MickeyAdaptus

Jack looked at his wound with a mixture of fear and worry, but then deeply sight. "I don't know how to respond to this, it... seems just so unlikely that it happened fast, but at the same time, i shouldn't be surprised..." "Listen Maple, I know you want to help me but what you are saying about what we should do now just isn't going to work out. We are already far away from the city, and you are telling me to leave Evelyn and Luna like that, one who is my mother and the other is one of my best friends. After what happened, after i now just realized i got infected, i just don't want this thing to happen again. How is Evelyn capable of helping me if i am to far away? This time she wasn't able to arrive earlier due to the sandstorm." "Hear me out, we should have a doctor in the army that is travelling with us, there is no reason that they shouldn't bring one with them. I am going to ask the doc for help because this wound is only recent, so the virus shouldn't have spread as of yet. But i want to ask of you, not as just an ally, but a GOOD friend, that you focus on getting my sister out of there if she dies and i was not there... I will never be the same again, how do you think Woody would have felt if you were gone for good and he wasn't there to see you go? It will devastate you for the rest of your life. " Jack threw the artefact towards Maple, hoping she would catch it. "If you need guidance, ask my mentor, you should be capable of talking to him if you connect your body with the artefact itself." "Just please understand that... How much it hurts that every time, i am somewhere, there ends up being danger, and when Evelyn is to far away, i always tend to get hurt, and this case get infected. You are always the first one to jump into battle, so i want you to do this one thing for me, instead of worrying about me right now, get my sister out of there, at all cost, please..." Jack started to tear up a bit." If anybody is capable of doing it, it is you." "I am getting tired of being constantly separated from Luna and Evelyn, they are my idols and it is one of the things that keeps me going in this wretched existance, i don't expect you to understand on how i feel, after being imprisoned in that demon realm, being tortured and forced to fight in slave pits, only to later being slowly incorperated as a sleeper agent as his own will, only then will you realise how i truly feel, and why i feel this way.." Jack said as he started to choke a bit on his words. "Please do it for me... I rather let myself get infected then letting my sister get transformed... Do i have to get infected entirely to get this point across...? I just want to be happy, but how can i if i am constantly being forced away from the 2 that i feel to be safe and comfortable near, because it happened again, and it costed me this..." Jack said as he pointed at his wound. "Do it for all of us. Because if she transforms we are all dead."

"It might not even have been your tornado Maple, for all we know they found us because they were capable of smelling my blood." Jack said. he hesitated for a moment at Luna's answer, but he then shifted a bit in the saddle so she could see him better, and then showed her his left shoulder. "I am not sure how deep this went, it does give this burning feeling, but i don't think it is that bad, is it?" Jack asked Luna. The wound itself had started to get a bit worse, as the dark yellow colour had started to get a stronger outer glow, and had spread a bit more out of his shoulder.

Look at my below average glorious artwork! Isn't it very garbage great?! Ok, no more joking around xD. I made this one a good long time ago, can't say its very good, but its one of my better works, since i am just not a good artist, atleast not with such type of art.

"Well, i..." Jack was however interrupted in mid-sentence as someone suddenly called out, and it was a familiar voice. "We need to MOVE everyone!! They are right on our heels and are trying to trap us by spreading out, they don't know with how many we are, just that someone is in the sandstorm, so we need to move now!!" Karthspire shouted trough the sandstorm trough everyone when he had returned. The mechanical howling of the Warmachine could even be heard throughout the already loud sound of the sandstorm, it was not that close yet but it was close enough to be heard. "This isn't good..." Jack muttered, knowing how these situations end up all too well.

It was after a while that they managed to regroup, especially with the sandstorm still going on. The army itself was still moving together as they all remained close to each other, though it seemed Betamor was walking at the front of the large moving army, it seemed Karthspire had been scouting ahead alone. Maple, Jack and Evelyn had been lucky as they had not further encountered any infected. One of the soldiers suddenly called out "There they are! They have returned." he was saying this specifically to the Equestrian group. "Boy am i glad that we found them, tough i have to say that i rather walk through this sandstorm then to have another major enemy force spotting us." Jack admitted as he was looking a bit downwards with his eyes close, so it wouldn't get in his eyes.

Well, i haven't met anyone famous, HOWEVER, Notch once responded to my question, all i simply asked was "How are you doing?" and he simply replied. "I am doing good, you?" Really love how open Markus is to other people on twitter.

Jack looked at Maple a bit confused. "Well, it does burn a bit, but I don't think its that bad, I mean, I have been stabbed, burned, shot, at one point my legs had been burned to the point where they had gotten paralyzed for a long time, surely this wound doesn't compare?" Jack said to her, not realising that for all they knew he could now be infected. "I am glad you are here, but it isn't over yet, atleast I think, there could still come more, this was a bit small for what you would normally encounter." Jack said to Evelyn. He then climbed from her tail straight onto her back and placed himself on the saddle. Jack did put a strong grip on his arms on the saddle, and placed his legs tightly around it, in order to get a good grip on the wind.

Well, it was one heck of a *switch* alright! Haha, eh.... bad pun there Anyway, i sadly don't own a nintendo switch, but one of my friends does and he showed me Zelda breath of the wild, and i have to say, the console itself plays very smooth it seems as far as i have seen.

When Maple had knocked them on the ground, he fired his spell, a strong magical blast impacted straight into the pile of infected, incinerating all of them, which was very effective it seemed. He stood there panting, no longer keeping focus on his surroundings. "That takes care of that... We still have to watch out, I can't say for sure if they have all spotted us or if these happened to just wander by..." Jack said a bit absently. He looked at his wound, it was still giving off a dark yellow vibe, which didn't look good. Jack gave a deep sigh and covered it with his hand, but suddenly his ear twitched, and he heard something in the distance, which made him tense up, he did not know what it was, but at this point he was just not able to identify it with the sandstorm going on, which he was already busy with not being blown off his feet by the wind again.

"Got it!" He said to Maple and started to look closely at what she was doing. After a few moments, he realised what she was doing to do for the most part, and knew it would take long to group them all up by just herself. Using this moment when they were not attacking him, he started small spells of magic that were meant to force someone back, he didn't have to use alot of magic in these as the sandstorm was giving the necessary boost that he needed. He managed to blow back atleast 2 of the infected with his spell. "Alright, whenever you have rounded them up, I will fire my spell!" He told her. Jack clenching both of his fists as he started gathering magic in them, for a moment he was focusing, but then the sharp burning of the wound on his shoulder forced him out of his focus. But he was not going to give up, focusing his body to his very limits, he focused on the spell while the pain was still going on. "Please hurry! I can't hold this for long!" He called out to Maple, as he knew he would lose his focus after 12 seconds.

"I can't use telepathy via my own magic but... I know a way which doesn't require magic..." Jack said quickly. He then stabbed the infected he had been fighting straight in the head. 'Evelyn, we are in trouble, a group of infected had started attacking me and Maple, we are surrounded, I can't say for sure whether they had spotted us and send these infected to us or if they just happened to be around here during the sandstorm. If you could come help us or send help, please hurry!' He thought to her with big desperation. As he was done thinking, he didn't have much time to react as an infected was about to attack him from behind again. Knowing he wouldn't be able to turn around and react fast enough, he headbutted the infected with the back of his own head and then taking the opportunity to finish the infected off while it staggered. The wound on his shoulder was giving off a burning pain, the colour of the wound itself had gotten a dark yellow and light orange mixed colour, which didn't look good, but Jack decided to bite through the pain and carry on regardless. 'Geez, I better hope that the colour is not what I think it is..' he thought. "I contacted Evelyn, I figured this was the right call as me and her's thoughts are connected, and we can locate each other's life forces, by extension each other's location, so I presume she will either will try to get help, which will take longer, or ends up coming to help us, either way, they know what is going on!" Jack said to her as he walked closer and then shot a magical blast to one of the approaching infected.

"I am alright, it is just this one time I wish I wasn't so light weighted, barely eating really is at fault there." Jack replied. The main group was still moving, but not at a fast pace, more trying to stay together rather than to take up the pace faster. But Jack suddenly heard something. "Hold it... I can hear something, it is feint, and with this sandstorm is hard to listen..." he said. "LOOK OUT!!" He suddenly screamed as an infected suddenly jumped at her, it had not able to been detected due to the sandstorm, and it was not capable of seeing them through the normal means of eyes, however... it had found them in a rather known fashion, they had smelled Jack's blood, which was still there from where he had burned his the fur on his left hand and had reopened a bit during his training. The infected jumped on Maple's back and started clawing at her plating, it was not having much success of breaching it, but that did not mean it was incapable, they where the unpredictable creature's after all. Jack reacted fast and shot an magical blast at the creature, blowing it off her, however, after he did that, a infected slashed him across the shoulder, it then tackled him to the ground, but was both Jack and the infected where blown away by the wind, wich did work a bit in Jack's favor at that moment. They where getting attacked from around 14 of them, who had been sent in the sandstorm as shock troopers, and scouts at the same time. 'Damn it, this is just great!' Jack thought. He then jumped at the infected who had attacked him earlier and started slashing at it like a wildman.

"Yes I am, just returned after my latest assignment, but I am still a bit of a rookie here." Ajax replied with a laugh. 'How am I going to work this out?' he thought. 'Hmmm, I might perhaps have to hope that she ends up leaving, or at least walks out of sight, if not, I might have to look for another.' "So, what is it that you do around here? I haven't seen you before." Ajax asked her

Jack nodded "I guess we will see what happens, if only it all turns alright." He said. Karthspire held up a bit, mentioning for everyone to be quiet for a moment. He stared into the distance, listening for any sounds, the mechanical stomping in the sand started to grow a bit louder. "NOW!!" He yelled as he drew his pistol and started running straight ahead, into the coming sandstorm, everyone followed him in there. It was a very strong wind, most would almost be blown off their feet by the sheer force of it, except for the ones who had a more stronger grip, in which the Dragons excelled. Jack at one point got blown off Luna's back and got thrown a couple of meters into the direction the wind was blowing, his very lightweight was now proving to be his weak point. But he was not the only one, others had problems with this too, but most would just lose their balance or at the very worst tumble back a 2 meters. He managed to regain his balance at one point and planted his feet thoroughly into the sand, attempting to hold a grip on it. 'Where is everyone?' he thought Deciding that it was not worth standing around while everyone else was moving, he decided to move forth as well, with alot of effort but managed bit by bit. he then realised he might have gotten further away from the group. 'This is just great...' He thought with a growl.

Karthspire nodded. "Of course, you aren't exactly considering a simple plan, you are in theory saying that you want to blow yourself up to take thing a big war machine, normally that would sound rather extreme unless you would want to die, but you do have a reason for considering doing something like that." Karthspire admitted. "Still that is not meant in a bad way, rather a heroic one if you ask me, but do not worry, that will be a final solution." He reassured her. Jack shifted a bit until he opened his eyes and shifted his head a bit towards Maple's direction. "I heard the plan, I was lucky to already be mildly awake when you told me of your plan, and I do have to say, that is a rather extreme last end solution Maple, Even though you are getting a new body soon, it still seems a bit hardcore that you are throwing away your robot body so willingly, even if it might not happen, still... the idea that you are even considering this, but then again i shouldn't be talking here, i have been similiar things in the past alot, even if they have failed, i still attempted them." Jack said. "But i do have to ask you this first before I agree, how would i join you in this, going on foot is really out of the questions, and no offense here Maple, but if I would be sitting on your back i wouldn't feel very safe, you fly a bit too fast with those yet engines of yours, those things aren't really meant for passengers. I feel it is important to mention, i have already discussed the safety topic with Evelyn and she wouldn't be very happy if i end up getting hurt like that, especially from something that could have been prevented." Jack mentioned. 'And here i am talking about safety, yet back in my surviving days, i treated safety like it was just another thing would just flow along what I did. I just hope they really think about a way to keep it safe, and i mean by everything in general, i can remember that time when i was shot in the chest and they where to focused on Fluttershy to notice that, and Festus being the hero that he is by literly *slapping* some sense in them, i cannot imagine how angry Luna would have been if she had seen me just bleeding there, she be furious without a doubt.' Jack thought.

Karthspire thought for a moment, and then he responded. "Well, I would like to hear your plan, and I do think Jack could help." He gave a quick glance to Luna. "He seems to be sleeping at the moment, but you could try to waking up, not sure if it is appropriate, but I doubt he would be capable of sleeping through a sandstorm." Karthspire mentioned.

I disagree with that, my cousin's name is Robert and many don't think of his name like that, infact many seems to like it

"That plan does sound good in theory, it would surely aid us if they have one less of those things," Karthspire said. "However, there are some problems, first comes the problem with getting inside, those things have no form of entrance since it is too big to even be capable of manned by a crew. This would mean it acts in a similar way as a drone, and then comes the problem with its armor itself, it is very strong, should someone be able to penetrate it, it won't really matter much because you would be spending around 2 hours to get deep enough, a time that you don't have when in the thick of battle." "And with freezing, that is a rather hard gamble, on most machines it would work, but on this one I doubt it, if you look at its bulk, its size and heigh, you would be spending so much magic freezing that thing, while all it would take for that thing to get free is apply a bit more force, and all of your efforts would be for naught" "And here comes the most important one, we don't want to get spotted like at all, my reason for going trough the sandstorm is so that they won't spot us, because if they do spot us, they will be following us, and lets just say should we by some reason be able to take out that strike force and that warmachine, it wouldn't garantee our safety at all, then they know we are traveling with a masive army, and are aware we are going to siege something, they will keep attacking us to a point where we no longer have enough soldiers in order to carry out the assault on that conversion center." He explained. "But at the same time, let's just say if we end up getting spotted while in the sandstorm because one of us got lost or did something that draws their attention, then we need a backup plan, and that is where your plan can come into play Because if we are spotted, then we no longer have a reason to go trough the sandstorm in the first place, tough instead of trying to destroy it, you 3 might rather want to distract that Machine, I will send out some of my troops to stall that vanguard that surrounds the machine itself." "I wouldn't recommend using ice on that thing though like I said, won't slow it down due to its size, hit and run attacks are better to do for you 3 against such a thing. I will have to tell you this, the war machine's rockets fire in a mortar swoop rather than straight, I would advise you to tell your friends to fly above cloud level and stay there, higher if need be, because that is where the war machine cannot hit them, on the ground however... you can consider your friends dead once that thing fires its payload, not even that sandstorm will save them from it, if you care about their safety, head that advice, because it will become a warzone ones fighting erupts against them." He mentioned, knowing how dangerous it will become. He then looked into the distance. "We have got about 6 minutes left, Do I need to know anything specific, something about your friends? If you feel like something is important to mention now is the time." Karthspire said.