A Calamity of Epic Proportions
Chapter 7
Quin's Secret Weapon
"~Well, whatever your idea is, Quin, you better tell us, and fast!~" Frostbite yelled. She nodded.
"~Ok, you see that red lever on the right side of your control panel?~" she asked. Two acknowledgement lights winked on. "~Pull it.~" Quin said.
"But you said it was a self-destruct lever!" JetFire yelled. Quin laughed.
"~I only said that so you guys wouldn't mess with it. No, it lets you vehicle attain its full strength. Now, pull the lever.~" The two Spartans pulled the lever, and their jets began to move. The plates came up, and started to re-arrange. The weapons also moved out of place. The whole vehicle changed shape. Soon, want looked like arms and legs were visible. The chain guns formed into one on each's right arm, the energy cannon to the left. A missile launcher was moved onto the right shoulder, and a grenade launcher on the left. Twin blast cannons were put under the right arm. A panel moved out from the top, and encased the two into the vehicles. On the Claymore, the panel looked like JetFire's EVA helmet. On the Masamune 100, it was the GUNGINR helmet. Two mechs now stood where the jets once were.
"What just happended?" JetFire asked. He looked at Frostbite, and his mech shrugged. They both turned towards the direction of the Shadow Corsairs and Death Cruiser. Drop ships carried Shadow Turbo Tanks and Cobras. Hundreds of the twin rotor helicopters moved onto JetFire and Frostbite's position. They both nodded. Their right arms turned into a chain gun, and they ran towards the impending doom. They fired at the tanks and copters. One of the helicopters came close to JetFire. He jumped up, and a blade came out of the plate above the left hand. He punched the copter, and it was torn in half. Frostbite aimed the twin blaster cannons at a tank, and fired blue spheres. They made contact with STT and exploded into ice. Half of the tank was frozen. He changed the right arm back into the chain gun, and JetFire landed behind him.
"~Back to back!~" Frostbite yelled. They both raised their chain gun arms and fired at the tanks, Cobras, and helicopters. The bullets peppered the tanks and tore through the copters. Soon, though, they became surrounded.
"Damn, we're surrounded!" JetFire yelled. A sudden blade slashed through the air, and destroyed the surrounding enemy vehicles. The two spartan ponies looked to see who saved them. It was another mech. It's head looked like a spartan Scout helmet with its second upgrade. The left arm was partly a chain gun, and the right arm wielded a long sword.
"~...Quin?~" Frostbite asked. The mech nodded.
"~Did you think I would make something like this only available to you two?~" She held up two of the mechs fingers and put them in front of her face. Every spartan, even the P. unit, knows that the gesture was the spartan sign for a smile. A nearby explosion caught their attention. The Death Cruiser started to change. It completely lost its form, and started to become what looked like a giant Shadow Knight. Its two massive canons morphed into one supermassive cannon in the chest. "~We have to stop them before they reach a populated area!~" The three mechs ran towards the onslaught.
JetFire made a running jump, and jets on the back of his mech launched him into the air. Shadow Fighters headed in his direction. They neared him. He landed on the lead fighter, and buried the end of his chain gun into the fighter. He fired, and tore the fighter into pieces. He jumped from it while it exploded, and landed on another fighter. This time he aimed the energy cannon down and blasted through the fighter. The others scattered, and JetFire blasted forward toward the Death Cruiser. He locked in missiles and fired at the D.C. They made contact, but detonated harmlessly.
"I guess I'll have to use something that packs a bigger punch!" he yelled.
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A walkway of ice formed. Frostbite, in his mech, was being propelled forward by jets while his mech was creating an ice walkway. It arched and dipped while he peppered helicopters and tanks with the chain gun. He came closer to the Death Cruiser. Frostbite made the walkway turn halfway to the left, and lowered it. He approached from the feet, showering the Death Cruiser with bullets. He made the ice walkway turn to the right, and arch. Frostbite was circling the giant mech while firing both bullets and energy blasts. He made the ice move upwards, and it arched in the air. Frostbite fell free, and his mech's arms retuned to normal. Two short blades came out from the wrists. He made contact with the metal behemoth, and slid down, blades penetrating its armor. He did it all the way down towards the knee, the fell off of it. The Death Cruiser mech attempted to kick Frostbite, but missed him. He landed a few feet away from it.
"Try this one on for size..." Frostbite said. Both of the mechs arms faintly glowed an icy blue, and he slammed both of the mech's fists into the ground. "Snap freeze!" Frostbite yelled. Ice formed on the ground, and towers of ice sprouted from the ground. A giant one emerged nearby the Death Cruiser mech and tore part of its metal plates off.
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"~Come on you two. I need your help!~" Frostbite heard over the com. He looked towards Quin, and that's when the giant mech succeeded in kicking him. He flew and landed nearby Quin.
Quin stood alone, facing the massive mech. She held both of her mech's arms outwards, palms facing the D.C.m.
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"Come on, you two. I need your help!" She yelled. She watched as Frostbite was kicked by the giant mech. He landed a few feet away from her position.
JetFire flew high into the air. He clapped the mechs hands together.
"Let's see what this'll do." He raised the mechs hands high into the air. He lowered them, and aimed them at the D.C.m. "Sonic firestorm!" He yelled. From behind JetFire, streaks of fire passed by, coming from the sky. The headed and made contact with the giant mech. One by one the fire balls exploded. Then a giant one rushed by, and smashed into the mech. It detonated, and dazed it.
"~Come on you two. I need your help!~" JetFire heard Quin yell over the com. The giant mech overcame its daze and aimed a punch at JetFire. He tried to doge it, but didn't move quickly enough. He was knocked out of the air, and landed some feet away from Quin.
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Queen Chrysalis and her unnamed ally stood inside the Death Cruiser mech's command bridge, watching the three heroes attempt to defeat it.
"This will certainly going to destroy those pesky ponies for destroying my precious hatchery!" she said gleefully. The other simply nodded. They turned to one of the Shadow Knights on the command bridge.
"Enough toying with them. Prepare to fire the main energy cannon." they ordered. The knight nodded, and repeated the order to the rest of the knights.
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Quin saw the giant circular cannon glow green inside. JetFire and Frostbite made both of their mechs stand up. The looked at each other and nodded. The ran towards Quin, and JetFire got on her right, Frostbite to her left. The both put out their mech's arms, next to Quin's. The cannon on the Death Cruiser mech fired a beam of bright white energy.
"~Now!~" Quin yelled. The three fired blasts of energy, which combined from three separate beams to one single beam which was bright blue. The two beams collided, and a earsplitting sound cracked through the air. The ground shook, and the damaged mountains nearby began to level out. The energy beams from both sides were equally matched. "~One last push!~" Quin yelled. The three ponies made a huge effort, and increased their beam's power by about 20%. It moved forward, crushing the Death Cruiser's energy beam. It move closer and closer to it. Soon, the pressure became too much, and its energy beam failed. The conquering beam lunged forward and hit the Death Cruiser mech dead in the chest. It blasted through it, and where the energy cannon once rested was now an enormous hole. Micro explosions rippled through the giant mech. It stumbled around, and at that point two figures jumped out. They both did a summer salt and landed on the ground. One was Chrysalis's unknown ally, and the other was another mech, taller like Quin's, except it had two saw blades on the left arm, and held a sword-like chainsaw in the right arm.
"Chrysalis. We meet again. And who's your friend?" Quin asked. The new mech chuckled.
"Starlight "Quin" Shadow. Always on the defensive side. Well, I'll just let her introduce herself." The person took off their black helmet. They looked like Blazeclaw, yet this person was a girl. Also, her fur was white with a black star surrounding her right eye.
"Who are you?" JetFire asked. She looked at them.
"I am Alice. I help Deathshadow take control over everything in the known universes and dimensions. Be prepared, ponies, because you are next in line."