While Ocellus, Silverstream, Smolder, and Gallus were searching for any spies, Little Strongheart and Yona were keeping watch on Pinkie Pie to make sure she wouldn’t escape from them.

“What taking creatures so long? Yona wants to fight ponies!” Yona shouted, watching over Pinkie.

“With the way you’re shouting, you will be upping our chances in direct combat with the pony squadrons. That is if they don’t have any unicorns.” Little Strongheart said, watching in the distance.

“Be quiet, buffalo! We may be teammates, but that doesn’t mean Yona take orders from you!”

Instead of getting angry, Little Strong simply snorted,

“I couldn’t agree more, yak. However, due to our orders delivered from the king himself, we are to bring the cargo to him alive. I have no clue as to why he is interested in her, but it’s this suit that has his interests piqued.”

“But if yak is being honest, yak is curious about how the ooze was able to sneak into Crystal Empire. Barrier too thick to break and guards set up everywhere. King knows something.”

“Watch your tongue, yak. I may not have a clue as to how it was able to sneak into the Crystal Empire, but it was able to exterminate the Princess of Life and weaken the Ponies’ morale.”

“Then explain to yak why we are bringing pink pony to the King! Yona may not be smart, but Yona knows there’s something wrong with this mission! How come we only know this?!”

This question left Little Strongheart in hives. She knew that Yona was onto something, but she couldn’t figure out why they were assigned this mission in the first place. While it seemed reasonable that they had to capture Pinkie Pie, she couldn’t help but wonder what was so special about the suit she wore. But then she said,

“You have a point… but we were put on this mission because the king trusts us. To question importance of this mission is to question the King himself.”

Yona grumbled with disappointment upon hearing Little Strongheart answer her question. Just then, they heard a rustle from the bushes. Looking at the source of the noise, Yona put on her metal gauntlets and said to Little Strongheart,

“Shh.”

Little Strongheart stood away from Yona as she stood up and held her right arm back. After a few seconds, she thrusted her arm and the fist extended. Loosening her grip, the hoof-shaped fist reached into the bushes and grabbed a pony’s head. The fist reeled back in with the pony’s head. Holding the captured pony, Yona held the pony’s head very tight and asked,

“Where pony’s comrades?”

Feeling his head about ready to combust, the pony pointed towards their position to his left. The two looked right and just then, an arrow shot out at Little Strongheart. However, Yona moved the pony in front of her, making him take the arrow in the left lung. The soldiers came out of the bushes, surrounding the buffalo and the yak.

“We didn’t come here to bargain with you creatures. You can either give us Pinkie Pie, or you can experience the anger of the 313th Crystal Battalion. Your choice.” the pegasus commander shouted before holding his hoof up.

The Pegasi aimed their crossbows while the unicorns prepared the magic spells and the earth ponies readied their weapons. Puffing as she cracked each and every single bone in her body, Yona said in a low voice,

“You will regret following us, pony…”

On that note, Yona cracked the pony’s head in her hoof. Angered at her response, the commander shouted,

“FIRE!!!!”

On command, the pegasi fired their crossbows at the two. Little Strongheart moved out of the way while Yona used the corpse to block most of the arrows. However, this only seemed to rile her up.

“RAUGH!!!” Yona shouted, before looking at the ponies.

She threw the corpse at the commander and proceeded running on all fours towards the ponies. Little Strongheart started running as well, charging and ramming the ponies that stood in her way. Building up enough speed, Little Strongheart knocked down trees as she ran through the forest with Pinkie Pie in tow. She ran over every single pony that tried to stop and didn’t bat an eye towards their demises as she moved.

***

Yona was breaking and battering every single pony in her rage. She bludgeoned their skulls in while she ripped them in half with her raw strength. She even went so far as to stab them with her large horns. Anypony that crossed her path ended up as nothing more than a broken ragdoll when they came up close with Yona. When one female pegasus bravely charged at her, Yona split her skull in half and broke it with little effort on collision.

“That all pony got?” Yona boasted.

Growling, the commander ordered,

“Kill her!!!”

More ponies charged at her, but it proved fruitless as she proceeded to beat them all to a pulp.

***

Little Strongheart kept charging away into more ponies as she continued to keep Pinkie Pie from being taken by them. Trees continued to drop with her strength and everypony continued to get trampled while they tried to stop her.

“Just how strong is this buffalo?” A female earth pony asked while chasing Little Strongheart.

“How should I know?! It’s like trying to stop a train with no brakes on it! I dunno how we can stop her like this!”

The ponies tried grabbing her to a halt, but the speed was just too much for them to stop her.

***

Yona was smashing every single pony’s skull like watermelon with every swing she took. No matter what they did, the yak was just too much for the ponies to handle.

“RAUGH!!! WHO ELSE WANTS SOME!!!!” Yona roared, pounding her chest madly.

When one pony got close to her, she grabbed his leg and started flailing him like a club, beating every single pony brutally before throwing him into a tree. She grabbed another pony and snapped his body in half with ease before ripping it in two as well as giving one an aerial dropkick, splattering her head into a tree. She turned towards their commander who was actually taller and stronger than his troops.

“I guess it falls on me to defeat you now.” the commander said, undoing his shirt with his wings.

After dropping it, he brought out a weapon which appeared to be a mace. He got into a fight pose and moved his head back in a taunting manner with a smirk on his face. Enraged at this gesture, Yona yelled,

“GIVE YONA A REAL FIGHT!!!!”

At that moment, Yona charged at the commander on all fours with the commander preparing to swing his mace at the angry yak.

***

After charging everywhere with ponies continuing to chase after her, Little Strongheart halted herself when she made it to a ravine. Pinned against a wall with nowhere to go, she was trapped by the ponies. A female pegasus said,

“I’m gonna make a coat out of you when we’re done.”

“Your head is going on my wall after we finish you.” a male pegasus said.

Pointing their spears and crossbows to push her off the cliff, Little Strongheart sat down and started chanting. This started to confuse the other ponies, but they didn’t care and started pushing forward. But before they could get any closer, they started hearing growls and roars from across the forest.

“What the…?” an earth pony said, looking at Little Strongheart in a bewildered manner.

Chuckling at their predicament after she finished chanting, Little Strongheart said,

“Foolish ponies, I was leading you into a trap! Turn around.”

Heeding her warning, the ponies turned around and saw manticores and timberwolfs running into their direction. The ponies pointed their weapons at the creatures while others tried to run away, but their efforts were fruitless as they were mauled and consumed by them. One manticore came up to Little Strongheart and rubbed itself against her like a housecat, earning him a stroke on the mane from her.

***

The pegasus commander kept swinging his mace at Yona, but the blows he delivered to the yak were impervious. He tried flying away from her, but she leapt up in the air, grappled him by using her gauntlets, and grabbed his wings.

“Get off me, you monster!” the commander demanded.

Grinning, Yona dismantled the pegasus by ripping his wings off. The commander fell to the ground on impact while Yona made a perfect landing. Staggering but still alive, the commander grabbed his mace and charged at Yona once more. Yona just stood up and grabbed him. With his head being crushed, the commander said in his dying breath,

“You’ll never win…”

“Yak beg to differ.” Yona said before turning the pegasus around.

Moving her hoof forward, she reached into his back and slowly pulled his spine out, making him scream in agony. After she did that, she said,

“At least Yona has new back scratcher.”

Before the pegasus could do anything, Yona proceeded to brutalize the helpless commander’s body before crushing his head in her hoof. Afterwards, she sat down and took a breather from all the fighting she commenced. Little Strongheart showed up with manticores and timberwolf’s five minutes later, surprising Yona.

“Okay, friends from the wilderness. Off you go.” Little Strongheart said to the creatures following her.

They heeded her command and left her with no objections from them. Little Strongheart turned towards Yona and said with a friendly smile,

“Guess we had a lot on our minds, didn’t we?”

***

“So that’s what happened while we were gone~? That must have been fun~!” Silverstream shouted.

“I don’t know where I would be if I hadn’t used my animal chant.” Little Strongheart said.

“Who cares? Yak always live for battle!” Yona exclaimed.

“It’s amazing how you two are still alive…” Ocellus said with an annoyed tone in her voice.

“If you can call curb-stomping a battle…” Smolder said with a chuckle.

“What changeling and dragon mean by that?” Yona asked with anger in her voice.

“Quiet! We are approaching the gates and the king expects a good report from us. So no quarreling.” Gallus ordered.

“Yessir!” the other members said.

Making it to the gates, they all waited as the minotaur opened up the gate. After a minute, they went inside carrying Pinkie with them to the throne room where Spike and Tirek awaited.

Author's Notes:

Since I'm in a very chipper mood today, I decided to release this extra chapter early before tomorrow. I just wanted to show you all my appreciation of you still following this story, despite its shortcomings in terms of pacing. I hope you all enjoy this chapter of DOOM-like substance and bring more scary content to come in this current arc. Leave me your thoughts in the comment section down below and I'll see you on the other side.