In Guts and Glory

Thunder Shot and Hammerhead raced through the hallways towards the coach’s office. “Thanks for saving my ass back there man” Thunder Shot laughed as they rounded the corner for the Phys. Ed hallway, “bah don’t mention it” Hammerhead remarked as they stopped in front of the coach’s office, Hammerhead opened the door and let Thunder Shot through the door, Thunder Shot nodded in appreciation. “Ladies first” Hammerhead joked as Thunder Shot entered the coach’s office, “hey” he scowled back then chuckled as he searched for the keys.

Hammerhead peaked into the hallway and the lights were very dim, ‘something to save energy’ he assumed then looked back to Thunder Shot. “Shit, I left them right here” Thunder Shot yelled as he tossed papers away trying to find the keys. Hammerhead rolled his eyes “figures” Hammerhead muttered as they left the coach’s office.

Back at the entrance some of the group started to panic, “man… I saw this in the movies man… we all fuckin get abducted” Davidson said as he began to panic. Rumble, who was accompanied by the Pegasus Scootaloo, yelled at him “shut the fuck up man, it’s just a fluke… one of the janitors probably locked the door and forgot that we were still in the school” Rumble yelled. “From the inside man?” Davidson shrieked as he became frantic, “Dave, chill the fuck out man” Rumble ordered but Davidson continued to become more and more frantic.

“We’re all gonna disappear man” Davidson screamed, his outbreak had some of the cheerleaders beginning to lose it as well. Rumble took his foreleg away from Scootaloo and approached the panicking Davidson, “shut the fuck up man you’re scarring ponies” Rumble ordered but Davidson was too far into fear to listen. “We’re goners man, fucking goners… game over man” he shrieked but Rumble slammed a hard punch into his face and knocked Davidson out cold. “Sorry buddy but we had to” Rumble said to his now unconscious friend.

The lights began to flicker and several cheerleaders screamed, one of the football wide receivers yelled “what the fuck is this shit man”, another football player began to say something “man this is complete” he began but was cut off and let out a cry of pain. Several screams erupted as blood splattered against ponies close to the football player. “What the fuck” another football player began but was cut off as he too fell to the shadow assailant. Several more screams erupted until a beam of light pieced the darkness.

“TIARA” Thunder Shot roared and another light pierced the darkness “what the hell is going on” Hammerhead yelled as they raced to the group. The lights to the school flickered back on and they were greeted with the sight of a massacre, over half of the group was dead and hacked to pieces.

“Holy fuck” Thunder Shot gasped and raced to the group, several ponies were covered in blood from another pony. “What the fuck is this shit” Masterson roared, “man it looks like a fuckin slaughter” Hammerhead gasped as he put his flashlight in his coat’s pocket. “Were the fuck’d you get flashlights?” Molasses Sauce asked, “my locker I have 4 flashlights and when the power went out I grabbed Thunder Shot a flashlight” Hammerhead informed them.

“Well let’s just get the fuck outta here and call the police” Renaldo pleaded, Thunder Shot and Hammerhead both looked at each other and back to the group with a look of defeat, “we uhm well uh” Thunder Shot stuttered. “What?” Cherry Gloss, one of the cheerleaders, asked frantically, “uhm well the keys aren’t there” Hammerhead replied. Davidson was just regaining consciousness and shrieked at the sight of all the blood.

“Oh man we’re really fucked now man” Blain said depressingly, “no we aren’t” Hammerhead assured him, “hey man what the fuck do you mean… that thing that attacked us, it’s gonna come back man… and when it does it’s gonna come back and it’s gonna fuckin kill us man” Blain screamed. “Listen all we have to do is wait for the teachers to open up the school and we out” Thunder Shot said positively. “Hey when do the teachers come around” Applebloom asked. Thunder Shot let out a depressed sigh “uhm 6am so about 12 hours from now” he said bluntly.

Davidson got up “12 hours… man sorry to rain on your parade but we aren’t gonna last 12 minutes man” Davidson shrieked, resulting in the panicking of many other ponies. Hammerhead slammed a punch into Davidson’s face, but with much more force than Rumble had. Masterson looked to Hammerhead “thanks” Masterson thanked Hammerhead, and he simply shrugged “some-pony was going to do it so I figured might as well be me” Hammerhead replied.

“Listen we can’t wait around for 12 hours… or more ponies will die” Tiara ordered, “what do you suggest we do?” Dandy Lion, another cheerleader, asked. Tiara looked around “well we should probably find a good place to hide” she began but Rose pedal cut her off “that’s stupid, that thing will find us and when it does it’ll kill us” she shrieked and another team member pitched in to the argument.

Soon the entire group was arguing, “HEY EVERY-PONY SHUT UP” Thunder Shot yelled and was about to say something else until he saw Hammerhead looking away from the group. “Yo Hammerhead… you okay?” Thunder Shot asked and Hammerhead nodded silently. “What do you see man?” Rumble asked, Hammerhead turned to the group “a way out” he replied and the entire groups jaws opened wide. “Oh my Celestia we’re saved” Sweetie Bell cheered, “so what do we do?” Thunder Shot asked. Hammerhead looked at the window of the door and pointed to the door “see that window?” he asked and Thunder Shot took a quick glance at the door “yeah what about it?” he asked. Hammerhead took a few steps forward “I could’ve broken it with my bare hooves but those stupid wires inside the glass keep us from escaping” Hammerhead informed the group “so we need to grab a baseball bat and some wire cutters and we can all break out of the school” he informed the group.

He looked to the group “don’t suppose any of you have a bat?” he asked and they all looked around for some-pony to say they had a bat. “Okay, we go to the Auto-mechanic shop and take a pair of wire cutters and maybe a monkey wrench to break the window” Hammerhead said as he turned to head down the hallway. “Hey Auto room is that way” Masterson called out to Hammerhead, “I need something from my locker” he called back and tossed them his flashlight, Masterson caught it and they watched as Hammerhead fearlessly walked down the dimly lit hallway.

“He’s dead” Davidson gasped as he got up, Rumble turned around “don’t make me knock you out again” Rumble threatened but Davidson simply flinched and surrendered. “Okay… you heard Hammerhead, to the auto room” Thunder Shot ordered and the group ran the opposite direction Hammerhead had went, and proceeded towards the auto room.

The group raced to the auto room and one of the cheerleaders tried furiously to open the door, it was locked. One of the defensive linemen set her aside and tried to barge through the door but it wouldn’t budge, “genius” Tiara scoffed and Masterson looked to her “you have a better idea princess?” he asked irritated by her attitude. The lights started to flicker and shut off once again, several team members from both the football and cheerleading teams started screaming, Masterson and Thunder Shot quickly flicked on the flashlights from Hammerhead, only to see a figure in a dark cloak with a sickly looking scythe approach. “FUCK” Davidson screamed and literally the entire remaining group screamed in horror.

“RUN” Thunder Shot ordered and the group quickly scattered but the cloaked figure was very quick and deadly, swinging the scythe with deadly accuracy and proficiency and cutting down several ponies into pieces. “This way… run and don’t look back” Masterson yelled as he stayed behind the group to make sure no-pony fell behind. After recently falling Davidson raced up and passed the cloaked figure, who missed him by mere inches, Davidson raced passed the group and accidently bumped into Masterson. Masterson lost his balance and tripped to the ground, his flashlight smashed as it hit the group and darkness encased him.

A lone scream could be heard down the hallways and the group raced on, not really knowing what had just happened. The reaming group members rushed into the cafeteria, light from the moon shawn through windows from the walls and the cafeteria was somewhat lit. Thunder Shot turned off the flashlight and ordered every-pony to get down.

The cafeteria was deathly silent as the group hid in the cafeteria in fear of the cloaked assailant. A lone figure opened the window and Scootaloo peeped in fear, Rumble wrapped his foreleg around her mouth to silence her, “shut her up, she’s going to get us all killed” Tiara hissed. The figure turned towards the group and two beams of light from flashlights tore through the darkness “hey, you guys get the cutters?” Hammerhead asked, the group let out a sigh and Tiara began to accuse him “and where were you, probably taking off a bloody cloak no doubt” she accused him. “Uh… why the hell would I have a bloody cloak, and besides I got us more flashlights” he replied subtly and approached the group and tossed them an extra flashlight.

“Where’s the others?” he asked and one of the cheerleaders began to cry, “oh fuck” Hammerhead sighed. Now there was only Thunder Shot, Davidson, Pipsqueak, Rumble, Molasses Sauce, Reggie, Diamond Tiara, Dandy Lion, Rose Pedal, Silver Spoon, Applebloom, Sweetie Bell, Scootaloo and Hammerhead. “Small group… we’ll be harder to find now” Hammerhead began but Dandy Lion screamed and Hammerhead turned and jumped back just in time to miss a swing from the deadly scythe that was being wielded by the cloaked figure.

Hammerhead tripped and his flashlight broke, “fucking run” Hammerhead yelled out and the group ran off, leaving Hammerhead behind. Dandy Lion slammed on the elevator button several times, hopping that her effort would make the elevator go faster. The cloaked figure entered the hallway just as the elevator doors opened, Dandy Lion, Rose Pedal and Silver Spoon hopped into the elevator and Rose Pedal quickly pressed the button to close the doors. “Don’t leave me you” Tiara ordered but the doors closed just as Tiara made it to the elevator. “You bitches I hope you die a painful death” Tiara screamed as the cloaked figure approached her.

Tiara fell to her knees “please don’t kill me” she sobbed “I’m too young to die”, but as the cloaked figure swung the scythe Scootaloo flew through the air and grabbed her, effectively bringing her out of harm’s way. Tiara took her hooves away from her face to see her saviour, it was the mare she had picked on throughout their school years together “Scootaloo?” she asked confused “why would you save me?” she asked curiously. “Figure it’s irony” Scootaloo chuckled to herself and as she landed dropped Tiara on her back. The rest of the group caught up to them, “were to now?” Sweetie Bell asked frantically, “I don’t know… Hammerhead always had the plans” Thunder Shot said frantically but as they looked back they saw that the cloaked figure was no longer behind them. “Yer the football captain and yah don’t know what tah do?” Applebloom asked, “uhh let’s go upstairs into the construction class, maybe we can get tools to break out” Thunder Shot suggested and the group followed him up the nearby staircase.

Inside the elevator the group who had left Tiara behind slumped down in exhaustion, “I feel kind of bad about leaving Tiara behind” Silver Spoon said remorsefully, “why she was always such a bitch” Dandy Lion replied heartlessly. Silver Spoon shrugged “yes but we were very close friends” Silver Spoon informed them. Rose Pedal hit herself in the forehead “well no duh, she always made every-pony else but you and her do the workouts” Rose Pedal replied. The elevator shook and the lights flickered, “oh my Celestia… this can’t be happening” Silver Spoon screamed and the elevator’s lights flickered off. Rose Pedal and Dandy Lion both shrieked in utter fear and Silver Spoon tried frantically to get the door open. A panel could be heard shifting from the roof of the elevator and a lone figure entered the dark elevator, screams could be heard as the trio was killed in cold blood inside the darkened elevator.

The lone assailant hopped back out of the elevator and closed the room panel, the lights inside the elevator flickered back on and there was only blood and gore inside the once clean elevator