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Cutie Mark Engineers/Necromorph Killer's Yay!

by Shadowstalker

Chapter 3: The mother node.

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The CMC and Isaac were carefully walking along the deserted halls of Titan station.

"Where are we going?" Asked Scootaloo.

"I think there's a store by the tram rails. Which, evidently is where I also need to go."

"What's a tram?"

"A train that goes along on a cord above it."

"That doesn't sound safe."

"Neither does walking through a hall where necro's could jump out at any second, but we're doing that anyway."

"I guess. Say, how can you use magic without a horn?"

"What? I can't use magic. Magic doesn't exist."

"But, how did you catch those things in the air?"

"It's called kinesis. Your suits have them too, why don't you try it on that box over there."

She looked over to a small yellow box with blue lights on the corners.

She stuck out her hoof and nothing happened.

"You need to think what you want it to do. Think about the box coming over." He said.

She put out her hoof again and this time it came flying over to stop a few feet in front of her.

"Good, now think about throwing it to the ground."

She did and it smashed into multiple pieces. What came out were little small bronze circles.

"What are those?"

"Well god damn... you just found a box of power nodes. This is good, really good."

"What do they do?"

"You can improve your suit or tool with them. And it seems you just found atleast forty. Enough to fully upgrade your suits. If there’s any left then you can divide them between each other to improve your weapons."

"Sweet. I wonder what's in that one."

She pulled in another and smashed it revealing a long blue and silver object with eight small rounded objects.

"You are just one lucky pony, you know that?"

"What is it?"

"A Pulse rifle along with eight clips, nine if you count the one already in it."

"What's it do?" She asked pocketing the ammo and holding the gun.

"Its semi-automatic rifle that fires small bolts of energy. And like my plasma cutter, it has an alternate fire mode."

"Alternate what now?" She asked cocking her head to the side.

"If you activate the alternate fire, then the blasts will spray from every direction around you. It won't shoot down unless you point it down though, that would just be stupid."

"Wow, can I keep it?"

"I don't see why not? Unless you’re thinking of killing me and taking my stuff."

"What! Why would I want to kill you? You've been protecting our tails."

"Actually, so far you've protected mine. The Brute doesn't count, since I couldn't finish it off immediately."

"Hey Isaac, look what I found!" Sweetiebelle said running over with a javelin gun.

"Hey! Hey!Watch where you point that, I don't feel like being turned into shish-kebab. Wait, where did you even get that?"

"While you and Scoot's were talking, me and Applebloom saw something shiny in a room and found lots of cool stuff like this!"

"Where exactly did you get this?"

"Right to the right."

They all looked and saw Applebloom walking out with a plasma cutter and ripper.

"Holy shit... you three make a leprechaun look like a black cat that spilled salt, broke a mirror and walked under twenty ladders."

"Can we keep them?" Applebloom asked.

"You need to protect yourselves. So yes, plus the more firepower we have, the faster you all can get out of here."

"Alright, but there was more stuff in there." Sweetiebelle said walking back in.

Isaac and Scootaloo both shared glances before heading in. Isaac, as soon as he saw what was in there, put a hand up to his chest and the other against a wall.

There were four of each tool and weapon that you could buy at a store, health packs of every size, ammo in the piles, power nodes and air tanks.

"You all need to quite with so much luck or else I might have a heart attack." He laughed and they soon joined in.

"Thanks, taint' nothing." Applebloom said.

"So why don't we go and grab your stuff and then move out?"

They all smiled before going lining up.

"Alright, who has a good eye?"

Sweetiebelle raised her hoof.

"Okay, I think you'll need a Seeker rifle, Contact beam and Plasma cutter."

"I don't think I can carry that much." She frowned.

"That's why your suit does. It kind of absorbs it into your inventory."

He handed her, her three weapons, two medium health packs and a large air canister.

"Alright, now who's good with an automatic?"

Applebloom raised her hoof.

"Alright, you get a Pulse rifle, Line gun and a Plasma cutter."

He handed her all of her, her weapons along with two small health packs and a large air canister.

"Are you good with heavy items?" He asked Scootaloo.

Who was holding a Ripper in both hooves.

"I'll take that as a yes, so you can have a Ripper, Force gun and Plasma-"

"I think I’ll take that over there." She said pointing a ripper at another weapon with a small flame coming out.

"Alright, just don't turn us into Bar-B-Q. So you get a Ripper, Force gun and the Flame thrower."

She took her stuff and a few nodes.

"You’re not getting any air tanks?" He asked slightly shocked.

"No, I can hold my breath for two hours."

"Good, because the necros don't need air anyway. Now come on, let's sort out the node issue and then we move out."

They all nodded and went to work collecting as many nodes as possible.

There were atleast a hundred nodes in total.

"Wow, there looks like there's enough for everyone."

"And there's a bench-thingy by the tram." Scootaloo said reloading all of her weapons.

"How do you know that?"

"I saw the line go in the same direction that blue one did. So, let's go."

"I'd say so far this has been a pretty good outbreak, as far as they go." Isaac said.

"Come on, we need to move." Said Sweetiebelle taking out her Contact beam.

"Ah just want tah' go already." Applebloom said taking out her Plasma cutter.

He led them out and led them down another hallway, always checking every corner to make sure there were no enemies in hiding.

They made it to a room filled with desks, chairs and the chairs beheaded occupant's. It was pitch black and the only light is when Isaac showed the path to where they needed to go.

As they made a turn a screen came to life for only a second scaring all three of them to run out of the room in fear of the noise and possibility of it attracting necromorph's.

When they stopped they were in a room full of bed like tubes with blue energy floating around them.

"Stasis chambers." he said, reading the sign aloud.

"What?" They all asked in unison.

"If you can fire a bolt of this stuff out of your suit, then you can slow down the motion of certain objects, even if they’re in the air."

"Do we have them?" Sweetiebelle asked.

"Yes, you all just need to charge them. And look at that, there's a re-charge station right over there."

They all looked to the right of the room and on the wall was a small box with a blue bar connecting to a circle. They all ran up to it to look at it closer.

"Ah can't reach it." Applebloom said frowning.

"What if we stack on top of each other?" Scootaloo asked.

"That could work." Sweetiebelle said.

Scootaloo planted her hooves firmly on the ground and let Sweeitebelle climb on and following her Applebloom. After she got her stasis charged, Sweetibelle switched places with her and after Sweetiebelle was done Scootaloo climbed up and charged hers.

"Dammit!" Isaac yelled shaking his smoking hands.

They all turned and saw him reaching into a box full of wires while looking at a screen with a large circle on it.

"What's he doing?" Sweetiebelle asked Applebloom.

"Ah don't know."

"Come on!" He yelled shaking his hands again.

Scootaloo walked over and saw how he was doing it, he just moved his hands around making a bar in the circle move and when it met a blue dot he pushed a button on the inside. As he was about to try again she stuck her hooves in it and started to move it.

She got the first done making a blue light shine above the other two crusaders, making them run over to her.

She got the second and the light grew brighter, along with part of the ceiling being torn open to let in another one of the big burnt looking Necromorph's.

Just as it was charging, she got the third and a blast of stasis energy shot it, slowing it down enough for them all to open fire.

As it wore off, the torso fell to the floor before the limbs or what was left of them. Blood dropped to the ground in puddles, and the head dropped, rolling slowly over to Isaac's feet, who then kicked it across the room.

"Ok, now all we've got to do is go through the door." He said.

"Why does my flank feel all funny?" Scootaloo asked slipping out of her suit momentarily.

All three of the crusader's eyes widened in shock and happiness.

Scootaloo had a picture of two wires together connecting in a blue circle with the dot in the middle of the line, on her flank.

"I've got my Cutie mark!"

"What's a what?" He asked staring at the picture for longer than he felt necessary.

"It's what a pony gets when they find what there good at." Applebloom said.

"So, you get a tattoo on your ass saying what you’re going to do for the rest of your life?"

"It's not a tattoo, whatever that is. It's a Cutie mark."

"I'm not saying that."

"What? Cutie mark?"

"I'm not going to say it."

"Wait what's it called again?" Sweetiebelle asked.

"A Cutie mark." Scootaloo said.

"I know that." She sighed at her friend for ruining her chance to get him to say it.

They all preceded to the panel that opened the door. Isaac pushed a button and when Applebloom went to go through, it scanned her and closed.

"Hey, what gives?" She pouted.

"It seems we need to slow it down or find the guy it's supposed to scan. And since he's lying over there in the corner with his face probably eaten; that only leaves us with the option to slow it down." Isaac said.

Before he walked around back to the panel he saw Scootaloo with her hooves tapping away at an assortment of buttons. He was about to tell her to stop when the doors opened and the scanner blew up into a spray of sparks.

"Now we can go." She said passing Isaac.

"How did you even know what to do?"

"It's not so hard if you know what you’re doing. That and I read the manual in my suit if I ever need to hack anything."

"Damn, I see why you got that as a Cutie mark." He said before slapping his helmet with his palm. "You win this time Applebloom."

Next Chapter: Boss fight-A. Estimated time remaining: 6 Hours, 52 Minutes
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