Ridge vs. Robot

Freedom placed his flamethrower down as the last of the robots fell and there was a strange spell of silence, the carrier tank had stopped making robots by the looks of things and everything was quiet for the first time since they had arrived.

“Is that the last of them?” Inquired Star Whistle as she stopped using her healing gun

“Seems like it” Replied Freedom as he surveyed the area once more

“Hey guys...” Began Rilik “Isn’t that the rest of our team?” behind them a crowd of five was walking towards them, one of which was bouncing around excitedly with a bat in his hooves. The leader was their host and was looking particularly grim as he approached.

“What’s up?” Inquired Dark Cloud “That was the last of them, right?” the words hung about for a while before Sky Gaze made an answer.

“I’ve seen what they’ve been making all this time, and it isn’t more robots” Stated Sky Gaze grimly as he pointed his machine gun at a wooden barricade which had a few rails going into it

“What is it?” Inquired Star Whistle, she looked suspiciously at the barricade “Some kind of explosive?” Magnum followed suit and pointed his minigun at the barricade whilst the conversation progressed

“They’ve been destroying buildings while we were fighting, not because they wanted to make robots...” Resumed Sky Gaze “They were making something much bigger”  Chain Hoof planted a few sticky bombs outside of the barricade before retreating to what he believed to be a reasonable distance

“Out with it!” Spat Freedom as he grasped his flamethrower

“They were making...” Began Sky Gaze, Diamond produced the sapper and hid around a corner nearer to the barricade.

“Just tell us what the hell it is you overdramatic equine” Pouted Rilik, suddenly the ground shook and the barricade was consumed in a wall of smoke before a large red light pierced through it

“They were making that...” stated Sky Gaze as the ponies unleashed their attack on the smoke cloud

“A smoke cloud?” stated Dark Cloud as he began to chuckle but was interrupted by a large blue box placed upon two tank tracks emerge from the cloud “Oh... cra...” he was interrupted by Twister

"TAAAAAAAAANK!" He yelled excitedly before jumping at it

Magnum cursed as his minigun overheated a second time and the seemingly unstoppable tank had reached the end of the first street

“Sap it!” Yelled Star Whistle over the noises

“Sapper is already on!” Screamed Diamond back as she unloaded another six shots from her revolver into the tank

“Fire some rockets at it Rilik!” Yelled Twister as he frantically hit the top of the tank with his bat

“Don’t tell me what to do when you’re the one hitting it with a god-damned bat!” Boomed Rilik back as he quickly reloaded his rocket launcher “If anything you should be blaming Freedom for not using his flamethrower properly!”

“I am using it properly you dunce!” Screeched Freedom back as he burnt the front of the tank whilst walking backwards “It’s that damned Sky Gaze that’s...”

“All of you shut up!” A deep and unfamiliar voice boomed causing all to fall silent “Quit your bickering and just shoot the damned thing!” Diamond turned to discover that it was Chain Hoof who had just yelled that

“So you’ve decided to join us in this thrilling world of conversation then?” Smiled Diamond as she hastily reloaded her revolver, Chain Hoof nodded and Diamond sighed “Or not...” a barrage of grenades flew over the groups heads and hit the tank which sent it back a small amount.

The tank turned the final corner and went down the hill towards the hatch placed in the centre of the encampment

“Give it all you’ve got, if this destroys that hatch we’re done for!” Yelled Sky Gaze over the sound of gunfire, Dark Cloud threw his sentry in the path of the tank as it fired off a barrage of missiles and bullets before being crushed by the tank completely. He drew his shotgun and fired multiple rounds at the tank as the smoke which had been coming from its vent increased and became thicker, it was almost destroyed. It just needed that little push more to do the job... Dark Cloud drew his pistol as well and fired both weapons at the same time, the others soon followed this idea and the tanks armour started to fall off.

“It’s almost to the hatch!” Yelled Diamond as she stabbed the metal plating violently “It just needs a little more!” the group fired each one of their guns into the tank as a missile rose from the top of the tank, the group ran their separate ways to escape the blast that would occur at any second now.

“Where’s Sky Gaze gone?!” Yelled Rilik over the chaos

Sky Gaze broke into full sprint up the stairs and grabbed his sniper rifle, he looked down the sights quickly and took aim at the tip of the missile.

“This is gonna be to close...” He muttered before he pulled the trigger

The bullet flew from the rusted metal barrel of the sniper rifle and out into the mining encampment, it spun around as it flew towards its target. Over the piles of dead robots, over the fences and buildings around it and finally plunged into the tip of the missile, everything was still for a moment as if the world was a picture before the missile exploded sending shrapnel everywhere and the hatch to be badly damaged in the process. Rilik looked to the tower where Sky had taken the shot from to be greeted by a glint from the scope of Sky’s sniper rifle.

“That was to close...” Muttered Rilik “We’re almost on our last legs...”

“Look!” Yelled Star Whistle as she pointed at the carrier tank where the robots had came from “There are robots headed our way, and they look better equipped than the others...” Dark Cloud dropped some scrap metal down and hit it with the wrench at an extremely fast pace

“We’ll hold out here until they run out of robots...” Stated Dark Cloud “It’s all or nothing now, we have to work as a team” Magnum sighed and looked around the opening at his team before holding his hoof out.

“Everypony in?” Stated Magnum as the others placed their hooves over his

“I feel somewhat left out...” Jested Rilik as he placed his hand atop the group of hooves “But hell, we’re all going home after this aren’t we?” the ponies and one human raised their hooves and hand to the sky and began setting up their defenses.