Defenses!:
Well that wasn't enough!
I decided to go exploring some more. Outside the blizzard had stopped, but there was still a butt-load of snow. All of that snow made it pretty bright and I had to shield my eyes when I left.
When I could actually see, I started to gape.
All around me where these towers, exactly like the one that I had found earlier. Except there was about twenty or so more of them. And they were all around.
I began to jog to the nearest one and peered inside. Nothing in that one, or the next. But number three had two chests in them.
"Oh-ho-ho, some loot eh?"
The chests were both old and rusted, but they opened. And when they did, I couldn't help but feel awesome. Crystals. A whole heap of them.
I picked one out and grabbed it, beginning to examine it.
After further experimentation, I grinned, somewhat evilly.
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Twilight took a deep breath, preparing herself to enter the chamber. She didn't know how the human on the other side would greet her, be it with malice, silence, or what.
So, she simply opened the door. Nothing.
"Uh-oh."
The cell in which Dalton had thus far been contained was empty of life. And the bars to his cell had somehow been removed.
"Uh-oh." Twilight said, more seriously. This was obviously going to need reporting, quickly.
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It wasn't long before Shining Armor had a squad of soldiers ready to go out and re-find the escaped human. Reports of seemingly random stolen objects had been steadily flowing into his office all morning and suspicion had begun to find its way into his thoughts.
Eventually, a command from the Princess had confirmed his aforementioned suspicions and the somewhat overly-confident stallion set out on his quest.
He was beginning to wish that he had brought more backup.
Somehow, the human had managed to rig up mines of sort, not deadly, but most certainly painful.
An advancing soldier stepped on another well-hidden bulge and there was a mixture between a bang and a puff. The pressure of the explosion made the stallion go temporarily deaf and threw him on his rump.
Shining shook his head and continued onward, his soldiers being picked off one by one.
According to the soldiers, the mines were composed of Arkkadian Crystals. They were highly unstable and, well, exploded when so much as stepped on.
When that happened, the sound was extremely loud, and the crystal would dissolve into sand-like shrapnel that, when it touched you, was like getting fiber-glass rubbed all over.
It wasn't pleasant.
And they weren't even close the Human's hideout.
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"How so you think he did it?"
"Did what?"
"You know, escaped."
"Well, dear, I don't mean to insult you, but I'm not entirely sure that it was wise to leave and alien that we know nothing of, capabilities or otherwise, alone in a cell without supervision," Rarity said.
"Why didn't you say that earlier?" Twilight asked, confused.
"I was still overwhelmed by the fact that he was wearing a fedora! Those infernal things, I'll never see the end of them!"
Twilight rolled her eyes as she and her friend took a stroll through the Crystal Palace's corridors, discussing its latest arrival.
"I didn't think he looked that bad..."
"Hm, his jacket was nice, but his hat..."
"Rarity, stop, it's just a hat."
"I'm not even sure they deserved to be called such! It's basically a stetson that's had its brim warped and then shortened!"
As Rarity blabbed on about how evil fedoras are, Twilight zoned off and began to think of their escaped prisoner. Unfortunately, she had not been able to speak with him, his escaping hadn't really helped with that, but she couldn't help but think that Celestia was being a tad bit unfair.
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"For Mother Russia!"
"Huh? Wha-!?"
Another guard fell to my expertly crafted Crystal-bombs as I dodged about, throwing one after another into the faces of advancing soldiers.
They had cleared my minefield, unfortunately, but I still had quite a bit of fight in me!
Besides, the unconscious bodies of thwarted guards were beginning to make quite a nice wall...
"For Zee Captein!"
Another pompf and another fell.
On one hand, I was actually defending myself rather well, but on the other, I was running out of people and places to fight "for."
"Uh...For Narnia! Pompf! Nah, Narnia's lame...hmm...ah, For Azeroth!"
Pompf!
"Wait. I hate World of Warcraft... Yeah 'go kill ten wolves and bring me their hides.' Whee. Guild Wars 2 is where it's at!"
Pompf!
"For Steve Jobs!"
Pompf!
"For Helghan!"
Pompf!
"For King Arthur!"
Pompf!
"For Pelinor!"
Pompf!
"For Fablehaven!"
Pompf!
"Okay, I got nothing... Uh, for my left foot!"
Pompf!
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"Sir! He just knocked out the last of out guards!"
Shining Armor narrowed his eyes.
"Seriously?"
"Ye-Pompf!!"
Shining Startled and looked up to the roof of the house.
"For Deadpool!"
With a snarl, the defeated Captain withdrew silently, keeping an eye on the smug-looking alien the entire time.
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With Shining Douchebag out of the way, I turned around and climbed back down into my home through a window.
"Alright, now what to do with all of these guards..."
I pursed my lip.
"Ah, there's an idea."
As I started to drag the snoring ponies away, I began to sing. "Que sera, sera...whatever I say will be! The future is mine to forge! Do not question me!"
It's a good song.