Centergg: переводы

→A round of cheers and clinking, sloshing cups went up from the crowd. Palace grinned and nodded his way, raising his own glass, and then drinking. However, Tap felt as though he had more to say. He lifted a hoof to Skimmer’s necklace and found the words he was looking for.

→“To Red Eye!”

→Not more than a moment later, the clouds all seemed to tremble, as if something had shaken the sky. His eyes widened as the clouds began to peel away, dissolving, and an overpowering light poured in through the gaps. He cringed and shielded his eyes. Believing his idle thoughts about the end of the world to have become a reality, he braced for death. No harm came to him, and after a while, he cautiously lowered his hoof, squinting into the glare.

→At first, he thought the tower was being struck by some sort of weapon, likely being wielded by the Enclave that Paharita occasionally whined about. As he continued to watch, he realized that the light seemed to be erupting from the tower itself, disappearing through the hole in the clouds and out of sight. Some of the ponies waging war on the ground seemed to be in a similar state of awe. He passed by several ponies in various flavors of power armor that had stopped fighting outright, staring up at the brilliant display.

→With an excited little clap, Rita bubbled, “Littlepip did that! You know what that means, don’t you?”

→Beams of near-blinding light stretched into the sky over Tenpony Tower in frequent, erratic bursts as Tap made his way through the burning ruins of Manehattan.

→Déjà Vu was the last thing Double Tap wanted to experience, but once again, he found himself on a salvaged hospital bed with Paharita bumbling around just within his peripheral vision. The last time he had been in this situation, he felt numb and tired. This time, he felt like he could run to Old Appleoosa and back. He could see the world around him with razor sharp clarity, and the headache he had endured was no longer with him. More concerning was that he had no memory of being brought upstairs.

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→Lady Luck leaned in closer, her cackle echoing out into infinity. “The more, the merrier.”

→All at once, Double Tap had a horrible revelation. Lady Luck nodded slowly, confirming his fears.

→“Run,” he heard Skimmer whisper.

→“Perhaps you’ll be joining us after all,” she gurgled. A green fire danced in the empty, blackened pits of her eye sockets.

→And then he heard the laughter. Lady Luck’s face fell away in molten hunks, revealing more and more of her jaw, her fangs glowing in the arcane fire. Her laughter was shrill and fitful as her eyes boiled in their sockets, drinking in the death and chaos that stretched out before them. She turned her head to face him, scraps of meat hanging from her skull, but her grin remained as vicious as ever.

→There was a blinding flash on the other end of the city. Tap squinted into the glare, taking in the contour of an enormous fireball that rolled up into the sky. In an instant, buildings had been vaporized. Bodies, vehicles, and chunks of buildings were displaced by the blastwave, filling the air with debris. He could feel the heat peeling away at his skin, pulling him apart. His flesh sizzled and his eyes blistered, but he couldn’t look away. Under the roar of the explosion, beneath the tearing winds, he could hear the screams in every direction.

→His heart had stopped.

→A certain wildness came over her, her eyes widening. “At the end of the world,” she whispered, the ghost of a smile on her lips.

→No sooner than the question had been asked, he laid his eyes on Tenpony Tower. Only, it wasn’t Tenpony as he knew it; the building looked clean and new. It lacked the patch jobs and none of the windows were boarded up.

→A long stretch of silence came between them. Tap’s eyes swept over the rooftops laid out before him, searching for meaning in what Lady Luck had told him. A rattling screech drew his attention. He looked down the street, watching as a train rolled by on an elevated track.

→“Where are we?”

→“And at this moment, I would hardly expect you to.” She smiled, and for the first time, he found it comforting. “There is still plenty of time for you to decide on your next move.”