Why hello there everypony! Hope you all enjoyed the first Chapter because chapter 2 is comin' right at ya!
I'd actually planned on upload yesterday, but had to call EMS for my mother.. but no worries she's fine, just a little family stress is all.
Oh yes, and this fic will be introducing some new OCs... However, because I have a terrible memory, they won't be staying for the whole ride. Plus, I'm pretty sure that you all are getting tired of new faces that don't go away, amirite? Sooooo I'll say this... and don't go crazy with PMs, if you want your OC to make an appearance... then send em my way.
And I thank you all in advance. (Also, whenever you see an elipsis all by itself on a line, then think of it as a time skip. Same with Horizontal lines)
Otay then, enough of my rambling, how about some review responses eh?
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I landed on Shadow's front step and proceeded to knock 3 times.
His house was very out of place, but that's how he likes it.
The exterior has a modern, geometric design, the building being almost completely consistent of straight lines and being mostly a light metallic gray color with some blue and black at the edges, altogether giving it a clean, symmetrical, and modern look. Shadow also installed a bunch of hidden turrets and electric traps because he feels that many would want to try and take his inventions.
Come to think of it he never really told me where the traps were located… every now and then though when I'm at his house he says, "Don't step there unless you want to die a painful bloody death."
So I probably won't be coming over anymore.
After a few seconds of waiting the door finally opened and, surprisingly, Aurum was standing behind it.
I smiled, "Hey Aurum, is Shadow here?" She sighed and stepped back to let me in, then motioned towards his lab entrance. "You aren't really gonna let me go into your deathtrap of a home are you?"
She grunted, "Don't worry, the traps should all be offline." Then I heard her say, "I think."
"Can I go tell Dash and the others that I love them first?"
"Hurry up and get inside before I throw you into the electric trap!" she snapped.
"Yes Ma'am!" I quickly replied and scurried inside.
"Wait for me!" I heard Tempest shout and run in behind me.
The inside was very orderly and filled with modern furniture, and had lots of technology and science-related things around. From what I've seen, Shadow's lab and the lower levels are almost identical to his old workplace back in Der Reise, with a dangerous variety of equipment, experiments, tools, weapons, and Celestia-knows what else.
…How do I know that?
I quickly shook the thoughts out of my head and turned around and stared at Tempest dumbfounded, "How the buck did you get here so fast without wings?" He just smirked and tapped his horn… "YOU HAVE A HORN?!" I shouted.
His face went from a smirk to a shocked expression, "I HAVE A HORN?!"
"STOP SHOUTING!" Aurum screamed, shaking the house, "Listen morons, if you two don't get down there, get Shadow, and do whatever it is that you plan on doing in the next 15 seconds… then one, or preferably both of you, are going to die a slow and painful DEATH!"
Needless to say I had Shadow in my hooves and was sprinting out the door with Tempest behind me in 3.4 seconds.
I ran for a good minute or so, and somehow ended up at Twilight's library. But that's perfect. I quickly set Shadow down and knock three times on the door.
"Ok so what exactly did you two kidnap me for?" Shadow asked.
"Code pear." Tempest announced proudly.
"I come up with the codenames next time." Shadow reminded us, "And I suppose you won't tell me this 'brilliant' idea of yours until Everypony is gathered correct?"
I nodded, "Bingo. Oh, and Tempest, since you can teleport head over to Canterlot and grab Solar and Light. Then go to where we were this morning."
"Roger that." His horn glew a faint violet for a moment, and in a quick flash he was gone.
As soon as Tempest was gone, the door opened and Night stood behind it. "Hey guys, what's going on?"
"Code: Pear."
"Oh really? Wow that was fast. Wasn't it like 3 days ago when we were talking about this?" he paused a moment to think, "Oh well, I'll go and get Hottrot and Soulflight, I'm sure that they'll want to hear this."
"All right, but make sure to stay there, I'll bring the others along with me and then we can go to our meeting spot."
He nodded, "You got it. Just hope that the idea is great!" his horn glew light blue, then, in the same manner as Tempest, he was gone.
"Of course the idea is gonna be great. I did come up with it." I stated proudly.
"Whatever you say." Shadow mumbled and started trotting off towards Fortune's house, "I'll go grab Fortune and meet you all at the meeting spot."
"You know where it is?"
He looked at me and smirked, "Middle of Everfree right?"
"Yes… but how'd you know?" I quickly asked.
"I'll tell you later." He replied and flew off.
I stared at his fading figure for a moment before chuckling to myself and trotting off towards Fluttershy and Crossback's house.
…
After a little bit of walking I could finally see the cottage."Guess I should hurry up, don't want to keep them all waiting." I mumbled to myself and took a flying leap to their front step, which was followed by 3 knocks.
It was silent for a moment before I heard Crossback shout, "I'll be there in a sec!"
Literally a second later the door swung open, but rather than Crossback standing behind it, it was Angel… the adorable spawn of Satan.
I kneeled down to his level and smiled, "Hey Angel, how ya been?" Much to my surprise, he just simply shrugged and walked away. "I was expecting something with a little more umpf but, whatever."
Next, and last to show was Crossback who sighed, "Couldn't wait for me so you just opened the door on your own? Come on dude…"
"What? No I didn't open the door, Angel did."
"Oh geez blaming it on him?" He leaned in and whispered, "I know that he can be a douche, but Angels been in bed with a cold." He stepped back a little and pointed over to a now sickly looking rabbit in bed. "Fluttershy went out a little while ago to get some medicine." He then mumbled, "Even though I told her that I could do it.."
"Oh you have got to be kidding me…" I silently cursed the little rabbit and turned my attention back to Crossback, "Code: Pear."
"Code: Pear? Which one was that again? All of your ideas and secret code names seem to be running together."
I face-hoofed and stared at him. "Just follow me…"
"All right." He turned to the inside of the house, "Angel I'll be back in a bit." The rabbit gave 2 weak coughs, turned over, and gave a thumbs up. After shutting the door Crossback asked, "So who do we have to get?"
I began walking down the path, "Well we're headed to Hottrot, or Soulflight's house. Everypony besides Shadow and Fortune should be there."
"All right so are we going to fly there or just have a nice little stroll?"
"As much as I would like to have a nice little stroll… we should probably fly there." I chuckled and took to the air, with Crossback behind me. "Bro, I don't want to be spotted by anypony who may jeopardize the mission briefing." I flew over to a cloud and stood on top of it, "So what I suggest is that you grab a cloud and fly slow."
With a quick sigh he complied and vice-gripped a cloud. "All right, let's go."
"Poke some eye holes in your cloud, that way you can see anything that happens below. Over."
There was a slight pause, then Crossback replied with, "Sometimes I wonder about your age."
"Couldn't hear you Goldy Locks, I'm in super secret spy mode. Address me as Red Fox and remember to say over after every sentence. Over." I quickly replied and flew ahead.
"Did you just call me Goldy Locks?... Over."
"You'll have to talk with high command if you want your code name changed. Over."
"Who… you know what? Forget it, I'll just hurt myself trying to understand you."
"Bout time you realized." I let go of the cloud and hovered, "Now then. I suggest you let go of that silly cloud and get a move on." When I was finished I bolted off in the direction of Hottrot's house.
…
About half-way to his house we ran into Hottrot, Soul, and Night who were all eager to hear what I had planned. But I told them that all would be revealed in due time, and reminded them that we still had to meet up with Tempest, Solar, Light, Fortune, and Shadow. So I quickly led them all to the meeting place, where Shadow and Fortune were waiting.
"So, how'd you know where the meeting place was Shadow?" I asked with piqued interest.
"I'm not the only one who knew… you told us all that this would be the meeting place. But I thought that you might forget."
"I promise that I don't remember a conversation like that ever occurring."
"Well, sorry to change the subject.." Hottrot walked over to me. "Blaze, you mind showing me your Veil?"
"What for?"
"You'll see when you do it."
I was a little hesitant… for a while now when I use the Veil, it feels like it's getting harder and harder to keep tabs on myself… guess this is a side-effect that Slips forgot to mention when he left.
~5 days Earlier~
Slips and I were relaxing on the grass, Sally said that Slips now has the power to leave, and return to my body at any time, so he decided to get out and stretch his hooves.
"Man… always feels good to get out of that cramped space. I mean, for a scatter brain, your mind is full of some pretty interesting stuff."
"It's how I am Slips… and I love it!"
"Hey Blaze?"
"Yeah, what's up?"
"You mind if I leave your body for a while? I.. I want to be free."
I looked at him for a moment before starring off into the distance and smirking, "I told you before. If at any time you want to leave, then you can. I mean, who am I to stop you? Just go ahead and live your own life again."
It was quiet for a moment before he replied with, "Thanks… I'll try to be back soon."
"Be sure to bring back some kind of souvenir." I chuckled lightly to myself and turned over to look at his expression... but he was already long gone.
…
~Present~
"Blaze? You all right?" Soul asked me.
I quickly shook the memory away and smiled, "Yeah brotiki I'm fine. Anyways, what's taking Tempest so long? All he has to do is pick up Light and Solar."
"Maybe he ran into some trouble?" Shadow mumbled.
"Nah, he isn't so weak that he'd be beaten up by some colt. Besides, he would have two Royal Guards with him."
"Does it have to be a colt?"
"Mare troubles huh? Now THAT sounds like him." I chuckled.
"So what should we do? Wait for him… or?" Night commented.
"Well we have two options here." Crossback began, "I can either teleport us all there, or Blaze can tell us his brilliant plan now and tell them later."
I thought for a moment before replying, "Would you mind just teleporting us there? I feel like we're being watched.."
Soul chuckled to himself. "The things that are watching us are called animals."
"Ponies are animals too bro." Hottrot corrected him.
"Let's not get into this debate okay guys? I'll just take us to Canterlot and we can all find them."
"Or…" Night chimed in, catching everypony's attention, "Crossback could just speak directly to Solar, Light, or Tempest like he did with us when we were looking for Buckshot."
Hottrot and Soulflight looked confused while the rest of us let out an awkward chuckle, "Oh yeah… almost forgot I can do that."
"Go ahead and do it then."
He nods and closes his eyes for a moment, which I assume was to concentrate. After a few moments of silence he spoke, "Hey Tempest, can ya hear me?" there was another pause before he said, "I'm speaking directly into your mind. Now why haven't you come back with Solar and Light?" he paused again then looked rather shocked, "Wow seriously? Good for you and him! So you're eating with them right now?"
"Wait fill us in Crossback." I quickly said, trying to grasp what was going on.
"Oh, well Tempest and Light are on a double date."
"They do this now?!" I wasn't that shocked, but I was still... shocked! "Ok look, just tell them that we'll talk to them later and to enjoy their date."
"Gotcha. All right Tempest you two have fun, and tell Light I said that I can't wait to meet the ladies." He then looked at us with a smirk, "All done here."
"Who woulda thought that he'd find somepony as soon as he got there." I mumbled to myself, "All righty then. Here is the plan, and I'll need all of your help to get this done…" I looked at each of the eager faces around me and gave them a wide grin, "So.. this is the plan."
Ha! Did you really think that I'd just give away the proposal idea like that?! Where's the fun?
And looks like Tempest and Light don't waste any time with the ladies... Let's just hope that these two unknown ladies will stay around.
Oh, and I've already gotten to work on the 3rd chapter, tho I'm only at about 200 words... Anyways, I'll try to have it up in... 3 days? Yeah let's go with that deadline.
So let's expect one on the 9th all right? Smell ya'll then!