//------------------------------// // Death comes to those // Story: Crashed and Burned in Equestria // by Gaz1997 //------------------------------// ‘Don’t stop, Don’t stop!’ Mat’s mind screamed at him as he ran at full pelt in the direction Sweetie Belle had told him where the mines were. He tried to push out the thoughts of what could happen if he didn’t make it in time, and drove him to run faster. His running came to a stop as he came across a large amount of holes and dirt mounds………this was it. “Don’t worry guys….I’m coming.” He said quietly to himself as he gasped for air. After he got his breath back, he checked if he still had his weapons. Pistols, check, knife, check. Satisfied with his weapons, he slowly walked over to one of the holes and peered down it. “F***, that’s a long way down.” As he looked into the hole, all he could see was the pitch black as it seemed to absorb the light. He took a few steps back and whisked out his iPod, plugged in his earphones, then selected the song of choice; He slipped the iPod back into his pocket then clapped his hands together. “Alright let’s do this thing! LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRROOOOOOOOOOYYYYY!” He shouted as he ran forwards and dived into the hole. “Erm, magic anytime you want to cut in, NOW WOULD BE THE RIGHT F****** TIME!!” He shouted as a small light came into view from the bottom of the hole he was falling. His hands started to tingle again and he could see them with the grey aura around them. As he levelled himself out and pulled back his fist ready. When he fell out of the hole and into the cavern, he slammed his fists on the ground, creating a shockwave of dirt knocking over anything in its radius. When the dust settled, he stood up and pull out his dual welds, hands still glowing, he looked around and he saw at least twenty dogs in armour with spears. “You b****** know what happens to a mother f****** with two black eyes? Nothing, because you already know I told your punk a** twice.” He said as two leapt for him at his front, he ducked and knocked one in the stomach, winding him then kicked the other to the floor and sprayed his face with lead. The other dogs couldn’t believe what they had just witnessed, but at the site of losing their comrade they grew angry and started to charge at him, but he was ready. He booted another, then shot him in the face, spun around and stood on another one’s head. He ducked as three jumped and collided in mid-air, he aimed his guns upwards and got a collateral kill. They fell the ground limp, fifteen left. One tried to throw his spear at Mat, he dived to his left and did a forward roll while firing off a couple of rounds, a few hitting the target, killing the dog instantly. He turned around just in time to dodge another spear. As the spear flew past him, time seemed to slow down as he lifted guns and fired at the rest of the dogs. As time went back to normal speed, the dogs fell to the ground motionless. “Wow…that was probably the most bull s*** fight I have ever been in, period!” He said as he holstered his guns then looked around the cavern he was in, ahead he saw three tunnels. “Oh, come on now! I don’t have time for this!” He looked at them thinking which one to take, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw something in one of the tunnels. He walked over to the object. It was an orange feather, this was the right one. “I’m coming girls, just hold on.” He said as he began to sneak through the tunnel. He walked for five minutes before he came across an old wooden door. He heard voices or barks on the other side, he cracked open the door slightly and peered in. “F*** me, that’s a lot of dogs.” He whispered, he couldn’t tell how many there were but he couldn’t see any sign of the filly’s. He moved away from the door and leaned against the cave wall. ‘I can’t just go in there guns blazing on my own, stealth could work’ he was snapped out of his train of thought as a hoof touched his shoulder. He went into action instantly, pulling out his combat knife and quickly pinning whoever it was with the knife poised between Silver’s eyes. “Silver? What the f*** are you doing here, I thought I told your ass to stay put.” whispered Mat as he got off him. “Well, we think that you’re kind of being a d*** for trying to take these twat’s on your own.” “What do you mean by ‘we’?” “That would be us.” said Frost as he came around the corner followed by his brother and the unicorn stallion he was with earlier. “Seriously, what the f*** are you guys doing here?” Asked Mat. “Were you even bucking listening to what I just said you twat?” “Maybe, maybe not………….by the way your names Subtle Rampage, am I correct?” He pointed to the yellow maned unicorn. “Yes, why you wanna know?” Replied the unicorn. “Why are you here, I don’t know you or these two brothers very well, you must have a reason to be here.” “*sigh* Well you got me, but I don’t want any of you to speak of this to anypony at all, I am part of the royal guard but I’m stationed in ponyville. But I’m off duty the most of the time since the town is relatively peaceful. But when I heard that the new human in town decided to go after some ponynapped fillies on his own that when I step in, it is my duty.” “You guys aren’t leaving, are you?” asked Mat, they all nodded. “Well I hope you all have something to bring to the table because these bitches are deep in their own shit.” said Mat as he turned around and burst through the door. “All the mother f****** in the house please stand up for an a** kicking!” he shouted as he pulled his knife then charged at the nearest dog and cut its throat open. The rest stormed in after him, Silver dived behind a corner and pulled his gun out from his saddle bags and fired a few shots. Frost and his brother flew into the air and landed back to back facing of any dogs that got near them. ‘They must have settled their differences………for now at least’ Thought Mat as be clubbed a dog around the head with the handle of his pistol, but what he saw next blew his mind. Subtle rampage ran in, reared up and slammed his hooves into the ground. Diamond-like stuff crept up his fore hooves and stopped just before his knees. He then charged forward slamming his diamond coated hoof into a dogs face, pulverising it. He continued and whacked another one spun around and bucked another in the stomach, he then quickly slammed his hind legs into the floor and this time his rear legs and tail became encased in the same diamond armour like stuff. He swung his mace like tail around and smashed another dogs helmet clean off knocking him over, he sprinted over to it and brought his fore hooves and slammed them down on its head. The other just stood there watching what he just did, mouths agape. “What?” “Holy s***! That was awesome, how the hell did you do that?” said Mat breaking the ice of the silence that had developed in the cavern. “I asked myself the same question the first time I did it…LOOK OUT!” Rampage the shouted out to Mat who in turn spun around and performed a well-timed round house kick to a leaping diamond dog, sending him into a wooden support beam, cracking it. “And stay down b****!” A loud rumbling noise ripped through the cavern as dust started to fall from the ceiling then a large boulder sized section fell. “S***, the whole place is coming down……” Mat was cut off as the whole ceiling collapsed, creating a cloud of dust and smoke. When it cleared he was confronted by a blocked tunnel that clearly wasn’t there fifth teen seconds ago “Ow.” He groaned as he shook himself off but he could feel something sticky running down his left leg, there was a nasty looking cut that was seeping quite a bit of blood but he managed to get to his feet thanks to his magic numbing the pain. “Guys...you ok?” He shouted “Yeah, we can hear you but were blocked off” Said a muffled voice from the other side. “Ok, you guys find a different way out. I’m gonna keep looking for the girls.” He shouted back before turning round and carried on, limping down the tunnel, after five minutes of navigating down the tunnel he came across another wooden door, he crept up to it and tried to silently open it, locked. He stopped for a moment then heard voices on the other side so he put his ear up the to the door *In the other room* “What should we do with these ponies, they are too young” Said the smaller dog as he sat next to the leader on the right of him. “Maybe we could sell them for more gems, yes more gems.” Suggested the bigger dog, but he was shot a look from the leader so he backed down. “No, we need them, they will grow up to be bigger and better. The horned one can use magic to find gems, the winged one can get the ones higher up.” Said the leader as he looked at the two cowering fillies who were huddled together in their cell, bruised and shaken. Their faces stained by their tears. “Bring me the orange one.” He barked to the bigger dog that nodded and walked over the cage. He opened it and picked up Scootaloo by the scruff of her neck and brought her out the cage and quickly shut it. “Let me go!” She shouted as she bucked him in the face, the sudden reaction from the hit made the dog’s arm fling outward letting her go and sending her into the wall with enough force to make a small series of cracks emanate from her small body. She fell the floor crumpled and a small streak of blood started to seep from the side of her head where it had been cut, she lay there unconscious. “You fool!” Shouted the leader but was cut out as the door was busted in, they all looked towards it and there stood Matrix, with an angry look on his face. He had heard everything, he looked around the room and saw Scootaloo on the floor with the bigger dog looming over her. This made him even more angry and his fists clenched up, but then he clutched his head in pain and fell to one knee, he started convulsing as his body started changing. The flames on his skin that had appeared before reappeared, but this time they engulfed his whole body including his face. His eyes turned pure black instead of white with white flame flickering in them, he sprouted black feathered wings from his back, ripping his shirt. His hair turned into black flames that danced around evilly, he stood back up to his full height but he had grown slightly. His whole body glowed in the same grey glow as his hands and he still had the same angry look on his face before but was filled with pure anger, and no mercy what so ever. “Get away from her YOU B***H!” He shouted in a voice that was purely demonic. He took a step forward leaving a small wisp of black mist, the small dog tried to tackle him but Matrix moved so fast he was on the floor in milliseconds with a new bullet hole in his head. The bigger dog then tried to attack him also, but this time Matrix pulled out his knife but it had also underwent a transformation, from the sheath it looked relatively small but when he pulled it out it had grown to about three times it original size. It looked like it was made by a demon itself with the handle emanating black mist from it, he brought it down diagonally on the charging dog leaving a large blood red gash on his chest, he slumped down dead at his feet. The leader who was sitting on his throne was shivering and sweating bucket loads as Matrix walked up to him. He flapped his enormous wings sending the leader off his throne and into the wall behind him with enough force to level and entire building. Matrix then walked up, picked him up by his neck and slammed him into the wall with such force loud cracks could be heard and seen coming from the wall. “You kidnapped two innocent little fillies. Threatened to do inhuman things to them. You hurt them and scared them for life!” The dog tried to attack him but all he did was scratch him leaving three small gashes in his left cheek. Matrix looked back to him a let out a low growl that would rival that of a manticores, he took his sword and plunged it into his belly, pinning him to the wall. He let out a pain filled yelp. “That is a crime only punishable by DEATH!” He shouted in his face with his demonic voice as he un-holstered one of his guns and held it under the leaders chin “Stop…..please.” The leader croaked out. “To...f******...late!” He said as he twitched the gun slightly. “No-” He pulled the trigger, quickly silencing him and ending his life. His head fell the side as he moved the gun away and holstered it, he pulled out his knife/sword and wiped the blood of it as he re-sheathed the sword that was clearly too big for its sheath. The body fell the floor in a heap, as he turned back to face Scootaloo. He clutched his head in pain again and fell onto both knees as he slowly returned back to his normal state. Just as he regained his vision he caught a glimpse of the flames on his arms disappearing as it was liquid draining from a bottle “What the hell just happened to me?” He looked back around and saw the mutilated bodies. “Now that ain’t right.” He said, but then he remembered why he was here in the first place, he turned his attention back the injured Scootaloo and saw the blood on her head. He ripped of the sleeve of his shirt and carefully wrapped it around her head to stop the bleeding. He then saw her wings and it was crumpled badly he picked up some sticks next to him and ripped of his other sleeve and made a splint for the wing. It wasn’t the best, but it would do until he got her to the hospital, he carefully picked her up and cradled her in his arm still unconscious. He moved over to the cell were Dinky was being kept and kicked it open, she was still huddled in the same corner, she had seen the whole thing but had looked away when Matrix had………….killed them. “Shhh it’s ok I’m not gonna hurt you.” He said in his most calming voice. Dinky knew who he was since she had seen around town before and she knew he wasn’t a threat, so she jumped into his arms and hugged him for dear life and cried her eyes out into his chest. “It’s ok now, I’m going to get you out of here.” He spoke soothingly as he hugged the greyish purple filly. About time i uploaded an update and thanks to red tear/subtle rampage for pre-reading it also another thanks to veteran O'Awesome who is taking his time to edit the earlier chapters so they wont look like c*** now that my writing has improved fairly well ans also you may have noticed that i have sort have blanked out the swearing, that is for reasons i will not explain for now and i will be doing it to the other chapters as well as project human but the swearing is still technically there and im also adding the dark tag (Which for some reason i cannot add now so i will sort that later) and later on the the mature tag for the banter and stuff, well that is all RM laterz