"D-derpy?!"
The gray mare slightly turned her head to peer at the cyan pegasus with her right eye. It widened when she realized who she was looking at before she returned her gaze back at the approaching griffins. "It's good to see you again, Commander Rush, but I don't think now's the time for us to have a chitchat while these flyers are out to kill us."
Derpy smiled as she then turned to Berry who looked back at her with a wide smile on his face. "Here, catch!" she said as she tossed him a curved sword while she raised her right foreleg and it transformed into a giant blade.
Everyone there sans Ace and Lone Claw was shocked when the blade replaced her foreleg with a sharp giant sword. Rainbow Dash and Rainbow Blitz were the first to recover from their shock and then took a closer look at the gray mare.
Rainbow Dash noticed that this Derpy was twice as large as her counterpart and she was wearing some kind of metal plating around her body. Each of her legs were now turned into metal. In fact, only her head was the only part of her body that wasn't completely metallic.
Berry Bubble caught the blade expertly and then return his gaze back at the griffins with a confident smile on his face. "This is going to be so much fun! Aren't you excited Pinkie?! I know I am!"
Pinkie Pie nodded her head enthusiastically. "Yiperee-do! How about you guys?! Don't you think this is going to be fun?!"
Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow "Fun?! You call killing griffins fun?!"
"Actually" Ace spoke up as he reloaded his gun with small crystals. "Those aren't griffins aren't really alive. I'll explain later. Now, we fight!" He shouted as he once again fired his gun towards an approaching griffin.
"OOOHHH YYYYYEEEEAAAAHHHH!!" Derpy shouted with sadistic glee while she dove headfirst towards the enemy. She slashed her giant sword in a horizontal arc, decapitating griffins and cutting them in half. She repeated the movement several times while butchering the helpless griffins to bits. "HAHAHAHA I WANT TO SEE YOU BEG FOR YOUR LIVES!" She raged on.
The four pegasi were hugging each other in fear. They didn't know which was safer, the griffins or the crazed mare in front of them. As another griffin was sliced in half by Derpy, the four then thought that the former was a safer choice.
Pinkie and Berry were also fairing well. Pinkie Pie was using her natural bounciness to evade her enemies while using her powerful earth pony legs to kick the griffins back. Berry Bubble was expertly using his sword to parry and strike griffins as they approach him from every side.
Rainbow Blitz winced as Berry sliced a griffin across the chess with a smile on his face. Blitz leaned towards Dash and whispered "They are having way too much fun, don't you think?"
Rainbow Dash just nodded her head as she continued to gape at the bouncing pink mare. Not once did the griffins were able to land a hit at her. Not once did the pink mare made a mistake in her hoovesteps. Not once did the pink mare remove the huge smile on her face. It was then did Rainbow Dash swore never, and she meant never, to make fun or challenge Pinkie Pie in anything.
Rainbow Blitz was having the same thoughts as his counterpart. Blitz watched his pink friend carefully and would continuously wince in pain when Berry killed another griffin without any remorse. He couldn't tell whether he should be glad or worried that he was friends with this kind of pony. Not that he would tell that to Berry though. Blitz gulped. Even Berry had limits and he wasn't crazy enough to find out by how much.
Even though they were killing griffins left and right, their number didn't seem to decrease. In fact, the longer they fought the harder it was to defend themselves. Even the unstoppable force that was Derpy was starting to sweat.
"How many are there anyway?!" Derpy asked Ace while she continued to slice her way through random griffins. "Where are thy coming from?!"
Ace ducked as a griffin tried to swipe at his face with it's sharp talons. "I don't know! But that is not important right now! We need to find a way out of here!" Ace rolled away as another griffin tried to slice his head off. Ace aimed his gun and pulled the trigger but nothing came out. He cursed and tried to reload his gun when he realized that he was out of crystals filled with magic.
"Shit! I'm out of ammo! Hey Derpy, do you have a spare?!" Ace shouted as he resorted to use his gun as a some kind of melee weapon.
"Negative!" Derpy grunted as he blocked another attack. She was starting to get slow since her body couldn't last very long in a fast-paced battle. "We were in a hurry so we didn't have time to prepare for ammunition thinking that it wasn't going to be needed!" She shouted as she dragged her sword towards several griffins. "Die you bucking birds!"
It was then when Ace's communication device started stirring. "Ace....bzzt....are yo....bzzt....there?"
Ace pushed back a griffin before he flew behind Berry for some cover. "Trixie?! We're in a tight position right now so you better get to the point!"
"Ar....bzzt...ou inside th....bzzt...Border Watchtower?"
"Affirmative! We are in the second floor of the building, backed to a wall and no other means of escape other than a flight of stairs towards the first floor!"
"Perfec....bzzt....I need you gu....bzzt....to go down the baseme....bzzt....now!"
"Are you crazy?! It's a dead end down there! We are going to get killed if we get trapped!"
"Trus....bzzt....me!"
"You bucking know this is crazy but this is the only plan we have!"
Ace could hear the chuckling behind the device "I know" Trixie said before the feed cut off.
"Guys! Change of plans! Instead of staying here and slowly get tired, Trixie suggested we go down to the first floor."
"Trixie?!" Derpy said with a growl. "You mean to tell me that you just talked to that traitor and you didn't tell any of us!" she snapped with a glare towards Ace. She would've turned around and pinned Ace to the wall if she wasn't busy fending off the griffins.
Ace returned her glare "She didn't betray us! Just because she made a mistake doesn't mean that she betrayed us!"
"Accidentally killing dozens of our friends by leading them into an ambush is not warranted to be called betrayal?" Lone Claw snorted as he continued to bite off griffins' heads off. "You can't be seriously thinking that it was an accident right? What, you have feelings for her or something?" Lone Claw joked but his eyes widened when Ace just looked down and a visible blush appeared on his face. "By the moon..."
"Enough of this for now, let's get out of here!" Derpy shouted as she threw a crystal in the middle of the hall and it started to brighten to the point that it blinded everypony there. Before any of them could protest, the crystal exploded and engulfed the part of the hallway the crystal was placed and the walls collapsed around the griffins.
"Alright everyone! Move, move, move!" Lone Claw shouted as all of them snapped from their shock and entered the hole where Derpy and the two pink ponies emerged from.
It was only a few minutes later before they arrived at their destination and gave them a chance to breathe. They knew that the griffins would eventually catch up to them so they savored the moment of peace.
Most of them anyway.
"I still can't believe that you're in love with that traitor!" Derpy shouted at Ace. "What? She seduced you or something? Did she promise you a good life if she accidentally kills all of us?! Huh?! Answer me!"
"She isn't a traitor and It was an accident! I was there! You don't know what happened back then! You weren't there when she bawled her eyes out! You weren't there when she begged the Commander to banish her!" Ace gritted his teeth and he was glaring daggers at Lone Claw and Derpy, respectively. "And most important of all, you weren't there when she tried to commit suicide by pointing a gun at her head. And no, she wasn't faking it because if I didn't intervene in time, she would've blown a hole in her head. Tell me, does a traitor do that?"
Everypony there sans Lone Claw were huddled together. They didn't want to get involved in the argument, afraid of what might happen to them. Even the two pink ponies were uncharacteristically quiet towards the whole ordeal.
Derpy glared back at Ace and lowered her head so that they were face to face. "Let me tell you something about love. I once loved somepony a few years back. Back when this whole mess just started. In fact, we were lovers." She laughed dryly as all the eyes there widened at the new information. "Surprised? Even I never thought of finding somepony to love but then she came along. That's right. The pony I was involved with was a mare. At that time, nopony cared who or what we showed affection to. We only had each other to cope with the world around us crumbling. I was so happy with her. She was like an angel that was made just for me."
She then suddenly slammed a metallic hoof on the ground and created a hole from the sheer force. "But it was just wishful thinking since from the beginning, she was just acting. Her true goal was to lure me out in the open and get me captured." She turned her gaze towards the other ponies in the room and they gasped when they finally had a close look at the gray pony. Her left eye was completely made of metal and a red unblinking light was staring right at them. "If you guys don't know it yet, I used to be a pegasus." She raised a hoof and pointed it at her back. "Once I was captured by the walkers, they brought me to some kind of white room with different utensils on a table next to a bed. I was strapped to the bed and was position face down. I begged them to release me but the pony who was in the room with me at that moment was laughing. The first thing I felt was something injecting in my body then the real pain started."