Pushing the lever forward on the control panel the machine started its heavy walking down the alley.
"So whats the plan now?" Bon Bon said looking back at the pair with a smile on her face.
Backfire piped up,
"Umm, oh! We can take this road down to the old village and take the direct route out!"
"That's stupid!" Sifty
"So was the plan to get this beauty, and look where that got us? I'm doing it!" Bon Bon said refocusing on the street in front of her.
As they made their way down the street the copperhead's HUD flickered on
[23 friendly obejects 15 Meters N]
"lets give em' a run for their bit!"
[Friendly Fire Prevention System: OVERRIDDEN]
****DANGER****
IFF: OFFLINE
TARGETING MODE: ENGAGED
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With the flick of a switch the barrels started spinning, first at a slow spin, then cycled until it was a blur to the naked eye, approaching the makeshift blockade, Bon Bon could see the ponies, dressed in average street clothing wielding strange weapons, not like the ones celesta's forces had, these had spinning gears and steam coming from them, the heat coming off of some had the metal a hot red. Then a stallion in what was an equestrian guard uniform with the insignia etched off trotted forward.
"Step out of the Copperhead!" the lead stallion said authoritatively
"Try and make me!" Bon Bon yelled out the back giving Sifty the signal to come here.
"You two run, I'm gonna make a distraction, I'll meet you at the library in old town in Ten-Thirteen minutes."
"Don't be late.." Sifty said signaling backfire to follow him.
The Stallion say the duo and pointed a search light at them,
"Shoot th-"
before the order could be executed Bon Bon pointed the spinning barrels at the crowd of insurrectionist and fired wildly first stunned by the mass amount of noise it had made, she stumbled back almost falling out of the seat of the Copperhead, it's weapon not hitting anypony due to her poor piloting skills yet close enough where the invading ponies didn't want to test their luck.
"Fall back to the old market!" the leader said, the ponies under his command retreating down the corner shooting at the once friendly war-machine.
[COMBATANTS DISENGAGED!]
AMMO:274
ARMOR:99%
ACCURACY DURING INCURSION: 0.00027% **SUGGEST IMMEDIATE LICENSE REMOVAL**
"Shut up you stupid machine!" Bon Bon said pushing the machine's lever once more sending the machine into a brisk walk following the various road signs she eventually made her way to the old town, nothing had changed since the last time she was here as if the city just grew around Ponyville and the town remained the same. She wondered to herself if Lyra kept the key to thier house under the flowerpot like she used to, then if the house was even there. Looking at the clock on the walking tank, she had a few minutes to spare so with another push of a lever, she headed down the road, HER road. A stall, once filled with the flowers Roseluck, her childhood friend, had grown now lied barren everything seemed like whatever was good in the once happy street packed up and left with the ponies. Now the only thing Bon Bon wanted to do was leave but before she could multiple spotlight shone on her at the end of the road, then a pony, covered from head to hoof in some sort of body armor approached, this pony was different, whoever this pony was walked bipedal using some sort of attachment on the back of his or her legs to maintain balance. The weapon it carried was also strange, instead of carrying a rifle they had a smaller version of the weapon the copperhead had with a ammo pouch attached to it, but the most noticable trait a mask, almost like a heavily armored hockey mask with a crudely painted white skull on it.
"Tag you're it Skull-freak!" Bon Bon said pointing the Vulcan at The armored pony.
Skull-freak in response raised a hoof and pointed at the copperhead, Bon Bon pressed the fire button,
nothing.
"Huh!" the HUD lighting up
[SYSTEM ERROR!]
[WEAPONS: DISABLED]
[LIGHTS: DISABLED]
[LEG MOTORS: DISABLED]
[PILOT EJECT: INTIALIZED]
"Oh, BUCK!" Bon Bon exclaimed as the seat collapsed as she fell out of the copperhead, her metallic peg leg stuck on the footrest.
"OH COME ON!" she screamed jiggling the false leg loose after a few seconds, then she remembered something, she had to get to her house!
"You give up now?" the familiar stallion said with a sense of joy and reveling in the irony of the situation.
"Like I'd give up to you, if it wasn't for your friend in whatever, that shiny boot would be so far up your a-"
The Skull-masked pony started to raise its gun towards Bon Bon and shooting before having a shot at her, Bon Bon reacted by bolting down the street towards her house, narrowly avoiding the hail of bullets from the pony's handheld death machine, with no time to check for the key she leaped through the window with a crash.
Then something got her to thinking, "Why didn't the other soldiers shoot at her?" "How did she miss?" "Why the buck am I sitting here wondering and not thanking Celestia I'm not a bullet sponge?!"
without a moment to lose Bon Bon sprung to action searching around the house as fast as she could, galloping upstairs to the bedroom she threw the mattress off the bed frame, grabbed the key, and ran to the closet. Inside she threw her various outfits on the ground, but then she stopped at one dress, LYRA's dress, she sighed letting the stress get to her, worry struck her mind, she just wished she could see her now, not this nightmare. Her nostalgia filled guilt was cut short by the door opening to the house, not forcefully though, as if someone had just came home from a long day of work. The voice in her head said to check it out, but the Tactician said grab the shotgun first. So reached into the safe, simply pushing aside lyra's mint colored dress, to brandish a simple double barrel shotgun, the first of its kind, Though it would be stated as "out of date" to many standards Bon Bon felt it got the job done. Grabbing her saddlebag some shells and the photo of Lyra and her together she approached the staircase she aiming the weapon down the stairs using the wall as a support while she slowly walked down the staircase, one hoof on the railing to keep her balance and the other the shotgun propped in her arm in case someone attempted to surprise her. At the end of the stairs she slung the shotgun on her back, she knew that she could take any of these ponies on, even with a false leg in hoof-to-hoof.
The downstairs was quiet, though the door wide open, she could see the blockade from here, all the ponies with their weapons trained on the house, she began talking to herself,
"only have a few moments to get out through the kitchen before they will..."
Right in front of her was the Bipedal skull-Pony itself, looking right at her, with two earth ponies tagging along to patrol, for a moment they stared at each other until the silence was broken when one of the stallions spun around shooting without aiming grazing Bon Bon's left leg going straight through, making her stumble to the ground in pain, though on the ground she brandished her shotgun and put one of shells into the stallion who was beside the one who shot her sending him flying into the wall with a heavy thud, though she was aiming for the one who shot her she wasn't going to be too picky. Gathering all the adrenaline in her body she bolted for the back door giving a quick glance to her adversaries the pony who had shot her was checking on his friend and the bipedal pony was attempting to intercept Bon Bon who was at the door, in a spur of adrenaline Bon Bon jumped and turned around in midair and shot the Bipedal pony square in the chest sending it flying into the kitchen table.
sliding across the grass of her back yard Bon Bon rolled onto her hooves throwing the now empty shotgun on her back and limped her way down the alley, she had to get to the library, Fast.