Destiny's change

by ChiefKitsune


Ch. 1 Eyes up Guardian! (Part 2) (Update 12/11/21)

Soon after dispatching the Fallen dreg with her knife the mare began to move again through the next room before coming across a long, and rusting, path leading her to the other side of the Wall's interior. The path hanging over a literal sea of darkness that the mare's sharp eyes couldn't cut through. Hesitating at the start of the bridge across the casam the mare was about to ask if there was another way across. For every instinct in her screamed to stay as far away from that darkness as possible. She however didn't even have the chance to open her mouth as yet another howl followed by countless more sounded out down the halls she had just been through.

"Nevermind, Bridge it is." she curses under her breath as she gallops down the length of the rusting bridge. Her booted hooves causing her passing to echo across the dark area. Each beat of her hooves landing making her wince a little as she speaks up. "Well if they didn't know I was here before they do now." As she finishes her comment she reaches the other side of the bridge where a strange box sat unopened as well as a short drop into a lower hallway.

Ignoring the box as the echoing sound of her passage across the bridge faded she was about to leap down to continue on when Ghost speaks up. 'Hey, Guardian see that chest to your right? Open it. It might have something useful inside.' Grunting at stopping herself right before she launched herself into the lower hallway to inspect the container wondering how to open it. Seeing a green panel glowing she taps it with the tip of her hoof causing the seal to break and the chest to open on its own.

Having stumbled back from not expecting it to open like that the mare steps forward and peers inside to find another strange weapon. Before she can ask Ghost tells her its called a shotgun and it is very deadly in close quarters. Nodding the mare levitates the new weapon up and slides it to lock on her back and raises her rifle once more since she lacks the munitions for the shotgun. With her new weapon acquired she leaps down and her wings fan out slightly to slow her fall.

As she lands more gently than other beings making that jump thanks to her wings she finds the hallway only goes one way so the armored mare takes off once more down some ancient corridor trying to outrun her pursuers. Though as she was twisting and turning down the tight corners of the structure her mind was already figuring out that she wouldn't be able to outrun them. However, as her eyes passed over decaying junk along with the Fallen crates her mind fed her ideas on how to outsmart the Fallen after her hide.

Rounding around a very tight right turn in the hallway the mare ducks as a dreg swings at her neck having been waiting for her. As she slides forward under the Fallen's body her own twists and rotates as she follows up with bucking it in the rear sending it flying forward into the wall where with a sick crunch its neck snapped. Soon the strange mare was up and moving once more.

As her armored shoes thunder down the hallways of the abandoned Wall, the pony finally burst out of the dark hallways that held the occasional dreg. Into a large open area, standing before here was a large group of the Fallen from dregs to vandals but they only held her gaze for a moment as on the far wall out of a dark passageway crawled the largest of their kind she had ever seen, along with the largest weapon that had ports along it that were on fire.

"Of course the leader would be here waiting. Where else would he be?" the armored mare said sarcastically out loud, as she readied her rifle but upon finding that she was low on its ammo she formed a plan. Suddenly with a commanding howl the Fallen Captian orders them to charge. As his own weapon opens up on her, she dives to the side while her rifle rains down rounds upon the fodder.

After the round from the Captain's weapon landed the mare dashed straight into the fray to keep him from getting an easy target on her again. She was practically flying as she bounced off dreg and vandal using her knife and rifle to put each down as she bucked one into a large container. Growling in frustration the Captain watched as his followers were being cut down by this creature.

Soon his anger was too much and he charges to meet the strange guardian in the melee as soon as he hears her rifle click to say it was empty. The captain moves his subordinates aside with a shove and with a wicked grin growing on his face raises his arms to smash down on this irritating pest.

The pony smirks under her helmet as the captain did exactly what she wanted him to, he got close enough to her where she could use it. So dropping her rifle from her grasp she unslings her shotgun as the captain's arms are falling towards her she pulls the trigger sending a shower of buckshot into the captains face taking out his shields and ending him as he is sent flying back a few steps to land on his back with his face nothing more than mincemeat.

As all beings in the area stare in shock at what had happened with the only sound being the echo of the shotgun bouncing down the halls behind her as the lower Fallen stared at her and then their captain in growing fear. Seeing this nearly made the mare cackle out loud as with a pump of the shotgun to load a new shell the Fallen break rank and flee down the darkened passage that the Captain came from leaving her and their dead behind.

With a shimmer of light, her Ghost appears and gives a "huh?" before looking around and turning to his guardian in shock "impressive, guardian. Now let's get out of this wall." He nods to the doorway with a glowing Exit sign above it. The mare nods and putting her shotgun back on her back and picking up her rifle she begins to trot unmolested out of the Wall.