Crystal Shards

The Sneeze

"Uhhh..." Forest looked at Jim with a puzzled look. Jim quickly and quietly waved his hoof to shush him and sent out a thought to call his Specs.

Calling Forest

Connected

Receiving Transmission...

"Why are we talking in here? I thought you sneezed." Forest's thoughts started to jumble into Jim's head making it hard for him to focus.

"Hey, Hey! calm down. The front door is a sealed ID locked version. How did something else get in here?" Jim had to force his thought into Forest to get him to stop rambling. Along with that he sent a picture of the front door he used to confirm his thought.

"I uhh sorry. Yeah that looks like the door type. Dude i know the war is over and all but what the hell is down here with us?" Forest's thoughts were beginning to stray again. Jim's mind were filled with visions of his ruling period and the scenes of what happened in the tunnels started to come back to him.

"Forest! Keep it together, your not helping me thinking about that shit. Calm down, its been well over a couple of decades so everything should be dead down here." Jim once more had to focus his thought into a needle like fashion and pierce through Forest's rambling. Along with doing that he pulled up his map cursing at what he saw. He made his map highlight a certain spot and sent it to Forest. "Hey forest pull up your map and see if it matches with mine. I highlighted it red."

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"Yeah it matches .. Jim what the hell. I swear this place was empty when i got here, i fucking scanned when i called you that's how i found you! This isn't good we should leave, we have to get out of-" Forest was beginning to panic. Memories of what these tunnels were known for were pouring back into his mind flooding into Jims.

"Forest you better pull yourself together or i will knock you out and carry you. Calm. Down." Jim thought long and hard forcing all of the horrible thoughts back into their memory slots. The last thing he needed was a knocked out pony with something in here. He couldn't really blame Forest for his thought process, his parents had their grim fate down here. Forest had seen the pictures.

"I .. I .. j- just tell me what to do. Can we go? please?" Forest's thought were getting wobbly in Jim's head. He took a glance at Forest and he was shaking badly. Jim sent out various thoughts of the tools behind him getting put up in their bags, closing the machines and sealing their frames, and to send a distress signal to their boss. Back during the first days of installing the machines in the tunnels it took a while for the ponies to realize these caverns weren't empty. This signal hasn't been used in years before his rule. Hopefully they still recognize it.

"Yeah come on, I sent a message to our boss. You lead, ill follow right behind you watching our backs. Thank goodness for these new EMR crystals." Jim thoughts were getting wobbly too, he was terrified but Forest needed the calm mind Jim, not panicky Jim. He had let Forest lead since that would be the less stressful and he purposely left out that the message was actually a distress signal.

Forest merely nodded his head and started to walk to the front door, checking behind him often to make sure Jim was still there. Jim pulled up his map and refreshed it as fast as he could. He almost screamed at what he saw, fighting his own thoughts to not appear into Forest's head.

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Jim was panicking. He couldn't see the one right in front of him! He focused the beam of light and shone it clearly past the blip on his map, he formed a sphere and searched the whole floor for it. And two more popped up. "Hey Forest i need you to trust me ok? Im going to end this call but stick with the plan. Open the door and lets get the hell out of here." Jim hastly thought before his panic could flow into Forest's head.

"But-" Forest stopped and looked behind him at Jim.

"Keep moving and just trust me! Ok?" Jim shoved his back leg into Forest forcing him to keep moving. Forest sped up and before he could reply with a 'yes' the connection was cut.

Connection Lost

Jim was sweating bad. Finally he could scream within his own mind. Swear words alone can not describe what he is feeling. Fear and paranoia were flowing everywhere in him. His back was shivering making his hair stand up. His map was getting more red.

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Forest finally reached the door and with a heart stopping second seemed to have trouble getting it open. With a shove the door finally gave flooding the cavern with sunlight. Jim had been searching nonstop for that one L in front of him and as he stepped out of the door backwards he looked up, seeing a pony crawling on the ceiling of the cavern, its jet black eyes staring at him with its mouth slightly open. A black shard was jutting out of its neck. The heavy door closed with a thump.

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