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// Chapter 5 
// Story: Escape From Equestria 
// by HunterBraxton 
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Escape From Equestria
Chapter 5


"Brian, you fucking cock."
"It was an accident, I swear!" Brian said, holding his hands up in defense.
"Is she even still alive?" I asked. Looking down on her, her chest was rising and falling. "Yeah, she's still alive." I knelled down next to her, looking for any sort of entry wound or burn. "Not a single mark." Looking at the guards, neither one of them had any sort of wound either, and they were breathing too. "Magic stun guns."
"How long do you think she'll be out?" Brian asked.
"Shit, I don't fucking know. I would assume long enough for the guards to transport her to a cell, so maybe twenty to thirty minutes."
"So, is this the part where we break out?"
"Hell, yeah." I said, pulling the radio back out of my pants. "Mack, do you hear me?"
"Yeah. What's going on?"
"We just K.O.-ed some guards, they tried to lock up Rainbow with us. Brian accidentally shot her with a magic stun gun and now she's unconscious, we're breaking out. Get to the crystal castle."
"On it. Over and out."
"I'll carry Rainbow, you keep me covered." I knelled down next to her once again and lifted her from under her armpits. She weighed next to nothing and I easily picked her up and slung her across my left shoulder. "She looks a lot heavier than she really is."
"Well, she is a bird so..."
"Brian."
"Yeah"
"Time to fuck some shit up." We took off at a jog down the hallway.
"You know how to get out of here?" Brian asked.
"Yeah, we follow this hallway all the way to the entrance, but there's an armory on the way I think we should stop at." We kept going for a little longer. Soon the armory was right in front of us. One of the guards heard us coming and turned to look, as soon as he saw us he opened his mouth to speak and started to fumble with his weapon. He didn't have time though, Brian easily picked him off and then the other one. Brian looked over the door.
"Shit!" Brian exclaimed. "The door's locked, and you need some sort of card to get in."
I looked down at one of the guards Brian had incapacitated, hanging off of his belt on a retractable cable was a card. I reached down, grabbed it, then slid it through the card reader lock. The light changed from red to green and the door clicked open. "Well that was easy," I said. Brian pushed the door open and we went inside. 
"Holy shit." Brian said. There were weapons of all shapes and sizes lining the walls. 
"Grab whatever you can carry," I said to him. Then I gently placed Rainbow on the floor, against the wall. I slung my stolen rifle across my back. Then I had a fucking field day. The first rack I came to was filled with the standard M16 style rifles. I adjusted mine so it was diagonal across my back. Then I added another one for Mack, and tossed one to Brian so Rainbow would have one too. The next rack over held some sniper rifles that closely resembled the L96s back home. It had the same crystal in place of the mag well and it didn't have a bolt on it, which made me believe it was semi-auto. The barrel and receiver were all gold but the stock was a black polymer. I grabbed one of those and added it to my back. I wouldn't be able to carry much more, these things were heavy. Next was a section that held several military back packs. I took one and looked inside, for the most part it was empty, but it was at least a quarter way full with MREs. I took one for myself and another down for Brian. "Brian, come get this," I said to him, he came over and took it, apart from the M16s on his back he also had a LMG with three spinning barrels on it. It looked like something straight out of Borderlands. The next rack had SMGs on it. They looked just like MP7s. For the most part it was the black polymer, but all the metal bits were gold. And the rack after that held M1911s. I took one MP7 for myself and let it hang from my right shoulder for easy access, then I tossed another in my bag. Then I took two of the M1911s for myself and stuffed them in my waist, one in the front and one in the back, plus I tossed four more in the bag. The next station was plastic bins filled with C4 and golden grenades; frags, smokes, flash bangs, you name it, they had it. I dumped entire bins in the bag and made sure I had some C4 detonators. Lastly, there was a section filled with all sorts of holsters and harnesses. I didn't bother to see what kinds they were, I just grabbed some and left. 
"What in the name of Tartarus?" an unknown voice yelled out. I turned and looked at the door, there was a gold clad guard standing there looking at us. Both Brian and I lifted our weapons and fired off several shots, but he saw this coming and took cover. "The humans are loose!" We could hear him yelling.
"Shit, time to go!" I exclaimed. I tossed my bag on and sunk a little bit. "Damn this thing is heavy." I went and grabbed Rainbow and put her back where she was on my shoulder. I popped out of the door with my SMG raised and pointed at the guard who found us. Two things happened at the same time, I pulled the trigger, sending a hailstorm of purple bolts flying his way, and he slammed his fist into a big red button on the wall. The guard jerked back with each shot that hit him and fell to the floor.  Then a light above the button, near the ceiling, started flashing, and an alarm bell started ringing, much like the ones found at banks.  
"God fucking damn it!" Brian yelled out. 
"He just had to do that, didn't he?" I asked no one in particular.
"Yep." We both took off running down the hallway with our heavy loads, however, it wasn't long before we encountered a whole squad of guards.
"There they are!" One of the guards yelled out. 
Think fast! I thought. "Door!" I yelled out to Brian. He took one on the left and I took one on the right. His was empty. Mine, not so much. While Brian was taking cover in the doorway fighting the guards, I had waltzed right into another squad who were busy equipping their armor. 
"What the buck?!" One of the guards exclaimed. I pulled the trigger on my SMG, not even bothering to aim. He flew back and crashed into a set of bunks, causing them to tip over. Another guard was reaching for his own rifle. He went down next. 
"Argh!" A mountain of an earth pony bellowed out, choosing to come at me reckless. I let off a longer burst than usual and dodged to left. He stumbled and landed at Brian's feet. The last guard was just sitting on the floor next to an open trunk staring at me. I aimed for his head and fired a single shot, hitting him right between the eyes. 
"Looks like you had your hands busy." Brian said to me, stepping out of the room he had taken cover in, he had managed to dispatch the other squad very quickly with his LMG. 
"They weren't so bad." I said, stepping out of my own bit of carnage. 
"Ladies first." Brian said, gesturing down the hall.
"Why, thank you." I said and then took off running down the hallway. Less than a minute later we popped out of the hallway and right into the foyer filled with guards. "Brian. How the hell are we gonna get through them?"
"I got an idea," he said, holding up his LMG. He walked out of the hallway and into the foyer. "You cockroaches want to play rough? Well say hello to my little friend!" He yelled at the guards below, then he held the gun at his hip at began spraying bolts all over them. Many dropped where they stood. Some pulled up their own weapons and fired back. Brian quickly retreated back to the safety of the hallway. "That didn't go as planned."
"It was pretty badass, though. Did you grab any of those grenades?" I asked.
"Yeah, they're in my bag." I opened up his bag and pulled out a couple of the frag types. I handed a couple to him and kept some for myself.
"Frag out, motherfuckers!" I called to the guards below, then I pulled the pin on one of the grenades and tossed it at a group of them.  It hit the floor, bounced, then rolled towards them before it finally came to a stop when it hit one of the guard's hooves. He looked down at it in confusion before his face twisted into that of pure horror. When the grenade went off it didn't explode like the ones in our world. Instead it produced a large, purple bubble ten feet in diameter. It stayed up for half a second then it collapsed in on itself. When it was gone there was a group of guards unconscious on the floor. "These ponies really don't like killing do they?"
"Maybe humanity could learn from them." Then he took one of his own grenades and threw it in. We had to get through these guards, and fast; Mack would be arriving any minute.  I looked across the staircase at the other hallway.
"Brian, you think you can get to that other hallway over there?"
"Yeah, if you cover me." He replied. I put Rainbow down and switched my SMG for one of the ARs on my back. Then I took another grenade and tossed it into a corner of the room where some guards where taking cover in a broom closet. 
"On the count of three. One. Two. Three. Go!" He took off across the room, firing more bolts at the guards and taking out quite a few. I started firing bursts from my rifle, picking my shots. Brian made it to the other hallway, and he started to lay down fire. After I took down a couple more guards I threw my last grenade at a group of them, effectively neutralizing them. "Brian! We need to move! Now!" I called out to him he nodded and started towards the staircase. I switched back to my SMG and picked up Rainbow. I made it to the stair case and was just about to make my way down when someone plowed into me. It was a guard, but not just any guard. All the others were white. This one was orange. When he knocked into me he caused me to loose my grip on Rainbow, she went bouncing down the stairs. I turned to the off-color guard and was just about to blast him but Brian beat me to it. A volley of bolts hit him all over and he stumbled back into a small table that had what looked like a priceless vase sitting on top of it. He knocked the table over and the vase fell to the floor and shattered. I started going down the stairs as fast as possible. "Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit." I said, concerned for her. I grabbed her and tossed her back over my shoulder, however, I tossed a bit too hard and she went right over and back to the floor. "Goddamn it!" I picked her up again and put her on my shoulder. 
"Wow, dude, nice going keeping Rainbow from getting hurt." Brian said to me.
"Shut up. Front door. Now." I said running for the door and popping a few shots at a guard that I saw peeking his head out from an overturned table.  We both ran up to the doors and planted a hard kick right next to the handles, sending them flying open with a crash and sending some splinters flying.  All the ponies in the immediate area looked at us, Then started screaming and running. We started running down the main street. occasionally turning around and firing some rounds at a guard who was trying to get us. We got about a block when suddenly the Colorado came thundering across the bridge. launching a few feet into the air. It slammed back into the ground and continued our way. "Brian, grab my bag. I want you to get in the bed and cover our escape." He slipped the bag off one shoulder then I had to take rainbow off my shoulder and hold her up against me so he could get the other one. Mack slammed on the brakes and came to a stop right beside us. He tossed my bag in the back and then climbed in himself. I opened the back passenger side door and tossed Rainbow inside. Then I took the guns off my back and got in next to her. "Mack, you magnificent bastard."
"Where to?" Mack asked.
"Back to the forest." He turned the wheel as far as it would go and then stomped on the peddle. There was an unholy roar from the 5-cylinder engine as the truck spun around and headed back out of town. In the back Brian was firing bursts at some pegasus guards who were chasing us.  A few of them dropping to the ground, the others just stopped trying. I reached over and wrapped my arms around Rainbow, pulling her close. Partly so she wouldn't be flying about inside the cab like a rag-doll, and partly because I just wanted to hold her. We rode back into the forest, my arms around her back and her head on my shoulder. A few minutes later she started to stir. 
"Ugghh. What happened?" She asked.
"Rainbow, I'm so sorry" I said.
"For what?"
"Everything that happened. I didn't know any of this would happen."
"Why are you holding me like this?"
"Umm... because Mack can't drive."
"Uh-huh, sure, Cain." Mack said.
"Nigga, shut up," I said to him. I started to let go of Rainbow.
"I didn't say you had to let go." She said. That surprised me, I pulled her tighter against me. "What happened?" She asked again. She didn't say anything about me horribly disfiguring one of the guards. 
"How much do you remember?"
"I remember the princess ordering our executions, and the guards dragging me down to your cell, and then the cell door flying open, but nothing past that."
"Our executions?" I asked in amazement. "You tell me your story and then I'll to you ours. Okay?"
"Yeah. So, after Twilight threw you in the dungeon..." And so she told me her story. Then I told ours, leaving out that one guard of course. She never wanted me to let her go, and so I never did.