In Guts and Glory

“Fucking RUN” Thunder Shot yelled as they scattered, the cloaked figure turned to them and began to give chase to Pipsqueak, Davidson finally came to odds with himself and charged into the assailant and knocked it off balance. Pipsqueak looked back to Davidson who squared off with the cloaked assassin. “You want a piece of me? Fine come get me you maggoty piece of shit” Davidson yelled as the assassin charged at him, Davidson was very fast and slid to the ground and tripped the assailant who crashed into a chemistry set. Thunder Shot, Rumble and Pipsqueak led the mares away as Hammerhead grabbed the final can of Thermite.

“Leave it we have enough” Thunder Shot called out. Davidson looked to the group and began to run but the cloaked figure reached out and grabbed him, sticking a syringe full of chemical poisons into his neck and injecting him with it. Davidson let out a gasp as his throat tensed up and he couldn’t breathe, he collapsed to the ground and was dead before he hit the ground. Hammerhead slid the can of Thermite across the room to the group waiting at the door, “go now” Hammerhead called out just as the cloaked figure slammed into Hammerhead.

Thunder Shot grabbed the extra can of Thermite and the group began to run, “we can’t leave him behind” Applebloom argued, “he’ll be fine besides he had that handgun” Thunder Shot countered. They reached the stairs when they heard an anguished scream echo through the hallways, they turned back to see the cloaked figure exit the science lab. “Fuck, RUN” Thunder Shot yelled and they all raced down the flight of stairs. Scootaloo looked to Rumble, he had gotten over his emotions, either that or he was too terrified to care.

They reached the bottom of the stare case and began to run down the hallways of the ground floor. They passed the cooking room when a foul stench filled their noses. “Ech what is that wretched smell” Sweetie Bell gasped as she held her nose, “detour?” Pipsqueak suggested, “no thanks” Applebloom replied, “no I meant around the smell” Pipsqueak replied pointing down another hallway. “It’ll take a lot longer” Thunder Shot replied but they all looked to each other and agreed that it might be longer but it wouldn’t smell so bad.

They ran down the other hallway but the figure returned into the hallway, “shit maybe we should’ve taken the smelly route” Sweetie Bell yelled as they broke through a random classroom door, the hallway was filled with doorways, the cloaked figure followed them into the classroom and then began a comical cartoon chase (like the ones in Scooby-Doo, where the villain chases them through one door but they come out another door on the opposite side of the hallway then somehow eventually the villain is on the run).

They group ran through the doorways comically and finally lost the cloaked figure, “jinkies, that was strange” Sweetie Bell exclaimed, “what?” Thunder Shot asked curiously. Sweetie Bell scrunched her nose “I’m not sure why I just said that” she replied and the group continued to run down the hallway.

The group rounded the corner and ran down another hallway, “okay take a left up here and we can get to the entrance” Thunder Shot informed the group and they continued to run. They rounded the next corned and raced towards the final corner that led to the Atrium of the school and coincidentally the entrance.

They reached the entrance with no problem and Thunder Shot tossed the cans towards the front doors which now had bars welded over the windows, “this is some fucked up shit man” Thunder Shot gasped, “okay Pip, how does this shit work?” Thunder Shot asked as Pipsqueak started to pour the Thermite onto the floor around the door. He emptied the cans of Thermite and pulled out the igniting agent, “stand back this shit will burn right through you” Pipsqueak ordered as he ignited the Thermite and it started blazing away at the door and melting through it.

“How long will it take?” Thunder Shot asked frantically, “not long… 3 minutes maybe” Pipsqueak guess, “we don’t have 3 minutes” Thunder Shot yelled as he pointed to the hallway they had just come from and pointed out the cloaked figure, “fuck, run we’ll come back in 4 minutes and we should be able to get out” Pipsqueak.

The all started running and the cloaked figure chased them down, they all ran into the back stage of the stage area for plays. The group hid amongst the curtains and waited silently, suddenly a scythe cut through a curtain by Scootaloo and Rumble launched himself forward and knocked her out of the way. Scootaloo looked up at Rumble, even though she had recently broke his heart he still tried to save her, she looked off passed him and saw the scythe coming down towards them.
She wrapped her hindleg around his and rolled both their bodies out of the way. Rumble gave her a strange look and they both blushed. “You idiots stop eyeing each other and run” Sweetie Bell screamed and Rumble took notice, using the same technique Scootaloo had he rolled their bodies out of the way, but this time he held her tight and took off, flying away from the murderer. A gunshot was set off and a bullet tore through Rumble’s wing and he fell in pain as his wing refused to continue on.

“Okay no-pony fuckin move” the cloaked figure yelled out, Thunder Shot gasped. “Masterson?” Thunder Shot gasped and the cloaked figure tossed back his hood revealing himself to indeed be Masterson. “Wait, Masterson… what the fuck man. Why the fuck would you do this?” Thunder Shot yelled and Masterson simply laughed and turned his gun towards Thunder Shot.

“Isn’t it obvious?” Masterson chuckled, Thunder Shot shook his head “not really” he replied, to which Masterson imply sighed in irritation. “Fine before you die I shall enlighten you” Masterson chuckled “for the last 4 years you’ve always been team captain, always got the spotlight… the mares loved you, and me? I was just the second, the defensive captain, the one that commands the defence” Masterson explained “I was sick of it, so I decided that if you were always going to best me than I’d just have to take you out of the picture” Masterson explained and leveled his gun at Thunder Shot’s chest.

“Then why the cheerleaders” Diamond Tiara asked, “why? Why? I couldn’t really have eye witnesses could I?” Masterson laughed hysterically, “then why not just kill me, single hit, one shot, one death” Thunder Shot said valiantly. “Well then I got to thinking what if some-pony bested me, like say Hammerhead or Rumble, maybe even one of my own defensive players so I realized I had to kill everyone” Masterson explained. “This is insanity” Thunder Shot yelled out and Masterson once again leveled his pistol at Thunder Shot, “no. You see Thunder this is simply payback” Masterson said, “this is madness” Thunder Shot yelled out, “this is life” Masterson laughed as he went to pull the trigger on his Berretta M9 but suddenly another gunshot rang out and Masterson’s pistol was knocked out of his hand by another bullet.

The group looked to the other side of the theatre and saw a lone figure armed with a pistol. The figure stood up from his seat and walked towards the group, walking on his hind legs, his right foreleg was missing and he was holding a pistol with his left hoof. As he got within 15 yards of the group he stopped and raised his pistol “I’m back”