Bronielands: The Vault Hunter

by Look to the left

Ch.3 Violent outbursts and Chicken sqeezing.

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The entire place was covered in dead bodies, and it was awesome. Twilight never felt this alive before, since the day she took up the mantle of being a Vault Hunter.

A bandit charged at her with a sniper rifle for some reason.

Shanked.

A psycho midget charged at Twilight with dynamite in both hands.

She simply threw him away with her magic.

Another bandit charged at her.

She shot him at point blank range with her shotgun. Turns out, that to makes sure you absolutely hit your target, shot them really, really close.

A psycho with a propeller hat was rushing at Twilight, but then suddenly stopped. "WHERE'S THE BATHROOM!"

Twilight simply pointed to an outhouse to the right.

"THANK YOU!" She ran off, leaving Twilight confused.

The last bandit was blown up by Diamond Tiara who for some reason had four cannons, two on each side and a sail on top with a cute little pirate hat.

"Hey, Diamond how are you doing that?"

"It's my action skill."

"Uh, okay." Twilight wasn't sure how to respond to that and she wasn't sure what an action skill is.

"Twilight! Are you okay!" Sir Lunalock said, as she ran over to Twilight, remembering that she took a rocket to the back.

"I'm not okay. I'm AWESOME!" Twilight exclaimed, as she ran to a nearby brick and slashed it in half. "WOO!"

Sir Lunalock looked to Diamond Tiara. The robot gave her a deadpan look(can claptrap units do that?). "Luna, take her inside and talk to her. I'll be outside, watching out for more bandits and looting all the corpses here."

Sir Lunalock only sigh. "Twilight, please stop molesting those bricks and come with me inside so we can have something to eat."

Twilight dropped the brick that she was harassing and followed Sir Lunalock inside. Leaving the surviving brick to just sit there, traumatize by the lavender pony.


"Mow, Woona yorg cooqing iesh graat." Twilight said with her mouth full.

"Thanks Twilight, but please talk when your mouth is not full."

She swallowed her food down before speaking. "Sorry about that, it's just that ever since the train crash, my stomach is practically a garbage compactor now for some reason."

"Actually, that why we're here, to talk about you after the train crash."

"Luna, did you do something to me?" Remembering that Sir Lunalock was healing her when she was unconscious.

"No, I would never add some sort of genetic or cybernetic enhancement in your body without the owner's permission."

"Well that good to know." She said with relief.

"well that and I couldn't save you." Sir Lunalock with a straight face.

"WHAT!" She was shocked. How could the mare who nursed her back to health say that she couldn't save her.

"I know this sound crazy bet let me-" Sir Lunalock failed to finish her sentence as Twilight slammed her into the wall with bloodshot eyes.

"HOWCANYOUSAYTHATI'MDEADI'MPRATICLYSTANDINGRIGHTHERERIGHTNOWAREYOUSAYINGTHATI'MDEADORSOMETHINGBECAUSEI'MPRETTYSUREI'MALIVEAND-" Twilight was talking at a rate only rivaled by Pinkie Pie on ten cups of coffee and- wait, did I just break the 4th wall? Oh well, no one really cares about that wall, anyways lets continue the story.

Sir Lunalock knew that she going to react to the knowledge with shock, but she didn't know she'll react in such a rage fuelled action.

"Please, Twilight calm down I'll explain everything please!" Sir Lunalock pleaded.

"WHATAREYOUTALKINGABOUTI'MPERFECTLYCALMI'MPERFECTLYALIVEI'M..... I'm... pressing you against the wall..." Twilight, now realising what she's doing, stop whatever she was doing and dropped on her haunches. "I.. I'm sorry, I... I'm not sure what came over me."

"It's okay Twilight, it's understandable, though I never knew you can lash out so violently."

This only made Twilight feel more guilty.

Upon seeing her mistake Sir Lunalock quickly started explaining her choice of word. " Well, you see, I said I couldn't save you."

Upon hearing what Sir Lunalock was actually saying she perked up and started listening. "Go on, I'm listening."

"Well you see, another friend of yours save your life."

"Wait, was it Diamond Tiara?"

"No, if it was her than you'll be more dead then dead, who I was referring to was your friend Rainbow Dash."

"Wait, what?!" Twilight was confuse.

"Okay, let me start over, seeing as you are only getting more confuse. You see, when Diamond Tiara brought you in, you were in horrible condition and so I brought you in and did my best to save your life, unfortunately you were way passed the point of no return and so I gave up."

Twilight knew she was in bad shape, but she didn't knew it was bad to the point of no return.

"However, Your friend refused to believe that you were as good as dead and so she threw me out of the room and grabbed every medical cybernetic tool and material she can find and lock herself in your room for the entire day. Me and Diamond thought she was just in denial and we tried reasoning with her, but no responds came and so we gave up on that and thought that if she failed to save you then she'll probably get back to her senses and so we waited until tomorrow."

Sir Lunalock pause for a moment to let Twilight process the information. "Continuing the story, when tomorrow came she finally left your room but instead of crying or showing some sort of grief she had a neutral face. She didn't say a word and packed all her stuff, the last thing she did before leaving was giving me an Echo recorder and said it was for you. After she left, me and Diamond went to checked on you and to our surprise you were alive and healthy."

After Sir Lunalock finished her story, Twilight was left with a lot to think about and for some reason one of them was a white pegasus with a puffy yellow mane.

"Fat Flank! I'm home!" Shouted a voice from across the room.

Diamond Tiara had just entered the room and was carrying a large sack full of weapons and next to her was a strangely familiar psycho with a propeller hat.

"Uh. Diamond why do you have a psycho with you?" Sir Lunalock asked with worry in her voice.

"Shish, will you just calm down, it's not like all my friends are walking apocalypses or something."

"Wait, she your friend?" Twilight asked with confusion.

"Yap. Turns out, she doesn't like the bandit leader."

"HI! I'M SCREWBALL!" The psycho shouted.

"Hmm. Say, who is this bandit leader you speak of?" Sir Lunalock asked.

"I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT CHICKEN YOUR SQEEZING!" Screwball said giggling.

"Well that plan went out the window." Twilight replied.

"Don't worry, I talked o her and she told me everything." Diamond replied to Twilight's reply.

"Wait. You can understand crazy?"

"Yes Twilight, I can communicate with crazy people, don't ask."

"So, Diamond what information did you get?"

"Wait let me drop this sack, it killing my servos." The bag drop with a loud thud and several guns fired away.

"AHHH!!!" Said Sir Lunalock.

"What?" Said Twilight.

"OHHH, PRETTY!" Said Screwball.

"SORRY!!" Said Diamond Tiara.


After fixing the mess Diamond made and medical care was passed around, Diamond started telling everything she got from Screwball.

"THEY'RE GOING TO SEND THEIR ENTIRE FORCE AGAIST MY HOUSE!" Sir Lunalock shouted.

"Yup." Diamond replied.

"WHY!"

"From what I heard from Screwball, they're being overrun by Diamond Dogs."

"I see..." Sir Lunalock said, calming down.

"And Screwball here wants no part in it."

'THE READERS ARE WHATCHING!" Screwball shouted with fear.

"So, how come she isn't murdering us right now?" Twilight asked.

"She one of the few psychos in the borderlands who retain some form of moral, however they rare to find and people will shot them on sight due to their reputation." Diamond answered.

"Huh. Maybe I'll think about that when I come across another psycho. Maybe." Twilight said.

Sir Lunalock was in deep thought while everyone else was chatting, finally she spoke. "I guess desperate times call for desperate measures."

"Huh?" Twilight and Diamond said.

"DONUTS!" Screwball said.

"PACK YOUR BAGS GIRLS! WE'RE GOING TO THE LAST SAFE PLACE ON EQUESTRA!"

"You don't mean.."

"YES DIAMOND! WE'RE GOING TO PONYVILLE!"


As Twilight was packed her bag, Diamond Tiara came in. "Hey Robo-pony here's this ECHO communicator you wanted."

She threw the device and Twilight caught it with her magic. "Thanks Diamond... You know, saying Diamond all the time is a bit too long. Why don't I just start calling you Diara?"

"Whatever Twilight." Diamond or rather Diara said as she left.

Twilight looked back at her saddle pack. It contained ammo for her gun, all her building tools and several hundred bits. Sir Lunalock was going to carry food and medical supplies while Diara is going to carry all the weapons that are worth selling. Screwball... Twilight was not sure if she wanted to know.

Twilight gave her cybernetic limb a quick glance and notice a lot of subtle changes she never notice before, the metal was more polished and barely any scratches in sight, the design was a lot more slimmer than when she built it and finally she notice a slot in the side of her arm. It was the same size as her ECHO communicator and a thought ran through her head and she inserted the device into the slot.

A hud appeared in front of her eyes and several things seem to form. One bar seems like it's the health bar, another is the ammo bar and grenade bar, a map appeared in the top right comer, and finally a target indicator appeared in the middle. Curious, she picked up her shotgun and to her surprise the target indicator seems to follow whatever she was pointing at. Well this is helpful, she thought.

She then noticed another slot in her arm that seems to be made for an ECHO recorder. Remembering that Rainbow Dash left one, she plugged in the recorder and it started to download.

*BEEP*

"Okay is this thing working? Hello? Okay it's working. Hello, Twilight, if your listening to this, then you woke up from your sleep and are probably wondering where I am. Well first off I need to tell you about your new powers before I explain myself. I know that by this time you'll already found out about them and don't ask how I know, just listen okay?" Twilight for some reason felt the need to nod her head.

"Okay. So let me get some stuff straight. You are not invincible. Sure you feel no pain and you can regenerate, but the no pain part is a side effect from the surgery and the regeneration is limited, for example: you can heal broken bones and burnt skin but if you lose a limb, say goodbye to that limb." Twilight shrug at the last part, she can always replace it with a new cybernetic limb, right?

"Also all the nanobots in the world can't make you immune to fire, slag, explosives and corrosive damage, well you can but you'll need GGCA-423h breed-Military class nanobots, but then you'll to wire frame it to an- AH!!!! RAINBOW! FOCUSE!" Twilight giggle at that part, she never knew Rainbow had a lot in common with herself.

"Sorry about that, my egghead side tends to take over when I talk about this kind of stuff, but anyways, shock is the only thing that you can handle in large doses and another side effect is your emotions. The explosion really messed up your brain and it was REALLY hard for me to put it back together and so your now prone to violent outbursts and extreme levels of emotions." She shudder at that part, she remembered her cheeseburger argument and violent outburst with Sir Lunalock.

"Now that I got that out of the way, I'll tell you why I left. The thing is, I'm bad luck. Now don't you dare laugh at that, I'm bloody serious lad! Great now I'm slipping into my Scoltish accent! Oh well It feels great to this way, anyways. Now mate. Listen closely 'cause you see I always seem to get anyone around into trouble so I left as I felt like I made it up to you. Look, I'm sorry about the damn explosion, it's my fault your face was blown off and you shoulda never listen to me when I was talking about mah crazy game logic, WHAT WAS I THINKING! This isn't a game, it real life! You get no second chances at it! Anyways, I hate to say this, but I hope to see you somewhere out there in the borderlands mate. Well hope you have a good time Vault Hunting. Bye, so you around."

*BEEP*


"All ready to go my friends?" Sir Lunalock asked.

"Yup, all set Fat Flank." Said Diamond.

"I AM THOU AND THOU ART I!" Said Screwball.

"READY!" Said Twilight, saluting.

"Hey, why is the ECHO communicator in your arm?" Ask Diamond.

"Oh, you mean this Diara? Turns out that Rainbow added a slot for a Echo communicator in my arm and now I have a interface in my head!"

"Great now you see things I the way I see. Now all you need is a snobby outlook on life and you'll be exactly like me." Diara remark.

"Wait, Diara?" Sir Lunalock asked confused.

"Oh, that's just a nickname I made for her." Twilight answered.

"I think I rather like it" Sir Lunalock said, amused.

"Oh shut it you two." Diara said as she started moving.

"WAIT FOR US TALKING TRASHCAN!" Screwball said.

And so the group trotted into the artic wasteland, in pursuit of the last heaven left on Equestria.


The Pink earth pony, still wearing the cloak, watched from the distance as the group started to trot. "Ponyville... Interesting."


Author's Note

Yup guys. Rainbow Dash is a Scoltish genius! WHO'S THE MAN!!!!

Also I'm having trouble figuring out who should be Captain Flynt an so while I try figuring out who he should be, can you guys send me your OCs or ideas if you want.

Anyways right now this is the group so far:

Twilight the Mechromancer/Robo-Pony
Sir Lunalock the Gentleman Sniper
Diamond Tiara the Fragtrap
Screwball the Noble Psycho.

Hope you guys enjoyed. Btw I also had no proof reader for this.

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