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My Little Overwatch

by HAZESHIFT

Chapter 7: Chapter 7: Especially Not Something This Adorable!

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Author's Notes:

finally got around to this, been on an almost two-week long streak of doing 100 words a day for various writing projects. this happened to be one of them and one day I just accidentally banged out 100 words of this and just kept going till it was done...sorry for the wait

have fun, hopefully, the ending sets up what is going to happen next well enough

Chapter 7: Especially Not Something This Adorable!

It was a bright day in the Crystal Empire. The sun shone brightly down on the inhabitant who sparkled in the sunshine as the walked, pranced, and trotted around without a care in the world. Near the entrance to the city was the train station where ponies waited for the train and others tried to do business, as the next train was minutes away from arriving, ponies who were getting ready to greet others that they knew were coming began to arrive on the platform. Among them were a mare, a stallion, and a little filly.

“I’m always so amazed by the weather you guys have up here, it’s always so pleasant.” Starlight glimmer walked with a little bounce in her step. Which was delightful for the little Filly bouncing up and down with every step.

“WEEEEE!” Flurry squealed and clapped her hooves together in excitement. Every number of bounces she would land slightly askew on Starlight’s back only for a hoof to push her back to her normal place.

“Yeah, but it always makes ponies want to do things outside,” Sunburst said while he walked with a somewhat unusual gait as he kept making sure Flurry was always in the correct spot.

“And there’s a problem with that how?” Starlight stopped to ask as she tried and failed to contain a snicker.

“Well...it’s easier to read a book inside,” Sunburst said and then lamented his choice in words as Starlight immediately broke into laughter with Flurry Heart joining her, not that she knew what she was laughing about though she just liked laughing. As they laughed Starburst looked away in embarrassment noticed the train pulling into the station. “Ah look the train has arrived.” he announced as the three resumed their little walk.

Both Starlight and Sunburst began to notice something was wrong as the approached when ponies began to stream from the train screaming and running. Before either could say anything one of the train cars exploded in a multitude of colors. Hues of pink, green, blue, and orange erupted from the car and shot into the sky. Starlight seeing this immediately set up a shield around Herself, Flurry Heart and Sunburst. Flurry Heart, oblivious to the danger in front of her kept on cheering at the sight as she found the mixture of colors pretty. Another explosion rocked a train car and this time Starlight and Sunburst noticed as a figure was launched through the roof and proceed to fall and crash several hoof lengths away. A pony who’s bright yellow hair was partially aflame landed on his hooves and cheered as he leveled some kind of object back at the train.

“Ah it’s a perfect day for some mayhem!” he said and Starlight watched as the object began to spit out little balls which arced for the train. Before they could reach their target, however, light blue magic bolts flew out of the shattered remains of the windows, intercepting the balls and piercing them and causing them to explode.

“Then do it somewhere else!” Sunset Shimmer jumped through one of the windows and began blasting magic bolts in Junkrat’s direction. True to his nature Junkrat scrambled out of the way of oncoming fire and tried to find some place to hide. While that was happening Starlight and Sunburst kept watching as large dents kept appearing in the walls of the exploded train car. Sure enough after so many crashes gave way and a large pony wearing a mask came flying out and crashed through a nearby stall full of vegetables.

“MY CABBAGES!” the stall owner cried for his destroyed produce as the pony that crashed into the stall slowly got himself upright. Leveling his gaze back towards the train.

“Piggy!” FLurry heart called out causing Starlight to look at the large pony whose mask did indeed make him look like a pig, that and his rotundness and various pig themed tattoos. Much to her dismay though the pony heard Flurry’s call and looked over at them. But before anything could happen a call came from inside the practically destroyed train car.

“WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU’RE LOOKING!?!” Reinhardt roared as he charged out of the train car. The small engine in his back propelling him towards Roadhog.

“Ah, not gonna get that so easily this time,” Junkrat said while still hunkering down from Sunset firing at him. He saw what Reinhardt was doing and pulled out one of his mines. With an expert toss, he managed to get it in the path of Reinhardt. And then when he passed over it Junkrat activated the mine which lifted Reinhardt into the air over Roadhog. But while Reinhardt flew through the air he regained control and with a sharp swing of his hammer unleashed a streak of energy that hit Roadhog and forced him back enough to collide with Junkrat.

“Thanks for the setup!” Sunset called out before Roadhog and Junkrat could get their bearing straight, a wall of light blue magic slammed into the both of them which also sent them flying in the general direction of Reinhardt who had crashed through the wall of a house. After the two crashed through a house on the opposite end of the street.

“What exactly is-” Sunburst who had been watching the whole spectacle till now tried to ask a question but another eruption stopped him. As everyone still under Starlight’s shield looked back at the train car, something from the inside tore the roof off and three shapes ascended into the sky.

“Mommy!” Flurry cheered and sure enough when Starlight and Sunburst looked. Princess Cadence was one of the shapes that had come out of the car and across from her was.

“Chrysalis!” Starlight said in shock, not having seen the changeling queen since their last encounter. Chrysalis and Cadence exchanged charged magic blasts while dog fighting in mid air. And when the changeling queen thought she had the upper hoof and tried to blast the pink princess a shield stopped her blast as Shining Armor floated next to his wife, surrounded by his own magic. The three never noticed the three below them as they fought and weaved their way into the city towards the castle. As the dust finally settled around them as the fight moved farther into the city Starlight finally spoke again. “Huh, I thought I was the only one who could do the whole floaty flying magic thing?”

“Is that really your first question in this whole situation?” Starburst practically shouted but restrained himself since he didn’t want to upset Flurry. “Come on we gotta go help them!” he said and immediately took off towards the castle.

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When they got there the noticed multiple holes and broken piles of crystals were strewn about the place with sounds of explosions, and lasers being fired off coming from inside the castle. As Starlight, Sunburst, And Flurry slowly made their way inside. Starlight couldn’t help but chuckle.

“And what’s so funny about this?” Sunburst asked, his voice slightly panic filled.

“I was just thinking about how this reminds me of when the Crystalling happened,: Starlight replied as she motioned back to Flurry who appeared to still be in an ecstatic mood. Sunburst thought about it for a second before he also joined in with the chuckling before the three of them reached the scene of the battle.

“I WILL DESTROY YOU!” Chrysalis roared as she tried to his Cadence and failed as Shining kept his shield up. THe rest battled around them in the throne room, utterly wrecking everything that they hit that wasn’t their target.

“Well looks like we will have to redo the decoration budget...again.” Sunburst sighed before one of Junkrats grenades bounded upward and exploded while striking the ceiling causing a chunk to fall down. While this didn’t have an effect on anyone fighting or Starlight and Sunburst it did have an effect on Flurry. When the dust settled from the falling ceiling her eyes somehow locked onto the one thing that was sitting on top of the pile. A small stuffed snail plush, her Whammy. Once again not deterred or frightened by the spectacle around her Flurry jumped from Starlight's back and slowly made her way towards her toy. It was only when she was a quarter of the way to the pile that Starlight and Sunburst noticed but couldn't do anything lest they get caught in the insane crossfire going on around them. Flurry meanwhile slowly made her way unimpeded to and then up the pile towards her precious Whammy, she stumbled only once while climbing but it was nowhere near close enough to deter her. When she finally reached the top she held her Whammy with both hooves and gave it a victory hug before Roadhog unceremoniously crash landed next to her with a heavy thud.

After taking a vicious hit from Reinhardt’s hammer, Roadhog blacked out for a second while he was launched backward. The thing that brought him back to consciousness was the constant tapping of something in the front of his gas mask. Opening his eyes he found a very small pony sitting right in front of him with a snail plush under one hoof and the other booping the front of his mask while repeatedly while giggling every time her hoof made contact. Meanwhile, Junkrat who was ready to find some way out of here pulled the wheel of his back and grabbed a chain on it

“Alright, everybody. Get Ready for-

“WWWWWAAAAAAAIIIITTTTT!” Roadhog suddenly roared. THe volume of his scream bringing everything to an immediate halt. Everyone froze in place and looked at the lumbering behemoth who finally voiced himself.

“Huh, so he can speak?” Chrysalis quipped raising an eyebrow.

“Yeah but only when it’s important. What’s up big guy” Junkrat answered and then despite the enemies around them started to strike up a conversation. Roadhog then slowly lifted his hoof upon which was propped up Flurry Heart holding her plush snail.

“FLURRY” Cadence and Shining both shouted in unison, her parent’s voices causing Flurry to look their way and wave to her mom and dad while they looked on in sheer horror.

“Oh is this little one your?” Junkrat asked in a completely nonchalant and pleasant way. Warily Shining and Cadence nodded as Junkrat seemed to fawn over their child. “Oh well, then can you find somewhere to put her away from all this mess so we can get back to beating the snot out of each other?” He asked and with those few simple words, all the air seemed to be sucked out of the room.

“What?” Reinhardt deadpanned voice carried through his helmet, Sunset just stared slack-jawed, and Cadence and Shining just look liked the words were still being parsed in their minds.

“I agree with the tin can. WHAT!?!” Chrysalis screamed at Junkrat as she stomped over to where he and Roadhog were holding Flurry like some kind of trophy. “Why would you give away what has now become our biggest bargaining chip. Now that we have their detestable spawn we can make any demands we please, we can rule this pathetic sparkly colorful empire. And if they refuse then mmph.” Chrysalis had been walking towards Flurry during her rant and didn’t even notice when Roadhog stuck his hoof out and she walked muzzle first into it.

“Then nothing Chrissy-kins? That wasn’t the plan. All we’re here to do is get some of that blasted crystal we need to fix the portal and that’s it,” Junkrat reminded her.

“Forget your plan, you stupid moron! We have the upper hoof now. They have to give into our demands not that their child is in our grasp. And they’ll do exactly as I say or else WAAGH!” Chrysalis never got to finish as faster than she could do anything against Junkrat fire and hit her with an explosive and then while she was down he quickly moved his tire and dropped it on her.

“Chrissy Chrissy Chrissy. Why do you always seem to not notice that you never have the upper hand...or hoof in this case. This was my plan, and when following my plan you play by my rules. Rule number one, no hurting civilians unless they attack you, they’re mostly just idiots anyway.

“Says the guy who was shooting explosives in a train...and at a civilian!” Sunset said while pointing to herself, interrupting Junkrat who gave her a flat look back.

“Occupational hazard you learn to deal with, also we-” he paused to point at himself and Roadhog. “Didn’t shoot first. Chrysalis shot first, then you returned fire, and then I tried to blow you up.” Junkrat told Sunset who paused for a moment to think while Junkrat turned his attention back to Chrysalis. “Oh and rule number two, no hurting kids ever. Especially not when they’re this cute. Junkrat said while giving Flurry a small boop on her snoot which caused her to start wheezing.

“Everybody hit the deck!” SUnburst called from across the room and he and Starlight immediately hit the floor while Shining and Cadence dragged down Sunset and Reinhardt before FLurry sneezed and fired a gigantic laser at the same time, blasting a Roadhog and Reinhardt sized hole in the wall.

“Heh and she’s powerful to boot! I like this kid! Here, kid, you wanna do the honors? Junkrat put the ripcord in Flurry’s hands and then looked down at CHrysalis who now had a look of horror on her face as she looked upon the foal.

“Now Flurry, you wouldn’t want to do that. Now let’s put down the cord and_” Chrysalis tried to stop her while imitating Cadence’s voice, but Flurry’s interest was more on the cord and she completely ignored it and yanked hard on the cord which activated the rip tire. Chrysalis screamed as the tire began to spin, bringing her along with it as it rolled towards the hole in the wall. When it reached the hole it jumped into the air before exploding along with chrysalis who was thrown far away due to the force of the blasts.

“CURSE YOU!!!” Her scream fade as she flew farther and farther till she was a dot in the distance.

Meanwhile, everyone watched in silence at the scene except for Flurry who giggled and babbled while jumping as she sat upon Roadhog’s as he slowly made his way over to Cadence and held her out to them. Cad nice then snatched her up and peppered her with hugs and kisses not just for being safe but also for what she did to Chrysalis.

“So… how about we discuss our surrender?” Junkrat broke the relative silence and before anyone else could speak Reinhardt barred down on him giving him a menacing glare behind his helmet.

“And what makes you think we want to do that instead of beating the snot out of you and taking you prisoner?” He asked but noticed that Junkrat still had his trademark smirk which made him slightly nervous.

“Two reasons really. One, we did a good thing saving the royal kid and getting rid of their hated nemesis in one fell swoop. And two, you know that if it's just me and Hog here than there are the other three that might be seeking your friends out now.” Junkrat told Reinhardt and imagined the look on the old soldier’s face as he put two and two together.

“Oh…..fudge.”

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Meanwhile in Ponyville…

A cyborg ninja sat on one of the castle’s many balconies meditating.

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