Author's Note

Sorry this one took long to post. I got Covid and was quarantined. My wife wouldn’t let me out of our room. Now I am healthy and better.

Hoops

Date: September 20, 2022
Location: Ponyville, Sweet Apple Acres

Meet these three dimwits that were getting ready to pull a huge prank all over Ponyville. Hoop, Dumbbell, and Score were three idiots that lived in Cloudsdale and were ready to start a huge prank. Their idea was to have Ponyville fear them by shooting everpony with paintball guns. They thought if this prank became huge, they would be famous to all the pranksters all over Equestria.

Hoop was the pegusas that got a deal on the paintball guns. The three of them loaded up and flew down to Ponyville to start their prank. They shot at anything and anypony that moved.

"Hey, loser heads up!" Dumbbell shouted firing at a pony.

*Bang! Bang!*

"Ow! That hurt!!"

What these losers didn't know is that shooting ponies with a paintball gun is just as illegal as shooting them with a real gun. We have a paintball store owner known as Splatter that knows all about it.

"In some places paintball guns are legal to own and some aren't. Shooting at somepony or any other creature is different. If the other party hasn't agreed to have a paintball fight that is considered illegal and the one that is shooting can be sent to prison and even get fined up to 2,000 to 3,000 bits that not even considering the medical bills that the one that got shot can sue them for. Paintballs can cause bruises and even welts."

These three pegusas didn't care and kept firing. Once they shot a pony, they would keep firing at them even if they were lying on the ground begging for them to stop. They began firing at property and staining it with paint. The CMC's clubhouse was now a mess.

"Hey, that’s not funny!!!" The CMC's shouted as the three of them flew off laughing.

The three of them knew they would get caught soon and knew they had one pony one their list they had to get before they left.

"Rainbow Dash." The three said.

It took them awhile but after flying for a while they found Rainbow Dash having her midday nap.

"Target sighted." Score whispered.

The three hid in a cloud and got closer to their target.

Hoops take aim and try to fire.

*Click. Click. Click.*

He was trying to, but nothing came out of the paintball gun.

"Hey, nothing is coming out guys." Hoops he whispered. "Stupid thing is probably out of ammo."

"It can't be I already reloaded it when I was done shooting." Score whispered.

Hoops took the gun from Hoops. " The gun isn’t working eh. I knew I shouldn't have bought a cheap paintball gun.” Hoops hit the paintball gun and then

*Clank*

It made it funny sound.

"I think I fixed it." Hoops whispered.

Move over I want to shot her. "Dumbbell whispered.

"No, I want to do it.” Hoops whispered back.

"Hey, I think I should." Score whispered as well.

Before they knew it, they began to fight. The whispers became shouting. Then Dumbbell got the gun and fired.

*Bam!!! Crack!!!*

There was a loud noise, but it wasn’t the gun going off it was the CO2 tank of the gun blasting off and hitting Hoops who was behind Dumbbell. The CO2 tank blew off hitting Hoops neck. Cracking it.

“Hoops! I’m sorry!” Dumbbell shouted.

“Hoops wake up!” Score shouted.

“Who’s in that cloud!” Rainbow Dash shouted.

“Shit he’s dead!! Get Help!!” Dumbbell shouted.

“What dude you two do!” Rainbow Dash shouted.

Splatter explained what happened here.

“There is about 1,200 to 1,500 pounds per square inch inside of those CO2 tanks. Each tank has a thread right on top that actually screws into the gun. The problem is not many ponies or other creatures don’t check the threads on the tank and it gets all rounded. When that idiots hit the paintball gun to fix it the thread was now one click away from snapping and when it did it hit that pony’s neck. It crushed his larynx going about 200 miles per hour. Breaking it.”

Dumbbell and Score were arrested for the prank and Dumbbell got even more jail time for involuntary man slaughter. Hey, you three stop it with that paintball prank it’s…A pain in the neck.

Way To Die #143: Pained Gun