Battle of Lexington

by FireBuster

Chapter 3

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The next day I decided that I wanted to see Ponyville so I got up and left the castle of The Two Sisters and started heading towards Ponyville. I crossed the rope bridge and quickly made my way to the river that was in the show where the main six crossed to get the elements. once I crossed the river and continued on my way towards Ponyville. When I heard howling from Timberwolves in the forest I started to gallop and while turning I saw green eyes jogging towards me. I used my secondaries to fire upon the wolves using heat rounds or H.E. rounds. Relying on my crew to aim and fire the guns. I felt my guns fire. When I looked back I saw wolves exploding and catching fire but they continued to Chase after me, not giving up while being on fire. I tried to count the number of wolves and there were too many to count. and they were starting to catch up, when I got to the edge of the forest. I'm about to break the line of the forest. when a Timberwolves bites on to one of my hind legs and pulls me down to the ground and starts to drag me back into the forest. I quickly aimed my secondaries at the Timberwolves head. I fire my secondary in a boom and blaze of fire. I blew off the Timberwolves head. Killing the Timberwolf instantly and burning my hind leg. I get back onto my Hooves quickly and finally get out of the forest. With my hind leg bleeding badly, and my hoof wound reopened I escaped from the Timberwolves. I look back at the forest and thankfully the Timberwolves are turning around and leaving. I look around me, finally noticing that I'm in an apple orchard. I quickly look around for something that can help close my wound on my leg and hoof when I find nothing. I asked my EO.

“Hey EO is there a way to close up that wound that the timberwolf made?”

(“Hey”) ([“yeah we'll get to repairing it. might take a couple minutes to stop the bleeding. but the wound will still be there. and it will still be easily opened so avoid touching the area.”])

“Thank you EO, I will stay still for a bit so it will make it faster to repair.”

I stand there staring at the wound slowly bleeding. After about a minute the wound stops bleeding. but you can still tell it's there. looks like a scab, very weak scab. I start to walk and thankfully the wound doesn't reopen.

“Okay EO. Where do you think we should go in Ponyville?”

(“Hey”) ([“I think we should stay hidden for now.”])

“Okay then let's go to the mayor's office to buy some land and hopefully build a little base there.” ‘hopefully become a civilian of Ponyville, maybe blend in with the other citizens.’ I'm walking towards a path that goes along the farm that's near a fence when I hear a pony trotting towards me.

“Howdy partner welcome to Sweet Apple Acres, what are you doing around these parts? I quickly look over and see a filly with an orange fur coat with a cutie mark with three apples. I look up to her face and see she has green eyes with white freckles on her face, With blond hair. ‘It's one of the main six!?! I'm pretty sure her name is Applejack. Man I wanted to lay low… Why is she so young? quickly say something. She is starting to give you a worried look.’

“uhh… I just got lost in that Forest over there.” I point towards where I came from “Do you know where Ponyville is? I've been looking for somewhere to settle down. And I heard Ponyville is a peaceful place.”

“Sure partner, just go down that road and it leads all the way to Ponyville.” Applejack looks down at my leg “Hey partner are you alright you seem to be injured?”

“I'm fine, just a scratch.” Applejack comes over and sees the blood going from my hind leg down my leg onto my hoof, leaving a trail of dried blood connecting the two, and the big black burn under all that on my leg. Applejack’s eyes widened.

“Partner you need a hospital-!!”

“-No I'm fine just-.”

“-No you need a hospital sir. you're bleeding badly, I'll help you get there, stay right there, I'll go get a cart, and mom and dad.” she quickly trots off to go get a cart, and her mom and dad.

I quickly start to limp away, careful not to reopen my wound once she gets out of sight. I head towards Ponyville hopefully avoiding going to a hospital. Because my EO told me that the only way for me to heal properly is to take a bath, and Hospitals don't have baths or at least I don't think so.

‘Hope she doesn't take me walking away offensive.’ it's one of my thoughts when I got to Ponyville. I made my way to the mayor's office to buy some land to build an air base on it. Hopefully my EO and crew will be able to build something out of materials I get from resupplies by eating. I was just about to enter the building that has the mayor's office. when a pink pony comes out of nowhere and hits me hard making me go flying about five feet. I end up hitting the ground hard and reopening my wounds. I quickly get up and pull my cloak down to hide my bleeding hind leg. I look left and right to see the pink blur is just gone.

“What was that?”

“I don't know Fox. I don't know.” said BB, I continued my way into the building with the mayor's office slowly with my hind leg bleeding.

‘Man, I really need a bath so I can get repaired.’ I Grit through the pain and ask the receptionist at the front of the office, “if I can talk to the mayor about getting some land to buy and if they accept aluminum as a payment method?”

This made the receptionist's eyes widen and she quickly ran into a room. I just waited there hoping she was getting the mayor. she came back out and came to me and told me.

“Hey, you can see the mayor now she's in her office.”

She points at the door where she just came from, I head into the room. once I open the door.

“Come in, I heard you wanted to buy some land?” came a voice from inside the office. Once I opened the door I saw a mare with gray hair, a light grayish amber coat, a scroll for a cutie mark, And dark blue eyes.

“yes ma'am do you have any land for sale that I can buy? and do you accept aluminum as a payment method?”

“Yes, how much aluminum are we talking about?

I take out the two bars and set it on the desk. the mayor's eyes widened to the point where I didn't think a ponies eyes could get that wide.

“Is this too much?”

“No, this is plenty. this could probably buy half a Ponyville and still have plenty left over.”

She continues staring at the aluminum for a minute with a half lidded stare, so I try to change the conversation back to buying land.

“So I'm looking for a large area of land so I can build a home and business. Do you know where I can find it?”

“Yes, just outside of Ponyville there's an area where there's very few trees. Do you want me to come show you right now? Or would you like for me to show you later?”

“If you can come now that would be great!”

We head outside of Ponyville and she shows me the land which is a very very large area, enough area to fit six aircraft carriers all next to each other.

“yeah this will work, how much aluminum will this cost? And will I be able to buy the air zone over this land?”

“With the air zone here and the land, it will cost around about one eighth of one of those bars.”

“Okay” I take one of the bars and hand it over to the mayor. “You can pay me back for the rest or you can cut the bar whichever works for you.”

“Thank you sir I will pay for the rest of the bar in bits. Later for now I will hold onto the bar. Expect the bits later today.”

She handed me a contract for the land and air zone and I signed it. She then quickly trots off with the bar and contract.

“Okay that was something hey EO what do you think we can build here?”

(“Hey”) ([“I think we can build a small base of operations with a concrete wall going around. plus maybe make the building where we can do any type of business there, this can work even tho it’s very close to the Everfree.])”

“Then let's get started.” so for the rest of the day me and my EO that hopped off my back and hopped into the grass marked up the land. We marked where everything would go with spray paint. that was for some reason in my hanger probably for marking damaged sections of the ship, in fact they used it to Mark the damaged area where the Timberwolf cut my leg. That reminds me I need to get my leg repaired, so once we had the area marked out where hangers would be, and where living quarters for myself and my crew can go if they want to leave. Once we got everything marked out I headed to the mayor's office. Hopefully I can get some bits so I can buy a couple things for building my place, but one of the most important things right now is to buy a bath so I can repair. on my way into Ponyville Applejack ends up running up to me with two other ponies following. it's her Mom, and Dad.

“This is him,” says Applejack, pointing at me with one of her hooves. I look up to see her parents looking at me with worry.

“hi partner my filly here Applejack told me that your leg was injured.”

“Yes sir, my leg got cut open by some Timberwolves. Because of my condition the only way I can heal is through a bath. which I'm pretty sure this Hospital does not have that's why I ran off. because I won't be able to heal at the hospital.”

“how about you come to our home and use our bath.-”

“no no no I don't want to be a bother.”

“I insist”

“I don't want to bother your family.”

“I insist and if you feel like you have to pay us. then you can help around the farm a bit.”

“Okay by the way what's your name sir? My name Is Fox.”

Sure my name is Bright Mac and my wife's name is pear Butter.” After we were done with introductions, me and the Apple family walk to their house where I find that Applejack has already filled a bath with water and has left the room. I get into the bath and once I'm completely in the bath numbers appear above me saying 10 hours 59 minutes and 30 seconds 29 seconds 28 seconds and so on and so forth. I started to hear footsteps outside of the bathroom when Applejack's dad walked in.

“How are you doing? you've been here a little bit?” He looks up and sees the number above my head. “oh, so that number above your head is how long it will be before your healed?”

“ yes sir”

“Okay we'll see you tomorrow downstairs. if you want to do some work once your healed, meet us outside of the house near the apple trees.” applejacks father closes the door and walks off.

“Okay” I try to get some sleep when I close my eyes and open them to myself standing on top of the Lexington aircraft carrier on the deck. I look left and right to see that I'm in a dock with the ship being repaired on the outside by Dock Workers.

“hey EO what's going on?”

(“Hey”) ([Fox this is what we see everyday on your deck. it's nice to see you here would you like for me to show you your room?”])

“Sure EO”

EO takes me into the aircraft carrier and leads me to a room. I open the door and walk inside shutting the door behind me. once the door shut I take a look around the room. there's a bookshelf, a desk with a chair in a reading light, and a bed. I go over the chair and sit down on it and once I sit down on the chair a dark gray screen pops up in front of me. I quickly look down at the screen and it reads upgrade points 6. once the pop-up of six points has disappeared it goes up to the upper left corner of the screen and a new thing pops up that says upgrades. A second one pops up below that and it says carriers. I click on the carriers to see what that's about and see three different types of carriers. There is a carrier that can go on land and has treads, there's a carrier that can go in the sky that has blades on the sides of it like a drone, and the last but not least one is the one that can go in water. There's also a blacked out box With a lock on it. I click on the water one and it shows three different aircraft carriers. there's the one I have currently, there's one that says drone, and then there's the other that says modern. I click out of the tab and click on the sky one and there's two. There's one that says modern, and there's another one above it that says airship. The airship looks like it has balloons tied to the side of the carrier. I click out and check the land one and there's two there's one with Treads, and one with something else and looks like it won't be able to move anywhere. I exit out of the carrier screen. I soon click on the upgrade screen and it opens an upgrade tab for the carrier I'm currently turned into. Now that thought has entered my head I start to think about what this would do to me if I actually changed carriers? like if I got one of the land carriers would that completely change how I look? I shake my head of the thought and quickly look at the upgrades tab. I see upgrades for the AA on my ship. I also saw upgrades for aircraft, and upgrades for the engine, water pumps, and secondaries. I click on the engine and there's an upgrade to nuclear powered which costs 25 points. I click out and look at the rest of the upgrades and see the aircraft upgrade 15 points, AA upgrade 5 Points, water pump upgrade 3 points, secondary upgrade 5 points. I decided to upgrade my secondaries. I click out and leave the screen behind and head out of the aircraft carrier onto the deck. when I get on to the deck there's a green shine that comes from the secondaries on the carrier once it's done it looks like nothing's happened. head back to my room and get some sleep.


Author's Note

sorry for taking soo long. I don't like the points upgrade system but its the best way to go.