Re: Project Horizons RP thread

[Guest]

*Continues to follow the path not seeing any sign of the filly ever being through here.*

*An orange buck appeared before her he was young he couldn't have been older than 18.*
You know life was easier without her, I did you a favor and you had me killed for it.

*She remembered the buck if she tried really hard she could almost remember a time she cared about him.*

Fuck you.

*Thump*

*The buck turned into black smoke as the grenade passed through him.*

*Her suit automatically opened her grenade launcher's breach and loaded in another grenade.*

*The smoke settled on the cave's floor and took the from of a motionless, beaten, purple filly.*

*She hung her head as she walked past.*
*mutters.* Mama tried.*Mutters*

[Aonee]

*One of the doors soon opens, a mare just as sickly as the others in line walking out, as a voice booms from inside*
Alright, NEXT!
No. It can't be.
*But Aonee's fears are soon confirmed as he follows the next buck in. His view rising, he can see Crystalane sitting on what can only be described as a throne of skulls. But, as he gets a good look at her, he can tell* Something's different... Her eyes...
*As the stallion pleads his case about his failing farmstead, Crys seems to be paying barely any attention at all, laughing when he finished, as if she only listened to take delight in his misery*
Ahaha. You know what I think about your problem? *Proceeds to verbally deconstruct him, every word a stinging edge, here whole speech a sharp blade pointed at the buck with pure malice*
*This continues for a while, before finally a stallion comes in that seems more healthy than the rest*
Oh? And what do we have here?
Hmp. *Pulls a sword from his cloak* I've come to end your reign of terror, monster.
*Clearly not impressed* Oh? And what did I do to you? Kill your parents, left you dying on some street?
*Steps back in shock, but recovers* Yes. And for that, you die.
*Laughs at him* Oh please. *Again, as she has done with all that came before him, deconstructs him verbally and emotionally, seemingly making his plight pitiless*
You... You're a complete monster.
*Laughs again* Oh please. I'm not a complete monster. *Taps her hoof against one of the skulls, opening a hidden gate off to the side* I just have them working for me.
*Out from the darkness steps a starving and beaten-looked Nova, whom quickly charges the buck and begins devouring him*
*Sighs* All this work has made me tired, and that buck just frustrated me. Guards, I'll be 'relaxaing' in my room. *Gets up and walks through a door behind her throne*

[Moodyman90]

((Got something else planned. Can't save ya yet man.))
As Moody starts to catch up to them, he spots them going into a familiar shack. As he runs through the door behind them, Guard and Emma disappear. Instead he sees his parents.

"What kept you! You've been gone for hours!"

"Wha? Mom? I.. uh.. well.."

"Leave him alone dear. So he's a few hours late. Not like we haven't been before. So tell us son, what kept you?"

"Dad? Well.. I missed the caravan and had to chase them down. I came back as soon as I could."

"Ya see dear? Nothing to worry about."

"Nothing to worry about! There could have been raiders out there! Or a Hellhound!"

"I came back as soon as I could...." He looks down at the floor.

"It wasn't soon enough! You left us son!" a trickle of blood starts to flow down the side of her mouth.

His dad lets out a sigh. "Your mom has a point. You did leave us son." Bloody starts leaking out of his eyes.

He looks up to see them slowly losing body parts as they continue to chant. "You left us son. You left us son. You left us son."

((Combined colors to make it show both.))

[jacky2734]

((Scyto, I'm waiting on you to begin whatever your going to do with Violet.))

[Scyto Harmony]

*wanders around* Hello? Helloooo? Anypony? Please?

Oooo, Scyto, there you are~...

*If it was possible for a white pony to lose colour, he would have*

M-Mistress?

*He turns to find The Blood Queen, not as Violet, but as a sort of incorporeal ghost, shimmering and shifting before his eyes*

You killed me, Scyt-y~... why...?

It... You were going to f-far, you w-were in constant agony... you had to be...

Did I tell you you could kill me?

Y-you said y-you wanted the pain to stop--

Did I. Specifically. Tell you. To Kill Me?

N-no...

You're a monster, Scyt-y~.

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... Willow?

*She looks at where he had been, but none of her friends are there.*

Everypony?

Darkness surrounds her vision as she passes out.

[Guest]

"Emma, ya know where my bandages are, right?"

She ducks behind the table and reloads her rifle
"Yes, I do."
She grabs his first aid kit starts to pull out a roll of bandages

"Okay, good."
He floats his pistol around cover and starts shooting
"Okay, just wrap the bandages around the wound when I tell ya"
He casts a minor healing spell on himself
"Okay, now."

Emma nods and starts bandaging his left eye.
"Okay, I think your going to be fine, Whispy."

He grimaces as the wounds get wrapped and grits his teeth from the pain
"Yer doin' fine...Emma..Just fine."

She finishes bandaging the wound
"How did this happen?"

He slowly gets up
"No idea, I thought command said it was spose ta be an easy run."

"When has intel ever gotten anything right?"

"Ya have a point."
Starts shooting
"At least it was my left eye or I'd be fucked right now."

Crackshot chuckles
"You mean you ar-"
He gets shot in the throat and drops to the ground

"Big brother!"

He runs over to Crackshot and tries to heal him.
"Yer gonna make it bud! I got ya, don't worry."
continues to try
"Emma, covering fire!"

She starts to tear up
"Roger."
Starts shooting.

"Whisper...Get...Emma..Out of...Here...I'm...Not gonna..Make it."

"Shut it, I can get ya outta here."
Continues to cast healing spells.

"Please...Keep her...Safe.

He stares at Crackshot's body
"No. Nonononono. Ya can't die. Not now."
Tries to restart his heart and fails
"Luna, Dammit! Get yer ass up Crackshot. Get. Up!"

The slavers disappear

Emma rushes over to Whisper and looks at her brother
"NO! Big brother. You can't die, you just can't. Please, don't leave!"
She holds her brother's body starts crying

Whisper just stares at his bloodied hooves and starts shaking.

((That's fine Moody, this works better for what I had planned.))

[Aonee]

*From his ghostly vantage point, Aonee gulps in fear at what 'relaxation' entails.
As he enters the bedroom behind Crys, he realizes its as bad as he feared. Up against the wall, War was bound, gagged, and tied to a bed in a... Revealing manner that couldn't possible be comfortable.*
Soo, my playthings, I see you haven't moved. Good. Maybe I'll let you have some fun with each other this time.
Wait, things? As in plural? *To his horror, as he looked at War, he saw a lock of familiar hair portruding out from her mane*
She's tied me to War, and bound both of us to the bed...
*Crys smirked with pure evil, and began walking towards the helpless duo, Aonee's vision began to fade*

*He gasped as he shot up, he whole body cold with sweat at what he just experienced.*
It... It was just a dream...?

[Moodyman90]

Moody just sits there as his parents continue to assault him with accusations of how he left them. All the while a tiny voice does it best to remind him. "You still have a family." Moody looks up as the mangle remains of his parents stare back at him.

"You left us son!"

"No..."

"You left us son!"

"No."

"You left us son!"

"No!"

"You left us son!"

"YES! I admit it! I did leave! But only because you was gone!"
He breaks down crying.
"But I had to. And I went out in the world, and I found friends, and I got a new family."
Off in the distance he hears Guard and Emma.
"And right now they need me. I may have left you, but I'm not abandoning them!"

He charges directly at the form of his parents, going through them and out the back of the shed and off to where he thinks Guard and Emma are.

"I'm coming ya'll! Just hang on!

[Katarn]

There's something off with this caverns, guys.
*turns around, but sees nopony*
Guys?
Guys?! Where are you all?!

*voice came from deep inside cave*
*w*~In here...~*w*
*pulls his revolver*
Who's there?
*cave started to turn in long corridor*
*w*~Come, you need to see this...~*w*
*walks to the source of voice, with his gun ready*

((Morning. Again, sorry for leaving you. If you need any clarification on this cave, then ask))

[Guest]

Whisper hears Moody behind him, still shaking
"Where were ya?"
He gets no response
"I said, where the fuck were ya solider?"
He gets no response
"Pvt.Wavelength! I asked ya a fuckin' question. Where the fuck were ya?!"
At this time Whisper gets up tackles Moody to the ground and pins him down
"Wavelength! I want an answer. Where the fuck were ya?"
He glares at Moody, with fire in his eye.

[jacky2734]

*Willow cuts down the last of the beasts. breathing heavily he looks around, his eyes widening as he sees the bodies without the dark cloud covering them.

What he sees are the suddenly normal pony bodies. Familiar pony bodies. One has a familiar green, striped coat. Two others were pegasi, one a sky blue, the other a dark, almost black coat with a yellow mane. Another, a blue earth pony drooped over a green mare as if he had been protecting her.
Slowly, he looks over the bodies with the horrifically familiar faces, his eyes growing wider and wider as he recognizes each of them until, finally, he eyes come upon a young purple unicorn mare with flowing, flame colored hair and a long jagged cut across her throat.

It's too much for him. Willow drops to the floor and cries out with a wail that would make even a hellhound cringe.*

((I hope I got the colors right for Crys, I wasn't completely sure what to call her coat color.))

[Moodyman90]

Moody finds himself one the ground with Guard on top of him.
"Wavelenegth? Guard, it's me! Moody! Saved me from crazed raiders? Always there to patch me up when I'm injured? Told you I'll always have your back?"
Moody looks up at Guard with worry, finally noticing half his face covered with bandages but no blood on them.
"What happened? Why are you bandaged up like that?"
He looks to Emma.
"What happened with ya'll?"

[Aonee]

((That's pretty much right jacky.))
*As Aonee is sitting there, trying to make sense of what he just saw, he noticed Crystal looking at him from a tunnel. But this wasn't the Crystalane from his dream, this was that one he was familiar with, albeit with a slightly larger belly*
Wait, something's still off, why can't I feel her?
*Before he can think up of a reason, Crys starts to move down the tunnel, and Aonee charges after her*

[Guest]

*At some point she stepped into a bar she wasn't quite sure when she took a look at herself shew approaching an unhealthy thin, she was also about ten years younger((17)).*
The ponies who actually killed Grape got away, but the buck responsible certainly didn't. the sheriff assured her no one would ever find his body.

*She sobbed as she approached the counter.*
She'd worked so hard to feed Grape and the stallion who'd left because he didn't want to raise her got her killed.

*She reached into her saddlebags and felt a few loose caps.*
That was weird she never had any money to spa- That's right her birthday was coming up.

*She handed her pitiful amount of caps over to the stallion. There wasn't nearly enough for her to drink herself to death, but with Grape gone she didn't mind lifting her tail for a few caps.*

*The bartender pushed her caps back to her apparently there wasn't enough there for anything. She walked outside in time to witness a few steel rangers leaving town. She'd always heard that the rangers were better equipped raiders maybe if she followed them long enough one of them would turn around and shoot her. Her mind made up she followed after.*

*She lifts herself off the cave floor.*
That's right I've got rangers to save.

*She continues down the side path, occasionally stopping to stomp a radroach.*

[Guest]

((His eye is actually bleeding, he blew up a computer and hurt himself. He just thought it was a grenade.))
He hears Moody, but can still see Wavelength
"Oh, tryin' ta impersonate, Moody, ain't gonna help ya Wavelength. So drop the shit."
He punches Moody in the gut
"We just got ambushed, and Crackshot's dead because ya weren't here ta cover him!"

Emma still crying over her brother's 'body'

He points at Emma
"How are ya gonna explain ta her, that her brother's dead 'cause ya fucked up, huh?! Tell me how ya plan on explainin' that?"
He continues to glare at Moody

[Aonee]

*Aon chases Crys through corridor after corridor, every time he gets a glimpse of her she seems to be getting further and further along in her pregnancy*

[Moodyman90]

Moody grunts and coughs a bit after Guard hits him, he doesn't even try to fight back or struggle.
"Snap out of it! *cough cough* Whatever you saw wasn't real! Think about it! Would Wavelength even know who I am?"
He starts tearing us as he looks over to Emma.
"Remember why we're here. To save the missing AJRs. The cave is messing with us. I'm not sure how but it's making us see things."

[Katarn]

*he enters, what appears to be small room, with monitor, transmitting static. Suddenly monitor switches to video. Video is showing some cave. There Mav can see himself, smiling.*
Is this thing on? Hello. *wicked grin* Yup, it's me, you, me...you know...I've been around for a while. *his eyes start glowing red a little* It's shame you only listens to me and let me out in heat of battle.
No...nonononono. You're not real!
Yeah, I know what you're thinking, that I'm not real, it's all a dream. Well gues what, it's not dream...it's nightmare. It was nightmare to sit there, inside you and be unable to do anything! *shout angrily* *sigh* Sorry, I went little overboard there. But let's talk about your friends.
*watches silently*
Don't get me wrong, some of them I even like, but this. *pulls Nova to the screen, his mouth is gagged* This one you call your friend? Seriously?
*Nova tries to say something*
Hush, now. I wonder. *looks at Nova* If I'll cut you and then roll in your blood, what expression on your friend's face would be...? *laughs*
You won't---
Seriously, Maverick. He's done much more carnage, then you and you simply what? Forgive him? That's not how world works and you know it. *puts Nova away from visible range* When I'll done with him, I'll see that freak Willow. *shivers* That buck is weird. Now, where was I? *pulls large knife and looks at Mav* Not that I will enjoy this. *wicked grin appears on his face* But I'll try. *as he moves to Nova, video switches to static again*

[Aonee]

((hey guard, can we speed things up a little? I have to go to sleep soon.))

[Guest]

Emma hears Moody, looks over and sees Whisper pinning him down
"M-Moody?"
She looks at her hooves and doesn't see Crackshot's body.
"What?"
She looks around and sees an exploded terminal, and a room full of bullet holes and casings.
"Whispy, get off of, Moody."

Whisper shakes his head fighting back tears
"It's not Moody, Emma. It's Wavelength, he just thinks that I can't see because one of my eyes fucked up! He got Crackshot killed!"

She walks over Whisper, pulls him of Moody and hugs him.
"No, it's not Wavelength. Please. Listen to me."

He breaks into sobs
"But, but I saw him die, Emma, and ya did too. I know ya did."

"Please, just take a deep breath and look around you. Please. For me."

Whisper does as she asks and sees the room returned to normal, and a wave of pain go through is body.
"Fuck!"
He looks at the smoking computer
"Well, that explains the eye."
He looks back and clearly sees Moody
"Moody, is..Is that really you?"

((Sorry got pulled away in the middle of typing this. I'm back now.))

[Moodyman90]

"Yes Guard, it's me. It's really me. Could ya... could ya get off me now?
He looks over to Emma.
"Thanks hun. I know it couldn't have been easy, but thanks."

(Seriously, get off me, cause if we wasn't trying to wrap this up. Moody was about to throw Guard off. Earth pony > Unicorn in terms of strength. Also if we go with the joke Moody has that huge pack he probably have leverage to lift as well.))

[Guest]

Whisper looks at Moody
"Oh, right."
He gets off of Moody and helps him up
"Sorry, bud."

Emma wipes some tears away from her eyes
"It's fine, hun. Thank you."
She gives him a big hug and a kiss
"Now come on, lets go."

Whisper nods

They start to move deeper into the cave

[jacky2734]

((Is Scyto still on?))

[Moodyman90]

"No problem. Like I said, these caves are messing with us somehow."
He nuzzles Emma.
"From the sound of things ya'll have to go through a scene from the past..."
He follows them, keeping close to both Emma and Guard.

[Aonee]

*As Aonee rounds the final corner, he comes upon a small, circular room. Looking to the middle, he sees Crys sitting down in the middle, no longer pregnant but playing with a foal. He can't distinguish any features on the foal, but he knows it's his child all the same. He starts to move towards the two when a voice calls out from the shadows*
Nu-uh-uh now...
*Freezes in his tracks* No... It can't be you...
Now what's this I see? Trying to run away from me?
*Starts running towards Crys and the foal, but before he can, daggers appear in both of their chests, and they fall to the floor, dead*
*Red Dagger steps out of the shadows* Now now, you belong to ME, remember?
No... No... Not again... *Tries to get to the corpses of his family, but they dissolve into shadows and reform as more copies of Red*
Now... What am I going to do with you? I suppose we'll just have to pick up where we left off...
*After seeing the bodies dissolve, Aonee just curls up into a ball and begins to sob*
Just go away...
((That's your cue guard.))

[Scyto Harmony]

N-no! Go away! LEAVE ME ALONE!

*Nova charges down the tunnel, running from the apparition of the love of his life. He eventually finds himself standing in front of all of his friends, minus the two he hadn't gotten to know; Judgement and Berry Punch.*

You guys, you gotta help me!

*Violet*; Why would we help you? *laughs haughtily*

*Terra*; You're a monster, a sicko.

*Moody*; Nothing you can do can ever make up for it, Loser!

*Aon*; Idiot!

*Crys* Faggot!

*Nova falls to the ground, clutching his ears and moaning* No please, stop, no...

(( I'd like Berry or Judgement to find him, since he's the only two who he doesn't know enough to be afraid of. Assuming that we slowly find each other one at a time, that is. ))

[Aonee]

((For some reason Crys using that word just makes me laugh. It just seems so out of character. But don't change it.))

[Scyto Harmony]

(( That's why I made her say it. ))

[Guest]

"Sorta, it was more like a bunch of different missions combined."
He continues walking when he hears crying.
"Azure?"
He hears the crying even more
"Hold on, sweetie, daddy's comin'!"
He runs off toward the crying

"Whisper! Wait it's just the cave."
She runs after him

He ignores Emma and continues running until he see's Azure (Aon) crying
"Shhh, it's okay, sweetie. Daddy's right here. Ya don't need ta be scared anymore."
He walks closer to her.

[Aonee]

*Looks up at the sound of a voice, and sees a Pegasus with a white and blue mane walking towards him* ...mom?

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