Chapter eight
author notes: yes siree here's the new chapter. I want to send out a special thanks to shiningshadow1965 for all the help and encouragement he has given me throughout my story and to all the other readers who have reviewed this story I have not forgotten about you. May celestia bless you.
Shawn and company arrived at the gates of canterlot only a few minutes after they had left. Shawn,Scott,and Harry went through first in the hummer followed by Joseph,Ashely,and Bert in the tank. They didn't even need to stop at the castle gate because as the Pegasus guards saw them coming, they quickly opened the gate and allowed them in. All six of them were greeted by celestia and her sister Luna.
Celestia gazed upon the battle tank as it clanked up to her. She looked at the hummer as Shawn got out, "Shawn it's nice to see you again" she said.
"likewise" he replied.
"you may leave your...vehicles to the side over there" she gestured over to the side of the courtyard.
Shawn didn't even need to tell the others what she said, as they were already rolling and clanking to the side. When everyone had gathered next to Shawn holding their belongings celestia said, "now if everyone will follow me to their rooms"
The walked through the castle catching some glances from other ponies. There were two people per chamber so Shawn was paired up with Joseph, Scott with Ashely,and Bert with Harry.
"I hope you find everything quite comfortable here. If you need me. I will be in my quarters which is up on the next floor" celestia said, "you can come down to the dining hall if you wish but...there isn't much there that you might like"
"thank you princess" Shawn said. Everyone turned about to go to their rooms. Shawn entered the room after Joseph and saw that there were two beds, one desk, and a window with drapes. Shawn was unpacking his things when the picture he had of that the child of the dead pilot fell out of his pocket. He quickly scooped it up and shoved it back in.
"yo Shawn! I'm going to go explore this castle a bit" Joseph said, "be back later"
"okay" Shawn said. When Joseph left Shawn finished unpacking which he didn't have much to unpack. He took out the picture that fell and stared at it. In his mind Shawn was thinking if what they did was right, was it wrong, no no it was the right thing to do, and yet we took a father away from his son, so what he left the kid, but he might have returned to him, maybe he wouldn't. He probably die if we didn't shoot him anyways. Shawn thought all of this to himself. He thought for a good three hours which was the longest he thought in a long time.
There was a knock on the door but Shawn ignored it, there was another knock. Shawn ignored that one too, the door slid opened and Harry walked in.
"hey Shawn you okay? We haven't seen you in three hours" Harry said.
Shawn was staring into space muttering, "was it right, it can't be right"
"Shawn...Shawn? Shawn hello?" Harry waved his hand in Shawn's face.
Shawn pushed him away," don't touch me."
"what's the matter Shawn"
"we did the right thing...right" Shawn asked Harry throwing his head into his hands.
"come on Shawn what are you talking about" Harry said putting his hand on Shawn's back.
"I said don't fucking touch me!" Shawn spun around yelling.
"Shawn come on dude calm down and tell me about what you are talking about" Harry said concerned.
"the pilot! We killed him! We took him away from his son!" Shawn yelled.
Scott walked into the room asking, "what going on here"
"out of my way! I'm getting out of the madhouse!" Shawn said trying to break for the door.
Scott moved in front of him blocking the exit."Shawn you need to calm down"
"fuck you" Shawn screamed.
"Shawn stop this" Harry said walking up behind him. Shawn swung around punching Harry in the jaw. Harry fell down and Scott tackled Shawn to the ground pinning him there.
"Shawn! Get ahold of yourself!" scot yelled.
"get off me!" Shawn screamed at Scott trying to kick him. Harry got up and pinned down Shawn's legs.
"Shawn what's gotten not you" Scott said.
"leave me be!"
Scott slapped Shawn on the face, "stop it now Shawn!"
Shawn looked up at Scott shocked that he had hit him. Shawn slowly regained his normal state, "I...I'm sorry...I don't know what came over me" Shawn said looking away.
"Shawn" Scott said releasing his grip on Shawn, "its fine, I can tell this world is causing some troubles for you"
"it's not really the world but something in the back of my mind" Shawn said.
He looked at Harry who was rubbing for his jaw, "sorry about that Harry"
"it's okay but damn. For air force you sure can hit hard!"
All three of them laughed a little bit," hey Shawn when you feel like it all of us will be down in the dining hall" Scott said.
Shawn nodded, "I'll come with you guys if that's okay"
"fine with me" Harry said.
The three of the, walked out into the hall. But over a long distance in the middle of a forest stood a tall tower. This tower contained mass grave of dead ponies and at the very top of the tower was the tall figure that had been watching Shawn and his group. Him and the smaller one were looking into a small pool of water. This water had a image of Shawn's room.
"this is interesting. The first one seemed to have come back from the brink of insanity" the king said.
"what do we do" the small one asked.
"I suggest we move on to celestia. I can easily bring ...Shawn back to the brink of insanity" he said.
"what ever my king says"
The king looked at the small pony next to him," whatever I say"
The two broke out into laughter.
Back in canterlot Shawn and friends were eating rations in the mess hall. On their walk down to the mess hall Scott and Harry promised Shawn that they wouldn't say anything about his little "episode" to the others.
"hey! Give me back my granola bar!" Bert yelled.
"it isn't yours! You took it from me!" Ashley yelled back.
"prove it!"
Ashley smiled ignoring the last statement and unwrapped the granola bar, "don't you dare!" Bert yelled. She opened her mouth to take a bite, when Bert jumped over the table and grabbed the granola bar from her hand.
"you son of a bitch!" Ashley jumped up running after him. Shawn looked at Joseph who sat there eating his rations and smiling. "what" Joseph shrugged, "it's fun to watch them sometimes"
Shawn smiled and said,"yeah it is" he looked back at the two running around the dining hall screaming at each other. The ponies that were eating in the dining hall looked up surprised at the two humans chasing each other. They chased each other across tables and around ponies.
"give me it back!" Bert yelled.
"no!" Ashley yelled back.
"your right this is fun to watch" scot said.
"I heard that" Bert yelled at Scott. Bert ran by Scott grabbing his ration and swallowing what was left.
"what the hell! Get back here!" Scott got up and started to run after Bert.
"my, my what's going here?"
Shawn and Joseph looked behind them and saw celestia, twilight, rainbow, rarity, and one pony they haven't seen standing there.
"if you must know. Ashley and Bert are squabbling about a granola bar and Scott is trying to catch Bert for stealing his food" Joseph said, "it's pretty fun to watch"
"I must say that this is a little ...barbaric" rarity said.
"nah it's all fun and games" Shawn said.
"hey give it back!" Ashley yelled.
"don't give it to her give it to me!" Bert yelled.
Shawn looked back at the now standing still Ashley and Bert. They were jumping at rainbow dash holding the granola bar. She had flown over while Joseph was talking and snatched the bar from Ashley.
"come on!" Ashley said.
"give it he..." Bert said as he was tackled by Scott from behind. Scott started pretend choking him. When he was done "choking" him Scott said, "next time I'll do it for real" Scott walked away back to the group. He looked at Harry's almost finished food and asked," you gonna finish that"
Harry pushed the bar towards Scott. "aww come on!" Ashley yelled.
"where's my bar!" Bert yelled
"that wasn't bad" rainbow said licking her lips.
"you ate my bar!" Bert yelled.
Rainbow only smiled and flew back to the group. Twilight gave rainbow a look and rainbow only winked back. Bert and Ashley walked back to the group grumbling.
"now before we start a conversation. There is someone I would like you to meet" celestia said gesturing towards the unknown pony. She was colored a butter yellow Pegasus with pink hair.
"this is fluttershy" rainbow said," she's not the type to easily meet new ponies er ... Strangers"
Fluttershy cowered behind rainbow. Ashley waved at her." well now about last night" celestia started," what was that ...ceremony about"
Shawn got up from his crouched position saying," excuse me" he walked off.
"Harry go with him" Scott said. Harry got up and left, "what's this about" Joseph asked," it nothing" Scott said.
Shawn was pacing back and forth in his room when Harry caught up to him.
"you okay" he asked.
"I'm fine" Shawn answered, "just tired"
"if you say so" Harry said leaving Shawn alone in his room. later that evening celestia popped into his room, "Shawn are you okay" she asked
"I'm fine"
"no you are not. I can tell something is bothering you"
Shawn sighed, "it's the pilot we..."
"I know what you did" celestia said, "your friends told me about last night"
"it's just there is a nagging feeling in the back of my mind that just keeps telling me that I did the wrong thing" Shawn said, "it's driving me crazy"
"well Shawn if it helps I think you did the right thing. There isn't much more I can do for you. Just believe what you believe." she said walking out the door.
"b...but I don't know what to believe" Shawn said.
He looked out at the now darkening sky, he could swear he heard laughter in the back of his mind.
"I think things are going to get bad" Shawn said, "I don't know why, but I just have a feeling"
Author notes: another end to another chapter. Well i'll be uploading the next two tomorrow. Hope it was okay today and not too cheesy. See you guys tomorrow!