Metro: Canterlot Line

Vinyl had been allowed to wander the small courtyard in her spare time allowing her to maintain what little sanity she had before she began her work tomorrow. Her mind raced back to Sprocket which had become an unexplainable habit of hers lately she always got the slightest bit exited anytime the bandits announced an unknown presence in the tunnels only to get her hopes crushed immediately afterwards by them yelling that it was either a mutant or a bandit returning from patrol. Shots suddenly wandered past Vinyl with an expression of frustration on his face

“Where in Equestria is the patrol we sent out an hour ago?” he yelled to the men atop the barricade

“There’s been no sign of them since they left” Replied the leader of the barricade, turning away from the tunnels to engage in the conversation with Shots.

“This isn’t good...” Sighed Shots kicking the dirt in a frustrated manner “What could have happened to them...”

“Sprocket...” thought Vinyl “Could Sprocket have got the patrol?”

Down in the tunnels shrouded by the darkness of the tunnels lay Cog and Sprocket next to each other aiming down the barrels of their guns surveying the bandit encampment, the spotlight was out and the gas tanks on the wall were just beginning to be shot

“Those tanks” Muttered Sprocket to Cog

“I know what you’re thinking...” Replied Cog with a grin larger than any other “As soon as we do that the entire base is gonna go on red alert, that means you gotta grab your friend and be out before they can do anything to harm her or take her as a hostage and before the mutants show themselves”

“Got it...” Replied Sprocket “Shoot first and ask questions later...”

“Exactly” Grinned Cog as Sprocket pulled the trigger

Vinyl saw it all happen in slow motion, Shots was arguing with the barricades leader as the sound of a gunshot echoed through the base followed by the canisters on the walls exploding sending scrap metal and bricks everywhere. A brick flew past Vinyl just barely missing her, she felt the air from it blow through her mane as she could make out two figures emerging from the darkness of the tunnels, she squinted to see if it was who she thought it was and much to her delight it was. Sprocket and an unfamiliar face emerged both with weapons drawn as the scene continued to play in slow motion. Sprocket cocked his rifle and took aim towards something behind Vinyl, she spun around and saw the figure of Elemental emerge from near the cabins at the back with the flamethrower. Another gunshot could be heard as a bullet pierced the flamethrowers gas canisters causing another explosion and sending a wave of grunts flying into walls and generally everywhere. Shots showed himself from under a sheet of scrap metal with a large gash on his forehead and Vinyl felt a hoof on her shoulder, quickly spinning around she saw it was Lucky who she hit away from her as the unfamiliar face she had seen with Sprocket threw a hatchet which barely missed Lucky, taking a strap of his gasmask off and making it tilt. He pushed Vinyl to the ground as violently as he could manage and trotted over to Shots as the embers fell from the top of the tunnel.

“I’m sorry” Exclaimed Sprocket “I’ll be taking my friend back now” the sound of a bolt action being cocked echoed throughout the tunnel as he pointed it directly at Shots who responded by drawing a weapon of his own and sliding into cover and Sprocket fired a round which barely missed him in his slide for cover. Lucky also responded to Sprocket raising his weapon by drawing a large, shining silver revolver with engravings it was a beautiful sight but also it seemed like it would be incredibly powerful he aimed in the general direction of Sprocket and fired.

Sprocket rolled behind a large chunk of brick which had fallen from the roof as the unfamiliar face did the same with a large chunk of metal from the barricaded door.

And all was silent and tense in the tunnel

“You didn’t think this through” taunted Shots “Your friend, 28, will die now” Shots turned to where Vinyl once was to find that she had disappeared, Lucky also turned around to assist in the search for ‘28’ as Sprocket and Cog were unaware of this they remained ducked behind the pieces of cover they had found.

Vinyl had hid inside the ruins of the house which Elemental Fire had been killed outside of, she crawled along the floor searching for something to use to help Sprocket in his fight with Shots and Lucky as she inched towards a sealed cabinet she found a barely hidden key beneath the remains of a table, picking it up she noticed that it may assist in her search for a weapon. As she reached the cabinet she couldn’t find a place for the key and it was able to be opened with out so she simply put the key down while she searched the cabinet for a weapon. There was ammo and scrap metal, empty boxes and old music records which she was sure to observe before deeming them completely useless, after all a DJ like her did love to listen to music in her spare time.

All was seeming hopeless as she began to search the cabinet more thoroughly until she eventually found a hidden lock at the back of the cabinet which the key fitted into perfectly turning it and swinging open the hidden door her eyes widened like a filly in a candy store.

Sprocket and Cog sat in silence unknowing that Shots and Lucky weren’t actually looking their way and were completely vulnerable for an attack, they began to grow nervous as the silence became almost mocking to them. Cog nodded at Sprocket and they both glanced over the top of their cover to discover their backs to them but also noticed the glint of something atop the ruined house where Elemental Fire had been killed within that second there was a loud bang and Lucky collapsed to the floor with a large amount of blood escaping from the wound he had attained from being shot through the stomach. Sprocket began to rack his brains, could that have been Vinyl that shot him? Shots quickly dove onto the opposite side of his cover and left himself wide open to an attack from Sprocket and Cog who both vaulted their cover and began to walk cautiously towards him with their weapons pointed at his head

“Weapon down” Stated Sprocket “Or we’ll shoot” Shots took a moment, he refused to admit he had been defeated and tried to find a way out of this situation

“Damn it...” He mumbled as Sprocket had a grin form on his face

“I know that feeling, just like when you took Vinyl from me” Began Sprocket “Now where is she?”

“I’m right here Sprocket” Chirped Vinyl, wandering out of the destroyed house which elemental was once in and from where she had shot Lucky. Around her neck was the strap of a high pressurised sniper rifle as she approached Shots

“You...” Shots managed with sheer anger in his voice “You’ve caused all of this... my friends... my life...”

“Pathetic” Snorted Cog “I coped better than this when you wiped out my entire station, this is just vengeance and Karma my dear friend” Shots sat in silence, looking at the corpse of Lucky which was laying close to Cog

“Now that I have Vinyl back” Resumed Sprocket “Where are the members of Cog’s home station?” Shots looked up and looked directly into Cog’s eyes

“I killed them.” He stated coldly “They were all useless, the few that survived would have perished in the explosion you caused” Cog also stood in silence a look of anger spreading across his face as he pushed the gun closer to Shot’s head

“Then you deserve nothing more than this” Replied Cog in an extremely angry tone, Sprocket forced Vinyl to look away as Cog pulled the trigger and shot Shot’s head clean off of his shoulders. And all fell silent in the tunnel.

The sound of hoofsteps echoed through the tunnel as Vinyl was allowed to look at where Shots once was

“That’ll be the mutants” Began Cog “There’s another route out of this tunnel but it’s far more treacherous than actually following a tunnel and you run the danger of getting lost” Sprocket pondered upon it for a moment

“Vinyl, do you have your rucksack?” Inquired Sprocket

“I haven’t... but I can get it” Replied Vinyl

“Hurry” Replied Sprocket simply to which Vinyl ran into the remains of the small room she had been allocated “We’re taking this route that Cog’s suggested, and with that I’d assume you’re travelling with us now?”

“I have nowhere to go to, so travelling with you two seems like a reasonable idea. At least until I can find a nice station to settle in” Answered Cog as Vinyl returned with her rucksack. Sprocket nodded and glanced into the dark metro tunnel as the sound of the hoofsteps got closer

“Let’s get moving then” Replied Sprocket “You lead the way” Cog didn’t reply and simply began to run into the tunnel with Vinyl and Sprocket following closely behind