Equestrian Spartan

Somewhere in the middle of the San Palomino Desert as the sun rises, an Under Kicker rises from the sand. Inside the Under Kicker, 2 Mad Stallions force an unconscious Unit 1 to swallow a strange looking pill down his throat. One of them says, “I hope that pill works.” The other one says, “If the pill doesn’t get it, the heat will.”

The first MS trooper says while opening the door, “Let’s get this out of here quickly, I think it waking up.” The 2 Mad Stallions throw Unit 1 out into the desert. A third one throws a canteen at him.

Unit 1 wakes up to see the Under Kicker escaping into the sand. Unit 1 quickly feels hotter than he should be.  He quickly realizes he’s in heavy snow clothes and rips off most of the clothing. Unit 1 left himself with boots, a ripped up tank top, shorts, and a strip of the ripped up clothing being used as a bandanna.

Unit 1 puts out a special suitcase from his secret smuggler spot (Don’t ask). He opens it up, grabs an armor ability belt with Drop Shield and quickly puts it on. He also grabs a magnum, 2 spare clips, an aluminum knife, and binoculars with built in compass and puts them in the pockets and holders of the belt.

Unit 1 checks his canteen and notices that it is full of dust and has a hole in it. He says under his breath, “Those bastards.” He starts walking into the endless desert.

After a couple of miles, Unit 1 finds a small oasis; he checks if it is real with his hand. Unit 1 feels the wood on one of the trees. Unit 1 touches the water and feels the cool liquid. He quickly gets a taste of it and likes the water’s unbelievable taste. Unit 1 grabs a leaf of a tree and wraps it on his canteen to cover the extra hole.

Before Unit 1 starts filling up his canteen, he hears the roaring sounds of motorcycles getting closer with each second. He quickly gets some water into his canteen and hides in the sand.

3 Mad Stallions riding combat cycles (motorcycles with mounted guns) arrive to the oasis. They stop to get a break and refill their canteens and talk with each other. Unit 1 tries to listen in to their conversation but he can’t understand them; He thinks that the sand is messing with his hearing so he decides to strike.

Unit 1 grabs the closest MS rider and shoots the others with his magnum. He puts the Mad Stallion against a tree and points his magnum directly to his face. Unit 1 hits his head with his shoulder to get the sand out of his ear. He asks the rider, “Where is the closest base or town from here?” The rider was making horse sounds instead of using words. Unit 1 empties out his other ear and asks, “Sorry I didn’t hear you correctly, can you repeat that?”  The Mad Stallion still made noises with his mouth instead words. Unit 1 thinks that the rider is messing with him. So he starts to ‘rough’ him up to get the answers that he wants.

After a few hits, Unit 1 starts to realize the Mad Stallion is talking but he couldn’t translate his language and without his translator, getting any form of information out of the Mad Stallion was pointless. He shoots the Mad Stallion behind the head.

Unit 1 starts going through the deceased riders’ stuff. He finds some clothes (parts of their uniforms) more suitable for the desert and swaps it with his shorts and tank top. He also finds a helmet that fits on his head after removing its mouth piece and puts it on. Unit 1 helped himself to some of their rations, grenades, and any other supplies that they had. He found machine pistols, rapid fire rifles and a strange looking shotgun with a big barrel and a unique clip with shells big enough to fit in a sniper rifle. Unit 1 was excited to have such a weapon but also curious of why a scout would have a weapon like this in the first place.

As Unit 1 goes through the supplies, strange clouds of red energy come out of the dead bodies and go into Unit 1. Unit 1 didn’t feel a thing or even notice it. The strange energy appears to do nothing (for now, anyways).

After a couple minutes, Unit 1 checks on the bodies before he lets the sand bury them and finds a map of the area. He notices hoof drawn details on the printed map; some of them show shortcuts to camps, ambush positions, and two towns (Appleloosa and Dodge Junction). Unit 1 stores the map in his ‘new’ armor. He puts the armor ability belt over his armor and puts a rapid fire rifle and the powerful shotgun on his back. Unit 1 checks his rations of apples, raisins and canteens of water and ammo.

Unit 1 gets the combat cycle with the most gas and puts the clips from the other cycles’ guns in its supply pack.  Unit 1 gets on the combat cycle, turns to the dead bodies and says, “See you in Hell.” He drives into the desert to find a town or a radar station to call a ride out of the desert or at least back into the fight.

As Unit 1 travels through the desert, he travels to a high point on a rock hill to get his bearings. As Unit 1 is looking over his map, he hears a burst of gunfire in the distance. Unit 1 looks off in the distance and sees something. He pulls out his binoculars and sees some Mad Stallions loading pony and buffalo prisoners into an armored van. As Unit 1 looks at the buffalos, he says to himself, “That explains the shotgun.”

After the Mad Stallions packed up their prisoners, they get in their vehicles and drive off. Unit 1 quickly puts away his binoculars, gets on his combat cycle and follows them. He made sure that he kept a distance to prevent him from being spotted by the Mad Stallions. As they were going faster, Unit 1 had to hide in the dust cloud that the Mad Stallions made to keep up with them.

Unit 1 waits for his time to split from the group. It felt like a few hours to him. The Mad Stallions being to slow down and Unit 1 took it as his queue to find a new hiding place. He quickly finds a big rock and takes cover behind it.

The Mad Stallions stops on top of a slope of sand leading to a gate to an entrance of a canyon. One of the Mad Stallions gets on theradio and says, “This is Stray Hunter Platoon ‘Sand Storm’, open the gate, we got more workers to get our apples.” The gate opens and the Sand Storm platoon goes into the gate.

Unit 1 gets out of cover and investigates the gate with his binoculars. He notices that the gate is made of vehicle armor and wood and it looks it was built too quickly. The gate doesn’t look like it would take much abuse from explosives or at least the strength of a charging tank. There are a handful of guards guarding the gate.

Unit 1 sneaks to the nearby plateau to see what he’s up against behind the gate.

When he gets to the edge of the plateau, Unit 1 sees an orchard with watchtowers and a few other structures. He uses his binoculars to get a closer look.  He sees that the Mad Stallions are using ponies and buffalos to gather apples and to move supplies around the camp. Unit 1 also spots a yardfull of Under Kickers, a radio station, a few helipads, and a couple of small generators scattered around the camp. Unit 1looks at a watchtower and notices that it has a machine gun and its pointed at a gate. It also has a sniper team and a pile of missiles and missile launchers.

Unit 1’s spine starts to shake; he suddenly pulls out his magnum and shoots at a Mad Stallion trying to sneak up on him. Unit 1 quickly finds himself surrounded by a group of MS guards. Unit 1 shoots the guards with no trouble.

Unfortunately, the gunfire got the attention of some of the nearby guards. One of them turns on the alarm while another one contacts patrols to keep an eye for any other movement.

As Unit 1 goes to his combat cycle, bullets come out of the air and destroy the cycle. Unit 1 switches his magnum with his shotgun and jumps into the sand. He waits for the aircraft that assaulted him to leave.

Meanwhile in the aircraft, the pilot says to his gunners, “All right colts, we’re going…” A red light starts flashing and one of his gunners says, “The Hover Hoof is on E isn’t it.” The pilot says as he lands the Hover Hoof, “Well that’s the price of ‘testing it out’ in the Macintosh Hills.”  The ship lands nearby Unit 1 and the pilot grabs a gas canister. “I’ll be right back, I going to put in enough gas to get this thing to a landing pad.” The other gunner asks, “Why can’t we fly there now?” The pilot answers as he walks to the back of the ship, “Do you want to risk crashing to the ground?” There is a moment of silence as the pilot opens. “That’s what I thought besides this will only take a couple of seconds and then we will be back in camp; eating freshly picked apples.”

As the pilot goes to refuel the Hover Hoof, one of the gunners asks the other, “Do you want to help the gate guards look for the body?” He answers, “Nah, you go ahead. I’m going to carve names on my bullets.” The first gunner says awkwardly, “O.K.” He grabs his weapons, goes out of the ship, and looks for Unit 1.

A bunch of MS troops investigate the wreckage for Unit 1’s body.  Unit 1 tries to wait for them to leave but one of them steps on him. He reacts by shooting the Mad Stallions within his sight. Most of the bullets bounce off their armor except for one that got one on his throat. The Mad Stallions get out their shotguns or activate the blades in their gloves or gauntlets.

Unit 1 throws his rifle behind him and it hits the MS trooper that was stepping on him. The rifle’s impact forces the Mad Stallion to get off of Unit 1 and the impact was so strong that the rifle got stuck into his shoulder.  Unit 1 gets up, charges at a Mad Stallion and kills him. One of the Mad Stallions shoot Unit 1’s back with a shotgun. Unit 1 quickly cuts his snout and knocks the trooper to the ground. Before the Mad Stallions could fight back, Unit 1 ends the trooper’s life by stomping on his head.

2 of the Mad Stallions see red mist go into Unit 1 and then he stares at them with evil look on his face and glowing red eyes. The Mad Stallions were scared and started to question if they were going to make it.

The gunner from the ship shoots at Unit 1 with a LMG (Light Machine Gun) and says to his fellow troopers, “Get into the hovercraft, if you want to live!” The two Mad Stallions quickly make their way into the Hover Hoof. Unit 1 drops to the sand and grabs his shotgun. Unit 1 fires his shotgun at the gunner but he quickly learns that his gun is wrecked. He moves to some nearby cover and throws it at the gunner. It misses the gunner and he laughs at Unit 1 as he fires waves of bullets at him.

The gunner stops firing and waits for Unit 1 to get out cover. Unit 1 throws a grenade over his cover and it lands nearby the gunner. The gunner tries to get away from the grenade. The grenade only damages the gunner’s rear leg and makes a cloud of dust. Unit 1 grabs his knife, jumps out of cover, and runs into the cloud of dust. The gunner hears footsteps and fires his gun at the cloud. One of the troopers runs to the gunner and starts dragging him to the Hover Hoof. Unit 1 pulls out his magnum and shoots at both of them.

When Unit 1 gets out of the cloud, he sees that the gunner is dead, the trooper is gravely wounded, and the pilot rushing into his Hover Hoof.  Unit 1 charges at the aircraft as fast as he can; completely ignoring the wounded soldier. The wounded soldier grabs the LMG and fires a couple bullets at Unit 1. He says on the radio before bleeding out, “It’s coming.”

The pilot gets into the Hover Hoof and starts taking off. Unit 1 grabs onto the side of the Hover Hoof. The Mad Stallions hear a loud thud and the 2nd gunner turns his gun around, spots Unit 1 and fires his big gun at him. Unit 1 quickly climbs to the top of the fighter.

He sees a hatch and starts crawling to it. The pilot hears something moving on the roof and gets ready to do some “fancy flying”.  When Unit 1 barely gets to the hatch, his body is getting tossed around in the air and he is quickly losing his grip. Unit 1 punches through the ship’s armor and holds on to it for dear life. After a few minutes, Unit 1 gets the hatch open. He tries to grab his magnum, but with the constant shaking, he accidently throws a grenade into the Hover Hoof.

After the grenade explodes, the Hover Hoof stop in mid air and Unit 1 goes in the hatch. The ship received minor damage while the crew took some serious damage including 2 died. The wounded pilot gets on the radio and says, “Shoot us down…” Unit 1 puts his hand over the pilot’s mouth and cracks his neck.

Unit 1 removes the pilot from his seat and takes controls of the Hover Hoof. It took him a while to figure out the controls. Before he could start doing some damage on the base, the Hover Hoof’s targeting screen starts flashing, “OUT OF FUEL, BRACE FOR IMPACT.” Unit 1 says, “AWW, COME…” The Hover Hoof crashes in middle of one the base roads. “on.”

Unit 1 gets up with a few seconds of dizziness and walks half through the ship. He trips over a LMG and slams to the ground. Unit 1 hears someone coming in from the top. He quickly picks himself and the LMG and finds cover.

The hatch opens and a Mad Stallion says, “Anyone alive?” The Mad Stallion pokes his head in. Before the Mad Stallion could react, Unit 1 shoots a few bullets in his skull.

One of the Mad Stallion Officers says in the radio, “Hold your fire, soldiers. I want to keep our engineers alive. If you shoot anymore of them, I will make sure you’ll be harvest apples for 3 days straight.” Unit 1 confuses what the officer says with an attack order and he prepares to counterattack. He quickly looks for ammo and usable weapons. Unit 1 reloads his LMG as he goes up the wind shield. He breaks the glass and fires his gun at Mad Stallions. He shouts out, “Come at me bro!”

Nearby Mad Stallions either escorted ponies and buffalo out of the way or join the fight to stop the ‘rouge’ trooper.