Inked Quill was growing impatient by the time they were taking, and his scholars too.
Standing in a cold windy slope of a mountain by the end of the night, wearing their winter scholar robes, looking at a building, next to the two magic cannons they brought, well placed with a good field of vision down, and eager to use them.

"What the hell are they doing?" Quill grumbled.

"Who knows?" One of the scholars replied.

"I must say, the plan better work or we are in for a trouble." Quill looked down to the warehouse surrounded by barbed wire fences. "We are attacking a damn armory with filthy thugs that know how to use them, and we don't even know what's inside besides those two morons..."

"Calm down, preceptor Quill... It should start any minute."

"How can I calm down when this wind is not helping my rheumatic problems?" Quill rubbed his hands to warm them up and flinching the pains in his back bones.

He looked back to the warehouse in the rocky valley, tempted to order the first shot of the assault but he had to stick to the strategy. They were there for support and not throw the first rock and start a massacre not planned.

"Grab your binoculars." Quill ordered. "And start pointing to the bastards in the gate, we must start without any risks..."

The scholars shoved their horns inside the magic amplifier's tube, and looking through a binocular well placed and a game of mirrors, they could see were they were aiming. The mechanisms started to make the clicking sounds as they moved the barrels to the gates.

"We're in position, sir. Six clicks horizontally and three vertically from original position."

"Good... now we wait. Hopefully those morons didn't get kil-" Interrupted by a echoing noise of an explosion from the warehouse, and followed by many more. It had started. "IT'S TIME!!! Shoot! Shoot!"

They followed the order and from the cannons, two magic rays, one yellow and the other blue, traveled at light speed to the gates, and the guards bodies exploded in a mess of flesh and guts, scattering them in different directions.

"Troops! ATTAAACK!!!" Copper screamed on top of his lungs.

"STRIKE THEM LIKE A WARHAMMER!!!" Sigil screamed along.

The small army rose from the dark behind the dune and ran to the gates with a bravery scream. Knights with their shields and swords on hands, and archers firing their bows and crossbows at the other bandits by the gate, giving a safe approach.
They stormed the gates and run across the open zone of concrete towards the building, and was a long run until there, taking cover constantly behind crates and concrete slabs forming the wagon way to the warehouse.

They got stuck behind a barrier, with no ways of moving forward due to the massive firepower coming from the building and from It's outside behind cover too. In the right moment, Quill's group fired their magic cannons at the enemy, blasting blood and guts among themselves, spreading panic from the horrifying scene.

"Go! Go!" Ordered Copper.

The archers shot their crossbows in the dark, and most failed the shots, and the knights kept crossing the field under cover of their shield. And they retreated some steps back when one of them got shot by a bullet that went through the shield, cutting his leather armor and hit him in the shoulder. Two soldiers ran to the wounded comrade and pulled him out of the danger, taking him to cover with them, and the blood loss was somewhat medium.

"Captain!" One screamed. "We got a wounded!"

"Take him to the gate house, and one of you stay with him!" Copper screamed from the other side.

They obeyed the order and slowly carried him the wounded one to the very back of the place. Sigil was growing stressed by the situation, they were stuck against a fire frenzy battalion with superior weapons, and staying there would mean death. In the poor night light, a spark was seen flying in an arch in the direction of a cover with two soldier. The thing landed right behind them, and one looked and run away in time, but the other looked too late, and the grenade exploded on him, burning him and the shrapnel traversing his armor and body, he somehow survived but badly injured, laying on a pool of his own blood.

"Shit!" Sigil stared horrified at the horrible scene. "Somepony! Get him out of there!"

"It's too dangerous, ma'am!" Screamed a soldier, too scared to move.

"Fuck It!" Sigil got out of her cover and took the risk of running towards the wounded soldier. She pulled him to behind a concrete slab and she screamed in panic from seeing the soldier's face all burned, bleeding in living flesh, loosing part of his hair and the armor all ripped soaked in blood.

"S-Sigil..?" The soldier moaned in pain, coughing blood out of his mouth.

"Don't worry! I'll take you out of here!" She tried to put over her shoulder, but every movement made him scream in agony, and tried to stop her.

"Stop! ARGH!! It's no use!"

"Shut up! You're gonna make It!"

"STOP!!!" He screamed, hurting his chest, and Sigil putted him down again sobbing in panic for him. "Please... I'm not gonna make It..."

"You are! I won't allow you to go!" Sigil held his hand, starting to cry.

"Sigil... co-come closer..." He begged with his voice going lower.

"Yes..?" She sobbed.

"Tell... Flaming Arrow... I... *cough* always loved her..." He whispered at Sigil's hear.

"That's not gonna happen!" Sigil held his hand more tightly. "You won't go... You're gonna live, and say that to her!"

The soldier's expression didn't move, neither a blink, and the grip of his hand weakened.

"Blizzard..?" She called with a crying sob. "Soldier! Answer me!"

Took her a while to realize what happened, and she started crying over his body. She just witnessed death in the worst way until now, in the middle of a battle and hearing his last words to a loved one, that he never had the chance of saying It himself.

The situation was getting worse every moment, with grenades flying at them more constantly, and barely dodging in time, while the confusion and smoke didn't make It easy for the archers, neither to Quill and his battle mages in the mountain slope which were having trouble pointing their magic amplifiers at the enemy

Pinkamena made from the blunderbusses her favorite gun, not needing to aim at all to the groups of thugs.
Mane preferred to use his magic, and turning his body into crystal making him a bullet proof annihilator, walking around in a fast pace, punching goons and breaking their bone in fury.

Eventually they started to use the grenades against him, and he was obligued to take cover from now on, in case one of those would fell by his side.

"Pinka! I think they are the last ones! Inside, at least."

"Good! I'm running out of loaded weapons here! Specially blunderbusses!"

Right before she was out of weapons, her side was clear, and Mane finished the last one by crushing his throat with a tight grip of his crystal fist. Behind a table, the marketer was trembling in fear from those two, too afraid to move from his spot or even grab a weapon. They were fierce in battle togheter, and they just wiped twenty superiorly armed thugs, one with just a bunch weapons that she barely knows how to use, and the other, a brute that could turn his crystal form on and off any moment.

"Diane! Get over here! They need our help outside!" Mane screamed from the main warehouse compartment.

"You there." Pinkamena grabbed the dealer by one arm and forced him to stand up. "Grab that barrel and come."

He obeyed without hesitation unless he wanted to experience a knife in his head, or even a shot at close range. He carried the small barrel out of the weapon deal room, and walking in front of her with a musket pointed at his head. Mane opened the garage door, and they came across a line of gangsters firing constantly their weapon at Copper's troops.

None of them seemed to notice the big door opening due to the noise, and the duo took the advantage.

"Throw that barrel at them!" Pinkamena screamed at the dealer furiously. "NOW!"

He didn't had other chance but to obey, and the barrel rolled in the direction of the firing line, and when It touched their cover and stopped, Pinkamena knelled and took aim at It, and with a precise shot, the barrel exploded, killing instantly five thugs outside by their back.

Panic spread among them trying to figure out what happened. And didn't took long for the remaining ones to point at Pinkamena, which she took cover behind a shelve full of crated and threw a grenade at a small group, killing two but one escaped, but he didn't go far when an archer fired her bow at the thug's head.

"NOOOOOW!!!" Screamed Copper from the other side to his troops, and they charged with the energy of an entire army for their wounded friends and their bravery.

The army reached the last thugs and slashed them with no mercy, shedding blood everywhere and let them die on their own blood. They ended the massacre and Sigil breathed in relieve that It was over, and Copper was well.

"Anypony is injured?" Sigil asked tothe surrounding troops.

"Four. And Blizzard didn't make It..." Said one of high rank soldiers in a sad tone.

"Fuck..." Copper whispered. "Help the wounded and check the warehouse for anything to help! There must be some extra first aid kits here."

"Hey!" Mane showed up from his cover. "How is the situation?"

"Four wounded and one death." Sigil approached him in a tired way, as if she was gonna drop on the floor. "This shit better pay off..."

"Yeah." Mane agreed, sharing the sadness for the loose of a soldier and the wounded ones.

"What was that back then?" Copper asked.

"Gunpowder." Pinkamena said, holding the musket she used previously. "The thing that caused the explosion and one of the ingredient to use these things."

"That sure was an explosion." Sigil commented, sitting on a chair. "What is on those boxes..?"

"Weapons... or maybe drugs..." Mane answered with a tired sigh.

*BANG*

A metallic loud noise was heard in a door.
The group of five looked at It with suspicion, thinking they had them all killed. And for surprise, the door was kicked open by a huge figure, wearing a complete steel armor, from head to hooves and thick looking. With a blunderbuss in It's hands, and a chest holster holding four loaded pistols, fast of grabbing and ready to use, and a huge greatsword sheathed on It's waist.

The figure pointed a blunderbuss at them and shot, getting Sigil in an arm and Copper in his left leg.

"BULLDOZER!!!" Screamed Mane with all his might.

The tall figure threw the weapon away and pulled from his waist a huge greatsword with his hands and charged at Copper who was lying on the floor holding his leg, and he rolled in time before he was cut open with a single blow.

The brute grabbed a pistol from the holster and aimed at Sigil, but she escaped the lead bullet in time, which razzed her waist leaving a cut. She ran to Copper Spear and dragged him out of the scenario.

Mane turned his body back into crystal and threw a punch on him, but the gigantic knight didn't flinch and only left a dent in the armor. The stallion dodged a strike from the sword, and another one, constantly dodge rolling around what he called bulldozer, eventually losing the focus in his crystal powers, turning his body back to normal.

"Mane!" Pinkamena showed up from the other room. "Grab It!" She threw a pistol at him, and he got It, and without hesitation, he shot It at the bulldozer, but the bullet was fully stopped by the heavy armor, leaving just another dent.

"Well shit..." Mane commented while staring at him through his helmet with his ears down and a face of fear.

The gigantic knight threw a slap on him with the back of his gauntlet, getting Mane on the floor, and pointing a pistol at him, Mane rolled in time avoiding the hit.

"DIANE! I need a help here!" He screamed while avoiding more sword swings.

"A grenade?" She asked loudly.

"NO! It's too predictable!"

"Give me some time then!"

"Be fast, or you're gonna find me in pieces!"

Pinkamena run to the armory, and bullets were useless on that mastodon sized thug and It's armor.
She ran upstairs and started checking boxes, and going faster with every time she heard the sword striking the floor and shelves in the main warehouse's complex.

A box with "Top Secret" written on called her attention. It was long in width and low in height, and made of iron with a lock on.
She grabbed a nearby crowbar, broke the lock and opened the box in a hurry, and It showed a long musket, but with some particular extras and an instruction manual.

She opened the small booklet. It was called "Sniper", a prototype upgraded version of the musket, with more accuracy, range, damage, and a single shot capacity as expected. Made of wood and brass, with the same flintlock mechanism, a biped to help the stability and a scope made of shiny yellow brass with two magnifying glasses aligned with a cross-hair printed in the smaller one

She grabbed the weapon with difficulty due to It's weight, opening the biped following the instructions and loading It carefully, and the bullet was something out of what she saw previously. Instead of a iron ball, It was taller and made of brass, with a steel pointy end. According to the manual, It was made to long ranges with high aerodynamics and armor piercing.

Pinkamena lift the weapon from the floor and took It to a window with vision to the main complex, where Mane was still dodging the bulldozers greatsword. She positioned the biped on the window's apron and pointed at them.

"Mane!" Sha called from the superior floor. "Hold him!"

"How?!" Mane screamed, pissed at the bulldozers constant attacks.

"Somehow! I need a clear shot!"

Shaker's fury led him to turn into his shadow form, and the knight's blade crossed the smoke without hurting his target, leading to some confusion. Mane flied around him at full speed, and the bulldozer lost sight of him with the rapid movements of his opponent.
He had disappeared somehow... he looked around making grunting noises, but he was nowhere to be found.

On top of a shelve, Mane showed up and looked at the mighty knight confused. He turned his crystal form on, and jumped at his back, which the knight quickly started to struggle with his weight and grab him, but the heavy armor was depriving him from reaching his back, while Mane kept his grip on his neck and legs on the sides of his chest. He lifted the bulldozer's head and clenched his legs more with all the strength he had, making the brute curve his spine to the back, and held him still.

"NOW! NOW!" Mane screamed while struggling to keep him still.

Pinkamena looked through the scope and aimed at his head, trying to keep the cross hair lined, and as soon she pulled the trigger, a huge explosion came from the sniper, and Pinkamena flew to the other side of the room she was in, screaming in pain for some reason.

The bullet flew at an insane full speed, cutting the helmet's tough steel and came out by the other side of It, killing the gigantic knight in a second, which he fell on his back with a huge noise and Mane under him, trying to crawl his way out.

Seconds later, Sigil and Copper, now with a rag around his leg and limping, peeked by the door, and they saw Mane struggling to get out from under the giant heavy body, which they limped to pull him out of his misery.

"Argh..." He groaned in some pain. "Where is Pinka..?"

"I'm here!" She screamed from the top floor. "I need some help here!"

"What happened?" Asked Copper.

"My shoulder... the recoil of this shit dislocated It!" She moaned in pain. "I can't move!"

"I'll go help her." Sigil headed upstairs, finding Pinkamena sitting against some boxes with a really long weapon by her side, moaning in pains and her shoulder showing a bone popping out under her skin and smooth pink fur. "Holy shit..." Sigil whispered.

"Help, please..." Pinkamena begged, fighting against the pains.

Sigil knelled next to her and put her hands on her, one in the back and the other or top the bone.

"Ready?" She asked.

"Just fucking do It..." Pinkamena moaned.

Sigil clenched her hands on her body, and with a clacking sound Pinkamena's shoulder went back into place, but without her letting out a huge scream that made Sigil cover her ears.

She looked at It and she could move her arm again, but It was still hurting and a lot. Diane smiled at Sigil and thanked.

"All this shit better pay off..." Said Sigil frustraded.

"Couldn't agree more..." Pinkamena whispered frustrated aswell, losing her smile. "Couldn't agree more..."

Author's Notes:

This chapter was hard to make... to make something, well... dramatic?
I had to cut in some descriptive parts, unless you wanted a huge wall of boring text.

I hope you understand I was not made to be a writer at all.
I'm still trying!