The Expedition Chapter 3, a my little pony fanfic

Meanwhile in a dark cave:

"They are coming for us, I can feel It." whispered a brigand.

In the dark of the cave, a door with two statues wait in front of a big arch made of black stone with a ruby eye in the center of the façade. One of these statues is a Pegasus in armour with the lunar emblem on the side and the other one, a Pegasus but in robes and a solar emblem.

"Shush, you're going to wake up the master!" another brigand stated.

"Don't worry my good brother; it can be an earthquake and he is not going to wake up."

"You probably right, but we should still be cautious. "

"I'm always right my little brother."

"So what is going happen if your premonition is right?"

"If they come here, I don't give a bit for their souls"

"Like the other before?"

"Yes like the other…"

"That is sad brother; I cannot forget the cries of the others who came here."

"Me too good brother, me too "

And the echo dies in the darkness of the cave…

Stellan:

After the very interesting meeting with the war mare and take acquaintance of the mission more or less clean objective of the mission, we make way toward to meet the ship and the crew for the travel we have prepared for. We pass through a long tunnel to finally get on the steam ship storage shed. The place is in fact very big like two or three hoof ball stadiums with three doors on each side of the place. In entering the cargo bay I can see other ships about five altogether, about three cargo and two transportation ships.

I turn myself to the stallion who lead our group and question him:

"I don't see our expedition ship here are you sure we are in the right place?"

"Yes sir! "The Forgotten One" is the biggest and the most beautiful ships within the celestial fleet. I used to be the captain of her so long ago." He said with a slight sorrow of voice.

We pass the other ships on the deck between ships toward an exit door. When we are outside, I cannot believe what I see. He said the ship was the biggest ship of all, but I never expected it to be that big! Estimating the front to back it can be four times longer than the complex. On the side you can see some canon trap and steam exhaust pipes, whose purpose release ton of steam for propulsion. On the deck we can see over twenty crew busy to load some spare parts, some boxes of food , water, and I guess I have saw my bag in the hooves of a young mare crew getting inside the under deck. The guide made way to the bridge between the ground and then the ship deck. When we reached the deck the crew begin salute them with some "Hey welcome!" or "Wow we got a weird guest onboard". The second one is when they see me and my big friend of course.

After some minutes of waiting we got finally welcomed by the captain of the ship.

"Hi and welcome onboard of the Forgotten One, my name is Iron Rose" say the white maned red Unicorn with captain uniform lavished with many medals and ribbon.

"Hi captain Rose, I'm Stellan Bluegears, here you are Mr. Rail Wind, Miss Green Star and Mr. Kalos. We are happy to meet you." Stellan blurted.

"That is the team? A retarded handicapped Pegasus and is friend a huge egg head out of the bunch, a dandy Unicorn and a Griffin more like a chicken." Say a very rough voice behind the captain, who in the back rolls his eyes.

"Team let me introduce you mister Chisel Grit the cart pony for the expedition." says the visibility shocked captain "…and don't listen him he just in bad mood today, very bad."

"Dexter, please come here and show our guest to their chambers over there please."

And then out of a door appears a violet teenager earth pony appears making us sign a leger and then we follow him.

We make way in many corridors and rooms and I have been lost after ten minutes. We stop on the first floor where the tech equipment is placed and Dexter looks at Rail and Green.

"Here are your chambers Mr. Wind and Miss. Green, here you have all you need for the research you will be conducting." He states.

After the short talk, Stellan and Kalos continue following the young pony to the second floor in which we made our way into two or three corridors to finally reach the door of what looks like a kitchen.

"Here is your area mister Kalos, your room is adjacent to the kitchen, the door just beside the ovens."

Kalos takes a look inside the kitchen and his room and before Kalos said something to Dexter and began making his way to the back of the ship with me after him.

"Hum...I know this sound, that's a steam engine sound! We are going to the engine room!"

We reach the entrance and I stunt when a see the engine seize. It's big like a freaking house! Its cogs, its gears, the pistons!

"Here is your quarters Mr. Bluegears, you can find a bed and your belongings in the room beside the hydro pump on right side of the engine. So, my job is done here, have a good day." He said quietly leaving.

And the little one disappeared in a blur.

I look in the room and I find a tool box with all the tools needed to repair all type of engines and it parts, on the left side of the room I can see a window to the exterior with a control panel behind for all things electrical. I slowly trot to the window and with a sigh I say to myself:

"Let the expedition begin~" and when the captain gave me the go sign with a communication crystal just inside of the engine control panel, I push the cranking button and release it when the engine come to life with a loud bang.

"That lovely sound" and I begin to laugh alone.

RAIL

The sheer mass of ships that caught my eye was just stunning to anypony's eye. As I turn in every direction there were beautiful ships and glimmering masts with hefty crews, and I mean hefty, the bulkiest stallion and mares and a few other species I have ever seen in my life. Skies seemed to be in more than spectacular condition to fly for both winged creatures and ships.

"Wow just look at today's weather, beautiful is not?" as I stare at Green Star.

Admiring the view was short visited as very stout unicorn came to words. She had again more uniform than others I have seen, and a nifty hat that looked like to me a captain's sailor hat. Maybe she is our captain? Nevertheless I listened closely. I was right; she was the previous captain of the ship. I bet she was the best one as well based off all those shiny medals on that uniform, forty to fifty maybe. Shortly after the speech and a detailed layover of what is going to happen I hear a grumpy pony behind Iron Rose. He called me an EGG HEAD! Placing that comment aside I looked ahead and disregarded knowing that Iron Rose told us he was in a less than great mood anyway. After yet another small talk a pony came out of the lower rooms of the ship and was told to show us to our rooms.

I look toward Stellan, "Oh I bet our chambers are going to be lustrous don't you think?"

We were told to sign a piece of parchment and so we did, not asking why of course we didn't want to sound more annoying than we apparently looked. I signed it and waited for the others to do the same. Time went by slowly and we followed Dexter as he was called further inward into these really long narrow corridors. Looking from left to right as we progressed through the corridor they're multiple storage and crew were seen. The teenager pony stops and turn left a bit.

"Here are your chambers Mr. Wind and Miss. Green, here you have all you need for the research you will be conducting."

"W…wait, this is our chambers?"

"Yes Mr. Rail, you and Miss Green will reside here in these chambers. Have a good evening." He states trotting down the hallway with the others.

"You two have a good time." gestured Stellan.

I stay standing still for quite some time thinking about the situation.

"You ok dear?" she softly spoke.-

"I…I am okay, just a bit dazed about the mission at hoof."

Recapping what was said by Iron Rose, I try not to think soft for Green Star. Placing my gear and flasks in proper order and place I collect my chemicals and such placing them in order my acidity. Getting all of my things together I bump into Green Star almost breaking some of her test tube vials.

"Darn…I'm sorry I am bit clumsy today…and..."

"It is okay dear, we all make mistakes, plus the ship even still is a bit wobbly don't you think?" She said staring at me.

I nod as I stare back into her beautiful powerful eyes. Wow Green Star sure is one mare you cannot stop staring at. Of course I seriously doubt a pony of my caliber would ever have a near chance with her. I barely met her and I already have butterflies in my stomach. As much as I would love to talk more to her we have this mission to deal with and I seriously doubt anypony would have enough time for a relationship now of all times.

"Yeah for some reason it is, must be all the loading they are doing."

I look around for the bed as most of the room was a huge lab and barely any of it resembled an actual room until I found a door to the side of a wall. I open it softly as I do not know if it was a closet or not, peeking in I see a dresser and a couple of nightstands with…a single bed.

"Oh dear…we are going to have to share this aren't we…" I said to myself.

Green Star

Goodness it surely was a marvelous view and there were so many Pegasus ponies and muscular earth ponies as well below. The only unicorns I saw were far up toward the towers controlling manifests. Taking a good look around it was nothing I ever seen back in the forests. We had the occasional ship bring us the supplies for annual research facilities but that about accounts for what I am seeing here. Another mare takes the stand, a war mare again it seemed…her ensemble sure stated that. She gave us the rundown of a few regulations and all that jazz about safety and some head points of the mission. Shortly after I heard a crude voice behind her say mean things about us. Called me a dandy unicorn! I may be dandy but I can handle myself you know. Shortly after Iron Rose called upon a young earth pony from under the docks it seemed. He was much smaller than the other ponies around and much…squeakier. It seemed his duty was to get us to our chambers on this marvelous ship we are on. He made us sign some parchment, but I put little mind to that and so I followed.

I turn to Rail "I bet the rooms on here are luscious and luxurious."

The "team" and I follow the tiny earth under the ships top level and into some narrow and long corridors. Walking through the moist halls I saw many rooms and many pony folk and other creatures I have never seen before. I turn to my left I saw many earth's doing heavy lifting and to my right some unicorns and other life forms doing preparing and mechanical work. Surprisingly my room was first…well our room since I am bunking with Rail Wind it seemed. The young pony told us the laboratory was our and left shortly after without a trace. I walked in and studied the laboratory's layout and made sure we had everything we need, which I am sure we did this is a top notch ship we are on.

"My goodness look at this laboratory Rail is it not just magnificent. It has everything, some things we don't have at our lab in the forest." I said with cheer.

"Yeah some of this equipment I have yet to use."

"Where exactly are the sleeping areas? Would you mind checking around for me darling?"

"Of...of course." Rail stuttered.

Placing some of my thing in a corner I scope out more and admire the vastness of the lab and what it had to offer. I hear Rail shuffling in the back and wanted to check up on him. Walking toward the back I hear him stutter some words and I look in the back room seeing only…one bed.

Kalos :

After we met the unbelievable rude military mare and learned about what the mission is going be, the group begin to make way to what I saw is the docks. Of course when we pass I mean all the ponies look at us like we are from another planet and I mean I see one begin to pray to Celestia or Luna, I really don't know. When I finaly reached the docks door to the outdoor, I can't believe what I have in store for of myself. That was probably the most enormous and vast ship I ever seen, it was like two or three complexes long! We follow our guide to a transport platform linked to the ship's side. When we finally get hoof or in my case claw on the deck it really doesn't surprise me by the stare of the other crew, I just ignore it. Not long after "the stares" we get welcomed by a red mane white unicorn, who for the first time since I was on board looked at me like I was a long lost friend.

After some mission talk and after getting insulted by that grumpy old pony, he calls me chicken! If only I could show him what type of "chicken" I was, but Stellan give me a stare that said "Yes, I know I want kill him right on spot, but that is not a good idea".

We got guided by a slender purple pony inside the monstrous ship.

The first stop was for Mr. Wind and Miss Green's laboratory and room. After some chat we leave them alone. Stellan got closer and says to me in low silent voice:

"Looks like our friend Rail is going to have a good time!" Both of us begin laugh to the awkward coming for the poor Pegasus.

"If I have not noticed right away, they have only one bed in the room" I say

Now this is Stellan, the young earth pony and I begin to cry out of control laughing.

After we calm down and make our way in many corridors, we finally reach a steel door of what looks like a kitchen. The little pony in front of us explains to me where my room was and leave me alone in this beautiful paradise. All over the room was white tile and clean, the room hade two ovens, that are actually just beside my room door, in front of the oven I can see a very large fridge full of all the ingredients from around Equestria, in the center of the room I can see a big table with the entire pantry you need to cook.

After I take a look of all the stuff in the kitchen, I judge it was time to visit my private room; there was a full griffin size bed, a workstation with some place for my cooking books, a night stand, a dresser and bathroom.

I was so happy to be there. Here I have all I ever want, a complete kitchen, an important role in a mission and the most important of all I finally found a friend who cares about me. I was daydreaming heavily as I felt the ship completely shake.

I guess we have begin our travel, good bye Ponyville, good bye Canterlot, please Celestia promise me we come back alive...

Green Star

Well I knew there was going to be a flaw in the "room" situation and I found it quite quickly. As much as I do not mind I do not know what Mr. Rail thinks of it to be honest. I sort of giggled at first but then when I saw his facial expressions I knew something was either bothering him or very much pleasing him…whatever it is I am curious to find out.

"Something wrong Rail? You seem a bit…well blank in the face there." I nudge.

Twisting and shaking his head. "Uh no, it is just seeing that there is only one bed, I was wondering how arrangements of the room will go, I would gladly sleep somewhere else and let the lady take the accommodations of the room."

"How kind of you Rail, but there is no need for that, look at the bed it is pretty much big enough for all four of us really, there is no need for you to cast slumber on the cold damp metal floor. We can share this bed no worries." I giggled.

"Ah uh…very well if that is what you suggest I will abide. That aside, I cannot wait for this expedition to start I am curious on what lies beyond the mountains to the east, I never been past them." He states with excitement.

I nod and walk over to my luggage unpacking about to conduct a little experiment of mine, the test subject, you guessed it…Mr. Rail. Lifting my largest of my bags at the exact moment of Rail staring over I teasingly lift my flank really high waving my tail toward him. As I expected a huge amount of red filled his face and quick reaction of turning around. I knew I suspected a little something extra when he saw that there is only one bed and his expressions dealt him out for that matter. I have yet another solid experiment to settle this for myself.

"Rail~ If you may be ever so kind to help me with this bag, it's quite heavy and I cannot lift it all by myself, can you help me~" I giggle.

"Sure…uh wow that is a big bag."

"I know dear…can you lift that area carefully it has very fragile equipment." I say moving closer to him in sultry.

"Of…course…"

I can see him staring at me all fancy like; I know he likes me now. I'm done for now but tonight will be the final test for him. He is much stronger than I thought he was for a little guy. He handled my bag quite easily and pleasantly.

"Thank you so much dear…you can return to your duties." I wave.

As I watch he returns to his station delicately I can see him still very red in the face. As I lift my bags and lay out my clothing the ship starts to rumble of sorts. If we are taking off I can only imagine what Stellan is doing. Bracing myself I call over to Rail.

"Are we departing already?"

Rail

Shifting through our very confined room space since the laboratory takes up about eighty percent of "our" area; I cannot help but imagine what deed is dealt on the sleeping situation. I can hear Green Star rustling through something so I decided to go check on her. Right when I get there she had a particular look on her, something was up.

"Uh no, it is just seeing that there is only one bed, I was wondering how arrangements of the room will go, I would gladly sleep somewhere else and let the lady take the accommodations of the room."

Why did I blush, why? I knew she saw it ugh what is wrong with me. Not to mention she wants us to share the bed, no good is coming of this for me I know it. Tonight is going to be a long one for me, very long. Well the good news is that the bed is quite big so maybe I can establish my side of the bed I guess. I have to change the subject quickly before I say something I might not want to.

Receiving a nod I walk over to my area. Whew nothing odd happened. Shuffling through my vital and very fragile glassware I place some out in an intricate order based off of volume and capacity. Finally getting that out of the way I wipe my fore head from such tension of handling such fragile ware, I hear Green Star call me from the distance in the lab…I hope it's not something embarrassing. Walking over, what do you know?

"Need so…"

I was introduced to…her graceful flank of precious emerald green.

"Rail~ If you may be ever so kind to help me with this bag, it's quite heavy and I cannot lift it all by myself, can you help me~" she giggled.

I trotted right into her trap.

"Sure…uh wow that is a big bag." I stuttered.

My goodness it was one of the heaviest bags I have ever tried to lift. That is mares for you; they need their makeup, mane products, hooficure care products, and the whole thing. Why not try being a big stallion now and then. I trot over trying my best to pick that heavy square bag of hers. As heavy as it was I use my knowledge of physics and let it do the work.

"There you are Miss Green Star. Thank you I will return to the room preparing for departure." I say trotting away.

Right when I return to the room she called me over again…mares. Trotting back the ship was very rocky and unstable. I had to spread my leg apart from one another just to stabilize…I don't think Miss Green knew that. I walked over and held her a bit.

"You ok Miss Green?" I giggled.

I hear a faint voice say something about departing. We wait out the duration of the rocky shaking and we both holding one another stare out the window as the ship dances through the clouds. About two minutes time Miss Green lays her head on my shoulder. Does she like me too? Score!