Author's Notes:

Sorry for the delay, but I've been busy, and It's more like the enthusiasm kinda died.
But I'll still carry on.

Galena Neighborhood, Cobble Motel, 8:49 PM

"Hey, are you gonna leave a drop for me at least?" The thug inquired in a mean voice.

"There's more bottles, you know that." Said the second thug, finishing the bottle.

"Bah..." The first one got up from his chair and walked to the cabinet, filled with alcoholic drinks.

The room door was knocked, a third thug entered an greeted his pals.

"Hey guys."

"Hey, guess what. Shock just finished his third bottle." Said the first.

"AH! That explains why the drinks are ending so fast." The third one laughed. "What about a game?" He pulled a deck of cards in a box out of his pocket.

"I could use some pocket change." The second thug appeared with a new bottle already open.

"I doubt you'll play straight after all you drank." The first one mocked.

"We will see when you lose all your bits. *hick*"

"You're already hammered, just quit..."

"Pff... fineee..." The drunk thug stumbled to the door, leaving his two comrades alone in that room.

They sat by the table sharing a whiskey bottle. one of them started shuffling the deck, then distributing the cards and starting to take out their coins. They were playing when all the sudden the door was repeatedly banged. The drunk one stumbled inside with a mix of panic and surprise.

"What's wrong, Shock?"

"T-theres four guys c-coming for the motel. I think they are from the army!"

"...are you sure..?" Asked the third thug while checking his cards.

"Are they wearing armors?" The first one asked taking a puff from his cigarette.

"Um... no. Maybe they are undercover." He babbled in his drunk words.

"You are just drunk, let us play here..."

Without a warning, a huge explosion was heard and the drunk thugs head burst into pieces, splashing blood everywhere and his body tumbled in the floor in front of them.

"By Celestia's ass! What was that?!" The second one screamed, stumbling out of his chair and looking for his pistol.

They went out of the motel room in the first floor, leading outside to the balcony corridor.
In the medium distance, they saw three figures with muskets at hands and pistols in their holsters running towards their location, running under the end of the day orange sky.
In the distance, a pink spot caught their attention behind a wall. A flash followed by a bang, and the head of the second thug exploded, just the same way of the third one.

"ALERT!!! WE GOT INTRUDERS!" The last thug screamed across the motel, and didn't take long for a big group coming out of the rooms with guns ready.

Mane and Copper took cover the on motel's walls while bullets flew across their location, Sigil on the other side holding two pistols, breathing heavily under the adrenaline.

"Diane!" Mane screamed to the other side of the street. "We could use a help!"

"On It!" Pinkamena looked by the scoop and pointed at the chest of a thug in the balcony, she pulled the trigger and the guy fell down with his white suit soaked in red. "You better go!" She screamed trying to put the gunpowder down the sniper's barrel. "Reloading this thing is a pain in the ass!"

"Go!" Mane shouted.

The trio ran across the parking lot, taking cover by the different carriages parked at the motel. Sigil shot one of her pistols and hit one thug pointing at her. Copper tried his musket and took out one head. Pinkamena in the distance shot again with deadly precision, now killing two at the same, with a bullet going straight trough a thug's chest and hitting one behind him. She laughed at the hit, It was an achievement to be proud of.

"Advance! We better not linger. The army may come." Copper shouted under the sounds of guns blazing.

"He's right. Let's go!" Mane agreed, running among the wagons. He tackled a room door and shot a thug in the chest, and he died falling on his back, letting the grip of his musket go.

He grabbed the musket and headed to the bathroom, broke the window with the gun's stock and jumped outside to the back of the motel. He ran silently and took the stairs near some vending machines, and started charging his magic flow on his body.
Mane got into the first floor and pointed the musket the mafiosos shooting their guns down at Copper's position.

*Bang!*

One down, four left on that side. Their attention was taken towards Mane, which he turned his body into crystal. All the bullets they shot, were eaten by his body and spit back into random directions. The grey stallion grabbed one by the neck and threw him out of the balcony, the second one shot both pistols from his holster and one the bullets went back at him after hitting Mane's crystal body.
The last thug on that side of the motel just dropped his musket and raised his hands in surrender, but suddenly was threw against the wall with a splash of blood coming out of his chest and the bullet hitting the wall before he stumbled against It.
Mane looked at Pinkamena's position in the distance and shrugged his arms down, as if he was saying "oh come on" in frustration.

Copper headed to the rooms in the ground floor, on the opposite side of Mane. Shot the musket at a thug's arm. He dropped the used gun and grabbed one of his three pistols on his chest holster and ended the enemy in the head with a clear blank point shot.

"Guess the non-stop training paid of..." He whispered to himself.

He grabbed both his swords and slashed a thug that appeared by a corner, cutting clean his suit and torso and he fell in pain, eventually dying from bleeding later. He continued walking fast with one pistol in one hand and a sword in another, killing any mafia he would catch in the left side of the motel's ground level.

Sigil became a fan of the pistols and learned to carry six with her. Two in her waist holster and four on her chest in a well crafted multi holster. In the right side of the motel, ground floor, she kept shooting one after another and picking the loaded pistols of those all she killed. After some moments of shootout, the motel went quiet.

"Hey!" Mane called from the top level, waving at them.

"All clear!" Copper reported bellow Mane.

"Here too!" Sigil screamed from the other side.

Mane looked into the distance and waved. Pinkamena saw through the scope, she raised the sniper, folded the biped and crossed the street. In a moment, a bullet hit a carriage next to her. She looked behind and a group of mobs of Don Topaz's were coming. She pointed the sniper and shot without aim, making most of them all take cover behind the walls or whatever they could find.

"I need cover!" Pinkamena called in help.

Mane grabbed a musket and shot at their direction from the first floor. Sigil did the same with two pistols on her hands while walking back to one of the rooms, taking cover under a window. Pinka took the chance and ran with all haste to the room where Sigil was, and sitting next to the cyan mare reloading a pistol, she started reloading her sniper and checking her pistol too.

"Nice shooting back there." Said Sigil with a giggle.

"Do you think this is the time to be laughing? We are under attack!" Pinkamena complained.

"Pinkamena, you need to find a new kind of fun instead of cutting flesh and torture others. It's more healthy, you know?"

"Just shut up and shoot." Pinkamena looked out of cover and shot a pistol at a thug approaching with a sword, hitting him in the chest.

On the other side of the motel, Copper kept ambushing from the corners with his swords, slashing off hands and delivering deadly cuts with a sword in one hand and a grenade. Mane, on his normal form now, shooting randomly his magic at the groups in an attempt to keep them back.

"It's like they were expecting us!" Screamed Copper.

"I was hoping for, after what we did to them in the those nights!" Mane answered from the first floor on. "Copper!"

"What?" He looked at Mane at the balcony.

"Check the rooms for anything unusual. We came here for a reason, and keep your head down!"

"Affirmative!"

The pegasus opened his wings and flew to one of the rooms through a broken window, leaving some small cuts in his leather armor. He bit the grenade's pin and threw It outside. Seconds later, the explosion was sounded along with some screams, notifying It was a direct hit.
He checked the furniture, even though there wasn't much to see. Under the bed, inside the bedside table, nothing...

It was about then, he looked up and a thug was about to shoot him when Mane showed up behind him and broke his neck, with a crystal arm to his nape.

"We better stick together." Said Mane jumping inside the room.

"Agreed..."

"Let's take the bathroom's window. Let's go meet with them."

They ran to the back of the room, and Copper broke the window with his swords, allowing them to jump out safely. The colts ran by the back of the motel until they reached the bathroom window where Pinkamena and Sigil were cornered, and they jumped in.
They entered the bedroom and a bullet razed Mane's cheek.

"Dammit Pinka! It's us!" He screamed with his nerves steaming.

"Give us a warning next time!" She complained while reloading the pistol she just shot.

"We are screwed if we stay here! They are getting even closer!" Sigil shouted under the sound of guns blazing in their direction.

"Any ideas?" Copper asked taking cover next to her.

"If we had any, we would have shared!" Diane complained again, shooting her pistol blindly.

"Mane and Sigil! You are fucking unicorns, use your magic!" Copper suggested enraged by the situation.

"Battle magic isn't my strength. Ask Mane!"

"I could use, but there are problems. It's too hot in there to peek, and if I turn into crystal, I can't use my magic!" Mane Shaker informed.

"Then be just crystal and-" She was interrupted when an active grenade landed between them. "FUCK!!!" Pinkamena grabbed the grenade and threw It back outside, which exploded in midair too close of the window.

"See?!" Mane shouted in anger.

"What do we do then?!" Sigil screamed in despair, trying to reload her pistol with her last bullet.

After some seconds, everything went quiet. The sound of explosions and screams stopped slowly. The four fighters looked at each other puzzled and they took a peek by the broken window and the holes in the door.
The mobs were running away, they all dropped their guns and hasted out of there in the streets of the other side of the motel, with some of them carrying their wounded comrades.

"What the hell..?" Pinkamena whispered. "Are they pussing out?"

"Looks like that. What happened? Did they ran out of ammo?" Mane suggested.

"Nah... they all have had a good supply for the looks of It." Copper answered.

"Then... what just happened?" Sigil questioned.

"Good fucking question." Pinka mumbled.

"Get in position! Take constant cover, we are not dealing with amateurs!" A voice sounded in the distance, by the corner of the motel.

"NOOO..." Mane gasped.

"Is that what I'm thinking?" Copper looked at him shocked.

"Yes. It's the army!" The grey unicorn panicked.

"Shall we engage?" Sigil asked, pulling the flint of her pistol, ready to shoot.

"NO! Out of question!" Mane answered taking the pistol out of her hands.

"Then what are we supposed to do?!" Sigil looked at him enraged.

"I have an idea. Leave It to me. You all, search the rooms for anything! A clue, evidence, anything!"

"What do you have in mind?" Copper looked at him in the eyes.

"Trust me... Everypony, take the back windows of the bathrooms to enter and leave, going by the front doors is a huge risk. I'll distract them."

The quartet crouched to the bathroom and jumped out by the window one at a time. Copper and Sigil went together to one zone of the motel, while Pinkamena took the side they were before. Mane took the stairs to the first floor and stood by the balcony, with a clear vision of the army advancing slowly in cover.

His horn started glowing red, more and more with every second. In the motel's plaza, the wagons started glowing red, and Mane levitated them, making their cover useless. They all retreated back to the walls of the entrance, to avoid any risks, giving they didn't know who they were dealing with. The three groups took a turn outside the motel to meet with their other mates.

"Sir." One soldier stopped in front of his sergeant. "Our cover was blown. We had to fall back to avoid risks."

"What do you mean? They got destroyed?" The superior asked.

"No... uhm... something completely different. Somepony levitated the wagons, but nopony shot in our direction or anything."

"Did you saw the responsible? He or she must had vision of the field to make such thing."

"I saw something!" A soldier from the second squad stepped forward. "I saw a unicorn on the first floor. His horn was glowing red, he was also grey, and his hair was red and black."

The sergeant opened his eyes even more and stood silent, staring at the two soldiers.

"Are you sure?!" The officer asked him with a gasp, holding him by the shoulders as if he was forcing an answer out.

"Clearly like Princess Celetia's summer days, sir!"

"You there!" The sergeant pointed at a pegasus soldier. "Go to Captain Shining Armor! I have urgent news! Mane Shaker is here, in Cobble Motel, Galena Neighborhood! I repeat! Mane Shaker IS HERE!"