This time they were transferred to the woods located near the northern city limits of Canterlot Town. The area was quiet, despite the many species of animals that lived there; they knew an unwanted species had entered their turf and their instincts told them to run away as fast as possible. Some weren't that lucky and were caught by the invaders, thus explaining why the area reeked of blood. Sunset covered her nose with one hand and crouched next to the severed head of a deer.

"Fluttershy will freak out if-- No, when she hears of this." she muttered.

They heard the sound of rustling leaves coming from nearby. The group looked around, searching for the source of the noise, when they finally realized it was coming from above.

Dozens and dozens of giant insects were hanging from the branches or standing on them - the smaller ones were the size of puppies while the larger ones were taller than the average adult human. Even though they were noticed, the insects just stood there, watching them.

"Shit shit shit shit!" Shimmer said as she dropped her Pile Driver, picked up a Gib Rifle and pointed it at the giant insects.

"What the hell?" Roll said in disbelief. "Why did you drop your best weapon?"

"I can't use it here." Shimmer answered. "There are too many trees."

"Too many-- Seriously?! I can't believe you of all people are one of those fucking tree huggers."

"Trees are important to the world, okay?"

"For fuck's sake, why did this had to happen to me? If we die because of your enviromentally friendly bullshit, I swear to Christ I will torment you forever in the afterlife."

"I was there. There is no afterlife."

"Sure, whatever, Lorax."

"Heads-up, everybody!" Sunset warned. She could hear the sound of something stepping on dry leaves and twigs. Something big. Soon enough the group was approached by what appeared to be a 8 ft tall cockroach, but walking on two legs instead of six, and munching on the corpse of a dead fox, which it held with two of the four remaining legs. It didn't look dangerous, just curious.

"EW! KILL IT! KILL IT!" Norman yelled as he grabbed a Gib Gun and shot it repeatedly. The giant cockroach exploded and he sighed in relief. "Fuck me, I hate those things..."

After witnessing their comrade being murdered in cold blood, the other crawlers approached the group, but this time with murderous intentions. Treble immediately hid behind Nolan as soon as he saw a group of spiders the size of dogs.

"Don't be a pansy, you have a gun!" Nolan reminded him.

"Huh, yes, you're right." Treble pointed his Gib Rifle at the largest of the spiders. "It's your turn to fear me, spiders!"

"That's the spirit!" Nolan cheered as he readied his Katana.

The entire group fought fiercely, completely slaughtering the group of invaders. Obviously, the aliens didn't just stood there waiting to die, they fought back. The spiders tried to bind the hunters with their sticky web, but it was not match for the sharp edge of their Katanas. The winged ones tried to carry a few of them away from the battlefield so that they could fight them solo, but all of them died trying. It was up to the insects with multiple limbs to try and punch the hunters into submission, but they all failed miserably. The only one who had a decent fight was a giant mantis. With its strong front legs, the mantis was capable of blocking the sword attacks, and with its above average speed, it was also capable of avoiding Gib Gun shots by hiding behind rocks and trees. It took a considerable amount of effort to take it down, but Norman and Nolan worked together and killed it.

"Wow." Shimmer said while wiping her sweaty forehead with the back of her hand. "That fight was surprisingly tough."

"I agree with that." Sunset said, sitting down on the trunk of a fallen tree. "They just wouldn't stop coming, it's like BB transferred us right to the middle of their hive or something."

"You think it's over already?" Norman asked. "Maybe the mantis thing was the Big Boss?"

"No, the mantis was just above average when compared to the others. Besides, BB isn't calling us back, so it's not over yet."

"Help!" the entire group heard a very high-pitched voice calling from nearby. After inspecting the area, Midna smirked when she located their target, curled up and hiding behind bushes; it was very small, barely the size of a chameleon. "H-Help!"

She pointed her Gib Rifle at the Bug Alien. "Arrivederci, motherfu--"

Before she could either pull the trigger or finish that sentence, she was thrown away by a powerful kick to the face, flying a few feet away and rolling a few feet more before crashing against a tree stump. The group is surprised by the fact that the creature who kicked Midna looked mostly human; the foe was a very tall and bulky bald man. If it weren't for his feet which only contained two toes each and the rhinoceros beetle horn located on his forehead, he could easily pass up as a human being.

The man was soon joined by two others, who also looked very similar to humans; the first was another man, also tall but with not nearly as many muscles. He was very handsome with long golden hair, a pair of butterfly wings on his back and antennae on his forehead. The third and final foe was female, who had long and wavy pink hair and a scorpion tail wrapped around her torso and midriff.

"These guys look like trouble." Adagio said as she pointed her Dual Gib Guns at the butterfly man and the scorpion lady at the same time.

Treble helped Midna up then readied his Gib Rifle. "I'll take a wild guess and say those are the Big Bosses."

"Then what are we waiting for? Shoot to kill!" she ordered.

Midna and Treble shot at the trio. Since he stood in place, they successfully destroyed the rhinoceros beetle man's right arm off, but the scorpion and the butterfly managed to avoid the attack.

"Shit." Treble said. "I should have focused my shots on him, not the butterflyggot."

His torso was suddenly pierced by a giant scorpion tail. He turned his head to look at his assailant, who was standing right behind him with her arms crossed.

"B-B-But..." he managed to say. "M... My suit..." she bent her tail and pierced his throat before he could say anything else.

Before Midna could react, the butterfly man flew over her, grabbed her by the hair and carried her away. Without dropping Treble's body to the ground, she went back to the bushes, picked up the Bug Alien hidden in there and ran to the same direction the butterfly man went.

"What... The... Fuck?" Roll mumbled.

"Are you just going to stand there?" Sunset asked. "Midna needs our help!"

"But what about that?" Norman pointed at the rhinoceros beetle man standing a couple of meters away from them, who was inspecting his wound.

Shimmer pointed at Nolan, Roll and Norman. "You, you and you stay here and kill that thing. We'll go after the others!"

Adagio, Shimmer, Hope and Sunset run past the horned man while Roll pointed his Rifle at him and Nolan and Norman readied their swords.

"Oh, so you're actually going to listen to her?" Norman asked.

"I'm not doing this for her, I'm doing this for me." Roll explained. "One killed Treble and the other kidnapped Midna. I respect one and don't want to stop the other. Besides, this one is injuried and ready to die. If she asked me to go, I would have stayed here anyway!"

"Wow, you're more of a pussy than Treble." Nolan pointed out.

"Fuck you, let's kill that thing and be done with it!"

* * *

Midna struggled, but the bug man's grip on her hair wasn't getting any looser and all she accomplished was a sharp pain on her scalp. She wanted to shoot it, but she accidently dropped her Gib Rifle when she was grabbed by the monster, and since her suit was broken when she got kicked by the other bug man, all she could do was hang in there, enduring the pain of being dragged away by her hair.

Meanwhile, on the ground, the girls were still chasing the kidnappers. The butterfly man noticed this and started waving his antennae in a certain pattern; the most powerful of the Bug Alien race had the ability to share their thoughts with other bugs that were weaker than them or shared similar strength, and he used this ability to warn the scorpion woman about the approaching group. Deciding to let him handle the situation on his own, she placed the Bug Alien on top of her head. Now that both her arms were free, the butterfly dropped Midna. The scorpion jumped and grabbed the girl before she hit the ground, then resumed her run.

"What are they doing?" Hope asked.

"He's coming this way!" Adagio stopped and readied her Duel Gib Guns. Following suit, Sunset grabbed her Gib Rifle and Hope pointed her Web Gun at him.

"You keep him busy, I'll go after the other." Shimmer said without stopping.

The butterfly man graciously landed on the ground in front of the three ladies. Adagio shot first.

* * *

Despite his size, the beetle man wasn't slow at all. Using his horn as a melee weapon, he fought Nolan, who could only defend his attacks with his Katana. He dodged most shots but Roll managed to land a few, and even though part of his chest was gone, the bug man could still fight like nothing was wrong. Norman, who was hiding and waiting for the perfect opportunity, finally decided to strike: jumping from a branch, he tried to bury his sword on the monster's back, but nothing happened - like an actual Earth beetle, the monster had chitin protecting his back, and it was hard as a rock. Spinning quickly, he knocked Norman away with his horn and kicked Nolan's ribs, sending both Hunters flying.

"Well, fuck." Nolan said to himself as he sat up. "We can't attack him directly because he'll see us coming and either block or dodge. And we can't attack him from behind because his back has a fucking armor." he finally noticed that the blue gel inside the caps of his suit was leaking. "Shit..."

"I'm not giving up!" Roll said as he kept shooting. The beetle man turned his back to him, blocking all of the shots. Not even the explosive shots of the Gib Rifle were enough to break it. It was then that Norman noticed a small detail.

"Alright, let's do this!" he grabbed his Katana and sprinted toward his target. "LEEROOOOOOOOY JEN--"

Before he could land a hit, the rhinoceros beetle man raised his left arm and grabbed him by the neck. Even though his suit was broken, Nolan grabbed his sword and rushed to save his friend.

"Neck..." Norman managed to say. "Neck..."

"Yes, he's choking you, I see that, let me--"

"N-No..." he slowly lifted his arm and pointed at the beetle man. "Neck..."

Nolan finally noticed it too: the alien's chitin protected his back and his head, but a small portion of his nape was exposed to allow mobility. Their foe then threw Norman as far away as he could, giving Nolan the perfect opportunity to cut his head off and finally kill the beast.

* * *

Shimmer lost sight of the Bug Alien and its protector, the scorpion woman. Instead, she located Midna, sitting on a clearing in front of a large tree.

"Getting dragged away by the hair like that like a Barbie doll must've been really embarrassing, huh?" she joked. "But you managed to get away on your own, so I guess that's worth a few respect points back."

But Midna didn't reply. She just sat there, sprawled, unmoving. That made Shimmer raise an eyebrow.

"Hey, are you ok? Did you pass out or something? Or... Are you...?" after looking around to make sure that wasn't a trap, she cautiously approached the girl with violet hair and shook her shoulder gently. "Hey, are-- Whoa!" thanks to that small movement, gravity made Midna lower her head, exposing the hole on the back of her head and the little Bug Alien inside it, devouring the dead girl's brain. "That's sick on so many levels." she raised her Gib Gun and pointed it at the corpse's head, but a giant scorpion tail wrapped itself around her arm before she could pull the triggers.

The scorpion lady had returned, and she was eating a leg that most likely used to belong to Treble. She swung her tail, throwing the Hunter away before she could react. Taking the opportunity, the Bug Alien crawled away from the clearing and into the bushes, once again disappearing in the darkness of the woods.

"Ok, so this one favors close range combat. Long range weapons won't do shit right now." she muttered as she holstered her Gib Gun and unsheathed her Katana. "Bring it on."

The scorpion lady dropped the leg she was munching on, deciding to save it for later, crossed her arms and thrusted her tail at Shimmer, who easily blocked with her Katana. After a couple more of failed attempts, she smirked, deciding that it was worth to put some effort into fighting this foe, and gradually raised her thrusting speed, trying to attack from all kinds of angles. Fortunately for the human girl, her fighting skills far surpassed her shooting skills, which were already on an elite rank.

The scorpion woman scowled; wasting time and energy were some of the things she hated the most, so she decided to cut to the chase and land the finishing blow. Recoiling her tail, she thrusted again with superhuman strength and speed that most humans couldn't even see, much less act in time to defend themselves, but Shimmer was not like most humans; acting fast, she ducked and swung her sword, cutting off the monster's tail and spilling yellow blood and purple venom on the grass. After letting out a screech of pain and anger, the scorpion tried to punch Shimmer, who pressed her Gib Gun to the alien's chin, then pulled both triggers. She still tried to fight, but Shimmer just jumped out of her reach and went after the little bug that escaped - the scorpion lady's head exploded before she could go after her.

Shimmer checked the map on her Controller, immediately identifying what each white dot represented: she could see Nolan, Roll and Norman already killed their target and were now running toward her general direction. Meanwhile, Adagio, Hope and Sunset were still fighting the butterfly man. She could also see herself looking around for the oversized caterpillar, but the dot representing the Bug Alien was nowhere to be seen. After a while looking around, she finally located it; the Bug Alien hid itself in the trees and had wrapped a silk cocoon around itself.

She tried shooting the cocoon with both the Gib Gun and Gib Rifle, but they were completely ineffective. She then tried the Web Gun, but the energy ropes ended up getting tangled in the thick silk lines, also rendering that weapon useless. The Katana was also not the best option, since the cocoon was surprisingly resistant. She took a deep breath and pointed the Pile Driver at it.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Tree." she was about to shoot when she realized that the cocoon was growing bigger; when she found it it was barely larger than the Bug Alien itself, but now it was the size of an adult cat, and still growing. When it reached the size of a human being, the cocoon started to rupture. Smirking, Shimmer readied her sword once again.

* * *

The butterfly man held Hope hostage; every time he fluttered his wings they released small golden spores that could paralyze any living creature once it inhaled a certain amount. Since Hope was the youngest and smallest, the amount needed to affect her was considerably smaller than the amount needed to affect Sunset or Adagio. After realizing what the spores were capable of, they covered their faces and now had to fight him with only one hand each. The butterfly man picked Hope up as soon as she fell down and now carried her on his shoulder, ready to use her as a human shield if needed.

"Alright, we need a plan." Sunset asked.

"I--" Adagio started.

"One that does not involve Hope getting hurt deliberately."

"Who do you think I am?"

"Just to make sure."

The butterfly man smirked internally; taking the smallest one hostage would guarantee his survival. Since the two others were too busy discussing something he took the chance to spread his wings and take off.

"Wait, come back here, you fucking coward!" Adagio pointed her Gib Gun at him.

"NO!" Sunset yelled as she slapped the gun away from her hand. "What if you hit Hope?"

"Her suit isn't broken yet."

"I'm not taking any chances! Let's follow him and see where he goes while we think of something to do."

He knew those foes were strong. He watched as they slaughtered their soldiers, and that's why he decided to opt for a sneak attack. He couldn't face them. Not alone. But what he felt just moments ago was exactly what he'd been expecting for a long time: a new Queen was born. With her around, there was no way he would be killed by--

He started to fall. For some reason he couldn't flap his wings anymore. He looked down and realized that his wings, torso and left arm were bound by some sort of glowing rope. He looked at his hostage and saw she had snapped out of his induced daze and attacked him with her rope-shooting gun. Of course, how could he forget? Without constant exposure, the effect of his spores only lasted a couple of minutes, just enough for him to run away and call for backup.

Hope pulled the third trigger of her Web Gun and her captor slowly started to disappear. He disappeared completely before falling on the tree on which Hope landed. After climbing down, she found Adagio and Sunset were already there, waiting for her.

"Great job up there, pipsqueak!" Adagio ruffled her hair.

"You did great, Hope!" Sunset hugged her.

"But we need to move on, though." Adagio said while looking at her Controller. "I thought this was the last, but it appears that Shimmer is having trouble with the one she went after."

Sunset and Hope nodded and the three dashed toward the direction of the dot in Adagio's Controller that represented Shimmer and her foe.

* * *

Shimmer was hiding behind a tree, breathing heavily. Her suit was broken, she was covered in bruises, her left leg was swollen and her right arm was probably broken. She tried to keep her respiration steady so that she wouldn't give away her position, but no matter how much she tried, she just couldn't calm herself down.

"What is that thing?" she thought. "Why is it s strong? It was just a little piece of shit just a while ago, but now..."

"Look, there she is." Norman, who was standing a few meters away with Nolan and Roll, pointed out. He then yelled: "HEY, SHIMMER! Or maybe it's Sunset? ARE YOU SHIMMER OR SUNSET?"

If it wasn't for the broken arm she would have facepalmed, and if it wasn't for the swollen leg she would have dashed toward Norman and strangled him. But now all she could do was scream:

"IDIOTS, GET DOWN!"

As soon as she warned them, a big portion of the ground below her erupted, sending her, earth, rocks and trees flying everywhere. Nolan and Norman immediately readied their Katanas and Roll looked through the scope of his Gib Rifle. They all gasped in surprise when they finally saw what the Big Boss of the mission looked like: it was Midna. A few differences here and there, but it was basically Midna. The key differences were her eyes, that were now completely black, the pair of antennae poking from under her long, violet hair - which was no longer tied up in a ponytail - the thick white fur that completely covered her legs and wrists and the pair of transparent insect wings on her back.

"Y'know..." Norman said as he inspected her naked body, her perky breasts and the patch of violet pubic her above her exposed vulva. "...I'm not gonna lie, I always thought Midna was hot and wanted to see her naked ever since I first laid eyes on her. But now that I have..." he sighed. "...it's just not what I expected."

"Less ogling, more killing!" Roll said as he shot at her. She looked at her abdomen moments before it exploded, sending yellow blood and guts. They expected her to die, or at least scream, but all she did was stare at the hole. It didn't took long for the hole to start closing itself, and in just a couple of seconds it was like there never was a hole there to begin with.

"Fuck, this one regenerates." Nolan muttered to himself while trying to come up with a plan.

"So you're already here." Adagio said as she and her two companions approached the group. "What's the situation?"

"We're fighting that thing that looks like Midna." Norman explained. "But she can regenerate and I'm pretty sure she killed either Sunset or Shimmer."

"She what?!" Sunset yelled.

"Well, since you're reacting like that, I'm guessing you're Sunset."

"Not to bother or anything but WE GOTTA KILL THIS FUCKING THING!" Roll warned them as he kept shooting the Midna-looking alien, who just kept regenerating all the damage caused to her. She finally decided that enough was enough and pointed a finger at Roll. At first he was confused by this, but understood what she did as soon as the ground underneath him started shaking. Roll tried to run, but he was caught in the blast. The others weren't that far from ground zero, but the damage was reduced significantly due to the fact that the explosion was focused on a point, so the area around that point was less affected.

The alien fluttered her wings and graciously flew closer to the group, landing a few feet away from Norman. She started to raise her arm, but Norman jumped and cut it off before she could explode the ground once again.

"Hah! Take that." he gloated. "You can close a few wounds, big deal. Let me see you regenerate an entire limb." to his surprise, that's exactly what she did: a new limb appeared in place of the previous one like it was pushed out of her wound. The Midna-looking Bug Alien then turned and pointed her recently regenerated finger at him. "Well, I'll be damned." she suddenly moved her finger from pointing at him to pointing down. Thinking that she was trying to show him something, he looked down only to see the ground beneath him explode.

"ATTACK!" Adagio commanded, then proceeded to shoot at her with her Dual Gib Guns. Sunset picked up Roll's Gib Rifle and started shooting as well. Hope shot at her with the Web Gun, binding her in place. Just to make sure, Nolan cut her in half. The two halves of the alien then exploded, leaving just an arm intact.

"We did it?" Hope asked. "We won?"

But it wasn't time for celebration yet, for Midna Alien regenerated herself from that arm in just a few seconds.

"SECOND TRY!" Adagio yelled, but before they could shoot just a single time, the Big Boss flapped her wings and flew at her with extreme speed, headbutting her in the face and sending her flying several feet away. She quickly turned around and smacked Sunset in the face with the back of her hand, making the girl spin a couple of times and smash against a tree, breaking it.

Nolan was the next, getting punched in the stomach. He bowed down in pain, clutching his stomach, and ended up getting kneed in the face. He flew a few feet up in the air and landed on his back, barely conscious. Hope was the last, grabbed by the hair, spinned around and thrown like an Olymic hammer.

Adagio limped back to the battlefield. Her suit and a few ribs were broken, and while she clutched her side with one hand, she could still shoot with the other. It didn't help much and she just ended up getting punched in the chest. She coughed blood and fell to the ground like a ragdoll.

The pain was nearly unbearable, so opening her eyes was a nearly impossible task for Hopewell. When she did, though, the first things she managed to recognize was the gun BB gave Shimmer lying just a couple of meters away from her. Crawling with the help of the only arm she could move, it took her a few minutes to reach her goal. Hope had no idea how it worked, but judging by the two triggers she just assumed it worked just like the other guns. She used it to help herself sit up, then placed the Pile Driver between her legs, pointing it at the alien that looked like Midna, who was flying toward her. She wanted to scream, she wanted to run, she wanted to cry, but her body refused to let her do any of those things, instead opting to make her squeeze the triggers she had her fingers on.

As if something big and heavy had fallen on top of her, Midna Alien was suddenly pushed to the ground, where a 5 inches deep perfect circle appeared. The Bug Alien was gone, and in her place was now a pool of thick yellow blood that filled the hole Hope had just created with the help of the Pile Driver. Panting, she waited for the monster to regenerate, which never happened. With a smile, Hope laid on her back. She was transferred back to the apartment just a few moments later.

Author's Note

What do you mean this reminds you of Hunter X Hunter? I don't know what you're talking about! Not at all!

Also, sorry for releasing this chapter early and leave it there for 3 hours. My bad! This is the real thing, though.