Okay so, I have dreams semi-frequently of what I can only describe as “If MLP was a (Anthro) Space Western”. It’s not the same dream every time, and there’s a rough ‘timeline’ to them…but I don’t always know when a dream takes place, since obviously I’m asleep and my rational brain is taking a nap. >.<
In the first one, there was a little group of us: Me, Shining Armor, Braeburn and Bellhop (
this pony, for those who don’t know. He’s really cute).
Shining looked like some kind of knight in space, clad in power armour that made him stand twice as tall as everypony around him. If not for the fact that he wasn’t wearing a helmet, I might have thought he was a kill-bot with how tall and imposing he was. On his lower arms, he barred two Arm-mounted Tower Shields with bladed edges, both made of a bulletproof material. They could be used as defence as well as as a bludgeoning and bladed weapon. If that wasn’t enough, he also had Wrist-Mounted Grenade Launchers on the under-side of the wrists, so that the shields didn’t block the trajectory of the grenades.
And apparently, he was sworn to me~ >/////<
Then there was Braeburn, who was the image of a proper Space Cowboy, complete with his hat, and some kind of body armour under his vest. He was packing a pair or big irons on his flanks, and from what I saw in the dream he knew how to use them both at once.
…I mean revolvers, get your minds out of the gutter >//////<
Bellhop meanwhile, was wearing a jacket and jeans over a tight fitting jumpsuit, and I do mean
tight fitting. He carried some kind of laser rifle, it looked like something straight out of a 50’s sci-fi show. Think of those retro sci-fi ray guns that look like little model rocket ships with a handle and trigger, with the stylish but pointless fins and a barrel that looks like a transmitter radio tower.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/647957637287247884/653414716009349162/retroscifilaserblaster01.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/647957637287247884/653414733868826635/retroscifilaserblaster02.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/647957637287247884/653414750251778048/retroscifilaserblaster03.jpg
All I can really say is: imagine something like those, but it was a rifle that needed to be held in two hands.
As for me, I was dressed in a lovely gown with puffed sleeves and lace trim, and ponies kept calling me “Baroness”. That’s apparently why Shiny was sworn to my service, I think…some kind of feudalism aspect there, like a remnant of an older culture being overtaken by Space Cowboys. My weapon was what I called a “Blasting Rod”, which I’m almost certain was an idea my brain borrowed from The Dresden Files. Basically it’s a wand that blasts fire at people, not a difficult concept.
Now, as for what happened in the dream itself, my posse and I where on a space station, made to look like an old western town (with a saloon and everything), albeit in the form of a somewhat weathered orbital station. The buildings where obviously quite cramped together, the main passage down the middle was about five ponies abreast, and Shiny had to walk in the middle since his armour meant he took up most of that space.
We walked into the Saloon where trouble was a brewin’. The local patrons where getting rowdy, much to the dismay of Berry Punch who was the bar tender, and her “waiter” I guess you’d call him. He was serving those rude ponies more whisky as they started to turn violent. When one of them threw a bottle at him, I remember calling out to them. I can’t recall what I said but apparently they took exception to that…at least their leader did. It turned into a shootout :P
Braeburn pulled out two revolvers and started going to town right away…I think he was doing the most damage cause he was landing headshots. And he kept flirting with the enemy too, probably because my brain was like “well, everypony’s gay for Braeburn, and he knows it”~ O////O
Bellhop took cover straight away, showing that he was probably the smartest of us, and went to work with the pew-pew. Not only did his gun look like it was straight out of a 50’s sci-fi, it sounded like one too.
Shining and I had a problem however, our ranged weapons where his grenade launchers and my Blasting Rod respectively, and neither of which where very safe to use in such tight quarters. That and I didn’t know any combat spells.
So Shiny had to get up close, but with the amount of protection his power armour and bladed-arm-shields provided, that was a non-issue. Since I couldn’t really contribute to the fight without damaging the station, I grabbed Berry Punch and the Waiter and pulled them behind the counter, protecting them with a telekinetic shield.
..honestly the hardest part was helping the waiter keep Berry down, I can’t remember if she was reaching for a gun or just wanted to watch. O.O
So after that gunfight, the bar was a bit of a mess. I saw one of the bandits slumped down against the wall, arms pressed against his side cause somepony (Probably Shiny) smashed him straight into a table, that sat around his waist with a hole in the middle to fit his body. There where also a number of bandits spasming on the floor, having been hit by Bellhop’s laser gun, which he admitted to setting to ‘stun’. Well, the waiter thanked us for the help and I asked if he’d rather come with us then being stuck on the station in his dead-end job. He agreed to it and joined us on our ship when we left.
And I wasn’t able to recall much more then that, my notes get vague and fuzzy from here on out. Sorry I couldn’t provide more detail.