Russian Shipping Rouletteby The Daring Cookie
Chapters
Prologue
"It's gotta be here somewhere. I know it!" a female pegasus clad in a dirty green shirt and khaki wide helmet said to herself, glancing over a map in her hoofs over and over again.
However what ever she seemed to be looking for was not on the map and she, with frustration, threw the map on the ground.
"Stupid map, good-for-nothing piece of s-"
But before this mare could finish her sentence, a golden ray blind-sided her, causing her to immediately throw up one of her hoofs for protection against the bright ray. Once she did, she gasped in surprise and started hopping up and down in excitement.
"I found it! I found it!!!! HAHAH! Aviania!!!! Oh my googily moogily!!!"
She trotted down from the hill she was standing upon and rushed down towards the golden city sitting in front of her. The city was huge and complex; beautiful but at the same time desolate. However age did not touch the golden city and the ancient beautiful buildings within Aviania remained the same as they were long ago.
"Great googily moogily, the buildings really are made of gold! Haha HAHA! THIS IS AWESOME!" she said to herself happily, giggling with glee and now galloped through the old golden roads of Aviania.
She was now in the center of the city and continued galloping happily, looking up to the skyline and staring at the beautiful city above her. But she failed to notice warning signs on the ground, warning of anyone there to stop immediately.What she also failed to notice was one of those signs bore the words "CCCP". Unfortuatntely for the mare, she was not one for stopping and continued rushing through the street, heading towards her doom. However, her hoof landed against a stray rock and as a result she looked down sharply to see what caused her pain and saw the massive fault in the ground.
"Oh boy, that is a really REALLY big hole!"
The mare attempted to press all four hooves down to slow herself down but only caused herself to barrel roll from the sudden move. She continued skidding on the ground way too fast and fell off of the ledge, screaming to what seemed like her death. She tried to flap her wings and flinched from pain in her wings, forgetting she had broken them in a previous adventure. As she continued falling, she saw what appeared to be a lake made of gold and she yelled in excitement.
"Haha! I found the Heart of Aviania! Too bad I'm about to be sent randomly somewhere in universe. Why do I keep talking to my-"
She was interrupted by her loud splash into the gold lake, which then instantesouly transported her through time and space in a big POP!
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1964
Somewhere within the Soviet Union
"Commander Slevtisky, I have the prisoner you have requested. Should -whatever it is- be terminated?"
A solider standing in a small metallic room looked upon his commander, who was decorated with countless ribbons and medals and sitting on a platform. He also bore a hat which had the symbol of his country, the golden hammer and sickle on top a red star. He smiled at the solider and took out a Cuban cigar, lighting it with a small lighter.
" Keep that prisoner alive. There is much we can do with her." he gruffed.
The soldier nodded and left the room in a hurry. The commander continued smoking the cigar and blew out the smoke he had just inhaled. He then got up from his chair and walked down the steps of the platform he was on. He looked to his right and saw a green button on the wall next to a set of controls. He pressed the button and the wall in front of him dissolved, revealing a figure sitting in the darkness.
"So," the commander started, taking a moment to smoke. He then continued after puffing his cigar a couple of times. "You must be Daring Doo. We know how deeply associated you are with Capitalist America in future. But tell me Daring Doo, why do you think you're here?"
The dark figure on the floor did not move and remained still and silent.
"Tsk..too bad you did not answer. Looks like we must play game. It is personal favorite of mine - Russian Roulette."
The commander laughed, breathing in all the smoke that was caused as a result. He flipped a switch beside the green button and the lights inside the wall turned on, revealing it to be a interrogation room of some sort. Lo behold, a small pegasus wearing a green shirt and pith helmet was on the ground, obviously stunned by the sudden intense light above her. To the commander, she seem so weak and fragile but in reality she was the opposite of that.
"Time to play game Daring Doo" the commander chuckled as he walked towards the interrogation room's entrance.
However before he could, he was interrupted by a voice in the back of the room.
"Commander! What if we made her play other game? Like Russian Roulette but little different?"
The commander paused, raised an eyebrow and looked behind him to find the voice that had said that.
"Little different? How so?" he asked the voice.
A young solider revealed himself from the doorway as being the bearer of the voice and answered the question right away.
"Perhaps if we copy American idea and 'ship' her in a roulette fashion, she might spill secret to obtain friendship and happiness. Besides commander, we always copy American idea. It has work for us so far, no?"
"What do you mean "ship"? Like send her to Cuba?"
"With respect Commander,niet What I mean is like put her in relation to other in our list of prisoner."
The commander bit his cigar and stroked his beard in thought.
"Da, we can do that. We make her make relation to random subject in list, then she will release secret to friendship and happiness by accident at some point. Good idea, you just earn promotion."
"I am most happy. I cannot feel it now but I know I will learn to actually learn to be happy from this!"
The young soldier left, trying his hardest to make a truly happy face while doing so.
"You hear that Daring Doo? We will get secret of friendship and happiness from you. I can almost feel it now!"
The commander left the room but instructed two soldiers outside the room to carry out the orders of "shipping". The soldiers nodded their heads and left, seizing the first prisoner on their list as soon as they could.
"You're holding me too tight! I still love all of you anyway! Equally!" the pony said while squirming in the soldiers' grips.
The soldiers then opened the interrogation room and tossed the pony in their hands inside with Daring Doo.
"Activate simulation right now!" barked a now entering officer to the soldiers.
The soldiers nodded their hands and manipulated the complicated controls by the door, causing the sides of the interrogation room to become flooded in golden water and causing the two ponies to pass out from it.
Ch. 1 - Vladimus
"Hey." I said to the pony in front of me.
"Hey." she mirrored back to me.
I smiled at her and she did the same back to me. I looked around and saw that we were standing in what looked like a park of some sort. There was also a set of charis and a table nearby, compelte with a chess set on top of the table. It was amazing how the gold of Aviania was able to make all of this seem so real. Almost too real.
"Maybe we should take a seat." I told the pony in front of me, while pointing at the table and charis. She eagerily agreed and bounded over to the cahirs and table and took a seat right away. I had to keep reminding myself that whatever happened is not real, no matter how convincing it may seem.
"So today is our second aniversary" the dark pony in front of me told me.
I smiled, for I knew that if I was to get out of this simulation, I had to play their game.
"Oh I know", I lied, smiling at her with such sincerity. "That's why we're here."
I then extended my hoofs out and held hers and she responded with a soft giggle.
"Oh Daring...how 'daring' of you..hehe"
I wanted to softly chuckle at her response for my mind started becoming flooded with memories of us being together but I remembered that the Soviets were still watching and I suppressed it. Instead, I just continued smiling, giving the pony in front of me the best googily eyes I could.
"Anything for you Vlad" I almost purred to her.
I then used my wings and hovered over the table, carefully flying over Vlad's head. I then leaned in and kissed her on the forehead, to which she unexpectedly grabbed my face and re-directed it to hers.
"Woah Vlad!" I exclaimed, as my cheeks became rosy.
She continued to kiss me and even closed her eyes but I did not close mine. Instead, I started looking around the park, trying to notice where the actual walls were. I noticed that just further down the path we were on was a lake and I couldn't help to notice that the lake itself was incredibly still. I then thought of an idea to get Vlad and myself out of the simulation.
"Hey honey! Maybe we should kiss by the lake! It would be more romantic down there!" I told Vlad sincerely, pushing my face away from hers in the best way I could to not hurt her feelings.
She gave me a look of curiosity, looked to where I was pointing and then looked back to me in delight. She immediately grabbed my hoof and dragged me towards the lake as fast as she could.
"Oh boy, this is gonna hurt" I told myself, as I braced myself for impact.
Just as I had expected, both Vlad and I slammed head on to the invisible wall that was just short of the lake.
"OW! What the- how come we can't go to the lake!" Vlad pleaded to me, as she started feeling the invisible wall in front of us.
Bilet. They found out it is simulation. Dammit. Shut it off! SHUT IT OFF!
Vlad looked towards the sky for the voice that was booming overhead and she looked back at me.
"What's happening honey? Honey?" she asked me.
I wanted to tell her but I knew it was better if I hadn't. Vlad trotted over to me and hugged me tightly as we saw the edges of the sky and park start to melt off, revealing a very grim reality. The lake itself was torn in two as a huge ugly door emerged out of it. The tables and chairs themselves became nothing but a dark and lifeless shell of its former self. Eventually the entire simulation came to an end and both myself and Vlad fell down to the ground, passing out from the simulation's termination.