Friends until the bitter end: Reanimation

"guh,fuu, hnnngggh! come on you fuck!" lamar yelled as he struggled to free himself from the quickly falling hulk. His radio had been knocked out as he fell into the gorge.

"Aaagn mmmooost, 'chink!' got it." he said triumphantly as he cut his vest. It hurt like hell since it was part of his body but it had to be done if he wanted to live. he dropped just in time as the burning wreckage slammed right into the canyon wall and exploded, unfortunately the inertia carried him into the canyon wall.

'crunch!'

He began falling again but at a much slower pace this time but the fact that he was bouncing off of rocks didn't help his case much. He then landed hard against a cliff and rolled out of the way just in time to avoid a rock. He had never been more great full for being a nano-suit equipped evolved than he was right now. he then heard a raring sound and looked to his side as he shakily stood up as his body screamed in protest, looking to his side he saw a waterfall coming from the canyon wall.

'ting, ting, thud, thud, crasH!'

"OH-fuck." Lamar said as he looked up to see the flambeing wreckage of the CEPH gunship falling towards him followed by a virtual mountain of debris. And so seeing his only way out he took it and leaped over the side as just as the wreckage slammed down. Falling down, down, down, then he saw the bottom a river no doubt the river that carved this canyon millions of years ago. Not knowing how deep it was didn't help him much and couldn't since he couldn't fly so just as he neared the water he crossed his arms over his chest like an X hugging them close as he lifted and thrust his legs down towards the water straightening his body out.

'SLAM, CRACK!, thwoooom,'

'tchhhh,tchhhh,tchhh.'

Lamar tried his damnedest to swim to the surface as his Nano suit's re-breather proved not to be damaged in the crash. He neard the surface calming down and that is when the adrenaline deiced to stop flowing and his body erupted in pain, and his head felt like it was splitting open. He blanked out and the last thing he saw was a grey claw reaching down threw the cloud of his own blood.

6 hours later.

Lamar shot up right and immediately wished he hadn't as pain racked his body. He quickly did a diagnostic with his nano-suit. As he waited for it to finish he looked around and noticed that he was in some kind of nest and what he saw he didn't like.

There in the nest with him were some large flesh colored pulsing puss sacks. He looked to his right and saw on a rock was the one thing he DID NOT want to see right now. A brawler but not just any brawler an enhanced brawler but unlike the others he had seen before it had scales so it was obviously mutated from a dragon and a relatively small one in comparison to the ones he had seen, obviously larger than spike but smaller than king Neltherion and queen Dagger. It quickly shoved its snout into he air and took in two great sniffs of the air and immediately looked at him.

It was then that his diagnostic decided to display itself and it was not good. He had two suit punctures AKA he had large chunks of shrapnel stuck inside of his body stuff that could not simply be grown into or pushed out by the suit. So he had to take them out himself so he supposed the nice thing is that he doesn't have to worry about infection for obvious reasons.

'Great, out of the frying pan...' he thought as he checked the rest of his HUD and VERY slowly began to check himself.

'What the fuck? how do i still have this?' he thought to himself as he felt his asagi still in his leg sheath.

The Brawler then jumped down from its rock and approached him as he slowly very slowly unsheathed the asagi and slit it under his person. He was in no condition to try to use his powers this thing would tear him apart before he could even move to attack. So he held it in a reverse grip under his back as the beast crawled over him and began sniffing him up and down.

'that's it just a bit... NOW' Lamar thought as he saw his opportunity and brought the knife up and began stabbing furiously at its mouth, eyes and soft ear membrane. He had heard a story of a marine killing a normal brawler in a similar fashion during the New manhatten outbreak and if it worked for him.

The beast began attempting to claw at him but was unable to as its eyes were now nothing but empty bloody holes. It began thrashing as Lamar kept stabbing and slashing at the now pulped flesh until it let out one final raur and fell limp on top of him as he stabbed it under the jaw with the last of his strength.

'crunch, crunch, crack.'

'Oh yes.' Lamar thought as he stood felt the brawler begin to be consumed before the consummation stopped now leaving a large semi consumed corpse on top of him now pressing the shrapnel into his body. So he began to push and squirm out from under the stubborn corpse.

"Get the-fuck off of me... bitch" he said as he finaly got out from under the corpse. He then leaned on the corpse and tore off a piece of armor from the beast. He then proceeded to "Change" into his casual clothes which consisted of the lower portion of the Blackwatch uniform without shirt since he had to take out the shrapnel. he clamped the piece of armor between his teeth as he laid stomach first on the corpse as he reached behind him and grabbed the largest piece just under his wing.

'hnggn, hgiiiiigngng, hiii,hiih, hnnnnngh, *SHINK*, Guuugh!' he finally got the piece out of his back and looked at it against his diagnostic on his HUD and saw it was the one that kept him from flying. But he could feel the burning inside.

"fuck." the wound had been partially cauterized it would take a while to heal at least it wasn't completely cauterized if it had he would never fly again. he then flipped onto his back and looked to his right leg and saw the piece of metal in his thigh. He then tried to pull it out NOPE that wasn't happening. so he grabbed the tip and slid the blade of his asagi partly into the wound itself and began to slowly lift it out, his hands never stopped shaking from the pain and when the wound was open enough he pulled the shrapnel from his leg with a wet 'schwink'.

"fuuuch..." was the last thing he got out before passing out.

Some time later.

He awoke to the sound of a wet crack if that could even be a sound, and looked to his left to see one of the puss sacks rip open as a claw emerged. then another series of cracks and rips and he looked around to see the other five sacks were opening. It was strange to him as he had seen brawlers "hatch" before in the NMZ but these seemed off more natural than the others. He watched the first one as it ripped again and he saw a glowing red eye starring at him.

"Shit." he said as he watched them all burst open spilling juices and a thick viscus blood like matter all over the floor covering him. The first brawler that emerged first was an enhanced brawler it was smaller than brawlers should have been about the size of a dog that came up to about his upper thigh. a large dog that had spikes about five thick flesh colored spikes on its back, with claws, large teeth, that eats people so not a dog really.

'i am gonna fucking die.'  his thought process was cut off as he felt something drip onto his shoulder and when he looked up he saw two more enhanced brawlers above him and another stalking to the firsts side. Last a slightly thinner one a spiked brawler hatching with six thin armored testicles sprouting from between its forelegs and hind legs. And two thin fleshy flaps behind and on ether side of its head giving it a slightly rabbit like appearance pushed passed the two in front of him and thrust its snout in front of his face taking large snort like inhales. Before to his amazement backing up and making a strange guttural whining noise.

"Biological imprint complete. storing in deep layers." the suit chimed in providing an answer as to why he wasn't dead already. He looked down to see that he was actually covered in the goo that he had apparently been laying in. And apparently that goo had saved him from being torn to peaces by five newly hatched brawlers.

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Lamar changed and waited until dark to exit the cave, He peaked his head out and made sure the coast was clear before exiting. He entered walked over to the river where apparently he had been found and retrieved for food by the adult brawler earlier. His head quaked in searing pain drooping him to his knees at the shore and he looked into the water seeing his reflection. He was wearing a set of white armor plates over his BDU having a series of grey interlocked hexagons that gradually faded into solid white. And on his head was a helmet with a slightly glowing visor over his eyes. But what confused him the most was his right shoulder pad, on its broad face were two strange triangular lined shaped symbols with the Crynet OPS.

'crack'

Lamar's ear twitched as the sound of a twig snapping, acting quickly he silently slid into the water submerging him self and activating his armors Cloak. There two of them, two earth ponies one male one female in gas-masks and glowing goggles, then he saw the arm bayonets then it clicked.

"Blackwatch.. wait no." he cut himself off as he got a closer look they didn't have the stranded uniform. In the dawn light he could see they wore black under suits with midnight blue armor plates covering there bodies, the armor on the female was more stream line fitting her figure while the males was more bulky. only one group in blackwatch wore that armor only the elite of the elite.

"Red line Commandos." He muttered under his breath as he slowly slid deeper under water.

"Come on Dawn we should be out there on the front line not here looking for a corpse." the male said looking at the female. She snapped her head to look at him and with one swift motion she pushed him against the trunk of a tree.

"How dare you Dusk. This is Prince Raptor you are talking about, watch your mouth." she snapped moving her mask to just inches from his own.

"Oh come on he is just another noble. So what if he has all this stuff, so what if he founded the truce between the ponies and changelings. He got my brother killed so to me he will just be another prick. And if it wasn't for him my dad would have been been a general by now." he retorted pushing her back and setting off again.

"You always were stupid and never knew when to shut your mouth but Watch your self Dusk you are bordering on treason. " she responded as she began walking again.

"Ew what the fuck is this thing." Dusk muttered as he kicked over a log to reveal the odd enhanced brawler Lamar had seen in the cave.

"Come on leave it alone. It hasn't done anything to you." Dawn said pushing Dusk away from the animal.

"Its scared. hey its alright we wont hurt you." she said softly as she crouched down extending her armored hand which the brawler poked with one of its soft tentacles before recoiling swiftly and shivered, its 'ears' were flat.  It then looked in Dusk's direction and let out a guttural growl bearing it teeth as its ears went up as its tentacles began wiggling as they flared out.

"Well look what we have here." he said snatching Dawns attention away from the strange animal. As he bent down after kicking a piece of derbies over. He picked up a compound bow that looked to be heavily modified next to what looked like a bloody tactical vest.

"There is your proof. He is just lucky I didn't get to him first." He said as he dropped the bow and began rummaging threw the pockets in the vest before taking out a picture.

"Well well lookie here, quite the specimen, not half bad for changeling scum. come on lets go I've got the need to breed. " he commented coldly before pushing passed Dawn who was still looking at the vest before she casually looked at the spot where Lamar was cloaked. She seemed to lean forward before tossing a rock at the spot which lamar slowly moved to avoid. And once she was satisfied that there was nothing there seeing the rock hit the other rocks below she stood up.

"Its treason then." She quietly as she looked at Dusk's back. And to Lamars surprise she silently took out her side arm.

'Pop, Pop'

"what the fuck, you bitch." Dusk grunted clutching the hole in his stomach where his partner had shot him.

"You wont need this any more." Dawn said as she snatched his helmet off and kicked his rifle from his back, before reaching down and snatching his sidearm.

"Scum." she muttered as she walked back the way they came leaving her former partner to bleed to death.

"that's cold." Lamar said to himself as he waited until Dawn was out of sight. Who ever this Raptor guy was he must be quite the guy to parent that kind of loyalty.

"Dont leave me here! You Bitch!" Dusk yelled and for a second Dawns distant form stopped before disappearing. Slowly Lamar slid out of the water and dropped his cloak as he power was about to run out. As he did he saw that the mortally wounded commando had noticed him.

"I knew it, I knew you..." he began as his attention was diverted from the Alicorn in CELL armor to a rustling sound coming from all around him. The commando and alicorn looked to see the four "small" spiked brawlers emerge from the bushes, before hearing a guttural hiss and they looked up at the tree Dusk was leaning on to see the odd Brawler bearing its teeth. Dusk looked around and saw that his rifle was out of reach lying uselessly in the grass.

"You bastard i'm gonna kill you!" he yelled as he tried to lunge at the alicorn only to land face first in the dirt.

"Obviously the blood loss has gotten to you." Lamar said as he walked up and kicked the commando onto his back.

"I'll take take that." he added as he snatched the photo from Dusk's hand only to be stabbed in the throut spraying the commando with blood. But thats as far as he got as Lamar simply grabbed the stallions wrist and squeezed untill Dusk lost his grip.

"Bad move fuck face." Lamar said as he took stood up and removed the knife from his neck.

"Sic'em." The Cell armored alicorn ordered as he tossed the knife into the water.

"No no stay back, aahha..." Dusk screamed out as the Brawlers closed in and began devouring him.

Lamar walked over to the vest and picking up the bow. To his surprise what looked like an arrow head and fletching emerged from a long box on the side of the bow before telescoping out to into an arrow.

"Oh thats cool." he muttered to himself as he on reflex flicked his wrist and the top of the bow folded down. So he put it away before looking through the vest and found a few magazines and a few other odds and ends.

He heard a crunching, ripping sound and looked over his shoulder and saw the Commandos inerds spilled on the ground, his rib cage ether crushed inward or pulled and broken outward, his head or what was left of it had a large chunk missing. And He had a pretty good feeling that Dusk had been ripped in half at the waist if the piece of spinal cord were anything to go on. The Odd Brawler was clutching the stomach in its claws spilling bile and what have you all over the place as it pit into it.

"You are a bunch of mean fuckers aren't ya." He mused as they looked at him for a second tilted there heads and began eating again.

"Good talk... well what do we have here?" he mused as he walked up to the discarded rifle on the ground a brand new Morita carbine.

'It must be my lucky day.' he thought as felt something brush up against him. He looked down to see the odd Brawler looking up at him with its glowing red eyes it then its tentacles blossomed out and one wrapped it self around his leg gently. He reached down and scratched the soft flesh behind its ear and it quickly flipped over onto its back. As he began scratching  the spots between armor un its underside as its tentacles began wiggling. He leaned over to see that the spot where the the tentacles were sprouted to see that they came form small holes on ether side of her body, sprouting from a patch of patch of skin that looked like a blossom. He continued to scratch the skin between the plates before finally getting a feel of the soft skin beneath. It wasn't hard or scaly like he thought at first it was intact velvet soft. The odd Brawler rolled back to her claws and stared at him, he couldn't just leave them here because they would just follow him anyway like they followed him here from the cave. He signed and glanced where the the tentacle sprouts from and an idea came to mind.

"How do you like Blossom?" he asked only to get a snort in response.

"Fine. how about... um ooh i know. Velvet." This time the brawler pressed the top of its head against his hand.

"Alright Velvet it is." He said as he looked to the other brawlers off doing there own thing. The mutilated corps of what used to be a Commando left to rot.

"Where are the others?" hr asked Velvet who simply tilted her head to the side. He looked from her to where he had seen the others previously only to see there mutilated corpses except for one the other female in the group with a set of ears like its sister. Unlike the others which had been killed by Velvet this brawler was the runt of the batch the "litter?". And like Velvet it had tenticals but unlike its sister it had two magenta tipped tendril like inteni positioned directly behind the head that are about as long as its body.

"Violent little fucker aren't you?" he said to Velvet got a guttural chirp in response from Velvet her ears raised high in excitement. He lowered his hand and patted the brawler hatchling's head.

"Now how about you?" he asked himself as he neared the spiked brawler. It had a cluster of small studs on its back that no doubt would be a fierce set of stalky spikes when it was older. He extended his hand out to which the brawler sniffed before licking his hand. He patted her on the head before he noticed she was sitting on something and when he looked he saw that it was the Commandos crushed helmet. The brawler saw that he saw and pushed it away before giving him the most innocent look it could muster its glowing purple eyes. Lamar glanced to Velvet and she had glowing red yes but unlike her sister Velvet had human looking eyes with glowing red iris while this brawlers eyes were one solid color.

"Quite the angel aren't you?" he said smiling as she softly rapped one of her tendrils around his hand.

"Angel, Velvet. The mare went west, but the craves ends to the east. Lets, go." he commanded as he pulled the action on his Morita carbine and set off.