Ambush

“You know Shepard just once I would like to go to a romantic place without having to kill something!” Ash yelled over the sound of gunfire.

“Where would the fun be in that Ash?” Shepard asked as he unleashed his Carnifex on the surrounding griffins.

“You should have known this was coming when you agreed to be with him Ash!” Garrus called as he fired off another headshot from his M-97 viper causing another griffin body to fall limply to the ground.

“Can yall stop talking, yall’re distracting ma aim.” AJ yelled as she awkwardly attempted to shoot off another burst from her vindicator assault rifle, and failed miserably.

“Sorry but whenever we stop talking like we’re completely relaxed one of us gets shot, we stopped worrying about it a while ago.” Ash yelled to AJ as she brought her own vindicator to bear.

“Yeah get some!” Dash yelled as she dove in and out of the griffins’ formation, she was a much quicker learner then AJ apparently because two dead griffins fell to the ground moments later.

“You’re all crazy!” Twilight yelled from underneath her magic barrier as bullets bounced off left and right.

“Um, Twi should we help them?” Fluttershy stuttered to her purple friend while she surveyed the scene before her in fright as blood splashed off of the shield.

“Nonsense darling we have no need to grubby our hooves with such things.” Rarity told her before Twilight could answer. A large griffin tried to dive at Shepard only to be stopped by a full burst of shotgun to the face, bloody specks rained down on him but he ignored it, he’d been covered in far more blood then that.

“Back to my point Shepard I would occasionally like to go to a nice restaurant, you know have a nice peaceful dinner followed by some slow easy sex, but no we have to go and kill things first.” Ash called getting back to the earlier conversation.

“Ash you know you love it!” Shepard called back while he smashed his new omni-blade deep into a griffin’s neck before tossing it into a closing group of griffins with him a small bust of biotics.

“Well of course I do Shepard, but I still wouldn’t mind a bit of romance every once and a while.” Ash called as she emptied a round into a circling griffin’s skull.

“Ash I had to talk to you about poetry for around twenty four hours before you would even kiss me, I think I already gave you more than enough romance.”

“What are they yelling about?” Dash asked Garrus, who shrugged and said

“Lovers’ quarrel I wouldn’t worry about it, they do it all the time, oh boy heads up!” he shouted the last part as he knocked the blue pegasus out of the way of a large griffin who was using the conversation as a chance to pounce. Garrus then kicked the griffin in the face before firing a sniper round through its head. As the body blew backwards Garrus chuckled to himself and turned to Dash “You’ve got to enjoy the little things in life Dash, if you learn nothing else then learn that.” He told her before nonchalantly shooting another griffin in the head.

“Is it just me or there like eighty of these guys after us?” Dash yelled as she let off another burst of fire.

“Alright this has gone one long enough!” Twilight yelled before she teleported all of them to stand outside of the house that Pinkie had built, causing Shepard to glance around in confusion before he holstered his Carnifex.

“Ok how did you do that?” he asked Twilight who was leaning against Rarity for support.

“I told you earlier, magic.”

“Alright I have a better question, why didn’t you do it earlier?” Twilight sighed

“I didn’t do it earlier because it makes me really, really tired; now if you’ll please excuse me I have to pass out.” She then fell over into Fluttershy her eyes closed, a tiny snore escaping from her mouth. Suddenly Joker flew out of the house and alighted in front of Shepard, he was wearing yellow armor and had an Avenger strapped to his back.

“Shepard you got armor too, this is so awesome!” Joker said excitedly “Where’s EDI?” He then asked in concern when he noticed that she wasn’t with the group.

“She got shot Jeff, she’s currently in the Canterlot hospital and she should be fine in a week or so.” An angry look came into Joker’s eyes and he said very quietly.

“Who shot her Commander?”

“We don’t know yet, but when we find them you have the first shot.” Tali then ran out of the house and pulled Garrus in a deep bonecrushing hug.

“Hey Tali I’m glad to see you too, but if you don’t mind I kinda prefer my ribs not being cracked.” Garrus got barely got out, Tali blushed and released him.

“Sorry Garrus, I guess I really missed you.” She said apologetically

“It’s alright Tali I missed you too, but I still need to breathe on occasion.” Pinkie Pie jumped out of the ground with a little pop and turned to Shepard.

“Hi Commander Ethan Shepard, Alliance Navy, and first human Specter, I know I decided to just call you Shepard but this is more fun. Anyways I just got back from Will and Alice’s wedding and I thought that it would be nifty if you had a new direction to go in.”

“Thanks, I think” Shepard replied

“Oh think nothing of it, anyways the Author told me to tell you that you should check the Everfree forest. Now I have to get back to that wedding, Halt is hilarious when he drinks and Tug is so witty!” with that she vanished.

“Seriously how does she do that?!” Ash almost yelled

“Don’t question it, she’s Pinkie Pie.” Dash told her while she did a small circle around the house.

“Guys did she say Author?” Garrus asked

“She always says stuff like that darling, just ignore the implications, your life will be much simpler trust me.”

“Whatever you say Rarity you’ve known her longer.” Garrus said with a sigh. They decided to spend the night at the house where they recounted the story of their visit to Canterlot.

***

Discord wipped his hand over his sweaty brow and let out a sigh, how did your mental avatar sweat? He wondered absently while he looked at Luna’s unmoving form lying in the bed in front of him. He had been working on her mind for only a day but it felt as if he had been doing it for a year; her brain was still a cloudy insubstantial mass that could barely put together the effort to keep her body alive. Out the nearby window he caught a glimpse of one of his flying guards; it looked like a giant white airborne jellyfish. When it caught sight of something that wasn’t supposed to be near the castle it let out a ferocious cry and shot an explosive fireball out of its mouth. He wasn’t sure what had inspired him to make them, but they were a very efficient way to deal with the random people who staggered warily into his mind from other dimensions. From behind him he heard the sound of Celestia clearing her throat.

“Tia dear I’m happy to see you again.” Discord told her truthfully, he had gotten bored with no one but Luna to talk to, and talking to someone in a comma makes you wish that you were alone instead.

“Things are getting bad Discord; just today we found the bodies of around fifty griffins outside of Canterlot! They were carrying orders that told them to capture Shepard and kill all of his friends along with Twilight and her group.”

“Because your eyes aren’t red and puffy from crying I’m guessing that they failed miserably.” Discord said with a small smirk, Celestia nodded.

“That pony can fight I’ll give him that, although I worry about his influence on Fluttershy, she must be a sniveling wreck after a fight like that. So how’s my sister’s recovery coming?” she asked him quickly changing topics.

“Well she’s past glue and is almost to the stage of puddy, unfortunately I still have three weeks worth of shaping before she’ll be able to even think of doing of anything…look Tia, I still think that after this you owe me another chance.” Celestia shook her head in frustration.

“No Discord! I told you last time it won’t happen we’ve tried and you’ve failed every test that I set up for you!”

“Fine have it your way Tia, but when you lie alone in your bed at night know that you have only yourself to blame.” He told her before turning back to his work with a huff.

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