//------------------------------// // S and S // Story: What is Friendship Now // by Narcissistic Writer //------------------------------// "Lights out scum" Snapped a guard as he trotted off. "Ya think that Shadow pony and Soarin will actually be there" "I know I can trust Shadow but I still feel uneasy around Soarin" The two waited nearly three hours. When their clock was about to strike midnight they waited eagerly in position. There were guards guarding both sides of the door making it nearly impossible to sneak past unnoticed. They were both about to leave their room when a large crash startled them both casing them to trip. They heard a muffled voice say: "Visitor" "At this hour in a containment room seems kinda fishy don't ya think Twilight" She glanced only to see Twilight staring at the door entrance with an eyebrow raised. Applejack confused turned to see what was so intresting when she turned she caught eye of Soarin with a blank worried look on his face Twilight began a conversation. "What's so worrying Soarin something happen" Said Twilight her eyebrow raised higher. "Um well yes..um...sorta *gulp*" After that gulp Twilight knew something was wrong so she dropped her eyebrow look and turned it into a confused look. "What's the matter?" "Well..ha..ha..you...see" "Yes" "Shadow didn't turn up and I was just orded to k-k-k-ki-ki" he kept on stuttering over and over again until he blurted it out. "I've been ordered to kill you" Twilight's expression was not worry but anger. "YOU PROMISED YOU COULD GET US OT OF HERE AND NOW YOUR GOING TO KILL US!" Soarin was calmer now and spoke up. "I was never going to help you. Me and the Wonderbolts had a business deal with Shadow he would protect you tell us your location and then we would find you and kill you ourselves" "But why? ya'll were such a friendly bunch" Applejack pleaded. "Yeah we were" "But if you wanted me dead why not just let me die at the camp?" "Well everyone was talking about how you never picked a side and were technically an enemy to all so a bounty was put on your head and money we would use to become famous again and perform our live shows" "You're insane Soarin don't you get it the world is not what it used to be any more you will never perform again even if you do kill me don't you understand that" "No that's...that's not true we will perform again and again and again ha ha ha ha ha ha ha" His laugh just showed how much this whole scenario had got to people's heads already it's sickening to watch a well known friend turn into an insane bloodthirsty monster but what do you expect from a war but that's it you can't expect anything in the war everything is always unpredictable. A guard had heard the argument between them and told Soarin to just do it he then tackled the guard stood over him and said: "I'll take my time I'll take as much time as I need you got that" The guard nodded in fear as the other guard had already gone to alert Spitfire. "Spitfire Spitfire" "Oh what is it now" "It's It's Soarin he's gone crazy and he's gonna murder my friend" "And why should I care let Soarin have his fun" She said as she slowly took a sip from an alcohol glass. "Wha..wha...what" The other pony said in shock. "Meh he needs to burn off some steam anyway" "You..You..monster" "Oh I'm a monster okay lets see if I can make you look like a monster" She said as she pulled her handgun from the holster. "No..no please" "Hey you started the competition so er see you in er what's it called oh yeah monster land bye" She quickly pointed the gun straight at his head and pulled the trigger as blood splattered across the wall. "Wow you are really ugly looking I guess you won" She said in a sick comedic way. The sound of the gunshot alerted Applejack and Twilight and even caused Soarin to look away just long enough for Applejack to lunge at his weapon but he quickly turned around and slashed her cheek. She fell to the ground after missing the dive and blood flowing from her split open cheek. Soarin held Applejack down with supreme strength and ran his hoof across her cheek causing it to sting the wound. Soarin now had Applejack's blood on his hoof he then proceeded to taste it. Twilight cringed in disgust and tried to help Applejack only to be punched by Soarin leaving a bruise and sending her rolling onto the other side of and causing her to roll off and smack her head against the metal bed support knocking her unconscious. Applejack grabbed Soarin's back leg and pulled it inwards he then slipped letting the the other metal bed support crash into his skull after he had been supposedly knocked out Applejack rolled over his lifeless body to reveal his snout had been cracked and twisted to the right fracturing his nose. "That'll teach ya to mess with a country gal" She then sped towards Twilight in hope of waking her up but to no avail she was out cold and so was Soarin in fact the speed Soarin hit the metal support he could be dead. Over near the others where Spitfire had blown the guards brains out. They were all still drinking and joking until a panicked guard came running towards Spitfire similar to the other deceased guard Spitfire thought about just killing this one on the spot but she thought she might has well hear what she has to say first. "What the hell do you want. I've already killed somebody today don't make me kill you too" "No, no you don't understand it's the ponies they attacked Soarin caught him off guard and knocked him out cold in fact he could be dead" "And you let all this happen in front of you,hm" "I...I..I wasn't prepared for that experience I only had a handgun" "Yeah well you can actually do something with a handgun I can do something like shooting brains out like your friend there" "S-s-s-s-sta-sta-star? What did you do Spitfire" "I did what you guys obviously don't have the guts to do!" "And....and what's that?" "KILL!" Spitfire put a bullet in the guard's left arm he fell to ground in pain before he was silenced by a second cap to the head. "God damn maggots. Men go survey the area I don't want any trouble to deal with around those ponies take the short stealthy route and make sure those ponies do not see you at all it could compromise the safety of all civilians now get out there and find them" "Spitfire, my tracker says they're still in the containment room" "Well that makes your job easier so if you fail I will be more than disappointed do you understand" "YES MA'AM!" "Now get out there" At this point Applejack didn't know what to do other ponies probably heard the crash and were on their way to check it out and if they found out what happened they would probably die even faster than expected adrenaline was rushing through her veins to come up with a plan when she came up with one. When searching Soarin she luckily managed to get her hands on a Glock pistol to protect herself but what she had to do to really survive was get Twilight and herself out of that room Applejack was preparing to move Twilight when suddenly she saw flashlights in the distance and shadows moving towards the building Applejack slowly rolled under one of the beds to check for hooves their were twenty hooves which meant five ponies (she hoped) they were getting closer and closer to her position and they were already checking under beds then a light shone on a spot directly next to the bed and on the other side they were examining Twilight's body after a few seconds of fear a blue stallion face popped from above to the check the bed when three bullets were fired penetrating three different areas of the skull the solider then collapsed in death as Applejack rolled out from under the bed she loaded her pistol once again. The four remaining soldiers flipped the beds and started firing high capacity assault rifles at Applejack she too had to flip a bed for cover but the bed was to weak the bullets shot straight through. One of them decided to get closer to Applejack but she slid in the middle of two beds and shot another three bullets two hit the legs of the solider closer to her and the third hitting a different one in the chest spraying blood out of his abdomen onto the floor before dropping to the floor as lifeless as a rag doll. The other solider was still incapacitated and trying to reach for his rifle but Applejack took the opportunity when the last two were reloading to grab the assault rifle and started to shoot full automatic bullets at the soldiers she killed the two as they stood up from reloading and killed the final crawling one by using the last bullet of the rapid fire pistol to put it in his head. On a few of the men she found grenades she had an idea she grabbed Twilight and put her down by the bushes she kicked a loose chain in the fence to make an opening she left Twilight outside while she executed her plan. "So you think your men are up for it" "I've known that team for five years they're the best if they can't do it no one can" Just as Spitfire was about to gulp down the last of her drink she quickly spat it out as she caught sight of a sudden explosion of the containment area. Panic was growing and people were wondering what happened so Spitfire gave an answer: "We must find the two vigilantes and our objective is not interrogate them our objective is not capture them our objective is to kill them" "But no one knows where they are ma'am so how will we find them" "Someone knows and that person is going to co-operate with us if they like it or not" She gave the team a devilish smile "Call Black Shadow"