The Outcasts Return

NO. Redpine opened his eyes, smiling to himself, when a thought came to him'How could it have come to this? Is this is really the story of how we all got here?'

36hrs earlier

Redpine woke up with a jerk, drenched in a sweat, his eyes red, and visions of what was happening to his home still plain as day in his mind.

“Red, what’s happening?” asked Amethyst Shards

“I had a vision.” He said as he grabbed his phone and texted the others. He quickly typed out the words, ‘MEET ME AT THE CABIN IN ONE HOUR.’ All the others complied and in one hour they were all together in the cabin apart from three people.

It hasn’t changed much since the day I woke up here, Red thought: small, a couple of rooms and some high tech equipment (mostly stolen from the military) and a target range. Other than that it was quite bare.

“So Red, why are we all here?” Shadow Derivara asked.

“Equestria is in trouble, BIG trouble. Something made of candy has killed four of the elements of harmony, or it’s going to,” Red said with a grim expression on his face.

“Wait, WHAT!!!” exclaimed Lighting Streak and his brother, Razor Storm. Sure enough, Red pulled up his sleeve and showed the others his arm. The light red Element of Magic, the blue Element of Laughter, and the purple Element of Generosity were gray and the orange Element of honesty was as black as coal.

“This is not good,” said Graymane, “this is not good at all. You said something made of candy killed them in your vision?”

“Yeah, I did.” Red replied. “Shit!”

shouted Shadow, Graymane, and Amethyst in unison.“I thought Princess Luna had her trapped and locked away forever?” said Shadow.

“She did, I was there when it happened.” said Graymane.

“But the how did she get free?” asked Amethyst, “Wouldn't someone have to help her from the outside?”

“I’m not sure.” said Red, “It just all went by so fast. We have to get back there, now."

“But how?” they all asked Red. Just then, they heard a throat being cleared from the doorway. With this they all looked towards the door at the three late arrivals.

Closest to the door stood Vinyl, she dressed like she always did, a hoodie, jeans, and a pair of sneakers. She had an electric blue hair style that started out spikey towards the top and smoothed out as her hair went down her back. Her sunglasses were a shade of dark pink and covered have of her face, they were so big. She had headphones hanging around her neck in a way that would seem carefree. On her back was hanging one of the strangest types of rifles anyone has ever laid their eyes on.

Standing next to her with light purple eyes, slicked back jet black hair that flowed like water whenever she moved, and a British accent, stood Octavia. She however, had on a knee length dress that appeared to be made of silk. What stood out about her was the katana that was

strapped to her side, never taking a hand off it.

Hovering behind those stood Ryan, typing away at his tablet. He had a winter’s hat on, long sleeve shirt, and jeans with holes in the knee. He had on a blue and red backpack that was filled to the brim with all sorts of gadgets and gizmos, as if he had a piece of hardware for any

occasion. He even had a gadget or two hanging from his belt.

“Ah Vinyl, Octavia, Ryan glad you could make it,” said Red, “Is the portal ready?”

“Yeah, it will be ready in 273 seconds Red,” said Ryan without even looking up from the laptop.

“Good, here’s the plan. Vinyl and Octavia will stay here and guard the portal with Ryan. There is no telling who might try to come thro…” suddenly Red tensed and seized up, eyes changing color to red, it was too quick and blurry to remember but he saw someone fighting Tirek and losing. Red said,

“Shit! How am I going to help my body’s buried somewhere in Equestria and I can’t take this one?”

“Simple,” said Shadow, “Take this mask and put it on.” Red took the mask from Shadow and put it on. Suddenly he was seeing himself through

Shadow’s eyes. Shadow told Red, “Now, keep that on until we find your body.”

“OK”

“Ok portals open,” Ryan said, “Now go quick and take these.” he handed each member of the team going to Equstria a pair of sunglasses. When they put them on they gasped at what they saw. They saw the view points of the others in miniature screens on a huds display.

“Wow! Where did you get these?” They all asked Ryan.

“I built them from blueprints I stole from the military”  Ryan relied,

“Ok, each set links to your teammates and has a mini map as well, Shadow you have the master, set it has a feed to the others and you can all contact me and the others if you need a evac, let me know.

“Wait, we need light- lots of it,” said Amethyst.

“Why?” Questioned Razor.

“This creature is weakened by light,” said Amethyst

“Take these.” interjected Graymane, he handed everyone a pouch full of crystals.

“Ok. Red are explosive ,white create shields, green heals- you can eat them or crush them and mix with water, blue are flash bangs and the yellow temporarily give others a anthro form but you only have 3.”

Suddenly Shadow shuddered and spoke in Red’s voice “We have to hurry.” He shuddered again

“Ok.” Shadow started “Amethyst and Graymane go to Canterlot and try to warn Princess Luna. Razor Light you are to go and find my body- talk to Rainbow Dash and keep your weapons hidden, nopony is to be harmed unless it’s absolutely necessary.” he shuddered again, “And Lighting, you behave yourself with my sister” Red said “We’ll go to Sweet Apple Acres.” With that they all went into the portal.

The second the last person stepped through the portal Octavia said, “I hope they know what the fuck there doing on the other side once they all split up for their destinations”

Ryan looked up from his computer for a second and said,

"Well, it helps that I programmed each of their destinations into their shades so the portal will drop them off at the right places, near enough at least."

Once through the portal, Red noticed that he had appeared at the start of a dirt road and the others were missing. He checked the feeds in on the shades and saw the others in Canterlot and Clouldsdale. He shook his head and chuckled. "Ryan, you clever bastard" He started to walk down the road to Sweet Apple Acres. Meanwhile at Cloudsdale, Light and Razor found Rainbow Dash and followed her, while unknown to them they were being watched.