AN:ALLCOMPANION SLOTS ARE TAKEN. You can however still send in oc's for enemies if you want. I will supply the need for oc requirements as they come.
'Well that hurt like a son of a gun.' I think to myself after I burn all of the Cyberpony mutts.
'Flare, what's wrong? I heard your thoughts and it sounded like you were in a world of hurt.' Twilight thinks
"Yeah, I think I got the pink taint on me."
She gasps and urgently says, "Let me take a look at you now. From what you told us, that pink taint is bad news."
She looks me over for a couple of minutes and notices something with my wings.
"This is really bad, I think."
"Well, what is the problem?" I ask her.
"It seems that the pink taint that got on your wings has not only fused your cyberwings with your body were they connected, but it also looks like they made changed your wings from a metal material to an Cyberflesh of sorts. It looks like they are still, hard as the initial metal but it is also as flexible and light as flesh. Flare, just let me do some calculations really quickly." She says as she closes her eyes and mouths calculations."Your wing should be light enough for you to fly now. It may take some practice but with Hawkens help and my recovery plan, you should be able to fly again! This is fantastic!" she almost yells in joy
"Why are you so happy?" I chuckle. "I should be the one jumping around in joy. I wonder if I will still be able to do my signature move." I wonder to myself.
"What's that? Your move I mean." Hawkens asks me.
"When I was younger, a few weeks before I took my flight test, I was out on practice run. I was one of the fastest fliers out of the recently re-instituted Junior Speedsters Flight School. I was practicing the diveboom, the part where you nosedive to try to pull off a Sonic Rainboom, when I did something that shocked me into crashing into thundercloud. I pulled off what I like to call, a Sonic Flare, named after me of course. I managed to go so fast, I ignited the air behind me. It was literally, a stream of fire following me. I did it for my parents the next day and got my cutie mark. Happiest moment of my life, when I realized how much I liked fire. If I couldn't pull off a Sonic Rainboom, they had me set up to go into the military, using my Sonic Flare to defend New Equestria. So yeah, I could fly fast enough to light air on fire, and it looked epic."
"DAMN. I really want to see that." Hawkens says.
"Well, if my plan works, you should be able to see it in no time."
BOOM! The door to the stairs that leads upward through the stable as six more Cyberpony mutts burst into the room we are in and start firing their Party Cannons at us. It startles Hawkens and I into the air and we get hit by the weapons. I really hope that the Pinkie Pie who left me the message on the terminal was right. We are teleported into a dark room. I find a hay bed and light it on fire with a small burst from my magic rifle. It gives me enough light to see that Hawkens is injured and won't be able to walk out of the cell on his own. In the light, I look around and see that the cell door is open and leads to a well lit room, probably the Overmares office. I manage to wake Hawkens by lightly jabbing at him with my now semi-organic grapples.
"What, what's going on? Why do my wings and head feel so bad?" Hawkens asks me.
"We were teleported to the detention room of the stable by the looks of it. I think I am going to have to carry you out, unless Twilight can teleport down to us and heal you. Let me try to get a hold of her." 'Twilight, can you hear me?'I ask her.
'Loud and clear, where are you?'
'The basement by the looks of things. Hawkens is injured and can't move on his own. Do you think you could teleport down here and help him. I really don't want to carry that featherbrain all the way back up.'
"I HEARD THAT!" Hawkens screams at me.
'The hell Twilight?' I ask her
'Sorry, I never disconnected anyone from the mind link.'
"Sorry Hawkens, it was only a joke."
"Yeah yeah, whatever. Just make sure I get out of this dump, in one piece."
"No problem."
Just as I get him up, sort of, saw a bright flash followed by a loud crash.
"Ugh, it's a good thing I have relampago, or I may have been splat." A mysterious pony mare says to herself from the direction of the elevator.
'Hawkens, we have company.'
'Ya don't say. If anyone ever tells a story about our adventures, you are defiantly going to be a captain obvious.'
'You just lay down on this bed here while I go check it out.' I think to him as I set him on a bed that I did not ignite.
'Like a have much of a choice.'
I walk out of the room and peak into the Overmares' office and see somepony who I never expected to see again. I don't know her name, or know her very well for that matter. I just saw her in New Pegasus weeks before I had joined the Equestria Express. She was a light blue earth mare with a short indigo and purple mane and tail. Her cutiemark looked like a solid yellow version of Rainbow Dashes with a black fireworks explosion instead of a cloud.
"Ok. I am reporting in from the last known location of Flare. It would seem that he survived the explosion that created the massive crater in the middle of this sh*thole of a place. Turns out the explosion revealed the Protostable of Pinkie Pie."She said to who knows who over an earbloom.
"Will do. I'll. Contact you when I find him, if I find him." She says a few seconds later.
'Well, whoever she is, that plasma cannon looks serious.' I think to myself.
'Hey Flare, does she have two sparking canisters at her sides?' Hawkens asks me.
'Yeah, why?'
'Then we are saved.'
'You sure? '
'100%.'
"Hey. You looking for me?" I ask her.
She looks up, surprised to hear a voice by the look of her face.
"Thank Celestia your alive. Where is the rest of your team?" She asks me.
"Well Shiara and Twilight are on a higher level but Hawkens is injured. You wouldn't happen to have any medicine, would you?"
"Yeah, got some healing potions right here."
"Thanks." I say to her as I take the potions to Hawkens.
"So how do you know her Hawkens?"
"Well I don't personally know her but I know of her. She's a vigilante like us, but is sometimes for hire. Someponies call her Thunderhooves. Not because she can gallop hard, but because of that cannon on her back. Rumor has it that that thing can shoot out a continuous stream of lightning."
"You can count that as true. Darn thing saved my life when I fell down the elevator. Stopped my fall right before I hit the ground. Now how did you get so banged up?" She asks Hawkens.
"I managed to get hit by some Party Cannon grenades along with Flare here."
"Some what's now?"
"They're grenades filled with a pink taint that is weird because it can teleport anything to anyplace." I explain.
"Weird indeed. Well now in your looking better Hawkens, I say we get you guys back to your group. Let me give you a hoof with Hawkens."
"Thanks, it would have taken a lot longer if you weren't here to help."
"No problem, after all, we can't have you all held up down here when the rest of your team is stuck fighting whatever it is that shot you down here."
"We owe you one."
"Hey don't mention it. Where are you headed after you get out of this crazy place?"
"Well, we are headed to Novac. It's the last place that we know of that Benny, the pony who killed me, was."
"Well if you get there by the end of the week, you may get to meet Ditzy Do. She's giving away copies of her Wasteland Survival Guide to the Middle Ground."
By this point, we reach the door and start making our way up the stairs when Stardust asks me "Do you want to listen to Pon-3s' channel. I have a signal amplifier with me because I have to be able to make direct contact with her wherever I am. She did hire me to keep tabs on you after all."
"Sure." I say
She switches her earbloom to the DJs station.
"GOOD MORNING MIDDLE GROUND! This is DJ-Pon-3 with your latest news on all things middle ground. This is just in; one of my desert informants has reported that the Flaming hero survived the explosion that left a 75 foot wide crater in the desert. My informant also tells me that the area is heavily irradiated and has a very high taint level so I would suggest that no-pony goes near the place unless you want to become an insane supermutant, and not necessarily in that order. In other news, the LOZ has massacred the town of Nelliton in cold blood. In other news, it has been confirmed that Dr. Horn has been using Zebra Black Magic to treat his patients. I would suggest that anypony who has been treated by him to go and see White Noise at camp McMaren. He is one of the foremost surgeons in the Middle Ground. For the first time in a long while, I have a new sponsor. This broadcast was brought to you by Mr. Auto Correct, the creator of the Aimbot. When you need that extra bit of accuracy, choose Aimbot. Until next time."
"Well, at least Pon-3 is keeping the Protostables secret, and with them, the secret of the Elements."
"What was that?"
"Oh, just talking to myself Stardust. Hey, how did you manage to get that huge lightning cannon?" I ask her.
"Well, I was on a trip to New Pegasus, a few months before I got my cutie mark. I met a mechanic on the outskirts of the city. He must have seen something in me because he literally, took me under his wing, and trained me on how to use his lightning cannon. It took me a year but when I could use it like I could use my hooves, he gave it to me. Said it wasn't his time for adventure anymore. After that, I wandered the Middle Ground until I ended up back in New Pegasus and met the good DJ. She hired me to be an informant for special stories. Yours caught her eye and she told me to follow you. Sorry I gave you the whole history of how we met, but I sometimes get a little bit off track when it comes to conversation."
We are now at the floor where Hawkens and I got his by the taint nades.
"Twilight, Shiara, you galls still up here. We got a friend with the wrath of heaven on her side."
"Bout time, what took you so long." Twilight nags,
"Indeed, you were making her worry. She was starting to scurry."
"Shut up Shiara." Twilight says with, I think a bit of blushing
"I see that you managed to ruin quite a few Cyberpony Mutts." I say.
"Yeah, after you got teleported, Shiara and I had to deal with at least a dozen more of them. Luckily I was able to get the best combo I had ever gotten, 5 headshots, one bullet. They were lined up just perfectly in the doorway. It was an opportunity I just couldn't miss." Twilight says with a Squee face.
"Well, could you please use your wonderful medical skills to heal me? Stardust here gave me some healing potions but that mainly took away the pain. I still can't move on my own." Hawkens whines while lying on top of a table that I put him on.
"Hey, what happened to the taint?" I ask.
"Turns out, you can just burn the pink taint away with Pyremagic." Twilight answers
"Good to know. How long should it take with Hawkens?" I ask
"Well, judging by my X-Ray spell, it should take at least 10 minutes or more."
"Well if that is so, do have a look ahead, I will go."
After she leaves I comment. "Some of those rhymes she makes don't even make sense."
Shiara gets back by the time that Hawkens is all healed up and reports, "All of the floors above were clear. We will soon be out of here."
I now realize that her machete is stained in blood. We then walk out of the cafeteria room and up a to the entrance level when all of a sudden somepony yells "WAIT!"
We all turn around and see a robot with pink fur all over it.
"So that's what you look like Flare. I can see the Prophecy was correct. By the way, you can tell your friends everything about the elements. They can know. I just got the OK from Littlepip herself." The pink robot says.
"Who are you?" I ask it.
"I am Pinkie Pie IV. I still managed to maintain my mind when I fused with the robots. Now I sense that you are going to level up soon so I will just tell you this, you are much more important…"
Level Up-Lv.11
Perk Added- Flares taint Lv4.
You now take half the total damage you would take from fire and deal twice the damage you would normally inflict with fire.
Perk Added – Pink Taint
You are now fused with your cyber implants. You can now operate them to the same efficiency as you could with your original limbs.