Ghosts of Arlingtrot [Wild Wasteland]

Bakewell, emitting a brief muffled cry from the bullet wound, quickly tossed the now-empty nondescript gun aside. She had been lucky to find the weapon lying behind their cover and had been even luckier to actually hit with it. Unfortunately the weapon didn’t have much in the way of ammo and looked too beat up to bother keeping it to sell. It was amazing the thing had even fired. Its grip had certainly tasted absolutely foul, too.


Her wound, upon her in examination, wasn’t bad. Or at the very least it could very well have been much worse. It probably wouldn't get in the way of Rodeo's plan.

Dash looked over as Rodeo called out for something for himself and the other Pegasi and Griffons to do. Draw the Ghosts off and split them up to take pressure off of the ground-walkers so they could move. It sounded solid to Dash, but flying while under fire still didn't appeal to him all that much, Dash didn't shout that he would be taking part in it, so as not to draw any fire to his position, and returned his Hunting Rifle to his back before pumping his wings and going airborne. Heading in the same direction as sky, weaving and dodging any fire he could.

Kestrel upon hearing the order barked at him flared his wings and pushed off towards the skies above. He took aim with his revolver firing two shots down below, at the ghosts backs, before starting to fly forward towards the gates of the cemetery.

Hopefully this tactic would work again on the ghouls below.

(Firing twice at the Ghosts, guns 100, other stats in Sig. Then flying off towards the gates.)

Night-Shade watched as bullets ricochet'd off his shield. It wouldn't last much longer. He needed only a couple more seconds to catch his breath. He heard Rodeo's orders about heading to the front gate. Fliers were supposed to draw there attention? The light from the shield was doing that already but in a non-helpful way. Shade took a deep breath, and he sent a prayer to Luna...

"Luna help me...." said Night-Shade. Then he dropped his shield and sprinted for better cover. He saw a bigger gravestone not to far from him. He slid when he got to it and leaned up against the back of the Gravestone.

"I hope you like the taste of lead!" screamed Shade as he took out his Cowpony repeater. He was about to take a shot when a bullet flew past his ear, barely missing him. So he went back behind cover without taking a shot. Fuck.

Genuinely without a clue on what to do as she cowered from the gunfight, having landed somewhere behind the gravestones, conveniently in cover for the whole encounter until Rodeo told all the fliers to head off towards the gates to draw off the fire from the "Ghosts". She once again had no idea what he'd said, but she could figure it out in due time as the pegasi and the big black griffon, she'd not found out his name so she didn't know what to call him, started flying off, she too took off into the air, quickly flying after the others, making a squawk-like call to Kestrel.

"Wait for meeee!"

Kira turned toward the ghosts as the ones able to fly took off to draw of as many of the ghouls as possible, she did not really like this as splinting up was a really bad idea and could end really badly. Keeping her concentration trying not to think about the other she pulled out her grenade launcher and fire off two grenades at the ghosts.

Most of the ghouls noticed the fliers taking off back toward the exit. "We cannot allow them to escape!" one hollered to the others as most of them turned their weapons up to fire after them. A lot of fire left the others on the ground. They weren't going anywhere.

[impossible to see] At the top of a near-by hill, the General stood and watched over the battle. His night vision goggles able to see his troops and their attacks. It was turning out to be an incredible battle, watching these decrepit warriors take on his soldiers. Another ghoul stood next to him, and watched as the fliers flew overhead and back towards the gate. He turned to the General, who nodded to the other ghoul.

"C'mon!" he hollered, waving a hoof. Within moments, nearly half of the attackers going after the others split away and started back towards the gate to attempt to stop the fliers.
Rodeo saw this. "Its workin'!" he called to those with him still. "Keep fightin'! We're gonna get through these guys easy!" he said, firing off another few rounds at an approaching ghost and killing it. Kira's grenades went off and scattered several other ghouls around the detonation all across the landscape. With this kind of fire power against a group this size, it would take no time at all to get away.

Bullets continued to stream over her head as she tried for her life to be hidden behind her shelter. Thoughts kept entering and leaving her mind in the heat of the battle, the foremost of which was that she needed to help defend the team, otherwise they may not make it out of the landmark alive. Though the white noise battle provided, she heard a voice call out as our group struggled in the midst of what she thought may be a hopeless battle. She recognized the voice not only to belong to the group leader but also what it was telling us to do.

She took a moment to consider the consequences of following this order. This could get her killed, but she looked at the other winged party members already taking off and realized that she too would just have to sacrifice her safety if there was any hope at turning the battle around. She would just have to put the mental calculations away this time. There was always risk when one must take a defensive action. She looked down to Star Shine whom didn't ask for any of this pain; she was reminded exactly why these creatures had to die. Jasmine took out her extra pistol and gave it to Star before gripping her other firearm in her teeth. Her teeth clenched the handle as she looked up to the sky. She lowered her body to the earth as much as ponyly possible. She took a few deep breaths as she clenched her eyes shut, the battle ground seemed to shake the earth, though that could just be her own trembling. Like a spring she launched herself into the air with all her might, her wings pulling her closer to the coulds.

As the air blew her mane straight back, it seemed to soothingly brush her face, almost making her forget about the horrible day. Jasmine loved flying and as she began flying over toward the gate she couldn't help but find herself performing a bit of acrobatics which hopefully would work to her advantage. As she approached the gate she looked back to look at the ghost army altering their course. She craned her neck back, held her breath and fired two of the best shots she could toward the pursuing ghosts.

Kestrel kept moving for a while before turning around and taking aim at the Ghosts that were following with his Casull Revolver. As always he aimed at the glowing bits, the eyes, and let hell rain down from on high.

(Firing twice at the ghosts behind us. Guns 100, Casull Revolver. Other Stats in Sig)

Scraps observed that Rodeo's plan was working from the tombstone that he was hiding behind with his Bakey. The ghouls were falling for the sake plan that had tricked them inside. Figuring now was as good a time as any to try and put the second, more escape-y half of Rodeo's plan into practice, starting to move, gesturing for Bakey to follow him.

Dash dove low to the ground and skimmed along between the rows of gravestones to reduce his target profile and still maintain speed. Up ahead he saw their goal, but even at his altitude, alot fire lanced towards him from the Ghosts. Dash concentrated only on dodging around whatever fire he could.