Dimension After Dimension

The room we were in was massive. We looked up at a screen which had turned on to show the face of Alexei.

"Ha! You really thought that I wouldn't notice that you were crawling through the ventilation shafts? I put movement sensors everywhere in them, so I'd know if anyone was trying to escape. I figured you'd end up here. It would have been a little awkward if you'd ended up anywhere else in the room, so I decided to place these tubes everywhere across the room. Literally everywhere. I can't be bothered moving them."

"You think these tubes will hold us?" I fired the MK3A1. Glass shattered around us.

"I thought they were a little stronger than that. Oh well, turn around; I have a surprise."

We did as he said. I wish I hadn't. Stood in front of us was an enormous robot. It was around 40ft tall.

"What do you think? You're both fucked now!"

The robot's arms swung up into the air and smashed into the ground in front of the two ponies. Winter Rush flew up into the air while Minuette used her unicorn magic. The robot fired a missile from its left arm.

"Missiles?! What the buck is this shit?" Shouted Winter Rush.

The missile flew towards Winter Rush, though Minuette managed to redirect it with her unicorn magic and instead hit its right arm. An arc of electricity flew out of where the missile had hit. The arc struck Winter Rush's wings with a snap and he plummeted out of the air.

I saw Rush fall out of the air and rocket towards the ground. I had only a few seconds to save him. Quickly, I focused my magic on slowing down Rush at the same time stopping the arms of the robot from colliding with him. It was hard focusing all of my energy on two things, but I managed to carefully bring Rush back to his hooves. He got his breath back, winked at me and launched himself back into the air.

After Minuette had saved me, I skilfully slalomed around four heat-seeking missiles and brought them crashing down onto different parts of the robot, sending shrapnel flying. Winter Rush was flying around the robot, trying to distract it, when the robot took Minuette by surprise and crushed her under a powerful arm. I spun round and saw the arm crush Minuette.

"MINUETTE!" I screamed.

The arm retracted and she lay there. This was the last straw. The anger welled up inside of me and I slammed my own body into the glass screen that protected Alexei inside. The glass cracked. I tried again. It cracked more. I tried one more time. I flew through the glass, it smashed into large shards and I collided head on with Alexei's face. I heard a horrible snapping noise and Alexei didn't get up. I had broken his neck. I backed away from the body. I flew out of the cockpit and down to Minuette. She was bleeding heavily and from what I could see, she had broken several bones. I cried as I lifted her broken body onto my back.