My Little Space Empire: Mechs are Magic

Applejack hunkered down against the ever shrinking wall and ground her teeth. A steady stream of automatic las fire ate away at her cover, and every once in a while nicked her elbow. "Remahnd me what we're doin here, gettin whittled away like a hunk a HICKRY!" Applejack growled.

Twilight took a few blind shots at the direction of the training dummy and called out, mild annoyance evident in her voice, "To see how long we can hold out against a numerically superior foe." The two of them were holding a choke point. A long hall separated the two of them and an unnumbered horde of training dummies.

Applejack scoffed at the idea. "So we're just gonna sit here till we die?"

Twilight took out a training dummy who was trying to rush the position and barked. "We're holding a line!" She snapped back as a flood of las fire ate away at her section of wall. "We're not meant to win."

The ag worlder had had enough. She growled under her breath, "Wastin mah FUCKING TIME!" She stomped across the small gap that separated the two and ripped the las rifle out of Twilight's hands. She roared as she stomped slowly towards the cluster, laying down a wave of full automatic las fire. Twilight crouched in awe as Applejack got hit by several bolts but simply continued her indomitable trudging tread. When her power pack ran dry she hurled the rifle at a training dummy and hoisted the other rifle. She continued her stomping steps until she reached the fallen training dummy and picked up his rifle.

Twilight finally snapped out of her stupor and was about to end the simulation when the synthetic voice chimed in. "SIMULATION COMPLETE." Twilight went limp. She was under the impression that the training dummies would infinitely generate until they failed. The walls and training rifles began to fade and Twilight saw a very disgruntled Applejack stomping towards her. She got face to face with her and growled through tightly clenched teeth, "Ain't no such thing as a no win battle. Ma'am." She attempted to return the training rifle but it faded from her hands.

Twilight looked into Applejack's glaring eyes and saw them soften completely. She chuckled and gave a loud cheer completely incomprehensible to Twilight. "Yeehaw! Damn those training bolts hurt! Worse than actually gettin shot." She walked away as if nothing had happened and Twilight was left alone and confused.

The other pilot's came in and Twilight simply watched as Pinkie and Rainbow Dash took turns jabbing Applejack's training las gun blisters and dodging her reaction shots. S.P.I.K.E. manifested beside her and asked what she'd learned. Twilight simply shrugged her shoulders and entered a few words onto a holographic screen.

A tech in the motor pool received a commission for a mech suit with the words, "ALL THE AMMO." blinking at the top.