//------------------------------// // Renegades? // Story: Band of Zakus // by Spartan889 //------------------------------// (Somewhere in the middle of nowhere) “Dammit, Dammit, DAMMIT!” Yelled Kat in frustration. “That fucking fire girl wrecked our only means of transportation. Now how are we gonna get to the crystal empire?” “On foot?” Answered Dusty who was sitting on Daidouji’s head. “Though that might take us longer to get there, and we can’t fly there seeing how most of us can’t fly or last that long in the air.” “Maybe Sweetie Bot can repair it?” Kumatora suggested. “Negative, half the parts that we needed are either melted or destroyed thanks to Ember.” “Figures. Next time I see that walking human torch, I’m gonna punch her in the face for wrecking my car.” “We might as well just walk our ass to the Crystal Empire for now until we get a new set of wheels.” Said Daidouji. “Plus we better get out of sight before a certain group of ponies find us.” “Oh please we’re like…….200 miles or so away from the nearest town. I doubt the Element of Harmony or Luna will be able find us.” Just as Kat said that a flash of light appeared in front of them causing them to go blind. A few seconds later as the light started to dim, stood there were the seven familiar ponies. Six were The Elements of Harmony and the other was Princess Luna. “........You know I don’t know why, but I really gotta shut the hell up.” “No shit.” Kumatora replied. “Renegades!” Luna yelled. “We have return to seek vengeance for your crimes against Equestria! Surrender now or face harsher punishment when you return with us to Canterlot for your trial!” “Like hell we’ll go with you. We didn’t do anything to you jerks!” Yelled Daidouji. “You ran over our nephew.” “Only because he was trying to kill us.” “You froze half the royal guards in ice.” “Again you can blame Blueblood for that one.” “Assaulted my sister, the elements of harmony, and me.” “........I’m not apologising for that, you guys were the ones that started it.” “Buck you freak!” Yelled Rainbow Dash flipping Kat the bird. “This is your last chance to creatures, surrender now or we’ll take you in by force.” “Then you’ll have to take us in by force then huh?” Kat said as she started to glow red. “Ladies time for another fight.” “Stand back Elements of Harmony.” Said Luna as she drew out her sword. “I’ll deal with them. The moment they are weak, get ready to capture them.” [Activating Combat Mode] “Time for you first ever boss fight ladies. In this fight you’ll have to give it your all when fighting a boss like Luna otherwise it won’t turn out good for you four. Anyway in a boss fight you won’t be able to run away from one unless it’s a monster or pony you can’t beat at the moment. If win a fight with certain bosses you might get a sweet new item or you can try to have them join your team as an ally. Right now you can’t at the moment, but for now you’ll just have to settle with the rare item you get after the fight.” “Well this should be interesting.” Said Daidouji cracking her knuckles. “Need us to assist you Kat?” “If things turn south then yes, but for now I only need Sweetie Bot to assist me in this fight.” “You sure about it?” “Hey I’m dealing with a spoiled Princess who got her flank kicked by Guardian. If she can beat her so can we.” Kat said as she motion Sweetie Bot next to her. “Let’s go.” “Coming mother!” “I really wish you would stop calling me that.” While they were making their way towards Luna. Dusty notice a strange looking device setting next to him. “What’s this?” He asked as he started to bat it around on the ground like a normal cat would do sometimes. During his little play session he accidentally hits the red button on it causing it to beep. “Oh…...This can’t be good.” (Zaku universe) “Will you please stop with the Epic Sax guy song!!!!” Jeff yelled in annoyance while Jonathan was busy playing a Saxophone with a couple of Elfen spiders dancing behind him. “You can’t stop the music Jeff!” Jonathan said and continues playing his saxophone. “That’s it!” Jeff said and grabs Jonathan by the leg and drags him to the WarpGate Chamber while Jonathan continues playing his saxophone. Once Jeff reached to the chamber. He activates the portal and sees the frozen waste through the gate. “This is SPARTA!!!!” Jeff shouted and kicks Jonathan through the portal and sends him to where the renegades are. (Renegades universe) A portal appears between Kat and Luna as they stare at it surprised and notice Jonathan appear out of the portal as his saxophone landed at Kat’s feet. “Dammit Jeff!” Jonathan said annoyed and suddenly notice Kat, Luna and Sweetie Bot. “Am I disturbing something important?” “Another displaced? Wait this gives me an idea.” Kat thought as she looked at the metal. “Thank god someone came to me and my daughter’s aid. Quick you have to help us, that bitch over there wants to kill us and sell my Sweetie Bot into slavery.” “Foul whore! When we’re done with you, your fake replica of Sweetie Belle will be used for nothing but parts for Equestria technology and science department!” “See!” “Oh you did not just say that!” Jonathan said and faces Luna. “Out of my way creature, less you want to suffer the same fate as the Renegades.” Luna said pointing her sword at the Zaku. “Me. I am Sergent Major Jonathan. Member of the Krieg Company of the Grand Griffon Republic Army! Know your place princess. But if you touch any parts of that innocent robotic filly, I will rip your spine from your body painfully.” Jonathan threatened. “You think you can scare me with your empty threats? Don’t make me laugh fool! I have face many who would claim to do that to me, but failed. Now move out of my way or else you will die along with them.” “The only one who’s going to die is you Luna.” Jonathan said and takes his machete out as the machete blade burst into green flames as everybody could hear thousands of tortured souls wailing in despair. FIGHT! “Fine then you’ll suffer the same fate as that robot will, I wonder if I can convince Celestia if I could make you both into my personal servants/bounty hunters so I could have you both hunt down any more creatures like them.” She said, as she begun to charge at the Zaku with her sword in hand. Inside of Jonathan, his mind snapped when he heard Luna said the word “servant” causing him to roar like a demon and bashes Luna with his three spike-shoulder causing Luna to cough out blood. “BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!” Jonathan yelled as he takes out his Chainsword and activates its chainsaw motor and started laughing maniacally. “How dare you attack me like that you fiend!” Luna’s horn started to glow as magical chain appear from under the Zaku, and latched themselves onto him. “YOU THINK THESE CHAINS CAN HOLD ME!?!” Jonathan said in a demonic voice. “I KNOW ALL YOUR SINS AND CRIMES YOU HAVE DONE! THE SOULS OF THE NECRONOMICON KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE! AND THEY SEEK JUSTICE FOR WHAT YOU’VE DONE TO THEM!!!” Jonathan easily breaks the chains and brings his Chainsword down but Luna narrowly dodges it and lands a few feet away from Jonathan. “You missed!” "I did not." Jonathan said and pulls out his Magnum and fires several rounds at Luna but she blocks every single bullet but one lucky bullet hits Luna's left wing causing her to cry out of pain. “You think something like that will stop me!” She said firing a beam at him. Jonathan easily deflects the beam as if it was nothing and grabs Luna by the throat and stabs her several times and slams her right in front of the Elements of Harmony. "Give up Luna." “Never!” Luna picks herself up as her wounds are magically healed up. “You are nothing more than monsters that need to be put down for good.” "And after that, you're just going to kill a mother and take that innocent robotic filly away!" Jonathan yelled. “She is not a mother! She just a creature with a fake copy of Sweetie Belle!” "That does not even matter. There's a saying that family is more than just blood! Even if she's a robot, she needs a mother to guide her to a better future." “A future that they will not have.” She said as she fire another beam at the Zaku. "Then you shall die!" Jonathan said and bashes Luna to the ground and punches her brutally then he grabs her face and slams it to the snow repeatedly. Luna struggles to stand up but she receive a kick to the face. "SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!! " Jonathan roared and stabs Luna through her chest causing her to cough out blood. “Ouch, that’s gonna hurt in the morning.” Said Kumatora. “Maybe this will teach her a lesson, and leave us alone?” Said Dusty. “I doubt it.” Said Sweetie Bot pointing at the badly beat up princess. “Sensors indicate that she’ll just keep getting up.” “Figures much.” Kumatora started to walk up towards the Zaku. “Not to be rude or anything, but that’s not gonna work on her.” "Then I got an idea." Jonathan said and takes out a strange looking grenade. “Not that I mean you can’t kill her due to the fact that you’re in combat mode. In it you can’t kill anyone unless they’re evil or something. Like how it is in most rpg games.” "Who said I was going to kill her?" Jonathan said and tosses the grenade right below Luna and deploys itself and started to drain Luna’s magic from her body causing her to fall to the ground weak. “Oh so you to can steal a pony’s magic as well.” “Ability acquired.” Said Sweetie Bot after scanning Jonathan’s grenade. “Drain grenade has been added to weapon inventory for use in future battles.” “Looks like we got a Terminator here.” A voice said causing everybody/pony to turn around and sees another Zaku. This time the Zaku is painted red instead of green and has a horn attached to it's forehead. “Evan?” Jonathan said in a surprise tone.“You've been watching us battle this whole time?” Jonathan asked. “Friend of yours I take it?” Asked Daidouji. “Yup and a very old friend.” Jonathan answered. “So not only are you a coward, you call upon other to fight in a one on one battle? You criminals make me sick.” Said Luna staggering to her feet. “I do not care about your views Luna. But I Care that you tried to separate a family apart.” Evan said coldly and whips out both Beam revolvers and shoot Luna front legs causing her to fall and cry out of pain. “Beam Revolver acquired.” Said Sweetie Bot. “Scanning for more possible weapons to copy.” “Girls we gotta help Luna before she gets herself hurt even more.” Said Twilight, as she and her friends stood in front of the lunar princess. “How dare you do that to somepony that’s weaker than you?” Said Fluttershy, as she flew up towards Evan’s face. “How would you like if somepony did that to you huh? You better apologise to the princess or else.” “Why don’t you say that to a Kirin child who lost her mother to a Imperialist soldier. ” Evan said coldly. “But you'll wouldn't understand the true meaning and suffering of war.” “Quite jerk face. You’re just another monster that need to be taken down before you kill somepony.” Said Rainbow Dash as she flew in with a kick to the face of the Red Zaku. Evan simply sidestep away from Rainbow Dash as she hits the hard snow ground. “Idiot. But listen closely Element Bearers, go back to where you racist asshole belong and tell this message to your fuck face ruler that if she continues hunting them or even touch or dissect that robot filly, I will not hesitate and bring my squad to where you all live and destroy it. Or better yet, I could tell the Chancellor of the Griffon Republic on what Celestia is doing now and ask him to send an Army and crush Equestria. Do I make myself clear?” Evan said in a low threatening voice. “We don’t take commands from monsters like you.” Said Luna. “We’re not going to lose to the likes of you!” Luna threw her sword at Evan. Evan was about to deflect the blade back at Luna, but the blade only went past him and was about to hit Sweetie Bot. Only for Kat to push her out of the and pierced her chest which the blade was a few inches close to her heart. “Fuck…...me…..” Kat said before falling to the ground as blood started to gush out of the wound she had. “Mother!” Cried Sweetie Bot. “Son of a bitch! Mark open the Warp Gate! We got a injured displace in need of serious medical attention!” “You can’t.” Said Dusty. “Once Combat Mode is set in play especially during a boss fight, you can’t escape until said boss is defeated.” “H-hey I’m fine…...i-it’s just a flesh wound.” Said Kat as she started to hack up some blood. “Mother please don't leave me!” Sweetie Bot begged. “Dammit. We don’t have any items that can patch Kat up.” Said Kumatora trying to heal Kat up with life up. “Dammit it’s not working!” “Good luck with that, my blade is made out a special steel that prevents any type of healing magic. She’s as good as dead.” “Mark, send in my mech.” Evan said through the comms and on cue, Evan's HA-36X Zel mech was deployed behind him and it's AI locks onto Luna and the Elements of Harmony. “That’s not gonna kill them will it?” Asked Daidouji. “Nope but it will make this battle a living hell for them. Rain some pain on them Zel!” Evan ordered. "Orders received.” The mech boomed. It notice Rainbow Dash flying at Mach one and heading straight to the mech but the AI reaction was faster and quickly swipes Rainbow Dash away as if she was a fly. The mech quickly notice Luna slowly getting up but the mech aims it's Heavy-G41 Assault Rifle and empties the rifle entire magazine on Luna. Thinking the mech was distracted, Applejack and Pinkie Pie charge right at the mech but failed to notice that the mech launched its X-99 Ballistic missiles at them. Before they could react, the missiles detonate on impact sending Pinkie Pie and Applejack flying across the combat field. “Nice.” Said Dusty. The mech continues its assault as a magic beam hits it making it turn to it's right and sees Rarity and Twilight shooting beams of magic at it. The mech simply aims its V-71 Hellfire Gatling gun at them and rains high caliber, armored piercing rounds at them. And the mech cease fire for the moment and sees Rarity and Twilight lying on the ground unconscious. Once satisfied, the mech turns to it's final target; Fluttershy who is now cowering in fear. “Your not gonna shoot her are you?” “Nope.” Evan said. The mech stares at Fluttershy very eyes and points its rifle barrel at her face and notice Fluttershy tears streaming down her face. “Dude if your drone does kill or injure her, I will kick your ass.” Said Daidouji. “Don’t worry, it won’t.” Jonathan said. The mech continues to stare at Fluttershy and points the rifle away then slowly takes a few steps back. [Exiting Combat Mode] “And once again we win…...suck it L-Luna.” Said Kat as she passed out. “Mark, open the Warp Gate now.” Evan said through the comms and a warp gate opens behind them. “Let’s move.” “Right.” Kumatora levitated Kat onto a Mr.Saturn flying disk and proceeded into the warp gate along with her friends. Before the mech enters the portal, it looks back at Fluttershy for the moment and enters the portal along with the others. (Band of Zakus universe) Inside the Warp Gate chamber, the warp gate opens as Evan, Jonathan and the renegades including the mech, exits out of the portal and Evan notice a medical team on standby. “Get her to the medical room ASAP.” Evan ordered and the Elfen Spiders medics quickly made their way towards Kat. “You sure she’ll be fine?” Asked Dusty. “She will be. But we didn’t greet each other yet though.” Evan said and notice Lui walking to them. “Okay…..who are you?” “Names Evan. This Jonathann.” Gesturing to the Zaku II F2. “And that’s Lui. My second in command and the brains.” The Hizack looks at them and notice Kat’s unconscious pissed off expression and heard her mumbling something about her car. “What’s wrong with your friend by the way?” Lui asked. “Long story short, we’re wanted criminals for accidentally running over Blueblood and Luna attack our friend Kat.” Said Kumatora. “Well can’t blame you for running over Blueblood, I would not hesitate to blast his brains out and by mean running over, you got a car right?” Lui question. “Had one until a displaced wrecked it.” “I could help you with that.” Lui said. “Follow me to the Engineering Bay.” “Sweet thanks.” “No problem.” Two minutes later… “Welcome to the Engineering Bay.” Lui announced. “So this is the place to get a new ride?” “Yes.” “Do I have to pay for it or something, because as you can see we don’t have any money.” “No need for that. Anyway let us start your transport selection.” Lui said and pulls a lever revealing more than fifty different kinds of vehicles. “Well…..you don’t see stuff like this back home.” “Who cares. Anyway onto our tour." Lui said and walks up to tank. “Here is the HV-15 Spider Tank. It is designed for all terrain combat and transport. It is equipped with a 180mm cannon,Hellfire missiles launchers, GA-4 Vulcan Gatling gun and a smoke grenade launcher. Also it comes with an alternate mode of switching it to spider mode turning the tank into a Walker but it will lose its speed due to the transformation. But before you choose this, there is other kinds of vehicles I must show you.” “Hm….I’m kinda looking for something that doesn’t have any of the fancy stuff, just something that can take a lot of hits, very good at making turns, and has good speed to outrun anypony.” “Then I have something for you people. Introducing my latest creation.” Lui said before taking out a remote and pressed a few buttons on it until everybody heard a revving sound and see a well armored car flew over them and performs a drift. “Meet the Vulture Mobile.” “You sure this car is good?” “This car design and statistics were inspired from the Batmobile in the Arkham Knight game.” Lui said. “ It is fast enough to outfly or run a Pegasus, it is well armored to take several tank shots even to the strongest attack from the royal sisters. It's tires can change into anything to adapt to any kind of terrains, also it is also equipped with a Forensic scanner to track any trails being left behind. The Vulture is also equipped with an alternate mode called combat mode which increases the vehicles mobility meaning that the tires can spin 360 degrees. The combat mode comes equipped with a 80mm cannon which fires kinetic energy armor piercing shell which can break the scales of a dragon easily even the combat mode has a Vulcan gun which may prove useful to taking out essential weaknesses of your opponents. Also it has a Riot gun which shoots non-lethal rounds which may put your enemy into a short coma for the time being. Oh, also the Vulture has several mini afterburners which will lift the Vulture over blockades and other stuff that may get in your way. And lastly it has a powerful afterburner which will boost the Vulture making its speed near to Mach one but it will take some time to cool down. And by the way it's a six seater also including two more seats at the back of it.” “Okay I’ll take it.” "Hope this car will serve you well. Oh I almost forgot to tell you that it can go underwater and is equipped with missiles too.” Lui stated. “That might be useful later on, but thanks for telling me that.” “Don't forget, it runs on solar energy as it's fuel source.” “Noted.” A Elfen Spider nurses enters the vehicle garage and speaks to Lui for the moment. “Good news for you girls, your friend just woke up.” Lui said. “About time she woke up.” “I wonder how will she react to your new ride?" Lui said. “If anything like how she was when she got the old one, then I’m pretty sure she’ll like it.” “Let's find out shall we?” “This should be interesting to watch.” Later... “HOLY CRAP! IS THIS MY CAR!?” Yelled Kat hovering over the team’s new car. “Yup.” Lui said and started explaining the Vulture features and statistics. “I only have one question. Does this car allow me to listen to music?” “Yes it does.” “Good then I’ll take it.” “Idiot.” Said Dusty. “Even when you almost got killed your still this stupid.” “Up yours bitch.” “Now you guys no need to worry about Rainbow Dash trying to chase your car down from now on.” Lui said. “Well that’s good to hear.” Said Dusty. “At least we have a new set of wheels so we can get to the Crystal Empire much easier.” "Why are you guys heading to the Crystal Empire anyway?” “The mirror world of Equestria. We need to get something from there that can only be found there.” Said Daidouji. “Need any help with that?” “Naw we got it. We’re trying to do things ourselves seeing how we’re kinda low leveled at the moment.” Kumatora said as she pointed to the level number above her head. “Okay then.” Sweetie Bot was looking at the Zakus from behind Kat. From what Kat could tell she was pretty much scanning the Zakus for anything else he might have up their sleeves. “Oh and you gonna need this.” Lui said and passes Kat a small remote and a chip. “What’s this for?” “The remote is to call the Vulture to you if you face some sticky problems. And that chip your holding is a AI chip. Why don't you introduce yourself. ” Lui said. On cue a holographic unicorn figure wearing a dress pops out from the chip. “Greetings, I am your new Artificial intelligence companion. My name is Serena.” “Oh fancy, I like.” “Serena will assist you in many ways in the future. If there's any problems with her just call me and I will fix her up.” Lui said. “You sure she’ll help us?” Asked Sweetie Bot eyeing Serena. “She doesn’t look like she capable to help.” “She can alright. She can do several functions at the same time.” Lui said. “Pretty much so. Installing virus firewall into your program.” Serena said and started installing a new firewall into Sweetie Bot systems for a few seconds. “Done.” “Update acquired. Firewall program have been upgraded.” Said Sweetie Bot still eyeing Serena with a distrustful look on her face. “I think Sweetie Bot is jealous.” Said Dusty. “I AM NOT!” Yelled Sweetie Bot as she point a revolver at Dusty. “Whoa chill! Put the Beam Revolver down please.” Evan said. Sweetie Bot was hesitant at first, but complied and lower her weapon. “Fine.” “Good and I think Lui and Mark has a new upgrade for you.” “What is this new upgrade you speak of?” “You'll find out soon enough.” Evan said. The floor below splits apart and a platform with several mechanical arms appears from below. “I need you to deactivate yourself for awhile so that I can install the upgrades into your body.” Lui said while busy typing in commands on the platform console. Sweetie Bot was again hesitant about doing that. “How do I know you won’t do anything that could damage me?” “Its not like I'm going to install a virus to you. But this upgrade will help you and your mother in future battles. And you will be able to defend yourself.” Lui said. “.......Alright fine, but no funny business or else.” She said as she powered down. “I won’t. Starting procedure now.” The mechanical arms activates and starts upgrading Sweetie Bot as the arms removes her armor platings, dispose of it, and detaches her arms and legs while the other arms remove some old parts and replaces it with new parts including a new power core. Once done, they retach a pair of new arms and legs then attaches new armor platings on Sweetie Bot. After adding the last armor plating, the mechanical arms went offline as Sweetie Bot slowly reactivates. “..........I don’t like the way I look.” She said looking at herself up and down. “Activating editing mode.” In a blink of an eye, a blinding light engulfed almost the entire room. A few seconds later the light faded away as it showed Sweetie Bot wearing a much slimmer and more appealing armor like outfit. “So how do I look now?” “Great. Now let me explain the upgrades you have. The new armor plating you have is made out of Kevlar Carbon fiber mixed with Grade-S Titanium armor which can take in serious punishment even Celestia overpowered solar beam will be absorbed into the armor thus creating an energy shield.” Lui explained. “You also have two alternate modes. You have Combat Mode and Flight Mode.” Mark said. “Try turning into Combat Mode.” “I’ll activate it when I’m in a fight.” “Anyway moving on, the weapons that are equipped in your Combat Mode is a shoulder mounted 60mm Ballistic cannon which mounted on your left and a heavy Vulcan Gatling gun is mounted to your right shoulder. Also a few extra weapons have been added to your Combat Mode are shotguns, SMG, grenade launchers, plasma blasters and a pair of heat blades which are mounted into your arms.” Mark explained. “But when you're in Combat form, your mobility and speed will be decrease by 25% due to the heavy armor for protection which can take serious damage.” “Then there's Flight Mode.” Lui said. “Basically you have a pair of wings equipped in you. But this increases your speed to Mach one to Mach three. Your Flight Mode will be equipped with LMGs, Air-to-air missiles and a couple of bombs.” “Okay.” “You need anything else?” Evan asked. “No that’s pretty much it for now.” “So any ideas?” “None what’s so ever.” “Mind sending us back?” Asked Kat. “Sure thing.” Lui said. “Just give me a moment. I need to insert Serena's chip into the Vulture console.” “How long will that take?” “A few seconds.” Lui said and later inserts Serena's chip into the Vulture's console. “Done. Now Serena has full control on the car.” “Okay so we can leave now?” Asked Kumatora. “Yup. And here's the car keys.” Lui said and tosses the Vulture keys to Kat. “ You need any help or repairs just call us.” “Thanks, we will.” Kat said as she and her friends enter into their new car. “Opening Warp Gate.” Mark said and a Warp Gate portal opens in front of the Vulture. “See you next time.” Jonathan said and tosses a summoning token to Dusty. “Yeah will be sure to summon you when we’re in trouble.” Dusty said as he in turn hands Jonathan their tokens. “Seeya later.” Kat started the engine to their new car, as she push the gas pedal causing the Vulture to go through the Warp Gate. (Renegades universe) “Okay so now where are we?” “Judging by the landscape and not that much plant life around. I think we’re near Appaloosa.” Answered Daidouji. “Seems like she’s right.” Dusty said pulling out a map. “We’re way far from going to the Crystal Empire.” “Great. Now what do we do?” “We might as well get some rest. Don’t want to fight anyone after you near death experience.” Suggested Kumatora. “Fine we’ll head into town tomorrow, but for now let’s get some sleep.” “I will locate the nearest town while you and your team rest Captain Kat.” Serena said. “Okay *Yawns* wake us up is their any hostiles getting near us.” “Yes ma'am. Activating Sentry Mode.” Soon the 80mm cannon pops out from the Vulture's hood and slowly scans the area for any hostile targets. “Don’t kill them, just stun them.” “Roger.” The Riot gun later appears from the Vulture's hood and attached itself to the 80mm cannon. “Okay, well goodnight.” “Goodnight to you Captain Kat.” Serena said.