Serious Sam - My Little Encounter

The earth trembled, the air rumbled, the sound of a charging alien horde filled the air. The ponies prepared themselves. The horns glowed, the backs arched, the ponies did not plan on backing down. Though the sound of the attacking monsters was loud, it was the quiet before the storm. The noise, approached like a rolling storm cloud, herald of a coming battle.

And they have finally arrived. The monsters poured out from between the trees. The grinding of caterpillar threads, the stomping of metallic feet, the clopping of skeletal hooves, the screaming of headless kamikazes, the snorting of zum’buls, the thundering charge of bulls served as the marching song of the alien horde.

The ponies did not shake in fear. Princess Twilight stood at the forefront, “Attack!” she shouted and the pony army has charged at the attacking horde. Rockets, lasers, chained together balls and fierce pegasi flew in the air. The citizens of Ponyville screamed with ferocity never seen before. Their hooves crushed skulls, their spears pierced through alien flesh. They fought valiantly, but the monsters kept coming.

Sam himself was in the middle of the battlefield. He showered the enemy with bullets from his tommygun. Starlight cut the beasts in half with her lasers. The apple family chucked large rocks with their improvised slingshot. Rainbow and the other pegasi beat up the harpies coming from the sky. Fluttershy rode on a ferocious bear, while Discord turned the woodland critters into savage beasts, thirsty for alien blood. Pinkie Pie shot the deadliest showers of confetti from her cannon. Rarity made herself armour and a sword out of gems and fought as a brave but elegant warrior. Spike scorched the enemy with his immense fire breath. Twilight went for the big ones. She emerged from the battlefield and blasted two walkers into pieces.

But the monsters kept coming. They just kept coming. And though they were fighting fearlessly, the forces of Ponyville dwindled. The monsters simply created too much of a chaos, their powerful attacks quickly overwhelmed the pony defenders. And their numbers were infinite. They just did not stop coming. Sam’s weapons weren’t enough either. They took too many bullets and there was too many of them. Clearly they needed to come up with something.

“They’re too much!” Shouted Spike, as the group was forced back into the town. “We can’t hold ‘em!”

Sam looked for a solution. He looked around at his comrades and began thinking. He saw an array of rockets headed towards Starlight, who was about to shoot them down.

“Starlight, rockets!” He shouted.

“Yeah, I know!” She shouted back.

“No, I mean use them!” He shouted again.

Starlight was confused for a moment, then it clicked. Instead of shooting them down, she grabbed the rockets in midair, with her magic, and directed them back at the enemy, blowing groups of smaller monsters into pieces. She kept her new tactic and juggled rockets like Kukulkán.

Sam then looked at the Apple family’s slingshot. He saw their rocks crushing through monsters, but not enough of them. Their strikes were effective, but not effective enough.

“Hey,” he called out to them, “aim the slingshot at the big bastards! The best buckers defend the sling operators!”

They switched places around. Applejack and Big Mac kicked two approaching zum’buls’ teeth in, while Applebloom and Granny Smith shot a large rock out of the slingshot and crushed a walker with it.

Sam then handed his tommygun to Discord.

“You’ve got fingers,” he said, “you can use a gun.”

Discord looked at the gun with a bit of confusion, as he never used one before, but he liked the idea. He made a copy of the gun and handed the original back to Sam. Several copies of the tommygun have appeared in the hands of his savage critters. Suddenly, all of them were wearing fancy suits and fedoras.

“I think it’s time to go to the mattresses.” Said Discord with an Italian accent.

“Forget about it!” Replied Fluttershy, who was now also wearing a fancy suit and a fedora. She was sitting on the shoulders of a very dapper looking Harry the Bear, who wielded two tommyguns. This newly formed gang then began shooting up the place.

Sam stared at them for a minute, then he turned to the pegasi. He was about to say something, but he saw that they already had a plan in action. They were gathering small black clouds, which they kicked repeatedly, zapping the enemy with lightning.

“Yeah, that’ll work.” He said to himself, then called out to Rarity, Pinkie and Spike. “Cover me!” He shouted, then grabbed his chainsaw and ran into the battle.

Rarity ran after her and sliced at the enemy. Pinkie loaded Spike into her cannon and fired him out. While in the air, Spike engulfed himself in an enormous ball of fire and reduced every alien monster in his path to ashes. Rarity grabbed him with her magic and put him on Sam’s shoulder. He torched the surrounding monsters, while Sam gunned them down. The alien horde was shrinking. They were simply crushed by the resourceful pony army.

The battle seemed to be nearing its end. But then, two gigantic four-armed beasts emerged from the distance. They flung rapid fireballs at Ponyville, burning many houses and disrupting the pony army on multiple fronts. It might just have been too much for them to take, but Twilight appeared and blasted them with tremendous bursts of energy. There was something odd about her. She was shrouded by a red glow. Turns out, she found something extremely useful.

The four-armed beasts fell to the ground in no time. Twilight landed in the middle of the battle field and as the red glow around her began fading, she fired a huge explosion, decimating all alien scum in Ponyville. The battle was over, for now.

The crowd was just about to cheer, but there was no time. Another, even bigger four-armed monster emerged. It lobbed many fireballs at Ponyville, destroying the Apple family’s sling and scattering the gun-wielding critter gang. With a few whips from its enormous arms, it swathed away all the pegasi warriors. It then began rampaging all over Ponyville, smashing multiple houses.

“Keep firing!” Sam shouted while picking up a double barrelled shotgun.

Everyone gathered themselves and resumed fighting the monster. The bullets stabbed its flesh, the lasers scorched its skin, but it only made it angrier. That’s when Sam jumped on Twilight’s back.

“Bring me up to the fucker,” he said, “I want to say hello in person.”

Twilight flew him up, right in front of the monster’s face. Sam then shot two loads of shotgun pellets into its right eye. The monster roared in pain, then tried to swath them away. But Twilight was too quick, compared to the half-blinded monster. She directed multiple laser beams at it, while the others kept attacking it.

A flock of pegasi appeared and covered the monster in black clouds. The thunder struck the monster, as it flailed away.

“Go above,” Sam told Twilight, “I’ve got an idea.”

Twilight flew up above the monster and the clouds covering it. It flailed around, trying to escape the storm cloud and flung as many fireballs as it could. It was distracted. Sam brought out his chainsaw and jumped off Twilight’s back. She was surprised and tried to get him back, but Sam was already among the storm clouds. He stabbed the back of the monster’s head with the chainsaw. The monster roared as Sam slid down its back with the chainsaw, scratching away at its back all the way down.

“Clear the clouds!” Twilight shouted at the pegasi.

At that point everyone saw the massive gashing wound on the monster’s back. Rainbow, upon seeing the enormous cut, shouted down at the ground.

“Aim at the cut!”

The pegasi heard that and repeated it, in case the ground didn’t hear. As such, all bullets buried themselves into the monster’s wound and lasers burned it from the inside. The monster cried out in pain, then stumbled forward, towards the rest of Ponyville. Twilight saw that and grabbed the falling monster and thrown it to the other side, saving what’s saveable.

Now the battle was over. Everyone cheered. The monsters were vanquished. The ponies gathered up to celebrate their victory. Sam looked at the happy ponies gladly. But duty called and he turned towards Canterlot. Applejack saw that.

“Hey, where’re you going?” She asked.

“I have to go,” he answered, “I’m going to end this invasion in its core.”

“But who will defend Ponyville?” Applebloom asked him.

Sam turned around and looked at all the ponies who fought by his side.

“You will!” He replied with a smile.

Everyone paused. Then Twilight ran up to him.

“Thank you for your help. How can we ever repay you?” She said.

“No need to. The only one who’s going to pay here is Mental.”

“Who’s this Mental, by the way?” Asked Pinkie Pie.

“He’s the main guy behind the invasion and his base is in...” He looked up as if trying to dig up a memory, then back at Twilight. “Canterlot.”

“Canterlot?” Twilight got worried.

“Yeah, he’s already got the rulers.”

“Celestia and Luna! That can’t be!”

“Well it won’t be, after I’m finished with him.”

“I must go with you!”

Everypony was taken aback by that sentence.

“But Twilight,” Starlight stepped in, “you can’t leave us here. You’re our most important defence.”

“But I can’t leave Sam by himself.”

“Yes you can,” Sam interjected, “I can take care of myself.”

“No,” Twilight insisted, “I must go with you.”

“But what about your town?”

Twilight thought for a moment. “Discord,” she said to Discord, “could you make several copies of Sam’s weapons?”

“Could I?” He said enthusiastically and suddenly, everyone in town had their own tommyguns, shotguns and rocket launchers. “They will take some getting used to, especially with hooves, but they’re great fun to use.”

“Ponies,” Twilight started her speech, “you fought valiantly on this day. And you will fight again soon. But I must go. Sam and I will stop this war at its core. Before I part with you, the only thing I ask you, is to keep fighting. Use everything you learned from this battle, work together to bring them down and don’t let the enemy win.”

Everyone seemed to have their fighting spirit lifted.

“Fight!” Twilight continued. “For victory! For Equestria!”

“For Equestria!” The crowd cheered.