Caboose shot towards Carolina and tackled her to the ground and began to hit her repeatedly in the chest. The group stared, slack jawed at their once innocent friend.
"Caboose... is a bad ass?” Tucker said quietly. “Well, my whole life is a lie."
"What happened to him?" Grif asked nervously.
"O'Malley happened to him." Sarge chuckled as he watched Caboose slam Carolina's head into the ground.
"Wait, O'Malley?" Church muttered. "What are you talking about? The EMP got rid of him."
"Well he left something behind in Caboose. He taught him how to get angry."
Carolina took out her pistol and tried to bring it up, but Caboose slammed his hoof on her wrist, making her release it. Carolina headbutted Caboose in the muzzle, causing him to growl and jump off of her.
"Should we do something?" Simmons asked.
"If you want to get in between what's basically O'Malley and a freelancer, then go ahead." Church muttered.
"I think I'm good." Simmons quickly replied.
Carolina took out her knife and swung it at Caboose. He jumped out of the way, but the knife still managed to connect with his muzzle.
"I think when I'm done with you I'll go straight for the pink one."
Caboose snarled and grabbed Carolina by the helmet and slammed her head onto a large rock that jutted out of the ground. The visor of her helmet shattered, effectively blinding her as shards flew into her face. Caboose yanked off the helmet and hit her in the nose, breaking it. He then stood on his hind legs, spun around and threw her a few feet away.
"Caboose?" Pinkie asked nervously, fearing the new Caboose.
Caboose turned to Pinkie and his eyes reverted back to normal and he began to smile. Carolina noticed this, promptly hopping to her feet.
"Hello!" Caboose yelled happily.
Carolina jumped in the air, her foot ending up in Caboose’s chest sending him tumbling into the others.
"That wasn't nice." Caboose said dizzily.
Carolina aimed the horn at Caboose and shot a concentrated bolt of magic at him. Church used his magic and grabbed the bolt out of the air and threw it back at Carolina. She stood still and watched the bolt missed her by an inch, and then began to laugh.
"This is between us, not them." Church yelled.
"You made it about them when you came in here." Carolina growled. "And now they're going to pay for it with you."
"I'm tired of listening to her, let's fuck this bitch up!" Tucker yelled, flying towards Carolina.
She side stepped out of the way and brought her elbow down and drove it down with immense strength right into the small of his back as he flew by.
"Dammit." Tucker complained as he tried to reach his back. "Why the hell is she so fast?"
Carolina walked towards Tucker, who was on the ground writhing in pain. Just as she was kneeling down, about to break Tucker's neck, she got knocked to the ground.
"You can't kill a blue!" Sarge yelled, kicking her in the throat. "That's my job!"
"Good to see you still have some fight in you. I was beginning to think that the grenade was the end for you." Carolina glared up with a savage smile plastered on her face.
"I'm the best damn fighter you'll ever meet." Sarge said, hitting her in the chest. "And that's sir to you."
Carolina leaped to her feet and lunged at Sarge but he bucked her in the chest, causing her to fall back down.
"Oh yeah! Feel it bitch!" Tucker yelled, still on the ground.
Carolina looked up and growled at Sarge, who was standing over her with a smile.
"Look's like it's not just these blues that I'm used to fighting that suck at it." Sarge said smugly.
Within a second, Carolina stabbed Sarge in the ankle with the horn, going all the way through. Sarge yelled in pain and fell to the ground. She got up and kicked him in the head, causing his vision to blur.
"That's two down." Carolina said with a wicked smile. "Batter up."
"Grif, execute plan delta!" Simmons yelled.
Grif nodded and ran straight at Carolina, who then kicked him in the face, propelling him back to where he started.
"What the fuck was that? That wasn't plan delta!"
"Like I fucking know what plan delta even is!" Grif yelled, holding his nose.
"Just surround her!"
"You could have just said that!" Grif snapped, flying behind Carolina.
“Oh, and Grif, good job at least trying to get yourself killed.” Sarge commended.
Simmons used his magic to give himself a sudden burst of energy, but as Carolina sidestepped the bolt, Grif tackled her to the ground.
"I got her!" Grif yelled.
Carolina knocked Grif off and instantly grabbed his head and slammed it on her knee as she brought it up.
"Goddammit." Grif choked, falling to the ground. "I didn't get her."
Tucker got up and flew towards Sarge and helped him up.
"I have a plan." Tucker said.
"Let's hear it." Sarge mumbled, staring at his ankle.
"It doesn't matter to me what happens to these idiots." Carolina turned to Church. "But if you come back now I might let them live."
"I'm not going anywhere with you."
"Fair enough." Carolina said, charging at Church with the horn gripped tightly in her hand, aiming to kill.
"Church watch out!" Caboose yelled, jumping in front of Carolina.
"Caboose no!" Church yelled.
Carolina's horn pierced Cabooses chest and his eyes widened. She tried to take the horn out, but it had penetrated too deep, so she let go of the horn, dropping Caboose to the ground.
"Well at least one of you got what they had coming" Carolina said as she took out her pistol and aimed it at Church. "If only you came with me then nobody would have gotten hurt. Well besides those other horses that helped me."
"Hey, remember me?" Sarge asked.
Before Carolina could turn, Sarge charged his good leg and hit her in the chin. She found herself launched in the air. Before she managed to right herself, she heard the sound of thunder. She looked up and saw Tucker, who was diving right at her with incredible speed, electricity surging out of his body. He tackled her out of the air and slammed her right back into the ground. As she made it to her knees in an attempt to get up, Grif tackled her right back onto the ground and punched her in the throat. Carolina coughed up a little blood and let out a small laugh.
"Son of a bitch..." She said, barely managing to kick Grif off.
She started to get up, but Simmons started using a spell he had learned from Rarity to hold her in place.
"We got her!" Tucker yelled as he saw Carolina struggling feebly to get out of the hold. "I knew it would work."
"I have to admit Tucker, I'm surprised that worked." Sarge laughed, giving a swift nod of approval.
"I can't believe we won!" Grif laughed.
"Caboose?" Pinkie asked as she approached Caboose, who was laying on the ground.
The group turned to see Caboose, who was lying in a small pool of blood.
Oh shit, Caboose!
NUUUUUUU!!!
GRRRRRR, now I have to wait a whole day to find out what happens
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OF ALL THE THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN, THIS IS THE. WORST. POSSIBLE. THING!
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NOOOOOO!!! Not caboose!!!!
He is my favorite character.
After the last few lines I was expecting a "Holy shit, that didn't work!"
I may have watched This One Goes To Eleven a few thousand too many times >.>
I have two problems with this chapter
1. YOU KILLED CABOOSE!
2. "He then stood on his hind legs, span around and threw her a few feet away." I believe you meant "spun"
Keep the updates coming!
What....what...ehy he was just a boy damnit...HE WAD JUST A BOY!!!!!!!NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
we demand you finish another story by the end of today , you cant let caboose die
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SO much happened SO fast! OH NO now we are going to have a mad pinkie...
We are so doomed.
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That's possible?
Caboose!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WHO WILL MAKE THE WORLD SMILE NOW THAT PINKIE HAS LOST HER COLTFRIEND!?!?
Church: CABOOSE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Tucker: wait a minute... This is what happened last time... And then everything seemed to reset....
Church: of fuck, not this again
Caboose! NO!!!!!
By the way, just how fucked up in the head is Carolina to have continued to threaten Pinkie Pie after she saw what it made Caboose into?
C-Caboose? You can't die...
Caboose. Dead?
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"The lenses of her helmet shattered completely"
You might want to change this to visor, rather than lens.
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Ah I was thinking of a different helmet that has lenses rather than an actual visor.
Yeah it was CT's helmet that i was thinking of.
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In other words, he's not dead.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First thought: Caboose is dead
Second thought: a grenade didn't kill Sarge.
So most likely Caboose is still alive, mortally wounded, but alive.
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(pours two shots) heres to caboose, may he kick ass and make everyone laugh in the after life (sheds a tear and pours on shot on the ground and takes the other one)
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You did mention that Twilight was running low on juice, but even then...
It's a really cool idea in theory, but there isn't any groundwork to explain it. Now, if it turns that Carolina can 'hack' their reality due to her greater experience with the AI units, then I'm going to look very silly. Other than that though I can't think of a good reason.
I don't want to make it sound like I dislike the story; I'm just a stickler for plot logic.
Caboose, you were a good man, this song is for you.
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I knew sarge and carolina would live because...it's them.
But Caboose? I don't know.
NOOOOOOOOOOO
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...dafuq man........dafuq
Caboose is one tough S.O.B. He'll pull through... I hope
Honestly I'm okay with this as I never really liked Caboose. Mainly because you took everything likeable about the character away like the fact that EVERYONE should find Caboose Anoying and not stick up for him
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I fail to see how the visor would shatter first, what with this design:
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Oh shit went down and so did Caboose.
Caboose, dead?
Son I Am Pissed
If Carolina found a way in, then this opens up the chance for other RvB people to make it in Equestria, Si?
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With enough force going through it could shatter it.
EDIT: Also I did put the rock jutted out, allowing the rock to come in contact with the visor.
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In most books and movies, magic is a force you can tap into, not something certain people are born with. So in my eyes, I really see the horn simply as a tool that unicorns/alicorns/pegacorns are born with which allows them to use magic, which is why I thought that it would be possible for others to use magic if they get a hold of a horn.
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NO GOD!!!! WHY GOD WHY!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
CABOOSE don't die
CABOOSE! NO!
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NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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Let's assume then that unicorn horns are pure keratin (no living tissue and therefore won't die upon removal) and they only act to channel the magic. That still creates several problems. It would mean that magic is environmental instead of internal.That doesn't seem to be the case, because of individual magic auras and unique magical abilities (i.e. Rarity's gem finding or Shining Armor's shields).
However, even if magic is purely environmental with no internal component unique to unicorns, that still raises the question of how Carolina learned to use her stolen horn so quickly and with nopony to teach her. You can't say it's instinctual, humans don't have magic, or that the horn comes with the knowledge of how to use it, Twilight wouldn't ever have to learn spells if that was the case.
Is Carolina such a magical prodigy that she can master basic magic, a completely foreign concept to her, within hours of self-teaching?
I'm trying not to be a jerk about this, but when something doesn't work, it doesn't work.
Caboose didn't die. think of how much torture he went through and survived.
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For the auras I would just say that things glow because they become concentrated with magic, whereas it doesn't glow when they don't have anything directly affecting them. As for the unique abilities, remember that Rarity taught Twilight the spell which showed that it wasn't just Rarity's ability, but that since she is a designer that uses gems, she used her time to create a spell that showed them in the ground. And during the wedding we were shown that Shining Armor was able to do the shield because love in itself is magic, which made him stronger, but he still suffered huge migraines.
Also freelancers are fast learners, she inadvertently thought about how she was going to fix her leg, and while holding the horn her leg healed. That's why she threw it, thinking it was dangerous, then she thought about the bridge blowing up while she held it and she did. While I do understand that she would need more than a few hours to learn how to use it, I wanted an actual conflict. So while improbable, I do believe that this could be possible, it is just a small stretch of the imagination.
And don't worry, I'm not taking you as a jerk, I often do the same to other stories that I find things a bit off in.
634335 I think Pinkie is going to beat you to it. Seriously, she thinks her friends abandon her for about 2 hours, and she goes creepy birthday party. Imagine the pain party that is in store for Carolina now
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I referring to the fact that everypony has their own color aura, but that's unimportant.
Carolina fixed her ankle, and blew up an entire bridge within seconds of acquiring the broken horn. With no training. Without even any effort.
No. Just no. I can't believe I didn't notice that before. She thinks about healing her leg and it happens? That is not how magic is ever shown to work in FiM. Twilight focuses on spells, and exerts power. Carolina does not even shown any strain after somehow casting two spells that not even a normal, adult unicorn would be capable of. What you have essentially said is that any average Joe can steal the staff of an average wizard then instantly cast more powerful spells than the rightful and trained owner.
Like I said. This does not work. In fact it works less now.
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I kind of just realized we're both trying to make sense of how to use magic in a non canonical fiction that's about space "warriors" from the future going into a unit designed for an AI and ending up in a world filled with pastel colored horses. How a horn works when it is severed from a unicorns head probably shouldn't be the first thing where you go "Hold on that doesn't make any sense".
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Actually yeah.
All suspension of disbelief is based on the 'one big lie' every story gets. For example in Inception the 'big lie' is that there are people who can enter your dreams and mess with them. They never explain how their dream machine works, but they don't have to. Everyone buys into it, because everyone is willing to accept one thing without questioning it.
Since your story is a crossover it actually gets three. The two 'big lies' inherent in the universes you're connecting and your own 'big lie'. You spend yours by saying that Equestria is inside the AI Unit and that everybody can somehow get there even though they aren't AI's. You never explain this, but you don't need to. Everyone just accepts it.
However, here is the catch. Everything from now on everything in the stories must be derived from one of the 'big lies' or arise logically. In other words you can have a time-traveling Abe Lincoln show up and curb stomp Carolina because there is an ancient prophesy that she will eat the wrong sandwich tomorrow. As entertaining as that may be it doesn't make any sense. The reader's suspension of disbelief has snapped.
However if Celestia suddenly appears, helps defeat Carolina and says that all of the RvB cast have learned their lesson and may go back to their real forms then, while unexpected, it makes sense because she is supported by the story's internal logic and the 'big lie' of a magic, pony-filled world.
In this case the horn problem is not supported by any of the 'big lies' or by previous explanation within the story. You can't do that.
However in a less literary analysis frame of mind, yes I realize the absurdity.