“Was that pun really necessary?” A.T. asked as we moved down towards the bridge.
“Yes,” I replied without missing a beat.
We stopped at the beginning of the bridge and ducked down behind the stone guardrail to catch our breaths.
“Alright,” I said, “A.T. and I will go first, taking out the bulk of them, and then Night and Windy will take care of any strugglers. Now, any questions?”
Windy´s hoof rose into the air.
“Yes, Windy?” I asked my marefriend.
“Do we have to, you know, kill them?” She asked sounding quite nervous of killing other living being.
“No, you can just knock them out, okay?” I replied softly.
“Okay,” She said sounding less nervous.
“Good,” I said while giving Windy an encouraging smile, “Now, let's go!”
We quickly moved across the bridge to flank the army of mercenaries between us and the temple before commencing with our plan.
“Gentlemen,” I said in a French accent catching the attention of the mercenaries nearest to us.
There was a moment of silence as the mercenaries stared at me standing on my hind legs with my forelegs hanging freely on my sides with Safe Twins held firmly in them.
The silence was broken with a shout of “Kill them!” and the mercenaries started shooting at me causing me to jump behind a fountain for cover.
“Now!” I shouted from my cover and was rewarded with the loud report of Cue.
The shot was enough of a distraction for me to peak from behind my cover and open fire into the crowd of mercenaries causing widespread chaos throughout the ranks of the mercs as they didn't know what target to focus on first.
I ducked back behind the fountain when the Safe Twins clicked empty to reload but before I could release the slides I was pulled out from my cover by my tail before being swung into the air and slammed against the ground, knocking the wind out of me.
As I laid on my back gasping for air the figure of a humongous Diamond Dog loomed over with one of its paws pinning me down to the ground.
“There is no escape, snakey!” The Diamond Dog said as I struggled to get out from underneath its giant paw pinning me to the ground.
“Hey! Big and ugly!” Windy's voice shouted from my right making the Diamond Dog turn its head towards her, “Let her go!” She shouted before the sound galloping hooves was heard.
With a resounding *Bang!* a frying pan collided with the Diamond Dog's right side of its head making it collapse onto its side thus freeing me from underneath its paw.
“Are you alright?” Windy asked me with a frying pan held in her magic. How she got the frying pan is beyond me.
“Yeah,” I said as I slowly stood up making Windy sigh in relief before smacking me upside the head with the frying pan, “Ow! What was that for?!”
“That was for making a plan this stupid and actually coming through with it!” Windy replied with an angry look on her face making my ears press down against my head in shame.
“Sorry....” I said to her with an ashamed look on my face causing her to sigh.
“It's alright but do something stupid like this again and I am going to do something much worse than smacking you with a frying pan!” Windy said while giving me the stink-eye making me nod rapidly in agreement.
After this little incident I returned my attention back to the mercenaries that were...... patiently waiting for us?
I shook my head in disbelief before saying, “Alright, we're done.” Causing the mercs to come back to life.
Slowly we fought our way through the mercenaries towards the temple and after about half a hour of continuous fighting we reached our destination.
We walked up to the door leading into the temple and walked inside. The air inside the temple was dusty and stale and I could feel dust sticking to my hooves as we walked upwards the end of the stairs where another door stood.
“Come on, the Empress and her group should be right up these stairs,” I said and hastened my step.
After a short while we arrived at the door and walked through them revealing a corridor and what appeared to be one Winter's Desert Eagles laying on the ground to which I promptly walked up and put it inside my left saddlebag.
My tongue flicked out and I tested the air catching Winter's scent leading right from our current position.
“This way,” I said and started running down the corridor towards where the Empress is.
As we got closer to where the Empress is I could hear but couldn´t understand what an unknown male voice speaking and Daring Do's voice giving a quick retort back followed by an evil sounding cackle.
I poured more speed into my running and soon we reached the room that was the source of the talking.
Inside the room stood Daring Do with Winter fast asleep on her back with the rest of Winter's party stood around them and a strange creature, that I presumed was Ahuizotl, that was laughing standing in front of them.
“Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!" I shouted after shooting Ahuizotl into the chest.
“That's..... impossible,” Ahuizotl said as he looked at his hole ridden chest before looking at me one last time as I fired a round that hit him into his right eye sending him tumbling down from the tower.
I gave Winter's group a wide smile as they stared at me blankly before asking, “Where's the vodka?”