The 4th Tribe

chapter 19- CREEPCON

Matts POV

My throat was starting to feel a lot better since I had the zap apple stuff. Anyway, I went down to where the Dumbasses where last seen plowing. AJ was standing there, looking over the field. She saw me walk down and pointed towards the field.

“They didn’t do half a bad job, I think I mig’t of taken it a little bit hard on them.”

“They stole your stuff and tried to blackmail your best friend…I think you took a little bit easy on them.” She spun around and looked at me in shock. I was pretty surprised myself.

“Yall can talk?”

“Yeah, you said it would give me my voice back and I guess it did. Why are you acting so surprised that It worked?”

“Normally it takes about a day or so for it to kick in for ponies, not 5 minutes.” FACEPALM

“Well I’m not pony, so since I can talk, what do you need help with?”

“I need yall to help me plant a row of a seed of your choice.”

“Ok.” I open the bag and pull out the pumpkin seeds.

“Here ya go.”

“What are they?”

“Pumpkin seeds… OH PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE PUMPKINS.” She chuckled a little bit.

“Of course we have Pumpkins, why wouldn’t we?”

“Never mind, so how do you want me to plant them?” I have as much gardening experience as a tortoise does at flying.

“Here, watch mah.” She went and dug around in the dirt. She popped the seed in and then covered it back up with dirt.

“Is that it?”

“Yeah, can yall handle that?”

“Yeah I think I can handle digging in the dirt.” That got a smile of her.

“Well ah better go wake up AppleBloom and help get her ready for school.” And with that she walked up to the barn. I went around and started planting a bunch of seeds. After about 10 minutes I had planted all the seeds. I stood back and looked over my work.

“Not half bad Matt, not half bad.”

I felt pretty good about myself. I looked around and thought what I could do. I had about an hour a guessed, so I better think of something to do. I spotted a huge tree and walked over to the base of it. This thing was easily over 100 feet tall. I wonder how far I can go up it. I studied the way up to about half way up it. There was an easy route and a hard route. I hadn’t climbed in about a week so I naturally took the hard way. I walked to give myself plenty of room and ran and grabbed the lower branch and swung my leg over it. I stood up and took a big step onto the one of the huge branches. I then started the process of grabbing a branch; either swing my leg over it or jumping to another one, until I had made it to where I wanted to go. The view was prefect; I could see all of Sweet Apple Acers and Ponyville in the distance. It was a little bit windy up here, but nothing that could knock me out of the tree. Speaking of which, I really hadn’t of figured out how to get down from here. Oh shit this is going to come back to bite me in the ass. Well, it’s pretty nice up here, so I might as well enjoy it. I take out my droid and put in my headphones. I turn on “Into the Fire” by KPM. I closed my eyes, which probably wasn’t the smartest idea. Eyes closed and hanging out in a 100 foot tree. LIKE A BAWS!

After god knows long of hanging out in this tree, I head AJ calling for me. I could see her, and she wasn’t alone. Twilight was with her, and they had a worried look on their faces

“Matt, are yall there?” she sounded worried.

Hmmmm, should I? Yeah, time to scare some ponies. I quietly climbed down the tree without much cursing. I got down to a lower branch where they couldn’t see me but I could see them. I waited till they were right under the tree and jumped down.

“BOO!”

Twilight ducked behind the green unicorn, but AJ had a different, very painful idea. With the force of a small nuclear bomb, she bucked me right in the goddamn balls.

“brlarhghaea.” Is all that could escape my mouth. I put my hands near my crotch and collapsed to the ground, groaning in pain. I thought I could hear AJ saying something, but I really couldn’t hear   anything besides the crying of my unborn children. I slowly started to roll down a hill. I heard trotting and I suddenly stopped .It felt like hours but the pain went away. When I could see again, I saw a very embarrassed looking AJ, and an equally confused Twilight.

“Ah, Matt are yall okay?”

“I’ll be fine, but I’m not sure about my future kids if you catch my drift.” Both she and Twilight eyes got big when they realized where they had hit me.

“Ah’m so sorry, can yall forgive me, but ya sorta jumped down a scared us.”

“It’s ok, but can you gals give me a little bit of space, I sorta need to go for a walk.” They looked at me with confused looks but they walked back up to the barn. I turned and sort of walked/duck walked to the forest.

After about 30 minutes of walking, I sat down and leaned against a tree. God damn it this hurts. I heard some rustling in the bushes. Oh you got to be fucken kidding me. This day is not going Well.  Well time to brave the pain. I stood up and started walking back in the direction I came. I stopped when the bushes started rattling again. OK I have had enough of this shit.

“I know your there, if you can hear me come out and I promise not to kill you.” Nothing, goddamn it this is getting annoying.

“Last warning before I go Darth Sidious on whatever you are ass. Going once, going twice…” The green pony from the party had stepped out from a bush.

“Oh thank god, I thought you were going to be some big scary monster from god knows what.” She kept staring at me, which was really creepy.

“Um are you lost or something?”

“Nope, I’m just where I wanted to be.” She had the creepiest smile on her face.  SOUND THE CREEPER ALARM.

“I recognize you from the party, your names Lyra right?” I said pointing to her. She basically screamed with glee. Okay we are now at Creepcon 2.

“Yes, my names Lyra, that’s a lovely hand you have there, could I see it for a bit?” WARNING WARNING, NOW AT CREEPCON 1!

“Um, sorry but no.”

“Oh that’s a shame, but I wasn’t asking you for permission.” And if by magic, 4 knifes started floating in midair, Wait…It is by magic derp .BUT NO TIME FOR DERP, I have a crazy unicorn with floating knifes. I reach my hand out to try to use my awesome electric powers, but nothing happened. Oh shit.

“No electric powers for you now stay still. This will only hurt a lot.” Yup that’s it, RUN MATT RUN. I dived to my left and ran like I was getting chased by a big ass bear.

“COME BACK HERE AND LET ME CUT YOUR HAND OFF!!” RUN, FOREST RUN! I kept running as fast as I can. I looked back and saw she was gaining on me. Figures, I can’t out run a pony in a straight line. Hmmmm… NINJA MATT ACTIVATE! I suddenly stopped and jumped into the bushes.  I began to run and jump over plants and bushes. For being bucked in the balls I was surprisingly bouncy. I somehow jumped over a thorn bush in a single bound. (WIN). I heard Lyra cry in pain when she ran into it. I continued running until I thought I had lost her completely. Until I ran smack dab into something.

I collapsed and clutched my head in agony, the point of impact unleashing a torrent of throbbing.

"Watch where you're going, I'm running from a insane po-" I locked eyes with.... "A-a human?!"

'Okay what the hell is happening?!'

The human gave me a nod and helped me to my feet. "Well friend, you're not the only one being chased." When I looked at him to wait for him to further explain, a large surge of thrashing was heard from behind him.

I glanced over my shoulder uneasily. "We're so screwed..."

"To hell we are!" He shouted. "I can't fight that big ass bear solo currently, but we can if you help me." I was unnerved at that statement, so he pressed further in coaxing me. "If you don't help, not only will we die, but whoever is chasing you will to if they follow you here."

'I can't let something happen to Lyra... even if she is insane right now.' I nodded and looked towards the direction of the bear. "Got any weapons?"

He smiled and flicked out a blade from his wrists. "A few." He reached behind him and pulled a dagger out of one of his pockets. "Need one?"

I shook my head and let small sparks of electricity flow out of my hands. "I think I can manage without a weapon."

The bear ripped through the final layer of trees, boring holes directly at the other human. He looked over towards me, and I did the same and nodded.

"Let's do this..." He began in a familiar tone. "LEEEEEEEEERRRROYYYYYYYY." He yelled while flicking his blades back out.

I got a crazy glint in my eyes at that reference as the electricity doubled in strength. "JENNNNNNNNKINNNNNNNS."

"Small rounds. Aim for the face!" He yelled as he charged the bear. I did as asked, and unleash a small flurry of bolts at the beast. With it distracted, he rushed to its left foreleg. Flicking the blades in rapid succession, he pierced the fur with some difficulty and inflicted some damage.

The bear roared in pain and bitch-slapped him backwards. I decided that quickly scaling a tree would help my aim, so up I went. It was easier to climb this tree, and soon i was set up to hear him shouting.

"Medium rounds. Aim for the nose!" He started running towards the bear again. I covered him by firing medium-charged bolts at the bears nose. It stunned it long enough for him to grasp the fur of its left foreleg, and begun climbing.

"What the hell are you doing?!" I yelled from my vantage point a few meters away in my tree. "You're going to get yourself killed!"

He was almost to the shoulder, but the bear was close to dashing my tree if I didn't do something. "Heavy rounds! AIM FOR THE EYES!" He yelled as he got to the shoulder. The bear looked back and roared in anger, attempting to bite him like some kind of flea.

He quickly jumped away and grasped some fur on his torso, quickly climbing back up. I fired my first shot and nicked the bear in his eyebrow, stunning and enraging him simultaneously. The other human reached the back and begun a quick sprint towards the cranium of the beast's brain.

I focused on charging my next bolt as I watched the other human rush towards the Ursa's head. My second bolt hit right in-between its eyes, making more efficient damage than just a shot to the eyes directly.

He reached the back of its head, and lowered something to the back of its head. A quick one-liner escaped his lips as he shot four rounds in rapid succession.

"BOOM HEADSHOT!"

POW! *chik-chik*

POW! *chik-chik*

POW! *chik-chik*

POW! *chik-chik*

The body heaved, and he soon found himself desperately trying not to be crushed. He ran of the bear's mouth and did a short roll that parkour experts usually did. The bear's corpse crashed with an audible *thud* behind him, kicking up small amounts of dust.

"LIKE A BOSS!" He yelled, giving a fist-pump in my direction. I gave him a thumbs-up and jumped off from the tree. Unfortunately I couldn't do any cool roll, but at least I didn't hurt himself. I ran over to him and gave the guy a high-five.

"You were awesome man." I said with a grin. I noticed the shotgun in his hands and pointed to it. "But where did you get the shotty from?"

He looked down at it and gave a short shrug. "Who knows? Maybe I'm just that good... nah."

The shotgun began to break apart, vanishing into thin air. I just stared at him and he returned the stare with a small smile. All of a sudden we heard some light cackling behind me. He and I both knew who that was...

"I was afraid you got away..." Lyra said as she inched closer, four knives floating limply by her side. "While taking down that Ursa Minor was impressive, I still need your hand." The first knife swung towards my hand.

'Well there goes my fiction-writing hand!'

TING!

"What the-" The other human stood in the way, blade exposed and blocking the knife strike. She seemed to just noticed what he was, and nearly squealed with glee. "Oh, now I can have two hands!" Another blade swung towards his limp hand.

TING!

"I think not." He stated, giving an un-amused stare. The other hand's blade had stopped her other knife. "Didn't think you were this crazy Lyra, but I guess we can fix that back at Ponyville."

"What do you mean-"

"FUS-RO-DAH!"

'Did he just...?'

His Shout slammed her into a tree, knocking her out. He picked up the now un animated knives and placed them into his pack. He then walked over and picked her up, placing her on his shoulder.

"Dude..." I was trying to figure out what to say. "Did you just-"

"Yep." He interrupted, giving me a cocky grin.

"Is she-"

"She's fine. Just knocked out."

I thought over what to do with him. I'm sure not much damage could be done if he was brought into town I suppose. "Well how about we head back to Ponyville eh?" He gave a curt nod before we began walking back in the direction Lyra came from.

"So what's your name stranger?" He asked. "You can call me Storm."

I looked over and smiled at my new possible ally. "Name's Matt. Matt Acton."

AUTHORS NOTE

I'm sorry for not getting this out earlier. It is under the believe that I was cursed while trying to write this. I got the stomach flu, 3 tests and a 6 hours of HW. i hope you like it!!!!