My Little Fortress: Friendship is Explosive

Chapter 6: Here We Go Again…

A/N: sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up. I'll try to work faster next time.

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Scout was asleep on a makeshift bed in a room that Rainbow Dash could spare. Ever since the first day they got here, he had stayed with Rainbow Dash thanks to a spell Twilight cast on him, allowing him to walk on clouds.

Scout was having a dream, one that was like dreams he had before. He was in a small room, with expensive paintings hanging on the wall and expensive furniture in the room. He was sitting on a couch when he heard the door open. The room was lowly lit, so he couldn't see who opened it. He could hear walking, but it sounded like the thing was walking on all fours. He then heard a feminine voice.

"You look tensed. Maybe I can help you relax," the voice said seductively.

"Yeah," Scout said. He heard the figure coming closer to him, her lips puckered up as she was going to kiss him. He puckered his lips up to, waiting for the girl. The first thing he saw when he could see her in the low light was a rainbow mane.

"WHAT THE FUCK?" Scout yelled as he woke up. "Did I just…" he said after rubbing his eyes. Then, he looked under the covers. His "Bat" looked like it was ready to hit a homerun. "You've gotta be kiddin' me," he muttered, and then facepalmed. He then saw Rainbow Dash walking towards the room, so he started acting like he was just getting up.

"Scout, you ok?" Rainbow Dash asked as she walked into the room. "I heard you yell."

"Yeah, I'm fine, but could ya give me a few to get my clothes on?" Scout replied. He was hiding his thin frame and his "bat" under the covers.

"Ok, I'll cook breakfast. Hope you don't mind vegetables," Rainbow Dash said.

"You sound just like my ma with all these vegetables," Scout muttered. Dash chuckled, then walked off towards the kitchen.

As Scout watched her walk off, he couldn't help but look at her backside. He then slapped himself when he realized he was staring at her flank.

"Get it together man, you'd be the laughing stock of the team if they knew you thought a pony was sexy," Scout said. He then slapped himself again as he realized what he had just said. "Now you're just admitting what they want to hear." Scout said to himself. Scout sighed and started to get dressed.

As he looked at his shirt, he sighed. It was the same red shirt his ma gave to him the day he left to work with RED. Scout sighed again, wondering if he would ever see his ma or his brothers again. When he first got to RED's location, he was a little paranoid when he saw that the BLU scout looked just like him. At first, he thought it was one of his brothers fighting him, and he's still not sure if he is right or not, but he didn't seem to care. He slipped on his shirt and the rest of his clothes and walked into the kitchen, where Rainbow Dash had finished cooking. She was sitting at the table, reading a book from the Daring Do series. Scout looked in disbelief.

"I didn't think you would read," Scout said. Dash looked at him and laughed.

"I know, but I actually like reading when I'm not working or exercising. The Daring Do series is my favorite," she said. She explained Daring Do's purpose to Scout and she also told him about the first book in the series, which she remembered word for word.

"She sounds a lot like you, winger" Scout said. Rainbow blushed a little at the complement.

After they had finished eating, which Scout had to do his best not to get sick because he hadn't eaten vegetables in a long time, they started to go to ponyville to meet the others. While Rainbow could fly down there. Scout had to walk on the clouds to get there. Which took him longer.

When he finally got down to the ground, he said, "Man, I gotta find a faster way of getting down here."

"I'll see if I can get Twilight to get you a hot air balloon," Dash said. Scout started to ask why ponies had hot air balloons, but he then dismissed the question for later.

Scout and Dash walked towards Rarity's house, just to annoy her and Spy some. When they got there, they could see Rarity making another outfit. Rainbow knocked on the door.

"Oh, Come in!" Rarity said. Dash and Scout walked into the boutique. "Oh, welcome darlings. Took an afternoon nap did we?"

Scout nodded. "Well, surprisingly, I was still tired from the fight yesterday in the caves. But anyway, what are you working on?" Scout asked.

Rarity's eyes seemed to brighten, and she immediately started talking about what she was making. "Why, its my outfit for Nightmare Night! I have worked on it ever since late last night, and I am making sure I get everything right down to the stitching. Are you wearing anything for Nightmare Night?" Rarity asked.

Scout stopped for a moment. "Uh, yeah, course I am!" He said. But Dash could tell by the look on his face that he had not even thought about it. Luckily for him, Rarity could not read his face so well.

"Marvelous! I will see you two tonight during the celebration," she said. Scout and dash waived goodbye as they walked out of the boutique.

"So, what are you REALLY going to do now that you had just agreed to getting a costume?" Dash asked him.

"I'll look through the crates engineer took to the barn at Applejack's place later. I wonder what old longshot is doing now, he's normally up early," Scout said, referring to Sniper.

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On the roof of Twilight's house…

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"Don't take this personal, but your job, to kill everyone you see that is against you, sounds like the job of a crazed gunman," Twilight said. Sniper groaned. They were sitting on the roof together, talking about Sniper's job. Sniper had this conversation many times with his dad.

"Look mate, I'm not a crazed gunman, I'm an assassin."

"But what's the difference?" Twilight asked.

"What the difference be?" Sniper asked, as if shocked. "Ones a job, the other is mental sickness!" He said. Him and Twilight continued to argue about it until Sniper spotted Dash and Scout.

"Well, here comes Your friend Dasher and Bacon Legs."

Twilight sighed. She probably would not understand for a long time where Sniper got his nicknames for people.

"Whata you two knuckleheads doin up there? You makin out?" Scout called up. Rainbow Dash snickered.

"Why, you little pint sized spastic bastard!" Sniper yelled in return, which made Scout only laugh some more. Yes, Scout had to admit, Sniper could make the harshest of insults, but he could make them where they were comedic to his team.

Twilight was blushing a little after hearing Scout's joking statement.

Scout looked at Sniper. "so you makin a Costume for Nightmare Night?" he asked.

Sniper nodded. "You remember that game that I rented called Brink?" Sniper asked. Scout nodded.

"Yeah, that game was awesome!" he said

"Well, since I made the hood, I'm gonna try to make the whole outfit for that one set of clothes, The Anger ( A/N: I do not own Brink, I got the idea for having Sniper wear The Anger while making my MLP and Brink Crossover fanfic, On The Brink Of Friendship (which is still in the making) ) ."

"Your favorite outfit in that game," Scout said. As Sniper and Twilight came down to ground level, they saw Soldier walking around with some cardboard boxes.

"What is he doing?" Twilight and Rainbow Dash asked simultaneously.

"Aw piss," Sniper said.

"No way," Scout chirped in. He then looked at Sniper. "Do ya think he's.."

"I bet the ol' rocket jumper is. That Robot is annoyin as hell." Sniper said.

"A robot?" Dash asked. Sniper and Scout both nodded.

"You see, every Halloween, Soldier wears this getup he calls "The ultimate robot outfit eva". I call it an annoyin piece of junk," Scout said.

"Yeah. The patriotic psycho wears it EVERY year. And he only gets more annoyin with it." Sniper added.

Twilight and Rainbow Dash looked at each other , chuckling at the idea of a battled hardened Marine like Soldier dressing up and acting like a robot.

"Well, we'll have to see that tonight." Twilight said.

"Anyway," Dash said, "me and scout were going to sweet apple acres to get scout a costume and we thought you may want t come with."

Sniper and Twilight agreed happily.

"Alright, race you there!" Scout said, running off, faster than a speeding bullet.

"Hey!" Dash shouted, laughing and chasing after him.

"Hmph, the two are perfect for each other," Sniper said.

"unfortunately, yes. But could you imagine Scout thinking we were making out on the roof?" Twilight said.

They both lightly chuckled at the idea, but the same thought hit their heads.

"Well, it COULD happen…"

They then immediately shook the thought away and walked towards sweet apple acres.

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Sweet Apple Acres…

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"What do ya thank of this one?" Engineer asked as he put on his Western Wear hat. Engineer was trying to find an outfit for Nightmare Night, and he figured he would be (obviously) a western character.

Applejack looked at him wearing the hat. "Ah hate to admit it, but that hat looks to tall on ya," she said.

"Aw, don't worry about it. Criticism helps ya be better," Engineer said. Engineer let applejack into the fun of it, and they were both trying on hats.

Engineer was now trying on his favorite, the Texas Ten Gallon and Applejack had on the Buckaroos hat.

Applejack asked soon asked him "By what you told me about this "BLU" team, if everythang as far as you know is exactly the same, why is your name and Sniper's name different then the BLUs?"

Engineer replied, "Well, let me tell ya, I found out about it a short while after I first arrived to fight with RED. When I told everyone, no one seemed at care, except for Sniper. He later told me that he felt like ah did, and he was kinda paranoid about killin' someone that looked just like him. And if his name was tha same, well, it wouldn't have helped much. So our Sniper changed his name ta Nick Walker. Surprisingly at us, BLU Engineer heard about this and ended up changing his name to Jack Parsons so atleast he would kill a guy wit ha different name, even though we look alike."

Pyro had already decided what he/she (I'm still not showing what gender I think Pyro is :P) was going to wear. He secretly put on his Blazing bull, Fallen Angel, and Tail From the Crypt. He then saw Engineer in his outfit, wearing his Texas Ten Gallon, his Texas Half-Pants and his Teufort Tooth kicker, making him look like a cowboy from the Wild West.

When Engineer's back was turned and Applejack couldn't see him, he snuck up quietly behind Engineer. When Applejack saw Pyro, she just stared with a scared look on her face, forgetting about the thought that it LOOKED like Pyro.

"Applejack, you alright pardner?" Engineer asked. Applejack just pointed slowly with her hoof to something behind his shoulder. Engineer turned around slowly, and he didn't expect what he saw.

"HUDDA HUMPH!" Pyro yelled the second Engineer looked at him. Engineer and Applejack yelled and started to run. Engineer was going to get his wrench to hit the thing (he didn't recognize Pyro yet (awkward isn't it? Not recognizing someone you've worked with for a long time) ) but he tripped over Applejack. When he fall on his back, Applejack fell on top of him. When the dust cleared, They both blushed brightly when they saw the position they were in. Pyro was laughing like a masked loon.

"Hudda hudda humph, humph humph!" Pyro exclaimed.

When Applejack got off Engineer, Engineer looked like a Longhorned Bull that had just seen a building painted red (or would it be blue since he works for RED?)

"Why ya low down dirty sneak! Of all thangs, Ah wouldn't expect ya to be doin what Spai does all day!" Engineer yelled. Pyro looked at him.

"Hud hudda hu humph," Pyro said.

"Only a joke? Ya scared tha livin daylights outta me and miss Applejack! That's not makin a good impression on them!" he said. Applejack just looked at the two.

"Ah wonder how long thay always argue" she said to herself.

After a couple minutes, Pyro apologized to Engineer and Applejack, which they both, of course, forgave him.

"You three ladies enjoying yourself?" Soldier said as he was seen walking up to them.

"Ya'll could say that," Engineer said, not looking too happy to be called a lady.

"I was just coming to ask, do you know if…" Soldier whispered the rest in Engineer's ear.

Engineer nodded. "Yeah, Tha steel pipes and tha head are still in there, but I don't remember where the shoes are."

Soldier looked through the box for a while, before he pulled out his Idiot Box, Steel Pipes, and shoestring budget. Soldier had a smile on his face as he put it all on. When he put it all on, he looked like the same cardboard robot he did for Halloween last year back on their world.

"Beep Boop, maggot!" Soldier said in his robotic voice. Applejack couldn't help but laugh.

"Why, that has at be about tha funniest thang I ever heard!" she said.

Soldier actually smiled. "so you like it?" he asked. Applejack nodded.

"Well, now that I have my outfit, I'll head on back to miss Derpy. She said she would have some muffins ready when I got back, and I'm starving. Soldier's gotta eat to," he said.

He walked off, with Scout and Dash taking his place with Engineer and Applejack.

"Let me guess. Ya'll came here lookin fer a costume," Engineer said as they arrived. He wasn't surprised when they nodded.

"Yeah, I figured I'd get into da holiday spirit," Scout said, looking through the crates.

"Twilight and Sniper were coming behind us, but there probably walking slow as usual," Rainbow Dash said. As scout was looking for his " Bonk Boy" hat (he decided he was going to dress up as his favorite comic hero, Bonk Boy) Sniper and Twilight was walking up, arguing about something else.

"They sound like a old couple," Applejack said.

"They sound like Soldier and Demoman," Engineer said. Sniper and Twilight would sometimes find something to argue about , but it was friendly arguments instead of hurtful arguments.

"I'm tellin ya mate, when you're bein shot at nearly everyday, I consider it very polite to take off my hat after I've killed them," Sniper said.

"But still, name calling isn't very polite," Twilight said.

Engineer groaned. "now there arguin' over nothin, just like Soldier and Demoman," Engineer said.

Sniper and Twilight finally put their arguing to an end when they got to the rest.

"G'day mates, figured we would stop by to say hello," Sniper said.

"And to find Sniper a costume for Nightmare Night," Twilight added.

As Twilight and Applejack talked, Engineer and Sniper talked while sniper was trying on "The Anger" hood he made. It was originaly and Black and Red hood that he would wear whenever they were at cold front. Sniper tore the black sleeves some to make them look more like the actual hood, and he sowed the words "Rebel" and "Change" (in the color red) onto the black sleeves.

"So, ya think Those shadow creatures will really attack tonight?" Engineer asked him.

"If those wankas are as smart as they seem, they wouldn't with full force ." Sniper said.

"Why do ya thank that?" Engineer asked him.

"You see, in America, you people have Chess. But in China and parts of Australia, we have a game called Go. The Object of Go, unlike Chess, is to take the most territory with the least pieces. If I were planning an attack, I would set up a small strike force to attack a minor spot near an area that is my main target, and send most of my troops to the main area. Since that main area would send help to the area I set up the diversion, it would be easy to attack the main target and take it ." Sniper said.

Engineer was amazed at how smart Sniper was at war tactics. While it was simple, it sounded very effective.

"Maybe we should have ya lead a match or two," Engineer said. They both chuckled as he said that.

"So what do ya think?" Sniper asked Engineer as he finished his outfit. When he put it all on, he looked just like "The Anger" from the game brink. He even had the stitched mask's smile where it looked just like the mask in the game.

"Looks very creative pardner, you could go to one of those gamecon events," Engineer complemented.

"Thanks mate," Sniper replied. "But anyway, not everyone uses the "Go" tactics. So they could send full force to Ponyville, so we do need to be ready, just incase."

The two nodded as the walked back towards Applejack and Twilight. Then Scout popped out of nowhere, dressed up as His favorite comic hero, "Bonk Boy".

"Any problem or villain, Bonk can beat dem' all, no matter how big or how small!" Scout exclaimed, quoting Bonk boy's motto. He was wearing his "Bonk Boy" hat, along with his custom made Bonk boy superhero costume, which was a suit like Superman's, but with a big "B" in the middle.

"Do ya ever wear anything else for Halloween?" Sniper asked. Twilight and Applejack tried their best to keep from laughing when they saw Scout in his getup.

"Yeah. But your costume seems to fit you longshot, since you're always pissed off at someone messin with your stuff." scout said, referring to Snipers "The Anger" outfit.

"Why you little.." Sniper said, but was stopped by Engineer.

"you two ladies gotta learn to stop fightin each other. Ah swear, if ya'll would fight BLU as hard as you fight each other, we would be undefeated."

They stopped arguing and stood by each other. But when Engineer wasn't looking, Sniper punched Scout in the shoulder.

"Sorry about that, thay're always fightin." Engineer said, apologizing for his teammates ignorance.

"Why, it's alright. Every once in a while, we argue also." Twilight said. Just now they noticed it was getting dark.

"Why, we're gonna be late fer Nightmare night!" Applejack said. "You guys can go already since ya'll have yer costumes," Applejack said.

"I'll walk there with you, then I've got ot gt my costume on also," Twilight said.

They hurried off to the town square while Applejack went inside her house to change into her costume.

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Demoman was walking through town wearing his Samurai suit, showing it off to the citizens of Ponyville, when he heard a voice that caught his attention.

"I must admit, your costume is prime, one that looks like a soldier from an ancient time."

Demoman turned around to see a Zebra, dressed as a ancient druid.

"Ai, it be. And what be your name lassie?" Demoman asked her.

"Zecora be my name, brewing potions and healing tonics is my game."

"Well lassie, you'd be like an ancient witch if ye were dressed like that on me own world." He left out the part where they would burn the witch at the stake.

As Demoman and Zecora Talked, Sniper was on one knee on top a crate, looking towards Everfree Forest.

"Expecting another attack?" Soldier asked, walking up. Normally, Soldier would always talk like a robot when he had his robot suit on, but he was still a serious, badass soldier.

"I'm not sure. A part of me thinks they will, but another part of me thinks they wont." Sniper said, not taking his eyes off of Everfree forest. Sniper's Anger mask started to slide off, so he pulled it back up to where he had it (just over his nose) and tightened it.

"Don't worry, Sniper. Most of the royal guard AND the princesses are here to help us if they attack. If they do dare to attack us, they will be given the beating of their lifetime.' Soldier said confidently.

"Yeah, guess your right," Sniper said. Sniper then walked off to where Engineer was to talk to him.

Since Engineer stayed behind the frontlines a lot to defend like Sniper, they were able to talk and they trusted each other with their lives.

"Havin a good time pardner?" Engineer asked Sniper.

"I guess, I'm just tensed up a little because of that note we found in the caves yesterday." Sniper replied.

"Well, we'll be ready fer them if thay attack us," Engineer said. Sniper and Engineer chuckled as they then saw Pyro shoot fire from his hands to light some candles inside some jack-o-laterns, which excited Pinkie Pie.

"Wowie powie zowie! Could you teach me that sometime?" Pinkie excitedly asked.

Without saying a word, pyro nodded, which made Pinkie bounce up and down excited.

"Think he can?" Sniper asked.

"Naw, I wouldn't thank so, but you never know with that little firebug." Engineer replied.

Everyone was enjoying the party and admiring everyone else's costumes, and they continued for about an hour.

"Well, it looks like this "Ghost's Shadow" decided to cancel their attack," Princess Celestia said to the mane six.

"Yeah, they knew better than to mess with us!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"I wouldn't be so sure sugercube, thay may not have decided to attack yet," Applejack said.

"Don't worry, they won't mess with us!" Dash replied.

The RED team had come to where the princess were.

"Say uh, you find a way for us at get home yet?" Scout asked.

Celestia sighed. "Sadly, I have not found anything in my books yet, but I am still searching and have asked help from some of the best unicorns I know." She said. RED seemed to look saddened to know that they weren't going home yet, but they were at least happy to know that the princesses were trying.

"Well, at least you sheilas are trying," Sniper said.

"Yeah, but it vwould zhat fighting und chaos follows us vwherever we go, und zhis is too nice of a place to be destroyed." Medic said.

"Da. Would not be good for little town and tiny ponys to be destroyed." Heavy said.

Then the whole party abruptly stopped when everyone noticed a royal guard, bloody and injured. Celestia immediately recognized the guard and ran over to him.

"Stargazer," Celestia said, "what happened to you?"

Stargazer coughed up some blood. "your majesty… the… they attacked us…" Stargazer started before coughing up more blood.

"Who?" Celestia asked.

"The… Ghost's *cough* attacked… Canterlot… under siege…" Stargazer finally said before falling over.

Medic immediately ran over to him and check his pulse. He did not know much about animals, but he at least knew where the pulses in a horse where.

"He," he started, looking at Celestia. "He's dead princess. All ze wounds he has caused to much blood loss. I'm sorry." Medic said.

Celestia shed a tear and looked towards Canterlot. She could sense the castle under siege, the soldiers she had left there fighting heroically, but without the help of the princesses and the RED team, they were slowly being slaughtered.

"We will have to mourn Stargazers death later," she said. "We must head back to Canterlot to help them fight." She had noticed that the guards already knew what she was going to order, and the Pegasus of the royal guard were getting the chariots set up.

The RED team and the mane six followed the princesses, but not before RED went back to get their weapons.

As they all got into the chariots, Sniper looked at Engineer.

"Looks like you were right Sniper," Engineer said.

Sniper simply looked towards Canterlot.

"We're playin Go now mate." Sniper said. As all the chariots took off, the ponys and RED braced themselves for the fight ahead.