There was a loud crash as Eclipse broke through the bubble shield and hit the ground. Val had told her to go to a different hangar, so here she is.
"What the hay-" a stallion yelled, pointing at Eclipse.
"It's that mare we got reports about! SHOOT HER!" another yelled, an alarm going off and squads of M.F. Troops swarming into the hangars.
Eclipse held up a hoof, and walls of translucent glowing orange matter rose from the ground, absorbing all the bullets fired.
"I have no interest in the likes of you." she said, walking towards the hangar exit, the orange shield following her.
"Come on! We gotta punch through that thing eventually!" somepony yelled.
But it would seem that Eclipse was simply striding through an army of ponies firing at her, completely regardless and dismissive of them. Step by step she arrived at the hangar exit, and stopped when a squad of ponies moved in to block her path.
"Don't let her get through!" one of them yelled, and Eclipse tilted her head slightly to one side.
She raised a hoof to her side, then slashed it across the air in front of her.
Suddenly a sharp blade of the orange matter appeared from within the shield, spanning out and slicing across the squad of ponies. There were no screams- maybe there were, but silent ones as their heads were no longer attached to their bodies. Eclipse let her arm drop back to her side, and the blade merged back into the shield.
"Shuck! Bucking hell- we need better weapons!" a stallion yelled, gesturing for his squad to retreat.
Suddenly the metal double doors to the exit sealed themselves, the locks spinning shut.
Eclipse looked at it, some what sleepily- and simply waved a hoof up then brought it down.
A huge hammer towering eight meters high came out of the shield, then slammed the inch-thick metal door out of its frame. It went tumbling across the hallway beyond it, in the form of a scrunched up ball of scrap metal.
She let her hoof drop to her side, then folded her arms behind her back and continued her stride through ATLANTIS headquarters.
*
Infantry code number 10897 just received the news that one of the enemy generals known only as 'Eclipse' has entered and breached ATLANTIS. A 'kill on sight' order had been given- and he had her in his sights right now.
This was the perfect chance to take her down- she had her shields down, there was a lot of background noise to cover his hoofsteps as he sneaked up behind her with his pistol.
This is one shot he can't miss. He had the back of her head trained on his ion sights, and he pulled the trigger.
A sheet of orange matter appeared out of nowhere, blocking the bullet and knocking it out of the air inches away from the back of Eclipse's head. She turned around, and the stallion's eyes widened.
"Son of a-" he cursed, punching round after round at Eclipse- but everywhere he shot, an orange sheet of matter would appear there. Eclipse was storming towards him, and he tripped over his own hoof in his stumbling attempt to get away.
Eclipse reached out a hoof. Her hoof went through a sheet of matter and became coated in the substance, fingers sprouting out from the thin coat over her hoof. She closed them around the stallion's neck before he could hit the ground, and lifted him clean off the floor.
Choking him would've been fun- but she didn't have much time to waste screwing around.
There was a loud crack as her fingers suddenly turned to claws, and she simply crushed his neck. There were two separate thuds as his head and decapitated body collapsed to the floor.
The orange matter dissipated into thin air, and not a drop of blood dirtied her hoof. She turned back around and continued heading towards her objective.
She reached the end of the corridor, and huge double doors slid open. She didn't flinch at the bright spotlights that were shone at her as she entered a large gathering hall.
"Halt! Raise your hooves above your head and give us your weapons!" somepony yelled through a megaphone, and she heard a mass of clicks from ponies flicking off safeties.
She did nothing.
"This is your last chance!" the pony yelled, and Eclipse started walking towards the large group of magic faction ponies.
She could see the ponies and their assault rifles now, all trained on her. Still she didn't stop, and continued walking towards her objective like they weren't even there.
"V-very well- OPEN FIRE!!" the pony with the megaphone stuttered, and the room instantly became three times brighter from all the muzzle flashes.
An orange sphere of matter rose from the ground, and encased Eclipse in it. Still she didn't stop, the sphere around her blocking out all the bullets.
The frontline of ponies started becoming uncertain, and started slowly backing away.
"Stand your ground!!" the pony with the megaphone yelled.
"Get out of my way." Eclipse said, and somehow her voice alone was enough to travel through the sphere and still be clearly heard over all the bangs. And she wasn't even yelling.
"The bullets aren't doing anything to her!!" somepony yelled.
Then Eclipse waved a hoof in front of her, an orange blade lunging out of the sphere and slicing the entire frontline cleanly in half. The cut was so fast that blood didn't start coming out until a few seconds later, when she had already walked past their dying bodies.
"Damnit! Retreat!" the pony with the megaphone cried, and the ponies started backing away, assault rifles still blazing in desperation.
Eclipse continued walking, slicing anypony that got too close in half. But she didn't know she was walking straight into a trap.
"Surround her! NOW!" the pony with the megaphone yelled as Eclipse walked into the center of the hall.
The ponies ran along the sides, and completely circled her in. For the first time in ages, she stopped.
The bright spotlights turned off, and it turned out they were from a full sized tank.
Eclipse tilted her head to one side. Impressive.
"Tank- FIRE!"
There was a loud blast as the tank's barrel shrank into the turret, countering the recoil. Dust flew up in curls around it as a huge gust of air was released from the muzzle. A huge metal explosive projectile was launched directly towards Eclipse, and even if she did dodge out of the way the explosion would still be sufficient to kill her. So she stood still.
Then she raised a hoof and slashed it down, a huge blade rising out of the orange sphere and slicing the projectile in half. The blade wasn't just normally shaped- it had the general shape of the plow of a snow plow, and sent the two halves of the projectile in two different directions away from her. They whistled past her, bouncing off the floor with loud bangs that echoed around the huge hall.
Ponies screamed as one of the halves slammed into them, the force tearing them apart. Then their shredded bodies were completely obliterated by the explosion that followed.
Eclipse folded her arms behind her back, the blade retracting.
The pony with the megaphone was left without words. Then he seemed to wake up.
"Get out of the way of the tank!!" he yelled. "Shoot at her hooves and kill her with the explosion!!"
Eclipse continued striding towards her objective, which the tank was blocking.
The tank fired again, this time aimed for her back hooves. Eclipse held up a hoof, and just as the projectile was going to hit the floor she swiped it across.
A large hand emerged from the sphere and batted the explosive away to the side, taking down more M.F. troops.
"I'm going to say this one last time- move out of my way." she said, not showing any sort of emotion. Her face was blank as a sheet of paper.
"DON'T LET HER THROUGH!!" the pony with the megaphone yelled, but even she could tell the troops were growing wary of Eclipse's abilities.
"Very well." Eclipse said, narrowing her eyes and dropping her hooves down by her side. "Your choice- not mine."
*
Blithy clenched her jaw and shoved Val away, also ripping the knife from her stomach. She shook away the tears in her eyes, and slammed a fist into the ground.
"Jeez, quit the whining." Val said, kicking her in the stomach and forcing her to hunch over.
She then brought up a knee into her face, fully knocking her down on her back.
"You should really work on your-" Val started, but fell over backwards as Blithy launched a kick up into her hip. Somewhat unfortunately, she kicked a bit too hard- it was meant to make Val fall over so she could beat the crap out of her later, but the sudden burst of anger made the kick much more powerful.
Val went flying across the entire hangar, before slamming into a pile of heavy cargo boxes. The metal boxes cracked apart, firearms inside flying high up into the air. Val still tumbled several meters after hitting the pile, before lying flat on her back with bits of boxes and firearms falling all around her.
"Ouch." she said as a pistol fell from the air and clipped her head. "Damn- I want iron replacements. These are way too weak for this type of thing." she said, violently shoving one of her ribs back into her body.
She picked up an assault rifle from the floor, and flung it across the room at Blithy. Blithy brought an arm up to protect herself, but the force knocked her hand back and she hit her own head. She fell back, the loud and solid bang from the impact ringing around the hangar.
"Don't hit yourself. Is not good for health." Val grinned, her voice synthesizer throwing a thick Russian accent into the line.
"Go kill yourself." Blithy said, getting up and wiping a drop of blood off the corner of her mouth.
"Tried that. Didn't work." Val said, picking up another rifle.
"Bucking hell..." Blithy muttered as Val threw the rifle with a hefty whoosh.
She took a step to the side, the rifle brushing past. Her jetpack flared, and she rocketed towards Val.
Val cracked her knuckles loudly and raised a fist, timing her punch for when Blithy gets right in front of her.
Obviously, Blithy had seen that coming- at the last moment she slowed down just enough for Val to accidentally swing early, the fist grazing past. This was just a split second, and Blithy had already regained her earlier velocity in another.
She slammed into Val head on, and it was a case of 'Now you see them, now you don't'. They went tumbling through the air, Blithy's jetpack leaving behind a smoky trail in the air. They slammed into the far wall, and went through it with relative ease. The impact broke them apart, and they tumbled into an empty tunnel. The darkness of the bottom of the Atlantic ocean shrouded them behind thick glass walls.
Blithy's shoulder clipped the floor, and she bounced up into the ceiling. Thankfully the thick glass held, with the impact leaving behind nothing but a small chip. She landed back down again, grunting as the air was knocked from her lungs.
"And yet they say I'm reckless." Val said, sitting up and twisting her head back the right way around with her hands.
There was nopony in this tunnel, and probably the kitchen and mess hall beyond it. That was a good sign- it means the evacuation is going relatively smoothly.
Blithy charged at Val, who stood up and made a stretch full of cracks. She slammed a fist right across her face, but her own momentum kept carrying her forward. She moved a hoof forward to stop herself from falling, but a small shred of metal tripped her up. She continued falling forward, in a trajectory she very much disliked.
Val was in the way, and both their eyes widened as their lips met. Blithy honestly didn't think being alone would become awkward, but this was an extreme example of so. After all, she was technically alone.
They quickly kicked each other away, both spitting at everything around them and clearing their mouths.
"Bleh! I did NOT expect my first kiss to be given to MYSELF." Val groaned, comically scraping her tongue.
"I should say the same." Blithy coughed. She quickly recovered, and flicked her palm out. The twin muzzles popped out, and immediately started flaring.
"Oh, how you break my heart." Val said. Then a bullet struck her chest, and she looked down at the fresh gush of blood. "Didn't expect that to turn literal."
"That was the artery. The heart'll be next." Blithy said, firing another burst; all the while readying her wrist knife and running towards Val.
"There we go." Val muttered as another bullet struck her chest, spilling more blood onto the floor. "You just turned me into the fountain of youth, or something."
"I'm pretty sure the fountain of youth would have prettier liquid pouring out of it." Blithy said.
"Stop breaking my heart." Val said. Then another bullet struck her vital organ. "Seriously though."
She flicked up the scrap of metal that caused Blithy to trip over earlier with a hoof, and caught it with her hand. She then threw it across at Blithy, the jagged edges catching a glint of light from the floor lightings.
"Would you quit throwing crap." Blithy muttered, ducking down as the metal scrap flew over her head.
"GRENADE!!" Val yelled, pointing at something behind Blithy.
"Wha-?" Blithy turned around, then heard loud footsteps behind her coming from Val. She took a fist to the face just as she turned around, and tumbled several meters back.
"Can't believe you fell for that." Val muttered, aiming a kick at Blithy's head.
Blithy rolled out of the way and grabbed her hoof, the momentum bringing her back to a standing position. Val tilted her head to one side, slashing the knife forward. Blithy blocked it with a hand, and crushed the blade into a small ball of scrap metal. Val shrugged, and threw the scrap down. With a simple flick of her wrist she deployed another.
*
"She's heading for the information management center! Don't let her get there!!" Unit 10279 yelled, commanding his troops to set up an ambush. They were in a large hall linking directly to the information management center- quite a last stand, with next to no hope.
"32897- I want you on the left si- HOLLY CRAP!!" 10279 yelled as the metal gates crashed open, a tank flying out of the opposing hall.
The tank flew across the hall, and crushed itself on the far wall. A second later it blew apart in a huge fireball, lighting up the room and the terrified faces of the soldiers.
The soldiers ripped their eyes away from the flaming and destroyed tank, and aimed their guns at the open gates. Smoke was swirling all over the place, making visibility incredibly low.
There was a dark figure striding through the clouds of thick black smoke, dragging behind her streaks of it. Two red irises seemed to glow in the dark, putting even more fright into the soldiers.
"Fire!!" 10279 screamed, holding down the trigger- but the figure was nowhere to be found after the first round of muzzle flashes flared up.
"Where the hell is she?"
"Son of a- GAH!"
Everypony turned in that direction, but nopony was there.
"32879?" 10279 asked, walking towards his squad mate's last known location. "Shuck." he muttered as he saw his dead body, with a missing head; replaced by a pile of mush and a puddle of blood on the ground.
Then there was a muffled scream behind him, and he swirled around. There was a dull thud, and the screams stopped. He yelled, spraying a full clip in that direction- but nothing more was heard.
Slowly, one by one; his squad mates went down- and he couldn't see any of them through the smoke. He started backing away, towards the far wall.
"Who the hell are you!?" he yelled, pointing the rifle this way and that. "SHOW YOURSELF!!"
"Ask and you shall receive." Eclipse said, suddenly leaping out of the shadows and closing a hand around 10279's head.
10279 held down the trigger, but all the bullets were blocked by an orange shield. Through glowing orange fingers he saw those same crimson red irises, accompanied by a flaming red mane. The mare's dark grey skin almost made her invisible in the thick smoke.
Then he started feeling extreme pressure on his skull- the fingers were closing in. He screamed, but Eclipse's palm was firmly closed around his mouth; and he made nothing but a muffled groan.
Then like a freshly cracked egg, his head shattered under the pressure.