"Phoenix?!" Eagle Eye repeated, his violet eyes wide.
"What in Spark's name was that?!" Zenith shouted.
"He just disappeared!" Eagle Eye stammered in a whimpering voice.
"What, did those eyes of yours go dead?! He was yanked somewhere!"
"Shhh!" Crimson slid down on a rope and landed between the two. "Keep it down!"
Zenith leaned over, whispering hoarsely. "Did you see anything from up there, boss?"
"Not a thing. That's just it. We may be surrounded."
"Yeah?! By what?!" Zenith exclaimed, spinning around with his polearm extended.
"I seriously see nothing!" Eagle Eye remarked. "Not a thing!"
"If we're dealing with Enforces, then they've changed their wilderness tactics."
"We don't know anything yet, Zenith."
"We're dealing with Phoenix being a flippin' ghost!"
"Maybe if I called out for him—" Eagle Eye began.
"No!" Crimson hissed, unsheathing his hammer. "Everypony, calm down! We'll figure out so long as we're surrounded by all these trees!"
"Anything could be anywhere—"
"The ruins!" Eagle Eye pointed at the nearby walls of stone.
"Right." Crimson nodded. "Fall back to—"
There was a whistling sound through the air.
All three stallions spun—
With a loud thud, Phoenix's lone mace landed hard, embedding itself into the forest floor. The handle of it wobbled and then was still.
Crimson, Zenith, and Eagle Eye stared quietly at the sight. All of the sudden, Crimson's ears twitched, as if detecting something quieter than sound. He turned about—
But it was too late; two coils of black metal shot out of the forest. In one swift movement, they latched around Zenith's body and yanked him off into a cluster of bushes.
"Gaaah—" Zenith pratfalled, slamming his chin hard against the earth. He yelled as he was dragged away into a muffled fate beyond the foliage. His polearm rattled to a stop on the ground behind him.
"Zenith!" Eagle's voice squeaked.
"EE!" Crimson shouted. "Your shield!"
"Nnngh!" Eagle flung his disc hard into the foliage. There was no immediate sound of it colliding with anything. After five seconds, the shield suddenly flew back, twice as fast as the petite stallion had thrown it. On its return, however, it was brimming with flickering manabombs.
"Get down!" Crimson shoved Eagle Eye away with his telekinesis while diving towards the opposite side.
A few of the charges flew off the spinning disc while all of them exploded at once. The west end of the ruins shook from fire and shrapnel. Eagle's charred shield was flung away so hard from the blast that it embedded halfway through the trunk of a massive oak. Smoke and ash littered the space between the floor and the tree canopy of Foxtaur. Through the settling miasma—swift as a shadow—a dark shape with crimson trails blurred and was gone again.
AMBUSH! And still no Rainbow...
Confound these cliffhangers, they drive me to read.
Well, fuck. Hopefully Roarke doesn't capture Belle and Pilate too.
There you are you insane bastard
I knew they should've stayed home today...
Quantum mace (thanks for pointing it out, Dream)
Read this while listening to "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg.
It timed so perfectly that I recommend this song to anyone looking at reading it a second time!
Is it wrong to doubt that it's actually Roarke?
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I can't but help think of Laughing Octupus.
IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
Oh...well, dang. Roarke sure is a piece of work. There's not too much else in this chapter except that it seems that Roarke was stronger than we first anticipated. I feel like, even if she was at full infighting potential, Dash would have a tough time beating Roarke. These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
Oh lawd that's not good.....
Come on Dashie!
Onwards!
Dern she's good.
Somebody's been practising their metal-bending...
Is it actually Roarke? And has she found Dash already, or is this before their encounter? (Which I'm assuming happens/has happened at some point) Hmm...
I was wondering how crafty a pony'd have to be to make Shell nervous. Now, I guess, I've got my answer.
ahem...*clears throat*GAAAAAAAY!
sorry that has just been building up inside Honeytiger since EE appeared and... fuck it
ignore this comment.
Metroid Pony
grace and peace,
-Psyco Josho
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It's kinda hard to ignore a MULTICOLOURED COMMENT!
>If we're dealing with Enforces[/color
lal typo
2123059 In the Hall of the Mountain King is one of those fucking epic romantic era pieces.
Man, we are getting close to the "round one, round two, round 3, etc chapters. I'm so NERVOUSCITED!!!
Uh oh. This is about to get real.
Damn, that was awesome.
Texas is back!
Hot damn, she don't screw around
2123002 Arnold pls
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
...but we probably won't get the chance.
Impressive. And honestly, it's just Zenith this time, acceptable losses.
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Finally someone is getting her name right
EE confirmed for Captain America
Let's
Play
A game!
The name
Of
The game
Is...
I'm gonna slap some fucking bombs on your shelf after you play a game of frisby with it!
Mwahahahahahshs! Evil mweh~
Wirecore and flight. Looks like our bounty hunter's a Boba Fett.
that's not dash...THAT'S NOT DASH!
This is totally Roarke, I don’t see anypony else who would equip 2E’s shield with dozens of live bombs after he threw it at her.
I may have missed something, but I also think we never got status on 2E and Crimson’s position, I wonder what happened to them. I also hope it’s nothing bad.