Mane 6 VS. Pandora

by Sunman145

Chapter 1

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Chapter 1: Our very first gun (Quest: My first gun)

                                   A large sheet of snow has cover up what was left of the train. Twilight opens her eyes, blinked them. She couldn't see clearly, the snow from the blizzard was blocking her eyes constantly. Twilight starts to moves away from the wreckage. ‘I wonder where are the others?’ She thought to herself. She turns her head around and notice that her friend was right behind her crawling away from the wreckage slowly. When she notices that friends are still in one piece, she continues to move forward away from the wreckage. Quickly, the blizzard starts to calm down to the point where she can see her two hooves that are digging into the snow.

Twilight noticed something moving up ahead, it was squared and it had blue light coming from the moving squared object. ‘Is it one of Discord’s robots?’ She thought to herself.

She looks around her area to find a gun that she can used against the robot.

But, there was no gun not even parts of a gun nearby. She try to look ahead for a gun but the blizzard was still around, blocking her view.

Quickly, she had no choice, but to move towards the robot. She quickly glances to the back of her and notices that her friends weren't far behind her, about a tail length away from her friends. The robot starts to move away from the pile of snow he was shoveling earlier and start to get closer to Twilight.

Twilight was the first to notice that the robot was talking to himself and quickly stopped moving, the rest of group stopped also. The robot had been fairly old it had a worn out yellow paint with on white stripe in the middle.

                                  “Another dead vault hunter.” The robot said as he sighed and continued digging with it strange shovel. “Man, Handsome Discord been busy!" The robot said as he saw another pile of dead bodies but he didn't shove it and move right pasted it.

Twilight was confused as she heard the robot comment. ‘Were there other ponies in the train crash?’ Twilight thought to herself.  The robot stops shoveling up snow and pick up something, it was small, squared and it was gray. The robot puts it on it's back,  grabs the shovel again and move towards Twilight. Twilight was able to see the robot approach her by the glowing of its eye coming closer. Twilight twitches her body due to her nervousness. The robot stab his shovel in the pile of snow. "Wait a second, you're still alive!" The robot said surprised with high pitched voice.

                               Twilight looks up and notices that the robot was smaller than the other robots and he didn't have a gun, oddly.

"Are you part of Discord's army of robots?" Twilight asked aggressively hoping she not fight a discord robot.

"Pfft!" He said as he waved his robotic hand downwards as he made that sound. "Of course not, Discord shut off my product line long time ago. I am the only one of my kind!" He said very cheerfully. Twilight confused by his cheerful voice especially to something depressing.

"Why are so happy?" Twilight asked.

"Oh yeah, my programmer programmed me to my default voice, so I might sound happy about this, I am actually quite sad ." The robot answers her question with his default voice.

That really sad to be stuck with a voice that you can change for the rest of your existences.

The robot gentle grabs her front right hoof and pulled her up to the rest of her hooves. He looks behind Twilight and notice that her friends were helping each other up to their hooves.

"Are those your other Vault Hunter friends?" The robot asks.

Twilight shocked of the robot knowing about the Vault Hunters, especially being alone, or look alone in the middle arctic.

"No, we have gotten a request from Princess Celestia to come to Pandora to look at the material called Eridium." She said.

"Who's Princess Celestia?" The robot asks.

Twilight was shocked again for this robot not knowing Princess Celestia as she is on the planet as they speck. She was angry as the robot knew information about vault hunters yet he doesn't know who is Princess Celestia.

"How do you not know your ruler! She is the ruler of all Equestria" She shouts at the robot. The robot wasn't fazed from her yelling.

"What is Equestria?" The robot asks. Twilight who was slowly changing from purple to red. She was quickly becoming annoyed by his idiotic questions. Rarity notice that Twilight was going to yell at the robot again, so she quickly limps to Twilight.

"Darling, it's clear that he doesn't know what your talking about, so calm down." She said in calm voice.

Twilight Heard what rarity and she breaths in and breath out slowly, calming herself down.

"Yeah, I understand, you don't know what Equestria or Princess Celestia I understand." Twilight said as she calmed down

Rarity proud that she could calm down her friend, she turns to the robot, with questions.

"What is your name?" She asked curiously.

"Ah yes, I am a CL4P-TP steward bot, but my friends call me Claptrap!" He said in his cheerful voice. “Or they would, if any of them were still alive. Or had existed in the first place!" Claptrap added still with his cheerful voice.

"What are your names?" Claptrap asks.

Rarity points to herself with her right hoof. "I am Rarity," she points to her friends. The first one was the curly pink pony and slightly bleeding from her head and body. "That Pinkie Pie." The second pony, she points to is a pony that had a rainbow colored mane with less injures than the pink pony, but still had bleeding. “That’s Rainbow Dash," Next, was the orange cowboy hat wearing pony with a little burn marks on her hat. "That's Applejack." The last one, had a yellow pony shying away from the pointed hoof with no bleeding or any injures. "And lastly is Fluttershy."

           "Nice to meet, y'all!" Claptrap said. "Oh, I got someone for ya'll" He start to try to grab something off his back, Twilight and the rest of the group were confused of what he was doing.

Twilight moves up to Claptrap and asks "What are you-" Twilight started to say but was interrupted "Ah-ha!" He said as he got the items he was trying get off his back.

The item were squared, made out of metal, and small, it also had a screen on it. Twilight confused of what it was.

"What is that?" She asks

"It is called an ECHO communicator, which I totally didn't loot from any dead bodies." Claptrap says as he looked at a dead corpse and the group gives him the "evil eye" as they know he is lying . Claptrap gives them each an ECHO communicator.

Twilight used her magic to levitate the ECHO communicator to examine it.

"How does it work?" Twilight asks.

"If you press the button on the bottom of the screen it will turn on.” Claptrap answers.

Twilight look at communicator again and see the button, she raises her hoof and press the button and the screen turns on. The word welcome appeared on the screen then it asks for a hoofprint. Twilight lifts up her right hoof and slowly move it towards the screen when her hoof touches the screen it started to scan her hoof the white line when up and down then side. Twilight slowly lift her hoof from the screen.

           "Welcome, Twilight Sparkle” Everypony else did the same with their ECHO and their names on the screen also. Twilight looks at the screen again and notices that it change and said to “Place inside a saddle bag”. She hesitated at first and then, she notices that her friends were doing it with no hesitation. She slowly, puts the ECHO communicator in her saddlebag full of paper. The saddlebag suddenly start to glow a color blue.

“Oh my Celestia! What's happening to my saddlebag?!” She screams. But, she wasn’t the only one to have her saddlebag the rest of the group had the same thing happening to them. Claptrap, the only who wasn't freaking out started to move towards Twilight. Twilight who was still freaking out about her saddlebag glowing, stopped from Claptrap being in her path.

"What wrong?" Claptrap asks. Twilight glares at him for being obvious to the glowing blue saddlebag.

"Well, if can't see my saddlebag is glowing blue!?" She shouts. Claptrap turns his eye to the glowing saddlebag and turn his eye back to Twilight's mad face.

“I don’t see what is the problem.” Claptrap said.

“So, is it suppose to work like this?” she asks confused. Claptrap shrugs his robotic sockets one would call shoulders.

“I guess so. I only looted this things couple minutes ago .” He answers admitting.

           Twilight, not pleased with his answer. She opens her mouth like she was going to say something. But, she close her mouth in anger and confusion. Twilight glances at the saddlebag once more, this time.

It wasn't glowing blue.

The saddle looked a little different it had, a large, blue, clear button on the sides on the saddlebag. Twilight looks at her friends to see if the same thing happened with their saddlebags, and she was right. Their bags had the same button on hers as well, but she has something on her friend's hoofs. They had something attached to it. It looked like the ECHO communicator. She look at her hoofs and notices the same looking machine on her right hoof.

"Hey, girls do you know about this?" she said as she rises her right hoof sideways.

         They look at their right hoof and show a shocked face to each other and Twilight.

"How did this get on my hoof?!" Applejack said shocked. Claptrap turns to Applejack and got closer to Applejack's right hoof and examine the machine on hoof.

"Yep, that is the ECHO communicator!" Claptrap said coming closer

"Now, all you need to do is to press this button." He said as he pushed the button on Applejack's saddlebag.

The button starts to glow and a curved hologram appears on front of her eyes. Text appeared in front of her eyes “BOOT SEQUENCE INITIATED” Applejack looked confused. Another sentence appeared in front of her eyes ‘INITIALIZING… EXPERIENCE POINT MODULE’ a bar appears below her eyes that has a number to bottom of it that says “Level 1.”

              Some more text appeared in front of her face it said “INITIALIZING… DIGITAL MAP MODULE.” A small white and blue map appeared on the top right with some lines that show the area around them and arrow that has the letter 'N' pointing towards Claptrap. Who is which in front of Applejack.  INITIALIZING… HEALTH DISPLAY MODULE AND TEAM HEADS UP DISPLAY a bar appeared to the bottom left which is red and said that she has 10 health left, a couple inches away from the experience bar. 5 small bars that appeared couple inches below of the small map on the that had symbols, her friends names, levels which their all 1, and health display which had a '!' Next to their health bar.

This left Applejack in overwhelmed state in her brain it is somewhat fried. Like fried eggs.

            Twilight and the other 4 of her friends did the same thing and got the same results.

"We need to get some healing supplies, quick." She said with fear laced in her voice. Fluttershy took a look at her health bar and notice that is didn't have a '!' Next to it she had 100 health, she didn't get hurt by the explosion.

"I have some supplies at my place come on." He said waving his hand towards himself . Twilight and her friends start walking over to Claptrap, noticing they are following him, he turns around and start heading into a small ramp of snow.

"My place is nearby so you'll be patched up in no time!" Claptrap said as he strolls towards a huge hit with broken cars and lots of scrap metal and dead bodies in on the snow. A huge yellow neon sign that says ‘welcome’ with some of the words not glowing at all. Claptrap walks over to the front door and raise his arm.

"Annnnnnnnnnd open!" He said with arms up. A blue scanner from a blue button  when over his body quickly. The front door opens.

"Just a little added security, got to keep those bullymongs at bay or they'll pull your eyes out!" Claptrap said as he drives through the opened

door. Which he didn't foreshadow anything important.

          "What is a Bullymong?" Applejack asks curiously as she follows Clapgtrap

"A bullymong is some creatures that killed all my friends, especially one bullymong named Knuckle Dragger." Claptrap said while walking down a hallway full of other claptrap-looking robots and some lockers with a glowing green button on them and boxes that had green logo sighs on them.

"Anyway, I have medic supplies in some boxes in this room." Claptrap said as they reach to the end of the hall and into a huge room that has a poorly made fireplace, more dead pony bodies, more claptrap-looking robots, and ruined furniture

            Claptrap goes up a ramp that leads to the front of a unsafe fireplace. He turns towards Twilight and her friends who were checking out the place. Looking through boxes, piles of trash, and cabinets. They found small boxes with something heavy inside, but they ignored it each time they saw it.

"Sorry about the mess, whatever Discord kills he leaves here, bandits, co-workers, Vault hunters, Claptrap units and if I sound pleased about this, well you already know." Claptrap said.

"Are we safe in here?" Rarity asks.

"Yeah! Pretty much." Claptrap answers. "I have  pistols in that cabinet over there, if anything get hairy." Claptrap said. Twilight looks away from a box full more smaller boxes and turns to Claptrap.

"A what?" Twilight asks.

"A pistol, you don't know what that is?" Claptrap asks.

“I know what it is, well, a little bit" Twilight answers back.

Pinkie pie looks in a paper box with a green logo and saw a needle that has little syringe of a red liquid inside, that she found in a box. She picks it up hops over to Claptrap and show him the small syringe.

"What is this?" She asks "That the quick heal needle, or a fancier name the placebo. All you have to do is to place on your veins or on your shoulder and you will feel the effects quickly." Claptrap answers.

Pinkie Pie, somewhat curious about the effects, she slowly points the needle to her right leg with the needle in her mouth. She slowly inject the needle inside her fore leg and the liquid from the little bottle goes inside her body quickly. Her friends watches if the effects were bad. Pinkie's hair goes into a thunder-shape hairstyle and back to curly hair.

"That was awesome!" Pinkie said in her most happiest voice. Her friends let out a relieved sigh for that medicine was alright.

          "Well, if it works for you. It should work for us" Twilight said reviled. Twilight friends start to run towards a bunch of boxes and locker.

"Wait, what are these?" Rainbow dash said. As she lift up a red box that kinda heavy to lift up with her hooves.

"Those are buckshots or shotgun bullets, but sadly I don't have a shotgun." Claptrap said.

Rainbow dash lift up a different box, this time it didn't have a color it was pointed on the top and very long.

"Those are sniper rifle bullets, Long and deadly, sadly I don't have that gun also." He said.

                     Rainbow dash pleased with his answers, she smiles and walks into a room that only have one dirty toilet and three lockers.

"How do you opens these lockers?" She said. She pokes her head out the door and look Claptrap who was watching her friend. She notice small pebbles falling from the chimney.

She looks up above Claptrap and saw something big, swing to the top of the chimney and spin down the chimney.

"What is that?!" Rainbow dash screamed and points to the big creature, with four arms and lot of fur that on the chimney. The big creature let out a loud scream that rang everybody's ears forcing Twilight and 4 friends to cover their ears with their hooves. Fluttershy the only pony that was terrified by the loud scream, she runs and hides behind to a nearby couch.

                     The big creature leaps down to Claptrap and quickly grabs Claptrap's robotic arm and lifts claptrap up to the chimney. With two of it's arms it holds to the chimney pole and uses it's other two of it arms to flip Claptrap upside-down. He use his other arm grabs Claptrap's eye and rip right off his robotic eye placement. The big creature drops Claptrap robotic body on the metal part of the floor near the fireplace. Twilight and friends take their hoofs off of their ears and look around to see if it destroyed anything in it’s rampage nothing was destroyed.

"What was that?" Rainbow dash asked her friend. Twilight quickly realized that it all added up, she put two and two together and realized what that creature was. She turned her head towards Rainbow dash who walks slowly from the room with the toilet and lockers.

          "That was a Bullymong..." Twilight said with fear laced in her voice. Rainbow dash froze in her place thinking that a creature like that killed all of Claptrap friends.

"The gun... In the cabinet...." Claptrap voice came into their ears like a radio.

The word  INITIALIZING… OBJECTIVE INDICATOR  Appeared in everypony's faces. A white, diamond shape marker appeared on the cabinet.

Twilight quickly runs to the cabinet and used her magic to open the cabinet. The cabinet drop money, ammo, a lot of health needles. She notice something big and white inside the cabinet. She used her magic to remove all garbage, and she saw 6 weird shape pistols in the cabinet. "Oof!" Claptrap said as he bumped into the couch.

"I got the pistols!" Twilight shouts.

"Great, now I want my eye back from that bullymong, so we're going to hunt him down!" Claptrap said, he pretty much wants to hunt a dangerous monster to get his sight back. Great.

                     Twilight used her magic to levitate the pistols to her friends. Applejack looks at the white and weird designed pistol. The pistol had a handle in under the tiny barrel and it had snow white camo.

"How do we use this... Thing?" She asked Claptrap. Claptrap went up a ramp to large, poorly made metal gate.

"I don't know actually, I never used a gun." He answered.

"But, all I know is to point and pull the trigger." Claptrap added. Applejack gave him the "really" face, not pleased with his answer. Applejack and Twilight's other friends looked at Twilight with the hope for the answer to their problem. Twilight confused by their looks.

"What?" She said with a confused face. She looked

                   "How do we use this gun?" Rarity asked. Twilight saw their faces of curiosity  again and let out a sigh in defeat. "Ok" she said and lifting the gun up with her magic. "So, let’s see," she said examining the gun.

"Well, the front of the gun is the barrel, so when we aim, the bullet should hit the place where you point the gun's barrel at." She said. She turn the gun to the bottom and found a button near the trigger.

"Ah-ha! This is button to unload you clip or a magazine or bullets that is being held by a long yet small plastic box." She said. "See, watch." She used her magic to press the button and the magazine that holds no bullets.

"Well, that odd." She said confused, her friends look for that same button on their guns.

Pinkie was the first to find her button and press it. The magazine fell out of the gun and had no bullets.

Next, was Rarity and the results were the same, no bullets.

Applejack, press the button, no bullets.

Rainbow was the last pony to unload her gun and all the results were the same. No bullets

. The only pony who didn't unload their clip, was Fluttershy. Twilight looks at Fluttershy

"Why didn't you unload your gun?" Twilight ask. Fluttershy used her pink hair to cover her left eye.

"I don't want to harm any animals" Fluttershy said to Twilight in a very quiet voice.

                    Twilight understand Fluttershy feeling for animals, but in this world we don't call them animals more like monsters, killing other ponies and robots, it not right. Twilight thought to herself

"Fluttershy, can you give me your gun?" Twilight asks Fluttershy.

Fluttershy nods and pick her gun. She carry the gun with her hoof and gives to Twilight. Twilight levitate Fluttershy's gun and press the button on the gun. The clip drop to the floor, the clip had bullets inside the gun.

                 Twilight shocked as Fluttershy try to hide this important information.

"Well, now we need to find more bullet magazine and pistol bullets." Twilight said to her friends. Her friends nod and search throughout the building. Rainbow dash went back to the locker with the extremely dirty toilet.

She pull her sword that she disarm from the Handsome Discord's colts. She holds in her mouth and stands up.

She slash the green lights from the all three lockers and the lockers open, slowly. Inside the lockers were two pistol ammo and placebo.

"Hey, girls I found some ammo and health!" She said as she peeks her head out of the door. Twilight turns around from poker table with four Claptrap robots on chairs and cards in their hand with money in the middle of the table. "That good, now refill your clip with that ammo you got." She said.

Rainbow looked at her empty clip and the ammo box. She opens the box and saw the loose ammo, she grabs one loose pistol bullet with. She grab her magazine and put the bullet on top the opening of the long magazine.

Rainbow dash looks at bullet to see if it will fit through the opening and it wasn't going through the the opening, she put her hoof on top of the bullet and the bullet was forced into the magazine.

Rainbow dash surprised that it the bullet went in. She grab another bullet and put it on top of the other in the magazine and forced it into the magazine. It worked, again. She stops and glanced at her friends, and they looked like found something interesting. Because they were in one little group near a door. Rainbow dash interested of what was going on over by that door, she puts her ammo box and pistol magazine in her new saddle bag. She walk over to her friends that are look inside a door.

                       "Hey girls, what are you looking at?" Rainbow dash asks.

Twilight turns around and move out Rainbow dash view of seeing the door. Inside the room was boxes, a tiny box with money in it, some dead Claptrap units, and a messy symbol in the box has 'V' in the middle of a circle.

"What do you think it means?" Rainbow asks Twilight.

"I don't know, but I think that has to do with a type of group," Twilight answers. Twilight moves a couple inches away from her friends, then turns around to examine her friends preparations.

"Do you all have a loaded gun?" Twilight asks all her friends that were in front of her. They all rose except Fluttershy, they also rose their guns and unload their clips, this time not letting it hit the ground, but letting it land on their hoofs. They examine the how many bullets were in their magazine. A total of 10 bullets in the magazine. They put the magazine back into the hole in the pistol.

"Does everypony have extra clips?" She asks.

          Everypony expect Fluttershy open their saddle and had extra clips about 6 extra clips.

"Oh forgot one thing about the guns, every time you reload your gun, you have to pull the slide back, which is the top part of the gun.." Twilight tells to her friends.

                     Claptrap start to wave his hand in the air

"JUST FOLLOW THE SOOTHING SOUND OF MY VOICE!" Claptrap screams into the ECHO trying to get them to hurry up.

Everypony’s ears start to ring again. Twilight was annoyed of the screaming, she had to follow his orders to get his eye back. She walk up to Claptrap who was still at the poorly made gate.

"This is great! I have been waiting to get over to Sanctuary. Now, I have my mighty minions and I will be the wise leader." He said as he went through a door that works like a doggy door but, it was a size for Claptrap's body and it had the exact shape of him on the door.

"Once a upon a four Vault hunters changed Pandora forever- but their time has passed thanks to Handsome Discord. Pandora need a new hero. I know that hero is you. Elements of harmony holders." Said by a familiar voice to Twilight and her friends. Twilight knew that voices, it was one of the princess. "Princess Luna?!" Twilight and all her friends shouts.

She didn't answer back to them leaving them unease.

"Well that was.... Odd." Rarity said surpized . Claptrap look at Twilight and her friends

"Are you guys, alright?" Claptrap asks as he heard them talking to no one.

         Twilight looked at Claptrap "Yeah, we're fine" she answers with a smile to cover up her lie.

"Ok." Claptrap said falling for her cover up.

Claptrap start to walk over to a pad of buttons near the poorly made gates and start pressing on the buttons. The gate opens and Claptrap move towards the middle of the ramp.

"This way towards the outdoors." He points to a green door that also had button pad near that door .

           Claptrap point his hand near a yellow machine that was very big and had something glowing green in the top of the machine.

"This is a New-U machine, this machine recreates you when you die. The ECHO Device communities to this machine when you walk past it and when you die, you will respawn at that location." Claptrap said.

Twilight happy about one thing they can live forever if they have that ECHO device. Claptrap walks over to the the button that open the green door. The green door opens and the light snow wind made the inside feel cold instantly.

"Onward, seeing-eye minion tell if I am going to run into anything," Claptrap said as he blindly bump into a ice block.

"I assume you didn't see that" Claptrap said.

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