“Gimme that!” I yelled at one of the Spartans, making him give me his shotgun. “Come on boys! Follow me and try to keep up!”
We all headed back the way I had come. “Rainbow, get up to the roof tops and tell us if we’re about to run into anyone.”
Fortunately, we didn’t run into any Covenant as we ran back to the alcove.
“OK ponies! Here’s the plan! We’re making a run for safety! Rarity and Twilight, you guys throw stuff at the enemy, but no complex spells! Rainbow, you find a cloud and zap ‘em all! Spartans, you know what to do. The rest of you ponies, keep to cover and keep up. Let’s move up!” I said, the ponies barely having time for it to register.
I ran up to the edge of the city, seeing RD already in position with her cloud. The Covenant were concentrated into 4 groups across the open field, one nearby, one a bit farther in and to the left, another up even farther and to the right, and finally a line of them were the ‘No Man’s Land’ ended.
I focused mainly on the closest one. There were 6 grunts and 3 elite there, along with 3 Ghosts. We had 5 ponies on the ground, as well as 4 spartans. “Okay, Twilight you go with him, Rarity with him…” I continued until I paired them all up, finally taking Pinkie myself. I looked at the second closest group – that one had 4 grunts and 2 elite, all standing over dead human bodies. There were two overturned Mongooses there.
Looking closer at the field, I noted everything. To the left was a cliff face that climbed steeply, as well as a ramp going up the cliff face. A plan formed in my head.
“Okay guys, listen close. Rarity and Twilight and your partners are going to head over there to the group with the four wheelers.” I said, pointing at the second closest group. “As soon as you get over there, the spartan’ll hop on, and you two ponies will have to hang onto your partners. Spartans, go up that ramp over there, and we’ll go along the cliff all the way to friendly territory. Everyone who isn’t going that way, on me. We’ll be going for those Ghosts over there, and doing the exact same thing. Any questions?”
“No? Then let’s move out!”
Me, Pinkie, AppleJack, Fluttershy, and two of the Spartans all ran up to the nearest group. Rainbow Dash was already in position above them, and stomped the cloud. The lightning went down on two of the elites, filling them with a ton of volts and killing them almost instantly.
“Spartans, take out those grunts! I’ll take care of the last elite.” I said.
I ran up as fast as I could to the elite, who was distracted by the deadly cloud, and was about to shoot at it. Before he could, I unloaded four shells into him, killing him. While I did this, one of the spartans had thrown a plasma grenade at a grunt, hitting him. He ran over to his friends to ‘get it off,’ but only succeeded in blowing himself and four others up. The other spartan quickly killed the last grunt.
Meanwhile, Twilight, Rarity, and two of the Spartans ran up to the second group. Rainbow Dash, done helping us, came over and zapped one of the elites. However, they had caught onto her attack strategy.
“Rainbow Dash! Evasive actions!” I called across the field, getting into the Ghost, and figuring out the controls while Pinkie started holding on to me.
Rainbow Dash started doing tricks to avoid the shots being fired at her by the other elite, while the grunts fired on the spartans. They killed three of them quickly, but weren’t able to take out the last one before he threw a grenade. The grenade stuck to one of the spartans, and he took a dive to save the rest from being blown up as well.
The final grunt was killed by Rarity when she picked up an old fallen over tree and crushed him. I rode up on my Ghost, running over the final elite in the process. “S***! We don’t have enough people left to drive!” I said.
“I can *hic* drive this thing!” Twilight said.
“You couldn’t even drive a snowplow SOBER!” I exclaimed. A shot wizzed past my head – the Covenant from the third encampment were coming!
“We *hic* dun have time! I’m doin’ it!” Twilight said, getting on and starting it up, grabbing the steering wheel with her magic.
Having no choice, I just took off. We all went up the ramp, Twilight driving a bit shakily, but it looked like we were going to make it fine. Until a few plasma shots went by us. I looked back for a second – there were three elites on Ghosts behind us!
“Evasive actions guys! Rainbow Dash! Take ‘em out!” I called out.
Rainbow Dash pulled her cloud over top of one of them, and zapped him. However, when he went to the next and stomped it, nothing happened! “My cloud’s all out! And there aren’t any other clouds nearby!” she said.
“Spartans! Throw your grenades back at them!” I commanded.
They did so, but only one of the grenades hit, killing one of the riders. The last ghost was still firing on us, and it was getting hard to avoid. “Rarity! Take the spartan’s gun, and use it to shoot the elite!” I called out.
“But – I’ll just miss!” she said back.
“No you won’t! Just… Imagine it was him who spilled cider on your dress!” I replied.
“THAT SON OF A MARE! I’M GONNA KILL YOU!” she said, grabbing the gun with her magic, and firing at the elite.
The elite tried to evade, unsuccessfully. However, in his evasions, he accidentally fell off the cliff to the ground below. It wasn’t far, and Ghosts stay upright, but now we were very close to the spartan’s line, and the elite was soon killed.
“We’re home-free now!” I said. Then I noticed Twilight was still evading. “Twilight! You can stop evading now! They’re all dead!”
“I’ve lost control!” she shouted, going off the edge.
I quickly went after her, realizing the spartans would shoot her if she didn’t surrender. “Everyone, we’re going down! We’re at the line!” I called out, going off the cliff myself. Of course, Mongooses don’t stay upright. Luckily, Twilight used telekinesis to set herself down safely. “Twilight! You’ll have to catch the other Mongoose as well!” I told her, landing next to her. Once all of us were down, we went up to the line and surrendered ourselves.
Luckily, they had some sort of shot type thing that took away inebriation, and we gave it to Twilight. Finally no longer drunk, she reversed the spell, and we were finally back. I turned the Xbox off, and collapsed on the bed.
“You guys better not cause any trouble, just come up here and go to sleep. And I swear, if anything like that happens again, you’re gonna be in big trouble.” I said.
Around 30 minutes later, after we had all fallen asleep, the local news came on the TV I had accidentally left on. “Happening now: toys are reportedly coming to life. More on this after the break.”
A/N: People actually still read this P.O.S. story? This was my first story and it sucks, let’s be honest. I have a plotline planned for this thing now that they’re out… Do you guys really want me to continue it though? Or should I spend my time on my better stories?