The Resistance

Octavia and her team headed just due East of the fortress to the power station. She remembered that place well. It was were she had gotten her scar and her jank eye from. They arrived and hid behind a broken transformer.

"Okay, Vinyl. Phase one complete. Where do we get into this place at?" Octavia asked.

"Okay, Tavi. Can you see the first set of transformers next to the front of the building?" Vinyl replied.

Octavia looked around and saw the set she was meaning.

"Yes." She said.

"Okay, just between those two. If you can just pry that crate open, you can get into the facility without any alarms or anything." Vinyl replied.

"The sewer? Is there not a better option?" Octavia asked.

"Sorry, Tavi. The only other way is to go through the roof, but, unless you guys can survive a ten point twenty-one gigawatt blast of electricity you have to go through the sewer." Vinyl replied.

Octavia just sighed and motioned for the other two to follow her. They approached the grate and Octavia pulled out a crowbar. She rammed the crowbar into the side of the grate and tried to lift it, but it was too heavy.

"Let me get that." Applespice said as he grabbed the crow bar and pried the grate up.

The grate thumped to the ground and they all jumped inside. Applespice pulled the grate shut as he jumped in.

"Oh, dear Celestia. It smells awful down here." Marigold said.

"Well, it is a sewer." Applespice said as they walked through the foul smelling water.

As they continued to walk, a growling noise came from around a corner up ahead. Octavia threw up her hand in a signal to stop. They all listened as they heard something moving toward them through the water. They saw a shadow of what appeared to be a couple of dogs. Applespice began whistling at them.

"It's just some lost dogs guys. Come on fellas, we won't hurt you." He said as he moved closer to the corner.

As he moved, the 'dogs' came around the corner. They looked like dogs, but, they were made completely out of steel and had red lights for eyes.

"What the hell?" Applespice asked as the dogs jumped and began attacking them.

The largest one took Applespice to the ground and the second one attacked Marigold and clamped onto her hair as she turned to run. Octavia pulled out a pistol and began shooting the hound.

"Octavia, what the hell is happening down there?" Vinyl asked in her ear.

"We encountered a couple steel hounds. They were patrolling the sewers. How do we take them down? My bullets are just bouncing off." Octavia said as she ran over to try to help Marigold.

"I don't see anything in Twilight's files about destroying them." Vinyl said frantically.

There was a loud crunch noise. Octavia turned to Applespice with the hound's head between his clenched fists. It was leaking oil from it's crushed head. He threw the hound into the murky water and charged over to the one that had Marigold in its grip. He pried open its mouth and gripped its jaws in his hands as he pulled in either direction. There was an echoing snap as the hound's head split in half, sending oil and metal shards flying. He was breathing heavily as he threw the second hound into the water beside its counterpart. He turned to the others and regained his composure.

"Let's go. We shouldn't be far from the entrance." Octavia said as she walked around the corner with the other two following.