green morning and sodalis


                                            >6 and a half hours later, morning glory and her cargo touched down on the street

                                            >lots of pairs of eyes turned to the white and purple mare

                                            >and the hoodied dead body sprawled in her fruit cart

                                            >morning quickly detached herself and worked her way around

                                            >her marefriend's hooves lurching to life to pull herself upright

                                            >"jeez, dont burn a hole in my head" green muttered as morning started to hook her front hooves under her shoulders

                                            >"got your back leg?"

                                            >green brought her left knee to her chest and plunked her hoof on the left edge of the cart

                                            >"eeyep"

                                            >"alright. one... two...

                                            >...three!" they called out in unison, as green hoisted as green one-legged squatted her rump up onto the lip

                                            >her right leg dragging like an anchor

                                            >morning pulling back so green could fish out her crutches and rotate 180 degrees

                                            >and with a very gingerly left leg to the ground, green was settled and on her way

                                            >morning getting the silent greenlight to start casually strolling down the brick alleyway

                                            >green was just able to keep up on three legs, if it was a workout

                                            >"hey morning..." she finally gasped out to slow the pace

                                            >morning glory came to a dead stop, forcing green to kill all her momentum

                                            >"yes dearie?"

                                            >greens eyebrow twitched, still thinking of the audience she attracted

                                            >she still felt their eyes behind her

                                            >"you didnt have to stop, but"

                                            >green took one more clak to get in morning's ear

                                            >"*why does everypony look at me like they know me?*" she asked quietly, sussed out

                                            >"cuz youre famous, silly!" morning said out loud, booped green's snoot and kept walking

                                            >after a short jaunt, they made it into the wide open central plaza, filled with stalls and ponies along the buildings, conversing and loitering

                                            >green's shoulders were unfazed, even after covering a whole block on uneven pavers

                                            >she took it all in, until all of a sudden

                                            >a flash of grey and blue caught her left peripeheral, spawning out of thin air and careening straight towards the back of her marefriend's head

                                            >the split second to make a decision long passed, and her crippled leg stopped her from doing anything meaningful to protect her marefriend

                                            >she could do nothing but accept her fate as Sodalis swooped down, bearhugged morning from behind, and sank her fangs into her jugular

                                            >"rrrrRAWRRRRrrrr!" she playfully yelled out, resting the tips of her fangs on the back of morning's neck

                                            >morning was laughing along with her, dafuq?


                                            >"huehuehaha, how ya doin Soda? ahhhahaha" morning was all giggles as her bat friend worked her way around the front of her

                                            >"haiiii morning mmmmmm..." the two shared a tight, rocking hug as morning wrapped her wings around the bap

                                            >and once they split

                                            >"this is a new record, two times in a week?"

                                            >"yeah, stocking up before the big flight. normally we fly out on tuesdays so i can't catch ya" soda said in her spunky, raspy voice

                                            >"you want some moonshine?"

                                            >sodalis shook her head, "tornado alley's a flight you gotta be sober for" giving a serious answer to a joking question

                                            >in a lull of silence, soda's eyes caught green's before turning her whole body face to face

                                            >"boop!" she poked green's snoot with her left hoof, waking her up, "what's got you locked in?"

                                            >"oh. uh... just, nothin" green didnt know how to answer

                                            >sodalis was not amused, turning her attention back to morning

                                            >"welllll, im gonna go look at some seeds, see what *Norre Greenmane* brought in~" morning announced daintily, emphasizing the name of the apparent owner

                                            >soda cocked her head and looked up, before having a moment of realization

                                            >if green was paying attention, it wouldve been obvious that they had a codephrase

                                            >"okay! have fun!" soda said in a chipper way,

                                            >"come on greenie, i wanna show you something"

                                            >the black mare started to lurch her way forward, as sodalis spread her wings and fly away

                                            >green stopped and let out a long sigh

                                            >the grey bap circled back once she looked back and realized what happened, landing gracefully and continuing

                                            >"whoops, sorry bout that. guess you move faster with morning glory!"

                                            >"ive made her my personal *showfeur*" green used a fancy inflection

                                            >soda reached over and turned green's backwards ball cap towards herself,

                                            >"what is 'Never Goon'?" she asked curiously

                                            >"oh thats a clothing brand i like. its like, really, local to the Bity" she explained

                                            >"huh." sodalis turned back toward the path, leaving green's hat sideways,

                                            >"you got a long flight, huh?" green was finally conversational

                                            >"about 3 hours, i got the weather schedule though it's supposed to be dumping rain out in the plains"

                                            >"im just curious, whats it like trying to corral that many ponies?"

                                            >sodalis did a melodramatic eyeroll, having finally earned the chance to rant

                                            >"UGGhhhh. its SO STONED. trying to get them to think about anything other than their next Fruit is a pain in my rump!"

                                            >green smiled as she looked on and listened

                                            >"and what most ponies dont understand is bats are SO. HORNY. thats half the reason we still live in a celestia-damned cave it's cuz theyre too busy fucking each other to actually, you know, do stuff!" the bat loudly said

                                            >the crowds had thinned out that not many ponies were around to hear her colorful language

                                            >green was sheepishly looking around, but still ate up all the details as she crutched along

                                            >"and here i am, trying to tell them what to do and the elder bats are like, 'yUuRr LiEk 4 YeArRrS oLd WhY sHoUlD uHy LiStEn ToYuH' and its like *i dont know Stalag, maybe if you did something more useful than running a whorehouse out of your cove i wouldnt have to be the one making sure* ***YOU GET FED EVERY NIGHT!!***" soda reached the climax, getting it all out in the open where nopony of consequence could hear

                                            >green was laughing it up

                                            >"because baps who are DTF are *soOoOoOoOoOo* hard to find, right? but wait. greenie. it gets better."

                                            >green had long stopped, her friend taking flight to do excited circles around her

                                            >"so weve been planning this for like 3 moons right? ive went out and met with the **'___'** colony..."

                                            >a sound definitely left soda's mouth, but the guttural frequency rendered it inelligible to a normal pegasus,

                                            "...and i asked this one stallion to just do this ONE. THING. to make my life easier, you know cuz other Alpha Echo has enough on her plate. so... oooOOOOooh!"

                                            >a crack in the pavers caught the batpone's attention, so she dropped to the ground and crouched, sticking her snoot close to it and tail wagging in the air

                                            >"whats up? whats going on?" green asked


                                            >"check this out, you see that?"

                                            >soda pointed at a small spot of weeds between the bricks

                                            >"the weeds?"

                                            >"come down here"

                                            >green had no way to do that

                                            >"gimme a new knee first"

                                            >"come on, you can stick your neck out"

                                            >green did so, and got only 3% closer

                                            >"you see those purple spindly things under the weeds?"

                                            >soda had practically dug them up, pulling with her hoof so green could see the dirt in between the pavers

                                            >and among them, ultra thin purple fibers

                                            >two or three floating in the air due to their nonexistant weight, so thin they were blurry in green's vision

                                            >"thats baby mycelium, that means some spores floated ALLLLL the way over here from my cave and took root in this dirt."

                                            >"huh."

                                            >"i guarantee if you come back here in 46 hours, youre gonna see 2 or 3 tiny little mushrooms popped up!" sodalis excitely finished her lesson

                                            >"how the hay did you see that from up there?" green genuinely asked

                                            >"cuz i got Tirek eyes..." soda stood up and stared hard into green's eyes

                                            >her red eyes pointing straight through the back of green's head

                                            >before jumpscaring her with a full fang hiss and tongue flick

                                            >green jumped between her crutches, startled

                                            >soda giggled

                                            >"come on loveasus, were almost there" motioning with her head to follow