Mane 6 VS. Pandora

Chapter 3: Epic quest time! (Side missions: Bad Hair Day, Shielded favor, and Armed escort.)

(“Man, this area is huge!” The author said surprised about the big amount of land of ice. )

(“Like this the first area? Why is it so big? The author asks the ponies the questions, but it a answer they couldn’t answer.)

Twilight and her friend slowly move their heads to the author, annoyed by his peppering questions.

(“Sorry…” The author apologises. A silent pause lingers around, until it was broken by the author.)

(“I mean seriously, you don’t have sniper rifles, how are you going to do the long range attacks?” Author rants making the mane 6 angrier )

“Shut up!” Rainbow Dash yells at the author angry.

(“You can’t talk to a god like that!” The author said as he puts on a fake Princess Celestia’s crown on top his head.)

Instead, of Princess Celestia walking into the author’s room. Princess Cadence walks in and saw the fake Princess crown. She giggles and walks out of room.

Quickly and quietly , she walks back into the room and held a staff over the author’s head. She smacks the backside of the author’s head and causing him to hit the computer in front of him. Only making a crack on the keyboard.

“I got him for you.” Princess Cadence said as she flings the staff backwards, across the room and the staff bounces off a wall and into a small trash can.

“Thank you.” Twilight said as she almost got a headache from the author's rant.

“Now, I forgot what I was doing!” Rainbow shouts angry. She pauses for couple seconds trying to remember what she had to do.

“Oh Yeah!” She said remembering where she was at as she turns around to see a huge amount of ice and snow that had either slowly melting by the sun or it had house made by bandits. There was a bandit camp close to the group, but not noticing them at all.

“Well, that a big amount of land we need to cover before we reach to our objective.” Applejack said concerned.

“Wait, who that?” Rainbow dash ask as she saw a pony running towards them.

“It probably one of our fans!” Pinkie guesses excitedly. The pony had a curved, one sided, fast spinning axe in his mouth. The pony had a white mask that had a gleaming white eyes, blood stains, and colored markings on his mask.

“That fan might be a little crazy.” Twilight said as she picks up her pistol from the ground getting it ready to fight.

“I will love to taste your flesh!” The masked pony yells followed with crazed laugh as he was still ran towards Twilight’s friends. Suddenly, a gunshot rang the air, starling most of the surviving group as the jolt their heads downwards.

The bullet hit the crazy pony in the leg causing him to trip and land on the ground face first.

Twilight turns around and saw the Fluttershy’s red drum clip pistol had light smoke coming from the barrel of the gun. Fluttershy looks at Twilight confused by her reaction.

“What? I was tired of seeing him coming closer. Plus, He was not fast enough anyway.” Fluttershy said as sees the pony slowly getting back up to his hooves.

He get up and got shot again this time in the head, killing him. He touches his mask with the last of his strength then falls backwards.

“My bro!” someone said as they witness their friends death. Twilight look ahead and notice there was 2 more ponies wielding spinning axes. They were running uphill to avenge their friends death. “I was going to eat him first!” One of the ponies said.

“Well, eat somepony else!” Pinkie said as she raised her “Blow up in your face gun” and points it at one of the crazy clot.

A name appeared over the crazy colt’s head that said “Psycho”, they had full health on their health bar, and there level was 3, like the surviving group.

Pinkie pulled the trigger on her pistol *BANG!* a more gunshots rang the air again and the bullet hit the front leg of the psychos. The colt fall on to ground on his face.

He lose a quarter of health but he quickly recovered and got back on his hooves. He run towards the surviving group again with more bloodthirst than before.

Twilight and her friends kept on shooting at the psycho, but they start to donging there bullets and started to closer to the group. Rainbow replace her pistol for her neon blue sword and Pinkie pulls out a new suit for Gummy the alligator.

The suit was a football gear with a football helmet and she puts them on top of the alligator. Twilight stop shooting because her pistol ran out of ammo in the clip. She had to reload her gun, she used her magic to grab a fully load clip .

She quickly looked away from her pistol and saw that a psycho that was really close to her. It was the psycho who was leading the charge, and quickly begin it attack at Twilight. He turned his head making the axe point to the air and lift his two front legs upwards.

He quickly dropped his two front legs down and turning his head making the axe turn towards Twilight.

Twilight closed her eyes seeing the axe getting closer to her face. She felt a strong breeze coming by her face and she heard two metal clashing together. She slowly opens her eyes to see that Rainbow in front of her and she held her sword sideways to block the clot’s axe from Twilight.

“Back off!” Rainbow said as she pushed her sword to the right which made the axe towards the side of her.

The psycho lost grip to his axe and the axe flew out of his mouth and fell off from a cliff which was right next to them. Rainbow dash quickly followed up her attack with a heavy sword slash going downwards across the psycho’s face.

As she started to slash down on the psycho. She was stopped forcefully.

Another axe had stop stopped her from killing the psycho. It was the other psycho, laughing like a psycho.

He was standing next to his ‘friend’, protecting him from Rainbow’s blue sword.

“I friend him on facebook, so I will save him for that reason!” The earth psycho said as he stares at Rainbow in the eye with it glowing blue eyes.

Pinkie prepare her attack with the football suited alligator. She held the football in her hooves like every other football.

“Incoming!” Pinkie shouts as she threw the Gummy towards the psycho that is blocking Rainbow’s attack. The psycho turns his head towards Pinkie’s voice and saw the football, he got hit in the head from Gummy’s football helmet which made him fall to the floor and his axe was shot up into the air.

Rainbow regained her sword slashed the psycho head damaging the head but not killing him. She follow up her attack by spin kicking the psychos head with her back right hoof.

This cause him to fall on to ground backside up, she runs towards the downed psycho and stabs the psycho’s back by using her sword downward killing him, she slowly pulls the sword out and red crimson drips from the sword.

The other psycho slowly gets up who was about a couple meter away from Rainbow. He turns his head towards Rainbow who had her sword in her mouth and ran towards her.

*Bang!* he stopped running and immediately died by Rarity’s pistol.

“You should have stay down, Darling.” Rarity said to the dead psycho as she lowers her pistol.

“Is that all?” Twilight asks as she slowly get herself back to her hooves. Rarity look ahead and notice there was undisturbed bandits ahead, one of them was poking their pistol on a barrel that was red and had a fire warning symbol on it.

“No, but the others hadn't heard us.” Rarity said.

Rainbow dash puts her sword back into her bag, it still had the handle exposed, but it didn’t damaged the bottom part of the bag.

“Good we are safe, for now.” Twilight said relieved and she let out a relieved sigh. She looks at the view of the whole area, again. She wonders how they are going to cover a lot of ground with on their hooves.

“How are we going to make so much land in this big area?” Twilight asks trying to think a way to go through many miles of ice.

“We can run the whole thing, we don’t real get tired often.” Applejack said as she is a work pony after all, they don’t get tired often.

“True.” Twilight said as she walks towards a cliff and look how far down is the fall, it was a short fall and it wasn’t enough to break a leg.

The end of the fall was frozen water, it looked thick enough to not break when they fall down.

“Ok, we should go down here.” Twilight said to her friends. She get ready to jump but then she felt a quick hard wind going past her.

“Cannonball!” Pinkie screams as she runs towards the cliff and jumps with her body shaped like a ball.

“Pinkie! Wait!” Twilight said trying to keep her friends in a group.

Before Pinkie was lost in sight by the edge of the cliff, she magically stops in mid-air and stayed in that position. She looks at Twilight as she waits for a reasons why she should wait.

“Ummm… Nevermind.” Twilight said slowly and awkwardly as she see her friend floating in mid-air.

“Ok.” Pinkie said normally as she stop floating and fell to the ground.

Quickly was followed by Rainbow, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity.

But, Twilight needed to reload her pistol first before she runs into anymore new bandit fights.

She pushed the button, letting the clip slide out and letting it land on the ground. She levitated a full clip into the gun, next she pulled the slider on the pistol, and released the slider letting going back into place.

She jumps off the cliff and land nearby her friend’s which they were patiently wait for her.

A couple blocks ahead of them, was big bandit camp with a machine to a building up to a roof.

“We don’t want to get any closer to that bandit camp.” Twilight said for her and her friends safety. She examines the camp from afar for any bandits watching them.

“But, what about EXP?” Pinkie asks. Twilight had to rethink about what she said.

They are level 3 and they need 2 more level before they reach level 5 and access to these items

“True, We need more EXP.” Twilight said as she look at the camp again.. There was more psychos roaming around the camp and bandits with guns were at the camp hold their guns with their hooves or with their magic. Twilight felt confident about taking out the whole camp.

“Ok, let do this.” Twilight said confidently as she walks toward the camp.

Her friends followed her towards the camp quietly and quickly or at the rate of a snail with a set of broken roller skates.

Rainbow dash quickly grew impatient by her friends slowness, she jumps into air and flies over her friend’s heads. She lands in front of Twilight who was leading her friends towards the camp.

“You guys are too slow!” Rainbow said annoyed

“Let me go ahead.” She said. She was running more than walking towards the bandit camp.

She eagerly wants her Wonderbolt machine to work again. When, she made to the front of the bandit camp, she hide behind a 6 foot tall wooden box nearby a ramp that leads to bandit camp.

She peeks her head out and looks around the camp. There was a lot of bandits with guns on high grounds where most the cover was at, and psychos on the low ground.

She turns around to see her friend’s was pretty close. She thought plan, but it was very bad one. She walk away from the box and walk towards a clear area where everyone can see her.

“Hey, guy!” She said as waves. The whole camp turn towards Rainbow dash and started to shoot at her. Most of the bullets either hit the ground or Rainbow dash’s shield.

Startled, she quickly looked around for nearby cover and saw a boat that was upside-down which was on top of snow and ice.

She ran towards the ground, and took cover on the side of the boat with her belly on the icy cold ground. She was quickly getting cold but she ignored it.

“I just said hey!” She yells as she was still taking fire while she was in cover.

“That the same old Rainbow dash…” Rarity said as she was disappointed by Rainbow’s plan.

“Well, first we need to take bandits with guns and then we can take out the rest of the bandits.” Twilight saying her plan.

“Ok.” Applejack said prepared with her shotgun in her hooves.

“So, we need to find a way to get to the camp.” Twilight said as she examines the camp closer. She notice a ramp was leading in front of the bandit camp.

“Nevermind, I found a way.” Twilight said quietly. She carefully walks up the ramp with her pistol ready.

“You're not going to live long, Skaglick!” One of the bandits shouts as he kept shooting at Rainbow’s cover.

“What a skaglick?!” Rainbow yells back confused. She was still under fire by bandits and couldn’t poke her head out of the boat.

Twilight quickly runs up the ramp and notice one of the unicorn bandits near by a wooden box and a purple barrel with black fire symbol. He was shooting at Rainbow with his rapid fire pistol, just like Rainbow’s pistol.

“Peek out your head so we can shoot it!” The Bandit yells as he kept firing. Twilight need to take him out quickly. She ran towards the bandit and lifts her gun right next to the bandit’s head.

“Huh?!” The bandit said surprised.

Twilight pulls the trigger and the bullets hit the bandit’s head killing him. The gunshot didn’t make much noise because of the other gunshots nearby.

The bandit body drop quickly and messy with blood falling on the floor.

“Ok, guys the ramp is clear!” Twilight yells to her friends so they can move up.

They move up the ramp and they notice stairs that leads to higher ground. Twilight look at her friends with a ready face. Her friends had a ready face also, but then a Bandit in a hurry ran down the stairs.

The bandit look at Twilight and her friends. He pauses looking at their faces, and notice it was the Discord’s bounty, He was outnumbered and outgunned. He quickly runs up the stairs in fear.

“Oh sh*t!” The bandit said scared as he quickly ran back up the stairs, he was sweating bullets.

“Guys! Our money is down stairs!” The same bandit shouts to his other bandits friends.

“What? What money?” The other bandit asks confused.

He was behind a big, squared  green sign with burnt out neon lights. He stop hiding behind the green sight to walk up to his friend.

“You know! The Discord’s bounty!” The bandit said quickly thinking his friend has brain damage.

He points down stairs and showing... a bright green alligator on stairs in between the , blinking his eyes individually. But something was different about it, it looked like it was made out of metal not flesh.

The bandit that was behind the green sign turn to his friend and look at him confused.

“Are you ok?” The bandit asks his friend hoping he is not joking.

“No, I am serious, I saw them!” The other bandit yells loudly and seriously. “They are waiting for somepony to come down stairs so, they can kill them!” The bandit yells angry.

“Well if that true, then go down stairs and you die then your right.” The bandit said bluntly to his friend’s belief. The bandit turns around and get up back up to the slightly higher ground, which had the green neon sign and

The other bandit was stucked with not going downstairs and not getting any money or go downstairs and dying. His mind was quickly clustered with decisions like death or no death, money or no money.

“Arg! Fine! I am going downstairs!” The bandit said angry about the decision he made. He walks slowly and carefully downstair. He had his pistol in his hooves, his pistol was a grey long barrel revolver. He pokes his head down the brighten stairs and notice that the green alligator was still there, blinking it eye individually.

Nervous and quiet, the bandit walk by the alligator and turn his body down the other set of stairs. The alligator, all of a sudden opens it mouth, inside it mouth was a speaker and very sharp metal teeths.

“Surprise, b***h!” The speaker said in Pinkie’s voice. The Bandit quickly turns around and saw the opened mouth alligator lunge towards bandit’s hoof. The alligator bit the bandit’s left hoof with it sharp metal teeth hard. Blood start flow out of the bandit’s left hoof.

“AHH!” The bandit screams in terror, he struggles to shake the alligator off his hoof but the alligator had a death bite on the bandit’s hoof.

The bandit start to walk backwards and slipped on other set of stairs. He fell on the first step of stairs but missed the other 5 steps and land on the floor where Twilight and her friends was.

The bandit groans painfully as he got up again, he looks at his hoof and notice the metal alligator was broken with parts along the floor he was on. But still had the teeth on the bandits hoof which, was less painfully than last time.

The bandit heard clicking noises behind him, he quickly turns around and saw Twilight and her other 4 friends pointing their guns and glaring at him.

“Um… well this awkward.” The bandit said as he scratched the back of his head awkwardly.

Fluttershy pulled the trigger on her pistol *Bang!*  the bullet hit the head of the bandit, killing him instantly. His dead body fell backwards onto the floor and blood pouring out of his head. The gunshot ranged the air, startling the other bandits nearby.

“ We need to take out the other bandits quickly.” Rarity said concerned about how many bandits heard the gunshots.

“They ARE down there! Kill ‘em!” A bandit shouts for other bandits to come downstairs.

“I will go up stairs!” Fluttershy shouts as she ran towards the stairs with her red, drum clip pistol. She quickly ran up the stairs with bloodthirst and quickness, but one of the pegasus bandits was blocking the stairs with body.

“No way you're going past me!” The bandit taunts and points his grey double barrel pistol at Fluttershy.

“We’ll see about that.” Fluttershy said with a evil grin as she also points her big red pistol at the bandit. She notice the bandit had a blue bar over his health bar.

This meant that he had a shield on, like they are.

She pulls the trigger on her pistol *Bang!* and the bullet was absorbed by bandit’s shield. That shot took a quarter of his shield down.

The bandit didn’t get fazed by the shot, he smiles and he pulls the trigger on his pistol and he held the trigger. *RATATA!* Bullets was sprayed down at Fluttershy, but with the bad accuracy of the double barrel pistol, most of the bullets hit the steps or completely missed it target flying past Fluttershy.

Fluttershy’s shield absorb most of the bullets but she quickly ran as she is running and trying her best to dodge most of the bullets by moving side to side with swift cunning.

The bandit’s pistol suddenly stop firing and started to make clicking noises. He ran out of ammo in the magazine. “Well, sh*t!” The bandit shouts as he pulls out a new magazine from his

Fluttershy took advantage of that time and ran closer to the bandit. The bandit pulls the magazine under the barrel and quickly replace it with a new magazine. He stop reloading to see if Fluttershy was getting closer, which she was in front of his face, smiling.

“Guess who passed you?” Fluttershy asks. “Me!” She screams as she straight punched the bandit’s face with her right hoof. The punch cause the bandit to pushed back but he quickly recover. Because of the shield.

“Close combat, eh?” The bandit questions her logic. The bandit pulls a large machete from his knife holster which was around his left hoof. He put the machete in his mouth and held it sideways.

He glares at the yellow pegasus, trying to make her fear him, but it didn’t work at all.

“You think that a little cheap?” Fluttershy asks sarcastically as she keep her pistol close to her. Get ready for a upcoming 1v1 fight.

“Nah, I find it… tactically.” The bandit said, even though he didn’t know what he is talking about when he meant tactically.

“Well, see about that!” Fluttershy said as she points her pistol at the bandit. *Bang!* the bullet was launched and was absorbed by the bandit’s shield again,this time breaking the shield.

A quick white flash came from bandit’s body and small amount crimson blood came from the bandit’s body and drop to the rusty metal floor.

“Heh, I didn’t need it, I am too badass for shields.” The bandit said, yet again, he was stupid.

Why you need a shield even though you're too badass for it?

He charge towards her and try to slash her. But she quickly ducked and the bandit missed it attack.

Fluttershy was ready for her counter attack and quickly run towards the bandit. The bandit turns around and felt Fluttershy tackle him. He landed on the floor, with the machete still in his mouth.

She quickly right hooks the bandit’s head and the punch caused the bandit to move his head to the left and lose grip of his machete.

Next, she follows up with a straight punch to the neck, A number and a word appeared that said ‘critical’ and the number said 30. This didn’t kill him but it left him not breathing.

Fluttershy moves away from the bandit and points her pistol at the not breathing bandit, she pulls the trigger. *Bang!* the bullet hits the bandit’s belly which killed him.

There was a clicking noise behind Fluttershy, she turns around and saw a earth bandit with a pistol similar to Rarity’s who had the same gun ever since Claptrap’s ‘safe’ house.

“Well, look like sh*t just got real!” The bandit said with his southern accent, He pulls the trigger *Bang! Bang!* The bullets was going towards Fluttershy’s head but the her shield blocked the bullets leaving the shields at 15 capacity left. She was slightly faze by the bullets that came to her face, but she shrugs it off.

“Your right,” She said as she quickly raised her pistol and pointed at earth bandit. “Sh*t got real.” She said as she pulls the trigger. *Bang! Bang!* The bullets hit the bandit’s forehead and a burst of crimson blood came out his head, killing him.

His body falls forward and lands onto the floor, slowly bleeding from his head. Fluttershy looks at the two bodies she killed and notice they both dropped ammo, a loose money, and a pistol nearby the bodies. She walks over to the dead bandit that used to have a machete, and look at the pistol.

It was a completely different pistol that the bandit used. It was a pistol that had a grey camo, like what Rarity’s pistol is but it doesn’t have that odd handle and it has a rougher slider.

(Name: magnum, stats: damage:6, accuracy: 87.2, fire rate: 9.2, reload speed 3.5, and magazine size: 10.)

A bullet from the front hits Fluttershy’s shield, breaking it and a small amount blood coming out of her. She lost 20 of her 100 health leaving her at 80 health.

“Ow!” She screams as she looks at her wound, it wasn’t a bad one but it was bleeding slowly.

She quickly looks away from the wound and to where she got shot from. It a bandit with a long barrel revolver, longers than Applejack’s revolver.

The bandit fired his long barreled revolver again and the bullet hit Fluttershy’s left hoof, She lost 30 of her health leaving her at 50 health and dropping.

She opens her wings and brought them back, she quickly leaps into the air and pushes her wings forward causing her pushed herself from any other shots from another bandit.

Meanwhile, in Rainbow dash situation…

Rainbow dash quickly notice that some angles of where bandits were firing their pistol at Rainbow, they stopped firing.

Either they got tired of her coving behind the boat or they had encountered somepony that started fight the,

She waited a couple of seconds before she pokes her head out.

She slowly pokes her head out of the and looks around the high ground. She notice that the bandits were gone or away from that area.

Relived, she exhales stressful air and move to the front of the boat.

She examines the boat and surprised the boat had bullets hole all across the body, some areas had two bullets holes and there was some that looked like it had smiley faces, which made Rainbow dash confused. (Borderlands logic! :D)

She want to look for her friends again, until she heard a loud gunshot from the left side of the camp.

Starteld again, She drops down to the ground and had her hooves over her head. But, the bullet didn’t hit her or her shield nor did it hit the ground nearby her.

She turns her head around and tried to find the pony who fired their gun but didn’t see anypony.

She quickly gets up to her hooves and she needed high ground to see the shooter.

She opens her wings, she exhales once again, and pulls her wings back. She jumps into the air and pushed the wings towards the ground, which pushed her much higher into the air.

She was flying, she flaps her wings hard to get into higher attitude, to the point that she touch the building on top of the hill. She looks down and saw nearly the whole camp.

She saw yellow pony behind a metal box with logos on them, a bullet hit the box which left a bullet hole on the front side of the box.

Rainbow looked at where the bullet came from and saw a bandit with a pistol firing more shots at Fluttershy.

Offended about her friend in trouble, she opens her saddlebag and carefully grabs her sword handle with her mouth. She looks at the bandit again, he didn’t move an inch from his spot.

She points her hooves at the bandit, making sure she has a good aim at the bandit and quickly dives down with her sword pointing towards the bandit.

The bandit continues to fire his pistol at Fluttershy until he ran out of ammo.

He pushes the cylinder inside the revolver which rolled out but stops near the edge of the revolver. He grabs a small, round, ammo holder, which held pistol ammo on the holder.

He puts the holder inside the empty holes of the cylinder and was not able to finish to finish his reload on his revolver, as he got a sword stabbed inside his gun, which pushed the gun into the middle of the blade. Perfect aim by Rainbow dash.

Scared and starled, the bandit back away from his attacker, and saw the Rainbow mane pegasus. Defenceless he couldn't do anything. Rainbow dash forcefully pulls the revolver out of her sword with her hooves and the pistol fell to the floor. The sword left a fissure like hole on the pistol.

Next, she glares at the bandit, Nearly giving him the Luigi’s death stare. The bandit start to back away from Rainbow dash with fear and behind him was a cliff to more ice. He quickly turns his head around and saw how far the cliff was, it was a good 5 feet drop, but on pandora anyone can survive any drop. (More borderlands logic! :DD)

“W-what do you w-want from m-me?” The bandit ask nervously as he looks at Rainbow dash, but quickly looked away as she started to closer with her sword in her mouth.

Rainbow dash didn’t answer. She continues to get closer and closer. The bandit stopped at the edge cliff and he nervously look at the bottom of the cliff again, he got the same results, flat ice nothing more.

He turns around and saw Rainbow dash’s sword right at his neck, he nearly pushed himself to his own death. He start to breath really fast and uncontrollable.

Rainbow dash pushed the sword closer to the bandit’s neck, to point where any wind, any pebble, or any feather will push the sword ito

The bandit breathing start to get sonic fast that he fainted. His body was left hanging from the edge of the cliff and from falling down. (“He was a CLIFFHANGER!” The author joked with giggles.)

“Author, that was really bad pun.” Rainbow dash said as that pun made her cringe in the inside. (“Another victim will soon fall by a another pun….” author said totally not foreshadowing anything.)

“I was just going to do a ‘This Is Equestria’ kick on the guy.” She said disappointed. “He was going to live anyway.” She added.

“That was the last one!” Twilight said as runs up the stairs nearby the ramp. she was nearly finished reloading pistol as she puts her last clip inside her pistol and pulls and releases the slider. Her and the other 2 friends killed off the psychos.

“Let see how much EXP we gained!” Pinkie said excited. She looks at her exp bar and notice they are 25% away from level 4.

“I am almost to level 4.”  Pinkie telling her friends very happy. Twilight and her other 5 friends look at their EXP bar and notice that they are the same amount as Pinkie.

“Well, it seems that we have the same amount.” Twilight said walks closer to Rainbow dash.

“Well, since we got some EXP, we can loot.” Rarity said as she walks over to a dead bandit’s body wwsa shotgun ammo,$10, and 1 placebo.

The ECHO device, suddenly start to glow a wide blue light towards the loot.

“What the sky devil?” Rarity said as the blue light magnetically pulls the ammo, and money pull them towards her.

She close her eyes as the items get much closer to her, a couple seconds past and she didn’t feel anything stabbed into her or any type of blunt pain on her body.

She slowly opens her eyes to see that the items were gone. She quickly looked at her body and didn’t have anything inside her.

“Where did it go?” Rarity said concerned for a weird attack from floating items. She quickly turns around hoping to see the floating items behind her, but there was nothing, just snow falling from the clouds above.

“Odd…” Rarity said as she slowly turns around toward the dead bandit’s body. She slowly and carefully move through the bandit camp. She walks up the stairs that get her to the level that has the green neon sign with the other dead bandit.

She turns around once again, this time prepared for any attack from the ghost-like floating items and yet again there was no floating items.

Angry, she wanted to see items were ‘hiding’. She looks at the bandit’s body to see if there was any loot, which there was $5, pistol ammo, and 1 placebo. The bandit also had one pistol.

Rarity looks at the pistol stats and name. The design is very similar but the barrel is long and widers than Rainbow dash’s pistol.

(Name: Assassin. Stats: Damage:9, accuray: 89.0, fire rate: 9.1, reload speed:3.2, and magazine size: 21, 8% critical hit damage.)

She raised her right eyebrow confused, when she saw the 8% critical hit damage on the gun stats. She wonder what it meant,

She picks up the assassin pistol and put her other pistol in her saddlebag, when she opened the bag, she saw fully load clips inside her saddlebag.

‘How Did I get these?’ Rarity thought to herself confused. But she remembered what Daring said about there update.

Whenever they walk, over ammo, money, or health. They will put in there saddlebags, except for health, which they will be used when they take health damage.

But, Rarity didn’t take any health damage. So, she didn’t need any placebo.

The ECHO device starts to glow a narrow blue light which lift the money and ammo up from the ground. The items was being pull towards Rarity quickly. This time she didn’t close her eyes which see saw the items being peaceful placed inside the saddle bag.

“Why did I get scared by that before?” Rarity said to herself angry and confused that she got scared by the floating items.

Rarity moves away from the bandit’s body and she move towards her friend’s which were group up by a level which was connected to a large homemade electric engine.

The switch was glowing green oddly and a red light on the bottom part of the lever.

“Why is it glowing green?” Applejack asks confused.

“I don’t know..” Twilight said as confused as Applejack.

Rainbow dash remembered something that Daring do said. Using a lever to an abandoned medical building.

“I think that might be the building we have to go to for that shield mission.” Rainbow dash guess.

“Let me see.” Twilight said as she looks at the ECHO device on her right hoof and opens the app with rolled up paper with ribbon.

The app shows the side quests that they accepted. She see the four missions in a row going downward.

She look at the side quest: Shield favor and pressed the mission with her hoof. The first step was in front of them, to pull the lever.

“Your right, Rainbow! We have to pull the lever.” Twilight said impressed.

“I am a smart pony!” Rainbow dash said with a goofy smile.

Twilight’s horn started to glow and the lever handle was pulled toward Twilight and her friend’s. She released the lever handle, which slowly when back in place in it usually spot.

The lever made a loud beeping noise with a flashing red light. Other than that nothing happened.

“Oh yes, I forgot!” Daring said remembering something.

“Claptrap try to have a... literal blind date with the fuse box.” Daring added as she want to forget what she saw that day.

“Well, I didn’t know that wine will destroy my date.” Claptrap said embarrassed. “Anyway, there is a fusebox nearby, get it and replaced the old one.” Claptrap said as the Objective marker was moved from the lever to another area across the small bandit camp.

Twilight disappointed about Claptrap’s mistake. She picks up her burst-fire-while-zoom pistol and turns to her friends.

“Well, we need to get going if we want to finish this quest quickly.” Twilight said as she walks past them and stopped on the other side to follow the objective marker.

Her friends all nod their heads in agreement and they were ready to follower her with her weapons ready for any other possibility fights.

Twilight look at the mini map on the top right and notice that the marker was just ahead of them which they had to move through the bandit camp.

Twilight turns around and saw the stairs that leads to the ramp, but she thought about going a different more badass way. She looks at the green neon sign and runs towards the area that was behind the sign.

She runs closer to the edge of the building and she jumps at the edge, she quickly descends down to the thick ice and she slide lightly on the ice but she added more pressure on her hooves to stop the sliding which stop quickly.

“I need to feel like a badass some how.” Twilight said trying to feel like everypony else. A badass, she felt more of a smart as- pony, I mean pony. (*Cough* *Cough* author fakely and randomly cough, hoping she didn’t get offend. Which, I didn’t have go to the moon today. I had the moon crush me. I still am alive, so that a good thing.)

Her friends quickly follow her yet didn’t have the same issues as her, which was the sliding. They either flew up or they drop to the ground, causing no issue of sliding by the ice.

(“You have to be smart about being badass.” Author said giving advice to Twilight) “I guess you're right.” Twilight said accepting the advice quickly.

She carefully walk towards her friend without trying to slide away from her friends. Most of her friend patiently waited for her, Fluttershy walked ahead, carefully and quietly.

“Wait for us, Fluttershy!” Pinkie said as she was still waiting Twilight who walking slower each step she took.

“Shh! There are bandits nearby!” Fluttershy said quietly. She was in front another bandit camp.

The bandit camp was like the other one but it had something… Shocking. It had a large electric fence with actually electricity going from one pole to another flickering sparks and violent shaking waves from the electricity was as pretty deadly .

Along the back of the camp, was a pathway leading to something, maybe something important. The electric fence made Fluttershy curious what behind the fence.

But, Fluttershy had no cover to hide behind. She turns around to see if her friend was nearby, which they were far but coming closer to her.

She turns around to notice a unicorn bandit with a strange long gun on his back. The gun had longer barrel than a pistol, it had a stock or a butt of a gun, and it had a longer magazine than a pistol.

He was by a barrel on with fire in the inside, he was trying to keep himself warm during the cold.

She lifts her red pistol at the bandit, she used the iron sights to aim at the head. She had a weak shake from her low health, which she didn’t loot any health from the other bandit camp.

She feel confident that she will hit the bandit’s head and she pulls the trigger, *Bang!* The gunshot rang the air and bullet quickly hit the barrel right in front of the bandit. The whole camp was startled and was unprepared for the gunshot.

Fluttershy trying to stay calm even when she messed up, she pulls the trigger again, *Bang!* The gunshot rang the air again and missed bandit again hitting a icy rock past his head and through the electric fence.

“I am get shot at! I need help boys!” The bandit shouts getting his bandit friends to help him.

Quickly, more bandit joined the fight out of the houses. Some had The bandit that called for his friends, grabs his strange gun with his magic.

He quickly turns around and saw Fluttershy with her pistol still pointed at him, trying to get a steady aim.

“I see you!” The bandit screams as he pulls the trigger on his gun and held it.*RATATAT!* The gun quickly fired 5 bullets at Fluttershy.

Since Fluttershy had no cover and she out in the open.

She was pretty much live target practice.

She move right, away from the fried bullets, but she didn’t move far as her wound started to feel painfully again.

She screams painfully, she couldn’t move from how painful the wound was. Quickly, 2 of the bullets destroyed her shields and the other 3 bullets hit her body.

She falls to the ground with a bad amount of blood flowing out her body.

But, she wasn’t dead. She lifts her head up slowly look at the bandit with the strange rifle.

He was very different from the rest of bandit. The name over his was killer marauder, different from the pistol-wielding bandits. He also wore different clothing than the other marauder. He wore a white masks with blue glowing eyes and on top of his head it had a dragon scales like spikes and he had a more solid jacket that looks like he has a bulletproof vest under his white jacket.

On the team heads up display a red skull appeared to the left of Fluttershys name. Under the skull is a red meter, that is slowly decreasing.

Twilight and her friends quickly rush towards Fluttershy.

“You got lucky!” Fluttershy said as she still had her pistol and she pulls the trigger on her pistol 3 time. *BANG! BANG! BANG!* The bullets hit the bandit front left leg and it cause him to kneel down, but the other two missed.

“How are you still alive?!” The bandit shouts at Fluttershy. He raises his rifle and aims at Fluttershy.

The bandit pulls the trigger *RATATA!* He fired two more shots with his strangely long gun the 2 bullets hits Fluttershy’s head.

Killing her, instantly.

Her body lays on the ground bleeding from the her head.

Twilight and her friends stopped in horror, as their friend was murder in their eyes. A single tear start to form on Twilight’s left eye.

But, Fluttershy body didn’t stay on the ground for long. A blue light flashes from her ECHO device and slowly, Fluttershy’s start to… break apart. Digitally.

Her body start to quickly disappear bit by bit and the blue light points up to the sky. Then, Fluttershy body disappear, like magic.

Twilight tear quickly dried up as she remembered what Claptrap said.

As long they have the ECHO devices they can never die. So, Fluttershy is not dead she just by a New-u station.

Meanwhile at a New-U station…

A blue light flashes down the pole and the yellow station open the hidden blues light bulbs. They started to glow bright blue and start to bring the yellow pony back to life. The machine caused her to float for about a second, Fluttershy opens her eyes like waking up from bed and stretches her hooves, her wings. She puts her gun in hooves and ready herself for any attacks.

The machine’s blue bulbs stopped, which stopped Fluttershy from floating and landing her on to the icy ground.

“Thank you for New-U station, please do die again.” The station said in a happy female voice. well, a creepy-hope-you-die-again-type happy. They some how took $25 from Fluttershy but she didn't care about money.

“Well, that was painfully awesome.” Fluttershy said complimenting her own death.

Fluttershy look around her surrounding and quickly felt deja vu. She was in the bandit camp where she died by the bandit with the long gun.

She started to hear gunfire nearby, it was the fight that Twilight and her friend’s trying to kill the bandits.

‘I got to stay quiet.’ Fluttershy thought to herself. She moved away from the station and into the fight.

Back to Twilight and her friends…

Twilight and friends quickly took out 3 bandits, but they still had many bandits attacking them. But at least they have some cover to block the bullets.

Twilight and Pinkie was behind a wooden box only big enough for two ponies. Rainbow, Applejack, and Rarity was behind a wide yet low metal wall.

“I got something for you!” A unicorn bandit said, he held a brown glass bottle with a piece of cloth around the rim the bottle lid something dark inside. Next, he put the cloth over a barrel that was on fire. He lit a molotov cocktail, good to start fires and burn flesh.

“What is it?!” Rainbow asks like it a surprise.

“Your burning flesh!” The bandit said as he chucks the molotov towards Rainbow dash and her friends that was with her.

“Well that doesn’t make sense bec-!” Rainbow dash gets up and saw the molotov coming closer to her.

Nervous, she used her pistol to aim at the flying molotov, pulls the trigger and held it. *Ratata!* The bullets missed the molotov, it keep coming closer until a lucky bullet, hit the molotov, breaking it in mid-air.

Fire drops from sky like rain and under the rain of fire was the killer marauder. The fire burns the bandits his top of his masks and on his back. The bandit quickly used his hooves to take out the fire but it since he had fire on his back he wanted to take both flames.

“AHHHH!” The bandit screams in terror has he falls to the ground but he didn’t roll to take out the flames and the flames grew bigger quickly.

Rarity peeks her head over the cover and saw the burning bandit. She found the burning bandit... entertaining. She smiles about how the burning bandit.

“Burn, baby, burn.” Rarity said quietly as the bandit stopped moving and the flames quickly extinguishes. She crazily giggles then she quickly realized that she was going crazy or maybe little.

A bullet hits the metal. Rarity quickly ducks her head under the wall. She looks at her ammo counter and notice that it only had two bullets left.

She never knew how to reload the new pistol, but she has seen Rainbow dash reload the fast firing pistol.

She knows that clip was in front under barrel of the gun, which she used her magic to remove the clip from under the barrel and pulls a full clip. She inserts the clip into the clip placement. Next, she pulls the sideways flag lever on the right side the pistol.

She peeks her head again, and saw many bandits coming closer to her and friends. But the bandit was past a red barrel with a fire warning symbol. Oddly, the barrel had a health bar which means ‘shoot me, I am a bad guy.’ Why will they say I don’t know ask Pinkie pie.

She quickly points her pistol to the barrel with the fire symbol and pulls the trigger. *RATATA!* The bullets hit the barrel and barrel explodes, putting the bandits on fire. They try to take out the flames but the flames was too big so they died. There bodies simply land on the ground, with severe burn marks and

“Nice shot!” Rainbow dash compliments Rarity shot at the bandits.

“Thanks, I always have my bread toasted.” Rarity said as she crazily giggles again.

Rainbow dash pauses awkwardly, and had an awkward face on her. She returns to fighting bandits

Applejack quickly get on her hooves and jumps over the cover she was behind.

“I am going in!” Applejack said with her shotgun ready.

She turns around and saw a bandit coming closer to her.

She pulls the trigger *Bang!* The gun kicks back hard and pellets hit the chest, leg, and head. killing him. He was launched backwards into the electric fence, shocking him, which cause him to shake violently and dropping loot. (“Fatally!” arthur said.)

Applejack grabs a buckshot from her saddle and she pulls down the barrel of her shotgun. She inserts the buckshot in the hole and pulls the barrel up to it original place.

Applejack look around for more bandits, and a bandit to the left of her pokes his head out from a low metal cover. Applejack quickly turns her body to the left and points the shotgun towards the bandits head. She pulls trigger *Bang!* most pellets hit the metal cover and some hit the head of the bandit and blood flew out of his head, Killing him.

A another bandit from the same cover, saw a another member die in front of him. He even had a some blood on him. He get up and aims his revolver at Applejack who was reloading her shotgun. Applejack saw the bandit with the pistol pointed at her.

He pulls the trigger, *Bang!* The bullet his Applejack’s aura shield at 76, he had to pull the hammer back to fire again.

Applejack took the opportunity to get closer to the bandit. She quickly punches the gun away from the bandit’s hooves, the bandit looks at his gun slide away. Next, she follow up her attack with a straight hard punch to the bandit’s face. The falls to the ground, he moans and touch his face. Applejack vaults over his cover and standed in front of grounded bandit. She pulls out her revolver and aims it at the bandit.

“Time to put down the bad.” Applejack said as she pulls the trigger *Bang!* the bullet hits the bandit’s head and blood splatter on the snow.  Killing him.

The whole camp when silent no pony was yelling or firing their gun. It was dead silent.

“I think that was the last of them.” Applejack said as she went back with her friends.

“Has anypony seen Fluttershy?” Pinkie said curiously, she wondered where Fluttershy was at.

Twilight and her friends searched around high and low to find Fluttershy. Rainbow dash flew up to a building that had a space to place snipers, but it wasn’t used.

Rainbow lands on the space and look around the space, it was pretty much empty but there was a wooden table and a chair with a little dry blood on it.

Under the table was the yellow pony. Hiding, like a camper in a COD game.

“Fluttershy, what are you doing?” Rainbow asks confused what her tactic.

“Trap-door spiders wait for their prey under a rock, then they strike for the neck.” Fluttershy answers as she slowly gets out of being under the table.

“Well, we have been look for you.” Rainbow said.

“I know, I was trying to stick to the shadows.” Fluttershy said.

“Well, time to come out of the shadows. We need to finish these quests.” Rainbow dash said hurrying her up.

“Yeah, yeah.” Fluttershy said annoyed by rainbow dash trying to rush her.

They quickly jumps from the sniper placement to the ground where Twilight the rest of her friends was at by the electric fence

Twilight saw them drop to the ground and safely land to the ground.

“Welcome back.” Twilight welcome Fluttershy back.

Fluttershy stay silent and look at the electric fence.

“So, how we going to get past the fence.” Fluttershy ask.

“You have to run through it!” The loud robot: Claptrap said.

“I guess that one way.” Twilight said giving

“That is the ONLY way, you got to go through it fast!” Claptrap said loudly.

When, Rainbow dash heard fast. She immediately flew up to the air, and move to the front of the bandit camp. She dives down and lands on the icy floor safely.

Her friends turns around to see her at the front of the camp. Ready to dash through the fence. (“Get it? Like Rainbow dash, and the her name has dash...Ok I will stop.” author said as he try to make another painfully pun.)

“What are you doing?” Rarity asks.

“I am getting ready to run through the fence.” Rainbow dash answers. “ You might want to move away.” Rainbow dash warns her friends.

Rarity nods and slowly backs away from the electric fence. She stops nearby a stationary metal cover, which was about a feet away from the fence

Rainbow dash opens her wings and run towards the camp. She leaps into the air and allowed the wind to push her closer to the electric fence.

She pushed her body to fly faster and faster. The fence quickly got closer and closer to Rainbow dash. She didn’t think how painful will be going through a electric fence, but she just when with Claptrap advice.

She closes her eyes as she rams into the fence. She painfully felt the electric even with her shield on. She was oddly pushed away from the fence, and she fell to the ground with electric shocks all around her body. (“I should have told her it was SHOCKING decisions!” Author actually didn’t mess up this annoying pun. But, he got a another whack from the ye old staff. )

(“Thank, Candace.” Authorsaid with a muffled tone.)

“No problem!” Candace said as she brought the out of the author’s room

The electric shocks were damaging her shield badly, to the point where it breaks. A small burst of blood comes out of her body, but she shrugs it off.

“How is this *bzzt* hurt- *Bzzt* ing *Bzzt* hurting me? *Bzzt*” Rainbow asks, the electric shock was effecting her speech.

“Well, it seems that either Claptrap didn’t know what he was talking or that he lied to us.” Rarity said now knowing Claptraps advice didn’t work at all.

“Don’t listen to the Robot.” The familiar female voice said. “There is a fuse box behind the fence, just shoot it and you will get past the fence.” The female voice added.

Twilight looked back past the fence she saw a wooden box, a engine that look it was from the other bandit camp, a cardboard box with tape on the top of the box, and a black pull down switch with sparks coming out of the switch.

“I think that it.” Twilight said as she points the black fuse box with her hoof.

Twilight points her pistol at the fuse box and pull the trigger. *Bang! Bang!* the bullets hit the fuse box, causing it to blow up and shuts off the fence.

“Cool! The fence is down and…”

"ROAAAR!!"

Pinkie was interrupted by a loud roar from a path that was blocked by the fence.