Bursts of magic from a unicorn somewhere on the ground flashed past the two pegasi, their graceful speed helping them evade the clumsy and inexperienced shooting. The two swooped downwards, letting the pony on the ground give him or herself away. A few bolts of magic came too close for comfort to one pegasus, but the other saw the flashes from the ground. She returned the favour. From small metal boxes worn like saddlebags, two rockets streaked out from below her wings. There was a brief curse and then two loud explosions below.
"Scootaloo, how you holding up?" Rainbow Dash shouted to her wingpony as she pulled up, rocket launchers reloading.
"I'm okay. Vision's all blurry though..." The younger pegasus reported.
"That'll happen, just keep level and dodge bright lights coming off the ground. We can make it!"
"But Ditzy..."
"It's cruel to say it but it's probably merciful for her she was knocked out of the sky so fast instead of getting it drawn out. Apart from that idiot we just smoked everypony down there seems to be pretty good..." Dash advised.
"Dash! Scoots! We've got a problem!" their headsets suddenly said.
"Apple Bloom? What's wrong?" Scootaloo said.
"Me and Dinky are surrounded at the objective, they got one o' them big carts with the tough armour and the big cannon! An' a buncha earth ponies are hittin' us with their saddleguns!"
"Well, why didn't Sweetie Belle blast it with her horn?" Dash cut in.
"It got her first!"
Scootaloo swore.
"Alright, sit tight, fillies, we'll rainboom the manure out of that cart, then come show those earth ponies an air show!"
"Hurry, they make one good push on this and we're gonna lose this whole chunk of the Everfree to the bad guys! We can't let 'em into Ponyville!" Dinky warned.
The two pegasi rushed over the treetops, heading for where the objective was. Their flight was interrupted by another message in the headsets.
"Aw hay, GRENA-"
"Apple Bloom?!" Scootaloo shouted.
"She's down!" Dinky shouted.
"Come on, we're all there is between them and Ponyville!" Dash urged her companion.
"Right..."
The two readied their saddlelaunchers. Dinky was still there, her horn firing small bolts of magic at her attackers.
Four rockets were fired at a hulking metal box, blasting it to smithereens. The bright fire exposed a number of crawling earth ponies nearby. Scootaloo fired her own saddle machine gun at them, only to hear Dash scream a warning.
"Scootaloo, watch out behind you!"
But it was too late. A bolt of magic struck her right in the chest. A bright flash and she was gone.
"Horseapples!" Dash shouted, as the hidden unicorns began firing. Two of them had been waiting for any pegasus that came in. The earth ponies began firing wildly as well.
"The sky is too hot around the objective, Dinky, I'm gonna have to land and... Ow! Hay, they got my wing!"
Dash tried to land as gracefully as she could under the circumstances, but she rolled on impact. It helped her avoid the nearby unicorn that tried to finish the job. The cyan mare didn't let the unicorn get another shot off.
The two earth pony stallions nearby were not given the same treatment. Dash dived behind a tree as they fired away.
"I'm stuck! Anypony out there I need help!" She said.
A careful peek around the corner showed the two earth ponies were keeping her in place as the other unicorn began to approach.
'Well, this is it, Dash. It's pretty much over. We lost...'
She prepared to jump out and maybe take one of them down in the process, only for two surprising explosions to sound out. The unicorn turned to her mistake and Dash exploited it.
"Who the hay was that?"
"Guess who?!" A familiar voice uncharacteristically shouted in her headset.
"Fluttershy?! But how?! You should have been miles away!"
"Mobile Spawn Cloud! Works EVERY time!" The normally shy mare said victoriously.
Dash was silent.
"Uh, well, I mean it works most of the time. Sometimes the other side remember to burst them..."
"...Mobile what?" Dash asked in confusion.
"It's a level twenty unlock for the pegasus recon. Everypony else just plays unicorn recons because they get their sniper horns and their Magic Spawn Points but pegasus recon gets all sorts of things to let us sneak around."
"That is SO AWESOME!" Dash cheered.
"Hey guys! Back in the game!" Scootaloo said as she flew in. The three pegasi hovered over the objective as Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle both popped into existence beside a glowing circle Dinky had planted.
"Alright, girls, the bad news is the other side are throwing everypony at us right now including their cart. The good news is..."
A loud rumbling noise approached from behind, and a thunderbolt erupted from another metal box. But this one was friendly.
"Hi muffin! Sorry I took so long, the carts were glitching and stuck in some rocks...." Ditzy Doo said as her cart rumbled past.
"Ohmigosh that was so awesome! You guys came in and Lyra and Bon-Bon were all 'nooo our cart and our lives this sucks noooo' and me and Applejack were like 'ow ow ow we're dead ow' and then Twilight zapped Scootaloo and Dashie was all 'nooooo' and Rarity got her wing but then Dashie was all 'try this on for size' and shot her in the face then Twilight and the others were all like 'rawr we hate Dashie' and tried to kill you until you died from it but then Fluttershy was all 'boom boom you're ponied, noobs' and Big Macintosh and Caramel were like 'aaaaaah' and Twilight was all 'what was that' and you shot her in the face too, Dashie!" Pinkie Pie bounced nearby.
The six ponies stared at her.
"Pinkie... You're on the other team."
"I know! You guys are doing awesome so I was like I'd better go over and tell them they're awes-"
She was cut off by Ditzy running her over.
"Okay, just to be clear before ah speak, ah'm only joking, but has anypony ever given thought to doin' that to her in real life to see if it calms 'er down a bit?" Apple Bloom asked.
In the library the next day, the game was being discussed. Dash, Applejack, and Spike were in attendance as Twilight prepared to play again.
"Oh man, I am so glad they put pegasus classes back in the game..." Dash said happily.
"I'm not..." Twilight Sparkle groused as her computer loaded a map.
"Aw, lighten up, sugarcube, Fluttershy got us fair and square. It was just hard luck the tank got hit afore ah could get over and fix 'er up..." Applejack soothed her as she began playing.
"On the plus side there's no alicorns in the game. Imagine how overpowered that would b..."
The purple unicorn's response was muted by her pony on the screen suddenly being grabbed and stabbed by another pony on the other side.
"Killed by PrincessLuna... Ooh, irony. She just took your cutie tags as well." Spike noted.
Twilight growled.
"I'll just respawn at this magic spawn point here! Nopony on my team is around there so the bad guys won't expect..."
She spawned.
She was shot in the face.
"Killed by PrincessCelestia. Aw, Twilight, y'all tempted fate saying that thing about no alicorns..."
Twilight's eye twitched.
"...Spike, take a letter. Dear Princess Celestia, NICE SPAWNCAMPING. I AM GOING TO MURDER YOU!"
Everypony and one dragon stared at her.
"...Oh, yeah. Add 'your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle' at the end, Spike."