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// The Arrival 
// Story: Metal Menace In Equestria 
// by BronyGuy2014 
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"The robots are here! Defend Mann Co!"

The sound of clanking metal filled the air as the first wave of the metal horde charged over the hill straight at the RED mercenaries. The Engineer's sentry and the heavy mowing them down and the sniper picking off their medics.

"TANK!" The Administrator announced loudly over the somehow still working speaker system.

As everyone focused fire on it the Demoman lay down his sticky bomb trap to finish it off.

KA - BOOM!!!!

The tank exploded in a sphere of prismatic colours, sucking the few remaining robots in, one of them yelling 

"The experimental bomb was too unstable!"

The RED team was sucked into the rainbow vortex just before it lost all of it's remaining stability and collapsed in on itself.







Sniper awoke in a cave at the edge of a clearing surrounded by trees. His team mates were beginning to stir around him and he heard the Medic ask in his obvious German accent "vere are ve?"

The soldier answered "Hippie land!"

They all looked to where he was pointing and saw what seemed to be a pack of wolves. But, that wasn't what scared Sniper, what did though, was the fact that they were made of wood....

WAIT WHA....!!

They pounced and Sniper pulled out his SMG and emptied a whole clip at them, their wounds just healed. Sniper didn't like unfair advantages when they were against him so he picked up Pyro's flamethrower and set them and some of the surrounding plant life ablaze. The.... creatures, ran yelping back into the forest.

CRASH!!



Rainbow Dash was flying around and doing some stunts over the Everfree Forest when she heard the voice of a stallion yell "Hippie Land!" followed by

BANG BANG BANG BANG!!!!

That shocked her so much that she crashed next to the clearing where the sounds had come from.

She looked up to see 9 of what seemed to be apes of some kind aiming some weird contraptions at her.
The one wearing a balaclava suddenly cried out in pain and fell to the floor with a strangely shaped machete protruding from his back. Behind him was a metal replica of one of the "apes" but coloured blue which lost it's head when one of the things levelled his "stick" at it and a quick flash emitted from it. Now Dash knew that they were weapons that somehow killed with sound.

The one that had destroyed the robot thingy laughed and said "Told you that we are in Hippie Land." while pointing at her.

"No, you're in Equestria." rainbow Dash replied sharply.

"Oh! We're in Canada. Merasmas must want a home front advantage!"

The ape sporting a baseball cap told him "Soldier, whenever you are in a strange place you think it's Canada when it's obviously not an-- WAIT!! It just talked!!

"I'm Rainbow Dash, a Pegasus, not an It!" she retorted "And what the hay are you things!"

"We are humans," said the human in the yellow hard hat with an accent strikingly similar to Applejack's and then pointed to each of his friends in turn telling me the names of: Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy, Medic, Sniper, himself as Engineer and his dead comrade as Spy.

"Why aren't you sad for Spy's death?" Rainbow asked.

There was a sound of arching electricity and Spy appeared in front of her and told her "Because I'm not dead,"

THAT was scary. Dash remembered the weapons and asked "What are those things that you fight with?"

The Sniper responded with "These are guns, mine's for killing at long range, a Sniper Rifle. Hence the name: Sniper."

"Help me!" screamed a voice nearby.

Dash's eyes went wide.

"Scootaloo!"