O.C. Unleashed

CHAPTER 3 PREMIX: A Dark Adventure

Audio video entries by Redbeat's Pipboy.

The ponies left Osgod's estate and headed northeast towards Talon. The woods we're just as Red said they would be. Thick, and very much dark; light doesn't even touch the floor of the forest. Sir Floogle and Caitlyn did what they could with their magic and pushed through the thick wood. The Pegasai flew above in circle formation around the unicorns, if they can see them. The fillies found their own way of watching them by leaping from one tree to another. Neither pony knew that this is the new life they'll be getting used to. Traveling from one town to another or simply exploring their world that they live in now.

However, Red was uneasy for the most part. He knew the evils of these woods, what they can do to any ponies mind. No matter what race they are in, their no match for these woods. The woods of Conteira.

"Red!" shouted Caitlyn. "Are we getting closer to the mountains of Pandora?""

Red flew silent as if he didn't even hear her. Everypony looked at him, but Red stood focus and flew on. Radiance seen this look on a ponies face before, the look of a very long journey ahead. Then out of the blue, Red exploded past Radiance and Blue Velvet.

The fillies spiral out of control and crashed on the forest floor.

"Help!" the fillies screamed, but no one answered.

Ronny flew around anxiously looking for his friends, but the sounds are muffled by the leaves of the trees. Everypony is now split up; was Red keeping something away from them, or was he trying to protect them from the forest.

"Oh man, I hope I split them up-"Red muttered to himself. "They'll be better off in smaller groups and move a lot faster. I know where I'm going and I'll be back to get them. We're not going to Talon but an ancient city that our ancestors began at. It has no name, but because of its location, I can hide anything I want there. I hope nothing else has moved in."

Funny as it sounds, Red is right, the groups moved a lot faster and luckily in the same direction due to the shift of the trees due to Red's Sonic Bass Drop.

By mid-day, Red made it to the ancient city. Covered in green mosses and vines and well hidden inside a cave. The magic torches still keep the streets lit even after two thousand years since the city's abandonment.

"Ok, now it's the house on King's Street and Colt lane," said Red with glee plastered on his face. Slowly open the door and head down the hallway and it will be the last door on the right.

Red open the door and the Pip Boys are still there and including some other packages to the Pip Boys.

"Now let's see what I can do with mine real quick!" Red blurted out quietly.

Red went around and picked up parts for his Pip Boy, listened to the instructions the Pip Boy is giving him and continued upgrading his device. Then Red picked up something totally unfamiliar to him. He looked at the object and it had something of a tube with a stick perpendicular intersecting it at the end.

The Pip Boy's intercom blurted out "Watch out for that gun, point the open end of the tube away from you."

Red turned his head in confusion. "A gun, what does it do!" he talked to himself.

"A gun, is a device to injure or kill foes with lethal force, pull on the firing mechanism shown here on the screen," explained the Pip Boy.

Red did what the Pip Boy told him and BANG! Red ran out of the room and tripping along the way.

Red now breathing heavily, the Pip Boy came back on, "Warning! The gun may be loud!"

"NOW YOU TELL ME!" screamed Red.

"Hey, you're the one that fired the gun. I'll give you instructions on how to make a working Active Body Armor for you and your six friends," the Pip Boy explained. "We can use the ruins of the city to test your equipment, Red, but your trip to Talon won't be wasted. My scanners picked up a high tech container that landed outside the city gates, and it's been captured by the local authorities. If you want you and your friends to survive, we must get that technology."

"Why is that technology so important?" said Red.

"It's a G.U.I. update for the Pip Boy's. I won't tell you where it came from, Red, but hope is on its way," Pip Boy explained.

Red took a good look around him and turned back to his Pip Boy to see the instructions listed. His friends however, will get a good shock.

"Where are we!" moaned Blue Velvet.

"I don't know, Blue Velvet,-"whispered Radiance.

"The forest is so thick, that I can't even see the branches above us, nor what's in front of me-"Blue Velvet screams as she falls down a massive hole in the ground with Radiance in close pursuit.

As the two fell further and further, a bunch of lights in form of streets came into view. They soon land in a pile of leaves and twigs.

"You seeing what I'm seeing Blue Velvet?" as Radiance looked at the spectacle laying in front of them.

"Umm, Radiance!" said Blue Velvet, while looking dead on at a pack of pink bears on her right flank.

"Wha-"Radiance eyes popped wide open. "FLY FOR YOUR LIVES!"

The attempted blundered when both of them got slapped out of the air by the bear pack. The bears surrounded them and pinned them against the cave wall.

"Well Radiance, I guess this is end of our story. Eaten by a pack of pink bears," said Blue Velvet.

"Not today fillies!" Red blasted in front of them and pulled out his gun and killed all the bears with each bullet hitting their mark. "Now hop on my back, this place is not safe what so ever."

"What's that you're wearing?" Radiance blurted out.

"You'll see, I got a present for you two and the others as well!" Red explained.

"Sweet, I hope it's a Pip Boy like yours," Blue Velvet cheered.

"That's correct, Blue Velvet. Red here, told a lie to get you guys out here," explained the Pip Boy.

The two fillies have smiles on their faces, they didn't care one darn bit that Red told a lie to make them join him. Red came down to a running stride to the house with the Pip Boys and the two fillies jumped off and followed him in.

"You two wait out here for a second and hold out your left arm," said Red with glee.

He went in and got Radiance's and Blue Velvet's Pip Boys and came back out of the room.

"Now you'll feel the Pip Boy apply pressure to your arm. Don't fret! The Pip Boy is doing its fine adjustments to a comfortable fit, next it will poke you and inject nano bots to monitor your health readings and keep you healthy. After all that's done, you'll be ready for the next step." Red explained to the two fillies.

Red put on their respective Pip Boy's and they both worked perfectly fine.

"Now open your eyes and test out your presents," Redbeat cheered as he watched their eye's glow to what's on the filly's arms.

They all went outside and played with their new gadgets of discord and harmony. No pony can ruin this moment, not even Cronos himself can't ruin it.

Night quickly began to rise and Red gathered the fillies for a quick lesson on how to use the Pip Boy for night flying, and how to use overlays to see other creatures as well.

"Alright guys, I got the Pip Boys in my satchel. Now turn on your night vision glasses with infrared overlay so we can find them easier," Red announce in excitement.

"Roger that," said the fillies.

"One question before we leave?" said Radiance.

"What's the question, Radiance?" said Red in a questionable tone.

"Are we going to get a suit like that?" Radiance looked at Red with pouting eyes and lips puckered out.

Red looked at Radiance and gave in to the look of a little filly that really, really wants something.

"Ok," Red moaned. "On your Pip Boy's, go to items and apparel and it should be there." Red grinned as he watches them equip their armor.

The fillies quickly found what they we're looking for and equip the armor. A flash of orange mesh covered their bodies and the armor scales generated from the Pip Boy to cover their bodies. The fillies jumped from the sight of armor crawling all over their skin. Then a click turned the scales into a uniformed body armor, even comes with a hoodie.

"You should've seen y'all guys faces," Red laughed. "Now let's go get our friends shall we!"

The Pegasai put on their overlays and bolted out of the cave, and flew back in the direction they came from to cover the area for heat signatures.

"Redbeat to, Radiance, do you copy?"

"Redbeat?" Radiance confused on the way Red is speaking. "Why are you talking like that?"

"Wow, you don't know aerial or ground protocol, copy?" Redbeat replied. "Umm, never mind. I'll explain that later, Radiance and Blue Velvet. Right now, on your right flank, Radiance, there is a solo heat signature. I want both you and Blue Velvet to go check it out and report back, copy!"

"Whatever you say Red, over." Radiance trolled.

What the fillies didn't know is that the heat signature is Osgod. Landing to rest his wings from hours of flight. To his surprise, he notices the two fillies on their approach.

"Is that the fillies-"Osgod squinted his eyes to improve is vison. "YES, it is them, but what are they wearing?"

Osgod waved his hooves in the air to signal Radiance and Blue Velvet. But before the fillies even get to him. A large object came crashing to the ground between them. The sheer impact caused the crust to burst in all directions and flung boulders and trees across the skyline and into infinity. The Pegasai were dazed but unharmed.

The object is massive, but Osgod and the fillies weren't surprise about the size of the object; even though it's very rare to see one these large objects coming down in one piece. However, the sun is setting fast and there was no time for the Pegasai to investigate. Osgod gave whatever energy he had left and flew to the fillies on the other side.

"Ugh," Osgod breathe heavily. "Where did you guys go?"

"Honestly, I don't know, but we found Red!" said Radiance happily.

"Wait, you found Red!?"said Osgod in shock.

"Yeah-"Blue Velvet pulled out a Pip Boy out of her Satchel. "Here take this, but don't scrap our plans for Talon. We're literally one sonic boom away now."

"Then why are we going to Talon then?" question Osgod.

"To get our Pip Boys an Upgrade!" the fillies screamed.

With no further questions, they made their way to Talon, but Red stood behind to find his sister's group and Ronnie. He picks up three heat signatures, but one of them is really cold compared to the other two. Red looked more closely at his screen, it was the Unicorns, but whose the other pony. Scared out of his mind, Red bolted to the cold body signature. He turned on his night vision overlay to see through the darkness. The air is cold as ice, but Red found Ronny.

"Ronny?" Red slowly walked up to him. "Come on little stallion,-"Red shakes Ronnie's cold shoulder. "RONNY!" Red started screaming as reality of the situation kicks in. "No! This can't be happening right now-"Red slaps himself. "Wait, get it together man, this is the woods of Conteira!" Red looks at his surroundings then back at Ronny. "I need to get to the others quick, or find the unicorns!"

Red picked up Ronny's cold body and he felt a faint heartbeat. "Wait, he's not dead-"Red muttered to himself. "He's just, scared half to death?" as he puts Ronny on his back. "Just than Celestia that these parts of the woods are almost vacant of animal life."

CRACK!

Red stood still and slowly turned his head. "You got to be kidding me!" as Red stares face to face with a Wooded Giant. With an arm span of forty feet and the height of a barn. The creature's appearance almost makes him invisible to the surrounding scenery. Only Red's Pipboy lantern highlighted the fiends shape.

"Umm-"Red gulped out of fear. "Nice Wooden Giant, I didn't come here to hurt you?!" With no mercy the Wooden Giant swung his massively long arms and Red jumped to evade the hit. "Ok you bastard!" yelled Red as he pulls out a flare gun from his satchel. "You asked for it!" and Red fires the shot directly at the torso of the giant. "Yeah, take that!"

The Wooden Giant is set ablaze, but didn't bring down the giant. Instead, the giant ran towards Red. Lighting the woods as the giant ran closer and closer to Red. However, Red stood firm, he didn't even budge from his spot. His face is filled with confidence and arrogance. Right when the Giant was only a couple steps in front of him. He leaped out of the way and watched a fireball disappear into the abyss that was right behind him.

"Live Audio recording has been stopped, to restart live documentation diary application. Please contact the following for assistance. Error! Error! Error! Hardware crash eminent, please…"

"Umm, what just happened?" I muttered to myself. The area around me is still lit by the Wooden Giant. I could see perfectly without my Pipboy's assistance. The problem is, where's Sir Floogle horn and Caitlyn? I look around and adjusted my ears to tune in any noise at all. I even tried taking off my Pipboy, but the straps are sealed tight due to the machines malfunctioning hardware.

Crack!

I turned to where I heard the noise and moved to see what it was. Two shadows appeared at a distance, I want to confront them, but I don't know who they are. With good faith that it is Caitlyn and my sister. I walked out with Ronny laying on my back. The two shadows came running towards me and teleported right in front of me.

"Red!?" Caitlyn screamed. As she hugged me with grief. "I thought you left us behind, you crazy stallion!"

"I didn't mean to leave in such a rush, and I'm completely sorry. But I have a surprise for y'all two!" I reached into my satchels and grabbed a Pipboy for the two of them. They stared at the Pipboys and back at me with confused faces. "What is it?" as I turned my head.

"So we're not going to Talon then?" Sir Floogle Horn softly announced.

I rolled my eyes as if the trip isn't for nothing. "We're still going to Talon, but for the same reason. Just not getting the Pipboys part." The mares stared at me, then picked up the devices with their magic and put it on their right legs just right above the hoof. Unlike the fillies, the mares are excited that they can use a feature that Pegasai can't use really except to navigate across the globe.

My Pipboy suddenly began to blink red. I didn't know what that meant but it was a tad bit scary to think about the possibilities at the moment. I had to focus my attention to get these unicorns out of these woods and into the foot hills of Skyrim. At least there, we can get some comfortable sleep without waking up to death or getting chased by a pack of bears.

ZAP!

"What tha fug!?" I look around to see the… foothills of Skyrim. My jaw dropped to see where we…, "Girls, how did you guys do that?" I turn around to see them giggling at my facial expression. "Oh very funny", I turn back to see Ronny starting to wake up. But I ran to him and told him to go to sleep. "Ok guys, I'm thinkin we'l sleep here for tonight."

I looked around to see the two mares agreeing and found themselves comfortable places to lay down. I however, doesn't seem to matter where I sleep, just that I can get some sleep.

Usually, I wake up before dawn and nobody sees me curled up. This time however, it wasn't the case. I felt something or somepony poking me on the shoulder. Getting annoyed, I looked up to see who it was.

"Caitlyn!?"

"Sssh!" she hissed.

"What do want at this time at night?"

She moved over and sat right next to me and showed me the map of the Pipboy I gave her. I've noticed three green dots just west of our position, but not in a good location. "You think those are Radiance, Blue Velvet and my boy Osgod." In a low tone.

I got up and looked that very direction. "It can be Caitlyn, but stay here I'll be right back." Caitlyn sat up and watch leave the camp site. The location was a couple of miles away, but three thousand feet down where Pegasai should not be flying at night. Then, when I was just out of sight of the camp. I felt a shock racing up my arm to my whole damn body. My wings flung shut and I was free falling into the shrubs below. I felt like I was losing consciousness, maybe from spinning like one of those spinning top things that earth ponies play with.

I looked at my coat, sticky from broken skin, oozing blood covering three fourths of my body. My mane and tail covered with twigs from the shrubs. I knew now to take it slow, but I was a little too dizzy to do so at the moment. Instead, I've investigated where the shock came from. I looked down and focused the rotating image of my arm and the Pipboy.

"Well then?" a mechanical voice erupted. "I must apologize for the reboot of my circuits can be quite…shocking I presume," the voice giggled. "Now listen here Redbeat, you proven your worthiness to complete something I've have in store for you," my Pipboy had a pregnant pause. "When you were saving Ronny from that Wooden Giant, I've managed to trace the location of that video hologram that the humans sent us." I've sat up onto my haunches and listened in.

"The location is quite far from here, but there is a way to make personal contact with them. We MUST get to talon police HQ. There you will find some space capable shuttles. This odyssey must be done alone and for a good reason. Which I will give you more details later. But, you must TRUST my judgment. Your friends are indeed in the canyon, bring them back, and I'll put a secret message on their "Pipbuck's" on instruction for what to do next once you're gone.

"Now for the three back at camp, I have something big planned for them, and they're about to get an early wake up call. Plan your entrance on cue and don't miss the tempo. You have three hours to complete this task…" Zapp!

I stood there for a moment to comprehend what happened. What the does this fucking PipBuck want out of me and what land it wants me to go. I shook my head and flew off to get my friends in the canyon.

The time I got to them, it was nearly pitch black. I got a flare out of my utility harness and cracked it with my teeth and kicked it off to launch into the air. The flare exploded and lit the whole canyon.

Then the rocks in front of me started to explode as revolvers started to unload on my position.

"I'm guessin I'm not the only one with guns," I bit my lip and pulled out my own pistol. Next I felt a weird sensation and timed slowed. A targeting device showed up in front of my face, giving chances of hitting on certain targets. Then I locked on three targets with the highest chances of hitting and fired. All three hit their marks, with guts and fluids flooding the canyon wall behind them.

I looked closely at what I've just done. I've killed another pony and not just one but three.

I looked down at my device and I've noticed it changed everything on it. It's not a Pipboy anymore, it's now called itself a PipBuck. The targeting system was now called S.A.T.S. (Stable-Tec Arcane Targeting Spell). "Funny how this device already knows my species writes?" I can now read everything my PipBuck says and not weird jibberish syntax. Anyways, I must get to my friends.

Bang!

I felt a jaw biting, hell screaming, swearing out every known world pain in my left flank. I look over and saw that bastard with what looks like a three barrel gun. I pulled my gun around and shot him square in the face. The explosion that followed made me throw up last night's meal. Looking back my wound didn't help much either. The shell blew straight threw my thigh and I can see my veins and bone. Luckily, it wasn't bleeding, just disturbing to look at. I got down to my friends limping. And they too threw up by seeing my wound from the fire fight.

Radiance however, stood up and ran to my saddle bag that was filled with bandages and medicine. It was only temporary, but the wound felt like it was starting to heal. Osgod gave me a brohoof and told me that Caitlyn knows a lot of healing spells to get me all fixed up.

I looked down on my PipBuck, and noticed it was sending a message to the other PipBoys. Now I'm beginning to trust the damn device on what it said earlier. "Ok guys, we must get back to the camp quickly. Also how did you guys end up here anyways?"

The three stared at me with wide eyes, the better question to ask is. How did I find them instead and how did I learn how to fire a weapon? Also why wasn't my suit not activated?

I was leaving myself to interrogation more than being a leader of the nitwits. "Never mind let's go!" We all flew off and followed my lead. I can now feel the pain in my left flank or thigh for that matter.

The sky was starting to light up some as dawn was beginning to approach. My cue is right on the mark. The PipBucks have woken up Caitlyn, Sir Floogle Horn, and Ronny. The two fillies screamed and landed a hug on Ronny. This made me smile with glee but the wound kept it sort. My landing wasn't even perfect either.

"Oof!" I groaned. Everyone now realized this is what it's going to be like for now on. No pony hasn't fought in a war or even killed another pony, well except the Royal Guard, and Cronos the over dumbass World Dictator who carried out executions on a mass scale.

Caitlyn and Sir Floogle came up running to me, well not straight to me, but hugging everyone along the way and Caitlyn giving her boy a good lickin. But Caitlyn gave Osgod an order to get the fillies away from here I presume, as he led them far away from us.

"Let's wrong w-"a pregnant paused as she walked over to the bandages that Radiance put on. "Oh, dear." She went behind the bush and threw up when she took the bandage off.

"Dear Celestia, can everyone stop throwing up please! I hope it's not that bad." I moaned in pain.

"Sorry Red, just didn't see that coming. I'm used to Osgod's blacksmithing injuries, but none that cleanly went all the way through. Luckily, I got practice in medical treatments and surgeries, Floogle Horn!" Caitlyn screamed out. "Come look at the wound and throw up behind a bush and come back and hold your brother down!"

My sister walked up, but didn't throw up when she seen the wound. Instead, she just put her head next to mine and keeping me still. I have to give it to my sister. She might be crazy ninety percent of the time, but she does have a heart for caring when it's needed. Then Caitlyn went straight to work on the gaping hole.

My teeth quenched but it was sort. Maybe because I've passed out or my sister did something by casting one of her sleepy spells. The one she uses when someone is trying to rob her in the mustache store. Either way, the pain is gone.

I woke up in mid-day, the clouds were scattered and grass wells a boring yellow. I've noticed that my back has become a sleeping post for the fillies. As I look to see their heads sleeping way. I look back around to see everyone else asleep as well. My sister wasn't far from me at all. Caitlyn and Osgod we're cuddled together under a tree.

Since, I'm the only one awake at the moment. I looked to my Eye Forwards Sparkle or (E.F.S) for sort and nobody is around, only a whole bunch of green dots. I didn't want to look where my wound is or even get up. So, I decided to eat the grass around me.

Now I'm bored to death, full of energy and everyone has to be asleep "UGH!" Then the heads of the fillies slid off my back and onto the soft grass below as they readjusted their bodies in their sleep. I cooed over them as they did this, but I'm free.

Slowly I got up and noticed the pain was completely gone. I turn my head and neck to see how well Caitlyn did. "Wow!" I whispered. "It was like it never even happened." Then my ear caught an unfamiliar sound. "What tha buck was that!?" I ran up the hill and I collapsed to see the town of Talon expanding its new outer wall and we're only 290 miles to the town center; if we're at the next ring. "Okay, Okay, umm!-"I paused to think of a way of getting there. I sat there and watched the Pegasai, Unicorns and Earth Ponies build their new extension to their metropolis.

From the looks, it's a new agricultural ring, with weather facilities and science labs to go along with it. Small little hamlets allowed the Earth Ponies to have some type of miniature communities in a city of twenty million ponies of each race. Somehow this is the perfect system of running a large city or small town. I walked away far enough to do some scouting over the area. And not some type of slow fly by either.

SONIC BASSDROP!

Even though I'm going faster than the speed of sound. I can see everything as if it was in slow motion. I've gotten passed the first three rings and nine more to go from the looks. Then I black cloud was forming in front of me.

I flew up to slow down and softly flew back down to see what's up. My eyes widen, to see a ring completely blacken from what looks like a massive fire erupted. I landed in the ring outside of it.

"HEY WATCH WHERE YOU LANDIN!" A voice hollered out behind me.

I turn around to see a grey stallion with an angry look in his eyes, but his mouth and basically his whole body is covered in a hazmat suit. "Umm, my apologizes, I'm just wonderin what happened here?"

He shifted his head towards the scorched ring and then back towards me. "He happened!" The grey stallion explained. "The first city, just to give up and surrender any type of uprising against him-" he paused to take a breath of smoke choked air. "This very ring is where we had the College of Talon. The greatest education and research establishment in all of New Equestria. The students, they had a very peaceful protest against his rule, but he had little mercy for the fillies and colts. He made the whole entire damn ring explode."

I sat for that moment. Staring into the abyss that was a college. All the advancements those fillies and colts have accomplished. Burn to ashes. "So he rules by mercy, and when we try to rebel. This is the result." I turn back to the Grey Stallion as he nodded his head.

"He's done worse?" he proclaimed. "You know about the Rainbow Factory, do you?"

"No, I thought that was some Pony tale about this guy!" My head cocked to my dismay.

He sat on his haunches and pointed towards a group of clouds with rainbows flowing freely from it. "That right there, is the Rainbow Factory. Whoever goes in, never comes back out!" Then he got up a little too close my face. "And I know, that you know, about the saying.

"INTHE RAINBOW FACTORY, WHERE YOUR FEARS AND HORRORS COME TRUE."

I hate to admitted, even though we're face to face, but he's kinda right. "Ok, I catch your drift, I kinda have to be somewhere-"Sonic Bassdropped off the ring. "Else!?"

I'm surprised how easily I'm doing sonic booms. It took me years just to do it twice, and now I can do it whenever I feel like it. Now I must really focus, get to the shuttle.

"FUCK, WHY SO MANY FUCKING GUARDS!?"

"JUST GET INTO THE SHUTTLE TO YOUR RIGHT!" My PipBuck screamed.

WOOSH!

That was a little more dramatic than I thought it would be. "Now what are you going to tell me, once we got into the shuttle!"