4: They Always Come Back

After a much appreciated dreamless nights sleep, You gather what little supplies you have into your pack. Which include two cans of food, bullets, a blanket, and a pair of gloves that should've been traded, and some extra tools and two flashlights (you never know). You pick up your weapons, strap on your boots, say goodbye too Lyra and Bon Bon, and promptly report to the library.

As you arrive you spot Luna on the grass in front if the library with two other girls. One of them was shorter with rainbow dyed hair, oddly enough, with a black leather jacket on. Upon further inspection, you see a pair of cyan wings adorning her back. The other was the stereotypical cowgirl, blond hair, lasso on her belt, and a good old cowboy hat on her head, you liked her already.

"These two will be traveling with you on your journey to Manehatten, should any problems arise I assure you these two will be quite reliable to help you." Luna tells you.

"Yes sir! Me an' RD here got your back sure as shootin'! My names Applejack by the way." She says as she extends a gloved hand toward you.

Getting the feeling that she wasn't one for the overly chivalrous type, you decide just to give her hand a good shake instead.

"Pleasure to meet you miss Applejack, my names (your name)." you tell her.

"Likewise" she says, then the one with the rainbow hair starts "I'm Rainbow Dash. I can tell I'm going to be distracted on this trip." her arms are crossed but she looks you up and down like she just saw a new car she wanted, or something. You guess some girls are taking the lack of male situation better than others.

"Nice to meet you too, miss." you tell her.

"Don't you start with that miss shit, Rainbow, or Dash, or whatever will be fine for you." she corrects you with a dastardly smile.

"Alright Whatever." you joke at her, eliciting a small smile that's more competitive than happy.

"Now that we have introductions out of the way, let us begin with the things you will need." Luna says while walking over to a crate by the library.

"Dearest Applejack, I have for you a m1014, 12 gauge, semi automatic, since you said you had experience with shotguns." Luna says as she pulls a dark green combat shotgun out of the crate and hands it to Applejack.

"Rainbow Dash, to accentuate your speed and finesse in combat i will give you this mp-7, it has a high fire rate but a smaller cartridge size, so use it accordingly." she gives the sub-machine gun to rainbow.

"Sweet! I only ever got to shoot that crappy rifle in basic, this is a step up." she was in the military? Looking over her you could almost understand. She seemed quite fit, and had that gruff sort of attitude that would fit in perfectly in the forces. You'll have to ask her about that when shes not flirting with you.

"And would you like an upgrade? Or are you happy with your current armaments?" Luna asks.

You look to your rifle. The old girl had seen some shit, and cleaning and oiling it with animal fat and second hand tools only got you so far. The thought of having to put it away made you sad, but you thought better of it when you realized your combat effectiveness could be hindered.

"I s'pose i should change out to the next best thing." you say, still unsure. you had this rifle for a long time, you knew everything about it. The M4A1, standard issue to ground troops at the beginning of the war. Standard 30 round mag, 4 position safety, 5.56 mm round.

"How good of a shot are you?" Luna pointedly asks you.

Considering you spent most of your life working with rifles, two years in the military, then three years out in the new war torn world, where a missed shot could mean starving to death that night, or having a bandit embed a blade into your neck, you knew you had developed quite a pinpoint accuracy, all inside of an iron sight platform as well.

"I'd say I'm better than most." you say, trying to be modest.

"In that case I have here this m24 long range rifle, chambered in the 7.62 round, with a x12 magnification scope." she says as she hands you the firearm, which is rather foreign to you.

"Oh....uh...Thanks." you say as you stare at the rifle.

"And to compensate for the lack of a closer ranged weapon, here is this fully automatic m93." she then hands you what looks like a heavily modified m9, the words fully automatic confused you. Usually pistols didn't do that. But you didn't question it. However, you were not getting rid of your 1911, that thing was closer to you than most anything, the only time you went without it for as long as you could remember was the couple of hours after you had showered and slept at Lyra and Bon Bon's house the night before. You took it back to bed with you last night to prevent another hole being accidentally made within the house.

"As for you two, these two glock 17's should due for sidearms, they are a bit older, but they will work for the task at hand." Luna says as she pulls two pistols out of the crate and hands them to the two girls.

"Now that the necessary precautions have been taken care of, your mode of transportation to Manehatten will be via the railways leading out of Ponyville. I am sure of the tracks stability to at least 8 miles out from the other city. Manehatten was hit quite deliberately during the war so I suspect most of it to be in ruins, I have also set up a train cart on the tracks on the east side of town to be your mode of travel. It runs on gemstones, so take these." She hands you two gems, a bright red ruby and a sparkling sapphire, you take them and put them into your bag.

"Now the train has three days supplies on it, it will take around 6 hours travel by the tracks to reach your destination, so it should be quite enough. You will also find a map with the factories location on it as well"  Hopefully your orders will end there, you thought.

"I bid you all a safe journey, you have my blessings." Figuratively and literally, you thought.

Everyone exchanges farewells and you make your way to the train cart at the end of town. Arriving there, the cart looks almost normal. Painted red, with windows and a decorated roof. It must've been taken off of the train quite recently, judging by the pristine condition of it of it.

You climb into the train after the girls and inspect the layout. Four rooms, two split bedrooms with two beds in them and not much else besides a nightstand, located in the rear most area of it, a hallway containing the supplies you were told about earlier, and the engine compartment at th other end with a forward facing door. The engine had a very fancy looking computer attached to it, you weren't about to mess with it just yet. You also wondered about the sleeping arrangements, but with the trip only being around six hours, you figured you wouldn't have to worry about that until the return trip for the most part.

Applejack walks up to you inspecting the engines computer and tells you "Well lets start 'er up, don't want to keep the princess and the town waitin'." she stands behind you and pats you on the shoulder, which surprises you, you haven't been touched by someone else in a way other than violently in a very long time. You savor the feeling, imagining an intimate moment with the cowgirl, but keep your composure about you, not wanting to seem desperate for that sort of thing, even though you knew you needed release pretty soon, having been staying in a town with the majority being the opposite sex.

"I s'pose your right" you say as you open up the interface on the engine computer

POWER SOURCE NEEDED. the computer read out as you tried to initiate the start command. A compartment opened and three little mechanical arms were exposed, requesting sustenance. You placed the sapphire into the clutches of the machine, which took it into the machine and closed the compartment.

INITIALIZING...

POWER SOURCE ACCEPTED.

DESTINATION?

It showed a list of cities from Las pegasus to Baltimare, you scroll through it and select Manehattan.

ERROR. OBSTRUCTION IN TRACK DETECTED. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTE? Y/N?

You click yes, figuring you want to get as close to the city as possible.

NO ALTERNATE ROUTE DETECTED. CONTINUE? Y/N?

"What the hell?" you say in frustration.

"These things are always way to complicated for what you want to get done." Applejack pipes in from behind you.

"Your telling me." You answer her.

You go through the next couple of commands, trying to go back to the start so you can try to get the right path.

"Sorry if RD comes onto you a little strong, all the girls in Ponyville are getting a little stir crazy down there, With only three guys in the town, if you know what I mean." Applejack says to you.

"Don't you fret none, I completely understand. I cant say that I don't feel the same way from time to time." you say, more trying to relate than implying an interaction.

"Just don't let her do nothing with you that you don't wanna do." she says with an almost jealous look on her face as you look up from the screen at her.

"What about yourself miss? You're just the same down there as she is." you say. You could honestly see yourself with the farm girl, she reminds you of home, and you couldn't say she didn't catch your eye.

"Er...Just get us movin'." she grumbles as she looks away with a blush across her face. With a smile you turn back to the computer.

You go through the menus again and get back to the alternate route question and click no.

ROUTE ACCEPTED. ENGINE WILL STOP WHEN OBSTRUCTION IS REACHED.

Close enough, you think. The engine comes to life with a low roar, jolting the cart into motion. Soon enough, you all are slowly on your way to the destroyed city. You all sit down in the supply hall way, leaning against the boxes.

Rainbow Dash breaks the silence, which you cant say you object to, it would've been a long ride otherwise. "So why do you think the princess insisted on giving us guns?" she asks.

Applejack just looks up, not really knowing. But you know all to well of what monstrosities crawl through those forgotten, uninhabited cities, although you weren't sure if Manehatten was one of them, never having been there yourself.

"I don't think you wanna know Rainbow." you answer her, trying to be as ominous as possible.

"'Course I wanna know, otherwise I wouldn't have asked hot stuff." Rainbow counters to you.

"Lets just say that some experiments went wrong and the end product may still be roaming around. But Im sure she just wanted to make sure we could defend ourselves from bandits or something." you try to reassure her when she gets a scared look on her face for a split second, but quickly realizes what she was doing and tries to cover it up.

"Ha, its nothing we cant handle." you guess shes just trying to compensate.

"So, you were in the military? Where'd you get stationed?" you try to steer the conversation elsewhere.

"I wanted in since the beginning, seeing everybody fighting inspired me to take up arms, but those dumb ass recruiters wouldn't take me at first." she says angrily

"Why not?" you ask.

"Cause they thought I would be just too good for them, they thought my talents shouldn't be wasted on their lowly form of military, they probably thought I should've been in some special division or something." she says proudly.

"I recall pretty clearly that they didn't accept you for something along the lines of bad attitude and doesn't play well with others." she shoots down Rainbow with a smirk.

Rainbow gives Applejack a death glare and tries to steer off of it."Well anyway, they didn't accept me until a couple weeks before the war ended, by the time I got out of basic, the troop recall orders already went into effect, so that didn't really last long."

"It was for the best, the war wouldn't've stopped till everybody was dead, and that almost happened. And the last thing I wanna see is one of my best friends come home in a body bag, Celestia knows how much it affected my family." Applejack tries to ensure RD it was for the best, but she really wasn't listening.

"Hmph, So what about you? How did your military career go?" Rainbow asks, without the bedroom eyes this time, surprisingly enough.

"I lived in Dodge when it started, I was one of the first on the front lines." you realize suddenly you really don't want to talk about it.

"Oh my, I'm so sorry. How did you...make it out?" Applejack asks sadly.

"I was in Baltimare when it happened on a delivery." you really wanted to change the subject, but you thought Applejack wanted you to let it out more.

"I lived in Dodge once, it was a nice town, I'm sorry." you just look away from her.

"Come on AJ, cant you see he didn't want to talk about it?" thank you Rainbow. You thought you just might end up satisfying her after all.

"Well sometimes its better to talk about it RD." she shoots back at her friend.

"Now's not one of those times." your accent almost evaporated in your seriousness.

After that it was mostly silent for what seemed like days, but was probably only thirty minutes. AJ decided it was best not to make eye contact with you, and RD kept undressing you with her eyes when she thought you werent looking, at a moment her thoughts were elsewhere, you did the same. She had a very nice body, perfectly fit, and her jeans showed her lower regions off quite nicely. Maybe after your mission was completed, youd inquire into that, but you had more important things to deal with at the moment, like this awkward silence that was really starting to annoy you.

"So AJ, what do you do around Ponyville?" you already thought you knew the answer, the work gloves, hat, lasso, and worn clothes were mostly a dead giveaway for manual labor, most likely the farm variety. You had experienced the sort quite well yourself so you could relate.

"Well me and my brother run sweet apple acres on the east end of Ponyville, we help feed most of the town." AJ replies.

"Huh, I'm no stranger to farm work myself, In my younger days I helped out on a local cherry farm from time to time." you try to relate with her.

"I think AJ has done the exact same thing." Rainbow says with a look that reminded AJ never to do something again.

"How about we not bring that up, I said I was sorry." AJ counters back at her.

"What about you Rainbow? What do you do in town?" you say, trying to nip this would be fight in the bud.

"Im the weather coordinator, I tell the pegasi around town what needs to happen and when it needs to happen." she must be more responsible than she lets on, if she coordinates the weather around Ponyville. Judging by the two marvelous days you stayed there, she does a good job.

The three of you start on idle small talk to pass the time, in one of the silent spells between conversations, you start to look through the supplies. There were four crates. On had food rations in it, another one was filled with munitions, the third one with some basic medical supplies, and the last one you got to had some random tools in it, and also, strangely enough, a radio. There was a CD in it, and being the hero you are, liberated the three of you from the silence by turning it on. The music that poured out of it was a combination of music that sounded to be some 50 years old, but was welcome anyway. A couple of hours in the three of you began digging into the food rations, getting what you could out of the military MRE's. The girls seemed to be not quite so used to the sub-par taste. You on the other hand knew these things like the back of your hand.

"Be sure to chew the gum at the bottom of the pack." you told them.

"Why?" they said in unison, which was quite adorable.

"Trust me, you'll thank me later."

After another hour or so, the engine dies and you come to a halt, looking out the window you see it.

Manehatten. True to the princesses word, the city was in shambles. Rubble adorned the street, buildings were missing large portions of them, and forgotten machines of war littered the streets.

You gather enough supplies and armaments between yourselves for up to a day and a half, although you doubt you'll be there that long, better safe than sorry.

"I guess we should get moving." you say, stepping onto the charred soil from the front door of the cart. Looking down you see that the track is pretty mangled, but you only seem to be two or three miles out form the city, so that's a plus.

"Should we lock it or something?" Rainbow asks.

"It don't have a lock, but i have a better idea." you get back into the cart and grab something out of the munitions box. The girls look at you quizzically from behind you as strap a grenade under the latch on the train door, then pull the pin and put it in your pocket.

"That ought'a do the trick." you turn around and begin walking towards the city with the two girls in tow, weapons drawn.

You begin through the demolished city. The girls follow you closely, the sight of this post apocalyptic city must be quite frightening, you wouldn't know, you've become so desensitized to this sort of thing. it was the norm to you, much like the safe life in Ponyville was to them. You all walk through the war torn streets, the take note of everything, eyes darting from the tanks and jeeps, both of the destroyed and intact variety, littering the streets, the rotted away bodies of the soldiers who fought and died here. They keep a careful eye on the darkness that resides within the buildings with the larger cavities torn into them, as if something is going to jump out of them, for all you know, that might not be far from the truth.

You look back at Rainbow, just as you did a building groans in the distance. She responds by jumping from the sound, backing up to AJ and pointing her SMG in the direction. You laugh at her scared stature, but AJ looks a bit upset, Dash's actions putting her on edge as well.

"Dammit Rainbow, get a hold of yourself, you're makin' me nervous." AJ chastises.

"Just stay as close to me as you can." you tell the girls.

Its quiet in the city. Too quiet for it to be filled with bandits, so that narrows the possible danger lurking in the city down pretty close. For the sake of hopeful thinking, you think to yourself, its probably just empty, but you knew better.

After making it into the city a few blocks, you check the map from your pack. The factory is 8 blocks in the direction you are going and three blocks after a right turn. Simple enough. Then you arrive at a giant pile of collapsed building blocking your path. Being a repeating square layout, you adjust to this, taking another route, but then the process repeats. After getting as close to where the map says the factory is you all climb over the rubble to get to your destination.

Sliding down the cement chunks and avoiding the protruding re-bar, you find the factory.

Or at least the pile of broken machinery and rubble where it used to be.

"Well now what?" RD asks.

"Ponyville really needs the water and the power from those supplies, they cant just be gone!" AJ says, trying to reason with herself.

Thinking, you know that the supplies you would've found in the factory were going to be finished at the end of an assembly line, ready to ship off. Shit, they could've been shipped off to any city in Equestria, how the hell were you going to find it now, you thought. Wait, after they get made they have to be stored before they can be shipped.

You looked around the adjacent buildings and....

Bingo. A Warehouse.

"I'm willin' to bet my last bullet that the things were looking for are in there." you say, pointing at the warehouse next to your group.

AJ leans back, from her vantage point a bit higher and farther back on the rubble she says, "That'd be fine usually, but from where I see it, there are at least ten warehouses down this street."

"Well I guess we better start looking." you begin to stride towards the closest warehouse.

You arrive at the door of the warehouse, the girls behind you. There's a large padlock separating you from the inside of the warehouse. With a swift strike from the synthetic stock on your rifle, you snap the lock off the door, then proceed to kick the door in with your boot. You enter the dusty darkness of the warehouse with the girls.

"Its a little dark in here." AJ says trying to waft the kicked up dust away from her face.

You take a flashlight out of your pack and toss it to the farm girl. "Rainbow stick by my left side, AJ cover our six, keep your eyes and the flashlight pointed directly behind us." after you say it Rainbow scoots up much closer to you, shes almost rubbing on you with each step you take.

"Heh, whatever you say." Rainbow lets out with a coy smile.

"Got it." AJ says as she turns to face the rear.

You turn on the other flashlight in your bag and shine it across the warehouse, there had to be at least thirty rows of shelves with boxes on them all the way across the hundred yard wide warehouse.

"How in the hell are we ever going to find two specific boxes in all this, hell, all of these warehouses?" Rainbow asks with a worried look.

"We aren't. In that office over there should be a shipment order. That should tell us where to find what we need." Rainbow is physically relieved by your statement.

"I think the princess put the item codes on the map." you didn't remember if she did for sure, but you sincerely hoped so, otherwise you would be here for quite a while.

Looking at the map, you see scrawled at the bottom, much to your relief, the item codes.

"RH-184 power core, and XN-336 water rejuvenation apparatus. Sounds easy enough." you say, more to yourself than to the girls.

You cross reference the item codes with the shipment order in the first warehouse. No dice. Rinse and repeat for the second, same thing. Finally, the third has both the items you are looking for, on the second row to.

Picking through the massive boxes, you find the power core, a glowing blue mechanical sphere. It weighs almost 40 pounds. You give it to Rainbow, worst comes to worst, she can fly it out of here, since Ponyville will most likely need it the most. Digging through another box, you find the other apparatus, but it takes up most of the box. You split the tubing and metal parts among you and AJ but it is still quite cumbersome.

Walking out of the warehouse you start on the path back to the train cart.

"Alright lets get out of here before anything goes wrong." as if on cue, a menacing, inhuman howl erupts in the distance, then its greeted by several others.

"Fuck..." this is the last thing you wanted, and night was quickly falling. You've always been smart enough to stay out of these cities when you could help it. You've been attacked in the woods by outliers looking for food, but never this close. If you weren't careful, you were going to get these girls killed. You looked at them and just the howls rattled them to the bone.

"AJ, same drill, stay behind me watch my back and keep moving, this is going to be at a jog, so we conserve energy, but move fast enough. And Rainbow..." you knew this was going to scare the shit out of both of them, but you knew you had to do it.

"I need you to take to the skies and cover us with the SMG. If me and AJ...go down, I need you to fly as fast as you can back to the cart, put this pin back in the grenade I strapped to the door and get back to Ponyville, Ponyville needs that core more than it needs our bodies." you hand the pin to Rainbow, much as you expected, both of them were so scared at the aspect, they started shaking, Rainbow looked like she was about to cry at the thought of having to leave you two to your fate, but was too speechless to object.

"Lets get a move on, we need to get out of here as soon as possible." you started jogging forward up into the rubble pile to go back the way you came. AJ followed wordlessly after you and Rainbow then took to the skies.

You jogged through the streets with a slow but steady pace, hoping those things wouldn't catch up to you. You didn't think they would stray far from the city, so youd be able the slow up the pace once you got out of the city limits, but you've been surprised before. The best thing to do would be to stay on the alert and hope they didn't see you.

Then 50 yards in front of you, a dark figure dropped down onto a car in front of your group. It was one of them, a mutant, a failed lab experiment to keep the common man off of the battlefield. Killing machines with only one thought process, seek and destroy. Each facility created different breads, the Manehatten facility looked like they cross bred with wolves.

Pack hunters.

It was an overly muscled, hairy monstrosity. Hunched over onto its front legs it was a foot taller than you, re-bar and chunks of steel protruded from its coat, not phasing the beast in the slightest. The Head of a dog was placed on its shoulders and it looked of a werewolf from a cheap sci-fi horror movie. But this was all too real.

The beast spotted you, and immediately took in a deep breath to alert its pack. Without thinking you brought your M24 rifle up to stop that. A shot rang out in the night, separating the beasts head from his body. You heard the thunderous shot echo across the city.

You had just done his job for him.

Without a second thought, at least thirty of the beasts barreled out of the cityscape, galloping toward you at a rapid pace, cutting off the path back to the cart.

"OPEN FIRE, FALL BACK AROUND THAT BUILDING, MOVE!" you scream at the girls. AJ's shotgun makes a resounding boom with a rhythm as the action brings the next shot up to bear, and Rainbow's SMG makes a constant cracking sound, only stopping to change the magazine. you all run (and fly) as fast as you can around the next block, trying to circle around to get a path back to the cart.

You slow up occasionally and let your rifle release a thunderclap and drop one of the lumbering behemoths. Turning around you see AJ has stopped moving, you Are about to yell at her until you see what shes looking at.

There's another pack coming up on you from the opposite side of the street.

Refusing to be a part of their next meal you yell "COME ON." at AJ and drag her into a nearby building. Seeing the third floor blown out and open a bit. you aim for that, seeing a good path onto an adjacent roof, with a bit of a drop, but a leap of faith is better than dying on the streets.

"RAINBOW HOLD THEM OFF FROM THE AIR AND TRY TO GET INTO THE THIRD FLOOR." you scream up at her as you point to the cavity, then quickly enter the building through the front entrance.

With AJ in tow, the two of you make a b-line for the nearest stairs you could see. You think it was a hotel, it looks to have quite the lobby, with a massive chandelier, statue of Celestia, receptionists desk and everything. You dont take too much time to think about it as you turn around and see the mutants crash through the front entrance and fill the lobby. You and AJ fire on them, but its no use, ever one that falls just has two more that step over it. You two make a mad dash up the stairs to the third floor. What do you know, it is a hotel, the third floor has a row of doors that go down the hallway.While thinking which one could be the one with the hole in it AJ interrupts.

"They're coming up the stairs! What do we do?!" she yells at you in desperation and fear.

Getting a really bad idea, you feel your belt for a grenade. You have two attached to the belt. Taking one in one hand you grab your rifle and bust out the wall on one side of the stairwell.

"GET BEHIND ONE OF THOSE DOORS." you order AJ, and she quickly obeys.

Seeing the shadow of the beasts rapidly making progress in the corner of the stairway, you pull the pin of the grenade and set it up against a supporting beam in the wall. Then you dive around the corner, trying to find some cover.

You count, 1...2...3...

Then one makes it up around the stairwell and lunges at your prone figure.

4....

BOOOM

The stairwell collapses, trapping the beasts on the other side. The splintered boards fall from the ceiling and quickly impale the mutant that lunged at you. Its massive body lands at your feet and you scurry away from it. Just in case. You back up against a wall and try to catch your breath.

The door beside you opens and AJ drags you into the room.

"That was a horrible idea." AJ says to you.

"I know, but it worked at least." the two of you share a quick laugh, then you hear Rainbow outside, still firing.

Luckily, this was the room that was open to the outside.

"Get in here Rainbow!" you yell at her.

She gains altitude while still firing and tries to safely back into the room, you see around her, one of the werewolves climb up an adjacent building, and completely ignore Rainbows shots and gets footing at the top of it and makes a jump.

Right onto Rainbow.

They both come barreling into the room. The mutant on top of Rainbow, snarling, trying to go in for the kill. The beast raises its razor sharp claws into the air for the killing blow to her neck.

"NOOOOOO." you don't even have time to think, you dive at the beast and land between its raised shoulder and its head. You take out your M93, grab the beasts neck and stck the barrel into its mouth and unload the entire magazine.

But it wasn't quite fast enough. The beast still had time to bring its claws down into your back. It falls off of the two of you and rips out a deep gash into your back.

But it was worth it. Rainbow is still alive. You look down at her, she is the most shaken up you've ever seen someone. She curls up and starts crying, staring off at what seems like nothing. Shes starting to go into shock, you doubt shes ever had to experience something like that before. You look over the edge and see a pack attempting to climb up the building again, but cant seem to find the footing their friend did, with your last grenade you scatter the group and blow out part of the building to ensure it doesn't happen again.

With some time to spare now, you go up to Rainbow and help the only way you know how. You bring her into an embrace and start stroking her hair, ensuring her of her safety, trying to calm her down. AJ looks at you and discovers the state of your back.

"Partner, that gash is pretty bad, you're losing a lot of blood." AJ says, it wouldn't be the first time, probably wont be the last.

"You still have the medical supplies from the cart?" she nods. "Then start sewing it up. We cant leave until I can help Rainbow out of this."

You continue to stroke Rainbows hair and hold her while AJ cleans and dresses your wound. After a while of Rainbow crying into your shoulder and everybody sitting there in the room, she goes silent. Looking up to the sky you see the start of the sun to raise over the horizon. Its time to go home.

"Are you okay Rainbow?" you say down to her.

Shes gripping you tightly and squeaks out "Yea, I think so."

"Lets get out of here then." you say to them.

You all three climb down to ground level and begin the trek back to the cart. AJ looks like she just wants to go home. Rainbow looks like a scared child, never straying too far away from you. You feel sorry for her. She shouldn't have had to go through that.

Exiting the streets and returning to the train tracks you walk up to the cart and prepare for the journey home.

Rainbow has rediscovered her confidence and strides up to the door and puts a hand on the latch.

"STOP." you say as you drag her off the door, you reach into her pocket and retrieve the pin.

"Forgetting something?" you wave the pin in front of her, she just gives you a sheepish smile.

You open the cart and everyone crawls into it.

AJ yawns and tells the two of you "Well Im gonna get some shuteye. You two can fight over the other bed."

She walks off as you lean over the computer on the engine and start it up.

POWER SOURCE DEPLETED. POWER SOURCE NEEDED

You stick the ruby into the arms that jut out of the compartment to start the engine.

INITIALIZING...

POWER SOURCE ACCEPTED.

DESTINATION?

You go through the process again, this time selecting Ponyville. You stand up to realize Rainbow is still standing behind you, holding her arm and sticking to you like a lost puppy.

"You can have the other bed, Ill sleep in the hallway." you say, trying to be a gentlemen, she probably needs her space anyway.

"No! Er...I mean we could always share it." Rainbow blurts out. Maybe not.

"If you insist." you say, not objecting to the comfortable looking bed.

You make your way to the back room opposite of AJ's. She didn't bother to close the door, so you can see her haphazardly splayed across the bed, seemingly falling asleep right before she hit the bed. They probably arent used to this sort of action, let alone not getting any sleep. Your being used to this helps you stay awake, but something else is keeping Rainbow up.

You walk into the small room you and Rainbow will share, and close the door behind you. Turning around you see Rainbow staring at you, biting her lip, with new found confidence in her eyes.

She comes up to you and slams you against the wall, pinning you there playfully. "You saved my life twice today. How am I ever going to repay you?" she asks, almost sarcastically.

"I'm sure you already have something in mind." you smile down at her, completely okay with what you know she wants to do.

She pushes her lips into yours, and before even getting to savor it she pushes her tongue into your mouth, but you aren't complaining, you return the action happily.

She has one leg hiked up around you, and that does it. The years of neglect have finally exposed themselves in your manhood, fully erect, it almost busts itself out of your pants. Your primal urges take control of you and you pick Rainbow up and put her on the bed. She breaks the kiss for a moment to make a cat growl.

You love it when girls do that.

The power struggle starts as you and rainbow flip around the bed for the top position, never breaking the kiss. You move your hands up under her jacket and feel her soft skin. You break the kiss and bring her shirt up over her head and out of her wings, revealing her upper body to you. You look down and see the body of a goddess albeit the smaller breasts, but it is the most glorious thing you've seen in a long, long time. You didn't even think the princesses themselves could've been as attractive as Rainbow is now, and she still has her pants on. You go to fix that and she takes your shirt and cape off, everything getting thrown on the ground.

You go to drag your hand across her skin, but she flips you onto the bed again. Which is ten times hotter now that she is fully undressed. She goes for the belt, and rips it open with reckless abandon. she swiftly removes your pants all the way off with a harsh tug, revealing the entirety of your member.

"All I wanted was any dick. But I come across one like this? I'm not sure how this could get better." she says as she marvels at the size of the piece in front of her. Oh you intend to make it better alright.

Any open thought process you had is immediately erased as Rainbow strokes your shaft with her tongue, and cups your balls with a free hand. You almost release right there, with it being neglected for so long, but you dont want to end the fun just yet.

She doesn't have the same idea. She then moves her mouth over the head. Just breathing on it. Her hot breath on your manhood almost sends you over the edge, but you resist yet again. Then she puts it in her mouth and goes as far down as she could go, which is about halfway, but you weren't complaining. The pleasure is almost blinding as you let out a low groan and squirm under her. Seeing this advantage, she puts her other free hand on the base and starts to bob her head up and down, her hand following suit. You are almost pass out right there from sensory overload, as she continues. You try to get back in the fight by beginning to gently massage her wings, which elicits a moan from her still full mouth. As you go across the wings, you suddenly feel her go deeper, and her hair gently strokes your skin. That makes you fucking lose it. You stop stroking her wings to tense up and release your load right into her mouth. She happily accepts every drop and looks up into your eyes. She doesn't let up until every drop is gone, then she releases you from her grip, looks directly at you, and swallows all of it with a smile

Now its your turn.

With madness in your eyes you flip rainbow over and kiss her. You dont even care what she just did. With passion most wont ever see from you, you kiss down her neck, making her moan every step of the way. You get to one breast and attack it with your tongue, getting another moan for your work. You move your hands to the other breast and a wing and start massaging, you repeat the process on the other side. She lets out a moan that sounds like shes going to cum already. But you aren't finished with her yet. You kiss down her beautifully sculpted abdomen to the sweet spot. Its so wet down there she made a puddle on the bed, and you know just how to clean it up. With your tongue you race circles into her slit which elicits a moan that you're pretty sure woke up the animals in the woods beside the tracks. She doesn't give in though, shes got the stamina of a race horse. So with purpose, your fingers join the fight, penetrating her while your tongue works the clit. It isn't long before she has to give in, or her voice might just go out. Finally she erupts with pleasure, her pussy gripping your hand so hard you think it could break the bones in your fingers.

You look up to her with a seductive look, and she does the same. with her exposed to you, you position your dick above her entrance. She starts to grind against it with a deep yearning, which you happily enter into. She starts to lose her faculties almost immediately. Her eyes roll into the back of her head as she rocks back and yells of pleasure escape her lips. You position one hand on the top of her slit and another on her breast and rub, before long she gives in yet again, attempting to milk you for all your worth, but you hold out.

She soon recovers and rolls you onto the bed and begins riding you like a bull. With her features beautifully illuminated against the rising sun through the window, you come closer to the edge. Seeing her beautiful body move with elegance and purposefulness against you is too much. You grab her hips and back and bend her over and begin thrusting into her with all you've got. She moans right into your ear which only encourages you. She goes over the edge again and her body arches into an orgasm. This causes you to explode as well, pulling out of her you release in between your two bodies, her beautifully soft skin feeling like silk against you.

This is all both of you could take. She rolls off of you and cleans you up before snuggling up against you. You do the same, rolling under the blanket and bring her close to you. No words need to be said in this beautiful moment.

Soon the two of you drift off to sleep together.