//------------------------------// // Pump it up! // Story: My Little Vault Hunter: Guns Are Magic. // by Dapper Stache //------------------------------// Kreig and Gaige turned the valves beside the pipes, as Mordecai came in again on the ECHO "Cool. Now, hit the other pumping stations and raise the pressure 'til that pipe's fit to burst. Then you can bust the pipe, get to the stockade, and find out where the warrior's buried." And with that he left the vault hunters to their work, as they each got in their vehicles and made off for the 2nd pumping station. About halfway there, another ECHO transmission came in, this time from the recently deceased leader of the Crimson Raiders, Roland! "Hey, buddy! It's me Roland! Let's kill Handsome Jack then we'll ALL go out for milkshakes!" and with that the transmission suddenly ended, only to be quickly followed up by a transmission from none other than Handsome Jack! "Naw, I'm just playing. He's still really dead. Grabbed his ECHO unit when I left. Just wanted to tell you that Lilith is doing a bang up job charging the- Holy crap are those ponies!?" Handsome Jack laughs hysterically for a few seconds. "That's a new one! Job too tough? Send in the ponies! Nope, can't say it with a straight face. Either way, I'd just called to say that I'm really close to awakening The Warrior, which means you, and all of the other bandit scumbags, are really close to dying. Just wanted to confirm that, just in case you couldn't get your witty bitty bandit heads wrapped around that." And with that the transmission cut off leaving the ponies in pure astonishment that someone could be THAT much of a jerk. No one was that mean back in Equestria. Then again, no one was a human back in Equestria. The ponies were finally beginning to see the close relationship between humans and violence, but at least they weren't all bad. "Y'know what. You're right. that guy is a jerk." Applejack said. "You thought that was mean, you didn't have to hear the story about how he scooped out a guy's eyeballs with a spoon. Right in front of the guy's children no less!" Gaige replied, Her skin crawled at the thought of someone getting their eyes scooped out, honestly, she killed people almost every day. Yet the thought of mutilating someone while they're still alive like that still freaked her out a little. "We will make him scream in agony as we strap him to the torture table of death and put the knife into his knee. Laughing all the way, as we slowly extend the cut down to his ankle, then do the same to the other leg. He screams out for mercy, but gets none as I reach for the bone saw and stick it in hi-" Kreig yelled, before being interrupted by Gaige. "Kreig? KREIG! Okay. Kreig. We don't need to hear the story of us metaphorically mutilating Jack. Kay?" Gaige said, Feeling rather unsettled after hearing THAT. They arrived at a small elevator under a roof, with a button next to it. they all gathered onto the elevator and went down into the underground pumping station. They exited the elevator and walked down the brightly lit hallway. there were some stairs there, and as they walked down them they noticed some SGT loaders, farther down where the hallway expanded into a room. The loaders were no match for the ponies' new found battle skills, much like the last group they had to take care of. and they quickly got to the pressure valves and cranked them as far as they would go. They'd decided to get out of there quickly, because the fact that they were in an underground Hyperion complex didn't exactly seem very safe. As they'd headed to the third pumping station, they'd shot up a group of skags, leaving a few of the ponies wondering where the bullets for the vehicles were stored, as they hadn't noticed storage of any sort for it. Then again, they hadn't noticed any car storage on any of the catch-a-ride machines, but yet that dispensed cars just fine. So none of them decided to question it. They'd reached the third pump station, and stayed a distance, and hid behind a rock to observe what was guarding the station before they'd charged in. There were a few surveyors flying overhead as what looked to be a few Hyperion hawks and some soldiers guarded the inner complex and a few ION loaders, they'd have to take those out quickly, and a group of SGT loaders guarded the outside, nothing out of the ordinary, then a super badass loader strayed into view from behind the complex. "Okay, are we all ready? Same as last time right?" Gaige said, waiting for a response from the ponies, but got none for another twenty seconds. "Okay, I'll be the first to say it here. We can't just charge in there with that still in commission! It'd be suicide!" Rarity said, not quite sure of what the super badass was capable of, but what she did know was it wasn't something you'd want to charge in at. "So we stay here and shoot at it?" Pinkie said, almost confused at the sudden change in plans, as she'd wanted to just rush in, but yet she still needed the group to help, as she knew full well she couldn't kill them all on her own. "Well that shouldn't be a problem, just shoot at the joints and eye and hide behind the rock when it's gun arms heat up and you should be fine, once the firing from it stops, peek out again to shower it with bullets." Gaige said, "alright, you guys ready now?" "Less talking more death! I need to cut the souls of mine enemies in half as i chop through their disfigured spleens!" "Ookay then, Taking that as a yes. Let's go!" Gaige said as she deployed her Deathtrap so he could do some of the work for her. then she popped out from cover taking a few shots at the metal monstrosity with her pistol before going back behind cover to reload. Fluttershy got to work quickly with her sniper, and Rarity was taking down the enemy quite efficiently with her "stick to cover" tactics. Twilight was mainly playing support, blocking enemy shots with walls of magic, and ripping a few robot's limbs off with the pieces of the numerous shattering magical barriers in the process. The rest mainly just peeked around the corner, fired a few shots then ducked back behind to reload. During the process of them hiding behind the rock, A large amount of the attacking bots and Hyperion personnel were killed. The Super Badass had already taken about ten seconds of constant fire, when Rainbow Dash, Sick of hiding behind that rock, Took off, shooting up into the air at blinding speed, before being shot a few times before her shield went down, then she fell. Shot down by the loader, and it's advanced trajectory computing technology. "Sweet Celestia, RAINBOW DASH!"Twilight screamed, before her horn began to glow brightly, as she prepared some of the most advanced quick healing spells she could conjure at the moment, leaving Rainbow in a respectable state, with only a broken wing and a few burns from the Hyperion Loader's deadly incendiary rounds. Twilight turned to face the loader after examining and cleaning Rainbow's bullet wounds. Before jumping out from behind the rock, and quickly vaporizing the loader with a huge amount of magical energy in a large lazer beam, before promptly passing out on the ground as her vision blurred and her legs seemed to fail her as she fell, and was unconscious before she hit the ground.