CLAWs of Equestria

8

A bullet, travelling with brute power and shining with purple elegance, scratched across Spike's cheek before the small breath of magical green fire burned the scroll Princess Celestia's magical mail system. A speck of blood danced through the air and onto the side of the scroll before it disappeared. The young dragon had yelped in horror at the sudden pain, and when he noticed that Twilight's shield spell had broken under the pressure of Maximus's weapon, and the others were already fleeing for their lives, he didn't hesitate to join them. His heart was punching, biting and scratching at his chest but the baby dragon was too focused on his survival instincts, for the adrenaline was swimming through his blood and attacking his brain with the same and most common message for any animal in danger; the message simply told him to run. And with an unguided thought, his feet pointed in the first direction that would lead him away from the danger, but a strange feeling enveloped itself around Spike. The magical feeling was one he was far too familiar with, and immediately he had been unwillingly attached to the back of Twilight as she fled into her home. Remarkably, the bullets that the first foreign machine, Maximus, had missed Twilight and Spike, as if it were some form of good luck; as if Princess Celestia herself was protecting her from afar, or it could have been as if Maximus was missing on purpose, but Spike wasn't willing to complain about it as long as he wasn't hit again by the strange weapons that they were using.

The door immediately slammed shut and Twilight, dropping Spike, quickly unleashed her magical capabilities of throwing whatever heavy items at her disposal in front of the door and windows. She would have used the stronger spell of a force field to encase the tree house like before with her friends, but her magical abilities were weakened by the fact that she had to hold off the magical weaponry of Maximus. However, her focus was entirely on her books in which she hoped that she would find an answer to what the two giant creatures were and if there was some sort of weakness that they could use against them. Problematic for the purple unicorn, none of her seemingly eternal piling books had any resolution to her problem. A river of panic attacked Twilight as she looked towards her slightly injured assistant as he stared at her with the same look of panic.

"What are we going to do, Twilight?" Spike's eyes reflected Twilight's emotions, as if they were both looking in a mirror at themselves. Both felt a grudging pain escalate through their bodies as their minds lost themselves in a painful labyrinth. The answer to their question, opaque and tormenting, shielded behind each wall inside their minds, especially Twilight's, as they struggled to form a decent solution to their problem. Twilight started pacing back and forth in attempts to think of something, or wait for Princess Celestia to respond to their despair message, whilst Spike peeked through one of the windows that was blocked with a simple chair and crossed with curtains. The young dragon noticed that one of the CLAW machines was still firing deadly hazes of bullets into the air whilst the other was, slowly, chasing Pinkie Pie and Rarity. All he could do was watch, in fear, as his friends were chased and attacked by the machine.

"You ruffian!" Rarity's voice and insult had no effect on Maximus as he continued to, unbelievably slowly, chase the two. "You bunch of stupid, mindless, ignorant…stupid ruffians!"

Pinkie Pie, being her 'oblivious to danger' self, magically summoned her famous party cannon while Maximus was distracted with Rarity. The bright blue cannon stood proudly at the side of Maximus, and he had no time to react, since his size made his movability slow, and try to stop the party pony from firing it.

"Say hello to my big friend!" Pinkie's cry alerted Rarity and caused Maximus to stop firing as they both turned to see a giant patch of bright pink bubble gum dive straight at Maximus. And with a giant 'splodge', the extremely sticky bubble gum captured Maximus. The extremely sticky bubble gum suddenly became a massive virus to Maximus. The gum had oozed its way into the joints of Maximus's legs which prevented him moving another step, and others in his mini-gun stopped the magical bullets from firing momentarily.

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash, while trying to figure out a way of stopping Brutus from destroying her, was desperately trying to avoid the meteors of magical bullets that kissed the sky with a beautiful, yet hideous, purple colour. Whizzing left and right, her rainbow trail that she left behind must have caused some sort of distraction to Brutus down below as his fire was focused in between its rainbow colour. The Pegasus's mind was scrambled with reckless and thoughtless ideas on how she was going to deal with her enemy. She couldn't get too close, for she feared of deadly consequences and would hate to have to come into contact with whatever Brutus was firing at her with. The booming of Brutus's machine gun rattled Rainbow Dash's ears which prevented her from thinking of any ideas and forced her to keep on moving. However, it was that sudden word that caused a switch in her brain to activate.

"Boom…boom…I know, the Sonic Rainboom!" Rainbow Dash felt a sense of joy and pride caress her as she continuously remarked herself as a genius, and an idiot for not thinking of the idea straight away. Also, she noticed that the sound of the rattling weaponry of Brutus had stopped, since his mini-gun was overheated and the flamethrower was useless at her distance, which gave her enough time to greedily absorb the speed she needed in order to perfect her special move.

Without hesitation, the cyan Pegasus dashed as far upwards as she could, and as fast as her wings could cope with before the maximum height was to her liking. Hovering slowly and observing her target, Rainbow Dash gave an almighty cry before summoning her ultimate power to her wings. Her dive was beautiful, elegant, graceful, perfect, and deadly enough at the increasing speed that surrounded it. The wind grew harsh and attacked her face, but she still continued to force more power into her Rainboom, and allowed gravity to aid her fall in which allowed the tip of the enveloping sound and wind to transform into a small speck of a rainbow colour. She saw Brutus become larger and larger as she descended further and further, and her friends: Pinkie Pie and Rarity, who had just finished their hoof nudge for their teamwork and were suddenly staring at Rainbow Dash, Twilight and Spike observed with awe after Spike had told Twilight of a strange forming colour in the sky, and Fluttershy and Applejack, whom Applejack had hidden Fluttershy for her own protection, all observed and witnessed the truly remarkable event…

…and in a matter of seconds…a giant ray of a rainbow zapped out and shot all over Ponyville!