Hello, on to chapter 12 I guess. The song is my convenient, unintentional little shout-out to my polish readers :) And Russia adds another to their growing list.
Chapter 13: Havoc.
It was Friday, the day of the young flyer's competition, and while it didn't start until 3 O'clock Most ponies were there anyway, specifically the Pegasi, squeezing in the last couple of hours training that could make the difference between humiliation, and the grand prize- a day with the Wonderbolts. Rainbow Dash still wanted this above anything, since the last competition her relations with most of them haven't been brilliant. So winning this year would 'renew' her awesomeness. Today though, she had extra motivation; to impress Mike. The letter she got from him did not give a good air at all, she wanted to win him back.
She needed to win him back.
Mike, of course, was oblivious to such thoughts as he listened to music, lying on his bed, resting.
BAPTISED IN FIRE 40-1!
SPIRIT OF SPARTANS DEATH, AND GLORY!
SOLDIERS OF POLAND SECOND TO NONE!
WRATH OF THE WEHRMACHT BROUGHT, TO A HAAAAAAALT!
The 8th of September it starts...
And so on. This was one of Mike's favourites, 40-1 by the only metal band that actually captivated him. Sabaton. It was catchy, but loud and aggressive, so he figured none of the ponies would like it, he had to play it quietly because he didn't want Fluttershy hearing it. He turned it off and went downstairs, mulling over the events of the past week; an autistic (Mike's assumption) party pony called 'Pinkie Pie' had returned from her parent's and succeeded in talking to Mike. Mike thought she was a bit too energetic, not ridiculously so, but he refused to have anything to do with a party, so she only really talked to him once a day. He had raced Big Mac due to Twilight's Inability to keep quiet, and lost. Fuck was Mac fast. Of course he had also been assembling his means of visiting Dash's Contest. Outside his wall in a relatively small clearing was a smooth-metallic looking, Flame-painted Mi-28 Havoc. It was unarmed of course, as there was no threat of any danger. He couldn't fly a Helicopter, so he installed sci-fi pilot helmets so he just needed to think about it. He had his iPod back, Yay.
Knock!
Twilight walked over to the door, wondering who it could be. She opened the door to reveal none other than Mike. Again.
"Hey Mike, what are you doing here?" She asked, giving a wide smile.
"I want to show you something, have you got half an hour?" Mike replied in a tone reminiscent of Pinkie Pie.
"Yeah I have a lot of time what is it?" She replied, curiosity once again throwing off every shackle and limitation she could think of. Mike gestured her to follow and head off to his house, with twilight following.
"So you didn't do well with aircraft, and that was just propeller, right?"
Twilight remembered her utter failure a few nights ago. "Yes"
"Well there is another kind" he stopped and turned to twilight. "You ready? Because these things look awesome"
Twilight's grin widened. "Yes" she said before Mike brushed aside some branches and revealed the Rotary monster. Twilight thought it looked impressive.
"Ok to the good stuff, The big propeller is for vertical lift, and to avoid spin there are to counter spin, or a tail prop, like on the Havoc" he explained, pointing at each component of the behemoth. "The engines are in the centre with suppressed exhausts, and the cockpit is of a front-bubble design, This, Twilight, is the pinnacle of Human Tactical Aviation" Mike trailed into excessive statistics before Twilight said something.
"I-it's huge!"
"What? No it isn't! It's tiny for a warplane" Mike chuckled at twilight's shock. Twilight herself couldn't imagine the size of half of these things.
"Well that's your sneak-peak, you'll have to wait until 5:00 for its debut" Mike said, stroking the cockpit before he gestured Twilight to follow again and head to her house, which she did, shaking off the surprise and returning to reality.
"It certainly is one of the best-looking things you can get" Mike said, noting her return.
"Yes it is something" Twilight said with a smile. Once they returned home Twilight went inside and started looking for the book with the cloudwalker spell in it, she had two hours to set up the balloon and spell for everyone to see the competition.
For Mike, the next two hours flew by, he was painting various symbols on his choppa, like Red stars and hammers and sickles and such, it had to be capable of making an entrance worthy of royalty after all, as the princesses would be there for the crowning of the Best young flyer. He didn't want to be caught on their bad side; monarchs on earth were partial to executions, which don't seem to be a lot of fun when you're next up for the block. Maybe he was looking too much into it. He walked over to Twilight's to see the girls off for the contest.
"Mike dear! Why don't you come with us?" Rarity suggested.
"Oh I don't do sporting events, and my arrival might be unwelcome, all I'll be doing is picking up dash, and fluttershy if needed" Mike explained.
"And a mighty good thing too" Applejack mentioned, before releasing the balloon. Mike gave a salute to the ponies as they waved goodbye, the balloon ascending into the clouds smoothly, Everypony inside frowning at Applejack. Mike walked back home through the largely deserted town, his plan was to check the Heli actually worked, he never wanted to fly with magic again, the broken bones of last time were painful. As it happened, the Heli worked fine and very well to boot; smooth, fast and quiet, all the things you would want in such a situation. It was 5 minutes to 5, so he needed to get going. He started the engine and the blades on top of the Craft began to spin, producing a powerful gust of wind which cleared the area further, gradually the Helicopter started to lift, reaching the height of a tree before dipping again, it rose to tree height and dipped again. Then Mike stopped pissing about and the Havoc soared upwards quite quickly, reaching cloud height in a short while, Mike was having fun with this, but he couldn't joyride, so he flew it straight in the direction of Cloudsdale.
"Cel, you said this would be different this year, it's exactly the same" Luna asked in an annoyed tone, she was right, the contest was the same, same winner with the best routine, but there was no daring rescue of a friend like last year.
"Well Twilight Said that Mike would visit at the end, she said it would be worth it"
Luna rolled her eyes. "It'll be boring! He'll be hideous! And evil!" she listed the possible flaws with an annoyed tone.
"Luna, cull your tongue, don't judge him because he is different" Celestia barked, Luna couldn't act like this in a public scene.
"What is that, do you hear that?" Luna asked lightly.
"Hear what?" Celestia asked, raising an eyebrow.
"That sound, it's like a rustling" Luna was asking herself more than Celestia. As the sound became more prominent however, Celestia heard it herself.
"WHAT IS THAT!" the Princesses heard a Pegasus shout from over the edge of the arena, most of the Pegasi flew to her and stared downwards, losing focus quickly.
Celestia grinned and looked at Luna "That's him" she said.
Luna herself noticed a small shade of yellow through the centre of the arena (Because it doesn't have a floor) "Sis! Look at that!" she pointed her hoof at the speck, Celestia saw and snapped her vision to it, it raised through the bottom arena, revealing a whirling blade, followed by a metal shape, with another rotating blade at the back of its tail, it raised to The level of the seats, and moved into a clearing (it isn't a fully enclosed arena either, quite odd), when some small black circles appeared out of the bottom, and it landed in the clearing. Needless to say, everyone there was staring at the Havoc with their jaws hanging, even the princesses, as the blades winded down slowly and came to a stop. Then a black bubble at the front opened, and out climbed Mike.
"That's Twilight's creature no doubt" Celestia smiled as she got up and headed to where mike landed, followed by Luna, who couldn't believe it, he wasn't boring, so far at least, he wasn't evil, and he wasn't hideous either, why he wore so much clothing was anyone's guess, but he wasn't ugly by any means from what Luna could tell.
"Hey Dash, you win?" Mike asked an ecstatic Rainbow Dash, next to her friends.
"Yeah! But that's not important! You're thingy is AMAZING!" Dash was practically screaming this to Mike.
"It's called a helicopter, and you can ride in it if you want" Mike couldn't help but smile at Dash's sheer joy.
"Yeah! Awesome! But what about Fluttershy?"
"There's room for her, if she wants to come that is"
Fluttershy recessed and curled slightly. "No no, th-that thing looks scary"
"Don't worry, it's comfortable, and you won't hear a thing inside"
"W-well I guess t-that would b-be okay then"
Dash, among numerous other ponies, was checking the odd machine in utter awe.
"So what do you guys think?" Mike asked the group of friends Dash had abandoned. They all nodded in response. "Wow thanks guys" Mike huffed.
"Nice design" Mike spun round and saw a pony in a blue jumpsuit with flamed hair, aside other ponies, also in blue jumpsuits.
"Thanks" Mike said. "Like the hair, looks like some effort" She blushed and extended a hoof.
"My names Spitfire" she asked nonchalantly.
Mike's face lit up. "I love the name! Genius. And it fits you because of the hair" He said, causing Spitfire to blush quite heavily. Mike walked back over to the Heli, getting a sense of pride from the amount of ponies looking at it in awe. It might not be the safest thing, but it wasn't doing any harm was it? Just then Everypony knelt and turned to look behind Mike, who turned and saw a large, well small to him still, but larger than any other, White Alicorn with an Amethyst necklace and matching crown, and gold shoes.
"Sorry you must be Princess Celestia right?" Mike said as he approached her, stopped by a few hostile looking guards.
"Okay so handshake is a no." Mike chuckled lightly, getting a 'Shut up smartass' look from the lead looking Guard and a giggle from a smaller dark blue Alicorn behind Celestia.
Celestia wasn't a fan of the Guard's behaviour, but it was better safe than sorry. "This is my sister Luna, welcome to Equestria" she said, smiling.
"Thank you, it's a nice place you have, I've been made very welcome. For the most part anyway." He replied.
"Oh? And what hasn't made you welcome?" she asked, her face changing to one of disappointment. Uh-Oh, Mike didn't want to drop the orange farm girl in it, even if she did hate him.
"It's nothing really, just the shock of coming here in the first place you know?" He said nervously.
"Well I'm sure you'll be happy here" Celestia smiled, before Luna emerged from behind her, and started staring at Mike, he was certainly odd, but not in a bad way, she saw Mike look at her back and turned her head way with a blush.
"Well it's been a pleasure but I best be off now, Thank you" Mike said before turning around and heading back to the Havoc, followed by Dash and Fluttershy. Celestia and Luna both got in the carriage to take them back to Canterlot. "Get back or you'll get hurt!" Mike shouted to everyone studying the helicopter, they all stepped a few metres back before Mike started the Machine up again, flying away from the stadium. (With Dash and Fluttershy) Followed by the stares of everyone in the stadium, particularly Luna.
Chapter End.
Well there you go guys, Chapter 12, I'm still trying to fix the problem, and the next update will be a lot sooner I promise. With the story, I'm interested in a MikexLuna ending, what do you guys think? Answer via Review or PM me, or vote on my profile page.
KriegsMariner.