Equestria Girls Alter: Warframe

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“We’re heading towards the mission area operator,” Ordis stated as Hayden’s landing craft passed through the atmosphere.

“Great, just don’t make too much noise once and this mission will go smoothly,” Hayden said with confidence.

“So…how I always been doing it since your awakening.”

“…Was that sass I hear?”

“Don’t ask st-yes…er…I’ll rectify the problem when I can.”

Hayden only shook his head and laughed mildly to himself at his friend’s behavior. He wouldn’t admit it but Ordis’s odd and quirky personality is always something that brings him a form of happiness in his life. Of course his new quote on quote new ‘friends’ are perplexed by his odd behavior and sudden mood swings. Truthfully that only made Ordis more interesting though his past is a mystery to the Tenno. Speaking of his new friends…

“Alright! Can wait to deal with some of those tin cans!” Rainbow Dash said as she played around with the modified Dex Furis pistols. Hayden mentally cried as he had to rework such pistols to use knock out rounds. They won’t kill anymore, but they will leave the Grineer with such a headache when they wake up. In addition the weapons are silent, so their enemies won’t hear them coming.

“Rainbow Dash be careful with those! Remember we’re just borrowing these weapons, so please don’t break them,” Twilight chided as she adjusted the Dex Sybris on her back. The weapon was once originally modified to pierce multiple targets and eat through armor, but this too had to be changed to suit the ponies non-lethal methods.

“For a friend we must treat their stuff with respect!” Pinkie declared as she wielded the newly made Ogris much to Hayden’s dismay. The energetic girl gave him an ultimatum of letting her borrow either the Hek or the Ogris so the Tenno made the painful decision of letting her use the newly crafted weapon and letting her mod it to suit her tastes.

“My baby…” Hayden cried mentally, but tried to think of the gun he did save from that choice.

“Landing zone incoming get ready everyone!” Ordis exclaimed.

“Alright everyone, do you remember the small tutorial I gave you on those weapons?”

“Yup.”

“As much as I can.”

“I just aim and hold the trigger right?”

“Stealth is going out the window isn’t it?” Hayden mentally groaned as he checked his weapons; Dread, the sinister bow of the stalker, a silenced Lex pistol, and finally a glaive in order to confuse enemies. This set of weapons is as silent as he can get and isn’t something he normally use since most of the time his fellow tenno foregoes stealth and just kill everything that moves. However, the fact the people going along with him on this mission is not tenno gave him some form of hope that this will actually be stealthy for once.

“Drop off point reached, please deploy now,” Ordis stated.

“Alright everyone one at a time…me first,” Hayden said cheekily as he positioned himself on the person shaped indent as it turned around and dropped him off at the designated area leaving the three ponies turned human to line up and do the same. Pinkie was the next one to go as she excitedly jumped into position and shouted in joy as it dropped her off. Rainbow Dash being the daredevil of the three was the next and couldn’t hold her joy as she shouted with a ‘Yahoo!’ when it dropped her off. Twilight being the last in line didn’t know what to expect so she just braced herself for what came next, but nothing could have prepared her for the drop that was waiting her on the other side.

“Wahh!!!” She screamed and panicked as she flailed through the open air before being caught by Hayden and placed on her feet safely without harm although she was still trying to calm her heart after that terrifying surprise. “You just drop eight feet from the air!? How do you even manage to land from that height?!”

“One, shush! Do you want the metal heads to hear us? Two, I do this on a daily basis and also the warframe absorbs the impact from the fall. Three, I knew you girls wouldn’t be able to stick the landing so of course I went first so I can catch you all when you deploy,” Hayden explained with an annoyed undertone.

“Oh…well thanks for being considerate.”

“You’re welcome, now let’s just get this over with,” The tenno pointed to the tunnel up ahead, “The Grineer base where the ship was taken is just through this tunnel. No doubt the tin cans will be on alert since the event so I want you guys to follow what I say and do what I say. If we get into a fire fight I’ll do my best to do aggro control and make sure those guys won’t kill you. Unlike me, you girls aren’t semi-invincible so if you find yourself in trouble do your best to defend yourself, these guys don’t know the meaning of mercy.”

“Right.”

“Meh.”

“Okey dokey!”

“Good now let’s do this as quietly as possible,” Hayden said as he took point, leading the team down the fairly lit tunnel as the overgrowth seemed to boxing them in. After a few minutes Twilight spoke up.

“So this is Earth? It looks all run down…”

“I don’t know too much on the history of the planet but from what I gathered there used to be a civilization here. However, it’s gone now and as of now this place is full of Grineer bases trying to harvest materials from the planet to make their weapons. But as you can plainly see Mother Nature isn’t taking that sitting down and fighting back as the plant growth is slowly overtaking these bases.”

“I see…I wonder what it used to look like?”

“Yeah you can wonder about that all you want but honestly I don’t really care since these guys don’t plan on leaving this planet alone anytime soon,” Silence befell the group as they continue onward noticing the split in the tunnel due to the rock formation, but that wasn’t the problem. The sound of footsteps coming from the right direction gained the groups attention; it would seem that they have company, “Everybody hide, it sounds like…three, four? Five, a five man squad coming our way,” The girls complied and took the other direction and hid behind a few containers. Hayden on the other hand took out his bow and readied it as he took a position. Slowly, he aimed at the line of Grineers heads starting with the man in front and quickly he let go of the arrow causing it to fly quick and true as it decapitated all the Grineer in one go. One by one the bodies fell to the floor lifeless as their heads landed beside them in morbid fashion.

“Clear,” Hayden proclaimed as the ponies turned human walked out of their cover and nearly gagged at the sight of the bodies. The arrow cleanly cut through their necks fast and quietly; they never saw it coming. Blood began to leak out of the open cavities as they passed the bodies; even Pinkie was shocked at the quick display of death laid out for all to see.

“You…decapitated them?” Twilight asked with a mixed of shock and curiosity, “With an arrow…how?”

Hayden showed Twilight the arrow head causing her and the others to be surprised as the head was a curved blade edge, “As you can tell, this ain’t a normal arrow head. This weapon is a copy of the stalker’s own original weapon and I have been on the receiving of these things for a time. As you can see they are meant to cut through targets, but Grineer armor is tough so I had to modify this bow and arrow to fire with much more force so it can cut through them like butter.”

“No kidding” Rainbow Dash said as she touched a body with her foot, “I mean I’m all for taking out bad guys but killing them? Not me…”

“I know…I cannot change my ways but it doesn’t mean you have to change yours. This is why I went through the effort of making the weapons you wield non-lethal…much to my own pain and internal suffering…”

“I guess it’s one of those you do things your way and we do things our way right?”

“Exactly, you knock out your target, and leave to the killing to me. If we’re lucky we won’t have to leave too many bodies behind,” Hayden then sprinted forward quickly catching the girls off guard as they told him to wait up as they ran to catch up with him. The group ran in order to quickly exit the tunnel and save time. It wasn’t long until they reached the exit and with a new challenge in front of them.

“And…we have an outpost,” Hayden dryly as he quickly leap upward and onto a tall tree.

“I’m guessing that means that there are more of those tin cans walking around right?” Rainbow Dash muttered to herself as she readied her guns.

Hayden activated his comm. and linked it to his allies, “Pretty much...” he said surprising them.

“What the? How can I hear you so clearly from up there?” The rainbow hair girl asked in confusion.

“Maybe he has a walkie talkie!”

“Wouldn’t that mean we have walkie talkies as well?” Twilight said straightly, shooting down Pinkie’s theory.

“I’m psychic…no in reality I’m using my comm. device on my warframe to link up to your outfits and talk to you girls. It’s silent to anyone who is not linked up to us so I can talk to you guys without anyone over hearing us. Anyway, I just got a good look of the area and we got about twelve guys roaming the area. Two snipers on upper part of the outpost, and ten riflemen on the ground, we could sneak past the grunts but those snipers will no doubt see us for sure so we need to take them out. I can take out one of them with my arrow but the other one will no doubt start running once the other is dead, so Twilight I need you to sneak in close enough so you can have a clear shot at one of them. There should be a path you can use to sneak by and out of their line of sight.”

“Right, got it. But what does the path look like?”

“The one littered with bushes and logs use them to your advantage and as for the rest of you I need you both to get ready to use your weapons just in case this tactic goes south.”

“Wait you don’t believe Twilight can do it?” Rainbow Dash asked with slight offense.

“Hmm…let see, a bunch of mares turned human given guns and a few minute tutorial on how to use them is going to be already an expert on firing said gun. Now tell me you don’t think that has no chance of going south.”

“Right, right…I see your point sheesh…but at least have some faith in us alright?”

“If I didn’t then you three wouldn’t be here. Twilight, are you in position?”

“I can see the back of the head of one of them from here and I’m pretty close for a good shot, are you ready?”

“Arrow primed and ready, on a count of three…we both fire at the same time, and remember Twilight don’t hesitate…or think about it. Just put your focus on the target and fire.”

“Right…I can do this.”

“One…two…three!” As soon as he said the last number Twilight pulled the trigger on her weapon firing the high impact rubber bullet from the barrel completely silently much to her surprise as the bullet hit the sniper from behind the head with a ‘dink’ noise causing the target to fall forward and hit the railing as it slumped onto the ground unconscious. As for the other sniper Twilight didn’t hear a reaction out her and can only assume that she is decapitated like her fellow Grineer in the tunnel.

The former mare felt her hands trembling as she felt the adrenaline after taking that first shot on an actual living and breathing target. She was taking deep breaths until Hayden cut in, “Nice work, I know you’re trembling right now so stay there and we’ll regroup on your location. Take this time to steady yourself for this is something you’re going to have to get used to from here on out.”

It didn’t take long for Twilight’s friends and Hayden to regroup at her location with the latter finishing off the unconscious Grineer much to the girls’ surprise. The Tenno explained that he might as well kill the Grineer or else she might wake up in the worst of times and pull the alarm on them. Although despite this explanation the girls could only describe the way he straight up murder the unconscious sniper as quick as it was heartless. Hayden can feel their eyes judging him for the action but metaphorically rolled his eyes as he knew this will be a common problem with them.

Having dealt with the snipers the group sneaked passes the rest of the troops as they went through another tunnel that was straight forward and one way. Along the way more Grineer showed up forcing the group to incapacitate them or in Hayden’s case kill them. Unlike the sniper Hayden let the unconscious Grineer live as they continue onward much to the girls confusion. More and more as they headed deeper into the environment and gradually the jungle they were in turned more mechanical as rusted metal walkways, walls, and fans which they had to navigate through. The smell of environmental destruction was strong here making it harder to breath the deeper they went for the girls.

“Ugh…you weren’t kidding about the Grineers mining operations,” Rainbow Dash complained.

“Yeah I don’t think Fluttershy will like these guys very much,” Pinkie added.

“The environment is nothing more than a nuisance to them. They only came here to take what they want and set up a couple of bases. As you can already tell, the environment is paying for it and there isn’t much wildlife as far as I can see. I may have met some friendly Grineer who are not like their brethren, but still…these guys are a deplorable bunch,” Hayden said with a tone of venom in his voice.

“You really hate them don’t you?” Twilight inquired.

The Tenno sighed as he recalled major event’s in his life that involved the Grineer, “I hate everything that tries to kill me. So they aren’t special on my to hate list, but if you are wondering the Orokin and the Sentients are on top of the list. The latter for being annoying and hard to kill, while the former is the source of many problems in my life.”

“…Is that why you don’t have qualms with killing? You simply just lock your heart away and strike without mercy?”

“Not exactly…from what I can remember I was a simple kid before the incident in the void took place. However after it, things changed…I changed…and when the Orokin found us…well that’s when I stopped being a child.”

The girls could hear the anger underlying his voice as he said this out loud, “Okay okay, I get it! You had a troubling childhood and were turned into a killing machine after the incident.”

Hayden took a few deep breaths as he calmed himself, “It’s more complicated than that but…that’s another story all together.”

“That sounds rough...I hope things will turn out better for you,” Rainbow Dash said.

“Thanks…it’s the reason why I keep fighting; hoping that it will eventually end.”

The group returned to silence as they entered a large base with ships coming in and out of it. Of course taking the sneaky route they entered through the air vents. It was a bit cramped but they managed to squeeze through until eventually Hayden kicked down a ground facing vent allowing him to jump down and stretch his limbs as the others came after him albeit less gracefully.

“You girls alright?”

“Fine…” Twilight and Rainbow Dash said simultaneously.

“Wee! Let’s do that again!”

Hayden stifle a chuckle as he turned to face the multiple doors that awaited them, “Well ladies, here we are; the hornets’ nest. From here on out we must be extra careful for one tin can seeing us can set off the entire place and we’ll be up in our necks in metal heads and even I don’t think this frame can protect all of you from that many bullets.”

Twilight, and the others gave a nod in agreement as they ready their weapons, “We just need to find out which direction the transport headed using the data here. Once we do that we just need to get out of here and analyze our findings,” The violet human said.

“Essentially every spy mission I’ve been on. Pinkie, again don’t fire that weapon unless it’s absolutely necessary.”

“Aw…then why give me this weapon? I wanted to show you the new modification I made to it!”

“Don’t remind me…that was supposed to be my baby…”

“Well whatever you planning with it I can happily tell you that you’re going to like what I did to it.”

“If it involves explosions and something spectacular I might forgive you for tearing my new weapon apart.”

Pinkie in response to this slight threat gave a starry eye smile as in hoping for the chance to show her new friend what she did to the powerful launcher. Hayden on the other hand was mentally hoping that there could be a way to reverse the modifications the fluffy haired girl has made so he can have his weapon back.

“Anyway…this is where Loki shines. Stealth is a tool of trade for this frame and trust me when I say this, you’re all probably going to be laughing once you see this thing in action. However, before we can get a move on…Ordis?”

“Yes operator? Can you update our objective? I need to know where the terminals are so we can find the data involving the stolen transport ship.”

“Okay I’ll do a quick scan…scanning….scanning…ah found it!”

“Where is it buddy?”

“I’m putting the terminal locations on your hud right now. Also the girls on the Orbiter are hoping for your safe return.”

“Tell them that they got nothing to worry about. I’ll make sure to bring their friends back safe.”

“Oh good, I’ll relay the message as soon as possible then.”

“Great.”

Hayden ceased his communication with Ordis as he got his weapon ready, “Alright everyone follow me I know where the terminals are.”

“Got it,” They all said.

Taking the middle door the group did their best to avoid conflict as they went with them managing to avoid most of the security in open rooms by knocking out the Grineer that got in their way. The girls themselves were amazed by the warframe’s ability to turn invisible making it easier to deal with some patrols, but this still did not stop the Tenno from killing the troopers much to the girl’s displeasure but on the positive side he didn’t murder the troopers that they knocked out along the way. It wasn’t easy knocking out the troopers but the girls found ways with Twilight taking out the farther more isolated troopers and Rainbow Dash and Pinkie surprising and grabbing passing by Grineer. Normally they would have shouted for help but they were quickly silenced by a quick hard shot from Rainbow’s guns to the head had them counting sheep.

“Hey these guys are easy. I mean how many did we take out already?” The rainbow haired girl said with her usual cocky attitude.

“I think thirteen already if we are not counting the ones Hayden killed,” Twilight responded, “But we shouldn’t get too full of ourselves since Hayden did say that they’re the runt of the litter. So they’re not as big of a threat compared to the higher ups.”

“Well that’s true, but still…these guys are kinda weak.”

“Comparing to the normal personality of their kind. I would guess they’re supposed to be cannon fodder.”

“Whatever…hey Hayden how’s that door coming along?”

“Just one more rotation and…bingo. Okay this room should hold a terminal but there are a butt load of security measures to deal with. So I’ll need you three to stay here while I go and sneak in and steal the data. Do not call attention to yourselves…the last thing we need is a Grineer setting off the alarm.”

“So stay here and make sure no metal head make their way into the area?”

“Yes Rainbow Dash, and feel free to knock them out,” With this said he quickly turned invisible and left the three by themselves.

“So…what do you think?” Rainbow said as she faced the door.

“Think of what?” Pinkie asked curiously.

“Hayden…honestly to me he’s a nice guy and all but when it comes to his enemies he doesn’t hold anything back.”

“Yeah, his methods are…extreme to say the least. But we have to consider what Hayden went through in his life. No doubt he spent a large portion of his life fighting and killing which I wish we can change but it doesn’t seem like that’ll be happening anytime soon,” Twilight said as looked downwards, “The sad thing is he isn’t a bad person, rude yes but bad no. But despite all he had told us about himself I still feel like he’s hiding things from us.”

“Well…he did say this world is filled to the brim with people fighting each other. Maybe there are things we shouldn’t hear about…” Pinkie uncharacteristically said smartly as she cradles the Ogris in her arms.

“He did say that a lot…but c’mon we faced Nightmare Moon, Discord, and Chrysalis’ army. I believe we can handle whatever this world can throw at us,” The colorful haired girl said confidently.

“Actually, we only managed to beat Nightmare Moon. Discord beat us pretty soundly when we first met, it was only through Spike and the letters I sent to Celestia that pulled us through. As for the changeling army, we put up a good fight but they managed to overwhelm us with their sheer numbers,” Twilight corrected.

“Oh yeah! I remember using your tail like a crank and suddenly you where firing off magic bolts like a machine gun!” Pinkie recalled.

“Yeah…I never really knew how that worked in the first place, but speaking of magic I wonder if I can use mines in this world?” Twilight pondered about this question as Pinkie spoke up.

“I can see how it can be a problem. You’re missing your horn! Unicorns and Alicorns use their horns to channel magic so maybe you just need to focus your magic somewhere else,” The cotton candy haired girl said smartly much to her friend’s surprise.

“Somewhere else?”

“Yeah, like your hands or your feet!”

“Or maybe your rifle,” Rainbow Dash added.

“Well…I never really tried it before so maybe it’s worth a shot but I’ll try it when we’re out of here.”

“Sounds like a plan, and maybe Hayden won’t see us as much as a burden if it works. Because honestly, I think he plans on going alone for later missions and leave all of us to sit down and tweedle our newly acquired thumbs.”

“Tempting offer…but I rather not have my guests be bored out of their mind,” A voice interrupted, causing the girls drop their conversation as a familiar horned figure phased back into vision surprising everyone but they managed not to shout.

“Uh…how long were you listening?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“I started at the magic bit. Anyway I got the data and you wouldn’t believe what I found.”

“What, what is it?” Twilight asked urgently.

“I found out a transport ship made an unscheduled departure very recently. According to information found here it was last seen heading towards Uranus space.”

“Well good, then let’s get back to your ship and head there as soon as possible!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

“Trust me I fully intend to, but for an entirely different reason.”

“Which is…what?” Pinkie said curiously.

“That entire planet is under the command of the last Grineer I wanted her to run into, Tyl Regor…”

/

Sunset cursed herself as she should have known those Grineer morons were up to something when she found them. The moment that a squad of ships showed up and surrounded her ship the Grineer she intimated into working for her immediately rebelled. She blew them away when they tried capturing her and nothing remained of them but charred corpses.

“So much for loyalty and fear…” she muttered to herself as she hid behind a bunch of large containers as another patrol of higher ranked Grineer soldiers passed by, “These guys aren’t like the ones I found on that planet I was on. It’s obvious that someone of higher rank is leading them because I haven’t seen these guys so motivated before…”

“Come out come out where ever you are…”

A new voice caught Sunset’s attention as she quietly listened in to it.

“Hmm…she’s playing cat and mouse with us. Cover all the exits! I want her alive so when you see her, don’t aim for any vital areas. I want my new test subject!” The new voice yelled out to his subordinates.

“New test subject? Forget that…” Sunset muttered as she heard the Grineer troops agreeing to the new voice and taking different directions leaving the new voice by himself. She heard him pacing slowly as he continued talking himself.

“So close…I can almost feel my cold metal hands sampling that precious D.N.A. heh heh…if you’re listening Tenno there is no escape! You will be mine!” shortly thereafter the owner of the voice left leaving Sunset plenty of feelings of danger now knowing full well to avoid the owner of that voice. Though she cursed herself for not taking a peek at who it was who planned on using her as a science project. Well that doesn’t matter now she needs to get off this ship and her only hope is the escape pods, but no doubt like that voice said they will be guarded. However, it shouldn’t be a problem with her magic as long as she doesn’t alert everybody on the ship. She may be powerful but not even she is sure that she can take down all these metal soldiers.

“Got to play it smart…like I always has been.”

Coming out of her hiding spot she decided to use the various vents to get around undetected. It was cramped, giving her enough room to crouch. Honestly, she doesn’t know her way around the ship at all, but she had no choice but to wing it if she wanted to escape. So she spent a few minutes wandering through the maze like structure of the vents having a few close calls from some of the troopers pausing and listening for her. She stood still and held her breath each timed this happened until they finally left. Eventually, she felt the need to get out of the vent to check her surroundings and in her eyes it feels like she didn’t even get very far as the corridor she found herself didn’t look too different from others she has been in.

(“Any signs of the tenno yet?”) Spoke a nearby Grineer.

(“None so far, but she’ll need to come this way eventually. She doesn’t have a ship of her own so no doubt she’ll go after the escape pods.”)

Sunset made herself scarce as she took cover behind a nearby crate and peeked over to see two dark blue Grineer troopers scanning the area they’re in while protecting what looks to be an opening that leads into a small pod big enough to fit one person.

“Bingo,” she said to herself as she charged a fireball in her hands. Remembering their position Sunset leaped out of her cover and tossed the blazing ball of heat at one of the Grinner before immediately taking cover again behind a barrel. The two Grineer were taken by surprise by the sudden attack as one of them got blasted by the fireball and knocked to the ground as the other readied his gun as he aimed it near the last position he saw her take. He walked slowly to her position and once he was close enough he took a big step and fired behind the barrel but after a few shots he realized she was not here.

(“What?!”)

“Peek a boo!” Sunset shouted as she suddenly reappeared out of a vent above the Grineer and blasts him backwards as he tripped over the barrel. The armored soldier was disoriented for a moment before it noticed that his armor smelled a bit funny. His eyes widen when he noticed that he has fuel on his body, “You’ll make a nice campfire,” Sunset smiled cruelly as she lit a small fire and tossed it onto the Grineer setting him ablaze as he screamed in pain before eventually dying to the flames. The flamed hair girl took a moment to reflect on her work as she looked back at the barrel and noticed that none of its contents were spilled in the scuffle, but that detail would have to wait as escape was so close.

She made her way to the pod and was about to take a step inside until she heard something flying though the air right at her. Quickly she rolled to the left as an ax crashed into the pod destroying the controls.

“No!” Sunset shouted as she heard metal footsteps coming her way.

“Oh I’m sorry…but I cannot allow you to escape,” Said a well spoken yet cold voice, the same voice that Sunset immediately recognized, “Well well well well well! So this is what a Tenno looks like without their Warframes. Nothing more than a mere child…how insulting.”

Sunset gritted her teeth as the Grineer speaking to her came into view surprising her with how different he looked from the others, no doubt in her mind that this is the leader of the force that attacked her. The Grineer in question walked towards the pod causing her to back away from him as he pulled his ax out of the machinery and turned to face her.

“Who are you?!” she demanded causing the Grineer to laugh lightly at her question.

“You must be really green behind the ears if you don’t know who I am but I will give you the courtesy. I am Tyl Regor a…’scientist’ of the entire Grineer army and you child…are my key to achieving greatness.”

“Fat chance I’m not going to be some tin man’s lab rat!”

“Oh ho oh! Did I say you had a choice in the matter? Oh no…I’m afraid you don’t.”

Sunset hated being talk down to, but she knew just by looking at him that she is outmatched just by looking at his imposing figure. Smartly she decided to turn tail and run getting a sinister laugh from the high ranked Grineer as he made chase after her. Despite the fact that a walking bulk of metal is chasing after her, Tyl Regor turned out to be surprisingly fast as already he was closing the distance on her. Thinking fast she looked around the hall she was running down and saw two Grineer soldiers in the way and not noticing that they were coming their way. Seeing her opportunity she charged a small fireball before calling the two soldiers attention.

“Hey morons!” she taunted as she tossed the fire ball straight at the face of one Grineer as he was turning around causing him to panic as Sunset slid between the legs of the distracted Grineer as she continued to make a break for it hoping that Tyl Regor would stop and help his fellow men. However, much to her shock and horror he simply batted the two out of the way as he continued to chase her not caring what happened to his own men. Never before she has see someone so driven and heartless but she can mull over that later when she finally lose him.

“Ha ha! Yes! It feels so cathartic to have a Tenno running away from me for once!” Shouted Regor as he continued chasing the fire haired girl.

Sunset wanted to retort but it would be a waste of air as the large metal man was getting within arm’s reach of her. But fortune smiled on her today as she saw a decently sized vent closing in front of her and it was leading downward. She didn’t know where it led but it was better than being close to this guy. With another slide she busted through the vent and slid downwards as the vent took her to a lower part of the ship. She can hear the frustrated roar of the high ranked Grineer along with the sound of pounded metal. Sunset smiled devilishly as she knew her luck hasn’t ran out yet. She slid for a few minutes before crashing downward into a new room where the vacuum of space was closer than ever before.

“Where am I now?” she asked herself quietly as she slowly got up and dusted herself off as she looked up only to quickly hide back into cover as she saw numerous Grineer guarding multiple escape pods compared to the single one she saw on the upper floor. But how is she going to deal with all them is a better question, she knew she had to think fast because no doubt Tyl Regor is going to find her if given enough time. “What if I?” she trailed off as she looked at right her hand and focused large amounts of magical power into it. She felt her hand getting warmer and hotter the more she focused her magic into her hand, after putting as much magic as she could into her hand she leap out of cover immediately gaining the attention of all Grineers in the area.

“Here goes nothing!” She shouted as she rammed her fist into the ground causing a large wave of fire to spread around her engulfing and knocking back every Grineer in the area. Cries of pain and agony erupted in the room as all soldiers are now flailing and rolling in a vain attempt to get rid of the fire. Sunset however doesn’t have time to be amazed at her power as she quickly made her way to the nearest escape pod and hopped inside. At first she was taken aback by the controls but noticed a button that said eject and pressed it without hesitation.

Immediately the hatch door leading inside the pod closed and with a sudden lurch Sunset felt the pod detach from the ship and propel itself to the closest planet available; Uranus.

Meanwhile on the ship...

(“Sir! An escape pod has been reported leaving the ship!”)

“Really now? I haven’t noticed…heh heh.”

(“Sir should we intercept?”)

“No…let her go, she’s heading towards our base after all. I want all remaining soldiers to surround her predicted landing zone. That Tenno is not escaping us.”

(“Sir yes sir!”)

Tyl Regor closed communications as he smiled at the sight of the escape pod leaving the ship and heading towards the planet, “Heh heh ha ha…out of the frying pan and into fire.”

/

It was supposed to be a simple stealth mission and so far everything went according to plan. The girls listen to orders and performed fairly well all things considered, so why? Why are the alarms blazing loudly and they’re running for their lives from untold amounts of armed Grineer soldiers? Well it wasn’t the girls’ fault that’s for sure and how does Hayden know it wasn’t their fault? One simple answer, explosive tip arrows…Hayden forgot to remove the mod from his bow and unfortunately when they were trying to sneak their way out of the base, one of his arrows exploded on his target and alerted every Grineer in the area.

“Waahh!!!” Shouted Twilight as she tried her best to avoid the bullets from the Grineer behind them while trying to keep pace with the others.

“Holy hay! No wonder you wanted us to be careful, there’s practically an army in here!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she fired a few side glance shots behind her.

“How are they are not hitting us?” Pinkie asked confused as she skipped along somehow keeping up with the running group, “You would think with all those guns they would be hitting at least one of us.”

Hayden could only grumble in his own head as another bullet shot into his body causing him to grunt in pain, “Gee…it’s like they have recognizable enemy who should be taken out first because he has a history of ruining their plans.”

“Hmm…I wonder who that can be?” Pinkie said innocently earning a look from the constantly pelted Tenno.

“Hayden! You got a plan to get us out of here?” Rainbow Dash asked as she fired more shots behind her actually hitting a few grineer from the blind fire.

“Of course! Ordis is waiting for us at the extraction zone, we just need to get there and we’ll be in the clear.”

“Where’s the extraction zone?”

“It shouldn’t be far, it should be just…” Hayden found himself being cut off as they exited the base and was nearly blinded by the sunlight that poured in. However, what he saw next didn’t help the situation at all. There forcing all of them to a screeching halt was a whole platoon of Grineer already readying their arms.

“Shit!” Hayden thought to himself as there were too many for him to deal with at once. Sure he could just get rid of all of their guns with Loki’s ultimate ability, but he can already see more metal heads coming their way. It didn’t help that his weapons aren’t very good at dealing with crowds. Making his situation worse is that these girls are going to get killed in the crossfire, “Shit! Shit! Shit! What can I do? Loki is not good for this situation! Am I going have to do something incredibly stupid?” He turned to his companions and saw the mixed looks of panic, defiance, and bewilderment.

“Aw, fuck it…” gathering his void energy he activated Loki’s final ability; Radial Disarm. In a quick flash of void light a large circle of the Grineer who surrounded them had their firearms disappear from their hands causing massive confusion among the firing squad, “Pinkie if you’re going to impress me with the modifications, do it now!” Hayden yelled.

“Yippee!” The fluffy haired girl shouted with glee as pull and held the trigger of the ogris slowly charging it up before firing its payload. Much to Hayden’s surprise, the projectile fired didn’t look like the normal iron looking ball of destruction but instead a colorful light blue and pink ball that slammed into the face of the Grineer who failed to dodge out of the way. “Now everyone take cover!” she shouted in response as the ball quickly shook erratically.

Hayden’s eyes widen as he did quickly as she told them to hit the dirt. No less than a few seconds after shaking the orb exploded in a massive pink explosion as confetti, streamers, balloons, cake, and candy scattered in multiple directions pelting and knocking out the remaining Grineer who weren’t already K.O.ed by the initial explosion itself. Shortly the shock wave subsided as the group slowly got up and dusted themselves off.

“So what do you think?” Pinkie said with excitement waiting to hear Hayden’s input on her mods.

The bewildered Tenno simply stared at her momentarily before placing both hands on her shoulders, “Pinkie…you got to show how to do that, for that was the most beautiful explosion I had ever laid my eyes on.”

“I don’t know…the Pinkie instant party surprise isn’t meant to be used as a machine of death. How will I know that you won’t modify it to fit your killer tendencies?”

“Uh…I can give you my word?”

“Not good enough…I want a pinkie promise out of you mister!”

“Oh…well okay.” Hayden then proceeded to stick out his pinkie finger much to Pinkie’s confusion.

“What are you doing?”

“A pinkie promise, this is how we do it here. Why is there another way of doing it?”

“Yes silly! Like this!” Pinkie then began to do a small jig as she ritualistically voice out, “Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!” She then stopped her jig then pointed to Hayden, “Now you try it!”

The Tenno didn’t know what that embarrassing display was about but he wanted to know the secret of making an explosion like that again, so if he must make a fool of himself to do so then so be it, “Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!” He said with similar energy to the girl.

“Good, I’ll tell you when I have time and away from prying eyes, but know this mister. Don’t ever break this sacred promise or may Celestia help you should you do!” Pinkie said in a dramatic voice that seemed thunderous.

Suddenly, Hayden felt small to the girl as he looked behind her at her friends who both mouth to him to never break the promise. The Tenno gulped now thinking that he may have been too rash with the agreement.

...few minutes later

After crossing the party fallout, caused by the P.I.P.S. which is the new name of the modified Ogris, the group managed to reach the extraction point without further problem as they were picked up one by one by the landing craft before it shortly shot back into space. Once settled Hayden found himself being berated by the rest of Twilight’s friends for making that stupid mistake that put their lives in danger. But it quickly cooled over as the conversation went more back into the mission.

“So what did four managed to find?” Applejack asked as Hayden inserted the data into a port in the computer.

“Hold on, Ordis?”

“Yes operator?”

“Analyze the data; I need to know where that stolen grineer ship went.”

“Right, here we go…analyzing…analyzing…analyzing…there I found it!”

“Way to go Ordis! Where was that transport ship was heading?”

“It was heading to…oh my…Uranus space,” The cephalon said grimly.

“Oh crap…” Hayden said as he was given a few confused looks from the others.

“What is it? What’s wrong Hayden?” Twilight asked with great concern.

“Uranus is a grineer controlled planet led by Tyl Regor A.K.A. the last person we wanted to find you guys.”

Some of the girls gasped while others simply gave dark looks, “Then we need to go there now! She could be in trouble!” Twilight exclaimed with great worry.

“Sorry Twilight…even if we head there now we don’t know where exactly she is on the planet. Besides there is nothing but bases on that planet; we’re going to need a plan.”

“Your right, then we should scout the area as soon as possible.”

“That I can agree with. Ordis set course to Uranus space we’re going to do some field work.”

“Aye aye operator!”

Hayden ignored that sudden ‘aye aye’ thing Ordis just spouted right now as he took a meditating pose and blocked out all distractions including the chatter of Twilight and her friends. He does this occasionally to gather his mind.

“Well we almost managed to pull it off without alerting the guards…but at least Pinkie’s mods really saved the day there. I don’t think I would be able to stop all of them from firing if I didn’t put my faith in her work. But…I sensed something in the projectile she fired…it felt similar to the void energy I use in the Warframes but at the same time it isn’t. I also felt trace amounts from both Twilight and Rainbow Dash as well but they didn’t exhibit any powers in that mission. I would guess there wasn’t a need at the time but I wouldn’t put it past my gut feeling that this ‘magic’ they told me about is still within them, they just don’t know how to unleash them. Hmmm…I should explore this further for their sakes and my sanity. As for Sunset Shimmer…I never thought I would say this but stay safe you big moron. Out of all the places in the universe to head to you picked the one where the head honcho would take you apart.”

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Meanwhile back at the Grineer base...

“What is all this pink stuff all over MY LAND!?!?” Screamed a furious Vay Hek as he scanned the carnage left behind by P.I.P.S.

(“W-We have no idea sir but it tastes sweet and delicious. You should try it!”)

“Really now? Bring me some NOW!” Shouted the Grineer commander as the trooper quickly ran off and gathered a decent amount untainted by the environment before bringing it to Vay Hek. “Now let’s see what all the fuss is about with this ‘sweet’ substance.” Unmasking himself he extended a small thing robotic hand and brought a small sample to his mouth before tasting it.

Nothing could prepare the normally violent and warlike Grineer for the great deliciousness he tasted in his once thought dead taste buds took it in. His eyes widen with surprise as the siren in his body shot out and started blaring as he shouted to the world, “THIS IS THE BEST THING I EVER TASTED!!!”