Linkin Pony - Recharge: Revamped

Chapter 28

Three more sunrises passed over the camp. Two days prior Carpenter had arrived and already situated himself and began working. FeatherTune found himself becoming increasingly more impatient as the days dragged on. His team needed to address the Hybrid outpost in the west, but CharmingRhythm insisted to wait until the ponies he recruited came into camp.

Feather couldn't wait any longer. He set out to search for Rhythm around noon. He found the Unicorn talking with Carpenter. After he landed, he stared at Rhythm and waited for him to turn around, which he only did after Carpenter gave a confused glance.

"Rhythm, we need to address that outpost. It's been days!" Feather asserted.

"I know but..." Rhythm began to protest.

"We won't be gone too long if we do," Feather told him. "Whatever ponies come to camp can wait for you. It's not like they're gonna leave if you aren't here to greet them."

"You're right," Rhythm sighed. "Okay, we'll attack the outpost. Get everyone together."

Feather nodded and took to the air to find the rest of their team. They collected at the west edge of the village, their cab with them. EchoBeat had gathered with them too, intending on joining, but Rhythm asked Echo to stay behind to look after the camp.

"Can I come with?" Jet requested as they were about to set off.

Rhythm looked between his teammates to get their approval. They hadn't taken another recruit outside their team on a scouting mission yet.

"Let him come," Hyper insisted. "I wanna see what he's got." He gave the younger Pegasus an intrigued smile.

"Alright," Rhythm determined.

HyperBlitz led them in the right direction. After some time traveling, they arrived at the outpost. There was a shed with a fence surrounding a clearing. A short tree stood next to a node and behind the shed was another node, it's top just visible above the roof.

"Looks like there's two nodes," Rhythm observed. "Hyper, I thought you said there was one!"

"I thought there was one!" Hyper shot back.

"Maybe they set up the second after Hyper flew over," Spinning guessed.

"More reasons why we should have attacked earlier!" FeatherTune exclaimed.

"Whatever. It doesn't matter." Rhythm shook his head vigorously. "We're here now, so let's figure out how to tackle this."

"Well, shit," Blazing let out. "It's another one of those fuckers."

The stallions gazed towards the tree on the left. A familiar Hybrid shape roamed around the node; bulky, with a saw foreleg.

"It's mine!" Hyper growled through clenched teeth, attempting to keep his volume low.

"Hold up," Rhythm warned. "It's better if we work together. Let's think up a plan."

All of them were silent for a moment, pondering what could possibly kill the heavy Hybrid,

"I've got it!" Spinning declared, and the rest of them turned to him. "We take one of the energy canisters out of a node, put it under the Hybrid and explode it!"

They all blinked in dismay. Rhythm stammered, "That's um.. A very creative solution."

"But we've gotta distract them while somebody disables the node," Blazing said.

"That's such a waste of energy though..." Feather complained.

"Jet and Feather, you distract the big guy. Spinning, you try to disable a node. The rest of us will take care of the remaining Hybrids," Rhythm spelled out.