Ridge vs. Robot

Rilik observed as the robotic ponies began to run towards the mining encampment whilst he calmly loaded some shells into his shotgun, he had been trained to remain calm in situations which seemed as if the only plausible outcome would be an untimely demise. He loaded in the eighth shell and pumped the shotgun before checking his last weapon, a foldable shovel  which seemed more likely to fly back and hit his helmet than to damage the robots any amount he followed the action of unfolding it in the quickest way he could without destroying the joint which allowed the shovels head to fold into the handle.

“Yo what’s up” Stated a crackling robotic voice as the feeling of a baseball bat gently tapping his right arm was felt, he glanced to see a robotic earth pony holding onto a shining metallic baseball bat which he was about to swing at Rilik’s head. The motion occurred and Rilik placed one arm on the bat and the other on the connecting joint between the robots front hoof that held the bat as he slowly tore it away from the rest of the body before hitting its head with the baseball bat

“Like I said...” Muttered Rilik “Easy” he dropped the bat and turned back to the oncoming horde of robots when there was a distant gunshot followed by a large robotic earth ponies body falling onto Rilik, lifeless and without a head. He turned behind him to see a glint of shining glass from the top of the towns watch tower no doubt where their host had set up his foothold. He took note of this as he turned back to the horde of robots once again, they had now reached the frontline where Dark Cloud and co. had established their defense.

Dark Cloud smashed at the pile of scrap metal before him with the wrench he had picked up and began to doubt the blueprints. Star Whistle was stood without a clue of what to do with the weapon she had picked up and was looking at the faded labelling on the weapon as she began to observe the syringe gun she had picked up, Freedom was the only one of the group which was having any amount of success as he had previous experience with flamethrowers and other weapons – as did Rilik and Sky Gaze – and because of that was the only one managing to hold back the waves of robotic ponies as they attempted to get past the frontline.

Rilik arrived at the frontline wielding his shotgun in one hand and shovel in the other as he kicked a rock towards the scrap metal which Dark Cloud was hitting so frantically, the rock made impact with the heap and caused it to spin and transform into a turret looking object which immediately made a beeping sound and began firing large bullets, armour piercing Rilik believed, and the oncoming robots began to drop like flies. Star Whistle took another look at the weapon before deciding that it would be fired from the large handle atop the weapon which needed to be pulled back to allow something to happen, she pointed the barrel at Freedom so she would have nothing to lose and pulled the handle back causing a red holographic line to flow into Freedom as a few wounds began to close rapidly. Freedom gave Star Whistle an odd look and attempted to say ‘thank you’ but couldn’t bring himself to say it and instead returned to burning the robots, Dark Cloud rummaged through the small satchel of blueprints and produced something that looked similar to a soda machine in his opinion.

Rilik fired a rocket into the crowd of robots sending them flying in all directions and many limbs to hit walls and other robots as he swung his shovel into the head of another crowd of robots and all fell quiet on the frontlines.

But there was something much more dangerous occurring behind the frontlines.

Magnum span the minigun barrel, it appeared as though the robots had decided upon two entry points to distract the main fighting force from the actual danger. The robots that had entered the second way were mainly robots that appeared to have the ability to transform their appearance so they could look like members of the team, in short spies. As well as snipers and some robots that wore helmets which covered their eyes from view completely, Diamond Iridescence was in the centre of the action as she fought off an enemy spy who had blocked her magic from use by using a similar item to her Sapper but was inbuilt into the robot and effected the area around it.

She drew her butterfly knife as she blocked an oncoming slash, the impact was really quite strong and caused her to be forced back a small amount. She immediately drew back her knife causing the robot to fall forward and swung her knife down attempting to stab it in the back, just as the knife was about to make impact the knife was shot from her hoof by a sniper stood but a few meters away. So now it was two on one, but that didn’t matter at all. Diamond drew her revolver, pointed it at the sniper and shot causing its head to roll from its metal spine and onto the floor, the spy however cut through the barrel of the revolver after the first shot preventing her from using it any further in this fight. She glanced quickly down to the butterfly  knife that had been shot from her hooves, it lay but a few meters away from her but was behind her current target. She glanced over her shoulder at Magnum to see he was busy fending off the seemingly infinite waves of the helmeted robots that appeared from seemingly nowhere, so she would have to beat this robot on her own without any magic and without a weapon.

About as fair as things had been today at any rate.

She span around and landed a kick into the robots face sending it tumbling back a short distance, but not enough for it to be behind the knife much to her annoyance, the spy took a moment to seemingly recalibrate as it began to make a whirring noise which made Diamond feel extremely uncomfortable and uneasy. Suddenly the robot sprouted a horn as well as wings, this couldn’t be good for her at all.

“Diamond, I’ll be with you in a moment” Grimly stated Magnum as he continued to mow down the robots before him

“Take your time” Replied Diamond “This could be interesting” she sighed as she attempted to think of a clever one liner but was rudely interrupted by the robot which was now an Alicorn lifting its knife and raising its wings ready for an attack. With full force it pushed off of its hind legs and flapped its metallic wings with the knife pointed at Diamond, she closed her eyes and prepared for a sharp pain but instead heard the sound of clanging metal.

“I leave for a few minutes and this happens? Man this is more lively than the frontlines for sure” Happily stated a voice. Diamond opened her eyes to see Twister stood before her with the spies knife lodged into the metal baseball bat he had picked up earlier “You gonna get your knife, Diamond?” Diamond took a moment to understand what was going on and scurried to her butterfly knife as Twister placed his shotgun to the spies head and pulled the trigger causing a shower of nuts and bolts to scatter onto the floor. Diamond sighed in relief as she felt her magic being restored but this was short lived as another wave was approaching from behind Magnum. Attempting to fix her revolver whilst Twister attempted to dislodge the knife from his bat they believed they were surely to be killed but instead fate smiled upon them in the form of highly explosive sticky bombs detonating at the feet of the robots.

Chain Hoof wandered through the shower debris with a large grin on his face and Twister looked at him completely in awe of what had just happened, Chain swung the sticky bomb launcher onto his back and produced a glass bottle which he smashed around the head of a slightly alive robot causing it to fall to the ground without a chance of survival

“Now that’s what I call an explosive entry!” Chirped Diamond, happy to get a one liner in before anypony else could speak, Twister sighed and returned to tugging the knife from his bat as Chain Hoof approached the crowd of three

“Where’d you learn that?” Asked Twister as he finally succeeded, Chain Hoof thought for a moment and gestured to the large bandage across his stomach

“A little help would be nice” Interrupted Magnum as his minigun took the last of the bullets and began to make only clicking noises. The other three turned to the horde of helmeted robots before nodding and returning to the onslaught.

Sky Gaze inhaled deeply as he aimed carefully at the largest robot in the oncoming horde, behind him was a half empty cup of cider and several empty jars

“Easy...” Stated Sky under his breath “Line up the shot...” his ear twitched as he heard a noise from behind him. Quickly he swung his sniper back into the face of his attacker before grabbing the large knife he had on the box next to him and slashed down onto the spy robot which had just attempted to kill him

“What?” Muttered Sky “How could they have got this far back...” he turned back to his rifle and lazily pulled the trigger causing the robot to fall backwards onto a large amount of other robots, completely crushing them. He used the scope to look around the area

“They’re in groups of four now... but still not working together completely...” Muttered Sky “We need to work together for this...”

Authors Note:

Sorry about using Bleach music, I intend to keep it around TF2 music but I was listening to those songs while I wrote the fight scene and the apperance of Chain Hoof. Hopefully I'll only use Bleach music or any other music if I REALLY need to