Total Burnout: Revolution
Entry #001
Six month anniversary and guess what I got? A "Diary", what the hell? Rainbow thinks I need this, she got Twilight to, I quote, "Magically fuse this booklet to my being." I can take this thing out whenever and wherever I want. I guess that's kinda cool. Anyway today's Rainbow and mines six month anniversary, and the day we finally finish moving in to our new home. It all just seems so long ago, that day I fought Death, who'da figured she'd turn out to be my pseudo-daughter. Can't complain to much though, she's been a serious bonding factor between Rainbow and I. We wouldn't even have this house if it weren't for her. That day Rainbow and I saved Equestria, well the Princess was more than thankful. Got this house in the best part of Cloudsdale, and to top it all off all the treasure we'll need to raise our little filly. You know I've never thought about this until now, but when Vinyl gets older this is going to be a weird story to explain to her. Oh well, im good at improvising, im sure I'll figure it out when the time comes. Until then this should be enough for a first entry. Still not a fan of this whole "diary" thing. You hear that diary? Im watching you.
You close the cover of the little red book in hoof and toss it into the air ahead of you. You love this part. The booklet spontaneously combusts and burns away into a small cloud of ashes, then, carried by a flow of magic the cloud moves into, then fades away inside of your coat. "Heh, Gotta hand it to her, Twilight outdid herself with that little book." With the booklet put away you continue your walk down the main hallway. It still boggles your mind how big this place actually is, big enough to where you managed to get lost during your initial tour here.
You pass by several open windows, each one showing a clear view of Cloudsdale down below. That's right, Cloudsdale is below you. You walk past the first few just enjoying the scenery outside, but as you approach the end of the hall something in the last window catches your eye. Something out on the horizon down by the old Rainbow Factory. Something recently happened there, some kind of conspiracy got out, whole place got shut down in a few days. Rainbow dosn't even like looking at that place, she says it brings up some bad work memories, whatever that means. You decide to run back upstairs and see if Rainbow might now whats going on down there.
You make your way back to the stairwell and head up to the second floor. Three doors down at the end of the hall you see a light shining from the open door, the kids room. You walk down the hall and nudge open the door, inside you see your two favorite ponies. You smile and watch as Rainbow tucks in your daughter. Rainbow leans down and kisser her on the forehead and turns around to you with a smile. "Hey, there you are. Vinyl was just asking where you were. She wants to say goodnight to daddy."
"Heh, I'll be a moment. Just hang out here for a sec' I gotta ask you something." Rainbow nod trots over to the door and waits. You then walk over to your daughters bedside and kneel down. "Hey there Vinyl." You look down and brush some of her mane out of her face. "How was your first day of magic kindergarten?"
"Daddy! It was great daddy! Magic is fun! Teacher says im real good at it! Look what I can do!" Vinyl's horn becomes enveloped with a light blue aura along with a nearby lamp.
"Oh god, no Vinyl put that down, that is a very expensive lamp. It's a gift we received from the nice ponies in the Crystal Emp-" ~CRASH~ "ire...*Sigh* Still, you got it off the ground, that's very impressive for a little filly like you." You reach down and pat her on the head. "Goodnight Vinyl, Daddy loves you." You reach over to turn off the light....only to realize it is smashed to pieces on the floor. You pause for a brief moment mourning the loss of the lamp, stand up, and then walk over to the door where Rainbow is waiting. The two of you take one last look back at your daughter, and then at eachother and smile."You know it's moments like this, literally nothing could ruin this right now..." You pause for a moment looking around.
"What are you looking for Burns?" Rainbow asks with a puzzled look. "Something wrong?"
"Hmm. No" You shift your focus back at Rainbow and shake your head. "It's was probably nothing. But hey I gotta ask you something, you know the old Rainbow Factory right?"
"Oh um...yeah. I know that place." Rainbow visibly shudders at the mention of that place, it makes you think about what might of happened over there. "You know I don't like talking about that place."
"Well there's something going on down there, a bunch of bright lights and yelling. You have any idea what might be happening?" You slowly trot over to the window down the hall where you saw the old factory and look out at it. Rainbow stands next to you look out too.
"That's weird, they boarded the whole place off. They even had armed guards all around the place til' it was secure." Rainbow looks down and scratches at the ground with her hooves, something obviously troubling her.
"Are you alright Dash?" You lift up and place one of your wings across her back. "It's ok, I know you don't like talking about that place. Im sorry for bringing it up in the first place." You try to apologize in your most sincere comforting voice, and to your surprise it seems to work.
"It's ok Burns." Rainbow looks up from the ground up at you. "You didn't do anything wrong. It's just that place...Some messed up stuff happened there..." You look back out at the old factory for a brief moment then back at Rainbow.
"Wanna go check it out? Get some closure or something? Let's just lock up the house and go take a quick look, maybe figure out what's going on down there." Rainbow pauses for a moment thinking about your offer.
"Yeah, I think it would be good for me. I'll meet you outside in a sec'. Im gonna' grab something from our room real quick." Rainbow heads down the hall and steps into the two of yours room. You turn the other way and head for the front door. The walk takes a little while considering how large the house is, but it gives you a moment to think. What could of possibly happened at that factory? When you mention it and then look at Rainbow she seems riddled with guilt. Did she do something bad there? You reach the door and the thought floats away, you open it and trot outside. The air is cold, It usually is up here in the Cloudsdale. The sky's dark and all of Luna's stars are shining bright in her nights sky, looking back down you can see the the town itself. All the buildings and houses dimly lit against the eerie background. You never were a fan of the night, all the darkness and such. It always gave this impending feeling that somewhere, out there in the darkness that something you couldn't see was watching you, waiting for you. You send a shiver down your spine just thinking about it. "Stupid....Night....Just be daytime already..." Your words trail off into the night heard by no one.
"Hey there, talking to yourself?" Or not...You recollect yourself after your little heart-attack and turn to face Rainbow.
"God, you scared the hell out of me. What did you get from our room?" You gesture one of your front hooves to a small box balanced on Rainbows back.
"Oh this? Just some old piece of junk from the factory, I wanna get rid of it, leave it at the factory or something." It's a little box, only about six inches wide, looks kind of like a jewelry box.
"Oh cool, we can just leave it on the steps of the building. Hey, you want to walk? I know it's not that far, It'll give us a chance to talk about something." You want to ask her about the factory, something is bothering her big time and you figure if you understood it you could help her out.
"Yeah, I guess." The two of you start walking down the cloud path around your home. You both walk in silence for the first few minutes when finally Rainbow breaks the silence. "So, what is it you wanted to talk about?"
"Well, if you were willing to talk about it, I was wondering what been bothering you? Every time I bring up the old factory you look away from me and start poking at the ground. If you don't want to talk about it I understand...." Rainbow stops walking and looks you in the eye.
"I-Don't like to think about it that much..." Rainbow mumbles to herself.
"Rainbow I understand If you don't want to talk about it, I just wanted to try and help you-" Rainbow cuts you off again.
"No no, I should tell you. If we're ever going to be anything more I can't keep this a secret." Rainbow starts walking again and you both proceed down the path to the old factory. "The factory got closed because....The factory did terrible things to ponies. Terrible terrible horrible things. And...I was part of these...things. I couldn't handle it anymore, so I left. A few days later the place was shut down." You look over at Rainbow for a brief moment and see a single tear rolling down off her face.
"Dashie? Are you ok?" You stop walking and poke at her neck with your head. " Dashie answer me please." She dosn't respond. "Dashie I don't care what you did, whatever happened is done. I only care about your right now, just please answer me." She still says nothing but instead just turns and wraps both her front hooves around you embracing you in a hug. You can feel the warm tears coming from her eyes and falling onto your coat. "Dashie, whatever you did is behind you. I love you, nothing you did could make me think any different of you." She lifts her head sets it eye level with you, her eyes are redder than usual and the tears have stopped falling, her mouth is quivering in a smile. Neither of you say anything, the two of you wrap one wing together and continue walking to the factory. Several minutes pass in silence, but you don't mind, you couldn't be any happier right now. You finally reach the factory gate, where Rainbow places the little box on the front step. She steps back when all of the sudden you begin to hear chanting and yelling coming from inside the walls and lights begin to shine through the boarded up windows. You listen trying to make out any of the words.
"My brother and sisters! For far to long we have lived in oppression! For far to long we have lived under the rule of the Princess Sisters! Soon there will come a time where we will rise, we the ponies of the land! The ponies who grew this land into what it is now! Soon both the Sun and the Moon will be will fall to the earth, they will fall, and they will be destroyed. For soon the ponies of the earth will be free, and their liberators will be us! For we are the Eclipse! And only we can fall the Sun and Moon! What do you say my Brothers and Sisters! Let your voices shake the heavens!"
"Death to the Princesses! Death to the Sun! Death to the Moon!"
"What the hell...?" You and Rainbow take a few steps back from the building. "Rainbow we need to get out of here before one of them sees us. I need to tell the Princesses about this immediately. You need to fly home and get Vinyl, fly as fast as you can to someplace safe. Im going to fly to Canterlot, I've got to get the Royal Guard down here to handle this...Whatever it is that's going on here."
"Just don't do anything stupid Burns. I don't want to lose you, I love you." Rainbow leans over and kisses you, then turns and bolts off towards the house.
"Be safe Rainbow, take good care of Vinyl..." You turn in the direction you remember Canterlot being in and unfold your wings. A cloud of ashes and sparks fly out of your feathers as you stretch them. You hunch down building up power in your back legs, you swing your wings and hop off the ground releasing your built up power.
"God, I really hope im going the right way."
Author's Note
Authors Notes: Heeeeeeeello people. How's everyone doing? Been 3 months since any of you last heard from me :3
Anyways, brand new story, brand new writing style. If you're a new time reader of me, you might want to read a little bit of the last story, you know just so you don't get to confused. Last thing, Tell me people, how do you like the knew writing style. Better or Worse?
Total Burnout: Revolution
MEANWHILE ON THE APPLE FARM!
"Applejack! Applejack! Hurry come look! It's another meteor!" The eager young filly calls out what would be the fifteenth or so meteor this week. "Hurry Applejack! You're gonna' miss it!" The older apple sister calmly opens the filly's door and steps inside.
"Applebloom ah' thought I told yah to go to sleep, It's too late for yah' to be up. Now what in tarnations so important you had to call me up here?" Applejack asks with a very obvious tone of annoyance.
"It's another meteor Sis! Hurry come look at it!" The little filly jumps over to the window eagerly searching the skys for the previously spotted space rock. "There! It look like it heading towards Canterlot!"
"Uh hate to tell yah' Applebloom, but that ain't not meteor. I don't remember ever hearing 'bout a meteor that can do back flips." Applejack gestures up into the night sky where, sure enough the mass of fire was spiraling through the air in a spectacular show of acrobatics. "That's just that Burnout feller, I wounder where he's going in such a hurry? Oh well, Applebloom get on off to bed, We got a long day ahea-". ~Knock Knock~ A loud knock echoed through the empty house.. "Ah shoot, who could that be this late?" The Apple pony begins her way downstairs to the front door, every step seems to creek a little louder than normal in the house. With the exception of Applebloom Applejack was alone in the house, the rest of the Apple Family being away on business.
The house seemed eerily quiet, the only noises being that of the wooden floorboards squeaking under Applejack's hooves. ~Knock Knock~ There was another knock. Applejack stood in front of the door, a single hoof outstretched towards the door handle she finds herself frozen there. Somethin' ain't right here...Somepony out there?" No answer. Against her better judgement Applejack opens the door in a slow sweep, slowly she sticks her head outside to take a look. A few moments of looking and she's satisfied there was nothing out of the ordinary. "Ah coulda' sworn I heard somethin'" She closes the door and turns around. ~Knock Knock~ Applejack spins back around and opens the door with considerable force. "Who the hay-"
"Applejack Help!"
Applejack slams the door and sprints up the stairs, "AppleBloom?! What's wrong?" She burst through the door and freezes up. Two pegisi in dark robes stand by the window, one of them holding a small wiggling screaming brown sac. "You put her down!" Applejack takes a single step into her sister's room and is immidietly pushed to the ground by some arcane force.
"Grab her." A solemn voice barks out commands to another two kidnappers hidden just inside, both of whom immidietly tackle the recovering Applejack back to the ground. "Tie her up, let the little filly back out. We got who we came for." The two attempting to restrain Applejack are quickly kicked off and thrown across the room into the wall. "Do I have to do everything?" A dull glow illuminates the room and reveals one of the kidnappers, specifically the one speaking. He appeared to be an older unicorn with an orange coat very similar to that of his target's, he was large for a unicorn, both in stature and in build. Applejack's eyes change from her attacker to the object being held in his magical grip. Suspended in a mustard yellow aura was a curious little device, It had what looked like a large wooden handle with some kind of metal bar coming out the end of it.
"Who the hay are you? What do you want?" Applejack yells at the orange unicorn while struggling to get to her hooves. "And what in tarnation are you pointin' at me?" The object in question was completely foreign to Applejack, no defining details could be made out from where she lay, but a few minor ones now come into focus. The metal bar appears to be hollow, and at the rear of the object there was a small tray.
"What we're are here for won't matter soon. And as for who we are, well, just think of us as your liberators. Now please, find freedom in eternity." There was a short audible click from the device, a thunderous puff of smoke, and then a dull thud on the floor. The orange unicorn moves the device back unto a holster around his back right leg and then without saying a word steps towards the petrified filly taking refuge in the corner. "We aren't bad ponies. Your sister was simply just one of six obstetricals standing in our path. Now please, do as your sister asked of you and go to sleep." The now hooded unicorn leans forward towards the shaking filly and whispers, "Sweet dreams little one. HaaHahahahaha!" All of robed ponies begin to make their way out the window, the pegisi disappear into the nights sky and the lone unicorn teleports to some unknown destination. The filly now alone trots hesitantly over to her sister lying on the hard wooden floor.
"A-Applejack? Are yah ok?"
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God I hope Rainbow and Vinyl are alright. I mean anarchists here? What oppression are they fighting? ~Grunt~ How much farther is Canterlot anyways? Your train of thought trails off as you refocus yourself on flying. You look down in an trying to get your bearings, right now it looks like you're flying over the Apple Family Farm. The landscape passes under you at a breakneck speed, in fact if it weren't for the legion of apple trees below you'd be as clueless as ever.
You fly in relative silence, no noises but that of the wind rushing through the air. You've become used to this kind of silence, Ironic considering it practically deafens you while flying. You see the Ponyville train station off in the distance, The railroad leads to Canterlot, right? You think to yourself. You decide to go with your gut feeling and peel off in the direction of the rail road and follow the tracks.
You fly for another fifteen or so minutes before finally seeing the mountains that Canterlot resides in. Lights soon peek over the distant mountain tops and a few moments later the grand city becomes visible. You set your eyes on the royal palace and begin your decent. Most ponies attempting to land in the royal palace courtyard end up getting swarmed with guards, thankfully you are rather well known here and end up receiving a much different kind of welcome. You land in the courtyard and begin the short run to the palace gates.
"Hey! Who goes the--Hey Hothead, that you?" Oh god no. Not now.
"No time for talking right now Plume, If you'd be so kind to open the palace doors though that would be great." You shout forward to your friend, Ivory Plume. "Hurry up dude, im kinda in a rush here!" You stare up at the palace door, unfortunately for you its one that can only be opened by a unicorns magic, well more specifically one's horn.
"Hey come on, what's the rush?" Your armored clad friend trots up to the and stands next to you. "Seriously what's up?"
"I need to talk to the Princess now, so help me you're not skull deep in that door lock in five seconds im fire-balling you to the Moon." You stare daggers at the palace guard now jamming his horn into the lock.
"Jeez, here. The stupid doors open. Do whatever it is you've got to do." The massive door slides open you waste no time standing outside. You sprint through the halls to the royal chambers where, to your disappointment sits the Princess of the Night.
"Ah, if it isn't the champion of fire. To what do I owe this visit too?" Luna beacons you farther into the hall. You and Luna have had some falling outs in the past, mainly watching in on you and Rainbow going at it on more than one occasion.
"Oh....Luna, Is your sister here? I kinda have an ENORMOUS problem to tell her."
"Oh? And what makes you think that I am not apt to this problem of yours? Does thou not think I could handle it myself?" Luna shoots you a odd look. "What is this problem of yours Hero?"
"Well...There's kind of movement forming to......Well....Kill you and your sister and let anarchy reign, you know how it goes." The Princess stares at you blankly for a moment. "Wanna go get your sister now?" The Princess dosn't answer but instead poofs away in the familiar shroud of a teleportation. You stand in the hall for a few minutes, waiting for the Princesses to show up. Finally two bursts of magic flash in front of you to reveal Luna returning with her sister.
"I take we lack the time for formalities?" You nod at the Solar Princess. "Now please explain to me in more detail, what is this movement Luna has mentioned to me?"
"Rainbow Dash and I had taken a short trip to the old shut down Rainbow Factory, and when we got there the whole place was lit up. The whole factory was filled with ponies, one of them was shouting about overthrowing the Sun and the Moon and releasing the land to ponies who work it. And by overthrow they ment kill. Im here to ask for the assistance of the Royal Guard, and with all do respect I do plan to lead." You speak while wearing your most serious face.
"I understand your desire to be a part of this, but now that you have brought this to my attention I ask that you stand down and wait this out." The Princess
"You can't be serious? You know that you asking me to do nothing isn't going to stop me, right?" You narrow your eyes and glare at the Princess. "Honestly, I probably don't even need your guards. So please, either give me the guards im asking for or let me go back and handle the situation myself." You glare forward maintaining your best poker face, knowing very well that you're going to need the guards. The princess returns your glare for a few seconds and finally gives in.
"Very well. I will grant you temporary control of the Solar Guard detachment. Im am entrusting a great deal of responsibility to you, until you see fit you will lead twelve of my personal guard to subdue this threat, if you feel that greater numbers are necessary please let me know with urgency. Until then, I ask that your report to Specialist Plume to meet your troops." Plume? Out of all the ponies...
"Twelve? Meh, whatever. I can work with that. Thank you for your cooperation Princess, I'll make sure this dosn't last any longer than it needs to." You salute the Princess and begin your way back outside.
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"What do you think of this Tia? This is the first Insurrection in a millennium, are we prepared to handle this?" The younger sister looks up speaking with an uncharacteristic amount of worry in her voice. "Do you believe that our champion will be able to handle this threat?"
"I honestly do believe he will be more than capable of ending this. Do remember how well he handled Death, something so small as an uprising shouldn't be to difficult for him. And after all he has a family to fight for, that will push somepony to lengths that one wouldn't normally go through." The older sister stares up into the nights sky and watches the last of the moon fall over the mountains. "A new day is about to begin, Sister if you would be so kind as to finish lowering the moon, I feel there is enough darkness on the horizon already....
