Author's Note

WIP but this is what Adelle's pony form looks like. I'll color her in when I get the chance.

Operation Two: Dragon Killer

Operation Two

Dragon Killer

[The Next Day]

“So, this is the mountain with the dragon at the top?” Adelle asked as Gilda nodded.

“Yep, this is the place that I flew past a couple of days ago. The dragon should be up top hoarding tons of treasure that we can take for ourselves.”

“Trixie still doesn’t like this idea. She thinks we’ll have a better chance of trying to find a job than getting roasted alive by a dragon.” Trixie said as Gilda rolled her eyes.

“Again, you have an idea where someone is willing to hire us after what happened in Ponyville?” The griffon asked as Trixie deadpanned at her. “Thought so, now quit your whining and get to climbing.” She said before spreading her wings and flying up towards the plateau part of the mountain where the dragon was located. Trixie sighed in annoyance before looking over at Adelle as she extended a hand towards her.

“Grab Trixie’s hand and she’ll teleport us to the top…also you might want to turn your head to the side,” Trixie said as the bat pony held onto the unicorn’s hand.

“What do you mean by-” Before she could finish, Trixie’s horn lit up for a second as the two were teleported to the entrance of the cave where the dragon lives. In a matter of seconds, Adelle felt her stomach churn as she quickly got on all fours and threw up some of her food from this morning before they left the campsite. “A little warning then just that would’ve been nice! What the hell just happened!?”

“Teleportation magic. Comes in handy when you need to get from one place to another, or quick escapes.” Trixie answered as Adelle pulled herself up and wiped the bile from her mouth. “Don’t worry, you only throw up once due to your body not being used to moving from one place to another instantly. Now that you’ve experienced it, you’ll be okay for now.”

“Geez, well isn’t that just wonderful,” Adelle said in a sarcastic tone before noticing Gilda landing next to them.

“About time you two showed up. Was beginning to think you two had second thoughts about this.”

“Trixie is, but has no choice but to come along with you two,” Trixie said as Adelle looked over at the entrance and saw a black-colored dragon currently sleeping without a care in the world.

“So that’s the dragon you mentioned?” The bat pony asked as Gilda nodded. “Anything I should be worried about?”

“Other than dragons having hard scales, breathing fire hot enough to melt rock, and the ability to fly. That’s pretty much all I know from the books that my grandpa has.” Gilda answered as Adelle pulled up a digital screen to access the Facility Management. “A few Debilitators to deal with the dragon's scales if the armor-piercing bullets aren’t strong enough."

"Debilitators?" Gilda asked. "What's that?"

"Debilitators are used to weaken the durability of an abductor's joints. Makes it easy for when you have to use a weapon to cut off a piece of their limbs." She said before making the screen vanish and motioning for Trixie and Gilda to hide behind a boulder near the entrance of the cave. "Stay hidden while I deal with the dragon."

“If you die, I call dibs on your cool gear,” Gilda said which caused the bat pony to pause and glare at her. “What? I’m just saying it would be a waste to let something like that be buried or something.”

“Remind me to kick your ass later.” The bat pony said before turning around and walking over to the entrance of the cave. She was about to say something to wake the dragon up, but soon noticed something shining off the corner of her eye. She soon looked over to her right as her eyes widened upon seeing mountains upon mountains of gold, gems, weapons, jewel-encrusted furniture, weapons, and other miscellaneous objects. “Fucking hell this dragon is loaded. Might end up retiring at an early age if we survive this.”Just as she took a step forward, the dragon’s eyes shot open as he locked eyes with Adelle’s who simply stared at him. There was a moment of awkward silence in the air before the dragon spoke.

“....You have ten seconds to leave or give me a reason why I should burn you.” The dragon asked.

“I’ll leave if you give me enough of your treasure for me and my friends,” Adelle answered which caused the dragon to slowly raise his head with a deadpan expression on his face.

“You got a lot of nerves to make such. What makes you think I’ll hand over any of my treasure to you.”

“Because if you don’t, then I’ll kick your ass, or worse, I’ll kill you.” She said which caused the dragon to bellow in laughter.

“You, going to kill me? That is a nice joke, pony. But if you don’t leave in the next ten seconds, I will crush you under my foot.” The Dragon said as Adelle rolled her eyes.

“I’m not leaving until you give me part of your treasure. Now I would suggest that you do so, or else.” She said as the dragon lowered his head towards the bat pony.

“Or else what? In case you haven’t noticed. I’m ten times larger than you and can knock you off this mountain with just a flick of my claw. What can a tiny pony like you do-” Before the dragon could finish his sentence, the bat pony quickly summoned a chainsaw-like blade into her hand and embedded it into the dragon’s eye. The dragon recoils back from the pain he feels as he covers his right eye and rolls around in an attempt to lessen the pain.

“That’s what I can do.” She said before materializing another EZ Falke into her hand. “Now you already lost one eye, do you want to lose the other eye? Hand over your treasure, and I’ll be on my way.”

“You little insect!” The dragon yelled as he slowly regained his composure while covering his injured eye. “You will rue the day you mess with me. I gave you a chance to flee, but now you will be crushed by my wrath!” He yelled before taking a deep breath and unleashing a widespread flame attack upon the bat pony. The color of Adelle’s thorns changed from red to white as she quickly thrust the thorns into the ground. Within a matter of seconds, a wall of thorns appeared in front of her as the flames brushed past her like water off of a duck’s feathers.

“Dear Celestia!?” Trixie yelled as she saw the bat pony engulfed in flames.

“Dammit, I wanted to have that box with the weird weapons she had on her,” Gilda said in annoyance. “Wait, maybe I can still get it if they’re not melted down into rubble or something.”

"Seriously? You worry about my weapons being yours then worrying about me?" Adelle said as the unicorn and griffon looked over to where the voice came from. Their eyes widened upon seeing Adelle perfectly fine the moment the flames died off to reveal her.

“What sort of magic is that? How were you able to survive from my flames?" The dragon asked with a dumbfounded expression on his face.

“Shielding thorns, never thought stealing those would come in handy.” Adelle thought before the color of her thorns changed from white to red as she bolted toward the dragon. The dragon saw this as he lifted his tail and brought it down in an attempt to smash the sinner into the ground. The bat pony quickly shot out her binding thorn towards a hanging stalactite as she moved herself to it to avoid the oncoming attack. Once there she quickly reached into her inventory to pull out a Debilitator and threw it onto the dragon’s tail. The moment she succeeded in hitting her mark, she released her hold on the stalactite and landed on the dragon’s tail. Once there she quickly thrust her weapon into his tail and proceeded with cutting his tail off. The dragon lets out a primal roar from the pain he feels as he tries to throw the bat pony off of his tail.

“Get off my tail you annoying pest!” He ordered before slamming his tail into the side of the cave’s wall. Before she was slammed into the wall, the bat pony quickly pulled her weapon out of his tail and used the momentum from it to get a good distance away from the dragon. The moment his tail slammed into the wall of the cave, Adelle quickly used her thorns to latch onto a nearby stalagmite, swung herself around it, used the momentum from it to spin around like a spinning top, and lobbed off the dragon’s tail with little to no effort. Another roar was heard from the dragon as he recoiled back in pain from his tail being cut off as he glared at Adelle who was making her way over to the dragon.

“Look, you’re a smart dragon, right? It should be clear enough that if I can cut your tail off with ease, I can do the same with your head.” She said before aiming her weapon at the dragon. “So I’m going to ask again. Surrender now and hand over some of your gold, or else you’ll be made into…leather shoes. What the hell do you make out of dragon skin or its scales?”

The dragon snorted in defiance as he soon charged at the bat pony to her demand. Adelle rolled her eyes upon seeing this as she latched onto a stalactite above her thorns. Once above, she reached into her inventory and threw a Debilitator onto the dragon’s neck. The dragon looked up and began taking in a deep breath and fired off a barrage of fireballs at her. Adelle quickly releases her hold on the stalactite as she descends and lands on the dragon’s head. The moment she was on his head, she quickly used his scales to slide down his body, but not before reaching into her inventory and leaving a trail of sticky grenades down his neck. As soon as she jumps off the dragon and lands behind him, she quickly makes her weapon disappear and is replaced with her sniper rifle.

The dragon looked behind himself to see Adelle behind him. He took in a deep breath and was about to fire off a wide-range flame attack, only for Adelle to fire a bullet at the sticky grenades that were placed on her neck. The moment the bullet made contact with the grenade, it set off a chain of explosions on his neck as pieces of his flesh and scales shattered around the area of the cave they were in. Within a matter of seconds, the smoke from the explosion cleared up and revealed a headless dragon standing for a moment before falling off to the side causing the ground to shake a bit.

“Alright, a day in Equestria and I just committed murder. Well, I could go with self-defense if someone finds his body like this…better get rid of the body as soon as possible.” Adelle said before looking over at Trixie and Gilda off to the side of her. “Dragon’s dead. Don’t think he’ll be bothering anyone anytime soon.”

"Yeah, because you blew his head off!” Trixie yelled as she looked over at the headless body before gagging at the sight of it. “Dear Celestia, Trixie is going to be sick.”

"I knew it was a good call to have you around us," Gilda said as she whistled in astonishment at the dead body. “If my grandpa saw this he would be very impressed and jealous at the same time.”

“Nice to hear that I would be praised and jealous at the same time,” Adelle said before handing a small glowing cube over to Trixie as she caught it with her magic. “Head into the cave and gather as much treasure as you can.”

“And what are you going to do?” Gilda asked as she watched Adelle walk over to the dragon’s body.

“I’m going to dispose of the body.” She said which took them by surprise. “What? I don’t know what I did would count as a crime, but I prefer not to have this place’s law enforcement coming after us anytime soon. So I’m going to get rid of the body before anything bad happens to us.”

“...I mean, understandable, but how are you going to get rid of the body?” Gilda asked as she pointed out how large the dragon was. “You got something that could hide something that big?”

“I have my ways. Wouldn’t be the first time I had to dispose of a body.” Adelle said before summoning her severing weapon into her hand, though it would be noticed by the griffon and unicorn that instead of the pale green and gray color theme it had on before, it was red and black. “I just need to…improvise a bit.”