Risk Of Epic

The wall collapsed, fragments of stone crushing the guards beneath it. A hulking figure clad in grey-blue armor emerged from the wreckage. The armor was pristine, only scratched in a couple of places. He wielded an enormous metal shield nearly the size of himself, and the same color as his armor. Each pauldron had a glowing light imbedded into it, as did the collar of the armor. The figure held a shotgun in his other hand, simple, rugged, and reliable.

He turned to his left, facing the single surviving pegasi guard who had begun to claw his way out of the wreckage. With a quick squeeze of the trigger, buckshot flew from the barrel of the gun, eviscerating the face of the desperate pony. The last thing the guard saw before being killed was the wide T-Shaped visor of the helmet the beast wore. The orange of the visor seemed to radiate with an unearthly energy, despite the rest of the helmet being plain.

Leaving the massacre, and continuing down the long hallway of the castle, the Enforcer could hear the crackle of lightning coming from his left, directly through a wall. Backing up as far as he could, and raising his shield in front of him, he braced himself for his charge. With the might of several men his size, he rammed the wall, collapsing it with ease. Dust settled onto the black jumpsuit he wore beneath his armor, as the Enforcer  quickly dusted himself off, taking in the scene before him.

A mass of dead guards ponies lay amid the destruction inside the throne room, heaps of them strewn across the floor. Melted armor and massive pools of blood were common sights on every dead being. Standing with a ukulele in his grip was the Commando, pointing the smoking barrel of one of his pistols at the charred corpses of two alicorns.

Slowly lowering his pistol, and slinging the ukulele over his back, the Commando returned to the black box, picking through the other items. The Enforcer walked over to his ally, giving him a slight nod, before the orange clad figure tossed him a teddy bear and a medikit. Quickly dropping his shield, the Enforcer caught the bear, securing it to his armor, and storing the medikit on his belt.

After rummaging through the crate and picking out a few more choice items, the Commando stood up, eyeing his armor clad comrade. Picking up his shield, the two walked towards one of the intricate stain glass windows in the throne room. They both paused, admiring the craftsmanship for a second, and looking at each other, knowing exactly what the other was thinking.

The cries of approaching guards could be heard as the enforcer blasted the window apart, the tiny shards refracting the sunlight in a symphony of beautiful destruction. With one last reassuring glance at each other, the two leaped out of the window, soaring towards the ground below.

The wind cut at the the pair's armor, the visors of both becoming a bit harder to see out of. The enforcer impacted first, the ground rippling around him, the stone of the courtyard easily giving way, forming a semi crater. The Commando followed in suit, hitting the ground with sufficient force to crack the ground, tossing up fragments of the pavement.

Guards ponies could be heard shouting, as the Enforcer looked up to see several pegasi descending from the shattered window. Holding his shield tightly, he let loose a dozen shots from his shotgun, each one hitting with deadly accuracy even at this range. Blood streamed from the hit pegasi in morbid ribbons, before the corpse hit the ground with a splat of the ensuing blood.

Meanwhile, the Commando was making short work of the advancing guards coming from an entrance to the courtyard. A spear wielding pony tried to impale him, but the Commando rolled to the side of the pony before bringing an elbow down upon it's skull. Collapsing in a mound, the guard yelped in pain, just as the Commando  squeezed off one final shot, spattering it's brains on the courtyard floor.

As the Commando mopped up the last few guards coming from his side, the Enforcer smacked an incoming pegasi aside like a fly, sending the guard careening into a wall. The snapping of bones could be heard, the enforcer turning to observe the Commando kicking a pony in side of the leg hard. Training his sights on the injured pony, the Enforcer put it out of it's misery, blood pooling around head of the shredded skull.

More and more pegasi streamed down through the broken window, spears at the ready. The Enforcer was about to begin shooting again when the Commando pushed him aside, taking aim at the cluster of guards. Using both pistols, he unleashed a typhoon of bullets, hitting every single target, the ponies slamming into the ground like the useless bags of meat they were.

The Enforcer glared at the Commando who simply shrugged nonchalantly. The Commando could hear the hooves of the incoming guards pounding down the hallway to the courtyard.

Deeming that they had overstayed their welcome, the pair quickly ran to the edge of the courtyard, surveying the ground below. They could quite clearly see that they were above the clouds, and the Enforcer gave his orange friend a skeptical look. The Commando simply shrugged before holstering his weapons and pulling out a small cylinder. Unlatching the end of the cylinder, and pressing down a red button, he leapt off the courtyard, encased in a yellow glow. He disappeared through the cloud cover shortly after, although the Enforcer could still see the subtle glow of the Commando for a moment after.

With a shake of his head the Enforcer clicked a button on his belt, causing two small exhaust vents to appear in the back of his armor. Testing his jetpack for a moment just to be sure, the orange flames licking at his sturdy carapace, he jumped off as well.

The fall was surprisingly short, only a few seconds had passed before he began to quickly approach the ground. With a click of the button one more time, the photon jetpack engaged, slowing his descent substantially. The Enforcer bent down in mid air, placing his shield like a snowboard beneath his scuffed boots.

"Protect and Serve my ass ..." he muttered, bracing himself for the invariably painful landing.

The shockwave of the Enforcers impact blew up the ground around him, sending earth several feet up into the air. Smoke billowed from the crater, as he climbed out of it, painfully gripping the medpack his comrade had given him. Quickly inserting the syringe into a medical port in the left side of his abdomen, he could sense feeling rush back into his body, and feel his wounds mending themselves.

Gripping his wargear once again, he eyed the Commando standing a few feet away, looking down at the sprawled out Enforcer. Quickly righting himself, the juggernaut shot the Commando a look filled with disdain. Simply shaking his cracked helmet, the Commando turned away from the Enforcer, looking for something.

When he found it, he tapped the Enforcer, who was securing his medikit and disengaging his jetpack. Turning to look at what the orange clad warrior had found, the Enforcer beheld several comets burning in through the atmosphere like the strokes of a calligraphy brush dipped in scarlet ink.

Gesturing the Enforcer to follow with his beat up gauntlet, the Commando began to walk towards where the scanner fastened to his shoulder had indicated they would land. The Enforcer began to follow, before quickly glancing back at the castle they had literally just free fell from. It was a near vertical drop, and the cloud cover obscured the top of the fortress.

Regaining his rhythm, the Enforcer fell into line behind the Commando. They walked across the vast field that was present at the base of the mountain for several minutes, the sunlight reflecting off of their orange visors.

But as they continued on their path towards the incoming meteors, the Enforcer sensed something coming. He spun around only to find another squad of  pegasi descending from the cloud cover. Hitting a small switch on his shotgun, the enforcer took aim, making sure to lead his targets. With a great explosion of smoke of and sparks, a grenade was propelled out of the barrel of the gun.

The ticking of the grenade was audiblly terrifying as it closed in on its destination. Seeing the incoming projectile two pegasi dashed out of the way at the last second, while the rest of the squad was showered with shrapnel, the force of the blast sending them down in smoking trails of white and crimson.

Two bullets spiraled through the air towards the surviving guards, each one tearing through the skulls of the ponies,devastating the grey matter contained within, death embracing each one. The Enforcer looked over his shoulder to see the commando clipping his smoking pistols to his belt, before continuing on.

"These guys are really starting to get on my nerves," spoke the Enforcer in a gruff southern accent. The Commando acknowledged this, turning his head to look over his shoulder and nodding slightly.

"Who's first on the list then?" the Enforcer asked, keeping pace with his more lightly armored ally. The Commando glanced over at his shoulder mounted scanner before replying in the same tone he always spoke in.

"The Colossus."