Humanity at it's Craziest

The guards turned the corner and started to walk down the hallway. There were two Guards on each side of the mercenary and one in front of him. The mercenary himself though... He was bigger than Big Mac! He was wearing fully covering body armour that looked like it weighed a tonne. The armour was probably iron, but it was so polished that it looked like silver. It was also covered in strange symbols, maybe runes? He was carrying a sword on his back. The sword was double edged and about as big as the pony himself. The sword was much like the armour in style and even had runes on it as well. If there was one word used to describe this pony, it would be TANK.

They started walking down the hallway, giving nods the their follow guards (changelings) as they went. They were about halfway through the hallway when one of the guards (changelings) stepped out from his post and into the middle of the hallway. The others followed suit until the guard group was surrounded.

The guard leading the mercenary stopped and started talking to the guards surrounding them. The image obviously didn't come with sound. The were most likely asking what they were doing.

The two changelings blocking the back exit suddenly rushed forward and attacked the guards closest to them, knocking them out easily. That left three guards and the one mercenary. Two of the changelings at the front of the pack did the same. It took only a little longer for them to be knocked out because they were slightly aware about what was going on. While the two guards collapsed the changeling that hadn't moved yet jumped at the last guard, knocking him to the ground and out of consciousness.

The only weird thing about this situation was that the mercenary hadn't even moved throughout the whole display. He was still standing there not moving a muscle.

By now, all the changelings had recovered from the initial fight and ready to attack the mercenary.They stood their ground though and didn't move any closer to him/her. Rainbow still can't tell because of the armour. She was quite confused by this.

"Why aren't they attacking them?"

"Because it would be useless," Neon said while pointing to the mercenary, or more importantly, their armour. "The armour would be too strong for just hooves to do anything against it. The team will have to wait until the mercenary attacks so that they can unbalance them and maybe even trick them into attacking them self. The only problem I have with this is because of the runes on their armour. They look mostly like protection runes, but I can see some speed and weight runes as well. Also, the biggest concern, is that they have an anti-magic rune."

"Isn't enchanting objects hard?"

"Very, meaning that this pony has some good connections." Neon started to tap his chin in thought. "Maybe I could get them to help us..."

Before Rainbow could question what Neon was thinking about, the fight started. The mercenary lunged forward, trying to attack the changeling in front of them. Lucky for the changeling, the armoured pony wasn't very fast. The changeling jumped well out of the way before they could get tackled. The other changeling's used this as an opening and jumped to ram over the mercenary, probably hoping that the hit will knock over the pony so that they could subdue them. Unlucky for these changelings, the massive sword got in their way.

One changeling was stabbed by the edge of the sword while the others scraped the edges. They all seemed to fall unconscious.

Probably an enchantment on the sword. They must have been very unlucky to have ALL hit the sword somewhere.

This left only two beings concious in the hallway.

The mercenary pushed the changeling off the edge of his sword. The wound didn't look very deep but could still be dangerous.

The last changeling, even after seeing his team-mates fall, looked completely un-fazed. He started charging a spell into his horn, making it glow that sickly green colour. Once full charged he launched it at the pony, who hadn't moved at all in this time. The spell harmlessly fizzled against the armour.

The pony started charging at the changeling, intent on finishing this fight. The changeling didn't back down from the pony and started his own charge. Being only ten metres away from each other ended it rather quickly as they met in the middle.

The massive pony charged straight through the changeling like it wasn't even there... because it wasn't. Turns out that he just charged through a clone, which quickly dissipated upon contact.

The changeling must have cast the offensive spell to hide casting the clone spell. But that still leaves the question. Where did the changeling go?

The massive pony also had this question on there mind as they started to search around looking to spot the creature. He failed to look up.

The changeling, alone with the other two changeling's that hadn't join the fight yet, jumped down and landed on the back of the massive pony. The quickly pinned the mercenary to the ground, their horns glowing.

"They are using a spell to make themselves heavier." Neon said to Rainbow. "Now they are going to wait for the rest of the team to come help get that armoured jerk back to base."

"How long will that take?" Rainbow asked.

"Half an hour." Neon said while tapping Unknown on the shoulder. "You owe me food." He said smirking.

"Alright, lets go." Unknown said while getting up from her seat. "You coming too Rainbow Dash?"

"Yeah, I guess." Rainbow said, not really having anything else to do.

They walked through many corridors after leaving the "main" room. Turns out that this place is very big, they passed at least 50 doors on there trot.

Rainbow was getting quite bored in the silent walk but was glad when Unknown finally stopped and opened a door. She walked in followed by Neon and Rainbow. Inside was a kitchen. It was a large kitchen, almost as big as the Canterlot castle kitchen and with much of the same utensils.

"Why such a big kitchen?" Rainbow asked, surprised that they would need one this big.

"How else am I going to feed everyone?" Neon asked, "We aren't the only ones in this place you know."

"How many others are here then?"

"I never counted, but it might be around 300."

Rainbow was at a loss of words. 'How did he get so many ponies to help him?'

Unknown started to open cupboards and pull out ingredients and boxes of food products. By the looks of things she was going to make a sandwich. She started by getting the bread and then started putting on ingredients: lettuce, tomato's, cucumber, meat, beetro...

"What are you doing with meat?" Rainbow asked, slightly disgusted.

"What else would I do with meat Rainbow? I'm going to eat it." Neon replied as he watched Unknown continue to make the horrid food.

"HOW COULD YOU EAT MEAT?" Rainbow yelled. "THAT'S DISGUSTING!"

"Actually meat is really nice. I used to always eat it whenever I could. I was previously an omnivore you know. Could eat just about anything." Neon said as he reached for the horrid thing with his wings. "I didn't want to stop eating meat because of the new body so I spliced in some dragon genetics." He opened his mouth and took a bite of the dead animal, showing his sharp front teeth. "It's also made my skin harder and I am not as effected by heat or fire. It's the only reason I survived Celli yesterday. I am also happy because I can eat metal and gems, very strange taste they have."

"It's still gross." Rainbow said, looking away from Neon. "How can you eat a dead animal?"

"I've been eating dead animals my whole life. It also helps having a carnivore's instincts." Neon said in-between bites. He quickly finished eating the horrible thing, much to Rainbow's relief.