Psycho
Chapter Twenty Nine
The large crowd of small ponies were once again traveling to the crystal castle, a trek that has borne them many side ques -er- encounters, but they still seemed to make very little progress. The lack of said progress was beginning to wear at a few of the group member's patience. Twilight Sparkle especially, who now was finding Gaige's way of explaining technology very annoying and squeaky. She felt that if she heard the phrase 'Total AWESOMENESS!' one more time that she would have to melt the ginger pegasus's face off. Those thoughts retreated into the back of her head as the large earth stallion suddenly stopped in front of her, lifting his head to sniff the air.
"Uh, Krieg... My brother and his wife are kind of waiting on us?" Twilight reminded the now twitching psycho.
"Uhhh Twilight..." A worried voice resounded from behind her.
"Not now Pinkie, Krieg! Come on! What's the hold up?" Twilight was losing patience with every distraction. She couldn't help but think if these vault hunters always got this distracted when the fate of their world hung in the balance. "Krieg? Are you listening to me?"
"But it's about my Pinkie Se-"
"Pinkie! We have more important thing's to worry about than things falling!" Twilight almost raged.
"Easy now Twi, once the big guy's got this thing going on... It's best to just let him do his business..." Axton put a hoof out in front of the lavender siren pony, expecting her to take a step forward.
"But it's not a tail twitchy! It's something else! Like a real doosy!" Pinkie almost seemed excited at the prospect.
Gaige crept up on Krieg, in hopes of calming him down. As she approached the psycho pony, she couldn't help but rest a hoof on her pistol. She knew the bullets would do no good, but one hit by it's electrical surge should (hopefully) shock him out of his trance. Just before she could get close enough to speak, well... Just take a look...
"TAIL TWITCHY!? INNARDS CHURNING!? MY BRAIN IS SPINNING IN MY HEAD!" The pyscho screamed in a shout that put the nearby crystal ponies in a state of sheer terror. Just as the silence began, Krieg spoke in a hushed tone once more. "I cannot rest here.... there are enemies near by..."
"Gah! Krieg! Wait for me!" Gaige shouted as the large earth stallion vaulted over a fence into a neighboring ally.
"I CANNOT WAIT WITH BAD GUYS AROUND!" The psycho screamed as he charged around a corner.
Gaige flew up into the air to track him and with a slight nod, she shot back into the ally system to chase her friend. Everypony else tried to follow but the two vault hunters rushed out so fast that they lost track of them almost immediately. Twilight was speechless for several seconds, a single strand of hair flicked out of her mane as her eyes shot wide open. Her mouth seemed to creak into an awkward smile as she turned towards the castle and continued walking.
"It's ok Twilight.... They must have gone... after... food... yes... food..." The siren pony told herself as she walked towards the castle. The other ponies behind her simply followed suit.
"Uh... So... Vinyl..." Carapace backed into the shadows next to his tall mother.
"Carapace, is this pony a... friend of yours?" Chrysalis seemed to snarl as she asked.
"No- I mean... yes mother, she is a good friend of mine" Carapace knelt his black head down in shame.
*clop* *clop* *clop*
"Well then, Vinyl is it? Fortune favors you that you find us in a... weak predicament. Now begone!" The Queen demanded.
"Woah there lady, I don't mean any harm. I just saved you after all right?" Vinyl laughed as she leaned up against the ally wall. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed the tall figure shambling back to his feet. "HEY JERK!"
"Huh? Oh... shit..." Caine mumbled as the bass blasters exploded through the air with a low rumbling blast. The shot's hit the ground beneath the hyperion agent, launching him into the air.
Vinyl prepared another shot, but before she could fire Caine balanced himself in the air and his boots exploded in flames as he rocketed out of the city. The unicorn could vaguely see the human vanish in the air as he departed.
"Heh... Lucky bastard..." The unicorn turned back to the two changelings before her, a part of her knew they shouldn't be trusted. She couldn't shake the feeling that Carey, or rather Carapace, could still be trusted. After all, Vinyl was all for giving ponies chances. "Now that he is outa the way, perhaps we could chat about the whole... Carey being a changeling thing. Maybe over a bite to eat though! Blasting aliens can get a girl hungry!"
*clop* *clop* *clop*
Both changeling's exchanged looks as the unicorn spoke, it was the Queen who spoke first.
"Are you aware of who it is you are speaking to?" Chrysalis seemed a little off set by the ponies acceptance.
"Yeah, I know who you are. Almost took Canterlot a while back, pretended to be a princess, got kicked out, yadda yadda yadda. You think I'm worried about that?" Vinyl hid a smile behind her poker face.
"Almost certainly little pony, are you not the least bit afraid?"
"Nah, after seeing how you held up against that bastard and how well I flicked him outa here... I'm confident I can handle ya!" The smile broke through with a gleam of her bright teeth.
*clop* *clop* *clop*
"Mother, Vinyl. Do you two hear that?" Carapace asked, noticing the steadily increasing noise rushing towards them.
"Hear what?" Both the Queen and Vinyl asked, but their question was answered when a massive earth stallion burst though the wall before them screaming mad ramblings.
"WHERE ARE THE BAD GUYS!? I CAN HEAR YOUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Krieg screamed as he burst through the wall.
Map show's no threats here anymore
"BUT THERE IS NO POST ON SUNDAYS!"
What? What does that even have to... You know what? Nevermind... I'm not even going to try and understand that one.
"FREEDOM AT LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAST!!!!!!!"
"What the buck?" The white unicorn before him raised an eye brow before the lumbering mass of flesh before her.
"I SAW A RED DOT AND I WANT IT OFF MY MAP!"
It is off the map! God...
"What? What are you-"
"Enough of this blabbering! Is it a fight you seek beast!? Because you seem to have found one!" The tall black horse bug declared.
"YOU GOT ME A PRESENT!? IT'S WHAT I ALWAYS WANTED!"
No! Wait! These are not enemies!
The Queen stared at the clumsy beast for a few moments, anticipating it's first move. Krieg on the other hand just paced back and forth as he fiddled with his buzz axe in hoof. Not taking the time to consider how exactly he gripped it. Instead he watched the Queen with bloodthirst in his eyes.
"Hey wait a minute! Don't go leaving me out of this scrap!" The white unicorn pony joined the circle.
Oh great... A truxican stand off...
"IT'S NACHO DAY TODAY FRIENDS!" Krieg screamed as he rushed the Queen, buzz axe humming it's devilishly handsome tune.
"Not today you... freak!" Chrysalis deflected the attack with a barrier, nearly taking all of her power reserves to keep it up as the pycho pony hammered on it with the strange object. She felt her magic wane just as the psycho was blasted off the barrier in a blast of sound.
Krieg peeled himself out from the wall that broke his fall, leaving a giant pony print in the wall behind him. The psycho landed on all fours and reared up on his hind legs and let out what couldn't be identified as a roar or laughter. The white unicorn felt her jaw drop as the pony just shook off a blow from her bass blasters. She began to charge them a second time for another assault.
"Ok you tough hunk of stallion... You're cute and all, but I think you could use a little BEAT DOWN!" Her hooves released another barrage of bass that erupted the ally in sound. The beams came inches away from the psycho when they made contact with... something... Vinyl watched the smoke clear, but almost wished it would have stayed. In front of the psycho pony stood, or rather floated, a metal monstrosity with it's arms clasped together. The energy radiating from the creation grew into a massive blue orb that, when completed, simply floated into the ally.
Vinyl watched as the strange orb floated closer and closer, almost entranced by the humming the orb released. The orb closed distance to the enthralled pony, but before Vinyl could reach out to touch the mysterious ball...
"Vinyl! Duck!" Carapace lept into the fray and wrapped his forelegs around the DJ pony as he rolled out of the way. Just as Vinyl was about to protest, a loud pop caught her attention. She watched the blue projectile fly through the air towards the orb, and as it made contact with the glowing ball it exploded in a magnificent eruption of static electric energy that caused the hairs on the back of every pony present to stand.
For a soft moment, the battle seemed done. The queen was expended of her magic, and Vinyl was just too in awe at the technological marvel before her eyes. Krieg simply stood behind the machine, laughing as another body dropped to the ground before them. Out of the shadows concealing the new member, a small pegasus stepped out into the light. Vinyl only felt furtner in shock as she noted the fake foreleg.
"Everypony still ali-" The pegasus rested her eyes on the white unicorn sitting on the ground before her. Her voice dropped, her eyes widened, and her mouth grew into a large beaming smile. "OMIGODIT'S VINYL SCRATCH!"
I just read that in Jack's voice. And it just made me hate him even more.
3083295 Let your hatred flow through you, and let it inspire you to commit heinous acts of murder on hyperion
Uber Gage fangasm is imminent. Lesser Vinyl fangasm may occur in its wake.
Hide your children, crystal ponies, and hide them well.
shes fan girling so hard wright now
Sure, post a chapter while I'm at school.
Totally kidding, wonderful chapter as always.
I had nachos for lunch. They were delicious.
3083998 so wanted to end it with CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH!?
I don't know why but I totally forgot to read the last chapter! i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd291/clonezero_emoticons/chair_zps8d68a60d.gif
Well at least I get to read 2 chapters back to back I guess!
So fangasm imminent, wonder how that will turn out! And wonder how will Chrysalis explain her side without getting some unneeded additions to her already holey legs.
3084042 You know, I put that line in because Truxican Standoff is like a spacey kinda mexican stand off, only now did I even think about it meaning 'It's not yo day today friends' hehe.
3084405 :3
3084463 I was also going to put music to the fight scene, but the song I wanted to use I decided half way through writing it that I wanted to use it later for a battle of much more epic proportions mwahahahaha. Still, glad you enjoyed the chapter! Took me forever to figure out what I was going to do next, still trying to figure out how to handle the changeling situation. Several ideas, but I can only use one! Of all the worst things that could happen, this is the. Worst. Possible. Thing! Oh well, I'll get over it and figure it out
3084495 I can't even write fanfics, haha.
Vinyl and Gaige will upgrade D374-TP with a bass cannon. You're welcome.
I like the quotes you make for Krieg. You always know what to make him say and its hilarious. Vinyl is my favorite pone so thanks for making her a badass. I keep playing Vinyl Scratch II by Silva Hound in the background. Gaige better step off my waifu (loljk I could never be mad at her).
Overall, I love this so much, Chrysalis would die of high cholesterol.
Do continue.
3084060
FimFiction didn't show that as an updated chapter for me. I had 2 unread chapters as well, but the favorites number only equaled 1 for this story.
3087042 It's not too hard really, either caps lock video game/music references or scream WTF moments. Vinyl is best pony. Totally
3087876 NIPPLE SALAD!
3084504 It's ok because you are a fantastic reader! just now saw that comment
3088361 Yeah, in 6th grade I read above a 12th grade level.
3089848 xD I don't know what level i read at in 6 th grade. Only just started getting into reading like... 7 years ago? That was when I started reading The Gunslinger by Stephen King, then read the rest of the series lile iy was crack Haha probably atributes to my ability to write this fic. In many ways, Krieg is a lot like the main character. Also very. very different Haha
3090549 Well hey, you do a damn good job with this fic.
3090554 thank you kindly :)
3087042 images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130627031907/borderlands/images/e/e2/Buttstallion.jpg
3098564 that's my resume photo
I had an idea a while ago and I think you might like it.
this story should include Patricia Tannis
imagine the things she would do.
3107056 start vomiting blood from her nose at the first introduction to pinkie? Lol
3101113 do you still poop out guns wen you eat eridium?
3110200 Why? DO YOU HAVE SOME????
3110367 yes, yes I do. I wonder what would happen if you ate seraph crystals.
3110379Those taste like candy. and nothing too different happens. I crap a gun like a boss and the gun comes with one of the new camos.
3110412 I ate eridium once. Then, a top hat blinked into existence.
3110443That might be a new gun in an upcoming dlc. maybe it shoots rabbits
3110461 it shoots a un-interrupted laser. A rainbow laser. It tastes like skittles.
3110492can I eats it?
Oh Kreig you fourth wall breaking BASTARD you
3124570 Krieg is the hole broke through the fourth wall
I couldn't help but notice Vinyl complimenting Krieg. Could it lead to something? Maybe just an upgrade for the buzzaxe; sonic vibrations to make enemies explode!
3126461 I'm fairly certain Vinyl could give all the vault hunters special tech >.> And I'm sure she could get a shit load of tech from them >.> implications hoooo!
Is it bad this reminded me of a certain dark and vengeful superhero? >.>...
What is this? Fallout?
3510976 *sees Red dots on my HUD* ....red......RED!!!REEEEEED!!!! *Goes Apeshit*