"...I knew that that easy flank would reveal we're here!" Said Hoxton, while breaking one of the windows, and opening fire randomly. "Oooh, if I see her ever again..."
"Count me in." Said Wolf, shooting trought the window with his 'Betsy', at anypony he saw. "Dallas, this is your fault!"
"Mine??" Replied the leader, trying to figure a way out of the train. "At least I'm trying to find a freaking way out of this mess! Bain! The closest way out of here!"
"Eh..." Replied the voice in the radio, "Sorry guys, Twitch had to move places, the Royals would have catched her. She'll tell you where she landed. Untill then, hold it there!"
"Great." Said Hoxton, swapping from his Bernetti-9, to his packed CAR-4, and shooting out, randomly. "Heh, just like in the 'Mercy' hospital, back in Manehattan, right?"
"Don't make me remember that disaster!" Said Chains, shooting like a Madman from the aperture in the roof of the vagoon, both shooting and receiving magic shots, that were instantly absorbed by his full-body armour. "That almost ended in a freaking virus breakout!"
"Naaaah." Replied Wolf, while reloading his 'Betsy'. "The Royals were intelligent enought to burn the hospital... With everypony inside."
"Yeah... remind me to thank Bile for taking us out of that hell later." said Dallas, observing the end of the wagon. "Ah-hah! Got it! Wolf, you still got your 'Graneades' around?"
"Each one of them. Planning on bombing the Royals?"
"Better. We're leaving this damned wagon." Dallas walked over to the other end of the wagon, and took out his pack of ductape. "Wolf, the explosives."
Wolf threw him the graneades, without pulling the trigger. Dallas catched them in mid-air, and taped them to the door, that was pretty well closed. He pulled the pin of one of the graneades, and trotted to the other end. "Fire in the hooooole!"
The following explosion made the door blast away, and the resonance of the blast almost left deaf all the group, but not blind. Dallas signalled the group to run out the wagon.
Once outside, the constant fire of magic blasts ceased, probably due to the explosion. They saw a warehouse at the other side of the tracks, somewhere where they could cover their flanks. They trotted there the fastests their hooves could, while carrying the saddlebags filled with heavy ammounts of bits.
"Crap, the other two bags!" Remembered Chains, while turning to the half-blown up wagon. "I'm heading back!"
"Chains, wait! It's not safe out!" Said Dallas, pulling his tail.
"Dallas, I've got the armour, and we've got sniper cover, remember?"
Then, the radio channel started. "I'm still here, guys. I've got already seven for y'all."
"Fine. Hox, what if..." When Dallas turned, Hoxton wasn't there anyore. Well, his saddlebag with bits yes, but not him. "...Great."
"Howdy. Missed me?" Said Hoxton, while trotting in, with another saddlebag on his back. "I ain't leaving this behind."
"I'm going in!" Shouted Chains, while jumping outside. The magic blasts started again, and every single one of them were aimed at him. Luckily, the heavy armour was absorbing every single hit. Once he reached the wagon, he jumped in, and started to shoot back. "Shiet!" He said to the radio channel, "The armour's not going to hold another wave like that!"
"Give it time, Chains!" Replied Wolf's voice. "That's pure Innovation Inc. shit. It should regenerate itself with the energy of the blasts themselves."
"Holy Luna. How does that work anyway?"
"I've got no idea!" Replied Wolf's voice, followed by shotgun blasts in the background.
Chains grabbed the Saddlebag, and made his run back to the Warehouse. When he entered, the rest of the group just saw horrified how damaged the armour was. It almost had holes in every inch of it, and the mask was barely recognizable.
"Well, at least we know they're not treating us exactly well." Suddently said Wolf.
"No shit Mr. Genious!" Said Chains, throwing his money saddlebag over where the other five were stocked at.
The firefight continued for at least three minutes, untill a very disturbing message appeared from the radio.
"Eh, guys, how to say this..." Said Bain's voice. "They're throwing in heavier gear... Way heavier..."
"Bain, please... Don't tell us..." Dallas looked at the roof.
"BULLDOZEEEEEER!!!" Shouted Wolf, while pointing at a rather huge Buffalo, wearing a complete body armour, even heavier than the one that Chains was wearing. It was walking on it's hind legs, and wearing a shotgun, even larger than Wolf's 'Betsy'.
"...Bullshit."
...Meanwhile, in Appejack's room...
"Are y'all right, Applejack?" Asked Applebloom, while sitting next to her.
AJ. was covered in her blankets, shaking in fear. What if they come back? I kept my nouth shut, but... What if they do come back? These were the only thoughts in her mind. She still had the note she found in her pocket, in her pocket. Applejack tried to keep on, like if nothing, but she knew perfectly that if she said anything, she would be risking all the Apple Family.
"Applejack..." Applebloom poked her in the shoulder.
"Eeeep!" She almost jumped out of her bed. "Don't creep me like that!"
"Sorry Applejack, but y' haven't aten anythin' since this morning..."
"Ah, sorry for that, sugar cube..." She placed her brown hat back on. "Ah'll go down and eat somethin'..."
"Okay, sis..." Applebloom looked at AJ's eyes, that completely seemed to be somewhere else...
"Twitch!!! Where the BUCK are you!!" Shouted Wolf at his radio.
"You don't need to shout to me like that!" Replied the radio, "But, since you're asking, we're at the other side of the Warehouse you're at."
"Allright everypony! Let's get the hell out of here!" Shouted Dallas, picking one of the saddlebags. Hoxton followed, so did Chains. Wolf was too nervous, shooting at the Bulldozer with everything he had, untill...
"Aw, why do I always forget about..." He dropped the suitcase that was in his back, that once attached in the ground, automatically opened, and its frontal side aimed towards the Bulldozer. Then, it started to shoot it. Even through the Bull's bodyarmour was stopping every single bullet, they hit hard enough to actually make him slowly back up.
This gave enough time for the group to pick the rest of the bags, and meet up with Twitch, that was awaiting at an alley, at the back of the warehouse. The group just loaded the bags in, and jumped inside the carriage, that quickly settled off to the Safehouse.
"Phew." Said Hoxton, while taking out his mask. "Close one, eh?"
"You can say that all the times you want." Replied Wolf, taking out his.
Dallas did the same. "Why did it took you so long, Twitch?"
This time, Twitch didn't had her sunglasses on, since it's already night time. "Damned Royals had almost all the tracks locked down. I had to say these two to find a way around." She pointed at the two Stallions pulling the carriage, the fastests their legs allowed them.
"I see." He poked Wolf, and threw out a smile. "Hey, at least we made it out alive, eh?"
"If they have Bulldozers here..." He started to scratch his chin. "...Maybe they also have... Tazers... Or, even Cloakers..." He started to shake of the idea.
"C'mon, don't be scared about that." Said Hoxton. "Oh, and Chains, take off that armour already."
"Eh..." Replied Chains. "I'm not sure if it's such a good idea."
"Why not?" Asked Twitch.
"...Because... I feel a very... Itchy swetting here." Replied Chains.
"...No shit that..."
Before Chains could reply, he felt uncontious in the seat...
Chains opened his eyes. He was laying in his bed, facing the roof. He also had bandages covering his torso, and forehead. He tried to get up, but his strong hooves didn't had enought strenght to lift him up. "Twitch? Hox? Dallas? Wolfie? Anypony around?"
No response. He could only hear the fan that was in his right side, over a side table. Chains looked at the window across the room. It was already in the afternoon, of the next day. He sighted, and leaned his head back in the couch. Probably, I went too far yesterday... He thought, while trying to roll on his bed, and get a more comfortable position.
Then, he heard the back door open. Hoovesteps heading to the kitchen, somepony opening the microwave, closing it, and walking towards the room he was laying on. It was Twitch.
"Oh, mornin'." She greeted Chains. "Or, should I say, good afternoon?"
Chains looked at her, and blinked a few times. It was the first time he actually saw her without her suit, sunglasses, and her cutiemark covered with the blue ductape. "What did I miss?"
"Not much. Just a breakfast, and the fact that you survived four hits in your chest, and one in your head." Twitch pointed at the bandages he had. "And, it's not exactly nice to patch you completely."
"Ah, so you're my guardian angel?" He mocked.
"Hah, no." She replied, combing her hair, and looking towards the kitchen. "Actually, Dallas helped a bit. He's the one that knows medicine."
"Like as always. And, where is the group anyways?" Chains asked.
"Hm." Twitch started to rub her chin, trying to remember. "Dallas is walking in the park... Wolf's probably drinking, trying to forget the Bull from yesterday... And, I don't really know where Hoxton is. Oh, and the Twins are probably sleeping in the carriage."
"Allright. What abbout Bain?" He asked, after another attempt to get up.
"He's trying to figure out who sent the ambush from yesterday night." Twitch replied. "You hungry? We've still got some pizza from yesterday. I've placed some in the microwave, if you want."
"I'd like some, actually." Another attempt to get up, that ended with his head back in the pillow, while Twitch was looking, laughting to the insides. "You gonna' help or what?"
"Heh, let me enjoy this situation a little bit more... The badass Chains, isn't capable of getting out of the bed..."
"Ha, hah. Very funny."
...Little bitch...
"Well, once you feel better, be ready to go back to the fight. Bain told me that we're hitting the Library next. Something about gathering intel from Canterlot."
"...The Library? Why that place?" Chains asked.
"Don't you know? Princess Twilight lives there. And, since she's a princess, she must know something. At least that's what Bain says." Replied Twitch, while taking the pizza from the microwave, and bringing it to Chains.
"I see. So, we're going to ponynap a princess?" Asked chains, while eating the pizza in one bite.
"Yup."