O.C. Unleashed: The Lost
Prelude to Eclipse and Upheaval Series, Narrated by Red Beat
Chapter 1
"Radiance sweetie, it's time to get breakfast!" Her mother shouted up the apartment stairwell!
Radiance loves her mother's cooking as much as her dad's stories. She flew down the stairs with whatever strength she has in her filly wings can give. And crashed landed right behind her chair at the table. Her father and mother laughed when she finally got into her chair.
"You're still working on that landing aren't you, Radiance," her father said with glee.
"You kidding me Ace, she could've got herself hurt from that," her mother lashed out at Ace.
"Calm down Aurora, we did the exact same landings as we did as kids, except mine kept landing me in the wall!" Ace commented on Aurora's remark.
They all looked at one another and grins begin to appear out of thin air. They never have these moments that often and they cherish every time it does happen. Aurora handed everypony a plate of lettuce and carrots, along with a small block of salt.
By the time everypony got done eating, the work shuttle landed in front of the apartment blocks so Radiance's parents can go to their assigned work camps. Its long shifts for them, twelve hours away from their daughter, with the chance of never coming back. Radiance on the other hand, has the whole day to herself along with her friends Ronny and Blue Velvet from the neighboring apartments. The trio go on great quest around the city block. Meeting strange people, seeing things they never seen before, and simply having filly fun. Every day is like this, when their parents come back, they tell them all the great adventures they have. Except today is going to be different from the adventures from the past. Their actually going to fly away from the Pegasai block and adventure further away from home.
The trio go to the unicorn district and land near the market place. They walk around and bumped into a stallion.
"Hey Fillies!" As the stallion looks down upon the trio with a mad face. Then he lightened up and notice that they weren't unicorns. "Um, what district did you three come from?" he ask with a grin.
The three looked at each other and Radiance looked up at the stallion. "We're from the Pegasai district Sir!" she said with a soft whisper.
"Cool," said the Stallion. "I'm on my way to my sister's store on the other side of the market square. Care to join in my adventure?"
With no doubt they follow the Stallion to his sister's store. The square is packed with guards and citizens of Trot Run, the unicorns are great merchandise sellers and many became wealthy. The four continued down the street with towering skyscrapers on both flanks as they went on. Then the four see an abnormal store at the end of the block with a big, gigantic mustache over the entrance.
"I have to warn you, fillies, my sister Sir Foogle Horn is-"as he gasp in grief. "Is one of those unicorns that you don't want to take seriously!?"
They enter to only be greeted with a floogle horn screaming into their ears.
"Redbeat, you loser!" Said Sir Floogle Horn with a big grin on her face.
"Sir Floogle Horn, that's a guy's name," Radiance hollered into the conversation.
"Silence you stupid FILLY, I'm above ALL!" as Sir Floogle jumped into Radiance's face.
Radiance flew right into the wall, and slowly slid to the ground. Everybody looked at her with a scared face, well, except Sir Floogle of course.
"Sister, you could've gone a little less dramatic on them please," said Redbeat in concern.
"Maybe your right on this one, bonehead!-"Sir Floogle takes a swing at Redbeat's front shoulder. "I'll go a little lighter on these fillies with my amazing energy and MUSTASHES."
The doors to the shop suddenly busted open as the World Dictator, Cronos, entered the shop looking for a mustache for his next portrait. Everyone but the siblings bowed in fear. Cronos walked up to the ones not bowing before his presence. "YOU TWO!" as his voice shook the store. "WHY ARERN'T YOU BOWING DOWN TO YOUR RULER!"
Sir Floogle with her crazy energy. "Everybody in my store gets treated the same. You'll be crazy if I treated you any different!"
Cronos stepped back and nodded in acceptance. "Only thing I want, is a mustache FOR FREE!"
Redbeat gulped and spread his wings to push the fillies back. This is not going to end well.
"FREE, FREEE, FREEEEEE!" said Sir Floogle Horn as she gets more and more crazy every time she says free. She brings out a floogle horn and blasted it into Cronos's face, while slapping him with a mustache with her tail.
In short split second intermission Redbeat follows the slap to the face with a flying kick to the face.
Cronos flies across the store hitting the wall, followed by the fillies kicking him in the face.
The face kicking ended when the Royal guard retrieved Cronos and took off. With the sibling's sixth sense to flee, Redbeat gestured to the fillies to get on his back and left the store through the back door. Sir Floogle on the other hand, had one good last look at her store. She let her brother flee the area with the fillies before she sets off the T.N.T. underneath her store.
Redbeat was about half way out of town when a massive explosion went off behind him and the shockwave blasted him out town as quick as a wick.
Redbeat recovers just forty feet above the ground to make a safe crash landing in front of his sister.
"How MUCH T.N.T did you put in that DAMN STORE, Sir Floogle Horn!?" screamed Redbeat.
"Ah, just enough to make a fireball shaped like a mustache, Redbeat," with a crazed expression on her face.
Redbeat and the dazed fillies look back to see the mustache fireball engulfing the town.
"We better get going, I know somebody who would take us in for a little while," said Redbeat as he walks down along the tracks.
"In this desert?" cried Ronny.
"Can we fly there" wined Blue Velvet
"Yes, in the desert and NO to flying." Hollered Redbeat
"Why can't we fly, Redbeat?" said Radiance as she is confused why they can't fly to Redbeat's friend's house.
Redbeat didn't know who asked the question as he was focused on getting to his friends house. "Since we're out of town, we can get spotted on Cronos's radar system. Anypony who dares to fly outside of any town will face dear consequences. Besides, we don't want to get sent to the Rainbow Factory do you?"
The fillies stopped their questioning as soon as Redbeat mention the Rainbow Factory. Instead the fillies took turns laying on Redbeat's back as they walk down the tracks and listened to Sir Floogle Horn's crazy stories about what she did as a filly. The scenery slow but gradually changed to sparse woods and prairie with the occasional pond to drink then swim in.
"Well you, fillies, how did you guys manage to get stuck on an adventure with us anyhow?" question Redbeat.
"Yeah! What my brother said?"
Redbeat nodded with annoyance, but the fillies began to lighten up some.
"Radiance you're the best story teller, you tell him!" encouraged by Ronny and backed up by Blue Velvet.
"Fine-"as Radiance moaned. "I'll tell him how we managed to get into the unicorn sector in the first place!"
"Let's go sit over there underneath the shade with a creek flowing near it." As Sir Floogle Horn races over to the bank of the creek.
The others quickly followed and took spots on the shaded bank. The air began to cool and none of the ponies were about to die from heat exhaustion. Radiance got comfortable and look to see if everybody is ready for the story.
"Sir Floogle, why you laying down in the water?"
"Because it's very cool and the air feels like a cuddle blanket!" said Sir Floogle.
"Sister, I wonder about you sometimes," giggled Redbeat, followed by everybody else. "Anyways Radiance, we're ready for your story now."
"Ok,-" She paused to find a good place to start her story. "I know, we'll just start when I met up with my friends."
As she starts her story, the ground trembled and rocked as the ground splits behind Sir Floogle Horn. The ponies ran into the thin wood and saw the ground open with alarms ringing and sparks flying out of the chasm. Then a humungous metallic object came flying out. Redbeat and Sir Froogle's mouths drop to the ground for what they saw is a massive ship launching right in front of them. The ships master alt thrusters were kicking up dirt and rocks as it tries to leave the secret dock.
Then a massive sound wave blows the herd a good hundred feet back and knocks out Blue Velvet. When most of the herd recovered they saw the ship blasting off into orbit. Redbeat started to get furious about how many times he's got blown away by a blast. And runs up to a tree and knocks it down with his hind legs.
"Ugh," moaned Redbeat. "Guys we need to find a place to sleep. My Pip Boy still works after being in my family for three hundred years. It has good wika for spells, medical, and mechanical repair work on old objects and also most importantly a world map, other than that, nothing else works."
"Well stop jibber jabbering and find us a place to sleep then, bonehead," screamed Sir Floogle.
"WELL! EXCUSE ME SISTER!" Redbeat angrily flew at ground level with his pip right at eye level. "Found a good cave right here in the rock face!"
Redbeat flew back to get Blue Velvet and raced the herd to the cave, which was ten miles away. Redbeat made it back to the cave in a good five hours before the others showed up. In that time, he checked Blue Velvet's health readings. "Thank Goodness, just shock knocked her out. Other than that she's ok."
Redbeat's sensitive hearing alerted him the presence of the herd and waved them in.
"Um, I think you guys are tired!" as Redbeat hit the ground laughing. "There's an internal creek that runs in the back, the Pip Boy says the water is ok to drink from. I'll go get the firewood."
Redbeat went to the nearby wood to retrieve the firewood and Sir Floogle lit the fire with her magic. The day turned to night, vibrant colorful day to dull grey night. Redbeat slept at the front entrance to keep an ear up for any trouble. Luckily the herd can sleep in peace, for tonight might be their last.
Morning rose to a new day, and the first one up, as always, is Radiance. She went around waking up all the ponies. Except when she tried to wake up Redbeat, he's already up and stretching his wings and legs. She stood there to watch him warm-up for today. With a violent boom, he is in the air doing back flips, barrel roles, and flying in and out of the thin but thick wood with little to no effort.
"I had to make up for yesterday, Radiance, get your friends for a quick flight. Just don't fly over this valley we're in." said Redbeat with a grin on his face.
Radiance didn't miss the opportunity to fly and got her friends to join her. All four of them had a blast. Flying in formations, playing tag, and just simply having Pegasai fun. Redbeat then taught them how to fly at ground level without getting sucked back to the ground or hitting anything. Once the fillies got the hang of flying low, Redbeat went to his sister and showed them where they were going and Sir Floogle teleported her way there.
Redbeat flew back out and got the fillies attention to follow him. They flew as fast as they could to the town his friend lives at. By sundown, they made it, but Redbeat kept flying. Instead of flying straight, he flew straight up. The fillies were confused if they should follow, then Sir Floogle told them to hit the ground and cover their ears.
"What's Red doing?" screamed Radiance.
"He's about to do a BaseBoom, or one heck of a bass drop," Sir Floogle screamed back at Radiance.
The ground shook upon Red's return to the surface. The clouds are following Red until he hit the sound barrier. But when a Pegasus hits the sound barrier, its halo and sound matches to their cutie mark. In Red's case, it's a bass drop of epic proportions. Low enough to make trees explode depending on the altitude. With a red contrail in chase, Redbeat landed with great strides to prevent himself from breaking his legs. The herd ran up to Red cheering on how awesome that sonic Bass Drop was. Then his friend shows up.