Mane 6 VS. Pandora
Chapter 2 Lair's Berg
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Twilight and her friend have made it up to the top of the hill. “Well, that was a long walk.” Pinkie said as she wipes her forehead with her hoof from the sweat. The hill had a cliff at the end. Twilight looked down the cliff and to see how far down was the cliff. It was a far drop, but there was snow platforms that can they can drop down so they don’t die from one single drop to the ground level.
“Whoa! Anyone can die from that drop.” Twilight shouts as she looks around the cliff. She nothing but snow and she turns to Claptrap who drove right next to her.
“Keep your wits about you, minions. This glacier’s run by a bandit named Captain Flynt.” Claptrap said give his minions information about a bandit leader running the glacier.
“The jerk kept me as his torture plaything for a few months.” He added angry about his terrible time with Flynt .
“Whoa, that pony is a jerk!” Rainbow dash said.
“Yeah, we used to play games like ‘dodge the blowtorch’ and ‘don’t get dunked into a pool of acid’. I was really good at the first one!” Claptrap said with his peasant voice, it sounded like he was sarcastic.
“So, we got a bandit leader that controls the whole glacier. What can get worse?” Rarity ask sarcastically. But, she might wants to take that back.
Claptrap started to slowly drive towards the end of the cliff. But he wasn't looking at how far was the drop.
“What are you doing?” Twilight asks with concern.
Claptrap didn't answer and fell down face first into the ground.
“What the heck?! Why will you do that!?” Twilight yells at him while he was at ground level.
“I'm ok!” Claptrap said on the ECHO device.
Twilight turns to her friend with a order like a commander.
“Ok, so we need somepony to get down there and pick him up.” Twilight gave commands to her friends.
“I will.” Rainbow dash offers.
"Ok, you might need a-.”
“Nope, I am good I don’t need any help.” Rainbow said quickly as she interrupted Twilight and runs towards the cliff and jumps off the cliff.
She descends down to the ground and, opens her wing for a safe landing. Claptrap was buried under snow again and was wiggling around in the spot he was in.
“I am here to get you out of the snow.” Rainbow said. “Great! Make sure there no bullymongs around!” Claptrap yell through the snow. Rainbow dash turns around and saw two bullymong walking near by a poorly made gate.
“Yeah, about that. Just don’t try to make too much noise.” Rainbow dash said quietly and started to dig Claptrap out of the hole.
“Why!?” Claptrap shouts.
“There are bullymongs nearby.” She said trying to keep quiet.
“How many?!” Claptrap ask once again loudly.
“For the love of Celestia! Can you be quiet!?” She yell at Claptrap. She quickly notice what she did and close her mouth with her hoof. The bullymongs that were nearby the gate have turn their heads to the voice they heard and saw Rainbow dash from afar. She feel the grounding shaking
“She only been down there for 10 seconds and she already started a fight.” Applejack said disappointed as she looks down .
“Well, we can’t watch her die, we need to save her!” Twilight said.
“Can you guys be quiet?” A quiet voice can into Twilight’s ear. It was Fluttershy waking up from her rest.
“Hey, Fluttershy we need help badly.” Twilight said in need as she kneel down and got Fluttershy on to her hooves.
“What is it? Does include killing? because I am really liking that stuff now” Fluttershy asks Twilight.
“Yes it does involve killing" Twilight answers one of her questions quickly. "Rainbow dash and Claptrap got themselves in trouble by causing too much noise and it attracted bullymongs to them.” Twilight gave Fluttershy the current information which is going on as they speak.
“What does has to do with me though? Fluttershy asks thinking it a waste of time.
“Well, you the second pony here with wings.” Twilight answer with a fact. “And?” Fluttershy said as she was not happy with that answer.
“We are on a different planet, right? So there might be different gravity here” Fluttershy points out.
“Wait, how could I forget that?! We are on a different planet!” Twilight said as she just notice this now. Twilight turns to her other friends who was still watching the fight.
“Ok, Everypony we need to jump from this cliff now!” Applejack turn her head away from the fight to Twilight quickly.
“Sugar cube, we will die from that height! Did you just forgot that?” Applejack said protesting her order. “We are on a different planet, so this means different gravity.” Twilight points out.
“Ok, I believe you.” Applejack didn’t argue and got ready to jump.
“One second.” Twilight said as she look through her saddle bag for Fluttershy’s pistol. She gives it to Fluttershy with a full load magazine.
“Ok, now we are ready.” Twilight said as she walk closer to the edge of cliff.
“On the count of 3!” Twilight said. “1!” She starts the countdown. “2!” “3! Go!” She yells and jump down to the ground level.
Rainbow dash was fighting off 5 bullymongs at once. But lost a lot of health, she has 25 out of 100 health left. She heard yelling coming from above her. She looks up and her friends coming from the cliff. Rarity pounce a monglet with her hooves, smashing it head to the ground, and killing it. Applejack landed on top of a brat bullymong's back dealing a lot of damage to it. Then, she jumps off of the bullymong. Twilight and Fluttershy simply landed on ground with their guns ready.
"Hey, I had this under control!" She said as she reloads her high-fire rate pistol and not happy that her friends were helping her.
"Well, we came to help anyway." Twilight said to Rainbow dash as she had to deal with her friends being around.
2 brat bullymong at the level of 2 and 3. Started charge towards the group. Twilight and Fluttershy aim their pistols at the charging bullymongs and pulled the trigger the bullets hit the level 2 brat bullymong's chest and it survived with half health. But the other bullymong simply move to the right and continued it charge. Twilight aimed at her pistol at the uninjured bullymong and pulled the trigger again. The bullymong move to the left again dodging the bullets, and it kept getting closer to the group.
“Stop moving, you!” Fluttershy yells at the bullymong.
She charge at the bullymong. The level 3 bullymong jumps into the air and drops in front of Fluttershy but not causing a shockwave. The bullymong try to punch her but she ducked from the attack. Fluttershy used her pistol to shoot the bullymongs legs which made the bullymong kneel down. Next, Fluttershy shot the bullymongs head, nearly killing it. She pulled the trigger one last time before she runs out of ammo in her gun, But, the bullymong punched her when she pulled the trigger and, pushing her towards her friends. She lose 20 out of 100 health. The bullets when upwards into the sky. She opens her wings to slow down the speed she was at and safely land on the ground.
Rarity just finished off a the last monglet that was nearby Claptrap. She opens her saddlebag to get a fully loaded magazine. She press the button on her pistol. The empty magazine slid out of the gun and she put the new magazine into the gun. She pulled the top part of the gun and released it letting it slide back to the original place.
"Ok, Twilight need help." She said as she see Twilight fighting off the two brat bullymongs by herself. The level 3 brat bullymong is nearly dead and the level 2 bullymong was still had half health. Twilight fired her pistol at the bullymong the level 3 brat bullymong and hitting it in the head killing it. She saw the level 2 bullymong running towards her, she move to the right and struck him with a quick magic attack dealing 20 damage. The bullymong stop between Twilight on the left side and Twilight’s friends on the right side.
The bullymong goes after Twilight but was shot from by Rarity, killing it.
“Ok, that the last one.” Twilight said as she press the button on her gun and letting the empty magazine fall to the floor, pulls out a fully load magazine and puts in her pistol.
“I will pick up Claptrap.” Fluttershy said to her friends. She walk over to Claptrap who still moving around in the snow that he was buried in. She used her hooves to pick up Claptrap from his sides, he was pulled up and flipped on to his wheel again.
“Thanks again, minions!” Claptrap thanks his minions and drive towards the poorly made gate. Twilight and her friends followed him to that gate. The gate had only metal signs blocking most of the holes but still had big holes that anyone can go through.
“Attention, ponies of Pandora! Handsome Discord here, offering a millions bits to whomever bring me the heads of the Vault Hunters who arrived in Lair’s Berg.” Discord announced on the Echo device. Twilight noticed that discord wasn’t talking to someone, he was talking to everyone in Pandora.
“Oh! and I’m still have a reward for Shining Armor, the mass-murdering leader of the Crimson Raiders.” Discord also announced about Twilight’s brother.
“Good hunting, bandits!” Discord said giving the bandits good luck for killing Twilight and her friend, but also killing her brother.
“When, I said if anything else get worse I didn’t want this.” Rarity said as she is fazed by the bounty placed on them.
“Oh holy crown of Celestia! We are in a bad place! We need to leave and never come back!” Twilight screams, she was extremely nervous of her and her brother. “Twilight, calm down!” Rarity said trying to calm down her friend. “We need to stay calm to stay alive! If, we show them fear from us. They will use it against us. ” Rarity said.
Twilight still concern for her brother, she has to continue and fight. She wanted to see her brother in one piece. “1 million bits?!” an extremely rasp and deep voice that came from the Echo device. “Alright, clots--this is Captain Flynt! I want you to find those Vault Hunters and bring ‘em to me NOW!” Captain Flynt commanded his bandits on the Echo. “So that Captain Flynt? He doesn’t sound that bad.” Fluttershy said honestly . “Really? We have a bounty on our heads and you're going to say that the bandit leader that going to kill us is not a bad guy?” Rainbow dash said with disbelief of what Fluttershy said. “How about we stop and we find Daring Do." Rarity said. "Fine." Fluttershy said as she walks away from Rainbow.
“Hey, Daring Do!” Claptrap said on the Echo to Daring Do.
“Spectacular!--first Captain Flynt colts, now Claptrap shows up!” A very lady-like voice said which was Daring Do but Daring Do was being sarcastic. “I must have horrifyingly cruel to animals in my previous life to gain this kind of treatment.” Daring Do said as she was clearly annoyed about the situation she was in. Rainbow dash smile like a extremely excited fangirl but then she gasps in shock.
“Daring Do in trouble?! We have to save her!” Rainbow dash said as she turns to her friends suggesting that they save her.
“I say vault hunter--could you please kill Captain Fylnt’s clots please?” Daring Do asks . “Sure, we can help.” Twilight agrees to help.
“Yeah, of course we are going to save you!” Rainbow dash added unnecessarily.
The gate slowly opens by going upwards and then falls on to the ground leading to three small houses, some buried and one had a gate that leading to a house that was much bigger than the others. A male unicorn was sitting on small hill and waiting for someone. He had a red cloth mask with blue eyes, and a pistol that was next to him. He turns his head and notice the group at the front of the town.
“Oh, sh*t that them!” The colt said as he picks up his gun with magic and quickly points the gun towards Twilight’s friends.
He pulled the trigger and the bullet hits Twilight’s right front hoof. Twilight screams in pain and drops down to the ground.
“AGH! They are using guns like us, we have to find cover!” Twilight yells to her friends that was nearby and shooting at the bandit that shot Twilight.
“Can you stand up?!” Pinkie said as she fires her pistols at the bandit. “Yeah... Barely.” Twilight said as she lift herself up to her hooves with the strength she had left but she was limping a lot. She used magic to pick up her pistol and limped towards a orange object.
“I need help guys!” The bandit said calling out more bandits.
Out of the houses, 5 bandits with similar looks of the bandit that was outside. They also had the same type of gun which was a pistol. “Oh my, that a lot of soon to be dead ponies.” Fluttershy said as she giggles with a evil grin. She runs towards a pile of snow that was next to a house that the bandits came out of. It look powerful enough to block bullets. She points her gun at a bandit that just ran out of the house and into the fight. She pulls the trigger and the gun didn’t shoot any bullets.
“Oh sh*t, I forgot to reload.” She said to herself she turns her head to find a fully load magazine in her saddlebag. As she turned her head she notice that the house had a back way. She stopped reloading and quietly walk over to that house’s back path to flank the enemies. She quietly and quickly reload her pistol while she behind the house.
Rainbow dash and Applejack finished off 2 bandits in the center of little town with no trouble because of their new weapons.
“I got to reload!” Applejack shouts as she pulls out one buckshot from a shotgun ammo box. She pulls down the barrel of her gun and puts in the buckshot in the hole that was inside the barrel and put the barrel back on the stock. A pegasus bandit came out a house behind Applejack and Rainbow dash.
“I got you now!” The bandit said as he points his gun at Rainbow dash. But, he attacked from above by a yellow pegasus, Fluttershy. She grabs his heads and used her weight to drop his head to the ground. That attack didn’t kill him but knocked him out.
“Thanks, I owe you one.” Rainbow dash said thanking her friend. Fluttershy didn’t say anything but pointed her pistol at an earth pony bandit across Rainbow dash. She pulled the trigger *Bang bang!* and bullets hit his head but didn’t kill him. The bullets caused him to be pushed back and put one of his hooves on his head.
Applejack pulled the trigger on her shotgun *Bang!* and the pellets hit the injured colt, killing him. “And stay down!” Applejack order the dead bandit. Applejack pulled out another buckshot and put it in her gun. 4 bandits came from the right of the little town. Twilight and Pinkie was on that side. “I got a proposition, Vault Hunters. Y'all give up and we just shot y'all in the head. It’ll be quick, clean and a hell of a lot less painful than what Handsome Discord going to do to ya’ll.” Captain Flynt said with a offering voice but it was a one-sided deal so, Twilight and her friends ignored it.
Over on the other side, Twilight try to defend herself from bandits while she was behind a piece of cover that was orange, tall and wide, and had wheels. It had a tall metal pole with a wire attach to it and the wire split into three different wires that were attached to the houses in the town. Twilight’s wound continues to bleed and her health was slowly falling. She lifts her pistol and aims at a unicore bandit. A bandit next to him turns around for absolutely no reason and notices Twilight’s pistol pointed at them. He quickly lift his gun and fires his gun once at Twilight. Twilight, quickly puts her head behind the cover and the bullet hits the cover. “That was a warning shot! If I see you again, I will shoot you again!” The bandit said. Pinkie was close-by Twilight and she was using a small of pile of snow as cover. She jumps up over her cover and runs towards the two bandits.
“I see you!” Pinkie said as she jumps into the air and quickly pulls the trigger on her gun. The bullets hit the bandit that did a “Warning shot” in the chest. The bullets didn’t kill him but, left him with half health. She drops to the ground in between the two bandits and she quickly exchanged her pistol for… Gummy the toothless alligator. She also pulls out a small metal samurai suit with a samurai helmet that was about the size of Gummy.
“Who likes baseball?” She said as she push helmet which exposed the deadly part of the suit, it had sharp knives, broken glass, a pencil, and other sharp objects on Gummy’s back .
“I love base-Ahhh!” The bandit on the left said as Gummy was throw like a baseball at the bandit and now he has sharp objects in his face, which killed him. Next, Pinkie turns around quickly, lift her right hoof, and punches the bandit on the right in face, which made him being pushed into the house behind him. The punch knocked him out.
Rarity try to stay in front of the town and kill the bandit from a far. But she wasn’t doing good, so she runs towards Rainbow dash and Applejack. She stop from running when she hear a roar coming from the left side of the town. The roar was a mighty bullymong roar, she turns her head to see 5 brat bullymongs coming towards the toward like a stampede.
“Bullymongs!” Rarity screams as she ran towards to right side of the town. One of the brat bullymongs jumped and landed on top of a roof of the closest building to the town’s gate. “I got this!” Rainbow dash said as she pulls out her sword out of a bandit’s neck, letting him fall to the floor. She pulls out her fast-fire-rate pistol.
A level 2 brat bullymong on the left side start to turn towards Rainbow dash’s and Applejack’s way. She aims her pistol at the bullymong and pulled and held the trigger. *RATATATA* The gun fired all the bullets in the clip. The bullets killed the bullymong within 6 bullets, 5 of them were headshots.
"I think that a little overkill." Applejack said as saw more than 6 bullets inside the bullymong body.
"I know, now I got reload." She said annoyed as opens her saddlebag and notice that she has no clip inside the messy bag.
"Uh-oh." Rainbow dash said as she close her saddlebag in a nervous surprise .
"Uh-oh? Uh-oh about what?" Applejack asks with concern.
"I ran out of ammo for my pistol." Rainbow dash answers nervously.
“Well, that is a uh-oh!” Applejack yells. Applejack scans the dead bandits to see none had pistol ammo even though they used pistols, but found none. Applejack notice another brat bullymong from the stampede got out of the the group and rushed towards her and Rainbow.
Applejack points her gun towards the bullymond and pulled the trigger, the gun kicked back very hard but killed the bullymong quickly.
“Wow! This gun is hard to control.” Applejack said as she pulls down the barrel of her shotgun and puts a buckshot inside the barrel. She runs towards her other friends in need.
Twilight still behind the orange wheeled object. She had group of bullymongs surrounding her and friends. Pinkie keeps the bullymongs away by using the Gummy the toothless alligator and her pistols.
“Where is Fluttershy when we are in need?!” Pinkie said as she points her guns at a nearby bullymong that was coming towards Twilight and pulled the trigger.
The bullets hit the bullymong’s body but barely dealt any damage. The bullymong ignored the pain and continues to ran towards Twilight. But a yellow pony came from above and smashed bullymong’s back with her hooves. It was Fluttershy again, she notice that the bullymong was slowly getting up, so she punched the bullymongs head down to the ground.
The punch knocked the bullymong out. She turns around and saw another bullymong was ready to attack and punched her out of the way. She was launched towards Twilight. Fluttershy hit into Twilight and hit a snow-brick wall. Fluttershy body was left sideways on top of Twilight, Twilight slowly lifted her head to see the bullymong started to come closer to them.
The bullymong keep raised it hand over their bodies and was about to drop his fist into the two mares. But was stopped by Pinkie who used her animals to attack him. But the animal was...stabbed into the bullymongs back with it’s suit. The bullymong turns around and saw a pistol pointed towards it head from a downwards angle.
“You gotta love surprises!” Pinkie said as she pulls the trigger on the gun and killing the bullymong.
That was the second to last bullymong, the last one was still on top of the roof and was stuck by a the chimney with one of it large arms. It must suck having large arms. Twilight gets up and looks at the bullymong in disappointment but in the end she sighted and aims her pistol towards the bullymong. She pulls the trigger and kills the bullymong.
“Dammit! *Huff* This ain’t over, Meat griders!” Captain Flynt said very angry and tried like he was in the battle.
“Hey, Daring Do! Since my minions just saved your town, you wanna do you favorite Claptrap a favor and repair my eye?!” Claptrap asks Daring Do over the echo.
“Yes, I suppose I am in your debt now, aren't I?” She said noticing that she that she owns Claptrap a solid.
“Come to my shack, and I shall restore Claptrap’s sight.” Daring Do said. “First, let me turn off the electrical fence for you.” She added. Claptrap spins around the spot he was in and jumps up and down in joy. He starts to drive towards the shack near the cliff side of the town.
Twilight and her friends starts to follow him. “Please, Vault Hunter- let Claptrap go first.” Daring Do insisted.
“I knew Daring do will come around eventually! Me and her are like two peas in a pod!” He said as he got closer to the fence.
“Two bullets in a mag!” He added as he was really close to the fence.
“Two player fighting the same boss!” *ZAP!* He screams as he touched the fence with his body and got shocked. Twilight, Rainbow, and Rarity face-hoofed themselves in disappointment, Pinkie touched the fence but didn’t feel the shock as the gate opened by Daring Do and Fluttershy giggled silently at the pain of Claptrap.
“Apologies, but when Claptrap speaks. I feel my brains cells killing themselves one by one.” She said as she was relieved that Claptrap was knocked out.
“I shall be out directly.” Daring Do said as she walks out the shack’s door.
A light brown pony with… a robotic wing and left hoof, monocle, and a hunters hat walks out of the door.
“A pleasure of meeting you, I am Daring Do!" Daring do said loud and proud.
“The scholar, hunter, and lady.” Pinkie said as she read a script from her hooves. The script was totally not the author's that he totally didn't write at all. A wind blown the script away from Pinkie and magically made it disappear from exists.
“Hey! I know you added that part to do that, Author!” Pinkie yells at Author the magical person/pony god who controls and makes everything, Everything.
Rainbow smiles as she see Daring do coming closer to the ground. She seeing the real Daring Do, not from book cover nor reading from the books, she is seeing her in the real flesh or what she has left.
“I came out here to study bullymong for my next book, but Captain Flynt’s colts trapped me on this glacier.” Daring do said as she looks at Claptrap body.
“Many thanks for disposing of them.” Daring do thanks the group as she looks at them with a smile.
“By the way--to survive a direct run-in with Handsome Discord AND defeat Captain Flynt bandits? Unheard of!” She said as she was surprised by their actions that they shouldn't survive from.
“Well, if you didn't want to be on this glacier, where were you going to?” Twilight asks Daring do.
“Well, I right now I am ready to go to Sanctuary, since Captain Flynt’s bandits are gone here.” Daring do said.
“But, I see it going to be hard, the water is still controlled by Captain Flynt’s bandits." She said as she used her mind to remember the boats with machine gun turrets waiting outside of a dock.
"I guess I can stay here for a couple of more days.” Daring said and made up her mind.
“Oh, also I heard that the Crimson Riders are looking for a hero like you.” Daring said remembering hearing it from ECHO.
“Oh! No,no,no! Princess Celestia request us to investigate the material Erdium.” Twilight said to Daring Do freaking out by the request.
“Well, it seems you might be more than what you say.” Daring do said. “All of you are the elements of harmony holders, are you not?” Daring do asks.
“We are.” Twilight answers.
“Well, you all are heroes already. You saved Equestria many times." Daring do said. "Why not save us also?” Daring do asks reminding them that they need help also. Nopony talked for a couple of seconds, stunned by Daring do's words
“Anyway, can you give me Claptrap’s eye?” Daring do asks politely as she lifts her robotic hoof.
“Sure.” Applejack said as she pulls out the eye of her saddlebag. She careful give the eye on to Daring’s robotic hoof. Daring do puts the eye into Claptrap’s eye socket, she then turns the eye, like she putting a cap back on a plastic bottle. Then finally, she hammers the eye into the socket with robotic hoof.
“HA-HA I am alive!” Claptrap said as he jumps from the ground to his wheel. He turns around to see his minions.
“Oh dear he is talking again…” Daring do said in regret. She lift her non-robotic hoof to face, hoping she didn't spawned the annoying devil.
“Hey minion! I got my eyesight back!” Claptrap said with his default voice.
“And you all look far uglier than I remember.” Claptrap said either to be sarcastic or honest, it unclear due to his default voice. Everypony expect Fluttershy took offence and glare at him.
“I can’t tell if your serious or sarcastic but either way, that was stupid of what you say.” Fluttershy said as she giggled.
“Anyway, time to join up with the Crimson Riders in Sanctuary!” Claptrap said like they are going on a adventure.
“This glacier has nothing but murders and jerk-bags, like that Daring do lady!” Claptrap said. Daring turns towards Claptrap and gave him the glare.
“I am staying right here, dude.” Daring do said. Her lady-like voice has made the word "Dude" sound very awkward. Daring do turns her head away from Claptrap and saw the upcoming “Heroes”. She notice that Rainbow dash has been staring at Daring do with a creepy smile for the whole conversation. Daring do didn’t know why she was staring at her like that nor she wanted to look back.
“Ahem!” She clears her throat. She looks Rainbow dash and got a closer to her. Each step that Daring do that got closer to Rainbow dash, her smile got bigger and creepier.
“I have notices that you have been staring at me.” Daring said. “Not to sound rude, but why are you staring at me?” She asks. Rainbow dash smile was so big that it was coming off from her face. She shed a single tear of joy coming from the right eye.
“Senpai noticed me…” She said as she shed another tear of joy, this time coming from the left.
“What?” Daring asks surprised from her short statement. Rainbow dash started get a little lightheaded from Daring noticing her. Twilight stepped in, and she knew what was Rainbow dash was in “fan-girl mode” and might say some stuff that unrelated to her questions.
“She a big fan of your books.” Twilight answers Daring’s questions.
“Oh? another fan?” Daring said a little surprised to see another one of her fans.
“So, have meet other ponies here?” Twilight asks curious about the amount of houses in the one town for only one pony.
“Yes, there was others, but they quickly were killed by bullymongs and Captain Flynt’s clots. One was a fan of my books.” Daring said a little sad.
“But, since his clots are gone we can turn on the power again.” She said as she completely change her voice from sad to happy. She start to slowly walk towards the orange wheel object. A objective appeared under the minimap which said “Wait for the generator.”
“So what we do as we wait?” Rarity asks.
“You can loot this place or find weapons from the dead bandits, to the mailboxes.” Claptrap said as he was following Daring do.
Twilight moved towards the middle part of the town and scan the little town. She notice that there was one guns on the ground and around the house had mailboxes in the front,some had small black boxes with scratched up stickers. One house had a white and red with a bottle with arms and legs with a pony’s face that has a pink hair on the middle part of the bottle , white color and a gas mask around it mouth. The vending machine also talk.
“If, you are dying think Nurse Red.” The vending machine said with a female voice. There was another machine behind Twilight just like that but green and had buckshot that was split open on the top and it had a green round object in it hand. That vending machine can talk also but it had a deep male voice.
“If you think murder, buy Big Mac’s bigs guns!” The green machine said.
“Wait, Big Mac?” Applejack said as she heard what the vending machines said.
“My brother here too?!” She said surprised.
“Yeah, but it seems like Big Mac has made a company.” Twilight said.
“A dangerous one.” Applejack added a little nervous for her brother also. Twilight walks up to one of mailboxes curious about what inside. She used her magic to open the lid of the mailbox and inside was a box of pistol ammo.
“Who puts valuable ammo inside a mailbox?” She asks as she takes the ammo.
“I don’t know nor care.” Applejack said honestly or maybe a little too blunt. Applejack take out shotgun ammo from another mailbox across from Twilight.
“That all the mailboxes.” She said as all notice that all the mailboxes were left open.
“Bloody hell! The wires are broken, somepony cut them!” Daring said as she looks inside the orange wheeled object which was the generator.
“Well, if that the issue then the whole place is going to not run on power until we get new wires.” Daring said as she look at a brown wooden board that has papers and knifes on the board. Behind the board was a cliff.
“Well now, you have to talk to me about missions.” Daring said as a green "?" Appear over her head. Twilight and her friends walk to Daring do to turn in the quest. Twilight walks up to Daring do.
“Thank you again.” She thanks again. “As a reward, I need your bags.” Daring said.
“Ok” Twilight said as her and her friend quickly take off there saddlebag and lay it on the floor in front of Daring. She examines their bags and notice there was a lot of paper in all of the bags. She picks up one of the research paper and threw it in one of the barrels that was currently on fire.
“Hey! Why are you doing that?!” Twilight yells at Daring.
“Apologies, but I have notice that the amount of paper in all the bags will decrease your chance of survival.” Daring said as she grabs a pile of research paper and kept it in her hooves.
“Well, those papers are for the research papers for Erdium!” Twilight yells again, this time angry.
“Well, it seems that if you want to survive you need to give some stuff up.” Daring said . “Do you not want to survive?” She asks as she drops the pile of papers into the fire, fueling the fire and making more cracking noises.
Twilight heard Daring's question and just felt sad, the things that she working so hard on was being destroyed right in front of her and the day that the work was going to be used, it was never used. She stopped having a angry face and just had a single tear fall down her eye. She looks down at the ground and let the tear fall on the snow, and it mixed with the blood of a recent dead bandit.
“....Yes, I do.” Twilight said as she notice that it true. Her life means more than some research. She watch as the last pile of research paper was put into the fire.
“Ok, Next I have something to show you.” She said as she walks over to a wooden box next to the flaming barrel. The box was half open and it had something that all of the element of harmony holders notice. Pinkie’s microphone, Pinkie’s folded cobra cannon, next to that was Rainbow’s cloaking machine, Twilight’s siren book, Rarity’s rainbow colored gem, and lastly Applejack’s rodeo ropes. “Are these yours?” Daring asks.
“Yes, Mother of Celestia! I completely forgot about these things!” Twilight said as happy to see her rare book again.
“I found these in front of shack’s door as I was doing my daily run of getting to the fence and closing the door before anypony get inside type of run.” Daring said.
“That run has really helped out my cardio and my blood level.” She added. Twilight and her friends rushed over to the box to pick up their items. Everything was picked up except the Freddy microphone nor did Fluttershy pick up anything out of the box.
“Please, this thing still works.” Rainbow dash hoped as she look at her machine and noticing that it wasn’t broken. She press a button on the machine that make a clone of her and make her go invisible.
But none thing happened, not even a clone was send out.
“What? Why is it not working?” Rainbow dash asks. She pressed and held the button that make a clone, which instead of making a clone, it display it power level and what it needs to get it level normal.
“Power level:100%” The machine said in a male robotic voice.
“Then, why is it not working!” Rainbow yells at the machine.
“Unable to work with a level 3 pony.” The machine said.
“Only function with level 5 pony.” The machine added.
“What?! That stupid! Why do I need to be level 5 to work with the machine that I had before I came to Pandara!” Rainbow said as she felt betrayed by her own machine.
“It Pandora” Twilight corrected her.
“Whatever!” Rainbow said annoyed.
“Well, it seems that you're not the only.” Pinkie said as she has a note attached to it saying: “U need to b lvl 5 to us me.”
“Well, I feel like my turret is telling me something.” Pinkie said as she felt confused about who put the note on the cobra turret.
“Who wrote inside a 1000 year old book?!” Twilight yells as she see a page that said ‘level 5 only’ over the words. Twilight quickly turns her head towards Daring and glares at that her, visual accusing her, since she was the last one to touch the book.
“Well, it wasn’t me.” Daring said as innocent as a basket full of cute puppies. Twilight hear her statement, and since she played the Phoenix wright trilogy. She look at daring face, she was not sweating bullets nor was she had any nerve movement. (Meaning that you can tell if a person lying if they are showing an facial lie or emotional lie.)
Twilight concluded that was not guilty and move on.
“Well, if it wasn’t you, who did it?” Twilight asks very snappy.
“Magic~” Pinkie said in happy as she raised her hooves and then open, lower them in a upside down U leaving a rainbow over her head.
“Well, my deadly good luck charm is not working nor is Applejack’s ropes are working.” Rarity said as she sees no rainbows on her gem and Applejack’s ropes had heavy round weights to it.
“How in the world can you add weights to ropes?” Applejack questions the logic. She pulls the ropes into her saddlebag, which caused a lot of weight to her bag, but the bag is barely holding it together.
“Well, clearly the author made it possible.” Pinkie said as she looks at the Arthur again.
(I was play Borderlands 2 playing the commando class on my Xbox 360, I look away from T.V. and I look my at my computer screen and see that Pinkie staring at me."What?" I ask Pinkie. She continues to stare at me. I ignore it and continue to play Borderlands 2)
“Well, if you want to level up you can kill more enemies, or do some quest for me, I have rewards.” Daring said as she notice that they need those items for survival.
“First, you need this.” She gives them a squared machines that has a white color in the middle of the machines, some of the machine had a curved handle on the right side, some had straight handle on the.
“What are these?” Twilight asks as she lifts the machine in front of her face.
“It a shield or a fancier name an aura shield, a machine that protects your from everything that harms you. But, this shield can only hold a certain amount of hits, if it goes over the limit it will leave you shieldless. Yes, that word now.” Daring informs them about the new machine they will be using.
“How can we tell it limit?” Rarity asks.
“Well, I hope you have a updated ECHO, because if you have the updated ECHO you can check and compare your weapons and your shields and watch Youtube videos anywhere.” Daring said as she notice that ECHO device was outdated.
“Well, how we update it?” Rainbow ask without fangirls.
“Actually, I can update it with my ECHO.” She said as she lift her hoof with a ECHO device on it. She press a few buttons on the ECHO causing it to make beeping noises.
“And finished, you have the updated ECHO device now.” Daring said as she look away from her ECHO device. Twilight lifted her hoof with the ECHO device on her hoof and saw a couple of buttons that wasn’t there before.
“Hey, whats this button do?” Twilight asks as she see button that has a backpack on it. She press it and a wide blue display in front of her.
“Whoa!” She said amazed.
She looked at all of the stuff inside her saddlebag, without looking into it.
“Also, the update lets you have full load magazines without physical putting bullet into an empty magazine and any ammo you pick up your friends get the same type and amount ammo.” Daring said informing them about the new update.
“This make going into fights easier!” Applejack said very glad.
Twilight look at her shield and notice that it has a chart just like the guns but with less information or with only 3 details.
“Wait, what shield delay and shield recharge rate?” Twilight asks.
“AH yes! I forgot, Shield delay is how long you have to wait until the shield goes into recharge. Which, goes into shield recharge rate which means how fast the shield recharges.” Daring answers.
“I recommend to always get a better shield once you find one, right away.” Daring recommends.
“How do we put on a shield?” Applejack asks as she had her shield held in her mouth by the curved handle.
“Put it on you saddlebag, it will make a noise once it is connected. Daring said to Applejack.
Applejack put the shield on the left side of her saddlebag *zoooooOOOOOON* the noise came from shield. Applejack check her health bar and notice that on top of the health bar was a blue bar that has a shield symbol on it and it also had a number 81 on it.
“Ok, so we need to see who need a better shield in the future.” Twilight said as she has made a mental note.
“I have a shield that has a capacity of 64, my recharge rate is 9, and the delay is 3.46” Twilight said as she put her shield on. “I have super cool shield that has a capacity of 78 and recharge rate of 9 and a delay of...6.43.” Rainbow dash said a little disappointed about her shields delay which she already equipped on her saddlebag.
“I have shield.” Fluttershy said annoyed of how long it taking. (She has capacity: 65, recharge: 8, delay of 2.45.) “No one said you can talk, Author!” Fluttershy yells at the Author. ("That very rude! What happened to the old- oh wait... I changed her. eh! Oh well")
“Ok, I have a shield that has 107 capacity, rate of 9, 5.65 delay. Pinkie said as she had a blue wizard hat with stars on it.
“Pinkie, we are not playing Castles and Dragons.” Twilight said as she take her hat back.
“Hey!” Pinkie said as she pouting about the hat.
“Ok, I have a shield of diamonds, It has a 79 capacity, a recharge of 6 and a delay of 2.23.” Rarity said with a little drama of royalty.
“Ok, ya’ll I have... a really crappy shield, 81 capacity, 8 recharge rate, and delay of 5.62.” Applejack said with disappointment like Rainbow dash.
“Ok, so Rainbow, Applejack, and Fluttershy need better shield.” Twilight said to herself keeping a mental note.
“Ok, next we need a higher level to use our stuff and since we are at level 3 we are close to 5. We need to do a couple of quests to get at that level.” Twilight said to her friends. Her friends nodded in understanding.
Twilight turns around the Daring Do and She had a yellow “!” over her head, this means that she had a quest available.
“What the quest you have?” Twilight asks ready for a quest.
“Yes! I have notice that the bullymongs haven’t left ever since the Captain Flynt’s clots left. I want you to take out these bullymongs out of the graveyards and pound. So the ponies die in peace.” Daring said informing about her mission.
“Sounds easy.” Rainbow dash said as she heard the mission. She look at the map and saw that first objective wasn’t so far.
“Ready?” Twilight asks her friends. They all nodded ready for the upcoming fight with their pistols read. Twilight notice they were ready and started to walk towards the graveyard.
Over at the graveyard, 8 bullymongs were roaming around the area. But the graveyard was also had bullymong nests nearby.
“So, we going to-”
“Charge!!” Pinkie said as she interrupted Twilight and charge towards the bullymong with her burst fire pistol. Twilight notice that her other friends start to run towards them also. Twilight sighed and ran behind them.
“Party time!” Pinkie said as she ran towards a nearby bullymong. Which was a level 4 adult bullymong. She aims her pistol while she was moving and pulled the trigger the bullets hit the bullymongs arms, this alerted other bullymongs nearby.
The adult bullymong turns around to see a pink pony aiming a pistol at it again.
“You're under arrest for not partying! Punishment: Death!” Pinkie said as she pulls the trigger and the bullets quickly hit the bullymongs chest. This didn’t hurt the bullymong much nor it feel the pain.
"Or not." said as she lowers her gun. The bullymong move towards pinkie and pinkie starts to back away from it, until a pony from above swoop down and drops in between Pinkie and the adult bullymong. Rainbow points and fire her rapid-fire pistol at the adult bullymong. The bullets start to hit the bullymong’s face and started to feel the pain.
The bullymong blocks it face it big arm. The pistol stop shooting, Rainbow used all her bullets into the bullymong which block all the bullets. The bullymong move over to it start to a nearby gravestone and pick forcefully picks up the stone from ground.
“Hey, that not yours!” Rainbow dash said. The bullymong threw the gravestone with it's right arm. The grave stone was coming towards Rainbow dash, fast. She quickly drops to the floor and the gravestone flew over her head and fell off a cliff which was behind the bounty board.
“Ha HA! You missed!” Rainbow dash taunted the bullymong as she was still on the floor.
A level 3 brat bullymong jumps into the sky and quickly descend down with it fist out. The fist connected to Rainbow dash’s body badly hurting her shield. The bullymong lift it’s fist to see Rainbow as flat as a pancake.
“I didn’t see that coming.” She said as she shoots the leg of the brat bullymong causing it to fall on to the ground.
The bullymong held out it hands to break the fall which landed on top of Rainbow again.
“I should have seen that coming.” She said as the bullymongs hands were lifted from her.
The bullymong slowly backed away from Rainbow dash so it didn't get shot in the leg again. The shield took all of the damage but it only had 11 capacity left. She quickly get up to her hooves but she was quickly pushed down by the adult bullymong which punched her away.
“Ow! Ow! Ow!” She said as she both lost her shield and she lost 10 of her health. She was launched back to her other 4 friend who was still nearby the bounty board, shooting at the enemy from a far board.
“Rainbow!” Her friends screams as they got closer to check on her. She slowly gets up again.
“Wow, a 2-on-1 fight! That so unfair!” Rainbow said like a little annoying filly playing Call Of Duty.
She look over to Pinkie who was on the other side of the graveyard and notice that she was killing the bullymongs with barely any trouble. But until one adult bullymong started to walk towards Pinkie. Pinkie just killed a monglet with Gummy in a samurai suit before the adult bullymong came into the fight. She turns around to see the big adult bullymong.
“Hello, King Kong!” She said quickly like she just got a jumpscare from ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’. The bullymong grabbed a gravestone which was on the left of it and lift it over Pinkie’s head. She wasn't sacred of the imitate attack, but instead thought of a really bad pun.
“Well, it seems like I am in GRAVE danger!” She said with a very bad pun that it was so bad all her friends cringed at the pun. But the bullymong didn’t react to the pun and drop the grave. She dodged the grave by moving to the right. The grave broke into pieces and the words from the pieces said “Death by a very bad pun.”
Pinkie aimed her pistol at the adult bullymong and pulled the trigger. The bullets hit the right arm of the bullymong. The bullymong turn to the right and swing it right arm towards Pinkie. The arm hit Pinkie but the shield absorb the damage leaving the shield at 89 capacity left, and she was still pushed back to Gummy who was still stuck to a dead monglet. She quickly pick him up from the dead monglet and she quickly replaced the samurai suit with a blue and white baseball suit. She added a hat on top of Gummy’s head and press the hat which turn the suit into a baseball.
“Fore!” Pinkie said as she threw Gummy towards the adult bullymong. The adult bullymong turns around from hearing Pinkie behind it. Next, he saw a baseball coming towards it face, *Bonk!* the sound of the ball hitting the bullymong’s face, hard. The voice came from Team Fortress 2 scout class.
“Bulls eye!” Pinkie said. The hit cause it to fall to the ground, but it didn’t killed it. She notice that the bullymong had a 25% of it health left. Rainbow quickly runs over to the bullymong and pulls out her sword with her mouth. She stabs it into the bullymongs stomach and pulls it out quickly. The stab wound started to bleed quickly, next Applejack aims her revolver at the bullymong’s head and pulled the trigger. The bullet hit the bullymong’s head killing while it was still on the ground.
“Good night, forever.” Pinkie said quietly. But, that wasn’t the last bullymong.
The last bullymong was the level 3 brat bullymong started to charge towards Pinkie who was outside of her group.
“Pinkie, behind you!” Twilight yells towards pinkie as she points at the charing bullymong. Pinkie quickly turns around to see the bullymong has jumped into the air and about to smash her into the ground. *Bang!* gun shots rang the air and killed the bullymong which was in mid air. The body was launched over Pinkie’s head and landed behind.
“Who shot it?” Pinkie asks her 4 friends. They all shake their heads as they didn’t kill the but, there was someone missing from the group, Fluttershy.
Pinkie heard a couple of rocks falling from the roof above, she quickly turns around to see Fluttershy on top of the roof. “Why are you up there?” Pinkie asks. Fluttershy didn’t answer but she revealed something new, Fluttershy picked up a new gun. The gun had a drum clip on the top right of the gun, a long barrel, a red color with a face with teeth on it. (Her gun stats are: Damage: 9, accuracy: 86.1, fire rate 10.6, reload speed 5.1, and clip size is 45 and the gun is called long pistal)
“Hey! Where you found that?” Pinkie ask.
“I found it off of those bandits we killed.” Fluttershy answers with a grin on her face.
“Why you didn’t tells us that?” Pinkie asks.
“Well, I felt like I needed something better than that useless pistol, so I picked it up.” Fluttershy answers.
“Oh, also I saved you, so you own me something now.” Fluttershy said in a greedy way. Pinkie nods her head and walk towards her friends.
Fluttershy simply jump off the roof and landed in front of her friends or most of them. A check mark was on top of the clearing the graveyard objective.
“Ok next, we have to clear the pound. Which is pretty much under this bridge right here.” Twilight said as she turns around and see that Rainbow dash was down at the pound.
The pound was frozen and it had bullymong homes around it but, not a single.
“There no bullymongs down here!” She yell towards her friends. “Well, just double check, there might be-” “Oh, look a pistol!” Twilight was interrupted by pinkie yet again. Pinkie picks up a pistol that was on top of the dead adult bullymong. It has medium size barrel, a ramped slider, and no visible magazine. She also picked up pistol ammo which was shared among her friends.
(Gun states again: Damage:11, accuracy: 90.2, fire rate 9.2, reload speed is 2.1, and clip size is 12. The gun is called: blow up in your face pistol, yeah nice name. I said sarcastically )
Rainbow dash heard something coming from behind her. A brat bullymong raised it arm getting ready to strike rainbow, but she quickly turns around and saw the bullymong.
“Oh hi, Mark!” She said surprised see a bullymong sneaking up on her. She quickly pulls the trigger and bullets hit the bullymong’s chest and legs. The bullymong falls to it knees, Rainbow took advantage of it and pulled out her sword and put the sword on the bullymong neck. She silt the bullymongs neck, Killing it.
No other bullymongs came out except for one. A big, grayish, bullymong with skulls all around it arm and some one it head. A badass bullymong. Rainbow dash turns around again to see the level 4 badass bullymong.
“Holy telloy! That a badass!” Rainbow shouts as she see the size and the amount of skulls on the bullymong, it intimidating.
“Rainbow dash! Language!” Twilight said as she heard rainbow dash said badass. She looks down the cliff to see the badass.
“Oh, s**t! You're right that is a badass!” Twilight said after reminding Rainbow about her language.
“We need to help!” Twilight said as she see the badass preparing to attack one of her friends.
“Wait, I got this.” Rarity said as she lifted her right hoof to grow a gem from her magic. She jumps off from the cliff and try to land on top the badass bullymong, but the bullymong had quick reflexes and killer instinct. The bullymong catched Rarity in mid-air and threw down to the ground. The shield broke from that one attack.
“Ow!” She said. Next, the bullymong lifted it arm over Rarity and prepare to smash it fist into Rarity.
But, Rainbow quickly ran towards the bullymong and interrupted the attack by a quick slash her sword on the left side of the bullymong’s body. The bullymong quick did a 180 spin punch which launched Rainbow away from the fighting field in a hill that had loose snow on top. The shaking caused snow to land on top of Rainbow dash.
“Stay away from my friends!” Applejack said as she jumps down to the end of the pound and aims her shotgun at the badass. She pulled the trigger and most pellets hit the chest and some hit head of the badass leaving it at half health.
The bullymong quickly picked up Rarity who was still on the ground and threw her at Applejack. Applejack had no choice but to not move, if she move away Rarity will get hurt badly. Rarity's body hit into Applejack hard, enough to push back into the wall behind her. Rarity across her body which covered her hooves. The attack took half of her shield capacity leaving it at 26. The Badass start to charge at Rarity and Applejack, Applejack quickly notice that and try to lift her revolver quickly. But, Rarity weight was heavy and she couldn't move her hooves.
“Pinkie Pie time heh heh heh...” Pinkie giggled in a very grim voice. Twilight saw a quickly glance at Pinkie as she drops in between the badass and Applejack. The badass stop it charge to examine the pony in front of it. Pinkie looked different, mostly a hair differences. She had a stright hair and she had a weird looking box on Gummy, it look like a jack-in-a-box.
“A really good party we are having, isn’t right?” Pinkie said in a grimmed voice and very slowly.
“Be sad if somepony ruined it.” She said as she aims her jack in a box, crank the box counter clock way. The box opens exposing Gummy’s back and showing the lethal area, Gummy had a sharp metal all across it back which was pointing to the badass. Pinkie press a red skull button on the bottom of the box which fired the sharp metal towards the badass hitting it head and Killing it. Some of the metal was sticking out of the bullymong's face, The rest was deep inside.
“Happy Birthday! heh heh heh.” She giggles again as she see the bullymong falls backwards and loot fall out of it body. Her hair quickly turn back into the original curly hair that she had. She had a confused face as she didn't remember what happened five seconds ago.
“So, what did I missed?” She asks like none thing she did was not scary.
“Well, you did kill a badass… with that one jack-in-a-box thing.” Rainbow said as she got closer to her friends.
“With this?" She said as she lift her hooves to see the jack-in-box and saw Gummy inside, doing noting "Hey! Why gummy in here?!” Pinkie asks as she just notice that Gummy was inside the box and was completely fine inside the box.
“Well, since that done we can-
-Loot!” Twilight got interrupted yet again from Pinkie.
“...I will turn in the quest” Twilight ramble. She was annoyed from the amount of times she got interrupted by Pinkie. Twilight walk up to Daring and turned in the quest.
“Thank you, now the people can rest in peace or they already have just a little better.” Daring said.
“I gave you and your friends $63 and 160 EXP through the ECHO device, technology is a wonderful thing.” Daring said. Twilight look at her EXP bar and notice it a quarter away from being level 4.
“ I have 3 other missions that might want to take, these have better rewards than that other mission I gave you.” Daring said as she has a yellow ‘!’ over her head. “Sure, we can take it.” Twilight said.
“Well, first if you want to survive out here, you need a better shield, there is a abandoned Crismon Raider medical base nearby, take an elevator and buy a shield.” (Shielded favors if anyone wanted to know the name of the quest.)
“Sure, we need a better shield anyway.” Twilight said accepting the quest. “What the other two quest?”
“See this hat?” Daring said as she lift her hoof to her hat.
“It is a hat of a hunter, yet it missing something. It missing it badassness, get me some bullymong hair and I will pay you handsomely.” Daring said to Twilight.
“Sound pretty easy, I will take it.” Twilight said accepting the quest. “What the last mission?” Twilight asks eagerly.
“You know about the generator, right? Well it needs new wires and I bought some off of Ebay but, I haven’t got them yet, I have tracked down the location of the wires and I notice that it hasn’t been moving from it location. I need you to bring the wires to me and I can bring power to this town. But don’t get hurt a lot if the wires get damage, I need to buy some new ones.” Daring said as she looks at the ECHO.
“Oh! Did I said that the wires were in bandit territory?” Daring added the most important information.
“No, but I will take the quest.” Twilight said as she notice her friends coming from the gate.
Twilight’s friends got to the bounty board where Daring was.
“Hey! So, what we missed?” Rainbow asks as she went to talk to her friend.
“Well, I just accepted 3 quest from Daring do and you got $64 and 160 EXP from that other quest.” Twilight answers.
“Do you think that a lot, Darling?” Rarity asks concerned about the amount of quests she accepted.
“A little, but I have fate at we can do them." Twilight answers. "How can we check the quest information?” She asks as she wants to review the information that she was give.
“I send it on your ECHO, you can check it anytime.” Daring said.
Twilight nods and look at her ECHO, she notice there was a app that had a paper that was wrapped in a ribbon. She opened it and saw the quest names.
Bad hair day, Shielded favor, The best minion, and Armed escort.
“Ok, let see what has a better rewards.” She said as she examines the Armed escort mission and notice that it was pretty high level quest, it was level 6 quest.
“That one we can do later.” She said to herself. She looks at the Bad hair day and notice it gives a good reward of $15 and 365 EXP.
“We can that one.” She said as she press the mission name, which appeared under the mini-map. The mission appeared under everypony's mini map.
“That mission is outside the town’s gate you need to open the gate to go outside.” Daring said.
“How we open the gate?” Applejack asks. “There is a lever by the gate, just pull it and it will lift the gate.” Daring answers Applejack’s question.
“Thank, partner.” Applejack said as she tips her hat upwards with her hoof. They walk through the center part of the town and they saw the gate which was down hill from the little town. The gate had a black wire connected to a lever on a small area with a lot of blood on the floor and on the walls,a poorly made metal roof, and a green folding chair. It also had a pull-down lever that looks unsafe to touch due to the amount of sparks coming out of the lever.
“I will pull the lever.” Rarity said as she move uphill to the little area that has a the poorly made roof. She walk into the little area, she saw the sparking switch and pull down on the lever. That cause to gate to pull up, and they can walk to the big area ahead of them. They slowly walk towards the outside and saw a something...Big.
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