Just Another Day; Good Work Delta
Chapter 11: Chapter 10: A Turn for the Worse
Previous Chapter Next ChapterA/N: I would like to make a good chapter on 9/25/12 because I would like for it to be considered a Birthday Special, because that's mah B-Day. Chapter 15 is coming up around the corner, so I would like to have a list of questions you would ask the Crew or any characters in my story by the time Chapter 15 comes around. If I don't have enough questions, then you'll have to wait until I reach chapter 25, if I make it that far without running out of ideas ,that is. Thank you!
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Canterlot / Drew, Rainbow Dash / Saturday, 9:30 PM
It had been a while since Rainbow and I sat down, telling stories of our past, she told me about when she found the Elements of Harmony, I had told her about rescuing the Queen of England with the S.A.S. She told me about when Twilight had a deformed unicorn horn due to poison joke, I had told her about Angela.
Angela, I could still never get over her death, I could've been there to protect her, but I decided to sit this one out, which locked my fate into what it is today. I am the only one left in my blood related family, but I still have a family to deal with, I had treated Rainbow and the girls like how I took care of my little sister, I looked after them like an older brother. Treating my team mates like I did with my older brothers, looking out for them when they are in time of need. Treating the princesses like I did with my parents and my CO, plenty of respect and talking with manners.
"So, uh...You planning on coming home to Ponyville anytime soon?" Rainbow had asked me, derailing my train of thought, I quickly snapped back into reality responding with, "Actually Rainbow, Delta has been assigned another mission, we are escorting the Princesses to the Griffon Empire, to discuss peace negotiations." I said, trying to use my Pip-boy, to see how my survival is coming along, this is the real world now, so hardcore mode is always on. It said I needed some sleep, but that was it, I turned my Pip-Boy's blue screen off and looked back at Rainbow, who looked as if she were getting closer, with her eyes closed, about to kiss me? Oh, hell no, I wasn't ready to get serious, this was the first day of me and Rainbow dating after all. Every time she lurched closer to be, I backed away. Every time she leaned in, I leaned away, until she got to the point where I was at the edge of the booth I was sitting on, so it was either pucker up, or take the fall to the ground. I had decided to fall to the ground, just remembering my moms weird, but wise words.
"Rainbow, I can't kiss you, I'm not saying that I won't ever kiss you, just not now. I don't think it's time for that moment yet." I admitted, my mom had told me that the first kiss is like making a first impression, and it was something like a relationship milestone in her book. Rainbow understood everything, I had told her about what my mom had said to me, she found it a bit silly, but she didn't hold it against me, as did Angela, she would happily oblige to postponing our first kiss until we were both ready for it.
Rainbow was beat today, she had Jhon whip her into shape because she hasn't done anything for the past month because of my coma, sitting by me very chance she got. Which was still pretty adorable by the way. The moral of the story is that she was tired, so I gave her a piggy-back ride back to the castle, placed her in bed, and made my way back into my room. I took inventory because we were going away again on another mission in a few days, which was really easy because I had the Pip-Boy I stol- found I mean, latched on to my wrist. I was just about done taking inventory, everything was in order, until Princess Luna decided to give me a surprise visit. I swear these ponies are just naturally part ninja or something aren't they?
"*GASP* HNNNNNGuuhhh." I was practically having a mini-heart attack right then and there, clutching my chest hoping the pain would subside.
"I hope that your first date went well?" Luna had asked me, I nodded, hugging her, this was the first time I actually hugged, hugged a pony and meant it, and I have to say, squeezing the living daylights out of somepony was actually quite fun, no wonder these ponies had a death grip, they hug other ponies all the time.
"It went great, fantastic even! She kissed me on the cheek! Look, I have PROOF" I exasperated pointing to the pink lipstick mark over my cheek, I had told her about us waiting to make the official first kiss, on the lips, she too found it funny, I just didn't get it though.
"Oh, my stars! I didn't even know Rainbow Dash wore lipstick! She's always so...tomcolt-ish." Luna had said, placing a hoof under her chin, thinking about it, pretty hard too. I never knew Rainbow had a tomcolt personality, I always thought she was a girl that liked getting dirty, not trying to make it sound dirty. Clean that image out of your mind!
"Well, Princess Luna, I must get to bed, I am suffering from a mild case of sleep deprivation." I said climbing into bed, looking at my Pip-Boy, yep, I was suffering from sleep deprivation for sure. Luna just thanked me for my time and went back to her bedchamber.
A full week had passed already, Rainbow and I were going steady, but I wasn't all that comfortable when I had told the rest of the girls about it, they just threatened that if I broke Rainbow's heart, I was in for a world of hurt, and Pinkie said that she absolutely NEEDED a 'We're both Dating' party, but I declined because I didn't want to make it a big deal.
Well, I looked again at my Pip-Boy to see if that I missed anything, but it said I didn't miss anything, so we started to head to Princess Celestia's Chariot of Win Mode, to make it look more epic, I had changed into an Alicorn as well. I started to compare my height to the other two Alicorns, to my surprise, I was the tallest! That was just a big bowl of win pudding right there my friend. I was trotting around like an excited school filly, the Princesses let out a heavy sigh and then giggled at my randomness. Rainbow was just blushing to see her boy/coltfriend dancing around like that being all sorts of crazy, because I'm just a crazy person after all. It's funny that you can be pretty old, like me, and still have the personality of a 6 year old child, I just find it fascinating. Even though I'm several centuries younger than she is, I'm still taller, with the fact that I'm a male Alicorn to do with that.
We were well on our way to the Griffon Empire until we heard a Lion/Falcon screech coming from the clouds, and it just so happens to be Raiders, Griffons no less. "Ahh, Griffon's, that's the shit I don't like!" I shouted shooting my plasma cutter into the air. The good thing is, is that I played Dead Space before in a simulation, and my favorite weapon was the plasma cutter. The thing about using the plasma cutter in this situation is because I was trying to clip their wings off, and that it had an aiming laser. Eventually getting overrun with raiders and bandits, they ganged up on us, knocking us out, while they foalnapped both princesses. Once we woken up, they were long gone, "Damn!" I said, throwing a rock into the forest, making a rustling noise, my Pip-Boy objectives have updated, pointing my location indicator to head east, deeper into Griffon territory.
We had finally reached our destination, which seemed to be a very well hidden log cabin inside the forest, there were many guards at the building, so we had to breach and clear our way into the house if we were going to save the princesses. As each room we cleared, we were going into the basement, where we heard screams of pain and cries of help.
"Okay motherfucker, time to end this. BREACHING BREACHING!" I yelled, throwing a flashbang into the door, waited for it to detonate, and then kicked the door open and instantly went into VATS. My squadmates did the same as we all went into VATS, each picking and choosing one or two targets at once, but I wanted mine alive, because I knew he was the leader of the foalnapping, so I just clipped his wing off, trying not to hit one of the princesses in the process.
"Get on the ground! NOW!" I barked at the leader, he was already on the ground but I always wanted to say that.
"You okay your highnesses?" Nick said, pulling the bags off of their heads, revealing a bruised face, but I had turned into an Alicorn and fixed them up with my healing magic, I was a medic in the first place after all, beind part Alicorn is just a bonus.
"Thanks to you guys, yes, I'm fine." Princess Celestia replied, trying to keep a calm tone, without stuttering.
"Well, I have to say that that was a rather...interesting experience. I've never been foalnapped before." Princess Luna said before rushing out the door, wanting to see the bright of day again. We had decided to turn home back into Equestria, deciding that it's too dangerous to try and go meet up with the Griffon emperor. Once we had went back to the castle, I decided to go back to Ponyville where I haven't been in a long time.
"I think it's about time for some R&R. What do you boys think?" The team nodded their heads silently, letting out sighs of relief.
"I think I want to go to that nightclub again, I could go for a drink." Jhon said, taking off his helmet, I asked him why would he do that because I can fix drinks up at home, which was cheaper because all I had to do was buy the alcohol. He told me he had completely forgot about my bartending years back when I was 23, which was understandable, I was the oldest out of the group. Nick is around 29 years old, Kaptn was 31, and Jhon was the youngest, being 26. Sometimes, they actually tried to make me feel old, even though I looked the youngest. I hadn't noticed that the girls were in their late twenties, they looked pretty young compared to what they've told me. Rainbow told me that she was 27, Twilight told me that she was 28, Applejack was 26, Pinkie was also 27, Fluttershy was 28, and Rarity didn't even tell me her age, but from what I understand she was the oldest out of the six, telling by her personality.
Ponyville / The Crew / Sunday, 6:00 PM
Things didn't turn out as we planned once we got back to Ponyville though, everything was on fire, and there was a four-headed figure standing in the middle of the square, destroying everything. I grabbed my plasma cutter, and I had also stepped into a store I had installed into the Ponyville Train station, buying the Advanced Suit, which looked pretty badass. I had grabbed a nearby stick and picked it up with my Telekinesis, and threw it all the way to the hydra, impaling it in the neck of one of the heads. It screamed in terror as I threw another one at it, this time into the same heads' eye. The Hydra was now chasing me, it was hard to run in my Advanced Suit, no wonder Isaac was so slow when he tried to run with it, anyways, I was running back into the Froggy Bottom Bog, where its home is. I had fired a few Plasma shots, cutting off one of its toes, making it even angrier at me, which was a good thing so it would keep chasing me, but also a bad thing because it was getting closer.
"Hey BIG BOY! EAT STASIS BITCH!" I yelled, shooting a glowing blue stream at it, managing to slow it down for just a bit longer as I got farther away from the Hydra. I didn't want to kill it because Fluttershy would get on my ass about it, forcing me to listen to an hour long lecture from her saying that 'Hydra's have feelings too, you don't need to go around killing everything' speech. The good thing is that I managed to get to Froggy Bottom Bog, the bad thing is that, there's no bridge back to Ponyville, I was trapped there. The Hydra swung one of its heads at me, in which it missed but I managed to climb on it like a makeshift bridge. I activated my jump-jets, giving me that little boost I needed to get back to the side of the bog that Ponyville was on.
"Wow Drew, that was awesome!" Nick said, hi-fiving me, then the girls came out of nowhere, looking at my new suit and my glowing faceplate, the giant RIG on my back, and everything else that came with it. I took of my helmet portion by deactivating it, taking it off looked just as badass when I put it on my head. I liked this suit, it held a lot of protection and my stasis regeneration was 50% faster, as well as a lot of storage space, so I knew I would be using this again in the future.
"Thank you for not killing the Hydra Drew, I'm not happy about you hurting it, but you're off the hook this time." Fluttershy did NOT, sound happy at all, but I knew she was grateful on the inside, but knowing her for like 6 months already, she couldn't hold a grudge against anypony. Rainbow was about to tackle me to the ground, but before she could, I shot her with a beam of stasis, slowing her down to like 25% of her original speed, everypony gasped at the sight, they've never seen Rainbow go so slow before, but as the stasis wore off, she still managed to tackle me to the ground, literally hugging me to death, again.
"Hey Rainbow, I'm fine, don't worry about it." I said smoothly, she was looking at my Advanced Suit, like all the other ponies, they didn't know what it was, but I think I looked pretty cool in it.
"What are you wearing darling? It looks so, slim and flexible, I love it!" Rarity looked in surprise, she actually complimented me about my suit, which was a complete surprise to me by the way, I thought this wouldn't look good even by Nick's standards, but I guess this is Equestria, where shit happens for no apparent reason. I was beat, putting up with Griffons AND a Hydra today, I just wanted to go to sleep, while the boys did whatever they wanted to do in town.
"That's the shit I don't like!" I said out loud, to nopony in particular, but dealing with Griffons AND a Hydra the same day really was the shit I don't like.
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