Ezylryb went to meet up with the new group of eight. Boron paced around in a circle, wondering about something Ezylryb really didn't care about. He walked towards Shining Armor.

"What's the procedure?" Ezylryb asked him.

"We're heading back to the barn," Shining Armor said. "You know how to kill, right?"

"I've killed and died." He replied.

"That's assuring." Shining Armor said. Ezylryb walked next to him.

"What are you trying to say?" He asked.

"Nothing really. It's just that you're accident prone." Shining said with a smirk.

"What? I got this, man." Ezylryb said.

"I'm sure you do." He replied. Ezylryb sighed and kept walking.

They got back to the barn with no harm in their way, but Shining Armor and Ezylryb kept fighting over who's better in life. They kept say "I'm better than you like this!" Or "I'm better than you like that!" Chrysalis and Twilight used their time to actually bond and kept yelling "Shut up!" Or "You guys are being childish!" At Shining Armor and Dewlap. It was a mental war against each other.

"Shut up, for Celestia's sake!" Twilight shouted. Shining Armor and Ezylryb stopped and kept giving each other the evil eye.

"We're finally here. Now, quit your complaining!" Boron shouted. They went inside the barn, where everyone was running around, giving orders; they knew what was happening. "Any friend of yours around here?" Boron asked.

"Applejack," Twilight said. "We need to find her, she'll know what to do." She added. They ran to Applejack's room, sliding on every turn. They bursted into the door, Applejack was discussing about plans with Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy, who looked more agressive than ever; the war probably changed her aditude.

"Good, you three are here," Applejack said to Shining Armor, Ezylryb, and Twilight. "I'm sure the weapons are functional at this point, so y'all can operate them."

"What weapons?" Ezylryb asked.

"Darling, let me show you," Rarity said. "With our intelligence - and fashion - we were able to create machines for battle." She projected three mobile machines with her magic. One was a medium sized machine, having a long barrel - fine, it's a tank- and another that looked tall and bi-pedaled. It had a missile launcher on its left arm which had five chamber and a machine gun on it's right arm. The third one has an auto mobile with a cannon on it's backside.

"Extremely useful if ya use 'em correctly." Applejack said.

"The down side is that we had two of each, but people took them. It's impossible to take them without being noticed!" Pinkie pie with pout. The group of three looked a bit worried at the sound of that.

"Unless if your a Pinkie Pie or a unicorn." Twilight said.

"We're theororeticly dangerous with 'em, but they have one of each as well," Applejack said. "Oh yes! Ah ahlmost forgot, they all have what we like to called shields. They don't get blown up unless them shields are dead." She added. Applejack and the others walked up to a table with a map of the barn and around it.

Fluttershy finally spoke, "I was able to round up some pheonix's to create a wall of fire," She said as she circled her right hoof around about a sixty yards around the barn. "It'll be nice and protective, so the foes don't get in."

"Ah was able to make a rocket." Applejack added to her side. "That's what you're usin', Dewlap."

"Actually, I'm Ezylryb. What you've been calling me was actually was a fake name." Ezylryb told her.

"Oh, sorry then," Applejack said. "Anyways, Ah'll be leading the defenses, they'll inside the ring of fire." She said.

"And I'm the ammunition, not really my thing. More into fashion!" Rarity said with a shrill.

"Well then, we're set and ready!" Ezylryb said as himself and his companions raised their necks. An explosion interrupted their moment of enchantment. "Fuck!" He yelled.

"Let's leave!" Applejack shout towards them. The seven of them ran out of the room and went to the battle machines. The ceiling was missing a few boards, with more about to fall out. "Go! Before they break the docking door down!" Applejack said. Right before Ezylryb left, Applejack grabbed his hoof and kissed him. "Stay safe." She said with a drawl. The group of three ran into the cockpits of their machines. Ezylryb jumped into the machine, with had it's weapons down and looked like it was sitting. The cockpit closed as a monitor turned on. Two joysticks were infront of him, giving him a feeling that they controlled the machine.

"Alright, work your magic." He muttered. He felt the machine rise and it's weapons getting ready. He heard the door burst open with ponies infiltrating the barn. Ezylryb turn the machine to fire the chambered rockets. He released the trigger, feeling a rumble to the left of him as rockets slid out of it's chamber.

"Ezylryb, I found out a way to communicate!" Twilight said in a muffled radio chatter.

"Me too!" Shining Armor said. They moved their vehicles outside and saw two armies being separated by a blaze of fire illuminating the night.

"Hey, guys." Ezylryb said through the radio.

"What?" Shining Armor and Twilight said.

"Give 'em hell." He said in a menacing voice. The tank made a clink noise and fired a shell at the enemy. The fight started to break out. Both armies started to fire bullets at the opposition. Cannon shooting cannon, pony shooting pony. There was bodies everywhere and the grass soaked up the blood. The air began to fill with smoke. The trio moved forward as a path was cleared. A tank shell came from the opposite side of the fire, exploding behind Shining Armor's tank.

"Guys, I think we found their vehicles," He said.

"Fire!" Ezylryb shouted into the radio. Rockets, shells, and bullets were fired. "Twilight, how are you holding up?" He asked.

"A bit of steel plating is gone, but otherwise that, I'm fine." Twilight said. Their machines appeared and fired at Ezylryb's foot of the vehicle. The machine fell over, making ponies run out of the way of where it fell. He got out, trying to keep his mind steady. A tank shell flew at him with bullets at it's side. He jumped out of the explosion radius, but a bullet got to his stomach. He grabbed his stomach to atleast slow the bleeding down

"Oh, let me help you," Somepony said. It was Fluttershy. "Oh dear. Terrible." She wrapped cloth around the bullet wound as others fell to the ground, dropping their guns as they died. "Better?" Fluttershy asked once she was finished.

"Yes, thank you." He got back to flipping his machine back in position as Twilight and Shining Armor covered him. He finally got it back in place and jumped back in the cockpit. The monitor came back up, showing that the machine gun has to fire in burst and the fifth rocket chamber got destroyed.

"Hey, you took quite an explosion. You OK?" Shining Armor asked over the radio.

"Yeah, just a bullet and a few minor malfunctions with the damned thing," Ezylryb said. "Oh, Twilight. Is it bad to go button happy?" He asked.

"No," Twilight said with an assuring voice.

"Ok, fire!" Their rockets and shells and bullets flew in a blazing speed. "But why is it a bad thing?"

"It just is!" Twilight yelled.

"So Ezylryb, who are you goin' to marry?" Shining said randomly.

"Wuh?" Ezylryb slurred in response.

"You got Applejack, Twilight, and Luna," He said in a teasing voice.

"No, I don't want to discuss plans of how to torture myself." A tank shell interrupted them as it flew at Shining Armor's tank. It hit it, giving a massive explosion.

"Oh Sweet Celestia!" Twilight exclaimed. Ezylryb fired rockets and bullets at the opposing tank as Twilight rushed to her brother. Rockets were fired back at Ezylryb as the enemy tank exploded. Ponies started shooting his vehicle, makng a gass breacking sound, indicating that his shields were down. Friendlies gathered around his machine to defend him as he destroyed the enemy mobile cannon. Radio static came on.

"Oh , you're alive!" Ezylryb said.

"Just keeping firing!" Shining Armor shouted at him. Rockets scraped against metal as they escaped the chamber. The enemy bi-pedaled machine fired bullets and missiles at Ezylryb. He shot them down and repeated what opposer did. The enemy didn't react at the time, so the rockets hit the cockpit directly, destroying the vehicle.

"Destory 'em!" Twilight yelled through the radio. He fired as many bullets until the gun overheated. Many foes were killed, except for Dave, who kept teleporting around to avoid death. Ezylryb fired rockets at the ground of the opposing army, leaving many bodies on the ground. Finally, the enemy retreated. Pheonix's flew up in the air and shown their blaze of fire. The army cheered and raised their guns in the air. Ezylryb exited the vehicle and ran towards their tank. "Ezylryb, help me help my brother!" Twilight yelled. He ran into the tank's cockpit and saw Shining Armor under steel platings.

"I'm still better than you." Shining Armor croaked as he pushed some metal off him.

"Sometimes I wish I stayed dead because of you." Ezylryb used as an insult.

"I feel your pain." Shining Armor said.

"Shut up! Both of you!" Twilight shouted as she pulled Shining Armor out of the debris.

"Finally, it hurts down there." Shining Armor complained.

"Great, another Rarity." Ezylryb muttered.

"Well, I'd never!" Rarity said because she heard him.

"So what do we do about the bodies?" Ezylryb asked.

"Never really planned that far." Rarity said.

"We bury 'em," Applejack said as she trodded towards the group. "Do we burn them? Hell, no." Ezylryb frowned; burning them was in his mind!

"Shining, buy me a mug of cider." He said because of depression.

"What?!" Shining Armor exclaimed.

"Well, you actually have money!" Ezylryb shot back at him.

"Then… uh," Shining Armor ran out of things to say. "I'm still not buying you a drink!"

"Fine, I'll buy it myself." Shining Armor gained a moment of triumph, but his pocket felt lighter. Ezylryb snickered at Shining Armor's look on his face.

"Why, you!" Shining Armor gorwled. A bullet whizzed by his a,head and penetrated Ezylryb's gut. He keeled over and clutched his stomach to stop the bleeding.

"Kill him! Kill the sniper!" Ezylryb hissed out. Shining Amor teleported to the sniper up in the tree and slit his neck. Twilight ran towards Ezylryb and held his hoof.

"Come on, stay with me. Just this once. One more time," Twilight whispered. "Please." Ezylryb was breathing fast and lost more blood by the second. "Fluttershy! Help me keep him alive!"

"Oh, I could un, get some cloth to wrap around his body, but that's the best I can do." Fluttershy suggested.

"I don't care! Just do it!" Twilight shouted.

"I need to live, I can't argue with Death." Ezylryb whispered. Fluttershy came back with some bandage tape and wrapped it around the bullet wound. Blood seeped into the fabric. "I know I'll stay alive, impossible." He said.

"Nothing's impossible, just highly unlikely," Twilight whispered to him. His hoof started to shake and twitch around. "Let's get him to his bed. Help me carry him." Twilight told the group. Shining Armor teleported back and helped him. "This may hurt him, be gentle." Twilight told them. They started to lift him up, until he howled in pain.

"It hurts! HURTS!!!" He howled once more, clutching his stomach even harder. "KILL ME!!!" He screeched. Twilight looked at him with sorrow and hurt, but she still carried him. "Make it stop! Please!" Ezylryb shouted. They finally got to his room, where they laid him down in his bed.

"Let him rest, it'll help him." Rarity told Twilight. They shut the door to let the darkness trap him. A dark figure appeared next to him.

"I'm going to take you, right here and now." Death said in a furious voice. Ezylryb looked at him with petrified eyes.

"Just let me leave a memory," Ezylryb whispered. A picture oof Ezylryb and Twilight in their tent after he as revived appeared on a table next to him. "Thank you." He rasped. Death loomed over him and took him away and they departed as friends.

Author's Note

What Ezylryb was piloting was a Mantis from Halo 4. Yes, I play Halo. Deal with it! And I was listening to Halo music as well! Deal with it More! Muahahahahah! And I finished Halo 4 in three days! Deal with it even more! Ahahahaha!! *cough* sorry, hair ball.