"This sucks." The guard said pressing himself against the elevator wall.

"Ya'll aren't the ones down here." Applebloom muttered looking up at the guard. "It smells like rottin' flesh and sewage."

"I can't help it." Sweetiebelle said. "It was the only way for me and Babs to get back to the surface. I still wish it didn't have to be a sewage pipe."

"Why didn't you just have your boyfriend pick you up?" The guard said nudging her with his boot. "I'm sure he would have just come running if you batted your eye-lashes."

"I hate you so much." She said crossing her fore-legs.

"We know," Isaac said. "We all know, and we love it."

Before Sweetiebelle could retort with a sharp jab to his ankle, the elevator doors opened letting them all nearly run out. Only one light worked above them, the rest were shattered or coated with so much dirt it cut off the light. The tiles were worn away leaving only a bare concrete floor, the walls were rusting and coated in grime; around the corner, a functioning door was still giving off the same blue light as every unlocked door.

Isaac opened it and they strode in, ponies first and then humans aiming above and behind them. Looking around, the two shelves in front of the door were filled with stale food, broken equipment, and piles of moistened mold. Down the few steps by the bench, a gross amount of screens and other equipment. In the far area of the room, another door was unlocked, a low fog was wafting in from the cracks in it but stopped at the light coming from the machinery.

"Reminds me of the base back home." Applebloom said. "With the screens ah mean, ah'd beat whoever left the place lookin' like this."

"I'd hope it doesn't look like this." The guard said. "A few centuries left unattended, two Necromorph outbreaks, and an army of religious nuts is all it took to trash this place. It took less for the gunship to get its filth."

"I doubt that." Sweetiebelle said. "Oh, we've also got two Necromorphs coming in with three more behind them."

As Isaac went to the closest door by the shelves, the vent in the same row as it was torn away and a Waster came running out. Isaac stopped and kicked it away as it was raising its wrenches. Firing six bolts into it, he aimed at the vent as more scratching was made.

Going back to the others, Applebloom and Babs were firing at the Waster crawling through the second vent while the guard, nexus, and Sweetiebelle were firing off at the vent where the first Waster came through, but now a Regenerator was trying to get through.

Sweetiebelle tore one of the consoles from the wall and threw it against the vent. As they were all moving to the back she tore the other half out and placed it between them and the Regenerators. The guard opened the door behind them and they all ran through as the Necromorphs began clawing at the metal.

Running through the grime coated, nearly lightless room, they quickly opened the only other unlocked door and went through. While they ran down the steps, the guard stopped and looked back, to the sides, and back to the others.

"Guys, I don't think we can escapei." He said leaning against a wall. "Were trapped and we're going to die. Cut to ribbons on a planet no one has heard of, in a facility no one has heard of, and with no one to mourn us."

"We're not dying." Applebloom said. "Ah've got a family, a home, a world to protect. And ah ain't 'bout to hoof it over to a bunch of slimy, rotten, infectious, creeps and a glowing rock just 'cause ah'm stuck in a hole." She took her axes and held them in front of her.

"Did you not hear me!?" He yelled getting up. "We are stuck in a hole!"

"And if we're in a hole, then we dig a deeper one for them." She snapped back. "We ain't gonna die hidin' like rats. We ain't dyin' here either."

"Fine." He said nodding vigorously. "Fuck it! I might as well. So, how do we kill these things?" He asked as metal tearing was heard.

"Do we have a rocket engine on hand?" Isaac asked as the door began to dent.

"Eenope." Applebloom replied. "What ya see is what ya got. Ah'd say that's enough."

"How?" He asked. "These things regenerate their limbs when they're separated from them. How are we going to kill that?"

"We don't cut the limbs," she said waving an axe. "If ah make a cut, then that should give ya enough time to fire a rocket into it. It can't regenerate if there ain't nothin' left to regenerate."

"That means I'm going to have to get uncomfortably close to a Necromorph." He said aiming his chain gun at the door. "This had better not end with you getting stabbed again. I don't know what I'd do without you, or the others if I lost you."

She tensed and looked back at him with her helmet folded up. She gave a nod and shook it off as her face became contorted with an unseen rage. Cracking her neck, her back arched slightly as the door was finally thrown off its hinges and two Regenerators came through.

As they approached, the guard stepped back, tripped and caught himself on a small holo-pad. Getting up, the lift by him began to go down, an alarm sounded, and the sound of Feeders could be heard above them.

"Crap. My bad!" He yelled as the vent behind them was torn away for a Regenerator to come through. "Guys! The other one is behind us!" He yelled as he took out the legs.

Appleblood ran forward, cutting the Regenerator the furthest back on the legs, it fell and she turned to block the blades of the closest one. Knocking them away and shooting a bolt of stasis at them, they slowed down long enough for her to get around it and make a large gash in its back. Seeing it, Isaac ran up to it, turned away and shoved the barrel of the rocket launcher before firing.

Appleblood shot off another bolt stasis, slowing Isaac, the living Regenerator, and the explosion. Pulling him away, she went to make a cut on the other one when she was knocked against the wall by a Feeder. Gritting her teeth, she threw an axe at it as it tried to sink its claws into Isaac. Going to retrieve her axe, she looked behind her and saw Nexus, Sweetiebelle, and the guard fighting off a group of Feeders while keeping a Regenerator from regenerating its limbs.

Looking back in front of her, she snorted as three Feeders came at her. She cut the hand off the first one, made it trip and then sent the hand into its head. Grabbing the arm of the second, she turned it around and made it stab the the thrid in the chest. Bucking it away, they rolled in a brown, stick-limbed ball. She took out her Planet Cracker plasma cutter and fired off two shots, killing both of them.

Sweetiebelle and Nexus were in the middle of a group of Feeders, tearing and biting legs, limbs, and torsos. Sweetiebelle felt a third pair of claws dig into her side, lift her up and began to pull. She let out a pair of Stalker claws from her hooves and cut her way out of it, absorbing the severed limbs as she did so.

Nexus was electrocuting any of them that touched him. Biting another Feeders legs, he twisted his head and broke them off at the knees. Stabbing it through the chest with a spine-tail, he swung it a full three-sixty degrees, electrocuting and smashing the other Feeders. Seeing the Regenerator coming up behind Sweetiebelle as the guard and Babs were dealing with their own Feeders, he threw the Feeder corpse and let his lips peel back in a gory smile as he watched the Regenerator fall back into the vent.

Sweetiebelle looked behind her as the Necromroph corpse slammed into the Regenerator, and even after when both of them went into the vent. Looking back at him, she nodded but got only a bloody, blank stare.

Babs swept the legs out from a Feeder and caved its head in with a hoof, the guard looking over her shot sporadically, popping heads in quick progression. Babs saw cousin with the Regenerator, both of them slashing with their own blades. Running to her, she cut the legs off it while it had both blades lowered, it fell and Appleblood made a large gash in it before putting it in stasis.

Isaac went to it and fired another rocket into the gash, blowing it up without the stasis on. Wiping the blood and flesh off him, he looked towards the last Regenerator. Holding his finger on the trigger, he aimed higher towards the top of the vent it was in and fired. The missile detonated on the metal and warped it so badly the hole vent was nearly closed.

"Is it over?" The guard asked staring at the Regenerator. "Can we go, that thing is scaring me. Even though Babs and Applebloom scare me just as much." He said getting a grunt from both of them.

"Well," Isaac said looking at the large crate on the lift. "Looks like we got what we came here for. And the exit is open." He said nodding towards a set of double doors.

"Run." Sweetiebelle muttered. "W need to run!" She yeled throwing a piece of Regenerator as it began to quiver. "The chunks are regenerating!"

"Fuck Necromorphs!" The guard yelled as he jumped the rail and passed the doors with the others only seconds behind.

Stopping momentarily in the room, they all looked around before Babs went to the elevator. Isaac opened it and they all poured in as roars from the swarm of Regenerators began. The doors closed, and the double doors in front of them were opened as well along with the vents being pushed out.

"Blow them up! Yeah, that's going to kill them!" Isaac panted. "We're never shooting any other explosives at those things!"

"How was ah supposed to know they'd do that!?" Applebloom yelled back indignantly. "At least we got more time. They'll be swarmin' the vents so much they'll get 'em clogged."

"And if they don't?" Babs asked looking at the door of the elevator.

"We're kaput." Applebloom said shrugging. "Simple as that."

"Yeah, simple, whatever you say." Isaac muttered. "Here's our stop."

The door opened and they all ran out, with the guard coming out last and almost taking a blade to his face. He screamed and pushed the Regenerator away as the elevator door ahead of him began closing. Grabbing the guard's hand, Isaac pulled him in as more Regenerators came into the room.

"Well, now what? We can't let them follow us, otherwise Danik, and the rest of us aren't getting off this rock." Isaac said. "Wait," he said looking down at Applebloom. "You just gave me an idea."

"We're dead." Sweetiebelle said. "He's got an idea."

"Sweetiebelle," he said. "Remember that Marker cube you have in your chest?"

"Yeah, what about it?" She said putting a hoof to her chest. "What do you want with it?"

"You can overload it, make it explode and kill the Regenerators." He said. "Just throw it back inside once it almost has enough magic, and then while we're all outside you can shoot off a little burst to set it off."

"You're insane." Applebloom said. "That could take out the whole facility."

"Do you have any other ideas?" He asked making her look away. "Anyone else? No? Good. Let's trash this dump."

As the door opened and a fresh burst of frigid air and snow hit them, Sweetiebelle took out the Marker cube from her chest and began pouring magic into it. As she was doing so, the bottom of the elevator began to show dents.

The Isaac and the guard both fired into the metal, receiving metal 'tinks' and gushes of blood from the holes as bullets and bolts went through and into the Regenerators. Looking back at Sweetiebelle, the cube's markings were swarming with a vibrant blue. She stopped momentarily before setting the cube down in the elevator.

"Everypony back, I need to make it fall through the floor without setting it off this close. Isaac, shoot a rocket in there." She said keeping her horn charged.

He nodded, aimed his gun, and fired. The cube fell in a flash of fire and the roars of the Regenerators quickly overpowered the explosions sound. As the first one was climbing up, Sweetiebelle ran forward, aimed down the hole, and fired.

At first nothing happened, and then a white light came from the hole, Sweetiebelle and the Regenerator were engulfed in flames, and then the tremors hit. The section of building was taken by a ball of white light, the heat turned the outside of their armors red, the snow was vaporized, and Sweetiebelles body was flung to the back wall with Nexus.

After the tremors were over and the light disappeared, the few of them not unconscious looked towards where the elevator was before. They all, minus Nexus and Sweetiebelle, stopped breathing.

"That was only a four by four inch cube... Oh my god." Isaac muttered looking at the white ringed crater in front of him.

The crater itself reached as far as the sttarage facility where Isaac fought the Unitologists, to where they came into the icy pit where he fought the Stalkers.

"At least we escapeied." The guard said. "That's a plus."

"What?" Isaac said. "You mean we escaped, right?"

"That's what I said. Escapied."

"It's pronounced escaped." Isaac said.

"You sound like a douche when you say it like that." Th guard retorted before looking at where the elevator was, only to see a Regenerator laying on its back. "Hold on, I need to throw that thing off before it comes back."

He got up and, stopping momentarily from the heat, he went up to the Regenerator. Looking back at the others, he saw Applebloom and Babs by Sweetiebelle while Isaac was still staring at him or the crater. Nudging the Regenerator, he didn't scream when he launched itself upright, but instead he kicked it off the edge and into a pool of molten rock and metal.

Turning around, he raised both arms in triumph, hands balled into fists.

"No one fucks with the Irish!"

Author's Notes:

Thanks Grif, for the wonderful moment in Red vs Blue.