My Little Airship Part 5Twilight Sparkle awoke to a loud static-like noise coming from inside the stormtrotter.She struggled to stand in the pile of wood chips that had served as her bed the previous night. Sunlight streamed through the cracks in the decaying walls to illuminate the dust floating in the air. Twilight sat up and blinked, staring at the thick layer of dirt that coated her expensive piloting uniform. She had never slept in a barn before last night. Of course, she'd experienced many new things in these past few weeks on the run.Pinkie Pie, Spike, and Scootaloo were asleep close by, all of them snoring loudly. The stormtrotter stood at half its full
My Little Airship Part 4The bird let loose in Eastern skiesReturning fondly home,Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor fliesWhere idle warblers roam;But high she shoots through air and light,Above all low delay,Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,No shadow dims her way.-Thomas Moore"Oh that I had Wings"The storm had just come over the airfield when the ground ponies began to reel Applejack's safety harness back in. She could see them scrambling about on the ground, securing the hangar tents with extra spikes and getting the recruits indoors. Five burly earth ponies struggled to crank the ascender's winch, pulling Applejack quickly and steadily
My Little Airship Part 3*cough* *cough*Princess Twilight Sparkle awoke to the sound of rumbling of engines and the taste of terribly sweet molasses. It felt as if she were moving.... She couldn't come up with a cohesive thought as her senses gradually returned to normal. She opened her eyes and saw that she was wrapped in a white blanket with her family crest embroidered on the middle; the Great Princess Celestia flying straight into the sky with the rising sun behind her. It was her family, after all, that the Princess entrusted her half of Equestria to on her death bed. So of course, when Twilight's father fell in love with a lowly commoner, her family saw it as
My Little Airship Part 2"Wake up ya lil' buzzard!"Applejack opened one eye and found herself staring at sketched lines streaming past an airbeast's body, like a river's course around an island- an airflow diagram. Lifting her head from the aeronautics manual, she found that the open page was sticking to her cheek."Ya stayed up all night again!" The voice of her brother, Big Macintosh, strained her ears again. "Ah told ya to get some sleep for the test!"Applejack peeled the paper off of her face and frowned- a smudge of her drool had disfigured her diagram. She wondered if sleeping with her head in the manual would help her remember the aeronautics. "Well, clea
My Little Airship Part 1The armor of the mighty Trottingham soldiers glinted in the moonlight, the infantry standing tall and proud, swords raised. Behind them two ranks of kerosene-powered trotting machines stood ready to fire, cannons aimed over the heads of the platoon. A zeppelin scouted no-pony's land at the center of the battlefield, its black metal skin sparkling in the ominous black and orange sky.The Dawnist infantry crouched behind their fortifications, knowing they stood no chance against the steel might of Emperor Blueblood's Clanker empire. But a row of genetically altered manticores loomed behind them, ready to devour any who dared retreat.The atta
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