Silence in Equestria

The Sector II: Episode XXVII

Tartarus - Day 5: The escape

"Don't worry, Silence. We'll be there soon." Whisper explained in her echoing voice with hope leaking from her words. "You must be really tired after letting out the steam on her. Rest now." she added, looking at the slumbering pegasus at the back of the boat.

They were getting closer and closer to the dock of the Castle, with the fan in the back of the boat. Silence slowly woke up after she felt the boat stopping, and honestly, she didn't even remember how did she get there or when did she felt asleep first place. All she remembered that she was carried away by Whisper. She got up on her fours quickly though, after realizing where they are, grabbing the fan and running upwards the hill to the castle.

"Let's go, we have no time!" she said, surprising Whisper. Silence didn't care about power anymore, all she wanted was to get out of this place as soon as possible. She ran inside, without hesitation and after noticing Princess Nirvana admiring the peach tree in the middle of the central square she quickly ran up to her.

"Princess, we brought back your fan." Silence said, handing the relic to the ghost, Whisper arriving in the back.

"Oh, my you really did?" she shouted up in joy, but as soon as she saw the condition of her beloved fan, her face turned shocked and depressed.

"I'm sorry. Executioner Gaia removed all the feathers."

"It's okay... It's the meaning it matters you know..." she explained. "A deal is a deal I guess, and judging by your look, you wouldn't like to wait." she sighed. "There is an ancient runestone located north of the entrance shrine, in the middle of a small field. The rune was used to teleport back the living to where they belong."

"Great. I'm on my way." Silence said in a huge hurry.

"BUT!" shouted Nirvana "The rune requires time and energy to charge up."

"And the mana eruption would rule in the demons..." Silence stopped, looking at her hooves.

"Let us assist you." Nirvana said, looking at Whisper than back to the pegasus. "It's the least we can do."

"Thank you. Thank you so much." replied Silence turning around and flying back to the boat, the two ghosts following her on her last journey, aiding in her escape.

"Here we are." Nirvana said as they arrived. Grass filled the entire land, and in the middle, a giant stone stood with a sign in the top middle and gems sticking out on it's sides. Princess Nirvana slowly walked towards the stone, her mind filled with memories when she first activated it. She put her hooves on of the gems with her eyes shut, when a small aura appeared under her feet. The gem began to glow, as well as a strange humming sound were heard from inside the runestone. The device was charging, and the flow of the excessive mana was felt in the air.

"Come, the more of us touches the stone, the faster it charges." she explained, making the two other girls touch a gem as well, triggering the same effect and raising the pitch of the sound by a little.

"Ready up, they'll be here soon." she said, equipping her fan she was to use as a weapon. Whisper readied her spear and Silence charged her canon, preparing for the incoming horde.

Time slowed down for them, the sheer adrenaline made their senses keen and sharp as a blade. Seconds became minutes and the corrupted army could be heard from a distance, louder and louder.

The trio was ready for the incoming. Huge chunks of shadows started to stain the white mist, and a second later, the firsts arrived. Silence quickly changed position, but kept her left hoof on the gem, blasting three rushing demons into ashes. Several more came, only for getting slaughtered by Whisper's spear. Silence quickly changed on the plan, as she could protect the stone from a range, she decided to leave the girls charge while she blasts everything incoming from above. They were coming from all directions now, mindlessly running and flying towards the stone. Silence started to lose control of the situation, eventually forcing a few to break through her lines.

"Thirty percent!" shouted up Nirvana from below, pulling out her fan and swiping the demons away, who turned into practices in the air. Whisper also stabbed them wildly despite she could still touch the gem as she was swinging her spear with her tail. Eventually a demon grabbed her leg and was to pull her away, but the ferrymare stabbed it in the face, turning it into ash. Whisper released the gems and began to fight for real this time.

Meanwhile Silence was already chased by a squad of corrupted pegasi, but due to their slow speed, the gray mare rather focused on bombarding the increasing amount of ground units. Between the continuous moans of the dieing horde and the neverending loud whiplashes a voice shouted up: "Fourty percent!"

"Damn, we can't make it." Silence replied, hearing that. The situation was desperate already. Princess Nirvana also released the gem, and with her fan, she pointed up high in the sky.

"Shield!" she shouted, and from the ornament, a giant, purple field erupted towards the ground, forming a part-transparent pyramid with sparkles erupting inside its pattern. The others quickly noticed the protective field that reached out far to cover most of the stone, except it's top part. They rushed inside when Nirvana opened a small hole in it, to make them be able to. The demons, despite Silence's constant fire still were hitting the shields, and the pegasi aimed at the top. With constant kicking they tried to destroy the rune, but Silence targeted them.

Whisper now got some time to release her ultimate attack, she began to swing her spear in a wide arc... when it accidentally hit the stone, leaving a huge cut on it. Seems like there were not enough space for that, and because of that the ferrymare kicked the ground .

"Princess, could you extend the field a little?" she shouted while wildly cutting her foes from behind the force field. Nirvana was sweating and shaking her head, signing that she can't.

"Can you move it, at least, so she'll have enough space?" Silence suggested

"But then the stone..."

"I don't care, we only need three jewels at most, it worth the loss."

The two ghosts looked together when Nirvana slowly began to move backwards, focusing all her power in the worn fan, with the others slowly following her and holding the fire. The pyramid became smaller and smaller but as soon as they got enough space Whisper began to swing her spear faster and faster. Releasing a giant pillar demolishing a platoon of demons around. Silence quickly left the area to give some aerial support as well as Nirvana ran back to cleanse the other side of the runestone from the corrupted who were kicking, punching, biting the device in order to bring it down. One jewel out of the five has been already destroyed. She quickly leaped to the other one to charge when a demon bit her in her side. Silence, hearing the scream shot the few foes off before they could burden the royal ghost.

"Thank you." she said, standing up and trying again. "Fifty four percent." she said after touching the gemstone.

"Where did they go?" Silence asked, noticing the enemy stopped attacking.

"Are they... fleeing?" Whisper asked rushing to the gemstone to charge.

"I doubt, I can still hear them."

"They're regrouping." pointed out Nirvana who was also charging.

"What? That's impossible. They don't have senses nor emotions!" Whisper replied in surprise. "What should we do?!"

"Charge." answered Silence, making the others release a "Huh?" in doubt and shock. "If they really are sentient, a sudden counterattack should confuse them real good."

"That's a horrible plan, we should charge the stone before they overwhelm us." replied Nirvana.

"Okay, you two charge the stone then, I'll strike them from above." Silence attempted a compromise, making the girls nod.

"Wait! Take this." Nirvana shouted, taking out her old, casual, magenta textile fan and levitating in front of the pegasus.

"Echantment eleven! Flames of Tartarus." she said, making a fiery aura envelope the fan. Then with a swift move she closed it.

"Enchantment nine! Prayers from the Peach garden." she added, covering it with a magenta aura, with peach blossoms falling from it. After she finished, she handed her old fan to Silence with the sentence "You'll know how to use it."

Silence nodded and went on her way to slay some demons. As she arrived, she saw them standing up in nice, straight lines, waiting for enough fellows for a final rush. Silence took out her fan and with the element of surprise she swept across them with it. From the end of the fan, gigantic flames born, melting everything it touched. Silence flew in a low altitude, constantly slaughtering her confused targets on the ground. It didn't took her long however, to catch the pegasi demons attention who rushed after her. She raised her altitude, stopped, closed the fan and pointed towards the incoming targets behind her, releasing a number of purple orbs piercing through the air, leaving opaque peach blossoms behind. The orbs pierced through the targets.

Flying in circles, Silence kept slaughtering the enemy that began to charge towards the stone with all their power. As soon as she thought the girls can't hold it alone, though she flew back to her position and kept defending the rune. The situation was desperate, the demons kept coming closer and closer, like a flood of dark grey river, the remained ash of the ones defeated flying all over the misty battlefield. With every second they came closer and closer.

"Ninety percent!" shouted Nirvana, barely but deflecting an incoming attack. They lost control over the events. The pegasi on the top were already demolishing the structure, heading down and down. Whisper in a sudden received a huge blow on the back of her head, forcing her to the ground. All she saw there were demons, slowly captivating her, beginning to stain her white, ghostly coat with their corruption. Nirvana, sacrificing her jewel rushed to help her. Blasting the enemy away, she grabbed the ferrymare and forced her behind alicorn-built body. The monsters destroyed two other gemstones in the process, not to mention the great damage they did to the stone as well. Infinite amount of cracks covering it and many parts fallen out the entire device was about to collapse upon them.

"Run!" Silence shouted desperately trying to withhold the attacks. Nirvana without any thinking took her fellow ghost mate and flew up high, cutting a demon in its throat with her long, sharp horn as she noticed its attack. It didn't took much for the demons the smash that gemstone as well. Silence was alone now, overwhelmed completely by the horde. It was just a matter of time before they get her. She forced her back to the gemstone and kept shooting and shooting. But a corrupted soul touched her leg, causing their bone-chilling pain. She shot it, but as soon as she aimed down another one caught her head, pulling her mane, then another one forcing itself in her spine, eventually she was on the ground, screaming from the unbearable, chilly pain. Right before the demons smashed the last gemstone into practices, a giant white beam emitted from the middle of the stone, only for a moment, before the entire device collapsed in its pieces.

"(Uhhh... where am I? What happened?)" Silence asked, slowly waking up from unconsciousness. Opening her eyes, she saw nothing but darkness, darkness everywhere. From a distance a huge but dim, green lighting appeared as if it would have came from behind a cloud. And another one to her right, this time a pink one. Such dim, cloudy lightings appeared all around her, as if she'd be in a huge tube. She recognized this place quickly, letting out a heavy sigh.

"(Great... stuck in between the time-space continuum again.)" she thought. Her sadness however quickly disappeared as she noticed the great possible opportunity. "(Wait, if I'm here, then here must be the...)" she added turning her head around looking for something. Didn't took long to her, but she found it: a strange base of some sort with a shape similar to a cog's.

"(Home sweet home... I guess.)" she said, and in a platform she landed and opened the thick, metal door by entering digits on its right panel that was filled with numbers. Arriving there a familiar environment welcomed her, a giant hall of white filled with beautiful marble pillars. Stairs dressed in red carpets were leading up and down, as well as corridors to the central, western and eastern wings. Silence took her way to the basement quickly, where her hull was made and the resources were held, except the food which's part was empty. So many different kind of things that she thought will be just a burden, but now they all would be so useful. She already knew what she needed: tools, the most important things to repair the core. Grabbing a smaller backpack from the self in the other corner she grabbed all varies of tools she could, scissors, knifes, sawblades as well as magical equipments like charms and talismans. Other than them, she packed a few lighter weapons as well, but before she decided it is time to go, her attention got caught by another strange device, put away in the corner as if none would need it anymore. It was an old radar, basically two huge metallic "claws" spinning on a pole. It seemed like a reversed crane, but smaller. She disconnected the top part and put it away, could come in handy sometime. The backpack was sort of inconvenient as it was bigger than her, but that didn't stop her at all. She grabbed it with her mouth and carried it that way. She hurried to the central wing, where the last coordinates were still in the computer: the coordinates that rip a hole in the time-space continuum she can once again reach Equestria. Desperately and slowly she tried not to mess up anything on the touchscreen with her giant hooves as she set the coordinates again. With the last button, a strange humming noise were heard for a moment, then it stopped. Silence knew the race with time has begun. She ran outside, shutting all the doors. Far away, the black, interdimensional stormclouds were ripping open, allowing the lightings and sparks from behind them to erupt. She flew there with all her power before it slowly regenerated itself. With the bag in her mouth she flew straight into the white hole, ending up in a completely dark space yet once again.

"(I just hope it is that place...)" she though, lighting the end of her weapon revealing the stone that surrounded her. With a huge relief she let out an enormous breath that was pushed her heart so uncomfortably. Quickly flying out from the cave she ended up in a forest she already knew. A quick orientation above the woods helped her locate her new home she longed for for so long: Ponyville. Not wasting any time she headed right there, cutting through the night with her wings.

She arrived at her house, but the door was locked. It took her a few seconds realizing she gave the keys to her beloved Twilight. She didn't want to bother the unicorn now though, instead she rather used the back door. The keys of the back door were hidden in a flowerpot. She opened the door, and took her way to the basement, where her clan was also asleep. She gently and quietly put down the backpack and left the room. As soon as she closed the basement door though, a familiar voice called her.

"Silence!" it whispered. It was Twilight Sparkle. Seems like she really did a nice job securing the house "I missed you so much." she added, rushing and hugging the pegasus. It was understandable, though, even Silence herself didn't know how long she's been away.

She hugged back her love gently "I missed you too." she replied.

"Silence..." said Twilight "I was thinking, about us." she confessed, while still in the arms of the gray mare. Silence got shocked, is this what she thought it was? Could it be...

"Yes, sweetheart?" she asked.

"We've been friends for such a long time, and since you went away I realized that it's just not the same without you." Twilight replied, softly loosening her hold on her friend and gazing in her green and red eyes. Silence froze there, her insides turned all upside down, yet her lust was taking over and over, she wanted Twilight, right that moment, she was so close it felt strange, as when you accomplish a goal you've been striving for for so long and so hard. She couldn't reply.

"I love you, silly." Twilight finished, leaning closer, her muzzle touching Silence's gently, her tongue slowly opening her mouth and peeking in. They were... kissing. It was unbelievable for the first few moments, but Silence shut her eyes afterwards and hugged her beloved lavender as tightly, yet gently as she could. Their tongues dueling between their mouth and the soft touch of her hooves stroking through each other gave such a warm, wonderful feeling, yet still it felt as a parasite would crawl inside her chest. For a small moment they retreated to get a small breath, but the small bridge of their drool between their hot lips kept them chained together. However, Silence played dirty the next round, and went to her partner's neck instead.

"N-No! Not there. Aah!" asked Twilight nicely, but it felt for deaf ears, Silence was already licking her neck. Her moan made Silence lose her mind. She couldn't withhold her lust anymore. Her wings opened, the veins inside pumping wildly as she lodged her fangs into the unicorn. After the very first suck, however her eyes opened wide, she took her fangs out of Twilight and instead of hugging her, she grabbed her hoofpits, tripped her and with a quick move thrown her above her back. Twilight hit the ground hard with her back, but not as hard as Silence's voice afterwards.

"What are you?" she asked in a high volume.

Twilight brusted out in laughter "Ah, what a shame. I thought we can spend an entire night together. Maybe it's better this way though, I have to watch for my shape." In a sudden, a green aura traveled through her from head to hooves, changing the beautiful pony into a dark grey creature. Her eyes blue, without any pupils, only a gradient fading to white, indicating its place. Her body filled with holes at her legs and in her insectoid-looking wings coming out from her green shell, her mane becoming long fins and fangs sticking out from her mouth. Instead of answering the given question though, she rather commented on Silence's body language.

"You do like what you see, huh?" she laughed showing a more inviting pose to the pegasus, her voice sort of distorted as two oft them would speak. "That guard wasn't exaggerating when she called you a walking pantry." However before the pegasus could scream at her from losing temper, she continued, trying to get up.

"I can't answer your questions because it'd take for sooo long, so I get to the point: You're cordially invited to Froud Valley. We'll have plenty of time there to discuss... things." she giggle and winked seductively as she passed the gray mare, heading out the window. "Oh, and don't worry about the girl, she is asleep, like everypony else." she added turning back her head in front of the door, before transforming into a white, curly maned blue pegasus and flew away. Who was her? And what was her?