My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Starlight, Starbright

Chapter 19

Scattered

The first thing Starlight did when she woke up was cough hard. A whole lot of dust entered her lungs and she coughed to get them out. She hacked up a lung for a full 30 seconds before she felt that it was all gone.

“*cough cough cough cough cough* gh…. Oh, gods. *cough cough* oh, Faust.”

She wasn’t the only one suffering. Bass, who also survived as well, hacked up a lung as well. “Agh! Oh, Geez. *cough cough cough*.”

“Bass!” Starlight got up and headed over to him. “You okay? *cough cough cough*”

Bass groaned and winced as he got to his feet. “Y-yeah. Cave-in did a number on me.”

Speaking of the cave-in, it’s safe to say that the cavern was pretty much destroyed. Bass and Starlight were able to survive thanks to a whole lot of luck. The rocks and ice missed them completely.

“Are we the only ones who survived?” he asked.

She sure hoped they weren’t. she doesn’t want her little sister to be dead, or any of her friends to be dead. “I don’t know. I hope not.”

“*cough cough* same here.” he rubbed his throat and got up.

Starlight tried to use her magic to clear the rubble but it wouldn’t move. Wherever they were, they were trapped good. “Goldie!” Starlight called out. No reply came. Starlight adopted a defeated expression. She can’t be dead. She can’t be dead. “GOLDIE!!!” still no reply. Starlight fell to her knees, out of fear that her sister and her friends are dead.

“Starlight?! Is that you?!” Eris Shine called out from the other side. Her voice was muffled but Starlight heard it clearly.

“Eris!” she happily called out. She got up, trying to find where her voice was coming from. “Where are you? Are you okay? Are the others alive?”

“We’re fine. Pumpkin broke her front-right leg but that’s the only big injury here. Everyone else got away with a few scrapes and bruises.”

“What about Goldie?”

“I’m fine, Sis.” Goldie called out. Starlight breathed a sigh of relief. “I got a cut on my back but it wasn’t deep. I’ll live.” Starlight silently thanked Faust for that. Other then her mom, Goldie was her whole life. Star spent most of hers raising her little sister. “How about you? Are you okay?”

“Yeah. Me and Bass are fine.” she’s fine and they’re fine. What about their cousin? “What about Glade? Is he over there?”

“No. don’t worry, his barriers are the strongest among us. And with the Unicorns in his squad, it’s likely they survived.”

“What do we do now?” Season’s Edge asked.

What do they do now? They were trapped inside a caved-in cavern that’s over 1000 feet long. She doesn’t want to say it but their situation looks hopeless.

“Starlight.” Bass said to get her attention. The Alicorn looked in his direction. The earth pony was pointing to a opening in their surroundings, barely big enough for them to squeeze thought.

That gave her an idea. She turned her attention back to her friends. “IS there some sort of opening over there?”

“An opening?” there wasn’t a response for awhile, leaving Starlight and Bass to think that their friends on the other side are trapped. “yeah, there is.”

Starlight silently breathed a sigh of relief. “Good. Follow that. Whichever side of the cavern you find yourself on; Baltimare or the Arctic, just go on ahead.”

“What about you guys?” Soarin’ Cloud asked.

“Whichever side we come out on, we’re gonna keep going on. My wings are still good so if we end up on the Baltimare side, we’re gonna continue on.”

Goldie was the next to respond and she wasn‘t so sure about this, and it showed on her voice. “But Starlight…”

Starlight sighed and held back a tear. “Goldie… I don’t want to see you hurt! Just go on home.”

“Oh, isn’t this just sickeningly sweet.”

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UhgjncjOTc

Oleg Petrovskey- Mass Effect 3: Omega OST

Starlight gasped when she heard that voice. “Oh no!” she looked back to see Bass in a battle pose, facing down the pony who was in the shadows.

Chaos Gun walked out to them, as confident as ever. “You!” Bass snarled. “What are you doing here?”

Chaos Gun smirked. Hopefully, they’ll buy this story. “why, I was just passing though when the cave-in caught me- and you and your friends, it seems. I was barely able to get off a barrier spell when I got hit by a boulder that pinned me down. It seems it also saved you all as well.”

Starlight powered up her magic, ready to take him down but the whole ordeal left hit tired. She tried not to show it externally but her weak and shaking hooves gave her away.

“Peace, Starlight.” Chaos Gun said. “if I wanted to take you, I would’ve ever since I woke up. Besides…” he tapped his horn, which had a crack running up and down it. “…I won’t be able to use magic. I may have speed and strength but without magic, I’m dead in the water. And speed and stretch won’t help in a place like this.” Starlight wasn’t buying it and pooled more power into her magic. “how about a truce?”

“Truce?” Bass exclaimed. “like we’re gonna work with you! You tried to kill us in Baltimare!”

“Kill, abduct; what’s the difference, really?”

Starlight didn’t want to admit it but Chaos Gun had a point. It was thanks to him and his barrier spell that they’re still alive. And it’s not like he’s going to try anything with them trapped like this and his horn cracked. “what kind of truce are we talking about?”

Chaos Gun lightly smirked. “We work together to try and get out of here. With my speed, Bass’s strength, and your magic, we have a chance to leave before another cave-in happens or that monster shows back up.”

“That thing survived?” a unbelieving Bass exclaimed, thinking back to that giant red Wyrm that chased them in.

“my barrier went to… eh, every organic in here. And unfortunately, that means the monster survived.”

Great. Not only do they have a lack of time thanks to them being in a cave-in, but they also have the Wyrm to deal with. “fine.” Starlight agreed. “we work together so we can escape the cave. After that, we go our separate ways, right?”

“Well… for a day. Then I have to get back to trying to get you for my master.”

Starlight didn’t like it; hell, she hated it. But this was better then nothing. Better to have a powerhouse on their side for a while then have him trying to kill them.

“Starlight? What’s going on?” Golden Day asked.

Chaos Gun gestured Starlight to reply, and she did. “nothing, G.D. we’re gonna try to find a way out now. Good luck to you guys.”

“Good luck to you too.” Sweet Song said. Chaos Gun slightly froze. “hope we see you soon.”

“Likewise, Sweet Song.”

The last sound the three of them heard from the other side was the sound of footsteps drifting away.

Chaos Gun’s mind drifted back to the owner of that voice; the mint-green mare. Last time they met, he couldn’t hit her no matter how hard he tried. That’s one of the reasons he faked his injuries; to find out why he couldn’t hit her, and why she can’t get out of his head.

“let’s get going.” Starlight said. She entered the small opening and squeezed her way though.

Bass was the next to enter but stopped before he did it. He turned back to Chaos Gun. “I don’t know who you are or why you’re doing this, but try anything funny; anything at all, and you’re going for a dip in the nearest lava pool.”

Chaos Gun snickered. “Why would I try something funny in here? We’re trapped.” he walked by Bass and towards the opening. He stopped before entering. “why would you even care? You barely know Starlight.”

“She’s my friend. That’s all that matters to me.”

Chaos Gun didn’t believe that. There was more to Bass’ story then he was letting on. Why would he help a mare he barely knows? Why leave the comfort of his city to help her? Something was off with Bass but he couldn’t put his hoof on it.

Instead of asking, Chaos Gun forced his way into the small opening. 30 seconds later, Bass followed. Better to get out first then instigate a fight that could cause another cave-in.

End Song.

The garbled voices from the conversation gravelly echoed though a barrier cast by Glade and his unicorn solders. It stopped the rubble from crushing them but they were trapped until they find a way out. Screw Ball couldn’t understand a lick of it but Glade was able to.

“Chaos Gun.” he angrily snarled.

“Who?” Screw Ball asked.

“a black Alicorn that attacked Starlight in Baltimare. He’s as vicious as he is scary; sadistic, to boot. He even struck a filly.”

“Oh, dear.”

“And if Starlight is forced to work with him, then the situation is very bad.”

“Worse then ours?”

Glade and his soldiers looked up. “maybe not quite as bad.”