One light in the Dark.
Psycho
Chapter Thirty Six
The cavern stretched for, what some would think to be miles, yet the siren knew much better. Using her powers to light the way, Lilith slowly led the crystal ponies through the dark tunnel. Deeper and deeper they descended, and Lilith was beginning to feel the 'dark' power the ponies had mentioned. It made her head pulse and her stomach growl, she recognized the feeling but ignored it for now. Getting her ponies to safety was first priority. The thought crossed her to simply phase them out like she had as the firehawk, but she worried where she may end up. No telling how far Jacks army had spread, no telling where was safe. The best option was to simply get them someplace safe the old fashioned way.
"Ugh..." The siren sighed.
"Are you alright? What is wrong?" The old stallion from before asked.
"Nothing, I just..." Hate escort missions... "Feeling a little tapped out. I'll be fine though. Let's keep going."
The stallion nodded as Lilith trotted ahead. Her head began to pulse much faster now, she felt hungry. Sudden realization came to her as a familiar purple glow emanated from a clearing ahead.
"Eridium... There's your ghosts..." She sighed as the room lit up from her siren power.
"I'm sorry?" The old stallion commented.
"Very... Well, important stuff." Lilith groaned as she realized why Jack was so interested in this city. There was probably enough eridium under it to charge the key over again. "Good thing Jack doesn't have a siren..."
"You speak of the crystals? The very ones from which Sombra feasted on?"
"Feasted?" Lilith gave a confused look. "You can't get powers just from eating this stuff you know."
"Yes, we know. Many of us tried our selves to challenge him, but never succeeded." The stallion clutched an old scar in his side. "He did not feast upon them in the traditional manor. Nay, he absorbed it through his dark horn..."
"Like Twilight then... But that would make him a siren right? Last time I checked only chi- er... mares could be sirens."
"I am sorry, but I do not know what you mean by 'sirens', all I know is that he could use it to enhance his own powers ten fold..."
"Huh... Wait, stop." Lilith held out a hoof to stop the herd of ponies behind her. "Do you hear that?"
Familiar sounds echoed through the crystal cavern, jack-hammers and pick axes. Heavy machinery. Lilith sighed as the bandits came into view.
"Damn! Jack must have found a way down here and warped in these bastards... Never could do his own dirty work..." The siren stepped forward. "Stay back here. If you get in trouble, shout. Loudly. Chances are, I won't hear you..."
Before the stallion could respond, Lilith vanished in an explosion. The ponies sit stood as they were told.
Lilith phased into an explosion, ripping a group of psycho miners to shreds. Two marauders turned to face the unicorn and opened fire. In an instant the siren vanished once more as the bullets shredded the crystal behind. Both marauders partook in a double take as they searched for the pony. One of the bandits went flying as a hoof materialized in his face. The other twisted to spray only to have his own face phase blasted. The headless body fell to it's knees as the siren slowly stepped away.
"Too easy... Now... The rest of them..."
The herd of ponies descended down the gloomy stairs towards the base of Sobras castle, the element bearers leading the group. Zer0 stayed close to the middle, next to Brick as he carried Cadence on his back. The closer down they got, the darker the stairwell seemed to grow. Chattering teeth could be heard off the echoing walls, the ground seemed to tremble from shaking legs. Fear held over the room. Twilight waited as the herd finally all funneled into the passage, then closed the way in with her dark magic. Maya approached a bright diamond pony with a red cross cutie mark.
Twilight cast a magical light so she could see just as Maya handed off the crystal mare to the nurse pony. The light grew until it illuminated the entire herd. The purple unicorn winced as a needle like pain shot through her horn. She raised her hooves and noticed her siren tattoos glowing. Turning to Maya, Twilight approached.
"Hmm she is stable for now, the wound went straight though and luckily didn't harm anything major. Still, you were right to bring her here. Our crystal coats protect us from a lot, but these... things... They are loaded with nasty surprises..." The nurse noted as she looked over her patient. "It's going to be rough for her, having to run like this while healing... But I am certain she will be fine.
"Thank you nurse, now if you don't need anything else I'm going to scout on ahead," Maya gave the nurse a smile before heading off. Twilight followed close behind.
"Maya!" Twilight shouted as she caught up with the siren. Maya turned her head to face the unicorn behind her. "Maya, I know we are in the middle of an evacuation but..."
"But?"
"Would you mind telling me a little more about sirens?" Twilight smiled as best she could, given the circumstances. Maya returned with a blank expression then a cool smile back.
"I can tell you what I know, although besides the cool tattoos and the laser hands er... hooves... Not much else."
"Tell me as much as you can. Please. If I have this power, I want to use it for my friends."
"I... I suppose I could teach you a trick or two, but for now we need to focus on the real threat and... Hey, do you hear that?"
Twilight and Maya halted the herd, and Maya recognized the sounds of drills and picks. Twilight raised an eyebrow as she recognized the sound as well, after studying the one hundred ways rock farms provide meaningful work to those on them she could easily single out pick axes. The buzzing however brought a cold feeling about her.
"Miners, stay back Twi. We can hand-"
"I don't think so, I want to try something..." Twilight grinned as an idea formed in her head.
Twilight Sparkle stepped forward as the sounds became louder. Looking around she quickly found the source of all the noise. Tall pale creatures like the vault hunters. Hoo mans they called themselves? Actually Krieg called these ones bandits I believe, Twilight reminded herself. As she continued, her hoof struck a stone and sent it flying down the cavern. As it flew through the air, a large silver object lifted from the ground to intercept it. The steel helmet went flying through the air as the hulking beast slowly realized what had happened.
"Wha? Huh? W-w-w...AaaaaaAAAAAAGHGHHHHHHH SO ANGRY!!" The goliath screamed through the caverns. Twilight flinched for a second, stunned by the scream. Then a freeing thought came to her mind, then an innocent smile.
"Why so angry...."
The goliaths eyes glowed with a menacing red at the seemingly sweet unicorn, and as he raised his hulking fist he screamed. The fist slammed down, knocking a storm of dust into the air. When the air cleared, the goliath looked in confusion as he had hit nothing.
"Ahem, It's rude in interrupt you know..." Twilight scolded as her hoof glowed itself with a velvet aura.
The unicorn lept into the air, seemingly flying as she flipped herself over the massive beasts head. She charged her horn with a magic blast, funneling her siren powers to her already adept magical skill. With a sharp glare, she released the blast into the beasts tiny head.
As the goliath reeled from the attack, Twilight landed away from it and charged another magical phase blast. Her tattoos blazing with velvet light and her horn on fire, she released another blast at the goliath. The ball of magical energy burned the air as it sped towards the goliath when.
BOOM!
The explosion tossed more dust into the air and sent the hulking monster flying back into a mechanized drill. Two marauders noticed and quickly came to join in the action. They both lifted into the air immediately as they drew their guns. Twilight stripped the guns from their hands and spread them away from each other, only to slam them back into each other and toss their unconscious bodies back with the K.O.d goliath. She felt the air ripple, turning around to...
"I'LL STRIP THE RID ROCK FROM YOUR HORN!" The psycho screamed as it lept over a rock just over Twilight. "I'LL GET THE PRETTY HAHAHAHA H-GURK!"
The psycho launched into the ceiling of the cavern as Twilight bucked into his stomach with a phase powered kick. Three more marauders flanked around her, but she quickly spotted them and their clumsy stance. Once again her horn lit up with magic, then she was gone. The marauders double took as they lost sight of the unicorn, only to look down and find a bright purple glowing pool of magical trouble.
Twilight erupted her bubble and blasted all three bandits through the air, knocking them into the cold stone walls of the cavern. The bandits kept coming, and Twilight was beginning to feel taxed. Just as she was about to phase blast another bandit, they all seemed to retreat. She knew this would be trouble.
Two more psychos rounded the corner, behind them a nomad with his enormous shield. Twilight took a breath and charged her horn again, not feeling this exercised since her dual with Trixie. Both psychos floated up in their own velvet shroud.
"I'M PURPLE! MOTHER HELP I'M TURNING INTO A GRAPE!"
"NO! MOTHER HELP ME! IT WAS I THAT BATHED IN YOUR STOMACH JUICES!"
Ew... Twilight thought as she relentlessly rammed both psychos into the nomads shield, effectively accomplishing nothing. The nomad continued his push towards her slowly.
Twilight fired several phase blasts at the shield, but it seemed to block everything she threw at it. Thinking quickly, she remembered Maya's phase lock. While she knew she couldn't do that herself, maybe her magic could copy the effect?
The unicorns horn glowed with the ground behind the nomad, who seemingly didn't notice. He approached a range to draw his weapon and fire on the unicorn, but Twilight threw up her own shield to soak the incoming blows. A drop of sweat fell down her cheek as the earth finally gave in and a large chunk of stone ripped from the ground. She fired another phase blast that curved around the nomad and hit the mass of stone, shattering it into smaller shards. One last bullet fired as Twilight released her shield and pulled all the stones toward her, right through the nomad.
The large man fell onto his own shield as Twilight caught her breath as the vault hunters all slowly stepped up behind her. They all seemed in awe (even Zer0 gave his own emoticon signaling surprise 0.o), when a bright blue hoof rested on her shoulder.
"Way to go Twi. We'll have you turning in bandit parts for Zed in no time." Maya joked as they all laughed.
Back on Pandora...
"Those selfish big stupid heads, think they can go on an epic adventure without me... Well, we will see about that wont we! Bwahahaha, mwahahahahaa! BWAHAHAHAHA OUCH!, I fell over..." The odd little girl picked herself after tripping over one of her tools.
The little girl had worked tirelessly preparing this rocket ship, although to call it a ship is a grace in and of itself, in order to pursue her long lost friends! Will she make it to this strange planet?
"You bet your badonkadonks I will..."
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You have a girlfriend now?
Congratz!
i haven't read this yet but from the desc. it looks pretty badass
GOODJOB FINE SIR
Lots of nice things happened to you it seems Mr. Author sempai! Congratulations and welcome back!
It's aliv— Wait, that's a bit over done. Well, let's see... Er, hmm... eh... augh... It's a uh... I got nothing.
Oh well. Point is: the heavens have risen you from the dead!
4794331 She is freaking awesome! Into ponies as well.
4794339 Thank you kind sir!
4794340 Many fine things indeed.
4794342 "We at Hyperion wish to inform you that there is no afterlife. The light you saw was simply the re-digistruction technology."
Congrats, you're featured again.
I lost it.
4794398 I NEVER SAW THE FIRST FEATURE!!!!!
also
I was inspired by Willy Wonka
O Damn Tiny Tina is comming hide the gunpowder and hide T.N.T And watch your handgranade's
Tiny Tina is comming too the party i think pink pie wil love it
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Oh no... Not tina... No, No... NOOooooo! *runs away screaming in fear*
4794474 I like the 'rugged veteran' style behind him. Kinda what is portrayed in the meat bicycle for two trailer.
4794469
4794464 TINY IS COMING! HIDE YO KIDS HIDE YO WIFE!
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4794354
...that works too!
TINA!
4794487 Of course it does!
4794485 I think Tina wil bring Zed and Marcus and Moxxi two dan the hole crew wil by dare two party o no marcus dare
Marcus: i smell money
Me: me and my big pie hole
4794354 Contrary to what you think, I will not be doing a "sempai noticed me skit" it's not like I think you're special or anything baka! *hump* *makes a show of ignoring you*
4794688 Ahhh but Clone San!!!!
40 weeks
it's all worth it for Tina
4794719
*hands handkerchief*
Am I doing this tsundere skit correctly?
Here ... d-don't mistake this for anything, I-I just don't like seeing people crying. It has nothing to do with you personally Bishi-sempai.
4794927 I KNOW RIGHT!?!?!?!?!
4794875 You sir have fulfilled my dream of having Mr. Bison shout YES YES! at one of my stories. I am honored
4794741 XD Tots, but in all seriousness Life just caught up with me.
Oh Damn girl, Tina's guns blow up so much shiz when she gets there...'z
Part of me wonders why Twi is fine with being so violent. Then I remember that this is a Borderlands crossover, and that Jack destroyed most of the Crystal capital. Violence is necessary.
Not only that, but she's shaping up to be the most badass outta all the sirens. YOU GETTEM TWI!
Also, good job on writing the non-Kreig Psychos, they seemed real.
Oh, dear Lord. I sincerely hope this guy doesn't go on a rampage or something...well...another rampage. Poor, little horsies. I don't think the whole of Equestrian society could stop this dude. Oh, and I have a strong feeling this is a crossover of some variation...from what exactly?
"I AM THE CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN!"
And for that bit of surrealist's prose, you are now being followed, good sir. Mayhaps Blueblood will learn a bit of humility, yes?
4795102 It most definitely is xD
4795200 That's what I figured, I actually rewrote that part many times because it didn't seem to fit her character. That's what I settled with. also considering the fight with Tirek, She is capable of violence xD
4795238 This is a crossover between mlp fim and Borderlands 2, and yeah. Jack is pretty messed up xD.
4795290
Oh. That clears this up for me, thanks. Usually don't like crossovers, but this is a good read. This some sort of video game? Forgive my ignorance. I am but a humble cave-dweller.
And I believe that spell that beat Tirek might still not be enough to stop this freak...albeit he's a lovably unstoppable freak. Charming even.
4794936 Lol, I was just THAT happy about this story coming back from the dead. I pretty much thought I might see an update in 2020! So glad this is going to be back to being active.
4795329 It is a video game, kinda post apocalyptic sci fi western game.
4795583 I had always intended on continuing, it was just getting to the point were life allowed it. You can thank the wonderful miss Night Lark (my gf ;D) for setting a few things straight for me bwahaha.
4795647 IT'S TIME FOR A SHANK-SICKLE! STRAWBERRY ICING WITH BLOODY SWIRLS!
So, Ashly is entering the fic...
Heheheh... Perfect... Oh, so perfect...
4800093 Huh, I swear I put serial... must have misspelled that and auto corrected it to ceral xD
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sweet to see this update but for me it was only 2 week wait but still AWESOME!!! also happy to see Tina might we be seeing this?img0.joyreactor.cc/pics/comment/full/Twilight-Sparkle-mane-6-my-little-pony-%D1%84%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%8B-1119528.png and one more thing CONGRATS!! on any and all improvements on any and everything you do!
Tiny Tina is coming for you.
4877166 never caught that xD thanks xD
Tina?! She better bring her main squeeze!
Y U NO UPDATE IN A LONG TIME?!
I AM THE CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN! AND IT IS MY BADONKADONK!
4934469 Went through some stuff irl. I am working on updates now, but they will still be spaced out between eachother. Life, you know.
4935318 Yeah... I know... I really love this story, by the way. It's absolutely hilarious!
4935375 Thank you xD Always glad to make a reader laugh
Yay TT!
Tiinnaa!