Roland sprinted through the halls. He'd come across the occasional wandering guard, but not the action he knew he was missing. After about three days on this planet he finally had a chance to blow something up! Brick was walking slowly behind. He had no idea why he was still following these idiots. Maybe it was because he knew that if he followed something would happen eventually.
Roland saw a locked door. He grabbed an entrance charge out of his bag. He set it up for a quick fuse and stood right at the door. The door flew off it's hinges. He ran through the smoke screaming "YEAH, BABY! GET SOME!". He randomly shot into the room. He saw Lilth surrounded by a large group of bandits. He threw down his Scorpio Turret, it began to rip through the enemies bodies, but they kept running at him. He got a little nervous at the sight but continued to fire at the beings.
Brick then came up behind Roland with a shotgun in each of his hands. He aimed at one enemy and took off his entire top of his body, the legs kept running at the group though. It eventually fell over. Roland also took out his shotgun and began to make fleshy paste out of the charging horde. Then a few bullets hit part of his armor. He turned to see that some of the creatures were picking up guns and returning fire. He told Brick to keep the horde at bay as he picked off the gunmen. The enemies they were facing were very resiliant compared to most other foes they have fought before. The only type of damage that seemed to faze the attackers were body crippling blows. Roland thought for a minute, though it would get messy he decided to break out his new Mailwan corrosive, extended magazine submachinegun.
The sound of sizzling flesh and muffled out screams flooded over the sound of everything else. The adrenaline that was pulsing through Rolands viens made him totally block out the sounds. One of the cultists jumped on Roland just as he shot it. It began to turn into ooze just as it was on top of Roland. Roland wasn't sure if he would get burned by the ooze, but he didn't take any chances. He kicked the man, but unfortunately the victim was eroded enough to leak onto Roland after the kick. He was covered in the man's gooey remains, but Rolands adrenaline made him get up and continue fighting, even if he did want to puke all over the floor.
Brick was too busy caving in his enemies skulls to notice the dark pony in the background bolting right for him. It dashed at him from the air and pinned him to the ground. Brick was surprised by the pony's great strength. He looked it right in the eye. A thick substance was leaking out of it and into his eyes. The substance in his eyes only made him angrier. He quickly knocked the pony off him and began to feriously demolish anything standing in his way. He came up to Roland who was busy gunning down the cultist to see the giant fist knock him in the back off the head. He fell to the ground in a loud bang. He quickly rolled over the see Brick trying to stomp on him. He jumped out of the way just before the mighty boot made contact with his face. Roland had seen Brick like this before. The best thing to do was stay out of his way while he decimated the rest of his enemies.
Lilth was searching her bag for a medkit while she was dodging swipe after swipe from the cultists. She was running low on ammo for her last gun so she decided to use her lesser siren powers and began to hit the cultists with mini-sonic booms. It would stumble them for a moment, but by now the entire group knew that they would have to destroy the bodies of these creatures. Roland saw Lilth fighting off the creatures with her hands.
"LILTH!" Her threw his gun to her, she was better with these elemental weapons than he was. He pulled out his shotgun afterwards.
Brick was still going crazy. Inside his mind he was battling the demanding wispers of the dark pony. Whatever she put in his eyes seemed to be a mind-controlling agent, he only got angrier and more resistant to the wispers the longer she was in his mind. Outside his mind he was literally putting his fist through the cultists. He did as much damage as a point-blank shot of Roland's shotty to the blackened enemies.
The dark pony knew that her minions were losing, the masked hero was also coming to. These annoying humans seemed to have a better resistance to her than anyother being she had come across before. She got up from her throne and began to walk to the room that held the element. She was reluctant to leave her castle, but she first had to make sure the element was still in her hold.
Mordecai sat up. He didn't hear the firefight going on around him, he couldn't even see well. He came to only to see the dark pony sneaking away. He picked up his trusty rifle and quitely followed it. He saw the pony pass through a holographic painting. He followed through. It led to a steep spiral staircase. He went down it to find that it led to a dungeon. The dark pony pressed a few buttons with her hoof and he heard a hydrolic lock undo. A door opened on the other side of the dungeon. The dark pony then said some inaudible words and out walked Twilight, oozing the same black goo that the cultists upstairs were. Mordecai thought for a few seconds before lining up his sights with the pony's head.
Suddenly a cultist crept up behind him and swung his knife down on the masked man. Mordecai noticed this in time to turn around and stop the knife with his rifle. The blade dug into the scope of the weapon. Mordecai then kicked the cultist across the room, lined up his sights with him, and shot the man in the head.
The dark pony heard the shot and turned around to see Mordecai fire a hastely aimed shot into her chest. The heavy caliber of the rifle made her stumble to the ground. She had lost control of Twilight for just a quick second, Twilight used her temporary freedom to quickly attack her captor. She quickly turned around to buck the dark pony square in the face. She might not have been Apple Jack, but she knew that she had quite a kick. The dark pony had fully lost control of the element, her resiliant mind was impossible to hold down without full concentration.
Twilight ran away from the dark pony. She saw another human and thought he was a bandit by the look of his mask. She darted toward a door to her left. The Mordecai ran after her.
"Wait!" He yelled. "I'm a good guy! Stop!" But Twilight didn't have any of it. She kept running further down the hallway. Mordecai knew he couldn't keep up with her, so he made a quick gamble. He lined up his sights with her leg, took a deep breath, and took a shot at the pony's leg. The bullet just barely grazed her hoof, but the power of the caliber had knocked her off balence. Mordecai took a quick sigh of relief, then ran over to the pony with his last medkit. She kicked him straight in the face just as he injected her with the medical syringe. He was knocked unconscience by the blow and fell on top of Twilight.
Twilight struggled to get the man on top of her off, but he wouldn't budge.
"...but you're wrong man." Mordecai began to mumble, "Derpy is best pony."
Oh, great! He talks in his sleep! This is gonna be a loooong wait.I hope Lilth is still out there.
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Upstairs the group had just finished fighting the cultists. They seemed to just drop down during the fight. Lilth decided to take no chances, she began to line up her sights with the first cultist. The pony opened his eyes and screamed. He jumped up and said, "Don't shoot!" Lilth observed the pony, and others around him. The black ooze had seemed to disappear from their bodies from what she could tell.
"Roland! Make sure the rest of these guys aren't still crazy, okay? I'm gonna find Mort."
"Got it!" He returned as he began to kick awake the rest of the newly-freed animals. Lilth looked around and couldn't find any trace of Mordecai.
"Hey!" She yelled to Roland, "How'd you guys find us?"
Roland pulled out a virtual map, "Tracker!" He said as he tapped it.
"Let me see that." She took it and began looking for Mordecai's position. Aparently they were on top of him, must be beneath them. "Start lookin' around for some stairs or somethin', okay?"
"Sure, whatever." He looked over to Brick, "You okay, big guy?"
"I'm fine." He then walked out of the throne room. Roland didn't bother to follow him, he just went on waking the unconscience animals.
Lilth then had flash vision, a special ability she was working on for future missions. She didn't try to activate it, but it did show Mordecai on top of Twilight in a dungeon beneath, and then saw the false-painting that hid the entrance. She then flashed out of the vision. She ran to the painting and down the stairs to find the two.
"GOD DAMNIT, MORT! Are you really THAT lonely!?" She then saw that Mordecai was unconscience.
"Lilth!? Help get this guy off me!" Lilth then lifted Mordecai off of Twilight. Twilight then unholstered her gun and aimed it at the man.
"WOAH, woah! Don't shoot! He's friendly!"
Twilight looked at Lilth with a confused look on her face. "Oh yeah? Do friendly people do this!" She pick her hoof off the ground and showed it to Lilth. Lilth just looked at Twilight with confusion of her own. Twilight looked down to see that her wound had heal. "Oh! I guess he WAS friendly." The two then picked up Mordecai and took him upstairs. Roland had finally gotten the last of the mind-controlled animals awake and met the three 'heroes' at the exit.
Mordecai awoke to the face of Twilight Sparkles. "Yup, he's just fine."
"Thanks, Twilight." Lilth said.
"So... what now?" Roland said.
"We go after her." Mordecai said in a croaking voice.
"What?! Why!?"
"Did you see her powers? And what about all this technological stuff around here! Obviously that's the element 8 we're all looking for. She has it, or at least she knows of it's powers. Come on, even if she doesn't have the powers of the element 8, we can't let something like this slide! This is all obviously all part of something bigger! Am I wrong?!" The other looked at one another. Mordecai had a point. If anyone was to know of this element 8 and what it does, it would clearly be that dark pony.
"Alright, let's go!" Roland said, heading for the door.
"Well, where did she go?" Everybody looked at each other.
North
"North," Twilight said, "She went north." The others looked at her.
"How do you know?" Roland asked.
"I just do, I don't know how, but I do." Mordecai scratched his chin.
"She just might, guys. It's not like we have any other leads, anyways." Mordeaci said.
"I trust her, too." Lilth added.
Roland looked at the purple pony. He eyed her for a while before saying, "Sorry, but I don't trust her. As a matter of fact, I think we should head south instead! I hear that Jakobs is hirin' down there and I think that the pays good enough."
"I don't know about you, but I'm heading south, too." Brick said.
"Guys, come on! We can't split up." Mordecai tried to reason.
"What's saying we can't? How about you guys go north, and me and Brick will head south."
"I don't know about this..." Mordecai didn't like the idea of spliting up the group, but then again he had no real control over them. The fact that they stayed together for so long was nothing short of a miracle. Maybe now was time to part ways. "Fine. You guys do whatever you guys wanna do. I'm finding that pony!"
"Great! When do we leave." Twilight said behind the group. Everyone looked back at her.
Mordecai chuckled, "Sorry, kid. We're sort of professionals. You... uhh, you're not."
"Hey! I'm just as good with a gun as any of you!" Mordecai looked at Lilth, she shruged.
"Sorry, but no. We can handle ourselves. You? You're a glorified princess." Twilight glared at Mordecai, she then quickly turned around and bucked him straight in the knee.
"AHHH! Fuck!" He bent over. Twilight walked over his kneeling body.
"I can handle myself just as good as you."
"Fine! Don't go crying when you're in a pit of mud and half dead. Cause I won't be around to give a fuck."
"Deal." Twilight said with a sheepish grin on her face. Mordecai got back up.
"So it's settled. Me, Lilth, and Twilight will head north to go after that pony and become millionares, and Roland and Brick can go south to become glorified bodyguards."
Brick groaned, he grabbed Mordecai's shoulder. "Don't leave me with him." His voice was nonchalant as ever.
"Sorry, big guy. I gotta go north."
"Why are you so trusting of that pony?" Brick looked Mordecai in the eye. Mordecai held a sturdy face.
"I have my reasons, you have yours. Can we end it at that."
"Sure, whatever. See ya when I see ya." Roland came up from behind the two men and grabbed them by the shoulders.
"Hey! Just 'cause we're partin' ways later doesn't mean we can have one more night together. What do ya say?"
"Fine." Mordecai said.
"Sure." Brick added. Roland looked at Lilth.
"Yeah, sure. Whatever."
"What about you, pony? Care for a drink?"
"Sure, what could go wrong?"
"That's the spirit! Let's go! I'm gettin' thursty!" The group of five now walked towards the direction of Ponyville where they would share one last drink before finally getting to see what Equestria really has in store for each of them...