Chapter nine
author notes: sorry guys about the delay. Had a super busy weekend. First there was pheasant hunting with my dad. Then there was friend who moved away who came to visit and…. Well you get the idea. Well here's the new chapter hope its okay.
Shawn had stayed up until a little after midnight until he finally surrended to sleep. He woke up to the sound of talking outside his door. Shawn pressed his ear to the door.
"those things in there need to leave" one voice said.
"I agree with you but they are guests of the princess" another voice said.
Shawn heard a sigh, "your right I just don't feel right around them. I mean have you seen those things outside that they ride in"
"yeah I have. There huge...what do you think they do"
"I don't know but it can't be good"
The voices trailed away as the two walked down the hall. Shawn turned around and walked out onto the balcony.
"mourning" Joseph said walking up from behind rubbing his eye.
"mourning"
"something wrong" Joseph asked.
"we shouldn't be here" Shawn said quietly.
"what do you mean"
"don't you have a small feeling in the pit of your stomach that something has happened since we arrived" Shawn asked.
"now that you mention it yes. I do have a small feeling. But Shawn" he said putting a hand on his shoulder," we are in a different world it's not abnormal to have a feeling like that. We haven't screwed with the way this world works. Just...try and enjoy it"
Shawn smiled, "your right"
Back in the tall tower the king snarled, "curses! I cannot allow this to happen! It will ruin my plans!"
"do you wish me to send some of the knights to take care of the reassuring one" the small pony asked.
The king thought for a moment ,"yes. Send ten of them to retrieve that one" he pointed at Joseph in the reflection of the pool, "retrieve him alive. I want him alive"
The smaller one bowed and backed away. He went down to the bottom floor shouting, "your king king demands that ten of you to retrieve the leader of the stranger! Alive !"
Bones clattered and armor rose up and fell into place on skeletons. Cloaks floated from the wall and covered the armored skeletons, "our king's Will be done" a rasping voice came from a cloak covered pony.
The group of ten walked out of the castle walking towards canterlot. The king was out on a balcony when his aid came back, "they have left" the aide said, "I must say whenever I see them I get the creeps"
"it's a price they excepted for immortality" the king said," though they didn't really chose it" he chuckled.
Back in canterlot Shawn was walking around the castle courtyard. He walked up to Scott asking him if he could take him to town.
"what's there" Scott asked.
"I want to see the covering they town made for my hornet" Shawn explained.
"ah okay hop in" Scott said getting in the hummer.
Shawn got in and the two drove off towards town passing by stores and groups of ponies walking on the road. They drove on the dirt road towards town. They reached town when dark clouds were starting to placed by Pegasi in the sky, "weird how the weather works here" Scott mentioned
"yeah"
The reached twilights house and Shawn stepped out and knocked on the door.
It was answered by twilight,"oh hi Shawn it's nice to see"
"hey I just wanted to see if the canopy was done" Shawn said.
"yes it is. We finished this morning" she said.
"okay I'm going to go put the plane under the covering"
"okay it's just to the side of the town" she said.
Shawn nodded and got back in the hummer. Scott shook his head, "I still can't get used to the idea of ponies talking"
"it is awkward" Shawn said smiling.
They drove off to Shawn's jet. Shawn climbed into the jet while Scott drove off to the edge of the field. Shawn closed the canopy and fired up the engines. The two jet engines roared into to life and he taxied the big fighter to the side of the town seeing the covering the town had built for him. He flinched as he taxied under it. His wings barely missing the support beams that held up the roof. He killed the engines and jumped out.
Scott drove up to him but before they could leave they were stopped by rarity.
"hold on I must protest" she said.
"what is it" Shawn said stepping out.
"you have been wearing the same clothes since you came here!" rarity squealed," this will never do! Come, come I will do my best to make some new clothes for you"
Before Shawn could protest rarity grabbed Shawn's sleeve with her mouth and pulled him towards her boutique. Scott had gotten out of the hummer and watched as Shawn was dragged into rarity's store. Rarity shoved Shawn up onto a little platform. She was prancing around Shawn humming to herself, a tape measure floating around Shawn taking measurements. Scott had walked in laughing at the sight of Shawn. Shawn glared at Scott.
"okay dear hopefully by tomorrow I will have your clothes done" rarity said.
"um thanks" Shawn said.
"come on Shawn lets go" Scott said still chuckling.
"not quite yet" rarity said grabbing Scott this time now. She did the exact same thing she did to Shawn to Scott. This time Shawn was the one laughing. After rarity was done with Scott the two got into the hummer and drove off. Rain had started to sprinkle from the carefully placed clouds. Shawn was looking out the window when he saw a dark flash in the corner of his eye. He looked to where he thought the flash was but nothing was there. He went back to staring out the window. Scott was driving slower than usual due to the rain.
They drove through town getting lost a little. Shawn was still looking out the window when he heard a thump on the hood and Scott say, "what the hell!"
Shawn looked at the front of the hummer, through water that ran down the windshield he saw a pony covered in a dark wet cloak it's hooves covered in hard metal boots. It was staring at Shawn then shifted its attention to Scott.
Suddenly another pony who was exactly like the first one popped up front the side that Scott was on. It grabbed Scott and tried to pull him out.
"ahhh Shawn help!" Scott yelled.
Shawn grabbed the extra m-16 Joseph had used to shoot the pilot. He aimed for the pony's head and fired . The round knocked the head backwards in a unnatural way even for a pony. The pony's head slowly rolled back up to its natural position.
"what the hell "Shawn said.
"I don't care what it is" Scott said steeping on the gas speeding off down the road .Scott looked into the rear view mirror,"fuck"
"what, what is it" Shawn asked looking into his rear view mirror. He saw that eight other similar ponies had join the two and were chasing after them. Scott drifted around a corner and sped down the street. They were almost out of the town when Scott had to swerve the hummer to the side of the road to avoid a fallen tree limb. The back tire slipped off the gravel road and got stick in mud.
Scott growled,"fuck,fuck,fuck" he slammed his fist onto the dashboard, "Shawn you better get ready" he said looking down the road seeing the ponies racing towards them. Scott climbed into the back of the hummer throwing extra clips for the m-16 at Shawn. He then climbed into the gunner hole and unlatched the .50 he grabbed the cocking lever and pulled it back allowing the first round to enter the firing chamber.
Scott let .50 chug out its deadly mail. Huge caliber bullets slammed into the ground around the racing ponies. Some bullets hitting the ponies slamming them backwards. Shawn opened up with the m-16 knocking down more ponies. Bullets whizzed by the ponies poking holes in their cloaks. The ponies that were knocked down slowly stood back up to their hooves and started racing again.
"what are those things" Shawn yelled over the noise of the two guns. Scott only kept firing. The ponies got within arms length of the hummer when Shawn was yanked from behind. He landed on his back looking up into a cloaked pony's face. Natural instincts took over Shawn as he lifted the barrel of the gun and gave the pony a burst from the gun. Shawn got up to his feet as the pony he shot was slowly bringing its self to its hooves. Shawn swung the m-16 like a baseball bat, knocking the pony's head. The butt of the gun caught the edge of the cloak ripping it off. Shawn gasped at the sight before him. He saw a skeleton of a pony covered in armor, it's helmet shined with large spikes, it's back was a long flat metal plate, it's hooves covered in long boots with spikes coming from the side.
The undead pony hissed at Shawn as it lunged at him. It shoved it's spiked helmet into Shawn's thigh. Shawn yelled out in pain. Scott looked over at Shawn as the pony back away leaving its helmet in Shawn's leg. Scott gazed in shock as he saw the pony's skull shine in the rain. He looked back at Shawn.
"Shawn! Hang in there!" he yelled and went back to firing away. The same pony who had stabbed Shawn jumped onto the roof of the hummer. It calmly walked over to Scott. Scott didn't notice the pony walk up to him as he was busy firing at the other nine ponies in front of him. The pony lifted a booted hoof and slammed it down onto Scott's head. Scotts fingers fell from the triggers, his face turned into that of dumbstruck, he collapsed onto the big gun. Two other ponies jumped up to Scott. The three of them proceeded to drag him away from the hummer.
Shawn looked up through tears of pain. He was holding the helmet with his hand and his other hand still grasped the m-16. He saw the ponies lift Scott up onto their backs and started to walk away. Shawn took a breath and limped after them.
"SCOTT! Scott I got you!" he said firing the gun widely at the ponies. One of the ponies turned around and charged Shawn. This pony slammed Shawn down to the ground. Shawn glared a deadly look at the pony. The pony didn't react to the glare. It simply raised its hoof to bring it down on Shawn's head. Shawn remembered the look on the undead pony's skull underneath the cloak. Then it went black. Shawn slipped into a a dream realm, slipped into the white world where anything could happen.
Author notes: yep, yep there it is. No its time for some action….I hope. Anyways I'm off. PEACE!