“Ok, so you seriously think I could eat this… and not bust my teeth, right?” Axton asked Spike. He got a nod in return from the small dragon. He then turned to look at his other two companions to get their input. However, Maya was just resting in her seat on the train ride back to Ponyville, while Krieg was just somewhere in their car in a corner saying something about the ‘precious’.
“Alright but you owe me if this goes south.” Axton hesitantly looked at the gem in his claw, only to shrug and bite down on it. “Huh, tastes like candy.”
“Rock candy if you get what I mean,” Maya chuckled.
“True, though I don’t eat sweets that often.” He said in between bites on the gem. “So how do you think the others did on their fragment hunt? I’m guessing they got it with some problems from Brick and Salvador.”
“Some problems would only be putting it mildly,” the siren added, “Besides, it doesn’t take much to make either of them angry.”
The commando raised a single claw and was about to say something, but then shut his mouth and thought about it for a second. “On second thought, you’re not exactly wrong there.”
“You’ve been fighting alongside them as allies for how long? And you’re only remembering this now?” Maya then asked, followed by a small chuckle. “Are you sure that your new form somehow didn’t affect your memory?”
“First, I don’t pay much attention when Salvador is gunzerking or doing whatever else he does.” Axton said as he then sat up. “Second, f*ck you.”
“Now that’s the Axton I remember,” the siren messed with the commando again, letting out a deep breath, “I’m just glad that this has been happening so quickly. Part of me wants to kind of take a small break. Not like a break where it’s interrupted five minutes later like at that vacation resort, but an actual break. You would go for that too, right?”
“Now that sounds like a dream right there,” Axton agreed as he leaned back in his own seat, “Honestly, just not having to worry about what is going to try and kill us next would be the best thing right now.”
“It definitely would,” Maya added, “I mean, given the assumption that Salvador and the others got their piece, we already have five out of the six that’s needed in order to finish the key. Not to mention that we aren’t in a race against time like when Jack was trying to wake up the Warrior.”
“Heh, true that. And adding to the fact that we have a general idea of where the last fragment is makes it all the more better.”
“Yup. I wonder if Gaige thinks the same way.”
“Maybe, when she's not learning about magic that is. I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if she is running Twilight ragged with what she wants to learn and how she applies it.”
That just had Spike look up, before deciding to add his thoughts to the conversation, “You know, that could be applied in reverse if Twilight wanted to know more about Gaige’s arm and what not.”
“I… I can actually see that happening.” Axton said after a second of thought. “Well hopefully, we don’t meet up with them when they are like that.”
“I second that,” Maya added on, before looking out the window and watching everything pass by.
“Want me to get in contact with the others, check in with them to make sure nothing went to sh*t too far?” Axton asked Maya after a minute.
“Only if you want to avoid them having to tell you face to face,” she shrugged, not really minding too much, all things considered. "As long as Roland and Lilith were able to keep their worst impulses in check, things should’ve gone smoothly.”
“Yeah sounds about right.” Axton said as he stretched. “I mean we can at least all tell each other about the crazy sh*t that we all went through.”
“That’s a plus.” Maya chuckled, “What do you think, Krieg?”
“SALT THE WOUND!!”
“Yeah, I think he’s on board.” the siren replied as she began to mess around with her ECHO in order to pass the time. The entire train ride consisted of the vault hunters trying to do whatever they can to make the ride back less boring than it actually was along with trying to keep Krieg’s worst impulses in check. Which was kind of difficult because even a Psycho like him would get antsy after having to sit around for so long. Not even looking at his ‘precious’ was enough for him to fully stay distracted.
At least sleeping on board the express was much easier that Maya and the others thought it would be. Yet, her wake up call the following morning was the sound of wind coming in from an open window…
… And Krieg ‘train surfing’ outside. “Oh, what the hell…”
“Alright, now, let me see if I understand this correctly,” the voice of Twilight Sparkle could be heard throughout the kitchen as she took a sip of her coffee, “An ‘ECHO device’ is used for more than one particular function?”
“Yeah, that’s right,” Gaige told her, “It’s like the equivalent of one of those Atlas Army Knife’s. One thing, but with multiple functions. It’s used for navigation, communication, helps me manage what I can be able to do in combat and also manage my inventory.” After finishing her sentence, the mechromancer demonstrated its capabilities by digistructing the Unkempt Harold that was in her inventory, holding onto it before letting the alicorn hold it with her magic to see that it was the real thing and not just a copy.
“Wouldn’t all of this involve digitally deconstructing and reconstructing everything that you have? That sounds like a lot of work for one small thing.”
“Hey. This small thing has helped all of us when we needed it most. Of course, a lot of its other features require access to the ECHOnet, but I don’t quite see it as a problem,” Gaige added, “Personally, I prefer being off the grid for a bit. Allows me to catch a breather and not have to worry about anyone trying to kill me out of nowhere.”
Twilight blinked for a moment, before raising an eyebrow, “Um… not to sound like I’m trying to barge in on anything personal, but why would you think someone would do that. Given everything that you and your… friends have accomplished, I wouldn’t think that anyone would try to ‘kill you out of nowhere’.”
“There are still some that try,” Gaige let out a sigh, “Remember when I explained about Marcie and the whole thing with DeathTrap blowing her up?” Twilight could only nod her head, recalling the conversation that they had before about the subject, “Well, saying that it was an accident is not exactly what her father wanted to here. He thought that his daughter’s blood was on my hands and that I was a stone-cold killer. Hell, his brother even went to a vacation resort on Pandora to try and kill me, only for his transport to malfunction and for him to die before even getting the chance to do so.”
“Wow… that is… rather detailed,” Twilight blinked, trying to process everything.
“I know… I just really hate the Holloways,” Gaige let out a deep breath to gather her thoughts, before hearing the door open as both of them turned to see Rainbow Dash fly in.
“Hey there, Twilight… mind if I ask you something?” she asked, before looking outside, “Is it normal for somepony to go ‘train surfing’ on top of the friendship express?”
“ ……… What?”
“MY PECS HAVE PECS!!!”
That just had Gaige facehoof herself as she let out a deep sigh. “Twilight, do you have any medicine for migraines? Given that Krieg’s back, I might need one-”
“HONEY, I’M HOME!!!!” they heard the Psycho burst into the castle, followed by Maya, Axton and Spike following not that far behind him.
“Well, at least Krieg was entertained… even if he was on top of the train.” Axton said as he walked into the castle while rubbing his head. “Well we are back everyone, and we also have the fragment. Which Krieg has now dubbed his precious.”
“I was going to ask you about how it went, but I think Krieg beat me to it.” Gaige smirked, “It wasn’t anything too difficult out there now, was it?”
“Nah, nothing we couldn’t handle. Just Krieg having some fun with those, uh slingtails I think they were called. Then just had to deal with a crystalisk infestation in their mines, and a giant crystalisk that had the fragment stuck in it.” Axton said as he walked over to them.
“That… sounds simple enough,” Twilight blinked, trying to process everything.
“He also tried ‘sweet-talking’ Ember while he was there. Didn’t go so well for him,” Maya added, which was enough to have Gaige fall back on the floor and start laughing her flank off.
“OK so ‘maybe’ I did try it a little, but I didn’t see anything wrong… other than the fact she almost torched my face off at one point.” Axton mumbled to himself.
“I think that would be a reason not to do so in the first place.” Gaige told him.
“This was after we got the fragment, but I dropped it after that point. So what did you get up to in the meantime Gaige?” Axton asked to move on.
“Well, Twilight’s been helping me understand how magic works and in turn, I was trying to teach her a bit about how some of our stuff works. Like the ECHO devices,” the mechromancer clarified for him, “Of course, explaining all of this and such lead to me having to explain when we encountered that ‘Victims of Vault Hunters’ group.”
At that Axton rolled his eyes. “Ugh, that group. It was all supposed to be a ‘relaxing’ vacation, except for all the locals and varkids trying to kill us and those dumbasses as well.”
“Was it because of those Holloway jackholes again?” Maya asked.
“You guessed it,” the mechromancer told them, “I had to explain that even with killing Handsome Jack and saving Pandora several times over that there are still people that want to murder me. They’re just exhibit A.”
“Do I even want to know what the others might be?” Spike then asked as he got up on one of the stools in the kitchen.
“Probably not.”
“Well, at least that takes care of that,” Maya said, before looking around for a moment and wondering something. “You know, it still feels kind of quiet here. Didn’t a few others choose to stay behind too?”
“Well, Fluttershy offered Zer0 a place to stay at her cottage and Tina claimed that Pinkie was letting her stay over for a sleepover,” the mechromancer explained, “Only for the claim to be debunked when the Cakes asked for us to watch her out of safety concerns for their twins-” Before she could go any further, they heard a noise that was equivalent to that of a speeding outrunner as Tiny Tina steamrolled herself into Axton, tackling him to the ground as Gaige had to let out a sigh. “And speak of the devil…”
“Hey Tina, how you doing?” Axton said as he groaned at being tackled by the equivalent to a speeding rocket.
“I’m quite well, thank you very much~” the teenaged alicorn proclaimed, using her ‘dressy’ voice before snuggling her face into Axton’s chest. “We had an AWESOME Bunkers and Badasses game last night! You should’ve been there!!!”
“That’s good to hear.” Axton followed with as he then patted her on the head. “Maybe another time I could join.”
“Pfft, like hell you’ll find us catching a break,” Gaige said jokingly… only to look back at Maya and Axton after hearing silence over the course of the last few minutes, “Oh god, you’re serious.”
“I mean, we finally are in a place where we don’t have to constantly have to have a gun at the ready.” Axton said as he got up and put Tina on his back. “So maybe some time to ourselves would be a good idea.”
“He does make a point.” Twilight added.
“See, so if you don’t mind I’m going to spend some time with Tina.” Axton said, before taking off with Tina holding onto his back. Maya herself was giggling as she watched the two of them trot off.
“Well, let’s at least hope that it's not like what happened last time he decided to take a walk,” Gaige commented.
“I HEARD THAT!!” Axton shouted from outside the castle, shortly followed by Tina’s laughter.
“Heh… I knew he would,” the mechromancer chuckled.
“Sounds like you’re having fun.” Roland said as he walked in with Brick, Salvador, Mordecai, and Lilith following right behind him. “Also, is Axton going to be hanging out with Tina?”
“All things considered, more than likely,” Twilight nodded her head as she looked back at the second group that came in, “Welcome back. How was your trip to Griffonstone?”
“Could be better, all things considered,” Lilith then sighed, “We got the key piece, but only after we had to blow up an abandoned mine. That and Brick & Salvador got into a bar fight.”
“WHA-!?
“Was it because someone insulted Salvador?” Maya asked, cutting off Twilight before she could finish.
“Worse,” Mordecai added, “They insulted his grandmother.”
“Okay, that’s definitely a line they shouldn’t have crossed,” Gaige commented now, before looking at Brick, “How did Brick get involved though?”
“Some dumbass decided to smash a chair over his head,” the firehawk now said as she folded her arms.
“Wow… they definitely sound like a dumbass if they think they can beat Brick.”
“Heh, and it was a blast, even got to practice on that new hobby.” Brick boasted.
“Yeah, and don’t forget you two also completely wasted the bar as well.” Roland said as he facehooved.
“And planted a ‘dumbass forest’,” Mordecai reminded them.
“Brick, just make sure you don’t kill anyone.”
“But I made sure not to this time.” Brick said with a look of confusion, only for Roland to facehoof even harder.
“In any case…” Maya interjected, noticing the shocked and nearly horrified expression on both Princess Twilight and Spike right now, “Axton and I were thinking that since we’re in a really good position right now and we aren’t exactly in a hurry at all that we should take a break. Get the chance to catch our breath a bit and not worry about someone that would come to kill us.”
“That… actually sounds like a very good idea. Especially after what happened at that resort a long while back,” Lilith said, before looking back at Roland, “Remind me to tell you more about it later. Some of that trip brought back memories.”
“What memories?” Roland asked.
“The ledge,” Mordecai snickered.
“Wh- oh hahaha man I remember now. Now that was some good times there. Man Crawmerax couldn’t even see us.” Roland could only laugh as he remembered.
Twilight just looked puzzled as she stared at the hunter and the soldier, before turning her head to Gaige. “Should I-?”
“Nah… It’s only something we would understand if we were there.” the mechromancer replied back.
“Yeah you had to be there, that ledge was some of the best times we had.” Brick spoke up at the memory.
“Case in point.”
“So anyway, what's the plan now?” Roland asked. “We just taking a break for now?”
“Yeah from the sounds of it,” Twilight now spoke up before Gaige or Maya could respond, “Based on what Axton and Maya said already, we’re in a comfortable place right now since you already have five of the six fragments for your key. So there would be no harm in taking a break.”
“Hmm, not sure what i'm gonna be doing on my down time.” Brick spoke up.
“Why not practice more of your new hobby?” That suggestion only had Mordecai facepalm himself, honestly not believing that someone actually suggested that to Brick. Given him, this was definitely not going to end well at all.
“Oh? And who would I need to go and meet to ‘practice’ on?”
“Uh, thats-”
“OH I KNOW.” Brick then said as he rushed out of the castle.
“Someone else deal with that before I somehow make it worse-.” Roland sighed.
“NOT IT!!” Everyone except Krieg immediately declared, before Lilith, Maya and Gaige left the room with Twilight. Spike himself went back upstairs after saying that, which led to Mordecai groaning a bit.
“Guess I’ll go do it then,” the hunter said, before looking back at Roland, “You owe me for this one, alright?”
“Yeah, I know. Good Luck.” Roland said as he left for a different room in the castle. Mordecai just rolled his eyes as he let out a groan. He had a bad feeling about what Brick was going to do thanks to Roland’s ‘suggestion’... and one way or another, he was not going to like it either.
“So Tina, What do you want to do first?” Axton asked the alicorn he had on his back.
“Hmm, I dunno… Ooh! Oooh! Scratch that!! Why don’t we go say hi to Pinkie!?”
“Uh… sure I guess.” Axton hesitated for a couple seconds before giving in. “Off to the bakery we go, now hang on.” He then spread his wings and flew the way to Sugar Cube Corner.
“WHEEE!!!”
After a couple seconds of flying Axton suddenly heard Brick come storming out of the castle with a look of mad glee. ‘Not gonna question that.’ he said to himself as he saw Sugar Cube Corner. However shortly after landing in front of the door, did it come flying open just barely missing his face.
“WOHSH*T!!”
“HIYA!!” Pinkie shouted to the perplexed dragon and waving alicorn.
“HI PINKIE!” Tina responded, which came off as the equivalent of someone screaming in Axton’s ear, before she began to speak in what Moxxi would call her ‘flattery voice’, “How are you today, my dear?”
“I’m great today! Thanks for asking,” Pinkie smiled, “Would you guys like to come in? I can get you some of your favorite crumpets.”
“Ohmygod, YES PLEASE!!” the alicorn proclaimed again.
“Yeah sure.” Axton walked into the place in a daze as he still had ringing in his ears from Tina yelling. After shaking his head he took Tina off his back as they were led to the booth and Tina quickly hopped up onto the seat.
“I will just have some cookies myself though.”
“Really? And Tina told me you were the adventurous type, Axty,” Pinkie giggled, before letting out a snort as she began to tend to the oven behind the counter. After a couple of moments, she started to get some croissants in the oven.
“Well maybe I might have something else later, but for now cookies… and crumpets.” Axton simply said as he leaned back in the booth.
“Okie dokie lokie!”
Axton then out a huge sigh. “I really am looking forward to this break from hunting for a bit.”
“Me too!” Tina replied back, “I mean, blowing things up and watching them burn is fun and all, but you need to change things up… Of course, I’m not saying that we should stop those things. I mean, how would everyone react if I was trying to go clean?” Then, out of nowhere, Tina began to puff the fur on her chest and started to act like Moxxi, “It throws off my entire persona~”
“Tina, that will only work when you’re older… right now, you are just trying to be an adult.” But Axton could shake his head with a smile. “Though you’re not wrong on that part.”
“See? I told you! Throws it off completely.” the alicorn said, misinterpreting what Axton said immediately as all he could do was just groan.
“That’s not- nevermind lets just enjoy the food for now.” he commented, waiting for the food to be done. Then Pinkie eventually came skipping over with the warm crumpets and some cookies. He then started eating his cookies. “Ah, now these are some damn fine cookies.” He then looked over at Tina who tried to eat them with sophistication, only to stuff her face with as many of them as possible.
And that was before she got to the crumpets.
“You sure you’re gonna have room for the crumpets?” Axton simply asked as he started his second while she was most likely on her eleventh cookie.
“ABSOLUTELY!! MY STOMACH IS LIKE A BOMB SHELTER!!”
“I see…” is all he could say in response, just before Tina dove in and began to munch her way through the crumpets on the table. Within a matter of minutes, the plate was empty. Axton himself wasn’t even able to have one as the plate was empty. Not even any crumbs were left behind.
‘Well looks like all i’m gonna have is cookies for now.’ He told himself, however he did see Tina eye the cookies again and quickly grabbed the plate away. “I’m gonna have the rest of these.” unfortunately there were only two left on the plate.
“No worries. I got this,” Tina said as she clopped her hooves, “Pinkie, dos!”
Before Axton could say anything, two massive plates soon came out with freshly baked crumpets that were hot and out of the oven. Much to the commando’s surprise.
“OK then… more cookies it is.” He then put the plate and then just decided it would be better just to shut off his brain for once.
“Dammit Brick, why do you always have to run off in such a hurry,” Mordecai groaned, speaking only to himself as he tried to catch up with the Slab King. The hunter was not looking forward to the mess that his friend was going to cause if he was planning on going forward with his hobby. He recalled that Ellie suggested for him to take up gardening as a hobby, but from their bar fight in Griffonstone, he had a bad feeling that Brick didn’t quite fully understand what she was trying to tell him.
“Uh huh, so that's what you need to do,” Bricks voice was then overheard for the hunter.
“Oh no… what now-?”
“YEEEAH!” Another voice was heard then clearing their throat. “You have to be gentle with them as well if you want to get them grow. Also you need to regularly give them water as well.”
When Mordecai actually got a look at who Brick was talking too, he honestly couldn’t believe his eyes. It… sounded like a stallion, but it’s body was overly jacked with muscles and had two small wings on his back. The stallion looked (and sounded) like if Mr. Torgue was hired to be a motivational speaker and their muscles could just break down walls.
Which was ironic, because after they looked to be finished with their conversation, the stallion just walked through the side of a building and left a hole in the wall as one other mare with a lotus flower cutie mark looked back towards them. “Bulk Biceps, how many times has my sister told you not to come back into the spa that way? This is the tenth time that we have to get that wall fixed in the last few weeks!!”
“Well, that name’s self explanatory,” Mordecai thought, before turning to realize that Brick was missing again, “Oh for the love of-!”
“Hmm, now, where would the best place to- oh I know!” Brick said as he was still walking away.
“God, trying to keep up with Brick is like taking part in a wild rakk chase,” the hunter thought.
“I hope I can find some in time hehe, but it’s for some practice in gardening.” Brick then chuckled to himself.
“Oh no.”
“Hmm, I think it should be the best place for it?” Despite Brick’s comments, Mordecai was really wishing that he didn’t know the best place for it. “I guess that it can work.” Brick then said as he nodded to himself. Eventually, Brick somehow got away from Mordecai, much to his dismay.
“Son of a-”
“O-oh, Hello Mr. M-mordy,” the hunter turned around at the sound of that voice, caught off guard by the sight of Fluttershy standing right behind him as the pegasus looked a bit surprised, “I d-didn’t think you would be back so soon.”
“Oh r-right… we uh… kind of came back a while ago,” he replied back, before thinking of the first question that came to his mind, “Say, would you have seen where Brick happened to go at all? I was trying to keep up with him and made sure that he didn’t do anything reckless, but he got away from me.”
“W-what do you mean by that?”
At that point, the griffon groaned as he realized that the only way that she was going to help him was if he explained the whole story, “Well, back where we’re from, one of our friends tried getting Brick into gardening as a hobby-”
“Aw, that sounds nice.”
“-Unfortunately, how he sees gardening is much different. Instead of seeds he plants into the ground, he plants any poor fool that thinks they can beat him in a fight,” The calm expression on the pegasus’ face immediately changed upon hearing that, leading to Mordecai letting out a small sigh as he looked back to Fluttershy, “I just want to find him before he does anything… well-”
“R-reckless?”
“Exactly,” as he said that, the hunter happened to notice Angel Bunny approach Fluttershy as he caught Fluttershy’s attention. It took a few moments, but Fluttershy’s eyes widened once she realized what the rabbit was telling her.
“H-he’s Where?”
“Did you find him?” Mordecai asked.
“A-Angel said that he spotted him running to the Everfree Forest… b-but that place is dangerous. M-many monsters live in there-”
“Wasn’t that the same one where Axton took a ‘walk’ through?” Fluttershy and Angel both looked at each other for a moment, before she nodded her head, “Well… I better go find him… though, part of me thinks that he could handle himself.”
“W-what makes you say that?” the pegasus squeaked.
“Well… sometimes, Brick is literally too angry to die.”
“TAKE THAT MOTHERF*CKER!!!” Brick shouted out as he held a timberwolf in one of his hooves and started beating the others surrounding him with it. “IMMA BEAT A MOTHERF*CKER WITH ANOTHER MOTHERF*CKER AHAHAHAHAH!!” and the only thing the one is his hooves could was whimper pitifully as it was thrashed about at its brethren.
After a few more minutes Brick finally slammed the Timberwolf that he held into the ground. “AND STAY THERE!!” The timberwolf could only let out a very faint whimper. Brick then looked around and saw nothing but piles of sticks.
“Ah damn it, I should’ve taken it a little easier on them. Almost forgot I came here to practice.” He then looked down at the only one that was successfully planted into the ground. He then brought hoof to his chin. “I think I need some water now.” As he nodded to himself and walked away, the bundle of sticks combined into a giant timberwolf that ran away with its tail in between its legs.
“Now then, I believe there should be water nearby.” Brick then said as he kept walking, but making sure he marked where he was. Soon enough he found a swamp. “Well, it is water at least.” He just shrugged and grabbed a bucket he had on him and got some water. He was humming to himself for a little bit before he stopped and brought the bucket back up. However shortly after bringing the bucket up did a cragadile snap it jaws in front of his face.
“Now that's just rude ya know.” Brick said as he was unfazed by the cragadile, who sat there hissing at him. Brick then put the bucket behind him and cracked his neck. “Now there are two options before you. One: Go back into the water and I won’t hurt you. Or two: Y-” That was as far as he got when the cragadile lunged forward. It was expecting this to be an easy grab until it felt its jaws held in place by an iron grip.
“Option two it is then.” Brick calmly stated as he nodded to himself and then got on his hind legs and lifted the cragadile above his head. The cragadile could only weakly thrash in pure confusion, as being lifted up was a completely new experience it would hope to never go through again. Brick then flipped it around so that he was holding the tail.
“I hope you like the ground!” He then started smacking the beast into the ground repeatedly. Thankfully, the cragadile could take a beating, but that didn’t stop it from feeling the numbness of pain. After a few more seconds of being slammed into the ground Brick stopped, before spinning it around. It then let out a cry of panic as this was going on. Brick followed up with jumping up in the air and then throwing it back to the ground, face first of course as the creature got planted in the dirt.
“WOOO!!” Brick shouted out as he landed on the ground. He then looked upon the cragadile as it struggled in vain to try and escape. As he nodded to himself he then looked back at the swamp to see multiple bubbles and movement away from him as he walked to his bucket.
“Heh, guess some are smarter than they look.” He then picked up the bucket and started walking back to his planted ‘tree’ from earlier. As he was walking he could’ve sworn he saw a bigger timberwolf run away from him as he heard yipping in fear in the distance. “I guess I might have to look into that later.” He then just shrugged as the tree finally came into view.
“Time to give you some water.” Brick smiled as he went over to it, to which it weakly kicked its legs in the air. He then poured the swamp water over it and it once again kicked it legs, but with more force behind them. However it didn’t take long for Brick to become impatient.
“GROW DAMMIT, I SAID GROW YOU PIECE OF SH*t!!!” He shouted out hoping it would work. Before the frustration could grow any further he remembered seeing a bigger one run off somewhere. He then searched around to see if he could find the bundles of sticks that were there, only to come up with nothing. “OH I see now, if there are more of those things around when they are a bundle they can grow bigger.”
He then nodded to himself before shouting “GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE BITCH!!”
Time went on and as Mordecai and Fluttershy finally entered the Everfree forest, they suddenly heard a yell. Shortly after that Mordecai let out a smirk as he sat down.
“GODDAMN SON OF A BITCH!! DON’T THIN-” Brick was yelling as he landed in front of them. After digging himself out of the hole he landed himself in he looked back into the forest with fury. “ROUND TWO YOU THREE HEADED LIZARD SH*T!!” then he finally noticed the two others. Fluttershy shaking in fear and Mordecai with a smirk. “When did you two get here?”
“We’ve been looking for you ever since you took off to go gardening,” Mordecai told him, trying to assure Fluttershy that everything was okay, “Of course, it was easy to find you when we followed the ‘trees’ you planted.”
“Heh, makes sense.” Brick commented as he then shook off the dirt on himself. “I mean I was chasing after a big wooden wolf when this lizard came out of nowhere and it’s giving me the best challenge i’ve had in awhile.”
“Y-you fought a H-Hydra?” Fluttershy squeaked.
“So that's what that thing is called. Well I still need to go teach it a lesson, hehe it wasn’t expecting me to fight back at all.” Brick just grinned at the challenge. “Besides I want that thing to know who is stronger, and I’ll be damned if it aint me. So do you two want to come with and see me fight it or help or not?”
“... Well, it’s not like we can stop you,” Mordecai said, “Though, we need to join back up with the others later.”
“Hmm, alright so want to have everyone else join in later or do it now then?” Brick then calmly added.
“More like let you have all the fun,” the hunter told him, knowing full well that the others would rather not get involved with this.
Brick then cracked his neck at that. “I’ll try to be home by dinner.” He then walked away towards where the Hydra is most likely waiting for him.
Which had Fluttershy look back to Mordecai as he let out a sigh. Once Brick had his mind on something, there was no convincing him otherwise. So, both the griffon and the pegasus began to make their way back to the cottage and hopefully find a way to forget everything they just heard. Maybe it was possible that Brick wouldn’t find the hydra-
“ABOUT DAMN TIME!! I’M GOING TO MAKE SURE YOUR NECKS END UP LIKE A F*CKING PRETZEL!!!”