An Electrifiying Journey

Chapter 35 - Awake

Hey guys long time no post!
I was taking a long break and there is also some tests this week so I had to study.
You know how it goes right?
Okay back to the story.

I picked up the teenage boy and took a few steps back as the chinook began to touch the ground. Kodiac went forward and introduced himself to the soldier on the chinook. I saw that it was occupied by some civilians and wounded. I was about to go in the helicopter until I heard a screeching whistling sound. I turned to see a trail of smoke heading towards one of the other evacuation helicopters. The missile exploded on impact and the chinook began to swirl and fell and another huge explosion followed. The soldier shouted "We need to get the hell out of here" he motioned for us to get in. Kodiac shook his head and turned to us "Its suicide." The soldier cursed and shouted to the pilot to take off. We watched the chinook ascend and it only managed to reach the top of the forest canopy before it exploded. I shut my eyes and shook my head. Kodiac ran to forest opposite to where the enemies come from. "We need to get back to the city now!" All four of us ran into the forest, I was falling behind because of the extra weight I was carrying "Help him!" Kodiac shouted, pointing at me. One of the soldiers ran to me and help me carry the boy. We ran deeper into the forest, not stopping to take a rest.

After 5 minutes of running, the noises of gunshots and explosions begin to soften. My lungs were burning and I had to stop and catch my breath. Kodiac saw me and stopped as well. He sat and leaned against a tree, panting. "The city should not be far now." He said. I looked at him and asked "Whats our plan sir?" He continued panting and then looked back at me "There should still be an evacuation zone in the city. If we could make it, were getting our a$$es out of here." I nodded my head. After another 2 minutes of resting, Kodiac stood up and said that we should continue if we want to reach the evac zone in time. We got up and started the walk to the city.

Davis...

After what seemed like an hour, I was sweating profusely and Thomas began lagging behind. The trees in this part of the forest were so tall and the canopy was so vast that very little light could touch the ground. It was like when the sun was setting but it was still noon. I looked behind to see Thomas breathing heavily and he was quite a few steps behind. I turned to Kurt and told him to stop and so we did. Kurt took a look around "This place is still a zone 2 area. Imagine what a zone 5 area would be like." I looked around at the trees and chuckled "Surely it would be a piece out of hell." Kurt sat down "Heh... Ill bet." Thomas sat beside us, breathing heavily "Damn this is tiring." Kurt distributed a packet of apple juice and cookies equally. Thomas asked "How far are we now?" Kurt looked at his map. "Should be a short walk now." Thomas sighed and laid back, eating his cookie "Finally." I chomped down on my cookie and took another.

After a 15 minutes break, we stood up and continued down the path. We walked for another 5 minutes and stopped "Whats wrong?" I asked. Kurt looked into his map he is holding in his hands. "Strange. The cave should be around here." Thomas walked forward to a clear area. "Well, I do not see anyth-" The dirt around him shook and cracks begin to form. Soon, the ground open up and Thomas was about to fall in until Kurt threw his map on the dirt and grabbed Thomas by the hands. "Holy Shucks!" Thomas cursed as he looked down to the hole. Kurt pulled Thomas up and looked into the hole. Thomas was recovering from his shock. I sat beside Kurt and looked down into the hole "...that...is the cave?" Kurt nodded. Thomas sat beside us and looked down as well. He squinted his eyes "I don't see anything." Kurt ransacked his bag and pulled out what seems like a flare. He lit it and red and it began emitting red smoke. He threw it down the hole and the area around it lit up. It was not so deep so Kurt threw down a piece of rope "Who wants to go first." I nudged Thomas who shook his head. Kurt sighed and went down the hole with the help of the rope.

He touched the ground and took out a torch and looked around. "Damn this place is dark as hell." He commented looking around. Thomas asked "See anything?" Kurt looked up with his eyebrows cocked "Make a guess genius." I laughed and grabbed my saddlebag and descended down the hole followed by Thomas. I was halfway down and then, thanks to my weird hooves. I fell and landed on my rump which was now red and pain came from it. I grunted and stood up with difficulty. Kurt chuckled "Not easy being a pony ain't it." I sighed "Tell me about it." Thomas was now with us and looked around. I dusted myself and looked at the large cave. It was entirely stone and there are holes leading into different directions. Kurt walked over to a large tunnel and scanned it with his torch. "This ones going down." His voice echoed. Thomas and I took a torch from our respective bags and turned them on, I had to use my mouth to do so. We stood beside Kurt and looked at where he was looking.

This tunnel was smaller but it was going down as far as our eyes could see. I could not see anything else but darkness. Kurt threw another flare and we waited for a while until it hit the ground 4 seconds later. "40 meters down." Thomas said. Kurt asked him how did he know. "Gravity pulls things down 10 meters every second." I nodded my head in agreement "Though it might not be the same in ponyland." Kurt commented. Kurt jumped from ledge to ledge as he begin descending until he was out of our sight and into the darkness below. We then heard his voice "You guys coming?" I jumped to a ledge and began going down, grabbing nearby rocks to help me. After a minute of going down I was now on another ledge. I looked down and saw the red smoke. Kurt was standing next to it. He looked up at me "Damn you guys are slow." I spat and then jumped to another ledge, being careful not to fall. I was now close to ground and just jumped all the way down. I grunted and looked around for Kurt. He was no longer there. I looked up to see Thomas just a few meters above. He jumped down and dusted himself. I walked over a large rock and was shock at what I found.

I saw Kurt standing next to a rock which was glowing light blue. I ran down and touched it with my hooves. I could feel a presence in it. It was like I had a connection with the rock somehow. I used the Aura finder that Luna taught me and I could see aura flying around the inside of the rock. I touched it and aura flowed into me. I quickly let go as I began feeling giddy. I turned back to normal vision and looked at Kurt and Thomas who were also astonished at the rock. "This is it." I said. "This is the magic stone." Kurt rubbed it and it shined "Wow, how can we find it so easily?" I looked at it and saw my reflection "Magic stones are very common in the everfree caves." Kurt chuckled "I wonder how much a pony would give to have this thing." He took out a tool and hit it on the large rock. Pieces of different sizes chipped off and Kurt picked them up and placed it in his rucksack. I took the exact same tool from my saddle bag and used my magic to mine out some pieces.

After an hour of mining and resting and more mining, our bags were filled with the glowing rocks. We were now satisfied and went back to the place where we descended. Kurt looked up. "Its going to be a hell of a workout to climb back up." Thomas nodded his head.

4 hours after the ambush...

We ran down the street, dodging bullets along the way and then we turned a sharp corner into an alley and then ran down until we reached a junction. Kodiac ran down the left one and we followed. It was a dead end so Kodiac just sat down, panting. We did not expect the city to be this occupied after the air raid. The very first step we took into the city was a very bad one. One of the two soldiers were killed and we left the other one as he was too injured to move on. We ran around the city and met some allies on the way who gave us some ammunition, supplies and pointed us out to the evac point. They did not stop to help as they had to hold off the invaders. On our way here, we came across an entire platoon of those terrorists. We managed to kill them all, Kodiac killing aroun 6 and I killed 3. One of them survived and called for back up which was a large enemy platoon accompanied by a battle tank. Lucky for us, one of the ally patrols saw them and started shooting, we ran into this alley to avoid the firefight.

Kodiac pulled put a magazine and inserted it into his rifle. I checked my handgun to see that it was empty. I reloaded it and leaned on the wall, panting. I looked at the boy who was now covered in dirt and he was still breathing, I could not believe that I carried him all the way here without him taking shots. I noticed his mid section began to bleed. I took off his shirt and saw a cut on his stomach. I cursed and took out a long first aid bandage and wrapped his stomach. I cleaned his wounds a bit and put his shirt back on. "He alright?" Kodiac asked, still panting. I nodded my head. I noticed that the boy began breathing heavily. I just thought that he was having a bad dream and just leaned back, heaving a huge sigh.

Davis...

I ran down the dark tunnel, following Kurt and Thomas was just arms length behind me. We jumped over the stones and rocks that blocked our path. God I should not have shine my light on that weird looking scales which happened to be the dragon's eyes. Now, we got a fulled sized, fire breathing cave dragon chasing us. Thomas was shouting like hell and I just galloped after Kurt. We entered another another area which has two caves splitting up. Kurt ran to the left in and I followed him. This tunnel seemed to be going upwards which was a good thing as the sooner we get the heck out of this cave, the better.

We ran for another 2 minutes and I tried my best to ignore the pain in my chest. I could now see a light at the end and I was thrilled. Thomas then ran past me and Kurt "I'm not stickin' around to get killed! Out of my way!" I cursed as the dragon which was closing in behind us roared loudly. I looked behind to see that the dragon opened its mouth widely and breathed in. I began picking up the pace as I knew what it was planning to do. I suddenly felt heat coming from behind and I looked to see a huge wave of fire engulf the entire cave. "son of a!" I cursed and galloped faster. The heat began to intensify as it neared us. Kurt jumped out of the hole and kneeled with his hands covering his head. I felt the fire touch me and I was engulfed in the heat of the fire. I screamed in pain as I flew out of the tunnel and landed on the ground face first. I moaned and saw my vision getting blurry and then I was blacked out.

I felt extreme pain in my torso and I opened my eyes to see that I was staring straight up to the roof of a building. I looked around to see that I was in the alley. But I was not alone, there are two soldiers with me. One of them seems to be a medic and the other was a normal soldier but somehow he seems to be the leader. I moaned and sat up. The medic looked at me. "Sir, his awake!" The leader opened his eyes and looked at me. His stern face made me sure that he was the leader. "Good." He told the medic and looked back at me. "You... who are you?" I asked. The man smiled lightly and said "Many people do not know my real name and neither should you, but you can call me Kodiac." Wow, Kodiac is an awesome nickname to have. I wrapped my arms around my stomach, wincing. "What's going on?" I looked at the two army men who were armed. I heard explosions and gun shots. The leader came close to me and began explaining what happened.