Predator: Equestria

The musical tunes of Big Tall Sally, by Little Richard played as two flying helicopters passed over the Everfree forest. The pilots of each of the helicopters talked to each other over helmet radios as the front carriage led the second carriage further towards the drop point.

One of the pilots relayed the information to Twilight who had a headset on, “Yeah okay, I copy” Twilight replied into the headset and the looked to her friends, who were all conversing. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy sat in front of the radio which played the music loud enough that you could hear it over the motor of the flying carriage. It was deemed too risky to send a carriage flown by a Pegasus so Celestia decided to send them with two of the new flying machines called Helicopters.

Rainbow Dash pulled out a package of chewing tobacco and took a large hoof-full of tobacco and placed it in her mouth and began to swish it around inside her mouth. She leaned back and offered some tobacco chew to Applejack who shook her head, declining the rather disgusting chewing tobacco, Rainbow Dash smiled to herself and placed a little bit more chew in her mouth.

Rarity decided to pass the time and reached behind Dash and grabbed a roll of tape. She began to construct a tape ball and looked to Pinkie Pie who was reading a book about pastries. Rarity looked to Applejack who was cleaning her hat and smiled then looked back to Pinkie Pie and threw the tape ball at Pinkie who, almost by natural instinct, caught the tape ball in one hoof without even looking.

She moved the book down from in front of her face and looked to Rarity with a mischievous smile, Rarity returned the smile and chuckled silently.

The Helicopters continued to fly over top of the Everfree, their rotor motors producing a large quantity of noise that could easily be heard by nearby ponies, not very stealthy in the least.

Trixie observed the map of the Everfree, “Rendezvous points and radio frequencies are as set” Trixie said outloud so Twilight could hear her. She turned her head to look at Twilight who was staring at the map. “Who’s our backup?” Twilight asked as she observed the map, Trixie chuckled “No such thing old buddy, this is a one way ticket, once we drop into the Everfree…. We’re on our own”. Twilight snickered “This is getting better by the minute”.

The Helicopter pilots continued to talk to each other relaying: messages, coordinates etc.

Fluttershy applied camouflage paint to her face and watched herself in the small handheld mirror that Rarity had given her. “Hey Flutter… HEY FLUTTER” Pinkie Pie yelled out and Fluttershy looked up to her silently. “Gotta tell yah, the other day I went up to Mr. Cake and he said ‘You know I’d like a little pussy’ and I said ‘why’ and he said ‘Cause Mrs. Cake’s is as big as a house’… you see he wanted a little one cause hers is… as big as a house…” Pinkie Pie stopped telling the crude joke and sat back as Fluttershy gave her a humorless look.

Rainbow Dash offered some chewing Tobacco to Rarity who looked at it with the utmost look of disgust. “Get that stinking shit outta my face” she scowled and pushed Rainbow Dash’s hoof away. Rainbow Dash turned to Fluttershy and she simply winced to deny the offer. “Bunch a slack jawed lezbos, this stuff will make you a god dammed sexual Dragon… just like me” Rainbow Dash teased the team. Rarity pulled out a custom revolving grenade launcher and held it up “Yeah strap this on your sore ass Dash” Rarity laughed and Rainbow Dash let out a hearty chuckle.

Applejack continued to clean her hat and make it look nice, Trixie leaned over “You know that it’s probably going to get dirty anyway” She told Applejack who gave her a plain look and continued cleaning her hat. Rarity looked over to Applejack “You know AJ if I didn’t know you better I’d say that you were a clean freak… but good thing I know you’re a dirty scoundrel” she laughed and Applejack chuckled, “Just try not tah chip a hoof and give away our position by screamin ahhh ah just chipped a hoof” Applejack teased and Rarity gave her a stern look “I’ll have you know that infections are just as deadly as gunshot wounds” Rarity countered.

“Yeah that was back in 04, me and Twi both got one” Trixie boasted showing off her medal for outstanding magical abilities. Rainbow Dash chewed on the clump of tobacco in her mouth then spit a large quantity of spit at Trixie’s lower hoof. Trixie looked down to see her combat boots stained with tobacco spit then looked up to Rainbow Dash who was still chewing. She gave an annoyed look and leaned forward and motioned for Dash to do the same. Dash leaned forward, still chewing the tobacco, and looked into Trixie’s eyes.

“That’s a real nasty habit yah got there” Trixie scolded. Rainbow Dash simply let out a mischievous grin and leaned back, still chewing her tobacco.

A bleeping siren began to beep and the helicopter pilot radioed Twilight who listened to them. “Okay… right” Twilight said and removed the headset and motioned for the team to turn off the radio along with the cab lights. There all locked their cables to the zip line to make it easier to stand on their hindlegs while the chopper was in motion. Rainbow Dash shut off the radio and Rarity turned off the remaining cargo lights. Pinkie Pie slid the sliding door open and Trixie stepped forward and looked down towards the forest below. “You’ll never know how much I missed this Twi” Trixie called out and Twilight chuckled “Yeah you never were that smart”

The helicopters leveled out and stopped. The green light flashed and the buzzer informed them that they were safe to rappel down. Rappelling wire was tossed down to the forest below and Twilight tapped Pinkie Pie, “Pinkie you’re up” Twilight ordered and Pinkie was the first to descend downwards. Followed by Trixie, then Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and finally Twilight departed downwards into the forest of the Everfree. Twilight looked up as the helicopters turned and headed back to Canterlot, leaving them in the forest of the Everfree.