The Anti-6

by Silver Butcher

Fight for the Empire: Part 2

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The Main 6 split into teams of two, Rainbow and Fluttershy ran to the end of the train cart to take flight after Scootaloo, Pinkie and Twilight jumped Babs with Rarity and Applejack left looking up at Applebloom who was grinning ear to ear. Before either of the two could talk Applebloom slammed her upper body head first at them, Rarity tackled Applejack out of the way just as Applebloom slammed past them and into the wall with enough force to dent the wall and cause the train car to tilt, as the cart tilted Twilight hit the wall and Pinkie was sent flying out the empty hole that had once been a door with Babs still locked in her hooves.

"Pinkie!" Twilight cried out as she jumped after her friend only to just miss Babs punch at her while also kicking at Pinkie in an attempt to throw the pink mare off and send her into the train tracks. Twilight lit her horn and teleported Pinkie into her arms just as Babs kicked right where her friend's face had been a mere moment before. Before Babs could strike again one of Appleblooms thorned tendrils like vines suddenly broke through the metal car and smacked Babs out of the air and sent her flying away from the train and skidding painfully into a tree. Before Twilight could turn to help with Applebloom, Applejack and Rarity both jumped out of the train car as copious amounts of yellow gas began spewing out the top of the door. Twilight caught her friends with her magic only to be slapped out of the air by one of Applebloom's vines. As the 4 were sent flying Applebloom watched as the vine that had touched Twilight began burning away before turning to the end of the train car and making her way to the next one down the line that was full of panicking passengers.

Above the train, Rainbow was playing a dangerous game of trying to keep Scootaloo from latching onto Fluttershy while Fluttershy tried to avoid the copious amounts of poison being spat at her while also evacuating any animals around them.

"This game is over kid," Rainbow said as she managed to get her arm around Scootaloo's neck, the results were instant as her neck began smoking, Scootaloo let out a sonic wail that almost made Fluttershy drop out of the air, Rainbow Used her free hand to grip one of Scootaloo's wings before moving her arm away from her now burnt throat and grabbing the other wing, Scootaloo let out another scream and Rainbow let her go, her wings now to burnt and bloody to fly she watched as Scootaloo plummeted like a rock. "And we're done," She said turning to Fluttershy who watched Scootaloo drop and was unsure how to proceed.

"Will she be OK?" The Yellow Pegasus asked in a worried tone.

"I snapped her neck maybe an hour ago," Rainbow replied "And she just got back up from that, we need to regroup and-" Rainbow was cut off when Babs rocketed out from below and put her hand on the back of Fluttershy's neck. Fluttershy didn't even have time to look back at what was grabbing her when Babs screamed out and let out a burst of Electricity, Fluttershy scream echoed through the sky before going limp in Babs grasp.

"Game over," Babs said with a smile before tossing aside the charged Pegasus, Rainbow rushed to grab her unconscious friend only for Scootaloo to return in force and slam into the Cyan Pegasus belly head first. Babs moved to join the fight when suddenly both Fluttershy and Rainbow were teleported away.

"I thought Applebloom was keeping Twilight busy," Babs said angrily as she turned and was met with Candance and Rainbow holding Fluttershy, Candance looked at them and lit her horn.

"Oh shit," Scootaloo and Babs said in unison before they were blasted out of the sky.

As this had been going down Applebloom made her way into the Next train car with some difficulty due to her size, the fact that everypony had instantly ran to the next car down the line didn't help.

"Get your asses back here!" She screamed out as they fled, each breath filling the car with more and more yellow gas. In the car, she was leaving the gas had started causing the train's roof to rust and its windows to crack. but thanks to this cart not having a hole in the wall to suck the gas out it began filling much faster, a few of the ponies failed to escape in time as the gas overtook them, Applebloom squeezed in just as the door to the other side was shut and the stragglers were left to their fate, Applebloom walked past them as they began heaving writhing in pain, the car only filling with more and more gas, she simply stood in the car and let it happen as the gas began eating away at the car she was standing in, it took a minute but her toxic gas finally did it job as one of the pony began vomiting, first the contents of his stomach came up, he tried to back up when it stopped but it came back in force as the same symptoms began appearing in the others and before long their lunch was replaced with blood and mucus, Applebloom watched as a mare crawled to her, tears of blood blinding her.

"Kill me," the mare pleaded in agony before more blood came up, her nose dripping with blood and snot. "Please,"

"Since you ask so sweetly," Without hesitation Applebloom grabbed the Mare with her tendril and slammed her into the wall, the mares cry of agony could be heard from the other car as Applebloom began violently beating her against the wall before using her to break a window before tossing her out it. "Anyone else want mercy?" She asked with a smile as the gas was sucked out of the room by the now open window. A colt tried to speak but was interrupted as he fell victim to the final stage of the gas as his body began dissolving from the inside out. one of the stragglers tired to bang on the door only for his own spine to tear through his back, the colts eyes began melting along with his sockets before he fell to pieces and began melting and joining the disgusting mess that was already on the floor, Applebloom watch as one of her victims began screaming for help only for her jaw to fall off, another tried to crawl to the open window only to lose his lower half as he did so, to her amazement one of the victims, who had been holding her breath, actually made it to the window and jumped for it, Appleblooms tendril followed the mare and only just missed her.

"6 out of 7 not too bad I suppose," She said with a shrug as she turned to the next room and easily broke the door with her tendril only to instantly find a magical force field. "Oh shit," She said in realization when she saw Twilight standing on the other and had no time to react before she was blasted back to the original train car, She snarled when another light caught her eye and she looked over just in time to be hit by a second blast of magic and was sent through the weakened walls of the now melting train car. Applebloom skidded across the ground and came to a stop right next to Babs and Scootaloo.

"that went well," Scootaloo said as her broken bones and scraped skin fixed themselves. Just as the trio was getting back up a barrier went around them and quickly turned into a sphere that picked them and their little bit of ground up.

"Three down," Candance said as Twilight landed next to her, the rest of her friends were either cutting off the infected train cars or helping Fluttershy. "We should probably go back to the empire, make sure Spike and his friends still haven’t been infected by this," Candance turned to Twilight and saw the look on her face.

"What?"

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