begging for his life as his pupils dilated to the point of the eye being hidden behind it.

“Awww didn't ya help Trinity kill thousands more. Let's face it, nobody owes you a life. Let alone that useless pair of eyes ya have.” Sapphire said to the captives face while laughing and then punched him directly in the face, causing red to come down his desperate face. Sapphire and I readied our guns and shoved them into the captives eye sockets.

“Saph, when I get to 3, fire. 1… ” Sapphire had prematurely fired her gun slightly early and i kept saying the numbers, with my brain not processing it in time and too overwhelmed with cheer about finishing the day to lose focus for a few seconds.

“Slightly early, Saph.” I said in a slightly fed up voiced but also with a face of excitement to see her enthusiasm to our cause.

“Sorry! I just wanted that fucking scum out of my sights” she yelled with a apologetic tone while continuing to pull the trigger over and over again and slicing his chest open by shooting it once and tearing through the flesh.

His blood blew out of the cavern, terminating at the start of the ramp and his eyes rolled back into his head and we pulled out the anemic corpse and put it on the ground before running out of the radio station and stealing all the expensive electronics we could. We ran out with our saddle bags filled to the brim, bulging outwards with government electronics made of steel. It weighed down our running, and we had to walk our way down the depressed streets.

We walked down together, with each step becoming a tedious crawl closer to our home. The paths were crumbling with potholes in the foot paths. Along the sides were rubbish and old cigarettes turned into char, rain was pouring down as we tried our best to speed up. We had to stay underneath the thin canopies and old pipes of other buildings to keep our electronics safe.

After half an hour, we finally made our way up the spiral metal staircase cobbled together from various steel parts. We opened the door and blocked out all the windows with the blinds which clacked together. Light couldn't penetrate our safe house as I locked the doors.

“What do ya say Saph, shall we go to bed now and have a look at what we've got in the morning?” I told her in a normal voice that I hadn't gotten to use in many hours due to all of the conflicts and skirmishes we found ourselves in.

“Sounds good to me, I need a nap.” She said to me after taking a sip of water from a glass and a relieved sigh of being able to relax came down to her after taking her sip, I saw the tension visibly leave her despite her best attempts to hide it.

I jumped into the bed and shuffled next to the wall to give sapphire space to sleep next to me. Sapphire rolled into the bed next to me as I grabbed the blanket and lifted it over both of us. I wrapped my hooves around her and had some quiet ambient music for both of us to drift away to, covering over the muffled sounds of the city like a tapestry of ruined stones and corrupted ideals.

I lied down and allowed my body to be drifted away by the relaxing audible sensations of the world that once existed before the corporations and trinity stole it from us. My eyes fell down as I slowly lost consciousness alongside sapphire, tomorrow would be a big day. Delving into that Metro was a bold move, but necessary one. Guards at every turn and stop. for right now though, it's time for a rest, a rest together.

“Good night, Saph.” Were my final yawned words as I lost the last drop of consciousness and fell asleep onto the soft springy mattress before my eyes.