I TOLD YOU ABOUT WEEKENDS, so don't be that guy that wonders why I just added a new chapter now. Get ready for the fight and a new character!
Demoman and Soldier were bouncing towards him with glee. He went over to them, saying goodbye to the ponies he had been playing with and giving one last burst from his golden sparkle gun. Just as he came up to them, balloonicorn told him it was time for a nap. With a powdery puff of magic, he fell asleep.
"There he is, mate!" yelled Demo in triumph. "That's Pyro if I've ever seen 'im!"
"And I smell… Meat!" Soldier exclaimed, smiling. This was rare, as the only things that excited him were American jobs, cigars, and fancy new things to sound war cries with. He decided meat deserved to be on the list as well.
The pair strode up to Pyro, but before either of them could do anything he simply collapsed on the ground. As Demo wondered what was wrong with him, Soldier realized that the smell of meat was not steaks or hot dogs, as the patriot within him expected. It was…
"Horses?" He stomped back to Demo, who was dragging Pyro towards Engie's project site. "This is not a farm! Horsemeat is not a food! If I find the maggot that…" He continued mumbling at the sudden and unexpected lack of grilled joy.
The two dragged Pyro to Engie, who promptly slapped Soldier and got him working on the portal. Demo lifted his Stickybomb launcher and fired three shots high into the air, detonating each at the peak of their ascents.
It wasn't long before the rest of the team returned. "What on Earth is the bloody mess on your head?" Sniper asked Spy in half mockery, half jealousy.
"A fez. I wear a fez now." They would have begun another fight amongst themselves if not for the incredible roar that shook the very Earth beneath them.
The Ursa Minor had arrived.
The team quickly recognized it as a threat, and grabbed their weapons. "Incoming!" shouted Heavy, who had Sascha spinning away. "Big bear wants us dead! We need to move forward!"
And so the team engaged the giant.
Bullets flew everywhere as Sascha spat forth the fury of a Russian mountain of muscle. The beast was intrigued by it, but quickly found that the closer it got, the more it hurt. Then, from the other side, it was nearly knocked over by a barrage of explosive force in grenade and rocket form. It turned to swipe at them both, but a sharp pain hit him in the knee. Scout went to work on all four limbs with Scattergun and Pistol firing together.
"Steady, steady…" murmured Sniper, waiting for the bear to turn its head. When it did, he took the shot. The bear's left eye exploded in a burst of clear, sparkling liquid, the appearance of which did not amuse the bear. He readied another bullet as Pyro took notice of the pretty animal and joined in. At this rate, they were good to go.
Then Heavy was sent over the hills with one swipe.
"I must go and find him!" Medic yelled over the fray. Spy nodded before vanishing and making his way to the bear in stealth. Engie planted a sentry where Heavy had been before, keeping the fire on the bear on all sides. He noticed that stars from the sky seemed to fill in the wounds the team was creating.
"We can't win like this!" he yelled even as his sentry went down and he prepared another. We need another approach!"
Spy appeared atop the beast and cheered, "Did you forget about me?" before stabbing the beast in the neck. When it opened its mouth, he fired into its mouth with his revolver. He watched as the stars failed to fill the holes he had created. "Hit it in the mouth!" he yelled, before forcing it to roar again.
Scout climbed into the bear's mouth and began destroying its starry oral features. It realized this and tried to chew him to death. He escaped, but his leg did not. Luckily, Medic had heavy on the end of his medigun and was on his way back. "Doc, my leg!" he shouted in pain, before catching the bottle of pills that medic threw.
"Did you fix Medigun?" Heavy asked, referring to the time when an ubercharge had blown Heavy to bits.
"No!" was the reply, before Medic hit the ubercharge switch.
Heavy felt his heart take to the new energy like a magnet to iron, and he saw the same, amazingly, with Sascha. As he fired into the open maw of the Ursa Minor, he saw lightning form around Sascha's barrel. As he and all 8 of the other Reds went into the beast's belly, he let loose a cry of rage, that this thing would dare put his friends and his food in danger.
All of the expected organs one would find in a bear were present, but simply melted when they took too much damage. As Pyro found out, it was also flammable. With every step, more of the night sky rained down upon them, leaving nothing but a trail of explosions, ooze, and flame behind.
As the bear was dying, they fell through the bottom of its belly, still aiming at what was left. Soon, that amounted to nothing but a single wisp of smoky skin. With one final shot from Pyro's flare gun, it burst into a constellation, which quickly took its place in the night sky.
"What in the Sam hell was that?" Engie breathed, vaguely noticing the wreckage of his second teleporter. As they all discussed the creature's origin, only Pyro noticed the shape the constellation formed.
Balloonicorn.
Back in the 1960's, the disappearance of Red's mercenaries was plain as day, and needed to be investigated before Blu launched an attack. The self-hired detective walked into the Dustbowl infirmary and saw a random peace symbol on the wall. He stared at it menacingly, and it burst into flame. "Hippies…" he muttered. Then he saw the gigantic portal standing open before him.
And with a cry of "SAXTON HALE!" the leader of Mann Co. jumped into the unknown world of equestria.