The Long March Through Manehattan

Last time, I was talking with Calamity and others, who told me not to go to Manehattan, and yet
Saying goodbye to Calamity and others, I marched towards Manehattan, the towering wastes of thin concrete mountains, where I shall die tenfold more for my sun.


Immediately, I encountered a new species: Griffons.
Wait, is that...
Finally coffee!!


The Manehattan Ruins were filled with strong fighters, such as (fake) alicorns, griffons, and slavers. I fought long and hard, level by level upwards, until I reached the top of the building.

With my binoculars, I scanned the ruins of Manehattan, and there in the distance...


But I took a closer look and found bad news.
It was so bad I had to quit and reset the room completely.

Moving on...
I encountered a room saying "slaves" and found a terrible scene:
One of the ponies talked to me and said something very interesting.
Gah! Velvet is always just one hoofstep ahead of me.

There was also a note on the griffon guard I killed. Basically, there were two groups of griffons hired by some slaver ponies. One group went with the slavers (to catch slaves probably), and the other group (that I just killed) remained to guard the slaves, and ordered to kill all ponies wearing PipBuck because those are worn by the Steel Rangers (a faction of ponies with heavy technology. I killed two of those last time.), and Steel Rangers were dangerous.

Holy Celly... another??
So I threw my one and only "sparkle-grenade" (the most powerful grenade in the world)  at it, and BOOM!
Is it me or is there a smily face there??
BTW, it was made of radioactive sparkle-cola, seriously.
The battle was quite literally one-sided. I hid behind a wall and kept chucking grenades at it while it shot around randomly. It felt almost like artillery game.
Even more serious fighting later, I reached the monorail leading to the M.A.S.
As excited as I was to finally reach the Alicorn Amulet, I simply could not afford the adventure on such low health, so I went to the base to replenish my supplies, as well as showing Brass Buckshot a fabulous weapon I found during my Long March.

Brass was so moved by the sight of the legendary artifact, he offered me free ammo and let me keep it.

.... and I accidentally closed the game.
Now I have to fight through level 3 of Manehattan Ruins again to get the M.A.S.
... and we are back to where we were!

It's scientifically proven that cursing relieves pain, and sometimes my verbal analgesics get really creative.
Literal wat
A bloatsprite king.
Wat
All of my wat
Despite the dramatic background music, this boss turned out to be just an annoying weakling.
Well, back from the madness to more trot-of-the-mill killing...

The M.A.S. Tower

Immediately after entering this tower, found a really chatty terminal.


What?? It seems I'm more chosen than I expected. Someone from 180 years ago predicted that I would be here?
... what could this mean? Anyway, time to go deeper into the building.
Oh...
Celestia save me.

I powered up StealthBuck, Rage, Stampede, a few other hard-hitting drugs, and brought out the Star Blaster and shot all three of them to oblivion.
Unfortunately, with great power comes great aftermath.

Battle with Unity

As I ascended the M.A.S. tower, the vengeance of Unity chased me at every move like deadly shadows.
One level up, there was a strange button with a terminal beside it...
I can fly with bat wings! A dream come true!
Every level was a deadly fight with deadly members of the Unity, but with superior firepower, I fought through the horde flock. Blood after blood, I crawled up the tower.
Finally, my Long March is approaching its end...

- KopaLeo, aka Cosmia Nebula