Ridge vs. Robot

“And punching...” Stated Twister “Is just what I’m gonna do!” he swung his metal hoof forward as the tip sharpened and pierced the robots foot – but this was by no means the end of this display, whilst Twisters hoof had pierced the metal of the robots foot a sudden surge of unseen magic to coarse through the spike and flood into the giant robot which caused it to freeze in place.

“I see the magic worked!” Exclaimed Dark Cloud excitedly from a safe distance “That’ll hold it for a few minutes, sadly we could only fit one charge in though” Twister pulled his spiked metal hoof from the robots foot as it re-shaped back to a normal hoof.

“So this is good to keep using? The spike I mean” Inquired Twister curiously as he looked over the metal.

“Should be alright as long as you don’t break it, in that case you’ll have one hell of a time finding a replacement” Grinned Dark Cloud as he threw his empty metal satchel to the floor “That bat and hoof better prove worthy of wasting all that metal” Dark Cloud pulled a shotgun from his back and pumped it.

“Wait... so what did you do with his actual hoof?” Inquired Diamond as she exited her trance of confusion

“Binned it” Replied Dark Cloud nonchalantly “What did you expect us to do?”

“Get rid of it properly!” Screamed Star Whistle

“Oh, quit whining” Stated Dark Cloud as he turned back to the giant robot “We have to kill that thing before we do anything” he began to hail shotgun rounds into its leg.

“I’m gettin’ the top of it!” Yelled Twister as he ran and punched the ground which caused him to be propelled upwards an incredible distance (A distance that was roughly equal to the robots shoulders)

“Where’d Chain Hoof go by the way?” Asked Diamond as she loaded her revolver “For a pony who’s name would suggest that he’d stay in one place he sure does stray a lot”

“He ran towards the tank and left me here” Replied Star Whistle as she shot a barrage of needles at the robot “Where’d Freedom go?”

“He went running towards the tank as well, I’d guess that Freedom and Chain must have met up on their travels” Replied Diamond as she fired the revolver at the robot.

Rilik and Magnum ran frantically towards the tank as the sound of explosions became louder.

“I might have to leave you in my dust” Stated Rilik as he raised his launcher “That okay with you?”

“Go ahead, we’re gonna kill this tank either way” Replied Magnum as he was in the middle of slowed running because of the minigun he grasped, Rilik nodded and aimed his rocket launcher to the ground behind him.

“I’ll meet you at the tank” Yelled Rilik as the explosions became louder “Don’t take your time” he shot a rocket at his feet and sent himself flying into the air at a tremendous speed which hurtled him towards the sounds of the fight against the tank.

“Wait a second...” muttered Rilik “Why are there so many explosions when there’s only one demo pony?” he spun in mid air and looked at where he was headed to see that the tank they were fighting was very different than what he thought it would be.

This one had guns.

Chain Hoof and Freedom leant against the flimsy wooden barricades they had as makeshift cover to avoid the hail of gunfire the tank was spraying at them, bullets flew through every angle of the barricades and barely missed the two as they attempted to form a plan.

“Any ideas yet?” yelled Freedom over the gunfire “Or are we just winging it?”

“Well... the idea of firing grenades at it from cover didn’t work!” Replied Chain “So I guess we are just winging it... wait a second...” Chain squinted at the sky above him as a shadow passed over the two, a shadow which they had never seen before.

“That’s no pony...” Muttered Freedom as Rilik hurtled into the tank itself and knocked a few guns from its front “That’s an idiot...” Rilik combat rolled to the front of the tank before realising there were still many guns he had failed to knock off.

“Aw damnit...” Muttered Rilik as he leapt over the wooden barricades the two ponies hid behind “So this is the situation you’ve been in for... how long?”

“About five minutes...” Replied Chain shamefully “We’ve been forced to move back a few times and we can barely get a shot off on it...”

“Speaking of  moving back, the tanks pretty much on top of our cover” yelled Freedom as he began to scurry back towards the next set of poorly constructed barricades “I’d move back if I were you!” Rilik fired a rocket at the tank and ran towards the cover, the rocket hit and did seemingly no damage.

“How strong is this thing?” Yelled Rilik as the gunfire continued its annoying loud chime

“Too strong!” Boomed Chain as he launched a few grenades at it and at that point Magnum swung around the corner and hailed the tank with gunfire.

“Gonna need some fire here, Freedom” Stated Magnum calmly as he faced the tank.

Twister had grown bored of hitting the robot and had persisted that Dark Cloud “Do something cool” to his metal hoof and that was all that Dark Cloud had been doing for the past few minutes.

“Are you done yet?” Complained Twister “I wanna hit stuff...”

“You asked for the upgrades, so keep quiet” Replied Dark Cloud, extremely annoyed. Star Whistle and Diamond had sat down and watched the process of the upgrade as it slowly progressed, the robot had been left unattended in its frozen state and the sound of explosions in the distance made them all assume that the tank was being handled.

“So what are you actually doing?” Asked Star Whistle as the quiet became unbearable.

“When the time comes you’ll be able to see” Replied Dark Cloud as he attached a few wires to the interior of Twisters hoof “Almost finished with this...” he attached a thin metal plate to the electronics he had placed in the hoof and used a screwdriver to fit the screws in place.

“Sweet...” Muttered Twister “What does it do?”

“Star Whistle, don’t use your invincibility charge on Twister until I say to. Alright?” Demanded Dark Cloud

“Alright...” Sighed Star Whistle “If you’re gonna keep us all in suspense for this effect then I guess we’ll have to wait...”

“Yep” Interrupted Twister “I bet it’ll be something like a spike again” as he said this the robot began to slowly move behind him as it recovered from its temporarily frozen state.

“Well, we’ve best be getting on with this” Exclaimed Dark Cloud as he stood up and loaded his shotgun “The tank should be finished with soon enough and we’ll be able to kill this giant robot...”

The tank had been almost completely annihilated by the three ponies and one human dealing with it.

“Just a few more rounds!” Yelled Magnum as Rilik’s barrage of rockets made impact with the front of the tank causing its remaining weapons to fly off in all directions “Now go all out!” Freedom ran closer to the tank and resumed his wall of fire as the others continued their bombardment of the tank.

“Any second now...” Yelled Freedom “I can tell...” as he finished that sentence the tank burst into a huge ball of flame and scrap which timed perfectly with the giant robot beginning to walk again.

“No rest for the wicked I guess” Remarked Chain as he turned the other way and bolted towards the robot.

“Some ponies...” Muttered Rilik as he leapt onto the roof of a building with the help of his rockets and followed Chain.

“I have the terrible feeling we’re going to have to follow this thing rather than attack it” Stated Star Whistle as they stood underneath the robot.

“Friends close, enemies closer” Replied Diamond as she trotted along happily with the giant robot “And we’ve got Twisters metal hoof if anything goes wrong”

“Let’s hope so” Muttered Star Whistle as the robot continued its path.

It had been around five minutes since the robot had resumed walking and was rapidly approaching the hatch.

“Where are the others?!” Exclaimed Dark Cloud in utter frustration “The hatch is right there!” as if on cue the others arrived no more than a second after Dark Cloud had said this, but it seemed to be too late. The robots hoof opened and revealed a bomb inside of it which began to prepare itself, Dark Cloud cringed at the thought that his hastily made ‘Upgrades’ to Twisters hoof may have to be used after all. He shook his head in regret and turned to Star Whistle.

“Use the charge!” Yelled Dark Cloud angrily to Star Whistle who immediately aimed at Twister and activated the readied charge.

“What in Equestria is happening down there...” muttered Sky Gaze as he sipped some coffee from his cup and looked out of the tower towards the hatch “What in...”

Twister had a sudden sensation surge through him, one he’d never felt before and hoped to never feel again. It was a mix of sorrow and adrenaline as well as a distinct amount of pain, his hoof raised itself and he found himself sitting down against his own will from the force. An unexplainable gust of wind blew out from his hoof and caused even buildings to collapse from the force.

“What’s going on?!” Yelled Twister in confusion

“It’s working!” Replied Dark Clouds voice. Twisters hoof began to open up and spread out into a large barrel which resembled a rocket launcher in appearance but looked as if it could fire nothing – he was of course proved wrong when the metal was surged with magic and seemed to be overloading.

“What...” he muttered as the charge fired and a bright white light emitted from where the robot once stood “Is going on?!”

The wall of colour eventually subsided and revealed an empty clearing, the robot had gone...

“Dark Cloud? Diamond?” Yelled Twister as a building behind him collapsed as if attempting to break the silence.

“Right here... that was glorious” Chuckled Dark Cloud as he appeared from under a pile of planks.

Authors Note:

Apologies about no music but I'm in a hurry, next chapter will be the farewells and thank yous to all that have read, favorited, liked or submitted characters. You guys are awesome :)

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