Dawn of the Jaegers

Rainbow Dash's wings were flapping as fast as they could while still holding on to her friend. "I thought this was supposed to be an easy job!" She shouted over the rushing wind, doing her best to stay in front of the chasing monsters.

Pinkie Pie was too busy loading her party cannon to answer, twisting upside down in her friends grip as she took aim and fired a volley of explosive confetti. Three of the beast dropped but it seemed to her like six more took their place. "Oh fiddle sticks, I thought that would work!" She cried in annoyance. "Can you slow down so I can actually aim?" She shouted up at her flying partner.

"What?!? You want to get closer to that mess?" Rainbow asked incredulously. "I'm barely keeping a hold of you and staying ahead of that cloud full of death!" She shot back.

Twisting some more with amazing flexibility Pinkie Shot once more into the dark cloud of wings. This time getting a few more then before. "I have a plan but I need to get closer to actually land the shot!" She explained, pulling from on of her pouches a large ball with a fuzz. "If I'm looking at our situation right we are five seconds ahead of the betas. Problem is this fuzz is only three seconds long so I need to be closer to get it in the middle!" She further explained, loading the shot into the cannon as Rainbow veered to the left to circle back towards the nest.

"What about the nest?? Got something big enough for that?" She said as it came into view.

Pinkie gave a hum before a memory lit up her head. "Lesson twenty two!" She yelled happily.

Rainbow looked down at her in confusion. "Lesson Twenty whaa... OH YEAH!" She muttered before remembering the lesson in the Pit.

Mr. Roads was standing in the center of the floor like usual. "When hunting a nest of betas know that if danger comes to the nest they will swarm the location to remove the threat. Soooo say you need to get rid of them all fast.... blow up the nest with them near it!" He explained with enthusiasm, making explosion sounds as he went on to the rest of the class.

The nest grew in their view as Rainbow continued flying. The structure looked like a freakish version of a hornets nest with a few betas still flying around it. Slowing the beats of her wings the betas inching closer and closer as time seemed to slow for the pair. Pinkie took aim from her position, squinting her eyes and her tongue poking out just slightly as she pulled the trigger.

The shot rang out leaving a trail of sparklers and fire in a multitude of color heading straight for the nest. The betas on seeing the shot rushed forward after it, forgetting about their original prey. The fiery ball fell into one of the holes in the nest, spiraling around and around as it sank deeper and deeper. The monsters now following into the hole until just as the last one went in, a shock wave erupted from inside the nest. Wax, wood, and viscera rained from the sky as the once large structure crumbled to dust with the two Jaegers in training crying out in celebration as they landed just outside of the new crater.

“Hell yeah that’s how you solve a problem!” Rainbow shouted in joy as they both jumped up and down with joy. Pinkie was too busy giggling and snorting in laughter at their success to answer. The two gave a quick look around finding nothing remaining before heading back to report the success and collect the reward. A new story to share with the others of Harmony.

Spike presses his back to the wall of the cave as Fluttershy and Rarity rested at the other side. Raising his fist he sent a silent message to them getting nods in response as Rarity pulled a small mirror from her chest and angled it inside. From where she was a image of a dragon filled the reflection. It matched the description the job posting, if not a little on the smaller size if she scaled the image up in her mind. With a breath she gestured to Spike and confirmed the target. The three gave one more look to the area before rushing inside.

The beast quickly noticed them, giving a roar in challenge towards them. Spike shifted into his draconic form as the girls rushed to the sides. “ Let’s go you over grown lizard!” He challenged back, rushing forward with a burst of earth underneath him as the dragon blew flames from its maw. With a twist of his foot Spike launched to the side, dodging the attack while Rarity stepped from the other side with her needles floating around her. Sending them flying at the dragon, scales began to chip away with the strikes from her weaponry. Giving a roar in annoyance the dragon swatted down to hit her but missed with Spike appearing again in its view as he tanked the hit, gritting his teeth as his clawed feet sank into the ground to hold his position.

"Much appreciated dear." Rarity complimented with a blown kiss towards her partner.

Fluttershy took the distraction to race up from behind, hopping on top of the dragons back to fire her arrows into the openings made by her friends. One particular arrow sank far enough in to make the dragon give a cry of pain as the shot scraped against bone. "Left arm weakened!" She yelled out for the others to hear as the beasts began to thrash about, trying to throw her off. Holding on tightly she gave an eep at the sudden shifting.

Seeing an opening to strike, Spike rushed in with a powerful blow to the monsters jaw, blood leaving from where a few sharp teeth were knocked loose. Though he wasn't fast enough to pull back as the now thoroughly pissed dragon clamped down on his arm, piercing his plating enough to draw blood. "Ah son of a bitch!" He cried out, hitting the snout with the hope it would open it's mouth again. "Let go you shit head." He growled, anger boiling up from the pain inside of him.

On seeing her friend get hurt Rarity swooped in with a jab at the monsters eye, blinding its right side before slicing more scales off its face. "Unhand him you fiend." She ordered with each slice.

The dragon opened its mouth as it gave another roar of pain after the loss of its eye, building up for another shot of fire. But now the fires inside Spike grew just as hot leading to him grabbing the monsters face and blowing emerald green flames down the throat of the dragon as Fluttershy and Rarity launched another assault on the wounds until finally the beasts eyes burst into green flames and it fell limp.

Breathing a sigh of relief the group gathered up with Spike sticking out his bleeding arm for Fluttershy to mend. Light pink magic began to cover her finger tips and leak from the corners of her mouth and eyes as she chanted small healing spells into his wounds. The cuts and slashes from the monsters teeth began to stop bleeding, closing slowly while Rarity kept an eye on the corpse. Soon Shy moved on to look over Rarity as Spike walked up to the body, tearing out some teeth as confirmation. "Ready to go darling?" The fashion forward hunter asked.

"Yeah, lets go get that reward and get home. I'm beat." Spike responded with a nod.

Twilight and Applejack were racing through the forest getting closer and closer to the shouting until finally with one more push a clearing opened up to reveal a woman on the ground and a massive lion with bat like wings and a scorpions tail crawling slowly towards the woman."Aww fuck, a manticore." Twilight grunted, raising a magic shield around her form. Applejack remained silent as the two rushed forward into the fray. Wielding her axe like a bat AJ swung under the chin on the manticore, sending it flying in to the air giving Twi enough time to grab the woman and rush back into the tree line. "Can you walk?" She questioned as AJ continued after the beast.

The woman was shaking like a leaf in a storm, clutching tightly to the purple haired girl. "I-I think so..." She mumbled.

Casting a spell over the woman a purple glow covered around her. "That will protect you long enough to get out of the forest and into the closest town if you hurry." Twilight said, standing back up to help her friend.

Shakily standing the woman nodded her head before moving as fast as her injured self could back the way Twilight and Applejack had came. “Hurry up Twi! I can’t hold back whiskers here forever!” AJ called to her leader, her axe firmly wedged in the beast’s mouth to keep it from biting her. Giving one of her signature kicks the large cat was pushed back enough for AJ to get her axe back.

“On it!” Twilight shouted, jumping over her friend to slam the ground with a fist creating a gap to form between the two. The monster paced back and forth near the edge of the line growling at them as they both readied themselves.

Tempest was getting pissed with how much she was having to run after her slowly escaping target. "Fucking stupid monster, won't let me kill it easy. Stop you damn overgrown fuzz ball!" She grumbled to herself between breaths.

The girls made the first move as Twilight summoned up platforms for them to run across towards the beast. Getting close enough AJ leaped across the final stretch, magic welling up in her arms while her axe fell with a huge boom, tendrils of wood and dirt lunged across the ground towards the manticore. The attack did the trick as the lashings quickly took hold and restrained the movements of the giant lion. "Whooo weee that's how ya get this done!" Applejack shouted in excitement as Twilight rushed past her.

With a glowing fist Twilight moved just under the head of the beast and with a punch caved in it's chest, causing a down pour of blood from the monsters mouth. Summoning up an explosive spell around her hand, the runes flashing into life then dimming over and over, she launched another shot into the chest. This time a hole the size of her head appeared, going straight through the front and out the back of the now dead manticore. "Oh my gods it's been a while since I've had to use that spell." Twilight replied, breathing heavily from adrenaline and the fight. The two began to walk back towards where they came from when a thumping sound could be heard behind them.

"What in tarnation is that?" Applejack asked, removing her stetson to scratch her head. She took a step towards the sound as Twilight's eyes widened.

"Get away!" She shouted, sprinting forward with a boost of magic to reach her friend, launching AJ to the side as a bear the size of a three story building crashed out of the trees. "It's an Ursa!" She shouted, launching spells and attacks across it's starry hide but all of them bouncing harmlessly off as if nothing was happening at all. It's massive paws slammed down on top of Twilight who tried to quickly throw up a shield but was too slow as her magic was easily shattered under the might of this monstrosity. Giving a cry out in pain as the weight of beast bore down on one of her legs she heard a familiar voice fill her head.

"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY ROOMMATE YOU OMEGA FUCK!" Came Tempest's voice, full of rage.