//------------------------------// // Honesty Mare // Story: Mega Mare // by CluelessDetective //------------------------------// A strange, almost alien warping sound echoed throughout the mega, techno city Ponyville. The city was bathed in a wired blue light as Mega Mare appeared outside the town thanks to the teleporter. She began to trot farther down the dirt road, her hooves making a metallic crunching sound on the rubble. She stopped dead in her tracks, looking at her destination in front of her. Sweet Apple Acres. Looking at the orchard in front of her, Mega Mare noticed that it was split in half. One half was completely organic, having brown bark trees that could easily be blown apart by her mega buster. It also had bright red apples hanging from the trees. These trees were meant for the actual ponies. The other half was inorganic having metal instead of dirt and the trees were completely silver! The apples hanging from them looked like gold grenades even though they looked edible. These were meant for robots like her. She drew a conclusion that this orchard supplied both organic and inorganic ponies with food. She than began to trot into Sweet Apple Acres to face her first challenge. Mega Mare felt uneasy trotting through this orchard, manly because you could get ambushed pretty easily in this place. All of these trees made seeing ahead hard, so she decided to stay in the middle even though the ground felt uncomfortable between her hooves. Two of her hooves feeling normal with the metal, the other two felt weird on top of the chalky brown soil. Something started to roll towards her. She adjusted her eyes and saw it was a barrel! She drew her mega buster shooting three energy balls at the barrel, it exploding with a devastating boom! As the smoke cleared she had one question in her head. How the hell did that barrel explode!?! Another barrel rolled down, this time she would try to stop it. She shot one of the organic trees as it fell with a cry in front of her. The barrel stopped near the tree. allowing Mega Mare to look in the inside of said barrel. The barrel was filled to the brim with gunpowder! Honesty Mare must be bucking these barrels down to try to blow Mega Mare into smithereens. She decided to pick up the pace and turned her trot into a gallop blowing up any barrel in her way. From one of the metal trees, two apples fell down hitting her on the noggin. She looked up and around trying to who could've done this when the apples began to move!!! They had four metal legs and looked like they could use them pretty well. Then the apples gained a gun barrel on one of their sides, moving to said side at Mega Mare, as a strange light came from the barrels as bullets sprayed out. Some bullets hit her, but not enough to be lethal, but she ducked behind a tree as it was being blown apart by the psychotic apples to avoid further damage. Guns?!? Why would you give apples guns?!? She got out of her apple tree cover a fired two energy blasts at the apples causing applesauce to hit the trees around her. That was when, no more then five of the gun wielding apples fell from the trees, intent on filling her with bullet holes. She saw one of the explosive barrels behind the apples. With a devious smile on her face she proceeded to shoot the barrel causing it to take the apples with it. She sighed and continued to gallop hoping to find Honesty Mare soon. In mere minutes, Mega Mare reached a clearing, with applesauce on her face. The clearing was strange, instead of it having metal or brown soil, it had real, soft grass. Trees, both organic and medal surrounded her, forming a circle. A strange song filled the emptiness of the clearing, making her ears perk up. A lightning fast hoof bucked her in the side as she fell over, trying to regain the loss of air in her filters. The pony whose hoof knocked her down showed herself. The pony had a yellow coat, with a deadly red colored mane, and a pink bow in said mane sharpened to a fine point, showing murder in her eyes. She then flung the bow out of her hair and the bow flew towards Mega Mare,hitting her and causing a painful gash in her side to appear. She screamed in pain as she steadied her mega buster, she proceeded to fire the mega buster, the mini blast of energy absorbed by the bow, now making a shield to protect the filly. The filly then giggled sickly as she drew her own buster shooting at Mega Mare, causing a burn to appear in her side. The filly was a robot too!?! Must have been one of Honesty Mare's cohorts. She began to get up very shakily, as she ran towards a tree in the outer ring of the clearing. The filly threw her bow again, it started to whirl like a helicopter as it got closer to Mega Mare. Thinking on her feet she shot the tree, it began to shake as four death apples fell, barrels pointing at the bow. Interesting, she thought. Whoever gets them down, they will serve to protect. That turned out to be short lived, as the bow sliced the apples to bits, the apple pieces falling with a clatter. She opened fire on the bow, the bow absorbing each blast as she fired. The blaster began to overheat as she stopped firing, she decided she might try to get the bow to attack the mare instead of her trying to destroy the bow. She began to gallop in the general direction of the filly. She then dove next to the filly as the bow dove between the two, causing pain for both ponies. In the gash on the flank of the filly, she saw a bright, glowing, yellow ball in there, she guessed it was a weak spot she could shoot, but the filly turned around, the bow returning on her head. She had to find a way to get the filly to turn to her injured flank so she could shoot it. The filly then resumed throwing her bow at her, intent on trying to decapitate her. It seemed noticeable that when the filly let go of her bow, her weak point seemed vulnerable. She grinned hoping to put this to the test. She was able to avoid the bow easily as she opened fire on the flank, it glowing brighter then ever. The filly groaned in anger as the bow came back. She leveled her own buster and fired wildly on the ground, causing a dust storm of sorts. Mega Mare coughed as some of the dirt went down her throat. She blinked rapidly, getting the dirt out of her eyes. When the dust settled she found herself alone, the filly having to retreat. She sighed in comfort as she continued to trot along the clearing. She fired her buster, sending another gun holding apple to oblivion. As the smoke cleared a small, yellow sphere remained. She cautiously touched it, causing it to disappear in her buster. She felt a strange cooling sensation around her, when she turned around her gash was gone, leaving only a white scar and a drop of oil. Fascinating! She thought. This pellet heals minor wounds and leaves a scar on worse ones. I need to keep a watch out for these. She then began to gallop towards a bright red barn. She stopped near the barn, it towering over her. She was about to go in when she heard hoof steps. She turned around seeing a cloud of dust get closer to her. She adjusted her eyes, seeing that it was a big, red, and bulky stallion! Without thinking, she dove to the ground and proceeded to open fire on the stallion. She noticed she was doing jack squat and saw a brown collar on the neck of the stallion. She aimed at the collar and within seconds the stallion stopped dead in his tracks and proceeded to fall to the ground. The stallion looked up and muttered "Eeyup!" before shutting down. Mega Mare then opened the door to the barn and entered. The barn had a bunch of hay, barrels of the explosive variety, and a few bright red apples which didn't carry gun barrels. In front of her a giant explosion of dust rocked the barn. For a few seconds she didn't know who did it, but when her eyes adjusted she saw mare in front of her. The mare was light orange with a blonde mane, and a brown cowboy hat. She also had emerald green eyes, looking like they wanted to crush her head. She had to guess that this was Honesty Mare. She had no time to speak as a pair of hooves collided on her ribcage, sending Mega Mare through a wall of the barn. She got up and fired on the mare, to her surprise it actually harmed her. She shot some of the barrels near the mare causing a explosion of sorts to harm anypony near. As the dust settled Mega Mare looked at her wounds. She had some scratches and a few broken ribs. She lifted the P Tank that Dr. Celestia gave her, and drank it greedily as her wounds began to heal, no longer feeling pain in her ribs. Honesty Mare got up pointing her buster at Mega Mare and opened fire. Mega Mare returned fire, each one taking heavy damage. The mini firefight ended as Honesty Mare fell to the ground, cuts and burns around her. Due to the explosion she lost one of her hooves. Mega Mare trotted near Honesty Mare as Honesty Mare spoke, "Thank you for saving me from my prison." "But in order to stop the mad doctor you will need this." Honesty Mare handed Mega Mare a necklace that had three apples on it. "This is my power," Honesty Mare explained. "This will grant you the power to have my strength." "But be warned. When you use it you lose some power. So only use it when you need to." With those words, Honesty Mare shut down, no longer in the clutches of Dr. Discord. The necklace began to glow as a portal appeared in the barn. This must take me to my next challenge, Mega Mare thought, as she stepped into the portal, ready to free another mare from Dr. Discord.