Moosecow #3 Part 3

[07:11] <~Reverie> The scene is likely set with Reverie and Snowshoe asleep in a small corner of the station in which they were near as of the evening previous's activities. Reverie is sleeply lightly on a cot with a blanket, their secluded corner of the station among boxes and a smouldering fire to boot. Other soldiers and such are around, just not anywhere near that quiet corner.
[07:17] * You are now known as Proverb
[07:18] * Snowshoe tried to sleep, but couldn't. She ended up just cuddled against Reverie, looking at the fire and the occasional figure of a soldier trotting past. "Hey...you asleep?" she asked softly, not expecting Rev to answer.
[07:19] * Reverie is definitely asleep, he hadn't had real sleep in days, although his dreams aren't being exceedingly friendly for all it was worth.
[07:21] * Snowshoe chuckled softly, then looked over at the sleeping stallion. "I don't get you..." she mumbled to herself. She got up and stretched, looking around. She needed...something. A drink, a smoke...hell, she remembered the early days, when Dash would work. But no, she'd made a promise.
[07:22] * Reverie murmurs slightly, warmth around him less without the company, should probably bring him around soon once his mind wraps around it. Nearby Snowshoe is a case, it's closed and locked, but it's marked as alcohol.
[07:24] * Snowshoe looked over at the case and grunted. For a moment she leans down to look at the lock, then shook her head. It took all of her self control, and then some, to push the case away, but she kept looking back at it every now and again.
[07:24] * Reverie stirs slightly, opening his eye a sliver to see what Snowshoe was doing, but not making it known he was awake.
[07:25] * Snowshoe trots in place, then goes to look around. Maybe there was like...a 24/7 cafe or something. At least caffeine was an addiction everypony had, and wouldn't harm her.
[07:26] <~Reverie> There is no cafe in this station, it wasn't an official settlement. Only military use really, but there was a kettle bubbling softly over the dwindled fire.
[07:27] * Snowshoe looked over at the kettle, examining it to see what was in it and trying to see if anypony was watching over it. She may be a kleptomaniac, but never stole food.
[07:28] <~Reverie> The kettle was indeed brewing water, but it was unattended, and a crate nearby had MREs and instacoffee and other edible food items for use in it. Reverie opens his eyes fully now, but it didn't look like Snowshoe was noticing him.
[07:30] * Snowshoe sifted through a crate and grabbed a packet of instant coffee, and a glorious tin mug. She brewed herself a cup and started back for Reverie, catching a glint of light off his eyes as she approached. "Sorry...didn't mean to wake you," she mumbled. "Want a coffee? I can brew another."
[07:30] * Reverie shakes his head, stretching in his layed down position and yawning some. "No... I'm fine." Oh the awkward silence of it... couldn't cut it with a knife, too thick for that.
[07:32] * Snowshoe nodded and sat down. She was quiet for once, then looked over at him. "I...just really want to thank you," she said after a long gap between the I and the rest of it.
[07:32] * Reverie sits quietly, observing Snowshoe and letting her say her piece.
[07:34] * Snowshoe shrugged and sipped her coffee. "That's it, I guess. I actually...didn't think you'd take me back," she admitted, looking over at him again. "I guess I just want to know... why? Why me, of all mares? I don't want to seem ungrateful, I really am happy we're back, I'm just curious."
[07:36] * Reverie doesn't answer for a long while, but when he does, "Love... is something that I can neither understand nor explain. It isn't something I can control or shape. Or make my heart go one way or another... I suppose you could say I'm along for the ride." he pauses to gather his thoughts. "I know... you made a mistake, and that you regret it, I don't want to keep the preverbial knife stuck in place just so I can prevent the wound from heal
[07:37] <~Reverie> ...from healing.
[07:40] * Snowshoe nodded in understanding, sipping her coffee while she listened to him. "I get it. I think. Though regret it...that's a really mild word. I'd go to the ends of the world and back for you and Adagio, and I'd do anything to fix what I did to you," she said softly, looking over at him. "Literally anything. I'd take a stroll through fuckin' Canterlot, if I needed to."
[07:41] * Reverie nods quietly. "I know... it's probably why my heart was so torn to shit when I turned away."
[07:43] * Snowshoe sipped her coffee, then leaned against him. "Well...I don't know how this love stuff works, and I don't know why the Wasteland decided I should be this lucky...but I'm thankful we're back." She looked down at her mug, then shrugged a little. "Never been to detox before," she admitted.
[08:04] * Reverie nods lightly. "Would you like a description based on Doc Antidote's view?"
[08:06] * Snowshoe shook her head. "No. I'm friends with a doctor. Which reminds me...mind if I call in Bright? Not that I don't trust Antidote, just that, well, Bright's a great friend," she said softly. "And you don't have to stick around, if you don't want. I won't exactly be the nicest, or most attractive mare. Probably stink, too."
[08:07] * Reverie snickers. "Is that different than normal?" he says with a smirk. He thought she looked fine, but he was trying to raise the general mood.
[08:08] * Snowshoe chuckled, lightly bopping him on the side. "I don't usually stink," she said simply, smiling a little.
[08:10] * Reverie wraps a hoof around Snowshoe's middle and pulls her into a close, fuzzy hug. "Not usually, no. And you normally don't look bad either, but I hear detoxs suck bigtime."
[08:13] * Snowshoe smiled a little. "Yeah. It does. Don't be surprised if I say some...rude things while it goes on. I don't mean to, but I've been fueled on alcohol for the last four years. Going to be...irritating to get rid of it. Necessary, but not pleasant."
[08:14] * Reverie nods. "I really would like ot see you live a lot longer than alcohol often permits Snowshoe." he says testing the waters by nuzzling her neck lightly.
[08:15] * Snowshoe nuzzled him back, sighing softly. "Yeah. I don't know why, just...always seemed to be predisposed toward addictions. Would you believe I used to be a Dash addict?"
[08:15] <~Reverie> "Yes." he says flatly.
[08:16] * Snowshoe snorted a little. "Not one for sugarcoating, huh? Wasn't an intentional thing. That one was tough to kick. Replaced my smoking, then I replaced it with drinking instead. A little less harmful."
[08:17] <~Reverie> "All of them are just expensive bad habits... love..."
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[08:19] * Snowshoe nodded. "I know. And all harmful. I didn't go hunting to get addicted. Hell, the Dash saved my life. Literally. I was dying in the street, used it as impromptu adrenaline. Kept me going 'till I reached safety."
[08:20] * Reverie sighs softly and nods, nuzzling Snowshoe's neck lightly. "And for that I'm glad... I really am..."
[08:22] * Snowshoe nodded, tilting her head to let him nuzzle her. "Wasn't exactly smart, but hey." She sighed and finished off her coffee, scrunching up her face as it had gotten rather cold. "I'll get through this, though. Tavern's....going to be hard, but I can make it."
[08:23] <~Reverie> "I... you know if you weren't addicted to alcohol I would say just cut back to you know... normal consumption... but I don't believe that will happen anymore." he admits softly.
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[08:24] * Snowshoe shook her head. "No, you're right. It's stupid, and cutting my time here. Might as well stop it," she said with a shrug. "Besides... I got you to help, hopefully."
[08:27] * Reverie sighs. "I'm afriad that I just made it worse somehow."
[08:28] * Snowshoe shook her head again, looking over at him. "How? If anything, you're making it better."
[08:31] <~Reverie> "I just... I hopes so much it would just curve itself..."
[08:31] <~Reverie> *hoped
[08:33] * Snowshoe shrugged. "But it didn't. I tried... I really did. But at this point... I'd rather have this happen. A few days of... discomfort is worth never hurting you like that again," she said softly, nuzzling him.
[08:33] * Reverie looks really tied, probably because of the culmination of events over the days. "Y-yes..."
[08:35] * Snowshoe shifted and grabbed his head between her hooves, looking him in the eyes. "Hey....I still love you, alright? We'll make it," she said softly, leaning forward to kiss him on the lips. She pulled away, then hugged him. "Should we try heading back to HQ? Might be more comfortable."
[08:41] * Reverie chuckles softly. "I don't want to go back... I just want to relax..." he sighs. "Last night you were about to ask a question of some sort."
[08:42] * Snowshoe nodded. "I already asked it. The 'why me' thing." She cuddled up against him and draped a hoof over him. "You're something else, you know that?" she asked after a moment.
[08:43] * Reverie looks into the embers of the fire, waywardly pushing another log into it. "Something... yes..."
[08:46] * Snowshoe blinked, shaking her head. "Not what I meant, love..." she said softly, kissing him on the neck. "It's just... you're not like most stallions. And the farthest thing from me. I look up to you, you know. Try to be you."
[08:52] * Reverie blinks and sadfaces. "You... I'm not a good rolemodel..."
[08:52] <~Reverie> "And wat are most stallions like then?" he adds quietly.
[08:54] * Snowshoe tilted her head. "Really? And why not? You're one of the strongest ponies I know, but you know when to use your strength, and when to keep peace. You know how to lead ponies. You always know what to do, or at least are always there. Me? Not so much." At his other question, she shrugged. -c-
[08:55] <Snowshoe> "Most wouldn't've taken me back after what I did. And most that I meet are like me...violence is the only option, there is no other way."
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[08:59] * Reverie doesn't respond to those, he just sits quietly, enjoying her company, in honesty he didn't feel like he warrented admiration.
[09:04] * Snowshoe sighed and gave him a gentle kiss on the cheek. "You're also very gentle, and one of the best ponies I know," she assured him. She closed her eyes, letting out another sigh. "I can't even control myself. You know I almost punched Provy? Provy's one of my best friends!"
[09:06] * Reverie blinks. "I am... glad I wasn't there... I'm exceedingly protective of Provy." he admits. "I look at her as my own you know... I mean she called me daddy the other day a few weeks back."
[09:08] * Snowshoe nodded, but kept her eyes closed. It hurt her even more to hear that. "And I would have deserved it. I still can't believe I considered it. But that's who I am... I reacted badly to this kind of stuff. Last time I freaked like that, I went and killed eight ponies." Enclave ponies, but still.
[09:09] * You are now known as TicTac
[09:09] <~Reverie> "But in that instance... who could blame you? This instance isn't comparable, I can't imagine how I shredded you."
[09:12] * Snowshoe shrugged. "Comparable to me. Both times I lost the pony I loved, and I thought for good. The point is... what would have happened if I'd done it?" she asked softly.
[09:16] <~Reverie> "Hit Provy?" he considers. "I wouldn't know, I wasn't there."
[09:18] <TicTac> (( Snowshoe would have gotten ground-pounded by a mare half her size. :P ))
[09:18] * Snowshoe sighed softly. "How do /you/ do it?" she asked. "Control your anger?"
[09:18] <Snowshoe> [Snowshoe would have put up quite the fight :P]
[09:19] * Reverie looks down at Snowshoe and [I'll fucking kill all of you. :P ]... back to train of thought. "I guess I just... don't get angry often. For the longest time it was all I really felt, a boiling, blunt rage."
[09:21] * Snowshoe nodded in understanding. "I see..." she said, considering it. "I keep it in, mostly. It's just... always my first option, for some reason."
[09:22] <~Reverie> "Keeping it in is... well it isn't good, it's what I used to do before Willpower manifested."
[09:23] * Snowshoe shook her head. "I don't bottle it up. I let it out... on the range, mostly. Sparring. Sex. It just doesn't show up often. But when it does..." she let out a little shudder.
[09:24] * Reverie nods. "I understand... I really do..."
[09:32] * Snowshoe gave him a soft squeeze. "I know," she said softly. "I really hope I can... be a better pony. Somepony you'd actually be proud to marry." She nuzzled him a little. "Somepony that doesn't hurt both her lovers, and her best friend."
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[09:40] * You are now known as Proverb
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[10:03] * Reverie nods softly. "Adagio..." he blinks. "Adagio walked off into the tunnels."
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[10:05] * Snowshoe blinked, then got up. "We gotta go." It was a statement, firm and decisive. "Now."
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[10:06] <~Reverie> "No... we can't..."
[10:07] <~Reverie> "She wanted to be alone. I won't follow, we'll never find here and we'll end up dead, and you know it."
[10:07] <~Reverie> *We
[10:08] * Snowshoe shook her head. "Let's take a railcar then, or some backup. Reverie... I almost lost you, and I don't want to lose her, too. You two? No word of lie, you two are the only things I really live for anymore. We /need/ to go. We /need/ to find her."
[10:10] * Reverie shakes his head. "She off the scope Snowshoe, you want me to put lives in danger when I told her not to go and she went?" he shakes his head. "I refuse, she went on her free will, if we... you mean anything, she will return."
[10:10] <~Reverie> *she's
[10:11] * Snowshoe shook her head again. "Reverie... you don't understand it," she said softly. "She /can't/. The darkness... she'll be paralyzed with fear. A rabid rat could take her down. I'll go on my own... I can move stealthily anyways."
[10:12] <~Reverie> "I know of her fear, I friggin' declared her unfit for duty. And she knew better than going if that is truly the case, and Snowshoe damnit listen to me, the mosters down there can smell you, stealth doesn't mean anything. I won't let you go."
[10:13] * Reverie stands up , looking dealy serious.
[10:14] * Snowshoe wanted to be angry again, and visibly bristled... then deflated again. "We have to do something," she said weakly. "She wasn't in her right mind, Reverie... and it's because of me. I don't want to be the reason she died. I have to at least try."
[10:15] <~Reverie> "No, she did what she wanted to, I'm tired of hearing this that and the other." he sighs. "I can put an alert out to all units on patrol for her, but I'm not putting lives on the line for another one of her 'I' moments. I'm sick of it." he admits bitterly.
[10:16] * Reverie collapses to his seat again.
[10:17] * Snowshoe sighed, and nodded. "I understand. I really do. It annoys me too at times. But right now... she thinks it's her fault that we had that relationship issue. If she dies... I won't be able to live with myself. At least put the alert out... it's better than nothing."
[10:18] * Reverie covers his face with his hooves. "I'll... send units out..." he renigs softly. "But if I get any casualties, fuck it I'm pullin them back..." he forces out in whisper.
[10:20] * Snowshoe trotted toward him and sat down, facing him. "I don't want anypony hurt either. If you're sending the units out, I want to be with them. I don't want casualties... but I don't want to hide behind everypony. This is my fight, and if something goes wrong, I want to be there."
[10:20] * Reverie nods lightly. "Just... understand we won't..." he takes a breath. "We won't likely find her."
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[10:22] * Snowshoe closed her eyes, but nodded. "I know," she breathed. "But I'd rather go and find her dead... than give up and never know. I'm not breaking any more promises. I told her we'd get through her fear of the dark together."
[10:22] * Reverie nods lightly, climbing from his seat, "I don't think she'll be dead, if anything she'll have done something really bad or along those lines. But I doubt dead."
[10:25] * Snowshoe nodded. "Same thing... I need to at least try." There was a reason she'd chosen Defiance as her revolver... against all odds, she had to always try. "...Are you sure you want to put these ponies there? I'll go on my own, or with you, if you want. Or just volunteers."
[10:26] <~Reverie> "Well I'd tie you down before I let you go alone." he chuckles a little. "But see when I ask for volunteers for a search and rescue normally I get near max participation."
[10:26] * Snowshoe nodded and hugged him tight. "Thank you. I don't know at all what I did to deserve you, but thank you."
[10:28] * Reverie nods softly. "Forgive me if my mood is sour, Adagio has run off once more and done exactly what is the issue here. And I'm sending others willingly, it was a pleasure to burn." he murmurs before trotting off to assemble the search parties...
[10:30] * Snowshoe got up, following after. "Reverie... let me talk to her when we get to her. This is my mistake. All of this is. If... Celestia forbid, anypony gets hurt, blame me when it's over. I know... I know Adagio makes mistakes, so let me talk to her."
[10:31] <~Reverie> "No... it really isn't Snowshoe, I'm not absolving you of blame, but by the goddesses Adagio needs to get a grip. And shit I saw Blackout last night, he was more twigged than I was."
[10:33] * Snowshoe nodded. "I understand, fully. She does things without thinking, usually to the detriment of others. But this IS my fault... if I hadn't grabbed that beer, if I had only stayed home while I was in heat... we wouldn't be here. She wouldn't've run to the tunnels. So yes, while Adagio does go off the handle, and often... I still love her. I'm only asking you to come... you don't have to."
[10:34] <~Reverie> "Eden Adagio Snowshoe Reverie, we're all in the boat together. And I, like Blackout from what I gleam, see equal faults of all parties."
[10:36] * Snowshoe grunted. "Well, one of these days you'll have to explain that to me. All of this comes down to one poor decision on my part... and you have no share of the blame. Everything you said? Justified," she assured him. "Are we stopping back at HQ, or do I need to borrow weapons from somewhere?"
[10:37] <~Reverie> "Adagio... was sober..." he says simply before trotting onward.
[10:38] * Snowshoe shrugged. "Blame game later. Right now, half of my life is on the line. Guns, Reverie."
[10:38] * Reverie shrugs. "Hope you like northern assault rifles." he says trotting over to an area with crates laying around it, weapons stacked on racks and armor laying on tables.
[10:39] * Snowshoe shrugged again. "As long as they shoot. Though I'd prefer something a little more accurate... those are the ones with the muzzle brakes, right? The 5.45 ones?"
[10:41] <~Reverie> "Either go VSK or Dragon semi auto then." he says absent mindedly, putting on some kevlar barding overtop his fatigues.
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[10:43] * Snowshoe grabbed one of the VSKs, loading it and pointing it down the room to get a feel for it. "Not bad. Should see about getting one of these permanently." She grabbed a large amount of magazines, stuffing them into her barding. She was already wearing her hoof-made barding, what started life as an orange safety vest and now was something reasonably good. "Reverie?" she asked after a moment.
[10:44] * Reverie doesn't look to Snowshoe, but he answers in a softer tone than he normally has. "Yes Tinker?"
[10:46] * Snowshoe sighs and grabs a sidearm from the locker. It's not her .44, nor her .45, but a thin TT-33. She holstered it then looked over at him. "...I'm truly sorry, and I'll understand completely if you hate me, or Adagio, at this point," she said sincerely. "But let's just... get through this first."
[10:47] * Reverie doesn't respond to Snowshoe, he just continues to load up and buckle up. He picks up his radio, "Commisar Reverie to all..." he continues onward, but unless Snowshoe has more to say a new chapter is about to begin...
[10:48] * Snowshoe just grabs a gas mask and radio for herself. She didn't like what was going on in her mind's eye... not at all.
[10:51] <Proverb>  OOC NAO
[10:51] <~Reverie> The scene rolls back several hours now, Adagio, now running wildly away from the scene, is sprinting through an exposed portion of the station to the surface. She needs a gasmask soon, or she runs the risk of suffocation and death, but a perceptive eye would see a survival box nearby.
[10:51] <~Reverie> -Free RP Session Commencing-
[10:54] * Adagio skids to a halt at the sight of the survival box, quickly pulling it open and fighting down her rising fear, 'Finally done with the goody four hooves act?' the whispers were getting worse, 'No I just can't keep this going I wasn't supposed to be happy, I'm not even supposed to be alive.' she thought angrily, she searches through the box desperately.
[10:56] * Snowshoe is walking with Reverie and the others, rifle slung across her front and mask hanging from her neck. She's abnormally quiet, but the usual focus and determination is visible on her face as she trots, quiet as a shadow, through the tunnel.
[10:57] <~Reverie> Being in the condition things are, Snowshoe and Reverie plus company will not find Adagio in time, it's down to Adagio and the events that ensue to determine her state of survival.
[10:58] <~Reverie> Inside the box for Adagio are the following items: A gasmask with three filters, a small trauma kit, and a headlamp.
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[11:01] * Adagio grabs the mask and filters as well as the headlamp, before she continues her flight she takes the ring from her mane and looks at it before setting it inside and closing the box once more. She quickly tests the masks seal and with a few flaps of her wings breaks for the surface ahead, her frequent patrols gave her a decent idea of the paths not travelled and she heads for the first
[11:01] * Adagio maintenance tunnel that wouldn't normally be used.
[11:03] * Snowshoe looks over at Reverie. "Where are we?" she asked quietly, never having been this far out before, or really in the tunnels at all.
[11:04] * Proverb is with Snowshoe and Reverie, though Snowshoe probably hasn't noticed her yet, bringing up the rear of the patrol.
[11:05] <~Reverie> Adagio definitely would roll headlong for the Deadline Tunnels then, nopony travels to them. The outside of them is a rusted and derelict trainyard, the massive airlock door to it rusted shut, but the maintenance door is helter skelter on a hinge, leading into the darkness.
[11:07] * Reverie looks idly to Snowshoe, "We're clearing the closest tunnels aroun here first, here is the Blackline, runs from the MSDMZ to the Northwest. We just departed UMS Eleven."
[11:08] * Snowshoe nodded, looking around as they walked. She looked over at Reverie after a moment, and wanted nothing more than to be back at the station, asleep, and fixing things. "...thank you," she mumbled. "For doing this."
[11:10] * Reverie nods lightly to Snowshoe, he knew he had fifty soliders prwoling about for Adagio, but with little chance for success. The odds were stacked against them, and the longer they stayed out the grater chance for ambush.
[11:12] <~Reverie> The group continue their search for Adagio, fading into the oppresive darkness of the less travelled trails of the city's metro.
[11:12] * Adagio presses her supply of filters heading for the one place no sane pony would ever wish to go, the Deadline, 'Back into the tunnels? Really? Why not just fly away, find someplace that you can really /live/.' "Shut it, I don't need you constantly whispering at me, leave me /alone/." she growled into the mask as she headed for the maintenance door. Closing and turning the lock over to
[11:12] * Adagio bar anything from following.
[11:14] <~Reverie> Adagio's surroundings are now rather derelict looking at best, only a few lights provide any inkling of light, the walls are a stark, impending grey and cobwebs and rubble adorn the tunnel, giving it an extra taste of dreary and isolated. However a sharp eye would not that the place has been travelled recently...
[11:24] * Adagio looks around noting the signs of recent travel, sounds reach her ears from places that they couldn't possibly be, something about this place was off... not bad, but off. She idly steps forward keeping to the edges of the entryway, trying to avoid the most obvious signs of life.
[11:27] <Adagio> 'Oh I'm loving this choice!' the whispers were back and stronger than ever, 'But you're going the wrong way, there's something alive here, I can help you live a bit longer 'Dagi.' the voice was sickeningly sweet in her mind and she tried to ignore it and her growing hunger wasn't helping.
[11:36] <~Reverie> The scuffs in the dust along the tracks taper further into the dark tunnels. They were not of mutants, definitely of a pony wearing either shoes or boots. The dereilict state of the tunnel never ceases to faulter around her, but her condition might also amplify the ambient whispers and wind that the tunnel might be producing, even if it isn't possible.
[11:38] * Adagio pops the seal on her mask long enough to test the air and finds it safe to breathe, she pulls the mask off and lets it hang from her neck. She looks for any other paths but finds herself following the tracks regardless, her hunger driving her to seek out the most likely source.
[11:41] <~Reverie> Adagio doesn't have very far to treck, soon she will arrive at a tri-split in the railline, but certain ponies of disputable reputation have set up camp in the junction because there is a station within it, allowing decent protection, more details will be presented when the distance is closed.
[11:44] <Adagio> 'Better, finally trying to survive 'Dagi?' the voice sounds in her head, 'Good.  So let me help! A little of this and a little of that,' she shakes her head and tries todrown the voice out and cast the images from her mind as she follows the tracks, she nearly walks into the lights casting out from the camp in her distraction. She stumbles lightly and ducks into a nearby alcove.
[11:51] <Adagio> 'Aw, I liked those!' the voice chuckles, 'Come on... Why deny that I can help you?' the voice cooed lovingly, 'I am you after all.'
[11:52] <~Reverie> The entrance the the station is without an airlock, that is to say, the damn thing is laying sideways in the tunnel, blocking half of it. There are two guards posted at it, but they are talking and smoking, however toting Kalash assault rifles.
[11:55] * Adagio lets out a breath slowly before deciding on her course of action. With the faintest flap of her wings she's airborne, they never bother looking up...
[11:58] <~Reverie> They didn't look up fast enough, but they aren't idiots, they do look up, but more than likely too late.
[12:00] * Adagio crashes down on the first Bandit with all four hooves dead center of his spine smashing him into the floor. She quickly grabs the rifle, she may not be familiar with the weapon but at this range she couldn't miss, point and click.
[12:03] <~Reverie> The bandit doesn't even have a chance to scream before his life ends abruptly, but the other yells out loudly, amplified by the stolid concrete walls. "Intruder! Get the bastard!" draws his weapon to bear as Adagio brings the one she took to bear, another bandit down, but now there is yelling about the station, and floodlights are sparking to life around the place. Weapons cocking and magsbeing loaded can be head to boot.
[12:08] * Adagio smiles, finally something to take my mind off everything, "Maybe they'll even have food." she chuckles as she quickly reloads the weapon and peeks into the camp, 'Maybe a bit of music is in order 'Dagi?' the voice receeds as music fills her mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axnhu4wMKe4
[12:09] * Adagio quickly ducks into the camp sticking to shadows and moving swiftly.
[12:13] * Adagio moves as though on autopilot her motions as fluid as they are brutal crushing through joints with well placed hoof strikes and finishing with a burst from the weapon, the dance of carnage was helping ease her mind and even that damned voice was gone, a symphony of destruction playing in her mind as the chamber clicked empty...
[12:14] <~Reverie> The bandits don't hear that particular tune, more like... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRWOVU5t6_M) There are at least ten more bandits in sight, all weilding various assault rifles and shotguns. Headlamps and torchs helping to burn away any remaining shadows. Adagio probably slays several, but it seems one after the other is replaced, and Adagio has a single clip to run off of, in essence, she's taking hits. Lots of them.
[12:19] * Adagio finally notices the mounting loss of blood and her weapon clicking empty, she ducks around a corner and fumbles with the weapon before casting it aside and looking around, and there it was... that little red rabbit, so close... 'Oh yes, that will do nicely.' she finally caves her survival instincts kicking in, "Yes, yes it will." and with a practiced motion she jabs the injector
[12:19] * Adagio of stampede into her leg. In moments she was a Goddess, fuck them and their guns she'd just waste 'em all.
[12:24] <~Reverie> All lights are blazing on Adagio's position, the moment Adagio steps put she'll see twelve heavily armed and pissed ponies. Well in cover, their weapns ranging from riot shotguns to heavy caliber pistols and assault rifles. Last stand much this is, Adagio has lost so much blood, even the stampede won't stop this...
[12:27] <Adagio> "Hmm, bitches can't take a mare one on one? And here I thought bandits were tough." she chuckles. "Maybe your leader would have the balls to step out here and take me on winner takes the reins of this little dump!"
[12:30] <~Reverie> Nopony responds, except fora shotgun blast slapping a chunk of concrete from her cover.
[12:32] * Adagio slips out of her cover, "Oh, now don't be like that," she steps back from the assembled bandits searching for purchase for her last rush. "You're all so weak you can't take me on?"
[12:32] <~Reverie> Bullets follow after Adagio, there is no more darkness, all burning, searing white lighty.
[12:35] * Adagio chuckles as the drug races through her system, she's slowly working towards them as the hail of fire tries to keep up with her, but eventually the drug fails her and lucky shotgun blast lifts her from her hooves throwing her over the lip of the station and onto the tracks below.
[12:39] <~Reverie> The group laugh in return, moving forward and all looking down at Adagio with the blaring purity of their lights, the users perhaps impure. Next to Adagio in the tracks are two skeletal bodies clothed in dusty shambles, perhaps once something more descript, the only real distinguishing features being one was large and full grown, the other a foal, and on the formers head a firepony cap.
[12:40] * Adagio coughs as she strikes the tracks, the blast carved a swathe through her shoulder and breast, she was going to die here, alone, she looks at the firepony cap and sighs, "Least you had someone at the end."
[12:41] <~Reverie> A sensation may perhaps wash over Adagio, a tingling and charged sensation, perhaps causing a shiver to run down her spine coldly. The feeling perhaps almost familiar to the mare in a distant sort of way.
[12:47] * Adagio shakes as the sensation runs through her even though it's cold, there's a sensation of calm and peace in the face of adversity, 'No, no not now!' the voice shrieks, 'She's so close! She's ready to bre...' the voice cuts as Adagio closes her eyes.
[12:50] <~Reverie> If Adagio had her eyes open, she would see the cascade of lights blur around her as the anomaly hits in full force, the shrieks of the bandits drowning out around her of a surene quiet, if only just for a moment, it might last in her mind, she may think she's dead, pure white surrounds her for the time being.
[12:52] * Adagio sighs and revels in the peace for a few moments knowing full well she'd be seeing Brutus soon enough, "Huh, and here I thought I'd just be standing by my corpse when all this was over."
[12:55] <~Reverie> Just as soon as it arrives, that passes, the brilliant white becoming even more brilliant before Adagio seemingly comes to in the same place she fell, the setting is the same, except the bandits are gone, and the tunnel appears in much better condition, except for the adornment of dead ponies in pre-apocalypse clothing. But the most striking detail is the two skeletons, which is to say, they aren't anymore.
[01:00] * Adagio shakes her head and looks around, the voice that had plagued her journey here is finally gone and she sighs in relief. "Finally, I'm finally free of that wretched voice." she sighs, "Only took crushing the hearts of everyone I knew..." she looks for the two skeletons and finds...
[01:12] * Eden (kathreptis@Pony-gbk.fv4.11.50.IP) Quit (Quit: Colloquy for iPod touch - http://colloquy.mobi)
[01:13] <~Reverie> Adagio can see an earthpony stallion wearing fire resistant barding a mesh, on his back is a cannister meant for holding flammible mixtures, nearby a spray nozzle, flamethrower, his helmet and breathing apparatus are off and a small foal concealed in his hooves is using to to breath. Blood is spilling lightly from his mouth, breath labored as is, he quietly shushes and tries to reassure the foal, which sounds like a filly.
[01:18] * Adagio watches the scene unfold before her, the filly and earthpony... "Fighting for life and only one will survive. Isn't it just delicious?" comes a sweet and all to familiar voice in her ear, it was her voice... but wrong, "Such a touching sentiment that he's trying so hard, despite what others think of him." she can hear the voice dripping sarcasm. "Dammit, why won't you die?!" she
[01:18] * Adagio rounds on the voice and sees her own reflection standing above her.
[01:21] <~Reverie> The slowly slipping stallion looks up wearily and sees Adagio, he fumbles weakly for his flamethrower, but can't find the strength to reach it, so close yet so far away, instead moving lightly to protect the filly, who was peeking out slightly, exposing her features. It's a zony filly to be exact, and she looks just slightly beyond terrified.
[01:22] * Adagio is staring at what could be her mirror image, if she weren't scarred, or drawn from constant combat, flush with health, power, and beauty, everything she could ever dream of until she locked eyes with her, those black voids lit only by a flickering pale rose flame, staring down at her, "Oh dear, I think you scared them." Adagio turns from her mirror and looks at the Earthpony and
[01:22] * Adagio Zony filly, "No, no, not you." she tries to look friendly.
[01:26] <~Reverie> The earth pony looks beyond weary, especially considering he is taking a bath in a small pool of his own lifeforce, which was very clearly slipping. "P-please... d-d-don't p-punush th-the f-f-filly..." he gurgles softly, eyes wide even in his state of shock.
[01:30] * Adagio nods her wounds seeping blood onto the tracks as she does so, "I would never hurt a foal," "Yes you would! don't you remember?" the voice dons the guise of the filly she killed fighting her brother and steps down in front of Adagio, "You agonize over it, but you did." she smiles, "And you could again." she chuckles as she steps around behind Adagio taking on another form the voice
[01:30] * Adagio no longer hers, but Snowshoe's, "Just so you could come back to me."
[01:33] * Adagio looks over at the Earthpony and takes a step forward, "She'd never want me to sacrifice someone else just so I could live, try again." she smiles and nods, "What can I do to help?"
[01:34] <~Reverie> The filly peeks out quietly again, but the stallion shows a glimmer of hope, especially hearing she wasn't going to hurt the filly. "Pl-please... n-not muc-ch t-t-time..." he sputters a bit. "D-done for... t-t-take th-eeee f-filly. I-be-ggg yuuuu..." he breaths out quietly.
[01:38] <Adagio> "Oh really?" Snowshoe's voice chuckled, "So noble, what do you think will happen to the child? She'll die, just like you. For nothing, but you could live, you have a mare who loves you and..." the voice drops in register to become that of Frost, "A stallion who would be crushed to find out you died and he'll hold himself responsible and further close away from the world." A flicker of
[01:38] <Adagio> doubt forms Snowshoe could forgive her... but Frost?
[01:43] <~Reverie> The sounds of sirens aboveground and screams can be heard, perhaps amplifying in the cold. The stallion gurgles some before forcing himself to wrench his hoof away from the filly in order to slide the flamethrower slightly to Adagio. "G-get t-t-to the M-Metro Cental!" he forces himself to speak clearly, tossing in his last length of reserve energy now. "T-take my flamethrower... m-might keep you s-safe in the d-darkness. B-burn it a-all away.
[01:47] <~Reverie>  The filly shakes her head. "Nu-uh! You're gonna' ne ok daddy!" Daddy... The filly looks to Adagio. "Can you help my daddy?!" she asks, the terror of it all just now hitting her like a pile of angry bricks, falling down as the world fell with it to the ground.
[01:49] * You are now known as SleepingTac
[01:51] * Adagio looks at the pair now no longer a stranger trying to do the right thing, but a father protecting his daughter, and she remembers her own father, if someone had been there she'd have wanted them to help her father, maybe turn her life into some bad dream, and she nods her own life blood ebbing away as she decides. "By the Goddesses child, I'll do what I can." she steps forward bloody
[01:51] * Adagio hoofprints marking her path. "Just going to give up like that huh..." the voice sighs. "And you had such potential."
[01:53] <~Reverie> -The session is paused and logged-