//------------------------------// // Ze Train Ride // Story: Duty Calls, mates! // by A Typical Reader //------------------------------// The RED Team sat on the seats of the train, waiting it to move. They received many stares from other ponies on the train. "Agh, when will this bloody train move?" Demo said. "Ze inhabitants of zis world has almost no technolgy." "Da. Train is slow." The train started moving out of the station, and started climbing down the mountain tracks. It clanked and rattled, steam puffing out. Suddenly, the RED team started hearing the buzzing of many wings. "Vat was zat?" "Ah don't know, doc." "Ahh, Creep!" Demo shouted. He pointed to a group of tough-looking changelings. The Ponies on board the train screamed, panicked, and started hiding. "Well, lets kick their ass back to where they came from men!" Soldier said proudly. He pointed his Direct Hit, a rocket launcher for skilled, sharpshooter soldiers, and fired. The rocket, making impact with one of the changelings, exploded. Changeling parts flew everywhere. "We must kill cowards!" "Giddy-up!" "Move, Schnell!" Heavy started firing minigun rounds at the changelings, killing two of them. Engineer shot down a changeling with the Rescue Ranger. Medic, healed Heavy with a Strange Medigun. "Incoming!" Demo shouted, pointing at the rest of the changelings. They started diving at the Mercs. Scout then saw his opportunity other than firing a pistol at the changelings. "Batter Up!" Scout said, making his batter stance. A changeling dived for Scout, and was about to slam into Scout's legs. "Doink!!" SPLAT! The changeling's head got smashed into many pieces. Engineer whacked a changeling unconscious with his Jag. The train started moving faster for some reason. "What makes train go fast suddenly?"Heavy said. Soldier shrugged, and knocked a charging changeling onto the floor. "Get a Haircut,Hippe!" Smack! Splat! Sploosh! "Arrgh!" Soldier started blankly at the dead changeling, which, head was smashed, blood pouring out. "INCOMING!!" Medic stabbed a changeling with his ubersaw, and looked out the broken train window. "There are no more changelings left!" Demo looked behind Medic. "SPY!" One changeling managed to disguise as a normal pony, and sneaked up behind medic, and was about to tackle medic. BANG! You. All. Suck! "Grease Monkey, put a dispenser here!" "Yeah!" "What the bloody hell was that?!?" Demo asked. Medic just shrugged, and got out some experimental tubes from his huge backpack. "These Specimens are vat I need for my experiments." The ponies in the same cab as the Red Mercs fled to other cabs, and now just slowly walked back to their seats, avoiding the bodies and blood on the floor. Soldier just grumbled at the sight of more "Pastrel colored" ponies, and sucked in the glorious health from the dispenser. "Well, that went we-" Scout said before hearing an explosion. Ponies screamed the second time, and one said, "The train is going to explode!" Scout sighed, and replied, "Wat Now?" Scout stuck his head out the broken window. "Yo, the engine's burning!" The Red mercs ran to the front of the train, and tried to put out the fire. Demo looked ahead, and saw the Ponyville train station, 60 yards away. "Incoming!" The other Red mercs looked ahead , and Demo pulled out his Scottish Resistance. "Move!" He launched stickybombs on the burning engine, and ran towards the other Red Mercs. Demo waited. "Ka-" Beep! "BOOM!" Ka-BOOM! The engine exploded,the rubble flying everywhere. Soldier got smacked in the stomach with some rubble. "Urk!" Engineer got an idea, and stuck the rubble in the wheels. The wheels got jammed, and screeched so loud, everyone and everypony covered their ears. The train stopped a few yards ahead of the station. "Whew, that was close!" Engineer said. The ponies got off, as the Red mercs headed to the front of the train. Seeing the remains of the engine, they shuffled through the rubble. All they found was one dead, burned, conductor pony. Suddenly, they heard some clopping behind them. "Hello?" Soldier was the first to turn around, and shouted. "AHH! A purple pastrel pony!"