"Twilight..wake up..Wake up!"

Somepony was calling me in the dark. I really wanted to get up and response, but I feel like my eyelids are so heavy, and my head is so painful like it's gonna blow up.

"Wake up man, wake up, Twilight, I said, wake up!"

Oh Celestia, stop shouting at me, I will bounce up if I can, and I mean it!

"Twilight! Wake up-!" Followed by a loud thunder. Then, I feel like I was grabbed and pulled away from where I was lying, and the pony who was holding me is running at his top speed.

At the same time, I seemed to regain control to my body, by feeling the quick wind battering my cheek, and very slowly, I opened my eyes, only to found myself on Frankie's shoulder, with Spike following him aside, and they both are running from the series of blue lightnings stroke down to the ground.

"Wh...what is-"

"OhHolyGodThankCelestiaYouWokeUp!" He said in a row, and breathing quickly while dodging the relentless strikes and assault of high voltage electricity.

"What is going on?" I rephrased, and looked at Spike.

"We don't have time and air to speak -right fucking now!" He replied, and I can see that he is carrying my pink chainsaw on his hands, "And I thought you won't mind to hold it by yourself again, right?"

"I guess, maybe later.." I looked at our back. The strong lightnings are about to pierce through my eyeballs and cut my nerves.

"GodfuckingDamnItSheJustWon'tStopIt!" Frankie shouted again, while looking around us, "WhereTheHellIsMeryl---?"

I lifted my head and tried to find the source of lightning. It's coming from a black Viking Ship, and I can barely hear some heavy drum-knocking noises and bass guitar playing sound.

A ship? Then It would be way too easy.

I jumped off from Frankie's shoulder, and grabbed my chainsaw in an instant. Then, I went on gather magic on my horn, to transform the chainsaw into the blaster. Hope I still got enough ammunition for this little friend.

I hold the blaster with my front hooves, and roughly targeted the ship, pulling the trigger in instant.

"WhatAreYouTryingToDoNow,ChainsawGirl?"

"Knock that fricking ship back, you punk!"

"You will not stand a chance against that thing and its lightnings! Just run!"

I don't think so, gentlecolts.

I was running backwards, facing the ship and its dangerous projectiles, attempting to fire slug rounds do damage it, though I knew this would be way too less effective against such a big thing, and while its on top of us several hundred miles ahead of us.

I was wrong. It is effective, and the ship is seemed to be retreating, or more clearly, accelerating and went ahead of us, disappeared by diving into a much bigger cloud.

The lightning stopped, as well as the two dudes who thought it's impossible for a 40mm revolving grenade launcher to deal with a ship.

"Oh thank Celestia...huff..it was gone finally..."

"Boy, I guess you've never tasted being fried by a thunder of 500,000V before.I did, and I don't want to try it again." Frankie said in a calm attitude. That's odd, I thought he was just breathing like hell.

"Who is she all the way you're talking about?"

"Aletheia."

This name sounded so familiar. Then I quickly remembered it, the princess said at the beginning that she is one of the only ponies who knew where the book about zombie-arising rituals was kept. I can't believe that's she riding the ship.

"She is riding that ship and attacking us?"

"You bet, right before you woke up on my back, she suddenly appeared on top of us, as well as her fucking lightning bolts."

I can surely bet that she is controlled by one of those evil spirits. That also means, she have to be killed in order to restore order and law.

I took out a lollipop and put it into my mouth, in between my lips.

Frankie looked at me.

"I knew what you're thinking. You have to track her down and kill her, right?"

|"Exactly, and would you.."

"Oh no you don't, lady, I gotta head back to Canterlot. Don't ask why, royal orders. I think there should and will be somepony else which could help you on your way." He quickly spoke, then made a loud whistle.

"♪ Meryl! Over here!"

I then heard loud wing flapping sound closing by, followed by the dusty landing of the pegacorn onto the sand ground.

"Let me introduce, this is Meryl. You two have probably confronted each other before."

"Yes. Messily."

"And miserable." She said, looking at me with an apologetic expression. "I apologizes for what I had just done."

"I knew it, you didn't mean to do that, right? You were just under control."

"I couldn't even remember a thing. I just recognized that I saw you fighting me in a total darkness. And then I woke up from a really loud thunder strike."

"That's Aletheia, and this tough awesome girl is going to defeat her and turn her back. Unfortunately she is ruining Cloudsdales and she couldn't got up there." Frankie said, pointing at me.

"I am certainly glad to help."

"Why, thank you so much. I was just considering whether I am going to seek help from my friend.."

"You don't have time for that, Twilight. You ponies best get upon there quick before the others ruin the country. Of course, I will try my best to help out, if I can. I gotta go, good luck."

He said, grabbed his microphone from the ground and stretched his wings, flew up into the high sky.

Meryl turned and looked at me, while I did the vice versa. I now can get a clear and closer look of her appearance:

She is wearing an olive-green military blouse, with a white T-shirt under it, as well as long, blue trousers and a necklace with a Peace logo badge on it. She also have multiple bracelets on her both front legs, and ear piercings, as well as a spectrum-colored bass guitar and a M60 hanging behind her back.

"Can I simply call you Twilight?"

"Why yes, everypony called my name like this." I said, looking at Spike. "Spike, you alright? Can you go on with us?"

"I am okay with it."

"Great. So, can we move now, Meryl? Time is getting short for us."

"That's just what I wanted to say. You can hop on my back, but wait.."

Meryl paused, taking the machine gun down from her back, as well as her bass, then performed a spell by quickly gather magic on her horn, hiding the guitar in a bright, quick green flash.

She cocked the gun, and held it tight with front hooves.

"Done. You ready?"

"Always ready." I said.

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It should feel nice when you're travelling through layers of clouds under the bright, comfortable sunlight. It just makes you feel extremely relaxed, but not for me, neither Spike nor Meryl too, as seen from their faces and expressions: With Spike in a heavily sweating condition and staring at Meryl at almost all the time, seemed to be afraid of falling from such a great height.

Meryl, on the other side, holding her weapon and looked around in a serious-looking expression, often turned around and tracked the current conditions of the area and clouds surrounding us. I then noticed that the rear sight of her M60 was flipped up.

For me, other than concerning about the enemies we're going to encounter soon, I was much more worried about, if Meryl is going to make a complaint about the weight she was carrying. If she did, then it must be related to my weight! I was so fat and gross because of all the lollipops I just ate in these recent months. I wanted to cut them down, but they're just too delicious! Especially those Strawberry flavored ones!

While I was about to gone crazy about my weight and the flashback of consequence of eating tons load of lollipops, Meryl suddenly shouted:

"We're here! You better get a spell performed so you two can walk on clouds."

Oh! Almost freaking forgot about it. If we didn't did so we're gonna fall to our deaths for sure.

"Got it." I quickly performed a spell that enabled us to stand on clouds properly, shortly after I took Spike off from my scratch-mark-filled back. "It's safe now, Spike, just get over it."

"Really? Is it safe? Can I walk on those clouds now? I don't wanna fucking die -"

"I said, shut up and follow us on my back, you baby dragon!"

I grumbled, when suddenly a familiar voice shouted from a distance not far away -

"Let her go you criminal scum zombies!"

Then, a light blue shadow quickly swiped in front of me, flying towards the direction of Meryl -

It was Rainbow Dash!

And, oh my, Meryl was too concentrated on scouting the area, and she is facing the opposite of Dash, while she was ready to give her a big kick -

*SMACK!*

Meryl suddenly turned around and blocked this fast attack with her gun. A loud sound was clearly heard as Rainbow kicked the gun instead of who she was going to attack.

"Who the hell are you trying to kidnap Twilight?"

"Hey! State it clear, kid, I am not kidnapping her! I am just helping her on her way!"

"Helping on her way for what?"

They went into a really annoying, and vicious argument lasted for at least ten minutes, until I can't stand it anymore and went to stop them -

"Hold it you two-Stop the nonsense argue!" I said, loud enough to cut their conversation.

"Let me make this clear first, why were you here, Rainbow?"

"I just came here to check if Cloudsdale is safe from those Zombie swarms, and it wasn't! It was flooded with Pegasus zombies, so I just went cleaning them, when I saw this strange-looking guy with you! I though she was a zombie, so I just went attempt to kick her hard in the face."

"I said, I didn't and will not try to kidnap Twilight, I was just helping her!"

"Yes, Rainbow, she is not a zombie, she is just helping me to find a pony."

"Oh, now I see...Sorry about that."

"Hmph, never mind.." She said, looking around the city. City of the Sky and Clouds, controlling and maintaining weather of all over Equestria.

"This city is full of discrete and separated clouds, and I think it wouldn't be possible for me to carry you all the way around, right, Twilight? We need to think of some ways else to freely travel around the place and to find her."

"Oh, I almost forgot! Today is your birthday, Twilight! I got a present for you!"

"Really? That's too kind for you!"

"Stop being silly, Twilight! Everypony should have presents on their birthday! Happy Birthday for you, Twilight!" Rainbow said, as she took out a present from her back.

I held the present over with magic. "Can I open it now?"

"Of course. And I think you'll need it right now." Rainbow said.

I smiled, then immediately opened the present. Removing the lid.

It was another upgrade to my chainsaw, by adding exhaust pipes, fuel gauge and a powerful engine to it, making it acting like an compact automobile -

Chainsaw Dash!

"Oh my, this is holy awesome!"

"But, wait, how is this suppose to dig into the clouds? It will burn and vaporize them on contact!"

"This one is capable to dig into clouds without damaging them at all. Cost me 40 more bits to add that feature in, but, no big deal, for a present to my dearest friend."

"So, we can move on freely now. Just make sure don't fall between those gaps of the clouds, Twilight, we can't help you much."

"You have my word. I never fail any challenges." I said gracefully, grabbing my chainsaw and started the engine. "Alright, let's go."

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Our way was basically success by so far, not much pegasus zombies were seen on our way, until we arrived at the Weather Factory - in which other ways were blocked by fallen buildings and black, dangerous clouds, I guess we have to pass through here.

The factory was a total mess. Machines downed and broken into parts, zombie pegasus' corpses everywhere, even in the spectrum pools, staining them red. These massacres were seen in almost all portions and sections of the Weather Factory, including a pink pegasus' body being stabbed with several non-melting snowflakes and lodged onto a wall, with words written in blood aside 'YOU DON'T STAND A CHANCE BITHCES' at the snowflake making section

I looked at those snowflakes. They never melts, even under the body temperature of these fresh dead bodies, and was as sharp as razor blades, deeply lodged into the body, even go through bones.

"Rainbow, are these..the bi-products of this factory? They don't looked like normal snowflakes that should fall in winter." I asked, pointing at the dead body on the wall.

"You mean the snowflakes? Oh yes, this factory was somehow producing weapons at the same time we're making various weather conditions, like the shuriken flakes you just saw, high-voltage thunder clouds, lava-like rainbow beams...anything related to weather. And it's hard to believe that this place will exe downed so quickly.."

"Not only the thunder clouds of this factory, there's some thunderbolts emitting from the Cloudsdale stadium. Look." Meryl said, pointed at the stadium far away. It was lit under the light cyan thunderbolts happening on top of it.

"Who is doing that to our great Stadium?! That's completely rude and insane!"

"That's who we're going to find and deal with. She is extremely dangerous, but must be a good game to hunt with." I said, didn't notice that a tall, giant marble pillar was falling upon me,

"Watch out!" Rainbow and Meryl screamed at the same time, until I heard their scream and looked upward, the pillar was about to crush me flat.

I smiled, started the chainsaw, kneeled onto the ground for support from my hind legs, then lifted the chainsaw high, supported and as well cutting into the pillar. Without a minute the pillar soon got divided into two halves, and landed heavily onto the grounds.

"Piece of cake." I smiled, ready to get up from my kneeling position, just to hear some growling at my back.

"Six 'o clock, a Pegasus!" Meryl yelled, ready to lift her weapon and open fire.

I remained opposite to the approaching zombie, then as it was about to grab me and bite my neck, I handled the chainsaw and speared behind through my right shoulder, directly stabbing into that asshole's head. I didn't pulled out my chainsaw until the chains have made its face messy enough.

Poor Spike, he just got showered by a fall of blood and fleshes. On my back.

"More and more of them are coming from behind us, we better keep going." Rainbow said, picked up a 2x4 from the ground. "Or as well, knocking some zombie heads off first."

"Look, Rainbow, we really need to go quickly. We don't have much time to waste.."

"Why? I am sure you can take out that freaking dude quickly. Let's use some precious time on zombie whacking." Rainbow said in excitement, hit a zombie in the neck with the wooden plank.

"Please, Rainbow, we really need to go, and I mean it!"

"Well, if you say so, sure, let's go anyway." She said in disappointment, dropping the plank aside.