King Sombra x Pegasus Reader

Chapter 34

We dove into that earth as if we were diamond dogs in a gem mine. No care for the sweat. No care for the aching. No care for the darkness. Caramel Cream eventually had to prop up her shovel to stabilise the tunnel roof as we dug under the wall. She volunteered to be a lookout as we continued to shovel the dirt. 

Time felt like it had almost slowed to a stop. Every push of that shovel was complete agony to my burning hooves. All I could think about was my hope of freedom. It was the only thing powering us forwards through the stifled cries as dirt fell into our eyes, our mouths and our ears.

 Hazelnut Swirl propped up his shovel to the dirt ceiling. "I'll join Caramel. Let us know if you need to swap out." 

We nodded and he made his way back through the tunnel.

Cocoa Berry and I took turns digging after that. She would dig ten inches and I would push the dirt out through the other side. Then we would switch. We continued on like that until we could finally dig upwards. Caramel and Hazel came back down to help push the dirt out of the tunnel. They told us the moon had fully risen now and I knew that Sombra would have begun to look for me. We didn't have much time left.

As I chucked hoof-fulls of dirt out of the tunnel entrance, I heard a cry echo from inside.

"What happened?" I yelled into the darkness.

Hazel came running over. "We've seen grass," he panted, beckoning me to join them. I ran back with him to see Caramel Cream and Cocoa Berry vigorously stabbing their shovels into the ceiling of dirt, clumps of grass falling at their hooves. I watched on, eyes wide, as finally a stream of moonlight hit Cocoa's face. 

"Oh Celestia-" I breathed.

Caramel ripped the earth above her away and jumped from the tunnel with a leg-up from Cocoa Berry. She helped Cocoa scramble out and then they turned to us. 

"Come on! We don't have time to stand around!"

Hazel made a running-jump and landed on the edge of the hole. He was pulled up by the two mares and I heard him let out a laugh of joy. I unfurled my wings and tried flying out of the hole, but it wasn't wide enough for me to take flight. Stretching out with one hoof, I tried to grab Cocoa's but we just couldn't reach one another. 

I moved back, ready to leap from the hole when thunder began to rumble above us. As I jumped, scrabbling at the dirt of the tunnel, I looked up. It was a clear night.

Pulled from the tunnel's exit by the two mares, I realised. Sombra must know.

"Y/N! Y/N get up! We have to run while we still can!"

I looked over at Cocoa who was staring at me, panicked. I nodded, wobbling to my feet as they took off, galloping into the frozen north. As I was about to go after them, I finally heard what I had been dreading.

A roar louder than the frozen north's wind echoed through the tunnel, and dark crystal thundered out of the exit, spreading quickly across the snowy landscape, sharp as knives.

He was here.