What a way to go out

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Gilda and Greta flew slow and tirelessly towards their goal, five miles south of Griffonstone lay train tracks they could use to guide themselves to Ponyville. Spike sat up and yawned, stretching his body in the process. As he cricked his neck, he looked around with the hope finding the tracks. "Oh man, are we there yet?"

Greta sighed and continued flying. "No Spike we're not, that's the third time you've asked that."

"Oh..sorry."

Gilda turned to look at Spike. "Quit your whining, we're almost there."

At the same time Alex sat up and yawned as well. "We've been flying for an hour, how much longer?"

"No we've been flying for an hour, you've been sleep. You can fly too you know."

"Yea but not as fast as you."

"Stop being lazy."

"Stop being bossy."

"What did you say?"

"Um..nothing."

"That's what I thought."

Greta and Spike giggled at the bickering child and adult until something caught Greta's attention. "Hey guys, look down there."

Spike, Gilda, and Alex did just that to notice a mare in a brown cloak walking below them. Her pace seemed odd, she stopped as soon as they did to admire some flowers on the side of the path. All four of them shook it off and continued flying until Spike noticed the mare picking up the pace just the same. Spike ordered them to stop as he watched the mare stop again to admire nature. "Something isn't right here..Fly faster."

Greta and Gilda did just that as if they were racing each other. Like clockwork, the pony picked up the pace to a full sprint. Alex focused closely on the mare with one eye. "She's following us!"

Gilda turned to face the pony who then pulled off her cloak. "Hey what's your problem?" The pony just smirked and continued following them. "Hey freak, got a death wish. Who are you?"

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Suddenly the pony stopped atop a large hill and her smirk turned to a frown.  "The name's Galaxy, and if you can see me you're in range."

Galaxy

All four of their eyes opened wide to those words as she raised her hoof to the sky. "Fire!"

Thousands of magic bullets and missiles rained up from the ground on cue. Gilda and Greta began quickly dodging as the barrage neared them. "Watch out!" Both of them executed flips and spins like pros but that wouldn't last forever. They moved closer and closer to a nearby mountain range as if they were being pushed there. Gilda stopped dodging to keep track of Galaxy only to have magic pierce her wing. "Ahh!"

Without warning another magic missile exploded shocking Alex into unconsciousness sending him and Gilda into the range with a spiral. Greta desperately tried to catch her while Spike returned fire only to have her wing clipped as well. All four of them fell hard and fast as the barrage stopped. Galaxy pointed to the range and grunted. "Recover and capture."

Thousands of soldiers marched their way onto the paths leading into the range. Twenty minutes later, Spike awoke to find himself covered in snow. Slowly and painfully, he arose from his freezing tomb observing his surroundings. "Where's...Greta?" He looked, nothing to his left or right and so he thought, "She must be under the snow." He hastily dug under the snow until a paw caught his attention. "There you..ow!" He held his arm in pain as he dug Greta out. When he looked himself over, there was a small but deep cut going over his left shoulder, a small amount of blood trickling out of it. "Man that fall did more than I thought. Greta..wake up..come on."

Moments later she slowly awoke breathing heavy and in pain. "Spike, spike is that you? Oh my god, my wing, oh my god."

"Greta calm down or you'll go into shock."

"You're right, you're right, but my left wing, it hurts so much."

"Looks like you landed on it wrong. Come on let's get you off of it."

Spike rolled her over to examine the wing. There were no serious injuries besides her landing on the wing itself and the scrape from the bullet. "You're wing's fine Greta, just needs some time to heal." Suddenly the sounds of snow shifting caught Spike's attention. "No time to rest, we have to move."

Greta tried her best to stand up but only got up to her two front claws. "I can't, it's just too much right now."

"Keep trying."

Spike aided her this time and finally they were able to get up that is until the sounds of shifting grew more frequent and closer. "Halt, you two are to surrender under the orders of the Royal elite Galaxy."

Spike set Greta against a rock and turned to face the dozens of soldiers behind him. "And what if we don't?"

"Then we will force you too."

"Not without a fight you're not." Spike reached for both his guns only to feel the sharp pain in his left arm. Instead he reached for right gun and pointed it at them.

"Is that all you're going to defend yourself with...Futile." All the soldiers aimed their guns at him ready to fire. Spike did the same with determination to survive.

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That was until Greta finally made it to her feet and stood in front of him. "Spike.."

"Greta what are you doing?"

"Spike go find Gilda and Alex."

"Ok this heroine bit isn't going to save anyone."

"It'll save you won't it?"

Spike's eyes eyes closed for a moment before opening again. "But.."

"Get going already!"

With that she pushed him down a steep cliff face to lower ground. Spike could only hear the a loud shriek from Greta and the sounds of the soldier's screams as he slid down the face. Moments later, the sound of an electric shock pulsed into his ears as Greta cried out. The soldiers began marching towards the cliff as he reached the bottom. "Take this one to the camp, the rest of you, find that dragon."

Just then another loud shriek echoed in the distance making Spike quickly run out of sight with the soldiers on his tail.

At about the same time, 20 yards away, Spike awoke to find Greta, Alex awoke to find himself laying against a cave wall. Gilda sat in the corner, eyes closed, and observing her wing. "Gilda?"

"Good you're awake runt. Thought I was gonna lose you for a second there."

"What happened?"

"Well I don't know what happened to Spike and Greta, seems we got separated. As for us, we crashed near this cave  a couple of minutes ago. I figured that pony would send in troops to capture us so I brought us in here."

"Hey why don't I have any injuries?"

"Well..I shielded your fall with my body so...you're welcome or whatever."

"Thank you, and here I thought you didn't care about me."

"I don't."

"Yes you do."

"If you don't shut your trap i'll....hold up shh." Gilda listened closely to just outside the cave, voices getting more and more curious about the cave. "We have company."

"What? Well can't we fly away or something?"

"Not with this wing."

"Then we have to hide."

"Can't you shoot them in the face with that bow or something?"

"Well yea but i'm not really into killing things or people for that matter."

"Runt, I can only tell you one thing. This is war, some barriers are going to have to be broken to survive."

"I don't think I can do it."

"You have no choice if you want to survive."

Alex looked around for a desperate way to escape noticing a hole on the ceiling. "H..hey we can escape there."

"Kid I don't think...fine." Gilda jumped grabbing onto he edge of the hole and hoisted herself up. "Come on, fly up here."

Alex flew through and landed next to her on top of the cave. She looked over the edge to realize there were way more soldiers than anticipated. "Oh man we're in trouble. Alex listen to me, you have to watch my back on this one. There's too many soldiers to hesitate."

"But.."

"Hey you want to get back to your family in Griffonstone?"

"Well yea but.."

"If we fall here, that will never happen. Cover me alright?"

"....Alright."

Gilda picked up a rock and tossed it hard into the dome of soldier. Without warning she dropped onto a soldier and began fighting, punching, kicking, and flipping. Alex readied his bow aimed at another soldiers head but he drew the bow back. "I can;t possibly kill someone can I? Even if he is the enemy, ending someone's life is below me."

"Hey Alex cover please!"

"Maybe I can knock him out."

"Alex!"

"There's has to be another way."

"Alex please! Ahhh!"

Gilda screamed out in pain as an electric shock sped through her body. Alex eyes widened at the sound, his mind trailing back to distant memories. "My mother...my father...both killed..by....by...Sombra!"

Suddenly his eyes filled with anger, his fearful expression turned to a scowl. He drew the bow back and let the arrow fly. Gilda watched as it pierced straight through the armor of soldier and dropped him to the ground. Alex drew back three arrows and let them fly into the crowd. Three more stallions dropped like rocks allowing Gilda to counterattack. As fast as Alex was able to draw forth a power unknown to him, A group of three Pegasus just that fast dropped him with a shock. As Gilda fought for her life, a loud shriek could be heard from the distance. "Greta?!"

Moments later the sound of her cries echoed into Gilda's eardrums. Gilda drew back a single tear and let out her own terrifying shriek. She continued to take down the soldiers one by one trying to make her way to Alex. She quickly ascended the outside of the cave almost able to reach out to Alex until the Pegasus that subdued him landed in front of her. "Make this easy why don't you."

"You Sombra following freaks. Not without a fight!"

She jumped up to attack only to have the taser stick stuck directly into her stomach. With no warning she dropped grunting in pain. "Take these two back to the camp."

The soldier removed his communicator and called it in. "Two captured, one female griffon and one smaller child griffon."

The voice returned over the comm. "Partially good on our side. Captured one female griffon, the dragon on the other hand escaped. We've been ordered to regroup at camp, keep an eye out for the dragon on the way back."

"Understood. Men, back to camp, keep an eye for the dragon while you're at it."

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Galaxy impatiently waited for her soldiers inside the camp. Finally another pony announced the return of her soldiers. She exited the tent she commandeered and watched as the three griffons were dragged through the camp and thrown into the cages. "Wait where's the dragon? I want the man responsible for capturing the green griffon."

The soldier nervously walked up to her and saluted. "You wanted to see me mam?"

"Yes, good job capturing the prisoners, I should give you an award."

"Well thank yo.."

"I wasn't finished! I said I should give an award. Where..is the dragon?"

"The dragon mam?"

"Don't act stupid. Yes the dragon, the one riding on that one's back." she pointed to Greta.

"Well mam I can explain."

She sighed. "Can someone bring me my hot chocolate?"

Another soldier without wait sped a cup of chocolate over to here. She started taking small sips waiting for the soldier to continue talking.

"Well see what had happened was."

"Right."

"We kinda.."

"I'm listening."

"Lost him."

she sighed and took another sip of her chocolate. "It's quite alright."

"Wait really?"

"Yes, i'll send search party's to find him later."

"Oh thank you for sparing me mam."

"You are most welcome, now leave my sight."

"Yes mam."

the soldier happily walked off unknown to what was about to happen. As Galaxy took another sip of her chocolate, her expression turned to anger and suddenly the soldier stopped, his mouth wide open. A large pink crystal lay pierced through his body and just as quickly it dissipated as he dropped to the ground dead. Galaxy returned to her calm and elegant manner sipping her chocolate as the many pony's inside her camp surrounded the dead pony. "Not once did I say I would spare you."