Author's Note

This is my first ever fanfic so if there any mistakes, please comment it down below. Other than that, enjoy.

Ch.1 Humble Beginnings

So you want to hear a story, eh? Okay, okay calm down! I'll get to that later, just calm down or no story for you! Oh and before I forget, my name is Octavia: Guns Salemare Xtraordinaire!

Octy who are you talking to? And that is my annoying marefriend, Vinyl: Assistant Gun Salemare and "Master of Dubstep". Seriously, Octy who are you talking to? No one, Vinyl, just go back to testing out some guns on that Everfree (Hyperion) soldier we found. Okay sure, but I still think you need to see Doctor Whooves! Yeah, sure whatever. Well anyways, where was I? Oh yeah, I was going to tell you a story!

This is the story of a vault hunter, inexperienced and naïve, but full of potential. She traveled to the borderlands in search of the Vault. But what she didn't know was that fate had different plans for her. Sure, she'd still be looking for the Vault like any other Vault Hunter would. But unlike others... She'll be alive to see it. Her story began on the Everfree Train.

*Bump*

"Ah! My head... STUPID CEILING, I HATE YOU!!!" She shouted at the inanimate object that was the ceiling.

"Hey keep it down, I'm trying to sleep here!" shouted the cyan pegasus from the bunk bed below her.

Stupid Twilight, way to go and make yourself look like a moron! She thought to herself. A few minutes after she stopped mentally scolding herself, she climbed down the bunk bed and turned to the cyan pegasus.

"Look, I'm sorry 'bout that, I've been on edge for a while. My name's Twilight, what yours?" she asked.

"Rainbow Dash. Now go away or I'll break your left foreleg."

"Good luck with that, my left foreleg is made of steel."

"Oh really?" Rainbow opened one of her eyes and saw that it was indeed made out of steel.

Where a normal flesh and blood leg should be, instead was a cybernetic leg strong enough to smash concrete.

"Never seen that design before, where did you get it?" asked the cyan pegasus with curiosity in her voice.

"Made it myself," replied the lavender unicorn with pride in her voice.

"Whoa, really?" she said with surprise in her voice. At first, she thought that this young filly was just a moron with no clue of what she got herself into, but maybe there was more to her than she thought. "So how did you lose it?" she asked.

"Lose what?"

"Your leg."

"Oh... I cut it off."

"You WHAT!?!?"

"With a power saw."

"Didn't that hurt or at least, traumatize you!?!?"

"No, not really."

WOW, this girl is insane... I LIKE THAT! She thought to herself as she looked at the lavender unicorn in a new light.

"You know what, forget what I said about you. You're an awesome mare!" she said with a warm smile.

"Why thank yo-" Her sentence was cut offed by a loud beep.

*Beep*

"Hey, Handsome Rabbit here. I just want to say something. Remember what I said about needing your help with finding the Vault. Well, I don't need it. What I do need is that you die here and now. Bye!"

*Beep*

There was a moment of silence between the two mares.

Then the cyan mare smiled psychotically. "Finally some fun!" she said as she got out of bed.

"Fun? FUN?!?!?! They're going to kill us!"

"So what? We got guns!"

"WHAT GUns......." She trailed off as she saw two massive guns digitize on each hoof.

"These guns. Hope got some yourself 'cause here they come!"

At one end of the train car, two yellow and white robots came into view. Twilight recognized them as Timberbots thanks to her years of engineering class. Rainbow ran forward to them, laughing manically as she shot them with her two guns.

*BOOM*

Twilight turned around to see two Everfree Stallions at the other end of the train car. One was wielding an Everfree shogun, while the other wore some kind of exosuit.

"Surrender now and we will make your death less painful!" said the stallion with the shotgun.

"Buck that offer!" said Twilight as she pulled out a revolver.

Due to the fact that she has no combat training whatsoever, she randomly shot all six bullets, emptying her gun but only nailing two shots. One was to the face of the stallion with the shotgun. The other went to a certain spot between the hind legs.

"GAH!! Oh Faust they don't pay me enough for this!" he fell to the ground face first.

"SORRY!" said Twilight.

'What are saying sorry for, they were going kill you!" Twilight turned around and was greeted by the sight of a certain cyan pegasus covered in cuts and bruises, two guns that were still red hot and smoking, and two smoldering piles of metal behind her.

"Come on, let's get to the main car and shut this place down!" she said happily.

"Wait, how did you know it was the main car?" asked Twilight suspiciously.

"Game logic! Since the final boss is always in the tallest tower, it only makes sense that the bad guy behind this is in the main car!" said Rainbow with a smile.

"Oh, okay. Just make sure that the princess is IN the castle. "

And so, they made their way through several cars and along the way, painted the walls with brain matter and forcefully scrapped every robot that came at them. Rainbow Dash pretty much mowed down everything in her path: Timberbots, enemy mares and stallions, a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and that one fellow who can't tell where the bullets come out of his gun and killed himself before Rainbow did.

Twilight, not so much. Due to her inexperience, she just kept randomly shooting her gun, missing most of the time and only nailing a few shots every now and then. After using up about 99.99% of the ammo she had, she simply lost it.

"You know what!?!? Buck shooting. SUPER AWESOME ROBOT TIME!!!" Her cybernetic limb glowed a blue light and out of thin air, a Purple and Green Robot appeared. "GET 'EM DEATHSPIKE!"

The robot who was named Deathspike floated past Rainbow Dash and started ripping apart his master's enemies. Rainbow Dash could only watch with her jaw on the floor as Deathspike sliced a Timberbot in half with ease, melted one poor mare's face with a laser and finished off all the remaining foes with a clap. Sure that may not sound like much but the thing is, he clapped so hard that everything around him exploded. Yes, his most powerful attack is an exploding clap, now on with story.

Rainbow took a few moments to process what happened. Finally she spoke. "That. Was. AWESOME! Girl, you've been holding out on me!"

" Why, thank you for the compliment." She said with pride in her voice. "I made him for a science fair."

"Wait. So let me get this straight, you made a robot that can outmatch a military grade drone, shoots lasers out of it's own face and can unleash an exploding clap of awesomeness just so you can win first place in a science fair?" asked the cyan mare half-amused and half-disturbed.

"Well, he was originally meant to put bullies in their place," she said with embarrassment.

"Sheesh, you got something in for them or something?"

"I'd rather not talk about it, please."

"Sure. I'm not going to force it out of you, if it makes you uncomfortable," she said with understanding.

The two mares continued their parade of carnage, destroying everything in their path. Well, Deathspike was doing most of it and Rainbow was starting to get jealous of him 'cause he was, in her words, getting most of the fun.

Soon after a while, Deathspike started crossing his arms and disappeared.

"Hey, where did he go?" The cyan mare said with false concern and thought of something along the lines of, Yes he's gone! Now I can start having fun again!

"He just ran out of battery. Don't worry, he'll recharge and soon he'll be back, slicing some flanks!" Twilight said, either ignoring her or being completely unaware of the tone Rainbow used.

After a few cars later, they neared the main car. Rainbow bucked down the door and jumped into the main car. Twilight attempted to jump in, too, and make a dramatic entrance, but only ended up with having her face flattened against the floor. As she looked up from her epic fail, she was greeted with the sight of a robot bunny and 30 tons of dynamite.

The robot bunny spoke. "It's cute that you think that you're the hero of this little adventure, but you're not. Welcome to Equestria, kiddos."

Soon, everything went black.