"Tucker, wake up." Rainbow said, shaking Tucker.
"Caboose, stay away." Tucker said softly. "That's my rock..."
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and hit Tucker in the stomach.
"Son of a bitch!" Tucker yelped, jumping off the bed. He turned to Dash and narrowed his eyes. "What the hell?"
"Twilight is here to talk to you."
"Why?"
"I don't know, why don't you go ask her?" Rainbow Dash said with a smile.
"Fine." Tucker sighed, walking towards the stairs. He slowly made his way own to the front door, where Twilight was standing with a pleasant smile. "What's up Twi?"
"Nothing really, I just came to check up on you guys." Twilight said shiftily.
"Uh-huh." Tucker said quietly. "Listen, one of the things I've learned from women is that they never talk to you unless they want something, so let's just speed up the process and get to that point of the conversation."
"Alright." Twilight said with a slow nod. "It's just that with all the other fragments are going to be trying to live their lives and we need to find a place for them all to stay."
"How am I supposed to help with this, exactly?"
"The others are in need of more rest. Sarge is making sure Gary didn't do any serious damage to Applejack while he was possessing her, Simmons is suffering a migraine from exerting so much magic since yesterday, Grif is just lazy, and Caboose, well..."
"Is Caboose."
"Precisely." Twilight nodded with a small smile.
"You woke me up for this?" Tucker said disbelievingly.
"Sorry." Twilight said sheepishly. "I didn't know you were still asleep."
"Why? It's not like I have anything better to do..."
"I thought you had a job." Twilight said thoughtfully.
"Oh..." Tucker said with a laugh, then grew more serious. "Shit."
"You forgot?"
"Well I didn't have time to pick up my schedule seeing as Caboose was dead and all."
"That's true." Twilight agreed. "So any idea on what we should do with the fragments?"
"Nope, sorry." Tucker said with a yawn.
"Okay, well thank you for your time." Twilight said, looking at the ground, readying her magic to teleport back home. "There are some other pegasi in Ponyville that have been sent to clear today's skies. I think you should speak with them and try to explain yourself."
"Why?" Tucker asked tiredly.
"Because you didn't show up to grab your schedule, remember?"
"Right." Tucker said, shaking his head to wake himself up. "Thanks."
"No problem." Twilight smiled before disappearing from Tucker's sights.
"What'd Twi wanna talk you about?" Rainbow Dash asked as she came down stairs.
"She told me about some others who are clearing Ponyville's skies or something since we didn't do it... or something."
"Aw horsefeathers, I forgot about that." Rainbow Dash groaned. "We have to tell Inclement that we were-"
"I'll explain it to him tomorrow." Tucker interrupted with a laugh. "Right now we should just tell the others that we aren't dead. I'll check near the library and Pinkie's place, you check the skies near all the Reds."
"Alright. Meet back at the library once you've talked to them." Rainbow Dash nodded as she flew out the door, heading towards Sweet Apple Acres.
"It's too early to be doing this." Tucker sighed, before flying towards the library.
Tucker stopped by a cloud in Ponyville to take a break. He yawned, seeing the cloud as a large fluffy bed. He landed on it and sprawled out, promising to only rest for a few minutes. As he closed his eyes, a yell came from the edge of Ponyville.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Tucker sighed begrudgingly as he rolled off the cloud and set off towards the source of the scream.
After a minute of flying he saw four familiar shapes, tumbling about. As he got closer he saw that it was Tex fighting Hoops, Dumb-Bell and Score. AS he got even closer than that, he saw that Tex was the one doing the fighting, while the others were just trying to avoid her. Tucker landed near Hoops, who was the farthest from the others, and coughed. Hoops head snapped towards Tucker and he began to run towards him. Tucker watched as Tex grabbed Dumb-Bell by the back hooves. She quickly slammed him into the ground, before beginning to spin in a circle.
"Thank Celestia you're here." Hoops said as he ran behind Tucker. "Where have you been?"
"Around." Tucker said quietly. "So what's going on here?"
"Help us!" Score begged as he began crawling towards him.
"She's going to kill us." A battered Dumb-Bell cried as Tex threw him at Score, knocking them both down.
Tex's head snapped to Tucker and walked up to him, seemingly sizing him up.
"How's it going Tex?" Tucker asked calmingly.
"Pretty good, just letting off some steam." Tex said with a smile.
"You know her?" Hoops asked loudly.
"Yeah, we kind of have history." Tucker nodded.
"Now how about you move out of the way and let me finish the job before you become history?" Tex said threateningly.
"I don't know, I kind of work with these guys." Tucker said, looking back at Hoops.
"Yeah! We work together so you can't hurt us." Hoops said seriously.
"But..."
"But? But what?" Hoops asked, eyes widening in fear.
"They did give Dash some trouble back a while ago, so I'd say they might have this coming." Tucker said, stepping to the side.
"Come on Tucker, you can't do that." Hoops begged, slowly backing up as Tex walked towards him.
"Sorry man." Tucker said quietly, then added with a tight smile. "You could always try to fly away."
Hoops turned around to jump into the air but was quickly tackled to the ground by Tex, who started hitting him in the spine.
"You guys might want to get out of here while she's distracted." Tucker warned as he walked past Score and Dumb-Bell. "Oh, and tell inclement that I'll drop by to explain myself tomorrow."
As Tucker began going to the library, Score and Dumb-Bell looked at each other, and then back to Hoops, whose feathers were starting to get plucked one at a time by Tex. Tex quickly looked at them and let out a loud grunt. Dumb-Bell and Score turned around and quickly started flying back to Cloudsdale.
"Please, no more." Hoops whined as Tex pulled out a fourth feather.
"Say you're sorry." Tex cooed as she grabbed his fifth feather.
"I'm-"
Tex ripped out the fifth feather, causing Hoops to yelp.
"Oh, I'm sorry, did I interrupt you?" Tex asked, pretending to be shocked as she placed her hoof on another feather. "Please, do go on."
"I'm sorry!" Hoops yelled quickly. Tex smirked pulled his sixth feather off, causing him cry out in pain.
"Good to hear it." Tex said sweetly, kicking Hoops away from her. "If I see you again you'll be holding onto something a lot more precious than your wings."
Hoops glanced down confusedly. His eyes shot open in realization, so he turned around and took off with great difficulty. The pain he was feeling was the worst he had ever felt, but the promise that Tex had given him told him that it could be a lot worse. Tex smiled confidently as she watched him fly away, barely keeping himself up. With a satisfactory sigh, she got up and began to walk back to the library.
"It was Tex, right?" A voice said from behind her.
Tex turned defensively around to see a light yellow pony, placing it as Bon-Bon, and an aquamarine pony, Lyra, standing before her. She eased up and nodded at them.
"We saw what you did to them." Bon-Bon said quietly.
"And what are you going to do?" Tex scoffed. "Yell at me? Try to kick me out of your little village?"
"No, we wanted to thank you." Lyra said hesitantly.
"Oh?" Tex asked surprisingly.
"Yeah, those pegasi are real jerks. Everytime they come to Ponyville, they laugh and make fun of us because we don't have any wings."
"It would never stop, so we had to ask their boss to not send them here anymore." Bon-Bon said with a nervous laugh. "I don't know why they came back now, but I'm sure they won't do it any time soon."
"Well, you're welcome." Tex said quietly.
"Hey!" Lyra called out as Tex began to walk away. "You got your mark!"
"What?" Tex asked. She looked at her flank to see an orange-yellow skull with glowing red eyes. "At least it isn't girly."
"Wait until all of Ponyville hears about this!" Lyra said excitedly. "A mare from the Everfree Forest came in and beat up those three pests! I'm going to tell everypony!"
"You're going to be the talk of the town." Bon-Bon gasped.
"Glad to hear it." Tex smirked, setting a confident pace to the library.
I grinned maniacly the moment I read the title of the chapter... And apparently, I wield the shotgun... So no one else can claim to be first... BACK! BACK I SAY!!! *Weilds Shotgun* I will attempt to blow your brains out if you try to take this gun from me!!!
Can't wait for the epilogue.
I slowly got a sadistic grin when I read the title and chapter............encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3JGFMYOQG-ku-fXYj8cx4nEIRW9wqPaKTC7HNrnMd0uAffi0w
Aww....They didn't die.
when is Clestia going to learn that Caboose is alive again?
828128
Oh I won't even try to take it from you. I'll just sit on this cliff with my sniper rifle and, oh! What did you say again? I couldn't hear you over all your shots only going four feet.
I love this story!
heh heh heh tucker interrupted Tex and got revenge for rainbow dash and remained untouched which mean karma is about to really bitch-slap him
god da-yum tex is a bitch, but i must admit she does have her moments, also i kinda half expected that her cutie mark would be a picture of her kicking grif in the balls or something..... oh well as a great pokemon once said : "Pika pika, pikachu"
828160
Ball taken...
didn't andy give tex joke about balls once
828160 its called Griffball!
another great chapter!
828201 Did I mention my Overly Badass Total Body Combat Armour? The OBTBCA allows me to be immune to everything... And I mean EVERYTHING! Hell, even Tex like me when I wear it!
828321
Did I mention that I delete comments mentioning them getting first?
Hah they fight like babies .. little little men
828201
Obviously, someone has never used a real shotgun. They are very good at mid-range, and, with slugs or a good choke, semi-decent at medium-long range. Do your research before making acomment like that. Video games are not real life, so that comment falls flat.
This is why Tex is my favorite character.
828128 I was earlier than first.
828321The burning you feel it is shame
Called It about the cutie mark.
828344
I don't know. That one may have an exception via rule of funny.
828128 shotgun, eh? well I have my trusty sniper, with rounds that'll take your hat off at 700 yards. Id say that gun belongs to me.
828367
You said skull and crossbones.
And close only comes close in horseshoes, and maybe a few less popular games, but it doesn't count here.
828364
Ded
Well. Tex's cutiemark involves violence! Shocker. What's next? Is Sigma's going to be an optical illusion?
HOORAAA!
828201 Huh what's this, aanother sniper? Prepare to meet my bullet. I think the meeting will stay in your mind for years to come.
828554 this if fn Red vs Blue here! i am going off what we are around!
828351
His point still stands you know...
Longest range confirmed hit with a sniper rifle---> Over a mile
Longest with a shotgun---> Not even close to that
828609
I'm well aware of that. But, my point was that the shotgun thing defied sensibility. No one would buy or sell such a shitty gun. That is one of my pet peeves. Shotguns are not designed for short range. That is why there are pistols.
828662
I get where you're coming from. In-game physics piss me off, all for the sake of "balance".
828160 I am slightly disappointed she didn't commit the physically impossible lol.
828351 Yea, but sniper beats shotgun at range.
Play MAG, the shotguns are realistic in that game. Not that I use them, though. I've got my AM50 anti-material rifle with a Multi-Variable power scope and bipod. I can literally destroy tanks with this gun.
Finally. Fucking finally up to the current chapter, after not getting updates for over six weeks, and it taking a further two weeks to catch up.
So fuck yes! This story got really awesome in those 50+ chapters
828351 we aren't talking about real shotguns here this is Red vs. Blue dude and by red vs. blue I mean Halo and when I say Halo I mean shotguns that have horrible range and Snipers that can cross Forge World and still kill the enemy so going off of this they were most likely going off of the Halo Reach weapon capability's because this is a Red vs. Blue fic that still goes in the order above of red vs. blue and then Halo so in conclusion "do your research" I apologize but that was a conversation you did not need to enter
OK so unnecessary rant complete This was a great chapter with Tex being able to shut the annoying Rainbow Dash antagonizers up and Tucker being able to just stand their and watch
"She'll be the toast of the town,
the girl on the go,
the kind of pony every pony, every pony should know" (to stay out of her way!)
Wait is the skull human or pony???
This chapter was glorious!!
I suddenly like Tex again
828493 I can actually see that. Question is, Escher's Cube, Penrose Triangle, or the, what's it called, the one with the fork? Something like Devil's Fork, or Tuning Fork.
On checking, it's also called the blivet, apparently. Then again, Wikipedia is not to be trusted.
828128 Shotgun? Nice try. I've got a tank.
So much for low profile
Secretly, I killed all of those who were arguing about their weapons, because I was hidden in the cliffs.
Wow. Tex getting her cutie mark for hurting people. Did I call that or what.
828987
Thank you for not reading where I had conceded to that point.
828865
That would be me, actually.
829149
You missed the point of the conversation. It is about the misportrayal of guns in media, which, in real life, can have disastrous, if not deadly, consequences. This does need to be said.
828758
Thank you. Glad to see someone else who has the same problem with the physics.
829902
You win. You killed us all. Oh, no! I am on fire for no explicable reason! AGH! *Runs off cliff for no reason in particular*
lol jimmy related cutie mark
Is it just me or is there a war going on in these comments?
Honestly you guys. Launching Nuclear warhead now
And I couldn't help but think Grif's lower region isn't the only one Tex wants to grab...
Maybe Tex has a fetish for pony parts too?
291583 I an RT fan, am I close enough? I can portray Gavins voice pretty close, actually
829149
While I was able to decipher your comment, punctuation does wonders, no?
I Love this story It is one of the better fanfics i've ever read, Its one of the best stories in general that i've read. its so cool, I almost never want it to end. When i first started reading this, i spent 5 hours reading and got to chapter 80, then started again when i woke up the next morning and finished what you have up to this point.. Its such an amazing story and i hope you make it REALLY long
828351
I know that, I was making a reference to Season 7.