Two Wastelanders and A Pony

When Darren was barreled over by the pegasus, he lost his grip on 'Maria' and it fell to the ground where it skidded to a stop halfway between Zachary and the ponies. As Darren struggled with the winged menace, Zachary and the other ponies paused for just a minute. They looked at eachother, then at the gun, the back at each other. Without a word, Zachary dove for the gun, as did Pinkie Pie and Applejack. They all reached it at the same time and Zachary swatted Pinkie Pie to the side, grabbing the gun only to be bucked in the chest by Applejack. Zachary fell backwards but managed to keep hold of the gun. He scrambled back to his feet and aimed the gun at the orange pony only to find it being jerked out of his hand and floating towards Rarity, who's horn was glowing in a faint blue aura.

"What the Hell?!", he shouted angrily. He started towards her only to find Pinkie putting him into a headlock and Applejack repeatedly bucking his chest and legs, causing him to stumble backwards a bit.

Meanwhile, Darren was getting his ass handed to him by the prysmaticaly maned pegasus. Darren had many skills; he was a highly trained medic, he was the best damn shot in the whole of the Mojave, and there was no one better with a blade. But hand to hand combat was not one of his skills. As strong as he was, Darren just couldn't throw a punch to save his life. When the pegasus rammed into him, he had dropped to the floor and rolled with the impact in an attempt to manuever away from her, but it hadn't worked. Instead, now he was caught in a crouch as she hovered around him, striking at him repeatedly.

The only way he was going to beat this winged menace was if he could get some space for even a single moment. Then he could draw a weapon and end this. But he just couldn't get her off of him. At the moment, he was focusing on just trying to keep her from pummeling his face in with her hooves. He kept on ducking and using his arms to shield himself from her furious assualt, but it was no good. She just kept beating him with her hooves and wings, leaving ugly scrapes all over his arms and one, slowly forming, black eye from a lucky shot she had gotten in when she had first rushed him.

Finally, she backed off for a moment to prepare another attack and, finally, Darren saw an opening. Fast as lightning, he stood and wipped out one of his hidden throwing knives from his vest with his left hand. Now that he was armed, even if it was just a small knife, he stood a chance. He slashed at he pegasus when she tried to attack again, drawing a thin red line across her left foreleg and she drew back with a cry of pain. Using this moment of peace he had bought himself, he quickly looked around to survey the situation.

Zachary was struggling to dislodge Pinkie Pie from his back and he might have succeeded if he wasn't having to deal with Applejack, who was continualy bucking his chest and legs. After having been kicked only once by the orange pony, Darren was sure that the only thing keeping Zachary standing was his armor. Across the room from them, Rarity was examining 'Maria', which was floating in a mysterious blue aura that was also emanating from her horn. As it floated, the gun was aiming at Zachary, Pinkie, and Applejack. Twilight was where she had been standing the whole time and was shouting for everyone to calm down and stop fighting.

Darren quickly assessed what he needed to do. First off, he needed to deal with the pegasus. She had recovered from the initial shock of being cut and was coming at him again. He leapt to the left, drew his katana with his right hand, and swatted her across the head with the flat of the blade, knocking her to the ground stunned. Then he spun to deal with what had deemed the second biggest issue at hand, the pony called Applejack. Darren had noted that her mane and tail were both done up in pony tails.

Is *that** where that term comes from?*, he thought to himself as he prepared to deal with her. He also noted that her pony tails flailed about whenever she would spin to buck Zachary. With unmatched speed and accuracy, Darren launched his throwing knife at her. The knife caught the end of the pony tail in her mane and then continued on to embed itself in the wall near them. Applejack didn't notice at first so when she quickly moved to follow Zachary, who was doing his best to get away from her so that he could get his bearings, she was jerked back for a moment. This distraction gave Zachary just enough time to concentrate on Pinkie Pie. He reached up, grabbed the pink pony by her shoulders and threw her away from him towards Applejack. She collided with the orange mare just as she got her mane unhooked from the knife and they rolled several feet before stopping.

Now that Zachary was free to deal with those two, Darren could focus on the finall issue at hand, the white unicorn, Rarity, who was examining 'Maria' as it hung suspended before her in a glowing bue aura. The gun itself was aiming in Zachary's direction. After checking behind him to make sure that the blue pegasus was still down, Darren moved to go take the gun from Rarity. He was half way to her when a large grey blur shot out of nowhere and latched onto his leg. Darren looked down to find Dogmeat with his teeth clamped down around the back of his pantleg, and Fluttershy trying to calm the beast down. It hadn't taken kindly to the human aproaching his new friend with a weapon drawn.

Twilight watched the chaos unfold with horror. She tried unsuccesfully to get everyone to calm down, but no one would listen.

"Everypony stop! Please stop and let me explain! Stop fighting!", but her shouts were to no avail. The ponies and the humans continued their brawl. Finally she decided that if they wouldn't stop, then she would make them stop. Her horn and eyes started to glow as she prepared her spell. She unleashed her magic with a burst of force and everyone in the room but her froze. She examined the scene frozen in time before her. Darren had dropped his sword and was holding onto a startled Rarity's horn while Dogmeat still clung to his leg and Fluttershy was restraining his other arm. Rainbow Dash, who was no longer stunned, was stuck in mid-flight towards Darren.

On the other side of the room, Applejack was frozen in the middle of preparing to buck at Zachary again and he was posed as if ready to grab her hooves when she did. Above Applejack in was Pinkie Pie, stuck leaping over her with a pie in either hoof and a determined scowl on her face. Twilight used her magic to adjust everyone's positions so that Applejack was not bucking at Zachary, Pinkie was now firmly on the floor, as was Rainbow Dash, and everyone turned to face Twilight. The only sign that any of them were still aware was the movement of their eyes.

"Alright!", she said firmly, "I'm going to let you all go and when I do we are all going to sit down and talk. This. Over. Do I make myself clear?", she released their heads from her spell, "Nod if I am making myself clear." All of them nodded.

"Very good", Twilight continued, "On the count of three I will let you go. One... Two.... Three!" Twilight released her hold on the spell and they all fell forward a bit as they suddenly regained controll of their bodies. They all stood frozen for a moment before Zachary, who still wore a scowl, finally spoke up.

"So, how about some explanations?"

"Alright", she replied, "But first I think we should all take a seat."