Rooster Cock-A-Doodle-Do

Sun rose to shine to the unfortunate souls

And Cheerilee was screaming at my eardrums, some were mean word and some about how late we are.

Wake up from the bed, eating breakfast and being the last who start up the car engine right after I took the safety clothes from Mister Sewing kit, we headed to Apple Loosa.

I suppose I have to admit these 'safety clothes' were meant for bikers, but like my mom always say 'safe better than sorry' for knee and elbow pads and a black biker jacket with bottom black brown biker boots and gloves and to end it off with dark blue bike helmet was the perfect way to protect me if the seatbelt failed me and sent away to the harsh boiling heat sands… yeah, my sense of fashion and common sense isn't the best.

We drove to Apple Loosa and got a closer look at the Buffalo fort and this time we saw the arsenal they carried.

Gatling guns covering each side, and Flamethrower aiming below if you go down thinking it's blind spot.

The Buffalos were hard to see but I managed to see one wearing an American Indian chief's hat who was looking down at us with a death glare.

Reaching the town passing through the bubble shield and sightsee the entire place to memorize every angle we can put to our advantage.

The remaining three cars we didn't see in Dodge city arrived before us with more decoration for me to admire.

This time, Discord didn't show up to announce the rules or welcome us to my relief, but the rest of setup was still the same for the map updated our designated area.

We parked at south-west of the town, we had limited view to left side cause of the apple orchard, but we still could see the train track, a destroyed building and an RV car facing us the other side.. of all the ones we stumble it had to be tank armored every corner than the pickup truck which I marked it for caution.

The clock ticked slowly, Cheerilee checked every device and recheck if she memorized everything, I looked at my wheel, breathing heavily.
The timer reached zero.

So did I move on to the whole 'killing' thing? Did I secure a kill and hidden among the bushes? Was the training successful?

45% you could say yes.

My driving skill improved a lot since last time, I learned moves which qualify me to enter Nascar, Cheerilee was a very good student –sorry, I can't help it… it's just the irony is too much for me- managed to bring the weapon we needed for every situation we encounter along the fight, but among all the success lied the ultimate problem… we still didn't have the guts to kill.

Sure we shot, rammed, and destroyed buildings, but still not capable of taking life.

We were getting pursued by some red wagon turned to a car, it may look ridiculous but the driver packed a punch with him using his navigator body as a 'Special' moving rocket running towards us.

I managed to dodge the attack while Cheerilee used 'Zoomy' trying to take down every chunk of health she can throw to either to scare the enemy off or kill them… before her morale get to her.

The former occurred and the red wagon retreated inside the pie building which I discovered in my drive through around the town, it contains a health pack capable of healing a decent amount of health.

We hid under a wreckage of a destroyed caboose destroyed from a previous battle, or some unfortunate accident.

The match took long ten minutes, two fighters are out of the fray, the Buffalo fort still standing with the rockets and bombs thrown at it from three opponents teaming up for a while, I guess they got sick from the barrage of bullets thrown at them minimizing their chance of survival.

We spent in the hidden arguing on how we didn't kill anyone –something I didn't expect to say in my lifetime excluding video game- and it didn't help the noise of the wagon rusty wheels could be heard somewhere for me to detect, that driver was stubborn to leave us be.

Continue on the chase, I drove around the buildings to both restock as many rockets I could take and demand Cheerilee to do it without thinking, whatever happens, will be on both our hooves, so no regrets here –I am not good with speech-

Same as before, the wagon retreated but headed toward the Buffalo fort in hope he may find the fort opened to the heal station –at least that’s what I thought since I had no idea why he was planning there- but none of it matters cause Cheerilee released 'Gas can' above the unfortunate driver, the gas can fly with incredible speed that we both knew the wagon had no chance to outspeed it, and with the way the driver drove, it was guaranteed we had the perfect shot.

The gas can reach the target, I screamed to do it, she did….

We secured a kill.

The wood wagon filled with weapons had no chance, splinters flew everywhere, the splash of flame was stronger than I expected for I witnessed the metal of the machine gun of the left side melt like a chocolate under the heat of the sun.

And it didn't feel us satisfied for the screams of the driver and navigator were loud and horrible as they got out of their wagon with their flesh get eaten by the flame, they rolled and screamed to end the pain… and the navigator, the Special runner earth pony stallion looked at is, he had the most injuries than the driver who only got fire.

The earth pony: orange fur and hair, spiky hair, and light blue eyes, I couldn’t see his mark due to how the flame ate his flank for me to see.

He had scars from his reckless action of acting as a weapon, a small piece of wood impaled one of his legs, and what he said to me made my blood run cold.

"Kill me, please"

I looked at Cheerilee who looked back at me with the same reaction.

"What did he just say?"

The stallion screamed at us to do it, to end the pain… he begged.

Cheerilee looked at me on what to do… I drove away from him.

He called me a coward, and he was right.

I did what I just did to survive, and me stomping a defeated enemy was out of strength to do so.

But before I could explain to Cheerilee why I did it, she screamed at me to watch out, pointing in front of me where I should watch, looking in front I saw I was gonna get rammed by the RV.

I almost dodge it, but the giant family car managed to ram me in the back, giving us a bad amount of damage but wasn't fatal.

The car wasn't in a good state for another fight, I had to run away from the RV and head to the pie shop in a hope the health magic respawn, and with how slow that car is, we had a chance.

It still managed to give us a departing gift of 'Rectile' rocker and a homing missile, we got hit by the homing missiles, we were close to meeting the same fate as the wagon.

The moment The rectile shot away to us and Cheerilee cried put her hooves on her head, I hit the shield spell at the last seconds.

We slipped into the pie shop and rammed the wall in which contained the healing spell in the corner, we survived a close call.

We took a deep breath, but it didn't last for the RV crushed the ceiling with it shooting the machine gun at us.

So much for the only none destroyed building.

I took a 90 degree rotate I drove toward the RV shooting back at it with me shaking Cheerilee to snap out of it.

I managed to pass by the RV with me leaving a mine as a gift of mine for I knew it will take a while for it to reverse back.

Doing another rotate I started shooting with everything I had with me pressing the button since the sassy teacher is out taking a smoke break, and unlike the wagon driver, I made sure not to shoot behind the RV to shoot back with rockets.

Fire missiles

Homing missiles

Special

ALL OF THEM… and that freaking RV still standing and managed to get out of the building.

Hitting the turbo for fast escape I went around the building in hope to lose it, still trying to shake Cheerilee off from her position.

Unfortunately, the escape failed for the RV surprised us with something I didn't expect an RV would do, it came to us with crazy speed, whoever owned that RV installed lots of power in that one… we got rammed.

We flew into a building and lots of bricks fell on us… De Ja Vu, but unlike it, I didn't lose conscious.

Cheerilee was sleeping, I had a hard time seeing around me, the car was stuck and it may take a while to get out, and the sound of the horn could be heard in my right side.

The RV wanted us to pay attention to what will happen to us next, the window of the driver scrolled open with the driver squeezing out to show his face to me.

Very fat stallion, puke green with white hair, bald father haircut, and light green eyes.

The fat stallion looked at me with amusement.

"Hey, you! Ain'tcha that coward pony who spent the entire match running away and cheat his way from Ponyville? What was the name again… oh yeah!! Couch potato was it?

I tried to start the engine on and drive away… the engine was with Cheerilee in a smoke break.

"Well son, your action caused your city a bad lash from other communities, companies from different regions refuse to work with it, cities and towns make fun of your land where you born and raise… you know what makes me peeved more than my cousin broken screw, boy?"

I rotated the key, I kicked the car…nothing happened.

"It is a coward playing a grown up game and gives his city a bad name!!"

The fat stallion hit the handbrake, hitting the horn, he drove with rage toward us.

I closed my eyes in vain… it was over.

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A thunder roared through the town

I was dead… I decided to open my eyes to see the afterlife

I was in some box with two chairs one of them I sat, next to me sat a sleeping purple mare….wait a second

I wasn't dead.

I looked at the RV which rammed in front of us, moving some of the wreckage giving us more space.

Open the door and look at the RV I saw the fat stallion dead body hanging in the window, his fat body made certain not to fall off the car, his head was gone.

Shocked I looked around the town to see who did it… I didn't spot any car around the place.
Going back to Roadkill I managed to start the engine and retreated back to the pie shop to fix the car and collect some pies.. god knows I need some.

It was pretty obvious, someone obtained the sniper rifle.

The sound of bullet barrage of the Gatling guns was gone, I still hear the sound of car drifting around left and right with the rifle voice roared every ten seconds.

Communicating with Hayseed while shoving pies to my mouth I asked him how come the RV navigator didn't take the driver's place? The car wasn't destroyed yet and he could continue… and how many left.

Hayseed explained that if either the car and/or driver went down then they are considered eliminated from the match, as for how many left… three were left.. make it two.

Cheerilee was awake eating pie, the car was in 80% and if I don't go to the fort and kick whoever is up there before the distractor dies we will be sit duck.

The plan was simple and the not killing part may still exist within us but unlike before the motivation are high.

Whoever up there killed the Buffalos, whoever up there killed everyone with ease, whoever up there will kill us if I don't act.

Heal magic spawned, Roadkill was fully healed, We drove to the fort with haste.

Due to the paranoia of getting caught we avoided any magical weapons require simple or sharp turns which results in getting caught, it wasn't long till we reached what it used to be a fort.

The fort was in complete rubble, two cars near the entrance could be seen destroyed too many pieces with their drivers within sharing the same fate, we had no time to feel bad, we were the 3rd last team alive in this place and whoever is outside distracting the sniper won't last as long as the three-wheeled driver from ponyville.

The place was filled with dead Buffalos, shot, crushed, burned, and run over by who I assumed is on top of the hill, we drove slowly near Indian American huts, it wasn't as big as Road Kill but still blend into something is better than being in the open.

Within the Fort lies a huge temple which gives whoever climbs to it a full access to both Apple Loosa and Dodge city, we got close to the temple but Cheerileee demanded me to stop the car.

She saw movement among the wreckage of one of the huts, but unlike the one we are driving in between this one was bigger than the others slightly with bricks added among it, the reason I knew that due to how big the destruction left from it… It looked like a boss battle occurred in that place for the big hut located near the center of the fort protecting the temple.

Stopping the car and gathering some hay and blend it with other huts I asked if she saw an enemy, she didn't replay to my question for she left Road Kill heading for the big hut running like her life depends on it, turning the engine off I chased her while hissing her name to stop, the longer we messed around the shorter our chance of survivor.

The big hut was in flames, and it was pretty obvious it will crumble down completely very soon crushing whoever unfortunate or stupid enough to be below it, and seeing where Cheerilee and I were heading… it was the latter.

Cheerilee began digging on the opposite side of the temple which is good enough to avoid the sniper sight, demanding, even more, the hard working mare -asked me nicely- to dig along with her, with no clue why and not wish to be in the fall finale I dug along with her with no question, soon I spotted a big brown hide after removing the last brick… We founded a big injured unconscious Buffalo… it was the Buffalo chief who glared at me in the beginning of the fight.

I knew I was gonna have pain in the back carrying him away from harm.

Thankfully whoever architecture this giant hut knew this would happen so they made sure to stand as long as possible, for we reached Road Kill and hid within one of the huts and it still didn't fall… till I mentioned it to Cheerilee the moment we entered the hut… jinx?!

The Buffalo was in bad condition and I admit I felt bad for him, but my feelings of remorse went away when Cheerilee asked me to bring the emergency first aid kit in the car… which is meant if one of us is badly injured and avoid getting the other one dying… call me selfish and heartless but my life was in the line, I refused and tried to tell her it's useless but she glared at me telling me "how he will die if we don’t save him."

I explained to her that saving this Buffalo is useless since his fate is the same as yesterday, it will either continue the cycle or recycle from the very beginning, Hayseed said so and telling him the truth would harm us more than helping… We had to go.

Cheerilee glare softened and looked down at the injured Buffalo with sorrow, it was wrong but nothing can be done, I was about to grab her shoulder in support… something I didn't expect to do, but then all of a sudden she stormed off the hut yet again, but this time toward Road Kill, at first I thought she understood the situation we were in and it was no time to save who can't be saved… buuut she came back with the first aid kit.

Continue on with the couple argue theme –something we seem to master- she shut down the fight with a statement which hit me like a truck.

"I will not leave him here bleed to death, this Buffalo wanted to defend his people and land from harm, he went through a lot giving them the hope they need to live in peace and harmony, look around you what is used to be a home of many buffalos, I want him to know that there are ponies who are living the same surviving life as they are… I know you don't like taking innocent life and reach the goal you strive for… but leave an innocent life like this?... I expected your weakness of confronting a death threat scares you, but leave someone to his doom is something I didn't expect."

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I heard that fear can blind person's action, I knew the word had lots of truth in it but the amount I gave to it doesn't give enough justice to what I realized in that moment.

I want to win, I want to come back home to my parents who I felt in my guts they were looking around for me, I want someone to defeat Discord right after I get my wish, but as I was going after my dream or winning I forgot the ones around me who called my help.

The RV stallion told me how much I damaged the city of Manehatten from my act, although some of the ponies don't deserve sympathy from their horrible acts to me and how they want me to be aggressive, they were others who helped me and stuck with me although I didn't pay them back for their hospitality.

Hayseed gave me a car and I gave him a promise of vengeance... I had to give him another way of payback.

Mrs. Pancake meal always was there for me whenever I asked for a meal, she didn't care what did I do in the fight as long it's not something horrible which I appreciate.

Cheerilee could have found a better driver… but she went with me.

Another reason on why I need to fight, and for some reason was as motivating as going back home.

I had to repay what those nice ponies did to me… even though I don't like the show of theirs.

"You have a pure heart, purple one."

The Buffalo managed to wake up from his slumber, with bandages strapped everywhere in his injured body, all thanks to the teacher with experience of healing in the wounded seeing how she teach kids.

Taking a moment to sit in a better comfortable position he looked at me and Cheerilee, then he looked back at me.

"I remember you, you are that pony who drive that junk of a monster… excuse my rudeness for I expected you to die first in this horrible fight."

Giving a small chuckle before he winced in pain, the buffalo welcomed the teacher with kind words and stallion who tried to leave him to die with a nice joke… okay.

While Cheerilee checked on him for any wounds she didn't heal, the Buffalo decided to introduce himself to us, his name is thunderhooves, the chief of the Buffalo tribe and the one who was meant to protect his people from this crazy contest, we introduced ourselves as well.

As much I wanted to stay and hear his sad side I asked him if he can move away to safety till this fight is over in which he nods, I explained to him that we did our part but we need to finish this fight so no more innocent life is taken… beside whoever is on top of the temple.

Pulling Cheerilee gently to the car we were gonna go back fighting, but thunderhooves grabbed my leg… he asked me a favor… I still remember what he asked us to this day.

"Please, I know what I am about to ask is much but… please take my daughter with you once this battle is over."

It was a shock how another soul put his trust in me, did Discord add some spell on me to be this trustworthy?

I asked him why her… why not the rest, and Cheerilee finished the question with "Does Discord forbid you from leaving?"

Thunderhooves waited a second till the sound of rockets shot from the second driver -who is away from us- fortunately, disappear, and then he answered.

"I know this request is selfish, but I can't help it for us the Buffalos carry a curse we can't get rid of no matter what … we are very stubborn to our own good, the moment we set our eyes on something we don't leave it till it's sorted… just like the Apple Loosa apple orchard case, I know I can't convince my people to leave, but my daughter is a different case for she has something unique that makes her special… she has knowledge of you the ponies, she is less stubborn and more open-minded than the rest of us buffalos combine, I know she won't trust you so tell her this if she doesn't trust you… 'It's time for the little bird to fly from her nest'… once you tell her this I want you to take her away from this place, anywhere that save her from this bloodshed, and don't tell her I am alive for I want her to leave without persistent… and no Discord has nothing to do of us stuck in this fort, it's stubbornness what makes us stuck in this place forever and as the chief of my tribe it is my duty to carry the heavy responsibility… something I don't want my daughter to live this life... Please take Little Strongheart with you!"

We didn't like this, but he had a point as much we wanted an alternative solution doesn't involve taking a daughter away from her family and loved ones… which we didn't find any.

Giving us her location which was a well-placed cave where the young and the old hide inside, putting this in mind we headed up to the temple with high speed to finish this fight and win.

Little two info's before we go to the fight cutscene:

1- The second contestant died a long time, but we ignored it due to how important thunderhooves request was.

2- We headed into a fight with one homing missile, and a special.

I hit the turbo as hard as my hoof can press, my foot pressed the handbrake as far as possible, Cheerilee locked down with special on whoever was aiming at my car which we can't see clearly due to the sun lower on its level, and I knew they were aiming at us for we saw the laser sight climbing it's way to me.

We are close to each other, both sides shot their attack, the rifle hit the hood making a below average damage, the barrage rockets hit it lot of time and filled it with smoke screen making sure there would be no second shot.

We rammed them and send each other falling from the temple, as we fell I managed to see the ones who are responsible for the Buffalo massacre… it was the pickup truck dudes.

…I think the foreshadowing was pretty obvious

Balance the car to the enemy height and distance, Cheerilee shot a homing missile at it and hit it, we landed a rough land.

We landed in the back of the fort, a very narrow one since the back wasn't meant to deal with contestants falling in this area, but it still had a small gift of 'Power rocket' which we landed… lucky us.

None of the sides made move for some interesting reason, both of us check one another health and surrounding… and calm our hearts from the fall.

We had better health than them, they had more weapons than us, and we both are stuck in a very narrow road, they pulled their special move the same time as we did… but theirs didn't take a long time as ours.

Do you remember the grenade launcher on the box and the unicorn third member purpose? Well turns out one of them shoots missiles and the other shoots grenade launcher like madman… multitask at its finest.

Both sides shot their shot and seeing how their special involve six shots of a grenade launcher and rockets of many kinds they dealt damage to our car faster than we can deal to them.

Our damage had power and we could've finished them if we had a better road so we can dodge them… It was that moment a crazy idea hit me in the head.

I hit the turbo and drove toward them, Cheerilee yet again demanding me to explain what I am doing, I simply told her to release everything we had when I call her, but till then she keeps hitting them with a machine gun.

The pickup truck hit the horn and I could see the driver scream to his pals to finish us off now, I kept my focus on the wheel trying not to sidetrack to the temple and lose my focus.

Their horn got loud

Cheerilee got louder

Everyone screamed "Oooh Pony feathers!!"

I admit I whispered "Oh shit" along with them

It was time!!

Pressing the spells on my wheel I hit them with the freeze spell, stopping them from adding any more damage to my 35% Road Kill, I hit the button I didn't expect to press in my lifetime, I pressed the mini jump…. We were above them, we rammed the unfortunate frozen third member in the torso sending his upper side away with us, before landing I made a none-realistic I will never question 90 degree rotate to the opponent.... which was successful

"NOW!!"

Cheerilee, with no question or knowledge, released everything we stored among them is three 'Power rocket' which I asked her to store.

They didn't stand a chance, they exploded with sparks of ice and fire flying around, they couldn't scream for long for we released too many rockets... an overkill from the adrenaline rush.

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AND THIS WINNER OF THE CONTEST IS TEAM: ROAD KILL

I got out of the car to release my meal yet again while Cheerilee breathed heavily to the points of tears inside.

It was an improvised close call I didn't expect to work… but it did.

Right after we finish collecting ourselves we agreed to fulfill thunderhooves wish… as we agreed the moment we left him in the hut.

I would've felt accomplished if it weren't for the fact there is a grey Pegasus filming us in camera… That was Cheerilee's friend, Derpy Hooves, and she just showed the entire world in the state I am in right now.

I knew I shouldn't have eaten that double cheese hay burger large sized

Author's Note

Fun fact: Both part one and two were meant to be together but due to how long it is I decided to split it into two

Now back to my slumber