In the Black Ball room, Roll, Midna and Treble did their best to avoid talking to any of the people who were against them during the Flash Sentry mission, while Pearl did her best to avoid Roll. Sunset tried to warn them about the Vampires, but they turned their backs to her whenever she got close.

"Fuck them!" Shimmer said while pulling her away from the three. "If they don't want to listen, then don't waste your breath."

"You are so young
And you are so free
But you're aimless
And I can't help but see
That you don't know what you really need
Are we there yet? A-A-Are we there yet?
You've done it all
From A to Z
Are you trying
To find your destiny?
One day you'll know who you wanna be
Are we there yet? A-A-Are we there yet?"

"And off we go!" Norman said.

YOU GUYS ARE NOW GOING TO FINISH THIS THING OFF:
MERMAID ALIEN
CHARACTERISTICS: PRETTY, ALLURING
LIKES: SWIMMING, PICK UP LINES
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Come closer, sailor."

The Mermaid Alien was a humanoid female with pale blue skin, a long and flowing sapphire-blue hair, fins instead of ears, gills or the sides of her torso and a pair of shells covering her ample breasts.

"We have to hunt Adagio this time, then?" Norman joked before she pressed his face against the screen of the Black Ball.

"I'd be careful if I was you because you're treading on really thin ice here, young lad." she warned.

"Yo-You're right, my bad. I just noticed the difference. Her breasts are bigger than--"

She let go of his head, but this time used her foot to smash his head against the screen.

"REALLY THIN ICE!"

Sunset did her best to pull the siren away from him.

"And then you whine because you're still a virgin." Nolan said while helping his friend up.

"It's not my fault they can't take a joke..."

They were transferred to the inside of a transparent tunnel underwater, where they could see many fishes swimming in crystal clear waters illuminated by the full moon outside. Adagio immediately glued her face to the glass, looking at everything in awe.

"I know this place." Nolan said. "It's the Canterlot Town Pier Aquarium. My dad used to bring me here all the time."

"Why? To teach you the correct way of sending people to go sleep with the fishes?" Norman joked.

"You're sharp today, aren't you? Now take it down a notch before I take you down."

"Geez Louise, you're all so easily offended. I had a very stressful motherfucking day, I'm just trying to relax the only way I can think of!"

"Really? You of all people had a stressful day? Would you care to elaborate?"

"I spent the best part of the day at the police station. Flash Sentry was at my place before he 'disappeared', remember? I'm still a prime suspect, and they didn't even try to sugarcoat that fact. Do you have any idea how bad it feels to be treated like a criminal?"

"Yes." Nolan said with crossed arms. "The 'Saints Bro' knows very well how it feels to be treated like a criminal."

Norman rubbed the back of his head. "Y-Yeah. Sorry about all that. I had no idea how awful it feels."

"And for your information, my dad is a marine biologist."

"I had no idea Canterlot Town has a place like this." Adagio said while still looking at the fishes. "I would have brought Aria and Sonata here long ago."

"Maybe I can bring you here someday." Sunset offered with a warm smile.

Adagio smiled as well, but then turned around to look and her and cocked an eyebrow. "What are you suggesting?"

"Uh... I... Y'know, show you where this place is so you can bring them here yourself. Just that, nothing else!"

"Hm... Yes, I guess I would appreciate that."

"Um... Not to be a bother or anything, but I'm pretty sure we have an alien to hunt." Pearl said once she realized Treble, Shimmer, Roll and Midna had left long ago.

"Shit, you're right." Adagio said while grabbing her Dual Gib Guns. "Just try not to fuck up the place too bad, I don't want them to be closed for repairs!"

Adagio, Hope and Sunset followed the south path of the tunnel while Nolan, Pearl and Norman followed the north path until they were out of the tunnel and in a dark corridor. The beanie-wearing boy suddenly stopped when he heard a faint singing coming from a corridor; Nolan and Pearl only realized he was missing when the redhead boy found the switch and turned the lights on.

"Fuckin' A." Nolan groaned. "I know his sense of direction is not great, but I never expected him to get lost in a straight corridor."

"Should we look for him?" Pearl asked.

"Nah, whatever crosses his path, he can handle it." he flashed her a smile. "We may show a certain degree of animosity toward each other but, at the end of the day, he's still my friend and I believe in his strength."

"If that's how it is, why don't you show your respect for each other more often?"

"It's a man thing, you wouldn't understand."

The singing got louder as Norman approached the source. The music guided him upstairs and outside the main building, and then he saw her: like the name suggested, she was a half-fish, half-human creature. She was sitting on the opposing edge of a water tank, singing a beautiful tune while gently tapping her caudal fin on the surface of the water. When she noticed the unexpected audience, the Mermaid Alien stopped singing and smiled at him, then jumped in the water and swam to his side of the tank. Norman kneeled to look closer at the beautiful face mere inches under the surface.

"You are so pretty..." he said, as if in a trance.

Her head slowly emerged from the water. The Mermaid Alien cupped his cheeks and slowly pulled his face closer while approaching her own face to his. When the space between their lips was almost nonexistent, she immediately wrapped her arms and pulled him to the depths of the water tank. Finally realizing the trouble he was in, Norman tried to struggle, but his strength was severely reduced due to the fact that they were underwater. After a quick glance around, he realized that he was surrounded by anthropomorphic aquatic creatures of four different species: scrawny fish people, tall shark men with giant muscles, lithe octopus women with several arms and squid children with tentacles instead of hair.

"I can't fight here." Norman thought as he reached for his Gib Gun. "Not right now." Norman pointed his gun at the glass and pulled both triggers. He had no idea if the suit would also protect him from drowning, but he wasn't prepared to test it, and his lungs were at their limit. The glass shattered, flooding the corridors with crystal clear water and aquatic monsters, giving Norman an opportunity to escape from the target's grasp. Standing at a safe distance from the menagerie of aliens, Norman proceeded to shoot at them with his Gib Gun, killing a few and injuring others.

One of the unhurt shark men managed to escape from the pile of aliens, avoid Norman's shots and grab his arm. The brawny shark lifted the boy and started hitting him on the floor until his suit broke, then bit his left leg. Screaming in agony, Norman tried to force the alien's mouth open with his bare hands, but the shark's jaw muscles were stronger than his arms. Seeing no other way out of this situation, he used his Katana to cut his own leg off. The shark man didn't seem to notice, for he kept on chewing on the severed leg.

Still sore after that beating, Norman tried to crawl away. The shark finally noticed that the rest of his victim was gone and tried to attack him once again, but his head exploded and his body landed a few feet behind the green beanie boy. The rest of the water aliens in the corridor were also dealt with, but the Mermaid Alien managed to escape.

"It's okay, I got you." Sunset said as she used pieces of his ripped suit as makeshift tourniquet in order to stop the bleeding. "I got you. You're not going to die. No one is going to die. I won't let anyone else die!"

* * *

Following the singing, Roll, Midna and Treble located the Mermaid Alien, who was surrounded by more fish-like creatures, listening closely to her beautiful song. After noticing the three Hunters, she stopped and pointed a finger at them. Her minions immediately turned around and ran at the trio with murderous intentions as Roll readied his Gib Rifle.

"Alright, we can do it, guys." he looked around, realizing that he was alone. "Guys?"

Roll tried to fight the aliens, successfully killing a few of them, but an octopus woman constricted him with her many arms, allowing a shark man to repeatedly punch him and the squid kids to spray him with ink. Meanwhile, Midna and Treble were shooting at them from a safe distance - they were planning on using Roll as bait from the start, and everything worked according to plan. After all the aliens that did not ran away from the slaughter were dealt with, the couple approached the bruised and battered young man lying on the ground.

"You think he's a goner?" Treble asked.

"Better use science to see if he's dead." Midna said as she kicked him in the face. Since there was no immediate reaction she shrugged and walked away, followed by her boyfriend. "Yup, he's dead!"

The Mermaid Alien watched from behind a map board as the killing duo left. She motioned for her remaning followers to get out of the water, which they did - all she had left were one shark man, three octopus women, eight fish people and five squid kids. The fish aliens followed their leader around, finally coming across another human. After looking around to make sure that one was alone, the Mermaid pointed at the woman with bright red and gold hair, commanding them to attack.

"You think you got me?" Shimmer asked while couting how many enemies surrounded her. "It's quite the opposite, actually." she spreaded her arms out, holding a Gib Gun with one hand and a Gib Rifle with the other. "It is I, Sunset Shimmer, who got all of you!"

Shimmer started to spin while pulling the upper trigger several times. The aliens tried to attack her, but she just kept dodging and jumping every time they tried to tackle her, constrict her or spray her with ink. After she was done, she jumped on top of a fountain with the statue of a swordfish and pulled the lower triggers. Mere moments later, the group of aquatic monsters exploded into a giant puddle of gore. Aware that she had no living minion left on the planet, the Mermaid Alien turned around and tried to crawl away to safety, until a black blade pierced her back and pinned her to the ground.

"Three is a good number of singing beauties living in one planet, four is just overkill. That means you have to go." Adagio grabbed the caudal fin of the mermaid and pulled with all her strength; the Katana piercing her back wouldn't budge due to the fact that a large portion of its blade was stuck in the ground, allowing Adagio to easily cut the upper half of the Mermaid Alien's body in two and throw her lifeless corpse in a water tank.

"This mission made me hungry for sushi." Shimmer metioned while rubbing her stomach.

Meanwhile, inside the main building, Nolan and Pearl were looking around with their guns ready to shoot. The boy then motioned for her to stop.

"I heard something." he said while they tiptoed their way to the main hall. After arriving there, they found something they already expected to see, but were surprised to see anyway: a giant white octupus with glowing blue eyes and dozens of tentacles coming from below its body was in front of the main hallway that led to the underwater corridors of the aquarium. The octopus, which was most likely the Big Boss of the mission, noticed them as well, and lunged its many tentacles at them. Having seen enough hentai to know where this was going, Nolan North grabbed Black Pearl's hand and tried to flee from there.

"The mission should be over by now." Sunset, who was taking care of the barely conscious Norman lying on a bench, said. "Why are we still here?"

"Maybe the Big Boss is not dead yet?" Pearl, who was sitting on the edge of the nearby fountain with her bare feet inside the water, suggested.

"I suppose. But making sure Norman makes it is our priority now. The others will take care of it."

They heard the sound of something crashing through a concrete wall and looked around for the source of the noise, finally noticing the giant hole in a wall of the main building. Pearl ran out of the hole and toward Nolan, who was lying on the ground, covered in plaster dust and black ink. Sunset immediately dashed toward them.

"What happened?" she asked.

"D-D-D-D-D-don't l-l-l-let th-th-the in-k-k-k-k to-touch your s-s-s-skin... It p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pa-paralyzes your m-m-musc-cles." he did his best to convey the message.

Sunset noticed that most of his black suit had been ripped apart, exposing his skin to the touch of the black substance.

"OH, COME ON!" Adagio yelled as she and Shimmer finally arrived at the scene. "I TOLD YOU TO BE CAREFUL AND NOT FUCK UP THE PLACE!"

"The Big Boss is in there." Pearl warned. "It threw Nolan and he crashed through the wall."

"Watch out for the ink, Nolan is a living example that it's bad news." Sunset warned.

"Noted!" Shimmer said as she and Adagio entered through the hole.

"YOU'RE DEAD, FUCKSTICK!" Adagio yelled.

"Help me carry him." Pearl nodded and helped Sunset carry the paralyzed boy to the fountain, where they did their best to wash away the ink.

"Man, you got romped!" Norman joked with a weak voice.

"L-L-L-L-L-Look who's t-t-talking, C-Captain Ahab."

"You're strong, you should go help them, Sunset." Pearl said while listening to the sound of explosions coming from the building. "Don't worry, I'll take care of them."

Sunset hesitated for a moment but soon decided that she could trust Black Pearl to nurse them, so she nodded and ran back to the battlefield.

"Wait for me!" Hope said as she ran after Sunset. Meanwhile, in the distance, two people wearing black business suits approached the area.

~ ~ ~

While they were away, Treble and Midna also joined the battle. Things weren't going very well, since the Big Boss's skin was really tough despite its gelatinous look; the Gib Guns barely caused any damage, the Katanas couldn't cut very deep and since the giant octopus was on the entrance of the hallway, the projectiles of the Web Gun couldn't wrap themselves around its body. The monster's tentacles were many, but luckily they were also very slim, so it was easy for Sunset to cut them when they tried to wrap themselves around Hope.

The octopus sprayed ink at Midna, but she dodged at the last second - unfortunately for Treble, he was right behind her and, since the suit did not covered his head, the paralysis effect was very effective.

"Sorry, babe!" Midna apologized with a playful smile.

"I wanted to visit this place." Adagio said as she grabbed the tentacles that the octopus lunged at her. "But it appears that I'll have to wait AT LEAST a month. Thank you!" she pulled the tentacles with all her might, which was increased by the power of her suit. "Thank you VERY MUCH!"

The Big Boss came out of the tunnel like the cork of a bottle being removed - even the sound was similar. Adagio swung it around, smashing the octopus against the walls and floor. After realizing that she only caused more damage to the place she wanted to leave intact, she took a very deep breath and yelled:

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"

Not wanting to waste the chance, Shimmer shot at the alien with her Web Gun, this time successfully binding it. Once their target was secured and ready to go, she pressed the third trigger, sending it "up" and to an unknown destination.

"This isn't nearly as hard as I expected it to be." Troy Thunderclap, Twilight Sparkle's teammate, noted as he realoaded his handgun. "Which begs the question: are we just to good or this gal just sucks?"

Pearl's body was riddled with bullet holes but she was still standing, though not for long, for she tripped on the fountain and fell in the water, its crystal clear water slowly being tainted by her crimson blood.

"Awww, look at what you did!" he whined. "You shouldn't waste blood like that. If you don't want it, at least save it for someone who does."

Twilight Sparkle approached the dying girl, who looked scared, angry and filled with determination at the same. She raised her right arm and the tip of a blade appeared on the palm of her hand, which slowly grew in lenght. In just a few seconds, a sword came out of Twilight's hand, which she used to pierce Pearl's throat. The girl wanted to cry, scream and curse, but the blade damaged her trachea, so all she could do was wait and see if she would choke to death or die of blood loss.

"Alright, I'll deal with the beanie guy, you take the other one out." Twilight nodded and stood beside Nolan, who was lying down on the ground, looking at her in shock.

"Y-Y-Y-You... You a-are..." he tried to speak.

"You're next." Twilight raised her sword and was about to bring it down and behead him, but the sound of explosion coming from behind distracted her. When she turned around to see what just happened, Twilight saw her partner Troy fall to the ground with a huge hole where his right shoulder used to be and his arm fall next to her feet. She looked around and saw a boy with purple hair covered in bruises pointing his Gib Rifle at her. He pulled the triggers, but she dodged the shot and, in no time at all, was standing right in front of him. He tried to react in time, but she stabbed Roll in the stomach.

Roll chuckled when he realized that he was already being transferred, so that wound meant absolutely nothing to him anymore. After he disappeared, Twilight went back to where her other targets were, only to find out they were all already gone, except the girl with brown hair, whose lifeless body was still lying on the fountain. She picked Troy Thunderclap up and walked away.

* * *

"We did it!" Hope said cheerfully.

"Good job, everyone." Sunset said as she looked around the room, but then raised an eyebrow. "Where's Pearl?"

"They... They killed her." Normal Norman said, crestfallen. "Those motherfuckers in black suits killed Pearls!"

"Shit, the Vampires found us?" Shimmer said.

"Tell me that's not real." Sunset said, placing her hands on Norman's shoulders. "Please, tell me you're joking!" he shook his head. She bit her trembling lower lip while tears appeared on the corners of her eyes. Saddened by those news, Hope hugged Sunset's waist and cried.

"And to add insult to the injury..." Nolan clenched his fists. "The one who offed her was Twilight."

"Tw-Twlight?" Sunset's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. "Y-You mean P-P-Princess Twilight Sparkle?"

"Who?" Shimmer asked.

"You mean goody two shoes Twilight Sparkle?" Adagio asked. "Are you sure we're talking about the same person?"

"I may not be one of her friends, but I know what Twilight Sparkle looks like, and I'm telling you that was Twilight motherfucking Sparkle!"

All those shocking news being thrown at her almost at the same time were too much for Sunset Shimmer, who fainted.

Author's Note

They used Roll as bait because they were fighting fish people! Get it? Get it? Mx. Reader, do you get it?

And how much do you wanna bet that at least half of those downvotes came from people thinking "Oh, oh, oh, a fanfic with sex AND gore? Must be some kinky shit I'm not into. Downvote!" That thought cracks me up every time!